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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A high school teacher's aide in New Mexico is back from administrative leave following an investigation into her taping the mouth of a special needs student.
The incident occurred last month at Rio Grande High School in Albuquerque, according to KOB-TV (http://bit.ly/1cGyZHv ).
The station reported that a 10th-grade student who's autistic and uses a wheelchair was meowing like a cat while on a field trip with his special education class. The aide reportedly told the boy that if he didn't stop, she'd placed tape over his mouth.
After the class returned to school, the boy allegedly kept making noises so the aide applied several pieces of scotch tape over his upper and lower lips in an attempt to silence him.
The Albuquerque Public Schools district put the aide on leave for three weeks, one of which was unpaid, and a letter of reprimand was also placed in the aide's personnel file.
The principal explained to the staff that the district completed a personnel investigation and met with the boy's family.
"We are just as disturbed by it as anyone else," Monica Armenta, executive director of the district's communications department, said of the aide's actions. "It isn't acceptable, and it isn't tolerated."
"I think she should have had more sense than harming a child like that," said Theresa Aragon, a grandparent of a Rio Grande student. "I believe it's abuse — physical abuse, and mental abuse."
The Albuquerque Journal reported that the teacher's assistant denied taping shut the boy's mouth, but declined further comment.
The classroom teacher, who also was placed on leave after the Sept. 24 incident, said the aide "playfully" placed a strip of tape on the boy's upper lip.
Other school employees reported the matter to Rio Grande's assistant principal for special needs, who immediately notified district headquarters.


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The age-old conflict between East and West is endlessly debated by critics in terms of soundtracks, acting abilities and budgets. We thought we'd add to the intellectual debate by examining what really matters to film watchers. Yes, you guessed it…boobs. Read on to see some of film's hottest beauties pitted against each other before our judges. But who will triumph?
10. Tanushree Datta vs Carmen Electra
The judges love the size and weight of both these contestant's creamy jugs, so it's going to come down to form. It's very close, but unfortunately there has to be a winner and Carmen is awarded extra points for perfect shape and pertness. Hollywood wins it – by a nipple.
SCORE: Bollywood 0 – Hollywood 1
9. Bipashu Basu vs Megan Fox
Megan Fox earns some quick early points by appearing in oh-so-cute pink lingerie, accompanied, by a teddy bear – but this contest is about boobs not bears. For sheer pertness Bipashu's bazongas are almost unbeatable, so Bollywood collect the points.
SCORE: Bollywood 1 – Hollywood 1
8. Koina Mitra vs Jennifer Love Hewitt
The talent on display here is cracking – this is going to be a tough one to call. Both achieve excellence in size, weight and poise, but whereas Koina's boast juicy pertness, the accompanying fishnet stockings on Jennifer have swayed us.
SCORE: Bollywood 1 – Hollywood 2
7. Tulip Joshi vs Gisele Bundchen
Gisele is clearly outdone in the size stakes, but her wonderfully bronzed globes are firm enough to open a beer on (which is definitely a good thing). Close, but Hollywood collect the points – although the judges have requested a thorough inspection afterward just to be on the safe side.
SCORE: Bollywood 1 – Hollywood 3
6. Rakhi Sawant vs Tyra Banks
Clash of the Titans here – Tyra's milk factories are conceived on an industrial scale, but are they too large? Don't be stupid. On the other hand Rakhi is hardly lacking in the size stakes… In the end we'll have to mark Tyra down for the suspicion of foul play (a boob job). Bollywood wins.
SCORE: Bollywood 2 – Hollywood 3
5. Raima Sen vs Marissa Miller
This is tough. We've seen exceptional talent in the size, shape and pertness stakes but both these contestants bring all three together into what must be two pairs of nearly perfect funbags. We'll declare this one a tie.
SCORE: Bollywood 3 – Hollywood 4
4. Malika Sherawat vs Jessica Simpson
If this were a melon smuggling contest, neither would do very well; as it is this is a boob perfection contest. Top marks to Malika for size and firmness; Jessica, I'm afraid your cleavage gap means we're going to have to mark you down. Go Bollywood!
SCORE: Bollywood 4 – Hollywood 4
3. Brinda Parekh vs Heidi Klum
A pair of scorchers meet here in this clash of opposing styles: Brinda has gone for the sweetie-pie look, complete with ice-cream cone (which we hope she'll be spilling all over…), whereas the sophisticated Heidi thinks it's elegance men really want in her slinky black dress. Decisions, decisions… can't we put the two together? We're giving it to Heidi, although we would request that Brinda and her ice cream cone join us at the afterparty.
SCORE: Bollywood 4 – Hollywood 5
2. Celina Jaitley vs Lindsay Lohan
Just look at Celina's magnificent mammaries! Just look, man! These are surely some of the advice most glorious knockers to come before our filthy mind. Lindsay, we love what you're doing, but Pinky and Perky just aren't up to scratch in this case.
SCORE: Bollywood 5 – Hollywood 5
1. Sherlyn Chopra vs Scarlett Johansson
So it comes down to the wire in the battle for which industry has the best boobs. Once again epic performances from both sides – great size, hang and tone. On the grounds of pure sultry, raw sex appeal, we're going to give it to Scarlett and Hollywood. Well done both contestants.

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September 2007
Facilitating Applications and Enrollment
Once parents have received information about public school choice and SES, and have chosen to pursue either of these options for their children, they still need to request a transfer by submitting a public school choice application, or services by submitting an SES enrollment form to the district. Below are some ideas for districts to consider in ensuring that these processes are efficient and easy for parents to navigate. Some of the ideas that follow apply only with respect to enrollment in SES, and are designated accordingly.
For additional information on facilitating applications and enrollment, see: Public School Choice Non-Regulatory Guidance, D; Creating Strong District School Choice Programs, pp. 7-16; BuildingChoice.org; Supplemental Educational Services Non-Regulatory Guidance, E-I; and Creating Strong Supplemental Educational Services Programs, pp. 23-30. The links to these resources are provided in Additional Resources at the end of this handbook.


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This recipe and photograph were stolen and published on Shin Min Daily News on the 16 of July 2008, read more here.
四大天王 (Four Kings) has recently gained its popularity in Chinese restaurants. It contains four types of most popular beans namely okra, snake bean (aka long bean), winged bean and petai. I managed to get only three "kings" tonight, it is like short of a player for the mahjang games. However, when those three kings met with sambal and the fresh squid fished by my brother in-law.... no one could resist!
Ingredients (2 servings):
- 1 cup chopped Long Beans
- 1 cup chopped Winged Bean
- 1 cup chopped Okra (aka lady's fingers)
- Handful Petai
- Squid or prawn (optional)
- 1 tbsp Cooking Oil
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 3-4 tbsp Sambal
- Salt to taste
- Heat oil in wok or non-stick pan. Stir in garlic and saute until its aroma is released.
- Add in all "beans" and stir-fry for about 1 minute. Then, stir in squid or prawn.
- Once the squid is curled up, stir in sambal and add salt to taste.
- Stir-fry till the moist is reduced. Dish out and garnish with chopped red chillies (optional).


