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BLACKFOOT — A complaint against Blackfoot School District No. 55, Blackfoot High School, former Superintendent Scott Crane and former high school principal Blaine McInelly has been dismissed in a hazing case which originated in 2012.
Plaintiffs in the case are Logan Chidester, Tyson Katseanes and Nathan Walker. The case was filed in Bingham County.
Plaintiff John Doe filed a civil rights case in U.S. District Court. At the time of the charges in the hazing case, Doe was a minor under the age of 18.
"After discovery, investigation and disposition, it was found that the defendants—Blackfoot School District, Blackfoot High School, Crane and McInelly—had not violated any of the plaintiffs' rights," said Bret Walther, the attorney who represented the school district, high school, former superintendent and former principal.
The hazing cases continue against other agencies and individual.
The other defendants in these cases the county of Bingham, the city of Blackfoot, former county prosecutor J. Scott Andrew, former prosecutor Randy Smith, former prosecutor Jared Ricks, former police chief R. David Moore, and officers Kurt Asmus, Paul Newbold and Justin Dance.
The city and county have requested motions for summary judgment.
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Western Conference offseason plans
On the opening night of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Nashville Predators took a pretty big step in the right direction. On the road, against the red-hot Anaheim Ducks, star goaltender Pekka Rinne backstopped an impressive 4-1 victory.
Top defenseman Shea Weber set the tempo in the opening minutes by plastering Ducks vet Teemu Selanne into the corner boards. Moments later, Weber opened the scoring by ripping a slapper past former teammate Dan Ellis, who got the start in the Ducks' net.
Of the five games on the first night of the postseason schedule, the Predators were the only team to score a road victory. Those wins are big. When the series resumes Friday night, the Ducks already will have their backs against the wall.
As we prepare for the other three series to get under way tonight, here's the second half of my look at the teams that have already started planning for next season.
Dallas Stars
What went wrong?
When you finish with 42 wins and 95 points, you usually don't find yourself on the golf course in April. Of course, the Stars wouldn't be there if they'd beaten the Wild in the final game of the regular season.
It really shouldn't have come to that, however. The Stars enjoyed a terrific first half, but stumbled in their final 35 games, going just 13-16-6. In March, they didn't make much hay for themselves during a seven-game stint on home ice, picking up just six of a possible 14 points. That was an even bigger missed opportunity.
What's next?
Two days after the loss in Minnesota, GM Joe Nieuwendyk opted to fire head coach Marc Crawford, who had two non-playoff years in Big D. I don't know who they'll hire next, but they do really like Glen Gulutzan, who coaches the Texas Stars, the club's AHL affiliate. He'll be among the candidates.
Nieuwendyk's job would get a little easier if the ownership situation were resolved. The franchise remains on the open market. Until a sale is finalized, Nieuwendyk will be working with a tight budget.
The financial restrictions will make it tough to re-sign unrestricted free agent center Brad Richards. The former Conn Smythe Trophy winner likes life in Dallas, but he'll likely leave for greener, richer pastures in the summer.


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DALLAS, Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE : LUV ) today began offering for sale new nonstop service between Chicago (Midway) and both Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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"These new international markets make sense for our Chicagoland Customers as we approach connecting the Southwest and AirTran route networks in the coming months," said Bob Jordan, Southwest Airlines' Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer and AirTran Airways President. "AirTran and Southwest serve more than sixty destinations nonstop from Chicago and these additions open up new international options for those Customers."
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Olga graduated from the Cheliabinsk State Institute of Culture in 1986. She devoted four years to studying different forms of dance such as ballet, folk, historical, jazz and ballroom. She received a diploma as a High Qualification Professional Dance Teacher (equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree in the U.S.A.) after passing the related professional State Examinations.
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I sent a text to one of my employees on Saturday. This morning I asked him why he didn't respond to my text. He said he did respond, but somehow I didn't get it.
As a test, he sent me a text message saying "Your phone sucks if you can't get my texts". So I could send him a message back, I was going to tell him I had a Droid X / Android phone. I thought I'd be clever and just responded that "it's an aPhone."
What better way to differentiate Android vs iOS then to have aPhones versus iPhones.
As I was, a few moments ago, thinking about the conversation, I was thinking about "aPhone" which led me to think about "ACAD", my favorite program AutoCAD.
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Recent regulatory actions:
JPMorgan admits to reckless conduct in London Whale case; hit with $100 million penalty
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an order against JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. after a 17-month investigation, bringing and settling charges for employing a manipulative device in connection with the Bank's trading of certain credit default swaps (CDS), in violation of the new Dodd-Frank prohibition against manipulative conduct. By selling a staggering volume of these swaps in a concentrated period, the Bank, acting through its traders, recklessly disregarded the fundamental precept on which market participants rely, that prices are established based on legitimate forces of supply and demand, the CFTC stated. JPMorgan, which admits the specified factual findings in the order including that its traders acted recklessly, is directed, among other things, to pay a $100 million civil monetary penalty.
"In Dodd-Frank, Congress provided a powerful new tool enabling the CFTC for the first time to prohibit reckless manipulative conduct," said David Meister, the CFTC's director of enforcement. "As this case demonstrates, the Commission is now better armed than ever to protect the market from traders, like those here, who try to 'defend' their position by dumping a gargantuan, record-setting, volume of swaps virtually all at once, recklessly ignoring the
From approximately 2007 through 2011, JPMorgan's Chief Investment Office ("CIO"), operating through a trading desk in the Bank's London branch, traded and held various credit default indices, including CDX, in a Synthetic Credit Portfolio ("SCP"). Each day the SCP traders marked their positions to market, assigning a value to the positions using market prices and other factors. That value was used to calculate the CIO's profits and losses. At the end of each month an "independent" group at JPMorgan tested the validity of the traders' month-end marks.
Since the end of 2011, the portfolio held $51 billion net notional of these credit instruments, the outsized amount spurring press reports referring to one CIO trader as the "London Whale." Although previously quite profitable, the portfolio had taken a serious turn for the worse at least by late January 2012, with year-to-date mark-to-market losses of $100 million. In February 2012, daily losses were large and growing.
