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How would you describe the typical Southeastern farm? It might be difficult, considering the extraordinary diversity of the region's agriculture, with a crop mix including everything from peanuts and tobacco to blueberries and strawberries.
"One of the things folks don't understand is that Southern agriculture is totally different from the Corn Belt, the High Plains or anywhere else," says Stanley Fletcher, agricultural economist with the University of Georgia and the National Center for Peanut Competitiveness (NCPC).
"Whenever a Southeastern grower says he has a 1,200-acre peanut farm, he isn't talking about 1,200 acres of nothing but peanuts. He may have peanuts, corn, cotton, vegetables, tobacco, hay, soybeans and wheat. This is the mix of a typical Southeastern peanut farm. But you'd be surprised at how many folks in the United States don't understand this basic premise. This changes their view of Southeast agriculture," says Fletcher.
Presenting a more accurate view of Southeastern peanut farms was one of the aims when the NCPC began establishing Southeastern representative peanut farms, he says. The project, explains Fletcher, is being coordinated with the support of the Cooperative Extension Service and local county agents and with the cooperation of the Agricultural Food and Policy Center (AFPC) at Texas A&M University.
The AFPC, he continues, has a 20-year history of designing such representative panel farms used in analyzing the impacts of agricultural policy and environmental issues. Under this project, 11 representative Southeastern peanut farms — soon to be 12 — representing Georgia, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina were developed with the intention of adding more farms as needed to represent various areas.
"The information gathered from these representative farms is used to analyze the impacts of the potential adoption of alternative production technologies, environmental regulations, water usage and other potential changes in peanut production.
"Basically, any time an issue comes up from a technological, regulatory or policy-type avenue, these farms can be used to see how they'll be affected. This type of information will allow peanut farmers to know ahead of time how a particular issue might affect their operations and, therefore, respond in a proactive way," says Fletcher.
Each farm, he explains, was developed by a panel of approximately six producers of similar size, geographic location and production practices to derive a consensus farm that is representative of the area. Producers were selected with the help of local county Extension agents.
The process of building the representative farms involved focus group-type interviews, says Fletcher. The producers selected attended a half-day meeting. They were asked questions related to the size, practices, crop mixes, machinery, equipment, labor, etc., and related costs of their operations. Panel members then derived a consensus farm representative of the area based on this information.
Preliminary pro forma financial statements are developed for the farm and reviewed by each panel. The panel members discuss these results via conference calls, follow-up meetings or through communicating with facilitators until the panel is satisfied that the results are reasonable for their representative farm. Once each representative farm is satisfactory with the respective panel members, they are used to analyze the impacts of alternative policies on their economic viability.
Given the changes occurring in the peanut industry since the passage of the 2002 farm bill, it's important, says Fletcher, that these representative farms are updated in a timely fashion to account for the changes that will be made at the farm level. The projects began in the spring of 2002, and the farms were updated at the beginning of 2003 to reflect any changes brought about by the change in farm policy.
"The cultivated acreage and crop mix for these representative farms exemplifies the uniqueness and diversity of the multi-culture system typical in the Southeast. Several of the farms have similar cultivated acres, but they have a much different crop and irrigation mix."
Eight of the farms also have beef cattle operations with pasture and hay, he says. One of these farms includes hay and pasture acreage in the rotation. For the other seven farms, pasture and hay are permanent on land either with no intention of including in a rotation or land unsuitable to be included in the rotation.
One farm includes a chicken operation consisting of three chicken houses that turn out five batches per house per year. One farm also includes double-cropped snap beans. The farms also represent a mixture of tillage and other cultural practices.
There also is diversity in the rental/ownership and irrigation of the farms, says Fletcher. The percentage of rented cropland ranges from 30 percent up to 85 percent, while the range of irrigation is from zero to 95 percent.
Diversity also can be seen, he says, in the expected yields of the representative farms. For irrigated peanuts, the expected yields ranged from 3,400 to 4,000 pounds per acre. For dryland peanuts, the expected yields ranged from 2,250 to 3,300 pounds per acre. The expected yields for irrigated cotton ranged from 850 to 1,000 pounds per acre while the expected yields for dryland cotton ranged from 455 to 750 pounds per acre.
The expected yield for irrigated corn ranged from 170 to 175 bushels per acre. For dryland corn, the expected yield dropped to 70 bushels per acre. The expected yields for wheat ranged from 50 to 80 bushels per acre.
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Steven Spielberg Developing Napoleon Biopic Written by Stanley Kubrick
It'll be a miniseries.
Steven Spielberg is working on a Napoleon script Stanley Kubrick wrote in 1961 and abandoned in the seventies. Spielberg told a French TV station he's developing the project as a miniseries. In 1971, Kubrick said of the biopic, "It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made." Spielberg made A.I. after Kubrick passed over the reins, so he's got experience in this area.

