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Excelsior is a member of the Singapore-based Raffles Campus Group, an educational management group that specialises in the development, management and operations of international schools catering to children from the age of 3 to 18 years. It is controlled by a not-for-profit Singapore-based organisation, Raffles Campus Foundation Limited.
Over the past 10 years, Raffles Campus has operated and managed Excelsior International School in Singapore, Raffles International School (two campuses) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) and Raffles International School in Rajasthan, India. In early 2015, Raffles Campus commenced its operations and management of its first pre-school in Australia.
Experienced in operating and managing a number of global campuses, Excelsior provides students with a campus environment that facilitates cross-cultural experiential learning, and supports the philosophies of cultural respect and intercultural awareness and understanding.
The EIS interact club has been serving and giving back to the community since its inception by sponsoring activities such as the Run for Hope which primary objective is to raise funds for the Tunku Laksamana Johor Cancer Foundation ("Foundation")
Excelsior International School's Interact Club is a service club for students ages 12 - 18 whose primary purpose is to give students a chance to make a difference in the world. EIS Interact club is sponsored by Rotary Club Johor Bahru Sentral. Rotary International is an international service organisation whose stated human rights purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world. It is a secular organisation open to all people regardless of race, colour, creed, religion, gender, or political preference. There are 34,282 member clubs worldwide. 1.2 Million Individuals called Rotarians have joined these clubs.
This year, as part of our community service program, EIS Interact Club in support of Rotary Club Johor Bahru Sentral will be launched the "Plant a Tree Campaign" which is meant to instill an environment loving culture among our youths. This project involves Interact Club members and primary students from the Excelsior International School, and 16 orphans from the SHAFAR Welfare Organisation (Pertubuhan Kebajikan Shafar), Johor Bahru.
The launch was held on the 23rd September 2016 by His Highness Tunku Idris Iskandar Ibni Sultan Ibrahim, Tunku Temenggong Johor during the Rotary Club Johor Bahru Sentral 5th Installation Dinner at Doubletree, by Hilton, Johor Bahru, Johor. EIS staff and students were in attendance where EIS Interact Club president Lim Ee Lyn helped launch the event. In addition to launching the project EIS also had both primary and secondary students perform a song for all in attendance.
The campaign is aimed to be the biggest community tree-planting and nature care event in Johor. Coordinated by Rotary Club Johor Bahru Sentral and proudly sponsored by Asia Plantation Capital, these are special days for all to help out by planting and caring for native trees and shrubs to improve the environment in which they live in.
EIS is proud that students from our school in both our Primary section and students from our Interact club are teaming up with students from Shafar orphanage to participate in this important community service endeavour.
In the final week of September Excelsior International School in Johor celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Students enjoyed a 'week-long Chinese riddles' competition, presentations by their peers on various aspects of the festival, student-produced videos and a Mooncake tasting session.
This full week of activities, information sharing and fun challenges based in, and coming from, the Mandarin lessons, ensured that all students were able to become aware of, and celebrate this annual Chinese event.
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Excelsior International school staged the first of their Curriculum Information Sessions for the academic year on Saturday 5th September 2015. At 9.30am, the Head of Primary and Early Years, Mr Tony Blacklock, with assistance from his specialist teachers, gave an overview of the curriculum for Nursery to Grade 5 at Excelsior. Parents and students were then invited to visit the individual homerooms for further presentations specific to each age group. At 11.00am the Head of Secondary and High School, Mr Ian Stanley gave a presentation regarding the curriculum and the study strands all the way through Grades 6 to 12. After a short genera question-and-answer session, students and parents then had the opportunity to meet with individual subject teachers.
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Excelsior International School hosted 48 teams for the Johor State round of the Rotary International Interactors I-Quiz on Saturday 22nd August 2015. This is a general knowledge and 'knowledge of Malaysia' quiz for students aged from 12 to 18 Years and leads onto national and international finals. A crowd of over 300 participants and supporters enjoyed a wonderful morning of friendly competition.
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On 15th August students and parents packed the auditorium at the Excelsior International for an Orientation/Information session prior to the school beginning on Monday 17th August.
Following a welcome/welcome back from School Principal, Mr Julian Leah, the Chairman of Excelsior, Mr Ng Boon Yew, presented a review of the previous year and outlined the developments put in place and the plans for the forthcoming academic year.
Following the welcome back to returning teachers and the introduction of the new teachers, students and parents were then able to visit the homerooms and classrooms to find out more from the teachers about the exciting year ahead!
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Excelsior International School was delighted to hold its first Curriculum meeting of the school year 2014/15 for Primary and Early Years parents. This was an opportunity for parents to learn more about the different curricula taught at Excelsior, and to discuss with the homeroom teachers the learning activities planned for the children for the coming academic year. Parents were also able to find out more about how they can best support their children's learning at home.
The meeting was extremely well attended and we thank all those parents who participated.
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The Army is expected to release a report later today revealing the highest number of suicides among troops in nearly three decades, according to CNN.
The network reported this morning that the Army will confirm 128 suicides in 2008, along with 15 suspected suicides currently under investigation among active-duty Soldiers and activated National Guard and Army Reserve troops. The Army also will announce a study of Soldier suicides and links to post-combat stress, CNN says.
Not including the cases now under investigation, the suicide rate among Soldiers is 20.2 per 100,000, according to the Army, which last month said the nation's suicide rate was 19.5 per 100,000. The national statistic is from 2005 but is the most recent, the Army said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is urging President Barack Obama to step up efforts to conserve public lands as he begins his second term.
Babbitt, who led Interior for eight years under President Bill Clinton, said Obama should adopt what Babbitt called a common-sense principle: For every acre of public land leased to the oil and gas industry, one acre should be permanently protected for future generations.
Over the past four years, more than 6 million acres have been leased for oil and gas, compared with 2.6 million acres permanently protected, according to U.S. Bureau of Land Management, a ratio of about 2.4-to-1. Under President George W. Bush, the differential was even greater, with 7.5 acres leased for oil and gas for every acre of land conserved.
"This lopsided public land administration in favor of the oil and gas industry cannot continue," Babbitt said in a speech Tuesday at the National Press Club.
With increased development comes greater use of roads that "carve up and fragment the landscape," along with more pollution of streams and lakes and loss of backcountry that serves as prime hunting areas and habitat for wildlife, Babbitt said.
"Entire landscapes and ecosystems are despoiled. Open space is ever harder to find and enjoy" he said.
Adoption of the one-to-one principle would ensure that conservation is on equal standing with energy development, Babbitt said, and would ensure that outdoor recreation, tourism, hunting and fishing are on equal ground with the interests of oil and gas companies.
Babbitt, a Democrat, said Obama cannot count on cooperation from Congress — especially the Republican-controlled House, which he said is "more interested in throwing itself off metaphorical cliffs than protecting any real ones."
The two-year Congress that just ended was the first since the 1960s not to protect a single acre of wilderness, a fact Babbitt called shameful.
To achieve his conservation goals, Obama must use his executive authority under laws such as the Antiquities Act, Babbitt said, noting that presidents from Theodore Roosevelt on have used the law to protect nationally important lands.
While he did not call for specific acreage amounts that should be set aside, Babbitt said Obama and his cabinet should set annual land conservation goals. If the goals are not met, the administration should suspend quarterly sales of oil and gas leases until the conservation goals are reached, Babbitt said, calling such a threat a strong incentive for Congress to act.
Conservation groups hailed Babbitt's remarks and said they hoped Obama would consider them as he ponders his environmental legacy.
Lands entrusted to the public provide more than just revenue, said Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development, a coalition of sportsmen's groups. Public lands "are a big part of our history, our heritage and identity," the group said.
Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, blasted Babbitt's remarks, saying his proposal was based on a false premise. About 37 million acres of BLM land have been leased for oil and gas development over the years, compared with 293 million acres that have been set aside for conservation, Bishop said.
"This disparity clearly favors conservation but also reinforces the fact that deserving places are already being protected," he said in a statement. "Instead of villainizing American energy developers, Secretary Babbitt should accept the fact that energy development, multiple use and conservation are not mutually exclusive activities."
Babbitt said after his speech that he is optimistic Obama will take his advice, adding that he was heartened by Obama's reference to the threat posed by climate change in his inaugural address.
"I think he's awakened to these issues," Babbitt said. "We're going to see more protection."
Babbitt said he had no inside information on Obama's likely choice to replace outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, but said he was satisfied with all of the names he has heard so far.
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I am using a 2204 device and I want to read one sample at a time (every 10ms) in the Compatible streaming mode. So I use ps2000_run_streaming(handle, 10, 1, 0). Now inside a while loop, I read value using ps2000_get_values(handle, &value, NULL, NULL, NULL, &overflow, 1) here value and overflow are defined as short. There is a sleep of 10ms inside the loop (usleep of 10000 us).
The problem I face is as follows. Unless I put a sleep of at least around 300ms after the ps2000_run_streaming and before the start of the loop (i.e., before the invocation of first ps2000_get_values), the return value of ps2000_get_values is zero (i.e., the function does not read any value). With the sleep of 300ms before the loop, it works for few iterations (10 to18 times) and then starts giving return value of zero for next many iterations.
The documentation says that short ps2000_ready is only applicable in the block mode so I assume I dont have to wait for the device/driver to be ready after starting the streaming and before reading a value or between two invocations of ps2000_get_values if there is a sleep of the time equal to the sampling rate.
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If you want to change the world, start from yourself Mahatma Gandhi
Well, what to start with…
Have you ever thought what it means "to change the world"? Should we change ourselves? Somebody else? Or something around?
Most of us will say about having no possibilities or no time for it, etc. All those are just small lies to calm ourselves down and go on whatever we did before. But is this attitude the one that can protect us, our families or friends? The one that will give us guarantees of peacefulness of the future life? Don't you think it even sounds awkward?
The point is we are responsible not only for our own future but for the future of the world in whole. Somebody calls it the "butterfly effect", others say about the higher material, but the sense is one: everything is connected and influences one another. We'll never be able to predict all the consequences of our actions, but, believe me, there, for sure, will be some positive ones. And if you want with all your heart to help anybody, nothing can stop your wish from becoming the reality.
Think of the problems of the world level such as poverty, hunger, violations of rights, lack of educational opportunities… It is so hard to imagine how people live with it, what they feel like. To say honestly, I can't do this. We live in the modern society. We, actually, are this modern society. So do you really think that if everyone makes even a small step towards solving these problems, they'll stay unsolved?
Each our act, failed try, kind thought will become first of those small steps toward the better world. Stop thinking it is useless to change anything. It will never be too late for changing for better. E.g., just an ordinary smile can do enough for another person to turn him for the good and kind things in life. There is a huge amount of different charity and volunteer projects. Choose the sphere you like and move on! You can take your old toys to any orphanage, for example. It isn't hard and children will be so happy with receiving them.
One of the most inspiring projects of such kind was started by the UNICEF UK yesterday. It is called #IF. It is the campaign for ending the hunger in the world. I support their idea: "If the world has enough food for everyone, why are people dying of hunger?" Despite not being the UK citizen, I'm really excited about this project. It is amazing and I hope it will succeed.
In the end I ask you to remember: a long way starts with a small step. Make your small steps towards the better world!


