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As more restaurants, bars and liquor stores pick up Painted Stave Distilling liquors, fans of the Smyrna-based products have an opportunity to sign, date and cork up batches at bottling parties.
The gin, vodka and whiskey made at Painted Stave Distilling are not going to bottle themselves. So, co-owners Mike Rasmussen and Ron Gomes came up with a method that's inclusive of its fan base: bottling parties.
As of right now, there's no set schedule but when the batches are ready, a notice goes out via Facebook. Participants are treated to pizza, several rounds of cocktails and their own signed and dated souvenir bottle of locally made liquor bottled that night.
Yesterday, an eclectic group gathered to bottle PSD's latest limited edition experiment South River (White) Gin.
Dover residents Cheryl Dillon and her husband Jeff signed up to participate in the bottling party after they participated in the last one, a collective effort that bottled up South River White's sister gin, South River (Red) Gin.
"Where else can you drink on the job," said Jeff. "Plus, it's fun and something different to do. These guys are good people."
Dillon's wife Cheryl agreed, adding that she wasn't even a gin drinker until she tried Painted Stave Distilling's Candy Manor Gin.
Several locals also signed up to participate, including Debbie and Jerry Clark, who also visited Heritage Winery earlier in the day. They bottled up the gin alongside several people who made the trek from downstate.
"I love it when I have the opportunity to support a local industry," said Laurel resident Kitty Bronson. "Wineries, breweries and distillaries are going to be big business in Delaware and on the Delmarva Peninsula. I like that we have the opportunity to get to know businesses like this now, before they get bigger."
People interested in participating in future bottling parties should "like" the Painted Stave Distilling Facebook page and watch for posts advertising party opportunities. An email address will be included to register.


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Andersonville is second only to Boystown when it comes to its LGBT bar scene. Here's how to hit up the best in one marathon night.
Start your night on Clark at The Sofo Tap (4923 N. Clark St. 773-784-7636), where nightly drink and events include Slingshot Sundays with karaoke and Tuesday Tringo—a trivia/bingo hybrid.
Next, head to T's (5025 N. Clark St. 773-784-6000) for a round of drinks on the sidewalk patio. Then, Amp up the energy at bumpin' club Atmosphere (5355 N. Clark St. 773-784-1100), where male dancers hit the floor Thursday through Saturday nights.
Cool off with a classic cocktails—don't miss the manhattan—at cozy Marty's Martini Bar (1511 W. Balmoral Ave. 773-561-6425).
Ready for a bite? Hit Hamburger Mary's (5400 N. Clark St. 773-784-6969) for a round of burgers—plus karaoke or a cabaret performance upstairs in Mary's Attic.
End your night on the dance floor at Andersonville's The Call (1547 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. 773-334-2525), which hosts frequent theme nights, including a Britney Spears night every last Friday of the month.


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What's Happening in Palm Desert?
No matter the season, there's always plenty to see and do in the Palm Desert area. From special events like Fashion Week El Paseo and the Palm Desert Food & Wine Festival, sporting events such as the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, and exciting theatrical and musical performances at the McCallum Theatre, there's something for everyone. Search our complete event listings below or browse our list of Palm Desert Signature Events and other major events in the desert.
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The Palm Springs Cruisin' Association presents Cruise-In at Westfield Palm Desert on the first Saturday of the month, October thru May from 1 pm to 5 pm. Viewing is free for the general public and is open to all car enthusiasts! Cruise-In displays over 150 classic cars, muscle cars, hot rods, street rods, corvettes, customs, antiques, restored and original collectible cars and motorcycles. There will be coloring and hula hoop contests for children, a raffle and 50/50 drawing, trophy presentations and activities for the whole family.


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After creating a majority of the chances, frustration was the theme in the Fire locker room as Jerry Bengtson's 62nd minute header handed the team a 1-0 defeat to New England Saturday night at Toyota Park.
HIGHLIGHTS: Fire 0, Revs 1
"We were unfortunate to not at least tie this game," said Fire forward Chris Rolfe. "We had three clear-cut chances that we weren't sharp on."
The Fire looked most dangerous towards the end of the first half but saw opportunities for Sherjill MacDonald, Dilly Duka and Joel Lindpere thwarted by Revolution 'keeper Matt Reis.
Despite the opportunities created, with the team going up against the wind in the second half, head coach Frank Klopas swapped MacDonald for substitute Maicon Santos.
"We needed [MacDonald] to hold the ball better, at times when we tried to find him he was late to his movement. He had a couple chances to put away and going against the wind I thought that Maicon was bigger, stronger and we could use him to hold the ball."
The move didn't pay off as the Fire lacked second half opportunities and the Revolution took a bit more possession before Kelyn Rowe picked out Bengtson in the box in the 62nd minute. The Honduran international seemed to take advantage of some indecision in the back as he headed the game's only goal past Sean Johnson.
"It was a broken down play," explained Fire center back Austin Berry. "We cleared the first ball but we just didn't stick to marks on the second ball in. It's a shame because we had defended well for the majority of the game to get scored on a fluke play like that."
Despite the goal and the game being the second straight match the team was without Arne Friedrich and Logan Pause, overall the team played well defensively.
"I think we were pretty good in the back," agreed Gonzalo Segares. "We definitely improved a lot from the last game. One unfortunate chance and they capitalized on it. It's very frustrating. I thought we were the better team on the night but we didn't finish our chances and they did on basically their only chance."
Shortly after the goal, Klopas was forced to burn his third and final sub, replacing Rolfe with Alex as the veteran forward cramped up in the 65th minute.
Following Rolfe's removal the team only saw two more shots at goal, with Santos 92nd minute effort well-saved by Reis.
The loss gives the Men in Red their first 0-2-0 start since 2000 and leaves the team without a goal in its first 180 minutes of play.
"It's always tough for forwards at the beginning of the season," said Rolfe."That first goal is the hardest one to get. As a team I think it's the same case. "We created three good chances tonight. Joel had one, Mac had one and Dilly hit the cross bar. I think we had better chances than they did, it's just the way it went tonight."
While the team showed certain improvement over Sunday's 4-0 defeat to LA, they have exactly one week to dwell on the result before another tough match at Sporting KC, next Saturday afternoon.
"In this league every game is difficult and competitive," said Segares. "Every game is going to be hard and we have another one coming next week on the road against a pretty good team.
"We just keep working hard. We're going to create our own luck and we'll get better."


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JERUSALEM (AP) — A prominent member of the U.S. Senate said Tuesday Israel should not worry about President Obama's choice for U.S. defense secretary.
Some in Israel view Chuck Hagel as unsympathetic to Israel because his positions on Iran and the Palestinians seem to be at odds with those of the Israeli government.
But U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida who is visiting Israel, said Tuesday that Hagel has a record of support for Israel. Nelson said he will back Hagel's nomination.
Nelson, who will serve on the armed services committee of the new Senate, said he met with senior Israeli intelligence officials Tuesday to discuss Iran's nuclear program.
He said he also discussed Hagel's nomination with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He said the prime minister did not voice objections to Hagel.
Nelson took issue with comments this week by his colleague Rand Paul. During a visit to Israel, the Republican senator from Kentucky called for an end to foreign aid, even to allies like Israel. Nelson said U.S. aid to Israel, about $3 billion a year, would continue.


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Imagine that a federal agency wanted to hurt America's working-class families on purpose. How would it inflict maximum damage?
It might start by aggressively marketing homeownership to marginal borrowers. It would tell them that bad credit scores aren't a problem. It would push them into homes they can't afford, saddle them with loans that barely build equity and provide no incentives for fiscal discipline. And when many of these homes go underwater and into foreclosure, it would leave families in financial ruin.
In short, such an agency would follow the Federal Housing Administration playbook.
That's a shame, because Republicans and Democrats alike rightly applaud the FHA's mission to provide responsible mortgage credit to low- and moderate-income Americans and first-time home buyers. But all too often, the FHA turns the American dream into a nightmare, setting up failure for the very families and neighborhoods its mission is to help.
This is not an isolated problem. A new study I completed at the American Enterprise Institute identified no fewer than 9,000 lower-income ZIP Codes where the projected foreclosure rate on loans insured by the FHA in fiscal years 2009 and 2010 is more than 10%. Overall, 1 in 7 families in these ZIP Codes stands to lose their home and their savings. Many areas had failure rates of 20%, 30% and even higher.


