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SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Naming three of the five former Soviet Republics that borders China, or identifying the mountain range that cuts across two continents is not normally in the job description of the president of York Hospital.
But Jud Knox will join a doctor in his community to form one of the 16 teams competing in the sixth annual Community Geo Quiz at the Great Works School in South Berwick Friday night.
Knox and Dr. Steve Jendzejec, who by the way has delivered hundreds of babies in this area, including some of his young competitors, will compete at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, at an event that will raise money for a school in Haiti.
The quiz, sponsored by the South Berwick Eliot Rotary Club, will benefit the Eben Ezer School in Milot, which has grown from 30 to 300 children and from two to 12 classrooms since 2007, when Southern Maine got involved. Since then, families, students, churches and Rotary clubs in southern Maine have sponsored children, made trips to Milot, contributed books and sent down generators.
The event, called "Where in the World is Milot," is free and open to the public. It will start with raffles and refreshments, followed by a five-minute presentation on the work families in South Berwick and Eliot have done to build Eben Ezer School. Audience members are also invited to participate if they know the answers.
The Haitian American founder of the Eben Ezer School, Lucia Anglade of Long Island, N.Y., will be at the quiz to talk about the school and let participants know what the community has meant to the children there.
Knox hinted he might get a little tutoring before the big night, but said he has a geography base from his regular perusal of National Geographic Magazine.
The quiz features teams of four people — two students and two adults — answering questions in a TV quiz show format. The adults include teachers, parents and community members and students are from Marshwood Middle School, Great Works School, Eliot Elementary and Marshwood High School. Each team is sponsored for $150 by a business or individual solicited by the Rotary.
Among the teams will be Berwick Academy's team, including teacher Chris Onken, senior James Davis and two middle school students.
About four dozen families in southern Maine and New Hampshire sponsor children at the Eben Ezer School. The school has gained electricity, fresh water, new classrooms, books, clothing and toys, all with help from the Rotary clubs of South Berwick/Eliot, Kittery and York; the Great Works School; Berwick Academy; Marshwood Middle School and Kittery's Mitchell School as well as the local Catholic Parish.
Anglade gives credit to southern Maine for keeping Haiti's Eben Ezer School going.
"Without South Berwick and southern Maine I'm not sure we could have kept educating all these children in Milot," said Anglade. "I am especially grateful to the children in Maine who have helped us through the years. And the students in Haiti are so happy this community in South Berwick and Eliot became part of the Life and Hope community."
Anglade, who was born and raised in Milot, built the school on her family's land on the site of her childhood home.
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A new bank account at Kennebunk Savings Bank will accept donations to Life and Hope targeted to this project. Eventually, Life and Hope plans to build a training center and guest house that will provide jobs and an income for the school community, reducing its dependence on donations.
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Issa grew up in Lee, and currently resides in Berwick, Maine. She says that living in scenic, rural areas of New Hampshire and Maine has served as inspiration for the themes of nature running through her paintings. She grew up in a family of artists and is now raising a few of her own young, creative-minded individuals.
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst"...hey, wait. The opening line from the Charles Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities doesn't fit for Portland, does it?
In fact, we have it good. First-round draft pick? Check. Multiple mentions in every national publication about how friggin' awesome it is to live here? Check. A summer with more music and outdoor happenings than any other city of our size? Check. A racially diverse and politically mixed populace? Well....
OK, so everything isn't always rosy in the Rose City. We should know. In fact, some critics say we spend much of the rest of the year writing about the worst of Portland. Not this week. It's all bouquets and air kisses. Cheats, crooks and other assorted creeps will just have to wait. This week is our BEST OF PORTLAND, where we celebrate everything that makes this burg the place we love to call home.
Now, what makes a best? WW comes at it two different ways. In the middle of this issue you'll find the Readers' Poll—142 of your favorite places to eat, shop, drink, etc. You gals and guys voted—a lot.
Wrapped around the Readers' Poll are 140-plus people, places and assorted Portland-centric things WW's staff has designated as our own "best." Editors, staffers and assorted other riff-raff shared their consuming passion for their own favorite, albeit sometimes very strange, idea of what they think a "best" should be. On those pages (and online at wweek.com), we reveal mysteries wrapped in enigmas wrapped in bacon—everything from cruising coffin-carriers to Buddhist strippers to, well, why don't you just peel open these pages to find out?
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My, how far we've come.
In 2001, our "Best Of Portland" cover photo was also Blazer-related. It was a portrait of Katherine Topaz—WW's former art director—who caused a minor frenzy after being physically removed from a Blazer playoff game when she refused to put down her homemade "Trade Whitsitt" sign. In that one stroke, Topaz captured the frustration of an entire city fed up with Blazer General Manager Bob Whitsitt and the paddy wagon that was then this city's professional basketball team.
We take a fair amount of credit—or blame—for the piling on that became sport during much of the last decade. This newspaper actually coined the term "Jail Blazers" in a story we ran in 1996. But the headlines stemmed from the players themselves. There was Isaiah Rider, who came to Portland after assaulting friends and bar managers, and made Russell Crowe seem like a gentle guy; Qyntel Woods, who staged dogfights in his Portland home long before Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was accused of the same offense, and Ruben Patterson, a serial domestic abuser who was charged with, and entered a modified guilty plea to, the attempted rape of his nanny. Then, of course, there was Rasheed Wallace, a temper-tantrum-throwing boy in the body of a 6-foot-11 forward, who captured the essence of the old Blazers when he said that the only thing he cared about was that somebody "CTC" (cut the check). Yes, the Blazers made Tonya Harding look like a role model.
Flash forward to this past season: Martell Webster, Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge—these were guys worth rooting for. Sure, they still lost a lot of games, but they were our losers. Winning could wait.
Then came Greg Oden.
The expectations that have been placed on this 19-year-old rookie are, frankly, insane. Can he save the franchise? Can he bring us the trophy? Can he restore the glory of the Rip City era? Can he solve the crisis in the Middle East?
We have no idea. We do know that his talent is exceeded only by his self-effacing personality and his wry sense of humor. Oden was kind enough to be our cover boy this year and show up for a hectic photo shoot at Pioneer Courthouse Square. He even donned a hastily stenciled "Best of Portland" T-shirt and BOP ball. In the midst of the chaos, WW editor Mark Zusman explained to the youngster what all the fuss was about: "We think you're the best of Portland," he said. Without skipping a beat, Oden replied, "Not yet."


