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When you think of Alzheimer's Disease, it generally conjures images of an aging population. According to the Alzheimer's Association, a vast majority of Alzheimer's cases involve people 65 years of age and older. But Alzheimer's is not a part of the normal aging process, nor is there a cure for it. Research continues by scientists worldwide – to treat it, delay and prevent it.
One of those researchers is getting an early start. Jon Casey Berridge won't complete his undergraduate degree at the University of Houston until December 2012, but for more than a year he's investigated the neurons of Alzheimer's afflicted brains to find out the impact they have on cell signaling.
"We are pretty much looking at the overall causes of Alzheimer's itself," said Berridge, a biology student working in the lab of UH College of Pharmacy professor Jason Eriksen. "We are trying to find or identify novel discoveries. There are all kinds of things appearing all the time. Alzheimer's is a very complicated disease."
Berridge started out his collegiate career as a music major, but quickly became passionate about research. Even he was surprised at how much hands-on experience he would get so early in his career, calling it "pretty unique in the undergraduate spectrum."
"You usually do busy work in the lab if you are an undergraduate in a research environment," said Berridge, who plans to pursue a career in research. That was not the case for him at the University of Houston.
In 2011, Berridge took part in the prestigious Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). SURF is an intense fulltime, 10-week research program awarded to UH undergraduate students who are paired with faculty mentors. Under the direction of Eriksen, who is conducting research funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Cure Alzheimer's Fund, Berridge began looking at the cells of brains with Alzheimer's. He now works in the lab as an assistant.
"As for treatment options to Alzheimer's, they are few and far between. The more we understand it on a cellular level the more we can be able to treat it," said Berridge.
If Alzheimer's is not a disease that concerns most college students, perhaps it should. The Alzheimer's Association reports that another American develops Alzheimer's disease every 69 seconds. But by 2050 it will be every 33 seconds, making the work of all Alzheimer's researchers imperative.
While Berridge concedes he may not make a world-changing discovery himself, he's proud to be a part of the effort to find new treatments and preventions.
"Nobody ever just comes up with a huge innovation out of nowhere. It is very, very rare that ever happens," said Berridge. "This is everybody working slowly towards something. It takes a congress of people working together."

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Martin Luther King III Inspires SUNY CantonFriday, February 26th, 2010
Global change starts at a local and personal level, according to Martin Luther King III.
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step," King said to the collected SUNY Canton audience. "We can be part of the change or we can choose not to be a part of it."
King, the eldest son of famed civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., was the featured speaker for Black History Month at the College. His inspirational speech advocated education, affordable health care, and high qualities of life while encouraging a modest lifestyle in order to obtain personal satisfaction. "We spend our time learning how to make a living, but if we spent our time making a life we would have no trouble making a living," he said.
He mentioned his father's vision and referenced the famed "I have a dream" speech delivered August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. According to King, there are three evils that the nation must overcome: poverty, racism, and militarism. He said despite tremendous strides, that his father's vision and his dream had not yet been fulfilled.
His lecture resonated with college students and the greater community alike. Student Cooperative Alliance President Jennifer P. Bernadotte said that hearing King speak profoundly impacted her view on her personal life. "He encouraged me to stride for more accomplishments in my own life, to be my best." she said. "It was the experience of a lifetime."
King also advocated social involvement and support for global efforts, including relief for Haiti. "I don't know that we've seen a tragedy in this hemisphere quite like the one in Haiti," he said. "Yet somehow you see Haitian people overcoming these incredible odds. It is amazing to see these people, who basically have nothing, and yet somehow are so thankful that they were somehow spared even though they have to start all over again. It should really be an inspiration to all of us."
As the founding president and chief executive officer of Realizing the Dream, Inc., King strives to continue the work started by his parents. His presentation at SUNY Canton was an outreach effort to continue his family's legacy and vision.
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Will new Housing Minister Esther McVey succeed where her predecessors have failed and finally make significant inroads to solving the housing crisis? Only if she recognises that 100 years on from the Addison Act local authorities must once again play a key role in delivering quality affordable housing.'
There are three main areas of Government housing policy that APSE has called for action on in our latest research, with the Town and Country Planning Association, 'Housing for a fairer society'.
The first issue is delivering and retaining genuinely affordable housing. A good start would be for Government to reinstate a definition of affordability that is linked to income. Government also needs to provide significantly more direct grant for social rental homes. It should also suspend the right to buy in England as happened in Scotland and Wales, where the numbers of council houses are increasing, for the first time in a generation. In the meantime, Councils should be allowed to keep 100% of their right to buy receipts to reinvest in building. The current validity test also needs reformed in order to close loopholes that allow developers to avoid contributing affordable housing.
Sometimes the simplest questions are the hardest to answer and that definitely applies when it comes to all things Brexit. I was recently asked what I thought the impact of Brexit would be on local government frontline services and after a pause and a few caveats I was able to give an answer which sounded something akin to the famous Donald Rumsfeld response about 'known knowns and unknown unknowns.'
We already know that the devaluation of the pound following the referendum has increased the cost of UK imports like construction materials for housing and highways, plant and equipment for fleet, refuse and grounds maintenance; food ingredients for school meals and even chemicals and cleaning supplies for janitorial responsibilities.
Many ingredients go into making a community a place where people are proud to live and work, so is there a danger of eroding local government's ability to place-shape effectively as a result of a series of policy decisions and funding cuts?
Previous governments' strategies for neighbourhood renewal seem a distant memory, alongside the levels of accessible funding that went alongside them. Whilst criticism existed of approaches being overly centralist, 'funding with strings attached', local government remains at the mercy of central government policy decisions and delivering budget cuts is the only thing in which it seems to have more freedom.
Recent events in Northamptonshire have hammered home the message that local government has reached a tipping point in terms of its finances. Anyone who thinks that the problems faced at the County Council are unique is in for a rude awakening. In this context is it time for a new municipalism?
With policy pressures piling up and budgets diminishing rapidly for many services it is time for local authorities to take back control of their areas by reclaiming entrepreneurship, rather than the outdated thinking that someone else should do this for them. This is not about acting commercially in the blind pursuit of income generation but to identify the major policy puzzles facing communities and thinking creatively and innovatively about how to solve these policy conundrums. Where markets have failed to deliver the outcomes that local communities need then it's time for local councils to step up to the plate.
It was a hugely symbolic moment when Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced £2bn of additional funding for a new generation of council housing during her speech at the recent Conservative Party conference in Manchester.
Whilst it doesn't quite take us back to the 1950's when Housing Minister Harold McMillan enhanced his future Prime Ministerial credentials by building over 300,000 new homes in a single year, around 200,000 of which were council houses, it shows an eventual acceptance by Government that we are not going to tackle one of the biggest public policy challenges of our time without State intervention.
While successive Governments have talked about housing need, population growth, changing demographics and set ever increasing targets for the amount of homes required, we have seen little success on closing the gap between the numbers of homes needed and the amount of new builds actually taking place.
With the General Election debate starting to heat up, it's pleasing to see that the housing crisis is featuring quite prominently in the major political party's manifestos and more importantly local government's role as part of the solution.
Whilst it's not quite the 1951 election where the parties were competing on who could build the most homes during the course of the next parliament, with Harold McMillan's Prime Ministerial credentials established on the back of delivering on housing pledges made, there is significant recognition by all that the number of homes built needs to increase dramatically in the coming years. The question is how can this be delivered by the next Government?
Well it appears as if we are back at Groundhog Day again on housing policy, another white paper acknowledging that we have a major housing crisis in the UK but with limited ideas about how we fix it.
What we do have is some comforting words. Government has 'listened 'it wants to 'help' to 'support'. But when we peel back the comforting language what lurks beneath? Well very little that we can rely upon. Whilst I appreciate that running alongside the white paper is a series of consultations it is a missed opportunity to put some tangible solutions forward.
APSE, alongside our research partners in the TCPA, are working on our third tranche of housing research. Time and again we find that the root cause of the housing crisis is the lack of supply of new build, the mix of properties that are being built and in particular the lack of affordable homes. We have consistently called for a strengthened role for local councils to deliver homes for rent on scale to alleviate the strain at the bottom end of the housing ladder.
Councils could be forgiven for wondering if Government remains as committed to devolution and decentralisation of power, post Brexit, as it appeared to be before June's vote.
What started well and seemed to have support at the highest level of Government, with George Osborne's zealot like enthusiasm, doesn't appear to have the same prominence with new cabinet figures, indeed some fear that the agenda could simply fizzle out.
APSE's report 'Homes for all: Ensuring councils can deliver the homes we need', was launched last week at Parliament. It was a timely reminder of the role local government could play in tackling the housing crisis facing the UK.
Unfortunately the passing of the hugely controversial Housing and Planning Act the day before was a reminder that the current Government don't see the direct involvement of councils as part of the long term solution. Their preference is clearly to pursue the notion of a home owning democracy, irrespective of whether the public want this or the housing market can deliver it. This approach ignores the many groups in society most in need of affordable homes and who are unlikely to ever be in a position to achieve home ownership or funds for a starter home.