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A letter or note is something that the child can feel, keep and remember for years to come, and a few simple words can work wonders for their self-esteem. A little note in their lunch box, or under their pillow as a secret surprise, can brighten the day.
Tell them what makes them incredible, how important they are, why you're proud of them, or how they've changed your life.
We may be a little biased, but we feel that every kid who uses our cribs and beds is extra incredible, based on their strength, desire and fight to get healthy.
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Before & After(s): 1 Bedroom, 5 Different IKEA Makeovers
IKEA has a feature on their website called Room Revivers that includes a tagline, "keep your furniture, reinvent your room". YES! That is how it works - furniture is simply not supposed to be disposable and the power of decorating really is all about the details. Jump below for a look at this plain room, dressed up five different ways...
It's a worthwhile illustration of just how powerful color, pattern, texture and lighting are — even with all of these rooms are dressed with similar type goods from the same retailer, they still present different style personalities.
From a sophisticated brown based room to the more dramatic rich purple based room to the neutral-of-the-moment gray based room to amore traditional Scandinavian red room and finally to a clean, light and bright blue based room; each setup is distinctive even though the items included all have a familiar IKEA flavor.
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Swapping your Kenosha County home's windows doesn't have to be an annoying ordeal any more. Vinyl windows are available in both a "New Construction" style and a "Replacement" version. Insert, pocket, or slide in windows are popular phrases associated with replacement windows. New construction windows are typically installed with nailing flanges in openings on new construction Kenosha County buildings or where new windows are needed because of deterioration on existing window frames. Vinyl windows are now sold in all styles and sizes, most often being "custom sized" to fit properly.
Vinyl windows normally offer maintenance free exteriors, welded corners, night latches, foam filled frames, and tilt in features for easy maintenance. Interior color options usually include white or beige or some simulated wood-grain looking colors. Energy Star rated vinyl windows come with a variety of insulated glass packages including triple glazed glass and argon or Krypton gas. Lifetime warranties are common in the vinyl window market in Kenosha County. Some are transferrable to the second owner, some even include accidental glass breakage coverage. Correct installation is vital to achieving high energy efficiency ratings from the new windows.
When swapping your windows with complete replacement units, the old window is removed completely down to the studs and you normally get new interior casing. The new window should be relatively the same size as the old window giving you about the same amount of glass as before. All new windows need to be properly shimmed, insulated, sealed and secured into place. Nailing flanges and nailing flange tape are crucial tools when installing new construction windows. The external side of the new window should be flashed and sealed to the exterior siding or brick. There are many different products available in the Kenosha County market to finish off the outside of a new window.
Pocket windows allow the new window to be installed within the existing window frame leaving all of the inside woodwork as is. Generally, this is a much quicker and less expensive way of replacing windows. The interior woodwork stays and the outside of the window frame normally gets covered in aluminum coil or replaced with some kind of maintenance free composite type of material. The disadvantage is while you should be getting a new energy efficient window you will probably lose glass space. Remember, you are installing a new window inside of an existing window frame. Insert replacement windows are very commonplace and probably the most popular and cost effective way to replace windows in your Kenosha County residence.
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IQ has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands of research studies. Scholars have studied the link between IQ and race, gender, socioeconomic status, even music. Discussions about the relationship between IQ and race and the heritability of IQ (perhaps most notably Steven Jay Gould's Mismeasure of Man) often rise to a fever pitch. Yet for all the interest in the study of IQ, there has been comparatively little research on other influences on performance in school.
Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman estimate that for every ten articles on intelligence and academic achievement, there has been fewer than one about self-discipline. Even so, the small body of research on self-discipline suggests that it has a significant impact on achievement. Walter Mischel and colleagues found in the 1980s that 4-year-olds' ability to delay gratification (for example, to wait a few minutes for two cookies instead of taking one cookie right away) was predictive of academic achievement a decade later. Others have found links between personality and college grades, and self-discipline and Phi Beta Kappa awards. Still, most research on self-discipline has achieved inconsistent results, possibly due to the difficulty of measuring self-discipline. Could a more robust measure of self-discipline demonstrate that it's more relevant to academic performance than IQ?
To address this question, Duckworth and Seligman conducted a two-year study of eighth graders, combining several measures of self-discipline for a more reliable measure, and also assessing IQ, achievement test scores, grades, and several other measures of academic performance. Using this better measure of self-discipline, they found that self-discipline was a significantly better predictor of academic performance 7 months later than IQ.
How did they arrive at this result? They studied a group of 8th-graders at the beginning of the school year. They used five different measures of self-discipline: the Eysenck Junior Impulsiveness scale (a 23-question survey about impulsive behavior), the Brief Self-Control Scale (13 questions measuring thoughts, emotions, impulses, and performance), two questionnaires in which parents and teachers rated the student's self-discipline, and a version of Mischel's delay of gratification task. Students were given an envelope containing $1, and were told they could spend it immediately or bring it back in a week for a $2 reward. The students were also given an IQ test (OLSAT7, level G).
At the end of the school year, students were surveyed again and several measures of academic performance were taken. The data included final GPA (grade point average), a spring achievement test, whether they had been admitted to the high school of their choice, and number of hours they spent on homework. All except two measures correlated more strongly to self-discipline than to IQ. Scores on spring achievement tests were correlated both to self-discipline and IQ, but there wasn't a significant difference. Duckworth and Seligman suggest that this could be partially due to the fact that achievement tests are similar in format to IQ tests. The other area where there was no significant difference was in school absenses.
Most impressive was the whopping .67 correlation between self-discipline and final GPA, compared to a .32 correlation for IQ. This graph dramatically shows the difference between the two measures:
Both IQ and self-discipline are correlated with GPA, but self-discipline is a much more important contributor: those with low self-discipline have substantially lower grades than those with low IQs, and high-discipline students have much better grades than high-IQ students. Even after adjusting for the student's grades during the first marking period of the year, students with higher self-discipline still had higher grades at the end of the year. The same could not be said for IQ. Further, the study found no correlation between IQ and self-discipline—these two traits varied independently.
This is not to say this study will end the debate on IQ and heredity. The study says nothing about whether self-discipline is heritable. Further, the self-discipline might be correlated differently with achievement for different populations; this study covered only eighth graders in a relatively privileged school. Perhaps self-discipline has a different role at other ages, or in more diverse populations (though the study group was quite ethnically diverse—52% White, 31% Black, 12% Asian, and 4% Latino). Perhaps the most important question which remains is how best to teach children self-discipline—or whether it can be taught at all.
Duckworth, A.L., & Seligman, M.E.P. (2005). Self-discipline outdoes IQ in predicting academic performance of adolescents. Psychological Science, 16(12), 939-944.


