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The 2014 Long Beach Elections, Issues – Part II
By George Economides - Publisher
October 8, 2013 - Following is Part II of the meeting held last month at the Business Journal offices to discuss the 2014 local elections. In attendance were former city attorney John Calhoun and former city councilmembers Rae Gabelich, Jeff Kellogg and Les Robbins. Part I focused on next April's mayoral primary. Part II looks at the races for city council and city attorney, plus the impact of a large turnover in elected officials (2014 will see six of nine council districts with new representatives, in addition to a new mayor and city attorney).
The response to Part I was very positive, with many readers suggesting an ongoing series of articles with former elected officials, especially discussions focusing on issues. That is a possibility following next year's elections. The above group will meet again after the January deadline for candidates to officially file has passed.
Former Long Beach City Attorney John Calhoun, left,
and former Long Beach City Councilmembers Rae Gabelich,
Les Robbins and Jeff Kellogg, from left, examine statistics
from previous elections during a meeting last month at the Business Journal.
(Photograph by the Business Journal's Thomas McConville)
A follow up interview with Calhoun will occur later this year to discuss, in more detail, the role of the city attorney and the role of elected officials as it relates to their responsibilities under the city charter. There is growing concern in the community that some elected officials may have ignored the charter.
City Council Races
LBBJ: Let's talk about the council races. In District 1 there are two candidates currently serving as aides to councilmembers who say they are running, Lena Gonzalez and Ricardo Linarez. And in the 3rd District, several people say they are running, but no one with a well-known name has announced. Isn't it surprising that there isn't a big name coming forward in the 3rd District?
Robbins: Yes.
Gabelich: It's still early though.
LBBJ: In the 5th District we have Stacy Mungo, who works for the county and has been active with neighborhood associations, Joe Luyben, whose family's mortuary business is well known throughout the district, and Carl Kemp, a former city and port employee with first-hand knowledge of city issues. Over in the 7th District, Roberto Uranga, husband of the former councilwoman for the district, has announced, and in the 9th District the only person running so far is Rex Richardson, who, like Linarez, works for Councilman Steve Neal. Can we agree that Richardson has the inside track in the 9th District, or do you think that somebody else might pop up?
Kellogg: Val Lerch [former district councilmember] isn't doing a write-in?
Robbins: I talked to Val and he indicated to me that he's thinking about it.
LBBJ: So he's still thinking about it. But Rex Richardson will be difficult to beat because there is a strong union turnout in the 9th District. In the 7th District, do you all agree that Uranga, who currently serves as a city college trustee, has the upper hand?
Kellogg: It's pretty easy when there's only one legitimate candidate. I live in the 7th District now.
LBBJ: So you could run as a write-in.
Kellogg: But I'm not. Let me be clear, I'm not.
LBBJ: Back to the 1st District. Since Gonzalez works for the current district councilmember, Robert Garcia, doesn't that give her the upper hand? Should we assume the Garcia name carries enough weight for her to win?
Gabelich: No. I think Ricardo has a really good shot at it. That is his neighborhood.
LBBJ: Do you feel that's a good race in the first district?
Gabelich: Yes.Robbins: How do you define a good race?
Gabelich: Competition.
LBBJ: It's going to be competitive. In other words, one person is not going to run away with it.
Kellogg: It's 1,000 votes [to win].
LBBJ: So we have a competitive race in the 1st. Not much to talk about in 3rd District, yet.
Kellogg: It just blows me away.
LBBJ: Why do you think people aren't stepping up in the 3rd?
Kellogg: We had this discussion earlier about the voter turnout. I can remember in the day with Jan Hall and Renee Simon, Jim Serles . . .


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By Robert Horton Herald Movie Critic
There's a fun B-movie lurking somewhere inside the overblown mess of "Olympus Has Fallen," but it only comes out in fits and starts. This thing is so impressed with itself, it squeezes dry most of its popcorn-chewing possibilities.
Despite the title and the presence of Gerard Butler, it's not another "300" knock-off. Olympus, in this case, is the code name for the White House, which is stormed and occupied by North Korean terrorists one sunny afternoon.
Butler plays an ex-Secret Service agent who happens on the scene and becomes the lone rogue presence in the White House when the president is taken hostage in the secret bunker downstairs.
Did I hear someone say this sounds like "Die Hard" at the White House?
What, are you people cynical or something? For one thing, the movie has Gerard Butler, not Bruce Willis, so that changes the whole equation.
Director Antoine Fuqua ("Brooklyn's Finest") brings his usual chokehold-to-the-throat style here, so everything's dank and gritty without seeming the least bit plausible. There's a good deal of firepower on display, including some rad new weapons — but if you guessed that the climax might come down to our hero fighting hand-to-hand with the evil terrorist genius, you could possibly be correct.
The president is played by Aaron Eckhart, the Speaker of the House by Morgan Freeman and the First Lady by movie star and putative Kentucky senatorial candidate Ashley Judd. Now, given Freeman's usual position in movies, if anybody thinks he's going to remain sidelined during this crisis, forget it.
So there's plenty of machismo on display, and not just from the men, either. With Angela Bassett as the director of the Secret Service and Melissa Leo as the Secretary of State, we have lots of people in this movie who can make diamonds by clenching coal in their fists.
Melissa Leo, the Oscar-winner from "The Fighter," is closest to the B-movie spirit that sometimes glimmers out of this thing; when she goes for it, she goes for it. Gerard Butler is stalwart in the right moments and humorous in the right moments, and yet there's something missing here that reminds you how good Bruce Willis can be at this stuff when he's on his game.
There's some excitement to be had, if we indulge the movie's hard-R, carelessly violent approach. Around the time we're meant to believe that America's defense of South Korea can be wiped out a single hour after we begin the process of turning our Pacific Fleet around, you realize not much of this will be tainted by credibility.
If the premise sounds sure-fire, fear not: The second chief-executive-hostage picture, "White House Down," rolls into theaters in June.
And they say there are no new ideas.
"Olympus Has Fallen"
2.5 stars
The White House is attacked and the president (Aaron Eckhart) taken hostage; can ex-Secret Service agent Gerard Butler save the day, "Die Hard"-style? There's a fun B-movie stuck inside this overblown, violent mess, although the premise is so grabby it does have its moments. Decent cast, too, including Morgan Freeman.
Rated: R for violence, language.
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Mines' largest-ever freshman class to whitewash mountainside M
GOLDEN, Colo., Aug. 21, 2009 – Colorado School of Mines freshmen will set off on the traditional M-Climb up Mt. Zion on Aug. 24 from Kafadar Commons on the school's campus in Golden.
The largest new student class in the university's history — 885 freshmen — will experience a first-ever send-off to the M.
President Bill Scoggins, Mines faculty and staff will line the path between Guggenheim and Berthoud Halls at around 8:15 a.m. to cheer on the new students as they carry 10-pound rocks up the mountain. The students will place their rocks on the M and then splash a fresh coat of whitewash on the historic mountainside monument.
Steve Castillo, Mines' new provost and executive vice president, will trek with the students on his first M-Climb.
For more information about Mines' record-breaking application and enrollment numbers see "Applications to Mines soar."
To reach the M, take 6th Avenue west from Denver to 19th Street in Golden. Turn left at the light and follow the road up Lookout Mountain. Although the road will be closed to the public, media representatives will be permitted to drive to the M.
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"Does a street musician stand out from the chaos of the street or add to it? Do the unpredictable sights and noises around him compliment his music or obscure it? These are some of the questions that this ten-minute documentary about local musician Perry King attempts to raise. In addition to many other performances around the city, Perry plays nearly every Sunday afternoon in Columbia Heights. He graciously allowed me to film him throughout the spring semester, and my project quickly turned into an exploration of his relationship with his environment, the ever-bustling D.C. streets."


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Links from around world to do with landscape architecture
Landscape architects envision a greener Chinatown | Sara Lewis | Greater Greater Washington
"How could Chinatown be a greener and more livable neighborhood? Designers from the American Society of Landscape Architects and Fuss & O'Neill created a vision for an inter-connected series of green "complete streets,"…."
An Online Tool for Calculating Flood Risk | NY Times
After Hurricane Sandy struck this fall, many home and business owners who had not previously gauged their flood risks turned to the government-run Web site FloodSmart.
Architecture "no longer interested in anything but its own image" | Dezeen
"the way architecture is consumed through websites like Dezeen is "utterly disastrous", according to UK critic Owen Hatherley"
Building a Better Christmas Tree | Michael Tortorello | NY Times
A SEVEN-FOOT evergreen will bear 350,000 needles, more or less. And if Gary Chastagner has his way this holiday season, precious few of them will end up on the parlor floor.
Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Green Economy in Focus During UNEP Meeting with Government of Russia
From continued cooperation on the environmental sustainability of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, to the challenges facing the Arctic, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
QUT 2012 End of Year Exhibition_Landscape Architecture_First Year_Semester 1 from t lenigas on Vimeo.