The Housing and Planning Bill, winging its way through Parliament is proving less than popular, whilst a series of amendments attempt to temper the worst excesses, there is a fundamental flaw in the Bill and that is the very policy premise upon which it is based.
For a number of years successive governments have sort to rely upon market driven solutions to the housing crisis, wedded to the idea of a 'home owning democracy'. In reality, we have many people on low and middle incomes who will never be able to afford their own home and have no real interest in doing so, yet we have failed to support an affordable rental sector.


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by Scott Mendelson
Come what may, Prometheus is a mid-level version of what it is. By that, I mean it is, in the end, a somewhat generic Alien/The Thing-type horror film. It is mostly science-fiction only in that it takes place in the future and involves inter-stellar travel. Its 'big ideas' can be summed up in two sentences, and they are not only not-revolutionary but recognizable to probably 90% of the viewing audience. It has some truly wonderful visuals and it's arguably worth seeing once purely for some of the images it creates. But as a full-blown movie it doesn't quite work. Like Super 8, it gets tied up with horror elements in its last half that its filmmakers don't truly care about and feel like a commercial concession. Like last summer's botched 80s-Spielberg homage, Prometheus takes advantage of a genre audience so worn down by threatened reboots and remakes that it seems almost groundbreaking that this film is merely a glorified rip-off of earlier genre entries of this nature. While advertised as an original science-fiction epic with tangential ties to the existing Alien franchise, it really is a bigger budgeted and better cast variation of that specific template. Despite must-see production values and some genuinely compelling imagery, it's somewhat closer in quality to The Thing 2011 than The Thing 1982.
Since the marketing campaign has pretended to be cryptic while in fact being quite spoiler-filled, I will try to reveal less than the marketing chose to. After a discovery that drops a big clue about the origins of mankind, a team of 17 hop aboard a spaceship to travel to a distant world that may hold answers to the various 'big questions' of human existence. Of course the scientists immediately find what they are looking for, they record and log the scientific proof of their groundbreaking discoveries, and everyone goes home safely with fortune and glory awaiting them. I jest, but what they find or how explicitly things turn south I won't reveal here. I will say not to expect too many mind-blowing plot twists as there aren't any. What's left unspoiled is merely the existence of storytelling past the second act. It seems that in this day-and-age, the very fact that a film actually has its story unfold over all three acts qualifies any third-act narrative beats as 'shocking plot twists!' (essay).
Other than a few lead characters (personified by Nooni Rapace, Charlize Theron, and Idris Elba), the vast majority of the humans are blank slates and even the film doesn't bother to care when a number of them start dying. This is clearly a film more concerned with visuals and its alleged big ideas than with any kind of viewer investment in the people partaking in the journey. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, a film that put emphasis on special effects and set design over character was a prototypical bad film, but I guess times have changed. It's fitting that the most engaging and interesting character is not a human but rather a robot, played with duplicitous charm by Michael Fassbender. His interactions with the lead characters make up the bulk of the engaging dialogue scenes in a screenplay otherwise lacking in thoughtful dialogue. It's one thing when you don't care about characters in a genre film, but it's quite another when the filmmakers clearly don't care about them.
As for its alleged profundities, its centered around an age-old theory that most of us first heard about in grade school (highlight to reveal: Chariots of the Gods), yet Ridley Scott and company seem to treat it as never-before explored scientific territory. Most frustratingly, the film teases at some indeed interesting questions brought about by third-act revelations, but it refuses to answer them instead using said concepts as cliffhanger material for a theoretical sequel. There are moments of good storytelling peppered here and there, especially in the first act (the prologue is flat-out spectacular). But the second act gets caught up in halfhearted horror elements (really halfhearted, as in the film loses track of its own body count), first aping the likes of Alien, then moving on to a mostly forgotten 2000 science-fiction drama (hint - *not* Red Planet) before somewhat riffing during the third act on another more recent science-fiction film that ironically shares at least one cast member. There are moments of visual wonder and at least one outstanding scene of squirm-inducing horror (which is the prime reason for the film's R-rating, natch), but overall it fails to compensate for the lack of interesting characters or a narrative that goes beyond the template for the genre.
Prometheus is grandly ambitious in scale and visual scope, using its $130 million budget quite well, as every penny is clearly onscreen. The 3D may be useless to the film, but it looks fine and shooting in the format has forced Ridley Scott, like Michael Bay last year, to tone down the 80-cuts a minute editing style personified by Gladiator and Black Hawk Down. If you choose to see it and can handle 3D, do seek out an IMAX screen for this one. This film is shot and edited in a classical style, with big sweeping shots plus long and fluid takes. The picture looks spectacular, and there are indeed moments of must-see visual splendor. But the size of the film masks what it basically a mega-budget revamp of, if not quite Alien per-se, an Alien-type film. There is no harm with Prometheus merely being a B-level science-fiction horror film dressed up in A-level production values. But the film fails to engage beyond its visuals, with lackluster characters, too few moments of genuine terror or even compelling violence, plus allegedly big ideas that are rehashed from other sources without any unique spin to justify the recycling.
Those expecting a game-changing science-fiction masterwork will be painfully disappointed. Those expecting merely a top-notch variation on the sci-fi "And Then There Were None" template will be only slightly disappointed. Only those who came purely for the eye candy will feel they got their money's worth. Despite all the pomp and circumstance, Prometheus ends up being another scenario on that dry-erase board from Cabin in the Woods.
Grade: C+


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Sherrit CEO Ian Delaney chumming it up with business chum
"The Canadian Mining company Sherrit International has long been extracting Nickel from Cuba's Holguin province and transporting it to Canada for processing. I have information that the chemical by-products--the toxic waste--is then returned to Cuba and dumped on her land and waters in exchange for dollars. The Canadians thus save huge sums of money in circumventing Canada's environmental laws for the processing of toxic waste. I'm unaware of any other government (except Cuba's) that engages in such environmental prostitution. The damage done to Cuba, her people, and her future generations is incalcuable. I'm sure that the Canadians complicit in this crime as partners with the Cuban dictatorship will have to answer--not only morally--but also legally, when Cuba re-establishes the rule of law."
"Some experts (emphasis by intransigent poster) say Fidel Castro's environmental policies may be among his greatest achievements."
"I think the Cuban government can take a substantial amount of credit for landscape, flora, and fauna preservation," said Jennifer Gebelein, a professor at (you are not going to believe where she professes!) Florida International University in Miami who studies environmental issues in Cuba. "
Above expertise from National Geographic.
(Sherritt) has given money to a former CIA and State Department employee, Phil Peters, to advance its interests. The money to Peters goes through contributions to the Lexington Institute, where Peters is a Vice-President. Because the Lexington Institute is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, there is no public record of Sherritt's funding. This has allowed Peters to advise and direct the Working Group in ways beneficial to Sherritt while presenting himself to the Group as an objective think-tank scholar with a specialization in Cuba."


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BEIJING: Xi Jinping, a son of the communist aristocracy, has been handed uncontested authority to lead the world's most populous nation through the next decade.
In a break from previous transitions, Mr Xi, 59, took control of the world's largest army on Thursday at the same time as being "elected" general secretary of the world's most powerful political organisation.
The current Vice-Premier, Li Keqiang, was also given unexpected leeway by being named No. 2 in the Communist Party hierarchy, as he prepares to take the job of premier early next year.
The stakes are high for all nations in the Asia Pacific, as they digest what is the largest leadership transition in the history of the People's Republic and the first to take place beyond the guiding hands of the founding revolutionaries.
Many close analysts say China's once-in-a-decade leadership transition will be at least as consequential as the recent US presidential election, given great uncertainties about its development path.
Australia is at the forefront of a regional scramble to build new defence and security arrangements in response, in part, to China's growing military arsenal and its increasingly aggressive stance on territorial disputes.
China's new leadership duo are young enough to remain in charge until 2022, by which time China may have surpassed the US as the world's largest economy.
Already, China dominates the Australian economy to a greater extent than any other country since the 1950s, buying 30 per cent of Australian exports and boosting export prices to levels not seen since federation.
Mr Xi will run party, military and international affairs while Mr Li will largely take control of economic policy and government services.
They face enormous challenges in reconciling the party's untrammelled political dominance with the needs of an increasingly sophisticated and pluralistic economy.
And they will be asked to accommodate the rising assertiveness, confidence and financial independence of Chinese citizens while maintaining the party's iron-fisted rule.
Mr Xi, in particular, will also be expected to protect the webs of patronage and sprawling family business interests of power brokers who hoisted him into the job.
The world was kept waiting for nearly an hour to see the new leadership team, after what may have been one last backroom deal to cap a year of unprecedented scandals, conspiracies and apparently brutal internal struggles.
Mr Xi emerged at the East Room of the Great Hall of the People at 2.53pm.
He introduced the remaining six members of a new streamlined Politburo Standing Committee, who followed him on stage in hierarchical order.
Mr Xi said he and his team had been "elected" to power when, it seems, they were all installed by ageing powerbrokers who do not hold official titles.
