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Northwest Fair Trade Coalition launches a series of fair trade holiday markets with Portland's top social justice congregations highlighting ethical and fairly traded products for the holidays. This year's expanded marketplace series will begin on November 18th and include three different markets throughout the month of November and December hosted by The First Unitarian Church, The First Presbyterian Church and the Portland Mennonite Church.
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Born in Pensacola, Florida, grew up in the Santa Rosa area, served in the Navy from 1952-56. Had three children from a first marriage, Lester, Joseph, and Robin. Second marriage to Frances Fitzgerald, stepfather to Donald, Anthony, Rosemary, Susan, Angela and Timothy.
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Congress at odds after CISPA
Chinese cyberspies are stealing businesses' trade secrets. Iranian hackers are targeting U.S. banks. And the federal government is grappling with cyber espionage almost daily — even as it's spending more than ever to stop it.
Yet Washington — again — appears on the verge of another cyberwar with itself.
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There's some movement to patch up the country's shoddy digital defenses now that the House has passed a cybersecurity bill with significant bipartisan support. But Thursday's legislative victory on the Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Protection Act — even in light of new cyber risks — isn't enough to dissolve the political differences that have long left Washington so vulnerable.
For now, the two chambers just don't see eye to eye on cybersecurity — and the House's bill as written cannot pass the Senate or earn a signature from President Barack Obama. Meanwhile, there remain related partisan feuds over the role of government in protecting the power grid, banking sector and other key industries from attack, not to mention the best way to safeguard Americans' civil liberties.
"It is too urgent of a situation and too dangerous if we fail to act," said Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), just before the House vote. "If an attack occurs — it's on Congress's hands right now. We have to act."
Lawmakers repeatedly have failed to realize any success in fortifying the country's digital defenses. But for members of Congress new to the debate, this year has offered a master class in the dangers of the digital age.
China has emerged as an example du jour of the tenacity of digital malefactors: New reports emerge daily of hackers, some potentially with connections to Beijing, who are stealing U.S. trade secrets and more. A series of so-called denial-of-service attacks on banks' websites, meanwhile, has become a visible illustration of the power of rogue hackers who are motivated by politics. And a shocking, recent cyberattack on South Korea — believed to have come from the north — has doubled as a reminder of what's possible in conflicts that go digital.
Cybersecurity has become an unquestionable national security priority for Obama, whose administration has appealed to Congress for years now to pass a law that might prevent a "cyber Pearl Harbor." Even with all that pleading, however, Washington hasn't managed to match the rate at which new digital exploits are coming to light.
The House and Senate failed repeatedly in 2012 to pass a law, leading the White House to sign an executive order in the aftermath of that bruising debate. It's already bringing some improvements — and it's relieved Congress from the most onerous facets of the debate. But it could be more than a year before the program is fully ready. In the meantime, the president himself has said reform remains incomplete unless Congress can fill in the gaps.
At the moment, some see a glimmer of hope on the Hill: The chamber notched a major win in passing CISPA, which the House also approved last year but with far fewer Democrats in tow. The measure would empower the government and private sector to share data about emerging threats, a goal all sides share.


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(AP) MLB remembers Sept. 11 with on-field tributes
By STEPHEN HAWKINS
AP Sports Writer
Texas Rangers third base coach Gary Pettis still has vivid memories of that day 12 years ago, when two hijacked jets were flown into the World Trade Center towers.
Back then, Pettis was a coach for the Chicago White Sox, who had arrived in town only a few hours earlier for a scheduled game that night against the New York Yankees.
"You could smell the smoke. It wasn't a good feeling that day," Pettis said Wednesday before a home game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. "It's so sad that so many people lost their lives, and it's ruined other peoples' lives. … It's like it was a movie, it's like that wasn't something that actually happened. I still can't believe it."
What he does believe is the importance for Major League Baseball _ and all Americans _ to take a moment to remember Sept. 11.
Players, coaches and umpires wore American flag patches embroidered on the side of their caps in commemoration of the tragedy. Special lineup cards were used, and patriotic on-field tributes were planned for the day's 15 games, involving all 30 teams. Flags were half-staff, and there were moments of silence across baseball.
The 531st U.S. Air Force Quintet performed the national anthem instrumentally at Rangers Ballpark. The honorary first pitch was thrown out by former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch, who was 19 when she was captured along with five other soldiers after the U.S. Army's 507th Maintenance Company took a wrong turn and came under attack in Iraq in 2003. She was held for nine days before being rescued.
The Cleveland Police Department presented the colors at Progressive Field before the national anthem at the Indians' game against Kansas City.
Cleveland's Jason Giambi was with Oakland when the Athletics were in the 2001 playoffs against the New York Yankees. He recalled the atmosphere at Yankee Stadium being "unbelievable," even more electric than usual for the postseason.
"It will always be a time I'll remember, going out there playing against the Yankees during that time," Giambi said. "It kind of healed the nation, especially the city of New York, which was hit so hard. There they were, the Yankees playing in the playoffs, going all the way to the World Series."
Giambi signed with the Yankees after that, and spent seven seasons in New York.
"Playing there all those years, the kids, the firefighters, the people who lost their lives saving the other lives, I'll always remember that, very much so," Giambi said.
At Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park, where the Reds hosted the Chicago Cubs, a steel beam from the World Trade Center was on display courtesy of the Cincinnati Fire Museum.
Before San Francisco hosted Colorado at AT&T Park, first pitches were thrown out by two San Francisco firefighters who went to New York in the days after Sept. 11 to provide help and support. Dean Crispen, captain of Station 28, and Derek O'Leary, driver of rescue squad one from Station 1, flew on the first commercial flight allowed to land in New York.
Pettis and the White Sox had arrived in New York 12 years ago around 2-3 a.m., and he was awoken by a phone call from a friend checking to make sure he was OK.
"I said, `Yeah, I'm OK, I'm asleep.' He said, "you don't know, do you?" Pettis recalled. "I turn on the TV and I see that the building _ smoke's coming out of the building _ and they said there had been a plane crash."
Like so many others, Pettis thought maybe it was just a tragic accident before the second plane hit the other tower.
The White Sox were staying in a hotel at Grand Central Station, a little more than three miles from the World Trade Center site. Pettis and the rest of the staff worked to locate everybody with the team, and to get out of the building, with concerns about more potential attacks.
"We were going down the stairs and you hear this rumble, and we're going what the heck is that?" Pettis said. "We just kind of take off running out the doors, and now we see people running out of the train station, and we had no idea what they were running from."