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'The Sabres wore throwback jerseys with their old logo. Team officials asked manufacturer CCM on Friday if the company could make the jerseys in time and management picked them up in Toronto. … The crowd of 17,845 cheered new owner Tom Golisano's video message on the scoreboard about a "new era" in Sabres history.'
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It was the late 1940s and a wealthy banker's home was falling into disrepair.
Then poof!
The Victorian house turned into an entertainment hub dubbed the Magic Castle that has become beloved in Los Angeles for its magic, mystery and memorable members.
"Today the Magic Castle turns 50, which is the new 40, which in Hollywood is the new 20," cracked actor/magician and academy member Steve Valentine, who served as master of ceremonies at the 50th birthday celebration of the Magic Castle.
The mansion on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood is the official private clubhouse for the Academy of Magical Arts, a nonprofit organization that aims to promote the magic arts. It's still an exclusive club - with dinners and shows open only to members or guests of members.
The academy and the Magic Castle were founded by writer, actor, magician and entrepreneur Milt Larsen and his late brother William Larsen Jr. in 1963.
What started with a handful of magicians, illusionists and enthusiasts like Cary Grant and Johnny Carson now boasts more than 5,000 members during the year.
But as the newly unveiled plaque from the brotherhood of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E. Clampus Vitus reads: "It wasn't as easy as abracadabra."
Just a year ago, the Magic Castle was damaged by a fire on Halloween that tested the academy's resilience.
"It's a wonderful day for everyone. No one expects a club to last 50 years," said academy president Neil Patrick Harris, an Emmy Award-winning actor who is also a performing magician. "Most things don't last 50 years, and magic is still thriving and going strong."
As part of the celebration, Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge presented a proclamation to the academy, designating Wednesday "Academy of Magical Arts & Magic Castle Day" before dozens of attendees at the star-studded event including Siegfried Fischbacher of the famous wild cat entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy.
LaBonge said as the magicians and celebrities associated with the exclusive magic club are just as important to Hollywood's glitz and glamour as the stars of the silver screen.
"The reason why we're still here is because of love. It's the love of magic," said Irene Larsen, founder and widow of William Larsen Jr., who added that her late husband would have been proud to mark the milestone for the academy and Magic Castle.
His daughter, Erika Larsen, added, however, that the celebration was also a party to ring in the new year for the academy.
"While we're here to celebrate the history of this incredible milestone, we're also here to celebrate the future of the Academy of Magical Arts.
"Some of the best and brightest magic minds are with us on a weekly basis, on a nightly basis," she told the crowd of magicians and entertainers.
"This is the hub of magic right now. The scene is very much alive and it is exciting."


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Will FDA Decision On Emergency Contraception Open Door For Right-Wing Media Myth Making?
The media have a responsibility to accurately report on the FDA's approval of Plan B emergency contraception for use without a prescription for women 15 years and older, without giving in to false right-wing narratives.
Plan B, also known as the "morning after pill," is an emergency contraceptive that prevents a pregnancy by delaying ovulation [1] or immobilizing sperm. In April, U.S. District judge Edward Korman, a Reagan appointee, ruled [2] that the Obama Administration had to eliminate age restrictions on access to this emergency contraception without a prescription. Recently, however, the FDA separetly approved an approval application for over the counter access for women over 15. As explained [3] by the FDA:
On April 5, 2013, a federal judge in New York ordered the FDA to grant a 2001 citizen's petition to the agency that sought to allow over-the-counter access to Plan B (a two dose levonorgestrel product) for women of all ages and/or make Plan B One-Step available without age or point of sale restrictions. However, Teva's application to market Plan B One-Step for women 15 and older was pending with the agency prior to the ruling.
The FDA's approval of Teva's current application for Plan B One-Step is independent of that litigation and this decision is not intended to address the judge's ruling.
The Department of Justice is considering next steps in the litigation. In the meantime, the FDA took independent action to approve the pending application on Plan B One-Step for use without a prescription by women 15 years of age or older.
Nevertheless, National Review Online is already attacking this decision as a "compromise [4]" that is "all about politics [5]" because unrestricted access to Plan B, which it calls a "sometimes-abortifacient pill," was what the administration "wanted all along [4]," in spite of the clear science that the judge relied on to strike down age restrictions.
Recent studies have clarified [6] that emergency contraception does not terminate pregnancies. A 2012 statement [7] by the International Federation of Gynecology & Obstectrics explains:
Two studies have estimated effectiveness of [emergency contraceptive pills] by confirming the cycle day by hormonal analysis (other studies used women's self-reported cycle date). In these studies, no pregnancies occurred in the women who took ECPs before ovulation; while pregnancies occurred only in women who took ECPs on or after the day of ovulation, providing evidence that ECPs were unable to prevent implantation.
As Linda Greenhouse explained [8] in a New York Times op-ed, the judge based his decision on this scientific evidence:
Judge Korman begins where discussions of emergency contraception should begin but almost never do: by defining the drug and how it works. Those challenging the requirement for employer-provided health insurance to cover birth control almost invariably train their attack on emergency contraception by calling it an "abortion pill" or abortifacient and asserting a religious objection to abortion.
But Judge Korman, citing a Government Accountability Office report that collected scientific articles on the mechanism of levonorgestrel, the synthetic hormone that is the drug's active ingredient, demonstrates that Plan B is not about abortion. It immobilizes sperm and prevents or delays ovulation. In other words, when taken shortly after unprotected intercourse, Plan B works as birth control, by preventing rather than terminating a pregnancy. (The F.D.A.-approved label for Plan B raises the possibility that the drug might also work by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus to begin a pregnancy, but the National Institutes of Health has removed language raising this prospect from its Web site, and the N.I.H. biochemist in charge of research on contraception has said the language should also be taken off the label. Judge Korman called the prospect that Plan B might permit fertilization but prevent implantation "scientifically unsupported speculation.")
The issue is also playing out in federal courts across the country that are considering employers' challenges to regulations implementing the preventive health services provision [9] of the Affordable Care Act. Under the ACA, employer-provided health insurance plans must cover contraception. Owners of private, secular corporations such as the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby have sued [10] to block the mandate, claiming that the mandate requires them to cover abortion-inducing drugs [11] in violation of their religious beliefs. Federal court rulings challenges to the contraception mandate have been mixed [12].
As Greenhouse points out [8] , the question of whether Plan B is an abortion-inducing drug has some bearing on the contraception mandate cases:
The debate over the contraception-coverage mandate wasn't part of Judge Korman's case; that issue will be argued next month before the federal appeals court in Denver in a case brought by the owners of the Hobby Lobby retail store chain. I hope the judges who hear the Hobby Lobby case and the other such cases that are cropping up around the country are as precise as Judge Korman in defining what's at issue: evidence-based judging to go along with evidence-based medicine. If the challengers' real objection is to birth control, they shouldn't be able to hide behind the "abortifacient" label.
The question of whether for-profit corporations have religious liberty rights at all is debatable [13]. However, if courts conclude that such religious liberty rights exist and they buy the right-wing "abortion pill" myth, employees nationwide could stand to lose reproductive health coverage.
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Chastened, the Red Cross Releases Additional $6 million to Sandy Victims
After negotiations with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the Red Cross and three other charities have agreed to release millions of dollars in donations to the victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Schneiderman announced the agreement on Thursday in a press conference on Long Beach, a coastal Long Island community that is still struggling to rebuild a year after Superstorm Sandy swept through New York and New Jersey and crippled the region.
The Red Cross, which has spent about 90 percent of the $308 million it raised for Sandy survivors so far, agreed to spend an additional $6 million for housing-related needs, as well as increase transparency on its website for online donors. Half of that will go to a renters' assistance program, $1 million will help families living in hotels after federal and local assistance dried up, and $2 million will be spent on other housing projects in partnership with the attorney general's office, according to a Red Cross spokeswoman.
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EL SEGUNDO -- Kobe Bryant was in a jovial mood following Thursday's Lakers practice, a stark contrast from his mood at the end of the Lakers' loss to Utah on Wednesday night.
Bryant was asked about the video gone viral that has him glaring on the bench, a scowl Lakers fans and officials have become accustomed to over the years. The Internet world deemed it the "death stare" and decided it was directed at Lakers coach Mike Brown, whose legs can be seen walking by during the glare.
But Bryant laughed that off.
"I've been his biggest supporter," Bryant said. "I'm too old for this childish behavior."
But this is the microscope under which the Lakers are living, especially since the team is off to one of its worst starts in history at 1-4.
Bryant admits frustration -- but not at Brown.
"It has nothing to do with one particular problem," Bryant said.
"God, people are bored."
And upset.
Bryant was smiling often, and he even watched the YouTube video as a reporter showed it to him on a cellphone, and Bryant smiled and shook his head.
Brown trendingLakers fans had #mikebrownmovies trending on Twitter Thursday afternoon, in which they were taking shots at him via movies gone wrong to mimic what they believe will be Brown's coaching demise.
Brown had on a brave face Thursday. If he's sweating, he's not showing it.
"I'm frustrated, I think we all are, don't get me wrong," Brown said. "We want to win every time we step on the floor. For me, walking out here pissed or mopey is not the right thing to do."
Stats don't lieThe Lakers are 1-4, and no team has ever won the NBA championship after such a poor start.
"There's always data and history that are going to be that way," Pau Gasol said. "No team has ever won a championship being 0-8 in the preseason. I'm sure there's going to be plenty of those things going forward. We can't think about all those little things. We have to make sure we get better every day and improve as a team. Hopefully that will translate with wins, which is what we need right now."
Threat concerns BrownMike Brown's son Elijah Brown, who attends Mater Dei High School, received at least one death threat on Twitter following the Lakers' loss to Utah. Mike Brown, who flew back with the team from Utah late Wednesday and was at practice Thursday, was unaware but said that he would alert the proper people.
"That's the tough part of this business, going after someone's family," Brown said. "In my opinion, that's ridiculous, crazy, stupid, whatever you want to call it."
Mike, who is not on Twitter, said he has someone who watches over his son's Twitter account.
"People change with the wind," Brown said. "When things are going good, everybody loves you. When things are not good, they don't love you. In terms of threats, if there are, that's something I take seriously."
Steve Blake has had to deal with death threats as well, and his wife, Kristen, came to his defense and now Elijah Brown's defense on Twitter with this post: "Leave Mike Brown's son alone. What's wrong with u people?! Stop attacking FAMILIES! How would you feel if YOUR family was treated like that?"
Silver liningBrown, a self-admitted film junkie, didn't have a film session with the Lakers on Thursday. Instead, they warmed up and got to work in practice.
"As crazy as it sounds, there are a lot of things we did right (Wednesday) night," Brown said.
In particular, he liked a lot of the good looks the Lakers got, but they didn't knock down shots. The Lakers made just 25 of 74 shots for 33.8 percent. They were just 4 for 23 (17.4 percent) from 3-point land.


