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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking comment on Telstra's plans to migrate customers from its HFC and copper networks to the National Broadband Network (NBN).
The ACCC is looking for public comment on four of the measures Telstra has developed relating to the telco's NBN migration, including security measures around it receiving information from NBN Co's to ensure it does not obtain an unfair advantage from information it receives from NBN Co.
Other measures in the discussion paper (PDF) relate to Telstra switching off its HFC and copper networks once an area is NBN-ready and situations where the telco will build copper paths to provide services which are not yet available on the NBN or do not have an NBN-comparable service. For example, ISDN services.
Telstra needs the ACCC's approval due to not having "fully effective processes" when the telco lodged the migration plan, according to the ACCC.
NBN Co is paying Telstra $11 billion to use Telstra's exchanges, dark fibre, ducts, lead-in-conduits and for the telco to migrate customers on its copper and HFC network to the NBN once it is available.
Telstra filed a migration plan with the ACCC in August 2011 and lodged a draft response in October 2012 to required measures 2, 3, 4 and 6 that the ACCC is currently seeking comment on.
Submissions for comment close 14 December, 2012.
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Distinguished star of stage and screen Christopher Plummer recreates his Tony Award-winning role playing the legendary actor John Barrymore in the film adaptation of William Luce's Broadway play. Barrymore airs on Great Performances, Friday, January 31 at 9 pm, ET on PBS (check local listings).
Set in 1942, Barrymore shines a dramatic spotlight on the acclaimed—and notorious— John Barrymore, capturing the famously combative star in the final months of his life as he struggles to prepare for a backer's audition to stage a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph in Richard III. Once among the most acclaimed stage actors of his generation, as well as a central member of Broadway and Hollywood's most famous acting dynasty, Barrymore is now in the twilight of his career, no longer a leading box office draw and wrestling with the ravages of his life of excess. In equal parts lacerating wit and piercing despair, the faded icon revisits the highs and lows of his theatrical triumphs and remarkable life.
The film starring Christopher Plummer had its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. It was directed and adapted by writer-director Érik Canuel from the production for which Plummer won both a Tony™ Award and Drama Desk Award. John Plumpis, who toured with Plummer in the play after its Broadway run, recreates his role of Frank, the prompter. The film came shortly after Plummer received his multiple awards for Beginners in 2010 (Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and more).
Playwright William Luce previously wrote the Broadway and London hit, The Belle of Amherst, starring Julie Harris as the poet Emily Dickinson, for which Ms. Harris won her fifth Tony Award for Best Actress. Luce has twice been nominated for Writers Guild Awards for the CBS-TV movies, "The Last Days of Patton," starring George C. Scott, and "The Woman He Loved," starring Jane Seymour, Olivia de Havilland and Julie Harris. He has also written autobiographical plays based on the lives of Lillian Hellman, Charlotte Bronte and Isak Dinesen.
Barrymore is available on DVD and Blu-ray from Image Entertainment, Inc.
About Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer has enjoyed almost 60 years as one of the worlds most revered and beloved actors on screen and on stage. Since Sidney Lumet introduced him to the screen in Stage Struck (1958), his range of notable films include The Man Who Would Be King, Battle of Britain, Waterloo, Fall of The Roman Empire, Star Trek VI, Twelve Monkeys, and the 1965 Oscar-winning The Sound of Music; more recently, Oscar-nominated The Insider (as Mike Wallace, he won the National Film Critics Award), the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind, National Treasure, Syriana, Inside Man and Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. His upcoming films include Imagined (opposite Al Pacino) and Elsa and Fred (opposite Shirley MacLaine). Plummer is also in Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, which is currently airing on HBO. His TV appearances, which number close to 100, have earned him two Emmys and seven Emmy nominations.
Raised in Montreal, Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English and played Cymbeline under the great Russian director, Theodore Komisarjevsky. After Eva Le Galliene gave him his New York debut (1954) he went on to star in many celebrated productions on Broadway and London's West End, winning accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. He has won two Tony Awards plus seven Tony nominations.
A former leading member of the Royal National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier and the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, where he won London's Evening Standard Award for Best Actor in Becket, Mr. Plummer also led Canada's Stratford Festival in its formative years under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham.
Plummer's life is recounted in his autobiographical memoir, In Spite of Myself (Random House). Christopher Plummer's one-man show A Word or Two will play the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles from Jan. 19 to Feb. 9.
Of Plummer's performance, critic Rex Reed proclaimed, "It's the role — and the performance — of a lifetime, and he plays every color, nuance, mood shift and variety of vocal power and body language in his enormous range. The artistry leaves you with your mouth wide open."
About John Barrymore
John Barrymore, the American stage and screen actor whose rise to super-stardom and subsequent decline is one of the legendary tragedies of Hollywood, was a member of the most famous generation of the most famous theatrical family in America, and he was also its most acclaimed star.
The youngest and most gifted son of performers Maurice and Georgina Drew Barrymore, and brother of Ethel and Lionel, John Sidney Barrymore was born in Philadelphia in 1882.
By 1909 he had achieved the status of matinee idol owing to his good looks, distinguished profile, quick wit and personal charisma.
