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Bedford avenges Goffstown lossBy MARK QUIRK
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 20. 2013 10:55PM
GOFFSTOWN - The Bedford High School hockey team scored three goals in the first five minutes to avenge one of its only losses of the season with one of its biggest wins on Wednesday.
The Bulldogs came out flying and didn't let up as they downed Goffstown 5-1 in a matchup of Division II playoff-bound teams at Sullivan Arena.
The Grizzlies handed Bedford its first loss of the season back in December. The Bulldogs made sure that didn't happen again with two goals from Christopher Viola and one from Cullen Willey over the opening 4:10 to take a commanding lead the Grizzlies couldn't rebound from.
"We knew when we got here we wanted to play well," Bedford coach Marty Myers said. "The kids came out absolutely on fire. They were mentally and physically ready to win."
Bedford improves to 11-3-2 with the win and will wrap up the regular season with a home-and-home series against undefeated Merrimack today and Saturday. The game today is at West Side Arena in Manchester and the game on Saturday is at Sullivan Arena.
The Grizzlies are now 10-7.
Viola finished with a hat trick and linemate Christopher O'Hara assisted on all three Bulldog goals in the first period.
"Our top line of O'Hara, Viola and (Kurt) Mitchell, they were on fire tonight," Myers said. "And we got some help from a couple other lines."
Tyler Grinley scored the lone goal of the game for Goffstown, which made it 4-1 in the second period.
Bedford got a goal from Kurt Mitchell in the second and Viola rounded out his hat trick in the third, during which Bedford killed off a crucial two-man advantage for the Grizzlies.
Stevan Tempesta was solid in net for the Bulldogs, while Chase Gagne and Ben Genest split time between the pipes for Goffstown.


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2013 Dodge Avenger Values
Select a 2013 Dodge Avenger trim level
2013 model year changes
For 2013 Dodge has left the Avenger mostly unaltered. The SXT plus model has been cut, however the standard SXT remains, even managing to pick up some extra features--it now comes standard with fully automatic headlights and fog lamps.
Competitive comparison
Freshened sporty styling; safety; powerful V6 engine; long list of high-tech options
Special features for 2013
For a mid-sized sedan, the Avenger stands out in two ways: aggressive and sporty styling, borrowed from the Dodge Charger, and fuel economy, for which it is rated up to 30 mpg on the highway. The Avenger's interior features nice materials and is quieter than in years past and its upgraded styling and quality makes it a viable alternative in a crowded small car market.
Largely unchanged for 2013 (except for the removal of the SXT plus trim level), the 2012 Dodge Avenger is a mid-size sedan that utilizes a FWD front engine layout and offers seating for five. The base Avenger is powered by a 2.4-liter 4-cylinder engine that produces 173 hp. Upgrading to the SXT, and R/T trim grants the driver a 3.6-liter V6 engine that yields 283 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque. Transmission options consist of a standard 4-speed automatic and optional 6-speed automatic. Fuel mileage falls within an EPA estimated range of 19 mpg city and 31 mpg highway. Features include ambient LED lighting, automatic temperature control, 8-way power seat, and 18-inch aluminum wheels. The R/T trim offers upgraded 18-inch wheels, remote start, hands-free phone connectivity, sport tuned suspension, performance tuned steering, and z-striped cloth with leather accents. Safety is comprised of front airbags, side airbags, side-curtain airbags, electronic stability control (ESC), and traction control (TCS). The Avenger is backed by a 3-year/36,000-mile warranty.

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On Feb. 19, MarketWatch.com, the Dow Jones subsidiary that provides stock market quotes and business and financial news, reported that executives of China's Cnooc Ltd. asked to delay the signing of an estimated $850 million oil deal until after the Chinese New Year, which fell on Feb. 3. They got their delay. "This had something to do with the Year of the Rabbit; it's not a joke," MarketWatch quoted "a person close to the matter" as saying.
It seemed a blithe dismissal of centuries-old Chinese beliefs, the kind of dismissal that stems from notions of cultural superiority. Adherents to such notions, we snuggle in a delusional cocoon — surprised, perplexed and even dismayed by occurrences in the other-world cultures of places like China, Africa and the Middle East, high-tech intelligence gathering notwithstanding. Our delusions would be risible were it not for the sometimes tragic outcomes of our cocoon-inspired responses to those occurrences.
The deal in question involved the purchase by Argentina's Pan American Energy of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s Esso Petrolera Argentina S.r.L. unit, the country's third-biggest fuels retailer with a network of some 500 service stations and an 85,000-barrel-a-day oil refinery, and another 220 service stations in Uruguay and Paraguay. Acquiring the unit would turn Pan American Energy into a fully integrated oil and gas producer and enable it to better compete with YPF S.A., Argentina's largest integrated oil company, analysts said. The Cnooc executives got the delay because Pan American Energy is a unit of Bridas Corp., which is jointly owned by Argentina's Bulgheroni family through Bridas Energy Holdings and Cnooc.
The delay request was no frivolous matter, an old friend of mine — a Filipina of Chinese origin — explained. "Although China turned communist and the regime is supposed to have disavowed traditional Chinese beliefs, it looks like not all is forgotten," she said. "This multibillion-dollar oil deal is being put off for a month because the Chinese buyers believe that the Year of the Tiger, while officially over, still casts a shadow for about a month into the Year of the Rabbit. The Year of the Rabbit is not fully integrated into the New Year until about a month after Chinese New Year day.
"So, with February being a 'trailing' part of the Year of the Tiger (which brings lots of uncertainties and upheavals to many, except for Year of the Horse folks), the Chinese government wants to put off signing this deal until the Year of the Rabbit fully comes out on its own into the New Year, around early March. This is what the Chinese refer to as the period where the animal symbol takes on the head of the rabbit (sign of the New Year) and the tail of a tiger (sign of the year just passed, but not completely gone). And during this period of transition," she continued, "the uncertainties and upheavals brought in by the Tiger year are not completely gone, although they're weakening, while the period of recovery and peace brought on by the Year of the Rabbit gains strength and slowly overpowers the uncertainties and upheavals of the Tiger year.
"Not many folks are acquainted with this part of Chinese New Year tradition. Now you are. So expect the fire raging through North Africa and the Middle East to continue, but it will eventually begin to dissipate as the Year of the Rabbit gains strength."
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One week after Austin, TX-based Virtual Bridges Inc. announced that IBM is using its flagship VERDE solution to provide virtual desktop management and provisioning capabilities for the IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform, and just days after Desktone Inc. launched release 3.0 of its desktop cloud management service; Virtual Bridges is back in the news again with its announcement today of VERDE 5.
In VERDE, Virtual Bridges is offering a single solution capable of providing a carrier-class platform as used by IBM for its Cloud Service Provider Platform, as well as supporting enterprise ready private clouds, branch offices, and distributed desktops via its own client hypervisor platform. Virtual Bridges uses a KVM-based hypervisor optimized for desktop virtualization, the same basic hypervisor can run on both data center servers and desktop PCs running 64-bit Intel VT or AMD-V enabled processors. The adoption of a common hypervisor across both server and desktop platforms enables individual desktop workloads to be executed either in the data center or on the desktop without change.
Virtual Bridges breaks down VERDE into multiple components referred to as Core (i.e., Data Center), Branch (i.e., branch office), and LEAF (officially Live Environment to Access Format; i.e., endpoint) respectively. Core provides the conventional server hosted virtual desktop solution similar to that offered by VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, etc.; LEAF is analogous to View's "Local Mode", providing support for disconnected operation with automatic bi-directional synchronization of all changes made back to the data center. The VERDE Branch technology is unique to Virtual Bridges, providing both a means of addressing high latency WAN links between branch office and data center, as well as a zero-administration disaster recovery/business continuity solution that supports fail back to the data center in the event that the branch office infrastructure fails. As well as providing support for locally hosted desktops, VERDE supports portable virtual desktop images that can be run from USB drives whilst still being centrally managed from and synchronized with the data center. VERDE uses a distributed and status connection broker architecture for maximum system scalability and resilience to individual component failures. Overall platform scalability is reported as being 10,000 servers,
New features in Verde 5 include support for the SPICE multimedia remote presentation protocol coupled with policy based remote presentation protocol selection (Virtual Bridges showing that they are not averse to learning from Citrix by branding this feature as "SmartCast"). Depending on requirements and location it is possible to designate RDP or SPICE as the connection protocol. For example, a local client connecting to a branch server would probably run the SPICE protocol for best use experience but might fall back to RDP to connect to data center hosted resources. VERDE also allows power users to choose their own protocols although it is hard to see many organizations enabling this level of control. K. N. Murali, Vice President – India at Servion Global Solutions Ltd. a global customer interaction management specialist, sees particular value in VERDE for call center deployments stating "We have successfully performed the preliminary validation of VERDE 5 with the Call Center software stacks from Avaya and Cisco and plan live deployments over the next couple of months. The bi-directional audio capabilities of the SPICE protocol combined with the simplicity and low costs of the VERDE 5 solution address the critical issues that have long hampered successful VDI deployments in the Call Center/BPO market."
Virtual Bridges are being uniquely ambitious and similarly farsighted in offering a single platform capable of supporting everything from a small business environment all the way up to a carrier class cloud service. Its ability to provide branch office server hosted virtual desktops as part of a unified system architecture does much to overcome the high-bandwidth requirements imposed by the SPICE remote presentation protocol, while the availability of RDP provides a less bandwidth intensive fallback solution for data center hosted desktops. The business continuity advantages that the VERDE Branch architecture provides offers significant benefits for organizations with highly distributed environments with a need for continuous availability of business critical systems. it is possible to provide similar branch office business continuity solutions using other desktop virtualization platforms, but not without performing extensive customization of third-party components. From this perspective alone, organizations with highly distributed infrastructures that (for whatever reason) are not good candidates for public cloud services should put VERDE on their shortlist for desktop virtualization platforms.


