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A thoracic aortic aneurysm repair is a surgery to fix a problem in the aorta. The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body. It starts at the heart and passes down through the chest and abdomen. The thoracic aorta is the part of the aorta in the chest. The aorta carries blood from the heart to blood vessels that supply the lower body.
This is a major surgery.
Reasons for Procedure
An aneurysm is a weakened area of the blood vessel wall. If the aneurysm is large or continues to grow it can make the blood vessel break open. In large blood vessels, this can lead to severe bleeding. A thoracic aneurysm is a weakening of a large blood vessel in the chest called the aorta. Blood passes from the heart to the rest of the body through the aorta. A break in this blood vessel is often fatal.
Surgery may be done if there is a thoracic aortic aneurysm that is large or increasing in size.
Possible Complications
Your doctor will review potential problems, like:
- Adverse reaction to anesthesia, such as lightheadedness, low blood pressure, and wheezing
- Soreness in throat
- Nausea and vomiting
- Infection
- Excess bleeding
- Irregular heart rhythm
- Kidney damage if blood flow is blocked
- Heart attack
- Stroke
- Paralysis if the spinal cord is damaged
Smoking and heavy alcohol use may increase the risk of problems.
Talk to your doctor about these risks before the procedure.
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
Before surgery you will be examined and you may also have:
- Detailed pictures of your heart and vessels with:
- Tests of your lung function
Your may also be asked to:
- Stop eating or drinking anything after midnight the night before your surgery.
- Stop taking some medications up to 1 week before the procedure.
Let your doctor know about any medications or supplements you may be taking.
General anesthesia will be used. It will block pain and keep you asleep during the surgery.
Description of the Procedure
This may be done as an open surgery or using an endovascular approach.
For the endovascular repair, a small incision will be made in your leg. A sleeve will be inserted in this incision and into the aorta. It will be advanced to the aneurysm. The sleeve will take pressure off the wall and prevent it from expanding or leaking. If you need additional heart surgery, it may be done at this time. The incision will then be closed.
In some cases, open surgery may be needed. An incision will be made in the chest. The ribs will be spread. The weakened area of the aorta will be replaced with a graft. The graft will be sewn into place. Blood will be able to flow through the graft. If you need additional heart surgery, it may be done at this time. The chest incision will then be closed with stitches or staples.
Immediately After Procedure
After the operation, you will be taken to the recovery room. Your heart, blood pressure and other vital signs will be monitored.
How Long Will It Take?
2-4 hours
How Much Will It Hurt?
Anesthesia prevents pain during surgery. You will be given pain medication to help manage pain during recovery.
Average Hospital Stay
The usual length of stay is 7 days. If you have any problems, you may need to stay longer.
Post-procedure Care
The hospital staff may:
The hospital staff may:
- Provide you with medication and nutrition through an IV.
- Ask you to take deep breaths and cough to prevent mucus from collecting in your lungs.
- Ask you to walk down the hall when you are able.
- Ask you to drink liquids until you can tolerate more solid foods.
When you return home, take these steps:
When you return home, take these steps:
- Avoid smoking.
- Maintain a healthy weight.
- Follow a diet that is low in fat and includes fruits, vegetables, and whole grain foods.
- Participate in a rehabilitation program if advised to do so by your doctor.
- Be sure to follow your doctor's instructions.
Call Your Doctor
Call your doctor if any of these occur:
- Irregular heartbeat
- Redness, swelling, increasing pain, excessive bleeding, or discharge at the incision site
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Burning, pain, or problems when urinating
- Nausea or vomiting
- Unusual fatigue or depression
- New, unexplained symptoms
- Cough, shortness of breath, or chest pain
If you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Michael Woods, MD, FAAP
- Review Date: 03/2017 -
- Update Date: 03/11/2015 -


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Honolulu Community College will come alive for Springfest
Free, family-oriented event will feature food, keiki games and entertainmentHonolulu Community College
Posted: Mar 9, 2011
Honolulu Community College's Student Government and Student Media Board will host its 3rd Annual Springfest.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
2 p.m. to 9 p.m.Honolulu Community College on the campus mall
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Parking on campus available through the Kōkea Street entrance
The family oriented event is free to the community and brings a new meaning of giving back to the "community" that Honolulu CC serves. This event will be sure to be a memorable one that will provide lots of fun for the entire family.
"We are proud to host an event of this magnitude for the public. Honolulu Community College will truly come alive on April 9th and we encourage everyone to join us for a fun afternoon right here in the heart of downtown Honolulu," shares Howard Kam III, ASUH president of Honolulu CC.
Springfest will feature various food vendors, keiki games and activities, and entertainment from Hawai'i's top local artists. Headlining are PIMPBOT, a 2009 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award Nominee for Best Rock Album, and Kalohe Kai, a popular island music group from the Windward side of O'ahu whose reggae-influenced style is inviting and infectious.
Throughout the day entertainment will also feature the Farrington High School Dance Crew, Kamuela Kahoano, Arkeo, and Büsekrüs. KCCN FM100's Lina Girl will serve as the event's emcee.
For more information, visit: http://www.honolulu.hawaii.edu/springfest/


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FCIAC boys hockey preview: Ridgefield and Darien still on top, New Canaan and others lurking
When you lose nine games in one season, then say good-bye to 13 players who either graduated or transferred, it's not exactly a recipe for a championship the following season.
Try telling that to New Canaan High School boys ice hockey coach Bo Hickey.
"We lost a lot, but we've got a good group coming back," Hickey said. "We've got some people who can really play."
The Rams were 13-9-1 last season while Ridgefield was beating Darien for the FCIAC championship. Not bad for a lot of teams. But the Rams lost a combined five games the two previous seasons (22-4 in 2009-10 and 25-1 in '10-11). So, while many FCIAC teams would give anything for a 13-win season, it was considered a down year at New Canaan.
More InformationNew Canaan: F Harry Stanton, F Puck Richardson, F Patrick Hompe, F Jack O'Rourke, F Luke Amero, F Peter Reinhardt, F Parker Lewis, F Ben Patch, F Davis Bruch, D Steve Mettler, D Trent Nader, D J.P. McMahon, G Chris Koennecke, G Theo Christian Darien: F Trent Bergin, F Brendan Hathaway, F Jack Knowlton, F Tommy Watters, F Robbie Juterbock, D Dana Wensberg, D Nick Allam, D Kevin Love, D Jack Massie, D Michael Collins, G Mike Colon, G Christian Miller St. Joseph: F Christian Keator, F Ryan Corcoran, D Andrew Gore Stamford: F Cole Savona, F Justin Nizolek, F Brian Powers, D Andrew Tuccinardi, D Billy Santore, D Christian Mallozzi, D Ryan Palmer, G Hunter Alderman G Jimmy Sexton Trumbull: F Brendan Strobel, F Sean Gallagher, F AJ DiMasi, F Brendan McGill, F Vincent Rusello, D Sam Watson, D Jake Crowe, G Matthew Paolini Ridgefield: F Chris Morrow, F VinRella, F Jack Tregurtha, D Henry Gough, D Ian Ball, G Dusty Rausa Greenwich: F Paul Macken, F William Waesche F Luke Finneran, F Mark Schmeiler, F Matt Lodato, F Decker Curran, F Alex Bastone, D Reed Brady, D Jack Corrigan, D Tommy Rogan, D Kevin Piotrzkowski Westhill: F Evan Shaulson, F Neil Smolinski, R Ryan Silk, D Dan Rotkewicz, F Max Puk, F SzczepanMisiak, D Scott Reville, D Matthew Abt, D Jeff Kuraman, D Gunnar Eriksen, G Tyler Phillipson Trinity Catholic: F Steve Lambrinakos, F DJ Davis, F Sean Dolan, F PatrikOdeirno, F Kyle Odeirno, F Tyler Stenquist, F Griffin Northrop, F Erik Weiglos, D Will Egan, D Jordan Skiba, D Colin Bernard, D Drew Scanlon Fairfield Co-Op: F Mike Auila, F Kevin Robinson, F Matt Larouche, D Dan Silvestri, D ConorScharlop, G ConorFrawley Staples/Weston/Shelton: F Wyatt Fern, F Zach Speed, F Thomas Meyers, F Sean Stewart, F Ryan Gawricki, F Jack Mendillo, D Liam O'Leary, D Eric Zurmuehle, D Steven Shulman, G William Englehart Norwalk/Brien McMahon: F Lars Hammer, F Joe Deering, F Ryan Suchsland, F Jake Flewellen, D Alex Farris, D Will Ayles, D Anthony Arena, G Anthony Chiaramonte, G Phillip Uva The following team did not return requests for information: Wilton.