Throughout the 1920's, he played two roles which were widely acknowledged as the pinnacles of his stage career: Richard III (1920) and Hamlet (1923), the latter of which ran long enough to set a New York record and had a successful run in London. Following these triumphs, Barrymore devoted his time to his film career and appeared in one MGM production, Rasputin and the Empress, with his siblings, Lionel and Ethel. After many years in Hollywood—starring in more than 60 films, including such classics as "Grand Hotel," "Dinner at Eight," "Twentieth Century," "Romeo and Juliet," "Maytime," and "Marie Antoinette," John Barrymore returned to Broadway in 1939 for a brief run in 1 comedy with his fourth wife, Elaine Jacobs.
Theatre historians generally agree that had Barrymore possessed the necessary dedication and determination, John Barrymore would have been the greatest stage actor of his generation. After 1925, however, the hedonistic actor dissipated his talents.
Barrymore died in 1942, at the age of 59, mourned as much for the loss of his life as for the loss of grace, wit, and brilliance which had characterized his career at its height. Today, granddaughter Drew Barrymore carries on the family name.
Credits Print
Great Performances is a production of THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET, one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers. For 50 years, THIRTEEN has been making the most of the rich resources and passionate people of New York and the world, reaching millions of people with on-air and online programming that celebrates arts and culture, offers insightful commentary on the news of the day, explores the worlds of science and nature, and invites students of all ages to have fun while learning.
Great Performances is funded by Anne Ray Charitable Trust, the Irene Diamond Fund, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, The Agnes Varis Trust, Rosalind P. Walter, The Starr Foundation, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation and public television viewers, and PBS.
Barrymore is produced by Steve Kalafer, Peter LeDonne, and Garth H. Drabinksy. Production designer: Cameron Porteous. Director of Photography: Bernard Couture. Editor: Jean-Francois Bergeron. Composer: Michel Corriveau. Scenic designer: Debra Hanson.
For Great Performances, Bill O'Donnell is series producer; David Horn is executive producer.

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MISSION VIEJO, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 19, 2013) - Aeolus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (
Pursuant to the purchase agreement, Aeolus has agreed to issue an aggregate of 12,900,000 shares of the Company's common stock at a price per share of $0.25, as well as 5-year warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 12,900,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $0.25 per share.
Net proceeds from this offering will be used for general corporate and working capital purposes, primarily to continue development of AEOL10150 as a medical countermeasure for the pulmonary effects of acute radiation syndromes, under a development contract with BARDA. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on February 20, 2013.
Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., a subsidiary of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. (
The securities offered in this private placement transaction have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the securities may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and such applicable state securities laws. Pursuant to the terms of a registration rights agreement entered into with the investors, Aeolus has agreed to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission registering the resale of the shares of common stock sold in the offering and issuable upon exercise of the warrants. Any offering of Aeolus' securities under the resale registration statement referred to above will be made only by means of a prospectus.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities, nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
About AEOL 10150
AEOL 10150 is a broad-spectrum catalytic antioxidant specifically designed to neutralize reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. The neutralization of these species reduces oxidative stress, inflammation, and subsequent tissue damage-signaling cascades resulting from radiation exposure. AEOL 10150 may have a profound beneficial impact on people who have been exposed, or are about to be exposed, to high-doses of radiation in the treatment of oncology.
AEOL 10150 has performed well in preclinical and non-clinical studies, demonstrating statistically significant survival efficacy in an acute radiation-induced lung injury model, and was well-tolerated in two human clinical trials. The Company believes it could have a profound beneficial impact on people who have been exposed, or are about to be exposed, to high-doses of radiation, whether from cancer therapy or a nuclear event.
About Aeolus Pharmaceuticals
Aeolus Pharmaceuticals is developing a platform of a new class of broad-spectrum, catalytic-antioxidant compounds that protect healthy tissue from the damaging effects of radiation. Its first compound, AEOL 10150, is being developed for oncology indications, where it is used in combination with radiation therapy. It is also being developed, with funding by the US Department of Health and Human Services, as a medical countermeasure against chemical and radiological weapons, where its initial target indications are as a protective agent against the effects of acute radiation syndrome and delayed effects of acute radiation exposure. Aeolus' strategy is to leverage the substantial investment in toxicology, manufacturing, and preclinical and clinical studies made by US Government agencies in AEOL 10150, including the contract with BARDA valued, with options, at up to $118.4 million, to efficiently develop the compound for use in oncology. For more information, please visit Aeolus's corporate website at www.aeoluspharma.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
The statements in this press release that are not purely statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to, those relating to Aeolus' product candidates, as well as its proprietary technologies and research programs, the Company's potential initiation of large efficacy studies in mice and NHPs, as well as a phase 1 study in healthy normal volunteers, the BARDA Contract, and the expected use of proceeds from the financing. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Aeolus' actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause results to differ include risks associated with uncertainties of progress and timing of clinical trials, scientific research and product development activities, difficulties or delays in development, testing, obtaining regulatory approval, the need to obtain funding for pre-clinical and clinical trials and operations, the scope and validity of intellectual property protection for Aeolus' product candidates, proprietary technologies and their uses, and competition from other biopharmaceutical companies, and whether BARDA exercises one or more additional options under the BARDA Contract. Certain of these factors and others are more fully described in Aeolus' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, Aeolus' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2012. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.
