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For decades the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MnDNR) has offered snowmobile training classes for students from ages 11-15; this year, the MnDNR has changed the snowmobile training program to recognize 21st century learning.
For decades the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MnDNR) has offered snowmobile training classes for students from ages 11-15.
The courses were pretty standardized. The students would go in for several classroom sessions to learn the basic rules.
Once the teacher certified them, the students moved onto a final day of drivers training on an outdoor course.
This year, the MnDNR has changed the snowmobile training program to recognize 21st century learning.
Today, students have the option of taking the written part of the program at home, at their computers.
Duane Heiling, who teaches the snowmobile training course locally, said last week, "The classroom training is going by the wayside; it seems to be the trend."
Starting this year the MnDNR is offering youth snowmobile training in two versions:
• Traditional: Meets two or more times, with eight hours minimum classroom time.
• New CD-based course: Students obtain a free CD from the DNR or instructor, do all the written part of the course at home, then take a one-day classroom review and riding performance course.
"The CD-based course is much more convenient for the families," said Heiling.
Once the students have gone through the course at home, the can print up a certificate which they take to their local instructor.
"When they complete the CD-based training, the students go to their instructor to complete their certification," said Heiling.
Once that is all taken care of, the students are then allowed to show up for the drivers part of the test.
Although the CD is free, there is a $5 fee for completing the course.
Heiling said the difficulty with the new system for instructors like himself is finding a good day when everyone can get together for the driving test.
While Heiling said the CD-course is much more convenient for families' schedules, it makes completing the course harder.
"It's a lot tougher to find a day to meet for the driving test when all the students are doing the written course at home," he said. "It's sort of a roulette about when to schedule it."
For more information, or to get a CD with the course for youth ages 11-15, contact Heiling at 507-829-4446.


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The Saginaw Community Foundation granted $65,634 this quarter to support 13 programs and projects in Saginaw County. "We strive to grant funds to support programs that will truly make a difference in our communities," said Reneé Johnston, president and CEO of the foundation. "Every person who has supported the foundation – whether through donations,

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Local merchants offer a plaid alternative to Black Friday's retail rushBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
November 21. 2012 10:45PM
Sleep in, then dress in plaid and visit your local shops for your holiday purchases.
From the Seacoast to the Monadnock region, Plaid Friday, a grassroots movement aimed at encouraging New Hampshire residents to patronize local establishments, is back again this year.
Jim Therriault, owner of New England Everyday Goods in Peterborough, participated in Plaid Friday for the first time last year.
"We had a phenomenal day," he said.
This year Therriault is hoping for a similar turnout. "Sleep in, enjoy the day. Don't stand outside in the rain at 2 a.m. Go to the stores when they normally open and have a civilized shopping experience," he said.
David Boynton, executive director of Seacoast Local, said Hampton, Portsmouth, Exeter, Somersworth and Dover are among the communities participating in Plaid Friday.
"We really started growing it last year," now hundreds of businesses across the Seacoast are involved," he said.
Shoppers can expect discounts and special offers, he said. "But really what they can expect is finding unique gifts and to have a better shopping experience ... It's just a really fun alternative. It's a colorful alternative to Black Friday."
'Shift Your Shopping'
Plaid Friday is also part of the "Shift Your Shopping" campaign, Boynton said.
The national effort involving more than 150 local business alliances represents over 38,000 locally owned businesses, according to Jennifer Risley, co-chairman of Keene-based Monadnock Buy Local.
The campaign asks people to shift 10 percent or more of what they would normally spend on holiday gifts to locally owned businesses and organizations.
Dover Main Street, the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce and Seacoast Local have partnered with local businesses to bring back Santa's Workshop, a local holiday tradition that had faded away.
Santa's Workshop is to open at 9 a.m. Friday in Mill Court with the arrival of Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus accompanied by the Dover Mounted Police, all decked out in plaid. Even the horses will be wearing plaid, Boynton said.
Hot cocoa from Kelley's Row Restaurant and Cellar Pub is to be served. Holiday music and photos with Santa are planned.
"It's really going to be an awesome kick-off to a big party downtown," Boynton said.
Kelley's Row General Manager Kim Arkwell is a longtime Dover resident.
"We're really into shopping local. We're really into that spirit in Dover, so there's been a lot of participation," she said.
West Coast origins
Plaid Friday was born on the West Coast four years ago when gallery owner Kerri Johnson of Oakland, Calif., was brainstorming with friends and other business owners about what small retailers could do on Black Friday, other than close for the day.
The idea soon found a home in New Hampshire. Risley said Monadnock Buy Local quickly got on board.
"There's definitely more buzz going around, this year," Risley said. "People are more aware."
American Express and many area cities, including Manchester and Concord, promote a Small Business Saturday or "shop small" program, which encourages shoppers to shop at local stores the day after Black Friday, Risley said.
Even Cyber Monday can have a local connection. Some independently owned stores have websites that fill orders. The Toadstool Bookshop, which has stores in Keene, Peterborough and Milford, is an example.
"We have a great bookshop that has three locations and a lot of people don't realize they have a website," Risley said.
Each year more and more businesses that are part of the Monadnock Buy Local organization are participating and hosting "Plaid Friday Hubs," she said.
These businesses host a festive celebration of Plaid Friday; the shop keepers wear plaid and serve refreshments and give out samples. If customers come in wearing plaid, they get their picture taken, Risley said.
"It's more than buying a gift for a loved one. It's sending a gift to your community, cause so much happens when you circulate that money locally," she said.
For a complete list of stores, events and promotions within the Monadnock Buy Local network go to
Building on it
This is Concord Be Local's second year participating in Plaid Friday, according to Michelle Lienhart, owner of Concord boutique Just Be and a member of the Be Local committee.
"It's starting to spread and I think the more we get the awareness out there, I think every year we are going to just build on it," she said.
Local businesses are the backbone of any community, Lienhart said, noting small businesses provide approximately 75 percent of new jobs to the economy.
"You don't have to go to a big-box store. You can get great things for everybody on your list on Main Street," Lienhart said. "Our goal is for the independent businesses to take back the day after Thanksgiving. No need to stand in those long lines at big-box stores. Come on and shop leisurely instead."
The Belknap Independent Business Alliance is also promoting Plaid Friday this year.
Member Randy Bullerwell, owner of All My Life Jeweler in Laconia, said Plaid Friday is about consumer awareness and community preservation.
"Plaid Friday is to encourage that thinking of the local independent business first is probably the best thing they can do to affect their local economy," he said.
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yeah im really just spitballing and thinking more along the lines of 2, 3 or 4 defensemen going down with injuries at the same time.
Just fyi, Button has talent and potential, but he is nowhere near ready for the pros. He still has plenty of room to grow. Look for him 2-3 years down the road.
last year when he played, sometimes he got the 2nd or 3rd most minutes, and other times he was used more as a 5/6 man. I think Stuart is ready to be considered a top 4 guy, at least if he plays the way he did in the playoffs. but i think julien and chiarelli are more likely to put hunwick in that role, either way it will be some good competition between the 2. that makes ward or ference expendable, preferably ward despite ference's injury history. boychuk can be the 6th man instead of the 7th, and you save a mil on the cap that way. but the problem comes when you have to replace the inevitable injury or 2. guys like penner, bodnarchuk, mcquaid, or even this button kid who got a lot of press during development camp, are they able to step up and fill in for some short term injuries? long term?
the buyouts hurt the cap real bad and chiarellis ability to bring in a depth defenseman and/or resign kessel. another hnidy type of player to push boychuk and replace injuries is fine by me, no need to go out and try to fit a true #2 dman under the cap. in my opinion chia will risk too much by giving away too much offense. right now they have some pretty good balance between offense and defense, especially with juliens system. if they want more puck movers trade ward, not kessel, for one who won't cost much.


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But remember you can only have your own gallery here if you score high in a contest (place 1-5 or "Janina's choice"). Unfortunately I have to do it this way because of technical reasons and administration.
If you won your own gallery this is how you can use it:
- Click on your name in the main menu of the forum or gallery (it's on the right)
- Select "User Control Panel"
- Select the tab "Gallery"
Here you can manage your personal albums and upload pictures. You can also manage your favorite pictures from other members and change your settings, but the most important thing is this:
- Select "Manage personal albums". Here we have 3 useful options:
- "Edit" = Here you can choose a short description for your user gallery.
- "Upload Image" = Here you can upload pictures to your gallery. 999 pictures max.
- "Create subalbum" = You can create up to 20 subalbums to keep your pictures in order. Need more? Just ask me.
User Galleries only show up in public after you have uploaded at least one picture.
After you have uploaded your first picture to an album you don't have to visit the user control panel every time to upload more. You can just visit your album instead. There is a "upload image" button as well.
I think that's it, but ask if you have any more questions regarding the personal albums.


