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|August 8, 2012, 03:22 PM
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Regarding Cars and Self Defense
The topic of what to do if a person in a car is trying to run you down has come up a few times. I think this recent event, documents just how far a car can travel with the driver incapacitated. To me this highlights why evasion is the best bet. I also think it is also a good reminder of maintaining awareness in all situations, as you can be vulnerable in a car.
This brings up the concerns of the latter situation. Using the framework of a car jacking, which I perceive to be the most likely attack for an average person. Even if you spot the potential threat approaching your car the option of reversing or going forward without endangering yourself and others may not be available. Furthermore, if you live in an area where roadside panhandlers are common, as I do, even if the option of forwarding or reversing is there, I would view it as not practical to take this measure every time a potential threat was near the car.
So what are some of the options? Considering that actions taken under real threat could be justified, ie running a red light at an empty intersection because some guy was approaching your car with a gun, whereas the threat may not fully apparent, and the same action because a panhandler approached your car would be hard to justify.
|August 8, 2012, 03:35 PM
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You mean they don't blow up after being shot a few times like in the movies?
Yup getting out of the way is generally the better option. YMMV
|August 8, 2012, 03:38 PM
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Yes, it is difficult to anticipate exactly what might happen. I always try to leave myself an "out" in traffic by leaving a gap between cars, but this is not always possible. While this may sound obvious I make sure my doors are locked and give consideration to when I let my windows down. Beyond situational awareness and access to your defensive handgun I am not really sure what else can be done.
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|August 8, 2012, 11:18 PM
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Ave of escape...
In short, if you are a CC license holder, armed security officer or private citizen, I'd prepare to avoid vehicles or jump out of the way if possible.
I've heard & read of several incidents in my metro area where violent subjects drove at a armed guard or citizen then the license holder faced civil-criminal charges.
Armed security officers & license holders(private citizens) are NOT cops. When the PD or troopers arrive, they will say you could have fled or avoided the vehicle.
2 armed security officers near my city faced an incident where they shot at a teen who drove at them. Both guards were cleared by the courts but it was a huge mess.
Remember, the LE officers are trained & have the support-resources to deal with incidents like that. Critical incidents aren't like TV shows or movies. The media, DAs, investigators, and civil law firms will be involved in a event, like it or not.
ps; author & gun expert Leroy Thompson wrote a good article about the new Judge & Smith and Wesson Gov revolvers do well for vehicles/protection. Being able to fire 410 shotshells, .45LC, .454 etc could help in a car-jacking incident.
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WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request from supporters of Proposition 8 to stop same-sex marriages in California, an attorney said Sunday.
Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., one of the lawyers who challenged Proposition 8, told the Los Angeles Times he heard from the Supreme Court early Sunday that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who oversees California and the rest of the states in the Ninth U.S. Circuit, had denied ProtectMarriage's request.
ProtectMarriage's petition came after the U.S. 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued an order late Friday that allowed gay marriages to resume in California. The appeals court had affirmed a judge's order blocking implementation of the law, but had placed a stay on the order until the Supreme Court acted.
The 9th Circuit appeals court dissolved the stay two days after the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the judge's order, saying the challengers had failed to show injury and therefore did not have standing.
The 9th Circuit normally waits 25 days before acting on a case just decided by the Supreme Court, the Times reported, and ProtectMarriage said the lower court's decision was premature and in violation of procedural rules.

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I would like to set fmask and dmask options for automounting things like usb drives, currently when plugging in a usb driver with a fat filesystem all files have 755 permissions, I would like them to have 644 permissions.
Using thunar-volman 0.1.2 and xfce 4.4.0
Thanks for any help
Hi Phil,
the permissions are not set by either volume manager.
Assuming you are using Linux, you have to modify your
/etc/devfsd.conf configuration file to add lines as follows:
REGISTER sda1 PERMISSIONS root.users 0664
.... etc etc
where "sda1" obviously refers to a device (i.e. /dev/sda1) like a usb stick.
Sorry, you misunderstood me. I'm not looking to set the permissions of the file representing the device, I'm trying to set permissions for the files within the file system of the device.
I know its been a while since this thread was created, but once I realised I was contemplating on installing gnome just for the sake of having configurable mount options I knew I had to do something. I've found that the mount options are hard-set in exo (hopefully this will change as it matures) so a patch and re-compile is required.
--- exo-0.3.2/exo-mount/exo-mount-hal.c.orig 2007-06-24 21:39:34.000000000 +0100
+++ exo-0.3.2/exo-mount/exo-mount-hal.c 2007-06-24 21:42:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -676,6 +676,11 @@
/* however this one is FreeBSD specific */
options[n++] = g_strdup ("longnames");
+ else if (strcmp(device->fsoptions[m], "fmask=") == 0
+ && strcmp(device->fstype, "vfat") == 0)
+ {
+ options[n++] = g_strdup_printf("fmask=133");
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Cannacord|Genuity is one of several financial firms which have begun tracking Ancestry.com's stock performance (the ticker symbol is ACOM) with recommendations for its clients based on their analysts' research.
This morning Cannacord issued one of its research reports for ACOM entitled WDYTYA Season 2 – Solid Start. It is an interesting read, especially this information:
- Cannacord places Ancestry.com in the Technology – Internet Solutions – eCommerce market.
- A valuation target of $40 per share has been set for ACOM stock.
- WDYTYA also aired simultaneously in Canada on Friday evening. I am still researching Canadian television ratings and will post any information I can find.
- Cannacord uses an interesting "celebrity scale" based on search results from Google Trends. While Vanessa Williams was rated at 28%, and Tim McGraw at 100% I find it interesting that Season 1's episode for Emmitt Smith was one of the highest rated despite his 8% celebrity rank.
- There does seem to be a "subscriber lift" at Ancestry.com due to not only the original airings of WDYTYA but the brief re-airing season in August and September 2010.
Also note that Cannacord used several of my Season 1 WDYTYA ratings charts and tables in their report.
[Disclosure Statement: Cannacord|Genuity contacted me and requested permission to use my ratings analysis and tracking information for Season 1 of Who Do You Think You Are? for which there was no compensation . See the Disclosure Statements page for a list of all material connections I have with genealogy-related vendors.]
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As I walk my shoes stick to the icy ground. It's refreshing at first – almost comforting to be so cosy inside my huge thermal jacket, and feel the contrast of the crisp air biting at my cheeks. I am standing in the minus-25-degree conditions of the South Pole, and I feel like I'm ready for a long and gruelling trek. Except I'm not in the South Pole, and I'm certainly not getting ready for any kind of polar expedition.
I'm in the centre of London, kitted out in some of the top thermal gear you can buy, standing in a cargo container that has been designed to simulate the harsh temperatures of the Antarctic. A few more minutes and that refreshment wears off, the cold runs through my blood and reaches my bones. My limbs begin to ache – I knew I should've come dressed in a little more than these ridiculously thin dolly shoes.
"This is effectively warm weather," our guide Yolanda tells us, "it can get as low as minus 60 degrees in Antarctica, and then there's the wind too." Luckily, our time is up and we head back out into what now feels like a wet, humid summer's afternoon – even though it's 9am on a chilly English September morning.
This isn't some bizarre social experiment to see what happens when you try to freeze a small group of journalists, but instead, it's the Willis Resilience training facility that 19-year-old adventurer Parker Liautaud has been using to prepare for his next incredibly ambitious expedition: an attempt to become the youngest and fastest person to ski the 640km from the Ross Ice Shelf to the South Pole.
Later this year, Parker and his teammate Doug Stoup will be spending both Christmas and New Year on the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth.
I stand, my shoes soaking in the real – albeit melting – snow under London's Tower Bridge, asking Parker why he is prepared to undertake such an arduous and relentless journey. The answer adds a serious message to these lighthearted affairs, as this week an IPCC climate report says scientists are 95% certain that humans have been the dominant cause of global warming since the 1950s.
Parker is a known global climate campaigner and, as quoted on the Willis Resilience website, says this: "I don't believe the solution is to encourage people to live with less or turn off their lights. The reality is that the world has never accepted a step back and never will."
This is why Parker's trek is more than a world record attempt, as he will contribute data to three important scientific research programs along the way. Collecting snow samples from coast-to-pole, Parker hopes to provide a valuable contribution to current studies on climate change, in order to help further our understanding of the implications it has on the future of our planet. He will also be testing a lightweight weather station for the first time in Antarctica.
