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College Hockey: Providence gets jump on UNHBy BILL KOCH
Special to the Union Leader
March 15. 2013 10:24PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Nick Saracino's eyes light up when he sees the University of New Hampshire on the schedule.
The Providence College winger ran his personal tally to five goals against the Wildcats during his freshman season, including the game winner in the Friars' 3-2 victory over UNH on Friday night.
Saracino's screened bullet from the top of the left circle - his ninth of the campaign - beat Casey DeSmith 8:06 into the third period to give Providence a 1-0 lead in the best-of-3 Hockey East quarterfinal series. Game 2 will be today at 4 p.m. and the Wildcats will be attempting to stop a slide that has seen them win just two of their last 11 games.
"It was a tough one to take," UNH coach Dick Umile said. "I thought the team battled pretty hard."
Saracino and linemates Ross Mauermann and Shane Luke were a thorn in No. 7 UNH's side all night, accounting for all three of No. 17 Providence's goals. Luke racked up three assists after missing the previous six games with a lower body injury and joined Saracino in finishing plus-3.
"We missed him a lot," Saracino said. "We've been playing all year together, so it was good to get him back."
Saracino first made his mark against the Wildcats by scoring twice in a 6-5 Providence win at the Whittemore Center on Jan. 19, a victory that snapped the Friars' 17-game winless streak in their program's personal house of horrors. Included in that streak was the last time the two teams met in the playoffs, a dominant two-game UNH sweep by a combined 10-0 in the 2006-07 season.
"I thought Nick was the guy on our team that wanted the puck the most out there," PC coach Nate Leaman said. "Each time he was out there he did something with it."
The Wildcats drew into a 2-2 tie with 18 minutes to play on Austin Block's team-leading 16th of the season, setting up what looked to be a tense finish. The senior winger beat Providence goalie Jon Gillies from close range in a 4-on-4 situation and UNH carried the play from there, pinning the Friars in their end for most of the next six minutes until a turnover in the Wildcats' own left wing corner helped Saracino produce his game winner.
"We had great zone time and the puck just came out," Umile said. "We had possession and we lost it. The kid made a great shot."
Gillies made the difference over the first two periods and finished with 35 saves in his playoff debut. The 6-foot-5 freshman kept it scoreless with Providence being outshot, 15-4, in the first and stopped breakaway chances by Dan Correale and Block in the second. Correale was sent in alone after van Riemsdyk caught the Friars in a bad change and Block picked John Gilmour's pocket in front of the Providence student section for a shorthanded bid that was denied.
"The shots were a little lopsided, but I did have a lot of help," Gillies said. "Even the breaks we gave up, it was just first saves and the guys were there to clear the rebounds."
UNH (18-10-7) never led despite a 37-25 advantage in shots on goal, as Saracino's rocket under the crossbar and Gilmour's shot from the top of the left circle gave the Friars a 2-0 lead with 6:33 left in the second. The Wildcats halved the deficit just 23 seconds later when Grayson Downing netted his 14th of the season, a power-play goal that made it a one-goal game into the intermission. Block's equalizer gave UNH all the momentum until Saracino proved to be the Wildcats' nemesis yet again.


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Bertha Holm, 93 - October 21, 2009
Bertha Holm, 93, of Gothenburg, formerly of Ansley, died Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, at Long-Term Care Center in Gothenburg.
A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Gothenburg with the Rev. Donald O'Brien officiating.
Another memorial service will be held at the Christian Church, 821 Douglas St. in Ansley on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Mel Shepherd officiating.
Holm was born April 10, 1916, to Thomas and Bertha (Curtis) Dobesh at Ansley. She grew up on a farm south of Ansley where she attended country school, later attending high school in Ansley, and graduating from Holy Name at Omaha.
Following graduation, she entered the Sisters of St. Mary Convent in St. Louis, MO. She served the Sisters of St. Mary as Sister Mary Theaphaine in St. Louis, Blue Hill, IL, and Dillon, SC, during the 1930's and 1940's.
She worked as a hospital nun and a medical record librarian. After leaving the convent, she returned home to help her family.
In 1951, she was united in marriage to Hardy Holm at Mason City. To this union, two sons were born.
Holm returned to her nursing profession, working at the Rest Haven Manor in Broken Bow. She was also recertified as a registered record administrator and worked at the Sargent Community Hospital until her retirement.
She was a member of the Sacred Heart Altar Society of Ansley. She always enjoyed dancing, according to family members.
Holm was preceded in death by: her husband, Hardy Edward Holm; her parents, Thomas and Bertha; two sisters—Alice Thorn and Maybelle Alexander; two brothers—Ford Dobesh and Thomas Jewell.
Survivors include: her two sons—Hardy Edward Holm Jr. of Lincoln, and Tom Holm of Gothenburg; a grandson, Bryan (Cheryl) Holm of Bellevue; granddaughters—Tiffany Holm of Lincoln, and Stephanie (Logan) Ricley of Gothenburg; great-grandchildren—Hayden Rachael Ricley and Trystan Alexander Holm.
Memorials are suggested to the Alzheimer's Association, P.O. Box 80526, Lincoln, NE 68501.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blase strauser.com.
Arrangements have been placed in the care of Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg.
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April 16, 2006
Asalesperson should spend most of his or her time working on those sales that have the easiest-to-close, most promising leads.There are three main elements to look for in determining which leads those are: need, ability, and trust.The more need, ability, and trust there is around the table when you present your proposal, the more likely it is that the lead will turn into a sale.Thus, screening leads for these three elements is the first part of a sales system, a linear process that will guide you most efficiently to your objective: the sale. By implementing a lead-screening process, contractors are better able to focus their time and energy on prospects who give favorable answers, divulging high levels of need, ability, and trust.The following lead form (p. 21) contains carefully crafted questions that can be used as a loose script when talking to a prospective customer. The questions address the prospect's need, ability and trust, allowing you to prioritize the leads most likely to generate sales.
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At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1965, Robert and Richard Sherman already had accepted their Oscar for best score for "Mary Poppins" when they returned to the stage to pick up another statuette for best song, "Chim Chim Cher-ee."
Having already thanked everyone, Robert Sherman told the audience that all they could add was "Supercalifragilistic...." Then, as often happened when they spoke, Richard Sherman completed his brother's sentence by saying, "expialidocious."
Robert Sherman: In the March 7 Section A, the obituary of songwriter Robert Sherman, who with his brother Richard wrote music for Disney films and other productions, said they won three Grammy Awards. In fact, they were nominated three times but won only once, for best original score written for a motion picture or television show, for "Mary Poppins."
The tongue-twister of a song title from the blockbuster 1964 Disney musical powerfully reminded viewers that the brothers wrote irresistibly upbeat songs that spoke to everyday people.
As film critic Leonard Maltin told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday: "You can't help but smile when you sing or hum a Sherman brothers song."
On Monday, Robert Sherman, who grew up and lived most of his life in Beverly Hills, died at the London Clinic of an age-related illness, his family said. He was 86.
The Shermans were Walt Disney's songwriters of choice, their music for "Mary Poppins" including the jaunty "A Spoonful of Sugar" and the somber "Feed the Birds." For Disneyland attractions, the brothers wrote such instantly familiar tunes as "It's a Small World" and "The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room."
"My brother Bob was a poetic soul with limitless imagination and talent," Richard Sherman said in a statement. "He was my loyal friend all through the years."
"A piece of our childhood has been taken away," film music historian Jon Burlingame said. "They wrote some of the most resonant songs of our childhood, and that doesn't apply only to those of us who grew up in the 1960s but also to those born ever since."
Their career milestone came with "Mary Poppins," the tale of an English nanny and her unruly charges starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke.
The Shermans already had done work for the Disney Studio, including writing the 1959 hit "Tall Paul" for Annette Funicello, when Disney handed them a small book by British author P.L. Travers in 1960.
He told them to read it and tell him what they thought.
"We said it would make the greatest musical fantasy of all time," Richard Sherman recalled in a 1993 joint Houston Chronicle interview with his brother. "Of course, that book was 'Mary Poppins.' So we underlined some chapters that we felt were really musical. And when we showed Walt our notes and played the song sketches, he pulled out his book, and he'd underlined the very same chapters."
It was, Robert said, "one of the greatest feelings we've ever had."
Van Dyke recalled that the Sherman brothers were "deeply involved" throughout the filming of "Mary Poppins."
"They were always on the set helping Julie and I with our interpretation of the songs," he told The Times on Tuesday. "They had a lot to do with the atmosphere, the lightness."
The two brothers, Van Dyke said, "were opposite ends of the pole as far as their personalities were concerned. Robert was the somber one. He kept within himself. Dick was gregarious and outgoing and loves to perform.
"As songwriters, they were a perfect combination. The emotion was Robert and the fun was Dick's part. They were made by God for Walt Disney. They somehow managed to convey Walt's meaning in those songs."
Explaining their approach to songwriting in a 1969 interview with The Times, Robert Sherman said: "We don't like the dark side of things, and we want only to entertain people. We like singable songs as opposed to, say, performers' songs. We don't write for someone, we write for everyone."