Pettis can't believe it's been 12 years. Before going to the ballpark on Wednesday morning, he turned on his TV knowing what he was going to see.
"It took me a minute to get up and get my day going because I started watching some of the stories and listening to some of the people talk about being there, and then seeing some of the messages that were left for families," he said.
Pirates infielder Clint Barmes remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing 12 years ago. He was only 22 years old in his second season of pro ball, and on the way home after winning the championship with high-A Salem the night before.
"I didn't get a chance to see anything on TV until I got home later that evening. … Had my car already packed ready to go," Barmes said. "I woke up, jumped in my car and started driving home before I realized exactly what happened.
"There's a lot of things that goes through your mind when something like that happens. It was a scary moment for sure."
AP freelancers Tommy Magelssen in Arlington, Texas, Mark Schmetzer in Cincinnati, Steve Herrick in Cleveland, and Rick Eymer in San Francisco contributed to this report.


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Star trails and Golden horn are reflected in upper ice lake in Ice Lake Basin. Moonlight illuminates the scene.
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As dusk settles clouds drift over Upper Ice Lake in the spectacular Ice Lake Basin
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iHeartRadio is Coming to OUYA
The Kickstarter superstar gaming console project gets its first radio app.
The OUYA is a $99 gaming console built on the Android platform that's created serious buzz after it conjured up $1 million dollars in "normal people" funding on Kickstarter in a record-breaking eight hours. That buzz has drawn the attention of app developers who may be interested in getting in on the ground floor of what very well could be a disruption to the gaming world.
iHeartRadio is the first radio app to buy into OUYA's future and has announced it will be among the apps on the console when it's projected to launch in Q1 2013.
"We are excited to share that Clear Channel's iHeartRadio is coming to OUYA! Now we'll be able to take the experience to a whole new level, enabling OUYA to go beyond gaming and become a full service, affordable destination for people seeking great entertainment."
The app is Built in HTML 5 for OUYA, and those who backed the project at $95 or more will be able to find, create, and customize free internet-streaming music right from their console as soon as the console is distributed to the masses.
There's still time to back project, and it looks to be a hit. Check out the OUYA Kickstarter page for more project updates and to see what other developers place their bets.


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Consider, for a moment, the following story:
"But how did you know?": Oh that age old question asked just one more time, and never for the last.
They sighed. A sigh so softly expressed so many times. A sigh so soft and understated that only a person accustomed to such moments would understand it. Barely visible to the casual observer, those in the know would recognise their hearts sinking as they prepared to answer the inevitable and recurring question. At least they weren't being asked about the configuration of their genitals or their sexual preferences though. They'd been spared that indignity on this occasion. It was at least a tolerable question, and once more they found their selves giving out the very personal details of their personal childhoods.
"I always got on better with boys," he said, "and then when puberty hit it was a nightmare. I just knew I had to do something, but I didn't know what".
"Oh, it was a bit like that for me to," she interjected, "except I got on better with the girls. I used to like playing with dolls but my parents would take them from me when they caught me. My mum caught me using her makeup once. I guess I was just born this way."
Why? Why, oh why, oh why must we go through this standard narrative again, and again and again? Yes, I'm as guilty as anyone of this, but surely this is the sort of thing we should be telling our nearest and dearest -should there be a cause or desire for them to know- and not random strangers or acquaintances? If you actually like answering these questions and the 'standard narrative' applies to you, then sure, why not… but for the rest of us: Why?
Really speaking, this pretty much applies to LGB people as much as it does to trans people. We collectively feel the need to justify our existence by offering narratives, terminology and ideas that can be readily digested by the rest of society. We explain our histories and our existences according to the frameworks provided for us, which are inevitably designed to fit in with the pre-ordained rules of a hetero-normative society. We often seem to instinctively try to avoid standing out, and instead try to shape ourselves to fit the mold at the expense of our own unique individualities. Not even cissexual people their selves are immune to this effect, from the schoolyard bullies, to the neighborhood yobs and interest groups hitting out at and questioning anything that poses the smallest challenge to the normative status quo, marking it as somehow different and inferior by its mere existence. For LGBT people though, there's a difference – we tend to accept it, consciously or not, as being part and parcel of being LGBT, and it runs right the way through society.
While anti-abortionists claim that a woman's right to do as she likes with her body is superseded by the rights of the unborn child in a similarly vitriolic battle over what choice women should have over their bodies, the argument against LGBT people is predicated differently. It is based on the idea that we, in ourselves, are disgusting and morally wrong simply for our very existences… and I ask – why? Why must we be special cases having to explain our origins? Why should we be subject to attempts to cure us? Why should we be considered as worth anything less than anybody else because of who we are in spite of the fact that we do nothing wrong, and nothing to harm anybody else? Ironically, there is even a section of the feminist community that believes in a person's choice over their own body, and yet would deny trans people that choice – one feminist famously wanted to "mandate trans people out of existence". The anti-choice argument at least contains some kernel of reason (whether you agree with it or not), whereas the argument against LGBT equality does not. Such a lack of reason was seen recently in the UK, where a popular soap opera showed two men cuddling in bed and provoked outrage from some quarters, while hetero-centric casual sex, violence, threats and even rape have been deemed unworthy of complaint by the same people.
This argument that we are some kind of scourge on society, and that we're somehow exotic or explicit material that should be kept out of the eyes of children spurs us on to justify ourselves with a whole host of purported medical, evolutionary, sociological, genetic, or psychological reasons. In doing so, we are the ones that create our own oppression. Instead of standing up to such questions, and instead of requesting the civil courtesy of the respect afforded to everyone else, we give in. In giving in and answering their questions with narratives that fit their views, we perpetuate a cycle where they feel they have the right to ask. They feel they have a right to know. A right to pry. A right that wouldn't exist anywhere else, and thus lends itself to a sense of the normal vs the abnormal, which of course transforms itself into issues of right or wrong, above and below, inferiority and superiority. We hand them power. We give them privilege over us, and all by trying to fit into their world, rather than staking our place and our claim on our already being a part of their world, and one that's worthy of equality and respect. I'm not going to seriously use terms like kyriarchy or patriarchy to describe top down systems of oppression. Power is seen to work like that, but only because that is the way we have organised it. If every fighter put down their weapon, we'd see an end to war – it's unlikely to happen, but it's true. Similarly, can you imagine a situation where every LGBT person responded with "That's a personal question", or "My body, my choice. I'm not hurting anybody else, so what's the problem?" Admittedly, for some trans people it's a choice between surgery or death – but that's still a real choice, if an obvious decision to make (clue – death isn't the obvious and logical solution to such a problem.)
