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This fall's dedication of the Student Center was more than an official opening of a new building. It heralded the arrival of yet another significant milestone in realizing a nine-decade-long dream to move the Clarkson campus to the hill.
The plan as outlined in 1921 in a proposal by Frederick C. Wilson, civil engineering professor and later dean of engineering), to the PotsdamMen's Association called for:
sufficient funds to buy the Clarkson family estate across the river; to transform it into a campus which would stand without equal; to erect new college buildings; and to enlarge the college sufficiently to accommodate a thousand students. A Clarkson on the hill has been the dream of every student that ever attended Tech.
In 1964, the Board of Trustees approved a proposal known as "Operation 71," which would double the size of Clarkson by 1971 with a significant increase in enrollment and faculty. An ambitious construction project continued for the next several decades on the hill campus.
By 2000, the new Bertrand H. Snell Hall, which houses the School of Business and the School of Arts & Sciences, was opened to students. This completed the planned move of undergraduate academic programs from the downtown campus to the hill campus.


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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A bomb threat left in a Brazilian airport caused a TAM Airlines flight to make an emergency landing and briefly closed the airport in the Amazonian city of Manaus on Saturday, five months before the country hosts the World Cup soccer tournament.
A note that said a bomb was onboard TAM flight 3540 was found in a bathroom at Brasilia's Juscelino Kubitschek airport, airport officials said.
That flight, which had already left Brasilia bound for Boa Vista, evacuated passengers via emergency slides when it landed on the runway at Eduardo Gomes airport in Manaus.
The Manaus airport had reopened at 4 p.m. Brasilia time (1800 GMT) after no explosive device was found on the plane, a spokeswoman for the Infraero national airport authority said. She also said no other airports were affected.
TAM spokeswoman Fernanda Feres said passengers on the affected plane had been rebooked on another flight leaving for Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, on Saturday. TAM is the local unit of LATAM Airlines Group.
Federal police told Globo News they suspect a former TAM employee may have written the note left in Brasilia although investigations were ongoing.
Feres said the company had no comment on the investigation.
TAM cut some 780 employees late last year, reducing its workforce by 4 percent in an effort to boost profits despite high fuel costs and a weaker local currency.
Manaus is a popular destination for tourists exploring the Amazon rainforest and one of 12 cities hosting World Cup soccer matches in June and July.
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How to Overcome Jealousy in a Relationship
Fighting the Green Monster
Being a jealous freak myself, there is a lot that I can tell you to prevent yourself from being one. And, it is important to keep away from jealously in a relationship should you want it going forever, trust me. Jealous tips toes in more often that you expect it to and sometimes, it just creeps in when you really don't want it to. By the end of the day if your relationship fails to survive, you have more memories of jealously- fueled shameful activities you did than the good part about being with your dear beloved (ex-beloved, err). Here are some ways in which you can deal with jealousy.
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Run a Reality Check: Is the Jealously Irrational?
Conjuring up things based on jealously that has absolutely no grounds of existence can damage communication two people. Try to make peace with your mind. Express your thoughts and let your partner know what it is that they want. Do not be an accuser. Do not keep blaming your partner for what you have been thinking up. Instead, look out for solutions for a healthy relationship.
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Conversation and Logic
This is one of the best ways to deal with jealousy. It can be painfully hard when your partner would have pushed you to the summit of insanity, but it is important for you to realise that he/she is just insecure and needs some reassuring. Try to think about why your partner could be behaving the way he/she is behaving. Take them aside and ask them what is really up and why they are being inconsiderate about the truth. It is very important to take deep breaths and stay calm while you get things sorts. Do not show any sign of frustration.
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Quit being in Denial
A lot of people who are jealous or insecure about the prospects of their romantic relationship tend to be in a continual denial mode. They would not readily accept that their perception or behaviour is in any way irrational. It is important to realise that you are being irrational so you can work on it and get closer to overcoming jealously.
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Be Generous
You can quit being jealous by being a generous person. If you spend time helping others, you will feel much better about yourself because you'd develop a better understanding of all that you have that other would be grateful for. You could volunteer in a community that helps old people cope with their daily lives or one that teaches English to kids, etc. You could also do small things for someone you love such as a friend.
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Cut it with a Jealous Friend
If a friend has been showing insane jealously, he/she is just toxic to your social life. So, cut it out with him/her because it is not going to get any better. In fact, if you continue taking the friendship forward, he/she may grow obsessive and never let you be.
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Do Not Tell them They are Psycho
Just because they exhibit insane limits of jealously does not mean you can call them all you want. They already are upset because they think they have lost their ability to charm you and if you begin to tell them how they are capable of thinking all the wrong things that no one else could, they would just feel trifle times more withdrawn. So, do not put their thoughts away by claiming them to be absurd. We have all been on that road at some point and if you have not already been cast under the shadows of jealously, you will sometime in the future.
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Be Reassuring
When a person is spiraling down into a depressive abyss because of their jealously or insecurity, there is nothing more soothing to their ears than to be told that they are being loved unconditionally. So, reassure your jealous partner or yourself that there is no dearth of love in the relationship; that there is no one else that understands you as much as they do; that you have never looked at someone of the opposite sex with an intention of going out with them, etc.
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Be Respectful
Stay taciturn if your ex has been following you too much around in public and acting downright weird. No matter how bad your partner is or was, you always owe respect to them. For instance, if your ex is trying to pull your attention in public, tell them you'd rather handle the situation in private. You could ignore their activities in public, but always be prepared for a one on one to settle things down. Jealously is an ugly monster, but that does not mean you have to hide under your bed. If you do not man up to face it, it will grow beyond your reach.
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Believe your Partner
Take them at their word and if they do lie to you, they are not making a fool out of you but themselves. Constantly nagging and questioning your partner regarding his/her whereabouts can be quite insulting and of course, destructive in the long run. You may be distrusting your partner to the core, but start to pretend like you trust them like never before.
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The trailer also fleshes out the storyline and answers a few questions about what this War in the North is all about:
So who's this Agandaur guy? As far as we can tell, he's not mentioned anywhere in Tolkien's works, but Snowblind has worked him into Middle-earth's lore. In an interview with our friends at IGN, Producer Ruth Tomandl had this to say about Agandaur:
"Far back in the history of the Men of Middle-earth, there was a group of Númenóreans who went over to the dark side and became servants of Sauron. The Mouth of Sauron and Agandaûr are both descended from that group. Agandaûr is ambitious and he's become one of Sauron's chief lieutenants. He's been sent to the North of Middle-earth to open up another front in the War of the Ring, and he's doing his job very effectively."
War in the North is being developed for Windows PCs, the PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. A release date has not been announced, but the game is expected sometime this year.
Sharkey says: Snowblind and Warners are billing this as the Lord of the Rings game fans have been waiting for. That the developer and publisher are reaching outside of the core material for the story will surely upset some Tolkien purists, but I'm all for it. As an action-RPG fan, this game is high on my list of Must Buys for 2011.


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What's so lovely about it is that its pigmented without being too heavy and tranny like, but its also glossy and hydrating, but also long lasting.
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2012-13: Earned First Team All-ODAC honors at No. 5 singles and Third Team All-ODAC honors at No. 3 doubles ... posted a 12-14 record in singles and a 16-15 doubles mark.
High School: Earned one letter as a member of the tennis team at Mount Pigsah Christian School ... was part of the 2009 state championship team while attending the Marist School ... was named the most outstanding player for the Mount Pigsah tennis team in 2012.