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Pasir Ris Park is another place where many Singaporeans like to head to for a time of good relaxation or exercise. According to A guide to the mangroves of Singapore by Peter K L Ng and N Sivasothi, "Pasir Ris is Malay for 'beach bolt-rope', implying a narrow beach. The park is open 24 hrs, and there is no entrance fee. Bicycle rental is available at the park. The park, administered by the National Parks Board, is mostly for recreation with lawns and planted ornamental trees, a tower, various landscaped features, besides the mangrove area which has boardwalks and educational sign boards to describe the biology of mangrove organisms. "
I was there yesterday for thanksgiving with my church cell group members. When we was finding a good spot to settle down, someone exclaimed that there is a monitor lizard inside a drain. And I went to take a look. Indeed I saw this lower half of the monitor lizard.
And after a while, it crawled inwards. It's intriuging to imagine monitor lizards in our drains.
Apparently, there are also a number of beautiful caterpillars feasting on leaves.
Closeup on the caterpillars.
What is interesting about Pasir Ris Park is that they incoporated strips of mangroves within the park by the riversides. This is encouraging to see development coexisting with nature.
According to A guide to the mangroves of Singapore by Peter K L Ng and N Sivasothi, "A 5-hectare patch of mature mangrove forest was preserved during reclamation and development by maintaining tidal inundation—rivulet was dug to connect the patch with Sungei Tampines. An additional one hectare of levelled vacant ground was also subjected to the inundation in 1989."
Walking down to the shore, there are also a good number of mangrove plants facing the sea. Mind you, these mangrove plants are not supposed to be there in the past as Pasir Ris is a reclaimed beach. Instead, the seedlings from the upstream rivers of mangroves by the bank were carried to the shore where they started to grow. Perhaps this part of the shore is more sheltered since it is beside the river mouth, thus mangrove plants can thrive.
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MADRID (AP) Spain will open the Davis Cup against Canada without injured star Rafael Nadal or regular member David Ferrer.
No. 11-ranked Nicolas Almagro will lead Spain in the first-round match in Vancouver on Feb. 1-3.
Spain captain Alex Corretja has also called on doubles team Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez, while 51st-ranked Albert Ramos will make his debut for the national team.
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While all the current screaming in Washington is about the fiscal cliff, an aspect of USAID's aid efforts has already slipped off its own precipice, and is hanging by the roots of a dried-out shrub. The farm bill is stalled – some analysts don't expect any movement until April 2013. Given all of the fiscal challenges the country faces, this might sound reasonable – but within the aid and development world, the deferral of the farm bill is setting up a trainwreck. The Office of Food for Peace's (FFP) Title II programs are authorized by the farm bill. In the absence of a new bill, a number of FFP's authorities expired at the end of the fiscal year (September 30th). The rest of Title II's new awards, which are authorized by the farm bill, will expire at the end of the calendar year.
What is Title II? According to the Foreign Agricultural Service of the USDA:
Title II provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities by the U.S. government to meet humanitarian food needs in foreign countries. Commodities may be provided to meet emergency needs under government-to-government agreements, through public and private agencies, including intergovernmental organizations such as the World Food Program, and other multilateral organizations. Non-emergency assistance may be provided through private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, and intergovernmental organizations. Commodities requested may be furnished from the Commodity Credit Corporation's (CCC's) inventory acquired under price support programs or purchased from private stocks. The CCC also finances the costs of ocean transportation to ports of entry, or to points of entry other than ports in the case of landlocked countries, or when the use of a point of entry other than port would result in substantial savings in costs or time. The CCC may also pay transportation costs from designated ports of entry or points of entry abroad to storage and distribution sites, and associated storage and distribution costs for commodities, including pre-positioned commodities, made available to meet urgent or extraordinary relief requirements.
Who cares? Title II funds authorize a huge chunk of the FFP program each year. There are some limited community development funds, and similarly limited emergency food security funds. In fiscal year 2009, this was a $2.6 billion program. Billion, with a B. For FY 2012, the appropriated amount was $1.466 billion, down significantly but still a huge share of the global food aid budget. Note that this is the aid that the United States moves through various NGOs and intergovernmental organizations like WFP, so if Title II grinds to a halt, these organizations and their work will be severely compromised.
We might get away with this without a total disaster. For example, FEWS-NET shows a lot of stress in the horn of Africa right now, but projects improving situations over the next few months. But if Title II grinds to a halt, and any major food crisis hits (which could include food price spikes), FFP will little capacity to do anything about it.
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Prof. Dr. Stephen Lovell
Stephen Lovell studied at King's College, Cambridge and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at St John's College, Oxford, before taking up a lectureship at King's College London in 2002.
He has worked on a wide range of topics in Russian social and cultural history: reading and print culture; urbanization, exurbanization and everyday life; old age and generations; and radio and modern communications.
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Russian history, 19th-20th centuries
History of communications
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Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (September 2012–August 2013)
Project "A History of Soviet Radio, 1919–1970"
Selected Publications
The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras (Macmillan, 2000). viii + 215 pp.
Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710-2000 (Cornell University Press, 2003). xvii + 260 pp.
Destination in Doubt: Russia since 1989 (Zed Books, 2006). vi + 186 pp.
The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2009). xiii + 151 pp.
The Shadow of War: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1941 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). xviii + 370 pp.
Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio 1919–1970 (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Edited Books
(co-edited with Alena Ledeneva and Andrei Rogachevskii) Bribery and Blat in Russia: Negotiating Reciprocity from the Middle Ages to the 1990s (Macmillan, 2000). xi + 295 pp.
(co-edited with Catriona Kelly) Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts (Cambridge University Press, 2000). xiv + 315 pp.
(co-edited with Birgit Menzel) Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective (Verlag Otto Sagner, 2005). 202 pp.
Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe (Palgrave, 2007). xi + 230 pp.
Recent articles related to current project
'How Russia Learned to Listen: Radio and the Making of Soviet Culture', Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 12/3, 2011, pp. 591-615.
'Broadcasting Bolshevik: The Radio Voice of Soviet Culture, 1920s-1950s', forthcoming in Journal of Contemporary History, 48/1 (2013).
'Glasnost' in Practice: Public Speaking in the Era of Alexander II', forthcoming in Past and Present, February 2013.