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Everyone's worried about Who Watches the Watchmen, but the real question should be: Who Plays the Watchmen? A new Crossover Pack for the popular DC Deck Building Game, Watchmen adds six new playable characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's landmark miniseries to any base version of the game. In addition to these new characters, the expansion also adds a new mechanic that generate suspicion within the gameplay.
Carcassonne: Over Hill and Dale is a rustic new variant of the original Carcassonne tile laying game that includes new decisions to be made and tactics to be enacted. As players lay tiles, connecting roads and landscaping gardens, they will also be able to plant and harvest crops to gain further points. As with other games in the Carcassonne series, Over Hill and Dale is easy to teach to younger or new players, making it a perfect introductory game experience for families.
Empires continue to be build in the new expansion for Roll for the Galaxy. Roll for the Galaxy: Ambition explores sets of new factions that have been added to the game, accompanied by new strategies and game tiles. New Leader and Entrepreneur dice are also added to the existing dice pile, offering possibilities to recruit workers and other factions that can assist in growing your empire.
There are few products that have Neil Gaiman's name plastered on them that are not worth a look. A Study in Emerald is definitely in the "worth a look" category! Based off the award winning short story by Gaiman, the A Study in Emerald board game throws players into the author's fictional world, one that combines Sherlock Holmes and H.P. Lovecraft. The Old Ones have taken over the Earth, running it for centuries, but a dedicated few are inclined to resist and restore power to the people. Players will control those "Restorationists" as they attempt to overturn the Old Ones' rule with covert assassinations and attacks. Whether you use dynamite or espionage, the goal is to restore power to humankind.
Built out of the ruins of the popular Heroscape miniature battle game, Arena of the Planeswalkers takes the Magic the Gathering mythos and uses it to provide miniature characters based off of Magic cards that can be pitted against each other. Battle for Zendikar is the first expansion for the base game, including entirely new Planewalkers, heroes, and squads, as well as a special battlefield scenario to play through. Bringing that scenario to life is an additional gameboard expansion that can connect to the previous board. Ob Nixilis and Kiora are the two featured Planeswalkers in this set.
Stop a fanatical cult from returning a Dark Pharaoh to power in 1920s Egypt in the new Eldritch Horror expansion, Under the Pyramids. This expansion features an Egypt side board enabling invetigators to explore the nation's bustling cities, barren deserts, and mysterious archaeological sites. Eight intrepid new investigators join the struggle against the Ancient Ones, aided by invaluable Relics, powerful Glamour Spells, and legendary allies including the archaeologist Enoch Bowen and the illusionist Erich Weiss.
Both a tile laying and card collection game, Lanterns the Harvest Festival will be the next easy-to-learn, but endlessly playable game you and your friends get addicted to. In the game, players will be competing as artisans who are attempting to plan a beautiful lantern display on the palace lake. Each player will take turns laying down tiles with assorted arrangements of different colored lanterns, attempting to connect a portion of the tile with another, matching tile. By doing so, players will also earn lantern cards that can be collected to win the game. For a limited time, anyone who purchases the game at Pulp Fiction will also receive a promo tile packet!


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Funeral services for Kenneth Cason, age 81 of Mount Vernon, were at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 6, 2010 at the First Baptist Church of Mount Vernon. Burial was in the Mount Vernon City Cemetery with Rev. Pepper Puryear and Rev. Zach Tunnell officiating.
Mr. Cason was born July 19, 1929 in Omaha, Tex., to Lem Cason and Mattie B. Barruth Cason. He was married to Betty Adams Cason. He was a member of the Mount Vernon Volunteer Fire Department for 39 years.
He died Saturday, Dec. 4 in Mount Vernon.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Cason of Mount Vernon; his son, Harold Cason of Mount Vernon; two daughters, Cindy Smith of Mount Vernon and Jan Lawrence of Mount Vernon; a brother, William Cason of Winnsboro; a sister, Nancy Johnson of Irving; six grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Eric Layton, Josh Tucker, Tim Nixon, Howy Ezell, Jasper Scott, and J. R. Duckworth. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Jack Henry Sunday School Class.


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Mission: The vision of the Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation, Inc. (ELA) is to change the face of disability on the planet. In order to accomplish this vision, ELA's mission is to promote, through grants and scholarships, the inclusion of people with disabilities in the areas of arts, advocacy and education.
History: The Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation, Inc. (ELA) was founded by Margaret Staton in 1994 to "Change the Face of Disability on the Planet." Named after her maternal grandmother, ELA seeks especially to support the work of organizations that are led by or support the work of women with disabilities, encouraging distinctive projects that make a substantial difference. To quote its founder, "Total inclusion of people with disabilities in every aspect of society can and will happen as all of us embrace this vision together. Anything less than this is just not acceptable."