The pair plan to arrive at the Pole by December 25th, which Parker says "would be the best Christmas present in the history of the world for me."
They take no luxuries in their backpacks as they're attempting a speed record, and wouldn't want to be slowed down by that pesky bar of Cadbury's fruit and nut. There is certainly nothing luxurious about the Antarctic freeze-dried breakfast I'm served later that morning, which tastes like something resembling sawdust with a slight hint of sugar.
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The cold, the wind and the 45 days of solitude sound like a recipe for misery to me, so when I ask what plans they have for Christmas, I'm pleasantly surprised: "If we make it [to the Pole] on Christmas day, we'll celebrate with a powdered chocolate mousse." These boys know how to party.
"And even though it's very cold it's an absolutely spectacular environment – we're going to be passing through the Transantarctic mountains, it's going to be amazing."
He's not all confident and self-assured though, as he tells me how this new experience comes with some worry. "I've never done a very long expedition like this before and it's important to respect that it's a completely new place, and to make sure I'm hyper-vigilant, and I'm always very aware of the risks and the potential to face challenged that aren't expected.
"As for the cold, it's about having the right equipment really, and avoiding frostbite and hypothermia: making sure that no skin is exposed at any time while we're outside, ensuring we're not sweating, and having the right number of layers on etc."
He has been well trained, with three expeditions to the North Pole already under his belt, and has the valuable support of some major sponsors – including (perhaps a little disconcertingly) that of the company who insured the Titanic before its first and final voyage.
The expedition begins on December 3rd 2013 and will be documented and broadcast live on the Willis Resilience website, so the public can watch Parker's progress as he attempts to set two new world records and takes his own literal steps toward saving the planet.
Need to know: how you can ski to the South Pole
Polar exploration and guiding company Polar Explorers run treks to both the North and South Poles. Ranging from the hardcore full 60-day expeditions – for which you will need excellent health and a CV of expeditions behind you – to the all-ages "last hurdle" treks, there are a variety of options for all levels of explorer.
Most full expeditions to the South Pole begin at the Union Glacier Base Camp for preparation, then a flight to the Hercules Inlet, from which the South Pole sits over 1000km away. Throughout the trek you pass over wind blasted snow, blue ice, and softer snow terrain and will navigate around numerous nunataks (exposed mountaintops poking from beneath the snow). From the Hercules Inlet, you ascend over 4000m to the South Pole over 50-odd days – skiing, camping and walking across the Antarctic.


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Rolla community gears up for 105th St. Pat's celebration
Posted by Peter Ehrhard
Festivities for the 105th annual "best ever" St. Pat's celebration are ready to begin at Missouri University of Science and Technology. The theme for this year's celebration is "St. Pat's in Outer Space."
The campus celebration began in 1908, when a group of Rolla students declared that St. Patrick was the patron saint of engineers. St. Pat's has since grown to encompass a full week of events, as well as campus traditions that begin in early March.
The schedule for the St. Pat's celebration at Missouri S&T is as follows:
- Monday, March 4, through Thursday, March 7: Snake Invasion (students club plastic snakes on campus with large decorative sticks called shillelaghs).
- Saturday, March 9: the Coterie St. Pat's Ball, including a four-course dinner and dancing to live music, 5:30 p.m. in the St. Pat's Ballroom of the Havener Center. Contact Dilek Acar at email@example.com for more information.
- Monday, March 11: St. Pat's Follies, noon at the Puck, a campus landmark located in front of Toomey Hall.
- Tuesday, March 12: St. Pat's Follies, noon at the Puck.
- Wednesday, March 13: At approximately 11:45 a.m., St. Pat, portrayed by an S&T student, and his court will officially arrive in downtown Rolla aboard the traditional manure spreader. They will then proceed from the south end of Pine Street to the Rolla Band Shell for St. Pat's Follies at noon; S&T student Blarney Bash carnival, 8 p.m. at the Gale Bullman Muti-Purpose Building, Student Recreation Center.
- Thursday, March 14: Gonzo Games, 10 a.m. on the painted street in front of the Havener Center; S&T student Blarney Bash talent show, 8 p.m. in the Havener Center.
- Friday, March 15: Gonzo Games, 10 a.m. on the painted street; S&T student Blarney Bash dodgeball tournament, 3 p.m. in the Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Building, Student Recreation Center; Honorary Knights Banquet, 6 p.m. in the Havener Center; Coronation and Knighting Ceremony, 9 p.m. in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall.
- Saturday, March 16: 7 a.m., Pine Street painting; 8:30 a.m., pre-parade party for alumni, family and their guests, Alumni Patio and Leach Theater lobby of Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets; St. Patrick's Day Parade, 11 a.m. on Pine Street in downtown Rolla; post-parade party, Alumni Patio and Leach Theater lobby, alumni family and their guests, approximately 12:30 p.m.; free concert open to the public, featuring Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and other bands, starting at approximately 1 p.m. at the Rolla Band Shell; S&T student Blarney Bash LAN (local area network) parties, 8 p.m. in Thomas Jefferson Hall.
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I'm having a hard time believing it myself. I mean, 3 whole months of school-gone. Wow.
This is without a doubt-the most exciting time of the year for me. It is in part because I am ridiculously child-like. There is nothing that excites me like Christmas time. I can be in a foul mood-and walk into a mall that has Christmas music blasting, too many people per square foot and sparkly lights and 30 foot Christmas trees throughout-and I am instantly in a good mood. I love it.
During this season there are several things that are a give in for me. They are:
3. I will bake. I am not a baker, normally. I love to cook-baking is just not really my thing. For one-if I bake it I eat it, and I try not to eat too much of it but that just doesn't fly. I have no self control.
2. Hanson's Christmas album. Ha. You read that right. No need to re-read. It's called "Snowed In" and it makes me feel about 13 years old. Do you remember how exciting Christmas was for you at 13? Really stinking exciting. I had a very public love affair with Taylor Hanson-and listening to their Christmas album is just gonna happen for me. Every. Single. Year.
1. I'm gonna rub my Happy Christmas Attitude all over the place. Yep. I am. It excites me. Much of this excitement comes from the fact that I have 2 young kids. 5 1/2 and 3. Christmas is exciting for them. We have created wonderful, fun, festive traditions in our family-and I wait 11 months of the year to be able to see them come to life. Not much ruins that for me. Not even a Grinch.
With all of that being said. Here is my disclaimer.
Tomorrow-in our class, really awesome stuff is going to happen. Before school even started this year-each of our children's parents were asked what celebrations they celebrate and if there is anything they DO NOT celebrate. NOT ONE indicated that they don't Celebrate Christmas. Furthermore-upon intense investigation of my own-each of the children in our class mentioned being excited about Santa coming. This news really got me ready.
I know how completely lame this all must be for those of you who couldn't care less about the old guy, and it couldn't be more annoying for those of you who don't celebrate the same way as I do-BUT. This is why I titled this blog post "Is there room for Santa in School?"
I get excited about Santa because I feel like children grow up too fast. I love the opportunity for children to use their imaginations, and believe that something truly magical is happening in a world where they hear, and often feel bad things happening. I think that most of the toys on the market today-have robbed our children of being able to truly use their imaginations. I believe that society's pressures for children to be seen and not heard-has robbed them of good old giddy childhood. I believe that no matter what our religious beliefs, no matter our stance on "lying to our children"-imagination is something to be respected. It is something to be encouraged-and in our world today-it is something to be celebrated.
I must tell you. My 5 1/2 year old has one of the biggest imaginations known to man kind. I know that sounds ridiculous but I say it and truly believe it. He can take a kleenex and turn it into something that occupies him for an hour. I constantly hear him telling his sister "No Amelia-it's not real. You have to imagination it". :) When given the opportunity to watch tv-he normally lasts 7 minutes-and quickly leaves to go to his bedroom to build something fantastic with his lego. He is continuously thinking of new things to build with his lego. He never needs to be told "Build a house. Build an air plane" He just has the imagination required to pick up the blocks and construct. He also has a teacher this year that I can tell really encourages his enthusiasm for using his imagination. I am grateful.
This was so wordy. I would love to hear your opinions. I know we will all share different views on this-so when you voice them-know that I respect yours. Whatever they are-and whatever the reasons. I do respect them.
I will follow up tomorrow with some photos of what goes down.