Factor in that this season's team is filled with sophomores and the word "rebuilding" comes to mind. In reality, Bo Hickey doesn't know the meaning of that word.
"It's really a good group of sophomores who are going to be really good," Hickey said.
Two juniors, forward Harry Stanton and defenseman Steven Mettler, who Hickey calls "one of the best defensemen in the state," are the Rams' top players.
Hickey should find out a lot about his team when the Rams open against perennial state power Notre Dame of West Haven Wednesday. As usual, the Rams will have one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the state.
"I don't schedule anybody I can beat," he said. "What good does that do? But we will separate fact from fiction Wednesday. We'll find out quickly how good we are."
Five teams to watch
1. Ridgefield: The Tigers won 11 of 12 FCIAC games last season and then beat Darien to win the title. With high-scoring forwards Chris Morrow and Vin Rella back, a repeat is not out of the question.
2. Darien: The Blue Wave at least followed their loss to Ridgefield in the FCIAC final by knocking arch-rival New Canaan out of the state tournament in the first round. Nice, but this time they want more.
3. St. Joseph: The program has come a long way in a short time but lost in the first round of the state tourney, and is still in search of its first FCIAC title. It's time to take the next step up the ladder.
4. New Canaan: A list of FCIAC contenders can't be complete unless it includes the Rams. They're young but they're deep and talented and determined to bounce back from what was, for them, a down year.
5. Fairfield Warde/Ludlowe: It's not easy cracking the top echelon of the FCIAC but this team has virtually everybody back, an experienced senior goalie in Conor Frawley and great size on the blue line.
Sleepers: Greenwich, Trumbull, Stamford, Trinity Catholic.
Five players to watch
1. Brendan Hathaway, Darien: One of the top snipers in the league after scoring 22 goals in 24 games last season. Stop him and the Blue Wave are beatable.
2. Christian Keator, St. Joseph: One of the top playmakers in the FCIAC after recording 44 assists to go with 18 goals in 19 regular-season games last season.
3. Chris Morrow, Ridgefield: On an offensively balanced team, he might not post big numbers but he is the most dangerous of a dangerous group of Tigers.
4. Steve Lambranakos, Trinity Catholic: The high-scoring forward was one of the main reasons the Crusaders did so well (8-4) in the regular season.
5. Dana Wensberg, Darien: At 5-foot-10, 165, he is not the prototypical bruising defenseman. But he can hit, and added four goals and six assists.
Off the bench: Harry Stanton and Steve Mattler, New Canaan; Kevin Robinson, Fairfield Warde/Ludlowe; Cole Savona, Stamford, Brian Strobel, Trumbull.
Five games to watch
1. Darien-Ridgefield, Feb. 16: Just like last season, there's a good chance this will be the first of at least two meetings between the league's top powers.
2. New Canaan-Darien, Feb. 18: The two rivals also play on Dec. 19, but this is the regular-season finale and the Rams remember last year's state tourney opener.
3. St. Joseph-Trumbull, Jan. 23: This rivalry was built on other sports, but with St. Joe's emergence and Trumbull winning the Division II title, that's all changed.
4. Trinity Catholic-Stamford, Feb. 6: Westhill may have something to say about it, but a city title and possible Tier I playoff berth should be on the line.
5. Greenwich-New Canaan, Feb. 2: A late season battle between the two old warriors who have regularly dominated the league is always worth watching.


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By Brendan O'Brien
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A decorated U.S. Iraq War veteran was charged on Thursday with gunning down his wife, a Wisconsin police officer, in a parking lot as she was on patrol duty the day before Christmas.
Benjamin Sebena, 30, who faces one count of first-degree intentional homicide, is accused of shooting his wife, Jennifer, 30, five times outside a fire station in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa early Monday.
Benjamin Sebena "laid in wait" for his wife for several hours and when she left the building, he shot her, according to the criminal complaint. He fired twice with a 9 millimeter handgun. Then he grabbed her service revolver, a .40 caliber, and shot her with that three times more.
Jennifer Sebena had told a fellow police officer earlier in December that she had been a victim of domestic violence and that her husband had put a gun to her head, the complaint said.
"He stated he had been jealous of other men with regards to his wife," investigators wrote in the complaint.
The ex-Marine from Wisconsin served two tours in Iraq, according to a testimonial video that he appeared in for his church in 2010.
On the video, the Purple Heart recipient describes recommitting himself to God after having his leg, arm and chest injured during a 2005 mortar attack in Ramadi, Iraq that took the life of a friend.
"I was a Marine. We're trained to kill. We're trained that death is OK. (I) wasn't trained how to deal with the death, but we're definitely trained to kill," he said, speaking from a church pew.
The couple met online when he was in Iraq and began exchanging emails while he was in recovering from his injuries in California. The two began dating after he returned to Wisconsin.
Sebena was interviewed for a story in the 2010 edition of the VAnguard, a magazine published by a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In the article, Sebena is said to have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
A Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge set a $1 million cash bond for Sebena and scheduled a preliminary hearing for January 3.
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Gothenburg started off the week with sweeps over Chase County and Perkins County Oct. 1, as the Swedes hosted a triangular.
Gothenburg faced a Longhorn team in the first match and were tested early in the first set winning 26-24."We struggled to get going in that first set against them," head coach Mary Clark said.
Chase County took advantage of Swede errors to keep the game close.
In the second set however, Clark said the girls got into a rhythm and took care of business.
The Swedes beat the Longhorns 25-13 to take the match.
Tiani Reeves led the Gothenburg with 10 kills followed up by Regan Geiken with eight.
Taylor Mroczek and Aryn Meisinger added 12 digs and 11 digs, respectively, through the two sets.
In the second match against Perkins County, Gothenburg struggled again in the first set, beating the Plainsmen 25-22.
Gothenburg got back to playing well in the second set, Clark said, taking care of Perkins County with a 25-5 game victory and completing the sweep.
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Alliance for Progress
Stephen G. Rabe
On March 13, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the Alliance for Progress, an economic assistance program to promote political democracy, economic growth, and social justice in Latin America. The United States and Latin American nations formally agreed to the alliance at a conference held in August 1961, at Punta del Este, Uruguay. U.S. delegates promised that Latin America would receive over twenty billion dollars in public and private capital from the United States and international lending authorities during the 1960s. The money would arrive in the form of grants, loans, and direct private investments. When combined with an expected eighty billion dollars in internal investment, this new money was projected to stimulate an economic growth rate of not less than 2.5 percent a year. This economic growth would facilitate significant improvements in employment, and in rates of infant mortality, life expectancy, and literacy rates. In agreeing to the alliance, Latin American leaders pledged to work for equality and social justice by promoting agrarian reform and progressive income taxes.