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by Rabeed Imam
Published: 24th January, 2009
Tell us a bit about how it all began for you
Well I never really wanted to become a cricketer. It was only when I started touring and getting success that I thought this wasn't too bad! I am a late starter and didn't hold a proper cricket ball until I was about 14-15. I come from a sporting family. My father had represented Khulna Division in football and one of my cousins is also a Bangladesh international and it was only natural for me to kick the ball around and I had participated in many tournaments for boys under the height of 4 feet 10 inches. I used to play taped-tennis ball cricket in Magura and sometimes I would go into the villages with local kids to play matches on hire. It was during one of those games that I was spotted by Saddam Hossain, an umpire from our district and he asked me to come to the trial of his club team Islampur Para which played in the Magura League. I went to their nets and bowled pace for a while and then switched to spin and found that it was more effective. I was picked for the club straightaway.
The next break came when I got selected for a talent scouting camp in Narail where coaches from the BKSP (Bangladesh Institute of Sports) had come. The camp was for one month and I received formal cricket coaching for the first time there. There were 20-odd boys of my age from all over the Division and it was a great experience. I met Mash (Mashrafe bin Mortaza) for the first time there. He used to come to our training…
Did you get a chance to speak to him?
I did. He was on the verge of breaking into the national side and everyone spoke of how quick he was and how he could hit a ball from one end of the ground to the other. We watched in awe the power of his throws. He was going to be a big star and you could see that. I also remember that he would bat in the nets and balls would disappear but he just couldn't hit me and would get really pissed. There was also one moment that still makes me laugh. We went to a picnic and Mash found a rubber band and started bullying around with it and was striking and scaring the boys. When he struck me with the band I snapped back and gave him a taste of his own medicine. I got the beating of my life after that. Mash hasn't changed much in the last seven year (laughs).
What happened after the camp in Narail?
Obviously the coaches saw something in me and I was taken to the BKSP for a 6-month camp after which I got admitted there. It was a rude awakening for me in the first couple of months as I was kept with a group of boys who were weak in cricket. There was a cricket tournament in BKSP where four teams of the institute competed. They played on Fridays and Saturdays and all I could do was watch helplessly and then weep in private. Then one day Salah Uddin Sir (Bangladesh fielding coach Mohammad Salah Uddin), who was a BKSP coach back then, saw me watching a game and asked which team I was playing for. When he heard that I didn't have a team he took me to another coach Hasanuzzaman Rinku and requested him to give me a chance. I played the next few games and emerged as the highest wicket-taker in the competition.
Another lucky chance did wonders for me. A bus load of us BKSP boys were taken to an Under 15 trial of the BCB to form teams. I never got a chance to bat or bowl and naturally wasn't selected but one of the boys withdrew himself for exam or something and my name was recommended by the BKSP coaches to replace him. I played for Dhaka Metro Green and made 102 off 52 balls against Sylhet and my fortunes changed overnight.
I became a regular in the Bangladesh Under 15 side and toured India a few times. We had a lot of matches against the Cricket Association of Bengal Under 15s home and away. I was then included in the Under 17 team and played in the Asia Cup in 2004. I won a match against Sri Lanka in that competition at Visakhapatnam. We made about 178 or 179 and they were 50 in four overs. I came into bowl and took four for 16 which changed the game and we made the semifinals.
After returning home I played for Victoria Sporting Club in the Dhaka Premier League and was then included in the BCB Game Development Department's High Performance (HP) Unit. I got into the Bangladesh A team in 2005 and toured Zimbabwe. I think I took 12 wickets in the first two four-day matches against Zimbabwe A before I cut short the trip and came back to sit for the SSC exam. I played in the Under 19 World Cup in 2006 and I could feel then that my Bangladesh debut was not that far away as I was performing at every level.
What was the experience like for you of playing in the pressure-cooker atmosphere of Dhaka Premier Division league? Your club captain Khaled Mashud has gone on record as saying that he spotted you singing while waiting to go out to bat…
I didn't feel any pressure to honest. It was just like another competition for me. I was given the opportunity at Victoria by coach Salah Uddin who was the club's coach also. He had faith in me despite my age. I got Taka 50,000 cash on signing and was the happiest person on earth that day. In the first match my 39 was the highest score. By my fourth game the full payment had been cleared by the club. In that season I played about 10 matches and batted in every possible position, from opening to number seven. The coach experimented with me a lot (laughs).
When did you start believing that you were going to play for Bangladesh?
At the BKSP we had players who were making it into national selections even as students. Mushfiqur Rahim made his Test debut in 2005 and Shahadat (Hossain) also. For me it was a challenge. I just couldn't rest until I got there too. These were guys who I saw everyday and could not swallow the fact that they had played for Bangladesh before me. It is not envy or jealousy but I thought I was just as good and became more determined than ever to improve my game.
You see I am a very competitive person. For example, when Rocky (Roqibul Hassan) got the man of the match award in the second ODI against Zimbabwe I kept telling myself 'Shakib, you moron, you could have been up there today. You blew your chance'. Don't get me wrong, I am so happy to see Roqibul, Mushfique, Mehrab (Hossain Jr.), Tamim (Iqbal) and the others performing and I am so proud of them because we have grown up as cricketers together. For me the cricket ground is a place to show my worth. I go out to field as if I'm entering the boxing ring and there's no place for the guy who comes second best there.
What do you reckon were the turning points in your cricket career?
First it has to be the BKSP. I have always been a pretty independent type and a generally private person so the hostel life really didn't worry me that much. There were days when I would be the only boy in the whole dormitory as the other students had gone off on a vacation and I had to stay back because of my cricket commitments. I became more disciplined and learned many virtues of life by staying there. BKSP taught me the importance of studies and I have never neglected it since.
Secondly, the now defunct HP Unit. Getting selected for the HP group was a blessing. I still think the HP Unit was the best thing to have happened to the development of Bangladesh cricket. We had the toughest possible training regime devised by Richard McInnes but even after back-breaking training we would practice on our own during the leisure time. We were that inspired. We had classes on leadership and there were speech sessions. It was a comprehensive life and cricket education package. I learned so much from it. I think I owe my fitness to the HP training.
There must me some people who have played a decisive role in your becoming a cricketer…
Ofcourse. I was never discouraged to play as a youngster. There were times though when I would skip school to play cricket or football. Only my mother would know where I was and she would not tell anyone and would always protect me if my dad found out.
I am indebted to three persons. Without their intervention I would probably be lost in the crowd and never become an international cricketer.
Bappy Sir (Ashfaqul Islam Bappy, BCB Game Education Deputy Manager) is from my home town and he convinced my parents that I had a future in cricket. He was a coach at BKSP back then and he made sure that I got admitted there.
For my bowling and the mental part of cricket Salah Uddin Sir has been an unbelievable mentor. He took me under his wings at the BKSP and when I got into the national side he was there too and that obviously helped.
Whatever I know in batting I have learned from Fahim Sir (Nazmul Abedeen Fahim, Divisional Cricket Manager Game Development BCB). He has overseen my progress from the age level to the national team.
Also, I am grateful to all the coaches at the BKSP.
International debut as a teenager and a world star at 21. How has life changed for you?
It hasn't changed much really. I used to have very specific times for hanging out in Magura and I would always come home before it was too late. Now most of my friends are from the circle of cricket and my childhood mates have moved to different colleges and universities and it is difficult for me to stay in touch. Also, their topics of discussion have become career oriented, some of them are in the medical college or the engineering university, and hanging out is not the same anymore because I have taken a different track. When I do return home I usually spend time with the family. I take rest, listen to music, browse the net and watch TV. I just relax when I'm not playing. I try to keep my life as private as possible and as simple as possible.
You have probably heard this query a hundred times already. What did it feel like when you learned about becoming number one in the ICC ODI rankings for all-rounders?
It didn't quite sink in. I was more concerned with the series decider against Zimbabwe the next day. When I went to bat in the game it was then I realized the level of expectation and I wanted to do something befitting of my status as the number one all-rounder. I am definitely proud but to be honest I have never really thought much about rankings and standings. With consistent performance the ranking automatically goes up and I believe this is one area where we need to improve a lot as a team. We have to start performing individually and as a group day in and day out.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years time?
Still playing cricket, definitely. Also I want to be the best cricketer I can be. We have some amazing talent in this Bangladesh side and I dream of the day when we'll all play to our potential and rule world cricket. Most of us are very young and we are just beginning to gel. It excites me to think what fantastic things can happen to Bangladesh cricket in 10 years.
About the author(s): Rabeed Imam is the editor of Tigercricket.com and media manager of Bangladesh national cricket team.
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While your current PC may be dual- or quad-core, the one sitting on your desk in a couple of years will be a "many-core." Multicores are the future, and because programming them is so different than programming for traditional processors, you must prepare for the change now, especially in mapping basic algorithms efficiently onto the new hardware.
String searching is one of these basic algorithms. It has a host of applications, including search engines, network intrusion detection, virus scanners, spam filters, and DNA analysis, among others. The Cell processor, with its multiple cores, promises to speed-up string searching a lot.
In this article, we show how we mapped string searching efficiently on the Cell. We present two implementations:
- The fast implementation supports a small dictionary size (approximately 100 patterns) and provides a throughput of 40 Gbps, which is 100 times faster than reference implementations on x86 architectures.
- The heavy-duty implementation is slower (3.3-4.3 Gbps), but supports dictionaries with tens of thousands of strings.
This task is not trivial. We had to change our algorithm significantly to reach top performance. In particular, to exploit the memory subsystem at its best, we employ a pipelined parallelization strategy, and we shuffle the data layout to fight congestiontechniques that are unfamiliar to most programmers of traditional architectures.
Why Is String Searching So Important?
The Internet is a dirty place, with malware, spyware, spam, and viruses trying to penetrate your systems through all possible vulnerabilities. Undesired traffic cannot be filtered anymore on the basis of header information. What's needed is"deep-packet inspection, which checks the payload against a database containing signatures of a large number of threats.
But with network links getting faster (10 Gbps Ethernet, for instance), performing on-the-fly deep-packet inspection isn't child's play. For example, running the Snort (www.snort.org) intrusion-detection system on a Pentium 4 PC only ensures a filtering throughput between 200-400 Mbps. This is why network appliance manufacturers often employ specialized hardware like Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) or Application-Specific Instruction Processors (ASIPs). The Cell processor is a new player in this field, with the potential to offer lots of computing power at low price. In fact, its large production volumes (it's used in the Sony PlayStation 3) contribute to keeping its price low.