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The Solid Tin Coyote- Commentary
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Hi! I know Larriva's episode are not well accepted by most of RR's audience, but in my opinion this episodes are just nice because they are totally particular! Let's try to think about at "Run, run Sweet Beep Beep": in this episode RR fells in love with a girlie mockup, or in The Solid Tin Coyote we Have Wile E. building a Robot...In which other episodes can we find our heroes doing stuff like this?
Well, the moral is:let's enjoy Larriva's toons all togheter with a cup of tea!
There is one Chuck Jones cartoon I can think of where the Coyote does get his hands on the Road Runner. I think it's "Hopalong Casualty", but the Road Runner gets away just about as quickly as the Coyote grabs him.
Do you happen to aloow suggestions for new commentaries by any chance? :)
There are some cartoons that I'm curious on your thoughts on.
Sure, feel free to suggest one!


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As 2012 comes to a close, Todd feels the magic of the season in an episode of forgiveness and redemption.
Sometimes you know you're doomed to failure before you start.
Remember the school science fair? Only the valedictorian spent more than one frantic night throwing her project together. Yes, I said "her."
I had an early hit in 3rd grade with a comparison of popcorn brands. It was my dad's idea because we happened to have a lot of popcorn in the house. Yet for only a day's work, somebody thought it worthy of graduating to the district fair.
The taste of success made me cocky enough to advance from consumer research to hard-core science. The next year, I waited until the night before bringing my dad a library book with the grand plans for an electro-mechanical robot. Dad took one look at the plans, another look at the clock, and found an alternative project on page 126 - an electrostatic generator.
Our device - made of a few pieces of wood, a plastic pill jar, a piece of wool and a brass cabinet knob - not only worked but won first prize.Not ours, but you get the idea.
Armed with confirmed scientific proof that procrastination pays off, I waited until about midnight before tackling my 5th grade project about how dangerous smoking was. Or something. Details needed to be ironed out, but, you know, I had a two page report on it already typed up and everything.
But this time felt different. Gone was the confidence of previous years - and in its place the distinct feeling I was screwed before I began. I sort of had an idea about something involving a jar, a couple sponges carved into lung shapes, and a tube going to a bulb filled with dirty water. Or whatever.
Ever the encouraging parent who couldn't bear to see his children fail, Dad told me my idea was lame and he wasn't going to stay up late for this crap anymore.
After a few hours wrangling with sponges and a jar, I glued my two-page report to a giant paper-mache cigarette, hoping to cloud the judges' minds by out-dazzling the competition.
Not so much. That miserable failure irreparably damaged my hard-earned scientific reputation. I also learned that procrastination does not, in fact, pay off. I hung up my lab coat and traded my test tubes for an alto saxophone.
Fast-forward to December 2012: Pickler's Famous is hosting the Breakfast With Santa event for the Kirksville Parks & Rec Department, featuring a breakfast waffle cone we developed. It's 10pm the night before and I've just discovered we're 35 cones short.
No matter - Hy-Vee sells waffle cones in boxes of twelve. We'll just pick up a few boxes of those…well, see for yourself. It's the one on the left.
In the playground of the ice cream shop, these guys would get their asses kicked the minute I turn my back.
With no other options and time running out, there was only one thing I could do.
When we first opened Pickler's Famous, we planned to make our own fresh-baked waffle cones and entice you with sweet vanilla smells drifting onto the street. I bought a 50 lb bag of waffle mix and acquired a used waffle cone iron as part of a package deal with some other equipment. Two of our employees spent an afternoon scrubbing years of gunk and neglect off it with steel wool and industrial solvents.
I thanked them for their work and packed it away in storage, deciding there was already enough for us to screw up on opening day.The smells would have to wait - forever, it turned out.
Now, nearly two years later, it was close to midnight and I had to make 35 waffle cones for the first time. Visions of dirty sponges and cigarettes danced in my head. There was so much to go wrong: Batter sticking to the machine. Waffles peeling off in pieces. Burned waffles. Despite 20 minutes of searching I couldn't find the conical form to roll them around. They would end up deformed in my laughable attempts. We never even tested the waffle iron.
I braced myself for an all-night farce of epic proportions.
Resigned to failure, I pulled the machine out, dusted it off and plugged it in. The green light came on. Considering most of the equipment we purchased for the shop didn't work anymore, that was a pleasant surprise. I just knew the waffles would stick to this thing, so I teased the manual out of Google and followed the instructions for "conditioning" it with oil. It required a complete cool down but I didn't have that kind of time. Spray and pray, baby.
After mixing up some batter and guessing at the right serving amount (4 ounces), I poured a ladleful on and closed the lid. There was no self-timer, so I tried 45 seconds. Surprisingly, it peeled right off in one piece. The oil worked. Or maybe it's because, as a redhead, I'm good at peeling skin. In place of a proper form, I used one of the runt store cones to roll it around.
Not bad for the first try. I couldn't believe my luck. So I set up a workstation and pounded them out quickly and easily. I was so pleased with myself that I made a video so you can share in the joy of a conquering hero.
Not since I first water-skied at 15 had I stumbled headfirst into a new skill with all the finesse of an old pro - and without a moment to spare. Everything fell perfectly into place. The cones were delicious, the event went off without a hitch, and Christmas was saved.
I learned a valuable lesson that night: For all those moments when you brace yourself for colossal failure, there remains a statistical chance that this one time the Fates will take pity and spare you the humiliation you deserve.
Also: Procrastination pays off.
Happy holidays and a merry new year. Here's hoping everything goes right for you in 2013.


