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REINVENTING HUMAN EXPRESSION Innovative violinist and composer Mari Kimura leads a new multi-national, multi-media ensemble in two concerts featuring traditional, electronic and avant garde music with visual arts by leading composers and instrumentalists from the United States and Japan. Thurs., Sept. 8 at 7:30pm, pre-concert talk at 7pm at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St. and Sat., Sept. 10 at 8pm at Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A W. 13th St. $15. 212-868-4444. www.smarttix.com.
ONE-RING CIRCUS STRAIGHT FROM SEATTLE Circus Contraptions Grand American Traveling Dime Museum features live aerial acts, acrobatics, juggling, dance, physical comedy and original circus music. Pictured above, Bunny LaMonte leads a bicycle race around the world. Shows contain mature content and may be unsuitable for children under 12. Sept. 1 Oct. 1, Wed. Sun. Theater for the New City, 155 1st Ave., bet 9th & 10th Sts. $20. 212-352-3101 or www.TheaterMania.com. Photo by David Adam Edelstein
A POWERFUL POLITICAL DRAMA Homeland by Gene Ruffini focuses on a middle-class family caught in the machinery of a government that demands conformity and shreds the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. Pictured above are Rachel McAlinn, left and Will McDonald in the uniforms of the paramilitary Home Guard. Sept. 8-25, Thurs. Sat. at 8:30pm and Sun. at 3pm. The first week of the performance, teachers, librarians and members of the ACLU admitted free. Theater for the New City, 155 1st Ave., bet 9th & 10th Sts. $10. 212-254-1109.
Alphabet city...iii, the third in a series of a popular festival of monologues based on interviews with neighborhood residents, METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE, 220 E. Fourth St., Thru Aug. 29, call for specific times and tickets, $5-$19, 212-995-5302.
Circus Contraption, features live aerial acts, acrobatics, juggling, dance, physical comedy and original circus music. Shows contain mature content and may be unsuitable for children under 12. Sept. 1 - Oct. 1, Wed. - Sun. Theater for the New City, 155 1st Ave., bet 9th & 10th Sts. $20. 212-352-3101 or www.TheaterMania.com.
Colder Than Here, a comic drama about an ever perfect home-maker who turns her full attention to the task of her lifetime, organizing her own impending funeral. LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE, 121 Christopher St., bet Bleecker & Hudson Sts. Sept. 7 - Oct. 15. 212-279-4200.
THE NEW AMERICAN FAMILY The constant redefinition of the American family is at the core of The Lightning Fields story. Sam and Andy, a gay New York couple, travel to Walter De Marias famous art installation and realize their relationship mirrors that of their divorced parents. A storm of raw explosion results. Pictured above are Cory Grant, left, and Bekka Lindström. Aug. 17 at 8pm; 19 at 3:30pm; 21 at 12:20pm; 24 at 7:15pm; and 28 at 12:15pm. The Flea Theatre, 41 White St., bet Broadway & Church Sts. www.FringeNYC.org. 212-279-4488.
ONE WOMAN COMEDY SHOW My Ponys in the Garage features acclaimed comedian Eileen Kelly in a darkly funny reflection on childhood and parenting using monologues, music and snapshots. Part of the New York International Fringe Festival. Collective Unconscious, 279 Church St., bet White & Franklin Sts. Aug. 20 at 3:45pm, 22 at 3:30pm, 23 at 5pm, 25 at 11:15pm & 26 at 7:15pm. 212-279-4488. www.fringenyc.org.
A POLITICAL COMEDY In The Mayor Who Would be Sondheim, a singing mayor who idolizes Broadway lyricists fights to get elected in a city plagued by crime, corruption and a sanitation strike. Pictured above are Scott Giguere, left, Stu Richel and Mitch Poulos. Sat., Aug. 13 at 6:15pm; Sun., Aug. 14 at 3:45pm; Sun., Aug. 21 at 2:30pm; Wed., Aug. 24 at 8:00pm; and Sun., Aug. 28 at Noon. Mazer Theatre, 197 E. Broadway, bet. Clinton and Jefferson Sts. $15. 212-279-4488 or www.fringenyc.org. Photo courtesy of Dixie Sheridan 2005.
alphabet city...iii, the third in a series of a popular festival of monologues based on interviews with neighborhood residents, METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE, 220 E. Fourth St., Aug. 17-29, call for specific times and tickets, $5-$19, 212-995-5302.
the american living room festival, 16th annual arts festival supporting the developement of new, multidisciplinary works & artists in a setting that strives to make theater as much a part of everyday life as watching TV, this year there are 30 projects, a full schedule can be found on here.org or by calling, HERE ARTS CENTER, 145 Sixth Ave., through Aug. 21, $10-$15, 212-868-4444.
the dirty talk, what happen when two melancholy strangers try to turn fantasy into reality? This hilarious comedy about desparation, pain and loneliness is written and driected by members of LAByrinth Theater Company and is part of the New York International Fringe Festival, THE FLEA THEATER, 41 White St., Aug. 24, 5:15 p.m., Aug. 25, 7 p.m., Aug. 26, 4 p.m., Aug. 27, 7:15 p.m., Aug. 28, 2:30 p.m., $15, 212-279-4488.
fatal attraction: a greek tragedy, a new comedy that lovingly, liberally and loosely parodies the well known thriller film from 1987. A big-time corporate lawyer has a one-night stand with a no-nonsense business woman while his wife is away, all hell breaks loose when the corporate hag forgets her place, THE EAST 13TH STREET THEATER, 136 E. 13th St., Tue.-Sat., 8 p.m., Sat., 10:30 p.m., Sun., 6 p.m., through Aug. 27, $40-$49.50, 212-279-4200.
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Recipe: Prosciutto Wrapped Chicken
How long does it take? 20 minutes
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2 tablespoons olive oil
sea salt and cracked black pepper
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2 chicken breast filets
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Written by Deb Egenberger Thursday, 10 January 2013 14:47
Brady's girls jumped from their No. 9 pre-season ranking by the Omaha World-Herald to No. 5 in the first ratings of the regular season with a 10-1 record after winning the Brady Holiday Tournament and defeating Arthur County on Saturday 55-36.
"We shot well, especially in the second quarter," said coach Lance Arterburn. "Now we're starting to focus on maintaining that for the whole game."
The Wolves didn't put up much of a fight against the Eagles, who have battled a little illness and injury.
"They are definitely better than last year and they played hard," Arterburn said. "They just weren't able to keep up with us."
Brady cruised out to a 31-14 lead at halftime and never let up.
Junior Valerie Most was the high scorer for the Eagles with 12 points while senior Brittney Christophersen added 10.
The Eagles remain at the top of the power points determined by the Nebraska School Activities Association, although Arterburn said the next five teams have closed the gap this past week.
The Eagles will host Hayes Center (2-8) on Friday and travel to South Loup (2-8) on Saturday.
"South Loup played us hard at Maxwell, although we were without a couple of girls," Arterburn said. "Hopefully we'll be back to full strength this time."
