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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — In a Nov. 11 story about two students possessing firearms in an apartment operated by Gonzaga University, The Associated Press reported erroneously which student has a concealed weapons permit. Daniel McIntosh, not Erik Fagan, had a permit, an attorney for the students said.
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2 Gonzaga students on probation for having guns
2 Gonzaga students on probation for having guns; pistol display drove off apartment intruder
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Gonzaga University will review its weapons policy as two students who used a pistol to scare off an intruder appeal their probation for having guns in their university-owned apartment.
Executive Vice President Earl Martin said Monday the university will try to turn the incident into a teachable moment by re-examining its no-weapons policy.
"We will consider the scope of the policy, but always guided by what is in the best interest of student safety," Martin said. He could not predict how long the process may take.
Bans on firearms in university-owned buildings and residences are common across the country, Martin said.
Gonzaga, a Jesuit university known for its basketball program, is a school of about 8,000 students near downtown Spokane.
Students Erik Fagan, 21, and Daniel McIntosh, 23, were informed by the university over the weekend they were on probation and could be suspended or expelled for any more violations of the university's code of conduct, The Spokesman-Review reported.
Their lawyer, Dean Chuang, said Gonzaga should consider student safety above all else.
"We're glad that it didn't have to end in tragedy for them to consider changing the policy there," Chuang said. "Our boys were armed and stopped a home invasion here."
A homeless man came to their door Oct. 24 demanding money and trying to force his way inside.
Fagan said he offered the man a blanket and a can of food but refused to hand over any cash. The man became agitated and combative, he told the newspaper.
Fagan shouted for McIntosh, who came downstairs holding a loaded 10 mm Glock pistol.
"I draw on him," McIntosh said. "As soon as he sees me, he decides he doesn't want to deal with me. So he takes off."
The men called police and campus security. McIntosh has a concealed weapons permit.
Campus security returned the next day and confiscated McIntosh's pistol and Fagan's shotgun, which he uses for hunting and sport shooting.
The men say their guns were seized illegally and are seeking to have them returned.
They say they are glad they weren't expelled but they're appealing their probation because they don't want the sanction on their school records.
Students are not allowed to have guns in their homes if they live on campus or in a university-owned apartment. The university discipline board on Friday found Fagan and McIntosh responsible for two violations: possessing weapons on school grounds and putting others in danger by the use of weapons.
The man who went to their door, John M. Taylor, 29, is a six-time felon, said police spokeswoman Monique Cotton. His crimes have included riot with a deadly weapon, possession of a controlled substance and unlawful imprisonment.
Officers responding to an initial report of a residential burglary found him in the area, Cotton said. He was jailed on an arrest warrant from the state Department of Corrections, she said. Typically that means a person under department supervision has violated terms of release. Taylor was no longer on the jail roster Monday.
Department of Corrections spokesman Chad Lewis said records were not available Monday because of the Veterans Day holiday, so he couldn't speak about Taylor. Arrest warrants are commonly issued when people fail to report to a supervisor or for treatment.
There was no answer Monday at the Spokane County public defender's office, which might represent Taylor.
Associated Press writer Doug Esser in Seattle contributed to this report.


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BOLTON, Mass. — Last year around this time, Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli announced the shocking news that center Marc Savard wouldn't be able to begin training camp with the team because of post-concussion syndrome symptoms.
Savard had returned to the lineup in the second round of the playoffs, but kept the symptoms he was feeling during offseason workouts mostly private.
When the Bruins lifted the Stanley Cup in June, Nathan Horton wasn't playing because of the concussion he suffered in Game 3 of the Cup Final against Vancouver. In the aftermath of that series, he said he was feeling better. When he got back in town last week he said he hadn't felt symptoms for a significant amount of time.
Now that he's started skating, Horton says he's still in tip-top shape and will be ready to go when the Bruins hit the ice Saturday for their first official practices at TD Garden. Horton's also confident there won't be any surprise announcements and that he'll pass his physical and conditioning tests on Friday.
"Definitely. I'm already cleared to practice and stuff. I'll be fine," he said before teeing off at the Bruins' charity golf tournament at The International.
As we all know, Horton had never experienced the Stanley Cup playoffs prior to last season. He passed the most extreme test an NHL player could face by helping the Bruins get to the Final with three game-winning goals, all the while playing with a separated shoulder. In fact, the shoulder might've postponed his offseason regimen more than the concussion.
"For a little bit there, for sure, I could've started a little bit earlier but I took some more time off," he said. "I guess that's what happens during the playoffs. You play so long and the year's so long, everyone battled through a lot of injuries. I guess that's what it's all about. You want to do that, and you want to be able to battle through. And in the end that's all that mattered. We won the Stanley Cup because of people battling through injuries."


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Tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry and it's hardly a surprise that many large and small software companies are offering various tools to help the traveller on the road. A lot of this software can be safely ignored; however, a few are truly invaluable and deserve some mention.
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Video games are frequent bedfellows with TV shows and movies, but Syfy and Trion Worlds' new joint project, "Defiance," is a completely different kind of pop-culture beast.
Instead of spinning off the sci-fi Western into a video game or vice-versa, the TV show and video game will be linked in an ongoing way so that characters and events in the series tie into those in Trion's third-person shooter.
Nick Beliaeff, Trion Worlds senior vice president of development, calls it a "transmedia experience."
"Usually a game or show comes first and the other comes second and whoever comes second is saddled with a lot of compromises and it's an inferior experience," Beliaeff said. "We started this project together, and we've made the universe big and broad enough so both the game and the TV show are quality."
The setting of Defiance is a post-apocalyptic Earth, specifically what was St. Louis and is now called Defiance, where humans and seven different alien species, stranded on Earth by a low-flying asteroid field, attempt to peacefully coexist.
The game, a massively multiplayer online shooter, takes place in San Francisco during a "second gold rush," as players build their own personas and chase fragments of a mineral called Gulonite and alien technology in a quest to create their own fortune. The plot-based game, which debuted April 2, is made for Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox360 and PC.
It introduces the main character, Nolan, and his alien step-daughter, Irisa. The characters, played by Grant Bowler and Stephanie Leonidas, respectively, move to Defiance in Monday night's series premiere of the Syfy show.
"Your character starts a series of missions with [Nolan and Irisa] and help them steal something from an underworld figure--they're both scoundrels," Beliaeff said. "The last the players see of them, they leave in a car from San Francisco to St. Louis ... If you played the game, you get this huge backstory on them."
Players of the game won't actually control characters from the show, but instead, interact with them on their own journeys.
"They'll be key touchpoints," Beliaeff said. "If you're a fan of a character, you can see them in the show to game and back again. The actors from the show speak dialogue in the game and might give you missions or clues that will help you interact with the story."
Syfy spent about $100 million to develop the game and show, and the network expects about 20 percent of viewers and players to cross over between the two platforms. Season 1 of the TV show and the first year of the game have been mapped out, but beyond that, Beliaeff said, the future depends on how much viewers and gamers latch on to the universe of "Defiance."
"This represents five years of work--blood, sweat and tears--and we just hope fans fall in love with this idea as much as we have," he said.
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It may be interconnected with Syfy's TV series, but you'll be disappointed if you pick up the "Defiance" video game for the story. Playing as one of many "arc-hunters" in this massively multiplayer shooter, it's fun to interact with the two main characters from the television pilot--Joshua Nolan and his adopted alien daughter, Irisa-- but there's little plot or character development. It's mostly just shooting more bad guys. Instead, "Defiance" succeeds at blending solo, group and competitive play online--especially during "Arkfalls," when giant bosses randomly drops and dozens of players from all over the world gather to take up arms together against waves of enemies. Or at least it would if the network problems and bugs that have plagued it since it launched would go away. Sadly, the execution of "Defiance" doesn't quite measure up to its ambition. Ryan Smith for RedEye
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Blu Tuesday: Car Chases, Psychos and Bank Robbers
If the new year is anything like the one before it, 2013 should be a great time to be a Blu-ray fan. Of course, that doesn't mean that there won't be a few bumps along the way, and you needn't look any further than January for evidence of that. Though there are a few exciting titles to look forward to this month, just like the theatrical release schedule, you're going to have to wade through a lot of crap in order to find any gems.