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Hockey Captain Earns Yale's Top Athletic Honor
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – All he did was lead the Yale hockey team in scoring the last three seasons - while serving as the emotional leader – and ignite the Bulldogs to their best four-year span in the history of the program. That's why Brian O'Neill, who earned almost every league, conference and national honor available, has been named the winner of the 2012 William Neely Mallory Award, the most prestigious athletic award given to a senior male at Yale.
O'Neill, who led the Blue to 89 wins, including 14 in the post season, was a 2011-12 second-team CCM All-America pick by the American Hockey Coaches Association after leading the team with 21 goals and 46 points as the team captain.
The political science major and speedy forward was named first-team All-ECAC and Ivy League Player of the Year after ranking among the top 10 players in Division I for points and goals per game. He was also named ECAC Player of the Month for January and February last winter.
O'Neill, whose goal totals rose every year at Yale, was a three-time All-ECAC pick who helped the Elis win three Ivy League titles, two regular season ECAC Hockey championships, two ECAC Tournament titles and make three NCAA appearances. He scored 69 goals and had 163 points in 138 games.
O'Neill had a career-high four goals (most by a Bulldog since 2003) his senior campaign against Bentley, and they were consecutive tallies.
"As a total package, I could make the argument he's the greatest player in the history of Yale hockey," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach, when his captain was named all-conference. "In terms of what his teams have produced, and he has led the team in scoring three years in a row. He's so much more than a scorer. I could go on and on about the contributions he's made to the program."
O'Neill's contributions to the Yale program go beyond the ice and Ingalls Rink. The 2011-12 team captain has been active in community outreach activities, including the "Skate with the Bulldogs" program and speaking at local schools.
The Yardley, Pa., native, was signed by the Los Angeles Kings in March and helped their American Hockey League affiliate, the Manchester Monarchs, qualify for the Calder Cup Playoffs in April.
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The Boulder Philharmonic's next concert (Saturday in Macky Auditorium and Sunday in Lakewood) is called "Boulder Sensations," but the subject is rhythm.
Familiar as a fundamental element of music, the pulse that compels us to tap our feet or march along with the band, rhythm is even more than that. It underlays the movements of dance and the meter of poetry. It is found in the language and the scene structure of drama and film.
Or, as Boulder Philharmonic Music Director Michael Butterman says, "Anything that takes place in time has rhythm."
With "Boulder Sensations," Butterman and the Boulder Phil explore rhythm as the basis of artistry. The program includes two world premieres focused on rhythmic expression — "Deadlock" by Ruby Fulton, featuring beatbox (vocal percussion) artist Shodekeh; and "Boulder Sensations" by Lebanese percussionist Rony Barrak — and classical music's most explosive celebration of rhythm, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony ("the apotheosis of rhythm," according to Franz Liszt).
In honor of Shodekeh's and Barrak's prior participation in the University of Colorado's annual Conference on World Affairs, the concert will open with Brahms' Academic Festival Overture.
The theme of the concert emerged from the combination of guest artists. Butterman knew Barrak from an earlier performance with the orchestra, and wanted to bring him back to perform a new piece.
When he learned about Shodekeh and found that he and Barrak knew one another from the Conference on World Affairs, he thought, "OK, here's a chance to bring these two performers together who both do unusual things for an orchestra concert. And what they have in common is that both of their media are primarily about rhythm."
Aiming to balance "new discoveries with classical masterpieces," Butterman easily selected the Beethoven symphony, which relentlessly exploits a different rhythmic idea in each movement.
The surprising discovery was that Shodekeh, a hip-hop performer, had performed with an orchestra before. This gave Butterman the idea of coming up with a completely new piece for beatboxer and orchestra.
"Deadlock" takes its name from the contest between the beatbox soloist and the orchestra. It is based on the notated record of a game of chess that was created, or "composed," for the occasion by chess master Wilbert Brown.
"It ends with a deadlock between the two kings," Shodekeh explains. "The game is used as a metaphor or analogy for the relationship that my music has with classical music and us being a match for one another.
"Fulton took chess notation and then embedded it into the music, specifically for the mallet parts [pitched percussion, such as xylophone and marimba], so if you're listening closely enough you can hear the chess notation unravel throughout the entire game."
Shodekeh's part, which is completely composed and precisely notated, is not easy. "It's a good challenge," he says. "This piece, the patterns fluctuate and change so much because it's based on a chess composition; I had to break it down and compartmentalize it in my mind. It's a little trickier because there are just so many different changes based on the chess moves."
In contrast, Barrak's piece does not have a notated part for the drummer. "I will improvise my part in a certain way, where I'm supposed to do that, like when I have a solo with the orchestra," Barrak says. At other times, "I play grooves to push the orchestra and keep the beat solid."
The score grew out of the music Barrak played on his last visit to Boulder, titled "Beirut Sensations." He wanted to honor Boulder with a companion piece titled "Boulder Sensations."
"I have lots of respect to the people in Boulder, they have so much love, appreciation and interest in music," Barrak says. "This has made me feel inspired and more encouraged to compose every time I visit Boulder."
Parallel with his previous piece, "Boulder Sensations" is in three movements, and has what Michael Butterman calls "cinematic sweep. There is a visual quality to the music somehow," he says.
Barrak's description confirms Butterman's impression.
"The first movement is describing arriving in Colorado, opening the view of watching its lovely mountains in a Hollywood movie style, blending Middle-Eastern melody into it of where I come from," he says.
The following movements include "using the instruments as sound effects of soft rain and air" and "a percussion conversation between my Darbouka and the string ensemble using their instruments in a percussive way."
With Beethoven's symphony, beatboxing and "percussion conversations," perhaps the program should be called "Rhythm Sensations."
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New layout and local partners help Noco build its brand
Noco is giving its convenience stores a new look. Wi-Fi service and seating areas to entice customers to stay a while, along with an expanded array of quick-serve dining offerings, from Charlie the Butcher to Mighty Taco and Tim Hortons, are giving about a half dozen of the Town of Tonawanda company's 35 convenience stores a far greater line of offerings beyond the traditional staples of milk, beer and cigarettes.
Paul Wydro, who oversees the company's Noco Express Shops business, talked about the changes at one of the company's revamped stores at Genesee Street and Holtz Road in Cheektowaga.
Q: Was there anything in particular you were looking to accomplish with the redesign?
A: We wanted to get the flow a little better. If you look at some of our other designs, they kept the restaurant customer away from the convenience store customer. The openness of this location helped get the cross shopping going and has actually increased the sales because of it.
Q: What's different about the new store format?
A: We changed the checkout configuration to make it more of a semi-circle, as opposed to a Y, where you walk right into the checkout. We opened up the store, so instead of having a quick-serve restaurant on one side of the store and a convenience store on the other, we've combined them. So the flow from the hot food, quick-serve restaurant to the soda cooler is together, not separate.
Because of that, I think we're getting more crossover shopping. People are not coming in to use one part of the store. They're using them both.
Q: Will you use this format on other stores?
A: You're going to see more and more of this design. We are remodeling some of our older facilities using this front-end, half-circle and the two-door setup. And with the newer stores we're opening up, we're going to try to keep it as open as we possibly can. The new one we're opening next January on Walden Avenue and Pavement Road in Lancaster will have more of an open setup also.
Q: Has the new design changed the mix of sales you end up with?