The violation charged in the CFTC's order concerns the Bank's trading of one particular credit default index -- "CDX NA.IG9 10 year index" ("IG9 10Y"). As the end of February 2012 approached, the SCP's net short position in the IG9 10Y grew to $65 billion, which meant that relatively small favorable or adverse movements in market prices produced significant mark-to-market profits or losses for the CIO. Because the SCP was short IG9 10Y, the mark-to-market value of the position increased as the market price decreased.
On Feb. 29, just ahead of the month-end testing of their marks, the traders believed the portfolio's situation was grave. That day, desperate to avoid further losses, the traders developed a resolve, as they put it, to "defend the position." Recognizing that the sheer size of their position in IG9 10Y had the potential to affect or influence the market, the traders recklessly sold massive amounts of protection on the IG9 10Y. They were short protection and they sold more protection.
Specifically, with the portfolio standing to benefit as the IG9 10Y market price dropped, on February 29 the CIO sold on net more than $7 billion of IG9 10Y, a staggering volume -- far and away the largest amount the CIO ever traded in one day -- $4.6 billion of which was sold during a three-hour period as the day drew to a close.
The CFTC provides comparative measures that demonstrate large size and concentration of these Feb. 29 sales of IG9 10Y. For example, these sales alone accounted for more than 90% of the day's net volume traded by the entire market, were 15% of the month's net volume traded by the entire market, and were nearly 11 times the SCP's average daily volume in February. The Feb. 29 trading followed more than $3 billion in sales of the IG9 10Y during the prior two days. The net volume the CIO sold February 27-29 amounted to roughly one-third of the total volume traded for the entire month of February by all other market participants.
During this same period at month-end, the IG9 10Y market price dropped substantially. While the CIO was selling at generally declining prices, the value of the short position that the CIO held in the SCP benefited on a mark-to-market basis from the declining market prices.
The trading strategy to "defend the position" - selling $7.17 billion of the IG9 10Y on Feb. 29 in a concentrated period - constituted a manipulative device employed by the traders in reckless disregard of the possible consequences of their conduct, including obvious dangers to legitimate market forces, the CFTC stated.
In addition to paying a $100 million penalty, JPMorgan must continue to implement written enhancements to its supervision and control system in connection with swaps trading activity, including trading and risk management controls reasonably designed to prevent and promptly detect mis-marking of its books, enhanced communications among risk, control and supervisory functions, and the development of additional surveillance tools to assist supervisors with monitoring trading activity in connection with swaps.


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For more than a decade, Web site operators have enjoyed a broad legal shield against lawsuits filed over material posted by their users, which has let user-driven sites like YouTube and MySpace.com flourish.
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"We fear these cases might inspire a wave of new lawsuits that, even if ultimately dismissed, will create a chilling effect," said Sophia Cope, an attorney for the Center for Democracy and Technology, which has filed briefs supporting broad immunity and gets some financial support from a number of prominent Internet companies. "Many small start-up Web services might find that the costs of defending such suits--in terms of time and legal fees--are too much to bear."
The legal shield comes from a portion of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which generally says Web sites aren't liable for their users' posts or other content they provide. That has immunized the dot-com industry from a wide range of civil lawsuits spanning everything from defamation to--in a case decided last year involving MySpace--lawsuits alleging that better child safety and age verification measures should have been put into place. (Individual "content providers" who post defamatory comments, upload inflammatory videos of their own creation, and the like, are still vulnerable to lawsuits.)
In early test cases such as Zeran v. AOL, courts have interpreted Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act to supply fairly broad immunity for Web hosts. That trend has largely continued in recent years, with judges finding, for example, that dating site Matchmaker.com was immune from a lawsuit involving an unknown prankster's phony profile impersonating actress Christianne Carafano, and that Craigslist wasn't responsible for allegedly discriminatory housing ads posted by users of the online classifieds site.
Perhaps ironically, the recent decisions that seem to be taking a narrower interpretation of Section 230 also stem from disputes over online dating and roommate matching.
'Bogus' FriendFinder profiles
The first of the two cases pits an anonymous New Hampshire woman against the FriendFinder Network, an operator of dating sites--some sexually explicit--including AdultFriendFinder.com and LesbianPersonals.com. Jane Doe accused FriendFinder of causing her various sorts of harm by allowing "bogus" sexually explicit profiles that could be "reasonably identified" as portraying herself to be published without her knowledge by someone else to its Web properties, as well as in snippets in FriendFinder advertisements on search engines and other third-party Web sites.
A recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante in New Hampshire federal court on March 27 partially sided with FriendFinder, ruling against some of Jane Doe's claims against the company.
But LaPlante also differed from previous opinions in one important area. He refused to dismiss Jane Doe's argument that FriendFinder's republication of her profile invaded her "intellectual-property rights" under New Hampshire law. She claimed to be concerned about violations to her "right of publicity," which says an individual generally has the right to control how his name, image, and likeness is used commercially--and the court ruled that Doe's argument fell into the category of intellectual-property law.
That point is crucial because, when writing Section 230, Congress explicitly said its shield does not extend to lawsuits "pertaining to intellectual property." Until Judge LaPlante's order, courts had viewed that only as applying to federal claims mostly about copyrights and trademarks--and not state lawsuits over more amorphous publicity rights.
The reasons this could create headaches for Web publishers are twofold, said Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University. For one thing, laws governing "rights of publicity" are not uniform across the states, which means e-commerce companies would be forced to align their operations with the most restrictive state's law.
And unlike in copyright or trademark cases, where there are fairly well-established rules governing how Web sites are supposed to respond to such infractions posted by third parties, "we don't know what rules are; we have no good case law" on rights of publicity, Goldman added.