It's hard to imagine "Hit and Run" getting as large of a theatrical release as it did (or even one at all) without the involvement of Bradley Cooper, not only due to his box office drawing power, but because his amusing, against-type turn as a dreadlocked ex-con is about the only good thing the movie has going for it. Clearly inspired by "Smokey and the Bandit," the action rom-com is mostly just an excuse for Dax Shepard (who also wrote and co-directed the film) to make a movie with his wife (Kristen Bell) and Hollywood friends. But despite a somewhat promising premise, it gets stuck in first gear and never really recovers. With the exception of Cooper and a cameo by Jason Bateman, the movie is almost completely void of laughs (Tom Arnold is particularly awful as a dim-witted U.S. Marshal), and the car chases aren't nearly as exciting as intended. Fans of Cooper will no doubt be curious to see the actor in such an unexpected role, but while it's certainly good for a couple of laughs, "Hit and Run" is more miss than hit.
Blu-ray Highlight: Apart from some deleted scenes, the only other bonus material on the disc is a trio of featurettes (on the cast, cars and the movie's love story) that each run just over two minutes long. In other words, they're a complete waste of your time.
Jennifer Lawrence is still really young, so "House at the End of the Street" likely won't be the last bad movie of her career, but it doesn't make her decision to star in this bland "Psycho" wannabe any less tragic. No one that talented should be forced to slum it in a subpar horror movie, especially when her time could've been better spent making the next "Winter's Bone" or "Silver Linings Playbook." Though it's nice to see Elizabeth Shue back in front of the camera as Lawrence's protective mother, her character is perhaps the most one-dimensional of the bunch (and that's saying something), while just about every scene featuring Max Thieriot is the equivalent of watching paint dry. Putting aside the bad acting, choppy editing and major plot holes, my biggest problem with "House at the End of the Street" is that it doesn't even respect its audience, to the point that director Mark Tonderai provides false information in order to protect the big twist, even though he didn't need to. Any movie that resorts to that kind of tactic is a lost cause in my book.
Blu-ray Highlight: "Journey Into Terror" is a pretty decent making-of featurette (at the very least, it offers an explanation as to why Lawrence would consider doing a movie like this), but it hardly qualifies as must-see material, and it's the only extra on the disc.
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LAS VEGAS, March 6 (UPI) -- A Chinese government agency has given Sikorsky Aircraft an order for four S-76D search-and-rescue helicopters for maritime use.
The order from the Ministry of Transport's Rescue and Salvage Bureau also provides for procurement of four additional aircraft next year.
"The continuous selection by MOT of Sikorsky's S-76 SAR helicopters among various bidding models clearly illustrates the Chinese government's firm trust and confidence in Sikorsky helicopters," said Robert Kokorda, Sikorsky's vice president of Sales and Marketing.
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Sikorsky announced the sale from the Heli-Expo industry show in Las Vegas.
The new S-76D is a twin-engine utility helicopter with a speed of 178 miles per hour, a range of 411 nautical miles and a service ceiling of 13,800 feet. It was granted Type Certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration last year. The aircraft features all-composite main rotor blades; an advanced integrated avionics system and autopilot from Thales and active vibration control.
Sikorsky said China's MOT first began using earlier S-76 models in 2000 for search-and-rescue missions. Delivery of the first D models will give China a fleet of 12 S-76 aircraft.


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Lexicon Article Updates
Feb 09, 2008
A couple of quick updates in the Lexicon case, in which J.K. Rowling and WB are trying to stop publication of an unofficial encyclopedia based on the Harry Potter Lexicon web site:
First, Steve Vander Ark, editor of the Lexicon, wrote Ansible, a prominent British fan zine, in defense of RDR Books' case, saying, among other things, that "Part of the problem all along has been the automatic assumption on the part of many that Rowling has the right to completely control anything written about the Harry Potter world. That's quite a huge power grab on her part and from everything I can tell, not legal."
The letter also says: "[Dave Langford, editor of Ansible] and I are part of a subculture that lives off the creative work of others. We always try to do that in a legal and respectful way. However, if Rowling manages to extend her reach that far into our subculture, she will choke us off very quickly. And if she doesn't, what's to stop the next person from taking this legal precedent to even more dangerous places?"
In addition, a new opinion piece in the NYT Business section also calls the case a "power grab" and attempt to "choke" creativity by J.K. Rowling, and calls her a "copyright hog," before going on to extensively profile Attorney Falzone and the Stanford U. Fair Use Project, which is arguing for the RDR Books' side of the case. There is very little talk in this editorial of the merits of the actual Lexicon case or whether the book falls into fair use (in fact the article assumes that it does), only a wide and generic look at the history of copyright law and how this case may or may not fit into it.
As for the expected filings on the case: Some will come tomorrow afternoon (they will be filed overnight and take some time to process), and one exhibit, over 15MB in size, can only be filed in hard copy. That file is of some companion books already on the market, so there may not be any need to have it available for download.
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Lamna nasus (Northeast Atlantic subpopulation)
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Lamna nasus (Northeast Atlantic subpopulation)
|Parent Species:
See Lamna nasus
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|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered A2bcd+3d+4bd ver 3.1
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|Stevens, J., Fowler, S.L., Soldo, A., McCord, M., Baum, J., Acuña, E. & Domingo, A.
|Cavanagh, R.D., Heupel, M. & Simpfendorfer, C. (Shark Red List Authority)
The porbeagle is a wide-ranging, coastal and oceanic shark, but with apparently little exchange between adjacent populations. Low reproductive capacity and high commercial value (in target and incidental fisheries) of mature and immature age classes makes this species highly vulnerable to over-exploitation and population depletion. This depletion, despite variations in availability of data and degree of depletion between the northern and southern hemispheres, is considered to meet Vulnerable criteria globally. The eastern and western North Atlantic populations have both been seriously over-exploited by directed longline fisheries. Collapse of the Northeast Atlantic population led to intensive target fishing in the well-documented Northwest Atlantic fishery in the 1960s, with most of the virgin biomass removed in just six years. Renewed target fishing in the 1990s led to a further population decline to ~11–17% of virgin biomass within the three generation period for this species. Recently improved management in the Northwest Atlantic should now help stocks to recover, however the Northeast Atlantic population has been subject to unrestricted fishing pressure ever since its earlier crash. Data are lacking, but stock depletion is considered to be much greater than in the Northwest Atlantic. Longline tuna and swordfish fleets in the southern hemisphere take a significant partially-utilised bycatch. Only limited trend data are available, including over 90% declines in landings by the Uruguayan longline fleet in the southwest Atlantic.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The porbeagle shark is a wide-ranging coastal and oceanic species found in temperate and cold-temperate waters worldwide (1 to 18°C, 0 to 370 m), more common on continental shelves. Coastal and oceanic, amphitemperate, with centres of distribution in the North Atlantic and in a circumglobal band of temperate water of the southern Atlantic, southern Indian Ocean, southern Pacific and Antarctic Ocean (Compagno 2001). In the Southwest Atlantic Ocean it is found below 26°S (A. Domingo, pers.comm.), in the Southeastern Pacific, between 23 and 37°S (E. Acuña, pers. comm). Tagging studies in the Northwest Atlantic have shown mainly short to moderate distances of up to 1,500 km along continental shelves (Francis et al. in press). Distances travelled by 143 porbeagle tagged in a US study ranged 4 to 1,005 nautical miles (nm), with a mean distance of 234 nm, with over 90% moving less than 500 nm from their original tagging location (Kohler et al. 2002). Porbeagles tagged off southern England have been recaptured off Spain, Denmark and Norway (2,370 km away), and a porbeagle tagged in Ireland travelled 4,260 km Kohler and Turner 2001), suggesting mixing throughout their range in the Northeast Atlantic (Stevens 1976, 1990). According to the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO 2001a), mature porbeagle sharks are rarely seen in winter and spring, with monthly catches exhibiting a seasonal and sex-specific migration of mature sharks towards the southern Newfoundland mating grounds in spring. The birthing grounds for the porbeagle shark in the Northwest Atlantic remain unknown (DFO 2001a). There is little known about the porbeagle shark in subequatorial Africa. No information on mating or nursery grounds is available. Porbeagles in the Northwest Atlantic make annual migrations along the coast between the Gulf of Maine and Newfoundland (Campana et al. 1999, Campana and Joyce 2004).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Denmark; France; Gibraltar; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Portugal (Azores, Madeira); Russian Federation; Spain; Sweden; United Kingdom
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Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – eastern central
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|North Atlantic tagging studies (DFO 1999, Kohler et al. 2002, Stevens 1990) indicate only one trans-Atlantic movement (Kohler and Turner 2001), implying that the two north Atlantic populations are distinct. There is no evidence of genetic exchange between the North Atlantic and the Southern Hemisphere population(s), which are separated by warm water. The number of sub-populations in the southern oceans is unknown.