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In Indonesia, Kerry Blasts Climate Change Deniers
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is putting climate change deniers in the same category as those who insist the Earth is flat.
Speaking in Indonesia today, Kerry says climate change may be the world's "most fearsome" weapon of mass destruction there is and that urgent action is needed to combat it.
In a speech to Indonesian students, civic leaders and government officials in Jakarta, Kerry accused climate change deniers of using shoddy science and scientists to delay measures needed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
He also argued that everyone and every country must take responsibility and act immediately.
Kerry argued that the cost of inaction to environments and economies will far outweigh even the significant expense of reducing greenhouse gas emissions that trap solar heat in the atmosphere and contribute to the Earth's rising temperatures.


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Disney Publishing Announces Schedule for Comic-Con International
Official Press Release
Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW) thrills at the 2011 Comic-Con convention with exciting panels and signings including: a Disney/Marvel panel showcasing DPW's Marvel publishing program through fall 2011; an exciting sneak peek at the recently launched Disney Comics App; and exclusive giveaways just for Comic-Con attendees at the DPW booth (#1016).
The DPW booth will showcase an assortment of books, comics, graphic novels, and magazines; preview upcoming releases; and product sneak peeks will be on display including The Art of Epic Mickey and Phineas and Ferb Across the 2nd Dimension: Official Movie Magazine. A limited selection of product will also be for sale.
Disney Publishing recently launched Disney Comics App for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Disney Comics gives readers instant access to one of the most extensive collections of comics, short stories, and graphic novels ever created, ranging from classic adventures starring Mickey Mouse to brand-new stories like Cars 2 and Toy Story. The Disney Comics App launched in the U.S. and is also available on the App Store in over 80 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
For the first time, Disney Publishing is partnering with Marvel to take our publishing programs to the Marvel Universe-a place beyond our own vast imaginations, where Super Heroes swing from New York City skyscrapers and villains plot to advance their own self-interests. Marvel's rich history is fertile ground for storytelling, and Disney Book Group's newest imprint, Marvel Press, and DPW licensees will cultivate it with picture books, chapter books, novels, and storybooks, along with other groundbreaking ways of telling these amazing, classic stories.
From Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus to Phineas and Ferb, there is something for every kid. Giveaways include: Phineas and Ferb character masks and magazines
Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus pens and Olympian Week cards
Marvel publishing program booklets
Disney Book Group poster tubes
Saturday, July 23
2:00 – 3:00 pm Why We Create
Room: 25ABC Why We Create with Don Hahn: Join legendary Disney filmmaker, author, and Academy Award nominee Don Hahn for an exploration into Why We Create. With awe inspiring unseen images from the Disney vaults to world-renowned art, contemporary ads, and graphic novels, with a little music tossed in, this is a rare opportunity to hear Don share his unique outlook on creativity and how to navigate it in today's results-driven world.
4:00 – 5:00 pm Don Hahn Signing
Location: AA21 Don will be signing copies of Brain Storm and The Alchemy Animation.
Sunday, July 24
11:30 am – 12:30 PM It's a Small World Picture Book & CD signing with illustrator Joey Chou
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Room: 24ABC Everyone wondered what would happen when the Mouse House got together with the House of Ideas, and the answer is an amazing assortment of Marvelous kids books! Join editors from Disney Publishing Worldwide and Marvel as they unveil their new line of Marvel Origin Storybooks for kids, featuring modern retellings of some of Marvel's most iconic characters, such as Thor, Captain America, Spider-Man, and the X-Men. From artwork to film adaptations to beginner books, be here to find out all of the upcoming excitement from the combined might of Disney and Marvel. With Ruwan Jayatilleke, Senior Vice President, Marvel; Rich Thomas, Global Editorial Director, Disney Publishing Worldwide; and Michael Siglain, Senior Editor, Disney Publishing Worldwide.
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Cambodian opposition MPs charged with insurrection
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Six Cambodian opposition politicians were charged Wednesday with leading an insurrection movement after a clash with security forces who prevented their followers from rallying in a public park.
Lawyers and rights activists said six leading members of the Cambodia National Rescue Party — including five members of parliament — appeared in court to be charged with leading an insurrection movement, incitement to commit a felony and instigation to commit acts of violence. At least three others not present are facing the same charges, they said.
The maximum penalty if convicted on all charges would be 30 years in prison.
Cambodia's opposition deputy leader Kem Sokha, center left, of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, gives a speech at a blocked main street near Phnom Penh Municipality Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Five of lawmakers from the main opposition party of Cambodia National Rescue Party appeared in the court Wednesday for being questioned that they led about a hundred of their supporters Tuesday to demonstrate in front of the park, asking authorities to open the site to the public. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
The government said in a statement that at least 38 neighborhood security personnel were injured in Tuesday's brawling, with 22 in critical condition and three in intensive care.
The guards are civilians used by the authorities to break up protests, and have a reputation for brutality. They are usually armed with clubs and other homemade weapons, and have been accused repeatedly by human rights groups of using excessive force.
Authorities banned public demonstrations and closed the park in January after a series of street protests.
"A handful of the CNRP's leaders who had a premeditated plot and led its ultra-supporters, who were armed with batons and other deadly tools, brutally attacked the local security personnel in an attempt to create (a) chaotic situation," the government statement said.
Opposition party leaders said the guards initiated Tuesday's violence, which came two weeks before the anniversary of a disputed general election last year that led to a bitter political deadlock. The Cambodia National Rescue Party claims the election was rigged and that it was robbed of victory. Its lawmakers have boycotted their seats in the National Assembly and are demanding reforms and new elections.
There are fears that the July 28 anniversary of the election will see big protests and possible violence. Prime Minister Hun Sen has been in power for almost three decades, and while Cambodia is formally democratic, his government is authoritarian and known for intimidating opponents.
A small crowd of opposition supporters sought to demonstrate outside the court on Wednesday, but were kept at a distance by security forces.
Sam Sok Kong, a lawyer for the accused, said that when his clients were questioned in court they insisted upon their innocence and charged that the government instigated the violence to have an excuse to put them in jail.
"They said that why should they fear being arrested because they know that they did not do anything wrong," Sam Sok Kong said.
On Tuesday, about 200 protesters marched to the park and attached an orange banner that read "Free the Freedom Park" to the surrounding razor wire barricade. As armed police watched from inside the park, several dozen security guards attempted to disperse the rally, witnesses said.
The security forces began beating protesters with batons, but several demonstrators, many of whom were waving the national flag, fought back with their flag poles or batons they had grabbed from the guards, said Om Sam Ath, from the human rights group Licadho. Police fired smoke bombs from inside the park to disperse the protesters, he said, adding that at least four demonstrators were injured.
A supporter with her face painted with letters reads "Free Parliamentarians" as she joins other supporters at a blocked main street near Phnom Penh Municipality Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Five of lawmakers from the main opposition party of Cambodia National Rescue Party appeared in the court Wednesday for being questioned that they led about a hundred of their supporters Tuesday to demonstrate in front of the park, asking authorities to open the site to the public. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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This xmas my mom put in one of her new favorite xmas movies - Polar Express. It was my second time watching and I had forgotten all the things I hated about it the first time through. There are roughly three of them.The first is the art. While it is a generally well rendered bit of 3D animation, none of the characters look alive. They all have dead eyes. It gives the creepy appearance of a bunch of zombies interacting, dancing, and what have you. Second is the crappy plot. I get the impression it was supposed to be a zany, who-knows-what-will-happen-next-kind of plot, akin to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But it fails that in every way. The result is a disjointed collection of senseless, pointless, vaguely weird episodes that are mostly unrelated to each other. Even Hanks' conductor character was a schizophrenic - one minute kindly, the next minute a stern hard ass, the next a dancing fool for no apparent reason.Last was the overarching point of the movie - the idea that Belief is good. The main character - some kid - doubted the existence of Santa, and for good reason. The rest of the movie was about him trying to believe. In the pivotal denouement scene the kid cannot hear the xmas bells on the reindeer's harness because only people who believe can hear them. He shuts his eyes tight and strains hard. Apparently non-belief is like constipation: if you strain hard enough both can be overcome. And he hears a bell. Happy day. Somehow the kid willed himself to believe in something he previously thought was bullshit. After that, he could see Santa and even talk to him. Sound familiar?This movie is a primer for religious belief and should be kept from children. It lays down certain principles that are frankly, dangerous to society. The idea that they should believe things without evidence, the idea that this kind of belief is good and should be celebrated, the idea that you can will yourself to genuinely believe something just by trying harder. These are all the basics required to believe bullshit and it sets the stage for intellectual black holes. If you are going to watch this with your kids, make sure you use it as an opportunity to instruct them on rational thinking. I wish we'd watched White Christmas instead, even though Bing Crosby is in it. I fucking hate Bing Crosby and I fucking hate most movies of that era. But at least Vera Ellen was a hot piece of ass. Vera Ellen. I'd tap that.
You could make this arguement for almost any movie that feartures Santa Claus as the main character.
PS I always thought Vera Ellen was far too thin. I'll Take Cyd Charisse. Great Legs.
I like Santa as much as the next guy. What got me about this movie was not Santa, because he only had the tiniest role, but the faith aspect of it. The message that unfounded belief is good, desirable, something to be cherished, is the thing that cheeses me.