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Nearly one and a half years ago, Facebook lost its key person, the man behind Facebook's monetization strategies, Tim Kendall, who seamlessly helped Facebook to monetize the site particularly in the development of the ads business. Today, the same person has been hired by the slowly growing and puzzled on how to raise profits – pin board styled social photo sharing site – Pinterest, in order to help the company convert their engaged users into real money.
Kendall worked at Facebook from the year 2006 to December, 2010 where he was designated as the Director of Monetization. Kendall mainly architected Facebook's early monetization strategies, which certainly shot up the company's revenue in no time. In the year 2011, Facebook's advertising revenue was about $3.2 billion, which was 85 percent of its total revenue!
When Kendall was leaving Facebook, David Fischer, VP – Advertising and Global Operations at Facebook, sent out an email highlighting Kendall's contributions to the company –
Over more than four years at Facebook, Tim has had an incredible impact on the company, and in particular on the development of the ads business. Starting back in 2006, Tim wrote the blueprint for our monetization strategy. In all seriousness, it is safe to say we would not be where we are today without Tim.
Tim recognized early on not only that advertising could be social, but that it should be social on Facebook. What began as "sponsored stories," social advertising has transformed the marketing business. And again, Facebook has Tim to thank.
Tim is truly a renaissance man. All of us who have worked with him have seen his strong intellect, quiet intensity, and complete focus on the mission at hand, with little tolerance for distractions or bureaucracy. He balances that with a more lively side that seems to come out after dark and has been displayed over the years at fine Palo Alto establishments like Rudy's and the Old Pro. We will greatly miss all sides of Tim.
Since leaving Facebook, Kendall has done some venture capital, investing in Turntable.fm and SneakPeeq, a social shopping site.
Now that the man behind Facebook's revenue has been hired by Pinterest. This eventually leads to a question in mind whether Pinterest is planning to slot in advertisements on the site. If not, Kendall has to think another way out to generate revenue for Pinterest.
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Fire0nice228 wrote:Henry Hank wrote:. With terrible PK and a GAA that's plunged into the bottom half of the league, they continue to have major problems preventing goals. Shero and Bylsma need to find answers, both jobs should be on the line.
we need a winger for teh sid.
You joke but it still seems that's what people want. No matter how many goals this team scores, people will always complain that they don't have two all-star wingers for both Crosby and Malkin.
They need guys that will help keep the puck out of the net. The PK has been a major problem this season. Tonight was the worst but it was 17th in the league even coming into this one.