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Manchester Crimewatch: City man misses court date while in jail
March 13. 2014 8:57PM
MANCHESTER — Luis Carpio, 25, of 219 Pearl St., Thursday told a Circuit Court-Manchester District Division judge that he told officials at the Valley Street Jail that he had a court date on motor vehicle charges, but he wasn't transported to the Circuit Court for arraignment.
"I was incarcerated," said Carpio. "I didn't fail to appear. I was in Valley Street." Carpio said he's been in jail since Dec. 22, 2013. After checking her paperwork, police prosecutor Carrissa Pelletier confirmed Carpio's claim.
Judge William Lyons set bail at $5,000 cash/surety and trial on charges of conduct after an accident, reckless operation and operating without a license was set for April 28.
Insists he's innocent
A man accused of going to a woman's residence and knocking on her door and then assaulting her on Feb. 25 was arraigned Thursday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on felony charges of simple assault and stalking.
Gregory Grant, 46, of 336 Ash St., could enter no plea to the charges, which are felonies because he was previously convicted of violation of a domestic violence protective order.
Grant told Lyons, "I don't actually know where this person lives."
A police prosecutor said Grant has a pending reckless conduct charge involving the same woman. The prosecutor said Grant has past drug and falsifying physical evidence convictions.
Bail is $3,000 cash/surety, with conditions barring contact with the woman and barring Grant from going to her residence. A probable cause hearing was set for March 24.
Waives speedy hearing
Timothy Mosher, 30, of 61 Appleton St., Thursday waived a speedy probable cause hearing in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on a felony charge of falsifying physical evidence.
Mosher is accused of throwing a baggie of marijuana from the window of a vehicle just prior to being pulled over on Feb. 21 at Hall and Lowell streets. He pleaded innocent to a charge of possession of a controlled drug.
A probable cause hearing was set for April 30, when there will be a status hearing on the misdemeanor. Bail was continued at $2,500 personal recognizance.
Multiple charges filed
Shaun Lusk, 31, of 34 Pine Hill Road, Goffstown, pleaded innocent Thursday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to eight simple assault charges, two criminal threatening charges, one criminal trespass charge and one disorderly conduct charge, all stemming from an incident Feb. 27 at the Market Basket store at 460 Elm St.
Bail was set at $5,000 cash/surety, with conditions that include no contact with the three men with whom he fought during the disturbance at the grocery store and not going to the Market Basket store. Trial was set for April 23.
Unrelated arrests
After Officer Scott Ardita stopped what he considered to be a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of Home Depot, 129 March Ave., and began speaking with the occupants, he noticed a Home Depot loss prevention officer in a verbal confrontation with a customer outside the store.
The "customer" attemped to walk away from both the loss prevention officer and Ardita, despite being told to stop.
Once the officer grabbed hold of the man, identified as Derek Gagne, 24, of 541 Bartlett St., he was found in possession of a hammer and a set of Hex tools, valued at approximately $60, that were taken from the store without payment.
Also found in Gagne's possession were two Suboxone pills, a drug police said is commonly prescribed for recovering heroin addicts.
After Gagne was taken into custody, Ardita and Officer Tom Dubois turned their attention to the stopped motor vehicle and a passenger, Aljermaine Jones, 37, of 180 Beech St., was arrested on a electronic bench warrant from Nashua Circuit Court for his failure to appear on a motor vehicle charge.
Additional charge filed
Officers Dan Whelan and Daniel Senechal, who had investigated a Feb. 26 unarmed robbery at the Market Basket store, 460 Elm St., were parked at Lake Avenue and Pine Street when they saw the man sought in the robbery. Denis Omerovic, 32, of 241 Lake Ave., is accused of taking approximately $20 of food and pushing a manager who sought to stop him from leaving the store without paying for the food.
After Omerovic's arrest on the robbery warrant, he was found in possession of two hypodermic needles. On needle contained a brownish liquid, which later tested positive for heroin, and the other was empty, but contained trace amounts of a dry substance believed to be heroin. He was then charged with possession of a controlled drug.


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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Nine activists arrested after attempting to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. in protest of American immigration policy were released Wednesday from federal custody in Arizona.
The National Immigrant Youth Alliance announced that the so-called "Dream 9" were freed from the Eloy Detention Center.
They were arrested July 22 in Nogales, Ariz., as they tried to call attention to hundreds of thousands who have been deported during President Barack Obama's administration.
Earlier this week, the Homeland Security Department tentatively approved asylum requests for the nine immigrants. The department ruled the nine have a "credible fear" of being persecuted if they are sent back to Mexico.
An immigration judge will have the final say on whether they can remain permanently in the U.S., but such a ruling could take years.
"I am good, very excited. It's a big surprise," said 22-year-old Maria Peniche, one of the nine activists.
According to the Executive Office for Immigration Review — the Justice Department agency that runs immigration courts — new cases for immigrants not being held in detention are being scheduled in Arizona for 2014.
Meanwhile, the nine immigrants could be eligible for a work permit in the future.
The nine spent part of their lives in the U.S. Some returned voluntarily to Mexico years ago, while others had been deported. Three of them were raised in the U.S. and left the country for Mexico expressly to participate in the protest when they attempted to cross the border in Nogales.
The immigrants were pushing for legislation being considered in Congress to offer eventual citizenship to some immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
House Republicans recently took a tentative step toward offering citizenship to some immigrants who fit into this category, but Democrats said it wasn't enough.
The dismissive reaction to the Republican proposal underscored the difficulties of finding an immigration reform compromise in the Republican-led House.


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Chair's Column
By J. A. "Tony" Patterson and Gregory L. "Greg" Pemberton*
We welcome the opportunity to share with you some perspective about your American Bar Association. Both of us are past chairs of the Section, the Section Delegates to the ABA House of Delegates, and active in many other facets of the ABA. Understanding the ABA and all it is -- and does -- can be daunting, but we will try to describe it.
The ABA has two broad functions. First, it is a policy-forming organization. It represents member bar associations and the ABA's Sections, Divisions, and Forums in establishing policy and lobbying on matters of importance to lawyers and the rule of law. For example, the Federal Trade Commission's Red Flag Rules would have originally required law firms to implement practices to prevent identity theft, just like banks, credit card companies, and retail businesses. This would have created liability exposure for firms and caused a great financial burden. The ABA brought suit and obtained an injunction halting application of the Rules. It then negotiated an amendment to the law to exclude lawyers from the application of the Rules.
The ABA's Governmental Affairs Office was a key part of this effort. That office lobbies Congress and federal agencies on the basis of policies adopted by the ABA House of Delegates. The House is a body made up of more than 550 lawyers from state and local bar associations and from the ABA's Sections, Divisions, and Forums. It meets at the ABA Annual and Midyear meetings to consider and vote on policy resolutions like our Section's Resolution on access to affordable healthcare coverage for all. For the ABA Midyear meeting in Atlanta several weeks ago, Section representatives worked on, and the Section was a co-sponsor of, a Resolution that passed the House of Delegates supporting the development of clinical practice guidelines but opposing their use as per se or presumptive evidence of meeting or violating the standard of care in medical negligence litigation.
The other key function of the ABA is member service. The Sections, Divisions, and Forums are the heart of this function. We serve our members in practice development, like continuing education (conferences, books and periodicals) and participatory activities like our Interest Groups. Beyond this, we serve our members, non-members and the public at large via our web site (www.americanbar.org) and elsewhere. A wonderful example of a public service effort of the Section is our Breast Cancer Task Force.
Another aspect of this service is illustrated in the ABA's activities world-wide. The ABA is active in Rule of Law and human rights efforts across the globe. We have helped former Soviet states in Eastern Europe adopt constitutions and codes. We have advised and mentored judges and judicial systems more broadly. The ABA is actively involved in efforts to combat human trafficking.
Finally, service is also performed via the good works and funding by the ABA Endowment (ABE), the Fund for Justice and Education and other related charitable and educational activities. These service activities are broad and deep. Your involvement in the ABA can meet your professional and personal goals. You can "give back" as so many of us desire to do. You can assist our country and the citizens of the world as an advocate for the "Rule of Law." You can become the type of lawyer to which we all aspired as law students.
You may be asking yourself, "why should the Section be active in the Big ABA?" There are a number of reasons. First, the ABA is the largest voluntary group of lawyers in the world. The voice of the ABA is loud and important. Second, the economies of scale allow the Section to deliver education, publications and other services at affordable prices to our members. Third, the Section's involvement in Big ABA activities allows our members to influence and sometimes help set the direction of national healthcare policy. Lastly, our collective visibility within the ABA gives the Section a seat at the table when important matters come before the House of Delegates, Congress, and federal agencies.
If you want to learn more about the ABA or how you can get more involved -- through the Section or other activities -- let our wonderful Section Director, Wanda Workman, (email@example.com) know and we will be in touch with you.
*This month's Chair's Column is written by guest columnists, J. A. "Tony" Patterson and Gregory L. "Greg" Pemberton. Tony and Greg are both Section Delegates to the ABA House of Delegates and both past Section Chairs.
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Programs for students engage participants in close looking, thoughtful discussion, and critical thinking with works of art, and connect these experiences with visual art to classroom learning and students' personal experiences. Explore the diverse experiences we offer for student museum visits, from docent-led tours to hands-on, art-making workshops.
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Chris Weston became a professional wildlife photographer in 2001 in order to follow his passion for what he describes as "the extraordinary behavior of wildlife". His contemporary approach to photography led to Amateur Photographer magazine describing him as "One of the most dynamic wildlife photographers working today."
He specializes in photographing mammals and endangered species and is renowned for his ability to connect with wildlife and reveal the often hidden personalities of his subjects. His work is published globally, with clients including the BBC, ITV, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, and National Geographic. Recently, his 'underground' image of a galloping zebra was selected by The Sunday Times magazine for its feature titled "The Year's Best Animal Photographs".
Chris's work is driven by conservation. His iconic book Animals on the Edge: Reporting from the Frontline of Extinction, written in conjunction with the IUCN, has been described as "The most up-to-date visual survey of our world's rare and endangered species." And he has been named by Outdoor Photography magazine as one of the world's "40 Most Influential" wildlife photographers.