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Today is the first day of summer, but dont get too eager for the seasonal afternoon showers that take the edge off fierce summer heat, say people who watch weather for a living.
The showers, known as monsoons, could still be weeks away.
We see signals but nothing significant, Wendy Ryan, a climatologist at the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University, said Tuesday.
We have El Niño in a neutral position, Ryan said. If we come out of the La Niña were in, there could be a change, but we just have to wait and see.
Ryan was referring to a phenomenon in the South Pacific. When the ocean waters there warm, its an El Niño, which produces wetter, colder weather elsewhere. If the South Pacific waters cool, its a La Niña, which results in dryer, hotter weather elsewhere.
The Four Corners is in the grip of La Niña now.
As a result of arid conditions, fire officials have upgraded fire restrictions in all national forests and Bureau of Land Management holdings in Southwest Colorado.
Higher elevations where there were no restrictions, now are under regulations that covered lower elevations. Lower elevations now have even stricter requirements.
In short, at lower elevations, campfires and wood stoves are prohibited and smoking is allowed only in an enclosed vehicle or building. A certain type of fire extinguisher must be at hand if chain saws or other internal-combustion engines are used.
Restrictions at higher elevations are less onerous. But maps should be consulted because regulations arent governed by elevation but by natural landmarks.
La Plata County commissioners are scheduled to consider implementing additional fire restrictions immediately and allowing fire chiefs and the sheriff to make exceptions. The board meeting will starts at 9 a.m. today.
Jim Daniels, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, said the monsoons typically begin in mid-July and run through mid-September.
We dont know how typical this year will be, Daniels said. The latest outlook for June and July is that they wont be out of the ordinary, but precipitation this month is expected to be lower than average.
Normal monthly precipitation for June to September is 0.80 inches, 1.93 inches, 2.3 inches and 1.76 inches, respectively.
June is typically the driest month, Daniels said.
As of Saturday, the automated equipment at the Durango-La Plata County Airport registered precipitation at 0.27 inches, below normal for the date, Daniels said.
Daniel said the monsoons are produced when the hot deserts of northwestern Mexico draw moisture from Baja California and the Gulf of Mexico. When the moist air reaches the mountains, it rises, condenses and feeds precipitation into Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.
Colorado is on the northern edge of the monsoons, Daniels said.
Hot, dry weather, aided and abetted by strong wind, has hampered efforts to contain the Little Sand Fire, which was started by lightning on May 13 near Pagosa Springs.
Firefighters have a line around 30 percent of the fire, which has burned more than 13,000 acres in Archuleta and Hinsdale counties.
Overnight Monday, flames had come within 100 feet of the meadow northwest of Poma Ranch. The fire was expected to spread up the North Fork of Sand Creek, an area with a lot of dead and downed fuel.
Meanwhile, around 80 firefighters are battling a wildfire that has burned three structures along the San Juan River in New Mexico.
The New Mexico State Forestry said Tuesday that the blaze has charred an estimated 80 acres by Tuesday evening as crews worked overnight to battle hot spots and strengthening containment lines. The fire has spread over a 5-mile area along the river.
Deputies with the San Juan County, N.M., Sheriffs Office helped residents Monday with overnight evacuations triggered by safety concerns with downed power lines and smoldering trees. The fire is 30 percent contained.
The fire is burning just east of Bloomfield. Its cause is still under investigation.
An early snowmelt this year and the lack of rain has left area rivers hurting. Animas River flow topped out Tuesday at 555 cubic feet a second, The day the Missionary Ridge Fire erupted on June 9, 2002, the Animas was flowing at 481 cfs. (On June 30, 2002, the flow was 172 cfs). The fire eventually burned 72,962 acres.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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BRENHAM, Texas - For 8-year-old Ja'Lea Henderson, school is one of her favorite places to be. But it doesn't take long to realize that she is unique.
"She was born with an amniotic band syndrome," said her mother, Kia Nunn. "We weren't aware when I was pregnant with her. We didn't know until she was born."
The condition left her with limited use of her right arm, making things that are easy for many people a challenge for her.
But with an pink and purple prosthetic arm, which she received just last week, things are easier.
"I haven't learned how to write with it yet but I think that's what I want," said Henderson.
But what may be even more special is where the prosthetic arm came from.
Over the past two years, students studying computer science at Brenham High School have been researching and trying to find a solution for Henderson. With the help of a 3-D printer, they were able to craft the prosthetic arm.
"We have strings running through it and they go from the part that's above her elbow, from her forearm going through this, and then to the fingers," said Benjamin Hart, who helped design the arm.
The new arm also allows Henderson to do more than she could before. That means she can now dress herself.
"Now I can do it by myself and I don't need any help from my mom and dad," said Henderson.
But what she's probably most excited about is her new ability to type with both hands. Something her mother is grateful for.
"I'm trying to hold back the tears. I've cried and I've cried. But it's just an amazing feeling," said Nunn.


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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday held two competing parliament sessions after pro-government legislators stormed out of the official parliament hall and moved to a nearby building in response to a protest by opposition parties.
Opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk called the move a "coup d'etat," branded the offsite parliamentary session unconstitutional and warned that the opposition was ready for an early parliamentary election.
The move was likely to throw Ukrainian politics into further turmoil. Parliament had been virtually paralyzed for months since the October legislative election, which gave a majority to the Party of Regions led by President Viktor Yanukovych. Opposition lawmakers have been paralyzing legislative work in protest of various government policies they consider to be undemocratic.
The president holds the power to dissolve parliament and force a new election.
The most recent protest erupted Tuesday and continued through Thursday morning. Opposition lawmakers had swarmed the podium of the Verkhovna Rada preventing the parliament speaker from starting a session in protest of the ruling party's refusal to call a mayoral election in Kiev. Kiev authorities had come under harsh criticism for failing to properly respond to a severe snowstorm that paralyzed the capital last week.
"It's as if they were making decisions in their own kitchens," Yatsenyuk said. "Any decision made outside the parliament building in an unconstitutional way is meaningless."
But analysts said the opposition's session held inside the official parliament hall but without the necessary quorum was also illegitimate. They predicted that the political crisis could escalate into dissolution of the Rada and fresh parliamentary elections.
"This is a split-up of Parliament, which can lead to its dissolution," said political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko. "Both sides, especially their leaders, have chosen the axes of war and they are ready to go to war."
On Thursday, the opposition continued to occupy the podium at the parliament building, while the pro-government legislators voted to approve to routine pieces of legislation.


