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USC Gould School of Law
USC Gould School of Law
The USC Gould School of Law provides a forward-looking, interdisciplinary and inter-professional legal education guided by nationally renowned professors and energized by an engaged and collegial student body. As one of the most diverse of the nation's top law schools, USC Gould is made up of students from throughout the country and around the world whose ideas and experiences enrich the learning process and provide new perspectives on the law. Through close collaboration, interdisciplinary academic training and hands-on application of skills, students acquire the experiences and knowledge necessary to succeed as leaders in a global environment.
USC Gould alumni are partners in the world's largest law firms, CEOs and presidents of multimillion-dollar companies, and leaders in government and public service organizations. Since its founding in 1900, the school has produced hundreds of judges on state and federal courts and elected officials ranging from mayor of cities large and small to a United States senator.
(213) 740-7331
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Robert K. Rasmussen, J.D., Dean*
Scott A. Altman, J.D., Vice Dean
Pauline M. Aranas, J.D., MLIS, Associate Dean, Chief Information Officer, and Director of the Law Library
Deborah A. Call, MBA, Associate Dean
Raymond Flores, MBA, Associate Dean
Alice R. Galstian, MBA, CPA, Associate Dean and Chief Financial Officer
Chloe T. Reid, J.D., Associate Dean
Robert M. Saltzman, J.D., Associate Dean*
James E. Simon, M.S., Associate Dean and Chief Development Officer
Leeanna Izuel, J.D., LL.M., Assistant Dean
Priya Sridharan, J.D., Assistant Dean
Suzanne Huntley Levy, J.D., Interim Assistant Dean
Dean and Carl Mason Franklin Dean's Chair in Law: Robert K. Rasmussen, J.D.*
University Professor and Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics: Alexander Morgan Capron, LL.B.
University Professor, Emeritus: Marshall Cohen, M.A., M.A. (Oxon) (Philosophy)
University Professor of Journalism, Communication and Law: Geoffrey Cowan, LL.B. (Journalism)
Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law: Ronald R. Garet, J.D., Ph.D.*
Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Chair in Law: Thomas D. Lyon, J.D., Ph.D.*
J. Thomas McCarthy Trustee Chair in Law, Emeritus: Christopher D. Stone, J.D., LL.D. (Hon.)
Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law: Edward J. McCaffery, M.A., J.D.*
George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Chair in Law: Daria Roithmayr, J.D.
Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair in Law: Nomi M. Stolzenberg, J.D.
UPS Foundation Chair in Law and Gerontology: Martin L. Levine, J.D., LL.D.*
Ervin and Florine Yoder Chair in Real Estate Law: George Lefcoe, LL.B.
Leon Benwell Professor of Law: Edwin M. Smith, J.D.*
Virginia S. and Fred H. Bice Professor of Law: Scott A. Altman, J.D.*
Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law: Jody David Armour, J.D.
Richard L. and Maria B. Crutcher Professor of Law: Dan Simon, LL.B., MBA, LL.M., SJD
William T. Dalessi Professor of Law: Gregory C. Keating, J.D., Ph.D.
Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law: Elizabeth Garrett, J.D.
Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law: Elyn R. Saks, M.Litt., J.D., Ph.D., LL.D. (Hon.)
Charles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Professor of Law: Daniel M. Klerman, J.D., Ph.D.
Maurice Jones, Jr. — Class of 1925 Professor of Law: Andrei Marmor, LL.B, Ph.D.*
Robert Kingsley Professor of Law: Susan R. Estrich, J.D.
Richard L. and Antoinette Schamoi Kirtland Professor of Law: Gillian K. Hadfield, J.D., Ph.D.
John B. Milliken Professor of Taxation: Thomas D. Griffith, MAT, J.D.*
Dorothy W. Nelson Professor of Law: Michael H. Shapiro, M.A., J.D.
Newton Professor of Constitutional Law: Rebecca L. Brown, J.D.*
Robert C. and Nanette T. Packard Professor of Law: Scott H. Bice, J.D.*
John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law: Ariela J. Gross, J.D., Ph.D.*
Provost Professor of Philosophy and Law: Gary Watson, Ph.D. (Philosophy)
Professors: Jonathan M. Barnett, M.Phil., J.D.; Anthony M. Bertelli, J.D., Ph.D. (Public Policy); David B. Cruz, M.S., J.D.*; Sofia Mary Gruskin, J.D., MIA (Preventive Medicine); Gaurang Mitu Gulati, J.D.; Cynthia B. Herrup, Ph.D. (History); Edward D. Kleinbard, M.A., J.D.; Bart A. Kosko, J.D., Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering); Kimberley D. Krawiec, J.D.; Sharon A. Lloyd, Ph.D. (Philosophy); John G. Matsusaka, Ph.D. (Finance and Business Economics); Claudia Moatti, Ph.D., HDR (Classics); Kevin J. Murphy, Ph.D. (Finance and Business Economics); Alison Dundes Renteln, J.D., Ph.D. (Political Science); Camille Gear Rich, J.D.; Wayne Sandholtz, Ph.D. (International Relations); Hilary M. Schor, Ph.D. (English); Simon J. Wilkie, Ph.D. (Economics)
Associate Professors: Kim Shayo Buchanan, LL.B./J.D., LL.M., JSD; Shmuel Leshem, LL.B., MBA, JSD, LL.M.; Stephen Rich, M.A., J.D.*; Mark I. Weinstein, MSIA, MBA, Ph.D. (Finance and Business Economics)
Assistant Professors: Sam Erman, J.D., Ph.D.; Yoon-Ho Alex Lee, J.D., Ph.D.; Megan Hibler Reid, Ph.D. (Religion); Emily Ryo, J.D., Ph.D.; Diana I. Williams, Ph.D. (History); Abby K. Wood, MADL, J.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professors: Pauline M. Aranas, J.D., MLIS; Robert M. Saltzman, J.D.*
Adjunct Assistant Professors: Catherine Coleman, J.D.; Judy K. Davis, MLIS, J.D.; Leeanna Izuel, J.D., LL.M.; Diana C. Jaque, MLIS, J.D.; Paul Moorman, MLIS, J.D.; Cynthia Prado-Guyer, MLIS, J.D.; Brian Raphael, MLS, J.D.; Donald Scotten, J.D.; Karen Skinner, M.S., MLS, J.D.; Priya Sridharan, J.D.; Susan C. Wright, J.D.
Clinical Professors: Michael J. Brennan, LL.B.; Michael Chasalow, J.D., MBA; Niels W. Frenzen, J.D.; Heidi L. Rummel, J.D.
Associate Professors of Legal Writing and Advocacy: Elizabeth A. Carroll, J.D. (Director of Legal Writing and Advocacy Program); Rebecca S. Lonergan, J.D. (Associate Director of Legal Writing and Advocacy Program); Julie A. Ryan, J.D. (Associate Director of LL.M. Legal Writing and Advocacy Program)
Professor of the Practice of Law: Clare Pastore, J.D.
Emeritus Professors: Marshall Cohen, M.A., M.A. (Oxon.) (Philosophy); Edward J. Finegan, Ph.D. (Linguistics); Larry G. Simon, LL.B. (Herbert W. Armstrong Professor of Constitutional Law, Emeritus); W. David Slawson, M.A., LL.B.* (Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law, Emeritus); Christopher D. Stone, J.D., LL.D. (Hon.)* (J. Thomas McCarthy Trustee Chair in Law, Emeritus)
Clinical Emeritus Professors: Lee W. Campbell, J.D.; Noel M. Ragsdale, J.D.*
Degree Programs
Juris Doctor
The Juris Doctor (J.D.) is the basic law degree. To obtain the degree, full-time attendance for six semesters is required. During the first year, the student takes a required curriculum of basic courses that examines fundamental legal institutions and addresses legal problems relevant to today's society and the modern practice of law. During the second and third years the student must complete a writing requirement and at least one course that provides substantial instruction in professional skills generally regarded as necessary in the practice of law. The remainder of the courses taken in the last two years are primarily elective.
Dual Degrees
USC Gould maintains dual degree programs with the graduate programs in accounting, business administration, economics, gerontology, pharmacy, philosophy, public administration, public policy, social work, political science, politics and international relations, religion, real estate development and communication. These programs enable qualified students to earn a law degree (J.D.) and the appropriate master's degree. If the master's degree normally requires one year of study, a student in a dual degree program earns both degrees in only three years. If the master's normally requires two years of post-baccalaureate courses, a total of four years is required. To earn the J.D., all students (including dual degree students) must complete 35 numerically graded law units at USC beyond the first year curriculum.
The goal of these programs is to encourage law students to gain a recognized competence in another discipline that has a direct relevance to the roles lawyers play in society. The dual degree programs are based on the premise that some topics covered in the law school are also covered in the programs of the cooperating departments, so that some credit toward the law degree may appropriately be given for specified graduate work taken in the cooperating department. Similarly, the cooperating departments have recognized that some credit toward the master's degree may appropriately be awarded for certain work completed in the law school.
