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SPRINGVALE — A Harvest Dance will be held at the Nasson Little Theatre at 457 Main Street on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 8 to 11 p.m. Deejay Dick Fredette will provide music. Admission is $10 per person. The dress code is casual, and there will be a cash bar, raffles and free popcorn. This event is to benefit the Nasson Community Center. For more information, visit online at www.nassoncc.org.
SPRINGVALE — The First Baptist Church of Springvale at 429 Main Street will hold its Holidays Fair on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Brunch will be served from 9 to 11 a.m. There will be a "greens room" with Maine-made wreaths, crafts, gifts, a "cookie walk," a food table, and a children's room.
WATERBORO — The Waterborough Historical Society's annual Holiday Fair will be held on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Grange Hall at 31 West Road in South Waterboro. Crafters will offer a variety of items, and there will be a hot-dish luncheon and silent auction for items and gift certificates donated by local merchants. Society merchandise of historical interest, including the 2012 pewter Christmas ornament depicting the Elder Grey Meeting House, will be available. On hand will be pre-publication order forms for "Early Families of Waterborough, Maine," by Fred Boyle. To request more information or to reserve table space, call Ginny at 247-5160 or Brenda at 247-5148.
SANFORD — An Artisan Fair and Dip Contest will be held at the Y Trafton Center on Elm Street on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m. Pottery, paintings, cookbooks, recipes, crafts, jams, jellies, baked goods, jewelry, wreaths, knitted and crocheted items and more will be on sale. There will be raffles, giveaways and live music too.
SANFORD — Crossroads United Methodist Church will hold its Annual Thanksgiving Pie Sale on Tuesday, Nov. 20, from 10 to 2 p.m. This year, pies will be preordered. Now through Nov. 16, please call 289-9830 or send an email to email@example.com to place your order. You can pick up your pie on the 20th. Prices will be as follows: cream pies (chocolate, coconut, banana, lemon meringue), $7; fruit pies (apple, pumpkin, blueberry), $8; and specialty pies (pecan, mince, pumpkin, praline, Tollhouse), $9. The church is located at the corner of Route 202 and Grammar Road in Sanford.
SANFORD — The American Red Cross will hold two blood drives in Sanford in the weeks ahead: at the North Parish Congregational Church at 893 Main Street from 12:30 to 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 26; and at the Seacoast Career School on Eagle Drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29.
SANFORD — Starting Nov. 20, The Cancer Care Center of York County will offer a free, five-week "Whistle While You Walk" program at Walmart in Sanford on Route 109. Physical exercise is crucial for cancer patients and is proven to reduce fatigue, depression, and increase one's well-being. This program will take place on Tuesdays from 6 to 8 a.m. Walkers are encouraged to walk the inside perimeter of the store — four times around the store amounts to 1.2 miles. Cancer patients, families, and caregivers are welcome to walk at their own pace for as little or as long as possible. All walkers will receive a complimentary water bottle, a whistle, and a pedometer. To request more information and to register, please call Shannon at 207-459-1658.
SANFORD — A free "Look Good, Feel Better" program will be held at the Cancer Care Center of York County off Route 109 in South Sanford on Monday, Nov. 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. This program offered by the American Cancer Society provides education, information, and supportive material to help women look great and feel better while undergoing cancer treatment. A trained volunteer cosmetologist will teach each attending woman how to cope with skin changes and hair loss by offering practice make-up techniques with skin care products, information on free wigs and turbans, and complimentary cosmetic products to take home. Pre-registration is required. To register or request more information, please call Gina at (207) 459-1601.
SPRINGVALE — On Thursday, Nov. 15, William Barry will talk about his newly published book, "Maine: The Wilder Half of New England." Barry works for the Maine Historical Society in Portland and has published other books on Maine history. He will have copies of his book available for sale. The program will begin at 7 p.m. at the Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum at 505 Main Street in Springvale. All are welcome. The Museum is handicapped accessible. For more information, call 324-2797.
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By popular demand (meaning somebody asked :), in this article I will show how I store ASCII characters(1) in an I2C EEPROM, and then how I fetch them for display purpose.
(1) In this article, "character" and "byte" have the same meaning, since one ASCII character can be stored in a byte.
I used this solution in Wise Clock, where 32KB (aprox 16 book pages) of text(2) is displayed line by line, as a sequence of quotations.
(2) "Text" is a sequence of ASCII characters.
Obviously, before the text is retrieved from EEPROM, the text must be written, once, to EEPROM. So, the very first step is to load the text into the EEPROM. To do this, I use two pieces of software:
- one sketch (running on Arduino) that reads, from the serial port, byte by byte, and then writes it into the EEPROM;
void loop(){if (isWrite){if (Serial.available() > 0){// read next character from COM port;byte incomingByte = Serial.read();if (isCommand && (incomingByte == 'r' || incomingByte == 'l')){isWrite = false;Serial.println("read eprom");switch (incomingByte){case 'r':isReadLineByLine = false;break;case 'l':isReadLineByLine = true;break;}}else{isCommand = false;if (incomingByte == '\\'){// don't write the backslash;isCommand = true;}else{// the following debug lines (serial.print...) take about 25 more ms than the write itself (10 ms);// it is a good idea to comment them out if we transfer the content (32K) of a whole file;/*Serial.print("write to addr ");Serial.print(crtWriteAddress);Serial.print(" byte ");Serial.println(incomingByte, BYTE);*/writeNextByte(incomingByte);}}}}
- one application (running on PC and already presented here) that reads the characters from a text file and sends them to serial port, byte by byte.
Once in the EEPROM, the text can be retrieved when required. In Wise Clock, I chose to read the text from the EEPROM one line at a time. Since each line ends with a CR ("carriage return"), ASCII character 13, to get a line of text I read characters until a CR is found
else // reading the eeprom;{if (isReadLineByLine){// read a whole line into the message buffer;lastReadByte = readNextByte();while (lastReadByte != 13 && lastReadByte != 0xFF){*msgBufferPtr++ = lastReadByte;lastReadByte = readNextByte();}*msgBufferPtr++ = 0;Serial.println(msgBuffer);msgBufferPtr = &msgBuffer[0]; // reset buffer pointer;delay(50);}else{if (0xFF != lastReadByte){Serial.print("read from addr ");Serial.print(crtReadAddress);Serial.print(" byte ");lastReadByte = readNextByte();Serial.print(lastReadByte, BYTE);Serial.print(" (");Serial.print(lastReadByte, DEC);Serial.println(")");delay(50);}}}}
If you want to cut an paste this code, you may need the following lines as well:
(The last 4 I2C functions are copied and adapted from playground.)
// I2C Bus address of 24LC256 EEPROM;// if more than one eeprom, they will have different addresses (h/w configured);#define I2C_ID 0x50// global address of the last written byte;unsigned int crtWriteAddress = 0;// global address of the last read byte;unsigned int crtReadAddress = 0;boolean isWrite = true;byte lastReadByte = 0;// current line string is built by copying each character to the position of the pointer, then advancing the pointer;char msgBuffer[200] = {0};char* msgBufferPtr = &msgBuffer[0];boolean isCommand = false;boolean isReadLineByLine = false;void writeByte(int i2cId, unsigned int eeaddress, byte data){int rdata = data;Wire.beginTransmission(i2cId);Wire.send((int)(eeaddress >> 8)); // Address High ByteWire.send((int)(eeaddress & 0xFF)); // Address Low ByteWire.send(rdata);Wire.endTransmission();delay(10); // NEED THIS DELAY!}void writeNextByte(byte data){writeByte(I2C_ID, crtWriteAddress, data);crtWriteAddress++;}byte readByte(int i2cId, unsigned int eeaddress){byte rdata = 0xFF;Wire.beginTransmission(i2cId);Wire.send((int)(eeaddress >> 8)); // Address High ByteWire.send((int)(eeaddress & 0xFF)); // Address Low ByteWire.endTransmission();Wire.requestFrom(i2cId, 1);if (Wire.available()) rdata = Wire.receive();return rdata;}byte readNextByte(){byte rdata = readByte(I2C_ID, crtReadAddress);crtReadAddress++;return rdata;}


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ATLANTA (AP) Tajh Boyd said it.