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Yayoi Kusama Dots Obsession Descriptive Essay
Yayoi Kusama had a breakthrough in 1965 when she produced Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli's Field. Using mirrors, she transformed the intense repetition of her earlier paintings and works on paper into a perceptual experience.
Over the course of her career, the artist has produced more than twenty distinct Infinity Mirror Rooms, and the Hirshhorn's exhibition—the first to focus on this pioneering body of work—is presenting six of them, the most ever shown together. Ranging from peep-show-like chambers to multimedia installations, each of Kusama's kaleidoscopic environments offers the chance to step into an illusion of infinite space. The rooms also provide an opportunity to examine the artist's central themes, such as the celebration of life and its aftermath.
By tracing the development of these iconic installations alongside a selection of her other key artworks, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors aims to reveal the significance of the Infinity MIrror Rooms amidst today's renewed interest in experiential practices and virtual spaces.
Yayoi Kusama is the artist who filled up her world up with brightly painted spots. Suffering hallucinations and obsessive thoughts since she was a child, her career has been characterised by abrupt shifts in the areas in which she works – film, painting, poetry and 'happenings' to name just four of them. Its incredibly immersive nature, what she has occasionally referred to as 'obliteration', has remained the one constant - from her earliest, 1940s four-inch square drawings influenced by traditional Nihonga paintings, to the work she is still creating today, by all accounts, as formidable as ever at 80-years-old.
Kusama left Japan for America in her twenties, after writing a letter of introduction to painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Once there she quickly became part of the art anti-establishment becoming friends with Eva Hesse and sharing a studio building with Donald Judd. Climactic spells at the cutting edge of the late 1960s New York art scene saw her huge, polka dot images or infinity nets as she called them augmented by infinity rooms full of mirrors and populated by coloured balls, directly inspired by her hallucinations. She returned to Japan in the early Seventies and soon after moved into a psychiatric hospital where she still chooses to reside today.
Describing the inspiration behind her painting Flower, she once remarked: "One day I was looking at the red flower patterns of the tablecloth on a table, and when I looked up I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows and the walls, and finally all over the room, my body and the universe. I felt as if I had begun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinity of endless time and the absoluteness of space, and be reduced to nothingness. As I realised it was actually happening and not just in my imagination, I was frightened. I knew I had to run away lest I should be deprived of my life by the spell of the red flowers."
Kusama is the subject of a truly stunning Tate Modern retrospective opening on February 9. Fashion house Louis Vuitton are supporting the exhibition during which they will also be holding events and activites for young people at Tate as part of the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project in collaboration with the ReCreative website.
Conceived as a series of immersive environments, in some cases characterised by the dense patterns of nets and polka dots that have become her signature, the highlight of the Kusama show is a new work, Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled With The Brilliance of Life which will be her largest mirrored room to date. Its curator Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art, worked closely with Kusama during numerous visits to Japan to bring the show to life. She tells Phaidon because of the sheer amount of work to choose from - hundreds of thousands of pieces over seven decades of creation – she has had to be incredibly selective. "We've chosen to chapterise her career and focus on the unfolding of particular moments in time," she says. "Rather than focus on everything she ever made we've focussed on the paradigm shifts and each room focuses on one type of work."
Did you notice a pattern to her changes once you began breaking the exhibition down that way?
Spots! I think although there are some sharp stylistic changes, and changes in media, there are, underpinning all those diverse different bodies of work, some strong shared characteristics. For example, excess. Excess both in the excess production and the fact that she plays each work to its bitter end, over and over and over again. That's a metaphor for the way she works and also underpins the repetition, whether they are marks or symbols or patterns. So everything is covered, corner-to-corner, floor-to-ceiling. That sense of the idea of obliteration or covering is something that you see in every type of work.
And that's evident right from the start?
Her very earliest work is really her own personal take on the traditional Japanese paintings which she did in her twenties - then she breaks with it. It's like the doors have opened on a new way of looking which embraces this idea of covering the surface very densely. You see it in her early watercolours and gouaches, the complete covering of the paper with spots, patterns, dashes, patterning repetition, texture and space encapsulated on the page - the idea of the drawing going off the page. It's not bound by the notion of centre. That potential for the work to invade the space it occupies you see right in the early tiny drawings. So the potential is there from the 1950s onwards.
Can you see a kind of crescendo to each movement and then a complete change in direction?
I think that's a very good question. There is in a way a crescendo or burn out moment around 1968. Because she goes from painting in the late forties to works on paper in the late fifties to painting again in New York in the early sixties to these accumulation sculptures, the ones covered in phalluses or covered in macaroni. And then she gets progressively radicalised. So the work moves from studio to street; from alone to communal; from private to public; until she makes this extraordinary film, Self-Obliteration in 1967 which kind of brings it all together. The spots you see on the drawings become spots she takes into landscape. She's painting animals and the water on the pond. That's almost a burn out moment.
Is it a case of her being in control of it for most of the journey until it overwhelms her?
It did overwhelm her. In the sixties she gets more and more crazy. Not mentally crazy – though she was obviously having a series of breakdowns - but the work became more and more hippie, more sub-cultural, more and more outside of the 'legitimate' institution of art.
What caused that?
Something that was happening in 1968. She got very caught up in youth culture. And she got very caught up in strategies of self-determination as an artist. Think about what Warhol was doing at the time. It was almost a YBA-type moment in New York when artists began to take charge of their own careers. Part of Kusama's reaching out to the public was to mastermind the enterprise culture around visual arts. It's interesting, there are bits of pre-empting Damien Hirst in a way. She set up shop, she had a fashion house, she was designing clothes, she was taking out adverts, writing her own press releases. It was partly the scene that was going on at the time, partly a positive response to something that was quite negative which was her failure to be taken up by Leo Castelli or any other great dealer. She didn't have a big gallery behind her at a time when gallerists were becoming more and more important.
How was she left out of all that?
I don't know. It may be that she was too hot to handle. It may be that she was quite difficult to work with. I wouldn't have thought she was the sort of person who would have listened too carefully to what a dealer was saying. Indomitable is the word. She had a huge ambition. If I had been Leo Castelli at the time I could imagine myself saying to her: 'Yayoi, I can sell your Infinity Net paintings, don't do these sculptures with willies all over them.' And Kusama would have probably said, 'But that's where my work is taking me!' She just wasn't very wise in shaping a career. Castelli might have said, 'That's what I can sell, that's where you can find your market' but she might have said 'but its not where I can find my soul!'
Did she verbalise that to you?
No, because she doesn't like talking about that period that much. Like a lot of artists she's very preoccupied by her current work. She's not terribly interested in going back and picking over her past. I hope that part of her pleasure in seeing this show will be to see that her earlier work is still hugely appreciated. This is the first time she's had a retrospective in the UK. In a way, from her point of view, it's the post-1990s that have been appreciated internationally. She's been commissioned very widely for her contemporary work so in some ways she might be a little surprised that we are so interested in her earlier work.
Yayoi Kusama Performance, New School for Social Research (1970), New York
How does she surprise you when you're working together?
For somebody who has so evidently achieved so much and who in Japan is a household name I'm astonished by how much support and encouragement she needs and how much response she wants to have to her recent paintings. She's very keen to know what you think about her recent work. She's very keen for reassurance that they're good, interesting paintings.
And how closely did she work on the edit for the show?
I did make a selection of the recent paintings for the exhibition and then she wanted to change that selection. She had her own views on which ones she felt happy with and I was happy to concur with that because she's been in the studio with them since she made them. I argued the toss for a few that I thought particularly strong. I've met very many senior artists who exhibit extreme arrogance about their work, so although she is very strong-willed I like the way that she seeks reassurance. That was, in a way, generous of her. She cares about what people think.
How does she talk about them, what are the words she uses to describe them?
That's a very difficult question to answer because she mostly talks in Japanese. So when she talks in English it's very straightforward. Her paintings are her words and when she does talk about her work or her approach it's often in a semi-poetic way. She's not the sort of artist who'd say I'm very happy with the way I've made this texture. She just doesn't use that kind of language. It's like a pure form of creativity. Although I think (her work) is deeply part of art history she doesn't play on the art history aspect of her work. She doesn't rationalise it in that kind of way. She's working on an extensive series of paintings which continue. When I first went to see her she'd made 20 or 30. The last time I went to see her they were well over a hundred. And they are large. She sits down, pauses momentarily and paints.
Do you get the impression she feels this moment in time has some kind of psychic or emotional link to that late Sixties period?
Well I think she sees herself as driven by a single imperative and the way she articulates it when she talks about these early visions, this way of seeing the world through a veil. It's an all-embracing worldview that she sees her life and art as a continuity. So it's different ways of addressing the same way of seeing the world. There's an interesting parallel to the late 1960s in that she has this very public side of her practice. We hope to have a collaborative work here at Tate Modern where visitors will be able to contribute dots to a public space. So she's very keen on engaging people in her work and vision. In the sixties she was getting people to paint naked bodies, so it's revisiting that idea. In a way it's inherent in the idea of the work spilling off the canvas that eventually you involve the audience.
And she still chooses to live in a psychiatric hospital, doesn't it restrict or impair her art?
It's her decision. It's her way of managing her own personal fragility. A way of her managing her anxieties is to live in a very, very sheltered, ordered, caring environment and it allows her to have the liberty and confidence to go into the studio every day and work very intensely. She doesn't have family and she's not surrounded by a huge number of friends so it's a very important support structure for her, as indeed are her studio team. She spends her nights and her non-studio times there.
Part two is available now, read Kusama: 'I promised myself I'd conquer the world' here.
Read more about Yayoi Kusama:
Yayoi Kusama designs London tube map
To infinity and beyond with Yayoi Kusama
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Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics spokesman Mark Woodward confirmed Wednesday the state narcotics agency is conducting an investigation into potential drug record keeping irregularities at EageMed. But he said reports that the probe is complete are erroneous.
"At EagleMed's request we are doing an investigation. It's very early on in the investigation and we don't know what, if anything, we're going to find," Woodward told The Ardmoreite.
The Ardmore firm reportedly requested the investigation after internal controls uncovered questionable issues.
Efforts to contact Robbie Copeland, EagleMed Director of Business Development, were unsuccessful Wednesday.
The Ardmoreite has been unable to confirm reports a number of employees have been terminated.
EagleMed is a privately owned and operated medical air transportation company.
There have been no reports of service interruptions.