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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Cards for James Card Drive (and first PRIZE)
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- CanadianScraps43 said...
Heather I will try my best to send some cards for your cause. I have participated in Jennifer's Card Drive and always found it so great to be able to send a smile or chuckle someones way. Thanks for sharing this story.
- April 14, 2011 at 8:14 PM
- Arlene said...
Fantastic idea! I'll try to get some things done too.
- April 15, 2011 at 1:30 AM
- walchowDesign said...
It always give me a good feeling after participating in the kids drive especially if it means just bringing a small smile to them. I'll try to make some. Thanks for organising this drive, Heather!
- April 15, 2011 at 4:18 AM
- Judy1223 said...
Hi Heather,
I'm off today and I will definitely make a few cards for James and his family. Thanks for doing this...you are a sweetheart!
- April 15, 2011 at 8:40 AM
- Judy1223 said...
Hi Heather, me again!
I made a card for each member of James' family and blogged about them here:
I'm trying to help spread thr word!
Take care,
- April 16, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- One Scrappy Gal said...
What a wonderful and generous hearted project! I'll get some cards made as soon as possible.
- April 16, 2011 at 9:35 PM
- Suzanne said...
Are we supposed to sign the inside or are the cards going to be sold to raise money?
- April 18, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- Heather Ruwe said...
In Reply to Suzanne...
Yes! please sign your cards. they are going directly to james. :)
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Eyes closed, they sat cross-legged. Breathing in, then out, they listened. Their guide was a voice, both calm and strong.
"Be kind to yourself," Paul MacNaughton told his yoga students. "Karma yoga is compassion for the body, compassion for the mind."
The teacher leading a yoga class in an airy studio at Everett Community College's new Fitness Center on Thursday wasn't on the floor. He didn't move his body like a snake would, or a cat. The yoga poses he could demonstrate he did from a seated position in a mobility scooter.
With his arms and his measured voice, MacNaughton gave precise instruction and gentle encouragement. Motions and positions he couldn't do were demonstrated by his wife, Diane Brooks. From a yoga mat at his side, she is a partner in teaching.
MacNaughton, 64, has bone cancer, which is believed to have metastasized from prostate cancer first diagnosed in 2006. The cancer was discovered in February after an MRI found the cause of excruciating pain. A 4-inch tumor was found on his sacrum, a bone at the base of the spine, which had fractured. A later scan found a small tumor on a vertebrae.
In March, MacNaughton underwent three grueling weeks of radiation at Providence Regional Cancer Partnership in Everett. He was bedridden for more than a month.
Bone strengthening and hormone treatments are now aimed at slowing the cancer's spread. Recovered from radiation's exhausting effects, MacNaughton returned to the EvCC classes he hadn't been able to teach in months.
"It's healing for me to have this work. The people here have been so nice about it," MacNaughton said after Thursday's class.
Brooks said her husband is being helped by pain medications managed by a palliative care doctor at Providence. They have asked the hard questions, and have been told MacNaughton may live a year or two, depending on treatment.
"I feel that practicing yoga has helped me to have the willingness to face mortality, life purpose, these big kinds of things," MacNaughton said. "Yoga is especially good at helping us to follow — destiny is too strong a word — to follow our best nature."
"We've had such a tremendous amount of love and support," said Brooks, a former Seattle Times reporter who runs her own graphics and Web design business. With a 21-year-old son, the couple pay $750 per month for health insurance, and have a high deductible. Even with charitable help from Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, Brooks said the bills are staggering.
Friends will manifest their support at a benefit concert Saturday at the Evergreen Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Marysville, where Brooks is the teen adviser and the Everett couple have many friends.
MacNaughton also has taught yoga at the YMCA of Snohomish County, at Sound Holistic Health Clinic in Everett, and at other sites, but now only teaches at the college. It's not his first career.
With degrees in music performance and teaching credentials, MacNaughton was a classical musician who played French horn with the Seattle Symphony and the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet orchestras in the 1970s and '80s. He has taught private music lessons.
A neurological condition that affects muscules called focal dystonia ended his music performance career, Brooks said. After their son was born in 1991, MacNaughton became a stay-at-home dad who helped found a co-op school program now called Lighthouse Cooperative.
Sue Grigsby, associate faculty chairwoman of EvCC's physical education, health and wellness department, said MacNaughton is scheduled to teach two yoga classes this summer.
"He's a gem. He's one of those people you certainly want to work around this situation," Grigsby said. "I remember his interview, his quiet demeanor. Here's this calming tone of voice — come in and do yoga." Having Brooks demonstrate poses has made the classes work well. "They're a great team," Grigsby said.
"We love him here and miss him greatly, and are praying for him every day," said Gael Thomson, membership and wellness director at the YMCA's Everett branch.
Dave Speights, a former yoga teacher and friend of MacNaughton's from Mukilteo, said MacNaughton is "one of the most interesting people I've ever known." Speights believes his friend's interest in Eastern philosophies helps in this daunting journey.
What keeps him teaching?
MacNaughton admits he needs the job, but he is devoted to sharing yoga with others.
"I find value in the work," he said. Meditation is at the core of his practice of yoga. MacNaughton said he wants to write about how yoga applies to modern life, "how ancient things are just as fresh today."
Today — that is his focus.
"He's just doing his life," Brooks said.
Julie Muhlstein: 425-339-3460; firstname.lastname@example.com.
Benefit concert
A concert to help pay medical expenses for Paul MacNaughton will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Evergreen Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1607 Fourth St., Marysville. Performing will be Real Folk, with Kim Longmore, Paul Henderson and Dennis Griffiths; and Peter Ali, Bob Bertoldi, Jeff Nicely, Jeff Griffiths and Jr. Geezer. Refreshments available. Suggested donation is $10-$20.


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From "Frantic Message as Palmyra, Syria, Fell: 'We're Finished'" (NYT).
Elsewhere in the NYT (on the same day, May 21st): "Defending ISIS Policy, Obama Acknowledges Flaws in Effort So Far."
"There's no doubt that in the Sunni areas, we're going to have to ramp up not just training but also commitment, and we better get Sunni tribes more activated than they currently have been," Mr. Obama said. "So it is a source of concern."