So did his coach.
Monday night's Chick-fil-A Bowl against LSU is a prime-time national stage for Boyd and Clemson's high-scoring offense.
His coaches and teammates see Boyd as the player destined to grab the bowl spotlight. The dual-threat quarterback led No. 14 Clemson (10-2) with 34 touchdown passes to tie Philip Rivers' Atlantic Coast Conference single-season record. He was honored as ACC player of the year.
A win over No. 9 LSU (10-2), one of the powerful Southeastern Conference's biggest names known for its strong defense, would be a big step for Boyd. It also could be the perfect setup for Clemson's 2013 season.
LSU ranks eighth in the nation in total defense and 11th in points allowed.
Boyd, a junior, could be playing his final college game. But he sounded as though he was making plans to return when he said this week the program ``is on the verge of something great'' and ``we want a national championship; it's in sight.''
Clemson needs to score 25 points against LSU to become the most prolific offense in ACC history. Boyd has led Clemson to 37 points or more in 10 of 12 games.
``We want to be the most explosive offense in the country,'' Boyd said. ``There's no better stage for that other than the one we're on right now, one of the best bowl games out there going against one of the best defenses.''
Clemson offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Chad Morris also spoke of the game as a chance for the nation to witness Boyd's brilliance.
``It's the stage that he's been looking for, and you can't ask for anything better than this,'' Morris said.
There will be no other bowl competing for the nation's attention when the Tigers from the SEC and the Tigers from the ACC play in the Georgia Dome.
Clemson's regular season ended with a disappointing 27-17 loss to in-state rival South Carolina. Clemson averages 42.3 points, but Boyd was held to 183 yards passing with one touchdown.
Clemson is known for its passing game, but senior running back Andre Ellington topped 1,000 yards rushing for the second straight season. Boyd had 492 yards rushing and nine touchdowns.
The loss to South Carolina raised new questions about the ability of the spread offense to dominate outside the ACC. Clemson's second-lowest points total also came against a team from the SEC, a 26-19 opening win over Auburn in the Georgia Dome.
Boyd said the motivation is ``just going out there and proving what type of team we are.''
``You know, we are getting a chance to play against one of the best,'' he said. ``But for us, it's more about the competition, the nature of the business, the nature of the game and going out there and proving who is best out there. That's what we pride ourselves on.''
LSU will counter with a power offense. Zach Mettenberger had only 11 touchdown passes with six interceptions.
Freshman Jeremy Hill leads LSU's balanced running game with 631 yards and 10 touchdowns. Kenny Hilliard, Michael Ford and Spencer Ware will share the carries.
While Mettenberger has not reached 300 yards passing this season, Boyd had more than 400 yards with five TD passes in wins over Wake Forest and N.C. State. Boyd passed for more than 400 yards in six games.
LSU coach Les Miles said his defense must mix its strategies against Boyd.
``There has to be a point in time where you keep him in the pocket and you play coverage and there's an opportunity to rush the passer with four guys,'' Miles said. ``I think anytime a quarterback can pull it down and go get yards, there's an added responsibility to those guys that are rushing the ball, rushing the passer. And so, again, it's something that you have to do with more than one strategy. You must rush the passer. You must contain him when you step back and let him throw it and to have coverage.''


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So Obama - the genius con, the "world-class diamond thief" we used to know from 1212 - has turned into a dumbski chiseler?! Brain damage done by the White House? (but whatever! who f-ing cares!).
And with all that "smoke and mirrors" plotline it looks like an unnecessary "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce" remake (only the turd is in the punch bowl now).
The videogame is way rad, no doubts about it...
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Even funnier was Elin fighting with Tiger. Her Swedish accent was so over the top and it was awesome how she was constantly chasing him around yelling and calling him a mother f*cker and beating the crap out of him with his golf clubs.
The funniest material by far was the scene with the chimpanzee. Holy sh*t I was laughing uncontrollably! The monkey with fistfuls of cash raised over his head running around f*cking everything in sight was insane, and then to top it off his chimp wife comes out in her moo moo and starts beating his ass with a roling pin. Oh man that was the best!
Also loved the way towards the end that one swat guy finally said what we were all thinking, basically "Come on here let's get serious this is just what guys do, we like banging lots of chicks if we can." So then of course Obama and the rest of the men have to kill him to shut him up and keep their sex addiction lie going.
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My rating: 9.5/10
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ShaneHaughey wrote:So am I, but I couldn't care less about who is made fun of. I care more about the quality of the joke.
You're a "Republican", the party was high-jacked, sadly. See my sig...
But I know you, you are just moderate, and I think you should fight the birthers and baggers out of your party to save it.
(BTW, Democrats have no spine, they are pussies. f*ck 'em both. I hate the 2 party approach.)
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After the first break, the episode switched back to the typical "what the f*ck?"-style plot that has been consistent since at least season seven. It's another episode that makes the adults look stupid and the kids look smart, and involves some sort of supernatural being.
It wasn't all bad, but this approach is very predictable with the show now, and it generally doesn't generate much laughter from me because I know what I'm in for; adults blaming an exaggerated problem on an irrelevant 'being'. Butters' line regarding the fake lips is the only thing that made me laugh.
I'm optimistic, though. At least the first segment was a hit in my book.
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Some seem to be complaining about the "Roswell Alien ending." It was the "turd" in the punchbowl. *nudge* Gawww--!
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I liked how Tiger was never on the show; only the Tiger XBOX game.
No surprises here, except the very, very end where . . . . [I won't spoil it for those who did not see it yet]. I'll just say Butters last lines - I didn't see that coming. [Opps, I gave something away]. Perhaps that is what MnT started with: Butter's last line. That scene raises it for me to a 7/10. Points lost for the Roswell bit and Independence Hall. Points gained for the Chimps and the initial test of the class for the disorder. Obama personally leading the assault lost some points for me. Even in the world of cartoons, where anything can happen (like the Imaginationland triology), I don't buy that Obama bit.
btw, what was the color of the handkerchief the nice lady was holding?
Good opener. One week to go to 1402. We have to wait until Sunday for the preview clip. Only a few days. Can't wait
Avendoralder wrote:When will the episode be available online? I don't have a t.v.
Right now
In general, the episode is here after it is finished airing in the pacific time zone. So figure out when it's after 10:30 pacific where YOU are, and you're good to go.
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The first act was everything I hoped for; it focused on the kids, it was really quite funny and lighthearted, and was paced well. It was a near perfect first act.
The second act had some woobly bits, but the only bad part was the white house scene. A generally solid act.
Act three sucked hard with the exception of the game footage and Butters' line at the end. The way the plotline turned out was quite bad and a waste of an excellent idea.
What was so sad about it is that it had gobs of potential and the first act really seemed to point towards a bright future. Matt and Trey say that they sometimes need to learn to keep things simple- this is an example of when keeping it simple would have unquestionably led to a damn fine episode. Going for the more character based and realistic end game will, more than it won't, lead to a better episode.
7.5/10. Not terrible by any stretch, but sad as it could easily have been a 9.
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Big-Will wrote:They probably thought it was a good idea at the time. :/
Probably. But considering how the third act was structured- two game parts, two speeches, plus Butters and Kyle AND the full alien plotline- I think they realized how weak it was and did as much as possible to keep it as 'funny' and short as possible.
The involvement of Obama didn't really fit in well.. I think they just wanted to show Obama as president for the first time in an episode (aside from the one after election day); but it didn't work, especially because the voice and mannerisms didn't match him even remotely. He just seemed like a generic leader.
The best parts were the monkey experiment and the new golf video game. The episode would've been better perhaps if the commentary were more subtle and less obvious. The end didn't complement reality well and seemed rushed. All in all, a disappointment but I'm sure the season will get much better.
Rating: 6/10
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Having shown the Yamaha SA-30, I thought you might be interested in this 1968 SA-20; it's the same guitar (minus vibrato) as a twelve string. The price in 1968 was $315 according to a catalog you can view here, making it the most expensive of the SA (semi acoustic) line at the time, about $2000 in today's dollars.
