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U.S. struggles to stop veteran suicide epidemic
Last year, more active-duty soldiers killed selves than died in combat
(GUARDIAN) — Libby Busbee is pretty sure that her son William never sat through or read Shakespeare's Macbeth, even though he behaved as though he had. Soon after he got back from his final tour of Afghanistan, he began rubbing his hands over and over and constantly rinsing them under the tap.
"Mom, it won't wash off," he said.
"What are you talking about?" she replied.
"The blood. It won't come off."
On 20 March last year, the soldier's striving for self-cleanliness came to a sudden end. That night he locked himself in his car and, with his mother and two sisters screaming just a few feet away and with Swat officers encircling the vehicle, he shot himself in the head.
At the age of 23, William Busbee had joined a gruesome statistic. In 2012, for the first time in at least a generation, the number of active-duty soldiers who killed themselves, 177, exceeded the 176 who were killed while in the war zone. To put that another way, more of America's serving soldiers died at their own hands than in pursuit of the enemy.


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The 100-year-old Colony Hotel in Kennebunkport, Me., is a family heirloom.
Checking In: Kennebunkport's Colony marks 100 years
The 100-year-old Colony Hotel in Kennebunkport, Me., is a family heirloom.
Members of the Boughton clan have long been the stewards of this picturesque landmark that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean near the centre of town.
For a good part of its tenure, this 1914 summer resort was the epicentre of upper-class social life, society weddings and tea dances.
Today, life isn't quite as refined or ritzy, but the Colony is still a grande dame with a gracious air and an exceptional staff. Here, you enjoy Maine's timeless attractions: the seaside, garden tours, porch life and freshly caught lobster. And Kennebunkport is strong on golf, tennis and sailing.
The decor in the main hotel, done by principal owner Justena Boughton, is vintage. The lobby is a Victorian vision of red velvet settees and satin pillows. The main-building guest rooms, all beautifully maintained, are rather feminine with floral wallpaper and ruffled white curtains. (But the 125 rooms are spread over five buildings, and the East, Galland, Florence and Boughton Houses are more modern, with TVs, air conditioning and contemporary furnishings.)
People count at the Colony. Guests often return during the same week year after year, so they get to know each other as well as the regular employees.
Its loyal clients include families who revel in the beachfront and the large heated swimming pool, and dog-lovers whose best friends can frolic in the sea and enjoy the extensive grounds. The Colony's ballroom still dances with more than 40 weddings every summer — but never more than one a day, so there is only one bride on the property at any one time.
Spectacular setting
The Colony is one of very few Kennebunkport hotels to be located on the beach, which ranges from sandy to pebbly sandy, depending on the tide. The hotel also has a large outdoor pool, heated to a balmy 35 C and surrounded by royal blue loungers and red and white umbrellas — a picture of Americana.
But the Maine coast is compelling, rain or shine. When bad weather hit, I walked the shore anyway and was swept away by the grey skies, mystical fog and waves crashing against rocks, all part of the dramatic seascapes that inspired great artists, such as Winslow Homer and Alfred Thompson Bricher and authors Kenneth Roberts and Booth Tarkington.
The canine chronicles
Dogs get treats and their own blankets. The hotel is so welcoming that it has been awarded Five Bones from a pet-travel website, http://www.bringfido.com.
New Englander Hans Hoyer has been visiting the Colony since he was a kid (that's more than four decades of seaside fun) and now he vacations there several times a season with his wife, Diane, and their dog, Charlie, a golden retriever.
"Charlie loves the Colony so much that we have to spell out the hotel's name when we're making plans because he gets too excited," Hoyer joked.
The pinnacle of the social season is the Dog Lover's Weekend, from Oct. 24-26, which will feature dog yoga, agility demos, first-aid training, a canine costume party, art shows and the long-awaited Doggie Dip, when it's everyone into the pool — a hilarious sight — before the water is drained for winter.
If you love dogs, watch for photographer Chris Becker's adorable series, Canine Bliss, which pops up at galleries around town (www.chrisbeckerphoto.com). It shows dogs — some with sunglasses — hanging out car windows in the breeze.
1914 versus 2014
The 100th is a special year, so guests are greeted during check-in with sparkling wine, part of the Colony's centennial celebrations. And the hotel is offering tours of the ballroom and other historic spaces, as well as what's called the back of the house — the kitchens and laundry.