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Disclosure's 'Settle' goes gold!
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After releasing their debut album a mere few months ago, Disclosure's Settle has already achieved gold status!
The two brothers were ecstatic, tweeting their gratitude to their fans who bought the album, along with a photo of the framed gold record.
Congratulations guys!
Leading to the success of their album, Disclosure had two top 10 hits with "White Noise" and "You and Me," with the first single off Settle, "Latch," taking the 11th spot on the UK Singles Chart.
Fans can get their gold record, Settle on iTunes here.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS BOUGHT SETTLE!!! WE ARE GOLD! :) pic.twitter.com/F21ZGSLduF— Disclosure (@disclosure) August 12, 2013


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The AIA has announced the three winners of its "Designing Recovery" competition, which was launched this year in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity, Dow Building Solutions, Make It Right, and St. Bernard Project. The ideas competition solicited visions of sustainable homes capable of withstanding natural disasters specific to three regions: New York, New Orleans, and Joplin, Mo. With recent meteorological events leaving swaths of destroyed houses in their wake within each of these areas—Superstorm Sandy, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and a series of tornadoes, respectively—the competition's aim is to foster new strategies both for rebuilding sustainably in post-disaster relief situations, and for ensuring that new structures in these vulnerable areas can remain standing during future weather-related disasters.
Entries for both New York and New Orleans responded to storm surges with designs for houses raised off the ground. The winning design for New Orleans, Shotgun[Remix], designed by local firm GOATstudio, features a finish floor elevated seven feet off the ground, with a stormwater runoff rain garden to mitigate the effects of excessive rainfall. From an aesthetic standpoint, jury chair Michael Willis, FAIA, of MWA Architects, was impressed that Shotgun[Remix] "did have that kind of flexibility to allow it to adapt into many neighborhoods."
See more images of Shotgun[Remix]weaetxdyvaydzcwq in Project Gallery.
Toronto-based Sustainable.TO Architecture + Building's winning entry for New York, the Resilient House, anticipates storm surges with a flood-proof foundation, while structural insulated panel (SIP) assembly reduces on-site construction time in post-disaster rebuilding efforts. The jury responded to the Resilient House's use of daylighting and contemporary design ideas that were "about the right scale in the neighborhood context," Willis says. "But it also figured out a way that is recoverable and [reparable]," while per-dwelling material costs would be under $50,000.
See more images of Resilient House in Project Gallery.
While the first two regions addressed in the competition dealt with high potentials for flooding, the third, Joplin, Mo.—situated in the area known as Tornado Alley—encouraged entries that would respond to the devastating aftermath of these sudden, unpredictable cyclones. Although many homes in Joplin already include subterranean bunkers within which to weather the storms, Toronto-based Q4 Architects proposed Core House, in which an inhabitable safe core would be built into a shell containing secondary rooms and spaces; that shell is designed to soften the look of the stronghold within. All of the essential functions of a house, including sleeping quarters, kitchen, and sanitation facilities with a filtration system, are included in the core, so that this resilient portion of the home would still be livable in the event of devastation to the perimeter spaces. "You could look at this and see how people could live here until services were replaced – that's one of the convincing things about it," Willis says. "[The CORE House] clearly showed ways of using that core to accommodate many different housing styles and options."
See more images of Core House in Project Gallery.
Although the jury selected only one winning design per region, the AIA says in a release that "all of the entries that are feasible to construct will go into production in the corresponding communities." Through the competition, the AIA hopes to offer contemporary models of resilient houses as a way of giving back to the communities most in need of thoughtful, adaptive design solutions.
See all of the 2013 AIA Designing Recovery Award winners in Project Gallery.


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It would be easier to help you if you could explain what you did between downloading the iso and trying to boot :)
I downloaded the CD ISO of BT3 and had no problems with this, thought it was great and now want to get BT3 booting from USB. I have now downloaded bt3final_usb.iso and I followed the guide on the Wiki of how to make a bootable USB drive.
When I try and boot from this I get the boot menu, select an option and then during the load i get the following error -
* looking for data directory
Fatal error occured - BT3 data not found.
You are maybe using an unsupported boot device (eg. SCSI or old PCMCIA).
Workaround: Copy the directory BT3 from your boot device to an IDE/SATA disk, eg. to /mht.hda1/BT3 or C:\BT3. Then try to boot again.
* Something went wrong and we can't continue. This should never happen.
* Please reboot your computer with Ctrl+Alt+Delete ...
Obviously as I want to boot from the USB pen-drive then copying the BT3 directory to an IDE/SATA disk defeats the object! I have got the BT3 directory on the root of the drive but don't really understand why I am getting this error.
Any ideas guys?
It would be easier to help you if you could explain what you did between downloading the iso and trying to boot :)
I followed the guide on the Wiki at this page - htp :// wiki.remote-exploit.org/ index.php/Howto:USB_Stick
(Sorry had to break up URL as i am not allowed to post them yet)
Try adding this to the boot options.
Press tab on the boot menu for your chosen boot choice.
Then add to the end of the line:
this worked for me when my laptop used to throw the same error.Code:acpi=off
Hope if works
Sorry there is no pci=conf3 so if neither one works you are stuck with acpi=off until a newer bios fixes the problem.
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Hi bofh28,
Thanks for your reply. I have tried all 3 combinations with the KDE option but still get the same error during the boot.
Any other ideas guys? Is there a better process to make the bootable USB if I start again?
This is my isolinux.cfg
DEFAULT /boot/vesamenu.c32
LABEL pchanges
MENU LABEL BT3 text mode with Persistent Changes (HP7700)
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=9999 root=/dev/ram0 rw changes=/changes/slaxsave.dat pci=conf1
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Milwaukee Event Calendar
Pet Photos with Santa
Dec. 10, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Bring your dog or cat for a portrait with Santa Monday nights at Mayfair Mall! Capture that special moment and take home a memory that will last a lifetime. Fromm Family Foods will also offer samples of Fromm Four-Star Nutritionals, gourmet food and treats for dogs and cats, and distribute coupons.
Mayfair Mall2500 N. Mayfair Rd.
Wauwatosa, WI 53226


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Helen Mirren Voted Body of the Year!
The 66-year-old beats out some of the world's hottest to win the crown.
-Evette Brown
Move to the left Pippa Middleton and Jennifer Lopez! You might have inspired butt lifts around the world, but there's a new sexy vixen on the horizon.
Her name is Dame Helen Mirren! She might be 66 and an Oscar winner, but now, she has the coveted title of Body of the Year. LA Fitness surveyed 2,000 people to answer the age-old (no pun intended) question, "What celeb has the hottest body?" With 17.65 percent of the vote, Dame Helen was voted way ahead of the pack. There was a 7 percent difference between the screen queen and Elle Macpherson, who was voted in second place. J.Lo wasn't even voted in the top three! She landed at number four behind Kelly Brook.
Read 10 Things We Love About Helen Mirren and Russell Brand
Dust off those bikinis Helen because you are a scorcher!
Dame Helen shares the title with soccer hunk David Beckham, who was voted Body of the Year on the male side.
Evette Brown is a regular contributor to BettyConfidential.