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Melana believes she's living a fairy tale - Shrek meets The Dating Game
At the start, we see Melana's bikini clad, firm-buttocked, perky-breasted buffed out body traversing the wet beachy sands and looking through the camera at all the rest of the men in TV land as if she has found her lost long soulmate. Melana: There's nothing to see here, move along.
She's a former beauty queen and NFL cheerleader looking for fall in love with the perfect guy. They show her beautiful white stretch limousine crawling up the hill to deliver her as a princess living in a multi-million dollar mansion smack dab in in the middle of Hell's Kitchen, Palm Springs, CA. Don't cry out Melana, no one will hear you anyway. Melana: Is this setting the contrast between beauty and the beasty boys?
Melana sees her perfect guy as the one with a perfect smile but our commentator reminds Melana that these guys don't look or act like any of the previous bachelors you've seen on TV. The commentator also wants to know how Melana will react when she sees them for the first time. This commentator is as clueless as the casting agent who wants revenge on Melana for breaking up with him in a past life.
Party time! Let's all get acquainted with the Joes before Melana does:
They had a hell of a party before meeting Melana. Let's look at the wonderful montage of all of the hidden talents displayed by our Joes as NBC has asked them to narrate their personal fault lines:
Here's Dennis the Accountant showing us his Molly moves with the hula hoops and his fanny dance on the football field. He looks around because he's lost his ass-enhancing underwear. Dennis admits that on the outside only he is perceived as a geek/nerd. He wants to break away from the stigmata of his physical appearance. Although, I must admit to being a little turned on when the tennis ball was implanted into Dennis' back. He arched his back, flipped his hair, batted an eye and thrusted his pelvis back, chest forward and up then grabs his left cheek all within a few seconds. Ask Dennis to pull up his sock, I wanna see him bend over.
Mysterious spin-ballet-break dancer - could this be Clint? Clint tells us that he was a White House assistant, yet he feels that other people have had an advantage over him in life.
The flame-throwing Craig wannabe Prilosec spokesperson. Craig reminds us that he is big all over, even the parts he hasn't seen since grade school Craig worries that he wont be able to fit into the bathroom. Marc is also worried that Craig wont be able to fit into the bathroom.
Marc complains that he is only 5'4", reminds us again later that you never see a guy his size on these dating shows, talks some more about being vertically challenged and swears he does not have a Napoleon complex completely overlooking that he's follically challenged as well.
Joe admits that he knows he's not small guy. He knows he's not a rip guy as he bends the diving board like a piece of tortured pasta and displaces all the water in the pool with pure body mass. Joe says "I yam what I yam."
John says that he is a total geek grinning from ear to ear. John lovingly explains his first kiss with Melana to Dennis, still grinning from ear to ear. He tells us it hurts to be the guy who loses, all the time - and no, he wasn't smiling just then.
Adam says he always called himself a dork. At the party, Adam is eating pasta salad with his hands tied behind his back while fantasizing about being with Melana. Eric looks on with shock and awe. Brad wants some pasta salad too. Later, Adam playfully joins another Joe in the pool as they both swim doggy style.
Jay says call me Costanza, Sam Fat, Bald... I don't care. Jay says on a scale of 1 to 10 he's not a Brad Pitt then he calls Marc Horschack. Marc seems to be taking all the pot shots and physical jabs quite well considering that he still hasn't made up for that Napoleonic complex that's so ever present in his mind.
Wally tells us that he's not usually the boyfriend and that he usually falls within the friend category. He brought his over-sized Hulk Hand as a comfort item just in case he needs to get in touch with his inner child, as geeks are known to have generous offerings. In the photo-shop scene, Wally is completely enmeshed with Melana as she graces his cheek with a soft and pouty kiss.
At the party, Brad looks quickly at Dennis to satisfy his contract in developing a television dramatic moment and smiles a sheepish grin. Probably Clueless gives us some sheepish insight from another thread: I've had many, and many have had me, but never by a sheepdog named Rory, or Adam or Brad or Dennis or....
Eric seals his fate as he plasters a loser sign across his forehead. Jay reaches into his pocket and tells Eric "Lose this buddy!" Eric says he did not date in high nor go to his prom because he didn't have a date. He would have loved to have dated, but the dates didn't chase him and he didn't chase the dates.
Brad gives a smarmy NBC executive a massage and confesses that he has had sex with very, very, very, very, very, very few people. Brad says he gives all geeks hope in the world, as he buries Melana in popcorn at the theater, because he usually does get the girl. Geeks can get the woman, he says, generalizing that term 'woman' so as to increase his chances.
Tareq interrupts all this blissful happiness as tempers flare, and he swings the bat across the yard. Tareq says that reality TV has never seen anything like him because he's a 21-year-old college professor who is going to win an oscar and become the prime minister of a country before my lifetime is over. He's got a real Johhny Depp thing going on here, and what's that thing on your chin? Beard interrupted. The little hairline that couldn't. Melana, it's a road map to my lips.
Zach knows that nothing guarantees baggin' the babe faster than a man wearnin' excess baggage on his head. Zach and Marc go at it in a tug-o-war contest as they ruin yet another of Marc's shirt, but if he get's it to the tailor right now, there still could be hope. Zach and John go at it as John tells Zach that he's had a problem with him since day one.
David says that he's really easy to talk to, and interestingly they all play up qualities and personality over looks.
Jerry worries about what he's gotten himself into and if it works out, it works out. It works out, Jerry. I've seen her.
Chiropractor Dennis says he's totally within the range of average looking people, and people are attracted to him because he likes having a good time, a good time going to all the trouble of applying to get on this show, going through the selection process, taking time off from work, totally disrupting your life, going all the way to Palm Springs from PA just to get eliminated in the first round.