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1. Re: I blogged about JBoss Cache, can somebody please check iBrian Stansberry Dec 8, 2009 1:04 PM (in response to Richard Kennard)
Thanks for doing this! :-)
A couple suggestions:
1) You imply right at the beginning that your post is oriented toward AS users, but I recommend you state flat-out that your example is for running in the AS. That's because CacheManagerLocator doesn't exist outside the AS so people trying it outside the AS will fail.
2) The "sfsb-cache" is meant for EJB3 SFSB replication. It's technically possible to use it for other purposes, but I'd recommend creating a separate config, particular if clustered EJB3 SFSBs are deployed in your AS.
Note also that sfsb-cache doesn't integrate with the standard JTA transaction manager running in the AS, so if your app needs JTA integration you'd need a different config.
BTW, a (hopefully) helpful link for this general topic is http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/jbossclustering/freezone/docs/cluster_guide/5.1/html/jbosscache.chapt.html#jbosscache-custom-deployment
2. Re: I blogged about JBoss Cache, can somebody please check iRichard Kennard Dec 8, 2009 8:40 PM (in response to Richard Kennard)
Now updated. Many thanks for your feedback.
By the way, using CacheManagerLocator 'tastes' decidely old-fashioned. Are there any plans for JBoss Cache/Infinispan to support something like a @Cache injection annotation for member variables? Something like:
@Cache(name='sfsb-cache') private Cache<Object, Object> mMyCache;
3. Re: I blogged about JBoss Cache, can somebody please check iManik Surtani Dec 10, 2009 12:47 PM (in response to Richard Kennard)
No plans as yet, but feel free to suggest this on the Infinispan dev mail list. Sounds like something that may prove useful.
4. Re: I blogged about JBoss Cache, can somebody please check it'svadimk Apr 26, 2012 3:40 PM (in response to Richard Kennard)
I've tried exactly what you are suggesting here without any success.
If I use CacheManagerLocator then I get InvalidParameterException, because returned CacheManager is always null.
I tried to go directly via JNDI context and can see the returned Object is null.
However, I can see my caches eagerly started and I can see reference to java:CacheManager in JMX-CONSOLE. So, it seems that CacheManager bound to JNDI is not initialized or the wrong Object is bound.
I even added <depends>CacheManager</depends> to my application with no effect.
I could not find any help on this topic, so any suggestions on how to make it work would be greatly appreciated.
I'm running JBoss.5.1.0-GA with ALL configuration, so all the jars should be available there.
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The History Department offers Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees in History which require 36 hours of coursework. We also offer History as part of a double major with a required 30 hours.
Students should begin by taking one of the survey sequences (World History, European History, or U.S. History) and HIST 300: Introduction to Historical Thinking. With sophomore standing, students can enroll in the wide range of upper-division courses (most are at the 500-level).
Toward the end of the major, students enroll in HIST 586: The Advanced Seminar in History. Both HIST 300 and 586 are smaller classes reserved for History majors only and require advisor permission.
The History Department also offers a minor at 21 hours http://www.k-state.edu/history/undergrad/minor.html.
A crucial component to successful completion of any major is Advising. Each History major is paired with a faculty advisor to help navigate course selection and make sure degree requirements are met. Beginning Spring 2017, incoming freshman or transfer students are now assigned to Kathy Lillich, a dedicated advisor for both History and Political Science. Her office is located in Calvin 117A and she takes walk-ins as well as appointments. To set up an appointment, please contact the History Department office.
Advising season happens twice a year during enrollment time; the end of October through the middle of November and the end of March through the middle of April. History majors are required to schedule an appointment with their Department of History advisor before enrollment each semester and an email reminder will be sent out to all students.
The "advisor hold" on your KSIS account will not be lifted until you complete this appointment. To schedule your appointment, check your enrollment date in KSIS and call 785-532-6730 or stop by the History Office in Calvin 117. Please feel free to contact the History Office at any time if you have questions about your advisor or the enrollment process.
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Minnesota Prep Coach Quits After Prostitution Arrest
MAPLEWOOD (AP) — A Minnesota high school football coach has resigned after his arrest in a prostitution sting.
A spokeswoman for Hill-Murray High School says 54-year-old Mark Mauer resigned Tuesday as head coach and as a major-gifts officer for the Maplewood school. The spokeswoman tells the Star Tribune (http://bit.ly/WpxHqC) Mauer was not a teacher at the school.
Mauer was one of 19 men and four women arrested last week in a two-day undercover sting at a Fridley hotel. The men are cited with a misdemeanor of solicitation and the women with a misdemeanor of prostitution.
A message left on Mauer's home phone was not immediately returned Tuesday.
Mauer is a cousin of Minnesota Twins star Joe Mauer.
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ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The brother of George Zimmerman, the man charged in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, said on Wednesday he was wrong to tweet a series of racially charged comments about his brother's case.
"I made a mistake," Robert Zimmerman Jr. said during an appearance on CNN's Piers Morgan Live. "It unfortunately may not have helped George."
George Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder for killing Martin, who was 17, after an altercation in a residential neighborhood in Sanford, Florida.
Prosecutors contend George Zimmerman, then a neighborhood watch captain, racially profiled Martin, then pursued and shot him while Martin was returning from a convenience store to a townhouse where he was staying with his father.
Robert Zimmerman this week posted side-by-side photos of Martin and one of two teenagers arrested last week in a fatal shooting of a 13-month-old boy as his mother was pushing his stroller down the street in a coastal Georgia town.
The separate photos showed Martin and the teenager posing while making an obscene gesture.
Robert Zimmerman wrote in a tweet, "a picture is worth a thousand words ... any questions?" In another tweet, he said, "Lib media shld ask if what these2 black teens did 2 a woman&baby is the reason ppl think blacks mightB risky."
Morgan, in his interview with Zimmerman, called the tweets "incendiary" and "bordering on outright racism."
"I understand this was controversial and I apologize," Robert Zimmerman said.
Mark O'Mara, George Zimmerman's lawyer, has criticized Robert Zimmerman's tweets.
George Zimmerman's trial is set to start in June.
(Editing by Kevin Gray and Lisa Shumaker)


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Jed Babbin argues that Bradley Manning, the Army private alleged to have provided WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of State and Defense Department classified e-mails, has become the left's "new face for the 'injustice' committed in America's name." Jed argues that Manning is perfect for the role because he enables leftists to indulge two of their pet views: that our justice system oppresses dissenters and that America, and by extension it secrets, is unworthy of protection. The fact that Manning is gay makes him an even more ideal "victim."
Jed cites Code Pink, Daniel Ellsberg, and Glenn Greenwald as among those who are championing Manning. Greenwald has focused on allegations that Manning is being mistreated as a prisoner. His claims are in line with those presented by Manning's lawyer to the U.N.'s "special rapporteur" on torture.
Jed counters as follows:
If [Manning's lawyers and supporters] were interested in protecting Manning from torture, they would have complained to either of the IG's who have the power — and the clear duty — to investigate the allegations. The IG is entirely independent by law. Commanders and civilian military chiefs cannot overrule his decisions to investigate, and it can have access to classified material at the highest levels. The IG can get access to the prisoner, get psychiatric experts to examine Manning, and interrogate any and all who are in charge of his imprisonment. The fact that the defense team has instead gone to the liberal media and UN make it clear that Manning's condition is being maintained properly by professionals.
In [a] BBC debate, I asked Greenwald why there is no IG complaint, and he had no answer. I challenged him to make the complaint himself, which he could do if he has a legitimate reason to make the accusation. We shall see if he does. He probably won't, because of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001. Under that law, knowingly making a false accusation to a federal law enforcement agency is a federal crime. I'm betting neither Greenwald nor any of the others involved will make that complaint.
That sounds like a good bet. The left's fantasies about America and its system of justice are best preserved by not putting them to the test.