Your leisure time might have a last-century quality: the Colony has swimming, cycling, a putting green, lawn games including shuffleboard and, in the lounges, board games and a library of books.
The hotel's new eco-ventures include recycling and energy and water conservation. The hotel has eliminated Styrofoam, aerosols, toxic cleaning materials and garden chemicals, and it uses biodegradable guest toiletries.
On the tech side, there is free Wi-Fi throughout and an iPod docking station in each room, but the Colony almost totally bypassed the television era.
There are no TVs in the main building guest rooms, only a few large screens in various lounges and 36 rooms in other wings that have them.
"Of course, people can bring a tablet and stream TV, but parents really like that their kids aren't glued to a screen," said general manager John Martin, who is a member of the owning family.
"We're all about the great seaside."
Colony Hotel: 800-552-2363, 207-967-3331, www.colonymaine.com, 140 Ocean Ave., Kennebunkport, Maine. Pet-friendly, $30 per day, per pet. Open May through October.
Price: 125 rooms and suites, $189-$469 U.S., per night, depending on ocean, river or garden views; including buffet breakfast, Wi-Fi, heated salt water pool, beachfront, 18-hole putting green, Sunday afternoon tea, parking, Thurs.-Sat., bar entertainment, Dog-Lover's Weekend activities and weekly calendar, including pet photography, concerts, putting contests.
Packages: with Cape Arundel Golf Club, cruises on the Rugosa lobster boat or the Pineapple sailing ketch. Extras: bicycle rentals, Sunday yoga.
Cuisine: A full buffet breakfast is included for all guests, with great baked goods by pastry chef Martha Dempsey.
The Porch Dining Room, an oceanfront rotunda, has fine dining 6-9 nightly, until Labour Day, with lobster bisque, clam chowder, crab cakes, steak and lobster. Friday night features the Mariners Buffet of seafood, through July and August.
The pub-style Marine Room Lounge has live entertainment, 5-7 p.m., Thurs.-Sat., and a day-to-evening menu of burgers, tacos, flatbread and steamed lobster.
The adjacent Poolside Ocean Terrace has a lunchtime grill (through September) and the pub menu until 9 p.m.
The writer was a guest of the hotel, which did not approve this report.
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The easiest and yammiest bread ever
okay, it is spelled: yummy....not yammy...I am still learning...*giggle*
I started with a bread baking machine, which was less successful as we hoped.
So I went back to the original way of baking bread and on my search for a new recipe I found THIS:
400 grams flour (white, mix with whole wheat, flax seed, whatever.....NO RYE for this one!)
quarter teaspoon yeast
1 teaspoon salt
approx 400 grams hand warm water. Just enough to mix a not to smooth dough, should stay put more or less in a "ball" and should not flatten out too quickly when you stop stiring.
You just mix it with a spoon for about 1 minute...thats it. Don't overmix it. It really is enough.
Let stand covered.
After 4 to 18 hours (you are very flexible!) you preheat your oven (425degreeF) AND a cast iron pot with lid.
When the pot is hot, put it out and sprinkle the bottom with flour/flax seed/what ever. Put in the dough. Sprinkle flour on top of bread.
Put the pot back in the oven.
Bake 30 minutes WITH lid and then 20 - 30 minutes WITHOUT lid.
When the time is over, switch off the oven and leave the bread in there like it is.
Let cool a little bit before you cut it!!
How much water you need, depends on the kind of flour. Whole Wheat needs a little bit more that just white flour.
You will quickly find out what the right amount is.
You can mix in:
Sun flower seed, wheat germ, carraway seeds, or a mix of ground carraway seeds & anis.
This is a very easy and delicous bread. You are very flexible...when you don't have the time to bake it this evening, bake it tomorrow morning...this bread is really cheap and has a great crust and you can be sure there is no artificial flavors or other stuff in there.
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DOLAN SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — Flash flood waters swept a tour bus with 33 people aboard hundreds of yards down a wash in northwestern Arizona and the vehicle flipped on its side, but no one was injured, officials said.
The Las Vegas-bound bus was returning Sunday afternoon from a day-trip to the Grand Canyon's west rim when the driver attempted to cross the wash on a rural road.
The high waters pushed the vehicle down the wash for an estimated 300 yards around 1:50 p.m. near Kingman, said Patrick Moore, chief of the Northern Arizona Consolidated Fire District, which had firefighters at the scene. The crash happened as northern Arizona was hit with a second day of heavy rain.