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Man seeks to upend conviction in Deerfield home invasion caseBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
August 28. 2014 10:16PM
BRENTWOOD — A man serving a 10- to 20-year prison term for plotting a violent home invasion that targeted $20,000 in cash, silver bars and firearms from a Deerfield veterinarian is trying to upend his conviction a year after a jury convicted him on all charges.
Christopher Martin, 41, of Danbury claims that his former lawyer performed "below a reasonably competent standard" during his trial last August.
Martin's lawyer, Mark Sisti, who took over the case after the trial, recently asked a superior court judge to throw out his client's conviction. Sisti is arguing that the poor decisions by Martin's former lawyer essentially violated his client's constitutional right to have effective assistance from a lawyer.
Martin's court petition also claims his former lawyer should not have agreed with prosecutors that the break-in and assault was carried out by a Manchester man.
Martin was convicted by a jury last Aug. 2 of conspiracy to commit burglary and being an accomplice to the burglary.
At trial, Martin was cast by the defense as a law-abiding local businessman who had an unwitting role in leading a masked intruder into the Deerfield home of Dr. Arthur Cutter.
The defense acknowledged that Martin knew the intruder, Jacob Palo, of Manchester, but did not play any role in planning the home invasion. Palo is serving a 20- to 40-year prison term for severely beating and pistol-whipping Cutter, who eventually escaped from the home. Palo fled in Cutter's car, setting off a county-wide manhunt that eventually led to his arrest.
Sisti argued that the defense failed Martin by agreeing that the state did not have to prove Palo's role in the break-in.
Prosecutors maintained that Martin knew about the valuables at the home because he got a look at them while doing a plumbing job at the house. Cutter had hired Martin to work on an on-suite bathroom near a bedroom safe.
Martin then recruited Palo and his girlfriend for the burglary, providing them with a hand-drawn layout of Cutter's home. The burglars equipped themselves with duct tape, a spare set of license plates and bleach to cover their tracks.
Palo's girlfriend, Sherri Avnet, 34, of Manchester, was sentenced to 2 to 7 years in prison for acting as a lookout that waited down the street during the burglary. She carried a backpack full of supplies for her boyfriend. Avnet testified as a state witness at Martin's trial. She exchanged several text messages with Martin when the burglary began to go awry, eventually leading state police to Martin's doorstep. County prosecutors are preparing a response to Martin's latest claims before a judge begins reviewing the verdict.


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Landmark Women, 21 November 2014
Curator Michelle Hetherington discusses her life and her work researching and developing major exhibitions for the National Library of Australia and National Museum of Australia.
Role of Australians in Antarctica in 1913
Professor Tom Griffiths, Australian National University, with introduction by Anthea Gunn, National Museum of Australia
Glorious Days: Australia 1913, 28 May 2013
Professor Griffiths tells the story of the young Australians who set out to explore the frozen continent in the name of scientific curiosity and how 1913 was an unexpected year. It was a year of trauma and waiting, and of nightmares more than dreams.
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This session reflected on the speakers' travels by camels and in four-wheel drives as well as work with Dr Mike Smith in deserts and museums as well as the partnerships Mike formed with artists and Indigenous communities.
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22 June 2012
Ken Parry, ancient history scholar and Silk Road expert, and Sydney Morning Herald journalist Joyce Morgan, co-author of Journeys on the Silk Road, discuss the splendour and history of the Silk Road from before Genghis Khan to today.
Book launch: Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
Andrew Sayers, Shane Mortimer, Martin Thomas, Anne McGrath, Professor Mandy Thomas and Margo Neale
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 June 2011
The book, co-edited by Martin Thomas and Margo Neale, extends on the papers presented at the 'Barks, Birds and Billabongs: Exploring the legacy of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land' Symposium held in November 2009.
Exploration and Endeavour: The Royal Society of London and the South Seas: exhibition launch
Professor Penny Sackett, Chief Scientist, and Andrew Sayers, National Museum of Australia
14 September 2010
Professor Penny Sackett opens the Exploration and Endeavour: The Royal Society of London and the South Seas exhibition to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
Matthew Flinders in the Recherche Archipelago
Pip McNaught, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series, 14 April 2010
Matthew Flinders sailed through the Recherche Archipelago in 1802 and 1803 on board the Investigator. Curator Pip McNaught shares her work developing a Landmarks' exhibit and talks about Matthew Flinders and his cat, Trim.
Beneath the billabongs: The scientific legacy of Robert Rush Miller
Gifford Miller and Robert Cashner
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Robert Rush Miller was one of the youngest members of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Miller's son, Gifford Miller, and son-in-law, Robert Cashner, provide insight into his life and work.
'A Robinson Crusoe in Arnhem Land …': Howell Walker, National Geographic, and the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
Mark Jenkins, writer, editor and historian
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Mark Jenkins explores the role played by the Expedition's primary American sponsor – National Geographic – and its intrepid representative, Howell Walker.
The 'spirit of inquiry' in Port Macquarie
Roslyn Russell, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Landmarks series, 10 June 2009
Curator and historian Roslyn Russell talks about the work of amateur scientists, including astronomer WJ Macdonnell, in the New South Wales coastal town of Port Macquarie, as part of her research for the Creating a Country gallery.