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Active Listening, Music Education, and Society
Dan Mamlok
A common definition of listening distinguishes between hearing and listening. The basic distinction describes hearing as a passive action of perceiving sounds, whereas listening involves paying active attention to various layers and elements of what one is hearing. Active listening to music, featuring the discerning of sounds, musical structures, harmonies, and the interrelations between the sounds, is akin to contemplating complex ideas. Providing meaning for this nexus of relationships requires listeners to grapple with these complex musical nuances, listening to different layers of the melody and harmony and connecting them to cultural and historical aspects. Challenging students to grapple with the complex nuances of musical pieces, to listen to different layers of the melody and harmony, and to connect those elements to cultural and historical aspects will provide them the opportunity to reflect upon the social and cultural contexts in which they live. The concept of what it means to be active (or mindful) has been examined from various perspectives and theories and holds great potential in advancing individual growth and social sensitivity.
Adult Education, Community, and Learning for Democracy in Scotland
Jim Crowther, Aileen Ackland, Margaret Petrie, and David Wallace
Historically, the relationship between adult education and democracy has been one of mutual synergy with education providing the context for thoughtful reflection and democratic action. The social purpose of adult education was precisely in its contribution to making the world a more socially just and more democratic place. However, this relationship has been eroded over the years as adult education and democratic life have become increasingly distanced from each other. Can this be repaired? This is the central theme of this entry, which is explored through trends relating to adult education, community, and democracy, and articulated through the particular experiences of the Scottish context we are familiar with. This article argues that adult education can enrich democratic culture and practice and that in turn democratic issues and debates can energize and stimulate adult education.
While the Scottish lens is distinctive, our argument has a broader reference point, as the neoliberal economic forces and subjectivities shaping adult education are global and pervasive, busily percolating in, down and across all sectors and levels of education. Our claim is that adult education can still play a critical role in nurturing democratic life. Rather than abandon democracy, the task of education is to deepen it at all levels and ensure politics is educative. From this view, adult education for democracy can reinvigorate the culture and institutions of democracy and, in the process, help to reclaim the lodestone—or soul—of adult education. For some readers, this may seem a nebulous idea; however, for others it will mean that which animates what is worthwhile in adult education. A profession without a soul is a dead one.
This article is a collaborative effort that draws from different university institutions involved in the training and formation of community educators. Together these institutions represent a spectrum of the Scottish university sector involved in this work and bring to this analysis considerable experience. Although different interests and distinctive emphases are represented in the perspectives here, this entry focuses on common ideas and values. We start therefore by situating ourselves in terms of professional, political, ideological, and theoretical orientations.
Assistive Technology to Enhance Inclusive Education
Dianne Chambers
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Please check back later for the full article.
Schools, teachers, and students are increasingly able to access and apply assistive technology to enhance inclusion within mainstream classrooms. The assistive technology may take the form of simple, easy-to-use, low-tech devices, or they may encompass more sophisticated, highly complicated devices that require training and greater levels of support to manage. To ensure that a classroom is truly inclusive, the teacher and other professionals involved in supporting children with disabilities and using assistive technology require appropriate knowledge and skills to bring potential to reality. The knowledge concerning what is available in the field of assistive technology is merely the starting point. Inclusive educators also require expertise in selecting devices and services, including the student in decision making, implementing the assistive technology within an inclusive setting, and assessing the effectiveness of the assistive technology to meet the needs of the student and the classroom.
There are many successful examples of assistive technology being successfully embedded into the practices of inclusive settings, but there is still some way to go to ensure this is a seamless approach and one that is universally informed by practice. While legislation can go some way toward mandating the use of assistive technology, teachers and schools are really at the forefront of implementation. There are many benefits and difficulties associated with adopting assistive technology to support students with disabilities, particularly in developing countries. While the challenges may be great, the potential for assistive technology to impact significantly on the educational, social, and recreational outcomes for students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms is immense.
Authenticity in Education
Lauren Bialystok
Authenticity is a concept with an impressive history in Western philosophy and a significant hold on the modern imagination. Inseparable from conceptions of truth and individual fulfillment, authenticity remains a powerful ideal, even as it eludes precise definition. Recently it has also become an organizing principle for many educational initiatives. Education, like authenticity, is opposed to dissimulation, ignorance, manipulation, and related states of misalignment between truth and experience. There is widespread enthusiasm for the promotion of authenticity across different types of education and in the personal identity of educators and students. Most of the scholarly literature pertaining to authenticity in education falls outside the scope of philosophical inquiry. But in all cases, the pursuit of authenticity in education rests on various philosophical assumptions about the nature of truth, reality, ethics, and, ultimately, the aims of education.
With the influence of Dewey and 20th-century progressive movements in education, authenticity entered the vernacular of educational theory and practice. Attention to the relationship between learning environments and the "real" world has generated pervasive commitments to authentic learning, authentic pedagogies, authentic curriculum, and authentic assessment practices. Here, "authenticity" is used to track the verisimilitude of an educational practice with respect to some external reality. It constitutes an ontological claim about levels of "reality," as well as an epistemological attitude toward learning as the construction of knowledge. In this respect, authenticity intersects debates about constructivism and relativism in education. Likewise, teachers are exhorted to be authentic qua teachers, elevating their true selves above institutional anonymity as a key part of effective teaching. This phenomenon trades on the values of truthfulness and autonomy that are prized in Western modernity but also problematized in the personal identity and ethics literature. The authenticity of students has also been championed as an educational aim, even as the methods for eliciting authenticity in others have been criticized as self-defeating or culturally limiting. Personal authenticity stands in a contested relationship to autonomy, which has been promoted as the key aim of liberal education. The project of creating authentic people through education remains an intense site of research and debate, with important implications for educational ethics and liberal values.
Autonomy and Education
Peter Nelson
Fostering self-direction in students has long been an aim for both educators and parents as they fear the potentially coercive influence of peer pressure and the many sources that compete to influence what we think and what we do. These fears have motivated educational philosophers to explore the contours of what such self-direction or autonomous thought and action entails on the demands of individual thinking and behavior but also on the types of educational environments needed to foster its emergence. Likewise, educational philosophers have also argued the merits of promoting autonomy in public schools out of fears that some forms of autonomy may limit the ranges of conceptions of the good life that are available to students; many are concerned that promoting autonomy may inspire students to reject family and community ways of life. Despite those concerns, drawing upon thought that traces back to the ancient Greeks, contemporary educational philosophers continue to debate the contours of and justifications for an autonomy promoting education.
Chinese Education in Malaysia
Ming Chee Ang
Despite the fact that Mandarin is not accorded official language status in Malaysia, and that ethnic Chinese communities accounted for less than 30% of the country's overall population, Malaysia is the only country outside China and Taiwan with a comprehensive and complete Chinese education system. It is also the only country in Southeast Asia that has perpetuated the Chinese education system established during the colonial era.
The prolonged endurance of the Chinese education system in Malaysia is the result of many factors: heavy brokerage and lobbying efforts by ethnic Chinese political leaders; incorporation of vernacular schools into the Malay-dominated national education system in the backdrop of the Malayan nation formation stage; social mobilization of the Chinese education movement in Malaysia; and the increasing significance of Mandarin proficiency in the world.
In particular, the assimilation policies for nation building by the Malay-dominated regime have threatened the cultural distinctiveness of the Chinese-speaking communities. Resistance from the Chinese speaking minorities is manifested through their support of the Chinese schools. Moreover, the elimination of English schools during the 1970s has unintentionally favored the Chinese primary schools. Despite their standing at that time as the "second-best" option after the English school, Chinese schools that offered the benefit of trilingual education, stricter discipline, and more competitive academic performance enjoyed an accelerated boost in student enrollments. More importantly, many parents who do not speak Chinese began to appreciate the quality of Chinese schools, and the enrollment of non-ethnic Chinese students has continued to rise ever since.
Above all, China's rapid economic ascendancy and growing political influence since the 1990s has enhanced the importance of Mandarin as a global language. This has added value to the importance of Chinese schools as language and cultural learning institutions for Malaysian. Such opportunity has enabled the Chinese school model to become one of the most successful and inclusive educational institutions for multicultural Malaysians.
Citizenship and Ethics
Dianne Gereluk
The dominant premise underlying contemporary educational theory and practice is that citizens are members of political communities who have inherent rights as part of that membership and concomitant responsibilities that inform their beliefs, commitments, capabilities, and actions as members of these same communities. How individuals govern themselves in relation to others within the political community is a primary aim of education in contemporary policy documents, aims, and objectives statements. Yet, despite the urgency and salience of students learning to live together in the face of social division and conflict, the framing of citizenship and ethics in schools varies at least as much as the different visions of what constitutes a good citizen in the first place. This lack of consensus is reflected in how and where citizenship is framed in schools, how it is considered in policy, and how it is interpreted and facilitated in classrooms. Various educational theorists have also conceptualized the notion of citizenship and its place in schools. The variety of perspectives on these questions underscores the difficulties that educators experience in navigating ethical challenges in an educational and social context, where citizenship has become a publicly contested issue.
Community Participation in School Management in Developing Countries
Mikiko Nishimura
Community participation in school management has great potentials for removing mistrust and distance between people and schools by nurturing transparency of information and a culture of mutual respect and by jointly pursuing improvement of school by sharing vision, process, and results. Individual and organizational behavioral changes are critical to increase the level of participation. In countries where the administrative structures are weak, the bottom-up approach to expanding educational opportunity and quality learning may be the only option.
Nevertheless, when community participation is implemented with a top-down manner without wider consultation on its aims, processes, and expected results, the consequences are likely to be conflicts between actors, a strong sense of overwhelming obligation, fatigue, inertia, and disparity in the degree and results of community participation between communities. Political aspects of school management and socio-cultural difference among the population require caution, as they are likely to induce partial participation or nonparticipation of the community at large. Community participation in school management will result in a long-term impact only if it involves a wide range of actors who can discuss and practice the possibilities of revisiting the definition of community and the way it should be.
Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Higher Education in India and Globally
Prabhat Patnaik
There are two alternative perspectives on higher education, one of which sees it as a means of augmenting the recipient's employment prospects and earning capacity through the imparting of skills, while the other sees it as fulfilling a social role beyond merely supplying skilled personnel. While the conversion of higher education into a commodity that is sold for profit in commercially run private institutions is in sync with the first perspective, the second demands that education should be primarily the responsibility of the government and should be mainly publicly funded. The second perspective informed the anti-colonial struggle in the developing world and the policies of the dirigiste regimes that came up post-decolonization. But under the subsequent neoliberal regime, the first perspective has come to the fore, and there has been a significant commoditization of higher education. This has the effect of excluding large numbers of students from deprived backgrounds from the ambit of higher education, of constricting free and creative thinking, and consequently of destroying rational discourse and giving free rein to fascist, semi-fascist, and fundamentalist forces that can do great damage to the fragile structures of developing societies. An awareness of these dangers is necessary if appropriate interventions to prevent such a denouement are to be undertaken in the sphere of higher education.
Critical Race Theory
Paula Groves Price
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Please check back later for the full article.
Race has historically been, and continues to be, a significant issue in all aspects of American society. In the field of education, racial inequality is prominent in the areas of access, opportunity, and outcomes. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a framework that offers researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers a race-conscious approach to understanding educational inequality and structural racism to find solutions that lead to greater justice. Placing race at the center of analysis, Critical Race Theory scholars interrogate policies and practices that are taken for granted to uncover the overt and covert ways that racist ideologies, structures, and institutions create and maintain racial inequality.
In the field of education, CRT is a helpful tool for analyzing policy issues such as school funding, segregation, language policies, discipline policies, and testing and accountability policies. It is also helpful for critically examining the larger issues of epistemology and knowledge production, which are reflected in curriculum and pedagogy. As education is one of the major institutions of knowledge production and dissemination, CRT scholars often push the field to critically examine the master or dominant narratives reproduced in schools and the counter-narratives that are silenced. CRT is a theoretical framework that provides education researchers, policy makers, and practitioners with critical lenses to deconstruct oppressive policies and practices and to construct more emancipatory systems for racial equity and justice.