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hydrogen fuel closer to reality because of storage advances
Drive toward hydrogen vehicles just got shorter
A significant advance in hydrogen storage could make hydrogen a more attractive fuel for vehicles or other transportation modes.
Researchers revealed the new single-stage method for recharging the hydrogen storage compound ammonia borane. The LANL technology focuses on using ammonia borane as a "chemical storage tank" for hydrogen fuel.
An ammonia borane system could allow hydrogen to be easily extracted for use in hydrogen fuel cell batteries and then be recharged with hydrogen over and over.
Vehicles could travel more than 300 miles on a tank
The development could allow a vehicle to travel more than 300 miles on a single "tank" of fuel, which is a benchmark for the U.S. Department of Energy. The method represents a significant step toward practical use of hydrogen in fuels.
In an article in the March 18 edition of Science magazine, LANL and University of Alabama researchers working within the U.S. Department of Energy's Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence describe a significant advance in hydrogen storage science.
Hydrogen as an ideal fuel but needs improved storage
Hydrogen is in many ways an ideal fuel. It possesses a high energy content per unit mass when compared to petroleum, and it can be used to run a fuel cell, which in turn can be used to power a very clean engine.
On the down side, H2 has a low energy content per unit volume versus petroleum (it is very light and bulky). The crux of the hydrogen issue has been how to get enough of the element on board a vehicle to power it a reasonable distance.
Ammonia borane boosts hydrogen storage capacity
Work at LANL and elsewhere has focused on chemical hydrides for storing hydrogen, with one material in particular, ammonia borane, taking center stage. Ammonia borane is attractive because its hydrogen storage capacity approaches a whopping 20 percent by weight—enough that it should, with appropriate engineering, permit hydrogen-fueled vehicles to go farther than 300 miles on a single "tank," a benchmark set by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Hydrogen release from ammonia borane has been well demonstrated, and its chief drawback to use has been the lack of energy-efficient methods to reintroduce hydrogen into the spent fuel once burned. In other words, until now, after hydrogen release, the ammonia borane couldn't be recycled efficiently enough.
Simple scheme reduces expense, complexity of the recycle stage
The Science paper describes a simple scheme that regenerates ammonia borane from a hydrogen depleted "spent fuel" form (called polyborazylene) back into usable fuel via reactions taking place in a single container.
This "one pot" method represents a significant step toward the practical use of hydrogen in vehicles by potentially reducing the expense and complexity of the recycle stage.
Regeneration takes place in a sealed pressure vessel using hydrazine and liquid ammonia at 40 degrees Celsius and necessarily takes place off-board a vehicle. The researchers envision vehicles with interchangeable hydrogen storage "tanks" containing ammonia borane that are used, and sent back to a factory for recharge.


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House passes bill to establish state port authority
Hartford — The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday to create a state port authority by Oct. 1, 2015, and, legislators hope, to increase business at Connecticut's three ports — New London, New Haven and Bridgeport.
"I have every confidence that this bill will help take advantage of and realize the economic and business opportunities that are there," Rep. Elissa Wright, D-Groton, said.
The Senate passed a similar bill last year, but the House never voted on it. After several revisions this year and with input from the governor's budget office, and the departments of Economic and Community Development and Transportation, a compromise House Bill 5289 was passed unanimously.
"Our ports are underutilized commercial hubs that represent an untapped resource for developing new business markets and spurring economic growth in our state," House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, said. "Connecticut is positioned to capitalize on our unique location, and we have the real potential to become a shipping alternative to New York and Boston by focusing on niche markets."
The state port authority would be a quasi-public agency, similar to the Connecticut Airport Authority. Its power would be vested in a board of directors comprising 15 voting members.
The objective of the authority would be to market the ports to domestic and foreign shippers, to seek private investment and to pursue federal funding for dredging and other infrastructure improvements to increase shipping capacity, according to the bill. Some of the cargo opportunities for the state's ports include scrap metal and wood pellets.
There also are opportunities for private ferry services and ship repair, according to the 2012 Connecticut's Deep Water Port Strategy Study.
In New London, 21 ships arrived at Adm. Harold E. Shear State Pier last year — 10 fewer than in 2012. But the total metric tonnage of copper, steel and other products that passed through the port reached 112,838 last year, slightly above the 111,100 tons in 2012.
It was the best year for tonnage offloaded at State Pier since 2007, though shipments didn't come close to measuring up to levels seen in the mid-2000s, when more than 200,000 metric tons arrived in two consecutive years.
Last year was the fourth consecutive year in which no forest products — used as building materials — came through the Port of New London.
Before the authority is set up, a port authority working group would be established to submit recommendations to the economic and community development officials. The working group would recommend duties for the authority's board of directors: among the possibilities would be employment, the issuance of bonds and the authority to acquire or own real property.
The working group must disband on Oct. 1, 2015, when the port authority would become fully operational. Smaller ports that are interested in being a part of the port authority could join, lawmakers said.
"It's high time we did something about this because we are in dire need of a real economic development strategy on all fronts," state Rep. Gail Lavielle, R-Wilton, said.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Junior Marshawn Powell led the University of Arkansas basketball team with a game-high 22 points and a career-high 13 rebounds in the Razorbacks' 75-54 loss to the South Carolina Gamecocks at Colonial Life Arena on Saturday afternoon.
Powell was the Razorbacks' leader on both sides of the ball, as his 22 points and 13 boards were both game-highs. Powell also recorded a game-high three blocks and one steal to assist Arkansas' defensive effort. Junior Rickey Scott finished the game with nine points off 3-of-9 shooting.
"It was a tough day at the office today," Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson said. "South Carolina did what they had to do. We didn't shoot well and didn't rebound well and they were a little bit tougher. You have to score on the road and you have to have good ball movement, and I thought that we settled for jump shots."
Arkansas forced 18 Gamecock turnovers, while committing just nine of their own and was also able to capitalize on the 18 forced turnovers with 26 points. Arkansas was also credited with 10 steals.
The Razorbacks got off to a swift start going up 15-3 over the Gamecocks by the 15:29 mark in the first, Scott hit a long three-pointer to give Arkansas a 12-point lead. The Gamecocks responded in a big way scoring 40 points in the final 15 minutes of the half and holding Arkansas to just 11. The Razorbacks entered the locker room with a 17-point deficit. The Gamecocks went 7-of-10 from beyond the arc in the first half and were shooting 58.6 percent from the field.
Powell led the Razorbacks with nine points in the first and a game-high six rebounds. Scott also chipped in eight first-half points.
In the second half, Arkansas began to make a run at South Carolina, as Powell went on a 4-0 run to shorten the Gamecock lead to 14, but Arkansas would be unable to halt the potent Gamecock offense that was shooting an impressive 57 percent from the field. The Gamecocks would lengthen their lead to close out the game.
The Razorbacks continue play on the road as they travel to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to face the Alabama Crimson Tide on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. on ESPN2.