A: The quick-serve restaurant really helps the gross profitability of the store. What supplements that is the higher-grossing, high consumable items we carry throughout the store. It's a combination of both that's really going to help us grow, not one or the other. And I think the old design, with that Y-shape, eliminated the opportunity to sell more product.
Q: Many supermarkets and other stores now have coffee kiosks, which traditionally was a big draw for convenience stores. How has that changed what you have to do?
A: People are so pressed for time, the more you can give them, the better. That's where the quick-serve restaurant comes in. In any convenience store a couple years ago, you could pick up a snack, a soda, 12-pack of beer and a pack of gum and, of course, your cigarettes. But if you can supplement their time, by offering them a good-quality meal quickly, it kind of closes the deal.
The more we experiment with it, the more we're seeing that people are looking at that, not only for coffee in the morning with the Tim Hortons that we have for breakfast, but the afternoon lunch and dinner time, as well. So it's actually a growing concept.
Q: Charlie the Butcher is part of this store and a few others. What's your relationship?
A: Charlie's been a good partner of ours for a couple of years now. We started in East Aurora and Orchard Park and then expanded it to Main and Young in Amherst and then here on Genesee Street in Cheektowaga. We've got some plans to use him in the future depending on the demographic area. It's a specialty, probably not for every one of our locations.
Q: The competition has changed with Wilson Farms being taken over by 7-Eleven. How has that changed the landscape?
A: We are family-owned and locally operated. Wilson Farms was a great company that did a great job of understanding the Western New York customer and supplying their needs at the convenience level. I think we're ready to pick up that banner.
The hometown Charlie the Butchers, the Tim Hortons, which aren't from Buffalo but are very well-received in Buffalo, the Just Pizzas that we just put in and the Mighty Tacos that we have in some stores. We're trying to stay with the local component to reflect our commitment to the community in Western New York.
Q: What makes a good location for a convenience store?
A: Traffic, number one. If people pass by constantly, they're more apt to stop in. And households, actually, depending on what you're able to offer. Traffic helps with the fuel, households help with the inside sales.
Q: Do you also look at what competition is around?
A: You look for a void. If you look at the Walden and Pavement location, there's really not a lot of households there. But there is a lot of traffic and it's something that we think we can build off because it looks like an expanding area. A key to that also is a convenience store also is becoming more of an oasis in certain areas.
Q: Where are you looking to expand?
A: You really want to look at where you can compete for new dollars. We're looking at expanding beyond Western New York and Buffalo to the Rochester market.
Q: Why are you looking to Rochester?
A: There are areas that are under-served in that area, or at least in the area between Buffalo and Rochester. We opened two stores in the Rochester area this past year and we have plans to open a few more in the years to come.
Q: In a new market like Rochester, do you need a certain number of stores to get the name recognition and market presence to really operate effectively?
A: What we're hopefully able to do is keep spreading the name of Noco. We have a natural gas and electric division that has expanded into the Rochester area. Our stores are really our billboards. We can help promote that portion of our business through our stores.
Q: How big of a component is the gas portion of a convenience store?
A: It's much more convenient, if you're stopping for fuel, to be able to pick up everything else. On the economic aspect of it, it's a very good contributor to the sales piece of it and the profitability piece of it, too.
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The attorney for Amherst Township resident Richard Armstrong en* tered a plea last week of not guilty by reason of insanity for his client, who bees 23 counts of sexual of* fenses involving young girls. Armstrong was formally charged in June with 11 counts of rape, six counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, four counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material or performance and one count each of gross sexual imposition and attempted rape. Armstrong allegedly invited girls as young as 11 years old into his home where he allegedly videotaped and photographed them nude. Prosecutors showed Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Kosma Glavas a videotape at Armstrong's arraign- CONTINUED on page 16 Brazilian student becomes active teenager here by ERIK YORKE News-Times reporter Romina Gomes has three ways to describe what she feels is the American lifestyle. "Quick, unpredictable and sometimes sweet" she said. Gomes, 17, is a Brazilian exchange student attending Marion L. Steele High School this year. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Gomes is currently living with Jim and Linda Bodnar. as well as their three sons, Jimmy, 14, Chris, 13, and Steven, 8. Gomes said that the biggest adjustment she had to make in coming to the United States was learning to interact with people differently. "You start thinking like them," Gomes said. "You start to understand what is the American lifestyle." A private school student in Brazil, Gomes said that attending school in Amherst was a pretty drastic change for her. "The duration of classes (in Brazil), instead of an hour and a half, is 15 minutes," Gomes said. She added that there are six periods instead of four. She also said that in Brazil, the students do not have a choice as to what courses they will take. "I like the experience I'm going through," Gomes said of going to Steele High School. "I think you have more direction. You get more experience with different careers before you have to make a final decision." According to Linda Bodnar, Gomes has also enjoyed some of the clubs at the high school, another thing not offered at her school in Brazil. Gomes has participated in drama club activities, such as helping to build sets for "Our Town" and passing out programs. Gomes also played on the junior-varsity soccer team. In addition to taking advantage of extracurricular activities in Amherst Gomes brought a favorite activity with her from Brazil. Gomes is a champion in both judo and Brazilian jiujitsu. "Romina has been practicing martial arts since she was five years old," Bodnar said. Gomes said that she has traveled abroad in the past to compete in the martial arts. "It makes me feel better," Gomes said of her proficiency at the martial arts. While in America, Gomes is attending Mr. Dee's Karate Academy in Elyria. Despite her experience in the martial arts, she said that she doesn't plan to make a career of it "I'd like to go look for a career in the humanities," Gomes said. "Something dealing with people, different kinds of people and how CONTINUED on paga 10 Brazilian exchange student Romina Gomes (far right) spends some time on the deck with members of her host family, Linda Bod nar and her son Chris. Gomes, a martial arts enthusiast, is attending Steele High School while in America. • r ! In seven years, church goes from small crowd to service overflbweth by ERIK YORKE News-Times reporter The Trinity Evangelical Free Church grew from humble beginnings in a Spring Street dance studio with only 30 members. That was in 1994. Now the church, in its own building on Middle Ridge Road, has more than 1,000 members. Pastor Mark Wilke attributes the church's growth, though he says it may sound corny, to Jesus Christ. "I think they come because they're curious and they stay because they're convicted," Wilke aatd. Wilke has been a pastor at Trinity for five years. He's seen the church go from the dance studio, to the old Amherst post office building and two years ago, finally finding what he feels is a permanent home for the church. During those years he has watched the church expand. "The growth has been gradual and continual," Wilke said. "We've doubled every year." The church, which Wilke describes as "conservative theologically but really dynamic in worship," is made up of a varied congregation, comprised of all ages and backgrounds. Wilke said that members of the congregation are always willing to volunteer their help to the church. "It's a congregation that's very involved," Wilke said. One thing that makes the ch-ach unique, Wilke said, is that he goes through the Bible verse by vena, father than giving topical sermons like some churches practice. "I think people want to know what God said and not the opinion of the pastor," Wilke said. Wilke said that the growth of the church is not a result of any kind of recruiting or advertising, rather it is probably the experience people have at the church that brings them back. "Our goal was never to grow, but encourage people to walk with God." Wilke said. Another facet unique to Trinity is that the services are posted on the churches website, so that people can download and listen to them at home or anywhere they have computer access. Wilke said that he has received messages from Brazil and the Philippines from people that have listened to his ser- CONTINUED on paga 16 Pastor Mark WHkestands outside the Trinity "«• Evangelcal Free Church which he has been « * serving for five years. Over tha years WNke tha church, which rtudto, grow by once am out and!