LL.M. Degree
The residential LL.M. program is a master's degree program for foreign graduate students trained in law. This two-semester, full-time program introduces foreign lawyers to American law and the U.S. legal system and prepares them for leadership roles in the global market. After successfully completing the program, students will be awarded the Master of Laws degree.
The online LL.M. program is a master's degree program for foreign graduate students trained in law. This program is offered on a part-time or full-time basis in an online modality and introduces foreign lawyers to American law and the U.S. legal system and prepares them for leadership roles in the global market. After successfully completing the program, students will be awarded the Master of Laws degree.
MCL Degree
The MCL program is a master's degree program for foreign graduate students trained in law who have already earned their LL.M. degree. This two-semester, full-time program is focused on the study of comparative law. Students are provided with the opportunity to study the differences, similarities and interrelationships of different systems of law around the world. After successfully completing the program, students will be awarded the Master of Comparative Law degree.
Honor Society
Order of the Coif: Order of the Coif is a national honorary scholastic society that encourages excellence in legal education.
Qualifications: Membership will be extended to a graduating law student whose cumulative grade point average ranks in the top 10 percent of all graduating students, provided that he or she has completed at least 75 percent (66 units) of law studies in graded courses.
Adviser: Scott Altman, Vice Dean, Gould School of Law, (213) 740-2544, firstname.lastname@example.com
Applications: Students are nominated by the law school.
Continuing Legal Education
The law school's Continuing Legal Education Program provides the legal community with the greatest variety of offerings of any law school in the west. USC Gould has been approved as a provider of Minimum Continuing Legal Education (CLE) by the State Bar of California and offers general CLE and Legal Specialization Credit for lawyers, as well as continuing education credits for accountants and real estate professionals.
USC Gould is a national leader in continuing education, presenting six annual programs designed for sophisticated attendees from the bar, judiciary, accounting, business and law student communities and supported by both law firm and corporate sponsors.
CLE programs in 2012–2013 include the Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, Trust and Estate Conference, Tax Institute, Institute for Corporate Counsel, Real Estate Law and Business Forum, and Intellectual Property Institute.
For detailed program and registration information, visit law.usc.edu/cle. For additional questions, call (213) 821-3580 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Tuition and Fees (Estimated)
Students in the law school's J.D. program pay tuition of $55,084 per year (two semesters) (26–34 units). For less than 13 units the tuition is $2,129 per unit, and tuition is an additional $2,129 for each unit over 17.
Students in the law school's residential LL.M. and MCL programs pay tuition of $55,084 per year (two semesters). Students in the law school's online LL.M. program pay tuition on a per unit basis.
The university reserves the right to assess new fees or charges as it may determine. The rates listed are subject to change without notice by action of the Board of Trustees.
These fees are based upon current information available at the time of publication and are subject to possible later change.
In addition to the mandatory fees charged to all USC students, law students must also join the Student Bar Association. In 2012–2013, this membership fee was $25 per semester.
Admission Requirements — J.D. and Dual Degrees
First-year students must have earned a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university and be able to provide an official transcript denoting the degree conferred by the beginning of their law school classes. USC Gould does not require applicants to take any specific college courses, and discourages pre-law students from enrolling in college courses that duplicate the law school curriculum. The faculty recommends college courses that are intellectually challenging and require disciplined study. Training in careful reading and skilled writing is most valuable, as are courses involving seminar discussion and sustained research. The student will find that a broad exposure to such fields as economics, philosophy, history, political science, anthropology, mathematics and psychology is more useful than narrow exposure to vocationally oriented courses.
All applicants are required to take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) administered by the Law School Admissions Council. Applicants must take the test no later than February if they seek to start law school the following August.
Like most law schools, the USC Gould School of Law requires students to apply online through the Law School Admission Council and register for the Credential Assembly Service (CAS). The CAS assembles an applicant's transcripts, LSAT scores and letters of recommendation and forwards copies of them to law schools of the applicant's choosing. Further information about the LSAT and the CAS may be obtained from the Law School Admission Council, 662 Penn St., Box 40, Newtown, PA 18940 and online at lsac.org.
Detailed information regarding admission application procedures is available from the Dean of Admissions, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 and on the school's Website (law.usc.edu).
Transfer Students and Visiting Students
A student in good standing at a law school that is approved by the American Bar Association may apply for admission with advanced standing either as a transfer student or as a visiting student. Transfer students enter USC Gould after one year at another law school; they then spend two years at the law school and earn the J.D. degree from USC. Visiting students spend one or two semesters at the law school during their third year of law school; they are not eligible for a USC degree. For further information, please request Transfer/Visitor Information from the Admissions Office at USC Gould.
Transfer LL.M. Students
Law students who are enrolled in USC Gould's residential and online LL.M. programs for foreign lawyers may apply to the J.D. program as transfer LL.M. students during the transfer application period. Only USC Gould LL.M. students may apply in this manner. Those who have already been awarded an LL.M. at another U.S. law school may apply as international J.D. applicants to the three-year program. For further information, request LL.M. transfer information from the Graduate and International Programs Office at USC Gould.
Admission Requirements — LL.M. Degree
Students submitting an application must have earned a basic law degree, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree or the foreign equivalent. Some experience following the completion of the first professional degree is preferred. For further information, contact the law school at (213) 821-5916 or visit the school's Website (law.usc.edu).
Admission Requirements — MCL Degree
Students submitting an application must have earned a basic law degree, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree or the foreign equivalent and will have previously earned their LL.M. degree. Some experience following the completion of the first professional degree is preferred. For further information, contact the law school at (213) 821-5916 or visit the school's Website (law.usc.edu).
Registration is handled by the Registration and Records Office of the USC Gould School of Law. First-year students will automatically be registered in their fall semester courses approximately two to three weeks prior to the beginning of the school year and for their spring semester courses approximately two to three weeks prior to the dates listed in the law school calendar for upper-division student registration.
Grading and Attendance Policies
The grading system uses both numbers and letters in a range from 1.9 to 4.4 with letter-grade equivalents ranging from F to A+. The grade equivalents are: A+ (4.1–4.4); A (3.8–4.0); A- (3.5–3.7); B+ (3.3–3.4); B (3.0–3.2); B- (2.7–2.9); C+ (2.5–2.6); C (2.4); C- (2.1–2.3); D (2.0); and F (1.9). Students receiving a grade of 1.9 will not be given credit for the course toward graduation. A student who fails a first-year course must repeat the course, but both grades will be included in computing that student's general average. Other courses may not be repeated except on petition to the associate dean. A student with a weighted cumulative average of less than 3.0 at the end of the year will be placed on restricted enrollment. A student with a weighted cumulative average of less than 2.7 at the end of any year will not be permitted to continue.
After the first year, a student may take up to a total of 8 units on an elected CR/D/F basis, chosen from among courses otherwise graded in a normal manner. No more than 4 such units may be taken in a semester. The student must elect to take a course CR/D/F during the first two weeks of the semester. Courses or seminars may, at the instructor's option, be designated prior to registration as not available for CR/D/F grading. To earn the J.D., all students (including dual degree students) must complete 35 numerically graded law units at USC beyond the first year curriculum.
Students may also take such courses regularly offered only on a CR/D/F basis, in addition to courses taken under this rule.
Withdrawals from Courses
A student may not withdraw from a course later than two weeks after the first day of classes of any semester without permission of both the associate dean and the instructor.
Class attendance is an important part of law school education. It assists both the individual and fellow students in making the most of the educational opportunity offered. Students should, therefore, attend class regularly and participate in the discussion. Professors may require attendance and may take attendance into account in evaluating student performance.


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Trooper hit by vehicle in Bentleyville, chases after driver
Heather Gonglik recovering at home after brush with Arnold Frankie's Ford F-250
A state trooper is recovering after being hit by a large pickup truck while directing traffic for an accident on Wednesday evening.
The force threw Trooper Heather Gonglik into the air, police said, but she got up immediately to pursue the Ford F-250 that struck her.
"This is my 18th year in law enforcement. I've never seen a police officer get struck by a car and get back up," said Southwest Regional Police Sgt. Joseph Pocsatko.
Pocsatko was conducting a sobriety test for a DUI accident on Main Street. He called state police in Belle Vernon to direct traffic to protect him from passing cars. However, one truck wouldn't stop.
In a media report about the incident, Trooper Matthew Gavrish wrote, "The victim (Gonglik) eventually managed to stop the vehicle and approached the driver's side to speak to the accused. After speaking for a short time, the accused began to drive away, ignoring the victim's commands to stop. As the vehicle accelerated, the victim was struck by the vehicle and thrown to the ground."
Pocstako said, "The sound when she hit the ground was frightening for me."
Gonglik pursued the truck for about a half-mile before a traffic stop was made and the driver was taken into custody, police said.