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Noticias de Misión X
FlatKids ARRIVE in Cape town, South Africa for the IAC 2011!Lun, 10/03/2011 - 07:46 – Anónimo
The FlatKids for Mission X 2012 have arrived in Cape Town, South Africa. They are all together, but it's a little unclear what is in the background. It looks like a Mountain and we hope they will be getting some rest after the long trip and then get out to EXPLORE the sites of Cape Town. Mr. Yamil Garcia will be presenting a paper about the Mission X 2011 activities and the plans for Mission X 2012 at the IAC 2011 meeting later this week.
FlatKids on the Move to South Africa for IAC 2011Lun, 10/03/2011 - 07:33 – Anónimo
Heads-Up! Astro Charlie has been spotted in London England this past weekend at the London Eye. Mission X Lead Yamil Garcia is on his way to Cape Town, South Africa to support the IAC 2011. He will be giving a presentation on the Mission X 2011 efforts along with a sneak peek on the plans for Mission X Multi-year Campaign.


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Transfer of terrestrial organic carbon in the Mackenzie River system
Arctic Research Initiative
2010 Funded Project
AbstractArctic soils are thought to contain more than 50% of the carbon stored in soils globally. This very large stock of carbon is likely very sensitive to changes of environmental conditions such as permafrost thawing. It has therefore been proposed that future warming of the Arctic regions might destabilize the organic carbon that has been stored in soils for several thousands of years, creating a source of CO2 and CH4 for the atmosphere, exacerbating current anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. However, there are major unresolved questions about this possible positive feedback mechanism. Specifically, the extent of the greenhouse gases source still needs to be determined at large spatial scales. Moreover, the fate of soil carbon when affected for instance by permafrost thawing is uncertain as a large fraction might simply be exported by rivers and transferred to other carbon reservoirs such as marine sediments.
Thanks to spatial integration provided by erosion processes, the study of river water and sediments can yield valuable insights into the exchange of carbon at the scale of river basins. The Mackenzie River (4241 km long, drainage area of 1.8x106 km2) is one of the largest rivers draining into the Arctic Ocean and is its largest single supplier of sediments. It is therefore of paramount importance in the context of organic carbon cycling in the Arctic.
The proposed research is based on detail sampling of water and sediments at several locations in the Mackenzie River basin. Using geochemical analysis of organic and inorganic species we aim at characterizing sources and composition of dissolved and particulate organic carbon and the mineral matrix that controls the fate of organic carbon during passage through the Mackenzie River system. Specifically, we seek to determine 1) the proportion of the organic carbon exported by the rivers derived from ancient soils, 2) how this proportion varies along the course of the river, i.e. across different ecosystems and, 3) how this ancient carbon is affected by transport processes on its way to the Arctic Ocean.
We expect that the outcome of our study will be a basin scale estimation of current greenhouse gasses emissions generated by destabilization of organic carbon in response to Arctic climate warming. In addition, the results of our proposal will provide a detailed characterization of the current flux and age of riverine organic carbon in the Mackenzie River system. This is a necessary first step, which will permit the study of historical sedimentary records to assess whether the flux and age of organic carbon discharged by Arctic rivers has increased from the pre-industrial era to the present day. Finally, we expect this project will provide data and infrastructure necessary to the integration of the Mackenzie River system in an ongoing larger initiative to study dynamics of terrestrial organic carbon cycling during continental erosion.


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Isolating Data Transformation Services (DTS) problems can be difficult when you don't know what occurred during a DTS package's execution. Fortunately, DTS includes built-in package-logging capabilities that provide a valuable source of information for troubleshooting and monitoring package execution. With SQL Server 2000, DTS provides two methods for capturing log information. The first method—and the only method that SQL Server 7.0 supports—logs errors and execution information to a text file. The second method, introduced in SQL Server 2000, logs errors to a database. Both methods provide essentially the same runtime information. However, as their descriptions indicate, their output format differs and, consequently, so does how you manage them. In this article, I explore the text-file—based method for capturing DTS package log information, which applies to both SQL Server 2000 and 7.0. Let's look at the information that the DTS package log contains, examine the characteristics of the logging process, then walk through a method for managing text-file—based DTS logs that uses VBScript code with a scheduled SQL Server Agent job.
Gathering Essential Information
To enable text-file—based package logging, you must provide an Error file filename on the Logging tab in the DTS Package Properties dialog box, which Figure 1 shows. The name Error file is misleading because text-file—based logging captures package logging information even when no error has occurred.
The DTS package log provides summary information about package execution as well as information about each step in the package. Figure 2 shows a sample DTS package log. The log's first section provides summary execution information about the entire package. Of the available metrics that the log captures, the ones you'll refer to most frequently include Executed On, Executed By, and several metrics related to execution time. The Executed On entry identifies the physical machine on which the package executed. Knowing where the package executed is crucial when you're trying to troubleshoot portability-related runtime errors, especially when you're moving a package from one server to another. (For more information about DTS package portability, see "DTS on the Move," June 2003, InstantDoc ID 38658.) The next entry, Executed By, identifies which user or process initiated the package. This information is important when you're diagnosing security-related failures because, as "DTS on the Move" explains, DTS packages assume the security context of the user who initiates the package.
The next few entries provide metrics about the package's start time, completion time, and total runtime. These metrics let you capture performance information about the package. Over time, you can use these performance metrics to create a baseline for measuring the effects of changes in data volumes or processing rules.
The remainder of the log provides execution information about each of the package's steps, including the completion status; the start, finish, and runtime in seconds for each step; and the progress count. Of these, completion status and execution times are usually the most valuable metrics for isolating package-execution problems. Completion status lets you quickly identify which steps succeeded, failed, or weren't even executed, whereas the execution times provide a way to identify performance bottlenecks. The progress count tracks the number of records imported for tasks that process data (e.g., the Transform Data Task).
Managing the Log
You need to be aware of some quirks when you use DTS package logs. First, DTS doesn't generate a package log until all the steps in the package are complete. Second, if the log file doesn't exist for a package, DTS creates a new one; but if a log file already exists, DTS appends the new data to the existing file for the package.
These quirks pose two logistical problems. First, because DTS doesn't generate log files until all steps in the package are complete, managing DTS logs from within the package is difficult. Second, because DTS appends data to existing log files, the files can become large, resulting in possible disk-space problems and, more importantly, usability problems. For example, as the file size grows, locating information becomes harder. To get around these problems, I devised a method for managing the log files.
The log-management plan I describe uses one scheduled SQL Server Agent job to execute the VBScript code that Listing 1 shows. The script first consolidates all files from the log-file directory into one master log file in the merge-file directory. Then, the script cleans up the master log file by deleting the old log files and sends an email notification signaling that it has successfully completed. Let's look at each section of the script in more detail.
Script Breakdown
At callout A in Listing 1, the code declares the local variables and object variables that the script references later. The code at callout B creates the master log file and opens it for appending. To make the master log filename unique, the script concatenates the current system date and time to the filename. By using a unique filename, you can run the log-management script multiple times throughout the day without overwriting any existing files. Note that you need to customize the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) directory reference \\SERVERNAME\SHARE, which is stored in both the dirLogFileDir and dirMergeDir variables, to fit your environment.
At callout C, the script iterates through each file in the package log file directory, reading any available files and appending them to the master log file. If no package log files exist, the script creates a master log file with one entry stating that no package log files were found. After appending the package log files to the master file, the script deletes the package log files. So the next time the package is executed, DTS will automatically create a new log file.
At callout D, the log-management script performs some file cleanup by deleting any master log files that are older than 7 days. This cleanup process minimizes the number of master log files and eliminates the need to manually delete old master logs. At callout E, the code uses the CDONTS API to send an email message notifying you that the merge script completed successfully. CDONTS is the object model that the Microsoft IIS SMTP service uses to send mail; it's automatically installed on Windows 2000 Servers running IIS 5.0 and the SMTP service. In addition to customizing the UNC path for the log files, you also need to customize the email addresses stored in the objMail object variable to match your environment.
Finally, at callout F, the code destroys all object variables that the script created. It's important to remember that when you're using an ActiveX script within a SQL Server Agent job, you must explicitly destroy all object variables by setting their values to nothing; otherwise, you can't save the job.
Troubleshooting Help
After you customize the log-management script to fit your environment, the last step is to create the SQL Server Agent job to execute the script. By coordinating the log-management script's schedule with the schedule of the DTS packages that are creating the logs, you can execute the packages multiple times throughout the day but only generate one log file per day. In addition, you can configure the SQL Server Agent job to send an email notification if the job fails. This notification, combined with the email notification built into the log-management script, provides you with an excellent method for monitoring the script's execution.
DTS log files can provide crucial information when you're troubleshooting DTS package errors and performance problems. I hope this article encourages you to use DTS package logging in your troubleshooting efforts and gives you some ideas for managing the size and number of your log files.