Biomass of the Northwest Atlantic porbeagle population was estimated at 4,409 t (11% of virgin biomass) and female spawners estimated at 6,075 (10% of the virgin abundance) (Campana et al. 2001).
Populations studied in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean segregate by size and sex. Although adults are very rare in the Mediterranean, it appears to be a nursery ground.
|Current Population Trend:
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|This section is taken mainly from Stevens (in press) species assessment for Lamna nasus (in Fowler et al. in press).
The porbeagle reaches a maximum reported size of 355 cm TL (Francis et al. in press). Males mature at about 165 cm TL in the South Pacific and 195 cm TL in the North Atlantic. Females mature at about 195 cm TL in the South Pacific and 245 cm TL in the North Atlantic (Jensen et al. 2002, Francis and Duffy 2005, Francis et al. in press).
Reproduction is oophagous with litters of 1 to 5 pups (average four) produced, which are 68 to 78 cm TL at birth (Compagno 1984a, Gauld 1989, DFO 2001a, Francis and Stevens 2000, Francis et al. in press). Aasen (1963) estimated that the gestation period was about eight months in the North Atlantic and that individual females breed each year. However, Shann (1923) found two distinct size groups of embryos present in the December–February period and suggested that gestation may last 18 to 24 months. Gauld (1989) noted that a resting period may be present between parturition and fertilisation. Francis and Stevens (2000), Jensen et al. (2002) and Francis et al. (in press) estimate an 8 to 9 month gestation period. Birth occurs in spring off Europe, spring-summer off North America and winter in Australasia (Aasen 1963, Francis and Stevens 2000, Jensen et al. 2002) and the Eastern Pacific off Chile (Acuña et al. unpublished data).
Natanson et al. (2002) and Campana et al. (2002) examined age and growth in the North West Atlantic population and reported a maximum age of 26 years. However they estimated longevity might be as high as 46 years in an unfished population. Ages at 50% maturity for North Atlantic males and females are 8 and 13 years respectively (Jensen et al. 2002).
Porbeagles feed mostly on teleost fish, both pelagic and demersal species, and on cephalopods (Compagno 1984a). In the North West Atlantic, pelagic fish and squid are the main diet in deep water, and pelagic and demersal fish are important in their diet in shallow water (Joyce et al. 2002).
Like other mackerel sharks, the porbeagle is endothermic, maintaining its muscle and visceral temperatures above that of the surrounding seawater. It prefers temperatures below 18°C and has been caught in water temperatures as low as 2°C on the bottom (3°C on the surface) at high latitudes (Svetlov 1978). The preferred temperature range in the Northwest Atlantic is 5 to 10°C (Campana and Joyce 2004).
|Major Threat(s):
Northeast Atlantic:
Porbeagle has been fished in this region by many European countries, principally Denmark, France, Norway and Spain. There has never been any restriction on fishing effort on this stock. The Northeast Atlantic fishery began when Norway started targeting porbeagle in the 1930s using longlines. Norwegian landings first reached a peak of 3,884 t in 1933. About 6,000 t were taken by the Norwegian fleet in 1947, when the fishery reopened after the Second World War, followed by a progressive drop in landings to between 1,200–1,900 t from 1953–1960. The collapse of this fishery led to the redirection of fishing effort by Norwegian and Danish longline shark fishing vessels into the Northwest Atlantic. Norwegian landings from the Northeast Atlantic subsequently decreased from 160 to 300 t/annum in the early 1970s to only 10 to 40 t/year in the late 1980s/early 1990s, while average Danish landings fell from over 1,500 t in the early 1950s to less than 100 t throughout the 1990s (DFO 2001a, Gauld 1989).
French and Spanish longliners have operated directed fisheries for porbeagle since the 1970s. Reported landings from the main French fishing grounds in the Celtic Sea and Bay of Biscay decreased from over 1,092 t in 1979 to 300 to 400 t in the late 1990s. Spanish vessels appear to have taken porbeagle opportunistically both in the early and late 1970s and since 1998. Landings off Spain tend to be greater during the spring and autumn, with a drop in the summer (Mejuto 1985, Lallemand-Lemoine 1991). It is unclear, however, whether the very variable early landings data from the Spanish fleet (from nil to nearly 4,000 t/year) represents huge variations in catches, possibly the result of 'boom and bust' fisheries removing different segments of the stock, or differences in catch reporting. Bonfil (1994) estimated that 50t of porbeagle were taken as a supplementary catch in the Spanish longline swordfish fishery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic during 1989. The long line fishery in the Bay of Biscay (ICES Area VIII), directed at the more abundant blue shark, also landed about 30 t of mainly porbeagle and some shortfin mako Isurus oxyrinchus during 1998–2000. ICES data (Heessen 2003) indicate that annual landings from Area IXa into mainland Portugal peaked at almost 3,000 t in 1987 to 1988 and have since declined (these records do not appear in the FAO statistics).
Reported landings from the historically most important fisheries, around the UK and in the North Sea and adjacent inshore waters have decreased to very low levels during the past 30 to 40 years, while catches from the offshore ICES sub-regions west of Portugal, west of the Bay of Biscay and around the Azores have increased since 1989. This is attributed to a decline in heavily fished and depleted inshore populations and redirection of effort to previously lightly exploited offshore stocks.
|Conservation Actions:
Northeast Atlantic:
Norway is allocated a quota of 200 t of porbeagle in European Community (EC) waters, reduced in 1985 from the 500 t established in 1982 (Gauld 1989). Since 1985, the Faeroe Islands can also take 125 t from EC waters (originally 300 t in 1982, 150 t in 1984a). These quotas currently exceed total landings from shelf areas in the region and yield no management benefit.
Annex V of the Convention on the Protection and Conservation of the Ecosystems and Biological Diversity of the Maritime Area [also called OSPAR (Oslo-Paris) Convention] requires OSPAR to develop a list of threatened and/or declining species and habitats in need of protection or conservation in the OSPAR maritime area (Northeast Atlantic). OSPAR member states were invited in 2001 to submit proposals for inclusion on this list. In response, Portugal – on behalf of the Azores, proposed to list porbeagle Lamna nasus in the wider Atlantic because of its biological sensitivity, keystone importance and the severe decline in its population. This proposal has not yet been adopted.
The status of the largely unmanaged, unmonitored Northeast Atlantic stock is likely worse than the seriously depleted Northwest stock, with stringent conservation and management action (fisheries closure and stock assessment) needed urgently to enable stocks to rebuild to levels where sustainable commercial and recreational fisheries are possible.
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Gus Waschefort had a very early entry into professional photography, after leaving school aged fifteen he set off to Indonesia for his first major photographic expedition. During the subsequent four years Gus undertook numerous further assignments, and by the time he was nineteen, he had worked in around 25 countries on 4 continents. During this time he had witnessed many 'human wrongs' in places such as the war-ravaged Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo during the late 1990s.
These experiences lead Gus to conclude that in order to be a better photojournalist (who focuses on human rights issues), he had to understand the dynamics of human rights and human rights abuses better. This prompted him to commence formal study of multi-disciplinary approaches of human rights, culminating in a PhD from the University of London (SOAS) in international human rights law. He has published and lectured internationally on human rights and photojournalism. A book he authored is in the process of being published by Hart Publishing: Oxford, entitled 'Child Soldiers and International Law'.
Gus has maintained a focus on human rights issues and is engaged in a project entitled, 'Children and Armed Conflict: an Untold Story in Pictures'.


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What? You've Not Been Honored by the Webbys?
If there is a less exclusive award on the planet, I've yet to hear of it.
The Webby Awards announced their nomineesTuesday, picking Web sites as diverse as the New York Times site, which led with 13 nominations, to FAIL blog, a site that collects images and videos of people failing. Last year, Jack Shafer wrote about how ridiculously easy it is to get chosen: Just pay a large fee. The article is reprinted below.
Entering your Web site in the Webby Awards is a little like buying a box of Cracker Jack—everybody wins a prize.
That's only a slight exaggeration. The 2008 contest—the 12th annual—will dispense awards in 119 categories next month, honoring Web sites, interactive advertising, film and video sites and teams, and mobile Web sites. The organization will announce winners May 6, but it has already designated "honorees" in each category, more than a dozen in some cases. The organization has also selected five different "nominees" in each category from which it will ultimately pick winners. But not just one winner—the group will bestow two top prizes in each category. There's the "Webby Award," selected by the group's judges, and the "People's Voice Award," chosen by online voters.