Here's a hint: Our class brainstormed new ideas for our dramatic play center last week and it is now closed for construction. Here is what they decided:


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This fall, the roll call of gigantic ghosts inhabiting cinematic biographic continues unabated, with Joaquin Phoenix as a shrunken Johnny Cash in Ring of Fire, David Strathairn as an inscrutable Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as the ambitiously manipulative Truman Capote in, what else, Capote. The Cash biopic, sadly, possesses all the oomph of a straight line; it's impossible to illuminate a man who was as ablaze as Cash. But the latter two offer far more novel and ultimately longer-lasting tellings of less familiar tales: how (and, less so, why) TV journalist Murrow chose to take on Senator Joe McCarthy, leading to the downfall of both men; and how, during a trip to Kansas, Capote found his greatest book while losing the best part of himself in the process. They are not proper, moribund biopics at all, but snippets extracted from biographies -- A.M. Sperber's Murrow: His Life and Times and Gerald Clarke's Capote: A Biography -- used to show how a seemingly exultant interlude brings about a tailspin from which its subject can't recover.
There is, in Capote, a wonderful moment (among countless others) that captures the defeat concealed in triumph. Capote, played with such vibrancy by Hoffman that you quickly forget the effeminate mannerisms and lisping speech, and see and hear only the man himself, is on a theater-hall stage reading passages from his yet-unpublished nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, about the murder, and murderers, of a Kansas family in the fall of 1959. He begins at the beginning -- "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat fields of western Kansas, a lonesome area that the other Kansans call 'out there'" -- and after he is finished, the black-tie crowd, assembled by New Yorker editor and Capote confidant-cheerleader William Shawn (Bob Balaban), leaps to its feet. Capote backs away from the podium and begins to weep, and we are left to wonder why. Is he proud of his achievement, which he has insisted will revolutionize journalism and literature, or ashamed of how he accomplished such a feat by manipulating, using, and ultimately even betraying killers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith?
That's the question ultimately asked by screenwriter Dan Futterman and director Bennett Miller, both first-timers at the feature-film game. Theirs isn't just a story about how Capote wrote his masterpiece, but about the toll it took on him; this was, after all, a book about which even Capote said, "Before I began it, I was a stable person, comparatively speaking. Afterward, something happened to me. ... Horrible!" Writer and director continue that trajectory, following as the successful, beloved life of the party ultimately destroyed himself writing about two killers -- one, Hickock (Mark Pellegrino), a grubby small-timer; the other, Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.), a man who fancied himself considerate and literate, not all that different than Capote. (And Capote, too, would see himself reflected through Smith, with whom he sort of fell in love; of Smith, Capote says in the film, "It's as if Perry and I grew up in the same house, and he went out the back door while I went out the front.")
By focusing on the four-year period during which Capote researched, with his childhood friend Nelle Harper Lee (Catherine Keener, as earthy here as dirt on a boot heel), and wrote In Cold Blood, Futterman and Miller capture the sea change that took place in Capote. He begins the movie as a small man who seemed somehow a foot taller in appearance, a giddy name-dropper ("I had lunch with Jimmy Baldwin") for whom alcohol was a social lubricant. He's arrogant, too, to the point of offending the people he needs most for his tale: When Capote first goes to Kansas, he offends Kansas Bureau of Investigations agent Alvin Dewey (Chris Cooper) by not only demanding his time, right now, but also by claiming that for his story, he doesn't even care who killed the well-off Clutter family.
But as the story unfolds, as Hickock and Smith are captured and tried and imprisoned, Capote begins to unravel, too; their story becomes too much his story, and he begins to lose himself in the telling of what was meant to be a tidy little tale. By the end, Capote is an outright alcoholic, praying for the death of his two new friends if only so he can finish his goddamned book, which needs an ending. He begins to alienate his friends and loved ones, especially patient partner Jack Dunphy (Bruce Greenwood); he's too deep in it, and finally unable to extricate himself. By the movie's end, the little man seems to disappear altogether -- to fold into himself, exhausted and more than a little ashamed. Hoffman's is among the year's finest performances, precisely because it doesn't feel like one at all.
Capote, of course, is about much more than Capote's downward spiral in the face of success -- it's a history lesson, too, about the birth of New Journalism (or celebrity journalism) -- but Miller and Futterman were wise to keep the focus tight, clean, precise. To have gone too far back (to, say, the publication of Breakfast at Tiffany's) or too far forward would mute its impact -- turn its punch into a slap. It's this moment, when a man goes too far and loses his way, that matters most, and they're wise men for recognizing that. Go figure, then: How often does one see a masterpiece about a masterpiece?
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Playing background. Coach Buckley is a native of Wayne, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, where he attended Conestoga High School. Clay played varsity basketball for four years, became the School's all time leading scorer and rebounder, and was subsequently elected in the inaugural class of his High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
Coach Buckley then attended Duke University under a full athletic scholarship. During Clay's tenure at Duke, he became one of only 4 players in the history of Division 1 Men's basketball to go to 4 Final Fours. He was co-captain of the team his Senior year when the team won the National Championship defeating then undefeated and returning champion UNLV in the semi-finals and Kansas in the final game.
Coach Buckley went on to play professional basketball for a brief stint in Pergamino, Argentina, after which he resolved himself to playing in old men's leagues, which he continues to do today.
Coaching experience. Coach Buckley has taught and/or spoken at numerous camps throughout the years, but began coaching in earnest in the McLean Youth League when his son Fletcher first became old enough to play. He has continued to coach his children in the McLean Youth League over the last 5 years.
In 2008, Coach Buckley joined the McLean Select Basketball program, guiding his 10U team to the regular season championship. Clay was a Coach of the Year for McLean Select Basketball, sharing the girls' coaching honors with fellow Matrix coach Brian McNicoll.
During the 2009-2010 season, Coach Buckley coached the McLean 10U Division 1 team and was named Girls' 10-Under Division 1 FCYBL Most Valuable Coach by his peers.
For the 2010-2011 season, Coach Buckley is coaching the McLean Select 11-Under Division 1 team. The team was the champion of the 2010 BRYC 11-Under Division 1 Thanksgiving Tournament. Clay was again named the FCYBL Most Valuable Coach by his peers in 2010-2011.
He is currently the head coach of the McLean Select 7th Grade Division 1 team.
Coach Buckley joined the Matrix coaching staff in 2009, serving as the assistant for the 9U Green team. In 2010, he moved up with the team and took over the head coaching position for the 10U Green team. The 10U Green team earned the bronze medal at the 10-Under Division II Potomac Valley AAU District Qualiftying Tournament.
In 2011, Coach Buckley led the Matrix 2017 Green team to the Potomac Valley 11U-Division 1 gold medal. He looks forward to continuing that team's success in 2012.
Coaching Philosophy. Coach Buckley has two rules for his team to follow while playing…..Try Hard and Have Fun. He employs much of the techniques and philosophy that he picked up at Duke (e.g. man-to-man defense focus), but adjusted to be digestible and fun for the kids.
Winning is important (as Coach K has said, "there is no such thing as a good loss"), but pales in comparison with the objective of developing the skills and teamwork to have these young ladies prepared for play at the next levels.
Personal Background: Coach Buckley is a 11-year resident of McLean, Virginia, where he lives with his wife, Kerry, and two children, Fletcher and Ellie.
Clay is a sports fanatic, and enjoys playing basketball and golf in his leisure time. He is very passionate about coaching, and enjoys imparting his knowledge on the children immensely.
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Move over Dina Lohan! There's a newer drunker messier celeb mom eager to take your place.
Lynn Patridge, mother to Audrina Patridge, issued an apology yesterday, just a day after going on a drunken rant following the elimination of her daughter on Dancing With The Stars.
Following Audrina's elimination on Tuesday night, the Patridge family hit up a LA restaurant for dinner, during which things took a shocking turn when, after "three glasses of wine," Lynn decided to come outside to speak to the paparazzi.
"When one door closes another one opens," slurred Lynn. "Audrina is going to f—ing rise. She's got class. You know why? She's a Polish, Catholic, f—ing full-on Italian. Not only that, she was raised right. And I don't give a s–t. It's all American."
But it only got worse folks as Lynn, who will be starring on Audrina's upcoming reality show on VH1, then went on a rampage against Audrina's former Hills co-star Lauren Conrad.