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Supreme Court wades once more into racial preferences
The Supreme Court once again takes up the controversial issue of racial preferences on college campuses, and the court's tilt to the right in recent years could doom such programs.
WASHINGTON — The spirit of the late Heman Sweatt will be inside the Supreme Court this week when the justices consider whether the University of Texas-Austin campus that he first integrated in 1950 has carried its system of racial preferences too far.
That's the argument posed by Abigail Fisher, who contends that her application for admission in 2008 was rejected because of her skin color: white.
Sweatt probably could relate to that. He sued the university after being blocked from admission in 1946 because he was black. Today, his descendants say, racial preferences are still needed to guarantee equal opportunities for minorities.
STORY: Supreme Court to delve into more divisive issues
Both sides will be in court Wednesday when the justices take up Fisher v. University of Texas and the underlying issue of affirmative action that still divides the nation -- more than a half-century after Sweatt made civil rights history.
"Fisher gives the Supreme Court the opportunity to clarify the boundaries of race preferences in college admissions — or, perhaps, eliminate them altogether," says Edward Blum, director of the Project on Fair Representation, which fights in court against the use of racial and ethnic preferences.
The court has taken a turn to the right since its last ruling upholding affirmative action in 2003. Five justices are on record opposing the practice. That could mean defeat for the university — and, possibly, a sweeping declaration that racial preferences are unconstitutional, not only at public universities but also at private schools such as Harvard and Yale because they receive federal funds.
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"I would hate to see that happen," says Heman Marion Sweatt II, 62, a nephew of Heman Sweatt and a University of Texas graduate. "A lot of people feel that affirmative action is not needed anymore. I would love to see the day when affirmative action is not needed, but realistically, it still has to be dealt with."
On the flip side of that argument is Fisher, a plain-spoken young Texan denied entry into her father's and sister's alma mater. She says racial preferences made her a victim of discrimination.
"There were people in my class with lower grades who weren't in all the activities I was in who were being accepted into UT, and the only other difference between us was the color of our skin," she says in a video posted by the Project on Fair Representation to make its case. "For an institution of higher learning to act this way makes no sense to me."
The vast majority of higher education groups say it makes a great deal of sense. In brief after brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of the Texas flagship university, organizations representing nearly all facets of higher learning – including public research universities, Ivy League schools, undergraduate and law students, even college basketball coaches – argue that colleges and universities must be allowed to consider race and ethnicity in admissions to achieve the educational benefits of a diverse student body. Some say nothing less than the nation's future is at stake.
The United States "is in the midst of a perfect storm of economic crisis, rapidly shifting demographics and lagging educational achievement compared to other nations," says University of Missouri higher education professor Roger Worthington, editor of the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. "If we do not fix the underlying educational disparities that exist in this country, there is no path forward to regaining our competitiveness on educational or economic grounds."
Denied because 'he is a negro'
Before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case of 1954 — the unanimous court decision striking down public school segregation — and a series of cases on racial preferences leading up to Fisher, there was Sweatt v. Painter.
It was a simple case. Sweatt had sued the university and its president, Theophilus Painter, for denying him admission to the UT law school in 1946 because, as Painter pointed out at the time, "of the fact that he is a negro."
To represent him before the Supreme Court, Sweatt chose Thurgood Marshall, who would go on to become the court's first black justice. He won the case based on another "fact" — that he could not get an equally sound legal education elsewhere in Texas. It was the first time the court had ordered a black student admitted to an all-white institution.
Sweatt left the law school before graduating, the victim of chronic health problems and a divorce. But his case may be more relevant to the court's consideration of Fisher than most of the cases that have followed, including Brown.
Today, those rulings have become victims of their own success. Schools and universities have grown more integrated, however haltingly. In Grutter v. Bollinger, the court's 5-4 decision upholding the University of Michigan Law School's limited use of affirmative action, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor predicted, "The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."
The Michigan case wasn't a slam dunk for the civil rights movement. At the same time, the court ruled 6-3 against the university's more numerical system of racial preferences for undergraduate admissions. And the O'Connor decision included a dissent from Justice Anthony Kennedy that takes on added weight today: Since her retirement, he has become the swing vote.
"Preferment by race, when resorted to by the state, can be the most divisive of all policies, containing within it the potential to destroy confidence in the Constitution and in the idea of equality," Kennedy wrote in Grutter.
Kennedy's significance as the man in the middle hasn't been lost on lawyers for Fisher and the university. They mention him by name 50 times in their three main briefs.
Fisher's lawyers contend that the university seeks "racial balancing," something Kennedy clearly doesn't sanction. "Racial balance is not to be achieved for its own sake," he wrote in a Georgia desegregation case in 1992.
The school's lawyers point out that in using race as one factor, the university isn't resorting to quotas or numerical targets, which Kennedy disavowed in his Grutter dissent. They say the lawsuit "is just asking this court to move the goal posts on higher education in America and overrule its precedent going back 35 years."
The makeup of today's court is notable for other reasons. O'Connor's replacement is Justice Samuel Alito, a firm conservative who argued against affirmative action in the 1980s while serving in the solicitor general's office under President Ronald Reagan. On the left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor has called herself a "product of affirmative action" because of her admission into prestigious Ivy League schools despite less than stellar test scores. Justice Elena Kagan has recused herself from the case because of her previous involvement as solicitor general in 2009-10.
Colleges could 'lose out on a lot of great kids'
If the Supreme Court rules that the university went too far in using racial preferences, most experts predict the campus could see a drop in black and Hispanic enrollments, just as it did after the 5th Circuit Court outlawed a race-conscious admissions policy used by the University of Texas School of Law in 1996. A year later, state legislators created the "Top 10 Percent" plan, through which students in the top 10% of their high school graduating class are automatically admitted to the state university of their choice.
That law has helped schools boost racial diversity, primarily because most of the state's public high schools are segregated by race and ethnicity, but not enough to achieve a "critical mass," school officials said. After the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan's affirmative action program, the University of Texas again began factoring race into admissions.
If the justices decide more broadly that extra measures designed to boost racial and ethnic representation on campus are unconstitutional or no longer necessary, the nation's most selective universities, public and private, will lose a long-standing tool aimed at furthering their mission to prepare a diverse pool of well-trained graduates for leadership roles.
A ruling against the University of Texas, or more broadly, the consideration of race in admissions, also threatens to upend a tradition by the court of deference toward university decision-making, says Ada Meloy, general counsel of the American Council on Education, a non-profit umbrella group that represents higher education institutions in Washington. She says colleges will remain committed to that goal even if Texas loses the case.
"It is so important to the vast majority of higher education institutions to be able to assemble the kind of student body that they think best fits their mission," she says.
Some of those who have petitioned the court on Fisher's behalf say colleges don't deserve that freedom. They argue that Jews, Asian Americans and others have been discriminated against in the past because of their academic talents, and nothing prevents such discrimination from extending to others in the future.
"Over their history, colleges and universities have often fallen prey to fashionable race discrimination," says a brief submitted by California and Connecticut faculty members and scholars, among others, who urge the court to overrule the University of Michigan decision. "Consequently, they are unlikely candidates to receive special deference on matters of race."
Colleges would probably turn to race-neutral alternatives used by public universities where affirmative action has been banned, Meloy says.
Already, public universities in Texas, California and other states have stepped up recruitment in high schools where the student body is made up predominantly of underrepresented minorities, established partnerships with schools to improve the pipeline of minority students, and established scholarships. The University of Georgia, Texas A&M University and the University of California system have dropped preferences for children of alumni, which tend to favor white students from relatively affluent families.
Colleges also might de-emphasize or eliminate an admissions requirement for standardized test scores, on which black and Hispanic students tend to score lower than white and Asian students.
In a study this month by the non-profit Century Foundation, author Richard Kahlenberg argues universities should accept that affirmative action has run its course and replace racial preferences with class-based preferences. Schools could put more weight on factors such as parental income, parents' education levels and resources available in the community where they live, he says.
Studies of the University of California system, where racial preferences have been banned since 1996, suggest that such measures alone would not be sufficient. At the University of California-Los Angeles, for example, African-American students represented 6.7% of its freshman class in 1995, but only 3% in 1998 and 3.6% last year despite multiple race-neutral strategies.
"All of our efforts in terms of outreach have not made an impact," says Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice chancellor of enrollment management. "Race matters."
In Del Valle, Texas, a predominantly black and Hispanic community east of Austin, Del Valle High School college counselor Sarah Mabry says many of her brightest students have overcome great obstacles to get to the point where they would even consider applying to a prestigious school such as the University of Texas.
"Let's give everybody the chance they deserve," she says. "For God's sake, this is America."
That's just why others argue against racial preferences — to protect the rights of Fisher and others who they say are victims of discrimination when universities ignore their superior qualifications.
"Nowhere in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence does the word 'diversity' appear," a group of Texas faculty members argue in a brief supporting Fisher. "There is no constitutional basis for the courts, let alone a state university, to engage in such a radical restructuring of America, allocating education, jobs and contracts based on race."
If the Texas plan is declared unconstitutional, Marie Bigham, director of college counseling at the highly diverse Greenhill School in the Dallas suburb of Addison, predicts a chilling effect.
"My students of color, I worry they're going to say that 'these places don't value what I bring,'" she says. White students, too, will look elsewhere, she says. "When my students are shopping for colleges, (diversity) is an important data point for them. We're going to lose out on a lot of great kids."
'I didn't take this sitting down'
Among those either siding with Fisher or making the case against affirmative action programs are scholars who argue that racial preferences hurt those they are supposed to help.
Gail Heriot, one of three members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to file a brief supporting Fisher, points to studies showing that minority students frequently falter at the toughest schools and in the most rigorous fields of study. Admitting them to Princeton rather than Penn State isn't always in their interest, she says.
"Grades matter more ... than eliteness of law school," says Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. Minority students, she says, often should "thumb their nose at Princeton and go to a school where they're going to be a success."
That's the view of Richard Sander, a UCLA law professor and economist who studies the effects of racial preferences. He argues in his book, Mismatch, co-authored with Washington journalist Stuart Taylor Jr., that generous preferences from elite schools often doom students to failure.
"Our whole focus is on what will work," Sander says. "We're trying to make this a pragmatic discussion. It's been a very ideological discussion."
On the other side, the 73 briefs filed in support of the university's position include those from business executives, government officials and retired military leaders who say their fields need college affirmative action programs to provide a stream of qualified minority applicants. Several cite a 2009 study by retired Princeton University president William Bowen that shows low-income and minority students who enroll in academically demanding institutions are more likely to graduate than students with similar academic qualifications who enroll in less challenging colleges.
A brief filed by several Fortune 100 companies argues that affirmative action programs are "more important today than ever" because of a "country and world economy that are increasingly diverse." Another filed by former military leaders, including Colin Powell, Michael Mullen and Wesley Clark, warns that ending the practice "would seriously disrupt the military's efforts to maintain military cohesion and effectiveness."
An end to racial preferences also would come as a setback to Sweatt's descendants — among them his daughter, who is a pathologist; another nephew, who is a doctor; and a 13-year-old grandson, who will be in court taking copious notes for his school newspaper.
"If you have to ask somebody, 'Do we need affirmative action?' then I think that answers the question itself," says nephew Heman Marion Sweatt II.
Fisher, who graduated this year from Louisiana State University and is working in Austin as a financial analyst, couldn't disagree more.
"If people say anything about me, I hope they say I didn't take this sitting down," she says in the video. "I didn't accept the process, because the process is wrong."


