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Philippine gov't, rebels sign power-sharing accord
Dec. 09, 2013
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials have signed a power-sharing accord with the country's largest Muslim rebel group and expect to sign a final peace pact with the insurgents next month to end a decadeslong rebellion in the volatile south.
The accord, which outlines the powers of a Muslim autonomous government in a region to be called Bangsamoro, was signed Sunday by negotiators for the government and the 11,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Malaysia, which has been brokering the talks, officials said Monday.
The accord is the third of four proposed pacts that are to constitute a final peace agreement between the government and the Moro guerrillas. The insurgents have been fighting for self-rule for minority Muslims in the south of the predominantly Roman Catholic nation in an insurgency that has left thousands of combatants and civilians dead and held back progress in some of the country's poorest regions.
President Benigno Aquino III said the remaining accord to be tackled next month, involving rebel disarmament, is expected to be difficult because it entails the insurgents relinquishing their arms.
"This is a heavy and contentious issue for them because if they undertake this act, it would mean an extreme demonstration of their trust to our government and country," Aquino told reporters.
The power-sharing accord would allow minority Muslims to rule a more powerful autonomous region through a 50-member assembly to be led by a chief minister. The Philippine government would retain authority over areas such as defense, foreign and monetary policy, postal service and immigration, according to a copy of the pact.
The autonomous government would wield exclusive power over such areas as agriculture, trade, tourism and education, and could contract loans and establish free ports, it said.
The United States and other governments have backed the peace talks, hoping they will turn battlefields into prosperous communities and economic growth hubs instead of breeding grounds for Muslim extremists who could create trouble in the country and elsewhere.
However, at least three smaller armed groups oppose the current peace talks. Moro rebels from one group took scores of hostages in September and occupied coastal communities in southern Zamboanga city in a bloody siege they launched after accusing the government of reneging on its commitments under a 1996 peace pact.
Thousands of troops ended the weekslong uprising with a major offensive that killed more than 200 people, most of them insurgents.
While the talks were underway in Malaysia last week, a group of Muslim rebels stormed a police station in the southern Philippines, briefly held a city police chief hostage and shot and killed a civilian in an apparent attempt to release some detained comrades.
Government negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said cease-fire officials were dealing with the incident, which underscored the difficulty of forging peace in the country.
"We have always said that the road ahead is going to be rough," she said.


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Lady Gaga shows off some tattoos on her arm as she arrives at Narita International Airport on Tuesday (April 13) in Narita, Japan.
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text: Student Profiles Sara Schlotterbeck '08 Sara Schlotterbeck '08 Hometown: Holliston, Massachusetts Majors: Gender and Women's Studies and French Minor: Government and Legal Studies Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? I liked the feel of the campus; there was a good atmosphere. Talking to students, I thought, "I can be friends with these people; I can be happy here." What set Bowdoin apart for me was a trip to Popham Beach when I was visiting right before I applied. It was in the fall and it was beautiful, just perfect. I wanted to be near that. Why did you choose your major? I started off my first year taking courses that interested me and fell into the subjects that caught my interest, ending up with a double major in French and Gender and Women's Studies and a minor in Government and Legal Studies. I was very happy to find an engaging French department, started taking literature classes, and never stopped. Resistance, Revolt, and Revolution with Professor Bill Vanderwolk was a highlight. Studying abroad in Senegal gave me an extra push towards the major. Professor Shelley Deane's Middle East Politics course was the first government class that I took, and the reason that I chose to pursue the minor. I have loved being a Gender and Women's Studies major because it has allowed me to take courses in different disciplines, like Romantic Sexualities, which was also an English and Gay and Lesbian Studies course, and Bearing the Untold Story: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the United States, which was cross-listed with Africana Studies and History. The professors are great, and it is a very strong major and department. My majors haven't prevented me from taking other classes. My first year I took two Geology classes, which I loved, and Introductory Biology last semester. What has been a course you especially enjoyed at Bowdoin? Along with the courses I mentioned earlier, Introduction to Poetry with Professor Peter Coviello was one of the most rewarding classes I've ever taken. Learning how to read poetry opened up a new world to me. Have you engaged in any independent research while at Bowdoin? I'm currently doing an independent study with Professor Karen Lindo on Sony Labou Tansi's novel La Vie et Demie. I'm looking at the ways in which the author uses bodily fluids and fluidity in constructions of power throughout the novel. What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? I stayed busy, especially as an underclassman, with activist, political and community service groups. Meredith Segal '08 and I founded Bowdoin Students for Peace the winter of our freshman year because we found that, with a war going on, we needed an anti-war presence on campus. The group has developed over the past few years into something of which we are very proud. I have also been closely involved with the College Democrats and Democratic Left, as well as the Community Service Council, Hillel, Bowdoin Women's Association, Habitat for Humanity and the Oasis Clinic (they are amazing). There are plenty of opportunities to be involved on campus and in the broader community, and if you see potential for a group that needs to be created, a service project or a campaign that needs to be run, Bowdoin is a great place to do it. As far as work experience goes, this is the first year that I haven't worked for Dining Service, and I do miss it. I had great experiences doing salad bar prep and as a card-swiper at Supersnack (our weekend late-night snack at the dining hall, not to be missed) and can't say enough about how fantastic the people who work in dining are. Bowdoin students are very lucky that the food we eat is made with love. Did you study abroad during your time at Bowdoin? Yes. I spent my junior year in Senegal on a UW-Madison program. We spent the first month in Dakar, and the next eight months at Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis. I lived in the dorms, took classes, traveled a little, talked a lot, made friends, went to the beach, learned some Wolof and improved my French. My experience studying abroad was one of the most important things I've done in my life, and you can't beat the perspective it provides. Visit my blog at senegalsara.wordpress.com. What have you done during your summers? I spent the summer after freshman year working at a restaurant where I had worked in high school. The summer after sophomore year I spent at Bowdoin as a Community Matters in Maine Summer Fellow working at the Oasis Health Center. The Oasis Health Center is a free clinic that provides quality healthcare to eligible uninsured adults in the area, and I worked specifically with their Prescription Assistance Program, which assists both patients of the clinic and patients of providers in the area in obtaining free or low-cost prescriptions through pharmaceutical company programs. Working at Oasis has been a formative experience for me and taught me the challenges and vital importance of providing quality healthcare to everybody, along with teaching me a lot about myself. I worked for them for a month this past summer after returning from Senegal in July, and every week since then. What is your best Bowdoin memory? My best memories, of course, are of time spent with people whom I've met here, my friends whom I love so much, people I know very well and not so well, professors, classmates and coworkers. Bowdoin draws good people together. I'll never forget going to Popham Beach during the fall of my freshman year with Polar Bear Club, on a starry night with the water full of phosphorescence and being the only one in a bathing suit... Nor will I forget jumping into the icy (literally, there were chunks of ice) ocean recently with my friends on an equally starry, but much colder, night. Being part of the Third Wave Women's Surf Clinics has been another ocean-related source of joy for me. I also have had some great dinners this year with my roommates and also with a group of friends and our French professor Charlotte Daniels. I've spent a lot of time in local coffee shops: The Station, Bohemian, and Little Dog. Great conversations, even revolutionary conversations, have taken place there. But just sitting with friends, studying, enjoying each other's presence is probably my favorite thing to do. What are your plans for after graduation? I hope to be working in the health field for the next year or two, and exploring my options while continuing to learn as much as I can. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? Spend a summer at Bowdoin, study abroad, do your reading, go to the ocean, get involved, and fully appreciate all the resources you have here, especially the people. What quirky or fun thing did you wish you knew before you came to Bowdoin? Our mascot the polar bear is an excellent source of unbearably painful puns. Story posted on February 22, 2008 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the
Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
Scattering Seeds
By John A. Murphy
Charles Darrow (1857-19 ), the great litigator, learned at his father's knee that "doubt was the beginning of wisdom."
He represented 102 men facing the death penalty. Not one of these was executed.
Darrow said his sympathies always were with the weak, the suffering, and the poor. "I tried to relieve them so that I myself could be relieved."
For insight into the life's work of Charles Darrow, read Jill Lepore's lucid article in The New Yorker of May 23, 2011.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, June 9, 1911
Captain William Littlefield of Block Island, formerly with the Iron Steamship Company of New York, has accepted a position with the Jamestown & Newport Ferry Company.
The candidates nominated by the recent Republican caucus in Jamestown are not to acquire their election without opposition in the town meeting Tuesday morning. The regulars frankly admitted after the caucus that they had been caught napping, but said they would wake up and start action, preparatory to winning on Election Day. At the last town meeting, when the plan to purchase the opposing ferry interests was ratified, by the voters, the defeated faction gave notice that it would be heard from later, when the town officers came up for election again, yet it was after this warning that the regulars failed to anticipate a movement against them, such as took place in the caucus.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 8, 1936
Pupils of he fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the Thomas H. Clarke School went on a tour to Plymouth Saturday. Among the places of interest visited were the "Monument to Our Forefathers," Plymouth Rock, Burial Hill and the Museum.
From the Newport Daily News, June 13, 1936
[At the town council meeting] it was voted that Frank Cody be authorized to remove trees on the shore side of Cananicus (sic) avenue between Lincoln and Friendship streets at a cost not to exceed $12, and that Councilman Ellis be appointed a committee to oversee the removal of said trees. The superintendent [of highways] was authorized to purchase dynamite and caps to be used on WPA project 50 years ago. From the Newport Daily News,
June 10, 1961
The Red Cross Fund drive has reached $2,425. Frederick A. Caswell reported that 46 certifi- cates were awarded last year to swimmers (22 beginners, 10 intermediate, 7 swimmers, 6 junior life saving, 1 senior life saving). Mrs. Frank Balsey. Motor corps chairman, reported one trip to a Providence hospital, and one also to Newport Hospital.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News,
June 9, 1986
Save the Bay will stage its 10th annual Swim the Bay on Aug. 2. One hundred swimmers will attempt to swim the 2 1/2- mile crossing of Narragansett Bay's East Passage in the shadow of the Newport Bridge to help raise money for Rhode Island's largest environmental group. From the Newport Daily News,
June 10, 1986
The Town Council may close part of Maple Avenue to traffic to cut down on speeding. Area residents asked the Council Monday night to close the street from the Maple Avenue sewage pump to Sheffield Cove. [The council] transferred a beer and wine license from Café in the Mall to Charles Carstens doing business as "The Curtain Call." [The council] closed the Narragansett Avenue boat ramp from 8 p.m. June 30 to 8 p.m. July 1 because of the Tall Ship Parade of Sail on July 1.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
June 6, 1996
Water loss from a break in the water main on Conanicus Avenue, across from the Bank of Newport, last week was minimal.
Eight gardens open to the public from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. The tour is called "Gardens by the Bay and Views Too!" and is hosted by the Quononoquott Garden Club. Proceeds from the tour go towards the beautification of Jamestown.
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
June 7, 2001
After a lengthy discussion of the bids received to replace the roof at the Lawn Avenue school – all of which were substantially higher than the school's budget will allow – the School Committee voted 5-0 May 31 to put out a new request for quotes to a wider range of contractors.
The Harbor Management Commission held its first workshop for public input on the draft of its revised Comprehensive Harbor Management Plan on Wednesday, May 30.