The Kennedy administration developed this so-called Marshall Plan for Latin America because it judged the region susceptible to social revolution and communism. Fidel Castro had transformed the Cuban Revolution into a strident anti-American movement and had allied his nation with the Soviet Union. U.S. officials feared that the lower classes of Latin America, mired in poverty and injustice, might follow similarly radical leaders.
Alliance programs delivered outside capital to the region, but the Alliance for Progress failed to transform Latin America. During the 1960s, Latin American economies performed poorly, usually falling below the 2.5 percent target. The region witnessed few improvements in health, education, or welfare. Latin American societies remained unfair and authoritarian. Sixteen extra-constitutional changes of government repeatedly unsettled the region.
The Alliance for Progress fell short of its goals for several reasons. Latin America had formidable obstacles to change: elites resisted land reform, equitable tax systems, and social programs; new credits often brought greater indebtedness rather than growth; and the Marshall Plan experience served as a poor guide to solving the problems of a region that was far different from Western Europe. The United States also acted ambiguously, calling for democratic progress and social justice, but worried that Communists would take advantage of the instability caused by progressive change. Further, Washington provided wholehearted support only to those Latin American governments and organizations that pursued fervent anticommunist policies.
Atoms for Peace in Latin America
Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez-Díaz
On December 8, 1953, in the midst of increasing nuclear weapons testing and geopolitical polarization, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched the Atoms for Peace initiative. More than a pacifist program, the initiative is nowadays seen as an essential piece in the U.S. defense strategy and foreign policy at the beginning of the Cold War. As such, it pursued several ambitious goals, and Latin America was an ideal target for most of them: to create political allies, to ease fears of the deadly atomic energy while fostering receptive attitudes towards nuclear technologies, to control and avoid development of nuclear weapons outside the United States and its allies, and to open or redirect markets for the new nuclear industry. The U.S. Department of State, through the Foreign Operations Administration, acted in concert with several domestic and foreign middle-range actors, including people at national nuclear commissions, universities, and industrial funds, to implement programs of regional technical assistance, education and training, and technological transfer.
Latin American countries were classified according to their stage of nuclear development, with Brazil at the top and Argentina and Mexico belonging to the group of "countries worthy of attention." Nuclear programs often intersected with development projects in other areas, such as agriculture and public health. Moreover, Eisenhower's initiative required the recruitment of local actors, natural resources and infrastructures, governmental funding, and standardized (but localized techno-scientific) practices from Latin American countries. As Atoms for Peace took shape, it began to rely on newly created multilateral and regional agencies, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the United Nations and the Inter-American Nuclear Energy Commission (IANEC) of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Nevertheless, as seen from Latin America, the implementation of atomic energy for peaceful purposes was reinterpreted in different ways in each country. This fact produced different outcomes, depending on the political, economic, and techno-scientific expectations and interventions of the actors involved. It provided, therefore, an opportunity to create local scientific elites and infrastructure. Finally, the peaceful uses of atomic energy allowed the countries in the region to develop national and international political discourses framing the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean signed in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, in 1967, which made Latin America the first atomic weapons–free populated zone in the world.
The Bracero Program, 1942–1964
Juan R. García
The Bracero Program began in 1942 as a temporary wartime measure but was extended repeatedly until 1964. During that time, more than 4.5 million braceros received contracts to work in the United States, primarily as agricultural laborers. Before the program ended, braceros worked in thirty-eight states in the United States, with the majority contracted by eight states.
With the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941 and the subsequent sinking of two Mexican vessels by German submarines, Mexico and the United States entered into a bilateral agreement. In actuality, there were two bilateral agreements, the first extending from 1942 to 1949, and the second, enacted as Public Law 78, starting in 1951 and culminating in 1964. Throughout the program's existence Mexico strove to ensure favorable conditions under which braceros were to be contracted, especially in light of the strong opposition to the program among a number of sectors in Mexico and the long history of discrimination against people of Mexican descent in the United States. Like Mexico, the United States faced opposition to the contract labor program from both employers and labor unions. Employers were wary of too much government interference in their ability to secure a plentiful and cheap labor supply, while labor unions viewed the program as a threat to organizing efforts and as an obstacle to achieving better working conditions and pay for agricultural workers in the United States. The Bracero Program also deeply affected the braceros themselves in both positive and negative ways. And it had a profound impact on the families of the braceros who left to work in the United States. The program was plagued by a number of issues and problems, primarily resulting from a lack of enforcement and widespread contract violations. Despite the problems associated with the program, both countries touted its benefits, not only to their economy, but to the braceros themselves. The braceros did not passively accept their fate and challenged their treatment in a variety of ways. Although the Bracero Program ended in 1964, its legacy continues to affect US–Mexican relations to this day. Furthermore, former braceros and their descendants have undertaken a movement to demand reimbursement for wages promised them under the requirements of the Bracero Program.
Central America's Caribbean Coast: Politics and Ethnicity
Robert Sierakowski
From the period of imperial conquest and competition, the Caribbean coast of Central America has served as an interstitial space: between British and Spanish rule; between foreign corporate control and national inclusion; mestizo, black, and indigenous. Running from Guatemala in the north through Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama in the south, "la Costa" has functioned as a contested terrain imbued with economic import, ethnic difference, and symbolic power. The coastal zones were transformed in the 20th century through the construction of railroads and later highways, large-scale foreign immigration, the spread of states' bureaucratic agents, and internal migrants, as well as transnational projects such as the Panama Canal and the United Fruit Company's integrated banana plantation empire.
The coastal region's inaccessible terrain, large communities of lowland indigenous people, and vast numbers of Afro-Caribbean migrants from islands such as Jamaica markedly differentiated these lowlands from the wider Central American republics. From indigenous groups such as the Rama, Mayangna-Sumu, Kuna, Guaymí, and Bribri, to the Afro-indigenous Garifuna and Miskitu, and the English-speaking black Creoles and Afro-Antilleans, the region has enjoyed great ethnic diversity compared to the nominally mestizo republics of which it has formed part. Finally, ladino (non-indigenous) or mestizo (mixed-race) campesino migrants from the Pacific or Central regions of the isthmus arrived in large numbers throughout the 20th century. Racism, ethnic exclusion, and marginalization were often the response of national states toward these coastal populations. In some contexts, tensions between and among ethnic groups over land and natural resources, as well as between national states and local autonomy, flared into violent conflict. Elsewhere in Central America, the Caribbean coast's position in national political development permitted a gradual meshing of national and regional cultures during the second half of the 20th century.
Conflicts between Caribbean Basin Dictators and Democracies, 1944–1959
Aaron Coy Moulton
Between 1944 and 1959, conflicts with anti-dictatorial exiles and democratic leaders against dictatorial regimes and dissident exiles shaped inter-American relations in the Caribbean Basin. At the end of World War II, anti-dictatorial exiles networked with students, laborers, journalists, and politicians in denouncing the Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo, Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza, and Honduras's Tiburcio Carías. Opponents of and dissident exiles from the 1944 Guatemalan Revolution and Venezuela's Trienio Adeco (Adeco Triennium) under Rómulo Betancourt likewise turned to dictatorial regimes for aid. By 1947, a loose coalition of anti-dictatorial exiles with the help of Cuba, Guatemala, and Venezuela's democratic leaders formed what would become known as the Caribbean Legion and organized the abortive Cayo Confites expedition against Trujillo. Seeking regional stability, U.S. officials intervened against this expedition and Caribbean Basin dictators and dissident exiles' attempts to air-bomb Guatemala City and Caracas.