He committed to slogans of China's reform era which have been downplayed in recent years.
Mr Xi brings to the job presence and personal confidence that stems in part from his status as the son of one of the founding fathers of the revolution.
Mr Xi spoke of "the great renewal of the Chinese people" and vowed to meet their aspirations for material wealth, personal happiness and national power.
Walking out behind Mr Xi and Mr Li was Zhang Dejiang, who is expected to take charge of what has historically been a rubber-stamp parliament.
Fourth was Yu Zhengsheng who, like Mr Xi, enjoys an impeccable revolutionary lineage and is slated to take charge of the United Front portfolio which controls entrepreneurs, religious groups, ethnic minorities and others outside the party.
They were followed by Liu Yunshan, the long-time head of the Propaganda Department; Wang Qishan, who has presided over China's financial system; and Zhang Gaoli, the former party boss of Tianjin municipality.
The new generation leadership is defined by their mostly brutal adolescent experiences during the Cultural Revolution.
They have also enjoyed a far broader education than the outgoing leaders, who were almost exclusively trained as engineers.
Most of the new leadership is closely aligned to 86-year-old Jiang Zemin, who ostensibly retired a decade ago but has now outmuscled his successor, the outgoing president, Hu Jintao, in shaping the new leadership team.
China's leadership transition has unfolded amid a security and censorship campaign.
Chinese intellectuals have been gagged and placed under added surveillance.
Google and its Gmail services have intermittently joined the growing list of inaccessible internet platforms, along with Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
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Domestic violence reaches more that wives, girlfriends
May 25, 2004
Domestic violence was the featured topic at last week's Upper Knoxville Block Watch meeting, with guest speaker Lee Kiburi, community educator with the Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh.
District Justice Anna Scharding and city administrative assistant Bill Fry were also in attendance.
The Women's Center & Shelter deals with women who are victims of physical abuse from a husband, boyfriend, or intimate partner, including of the same sex. The Hotline number is: 412-687-8005.
Homeless and drug-addicted women may stay at the shelter if they meet the domestic violence criteria.
Women may also house their children with them at the shelter. While residing there, women have access to all the center's services, and may look for a job or seek medical treatment.
While the average length of stay is 30 days, some women have remained for months. The center also offers non-resident services.
Kiburi said domestic violence touches many people beyond the abuser and the victim. For example, when he told seventh graders at Allegheny Traditional Academy about a man who shot himself and a woman in the head, killing himself and wounding her, a student raised his hand to say the woman was his aunt.
Each time he told the story at three other schools someone raised a hand to point out a connection between themselves and the man who died or the woman he shot. So there's a lot of hidden victims, Kiburi said.
One way women can protect themselves from an abuser is obtaining a PFA, or protection from abuse order, which is designed to keep parties apart. In Pennsylvania, PFAs can be obtained against blood relations or present/ex- intimate partners for commiting physical harm or threatening violence.
A PFA works when the man doesn't want to go to jail, so he stays away from the filer. But if the man doesn't care about anything except losing control of the woman, the PFA is useless. It may even enrage him, making him more hostile.
So women are encouraged to think out whether to seek a PFA, said Kiburi.
Scharding said some PFAs are misused. One area woman obtained one every time she broke up with a boyfriend. Other women, unfortunately, won't seek a PFA despite the harm done them.
Men can also be physically abused by a woman, and may seek a PFA.
Within the past year in Pittsburgh, a woman hit a man with a crowbar she suspected of cheating, and chained him in her basement. He escaped, but didn't want the incident reported in the newspaper because he was embarrassed.
In most cases, a smaller-sized woman is dependent on the man not retaliating, as men are taught since boyhood never to hit women. But sometimes, a woman with superior skills and strength can overpower a man.
To a question of when women's shelters were founded, Kiburi said it began in the early 1970s during the early days of the women's movement. When women decided they wanted a place of their own to socialize, like men had, they formed a women's center. When the founders discovered some women didn't want to go home at the evening's conclusion, they asked them why, and learned they were being abused. From that, the center evolved to include a shelter.
To another question of why women stay in abusive relationships, Kiburi said it's "very different for each individual involved," citing factors like needing money for themselves and their children, or a religious belief in the sanctity of families.
While children can be a motivation to remain in the relationship, they can also be a reason to get out for a mother could fear they might be abused next.
In neighborhood business, block watch president Mary Ann Bennett read a list of reported crimes in Knoxville from April 10 to May 11. They were: 4 auto thefts, 6 accidents, 9 burglaries, 1 citation, 14 criminal mischief, 2 domestics, 1 DUI, 8 general incident, 2 fire, 8 harassment, 3 narcotics, 3 prostitution, 1 protection from abuse violation, 6 robbery, 1 sex offense, 8 simple assault, 2 threats, 8 thefts, and 3 unauthorized use of vehicle.
The distribution of the 90 total reports in the areas covered by Knoxville's three block watches are: 30 in Upper Knoxville, 45 in the 30th Ward, and 15 in McKinley.
Of the 30 in Upper Knoxville, the breakdown by streets/blocks is: Orchard Place: 2 in the 100 block and 1 in the 400 block; Jucunda St .: 1 in the 100 block, 2 in the 200 block, and 3 in the 300 block; Charles St .: 4 in the 100 block, 1 in the 200 block, 3 in the 300 block, and 1 in the 400 block; Zara St .: 1 in the 100 block, 1 in the 200 block, 2 in the 300 block, and 2 in the 400 block; Rochelle St .: 1 in the 100 block; Sylvania Way: 1; and Knox Ave. from Jucunda St. to Bausman St .: 4.
Bennett also reported she heard gunshots at the corner of Beltzhoover and Warrington avenues on May 16 about 12:40 a.m.
In other news, the St. John Vianney Parish Festival will be held on June 7—12 on Allen St. at Climax St. in Allentown. Dinners will be served at 5:30 p.m., followed by entertainment and rides at 7:00 p.m. daily.
Scharding said she feared for seniors attending the festival because of the recent rash of purse snatchings. If police are called, there's a 30-minute to one hour wait until an officer arrives.
Fry said a battle is underway to rehire 14 police officers, with Mayor Murphy opposed. He said it appears the mayor wants to keep the city looking as if it's in a state of distress to spur action from Harrisburg. But the plan isn't working.
"And they wonder why young people are moving out of the city," commented an attendee.
To a question of how effective will be proposed legislation making landlords responsible for tenant problems, Fry said it's as far as the city can go right now. But it's a means of exerting pressure on legislators and judges to take action.
Hopefully, the city will someday acquire the power to lien personal property, said Fry.
The next block watch meeting will be on June 15. State Rep. Jake Wheatley, Jr., and a representative from the police department will be invited to speak.


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One of my constant pursuits in the kitchen is to find as many ways as possible to add vegetables to our diet without allowing things to get too in-your-face. After all, even die-hard vegetable-lovers like Desi and I could get a little fed up on too many greens (not that it's happened yet!).I try to get around this by putting veggies into almost anything I make- if it's rice, I try and throw in some peas or carrots or cauliflower, or a combination. With lentils you can get a lot more adventurous, because these little beauties will go with anything from leafies to cabbage, beans, zucchini or even mushrooms. But the most fun I have is stuffing rotis with veggies of all sorts to make richly satisfying parathas. Like this Gajar Mooli Paratha.
I have blogged before about my Sweet-Aloo Paratha, Mooli Paratha and Tofu Paratha. But today's recipe is for a variation: Gajar-Mooli Paratha, or Carrot- and Radish-Stuffed Flatbreads. Why? Because these were the two veggies I had lying around in my fridge during the weekday, begging to be used before they drooped. And because the end result was quite spectacular.
I usually play around a lot with the seasonings for the stuffing, simply because it is almost impossible to go wrong here. Chili powder, turmeric powder, garam masala- they all work wonderfully. I often use aamchur powder, or mango powder, or even chaat masala, which gives the veggies a spicy-sour punch.
To this Gajar Mooli Paratha I also added some kasoori methi, again another favorite ingredient that I often throw into stuffings because it's always in my pantry and because it's mild bitterness works perfectly with the sweet, sour, salty and spicy flavors.
Gajar Mooli Paratha, Flatbreads Stuffed with Radish and Carrots
- 2 cups durum wheat flour (can use whole-wheat instead). Add 1/2 tsp salt and 1 tsp canola oil and knead with just enough water to form a stiff but pliable dough.
- 1 cup carrots , grated fine
- 1 cup radish (I used the little ones, but daikon would work perfectly too), also grated fine
- 1 tsp chaat masala (available in Indian groceries)
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 2 tbsp kasoori methi , crumbled (also available in Indian stores)
- Salt to taste
- Sprinkle about 1/2 tsp salt on the carrots and radish, put into a colander, and leave for around an hour for the water to express from the vegetables. This step is very important, otherwise your parathas will become a gooey mess when you try to roll them out.
- Squeeze out all the water you possible can from the vegetables.
- Add chaat masala, turmeric, chili powder, kasoori methi and salt.