"We're going to f—ing smoke, especially Lauren Conrad's pissy a– little fashion s—. That bitch wants to bring it on? Let's go!" Oddly enough, Lynn acknowledged during her rant that Audrina, 25, would "be so pissed" if she realized Lynn was talking to paparazzi. But that didn't stop her. "I've had it. I've been a celebrity mom eight years through this Hills bulls–t, but Audrina's going to the next level, baby," she explained. "F—ing Hills girls — Hills tramps! My baby's a star! She's the only one that has some class and I don't give a f— about it."
Lynn then issued a statement yesterday apologizing for her behavior. That statement is below –
"I am sincerely sorry for the negative things I said in the heat of the moment. As a mother, there is no pain in this world like seeing your children upset. I am so proud of my daughter and all she has accomplished on Dancing with the Stars. I was extremely emotional after her elimination — it just came as such a shock. I want to apologize for offending anyone."
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The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® series continues by recognizing a player who holds a handful of Tennessee State football records.
In 2001, running back Charles Anthony arrived on the TSU campus and promptly rushed for 812 yards to lead the Tigers. The stellar freshman campaign was a sign of things to come, and Anthony left as the school's all-time leading rusher.
Anthony increased his rushing totals every year including his senior season when he rushed for a school-record 1,739 yards. He finished his career with 5,057 yards- breaking the old record by over 2,000 yards.
The Tigers relied on Anthony to get the offense going, and even gave him a record 38 carries in a 35-10 victory at Murray State during his junior campaign. Those 38 carries were just part of the 322 rushing attempts that season- a record that still stands today.
TSU kept feeding Anthony the ball, and he kept producing. He had 14 rushing touchdowns as a senior and he holds the school's mark for career touchdowns with 45. He is also second on the all-time rushing touchdown list with 41.
He was a four-time season rushing leader and amassed 25 games with over 100 yards- three of which went for over 200 yards. One of those 200-yard games was on Oct. 23, 2004 when Anthony rushed for a school-record 285 yards against Samford.
Anthony's gaudy numbers earned him national recognition. He was chosen as a two time All-American by five different publications, including the associated press. The OVC also recognized Anthony's accomplishments and selected him to both its preseason and regular season all-conference teams.
Several running backs have suited up for Big Blue since Anthony left, but not one has ever been able to match Anthony's incredible production.
The 100 Moments of TSU Athletics presented by Taco Bell® highlights some of the greatest moments in honor of Tennessee State's centennial celebration. A new moment will be released each weekday for a total of 100. These moments were chosen by the TSU 100 Moments committee, which consists of alums from various departments. TSU has so many great moments, not all can be represented in these 100.
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Ben Jones, The Video
It seems pretty fitting that I've sat down to write about Ben Jones' current exhibition at least three or four times. The requisite online "research" always turned into episodes of Problem Solverz, Jones' show on Cartoon Network, a trip down the wormhole of media-saturated content on Paper Rad, his collaborative with Jessica and Jacob Ciocci (including Rhizome and the New Museum's recent archival of their website, http://www.paperrad.org and the accompanying exhibition, "Welcome to My Homey Page"), and a late night gchat where a friend excitedly offered to rip me his hard-to-find videos on DVD.
This is exactly the kind of intertextually meandering, visually anarchic, mentally overwhelming and massively entertaining experience that Jones is known for. Based on the gallery text and interviews that I read while trying to get a grip on his new material, Jones is trying—really—to simplify.
Ben Jones: The Video, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Pacific Design Center through February 24th, includes plenty that will look familiar to those who have tripped in the Jones universe before. Quasi-religious Gumby dolls, burning neon suns, loveable part man-dog-anteater Alfe; they're all here. But the mood of the show is quite different from his prior work. It's hypnotic, reflective, and more than a little bit sinister.
Ben Jones, The Video video painting still, 2012
The exhibition has been described as a series of video installations and while, technically, that's correct, it's also more than that. Collectively, the works in the show function as an installation about making videos. Unlike many of his fine art contemporaries, Jones is himself a manifestation of network age high-low plurality. He runs a successful commercial animation practice, creating music videos for the likes of Beck and M.I.A., and he writes, voices, animates, directs and scores the Problem Solverz, a children's show soon to begin it's second season. The works on display at MOCA seem keenly aware of his double life and how these differing working methods affect his artistic production.
The first floor of the PDC galleries holds several large-scale "video paintings," RGB videos projected over florescent-painted canvases in, alternately, flat geometric and discombobulating perspectival geometric patterns. The video paintings feature short pulsing loops of familiar pop culture, internet and technological tropes – including an eerily anthropomorphized TV color test screen – morphing into and submerging with their linear backdrops in a fitting introduction to what Jones calls "The New Dark Age," the dystopian and mystical future of the present. Running concurrently in a relatively small space, the works aren't individually immersive but, rather, jockey for your attention, making evident the struggle to create and maintain narrative tension for a chronically distracted audience.
Jones – despite his RISD BFA and art world pedigree—maintains a strong populist, mass media bent to his conceptual approach. The artist claimed, in a 2010 interview with the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, to have learned the most about minimalism from Atari. On the one hand, this is self-consciously flippant but, on the other, it's an insightful and increasingly prevalent view of the osmotic interfaces of visual and material culture. Where did Tron come from if not a Lewitt grid or a Flavin neon? And where did Paper Rad come from if not video games, children's television and what has, in today's parlance, transformed into Tumblr aesthetics?
While this isn't exactly a new observation, what's interesting here is Jones' sustained focus on just one media and its working processes, outputs and various subcultures. Video game designer and media theorist Ian Bogost has suggested a similarly focused approach for gaming, calling it media micro-ecology (in reference to McLuhan's original term).[1] Bogost proposes a focus on a singular form of media and its effect on society as a way to break down totalizing statements about technology. Concerned primarily with video in the form of hand-drawn animation and digital vector rendering, Jones' works here seem sympathetic to Bogost's model: in their richness and variety they aren't particularly concerned with the value or reputation of the medium itself but, rather, with documenting in hyperactive, sometimes overwhelming wonderment the many, various, and yet totally overlapping social applications of its use.
The second floor main gallery proves a particularly personal application of this concept, aside from a few forgettable road trip video paintings. A clip from Problem Solverz offers a bizarre comedic interjection, while also driving home how an adult sature of children's television made by an East Coast art collective ended up as a legitimately family friendly TV show. Is this is a part of the medium's life cycle or just an illustration of how close the two are, in reality? The Alfe pilot, "This is Carzy," from Paper Rad's 2006 DVD Talking Trash, reads like a Simpsons/Beavis and Butthead hybrid, while the "mature" Problem Solverz was screened at Art Los Angeles Contemporary this weekend and the last clip I watched prominently featured nervous adolescent cyborg Roba sitting at an Eero Saarinen table on an Alvar Aalto stool.
Driving home Jones' own involvement in both cultural spheres, caught somewhere between Ben-Jones-Commercial-Animator and Ben-Jones-Serious-Artist, is a video proposing a metanarrative for the entire exhibition. A rendering of the gallery in which you stand contains a single male figure at its fictional nexus (is it where you stand, you wonder…where the projector is?) popping sloppily relabeled VHS tapes in to play on an outdated monitor, controlling the confounding parade of images we've just experienced. Is he a congenial slacker just messing with us for lols, or some kind of media mastermind? Just in case things were fitting a bit too neatly into the antihero artistic archetype, however, the compositional crux of the exhibition is, ultimately, its only non-video piece – a painting of a VHS tape labeled "New Final Master #3." Paintings about video, art about childhood, Day-Glo Gumbys about the dark age of media culture. This microecology reveals itself as vast, weird, and infinitely transmutable.
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[1] Ian Bogost, How to Do Things With Videogames (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).


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BERLIN — "Child's Pose," a film by the Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer, took the top prize, the Golden Bear, at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday.
The story of a privileged woman whose maternal instincts kick into overdrive when her son kills a teenage boy in a car accident, "Child's Pose" shares several hallmarks of the recently revitalized Romanian cinema, not least a focus on institutional malaise and corruption. It was written by Mr. Netzer and Razvan Radulescu, who also collaborated on the screenplays of many other acclaimed Romanian films, including "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" and "4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days."