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Do Double-duty with a Dovetail Jig
I was intrigued with Nick Engler's Ingenious Jigs article from December 2001 that showed you how to make a jig for cutting perfect dados in the sides of case pieces. After my last project, where the routing was the most repetitious and boring part of the piece, I thought there should be an easier way. I wasn't happy with the dados made using my router table, radial arm saw or table saw. I don't like to take the time to make a jig, even though some have been proven helpful and many times reusable.
In looking around my shop, my eye alighted on my commercial dovetail jig. It had all the properties of the jig from the article: a good, straight, sturdy hold-down clamp with a wide throat to accommodate wide boards or even multiple boards needing the same dado. The clamp that holds boards in the jig makes a perfect fence for my router. When running multiple boards, I did take the precaution of clamping the pieces together with another clamp to prevent them from slipping in the jig, as many times slight variances of wood thickness will allow this to happen.
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Cappex Comic: Dream College
This comic, which explores college admissions for dream colleges, is the latest in a series of comic strips that explore the absurd aspects of college admissions and financial aid.
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Mar 5, 2013
A while ago we talked about different SMS apps for Android. These text messaging apps were a total replacement for the stock messaging app. The benefit of those apps is they have a whole lot of new features. While this is great for some people, others just want an added feature like a pop-up window when they receive a new message. For these people there are SMS add-on apps like the ones in this list. Let's have a look at some text messaging add-on apps.
SMS Popup Alert
Only a few stock SMS apps have some sort of option to show a pop-up window for new incoming messages. This saves some clicking or opening up the notification bar to see who the message was from and what it said. Once installed, a pop-up window will appear with the incoming message displayed in it. There is a choice to reply or drag it to the trash right from the pop-up window. This may not work with 3rd party SMS apps.
SMS Backup +
SMS Backup + is a great app for backing up message threads. When a message thread gets into the 1000 messages or longer range, some phones or apps can slow down and take a whole to load the thread. Having an app to backup the messages, deleting them every couple of days is easier to do. They are backed up to Gmail and placed in a label called SMS. Also, SMS Backup + will backup call logs and place them in Google Calendar if desired. This is great for people who need to track calls for work or other reasons.
Vault-Hide SMS, Pics & Videos
From time to time there may be a need to hide a picture or message from prying eyes. Using an app like Vault-Hide will surely do the trick. Not only is there an option to hide images, SMS messages and even Facebook messages can be hidden from people trying to see who is chatting or sending images. I know there are a lot of reasons to hide a picture or message from people. Not only for the inappropriate images, it can be for work messages that might be sensitive and shouldn't be seen by other people.


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Finding and saving files on HoloLens works differently than it does on a Windows PC or phone. HoloLens doesn't have an application like File Explorer. So if you create Microsoft Office or other documents on your HoloLens, you'll need to save them to the cloud to use them later. Install and set up OneDrive for an easy way to save docs and other files to the cloud. To get OneDrive, search for it in Microsoft Store on your HoloLens.
Photos and videos that you take on your HoloLens will automatically be saved in the Photos app and synced to OneDrive when the Photos app is open.
If an app saves files on your device, you'll get to them from that app.
App files and data aren't backed up, so they'll be deleted if you uninstall the app or reset your HoloLens. Any files you've saved to OneDrive won't be affected.


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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Amnesty International called on Friday for comprehensive reforms within the Dominican Republic's police department following the fatal shooting of a medical student during a protest.
The human rights group accused the department of a high number of police abuses, including torture and extrajudicial killings. The group also accused police of throwing tear gas while people tried to help the victim, 22-year-old Willy Florian, after he was shot Thursday.
"Florian's tragic death should lead to urgent measures to prevent more unlawful killings in the future," said Javier Zuniga, special adviser to Amnesty International.
Florian was shot as dozens of students protesting a sales tax increase clashed with police, but he was not one of the demonstrators. A police officer and a bus ticket collector who also was not participating in the protest were injured.
Authorities said they had a video of one protester firing a weapon at police.
The department has appointed a commission to investigate the shooting.
Police chief Jose Armando Polanco on Friday blamed the police commander in charge at the protest. He "did not do what was needed to ensure that these police officers store their weapons and not use them," the chief said.
At least 19 officers were detained after the shooting at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, the Caribbean country's largest university.
Dominican President Danilo Medina has called for an investigation and condemned the use of violence.
Medina presented the disputed tax legislation as a way to help close the $4.6 billion deficit in the government's budget. The measure was approved and will increase the general sales tax to 18 percent from 16 percent. It also will raise the price of gasoline 5 cents a gallon and impose taxes on basic food products, including a 10 percent tax on coffee and cooking oil, a levy that is increase to 18 percent by 2016.