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I just watched an old episode of Star Trek Voyager about genealogy. Star Trek Voyager was a spin-off series of Star Trek, the old series made in the 60s about "space, the final frontier".
In the episode I watched (Episode 23, Season 5) Captain Janeway (a sort of Katherine Hepburn) was looking into the story of the ancestor who had inspired her to become a Star Fleet captain. As it turned out, the story wasn't what she was told, and she was disappointed. She decided that the photograph her crew had found (nice to be able to get your crew working on your family history) had no place on her desk after all.
So her crew threw a surprise party for her and called it Ancestor Day, where we celebrate the lives of our ancestors and ponder their significance to us. Even if what she believed turned out not to be true, it still inspired her at the time.
I think it's a good idea!


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I know, I know… I haven't been around lately. Basically, I've been MIA. What's going on, you ask? Remember when I said I was holding onto a secret, some news? Well, it wasn't necessarily a big deal to anyone but me and my family: We moved.
Do you hear crickets?
I know it's not as exciting as you thought it would be, but it's pretty exciting around these parts. The goal for my move is to continue along the lines of organize and minimize with the result being a stress free and calm existence to deal with my everyday life, which includes my health issues, taking care of my children and alleviating circumstances that cause distress. One of those distresses was my home, which needs major repairs and whatnot on top of regular expenses.
My children and I moved into an apartment. It's actually the first time I've lived in a "regular" apartment complex so it's a new experience for me. And, like with anything, there are ups and downs. Moving has taken a lot out of me physically, but I am excited about getting everything in order. As you can see there are quite a few boxes (and that's only about 1/2 of what needs to be done) and I'm tackling a little a day at a time.
As things fall into place I'll share pictures with you so you'll get a peek at the old and the new. Let me know if you have any ideas or thoughts on organizing and minimizing my new space. I've already gotten rid of so much stuff through giving away and throwing away… and I still have quite a few things that I'd like to sell. It's been a total mental and material release.
Now you see why I have been so absent lately. Thanks for continuing to come by and say hello; I appreciate your continued support and promise to be around to see you soon.


