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NEW MILFORD -- Two boaters were retrieved from the Housatonic River just south of The Bleachery dam Monday by passersby in another boat, according to New Milford police.
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Seasonal and age-related differential mortality by sex in the Mantled Howler monkey,Alouatta palliata
- Jeffrey S. OtisAffiliated withDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico
- , Jeffery W. FroehlichAffiliated withDepartment of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
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Age-specific, differential mortality occurs between male and female mantled howler monkeys, Alouatta palliata,on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. A peak in mortality between 5 and 7 years is seen in males but not infernales. Dates when howler cadavers have been found suggest a seasonal mortality, with peaks in July and perhaps also in December through January.
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Stevan Ridley: Trying to figure out the "guy" in New England is a full time job, but since this is my part-time job I'll give you some part time analysis. The Patriots have Benjarvus Green-Ellis, Shane Vereen and Danny Woodhead competing for touches in the backfield with Ridley, but right now I'm in the pro Ridley camp as far as upside. Out of the Pats two draft choices, Vereen looked like he'd be the quicker, more versatile back, while Ridley would be the the stronger short-yardage guy, but in practice and the first preseason game Ridley has been showing more than that. With Vereen nursing an injury, Ridley has had a a chance to shine. In his first preseason game he scored 3 TDs and caught 7 passes. Those 7 receptions aren't what you usually see from just a short-yardage back. BJGE is still on top of the depth chart, but if Ridley can pass block at all he has a chance to really contribute this season.
Lance Kendricks: The tight end pool this season is deep and it just gets deeper the more we see rookies like Kendricks step up. Kendricks has been singled out as a bright spot in Rams camp and then had a nice first preseason game. He showed soft hands on one reception and then on a touchdown catch ran over two defenders at the goal line. Sam Bradford doesn't throw the ball very far because he often doesn't have people open down field, but he is extremely accurate and Kendricks looks like he'll be able to catch whatever comes his way. Most of the Rams receiving corp is injured or soon to be injured so as long as Kendricks can stay on the field he has TE1 upside.
Denarius Moore: For some crazy reason Al Davis' corpse was a fan of Moore's. He runs a 4.37 and averaged over 20 yards a reception in college. Speed kills and often is the only thing an Al Davis receiver has going for him, but so far Moore has been lighting up training camp and his first preseason game. He had a 57 yard punt return called back on a ticky tack penalty and 3 receptions for 41 yards. Right now the Raiders receivers are spending most of their time in a MRI machine and Moore is taking advantage. Hue Jackson isn't playing favorites and really doesn't have much to play favorites with, so Moore has a real shot at making a contribution this season if he can keep playing well.
Julio Jones: We knew Jones had talent, but getting to see him in his first preseason game against NFL starting defenders made it more real. He has the speed, the hands, the size and the moves to make an impact, and now. I think AJ Green is going to be a great receiver, but Matt Ryan > Andy Dalton and that math problem isn't going away for Green anytime soon. Roddy White is still the stud of the passing game in Atlanta, but Jones is going to have a lot of single coverage with White and Turner on his team and he has the ability to make big things happen with Ryan throwing him the ball.
Julius Thomas: A basketball player turned tight end? Who ever heard of such a thing? He's 6′ 5″ 246 pounds and has soft hands. The rub with most of these basketball players turned TEs isn't their athleticism, it's their ability to become football players. But Thomas has caught on fast and will no doubt be used as a pass catching tight end this season. He will have trouble becoming a great blocker in a short period of time, but thankfully he is athletic enough that he shouldn't be a huge liability in that area, but in a John Fox offense blocking is really important if you want to stay on the field. I can't say Orange Julius is worth drafting quite yet, but in deeper leagues he's worth a backup stash and in dynasty leagues he better be owned.
Felix Jones: I've never been a big fan of Jones, but his skills have also never been in question. If we knew he'd see 15-20 touches a game and stay healthy in that offense (which I think will explode this season) I'd own Jones on every team. But we do have to worry about him holding up as the feature back which keeps his ADP in check, but also makes him a pretty high risk/reward guy. All the talk out of camp has been glowing (as most camp talk is) and he looked good in the limited amount of time he played in the preseason opener. His stats from last season were actually great, he had exactly 800 yards rushing and 450 yards receiving because he likes round numbers I guess. But he also had a whopping 2 TDs! Now with Marion Barber gone and Tony Romo back I see that number rising. Not to insane heights, but really, there aren't many numbers smaller than two.