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Lessons Learned from the Boeing 787 Incidents
Summary of Subject Matter
Opening Statements
Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA)
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
(Remarks as Prepared)
I would like to thank Chairman LoBiondo for holding this hearing and the steps FAA and Boeing took to get the 787 back safely into service. I would also like to thank the witnesses for participating in the hearing, and I look forward to hearing from both of them.
The United States air transportation system safely transports roughly 730 million passengers each year, resulting in more than 70,000 flights each day. This system is the safest aviation system in the world, due in no small part to the efforts of the FAA, airlines, manufacturers, controllers, and other operators and stakeholders in the system.
The Committee remained in close contact with the FAA and Boeing from the immediate aftermath of these incidents through the final approval to return to revenue service. As a result of the Committees oversight activities, it was readily apparent throughout the process that everyone was working together to determine what had gone wrong and to find a solution. I greatly appreciate the meetings and briefings we had with Secretary LaHood, Deputy Secretary Porcari, Administrator Huerta, and numerous Boeing officials.
Engineers from Boeing and the FAA spent thousands of hours to find a mitigating solution that would allow for the safe return to flight. The final approval of the comprehensive battery solution came only after confirmation that all possible causes of the battery short circuit were addressed. New aircraft with new use of technology can experience issues, and it's important that they be addressed early. However, this does not mean that these aircraft are unsafe.
The incidents, the FAA and Boeing's responses to the incidents, and their reviews of the 787 certification process, are a valuable learning opportunity. While reviews are ongoing, I look forward to hearing from the witnesses what the FAA and Boeing have learned through this process so far. The Committee will continue to closely monitor the FAA's certification processes and the 787 as it resumes normal operations. I would again like to thank Chairman LoBiondo for holding this hearing, and thank the FAA and Boeing for attending.
Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)
Subcommittee on Aviation
(Remarks as Prepared)
The top priority of the Aviation Subcommittee, as well as me personally, is the safety of the flying public. Therefore, the Subcommittee has closely monitored the actions of the FAA, the NTSB, and Boeing in response to the battery incidents that took place earlier this year. I have called this hearing to learn more about the FAA and Boeing's actions to get the aircraft back to safe operation.
As we all know, in January there were two incidents involving a lithium ion battery on Boeing 787 aircraft – one on the ground in Boston and the second in the air over Japan. After ordering a review of all Boeing 787 critical systems, the FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive that temporarily halted 787 operations.
In the five months since the incidents, the FAA and Boeing have worked to develop a comprehensive solution to the battery issues, and have safely returned the 787 aircraft to service.
As a key part of this process, the FAA and Boeing have taken a hard look at the certification of the 787. This review has focused on what worked – given that the safety of the aircraft itself was not compromised in either incident – and what needs to be improved or adjusted.
Although the NTSB investigation is ongoing, and the Board has not identified the exact cause of the battery failure, Boeing has been able to narrow the possible causes of the short circuit to four or five. Based on that information, Boeing developed a comprehensive solution that addresses all these possible causes.
The solution presented to the FAA addressed issues at the battery cell, battery, and aircraft levels. In the end, the new battery design underwent over 200,000 engineering hours, and was then subject to a rigorous testing and FAA approval process.
Once again, the Committee has been closely monitoring the actions taken by the FAA and Boeing. Initially, there was great concern about the possible implications of these incidents. In the last five months I have made every effort to ensure that the FAA and Boeing were working together to develop a comprehensive solution.
Therefore, the Subcommittee met multiple times with representatives of both the FAA and Boeing and received high-level briefings on the incidents and the comprehensive solution. Chairman Shuster, Ranking Member Rahall, Ranking Member Larsen, and I received a briefing by Boeing's CEO during the early stages of the investigation. The Subcommittee has remained informed about the actions being taken by Boeing and the FAA at every step of the process.
Moving forward, the Subcommittee will continue to monitor the FAA's certification processes and the 787. To assist in this effort, today we will hear from the FAA and Boeing on lessons learned as a result of the 787 battery incidents and the comprehensive certification review.
This hearing is not about laying blame. Instead, today we will take a constructive look at what has been learned from these incidents.
It is important to remind ourselves that the United States aviation system is the safest in the world. This is due to the dedication and commitment of all stakeholders, who in situations like this, work together to ensure the safety of the flying public. I would like to thank the FAA and Boeing for their participation today and look forward to their testimony.
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Ms. Peggy Gilligan, Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety, Federal Aviation Administration | Written Testimony
Mr. Mike Sinnett, Chief Engineer for the 787 Program, Boeing | Written Testimony


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Here is the text of Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik's reflection during a special 'Service of Apology" he led this past Tuesday during Holy Week at St. Paul Cathedral.
"If you have been harmed by the church in any way, I invite you to come," the bishop said when he announced the service March 13 in his column "Bridging the Gap" in the diocesan newspaper, the Pittsburgh Catholic. "There will be nothing expected of you but your presence and your willingness to pray with me."
He said that he began holding the services in 2000 when he was the bishop of Green Bay, Wis. His inspiration was a jubilee-year apology Pope John Paul II made for sins of members of the church, sometimes committeed in the name of the church. Bishop Zubik was installed as Pittsburgh's bishop in September 2007.


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By Jack Gaughan
Gaging Manchester City's title defence is no easy task: only three points off their tally at this stage in 2012, statistically they are creating more clear-cut chances than ever before, yet there is a perception that their performances have lacked a certain swagger.
Had Roberto Mancini and the departed Brian Marwood captured Robin van Persie in the summer rather than arguing over potential targets, the January assessment would have undoubtedly been a whole lot different.
If Manchester United are to win the Premier League title, it will be down to the goals Van Persie has scored - the tap-ins, the blockbusters and the decisive ones. City, meanwhile, are 15 goals down on their total after 23 games last term. That gap would have been bridged were the Dutchman plying his unique talents at the Etihad Stadium.
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The real crux is that too much responsibility is being placed on David Silva's ability to unlock defences and while the strikers are not scoring goals out of nothing, it is the lack of chances created in the big games which is impeding another assault at the top.
What the champions really need this January is Malaga's Isco.
The Spaniard has been the standout performer in the Champions League so far this season. At only 20, and like Silva also a product of Valencia's youth setup, Isco is one of the hottest properties on the continent.
The £17 million release clause in his Malaga contract – before the club attempt to try and tie the youngster down to a new deal – seems appealing to City, even with Financial Fair Play restraints imposed. In truth, Malaga have a battle on their hands to offer anywhere close to the salary Isco is worthy of, given their financial predicament.
It would be unfair to label City slow and ponderous in possession during the bigger fixtures – against Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Everton and Liverpool – but the insistence on recycling possession to such a degree hinders progress. The idea is to pin the opposition into their own final third, but often looks as if the midfield are going through the motions and waiting for doors to open.
Isco's positional awareness, fleet feet and trickery means he would add a new aspect of attack for City, especially when playing at home.
The statistics back the theory that City are slightly cumbersome going forward up. In only two of their seven so-called 'big' matches have Mancini's men created more than one clear-cut chance – against Arsenal and Tottenham. In two (Liverpool and Everton) they failed to fashion a single clear-cut opportunity throughout the 90 minutes.
They have drawn four of those seven matches – not good enough if City harbour real ambitions of clinching the title once again.