Then, of course, there's the other problem with the standard narratives for trans people especially – they hurt other trans people. In some ways, the formation of the narrative has been clinician led… but it's our internalisation of the narrative that's perpetuated it. As more and more people repeat their stories, it becomes the accepted basis on which medical services are allowed. Nobody knows what causes transsexualism any more than what results in the existence of neutrois or other gender variant people that don't fit the narrative… but it is the narrative that grants access to medical treatment. If you don't fit it, you don't get it. If you're not transsexual, then you must surely have some sort of body dysmorphia that needs talking therapy or psychiatric drugs – it's not right, and it's not fair. Change isn't going to happen overnight, but it's likewise going to be even longer coming for as long as the 'One True Narrative' prevails. Is it right to leave other people out in the cold like this?
For bisexual people – if same sex attraction is not a choice, and "homosexuality is OK as long as you don't act on it" is not a reasonable view, where exactly does that leave bisexual people? While "Being gay is not a choice" is great for defending gay and lesbian people, it leaves bisexual people open to the accusation that they really do have a choice, and should choose only to sleep with members of the opposite sex.
We need to stop clinging to the standard narrative – and many of us are unknowingly guilty of that, as we tend as a species to frame things in the language we are surrounded with. We need to stop giving away our power and subverting ourselves. We need to stop internalizing the narratives, and instead to proudly state the truth of our own individual existences. To live that truth. To love that truth, and to be that truth. We need to stop policing others for questioning the standard narrative and expressing opinions which stand against it. We need to stop crying "transphobia", "homophobia", "hetero-centricism" and "cissexism" at the slightest opportunity, stop tarring and we need to start living by example. Sure – there is transphobia, homophobia, hetero-centricism and cissexism in the world and it's wrong, but overuse of the terms devalues them, and just makes us look irrationally angry and combative… all the while, of course, focussing our attention on why certain people think we are wrong rather than on why we are just as worthy and awesome as anybody else. It's perhaps telling that I myself am wondering if I'm going to lose friends and contacts over this article – I don't profess it to be gospel truth, but I do feel it raises a few interesting points and questions.
I'm going to tell you that truth now. It's actually a very simple one, as most truths are – we are people of diverse backgrounds and experiences just as all human beings are, but in one thing you are just the same as anybody else…
… You are beautiful, and your existence is no less valid or rightful than anybody elses. You have a right to be yourself. You don't need a cure. You don't need a reason. You don't need to explain yourself to all and sundry. You don't need to justify your basic existence. Why you are the way you are doesn't matter. What matters, is that you are who you are, and you exist – and you are beautiful for it. At the end of the day, we're all just people, and we should be people. Live.


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Simple tips to delete Intried.net virus
I have no idea how my Windows PC got trapped with Intried.net virus. Anti-virus installed on computer is unable to detect for any malware. I also have tried several manual tricks to fix issues related with this malware but problem still remains same. Could you suggest some effective tips to delete Intried.net infection completely? Please guide, it's really urgent
Actually, Intried.net is a creepy browser hijacker threat that secretly gets active over Windows PC opting illegal tricks and tactics. It has been created by group of cyber criminals with their wrong intention and evil purposes. As it manages to successfully get installed, it disables firewall settings, blocks security application and makes doorway for its supportive files and process to easily get activated over PC. Due to presence of this nasty threat, you are unable to perform several tasks both online and offline. Intried.net virus comes packaged with lots of unwanted toolbars, add-ons, plug-ins and malicious extension that take huge hard disk space and drag down overall PC running. It creates numerous desktop shortcuts, duplicate files or folders that consume lots of hard disk resource and drag down entire PC running. Intried.net is capable of making modification to DNS configuration, HOST file and other important settings of PC without your any authorization.
Moreover, it has ability to insert malign codes to startup and boot sector that helps them automatically regenerate in network environment or via removable storage device. This nasty threat also add corrupt entries to registry editor and damages system files that plays an important role in smooth and proper PC functioning. To get rid out of all such annoying issues, it is necessary for you to take quick steps to remove Intried.net virus. If this nasty threat sustain over your PC for longer duration, it leads situation to other bigger troubles like data loss, deletion of important system files, crashes or freezes of computer and many more. What worst, it is capable to run secretly in background and collects all your sensitive details like banking login details, IP addresses, credit card number, password of social sites and others. All these gathered information are automatically transferred to remote server of cyber criminals.
Harmful activities caused by Intried.net threat
- It stops all running application and active process
- It takes benefits of security loopholes to add other malware like Trojan, worms, rootkits, backdoor and others
- It forcibly redirects your search query terms to domain full of sponsored ads, banner advertisements, promotional codes and others
- It also collects information about your browsing history, cookies, Mac address and search habits
Remove Intried.net using powerful Windows Scanner
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Intried.net: Online as well as Offline impacts
Online errors faced can by Users due to this threat:
- It will change your browser's default search engine along with homepage and new tab page.
- From the beginning to last of surfing, you will constantly end up redirected to same malicious domain (especially to websites with 404 error page).
- You are blocked from accessing the security related domains.
- While surfing session you were forces to face numbers of pop-up ads and junk notifications.
- Due to unauthorized modifications by Intried.net, your Computer's Internet Speed does sluggish.
- You will also eventually get blue screen error (BSOD error) which freezes your entire browser's process.
- You won't be able to log out your own personal account due to modification in domain's java scripts.
- Some strange toolbars and browser extension were automatically installed which increase browsing loading time.
- It will cause your browser freezing which can crashes eventually.
- In will runs click fraud and phishing functions online in order to increase Internet traffic of particular domain and illegally earn some revenue.
- Your mails, social messages were not able to send. It will bounce back right after sending to particular recipient.
Offline errors associated to Intried.net have been found by experts:
- Some strange Icons were automatically installed inside your Computer's taskbar, System tray as well as Desktop.
- You can find out some unwanted programs installed inside the PC named inside the Control Panel's program list.
- You can notice unusual amount of file's name were attached to favourites which even you don't know.
- Strange problems were keeps happening while User's work (performance issues, program gets crashes, etc.)
- PC's performance got decreased since this vermin installed.
- Even you will not doing any particular work on PC, the RAM as well as CPU resources usage got higher than expect.
- Drives files were modified automatically or they were automatically moved to another drive volume.
- Malicious files replicate with legitimate and automatically delete from PC.
- As after starting the System the PC display got flips upside down or inverted.
- Automatic printing of documents and changing of desktop wallpaper.