When I first got the guitar, I noticed that there's black plastic inside the F-holes; this, I learned from the catalog, is a baffle intended to suppress feedback (patent pending!). If you've both pickups selected the "mic balancer" lets you blend between the two; the pickups are the size of humbuckers but I think they are single coils. Either way, they're attractively fitted. The neck is very narrow, and the nut (which I don't believe to be original) makes it challenging to play; but overall the workmanship is superb.
In that same catalog is a very interesting amplifier, the TA-60; I'm including a picture of that as well. I'd really like to find one to compliment the guitar.
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Bobbi Kristina Caught Underage Gambling in Vegas
Looks like Whitney Houston's absence is having other effects on her 19-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina. The teen, who has been in the press for a myriad of drama, from smoking pot to dating her adopted brother, was reportedly gambling at the MGM Resort and Casino in Las Vegas over the weekend.
Bobbi Kris was in town to appear the 2012 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 20, where she tearfully accepted the Millennium Award honor on her late mother's behalf. However, she was caught on camera playing the slot machines the day before (May 19) with her boyfriend and said adopted brother Nick Gordon. She's underage, so the offense is punishable by up to six months in county jail or a $1000 fine. Other fines could be imposed by the casino.
According to Ace Showbiz, the venue is looking into the matter, as 21 is the legal gambling age. Anyone under 21 who engages in any sort of gaming is breaking the law. MGM's Gaming Control Board Chairman Mark Lipparelli has stated the video does not constitute enough evidence. Really? That seems like it'd be evidence to us…
Further investigation is required to determine whether or not employees had knowledge of the activity actually taking place.
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"I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized."
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Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the complexity or characters found in Arthur Hailey's best-selling potboiler. Essentially built around 12 harrowing hours at a major Midwestern airport, the film had everything an audience of the period could have wanted -- suspense, romance, drama, and comedy -- all spread across a vast canvas. Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster) is the manager of Lincoln Airport, facing a night beset by the worst blizzard in a decade, a wife (Dana Wynter) who announces she wants a divorce, a primary runway blocked by an airliner stuck in a snowdrift, and a governing board ready to fire him. Bakersfeld's cynical, smooth-talking brother-in-law, Vernon Demerest (Dean Martin), won't let up on his criticism of the management at Lincoln, but he has his own problems as well, mostly in the form of a young stewardess, Gwen Meighen (Jacqueline Bisset), who is pregnant by him and whom he finds he genuinely loves. Add to that the presence of an old lady stowaway (Helen Hayes) and a mentally disturbed passenger (Van Heflin) carrying a bomb, and there's more than enough plot to keep viewers engrossed for two hours plus. Airport became one of the top-grossing movies of its era, racking up seven-digit box-office numbers and spawning an entire film genre -- the disaster movie. With Jean Seberg, George Kennedy, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Nelson, and Maureen Stapleton filling out the rest of the leading roles, there was something for almost everyone in this film. The movie still has a lot to offer if only as a prime example of Hollywood at its most successfully glitzy, but, if possible, viewers should try and see the letterboxed version of Airport on DVD (released May 2001).
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Jamaican Meat Patties
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- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons dried turmeric or annatto
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 8 tablespoons vegetable shortening
- 4 ounces unsalted butter - (1 stick) cold
- 1/2 cup cold water plus
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil or butter
- 1 large onion finely chopped (1 1/2 cups chopped)
- 6 garlic cloves minced
- 1 tablespoon finely-chopped fresh ginger
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric or annatto
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 3/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1 scotch bonnet pepper seeded, and finely chopped, (optional)
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme finely chopped
- 3 scallions finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon finely-chopped parsley
- 1 pound ripe tomatoes peeled, and finely chopped
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- Freshly-ground black pepper to taste
- 3/4 cup water or beef stock
- 3 tablespoons Jamaican rum
- Flour for rolling out
- dough
- 2 egg yolks beaten with
- 1 teaspoon rum
Servings 8
Step 1
For the pastry: Sift the flour, turmeric, and salt into a large bowl. Using your fingers, two knives, or a pastry blender, cut in the shortening and butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Working quickly, add only enough water to form a firm dough. Do not overwork pastry. Form dough into a disc, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for at least 1 1/2 hours or overnight.
In a large skillet, heat the oil until hot but not smoking. Add the onion and cook until softened, about 4 minutes. Add the garlic and ginger and cook for 1 minute. Add the ground beef, turmeric, cumin, allspice, cardamom, hot peppers, and thyme and cook until the beef is browned and spices are fragrant, about 10 minutes.
Add the scallions, parsley, tomatoes, and stock and simmer for about 25 minutes, until the flavors have come together and almost all of the liquid has evaporated. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper, remove from the heat and stir in the rum. Set aside to cool before assembling the patties.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out pastry and cut into circles about 6 to 7 inches in diameter. Spoon a scant 1/4 cup of the cooled filling onto the center of one side of each circle, and lightly brush the edges of the circle with a little of the beaten egg yolk mixture. Fold the other half of the pastry over so that the edges meet, and use a fork to crimp the edges together. Lightly brush the top of each patty with a little of the beaten egg yolk mixture. Place the patties on parchment-lined baking sheets and bake until golden brown, about 30 minutes. Serve immediately.
This recipe yields 8 to 10 patties.


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With a special farewell to the doctors of Seaside Health and Wellness, Addison marries Jake with Naomi by her side, Cooper must cope with being a stay-at-home father and Violet starts a new project.
Addison is concerned that the judge in Henry's case still has concerns about Jake. Miranda meets Sheldon's friends. Charlotte goes into labor.
After Amelia gets set up on a series of disastrous blind dates, she decides to go it alone for the foreseeable future. But when she teams up with James for a medical procedure and then agrees to dinner, one thing lead to another.
While on doctor-ordered bed rest, Charlotte balances her pregnancy and her responsibilities at St. Ambrose Hospital but Mason is afraid she might never leave the hospital.
Sheldon discovers happiness with a new woman but is suspicious about Nick's involvement in Sarah's disappearance.
The lives of the triplets are endangered because of a fight between Cooper and Charlotte. Violet is there to comfort a friend when it comes time to take a loved one off life support.
Jake finds out he'll need to meet Henry's social worker. Addison is wary about one of Jake's patients while James continues to pursue Amelia.
Addison gets a surprise when Henry's biological mother shows up and wants to be involved in his life. Addison links up again with her mentor.
The search continues for the missing girl. Sam's new career in reality television puts the light on some of his colleagues' personal lives. Sam's mother needs his help when her boss gets sick.
Sheldon becomes worried when a little girl goes missing from the hospital emergency room. Jake and Addison have differing views about a patient. Saint Ambrose Hospital gets a new doctor. Sam faces questions from Stephanie about his past relationship with Addison.
Violet is having trouble moving on now that Pete isn't around, but it's a patient's disturbing admission that has her turning to Sheldon. Addison does her best to hide her anguish from the others. Cooper and Charlotte become accustomed to their new daily lives while Sheldon and Sam have a face to face.moreless
A celebration and some reminiscing about the past brings everyone together at Addison's house. Sheldon has a suicidal patient with a shocking confession.
Addison makes her decision between Jake and Sam and settles into her promising romance. Pete doesn't show up for his preliminary hearing, leaving Violet to fear the worst. Charlotte receives some unsettling news. Amelia's been sober for a year now and Sheldon lights up a romance with his ex-wife.


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A reader named Brian, presumably going through his old VHS tapes, has been uploading a number of old Virginia news broadcasts. He sent along this one, a 1984 broadcast from Hampton Roads station WAVY-10, about the Tidewater Tides (then the Mets AAA affiliate) and a local band trying to update the stodgy old seventh-inning stretch.
As fans of cheesy local news, minor league baseball promotions, and 1980s fashions, there's a lot to like here. As fans of music...not so much. We don't know what's become of Tricks (it's not these guys), but Bruce Rader is still at WAVY—minus the mustache.