The burden placed upon Silva is proving too much for the Spaniard, who has generated only two clear-cut chances in his big games this season, as opposed to eight last year. He is not being hampered against lesser opposition, with 10 overall compared to 14 for the entirety of 2011-12.
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Against Liverpool in September and United in December, only 25 per cent of his passes were forward. City drew and lost those matches. During the game he truly flourished in, against Spurs in November, 57 per cent of his passes were progressive. They won that game. That analysis is fairly simple, but when Silva is allowed to play, City win.
It is not that Silva is having a poor season – far from it – but the former Valencia man needs an accomplice. At present, City's three in behind the front man seem satisfied to wait for mistakes or a lung-busting run from a full-back.
A total of 30 per cent of Yaya Toure's passes and 36 per cent of Gareth Barry's are positive, but neither, up until very recently, join in to the extent whereby Silva can affect proceedings without the worry of being hounded by two or three defenders.
There are astonishing statistics to back up why City really ought to snap Isco up before somebody else does. In Europe's prized competition Isco makes almost five successful dribbles every game – three more than even Barcelona's Lionel Messi – boasts a 90 per cent pass completion average and provides more accurate through-balls to his strikers than any other on the continent.
It is that flash of brilliance he possess that wins the really big matches, and only Joaquin and Paris Saint-Germain's Jeremy Menez have played more key balls since the beginning of the tournament.
While Isco's La Liga form hasn't been quite as sparkling, the figures indicate his willingness to boss possession in the fixtures that really matter and attempt to dictate. Every Champions League fixture is a cup final for Malaga.
It is not as if the signing of the player will upset the balance of the side either. Isco's ability will only dislodge one man: Samir Nasri. Show me a City fan who would turn that down.


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"We Were Prisoners in a House of Torture, but We Survived"
"We were all each other had." The Stillman twins in front of the house where they were traumatized. Now they've put their abuser behind bars.
This past June, America watched as Phillip Garrido—the man who'd kidnapped California preteen Jaycee Dugard, raped her and became the father of her children—was sentenced to 431 years to life in prison. More details of Dugard's harrowing time trapped in Garrido's squalid backyard compound are sure to be revealed in her memoir this summer, but as troubling as her story is, we've all taken some comfort in the belief that a case like hers happens only once in a lifetime.
If only it were so.
Kristen and Will Stillman's story hasn't made national headlines or magazine covers, partly because, while Dugard's parents searched frantically and vocally for her, no one was looking for the Stillman twins. With no family and no place to run to, they could rely only on each other to withstand more than a decade of abuse and torture.
Theirs is a story of sibling love and survival. But it also raises tough questions for the rest of us: How could this happen to children living in plain sight? To a boy and a girl who were going to school? And how do you even begin to tell such a story? Perhaps in the words that Kristen, now 23, etched, cut or tattooed onto her body as cries for help that nobody seemed to notice, starting with the simple question:
(scar Kristen dug into her left thigh with pencil at age 11)KRISTEN: We were eight and had gotten kicked out of our fourth shelter. Karen [the twins' mom] was always lying in bed or just not around. Maybe she was doing drugs—I don't know.
WILL: We were walking in a pretty nice neighborhood, and Karen knocked on the door of a white house with blue trim. It looked OK, at least on the outside.
KRISTEN: She told us to wait while she went in. When she came back, she said, "You can stay here." We met Eric, a big guy with a ponytail; his wife, Linda; and their daughter. After that, we saw Karen only a few more times. Basically she dumped us there. But that day I just figured, Hey, there are other kids here. I'm sure there's food.
WILL: For the first couple of months, it wasn't that bad. It was just another place with lots of people, like everywhere we'd been. Eric was clearly in charge.
KRISTEN: I'd always wanted a sister, and their daughter—she was around 12—and I were friends in the beginning. They also had a son, Patrick, who was nine, and a two-year-old boy. The house was really small. Linda's mom and dad lived there too, and her brother, and Eric's dad—everyone called him Apple. I remember Linda's mom, who moved out later, cutting my hair and telling me stories of being a nurse in the war. But things started to change a month into fourth grade, when Eric made me stand in the corner with my hands in the air for, like, 12 hours. Will, too.
WILL: If I dropped my arms, he'd take my head and smack it into the corner.
KRISTEN: We started looking at each other, thinking, What's going on?
WILL: It all went downhill pretty drastically.
(faded scar Kristen scratched into her right arm with pencil)
*Eric Torrez's violence toward the twins quickly escalated. Listed as their uncle on school records (Karen later wrote a letter giving the Torrezes guardianship), he made Kristen stand with a backpack full of bricks for hours on end. Or Will would be ordered to do hundreds of pushups. Soon Torrez was punishing them for almost anything—from not washing a dish perfectly to whispering to each other. His abuse ranged from whipping the bottoms of their feet to blistering their hands in scalding water. Early on it became obvious that Kristen would never run away without her brother, and Eric Torrez made Will sleep on the bare floor by the front door with his arms handcuffed behind his back, often secured to a piece of furniture and shivering in the Colorado cold. *
KRISTEN: At one point Eric started punishing me by filling a bucket with water and ice and holding my head down until I almost drowned.
WILL: For years he did it to me every day after school. It got to the point that sometimes I'd just bring him the bucket. It was like, I might as well get this over with. And I'd have to get on my hands and knees and eat my dinner out of a dog bowl. One time he made me go to school wearing a diaper. In sixth grade I told the principal that I was getting choked and hit. Then I sat on a bench outside his office and waited, and the next thing I knew, Eric and a cop came out, and I remember they were laughing. When I got home, Eric held me by the hair and beat the living s—t out of me. I just thought, F—k that, and never said anything to anyone again.
NEIGHBOR MELANIE TEM * (a novelist who lives two doors down from the Torrez home)*: There was a lot of chitchat [on the block] about what might be going on. At first we thought, Maybe they're just an out-of-the-box family. But there was something very sinister about Eric. I never had anything conclusive, but I called the authorities about a dozen times over the years, leaving messages on the social services hotline saying, "Something's happening to those kids, but I don't know what."
KRISTEN: Social services came. They usually called ahead, so we cleaned the house. Whenever they or the police showed up, Eric and Linda always spoke for us. I don't remember ever being alone with those people. Not once.
*The Denver Department of Human Services declined to comment on the Stillman case, but spokeswoman Revekka Balancier told Glamour that it's their policy to interview children outside the presence of an alleged perpetrator whenever possible and, with charges of sexual abuse and neglect, to make every attempt to visit the home without an appointment. She also added that there have been improvements in the process in recent years. *
KRISTEN: I still have nightmares about the bags. Eric would put plastic trash bags over our heads until we passed out. I remember him covering Will's head in a whole bunch of Saran Wrap….
WILL: Suffocating is the worst feeling ever. All you want is air, and you have nothing.
KRISTEN: That time, I was screaming inside my head…. I don't know what I would have done if I'd lost Will.
WILL: After something like this, we would hug each other and cry and say, "Someday we're going to get out of here. It's going to get better." But it was hard because we were barely allowed to be alone together; they'd even follow us to the bathroom.