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i was wondering if anyone could help me with a latin translation. If have been searching the web for hours for the latin translation of marcus aurelius' quote:
"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."
i know the meditations was written in greek, but i would like it in latin.
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There are few things in a home that say "sophisticated class" like a home bar when it's done right. Rather than meeting at the local bar, invite some guests over to your place for drinks, and show them that there's more to it then the simple choice of shaken or stirred. Each of these items is sure to impress at your next cocktail party.
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As we close out Device Theft Awareness Month, we wanted to talk about laptop security. We've already covered the device theft statistics, alongside a bunch of ways to protect yourself from smartphone theft. Some may argue that notebooks are even more of a danger to lose than a smartphone, due to the vast amount of personal data stored on them that can be lost or fall into the wrong hands, as well as the cost of replacement. Let's talk about some of the ways to protect both your investment and your data.
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As we mentioned last week, we're celebrating Device Theft Awareness Month in conjunction with Absolute LoJack. We gave you a rundown of just how big a problem device theft is nowadays, with over 3 million people becoming victims of smartphone theft just last year alone. It's a growing problem that you can protect yourself from, and this week we wanted to share three tips that you can do to avoid permanently losing your device or data in the event of loss.
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A few weeks ago we talked about what what you can do to protect yourself in the event that your smartphone, tablet, or laptop gets lost or stolen. We even took a 24-hour #DigitallyDark challenge where we gave up our smartphones for 24 hours to see how it would feel. Well, August is Device Theft Awareness Month, and we wanna talk more about what you can do if you find that you're one of over 3.1 million Americans who'll likely fall victim to smartphone theft this year. A staggering 1.4 million people who lost their devices in 2013 never got them back--that is 4.5 million lost and stolen smartphones (and that doesn't include tablets or laptops,) and is enough to make us want to do something about it. This month, follow the hashtag #AbsoluteUncovered as we dive deep into this topic.
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Ask Andru: Which Macs can run OS X Yosemite?
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OS X 10.10, better known as Yosemite, represents the next-generation in Apple's desktop operating system. Yosemite brings a new look to the desktop experience, and also ties OS X and iOS together through a feature called Continuity that I bet will make work a lot easier for Apple users. With any big change, customers will wonder if their older hardware will be supported. We recently received this question from a reader named Steve:
Q: I'm excited to check out OS X Yosemite once it launches, the redesigned interface looks great! My MacBook Air is from 2010, and I was curious if you knew if it would run Yosemite without any issues, or if I have to upgrade my computer?
A: I agree--I think the look and feel of OS X Yosemite is a breath of fresh air. I've been using the Developer Preview since it was made available at WWDC 2014, and when I use a Mac that is running Mavericks or earlier, it already feels like a big step backwards from a design perspective. Now, on to system requirements! The nice thing about Yosemite is that Apple hasn't changed any of the system requirements from what was required to run Mavericks. In other words, all Macintosh products capable of running OS X Mavericks will be supported by Yosemite; as with Mavericks, 2 GB of RAM, 8 GB of available storage, and OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later are required to upgrade. To make it easier to figure out if you're specific Mac is compatible, here is a listing of all the Apple hardware that is Yosemite-capable:
- iMac Mid-2007 or newer
- MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
- Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
- Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
As you can see, anyone who has bought a Mac within the past five years is covered and will be able to run OS X Yosemite. Mac Pro, MacBook Air, and MacBook aluminum buyers as far back as 2008 are also good. In fact, some MacBook Pro and iMac buyers from back in 2007 can even get in on the Yosemite action, and those computers are now 7 years old! This is a pretty large blanket of Mac users that will be able to enjoy the next generation of OS X, and I comment Apple for including as many Macs as it did.
OS X 10.10 Yosemite is set to launch later this fall, and will be available exclusively on the Mac App Store. At WWDC, Apple announced that it will be made available completely free to its users. Can't beat that!
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How Cortana made the leap from Halo to Windows Phone
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Curious about how Cortana made her way from assisting Master Chief in Halo over to helping you out on Windows Phone? During a sit-down with Microsoft's Marcus Ash, he spoke to us about what it took to get Cortana just right on Windows Phone and to be seen as a legitimate competitor to Apple's Siri.
First, the Cortana logo was the first thing Microsoft has to get right. Originally, they didn't want a physical representation. The thought was that people could think it was creepy if it is "too human." They also didn't want it to be like Clippy, the infamous character from Microsoft Office that was hated by many. It was also decided that Cortana couldn't be just a voice, since it wouldn't feel the same.
Initially, Microsoft tried to use the Xbox Live avatar idea, but that was odd due to everyone having the female Cortana voice. Then they started playing around with the circle. A circle can stretch, bounce, and transform. They also tried triangles, diamonds, hearts, and the ability of letter the user choose any of these. At the end of the day, the circle next to Metro on the start screen looked good, so that was what Microsoft decided on. The next issue was that a simple circle isn't iconic, and is hard to brand. That's when the Windows Phone team met with the Halo team at 343 Industries.
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Happy Father's Day to everyone out there, whether you're celebrating yours or celebrating being one!
My father is a big sports fan. Doesn't matter what sport it is, he'll watch it. Little League World Series? He's watching it. Golf? He's watching it. He'll watch the FIFA World Cup even though he doesn't even really like soccer. I'm sure if my favorite sport, Quidditch, made it onto the TV screen, he'd watch that too!
So, to celebrate my dad this Father's Day, I've compiled some of our sports related puzzles. There's tons for all your athletically-inclined lovers of the game!
What do your fathers love best, what puzzle theme would be perfect for them? Let us know in the comments!
To start, here's a Dodgers puzzle, because that's my dad's team!