The runner-up prize, the Silver Bear, went to another Eastern European social drama, "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker." Directed by the Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanovic (best known for the Oscar-winning "No Man's Land") and based on actual events, the film recounts an impoverished Roma family's struggles with an unjust health care system, and enlists the real-life couple to re-enact their plight. The male lead, Nazif Mujic, won the best actor prize. Read more…


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Brazil's health system reaches out to the poor
Despite its many problems, Brazil's revamped public health system has brought quality health care to millions of poorer inhabitants who were previously denied even basic care. Claudia Jurberg reports on how primary health care is playing an essential role.
Until the 1970s, Brazilians used to joke that they had to die before the authorities paid any attention to them. Dr Hugo Coelho Barbosa Tomassini recalls how they used to have a full-time "death secretary" to administer funerals in the city of Niterói, where he was once the municipal health secretary, but only one health unit to care for the living.
Much has changed since then. While long queues at hospital emergency departments, beds spilling into corridors, outdated and malfunctioning equipment and a scarcity of doctors and medicine in rural areas remain common complaints, on another level, Brazil's national health system – Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) – has been an outstanding success.
The vision of a system providing "health for all" emerged towards the end of the military dictatorship that started in 1964 and during the years of political opposition that was to a large extent framed in terms of access to health care. This struggle culminated in the 1988 constitution, which enshrined health as a citizens' right and which requires the state to provide universal and equal access to health services.
It was a dramatic commitment to the ideals in the 1978 Alma-Ata declaration of "health for all".
Under a subsequent health reform in 1996, Brazil established a health system based on decentralized universal access, with municipalities providing comprehensive and free health care to each individual in need financed by the states and federal government.
Key to this strategy was primary health care. Today, primary health care remains one of the main pillars of the public health system in this country of 190 million people.
Promoting health, preventing sickness, treating the sick and injured, and tackling serious disease; these are the cornerstones of the public health system, according to nurse Maria Fátima de Sousa, who has a doctorate in health and science and is a researcher at the University of Brasília.
About 70% of Brazil's population receives care from this system, de Sousa says, while the remainder – those that can afford to avoid the queues and inconvenience of the public system – opts for private care. De Sousa says that before Brazil's "health-care revolution" a much greater proportion of the population was excluded.
"It was a period when authorities did not recognize health as a right. Most of the population had little or no access to health services. Access was only for those who had a public health plan card," de Sousa says, referring to the old system.
All three levels of government in Brazil – federal, state and municipal – have worked hard to encourage the poor to use and benefit from the health system through initiatives, such as the Family Health Programme and through the deployment of auxiliary health workers or agentes de saúde working with the poor.
Created in 1994, the Family Health Programme – Brazil's main primary health care strategy – seeks to provide a full range of quality health care to families in their homes, at clinics and in hospitals.
Today, 27 000 Family Health teams are active in nearly all Brazil's 5560 municipalities, each serving up to about 2000 families or 10 000 people. Family Health teams include doctors, nurses, dentists and other health workers. De Sousa says annual resources for primary health care have increased in the past 13 years to about US$ 3.5 billion, with US$ 2 billion of that money devoted to the Family Health programme out of an overall government health budget of about US$ 23 billion.
Niterói, with a population of 475 000 in the state of Rio de Janeiro and just 13 kilometres from the city of the same name, is just one example of a city that has transformed its public health care over the past 20 years. According to Tomassini, "after the Alma-Ata conference, Niterói devised a health plan to provide universal access on a decentralized basis – the opposite of what had existed in the past." A handful of other Brazilian municipalities also started to establish primary health care services at the time.
In Niterói, health-care units were set up in areas that previously had no health services. Today, the health clinic in Itaipu, a neighbourhood of Niterói, is a good example of how Brazil's primary health care system works. More than 62 000 people from Itaipu and 11 surrounding neighbourhoods are treated there for common complaints, such as parasitic diseases, diabetes and hypertension.
Dr Maria das Graças Vieira Esteves, who has been the director of the clinic for the past 11 years, says Niterói's 23 Family Health teams are an essential part of Brazil's health system. "Initially, I did not believe the Family Health programme could be effective, but gradually I saw they were doing marvellous work and getting results," she says. "In Itaipu, pregnant women attend 10 prenatal appointments. This approach has contributed to the fall in infant mortality rates."
Community participation is crucial to the programme's success. "Since 2004, on the last Tuesday of each month, there are meetings at the clinic attended by members of the community, including representatives from the church, NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] and schools," says Vieira Esteves. "We always listen to the community and their needs." This input is passed to Niterói's municipal health council, which is then responsible for implementing measures to cater for the health needs of all its constituents. Vieira Esteves says the major challenges are to convince people that the system can work to their benefit and to persuade the authorities to devote more money to primary health care.
After two decades in operation, Brazil's national health system still faces significant problems – not least a double burden of infectious diseases and increased risk of noncommunicable diseases often associated with ageing populations of affluent countries. "Brazil is going through an epidemiological transition," Tomassini says.
"Although we are a developing country, our people are at risk from [noncommunicable conditions such as] cancer and trauma resulting from violence and accidents, as well as from infectious diseases such as dengue, Chagas, schistosomiasis."
In Brazil, primary health care remains the most effective way to provide greater access to health services. Although, Brazil did not achieve the Alma-Ata goal of "health for all" by the year 2000, it has made significant progress, albeit along a tortuous road. "Today," says Tomassini, "the SUS [national health system] works, but it is not operating to its full capacity because there are many obstacles, such as conservatism and politics. The lack of political will to help people in rural areas causes problems for the health system."
In the cities, Tomassini says, there is a climate which favours the provision of complex, specialized treatment. "There is a duel between the hospital network and primary health care," he says, referring to a legacy of the old health system that remains today. One of the biggest challenges, Tomassini says, is to gain people's confidence. Sometimes people travel to urban areas to receive treatment that they could have received from primary health units in their rural areas.
"We have learned many lessons in the past 13 years from the implementation of the Family Health programme," says de Sousa. "We have learned that it is possible to build a new model for primary health with the principles of fairness and solidarity as long as there is the political will to do this.""Primary health care services are key to the success of the SUS [national health system]," concludes Tomassini. "It is through primary care that we can end the queues in public hospitals and stop the wait for medical appointments."


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Fingerprints on Plated Parts
I have received two questions in the last few months regarding fingerprints on finished plated parts. This is not an uncommon problem in the world of plating. Looking through my archives, I realized it would be good to revisit this topic:
A. Fingerprints on finished parts represent a classic case of improper handling of the parts during the production and/or inspection process. The parts were handled with bare hands, and small amounts of body oils and salts were left on the plated surfaces. Depending on how the parts were stored, the oils and salts picked up moisture from the environment and, through the ever-present phenomenon of corrosion, the parts were stained and damaged. A couple of things can be done so this doesn't happen in the future. One is to require that all handling of the parts be done wearing cotton gloves. The second is to store the parts in closed containers if they are not going to be used immediately. The containers should contain a drying agent to further control moisture.
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The late actor Corey Haim's name was found on an illegal prescription of a painkiller found during an investigation into a major California drug ring, according to a statement issued Friday by state Attorney General Jerry Brown.
Records of an OxyContin prescription in Haim's name were found as Brown's office looked into a ring that allegedly obtained prescription pads and used doctors' stolen identities to issue them, according to the Attorney General.
Haim, the actor who rose to fame in the 1980s alongside pal Corey Feldman, died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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"Corey Haim's death is yet another tragedy linked to the growing problem of prescription drug abuse," Brown said in the written statement.
"The problem is increasingly linked to criminal organizations, like the illegal and massive prescription drug ring under investigation," he wrote.
Brown's statement, however, was issued before the Los Angeles County Coroner's office could determine Haim's cause of death. Authorities have also not confirmed whether Haim actually filled the prescription or if someone had used the former child star's name to get their hands on the drugs, official Javier Salaiz told the AP.
Haim, who fought a long battle with drug addiction, was initially believed to have died from an overdose. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said investigators found four prescription drug bottles bearing Haim's name on the scene inside the apartment where he collapsed, but said all of the drugs were provided by a doctor.
Winter said he had not spoken to Brown and that toxicology results would not be available for at least a month.
"It surprises me that Jerry Brown would come out and give a cause of death," he said.
Brown said in an interview that the OxyContin prescription was part of a "growing and dangerous problem."
Haim shot to fame while starring in 1980s movies "The Lost Boys" and "Lucas."