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Conservation and Environment in Peru: Monthly Updates
Monthly Update - January 2009
The New Year is off to a spectacular start with a series of storms that has brought the wet season in with a bang. Thunder, lightning and sheets of rain have been lashing down on us almost constantly since I last kept you updated. The forest needed rain and now as the river surges past the lodge I hope that the ecosystem can recover from an unusually dry 2008. Of course, such heavy rain can cause a lot of damage to the forest and when the weather finally eases off we shall have to perform a complete evaluation of the trails as there will be undoubtedly numerous tree-falls to clear away. This, however, is how the rainforest maintains such high diversity as the falling giants allow light to hit ground shaded for decades and the pioneer species will start to flourish and start afresh the cycle that makes the rainforest ecosystem so dynamic.
Whilst working in such weather is difficult it takes a lot more to prevent us from getting out in the field and it is attribute to the hardiness of everyone at Taricaya that we have been able to get so much done in such adverse conditions. Firstly I am glad to report a new species of reptile for the Taricaya Reserve. Whilst working at the pilot farm amongst the ever-growing mahogany trees, volunteers came across a bright green lizard. They brought it back to the lodge for identification and I shall never forget the look of amazement on their faces as I pulled a brown lizard out of the bag! Whilst chameleons are not found in South America they had found a species of monkey lizard that also has the ability to change its colour dramatically. Polychrus liogaster resembles closely the Anole lizards with a very long thin tail but with the ability to camouflage itself using different pigments in the skin. This individual was a first at Taricaya and brings our reptile count to 58 species.
Although not a new species for the reserve we also came across a beautiful male and juvenile Barred Antshrike (Thamnophilus doliatus) that had somehow got themselves into the nursery. Whilst the piercing call of this antshrike is a familiar sound around the trails of Taricaya it is unusual to see one as they inhabit deep understory and brush. The plumage of the male is truly spectacular and I felt honoured to see one so close and be able to photograph it for our ever growing list. We also captured in our mist nets a pair of Thick-billed Euphonias (Euphonia laniirostris) which we were able to photograph also. With over 200 species of bird catalogued we move ever closer to publishing a comprehensive photo guide to the birds of Southern Peru.
January also saw us welcome back Mauricio Ugarte with a welcome break in his busy schedule. The idea was to try placing mist nets in the mid canopy with the use of 10m bamboo poles and a system of pulleys. Neither he nor I have ever placed nets at this height before and we were excited by the possible results. After sweating to install these nets it was a case of sitting back and waiting but we would end up being quite disappointed. We captured very few birds but the question was: why? When performing research a series of negative results is never as exciting as finding lots of new discoveries but it can be just as important for the project. After debating for days we came to several conclusions. Firstly we had picked several transect sites in similar types of forest. This was certainly due to the difficulty in getting clear areas at 10m high in denser forest and so as we chose zones we were influenced by being able to get the nets up that high. This secondary forest tends to have many pioneer species, such as heliconias and Piperacea, and then fewer large trees. Whilst the nets were below the canopy level there was generally a clear flying zone and maybe birds tend to avoid these areas for fear of predation. That said we did manage to get some nets up in denser areas but still there were few captures and so the second conclusion we made relates to the structure of the forest. Trees in dense forest are in constant competition for light and so grow straight up searching for gaps and only when they reach the light do they start to branch out. This means that whilst there may be many trunks and lianas there are very few perching spots and so the birds are not that active in this mid-canopy zone. Still we plan to continue investigating and also lower them slightly to cover the level between 3m and 6m- the gap between the understory nets and these new mid-canopy ones.
At the rescue centre we also received two new inhabitants and said goodbye to an older resident. This month we received a tiny female white-bellied monkey (Ateles belzebuth chamek) that had been abandoned in Puerto Maldonado. The baby was sick with diarrhoea and very emaciated with her skin hanging loosely off her body. In cases such as these the attention required to save the animal is around the clock and two of our volunteers rose to the challenge offering to look after the baby. Under close supervision they looked after her; changing dirty blankets, feeding her every 3 or 4 hours and continually filling a hot water bottle. It is therefore with great pride that I can announce the baby, named Lilou, is gaining weight, no longer has a stomach infection and is starting to fill out. Such dedication is a norm at Taricaya but this case deserved a special mention as the youngster really did not look like surviving the first day let alone the three weeks that we have had her.
The second case was also a serious one with regards to the animal's health. After the success of the animal management course in November last year the government is finally allowing us to work more closely with the other two registered rescue centres in the area. One of these had a seriously mistreated jaguarundi (Herpailurus yaguarondi) which is a smallish terrestrial cat with a long tail. A factor we had to consider was that these cats are solitary, except when in breeding condition, and the other centre does not have as much space as we do and so to maximise its chances for a complete recovery the decision was made to bring it to Taricaya. In just 24 hours we fashioned an emergency enclosure separated visually from our other residents. The animal had been kept in a ridiculously small cage with a mesh floor and its paws were injured and behaviourally it was demonstrating signs of extreme stress. It was struggling to walk also and had very degenerated hind leg muscles. We fashioned a type of harness with a loop to attach a rope to help it lift up its body as we started exercising it over short distances. The recovery process will be long and the animal will need a lot of special attention but it is already showing signs of recovery and I hope we can save this beautiful feline. This same centre has had lots of experience with peccaries and whilst we have released many of these wild boars over the years we decided to send our male collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu) to them as they have a female of the same species currently at the centre. The company will help the male and a joint release in the future will increase his chances of survival.
Daniel Medina has also been hard at work in his first month working full time here at Taricaya as our botanical database starts to grow. He quickly reviewed his previous plant transects and has got to work collecting new samples and taking photos and we already have a new plant list with 130 species of angiosperms, 12 species of ferns and 11 species of fungus. Obviously there are many more to identify but this has always been an area of our research we have suffered with and to have an expert on board this year will give us a huge boost and enable us to push forward with so many of our other studies also.
As you can see there is lots going on and as numbers increase next month we will be able to push forward and achieve even more. I look forward to giving you all the latest next time and so until then....
Stuart Timson
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Row over amusement tax for Sachin Tendulkar's last game at Eden Gardens
A week ahead of the much-awaited penultimate Test match of master blaster Sachin Tendulkar at the Eden Gardens, the local staging association and the city civic body are involved in a spat over payment of amusement tax.
The dispute started after the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) demanded the tax for the Nov 6-10 India-West Indies match as also the outstanding dues. According to the KMC, the total outstanding has soared to over Rs.3 crore.
The KMC arrived at the amount by levying Rs.15 for every seat per day of the five-day match in the 65,000-capacity stadium. According to the civic body, the outstanding dues for previous matches at the ground total Rs.2.66 crore.
The CAB, however, has claimed that the stadium was owned by the defence ministry and that part of the Kolkata Maidan was part of the Cantonment Area. "The Cantonment area is outside the jurisdiction of the local municipal authority," CAB Joint Secretary Subir Ganguly said in a letter to KMC.
"The stalemate is yet to be resolved. We are not a profit-making body. Our organisation's only work is to develop the game of cricket in West Bengal," Ganguly told IANS.
However, Mayor Sovan Chatterjee refused to buy the argument. "They should pay up. We provide lot of services like conservancy and drainage. And we are not unreasonable. During the IPL we reduced the amount on request. If the CAB does not fall in line, it should be prepared for the consequences."
Deputy Mayor Farzana Alam said the KMC legal department was preparing a response to Ganguly's letter. "If the CAB says that we have no right to levy the tax, then I can also say we have no duty to dispose off the garbage, or take care of the drainage."
"The CAB is arguing it won't pay us as we have no jurisdiction over the land on which the stadium stands. This does not hold water. By the same logic, no film auditoria, fair organisers or hotels should also pay us amusement tax. The CAB makes crores from these matches, but when it comes to paying taxes, it comes up with such illogical logic," Alam told IANS.