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• Left Backhand Release Double Knuckle Pop
• Lasso Straddle
• Thumb Flip Under Leg
• Double Leg Roll
• Elbow-Arm Roll
• Palm Spin Bat Up
• Leg-to-Leg
• Helicopter
Ashley Holt is spinning plans for a creative future.
"When I grow up, I want to be a famous baton twirler or an artist," the 9-year-old says.
Her love of drawing comes naturally, but she's been actively working on the baton skill set for about three years.
"I love twirling," Ashley says. "At first, it was really hard because I wanted to twirl like my friend, but she had been taking lessons already. Finally, I got better. But I do have to practice a lot. I go to lessons about three times a week. I go early so I can practice before class."
In the 21st century, baton twirling may sound like a quaint relic of the 1950s or '60s, conjuring up visions of white-booted high school coeds high-stepping around the football field, sequined suits glittering while batons twirl, spin, figure eight and fly high in the sky.
But while plenty do it for the love of the twirl, contests testing baton skills are fiercely competitive, especially in countries such as France and Japan. And here in the United States, even while low in profile, baton twirling is an active pursuit and growing.
"Twirling is not often recognized in the community. So many people don't realize that it is around and thriving," says Chattanoogan Jenny Hannah, a thirtysomething who's been twirling since kindergarten.
Hannah is associate director and coach at Chattanooga's United Twirling, which has about 60 beginning twirlers ranging in age from 3 to college years.
"I believe that twirling is great for young girls because it keeps them active, helps them with coordination and assists those who may be shy come out of their shell," says Hannah, who will compete in the U.S. National Championships in Daytona Beach in July and the International Cup Championships in Holland in August.
Kimberly Smith says her 14-year-old daughter, Frances Ann, has been taking baton lessons from Hannah for the last two years.
"My daughter has Down syndrome, and Jenny is so patient with her," Smith says. Frances Ann is determined. She loves to entertain, so it's not surprising how much she is enjoying this sport. She's going to twirl in a talent show at her school."
Twirling may be in Frances Ann's DNA because her mother was a twirler, too.
"For whatever reason I kept my baton," she says. "I found Frances Ann playing with it one day. She practiced in her bedroom, and my husband and I would hear the baton hitting the hardwood floor. She would do it over and over until finally, one day, she got the hang of it. My husband noticed that we didn't hear the baton hitting the floor so we knew she was getting better."
While almost anyone can learn to twirl with enough practice, Hannah says, the ones who go into the competitions must be a step above the casual twirler.
"Today's twirlers truly are athletes," she says. "They must twirl, dance and do gymnastics, often simultaneously. Just like any other athlete, twirlers must be strong mentally and physically,"
Twirling has been a competitive sport since the first United States Twirling Association National Championship in 1958, Hannah says. The first World Championship was held in 1980.
"Unfortunately, in the United States, the competitive side of twirling frequently runs under the radar of public awareness," Hannah says. "In other countries, such as France and Japan, the sport is very popular and often televised. Last August, when I performed in the World Championships finals in Paris, France, a sold-out audience of over 6,000 fans packed the arena."
But America is catching up, Hannah says.
"Today there are more competitive opportunities for twirling than in the past," she says. "In 2011, the World Baton Twirling Federation was recognized as a new member of the World Dance Sport Federation. This is a significant step toward the ultimate goal of becoming an Olympic sport. In the fall of 2013, twirling will be an official sport in the World DanceSport Games in China."
Tracy Hughes, 32, director of United Twirling, is a second-generation twirler.
"My mother was a majorette in high school and also taught twirling," Hughes says. "She started me in private lessons when I was 7, and we would travel to Nashville every month for competitions. Thanks to twirling, I have traveled to most every state in the United States."
With a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a master's from Florida State University, Hughes says her "real job" is teaching full-time in the math department at UTC.
"I started teaching baton when I was 16 at local elementary schools for ASTO (All State Twirling Organization), which closed in 2003. I started United Twirling in August of 2003 because I love twirling, I love teaching twirling, and I wanted to give girls the chance to experience this sport."
Though Hannah was never been a majorette, she has competed in the sport since elementary school. With undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Hannah is a student in the Chattanooga State Physical Therapist Assistant program.
United Twirling has 30 team members divided into four teams -- senior, juvenile, primary and tiny tot -- which compete in the United States Twirling Association state, regional and national championships each year, Hannah says.
While Hannah doesn't know of any male twirlers in the Chattanooga area, it's open to both sexes.
"In the United States, there are a number of elite male twirlers," Hannah says. "In other countries, such as Japan and France, it is more accepted for boys to twirl. Japanese men are considered the best twirlers in the world."
Susan Holt's daughters, Ashley and 4-year-old Lauren are among the student twirlers.
Ashley has taken twirling for three years and is a two-year member of a United Twirlers team while Lauren is in a beginner class, Holt says.
Holt says she knew nothing about twirling before Ashley began taking the class from Hannah.
"I had a misunderstanding of what twirling meant. I had no idea it was so involved," she says. "Ashley starting taking the class because one of her friends was doing it. At the time, she hadn't found any sport that she enjoyed. By the end of the year, her skills were so good that Jenny wanted her to be on a competitive teams."
Ashley says she loves competitions, but "sometimes I get nervous, especially at the nationals when there are so many people, but we always have fun."
And twirling has had a positive effect on Ashley, Holt says.
"She has blossomed, gotten more self confident, and she finally found something she loves," Holt says.


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I downloaded freeBSD 5.1, and I am trying to install it on my old p2 300mhz. I think I've installed the operating system ok, but I am trying to run KDE 3.1.3 on it, and its giving me problems. I was trying to have my resolution be 1280x1024 (on a 15in. monitor), but whenever I ran startx it would say "no screen". so I changed the resolution a few times and I had to take it down to 400x300. This is waaaay to small for me, and all the windows are too big to see. I'm not sure how to get the resolution up to 1280x1024. I know the monitor and graphics card supports it (I was using it on Windows). And I also get a few other errors when I first run startx. Something about dcopsomething not finding something. I can't look it up right now, but as soon as I can I will and I'll post again. So basically my problems are these:
Can't change resolution to 1280x1024
Can't run startx or KDE without several errors
Thanks in advance for the help!
EDIT: One of the errors was that startx and/or KDE didn't have write access. But I was logged in as root. So I don't know why.


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OPAC (Library Search) Quiz List Info AR Quiz Store Materials Center
All classes come to the library twice a week.
Kindergarten is allowed to check out one book. The book is due the next day.Grades 1 - 5 are allowed to check out 3 books at a time. The books are due the next trip to the library, or can be renewed.
For home access, see the librarain for the password. cactus
- ebooks - online database and more....
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Brian Harman, the first alternate, made his debut in The Players Championship and shot 73. It was a round he won't easily forget, for reasons not the least bit related to his score.
In a bizarre situation that no one could recall happening before, Harman was assigned a separate tee time and had to play as a single Thursday because he could not be found when D.A. Points abruptly withdrew on the first tee because of back spasms.
Ordinarily, the alternate would not get in if he were not around. But this was no ordinary case.
Points, whose back was bothering him on the range, was announced on the tee when he took a few practice swings and realized he couldn't make it. Harman, who had been on the practice range all morning, said he called officials and told them he would be in the clubhouse. He was playing ping pong with his caddie when they called.
By then, it was too late.
Carl Pettersson had already teed off. Points told the starter he couldn't go, and Robert Garrigus was announced and hit the next shot.
"It happened very quickly," rules official Mark Russell said. "We didn't have time to react. But once we were able to sit down and get our heads around this, figure out exactly what the situation is, we decided Brian Harman had done everything we asked him to do."
Garrigus said he looked back toward the tee, expecting to see Harman. Even after hitting his second shots toward the green, he figured Harman would be joining them. But they completed the first hole, and they were on their way.
"It got botched by everybody," Garrigus said, though he said it was the right decision to let Harman play.
Alternates typically know the players who might have to withdraw. Harman said he knew of a few, but Points was not one of them.
"I saw him on the range and he looked fine," Harman said.
Most players will let the alternate know if there's a chance they can't play so the alternate can be ready. Points, however, did pull out before hitting a tee shot and thus did not keep the alternate from playing.
Garrigus said it was a long day as a twosome playing in a field of threesomes, which wasn't easy. Harman said it was so quiet out there it felt like a practice round.
For Russell, it was the second straight decision he had never made before. At the Wells Fargo Championship last week, Tiger Woods lost a ball on the fifth hole of the second round and it was never found. He was not penalized because some in the gallery said a fan had taken his golf ball.
And now this.
"In my 31 years on the golf tour, I can never remember a player withdrawing right before he's supposed to play," Russell said.
Harman originally was supposed to be first out Friday morning as a single. But when Paul Casey withdrew Thursday, he agreed to take his spot in that threesome.
WILD DAY: Sunghoon Kang was distraught after opening with a 75 — not because of the score, but how he got it.
He opened with a quadruple-bogey 8, going long of the green into an area of bushes and taking a couple of hacks to try to free his ball. Ten holes later, Kang was 1-under par. But he finished with four 5s on his card, including a ball in the water on the island-green 17th hole for a double bogey.
"I'm right back to where I was after the first hole," he said to his caddie, Steve Hulka, as he walked in the tunnel of the clubhouse.
Not quite, but point taken.
It was an amazing comeback from an 8, and it was helped by an unusual pep talk from Hulka.
"We walked off the green and Steve said, 'There's a big elephant, and we're going to eat it one bit at a time,'" Kang said.
On the par-5 second hole, Kang hit a 4-iron to 15 feet.
"I told him, 'You just bit off the toe,'" Hulka said. "And when he made the putt for eagle, I told him, 'There goes the leg.'"
Alas, the elephant returned by the end of the round, which concluded with a three-putt bogey. Kang headed for the range, trying to remember that there was some pretty good golf in the middle of his round.
FALDO TALKS BACK: Tiger Woods was sarcastically dismissive of comments from six-time major champion Nick Faldo that Woods has lost his self-belief.
Faldo, an analyst for CBS Sports and Golf Channel, made the remark in a conference call Tuesday for The Players Championship. Woods looked bemused and said he finds it interesting to hear such comments because "they're not in my head."
"They must have some kind of superpower I don't know about," he said.
During the telecast Thursday, Faldo defended his opinion because of his experience.
"I hated it when analysts and commentators were saying, 'He's thinking this. He's thinking that,'" Faldo said. "But this analyst here, I've walked the walk. I've been there and the bit I'm trying to describe is self-belief. I've had self-belief when I was playing my best and I also lost self-belief, and that's obviously when you get to the end of your career. I can generally recognize when a player is on the range, striping it, which Tiger's been doing basically all season.
"But for a player, if you cannot walk from the practice ground to the first tee ... for me, he doesn't have the self-belief he really needs."
SCHWARTZEL IN SOUTH AFRICA: Masters champion Bubba Watson skipped The Players Championship to bond with his newly adopted son. Dustin Johnson is recovering from a back injury. As for former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel? His agent said he simply didn't want to come all the way from South Africa.
Chubby Chandler said Schwartzel faced a trip halfway around the world to Florida, and then would have to go to Spain next week for the World Match Play Championship. After that Schwartzel is playing the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, then Memorial. After a week off, he has the U.S. Open and then the Travelers Championship.
To be at Sawgrass would mean six tournaments in seven weeks and an itinerary that went South Africa-Florida-Spain-England-Ohio-California-Connecticut.
SHRINKING FIELD: The 144-man field at The Players Championship is shrinking even before the cut is made Friday.
Five players withdrew from the opening round Thursday, and only one of them (D.A. Points) did not start and was replaced in the field.
Angel Cabrera, who made a 9 on the par-3 17th, withdrew for "personal reasons" after a 78. Simon Dyson withdrew with a bad back after a 76. Hunter Haas only made it through three holes (he already was 4-over par) when he stopped with a bad back. Paul Casey withdrew with a shoulder injury after a 42 on the front nine. Casey injured his shoulder snowboarding over the holidays and missed the first two months of the season.
It was the second year in a row that a player withdrew after a 42 on the front nine. A year ago, that was Tiger Woods with a left Achilles tendon. Odds are Casey will play again before August.
DIVOTS: No one has ever won back-to-back at The Players Championship, a streak that looks to be intact after K.J. Choi opened with a 75 and was 10 shots behind. ... Gary Woodland, playing for the first time since he withdrew after the third round at the Masters with a wrist injury, opened with a 77. ... Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III shot 72.