- Not opening up task manager or taskbar disappearance.
- PC will take long time of booting and sometime it will restart automatically.
Now, if you don't want to face all these functions later inside the PC with Intried.net then you were highly suggested to delete Intried.net by installing expert's anti-malware tool inside the PC.
So, what is anti-malware tool?
Anti-malware tool (SpyHunter 4) is a powerful real time protection programs for the Windows Operating System which has been created by Enigma Software Group. It is fully capable to protect the Computer against threat like Intried.net. However, you can also remove this threat by manual process but it is little bit complexly. Besides that, the manual process requires Computer skill. That means, you need to put some extra effort on your PC in order to remove Intried.net. As well as, you should have ability to revert back any wrong steps which you have taken in manual process. Otherwise the PC might be goes even worst conditions. On the other hand with the anti-malware tool you don't requires any extra Computer skill or effort. The Spy Hunter has been designed between experts and novice Users level. Thus, you can easily operate without any worries of harm your Computer. Therefore, in my opinion I would like to prefer anti-malware tool in order to uninstall Intried.net from Computer.
Complete tutorial to delete Intried.net using automatic removal method
- As you will run anti-malware tool, you will see two options located in middle of screen. Please click on **Scan Computer Now** option in order to proceed to full System scan.
- You can also see the error result while scanning of PC.
- If you want to scan any particular volume drive or removal pen drives then you can use this Custom Scan option.
- Spyware Helpdesk will help you in solving the PC's errors online (just like Customer services).
- System Guard, this functions will helps you to keep your Computer safe from offline threat.
- By using Network Sentry Option your browser will safe from online threat and your online activities will be protected by this anti-malware tool.
- Al last, by enabling the Scan Scheduler function, your Computer will automatically keep scanned timely by this tool and notifies you if this tool caught any error.
How to get rid of Intried.net manually?
Eliminate Intried.net by going through Control Panel:
- Click on the Start menu icon located on below left of screen (Right click for Windows 8 and 8.1 Users).
- Select Control Panel option > Programs.
- The Programs which were installed on PC were located in this list.
- Please find out Intried.net as well as their associated files and click on it to uninstall it.
Remove Intried.net entries from Windows Registry box:
- In order to go to the Windows registry box, please click on Win logo button+ R key together.
- Type **regedit** in run dialog box. (If it asks your permission to open this window then click on Yes button)
- Registry Box will suddenly open up please go through every location given below in this window in order to find out and delete Intried.net.
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\Intried.net.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Chrome\Extensions
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Opera Software
Explorer\Main\Start Page Redirect=http://random.com
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\virus name
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Shell = %AppData%\IDP.ARES.Generic.exe
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Random
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random.
Method to prevent Intried.net and other similar threats in future
After all, the single biggest factor in preventing a threat like Intried.net infection is lies upon you. Even you already install anti-malware and you scan your Computer timely, if you don't be carefully towards your PC while using it. It is obviously to get infected by Intried.net again. Therefore, you just need vigilance to avoid being affected by threat in future and n some tips and suggestion mention here will hopefully prevent your Computer from infection in coming time.
- Keep your anti-malware updated.
- Use strong passwords for valuable information to prevent from hacking.
- Disable auto-run functions for downloaded files and injected drives.
- Block auto update from network inside System.
- Leave it out unknown recipient email attachments.
- Avoid connecting to open source network like Wi-Fi.
- Use hardware based firewall in order to protect your System against infections.
- Deploy DNS protection from automatically get modified.
- Use ad blocker extension and software in order to surf without getting any additional commercial ads and junk notifications.
- Do not use any untrusted or unofficial domain for surfing and downloading files inside browser.


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I am running LXDE/Openbox on Debian Linux. On logging in I want to:
- add a user specific directory to the $PATH variable (A)
- execute some (non-graphical) commands (e.g. mount directories) (B)
The setup should work for graphical login as well as login shells (e.g. SSH). Especially the part about extending the $PATH variable seems to be tricky...
My ideal solution would be to put all the commands (A and B) in a separate script file (F) and source it from
.xsessionrc (for graphical login via the session manager) and
.profile (for login shells).
Sourcing F from
.profile works nicely, but sourcing from
.xsessionrc seems to fail.
So I made the workaround to set the new $PATH directly in
.xsessionrc (and also in
.profile) and just execute F (now containing only the commands B) from
.xsessionrc and
.profile. This works fine, but is not really satisfactory, as I now some duplicate commands (A) in
.xessionrc and
Is there some magic incanation that I have to do in order to source another file from
.xsessionrc or are there any other obvious flaws in my thinking?


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30th March 2017
One brand's misfortune can be another's opportunity. Peggy Carlton grabs the popcorn...
We've seen quite a lot of self-inflicted PR wounds recently and my heart goes out to the poor comms people who have to clear up the mess. I mean, the team at Uber just can't catch a break. First, the company's attempt to get one over on New York taxi drivers led to the #deleteUber campaign and a mass exodus of customers. And just as they were trying to recover from that, allegations of a sexist, bullying culture emerged, followed by a damaging video of CEO, Travis Kalanick abusing an Uber driver. And then the high-profile President, Jeff Jones resigns. As far as the crisis management playbook goes, the folks at Uber are doing (or trying to do) all the right things – but boy, what a mess!
What is interesting is these situations is not just how the company involved responds, but also how their competitors respond.
The Gloves Are Off…
I actually enjoy it when rival brands go at each other - it's fun to see. (My current favorite is Verizon versus Sprint.) So when Uber shot itself in the foot (repeatedly) I was keen to see how its main US competitor, Lyft, would respond. Special incentives for disaffected Uber riders? Sly digs in their advertising or social media content? No. Lyft remained above it all, just quietly going about their business.
I have no doubt that the people at Lyft made the calculation that there was nowhere else for the #deleteUber crowd to go, and all they had to do was sit back and take the extra business. (I'm also pretty sure they went on a frantic driver recruitment drive.) But a conversation undoubtedly also took place about the Lyft brand. Its value proposition. Its tone of voice. Lyft's brand proposition is 'your friend with a car' (versus Uber's 'Everyone's private driver'). And this idea of Lyft as your friend, as the nice guys, flows right through the user experience, even down to the drivers they recruit. So I guess it's not surprising that they stayed out of the Uber implosion. That's just who they are. And in that case, a non-response is more appropriate – and powerful – than any proactive response.
…But the leggings stay on
Another brand that has suffered by its own hand is United, which has been roasted over #LeggingsGate. My colleague, Danica Ross has written a post about the lessons to be learned from the episode, but I was impressed by the rapid response of arch-rival, Delta.