Gonglik was treated at Mon Valley Hospital for what police described as "minor/moderate injuries" and was recovering at home Thursday.
Police said the driver -- Arnold J. Frankie, 62, of Fredericktown -- was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, resisting arrest, fleeing and eluding, reckless driving and careless driving. He was arraigned before District Judge Josh Kanalis and taken to the county jail on $150,000 bail.
Locals who know the trooper said they are well aware of her dedication to the job. "Her and her husband live in the area. Great family. I've known her a long time. Very dedicated. Just proud to have her here in the area," said Gonglik's friend, John Lovett.

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Wellness in the Park brings together health and wellness related organizations, speakers and screenings to the Sierra Madre community, specifically seniors. Hosted by the City of Sierra Madre Community Services Department and Senior Community Commission, the event takes place in September at Memorial Park, located at 222 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, CA, 91024.
Past events include informative seminars from local hospitals on fall prevention, low to no impact exercise, preventing dangerous drug interactions and more. Various vendors are also present providing information on health care, physical therapy, disaster preparedness, mental and physical health services, transportation and more. The event typically hosts a flu shot clinic as well.
For additional information, contact the Hart Park House office at 626-355-7394.
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Try Puppy Linux
Wow, what a great article by Louis Iacona [LJ, April
2008, "Puppy Linux"]. I was pleasantly surprised to
find it so in depth for a magazine article, which is usually no more than
two pages. It definitely encouraged me to try Puppy Linux, which I will
do. I hope to see more articles by this gentleman and hope he was well
paid. Thank you for such a great magazine.
George Mulak
On ISOs
I have noticed mention of ISOs now and then in LJ articles.
While working on our own applications, we've often gone searching on the Internet for tools and applications that might already be found in the form of a ready-to-run ISO.
Because ISOs are relatively new to the public, we concluded that currently, it is difficult to find such works or list them if you are an author.
Therefore, we have created a new site, www.isotogo.com, to help the
public and authors in working with ISOs. There is no cost to use it or to
list your works, and because it is new, we are working hard on moving up the
search engine ladder.
Mike Paradis
Comments on the OLPC XO
Dave Phillips is effusive in his praise of the OLPC XO [LJ, June 2008], and most of it is well deserved, indeed. But it must be conceded that the keyboard is a piece of absolute trash. After just a few hours of use, mine developed keys that stick or fail to actuate or actuate with Alt applied unpredictably. This got worse until it was completely unusable. A Google search turned up many such complaints and detailed instructions for excising and replacing the keyboard (serious tinkerers only!). The USB keyboard is really a necessity, but that is not convenient in all circumstances.
The mouse does have two active buttons, as you can verify by copying the binary of gpm from a compatible system (I use Fedora Core 6 on a Dell Latitude). Run it as:
gpm -m /dev/input/mouse0 -t ps2 -r 5 -a 3
and play with the -r and -a settings to get it the way you like.
The display is a little bit strange. Plotting a bunch of random pixels in white on a black screen makes red, green and blue dots. A white-on-black line may show bands of color, depending on the point density and inclination. So your favorite graphics apps may need some tweaking.
If you want to run something that uses SVGALIB, you need my framebuffer
version of that. It's not complete yet, but it does basic pixel, line and
block functions. I'll put it on my SourceForge site soon, but meanwhile,
if interested, send me a note at email@example.com.
Bill McConnaughey
Yet Another One-Liner
The June 2008 issue of LJ published a letter from David Newall, which responded to a letter from Joao Macedo published in the February 2008 issue, which was, in turn, a response to Dave Taylor's column in the December 2007 issue. Both Joao and David wrote in with one-liners using the echo and bc commands to do floating-point calculations in place of using Dave Taylor's solve.sh script. Joao's example embedded an actual newline character, whereas David Newall's used the escape code version of the same. There is yet another way to do this, and it is, in fact, my preference, as it is much more intuitive to folks accustomed to writing shell scripts. In bourne-shell scripts, a semicolon can be used to place commands together on a single line. It can be used for the same purpose with bc. Here is a third rewrite of the example to demonstrate:
echo 'scale=4;11/7' | bc
James Williams Zavada
First off, great magazine! While reading page 13, in the UpFront
section [LJ, June 2008, "Eee PC Gets an
Upgrade"], Doc talks about the upgrade that the Eee PC is getting, along the
lines of the larger screen, larger SSD hard drive and more memory. He
lists the new Eee PC 900 as having 1GB of RAM, and say that this is "up from
512KB". I dunno about you, but my Eee PC (from which I am sending
this letter)
has 512 megabytes, not kilobytes! If yours has 512KB
of RAM, you should send
it back! Great magazine, small typo, I forgive you!
Eric Jennings
I just wanted to send a quick note to thank all of the contributors to LJ. You have inspired me over the past couple of years to migrate over to Linux as my OS of choice and motivated me to learn new projects. I am in the middle of setting up an LTSP project for our home-schooling community and using info gained from various LJ articles and book recommendations.
Keep up the good work. Hopefully I will send some converts your way
Dean Anderson
I'm happy to see the coverage of Sony's use of Linux in the June 2008 issue.
There is actually an even bigger list of Sony products running Linux at
www.sony.net/Products/Linux. Myself, I was surprised to find my
new digital camera on that list. Now if only we could turn this into some
sort of quality label instead of a hidden feature. (Disclaimer: I am a
UNIX sysadmin working for Sony.)
Nico De Ranter
More Must-Have Firefox Extensions
I'm surprised the article [Dan Sawyer's "Must-Have Firefox Extensions" in the June 2008 issue of LJ] didn't even mention AdBlock Plus. It's the first extension I put on any Firefox installation I come across. After I installed it on my girlfriend's laptop, she exclaimed, "now I understand why you actually like that one site!" Her laptop's running Kubuntu with VMware Workstation for those pesky Windows-only apps, by the way.
Another helpful extension is Cookie Button, which prevents all those cookie confirmation windows from popping up and still allows one to enable them easily for a specific site if required.
I also enjoyed last month's article regarding using virtualization on Mac OS X, because that's what I've been doing ever since I got my MacBook Pro [Dave Taylor's "Running Ubuntu as a Virtual OS in Mac OS X" in the May 2008 issue of LJ]. It's running Parallels with Kubuntu and Windows XP, and it allows me to develop and test software on all three operating systems with ease.
And, I can run Amarok to listen to music, because iTunes simply doesn't
measure up.
U. Hertlein


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O Moziljanu
I learn by teaching others.I love working on the ideas that can bring out some change. True Open source Contributor and eager to meet people of same thought. Joining in the movement of making web open and secure. Being lead of Mozilla Community Punjab i am into community building and increasing wo-moz participation
April Morone
I honourably vouch for Sarswak Deepak for many reasons. 1.) Because he is very insightful about how best to help Mozillians and other contributors. 2.) He is helping to see that women are now included in the community and contributing. 3.) He helped establish a geolocation task force in Punjab via introducing students with Firefox Stumbler. 4.) He helped form a google group for FSA's to put their doubts or ideas to the community. 5.) He's also helping build a community website and an app.
Abhishek Thakur
Deepak is an amazing Contributor and have been a part of various Local Community events and organized a few.He has always shown interest in the FSA Program and has been a part of it. He is doing great job in Mozilla and he is contributing in community building and localization. I feel happy to vouch him.


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Videos | April 4, 2007
News From Saturn
Two unique experiments were completed on the last Titan flyby.
Transcript:Hello and welcome to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
My name is James Gerhard, and I am one of the operations engineers on the Cassini program here to share the latest news from Saturn.
My job is to make sure the two cameras on the Cassini spacecraft stay safe and secure.
I also write the commands that tell the cameras what to do.
The coolest part of my job is that I get to see the images the minute we receive them on the ground.
During our most recent flyby of Titan on March 25, 2007, the Radio Science Team successfully completed two unique experiments.
The first experiment used Cassini's high-gain antenna to bounce radio signals off of Titan and back to Earth.
This experiment provided information about Titan's surface such as whether areas are liquid or solid and how rough or smooth the surface might be.
This experiment probed an area we looked at before with the cameras where many "lake-like" features exist.
The second Radio Science experiment used the high-gain antenna to transmit radio signals to Earth through Titan's atmosphere, giving us new information about it.
This was the first time radio science has probed this area of Titan, so we are very excited to see the results.
Also during this flyby, the narrow and wide angle cameras took almost 270 images, searching for more lake like features.
Cassini's next flyby of Titan on April 10 will be even closer than the last at only be 615 miles above the surface.
Radar will capture more of the feature nick-named "The Black Sea" that we were tantalized with during a previous Titan encounter, (PIA08365).
The infrared mapping instrument will probe Titan's amazing clouds.
From Pasadena, California, I am James Gerhard with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and your latest news from the ringed planet.