Others fear that the ruling could prompt legal mischief. For instance, courts have ruled in the past that Web publishers can be immunized for posts that tarnish someone's reputation--a practice typically covered by defamation laws. CDT's Cope said she's concerned the intellectual-property exception will "swallow the rule," inspiring other courts to allow plaintiffs to slip in defamation claims and others under the guise of "intellectual property" claims.
Judge LaPlante's ruling, however, is not the end of the case. The court can now hear evidence on whether to agree with Jane Doe's remaining allegations. Judges aren't exactly known for changing their minds, once they've made a decision. But Ira Rothken, the lead attorney defending FriendFinder in the case, said he believes any subsequent appeal to the 1st Circuit would result in a finding that state-level intellectual-property laws, too, are subject to the Section 230 exemption.
Roommates.com's matchmaking woes
The other Section 230 saga concerns a Web site called Roommates.com, which allows users to set up profiles and seek roommate matches in thousands of U.S. cities. One of the ways the site attempts to spark matches is through requiring members to complete questionnaires that stock their profiles with a number of personal details, including their gender, sexual orientation, and whether they have children, according to court documents.
Those personal queries drew a lawsuit from the Fair Housing Councils of the San Fernando Valley and San Diego, which claimed they violated the federal Fair Housing Act and California state housing discrimination laws. A federal district sided with Roommates.com's argument that Section 230 immunized it from such claims, but a divided 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently disagreed, and that's why implications for other Web publishers could arise. (Here's a PDF of that 54-page opinion.)
The majority, led by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, ruled that Roommates was not covered by Section 230's shield because it helped "to develop unlawful content" through its requisite questionnaire, which featured preprogrammed drop-down menus containing various possible answers for the allegedly offending questions. The judges also said that because Roommates.com engineered its site in a way that allows site users to search for and sort roommate listings based on those criteria, it's an "information content provider," which, by law, isn't immune to Section 230.
"If such questions are unlawful when posed face-to-face or by telephone, they don't magically become lawful when asked electronically online," Kozinski wrote. "The Communications Decency Act was not meant to create a lawless no man's land on the Internet." (The CDA, the "antiporn" sections of which were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds, was included in the 1996 Telecommunications Act.)
By contrast, the same judges found that it was no problem for Roommates to ask users to write an open-ended summary of what they're seeking in a roommate, since that request was "neutral."
If that way of thinking is ultimately applied more broadly, the millions of Web sites that routinely use prompts and drop-down menus to solicit, publish, and sort information from their users could be forced to change their practices or face new legal liability, the three dissenting judges argued.
"The majority's unprecedented expansion of liability for Internet service providers threatens to chill the robust development of the Internet that Congress envisioned," Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote for the dissent. "Instead of the 'robust' immunity envisioned by Congress, interactive service providers are left scratching their heads and wondering where immunity ends and liability begins."
This case was closely watched, leading Amazon.com, Google, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and a number of news organizations to file briefs with the court in support of Roommates. They argued that a decision in favor of the fair-housing groups would choke innovative new Web services and stifle free speech in online forums--particularly the "sortable" user ratings and feedback at sites like eBay and Amazon.com, and "tagging" features at sites like YouTube and Flickr.
One attorney who analyzed the case said the majority's stance, which clearly took aim at business practices considered unfriendly to fair-housing laws, said the case may represent a narrowing of the law but could actually be good for Web site operators who value Section 230.
"Imagine, shall we say, a 'progressive' congressman standing up in Washington and saying, hey, with this Section 230 scheme, we give a license to Web site operators to run hate mills, build up bastions of bigotry, and sanctuaries for racism," Evan Brown, a Chicago-based attorney who focuses on Internet law, wrote in a recent blog post. "In short, a Roommates.com victory could have given a battalion's worth of ammunition--in the form of emotional, irrational, rhetoric--to Section 230's critics. Some in Congress would have called for its head."


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Chaw has a degenerative disease called retinitis pigmentosa. The photoreceptors in his retinitis are deteriorating. He currently has severe tunnel vision, night blindness, difficulty with light transitions and a deteriorating central vision.
Bruchok is completely blind in her right eye and has severe myopia (nearsightedness) in her left eye where her vision is worse than 20/200.
The couple has completed 11,000 miles from Ushuaia, Argentina in Tierra del Fuego to Phoenix, Ariz. over 13 months. They still have roughly 6,000 miles to go to reach Deadhorse, Alaska in Prudhoe Bay.
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Huge congratulations to Didier Bruyere who has stormed today's QUEST event (the British Open) with a score of 140.4 - 30.4 in Lifestyle! Didier has an EIGHT point lead over the second-placed player, Kevin Ashman.
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The handsomest factories and warehouses around the High Line got a kiss from the city on March 18, when the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) calendered a proposal for a new industrial historic district in West Chelsea. When the LPC calendars a proposal, it has a high chance of being approved. The hearing is scheduled for May 13. Read the LPC's statement about the district after the jump.
There are many people and groups who've helped make this happen, most notably New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who provided crucial leadership on this initiative, as she has done on so many other important projects in our neighborhood (including the High Line!). State Senator Tom Duane also championed the effort, as did the Society of the Architecture of the City. That said, the historic district was originally the brainchild of a longtime Chelsea resident and Community Board 4 member, Ed Kirkland. Ed has been pushing for this historic district for years -- it's one of many ways this dedicated preservationist and tireless community activist has worked to ensure that the most valuable historic resources of our community are maintained.
We're excited about this district, because it joins the High Line's preservation in demonstrating the importance of preserving industrial architecture and infrastructure. Some of the buildings in the district are among our favorites in the High Line neighborhood, including the Starrett-Lehigh Building, the New York Terminal Warehouse Company's Central Stores, and many others.
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Other buildings in the proposed district include: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Freight Warehouse; the RC Williams Warehouse; the Cornell Iron Works, and the Reynolds Metal Company.
Read the LPC's statement about the district after the jump.