Disney, who died in 1966, was especially fond of "Feed the Birds," which he predicted would replace Brahms' Lullaby and which reportedly caused him to cry every time he heard it.
When the brothers walked into Disney's studio office the day after the ceremony, with their Oscars in hand, the film legend gave them a characteristically restrained response.
As Robert Sherman recalled in a 1992 Times interview, Disney told them: "The bases were loaded, we hit a home run and that's great. From now on, just try to get on base."
Robert Sherman's son Jeff said the brothers "walked in on a cloud" and Disney, who had a warm relationship with them, was just trying to keep them humble.
"I'm sure he smiled as they left," Jeff Sherman said Tuesday.
The Sherman brothers contributed songs and scores to many other Disney films, including "The Parent Trap," "That Darn Cat!," "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree," "The Gnome-Mobile," "The Jungle Book," "The Aristocats" and "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."
They also wrote "It's a Small World (After All") for an attraction at the 1964 New York World's Fair, a tune heard repeatedly at Disney theme parks.
Among the other films they later provided music and songs for are "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "Snoopy Come Home," "Charlotte's Web," "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," "Huckleberry Finn" and "The Slipper and the Rose."
In addition to their two Oscar wins, the Sherman brothers received seven other Academy Award nominations and won three Grammy Awards. They also received 24 gold and platinum albums and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame — as well as receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"The Sherman brothers' legacy goes far beyond the craft of songwriting," multiple Oscar-winning composer-songwriter Alan Menken said in a statement. "There is magic in their songs and in the films and musicals they breathed life into."
In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded the Sherman brothers the National Medal of Arts for creating music that "has helped bring joy to millions."
The son of Tin Pan Alley songwriter Al Sherman, Robert was born in Brooklyn on Dec. 19, 1925; his brother Richard was born June 12, 1928. The family moved to Beverly Hills in the early '30s when the senior Sherman got a job writing songs for the movies.
Robert Sherman served in the Army during World War II. He was one of the first American soldiers to enter the Dachau concentration camp and later had his kneecap shattered by a Nazi bullet. He recovered in hospitals in England, where he moved in 2002 after the death of his wife, Joyce.
After the brothers teamed up, their first song to be recorded was "Gold Can Buy You Anything But Love" for Gene Autry in 1951. They later wrote Johnny Burnette's 1960 hit "You're Sixteen."
As for how they divided writing the words and the music for their songs, the brothers' standard reply was, "He writes the words and the music, and I write the music and the words."
Jeff Sherman said, "Richard was primarily the composer and Robert was primarily the lyricist, but they both did both."
Despite their long and close working relationship, the Sherman brothers didn't socialize for a couple of decades.
"Bob and I have great love and respect for one another, and during our professional lives we maintained a facade of unity," Richard Sherman told the Toronto Star in 2009 when the documentary "The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story" was released.
"But in order to keep working together we came to an agreement to live our personal lives apart, completely separate," he said. "We were comfortable working together, but otherwise it would have been explosive."
The documentary came about after Robert's son, Jeff, and Richard's son, Greg, connected at the 2002 London opening of the stage version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." The cousins said they hoped the film would make the public more aware of the professional contributions of the Sherman brothers and start a personal dialogue between their fathers.
"So many personal details are hidden in their songs," Greg Sherman said in the Toronto Star. "And for such different personalities, they really had a lot in common: It's impossible to tell who wrote the music and who wrote the lyrics.
"We are different people," Richard Sherman said in the 2009 article. "In the broadest terms, Bob is an introvert who wanted to write great novels, and I was the showman. I loved to perform and he'd rather sit in a corner reading a book."
But, he said: "Success and creativity won out over petty differences. There was no way we were going to let those differences destroy our work."
Besides his brother, Sherman is survived by his four children, Jeff, Robert, Laurie and Tracy; and five grandchildren.
A public funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles.
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We wish to ask you about a phenomenon that has started to increase in the hospitals, which is alien to the Muslims societies and has come to us from the kaafir western societies. This is the giving of flowers to the sick, which are bought for a high price. What is your opinion of this custom?
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Undoubtedly there is no benefit in these flowers and no purpose in them. They do not heal the sick person or reduce his pain or bring him good health or ward off diseases. They are merely a manufactured image of flowering plants made by hand or by machine, and sold at a high price from which the manufacturers make a profit and the purchasers lose out. This is no more than blind imitation of the west, without the slightest pause for thought. These flowers are bought for a high price, and they stay with the sick person for an hour or two, or a day or two, then they are thrown out with the trash. It would be better to keep the money and use it for something that will serve a purpose in some worldly or religious sense. Anyone who sees people buying or selling these flowers should rebuke him for doing so, in the hope that he might repent and forego this transaction which leads to nothing but loss.


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SUBJECT 1: FFY 2012 End-of-Year Invoicing due December 10, 2012
SUBJECT 2: Missouri WIC Conference - Thanks for making it a Success!!
FFY 2012 End-of-Year Invoicing due December 10, 2012: The deadline for submission of FFY 2012 end-of-year invoices is Monday, December 10, 2012. Expenses must have been incurred prior to October 1, 2012 to qualify for the FFY 2012 funding year. The grant year will close the end of December and payments beyond this date are not possible.
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Missouri WIC Conference-Thanks for making it a Success!!Links to all the above information will be on the home page at www.mowica.org. Thanks again for your attendance.... Share your Magic!! (This article was submitted by Brenda Brewer.)
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Why forks happen ?? - A peek at history
There are several reasons why a fork may occur - Here are some examples:
- A particular group of members is not happy with the further technical direction of the project. An example of this is the recent fork of FreeBSD 4.x code base, by some members of the FreeBSD core team resulting in the formation of the DragonflyBSD project. FreeBSD 4.x had scalability problems and could not make optimum use of multi-processor machines. With multi-processor machines becoming cheap and common in the enterprise space, this problem had to be solved quickly. One of the objectives of the FreeBSD 5.x release was to solve this problem. The programmers who are working on Dragonfly BSD were not happy with the way this technical problem was solved and forked the project forming DragonflyBSD. DragonflyBSD is now focused on providing Single System Image (SSI) Clustering. It also aim to solve the scalability problems of the 4.x BSD series while being robust and flexible enough to run on uniprocessor machines as well as massively clustered machines.
Patches are not getting accepted and changes are not being done fast enough. The users/developers are unhappy with the pace of development. This happened some time back with the GCC team. Cygnus (now a part of RedHat) had based it's business around supporting the GNU Compiler collections and had several engineers working on it. The list of patches pending and waiting for the review was getting bigger and bigger by the day. Finally patience ran out and Cygnus forked the GCC project (creating EGCS - Experimental GNU Compiler System), keeping the forked branch itself GPLed as before. After and EGCS branch became the main GCC branch and hence the fork was "healed".
Xemacs was forked from Emacs as the patches were not getting accepted as fast as some of the developers would have liked. What most people know is that Linux itself almost got forked in 1998 due to the fact that Linus was not accepting patches to his kernel tree as some of the kernel developers would have liked. Fortunately, the differences were sorted out amicably when the threat of a fork was looming large.
Another famous fork in recent times was the X.org/XFree86 split. When releasing version 4.4 of the XFree86 Server,the license was changed and most major Linux distributions and BSD variants dumped it for the X.org fork. Before this split could occur, there was another split lead by Keith Packard following several dissatisfaction with XFree86 development. eventually this project was merged with freedesktop.org. Among the problems he cited in the mail was limited development resources, slow release schedules, lack of co-operation with other projects (notably GNOME and KDE) and opacity of the development process. This story was also covered by OSnews .
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NJSIAA Hall Of Fame Induction
Without question one of the highlights of the Summer Olympics in London was the gold medal-winning performance of the U.S. Women's Soccer team which featured a trio of players from New Jersey.
So it seemed fitting that Christie Rampone, Carli Lloyd and Heather O'Reilly would be part of the 17th Annual Hall of Fame Class honored by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Monday at the Pines Manor in Edison.
Rampone is quite familiar to those of us from the Jersey Shore as she burst onto the sports scene as a teen-ager at Point Pleasant Borough High School where she starred in soccer, basketball and field hockey.
Quite possibly the greatest female athlete in shore history, the former Christie Pearce would star at Monmouth University before beginning what has become a legendary career with the U.S. National team on which she has served as captain since 2008.
Lloyd of Delran and O'Reilly from East Brunswick joined Rampone on the gold-medal stand in London and on the platform in Edison Monday along with other notables like football standouts Billy Ard, Dave Szott and Tony Woods.
Monte Irvin, one of the first players to break baseball's color barrier was represented by a family friend. The 93-year old who grew up in Orange is the oldest living African-American to have played in the major leagues.
Yesterday's luncheon also saw some three dozen individuals receive Awards of Honor from the NJSIAA. That group featured a large number of coaches in various high school sports with the Shore Conference represented by Marlboro tennis coach Dave Kretzmer and Freehold Boro gymnastics coach Kathleen Pusz.
Also saluted was former Point Pleasant Beach and Howell Wrestling coach Doug Bower, who is President of the New Jersey Wrestling Coaches Association and the Region 6 Coaches Association.