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Is this spotting from menstrual suppression or implantation bleeding?
Heather Corinna replies:I usually take my birth control pill continuously and skip periods for 2-3 months at a time due to bad PMS (ok'd by the Dr.) This month I missed a pill on a Friday and took it Saturday with my Saturday pill but I had started spotting so figured it was time to have a period so I waited a week before starting a new pack and during that time had a period. 2 weeks later I had some strange pink spotting that I hear could be implantation bleeding. Does stopping the pills for a week to have a period put you at greater risk for pregnancy? Normally, besides skipping the periods, I am a perfect user and take it every day at exactly the same time.
Implantation bleeding is actually fairly rare. More to the point, spotting when you're taking BCPs continuously is incredibly common.
So, it's far more likely that that is why you're seeing the spotting. If it hasn't happened until now, that doesn't mean that's not why it is happening now. In fact, if it hasn't happened until now, you've been lucky since spotting when trying to suppress menstruation is so common.
Missing one pill is very unlikely to render your BCPs ineffective and result in a pregnancy. If you have missed more pills than that, or have been taking your pills at very irregular times, then you may be looking at a risk, but since you've been clear that this isn't the case with you, it's not likely this spotting is due to pregnancy. Of course, backing up BCPs with condom use is always extra-smart, and comes with the added perk of protecting you against STIs. In the case that you haven't been using condoms and aren't up-to-speed with your yearly STI screenings, you'll want to schedule those soon, too. Spotting sometimes occurs due to a couple different STIs, but even without the spotting, that's important to do every year without fail.
Just so that you're also aware, the longest-term study to date on the effects of suppressing menstruation is only a two-year study, and for adult women. While some doctors are okaying it, we do not have ANY studies on long-term effects, and we also have NO studies, at all, on younger or adolescent women using pill packs continuously. That's a pretty big deal since for women still in sexual development -- which you are until your twenties or so -- it's possible that suppressing menstruation and/or taking more pills in a year than you would with placebo periods may have long-term effects we don't even know about.
Obviously, spotting or no, this is something for you to decide on yourself, but you may want to also consider/ask about other methods to manage PMS which we know to be helpful and safe, such as changing your diet, adding more exercise or different exercise to your usual regimen, using specific nutrition supplements -- like a calcium supplement, which has the added benefit of helping keep your bones healthy, and is important when you're using the pill, period -- or even just using a basic aspirin regimen the week before your period to help suppress the progestins that can cause PMS or make it unbearable.


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By Sara Webb
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor should have walked free and not been jailed for war crimes because there was not enough evidence to prove he was guilty beyond reasonable doubt, a judge involved in his trial said in a magazine interview.
Justice Malick Sow's criticism of how the trial was conducted and of the final decision-making process are likely to be seized on by Taylor's defence lawyers as part of his appeal.
Taylor, 64, was the first head of state convicted by an international court since the trials of Nazis after World War Two.
He was jailed in May for 50 years for helping Sierra Leonean rebels commit what the United Nations-backed court in The Hague called some of the worst war crimes in history.
Sow, from Senegal, was an alternate judge at the Special Court of Sierra Leone that tried Taylor in The Hague, which meant he could step in if one of the three judges was unable to complete the trial.
When Taylor was convicted in April, Sow tried to read out a dissenting opinion, but was prevented from doing so by the court. He no longer works there.
Taylor "should have been a free man at this stage because I haven't seen the proof of guilt of the accused," Sow said in his first interview about Taylor's trial, published in the December edition of New African magazine.
Sow could not be reached for comment by Reuters, but a person close to him verified his quotes in the interview.
"I couldn't be indulgent in the face of the countless contradictions, lies, deceptions and manipulations in this trial, and conclude that the accused was guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crimes he was charged with," Sow told the magazine.
"International justice cannot be based on rumours. These are mass crimes. This is where we must have the highest standard of proof. It's about proving the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt. But they didn't even reach the lowest standard of proof."
Sow criticized the payment of witnesses and some of the witness statements.
"The accused came with very official papers, with witnesses who were at the frontline, witnesses who were main actors of this whole conflict. How can you compare these witnesses with those people who didn't get even close to the scene?" he said.
"The prosecution's case by itself is so insufficient, so unreliable. It's about people contradicting themselves, people denying what they had said in previous statements."
In the interview, Sow said it came as a "a total surprise" to hear in court that the three judges had reached a unanimous decision.
"In each of the very few times we discussed anything, there were very different opinions," he said.
He said he had been excluded from the final discussions about Taylor, and questioned whether one of the three judges, who had already been appointed to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, should have remained as a judge at Taylor's trial.
Morris Anyah, Taylor's lawyer, said he wants to call Sow as witness in the appeals process and has asked for a waiver of Sow's immunity from being called as a defence witness.
(Editing by Jon Hemming)