The area where the bus accident occurred received 0.75 inches of rain in about an hour on Sunday afternoon, said Chris Stumpf, a National Weather Service forecaster in Las Vegas. A flash flood warning was in effect when the accident occurred, he said.
"It was a really strong storm dumping quite a bit of rain ... and it caused flash flooding," Stumpf said. "They were driving on a portion of the road where they shouldn't have tried to drive across. They should not have been driving through there."
Rhonda Ho, operations manager for Canyon Coach Lines, said the bus owned by the Las Vegas-based company was being driven by Joseph Razon, who saw a car right in front of him go through a section of the highway covered by some water.
"He thought, if a car can go through it, I can go through it," Ho said.
"Then he got slammed by a rushing current of water that came out of nowhere," she said. "He was driving in almost neck-deep water and trying to control the bus while it was floating."
She said the driver managed to bring the bus against an embankment so it would stop and passengers could escape. People inside the bus were able to climb out of the driver's side windows and walked to dry land.
"I'm glad the driver kept his cool and everybody got out safely. No one screamed on the bus and everyone kept their cool and that's amazing," Ho said.
She described Razon as a "very professional driver" with a spotless record. He has worked for the company since 2005.
Kingman is near the Arizona-Nevada stateline and about 100 miles southeast of Las Vegas. The bus passengers and driver returned on another bus to Las Vegas, where Ho was able to speak to the driver.
On Sunday evening, as a tow truck was preparing to take away the bus, it was lying on its side and had grass and other debris hanging from it. Two escape hatches on its roof were opened. Writing on the side of the bus said: "C.H. Destination" and "DBA: Canyon Coach Lines"
The passengers were no longer at the scene. The company had sent another bus to pick them up.
There were some swift-water rescues of stranded motorists Saturday night after a storm dropped nearly 2 inches of rain in about 90 minutes around Kingman, Stumpf said.
The flash flood warning around the accident scene has expired, he said, but there's a chance for more heavy rain and another similar warning on Monday.
The crash happened as Northern Arizona was hit with a second day of heavy rain.
The Arizona Department of Transportation closed an 18-mile stretch of Interstate-40 Saturday night between Flagstaff and Kingman because of the flash flooding.
Associated Press writers Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix and Martin Griffith in Reno, Nev., contributed to this report.


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For a brief moment in a season of partisan rancor, the Democratic leader of the Senate and his Republican counterpart hit the pause button. As senators prepared to leave for their annual spring recess, dozens of nominees to important federal jobs were confirmed without debate or acrimony.
Majority Leader Harry Reid rattled off numbers from the Senate calendar that corresponded to individual nominees. In minutes, the nation had scores of new and reappointed ambassadors, senior Cabinet department officials and financial regulators.
"This is the way we ought to be conducting business," said Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
"This is the way we should legislate," agreed Reid, D-Nev.
Neither ruined the moment by stating the obvious: Partisanship had become so pervasive in the glacially moving Senate that nominees like these - lacking even a whiff of controversy - were held up for months. Both parties routinely blocked the other's nominees.
Nobody expects the good feelings to last, and when the Senate returns next week, a near party-line vote is likely to defeat a Democratic proposal for raising taxes on the wealthy.
Yet, the March 29 instant of comity is important, providing a glimpse of possible accomplishments when both parties in Congress and the White House work together.
One only has to return to Jan. 4 to see the Senate - and perhaps the White House, depending upon your point of view - at its worst.
That was the day President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate and used recess appointments - allowed by the Constitution when Congress isn't in session - to put four of his nominees in politically sensitive jobs.
Events leading up to Obama's end run date back almost a year.
Last May, 44 Senate Republicans told Obama they would block anyone as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unless that person's power was diluted.
Senate Republicans also had been complaining about the National Labor Relations Board all through 2011. And in December, all 47 Senate Republicans signed a letter urging Obama not to fill any of three pending or upcoming vacancies on the five-member board, complaining that the agency was tilting too much in favor of unions through Obama's appointments. One of the three NLRB vacancies Obama filled Jan. 4 was a Republican.
Officials from both parties in Congress, the White House and organized labor discussed the whys of the face-off in January compared with the comity exhibited at the end of last month. They insisted on anonymity in order to discuss their thinking and their private discussions.
The key considerations that were present in January but not in March were:
-The inability of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board to function without the January appointees.
-Pressure both parties were getting from their political bases.