Caribbean Basin leaders and exiles focused upon these inter-American conflicts, rather than the international Cold War. José Figueres's rise to power in Costa Rica provided a pivotal ally to democratic leaders and anti-dictatorial exiles, and Caribbean Basin dictators began working with the Venezuelan military regime after the 1948 military coup. In 1949, Trujillo's regime coordinated a counter-intelligence operation that destroyed the Caribbean Legion's expedition at Luperón and brought greater attention to the region.
By the early 1950s, dictatorial regimes operated as a counter-revolutionary network sharing intelligence, aiding dissident exiles, supporting Fulgencio Batista's 1952 coup in Cuba, and lobbying U.S. officials against Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and Figueres in Costa Rica. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) utilized these dictators and exiles during Operations PBFORTUNE and PBSUCCESS to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954, but U.S. officials intervened when the counter-revolutionary network invaded Costa Rica in 1955.
From 1955 onward, anti-dictatorial exiles from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Venezuela continued organizing expeditions against Caribbean Basin dictatorships, and multiple groups conspired against Batista's regime. Among Cuban exiles, Fidel Castro rose to prominence and received important resources and alliances through anti-dictatorial exiles. Dictators shared intelligence and gave aid to Batista, yet Caribbean Legion veterans, Cuban exiles, Betancourt, Figueres, and others helped Castro undermine Batista. In 1959, Castro supported anti-dictatorial expeditions, most notably those against Trujillo and Luis Somoza. However, Castro disagreed with many former exiles and Betancourt and Figueres's policies, so the resulting tension separated Castro from democratic leaders and divided the region among dictatorial regimes, democratic governments, and Castro.
Digital Resources: The League of Nations and Latin America
Fabián Herrera León
Historical research on the phenomena of the multilateral interaction and transnationalization of institutional structures and norms centered on the international organisms of the interwar period, with the League of Nations as the central axis, have benefited enormously from the creation and development of several digital resources in first decades of the 21st century. One challenge for this period involves efforts to reconstruct the trajectories, collaboration, and interaction of Latin American members in relation to those international organizations, but these have been increasingly favored by these resources because of the information they concentrate or make available, and because they combat the omissions and imperceptibility to which this region has often been subjected. International histories centered on Geneva that radiate out toward Latin America could represent a new area of development for websites that specialize in consolidating such digital resources as the United Nations Office at Geneva (library and archives), the League of Nations Photo Archive, the League of Nations Search Engine (LONSEA), and the History of the League of Nations.
The Drug Trade in Mexico
Aileen Teague
The drug trade in Mexico and efforts by the Mexican government—often with United States assistance—to control the cultivation, sale, and use of narcotics are largely 20th-century phenomena. Over time, U.S. drug control policies have played a large role in the scope and longevity of Mexico's drug trade. Many argue that these policies—guided by the U.S.-led global war on drugs—have been fruitless in Mexico, and are at least partially responsible for the violence and instability seen there in the early twentieth century.
A producer of Cannabis sativa and the opium poppy, Mexico emerged as a critical place of drug supply following World War II, even though domestic drug use in Mexico has remained low. Since the 1960s and 1970s, the drug trade in Mexico has reached epic proportions due to drug demand emanating from the United States. Mexico's cultivation of psychoactive raw materials and its prime location—connecting North America with Central America and the Caribbean and sharing a 2,000-mile-long border with the United States—have made it an ideal transit point for narcotics originating from other parts of the Western Hemisphere and the world. Although Mexico implemented a smaller, less organized antidrug campaign in the late 1940s, the inauguration of the global war on drugs in 1971 represents a distinctive shift in its drug control and enforcement policies. The government began utilizing U.S. supply-control models, advice, and aid to decrease the cultivation of drugs inside the country. America's fight against drug trafficking in Central America and the Caribbean in the 1980s and 1990s shifted the geographic locus of the drug trade to Mexico by the early 2000s. Mexico's powerful drug cartels proved more than capable of eluding (sometimes colluding with) the Mexican government's efforts against them in the first decade of the 21st century during the administration of President Felipe Calderón (2006–2012). Calderón's fight against the cartels brought about a drug war in Mexico, characterized by widespread violence, instability, and an estimated death toll of more than 70,000 people.
The Galíndez Case in the Dominican Republic
Elizabeth Manley
On March 12, 1956, Basque National and Columbia University lecturer Jesús María de Galíndez Suarez disappeared from New York City never to be seen again. While no conclusive evidence was ever uncovered, it has been widely accepted that he was taken by functionaries of the regime of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, flown to the island, tortured, and killed. Galíndez, who had worked for the Trujillo regime after fleeing Spain in 1939 and subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1946, had just completed a dissertation on the Trujillato at Columbia. The regime did not look kindly on his chosen perspective and set in motion a plan to have him disappeared. Following his abduction, many U.S. solidarity activists joined forces with Dominican exile groups to push for greater attention to the atrocities of the Trujillo regime as well as for a closer investigation into Galíndez's disappearance. While Trujillo had similarly disappeared a number of individuals in the United States and other Latin American countries, the Galíndez case is unique for several reasons. First, Galíndez's life offers a prime example of a transnational identity, of someone who juggled multiple identities and causes, crossed physical and ideological borders, and operated daily with conflicting alliances and allegiances. Second, the murder of the Basque national mobilized a significant collective of solidarity activists in the United States, garnered considerable national press, and built a foundation for future activism. Moreover, as Galíndez had been working as a U.S. intelligence operative since before his arrival in the United States, his story complicates the traditional nexus of solidarity work. Finally, the case offers a unique window onto the geopolitics of the early Cold War (prior to the Cuban Revolution) and the intricacies of the second half of the Trujillo regime.
The Good Neighbor Policy
Max Paul Friedman
In the first three decades of the 20th century, the United States regularly intervened militarily in the circum-Caribbean, sending the Marines to govern directly or rule by proxy in Nicaragua (1912–1933), Haiti (1915–1934), and the Dominican Republic (1916–1924). The end of this era of U.S. occupations, and the relatively harmonious period that followed, is typically credited to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy, although his predecessor Herbert Hoover began the process and both drew upon Latin American traditions and yielded to Latin American pressures to change traditional U.S. policy. The new approach to relations with Latin America included not only abjuring the use of military force but respecting the full sovereignty of Latin American states by not interfering or even commenting upon their processes of political succession. The Roosevelt administration signed agreements formalizing this new respect and sought to negotiate mutually beneficial trade agreements with Latin American countries. The benefits of the Good Neighbor Policy became evident when nearly every country in the region aligned itself with the United States in World War II. Measures taken against Axis nationals strained the policy during the war. By 1945, and during the Cold War, the policy unraveled, as the United States resumed both interference (in Argentine politics) and intervention (with a CIA-organized coup in Guatemala in 1954).
Latin America and the League of Nations
Fabián Herrera León
At the moment of its founding in 1920, the League of Nations enjoyed the solid support of Latin American countries, whose early and extensive participation helped legitimize the new international system and facilitate the functioning of its institutional representation. While this support was tremendously valuable for the Geneva-based League, it continuously suffered temporary, though significant, lapses on the part of nations that were particularly representative of the region, such as Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Despite the characteristically pacifist rhetoric enunciated by this group of states, Latin American support cannot be called disinterested or sincere. Indeed, their collaboration with the multilateral and universalistic pretensions of the League was notoriously reserved, to such an extent that in the 1920s the organization's General Secretariat granted them special treatment and prerogatives, while simultaneously ensuring that the League would continue to exert its influence in the Western Hemisphere. This reality was confirmed, sadly, in the context of two conflicts, the Chaco and Leticia wars, during which Latin American loyalty to the League became seriously questioned. With few exceptions in the decade that followed—one characterized by complicated crises that would lead to a new worldwide conflagration—the general tendency with respect to the system of collective security described in the Society's Charter was scarred by dissatisfaction, incompliance, and increasing disillusionment that undoubtedly contributed to the weakening and eventual collapse of this organization so emblematic of the interwar period.