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Bruins great Bobby Orr's memoir to be released in October
NEW YORK — One of hockey's greatest and most private stars, Bobby Orr, is finally telling his life story.
''Orr: My Story'' will be released in October by G.P. Putnam's Sons. The former Boston Bruins defenseman and three-time Hart Trophy winner as the National Hockey League's most valuable player is promising to share some experiences he believes ''worth putting down on paper.'' According to Tuesday's announcement by Putnam, Orr will reflect on his remarkable career and on his angry break from his former agent and close friend Alan Eagleson. Orr was in dire financial trouble after retiring and was among those who demanded Eagleson be removed from the NHL's Hall of Fame after he was jailed for fraud. Eagleson resigned in 1998.
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Man to plead guilty to charges he lived under Salem home, video recorded woman for two daysBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
March 22. 2013 2:02PM
BRENTWOOD – A Cape Cod man agreed to plead guilty on Friday to charges that he lived under a woman's trailer in Salem and secretly recorded her through the bathroom floor.
Christian Hobbs, 44, of Orleans, Mass., filed his intention to plead guilty during a brief court hearing on Friday just before he was set to go on trial in Rockingham County Superior Court.
Hobbs was indicted in November on 10 charges including burglary, violation of privacy and attempted interception of telecommunications or oral communications prohibited.
Terms of the plea deal have not yet been made public. Hobbs is expected back in court on May 24 for a plea-and-sentencing hearing.
Hobbs, who is being held at the Rockingham County jail, told police that he had been living under the trailer for two days prior to getting caught on Aug. 15.
Hobbs lived in the Salem trailer before moving to Massachusetts, according to police.
Prosecutors say Hobbs sold the trailer to his victim about two years ago. He returned in July to do some repairs when he allegedly set two baby monitors inside the home. One was in the bedroom, the other in a dryer duct.
About a month later, Hobbs allegedly set up camp under the trailer near a bathroom air duct, bringing with him food, beverages and tissues – observing and recording the woman when she was in the bathroom, police said.
At one point, the woman spotted some movement and discovered Hobbs staring up at her through the air vent. Police say Hobbs responded by saying "Hello."
The woman called 911 and responding police found Hobbs walking south on Route 28.
Hobbs allegedly admitted he was under the trailer. Investigating officers found that 16 videos had been recorded of the woman.