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The Elementals
The Elementals
Fantasy comes in many flavors, and I like them all: the kind that takes place in a wholly invented land (The Lord of the Rings; The Hunger Games), the kind that catapults a person from our world into a fictional land (the Narnia and Oz books), and finally the kind --- of which THE ELEMENTALS is an example, along with the Twilight series, ROSEMARY'S BABY and many others --- where a contemporary protagonist finds supernatural elements invading her everyday life. The juxtaposition of the occult and the realistic makes for some eerie stories.
Ariel ("like in THE TEMPEST") Silverman, on the verge of turning 18, is vulnerable from the start. Her best friend, Jeni, vanished on a pre-college visit to Berkeley --- the case is still unsolved --- and her mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Although some of her angst is the sort all new collegians grapple with, she brings more pain and imagination to the dorm room than, for example, her cashmere-sweater- and diamond-stud-wearing roommate, Lauren. References to Arthur Rackham posters and Celtic myths suggest that Ariel already has one foot in fairyland.
But fairyland is a less benign place than you might imagine. Early in Ariel's first year at UC Berkeley, she is given a flyer for a Halloween party at an old house in the hills. The hosts are Tania, Perry and John, a trio of beautiful young eccentrics who seem eager to adopt her. Their seduction techniques are distinctly California-esque: tarot cards, vegetarian feasts, floating neo-hippie garments, mysterious (drug-laced?) drinks, erotic challenges. Is it any wonder that she falls for the ravishingly attractive (sleek black hair, green eyes, high cheekbones) John Graves?
"THE ELEMENTALS is beautifully if sometimes self-consciously written, with a far richer vocabulary than most teen fantasies.... For teenagers --- and perhaps their fantasy-loving mothers --- this book could be the read of their dreams."
In a rush of lust and self-discovery, she moves into the hillside house, neglecting her search for clues to Jeni's disappearance. Guilt assails her; maybe she is betraying her friend by taking a lover? There is a homoerotic flavor to her memories of Jeni (at 15, they practiced kissing on each other), and it's clear that Ariel's metamorphosis from naive adolescent to grown woman also involves moving from same-sex twinning to the raptures of heterosexual love.
Ariel's relationship with her mother also evolves. In her sophomore year, she goes home for a while after a falling-out with her spooky roommates. At first she feels like "a girl in a tower or one who slept in a briar-covered castle or a glass box" --- in a trance, spellbound. But when she learns that her mother must have more surgery, followed by a course of chemotherapy, she comes down to earth and becomes extraordinarily supportive. Her mother loses her hair; in solidarity, Ariel shaves her own head.
Then, drawn by memories of love and friendship, she returns to Berkeley for her junior year. This time she boards with Pierrette, a fabric and jewelry maker, and her three-year-old son, Michelangelo --- an organic little family that accepts rather than seduces her. Ariel starts to make collages that, like the novel itself, fuse mementos of her real life with fantastical imagery: tulle, glitter, flower petals, pictures of fairies and angels, personal photographs, pieces of fabric, bits of stories and poems. The work helps her to become whole. I won't give away the denouement, but you feel that by the time Ariel graduates, she will be a far cry from the frail, scared girl you met in chapter one.
In short, this is a coming-of-age story threaded with supernatural motifs, and it is billed as Block's "breakthrough adult novel" (she has written 28 books, many of them for teens). Now, I don't care about which age category fantasy is put in, as long as it's good. But apart from the sex scenes, which (fair warning to parents) are quite explicit, to me THE ELEMENTALS still feels like a YA title.
Although Block's adolescent protagonist has considerable depth, she is half a child, with a child's narcissism and self-indulgence. Thus, at times the book gets a bit bogged down in amateur detective work, obsessive visions, and increasingly weird sexual encounters, one in a graveyard and another particularly lurid scene ("Every orifice was waiting to receive him" --- oh, dear) during which Ariel imagines Jeni watching her and John make love. It's almost as if Block is out to prove that she is just as equipped to write erotica as, say, E.L. James.
And yet, when the author isn't dabbling in Christian Grey territory, THE ELEMENTALS is beautifully if sometimes self-consciously written, with a far richer vocabulary than most teen fantasies. Ariel adores words (her favorites include "Effulgent. Radiant. Illumine. Scintillate. Pellucid. Luminous."), and obviously Block does too, showing off a lush style that conjures and sustains an appropriately mysterious atmosphere. This is particularly evident in the stories John tells Ariel, evoking an older earth in which "Eve's children" lived close to nature, with humans turning into trees or animals, or a fantastic amalgam of both ("A man stroking the crevice of a eucalyptus tree until it changed into a dryad. … A strange woman who took a sleeping man and made him her horse. … A beautiful girl dressed in bells and crystals with the hooves of a goat instead of feet").
The key to the book's very title is this radically different relationship to the natural world, by turns sacred, sensual and threatening (Block's novel, come to think of it, isn't so far removed from Twilight or True Blood territory --- without the vamps or werewolves). On the second Halloween Ariel spends with her mentors, they dress up as "elementals," or nature spirits: "A bit like a fairy but that word's been done to death, don't you think?" Tania says. "The elements. I'm fire. Perry's earth. Johnny's water. That's why we needed you, Sylph. … You're air."
Flattered to be wanted, but fearful that joining the Elementals' tribe will mean losing herself, Ariel remains ambivalent almost to the end. The complexity of her response taps into the fascination that girls, especially girls on the cusp of womanhood, have for enchantments of all kinds. Some of it relates back to a childhood passion for stories about magical realms, the happy-ever-after sort and the darker, grimmer variety. And some of it is a projection into a yearned-for romantic/erotic future. Ariel represents both, and so does THE ELEMENTALS. For teenagers --- and perhaps their fantasy-loving mothers --- this book could be the read of their dreams.
Reviewed by Kathy Weissman on November 9, 2012
The Elementals
- Publication Date: September 17, 2013
- Genres: Fiction
- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin


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Not much of an update. -16x8-0 dynamics on. Finished the cluster surround and fit that in. Waiting on coilovers and some other shit.
18x11 +20 Rears?
Rolled Cambers replied to Vodkashot's topic in General Automotive Chatwww.rimtuck.com Have a look on there.
180sx Headlights - good, bad and ugly.
Rolled Cambers replied to Varvs's topic in General Automotive ChatOh, Oh, right.. Well ok. He didn't specifically state light output..
180sx Headlights - good, bad and ugly.
Rolled Cambers replied to Varvs's topic in General Automotive ChatJust some of the ones I really love!
hardtuned hoodies
Rolled Cambers replied to Alex_ODonnell's topic in General Off Topic DiscussionsWhy would it matter anyways? They're a quality hoodie. Had my previous style hoodie since release date and it's still going strong. No rips, no tears, colors have only just started to fade and mind you I wear and wash it all the time.
things that annoy you
Rolled Cambers replied to saadn's topic in General Off Topic DiscussionsProbably been said but "Fanboys" Really, really irritates me.
Here's the engine bay. i didn't paint it. Bought the car like this. Still getting used to it.
With the style I'm going for it may suit. Looks funky/weird at the moment. I'll decide after it's complete. I recently did a cluster swap, used an NX1600 digital cluster and re wired the cluster loom. There was no diagrams or tutorials online and the couple I did find were for the american version. Completely different. Spent 6 hours on it including trimming the inside of the dash and wiring. Pretty f**king happy. Here's a pic.
Why do police ask me how long I've had my car for?
Rolled Cambers replied to s13k's's topic in General Automotive ChatI've always given them the month and year I registered it in my name. Oh and on the topic of getting out of the vehicle, I always get out. There's an old trick that police will feel superior looking down at you and getting out of the car standing up gives you a better chance of leaving with nothing. Another good trick is to pull into a side street off a busy road or into a car park. I was asked why I didn't immediatly stop and kept driving into a car park which I replied, So you aren't standing in traffic where you could get injured. Checks license and off I went. Common courtesy goes a long way in the law.
Rolled Cambers posted a topic in Wanted to BuyAs stated. WTB. Cupholders/arm rest for S13. Black or Brown, don't matter. MUST be all intact. NO rips. NO broken tabs. Same as pic attached.


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Police release video of shootout on city street
Investigators looking to identify suspects who fired gun
Police have released surveillance video of a shooting between several people on the streets of Roxbury Tuesday afternoon.
According to Boston police, two groups were involved in a shootout near the intersection of Warren and Waverly streets when officers arrived just after 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Images: Shots fired on city street
Three individuals were brought in for questioning but no charges have been filed, police said.
Police said a person with a gunshot to the hand was found a few blocks away.
Several streets in the area were closed after the incident, police said.
The department is seeking the public's help identifying the individuals responsible for the shooting.
If you recognize any of the individuals seen in the video, call Boston Police detectives at (617) 343-4275.