"The proposed West Chelsea Historic District is significant as one of the few remaining industrial areas associated with Manhattan's once-thriving port and waterfront. The three large properties between 11th and 12th Avenues are directly tied to waterfront business, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Freight Warehouse, the Starrett-Lehigh Building, and the New York Terminal Warehouse Company's Central Stores. The long blocks of West 26th and West 27th Streets between 11th and 12th Avenues form one of the city's most impressive industrial streetscapes. The remaining structures centered around the presence of rail facilities. The R. C. Williams building, for example retains a second-floor loading dock opening directly onto the High Line. Several buildings were constructed for companies that had a notable impact on the city's development: the Otis Elevator Company, the Cornell Iron Works and the Reynolds Metal Company. Ranging in date from 1885 to 1930, most of the structures are brick-faced with stone trim and intended for manufacturing or storage. Styles include classical revival, Beaux Arts, Moderne and modern. Many of the buildings are designed by significant architects including Cass Gilbert, Clinton & Russell, Cory & Cory, Schickel & Ditmars, and the noted industrial architect, William Higginson.
A number of these buildings have been flagged in environmental reviews by LPC staff as appearing to be eligible for individual Landmark designation, these include: the New York Terminal Warehouse Company's Central Stores, the Cornell Iron Works building, the Reynolds Metal Company buildings, the Williams Building and the Otis Elevator building."


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(HockeySTL) -- Ken Hitchcock says he'll have the Blues ready to go for the start of the season, which will start less than two weeks from now.
The NHL has issued a memo to the teams instructing them to be ready to begin the season by January 19. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly says it's looking like 48 games will be the maximum the league will be able to shoehorn into an abbreviated season.
Hitchcock told me this morning on the radio that if the Blues goes six or seven days of ice time to get ready, that's plenty. He said the key is to see who's in what kind of shape when they start the workouts. Hitchcock has talked with coaches from the L.A. Lakers and San Antonio Spurs of the NBA to find out how they got their players in shape after a lockout forced an abbreviated training camp in that league. Hitchcock said, "some of the things they told us we never thought of. They were really helpful, and we're going to use that information".
Hitchcock believes the Blues are in a good situation having two front line goaltenders in Yaro Halak and Bill Elliott. With the schedule condensed the Blues will be playing a lot of games in a short time, and Halak and Elliott figure to share the heavy workload. Hitchcock says he's also encouraged by what he's seen of Jake Allen at Peoria. Allen has emerged as a legitimate number one goaltender, and a nice insurance policy should something happen to Halak or Elliot.
The Blues had more players than any other team competing in Europe during the lockout. Those players should all be in good shape and ready to go. At least 10 players skated and worked out this morning at the Mills in Hazelwood. Hitchcock will have his team primed and ready when the puck drops for real. After their breakout season of a year ago, maybe the Blues are finally on their way to winning their first Stanley Cup.
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In my last blog about The Tiger's Wife, I mentioned the prevalence of rakija drinking in Obreht's novel, and my subsequent plan to track some down to sip along with my reading.
It didn't take long to find. When I asked my Albanian friend, Ina, where I might find rakija out here in L.A, she promptly invited me over to sample her grandmother's homemade brew. The mass-produced, factory-made version, Ina told me, was decidedly inferior. This explains why, when Natalia walks into that seedy bar in chapter 5 of The Tiger's Wife, the town lushes are all drinking beer -- rakija is usually drunk at home.
Ina's grandma, Ikbale Dema, makes hers in her spare room in a town called Fier in southern Albania , where it's not unusual to have a home distillery.
"Most houses make their own rakija," Ina told me, "If you have a house with a yard and grapevines you are making rakjia and wine."
The rakija was a lot nicer than I'd anticipated. It's actually surprisingly drinkable; the first sip tastes pretty lethal, but it quickly mellows to something you can linger over. Here's a photo of the (almost empty) bottle Ina brought back from her last trip back to Fier.
Ikbale makes the rakija every year when the local grapes are harvested at the end of September. It's distilled from what Ina called the "worst parts" of the grapes, the skins and so on (the best of the grapes are saved to make wine). Her grandma keeps the fruit in a large container for 21 days to ferment. Next, she boils them over a wood fire in a copper container. Then comes the distillation process, where the condensation -- the rakija -- is collected.
The first bottle of booze made is apparently far too strong to drink, and is called '27 grade.' After that, the liquor produced gets weaker and weaker, and so Ikbale mixes them all together until she gets something that's pleasant to drink.
Then, said Ina, the rakija must sit for 40 days before it can be tasted, because of something her grandma refers to as a "lehone." Lehone, Ina told me, is an Albanian word that refers to the 40 days after a woman gives birth. Rakija takes 40 days to settle, clear itself of any remaining sediment, and become pure. Of course, 40 days is a time period rich with religious significance: it's the amount of time that Jesus apparently spent fasting in the desert, the Flood supposedly lasted, and those ancestral spirits of The Tiger's Wife spent rummaging through their drawers. As it is with religion, so it is with rakija.
A Serbian friend of mine in L.A. also keeps her home well stocked with rakija. In her kitchen right now are two different homemade plum rakijas (šljivovica) and "one made in a small distillery in Serbia" from pears (viljamovka). She's also a fan of apple (jabukovaca), quince (dunja), grapes (lozovaca) and apricot (kajsijevaca).
She added that she drinks rakija regularly with Serbian friends, and that its effect is "strong" but "warming." Her (British) husband told me that, when they are in Belgrade, he drinks it with his Serbian father-in-law at 6 a.m. with their morning coffee, which, he said, has a "lovely feeling of ritual about it."
Now I know what Albanian rakija tastes like, I'm looking forward to comparing it to the Serbian plum and pear versions. And, thanks to Téa Obreht (and Ikbale Dema), I got to drink a strange brew that had been lovingly made in a spare room somewhere in southern Albania. That's the power of a good book.