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LocationWixom, MI
25000 Assembly Park Dr.
Wixom, MI 48393
Used 2017 Keystone RV Cougar X-Lite 29BHS
There is room enough for the whole gang in this Keystone Cougar X-Lite model 29BHS! This travel trailer features a double bed set of bunks, dual entry doors, one large slide, plus sleeping for nine!
Enter the front most side door and notice a large pantry/wardrobe straight ahead. To the left of the entry is your kitchen area where you can cook food to keep the whole gang happy. There is a large double bowl sink, a three burner range, and refrigerator, plus plenty of storage in the overhead cabinets and more. You will also love the outdoor refrigerator for keeping snacks and drinks readily available when enjoying the beautiful weather.
Back inside just beyond the kitchen area along the curb side is an entertainment center. View it from the tri-fold sofa sleeper or booth dinette slide opposite. This slide provides added interior room once it is extended, and can also double as sleeping space for three more family members or guests.
In the rear of this Cougar X-Lite model there is a corner bath along the left side which has its own outdoor entry. This makes it convenient to access from outside. The bath features a shower, toilet, and corner vanity with sink.
The opposite right side corner features a double bed set of bunks with a pull out bunk ladder for easy access to the top. There is exterior storage beneath the bunk outside for all of your extra camping gear as well.
Up front you will find a king size bed with dual bedside wardrobes, and overhead storage for your things. Beneath the bedroom on the outside enjoy a front pass-through compartment for outer camping gear, and so much more!
Stock# 182638
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|60 gals
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|30 gals
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When Cole Davis founded Keystone RV in 1996 his vision was clear: Build a quality RV loaded with features priced thousands less than other RVs on the market. To accomplish his goal, Cole would recruit and build a strong team, focus on keeping overhead low, and empower the people closest to the customer to make decisions.
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Every member of the Keystone family is encouraged to contribute to making our campers absolutely the best possible. Through something we call Kamp Keystone, our employees camp free of charge at local campgrounds in the Keystone trailers we supply. Each year hundreds of our production workers, administrative staff and service team enjoy a day (or a week) at Kamp Keystone. Their evaluation of the experience and the feedback they provide results in continued product improvements. Ask us if we use our RVs...the answer is YES!
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Video Perspective: CyberPower Gamer Ultra 2098 System
Subject: Systems | November 23, 2011 - 01:59 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: HD 6670, fx-4100, Cyberpower
Most of the time, when we are sent systems for review, they are some of the highest-end and most expensive gaming rigs available. Companies tend to want to showcase a "flagship" product, one that will impress anyone that gazes upon it. And while CyberPower definitely builds systems like that, for this review, we are looking at something much more modest - the pre-built Gamer Ultra 2098.
The specifications for the system are pretty straight forward:
- AMD FX-4100 Quad-core Bulldozer processor with a stock cooler
- Gigabyte M68MT-S2 NVIDIA 7025 chipset motherboard
- 8GB DDR3-1333 MHz memory
- AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB graphics card
- 500 GB SATA III 6 Gb/s HDD
- DVD Burner optical drive
- 500 watt power supply
- Azza Black Orion Red case
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
These aren't parts that are going to "wow" you by any stretch but the price might: Newegg is selling this complete system for $599 (as of this writing) while purchasing all of these components individually, on the same website, our total was $596. Considering that someone has already built the machine (in a very clean and neat fashion) and you get basic support and a warranty, the cost of this machine is very compelling.
Performance of the Gamer Ultra 2098 isn't going to blow our benchmark suite out of the water, but the quad-core AMD FX-4100 processor is able to keep pace with the lowest end Sandy Bridge CPUs and the Radeon HD 6670 1GB graphics card can play the majority of the current PC titles at 1080p with medium-ish image quality settings.
This system isn't going to be for everyone, but for users that want a low-cost system that has some limited expansion capability, check out this CyberPower PC (and our video review below)!
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French troops launched their first ground operation against Islamist rebels in Mali on Wednesday in a crucial action to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked fighters who have resisted six days of air strikes.
France called for international support against Islamist insurgents it says are a threat to Africa and the West and acknowledged it faced a long fight against well-equipped and determined militant fighters who seized Mali's vast desert north last year.
After Islamist threats to exact revenge for France's dramatic intervention, an al-Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for a raid on a gas field in Algeria in which seven foreigners were kidnapped and a French national killed.
A column of French armored vehicles moved into position on Tuesday at the town of Niono, 190 miles from the capital Bamako. With the Malian army securing the northern region near the Mauritanian border, Islamist fighters were encircled in the nearby town of Diabaly.
French military chief Edouard Guillaud said his ground forces were starting their campaign against the alliance of Islamist fighters, grouping al Qaeda's North African wing AQIM with Mali's home grown Ansar Dine and MUJWA militant movements.
"In the coming hours – but I cannot tell you if it's in one hour or 72 hours – yes, of course we will be fighting them directly," he told Europe 1 radio.
In Niono, a resident reported seeing French and Malian troops in armored vehicles heading toward Islamist rebel lines. Fighting was reported in Diabaly but it was not immediately clear if French ground forces were involved.
Admiral Guillaud said French military strikes were being hampered because militants were using the civilian population as a shield.
"We categorically refuse to make the civilian population take a risk. If in doubt, we will not shoot," he said. Residents who fled Diabaly confirmed the Islamists had used the towns inhabitants to protect themselves in recent days.
French fighter jets, meanwhile, struck the headquarters of the Islamic police in Niafunke, a small town on the Niger river near the ancient caravan route of Timbuktu, residents said.
Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian acknowledged that France faced a difficult operation, particularly in Western Mali where AQIM's mostly foreign fighters have camps. Mauritania has pledged to close its porous frontier to the Islamists.
"It's tough. We were aware from the beginning it would be a very difficult operation," Mr. Le Drian said.
Waiting for African troops
President François Hollande said on Tuesday French forces would remain in Mali until stability returned to the West African nation. Mr. Hollande said France hoped, however, to hand over to African forces in its former colony, "in the coming days or weeks."
Military chiefs from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS met for a second day in Bamako on Wednesday in a bid to hammer out the details of their UN-mandated deployment.
With African troops facing huge logistical and transport challenges to quickly deploy their troops, Germany promised two Transall military transport planes to fly soldiers from around the region to Bamako.
Hollande's bold intervention in Mali, which has helped to end his reputation for dithering, brings risks for eight French hostages held by AQIM in the Sahara as well as the 30,000 French citizens living across West Africa.
AQIM and Ansar Dine have vowed to take revenge for France's intervention on its interests around the globe.
In Algeria, where AQIM has its roots, militants seized five Japanese nationals, a French citizen and an Irishman from an oil facility in Ain Amenas in southern Algeria on Wednesday, local and diplomatic sources told Reuters. A French national was killed in the raid.
The field, located close to the border with Libya, is operated by a joint venture including BP, Norwegian oil firm Statoil, and Algerian state company Sonatrach.
The conflict in Mali raised concerns across mostly Muslim West Africa of a radicalization of Islam in the region. In Senegal, a traditionally moderate Islamic country, President Macky Sall warned citizens to be vigilant for attacks.
"We must be on the watch in our towns and villages because infiltrations are taking place," he said in a speech on Tuesday. "You will hear foreign preachers talking in the name of Islam. You must denounce them to authorities."
The fighting in Mali, a landlocked state at the heart of West Africa, has displaced an estimated 30,000 people. Hundreds have fled across the border into neighboring Mauritania and Niger in recent days.
"We were all afraid. Many young fighters have enrolled with them recently," said Mahamadou Abdoulaye, a truck driver who fled from the northern Gao region of Mali into Niger. "They are newly arrived, they cannot manage their weapons properly. There's fear on everybody's face."
(Additional reporting by Tiemoko Diallo and Adama Diarra in Bamako, Lamine Chikhi in Algiers, Alexandra Hudson in Berlin; Writing by Daniel Flynn; Editing by David Lewis and Giles Elgood)


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BOSTON -- Captain Zdeno Chara scored to snap a tie with just under 13 minutes remaining in the third period as host Boston recorded its eighth win in 10 outings versus the New York Islanders, 4-2, on Friday night.
Fourth-liner Shawn Thornton, Gregory Campbell and Patrice Bergeron all scored their first goals of the season for Boston. Rookie Dougie Hamilton added a pair of assists and Tuukka Rask finished with 24 saves as the Bruins improved to 3-0-0 at home.
Keith Aucoin recorded his first career two-goal game and fellow Massachusetts native Rick DiPietro made his season debut and finished with 23 saves for the Islanders.
With the game tied at 2-2, the Bruins cycled the puck behind the net before Nathan Horton sent a centering pass to Chara in the high slot. The hulking defenseman hesitated before firing a wrist shot past a screened DiPietro for his first goal of the season.
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September is Hunger Action Month
Help us Stuff-A-Truck for Food Bank on Sept. 21
September is Hunger Action Month
WCVB's 2nd annual "Stuff-A-Truck," in partnership with Kiss 108, Stop & Shop and Unilever, is a food drive to take place at select Stop & Shop locations on Friday, Sept. 21.
The objective is to "Stuff-A-Truck" with nutritious food items. All food donations will benefit The Greater Boston Food Bank.
Foods needed for "Stuff-A-Truck"
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Please consider donating these urgently needed items. All items collected will be donated to the Greater Boston Food Bank:
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Because of the ongoing investigation into the overhead stage-rigging structure that collapsed in high winds, and killed five people at the Indiana State Fairgrounds this week, the Indy Mile AMA Pro Racing Flat Track Grand National has been cancelled.
A series of investigations into the collapse of the stage's structure and its wreckage are currently still underway, and with no time set of the conclusion of those investigations, event organizers had no choice but to cancel the Indy Mile Flat Track event that was to be held during the Indy GP weekend. Fans holding tickets to the Grand National will be offered refunds at their point of purchase.