Eligibility & Application: For information on eligibility and to apply, please visit the website: http://www.ela.org/scholarships/scholarships_process.html
We have answered additional questions regarding the application process in the FAQ's of the Scholarship section of this website. We would advise that you read the FAQ section before continuing the application process. If you still have a question, please direct it via email to email@example.com or call Deborah Lewis at 626-398-8840.


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Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2010
Papergirl Glasgow
We are incredibly excited to announce that Papergirl Glasgow (Scotland) is on its way. You can find more about here:
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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/papergirlGLA
Tumbrl: http://papergirlglasgow.tumblr.com/
Looking forward to seeing you!
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hello beautiful papergirl people...:O)
Papergirl Kelowna had a wonderfully successful and amazing event on the 16th of October at the Rotary Centre For The Arts, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada!!...
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Delivery of the arties, this coming Sat, Twenty Three!...:O)
organizing papergirl event = wine (at least)
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Sonntag, 17. Oktober 2010
Papergirl Hamburg #1 - Exhibition incoming!
After the Open Call for submissions for the first issue of Papergirl Hamburg ended on 15th October, we are now looking forward to our exhibition which will take place from 29.10.-13.11.2010 at the Kupferdiebe-Gallery in the Hamburger Gängeviertel.
We are very happy to present about 500 pieces of art from 60 art-givers from around the world at the first Papergirl exhibition in Hamburg and are already planning the bycicle-tour to spread out all the art to the lucky Hamburgians!
For more information click our blog and don't be afraid to write us an e-mail!
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Your Papergirl-Hamburg
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This is not exactly a pizza as we would normally think of a pizza, as the "crust" is made up of a soft polenta base. Nonetheless, it does rather look like a pizza and it even rather tastes like one too. Adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi's invaluable Plenty, the texture of the soft polenta crust is a welcome treat and the rich and earthy herbed mushrooms could not fail to please fungus aficionados.
|Mushroom Polenta Pizza
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Adapted from Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes From London's Ottolenghi
Published on February 9, 2013
Rich and earthy herbed mushrooms on a soft creamy polenta "pizza" crust
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More ideas for polenta from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen you are sure to want to try:
Artichoke Tart with Polenta Crust and Fresh Rosemary
Polenta with Mushroom Ragout
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Betty Ann Pennington Broecker hosted a luncheon last week for her niece Nancy Freccia, who was in town visiting from Seattle. Nancy was a Pennington from Lexington.
Betty Ann, who always has the loveliest luncheons, will be 99 in December! She is a marvelous cook and prepared a wonderful corn pudding and delicious shrimp, pasta and blueberry salad from a recipe she got from her friend, Fran Cody. I am sure dessert was good but Weight Watchers was calling.
In addition to Fran, she had the kith and kin including her daughter Liza Lee Ulferts, Peggy Henderson, her son Penn and his wife Pat Broecker, and another niece, Kay Payne.
B.A. loves to entertain and play bridge. She has company in for cards and lunch or dinner at least four times a week! Such energy, plus being so much fun to be with. Lord, let us all live to be her version of 99; healthy and loads of fun to be around!
The Association of the Louisville Orchestra (ALO) had their annual meeting at the elegant home of Ingrid Johnson in Glenview last week.
The ALO works hard all year long, raising funds to promote classical music in our town. Jo Ann Gammon, Nancy Laird and Winona Shiprek are among the workhorses who never tire of this labor and to whom we owe a great deal.
The ALO was pleased to present a check for $15,000 for orchestral instruments to the Lincoln Elementary Performing Arts Magnet School, located on East Main Street in downtown Louisville. The instruments will be used by the school's fourth and fifth graders.
The Kentucky Derby Festival had a party for all their volunteers last Sunday at the Sports & Social Club at Fourth Street Live! The party honored all the volunteers who put so much effort and hard work into the festival.
Expressing thanks was Festival CEO Mike Berry. Among those thanked were Lou Ellen Williams, Rip Hatfield, Helen Berry, Alex Freeman, John Freeman, Sally and Pat Gala, 2012 Chair Wendy Jacob, Chair Elect David Nett and Carl Mittleston.
There was a DJ, free bowling and cornhole and all you could eat at the scrumptious appetizer buffet. This evening honored the volunteers because without them there would not be this world-class festival.
Louisville is pretty lucky to have such tireless and selfless volunteers. They work for our fair city and not for personal glory.
Ann Sternberg, Margie and Allen Baker just returned from a vacation in Hollywood, where they visited an old friend and one of Louisville's favorite comediennes, Phyllis Diller! She did commercials for Ann's family business. Remember Paramount Pickles with Phyllis as the spokeswoman?
She still has all that wild, zany humor and loved being with her old friends. Unfortunately she is now blind. But her sense of humor hasn't dimmed a bit, even if she is in her 90s.


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Hi there, yep Im from Christchurch, it seems there are only a handful of Garth fans here in New Zealand. The media doesn't help, the coverage of country music and Garth is non existent.
Hi Brett
Where are you from
Im just outside of Christchurch
There not that many GB fans in NZ or at least not that many that will admit it


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A Hook reader noticed this new business coming soon to West Rio Road, right next to Papa John's and across from Merchant's Tire.