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Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini will visit India from 22 to 25 November. The Minister will continue to India from Myanmar. In New Delhi, he will lead the Finnish delegation to the Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS), held from 23 to 24 November. Minister Soini will attend the opening session of the conference and participate in a joint meeting of the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
Foreign Minister Soini will speak in the cyber diplomacy session of the Conference on 24 November. He will discuss, for instance international law and the norms of responsible State behaviour in cyber environments.
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Welcome to Fort Worth, Trader Joe's.
We know folks might be lining up early Friday at the door to the grocery chain's new Hulen Street store, its first Texas location (OK, there is one in the Houston area opening the same day), and many eager shoppers have experience at other Trader Joe's across the country.
But if you are a TJ newbie, be warned: Trader Joe's shopping is not ordinary grocery shopping.
I know. I live in Pasadena, Calif., and have been a Trader Joe's addict since I moved here two years ago. (I grew up in Texas and went to TCU, so this obsession developed quickly.)
I'm here to tell you that you're sure to love discovering new products, tasting unbeatable frozen foods and not breaking the bank on delicious cheese and wine. But if you go with a grocery list of typical household items for the week, you're sure to be disappointed.
Trader Joe's aims to keep prices low on quality products, which means lots of on-the-shelf turnover, and many typical items missing from the store.
There is an art to shopping at Trader Joe's.
Here are some secrets to mastering that art, so you're not pulling your hair out looking for something like the ever-absent baking soda.
Season's eatings
Trader Joe's makes a lot of seasonal products, and even the ones that aren't seasonal rotate regularly. So if you find a product you love, stock up, because it may not be around forever.
Bakers' battles
Bakers often are frustrated with the baking aisle at TJ's. The store has an excellent selection of just-add-eggs-and-water mixes (be sure to stock up on seasonal pumpkin bread this fall), but it's lacking in traditional baking supplies. Powdered sugar, baking soda and baking powder often are absent, as is yeast. If you're planning to make a cake from scratch, Trader Joe's is not the place to go for ingredients.
Produce stock
The fruits-and-veggies section at Trader Joe's is unique in that you can't just buy one tomato. The store selects four or five and packages them together -- not ideal for shopping for a single meal, but perfect when planning for a week.
To keep prices low, Trader Joe's contracts with local suppliers, so the produce is typically fresh; however, this means that a lot of products are seasonal, and there's no guarantee that the store will have exactly what you're looking for. Sure, it'll usually have the most sought-after produce (onions, tomatoes, grapes, asparagus, apples, oranges, peppers), but it might be hit-or-miss with zucchini, shallots, artichokes and other less readily available items.
Be sure to check out the TJ's salad-in-a-bag options. The baby-spinach salad with blue cheese, candied pecans, dried cranberries and raspberry vinaigrette is simply delicious.
Wine and cheese, please
Trader Joe's knows wine. Famous for its "Two-buck Chuck" Charles Shaw wines (which will be sold for $2.99 locally), TJ's has made high-quality yet affordable wines a mainstay at stores.
The same can be said for cheese. The market has a great selection of goat, Gouda, Parmesan, brie and more -- and typically, prices are lower than at specialty shops and even regular grocery stores.
The goods on baked goods
There's an excellent selection of freshly baked baguettes, breads, tortillas and pitas, but it is worth noting that all Trader Joe's-brand products are free of artificial preservatives, so the shelf life is limited. Don't buy a loaf of bread unless you plan to eat it fairly quickly.
Try the vegan trail-mix cookies (yes, vegan -- you won't even notice) or the par-baked French baguette, a delicious not-quite-cooked loaf that you finish off in your oven.
Cuts of meat
Trader Joe's is no butcher, but it's a great place to get make-tonight cuts of beef, pork, fish and chicken. The preseasoned chicken breasts are tasty (try the sun-dried tomato and basil chicken tenders), but some of the beef marinades can get a little salty.
No freezer burn
This is where Trader Joe's excels. Almost all of its frozen foods, from appetizers to breakfast bowls to individually flash-frozen chicken breasts and shrimp, are unbeatable. Try the huge selection of frozen lunches, from Indian options to enchiladas, and you're almost certain to leave happy. Take a chance on the chicken tikka masala with cumin-flavored basmati rice, but skip the bland vegetable fried rice.
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Try one, and you will be begging for more. These pretzel sticks achieve a unique flavor: a mix of sweetness and salt that makes stopping at one an impossible feat. But don't worry -- they're oven-baked and low-fat, so you can eat a handful with minimal guilt. $1.99.
Speculoos Cookie Butter
Buy with caution: You will not be able to resist this delectable cookie butter, and it's far from calorie-free. Spread it on Trader Joe's Social Snackers crackers, on pancakes or on bread, or give in to temptation and eat it with a spoon straight from the jar. It tastes just like gingerbread and is made with crushed biscuits. Unusual, yes, but also unbelievably addictive. $3.69.