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The Romney campaign on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of gutting a signature success of the Clinton administration that links welfare benefits to work.
But the White House and Obama campaign officials pushed back aggressively, calling the claims "blatantly dishonest," and their stance was bolstered by independent experts who said the Republican claims were exaggerated.
The Republican presidential campaign aired a 30-second television spot leveling the charges, and Romney built on them at a campaign event in Illinois, extolling the 1996 welfare reform act as "one of the greatest bipartisan successes we've seen" and telling the crowd that Obama "has tried to reverse that accomplishment by taking the work requirement out of welfare."
"That is wrong," Romney said. "If I am president, I'll put work back in welfare."
The assault comes as Republicans have sought to portray Obama as a big-spending liberal who believes government is often the answer to the nation's problems. But John Podesta, who served as President Bill Clinton's chief of staff, told reporters on an Obama campaign conference call that the ad was "completely false" and that the former president agreed with his assessment.
At issue is the administration's decision last month to consider granting waivers to states that seek more flexibility to run the federally funded program. Republicans immediately accused the administration of looking to weaken the work requirements, prompting a letter from Health and Human Services Secretary Katherine Sebelius, who defended the change as a way to move more enrollees off welfare and into jobs "by utilizing state-based innovation."
States have to apply for the waivers, and Sebelius wrote that waivers would only be granted to states that move at least 20 percent more people from welfare to work. States also must demonstrate "clear progress toward that goal" or their waivers could be rescinded. In return, states get some relief from some of the administrative requirements of the law.
Administration officials noted that in 2005, 29 Republican governors – including then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney – requested similar authority.
"Perhaps (Romney's) argument is with his past self," White House spokesman Jay Carney suggested.
Sebelius said the waivers those governors were proposing were "very far-reaching" and went beyond what the administration now would sanction. But she said that the governors of Utah and Nebraska – both Republicans – have more recently requested waivers.
Jonathan Burks, deputy policy director for the Romney campaign, charged in a conference call with reporters that the administration "took the (Utah) governor's reasonable request for increased flexibility and used it to gut the core welfare-to-work requirement."
Policy experts said that at best, the Romney campaign's charge that Obama "quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements" is an exaggeration.
Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Institution Center on Children and Families and a former Republican congressional committee staff director, said he believes the administration erred in not reaching out to Congress before it made the change.
But he called Romney's assertion "clearly an overstatement."
Haskins, who was staff director on the committee that helped draft the House bill that eventually resulted in the legislation Clinton signed, pointed out that contrary to the ad's claim, the Obama administration's offer of waivers "doesn't do some broad overhaul."
States would have to apply for the waiver and each state requesting a waiver would be required to show how the new approach would either "increase employment or lead to better employment," Haskins said.
"If you just read the words (of the policy) it's a reasonable kind of provision," he said.
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The Electramedics Real-time Service Area is an interesting Google Map that is using heatmap.js to create a real-time heat map.
I'm not exactly sure what the heat map represents or even what an elctramedic does but the map is a good example of using heatmap.js with Google Maps. The map also has an interesting polygon feature that manages to create a boundary box for the heat map on the fly.
I assume the heat map and bounding box are being used to visualise the current area that the team of electricians are covering in real-time. But then I could be wrong.
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Guide To Fitting Mist Type Jets On Your Ford
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Lift the bonnet on your ford, and ensue the ignition is off, and keys out of the car,
Begin to unclip the eleven clips that hold the bonnet insulation pad in place simply squeeze the two sides in towards each other and gently pull outwards then store them neatly together. Preferably cut a plastic bottle in half or an empty Pringles tin to store them all in, until required for re-fitting, this type of temporary storage is good practice for working on your car, as if one is lost this type of part can be a nightmare to replace,
Once all clips are removed gently flap the pad down towards the engine and gently pull out away from the car in a straight line,
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Store this Insulation part preferably in a vertical position, indoors away from wind, and any risk of it being stood on during the change over process,
Once this is out of the way, unplug the water hose from the bottom of the current jets, by giving a gentle tug, the pipe should pop off and a small amount of water is expected,
Then to remove the electrical connector use a flat screwdriver to lift the clip and slide the connector out from the socket,
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Government, industry developing a farm system for IT security pros
In a simpler time, Thomas Marshall, vice president under Woodrow Wilson, could sum up the national predicament by saying "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar."
Cut to the present, and the country faces a different deficiency: "We need more geeks."
That's what Philip Reitinger, deputy undersecretary at the Homeland Security Department's National Protection and Programs Directorate, told a recent identity management and cybersecurity conference hosted by TechAmerica. In the past two years, DHS' National Cybersecurity Division has increased its workforce sixfold, but "I still don't have enough of them," he said, "and getting them is really hard."
One reason it's difficult is that other civilian and defense agencies are in the same boat, trying to draw from the same relatively shallow talent pool. Reitinger told another recent forum in Washington that DHS has been recruiting from other agencies and the private sector, but those efforts amounted to a zero-sum game. "There are not enough people to go around," he said.
The prospects for immediate help might appear gloomy, but government and industry are trying to develop their farm systems.
A coalition launched last year the U.S. Cyber Challenge, an effort to recruit and develop 10,000 "cybersecurity practitioners, researchers and warriors." As part of that effort, universities in three states this summer held cybersecurity boot camps, which the organizers hope to expand to all 50 states.
Earlier this month, teams from four Washington, D.C.-area colleges held their own red team/blue team hacking competition at an event hosted by Computer Sciences Corp., which was straightforward about the reason for the competition. "We are in the competition to attract talent," said Carlos Solari, CSC's vice president of cyber technologies and services. Several universities also are offering degrees in cybersecurity.
The search for more geeks has also filtered to the high school level. The Air Force Association is in the midst of its third CyberPatriot competition, which has attracted 300 high school teams from 45 states and Japan to vie for a national title in network protection. The finals will be settled next spring in Washington.
At the local level, San Antonio is riding the Air Force Association's coattails with the third year of its Mayor's Cyber Cup, which honors winning teams based on how they do in the first round of the CyberPatriot competition.
Taken together, the groundswell toward developing cyber talent is helping to raise cybersecurity's profile and, perhaps, its attractiveness as a profession. As Reitinger said, "Being a geek has got to be cool."
Geeks, of course, already think it is; the trick could be in making others think so, too. Maybe San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro has the right idea. In addition to scholarship money, winners of the Mayor's Cyber Cup also get leather Cyber Cup jackets. How cool is that?
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The government says that qualified people are hard to find to fill cybersecurity jobs. I have 10 years experience in IA, a CISSP, a CISM certification (Certified Information Security Manager), a pile of Microsoft certifications and a Masters Degree in InfoSec. I have applied for hundreds of government jobs and keep getting turned down.
The "US Cyber Challenge" is aimed at people in High School. Think about it. It's going to take years before they are even ready to go to work in government. People are needed now. I'm ready. Hire me.
The issue is not that I am not qualified, the hiring system is broken. They need to figure out how to become more like 'private industry' and figure out how to hire the right people.
Have to agree with the other commentators: they aren't putting the word out adequately, or are foolishly expecting everyone to move to DC.
I also wonder who they are targeting for recruitment... they may be ignoring older workers. Big mistake. The best IT techs are generally over 40 (sorry kids, experience really counts).