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It's about time. Woodbrook Sporting Goods needs some good healthy competition. Maybe their staff won't be so rude if they're not the only game in town.
Stock up on ammo now, it is relatively cheap, as soon as society falls apart it will not be cheap anymore if you can get it at all.
Bud, I couldn't agree with you more. Woodbrook's staff is unbelievably rude. I have purchased 5 guns in the last 5 years since I moved to VA, but none of them from Woodbrook, even though I live in C-ville. Not to mention ammo, a bow, clothing etc. By my calculations, they have lost out on 5 grand on sales from me, easy, all because their staff are a bunch of nuckleheads. Additionally, I have steered away multiple would be buyers, who end up echoing my opinions after visiting the shop. I keep trying to give wood brook another chance since it's convenient, but the service remains deplorable. It's truly unbelievable. The only person I know who shops there is a total consummate nucklehead himself.
Hopefully this place is good. I have been going to Dominion Outdoors in Stuarts Draft and Green Top in Glenn Alen. They are both fantastic. Don't understand how Woodbrook stays in business. Don't they like money?


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Neither Banned Nor Allowed: Mexican American Studies in Limbo in Arizona
TUCSON – Public high school instructors who want to teach Latino literature here have few other options besides "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros.
Other books may not be banned, but they aren't allowed either.
In the wake of Tucson's suspension of its Mexican American Studies program in January, a web of censorship and confusion has entangled the city's public schools. While the district has not expressly banned any books, it has implemented a series of restrictions ranging from outright prohibition of some books from classrooms, to new approval requirements for supplemental texts, and vague instructions regarding how texts may be taught.
The result, some teachers and students say, is an effective in-class deterrent to broaching the topics of racial discrimination and socioeconomic inequality from a Mexican-American perspective. Compounding the problem, the curriculum restrictions are not applied with the same rigor to all subjects or teachers – they apply specifically to Mexican American Studies and its former faculty, almost all of whom are Latino.
"To tell teachers they cannot use books, that they cannot reference books, that they have to be removed from the classrooms—I find it disingenuous of the district to talk all this gobbledygook that they aren't banning books," said Sally Rusk, a Tucson social studies teacher since 1990 who taught three Mexican American Studies courses prior to the suspension of the program.
Not Banned, But Not Allowed
On January 10, the TUSD's governing board voted 4 to 1 to abandon its controversial Mexican American Studies courses in order to bring the district into compliance with a new law forbidding classes that advocate the overthrow of the United States, promote racial resentment, or emphasize students' ethnicity rather than their individuality.
The law, HB 2281, specifically targeted the district's Mexican American studies program, which supporters accused of politicizing students and breeding ethnic resentment.
That Friday, the district removed seven book titles from its classrooms.
The seven books had been cited in a Dec. 27, 2011 court ruling that upheld the Arizona Education Department's order finding the Mexican American Studies program illegal under HB 2281. Almost all of them were written by U.S. Latino or Latin American authors.
Nicolás Domínguez, 18, watched as one of the former Mexican American Studies teachers came into his classroom at Tuscon High to pack up the books and take them to storage.
"They did it in a very dirty way," Domínguez said. "I felt like I was watching the slave-owners sending the slaves to get more children."
A multitude of Latino organizations, progressive political groups and free speech advocates accused the district of banning books—a charge the district denies.
"I think where it originated is that books were taken out of the classrooms—that was part of the state ruling," TUSD spokeswoman Cara Rene said during a visit to the brick warehouse where the removed books were stored. "So people say 'well, you're taking books away, that must be a ban,' but that is not true. The books were not banned, they were put in libraries."
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, who authored HB 2281 while serving as Superintendent of Education, took a less nuanced view.
"We were shocked by the racist nature of the curriculum," Horne said in a telephone interview with Fox News Latino. "The books were taken out of classrooms because the courses were suspended."
Horne cited Salomón Baldenegro's columns for the Tucson Citizen as an example of the Mexican American Studies mindset.
"I found his writings very troublesome. I thought they were very racially oriented and designed to create negative feelings about the United States," Horne said.
Baldenegro, a retired University of Arizona professor who helped design the curriculum for TUSD's Mexican American Studies program, rejected Horne's interpretation.
"Granted I wrote from a Chicano, leftist perspective on political issues, but I'm willing to bet my next pension check that reasonable people would not find my columns un-American," Baldenegro wrote in an email. "Horne obviously didn't read my columns."
The man who replaced Horne as state superintendent, John Huppenthal, says Arizona did not prohibit books from Tucson's classrooms because of their content, but because of the way they were taught.
"Any book can be inappropriate in a classroom if it's inappropriately used," Huppenthal told Fox News Latino.
Nevertheless, one book in particular caught Hupenthal's attention back when he led the drive in the State Senate to pass HB 2281: Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed."
Born into a middle class family in the northeastern city of Recife, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire's family slipped into poverty during the Great Depression—an experience he said inspired him to take an interest in poverty and inequality.