While nobody likes people who talk about themselves I'm sort of obligated to mention that I received the NJSIAA's Sports Reporter Award. I'm especially grateful to by Shore Sports Network colleague Ed "Luch" Sarluca, who accompanied me to Edison and drove because he knows the area so well. Still trying to figure out how we got lost on Route 27 and just managed to get in our seats in time for the luncheon.


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Lovegrove, Lt. William A.
Lieutenant, Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Officer
William Lovegrove, a sculptor and United States diplomat, was born in New York in 1902. He moved to Paris to study at an early age, and was graduated from the
Ecole des Beaux Arts
with an MFA in 1928. He also attended the Sorbonne and the Ecole du Louvre. Lovegrove remained in Paris until World War II, and from 1942 to 1947 served as a lieutenant (retired as captain) in the U.S. Army. In 1945 he began working with the MFAA and was stationed in Paris with the SHAEF Mission to France. However he was a signatory of the Wiesbaden Manifesto in November of 1945, which protested against the removal of German owned works of art to the United States. Following the Allied victory, there were few Monuments officers in France, but Lovegrove was a representative of the commission charged with assisting the French in their restitution efforts. There he worked with the
Commission de Récuperation
and arranged an exhibit of French works of art which had been stolen by the Nazis and recently returned by the Monuments Men. The exhibit, "
Les Chefs-D'Ouvres des Collections Privées Françaises Retrouves en Allemagne
" was placed on display at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris from June to August 1946. For his contributions to the restitution process, Lovegrove received the French Legion of Honor medal in 1946. The same year he married Isolde Oden, a German of Jewish descent, whose family was lucky enough to escape persecution by the Nazis.
Following his MFAA service, Lovegrove remained in Europe as Chief of Museums and Libraries, Military Government for Stuttgart, from 1948 to 1949. He then was a cultural officer for the United States Information Service (or "Agency" as it was known in the States) in Stuttgart until 1954, and in Dusseldorf until 1955. Lovegrove became a cultural attaché for the United States government and was based in Cairo from 1955 to 1960, Athens until 1961, Washington, D.C. until 1963, and Vienna from 1963 to 1966. He retired from the United States Information Agency in 1966 and remained in Vienna where he served as secretary for the American International School from 1967 to 1968, and also as a consultant to the Festival of Vienna in 1969. The following year he was executive secretary for the European Council of International Schools.
As a cultural attaché, Lovegrove and his wife kept an elite circle of friends. Among them were George Balanchine, John Steinbeck, and Paul and Julia Child. It is possible he was also involved in intelligence work under the guise of a United States diplomat. Lovegrove also continued to sculpt throughout his career, focusing the majority of his works on busts and animals. He died in 1970 of a heart attack in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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College Sports Roundup: UNH, Dartmouth women's hockey teams bounced
March 02. 2013 11:01PM
Providence College rallied from three goals down to force overtime and an eventual 5-4 win over the University of New Hampshire women's ice hockey team in Hockey East quarterfinal action at Whittemore Center in Durham on Saturday.
The Friars (15-15-5) advanced to the semifinals, while the Wildcats season comes to a close with a 14-16-4 overall record.
Harvard 4, Dartmouth 0: The Big Green lost the second game of the best-of-three ECAC Hockey Tournament quarterfinal series to No. 6 Harvard 4-0 on Saturday afternoon in Cambridge, Mass.
Women's basketball
University of New Hampshire 86, Maine 63: At Orono, Maine, Kelsey Hogan (Nashua) recorded her first career double-double with 15 points and career-high 11 rebounds to lead UNH. New Hampshire will be the No. 5 seed of the America East tournament on Friday.
Women's lacrosse
Dartmouth 10, Yale 6: At New Haven, Conn., the 12th-ranked Dartmouth team opened up a lead and never looked back Saturday in both teams' Ivy League opener. Senior Hana Bowers had four goals for Dartmouth (3-0).
Dartmouth 2, George Washington 1: At Washington, D.C., Dartmouth rallied for a seventh inning win in second day action at the Colonial Classic.
Men's hockey
St. Anselm 5, Franklin Pierce 2: At Manchester, a goal and an assist by junior forward Joe Tebano and a 46-21 shots on goal advantage led the Hawks at Sullivan Arena Satuday, giving St. Anselm its fourth consecutive Northeast-10 title.
Senior forward Michael Carr and freshman forward Matt Batis each scored goals for the Franklin Pierce (9-12-3) in the program's first trip to the final round.
The Hawks (16-8-3) have participated in 13 of the 14 Northeast-10 finals and captured the eighth conference banner in program history.
Men's lacrosse
Georgetown 10, Dartmouth 9: Dartmouth could not hold a two-goal fourth quarter lead on Saturday, falling to Georgetown in the 2013 Patriot Cup at Texas. The Big Green are now 1-2.
Molloy 16, Southern New Hampshire 10: At Manchester, Joe Leonard finished with three goals and seven assists to lead Molloy College to a 16-10 men's lacrosse victory over SNHU.
Keene State 11, RPI 9: At Keene, the Owls opened the season with a come-from-behind win.
Dartmouth 1, Northern Illinois 0: At Minneapolis, Minn., junior Ryan Toimil hit a two-out home run to right field at the Metrodome in the seventh inning, providing the only run of the game.
Track and field
University of New Hampshire: At Boston, junior Kevin Greene advanced the finals of the mile and the Wildcats' 4x800 meter relay team broke a school record and advanced to the finals as the UNH men's team took part in the second day of the IC4A Championships Saturday.
Keene State: Several Owls set school record at the Tufts University Last Chance meet in Medford, Mass. Saturday. Senior Maggie Fitter finished second in the 600 with a school record time of 1:35.81. Junior Ryan Widzgowski ran the 800 and placed seventh with a personal best time of 1:55.94.


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BISMARCK, N.D. - The demand for information technology services on North Dakota University System campuses continues to grow at a rapid rate, and the ConnectND administrative computing system is keeping pace with these tremendous demands.
ConnectND experienced unprecedented user loads during Fall 2011 registration and enrollment. Students and faculty accessed the system at a sustained rate of 4,500 logins per hour, peaking at more than 5,000 per hour. This level of usage is nearly double the historical average and about 1,000 more logins than the previous hourly record.
ConnectND handled the pressure without a problem, thanks to recent improvements to the system, according to Randall Thursby, NDUS CIO.
"A long-term strategic plan for ConnectND was developed about three years ago," Thursby said. "The underlying goal was to provide the best possible service to students by enhancing system performance. Students drive what we do, and they continue to demand more and better access to services. We now have reached a point where technology services and resources are about as important to a campus as heat and lights."
Improvements to ConnectND include:
A complete upgrade to the student system in 2008
Significant improvements to the student admissions process: A client/customer relationship management system was added, thus allowing students to register completely online.
In combination, the first two improvements simplified the registration and admission processes, improved the flow of communication and streamlined data processes at the campus level.
Implementation of a credit card processing system: TouchNet allows students and parents to pay fees online in a secure environment. The use of this service is growing rapidly; during the first week of the Fall 2011, 3,000 payments totaling more than $6 million were processed on TouchNet.
A series of less dramatic improvements and changes to ConnectND also have contributed to enhanced system performance. Improved services range from online academic advising tools and degree planning processes to the ability to view campus employment information and to purchase online parking permits.
Demands on the ConnectND system will continue to expand with students' growing access to devices such as laptops, smart phones, iPads and tablets.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal cast a skeptical eye Monday on the country's most-restrictive abortion law, which prohibits the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless there's a medical emergency.
Even Judge Andrew Kleinfeld, a reliably conservative jurist appointed to the appeals court by former President George H.W. Bush, said Arizona's law appears to wrongly prohibit abortions before "viability," when the fetus can live outside the womb. Viability is generally considered to occur sometime after 23 weeks of pregnancy. The county's seminal Supreme Court 1973 abortion ruling, Roe v. Wade, said states cannot prohibit abortions outright prior to viability.
Bill Montgomery, the Maricopa County attorney defending the Arizona law, said the ban was enacted to protect women from undergoing a risky medical procedure. Montgomery said it's too medically risky for a woman to undergo an abortion at 20 weeks unless there's a medical emergency.
"People decide to have dangerous, foolishly dangerous, medical procedures all the time," Kleinfeld countered. He said removing prostates and other risky procedures that may not be medically necessary occur often and are not prohibited. He said such medical decisions are left up to patients and doctors without government intrusion.
Montgomery and Arizona Solicitor General David Cole fared no better with the other two judges on the panel, Marsha Berzon and Mary Schroeder, especially when Montgomery mistakenly mixed up their names during his arguments. Berzon was appointed to the appeals court by President Bill Clinton. President Jimmy Carter appointed Schroeder.
Berzon agreed with Kleinfeld that patients make risky medical decisions daily.
"Are there any statutes against cosmetic surgery?" she asked rhetorically.
The court gave no indication when it would rule.
Arizona's Republican-led Legislature banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy as part of a broader abortion law last spring. Three Arizona obstetrician-gynecologists, supported by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down the law.
U.S. District Judge James Teilborg, a Clinton appointee, upheld the law in July and it was to take effect on Aug. 2. But the appeals court blocked implementation until it issues its ruling.