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Will Los Angeles bring its cougars back from the brink?
In fall of 2011, biologists Dan Cooper and Miguel Ordeñana installed 13 remote cameras in a 4,000-acre patch of wild hills known as Griffith Park, above Los Angeles, Calif. Each month, they combed through predictable images of a near-urban ecosystem: Coyotes marking, bobcats stalking, deer browsing the chaparral. One evening last March, however, they got a shock: A photo captured at 9:15 p.m. on Feb. 12 showed a large cat-like creature ambling along a trail above the iconic Hollywood sign. There could be no doubt: It was a mountain lion.
Until that moment, the only surprising sight had been the occasional homeless person. "It was like finding Bigfoot," Cooper says. "The difference being that Bigfoot doesn't exist, so you couldn't really hope for it."
Griffith Park is, technically, part of the Santa Monica Mountains, which begin in slide-prone bluffs along the Southern California coast, rise to 3,000 feet and then taper off until they disappear at the Los Angeles River, 45 miles inland. The mountains, state parks, open space preserves and a recreation area managed by the National Park Service form a patchwork ecosystem that functions, albeit in a strangled way, as it has for thousands of years, and not least because the cougar has persisted here as a native predator. Only eight to 10 lions remain in the mountain range, all in the western reaches. But they still play a key role managing deer and coyote. Cooper, who monitors the park on behalf of local neighborhood groups, was gratified to have documented the first evidence of a mountain lion so far east, on this "very constricted peninsula of habitat" in the city.
Cooper called National Park Service biologist Jeff Sikich, who leads a research team studying the Santa Monica lions. Sikich managed to capture the lion, take blood samples and fit it with a GPS collar. A genetics lab at the University of California at Los Angeles determined that it had indeed been born in the Santa Monicas. The biologists named it P-22 -- the 22nd puma Park Service researchers had collared since their study began in 2002.
Puma concolor, alternately called the mountain lion, puma or cougar, is not an urban predator; it has not adapted, like the coyote or the raven, to the perilous bounty of cohabitation with humans. That P-22 made it to the Hollywood Hills is close to a miracle. A 3-year-old, 110-pound male, the lion was probably looking for his own home territory to avoid a turf battle with another male lion, the most common cause of death among his kind here. Cooper surmises that he followed a deer into the park, first crossing one freeway screaming with traffic and negotiating his way through golf courses, swimming pools and clusters of six-bedroom homes with ocean views.
Once he arrived east, he stayed. "We've learned that the whole park is its territory," Cooper says. But it's a tiny, lonely one. P-22 may find enough meals in the park's other wildlife. What he won't do is find a mate. "Where the lion can go from here," Cooper says, "that's really an open question."
It's not just a question that applies to P-22. The Santa Monica Mountains' big cats die in all kinds of ways: on freeways, ingesting rat poison, shot by poachers. But there is no greater threat to their survival than the simple fact that they are imprisoned where they're born. Any route out can be deadly for an individual lion. No way out will ultimately be deadly for them all.
When I meet Jeff Sikich one August morning on a Malibu road in the heart of the mountains, I think they've sent the wrong guy. The 37-year-old looks too young to be the world-renowned expert I've read about. Only when he takes off his park-ranger cadet cap do I notice a few convincing flecks of gray in his close-cut hair. He is tall, thin, taciturn and focused. When I ask him whether it's a bother having journalists tag along during his work, he answers promptly: "Yes."
Sikich travels frequently to Peru to study the pumas of the Andes; he recently taught South African biologists his darting techniques. But most of his work is more mundane: trudging up hills, radio in hand, waving a duct-taped antenna in the air and listening for beeps from a box. Sometimes he walks dirt trails or bushwhacks through the sage and poison oak to get at his target. Other times he drives up steep roads in suburban neighborhoods, startling their elderly residents. ("Is he a police officer?" one freshly coiffed octogenarian in smart green sandals asks me. "No," I assure her. "He's a biologist.")
The beeps come in different frequencies to distinguish individual lions. Listening is exacting work: Even on Sandstone Peak -- at 3,111 feet, the mountains' highest point -- lawn mowers, weed whackers and boats at sea all interfere with the pings Sikich is looking for, which emanate from a collared mother and her two four-month-old kittens. When Sikich hears them, he pencils in the time and GPS coordinates on a ledger.
It's early still; fog from the ocean settles in the gaps between the green-and-dun mountains. "Mom's been here the past two nights," Sikich says, pointing inland to a small granite escarpment. "She probably made a deer kill, buried it, then went back and grabbed the kittens who were over on the other side of that ridge."
Mom is P-19, the lone survivor of four born in May 2010; her kittens arrived last April. Biologists thought it a hopeful sign that P-19 would whelp so young, right on schedule; it meant she had food. But the kittens' blood tests were less encouraging; they showed P-19 had mated with P-12, an itinerant male from a larger habitat to the north. P-12 had fathered two litters of kittens before. Among them was P-19.
The father-daughter tryst was the second instance of first-order inbreeding documented among the Santa Monica Mountains' puma population. The lions are now at risk for what biologists call "inbreeding depression" -- the same fate that befell a puma subspecies, the Florida panther, 20 years ago.


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Ohio muzzleloader hunters enjoyed warm weather as they killed 5,608 antlerless white-tailed deer during the new antlerless-only muzzleloader hunting weekend Oct. 12-13, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR).
"Ohio's first antlerless-only muzzleloader deer season was a success, and we are pleased so many hunters participated," said ODNR Director James Zehringer. "We remain committed to providing Ohio's sportsmen and women with some of the best hunting opportunities in the nation."
The new antlerless muzzleloader weekend was the first opportunity to take advantage of Ohio's new extended hunting hours. A half hour of golden opportunity hunting time after sunset was added to all of this year's upcoming deer-gun hunting seasons.
The Ohio counties that reported the most checked deer during the 2013 antlerless-only muzzleloader season: Ashtabula (200), Licking (164), Guernsey (144), Muskingum (143), Knox (141), Coshocton (138), Adams (135), Columbiana (128), Carroll (120), Athens (117) and Trumbull (117).
The ODNR Division of Wildlife remains committed to properly managing Ohio's deer populations through a combination of regulatory and programmatic changes. This new early muzzleloader season also serves to help manage the state's deer herd. Progress toward reducing locally abundant herds can be expected, and strides have been made to reduce deer herds in many counties closer to target levels.
Ohio hunters are encouraged to hunt more does this season to help the needy in their area. The ODNR Division of Wildlife is working with Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) to help pay for the processing of donated venison. Hunters who donate their deer to a food bank are not required to pay the processing cost as long as funding for the effort lasts. More information about this program can be found online at fhfh.org.
Deer hunting in Ohio continues to be a popular activity for many who enjoy the outdoors. Ohio hunters checked 218,910 deer during the 2012-2013 season. Ohio ranks fifth nationally in resident hunters and 11th in the number of jobs associated with hunting-related industries. Hunting has a more than $853 million economic impact in Ohio through the sale of equipment, fuel, food, lodging and more, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation's Hunting in America: An Economic Force for Conservation publication. Find more information about Ohio deer hunting at wildohio.com.
A list of all white-tailed deer checked by muzzleloader hunters during the 2013 antlerless muzzleloader hunting season, Oct. 12-13, is shown below. The antlerless muzzleloader harvest numbers do not include archery numbers.
Adams: 135; Allen: 46; Ashland: 111; Ashtabula: 200; Athens: 117; Auglaize: 39; Belmont: 99; Brown: 94; Butler: 57; Carroll: 120; Champaign: 36; Clark: 28; Clermont: 91; Clinton: 34; Columbiana: 128; Coshocton: 138; Crawford: 32; Cuyahoga: 5; Darke: 26; Defiance: 48; Delaware: 38; Erie: 25; Fairfield: 51; Fayette: 7; Franklin: 9; Fulton: 29; Gallia: 60; Geauga: 63; Greene: 26; Guernsey: 144; Hamilton: 18; Hancock: 31; Hardin: 43; Harrison: 115; Henry: 14; Highland: 79; Hocking: 103; Holmes: 89; Huron: 80; Jackson: 62; Jefferson: 82; Knox: 141; Lake: 18; Lawrence: 54; Licking: 164; Logan: 77; Lorain: 83; Lucas: 28; Madison: 19; Mahoning: 75; Marion: 27; Medina: 68; Meigs: 88; Mercer: 26; Miami: 20; Monroe: 68; Montgomery: 18; Morgan: 65; Morrow: 53; Muskingum: 143; Noble: 83; Ottawa: 10; Paulding: 56; Perry: 54; Pickaway: 18; Pike: 51; Portage: 64; Preble: 41; Putnam: 33; Richland: 105; Ross: 85; Sandusky: 27; Scioto: 64; Seneca: 69; Shelby: 63; Stark: 66; Summit: 9; Trumbull: 117; Tuscarawas: 115; Union: 32; Van Wert: 19; Vinton: 79; Warren: 39; Washington: 72; Wayne: 83; Williams: 93; Wood: 16 and Wyandot: 58. Total: 5,608.