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The meals will be available at participating Burger King restaurants in territories worldwide, including the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe (excluding France), New Zealand, and the Middle East. The program follows last year's successful Beyblade Burger King Kids Meal promotion, which featured Beyblade action racer toys and was available in more than 3,300 restaurants across international markets. This year's program expands to include the U.S. and Canada and will be available at more than 11,000 locations and supported with on-air, online, and in-restaurant promotion.
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Cleveland, OH - According to a study by The Freedonia Group, "Global rubber consumption is forecast to rise 4.3 percent per year through 2015 to 30.5 million metric tons. Rubber demand will be stimulated by an increase in tire output growth as global motor vehicle production accelerates following a relatively weak 2005-2010 period in many developed nations around the world. Because replacement motor vehicle tires represent by far the largest market for rubber, strong increases in the number of motor vehicles in use throughout the world will significantly boost the amount of rubber consumed worldwide. Growth in motor vehicle production will also support demand for rubber utilized in tires, as well as in various automotive components, such as hoses and gaskets. In addition, a pickup in global manufacturing activity through 2015 will spur rubber demand in non-tire applications. The Asia/Pacific region is by far the largest regional market for rubber, accounting for 60 percent of global demand in 2010. In addition, the region will register the fastest growth in rubber consumption through 2015. The massive Chinese rubber market, which alone accounted for nearly one-third of global rubber demand in 2010, will record the strongest gains of any major nation through 2015. The large amount of motorcycle and bicycle production in the country supports significant demand for rubber utilized in non-motor vehicle tires. The rubber markets in North America and Western Europe will rebound somewhat from the sales declines recorded during the 2005 to 2010 period. Rubber markets in Eastern Europe and Central and South America will also see accelerating growth through 2015, while gains in the small Africa/Middle East market will match the global pace. Tire rubber, which accounts for about two-thirds of all rubber demand, is expected to register slower gains than non-tire rubber sales through 2015. Production of non-motor vehicle tires, including bicycle, motorcycle and industrial vehicle tires, will significantly outpace motor vehicle tire output in certain areas of the world, especially developing nations in the Asia/Pacific region. Nevertheless, rubber used in motor vehicle tires, which accounted for 57 percent of tire rubber sales in 2010, will continue to represent the majority of tire rubber demand. Rubber utilized in non-tire applications will register stronger gains through 2015, but will remain the much smaller segment of the rubber market."
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Bench Pressing: The Case for a Bench at the Dining Table
As I tried to squeeze my bulky dining room chairs around our Thanksgiving table to accommodate a gaggle of toddlers and tweens, I remembered why I always wanted a bench at the dining room table…
Optimizing horizontal space (no chair arms means more space for actual bodies) is not the only reason a bench makes practical and aesthetic sense in the dining room. For smaller rooms, a bench takes up much less vertical space; and it can be easily tucked under the table. And the combination of chairs and a bench is a surefire way to avoid a matchy-matchy look and bring a bit of eclecticism to a space. Whether farmhouse, picnic style or upholstered, I love the look of pairing a single bench with a cluster of dining room chairs.
Here are a bevy of lovely spaces that cleverly use both benches and chairs around the dining room table.
1. Layla and Kevin's Country Coastal Cottage
2. House Beautiful
3. Bess & Peter's Brick & Timber Loft
4. Dante's Charming Spanish Flat
5. Paul's Artistic Scavenged House Tour
6. Hector Sanchez on Desire to Inspire via Furnnish
7. Michael & Paul's Inherited Nostalgia House Tour
8. Emily Shuman's Modern Rustic Home
9. Erin's "Cool Blue" Dining Room
10. Emily & Jacob's Poetically Photographed Home
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WASHINGTON – Conservative Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn says that any additional federal aid to help tornado victims and to rebuild devastated areas of his state should be financed with cuts to other programs in the government's $3.6 trillion budget.
Spokesman John Hart says it's a position Coburn has consistently held regarding federal spending on disasters dating to the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.
But federal disaster aid such as $60 billion passed earlier this year to rebuild coastal states including New York and New Jersey from Superstorm Sandy typically is approved as "emergency" spending that is simply added to the budget deficit. That may happen again if more aid is need for Oklahoma.
Federal disaster aid coffers remain flush from the infusion of Sandy aid.


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The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Criminal Court. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.
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ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) — IBM says its board had added $5 billion to its stock buyback program, bringing the total buyback authorization to $11.7 billion.
The computer and consulting company last added to it buyback program in April, in the amount of $7 billion. IBM Corp. said Tuesday that it expects to add more funding to the buyback program next April.
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As More Patients Survive, Cancer Centers Handle Disease's Knock-On Effects
For cancer patients, getting through the rigors of treatment is the first hurdle. Then, life as a cancer survivor poses its own daunting physical and emotional challenges.
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Western Digital and SanDisk have been named as the two investors that just ploughed millions of dollars into hybrid flash array startup Tegile.
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Out in the backcountry
A profile of a gay ranger in the National Park Service.
Eston Littleboy Jones stands on Plateau Point, a short hike from the Bright Angel Trail in the heart of the Grand Canyon. It's a brisk January afternoon, and Littleboy Jones has come upon a boy who has jumped out onto a lone tower of rock, across two yards of what seems to be an endless drop down to the river below. "Do you think your mom would want you doing that?" he asks the boy, who shakes his head and then leaps back to the security of the point.
Once the boy is safe, Littleboy Jones tells me that working as a backcountry park ranger is addictive: "People come to the park, something goes wrong, and you are there to help." The 32-year-old makes an imposing figure –– standing 6-feet-two with a shock of cropped red hair, a pistol and taser riding at his hip –– but the impression is softened by his big smile and ready sense of humor. Littleboy Jones patrols the park by foot, kayak and raft, often sleeping out under the stars. He monitors known archaeological sites and keeps an eye on the park's busy campgrounds and trails, answering questions, checking permits and dispensing first aid.
As a Park Service incident commander, Littleboy Jones organizes search-and-rescue efforts and is skilled in technical rope and helicopter rescues – doing "really risky things in close proximity to the (canyon) wall." Like his fellow backcountry park rangers, he does everything he can to keep park visitors happy and safe.
So it's hard to believe that Littleboy Jones once wondered whether he was cut out to be a park ranger. It had nothing to do with any perceived lack of skills, experience or courage. Instead, he feared that he couldn't do the job he loved because he was gay.
Littleboy Jones' entire life had prepared him to be a park ranger. When he was a small child, his family moved to Grand Canyon Village on the park's South Rim, where he gained outdoor skills before enrolling at Utah State University. In college, he took a summer internship with Grand Canyon Search and Rescue. That's when he knew what he wanted to do with his life.
After getting certified at a National Park Service law enforcement academy and becoming an emergency medical technician, he worked as a seasonal ranger at Rocky Mountain, Grand Teton, and Dry Tortugas National Parks.
He was 24 when he began coming out to close friends, but he wasn't yet ready to be out at work. It wasn't that he was concerned about getting fired: he knew sexual orientation had been included in the federal government's employment non-discrimination rules in 1999. But he'd never heard of a gay police officer or park ranger "that wasn't some kind of joke on a sitcom." With only a few seasons under his belt, and without any role models to learn from, Littleboy Jones wondered whether his supervisors and colleagues would treat him differently once they knew he was gay.