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Maryland Senate President Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael Busch, both Democrats, have now rubber-stamped Gov. Martin O'Malley's historic tax increases on Maryland families, even though Maryland's continued economic suffering and out-of-control government are direct results of their party's continued dominance in Annapolis ("O'Malley faces political risks of tax increases," May 17).
Businesses are fleeing Maryland for Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia because they cannot afford the taxes, regulations and the state's unfriendly attitude toward job creators.
Democrats in Annapolis have pushed through four big increases that have raised taxes by at least 18 percent during the past five years, even as many Marylanders remain unemployed or underemployed or have had to settle for lower-paying jobs that bring home smaller paychecks.
At the same time, Marylanders have seen the value of their homes continue to decline. We need a change in Annapolis.
Elections have consequences, and if people are dissatisfied with Mr. O'Malley they should vote his fellow Democrats out of office.
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text: Student Profiles Mike Chan '05 Mike Chan '05 Hometown: San Francisco, California Major: Government Why did you come to Bowdoin? My math teacher in high school was a graduate and he really was pushing Bowdoin. But my main [reason] was just to move away from the West Coast, because I felt like a lot people on the West Coast stayed on the West Coast, and never explored. So this was, for me, an exploration, a way to find out a little more about myself. Why did you decide on your major? My major right now is Government and Legal Studies with a concentration in American government. Originally, when I started out, I was a Biology major, and I was doing pre-med. So for the first three semesters I was really intense about that, I think to the point where I burned myself out. In reality it wasn't actually what I really liked or really had a passion for doing in the first place, so sophomore year, I took two government courses, and I really liked them, and I did well in them, so I stayed with that. What has been your favorite class at Bowdoin? Freshman year, I took Racism with Roy Partridge. That for me set the tone as a freshman for what I would be expecting for writing assignments and what kind of stimulation I'd get [academically]. I made a lot of friends in that class. I have to say, [also] maybe Chinese Politics with Lance Guo and Japanese Politics with Henry Laurence. And African American Poetry with Elizabeth Muther. Those have been really good classes. And I'm taking International Law right now with [Professor] Springer, and it's a really good course. What extracurricular are you involved in? I've always loved taking part in IM Basketball. I never played [in] the A [league], but I've played B and C. I co-head a poetry group with Alkaaliq Bashir and Walkens Petit-Frere which we started freshman year. It was just two years ago that we got funding from the [Student Activities Fund Committee] and we were able to make t-shirts and stuff like that, so it really became a group that just blossomed, and it was the one group that I really identified with. We've been able to do a lot of performances in really different venues, in coffeehouses, Parents' Weekend stages, and opening for Mos Def; that was one of the most significant moments I've witnessed in the club. I'm involved with the Asian Students Association, which has been around for a long time. This is my third year being the political chair. For me, it was somewhat of a support group, but also it was a good chance to meet other people who were just kind of interested in Asian or Asian-American culture. What's your best Bowdoin memory? I remember on my Pre-O[rientation] trip, I went to Kent Island. I made a lot of friends, and it was just a different experience. I just remember making breakfast, lunch and dinner with the eight or nine people that I was with, just exploring and getting to know some people that I was about to go to school with. When you go on your Pre-O, especially when you're not from the East Coast, let alone Maine, it's just a shock to you. So that's what set the tone [for the year]. Also, the biggest memory I have is doing Blood Feathers, which is the play I just recently had a part in. I played a character who is very similar to me, and surprisingly, I think [director and playwright] Elaine Johanson, who graduated last year, was trying to model it after my sensibilities. I had never acted before, never had any acting experience, but after doing that I just felt like I was a professional actor. It was empowering. I just felt really good about it. In the history of Bowdoin, [it was] the first Asian-American-themed play. I was really happy to be a part of a revolutionary event at Bowdoin. Have you studied abroad during your time at Bowdoin? I was shooting to study away in London my junior year, but I just got burned out doing pre-med, so that's why I picked up Government. I guess I could have studied away [in] London taking government courses, but there's more options [for courses] at Bowdoin. On top of it, I'm not from the East Coast, so just traveling out here was a study away project in itself, and I have plenty of fun visiting Boston and New York and traveling up and down the East Coast. So I'm not disappointed at all not having studied abroad. What are your plans after graduation? Well, right now I am trying to matriculate into law school for Fall 2005. I realize that it's a big jump to go from thinking med school to law school, but I wanted to make sure that I came out with a professional outset as soon as I [graduated] from Bowdoin. I felt like what I want to do is attack being an activist. And even doing premed, I wanted to be an activist-type in the medical field. It's always been my passion, to be an activist. I felt like in order to be a true peacemaker and someone who can change the world, I needed a law degree. As far as taking a year off, I might do that, but I'm trying to shoot for Fall 2005. Is there anything else about Bowdoin or your experiences here that you'd like prospective students to know? If you're doing premed, spread everything out, take [Organic Chemistry] second year, take Physics third year, and try to get your math out of the way as soon as possible. That's what I learned. It helps a lot if you know what you're doing already, but don't feel pressured if you don't know what you're doing yet. You have four years to decide. Look at me, I didn't decide what my major was until the last week of sophomore year, [when] I decided I want to be a government major. And even then you can change. Also, get involved. If you're a new student, get involved. Don't stick your nose in the books all the time, because there are people out there, and that's also part of the college experience. Sure you can be a bookworm and do all that, but there are so many cool people out there that you need to see. Story posted on October 19, 2004 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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Six Episode Series, Premiering Tuesday, August 30 at 10 PM ET/PT, Brings Ordinary People's Million Dollar Ideas to Life
New York, July 13, 2011- Even before Benjamin Franklin tied a key to his kite, being an inventor has been a hard gig to crack. Now, everyone can participate in an invention revolution. Sundance Channel's new non-fiction series "Quirky"- premiering on Tuesday, August 30th at 10pm ET/PT, chronicles Quirky.com, a product development company founded by 24-year-old visionary Ben Kaufman that gives everyone the freedom to turn their creative idea into a business reality.
Every week, scores of people from a worldwide online community submit concepts to Quirky.com. The ideas range from simply genius to totally bizarre, yet each shares the same goal: to create innovative solutions to everyday problems. Like never before, a great idea is all that counts.
In each episode of "Quirky" viewers see Ben and his passionate young team develop two ideas from the thousands that are submitted. Speeding up the development process to new extremes, the Quirky.com team meets impossible deadlines to bring these two new products to life. Thanks to Quirky.com's brilliant group of design and engineering experts plus input from the greater online community, even a sketch on a cocktail napkin can potentially be turned into a breakthrough product with a huge payoff.
Everybody who contributes shares in the profits: the original inventor, plus any online members who have contributed along the way to help create the final product. It's the democratization of design, and the ultimate collective business model.
"'Quirky' depicts a very modern way to pursue the American dream," notes Sundance Channel EVP and GM Sarah Barnett. "Ben Kaufman and the community of Quirky.com are using technology not only to revolutionize the product development process but also to create a platform that unleashes both our individual imaginations and collective power. Celebrating how creativity flourishes outside conventional avenues is something distinct to our programming."
Over six exciting weeks, Sundance Channel's "Quirky" brings viewers the inspiring stories of twelve people from across the country who enjoy the adventure of invention. "Ideators" range from a mother of two with her clever all-in one pasta strainer, to a former paralegal in Pennsylvania and her two- tiered BBQ tray designed to holding everything for the BBQ with one trip to the grill, to a copywriter and father in Kansas City who added a "twist" to the ordinary can opener with "Can Do." In addition viewers will meet a former high school principal from The Bronx who created the bracelet wallet because she didn't want to be weighed down by her purse when going out dancing, and a college student from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who needed a flexible power strip to accommodate all of the plugs to his gadgets and ended up with an idea that is bringing him a financial windfall. For these inventors, Quirky is not only filling their bank accounts, it is enabling them to see their dreams become reality.
Quirky.com originator, Ben Kaufman's entrepreneurial journey started during his senior year of high school when his parents took out a second mortgage on their house so he could develop an iPod accessory company called Mophie. Shortly after Mophie won "Best in Show" at MacWorld 2006, Ben discovered his passion for involving people around the world in the development of new consumer products. The rapid growth of the Mophie brand led to its acquisition in August of 2007, which allowed Ben to focus his efforts on bringing his idea of 'social product development' to the next level. After two years of research and development on the unique technology platform that became the foundation of his future work, Ben publicly launched Quirky in June of 2009.
Quirky is produced by Sharp Entertainment. Matt Sharp and Ben Kaufman are Executive Producers and Marco Bresaz is Executive Producer for Sundance Channel.
About Sundance Channel
Sundance Channel is the destination for What's Next, Now. Showcasing both today's creative icons and the emerging talent of tomorrow, Sundance Channel tells credible, authentic and emotionally immersive stories of invention, fashion, film, travel, design and enterprise. The network's originals include the social media phenomenon Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys and All on the Line starring Joe Zee. Launched in 1996, the network provides perspectives dedicated to founder Robert Redford's mission to celebrate creativity. Sundance Channel was acquired by AMC Networks (formerly Rainbow Media Holdings) in 2008.
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Dedicated to producing quality programming and movie content for more than 30 years, AMC Networks Inc. owns and operates several of the most popular and award-winning brands in cable television. AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel, WE tv, and IFC Films produce and deliver distinctive, compelling and culturally relevant content that engages audiences across multiple platforms. The company also operates AMC/Sundance Channel Global, an international programming business, and AMC Networks Broadcasting & Technology, a full-service network programming feed origination and distribution company.