There are plenty of talented technicians like myself who are looking for work. I found out about a projected layoff and just got a better paying job in less than two weeks in the private sector. I saw NOTHING indicating the Federal government was looking for people who are ready to become "cyber-warriors"... some people like me would jump at the chance.
One more factor some other folks in IT have mentioned to me about certain jobs: drug-testing. While some people undoubtedly are taking drugs and don't want to have that known, many more simply don't care to give up their Constitutional rights to freedom from unwarranted and unreasonable search, a violation of personal privacy.
If the government wants to be able to attact highly talented "geeks", the first thing they should do is actually start treating their employees decently. All you hear in the news today is that us "greedy" government workers are making way too much money, do very little work, and would never cut it in the private sector. Meanwhile a highly successful company like Google is giving all of its employees a large pay raise. Google realizes that if you want the best and brightest working for you, you have to provide competative compensation, and treat your people well. Apparently Google knows what it is doing if their revenues are any guide. Even if a geek isn't good enough for Google, there are plenty of employers out there who pay well and don't go around telling the world "our employees are worthless" like the politicians do. The only reason I put up with it is I've got a bit to go until I can get my CSRS retirement. The golden handcuffs are worth too much for me to bail early, but the anti-fed demagoguery is enough to make me plan on going as soon as I'm eligible.
Their efforts are flawed at best since I know of many highly qualified applicants that do not even get an interview for a government position when they are already doing the work as a contractor (and getting paid more!)
In short, either their processes are flawed or their current (and under qualified) staff cannot (or will not) hire the truly talented!
Just did a search at usajobs.gov for "geek" opportunities and found no such posting.
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The Farm City: The Education of An Urban Farmer
Farm City is the account of Novella Carpenter's efforts to turn a vacant lot next to her apartment in Oakland into an urban farm. Determined to eat sustainable meat and produce, Novella recognizes that the only way she'll be able to afford "the good stuff" is if she raises it herself. So that's what she does. In a very big way. Novella starts with a garden, then a beehive, then chickens, until she's also raising her own Thanksgiving turkeys! The book just came out yesterday, so we asked Novella a few questions about her farm and for her advice for any would-be urban farmer...
Throughout the book, Novella gives her farm tally. We asked her to update Kitchn readers on her livestock situation:
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6 goats
14 rabbits (2 moms, 1 dad, 11 babies)
7 chickens (2 are broody)
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What's been the tastiest dinner you've made, grown from your own labor?
The tastiest dinner I've ever made had to be one of the many dinners I made from the two hogs my boyfriend and I raised in our backyard. My friend had a retirement party, so I pulled out one of the pork shoulders, rubbed it with some anchiote paste from the Yucatan, wrapped it in banana leaves, and baked it for 8 hours at 200 degrees. Oh my god. People were like grabbing chunks of the meat off the bone and putting it on hand-made tortillas. Lordy!
On a day-to-day basis, what is the most challenging thing about urban farming?
Urban farming takes a lot of discipline. For both the farmer and her animals. The goats, for instance, need to be milked at 7am every morning, whether I want to get up after a late night or not. All the critters need to be fed and provided water—if I don't, they won't thrive and might die. This is a pretty big responsibility. Since we live in an urban area, it can be hard to source supplies--like I have to go on a trek to the local horse racetrack field to get alfalfa to feed the goats. But in the end, its all worth it. I love feeding the animals who then feed me, I love meeting the characters at the racetrack or at a rural feedstore where I go to buy supplies. The animals force me out of my comfort zone and usually that's a good thing.
At one point you mentioned holding down three jobs. How did you manage working and your urban farm?
I still have two "real" jobs—free-lance writer and biofuel station worker/owner. It can be hard to leave the farm to go to my office or to the station, but again, it's the discipline thing: i just have to set everything up (food, water) so the animals are happy while I'm gone. When I get home, there they are—and I'm happier than ever to see them. It's funny because after a hard day's work, I'm usually tired, but then I go out to the garden and start puttering around, fed the animals, clean out their pens, and all of a sudden, I don't feel tired. It's like the farm recharges me. Plus that, I'm like most farmers in that I have to have another job just so I can afford to run the farm. With vet visits, stud fees, seed and feed costs, it all adds up.
What's your favorite gardening tool?
I rarely use garden tools besides the obvious: shovel, rake. But I do love my Felco 2 pruners. I actually carry them with me everywhere—if I see some sucker branches coming out of a street tree, I'll shear them off and give them to the goats. They love eating tree branches.
Do you have any favorites among your animals?
I just got a new rabbit, named Sasquatch. She's a silver fox bunny and has really wonderful fur. I bred her to my buck and they had adorable black and white babies. She's a real sweetheart. I also had a new goat doeling born on the farm who I think is just gorgeous with her brown fur and blue eyes.
What your farm plans for summer?
This summer is going to be pretty busy. My book's coming out and so I'm going on tour for a little while. I'm really lucky that our downstairs neighbors are really into the goats and other animals, so they'll be feeding and milking while I'm gone. When I get back, there are some projects on the horizon: I'm growing dry-farmed tomatoes this year so there will be canning and sun-drying to do. We're planning on building a cob oven at some point, but I'm not sure when I'll have time to do that. My dream is to have an outdoor kitchen, with a plumbed area for cleaning vegetables and baking and canning. I imagine it will be kind of wild, with hops or kiwis growing over the roof, and little rabbits running around underfoot.
If someone is interested in embarking on their own urban farming adventure, what do you think is the easiest way to get started?
The easiest urban farm animal is the bee. They are so self-sufficient, so hard working, and they require very little maintenance. Once you set up the hive and install the bees, they go to work. You need to check on them every once in awhile and harvest honey when the boxes get too full, but that's it. After that, I would say chickens. They are so lovely and giving. Funny to watch, too. The eggs are amazing.
In terms of vegetables or other food, I would urge people to grow food they like. Radishes are easy, but does anyone really *love* radishes? (well, maybe they do). But I like things like carrots and peas so I learned what kind of soil they need, best practices for growing them, and voila! now I have carrots and peas to eat. If you live in a small space, potatoes are easy to grow in a burlap bag, mounding it slowly with soil and straw. Small fruit trees in containers are amazingly productive. I also tell people to start small and build up to a full working farm.
Any urging for a larger spread of land in the country or do you think you'll stay a city girl?
You know, I have many friends who are buying land and going out there to grow food. I think that's great, but it isn't for me. I love my multi-ethnic neighborhood (where the Yemeni storekeeper can tell me about goat husbandry because he used to be a goat herder) and I love not driving. I can ride my bike most places and reserve the truck for getting hay and loads of compost. I love going out to Chinese food. I love living right next to my friends. My parents did the whole back to the land thing, and I think it was hard on them, so I don't have that urge.
I do, however, want to own some land in the city. My lot where I do the vegetable garden is squatted, so it can be taken away at the owner's whim. So if I ever make a lot of money, I want to buy several contiguous lots and set up an educational farm for city kids. Someday, too, I hope to get a horse and ride it regularly through downtown Oakland.
Buy the Book: Farm City by Novella Carpenter, at Amazon.com. We honestly can't recommend this book highly enough. It's the perfect summer read—witty and inspiring. We read it twice in one week!
• You can stay up-to-date on Novella's farming adventures with her blog, Ghost Town Farm.
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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.
100 years ago From the Newport Daily News, April 27, 1909
An ordinance was passed (at the town council meeting) fixing a license of $5 on peddlers of oil, kerosene and gasoline. … W.H. Severance was appointed a committee to confer with the owners of the (town) clerk's office building in regard to necessary repairs.
From the Newport Daily News, April 30, 1909
Mr. T. G. Carr has been presented with a handsome loving cup by the pupils of the grammar schools. Owing to poor health Mr. Carr was obliged to resign from the school committee after a term of 23 years.