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Place Category: Parks and Playgrounds
This playground takes its name from the adjacent Bayview Houses, which overlook historic Jamaica Bay. The development is bordered on three sides by Canarsie Park and on the fourth by Seaview Avenue.
The name for Canarsie Park comes from the Canarsie (or Canarsee) Indians, who lived in this area. They called this area Keskachauge (or Kestateuw), but Dutch settlers renamed the area New Amersfoort in the 1630s. In 1675, Jan Martense Schenck, a Dutch immigrant, built a house in the area of New Amersfoort, on Mill Island, within the current boundaries of the park. The house consisted of two rooms, and was built as a simple box of 20 feet by 40 feet, but the family expanded the house into an L-shaped plan containing eleven rooms. It is believed that the house was either entirely refurbished or rebuilt during the 1720s. When the British took control of the territory during the American Revolution (1775-1783), they renamed New Amersfoort the Flatlands.
In 1895 and 1896, the City of Brooklyn purchased land for Canarsie Park. Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Frank Squier stated that "this [Schenck] house will be preserved, and will always be one of the Park's attractions." Fifty-seven years later the house was dismantled, removed from the park, and reassembled at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The parkland expanded in the 1930s and 1940s and a small portion of the parkland was transferred to Parks in the 1950s. Most of the parkland south of Shore Parkway was transferred to the National Park Service for the creation of Gateway National Recreation Area.
Jamaica Bay is an 18,000 acre wetland estuary surrounded by the Rockaway Peninsula to the South, Brooklyn to the West, and Queens to the East. With an area almost equal to that of Manhattan, the bay consists of numerous islands, a labyrinth of waterways, meadowlands, and two freshwater ponds. The wetlands provide a unique environment for both wildlife preservation and urban recreation. Enclosed by the Rockaway Peninsula and protected from the Atlantic Ocean, the region currently hosts over 325 species of birds, 50 species of butterflies, and 100 species of finfish. A favorite stop for migratory waterfowl, the area is an integral part of the larger, regional ecosystem. One of New York City's most extraordinary natural resources, Jamaica Bay remains virtually undisturbed by human hands.
Through the efforts of Robert Moses (1888-1981) who served as Parks Commissioner from 1934-60, much of Jamaica Bay was placed under Parks jurisdiction in 1938. Originally, Jamaica Bay Park covered over 9,151.8 acres of wetlands and beaches. Determined to uphold the park's natural state, Commissioner Moses defeated plans to create a large industrial port.
Following the establishment of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in 1951, Herbert Johnson was appointed as its resident superintendent. Johnson worked diligently to preserve and restore the natural nesting grounds of waterfowl and shore birds. The resurrection of the nesting grounds has led to the return of an increasing number of species each year. Notables include the return of the snowy egret (Egretta thula) and the glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus).
On March 1, 1974, following a congressional initiative designed to create a National Seashore in New York and New Jersey, over 9,000 acres were transferred to the newly created Gateway National Urban Recreation Area. The Gateway National Urban Recreation Area is comprised of Jamaica Bay along with sections in Breezy Point, Sandy Hook, and Staten Island. The park is maintained by the National Parks Service.
Bayview Playground, located on Seaview Avenue and adjacent to P.S. 270, was acquired in two parcels "" one in 1955 by local law and the other in 1962 as a gift from the New York City Housing Authority. The playground, surrounded by a chain link fence and paved with asphalt, contains a comfort station, flagpole with a yardarm, and two drinking fountains. Play areas include basketball and handball courts, a spray shower, metal play equipment with safety surfacing, tot and regular swings and tot play equipment. Many benches and London planetrees (Platanus x acerifolia) provide areas to sit in the shade.
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Interfraternity Council
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The Interfraternity Council (IFC) is the governing organization for the NIC fraternities on campus at Wright State University. These fraternities include Alpha Sigma Phi, Beta Phi Omega, Phi Mu Alpha, Phi Sigma Phi, Sigma Phi Delta, and Sigma Phi Epsilon. The men of the Interfraternity Council work to unite fraternities, to focus on common goals, and to create a network of support for chapters and members. We provide many interactive programs for fraternity men. Officers are elected from different chapters to plan and support Interfraternity associated activities.
Our purpose is to...
- Make men
- Build Brothers
- Breed Leaders
- Strengthen Chapters
- Prepare Students
- Improve Communities
- Achieve Educational Excellence
Have you ever thought of joining a fraternity at Wright State? Greek communities offer limitless opportunities for academic, leadership, social, and personal development. Fraternities will help you find your niche on campus, be your home away from home, offer resources to help achieve your academic goals, encourage you to get involved in campus organizations, let you play on a winning intramural sports team, and give you a group of friends that will praise you when you're successful and support you when the going gets tough.
Being a part of a Greek organization has many perks that you might not expect. Here are some facts to think about.
- Fraternities at Wright State DO NOT HAZE.
- Fraternities have a Grade requirement of 2.5 GPA or higher
- Fraternities provide networking opportunities with alumni members that will help you with your career search
- Fraternities complete ample amounts of community service
- Fraternities go to national leadership conferences, and most of the time it is free for you
- Fraternities offer social aspects with sororities and other organizations.
Joining a Fraternity is one of the best decisions that you can make at Wright State for your academic career, social life, and leadership skills.
How to Join
IFC recruitment is open year-round. In the Fall, recruitment begins on Move-In Day. IFC has plans for 'Open House' events to allow men to meet the members of our IFC fraternities and maintains a database of interested men.
Feel free to contact IFC's VP of Recruitment for more information.
Meet your IFC Officers
Austin Hunt
Ivan Mallett
VP of Recruitment
Tyler Boes
VP of Internal Affairs
Caleb Tracy
VP of Judicial Affairs
Asad Ali
VP of Philanthropy
Collin Jones
Director IFC Spirit
Daniel Carey
Director Public Relations
The fraternities on Wright State's campus are:
For additional information, please contact:
Gina Keucher
Student Involvement and Leadership
(937) 775-5560