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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman is heading to North Korea with VICE media company — tattoos, piercings, bad-boy reputation and all.
The American known as "The Worm" is set to arrive Tuesday in Pyongyang, becoming an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.
Rodman, three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, a VICE correspondent and a production crew from the company are visiting North Korea to shoot footage for a new TV show set to air on HBO in early April, VICE told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview before the group's departure from Beijing.
It's the second high-profile American visit this year to North Korea, a country that remains in a state of war with the U.S. It also comes two weeks after North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test in defiance of U.N. bans against atomic and missile activity.
Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, made a surprise four-day trip to Pyongyang, where he met with officials and toured computer labs in January, just weeks after North Korea launched a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket.
Washington, Tokyo, Seoul and others consider both the rocket launch and the nuclear test provocative acts that threaten regional security.
North Korea characterizes the satellite launch as a peaceful bid to explore space, but says the nuclear test was meant as a deliberate warning to Washington. Pyongyang says it needs to build nuclear weapons to defend itself against the U.S., and is believed to be trying to build an atomic bomb small enough to mount on a missile capable of reaching the mainland U.S.
VICE said the Americans hope to engage in a little "basketball diplomacy" in North Korea by running a basketball camp for children and playing pickup games with locals — and by competing alongside North Korea's top athletes in a scrimmage they hope will be attended by leader Kim Jong Un.
"At a time when tensions between the two countries are running high, it's important to keep lines of cultural communication open, no matter how non-traditional those channels may be," said Shane Smith, the VICE founder who is host of the upcoming TV series. "It's important to show North Koreans that America is not their enemy, and playing a game we both love is a step in the right direction."
VICE, a Brooklyn-based media company known for its sometimes irreverent journalism, has made two previous visits to North Korea, coming out with the "VICE Guide to North Korea." The HBO series, which will air weekly, features documentary-style news reports from around the world.
As part of the trip, the Americans will visit North Korea's national monuments as well as the SEK animation studio and a new skate park in Pyongyang. The show on Rodman's trip to North Korea airs on April 5.
The U.S. State Department hasn't been contacted about travel to North Korea by this group, a senior administration official said, requesting anonymity to comment before any trip had been made public. The official said the department does not vet U.S. citizens' private travel to North Korea and urges US citizens contemplating travel there to review a travel warning on its website.
In a now-defunct U.S.-North Korean agreement in which Washington had planned last year to give food aid to Pyongyang in exchange for nuclear concessions, Washington had said it was prepared to increase people-to-people exchanges with the North, including in the areas of culture, education and sports.
Promoting technology and sports are two major policy priorities of Kim Jong Un, who took power in December 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il.
But the often over-the-top Rodman, with his maze of tattoos, nose studs and neon-bleached hair, seems like an unlikely diplomat to a country where male fashion rarely ventures beyond military khaki and growing facial hair is forbidden.
During his heyday in the 1990s, Rodman was a poster boy for excess. He called his 1996 autobiography "Bad as I Wanna Be" — and showed up wearing a wedding dress to promote it.
Shown a photo of a snarling Rodman, piercings dangling from his lower lip and two massive tattoos emblazoned on his chest, one North Korean in Pyongyang recoiled and said: "He looks like a monster!"
But Rodman is also a Hall of Fame basketball player and one of the best defenders and rebounders to ever play the game. During a storied, often controversial career, he won five NBA championships — a feat that quickly overshadowed his antics for at least one small North Korean group of basketball fans.
Along with soccer, basketball is enormously popular in North Korea, where it's not uncommon to see basketball hoops set up in hotel parking lots or in schoolyards. It's a game that doesn't require much equipment or upkeep.
The U.S. remains Enemy No. 1 in North Korea, and North Koreans have limited exposure to American pop culture. But they know Michael Jordan, a former teammate of Rodman's when they both played for the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.
During a historic visit to North Korea in 2000, then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presented Kim Jong Il, famously an NBA fan, with a basketball signed by Jordan that later went on display in the huge cave at Mount Myohyang that holds gifts to the leaders.
North Korea even had its own Jordan wannabe: Ri Myong Hun, a 7-foot-9 star player who is said to have renamed himself "Michael" after his favorite player and moved to Canada for a few years in the 1990s in hopes of making it into the NBA.
Even today, Jordan remains well-loved here. At the Mansudae Art Studio, which produces the country's top art, a portrait of Jordan spotted last week, complete with a replica of his signature and "NBA" painted in one corner, seemed an odd inclusion among the propaganda posters and celadon vases on display.
An informal poll of North Koreans revealed that "The Worm" isn't quite as much a household name in Pyongyang.
But Kim Jong Un, also said to be a basketball fanatic, would have been an adolescent when Rodman, now 51, was with the Bulls, and when the Harlem Globetrotters, an exhibition basketball team, kept up a frenetic travel schedule worldwide.
The notoriously unpredictable and irrepressible Rodman said he has no special antics up his sleeve for making his mark on one of the world's most regimented and militarized societies, a place where order and conformity are enforced with Stalinist fervor.
But he said he isn't leaving any of his piercings behind.
Follow AP's bureau chief for Pyongyang and Seoul at www.twitter.com/newsjean . AP writer Matthew Pennington contributed to this report from Washington.


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How to get your fair share when fish and birds are feeding
It had started as a brisk, calm morning, but the fish weren't in the shallows where I had hoped to find them. After a futile hour, I followed Plan B to the Bay Bridge to find only little guys there. I was calling it a day and heading in when I saw a wisp of smoke to the north.
Thinking it odd, I watched for seconds until I realized it wasn't smoke at all. It was a swarm of feeding seabirds, their numbers growing by the second. Securing my gear, I fired up the outboard, jumped up on plane and headed toward the melee.
It took about 10 minutes to reach the swirling mass. I couldn't believe my luck, for there wasn't another boat in sight. Boils and splashes decorated at least an acre of water out in front of me as the screaming birds swooped down for stunned and injured baitfish.
Easing my throttle to a slow crawl, I surveyed the situation. There seemed to be some sizeable rockfish in the mix as I slowly skirted well out from the edge of the action and quietly headed up current. I didn't want to queer this bite.
Getting a good idea of the tidal movement and the effects of the slight breeze on my skiff, I finally eased up to within casting distance. Shutting down the motor, I began to work the edge of the breaking fish with a surface plug. Quickly hooking up with a nice fish, I fought it to the boat and netted it.
A new influx of dirty water down from the Conowingo Dam has complicated fishing in the middle Bay. The fish are still around, just moving to avoid filthy water. Nice-sized rockfish are being taken around the Bay Bridge, and trollers along the Eastern Shore have been getting fish dragging small bucktails, spoons and sassy shad. Generally, because of the plagues of dirty water from the north, better fishing is to the south. Down at Breezy Point, nice fish are being taken trolling and jigging.
Icing down the 20-plus-inch striper, I picked up my rod again and looked to the action. But my skiff had drifted out of range of the feeding fish. I was lowering my electric motor to quietly rejoin the frenzy when another boat made its approach.
A large cabin cruiser roared directly into the middle of the feeding fish and stopped as its four-man crew, leaving their motor idling noisily, cast in every direction. They were rigged for bottom fishing, and their quickly sinking baits went unnoticed by the feeding fish. The boat's ingress, however, had split the school into two groups.
With the fish in the group nearest them (and me) dispersing from the noise of their engine and getting no hits on their baits, they rammed their throttle ahead and chased back into the second half of the school. They repeated that maneuver a number of times, without any success, until they managed to drive away virtually all the feeding rockfish.
I left in disgust. The last sight I had of the boat and its crew, they were still vigorously working the water without the slightest clue as to what they had done.
No one has exclusive claim over breaking fish on the Chesapeake. But there is definitely a strategy and an etiquette to ensure angling success and to allow everyone an equal chance in the action.
The first rule is to never drive a boat into breaking fish. Pause a distance off of the edge of the school, determine which way the school is moving and how the tidal current and wind effects your boat. Then quietly reposition so that the fish come to you. Turn off your engine when you're in place. If you find the fish surrounding your boat, do not start up, even if you're ready to leave. Wait until they have moved on to reposition.
Give fellow anglers plenty of room. Figure the length of your longest cast, double it and give everyone else at least that much room in hopes they will do the same for you. If someone is fighting a fish, give way. Moving in close will only give the linesides (or big blue or spec) a chance to foul the line on your motor.
If you are trolling lures and want to target a breaking school, lengthen your lines, pass by the school and turn across, bringing your lures (but not your boat) through the breakers. There are always unseen fish on the edges. Often they are the bigger fish.
If you discover that the fish on top are undersized and not worth your time, don't despair. There are often larger fish beneath them, sometimes deep under them and a distance down current. Fishing sinking or diving lures (and in the latter case metal jigs), just off the bottom can score some lovely stripers, bluefish and sea trout, even when the ones on top are teenies. This is particularly true if the fish breaking at the surface are snapper blues.
Don't despair that the actions of gross offenders through ignorance or rudeness are without consequence. With every cell phone a digital camera and the web an angling party line, offending fishermen will often find a photograph of themselves and their boat a topic for electronic criticism on more than one local angling web site.