Arizona is now among 10 states to enact versions of 20-week bans. Others are Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Carolina and Oklahoma. North Carolina's ban has been in effect for decades, while Nebraska was the first of the other states to enact its law, in 2010.
A challenge to Idaho's ban was scuttled early on, so Arizona's ban is the first to be tested in court. Arizona's ban is considered to be the most stringent because the starting point it uses to calculate a fetus's "probable gestational age" is about two weeks earlier than under the others states' versions.
In addition to arguing that abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy are too risky for the mother, supporters of the law argue that fetuses can feel pain at 20 weeks. Critics dispute both points.
Critics also argue the ban could impose hardships on women with nonemergency health problems and fetal abnormalities that aren't discovered until after the ban takes hold.
Janet Crepps, the lawyer representing the three doctors seeking to invalidate the law, argued Monday that Arizona's ban "directly prohibits abortion prior to viability" and because of that "it cannot be saved."
Crepps said the definition of viability should be left up to doctors and not to a state arbitrarily "setting the line" at 20 weeks.
"The act is an undue burden on women seeking abortions," she said.


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LOD, Israel (Reuters) - The dilemma Israel faces in trying to formulate a strategy on Syria two years into its civil war is symbolized by a case being heard in a small courtroom near Tel Aviv.
The state is prosecuting an Arab Israeli who briefly joined the rebel forces fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
Arrested after his return to Israel, Hikmat Massarwa, a 29-year-old baker, is accused of unlawful military training, having contacts with foreign agents and traveling to a hostile state.
The trial hinges on the unanswered question of who, if anyone, Israel favors in the war and if the rebels will turn out to be friends or enemies.
The prosecutor in Lod is trying to depict Massarwa as having aligned himself with foes of Israel, but Judge Avraham Yaakov is struggling for clarity. "There's no legal guidance regarding the rebel groups fighting in Syria," he told a recent hearing.
Matters were simpler during the decades of unchallenged Assad family rule.
Technically Israeli is at war with its northern neighbor. It captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East War, built settlements and annexed the land. But belligerence was rare and the borderland has remained largely quiet for decades.
Assad's Syria is part of the so-called Axis of Resistance along with Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah, both arch enemies of the Jewish state. But Syria itself avoided open conflict.
Israel was slow to welcome the uprising against Assad when it broke out in March 2011. Though some leaders now call for his overthrow, planners fret about what might follow.
"The question for us is no longer whether it is good or not if Assad stays in power, but how do we control our interests in this divided, murky situation which could last for decades," said Ofer Shelah of the Yesh Atid party, which is part of the government coalition.
The dilemma has grown more acute since Islamist fighters linked to al-Qaeda assumed a prominent role in the rebels' battle plans.
Israelis believe one in 10 of the rebels is a jihadi who might turn his gun on them once Assad is gone. They also worry that Hezbollah guerrillas allied to Assad could get hold of his chemical arsenal and other advanced weaponry.
So Israel has acted with restraint on Syria - shooting at its troops across the occupied Golan Heights only when hit by stray fire and playing down an Israeli airstrike on a suspected Hezbollah-bound convoy in January.
Officials say Israel has also been cool to Western proposals to increase aid to the Syrian rebels to help them match Assad's superior armed forces.
One Israeli official told Reuters that he responds to any suggestions of a foreign military role with the question: "Do you really know on whose behalf you'll be intervening?"
But with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presiding over a new, right-leaning coalition and the Israeli military stretched by keeping vigil over several fronts - including Islamist-ruled Egypt - the message has been far from uniform.
Netanyahu may have contributed to this by framing Iran and its nuclear program as Israel's overriding regional concern, bolstering the case for removing Tehran's ally Assad.
When an Israeli intelligence analyst said last week that Assad's forces had used chemical weapons, both the Netanyahu government and its foreign allies were blindsided, according to officials.
Washington confirmed the Israeli assessment, thus posing a problem for U.S. President Barack Obama, who had said use of chemical arms would be a "red line".
Israel's deputy foreign minister urged U.S. action in Syria - a call slapped down by more senior figures.
Israel's ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, said it was not making any policy recommendations to Obama on Syria.
"We think this issue is very complex," he told Reuters.
Several officials said Israel would be unlikely to attack Syria unilaterally unless it had evidence that chemical weapons had been handed over to Hezbollah.
Lacking enough of the specialized ground troops that would be needed for a search-and-destroy sweep of chemical weapons, Israel would probably have to rely on aerial bombing.
The Netanyhau government might even acquiesce if the rebels acquire the chemical weapons, on the assumption that the insurgents were mainstream Syrians keen to rebuild their country and loath to invite catastrophic war with Israel.
"If the jihadis get the chemical weapons, that's very bad, but there's still the hope that these people lack the hard-core military wherewithal, and required technical support in Syria, that would be required to use them," one Israeli official said.
Indeed, Israeli planners are debating to what extent the radical Sunni Islamists fighting Assad could eventually constitute a direct threat to Israel.
The chief military spokesman, Brigadier-General Yoav Mordechai, sounded the alarm last month by saying the "Global Jihad" - meaning al Qaeda and its affiliates - wielded the most clout on the Syrian-held side of the Golan Heights.
Other Israeli authorities are more optimistic. The Mossad intelligence agency estimates that Syria's entrenched secularism will dilute enmity to Israel, according to one official.
"The Islamists there aren't all Salafists, and the Salafists aren't all al Qaeda, by any means," the official said.
"We may not make peace, but I think we might find some kind of dialogue, if only for the sake of mutual deterrence."
Israel has given no indication that it already has contacts with Syria's opposition. But it has coordinated closely on security with Jordan, a supporter of some rebel factions.
Back in Judge Yaakov's courtroom, the fate of Massarwa, who faces a maximum of 15 years in jail if convicted, rests on whether the state can prove there is danger to Israel from the Free Syrian Army unit he stayed with for a week in March.
Massarwa's lawyer, Helal Jaber, hopes the logic of "my enemy's enemy is my friend" will win clemency for his client, who went to Syria via Turkey in search of a missing brother who had separately joined the rebels.
"The greatest democracies in the world, including the United States, are supporting the opposition to Assad," Jaber said. "So how can Israel fault someone for doing the same?"
(Additional reporting by Warren Strobel in Washington and Crispian Balmer in Jerusalem; Editing by Angus MacSwan)


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I went back to Greybeard because other than remembering that it is about a future Earth where humans are infertile, I had no memory of its incidents or characters, only a vague recollection of the book's tone and affect, which I remembered as being like a soft, pastoral requiem -- immensely lyrical, unbearably and unrelievedly sad.
That is somewhat accurate -- it is a sad book, indeed -- but it's not as lushly lyrical as I remembered, not as devoid of incident, not as rich, and not as bleak. Worst of all, I remembered a tragic ending, which is inaccurate. The ending is not one that is full of hope or affirmation, but it's hardly King Lear. (Would I have preferred it to be more tragic? No. More elegiacal, perhaps.)
Though there were disappointments for me in rereading Greybeard there were also rewards. It is a story of apocalypse, but the handling of the story is particularly thoughtful in some rare ways. Where Children of Men takes place while there are still relatively young people around, the central action of Greybeard happens fifty years after the nuclear explosions in space that irradiated the planet and caused mass infertility. Thus, everyone is old. The title character's nickname is somewhat amusing, then, because he's one of the youngest people around, being only in his fifties, and he and his wife, Martha, don't really remember what life in a world with children is like. As Aldiss's characters inch toward not only their own extinction, but the extinction of their species, he lets the novel rise toward metaphysical concerns, and does so, usually, with a light, deft, and complex touch:
"Perhaps that's our bit of consolation or whatever -- each other. Martha, have you ever thought..." He paused, and then went on, screwing his face into a frown of concentration. "Have you ever thought that that ghastly catastrophe of fifty years ago was, well, was lucky for us? I know it sounds blasphemous; but mightn't it be that we've led more interesting lives than the perhaps rather pointless existence we would otherwise have been brought up to accept as life? We can see now that the values of the twentieth century were invalid; otherwise they wouldn't have wrecked the world. Don't you think the Accident has made us more appreciative of the vital things, like life itself, and like each other?"Aldiss lets the novel be, among other things, a meditation on the attractions of catastrophe in narrative. This dialogue is only the most explicit expression of an idea that lingers through the entire book -- a questioning of the meaning-giving power of apocalypse. Various characters respond to the situations of their lives in different ways, from the knowing perpetuation of faith-based fraud to stoic pragmatism to nature mysticism to flat-out insanity, and Aldiss doesn't really privilege any of it too much. Nor does he fetishize disaster as so many of the other writers of his time did -- Greybeard could be seen in some ways as a response to all the stories and books that tried to find transcendent meaning in the end of the world. Within the world of Greybeard, meaning does not flow from The Accident, but desire inscribes meanings onto it, and survival requires all the characters to read the inscriptions and make of them what they will.
"No," Martha said steadily. "No, I don't. We would have had children and grandchildren by now, but for the Accident, and nothing can ever make up for that."