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is getting a hefty Ultimate Edition sooner than you might think, bundling extra goodies beyond the expected DLC gubbins with Battlefield 1943 in the box as an added bonus, which is nice.
The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Ultimate Edition is currently listed on ShopTo.net with an RRP of £39.99 (although the retailer is selling at its own price) and is apparently set to release on September 3rd, 2010.
As well as Battlefield 1943, you'll also get the standard VIP access and DLC, as well as all of the unlocks from the Limited Edition release and the game's co-op Onslaught mode, which normally retails for 800 MSP on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Not a bad little bundle all in all, we think you'll agree.


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This is my latest MOC and also something I hope to see on store shelves some day. Let me know what you think!
I know it's a longshot to get those 10,000 supporters, but if It does, not only is it a fun model in it's own right, but I'm hoping it can become a model T of LEGO Power functions. Nothing off the shelf right now can get you something this functional in a remote control LEGO kit, and as long as you don't need it to be autonomous, its a good 200 bucks cheaper to buy than an EV3 or NXT.
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Functionally spectacular as ever, Immy.
But... I don't think it's marketable. I understand and appreciate that it's a bare-bones, function-only model and that's what you built it to be, but because of that, I don't think it'd sell. The box art sells the model rather than any features it may posess and this is not the kind of thing I can imagine anyone purchasing by box art alone. I'm sure you could clad this in some way so it would be moderately eye-catching rather than looking like the inner workings of a machine.
I don't mean to be cruel and personally I think it performs its task far better than almost all of lego's own automated sets but that's not the kind of thing you can stress on a toyshop shelf.
It's not illegal, it's just cheating.
I'm into exam time right now... I'll be checking up frequently, but I don't expect to be posting in the next two weeks or so unless something really catches my eye.
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I'd say you've accurately reflected my expectation ^__^
I do want it to succeed and Ill try to gather the support, but I don't expect it to make the final cut. I'm approaching this on four fronts:
*The possibility the community will appreciate it more than I expected as its own set and a power functions starter kit over the functionality alone (leaving The LEGO Group to take care of making it pretty for the final box design).
-Of course theres what you pointed out looking pretty to begin with is what would gather support, Ill try to post possible decorative themes with the stuff I have on hand as an update.
*Trying to get The LEGO Group's attention with the design.
*Hoping the AFOL community sees a market for this somewhere between robot jousting and sumo bots and picks it up as another of their robotics based sports.
*Hoping to give it attention so the community starts copying the mechanism and incorporating it into mindstorms and etc designs, increasing what they can make their creations do. The mechanism is actually easy to do, and if you dont need it to be a tank specifically, its extremely versatile. How many people have a mindstorms that uses two motors to drive and a third for a claw? What if they could use this to power the claw and free up that motor for something else? All they need is some clever programming and a sensor to tell the intelligent brick when the claw is in the open position, as one example.
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The Feng Shui of Schools
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Can the shape of a hallway discourage bullying in schools? Can more windows even out the gap between rich and poor students? Can a simple change of paint increase test scores, or carpeting make a math whiz out of the class clown?
Researchers pooh-poohed such ideas for years, referring in particular to a 1997 study by the Educational Testing Service that found no connection between test scores and how much a school spent on construction and maintenance. But a growing number of architects, educators and environmental psychologists now point to other research showing clear links between elements of design and student achievement. Part of this is a matter of message: If jails are cleaner and better designed than schools, what does that say to children about the relative importance of education? But there is also a kind of feng shui -- a way of thinking about how to structure and decorate a classroom to enhance learning.
The opportunity is great. By some estimates the nation is expected to spend $500 billion on new schools over the next decade. Ray Bordwell, an architect with Perkins & Will in Chicago, one of the nation's oldest school design firms, says that the country will need 6,000 new schools between now and 2006. And that is just to meet enrollment increases. The average school is more than 40 years old, so existing buildings, too, will need upgrades.