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[...]On the other hand, supporting Franco as Rob pointed out wasn't all that bad an idea either.[...]
Perhaps it is because of my family heritage (one of my grandfathers was a political prisoner, and died in prison during Franco's days), or perhaps I lack the neutrality of an external viewer (I have always lived in Spain)... but in my ears "supporting Franco" sounds like "supporting Pinochet" or even "supporting Hitler".
I suspect the fact that "Hitler made the trains run on time" didn't offset much on his judgment day.
Actually, that claim was associated with Mussolini. And, according to Snopes, that was not true.http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp
wait,you people seem pretty fast and loose with other people's lives.I'm wondering how to turn this into a productive outcome.I'm missing the relevance of death dealing madmen to my pedestrian struggle.
Ray, I'd never claim to be a "true" artist. Maybe an untrue one, or possibly a dissembling one, but I think your dichotomy isn't valid. Yes, someone like HCB was independently wealthy, so he could afford to apply himself full-time to creating art. But how about Ansel Adams? He needed to make a living, and he made it partly through his photography and partly as a concert pianist. He didn't spend full time making photographic art but he sure produced some art. Same thing with Elliott Erwitt. He was on his own starting when he was still a kid. He made his living with photography, but when he shot that picture of Nixon poking Khruschev in the chest he was on an assignment to shoot kitchen appliances. I think the idea that your only choices are between being a hedge fund manager and a starving artist is (to be polite) a bit over the top.
Paul, Maybe you didn't notice the quotes.
Russ,Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I could have been. The artistic spirit or motivation, which Rocco Penny seems to be in search of, is so strong in the 'true' artist that sometimes he will sacrifice much needed food in order to buy paint and brushes, as in the example of Van Gogh and many others we don't even hear about. I'm not implying that it is therefore necessary to be poverty-stricken in order to be an artist (although being poor might help one to focus on one's true priorities), rather I'm implying that the urge to create, to find meaning and express meaning is so strong that one is compelled to paint, photograph, write music etc whatever one's circumstances, rich or poor.
I recall seeing a play by Somerset Maugham many years ago which addressed this very issue. Can't remember all the details, but basically a son in a wealthy family wanted to be a pianist. His father was adamantly opposed to the idea, and after many heated arguments about the matter the son made the fatal mistake of agreeing to a proposal that he would go away for a couple of years, practise the piano assiduously, then subject himself to an appraisal from an experienced, professional, and successful concert pianist who would assess whether or not the young man had any talent. If the verdict was - no talent, then the son would agree to give up his aspirations to become a professional (classical) pianist, and join his father's business instead.However, if the verdict was - promising talent - then the father would agree to give his son his blessing and not stand in the way of his son's chosen vocation.Okay! It's only a story. It has a sad ending. The verdict was -no talent. The next day the son committed suicide.
Now I'm sure glad that I don't have to make a living as a photographer trying to fulfil the requirements of a client and/or please the tastes of the fickle public. I shoot what I want when I want. If someone happens to like a particular image or print I've made, I'm willing to sell it or give it away as a birthday or christmas present. My satisfaction lies in the entire photographic process from the extroverted activity of travelling to a place in search of interesting scenes to photograph, to the technical challenge of mastering the complexities of the machine (the camera) and getting it to produce the results I intended, to the interesting and marvelously flexible processing capabilities of Photoshop, to the crafstmanlike control of transferring a faithful reproduction of the final image to paper and ink.
However, I'm a bit slack in mounting my prints. I don't find that activity nearly as interesting. Nor would I find the chore of running a photographic business interesting. In fact, if I were to attempt it I'd be worried it might even put me off the joys of photography completely
I did; perhaps I'm not clear why you used them?Paul
Quote RayRuss,Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I could have been. The artistic spirit or motivation, which Rocco Penny seems to be in search of, is so strong in the 'true' artist that sometimes he will sacrifice much needed food in order to buy paint and brushes, as in the example of Van Gogh and many others we don't even hear about. I'm not implying that it is therefore necessary to be poverty-stricken in order to be an artist (although being poor might help one to focus on one's true priorities), rather I'm implying that the urge to create, to find meaning and express meaning is so strong that one is compelled to paint, photograph, write music etc whatever one's circumstances, rich or poor.UnquoteThis talk of 'true' artist smacks of elitism. In fact the overtones of much of your posts are the same? I don't see the point of such an attitude and I feel it will get up the noses of some of the posters? Are you for real or just attempting what is a poor wind up?
Is English your first language?
Yes. What does that have to do with my apparent confusion over your use of quotes?If you would be so kind as to enlighten me why you said that Hitler made the trains run on time when it was Mussolini, it would be appreciated.
Paul, Sorry. Since you haven't bothered to fill out your profile I have no way of knowing where you are or what your background is. In English, when one surrounds a statement like that with quotes it normally means that the writer either knows or suspects it's bogus.
stamperI know you addressed this to Ray, but I feel obliged to say that I certainly don't view the expressed opinion as an expression of elitism. However, neither do I have any fight with elitism because, in my opinion, it is simply a concentration of the mind on the really worthwhile and the ignoring of the junk. Life, as I am learning, is bloody short; why woud anyone want to waste any part of it on the mediocre or downright worthless?As for annoying other posters, don't you think that that's the risk that they have to be prepared to take if they want to play here? There sure ain't no common entrance exam required for logging on to LuLa, though the next iteration might include such a worthy innovation!? Christ! I might not make the cut - cancel that flight of fantasy.Rob C


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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Police searched Sunday for at least one gunman who wounded seven people, mostly teenagers, overnight after opening fire amid the rides at a crowded fair in Georgia.
Nobody was killed in the shooting late Saturday at the Coastal Empire Fair on Savannah's suburban south side, but seven people were treated for gunshot wounds at area hospitals, Savannah-Chatham County police spokesman Julian Miller said Sunday.
"The place was packed," Miller said. "It was Saturday night at the fair, and that's a big night."
Witnesses described seeing a gunman wearing a dark jumpsuit, he said, but investigators hadn't ruled out the possibility there was more than one shooter.
Police had not determined a motive for the shootings. Several people were detained and questioned Saturday night, but all had been released by investigators.
"They stayed through the night canvassing the area, looking for clues and were back again at daylight to make sure they hadn't missed anything," Miller said. "They interviewed everybody who was detained last night and are continuing to move forward with the investigation, talking to witnesses and victims and trying to pull everything together."
The shooting erupted in the middle of the crowd at about 10:40 p.m. Saturday, less than an hour before closing time at the fair. Police said six of the victims were teenagers, aged 14 to 19. The other was identified as a 36-year-old woman. Miller said the victim believed to be most seriously wounded underwent surgery and was listed in fair condition. None of the injuries were considered life-threatening, he said.
Miller said he didn't know if any of the victims were specifically targeted in the shooting or if any of them were random bystanders.
The Coastal Empire Fair is an annual event organized by the Savannah Exchange Club. The club planned to reopen the fair Sunday, which had already been scheduled as its final day, said Ted Akins, the fair's general manager.
"We are praying for the victims and their families," Akins said. "That's all I'm going to talk about it."