My memory of the novel was that it was incredibly slow, with hardly any events, and though that isn't at all true, nonetheless, for a book about human extinction, remarkably little actually happens, and few things conclude. There are no maudlin scenes of prolonged death and misery. Though humans are shown to have become more openly brutal and sometimes insanely violent, most of this is done through indirect means, through recollection and suggestion, rather than straightforward depiction. What makes the apocalypse of Greybeard so affecting is how understated is the horror of it all, as if Aldiss had started out writing a pleasant little novel of ordinary people in the British countryside and ended up getting side-tracked by the end of civilization and the slow death of humanity.
The presentation of time and memory is one of the strengths of Greybeard (though I can't help but wish that Aldiss had played around a bit more with the characters' memories, their desires to remember, their inability to, their confusions of memory). The chapters alternate, with odd-numbered chapters telling the story of Greybeard and Martha as they trek down the Thames for reasons that they're never entirely clear about; and even-numbered chapters each moving farther and farther into Greybeard's past, until the last presents some moments of his childhood. The best writing in the book is generally in the river chapters, because here the focus is tightest, and Aldiss admirably holds back from cramming in a bunch of action sequences or cliff-hangers or incidents of planetary consequence -- he trusts his story, his characters, and his audience enough to allow the chapters to serve mostly to show us how it feels to live in this nearly-familiar, immensely strange world. The even-numbered chapters are generally less satisfying because they are more crammed with incident, seemingly trying to justify their presence more, but their effect remains powerful, because each time we return to the river, we have gained, as readers, memories that Greybeard and the other characters take for granted. There is both pleasure and power in moving back deeper and deeper into the past, closer and closer to The Accident, while at the same time moving forward, slowly, toward inevitable death.
Though Greybeard still reads well, it does show signs of its age (beyond locating The Accident in the early 1980s). The relations between the male and female characters are all embarrassingly patriarchal -- Martha's character has some spunk, but she is nonetheless clearly more Greybeard's Wife than her own self, and all of the characters with any authority in the book are men; the women are, basically, decorations, slaves, and whores -- and, left so unquestioned throughout the book, this all seems to be not for any reasons of the particular society the characters are a part of, but rather because such a structure is inherent in Nature. The presentation of The Accident, too, is unsatisfying (though less annoying than the sexism) because it is so carefully explained, so unambiguous that all its potential metaphorical or metonymical power is stripped away and it just sits there, a big, lunky, distracting, awkward bit of background detail, a Thing that could have been, instead, an evocation.
Greybeard seems to have been out of print in the U.S. for a long time, which is a shame, because despite its flaws, it remains a rewarding read and a book that other writers could learn a lot from. Aldiss has had a long and varied career, and I wish more of his books were readily available in the U.S. (Just as I picked up my old copy of Greybeard to reread, I received an advanced copy of Aldiss's new novel, HARM, which is being published over here by Del Rey, so I'm glad to see that Aldiss not only continues to write, but that he still has access to U.S. publishers.)
*I don't really have anything to say about the film beyond what's already been said, but I liked it, was impressed by many elements of it, and though immediately afterward I felt like it was a bit less meaty than it needed to be, its details remained vivid in my memory, a few scenes continued to haunt me, and the overall skill of the filmmaking kept me thinking about the whole in a way I haven't thought about very many other movies recently.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 2, 2005) - The Buccaneer women's tennis team defeated the Catamounts with a sweep of all seven points on Saturday afternoon on the courts in the Memorial Center. East Tennessee State improves to 15-5 overall, 5-1 in the SoCon, while Western Carolina falls to 4-11, 0-6.
In doubles, Olya Batsula (Minsk, Belarus) and Gemma Halim (Jakarta, Indonesia) won the first match at No. 3 against April Yount and Susanna Sjokvist by a score of 8-0. Masha Ilina (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Sylwia Ziolkowska (Warsaw, Poland) then picked up the point for ETSU with an 8-4 win over Trish Hanson and Katherine Ptak at No. 1. Sandie Knight (Adamstown, Australia) and Elena Volobueva (Barcelona, Spain) rounded out doubles action for the Bucs at No. 2 with a win over Kristin Cotton and Ashley Harris, 8-0.
In singles action, the Bucs took all six points in straight sets. The deciding point of the match was brought in by freshman Batsula, who defeated Harris at the fourth slot in a 6-1, 6-0 decision.
"Western Carolina is always fun to play," stated Head Coach Steve Brooks. "We really like their coach and players because they are always fun and friendly to play against."
ETSU continues weekend tennis action as they host SoCon opponent UT Chattanooga on tomorrow, April 3 at noon.
East Tennessee State 7, Western Carolina 0
1. Ilina/Ziolkowska (ETSU) d. Hanson/Ptak (WCU) 8-4
2. Volobueva/Knight (ETSU) d. Cotton/Harris (WCU) 8-4
3. Batsula/Halim (ETSU) d. Yount/Sjokvist (WCU) 8-0
Order of Finish: 3, 1, 2
1. Sandie Knight (ETSU) d. Trish Hanson (WCU) 6-0, 6-4
2. Masha Ilina (ETSU) d. Katherine Ptak (WCU) 6-1, 6-0
3. Sylwia Ziolkowska (ETSU) d. Kristin Cotton (WCU) 6-0, 6-2
4. Olya Batsula (ETSU) d. Ashley Harris (WCU) 6-1, 6-0
5. Elena Volobueva (ETSU) d. Susanna Sjokvist (WCU) 6-1, 6-3
6. Gemma Halim (ETSU) d. April Yount (WCU) 6-1, 6-0
Order of Finish: 6, 2, 4*, 3, 5, 1
* - Clinching point


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A catholic monastery devoted to the teachings of St. Benedict
(1) We began the new month by celebrating the
Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. Father Prior Kurt presided at
our Eucharist on this O.P.-ranked feast, and Fr. Pius
+++ The second week of the "One Bread, One Cup" program
concluded at noon.
+++ And the last of our graduating class of deacons was
ordained to the priesthood today. Congratulations to Fr. Jorge
Gomez of the Diocese of Tulsa! (Actually, one more graduate is
still to be ordained: the ordination date of Brother Mauritius
Honegger, OSB, a monk of our mother abbey Einsiedeln, who studied
in our seminary this past year, has yet to be announced.)
(2) Today was the first full day of the annual
conference of the North American Association of Benedictine Oblate
Directors (NAABOD). Fr. Meinrad, our own oblate director, has
organized and is overseeing the conference, which involves 84
participants. The conference runs through June 6.
(3) Our return to Sunday liturgical "Ordinary
Time"-today is the Fourteenth Sunday-is late this year, as Easter
occurred about as late in April as it possibly could, pushing the
post-Pentecost solemnities well into June. Fr. Harry, our Mass heb,
presided and preached this morning.
+++ Although not celebrated on this Sunday by the
Universal Church, we do recognize that it is Fr. Thomas' feast day.
We send our greetings and best wishes across the waves to Belgium,
where Father has just concluded a year of studies at the seminary
at Leuven. As things have developed, the American seminary at
Leuven is closing this year. Fr. Thomas will continue his studies
in Leuven, but he will be moving into a new residence. We pray for
an uncomplicated transition.
(4) We had a regular "weekday schedule" for
Independence Day, although the monastic community did enjoy some
extra company for supper. We gathered with the participants of the
NAABOD conference in the Newman Dining Room for the evening
(5) Fr. Harry preached at this morning's
+++ The last full day of the NAABOD conference featured
several "on the hill tour options": Brother Flavian's wood-burning
shop, Brother Kim's weaving shop, and Brother Martin's pottery shop
and Art Studio.
(6) The oblate directors joined the monastic
community in the Archabbey Church at 7:30 for Mass, and then a
"planning team meeting" for some officially concluded this year's
conference. Kudos to Fr. Meinrad and his staff for a well-run
conference! Blessings upon our directors, and upon all our
(7) "Can you see what I see?" Lo and behold, a
giant crane ascended the hill and came to rest near the kitchen
driveway at 6:30 this morning. Fortunately for some, disappointing
to others, this crane is very much of the mechanical, and not
aviary, species. Throughout the morning, its crews carefully
unloaded a 20-foot, 64,000-pound generator, which is being
installed on a custom-built concrete pad just north of the Power
House. Watching its installation was "the thing to do" this
morning, and many did from the calefactory, rock garden and health
services entrance.
(8) We celebrated the feast day of Fr. Eugene's
patronal saint today. Ad multos annos, Fr.
+++ Fr. Prior Kurt has been appointed to serve also as the
monastery's Master of Ceremonies I. He moves into this position as
Br. Matthew prepares to depart for graduate school later this
summer. Br. Elijah, one of our junior monks, has been serving as
Master of Ceremonies II; he will continue in that position.
(9) Many of our alumni, priests and lay degree
students alike, are familiar with the pioneering work in the field
of adult baptism and the (in 1972) new Rite of Christian Initiation
of Adults by Saint Meinrad monk Fr. Aidan Kavanagh. Fr. Aidan spent
only a little time teaching in our seminary here; the greater part
of his professional career was devoted to teaching at the
University of Notre Dame and, especially, the Yale Divinity School.