Littleboy Jones turned to Google: "I searched for gay park rangers." There, he learned about John Evans, an out, partnered gay man working as Grand Canyon's district ranger. "I was reading about somebody that I could identify with and respect," he recalls, "somebody I'd want to be like, a role model."
This discovery provided Littleboy Jones with more than just permission to be a park ranger — it gave him the confidence to be an out, gay park ranger. Before learning of Evans, Jones was prepared to hide who he was while in uniform. "OK," Littleboy Jones recalls thinking, "for four or five months a year, you can tone things down and bottle things up, and you can be whoever you need to be to have a really fun job."
Three years later, Littleboy Jones unexpectedly found himself working under Evans' supervision at Grand Canyon National Park. He overlapped with Evans and his husband, David Smith, who worked in the park's interpretive division, before they moved with their two children to Washington, D.C. Littleboy Jones says that both men were exceptional leaders at work and in the community. He found it life-changing to see a gay couple living so openly and confidently. For the first time, he thought: "Yes, I can have a family. I don't have to hide anything."
Littleboy Jones is now engaged to his longtime partner. By being out, Littleboy Jones believes he is helping to normalize being gay. Some Park Service staff and visitors, he says, may have "never met a gay person that wasn't in high heels and a feather boa." And though Littleboy Jones appreciates gay culture and history, he wants to discourage preconceived notions of what it means to be gay.
His sexuality, he says, is just one part of who he is as a man and a park ranger, and he believes that his acceptance of it helps those he meets find the courage to be true to themselves. "It's a duty that we have to each other," he says.
The National Park Service is well aware of the challenges involved, says Mariah Cissé, workforce development and diversity program specialist at Grand Canyon. According to Cissé, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people who don't feel comfortable in the workplace are more likely to leave the Park Service –– or never apply in the first place. Park Service administrators like Cissé believe that failure to address LGBT struggles means that the agency is not serving the public to the best of its ability.
The Park Service believes that the best way to attract diverse, representative visitors is to have a diverse, representative staff: "Anybody from the world (should) be able to walk into a park," says Littleboy Jones, "and hopefully find somebody that they can have a connection with."
But to accomplish that, the park needed to address the recruitment and retainment barriers that minority groups, including LGBT people, face. In 2012, for the first time, Grand Canyon National Park employees officially participated in Pride in the Pines, a gay pride festival held near downtown Flagstaff, Arizona. At the festival, staff distributed material about park employment as well as general information about visiting.
Other parks have made efforts to reach out to the LGBT population within their ranks. Also in 2012, the Alaska regional office officially celebrated gay pride month by producing a series of films featuring gay and lesbian staff. Yellowstone National Park has sent an official delegation to the Montana Pride Parade since 2011.
People who Google for gay park rangers today will find a National Park Service webpage devoted to LGBT staff. Even the Department of Interior, under whose administration the National Park Service falls, has picked up the welcome banner. In September 2011, Interior created a video for the "It Gets Better" project, a global online video campaign to provide encouragement to young LGBT people.
Despite the increased tolerance and his own sense of peace with his life, Littleboy Jones acknowledges the challenges gay rangers still face. Isolated national park locations can be challenging for anyone, even without the compounded loneliness of being one of very few LGBT people. Littleboy Jones' fiancé works in Flagstaff, over an hour and a half away, and for years they have had to commute back and forth weekly to be together.
Rural Western communities are not historically known for being gay-friendly, and so Littleboy Jones and his fiancé have sometimes felt like they had to hide their affection. "That's something that I think a lot of straight folks don't even think about," Littleboy Jones says. "You have to be constantly assessing your environment."
He feels comfortable being out in Grand Canyon Village and the park as a whole, though. Its polyglot culture is more diverse than the average Western town, thanks to visitors and residents from across the globe and the local Native American populations.
Littleboy Jones learned about accepting other people's differences early in life. When he was a kid, two transgender people walked up to his mother's yard in Grand Canyon Village one afternoon to ask for directions to the visitor center. Afterward, he asked his mom whether they were men or women. His mom, he says, "told me they were men that wanted to be women. Before I could say anything, she said, 'And you accept them for who they are.' "
Other than one old-timer instructor at the Law Enforcement Academy who had a penchant for offensive jokes, Littleboy Jones says he's faced no outward discrimination from the Park Service. He considers the run-in with that instructor — whose "jokes" were dealt with by Littleboy Jones' supervisor ––as an indication of how much the Park Service has evolved in recent decades.
Littleboy Jones can recount many adrenaline-laden adventures –– dangling from helicopters and running the monster waves of the Colorado –– but he's found his greatest satisfaction at quieter times. He recalls meeting a distressed woman who had hiked down 3,000 feet in elevation to reach the Indian Garden, but feared she lacked the strength to return to the rim. Littleboy Jones hiked alongside the woman for the six and a half hours it took for her to get back up. He told her stories, made her laugh and offered his iPod –– and in the process, showed her that she could do what had seemed impossible.
Over time, she's sent him three different thank-you letters. Littleboy Jones just shrugs his shoulders and smiles. "It's nice when you impact somebody's life in a positive way like that."


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Forget detention; an Idaho elementary school teacher outraged parents after she allowed students to draw on the faces of those who didn't achieve their reading goals, reports KBOI news.
The teacher at Delco Elementary in the Cassia School District is reported to have allowed the slow readers in the class to either skip recess or have moustaches, goatees or words drawn on their face by other students as punishment. Reportedly, the principal and superintendent knew about and approved of this, and the class actually came up with the incentive program together. Gaylen Smyer, the superintendent, said: "One of the incentives [in the reading class] is that those who met their goal would be able to paint the face of those who didn't meet their goal."
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Mr Hashed, you are an elected MP in Yemen – a presidential republic. Tell us about the parliamentary system in your country.
Ahmed Saif Hashed: The Yemeni parliament has two chambers: the House of Representatives, whose members are elected by the people, and the Shura (Advisory) Council, whose members are appointed by the president. In theory, the parliament has the right to receive information from the government and to withdraw its confidence. But the reality is quite different: The overwhelming majority of parliamentary delegates are members of the General People's Congress, the governing party.
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To what extent does the government abide by the constitution?
Saif Hashed: The reality is that the government is almost constantly violating the constitution. The weakness and dependency of the judiciary is very convenient for the government, as is parliament's limited powers. A separation of powers does not exist in Yemen. Instead all three powers are unified in the hands of the president. Judges are supervised by the Ministry of Justice. Thus here is where corruption is most often detected.
What does this mean in political practise?
Saif Hashed: According to a report from the organisation "Idea", the governing party pumped between 40 and 60 billion rial (approximately 150 to 230 million euros) into the 2003 elections in order to buy votes. Estimates from "Transparency International" show Yemen to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Most of this corruption takes place in parliament itself.