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The true future of opera
'As a by-product, this development will put an end to today's star system. The indispensable quality of "stardom" is its rarity. But, on the one hand, the difference between a star and a non-star performance will not be tolerated much longer by a growingly knowledgeable public. On the other, the stars themselves will fade. Even now, their strength is being progressively dissipated by the incredible fatigue of their enforced nomadic life, and in the end they will be unable to deliver what is expected of them.
The true future of opera lies in the ensemble principle, by which I mean well-matched ensembles of fine singers working together and staying together. This mode of organisation has never completely disappeared. A few, very few, theatres have always maintained it, and elsewhere, now and then at the insistence of a maestro, a performance reflecting it turns up. So the ensemble principle will not need to be re-discovered. Even the public knows about it. And once the public starts asking for it, sooner or later it will get it' - Antal Dorati writes in his 1979 autobiography Notes of Seven Decades (Hodder ISBN 0340159227).
The exigencies of the star sytem mean that Punch and Judy receives a tiny mention in this new Royal Opera House national press campaign, but its composer doesn't. Never mind, read about him here, and continue playing spot the composer's name here, before reading more about Maestro Dorati here.
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- Chris Foley said...
I work for an opera company (Tapestry New Opera Works) that recently inaugurated an ensemble studio to form the core of their performing personnel. Some of the things I noticed as a member of this studio were a marked improvement in the quality of collaborative work, and a noticeably better product on the stage, as well as better cohesion and sense of purpose throughout the entire company.
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- Garth Trinkl said...
"Elemental Force… Meet Tony… One of the Most Electric Men in Opera!
Thanks for this, pliable.
My first guess that they were referring to British dramatist Tony Harrison – whom Thom Yorke of Radiohead considers one of his heroes – was obviously wrong. And I guess that if they are not even going to mention the composer of 'Punch and Judy' and 'The Minotaur', that they are not going to mention the two operas' librettists.*
Trivia (?): What famous and humanist female "opera star" was dramatist and poet Tony Harrison married to?
*Stephen Pruslin and David Harsent
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- Pliable said...
... Her repertoire also included Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Despina in Così fan tutte, Cherubino and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Liù in Turandot, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Micaëla in Carmen, Marguerite in Faust, the title role in La Périchole, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Lisa in The Queen of Spades, The Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Marenka in The Bartered Bride, Desdemona in Otello, Mme Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites and Jenny Smith in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (directed by John Dexter).
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- Henry Holland said...
Why is the ROH doing a production of Punch and Judy when ENO is doing one at the Young Vic in May? Do the two companies ever talk to each other about repertoire?
I just wish that ENO was doing their well-received production of The Mask of Orpheus (still the only production of that astonishing piece) instead of P&J or especially The Second Mrs. Kong, which I think is an incredible opera.
Can't wait for The Minotaur; Birtwistle's recent pieces like The Shadow Of Night and Night's Black Bird are terrific. There's actually *gasp* some lyricism in them! No, not tunes, just lyricism, but still. :-)
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Snapshots from Norway: Skillingsboller, Norwegian Cinnamon Buns
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The slogan of the world's foremost purveyor of cinnamon buns Cinnabon is, "Life needs frosting."
To that I say, "No. No. NOOO." You're wrong, Cinnabon. I don't care if you have over 750 locations in over 30 countries around the world and are worth millions of dollars. ...Oh, alright, you probably know what you're doing. But your buns haven't won me over, even if I've been momentarily paralyzed with bun lust by your sweet, freshly baked scent in many a rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike.
And it's not just Cinnabon that failed to win me over, but pretty much any cinnamon bun. I'm not against them—I like pretty much any sugar and fat-enhanced baked good—but they've never captured my devotion as much as other members of the breakfast pastry family, like scones, croissants, and doughnuts.
Yet during my trip to Norway in February I ate more cinnamon buns in one week than I'd eaten in all my life before then. Why? They weren't ooey, gooey, frosting-laden behemoths. (Not that every cinnamon bun in the US fulfills that profile, but they seem to be the majority.) The buns were frosting-less and just sweet enough, a nice snackable pastry for any time of the day.
I wouldn't be surprised if some people just dropped off thinking, "Wait, I want the ooey, gooey, frosting-laden behemoth. Why am I reading this?" I'm not saying those aren't delicious—The Pioneer Woman's cinnamon buns can't not be awesome—but for those who prefer something a bit more restrained, read on.
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The first thing I noticed while looking at Norwegian cinnamon bun recipes was that they include cardamom. Cardamom, a spice native to India, is a common spice in Scandinavian cuisine—baked goods, mostly—but my American self had never cooked with cardamom before. (Admittedly, my American self doesn't cook often. My fridge doesn't "preserve" as much as "increase the time it takes for food to rot.") According to Chemistry of Spices, the Scandinavian countries—Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland—account for about 16 percent of the world's consumption of cardamom, while the rest of Europe accounts for 14 percent, and the USA, just 2.5 percent. The world's biggest consumers are India and Saudi Arabia, who account for more than 50 percent of the world's consumption, according to Cardamom: the genus Elettaria.
Why is cardamom so popular in Scandinavia, compared to other non-Western or South Asian countries? Stick this question in Google and one sentence repeatedly repeatedly pops up: "Vikings came upon cardamom about one thousand years ago, in Constantinople, and introduced it into Scandinavia, where it remains popular to this day." ...Al...righty. That's not really the in depth information I was hoping for, but as I don't have the time to write a research paper on how viking history and trade routes influenced the spices used in Scandinavian cuisine—this post is just about cinnamon buns, or something—that's as far as I'm going (although I welcome insight any Serious Eaters can give me). If you want to learn more about cardamom, check out this post from our resident spice expert Max Falkowitz.
Cinnamon buns in Norway are a specialty of Bergen, where they're called skillingsboller ("penny buns"), named so for when they used to cost a shilling (these days one skillingsbolle can run you from 8 to 25 NOK, about $1.50 to $4.75). The name varies in other parts of the country; for example, kanelboller (a direct translation of "cinnamon buns"), kanel i svingene ("cinnamon in the bends"); and kanelsnurr ("cinnamon swirl"). Bergen-based bakery chain Baker Brun says they've been making skillingsbolle ever since their founder Ferdinand Brun started the bakery in 1893. Baker Brun celebrates their famous bun with the yearly Skillingsbollensdag (Cinnamon Bun Day) in Old Bergen where they bake cinnamon buns in a traditional wood-fired oven and hand them out for free to kids.
Traditional Norwegian cinnamon buns aren't frosted or glazed, but are usually topped with pearl sugar or regular granulated sugar. According to my Bergen-based friend Morten Båtbukt, who currently blogs about food at Restaurant Komfort, sticky bun-esque cinnamon rolls topped with chocolate frosting or caramel frosting have only popped up the last five to ten years and aren't as common as plain ones.
But there is such a thing as a princess bun, which won second place in a contest to determine Bergen's favorite bun, right behind cinnamon buns. Princess buns are like cinnamon buns with raisins and egg custard added to the swirl (or with the egg custard plopped in the middle of the bun) and drizzled with frosting (like a variation on pain aux raisins)—sweet inside sweet topped with sweet. It was too much sugar for my liking, but it's surely a hit with the kids.
This recipe for cinnamon buns came from Aslaug Sandvik, a woman of important Norwegian culinary influence to me since she's the mother of my Norwegian boyfriend, Kåre. In turn, she got the recipe from the cooking show Fjernsynskjøkkenet hosted by "the Julia Child of Norway," Ingrid Espelid Hovig. But the recipe Aslaug used is actually for fastalavnsboller, cardamom-flavored buns most commonly eaten during Lent (you can read more about the Swedish version on Serious Eats), which she modified into cinnamon buns. The resulting recipe is very similar to one for traditional skillingsboller. During my visit, Aslaug made a huge batch of these buns, some drizzled in a bit of frosting and some naked. Kåre and I took a huge bag of the naked buns and kept them in the freezer. You can revive them in the oven, or do what Kåre does and leave them out to defrost (assuming you have the foresight to not end up with an ice-cold cinnamon bun).