Nicely done.
But even more impressive were those brands who used United's newfound notoriety to their advantage. I especially liked Puma's offer of a discount on leggings to any customer producing a United boarding pass. This is a great example of what my colleague, Will Kunkel described recently – turning on a dime to capitalize on moments in time through creative content. As Puma showed on this occasion, and other brands are beginning to on a regular basis, this can be a very effective means of inserting your brand into conversations. And in sectors where the competition is as fierce as it is for Sprint and Verizon, Lyft and Uber, or United and Delta, the turn of speed required to make this happen will be a deciding factor in future brand wars.
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Only 13 states in the country require schools districts to offer free full-day kindergarten as part of the school day. Colorado is not one of them. In Colorado, districts are only required to offer …
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Only 13 states in the country require schools districts to offer free full-day kindergarten as part of the school day.
Colorado is not one of them.
In Colorado, districts are only required to offer half-day kindergarten. And because of a lack of per-pupil funding from the state, parents who want to send their children to full-day programs are required to pay an average tuition of $300 a month.
"We would prefer to have full-day kindergarten for everyone without charging if we had the money," said Diana Wilson, communications director for Jefferson County Public Schools. "If the district could afford it, we would standardize it."
How school districts around the metro area meet that challenge varies. Jeffco, the second-largest school district in the state with 86,000 students, and Douglas County, the third-largest district with 68,000 students, run similar programs, offering free half-day and paid full-day programs. Much smaller districts, such as Englewood Schools with 3,000 students and Westminster Public Schools with 9,600 students, have developed a model that offers free full-day kindergarten.
In Jeffco, full-day kindergarten is offered at 90 percent of its elementary schools. But for the majority, which do not receive Title 1 funding and for families who are not receiving free or reduced-price lunch, tuition must be paid for anything past the state-funded half day.
Funding for full-day kindergarten in Jeffco was cut from the budget six years ago by the board at that time. Now, each school offers something different based on the need in its community.
"Most schools have moved toward offering a full day because of the impact of early learning at that age and what we can offer throughout a full day," said Dawn Odean, early childhood education director for Jeffco schools. "We work really hard for our kids regardless of which program their families choose, for whatever reason they choose."
In Douglas County, the model is the same.
The district's 48 elementary schools each choose to design a program specific to that community with the options of either a free half-day program or a tuition-based full-day program.
"It really comes down to how Colorado funds kindergarten," said Carrie Stephenson, executive director of school leadership for Douglas County School District.
The State of Colorado funds kindergarten students at .58 full-time enrollment — meaning it only pays for about half a day's worth of school time.
"We only receive partial funding from the state for kindergarten students," Stephenson said. "So, it requires us to ask parents for tuition to fund the second part of that school day."
But smaller districts, such as Englewood Schools, are able to supplement the state money with district general funds to offer free full-day kindergarten to all students.
"It's what we determined will serve our community best and it's what the students here in Englewood need in order to grow and achieve," said Joanna Polzin, chief academic officer for Englewood Schools.
For Englewood, the full day allows the luxury of more time for not only academics but also social and emotional learning.
"The stories and concepts we are exposing them to are on a higher level and we also have the benefit of cross-curricular learning," Polzin said. "I think overall it's our teachers that make the difference. It really allows them the time to get out students on a deeper level."
Westminster Public Schools has offered free full-day kindergarten for 10 years. Director of Early Childhood Education Mat Aubuchon said it's only partially funded by the state, but the program is important to district leadership.
"By investing in programs such as this, we see students who are more prepared both academically and socially for the demanding schedule of an elementary schoolday," Aubuchon said. "In addition, by providing full-day kindergarten, we have the added benefit of helping parents who now have full-day child care and are able to work while their young children are in school."
When it comes to academics, the question is if those full-day students are better prepared for first grade.
Stephenson says they are — at first.
"We see that our full-day students — speaking in generality — have a little bit of a boost, but that tends to level out around second grade," Stephenson said. "It's not a long-lasting advantage."
However, Matt Flores, chief academic officer for Jeffco schools, says the data is not definitive.
"It's really hard to unpack the differences because we can't account for what students do in the other half of the day," Flores said.
"It's tempting to say they are more prepared. But to truly unpack that with data to support that theory is something our data team hasn't been able to do."
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Katerina Politi, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Departments & Organizations
Pathology: Experimental Pathology Graduate Program | Pathology Research | Politi Lab
Yale Cancer Center: K12 Calabresi Immuno-Oncology Training Program (IOTP) | Signal Transduction | SPORE in Lung Cancer
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Office of Cooperative Research
Katerina Politi studied Biology at the University of Pavia in Italy. She then moved to New York, where she obtained her PhD in Genetics and Development working with Argiris Efstratiadis at Columbia University. Following graduate school, she joined Harold Varmus's lab at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and began her work on the molecular basis of lung cancer. She continues this work at Yale as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and the Yale Cancer Center.
Education & Training
|Columbia University (2003)
|Senior Research Scientist
|Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
|Research Fellow
|Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
|Postdoctoral Research Scientist
|Columbia University


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NEW YORK – The Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) recently released its PING Division II All-America teams for 2010, with three members of the No. 6 Georgia College & State University squad earning Honorable Mention distinction. With this year's award, Niclas Johansson (Skanor, Sweden) became the first male four-time All-American in Georgia College athletic history.
Seniors Francisco Bide (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Johansson joined junior Joe Young (Cochran, Ga.) in taking the nation's top honors in Division II golf.
This marks Bide's first All-America award after a stellar season, taking the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Golfer of the Year trophy. Bide finished with a 73.0 stroke average, and eight top-20 finishes in 12 events. He also had four top-10 slots, including a pair of top-fives.
With Johansson's Honorable Mention, he joins GCSU Athletics Hall of Famers Julia (Roudkovskaya) Dimitrov (1999-2002) and Lilia Biktyakova (1998-2001) as the only four-time All-Americans in school history. Johansson was tops on the team in stroke average at 72.6, boasting seven top-10s and three top-five finishes in 2010.
Young brings home his second All-America trophy after being named to the squad in 2008 as a freshman. Young finished second on the team with his 72.7 stroke average. He mirrored Johansson's seven top-10s and three top-fives.
All-told, Georgia College golf has now earned 20 All-America honors, all coming under the 14 seasons of 2010 GCAA Southeast Region Coach of the Year Jimmy Wilson.