You say that human rights are not respected in Yemen. What makes you say this?
Saif Hashed: Our laws still have articles that discriminate against people on the basis of their gender and conscience. There are legal mechanisms to protect human rights, but they are empty and meaningless. Human rights organisations in Yemen suffer from repression and control by the authorities.
The organisation "Change – For the Defence of Human Rights and Democratic Freedoms" was denied a licence for a year – without any justification. There are prisons operating illegally – more than can be counted. Thousands of suspects and innocent people have been sitting in these prisons for years without a trial or a legal justification. All of this, however, is just the tip of the iceberg.
You have been an independent delegate in the Yemeni House of Representatives. What are the advantages and disadvantages of not being a member of a party?
Saif Hashed: With my independence, of course, I enjoy more freedom than if I belonged to a party, even though I receive less support from other parties. Sometimes the parties join forces against me. In 2003 I was nominated rapporteur of the Freedom and Human Rights Committee. Since there were no other independent candidates, all the parties serving on the committee united against me to elect my rival – the Minister of the Interior's son.
How do you finance your work?
Saif Hashed: I still have debt from my last election campaign. Fourteen independent candidates managed to be elected to parliament. Ten of them are now with the governing party. The party leadership offered financial incentives. Only four have remained independent and have refused their support. I was one of them. For this I have paid a high price. My freedom and rights are violated by the authorities; those in power destroy the security of political opponents and opinion makers.
What about freedom of speech in Yemen? As a representative and journalist, is it easier for you to express your opinions than for ordinary people?
Saif Hashed: The government conceals information. In Yemen today it is still forbidden to start up private radio and television stations as well as satellite channels. Over a year ago I applied for a licence to start a news service via text messaging. I still have not received it. In the Internet I operate the Web site "Yemnet". The Ministry of Information blocked it for more than a year. Then they lifted the block for a short while. Recently it was blocked again. For my newspaper "Al-Mustaqilla" ("The Independent") I waited over a year to obtain a licence.
You have also repeatedly received physical threats. Your family lives in constant danger. Why do you still hold onto your office?
Saif Hashed: The price one must pay to resist repression and to fight for rights and freedom in a country like Yemen is very high. Freedom for me is a mission that I must pursue – regardless of whether I am a citizen or a representative, regardless of the financial costs and dangers.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have a degree of influence over the situation in Yemen and its politics. How is this influence manifest?
Saif Hashed: Saudi Arabia is in the position to exert pressure. The country's influence on political decision-making in Yemen is readily apparent. Saudi Arabia is also in the position to influence several tribes that receive financial support from Saudi Arabian leaders.
We are observing a strong presence of Salafis (a Sunni fundamentalist movement, Ed.) in Yemen. This group has Saudi-Yemeni support. Many educated Muslim scholars are very aware that the Salafis pose a great danger to modernism and development and that their culture is the basis for violent extremism, which could be very dangerous for Yemen.
Are there other threats?
Saif Hashed: The support of Salafis by those in power is in contrast to the persecution of the Zayidia – an Islamic community close to the Shiites. Their rights have been restricted, their adherents repressed and persecuted. They are not allowed to celebrate their religious festivals. As a result, they have become an influential religious and political movement. They have close ties to Iran and are a growing power in Yemen.
In your view, what are the most important changes that need to occur in Yemen?
Saif Hashed: Yemen is being consumed by corruption on all levels. Business and politics are increasingly in decline. We are currently in the midst of a serious crisis, and there are no prospects in sight for a peaceful and democratic transformation. In short, Yemen is at the crossroads facing two possible directions. One is the so-called "big change" – the opposite of the currently prevalent corruption and repression and hunger. The other path would be the "Somalisation" of the situation, meaning that Yemen could descend into a hotbed of instability and terrorism.
How realistic is it that this change will happen in the near future?
Saif Hashed: I hope that everyone will work together without threatening peace and security. But this is not realistic, because the current government is falling out of favour and wants to take everyone with it.
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Ahmed Saif Hashed, born in 1962, lawyer and publicist, has been an independent MP in the House of Representatives in the Yemeni parliament since 2003. In recent years Hashed has been the victim of repeated physical attacks because of his political work. A few years ago he barely survived an attack that killed his driver.
Freedom of the Press and Democracy in Yemen
"Yemen Is a Law unto Itself"
Nadia A. Al-Sakkaf is editor-in-chief of the independent English-language daily Yemen Times, which was established in 1990. She spoke to Alfred Hackensberger about media, press freedom, democracy, and tribal culture in Yemen
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Coming to Terms with a Taboo
There is no law requiring Yemeni women to wear a veil, yet nearly all women wear black headscarves that cover everything but their eyes. Now, for the first time, the veil has been publicly debated. By Susanne Sporrer and Klaus Heymach
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An Uncertain Peace
Civil war has been waged in Yemen for years, largely unnoticed by the world community. In the northern Yemeni province of Saada, Zaidi Houthi rebels fight against government military forces. The conflict increasingly seems to be turning into a proxy war over regional supremacy, however. By Hanna Labonté


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Comedian, actor and author Bill Cosby is coming to Springfield for a concert to benefit the region's National Public Radio stations.
All proceeds from the show scheduled for March 2 at Symphony Hall will go directly to support WFCR-FM and WNNZ-AM.
Cosby started his career as a standup comedian, and is probably best known as the star and producer of the sitcom "The Cosby Show" during the 1980s and 1990s. The Philadelphia native broke television racial barriers in the 1960s when he co-starred in "I Spy."
He also created the 1970s cartoon "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids."
In 2002, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor.
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There's an interesting follow up to last week's post about the new 2014 Chrome and Elegance truck calendar crated by master photographer Roger Snider and Carl Carstens of Rockwood Products; specifically regarding how Snider managed to track down one of the brains behind the "Class Pays" truck advertising campaign designed to promote Peterbilt Motors Co. products almost 40 years ago now.
Snider shared with me that after a long search he managed to track down and interview Pierre Jacot, the original creative director of the Peterbilt "Class Pays" advertising campaigns and calendar shoots from 1975 to 1994 as a partner in a small advertising agency located in San Francisco.
Now 85, Jacot (seen at right) lives somewhat of a rustic life with no internet connection, no computer, and only a single analog land line in his home.
Yet Snider found it took very little prodding to get Jacot to open up about his experiences trying bring forth the "artistic elements" inherent in big rigs not just to truck enthusiasts but to the general public as well.
Originally from Switzerland, Jacot had grown up immersed in what one might dub "European fashion culture," one focused on elegant evening gowns, creative hair styles, and such – a "look" if you well adopted by Hollywood movie stars.
Jacot regaled Snider with tales about the road trips involved in crafted the truck-themed advertising campaigns and calendars of yore. In Peterbilt's case, it often took a month of travel to scout locations, hire models, and transport the chosen truck models from the factory to the photo shoot – often driving them straight off the production line to their "close up," which often could be several hundred to a thousand miles distant.
But it's the "aesthetic effort" that Snider most admires about how manufacturers and others tried to draw out the intrinsic artistic worth of within hard-working road iron.