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First, another chemo hat for my friend Amy. She's been on my mind, although I have not seen her since school vacation began. It's a deep cranberry red, perfect for the holidays. Too bad I didn't finish it for the holidays. But perfect for Valentines Day just the same, right?
Cassis liqueur in the bottom of the glass, and a mint leaf on top. Pretty. Very festive!
The dessert is a Southern Comfort Cake with a sugary burbony glaze and powdered sugar on top. Served warm with vanilla ice cream. The cake is a total 70s throwback - it's made with both yellow cake mix and pudding mix! And of course, lots of Southern Comfort.
No pics, since they're not prepared yet. If I want to risk ridicule later on tonight, maybe I'll whip out the digital camera in front of the guests. We'll see. Depends on how many of the champagne cocktails I've had, doesn't it?
happy new year to you all!
Am planning to knit out of the stash in 2008 - wanna guess how that's gonna go?


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Do you have some .ape files that you want to convert to FLAC files so you can listen to them on your phone? Maybe you can only get your favorite song or lecture in the ape format. Fortunately for you, we've put together a simple guide for converting APE files into FLAC. With APE to FLAC file converter, you can turn those APE files into FLACs and be on your way. APE to FLAC Converter offers you an easy and fast way to convert APE to FLAC audio with high quality. Audio Transcoder is an advanced APE to FLAC Converter and Audio CD Ripper with support of various popular audio formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP2, M4A/M4B/MP4/M4R/ALAC, AIFF, WMA, AC3, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, AAC, WAV and APE formats. People often search for "ape to flac converter online" or "how to convert ape to flac online" without realizing that uncompressed audio files are large in size and by the time you upload, convert and download the files you are better off downloading APE to FLAC converter on your PC and perform convention locally = 0 second waiting for uploading and downloading. With APE to FLAC Converter you easily rip your audio CDs to FLAC, FLAC or WMA files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure. The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags. Have any questions regarding APE to FLAC Converter? See the below Frequently Asked Questions.
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The first step is to select the files to convert ape to flac. Run APE to FLAC Convertor and use the Folder Explorer to browse to the files you want to convert. Then select the file in the File List, drag it to the Drop Zone and drop it there. Optionally, the APE to FLAC Converter allows you to edit the audio tags of any selected file in the Drop Zone.
Once the files are selected, the next step is to select the output settings in APE to FLAC Converter.
The second step is to select the output settings. To begin, select the folder to save the output file to and choose the action to be executed if the output file already exists - create a new file, overwrite or skip the existing file.
You can also set the APE to FLAC Converter to delete a source file after conversion and preserve the the original folder structure, when doing batch conversion.
Finally, you should select the output format and audio quality. In the FLAC dialog box, choose the format settings for the final FLAC files. Depending on quality you need, select the bitrate of the file, sample rate and the number of channels. You will probably lose some audio content if you choose the mono option. You can choose what sample rate you want to use. 44.1 kHz (or 44100 Hz) is the sample rate used by audio CDs.
Once the output settings are customized, you go to the final step - ape to flac conversion.
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During the turning ape into flac, you can change the priority of the process or set an automatic event to be executed when the conversion is over. After the conversion of ape to flac has finished, you can find the flac files in the output folder you specified.
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With temperatures nudging the early 20s – exciting I know – it finally seems like summer time has arrived. Actually the weather needs to get on the case as we are now less then sixty days until September. Anyhow it is time to slip yourself into what are the ultimate stylish, classic, always cool summer shoes – Loafers. Here is …
Get the look for less: The Christian Louboutin Deck Shoe
It looks like the deck shoe is going to be around for another season, and cashing in on this trend in a big way is Christian Louboutin. The Biarritz Leather Flat maintains the classic loafer style they have become known for, while bringing in some subtle deck shoe elements. The shoes are produced with premium navy blue leather while sporting …
The Yuketen Kilted Sports Blucher
Yuketen was founded by Yuki Matsuda, who moved to America in order to work with footwear Artisans. Together they began to produce Moccasin style hunting boots, inspired by 1930's mountain men. The shoes are made with traditional methods, using American sourced naked leather, to wrap the foot (not just cover it as most shoes this day do). The soles are …
Readers send in their YMC snakeskin deck shoe pics
Colin featured the YMC snakeskin deck shoes back in February and they've proved pretty popular with our readers.
Pastel deck shoes: never mind the Hamptons
Here at Brandish, we always like to help you stand out from the crowd. And in a sea of brown deck shoes and rolled up jeans how does one do that?
Think bright pastels or acid colours instead, and team with seersucker pants and a vintage, punky T-shirt for maximum impact. This look is all about subtly subverting the 'weekend in the Hamptons' look that's so prevalent. Preppy is lovely, but is becoming a bit samey and subversion is always good. As preppies might actually wear pastels too, its more about attitude.
YMC's snake-effect deck shoes: a new twist on old faithful
The predicted standoff between desert boot and deck shoe as Spring/Summer shoe of choice has yet to be seen. To my mind the deck shoe would win anyhow – it actually looks better as it gets battered with age and can be worn with thick socks on chilly days or show off a tanned ankle on others. So it may be (at least) the second S/S we've seen the preppy choice of footwear but there's no sign of them disappearing on the street.
Seen on the street: battered brown shoes
Now bear with me .. I know the observation seems a little random. But on a recent journey from Shoreditch to Soho it seemed that every hipster worth his money was wearing some form of brown shoe.
Video: Band of Outsiders x Sperry