KRISTEN: People ask why we didn't run away. We tried but were sure if one of us ever left, Eric would kill the other. And if we told anybody what was going on? We'd both be dead. He made that very clear. I even started thinking about how to kill Eric by messing with his insulin shots because he was diabetic. I especially had those thoughts when he would make me and Will abuse each other. Like Will would have to hit me with a paddle until my butt bled. Or there was a big yellow tub outside he'd push Will into; then he'd put a Plexiglas sheet over it and make me stand on top of it. To see my brother underneath me drowning, asking for help, and I couldn't help him…. It was like I was killing myself.
WILL: [Barely audible] I can't talk about it. I don't want to cry.
"Family. First."
(tattoos on each of Kristen's forearms)
As the twins became teens, Melanie Tem wasn't the only neighbor to suspect terrible things were going on at 2514 Irving Street, with its front door boarded up, blankets over windows and junk spilling out into the yard. Eric Torrez made his living buying abandoned storage lockers and reselling the contents, and several of the architects, writers and attorneys on the block say they found him hostile and avoided him. Meanwhile, inside his human kennel, his depraved sexual appetites were taking over: He started sodomizing Will with a brush handle; with Kristen, he turned to rape.
FORMER NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR DANIELLE HARABURDA* (now a defense attorney)*: I called the cops multiple times. Once, I saw Patrick hit Will in the face. I ran out barefoot in the snow and screamed, "You motherf--ker—what are you?" The cops were like, "It's teenage brother stuff." Kristen was quiet and kept in the house. We rarely saw her. I remember going over to talk to her, and they basically slammed the door in my face. But you could hear the constant yelling.
KRISTEN: I was 12 the first time Eric raped me. He had me take a nap in his bed, and I woke to him kissing me; he'd undone my overalls. Eric is a scary man and really fat—he could just smash me. So I just lay there and tried to get through it. After that, when he started doing it regularly, sometimes I would try to run. He'd hold a pillow over my face or hit me so hard I literally saw stars, then black. Or he'd grab my hair and drag me back to his room. Sometimes I had to have sex with Linda, too—give her oral sex. It was like they had an agreement.
DANIELLE HARABURDA: I still remember the afternoon I saw Kristen standing in the front yard, and she had a baby in her arms. And I said, "Wow! You have a little girl." And she said, "Yeah, it's my boyfriend's." Every neighbor knew she didn't leave the house! We'd never seen a boyfriend. Never.
KRISTEN: When I got pregnant at 14 from Eric raping me, I was so ashamed that all I wanted to do was disappear. At school I stopped talking and raising my hand. When people asked, I wouldn't say who the dad was, and no one pressed me. The one good thing was that Eric didn't hit me or rape me as often while I was pregnant. Then I had Maddie,* and even though I hated the situation, I automatically loved her. She gave me a reason to live.
MELANIE TEM: Somewhere in there, Kristen started coming over and pulling weeds for me, and I remember saying, "Are you OK? Are you safe over there? Are you afraid?" She never answered; she just looked away. I thought she was probably developmentally disabled; she was very shut-down…. Now it's clear she's very bright.
KRISTEN: Melanie did ask me a few times. But I was too terrified to say anything; I knew if I did, Eric would kill my daughter. I tried to run away with Maddie once. He grabbed her and held a knife to her. He said, "If you try to go, I will slit her throat."
DANIELLE HARABURDA: When I heard Kristen was pregnant again, I thought, Not consensually.
KRISTEN: I got pregnant the second time during my sophomore year. I just couldn't face anybody. And it was so depressing because when I came home from school, I could hear Maddie crying all the way down the street. Someone was supposed to be watching her, but I'd find her in her bouncy seat with food all over her and a dirty diaper—no one was even there. I didn't want that to happen to another child, so I dropped out. At the hospital, social workers would ask to talk to me alone, but Eric or Linda was always there, and they'd say, "No, she is underage and needs us. We're her parents." They put Patrick [their teenage son] as the father on both of my kids' birth certificates as a cover.
I had contacted a couple of teen centers and shelters, but they said either they could only take me with one child or they needed my parents' consent. I started to feel like no matter what I did, I couldn't find a safe way to leave. I was able to sneak to my kids' doctor to get Depo-Provera [birth control] shots, but only three times, and by 19, I'd had another baby and was pregnant with my fourth. I just gave up, and I told myself, This is where I'll be for the rest of my life.
WILL: We stopped thinking anyone would believe us.
(scar etched into Kristen's right wrist with pencil)
*Yet somehow, the twins found a way to go on. Kristen diligently got her GED, paying for the tests with some of her earnings from Melanie Tem's yard work, which she'd squirreled away without Eric Torrez noticing. And she planted a tiny fruit and vegetable garden outside the Torrez place; one of her happiest memories is of picking strawberries and tomatoes there with her kids. Eventually Torrez allowed her to work at Taco Bell, but he drove her there and back every single day and made her give him her paychecks. Meanwhile, Will began dating a girl named Megan, whom he told everything, and the three started plotting an escape. *
WILL: In June of 08, Megan and I were on the porch, and Maddie came over to me and said, "I have to tell you something." I told her, "Go on, I'm listening." She said, "Apple put his fingers in my vagina."
KRISTEN: I was in the hospital having my fourth child when I found out. Everything changed. I remember holding Maddie and crying and asking her how many times, and she couldn't answer. I wanted it so badly to all be erased. There was no way in hell Eric could keep me now. I could handle being abused, but when my daughter was raped? No. I had to protect her. I was determined to get out of there.
KRISTEN'S BOSS, OMAR MORENO (manager at the Taco Bell where she worked): Kristen always showed up on time and did her work. Her family was dirty and really creepy. One time they came in [yelling], "Where is she? We need to find her." But she seemed to handle it. She was about to get promoted when she quit to go to Kansas.
KRISTEN: One day I found a leather bag hidden in a closet—it had a bunch of paychecks from Taco Bell. Eric hadn't cashed them, so we did, and then had Megan buy a used Jeep. That night I said, "Hey, let's take a ride," and for some reason, Eric said OK. So that was it. Will, me, and the kids all piled into that 95 Jeep Grand Cherokee—and we drove to Paola, Kansas, where Megan knew a church we could stay at.
You might have thought it was the best day of my life, but I hardly slept. I was always looking behind me to see if Eric was following me. Two months later, the sheriff knocked on the door with a court order to take my kids back to the Torrezes.
I dropped to my knees. The kids are crying. I'm crying. I looked through the window and saw Eric and Patrick in a green minivan. All I could think was, Somebody has to help me get my babies away from those people. So I called Melanie, and I told her everything. She said, "Come back to Denver and go to the police."
MELANIE TEM: When Kristen called, all I could think was, I wish I weren't having this conversation now, after all those years of abuse. I know I made the calls to social services, but it wasn't nearly enough.
DETECTIVE PHIL STANFORD, DENVER POLICE* (officer who investigated the case)*: It was a Sunday morning, and I was the only one on the floor at the Sex Crimes Unit when the main desk clerk called me, so I went down to the lobby and saw the three of them sitting there: Kristen, William and his girlfriend. The story they told me was so horrific, it was like, can this really be true? But their versions matched. And during a lengthy investigation, every time I picked up a rock, I found the truth—they had never embellished any of it.
KRISTEN: After everything we'd been through, to have someone actually believe us? It felt so good. It was amazing.
DET. STANFORD One of the first things I did after talking to them was to go find the Torrezes. The house was disgusting. It was heated with flames from the stove. The bathroom had stains—probably urine and fecal matter—all over the floor, on the walls. After they were arrested, I went to their mother Karen Stillman's apartment. I asked her if she had any children, and she said, "Unfortunately." I said, "What do you mean?" And she goes, "If I'd have known what kind of monsters they'd be, I would have aborted them."