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Organizing books will usually tell you the same things: make piles to give to charity, throw out, donate, or put away elsewhere. They will tell you to make a "home" for all your like items. That's nice but it doesn't really get the job done. What they often don't cover is what to get rid of: what to really, really rid yourself of, and why. Here are some of my tips to ruthless and rewarding organization:
Be willing to toss things not because you don't "like" them but, because they don't make you feel good, because they have a negative memory attached, because you don't actually use/wear them...or, even more, because you just don't want them. Being ruthless means being honest: are you really ever going to be a size 4 again? Are you ever going to hang up that piece of art?
Yes, being ruthless even means "sentimental" items...but that does not make you cold, callous, or unsentimental. If you are willing to only make space for sentimental and emotionally tied items you truly love then you will enjoy them and cherish them that much more. Don't let someone else's sentimental item become your clutter because you have guilt about donating it to charity or selling it (where someone else might actually get more enjoyment out of the item).
Once you've gone though everything, put it away, close the drawer or door and come back the next day. Go through everything again and be willing to be even more ruthless - do you truly love or need everything there? There is always one more thing you don't truly love.
If you aren't sure about something or can't quite part with it create a system to help you let it go. Create a section of your closet of "maybe" clothes, hang them all up, turn the hangers around so they are on the rod "wrong". Then try to wear all the items in a certain period of time (month/year). If you do wear the items determine at the end of the day if you want to keep it or let it go. At the end of the time limit whatever is left with a hanger the wrong way around (not worn) get rid of.
Do the same with kitchen items, books, toys etc: put them in a place and at the end of a month if you haven't used or looked for them get rid of them.
If you create rules about your space it can make organizing significantly easier. I don't mean the old "one item in one item out"adage (though I do suggest you consider it), nor do I mean "keep as many items as will fit in the drawer" (because we all know that means you'll just overfill the drawer).
My goal for my closet was the number 7. I realized afterward that number was a little low and it turned out that 10 was the right number. Which means no more than 10 dresses, 10 long sleeved t-shirts, 10 cardigans, even 10 pair of underwear. I realize for some people that is a completely shocking number (low or high)...which leads me to:
I am completely aware that my 10 or less closet is shocking to some for it's low number of items, shocking to others for it's high number of items. I still aspire towards the 7 items, actually. I am willing to let anyone who likes judge me: it's my house, my space, and if my system works for me then that is what matters.
Minimalism is often prized and praised in architecture but how often do we discuss the architecture of what's in a drawer (not where it is, not how it's placed, what is actually IN the drawer). I love my new minimalist closet/house - I can't wait to get the rest of it done.
Ready to judge me some more?
Before: I was the person who looked at a drawer with one spoon and thought "wow, where are your kitchen tools? You must be an awful cook"
Now: I know the tools don't make the meal. Judge me if you like for not having all the latest gadgets but guess who has a fast, easy clean-up at the end of a meal?
If you don't value an item, don't keep it, don't buy it, don't bring it anywhere near your space. You spend too much money to share your life and space with anyone or anything you don't value.
Yes, I realize that you have to keep annoying things, like old taxes, but the value in items like that are that they are invaluable should you need them.
This means something much larger though. This means no buying things simply because they are a 'really good deal', not buying every single color of a shirt (unless you are positive you want to live, breathe and die in that shirt), and, even more, no taking things that are 'free' just because they are free.
Free is never free. Cheap is never cheap. The items that live in our houses we pay for: we pay to heat and cool them, we pay to clean them, we pay to have the trash from them hauled away, we pay for things to put them in to seem organized, we pay with our time when we spend even a moment with them (organizing and cleaning especially), and we pay emotionally for them - especially when cleaning takes us away from being with the people we want to be with or from pursuing the dreams and hobbies we want to pursue.
Likewise, be willing to invest in items you know you will truly love, enjoy, and use. If that means you have to save up instead of getting something cheap now remember, you are only creating space for things you value. Not everything you value has to cost more money so be thoughtful in your decision making process.
When we moved into our house all was fine and lovely. Then we got our first tax bill - it was no where near what we were expecting, but it was itemized. I sat down and scrutinized every detail. What were we paying for, what services were we not taking full advantage of? The most obvious one: the library.
So, we got in the car, went to the library and got out at least $250 worth of music, books, DVDs, and audio-books. We made our money back in one trip...but then we made it back again when we took literally hundreds of books to a book reseller. We have credit for decades, significantly more space, and we use every penny of a service we're paying for. Furthermore, at the end of the day every book that creates clutter has a home, and it isn't my home, I can give it away, drop it off, clean the clutter without a single regret that I wasted money or products.
Anything that takes up space in your home, in your drawers, or on your computer takes up a space in your mind, your vision, and your emotions: do you really want to waste time, emotions, or space on a bottle you kept simply because it might be useful again? Or would you rather be rid of it and leave more space for creativity?


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MORRIS – Up until six years ago, 48-year-old Thomas Hagerman never missed a day of work and spent his free time at the gym, preparing for weightlifting competitions.
But that all changed in 2008, when Hagerman's Dodge truck collided with a Mercury Grand Marquis at the intersection of Lisbon and Bedford roads. The Morris resident suffered injuries that left him disabled for the rest of his life, according to the civil lawsuit complaint filed in 2010.
Last week, after a four-year civil lawsuit, a jury decided Hagerman's damages were worth $1.08 million.
"This was a verdict that, I think, surprised everybody as far as the amount," said Mark Rigazio, Hagerman's lawyer. "It's very rare to get a $1 million verdict in Grundy County. There is only a handful that I know of."
The damages are to be paid by the defendant, Betty Leake of Verona, who was driving the car that collided with Hagerman at the time of the accident. At that time, she was cited for failure to yield.
Leake was driving east and Hagerman west on Bedford Road when Leake, allegedly, made a left turn directly into Hagerman's path.
In the original lawsuit complaint, Hagerman alleged Leake was "being negligent" while operating her vehicle, which caused the collision.
Although Leake denied those claims, the jury ruled against her, and requested she pay the $1.08 million in damages.
Leake's lawyer, Gary Wunderlich, could not immediately be reached Thursday.
"Our original demand was for $650,000," Rigazio said. "During trial, at closing argument, I asked for $1.2 million and [the jury] darn near came up with that number."
Close to $289,000 of the damages were for Hagerman's medical expenses, which he incurred after undergoing extensive neck and spine surgery.
Hagerman is unable to return to work, but Rigazio said they did not include that amount in the damages because of a knee injury sustained after the accident. The knee injury could also be a contributing factor in Hagerman's inability to work, Rigazio said.
The largest portion of damages, $450,000, were allotted for loss of normal life. Although he can walk, Hagerman can no longer enjoy physical activity as he once did because of damage to his spine and neck.
"It's just kind of eating away at him," Rigazio said. "He can't even think about going to the gym anymore."
Other damages included in the total amount were past and future pain and suffering, past lost earnings and future medical expenses.
Hagerman declined to comment and directed Rigazio to speak on his behalf.
Rigazio said he and Hagerman are thankful to the jury and his co-council Joe Mueller for making the verdict possible.
"I have never had a jury that I observed, paid so much attention and took so many notes. I was stunned," Rigazio said. "They were fantastic."


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I picked up this patch work wool bag for a pound at a car boot sale on Saturday morning. It's stuffed to bursting with wool I'm using to make a mini throw for my 'was to be a cracket'. Yes, I swung by an amazingly stuffy, stacked to the gunnels antique place, on my way to the car boot and found a stool of just the right proportions for my mud zone. I hope to have a ta da moment some time in the coming week.
Do you like my glass coffee mug? I have a set of four, which knocked me back £3 at a charity shop last week. I just had to have them and have visions of sipping cream topped liqueur coffees in them some time soon. Anyone care to join me?
When we were at a bonfire party the other week one guest brought Peanut Brittle, Nigella style. I urge you to try it. It's delicious and with just two ingredients it's hard to go wrong. Wack 100g caster sugar in the pan and heat till golden brown and liquid. Add 100g salted peanuts and stir. Turn out onto baking paper and leave to set. Voila!
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You have waited a long time, so without further ado, I give you...OUR NEW KITCHEN!!!!
Okay, first, I thought I would remind everyone of what our kitchen looked like before our big project...
This was my gift to my husband for being so patient and letting me do pretty much whatever I wanted to our house. :) It is a flip down flat screen TV that is also a Radio, CD player, and DVD player.
Here is the kitchen as you walk into the room from the garage. It hardly looks like the same house!!! It is just lovely now! I am so happy! It's been a long road, but I am glad we did it!!! We still have to put in the hardware, but other than that, and some more flooring in the bathrooms, we are done!!! Yea!!!!


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March 1773
No one had known the cabin was there, until Kenny Lindsay had seen the flames, on his way up the creek.
"I wouldna ha' seen at all," he said, for perhaps the sixth time. "Save for the dark comin' on. Had it been daylight, I'd never ha' kent it, never." He wiped a trembling hand over his face, unable to take his eyes off the line of bodies that lay at the edge of the forest. "Was it savages, Mac Dubh? They're no scalped, but maybe—"
"No." Jamie laid the soot-smeared handkerchief gently back over the staring blue face of a small girl. "None of them is wounded. Surely ye saw as much when ye brought them out?"