As videos go this one is kinda dull. There are no explosions, guns or tits nor is there a girl satisfying a horse/dog/herself (delete as applicable) so it's doubtful that this is the kind of fodder we would usually ogle on our TV's or behind our bedroom's locked door. However there are shoes, lots of lovely shoes. The video is from Band of Outsiders and showcases their collabo with Sperry bringing some awesome deck shoes for the coming season.
Kurt Geiger Lost Sounds deck shoe
My summer romance with deck shoes was coming to an end but then Kurt Geiger's 'Lost Sounds' shoes (£55) appeared on the scene and made me reconsider my winter strategy.
Prince Michael of Kent at Henley Regatta
Prince Michael of Kent was recently voted 34 in GQ's best dressed list, which was topped by Bond star Daniel Craig. Pictured yesterday at the Henley Regatta the Prince looks pretty dapper in a blazer and team cap.
Lanvin metallic deck shoes
I've only recently got over my deck my deck shoe inverse snobbery, which makes it even harder to figure out whether these metallic Lanvin deck shoes are the most awesome shoe ever, or just really lame.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Cardinal Francis George says he feels a "little bit lightheaded" and a little unsteady on his feet but otherwise OK after his first treatment in a new round of chemotherapy.
The Chicago Sun-Times (http://bit.ly/1fhrvJq ) reports that 77-year-old leader of the Chicago archdiocese underwent his latest cancer treatment Wednesday that focused on one of his kidneys.
George told the newspaper Saturday that he'll have three rounds of chemotherapy, after which he'll avoid crowds to because his immune system is expected to be compromised.
George had surgery in 2006 to remove his cancerous bladder, prostate and part of his right ureter and was deemed cancer-free after 19 days in the hospital. But his cancer returned in 2012, and he underwent chemotherapy.
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Jordan Smith, 12 - June 05, 2014Jordan C. Smith, 12, of Cozad passed away Thursday, June 5, 2014, at his home.
Memorial services will take place on Thursday, June 12, at 10:30 a.m. at the Cozad United Methodist Church with the Rev. Doug Smith officiating. A private family burial will be conducted at a later date.
A memorial book signing will be Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Berryman Funeral Home.
Smith was born July 12, 2001, at Hastings, the youngest son of Kelly and Karla (Scarrow) Smith. He attended Cozad Elementary and Middle Schools.
His passion was to travel to other planets and to mingle with the stars, according to family members. He had an extreme curiosity of other dimensions and life after our own, especially after the loss of his uncle, Glen Smith, in a 2014 automobile accident.
Smith loved to play video games, football, go swimming and hang out with his sister, Jacey. He also enjoyed hunting, fishing and target shooting.
He was a happy, loving and caring young man, and warmed hearts everyday with his non-stop smiles and laughter, said the family. He will be missed and family members pray that his journey leads him to the destination he was seeking.
?Smith was preceded in death by: an infant sister, Kelsey Smith; maternal grandparents, Don and Brenda Scarrow; an uncle, Damon Scarrow; great-uncles—Glen Smith, Edward Smith, Don Smith and Lorin Wagner; great-grandparents, Edwin and Virginia Smith, Clyde and Elinor Wagner and Wilber and Esther Kruse; a great-great aunt, Dolly Zlomke.
Survivors include: his parents, Kelly and Karla Smith of Cozad; two sisters—Kandra (Kevin) Connelly of Missouri and Jacey Smith of Cozad; three brothers—Lane (Maggie Newburn) Smith, Katlin (Heather) Smith and Chance (Heather Cardenas) Smith, all of Cozad; grandparents, Gaylene Scarrow of Gothenburg, Sandy (Marvin) Tabor of Kimball and Bill Smith of Lexington; great-uncle, Larry Smith of Cozad; uncle and aunt, Shawn and Lorrie Scarrow; numerous other aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and other family members.
A memorial has been established.
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First Choice Emergency Room, the largest network of independent freestanding emergency rooms in the United States, announced that it will open its new Pearland – Silverlake facility in July.
"I am pleased to announce that we are expanding in Houston with our new Pearland- Silverlake facility," said Dr. James M. Muzzarelli, Executive Medical Director of First Choice Emergency Room.
First Choice Emergency Room is revolutionizing the delivery of emergency medical care by providing a neighborhood alternative for emergency medical services. Based on patient feedback collected by Press Ganey Associates, Inc., an independent healthcare advisory services and consulting organization, First Choice Emergency Room received the prestigious Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award in 2013 for exceeding the 95th percentile in patient satisfaction nationwide.
Different from urgent care facilities, all First Choice Emergency Room facilities are open 24 hours, 7 days per week and staffed exclusively with board-certified physicians and emergency trained registered nurses. The facilities are equipped with a full radiology suite, including CT scanner, Digital X-ray, Ultrasound, as well as on-site laboratories certified by the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA) and accredited by the Commission on Office Laboratories Accreditation (COLA).
The Pearland -Silverlake facility will be located at 2752 Sunrise Blvd, Pearland, TX 77584. For more information, visit http://www.fcer.com/locations/houston-map/pearland-silverlake/.
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First Choice Emergency Room (FCER.com) is the nation's leading network of independent freestanding emergency rooms; it is both the largest and the oldest. First Choice Emergency Room is revolutionizing the delivery of emergency medical services for adult and pediatric emergencies by offering patients convenient, neighborhood access to emergency medical care. First Choice Emergency Room facilities are innovative, freestanding, and fully equipped emergency rooms with a complete radiology suite of diagnostic technology (CT scanner, Ultrasound, and Digital X-ray) and on-site labs. All First Choice Emergency Room locations are exclusively staffed with board-certified physicians and emergency trained registered nurses. First Choice Emergency Room has three locations in the Austin area, 15 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, 14 in the Houston area, one in the San Antonio area, two in Colorado Springs and two in the Denver area. According to patient feedback collected by Press Ganey, First Choice Emergency Room provides the highest quality emergency medical care and received the 2013 Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence for ranking in the top one percentile of patient care nationally. First Choice Emergency Room is an Adeptus Health company.