A "star-studded" ceremony is scheduled for June 9 in New York City, where Webbys, hand-cast thingamajigs that look like chromed bedsprings, will be passed out.
There's so much excellence being honored on the Webby Awards site that you need a mainframe to tote it up. I count nearly 600 nominees and upward of 1,100 honorees. The group would have you believe that it's a tough competition, boasting that of the nearly 10,000 contestants this year, fewer than 15 percent were official honorees. Please. I've heard of mail-order diploma mills that are more exclusive than the Webbys.
It's with great shame that I confess that Slate is a nominee in both the "Best Copy/Writing" slot and the "Best Editing" video category. I'm equally shamed by the fact that Slate isn't the only big-shot media entity whoring for a Webby. The New York Times, CondéNet, DDB Chicago, Disney Channel, MIT Media Lab, MLB, NPR, Wieden + Kennedy, MTV, Gannett, NBC, and practically every major Web presence you can think of has gathered the nominee or honoree accolade.
So, if everybody who plays is a winner, who really ends up winning?
The Webby Awards, of course. The group charges a fee of $275 for Web sites and up to $475 for each advertising-campaign entry. (If I knew Slate was spending money like this, I would have asked for a bigger raise in December.) Even after allowing for discounted entry fees, the back of the envelope says the Webbys could be taking in more than $2 million from its contestants. Then there's an undetermined amount of loot collected from corporate sponsors and partners (Adobe, Nokia, Getty Images, Reuters, Variety, Wired, Pequot Ventures, Brightcove, et al.) and tickets for the awards gala. The Webbys don't mind nickel-and-diming applicants for cash, either, selling "custom framed certificates to commemorate" nominees and honorees, says its Web site.
Again, I exaggerate. The Webby Awards aren't the only winners. The winners of the prizes, the nominees, and the honorees also benefit from exercising their bragging rights to clients and competitors who aren't smart enough to know a Webby Award is worthless. Some sites are already boasting about being picked on their own pages or in e-mail to me. The winning editors, publishers, designers, and ad jockeys also gain if they can convince their bosses to throw good money after bad by sending them to attend the Webby Awards events, which last year ran for three days in New York.
Clearly, the only way for Slate to reclaim its stupid Webby investment is to send me to New York for three days in June if we're fortunate enough to win.


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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For former CIA director David Petraeus, it was a one-year stint as top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. His replacement is scheduled to leave next year after 18 months in the job.
And now the sex scandal that draws them together — Petraeus' career toppled and Marine Gen. John Allen's possibly on hold — also has placed greater attention to the quick turnover of American battlefield chiefs in the 11-year war.
Nearly two dozen generals have commanded troops from the United States and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, since the American invasion in late 2001 — with five U.S. generals running both commands in the past five years alone.
There is no firm evidence the Pentagon's revolving door in Afghanistan has posed any significant obstacles for U.S. troops, but some military analysts suggest the frequent changes at the top create potential breaks in continuity in the critical cooperation with the Afghan political leadership and security officials.
"The learning curve is pretty steep," said retired Lt. Gen. David Barno, who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004. "One of the critical coins of the realm in being effective in this kind of environment is relationships among your allies, relationships with the host nation, and with the Afghans."
Iraq also had regular command changes, including Petraeus in charge during the U.S. troop "surge" in 2007 that helped dislodge insurgent control from key areas. But the war strategy in Afghanistan has, at many times, been even more complex as fronts shift and Taliban fighters regain strength.
"Rotating top commanders on an annual basis makes no management sense," Thomas E. Ricks, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, wrote in an opinion piece published recently in The New York Times.
"Imagine trying to run a corporation by swapping the senior executives every year," he continued. "Or imagine if, at the beginning of 1944, six months before D-Day, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, told Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander, that it was time to give someone else a chance to lead."
Petraeus, a four-star general, took over the Afghan command in July 2010 to fill a void after Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal was fired because of scathing remarks about America's civilian leadership. McChrystal's predecessor, Gen. David McKiernan, was ousted on May 11, 2009, a year before his term as commander was set to end because newly elected President Barack Obama wanted a new war policy. He had succeeded Gen. Dan McNeill, who served in 2007-08.
Petraeus completed a one-year term and retired to become CIA director in September 2011.
He resigned Nov. 9 after he had an extramarital affair with his biographer. Allen, who also has four stars, is under investigation following revelations that he exchanged thousands of emails with a Florida socialite also involved in the Petraeus case, including a few which were found to be of a questionable nature.
Some analysts and former military officers say that rotating generals so quickly creates a disconnect between the commanders and their Afghan allies, including the mercurial President Hamid Karzai. Commanders also have to deal with billions of dollars in funds and the complexities of handing over security to the Afghans by the end of 2014, including building an army and police of 352,000 almost from scratch.
Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, said the longer a NATO commander stays in the job, the more chance he has to really understand Afghanistan.
"For us, an Afghan army corps commander should stay in his position for at least three years," he said.
Jawed Kohistani, military analyst in Kabul, said he thinks a constant changeover of senior NATO commanders or Afghan military leaders hampers coordination of the two forces. Staying longer, he believes, allows a commander to know insurgents and their weaknesses.
"It gives an opportunity for the enemy to use this gap — the time between the leaving of one commander and the arrival of another — to their advantage," Kohistani said. "There should be enough time for a NATO commander to get to know the Afghan president, vice presidents, security ministers and assess the situation. If he doesn't have enough time to do all these things, it has a negative effect on the security situation."
Obama sped up the confirmation hearing last week for Gen. Joseph Dunford to become the 15th ISAF commander and replace Allen, who was to leave in the spring after 18 months at the helm for a new job as U.S. European Command chief and NATO supreme allied commander. But Allen's confirmation has been postponed until an investigation into his role is concluded.
There have also been about a half-dozen U.S. generals who only commanded American combat troops in the first years of the conflict.
By comparison, the command tours of generals in Iraq "averaged almost twice as long as ISAF's," said Stephen Biddle, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University.
Given the huge funds involved in the war effort, running the Afghan campaign has been as complicated as managing a multibillion dollar corporation.
Anthony Cordesman, a national security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the lack of continuity includes both the military and civilian presence in Afghanistan, including the State Department and other agencies.
"What the Afghans see is constant change at every level," he said. "They constantly see people come and go. They have no reason to establish lasting relationships. People leave at the point where they're becoming most effective."
He added that "this constant rotation is a problem everybody recognizes, but no one has really been willing to address."
The Pentagon also has a number of senior leaders — ranging from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and defense secretary to the commander of U.S. Central Command — who also play key roles in the war strategy and provide some continuity.
"There is no doubt that the frequent changeover is tough. There is a learning curve each time a new man takes the helm,"
"The good aspect to this is that it brings a fresh set of eyes," said Michael O'Hanlon, a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "It's not realistic to have commanders serve a whole lot longer than, say, Gen. Allen ... as these folks get tired."
Baldor reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Rahim Faiez and Deb Riechmann in Kabul contributed to this report.


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Sunday, February 12, 2006
My Three Jodies
Another Jody was skinny and tan, with Girls Gone Wild flat-ironed blond hair. Her favorite hobbies were looking great in jeans, steering me toward illegal activity, and breaking up and then reuniting with her football-player boyfriend. I'm not sure, but I think GGW Jody dropped out after our sophomore year. Either that or I got tired of her shenanigans and just stopped returning her calls.
The last Jody also had curly hair like Cherub Jody, but a hard streak from being raised "up north." Also because she learned in college that her dad had a secret second family. Which, as you may surmise, would give anyone a hard streak.
Once while visiting Up North Jody we attended a party hosted by boys who liked dirt bikes and beer can pyramids. As soon as we walked in the door the other Up North girls wanted to beat me up because I was wearing some new-fangled necklace that hadn't hit the scene there yet. I know this because they said so right next to me, loudly. "Who's this bitch? She must think she's hot or something. Wonder what she'd do if I kicked her ass."
Well, I would burst into a song and dance routine from the musical Oklahoma! and then distribute fun size Milky Way bars to everyone. Duh.
Anyway, I earned their respect by drinking half a bottle of peach schnapps, employing some self-deprecating humor, listening raptly to their relationship woes, and enduring lots of Guns 'n' Roses around a bonfire. If I could make them laugh with a well-timed belch or fart, that was good, too.
(Note to young people everywhere: if ever you find yourself in a situation where you need to placate or endear yourself to a bully, try my scientifically-proven Asskiss system. One sale now for the low price of your dignity at retailers nationwide.)