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Experts agree most on the importance of daylight and windows in the classroom. Consider the results of a 1999 study done for the California Board for Energy Efficiency, which tracked 21,000 students in three school districts in three states.
In Capistrano, Calif., students in classrooms with the most daylight improved 20 percent faster on math tests and 26 percent faster on reading tests over one year than students in classrooms with the least. Moving a child from the classroom with the least daylight to one with the most pro-duced the same improvement as moving that child from the lowest to the highest performing school in the district.
In Seattle, the second of the three districts, the amount of daylight was ''a more potent predictor'' of student performance than sex, class size or whether the student came from a single-parent household, the study found. There and in Fort Collins, Colo., students in classrooms with more daylight had scores 7 to 18 percent higher than those in classrooms without daylight.
The three districts had students with similar backgrounds but different teaching styles, building designs and climates. The consistent results, researchers say, indicate the importance of lighting, no matter what else happens in the classroom.
C. Kenneth Tanner, a professor at the School Design and Planning Laboratory at the University of Georgia, argues that students in windowless classrooms -- built especially in the 1970's as architects tried to make buildings more efficient in heating and cooling -- are experiencing a kind of jet lag because their circadian rhythms are depressed by lack of natural light.
Windows also improve airflow, another critical element in school design. In the California study, students in classrooms with windows that could open progressed about 8 percent faster over one year than those in classrooms with fixed windows, regardless of whether there was air-conditioning. The key, said Jeffery A. Lackney, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is that the air completely recirculate one and a half times an hour. Reading comprehension declines as room temperature rises above 74 degrees, he said, and addition and subtraction skills decline when a room becomes warmer than 77 degrees.
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National and state commissions have recommended lengthening the amount of time students spend on academics -- ''time on task,'' in the jargon. That time is often lost because of noise, whether from traffic, airplanes or other students. Not only are students less likely to hear what a teacher is saying, they are also more likely to give up on an academic challenge.
Lorraine E. Maxwell, an environmental psychologist at Cornell University who specializes in the effect of noise on learning, gives the example of a preschool in Corning, N.Y. It had been designed for beauty, with soaring, rounded 16-foot ceilings and walls that reached only partway to the ceiling. But that design was not one for learning. ''The ceiling was the perfect place for sound to go up and whirl around and around,'' Professor Maxwell said. ''That's why you do round ceilings in a concert hall. But you shouldn't do it for classrooms.''
The decibel level was higher than schools she had studied near New York City airports. ''It was a tiring environment,'' she said. ''It was an effort to make yourself heard.'' After the preschool installed baffles of gym-mat-like material on the walls, the children improved in language skills, using more words and more complete sentences.
Professor Maxwell reserves particular disdain for traditional lunchrooms with their long narrow tables, which require shouting to be heard. Round tables are more expensive, but they allow students to talk, not shout, reducing overall noise in a school. She and others advocate carpet in the hallways, which can muffle footsteps, chatter and the slamming of lockers.


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By Vanessa Lynch, U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii Public AffairsAugust 12, 2010
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii (Aug. 12, 2010) - The military and Hawaii are close to Loree Tillman's heart.
While vacationing on Oahu 18 years ago, she met her future husband, Capt. Hank Tillman, who was stationed at Pearl Harbor with the Navy.
She has come full circle since her vacation. Instead of spending her summer vacation basking in the sun or taking in the scenery, Tillman, director of programs for Blue Star Families and "Military Spouse" magazine's 2010 Navy Spouse of the Year, made Hawaii a priority stop on her nationwide tour to distribute books to military children.
"I didn't want the West Coast to forget that we have Soldiers and families stationed here in Hawaii, and that they need our support as well," Tillman said.
She added that the program's goal is to have a positive impact on military children through book donation.
Blue Star Families and Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc. joined forces to bring the joy of reading to military children by donating new books to military-impacted libraries and schools.
"Having free books and being able to promote literacy is terrific," said Bonnie Dong, supervisory librarian at Sgt. Yano Library here.
Tillman distributed books to children at the Sgt. Yano Library, Aug. 4, through the nationwide "Books on Bases, Smiles on Faces" program. She also distributed books at Tripler Army Medical Center, Marine Corps Base Hawaii and the Navy Exchange. About 2,000 books were distributed on the island.