- Mix well and set aside.
- Divide the dough into balls, each about 1 inch in diameter.
- On a floured surface, roll out each ball into a circle around 3 inches in diameter. Place 2 tbsp of stuffing in the center. Roll out another circle of the same size, moisten the edges with water, and place over the circle with the stuffing. Press down on the edges to seal.
- Flour the surface and roll out the paratha, turning often and adding more flour if necessary, to prevent sticking. When it's around 7 inches in diameter, you can transfer it to a hot cast-iron griddle on medium heat.
- Roast each side for about 2-3 minutes, coating with a few scant drops of oil, until brown spots appear evenly on the surface of the paratha.
- Serve hot with chutney or pickle or any spicy curry of your choice.


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Last week I got a message from a friend who has recently, and very enthusiastically, taken up cycling with a local club. Having gone out on her first few rides, mostly everything is good. The beginner's group pace is comfortable, the bike is comfortable, even the saddle is comfortable. Nevertheless, she was getting pretty bad chafing in the inner thighs after every 20-30 mile ride. Chafing to the point of bleeding - way in there, in the crevices between thigh and crotch. It could be her saddle after all, I thought. But, intuition told me, it could also be the shorts.
Send me a pic where you're wearing your shorts, I wrote.
She did. They were lovely bib shorts, with a nice attractive design. And they were at least one size too big. This was obvious by the way the leg grippers gapped around her thighs, and by the looseness at the abdomen. Most likely, they were equally loose in the inner thigh and crotch area, and the extra fabric was causing the chafing. I have experienced that myself, with cycling shorts that have been even slightly too big, and have observed it in others. Whenever a cyclist I know complains of chafing and the saddle is not the cause, loose shorts nearly always turn out to be the culprit.
I tell my friend this. It is clearly not the answer she wants to hear. And she then explains that, oh - she sized up deliberately, as the smaller shorts looked horrendously unflattering.
Sausaging? I ask.
Crazy sausaging! she confirms, amused by the word.
Well, girl. What did you expect messing around with lycra?!
And therein lies the rub, when it comes to performance cycling apparel. In order to do the job it was designed to do - not just in terms of performance, but in terms of comfort - it needs to fit right. And "right" in this case means tight ...which, for the vast majority of us, is almost guaranteed to be unflattering.
Now, if you ask me, the sooner we make peace with this fact, the better.
Unfortunately, there is quite a bit of marketing literature these days that would have us believe that their hip, gorgeous cycling kit will make us look like rock stars on the bike. And in fairness, the product in of itself might indeed be lovely - never has there been so much choice when it comes to tasteful, beautifully crafted performance cycling apparel. However, once we squeeze our bodies into said apparel, it is a different story.
So to protect you from false expectations, I am just going to get this out into the open.
There are only two types of people who look good in performance cycling apparel:
1. preternaturally lean people - you know, those folks with visible abs, chiseled thighs, sinewy arms
2. fictional people
Unless you belong to one of these two categories, you will not look good in performance cycling apparel. Doesn't matter what brand it is. Doesn't matter if it is minimalist or features the latest colorful must-have design. Doesn't matter if you've seen backlit photos of it where the models look epic. You will not look good in it. And if anyone tells you differently, they either:
(a.) are trying to spare your feelings,
(b.) are trying to sell you their cycling clothes, or
(c.) have grown so desensitised to the look of the human body encased in technical fabrics, their opinion cannot be trusted.
To be sure, there is a lot of cycling kit out there that I think is truly beautiful. But I am under no illusion that this means I look beautiful wearing it. One of my most comfortable and attractive cycling outfits, is a Richard Sachs set that, sadly, makes me look like a giant, leaky bag of blubber imprinted with House Industries typeface. I enjoy wearing it ...just as long as I don't catch sight of myself in the mirror! Being no less vain than the next gal, I do try to minimise the damage to my self-esteem. But when proper fit and flattering looks are at odds, I'll go with proper fit (i.e. comfort) every time, sausaging be damned! After all, when I am pushing hard on the bike I already look quite unsavory. The blotchy face, the bloating, the streaming sweat, the glazed-over eyes... to think that I could counteract all that with some glamorous cycling duds - even if there was such a thing - would surely be folly.
It goes without saying that not everyone who rides a bike requires cycling-specific clothing (see previous post!). But if such clothes are relevant to you, beware of falling into the vanity trap at the expense of proper sizing. Just remember: No piece of cycling kit is actually flattering. We might as well ignore our tummy rolls and pedal away in a beautiful shared delusion.


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Jon Waterhouse wrote:Forget The Simpsons, Family Guy and all of the edgy stuff on Adult Swim. Without groundbreaking animation director Ralph Bakshi, the world of adult animation may not be what it is today.
Bakshi, who appeared at DragonCon in Atlanta this weekend, changed the landscape of feature animation with the release of Fritz the Cat in 1972. A trail of nine other animated films followed including "Lord of the Rings" and "Wizards." His collaborations proved to be as colorful as his animation cells. Bakshi has had the opportunity to work with other fellow legends including Dr. Seuss, Frank Frazetta, Stan Lee and the Rolling Stones. And according to Bakshi, it seems as if more may be on the way.
He recently put down the pen to talk about his legendary career and its future.
MTV Geek: When you made Fritz the Cat in 1972, what made you think the world was ready for an adult-themed animated film?
Ralph Bakshi: There's a lot of talk today about was the world ready? What's the hottest property? What do I do to make a million? That wasn't my concern. We grew up in the '50s, a lot of us artists. And the artists who grew up in the '50s were much more concerned with what turned them on. I mean, money wasn't an issue, not there's anything wrong with money...Money wasn't the reason guys were doing comic books, because it was the worst paying job in the world. Money wasn't the reason I was animating, I just loved to animate. So when I read the Fritz the Cat book and lots of underground stuff, I loved it and I wanted to do it. There wasn't any consideration if the word was ready for it. Who cared? That's an issue now, and it's still my position. If you run around wondering what the world cares about, there are very little breakthroughs that are going to happen. The world was not ready for Fritz the Cat. I got the hell beat out of me, including [Fritz the Cat comic book creator] Robert Crumb, who beat the hell out of me. I took a lot of heat. It has since made a hundred million, billion dollars...What I'm saying is, if you're an artist and you're going to wonder what the world cares about, you're going to have to do something you don't care about.
MTV Geek: You basically created adult-oriented animation. What do you think about being regarded as an icon in that way?
Ralph Bakshi: First of all, I wasn't trying to break ground. The fact that my pictures are playing to new generations of kids has stunned me...All of these kids continue to watch my movies and find them. I keep getting emails from kids who are 20, 21. I can't believe I did this. Everything is brand new to them. I'm very, very appreciative of the whole thing. It made me feel like I had done something. I went back to try and sell a movie to Hollywood. Recently I felt like doing an animated movie. I had been painting and drawing, but I felt like doing a movie. I got very nostalgic. So I went to Hollywood to sell a movie. It's called New American Blues, which discusses who we are today. I went to two companies and they both threw me out. They both said they didn't want the movie, it's too adult, nobody would like it, and there's no merchandising. My mouth dropped open. These are major animation companies making major films today. I was kind of stunned. Then I went to one company that does children's films; big company, I'm not going to mention the name. I told them I wanted to do Wizards 2 and Wizards 3, because it was always was done as a trilogy. They got excited, because they had heard about Wizards and all the animators love that movie...They go in and screen the movie. They tell me it's too dark. I said, "What are you talking about too dark? I got lots of laughs in that film. Of course it's dark. It's about where our world is today." Our glaciers are receding, the oceans are screwed up, there are terrorists everywhere, which is what Wizards was all about. I thought I nailed it. I said, "You're telling me it's too dark, but the world is that way today." They said people don't want to see that. So I left with my hat in my hands. This is the icon and idol going back. You'd think I would walk in and they'd jump all over me. They didn't even buy me lunch...So I am now raising money with my son for New American Blues. And I have spoken, believe it or not, to Peter Jackson, who did the live action Lord of the Rings, about doing Wizards as an animated feature. ...To answer your question, I don't feel much like an icon [Laughs].
MTV Geek: Long before Peter Jackson, you were the first to tackle Lord of the Rings. How challenging was it taking on something as beloved as Lord of the Rings?
Ralph Bakshi: I did it for two reasons. First of all, I personally love Tolkien. He's the greatest fantasy writer who ever lived. I wanted to do something that would stop the controversy. In other words, I was very tired, very beat up. It was very hard trying to keep the studio afloat. Paying the animators was hard. All of this was on my back. I owned my own company. So I wanted to do something that would allow me to take what I believed would be a rest. It was someone else's work: Tolkien. Plus I loved Tolkien, so I wouldn't have been selling out. And everyone said it would be impossible to make. But I had this idea of rotoscope --this is before computers-- that would give me the chance to make it...It turned out to be an extraordinarily hard film to make physically, probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. It's probably the reason I'm not animating today. I had to go to Spain and shoot an entire live action movie, which was my idea. The actors were all in costume. And that was as difficult as shooting any movie. Then I was sending stuff back to Hollywood to be animated and rotoscoped. I went to England to record the voices...So the physicality was enormous. Then there was the deadline, which was too tight. They forced me to make the deadline, which I think hurt the edit. The whole thing was physically exhausting. Shooting in Spain, recording in England and animating in L.A. It was the straw that broke the camel's back with me.