The 2010 PBC Champions, Georgia College golf is one of the more decorated programs in school history, having another outstanding season in 2009-10. The team picked up the conference title among three tournament wins, added four all-conference golfers and the PBC Golfer of the Year, as well as three GCAA All-American selections.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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This section discusses how to perform a rolling restart of a MySQL Cluster installation, so called because it involves stopping and starting (or restarting) each node in turn, so that the cluster itself remains operational. This is often done as part of a rolling upgrade or rolling downgrade, where high availability of the cluster is mandatory and no downtime of the cluster as a whole is permissible. Where we refer to upgrades, the information provided here also generally applies to downgrades as well.
There are a number of reasons why a rolling restart might be desirable. These are described in the next few paragraphs.
Configuration change. To make a change in the cluster's configuration, such as adding an SQL node to the cluster, or setting a configuration parameter to a new value.
MySQL Cluster software upgrade or downgrade. To upgrade the cluster to a newer version of the MySQL Cluster software (or to downgrade it to an older version). This is usually referred to as a "rolling upgrade" (or "rolling downgrade", when reverting to an older version of MySQL Cluster).
Change on node host. To make changes in the hardware or operating system on which one or more MySQL Cluster node processes are running.
System reset (cluster reset). To reset the cluster because it has reached an undesirable state. In such cases it is often desirable to reload the data and metadata of one or more data nodes. This can be done in any of three ways:
Start each data node process (ndbd, or
possibly ndbmtd in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0
and later) with the
option, which forces the data node to clear its file system
and to reload all MySQL Cluster data and metadata from the
other data nodes.
Create a backup using the ndb_mgm client
BACKUP command prior to performing the
restart. Following the upgrade, restore the node or nodes
using ndb_restore.
See Section 17.5.3, "Online Backup of MySQL Cluster", and Section 17.4.20, "ndb_restore — Restore a MySQL Cluster Backup", for more information.
Use mysqldump to create a backup prior to
the upgrade; afterward, restore the dump using
Resource Recovery.
To free memory previously allocated to a table by successive
INSERT and
DELETE operations, for re-use by
other MySQL Cluster tables.
The process for performing a rolling restart may be generalized as follows:
Stop all cluster management nodes (ndb_mgmd processes), reconfigure them, then restart them.
(If there are multiple management servers and you are using MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.8 or later, see Rolling restarts with multiple management servers (MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.8 and later).)
Stop, reconfigure, then restart each cluster data node (ndbd process) in turn.
Stop, reconfigure, then restart each cluster SQL node (mysqld process) in turn.
The specifics for implementing a given rolling upgrade depend upon the changes being made. A more detailed view of the process is presented here:
In the previous diagram, the Stop
and Start steps indicate that the
process must be stopped completely using a shell command (such as
kill on most Unix systems) or the management
STOP command, then
started again from a system shell by invoking the
ndbd or ndb_mgmd executable
as appropriate. On Windows (MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.3 and later),
you can also use the system
NET START and
NET STOP commands or the Windows Service
Manager to start and stop nodes which have been installed as
Windows services (see
Section 184.108.40.206, "Installing MySQL Cluster Processes as Windows Services").
Restart indicates that the
process may be restarted using the ndb_mgm
management client
command (see Section 17.5.2, "Commands in the MySQL Cluster Management Client").
Prior to MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3.29 and MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.10. When performing an upgrade or downgrade of the cluster software, you must upgrade or downgrade the management nodes first, then the data nodes, and finally the SQL nodes. Doing so in any other order may leave the cluster in an unusable state.
MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3.29 and later; MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.10 and later. MySQL Cluster supports a more flexible order for upgrading the cluster nodes. When upgrading a cluster running MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3.29 or later, or a cluster that is running MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.10 or later, you may upgrade API nodes (including SQL nodes) before upgrading the management nodes, data nodes, or both. In other words, you are permitted to upgrade the API and SQL nodes in any order. This is subject to the following provisions:
This functionality is intended for use as part of an online upgrade only. A mix of node binaries from different MySQL Cluster releases is neither intended nor supported for constant, long-term use in a production setting.
All management nodes must be upgraded before any data nodes are upgraded. This remains true regardless of the order in which you upgrade the cluster's API and SQL nodes.
For MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3, the ability to upgrade API nodes in
any order relative to upgrading management nodes and data
nodes is supported only for MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3.29 and
later; for MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0, it supported only for MySQL
Cluster NDB 7.0.10 and later. This means that, if you are
upgrading from a MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3 release to a MySQL
Cluster NDB 7.0 release, the "old"
NDB engine version must be 6.3.29
or later, and the "new"
NDB engine version must be 7.0.10
or later.
When upgrading the cluster from a MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3 release to a MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0 release: Once you have started upgrading the API nodes, you should not perform DDL operations until all management nodes and data nodes have been upgraded. DML operations should be unaffected, and can continue while the upgrade is in progress.
However, it is possible to perform DDL from an "old" (NDB 6.3 version) API node as long as the master data node is also running the "old" version of MySQL Cluster. You should keep in mind that a data node restart could result in the master node running a "new" (NDB 7.0 version) binary while one or more data nodes are still using the "old" (NDB 6.3) version; in this situation, no DDL can be performed from any API node, because the master data node is no longer using an NDB 6.3 binary, but the cluster still contains nodes which are not yet using NDB 7.0. For this reason, we recommend that you avoid performing DDL at any time while the upgrade is in progress.
Features specific to the "new" version must not be used until all management nodes and data nodes have been upgraded.
This also applies to any MySQL Server version change that may apply, in addition to the NDB engine version change, so do not forget to take this into account when planning the upgrade. (This is true for online upgrades of MySQL Cluster in general.)
See also Bug #48528 and Bug #49163.
Rolling restarts with multiple management servers (MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.8 and later). A change in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.8 in the way in which management nodes obtain configuration data makes it necessary to alter the procedure previously outlined, when performing a rolling restart of a MySQL Cluster with multiple management nodes. (Previously, a management node checked only its own configuration cache, but in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.8 and later, ndb_mgmd also checks to see if any other management node is running, and, if so, tries to use that node's configuration data.) To keep this from occurring, and to force ndb_mgmd to reread its configuration file, perform the following steps:
Stop all MySQL Cluster ndb_mgmd processes.
Update all
config.ini files.
Start a single ndb_mgmd with
--initial, or both options as
If you started the first ndb_mgmd with the
--initial option, you must
also start any remaining ndb_mgmd processes
Regardless of any other options used when starting the first
ndb_mgmd, you should not start any
remaining ndb_mgmd processes after the
first one using
Complete the rolling restarts of the data nodes and API nodes as normal.