"I like to sit down and read to my kids," said Tiffanie Ward, a military spouse who attended the free program at Sgt. Yano Library with her 4-year-old daughter, Lanah. "At night, I like to read my children bedtime stories to put them to sleep."
According to BSF, the educational impact of library donation is far greater than direct donation to children. These books will provide ongoing support in the effort to promote literacy in America's children.
BSF plans to distribute 25,000 books in 2010; 30,000 in 2011; and 35,000 in 2012 to reach a goal of providing 100,000 books to military children through the "Books on Bases, Smiles on Faces" program.
"For us, it's good to have an event like this to get people in the door that otherwise wouldn't come in," said Amy Nogami, chief of library activities branch, Sgt. Yano Library. "This way they get to see what else we have to offer here."


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City Councilor Files Amicus Brief in Mathieu Lefevre Case
Will the case of Mathieu Lefevre make the NYPD reconsider how it treats fatal bike crashes?
Mathieu Lefevre was hardly the first cyclist killed on the streets of New York City, nor was the driver who ran him over the first to get a pass from the NYPD. Lefevre's family members weren't the first ones to be stonewalled as they tried to get details on how the police investigate fatal bike crashes.
But Lefevre's case is increasingly becoming a watershed moment in the long struggle of bicycle safety advocates to change how the police approach bicycle safety. The Lefevre family's lawsuit against the police department has already drawn media attention and prompted a City Council hearing. Now, an amicus brief from City Councilor Brad Lander and the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives is turning up the heat even more.
Lander and Transportation Alternatives don't pull their punches in the brief filed last night. They observe that the NYPD's argument for withholding information is based on cases in which criminals filed Freedom of Information requests to learn how much the cops knew about them.
"The effect of NYPD's approach is to treat crime victims as if they were criminals themselves," they write.
They also note the hypocrisy of the NYPD claiming it's protecting the integrity of its investigation when it's already told the press that it was the cyclist, not the driver who was to blame:
"NYPD cannot have it both ways. It cannot publicly exonerate the drivers of criminal charges in the first week of an investigation, leak incorrect information blaming the victim... and then refuse to provide further reliable information to victims' families for months on the ground that disclosure would interfere with a 'potential' criminal investigation."
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The brief also notes that the Lefevres aren't the only ones thwarted in trying to get basic information about bike accidents in New York. Transportation Alternatives has been waiting since August for a meaningful response to its Freedom of Information request for the investigative records of six other deadly bike crashes.
The same basic principles of transparency and disclosure apply in both cases, but Lander and Transportation alternatives clearly recognize that while stonewalling an advocacy group is indefensible, the optics of stiff-arming a grieving mother are in another league entirely.
"To deny victim's families [the benefits of the Freedom of Information Law] is not only meritless as a legal matter, but also heartless."
The question of whether to accept the NYPD's arguments and throw out the Lefevres's case will be argued in New York Supreme Court April 5th.
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ART/ARCHITECTURE; A Business Built on the Hard-to-Sell
By ANDRAS SZANTO
Published: October 6, 2002
RONALD FELDMAN's art gallery is 30 years old, and he's not happy about it.
''I never recognized the passage from risk-taking, aggressive gallery to more accepted, older, reputable gallery,'' Mr. Feldman, 64, said in his SoHo office over the summer. ''You want to have respectability, but I'm more interested in being at the edge.''
Over the years, Mr. Feldman has staked his reputation on difficult art, work that was unlikely to make any money. He championed performance artists like Chris Burden, who in 1975 fasted for three weeks on a ledge above the gallery; Conceptualists like Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the unsalaried artist in residence of New York City's Department of Sanitation; and trailblazers like Hannah Wilke, the pioneering feminist who unflinchingly used her camera to document her body, both when it was beautiful and when it was grotesquely marred by cancer.
Remaining on the edge for Mr. Feldman has meant staging ambitious installations and group exhibitions that could never recoup their costs. In some cases, he has had to hold on to unsold inventory for years while the careers of artists like Ida Applebroog, a painter who achieved commercial success only in her late 50's, slowly matured.
''He is a real good guy, a conscience,'' said the painter Chuck Close, who has collaborated with Mr. Feldman on various fund-raising projects. ''I think he has tremendous respect for artists. You can see them talking him into elaborate installations and filling the gallery with things that may not be the most salable. He also takes a tremendous amount of time away from normal business practices to work for causes that he thinks are important.''