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Dear Professor Einstien, Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children
The letters themselves take up only 110 pages out of this 230 page book. At first I was disappointed and felt jipped that less than half of this collection of letters was actually letters. But the forward, preface, and especially the short biographies, were helpful, and pleasing. They weren't just boring facts that were crammed in to give it more pages. As I scanned through the book just after I got it, I also felt kind of ripped off that most of t...


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St. Bonaventure University's Army ROTC program hosted the Seneca Battalion spring awards ceremony and ROTC Hall of Fame induction ceremony Saturday, March 29, in the Rigas Theater in the Quick Center for the Arts.
The Hall of Fame ceremony honored two inductees: Col. Giac P. Modica, '56, and Col. Beverly Schwenk Pritchett, '79, both retired.
Col. Giac P. Modica (ret.)
Giac P. Modica enrolled as a student at St. Bonaventure College after graduating from Southside High School in Elmira, N.Y. An Army ROTC cadet, he graduated in 1956 with a bachelor's degree and a commission as an artillery second lieutenant.
After completing the Field Artillery Officer Basic Course, he reported to Fort Bragg, N.C., where he served as a battery XO in a 155mm artillery battalion and battery XO of a 155mm self-propelled howitzer battalion. Modica was transferred to Baumholder, Germany, and became the reconnaissance and survey officer, and later gun platoon commander and weapons assembly officer of a 280mm artillery battalion. He later was as the assistant S2 of the all-nuclear 52nd Artillery Group (Corporal and Honest John missile battalions).
In 1959, he was selected as the aide-de-camp to the commanding general of the 8th Infantry Division Artillery, which required him to attend the U.S. Army Airborne School. After one year, he was selected to command a 105mm howitzer battery in the 2nd Artillery Battalion (ABN). In 1962, he returned to the United States to attend the Field Artillery Advanced Course, after which he was assigned as assistant S3 of the 214th Artillery Group in 1963 and as the S3 of the 17th Artillery Battalion.
In 1964, Modica received orders for Vietnam, where he was the district advisor of Thu Thuy District, Long An Province for six months before being recruited to work with an unnamed agency to train local forces in combat operations. He returned to the United States in 1965 and attended the Command and Staff College and was assigned to the United States Military Academy as a company tactical officer.
Selected for below the zone promotion to lieutenant colonel, he returned to Germany as the S3 of the 210th Artillery Group, and later commanded the 2nd Battalion, 28th Artillery. In 1971, Modica was selected for the Vietnam Province Senior Program, which required him to complete a 24-week language and culture course before being placed in a two-year assignment in Vietnam.
In 1972, he was assigned to Phouc Tuy Province as the province senior advisor. He earned the Soldier's Medal for pulling a Vietnamese soldier out of a burning armored car and the Air Medal with Valor device for providing suppressing fire from a helicopter during a fire fight. In 1974, Modica was assigned to U.S. Army Staff as Chief of the Missile Branch of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Research, Development, and Acquisition, and in 1976, he was selected to attend the Army War College.
Upon graduation, he became the Director of Tactics and Combined Arms at the U.S. Army Field Artillery School. He was promoted to colonel in 1977 and selected to command the 9th Missile Brigade (Pershing and Lance) and Field Artillery Missile Evaluation Group. From 1979 until 1982, Modica was the J3 of USSOUTHCOM and also served as the senior U.S. military representative on the Combined Board, a joint U.S. and Panamanian organization responsible for the defense of the Panama Canal.
In 1982, he was assigned as the installation commander, Fort Meade Maryland and during his tenure there, Fort Meade was selected by FORSCOM as a model installation. Colonel Modica retired in March 1984.
His awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (two Oak Leaf Clusters), Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star with "V" device and two Oak Leaf Clusters, Meritorious Service Medal (3 Oak Leaf Clusters), Air Medal with "V" Device, Army Commendation Medal (two Oak Leaf Clusters), National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal with 60 Device, Vietnam Honor Medal, Vietnam Gallantry Cross w/ Gold Star, Parachutist Badge, Combat Infantryman's Badge and General Staff Identification Badge.
Col. Beverly Schwenk Pritchett (ret.)
A graduate of Immaculata Academy in Hamburg, N.Y., Pritchett enrolled as a psychology and biology student at St. Bonaventure University and accepted a U.S. Army ROTC Scholarship. She graduated magna cum laude in 1979 and received a commission as a Medical Service Corps second lieutenant. She completed the officer basic course and was assigned as a platoon leader and later executive officer in the 583rd Medical Company (Ambulance) at Landstuhl, Germany.
Pritchett served as administrative assistant to the commander of the U.S. military hospital at Nuremburg before returning to the United States to command the medical company at Weed Army Hospital, Fort Irwin, Calif.
She served as Administrative Assistant for the Department of Medicine at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colo., from 1987 to 1990. She subsequently served as Executive Officer at the Dental Activity (DENTAC) at Fort Bragg, N.C. In 1992, she became executive officer of the 5th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) in the 44th Medical Brigade at Fort Bragg.
In 1994, she served in Korea as the 2nd Infantry Division's Medical Operations Officer. She subsequently commanded the 61st Area Support Medical Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas, and a medical task force in Bosnia in 1998.
She assumed command of the 28th Combat Support Hospital at Fort Bragg and in 2003 deployed to Southwest Asia and led her unit to Baghdad, where it subsequently was redesignated Task Force 28. She was responsible for the establishment of two hospitals in Iraq and, for 11 months, commanded a force of more than 700 military personnel who manned six mobile surgical units and a mental health and health promotion unit.
Her final military assignment required her to coordinate all medical aspects of Homeland Defense across all military services, in conjunction with federal and state medical agencies working in the Capital Region of Washington, D.C. She retired in 2006 as a colonel after 27 years on active duty.
Pritchett became senior deputy director in the District of Columbia Department of Health and planned the District's response to acts of bio-terrorism and other public health emergencies, including medical support of the 56th presidential inauguration in January 2009 and the response to the H1N1 Influenza outbreak in May 2009.
In November 2011, she became president and CEO of Pritchett and Associates LLC, to provide professional consultation to governmental, non-governmental and private agencies. In November 2013, Pritchett became the Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Regional and Local Health Services and Director, Office of Public Health at the Department of State Health Services for the state of Texas.
She received a master's degree from Baylor University in Healthcare Administration and was awarded a fellowship with Department of Health and Human Services. She is a graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School, a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a Certified Emergency Manager.
Her awards include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Army Superior Unit Award, Public Health Service Achievement Medal, Office of the Secretary Health and Human Services Staff Identification Badge, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Korea Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, NATO Medal, Army Staff Identification Badge, Expert Field Medical Badge and Iraq Campaign Medal.
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This site contains the policies and procedures applicable to faculty, staff, and students of Emory University.
You may access the various subject areas through the Table of Contents below. Individual policies and procedures are updated as needed and the latest revision date of each policy is noted beneath its heading. Managers, supervisors and employees who have questions or need additional assistance with interpretation or applicability of any policy or procedure may contact the Policy's Responsible Office, or the Human Resources Divisional Manager for their department.