For those of you who read this post about my stellar observation skills, I was riding that Greyhound bus to visit Up North Jody. She's the girl I met at art camp. We bonded over a comedian's routine about how you can substitute a nasal, "Eeeeewwww, bugs, eeeeewwwww" for just about any Bob Dylan lyric. So Up North Jody was really a high school friend turned college chum.
But back to the Jody trifecta. I often wonder what's happened to them. I can totally imagine Cherub Jody going on to make a well-balanced, cheerful wife and mother. I see her as a teacher for special needs kids. And I wouldn't be surprised to find her volunteering with local literacy programs or community theater troupes and wearing reindeer sweaters without irony every Christmas.
Girls Gone Wild Jody is probably also a wife and mother, but one with a little more drama in her life. I see drunken brawls with her husband at his company picnic, followed by tearful reconciliations in the car. I imagine her children pushing other kids off the slide or pulling the legs off of insects at the playground while mommy calls daddy to check up on him for the eighth time that morning. GGW Jody has likely become the kind of woman the rest of us can blame for feeble feminine stereotypes and lines like this in movies like The Island: "Never trust a woman with your credit card." Hahahahaha! Haha! Ha! Ha. Ha …… *cough*
Up North Jody is a social worker working with inner-city toughs, last I heard. But now she lives Down South. Which is Milwaukee, if you're from Up North. She's the one I miss the most.
Do you ever wonder what became of the Jodies in your life?
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That party with Up North Jody? Just goes to show you that there are rednecks EVERYWHERE, male and female, and not just down here in the way down South. I keep trying to tell everyone that...ReplyDelete
I had a best friend for 7 years, from 6th grade til high school, but unfortunately it ended badly. When I left the very small Southern town where we both lived and went on to college, I never looked back to either the town or the friend. I did see her once after that, though, when she and a friend were coming through Chapel Hill, NC to see a show. They stopped by to visit, but they were total neo-hippies and total snobs about it. Very dumb. So no, I guess I don't really wonder much. Hmmm, guess that sounds sorta cynical, but I'm afraid that's the story.
Were they all really named Jody? Have you googled them?ReplyDelete
I google all my old Jody's and have resurrected quite a few relationships gone by, including a friend from high school... she and I used to talk in secret language, saying every word starting with the letter W.
Wo Wit Would We Wike Wis. Wee What Wie Wean?
Yes, we were dorks. Win Wact, We Will Warr. Wanic Wom.
LOL!!! My college roommates and I used to start words with "FL's," but in kind of a grammatically-wacky way. As in, "Flex-fluse me!" for excuse me. I was "Fless."ReplyDelete
And yes, they were all named Jody. It was weird; if they didn't leave their last names when they called, I'd have to call them all. Sadly, I've forgotten two of their maiden surnames and now the married last name of Up North Jody. I'll probably at least try to look them up one of these days.
I wonder about my Jodys from time to time, although obviously they don't have that name. I've forgotten some of their last names, which is too bad, because I've thought about contacting a few of them. And then on occasion one contacts me. Out of the blue the other day I received an email from a friend I had in elementary school. We wrote back and forth a few times, and it was crazy to see how much our lives diverged.ReplyDelete
I'm thinking that they probably wound up just the opposite of the way you've imagined; like GGW Jody is probably the perfect yuppie soccermom and Cherub Jody is a stripper! LOL!ReplyDelete
It's funny how so many of the people that I went to high school with turned out the opposite of their youthful personas.
I wonder about my "Jody's" from time...what they're doing, if they've got kids or kick-ass jobs or are married or divorced or being totally scandalous somewhere. For me it's mostly high school girls I think about; I still keep in touch with several of my college peeps.ReplyDelete
Once, I wondered what happened to them. I decided I'd google them, but was too distraught after finding out the truth about their lives. If you ask me, Google should have a warning label on it when it comes to hunting down your past.ReplyDelete
Yeah, I wonder. So much so that I was lulled into signing up for Classmates. LOL! Some people should be left to our "fond" memories. ;-)ReplyDelete
It would be interesting if they all turned out nothing like I imagined! :) And you know, I think Izzy is on to something; sometimes when you reconnect with people from the past, making promises to stay in touch, it's sad how often the promises fall by the wayside. After all, there's usually a reason behind the drifting.ReplyDelete
I just watched The Island last week, so that line is still fresh in my mind... it's a definite eye roller. That stupid credit card stereotype has to go....I'm not sure I know any woman who does that!ReplyDelete
ANYway, great post. I wonder what my friends/classmates are up to. To a point. Not even to do the research and find out though...lol
Why have I always had a zillion male friends?? LOL. I did see my best girlfriend from high school at my sister's wedding - ugh! I guess she never moved out of that tiny town, and never made it past the 80s. She had hair high enough that birds could nest in it, thick black eyeliner, and, of all things, a leopard-print short dress with hooker boots. she requested Ozzy's "Flying High Again" for me at the wedding - and I did *not* need that public dedication!! so, I don't wonder too much :)ReplyDelete
oops! I wasn't ready for the unveiling Jess! (damn cookies!) Oh well, cat's out of the bag ;) I'm glad that pic made you laugh. It reminded me of the bicycle streamers too! I luv him anyway, even if he still hates my guts. I look at that picture and get the giggles, and I would do that no matter what the situation. I think I still own a matching bandana... As I told Eric, all is safe now, those bushes in his backyard are cut down ;-)
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Reminds me a bit of "Heathers." You didn't kill anyone, did you?ReplyDelete
I've lost touch with a whole host of people. Sometimes, I do wonder. (Why am I suddenly hearing Gollum in my head: "we wonders, yessss, we wonders, my precious??). Reconnecting always seems anticlimactic, however.
Maybe if all 3 of the Jodys had known one another, we would have had a Heathers situation on our hands. Truly, they had nothing in common with one another. Which is a little weird to me.ReplyDelete
Went to my reunion last summer and found out. I realized that I missed only a couple of them, and I miss having them in my life the way they are now, not who they were back then. I'm happy with the friends I stayed in touch with. Wow. A decision in life I'm actually satisfied with and it stemmed from high school. That's scary.ReplyDelete


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I'm sorry to hear that B.K. But hey, Cambridge is alright but you can't beat Manhattan!
I would have gone to CLS if they had offered me money, but in the end it was just too close to call and my gut tells me Chicago is the right choice (although I did heads or tails 4 times and each time it came up Columbia...).


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VANCOUVER, BC – Major League Soccer (MLS) announced today that Vancouver Whitecaps FC striker Kekuta Manneh has been named the league's Player of the Week for Week 33. Manneh receives the award after scoring three goals for the 'Caps in a 4-1 win over arch-rivals Seattle Sounders FC at CenturyLink Field this past Wednesday. The hat-trick was the first ever by a Whitecaps FC player in MLS, while the 18-year-old also became the youngest player in league history to score three goals in a match.
Vancouver lead MLS with six Player of the Week awards this season. Last week, Camilo Sanvezzo took home the honour for the third time this season - the most among any player in the league. Striker Kenny Miller was named Player of the Week in Week 16 before Camilo's first award of the season came in Week 17, followed by goalkeeper Brad Knighton collecting the prize in Week 19, and then Camilo again in Week 20.
With the 'Caps playoff hopes hanging in the balance, Manneh earned the start up front alongside Camilo. The Gambian responded in fine style, more than doubling his previous count of two goals on the season heading into the match. The opening tally came on 12 minutes as midfielder Daigo Kobayashi headed the youngster in on a breakaway, which he calmy finished to make it 1-0. Just before halftime he had his second off another breakaway, which followed a slick passing sequence from Young-Pyo Lee, to Camilo, to Manneh. The rookie's historic hat-trick was finished off on 54 minutes through a pretty one-two play with Kobayashi.
The 4-1 win over Seattle helped propel Whitecaps FC towards winning the 2013 Cascadia Cup - which they officially earned on Sunday by virtue of Portland Timbers 1-0 win over Seattle. This year's Cascadia Cup title is a record fourth for the 'Caps, which is the most among the three clubs as Seattle and Portland have each won the Cascadia Cup three times.
Whitecaps FC now turn their attention to back-to-back matches against Colorado Rapids, whom they're chasing for the fifth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. First up is a match in Colorado at Dick's Sporting Goods Park this coming Saturday, October 19. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. PT and will be broadcast live on Sportsnet ONE and TEAM 1410 radio. The 'Caps and Rapids then wrap-up the regular season on Sunday, October 27, as Whitecaps FC hold Fan Appreciation night at BC Place. Tickets remain available at ticketmaster.ca/whitecapsfc.