He will likely be buried at a private funeral in Canada, where he hails from, Haim's agent Mark Heaslip said.


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In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting and in the default pantheon of deities, Ehlonna is the goddess of Forests, Woodlands, Flora, Fauna, and Fertility. Ehlonna is known to the elves as "Ehlenestra".
Description[edit source]
Ehlonna is variously depicted as an elven or human woman, and often associates with unicorns and other sylvan creatures. When in human form, Ehlonna appears as a dark-haired human woman, but as Ehlenestra, she appears as a golden-haired elven maiden. She is served by a planetar named Novalee.
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Ehlonna has an intense rivalry with Obad-Hai. Where the neutral good Ehlonna advocates the beauty and goodness of unspoiled nature, the true neutral Obad-Hai sees nature as brutal and uncompromising. She is friendly with the Seldarine and most good-aligned deities.
Dogma[edit source]
Ehlonna teaches that the animals and plants of the forests are gifts, and are not to be stolen. She is often the goddess of rangers and druids and opposes hunters and those who would rape the land for fun or profit.
Clergy and temples[edit source]
For clerics of Ehlonna/Ehlenestra, her domains include Animal, Celerity, Good, Plant, Purification, and Sun. Her holy symbol is a rampant unicorn, and her favored weapons are the longbow and the longsword.
References[edit source]
- Gary Gygax. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (TSR, 1983).
- Gary Gygax. "The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk." Dragon #68 (TSR, 1982).
- Gary Holian, Erik Mona, Sean K. Reynolds, Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).
- Moore, Roger E. Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins (TSR, 1998).
- David Noonan. Complete Divine (Wizards of the Coast, 2004).
- Rich Redman, Skip Williams, James Wyatt. Deities and Demigods (Wizards of the Coast, 2002).
- Carl Sargent. From the Ashes (TSR, 1992).
- James M. Ward. Greyhawk Adventures (TSR, 1988).
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'Water Songs' will chart the Colorado River
NORTH ADAMS -- Over the course of the Colorado River's 1,450-mile journey from La Poudre Pass in the Rockies to the Gulf of California, gathering water from a basin encompassing seven states, it picks up many stories. It weaves through layers of geology and geography, becomes a crucial part of ecosystems and economies, and includes breathtaking natural and engineering wonders. Its flow affects the lives of millions.
And for a diverse group of filmmakers, composers, singers, and educators who are gathering at Mass MoCA this week, it is the guiding theme for a multimedia project to explore a visually stunning part of the world that is not only central to US economy, but surprisingly delicate and with an uncertain future.
"This is a sensory gateway into that region, portrayed in a rich and nuanced way," said Murat Eyuboglu, the director and filmmaker who is driving the project. "We're providing the tools for people to learn more, experience more, and become more engaged."
The end result is planned for late next year, but Mass MoCA will host a "work in progress" screening of the project, called "Water Songs: Ha Tay G'Am" from name for the river in the native Havasupai language. The showing on Saturday will include footage from the film and music composed for it, performed by the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, who are familiar faces at Mass MoCA.
The project is still taking shape. While the dozens of collaborators involved have begun sketching out the project online, their brief residency at the museum this week marks the first time they have met in person.
On Monday, eight of the project members gathered in Club B-10 at Mass MoCA for a series of presentations. Sitting in aluminum chairs with a projector whirring overhead, notebooks and laptops scattered about, they listened as writer and conservationist William deBuys discussed the ways climate change is affecting the River basin. Many decisions about water over the past century were made during a time of relative water abundance, he said, and that times are changing.
The project will tell different stories from the river's run. The river lies at the intersection of European and native cultures, as told by the story of Padre Eusebio Kino, a 17th-century Jesuit priest who founded a number of missions in the region. The project will look at engineering in the area, at the workers who built the Hoover Dam in the heart of the Depression, and at construction of the Glen Canyon Dam decades later, which drew the opposition of the emerging environmental movement.
Another segment will look at the lives of the undocumented migrant laborers who harvest the crops of the enormously profitable agriculture industry in the region, made possible by the control of water.
Eyuboglu, a filmmaker originally from Istanbul, and said the idea of the film first came when he visited the Imperial Valley of southeastern California for a different film project. He was struck by a visit to the Salton Sea, a body of water created by accident from flooded canals along the Colorado in 1905.
"It has become an unbelievable ecosystem," he said. Today, it is a hauntingly beautiful spot in the middle of the desert -- both an important stopover for migrating birds, and an increasingly brackish and toxic puddle thanks to huge amounts of agricultural runoff that gathers there.
He wanted to learn more, and in his research he became interested in land use and water management in this area. That led him to deBuys' book, "Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California," which tells the story of this unique ecosystem. deBuys is now an advisor to the project.
From there, other collaborators were brought on board. He had known and hoped to work with composer Paola Prestini, who co-founded VisionIntoArt, an interdisciplinary arts collective that specializes in collaborative, multimedia work.
"This completely fits into what we do," Prestini said, working with artists and other professionals to "find places we can bring together their knowledge and our knowledge to cross-pollinate."
Others have also come on board, including composers William Brittelle, John Luther Adams, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Shara Worden.
Prestini said she was especially excited to work with Roomful of Teeth. The group was founded and is directed by Brad Wells, who teaches music at Williams College, and it explores a dizzying variety of vocal styles and traditions. Last month they won a Grammy for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble, and are well-known to MoCA audiences thanks to their annual residencies at the museum.
"The can bring across so many styles," Prestini said. "They have an unbelievable palate of sounds."
So far Eyuboglu estimates that over the past two years he has filmed a third of the material he will need. He and several other project member are planning an 18-day boat trip around the river in April.
He hopes to finish with a documentary film, a live performance piece and an album.
"This is the most extensive collaboration I've ever been a part of," Eyuboglu said. "This is a very big story. It shouldn't have the individual stamp of any one particular artist."
And its importance will continue to grow. The region is becoming more and more dry, which raises concern because a huge amount of the nation's food supply is irrigated with water from the river.
"We all have molecules of the Colorado River in our bodies at any given moment," he said.
If you go ...
What: 'Water Songs: Ha Tay G'am' work-in-progress live film screening with live music performed by Roomful of Teeth
Where: Mass MoCA, North Adams
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, March 1
Admission: $15 general or $10 for students
Information: massmoca.org
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Ticket #2035: Tiling Module Config crashes with multiple screens
Ticket #2050: SIGABRT when attempting to unload the Tiling module
Boris Faure, Lord and Master of Tiling, has seen fit to grant this fix to his loyal subjects, and we thank him for gracing us with his time.
Ticket #2011: e17: keyboard is always in english
Apparently gnome-settings-daemon changes keyboard layout and screen resolution. So this is now disabled by default.
Ticket #2007: Alt+Tab menu ocasionaly stays
I'm moderately confident that this is now fixed after being a rare annoyance for many years.
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- Winlist now functions more expectedly when activated from a mouse binding
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A Fayette third grade student finished second in her class at the Fulton County Spelling Bee.
Adalina Rosas took second place in the third grade division. This was her first year to compete in the contest that includes students in grades three through eight.
The competition was scheduled Feb. 7 at the Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center.
First place winners from fourth grade and older advance to the Toledo Blade competition in March.
Evergreen winners included Madalynn Peluso, fifth place, third grade; Alexandra Gillen, second place, fourth grade; Trinity Martinez, fourth place, fourth grade; Zoe VanOstrand, first place, fifth grade;
Bailee Walborn, first place, sixth grade; Jonah Blanchard, fifth place, sixth grade; Leah Schwan, sixth place, seventh grade; Ross Shaffer, fifth place, eighth grade.


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Adult Stem-Cell Experts Discuss Ethical Research
University of Notre Dame hosts conference.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (CNA) — Top medical experts at a University of Notre Dame conference this week are insisting on better alternatives to embryonic stem cells and pushing for more research in the adult stem-cell field.
"We think that it is crucial that ethical alternatives to embryonic stem-cell research be pursued," Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead told CNA June 29.
The current seminar, "Workshop on Adult and Non-Embryonic Stem-Cell Research," is being held on campus through July 2 and features authorities who hail from schools such as Columbia University as well as pontifical academy members.
"Our elite scholars, across a variety of disciplines — science, engineering, law and arts and letters — are enthusiastically committed to pursuing" other approaches to embryonic stem-cell research, Snead said.