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New York Rangers sign forward Lee Stempniak
Free agent forward Lee Stempniak signed a one-year contract with the New York Rangers on Saturday.
The New York Post reported that the deal is worth $900,000.
Stempniak had a combined 12 goals and 22 assists in 73 games with the Calgary Flames and Pittsburgh Penguins last season. He spent the majority of the season with Calgary before being traded to Pittsburgh.
In the playoffs, Stempniak had two goals and one assist in 13 games with the Penguins.
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This method was created for the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard but it should be relatively easy to modify for any other motherboard.
You will be creating a Boot USB that can be used to install OS X Mountain Lion on a Hackintosh or a genuine mac.
Clean install
- A USB drive (8 GB) or a spare partition. We'll assume you'll use a USB device here
- An install partition for OS X Mountain Lion. Let's call it MountainLion
- A DSDT.aml (optional)
- v2.1: install.zip
- Buy and download Mac OS X Mountain Lion from the App Store.
- In Disk Utility, format the USB as Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and give it some name: We'll use Boot here but it can be anything. Make sure that "GUID Partition Table" is selected under "Options..."
- If you already have a custom DSDT.aml you wish to use, add it to install/Extra/. Note that if you add a custom DSDT, it must be named DSDT.aml. If you don't add a DSDT, one will be created for you when you run finalize (See below). Although the included patcher was made to support GA-P35-DS4 it has also been confirmed to work well with a number of other Gigabyte boards similar to GA-P35-DS4. The method used by default is for ALC889A sound and requires a specific ID (layout ID 12) in your DSDT to work. There are more details in 'ALC885HDA_Lion_MLion_V1.00/Readme First.txt' included in install.zip
- In Terminal:
sudo install/mkboot /Volumes/Boot/
- Boot your USB device and install Mountain Lion on /Volumes/MountainLion as you normally would.
- Wait for the installation to finish. When your machine reboots in the end, boot onto the USB device again
- Open up a terminal via the Utilities menu:
./finalize /Volumes/MountainLion
- The USB device can now be ejected and OS X can be booted from the hard drive.
- Once you've gone through creating or migrating accounts, open System Preferences -> Energy Saver and check the box by "Start up automatically after a power failure"
- All done.
Sleep, network, and sound works on GA-P35-DS4. For a substantially different motherboard you'll need to modify mkboot and finalize appropriately.
How does it work?
mkboot is a bash script that installs Chameleon, the things needed from the Mountain Lion install app, and other tidbits to the target volume.
finalize is a bash script as well. It is copied over to the boot USB by mkboot and installs Chameleon etc. on the target volume.
Both scripts are commented and include links to the sources of the included software.
I'm a Terminal newbie. What to do?
Welcome to the wonderful world of the Unix terminal Here are some extra instructions:
- Once you've downloaded install.zip it should reside in the Downloads folder. Safari either unpacked it for you or you can do it yourself by double clicking the file.
- Open a terminal. Write cd Downloads and press enter.
- Copy and paste the command from step 4 in Directions and press enter.
Known Issues
A shutdown can in some situations cause OS X to warn that it has recovered from an error on the next boot. Apart from the warning this doesn't seem to causing any problems.
Make sure you are actually booting from the USB device. On Gigabyte, you can press F12 on POST to get a boot menu.
Error reporting
- If you have problems please follow these guidelines when posting in this thread and Forum:
- Report your hardware including motherboard and graphics card. Check whether the graphics card is reported as working in Mountain Lion by others.
- Report whether you have made any modifications to the install package.
- Report exactly when the error happens. On running the script? If so, which one? On booting the USB device? On booting the hard drive?
- Report what you've already tried that didn't work.
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Priests for Life intends to implement a bold and ambitious new media plan in 2001. By utilizing paid media in an extremely daring manner, we will be able to take our message to more people outside conventional Church circles, and to do so more extensively than the pro-life movement has been able to do in 30 years.
This radically innovative strategy will be accompanied by an equally powerful message. Over 4000 abortions take place in the United States every single day. We know from research and direct pastoral experience that these abortions cause incredible harm to the women who have them--- physically, emotionally, spiritually and psychologically. The people of this country need to be told that the doors of the Church are open to anyone who has had an abortion and is now suffering from the consequences. Over the last three decades, the Church has been successful in disseminating the message that abortion is wrong. But too many people still do not know that we also offer alternatives to abortion, counseling services, medical and legal assistance, and most importantly, forgiveness, to any woman who has had an abortion. This is an extremely powerful message for several reasons: 1) it is compassionate and demonstrates that the pro-life movement and the Church are not simply "pro-fetus"; 2) it effectively conveys the fact that abortion harms women; and 3) it is impervious to attack from the pro-choice opposition.
We intend to take this message directly to the people this year in an unparalleled way, utilizing every form of mass media. Specifically, we are prepared to take the following actions in what we are calling our "2001 Media Blitz."
In addition to these items, we will employ all the methods that have served us so well during the last five years of dramatic growth: our five full-time priests will continue traveling around the country, taking this message to the pulpits; we will continue faxing information to all 19,000 American parishes, our column will continue to be syndicated in scores of diocesan newspapers; and, we will continue to expand our programming on EWTN, the Odyssey Network, Vatican Radio, and Catholic Family Radio.