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Link : http://www.security.org.sg/vuln/kerio4016.html
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In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must first convince the user to execute a malicious program as Administrator. This vulnerability affects only the execution protection feature of KPF4, the firewall feature of KPF4 remains intact.
So it's down to an EBKAC if this exploit is exploited.
Good "Heads up," though!
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Lifestyle Changes After Having Nasopharyngeal Cancer
You can't change the fact that you have had cancer. What you can change is how you live the rest of your life – making choices to help you stay healthy and feel as well as you can. This can be a time to look at your life in new ways. Maybe you are thinking about how to improve your health over the long term. Some people even start during cancer treatment.
Making healthier choices
For many people, a diagnosis of cancer helps them focus on their health in ways they may not have thought much about in the past. Are there things you could do that might make you healthier? Maybe you could try to eat better or get more exercise. Maybe you could cut down on the alcohol, or give up tobacco. Even things like keeping your stress level under control may help. Now is a good time to think about making changes that can have positive effects for the rest of your life. You will feel better and you will also be healthier.
You can start by working on those things that worry you most. Get help with those that are harder for you. For instance, if you are thinking about quitting smoking and need help, call the American Cancer Society for information and support. A tobacco cessation and coaching service can help increase your chances of quitting for good.
Eating better
Eating right can be hard for anyone, but it can get even tougher during and after cancer treatment. This is especially true for cancers of the head and neck, such as nasopharyngeal cancer. The cancer or its treatment may affect how you swallow or cause dry mouth, changes in taste, or other problems. Nausea can be a problem from some treatments. You may not feel like eating and lose weight when you don't want to.
If treatment caused weight changes or eating or taste problems, do the best you can and keep in mind that these problems usually get better over time. You may find it helps to eat small portions every 2 to 3 hours until you feel better. You may also want to ask your cancer team about seeing a dietitian, an expert in nutrition who can give you ideas on how to deal with these treatment side effects.
One of the best things you can do after cancer treatment is put healthy eating habits into place. You may be surprised at the long-term benefits of some simple changes, like increasing the variety of healthy foods you eat. Getting to and staying at a healthy weight, eating a healthy diet, and limiting your alcohol intake may lower your risk for a number of types of cancer, as well as having many other health benefits.
For more information, see our document Nutrition and Physical Activity During and After Cancer Treatment: Answers to Common Questions.
Rest, fatigue, and exercise
Extreme tiredness, called fatigue, is very common in people treated for cancer. This is not a normal tiredness, but a "bone-weary" exhaustion that doesn't get better with rest. For some people, fatigue lasts a long time after treatment, and can make it hard for them to exercise and do other things they want to do. But exercise can help reduce fatigue. Studies have shown that patients who follow an exercise program tailored to their personal needs feel better physically and emotionally and can cope better, too.
If you were sick and not very active during treatment, it is normal for your fitness, endurance, and muscle strength to decline. Any plan for physical activity should fit your own situation. A person who has not been physically active will not be able to take on the same amount of activity as someone who plays tennis twice a week. If you haven't been active in a few years, you will have to start slowly – maybe just by taking short walks.
Talk with your health care team before starting anything. Get their opinion about your exercise plans. Then, try to find an exercise buddy so you're not doing it alone. Having family or friends involved when starting a new exercise program can give you that extra boost of support to keep you going when the push just isn't there.
If you are very tired, you will need to balance activity with rest. It is OK to rest when you need to. Sometimes it's really hard for people to allow themselves to rest when they are used to working all day or taking care of a household, but this is not the time to push yourself too hard. Listen to your body and rest when you need to. (For more information on fatigue and other treatment side effects, see the Physical Side Effects section of our website.)
Keep in mind exercise can improve your physical and emotional health.
- It improves your cardiovascular (heart and circulation) fitness.
- Along with a good diet, it will help you get to and stay at a healthy weight.
- It makes your muscles stronger.
- It reduces fatigue and helps you have more energy.
- It can help lower anxiety and depression.
- It can make you feel happier.
- It can help you feel better about yourself.
And long term, we know that getting regular physical activity plays a role in helping to lower the risk of some cancers, as well as having other health benefits.
Can I lower my risk of the cancer progressing or coming back?
Most people want to know if there are specific lifestyle changes they can make to reduce their risk of their cancer progressing or coming back. For many cancers there is little solid evidence to guide people. This doesn't mean that nothing will help — it's just that for the most part this is an area that hasn't been well studied. Most studies have looked at lifestyle changes as ways of preventing cancer in the first place, not slowing it down or preventing it from coming back.
At this time, not enough is known about nasopharyngeal cancer to say for sure if there are things you can do that will be helpful. Tobacco and alcohol use have clearly been linked to most types of cancers of the head and neck, but the link with nasopharyngeal cancers is not as clear. We don't know for certain if not smoking or drinking can reduce your risk, but we do know that it can help improve your appetite and overall health. It can also reduce the chance of developing other types of cancer. If you want to quit smoking and need help, call the American Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345.
Adopting other healthy behaviors such as eating well, getting regular physical activity, and staying at a healthy weight may help as well, but no one knows for sure. However, we do know that these types of changes can have positive effects on your health that can extend beyond your risk of cancer.
Last Medical Review: January 15, 2015 Last Revised: August 8, 2016
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Education institution facilitates enrollment workloads by using a single Fusion ioMemory™ ioDrive® card to deliver the performance of an expensive SAN upgrade.
The Challenge
Santa Monica College (SMC) is a two-year, public community college with more than 34,000 students. It comprises six campuses, stretching from Santa Monica to Malibu. SMC leads California's 112 community colleges in the number of students transferring to four-year colleges.
SMC's challenge stems from California state budget shortfalls that have led to class reductions. SMC's available class seats have declined by one-third since 2008; at the same time, the number of people enrolling has increased. The database system SMC used for student enrollment held up well until 2009, when the class shortage began to create unprecedented demand during registration.
SMC has two enrollment periods—one structured and the other unstructured. Students register for classes on a structured schedule that distributed the database update workload over time. However, students who don't pay tuition by the due date lose their class registration, opening up hotly contested seats. These seats open at the exact time as the unstructured enrollment period begins, resulting in a login storm that often overwhelmed the system.
Lee Johnston, Director of MIS at SMC, described the problem: "Five minutes before classes become available to register, thousands of students login to compete for the open seats. It was kind of like a flash mob," Lee said. Login and enrollment require multiple database operations, so when the flash mob hit, it saturated the system. "Resource contention became so bad, students couldn't even add a class," Lee said. "There were times when this workload would shut the system down for three to four hours, resulting in "denial of services" notices for students trying to register. You can't even imagine the stress this caused students and parents."
SMC needed a system that could achieve the following:
The SanDisk® Solution
Lee and his team determined that lowering latency was the key to delivering the high transaction performance the system needed to eliminate the login storms that resulted in denial of service. Having heard that SanDisk's Fusion ioMemory ioDrive products were known for low-latency performance, Lee and his team decided to add an ioDrive card to SMC's database server. The results exceeded their expectations.
Lee Johnston, Director of MIS and Co-Chairman of the District, Technology Planning Committee Santa Monica College
Benchmarking the System
SMC had already addressed a bottleneck at its web tier with Citrix Netscaler, which increased its 5,000 simultaneous login capacity to over 50,000. However, this shifted the bottleneck to the database server I/O. "Once the web tier bottleneck was removed, it exposed the database tier to the full load for the first time. Even with a BL870 4P 16-core server rated at 800,000 TPM, the database server was not up to the task," Lee said. "We either needed to spread the I/O or radically decrease latency. But even with a super-fast 4GB Fibre Channel switch and SAN, latency caused excessive CPU blocking, and at peak loads, the system would cease functioning."
Lee's team benchmarked the SanDisk-powered database tier, using JMeter to generate a login and enrollment load against the database. The final test simulated 5,000 enrollments per minute. "The tests were conclusive—the ioDrive solution was a homerun," Lee said. "It reduced latency to the point that blocking CPU behavior was almost eliminated."
Lee Johnston, Director of MIS and Co-Chairman of the District, Technology Planning Committee Santa Monica College
Scaling Simultaneous Logins for Today's Fast-paced Society
Login storms did more than just frustrate students trying to enroll; because all the schools applications accessed the database, productivity elsewhere slowed to a crawl during the flash mob login storms.
After seeing the ioDrive benchmarks, Lee was confident in the solution and installed a 320GB ioDrive card in SMC's production Oracle database server. The SanDisk- powered system proved itself in practice during the Fall 2012 semester's rush. Thousands of students logged into the system at once, but this time the system didn't stutter. "The harder we beat on the thing, the faster it went, which stunned us," Lee said. "We can now fully utilize Netscaler's simultaneous login capability."
Immediate ROI
Lee noted that SMC had other options for resolving its performance problems, but none were as cost-effective as SanDisk. "We were asked, why don't you go buy a faster SAN?" Lee said. "But that system's end-of-life was not for another couple years—that's hundreds of thousands of dollars for us. Another option was to go the Oracle RAC route, but that would have cost millions of dollars to operate."
Lee said SMC received a "literally immediate" return on its investment in two ioDrive cards. Previously, the login storms were so severe that it cost SMC revenue and valuable staff time, which are many times the cost of the ioDrive products.
Quick and Easy Implementation
Unlike upgrading its SAN or implementing Oracle RAC, adding Fusion ioMemory products to SMC's database tier was quick and easy. "The installation was 30 minutes," Lee told us. "We just opened the server, stuck it in the mezzanine bay, and mounted it," Lee said. "It took less than five minutes to copy the 80GB database and miscellaneous files to the ioDrive card."
Database Servers
Database Servers
Lee Johnston, Director of MIS and Co-Chairman of the District, Technology Planning Committee
Santa Monica College
Implementing the Fusion ioMemory solution gave SMC the following benefits:
Lee is now looking at other areas in the college that could benefit from performance. "I think the next application for us is over in our Arts and Entertainment College," Lee said. "We have a film school and they are heavy into I/O."
About Santa Monica College
Santa Monica College—a two-year community college accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges—opened in 1929 with just 153 students. It has now grown to a thriving campus with approximately 34,000 students and offerings in more than 80 fields of study. SMC prides itself on preparing students for careers of the 21st century—in such fields as nursing and health care, solar technology and other "green" careers, entertainment technology, computer technology, early childhood education, business, graphic design, and other occupations. SMC also brings the best of public radio to Southern California through the award winning college station KCRW (89.9 FM).
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The glittering costumes and floats that last week marked Rio de Janeiro's iconic Carnival are back as the top six finishers of the annual samba school competition take part in the Parade of Champions.
The final parade takes place every year on the Saturday night after Carnival.
The first group to enter the Sambadrome will be sixth-placed Academicos do Grande Rio. This year's winner was Unidos de Vila Isabel, which will parade last.
Unidos de Vila Isabel's agricultural-themed parade featured a sexy spider samba queen, lady bug musicians and a giant grasshopper float.


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Worst SAG Headband: Kate Mara
Also known as the sister of Lisbeth Salander, Rooney Mara. Kate is dating Max Minghella who starred with Rooney in The Social Network. They also, Kate and Max, worked together on an upcoming film called Ten Year. Kate is so periphery I normally wouldn't include her in this kind of wrap-up but her dress and her headgear were so jarring when I was browsing through photos, I couldn't not show you, just in case you missed her. And a lot of you probably did.
This might have worked on someone taller. Someone like Charlize Theron. Maybe. But on Kate Mara, it's a little… ambitious. Is that a kind way to say it? I mean, she answered the phone on Entourage for a few episodes. Is that a less kind way to say it?
And that headband, with all due respect to housekeeping staff at the hotel, because they work hard and with honour, this is what they use to hold back their hair on the job, you know? Upon closer inspection, I realised it was made of pink feathers.
So WHY would you want to go ballerina Black Swan when you have NOTHING to do with that film? You might say only a goddamn f-cking bitch blogger fat ass with a wonk eye watching in her living room would make that kind of an association and maybe you're right, maybe no one else would judge it so minutely, but when you put it all together with the Lisbeth and the dress and the fact that her people were trying to tell us that at one point she was reading for Christopher Nolan for a part in the Dark Knight Rises, won't you stop to consider that there might be some Try behind this after all?
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|Dark Lord
[Back during the Frogue recall (c. 1998), we managed to snag the support of Fuentes associate Mike Schroeder, then the chair of the state GOP. (At one point, he sent me an official GOP thank-you note for my efforts re Frogue.) Since then, he's gained in stature, working in the background, a dark and dirty puller of strings. Schroeder was the chief advisor to the likes of OC Sheriff Mike Carona and OC DA Tony Rack. A real rat bastard. When, during Carona's last run for Sheriff, the OC GOP Central Committee voted not to endorse the wayward Carona, Schroeder and his crew engineered a hinky reconsideration vote, and the rest is history. One of many chapters of deeply cynical connivery and realpolitik. --RB]
|They're kookoo for Gaga
Schroeder, known as a savvy and aggressive political fixer, is married to the district attorney's chief of staff, Susan Kang Schroeder.
According to excerpts from a CHP report, Schroeder, 56, was observed weaving side-to-side and crossing into adjacent lanes while driving his Porsche south on theCosta Mesa (55) Freeway, just north of Edinger Avenue, about 3:20 a.m. on Nov. 1.
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Mike Schroeder, known in GOP circles as the "Dark Lord," is a heavyweight in state politics and was once the adviser to ex-Sheriff Mike Carona, who is serving time in federal prison for witness tampering….