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Rahm Emanuel To Be Chicago's Next Mayor
Ever since Rahm Emanuel won the legal right to be on the Chicago mayoral ballot, it was pretty much a given that he would win the plurality of votes when Election Day rolled around, which was Tuesday.
So the question behind whatever suspense was left was, would Emanuel be able to win the 50 percent of the votes (plus one more vote for good measure) that would allow him to avoid a runoff?
Once again, Emanuel proved it's probably a sucker bet to wager against him by winning 55 percent of the vote. His victory gives him a place in history, making him the Windy City's first Jewish mayor.
Emanuel, President Obama's former White House chief of staff, had wanted to be the first Jewish speaker of the U.S. House. That didn't work out.
But his new job running one of the world's most vital cities probably has more job security, as one of Emanuel's ex-bosses, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, can no doubt attest to. The man Emanuel will replace, Mayor Richard M. Daley, had the job for more than 21 years.
Among the other Democrats Emanuel beat to become mayor was the candidate who came in second, Gery Chico, once the head of Chicago Public Schools. Chico had 24.1 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile, Emanuel demolished perhaps the best-known candidate besides himself in the race, Carol Moseley Braun, the former U.S. senator and Clinton administration ambassador to New Zealand. She had about 8.9 percent of the vote.
Braun was the consensus candidate of a group of Chicago's black leaders in a city whose African-American population is about 40 percent. Her relatively weak showing suggests that Emanuel can argue right off the bat that he is the mayor of all Chicago.
In a city with a history of being racially polarized, that's definitely important.
Obama alluded to Emanuel's claim to an appeal that crossed Chicago's famously inelastic racial and ethnic lines in a statement from the White House:
I want to extend my congratulations to Rahm Emanuel on a well-deserved victory tonight. As a Chicagoan and a friend, I couldn't be prouder. Rahm will be a terrific mayor for all the people of Chicago.
Emanuel was helped significantly with the city's black voters by his tie to the president. There is still much pride in Chicago that it can claim to have produced the first black president of the U.S. The psychic value of that is hard to measure but no doubt vast.
For Emanuel, who represented part of Chicago's North Side as a congressman, becoming mayor meant getting past a few significant hurdles.
There was the psychological one for many Chicagoans of his seemingly parachuting in from Washington to claim the grand prize of Chicago politics for which there was a huge appetite since it had been off-limits for two decades.
There was resentment and suspicion that he would be an extension of the Daley political legacy, seeing as he once worked for Daley and was close to the mayor as well as the mayor's brother, William Daley, the president's new chief of staff.
And despite the pride Chicagoans have in Obama, there was the sentiment that Emanuel was coming to Chicago to be something like Obama's viceroy. Like the president didn't have enough on his hands dealing with the Iran and the House Republicans.
All of these feelings coalesced and took shape in the legal challenge to Emanuel's eligibility, meant to keep him off Tuesday's ballot. That eventually failed but not before it actually helped Emanuel do something he needed to do.
Emanuel returned to Chicago with a reputation as the intense wiry man with the raccoon eyes who made up for a missing middle finger through a use of profanity seldom seen in a public figure.
But the residency challenge actually gave Emanuel a chance to publicly appear humble for hours on end, as his opponents' lawyers, then the public, took him on directly at public meetings of the election commission.
If their goal was to get Emanuel angry so that he'd lose his self-control, they failed.
Now the tough part starts. Emanuel confronts a major city which like New York, Los Angeles and many others has a budget crisis caused by not enough revenue to meet its expenses and an economy that's not getting enough lift.
Still, even with all the difficulties, Chicago remains the archetypal American city with its people of virtually every ethnicity and nationality, its proud skyline, its smash-mouth politics, its lake as vast as an ocean and its rows of bungalows that stretch to the horizon.
It's a city of nervous energy that just elected itself a mayor with that same quality. The Emanuel administration won't be boring, that's certain.


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Have you ever been tempted to skip the cover letter when submitting your resume? Many times, the online application lists the cover letter as optional — but is it, really?
Here are 10 reasons you should use a cover letter:
1. It gives you another platform to market your skills and convey your interest in the company.
2. A well-done cover letter showcases your communication skills.
3. Hiring decision-makers read compelling cover letters.
4. A cover letter gives you more room to personalize your message to the employer or contact.
5. You can use it to fill in any gaps in your resume.
6. It can help you market your transferable skills.
7. A cover letter gives you a reason to keep your name in front of the decision maker.
8. You can employ creative strategies that bridge your value and the employer's needs.
9. It gives you a chance to use more key words to target the employer's needs.
10. A cover letter provides closure by giving you a vehicle to ask for the job or ask about the next steps in the hiring process.
What do you think about cover letters? Are they helpful or time-consuming and unnecessary.


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Film i Väst is one of Europe's most successful co-producers and Scandinavia's preeminent regional film fund. Over the years Film Väst co-productions have also been richly rewarded with nominations and awards at the world's most prestigous events including festivals such as Cannes and Berlin and galas such as the Golden Globes, the European Film Awards and the Oscars.
Västra Götaland is Sweden's foremost region for culture. Through dedicated effort and the country's largest cultural budget, both in absolute terms and per capita, culture has a self-evident role in social life. Culture is a basic precondition for active, committed citizens – involvement contributes to democratic development. Culture can make people grow and is very important for employment, regional development and growth in Västra Götaland.


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Raburn hopes to return to Indians Tuesday
CLEVELAND -- Earlier this season, things were going so well for utility player Ryan Raburn that he said it felt like nothing could go wrong for him on the field.
That was before right calf discomfort and a left Achilles strain put Raburn on the 15-day disabled list, where he has stayed retroactively since Aug. 19. But Raburn hit during injured starter Corey Kluber's simulated game at Progressive Field on Monday and said he's hoping to return to Cleveland's active roster on Tuesday.
"I still felt a little sore," Raburn said. "But I didn't feel like it was hindering my swing any, so that's good."
Through 70 games this year, Raburn is batting .272/.366/.574 with 15 home runs and 41 RBIs. The club was so pleased with his output that it signed him to a two-year extension with a club option for 2016 that was announced a month ago.
Indians manager Terry Francona agreed with Raburn on the player's return, partly because September allows teams' active rosters to expand to 40 players.
"There's not really a reason not to bring him off the disabled list," Francona said. "Whether he gets in a game or not, we have extra bodies. If he can hit, we can pinch-run. I would anticipate that, yeah, [Tuesday would] probably be the case."


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Edit: There seems to be a consensus that this question is not formulated well. I must respectfully disagree. My interest in the question is immaterial to the question itself. It is manifestly not a "what is" question. I see no reason to write more than is necessary for the formulation of the question, and I invite nothing more than a sentence giving me something to think about or an idea of where to look.


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She's baaack!
She may have been missing from the Season 4 poster, but Dianna Agron is definitely returning to Glee.
New Glee Season 4 posters: Where is Quinn?
Co-creator and executive producer Ryan Murphy first tweeted a picture of Agron with her former TV frenemy Santana (Naya Rivera) late last week on what appeared to be their old choir-room stomping grounds. "Why am I so obsessed and proud about the Quinn/Santana friendship? It's my new favorite thing," Murphy tweeted. "Spin off?"
On Monday, many of the show's cast members, including Rivera and Agron's ex-TV-boyfriend Chord Overstreet took to Twitter to share their own pictures with the returning star. Overstreet also shared a picture with another McKinley High graduate, Harry Shum Jr. aka Mike Chang, on Monday which seems to indicate Quinn's return will be populated with at least one other former New Direction members.
The 6 most tear-jerking moments from Glee's romantic bloodbath
What do you think will bring Quinn back to Lima? Which other former classmates do you want to see return to Glee? Sound off in the comments below!
Glee returns with new episodes on Thursday, Nov. 8 at 9/8c on Fox.


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Jill Replogle
Jill Replogle is a Fronteras reporter in San Diego. She has been a journalist for more than 10 years, reporting from Central America, Mexico, and California.
She has produced radio and video features for PRI's The World, KALW (San Francisco), Current TV, and the Video Journalism Movement. Her print stories have been published in The Miami Herald, Time.com, The Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as in Guatemalan newspapers SigloXXI, ElPeriodico and Inforpress Centroamericana.
Jill has a bachelor's degree in geography from the University of Colorado Boulder and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She's covered everything from local and international politics, to crime and drug violence, to environmental and public health issues.
When she's not on the job, you might find her biking, scrambling up a rock somewhere, or otherwise exploring the outdoors.