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Making money on Wall Street
The fiscal cliff is now the ultimate cliffhanger and the best possible scenario for Wall Street is a called back deal that prevents across the board middle class tax hikes. Tim Geithner had predicted in a CNBC interview that the White House is prepared to go over the fiscal cliff, a fiscal version of JFK's "eyeball to eyeball" brinkmanship in the Cuban missile crisis. The Republican right in Congress have vetoed Boehner's efforts to cut a bipartisan deal. This is the mathematics of Von Neumann's Game Theory (Prisoners dilemma) where malign payoffs dictate the worst possible scenario. Add in Italian politics, fissures in the Spanish growth model (Catalonia, missed fiscal targets, Rajoy's reluctance to accept the conditionality diktat implicit in OMT), Middle East politics and the ominous rise in the Volatility Index (VIX) above 20.


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WASHINGTON -- David Durnbaugh of SunDun Office Refreshments (Beltsville, MD) testified at a hearing conducted by the Washington, DC, City Council with regard to its Workplace Wellness Act of 2013. This measure would restrict the items permitted in vending machines in the city's buildings by mandating specific percentages of "healthy" products.
Durnbaugh, who is president of the Maryland-DC Vending Association, reported on the National Automatic Merchandising Association's longstanding commitment to informing the public about the nutritional content of vendible products, and its FitPick service
"Most of the industry is already meeting and/or exceeding the nutrition goals in the District of Columbia's city buildings, set forth by the proposed regulation," he told the City Council. "Since 2005, when NAMA created its FitPick and Balanced for Life programs, it has remained committed to providing the information consumers need to make the right snack and beverages choices."
Durnbaugh's company not only makes use of the NAMA FitPick program, but also developed its own "healthy" vending labeling program for its vending machines. SunDun operates 15 full-time beverage and snack vending routes in the greater Washington, DC, area.
NAMA, working in partnership with the Blind Vending Committee of DC and the MD-DE-DC Beverage Association, is paying close attention to the proposed regulation and any proposed amendments. As written, the regulation has the potential to reduce sales for blind vendors participating in the Randolph-Sheppard program.
Other presenters included representatives from the American Heart and Stroke Association; Advocates for Better Children's Diets; the Center for Science in the Public Interest; and the MD-DE-DC Beverage Association. Government witnesses included representatives from the District of Columbia's Department of Human Resources, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Services Administration.


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I was just trying to reaffirm the whole trial and error thing, nothing more. It's always better to see for yourself.
if you are gonna try to forecast, make your prediction and check it with the reports put up. You'll know if you're right or wrong. I can promise you one thing, the wind speed weather.com, wunderground.com, or any other weather site (including this one) will 90 percent of the time be off. Coastal winds are weird like that. The forecast could call for a west wind at 15kts but in all reality it's not even blowing on the beach. If you wanna know you gotta go.
The only time you really need to "forecast" is if you are heading out of town to surf. Otherwise it's pointless, just check it yourself
but Loafer, when you got south-east-north-westerly wrap comin through 3ft@5 sec there is nothing more soulful than shreddin those waves brah. Don't you know the feeling of pulling a triple backwards 360 reverse spin jive right before the section closes out? If you don't then you don't know what being a surfer is. It's trial and error all the way
woooooooooooooooooo hooooooooooooooooooo!!
If you guys are worrying about something like this making the crowds worse, don't.
I could care less about crowds. I'll just find me a little bar to myself down the beach and enjoy some waves all to myself
wow.. im from up north.. NYC.. and am a big fan of AAs superchargers and their mods. i just recently moved to miami shores. Now what i didnt know was, that AA is in florida.. and MIAMI can anyone direct me on how to get there? i would really want to see the actual place for myself..


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Random number generator. More...
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Random number generator.
This random number generator originally appeared in "Toward a Universal Random Number Generator" by George Marsaglia and Arif Zaman. Florida State University Report: FSU-SCRI-87-50 (1987)
It was later modified by F. James and published in "A Review of Pseudo- random Number Generators"
THIS IS THE BEST KNOWN RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR AVAILABLE. (However, a newly discovered technique can yield a period of 10^600. But that is still in the development stage.)
It passes ALL of the tests for random number generators and has a period of 2^144, is completely portable (gives bit identical results on all machines with at least 24-bit mantissas in the floating point representation).
The algorithm is a combination of a Fibonacci sequence (with lags of 97 and 33, and operation "subtraction plus one, modulo one") and an "arithmetic sequence" (using subtraction).
Definition in file randomgen.h.
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text: These kinds of scenarios happen all the time. Jason Garrett calls a five-yard slant to Dez Bryant. Demarco Murray is running a flare into the flat, and Witten is going to goes in motion to the far side of the slant. Romo surveys the defense and notices the outside linebacker is dropping off into coverage, right in the zone where Dez' slant is supposed to be run. Both Romo and Dez should read this, and Dez should instead run a hitch. Romo looks at the playclock and still has 10 seconds, so he decides to "Kill! Kill!" the play, which audibles it into an off-tackle run to Murray on the right side. The defense then audibles because they believe it to be an actual play change from Romo, and the strong safety steps into the box. Free doesn't seal the inside edge, and Bernadeau gets stood up. Murray slashes outside, then cuts upfield and gets tackled by the safety for a two-yard gain. Then Cowboys fans here and yon scream collective bloody murder, "GARRETT, THROW THE DAMN BALL! WHY ARE YOU RUNNING INTO A BLITZ?" Such is the idiocracy of us football fans. We think there's a magic playcall sequence, and if the calculus is figured properly in the gameplan, and the head coach properly weighs the statistical trends, 40 points should rain down from the scoreboard like confetti in Times Square. Experts fly onto the message boards detailing their acute and studied knowledge of what should have been called. Their storied high school playing career, coupled with their ranking status in Madden online, reinforces their strange belief that, in fact, most of these 32 coaches won a job lottery and have no idea what they're doing. Especially Garrett. The fact is, every play is designed to score, and has produced, touchdowns. Every one of them. And every team pretty much runs the same plays, weighted by personnel and talent. There hasn't been an original thought in a good long while in this copycat league. They've been running the read-option in high school for 20+ years. But what never seems to get properly considered (mostly because we don't know for sure and won't admit it) is that the play called isn't necessarily the play run, and plays that don't work are 90 percent the result of a missed block, bad read, or poorly thrown ball or route run. Basics still decide football games. I want Garrett to turn over the playcalling duties, too, but not because I don't think the guy can call plays. I want him to free up his time and energy so he can better manage all three phases of the game on Sunday, and simply run the sideline. That's what Jimmy and Parcells did. Landry called offensive and defensive plays at one time, but he had a whole staff of future head coaches, and players were more self-disciplined in those days. Way too much attention is being payed to this right now. The much greater matter at hand is getting the line of scrimmage tilted back to 0 degrees, instead of the 30-degree uphill angle it's currently on. Garrett and Romo are hamstrung. New plays aren't needed as much as new people to run them with.


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What's Trending: January 6th
I saw Cocoon's GRID-IT in the Apple Store and was drawn in by how something so simple can organize so much. It's a panel with a unique weave of rubberized elastic straps made specifically to hold items in place. It makes bag organization much easier whether you're a guy or a girl with a purse, backpack, suitcase, or laptop bag, this is the key to organization your items. Use it for pens, gum, keys, your phone, chargers, any small things you may have. It comes in various sizes as well as versions that double as tablet and computer cases. The organizer I have easily fits into any of my purses, computer case, or iPad case! They also sell backpacks and laptop bags that have the GRID-IT feature inside. It's awesome for travel or everyday use!
Calling Bazaart a collage app really doesn't do it justice. This takes photo editing to a whole new level. There are plenty of creative ways to play with your everyday photos…make it look like a dinosaur is chasing you or totally change the background of a photo so it looks like you are somewhere else! I used Bazaart to make a message with images about #WhatsTrending returning today! Through Bazaart you can access your social media as well as GILT to use their images. I pulled images of shoes, jewelry, candles, ties, and more items I would usually include in #WhatsTrending and made a collage out of them. I used the text tool to say #WhatsTrending returned on Monday and posted it to Instagram and Twitter. I had fun making it and you would never known I used an app. Bazaart is FREE! Happy creating!