He noted that this week's conference will zero in on discussing adult stem cells and what he called alternative (non-embryonic) stem-cell research by exploring developmental biology as it relates to ethics, theology, philosophy and law.
Snead said that the seminar has the backing of the Office of the President as well as several other university departments.
"As the premier American Catholic research university, Notre Dame is ideally suited for this work," he said.
The law professor said that Notre Dame is also able to contribute to the debate by affirming the Church's commitment "to the equal dignity of every human being."
Snead said that "as a matter of basic justice, we do not participate in any research that depends on the use and destruction of embryonic human beings."
The "good news is that there are many fruitful avenues of inquiry that do not involve such practices."
The university workshop comes as some U.S. lawmakers are attempting to give legislative support to President Obama's 2009 executive order allowing federal funding for research using discarded embryos from fertility clinics.
Although a federal appeals court upheld the order earlier this year, is still faces legal obstacles. The Department of Justice recently asked a U.S. district judge to end a pending lawsuit against the order.
The embryonic stem-cell legislation is sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Rep. Charlie Dent, D-Pa. Rep. DeGette is slated to present the bill at the Craig Rehabilitation Hospital in Denver next week.


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Pre-approved Placements
As long as the work being performed is otherwise appropriate pro bono legal work under the program rules, the following placements are considered pre-approved for pro bono work. Students must still submit the project for approval via Symplicity, thus creating a project within which to report hours. Pre-approval means the student can, absent unusual circumstances, assume approval via Symplicity will be forthcoming, but the electronic creation of the project for approval is a necessary step."
College of Law Externship Placements
Katherine Ball, externship coordinator
Sunil Ramalingam, interim director of Externships and Pro Bono Programs
All externship placements that are currently approved are pre-approved for pro bono placements (consult Symplicity or the relevant externship director/coordinator if you are unsure). Students may fulfill the pro bono requirement by working additional hours after they have completely and satisfactorily fulfilled all the requirements of the externship. Simultaneous externship and pro bono service for the same supervisor or agency is not allowed.
Magistrate Judge Distance Clerk Project
Professor Katie Ball directs a special program of training and service as distance law clerks for magistrate judges in Idaho. Please consult Prof. Ball and watch for announcements regarding requirements and details for participation
College of Law Clinics
Students may not receive pro bono credit for any hours worked toward fulfillment of clinical work for which they are receiving credit. Pro bono work is not always available to students, whether or not enrolled in clinic, and any desired pro bono work in the clinic must be approved by the relevant clinical faculty member in advance.
College of Law Student Organization Projects*
*Note: Not all proposed student group projects are pre-approved. Student group leaders must seek approval from the director. Once group approval is given, participating students do not need to individually seek pre-approval, and they may participate according to the approval parameters given to the group. The following are examples of past group projects that received approval; future pre-approval is not guaranteed. Consult with the relevant group leader to ensure group approval for the particular project and particular year.
Public Interest Law Group (PILG)
- Law-in-the-Classroom: Students make presentations at Moscow and Lewiston high schools. Orofino High School uses students to work on mock legislature.
- CASA: Students work as guardians ad litem for children who are abused, abandoned or neglected. (Note: Work in the Second Judicial District CASA Program requires individual student approval; no group approval is currently given.)
- Alternative Spring Break: PILG sponsors numerous placements for students who wish to provide pro bono legal service in Idaho and elsewhere during spring break.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Students review complaints from schools, prisons and others regarding denial of civil rights and liberties. They work up cases and make recommendations to the ACLU statewide board of attorneys who decide which cases to pursue. Work is also needed on a "Know Your Rights" pamphlet for high schools.
Environmental Law Society (ELS)
Students work on issues identified locally for Friends of the Clearwater, or elsewhere in Idaho and in the region. For example, for the Hells Canyon Protection Council or for Advocates for the West.
J. Reuben Clark Law Society (JRCLS)
- The organization works on publications for use in classrooms and universities in Idaho. More than 44,000 copies have been distributed.
- Students provide legal assistance, mostly to other university students, on landlord-tenant problems.
Latino Law Cacus
- Students assist at Citizenship Days to help permanent alien residents to apply for naturalization
- Students assist in Immigration Law Clinic by taking on work over and above course requirements, or by serving as translators in clinic situations.
- Students attend "charla" gatherings in Boise to do intake or to assist pro bono attorneys helping those with a "notice to appear" at a deportation hearing.
Law Students for Appropriate Dispute Resolution
Students who are credentialed mediators seek opportunities to provide mediation services.
Native American Law Students Association
Students serve at guardians ad litem for the Coeur d'Alene tribal judicial system.
Students sponsor wills clinics in Moscow and in Boise for same-sex couples according to parameters and procedures developed in consultation with and by approval of the director of the pro bono program.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
Students provide income tax assistance throughout the local community, at the Coeur d'Alene reservation in Plummer and to native peoples in Alaska Natives over spring break.
Women's Law Caucus
Members volunteer time to assist students taking the Domestic Violence Clinic.
Presumptively Pre-approved - General
It is presumed that certain types of placements are pre-approved even if they are out-of-state and even if they have not previously had a University of Idaho law school extern. These include:
Federal Government
- Immigration and Naturalization Service
- U.S. Attorney's Office
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Idaho
- U.S. District Court, District of Idaho
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, Office of Staff Attorneys
State Governments
- Capital Habeas Unit, Federal Defenders of Eastern WA and ID
- State of Idaho
- State of Idaho, Governor's Office
- State of Idaho, Attorney General's Office
- Idaho Court of Appeals
- Idaho Supreme Court
- State of Washington
- State of Washington, Attorney General's Office
- WSU, Attorney General's Office Division
Local Government
- City Attorney Offices
- City Public Defender Offices
- County Prosecuting Attorney Offices
- County Public Defender Offices
- Court Assistance Program, Ada County/Latah County
Magistrate and District Courts
- Idaho
- Utah
- Washington
Other Pre-Approved Pro Bono Placements
AARP Idaho
3080 E Gentry Way - Suite 100
Meridian, Idaho 83642
Annual Legislative Package: e.g., assist in developing consumer protection legislation regarding predatory lending practices of pay day loan companies; create brochures: e.g., legal rights of grandparents raising grandchildren protecting end-of-life rights.
ACLU of Idaho
Monica Hopkins, Executive Director
Lea Cooper, Staff Attorney
P.O. Box 1897
Boise, ID 83701
Review case files on behalf of statewide Board that chooses which cases to litigate.
Address prison inmate grievances.
Provide legislative assistance: analyze legislation; research alternative approaches in other states; draft briefing papers for legislature and for testimony at hearings.
Ada County Public Defender
Alan Trimming
Ann Cosho
200 W. Front St.
Boise, ID 83702
208-287-7400 (7438 - Cosho)
On-site assistance in Boise. Long-distance research on motions, or recurring issues of importance to the office.
Advocates for the West
Laird Lucas
1320 W. Franklin
P.O. Box 1612
Boise, ID 83702
208-342-8286 Fax
Litigation: Caseload of over 200 cases in environmental litigation, on behalf of 25 public interest conservation groups.
Seeking candidates of intensity, zeal and passion for the causes they represent.
Work can lead to a Note for law review.
Catholic Charities of Idaho
Starr Shepard
4202 W. Emerald St.
Boise, ID 83706
Catholic Charities runs an extensive program of immigration services throughout the state. The office focus is on VAWA and UVISA cases. Staff members are certified to appear at Immigration Court. Private attorneys supervise the work.
Co-Ad, Inc., Boise
Mary Jo Butler
4477 Emerald Ave.
Boise, ID 83706
208-336-5396 Fax
Co-Ad's mission is to defend the rights of the disabled, through litigation, mediation, compliance monitoring, and legislation. Examples include Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance in access to buildings; employment discrimination; and legislative research.
Idaho Coalition against Sexual & Domestic Violence
Kelly Miller, Director
300 E. Mallard Dr.
Boise, ID 83706
The Coalition is a group of 30 organizations seeking to provide relief to victims of domestic/sexual violence. Projects include issues regarding workplace violence, protective orders. Develop legal materials for curriculum in domestic violence "Academy." Assist in Idaho's campaign against dating violence.