Mr. Feldman uses the term ''managed fatalism'' to describe his philosophy of art dealing. ''I cannot twist somebody's arm to like a work,'' he said. ''My agenda is to run the gallery so that when the artists are ready for their next show, I'm still in business.''
Easily excited and given to mercurial soliloquies on almost any subject, Mr. Feldman has been called the best ''artist'' in his gallery. It's a characterization he flatly rejects, but it provides a clue to his popularity in the art world. Even a casual encounter makes it obvious that he is ''playing for history,'' as he likes to say. As a gallery owner, he has modeled himself after Leo Castelli, the worldly and erudite patriarch of New York contemporary-art dealers. But the parallels end right there. If you heard the Bronx-born Mr. Feldman's voice on tape, you could easily mistake him for Woody Allen.
The 40-odd artists of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts make up a smorgasbord of the dealer's eclectic interests. A longtime advocate of political art, Mr. Feldman currently represents Leon Golub, Pepón Osorio and Nancy Chunn. His was the first American gallery to exhibit several leading Russian artists, notably Ilya Kabakov and Komar and Melamid, the duo whose paintings had to be smuggled out of the Soviet Union by diplomats and journalists. And then there are Mr. Feldman's scientifically oriented artists -- among them Shusaku Arakawa and Todd Siler -- who share his belief that the real competition for contemporary art is not popular culture but technology.
Mr. Feldman calls his survival a ''miracle,'' but much of the credit goes to his publicity-shy wife, Frayda, who oversees the gallery's business operations and staff of 15. The Feldmans are the last people you would expect to make a living as art dealers. They met and married while he was at New York University Law School, and they commute daily to Manhattan from Chappaqua, N.Y., where they reared their three children. They refrain from the kind of nonstop socializing that is considered de rigeur by so many art dealers.
The Feldmans' life in art started in 1969, after Mr. Feldman made partner at Helfand, Lesser & Moriber, a corporate-law firm. Under tremendous stress, he was soon passing out from fatigue on his bathroom floor at night and realizing that he needed to make some changes. Enrolling in an art class was a first step. Next came a foray into selling prints. He began with Miró and Chagall and moved on to Jasper Johns and other Pop artists. Soon he quit his job and went to Europe to learn more about dealing art.
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In November 1971, the Feldmans opened a gallery on East 74th Street in Manhattan, in a space that had housed the Stable Gallery, where Andy Warhol once showed. Their inaugural exhibition, by the California painter Ed Moses, stayed up for seven months. There were no other artists yet.
Starting a gallery was easy back then, compared with the financial risks today, but the realities of the business were daunting nevertheless. It takes the same effort to sell a picture for $5,000 as it does to sell one for $5 million, Mr. Feldman asserts. Commissions on historic work can yield a handsome income, but keeping a contemporary gallery afloat is almost invariably a struggle. He learned how to subsidize his ''front room'' with secondary-market deals and a brisk trade in prints. This ''mercenary financial aspect was difficult to reconcile with aesthetics at particular moments,'' he said. But the strategy paid off.


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Robert Altman's 'Dr. T' Is a Curious Male Fantasy Of Mad Gals, Caring Guy
R obert Altman's "Dr. T and the Women " stars Richard Gere as a society gynecologist, Sullivan "Sully" Travis, who's beset by a gabbling gaggle of gorgeous gals, most of them distraught -- his patients, nurse, wife, daughters and sister-in-law. Sully loves them all, but selflessly, altruistically: "Women are by nature saints," he says. In this curious male fantasy, a man's man has the emotional gifts of a nurturing woman. Though the comedy is erratic, even slapdash, it's clever and enjoyable. Mr. Altman and his writer, Anne Rapp ("Cookie's Fortune"), have tried to balance the prevailing frivolity with some gravity by making Sully a modern version of Job, his boundless faith in female goodness tested by chaos that he can't control. But that remains an abstract, arbitrary notion, despite a surprise ending and a more surprising coda. The story could be seen just as readily as a modern version of a biblical commandment -- thou shalt not worship false goddesses.