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Members of the BSU Buddies, Galvir Romero, Meghan Kinney and Abby Tremblay, all members of the class of 2016, held an event in the RCC to get people to refrain from using what they refer to as the r-word.
The r-word refers to people with mental retardation, which was once used as an acceptable medical term, but in today's society is considered slang that degrades and insults. The trio asked students to sign a pledge as part of the Spread the Word to End the Word campaign indicating they would stop using the r-word.
"It is common sense that when you use a word that represents a certain demographic it will hurt them," said Mr. Romero.
Ms. Kinney said words have power and should be used properly.
"People need to realize the impact their words have on people," she said. "We want people to try to eliminate the use of it."
She added that using the r-word doesn't just hurt those with special needs or disabilities; it insults their family and friends. When confronted with the r-word the BSU Buddies recommend trying to redirect and rephrase what was said.
"Usually the context they are using it in doesn't even make sense," Mr. Romero said. He asks people to stop and think of what the appropriate term is for the situation.
While this event focused on the r-word, the Buddies are planning to spread awareness of using other derogatory terms.
The event was sponsored by Leaders Emerging and Development Series (LEADS).
Those who would like to learn more about people with disabilities can join the BSU Buddies every other Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m., in RCC 209.
(Story and photo by student Caitlin Seddon, University News)


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Tea and pies and cartoons: It's all part of what makes this UK selector a national treasure.
A love of bass has kept the scene alive in British Columbia's biggest city, and now things are looking as strong as they've ever been according to RA's Andrew Ryce.
RA goes Dutch in the second edition of our new feature series.
In advance of her appearance at this year's Field Day festival, RA's Mike Powell calls up the singer-songwriter to find out more about her stunning new album.
RA's Ryan Keeling scores a rare interview with Loefah, the man behind one of the UK's most exciting imprints.


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Best Mobile Broadband Providers 2016
There are plenty of situations where a mobile broadband connection can be useful or even necessary. Whether you are a businessman trying to get some work done from the road or teen trying to do your homework from an area with no Wi-Fi, taking your internet connection with you is very convenient. Choosing the right mobile broadband service can mean the difference between getting a good price for reliable coverage or being stuck with spotty coverage ten minutes before a report is due. Here are some things to consider when you are shopping for a mobile broadband provider:
Your level of use
What are your intentions for investing in a mobile broadband provider? Are you using it for an occasional car trip or as a backup for your home internet? Are you a traveling blog owner that needs high speeds and constant connection? If you are a casual user then price might be your focus but if you are a heavy user you might want to lean more towards quality.
Your location
Not only your location but also any location you will likely find yourself in. Because the whole point of a mobile broadband connection is portability, network coverage is very important. If you plan on moving all over the country a lot you need a service with good nationwide coverage but if you are going to be moving around a specific area you might not need such complete coverage.
The top mobile broadband providers use 4G and LTE connections which are the fastest mobile internet connections available but there are still some that are better than others. Speed is another thing that depends on your level of use. The more demands you plan on putting on your connection, the more you should take speed into consideration.
When it comes to mobile broadband, there are several good choices. Think about both how much speed you need and where you need service.


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Designed before the late architect made a name for himself as a postmodern master, the Hanselmann House is listed for $265,000. More
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Sylvia Spivens always said no to spinach. (I can empathize.) But when he class gardening project lands her with the spinach seeds... she doesn't have a choice! No one will trade seeds with her. She is stuck with spinach.
But when Sylvia's spinach begins to sprout and grow, she stops disliking it so much. Taking care of the plant is fun! Then Sylvia's teacher suggests everyone try eating what they have grown. Will Sylvia try her spinach?
A good book about encouraging new things couched in a great story about growing plants!
Find this book in our catalog.
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Summertime may be winding down for most of us, but not in Ocean Isle Beach! On October 15th, 2011 the NC Oyster Festival will come to Ocean Isle Beach, and includes live entertainment, arts and craft vendors, the North Carolina Oyster Shucking Championship and Oyster Stew Cook-Off!
And to kick off the Festival, the NC Oyster Fest Surf-Off will be this September 10th and 11th between the Ocean Isle pier and Monroe Street beach access. Entries are open to anyone and the first heat starts at 8:00am on Saturday, the 10th.
If you're ready to extend your summer fun as much as we are, contact our Ocean Isle Beach hotel staff today to book your room!


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This is actually a pretty good question, and one that everyone can relate to. I think what really makes a skiddie is the lack of conceptual knowledge. Skiddies, like you mentioned are basically just running tools and seeking a particular outcome. To get to the next level you have to know what those tools you're running are doing. By understanding how and why things work, you can begin to put together your own solutions.
A couple of years ago, I had the same issue. Because security is so damn wide and deep it's hard to know what to focus on. In my experience, you should focus on what you find interesting because it will keep you motivated. Personally, I started a list of everything I thought was interesting about security:
[+] Packet Creation
[+] Network Device Testing / Evasion
[+] Socket Programming (Python, C#)
[+] Remote Vulnerabilities
[+] Archiving Shellcode (accessibility, custom exploit libraries, custom exploits)
[+] Interworkings of DNS
[+] DNS Flaws and Vulns
[+] Python for Pentesters
... and then I just started taking them one by one. It's a lot easier to dedicate a week to one area than to attempt to retain knowledge from a group of them. These are skills you'll want to have solidified so it's important to spend some time with them; enough to really learn the material.
And yes, programming is a big part of not being a skiddie I suppose. I remember reading a great ebook by Scott Whigham called How to Become a C# Programmer (How to Become a Programmer). Given, C# might not be the language you want to learn (it's valuable to know though), however his approach is a damn good guide as to how to improve your programming skills immensely. I know a couple of people that want to become programmers. They talk about "coding" and creating games but they never really get to it. Whigham's approach is a good guideline on how to get started. Basically, you want to think up a pet-project and just get it done. This is the best way to learn.
For example. You want to work on programming that relates to security. So set out to write a port scanner. It doesn't matter what language you do it in.. all that matters is that you complete the project. You'll learn exactly how port scanning works, and you'll eventually complete the project. I'm not saying it'll be easy, but that's the point. Knowledge builds upon knowledge and eventually you'll become comfortable with your language of choice.
Finally, you asked how to get started. Well, I'm a huge fan of the python programming language and I've been using it for practically everything since 1999. It's platform independent, easy to read and dynamic, so you can whip up programs and scripts relatively quickly. Python also has a growing security following. One of the best security related programming books out there is Violent Python by T.J. O'conner. The samples are excellent and you'll learn a lot by tinkering with them. Go pick that book up.
Oh, and keep reading. Read everything. Read whitepapers, books, magazines, press releases, research papers, etc. Basically anything you can get your hands on. It's amazing at how one new idea can change the way you see the world.
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Justice Thomas is right about America's obsession with race
Are we obsessed with race and racism in our society? Before you answer the question, consider how issues of race are brought up in the media and discussed around the proverbial water cooler. Do we discuss the remarkable progress we've made as a country since the dark days of segregation and Jim Crow?
Do we consider how blacks lived in the South in the not too distant past—like my grandparents, who ran the risk of being lynched for looking at someone white? That's given way to interracial marriage no longer being a taboo. The Supreme Court didn't repeal the statute banning interracial marriage in Virginia until 1967.
Unfortunately, very little of the dialogue involving race in America today is positive, uplifting, or inspirational. Instead, there is a compulsion by many on the left to brand their political opponents as being racist. Two specific events occurred in the past week that have me firmly convinced that there is an obsession with race in America today that is destructive to our societal cohesiveness.
First, consider the pivotal vote held by autoworkers in Chattanooga, Tenn., last Friday in which the majority ruled and decided not to join the United Auto Workers union. Perhaps these workers did not want their dues siphoned off for political activity. Perhaps they were motivated by the union influence in Detroit, which ultimately led to the town seeking bankruptcy protection. Whatever the reason behind their decision, the employees ultimately voted 712-626 against joining the UAW. Case closed? Hardly.
The idea that racism was a motivation behind the decision not to unionize by the workers in the Volkswagen plant was too rich for one MSNBC analyst not to capitalize upon. In reflecting upon the vote not to unionize, Timothy Noah offered the following insightful commentary:
"The opposition, I gather, portrayed this as a kind of Northern invasion, a re-fighting of the Civil War. Apparently there are not a lot of black employees in this particular plant, and so that kind of—waving the Confederate flag—was an effective strategy."
The notion that a decision not to unionize is equated with a Northern invasion and re-fighting of the Civil War would be laughable except that Noah is paid by MSNBC to offer political analysis. Without facts, interviews with plant employees, or evidence, the wide net of racism is cast to describe a decision that I suspect was motivated by economics, not skin color. I would point out to Noah that people like my grandfather moved north to work at General Motors because he was not able to get a job—due to real racism—in the Deep South during the Jim Crow era.
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| NHL, players reach tentative deal
At long last, the Kings can get their championship rings and begin defense of their Stanley Cup title.
It took 113 days and a marathon 16-hour negotiating session that began Saturday and skated all the way into the wee hours of Sunday, but the NHL and its players have agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement to end a nearly four-month lockout.
So welcome back, Dustin Brown and Jonathan Quick. And hello to you, Anze Kopitar and Drew Doughty.
The last time we saw you guys, you were making a magnificent skate to an incredible Stanley Cup championship after squeezing your way into the playoffs as the eighth seed in the Western Conference only to pick off one higher-seeded opponent after another.
Until finally, implausibly and magnificently reaching the final round against the New Jersey Devils, whom you raised a mighty stick to and defeated in six memorable games to win your first Stanley Cup.
And then rocking and rolling with your legion of fans in downtown LosAngeles as you celebrated your unlikely triumph - those dedicated, devoted supporters who stuck with you through a mostly dubious 46-year history only to join you in jubilation after scaling the most improbable mountain of all.
The Kings, Stanley Cup champions?
It still seems like a dream, although a prolonged one thanks to a nasty labor fight between NHL players and owners that was as agonizing to us as it was necessary to you.
The health and vibrancy of an entire league rested in the outcome of your industry brawl, in your ability to strike a well-balanced accord in which players were adequately compensated and cared for beyond their hockey careers and owners had the economic foundation to successfully finance the sport.
It was ugly and frustrating - and for the fans, excruciatingly long - but thankfully an agreement was reached in which we can lock away the spreadsheets and calculators and break out the skates and hockey sticks.
So welcome back.
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears before we could say that, of course.
The season very much in doubt coming into this weekend, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and union executive director Donald Fehr emerged from their long negotiating session at the crack of dawn on the East Coast with a 10-year labor deal (with an opt-out clause after eight years).
The new agreement must be ratified by a majority of the league's 30 owners and the union's membership of approximately 740 players.
In the meantime, the NHL will get to work on saving as much of its schedule as possible, with the season openers and length of the season still to be determined.
The players have been locked out since Sept. 16 - or since the end of the previous labor contract - with more than 50 percent of the original schedule, including the annual Winter Classic and All-Star Game, already wiped out.
But with the very real possibility of the league losing another full season to labor strife - the 2004-05 season was wiped out by a lockout - the two sides worked long and hard this weekend to avoid that calamity.
Among the key components is a favorable pension plan for players, a cap of seven years on free-agent contracts and a new 50-50 split on hockey-related revenue, which is down from the 57 percent share the players received under the previous deal.
A salary cap of $70.2million also has been determined for this season but will drop to $64.3 million for the 2013-14 season.
The salary-cap floor is now $44million.
For the players and the league, those are important components to a new deal that will guarantee labor peace for at least eight years.
But for fans, they are just happy to finally have hockey back.
And for fans of the Kings in particular, the time finally has arrived to watch their team defend its Stanley Cup championship.
It took nearly four months, but it's time to drop the puck.