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Alrighty, PR13 of chapter 7:
After bad times true virtue and much labor will help the state.
And our fabulous answer key says:
Post tempora mala virtus vera et labor multus civitatem adiuvabunt.
now, I would think that it should be "virtus verus", since virtus is masculine nominative singular. Am I missing something or is this a typo in the key?
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Shelved Dolls: Veronica Franco – And Will You Be A High Class Call Girl With Me?
Periodically I imagine quitting my job and becoming a high class prostitute. Like everybody, right?
Basically, in these fantasies I have great sex with a group of very dignified, grey haired, impeccably dressed and well read men, and they all send me gifts. There are just barges of gifts showing up at my home. Every day I open the door and – bam! – more gifts. Not dumb stuff like jewels, either. Medieval illuminated manuscripts instead, sometimes. I also wear a lot of dresses with bell sleeves. And ball gowns! Never mind that some mornings I forget to brush my hair! It is like I am in my prom picture, forever.
Then I remember, "Wait. Here at TheGloss we run a weekly column about being a sex worker. It is actually nothing like I am imagining." And that is when I realize that what I am thinking of is not actually being a sex worker. What I am thinking of is the plot of the movie Dangerous Beauty, which is about the 16th century courtesan Veronica Franco. This is confusing, because she has similar hair and contemptuous looks:
So, it seems like we could be sisters (hahahaahaha, no, Catherine McCormack is the most beautiful ever), except that Veronica Franco, the courtesan upon whom Dangerous Beauty is based, lived in 16th century Venice. And apparently, her life was not exactly like the movie. Which I am kind of upset about.
To be fair, a good half of Dangerous Beauty is a makeover montage. It's all just the actress Jacqueline Bisset transforming her daughter Veronica Franco,, played by Catherine McCormack, into a courtesan so that their family will not be destitute, and will instead be incredibly wealthy and living in palazzos filled with gifted illuminated manuscripts and – dude – we have to become courtesans tomorrow. Anyhow. What I remember from this movie is that being a courtesan entailed three things:
1) Wearing high heels
2) Soaking your skin in lemon juice? Or maybe your hair? Maybe just squeezing lemons into a bathtub and bathing in them? Lemons. Massive citrus purchases.
3) Being able to eat asparagus intensely erotically.
However, I think life was slightly more difficult for the actual Veronica Franco.
Though! She was born to circumstances not unlike the ones detailed in Dangerous Beauty. That is to say, her mother was a courtesan, though not one who looked exactly like Jacqueline Bisset. It's interesting to note that during the 15th century in Venice there were two kinds of courtesans – the cortigiana onesta and the cortigiana di lume (which translate to "honest courtesans" and "courtesans light" which is like Coca Cola and Diet Coke, really). Interestingly, the word cortigiana is the female version of "courtier" and was originally supposed to mean "the ruler's mistress."While cortigiana di lume were still viewed as a class above the average prostitute, the cortigiana onesta were considered essentially on par with noblewomen of the period.
Cortigiana onesta were generally treated very well – there wasn't any OMG SHUNNING, maybe because Venice wasn't a place founded by puritans. I mean, people were not attempting to cover up their lust with zumba classes. Many courtesans were even married, though often to men less well off than their patrons. This was considered to be professionally advantageous to some of those husbands (again, it was not like Madame Pompadour's husband who despaired of having to divorce her when she went off with Louis. Being a courtesan was an okay thing to be).
Rather than living on the fringes of society because of her wild ways, Veronica's mother, Paola, was married to a well-to-do citizen of Venice. Being a citizen was a favored class which was important at a time when the class you belonged to dictated the parts of the city you could visit, or the area of a church that you were allowed to sit in. So – Veronica and her family were doing okay. Veronica had three brothers and, perhaps because she had been an educated courtesan herself, Veronica's mother insisted that Veronica be taught alongside them.
And then, at 18, Veronica got married.
This seems to be a part the movie overlooked. Maybe because they had to shoe-horn in a love story. Kind of like The Social Network! The producers needed to imply that all of her career decisions were made because of love and romantic ideals.
Basically, in Dangerous Beauty, Veronica becomes a courtesan because her patrician lover (Marco Venier) marries another woman, and she determines this is the only way she can have him. In reality, Veronica married to a physician named Paolo Panizza. It was certainly a "good" marriage to a respectable man (again, she was not becoming a courtesan because her family was completely destitute). The couple had a daughter, but Veronica found life as a wife and mother stifling. She asked that her dowry be returned to her own use and, when her husband refused, she initiated divorce proceedings.
At least, this is suggested in her will. There are other rumors that her husband may have been abusive.
Either way, as a single mother with a young child, Veronica decided she was going to follow her mother's path and become a courtesan. And she spent years after the divorce fighting to get her dowry back.
This wasn't unusual. I mean, opting to divorce your husband was uncommon, but young women choosing to become courtesans wasn't. According to Patricia Brown, author of Private Lives of Renaissance Venice:
"For a young woman without a dowry, a courtesan's life might well seem more appealing than a life of drudgery as a servant or as an unhappy bride married to someone she did not love and perhaps was required to work for as well."
So it was pretty common.
Though Veronica was uncommonly great at it.
In 1570, she began to associate with Domenico Venier – Marco Venier's uncle – who ran a prominent literary salon. Domenico had once been a senator, so he was an extremely powerful friend. And it was through him that she met other influential figures, like Tinoretto. He painted a picture of Veronica Franco, which you can see, here:
Veronica and he had an excellent rapport; she wrote, thanking him for the portrait and saying, "You concentrate entirely on methods of imitating – no, rather of outdoing – nature, not only in what can be imitated by modeling the human figure, nude or clothed, adding color, shading contour, features, muscles movements, actions, postures. . . but by expressing emotional states as well."
And then there was the philosopher Montaigne. He found her to be a charming conversationalist and very well read. Veronica soon began to compile a collection of verses herself.
She quickly became known for her talent as a poetess as well as for her . . . asparagus eating.
Her most famous exploit probably regards King Henri III of France. During the mid-1500's Venice was isolated from Spain, and the Venetians hoped that King Henri's visit would offer them a chance for friendship with France. When he arrived he was offered every hospitality. He visited Titian and Tintoretto, and saw a galley constructed for his benefit. The laws dictating attire were also relaxed, so women were allowed to wear all their jewels at once, not merely on their bodies but also in their hair. And, at the end of his visit he was asked to select one of Venice's finest courtesans to visit, and he picked Veronica Franco.
Their time together was a huge success. He went away with a miniature portrait of her in hand, and he promised to publish her book of poems. She, in turn, dedicated the book to his "serene splendor." We should, for a second, talk about her books.
In her poems, Veronica was able to assert her sensuality and use it as a tool with which to dominate men in a surprisingly forthright fashion. Consider this poem penned to one of her lovers, which is published in her Terze Rima:
"There'll be no gap between merit and reward
if you'll give me what, though in my opinion
it has great value, costs you not a thing;
your reward from me will be
not only to fly but to soar so high
that your hope will match your desires.
And my beauty, such as it is,
which you never tire of praising,
I'll them employ for your contentment;
sweetly lying at your left side,
I will make you taste the delights of love
when they have been expertly learned;
And doing this, I could give you such pleasure
that you could say you were fully content,
and at once fall more deeply in love.
So sweet and delicious do I become,
when I am in bed with a man
who, I sense, loves and enjoys me."
If this is complicated, I think this sentiment has been essentially rephrased 450 years later as follows:
About 1 minute and 50 seconds in sums it up.
Like all courtesans Veronica expects compensation for her favors but I think she's wildly different than most of the mistresses we've considered up until this point. Not only because I truly believe that Madame Pompadour loved King Louis XV (I think Madame du Barry at least felt a kind of gratitude that was probably very similar to love) but also because Veronica Franco was not reliant on one man. I mean, if kings left their mistresses, or somehow turned against them, the mistresses were doomed to a miserable life of poverty. You could rise very quickly by aligning yourself with a powerful man, but it could also be a very dramatic fall.
Veronica Franco is unique in terms of women we've looked at up to this point as, while she had to rely on men in general, she didn't have to depend on one in particular. Even Henri III – whom she certainly liked. She did compare him to a God, though, writing in one poem that it was:
""As from heaven down to a humble roof
Beneficent Jove descends to us here below
But she didn't need him.
She could write letters about how she wanted to be compensated and the conditional nature of her affections that Madame Pompadour and du Barry really, really couldn't.
In that way, she's probably one of the earliest un-aristocratic (here I am, strangely, thinking of Elizabeth Bathory) who had any significant degree of independence.
And yet, a single man was able to take her down.
And it wasn't even a cool man. It was Ridolfo Vannitelli, her son's tutor.
He claimed that she practiced magic in her home, and turned her into the Inquisition. This was, of course, nonsense, but the 16th century was a very bad time to be accused of being a witch.
Though better to be accused of being one in Venice than almost anyplace else! The amount of torture inflicted on the accused was severely limited, and while in many places victims of the Inquisition were burnt at the stake, in Venice that punishment only applied to people unwilling to repent or those that had been previously accused and relapsed. The Italian Inquisition favored milder punishments, like fines or forcing those found guilty to wear a penitential garment.
The penitential garment would have really cramped Franco's breast-exposing style.
Domenico Venier paid for Veronica Franco's defense, and the charge was quickly found to be without merit. Again, it is pretty great that this happened in Italy. However, Veronica Franco quickly lost all of her patrons as a result of the scandal. And then the plague swept through Venice in 1577.
In her will, towards the end of her life, it is noted that she was living in one of the areas of Venice where many of the poorest courtesans ended their lives. She died at the age of 45.
It is speculated that she came to regret her decision to become a courtesan. She wrote to a friend that:
"You can do nothing worse in life than force the body into servitude, to give oneself in prey to so many, to risk being despoiled, robbed or killed . . . to move as someone else desires, and to risk the shipwreck of your faculties and your life – what fate could be worse?"
But. While this perhaps does not make being a courtesan today sound appealing (let's not do it after all, probably), I can still not help but feel that it might be a decision that would be exceedingly sensible to make at that time – that is, if you wanted to spend a life writing poems and hanging out with artists and writers and not, say, dealing with a possibly abusive husband who wouldn't let you use your dowry.
We probably do not want to be her, because you don't want to have to worry about being rendered destitute when your beauty fades (or when people decide you are a witch, and, hell, people are always deciding that I am a witch.) But by the same token, it is because of women like Franco that we can pick alternate jobs where we can write and create and be respected for talents other than just having sex.
Which is all very good, even if I would still like some illuminated manuscripts.
Additional Reading:
The Book of Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues by Susan Griffin
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen, and Writer in 16th Century Venice
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court prosecutors plan to call dozens of witnesses to build their cases against four prominent Kenyans charged with involvement in a deadly wave of violence unleashed by the country's 2007 presidential election, according to documents released Thursday.
Two of the suspects have joined political forces to campaign together for the presidency and vice presidency in fresh elections scheduled for March, two months before their separate trials are due to start in The Hague.
Prosecutors said in written filings they plan to call 46 witnesses and take more than 500 hours to lay out their case against former education minister William Ruto and journalist Joshua Arap Sang, both charged with the murder, forcible deportation and persecution of supporters of President Mwai Kibaki's National Unity Party.
They will call 34 witnesses in the trial of Cabinet secretary Francis Muthaura and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta on charges including murder, forcible deportation, persecution and rape against supporters of Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
All four have pleaded innocent. Their trials are scheduled to start in April.
Before that, Ruto and Kenyatta, who is the son of Kenya's founding father Jomo Kenyatta, are teaming up in the country's March election. Kenyatta is running for president and Ruto for the vice presidency on a joint ticket.
Their alliance appears unlikely as they were on opposite sides of Kenya's political divide during the 2007 election and its violent aftermath which left more than 1,000 people dead.
Were they to win power, it is unclear how they would perform their responsibilities. The number of witnesses and length of time prosecutors need to set out their case suggest trials at the Hague-based court that will likely run to many months.
Three of the suspects are charged as "indirect co-perpetrators" in crimes against humanity allegedly carried out by their supporters. The fourth, Arap Sang, head of a Nairobi radio station, is charged with having contributed to murder, deportation and persecution.
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Feb 28, 2013
Amelia vs the Marathon is a fun game with a fun storyline that brings us back to the wisful times when kneecapping rivals was all the rage.
Amelia is an up-and-coming marathon runner with more than a bit of talent. So much so, that the current champion decides to, uh, slow her progress, Tonya Harding style. Using henchmen and objects, the champion decides to derail Amelia's dreams. Physically.
The game was an action thriller, and it had the graphics to match. The excellent use of colors started with the stills in the cutscene. Bright primaries buttressed with changing backgrounds worked well to frame the gameplay. The animations were delightful cartoony.
Amelia vs the Marathon is an infinite running game at heart. My job was to guide Amelia by sliding and jumping over obstacles using screen swipes. The first few seconds served as a guide, with onscreen animations popping up to show me how to avoid a particular skill. It started out with the random object to jump over, along with traffic control paraphernalia to slide under. These training sets were perfect for prepping for the actual battles. The first battle had me face-off with a water-gun wielding, suit-and-tie-wearing hoodlum intent on doing damage. Now I got to find out why sliding and jumping were so important. Periodically, while ducking and avoiding water blasts and puddles, I got special powers (like a cap of doom) helped me take my enemy's consciousness bar down to the point where he was vanquished. Of course, I had to protect my life bar from damage caused by the obstacles as well.
And the objects changed; pizzas and cake were lethal in this one. They got more challenging. All runs were timed, and localized leaderboards helped measure and compare progress and best times.
The developer tried to make a game without violence despite its concept, and they seemed to do that quite well. The game is fun, clean and challenging.