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History Reports for Motorcycles and Other Vehicles Now Available to Motorcycle Buyers, Sellers and Dealers on CycleTrader.com for a Limited Time with instaVIN™
SAN DIEGO, CA – May 27, 2011 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – instaVIN™ (https://www.instavin.com) is now offering for a limited time instaVIN Vehicle History and Title Reports for motorcycles to in-market consumers and motorcycle retailers via CycleTrader.com, a Dominion Enterprises company. CycleTrader is the leading classified marketplace for motorcycles with more than 150,000 dealer and private seller listings.
instaVIN reports provide DMV title, salvage, insurance, total loss and other critical information to help identify title problems prior to purchase. This can help uncover potential buyer or seller fraud or expose other "worst of the worst" events that can affect a motorcycle's safety and value. Vehicle details decoded from the vehicle identification number (VIN) such as year, make and model enable users to confirm the vehicle is properly represented.
Links to instaVIN reports are available on CycleTrader.com's ad listings and resource pages as well as other locations on the CycleTrader.com site for a limited time. "CycleTrader.com and instaVIN are providing their users a unique, patent pending, report buying experience," said Jim Irish, CEO of instaVIN. "This unique user interface provides a remarkably simple order process and ensures the proper vehicle is represented to the buyer. Users can purchase a report by entering a VIN number, then get the report instantly. They can also pre-purchase and return to www.instavin.com later when they have their VIN number available."
When shopping for their next motorcycle during the limited time offer, buyers can purchase a single report for just $6.99. If they are looking at multiple bikes, they can select the 5 for $24.99 option, saving nearly 30%. Motorcycle dealers and private sellers can build buyer confidence by ensuring that the motorcycle they are selling is free of hidden problems. Sellers can share the instaVIN report with potential buyers by linking to the report on their CycleTrader.com ad listing.
InstaVIN reports contain information and data from private sources and through a partnership with the Department of Justice and AAMVA who administer the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS). NMVTIS is the only vehicle history database in which all states, insurance carriers and junk salvage yards are required by federal law to report their data.
In addition to the insurance total loss and salvage auction information, instaVIN reports provide all state DMV title brand indicators such as salvage, odometer, rollback, rental vehicle, police use and flood, as well as title history, odometer history, vehicle specifications and accident information where available. Understanding a vehicle's history is a critical step in any motorcycle purchase whether you are a dealer at auction or a consumer buying a used bike. Over 100 key data indicators are checked on every report. Visit https://www.instavin.com/ct.php.
About instaVIN™
instaVIN™ provides vehicle history reports with critical data including real-time Government Title and Brand information and Junk/Salvage/Insurance Total Loss records. instaVIN reports include the most comprehensive, up-to-date data, all at a fraction of the cost of competitive reports such as CARFAX® and AutoCheck®. instaVIN offers reports on passenger cars and light trucks, modern and vintage motorcycles, RVs, buses, classic cars and heavy trucks. instaVIN has other products available at www.instavin.com such as a complete Bill of Sale Document service to protect you when buying or selling a vehicle between private parties. Also available is the Vehicle Valuator, a free tool that provides the average local retail asking price for similar vehicles in your area. Please see https://www.instavin.com.
instaVIN is a dba of MobileTrac, LLC, a San Diego, CA based company.
About CycleTrader.com
Cycle Trader, a division of Dominion Enterprises, is the leading powersports marketplace connecting buyers and sellers to new and used motorcycles, ATVs, PWCs, and snowmobiles. With more than 150,000 vehicles available, Cycle Trader offers the widest selection of powersports vehicles online. Visit http://www.CycleTrader.com.
About Dominion Enterprises
Dominion Enterprises is a leading marketing services company serving the automotive, enthusiast and commercial vehicle, real estate, apartment rental, and employment industries. The company's businesses provide a comprehensive suite of technology-based marketing solutions including Internet advertising, lead generation, CRM, Web site design and hosting, and data management services. The company has more than 40 market-leading Web sites reaching more than 17.6 million unique visitors monthly, and more than 280 magazines with a weekly circulation of 2.4 million. Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., the company has 4,900 employees in more than 186 offices nationwide. For more information, visit http://www.dominionenterprises.com.


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The BBC has an aversion to allowing its audio slideshows to be embedded on other sites, so you'll have to click here to see a series of outstanding still photographs taken by Timothy Allen as part of the crew shooting the series Human Planet. The photos show people living in the most extreme environments, from extreme cold to extremely primitive to extremely gross, like in a dump. There are times that a still photo says more than video, and some of these pictures do just that.
The last episode of the eight-part series aired tonight on BBC One, and is on the BBC iPlayer for those of you in the U.K. Discovery co-produced the show, so it's probably going to show up on one of its channels in the U.S. soon. And there's a gallery of all the stills here, with a book of the photos in the works.


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Lyndon Intercultural
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Join us for Lyndon Intercultural group meetings on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. in ASAC 214. At our meetings we discuss current events, social justice topics, issues, and concerns that affect students, faculty, and staff on and around the Lyndon Community and the Nation. We also plan events and trips. Stop by and bring a friend. Meetings are open to all students, faculty, and staff on campus.
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Message From The President
Since 1903, Western Connecticut State University's mission has been to help our students imagine and construct exciting new futures. From its origins as a small normal school designed to prepare teachers, Western Connecticut State University has grown into a comprehensive regional institution providing undergraduate, master's level and doctoral education in a variety of academic disciplines.
Today, Western offers a wide variety of graduate programs, most of which are designed for working adults who wish to enhance their careers through advanced study. These students represent the diversity that characterizes public higher education today. Some are pursuing broad courses of study that will provide an array of professional options. Others are pursuing more specific career goals. Some are just beginning their working lives. Others are seasoned professionals who bring substantial experience to the classroom.
No matter their age or field of study, all Western students receive the attention of faculty and staff mentors committed to helping them achieve their personal and professional goals. This process happens in an educational environment characteristic of New England's best small private universities, but at a much more affordable cost.
As we progress through this first decade of our second century, our commitment remains firm to continue to serve not only our students, but also the residents of Danbury, Fairfield County, the state of Connecticut, and the world beyond. Their futures are our business. We look forward to helping you shape yours.
Warmest wishes and welcome to Western!
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Braintree API - How To
BrainTree offers online merchants a payment gateway to enable the processing of credit card payments. Additionally, merchants are offered a merchant account, recurring billing and credit card storage. The Braintree Gateway API can be used two ways: either Server-to-Server or Transparent Redirect. In the Server-to-Server scenario customers submit their credit card data on the developer website to their server. The Transparent Redirect API eliminates the handling and processing of credit card data from the developer's environment.


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Hassan to unveil two-year budget
Budget to be unveiled on Valentine's Day
Hassan to unveil two-year budget
Budget to be unveiled on Valentine's Day
Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan will unveil her spending plan for New Hampshire for the next two years on Valentine's Day.
It is Hassan's first budget, and many whose programs were cut over the past two years are hoping she will restore spending to what it was before the current Republican-passed budget.
Hassan has emphasized the need to restore state aid to higher education, but she also has been clear that spending cannot return to prior levels overnight.
The focus Thursday not only will be on which programs she gives a boost to, but also how much she estimates the state will collect in revenues to pay for them.
The House next works on the budget that takes effect July 1.