Viewing education as a political act, Freire argued that the Brazilian education system oppressed the country's poor majority by keeping students in a subordinate position, rather than teaching critical thinking skills and engaging students by relating lessons to their lives. In "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," Freire developed a pedagogy aimed at leveling the relationship between students and teachers.
Freire was also a Marxist and an admirer of the Cuban Revolution. Those elements of his thought troubled Huppenthal, a conservative career politician who has held an elective office since 1984—rising from the City Council of the town of Chandler to the Arizona State Senate in 1992, where he took a leading role in passing HB 2281.
"The title of Paulo Freire's book is 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed,' and so the question is, who is the oppressed?" Huppenthal said.
"And as we looked at what was going on in the classroom and looked at what was in the materials, we saw that they were putting together a Marxian model in the classroom in which the oppressed are the Hispanic students and the oppressors are the white Caucasian power structure," he said. "We came to the conclusion that it wasn't O.K. to be preaching that model in the classroom."
"Pedagogy of the Oppressed" is among the seven books seized and removed from TUSD classrooms.
The curriculum's designers, however, say they adopted Freire's work because of his ideas about education, not his politics.
"They banned the book because Freire quotes Marx and was a socialist, but that's not why we adopted the book," said Julio Cammarota, a professor of Education and Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona, who helped design the suspended program. "Why aren't they talking about Jack London? Why aren't they talking about Steinbeck or Orwell? All of them were open socialists."
The news that TUSD had removed books from its classrooms fed rumors, often exaggerated, that the school board had banned dozens of titles.
Lists of allegedly banned books burned their way through the blogosphere. The most commonly cited one was taken from the appendix of an independent audit on the TUSD Mexican American Studies Department from 2011—six months before the district suspended the classes.
The lists of supposedly banned books became a rallying cry for HB 2281's opponents.
Writer Tony Diaz, multimedia artist Bryan Parras and independent journalist Liana Lisa Lopez joined together to found the Librotraficante caravan, which "smuggled" purportedly "banned" Latino literature to Tucson to start community libraries.
It became a point of pride among some Latino authors to see their book appear on one of the lists.
"I've been banned with two books, so I felt like we should come out and celebrate," said novelist Rudolfo Anaya when the Librotraficante caravan arrived here on March 16. "I think it's so great they gave us the opportunity to show the world who we are."
A New Approval Process
TUSD protested, saying any book approved by the school board other than the seven books cited in the court order can still be used for lessons.
The school district provided Fox New Latino the list of over 5,000 titles approved for schoolroom use as textbooks or supplementary texts. But the list includes very few titles by Latino authors—fiction or non-fiction—that touch on issues of race and ethnicity from a Mexican American perspective. "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, for example, is one of very few works of Latino literature approved for high school classroom use.
There are more options available for younger students, such as the coming-of-age novel "Esperanza Rising" by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Mexican folktale adaptation "Borreguita and the Coyote" by Verna Aardema.
Supporters of the law, including former Education Superintendent Tom Horne and current Superintendent John Huppenthal, point to the lack of oversight of curriculum as one of the problems that caused the Mexican American Studies controversy.
"There was such a weak process here over curriculum," said TUSD Superintendent John Pedicone, who took over in December 2010. "Some of these books were never approved."
But teachers say the new requirement has no precedent in the district.
"In my 23 years here, we've never had a discussion here in the English Department about getting books approved by the district," Tucson High literature teacher Chris Goldsmith told Fox News Latino. "But now because of this law, there's a hoop they have to jump through."
Goldsmith, who never taught Mexican American Studies courses, sees no reason to stop teaching unapproved books, including works by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
"If I've been teaching the same books for 23 years, for me they're pretty much approved," Goldsmith said. "It's just dotting i's and crossing t's with the state."
Much Scrutiny, Little Guidance
Unlike Goldsmith, the former Mexican American Studies teachers say they face intense scrutiny over what and how they teach. And, regardless of whether the books have been approved by the board, they say the entire ethnic studies curriculum remains off limits for them.
At least six teachers of the suspended Mexican American Studies program say they have been instructed to abandon the curriculum they developed over the last decade and not to teach from the Mexican American Studies perspective –a concept the teachers say administrators did not clearly define.
"I've never taught out of a textbook before, and now I'm directed to do so. And I can just see the students' resistance to it," said literature teacher Curtis Acosta.
After the vote to suspend the program, Mexican American Studies teachers received a printed sheet of unsigned paper with no letterhead outlining the new directives in a series of bullet points.
"Assignments cannot direct students to apply MAS perspectives," the paper says, referring to Mexican American Studies. "The teachers cannot use the MAS curriculum designed individually or by MAS staff in TUSD."
"Race can be taught and discussed," the paper said. "However, context is important and the focus should be on using literature content as the teaching focus relative to race or oppression."
When they asked administrators how to teach Mexican American history or literature without adopting a Mexican American perspective, teachers say they did not receive clear answers.
"They would call us in and they would talk for hours and they wouldn't explain what this means," Acosta said, referring to the bullet point directing teachers to avoid Mexican American Studies perspectives. "If you don't know exactly what you can and can't do, you can't even be creative."
For history and government teacher José González, the unspoken message was clear.