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Undoubtedly, almost all shipping subsectors are currently undergoing the most challenging market conditions in a long time. The financial performance of companies in the shipping sector in the year 2011 has deteriorated sharply.
The outlook for shipping remains bleak in 2012 due to the continued delivery of large numbers of ships into a depressed freight market that has little hope of improving while macroeconomic fundamentals remain rather weak and there remains significant uncertainty on how various ongoing issues might be resolved.
The interim results of shipping companies for the first half of 2012 in Chapter 1 points to a further deterioration of financial performance in 2012 that will most likely continue to the end of the year. The new "Global Shipping Benchmarking Analysy 2012" also discuss developments in the area of sustainability reporting and corporate social responsibility in shipping as this is rising up in the agenda of regulators, industry bodies and consumers.
As in prior years this analysis looks at certain key performance indicators (KPIs) of more than 150 shipping companies from around the world. Financial data have been derived from publicly available financial statements of years from 2007 up to and including 2011.


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The reticulated python is a species of snake found in Southeast Asia. Its common name reticulated refers the complex color pattern. The color pattern of this snake's skin is a complex geometric pattern incorporating tan, brown, golden yellow and black. The back typically has a series of irregular diamond shapes which are flanked by smaller markings with light centers. In this species' wide range, much variation of size, color, and markings commonly occurs. In the shadowy rain forest environment amid fallen leaves and debris, pythons' patterns allow them to virtually disappear.
Called a disruptive coloration, it protects them from predators and helps them catch prey. Found in Southeast Asia from the Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore, east through Indonesia and the Indo-Australian Archipelago consisting of Sumatra, the Mentawai Islands, the Natuna Islands, Borneo, Sulawesi, Java, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Timor, Maluku, and the Tanimbar Islands, and the Philippines.
Reticulated pythons inhabit the rain forests, grasslands and woodlands of Southeast Asia. They are usually associated with bodies of water and are excellent swimmers.
Length: Adults can grow upwards to 28 feet (8.5 m) in length but normally grow to an average of 10–20 feet. Weight: Up to 300 pounds. They are the world's longest snakes and longest reptile, but are not the most heavily built. Like all python species, they are non venomous constrictors. Although large specimens are powerful enough to kill an adult human, attacks are rare.
In the zoo: May live 20 years or more. In the wild: Around 15–20 years
In the zoo: usually rats, quail (not fed live)
In the wild: nearly anything they can catch, but usually rats, birds, sometimes pigs and binturong
Females are oviparous, or egg-bearing, and typically lay between 15 and 80 eggs per clutch. Females become sexually mature at around 4 years old and males around 18 months. At an optimum incubation temperature of 31–32°C (88–90 °F), the eggs take an average of 88 days to hatch. The eggs are off-white in color and have a soft, leathery shell. The female pythons coil their bodies around their eggs and protect them until they are ready to hatch. This behavior is known as brooding and prevents the eggs from getting too warm or too cool.
Young pythons emerge from their leathery egg casings by cutting a slit in the eggshell with their egg tooth, a temporary sharp projection on the upper lip, and usually average a birth length of about 2 feet (60.96 cm). The young snakes almost immediately are ready to be predators, but first go through a skin shed before their first meal about two weeks after birth, searching out small rodents and birds to consume. Pythons are ambush feeders and will lie in wait for nearly any animal that comes into their path, primarily rodents and birds, though they can consume animals up to about a quarter of their length and nearly their body weight.
The reticulated python at the zoo is an 8-year-old male and weighs about 100 pounds (as of 5/2011). He can be seen, as well as a variety of other reptiles and amphibians, in the zoo's Day Exhibit.
Like many snake and other reptiles and amphibian species, reticulated python populations are diminishing in the wild. This is primarily due to destruction of their habitat through logging, mining and other development as well as over-collection due to the pet trade and for their skin which is made into leather goods such as purses, belts, and watch bands. The zoo is actively involved in conservation programs and recovery projects for a number of reptile and amphibian species including the Western Pond Turtle Recovery Project and the Oregon Spotted Frog Recovery Project here in the Pacific Northwest, support of the Turtle Survival Alliance, Amphibian ARK, Egyptian Tortoise Conservation Project, the International Iguana Foundation, Komodo Dragon Species Survival Plan, Louisiana Pine Snake Recovery Project, and amphibian conservation in Andasibe, Madagascar.
Reticulated pythons are not an endangered species. However, effort to save reptiles and amphibians requires cooperation and support at the international, national, regional and individual levels. You can help in this cause. If you must have a reptile or amphibian as a pet, make sure you know where they came from and that they were hatched from captive stock from a responsible breed. Refrain from buying leather or other products made from wild caught reptiles and amphibians. Ensure that you know as much as you can about their care and NEVER release a non-native reptile or amphibian into the wild (learn more in "Reptiles as Pets" section below). Join and become active in Woodland Park Zoo and other conservation organizations of your choice. Let your elected representatives know your views about protecting endangered species and wild habitats. Contact Woodland Park Zoo at firstname.lastname@example.com to find out other ways you can support conservation programs at the zoo.
We do not recommend reptiles as pets for most people as they require very specialized diets and environments. We also receive hundreds of requests each year to take former pet iguanas, boas and other reptiles but we cannot accept these due to space, health and unknown backgrounds. If you need to find a reptile or amphibian a new home, we suggest you contact a local herpetological group in your area. In the Puget Sound region, contact the Pacific Northwest Herpetological Society as a resource. If you do choose to get a reptile as a pet, please learn as much as possible about their care and the best species before making your decision and never accept wild-caught animals as pets or release non-native reptiles or amphibians into the wild.
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UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/37580
Reptile Database: http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Broghammerus&species=reticulatus
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Search for the word "sustainability" on Google and you'll end up with nearly 25 million hits. But what does sustainability mean to Arizona, especially as the state's economy crawls out of the crater left behind by the recession?
"The word sustainability and the word green means different things to different people — it's more than just environmental technologies … The real question is how is the concept of sustainability affecting businesses at large. Because sustainability is a business issue," said Rob Melnick, executive dean of the Global Institute of Sustainability/School of Sustainability at Arizona State University.
Though 2009 proved to be a difficult year economically, it was a landmark year for the green industry in the Grand Canyon State.
In October 2009, Clean Edge Inc., a research and publishing firm devoted to the clean-tech sector, listed Phoenix in the top 15 U.S. metro areas for clean-tech job activity. Phoenix was in the company of established cities in the industry such as San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, Calif., as well as Denver, Boulder and Greeley, Colo.
A month later, Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1403 into law, creating the Renewable Energy Incentive Program, which provides refundable tax credits and property tax reductions for manufacturers.
"That sent a resounding alert to the industry that Arizona was serious about becoming a global leader in the renewable energy sectors," said David Drennon, spokesperson for the Arizona Department of Commerce. "The result has been a solid response in companies — particularly in the solar industry — to consider establishing operations in Arizona. It means investment in our state and jobs for Arizonans."
In her State of the State address in January, Brewer reinforced her belief that the sustanability industry will have a positive effect on the state's economic recovery.
"We celebrate significant progress in establishing our foothold in the solar industry, and in advancing our competitive position in the national and global economy," she said. "Our goal is to land the top solar manufacturers in the world and we are well on our way."
School of Sustainability building at ASU
The School of Sustainability at Arizona State University has done much to advance the state's reputation in the global green industry.
And on the federal level, President Barack Obama in January unveiled $2.3 billion in Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing tax credits for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States. Companies with plans to build in Arizona requested nearly $30 million in tax credits. In a release announcing the funds, Obama stated, "Building a robust clean-energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future. (The credits) will help close the clean-energy gap that has grown between America and other nations, while creating good jobs, reducing our carbon emissions and increasing our energy security."
Slow Beginnings
Although the Renewable Energy Incentive Program signaled the state's shift toward a valid future in the green sector, Arizona still has a way to go before catching up to other states.
A new study by the nonprofit research group Next 10 found that between 1995 and 2008, California had a 2.4 percent annual growth rate in its core green-economy employment. The study also found that although total jobs in California decreased 1 percent between January 2007 and January 2008, green jobs increased 5 percent.
"The state has to make some strategic investments," Melnick said. "It's got to be creative about regulation, work force development, finance and marketing itself. Right now, no one is saying Arizona is the green job capital of the world. We really could have been the solar capital of the world 20 years ago. We were growing so fast and so rich, but now we need it."
Barry Broome, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) echoes these sentiments.
"It's a very policy-specific industry," Broome said. "We have to think critically about energy policy, planning and community economic development."
Now more than ever, Arizona needs to take the right steps in securing the industry as a valuable economic engine.
Green Jobs
The burgeoning sustainability industry is growing green jobs, bringing the prospect of much-needed employment to the state.
Brewer recently announced that one of the world's largest solar-cell manufacturers, China-based Suntech Power Holdings, will bring its U.S. headquarters to the West Valley this year. Suntech, a multibillion-dollar corporation that makes photovoltaic solar cells and solar electric systems, will potentially be one of the first companies eligible for the Renewable Energy Incentive Program.
"We did quite an extensive search around the country," said Steven Chan, chief strategy officer of Suntech Power Holdings. "(Arizona) had a combination of a strong potential market, very supportive policies and incentives, and very good educational institutions."
The plant is set to open in Goodyear and is expected to begin production in the third quarter of this year, with an initial production capacity of 30 megawatts. The 80,000 to 100,000-square-foot plant will be designed with growth in mind, due to the anticipated expansion of the U.S. solar market.
Suntech announced it is expecting up to 150 jobs for the company's first phase — 75 at launch, with the potential to double within the year. The plant will have a variety of jobs that will be focused mostly on manufacturing and operations.
"We're looking forward to building a long-term base for Suntech in Arizona. We feel that both in Arizona and across the U.S. there is a promising future for a green work force," Chan said.
Another manufacturer also has announced plans for an Arizona presence — and it comes from an unlikely source. Tower Automotive, a producer of structural metal components for the automobile industry, plans to invest $50 million in an Arizona plant. The decline of the U.S. auto industry hurt the company and spurred it to diversify its product line. The plant will manufacture mirror assemblies for solar-power systems and will employ about 200 people.