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How does the organization shape learning?
This is an excerpt from my new book, Organizational Psychology for Managers
Organizations develop attitudes around learning: when is it necessary? Who gets trained? Why are people trained? How are mistakes viewed? etc. These attitudes shape how learning is viewed and, to a very great extent, how successful learning is.
Many years ago, I was participating in a training exercise. As part of that exercise, I was assigned to play a manager who had been recommended for coaching. Having been a serious competitive fencer for many years, I knew that the only people who were recommended for coaching were the best athletes. One of the other participants in the exercise was stunned at my happy response to the role and said, "How can you be so happy? You're playing someone who was recommended for coaching!" Her experience with coaching was that it was the last step before you were fired.
Similarly, it matters how the organization views training: is this something done to build people up or "fix those who are broken?" Is it developing strengths or remediating weakness? Is training something fun or something to be endured and forgotten? Will you have the opportunity to exercise your new skills or not? How the culture views training is critical to the success of training. If the organizational narrative is one that teaches us that training is for losers or that Real Experts don't need training, it's going to be very hard to make training work. That, in turn, will reduce engagement with the material and, hence, make it difficult for organizational members to grow in their roles. On the other hand, if training is viewed as an opportunity to increase competencies and status in the organization, and those who engage in training are given opportunities to exercise their new skills, training can have dramatically outsized benefits compared to the investment.
All too often, training is viewed as an afterthought, something to do when nothing important is going on. There is frequently a strong attitude of, "Sure, take classes, but don't let it interfere with the real work."
If you want training to be effective, it needs to be taken as seriously as any other part of the job. The products you build today are built with the skills you learned yesterday. The products you build tomorrow will be built with the skills you learn today. View training as an afterthought and it will be treated as one. Demand that people already working long hours add more time for training and it will be resented. Either of these factors will dramatically reduce the benefits of even the best classes or training exercises. This may not matter for classes which are done for legal protection more than anything else; it will matter for training that it intended to achieve that goal of a permanent change in behavior.
When training is intended to alter the way people in an organization do their jobs, such as learning new technology or systems, deadlines must be adjusted for that learning to occur. If people are expected to maintain the same levels of productivity during the learning and adoption period as before they started to learn something new, the new technology or systems will not be learned: people will naturally and reasonably opt to meet their deadlines by doing things the old way, rather than invest the time in learning something new. There is almost always a dip in performance in the early stages of adopting new systems and technology: people need time to get used to the new ways of working. This is perhaps the most difficult part of learning as no one likes feeling incompetent. Performance improvements only come once people have become sufficiently comfortable with those new ways of working that they can work faster than they can in the old way: remember, even if the old way is less effective or less efficient, it is very well practiced. That practice enables a great deal of speed and efficiency, which will not initially be present in the new system.
Recall our recent discussion of automatized skills and cueing: the old skills are automatized; the new ones still need to be.
"Author Stephen Balzac has written a terrific book that gets into the realpolitik of organizational psychology – the underlying patterns of behavior that create the all important company culture. He doesn't stop at the surface level, explaining things we already know like 'culture beats strategy' – he gets into the deeper drivers and ties everything back to specific, actionable stories. For example he describes different approaches to apparent "insubordination" by a manager; rather then judging them, he shows how each management response is interpreted, and how it then drives response. Balzac preaches real engagement with one's own company and a mindful state of operation, especially by executives – who must remember that culture "just happens" unless and until they learn to recognize that their behaviors play a huge part in creating and cementing it. It covers the full spectrum of corporate life, from challenging bad decisions to hiring, training, motivating teams – and the secrets of keeping people engaged and learning – and/or avoiding actions which do the opposite. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to participate in creating and steering company culture."
Sid Probstein
Chief Technology Officer
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The European Commission presented its review of employment and social developments in Europe in 2015 at a conference in Brussels on 21 January 2016.
Commissioner László Andor and DG EMPL hosted a two-day conference in Brussels on 18-19 September to discuss the state of play and the way forward in the area of labour economics.
The European Commission is organising an expert conference in Brussels on 18 February to disseminate and discuss the findings of the 2013 Employment and Social Developments in Europe Review.
The Brussels Office of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in collaboration with the European Commission held an international expert conference on 11 October on the subject of "Automatic stabilizers for the Eurozone: pros and cons of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme".
Following the publication of the 2012 annual review, DG EMPL is organising an expert conference by invitation only, to disseminate and discuss its findings.
The Commission held a major conference on employment policy, under the title "Jobs for Europe", on 6-7 September 2012.
The conference to be held in Brussels on 5-6 December will take stock of how inequalities develop and explore ways of how to mitigate them.
The conference to be held on 15 September in Brussels will address wage developments and their impact on competitiveness and social cohesion, through a high-level debate between researchers, employment policy makers and social partners.
Fabrice Murtin from OECD Economics Department will present the seminar on 9 June from 2 to 4pm.
Commissioner László Andor opened the conference on 10 March, which gathered around 200 participants, by welcoming 2010 Nobel Prize laureate Christopher Pissarides and his work on search and matching theory.