"Dr. T" is set in the upper economic reaches of Dallas, where childish men give women's names to their hunting guns, and supercoiffed, superbly clothed women, some with children dressed like doted-on pets -- and some of the children on leashes -- swarm through bright, hard-edged malls that echo to the sounds of conspicuous consumption.
For all its mosaic glitter, this new Dallas is no "Nashville"; the movie lacks the depth and epic sweep of Mr. Altman's 1975 masterpiece. What it does have is appealing actresses in extravagant roles: Shelley Long as Doctor T's passionately devoted nurse, Carolyn; Farrah Fawcett as his beloved wife, Kate, gone mad from too much belovedness; Laura Dern as his sozzled sister-in-law, Peggy, who keeps tripping like a Chinese woman with bound feet; Tara Reid as one of his daughters, Connie, a conspiracy nut; Kate Hudson as his other daughter, Dee Dee, a high-school cheerleader about to be married; and Liv Tyler as Dee Dee's mysterious maid of honor. Helen Hunt plays Sully's lover, Bree, a golf pro who seems to offer the sanity and tenderness that Sully needs when he's not in his care-giving mode, but Ms. Hunt's performance grows monotonous in its insistence on Bree's healthy good cheer.
Surrounded by so much pulchritude, Richard Gere's doctor is an appealing presence, a man of intelligence and sensitivity who understands the sadness that underlies his women's feverish energy. Robert Altman's movie understands it too, but there's still a misogynist tinge to the spectacle of all those crazed females on the verge of a mass nervous breakdown. Mr. A may love them less than Dr. T does.
"T he Contender " is a smarmy wonder, a political thriller with a tabloid soul that dishes dirt while it huffs and puffs, sometimes amusingly, about the evils of character assassination in national politics. Not just any character is being assassinated here, but that of Sen. Laine Hanson, a brave and noble woman (played by Joan Allen, so she's pretty too) who's been nominated to be vice president after the male incumbent suddenly dies.
What highfalutin bottom-fishing in the name of feminism! Though we first meet Laine when she's recumbent, on a bed, the film's dedication reads "For our daughters," and we're told that Sen. Hanson's political enemies resort to sexual innuendo because it's always a woman's fate to be sexualized. "If I were a man," Laine says, "nobody would care how many sexual encounters I'd had." This may come as late-breaking news to Bill Clinton, or Gary Hart.
The writer-director, Rod Lurie, used to be a movie critic, but we can't hold that against him. In his script, Mr. Lurie ascribes scurrilousness whenever possible; otherwise, he affects a tough-minded cynicism that's tinny enough to make you long for the most earnest moments of "The West Wing." ("One thing you don't want," says a sardonic pol, "is a woman with her finger on the button who isn't getting laid.") In his direction, he seeks a sense of immediacy with maddening close-ups, and he tolerates, or for all I know instigates, a lot of broad, bad acting on the part of some very good actors.
Chief among these are Jeff Bridges as the president, a Democrat, and Gary Oldman as his Republican nemesis in Congress, a McCarthyite mudslinger with beads of sweat on his upper lip and a perfect Midwest accent -- Mr. Oldman is English -- who has the chutzpah to denounce an Internet scandal sheet that resembles the Drudge Report, and who is finally taken to task by someone asking, in the words of Joseph Welsh, "Have you no decency, sir?" As for Joan Allen, last seen in the West Wing as the first lady of Oliver Stone's "Nixon," she does remarkably well with a role that combines the goodness of a Gandhi with the dignity of a Roosevelt (Eleanor). At its best "The Contender" is guilty fun, with some intricate twists in the latter workings of the plot. Mostly, though, the movie is as plodding as it is synthetic; it's a big-screen Drudgery Report.
Y ou've never seen an action hero like the one in "Billy Elliot, " a piece of flagrant feel-goodism that's saved by a Bell. Sweetly skinny and wrenchingly tender, yet a toughie in pursuit of his goal, this black sheep of a coal miner's family in England jumps for joy, runs like the wind and pirouettes for love of the dance. Eleven-year-old Billy was born to dance -- more remarkably, for a working-class child, born to dance classical ballet -- though he doesn't know it until he goes to his weekly boxing lesson and comes upon a ballet class in the same building.