"These were photo shoots crafted to celebrate the design of trucks in combination with sophisticated European fashion influences," he explained to me. "I'm taking up that torch, to a degree, to prove there is still a market for this approach to capturing the truck's image: To craft a 'classic' statement about trucking, if you will."
It's certainly impressive work to see – and you can view some of the 2014 Chrome and Elegance shots, plus some candid backstage scenes as well, by clicking here.
It's as true a celebration of the truck as art as you're ever going to find, I think.


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With the economy faltering and sales at most retailers declining from year-ago levels, many firms are trimming growth projections, cutting back on new store development and closing down locations.
The major pressures on consumers — declining housing values, stagnating wages and employment and inflation in commodities prices — don't appear to be going anywhere any time soon. Most economists expect these troubles to persist well into 2009, if not further. True, gas prices have dropped from their precipitous heights in the past month. (The price of oil has dropped from a peak of $147 per barrel down to about $120.) Gas, however, still costs more than $4 a gallon in much of the country, higher than the level at which Americans have become accustomed.
But for at least one sector, the dark days of the summer of 2008 have been light indeed. Grocery stores — benefiting from high food prices — are thriving and some of the largest companies in the sector are poised to open more new stores than in the past two years. Many more are embarking on ambitious remodeling programs. Banc of America Securities analyst Christy McElroy says in a recent note to investors that "in-fill suburban supermarket-anchored strip centers are positioned well, as grocers have been able to pass through higher food prices."
Unlike most food and beverage companies, which have suffered as consumers have altered spending patterns given the rising price of food, grocery stores have been able to reap benefits of this inflation. When commodity prices rise, food manufacturers pay more to produce goods. To recoup those costs, food makers pass along the price increases in the form of higher retail prices. The higher prices then show up on grocery stores shelves. The grocers, themselves, though don't bear any of the costs. They simply pass them along. And as long as consumers keep buying food, the higher prices lead to higher revenue and profit at supermarket companies, providing them with more cash to spend on expansion.
Furthermore, while some consumers are trading down and buying more of their food at dollar stores and discounters, supermarkets are gaining business at the upper end — in the prepared foods segment — as Americans eat out less.
Of course, the picture isn't uniformly rosy for supermarkets across the country. In markets where the run-up in housing prices was particularly steep or where too many new homes were built, there is more risk. Many California markets were rife with risky mortgage activity — such as excessive subprime lending and too many adjustable rate mortgages — could still face a painful readjustment as defaults, delinquencies and foreclosures work their way through the system. Florida, parts of the Northeast, Minneapolis and Baltimore also showed pockets of high-risk mortgage activity, according to Phoenix-based data provider Synergos Technologies.
Consumers struggling with mortgage payments may be more inclined to visit a local Wal-Mart Supercenter or discount store rather than a more upscale supermarket. Smart retailers, say analysts, are taking this to heart and focusing on opening new stores in areas that correspond to the needs of their customer base. "Retailers are slowing expansion plans, but continue to open new stores in good locations with the appropriate tenant mix to complement their brands," according to McElroy.
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Most grocers have not disclosed the markets where they plan to open new stores. But their expansion plans for the year show many are spending at or above what they did a year ago to open new stores and remodel existing ones.
Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., which operates 2,474 stores, spent $2.1 billion on capital expenditures in 2007 and opened 23 new stores. The company has not said how many stores it expects to open in 2008, but it did say it will likely spend between $2.0 billion and $2.2 billion for capital investments and will grow its total square footage by 2.0 percent to 2.5 percent before acquisitions. In 2007, the company posted $70.2 billion in sales.
At Pleasanton, Calif.-based Safeway Inc., meanwhile, the company said in its first-quarter earnings report that it expects to spend $1.70 billion to $1.75 billion on capital expenditures in 2008 and will open 20 to 25 new stores in its "lifestyle" format, which features fresh and prepared foods and more upscale products. Last year, the company spent about $1.77 billion on capital expenditures and opened 13 new stores. Beyond opening new locations, Safeway is focused on remodeling its existing store base as lifestyle stores. The company plans to remodel 250 to 255 stores this year, on top of the 253 lifestyle remodels it completed in 2007. Currently, the company operates 1,740 stores and had annual sales of $42.3 billion in 2007.
Both Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Supervalu Inc. and Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., which is headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., are in the middle of remodeling programs as well and most of their capital expenditures are dedicated to those initiatives.
Supervalu, which operates 2,475 supermarkets and has annual sales of about $44 billion, is still digesting locations it inherited from Albertsons Inc. The company acquired over 1,100 stores as part of a consortium of companies that purchased Albertsons for $17.4 billion in early 2006. A Supervalu spokesperson said many of the former Albertsons locations are "not up to standard." The company is attempting to reach its goal of remodeling 80 percent of its now-expanded store base in seven years. Overall, Supervalu will spend $1.3 billion in its retail capital program in fiscal 2009, which began March 1. In fiscal 2008, the company remodeled 141 stores. It expects to remodel 165 in fiscal 2009.
Winn-Dixie, which operates 520 grocery stores predominantly in the Southeast, also expects to spend the majority of its capital expenditures on remodeling its stores in 2008. The company remodeled 20 stores in 2007 and plans to remodel 75 stores this year and each year in the future, according to its third-quarter earnings report. In a quarterly conference call with analysts and investors in March, CEO Peter Lynch said the remodeling program is "progressing on plan."
"We're moving efficiently to update, revamp and reenergize the conditions of our stores across the entire fleet," Lynch said. "As we move forward with the program, we'll have an increasingly strong store base from which to compete, leverage the strength of our brand and increase sales per square foot over the long term."
Even London-based Tesco PLC's Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market chain is getting back into the store-opening game. Tesco, which premiered the Fresh & Easy concept in the United States last year with 61 stores in California and the Southwest, stopped opening stores for 12 weeks starting in late March "to allow the business we've created to settle down a bit," according to a statement from Fresh & Easy chief marketing officer Simon Uwins. However, at the beginning of July the company resumed opening stores with a new location in Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Opening new stores with a smaller footprint — Fresh & Easy stores come in at roughly 10,000 square feet rather than the typical 40,000-square-foot supermarket — can be a challenge and the break in store openings made some analysts question whether the chain could succeed, particularly given the difficult environment in the initial markets. "There's some experimentation with the smaller store," says Elliott Olsen, chairman of Minneapolis market research company Dakota Worldwide Corp. But he adds, "it's something that's very difficult to chain." Consumers, he says, are typically used to more variety. Still Tesco says its U.S. chain is performing well so far.
Perhaps surprisingly, the one chain reporting slower development is the world's largest retailer, Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. In June Wal-Mart said it was cutting its capital spending forecast for fiscal 2009 and slowing construction of new Supercenters, which sell groceries as well as consumer products, clothing and electronics. The company said it would open 140 Supercenters in 2009 instead of the 170 it had initially projected. The retailer said it now expects to spend $13 billion to $15 billion, down from its previous estimate of $13.5 billion to $15.2 billion for the year.