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Karen Swift Missing: Body Found Believed To Be Tennessee Mother of Four
Dyer, TN- This afternoon, Dyer County Sheriffs recovered an unidentified and decomposing body in what appeared to be a shallow grave along the fork of Burnt Mill and Harness Roads.
The location is just off Route 78, and approximately 3 miles from the home of Karen and David Swift, which is located on Willie Johnson Road.
Karen Swift disappeared October 30th after returning home with the couples youngest daughter, who asked to be picked up early from a sleepover.
David Swift, Karen's estranged husband, told police his wife was having an affair, had filed for divorce, and likely was "shacked up" with her boyfriend as the reason he waited almost an entire day before reporting her missing, although many of Karen's friends were concerned about her whereabouts immediately. Ms. Swift's friends were quick to provide police details that would contradict Mr. Swift's assertions about his wife.
Karen's 2004 Murano was located on Millsfield Hwy with a flat tire without any evidence of foul play, fueling speculation the scene appeared staged. As reported exclusively by www.blinkoncrime.com, clothing later determined by DNA testing belonging to Karen Swift was found in early search efforts to find her.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity to www.blinkoncrime.com, a source inside the investigation has confirmed that conversation on a police scanner earlier this afternoon indicated the remains are believed to be that of Karen Johnson Swift, and they were found based on a tip from an undisclosed source. It is not known if that source has ties to David Swift.
Jeff Box, Dyer County sheriff, refused to answer any questions regarding the recovery and said the Memphis Medical Examiner will determine positive identification and cause of death on Monday.
David Swift hired a criminal defense attorney within 48 hours of his Karen's disappearance, and refused to answer any further inquiry or allow the property to be searched until search warrants were served last month.
Mr. Swift has not been named a suspect in his wife's disappearance.
Contributing Editor: Jacqueline Beaufort


text: I just love it when people say 'the type of bdtawidnh", as if a kilobyte from an iphone differs from a kilobyte from any other smart phone.Yes, in 2005 no carrier's infrastructure was built to handle that type of stress on their network. Today, in an industry where smart phones are prevalent and basically a standard, every major network can handle an iPhone. This especially holds true for a corporation like Verizon, which has an array of smart phone products that, according to studies, far exceed the data demands than any other.AT&T decided to play Russian Roulette by not allocating enough of its massive revenue gains towards expanding and strengthening their network early on, and now they are paying the price. Every other carrier has the benefit of learning from AT&T's mistakes.That means: if you have AT&T and you plan to stay, the only major benefit you will see is less calls dropped that shouldn't have been dropped in the first place. As far as the 'no data while making a call line'; (assuming speculation is true) the 2011 released iPhone will likely be on Verizon's LTE network, which will not have the disadvantages of its predecessors.


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Washington State athletic director Bill Moos confirmed Monday the 2014 Apple Cup football game between WSU and Washington will return to a Saturday after two years on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Moos indicated the game has been set for Saturday, Nov. 29, two days after Thanksgiving, in Pullman.
The Pac-12 Conference is due to release its complete schedule on Monday. Game times won't be available until television agreements have been fulfilled.
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|Posted by sudanprotests on December 30, 2012 at 2:45 PM
KHARTOUM: Sudanese security forces on Sunday blocked activists trying to deliver a petition criticising the government to the country's human rights commission, drawing a rare rebuke from the state-appointed body.
Sudan has avoided mass "Arab Spring" protests that unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia, but President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who seized power in 1989, has faced dissent over a severe economic crisis and corruption.
Before the activists arrived, police and plain clothed security agents, some armed with batons, pulled up in cars and spread out at the front gate to bar entry to the commission, witnesses said.
"Plain clothed agents beat several activists trying to submit their petition and also journalists covering the protest," a witness told Reuters. Policemen also grabbed placards held up by the protesters.
Around 40 human rights activists had called for the protest at the Human Rights Commission in Khartoum to criticise the government for what they called obstruction of the work of civil society.
Staff at the commission, whose head was appointed by Bashir, came out of the building to ask police to let the activists deliver their letter, but police refused.
The commission, which rarely criticises the government, condemned the breakup as an "attack" on the commission.
"The commission rejects this behaviour. It is a clear violation of the constitution ... and the law regulating the Human Rights Commission," it said in a statement.
"This will be also considered as attack on the inviolability of the commission and its immunity."
The security forces were not immediately available to comment.
Sudanese police fired teargas on university students in early December after four days of protests which followed the death of four students from Darfur.
The demonstrations were the most sustained to hit Sudan after a wave of protests against government austerity measures in June.
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan appeals court has suspended the trial date for retired Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, a former dictator accused of genocide.
Court officials said Saturday that the temporary injunction delays the proceedings scheduled to begin March 19. It would be the first genocide case against a former head of state in Latin America.
The injunction was requested by military lawyers challenging Judge Miguel Angel Galvez's decision to exclude expert witnesses in Rios Montt's defense.
Rios Montt is accused of overseeing the slaughter of at least 1,771 indigenous people between March 23, 1982, and Aug. 8, 1983, while serving as de facto president during the country's civil war.
Defense attorney Moses Galindo calls the judge's ruling a "gross violation of constitutional rights."


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Claiming, "my role as an artist is to discipline the chaos regarding information," Abraham Palatnik organized the patterns in technology and nature into art, becoming a pioneer of the Op Art movement and the founder of the technological movement in Brazilian art. Trained as a painter, he moved away from the conventions of this medium and towards abstraction and technology in the late 1940s. He created his first "Kinechromatic Devices" in 1949, one of which, a motorized light sculpture which cast a play of light and shadow into space, was shown at the first Bienal de São Paulo (1951). It was met with critical acclaim, as were the many optical experiments that followed. These include abstract paintings on glass and compositions based on magnetic fields, to name only a handful of Palatnik's ongoing investigations into art, technology, and perception itself.
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The Placer County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to take a pivotal vote Tuesday, March 13 in its deliberations over whether to upgrade the county sewage-treatment plant in North Auburn or participate in construction of a regional treatment system.
At Tuesday's meeting, board members will weigh at least four potential options:
The existing treatment plant that serves more than 6,000 North Auburn ratepayers in Sewer Maintenance District 1 was built in 1961. It has been upgraded several times since then, but currently does not meet state sewage discharge standards and is near capacity.
The board has discussed the sewage treatment issues several times over the last year. On Dec. 6, board members directed county staff to continue working on plans for constructing a regional system and to return to the board no later than March 13 with recommendations for a final board decision. In its vote, the board stipulated that upgrading the existing plant would remain a fall-back option in case building the regional system is not feasible.
The county Facility Services Department provided the board with updated information on the various options on Jan. 10 and Feb. 28.
In its report for the March 13 meeting, the department gives board members updated information on each option, including current cost estimates.
Tuesday's board meeting will take place at 9 a.m. in the Board of Supervisors Chambers at the County Administrative Center, 175 Fulweiler Ave. in Auburn. The North Auburn sewage treatment issues are scheduled for discussion beginning at 9:30 a.m.