See also Bug #45495 and Bug #46488.
MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.24 and later; MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.13 and later.
When performing a rolling restart to update the cluster's
configuration, you can use the
config_generation column of the
ndbinfo.nodes table to keep
track of which data nodes have been successfully restarted with
the new configuration. See
Section 22.214.171.124, "The ndbinfo nodes Table".


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BRIDGEPORT -- Not too long ago, someone asked Jerome Parkins, "Would you raise your daughter in Bridgeport?" He routinely defends his city, particularly the poverty-marred West Side, yet almost always contradicts himself by presenting the facts that even someone as loyal as Parkins cannot ignore.
These aren't bad people, he insists. They sometimes do bad things.
"I feel like Bridgeport doesn't deserve to be written in the newspaper like it is, but ..."
"My friend, he's a real good kid, but ..."
But ...
There's always a "but."
In the summer of 2010, shortly after Parkins graduated from Central High, he walked home from a workout with two friends, both "gangbangers," he says. These friends --"good dudes," by Parkins' account -- had always discouraged him from the street life, fearing that it would interfere with basketball. As they reached Wood Avenue, a rival group stared down his friends. The group disappeared and Parkins kept walking. Nothing seemed to come of it.
Five minutes later, his friends yelled "run." About 15 shots were fired. None hit his buddies. One pierced Parkins' right tricep and came out through his forearm. A muscle-bound 6-foot-3, 200 pounds, broad in the shoulders and thick in the legs, Parkins bolted -- and he's got wheels -- as he simultaneously tied his shirt around the wound to control the blood loss.
Today, Parkins' right arm is fully healed, save for the sporadic pain during pushups. That arm scored 21.1 points and corralled 12.5 rebounds per game for Gateway Community College (New Haven) last season, making Parkins a second-team Division 3 JuCo All-American. He often looks at the arm, especially the two tattoos beneath the sewn-up wound. It takes one glance to arrive at an answer.
"I wouldn't want to raise her in Bridgeport," he says.
Jerome Parkins, 20, says he wants a big house someday. OK, not a mansion, but a home that says "I made it out the hood."
He lives with his mother, who is on disability, and three brothers on the West Side. Their house is just fine: The wood floor is remarkably shiny, almost like a basketball court that had just been buffed and waxed. Children's books are stacked neatly on a chair in common room. The tabletop is bare, minus a sheet of Parkins' math homework. Parkins' basketball trophies rest in a glass case above the TV.
But ... there are minor imperfections: Parts of the wall near the staircase have deteriorated, leaving fiberglass insulation exposed. The kitchen window screen is cut open, likely punched out to help the air flow. It's brutally hot in here. Even hotter than it is outside.
So Ashanti Parkins hopes to catch a breeze near a window. She taps Jerome on the leg as if she has a question. Before she speaks, Parkins wipes the sweat off her forehead with a towel.
"Thank you, daddy," she says.
Born Christmas Eve of his junior year, Ashanti was "the best gift" Parkins could ask for. He tattooed her name in elegant cursive on his right forearm.
Parkins splits custody with Ashanti's mother, who lives in Bridgeport's Greene housing projects. According to Parkins, her mother doesn't want to leave the city. He, on the other hand, already tried, attending Butler Community College (Kansas) for a month before returning to Connecticut to be with Ashanti.
"He knew what it was like to not have a dad," says Skip Dugas, the man who has spent the past 10 years as a "mentor" for Parkins. "He's worried about where she's going to be on the street at 12, 16 years old."
At 3 years old, Ashanti is simply curious about her surroundings.
"What's that?" she asks, pointing to the table centerpiece.
"A flower," Parkins responds.
She picks up a book from the stack.
"Can you read this to me, daddy?" Parkins gladly complies, although he's read "The Bookshop Dog" enough to recite it from memory. It's a humorous story, at least for children, about the "choosing" aspect of friendship, an important topic.
He reads carefully as Ashanti follows the pictures. One page conjures up some uneasiness: "Where's the doggy?!" she asks in a panic. Peace is restored when he flips the page and -- lo and behold -- the doggy reappears.
Ashanti can't read yet, but she plays with the alphabet, rearranging foam letters on the living room floor. She may not fully understand "The Bookshop Dog," but she's fascinated with animals. She loves the Beardsley Zoo, and Parkins plans to take her to the Bronx Zoo this week.
She already has a grasp on basketball, with the exception of free throw etiquette: This past year, as the gym fell silent with Parkins at the line, Ashanti blurted out "Are you ready, daddy?" When he does pushups in the living room, she presses down on his back, trying to make it more difficult.
Ashanti is his shadow, and he loves it.
"Daddy, where are you going?"
"I'm about to go to the store."
"I'm coming."
Even last week when Parkins had a JuCo showcase in Philadelphia, her immediate response was "I'm coming."
"If I see her for just one minute, it makes my day," Parkins says.
There's a reason Parkins phrases it like that. In late May, he made a trip to Waterbury without Ashanti. As the court documents indicated, Parkins was with two other Bridgeport men -- former Harding hoops star LaQuan Mendenhall, 20, and Tyson Wells, 23.
This is how Parkins tells the story: He was "headed up to Waterbury anyway to drop off his friend's car," so he agreed to take them. They instructed him to pick up "another dude from Waterbury," someone Parkins had never met. This man told Parkins to drive to a certain house. The passengers left the car, retrieved something from the house and told him "all right, we're going to grab one more thing." The next minute, he heard gunshots.
Before they could escape Waterbury, police pulled the car over for questioning. In the car, there was a "jug with coins." Parkins was hit with conspiracy to commit burglary, a Class B felony, and two misdemeanors. He has yet to enter a plea. Mendenhall pleaded not guilty to the same charges, in addition to four other felonies, including first degree burglary and possession of narcotics. Wells has pleaded not guilty to five misdemeanors and three felonies, one of which was cruelty to animals.
He allegedly shot a dog.
Sometimes when Parkins dozes off for a nap, Ashanti will slap him on the cheek.
"Daddy, we need to feed my baby."
Parkins will wake up and pretend -- for his daughter's amusement -- that he's "feeding" a
toy doll.
Really, Parkins is concerned with feeding Ashanti, giving her a "positive life with less struggle." In a world where so many young fathers walk out, no one close to Parkins believes he'll follow the trend. That's partly because he's been victimized by it: Parkins' father was not consistently in his life. He had Dugas, whom he met at the Shehan Center (Dugas' son played basketball with Parkins and they've kept in close contact). He also had Terry Walden, a high school outreach program coordinator, the man who brought him to Gateway Community College.