We were reminded of both person and performance in the monastery
yesterday evening, as our daily reading of our monastic necrology
reminded us that today is the fifth anniversary of his death. It's
an occasion to thank God for the blessings he bestowed upon Fr.
Aidan, and also to keep in grateful prayer all those who have
taught and guided us in the ways and means of the Christian
(10) The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Fr.
Vincent, our Mass heb, presided and preached at our 9:30 a.m.
+++ Father Archabbot Justin presided and preached at
the "One Bread, One Cup" concluding Eucharist for this
summer's last session with the high school participants.
+++ Father Archabbot Lambert is home for a brief visit.
Today he presided and preached in Jasper at a Eucharist
commemorating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Memorial
Health Care Center.
(11) This eleventh of July is celebrated by the
Universal Church as the Feast of St. Benedict. We celebrate that
solemnity on March 21, and so today we celebrate the Feast of All
Benedictine Saints, ranked an O.P. Father Prior Kurt presided and
preached at our usual 7:30 a.m. weekday schedule
+++ Today is the first full day of a homiletics week for
12 permanent deacon candidates of the Diocese of New Ulm, MN. The
program runs through July 16; our own Dr. Rick Stern and alumnus
Fr. David Scotchie (T'93) are conducting the workshop.
(12) We welcome seven men, six of whom are
priests, who are engaging in a "Stoking the Fire" mini-sabbatical
sponsored by our Institute for Priests and Presbyterates here
through August 7. Three of the men are alumni: Mark DeSutter (C'78,
T '82), Dr. Patrick Murphy (T'88) and Fr. Bill Bowling (T'97).
(13) Thirty-seven participants are taking part
in the annual conference of the Monastic Worship Forum, which began
yesterday and continues through Saturday morning. The theme is,
"Ancient Wine in New Wineskins: Celebrating Eucharist with
Twenty-First Century Documents." Presenters include Sr. Julia
Upton, RSM, and Dr. Paul Ford.
+++ Today is the patronal feast day of Br. Silas,
who returned to the house just last week after working for a year
in Louisville. Happy feast day, Br. Silas.
(14) Br. Martin concluded his three-day midweek
retreat, "Beauty as a Pathway to God: Religious Art and Symbol in
the Spiritual Life, Part 2," to 29 participants at our Guest House
and Retreat Center.
+++ Fr. Donald continues to grow weaker and so, at the
recommendation of our nursing staff, we began our customary vigil
for-and with-him. Confreres have signed up to be at his bedside
throughout the day and night hours.
(15) Thirty-five guests from St. Martin de
Porres Parish, Memphis, Tennessee, are at our Guest House and
Retreat Center, enjoying a several-day retreat.
+++ Our vigil with and for Father Donald continues. As it
so happens, today is Fr. Donald's patronal feast day, a celebration
he shares with Fr. Archabbot Bonaventure. We wish both our brothers
God's peace and strength!
(16) The Solemnity of Our Lady of Einsiedeln,
the patroness of our Archabbey Church. An O.A., with Father Abbot
presiding at both the Eucharist and I and II Vespers. This was also
the closing day of the Monastic Worship Forum, and so Fr. Godfrey,
executive secretary of that group, offered the homily.
(17) Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Father
Sean is our Office and Mass heb.
+++ Fr. Eugene concluded offering a weekend retreat,
"Reflections on the Richness of Old Testament Biblical
Wisdom," to 19 participants at our Guest House and Retreat
+++ Father Prior Kurt is away from the hill for about a
week, and so he will rely on the notes taken by Archabbot
Bonaventure to catch up on events when he returns.
(18) First full day of this year's Alumni
Reunion-a turnout of about 170 and so the hill is comfortably
crowded. Fr. Archabbot Justin and Fr. Vincent gave presentations
(19) The Most Reverend William Medley, alumnus
and bishop of Owensboro, presided and preached at the Alumni Mass
this afternoon. At the evening banquet, Abbot Gerald Benkert, OSB,
of Marmion Abbey, became the 19th alumnus to receive the
Distinguished Alumni Award.
(20) Archabbot Bonaventure went to the doctor's
office for a regular checkup this afternoon. He ended up with a
pacemaker and a hospital bed for the night! Reports are that he's
doing just fine.
(21) Archabbot Bonaventure is back with us, in
good health and spirits!
+++ Today we celebrate the feast day of our confrere, the
Most Reverend Daniel Buechlein, archbishop of our Archdiocese of
Indianapolis. God's blessings upon him and his ministry.
(22) Dave Maloney has concluded offering "A
Step II Retreat for Recovering Alcoholics and Alanons" to 32
participants at our Guest House and Retreat Center.
(23) Weekend courses are in full swing as are
also, unfortunately, the continuing sizzling temperatures and soggy
+++ Fr. Vincent is giving the weekend retreat, "Of Signs
and Symbols: The Sacraments of the Church," to 10 participants at
our Guest House and Retreat Center.
+++ We celebrate the feast day of another expositus today:
Fr. Prior Cassian, who serves the community of monks at San
Benedetto Priory in Norcia, Italy-the birthplace of SS. Benedict
and Scholastica. May God continue to bless and guide Prior Cassian
and his community.
(24) Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, and
Fr. Christian is our Office and Mass heb. Father is home for a few
weeks this summer from The Catholic University of America
(Washington, D.C.), where he is pursuing a doctorate in systematic
(25) After Midday Prayer, we invested Deborah
Apoldo of Harrod's Creek, Kentucky, as an oblate novice.
Congratulations and a promise of prayers!
(26) After Midday Prayer, we received the
oblation of Ann Smith of Grahanna, Ohio, and David Annable of
Monroe, Ohio. Congratulations to them, and our continued prayers
for all of our oblates!
+++ Father Prior Kurt returned to the hill last night, and
so resumes authorship of "About the House."
(27) And Father Prior Kurt returned just in
time for his feast day. He eagerly endorsed the house custom of
requesting a favorite menu for supper and so, for the second year
in a row, it was meatloaf with all the trimmin's.
(28) Our Institute for Priests and
Presbyterates (IPP) has been sponsoring a "Stoking the Fire"
sabbatical program this summer. This evening, five of the
participants, along with Fr. Ron Knott, director of IPP, joined the
monastic community for supper in the refectory.
(29) On this feast of SS. Mary, Martha and
Lazarus, Fr. Christian preached on this "Second Holy Family" at
this morning's Conventual Mass.
+++ Fr. Augustine was taken to Jasper Hospital around
eight this morning; he had fallen by his bed and required some
assistance to get up. The doctors think he has suffered a minor
stroke; they are keeping him in the hospital at least overnight for
(30) As the tongue-in-cheek account of the
people in the drought-stricken land has it, "a few drops of rain
fell from the sky, landed on someone, and it took two buckets of
sand to bring him to consciousness again." It was just a few drops
of rain this afternoon, the first we've had in quite a
+++ Fr. Augustine remains in the hospital at Jasper, alert
and talkative, and getting ready for some more tests throughout the
(31) This last day of the month and the 18th
Sunday in Ordinary Time was a day of jubilee celebrations on the
Hill. We honored six confreres: Fr. Cyprian, celebrating 60 years
of monastic profession; Br. Dominic, Fr. Warren and Br. Mario,
celebrating 50 years; and Fr. David and Fr. Edward, celebrating 25
years. Father Abbot Justin presided and preached at our ten o'clock
Eucharist. The guests of the jubilarians joined the monastic
community for both lunch and dinner in the Newman Dining Room. To
our jubilarians: ad multos annos, and our thanks for your
years of faithful witness and service.
We end our month's entries with a quote from the Rule of St.
But as we progress in the monastic life and in faith, our hearts
will swell with the unspeakable sweetness of love, enabling us to
race along the way of God's commandments. Then we will never depart
from his teaching and we will persevere in his doctrine in the
monastery until death. Likewise, we will participate in the passion
of Christ through patience so as to deserve to be companions in his
kingdom. Amen.
Prologue, vv. 49-50
Translation by Fr. Terence Kardong, OSB, monk of Assumption
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While the origins of LTE go back to the early 1990s, the technology is not standing still. Ericsson's LTE research and development team is working constantly to improve the technology further, based on leading-edge work in the lab as well as input from live networks around the world.
Ericsson has a long history of mobile technology innovation. With more than 27,000 patents to our name, Ericsson is the largest holder of standard-essential patents for mobile communication across 2G, 3G and 4G technologies. The company is a net receiver of licensing royalties and has more than 90 patent-licensing agreements in place.
Our highly active R&D program means we are continuing this leading position in patents into LTE, in which Ericsson holds around one-quarter of all standard-essential Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) – making us the largest single holder of essential patents for the technology.
Ericsson has been at the forefront of standardization efforts for LTE. An analysis of 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) meetings reveals that Ericsson has influenced the released LTE specification more than any other company.
Our influence in the standardization process goes hand-in-hand with a highly active R&D program, which benefits from early participation in standardization groups. In addition, Ericsson interacts regularly with our customers to ensure efforts are being made in the right places.