"I'm not supposed to teach anything that has to do with Mexican American history," González told Fox News Latino. "I have emails asking my principal for instructions, and they don't know."
A Tempest in the Classroom
The controversy surrounding Shakespeare's "The Tempest" —Salon.com originally reported that the district had restricted the play's use— illustrates the confusion surrounding which books TUSD allows in its classrooms and which teachers can teach them.
No prohibition exists on teaching the 17th-century play specifically, as TUSD hastened to point out. ("The Tempest" does not appear on the list of approved books provided to Fox News Latino, however.)
But Acosta says the new rules bar him from teaching the unit he developed, which relates themes in the work to modern day issues of race and inequality.
When students write their essays, they have the choice to analyze the play from a critical race theory perspective, a feminist point of view or a more traditional lens.
"What do I do?" Acosta asked the then-principal of Tucson High, Abel Morado, in a January meeting that Acosta recorded.
"Do I void all that? Do I just scrap 'The Tempest' and go to something super-duper safe because the only way I want and know and am prepared to teach it is through this critical view," he asked Morado, "because I think it's the most engaging to my students because it's about their socially relevant lives now?"
"I don't know that you have to eliminate 'The Tempest,'" Morado says in the recording.
But Morado, who did not return requests by phone and email for comment, warned that if Acosta touched on the sensitive themes of race and oppression, he might run afoul of the new law.
"Once you begin to describe the natives and once you begin to delve into issues that are going to be from a critical race theory perspective, that's when you're not in that safe harbor, so to speak."
Acosta dropped 'The Tempest' from his class.
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Can I earn credit for both perspectives if a course is dual designated for two perspectives?
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According to the NFPA 70E, a "Qualified Person" is one who is trained and knowledgeable of the construction and operation of the equipment or the specific work method, and be trained to recognize the hazards present with respect to that equipment or work method.
Such persons shall also be familiar with the use of the precautionary techniques, personal protective equipment, insulating and shielding materials, and insulated tools and test equipment. A person can be considered qualified with respect to certain tasks but still be unqualified for others.
An employee that is undergoing on the job training and who, in the course of such training, has demonstrated the ability to perform duties safely at his or her level of training and who is under the direct supervision of a qualified person shall be considered to be a qualified person for the performance of those duties.
In addition, to be permitted to work within the limited approach of exposed energized conductors and circuit parts the person shall be trained in all of the following:
Qualified employees shall be trained and competent in:
- The skills and techniques necessary to distinguish exposed live parts from other parts of electric equipment
- The skills and techniques necessary to determine the nominal voltage of exposed live parts
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A few notes to add to the 70E definition.
- Only the employer can deem an employee qualified after they have had the proper training and have demonstrated profinency using the skills and method learned.
- There is no such thing as NFPA 70E certification, going to a training course does not make an employee qualified.
- The most misunderstood part of the "qualified" term is that it is all emcompassing, you are "qualified" to work on a specific type or piece of equipment.
- Neither a J-card, a masters license, or an engineering degree make you a "qualified person"
- The word "electrician" is not anywhere in the definition of a "qualified person" meaning these rules apply to all employees and you dont have to be an electrician to be "qualified"
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Through a partnership with the nonprofit Clery Center for Security on Campus (CCSOC), Penn State safety and security personnel, as well as others, will participate in state-of-the-art Clery Act compliance training on June 20 and 21 on the University Park campus. Enacted in 1990, the Clery Act is a federal law that requires colleges and universities in the United States to maintain precise records and openly report criminal activity on campus. Each year, the Clery Center trains hundreds of school officials and administrators to comply with the letter of the law and embrace the spirit of safety it is intended to support.
"More than ever, Penn State is committed to complying with the provisions of the Clery Act," said Steve Shelow, assistant vice president for Police and Public Safety at the University. "This partnership with the Clery Center represents an even stronger commitment. We are among the first universities to collaborate with CCSOC in this fashion, and we are eager to show other colleges and universities the benefits of such a partnership."
The training program is focused on those most responsible for safety and security on Penn State's campuses, who will then become administrators of the program and continue training others within the University community on how to report and classify crimes, maintain a timely warning system, raise awareness and safety measures, and provide victim support and enhanced security programs, among other things.
Allison Kiss, CCSOC's executive director, has worked with the University to create a specialized program to train 55 administrators from across Penn State's 24 campuses, designed to enhance compliance University-wide. The trained employees will provide ongoing education at their respective campuses throughout the year.
"We encourage institutions to adopt a holistic approach toward creating and maintaining a safe campus environment," Kiss said. "Our work with the school's compliance coordinator, Gabriel Gates, demonstrates Penn State is working proactively toward that goal."
Penn State has consistently taken a number of additional steps to increase safety and security on its campuses, beginning in June 2011 with the restructuring of University Police and Public Safety and the elevation of Shelow from director of University Police at University Park, to a new role as assistant vice president for Police and Public Safety university wide. In addition, Penn State hired Gates to develop, implement and oversee programs that ensure the institution's overall compliance with the Clery Act and associated regulations. Penn State also is currently searching for a University-wide compliance director, who will carry the responsibility to coordinate and oversee the vast array of compliance issues throughout the University, including Clery Act compliance, research regulations, athletics, business and finance and other areas that bring with them compliance issues.