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Nebraska's Niobrara River 10th on endangered list
Nebraska's Niobrara River 10th on endangered list
LINCOLN, Neb. —
Officials say sediment problems have put the Niobrara River on a list of the nation's most endangered rivers.
The American Rivers conservation group announced Wednesday that the nearly 570-mile-long river was 10th on the 2013 list. The Colorado River led the list.
The Niobrara begins in Wyoming and flows through northern Nebraska. It joins the Missouri River near the top of Lewis and Clark Lake, the reservoir formed by Gavins Point Dam near Yankton, S.D.
American Rivers says the Missouri River sediment backs up in Lewis and Clark Lake.
The Lincoln Journal Star says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working on sediment and high-water conditions that could affect the village of Niobrara and nearby farm fields.


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Greetings from your instructor, Shelly Stein!
I have taught speech communication and education courses at a number of colleges for the past 30 years--San Jose State University, Evergreen Community College, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Maryland, University College, College of Notre Dame of Baltimore, Catonsville Community College, City Colleges of Chicago, the University of Zimbabwe, Thomas Nelson Community College, and currently at Hillsborough County Community College in Tampa, Florida where I currently reside.
I earned my Master's degree in Organizational Communication from San Jose State University in 1988 and my Ph.D. in Public Communication from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999.
I have been married for over 25 years. My husband is retired from the Army and works as a consultant. We have one son in middle school and a cat named Cato (after the Green Hornet and Pink Panther's sidekick) and a beagle named Buster.
As hobbies, I enjoy swimming, running, cycling, gardening, and reading. I am a Hillsborough County Extension Master Gardener and enjoy volunteering as a library coordinator and speaker.
Teaching is my passion. My research interests are in communication education (how to teach speech communication) and instructional communication (how to communicate effectively with students). Please look through the Course Information on this website. The courses listed may be a requirement for your area of study, but my students tell me they enjoyed our class and learned valuable knowledge and skills for their career path. Several years ago, I helped coach one of my students in delivering a workshop on effective instructional communication to a group of religious education teachers at his church. This is just one example of how you might use what you learn in our class.
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The Data Viper looks kind of iffy, though, and a Zombie Viper? Really? Can we cut the zombification of everything. Now. Please.
Oh, and $80 on the SDCC Skystriker/Starscream repaint? I think that's kind of high, but it looks excellent, the box art is incredible and if HTS.com gets them, I would like to own one. E...
I will say, I kind of dig the Zombie Viper in that it goes well with the Hazard Viper, you have to admit. There's a "pattern" there.I'm into Zombies though... I just think it'd be cool with that one particular cobra as like its "handler" or something.
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The cost of manhood
If my mother remembers the days of my youth as the Dark Ages, I suppose I can't fault her. I hung out with a rag-tag gang of self-styled adventurers that were akin to a band of pirates, crossed with the likes of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Despite a few shortcomings, we were always good for a tall tale or a memorable deed of daring-do. Pookie Grossberg, Chilly Mac, Kinky Boswell, and Muffin Duffy were the core of this self-styled band of would-be ruffians, but a couple of others are worthy of mention. One of them was "Louie the Lip."
His real name was Louis Hammerman, and with a name like that, he should have been the icon of ultimate coolness. You'd think he would grow up as Louie the Hammer, or The Hammer Man, but no, that was not the case. Believe me, Louie did not deserve his name. How he was born with it, was beyond my realm of comprehension.
We suspected that his parents brought home the wrong child from the hospital after he was born. His mom was beautiful and his dad was a handsome, muscular, heavy equipment operator. He was everything that Louie wasn't. And one thing that Louie wasn't, was attractive.
You see, Louie was a pudge. He couldn't beat the Pillsbury Doughboy at arm-wrestling. His only physical attribute was a mane of wavy blond hair that was a total waste on Louie. If he wore a beanie with a propeller on top, he would have looked like Tweedle- Dee wearing a Goldilocks wig.
Instead of Louie the Hammer, he earned the nickname of Louie the Lip, and with good reason.
Since Louie was a physical disaster, he had to use other assets to survive his childhood. Fortunately, he was smart, and had a gift of gab. He also had a nose for making money. Louie was especially good at talking people into helping him with his hair-brained moneymaking schemes. That's how he earned his nickname, Louie the Lip. He always gave first class lip service whenever it was needed.
If we wanted to go somewhere or buy a ridiculous toy, the Lip always came through with the fi- nances.
The Lip was such a good schemer that he had two newspaper routes in the same neighborhood by working for two different papers. Where we lived, the competing papers were "the Community News," and "the Journal." People read one or the other. We never figured out how he did it, but the Lip worked for both papers at the same time without either finding out about the other. He collected money from every house on the route.
The whole gang had to go with him whenever he collected money or the big kids would steal it from him. But that was okay. It was worth the trouble because the Lip had another passion that made up for all his character flaws. He had the best comic book collection in the state, and he let us read them whenever we wanted.
The Lip collected the Marvel Super Heroes as well as Flash Gordon, Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone Ranger, and Archie comics. He had Blondie, Gasoline Alley, and Terry and the Pirates. He was the first in line for every new edition. He had comics that the rest of us never heard of, and he knew the names of the artists and writers who created them. He was the unquestioned authority on the subject.
As we grew into teenagers, the Lip's collection grew along with us. While most of us were learning to date, the Lip was making money and concentrating on his comics because getting a date was not even a consideration. Somewhere around high school graduation, the Lip decided it was time to stop being a social outcast and turn his life around, so he joined the Navy.
None of us thought he would survive boot camp, but he proved us wrong. When he came home on leave, the Lip was no longer a pudge. His shoulders were broad, his stomach was flat, and he was 30-pounds lighter. He was an overnight hit with the ladies, and we saw him in a new light. Louie the Lip made the passage into manhood and had transformed into "Louie the Hammer."
A few days after he came home, we decided to meet at his house and raid his comic book collection for old times sake. Before he left for boot camp, he had carefully packed them in boxes that he stacked in his closet. However, when he opened the door, the closet was empty. His mom had decided that since he was gone, he no longer needed his old comic books and toys, and she donated them to Goodwill Industries. Like "Louie the Lip," they were no longer a part of his life. We were devastated.
Versions of this story have happened countless times throughout history. Mothers around the world have performed this task with good intentions. It's part of that system we can't understand. Although their penchant for keeping our lives in order often leaves us baffled and frustrated, we still love them, and wish one and all - a Happy Mother's Day.


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What The USA FREEDOM Act Doesn't Fix
from the lots-more-to-go dept
However, the group notes, the bill should be a "floor, not a ceiling." That is, it needs to be a starting point, because there are all sorts of problems it doesn't yet fix.
I know that some people would prefer bills that do in fact cover all of that, and are against the USA FREEDOM Act for not going nearly far enough. There is, also, quite a legitimate fear that there is likely to only be appetite for one bill in Congress, so if the USA FREEDOM Act passes, all of the other missed issues will never get addressed. That's a legitimate fear, but it's going to be difficult enough to get the USA FREEDOM Act approved in the first place, and if people fight against it just because it doesn't include everything, there's a decent chance we'll get nothing at all.
The bill only addresses a small portion of the problems created by NSA spying and overreaching government secrecy. It does not touch problems like NSA programs to sabotage encryption standards, it does not effectively tackle the issue of collecting information on people outside of the United States, and it doesn't address the authority that the government is supposedly using to tap the data links between service provider data centers, such as those owned by Google and Yahoo.
The bill also does not address a key issue that the government uses to inhibit lawsuits contesting the spying: excessive secrecy. For instance, it won't deal with the major over-classification issues or the state secrets privilege, the latter of which is used aggressively to prevent litigation from getting to a court decision on whether the spying is unconstitutional. The bill also leaves out a clause appearing in Sen. Ron Wyden's bill, which provides guidelines to obtain standing in legal cases against the spying.
Lastly, it does not hold public officials accountable for their role in allowing this spying to take place and hiding it from public and Congressional oversight, and it does not create a Congressional committee that could independently investigate the surveillance programs and give the country a full accounting. Remember we are still just learning the full depth of the programs on a piecemeal basis.