This works in two ways. First, we hold regular workshops with senior technology representatives from our customers to ensure we understand what they are looking for. Second, we put some of our best R&D engineers – and maintenance and support engineers – to work alongside customers on long-term secondment to get hands-on experience and understanding of live commercial network environments.
These R&D engineers are looking at areas such as traffic and signaling load patterns, developing models and feedback methodologies for network testing and optimization. Another key area is the way user behavior is changing, with the adoption of new smartphones and other devices, and the effect this is having on networks.
Our aim is to complement high-quality lab-based work with real-life fieldwork to arrive at the smartest possible solution. We believe this kind of teamwork is vital not only to gain a deep technical understanding of LTE networks, but also of how different customers use features in different ways.
Getting this end-to-end and top-to-bottom view of how LTE works in the field – and continuously feeding this information back into the design, implementation and testing process – has helped create the best-performing and most stable LTE platforms on the market.


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The big "Star Wars" weekend got started Friday night with Dave Filoni's announcement that the final episodes of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" will be released in 2014.
Following the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, its new owners canceled "Clone Wars" following its Season 5 finale, despite Lucasfilm having already begun work on a sixth season but weren't abel to complete the episodes until now.
Filoni, supervising director of "The Clone Wars," posted a message on his Facebook page Friday telling fans they will get to see a final season.
"Star Wars fans--I have some exciting news! We have wrapped production on all of the remaining Star Wars: The Clone Wars episodes, and while that might be sad news in one way, it's good news in another. It means you will finally get to see them. When, exactly, is a detail I cannot yet share. I can confirm that in early 2014 you will be watching the final episodes of The Clone Wars, including one of Master Yoda's most challenging missions. So, get ready. We've got Clone Wars and Rebels coming at you in 2014. Animated Star Wars is alive and well. Trust in the Force my friends."
Although he did not say how many episode have been made, some outlets are reporting the season will be comprised of 22 episodes. Filoni has said there are "several episodes of 'Clone Wars' the fans have yet to see."
"I've finalized the remaining episodes and I think they will really please the diehard 'Clone Wars' fans, especially the story arc with Master Yoda--that one is critical to the bigger picture," told the L.A. Times' Hero Complex.
It's also unclear where the new "Clone Wars" will air--Disney XD, iTunes or another platform. That announcement may be forthcoming this weekend during New York Comic-Con, Announcements are planned for the upcoming new animated series "Star Wars Rebels." Maybe another "Clone Wars" announcement is in the offing, too.Want more? Discuss this article and others on Show Patrol's Facebook page.


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Kennedy frustrates Cardinals in 6-2 loss
Apr. 02, 2013
PHOENIX (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals have had a lot of success against Ian Kennedy. Not on this night, though.
The Cardinals struggled at the plate against the Arizona right-hander Monday, dropping a 6-2 opening night decision to the Diamondbacks.
Going into the game, Kennedy was 1-3 with an 8.59 ERA against St. Louis. This time, he gave up two runs on five hits in seven innings, striking out seven and walking one.
"The guys had trouble picking him up today," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "He controlled the counts. They all did the little things right, right from the start, the first pitch."
The Diamondbacks outhit St. Louis 15-5, including seven doubles.
Adam Wainwright, with a rich new contract he signed last week, took a line drive off his glove in the third inning, deflecting it off his shoulder.
Second baseman Daniel Descalso thought the ball hit Wainwright's shoulder first.
"But that speaks to his toughness," Descalso said. "Not everybody can take a line drive off him and keep going like he did."
Wainwright nursed a 1-0 lead into the fourth, when Arizona scored three times.
"The fourth inning was weird because I was driving the ball real well early on, but the fourth inning I just didn't drive it anymore and they made good swings," Wainwright said. "A couple of good swings on their part and a couple of well-placed fly balls with that huge outfield, there is nothing you can do about it. That is why you have to keep the ball on the ground."
The Diamondbacks' remodeled offense played the way it's designed to play — no home runs but lots of base hits.
"The team was in synch tonight," manager Kirk Gibson said. "Everybody picked everybody up."
Kennedy, Gibson said, "had everything working, the fastball pumped up to 94 (mph). That's kind of the old Ian we saw a couple of years ago."
Arizona's Gerardo Parra, batting leadoff, matched his career best with four hits, three of them doubles. Rookie A.J. Pollock was 3 for 4, including a two-run double, and Martin Prado doubled twice with an RBI and two runs scored for the Diamondbacks.
"I'm happy because it's a good team," Parra said. "Maybe we don't have a lot of power, but we have a lot of fast guys, a lot of contact guys."
Matt Holliday had an RBI double and Descalso a run-scoring single for St. Louis.
The Diamondbacks' seven doubles were more than they had in any game in the last two seasons.
Kennedy, 15-12 last year after going 21-4 in 2011, dominated after giving up consecutive one-out doubles to Matt Carpenter and Holliday to put St. Louis up 1-0 in the first.
David Hernandez threw a perfect eighth and Brad Ziegler did the same in the ninth for the Diamondbacks.
After one-out singles by Miguel Montero and Paul Goldschmidt in the fourth, Jason Kubel lofted an RBI double to right-center to tie it at 1. Pollock, starting because of injuries to Adam Eaton and Cody Ross, lined a double off the glove of center fielder Jon Jay to bring in two and Arizona led 3-1.
The Diamondbacks added an unearned run on Descalso's throwing error in the fifth. Prado, acquired from Atlanta in the Justin Upton trade, doubled to deep right-center, then Aaron Hill hit a slow grounder to second. Descalso threw in the dirt trying to throw to first and the ball bounced off the glove of first baseman Allen Craig as Prado raced home to make it 4-1.
Arizona got two more in the seventh. With Fernando Salas on the mound, Parra and Prado doubled, then Hill singled. Marc Rzepczynski relieved Salas and gave up an RBI sacrifice fly to Montero.
Matheny said Wainwright "was pretty good" despite the results.
"He had a lot of life on his fastball, and he established that early," Matheny said. "They put some tough at-bats against him. Real good pitches he made once he got his curveball going, and they were just fouling them off."
Notes: Kennedy was the winning pitcher when Arizona beat San Francisco in its season opener a year ago. ... Former Diamondbacks ace Brandon Webb, whose career was cut short by arm trouble, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. ... Wainwright made his second career opening day start. ... The Cardinals send left-hander Jaime Garcia to the mound Tuesday night while the Diamondbacks go with right-hander Trevor Cahill. ... The only other Arizona rookie with three hits on opening day was Travis Lee, who did it in the Diamondbacks' first game in 1998. ... Attendance was a sellout of 48,033.


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UK phone-hacking scandal claims 3rd senior police figure; London deputy mayor quizzed on role
LONDON (AP) ' Scotland Yard's communications chief resigned Thursday, the third senior police figure to part with his job over the force's failure to come to grips with Britain's phone hacking scandal.
Dick Fedorcio stepped down after the force decided he would face disciplinary proceedings over a contract awarded to a former executive at Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid. The Independent Police Complaints Commission ruled that Fedorcio had to answer questions over the decision to hire Neil Wallis, the former News of the World executive later arrested on suspicion of breaking into voicemails.
The links between senior members of the News of the World and Scotland Yard have come under particularly close scrutiny because both organizations insisted for years that there was no evidence of widespread phone hacking at the tabloid.
Those assurances fell apart after it emerged that journalists at the paper routinely broke into the phones of celebrities and other public figures to score scoops or get leverage. Three parallel police inquiries, a cascade of lawsuits, and a judge-led inquiry have since lifted the lid on a host of illegal practices, from large-scale bribery to computer hacking.
The scandal's fallout has shaken Britain's establishment. The News of the World has been shut, the country's press watchdog has been scrapped, and dozens of journalists, executives, and public officials have either resigned, been suspended or been arrested over their role in the scandal.
Among them are former Scotland Yard chief Paul Stephenson and ex-Assistant Commissioner John Yates, both of whom resigned in July. Fedorcio's decision was announced Thursday, but he'd been on extended leave since August.
Politicians also have been drawn into the scandal. Kit Malthouse, London's deputy mayor for policing and crime, was asked why he had challenged police about the resources they were pouring into the phone hacking investigation.
Malthouse, called before the judge-led inquiry on Thursday, defended his skepticism, saying that the phone hacking investigation is projected to draw in some 200 people by 2013.
"That's the equivalent of eight murder squads," he said.


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Two Leavenworth eating establishments were transformed back to the 1950s Sunday for scenes for an independent movie.
Two Leavenworth eating establishments were transformed back to the 1950s Sunday for scenes for an independent movie.
The Corner Pharmacy lunch counter and Homer's Drive In were used for scenes for the film "Jayhawkers," which is about the recruitment of Wilt Chamberlain to play basketball for the University of Kansas.
Most of the movie has been shot in Lawrence. But the two Leavenworth locations were chosen because they "have really great '50s architecture," said director Kevin Willmott.
Willmott, who teaches at the KU film school, said about 20 crew members and 15 cast members were on hand for the shooting of the scenes in Leavenworth.
"I'm going to be an extra," said Ron Booth, who owns The Corner Pharmacy.
Members of the public had been invited to show up at the two shooting locations to be extras in the movie.