Lindsay shook his head, eyes closed, and shivered convulsively. It was late afternoon, and a chilly spring day, but the
men were all sweating. "I didna look," he said simply. My own hands were like ice; as numb and unfeeling as the
rubbery flesh of the dead woman I was examining. They had been dead for more than a day; the rigor of death had passed off, leaving them limp and chilled, but the cold weather of the mountain spring had preserved them so far from the grosser indignities of putrefaction. Still, I breathed shallowly; the air was bitter with the scent of burning. Wisps of steam rose now and then from the charred ruin of the tiny cabin. From the corner of my eye, I saw Roger kick at a nearby log, then bend and pick up something from the ground beneath. Kenny had pounded on our door long before daylight, summoning us from warm beds. We had come in haste, even knowing that we were far too late to offer aid. Some of the tenants from the homesteads on Fraser's Ridge had come, too; Kenny's brother Evan stood with Fergus and Ronnie Sinclair in a small knot under the trees, talking together in low-voiced Gaelic.
"D'ye ken what did for them, Sassenach?" Jamie squatted beside me, face troubled. "The ones under the trees, that is."
He nodded at the corpse in front of me. "I ken what killed this puir woman."
The woman's long skirt stirred in the wind, lifting to show long, slender feet shod in leather clogs. A pair of long hands
to match lay still at her sides. She had been tall—though not so tall as Brianna, I thought, and looked automatically for my daughter's bright hair, bobbing among the branches on the far side of the clearing. I had turned the woman's apron up to cover her head and upper body. Her hands were red, rough-knuckled with work, and with callused palms, but from the firmness of her thighs and the slenderness of her body, I thought she was no more than thirty—likely much younger. No one could say whether she had been pretty.
I shook my head at his remark.
"I don't think she died of the burning," I said. "See, her legs and feet aren't touched. She must have fallen into the
hearth. Her hair caught fire, and it spread to the shoulders of her gown. She must have lain near enough to the wall or the chimney hood for the flames to touch; that caught, and then the whole bloody place went up."
Jamie nodded slowly, eyes on the dead woman.
"Aye, that makes sense. But what was it killed them, Sassenach? The others are singed a bit, though none are burned like this. But they must have been dead before the cabin caught alight, for none o' them ran out. Was it a deadly illness, perhaps?"
"I don't think so. Let me look at the others again."
I walked slowly down the row of still bodies with their cloth-covered faces, stooping over each one to peer again beneath the makeshift shrouds. There were any number of illnesses that could be quickly fatal in these days—with no
antibiotics to hand, and no way of administering fluids save by mouth or rectum, a simple case of diarrhea could kill
within twenty-four hours.
I saw such things often enough to recognize them easily; any doctor does, and I had been a doctor for more than twenty years. I saw things now and then in this century that I had never encountered in my own—particularly horrible parasitical diseases, brought with the slave trade from the tropics— but it was no parasite that had done for these poor souls, and no illness that I knew, to leave such traces on its victims. All the bodies—the burned woman, a much older woman, and three children—had been found inside the walls of the flaming house. Kenny had pulled them out, just before the roof fell in, then ridden for help. All dead before the fire started; all dead virtually at the same time, then, for surely the fire had begun to smolder soon after the woman fell dead on her hearth?
The victims had been laid out neatly under the branches of a giant red spruce, while the men began to dig a grave
nearby. Brianna stood by the smallest girl, her head bent. I came to kneel by the little body, and she knelt down across from me.
"What was it?" she asked quietly. "Poison?"
I glanced up at her in surprise.
"I think so. What gave you that idea?"
She nodded at the blue-tinged face below us. She had tried to close the eyes, but they bulged beneath the lids, giving the little girl a look of startled horror. The small, blunt features were twisted in a rictus of agony, and there were traces of vomit in the corners of the mouth.
"Girl Scout handbook," Brianna said. She glanced at the men, but no one was near enough to hear. Her mouth twitched, and she looked away from the body, holding out her open hand. "Never eat any strange mushroom," she quoted.
"There are many poisonous varieties, and distinguishing one from another is a job for an expert. Roger found these, growing in a ring by that log over there."
Moist, fleshy caps, a pale brown with white warty spots, the open gills and slender stems so pale as to look almost
phosphorescent in the spruce shadows. They had a pleasant, earthy look to them that belied their deadliness.
"Panther toadstools," I said, half to myself, and picked one gingerly from her palm. "Agaricus pantherinus—or that's
what they will be called, once somebody gets round to naming them properly. Pantherinus, because they kill so swiftly— like a striking cat."
I could see the gooseflesh ripple on Brianna's forearm, raising the soft, red-gold hairs. She tilted her hand and spilled the rest of the deadly fungus on the ground.
"Who in their right mind would eat toadstools?" she asked, wiping her hand on her skirt with a slight shudder.
"People who didn't know better. People who were hungry, perhaps," I answered softly. I picked up the little girl's hand,
and traced the delicate bones of the forearm. The small belly showed signs of bloat, whether from malnutrition or postmortem changes I couldn't tell—but the collarbones were sharp as scythe blades. All of the bodies were thin, though not to the point of emaciation.
I looked up, into the deep blue shadows of the mountainside above the cabin. It was early in the year for foraging, but there was food in abundance in the forest—for those who could recognize it.
Jamie came and knelt down beside me, a big hand lightly on my back. Cold as it was, a trickle of sweat streaked his
neck, and his thick auburn hair was dark at the temples.
"The grave is ready," he said, speaking low, as though he might alarm the child. "Is that what's killed the bairn?" He
nodded at the scattered fungi. "I think so—and the rest of them, too. Have you had a look around? Does anyone know who they were?"
He shook his head.
"Not English; the clothes are wrong. Germans would have gone to Salem, surely; they're clannish souls, and no inclined to settle on their own. These were maybe Dutchmen." He nodded toward the carved wooden clogs on the old woman's feet, cracked and stained with long use. "No books nor writing left, if there was any to begin with. Nothing that might tell their name. But—"
"They hadn't been here long." A low, cracked voice made me look up. Roger had come; he squatted next to Brianna, nodding toward the smoldering remains of the cabin. A small garden plot had been scratched into the earth nearby, but the few plants showing were no more than sprouts, the tender leaves limp and blackened with late frost. There were no sheds, no sign of livestock, no mule or pig.
"New emigrants," Roger said softly. "Not bond servants; this was a family. They weren't used to outdoor labor, either;
the women's hands have blisters and fresh scars." His own broad hand rubbed unconsciously over a homespun knee; his palms were as smoothly callused as Jamie's now, but he had once been a tender-skinned scholar; he remembered the pain of his seasoning.
"I wonder if they left people behind—in Europe," Brianna murmured. She smoothed blond hair off the little girl's forehead, and laid the kerchief back over her face. I saw her throat move as she swallowed. "They'll never know what happened to them."
"No." Jamie stood abruptly. "They do say that God protects fools—but I think even the Almighty will lose patience
now and then." He turned away, motioning to Lindsay and Sinclair.
"Look for the man," he said to Lindsay. Every head jerked up to look at him.
"Man?" Roger said, and then glanced sharply at the burned remnants of the cabin, realization dawning. "Aye—
who built the cabin for them?"
"The women could have done it," Bree said, lifting her chin.
"You could, aye," he said, mouth twitching slightly as he cast a sidelong look at his wife. Brianna resembled Jamie in
more than coloring; she stood six feet in her stockings and had her father's clean-limbed strength.
"Perhaps they could, but they didn't," Jamie said shortly. He nodded toward the shell of the cabin, where a few bits of
furniture still held their fragile shapes. As I watched, the evening wind came down, scouring the ruin, and the shadow
of a stool collapsed noiselessly into ash, flurries of soot and char moving ghostlike over the ground.
"What do you mean?" I stood and moved beside him, looking into the house. There was virtually nothing left inside, though the chimney stack still stood, and jagged bits of the walls remained, their logs fallen like jackstraws.
"There's no metal," he said, nodding at the blackened hearth, where the remnants of a cauldron lay, cracked in two
from the heat, its contents vaporized. "No pots, save that— and that's too heavy to carry away. Nay tools. Not a knife, not an ax—and ye see whoever built it had that."
I did; the logs were unpeeled, but the notches and ends bore the clear marks of an ax. Frowning, Roger picked up a long pine branch and began to poke through the piles of ash and rubble, looking to be sure. Kenny Lindsay and Sinclair didn't bother; Jamie had told them to look for a man, and they promptly went to do so, disappearing into the forest. Fergus went with them; Evan Lindsay, his brother Murdo, and the McGillivrays began the chore of collecting stones for a cairn.