To learn more about Ralph Bakshi, go to www.ralphbakshi.com.
Andy Khouri wrote:The late painter Thomas Kinkade, who died suddenly a few days ago of as yet undetermined causes, was a polarizing figure in the art world. Both celebrated and loathed for his ubiquitous paintings of idyllic landscapes and scenes from the Bible, which he successfully mass-marketed in shopping malls, television commercials and licensed products, Kinkade claimed to be America's most collected artist and called himself a "painter of light" whose art agent was God himself.
But the memory of Kinkade has found itself an unexpected defender: animator Ralph Bakshi, the author of subversive films including Fritz the Cat and Cool World, who mentored Kinkade when the painter worked as a background artist on Fire and Ice, the fantasy film Bakshi created with comic book and illustration legend Frank Frazetta. In a statement released over the weekend, Bakshi said that critics missed "the true brilliance that is Kinkade," whom the animator suggested was undermining the Tea Party and the religious right by selling their distorted visions of nostalgia back to them.
Lavalle Lee wrote:Thirty years ago today the classically animated game "Dragon's Lair" came out in arcades. People everywhere were swarming to the arcades to play this revolutionary game. Dragon's Lair to this day is still being played worldwide on every console, computer, phone, tablet out there, you name it. We got the chance to get an interview with the director of Dragon's Lair, Don Bluth. Don has had a huge career in traditional animation from working on feature films for Disney to directing his own feature films and designing games. In this interview you will find out more about Don's journey that lead to the creation of Dragon's Lair.
Question: A lot of fans would love to see a Dragons Lair Movie, we need to see some traditional animation back in theaters, what are your thoughts?
Don's Answer: I would love to see a Dragon's Lair movie! I think, like you've indicated in some other questions, it all comes down to the funding. Right now, unfortunately I think what's happening is that the big studios have a monopoly on distribution. The studios don't believe that traditional animation will get an audience to the theater, and because of that they've gone in the direction of the CGI. With CGI, they believe that the young generation will go see it and so they've stayed with that medium because they feel that's a safe investment.
Now I don't know why, I only have a theory, but young boys feel that they can't look at traditional animation. I think it has something to do with the teen years, growing up, coming of age, and not wanting to be classified as being a child anymore. Maybe Disney is responsible for this because for so long Disney has made traditional animation for the teenagers and little children. So what happens is the kids know these movies are for kids and when they start growing up they don't want to go where the kids go; they want to go where the grownups go. They have to have something more sophisticated, and I think that's why they actually pushed away from traditional animation.
Question: Financing is always a major roadblock, what do you think about Kickstarter? A lot of productions are being funded this way.
You know it's funny you should say that because I had a phone conversation with Gary Goldman about 3 days ago and that's exactly what he is working on. He's trying to get us a Kickstarter page up and running to try and raise some money to fund a project. I'm even making a video to put up on the Kickstarter page.
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Wake Park Triple Crown Stop #2: Day 1
Tampa, FL – McCormick's wakeboard cable park played host to the second stop of the Monster Energy Drink Wake Park Triple Crown presented by Alliance Wakeboard Magazine. It started out as the hottest day of the year and ended up the rainiest, but between the blazing sun and flashes of lightning we saw unbeatable water conditions that made for some of the best riding Tampa has ever seen. The obstacles only division was full of Orlando natives who made the trek down I-4 for the opportunity to score some cash doing what they do best. Brenton Priestley, Erik Ruck, Chris O'Shea, Shane Bonifay and of coarse the little big man Tom Foshee all turned heads as they boosted off the kickers and combo'ed up and down the lake getting down on McCormick's newest rail, the up gap down thing-a-ma-jig…The pro men (including air tricks) division was also going off with Marc Shuster and Tom Fooshee stealing the show. Check back tomorrow for all the action from day 2 and final results!
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The Capitals are making a move on the standings, but it doesn't seem like any of the teams ahead of them in the East are at all interested in helping the struggling club make it into the top eight. In the last week, the Caps have only been able to leap frog the Buffalo Sabres and Toronto Maple Leafs. With Ottawa and New Jersey getting points last night with a OT win by the Senators, the Caps can not afford a slump in the month of January. Teams with a playoff spots are fighting hard to stay there as the All Star weekend creeps upon the Caps.
Many general managers warn their clubs of falling out of playoff spots before the All Star break as a near impossibility getting back into the top 8 by season's end. Part of that reason is the resolve of teams in playoff spots to stay there by the time post season arrives and the trade deadline when GMs have to make the decision of whether to fish or cut bait.
Last year, seven of the eight teams in playoff positions before the All Star break made it into the post season. Atlanta was the only team to drop out of the top 8 (was in 8th on 1/26/11 and fell to eleventh by season's end). Being in playoff contention at the mid way point of the All Star game makes the rest of the season easier to negotiate.
By the time the All Star break arrives, the Capitals should be within a game (2 points) of division leading Florida, and inside the top eight in the conference to have a comfortable seat for the post season. If not the Caps will have their work cut out for them.
It is not outside the realm for the Caps to be on the outside looking in, they did it in 2008. They won 15 of their last 19 games of the season to overtake the Carolina Hurricanes as divisional leaders and took the only spot in the playoffs from a Southeastern division team that year. A feat which was accomplished on the last three games as they won their last 3 home games against division rivals Carolina, Tampa and Florida to end the 2008 regular season campaign. The Caps would eventually lose in seven games to Philadelphia in the pursuing playoffs.
Caps Notes:
- Alex Ovechkin named NHL's second star for the last week of the December.
- Cody Eakin's short time with the Caps ended as he was recalled to Hershey. A sign that either Mathieu Perreault is feeling better, or someone else is.
- Capitals play the Calgary Flames tonight and have a chance to try to move up the standings past division foe Winnipeg for 8th spot in the Conference.


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B.J. Ryan Lands on DL (plus pregame)
TORONTO — The Blue Jays placed All-Star closer B.J. Ryan on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left elbow on Sunday.
Ryan, who blew his second save of the season on Saturday against Detroit, is flying to Birmingham, Ala., where he'll meet with renowned orthropedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews on Monday. At that time, the Blue Jays will be able to evaluate the extent of the injury.
Toronto general manager J.P. Ricciardi said that Ryan's elbow had been the source of some mild discomfort during the first week of the season, when the Jays opened the year in Detroit. Ricciardi indicated that the pain worsened during the last week.
Last season, Ryan recorded 38 saves and posted a 1.37 ERA in his first season with Toronto, which signed him to a five-year deal worth $47 million in November 2005. This year, the 31-year-old closer was 0-2 with a 12.46 ERA and three saves in five chances.
Detroit (7-4) at Toronto (6-5)
at 1:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineups:
Curtis Granderson, CF
Placido Polanco, 2B
Gary Sheffield, RF
Magglio Ordonez, DH
Carlos Guillen, SS
Ivan Rodriguez, C
Sean Casey, 1B
Marcus Thames, LF
Brandon Inge, 3B
PITCHING: LHP Nate Robertson
Alex Rios, RF
Aaron Hill, 2B
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Gregg Zaun, C
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Royce Clayton, SS
Adam Lind, LF
John McDonald, 3B
PITCHING: RHP Josh Towers
NOTES: With Ryan out, RHP Jason Frasor moves into the closer's role. He saved 17 games for Toronto in 2004. … Toronto purchased the contract of RHP Jamie Vermilyea and added him to the bullpen, where he'll serve mainly as a middle reliever. The Jays transferred LHP Davis Romero (torn left lebrum) to the 6-day DL to clear room on the roster. … LF Reed Johnson "has a decision to make," according to general manager J.P. Ricciardi. That means Johnson will likely have to decided whether or not to have surgery on the herniated disc in his lower back. If he does opt for the operation, he could miss at least two months. … 3B Troy Glaus might be available to play on Tuesday against the Red Sox. … Wells, Thomas, Clayton and hitting coach Mickey Brantley each donned a No. 42 jersey on Sunday in honor of the Jackie Robinson Day.
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Who will get the setup role with Frasor closing? Zambrano? Janssen?
It will probably be a mix of guys. Ricciardi said Vic Zambrano and Shaun Marcum could see time in closing situations on days Frasor isn't available. So those guys would likely help with the setup role, along with Jeremy Accardo, Casey Janssen and Scott Downs. I don't think there's one set guy for the 8th inning now.
i'd like to see accardo get some time in the closer's role. when we got him last year he was praised as the next great reliever. i wanna see what this guy can do and whether or not he will step up.
Any update on League? With Ryan down, his return is even more important. If Ryan and League both returns during the season, that's a great boost to the bullpen, which should be taxed by then.