He admits that he dabbled in the street life at a young age. Thought it was "fun." He fought a lot in school. He was far more concerned with chasing girls than grades (his high school coach hated when cheerleaders came to the gym). Only after Ashanti was born did he focus: As a senior, it was school, his daughter, basketball and work at a Darien grocery store from 7 p.m. until 1 or 2 in the morning. He skipped weekend parties, even the ones he promoted.
"Having a daughter was a good thing for him," Walden says. "That's not always the case for young black men."
Adds Dugas, "He'd hate to hear this, but (Ashanti) kind of softened him up. He's got this tough exterior, but the soft part inside Jerome has really come out."
Except on the basketball court. Parkins was the leading scorer -- and sixth man -- on perhaps the best Central squad in school history. The 2009-10 Hilltoppers went 27-1 (the only loss was a forfeit) en route to their third state title since 1975. In a back-and-forth Class LL championship against Hillhouse and guard Freddie Wilson (now with Seton Hall), Parkins scored nine points in the final five minutes to seal it. He attacked the rim relentlessly and boxed out so hard that he sent opponents crashing to the floor.
At Gateway, he once scored 22 points and pulled down 23 rebounds -- he's a guard, by the way -- in a single game, earning him National JuCo Player of the Week honors.
His dream -- the word tattooed on the outside of his right forearm -- is to use Gateway as a launching pad to a four-year school, earn a degree and establish a career overseas. Given his ability, it's plausible. A college coach familiar with Parkins believes he is capable of playing Division I.
But given his circumstance, ability may not be enough. If convicted on conspiracy to commit burglary, Parkins could face jail time.
"I think about it every day ... that's why I spend all the time with (Ashanti) now," Parkins says. "It hurts me because I was going on a good path. One decision ... it changed my life as of now."
Even if Parkins, a first-time offender, gets off with probation, college coaches are reluctant to stick their necks out for someone with a checkered past. Quinnipiac coach Tom Moore says coaches who take these risks could "open themselves up for major criticism" if it doesn't work out.
Without addressing a specific situation, Sacred Heart assistant Anthony Latina said the prospective recruit must show -- through action, not just words -- that he's serious about being "a good person and a good student" to even be considered.
"Is it impossible? Absolutely not," Latina says. "Is it very difficult? Absolutely. Unfortunately, when a young man makes a big mistake, it takes A LOT for a program to be OK enough with that to take a particular recruit."
Skip Dugas has met many Bridgeport teens through his son's basketball leagues, but he says there's "something inside" of Parkins that triggers hope.
Every week or so, Dugas picks up Parkins and brings him to his home in Monroe. One time, Dugas was upset at the young man, and he began to lecture him -- almost like an angry father would. He slowly rolled down the street, focused on his speech, not his driving.
"You might want to pick up speed," Parkins said.
"Why?" Dugas asked.
"People get shot on this street."
Dugas could still see Parkins' house in the rearview mirror.
During the day, it's a quiet neighborhood. Ashanti stands outside and eats a Popsicle, unaware of the potential danger lurking. A truck drives by and honks at Parkins. He smiles and waves.
"I've known him forever," he says. "He's a real good dude."
Parkins has a friend who deals drugs: Good dude. And the two he was with that night he got shot: They're good dudes, too.
Parkins sees people for who they are, not what they do. The guys in his neighborhood often say, "What are you doing out here now? Go inside," when they see him on the streets past 11 p.m. The West Side, for the most part, has his back.
But -- remember, there's always a "but" -- not everyone is in his corner.
"You're in manhood, you have responsibilities, you have to consider who your friends are," Walden says. "If they're going to put you in situations where they're going to jeopardize your life, and your future, you have to reassess who are your friends."
Walden believes a "light should have went off, but didn't" during that trip to Waterbury. He's disappointed, as is Dugas, because Parkins has seen this story too many times: His cousin, Dexter Hill, a former Bassick High quarterback, was shot to death in his Fairfield Avenue home in July 2008. No arrest has been made, but police believe the Bridgeport drug gang "Stack Boyz" was directly involved, according to a previous Connecticut Post report. While watching an Albertus Magnus basketball game with Dugas, Parkins checked his phone and sunk back in his seat. He had just learned that one of his friends was shot in the head.
"How many of your close friends have been murdered?" Dugas rhetorically asks. "Jerome has had five. Five. At 20 years old ... I don't know how you're supposed to deal with it."
Parkins remembers Tavon Duharte, a former Bassick High basketball star who wrote poetry. Duharte was stabbed to death by his high school teammate, Davon Harris, who is serving a 12-year prison sentence. One of the lines in a Duharte poem was "make it out the hood."
"You have a good life ahead of you and it's 50 yards to the finish line," Dugas explains. "... You have Ashanti, and I love Ashanti, but take five steps back. You live in Bridgeport. Take five more steps back. But you're an All-American. Five steps forward. You have this good stuff, but then you get arrested. You're wayyyyy back."
Parkins knows his only shot is to "stay positive." When he clenches both fists and brings his arms toward his body -- as if to prepare for a fight -- his message is exposed on the outside of his forearms: "Dream" is on the right. Soon, he says, "Chaser" will be on the left. The second tattoo has yet to be drawn, and the final chapters to Parkins' story remain unwritten.
The dreams he chases aren't narcissistic delusions, they're baby steps towards a greater purpose: He wants to do well in his summer math class (he recently got an 85 on a quiz and posted a 2.9 GPA last semester). He wants to organize an anti-violence basketball game in the city. He wants to
lead the nation in scoring next season (he ranked 13th among JuCo players last year). And one day, when Ashanti taps him and asks "Daddy, where are you going?," he wants to tell her they're leaving Bridgeport.
For good.
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During the summer of 2008, Lauren Jaeger '09 interned at the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC.
Lauren outside of the National Archives.
Lauren's main assignment at the Center involved writing essays and sidebars for the Center's latest educational publication Congress and the Shaping of American History. In order to complete her writing assignments for the textbook's unit on Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States, Lauren researched extensively within the National Archives and at the Library of Congress.
Lauren reading a bound volume of
executive documents from the Civil War.
Throughout the summer she also had the opportunity to give tours of the Archives, learn about archiving and process records requests, and to work on Capitol Hill, assisting with the House Fellowship Program. The House Fellowship program brings high school teachers from across the country to Washington, DC for a week and the Center for Legislative Archives works cooperatively with the House Historians Office to hold workshops to demonstrate how to teach with documents.
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