"If there was a man—did he leave them?" Brianna murmured to me, glancing from her father to the row of bodies. "Did this woman maybe think they wouldn't survive on their own?"
And thus take her own life, and those of her children, to avoid a long-drawn-out death from cold and starvation?
"Leave them and take all their tools? God, I hope not."
I crossed myself at the thought, though even as I did so, I doubted it. "Wouldn't they have walked out, looking for help? Even with children . . . the snow's mostly gone." Only the highest mountain passes were still packed with snow, and while the trails and slopes were wet and muddy with runoff, they'd been passable for a month, at least.
"I've found the man," Roger said, interrupting my thoughts. He spoke very calmly, but paused to clear his throat. "Just— just here."
The daylight was beginning to fade, but I could see that he had gone pale. No wonder; the curled form he had unearthed beneath the charred timbers of a fallen wall was sufficiently gruesome as to give anyone pause. Charred to blackness, hands upraised in the boxer's pose so common to those dead by fire, it was difficult even to be sure that it was a man— though I thought it was, from what I could see.
Speculation about this new body was interrupted by a shout from the forest's edge.
"We've found them, milord!"
Everyone looked up from contemplation of this new corpse, to see Fergus waving from the edge of the wood.
"Them," indeed. Two men, this time. Sprawled on the ground within the shadow of the trees, found not together, but
not far apart, only a short distance from the house. And both, so far as I could tell, probably dead of mushroom poisoning.
"That's no Dutchman," Sinclair said, for probably the fourth time, shaking his head over one body.
"He might be," said Fergus dubiously. He scratched his nose with the tip of the hook he wore in replacement of his
left hand. "From the Indies, non?" One of the unknown bodies was in fact that of a black man. The other was white, and both wore nondescript clothes of worn homespun—shirts and breeches; no jackets, despite the cold weather. And both were barefoot.
"No." Jamie shook his head, rubbing one hand unconsciously on his own breeches, as though to rid himself of the
touch of the dead. "The Dutch keep slaves on Barbuda, aye—but these are better fed than the folk from the cabin." He lifted his chin toward the silent row of women and children. "They didna live here. Besides . . ." I saw his eyes fix on the dead men's feet. The feet were grubby about the ankles and heavily callused, but basically clean. The soles of the black man's feet showed yellowish pink, with no smears of mud or random leaves stuck between the toes. These men hadn't been walking through the muddy forest barefoot, that much was sure.
"So there were perhaps more men? And when these died, their companions took their shoes—and anything else of
value"—Fergus added practically, gesturing from the burned cabin to the stripped bodies—"and fled."
"Aye, maybe." Jamie pursed his lips, his gaze traveling slowly over the earth of the yard—but the ground was churned with footsteps, clumps of grass uprooted and the whole of the yard dusted with ash and bits of charred wood. It looked as though the place had been ravaged by rampaging hippopotami.
"I could wish that Young Ian was here. He's the best of the trackers; he could maybe tell what happened there, at least."
He nodded into the wood, where the men had been found.
"How many there were, maybe, and which way they've gone."
Jamie himself was no mean tracker. But the light was going fast now; even in the clearing where the burned cabin
stood, the dark was rising, pooling under the trees, creeping like oil across the shattered earth.
His eyes went to the horizon, where streamers of cloud were beginning to blaze with gold and pink as the sun set behind them, and he shook his head.
"Bury them. Then we'll go."
One more grim discovery remained. Alone among the dead, the burned man had not died of fire or poison. When
they lifted the charred corpse from the ashes to bear him to his grave, something fell free of the body, landing with a
small, heavy thunk on the ground. Brianna picked it up, and rubbed at it with the corner of her ap...
Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon's bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time.
Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon's New York Times bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over — and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.
The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.
With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence — with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie's death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.
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Let's summarise what we have so far, shall we:
Taylor Swift is fascinated by the Kennedys. She's admitted it herself.
She's now dating 18 year old Conor Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy Jr, who is going back to boarding school in a couple of weeks.
She has spent (most of) the summer at the Kennedy Compound.
She just bought a home on the Kennedy Compound, across from Conor's grandma Ethel's.
And this past weekend, she crashed a Kennedy family wedding.
Conor's first cousin Kyle, daughter of Michael Kennedy, was married on Saturday. Conor was invited but didn't bother to RSVP. Kyle's mother has CONFIRMED that an hour before the wedding, she received a text about him wanting to bring Taylor:
"They texted me an hour before the wedding and asked if they could come," Vicki Kennedy said. "I responded with a very clear, 'Please do not come.' They came anyway. ... I personally went up to Ms. Swift, whose entrance distracted the entire event, politely introduced myself to her, and asked her as nicely as I could to leave. It was like talking to a ghost. She seemed to look right past me."
Needless to say, Swift's publicist has denied it, insisting that Taylor was invited and that the bride wanted her to be there.
Here's what's most interesting to me about it:
That boy is 18. And he is RUDE.
I know you want to sh-t on Taylor because she's all hand hearts and dancing with your eyes closed but in this situation, blame the family member. The family member is Conor Kennedy. Who was raised to know better than to not RSVP (for shame!) and then text an hour before a party to announce a drop-in...
Good God, Cape Cod is not Los Angeles. This is not how we do. And we certainly don't do with bringing in a stranger, no matter how famous she is.
That kid did it anyway. That Kennedy kid. An 18 year old with legacy swagger calling the shots...and there's Taylor Swift blankly following his lead, grateful to be romanced by a boy with his last name, trailing him around like a lovesick fool. Until he figures out he can keep Taylor Swift and also have more...
These are certain things you inherit in these parts, non?
But this is the Kennedy way. This is what you give yourself over to. The flawed men are heroes and they are indulged and never blamed. Conor Kennedy crashed the wedding with his girl. But the Kennedy mother of the bride, in keeping with family tradition, she knew enough not to blame the handsome one who may be the future of the Kennedy Name.
Rich family gossip is the best.
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Tone of speech is the way you sound- angry, pleased, etc.
Hello im a student that attends magruder highschool and i need help on finding out what the tone of a speech is i used to know it and now i cannot find my notes on the tone of a speech so if you could let me know as soon as possible that would be very helpful thank you
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Tone of speech is the way you sound- angry, pleased, etc.
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whenever my friend and i watch a period drama the same discussion will always ensue. she'll lament that we were born in the wrong era and talk about how happy we'd be if we could live in those times. i'll try to convince her that we'd be bored out of our minds with just sewing and wandering around in gardens to keep us occupied. she'd rebut with the opinion that if sewing and garden wandering was all we ever knew we'd be content. i'd remind her that you'd have to be (a) rich or (b) married rich to actually enjoy worry free sewing and garden wandering. she'd say that being rich is a positive, not a negative. i'd remind her that we'd have to play lots of card games and that she hated them. she'd remind me i loved card games. and so it went on.
i secretly agreed with her though, living on a country estate in those days must have been pretty damn sweet. IF you were rich and got to picnic all day and other people made your meals for you.
on that note, did anyone watch the latest glee with gwyneth? i thought it very cringey. what happened glee!


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Colonial Surfer - The ReSearch is a project about the contemporary globalized world and power structures within the surf industry and its realm. Surfing is not just a sport but also culture, producer and distributor. In current discussions you hear about the post-colonial but the situation today is better described as neo-colonial. Surfers do travel a lot and sometimes to places unknown to other tourists. The way surfers behave and represent themselves in the adventures search of perfect waves has a lot in common with ancient colonizers and their roles. To surf maintain and conserve already existing structures. History.
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The 57th edition of the Campaccio cross-country race, an IAAF Cross Country Permit, will see Kenya's Japhet Korir and Ethiopia's Imane Merga battle for supremacy again on Monday (6).
The pair were the gold and silver medallists respectively at the 2013 IAAF Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz last March and met again at the Atapuerca IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting in Spain on 17 November, when Merga won and Korir finished sixth.
Merga, the 2011 world cross-country champion, is in superb form this winter and will be looking to win his second Italian race in one week after clinching his third Boclassic victory in a dramatic race against the talented Kenyan runner Wilson Kiprop on New Year's Eve.
By contrast, Korir is on something of a comeback trail after having his summer ruined by a lung infection sustained shortly after he became the youngest ever senior men's world cross-country champion at the age of 19.
He will compete in San Giorgio su Legnano, the venue for the fifth of this winter's 12 IAAF Cross Country Permit meetings, just two days after winning in Antrim, Great Britain, which is another of this winter's Permit events.
The impressive men's field in Campaccio has additional lustre thanks to the presence of Uganda's Moses Kipsiro, the 2009 World Cross Country Championships silver medallist who was also fourth at World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz in 2013.
Another star on the starting line will be Kenya's prodigious Conseslus Kipruto, the world junior champion and world silver medallist in the 3000m steeplechase.
The line-up is completed by Bahrain's Albert Rop, who clocked the second fastest 5000m time in the world in 2013 and finished second at the Brussels cross country meeting on 22 December.