The young actor who plays Billy, Jamie Bell, may likewise have been born to the role. Jamie has been dancing since the age of six, though that doesn't explain the furious beauty of his acting debut, or his eloquent moves that aren't quite dance -- seducing a punching bag instead of punching it, walking down a cobbled street with a gait so cheerfully eccentric as to recall Monty Python. Billy's dancing teacher is tough and tender too. She's played by the splendid Julie Walters, and it's nice to see the two working off one another, the cigarette-smoking dame, thwarted by who knows what in her person and her past, and the impish slip of a boy with a shining future.
Lee Hall's script hangs a lot of clumsy contrivance and manipulation on its slip of a plot: a coal strike (the year is 1984, when Margaret Thatcher's government is closing inefficient mines); labor strife; a harsh father, a cross-dressing buddy; a fateful though predictable tryout for the Royal Ballet School in London, followed by an awkward transition to the fullness of Billy's career. But the director, Stephen Daldry (moving from the British stage to the feature screen in his own impressive debut), keeps most scenes grounded in quirky humanity, while guiding and sustaining Billy's flight.
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It is not surprising that in the sexually permissive society such as exists today, venereal disease should be on the rise. Gonorrhea is epidemic in the United States, with about 2 million people infected annually. Likewise, syphilis has been increasing since 1958; in 1970 there were some 80,000 cases in the primary to secondary stages.
About 20% of patients in the United States are reported in primary or secondary stages, another 20% in the late symptomatic stages. But the bulk—the remaining 60%—are eventually diagnosed because a positive blood test was discovered, usually for a totally unrelated condition. In women, syphilis is a disease of the childbearing period, with the largest number infected between the ages of 15 and 29.
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This research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant HD047814).
Exposure to Violence Across the Social Ecosystem and the Development of Aggression: A Test of Ecological Theory in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
Version of Record online: 20 AUG 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01848.x
© 2012 The Authors. Child Development © 2012 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.
Child Development
Volume 84, Issue 1, pages 163–177, January/February 2013
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Boxer, P., Rowell Huesmann, L., Dubow, E. F., Landau, S. F., Gvirsman, S. D., Shikaki, K. and Ginges, J. (2013), Exposure to Violence Across the Social Ecosystem and the Development of Aggression: A Test of Ecological Theory in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict. Child Development, 84: 163–177. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01848.x
Publication History
- Issue online: 25 JAN 2013
- Version of Record online: 20 AUG 2012
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Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological model proposes that events in higher order social ecosystems should influence human development through their impact on events in lower order social ecosystems. This proposition was tested with respect to ecological violence and the development of children's aggression via analyses of 3 waves of data (1 wave yearly for 3 years) from 3 age cohorts (starting ages: 8, 11, and 14) representing three populations in the Middle East: Palestinians (N = 600), Israeli Jews (N = 451), and Israeli Arabs (N = 450). Results supported a hypothesized model in which ethnopolitical violence increases community, family, and school violence and children's aggression. Findings are discussed with respect to ecological and observational learning perspectives on the development of aggressive behavior.


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Server will have 6 core intel processor, 24 Gb memory, 4x1TB 7,2k in RAID 10, 4x300GB RAID 10
We are thinking to install either ESXi or Hyper-V and run different apps in different VM's - Lucene, MongoBD and Memcached ar ebetter be run on a Linux; SQL Server is also better be run in a separate VM (IMHO).
My problem is - I know almost nothing about ESXi, so I woul dprefer Hyper-V, but is the performance difference going to be big between those?
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We went here on our last night , after hearing from several other travelers that this was one of their favorites, okay, so they are all gringos. I would go there again because there were so many interesting things on the menu. We decided to order entradas, or appetizers to share, I liked the one I picked, a Jamaica dish, Jamaica baked into a horn made of some kind of corn tortilla thing, I also had tortilla soup, as that is something I try to get wherever I eat. The bisque was tasty, but I felt it was missing the epazote, which is the main spice. They served the ingredients on the side, the tortilla strips, the cheese, the avocados, which kept the tortilla strips crispy, all the way through the eating. Loved that. Also has chicarron (pork rind) pieces, which I'd never had before. I am glad I didn't have an entree, because after the appetizers, the soup, the salad (nopales, just ok) I was stuffed. I did order a coco flan for dessert, which was good.