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Well before he became a neurosurgeon, Dr. Mark Matishak of the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster was intimately acquainted with the power of the human body to heal after devastating trauma.
In his early 20s, Matishak skied competitively, racing at a high level for years. However, around the same time he began his undergraduate studies, his skiing abilities began to decline for no apparent reason.
"I found that my technique was just gone. ... And my colleagues and teammates just thought, 'Whatever - he's lost it.' "
As Matishak struggled to understand why his athletic ability was abandoning him, so too did his doctors. Matishak's body was losing functionality despite a healthy, active lifestyle.
"I was having pain in between my shoulder blades and I'd seen a few specialists and they just thought it was some facet joint problems," said Matishak.
The young doctor-to-be was instructed to do basic stretches every night, but they did little to alleviate his problems. By the time he was accepted into medical school, Matishak was barely able to walk, and was soon confined to a wheelchair.
Desperate for answers, Matishak continued to return to his physicians and specialists.
Finally, extensive testing revealed a benign tumour.
And while that meant no radiation or chemotherapy would be necessary, the tumour's location could not have been worse: it was lodged directly within Matishak's spinal cord.
Doctors advised Matishak that while they could remove the tumour, the surgery often left patients the worse for wear.
"I thought 'well I'm already in a wheelchair, I'll just be a wheel-chair doctor,' " he recalls.
Matishak had the high-risk procedure and his surgeons were able to remove the tumour without doing any damage to the spinal cord.
"I'm not going to say it was a miracle, but within a few days I could walk with canes," Matishak says.
"I've never been so grateful in my entire life."
Over the next few months Matishak saw his mobility return to normal. He soon put the canes aside, before he once again was able to run, cycle and play tennis. He came to realize two significant components contributed to his recovery - a disciplined physical regimen and his belief that he would get better.
Inspired by the success of the operation, Matishak redirected his medical studies to a focus on surgery, going beyond the classroom to spend extra time in the operating room with practicing surgeons. "I would go hang out in the OR, I would sidle up to the surgeons - I mean, I knew the surgeon who operated on me, so he would let me come in," Matishak says.
Years later, the neurosurgeon looks at his own experience and those of his patients as an affirmation that two factors play a critical role in recovery: proper physical therapy coupled with positive thinking.
"If you have the faith that you can recover from a devastating illness, it doesn't guarantee that that will happen. But it sets you up much better than someone who says, 'Well, I'm hooped.' "
He points out that in surgery the doctor removes whatever is causing the problem, but the patient is the one who heals.
And when a patient has that deep-rooted faith that they will get better , says Matishak, the result is frequently remarkable .
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Newt Gingrich Is Parks and Recreation's Next Political Guest Star
Completely by coincidence.
Filming at Indianapolis's St. Elmo Steak House (Ron Swanson, you ol' devil), Parks and Recreation ran into the one and only Newt Gingrich. Showrunner Mike Schur "quickly huddled with the episode's writer and director to incorporate Gingrich into the script," reports the Indy Star. "It was a completely random chance," Schur said. "But you can't pass up on an opportunity like that." Gingrich will now follow recent appearances by Vice-President Joe Biden and Sens. John McCain, Olympia Snowe, and Barbara Boxer. Rob Lowe was characteristically thrilled, tweeting, "Latest surprise drop by on set: Speaker Newt Gingrich! So we made up a scene and put him in!! #AllHappeningInIndy." Jonathan Banks playing papa to Ben Wyatt has gone so well — can Newt just be Chris Traeger's dad?


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Shell is giving up for the year on drilling for oil in the offshore Alaskan Arctic after an accident damaged its oil spill-containment dome.
Shell plans to drill shallow "top holes" but it won't go deep enough to reach oil-bearing geological formations. It's a blow to Shell's $4.5 billion attempt to be the first company in two decades to drill in the offshore Alaska Arctic.
The oil company said it would do the preliminary work it could this year "in order to lay a strong foundation for operations in 2013." Shell announced the decision Monday after an accident during testing of the Arctic Challenger, the troubled oil spill-containment barge.
"During a final test, the containment dome aboard the Arctic Challenger barge was damaged. It is clear that some days will be required to repair and fully assess dome readiness," the company said in a statement.
The massive containment dome is meant to block releases of oil and natural gas in case of an underwater spill. The company released no details on what happened during the testing in the waters off Washington state.
The Coast Guard, Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department said they had no information about what happened to the containment dome. The Interior Department referred questions to Shell.
"The extent and the cause are being investigated now," Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said.
"We are disappointed that the dome has not yet met our stringent acceptance standards; but, as we have said all along, we will not conduct any operation until we are satisfied that we are fully prepared to do it safely," Shell said in Monday's statement.
Environmental groups seized on the accident as a sign that Shell shouldn't be allowed to drill in the Arctic waters. Cindy Shogan of the Alaska Wilderness League said there was no proven method of cleaning up an oil spill in the harsh conditions of the offshore Alaska Arctic and that the incident showed the company wasn't ready to try. The Natural Resources Defense Council said the "debacle" was just the latest misstep by Shell.
"If you can't even test your safety systems in calm waters without damaging them, you've got no business drilling for oil in the Arctic," said Niel Lawrence, senior attorney at the environmental group.
"I'm disappointed with the news but believe Shell has made the right decision, keeping safety paramount," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy Committee.
The Interior Department has said Shell won't be allowed to drill more than about 1,400 feet into the seafloor until its oil spill-containment barge is ready. Oil-bearing zones are thought to be about 5,500 feet down.
Shell already was running out of time for this drilling season before the accident. The company is required to finish any drilling operations before the arrival of sea ice, which could pose a problem for dealing with any spill.
Shell ran into repeated delays with the troubled renovation of its oil spill-containment barge. Shell contractor Superior Energy Services has been retrofitting the 38-year-old Arctic Challenger at a Bellingham, Wash., shipyard. The renovations were finished last week and the ship began sea trials and inspections, which the company had described as successful up until the containment dome was damaged.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday that the agency looked forward to working with Shell on Arctic exploration.
"The department has set rigorous safety, environmental-protection and emergency response standards for any exploration activities in the Arctic, and throughout this process, Shell has demonstrated a commitment to those standards," he said.
Shell said it planned to drill as many "top holes" as possible this drilling season in hopes of getting approval to drill more deeply into oil-bearing formations next year.
"The top portion of the wells drilled in the days and weeks ahead will be safely capped and temporarily abandoned this year, in accordance with regulatory requirements," the company said in its statement.
Shell has had problems with even such preliminary drilling. Last week, the company had to halt the effort the day after it began when sea ice started moving toward the drill ship.
Shell said the drill ship, the Noble Discoverer, was expected to resume its position in the Chukchi Sea and start work again in coming days. The company also plans to start "top hole" operations in the Beaufort Sea soon, after the fall Inupiat whaling season.