These cinnamon buns are about half the size of what you'd get at Baker Brun. I think the size is just right. Admittedly, I have sometimes popped two in the oven thinking one is too dainty because my eyes are larger than my stomach, but I've learned my lesson: It's better to savor one bun at a time.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Near-extinct languages, spoken by only small groups of people around the world, could be saved by social media networks and the Internet, U.S. researchers say.
Half of the world's 7,000 languages could disappear from use by the end of the century, threatened by cultural changes, ethnic shame and government repression, they said.
However, many threatened languages have found increased audiences through YouTube, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and text messaging, they said.
"You can have a language spoken by only 50 or 500 people, only in one location, and now through digital technology that language can achieve a global voice," researcher David Harrison from Swarthmore College said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"Endangered language communities are adopting digital technology to aid their survival and to make their voices heard around the world," he said. "This is a positive effect of globalization."
Linguists have unveiled eight new "talking dictionaries" as part of a National Geographic Society Enduring Voices project to save thousands of ancient tongues from extinction.
Among the languages recorded are an American Indian language called Siletz Dee-in from Oregon, and an Oceanic language from Papua New Guinea called Matukar Panau that has only 600 surviving speakers. Other endangered languages in the project include Chamacoco, from Paraguay's remote northern desert, Remo, Sora, and Ho from India, and Tuvan from Siberia and Mongolia.
The eighth dictionary is dedicated to Celtic tongues and more are now in production, a National Geographic Society release said.


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NASA's Suomi NPP satellite was able to grab this beautiful image of the United States of America at night because of a new infrared sensor on the satellite. The sensor is able to detect natural light versus man-made light at extremely high resolution. That's how you get this perfect image of Earth at night.
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite has a "day-night band" that can detect natural and man-made light with unprecedented resolution and clarity. It can resolve everything from the nocturnal glow of the atmosphere to the light of a single boat at sea. It can detect auroras, wildfires, the reflection of moon and star light off clouds and ice and the lights alongside highways. The sensor has six times better spatial resolution and 250 times better resolution of lighting levels than anything that came before it.
What's interesting is that the pictures from the Suomi satellite are available to the public, giving most people the clearest look of Earth at night ever. Before, the Air Forced had nighttime sattelites in play but most of the data was classified and not nearly as clear as the image above. To see more angles that the Suomi satellite was able to take, check it out here [Wired]


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Ocelots, nocturnal cats that can weigh up to 30 pounds, have been nearly wiped out in the U.S., with just 100 or so still living in the wild.
How did a pro baseball pitcher (Josh Beckett of the L.A. Dodgers), ocelots and a natural gas pipeline builder make it into the same news headline? They're all part of a lawsuit filed by Beckett after the company used eminent domain to clear land on his 7,000-acre hunting ranch in south Texas.
Beckett alleges the company, Eagle Ford Midstream, violated the Endangered Species Act by clearing land that was habitat for the ocelot, of which only 100 are thought to be left in the wild in the U.S.
On Wednesday, two Beckett companies filed a restraining order against Eagle Ford from continuing work inside the ranch.
That followed a lawsuit filed Tuesday that states "multiple big cat tracks" were photographed there as recently as June and that Beckett saw ocelots as recently as last November, MySanAntonio.com reported.
Eagle Ford engaged in "willful destruction" by clearing land after a notice of intent to sue was filed in August, according to the lawsuit by Beckett Ventures Inc and Hall of Fame Land Ventures LP.
Beckett also claimed Eagle Ford was urged to choose a shorter, direct path rather than the diagonal swath that was cleared.
Ocelots are protected in Texas and at the federal level. A company found to have destroyed habitat could face fines and be forced to do mitigation work.
Eagle Ford did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment, but it filed a response with the court Wednesday, arguing that hunting on the ranch posed a greater threat than their pipeline.
Beckett owns the Herradura Ranch in LaSalle County and runs a hunting lodge out of the premises. "The Herradura has offered superb dove, quail and trophy whitetail (deer) for over a decade," its website states.
Eagle Ford, in its court response, alleged that "the protection of the ocelot was merely a sham to leverage additional money from (Eagle Ford) in exchange for an easement."
A state court earlier this month denied Beckett's similar request to halt the project, the company added.
It also noted that e-mails it received from Beckett's lawyers in April made no mention of ocelots and instead requested an alternative route because of the impact on an irrigation system and the ranch's hunting business.
Eagle Ford's environmental consultant earlier determined the land "does not exhibit the necessary density, coverage or structure generally described for potential ocelot habitat," adding that the nearest known population of ocelots was 120 miles away in Kenedy County.
Based on that information, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined no further action was required.
Nocturnal wild cats that can weigh up to 30 pounds, ocelots prefer dense shrub habitat. While abundant in Central and South America, ocelots in the U.S. have been reduced to an estimated 100 in Texas and Arizona.
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A key ocelot habitat in Texas has been the Lower Rio Grande Valley, but "more than 95 percent of the dense thorn scrub habitat (there) ... has been converted to agriculture, rangelands, or urban land uses," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service noted in its plan to help the species recover.
Other problems facing the Texas and Arizona population, the service added, include inbreeding, border fences separating the natural range that goes into Mexico, and ocelots becoming roadkill.
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"... Walter Casper III is far from the only convict getting a pass. Across the state, convicted killers are walking out of prison."
A terrible miscarriage of justice is under way. A man whom a jury determined should spend a long, long time in prison for orchestrating the 1999 death of his wife by letting the family minivan hurtle into a chasm in Naples instead will probably be getting out soon.
The facts in the case have not been challenged. What has changed is the interpretation of the state's murder law by appellate judges. Most sad and shocking of all, former Macedon resident Walter Casper III is far from the only convict getting a pass. Across the state, convicted killers are walking out of prison. At least 40 killers have already had their convictions tossed out or reduced to lesser crimes.
Nothing can be done to halt the releases. But for future cases, for killers yet to face judges, Albany must fix the state's murder laws — even though legislators are at this point only vaguely aware of the unfolding legal chaos, which has been publicized little outside a few legal journals.
Here's the background, elaborated upon in our two-part series that ends today.
In a series of rulings, appellate judges decided that several convicts who had appealed their cases were indeed charged with the wrong type of murder. The killers and their lawyers argued that they should have been charged with intentional murder, not murder due to depraved indifference. Depraved indifference would be, for example, firing into a crowd, not caring whether or not someone was killed. Intentional murder is ... intentional murder.
Either state of mind was sufficient for a conviction of second-degree murder — if juries had doubts about convicting on one standard, they could resort to the other.
That's what the appellate court didn't like.
Here's a hard truth about American justice perhaps not understood by all Americans: When authorities "screw up" legally, the defendant must benefit. In this case, however, prosecutors had been told for decades to present juries with both options of second-degree murder and let them sort it out.
Fordham Law School Professor Abraham Abramovsky told the New York Daily News he expects the public reaction to these reversals will range from confusion to outrage, but prosecutors, not the appeals judges, should bear the blame.
"The court says: 'You're the prosecutor. You had all the evidence. Get it right, and if you can't get it right, you'll bear the consequences,'" he said.
But in defense of the prosecutors, they were playing by the rules they had been given, rules that had been condoned by high courts for decades. The atrocity is that in trying to better define the clunky law, the appellate judges made their remedy retroactive, unfair to prosecutors working under a different set of rules — rules understood by the juries — years before. Prosecutors say they have no problem with the legal logic of the appellate ruling, but bewail, as do the loved ones of the murder victims, the retroactive aspect.
So dozens of stone-cold killers — ones who intended to kill — are being put back on the streets because they were convicted of being indifferent as to whether or not they killed their victims. The panel of judges that upheld one of the initial appeals acknowledged their decision was "disturbing" because "the defendant is set free because he meant to kill his victim."
Some of the convictions, like Casper's, have been reduced to manslaughter and the sentences correspondingly reduced to the sort faced by drunken drivers in fatal accidents.
Think of a poor woman, a mother of two, already suspecting — correctly, as it turned out — that her husband was cheating on her. Imagine her death as her van tumbled over a cliff while her husband watched from the safety of solid ground.