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As I walked through the lobby of my office building the other day following some time off during the holidays, I noticed that the Christmas tree, the assorted little snowmen, the lights and other decorations were still up. I had a flashback to the time, many years ago, when my young children and I would gather together to put up -- and then take down -- the Christmas tree. It had become our little tradition. Until, that is, when it was no longer; when I had to dismantle it myself but just let it sit there, untouched. For a long time.
Here's what happened: From my children's earliest years, on through my divorce and years as a single parent, we would gather together for a small party to decorate the tree. We'd join again to take it down on New Year's Day, sort of like bookends to the holiday season; a transition into the new calendar year. We accompanied both events with playing songs from my old Elvis' Christmas album, some treats for my kids and a big glass of wine for me. But over the years, my children grew and their interest faded. And it was hard for me to recognize and accept that.
I may sound like a sentimental, aging midlife father, but I still smile to myself recalling how enjoyable our tradition was for us for many years. It went like this: A couple of weeks before Christmas, after we set the tree up in its stand, we would retrieve the large shipping carton that contained the ornaments and lights from the previous year. But before doing anything, we would bring out some homemade cookies for the children and some good Bordeaux for me. And then, to initiate our decorating party, I would begin playing Elvis' old Christmas album -- an original copy, which I had bought as a teenager.
Though now in delicate condition, the old LP's sound remained clear and vibrant on the stereo. My kids liked Elvis' version of classic songs, like "Here Comes Santa Claus," but also enjoyed his more adult rock numbers, like "Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me" or "Santa Claus Is Back In Town," my own favorites.
As Elvis sang, we began taking turns picking out ornaments to attach to those little wire clips for hanging on the tree's branches. Some had little loops built into them, which made it easier for small hands. Next were some hand-made decorations my older sister sent us each year, embroidered with my children's names. Finally, up went a few very old, fragile ornaments bestowed by my mother, probably of 1940s or '50s vintage. Some were thin, almost translucent bells; others, round colored balls so delicate they might crumble if you held them too tightly. The kids would argue about who would string up the lights first, of course. And then we'd top the tree with a Star of David -- a nod to their mother's heritage.
So that was the scene for many years: Elvis singing in the background, a large glass of red wine for me and cookies for them (along with the occasional peppermint candy cane they snatched from one of the tree's branches when they thought I wasn't looking). Oh, and we'd have to keep shooing the dog away from lapping up the water in the tree stand. He seemed convinced it was his special water dish.
On New Year's Day, we reconvened to take the tree down. The presents had been cleared away from beneath the tree by then, leaving it looking a bit naked and abandoned. It was a bittersweet marking of the end of school vacations and the holiday season. But, I liked making it into a transition, as well; to a brand new year ahead, one of new adventures and experiences. An ending and a beginning at the same time.
With Elvis again providing background music, we carefully removed the decorations and put them back into their resting place for another year. Finally, I would carry the tree outside and dump it where the city would pick it up.
The years passed. I see now that I wanted our little tradition to continue forever. In fact, change and transition had been steadily underway in our lives, all along. We were a family of divorce. The kids were getting older, moving from childhood interests and toys towards pre-teen awareness and then into adolescent awakening. Splitting holidays and vacations had become part of a new "tradition." Along the way, my children had become less enamored of our old one, especially when it came time to take down the tree.
"Oh, God -- Dad's about to play his Elvis album again?" Or, "Just start without me -- I'll be there in a minute; this movie's almost over."
It became an increasing challenge just to coordinate their schedules for doing the tree-taking-down thing. It was difficult finding a day or time when they wouldn't be out with friends or otherwise enjoying themselves before heading back to school or off to college. In truth, I was trying to hold onto the old experience whose enjoyment to them had been declining along the way. I wanted it frozen in place, forever.
Of course, reality has a way of slapping you in the face, a bit harder each time until you take notice. As my kids would have said back then, "Earth to Dad -- Hello!" On one year, it became apparent that I was going to have to dismantle the tree by myself. My youngest -- the only one still in high school and still at home after New Year -- was already absorbed in the new semester. So I shouldn't have been surprised to hear him say, "Hey, Dad, how about you dismantle the tree and then I'll carry it outside for you when it's ready?" By then, it was shedding needles in droves, which were making their way throughout the house. Accelerated, no doubt, by my having not given it any water for several weeks.
I procrastinated. I just let the tree just sit there, decked out in its Christmas array, looking like someone still dressed for a party long since ended. What I'm saying is that I really let it sit there. Until February. OK, late February. And yes, it was a total powder keg at that point.
At that moment, I recalled from my own youth the story of a strange, reclusive family who lived a few miles from us. They still had their tree up well past Easter. One day, a family member's cigarette apparently set it on fire and it went up like a torch. The house burned to the ground in a matter of minutes.
Perhaps my memory of that house going up in flames reminded me that life is constantly changing from something to something else, and that I needed to accept this small illustration in my life. So, one weekend afternoon I took down the tree myself, sans kids, sans Elvis. I quickly removed the lights and ornaments, packed them away, and then dragged the thing -- needles flying through the air, into my face, onto my coat; I didn't care at that point -- out the front door and onto the street.
Actually, I had waited until the dead of night. I didn't want to deal with any neighbors asking why I was pulling this needle-shedding dead tree through the front door and out into the street two months after the city had finished collecting them.
The lesson for me -- llifelong, needless to say -- was that anything you hope to keep permanent and hold onto forever -- a special moment of time, an experience that makes you feel truly alive, a relationship that you don't want to ever change -- you can't. Trying to do so is illusory, because everything changes; all is transitory. But that's not always or only "negative." It depends how we experience it; what we do with it.
From that point forward, it became a bit easier to accept what my children did or didn't enjoy participating in with me as they grew older. And I began to realize that there are always new possibilities. For example, my intention to have a Quebecois-themed holiday party someday, replete with French-Canadian deserts made from handed-down recipes from my father's forebears. And, perhaps...my now grown-up children will enjoy being there.
Douglas LaBier, Ph.D., a business psychologist and psychotherapist, is director of the Center for Progressive Development in Washington, D.C. You may contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com. To learn more about him, click here.


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Summer Sounds
Long Island Philharmonic
Enjoy the stirring sounds of the Long Island Philharmonic when the orchestra returns to Eisenhower Park for its annual free summer concert. Music Director David Stewart Wiley leads his ensemble in a concert of all-time favorites, aptly titled, "Music Under the Stars." The varied program includes the finale movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, Morton Gould's "American Salute," music from Howard Shore's score for "The Lord of the Rings," Bach, Dvorak, Saint-Saens, and much more. The orchestra' own, violinist Gregor Kitzis, playing the musical saw, brings a unique sound to the performance, with tenor Christopher Macchio as the concert's other guest soloist. The rousing finale concludes with a spectacular fireworks show by Grucci.
Friday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m. Eisenhower Park's Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre, East Meadow (631) 293-2223 or www.liphilharmonic.org.
Family Fun
'The Little Mermaid Jr.'
The beloved tale of the beautiful young mermaid, Ariel, in her magical underwater kingdom springs to life once again in Plaza Theatrical Productions' staging of the enchanting musical, adapted from the Disney's 2008 Broadway production. Ariel longs to leave her ocean home — and her fins — behind and live in the world above. But first she'll have to defy her father King Triton, played by East Meadow's John Waryas. Then she must make a deal with the evil sea witch Ursula, portrayed by Katie Quigley, of Franklin Square, and convince handsome Prince Eric that she's the girl whose enchanting voice he's been seeking. The cast also includes Baldwin's Jeremy Smith as Ariel's friend and confidante, Sebastian.
Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 9-10, 11:30 and 2 p.m. $12. The performance is followed by a meet and greet with the cast. Long Island Children's Museum, Museum Row, Garden City. (516) 599-6870 or visit www.plazatheatrical.com.