Tough news on Reed. Lind might steal his job while he's down. That's tough to see, but Reed might be traded later to make room for Lind finally.
There's no timetable on League. He originally was optioned to Triple-A with the hope that he could return quickly and get in some Minor League games before being brought back up. When his progess wasn't moving quickly, Toronto placed him on the 15-day DL. His is an odd situation and it will take him time to get back to where he was. He isn't throwing off a mound except in bullpen sessions, and he's working with a long toss program to try to break up the "overdeveloped lat muscle" and any issues that might be leftover in his shoulder. So don't count on him joining the Jays for some time.
Last night on Sunday Night Baseball during the Jackie Robinson Day game Joe Morgan mentioned the fact that back to back World Series Winning Manager Cito Gaston has not managed since. The Blue Jays should have honoured Cito Gaston as the first African American manager to capture a World Series on Jackie Robinson Day. Albeit short the Blue Jays have a fantastic history and they should do more to commemorate it. Cito Gaston's great achievement should not be forgotton. Cito Gaston deserves another shot in the MLB. His quiet leadership is an anecdote to the Lou Pinella style and has proven to be just as or even more effective.
I noticed that that David Purcey, the hard-throwing left hander, has had a good initial outing giving up only one walk with 7 strike-outs. If he can maintain his control, how likely do you think it would be that the Jays would call him up to have a hard-throwing left-hander in the pen?


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iPods, iPad and iPhone Due For an Early Revamp?
It's clear that 2010 is a busy, busy year for Apple. A heady combination of new and old, Apple unveiled the highly-anticipated iPad, released the sexy (and controversial) iPhone 4, and  a bigger, meaner iMac together with the Apple Magic Trackpad.
Rumors abound from a number of reliable sources that the iPod line will see a major product refresh – a tiny touchscreen shuffle, the iPod Touch will finally get a camera and the fabled retina display on the iPhone 4, and – gasp! – a tinier, 7-inch iPad in the works? Another rumor that might ignite a fresh wave of controversy is the rumored iPhone refresh amidst the antenna issues hounding iPhone 4.
A more recent rumor is the introduction of a cheaper  TV device renamed the Apple iTv said to cost only $99 with a 99 cent tv show rental deal in the works.
With the scheduled September 1 event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, these speculations will soon be put to rest. Major announcements for the iPad and iPhone however, might come a bit later in the year or early 2011.


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TeraByte Support(TP) wrote:
> I take it that you currently have 3 operating systems installed (1 Windows, 2 Linux),
> and 2 of the 3 are currently booting Ok from the BING boot menu? And the third one
> (Linux Mint 17) is not booting when you try to boot it from the BING boot menu?
That is correct. WinXP had been installed as the only OS. Then I additionally installed LM17, Linux Swap and LM12 following your (Tom Pfeifer's) Generalized Disk Layout. Now WinXP and LM12 boot OK from HDD wheras LM17 is not bootable.
> If so, what happens when you try to boot LM17 from the BING boot menu? Any error
> messages?
When Rebooting out of the BING CD Maintenance Mode, the BING boot menu does not appear. It gets as far as "Bootit EMBRI 2.01 - Bootit EMBRL 2.04 - Read error loading EMBRM! System Halted!"
> For the LM17 partition, if you look at Partition Work - Properties for that
> partition, what does it say for "Bootable" status in the Additional
> Information section? (Bootable: Yes or Bootable: No).
At the moment I cannot access my son's computer. So I have to make use of my notes and they refer only to the message that I get when trying to boot the LM17 boot item. It reads: "The partition is not bootable! If you are in the process of installing an OS then insert the installation media and press ctrl-alt-del to initiate a reboot otherwise click OK to return to BootIt NG." However, I can see all LM17 data when working under LM12.
> The "HS" stands for head and sectors - please see page 30 of the BING
> manual.
Do I have to check "Align MBR Ending HS" and "Align MBR HS when Truncated" IN ADDITION to "Align on 1 Mib Boundaries" or are they alternative options?


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I got curious about Chinese tunes. There is one tune that almost every Chinese folk band plays, under various names ("The Forbidden City" or "Singing and Dancing in the Village", for two). I've got it on three or four recordings, and I know I've got an ABC of it as well. I'd like to know more about its history.
Problem is, the ABC is in one of two files, HAN1.ABC and HAN2.ABC, each of which contains nearly 600 folk tunes with the titles only given in Chinese (which I can't read at all) and the text in German (which I can't read very well). The region each tune came from is carefully doumented, and there are some interesting remarks about them, but no editor or location for the files is stated in the text. It seems to have come from Seymour Shlien but there's nothing on his site to explain how such an astonishing collection came his way.
So, two questions.
1. Anybody know which of Shlien's tunes I'm after? It's a couple of years since I spotted it but I think it's latish on in one or other file, in a version different from any I have in audio.
2. Generally, could it be made easier to get from the search page to the file on its original site? That's where any explanation of what the transcriber was up to is going to be found.
And a general appeal: for chrissake, when you put an ABC file up on the web, put some identifying information in it so people can find you. Ideally, put it in every tune header.


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MADD v. Foxfield: Liquor license in limbo thanks to boozin' Wahoos
It's become a University of Virginia rite of spring: Young gentlemen don a tie, ladies put on a spring frock and hat, then they head to Foxfield and get trashed. That tradition of properly attired drunkenness in a steeplechase setting has outraged some members of the community and left Foxfield fighting desperately to save its ABC license and perhaps its very existence.
Foxfield's problem may be a matter of timing. Unfortunately for the organizers, the track's 1978 opening came just two years after UVA banned a long-standing but less-elegant spring tradition: Mud Bowl. A bizarre bout of bacchanalia in which drunken 'Hoos watered down and then waded through Rugby Road's Madison Bowl, Mud Bowl was part of Easters, the so-called "best party in the country," which was itself completely quashed in 1982, largely because of alcohol abuse.
If nature abhors a vacuum, then certainly college students do. With one site for debauchery eliminated, UVA students of the Reagan years migrated from tie-dye informality to garden party finery, from wallowing in the mud to wallowing on bucolic equestrian turf for their annual spring fling.
While residents on prestigious Garth Road have long complained about traffic, litter, and public urination, it was a complaint from MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, after the 2001 races that sparked Foxfield's current woes, an investigation that may lead to revocation of its ABC license.
Foxfield says the event has been at a disadvantage in controlling drinking since 1991, when Albemarle County police withdrew their presence from inside the gates. Even so, 20,000 to 30,000 people flocked to each running of the twice-year event each year with no fatalities or serious injuries.
Some people associated with Foxfield hint that the alcohol abuse charges are a mere pretext for a darker, more nefarious purpose: to put the racing association out of business and thereby obtain the highly desirable and very expensive real estate upon which the track sits.
MADD and appalled
Paula Garrett is not a horse person. She had never been to Foxfield, although she lives off nearby Owensville Road. Her family makes a practice of staying off the roads on race days.
As MADD president from 1999 to June 2002, she fielded complaints about underage drinking, public drunkenness, and pot smoking at Foxfield, but says she didn't realize the scope of the problem until April 29, 2001, when she waded into the student-filled "orange" section.
In the parking lot, she counted about 30 buses with people from all over the state.
"We were alarmed," she says, wondering who would drive the alcohol-soaked celebrants home once they got off the buses. Noting the two access roads and the 30,000 people in attendance that year, she calls the setting a disaster waiting to happen.
"It was so appalling," Garrett says, describing drunks propped up against fences, women sprawled on the ground, and one young man who was "swimming" in the dust. "The public drunkenness is what really shocked me," she says.
Jill Ingram, the current MADD president and a recent UVA grad who was with Garrett, calls their visit to the orange section "eye-opening." Ingram worried that if someone was hurt, the rescue squad wouldn't be able to get through.
Having chaired in her undergraduate days a student group called Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team, ADAPT, Ingram found consolation in the fact that ADAPT and the Student Council provided a booth at Foxfield offering free non-alcoholic drinks and snacks, and she says that before attending the races, "I felt good about our involvement in that capacity."
Once there, however, Ingram couldn't find the ADAPT booth because it was "a good distance" from the student section, and when she finally did find it at 2pm, the booth was already out of refreshments an indication to Ingram of how needed such alternatives to alcohol were.
She and Garrett decided to file a complaint with the ABC.
On May 29, 2001, Garrett fired off a letter to Clarence Roberts, chairman of the ABC board. She recounted seeing four young men urinating while she sat in traffic on Owensville Road, and "on Garth Road, a young woman squatting to relieve herself."
She complained that no DUI arrests were made, no one checked on underage drinkers, and only three drunk-in-public arrests were made that day. "We could have made that many in five minutes," she says.
"People were staggering everywhere," Garrett said of the 90 minutes she could endure being there. "We saw no one looking at a race."
Ingram and Garrett insist they don't want alcohol banned from Foxfield.
"I don't think it's feasible," says Ingram. "It's not MADD's goal. Alcohol can be fun, and people do choose to use it responsibly."