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Title: The Omitting Types Theorem and abstract model theory, part 1
Abstract: It has been said that any fool can realize a type, but it takes a model theorist to omit one. I will discuss the omitting types property and its connections with set-theoretic topology and model-theoretic forcing. I will present some results (some of them quite recent) that show the central role played by this property not only in first-order logic, but in important extensions of first-order, such as infinitary logics and real-valued logics. The exposition should accessible to anyone who has taken an introductory model theory course.
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BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick filed legislation Tuesday to reform the state's public employee pension system, saying the reforms will save the state billions of dollars.
The bill would raise the retirement age for most government employees from 55 to 60. It would eliminate early retirement incentives and it would use an average of the workers's highest-paid five years of employment to calculate pensions. That's longer than the three-year average that's used now -- and would lead to smaller pensions for many workers.
State their pensions are far from generous as it is. On average, retired state employees collect $26,000 per year, and they're not eligible for social security.
But Patrick says everyone needs to make sacrifices for the sake of the system.
" We're asking state employees to help assure that this program is sustainable and without this program it's not," the governor said.
With the state facing a budget gap somewhere between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, as well as more than $20 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, House Speaker Robert Deleo says the system's problems must be addressed.
"The time for action is now. The time for action is greater now that it has ever been," DeLeo said.
The bill also aims to end so-called double-dipping. That provision comes after late Middlesex County Sheriff James DiPaola allegedly tried to take advantage of a loophole in the system that would have allowed him to collect an annual pension of nearly $100,000 in addition to his sheriff's pay of $123,000. DiPaola committed suicide in November shortly after his plan came to light.
Patrick estimates that the reforms will save the state more than $5 billion over the next 30 years.
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People make their way along plowed paths in the frigid temperatures Monday outside city hall in Toronto. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A child slides down a tunnel Monday in the new Children's Garden, part of the Gardens By The Bay, in Singapore. The area is an integral part of Singapore's "City in a Garden" vision in the heart of its financial area. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The comedian and star of the Fox Television show could have her pick of L.A.'s malls, but given a choice, she opts for Santa Monica's popular Main Street to do her buying. Although the area is a mecca for groups, Kim normally prefers to go it alone, bringing along only a black leather backpack stocked with Evian water and, most critically, cash.


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NHIAA Sports Roundup: Gorham five tops Pittsburg
Travis Chase out-dueled Hunter Lambertson, but Gorham still prevailed Wednesday night.
Chase erupted for 35 points but Lambertson scored 31 points to lead the Huskies to a 72-57 boys' basketball victory over Pittsburg/Canaan, Vt. in Gorham.
Colebrook 55, Woodsville 47: In Colebrook, the Mohawks (8-4) got a team-high 13 points from Dylan Leach as they downed the Engineers (4-7) in Division IV. Joe Abrahamson of Woodsville led all scorers with 21 points.
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Early this morning Lafayette Police responded to reports of gunfire near the intersection of Cypress and Jefferson Streets.
Around 1:43 am, Lafayette Police arrived on the scene to find a 34-year-old male with three gunshot wounds and in possession of a handgun.
Officers secured the weapon, and the subject was transported to an area hospital where he remains in stable condition.
Police says an argument happened between two men in a parking lot, at which time both subjects produced handguns and began firing multiple shots at each other.
Investigators say the unknown suspect, described only as a black male, fled the area on foot.
Detectives are asking anyone with information about the shooting or the identity of the suspect who fled to the scene to contact Lafayette Police or Crime Stoppers at 232-TIPS.


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Hennepin County includes the city of Minneapolis and inner ring suburbs. The position of Hennepin County Attorney is the one that is about to be vacated by Democratic Senate candidate Amy Klobuchar. It is one of the most important law enforcement positions in the state, and it is a black mark against Ms. Klobuchar that she has remained silent while the gang problem has worsened markedly in Hennepin County over the past eight years she has served in office.
Two Democrats are running for the postion of Hennepin County Attorney. Mike Freeman served two terms in the office from 1991-1999; he left the office in connection with an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidacy. Andy Luger served as a criminal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's office in Brooklyn and in Minneapolis before leaving for private practice.
John and I have written frequently about gang crime in Minneapolis over the past several years. I wrote about it most recently last year in "Return to Murderapolis" and in follow-up posts including this one. Luger has made the issue of gang crime the number one issue of his campaign. He promises to bring the techniques used to take down organized crime in New York to the prosecution of gang crime in Hennepin County.
The Minnesota Republicans whom I most respect are supporting Luger for Hennepin County Attorney. Because of his focus on gang crime I agree with them that Andy is the guy for the job and I hope he is elected on November 7.
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"This is an unconstitutional attempt to narrow the definition of equality. The exclusion of a minority for no rational reason is a dangerous precedent." — Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza after he struck down Arkansas' ban on same-sex marriage.
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Dressing for the Golden Globes this year had one — make that two — very special perks for Olivia Wilde.
"It's great — I've never had boobs before!" the actress, 29, joked to E!'s Ryan Seacrest as he complimented Wilde's emerald sequined Gucci gown, which she paired with an Emm Kuo clutch and a Forevermark ring.
Her decision to choose a floor length form-fitting dress was deliberate, the mom-to-be explained to PEOPLE after the show.
"Until about a week ago, I just looked fat," she admits. "I wanted to be like, 'I'm not fat, I'm pregnant!'"
While Wilde was excited to put her baby bump on display, she wasn't the only one ecstatic to be attending the show: her son (yes – it's a boy, she confirms to PEOPLE) was bouncing around in her belly.
"He was kicking the whole time, going, 'Where are we?!'" she said.
Currently appearing in Her, Wilde revealed the due date of her next big project — her and fiancé Jason Sudeikis's first child.
Although she told PEOPLE that she's due "at the end of April," Wilde made a Star Wars joke to Seacrest when asked about the specific date, indicating baby could actually make his arrival the following month.
"May the fourth be with you," she replied, explaining that's how she remembers it, anyhow.
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Content roadmap for Office 2013 compatibility
Applies to: Office 2013, Office 365 ProPlus
Summary: Provides a guide to the articles, downloads, scripts, and videos that help IT Professionals assess Office 2013 compatibility.
Audience: IT Professionals
The following table describes resources that are available to IT Professionals who are assessing Office compatibility.
Office 2013 compatibility roadmap for IT Pros
Start here
So you're planning an Office 2013 deployment and you're wondering what's new with compatibility. You may want to know all about the system requirements, changes in Office 2013, and what's new for IT Professionals. Visio 2013 has a new VSDX file format that you'll want to read about. If you're migrating from Office 2003 or Office 2007, you might also want to know what was new in Office 2010, because those features are also in Office 2013.
Thinking about deploying the 64-bit version of Office 2013? We recommend that you deploy the 32-bit version of Office 2013 for most users. If you deploy the 64-bit version, your users might encounter compatibility issues with ActiveX controls, third-party add-ins, and in-house solutions built for 32-bit versions of Office. Be sure to read the deployment considerations for the 64-bit version Office 2013 before you decide.
The compatibility tools are completely new for Office 2013. Say goodbye to OMPM, OEAT, and OCCI and say hello to Telemetry Dashboard and Telemetry Log. Our product team created a helpful blog series to introduce these new compatibility tools. OMPM users can read a comparison of OMPM and Telemetry Dashboard. You can see a high-level view of how the telemetry tools work in our Office Telemetry poster and in Overview of Office Telemetry. And you can see Telemetry Dashboard in action by watching this video on quick tips for Telemetry Dashboard navigation.
Finally, we introduced a new compatibility process that helps you speed up your Office deployments and get users up and running on the new version of Office. Check out the Assess Office 2013 compatibility to learn more about the modern Office compatibility process.
Deploy and configure Telemetry Dashboard
Before you can start to collect Office inventory and usage data, you must Deploy Telemetry Dashboard. Be sure to review our topology and hardware guidance before you roll out the telemetry components. If you're setting up a small or test environment, we have a script that will quickly set up Telemetry Dashboard on a single computer. You can deploy Telemetry Agents by using your preferred deployment method. This can include deploying Telemetry Agents by using System Center Configuration Manager.
Having trouble getting data into the dashboard? You can troubleshoot Telemetry Dashboard deployments.
If you are concerned about maintaining user privacy for the data that is collected, you can manage privacy settings and see the full list of data that is collected. If, for any reason, you must delete the local telemetry data on a client computer, you can do that, too.
To manage the telemetry database, download the Telemetry Dashboard Administration Tool (Tdadm). You can use this tool to clean up unused user, solution, and computer data, or to copy or move telemetry data to another database. Visit the Tdadm wiki for usage information.
Use Telemetry Dashboard
This video about Telemetry Dashboard navigation will help you start Telemetry Dashboard, connect to the database, and view inventory and telemetry data. You can then use Telemetry Dashboard to monitor Office stability and deployment status. You can also use Telemetry Dashboard to manage add-ins in Office 2013. If you aren't sure what the data in a worksheet means, take a look at our reference guide, which describes each worksheet. Want to customize how data telemetry data is displayed in the dashboard? No problem! Creating custom reports in Telemetry Dashboard is easy. Watch this video to see custom reporting in action.
Is your dashboard empty? The agents can require to 4 hours to start transmitting data. You can speed up this process by triggering data collection manually. You might also want to troubleshoot Telemetry Dashboard deployments.
Troubleshoot Office 2013 documents and custom solutions
Ready to troubleshoot issues with Office documents and custom solutions? You'll want to use Telemetry Log to do this troubleshooting. Telemetry Log displays compatibility issues for Word 2013, Excel 2013, and Outlook 2013. To see how Telemetry Log works, you can download sample Office documents that trigger compatibility events in Telemetry Log.
Telemetry Log also provides a link to the Fix It Center Pro diagnostic tools that collect additional data about the Office application that you are troubleshooting. This data includes relevant log files, registry keys, network configuration, event logs, and other file details that help you troubleshoot Office issues. You can learn more about these diagnostic tools in the Microsoft Fix it Center Pro automated diagnostic portal.
Reference information
Here are links to tables and other types of reference information.
File formats and extensions
Telemetry Dashboard
Telemetry Agent
Telemetry Log and compatibility events
Group Policy settings
Here are the scripts that can be used with Telemetry Dashboard:
Here are the downloads that are related to Office compatibility:
Here are the videos that are related to Office compatibility:
Ask questions and provide feedback
If you have questions about how to use Telemetry Dashboard and Telemetry Log, you can submit your questions in the Office 2013 and Office 365 ProPlus - Planning, Deployment, and Compatibility forum on TechNet. You can also read blog posts about the telemetry tools and leave comments in the Office IT Pro blog.
See also
Roadmap for Office 2013 identity, authentication, and authorization
Guide to Office 2013 security