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text: Tech Talk: Say More than Cheese October 29, 2013 08:48 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Dino Giacomazzi Farm Journal's Milk Contributer Email One of the most interesting aspects of mobile technology is its ability to bust age-old adages like, "A picture is worth a thousand words." Before digital cameras and mobile phones, this seemed like a good way to describe the concept of absorbing a lot of information quickly. But these days, pictures can be worth more than gold, and the camera on your mobile phone does a lot more than just take pictures. When cameras were first installed on mobile phones, the intent was for people to capture the moments of their lives, but now, with the advent of apps, cameras can do things never before imagined. Scan documents: You can use your phone or tablet camera to take pictures of documents and convert them into printable PDFs. This is useful for capturing paper documents out in the field. I know a labor contractor whose managers scan timecards on a daily basis with an iPhone. Apps include Google Drive and Genius Scan. Read barcodes and price checking: On the rare occasion I actually go into a store to buy something, I always check the prices of what I plan to purchase against the Internet. Your camera can be used to read the barcode of a product and search for prices at online retailers. My favorites are Red Laser and Price Check by Amazon. Photo search: Google Goggles is an app that allows you to take a picture of something and find matching items on the Internet. You can photograph landmarks, artwork, products, newspaper and magazine ads, and many other items, and the app will display relevant search results. Goggles will also translate text on a page and scan business card data to your contact list. Google Goggles can even solve Sudoku puzzles. Mark up photos: One of the best ways of conveying information is to mark up a photo. Skitch is an app that lets you add lines, arrows, text, boxes, highlights and other visual elements to photos you take with your mobile device. Each time I measure my silage pile, I take a picture of it and type the length of the pile on the picture. This way I have a record of the date, time and amount of feed left. Photo Notes: Here is an area where a picture is still worth 1,000 words. I take pictures of everything—my parking space at the airport, parts I need to pick up in town, magazine articles I want to remember, leaking injector lines, problems with cows, status of crops, serial number plates, progress of construction projects and many other things. Bonus Content Links to apps Google Drive Genius Scan Red Lazer Price Check by Amazon Google Goggles Evernote Skitch Instagram Instagram: Many people are using the "picture is worth a thousand words" concept to share their stories on the Internet. Instagram is a social photo-sharing app that allows you to easily snap a picture, edit it with fun effects and share it with your friends and family. This article is 500 words long, and I probably couldn't have conveyed all this good info in one picture, but I guarantee the pictures I have taken with my phone have saved me millions of keystrokes with my thumbs. Dino Giacomazzi is the fourth genera-tion to manage his family's dairy farm near Hanford, Calif. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Back to news


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|2012-11-11, 15:56
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With Destiny, they now have the original master, the SE, as well as any scene they want to take from the SEED Remaster.
It's business as usual.
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Are the scenes they took from SEED SE stock footage of MSs blowing up? I forgot.
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|2012-11-12, 01:45
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If there are stock footages that are shared between SEED and Destiny, the easier way would be to just use SEED Remaster's version in a hypothetical Destiny Remaster. Otherwise, they would just remaster Destiny's version.
So back to what I originally said:
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........Maybe we just misunderstood each other.
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So, no, that's not what I meant.
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It would not be surprising if Sunrise released HD version of Destiny but a remake would be ridiculous cos despite people's controversial speculation regarding the director and the writer's work, Destiny was one of the most succesful Gundam shows ever when it first aired (it did not surpass SEED but it was one of the last Gundams with such big TV rating). In fact, one of the flashback episodes was about SEED to attract new viewers.
It looks like Sunrise learned a thing or two with Destiny about budget considering that their next shows, Gundam 00 and Code Geass, were given a break after 25 episodes to give the staff time to make new footage.
The only thing that looked to me the director wanted to change was Athrun/Cagalli as in the OVA and Special Edition they stayed on better terms and it did not look like they were breaking up, as well as the more climatic ending. For the ones wanting to know more about Destiny's characters read the manga Gundam SEED Destiny the Edge Desire as it focuses on multiple backstories including Shinn, Rey, Luna, Cagalli, Yzak, Stella and Kira.
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I dunno, time can heal wound and a remake will at least ease things a bit. I mean if they cut out many of the needless flashbacks and recap episodes they will have a ton of room to squeeze in development for Shinn, Lunamaria, Rey, Talia, and Durandal into the episodes. They all really could use some. Such as giving stronger hints of Shinn x Lunamaria earlier, Shinn getting much needed development/monologue, and Rey/Talia/Durandal.
Don't know what they can do about the complaints directed towards the returning cast though.
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So apparently this "so called" SEED Party is nothing, but a few of the seiyu's and Fukuda himself sitting at a round table, commenting on the Remaster.
They stringed people along with constant delays, talking that talk "We got a big announcement", when this is all it really was. Pathetic.
I knew it would be something pointless, but come on.
They still playing those games. They done trolled us.
|2012-11-12, 17:19
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Kira was already one of the most mature characters in Destiny so he only got a sidestory in Destiny Edge in which it is explained how he did after being defeated by Shinn until seeing Lacus again.
Shinn has backstory chapters in Destiny Edge Desire alongside Rey and Lunamaria. They also reveal that the reason he starts crying with Lunamaria in the end of Destiny is because he realizes Rey died with Durandal and Thalia. In fact his cameo from SEED HD was based on a scene from the manga.
Durandal got the OVA to reveal his relationship with Rau and how the Destiny plans reflects his view on mankind and why he did not want to have a child with Talia (he did not trust future generations).
Considering how the OVA, the manga and the compilation films expanded the development of characters, I guess it would be very good if a HD version uses parts from all the media.
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|2012-11-12, 21:49
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Manga isn't officially considered canon compared to animate works. So the best they can work with is what the anime did and what the special editions did and merge them together for better balance. They should have plenty of room considering all the needless stuff that can/could be cut out of the original Destiny anime.
I wouldn't call Kira mature, he was severely naive and overly idealistic. As shown when he stopped Cagalli's wedding without ever once thinking of the ramifications of just handing Orb completely over to Yuna since Cagalli was the only reason Orb was somewhat checked despite nearly all the politician working against her.
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What Kira did at least saved her from an unwanted marriage.
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I really don't see what was the problem with Kira in Destiny since he never lost his mind unlike most characters and had his own rules when fighting (he would only kill his enemy if civilians would die, that's why he killed Stella and later tried to murder Durandal). In fact, Kira was more of a supporting character rather than a main character as he kept aiding Cagalli, Athrun and Lacus (to the point he even gains respect from Orb soldiers) and he never comes to hate an opponent. (it kind of reminds me to Quattro in Zeta, my favorite version of Char)
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They can still do a new ONA or a OVA.. or even the SEED movie, but it won't be as big of a blockbuster as it would have been in 2007.
However, I sure that a new season of Seed will outsell Age in everything and it will perform at least as good as 00 (Based on the popularity of the characters, the Gunpla models and other merchandise), but it seems that Bandai is expecting a lot more from a Gundam show. They are trying to create something new that can replicate the effects of 0079 and Seed. They are not just trying to get by, they are looking for something lucrative that can last for a decade. There is an interview with the top guys at Bandai / Sunrise where they talks about this. Age was designed to do this, but obviously it didn't work out.