KU junior Justin Wesley, who plays basketball at the university, is portraying Wilt Chamberlain in the movie.
Booth said the film crew had to remove signs and other items at the his business' lunch counter because they didn't fit in with the period of the 1950s or have trademark material that couldn't be used in the movie.
Willmott said shooting on the film is almost finished. He hopes to have the film completed by the first of the year. He said officials with the movie will try to enter it into major film festivals.


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Films about people with disabilities used to be about as rare as political harmony in Washington. That's changing. Case in point, the Boston Jewish Film Festival (BJFF) is presenting the 2nd annual ReelAbilities Boston Disabilities Film Festival from Jan. 31 to Feb. 5. The festival showcases films about the lives of people with different disabilities from a variety of communities.
Films about people with disabilities used to be about as rare as political harmony in Washington. That's changing. Case in point, the Boston Jewish Film Festival (BJFF) is presenting the 2nd annual ReelAbilities Boston Disabilities Film Festival from Jan. 31 to Feb. 5. The festival showcases films about the lives of people with different disabilities from a variety of communities.
"With the popularity of American television shows like 'Glee' and contemporary commercial movies like 'Silver Linings Playbook' and 'The Sessions,' there's a growing cultural awareness about people in the United States with mental and physical disabilities. Through ReelAbilities, we aim to extend that awareness through a global lens," says Amy Geller, artistic director of the Newton-based BJFF.
The series of nine films, from Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Mozambique, Spain and the United States, represents a slice of how cultures experience and deal with disabilities.
"These particular stories highlight mental and physical disabilities through intimate character-driven narratives," says Geller. "While the films do touch on the differences between people with and without disabilities, they focus more on the commonalities among all people. Like Daniel, a recent Spanish college graduate with Down syndrome who falls for his co-worker in 'Me, Too,' we all want to find love. Like 25-year-old Vasco, a Mozambican who cannot walk, but strives to set up a successful business as a shoe salesman in 'Body and Soul,' we all have ambitions."
The festival's slate of films comes from ReelAbilities New York, a film festival launched in 2007. From about 40 films, Geller and a screening committee whittle the number down. "We choose films that we think will work for our audiences in this community," says Geller. "Then we talk to a variety of venue partners who serve specific disability populations and ask them if they want to collaborate with us. Part of that potential collaboration is to actually have an event at their particular venue. They have access to audiences who otherwise wouldn't know about this program." This year, that collaboration is expanding.
This year, the festival is collaborating with the Cardinal Cushing Centers in Hanover, Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Newton and Scibelli Enterprise Center in Springfield.
"Not all the films have Jewish content, but we felt that given the healing-of-the-world mission that we have, we wanted to participate," says Geller. "It also gives us an opportunity to reach out to new audiences that don't necessarily come to the Boston Jewish Film Festival in November.
This year marks Geller's first at the helm of the ReelAbilities festival, having assumed the role of BJFF artistic director in April. "I heard that the first festival was enormously successful, that it brought out a really interesting community and created a lot of interesting discussion," she says. "There was the demand to do it again."
Geller says she "was completely struck by the quality of the filmmaking."
The festival kicks off with the Australian claymation film "Mary and Max" at 7 p.m. on Jan. 31 at the West Newton Cinema, 1296 Washington St., West Newton. The animated film is about a lonely 8-year-old outcast (voice by Toni Collette) living near Melbourne, who becomes pen pals with an eccentric, but caring Max Horovitz (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), a 44-year-old Jewish New Yorker with Asperger syndrome.
Other festival films are:
n "The Straight Line," a French sports drama about a blind runner, who trains with a former athlete with a criminal past. It screens at 7 p.m. on Feb. 2 at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), 465 Huntington Ave., Boston.
n "Body and Soul" – a documentary following three young Mozambicans with physical disabilities. It screens at noon on Feb. 3 at the MFA.
n "Me, Too" – a Spanish drama is about a recent college grad with Down syndrome and his bond with his lively workmate. It screens Feb. 3 at 2:15 p.m. at the MFA and Feb. 4 at 3 and 7 p.m. at Cardinal Cushing Centers, 405 Washington St., Hanover.
n "Mabul" – An award-winning Israeli film in which Yoni studies his bar mitzvah portion about the story of Noah's Ark amidst a troubled family. Life gets very complicated when older brother Tomer, who is severely autistic, returns home. It screens at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 4 at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, 333 Nahanton St., Newton.
n "Princess" – Cheerful, delusional Anna lives in a Finnish psychiatric hospital believing she is an English royal. Can she escape a dangerous lobotomy, a cutting-edge psychiatric treatment in the mid-20th century, the period in which the film is set? It screens at 7 p.m. on Feb. 5 at the West Newton Cinema.
n Shorts program – features three short films, "Anything You Can Do" about two youths – one wheelchair bound – in competition with each other; "Aphasia," a comical docudrama about actor Carl McIntyre, who suffers a stroke; and "I Don't Want to Go Back Alone," about a teen boy, who is blind, with complicated male/female relationships. The films screen at 6 p.m. on Feb. 4 at the Scibelli Enterprise Center, 1 Federal St., Building 101, Springfield.
All films are open captioned. "The Straight Line" is audio described.
Speakers and panel discussions will broaden themes raised by the films. Josh Crary, who authors the Boston Blind Runner blog and will run the Boston Marathon for the second time in April, will speak after "The Straight Line." A couple with Asperger syndrome will talk about their experiences at "Mary and Max." Jeanne Marie Penvenne, a social and labor historian of colonial Mozambique and history professor at Tufts University, will introduce "Body and Soul." Social worker and local therapist Goldie Eder will moderate a panel about the portrayal of mentally ill characters in contemporary film after "Princess."
Tickets are $10 general admission for "Mary and Max," "The Straight Line" and "Princess." "Body and Soul" and "Me, Too" at the MFA are $4. Complimentary tickets are available for individuals with disabilities. Films at the Cardinal Cushing Centers, Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center and Scibelli Enterprise Center are free.
The festival is presented in partnership with The Boston Foundation, The Butler Foundation, The Ruderman Family Foundation, the Cambridge Trust Co., Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and NLM Family Foundation.
To purchase tickets, visit boston.reelabilities.org/films. For more information, visit www.bjff.org.


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DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler made the new Dodge Dart a little too European for American tastes.
And the company's CEO says that fact is holding back sales of Chrysler's first innovative small car in years.
The Dart, unveiled with much fanfare at last year's Detroit auto show, is off to a slow start after going on sale in May. Only 25,000 were sold last year, which CEO Sergio Marchionne concedes is below his expectations.
Chrysler, owned by Italy's Fiat, had touted the sleek compact as the perfect blend of aggressive American styling and Italian technology. It was supposed to be Chrysler's first competitive compact since the Dodge Neon came out in the 1990s.
But on Monday at this year's Detroit show, Marchionne said the company made the mistake of rolling out the Dart with transmissions and engine combinations that were ill-suited for American drivers. The car initially went on the market with only a manual transmission, which accounts for less than 5 percent of U.S. sales. Then Chrysler offered two six-speed automatic transmissions, one that shifts like cars in Europe, and the other paired with an engine too weak to make the Dart accelerate quickly.
Marchionne said the European transmission shifts more often and accelerates more slowly than Americans are used to.
"It's a great fuel mileage solution, but it's got to meet consumer expectations, and were not quite there," Marchionne said. "If it's a mismatch to consumer expectations, you're going to pay the price, and we have."
The solution, he says, is a nine-speed automatic transmission. The added gears will help the car accelerate faster and give it great mileage. Chrysler is developing such a transmission in America that will first appear in a revamped Jeep Liberty small SUV later this year. The Liberty is to be unveiled at the New York Auto Show in March.
Jake Fisher, Consumer Reports' director of automotive testing, said Darts with a 2-liter four-cylinder engine, and a conventional automatic transmission, are too slow. The European automatic behaves more like a manual transmission and isn't to the liking of Americans, he said.
"I think in Europe they kind of forgive it," said Fisher, who added that the transmission shifts like "someone who's not driving a manual transmission very well."
He praised Marchionne for realizing the car's shortcomings and quickly addressing them.
Chrysler never revealed sales expectations for the Dart, but it hoped the car would attract younger buyers. Darts start at just under $16,000, $2,000 less than the Honda Civic, the top-selling compact in the U.S.
The Dart is designed with a luxurious interior and sports-car handling. Chrysler offered numerous options so buyers could customize their cars.
But so far, the Dart's sales haven't come close to leaders in the compact car segment. Honda sold nearly 318,000 Civics last year.
Marchionne is confident the Dart will eventually sell well. It offers far more features than competitors for the price, he says.
Although Chrysler named the Dart after a popular sedan from the 1960s and 1970s, it's nothing like its predecessor. Instead of the somewhat boxy lines of the original, the new Dart has the sleek stance of a modern muscle car, with a short hood, long roof and slightly flared fenders. And it's based on the frame and suspension of a crisp-handling Alfa Romeo hatchback brought over by Chrysler's Italian owner, Fiat SpA.
Chrysler, which ran out of cash and had to be bailed out by the government in 2009, saw its overall U.S. sales jump 21 percent last year.
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