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Today, Governor Steve Bullock signed SB 175 (L.Jones) - to fund public schools - as passed by the legislature. This is the bipartisan bill that MEA-MFT and the rest of Montana's public school community worked so hard together to pass this session.
And, today, the governor, vetoed SB 81 (Lewis) - to create taxpayer funded scholarships for private and sectarian student scholarships. SB 81 diverted tax money from public schools to private schools.
More to follow . . . but knowing Governor Bullock has done the right thing makes this a GREAT DAY for all Montana public education.
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For Women & Co. by Jonathan Clements, Director of Financial Education, Citi Personal Wealth Management
First comes love, then comes marriage. Then come all those money issues. Unfortunately, finances are one of the biggest sources of marital tension. But it doesn't have to be that way. Want to get your marriage off on the right financial footing? You need to understand each other's goals and attitudes -- and then, working together, you have to settle on some financial rules of the road. Here are four steps to help you and your spouse-to-be marry your financial thinking:
1. Avoid the parent trap.
We swear we will never be like our parents. And then, oftentimes, we end up behaving just like them. That's especially true when it comes to money matters.
Whether you realize it or not, you and your future spouse have likely adopted the financial attitudes of your respective parents. Indeed, if you want a glimpse into your future spouse's financial thinking, just check out his or her parents, including what they say about money, how freely they spend and how financially content they seem. You may consider your future spouse's financial behavior wrongheaded -- and your own money habits "normal." But rest assured: The feeling is mutual.
Today, such financial differences may not be especially bothersome. They might even seem cute. But a few years from now, they could be a major source of conflict.
What to do? It's best to hash things out today, rather than leaving these issues to fester and become a nagging source of resentment. One approach: Establish strict rules for spending, saving, and taking on debt.
2. Agree on a budget.
We live in a world divided between savers and spenders. Which category do you fall into -- and how would you classify your future spouse? As you plan your wedding, you will get an opportunity to find out. This is also your first shot at financial cooperation. Together, decide how much you will spend on the wedding and then force yourself to live within that budget.
This might sound harsh. But the reality is, with things like exercising, eating, and money, general guidelines often don't work. Instead, what works are firm rules such as "must go running four times a week," "never snack between meals," and "can't spend more than $15,000 on the wedding."
Consider adopting the same strategy when handling other parts of your financial life. You don't want to be fighting constantly over how much to spend. Instead, sit down together, settle on a target level of monthly spending and thereafter compel yourself to stay within this budget.
3. Lay down rules.
You also need to agree on rules for coping with debt, especially credit card debt. With the help of credit cards, you can live beyond your means for a while -- and avoid tough decisions and heated conversations about how much to spend. Eventually, however, the bills will come due. In fact, carrying a large credit card balance can rank as one of the more foolish financial mistakes, thanks to the hefty interest rate often charged. To avoid this sort of mess, lay down rules for how you will deal with credit cards. A smart strategy: Commit to paying off your credit cards in full every month.
4. Agree on goals.
We all have financial dreams, whether it's purchasing a new car, buying a home, or retiring in comfort. But which goals should you pursue? Once again, it is time to talk, figuring out which goals really matter to both of you and then laying down strict rules. Those rules might include "invest 10 percent of every paycheck in the 401(k)" and "save $200 a month toward the house down payment."
To be sure, we are talking here about a lot of rules. But these rules could ease the financial conflicts in your marriage -- and free you up to focus on more important matters, like reveling in your new life together.
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo's health is further deteriorating as his liver function worsens and abdominal fluid accumulates, a friend and the hospital that is treating him said, adding to concerns about the long-term prognosis for the country's best-known political prisoner.
The doctor heading a medical team in charge of Liu's treatment for late-stage liver cancer informed his family of the development, the First Hospital of China Medical University said in a statement that appeared on its website Thursday.
A family friend confirmed on Thursday that Liu's family had been asked to be on standby in the hospital in the northeastern city of Shenyang over the next 24 hours — which they took as a sign that Liu is critically ill.
"We are worried about whether we should start planning for what to do after he leaves," family friend Wu Yangwei, better known by his penname Ye Du., told The Associated Press.
Wu on Thursday shared on social media an undated photo of a visibly emaciated Liu, in blue-and-white-striped hospital pajamas, embracing his wife Liu Xia, who gazed up at his expressionless face. The photo appeared to have been taken at the hospital, though its background seemed to have been digitally blurred.
Liu's liver function is deteriorating, the hospital said in a separate statement later Thursday. The hospital said doctors detected increasing levels of a natural waste product called bilirubin in Liu's body — a sign that his liver is not effectively filtering the byproduct from his blood. Elevated bilirubin levels are linked to jaundice.
The hospital also said there were signs that Liu might have blood clots in his lower left leg. Clots are most dangerous when they travel to the lungs, a potentially life-threatening situation, or to the brain, where they can cause a stroke.
Liu was diagnosed in May while serving a 11-year sentence for inciting subversion by advocating sweeping political reforms that would end China's one-party rule. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, a year after his conviction.
Since the diagnosis was made public in late June, his supporters, Western governments and human rights groups have been urging Beijing to release Liu and give him the freedom to choose where he wants to be treated. Beijing has maintained that this is an internal affair other countries should stay out of and that Liu is under the care of experts in the Chinese medical facility.
Guo Yuhua, a professor of sociology in Beijing, said the government has failed to give Liu what he most needs.
"Liberty, family and friendship are the best medicine, yet Beijing would never offer them to him," she said.
Maya Wang, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, called Liu's treatment "shameful."
"The Chinese government's treatment of Liu Xiaobo, which includes holding him and his family even in his dying days, reveal the cruelty and ruthlessness of the Chinese government," Wang said. "How can such a government be considered as a reliable and responsible partner for global leadership?"
The hospital statement also included the names of some of the experts, including Dr. Mao Yilei, a reputed expert on liver cancer at the prestigious Peking Union Medical College Hospital, who conducted another round of group consultations on the day when the statement was released, which was most likely Thursday.
In a likely response to criticism that China might have failed to adequately care for Liu, the statement said the experts were approving of prior treatments of Liu. They also adjusted the treatment as Liu's illness developed, the hospital said.
On behalf of the medical team, Mao informed Liu's family of his most recent condition, and Liu's family said they understood, the statement said. The statement was impossible to verify with Liu's wife or other family members, who have not been contactable and are said to face restrictions on their movements and communications with the outside world. Calls to the hospital were unanswered on Thursday.