From the Newport Daily News, May 1, 1909
About 30 cottages have been rented in Jamestown, up to the end of April, for the coming summer. This augurs well for the season, for May is expected to develop many more rentals.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, April 30, 1934
(At the town council meeting it was) Resolved, that the town treasurer be directed to make any arrangements with the state unemployment Relief Commission or the Relief Administration to enable the town to receive full benefit of any contribution towards the expenditures of this town's unemployment relief under the ERA Work Division program. … Having received no compensation, it was voted that Dennis D. Sheehan be given a vote of thanks for the use of his store at Ferry Wharf, as the office of the superintendent of Unemployment Relief Work and director of public aid.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, April 28, 1959
Dog licensing is lagging behind about 40 per cent, as compared to the same time last year, the (Town) Council was told. The field procurement committee for the Jamestown Little League requested use of Clarke School field, and a portion of the building to store baseball equipment. The request was referred (by the Council) to the Recreation commission.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, April 30, 1984
Twenty-two children will receive their first communions at St. Mark's Church Sunday during the 10 a.m. mass.
15 years ago From the Newport Daily News, April 28, 1994
Residents hooked into the town water and sewer lines can expect to see a significant cost increase when they get their next bills. Sitting as the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners Monday, the Town Council voted to increase the minimum rate for the first 5,000 gallons of water by 10 percent and raise the rate from $2.60 to $2.98 per 1,000 gallons. The council also voted to increase the sewer rate by 15 percent, from $3.13 to $3.60 for each 1,000 gallons of water used.
Jamestowners living, working, and playing on the southern part of the island should take precautions against deer ticks and the possibility of contracting Lyme disease. (A map shows average number of deer ticks per amount in specific areas.)
You'll be both captivated and enchanted by the Jamestown Community Theatre's spectacular presentation of "The King and I" which opens tomorrow night.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, April 29, 1999
Almost 10 years after Jamestown was first approached by the state Department of Environmental Management about development of its seven-acre parcel at Ft. Wetherill and several scaled-up and scaleddown versions of the marine fishery facility later—a "memorandum of understanding" will be signed by the two governments.
(photo caption) … Volunteers collected more than 1.6 tons of trash from the island's beaches. The refuse was hauled away by Island Rubbish and the event was sponsored by the Jamestown Conservation Commission and the Conanicut Island Land Trust.
A crew of 100 will be filming "Me, Myself, and Irene," a movie starring Jim Carey, in downtown Jamestown on May 11 and 12.


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March 02, 2006
Although I consider myself to be an environmentally concerned individual, when I entered the University of Vermont last year, I had no experience in renewable energy, or even a rudimentary knowledge of electrical wiring.And yet, one month into my first year of college life, I found myself sitting in the second row of my economics lecture with my Powerbook G4, credit card in hand, purchasing a do-it-yourself solar-energy setup from Sundancesolar.com. The decision to construct a small-scale renewable energy system had only been made about a day and a half before, when I bought wind energy credits to offset the approximate electrical usage in my suite of six freshmen students. I recalled a conversation I had had a month prior with the regional director for Smartpower, an organization that was pioneering a renewable energy purchase program for municipalities in Connecticut. While purchasing credits was one way to invest in renewable energy, he said it was infinitely preferable for municipalities to put together systems that would generate energy locally.My mind began brainstorming the possibilities. What if I created a small-scale renewable energy system at my dorm?
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I pulled this old timer from an under-counter line cooler at a local primary school. The building was put up in the 1950's and most of this cafeteria is original, and this coil and TXV look like they have never been changed.
When I pulled the inlet to check the screen, I found this interesting feature. There was an adjustable orifice with a dial like setting so you could lower the capacity down from the 1/2 ton rating.
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Land Swap Could Benefit Prime Minnesota Bird Habitat
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - A land swap is in the works that would restore some 22,000 acres of swampland in one of Minnesota's most important bird conservation areas.
Reports say that a private wetland mitigation company would acquire and rehabilitate the land in the Sax-Zim Bog area in St. Louis County to its original, pre-settlement condition. In exchange, the county and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources would get thousands of acres of upland forest.
The Conservation Fund would buy the forest land from private parties, trade it to the county and DNR for the swampland, then sell the swampland to Ecosystem Investment Partners. The company would then restore the wetlands and recoup its costs by selling credits to developers that have to replace wetlands lost to construction projects.


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No bail for trio charged in knife, machete murder of Madbury teenBY JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
June 26. 2014 2:12PM
DOVER — Three men were ordered held without bail Thursday, charged with the murder of 18-year-old Aaron Wilkinson, who allegedly was stabbed to death with knives and a machete in front of his Madbury home.
Zachary Pinette, 18, of Springvale, Maine, Michael Tatum, 21, of Barrington and Tristan Wolusky, 18, of Rochester were arraigned on first-degree murder charges in 7th Circuit Court, Dover Division.
Their court appearance came hours after they were arrested Wednesday night for the June 21 killing.
Wilkinson, a former Exeter High School student, was reported missing from his home by his father on Saturday morning. His body was found along a roadside in Lebanon, Maine hours later.
The three suspects, who entered no plea in court Thursday, are facing the possibility of life in jail without parole if they are convicted by a jury.
Prosecutors say that Pinette discussed a plan with Tatum and Wolusky to go to Wilkinson's home and murder him.
The killing happened around 1:30 a.m. outside of Wilkinson's home at 36 Evans Road in Madbury, according to court documents.
Pinette is accused of driving Wolusky and Tatum from a location in Maine to Wilkinson's home, court complaints say. He allegedly was holding a machete while Tatum and Wolusky were armed with knives.
Wilkinson was stabbed to death with all three weapons, prosecutors said.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin said he could not comment about a possible motive.
Wilkinson's friend, Chris Cote, 19, of Dover, said he knew the three suspects and believes the murder came down to a matter of jealously over a girlfriend.
Cote set up a roadside vigil in Lebanon, Maine for Wilkinson that has drawn several of Wilkinson's friends from around the region.
A probable cause hearing for the trio is set for July 14.


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Mighty Big Movies
The critical buzz on A Mighty Heart and Evan Almighty.