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The Difference One Can Make (Monograph)
Character saves lives, as the story of Nicholas Winton teaches us. It also defines each one of us as a person and in the process, shapes entire nations and determines their course. This is why the Mackinac Center for Public Policy has devoted talent and resources to the character issue. Though much of our work focuses on specific public policy issues, we know that good policy ultimately derives from good character. That's another way of saying that we shouldn't expect government to be any better than the people it reflects. We hope that these two essays will help spark a revival of interest in the critical role that character plays in a free society.


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Three 30-something guys are surfing The Long Tail and demolishing the boundaries of traditional television broadcasting along the way.
Adam Quirk, Erik Nelson, and Aaron Valdez are the sole employees of Wreck & Salvage LLC. In addition to making customized videos for clients, they create a monthly, hour-long online video show called Tricorn.
But you won't find them out on the town, shooting original videos of breaking news stories. They do that occasionally, but they are primarily "remixers" who take snips of existing videos and splice them together to create a mashup. And they broadcast many of these mashups on their show, streamed live on Livestream.


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Saturday, May 19, 2007
The Best family, from Denise in New Zealand
Denise writes:
Only 12 children are in the photo. Two more are born later! I would guess that this was taken in the very late 1920s or very early 1930s.
Best Family - New Zealand
Standing L to R:
Keith, Hazel, Lorna, Bill, Violet, Aubrey (Manny), Ivor
Front L to R:
Beris, Patricia, Clive (Father), John, Susan (Mother), Molly, Ray
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when redoing wiring or changing out t-stats.
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The mission of NPDN, a linkage of five university hubs across the U.S., including the University of California, Davis, is the rapid and systematic detection of crop threats so state and federal authorities can contain and eradicate them as necessary.
Emerging in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack, it is part of the comprehensive network for diagnosis of plant and animal diseases under the Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002. It also generates a valuable national database on pest and disease incidence.
Peter Goodell, UC IPM entomologist/nematologist, at a Bakersfield gathering of Cooperative Extension specialists, crop consultants, and growers, discussed NPDN's function and early plans to train its detection force. Goodell is training coordinator for California.
"This is agriculture's response to 9/ll," he said. "We've seen examples throughout history where introduction of an exotic species has caused major economic and social disruption."
Foreign plant pathogens or their vectors, such as late blight of potato causing famine in the 1800s in Ireland or glassy-winged sharpshooter spreading Pierce's Disease in California grapes in recent years, occurred naturally, but an enemy could also deliberately introduce them.
"It's not a matter of if but of when," said Goodell.
Raise awareness
"We want to raise the awareness of those in the field to report new problems. Those might be an unusual behavior of a pathogen, resistance to fungicides, or development in a lower temperature. Anyone who is walking the fields on a day-to-day basis is a first detector."
Incidence of an introduced disease in crops, he added, would be less dramatic than, say, an outbreak of anthrax in livestock. "But with NPDN, if we found a case in Kern County, another in Tulare County, and then one in Butte County, we would have a state network with a national database to determine whether these are just random events."
NPDN knits regional diagnostic centers at five land-grant universities: Cornell, Michigan State, Kansas State, University of Florida at Gainsville, and UC, Davis. The center at UC, Davis takes in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah, plus Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. Territories.
The primary diagnostic laboratory for the western region will be at the California Department of Food and Agriculture in Sacramento, although scientists at UC, Davis also will be involved.
The National Agricultural Pest Information System, an arm of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, at Purdue University is the central archive for data on samples collected through the five diagnostic centers.
Among priority pathogens and pests of concern to the western region are bacterial wilt, broomrape, downy mildew, Pierce's Disease, gypsy moth, fruitfly complex, and soybean rust (a threat to common bean crops in the west).
People in fields
According to Goodell, the key component, aside from the diagnostic centers, is the corps of detectors among crop consultants, pesticide applicators, seedsmen, growers, Extension specialists, and others who spend time in fields and are the first to be aware of irregularities with crops.
He said plans are to begin training in March of first detectors, who could conceivably number in the thousands in California, through UC Cooperative Extension. Other states will have equivalent training programs following NPDN procedures.
Extension specialists will train first detectors in scouting of fields, collection, preparation and submission of samples, and steps to take when unusual pests are observed. First detectors will be required to be certified by NPDN and to complete continuing education courses.
A typical NPDN pathway once an unknown pathogen or pest is collected would begin at a local Extension office. If the sample could not be identified there, it would be referred to a university laboratory. If still unidentified, it would go to a regional laboratory and if necessary on to the national center at Purdue University, where the potential threat and any subsequent action, perhaps containment or eradication, would be evaluated.
"Now we have a central place for California where samples from up and down the state can be used to identify a pattern. Protocols are set up for issuing Section 18 permits to rapidly deal with management of threats of major outbreaks," Goodell said.
He said an agricultural terrorism event most likely would be aimed at large-acreage, Midwestern grain crops rather than localized, specialty crops in California. "Nevertheless, you can imagine what would happen if a quarantine pest were introduced to a crop like strawberries, for example, and shut down a local economy."
Responding to a question from the audience on how the NPDN relates to California's fiscally-challenged Cooperative Extension, Goodell said "This is a major national mandate that provides additional evidence of the importance of local UCCE offices at a time when we are defending our budgets."


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Raymond man arrested for assaulting infantBy Gretyl Macalaster
Union Leader Correspondent
December 29. 2012 7:49AM
RAYMOND - A local man is in custody after allegedly assaulting a two-month old infant over the last several weeks.
Cavan G. Moore, 26, of 125 Route 27 in Raymond has been charged with three counts of second-degree assault on a victim under one year of age and is being held on $25,000 cash bail pending arraignment in Candia Circuit Court.
Information that the infant had sustained injuries over the last several weeks led to an examination of the infant at Exeter Hospital, according to information released by police on Saturday morning.
Upon examination, medical staff at the hospital determined that the infant had suffered multiple fractures. Police allege the injuries occurred over the past several weeks at a Raymond residence.
On Friday afternoon, Raymond police detectives, the Division of Children Youth and Families and the Rockingham County Attorney's Office developed enough supporting evidence to place Moore under arrest.


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U.S. corn and soybean producers have enjoyed their best run of returns in history over the last seven years. But like most things that go up, crop prices and returns are likely to decline in the near future. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach farm management specialists remind producers that agricultural returns tend to be cyclical in nature, and a few years of good returns are followed by a few years of negative returns.
The ISU Extension and Outreach farm management team of Kelvin Leibold, Tim Eggers, Kristen Schulte and Ann Johanns has developed two programs to help producers manage changes in financial climate and learn how to protect their financial bottom line during years of negative returns. One program is a day-long look at the impact of changes to farm finances; the other program is a multi-session financial literacy training. Program educators are Leibold, Eggers and Schulte.
Get set for tougher challenges beginning in 2014, especially in corn and soybean production
"The USDA marketing year average for corn in 2012 was $6.89; predictions going forward are showing a price closer to $4.50 or lower," says Kelvin Leibold. "Soybeans show a similar story, going from $14.40 in 2012 to $12.15 and perhaps lower. Producers need to consider where they will be when high prices leave—the next several years certainly don't look as profitable as the last several have been. Grain supplies are up, corn and bean prices are down, and production costs have remained high."
Tim Eggers recommends producers attend these programs to assess their financial health, and he says agri-businesses should encourage their farmer-customers to attend the meetings so farmers can see how a financial analysis applies to their farming operation.
Deep Water or High Tide: This financial program will be offered at three locations in February. Program participants will learn how changes to interest rates and other input costs affect their net farm income, and how to manage these changes.~~~PAGE_BREAK_HERE~~~
The program consists of a day engaged in the game of farm finances. Participants will gain a greater knowledge of a true-to-life financial picture by taking part in a case study simulation. Extension team leaders will guide participants as they work together through the basics of having a solid financial foundation.
All sites begin at 9:30 a.m. and wrap-up at 3:30 p.m. Registration is $25 at all locations. To register, contact the county extension office for the preferred location listed below.
*Cresco, Northeast Iowa Community College
Monday, Feb. 24
Contact: Howard County Extension Office, 563-547-3001
*Iowa Falls, ECC Agriculture & Renewable Energy Center
Tuesday, Feb. 25
Contact: Hardin County Extension Office, 641-648-4850
*Shenandoah, Iowa Western Community College
Thursday, Feb. 27
Contact: Page County Extension Office, 712-542-5171
Moving Beyond the Basics: This multi-session program focuses on financial literacy and takes learning to a deeper level. Moving Beyond the Basics is modeled after the nationwide Annie's Project for Farm and Ranch Women. "This program will give women the opportunity to evaluate record keeping systems and test-drive accounting software in a classroom setting," said Kristin Schulte. "Knowing the resources available for analyzing your financial position will make you better able to ride periods of low prices and farm income."
*Cass County Extension Office, Atlantic
Monday Evenings; Jan. 27– Feb. 17; 6 - 9 p.m.
Contact: Kate Olsen at 712-243-1132 or Tim Eggers at 712-303-7781
*Chickasaw County Extension Office, New Hampton
Tuesday Evenings; Jan. 28 – Feb. 18; 6 - 9 p.m.
Contact: Danielle Day at 641-394-2174 or Kristen Schulte at 563-547-3001
*Hardin County Extension Office, Iowa Falls
Wednesday Evenings; March 5 – March 26; 6 - 9 p.m.
Contact: Kelvin Leibold at 641-648-4850
Deep Water or High Tide and Moving Beyond the Basics are being offered at various locations in Ohio and Iowa and have been developed through a grant from the North Central Risk Management Education Center and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Visit the Ag Decision Maker website for further details.