The MLS Player of the Week is selected each week of the regular season by a panel of journalists from NASR. The group consists of members of print, television, radio and online media. More information and membership information can be found at soccerreporters.com.


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THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Biga Bakery Restaurant Review: Thick-crusted boules and rustic baguettes line the wooden shelves. Unfortunately, a few out-of-place Cuban items have found their way to the display cases in recent years as well, since mastermind Madeline Lowe sold the business to a Latin American chain. Classical music soothes the a.m. coffee crowd. Elegant rustic tartlets and tortes are piled onto tiered iron pedestals. The deep, dark, chocolate-glazed pound cake is dense and rich as a brownie. Naturally leavened sourdoughs and organic grain loaves are unique and nutty. The ciabatta is chewy and wholesome. Custom-designed Italianesque panini are created with Bigas signature breads. Sandwiches and desserts fly out of this tiny place all afternoon in Biga brown paper bags, as busy go-getters grab their goods on the run. The garlicky focaccia sandwich with chevre and grilled eggplant is a stunner. The Biga lunch bag, including a gourmet sandwich, a pastry and a beverage for under $7, is an enticing deal by any standard.
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This World War I (WWI) group of toys was played with by the Ames boys in Northampton, Massachusetts, in the 1930s. The plane is marked "AIR FORD" on the top of its wings and stamped "10" and "1754" on the bottom. The blimp is stamped with "ZEP" and a star on both sides. The toy sailor is probably WWI US Navy. Toy soldiers and other toys have been collected for centuries. First made from wood, stone, clay and metal for the rich and royal, it was not until the end of the 18th century that they were first produced in numbers. By the turn of the 20th century, several companies in Europe were producing inexpensive lead toy soldiers, which attracted both children and adults alike. American makers began producing toy army figures around World War I (WWI). Several makers molded their figures in cast iron or used a sawdust and glue mixture called "composition." After WWII, amid concerns about lead poisoning, some manufacturers looked to plastic as a cheaper and more healthy medium.
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ROCCAT Celebrates the Five-Year Anniversary of Kone with the Kone Pure Color Series
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ROCCAT has been gaining in popularity in the U.S., and earlier today it announced some new colors for the Kone Pure mouse. It's the five-year anniversary of the original Kone mouse, so these Kone Pure Color mice are limited editions available in Inferno Orange, Polar Blue, and Hellfire Red. All three feature the 8200DPI Pro-Aim R3 laser sensor, Omron switches, Easy-Shift[+], Easy-Aim, and ROCCAT Talk as the Kone Pure, just with a new coat of paint. The orange and blue mice feature a black top with the color on the sides, while the red mouse reverses that scheme for a particularly striking look. There's a Phantom White version of the Kone Pure planned as well (seen in the group picture), but ROCCAT says it and other limited edition products will be available later this year to celebrate the Kone's five-year anniversary.
The Inferno Orange, Polar Blue, and Hellfire Red Kone Pure Color mice are now available, but no price was mentioned.
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Looking for something a bit bold to wear to your Christmas party? Then check out Portobello Road based Humphries and Begg. The indie fashion brand has a really stunning array of mostly floral shirts (though the red dot short is rather lovely too) with some very striking patterns.
It is a tough choice but our favourite is the Red Poppy shirt, pictured above, although the range of Thistle shirts run them close.
The shirts, which are made by Block Printing, a form of fabric printing that has been used in India for over 5000 years, aren't too pricey either with most coming in at £45.
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COZAD—In an effort to show off the newly restored and renovated Stagecoach, the Cozad Ambassadors rode the coach featured during the Hay Days parade recently. The annual celebration in Cozad honored grand marshals of the parade as individuals crucial to the "Journey Stories" exhibit. Many organizations were well represented in the parade and the many activities including a carnival, a greased pig contest, water fights and art displays that were showcased at Memorial Park and the Henri Park Church.—reported in the Tri-City Trib.
Broken Bow is rest stop for 500-mile bike ride
BROKEN BOW—Riders with the seventh annual Nebraska Youth Ministries Missions Bike Ride came from five states and recently made a stop in Broken Bow. The bicycle enthusiasts come together each year for a special ride to enjoy a passion they all share and to raise money for a variety of causes. This year featured 22 riders on a 500-mile ride running from border to border beginning at South Dakota and finishing at the Iowa border, traveling along the Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway and making the overnight stop in Broken Bow.—reported in the Custer County Chief.
SCIP working to save program after shut down
OGALLALA—Due to the loss of a grant, as well as a delay in other funding, the Sandhills Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) recently was shut down for a three-week period. All employees were temporarily laid off and client services were deferred. Since starting in 1985, SCIP has assisted victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault in Arthur, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Keith and Perkins counties, providing essential services. In July, SCIP lost its eligibility for a Nebraska Housing Assistance Program grant, mainly due to changes in applicant criteria, and caused a major blow to the program. Board members are still working at saving the program in an effort to help victims and provide education, and need support from the city, county and residents.—reported in the Keith County News.
Antique tractors pull combined 9,880 pounds
CURTIS—Two men were brought together by the luck of the draw at the Wellfleet Fall Festival recently. The two men, Art Hasenauer of Wellfleet and Trevor Lehman of Hayes Center, together hauled a combined total weight of 9,880 pounds, and brought them first place in the Doubletree Pull. Hasenauer drove a 1952 Allis-Chalmers WD45, and Lehman drove a 1942 John Deer Model A. Other activities included mud volleyball, a chalk garden, barbecue lunch and the first Wellfleet Idol competition as well as a working dog competition and more.—reported in the Frontier County Enterprise.
Man-made mud brought Mud Drags to town
ARNOLD—This area may have forgotten what mud looks like, but it was recently created east of town for a Custer County Mud Draggers Association race. About 40 four-wheel drive pickups and their followers were on hand to follow the series of 11 Mud Dragger races, earning points along the way. Mud racing is a form of off-road motorsport where the goal is to drive a vehicle through a pit of mud at a set distance. Several different classes were participating including power puff, super stock, modified stock and more. Money raised was donated to an established fund for new playground equipment at the city park.—reported in the Arnold Sentinel.
New generator nears being on the grid for city
CALLAWAY—In approximately another week or two, a 400-kilowatt Caterpillar diesel generator will go online in Callaway. The village bought the self-contained, portable unit from the Nebraska Surplus Center, which was repaired and made EPA compliant prior to delivery. The generator was mounted on a cement pad near the water tower where heavier power lines were also installed to handle the extra generation load. Once a transformer is installed, the generator will be connected to the electrical grid to augment the generators at the light plant where it will be used as backup for village electrical utility customers or to generate power on demand for the public power grid.—reported in the Callaway Courier.
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Essential Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Web Designer
If you only ask a prospective web design company five questions, here they are.
1. Can I see some examples of your work completed on a similar budget and scope? Seeing a designer's portfolio is usually the first and most obvious method to evaluate their design capabilities. But, take it one step further by asking to see projects with a similar budget and scope of work. This should provide you with a clear expectation of what you'll get for your money. If you want to go even further than just looking at the designer's portfolio, ask for two references that you can contact. Once you have the references in hand, give them a call and ask a few questions about the designer: * What goals did you have for your website? * To what extent did the designer's work accommodate those goals? * How easy is the designer to work with? * Was the project completed on time and within budget?
2. What will be delivered? When can I expect it? What will it cost? Ideally you want to look for a design company that will turn over the complete design and code upon completion, finish your project on-time and within your budget. Communicate your expectations for each of these and see if the company agrees to meet your expectations. It is important to determine whether the project has a fixed price or billed hourly. In most cases, a fixed price is preferred because it sets your payment expectation and motivates the design team to complete the job quickly.
3. How will the site be managed? It's easy to get caught up in the web design process and forget to address the long-term management of the site. The last thing that you want is for your site to be designed and launched and then not know how to manage or update it. Save yourself the hassle and ask how the site will be managed before signing. You need to determine if there is any software that you will need to manage the site. Furthermore you may also need the designer to provide some level of training on how to manage and update the site when needed.
4. Can you explain some of the technologies that you plan to use for the web design? The technologies used for developing a website are important, but even more important than the answer itself is how the agency answers your question. Did the designer talk in a language that you understand? If they use a large amount of technical jargon that is hard for you to follow, this may predict poor communication throughout your project. Effective communication during the design project is critical to getting a final product that meets or exceeds your expectations. Take care to choose a designer can explain their work in a way that you understand.