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AS A FRESHMAN IN 2012-13: Named honorable mention All-WCC … one of three players to play 10 events and 27 rounds … had a top 20 finish in each of his last two events of the season and three total … shot a season-low 70 in the third round of his first collegiate event and finished tied for 40th at the Itani Quality Homes Collegiate … had a single round 75 and tied for 17th in the rain-shortened Querencia Cabo Collegiate … scored two even-par rounds of 72 and a 1-over 73 for his best three round total (217) and to par score (+1) of the season at the SCVB Pacific Invitational … shot three rounds of 77 at the Arizona Intercollegiate … had scores of 78, 77 and 75 at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate … tied for 31st at the UCI Anteater Invitational with rounds of 80, 73 and 79 … with scores of 74 and 71 tied for 17th place with a two round total of 145 (+5) at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic … had his best finish of the year at the WCC Championship tying for 13th and matched his best score of the season with a second round 70. Also had rounds of 73 and 77 for a +4 (220).
HIGH SCHOOL: Gandionco brings a wide array of experience to the SCU between his time spent on the Philippine Junior National Team as well as his summers spent on the US Junior Golf Tournament Circuit … Received the Cebu Sports Writers Award Special Mention in both 2009 and 2012 … Finished in the top 25 at the DHL-WWWExpress National Amateur Golf Championship … Earned 3rd in the 2010 Callaway Golf Junior World Golf Qualifying Tournament … Was among the top 10 at the 2010 Philippine Amateur Golf Championship … Won the Vis-Min Youth Circuit Leg in the Philippines … Came in 4th place at the 31st Asia Pacific Junior Golf Championship in India … Finished in the top 8 athlete Sean O'Hair Junior All-Star Championship … Helped his team come in 2nd place at both the 94th Philippine Airlines InterClub Championship as well as the 1st Montecillo Cup in 2011 … Finished in the quarterfinals and top 8 of the Phil Amateur Match Play … Gandionco was ranked as one of the top amateur golfers of the Philippines.
PERSONAL: Born in Cebu City, Philippines … son of Joesph and Marian Gandionco … has three siblings, Lia, Gisella, and Tanya … enjoys playing golf, listening to music, and hanging out with friends … Is an excellent student and is studying in Santa Clara's Leavey School of Business.


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No. 86,552
K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 8-1567(k)(3) is interpreted and applied.
Appeal from Douglas District Court; MICHAEL J. MALONE, judge. Opinion filed March 15, 2002. Affirmed.
Sarah Ellen Johnson and Rebecca E. Woodman, assistant appellate defenders, and Steven R. Zinn, deputy appellate defender, for appellant.
Bradley R. Burke, assistant district attorney, Christine E. Kenney, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., KNUDSON, J., and WAHL, S.J.
KNUDSON, J.: Donna S. Bell appeals her sentence for felony driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), contrary to K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 8-1567(a)(3) and (f). We affirm.
Bell's current offense occurred on April 19, 1998, a dispositive plea was entered on August 21, 2000, and sentence was imposed on December 15, 2000. Bell's criminal history included prior DUI convictions on July 6, 1995, and April 16, 1998.
K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 8-1567(k) provides, in material part:
"(k) For the purpose of determining whether a conviction is a first, second, third or subsequent conviction in sentencing under this section:
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(3) only convictions occurring in the immediately preceding five years, including prior to the effective date of this act, shall be taken into account . . . .
(4) it is irrelevant whether an offense occurred before or after conviction for a previous offense."
Bell contends she was improperly sentenced as a felony offender under K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 8-1567(f). She points out her prior conviction on July 6, 1995, is not within 5 years of her current conviction on August 21, 2000. According to Bell, K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 8-1567(k)(3) requires counting from the date of the current conviction rather than from the date the crime was committed to determine prior convictions for sentencing enhancement purposes.
The State argues the 5-year retrospection begins on the date of the occurrence rather than the date of the current conviction--under the facts of this case, from April 19, 1998. If the State's interpretation of K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 8-1567(k)(3) is correct, Bell concedes her felony sentence should stand.
In City of Chanute v. Wilson, 10 Kan. App. 2d 498, 704 P.2d 392, rev. denied 238 Kan. 877 (1985), the defendant was arrested on August 25, 1983, for DUI and convicted in district court on June 29, 1984. Wilson had two prior DUI convictions, one on February 8, 1979, and the other on April 1, 1982. He argued a felony sentence should not be imposed because the February 8, 1979, conviction was more than 5 years before his June 29, 1984, conviction. In upholding the trial court's imposition of a felony sentence, this court held that the 5-year window under K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 8-1567(k)(3) [then K.S.A. 1983 Supp. 8-1567(i)], runs from the date of the current offense to the date or dates of prior convictions. 10 Kan. App. 2d at 500. The court reasoned:
"Although defendant would have us consider only those convictions occurring within the five-year period preceding the district court conviction, we believe consideration of convictions occurring within a five-year period preceding the present offense is more consistent with existing case law. In State v. Wilson, 6 Kan. App. 2d 302, Syl. ¶ 1, 627 P.2d 1185, aff'd 230 Kan. 287, 634 P.2d 1078 (1981), the court held the enhancement of a defendant's sentence as a third offender under K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 21-4504(2) required each succeeding offense be committed after the conviction for the preceding offense. Throughout its opinion, the court keyed its analysis of defendant's offender status to the sequential relationship of preceding conviction to subsequent commission of an offense.
"Again, in State v. Osoba, 234 Kan. 443, 672 P.2d 1098 (1983), the court addressed which convictions could be considered at sentencing. In Osoba the defendant claimed first offender status under K.S.A. 8-1567, alleging conviction of her first offense of driving while under the influence of alcohol must precede her commission of a second offense before the first conviction can be counted for sentencing purposes. The court agreed with the defendant and concluded the sequential relationship applied in Wilson should be extended by analogy to K.S.A. 8-1567(d). The court held K.S.A. 8-1567(d) requires that each succeeding offense be committed after conviction of the preceding offense." 10 Kan. App. 2d at 499-500.
Bell argues the 1985 legislature amended 8-1567 to add subsection (k)(4), effectively overturning City of Chanute v. Wilson. Although the amendment does appear to modify the holding in Wilson that prior convictions must occur before the date of the current offense, left untouched is the holding that it is the date of the offense and not conviction that triggers the 5-year window.
We agree with the reasoning of the Wilson court that under 8-1567(k)(3), prior convictions are counted as of the date of the current offense, not the date of conviction. Here, when Bell's prior convictions are counted as of the date of her present offense, she has two prior convictions within the preceding 5 years. The district court properly sentenced Bell as a felony offender.


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This is the perfect dessert to serve at your annual St. Patrick's Day celebration. Since it serves 16, one cheesecake goes a long way in feeding the crowd!
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by garnishing the chilled cheesecake with a candy shamrock. Use rolling pin to flatten 3 sugar-coated candy spearmint leaves. Cut each into heart shape with small cookie cutter or sharp knife. Arrange on cheesecake as shown in photo to resemble shamrock, using trimmings to make stem.
Prepare as directed, substituting 1 Tbsp. MAXWELL HOUSE Instant Coffee and 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon dissolved in 1/4 cup boiling water for the liqueur in the cheesecake filling.
Prepare using PLANTERS Walnuts.
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by garnishing the chilled cheesecake with green colored sugar just before serving. Or, sprinkle the green colored sugar over a shamrock-shaped template placed on top of chilled cheesecake; remove template to reveal the shamrock design.
* Nutrition information is estimated based on the ingredients and cooking instructions as described in each recipe and is intended to be used for informational purposes only. Please note that nutrition details may vary based on methods of preparation, origin and freshness of ingredients used.