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Business Plans That Rest on Imitation
When Steve and Grace Hassid need a new kitchen table or bookshelf, they browse online catalogs of chains such as Room & Board and Crate & Barrel—and then get the pieces custom-made for half the price.
Their secret weapon is Sphere Designs, a start-up in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood that began manufacturing furniture in-house two years ago for huge discounts to retail prices.
"You get what you want, and the price is better than most of the stuff that's ready-made," says Mr. Hassid, a 51-year-old cardiologist.
Sphere Designs and Furniture Envy, another San Francisco start-up, are shaking up the local furniture industry by copying designs from popular chain stores such as Pottery Barn for a big discount. Furniture Envy is on pace to generate $1.2 million in revenue this year, up from about $500,000 in 2008. While Sphere Designs' revenue is down from 2008 when it sold imported furniture, its sales of custom-made furniture are projected to reach $600,000 this year versus $500,000 last year.
Larger furniture retailers have struggled in the weak economy. Williams-Sonoma Inc., WSM -0.91 % with 610 retail furniture and home-goods stores including Pottery Barn, West Elm and Williams Sonoma Home, says retail revenue declined 17.5% over the two years ended Jan. 31, to $1.8 billion. Sales at Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. ETH -4.78 % 's design centers fell 40% in the two years ended June 30 to $439 million annually.
The more-established rivals say the lower-price knockoffs can be inferior. When prices are "undercut by that much, it brings some questions about the true quality," says Michael Gargiulo, manager of the Room & Board store in San Francisco, which has grown quickly since opening five years ago. Crate & Barrel declined to comment. Williams Sonoma didn't respond to requests for comment.
Furniture Envy and Sphere say they can sell furniture more cheaply without sacrificing quality because as small operations their overhead costs are lower.
Copyright experts say the vast majority of furniture designs wouldn't be protected by copyright, especially those with few distinguishing features or ornaments. "For three-dimensional designs, copyright will not protect anything that…performs a utilitarian function," says Lawrence Robins, a copyright lawyer outside of Boston. "Most everything about an item of furniture is functional."
The use of certain images and names of furniture in marketing materials can be protected by copyright, however.
Furniture Envy was started in the Marina district in 2007 by Brian Norris, then a 27-year-old financial analyst. At the time, he and his wife, Shirley, went into $100,000 of debt to launch the business. Sales grew steadily at first and the couple paid off their debt within a year.
But the Norrises say they also lost business because they couldn't accommodate many custom orders. They began doing more custom work in 2008 and in early 2009 found a wholesale manufacturer in Los Angeles that could customize popular designs.
Meanwhile, Nick Zegarra, 39, a former software database developer, launched Sphere Designs in 2005 as a retailer that sold imported furniture. When sales fell as the financial crisis hit in 2008, Mr. Zegarra decided to go into custom furniture building. With no woodworking experience, he watched YouTube videos on furniture building and bought about $20,000 in equipment.
Now Sphere sells about 15 pieces of furniture a week, starting at $500 for a maple TV stand and $600 for a birch king-size bed frame. That is down from 30 pieces a week in January, due to what Mr. Zegarra describes as a "double-dip recession."
Helping to fuel the growth of Furniture Envy was Twitter Inc., the technology company. In 2008, Sara Morishige Williams, wife of Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, began ordering from the store. Twitter now has about 20 chairs and 26 sofa pieces, based on designs from upscale retailers B&B Italia and Design Within Reach, among others. The total cost was about $40,000.
"Furniture Envy has allowed us to have modern design on a budget," says Ms. Williams.
Not everyone is pleased with the mom-and-pop stores, though. In business-review site Yelp.com, customers have decried the eight- to 10-week wait times before Sphere's furniture is finished, among other things. Mr. Zegarra says he hopes to cut that down to four to six weeks.
Still, many customers remain loyal. Sherri Howe, a 39-year-old real-estate agent in Pacific Heights, in December asked Furniture Envy for a microfiber fabric sectional that was a knockoff of Room & Board's "Chelsea" design. She paid about $1,800, a third off Room & Board's retail price at the time.
Ms. Howe is thrilled. Stains come off easily, she notes. "It's even better than Room & Board."
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