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Former McDonald's executive Rick Altizer has been appointed CEO of Arlington, Virginia-based Elevation Burger—one of the first and largest organic burger chains in the country. Altizer assumes the role from founder Hans Hess, who takes on the role of board chairman, and will advise Altizer and the leadership team on brand, growth, and sustainability strategies. The transition will be effective as of March 24, 2014.
Altizer began his career in food franchising nearly 25 years ago when he joined McDonald's Corporation as a regional controller. He went on to run a billion dollar McDonald's region with 500 stores as a regional vice president and general manager. He then took on key leadership positions at two international franchise organizations: Midas International and Jiffy Lube. After serving as Jiffy Lube's president for three years, Altizer was recruited by Jiffy Lube's parent company, Shell Oil, to be general manager of marketing for North America within the retail fuels operation.
Of all the candidates we encountered, Rick was chosen for his food and beverage experience, as well as his deep finance, franchising, and marketing background, says Hess. I'm excited to be putting the brand in Rick's hands and confident that Elevation Burger will achieve its mission and the next level of growth with him at the helm.
Working with Elevation Burger¹s leadership team, Altizer will lead the execution of the brand's long-term strategy while overseeing day-to-day operations. The fast-casual burger franchise currently has a total of 32 U.S. restaurants located along the East Coast and as far west as Austin, Texas. The company has an additional 10 international locations in Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia and projects a total of 60 locations worldwide by the end of 2014.
"Elevation Burger is a great brand and a great business opportunity," says Altizer. "I'm eager to help take this growing company to a new level of success for our franchisees, employees, investors, and most importantly our thousands of loyal guests across the nation."
Hess originally set out to create a burger that would differentiate itself in terms of taste, quality of ingredients, and sustainability. The first Elevation Burger location opened in Falls Church, Virginia, in September 2005. Hans later added three other company owned Elevation Burger locations, two in Virginia and one in Maryland. In his new role as board chairman, he'll be actively recruiting outside board members with experience in senior management, finance, and food and beverage to help develop and accelerate the growth agenda for Elevation Burger moving forward.
Elevation Burger¹s menu consists of burgers made from 100 percent organic, grass-fed, free-range beef and fries cooked in heart-healthy olive oil—offering burgers and other food items with less fat and fewer calories, including two different vegetarian burgers: a vegetarian and a vegan option. Protein dieters can also choose to have their burgers wrapped in iceberg lettuce or served on a potato roll.
The brand is also committed to environmentally friendly practices, including recycling oil into bio-diesel fuel, and using sustainable materials and energy-efficient equipment in its restaurants. The commitment to sustainability doesn't stop there: the restaurants décor is made from bamboo and recycled materials, plus the open kitchen provides guests with the ability to see their food being created right in front of them.
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A slew of independent schools opened in the country in the 1970s, but most didn't survive long term.
One of the exceptions is Boulder's September School, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a party and silent auction on Saturday with alumni, families and past and present teachers and board members.
"A lot of people have just poured their hearts into this school and refused to let it go," said Brus Westby, a longtime September School principal who retired in 2006. "Our message has always been to develop confidence and see every child that comes through as intelligent and creative and very much able to be successful in the world."
September School is the city's oldest independent high school, started as a junior high in 1973 by parents and University of Colorado professors looking for alternatives to traditional public schools.
In 1985, it transitioned from a junior high and high school to a high school only. In the 1990s, when alternative high school choices were limited, the school enrolled 90-plus students with a wait list. As the competition grew, the school reduced its number to 50 to 70 students.
The school, at 19th and Walnut streets, mainly attracts students who are either unhappy or unsuccessful in large, comprehensive high schools. Arts, academics and community service are given equal importance, school officials say. The student-to-teacher ratio is four to one.
John Dunn, September School's head of school, said that, while the school has undergone changes, the foundation that was laid in the '70s remains strong -- "forming relationships and addressing students within a structure of trust and respect."
"It's a culture of contribution and belonging that's just as important as the academics," he said. "We really feel like we reflect the values of the city of Boulder."
Senior Julia Conlin, who lives in Superior, said she tried both public school and an online school, but neither worked out. September School, she said, "gave me a chance to put things in perspective and figure out who I was as an individual and how that fit into my education."
Another senior, Longmont's Veronica Henderson, said the school feels like a second home.
"I don't feel like I'm going to school," she said. "I feel like I'm going to my other family. All my teachers are just so incredible and just really good, honest people."
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"I want to capture this new reality," says the filmmaker behind the camera, Shohei Imamura, in his cunning 1967 riddle "A Man Vanishes." Imamura, who devoted his creative life to both fiction features and documentaries (he died in 2006), is the subject of a six-film retrospective titled "Imamura Investigates," playing through Feb. 11 at the Siskel Film Center. Five of the six look, behave and perform certain ways, according to commonly accepted strictures of non-fiction. But "A Man Vanishes" confounds expectations.
Beginning as a curious, discursive "This Japanese Life"-style verite chronicle of a real-life unsolved disappearance, the film gradually slips into so much else: an essay on voyeurism, on a filmmaker's caprices and responsibilities, on national character and familial shame. Imamura opens in a police station, introducing the case file of a missing-persons case two years earlier involving a rakish, hard-drinking young Tokyo salesman who embezzled from his company. In hiding, with an apparently complicated love life, he has left behind a befuddled family and a scorned fiancee.
The fiancee's nickname is Mouse, and she becomes a prominent player in this strange, stimulating hybrid of narrative fact and fiction. The woman ends up falling for a man involved in the making of the documentary. On camera, Imamura and his colleagues wonder if they've lost control of the story. Or if they ever had it.
These days, anybody with a camera and a trickster's sense of unreliable narration can make some noise. Imamura's hybrid is quieter, more inquisitory. Even if you know where it's going, even with its reiterative passages, "A Man Vanishes" casts a spell. In its day, few precedents existed for the film's approach: This was a few years after "L'Avventura" asserted that the one who goes missing isn't the only real story afoot. Imamura prodded audiences to question everything laid out before them as truth.
'A Man Vanishes' -- 3 1/2 stars
No MPAA rating
Running time: 2:10; in Japanese with English subtitles
Plays: 3 p.m. Sunday, 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Siskel Film Center.