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The Basics:
With a cabinet measuring 59" H x 20" W x 25.5 D and weighing in at 412 lbs., sound is the only big thing that Thor's Hammer from Wilson Audio brings. At its core, Thor's Hammer has two 15" woofers with a dual-spider cone design (based on long-throw woofers) that lowers distortions and delivers dynamic audio. It has a generous frequency range of 15Hz-70Hz. An optional outboard crossover means easy integration to your full range system.
It can support other popular Wilson Audio components like MAXX version 3, WATT Puppy version 8, and Alexandria loudspeakers with its very capable 93 dB speaker. In addition, Thor's Hammer includes an essential and unique Wilson Audio Controller that integrates all this advanced technologies into your whole music system, acting as both a crossover and equalizer. Therefore, you can faultlessly get a hybrid music sound system and home theater system. The Controller even makes it easy to switch between these two modes without quality loss in the process. In fact, it optimizes both based on your specific needs.
The Upside:
Thankfully, much like its large size, Wilson Audio Thor's Hammer is also large in performance for a subwoofer. It can precisely hit 16 Hertz at full volume (equivalent to the lowest note of a pipe organ according to company literature). Even artificially-created audio like synthesizers gain a natural sound. Furthermore, high-definition audio tracks on Blu-ray (DTS Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD) are similarly unbelievably lifelike, and indeed are larger than life.
At a price of about $21,000, it is also a PLUS that the Wilson Audio Thor's Hammer is solidly built with a luxuriously smooth finish and praiseworthy detail.
The Downside:
Since Thor's Hammer is not a powered subwoofer, it still requires an amplifier to use your audio system's "Point 1" channel. This will obviously add an extra cost. However, audiophiles willing to already invest this much probably won't be dissuaded.
Committed audiophiles making this big of an investment will get what they paid for with Wilson Audio Thor's Hammer. You won't find anything on the market that will deliver high-performance like this. However, because you are making a sizeable investment, you should want everything to run perfect. Consulting a Wilson Audio dealer to help you setup your system is highly recommended, including helping you figure out room treatments and speaker placements beforehand.


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Pharotis imogene
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Pharotis imogene Thomas, 1914
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|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) B1ab(i,ii,iii); D ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Bonaccorso, F., Hamilton, S. & Parnaby, H.
|Lamoreux, J. (Global Mammal Assessment Team), Racey, P.A., Medellín, R. & Hutson, A.M. (Chiroptera Red List Authority)
Listed as Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) because if this species still exists it is likely to have a very small population size, and small range size that is subject to a continued decline in extent of occurrence, area of occupancy, and the extent and quality of habitat. This species has not been recorded in more than 100 years (since 1890) and it is known only from a rapidly changing portion of southeastern Papua New Guinea. There is still a possibility that new survey methods to the region, particularly harp traps, might lead to the rediscovery of this species and such surveys are urgently needed.
|Date last seen:
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species has only been recorded with certainty from Kamali on the lower Kemp Welch River, in the Central Province of South-eastern New Guinea in 1890. According to Flannery (1995) 45 individuals (probably a maternity colony) were collected by Dr. L. Loria, but only four of these specimens can now be accounted for. The species has been collected from below 100 m asl.
There is a record of an animal collected at Kapa Kapa by Dr. Loria, but this specimen has been lost. According to Bonaccorso (1998) a single specimen was collected in 1985 from the crown of a Pandanus tree in Rogut Village along the Tuman River in Central Province. This specimen was destroyed in 1992. However, in 1988, a careful examination of the specimen (PM 25374), including measurements, was done as part of an ongoing revision of bats in the genus Nyctophilus confirmed that it did not belong to Pharotis imogene, but instead represented Nyctophilus microdon (Parnaby pers. comm.).
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Possibly extinct:Papua New Guinea
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|Bonaccorso (1998) believes that this species is still extant, but that it is very difficult to survey with standard collecting methods, and that surveying with harp traps near potential roost sites at known localities is needed.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|It roosts communally in lowland sclerophyll woodland habitat, although it is not known whether the species roosts in trees or in caves (Bonaccorso 1998). Even the general habitat is not known for certain, but is assumed to be either savanna woodland, and/or lowland rainforest patches in savanna woodlands.
|Major Threat(s):
|This species is threatened by habitat loss around human population centres such as the Kamali district by reduction of area and quality of the small rainforest patches in savanna woodland, both by encroachment by fire, and human activities, particularly fire wood collection (S. Hamilton pers. comm.). If the species roosts in tree cavities, loss of such trees by fire is a likely threat.
|Conservation Actions:
|This species has not been recorded from any protected areas. Field surveys using appropriate sampling techniques (e.g., harp traps) are urgently needed to determine if this species is still extant. This is one of the highest priorities for surveys in Papua New Guinea (F. Bonaccorso pers. comm.). Any important roosting or foraging sites should be protected.
|Bonaccorso, F., Hamilton, S. & Parnaby, H. 2008. Pharotis imogene. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T16887A6543777. . Downloaded on 19 September 2018.
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DALLAS (AP) - State law requiring voters to show picture identification is causing some hiccups at early-voting locations around Texas.
The Dallas Morning News reports that rules requiring that a voter's name on IDs exactly match that listed in voter registration databases are especially problematic.
Some Texans participating in early voting ahead of the Nov. 5 election have complained.
State officials say that if names are "substantially similar," a voter can immediately sign an affidavit verifying his or her identity, and then vote.
Another option is casting a provisional ballot, then providing supporting information later.
The law was approved in 2011 but didn't take effect until recently because of legal challenges.
It requires voters to produce picture IDs, including a Texas driver's license, a concealed handgun license or an election ID certificate.


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Tom Cruise Forced to Explain His Un–Jack Reacherish Body
"Why aren't you a behemoth like the REAL Jack Reacher, Tom?"
Tom Cruise, basically average white male, is suddenly being forced to justify that averageness after decades of unchallenged action-heroism. Reuters, perhaps dissatisfied no one in the media got a meatier answer out of Lenny Kravitz when he was craaazily cast as the maybe-but-not-definitely-black Cinna in The Hunger Games, decided to go after Cruise. Why? Hello! The guy doesn't have the exact physique boasted by the original Jack Reacher character written in Lee Childs's thriller series. Take it away, Reuters: "Cruise, 50, is just 5 foot 7 inches tall according to the Internet Movie Database, and has a trim physique." Undocumented is the next part, where the reporter exasperatedly asked, "So Tom, why aren't you like 6'2" at least? Movies don't really, um ... change things from books. How can you even conceive playing this killer brute?"
"You know, [Child] created the character," Cruise answered. "I had my own opinion that I didn't say to Lee and then he came back and pretty much reflected what I had felt about it. But had he said 'look I'd rather not,' I would not have played the character." Cruise went on to identify Reacher's size as a characteristic, not so much an entire being. Then we assume he went off the record and asked Reuters what Daniel Day-Lewis told them when they asked how he tackled the role of Abraham Lincoln, having not been born in 1809.


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In 1992 he published his book, "1994?" in which he predicted Sept. 6, 1994, as the beginning of the end. Undeterred by that non-happening, Camping did some re-calculating and published another book in 2008, "We Are Almost There!" He conveniently forgot to mention his 1994 prediction's failure to launch.
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