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Journey of the Universe Conversations
Formerly titled "Educational Series"
Twenty-part series (30 minutes each) in a 4-DVD Set
Available for Purchase
Conversations with Scientists, Environmentalists, and Educators
Hosted by Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University
Overview Video
This twenty-part educational series integrates the perspectives of the sciences and the humanities into a retelling of our 13.7 billion year story. In a series of one-on-one interviews, scientists, historians, and environmentalists explore the unfolding story of the universe and Earth and the role of the human in responding to our present challenges. These half hour episodes are designed to be used in classrooms, conferences, community centers, and religious institutions in conjunction with the Journey of the Universe film and book.
Section 1: The Emergence of Universe, Earth, Life, and Humans is described in engaging discussions with scientists and historians. Scenes from the film, Journey of the Universe, are woven together with these thought-provoking interviews.
Section 2: Emerging Earth Community illustrates the ways in which we are creating vibrant and sustainable societies and cultures within the context of our epic universe story. Through interviews, the contributions of ecology, economics, agriculture, urban living, poetry and art, psychology, race, and religion, are explored with the goal of creating new human-Earth relations.


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NEW YORK (AP) — A suburban mother of four rumored to be moonlighting as a multimillion-dollar madam was released from jail Tuesday after she was sentenced to time served on a guilty plea in the sensational case.
Anna Gristina was sentenced to six months in jail and five years of probation after pleading guilty to promoting prostitution as part of a deal in September. The story made headlines when prosecutors said the 45-year-old Gristina boasted of having a roster of wealthy, well-placed clients and law enforcement connections during 15 years in the business. After an investigation, it became clear she was simply running a brothel and profiting from it.
"We are left with a straight-forward promoting prostitution case — a defendant who ran a brothel for many years and who profited from the sex trade. That is all," Assistant District Attorney Charles Linehan said during the plea.
Gristina's lawyers said their client lived on a 12-acre property in Monroe, about 50 miles north of New York City, and rescued animals and helped abandoned pet pigs find new homes. She initially claimed to be merely running a dating service.
But the native of Scotland pleaded guilty to a single count of promoting prostitution, stemming from a July 2011 tryst that authorities say she arranged involving two women and an undercover officer posing as a client named Anthony.
Manhattan district attorney spokeswoman Erin Duggan said Gristina had no one to blame but herself.
"There is nothing glamorous about prostitution. Anna Gristina rented women's bodies for profit, which makes her a pimp. That also makes her a felon, and the court has now issued that judgment," she said.
Despite the guilty plea, Gristina publicly claimed that she never crossed the line, and instead blamed others charged in the case for turning on her.
Her family smiled and laughed outside court Tuesday, glad the case was finished.
"It's a sense of relief that it's over, we can move on," said Gristina's husband, Kelvin Gorr. "This was in the best interest of the kids, just to start over and move on, and that's it."
Gristina, who plans to write a tell-all book, could be deported. Defense attorney Norman Pattis said he'd fight any attempt to remove her from the country.


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Bartlett man killed trying to helping stranded driver
Jack Douglas was known as the type of man who would, in the words of his son-in-law, "pay it forward."
So it probably came as no surprise to those who knew him that he died trying to help someone in need.
The 80-year-old Bartlett resident died Wednesday night after being struck at 5:40 p.m. that day by a vehicle on Interstate 57 near milepost 277 in Onarga Township.
Douglas had stopped his vehicle to help another driver, Jimmy Lee Westbrook, 58, of Brownsville, Tenn.
Westbrook's car broke down on the northbound shoulder after losing the driver's side tire and rim off his vehicle, according to state police. Westbrook then attempted to retrieve the tire, which had entered into the median. As Westbrook crossed into the northbound lanes from the median with his tire, he was fatally struck by a 2003 Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by 61-year-old Edward Fahrforth of Summit, police said.
According to reports, Douglas stopped to assist Westbrook, who was lying in traffic. Douglas assisted Westbrook's female passenger in dragging Westbrook onto the shoulder out of traffic.
Douglas then spoke with the passenger and said he would call for help. As Douglas ran back across traffic to his vehicle, he was struck by a 2003 Toyota Camry driven by In Sook Hwang, 59, of Champaign, police said.
Douglas was transported by ambulance to Carle Hospital in Champaign, where he was pronounced dead at 11:01 p.m.
Westbrook had been pronounced dead at the scene.
Illinois State Police said the matter is still under investigation. No arrests have been made in connection with either incident.
Douglas' son-in-law, John Babowice, said Douglas was taken to an area hospital after the accident, where doctors worked on him for four hours.
"They said when he came in he was talking," Babowice said. "They were having a conversation with him. But then after a while his blood pressure started to drop, and they said that he had internal bleeding."
Babowice said Douglas received hip replacement surgery about four months ago.
Douglas' son-in-law remembered his father-in-law as "the type to pay it forward. He came from humble beginnings himself. People had always helped him throughout his life, so he had done the same wherever he could."
Douglas had been retired since he turned 70. Originally from Tennessee, he worked on rivers as a tankerman.
He had also been the captain of a boat.
In his retirement, he had been splitting his time between Illinois and Tennessee, mainly because of the weather.
Douglas is survived by two daughters and a son, as well as five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
He had been divorced, Babowice said, but was taking care of his ex-wife in Tennessee while she was suffering from Alzheimer's until her death a couple of years ago.
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Labour MP debuts fondleslab-assisted Parliament oratory
Twitter Tsar upgraded to iPad Princess
Labour MP and doyenne of all things digital Kerry McCarthy inadvertently made history Monday evening by becoming the first British politician to read a speech from an iPad in Parliament.
"I did have a printed version, but was called so late I started playing around with speech on iPad so read it from there," McCarthy told the AFP, ungrammatically explaining the run-up to her historic fondleslabian oration.
The face that launched a thousand tweets
McCarthy, who maintains an active Twitter presence and personal blog in addition to her plain-vanilla MP website, has gained some notoriety for her tech savvy – and her misuse of it. Last October she escaped prosecution for illegally tweeting results of postal votes before April's General Election.
After that gaffe – which prompted one Tory blogger to suggest that "someone call the police" – Kerry blogged her apology with the wise, if somewhat over-worn, aphorism: "Tweet in haste, repent at leisure...."
No such apology will be needed for Monday night's momentous iPadification of the House of Commons. Athough laptops are still banned in that august chamber, the Commons Procedure Committee has recommended that devices no larger than "a sheet of A4 paper" should be allowed.
"Banning them from the chamber might make the House appear out of touch with modern life and would mean that those in the chamber would be the last to know of breaking news widely available on the internet," the Committee – entering the 21st century a decade late – duly noted.
"We therefore conclude that Members should be allowed to use electronic hand-held devices for any purpose when in the chamber whilst not speaking," the Committee advised with proper Queen's English decorum, "and that the current ban on the use of hand-held electronic devices as an aide memoire, whilst speaking in a debate, should be ended."
So moved, and so approved – and now McCarthy's pioneering iPad-assisted remarks have vaulted her status well above her earlier honorific of mere Twitter Tsar.
The Reg now annoints her Princess of iPad Praxis. ®