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By Stephanie Simon
BOSTON (Reuters) - Retired FBI agent John Morris made an emotional apology in court on Monday to the families of those named by prosecutors as victims of accused mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, saying he had indirectly tipped off Bulger's gang that one of the victims was cooperating with federal authorities.
"I don't want to ask for your forgiveness, but I do want to express my sincere apology for things that I may have done and things that I didn't do," Morris said, his face reddening and his eyes tearing.
"Not a day in my life has gone by that I haven't thought about this. Not a day in my life has gone by that I haven't prayed … that God give you blessing and comfort for the pain that you have suffered. I am truly sorry."
Morris acknowledged that fellow FBI agents had let him know that Edward Brian "Balloonhead" Halloran was informing on the underworld and under consideration for witness protection.
A short time later, Morris provided that information to fellow agent John Connolly, who had cultivated Bulger as an informant. Morris and Connolly both took money and gifts from Bulger and provided him with tips about FBI investigations.
Defense attorney Henry Brennan asked Morris about how he had decided to turn over the secret about Halloran's work with the government to the underworld.
"I didn't make a decision," Morris said. "Somehow it happened."
"You didn't do it in your sleep, did you?" Brennan asked.
"No," Morris said.
A few moments later Brennan asked: "You knew … you were signing Mr. Halloran's death warrant?"
"No, I thought he was going to be safe," Morris said.
Halloran and a friend, Michael Donahue, were killed in a spray of bullets as they drove out of a restaurant parking lot in May 1982. Prosecutors contend that Bulger carried out that hit.
Donahue's widow and sons sat in court on Monday as Morris spoke directly to them. "I do not ask your forgiveness," he told them. "That's too much. But I do acknowledge it publicly."
Bulger, 83, is on trial for killing or ordering the murders of 19 people during a long run at the helm of the Winter Hill Gang, which authorities say ran bloody extortion and gambling rackets in Boston during the 1970s and '80s.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, though his defense attorney acknowledged in opening statements that Bulger ran an "unbelievably lucrative criminal enterprise" that included drug dealing.
During an aggressive cross-examination, Brennan aimed to discredit Morris by leading him through a long litany of his corrupt acts during his tenure at the FBI, including taking money and gifts from informants, obstructing justice, tipping off organized crime about FBI investigations, carrying on a long affair with his secretary and lying to cover up those actions.
"You were being deceitful?" Brennan asked.
"Yes, I was," Morris answered.
Morris and his close friend and FBI colleague, Connolly, compiled much of Bulger's 700-page FBI informant file. The defense team contends that Bulger was never an informant and that many of the reports attributed to him were falsified.
Morris has acknowledged signing off on several FBI reports relating to Bulger that he knew were inaccurate or misleading. But on Monday, under examination by the prosecution, Morris insisted that he never fabricated information to attribute to Bulger.
"Do you have any question in your mind that Mr. Bulger was an informant for the FBI?" prosecutor Fred Wyshak asked.
"No, sir," Morris replied.
Morris, who was granted immunity for his testimony about FBI misconduct in 1998, now works as a part-time wine consultant and continues to receive a government pension. Connolly is serving a 40-year prison term for murder and racketeering.
Bulger was prominent on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list of fugitives but evaded capture for 16 years before authorities tracked him down in Santa Monica, California, in 2011.
(Reporting by Stephanie Simon; Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Douglas Royalty)


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Five days after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice described what precipitated the deadly incident based on initial intelligence that later proved incorrect, the deputy CIA director told Congress on Thursday.
In a closed-door session with the House Intelligence committee, Mike Morell said Rice was provided with an unclassified version of events at the U.S. mission in Benghazi that left American Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others dead, according to Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the panel.
The assessment concluded that a spontaneous protest over an anti-Muslim video had evolved into an attack on the American consulate, a description that Rice presented in television interviews the Sunday morning after the attack.
Schiff told reporters that he didn't think the intelligence community had politicized the information. "They gave us the best initial assessments, and those proved inaccurate, but they warned us those assessments were subject to change as they got more information," he said.
Rice's comments on national television have drawn fierce criticism, with some Senate Republicans promising to block her nomination if President Barack Obama taps her to replace Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Obama angrily defended Rice on Wednesday at a White House news conference and called the complaints outrageous attempts to besmirch her reputation.
Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Intelligence panel, said Rice "was given that same information we received from the administration through the intelligence community. And that's the information she testified to, end of story."
In one of her TV interviews, Rice said she was providing the "best information and the best assessment we have today."
"In fact this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. That what happened initially was that it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video," she said. "People gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent. Those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary Libya, and that then spun out of control."
That answer has drawn constant criticism from Republicans, who question why Rice failed to call the event a terrorist attack. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said they would work to defeat Rice's selection if she is nominated to be the nation's top diplomat. Graham said Wednesday that he couldn't back anyone who is "up to their eyeballs in the Benghazi debacle."
Ruppersberger said the initial attack on the consulate was chaotic, with "a lot of people running around," while the second attack, on a CIA annex near the consulate, "seemed a lot more sophisticated," with the use of mortars, more clearly pointing to terrorist training and tactics.
Obama aides say the president's vigorous defense of Rice during the news conference should not be seen as a sign that he plans to nominate her for the top job at the State Department. Instead, they said it reflects a frustration within the administration that Rice, a longtime Obama adviser, is being unfairly targeted by Republican lawmakers.
Rice continues to have strong support within the White House as a candidate for the top post at the State Department. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, remains a leading contender as well.
Obama aides say the president hasn't made a decision on that job or others opening in his administration, and may not do so until after Thanksgiving.
In the meantime, several House and Senate committees are conducting hearings on the Libya attack, with the Senate Intelligence Committee meeting Thursday afternoon with Morell and other administration officials. The panels will hear from former CIA Director David Petraeus on Friday, one week after he resigned amid the revelation of an extramarital affair.
The lawmakers viewed video of the Benghazi attack that showed events in real time. They watched a composite of security video from the consulate and a surveillance feed taken by an unarmed CIA Predator drone.
"We saw a real-time film ... of exactly what happened," Senate Intelligence Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told reporters. She said there would be at least two more closed fact-finding hearings before lawmakers would conduct a public session to share what they had learned.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., the committee's ranking Republican, said the videos made it clear that the attacks came from terrorists.
"There were a bunch of bad guys who stormed this consulate in Benghazi, some carrying automatic weapons, others not carrying automatic weapons or any weapons, but firing RPGs, firing borders into the facility as well as to the annex down the road," Chambliss told Fox News. "It's just so obvious to any experienced individual that this was purely a terrorist attack."
Chambliss said he had heard nothing to change his belief that Rice "was saying exactly what the political shop at the White House told her to say."
Clinton has agreed to appear before Congress to answer questions about the Benghazi attack. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Clinton will testify after an independent Accountability Review Board presents its findings. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said she expects the report's completion in December and that Clinton will appear at that time.
Toner said he could not say when the review board would complete its work, but other State Department officials have said it may not be finished until January, meaning that any Clinton appearance could be delayed.
McCain and Graham have called for the creation of a Watergate-style select committee to investigate the attack, but there is little interest in that step beyond a few GOP lawmakers. Both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the existing congressional committees should handle the work.
Associated Press writers Julie Pace and Donna Cassata contributed to this report.