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TARRYTOWN, N.Y. � The musical inspiration for Aimee Mann's latest disc might come as a surprise. It certainly did for Larry Lee.
Mann's "Charmer" hearkens back to the pop-rock structures of her 1990s discs "Whatever" and "I'm With Stupid," and ultimately even further, to radio-friendly hits from 30 and 40 years ago. That's her pop music � not the kind made by Taylor Swift, Beyonc� or Katy Perry. In fact, she zeroed in on one song in particular: "Jackie Blue," a 1975 hit by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
"To me, that's the perfect pop song and was kind of the touchstone for the whole record," said Mann, who's 52. "In fact, there are certain songs where it's basically an homage to that song."
That news thrilled Lee, who wrote and sang "Jackie Blue." He lives in Springfield, and although the Daredevils are part of his past, he stays active in songwriting and music producing. He has several Mann CDs in his collection.
"For somebody who I respect as much as I do Aimee, it means more than money or anything like that," Lee said. "There are not that many people that I respect to the level of her. There are some, like Peter Gabriel and Paul McCartney, but she's in rarefied air as far as I'm concerned."
Listen closely to Mann's "Crazytown," and the background singers' "ooos" will remind you of "Jackie Blue." The songs even have thematic similarities, being about people sucked into the dramas of friends with self-destructive behaviors.
Mann's new music is hook-laden with dark undercurrents. It's not just the nut case in "Crazytown." The title cut's subject is manipulative despite his charm. Mann's duet with James Mercer of The Shins, "Living a Lie," is about a co-dependent couple who see through each other's fa�ades.
"Charmer," which debuted at No. 33 on Billboard's 200 albums chart in September, is not a concept album, but Mann finds discs that are more than a collection of unrelated songs, more satisfying to the artist and listener. Mann went through record company nightmares early in her career and now makes music on her own label, SuperEgo. That doesn't make her immune to the industry's problems. She said many fans can't see the connection between illegally downloading music and the struggles of their favorite artists.
"If I don't have enough money to make another album, I can't make another album," she said. "That's how it goes. You can't think about it. Am I suddenly going to appeal to people's consciences and make them not steal music? If you don't like it, great, then I can understand you not buying it. But if you like it and end up stealing it, then I just think you're a jerk. Of all the people to steal from. Musicians? Really?"
Two videos for "Charmer" give Mann the chance to display her humor and Hollywood connections (her musician husband, Michael Penn, is a busy film composer). Actress Laura Linney is featured in one as a Mann "robot" programmed to go on tour so the singer doesn't have to. Jon Hamm and humorists Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster appear in the video for "Labrador." It shows Mann "tricked" into remaking the video for "Voices Carry," her 1985 hit with 'Til Tuesday, minus the elaborate hairstyle. It reunites Mann with the MTV favorite that introduced her to a wider world, a song she has kept at arm's length since going solo.
"It was literally one of the first three songs I wrote in my life," she said. "I think it's got some OK points, but I don't think it's a great song. It's very simple. I perform it very rarely. Sometimes people will yell for it. I really have to be in the mood, and I'm not often in the mood."


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Those with retirement plans increasingly confident
The ratio of workers who are confident they'll be able to retire comfortably rebounded this year to the highest level in seven years, according to an Employee Benefit Research Institute survey.
The 24th annual retirement confidence survey found that 55% of workers described themselves as either being "very confident" or "somewhat confident" of their ability to live comfortably during their retirement years. That compares with a combined 51% in 2013. Eighteen percent described themselves as "very confident," compared with a record low of 13% last year.
Retirement experts attributed the shift largely to greater confidence among workers with retirement investments, who benefited from a resurgent stock market in 2012 and 2013. The attitudes of those without a tie to the stock market were largely unchanged while those with significant levels of debt continued to struggle.
"Without a doubt, we enjoyed two years of very positive market performance in 2012 and 2013, and those who had savings and 401(k) balances enjoyed the benefit of those market returns," said Greg Burrows, a senior vice president for retirement and investor services at Principal Financial Group.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute survey is the oldest of its kind and was based on January phone interviews with 1,000 workers and 501 retirees. It has a margin of error of at least ±3.5 percentage points.
Consumer confidence still has not recovered to pre-recession levels. In 2007, 70% of those surveyed were confident of their ability to retire.
The percentage of respondents who described themselves as "not at all" confident receded to 24% this year from a record 28% in 2013. That gauge of anxious workers has worsened fairly steadily since the first year of the survey in 1993, when only 6% of respondents described themselves as "not at all" confident.
"Worker savings remain low, and only a minority appear to be taking basic steps to prepare for retirement," survey co-authors Nevin Adams and Jack VanDerhei wrote on behalf of the institute. "Increased confidence is observed almost exclusively among those with higher household income, but confidence was also found to be strongly correlated with household participation in a retirement plan."
Forty-six percent of the workers surveyed who did not have a retirement plan described themselves as "not at all" confident, compared with only 11% of those with a plan. About 24% of those with a pension, 401(k) or IRA plan described themselves as "very confident," compared with 9% of those without a plan.
The weak labor market has affected wages and benefits since the Great Recession, which began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. The employment-to-population ratio, a measure of the percentage of Americans with jobs, was 58.8% in February. That compares with 63.3% for February 2007. The 4.5-percentage-point difference is equal to more than 14 million people.
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Stagnant wages and lost jobs have left many Americans in basic survival mode. Some also are laboring to pay off sizable levels of student loan debt, which totaled more than $1.08 trillion at the end of 2013, according to the Federal Reserve. About 11.5% of student loan debt was at least 90 days overdue.
"More than half the workers in the survey indicated that managing daily expenses and the cost of living are the primary reasons they are not saving for retirement," Burrows said, noting that those who fail to save for retirement in good times are left with even fewer choices in hard times.
Workers who begin saving $3,000 a year at age 25 wind up with five times more retirement savings than those who begin at 45, according to Principal Financial Group. The Des Moines-based insurance and investment management firm had more than $483 billion of assets under management as of Dec. 31
"Fifty-eight percent of workers and 44% of retirees say they are having a problem with their level of debt," said Matt Greenwald of Greenwald & Associates, which conducted the study with the institute.


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Eugenie Anne "Jane" Connall, a longtime Howard County psychologist who was also an animal lover, died April 5 of breast cancer at her Columbia home. She was 58.
"She was just incredible and very inspirational. Her death is a big loss for our community because she helped so many people and touched so many lives," said Kathleen H. Wesson, who is in sales for a construction materials company.
"She was incredibly dynamic and just very bright. She was really fantastic at what she did," said Ms. Wesson, who lives in Ellicott City. "And she was awfully good when it came to working with adolescent teenagers."
The former Eugenie Anne "Jane" Case was born in New York City and raised in Darien, Conn. She attended Darien High School for three years, graduating in 1972.
During her high school years, she also studied classical piano at the Manis School of Music in New York City.
Dr. Connall attended Manhattanville College and Wheaton College, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1976 in psychology.
She earned a master's degree in counseling in 1979 from George Washington University, and was a summa cum laude graduate of Southern California University, from which she earned her doctorate in psychology in 2004.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Connall maintained her practice in Columbia's Twin Knolls neighborhood.
"I was going through a divorce at the time, and I had two young children, and I was concerned about how they might be affected by what was going on, so the three of us went for counseling," recalled Ms. Wesson.
"They fell in love with her and she really helped me and my kids."
"I sent a lot of patients to her for counseling. She was an incredible counselor who saved a lot of marriages and made people believe in themselves," said Dr. Vhanna Kalikhman, a Columbia internist. "She was always helpful and ready to put her hands under everybody."
Lisa M. Passalacqua, a Howard County restaurateur, has been a close friend of Dr. Connall's for 21 years.
"Personally, she was the most generous and giving person I've ever met in my life. I guess I've recommended her to 60 different people through the years," said Ms. Passalacqua, who lives in Columbia.
"She helped people with clothes, groceries, took them to dinner and sent them cards. I remember taking her to chemo and she kept saying she needed to send her Valentine's Day cards," said Ms. Passalacqua.