A Mighty Heart (Paramount Vantage). The film about the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has gotten mountains of publicity thanks to its star, Angelina Jolie, who plays Pearl's wife, Mariane. But most critics agree that the film lives up to the hype. The New York Times' Manohla Dargis raves that the movie is "effectively fashioned, as jolting as it is polished, as well as a surprising, insistently political work of commercial art."Rolling Stone's Peter Travers gives the film three and a half out of four stars and remarks, "From the moment Daniel and the pregnant Mariane arrive in Karachi, Pakistan … [director Michael] Winterbottom exerts a grip that won't let go." In the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan observes approvingly that A Mighty Heart is "most accurately viewed as a kind of political film noir." One discordant note comes from the Village Voice's J. Hoberman, who sighs, "[T]he creepiest thing about A Mighty Heart is the ease with which this terrible tale becomes a meditation on divadom." (Read Dana Stevens'review of A Mighty Heart. Buy tickets to A Mighty Heart.)— D.S., June 21
Evan Almighty (Universal Pictures). This wholesome sequel to the immensely popular Bruce Almighty is the most expensive Hollywood comedy ever—it cost $200 million to make and market. But critics are panning the PG Bible tale, in which Steve Carell plays Evan Baxter, a reluctant modern-day Noah. Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum has a few good words for supporting actors Wanda Sykes and Ed Helms, but concludes that "nothing can offset the picture's dutiful Sunday-school intentions." The New York Times' A.O. Scott also points out the film's "bland religiosity" and complains that there's "not much in the way of wit, emotional complication or suspense." Other critics suspect that Evan Almighty isn't dutiful at all; writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers calls the movie "pseudo-religious, mock-sincere," and still doesn't find anything to praise: "[E]very laugh cost about $20 million. And most of those are poop jokes." (Buy tickets to Evan Almighty.)— J.L, June 21
Laura Albert. The inventor of fictional author JT Leroy is on trial for civil fraud; her alter ego, Leroy, purportedly a teenage former hustler from West Virginia, won acclaim for the novel Sarah, which "he" said was based on personal experiences. (Albert is being sued by a film-production company that had contracted with "Leroy" to do a film of the novel.) "[T]he trial has been an oddly highbrow exploration of a psycho-literary landscape filled with references to the imagination's fungible relation to reality and the bond that exists between the writer and the work," mused the New York Times. In the Washington Post, David Segal observed, "What we really learned after her many hours on the stand was that Albert is far more fascinating and complicated than the character she confected for the page." But the tabloid New York Post was less sympathetic, sniping, "Boo hoo hoo. It's sad Albert."—D.S., June 21
Lost Highway, Bon Jovi (Mercury Nashville). The veteran Jersey stadium rockers turn hard toward country, following the success of last year's single "Who Says You Can't Go Home"—which won the band its only Grammy to date (for best country collaboration with vocals) and was the first track from a rock artist to top the Billboard country charts since 1977. The New York Times notes that the effort "[yields] unsurprising but reasonably strong results. Mr. Bon Jovi and his wingman, the guitarist Richie Sambora, sing as yearningly together as ever. And their new songs … deliver a familiar payoff of big choruses and earnest lyrics." Some critics don't hear enough country to warrant the hype. The Chicago Tribune calls Lost Highway"pure adult contemporary schmaltz." Others hear too much. The Associated Press' Wayne Parry implores Bon Jovi not to forget its roots: "We've already lost The Sopranos this year. We gotta hold on to what we got. And I guess it doesn't make a difference if it's country or not. But please, Jonnie: Remember where you came from. I'm just sayin'."(Buy Lost Highway)— B.W., June 20
Icky Thump, the White Stripes (Warner Bros.). Critics love the indie duo's new album and its louder, more aggressive sound. Giving it an "A" in Entertainment Weekly, Neil Drumming explains: "There are basically two types of White Stripes fans"—obsessive indie nerds and casual listeners who know the band from its mainstream success. "With seemingly little regard for either camp, they've made a record for both." PopMatters boils it down further: "Summary: whatever particular aspects of the band you liked before, they're back on Icky Thump and sounding as good as or better than before. Summary of the summary: Icky Thump rocks." And Pitchfork strongly endorses the album, writing: "[I]t recaptures a sense of goofy fun and a caustic edge that the duo haven't possessed since White Blood Cells launched them to the A-list." Some still find the White Stripes too minimalist, though. In a relatively positive review for Rolling Stone, Robert Christgau complains that he can't really engage with the music: "Like his sometime heroes Led Zeppelin, Jack White builds monuments. They're suitable for awestruck visits. But they're no place to settle down." (Buy Icky Thump)— B.W., June 19
Flight of the Conchords (HBO, Sundays at 10:30 p.m.). New Zealanders Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have turned their popular folk-parody stand-up act into a sitcom about the duo's struggles to make it big in New York—and critics are charmed by the quirky result. The Washington Post's Tom Shales avows, "The whole show is winningly offbeat, really." But even the most enthralled reviewers worry about overhyping the program. The New York Times' Alessandra Stanley writes that it is "funny in such an understated way that it is almost dangerous to make too much of it—it could collapse like a soufflé when the door slams." The musical numbers are definitely the highlight. A middling review in Variety concludes that the show "is pretty much a snooze until the music starts," and the Hollywood Reporter complains that "after the music stops, there isn't a whole lot going on here, funny or otherwise." Cataloging the Conchords' influences in Slate, Troy Patterson notes approvingly that the pair's songs "stand on their own to tease both the delusions of sensitive young men and the pretensions of pop songs."— B.W., June 18
Bonnaroo. The popular music festival ended Sunday, and the 80,000 fans who traveled to Tennessee to hear the likes of the Police, the White Stripes, and the Flaming Lips seemed pleased, despite the lineup's departure from the festival's roots as a hippie-jam-band confab—though as the New York Times' Jon Pareles notes, "[T]he festival uses its hippie flavor as both a touchstone and something to push against … [Fans] don't just show up for the headliners; they enthusiastically sample all sorts of possibilities." Writing on Entertainment Weekly's blog PopWatch, Whitney Pastorek recalls a conversation she had with Bonnaroo's founder, in which he described the festival as "an iPod on shuffle," and reflects, "I can think of no better description for [Saturday], which was a whirlwind of mandolins and keyboards and Led Zeppelin covers, with a light dusting of '80s nostalgia blowing in on a storm of experimentation." But the festival was not without tragedy; 77-year-old jazz great Ornette Coleman collapsed from the heat and had to be taken to a nearby hospital, and a 25-year-old concertgoer died on Friday—the sixth death in the festival's six-year history.—D.S., June 18


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Dewback is almost perfect.
The design and execution of this item is nearly flawless. Sculpt is great but some of the paint application could have been done better. Highlights are blotchy in a few spots and the saddle strap paint bleeds quite noticeably onto the body. I would have given this a 3.5 but I rounded up.
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I'm a HUGE Star Wars fan, and this addition has just added a new dimension to my collection! The eyes and other details are so lifelike, I sometimes think this guy and his rider will walk right off the shelf! Great job on the faux fur saddle bags. Thanks for bringing this to the fans, SC! Love it!
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Blake's 7 - Audiobooks - Coming Soon
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Blake's 7 - Audiobooks is home to readings of Blake's 7 novels, and a box set which comprises every episode of the reimagined series. Currently available is the Paul Darrow book Lucifer, read by the author, and Blake's 7: A Rebellion Reborn is released this month.
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Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles are a series of 3-CD box sets featuring the original stars of the much-loved TV series reprising their roles in these dramatic readings - comprising a mixture of narration and dramatised scenes.
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Open discussion on public financing of Bucks arena held
Business leaders start dialogue on replacing 25-year-old BMO Harris Bradley Center
Milwaukee area business and civic leaders joined with a public audience Monday to discuss if, and how, the arena for the Milwaukee Bucks should be replaced.
The discussion at Marquette University Monday centered around the topic of what tangible benefits would be gained by building a new arena in Milwaukee, and how such a project should be funded.
At 25 years old, the BMO Bradley Center is one of the oldest arenas in use in the NBA. A gift from the Petit Foundation, some in the community have voiced concerns that without a new venue, the Milwaukee Bucks could move to another city.
The chair of the Bradley Center board said full, private funding for a new arena is unlikely.
"It would be great if somebody else stepped up like Jane Bradley did and contributed an enormous amount of money," said Marc Marotta. "I don't think it is going to happen."
Sports economist Andrew Zimbalist said, on average, financing for new professional sports facilities has been about 65 percent public and 35 percent private.
Opponents of public funding said taxpayer money should go toward more pressing needs than a professional sport venue.
"I think we'd lose a big opportunity if all we said is 'What's the cheapest, easiest, least-expensive way?" said Cory Nettles of Generation Growth Capital. "We ought to be thinking about the broader opportunity."
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce President Tim Sheehy said he hoped a task force could emerge from Monday's discussion in order to help guide leaders toward the best decision for the city
"This is a very transparent, public discussion," Sheehy said. "It think it's necessary and a great place to start."
Sheehy said he hopes a task force will come together, possibly, by mid-summer.