5. Do you have any questions for me? Possibly the most important question that you can ask a web designer is if they have any questions for you. This puts the ball in the designer's court and allows you to see what their approach to the project is. Any designer worth hiring should at least ask a few clarifying questions (the more, the better). More specifically, you should expect a designer to have at least a few questions that focus on the business goals for the site, the website requirements and how the success of the site will be measured. Hiring a designer that doesn't have a solid grasp on your expectations is a recipe for web design disaster. If they don't know what you want and need then you aren't going to get it.
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It's Time for TV Rom-Coms
Instead of another cop show, how about a love story?
FX's new comedy You're the Worst is about two awful shitbags who kind of fall in love. He's a British writer with a serious immaturity problem; she's a publicist to the stars, with a deep fear of commitment. They meet at a wedding and, as it often does, the misanthropy leads to festive boning. Maybe we're so wrong for each other that it's almost right, they decide. It's a rom-com setup, vaguely reminiscent of a Friends With Benefits kind of idea, but it's also surprisingly fun and sexy. It has a strong cynical side, but that's tempered by an overwhelming sense of romance. These two crazy kids are gonna make a go of things! I'm genuinely rooting for them, partially because I'm a softie and partially because the leads' chemistry is fantastic, but mostly because I want You're the Worst to kick off an era of TV romance. Let me love love!
The frustrating current dearth of rom-com means there's a real opportunity here; as a people, we are hungry for smooches, and movies are not meeting that need. TV has a long, proud history of will-they-or-won't-they relationships, and it's easy to imagine a new wave of that as just when-will-they. (See: Danny and Mindy on The Mindy Project.) Conventional wisdom says that TV love stories tend be most interesting in their prelude phases, because once the couple gets together, the story's largely over. But that's a bigger problem when the show didn't plan on that couple's story from the get-go (like Nick and Jess on New Girl, who did not initially seem like they were destined for each other), or when a show was already running out of steam (sorry, Bones). A show can still find plenty of stories as long as the characters themselves have substantial defining traits beyond "he can't see the love of his life is right in front of him" or "she's great at her profession, but also a klutz."
Or what if a series did for romance what American Horror Story does for horror? An anthology miniseries with a new setting and characters each season, with each love story unfolding over 13 episodes. The mere existence of You're the Worst proves that romance and schmaltz are not synonymous. You can have serious drama or bawdy humor or full-on Hallmark Channel schlock — Broooklyn Nine-Nine and the upcoming Gotham are both cop shows, but one's a goofy single-camera comedy and the other is a moody Batman prequel. There are lots of kinds of love stories. It's just a matter of shifting the focus: Instead of a lawyer show where characters happen to fall in love, it's a love show where characters happen to be lawyers. We have so many lawyer shows. Can't one of them be this?
The new fall season has a few attempts at romance-centric shows: ABC has Manhattan Love Story and NBC has Marry Me and A to Z. And You're the Worst has plenty going for it, though it is perhaps not as naughty as it thinks. (Sorry, I am not scandalized by the mention of period sex.) So let this be the beginning of the tides turning, the rise of the well-told love story. It's either that or another damn sheriff.


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Oracle President Mark Hurd, BBA '79, to Open Baylor Global Business Forum on Big DataMarch 17, 2014
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WACO, Texas (March 17, 2014) – Mark Hurd, BBA '79, President and Board Member of Oracle Corp., will deliver the keynote address on "Big Data in a Shrinking World" on Wednesday, March 19, during the eighth annual Global Business Forum, sponsored by Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business and the McBride Center for International Business. Hurd's presentation will take place at 7 p.m. in Kayser Auditorium of the Hankamer School of Business, 1401 S. Fifth St., on the Baylor campus.
In addition to Hurd's keynote address, the Big Data forum will continue on Thursday, March 20, with the following sessions:
"Crowdsourcing and Emerging Technologies" (9:30-10:45 a.m.), featuring Rodney Smith, (vice president for emerging technologies at IBM) and Will Cukierski (data scientist at Kaggle)
"Social Media, Text Analytics, and Health Care" (11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.), featuring Michael Wilde ("Chief of Awesome" at Splunk), Michael Fulmer (Ph.D. candidate at SMU) and Neil S. Fleming (vice president for quantitative sciences at Baylor Scott & White)
Big Data Luncheon (12:30-1:45 p.m.), featuring an address by Anand Srinivasan (sector head for technology at Bloomberg Research)
"Legal and Ethical Concerns" (2-3:15 p.m.), featuring Robert Kantner (a partner at the Jones Day Law Firm and a specialist on intellectual property) and Shirley Hunter (global vice president for strategic partnerships at Teradata)
"Consumer Supply and Demand" (3:30-4:45 p.m.), featuring Kerry McNair (vice president for product supply at Coca Cola), Patrick Brady (IT and services at Slalom Consulting) and Ben Becker (CRM consultant at Becker Strategies)
All of these sessions will be held in the Fifth Floor Conference Room in Cashion Academic Center, 1401 S. Fifth St., on the Baylor campus. The forum is free and open to the public. The luncheon, however, requires advanced registration at www.baylor.edu/globalbusiness.
Steve Gardner, Ph.D., professor and chair of economics and director of the McBride Center, said "Big Data" was selected as the theme of the 2014 Global Business Forum because of the public's need to have a better understanding of the new world of data-driven decision making.
"Employment and business opportunities are growing rapidly for specialists who can take advantage of new data sources, new technologies for data storage and retrieval and new methods for analysis of unstructured data," Gardner said.
According to recent projections, the annual flow of recorded data will increase to 35 trillion gigabytes by 2020, much of it coming from new sources such as blogs, social media, web searches and sensor networks.
"The data explosion, paired with new technologies, will create an estimated $3 trillion of new business opportunities," Gardner said. "As the volume of useful data grows larger and the world grows smaller, we are encountering incredible new opportunities and difficult challenges."
For additional information, visit www.baylor.edu/globalbusiness or contact firstname.lastname@example.com at 254-710-6048.
Baylor University is a private Christian University and a nationally ranked research institution, characterized as having "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 15,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating University in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 11 nationally recognized academic divisions. Baylor sponsors 19 varsity athletic teams and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference.
Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business provides a rigorous academic experience, consisting of classroom and hands-on learning, guided by Christian commitment and a global perspective. Recognized nationally for several programs, including Entrepreneurship and Accounting, the school offers 24 undergraduate and 13 graduate areas of study. Visit www.baylor.edu/business and follow Baylor Business on Twitter: @Baylor_Business.
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Horoscopes for week of July 1, 2004
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You need to laugh more this week than you've ever laughed before. I'm not exaggerating, Taurus. Mirth is not just food but also medicine for your soul. It's an absolute necessity, not a luxury. I'm talking about amusement as a way of life, not a pleasant diversion; as the attitude that underlies everything you do, not just an occasional escape into frivolity. You probably have some ideas about where to begin: which funny friends you should hang out with and which comedians you should expose yourself to. But in order to fulfill your assignment, you'll also have to track down new laugh-inducing stimuli; you'll have to expand your capacity to be delighted.
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Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once. Wouldn't you agree? And that's one reason I'm authorizing you to repeat a naughty or excessively rowdy adventure from the past, Gemini. Here's another reason: The same series of actions that had an awkward result way back when will lead to a breakthrough this time. That's what I predict, anyway -- especially if you add a little tenderness to your mischief this time around.
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I propose that you conduct a radical experiment for the next three weeks. Between now and July 22, try on the theory that life is on your side. Assume that all of creation is conspiring to give you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it. At least once every day, speak these words with passionate sincerity: "I believe that reality is a sublime comedy staged for my education and amusement, and that there is a benevolent conspiracy to liberate me from my ignorance and help transform me into the unique masterpiece I was born to be."
Want to explore the coming week even further, Cancerian? Dig deeper? Feel stronger? Consider tuning in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Astronomers recently discovered a planet-like world orbiting the sun beyond Pluto. They called it Sedna, a name they said was derived from the Inuit deity that created the Arctic's sea creatures. They didn't realize that the myth of Sedna is far more complicated. She is the Dark Goddess, embodiment of the wild female potencies that are feared yet sorely needed by cultures in which the masculine perspective dominates. Dwelling on the edge of life and death in her home at the bottom of the sea, Sedna is both a source of fertile abundance and a mysterious prodigy. Shamans from the world above swim down to sing her songs and comb her long black hair. If they win her favor, she gives them the magic necessary to heal their suffering patients. In the coming weeks, Leo, Sedna is your special ally. Call on her power as you work to cure the part of you that you've thought would always be wounded.