But even though the company is slowing its Supercenter growth, it has said it plans to open a new smaller-format food store called "Marketside." The first store is slated to open in Phoenix in the fall of 2008 and will likely focus on more premium items, like prepared foods.
The other big discounter that dabbles in groceries, Minneapolis-based Target Corp., is ramping up growth of its own supercenter concept, SuperTarget. Target has said it plans to have SuperTarget represent a larger percentage of square footage growth going forward. SuperTargets stock groceries, prepared meals and household staples. There are now 182 locations in 21 states.


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CANANDAIGUA � July selection begins Monday in the trial of the Stanley woman indicted in February on charges relating to the death of her husband of 11 years.
Rose M. Chase, of 2215 Mott Road, faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder, said Ontario County District Attorney R. Michael Tantillo. She also faces charges of tampering with physical evidence and endangering the welfare of a child.
The indictment alleges that Rose �intentionally caused the death of Adam Chase� on or about June 14, 2012. It further alleges that Rose transported Mr. Chase�s body from their residence to 4675 Hagerty Road in Potter, Yates County, and concealed it there before ultimately burning the body at that location.
During a pretrial hearing July in Ontario County Court, Judge William Kocher ruled that testimony by eight officers involved in the investigation � as well as a video of the approximately two-and-a-half-hour interview Rose had last December with Ontario County Sheriff�s Office investigators � can be presented at her trial.
Rose stated during the video interview that on June 14, 2012, she got into an argument with Mr. Chase at their Mott Road home. She said a physical altercation ensued, then �his foot caught on the stairs and he tumbled down the stairs. ... He fell down the stairs and just laid there.�
Rose said during the interview that Mr. Chase did not move after he fell and that she checked his wrist for a pulse, but did not find one. She said that she dragged Mr. Chase�s body into the basement, where she later concealed it.
Mr. Chase�s body remained in their basement for about six to eight weeks, Rose stated during the interview.
The pretrial hearing also included testimony by Inv. John Falbo, who testified that on Dec. 13, 2012, Rose said to him that she had allegedly put Mr. Chase�s body in their basement, then later brought it, wrapped in blankets, to her mother�s property in Potter. Rose said she allegedly put the body in the woods for two weeks, until she took it to a burn pit on the property and burned it, Falbo said.
During a court appearance last month, Kocher told Rose that if she pleaded guilty to the charges before trial, he would sentence her to 20 years to life in prison, Tantillo said. Chase said she would not plead guilty, he said, and the case now goes to trial.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The 116th season of Yale basketball kicks off on Saturday with the second Connecticut 6 Classic. The Bulldogs face Quinnipiac in the third game of the tripleheader. Tipoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville. Central Connecticut meets Hartford in the first game at 4 p.m. followed by Fairfield playing Sacred Heart.
Yale played Sacred Heart in the augural Connecticut 6 Classic last year. Alex Zampier scored 35 points, but the Bulldogs dropped a hard-fought 92-86 decision. Zampier went on to average 17.4 points per game for the season, the most at Yale since Paul Maley averaged 20.2 points in 1987-88. Zampier has graduated so the Bulldogs figure to have a more balanced attack, which could suit the team well. Under James Jones, who begins his 12th season at the helm, Yale has been its most successful when the scoring is spread out. Greg Mangano, Austin Morgan and Porter Braswell are all experienced and should carry much of the offensive load. Saturday is the first of four games away from home to begin the season. The Bulldogs are at Providence on Monday, play at Boston College next Thursday and take a trip to Illinois before Thanksgiving. Yale's first home game is Nov. 27 against Army.
Despite being located less than 15 miles apart, Yale and Quinnipiac have played only twice, an 87-69 Bobcat victory in the 1999 Phoenix Classic at the Hartford Civic Center and a 71-64 Quinnipiac win last year at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Justin Rutty scored 23 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, including 10 on the offensive end, to lead the Bobcats last year.
The Bobcats are coming off unprecedented success in 2009-10, having won a program-record 23 games and earning a berth into the National Invitation Tournament, the first national postseason tournament appearance in program Division I history. Junior forward Justin Rutty was named the NEC Player of the Year, becoming the first player in program history to earn the award. Both Rutty and senior wing James Feldeine were named to the All-NEC First Team. With eight players returning from that team, the Northeast Conference's coaches selected the Bobcats as the league's first unanimous preseason favorite since 1997-98 (Long Island). In addition, The Sporting News, Athlon, Lindy's and the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Report also picked the Bobcats as the NEC favorite.
Bulldogs Picked Fifth In Ivy League Preseason Poll
Yale was picked to finish fifth in the Ivy League by the select panel of 17 Ivy media representatives. Yale, though, shouldn't put too much stock in those prognostications. The Bulldogs have finished higher than projected in four of the last five years. Princeton, which received 12 of 17 first-place votes, is the preseason Ivy League favorite. The Tigers return their top five scorers and top two rebounders. Harvard got four first-place votes and is second followed by Cornell (one first-place vote) and Penn. Brown, Columbia and Dartmouth round out the poll.
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1. Princeton (12) 128
2. Harvard (4) 120
3. Cornell (1) 96
4. Penn 89
5. Yale 57
6. Brown 55
7. Columbia 48
8. Dartmouth 19
Greg Mangano, who led the Ivy League in blocked shots last year, has been named to the All-Connecticut 6 preseason team. Mangano, a 6-foot-10 junior, tied for fifth in the league in rebounding (5.5 rpg.). In addition, he was fourth on the team in scoring (7.5 ppg.) and tied for second in rebounding. Joining Mangano on the All-Connecticut 6 preseason team is Quinnipiac forward Justin Rutty, Central Connecticut guard Shemik Thompson, Fairfield guard Derek Needham, Hartford guard Joe Zeglinski and Sacred Heart guard Jerrell Thompson.
The state of Connecticut has a rich basketball tradition. A new chapter in that history started in 2009-10 with the formation of the Connecticut 6, a partnership between six of Connecticut's Division I schools - Yale, Central Connecticut, Fairfield, Hartford, Quinnipiac and Sacred Heart. The second annual Connecticut 6 Classic tripleheader is Nov. 13 at the the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville. In addition to the tripleheader, a preseason All-Connecticut 6 team was selected and there will be a Connecticut 6 Player of the Week chosen each week during the season.
James Jones has made quite an impact on the Yale basketball program. In 11 seasons, Jones has guided Yale to success not seen in New Haven in 40 years. In 2001-02, Jones led the Bulldogs to their first Ivy League title since 1962-63 and the first postseason tournament victory in the 107-year history of Yale basketball. The team won 21 games, the second most in the modern era of Yale basketball, and reached the second round of the National Invitation Tournament. Jones, the longest tenured coach in the Ivy League, earned his 100th victory at Yale when the Bulldogs beat Columbia on Feb. 9, 2007. He is only the fourth coach in school history with at least 100 wins. The Bulldogs have won at least 10 Ivy games twice during his tenure and have had a .500 or better record in league play in nine of his 11 years. Four assistant coaches who worked under Jones have gone on to become head coaches - Isaiah Cavaco (Oberlin), Mark Sembrowich (Academy of Arts University), Mark Gilbride (Clarkson) and Ted Hotaling (New Haven).Jones served as an assistant coach to Villanova's Jay Wright for the 2007 USA Basketball Men's Pan American Games Team.