-The White House's refusal to pledge in advance not to do an end run around the Senate during the Christmas recess.
The Senate was so divided that the two parties couldn't even agree on whether there actually was a recess. The Senate was being gaveled into procedural sessions of less than a minute every few days, but almost all its members were away from Washington.
The four vacancies at the NLRB and for the new consumer bureau presented a dilemma to Obama.
He looked upon the consumer bureau as the crown jewel of a 2010 law overhauling how banks and other financial companies are regulated. But it couldn't issue regulations or begin policing everything from credit fees to mortgages and student loans until a director was in place. And the Supreme Court had told the NLRB it couldn't issue rules or render decisions in labor-management disputes with only two of five seats filled.
That suited pro-Republican business lobbyists just fine. They opposed the new consumer bureau as burdensome regulatory overreach and wanted to end a string of NLRB decisions in favor of unions under Obama's appointees.
Organized labor was demanding that the Democrats bring the NLRB to full strength, and a consumer-labor-liberal coalition was organizing news conferences across the country to demand that Obama get the consumer protection bureau up and running under his choice to head it, former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray.
Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, said "publicly and privately I made it very clear" that the White House should use recess appointments to appoint Cordray and fill other financial regulatory vacancies.
As 2011 was ending, an AFL-CIO official said "our conversations on the Hill and with the White House took on urgency" on the labor board appointments. One of the meetings was with the president's then-chief of staff, William Daley.
"Daley said, `We understand the problem and have people looking at it,'" the official said. "We didn't get an answer. It was a very nerve-racking Christmas."
A White House official said the administration believed Senate Republicans were trying to scuttle nominees whose terms would go beyond the next election. Then, if Republicans won the presidency, the new president could fill those posts with his own nominees.
By waiting until January, the White House bought the recess appointees another year in office. They can serve until the end of the next congressional session, which would mean December 2013. If appointed in December, their terms would have lasted only until the end of 2012.
A president cannot remove the NLRB appointees prior to expiration of their terms. The consumer agency chief serves at the pleasure of the president, so Cordray might not stay anyway under a Republican president.
A Senate Republican leadership aide said McConnell told Democrats in December he was "prepared to do a slate of nominations" if the White House agreed to two conditions: It wouldn't bypass the Senate with recess appointments during the Christmas break, and the slate would include a number of pending nominees Republicans wanted. "They never contacted us one time," the GOP official said.
Last month, just the opposite occurred. Aides to Obama, Reid and McConnell negotiated a deal. The White House pledged not to bypass the Senate during the April recess, and Senate Democrats agreed to confirm eight Republican nominees. In a matter of minutes, more than 60 nominees sailed through the Senate.


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Nonforest terrestrial ecosystems are the single largest type of land surface cover (>51%) in North America. They are extremely diverse and include nontidal wetlands (bogs, fens, swamps, and marshes), ecosystems of the polar domain (tundra and taiga), traditional rangeland ecosystems (grasslands, deserts, and savannas), and improved pastures. These ecosystems are major components of every region of North America; they constitute about 80% of the land cover of western North America and nearly 100% of the land cover above the 75th parallel. They provide forage for 80 million cattle, sheep, and goats and 25 million deer, elk, antelope, caribou, and buffalo, as well as most of the breeding and feeding grounds for waterfowl in North America (Child and Frasier, 1992; WRI, 1996). Nonforest ecosystems are the source of most surface flow and aquifer recharge in the western Great Plains and the extreme northern regions of North America. Municipal, agricultural, and industrial sectors in these regions depend on nonforest ecosystems for the quantity and quality of water required for economic sustainability. The quality and quantity of water derived from nonforest ecosystems depend on the management these lands receive and the average annual and extreme climatic events they encounter.
Nontidal wetlands in North America include a variety of ecosystems such as bogs, fens, swamps, marshes, and floodplains. Classification systems are many and varied. These wetlands are distributed throughout North America, principally in a band extending from the New England states to Alaska. There are additional significant areas in the Mississippi Valley, the "Prairie Pothole" region, the many coastal wetlands (e.g., the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Okefenokee), the Atlantic coastal marshes and Fraser River estuary, the former Great Kankakee and Great Blackwater swamps, the Hudson Bay Lowlands, the Peace-Athabasca-Slave delta, the Mackenzie delta, and the Queen Maud Gulf on the Arctic Ocean (Mitsch and Gosselink, 1986; Ecological Stratification Working Group, 1995; IPCC 1996, WG II, Chapter 6). See Section 8.3.3 for a more detailed discussion of wetlands impacts.