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NCAA Game Night: 2-10-12
Brown Bears 2 @ No. 13 Cornell Big Red 5
D Kirill Gotovets, COR: 0-0-0, +4, 0 PIM, 0 SOG
Season totals: 15 GP, 1-3-4, +4, 8 PIM
Cornell scored five unanswered goals after falling in a 2-0 hole early in the game. Gotovets (pictured) was the team leader at plus-4.
RPI Red Hawks 2 @ Harvard Crimson 2 (OT)
F Alex Killorn, HAR: 0-0-0, -1, 0 PIM, 2 SOG
Season totals: 23 GP, 15-15-30, +4, 35 PIMs
This was a rare quiet game for Killorn on the scoresheet. The Crimson gave up the tying goal with 1:03 left in regulation. Killorn was on the ice for Harvard at the time.
No.5 Boston College Eagles 6 @ Vermont Catamounts 1
F Matt Marshall, UVM: Did not play (injured)
Season totals: 2 GP, 0-0-0, E, 2 PIM
Marshall continues to miss time recovering from surgery. Reports state he's expected back before the end of Vermont's season. Rangers first rounder (2009) Chris Kreider had a goal for BC in the game. Flames pick John Gaudreau had two goals for the Eagles.
Alabama-Huntsville Chargers 1 @ No.20 Miami RedHawks 3
F Jimmy Mullin, MIA: Did not play (injured)
Season totals: 28 GP, 8-7-15, +8, 8 PIM
Mullin missed his second straight game with a knee injury.
Note: Brendan O'Donnell (North Dakota) is out for the season after undergoing shoulder surgery this week.
Quinnipiac Bobcats 3 @ St. Lawrence Saints 4
F Matthew Peca, QU: 0-0-0, E, 3 SOG
Season totals: 27 GP, 6-14-20, +3, 10 PIM
The Bobcats spotted St. Lawrence a 4-0 lead before scoring three times in the third period to make it a game. They made it 4-3 with 3 ½ minutes to go but couldn't get an equalizer.
No.15 Ohio State Buckeyes 2 @ No. 18 Western Michigan Broncos 3 (OT)
D Luke Witkowski, UWM: 0-0-0, +1, 0 PIM, 1 SOG
Season totals: 30 GP, 1-5-6, +2, 39 PIM
Broncos senior Dane Walters (undrafted) scored his 13th goal of the season in overtime to lift WMU to a home win over Ohio State.
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Oklahoma eGov News
Why Is Government Still Using Windows XP?
On April 8 – one week before the annual tax filing deadline – Microsoft will no longer support its long-running operating system (OS) known as Windows XP. What that means is that Microsoft will stop all technical support for the software, including updates and security patches. Windows XP has been running since 2001, and has become the workhorse operating system for major enterprises, including all levels of government. Today, nearly 30 percent of the computers in the world still run XP, including 95 percent of the world's automatic teller machines, according to NCR Corp. Nobody knows how many computers in government still rely on XP, but the fear is that far too many will still be using it when the deadline passes.
As Web's 25th anniversary approaches, 87% of U.S. is online
As the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web approaches, 87% of U.S. adults use the Internet, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
That's a significant change compared to the 42% of U.S. adults who had never heard of the Internet in 1995 -- six years after Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, introduced the idea of the World Wide Web.
March 12 marks 25 years since Berners-Lee made a proposal for an information system that turned into the Web.
7 Ways to Innovate Government IT
At the risk of stating the obvious, the average government CIO isn't able to spend much time dreaming up new projects. "Keeping the lights on" or "putting out fires," whatever business-speak you prefer, tends to dominate the CIO's work schedule.
This point was driven home yet again in a recent NASCIO survey: A third of respondents said they spend up to 90 percent of their time simply keeping the lights on. More than 40 percent said they spend as much as 75 percent of their time on such tasks. On the other hand, half of respondents said they spend one-quarter of their time or less on innovation, and almost 30 percent said they spend just 5 percent or less of their time on innovation-related tasks.
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BCN Appoints Distributor in the North East
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Northeast Press Sales Co., owned by Lee Walz, will represent BCN Technical Services Inc. in New England and along the east coast. BCN provides genuine OEM parts and engineering drawings for Bliss, Clearing and Niagara presses. Walz will represent the company in MD, DE, NJ, NY, CT, VT, MA, NH and ME, and also will service certain accounts in Quebec.
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NH couple wanted for child's injuries arrested in Orlando, Fla.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) � A New Hampshire couple accused of beating and burning the woman's 3-year-old son has been arrested at a theme park in Florida, after two weeks on the run.
Police arrested 23-year-old Jessica Linscott of Plaistow and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Roland Down, in Orlando on Wednesday around 6 p.m.
Rockingham County Attorney Jim Reams told the Boston Herald that tips helped to track down the couple.
Linscott is charged with multiple counts of child endangerment for failing to get medical attention for her son when he was suffering seizures from a head injury and for failure to protect him from harm.
Dow is charged with first- and second-degree assault.


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