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The idea that videos on the Internet could be anything beyond that, such as being adapted into movies or series for television, used to seem preposterous. Well, in 2012, having a web series adapted for the big screen, or the slightly-bigger-than-your-laptop screen, is not such a foreign idea. In fact, it may be too regular of an occurrence, if a video of a dog talking can get adapted into a larger project.
However, this does not mean that the Internet is done altering the art form of comedy. If anything, the Internet affects how humor is conceptualized and executed now more than ever into a more complex, diverse, and self-aware era of comedy.
Who saw podcasts ever being adapted into movies or TV shows several generations of iPods ago? It's not such a radical idea, since blogs have gotten such deals, but, considering the fact that a podcast is only audio, it is amazing that there has been a growing trend in giving popular podcast a shot at being physically seen. Comedy Bang Bang, WTF with Marc Maron, You Had To Be There with Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer, and, of course, The Nerdist all have gotten onto TV or are in the development process for TV. Talk radio hardly ever got such attention, but then again, there wasn't as much room to be creative and innovative on talk radio as there is now with a comedy podcast, due to network and sponsor interference.
Does it need to be on TV? Exclusive web content has been growing more and more everyday, and comedy has been and is instrumental to that happening. Not only are web series growing as fast as the trends they often try to address, but many of them are looking to brand themselves exclusively online.
Look at the web series Dirty Work, which could easily be adapted to be on TV and, given its funny take on the procedural with Mary Lynn Rajskub co-starring, would fit in perfectly at, let's say, TBS. Yet, it's all online, complete with interactive features more fit to watching on your laptop with a keyboard than fiddling with your remote control. Online network My Damn Channel has even sought to make themselves more of a network by broadcasting live M-F at 4PM EST at its YouTube channel.
Can you do without an HBO or Comedy Central special? Thanks to Louis CK taking the big leap for comedians everywhere by releasing his special Live at the Beacon Theater through his website, self-distribution for stand-up is no longer a pipe dream of the future. Since then, Jim Gaffigan, Aziz Ansari, and other comedians with big enough followings and resources to follow suit with CK in producing and releasing their specials did so. Even comedians that aren't that famous are taking their stand-up specials to the web. Specifically, Chad Daniels released his special free of charge through Laughspin.com. You can watch As Is commercial free in its entirety on YouTube. It's a perfect example of circumventing the system that can edit your comedy purely because it won't fit within commercial breaks.
Speaking of Louis CK, who recently announced that he will be selling tickets exclusively through buy.louisck.net, the importance of an online following seems to never be stressed enough. Any post, tweet, move that Louis CK makes is instantly echoed throughout the endless hallways of the web, which has only exponentially increased his fan base. The same can be said of Rob Delaney, Paul F. Tompkins, and, without a doubt, Chris Hardwick. Even Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Fallon have surpassed many of their late night contemporaries online because they've really taken the time to strategize/bother to post content online right after it airs. Fallon's even done a YouTube Presents.
Why do it beyond the Internet? Content is king, but the kingdom still doesn't necessarily have a currency. As great as it is that CK makes a good living and podcasts keep evolving and provide a new source of material from which networks and studios can draw, the financial model is still developing. YouTube has its official partners and there are a handful of podcasts that are self-sustaining from donations, but a reliable business model for comedy online that doesn't defy the burst of creativity surging through millions of URLs remains a work in progress.
That will all change when the Internet and TV can be easily watched together. And it's coming.


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Mike Will Made It, one of the top hip-hop producers in the game right now, has built an impressive portfolio. With bangers for artists like Juicy J, Rihanna and 2 Chainz, plus his new track with Miley Cyrus, the producer is flexing his versatility. Here, some other pop acts the Atlanta producer should consider adding to his resumé.


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Before Yale: 2-time National Fleet Race Champion…National Team Race Champions…2009-10 Varsity Sailing Team Captain…4-year varsity sailing letter…Valedictorian Scholar…National Honor Society…Junior Statesmen of America Club…Sophomore Basketball Team…Freshman and Sophomore Cross-Country Team.
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Activities at Yale: Reporter for Yale Sports Publicity
Favorite Food: Mexican
Hobbies: Basketball, Travelling
Favorite thing about Yale: "Everyone you meet is extremely interesting and equally as interested in you, no matter what you do."
Favorite thing about sailing for Yale: "Aside from the team, the opportunity to get out of the city and get on the water for a few hours every day. Not too many other sports get a natural retreat every time they go to practice."


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