"She was also great at helping people with marriage and infidelity issues," she said.
She said that her friend loved everything she could learn about Hollywood stars, liked driving BMWs, and enjoyed dressing in a "quirky manner."
"After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she always wore pink," said Ms. Passalacqua.
"Even when she was ill, she was still seeing patients and trying to help. She even did Skype interviews. It was the one of the few things that made her feel better. It gave her life purpose," said Dr. Kalikhman, who lives in Ellicott City.
Dr. Connall, a dog lover who had been active with the Humane Society of Howard County, "brought her two dogs to her office and allowed them to sit in her patients' laps if they so desired," said Ms. Passalacqua.
"Jane was a remarkable, remarkable woman and whenever she left, wherever she was, people remembered her," she said.
Dr. Connall had been president of the Mental Health Association of Howard County and was a Red Cross crisis volunteer.
"She was also a strong advocate for adoption and adoption causes," said her husband of 36 years, Desmond D. Connall Jr., a Washington attorney.
Mr. Connall recalled meeting his future wife when she came down from Manhattanville College to attend a dance at Princeton University, where he was then an undergraduate.
"She was just a delightful and colorful person," he said.
A world traveler, Dr. Connall especially enjoyed going to the beach.
"Her favorite beach was Dewey Beach, Delaware," her husband said.
Dr. Connall was a communicant of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in Columbia.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Wilde Lake Interfaith Center, 10431 Twin Rivers Road, Columbia.
In addition to her husband, Dr. Connall is survived by two daughters, Kristin Connall of Washington and Caitlin Connall of Columbia; her father, Thomas Case of Columbia; and a brother, Dr. Christopher Case of London.


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We already knew that he had his teacher wrapped around his little finger, as evidenced by his flawless report card with good grades and positive comments like:
"Shows self control. Is a good listener. Pays attention. Respectful to others."
What?! Because, at home, in our Trenches, this kid does exactly the opposite.
Can't control himself. Doesn't listen. Doesn't pay attention. IS MOUTHY.
We actually had to STUDY the report card to make sure that it was talking about OUR CHILD.
He's Eddie Haskell. Totally.
Anyway, as we were walking out of the classroom, basking in the afterglow of the teacher's comments about our wonderful son and feeling like Parents of the Year, we noticed a series of projects in honor of the Presidential election.
Each paper had a picture of a child wearing spectacles, with an American flag waving in the background and the beginning sentence, "If I was President..."
Most of the ones I glanced at were super earnest and sincere. "If I was President I would feed hungry children." "If I was President I would cure cancer." "If I was President I would not let anyone be sick." And so on and so forth.
Here was MY child's project, hanging on the classroom door for ALL to see:
I don't think I even need to tell you that we really are pretty conscious about not swearing around our three children
Even better?
At Open House this fall, when asked to write about what his favorite thing to do was, Baby wrote "to play calla dooty". (That's Call of Duty. A violent shooting game that we DON'T EVEN OWN.)
Oh hi teacher who now thinks that we let our children play bloody video games while we cuss at them.
P.S. His teacher is getting a REALLY NICE Christmas gift. Bless her heart.


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A new look at child abuse reports suggests there may have been a small but worrying rise in injuries to babies over the past decade or so. While most research suggests child abuse is down overall, the report published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics shows infants are far from safe.
The study contradicts government data collected over the same time, and it shows that health officials need to take a better look at whether child abuse is getting better, worse or staying the same, experts said.
"I think it's premature to make any conclusions about whether it is going up or down," says Dr. James Anderst, chief of the section on child abuse and neglect at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo., who was not involved in the study. "Medical providers may be getting better at identifying abuse over time."
Either way, it's still happening and that's a concern, says Dr. John Leventhal of Yale University, who led the study. "Maybe parents are doing better and hurting their children less in general, but there is a small group where there continue to be substantial injuries that end in hospitalization," Leventhal said.
Leventhal and colleague Julie Gaither looked at statistics on children admitted to hospitals for serious injuries. Writing in the journal Pediatrics, they said they found a nearly 11 percent increase over 12 years in serious injuries to babies a year old and younger.
This is at the same time that two major national surveys of child abuse found decreases of between 55 percent and 23 percent in child abuse injuries overall, for all ages, between 1997 and 2009. It's important to point out that each study goes to different sources for data -- this week's study looks at hospital admissions, while the government studies examined reports of abuse filed to Child Protective Services and other agencies by doctors and other sources.
Child abuse is a serious problem in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 740,000 children and youth are treated in hospital emergency departments for injuries resulting from violence every year.
"Child abuse, neglect or violence can actually affect the development of a child's brain – impacting the child now and for years to come. Our Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) studyshows a connection between child maltreatment and some of the nation's worst health problems, including depression and heart disease," CDC child abuse expert Linda Degutis says in a blog on the agency's website.
CDC declined comment on Monday's study in Pediatrics.
"I would say that the experts in this area are still trying to make sense of the various trends in physical abuse and explain why there are divergences," said David Finkelhor of the University of New Hampshire, who led one of the studies showing a decrease in child abuse injuries between 1997 and 2009. "This new report is helpful but does not resolve any of the outstanding questions."
Leventhal said it's important to get better data, but says it's difficult. "It is probably harder to substantiate a physical abuse case now than it was 15-20 years ago," he says -- mostly because agencies have tightened the rules for classifying cases as child abuse. "My colleagues in child protective services say it is much harder." Many, he says, classify abuse cases as neglect instead. But it would be important to get data to back this up.
Anderst and Leventhal both said education is an important way to help prevent child abuse. "Over 50 percent of the kids on my study were infants. Thirty to 40 percent of those infants had abusive head trauma, often known as shaken baby syndrome," Leventhal said. That suggests parents are caretakers who are frustrated and don't know how to cope with a wailing baby, he said.
"I think, regardless of the cause, the message is too many children, particularly very young children are getting hurt," he said. "And pediatricians and others who look after children need to craft clear messages so that children are not hurt by abuse.
Yale's hospital has an approach called "Take Five." "If you feel like you are going to lose it, put the baby in a safe place, namely a crib, step back and take five," Leventhal says. Some states are also giving new parents information about not shaking their babies – even seemingly gentle shakes can cause traumatic brain injury. "There are now systematic efforts funded in part by the CDC to see whether education about crying infants, about stepping away, about not shaking a baby, change the likelihood that children end up in the hospital with those injuries," Leventhal added.
Sometimes people were themselves beaten as children, and pass this behavior along, Anderst said. "Some people are just ill-prepared to be parents and don't know how to handle children. Some people come from violent backgrounds and that is how they handle their problems."
So how to change this behavior? "It's the same way we get people to quit smoking. It is the same way we get people to wear seat belts. It is a combination of laws and enforcement of those laws and also supporting people so they can be better parents," Anderst said.
He said government officials should think about those consequences when they cut programs to save money in state budgets.
Sometimes it's not the parents who are doing the harm but someone outside the family.
Dr. Suzanne Starling, a pediatrician at Eastern Virginia Medical School, has made intensive studies of who's hurting kids, and found a consistent pattern: men are far more likely to hit, shake or batter young children. One study she published in the Southern Medical Journal found fathers committed 45 percent of attacks, and boyfriends of the mothers another 25 percent.
"Parents need to believe that the people close to them might have the potential to lose it with a frustrating circumstance such as a crying baby," Leventhal advised. "They need to say each of the people who looks after their child, 'my baby cries sometimes and it gets frustrating. If you feel that way, call me. I will come home from work. But don't hurt my baby'."
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Yu Darvish Museum Opens in Japan
I feel like I throw around the phrase "you know you made it big time" too much, but you know you made it big time when there's a museum dedicated to you. A Yu Darvish museum is the top of the tops. You've made it. You're big time.
It sounds pretty awesome, too. From the Dallas Morning News:
The museum features about 100 items related to Darvish, a top pitcher in Japan before joining the Texas Rangers in 2012, and interactive displays that include a game in which hitters face a digitized Darvish.
Facing a digitized version of THIS would be equally incredible and terrifying.