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With cablers loading up on original series, the lazy hazy days of summer programming are gone.
Where cable once looked to the summer as a prime time to launch series without tough competish from broadcast networks, cablers are now bumping into one another as they sked new skeins. Take the ultra-competitive 10 p.m. Tuesday slot. USA, TNT and A&E will do battle in the timeslot with new series, while FX will serve up the new season of "Rescue Me."
USA Network, the highest-rated cabler with skeins such as "White Collar," "Royal Pains" and top show "Burn Notice," will shuffle its Tuesday sked to make room at 10 p.m. for its latest entry, "Covert Affairs," in July as it looks to build a second night of original skeins on Tuesday. TNT's Jason Lee-starrer "Memphis Beat" bows June 22 and A&E's "The Glades," a Florida-set crime procedural with a blue-sky touch, arrives on July 13.
Whether there's enough of an audience to go around and satisfy everyone remains to be seen. Tuesday is the second biggest night of the week for TV viewing — behind Monday — and has been a successful one for originals on USA, FX and TNT.
Jeff Wachtel, USA prexy of original programming, said he knows "Covert Affairs" will face rougher terrain than USA encountered when "Monk" launched eight years ago — or even a couple of years back when "Burn Notice" bowed — but he said USA's top standing means it's not afraid of a challenge.
"You should always be concerned going into any new launch," Wachtel said. "It's not the clear sailing that we had for our summers before. There is more competition now and we don't shrink from that."
USA will move "White Collar" to 9 on the night to provide a launch pad for "Covert Affairs" at 10 (the exact preem date has not been set).
Net launched a successful Thursday block of "Burn Notice" and "Royal Pains" last year and is looking to spread its ratings momentum across the week. "Covert Affairs" stars Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham as CIA agents.
"Memphis Beat" (originally titled "Delta Blues") features Jason Lee as a Tennessee cop who lives with his mother and has an deep connection to the city he patrols. George Clooney and Smokehouse Prods. partner Grant Heslov serve as exec producers — a selling point that Turner will undoubtedly push hard.
With "The Glades," A&E topper Bob DeBitetto said the cabler is trying again to seed an original scripted franchise, after striking out with its past efforts.
A&E has grown leaps and bounds with its reality fare — including "Dog the Bounty Hunter" and "Intervention" — but it wants to play in the scripted game. After surveying the field, DeBitetto said Tuesday seemed like the optimum spot for "The Glades," which stars Aussie newcomer Matt Passmore as a Chicago cop who's forced by circumstances to move to Florida.
"Summer has become very competitive and there are no perfect windows free of competition," DeBitetto said. "We like Tuesday. We've looked carefully at what's on cable and broadcast and tried to take it all into account."
With so much activity on the night, marketing will play an even bigger factor than usual in determining which shows get sampling. USA would seem to be in the pole position as it already has more viewers than A&E, TNT and FX.
For "Rescue Me," FX is breaking the series' remaining 19 episodes into two seasons, the first of which bows June 29. The net has had success with the 10 p.m. timeslot for other shows, and it's been home to "Rescue Me" for a while. The current season of "Justified" is performing well there and "The Shield," the show that made FX a viable cable entry for scripted dramas, was also a 10 p.m. Tuesday player.
This year, FX is gambling that it can ride "Rescue Me's" coattails to launch offbeat domestic comedy "Louie," starring Louis C.K.
Meanwhile, the broadcast nets are unlikely to offer up much in the way of scripted competition. NBC will have the second half of a two-hour edition of "America's Got Talent," while ABC has committed to newsmags for at least some of the summer months.


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Raonic down and out after historic marathon U.S. Open match
Milos Raonic helped make history, but he was in no mood to celebrate.
In a U.S. Open round of 16 match that ended at 2:26 a.m., local time on Tuesday (past the 2 a.m. final drinking time in his home province of Ontario) after starting just after 10 p.m., on Monday, the fifth-seeded Canadian lost 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-4 to No. 10 Kei Nishikori of Japan.
The match tied the record for latest finish in U.S. Open history — Mats Wilander and Mikael Penfors (1993) and John Isner and Philipp Kohlschreiber (2012) also ended at exactly 2:26 a.m.
Of course, this was of little consequence for Raonic, who, when asked if playing one of latest matches ever mattered to him, said "Not the slightest bit."
Raonic, whose movement slowed considerably for much of the final set, said it was a serious grind.
"It was quite tiring," he said. "It was a combination of fatigue, pain in some ways and just not feeling like I would expect or hope to feel that late in a match."
Over time, the pain became more of a factor.
"Just stuff I've been dealing with a little bit and you're sort of compensating over," Raonic said, not specifying where he was feeling pain. "You sort of find parts where you're not normally sore are getting sore."
The U.S. Open is famous for matches going well past midnight at Arthur Ashe Stadium — and this one won't soon be forgotten. At four hours, 19 minutes, it was the longest match at this year's tournament by one minute.
"It was fun how many people stuck around," Raonic said. "I think the only thing that was a little bit awkward is you play first (on Saturday), so you have to wake up at 5 a.m. … and then (Tuesday), you're here till 5 a.m. It's a little bit weird, that aspect of scheduling. But other than that, the atmosphere and all those other factors was a lot of fun."
Nishikori appeared to be in big trouble in the fourth set. Dealing with a nagging toe injury, he took a medical timeout to have his foot bandaged and was in clear pain. But he kept fighting, rallying to win a Grand Slam rematch after losing to Raonic in the same round at Wimbledon. Raonic didn't record a single break in the final three sets. Raonic made a whopping 72 unforced errors, while also hitting 86 winners.
The loss ended a horrible 24-hour stretch for Canadians, who are now out of the tournament in the senior ranks. On Monday, Eugenie Bouchard lost for the first time before a semifinal at a Grand Slam this year. Meanwhile, Vasek Pospisil, in men's doubles (he won Wimbledon with his current partner, American Jack Sock), and Gabriela Dabrowski, in women's doubles, also were eliminated from the tournament.
Nishikori next faces No. 3 seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in the quarterfinals. Nishikori is the first Japanese player to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals since Zenzo Shimidzu in 1922.
Raonic had his back against the wall for long chunks of the match against Nishikori, but managed to survive with the help of his big serve. The Thornhill native fought off eight break points in the third set before winning his seventh tiebreak of the tournament, tying for the most won at the event since it moved to Flushing Meadows in 1978. The tie-break loss in the previous set was just his second in 18 such situations this summer hard-court season.
The Nishikori-Wawrinka matchup is an interesting pairing, but it certainly will play second fiddle to Wednesday's other men's quarterfinal — a Big Four showdown between Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.
Raonic, meanwhile, will return to action Sept. 12 for a Davis Cup tie between Canada and Colombia in Halifax.