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Dave D'Onofrio's Sox Beat: Chilly bats a concernDAVE D'ONOFRIO
July 27. 2013 3:22PM
When the ball glances off a fielder's glove, or a throw sails awry, or a play isn't made behind him, John Lackey's body language has a way of screaming disappointment. Yet Jarrod Saltalamacchia says the starting pitcher is, bar none, one of the best teammates he's had in the course of a career that's now a decade long.
So it's unsurprising Lackey voiced confidence Friday night that the Boston's slumping offense would soon awaken.
"We've got a lot of guys who are really great hitters," the right-hander told reporters in Baltimore. "They'll come through and get it going."
Lackey had just been pinned with the loss in Boston's 6-0 setback at Baltimore, which marked the 10th time in 18 starts that the Sox failed to support his effort with more than three runs - though more alarmingly the second time the team had been shut out in the span of four games, as well as the continuation of a stretch in which it has scored a total of 23 runs in nine contests. Eight of those came in a single night.
Entering Saturday night's rematch with the Orioles, the Sox were collectively hitting .216 (65-for-301) since July 13, in no small part due to a few individuals who'd hit the skids. Dustin Pedroia was hitting .143 over that time. Jarrod Saltalamacchia .125. Jose Iglesias .094. And Stephen Drew .067. The club was also walking significantly less than usual, at a rate of 5.2 percent lately, compared to 9.1 percent for the season.
And while it might be easy to blame Boston's struggles on the high caliber of pitching they've found themselves facing recently, that might almost be worse than if this was merely a bunch of guys coincidentally slumping at the same time.
Over the past two weeks, among those the Sox have faced have been 2013 All-Stars Bartolo Colon, Hiroki Kuroda, Matt Moore and Chris Tillman, 2012 American League Cy Young winner David Price, promising young righty A.J. Griffin and venerable veteran lefty Andy Pettitte. They've also faced a quartet of formidable bullpens in the A's, Yankees, Rays and Orioles. That'd be a tough slate for any lineup.
But that's exactly the type of pitching a club can expect to encounter come October, and that's where this run becomes particularly disconcerting for the Sox.
While the team's focus has likely been on fortifying the bullpen (with three late-game relievers done for the year), or the starting rotation (with Clay Buchholz now unlikely to pitch again before September), now Ben Cherington must determine whether this recent spell is just a rut or if it's something that requires his attention.
The general manager from Meriden must decide whether the Sox need to upgrade either in left field or on the left side of the infield, or maybe add another right-handed bat off the bench. And while that's a decision he'll need to make with some urgency because baseball's non-waiver trade deadline is Wednesday afternoon, it's a decision he'll need to make with the postseason in mind.
And that could be a tricky consideration. After all, through Friday the Red Sox were .02 runs per game behind the Tigers for the distinction of the highest-scoring team in the major leagues, so the entire body of work says Boston's bats are good enough. But if this recent slide is indicative of what it's going to be like when the riffraff are on the golf course and the elite are climbing the bump, it appears as though the Sox could be in some trouble.
"I think a lot of guys are trying too hard right now," Pedroia told ESPN Boston on Friday. "There are times two or three guys go into funks and other guys step up. It seems right now everybody's trying to be the guy that gets us out of it. That makes it tough because then you try too hard, get out of what makes you good."
Good is fine. But success in October tends to be reserved for the very good, even the great.
And that's why the Red Sox could be in some trouble when - and if - it comes.
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WITH their win Friday, the Orioles continued a dominance of the Sox that dates to their dagger-wielding role in the collapse of September 2011, since when Baltimore was 24-9 against Boston entering Saturday night.
In a way, the O's triumph in the series opener was something of a microcosm of that success. They slugged four home runs Friday, bringing their total to 38 in the 24 games they've played against the Sox since the start of last season. And they continue to pitch better against Boston than they do against the rest of baseball.
From the beginning of 2012 through Friday, the Orioles' overall earned run average sat at 4.05. With the Tillman-led shutout, though, against the Red Sox it was a full run lower - 3.05 - as Boston's batters compiled a .231 average against the Baltimore staff.
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ALTHOUGH Iglesias made a pretty over-the-shoulder catch of a foul pop, and Shane Victorino notched his team-leading seventh outfield assist, Friday night's game was generally illustrative of the sloppiness that has crept into the Sox defense of late.
After calling off Victorino, Ellsbury let what appeared to be a catchable ball glance off his glove for a Nate McLouth triple; Mike Napoli made a high throw that cost Lackey a double play; then Napoli failed to catch Lackey's throw to first on a comebacker.
With that, the Sox entered Saturday tied for fifth-worst in the AL in defensive efficiency (essentially the rate of turning balls in play into outs), and were 18th in the majors according to defensive runs saved. Boston was at a negative-1 for the season.
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STAT OF THE WEEK: One positive for the Sox offense has been the return of Napoli's power. Before Friday he had seven extra-base hits in a span of eight games. Prior to that he had seven extra-base hits in 33 games.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Red Sox for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is email@example.com.


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Dr. Maurice Gleeson, co-administrator of the Spearin Surname Project, gave a lecture on March 20th at the National Library of Ireland on DNA: BRICK WALL BUSTER? on behalf of the Irish Genealogical Research Society (IRGS). For those of us who could not fly to Dublin to attend this very informative lecture, Dr. Gleeson has placed a video version on You Tube:
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Andrew Garfield had insurance bosses rethinking his mode of transport during The Amazing Spider-Man shoot, after he crashed his rented car on the first day of shooting.
The Brit prefers driving scooter to cars, but was banned from riding the two-wheeled vehicles while he was filming the Spider-Man prequel.
He tells talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, "I feel safer (on a scooter)... When I got Spider-Man, the studio said, 'You can't ride a scooter anymore. It's dangerous...' so they hired me a car and I got in an accident on the first day. I got rear-ended into the middle of a big... intersection. I was stopped and someone (hit me)."