They have a clear list of changes they would like to see: attendance limited to 20,000, a magistrate on the premises to write up underage drinkers and public drunks, more water and light snacks– plus more police, sobriety checkpoints, and safe transportation, including more visibility for people to sign up with the designated driver program, the Savvy Fox.
"I know [Foxfield] thinks we're the enemy," says Garrett, who testified at the October 29 ABC hearing. And Racing Association president J. Benjamin Dick would likely agree.
Dick notes, though, that Foxfield has had a longstanding association with MADD, even publishing joint newspaper ads.
And Dick claims that Garrett is biased against Foxfield because she lives on Owensville Road and "hates the traffic and unruly students." Also, he says Garrett thought it "horrible" that 350 took safe rides home from Foxfield– because that meant they were too drunk to drive.
Even Garrett doesn't think there's any way to reduce the traffic that accompanies the race. That's Inglecress resident Floyd Artrip's biggest complaint. As if sitting in traffic for two hours isn't bad enough, he's done it with a three-year-old, watching the public drunkenness and urination, and "people making fools of themselves," he says.
"A two-lane road can't take 30,000 people," Artrip grouses. "Traffic backs up to Barracks Road Shopping Center." One of his neighbors who needed to take a child to a soccer game in another part of the county was inconvenienced when she couldn't get home.
Artrip, UVA class of '66, is reminded of the infamous Mud Bowl which he says he never attended. "Students don't have that release now," he says. "They go to Foxfield instead."
Foxfield plays defense
Benjamin Dick has been president of the Foxfield Racing Association since 1981, and he acts as its attorney. At his law office on Park Street, a Foxfield poster hangs near his diploma from VMI.
He first realized the races were in trouble on June 19, 2001, when he got a phone call while he was on his way to Dulles airport. The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors were going to consider a resolution at their meeting the next day that would ask the ABC to investigate Foxfield.
"I nearly had a wreck," says Dick. "This was going to be an official action by government to shut down a private business." Worse, he adds, "There was no notice we were on the agenda."
Dick says he got wind of the resolution from people who heard former chairman of the board Charlotte Humphris on Nancy King's WINA radio show.
Humphris, Dick says, wanted to "put a padlock on Foxfield's gate and shut it down."
"That's absolutely ridiculous," counters Humphris. "I have no reason to say that."
The minutes of the June 20, 2001, board meeting show that although the request for an ABC investigation was tabled, supervisors did request a meeting with Foxfield, the county police, the sheriff's department, ABC, and MADD.
The minutes also quote Humphris as noting one other fact of life for the Foxfield traffic situation: "No matter what action the board takes, the roads will not be widened or stretched."
A meeting of those major players with one exception– took place August 29, 2001. Foxfield refused to meet with MADD, although Jill Ingram was allowed to read a statement.
"We thought it important to not have a politically based organization involved," says Dick. "They're as political as you can get."
That exclusion struck an odd note with Albemarle chair Sally Thomas. "I wasn't comfortable with that," she testified at the October 29 ABC hearing on whether Foxfield should keep its liquor license.
The 30,000 who showed up for the 2001 race made up the largest crowd in the race's history. At the August meeting, Foxfield agreed to limit 2002 attendance to 27,000, and after bumping ticket prices $50 in the purple and orange sections, ended up selling only 23,000 tickets.
"We changed the price to work out financially," says Dick.
Foxfield also agreed to pre-sell all tickets except general admission in an effort to improve traffic flow. People buying presale tickets had to agree to abide by the law, and any violations could have resulted in ejection, according to Dick.
Also, to keep traffic moving, parking was free this year, but Dick calls that decision a "complete disaster" because it discouraged carpooling. General admission parking for the spring 2003 race will be $25 to encourage the use of public transportation, such as the Foxfield-subsidized CTS buses that ran from three UVA locations every 15 minutes.
And anyone who felt unable to drive could leave their cars overnight. Over 100 did so.
The 2002 spring race also had the law firm of Chandler, Franklin & O'Bryan providing 275 free cab rides home. And, according to testimony at the October 29 ABC hearing, 250 people signed up to be designated drivers.
Jill Ingram was not impressed. She wrote to the ABC in June that "250 designated drivers are not enough to take home the 27,000 people in attendance safely."
UVA students with ADAPT and the Student Council went to every car in the student section and passed out breathalyzer strips to the designated drivers.
Foxfield also agreed to work on education. Dick says he and marketing director Anne Tate met with close to 200 UVA students and about 100 at JMU to deliver a responsible drinking message. "I told kids, 'You've got to abide by our rules,'" he says.
They also worked with Susie Bruce at UVA's Center for Alcohol and Substance Abuse Education and the ABC on a poster advocating responsible drinking. ("It was odd working with ABC to get posters out while they're working to shut us down," Dick says.)
But the educational efforts did not satisfy Ingram, who wrote the ABC that she saw only one poster around Grounds. "One poster," she says, "is hardly the education on 'how to drink properly' that Mr. Benjamin Dick proclaimed the students needed before attending the Races."
Dick scoffs. "Anne Tate personally hung hundreds of posters," he says, and Susie Bruce distributed them to fraternities, sororities, and other schools.
ABC v. Foxfield
Perhaps the biggest source of contention at the August 2001 meeting was what role the ABC would play at the spring 2002 races. Foxfield officials say they believed the ABC had promised to help with enforcement.
"We were tickled pink ABC officers would be there to assist with the plan," Dick says. "With stepped-up enforcement, we could turn over to the police all disorderly conduct cases."
Much to Foxfield management's surprise, however, when 13 ABC officers showed up at the spring race, they declined the radios Foxfield offered them for communication.
"Our mission was to observe," says Richard Mayo, local ABC officer who attended the October 29 hearing. "We had no instruction to enforce. If you saw somebody who needed to be arrested, you'd have to go to the magistrate and leave your buddy's backside uncovered."
Over in Richmond, the ABC's chief operating officer, Curtis Coleburn, concurs. "We agreed to send agents in to videotape events. As a result of their observations and some investigation, we brought these charges against Foxfield"– specifically, the charges of disorderly conduct on the premises, and, the complaint reads, allowing "20 persons who the licensee knew or had reason to believe were intoxicated to loiter upon the... premises."
The reasoning, according to Coleburn, is that with only 140 agents statewide and 13,000 to 14,000 licensees to regulate, it's pretty much up to license holders like Foxfield to enforce drinking laws "the same as a bar or restaurant."
Where, then, did Dick get the idea that ABC officers were going to help enforce drinking laws at the spring race? Apparently he was not the only one with that impression.
Sally Thomas testified at the ABC hearing that her notes from the August 29 meeting say that the ABC would "observe and enforce."
"I consider that very important testimony," says Dick.
Foxfield's disputes with the ABC have been going on for years, ever since the organization first applied for an ABC license. "We only got a license to help law enforcement in 1982," says Dick. "[Former sheriff] George Bailey wanted us to get a license so he could enforce underage drinking on private property."
Director of Racing Patrick Butterfield wonders why Foxfield needed an ABC license in the first place since it didn't sell or serve alcohol: "We've never sold alcohol," he testified at the hearing.
However, since race officials obtained the license, Dick believes, local ABC agent Dickie Mayo has "harbored bias and prejudice against Foxfield." Mayo would routinely reject Foxfield's application for a banquet license, the type used by charities holding one-day events. The reason? Because Foxfield is not a charity, even though it has raised over $800,000 for local charities since it began, and contributes around $25,000 a year to nonprofits.
Until the General Assembly authorized an equine sporting event license in 1999, Foxfield routinely would appeal Mayo's denial, and the ABC board routinely would issue a license, although sometimes as late as midnight the evening before the race.
Is Mayo biased against Foxfield?
"I have no comment," Mayo answers.
At an October ABC hearing, Dick lobbed another charge at Mayo, accusing him of telling some of the charities Foxfield has supported and who had applied for the banquet licenses in the days before the equine license was available that Foxfield was cheating the charities.
"We've been told Dickie Mayo was making disparaging remarks," says Dick.
Mayo also declines to comment on those allegations.
While other people deny that Agent Mayo has it in for Foxfield– notably ABC boss Coleburn, who says, "That's just silly"– Dick is not convinced. He says the assistant attorneys general who are representing the ABC had agreed to a settlement with Foxfield before the hearings, but the ABC did not accept it. "Someone is pulling this lever," he maintains.
Coleburn doesn't agree. "I know Mr. Dick prepared and presented a consent order to settle. I don't know there was agreement between Dick and the assistant attorney general to settle."
We're not going in there
The ABC isn't the only government body that won't enforce state drinking laws inside Foxfield's gates. Neither will the Albemarle County police.
At the 1992 spring race, Chief John Miller kept his officers outside the gates. "I didn't have the resources to handle inside and outside traffic," he says, "and I determined very fast I didn't have the resources to handle the drinking inside."
The racing association was astounded. It had enjoyed a good relationship with Miller's predecessor, former sheriff George Bailey, who was in charge of the county's law enforcement before a separate police department was formed in the 1980s. Bailey had even served on the Foxfield board of directors.