I'm a dad, and what floored me most is, how did these children get to be so positive? So resilient? At eight years old, they're supposed to be learning right from wrong, and what they're being taught is evil. The fact that Kristen innately knew she had to treat her kids differently just stuns me. She's so incredibly smart. And Will, he's amazingly loyal. He never gave up on her.
Childhood Innocence
(meaning of the stars etched on Kristen's wrist, elbow and calf)
CHIEF DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY KERRI LOMBARDI (who prosecuted the case): When I first talked to Kristen and William, they were so matter-of-fact about the abuse that it was startling. He would say, "Oh, when I got handcuffed," as if it were normal. They were both numb. But on the stand, Kristen was remarkable. She testified for two long days. We had to go through years of pictures and details. That takes courage.
KRISTEN: During the whole trial, my heart was beating so hard! When I was up on the stand, Eric was right there. Or I'd be sitting outside the courtroom, and he'd flip me off or he'd walk by in chains and mouth, "I'm going to kill you." But he wasn't going to stop me now.
After jurors heard Kristen's testimony, defense attorneys proposed a deal: Eric Torrez would plead guilty to 14 counts of sexual assault in exchange for Linda Torrez's avoiding prison time. The twins agreed. (Apple—Andres Torrez—died at 82, before his trial started, and Patrick Torrez pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to eight years of probation.) When it came time to sentence the Torrezes, the judge did not hold back: He gave Linda Torrez 20 years of probation and Eric Torrez 300 years to life in prison. Karen Stillman, the mother who Kristen says never uttered a single word of apology to her children, pleaded guilty to attempted child abuse and is now serving a 16-year sentence. The defense attorney for the Torrezes and Karen Stillman did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
KRISTEN: When Eric pleaded guilty to every single charge, the fear and difficulty of testifying was totally worth it.
WILL: I heard "300 years," and I wanted to give a standing ovation.
KERRI LOMBARDI: This is one of the worst cases I've ever seen. These kids were at school. She had babies in hospitals. There were so many red flags.
KRISTEN: Only a deaf, dumb and blind person would not have noticed we needed help. Maybe "I am being abused" didn't come out of my mouth, but I was speaking in code. I gave everyone hints.
DANIELLE HARABURDA: As a community, I think, we all dropped the ball. These children lived in subhuman conditions for years—I will always carry that around.
"My Will Shall Keep Me Alive"
(words tattooed on Kristen's chest like a necklace)
*Today the twins live near each other in Denver and see each other every other day. Will works as a housepainter; Kristen as a hostess at a restaurant. She's taken two courses in criminology at Metropolitan State College of Denver, with ambitions of eventually working in social services. And for the first time in her life, she has a boyfriend. *
There is a deep sadness, though. As the trial was getting under way, Kristen suddenly found herself, at 22, a mother of four with no money, parents or friends to help care for her children. More than anything else, she wanted them to have a stable home. It was a wrenching decision, but this past September, she gave them all up for adoption—the oldest was seven, and the youngest, two.
KRISTEN: Of everything I've been through, giving up my children is the hardest thing for me to talk about. I hear the parents are wonderful, that the boys are with two kindergarten teachers. But part of me has died.
REPORTER PATRICIA CALHOUN (editor of the local weekly Westword): I was [covering] the hearing where Kristen terminated her parental rights. The whole thing was incredibly moving. The children's court representative called her decision "one of the greatest acts of love I've seen." The judge agreed, saying, "I would echo that times 10."
__KRISTEN'S BOYFRIEND, TRAVIS MEININGER:__I really didn't understand what she'd been through until I saw her testify—and I just started crying. For her to get through that is amazing. She's my life.
KRISTEN: And now we have Kaylee, who was born in February. But I know there are so many children out there who need help. When I read about Jaycee Dugard, I felt like at least she had somebody who loved her; it wasn't her family who betrayed her. But it makes me even more determined to protect all the other abused kids living in plain sight while everyone walks by. Whatever it takes—a law degree, working within social services—I want to be in a position of power to change the system.
ATTORNEY JOHN CLUNE (cofounder of Victim Justice, who worked on Kristen's case): [She has] such a full spirit, and it could have been totally crushed by all of this abuse. Now you can see it's really emerging.
WILL: Kristen kept herself together through all of this. And she helps me keep myself together. She's the only reason I made it through, the only reason I fought. I admire her. I adore her. She's my hero.
KRISTEN: If I didn't have him to help me cope, I don't see myself having lived past 11. That's why I tattooed "My Will shall keep me alive" around my neck. It's not just about my inner will; it's my brother.
*Name has been changed.
*Liz Brody is an editor at large at *Glamour.


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By MATTHEW PERRONE
AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration has approved a stronger, single-ingredient version of the painkiller hydrocodone, the widely-abused prescription medicine for chronic pain.
The agency said it approved the pill Zohydro for patients with pain that requires "daily, around-the-clock, long-term treatment" that cannot be addressed with other drugs.
Hydrocodone is currently sold in combination pills like Vicodin to treat pain from injuries, surgery, arthritis, migraines and other ailments. The new drug from Zogenix is the first pure, non-combination form of the drug approved in the U.S.
The approval comes as a surprise since the agency's own panel of outside advisers gave the drug an overwhelmingly negative review last year. The agency's panel of pain specialists voted 11-2, with one abstention, against approving the drug last December, questioning the need for a new form of one of most widely-abused prescription painkillers in U.S.
The FDA announcement also comes just one day after the agency said it would support stronger restrictions on combination drugs containing hydrocodone, including Vicodin and dozens of other generic formulations.
The drugs currently available mix hydrocodone with non-addictive pain relievers like aspirin and acetaminophen. For decades these drugs have been subject to less rigorous prescribing limits than other prescription painkillers like oxycodone.
Late Thursday, the FDA said it would recommend moving hydrocodone drugs from the schedule III class to the schedule II class of medications, a move that will limit the number of refills patients can receive and how many health professionals can prescribe the drugs.
The Drug Enforcement Administration had first asked the agency to take that step a decade ago, and lawmakers and safety advocates had increased their pressure on the agency in recent years.
In 2011, U.S. doctors wrote more than 131 million prescriptions for hydrocodone, making it the most prescribed drug in the country, according to government figures. Hydrocodone pills also consistently rank among most-abused medicines in the U.S., according to the DEA.
The drug belongs to a family of medicines known as opiates or opioids because they are chemically similar to opium. They include morphine, heroin, oxycodone, codeine and methadone.
Shares of San Diego-based Zogenix Inc. jumped in trading Friday, climbing 85 cents, or 37.9 percent, to $3.09. Earlier shares set a 52-week high of $3.45.