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Hey, remember Hilary Banks from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
She's back, but in a different light. Actress Karyn Parsons has started a new organization — Sweet Blackberry — that makes short, animated films about influential, yet lesser-known African-Americans.
She still loves acting, she told Kelly McEvers of Weekend All Things Considered, but her priorities have changed since she became a mom.
Parson says being pregnant with her daughter got her thinking about her responsibility, as a parent, to add to her kids' formal education.
"In school we learn about a handful of stories — great stories — but still, we're missing out on so much," Parsons says. "We want to celebrate black history but we don't want to separate it from American history."
Her animated movies have aired on HBO, and are available in libraries and DVD.
In the interview, Parsons talks about three interesting figures she discovered along the way, who are also the main characters in her shorts:
Henry "Box" Brown
It was her mom, a librarian who worked at the African-American resource center in South-Central Los Angeles, who introduced Parsons to Henry "Box" Brown.
Brown was a slave who had a pretty ingenious escape plan: He just mailed himself to Pennsylvania from Virginia in a box. The minute he crossed state lines, he was free.
All he had with him on his 26-hour journey was a bladder of water and a few small biscuits.
An eyewitness record from 1872 remembers the dramatic scene of his arrival in Philadelphia:
Rising up in the box, he reached out his hand, saying, "How do you do, gentlemen?" The little assemblage hardly knew what to think or do at the moment.
Garrett Morgan
Garrett Morgan was an inventor, credited for the traffic signal and the gas mask among other things.
In Parsons' version of the story, Morgan starts off as a child.
"So, I wanted to come to where kids could actually be face-to-face, eye-to-eye with him and understand him a little bit" Parsons explains. "He was creative-minded but trying to find what he had to offer the world."
Morgan was the son of freed slaves and his formal education lasted only till sixth grade. But his mechanical genius helped him figure out inventive ways to realize his visions.
Janet Collins
Parsons has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for her new cartoon venture. This one is about the first African-American prima ballerina Janet Collins.
At 15 years old, in 1922, the Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo invited Collins to join their dance troupe. It was unprecedented, but there was a catch — she would have to perform in whiteface. Collins refused, devastated. A 2003 obituary in the New York Times describes her reaction:
"I said no," she told Anna Kisselgoff in a 1974 interview in The Times. "I sat on the steps and I cried and cried." But the rejection spurred her, she said, to work even harder, hard enough to be an exception.
It paid off. She became the first black prima ballerina and soloist at the Metropolitan Opera, performing with names such as Katherine Dunham — often called the queen mother of black dance.
To tell Collins' story, the former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actress has pulled in Chris Rock as narrator.
"The fact that we don't know about her now is sad to me," Parsons says.
Thanks for sticking with us here on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. You might know Karyn Parsons as that airhead princess Hilary Banks from "The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air."
KARYN PARSONS: (As Hilary Banks) Dad, I need $300.
JANET HUBERT: (As Vivian Banks) Hillary your cousin will is here.
PARSONS: (As Hilary Banks) Hi. Dad I need $300.
MCEVERS: Today Karyn Parsons has a different priority. She runs an organization called "Sweet Blackberry," producing short animated films for children about influential, yet little known African-Americans. When I spoke to her earlier this week she said the idea started many years ago.
PARSONS: My mother was a librarian and she would call me from time to time with interesting stories that she came across. She shared with me one day the story of Henry "Box" Brown, a slave who had literally nailed himself to freedom in a box, from Virginia to Pennsylvania. None of my friends had heard this story either and I thought, that's crazy, how come we don't know about this guy? So, I started making notes about it and I would put it aside and then come back and when I was pregnant with my daughter many years later, I started to really think about my responsibility as a parent supplementing my child's education. What do I want her to learn? What do I need to bring to her on my own. Finally I arrived at "Sweet Blackberry."
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I've come very far. Still no man is free unless we all are.
MCEVERS: So your first film was about Henry "Box" Brown and then the second film you made was about an inventor.
PARSONS: Yeah, Garrett Morgan, I mean he's fascinating man. This is the inventor of the traffic signal, as well as the gas mask and a bunch of other things.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: And suddenly he jumped up and exclaimed, I've got it, a traffic signal...
PARSONS: Our focus on Garrett's gift is on the traffic signal 'cause also our age group, you know, we have really little kids, that's something that they're learning about and navigating.
MCEVERS: And now you're raising money to do a new one about a ballerina named Janet Collins. Who was she?
PARSONS: Janet Collins was the first African-American prima ballerina. At 15-years-old, in 1932 she was asked by the ballet Russe of Monte Carlo to join their dance troupe, which was just unprecedented at the time for a black dancer to be asked. The condition would be that she would have to perform in Whiteface. So, she was devastated but she still said no. Instead she worked extra hard and she would end up becoming the first black prima ballerina and the first black soloist at the Metropolitan Opera. In schools we learn about a handful of stories, great stories but still we're missing out on so much, we want to celebrate black history but we don't want to separate it from American history. We've been fortunate enough to bring Chris Rock on to narrate the Janet Collins story and we have a Kickstarter campaign right now, we're in our last week and I've been fortunate enough to be able to bring my Fresh Prince family on. Everybody's kicking in to do it.
MCEVERS: Many people remember you as Hillary Banks on "The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air"
PARSONS: Oh, yeah.
MCEVERS: You know, it's almost 20 years since then. I just wondered if you could tell us a little bit about how we got here. What have you been doing over the years?
PARSONS: Nothing. Nothing.
PARSONS: I continued acting for a while after the Fresh Prince but I had two kids, let's face it. I became a mom.
MCEVERS: An honorable profession.
PARSONS: Wouldn't trade it for anything. That's my everything really. I've never stopped loving acting, it's just, you know, my perspective has changed and my priorities have changed and that's what I've just been working on.
MCEVERS: Karyn Parsons is the founder of "Sweet Blackberry." I want to thank you so much for your time today Karyn.
PARSONS: Thank you very much. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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