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David Wood was the recipient of the Alabama Associated Press Stan Tarilton Photographer award for two consecutive years and most recently became a four-time Emmy Award winning Videojournalist.
David is a Huntsville native and a graduate of Decatur's Austin High School and UAHuntsville. He has been with WHNT News 19 since 2007.
David was highly involved in community theater in middle school, high school and college and loves the art of storytelling.
With his career as a "one-man-band" videojournalist; interviewing, writing, editing and reporting, it's David's job every day to artfully marry captivating imagery with the written word.
David enjoys spending time outdoors with his daughter, Isabella. He also likes still photography and LOVES a good movie.
A big jokester and impersonator around the station, David likes to inject a bit of jest, humor and creativity into his reports whenever possible.
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Capcom®, a powerhouse in the multi-billion dollar video game industry, today announced Viewtiful Joe(TM) for the Nintendo GameCube(TM). An all-new concept in video games, Viewtiful Joe blends the latest cel-shaded graphic advancements with classic side-scrolling action gameplay to introduce the world's quirkiest action superhero, Joe! In Viewtiful Joe, "Joe" is sucked into a movie world. Viewtiful Joe redefines the action platform genre by mixing innovative "viewpoint" fighting and amazing cartoon-noir environments, resulting in a visual experience unlike any other. Viewtiful Joe is the brainchild of Capcom's Atsushi Inaba, acclaimed producer of Steel Battalion and Hideki Kamiya, director of Devil May Cry and Resident Evil 2. Capcom plans to release Viewtiful Joe this October.
"Viewtiful Joe is a perfect combination of innovation and technology," said Todd Thorson, director of marketing at Capcom Entertainment. "When you see this game in action, the first thing that will strike you is the game's unique appeal for a classic action platform title. Viewtiful Joe showcases Capcom's legendary ability to bring innovative and original content to the video game industry."
Viewtiful Joe is a super hero with all the confidence, punch and style of a million-dollar action-hero caught in the world of a Hollywood movie. It begins as Joe and his girlfriend, Sylvia, are at the movies watching his favorite superhero, Captain Blue. Somehow, Sylvia is warped into the motion picture realm and it is up to Joe to fight the on-screen crime and rescue her. In the effort of saving his damsel in distress, Joe becomes more than just any ordinary dude. He gains new powers to perform special visual techniques that can be utilized to affect time and initiate a variety of devastating combos on foes. Joe's special powers can also be used to solve various inventive puzzles.
Players will progress through various quasi 2D/3D cel-shaded environments implementing Joe's visual effect abilities to bash enemies with beautiful style. It is up to gamers to activate the correct view mode, such as "Slow," a technique for instantaneously slowing down the action to inflict damage reminiscent of today's films, or "Mach Speed" to destroy enemies using a lighting-fast approach. The blend of a true comic book look and innovative stylized action will set Viewtiful Joe apart from all other games on the market.
Viewtiful Joe boasts the following features:
Innovative platform game action
Vividly comic and funky cartoon-style visuals
Customize visual effects by executing stylish and visionary moves while playing:
Slow down -- "Slow Power" lets Joe inflict detailed attacks and moves
Speed up -- "Mach Speed" gives Joe lighting fists of fury -- Zoom -- Enhance the fighting experience by getting up close and
personal to the action


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Team Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) truck drivers get paid on every mile and haul primarily no-touch over-dimensional freight (furniture, carpet, etc.). Stay over-the-road for 3 weeks with the potential to stay out longer, averaging 5,000-6,000 miles per week, making this Team opportunity one of the highest earning opportunities in Schneider's fleet. Enjoy the maximum miles that come with Team driving, plus the variety that comes with LTL freight. Start your career as a Team LTL driver with Schneider's Dedicated division today in Denver!
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Denver Team LTL Driver Pay
Up to $63,000 per driver per year*
$10,000 sign-on bonus per experienced drivers
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Eligible for monthly safety and fuel bonuses
Stop-off pay and accessorial pay for breakdown, layover and load/unload
$100 per week for every week out over two that you stay out
*Based on CDL driver experience, performance and location
Team LTL Driver Benefits
Medical, dental and vision insurance, plus flexible spending options
401(k) savings plan with company match
Paid orientation and time off
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November 29. 2013 5:05PM
Cause of fire that destroyed Lakes Region restaurant still unknown
By DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
The scene of the burned-down Woodshed restaurant in Moultonborough Friday. (DAN SEUFERT/Union Leader Correspondent)
Landmark Lakes Region restaurant destroyed by Thanksgiving night fire
MOULTONBOROUGH – It was a normal holiday night at The Woodshed restaurant Thursday, and as employees left the century-old restaurant, everything seemed to be running as usual.
"I'm sure everyone was out of there by 9 p.m.," said Greg Titherington of Tamworth, a waiter at the restaurant.
But just before 10 p.m., the 2,000-square-foot building and eating rooms caught fire. Within a few minutes, more than 40 years of collected memorabilia and photos of famous people, such as actor Henry Fonda, eating at the restaurant was destroyed.
"In one evening, everything that made that restaurant a cornerstone of the Lakes Region for so many years, it's just gone," said Scott Ouellette, one of four new owners who bought the restaurant a little more than a year ago.
More important to Titherington and the 40 people who work at the restaurant was employment.
"I'm okay, I'm semi-retired anyway, but I worry about my friends who worked there," he said. "This isn't a time of year when it's easy to get work around here."
Oullette, who owns several restaurants in the state, said he and his three ownership partners had not yet met on the fire. Reached at his Canoe restaurant in Center Harbor Friday afternoon, Ouellette said the owners hadn't met yet with their insurance company, and weren't sure what they would be able to offer employees.
"We don't know yet, we'll certainly do what we can," he said.
The restaurant's four owners "have several establishments that have staffing needs over the holiday, hopefully we can utilize them."
"Right now we don't know whether insurance will help with that," he said. "We haven't had time to do much, the fire just happened a little more than 12 hours ago."
Friday afternoon, about 14 hours after the fire was reported, Fire Chief David Bengtson and several yellow-coated firefighters were joined by a representative from the state Fire Marshall's Office in going over the embers from the buildings.
The call for the fire came in at 9:52 p.m., Bengston said.
"When we got here it was going pretty well, it had taken hold of the main building, and when the roof collapsed in the main building, it was pretty well gone," he said. "There was a large volume of fire there when we got there."
"The building is a total loss," Oullette said.
Bengston said the cold temperatures were a bit of a problem, as was getting water. Firefighters were able to set take water from a nearby pond, he said.
The cause of the fire was not known Friday afternoon, and Bengston said it was too early to rule out anything.
"We're just getting started on that," he said.
Titherington said he didn't have any idea what started the fire.
"Everything was totally normal when I left," he said.
Ouellette said he wasn't sure if the owners will rebuild. But if they do, "we can't replace all that was lost there," he said.
The restaurant, which had occupied the building for more than 40 years, was established and run for most of those years by Lynn Seeley, who could not be reached for comment.
"Any customers who have been there or anyone who worked there would know that if a fire started, everything would burn quickly," Titherington said.
There were antiques of all kinds throughout the buildings, especially in the porch eating areas. There were banners from colleges, wall hangings, and pictures of all the famous people who had eaten there, among many antiques.
"I'm heartbroken, especially for Lynn (Seeley)," Titherington said.
"Lynn put her whole life into this, I feel for her especially," Oullette said.
But all were glad that only the building burned.
"We feel lucky that no one was in the building, no one was hurt," Oullette said.


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Pat Robertson - Alzheimer's - Reaction
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Category: General News
Tussock moth infestation found in Blues
WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) - The state has discovered a new
infestation of Douglas-fir tussock moths in the Blue Mountains of
Washington and Oregon.
Light defoliation was mapped across 9,000 acres of the Umatilla
National Forest, with most of that in Washington. Most of the
defoliation occurred in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness Area, but it
may spread and increase in severity this year.
Officials say another tussock moth outbreak that affected 1,600
acres in eastern Spokane County in 2011 will likely end this year.
The defoliation can reduce growth, cause top-kill, and may make
some trees vulnerable to attack by bark beetles.