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CONCERTS & Music
dekk, 134 Reade St., 212-941-9404: Fri-Trio X, co-led by Vinson Valega on drums and Lee Metcalf on guitar playing groove-oriented jazz favorites, 8-11 p.m., no cover; Sun.-The Jazz Brunch, featuring standards & original compositions with the Tony DiGregorio Trio, 1-4 p.m., no cover & no min.; Mon.-Rifftide, with Bryant DuPre & Roman Ivanoff, 7-10 p.m., no cover.
housing works bookstore cafe, 126 Crosby St., 212-334-3324: June 17-Antigone Rising, a female rock group with the sound of Led Zeppelin and the Eagles with a love of pop, 7:30 p.m., $25.
lions den, 214 Sullivan St., 212-477-2782: Live music nightly starting at 7:30 p.m., numerous bands, $8-$10 cover charge.
madison square park conservancy, Oval Lawn at Madison Sq. Park, 5th Ave. & 23rd St., madisonsquarepark.org: June 22-Dar Williams, soprano pop singer/songwriter, 7 p.m., free; June 29-Kenny Garrett Quartet, jazz group, 7 p.m., free.
pen and brush, 16 E. 10th St., 212-475-3669: Call for information about upcoming concerts; Concerts begin at 7 p.m., $5-$12.
St. Georges Chapel, 3rd Ave. between 16th & 17th St., 212-533-1392: June 15-Susan Glass, conduscting Vivaldi & Bernstein, 7 p.m., $10.
trinity church, 74 Trinity place, 212-602-0768: Classical Music performed on a weekly basis as 1 p.m., call for dates and performance details, $2.
DA CAPO ELECTRONICA The renowned Da Capo Chamber Players will present a program offering classics and new discoveries for instruments and tape. Sun., May 15 at 7:30pm. Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St. An informal pre-concert panel will take place at 6:30pm with the composers. $15, $10 students and seniors. 212-219-3006.
the jazz gallery, 290 Hudson St., 212-242-1063: May 12-Jake Gwizdala Project, 9 & 10:30 p.m., $12; May 19-Kristjan Randalu & Bodek Janke duo, 9 & 10:30 p.m., $12.
the lions den, 214 Sullivan St., 212-477-2782: May 13-U-Melt, jam band extraordinaire, 9:30 p.m., $10.
the living room, 154 Ludlow St., 212-533-7235: June 4-Lower East Side shape note sing, voices gather to sing together free monthly, everyone welcome, 3-6 p.m., free.
renee weiler concert hall, 46 Barrow St., 212-242-4770: May 12-The Music of Ignace Strasfogel, organized and presented by the composer himself, 8 p.m., $10-$15; May 20-The Dennis Mitchell 3, 7:30 p.m., $10.
st. peters chelsea, 346 W. 20th St., 212-757-2945: May 13-A Birds Eye View on Andrew Sterman, new music by ths multi-instrumentalist composer, 8 p.m., $5-$15.
tribeca perfroming arts center, 199 Chambers St., 212-220-1460: May 20-Mingus - the Guitar Aspect, honoring the music of the jazz master, 8:30 p.m., $25.
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On a rainy Sunday night, her Domino's Pizza order took an hour to arrive and then was the wrong pizza. She turned to Twitter to vent: "hardly any room for human error, but still a mistake."
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CHONTALPA, México (AP) — Hundreds of Central Americans riding atop a cargo train in hopes of getting to the U.S. were being threatened and extorted by armed men before the train derailed and killed at least six, survivors told The Associated Press on Monday.
Many who had sneaked onto the train known as "The Beast" were thrown loose when eight of its 12 cars derailed as it hauled tons of metal junk through a remote, swampy stretch of southern Mexico, witnesses said. At least some of the dead were trapped because they had tied themselves on to avoid slipping as they rode between cars.
Witness accounts offered a close-up look at the horrifying conditions faced by the tens of thousands of Central Americans who cross Mexico in increasing numbers in hopes of finding work in the U.S., even as Mexican migration slows. Gangs of armed men prowl the train line, robbing, kidnapping, extorting and raping those trying to cross Mexico.
Hundreds squeeze together atop the train's cars. Others ride between cars for lack of space, or to obtain shelter from wind and rain.
"Those are the ones who died," Jose Hector Alfonso Pacheco, a 48-year-old Honduran, said in a shelter where Mexican authorities housed dozens of the estimated 250 migrants who were riding on the train.
Workers were still removing tons of wrecked railcars and junk with heavy equipment Monday but had found no additional victims by late in the day. At least five migrants suffered grave injuries, and dozens had less serious injuries.
Mexican authorities said the accident victims can stay in Mexico legally for a year and apply for citizenship if they want.
The dead migrants were between 19 and 58 years old. In an indication of why the toll wasn't higher, authorities said the train was moving only at about 2 miles an hour when it derailed.
Survivors described themselves as having been kidnapped by armed men who were taking them to meet with their chief in the nearby city of Coatzacoalcos, presumably to arrange payments that would allow them to get across Mexico and into the U.S.
Agustin Sorto Ayala, a 22-year-old Honduran, said he saw seven men get on the last car near the town of Chontalpa and move from car to car with flashlights and pistols, telling the migrants that "we had to pay for a 'guide,' we had to pay 'rent,' and if we didn't they wouldn't let us get off the train."
"They had us kidnapped, and when the train derailed, that's how we got loose," he said.
Mexican officials said they were investigating the cause of the crash. State authorities pointed to heavy rains softening the ground beneath the tracks as well as the possible pilfering of metal spikes and rail connectors from the tracks.
Duglas Javier Valdes Venegas, a 35-year-old migrant from Honduras, was trapped under a train car for five hours along with a cousin, who died at a hospital.
Valdes Venegas said from a hospital bed where he was being treated for broken bones that he was singing to his cousin so they wouldn't fall asleep when the accident happened.
"When we didn't have any songs left, the accident happened," Valdes Venegas said.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said the accident was a reminder of the dire conditions faced by migrants on the train.
Honduran and Guatemalan diplomats traveled to the area to help identify victims and make sure the injured were getting needed medical attention, the nations' foreign officials said.
Honduran President Porfirio Lobo offered his condolences to the families of Hondurans who died in the accident through his Twitter account.
"I'm sorry about what happened in Mexico," Lobo wrote. "Several Hondurans died in that train derailment."


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Latest Razer Blade Gets Outfitted with More Potent Gaming Hardware, Costs Less than Predecessor
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The Razer Blade isn't going to be the world's ultimate gaming laptop in terms of sheer performance, but it certainly makes up for it by being surprisingly portable and functional, gaming-wise. With the second-generation Blade, Razer seems to have taken user feedback to heart and improved on the sexy form-factor's innards. "We've been listing to gamers and made a chart of all the pros to keep, and all the cons to address. Every single one of them," declared Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan. Together with Razer's multitouch LCD Switchblade interface, the remarkably thin 0.8-inch aluminum chassis stays on, while almost every component gets an upgrade: an unannounced Core i7 processor coupled with graphics using NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 660M 2GB DDR5, 64GB of speedy SSD SATA III for faster Windows bootup and a 500GB 7200RPM hard disk, along with 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 RAM. The Blade's refreshed sound system is also 250% louder, and apparently produces no distortion. Owners of the previous-gen system get a $500 discount off the new Razer Blade's $2,499 sticker price, the latter of which is considerably lesser than its predecessor's original cost.