Rangelands are characterized by native and introduced vegetation-predominantly grasses, grasslike plants, forbs, shrubs, and scattered trees. These lands are extremely varied: They include the tallgrass, mixed, and shortgrass prairie regions of central North America; tundra and taiga areas in the polar domain; annual grasslands of California; chaparral regions of Arizona and California; sagebrush shrub steppe and pinyon-juniper woodlands in the intermountain region of western North America; and the Chihuahuan, Sonoran, and Mojave deserts in the southWestern portion of North America. The associated ecosystems are complex and are affected by many interacting biotic and abiotic components, and their health depends on the interaction of climate, soils, species competition, fire, grazing, and management. These ecosystems provide a wide array of goods and services, including forage, water, and habitat for wildlife and domesticated livestock and open space for recreational activities, and they are the source of many of the raw materials needed to sustain our industrial society (i.e., pharmaceuticals, precious metals, minerals, construction materials, natural gas, oil, and coal) (Heady and Child, 1994).
Although some rangelands are fragile and easily disturbed by anthropogenic activity (Belnap, 1995), others are resistant to change. Semi-arid and arid ecosystems are considered among the most sensitive because these ecosystems often are water-limited and have marginal nutrient reserves (OIES, 1991; IPCC 1996, WG II, Chapter 2).
Current levels of uncertainties associated with the functioning and adaptive capacity of nonforest ecosystems under variable and changing climate and the possibility of critical thresholds limit our ability to identify the relative sensitivities of these ecosystems (and the potential impacts of changing climates). It is understood, however, that these ecosystems are sensitive to climate variability and that the impacts can vary depending on the resilience and resistance of the ecosystem to the stresses applied (e.g., changes in precipitation, CO2, temperature, fire, land use, and land cover and management). Researchers also believe that the impacts of CO2 enrichment and shifts in temperature and precipitation regimes are likely to be greatest when they are reinforced by other destabilizing forces. Lack of information about how these other factors interact with climate change also limits our understanding of ecosystem response. Also of concern are the relative sensitivities of species at the ecotones between vegetation types, such as between grasslands and woodlands and between woodlands and forests (Polley, 1997).
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Angie M. Cornwell
August 11, 1934 - February 19, 2013
Angie M. Cornwell passed away peacefully on February 19, 2013 in Stockton at the age of 78. Angie
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Angelo and Mary Tarditi in Linden, CA on August 11, 1934 and was a lifelong resident of Stockton.
Angie was a pillar of the Insurance Industry for over 50 years and respected in Stockton and surrounding areas for her commitment and dedication to each of her clients. She was the owner of Angie Cornwell Insurance Agency for over 7 years, and continued to handle each and every account personally after selling her business to Andreini and Company over the last 17 years. Angie was very active in numerous organizations including The N.A.W.I.C. Delta Valley Chapter #253 and the Tokay Antique Club and was a longtime supporter of Child Abuse Prevention Council of San Joaquin County. Upon her passing, Angie joined her parents Angelo and Mary, and brothers Rudy and
Eddie. She will be lovingly missed by her daughters Denise Cornwell-Bruce (Robert) of Stockton, Kelly Rogers (Patrick) of Tehachapi and sister Olga of Stockton. Angie loved and cherished her
grandchildren, Anna, Catie,
Hunter, Thomas, Patrick and Clare, along with her nieces, nephews, extended family and wonderful friends. Angie will forever be missed but never forgotten.
Family and friends are invited to attend the Memorial Mass on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at Cathedral of the Annunciation,
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In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Child Abuse Prevention Council of San Joaquin County, 540 N. California St. Stockton, CA 95202 or Saint Mary's High School Scholarship Fund "In Memory of Angie Cornwell," 5648 N. El Dorado St. Stockton, CA 95207.


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Rangers keep focus in race for minor premiership
IT READS as one of the season's biggest mis-matches but the strategy remains the same for Toowoomba Rangers - keep winning.
Rangers host bottom-placed Carina White in tomorrow's round 16 GBL A1 League clash at Commonwealth Oval as they look to retain their lofty perch at the head of the league ladder.
Rangers are bound for a minor premiership victory and all the spoils that come with it in the finals' series which begins next month.
The only thing that cost them top spot now is complacency.