And at the ABC hearing, Dick submitted a 1991 editorial from the Daily Progress that questioned the wisdom of removing police presence from inside the gates.
Raymond Woolfe, who designed the Foxfield course, is sputtering mad still over the decision. Of the 52 race courses in the National Steeplechase Association, he says, Foxfield is the only one that doesn't have local law enforcement.
"Out of one side of the mouth they complain it's a public nuisance," he says. "The people who've not done their job are the local law enforcement and ABC."
"My impression is that we needed at least triple the manpower," says Chief Miller. Officers who've tried to make an arrest have been surrounded in what he calls "an explosive situation."
Dick refers to "the good ole days" when Bailey policed Foxfield. "He'd have seven deputies, and those guys would wade into any crowd and take care of business," he says admiringly.
Bailey attended the same 2001 spring race that sent MADD complaining to the ABC board. "I didn't see a problem," says Bailey. "I saw four or five young people who were probably drunk. Security took care of them."
Currently, Foxfield hires a 60-person force from American Security Group in Richmond to police the spring race. According to Dick, the race association wanted to deputize the security force so they could write summonses for violators at the 2002 race. He says the county refused, but Miller did send in five undercover officers and one on bicycle patrol and his bicycle was stolen.
Is it that dangerous for county police to enforce the law at Foxfield? Bailey doesn't think so.
"I think it's [Miller's] responsibility to be in there," he declares. "He's just hiding when he's not there. If he sees violations, he should make arrests."
Every morning after the spring event, Miller says, his phone rings off the hook with neighbors complaining about broken fences, missing mailboxes, and of course, the public urination.
Interestingly, Albemarle County police ran into a problem arresting people for urinating in public, according to Sgt. Dan Blake, who works the race every year. "Albemarle County," he says, "doesn't have a urinating in public ordinance."
Instead, eight people were arrested for indecent exposure this year, but assistant commonwealth's attorney Richard DeLoria says at least two of those were not prosecuted. "Indecent exposure has to do with lascivious intent," he explains. Someone urinating behind a bush doesn't meet that criterion.
So with a no-nonsense, zero-tolerance approach, the county police and sheriff's office made 52 arrests and issued 22 traffic violations at the 2002 spring race, compared to just 29 arrests at the 2001 event. Of those, 12 were for drunk in public, 13 for drinking in public, and two for underage possession of alcohol.
County police also set up a DUI checkpoint on Ivy Rd on April 27. The number of drunk drivers netted? Two. The largest number of violators, 13, were for expired state inspections.
So how does that compare with a UVA football game? "They made 65 arrests at one game," claims Dick.
However, University Police Captain Quenton Trice says the September 7 South Carolina game resulted in five arrests. And he doesn't think a UVA football game and Foxfield comparison is fair. "I've never been to Foxfield, but I hear it's much worse," he says.
Dick contends that Foxfield is being singled out, because drinking is just as much a problem at UVA's games. "UVA is not required to get a license with all those people drinking," says Dick. "They don't sell alcohol."
According to the ABC, a one-day special event license is issued to the Virginia Student Aid Foundation for tailgating at football games.
Chief Miller thinks the biggest difference between football games and Foxfield is that at the latter, people have been drinking heavily before, during, and after the race.
"At UVA, the majority haven't been drinking," he says. "I believe that."
Foxfield doesn't believe that, and it made a videotape of the UVA-South Carolina game that illustrates many of the same complaints lodged against Foxfield: Traffic is backed up on U.S. 29 south onto I-64 back to Fifth Street, students are drinking on the Lawn, and tailgaters leave trashcans overflowing with beer cans in their wake.
That videotape was not allowed at the ABC hearings.
What if Foxfield loses its license?
Without a license, Dick says, Foxfield would be like a private party which doesn't need a license.
The ABC begs to differ. "Everyone drinking would be in violation of state code," insists Coleburn. Drinking in public is a Class 4 misdemeanor with a maximum fine of $250.
"It's not the kind of thing you're hauled off to jail for," Coleburn says, but it can get you a summons. Furthermore, Coleburn adds, "Any police officer– not just ABC officers– could enforce it." But that would mean agencies that have so far refused to enforce drinking laws at Foxfield would have to go onto the property.
Dick says the races will run regardless. "We'll inform the public that a license is not required like UVA," he says. He points out that the caterers in the corporate tents do have licenses.
Coleburn agrees that invited guests to corporate tents would not be breaking the law but anyone else drinking would. "Foxfield itself wouldn't be violating the law. Individuals would be guilty."
Ex-sheriff Bailey thinks Foxfield without a liquor license would be a lot like UVA football games. "You're not supposed to have alcohol in the stands, but I see it," Bailey says. "People take out their flasks and have a little nip."
Responses to closing arguments are due December 20. ABC hearing officer Clara Williamson will rule whether Foxfield keeps its license in late December or January.
UVA law student Wyeth Ruthven says that community sentiment can be a factor in whether a liquor license is granted or revoked. He collected 130 signatures on a petition in support of Foxfield, but Williamson did not allow it to be admitted as evidence at the hearing.
Dick is already prepared to appeal to the ABC board and if that fails, to appeal to Circuit Court. Of Williamson, he says, "She's hired and paid by ABC. She's going to rule against us."
And he repeats his mantra that ABC is "biased and prejudiced" against Foxfield, perhaps because they think it's a bunch of rich "horse people" drinking liquor. "They don't say that about NASCAR," he contends.
Raymond Woolfe cannot contain his rage at what's happened to the race course he built, which has run for 24 years without serious injury or death (except for the occasional horse) and has made every effort and gone to every expense to host a safe event. Foxfield is not like some local night spots, where shootings are a regular event.
He voices the suspicion that others won't say on the record, that the drunken students are a smoke screen. "There are those who'd love to see its gates closed and the property sold for real estate," he points out.
And indeed, Foxfield's 179 acres on Garth Road– where parcels sell for more than $50,000 an acre and whose market value is assessed by the county at a no doubt conservative $2.9 million– could be a developer's dream come true.
That's led some of the Garth Road neighbors to launch a campaign in support of Foxfield, saying they much prefer the twice yearly races to the thought of a subdivision of faux chateaux going up on the land. They've been dubbed PSIMBYs– please stay in my backyard.
Resident Sarah Garth tells the Daily Progress her opinion on the complainers. "Newcomers," Garth says. "They come here, after Foxfield came, and then they complain like the devil."
Even Foxfield's loudest critics say they don't want it shut down.
Police Chief Miller would like to see the orange section cleared of alcohol. "In my opinion, [students] go there not to watch the horses, but to drink," he says.
For some, that's true. "I had so much fun socializing and drinking with my friends, I forgot there were even horses there," says 4th-year Laura Barry.
Charlotte Humphris laughs when she's asked if the board of supervisors is "biased and prejudiced" against Foxfield. She sees its value to the community as a public event but she wants to see the law obeyed inside the gates and on the roads to and from it. "It could be wonderful and joyous for everybody if it's handled properly," she says.
At the ABC hearing, Dick asked BOS chairman Sally Thomas if she's opposed to Foxfield's future. "Not at all," she answered.
MADD's Jill Ingram wants lower attendance and more sobriety checkpoints. But as for that troublesome student faction, she says, "It doesn't seem they're going to change because of Foxfield or because of MADD."
However, Wyeth Ruthven thinks the whole ordeal Foxfield is going through ultimately could change student behavior. "What this process has done is begin to promote a greater amount of responsibility among students," he observes. "And I think Foxfield tried very hard to make it a safe event."
Paula Garrett is prepared to continue soldiering on if Foxfield manages to retain its liquor license. "We have a next step," she says, "but I'm not ready to tell you what it is at this time."
But she does give a hint: "If steps are not taken to make this a safe event, we'll go to the General Assembly about the equine license. It might be really hard to get it revoked, but not impossible."
Dick is clearly frustrated by the ongoing battles over the races. He's used to dealing with the egos involved with horse people ("the biggest bunch of prima donnas you've got"), but having to answer for drunken UVA students is another matter.
"To me, this is strictly a small-town mentality to blame a corporation because kids are urinating on lawns," he says. One option, says former military man Dick, is to hire an army to enforce security, rent a private paddy wagon, and contract for medical service out of Richmond.
Still he wonders, why does the county provide those services at UVA football games and the county fair, but not this other popular event held in the county?
The ABC's Coleburn recognizes that Foxfield has a tough problem dealing with the underage and out-of-control collegiate drinkers who attend. "If they still had Easters, this probably wouldn't have affected Foxfield the way it has," he observes.
Despite the ongoing legal battle and expenses to make the event safer, which have cost Foxfield $200,000 so far, Dick vows the races will continue. "Foxfield has reached the point where we've had enough," he says. "We're coming out fighting."


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Spring is officially here, meaning it's time to ditch the dark eye makeup and lipsticks for fresh and flirty pinks and peaches. If you're looking for an easy way to transform your look from drab to fab, Lauren Conrad is here to help. The fashionista recently dished on an ultra chic lip idea on her blog, The Beauty Department.
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