What greater adventure is there than exploring the enigmas of your unique destiny, Leo? For more hints about the week ahead, listen to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
This may be the turning point your grandchildren will tell stories about years from now: the time you leap over the abyss to the other side of the Great Divide and begin your life in earnest. On the other hand, this moment of truth may end up being nothing more than a brief awakening when you glimpse what's possible on the other side of the Great Divide, but then tell yourself, "Nah, that's waayyyy too far to jump." In that case, your grandchildren will have to be content talking about what delicious cookies you used to bake or what your favorite sports team was. It will all depend on how brave you'll be.
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The Monster Raving Loony Party is a political party that nominates candidates for British elections. Its goal is to inject invigorating mayhem into a process that everyone takes far too seriously. Here are a few of its proposals: Anyone using a cell phone in a theater must be squirted with silly string; joggers should be required to run on giant treadmills that generate electricity for public use; and Britain should be towed 500 miles south to improve the climate. I call on you, Libra, to create a branch of the Monster Raving Loony Party in your own locale. Or at least inject some medicinal teasing into the political intrigues you're having to navigate, whether they're in your family, workplace, or social circle. The astrological omens say you now have a knack for lightening up group dynamics that have become way too heavy.
No one knows you better than you do, Libra. But maybe you'll be inspired to dig up even more self-knowledge in the coming week if you tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
The astrological omens are telling me you need a vacation from media babble. That's probably the only way you'll be able to tune in to the crucial messages that are being sent out by the still, small voice within you. Do you have the willpower to carry out this heroic discipline? I dare you to unplug your TV and keep your radios turned off. Avoid films. Don't even open up a newspaper or magazine. It would also be great if you'd boycott computers. But if that's impossible -- if you have to stare at a computer screen for the sake of your work -- then check your email just once a day and don't surf the Web aimlessly. Create a silence that's deep enough for the still, small voice to be heard.
Hungry for more inspiration, Scorpio? Curious about the unfolding mysteries? For more juicy details about your destiny in the coming week, check out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Gypsy Rose Lee (1914-1970) was not a stripper in the sense we think of it today. Her more precise title was striptease artist. During her performances, she never actually took off all of her clothes. Her style was rooted in the advice her mother gave her: "Make them beg for more -- and then don't give it to them." While I don't suggest you apply for a gig at a strip club this week, Sagittarius, I do recommend that you incorporate some of Lee's approach in your own chosen field.
Your destiny is a gorgeous mystery, Sagittarius. Your soul is awakening more every day. The secrets of life are ripening right in front of your eyes. For more clues, consider checking out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
The emotions in your vicinity are about to get very interesting. Here's a rapid-fire flurry of advice to match the fluttery, fluctuating rhythm you'll be navigating. Day 1: Don't fight the problem; make yourself bigger than it. Day 2: Become better acquainted with the part of yourself that sometimes does things unconsciously. Day 3: Allocate more funds and resources for foreign affairs. Day 4: A little rebellion will prevent a debilitating weakness from erupting. Day 5: Prove your love not with sentimental sweetness but with exuberant adventure. Day 6: Talk about the two things you never talk about.
What greater adventure is there than exploring the enigmas of your unique destiny, Capricorn? For more hints about the week ahead, listen to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
This will be a bad news, good news kind of week, Aquarius. But the bad news will be small in proportion to the good news, and may even be necessary for the good news to occur. For instance, a mosquito might keep you up all night. That, in turn, could lead you to call in sick for work, spend the day rethinking your whole life, and decide to make a dramatic move that will change everything for the better.
Where do you want to go in the coming week, Aquarius? Who do you want to be? For more clues, tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
My Piscean friend Risa dreamed that the Buddhist monk and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh wanted to give up his celibacy to pursue a romantic relationship with her. She was flattered -- the man is a brilliant saint who has written more than 20 books -- but she ultimately decided to stick with her husband. The night after she told me this dream, I dreamed that my three best Piscean friends were making love with Mother Teresa, Buddha, and the 16th-century Kabbalist holy man, Isaac Luria. From this evidence, as well as certain astrological data, I conclude that you Fish are in the midst of trying to integrate your spiritual and sensual yearnings. To expedite this exciting process, I suggest you murmur exuberant prayers during your sexual encounters this week.
Life will bring you entertaining revelations in the coming week, Pisces. To explore even deeper, dive into your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
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Tex-mex meets a classic and becomes fast friends in these baked bell peppers stuffed with my favorite enchiladas. Filled with chicken, rice, corn, spinach and cheddar cheese in a spicy cream cheese and green chile sauce. Stuffed peppers will never be the same.
These are nothing like the stuffed peppers I was raised on! Those are now obsolete. They just can't hold a candle to the cheesy comforts found right here. In case all that cheese is too much for you to handle there's corn and spinach too! Plus there's the pepper itself. Vegetables. You know, to help balance out the richness.
The real secret is in the sauce. Without it all you have is a flavorless pile of chicken, rice, corn and spinach. The sauce is made of chicken broth, Ro-tel green chiles and tomatoes, cream cheese and sour cream. The green chiles are pretty mild. If you wanted something spicier you can add red pepper flakes or a chipotle pepper.
One of the nice things about this recipe is you can use leftover chicken or rotiserie chicken and if you happen to have leftover Chinese rice kicking around in your refrigerator like I often do you can use that too. White or brown. Otherwise you can start the rice first and prepare the other ingredients as it cooks.
Tex-mex meets a classic and becomes fast friends in these baked bell peppers stuffed with my favorite enchiladas. Filled with chicken, rice, corn, spinach and cheddar cheese in a spicy cream cheese and green chile sauce.
- Add a tablespoon olive oil to a large skillet over medium heat. Season the chicken with salt and pepper then cook, turning to brown on all sides.
- Once the chicken is cooked through remove to a large bowl and mix with the rice, corn, spinach and 1 + 1/2 cups of the cheese.
- In a medium saucepan melt the butter over medium-low heat, stir in the flour and cook 2 - 3 minutes, stirring often. Whisk in the chicken broth and bring to a simmer 3 more minutes, stirring often.
- Turn heat down to low and mix in the Ro-tel. Add the cream cheese and sour cream to a medium bowl with a ladle of the hot broth. Work it together with a spoon then add another ladle of broth. Stir it together then add it to the sauce. (This is to prevent curdling.) Whisk until it is completely combined. Remove from heat and allow to cool to lukewarm.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease a large roasting pan.
- Wash the peppers and cut off the tops. Remove the seeds and the white centers. Place in the roasting pan.
- Season the sauce to taste with salt and pepper. Mix about 1 cup of the sauce into the chicken mixture to start, adding more if needed, you want it to be well coated but not swimming in it.
- Spoon the stuffing into the peppers. Top with the remaining cheese. Spoon or slowly pour the remaining sauce into the bottom of the pan.
- Bake 35 - 40 minutes until peppers are tender. If the tops start to brown too much cover with aluminum foil.
- Let sit 5 minutes before serving. To serve spoon sauce onto a plate or dish then top with a pepper and a dollop of sour cream, if desired.
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The Lady Tornado offense got on track early to end an eight-game losing streak.
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – King raced out to a 4-0 lead and never looked back in defeating Shepherd, 8-2, on Sunday at the Pioneer Classic, hosted by Tusculum.
Junior Cassie Ringstaff (Richlands, Va.) got the King offense going early with an RBI-single in the first to score sophomore Christina Melcher (Orlando, Fla.). The Lady Tornado then added three more runs in the second to make it 4-0. Freshman Octavia Lewis-Rand (Columbus, Ga.) hit an RBI-triple, and senior Aubree Hutt (Bristol, Va.) and Melcher later added RBI-singles.
Junior Fallon Thomas (Bristol, Va.) smacked a solo home run in the third to make it 5-1, King. Shepherd scored in the bottom-of-the-third to cut the deficit to 5-2.
King added one run in the fifth and two more in the sixth to widen the margin to 8-2, which was the final score. Eight of King's nine hitters had at least one hit in the game.
Junior Hannah Light (Coeburn, Va.) pitched a complete game for the Lady Tornado to improve to 2-7 this season. Light gave up just one earned run on six hits and had 10 strikeouts.
The Lady Tornado will be back in action at the KU Softball Complex against Lincoln Memorial with a doubleheader on Tuesday, February 26, with first pitch slated for 1:00 p.m.


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Their work is to inspire, challenge and question ourselves as co-inhabitants of the world, to ask the questions we all struggle to find answers to and to find sound knowledge, intuition and wonder in our search for solutions.
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