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He turned down a 4 fight contract before the Nelson fight!. Bet he kinda regrets that now.
If you didn't see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth!
He's had a pretty good run in the UFC imo, just never cut it at the very top, I think he'll go away, put a 5-6 fight win streak together and then return, unless he decides on Bellator or WSOF then he should earn enough to stay away, although I'm not sure he'll get the $70,000 he got on saturday night.
He's 37 now, not sure we will ever see him back in the UFC, by time he puts a few wins together he could be 38/39...UFC will bring in fresh blood now to replace him.
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If he actually did turn down a contract I doubt he wants to continue in the UFC in reality, he's 37 and fought nearly 20 times for them.
To be honest I think he's vastly overrated, beats the lower level guys & looks impressive but flounders against any real competition.
Despite Rogan constantly classing him as a world-class striker" I've only seen him getting outstruck by guys like Mir.
Plus he's such a dirty fighter.
If he re-evaluates himself, he will World Champion
Kongo is a grade A badass. He always looked like he was about to eat your fucking liver with some fava beans but never quite finished pouring his Chianti before giving away the round to his opponent. He should be in comic books and movies. He should do some squats though; those chicken pegs need some work.
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Wingate, N.C.- The Brevard College Tornados men's tennis team dropped a 9-0 match in the South Atlantic Conference opener to the Bulldogs of Wingate University on Tuesday afternoon.
Brevard's David Taggart took Wingate's Sebastian Hall to three sets on the number two singles court while BC's George Finch went to three sets with Josh Eardley 7-6, 2-6 and 10-8.
BC's doubles tandems of Johnannes Kloster/David Taggart and Rory Northam/George Finch both lost hard-fought 8-5 doubles matches on the number one and two doubles courts, respectively.
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The New York Times and The New Yorker include Prof. Hamilton's book of poetry among the best of the year
Celebrated publishing project includes Barnard religion scholar's translations of 16th-century Indian poetry
Expert weighs in on how changes to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba will impact international trade
"Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability" focuses on different threats facing communities around the world
Additional awardees include Sheila Nevins, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Cathy Schulman
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TLC show brings Muslims in America out in the open
DEARBORN, Mich. – When Fordson High School football coach Fouad Zaban was asked to be on a reality show about Muslim family life, his impulse was to decline.
"It doesn't seem like it now, but we kind of like our privacy," Zaban says. "We are simple people. We don't do crazy things. … Quite honestly, What I told the show (producers) is I'm kind of boring."
Now that he and his family have appeared on the All-American Muslim series (Sunday, TLC, 10 p.m.), Zaban struggles to understand how his life and the ordinary lives of four other Muslim families in Dearborn could be viewed as controversial. That's the tag the show has after the conservative Florida Family Association attacked the program as Muslim "propaganda" designed to mask an extremist agenda. On Dec. 10, the Lowe's home improvement chain pulled its advertising from the show.
"This is what I've been doing for 17 years of my life: teaching and coaching," Zaban says. "If you want to call this propaganda, then go ahead, but you couldn't be further from the truth."
KAYAK ON PULLING ADS: 'We handled this poorly'
Since 9/11, Muslims have struggled to be accepted in the U.S., despite the country's historic pride in being a melting pot of nationalities. Some Americans have become suspicious of Muslims and/or Arab Americans, equating them with terrorists. In May, four Islam clerics were delayed in their efforts to attend a conference on Islamophobia when they were barred from flights.
Hani Bawardi, an assistant professor of history and Arab studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, says the negative depiction of Arabs has a long history in America and "has shown no sign of abating."
"Since the 1940s, I can confidently tell you that the denigrations of Arabs and Muslims became systematic," Bawardi says. "Schoolchildren are exposed to it in their textbooks, comic books. You can see it in magazines, newspapers, in Hollywood productions and made-for-TV episodes. But this show begins to chip away at it."
Dearborn school board member Hussein Berry, a Muslim, says that for a few months after 9/11, it was "scary" for Muslims because of the negative public perception. But he says the way non-Muslim Dearbornites stood up for their Muslim neighbors brought the city closer together.
"My dad taught me that if a person fears a higher power, then you have nothing to fear from that person," Berry says. "Now don't get me wrong — we all aren't sitting in Dearborn singing 'la la la.' There are probably people in Dearborn not happy with the direction the city has taken. But those are few. But from the outside, there are probably people looking in and saying, 'Wow, a Jewish person, a Christian person and a Muslim person can sit down and have dinner together there.' "
The sixth of eight episodes of All-American Muslim aired Sunday night, and the show has averaged 1.2 million viewers a week. Among the cast are deputy chief Mike Jaafar of the Wayne County Sheriff's Department, party planner Nina Bazzy Aliahmad and a young couple having their first child.
Dearborn Mayor John "Jack" O'Reilly sees the series as reflecting the standard American story of immigrants becoming more Americanized in successive generations as they try to preserve their cultural heritage. He also sees the storylines reflecting how people look at religion.
"It reflects that American Muslims or non-Muslims are all human and they are going to exhibit traits, and one of the traits is that I may belong to and participate in a religion, but I am going to exercise my free will with regard to how I practice it," says O'Reilly, a Catholic. "That happens in all religions."
The series has looked at issues such as high school football players who have to play while abstaining from food and even water for Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting; interfaith marriage and conversion; and career women and a Muslim woman's decision whether to cover her head.
"One of the things that I like so much about this cast of characters is the empowerment we see in the female Muslim voice in the show," says co-producer Mike Mosallam, a Muslim who is originally from Dearborn. "It's definitely a stereotype that's being flipped on its head and re-examined."
University of Michigan-Dearborn student Maryam Fawaz, 19, sees the show providing a fair portrayal of a typical American Muslim family, not so different from her own.
"I have relatives in the military. My grandfather is a veteran and most of my ancestors are United States veterans," Fawaz says. "I really wonder if that is normal enough to be an American. C'mon, Florida Family Association — is that not American enough?"
Getting it from both sides
Since Lowe's pulled the plug on its advertising for the TV show, the Newark Star-Ledger, the liberal group People for the American Way and others have called for a boycott of Lowe's. Several stores have been hit with protests.
"The Florida Family Association presents itself as an army ready to strike at companies that won't cater to its extremist views. In reality, the 'group' is just one very angry man — David Caton — and his computer," Michael Keegan, president of the People for the American Way Foundation, said in an e-mailed statement.
Caton did not respond to requests for an interview. Internal Revenue Service records show that the Florida Family Association, based in Tampa, has three officers. Caton is named as president, director, treasurer and the only paid staff; he makes $55,000 a year. The organization's purpose, according to the document: "Educate people on what they can do to defend, protect and promote traditional biblical values."
On Saturday, 100 or so protesters demonstrated at a Lowe's store in Allen Park, Mich. Amid snow flurries and chilly temperatures, they stood at the entrance to the parking lot, they shouted for a boycott.
"We are going to organize around the country," said Charles Williams II, pastor of Detroit's Historic King Solomon Baptist Church. "We are going to lead this effort to get Christian folks and Jewish folks to join this battle. Lowe's thought they had a Muslim issue that will go away in two days. We have proven they have an American issue."