Idaho Conservation League
Courtney Washburn
710 W. 6th St.
Boise, ID 83702
Major presence in Idaho Legislature. ICL can use help from students who have background in biology, engineering, etc., to analyze/comment on Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) documents on controversial project proposals. ICL is in the process of opening an office in Northern Idaho. Focus: e.g., impact of growth on the aquifer.
Idaho Innocence Project
Greg Hampikian, PhD, Professor of Biology and Criminal Justice
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725-1515
The Idaho Innocence Project reviews criminal convictions of prisoners --those on death row or serving life sentences -- to determine, by DNA analysis, whether the prisoner is the one who committed the crime. The Project needs a summer intern to review case files to determine if cases have arguable merit. The student does a case summary for review by the Legal Advisory Board.
Idaho Legal Aid Services (ILAS) – Boise Office
Rod Gere
Jim Cook
Ritchie Eppink
310 N. 5th St.
Boise, ID 83702
Direct client service in summer: intake; interview clients; staff senior Hotline.
Idaho Legal Aid Services (ILAS) - Lewiston Office
Jeannine Ferguson, Lead Attorney
633 Main St. Ste 103
P.O. Box 973
Lewiston, ID 83501
Litigation: draft pleadings, subpoena witnesses, get statements. Prepare clients for small claims court: interview; get facts; help with affidavits; get documentation; identify elements of case needed to prevail; prove damages. Office intake and interviews. Presentations on fair housing and domestic violence.
Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program (IVLP)
Mary Hobson, Director
Idaho State Bar
525 W. Jefferson
Boise, ID 83702
On-site work in summer and during spring break.
Latah County - Court Assistance Program
Frances Thompson
P.O. Box 8068
Moscow, Idaho
Program helps walk-in pro se clients navigate interactive court forms.
Law-Related Education - High Schools in Moscow, Lewiston and Orofino
- Students help Government teachers by making a class presentation, or engaging in a debate on a constitutional law issue for high school seniors.
- Orofino High School has won national recognition for its mock legislature program. Law students assist the high school students. See Pat Costello, who has assisted in this program for many years.
Nez Perce County - Court Assistance Program
Steve Larsen
1230 Main St
Lewiston, ID 83501
Help navigate pro se clients through interactive computer-based assistance forms. Proceed gradually from no fault divorce through more complex cases where property and child custody disputes are involved. Mr. Larsen will train and serve as mentor/supervisor.
Nez Perce County Prosecuting Attorney
Dan Spickler, P.A.
1109 F. St.
Lewiston, ID 83501
Various projects in civil law division.
Nez Perce County Public Defender
William J. Fitzgerald
504 Main St. Ste 480
Lewiston, ID 83501
Lewiston/Nez Perce City/County Misdemeanors: represent clients at plea bargain sessions on Friday mornings; put plea on record in open court. Juvenile cases. Research on motions to suppress, etc.
Nez Perce Tribe
Julie Kane, Managing Attorney
Office of Legal Counsel
P.O. Box 305
Lapwai, ID 83540
The law school has worked with the Nez Perce Tribe for many years. Work includes litigation, domestic cases, juvenile crimes, public defender work.
Molly Huskey, Director
3647 Lake Harbor Dr.
Boise, ID 83703
Appellate work on cases. Summer, spring break and school year work available.
United States District Court Pro Bono Assistance Office
Federal Building
Boise, ID
555 W. Fort St.
Boise, ID 83724-0039
Assist pro bono attorneys on federal cases. E.g., prisoner cases (religious discrimination; medical care access; sexual assaults). Non-criminal cases: e.g., denial of Social Security benefits.
Washington State University
Center for Human Rights
Raul Sanchez, Director
French Administration Building 225
Pullman, WA 99164
Investigate complaints of discrimination against minority/diversity populations. Research program compliance with WSU anti-affirmative-action laws. Serve as presenters for WSU personnel on topics such as sexual harassment, diversity training, etc.
Whitman County Public Defender
John S. Snyder
155 SE Kamiaken St.
Pullman, WA 99163
Work closely with 3L paid intern on general criminal defense matters.


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You read the headline right: Warner Bros. is reportedly eying Ben Affleck (Gone Baby Gone) to helm Justice League, DC and WB's answer to Marvel/Disney's The Avengers. Affleck is expected to enter discussion with the studio higher-ups within the next few days. So far, he's the only candidate who has received the script from Gangster Squad scribe, Will Beall. Affleck has also set a recent precedent of directing films he also stars in, which may mean that we'll be seeing him on screen in some capacity, whether super-suited or not. Hit the jump for much more on this developing story, along with a possible role for Affleck in an upcoming film which has long been in development at Warner Bros. [Update: We've added more information regarding Affleck's likely decision]
Variety reports that Affleck is the main man for WB's Justice League, now that Christopher Nolan is officially out as director. The superhero team up will feature Batman and Superman, alongside Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Flash. If Nolan's Batman trilogy is any indication, bolstered by the apparent tone and palette of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, we can look forward to Justice League likely continuing the "realistic and gritty" aesthetic. Affleck's latest directorial effort will be on display this fall with the political thriller, Argo.
It wasn't all that long ago that Affleck wasn't taken seriously as an actor, let alone a writer or a director. That was before the critical and commercial success of Gone Baby Gone and The Town. Back in the fall of 2010, we reported that Affleck was once in contention for the director's chair for what was to become Man of Steel. If Affleck decides to take on this property, it will likely take him out of contention for other films, at least in a directorial capacity. Justice League is looking to butt heads with newly-appointed director Joss Whedon's The Avengers 2 some time in 2015.
However, Affleck could still have room in his schedule for some acting roles. One in particular popped up in this same report. Affleck is contemplating a role in Greg Berlanti's sci-fi drama, Replay, in which a man dies and is able to relive his life again and again, changing partners and professions each time. The film is based on the 1987 best-selling novel by Ken Grimwood. Whether Affleck decides to star in Replay or not, what do you think of him possibly directing (and starring?) in Justice League? Can you see him as any of the costumed characters or more of a supporting role? Let us know in the comments below!
[Update: Deadline "reports" that they didn't bother with this news because while they had the story "days" before Variety, Affleck's reps said it wasn't going to happen. This isn't so much of a report as much as Deadline trying to play it off like they didn't care when they know they got scooped on a story they should have covered, especially since they've never shied away from "taking a meeting"-stories in the past.
But Deadline is right when they say Affleck's probably not going to take the gig. Warner Bros. desperately wants him to take on a big franchise (in 2010 they had him on their wish list for Man of Steel), but he clearly isn't interested. Personally, I'm glad that Affleck is sticking to the films he wants to make even though he has the opportunity to make a blockbuster. He's already delivered two superb movies with Gone Baby Gone and The Town, and his upcoming film, Argo, looks terrific. Affleck has never showed any interest in taking on a big franchise, and he seems content to keep making adult dramas, which is fine by me.–Matt]


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Bullet time! The supernatural act of slowing down time as you either shoot a gun or dodge the bullets of someone shooting at you! It was in Max Payne. It was in The Matrix.
How in world do you make bullet time work in a multiplayer shooter like Max Payne 3?
It makes sense when you play the game, but the game isn't out yet. So, we've tried to explain it with words and are trying again with video. We hope it helps!
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Bisons stay perfect in spring
The Buffalo Bisons improved to 5-0 this spring with a 7-3 victory over the New Orleans Zephyrs on Friday afternoon from Jupiter, FL.
Be here when the Herd heads north: Click to get a chair now!
On Friday, the Bisons snapped a 3-3 tie with four runs in the top of the ninth inning. OF JASON PRIDIE'S two-run double proved to be the game-winning hit for the Herd. Pridie finished the game 3-5 with three runs scored.
INF MIKE CERVENAK went 2-5 with a double and an RBI while INF ALEX CINTRON was 2-4 with a run scored for the Bisons.
On the mound, RHP R.A. DICKEY started for the Herd and allowed three runs on six hits in six innings of work. LHP MIKE O'CONNOR got the win with two shutout innings, striking out three.
The Herd has four more games on their spring exhibition schedule, each to be played at the Mets' spring training home in Port St. Lucie, FL. Buffalo faces the Memphis Redbirds on Sunday, March 28 at 1:00 p.m.
There are just 19 days until the Bisons' 2010 Home Opener on Wednesday, April 14 against the Pawtucket Red Sox (3:05 p.m.). Tickets are now on-sale at bisons.com or by calling THE-HERD at (843-4373).