After the late withdrawal of Andrea Lalli and Daniele Meucci, local fans will be closely watching Italy's in-form Michele Fontana, who finished a good eighth in the under-23 race at the European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade last month.
Can Ayalew conquer the Kenyans again?
The women's race will be highlighted by a trio of African superstars: Kenya's world steeplechase champion Milcah Chemos, her compatriot Linet Masai, who won the 2009 world title over 10,000m and who is a three-time World Cross Country Championships silver medallist, and the top Ethiopian steeplechaser Hiwot Ayalew.
Like Merga, Masai showed her recent good form on the roads on New Year's Eve, winning the San Silvestro Vallecana in Madrid on Tuesday.
The Campaccio women's race will be a re-match of the Atapuerca meeting seven weeks ago, when Ayalew beat Masai by nine seconds.
The Ethiopian runner won the world cross-country silver medal in Bydgoszcz and is also a fine runner on the track having finished fifth at the London 2012 Olympic Games and fourth at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow in the 3000m steeplechase.
Another runner who can challenge for a place on the women's podium is Bahrain's Mimi Belete, the 2010 Asian 5000m champion who won in Antrim on Saturday.
Like with Korir, the big question is: how much did running hard on the heavy course in Northern Ireland take out of her? The Italian hopes are carried mainly by Veronica Inglese, who finished eighth at the 2013 European Cross Country Championships and is returning to form after a long series of injuries.
Also on the starting line will be Elena Romagnolo. Italy's 2012 Olympic Games 5000m finalist is a familiar face at the Camppaccio race and has been the runner up twice in San Giorgio su Legnano, in 2009 and 2010.
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Only 17 percent of U.S. senators, representatives and governors are women, and women represent less than 3 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs. Something is holding women back - and leadership programs aim to change that.
Dania Sandfia was working at a nonprofit when she met a perfect mentor: a strategy consultant who worked at Boston Consulting Group, the exact kind of place she hopes to work after college. The only problem? The consultant came across as direct and intimidating, hardly the nurturing type she hoped for. "He commanded a lot of authority. I didn't know if this was a person who was open to helping anyone," she said. Sandfia, a junior at Barnard College majoring in psychology, is often seen around campus tapping at her lavender laptop decorated with stickers of the yellow Minions from the animated film "Despicable Me." But Sandfia is not a shrinking violet. The last day the consultant was visiting her office, she asked him about his job, and he gave her his card. And since then, he's given her resume help and offered to coach her through interviews. Now Sandfia has high hopes for a consulting internship this summer. Being assertive and taking risks are skills that young women need to succeed, but research shows they are not always well prepared for a situation like Sandfia's. Studies indicate that girls are socialized differently than their male counterparts: for girls there is an emphasis on likability and "playing nice." While boys' behavior that is assertive or calls attention to themselves is often rewarded. And for girls, the same behavior can be considered threatening or unattractive. In the United States, even though women make up 50 percent of college graduates in America, they still struggle to attain leadership positions: Only about 14 percent of executive officer positions are held by women, and women make up a meager 17 percent of elected officials. Leadership programs for girls and young women aim to change that. Boss or bossypants Girls may attend the same schools as boys, but they're not always receiving the same messages. In a 2012 Girl Scouts study conducted by Roper Research that surveyed 1,000 girls between 18 and 17, nearly 40 percent of girls said they have been laughed at or put down for "being bossy" when they try to lead. This rings a bell for women who have similar issues in the workplace, where they have to strike a balance between being liked and being a leader. "The double-bind is real, it's not imaginary" says Tomika Rodriguez, leadership development training manager at Barnard College's Athena Center for Leadership Studies. "There's not a biological reason girls struggle with that balance. There is a socialization reason: We're raised differently, we're taught to play nice." Rodriguez echoes the double-bind that Northwestern professor Alice Eagly has discovered in her research on gender stereotypes and leadership, which indicates that when women behave in ways that are competitive and ambitious, co-workers see their behavior as inappropriate or presumptuous. Leadership school What's a teen girl to do when faced with a difficult conflict-resolution situation - like, say, when one of her friends blows off plans to see One Direction in concert? Fifteen-year old Ally Duren-Lubanski, from Northern New Jersey, found herself in this situation last fall, when a friend promised her an extra VIP ticket to see the popular British boy band, but ended up taking someone else. "Instead of burying my feelings or acting like 'I don't care,' I talked to her about it. It doesn't work as well over the phone, so I did it face-to-face at a football game," she says. Ally says this kind of "healthy conflict" didn't come naturally to her - she's an active 10th grader involved in the Relay for Life cancer fundraising event, and other clubs, but she's had to "learn how to be assertive without being aggressive, but not being passive either." She has attended summer camps and weekend workshops with Girls Leadership Institute, a program for girls operating in California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. Tools that she's learned at GLI have helped her with everything from better eye contact with teachers to talking to her peers. Navigating a tense moment between girlfriends may not sound like training future CEOs, but relationships are the perfect opportunity for young women to practice conflict resolution, because women tend to excel at building relationships, and value them highly, says GLI executive director and co-founder Simone Marean. "There is more pressure on girls to be liked and connect with others, and that can be a strength - but it can also hold them back. When we ask girls 'Why didn't you say what you were thinking,' it always goes back to 'If I said what I thought, I was afraid she wouldn't be my friend,'" says Marean. Workshops at GLI involve role-playing games that are designed to be fun and get girls out of their comfort zone. Marean says it's important to let girls be "silly" and let themselves get embarrassed, to take the emphasis off being "attractive and popular." "When girls are young, they are not learning the importance of being assertive," she says. "So many of us struggle with the assertive piece, because we're practicing for the first time when we are 26, and it has never been valued." One thing that remains hard for Ally is self-promotion. She would like to be in a leadership role in a club her senior year, but self-promotion "feels like bragging, it feels funny." She notices that it seems more acceptable for boys, who have no problem doing a victory dance after a touchdown, for instance. "I worry that people, especially other girls, might think I'm self-centered," she said. Entrepreneurs in training For the last 20 years, women have been starting businesses at higher rates than men, especially in micro-busnesses (less than five employees), and women will create over half of the 9.72 million new small business jobs expected to be created by 2018, according to Forbes. Women's colleges are tapping into that, and last July the Athena Center at Barnard College, which offers leaderships workshops and seminars, partnered with the Girl Scout Leadership Institute in New York to create a 10-day summer entrepreneurship program. The summer program is open to high school juniors and seniors, and is designed to help them develop their own socially responsible start-up and pitch it to notable start-up leaders and investors at Barnard's campus in New York City. Last year's pitches included a self-filtering water bottle company that would donate to communities without clean water, and an app that recorded stop-and-frisk activity in New York City and mapped it by location and neighborhood. The Roper Study found that four out of 10 girls say they haven't interacted with successful women during the last school year, which may be why only 21 percent of girls surveyed thought they had the skills to be leaders. That's why it's so important to connect young women with role models, says Melissa D'Andrea, Program Manager, Girl Scouts of Greater New York. "When girls are exposed to a lot of career opportunities, and are able to shadow people who work these kinds of jobs, whole new career possibilities are opened to them." Indeed, only 21 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs in the United States are women, so tapping women's creativity and leadership is key, not only for equality, but for improving innovation. Last year, for the organization's 100th anniversary, Girl Scouts launched a fundraising campaign called To Get Her There to promote leadership and encourage girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. Women account for less than 20 percent of bachelor degrees in engineering, computer science and physics, yet in the next decade, the U.S. will need 3 million more scientists and engineers. "Women have a different style of leadership that's more collaborative," says D'Andrea. "Women and girls have a unique voice that will increase the marketplace of ideas." MaryAnn Lubanski, who enrolled her daughters in Girls Leadership Institute, had similar hopes for her two girls, Ally, 15, and Julia, 9, that their voices would be heard: "I just want them to be able to advocate for themselves," says Lubanski. "You see so many people who are talented or intelligent, but they don't get further if they don't ask and speak up. Girls are less likely to do that." 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When Double Dragon Neon came out last week for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, it brought back an 80's vibe long missing from most games these days, including bad fashionable choices and even worse hairstyles. But the classic beat-em-up gameplay we've come to know and love is intact, and what's more, it's got a terrific soundtrack, featuring familiar Dragon themes along with some hilariously good 80's riffs.
You can thank Jake Kaufman for that. He's produced a number of soundtracks over the years, including Bloodrayne Betrayal, and with Dragon, he was really able to stretch his wings and fly with his musical choices. If you haven't listened yet, really, you should.
We managed to catch up with Jake for an interview, where he discusses working with the Dragon themes, as well as keytars, bad karaoke nights and Rick Astley. Yep, it's that kind of interview…
So have you been doing game music long? How long have you been doing it? And did any of that work involve previous collaborations with Double Dragon's developer, WayForward?