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Determining the Optimal Design of a Seafloor Geodetic Observatory on the Cascadia Subduction Zone
Matt Wei,Geology and Geophysics
Jeff McGuire,Geology and Geophysics
The Cascadia subduction zone offshore of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia is capable of generating truly great earthquakes and tsunamis, similar to the March 11, 2011 magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake. That destructive earthquake demonstrated that even the best onshore datasets could not tell us the details of what to expect from an upcoming subduction zone earthquake. The Japanese scientific community was not expecting the Tohoku earthquake to be as large as it was or to generate a truly gigantic, >40m high, tsunami because it did not know the state of the fault far offshore, where most of the fault motion occurred. The subduction zone fault there produced much greater motion at the shallowest depths (i.e. further offshore) than the canonical model of subduction faults suggested was likely. The physical processes that induced this spectacularly large fault motion are likely related to a combination of strain build-up in the shallowest part of the fault and the lubrication of the fault-zone by fluids. The key to understanding these mega-earthquakes is to understand both the strain build up and the fluid flow in the shallowest part of the subduction zone and particularly how these phenomena are coupled to each other.
In December 2011, the W. M. Keck Foundation awarded funds to WHOI to build the instrumentation needed to create a state-of-the-art geodetic observatory offshore of Vancouver Island, part of which would be installed at the existing sub-seafloor hydrological (ACORK) observatory at IODP Site 1364A and provide real-time data to shore via the NEPTUNE Canada cable. This borehole instrumentation will be combined with a spatially distributed seafloor array of autonomously recording absolute pressure gauges and geodetic benchmarks for monitoring transient fault motion and inter-seismic strain respectively. All of the hardware, design, and construction of the geodetic instrumentation is funded by the Keck Foundation. The Keck award does not cover any costs associated with instrument installation. This proposal requests funds to optimize the geometry of the seafloor geodetic benchmark surveys. The centerpiece of our effort will be predicting inter-seismic seafloor deformation and determine the best locations to install the geodetic benchmarks. Our work serves as a preliminary study for future NSF proposal to cover the installation of the instrumentation. Our array will be installed offshore of Vancouver Island to leverage millions of dollars worth of existing seafloor cable infrastructure that will provide real-time telemetry of the borehole tilt and hydrological data. We expect to record transient interdisciplinary phenomena that have never before been studied with seafloor geodetic techniques owing to a lack of suitable instrumentation, but are inferred to exist from related hydrological signals.
Ultimately, our project will create the first combined sub-seafloor geodetic and hydrological observatory with real-time data telemetry, enabling new interdisciplinary studies of the connections between strain and fluid flow in the accretionary prism. Moreover, it will be located directly above the locked zone of one of the most dangerous faults in North America, and our improved understanding of the up-dip extent of the locked zone will improve tsunami hazard models. The data will be available freely in near real-time to the entire community through the Canadian NEPTUNE program.


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Did anyone spend Thanksgiving on the boat? I enjoyed the story in the magazine section about the family spending theirs on the boat and having salmon. I'll take grilled salmon over turkey any day!
Or any other unusual Thanksgiving stories or traditions?
My sons are both married to girls who are blessed with large close families, so they spend turkey day with them. I'm the only family member on my side and a lousy cook to boot, so probably a good choice!
This of course leaves me with the question of what to do with myself here in cold Indiana on Thanksgiving day. Sooooo, I flew to Key West and had fish taco's and margarita's at Margaritaville..............flew back home Monday night..........life is good!


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If not for news stories… then the past two afternoons might have trended into their closes. Thursday's recovery happened to peak when the capitol shooter story broke. Wednesday afternoon's consolidation got word of a meeting at the White House, and that was the end of its trending. The impending weekend might not change that pattern.
Pattern points… (Setups and technicals)
Thursday's session left no unfinished business below, as its 1670.50 bias-down target was met at the morning low. Thursday actually neutralized unfinished business below — retesting the gap back to Monday's 1670.00 opening print, retesting Monday's 1666.75 low, and filling the month-old gap back to 1663.25. The cash session close even equated to the morning's 1670.50 bias-down target. Nice touch.
Just one thing is missing for a rally — a trigger. Buyers gained no traction for their effort Thursday afternoon, so they'll need a gap up Friday to regain control. Actually, since Thursday trended down into its close, gapping up above its 1677.50 bias environment high would trigger a "session-long rally."
Failing to rally need not decline by default. But the door is open. Thursday's late break lower was 1 minute too late to qualify for a hold-short. Extending lower anyway to break under 1662.00 would put into play 1648.00, and potentially 1629.00.
What's Next… (Outlook and opportunities)
Fridays are interesting for their mornings being vulnerable to exacerbating early trending. Exacerbated, or not, morning trending often leads to a predictable afternoon. No morning trending often leads to a slow afternoon. Don't forget, there is no Employment Situation report to serve as a catalyst.
Look for at least one update overnight or ahead of the Morning Market Tour… My thoughts on the day's econ calendar are linked here.


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Lafayette Little League Dominates State Tournament To Advance To Regionals
The Lafayette Little Leaguers (13-14 year olds) won the State Tournament over the host Shreveport team by doing what they had been doing the whole tournament - mercy ruling their opponent.
The team from the Hub City now moves on to the Regional Tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lafayette jumped out 2-0 on Shreveport on two hits in the top of the 1st inning. The boys then tacked on single runs each in the 2nd and 3rd innings (one of them being on a sacrifice fly) before exploding for six runs in the 4th inning to run the score to 10-0, which ended up being the final score in five innings.
Those who have been following this Lafayette Little League team, though, are probably not surprised at this team's easy run through the State Tournament. This is the same group that made it to the Little League World Series (11-12 year olds) in Williamsport in 2011.
This team's next game will be Friday, August 2, in the Regional Tournament, a game that will air on either Sportsradio ESPN 1420 AM or Talkradio 960 AM, both Townsquare Media stations.
Congratulations also goes out to the Lafayette Little League Challenger Team (special needs division) for being selected to represent Challenger Baseball in the Little League Southwest Regionals in Waco, Texas, on July 27. These boys and girls face physical and mental challenges everyday, and this allows them to live out their dreams on the field and be recognized for the superstars that they are.
The Lafayette Community's generosity helped provide them the opportunity to play at the Little League World Series in 2011. If you would like to donate money to the Challenger Team for their trip to Waco, and to help make their experience at the ball park that much better, contact Bryan Molaison at 337-258-5078 or write checks payable to Lafayette Little League and mail to: Bryan Molaison, 103 S. Hantsport Sq. Lafayette, LA 70508.


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Screaming Is Hugh Jackman's Favorite Thing
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" beats "Snikt."
Hugh Jackman's vocal cords must have some kind of mutant healing power. No mere mortal could possibly howl as much as he has and still maintain his singing voice.
Since 2000's X-Men, Jackman has worn the claws of the feral antihero Wolverine five times — and he's at it again this weekend in the succinctly titled The Wolverine. While the flick's box-office success is far from guaranteed, there's one thing you can be sure of: Wolverine sure will do a lot of screaming. It's kind of his thing. To prove our point, here's a compilation documenting the many screams of Jackman's Wolverine. (And like any good superhero movie, it has a surprise at the very end, so make sure you keep watching.)


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Rated PG-13 for brief language, some sexual humor and occasional humorous drug references.
Source: Filmratings.com
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FWDAJ - Rated PG-13
Rated PG-13 for brief language, some sexual humor and occasional humorous drug references.
Source: Filmratings.com
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that's cool.I will watch this film with my family without see some "thinks-not-supost-to-see-with-parents" stuffs.
drat.......... ............i was under the distinct impression that there would be no-holds barred wild sex in it...........lol...........weren't they gonna push the limits of acceptability even further......??....it was something to do with an electric dog collar i believe............lol.........
OF COURSE IT'S A PG 13.......lol......( pity though...lol)
i kind of expect it to be PG-13.
And don't worry we'll get to see those things in the unrated DVD in the few months after it comes out.
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lol............well, from previous films etc he'd have nothing to worry about at all................lol ..................
nope...........he's looking fantastic these days...........lol....................
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