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Caillou "Good Friend Caillou" Copycat Clementine: Caillou is annoyed! Clementine is being a copycat - and Caillou doesn't like it. When Clementine copies his artwork at preschool, Caillou thinks this is the last straw.until Clementine admits she's copying him because she really likes his artwork! With help from Miss Martin, Caillou realizes this is a compliment and he feels much better about Clementine's copycat ways. D
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Barney & Friends "The Reluctant Dragon, A Fairy Tale Adventure" Barney teaches that you can't tell from the outside what someone might be like on the inside. He does this by telling a story about a dragon that wasn't at all what others thought she was. The villagers were afraid of her, but it turns out, she wasn't scary at all. D
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Thomas & Friends "Best Times!" Sir Topham Hatt announces that the library is holding a special story time for all the children. He needs an engine to deliver the storybooks. Thomas is so excited that he has been chosen for the special that he doesn't wait to for the books to be tied in place. D
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Curious George "Where's The Firedog?/Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye" Where's the Firedog? - George's canine friend Blaze keeps running away from the firehouse. When Blaze winds up in the animal shelter, George and his firefighter friend Sam learn how to keep her safe by putting a tag on her collar, walking her on a leash, and making sure she's never lonely. Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye - Toots the blues-singing germ is back and the Man with the Yellow Hat has a cold. D
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Martha Speaks "Patrol Dog Martha/The Crooning Crook Caper" Patrol Dog Martha - Martha wishes she could help solve crimes like Rascal the police dog, and she's in luck! Officer O'Reilly lets Martha fill in while Rascal is away. Out patrolling, Martha smells a rat. Can she convince them that there's something rotten in the rutabaga? Vocabulary: (E) patrol, citation, smuggle, secur(e)(ity) (I) officer, police, freeze, beat, cop. D
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The Electric Company "The Limerick Slam" Jessica and Manny compete in the annual Limerick Slam. D
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WordGirl "Oh What A Tangled Knot You Tie, Amazing Rope Guy/Kid Action News" Oh What A Tangled Knot You Tie, Amazing Rope Guy - As a villain, the Amazing Rope Guy is not so amazing. He discovers that his true talent is mimicking others. When he goes on a crime spree impersonating all of the villains of the city WordGirl must find a way to end his career as an imposter. D
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Wild Kratts "Octopus Wildkratticus" When Martin accidentally knocks Aviva's creature power suits into a deep Arctic trench, the Martin and Chris dive down in search of them in Aviva's newly invented Octopod submarine. Science Concepts: An Octopus can use ink, jet propulsion, tentacle regeneration, and camouflage in order to escape or hide when in danger. Each feature has an important function for survival. D
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Cyberchase "A Broom of One's Own" When Wicked puts a CyberSquad Seal of Approval on her new "Wickedy Brooms," it's up to Matt, Jackie, Inez and Digit to make sure the brooms are as good as Wicked claims. They try them out, figuring out their speed - how far the different brooms go in a given amount of time. The brooms pass the test - but Wicked doesn't. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "The Legend of Ruffman's Gold" Ruff's ancestor Gus Ruffman is believed to have hidden gold in an abandoned mine somewhere in Colorado. He sends Marc, Jay, and Rubye to solve clues, find the mine, and most importantly, find the gold!. D
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Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, Barnes & Noble's CEO resigns, but can the one-time king of booksellers compete in a world dominated by Amazon? And, will rising mortgage rates turn potential home buyers into renters?. D
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Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery President Thomas Jefferson sends his personal secretary Meriwether Lewis and his friend, William Clark, on an expedition into the unexplored West to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean. From winter quarters at Fort Mandan in what is now South Dakota, Lewis and Clark head westward in 1805 with 29 men, Sacagawea and her infant son. They cross Montana and come to the Continental Divide where, looking toward Idaho - they see more mountains. Part 1 of 2G
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John Roseboom, whom prosecutors did not charge with a crime after he was accused of making sexual advances on a student, will get his old job back April 30.
After two months away from his musicians, Sarasota High band director John Roseboom will return to the classroom Tuesday. Roseboom, who was placed on administrative leave Feb. 28 and then reassigned to clerical work, will not be charged with a crime, the State Attorney's Office announced this week.
A 17-year-old college student accused Roseboom of kissing her, grabbing her breasts and making unwanted sexual advances at his house in early December. The former Sarasota High student and Roseboom, who were close, went to lunch that day.
Roseboom had been said to hug female students, kiss their foreheads and talk inappropriately about their clothes, according to a Sarasota County Sheriff's Office report.
The State Attorney's Office declined to prosecute two battery charges, citing lack of evidence and witnesses.
"Because the alleged incident did not occur on campus and no current students were involved, the district has no cause to investigate the matter further," according to a Sarasota County Schools statement issued Friday.
But administrators plan to meet with Roseboom to review professional conduct standards. The district will also meet with parents, in case they have concerns or questions, the statement said.
The district is also alerting the state Department of Education's Professional Practices Office, which is not uncommon for districts to do even if allegations do not result in criminal charges, like in the Sarasota High case, said state spokeswoman Cheryl Etters.
If the state education commissioner decides there is probable cause, the office could open a new investigation and interview witnesses, using the law enforcement investigation as a blueprint.
Investigations, which can result in a punishment from a letter of reprimand up to teachers losing their licenses forever in Florida, can sometimes take months.
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"Shortstops and center fielders tend to be the best athletes on the field," said Epstein, one week after Baez moved from shortstop – his natural position – to second base, and infielder Arismendy Alcantara continued his major league audition in center field.
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A commoner couple (pictured) on their way to a wedding that doesn't involve the royals took time to snap up knickknacks featuring Prince William and Kate Middleton yesterday.
The goods have taken London by siege, as streets are lined with stalls of souvenir plates, cups and key chains.
With the big day just three days away, many Britons, and royal fans across the world, are stocking up on all things Will and Kate.
Britons are apparently in denial about their lust for royal gear, with 83 percent insisting they would not purchase any memorabilia, according to a survey by marketer Invisible Hand.
The frenzy is no less intense in New York, says Jenny Myers, co-owner of ex-pat palace Myers of Keswick.
"It's mostly the Americans buying the merchandise," she said.
Nicky Perry, owner of Tea & Sympathy in the West Village, said she sold out of all of her royal wedding merchandise by yesterday afternoon.
She had stocked 500 mugs emblazoned with a photo of the royal couple for $15, 150 photo tea towels for $15 and a few hundred Union Jack toothpicks for $7.95 a package.
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I know [C]for certain I?m feeling righ[F]t now
I don?t [Dm7]recall ever feel[Bb]ing this[C] way
Tell me what[Am] does one sa[Dm7]y
To one w[Bb]ho makes me feel thi[C]s way
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Can this be love I?m feeling right now
I am not sure of this feeling somehow
Why do I tremble whenever you?re near
I can?t seem to say my words so you?ll hear
This is the fir[F]st time I?m gonna[Bb] say ? I love you?[F]
It?s the[Dm] first time I ev[Bb]er felt
So helpl[C]ess seep inside
If I had[Cm] to say a t[F]housand times
I?d tell[Bb] you once again[Bbm]
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Can this be love I?m feeling right now
I love the feeling it?s giving me now
It?s telling me now
To take your hand and say
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WESTPORT — The Town of Westport is now offering low interest betterment loans to homeowners with failed septic systems through the Commonwealth's Community Septic Management Program (CSMP).
WESTPORT — The Town of Westport is now offering low interest betterment loans to homeowners with failed septic systems through the Commonwealth's Community Septic Management Program (CSMP).
Interested homeowners can apply through the local Board of Health. To be eligible for the program, homeowners must have a failed septic system and be in good tax standing with their community.
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Opinion: Hagel's Weak Defense
American Enterprise Institute scholar John Bolton on the Senate confirmation of hearings of Chuck Hagel. Photo: Associated Press
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DragonflyBSD 1.10.1 has been released. It includes several bugfixes. "DragonFly is an operating system and environment originally based on FreeBSD. DragonFly branched from FreeBSD in 2003 in order to develop a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel subsystems."