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Children's Flamenco Class for ages 3-7
In this Children's Flamenco class we will be focusing on the basic technique of footwork, body alignment and movement of the upper body, arms and hands. The children will also be exposed to some of the cultural history of Flamenco as we explore the different rhythms of Tangos and Bulerias. An understanding of the rhythms, music, palmas and a basic understanding of Flamenco technique will be a great introduction to this artform for children of all ages.
- Flamenco body and arm positions
- Footwork technique and footwork patterns
- Flamenco turns including vuelta quebrada
- Accentuating movements with floreo (hand movements)
- Marcaje or marking of rhythms using arms, feet and body
- Ability to identify the palos (rhythms) of Tangos, Bulerias and Alegrias
- Proper palmas and rhythmic accentuation for the palos
- Sequencing of the various exercises to create choreographies
Instructor Bio: Monica Craun is a performer and a choreographer with training in classical and world dance forms. She received a Bachelors of Art in Dance from the University of New Mexico and has experience in Flamenco, Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, various African diaspora dance styles, Tahitian, Belly Dance and Latin dance styles. She has taught and performed in United States and Brazil and traveled to Spain, Cuba, Brazil and Egypt and to study various folkloric dance styles. She has professionally performed Flamenco, Contemporary, Jazz, Tahitian, Haitian and Latin fusions. She is the creator of "Rose Garden" at the Colony Theater, Miami Beach, and a member of the Goddess Dancers Dance Company. She has also taught and choreographed at social projects in Salvador Bahia Brazil, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Ouidah, Benin and Miami, Florida. Through the use of music and dance in social projects and art centers, she strives to educate, inspire hope, self-esteem and a strengthened sense of community. Monica believes that all life must be understood and lived primarily through the heart and feels that through artistic expression children and adults can find this profound connection to life.
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NEWARK – As residents recover from this weekend's flooding and wind storm, Attorney General Paula T. Dow cautioned consumers to beware of price gouging and home repair work offered by unregistered contractors.
Once a state of emergency has been declared, it is illegal for anyone to sell merchandise or services needed because of the state of emergency for more than 10% above normal selling price. A state of emergency was declared throughout New Jersey on March 14.
"We will not tolerate anyone who attempts to illegally profit during residents' time of need," Dow said. "Any excessive markups for chainsaws, pumps or other materials needed as people work to recover from the weekend's devastating storm should be reported to the Division of Consumer Affairs."
"The widespread damage caused by this storm means lots of homeowners will be seeking repairs. Residents should be cautious and check with the Division to make sure that the companies they hire are properly licensed or registered to do the work," said Sharon Joyce, Acting Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs.
A searchable database of all registered Home Improvement Contractors is located on the Division's web site at http://www.nj.gov/oag/ca/HIC. Consumers also can enter a town name and generate a list of all registered Home Improvement Contractors located in that community. Tree removal firms, if not licensed by the Department of Environmental Protection, should be registered as a Home Improvement Contractor.
Consumers also can call the Division toll-free within New Jersey at 1-800-242-5846 (or from anywhere at 973-504-6200) and inquire whether a contractor is registered and if any consumer complaints have been filed against the contractor.
Electricians, plumbers and landscape architects are licensed separately by the Division and are not required to be licensed as Home Improvement Contractors if they are working within the scope of their profession.
Consumers can file complaints about alleged price gouging or violations of the Contractors' Registration Act or Consumer Fraud Act at http://www.nj.gov/oag/ca/ocp/ocpform.htm or by calling the Division at the telephone numbers listed above.
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Robert Romik
Kraggerud is so mesmerizing that the orchestra has kept inviting him back.
"Champagne and Vodka," the title of the Madison Symphony Orchestra's upcoming weekend of concerts, may be too light for hearty works by two classical heavyweights. It's not entirely off target, though. The program will offer many musical flavors, including Mozart's ambrosia-like melodies.
Each performance will start with Mozart's overture to Der Schauspieldirektor ("The Impresario"), a comic one-act singspiel. Though it's not as well known as his overture to Le nozze di Figaro, it's just as effervescent.
Then guest soloist Henning Kraggerud will raise a second toast to Mozart by performing his sparkling and melodic Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major. This will be the Norwegian violinist's third appearance with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, his previous performances in 2009 and 2011.
According to conductor John DeMain, Kraggerud is so mesmerizing that the orchestra has kept inviting him back. He says the players have been "completely taken" with Kraggerud because he's both a first-class performer and a topnotch collaborator.
"He thinks in great detail about what we're doing as well as what he's doing," DeMain explains. "Some soloists come in, and here's their interpretation. We accompany them and learn, and that's fine. But he comes in with his own parts and will have thought about every note that every single person plays."
With three contrasting movements and an elegant, graceful style, the concerto will lend itself well to Kraggerud's talents, which include composing his own cadenzas.
For the finale, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 will stir the audience with measured amounts of ice and fire. DeMain says this symphony is complex from a political and social standpoint.
"The second movement is thought to be a satire of Stalin, and some of the movements have Shostakovich's own encryption," he says, explaining that there are "four notes that represent his name and also four notes that [presumably] represent the name of his lover."
This is an emotionally rewarding work as well.
"It's an exhilarating, virtuosic piece for the audience and a favorite among musicians just because it's so entertaining to listen to," DeMain says. "This will be the second time in my tenure that we've done this piece, and we just had such a great time playing it in the past."
But DeMain's fond memories aren't the only reason he's bringing this grand symphony back to the stage. He wants Madison to experience it in a magnificent venue, Overture Hall.
"We haven't played it in our newly renovated hall, which has great sonority, great volume and a wonderful sound that virtually permeates the entire space," he says.


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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
ALBANY -- The 9-year-old gelding Awesome Gem, a multiple graded stakes-winner of $2,738,270, will make his 2012 debut Thursday at Golden Gate Fields in a one-mile turf race.
The $38,500 allowance event for 3-year-olds and up is a prep for the $150,000 San Francisco Mile, which will be run Saturday, April 28. The Grade 3 SF Mile is Northern California's top grass race.
Thursday's feature will be moved off the turf and onto Golden Gate Fields' synthetic Tapeta racing surface. Awesome Gem has raced twice on the Tapeta at Golden Gate Fields and performed well both times, finishing second in the Grade 3 All American Stakes in 2008 and third in the Grade 3 Berkeley in 2009.
Awesome Gem will be making his first start since Oct. 1, when he finished second in the Grade 1 Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita. Awesome Gem lost the Goodwood by a half-length to Game On Dude, a multiple Grade 1 stakes-winner.
Awesome Gem is based at Santa Anita, trained by Craig Dollase and owned by West Point Thoroughbreds. Jockey Russell Baze will ride Awesome Gem, tabbed as the 7-to-5 morning-line favorite by Golden Gate Fields odds maker Steve Martinelli.
The field for Thursday's main event, in post position order, is as follows: Awesome Gem, Baze rides at 117 pounds, 7-to-5; Honour the Deputy, Frank Alvarado, 117, 8-to-1;
Positive Response, Aaron Gryder, 117, 2-to-1; Mr. Candy Bar, Inoel Beato, 117, 12-to-1; and Dunmore East, Kerwin John, 119, 3-to-1.
Positive Response, winner of the 2011 California Derby, should be set for a top effort as the 4-year-old gelding will be making his third start following a long layoff. Trained by William E. Morey, Positive Response has five wins in 11 starts and is coming off a solid second-place try in a one-mile allowance race on March 18.
Post time for Thursday's seven-race card is 12:45 p.m. The feature is the third race and is scheduled to be run at 1:45 p.m.
Russian Greek In Toyota Blue Grass Stakes -- Russian Greek, the 2012 California Derby winner, is among the 13 horses entered in Saturday's Grade 1 $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.
Formerly trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, Russian Greek will be saddled Saturday by Gennadi Dorochenko. Dorochenko will also start Hero of Order, who on April 1 won the Louisiana Derby at odds of 109-to-1.
Hansen, winner of the 2011 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and most recently the Gotham Stakes on March 3, is the 6-to-5 morning line favorite in the 1 1/8-mile Blue Grass. Russian Greek, who is coming off an eighth-place finish in the Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park on March 24, is 50-to-1. Hero of Order is 12-to-1.
The other major Kentucky Derby prep Saturday is the $1 million Arkansas Derby, a Grade 1 event at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark. The 1 1/8-mile race attracted a field of 11, including the Bob Baffert-trained favorites Bodemeister (9-to-5) and Secret Circle (5-to-2).
Golden Gate Fields will simulcast the Blue Grass Stakes and the Arkansas Derby.
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No. 4 LSU, No. 10 Florida have something to prove
No. 4 LSU, No. 10 Florida have something to prove
GAINESVILLE, Fla. —
No one needs to remind Florida what happened the last two years. No one needs to remind LSU what happened the last two weeks.
Those vivid and somewhat painful memories give the 10th-ranked Gators and fourth-ranked Tigers something to prove when they meet in The Swamp on Saturday.
Florida would like nothing more than to avenge consecutive losses to LSU, including a humbling, 41-11 beatdown in Baton Rouge last season. The Tigers have been far from perfect in their last two games - closer-than-expected wins against Auburn and lower division Towson.
How the Gators (4-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) and Tigers (5-0, 1-0) respond probably will determine who remains undefeated and who is left scrambling in its division race.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening higher on this Veterans Day.
Just after the start of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average is up eight points at 12,823. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up two at 1,382. And the Nasdaq composite index is up 11 at 2,916.
Last week, the market had its biggest sell-off of the year after the re-election of President Barack Obama. Investors are worried about the "fiscal cliff," tax increases and government spending cuts that go into effect Jan. 1 unless Congress acts.
The bond market is closed Monday.
Stocks in Europe are mixed after Greek lawmakers approved a 2013 budget overnight. The head of the finance ministers of the 17 euro countries says lenders have prepared a "positive" report on the country.