• The Bulldogs will face seven teams that reached the post-season last year – Cornell (NCAA), Vermont (NCAA), Lehigh (NCAA), Quinnipiac (NIT), Illinois (NIT), Harvard (CIT) and Princeton (CBI).
• Yale will play five afternoon home games in Lee Amphitheater – Army (Nov. 27), Sacred Heart (Dec. 19), Lehigh (Dec. 31), Baruch College (Jan. 8) and Brown (Jan. 22). All are scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
• There will be familiar faces on the opposing bench when the Bulldogs play at Boston College. Steve Donahue, who guided Cornell to last three Ivy League titles, is in his first season as the head coach at BC. His associate head coach, Joe Jones, was the head coach at Columbia for the last seven years and is the younger brother of Yale head coach James Jones.
• Boston College is one of six opponents that will have first-year head coaches. Hartford (John Gallagher), Holy Cross (Milan Brown), Columbia (Kyle Smith), Cornell (Bill Courtney) and Dartmouth (Paul Cormier) are the others.
• Yale will be playing Illinois for only the second time. The first meeting was a 71-67 Illini victory in the 1949 NCAA Tournament at Madison Square Garden.
• Yale will be playing Stanford for third time in the last four years. The Cardinal became the first Pac 10 to school to play in Lee Amphitheater in 2008.
• Yale will host a game on New Year's Eve for the first time since 1930. The Bulldogs play Lehigh in a 2 p.m. tip-off.
Michael Sands has withdrawn from Yale for personal reasons and will not be with the team... There are two Connecticut natives on the Yale roster. Greg Mangano is from Orange and freshman Isaiah Salafia is from Cromwell...James Jones is the longest tenured coach in the Ivy League.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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Registration for business owners is free thanks to the presenting sponsors from Frank Cornell Associates Inc.; local attorney Morgan Jones Jr. from Seaman, Jones, Hogan & Brooks LLP; and Otto Calderone from Sullivan Insurance. The panel includes Lynn Oswald, director of the Small Business Development Center.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Both prosecutors and defense attorneys asked the Ohio Parole Board on Monday to spare a condemned killer who stabbed a neighbor 17 times, making a rare joint appeal for mercy based on the inmate's youth at the time of his killing and his history of drug and alcohol abuse.
A divided board ruled against clemency two years ago for Billy Slagle, but that was before the election of new Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty and a change in his office's approach to capital punishment.
McGinty is applying new criteria to both old and new death penalty cases, and one of those elements is whether a death sentence could be obtained today, assistant prosecutor Matthew Meyer told the board.
"The fact that the prosecutorial team does not feel confident that under today's guidelines and today's law we can achieve death, we will not come before this board or before the victims and say that death has to be the way this case should end up," Meyer said.
Meyer said the decision to recommend mercy was not meant to diminish the heinous facts of the 1987 death of Mari Anne Pope, who was killed while two young children she was watching were in the house.
Slagle's attorneys said his brain was broken by drug and alcohol abuse by the time he committed the crime that sent him to death row.
"Billy was exposed to alcohol from the womb to the crime," Joe Wilhelm, a federal public defender, said at the hearing.
Attorneys for Slagle, 44, have long argued his sentence should be commuted to life without parole, citing his age — at 18, he was the minimum age for execution in Ohio when the crime happened — and a long history of drug and alcohol abuse.
Last week, McGinty reversed his office's long-standing position on the case and said he was also asking Slagle's sentence be commuted. Since life without parole was not an option at the time, jurors made the only choice they could to ensure Slagle would never be freed, McGinty said.
In 1996, Ohio law changed to allow jurors to choose between execution and life without parole. In 2005, lawmakers added a provision allowing prosecutors to pursue life without parole in non-death penalty cases.
The board is expected to release its recommendation July 16. Gov. John Kasich, who has the final say, is not commenting. Slagle's execution is scheduled for Aug. 7.
Lauretta Keeton, whose children were in the house the night of the slaying, asked the parole board to reject clemency on behalf of the loving neighbor everyone knew as "Marnie."
"Billy Slagle was convicted, his sentence was death, and I feel it should be carried out," Keeton, 57, of suburban Cleveland, told the board. "It would make a mockery of the prosecutor and jury if this is overturned."
William Caine, a retired Cuyahoga County prosecutor who oversaw Slagle's case, also protested McGinty's decision and asked the board to reject mercy.
It's unclear whether a sitting Ohio prosecutor has ever asked that a death row inmate under his office have the sentence commuted.
Last year, a former Mahoning County prosecutor pleaded for clemency for a man he put on death row, saying he had come to believe the condemned man was not as responsible as a co-defendant in a fatal 1986 robbery. Kasich commuted the sentence.
Last year in Alabama, a man convicted of the 1996 killing and robbery of two people at a pawn shop had his death sentence changed to life in prison without parole. Shelby County District Attorney Robbie Owens first agreed to drop the death sentence for LeSamuel Gamble in 2007 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that defendants who were under 18 when the crime was committed couldn't be executed. Gamble was 18.
Owens said at the time he supported changing Gamble's sentence since a 16-year-old co-defendant who fired the fatal shots was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In 2011, an Arkansas prosecutor worked on a plea deal for three convicts known as the West Memphis Three, including one man on death row.
In a 1997 Virginia case, then-Gov. George Allen commuted the death sentence of William Saunders, saying he was swayed by a prosecutor and judge who said Saunders was not the same violent man sentenced to death seven years earlier.
Ohio's Cuyahoga County has long had a reputation for heavy use of capital punishment indictments with relatively low numbers of death sentences. McGinty had promised to reduce the number of death penalty charges when he ran for the office.
Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus


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Keeping Parkinson's in Mind at G8 Dementia Summit
Several weeks ago, in early December 2013, health leaders from the Group of Eight (G8) met in London, pledging to cure or modify the course of dementia by 2025. This bold declaration is one that the Parkinson's community is monitoring in light of the fact that about a quarter of people with PD are currently living with dementia. What Should You Know? Dementia describes a range of symptoms related to memory decline. While Alzheimer's disease makes up the majority of cases of dementia, there are several kinds, including Parkinson's disease-dementia (PD-D).


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M23, the eight-month-old rebel group made up of soldiers who defected from the Congolese army, has pushed beyond Goma, the bustling regional capital of eastern Congo, which fell to the fighters earlier this week.
AP photojournalist Jerome Delay is in the region covering the conflict, and has been witness to tens of thousands of civilians fleeing along a stretch of road to Goma, carrying mattresses and cooking pots on their heads, as well as live chickens, goats, and babies bundled on their backs. The town of Sake was nearly deserted.
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