About 25 people showed up in support of Lowe's. Among them was Brian Liddoak, 40, a machinist from Allen Park. "I'm saying they have the right to put their advertising dollars where they want. It's a freedom issue," he said. "I believe (Muslims) have the right to believe in what they want, just as we do. But they seem to forget that Lowe's has its right to spend its dollars the way it wants to."
Imad Hamad, senior national adviser for the Dearborn-based American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, attended the rally and said he would have respected Lowe's decision if it were strictly a business decision. "However, when they give justification for pulling the ads because of rhetoric of hate, then it is no longer about a business decision," Hamad says.
Lowe's issued a statement earlier explaining its decision: "It appears that we managed to step into a hotly contested debate with strong views, from virtually every angle and perspective," the company said. "We believe it is best to respectfully defer to communities, individuals and groups to discuss and consider such issues of importance."
Alon Orstein, TLC's vice president for production and development, says the idea for the All-American Muslim series came from his staff realizing that "we never see American Muslims on TV." TLC considered featuring Muslims in San Diego, Washington and Northern Virginia before deciding on Dearborn. "Once we found out what Dearborn is all about, we really decided we wanted to make Dearborn, the community, another character in the show," he says.
City has history of diversity
About 30% of Dearborn's roughly 100,000 population is Arab American, and Arabic culture is evident in the schools, stores and lifestyles. Storefronts have Arabic signs. Many female students wear head scarves and the modest dress that leaves only face and hands exposed. Halal foods, those permitted by Islam, are readily available.
"Most Arab-Americans in the U.S. don't live next door to other Arab-Americans," says Matthew Jaber Stiffler, researcher at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn.
They do in Dearborn. They also live next to people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds in a city where Ford Motor Co. is headquartered. Dearborn is the site of the Islamic Center of America, described as the largest mosque in the United States when it was built in 2004.
Whenever there are major issues involving events in the Middle East or Arab Americans or Muslims, TV cameras arrive in Dearborn. Earlier this year, O'Reilly issued an open letter refuting claims by Terry Jones— whose burning of a Quran in Florida caused protests in Afghanistan that led to 16 deaths — that Dearborn was under sharia law, the moral code of Islam.
Stiffler points out that Dearborn currently has a 7-foot-high Nativity scene in front of City Hall with a "giant baby Jesus." He pointedly jokes that if the city is under sharia law, "they are doing a poor job of it."
Berry, who moved to Dearborn from Lebanon when he was 7, says he is proud to live in a diverse city.
"Diversity has been here a long, long time," he says. "When I grew up in Dearborn, Gino Marchetti was my friend. He wasn't my Italian friend. Nobody looked at me as their Arab-American friend or Muslim friend."
Berry has watched All-American Muslim and said he believes it has educational value because it promotes discussion of cultural and religious differences.
"I have a lot of friends from Florida, California calling me up and saying 'I didn't know about this,' and asking very good questions about Islam," he says.
Meaghan Branigan-Lowe 27, a teacher who is Catholic, says watching the show made her realize that she had never met a Muslim, even though she lives about 70 miles from Dearborn.
"I was surprised that there is the one person on the show who wears really short dresses," Branigan-Lowe says. "She goes to her parents' house dressed like that. And she is a businesswoman and she goes out in public like that. I found it interesting because I would have assumed she would have been shunned for dressing risqué. But she is a modern woman who is still part of the culture."
The show's organizers readily admit that some Muslims have taken issue with the series because it doesn't reflect the wide range of ethnic backgrounds that practice the faith.
Stiffler says that when he talks to Muslims about the show, "the first thing that they say is 'but they are all Lebanese.' "
The five families all have Lebanese Shiite roots.
"Even within that small microcosm, there is such a diversity in the practice and in the way they live day-to-day," says Mosallam, who grew up in Dearborn. "If we started to branch out to a Black Muslim family or a Yemeni family, you become a survey show that viewers may have a hard time latching onto."
Zeinab Hammoud, 16, says the show has created a buzz at Fordson High School and has been discussed in almost every class. "I think it is a very realistic portrayal," she says. "I think there is very big value, because people around the nation are truly seeing what Muslims are."
Hammoud and some other Muslims say they hope the show makes it more comfortable for them to venture outside of Dearborn.
"I am scarved. … People look at you like you are an alien," Hammoud says. "It's like you don't belong here, and I've been in many places outside of Dearborn and had many issues and problems. But I've also been to places where people have stepped up and asked, 'Why do you wear that?' That's when I'm proud to wear it, because I'm proud to say I wear it for reasons one, two and three."
Fawaz, an environmental science major, says Dearborn provides Arab Americans and Muslims with a safe haven. "It's definitely a bubble, and it's a fragile bubble," she says.
Fordson teacher Yasmine Ferris, a Muslim, says the events of 9/11 brought the community together "to try to change the perception of the world of what we were really like, to show we were just normal."
About All-American Muslim, Ferris says, "I find myself frustrated with it. I find myself laughing at it. I find myself wondering about it. But I know it's opened up a lot more dialogue."
Ferris says she is noticing "more expansion from the boundaries than there was when I was a student here."
Bawardi says he encourages his students to break the "Dearborn bubble." He says many of his students want to move away from the city to expand their opportunities.
Fordson manufacturing teacher Guy Pizzino lives on the west side of Dearborn, where there are fewer Arab Americans, but he says his neighbors and friends have been positive about the show.
"If you were here in the weeks after 9/11 you would have seen that our students were just as American as any students around the country," Pizzino says. "They were flying American flags. You would have seen our students taking up collections for victims' families just like everyone else did."
The series will address 9/11 in the Jan. 1 episode, and then it wraps up Jan. 8. TLC says no decision has been made about whether there will be a second season. Ratings declined after the first episode drew 1.7 million viewers.
Mosallam said he believes the show has had an impact by giving some viewers their first introduction to a Muslim.
"Hopefully, what's happening is that the audience is no longer thinking in terms of us and them," Mosallam says. "It's thinking of us as a whole."
Cast member Angela Jaafar, who works in marketing in the auto industry and is married to the deputy chief, says she initially wondered why anyone would want to watch her family "try to live the American dream."
In her mind, she is doing what every other American is doing, trying to balance career and family, save for retirement and keep pace with the grind of life. But after seeing the reactions to the series, she understands why it was important that her life was televised.
"The best reaction that I get is 'I never knew that you were a Muslim,' " Jaafar says. "I think that's the whole point."
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Eastern Indiana man OK after grain bin rescue
An eastern Indiana man is alive after corn buried him to his shoulders in a grain bin.
The Palladium-Item reports 68-year-old George Staley of Richmond told rescuers he was fine after being freed Saturday.
Malcolm Merkamp, who farms near Centerville, 60 miles east of Indianapolis, said he and Staley were loading a truck with corn from the bin when the auger became stuck. After Staley went inside to work on the auger, corn started rolling over him. Merkamp said he was able to turn off the auger before corn completely buried the other man.
Firefighters cut holes in the bin to release the corn. The rescue took about two hours.
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