I've been working on game audio professionally (in various stages of "making a living with music" and "having to work day jobs like some kind of grown-up or something") since I was 18, and I'm 31 now. So, basically, my entire adult life. I made music and sound effects for WayForward's original GBC version of Shantae in 2001, so I've been working with them almost since the beginning of my career! It's pretty crazy that they still liked me enough, ten years later, to offer me a full-time salaried job. Usually I wear out my welcome a lot sooner than that.
What kind of approach did you want to take with Neon? Was it a "I gotta stay true to the game but be totally 80's" sort of vibe?
Honestly, I mostly just let go and did what the muse told me to do (my muse carries nunchaku and says "dude" a lot). Double Dragon, along with other beat-em-ups from Konami and Capcom and SNK, have been a part of my musical identity since I was a kid, so it wasn't much of a stretch. I respectfully disagree with all the folks who think the original Double Dragon was a somber, gritty game — it might have seemed so when you were 8, but really it was a gratuitous mashup of gang fiction and over-the-top kung fu flicks, with the ridiculousness amped up; whip-wielding afroed women, grotesque strongmen, deadly conveyor belts. Of course, it's just my opinion, but I believe that over-seriousness would be missing the point. The music is meant to bring you back, not just to Double Dragon but also to radio hits, MTV, and that Bon Jovi or Prince tape in your Walkman. I truly adore the series, and working on Neon was unbelievably awesome.
Which 80's artist inspired you the most when you were putting the soundtrack together? Rick Astley, perhaps?
Probably equal parts Yes, Van Halen, and Michael Jackson. The Rick Astley tune was just a one-off gag, but I had to include it in the Mixtape music; there's NO way I'm going to pass up the opportunity to write a brand-new original Rickroll …and get paid for it. When would that chance come up again?
Is it true that WayForward staffers did the singing for the soundtrack? Did that resemble more of an awesome rock party, or a bad karaoke night?
Funny you should mention Karaoke — we went out to a Karaoke place in LA to celebrate our completion of BloodRayne: Betrayal, and that's where I discovered that (director) Sean actually has a great singing voice. My friends know that I do an excellent "Skeletor" impression, but Sean's absolutely puts mine to shame. He thus became not only my Dave Gahan on the "Desperation" track, but also the voice of Skullmageddon himself! Of course, the extremely talented Jessie Seely returned to sing on "Neon Jungle" as well as several mixtape tracks, and our new level designer, Jeff Luke, blew me away by belting the hell out of some Rock Band tracks. The rest is history.
As far as the actual vocal sessions, though, those were serious business. We're lucky to have a well-equipped recording studio, with an isolation booth and great equipment, down the street from the WayForward offices. The engineer, Robbie Altschuler, makes the complex recording process look effortless, even though we had to record and splice together dozens of takes and overdubs, and edit everything together. There's a stupid amount of technical work and editing that go into making even professional singers sound smooth and polished!
We heard some classic Double Dragon tunes redone for Neon. How much fun was it rerecording these songs your way?
SO much fun. At the risk (okay, guarantee) of sounding stuck-up and pretentious, "my way" was to arrange them how I truly believe the original composer would have intended for them to sound, had he no technical limitations. That's crazy presumptuous of me, trying to read some other dude's mind, or even assuming that he felt "limited" to begin with in his medium of pulse waves and looped noise… but it's the closest thing to an explanation of my intent as I can give. In general, out of respect and appreciation, I try to amplify and extend what's already there, instead of making it all about myself. I can say with some authority that the original DD music was inspirational to a generation of composers, because I'm one of them, and so are many of my friends!
Do you think video game music in general has gotten better over the years? We're certainly seeing more offered soundtracks and live tours.
I think it hasn't gotten better or worse, but it has gotten far broader in scope and in reach. There have always been companies who get behind technical advancement and envelope-pushing in audio, from Konami in the 80s (on just about every platform they had insanely good music and sound design) to Rare and Nintendo in the 90s (Battletoads? Banjo-Kazooie? Ocarina of Time?) to Rockstar and EA in the 00s (commercial track licensing was a big advancement for the industry, and I'm sorry for any composer who feels threatened by that, but I sure don't) all the way to Supergiant in the 10s (Bastion!!)
As we reach the point in console and PC hardware where streaming full-quality audio tracks is not only commonplace, but barely taxes the system at all, there are few if any limitations in what can be done with composition; creativity is no less important than it ever was, but it's less about cramming stuff into limited space, and more about complementing the ever-more-advanced visuals. I've heard people bitching about all the crappy, forgettable underscore in modern games, but let me remind you that there were a crazy amount of awful, shrill, out-of-tune NES and Game Boy soundtracks too. 90% of everything is shit, then as now. The people I most respect — both in classic game music and modern stuff — care deeply about being in the remaining 10%.
Speaking of live tours, what do you think about a live Double Dragon show? Like something along the lines of the Ninja Turtles Coming Out of Our Shelves tour. (Or not.)
I think about it every day. I'm trying not to, because I am already way too busy. I will incorporate some of the tracks into my live chiptune sets, though, so you can probably expect to be dancing to an 8-bit Neon Jungle if you ever make it out to one (such as, say, Magfest in January 2013 — magfest.org).
Was there any stuff that didn't make it into Neon's soundtrack? Did you simply go, "Nah that's too 80's."
Plenty. Though it wasn't "nah, that's too 80s", it was more like "nah, I have only 2 days left, and four-part backing harmony for the end credits is a higher priority." Once I get into the "zone" and start concentrating, I tend to remain there until I'm physically unable to continue due to lack of food and/or sleep. As you can imagine, this is profoundly damaging to my physical health. I may be fortunate to have the ability to squirt out infinite music on command, but it's unbelievably hard to stop, and once the all-nighters start stacking up, I've gotta chiggity-check myself before I wreck myself.
That was definitely the case here — although I'm extremely happy with how Double Dragon Neon's soundtrack turned out, I'm frustrated that SCIENCE has yet to cure me of my entrapment within an organic meatbag, which has to be fed, watered, and placed in stasis for 4+ hours a night. Come on, fellas, let's hurry it up, these fucking power ballads aren't going to write themselves.
Now that Neon is available for download, what's next for you? Some Battletoads remixes perhaps? Heh.
As far as WayForward stuff, I just finished the soundtrack to Adventure Time for the 3DS and DS. No word on a soundtrack album yet, but I'm pushing for it. Right now I'm working on a title that would make you wet your pants with glee, and after that, there's an ENORMOUS project that might cause other substances to be expressed, but I can't talk about anything unannounced. Just trust me, WF is signing the amazing projects as fast as I can score them.
Since I also do freelance work outside of WayForward, I can also mention that I'm working with Experimental Gamer on their amazing Spaghetti Western themed RPG, Boot Hill Heroes. The music is 2/3 done now, and I can best describe it as "Imagine if Nobuo Uematsu collaborated with Ennio Morricone" — it's wild-west music, written under the limitations of the Super Nintendo's sound chip. It's gonna be a blast, and the soundtrack album will be available upon the game's release!
Is there any classic game soundtrack you'd like to rerecord? Even just for the fun of it?
Toejam and Earl. I did an arrangement of the main theme, years ago, but I want to do the entire album in the Parliament / Funkadelic / fresh 90s hip hop style. Hell, I want WayForward to do a reboot of the game itself. Oh my god, that would rule.
We heard some Keytar in Neon. Tell us you actually own one. And bring it to our next birthday party.
I've tried playing with them, but I shred with both hands, so I find it's more hardcore to just tape my regular keyboard to a stand and rock it sideways. Sometimes I rock it right off the stand, at which point one of two equally excellent things happens: Either a helpful audience member hands it back up to me, or the sucker goes crowd surfing. Win-win.
Finally, someone told us this piece of awesome music can actually be bought and blared in mobile devices everywhere. Tell us more.
With the support of the awesome guys and gals at Majesco, I've posted the entire soundtrack up at virt.bandcamp.com — it's free, though you can optionally donate to my "buy more gear, gearhead" fund, so that I can create ever-fresher jams for you. But don't feel like you have to pay; there is no minimum, and the album is yours to enjoy either way. A different and also-totally-legit way to show support is simply to mention my stuff to your friends, or drop me an email, or come up and introduce yourself at Magfest. I'll be the fat neckbearded Jew wearing cat ears and hugging everyone.
Don't forget to check out Double Dragon Neon now on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. It's 80's-riffic!


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Clearly not content to let CGI robots have all the fun, director Michael Bay wanted to up the practical stunt ante in "Transformers: Dark of the Moon." And all it took was an episode of "60 Minutes" (you'll see).
In this behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming summer blockbuster, we learn how Bay discovered the concept of "wing suits," who he had to call to get some (rhymes with "Teven Teilberg"), what the people in the wing suits actually do, and how much of what we eventually see through our 3D glasses will be real (you'll be surprised).
Oh, and the video ends with the most awkward man-hug since, well, this. And that's just awesome.
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"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" opens everywhere June 29th.