But Rangers coach Darryl Luchterhand said late-season slip-ups are not apart of their finals' focus.
"It's not going to be an easy game, and we need to make sure we turn up to play," Luchterhand said.
"I know we had a good win over them last time but that was flattered by us scoring 10 runs in the last innings.
"We are pretty much guaranteed the minor premiership and our focus is on being ready for the finals.
"The good news is we are at full strength if everything works with Lewis Codd flying back from Western Australia on Sunday from the softball nationals."
- Rangers - 93.3
- All Stars - 71.4
- Carina Red - 67.9
- Padres - 65.4
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- Windsor - 50
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Sometimes people have questions or comments that aren't related to a particular blog post, but are more general. We're trying out something called "BlogFrog", which is a community related to the topic of this blog — namely the history of our families. Clicking on this button should take you there:
A blog is usually a one-to-many medium — there is one writer and several readers. The readers can only respond to what the blog writer has said by commenting on something already posted.
In the community, however, you should be able to initiate discussions, and take things further, and discussions can be wider-ranging than they are in blog comments. So even if you don't have a question or comment in mind at the moment, have a look at it — it may spark of some thoughts you'd like to share. It could be some family news — someone has got married, or divorced, or had a baby, graduated, published a book, discovered a new gas, or whatever. It could be something you've just discovered about family members in the past.
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An American flag made of industrial hemp will fly over the U.S. Capitol on Independence Day.
Democratic Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado announced Wednesday that his request for the hemp-made flag was granted.
Polis has long pushed for the plant to be legal for farmers to grow. Industrial hemp looks much like marijuana but does not have its psychoactive properties. Federal law prohibits growing hemp, but not importing it.
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Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray disc set
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The soundtrack mix on all six films is DTS Master Audio 6.1. While the tone and characteristics change in line with available budgets and technologies, they're never less than thrilling. John Williams' classic score, coupled with the distinctive audio FX and general sound design conspire to create a theatrical sonic experience that is genuinely unique.
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From a technical point of view, the last two movies (Episodes II and III) are clearly the best in the box. Both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith offer peerless video quality with bit-perfect, big theatre audio.
I was impressed when I first saw them presented in a digital theatre, and the impact remains undiminished here. Their colour fidelity and sonic detail borders on the miraculous – the stories I couldn't care less about. If you want to show off your home cinema to visiting Jawas, these platters will certainly do the job.
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Three of the nine BDs in the set are devoted to extras. The first two bonus discs are divided by trilogy and broken down by episode. You can peruse interviews – typically an overview of the film plus star chat – and deleted scenes, as well as get in-depth with props and concept art. The discs are rather slow to load, but do contain some lovely trivia.
Menus are neatly animated throughout. However, I wasn't that enamoured with the way certain assets are handled. The interview elements, which contain fascinating behind-the-scenes footage, are presented in a window rather than full-screen. This affectation is plain irritating. On the plus side, it is nice to rotate models and props and zoom in for fetishistic detail.
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Now that the 2012-13 school year is over, it's time to unveil the Herald's Top 20 female athletes, listed alphabetically, nominated by readers.
Gianna Cilluffo (East Rockaway)
The three-sport athlete earned a program-high 22 victories in the circle, leading the Lady Rocks to the program's 10th Nassau softball championship. Cilluffo, who earned All-County and All-State honors, was also one of the team's top offensive threats. She led the team with seven home runs and batted .490. She will play at the College of St. Rose.
Danielle Cutuli (East Meadow)
It took a few years of being bridesmaids, but the Lady Jets, led by Cutuli, earned the program's first-ever Long Island softball championship this spring. The six-year varsity player batted .479 as a senior, and knocked in 17 runs while scoring 25. The slick-fielding shortstop will stay local and play for Adelphi University.
Woodlyn Daniel (Oceanside)
Despite playing in the toughest conference in the county, and facing defenses designed to limit her scoring, Daniel averaged over 17 points per game as a senior and earned All-County honors. Daniel, who will be off to Harvard University in the fall, finished her career as the most prolific scorer in program history with 876 points.
Katlyn Dempsey (Sewanhaka)
On the basketball court, Dempsey was considered a key role player who did all the little things that don't show up in the box score. On the lacrosse field, she filled the box score with gaudy numbers. She scored 65 goals as a senior, including a pair of eight-goal games. The All-Conference honoree is bound for the University of Bridgeport's lacrosse program.
Val DeNapoli (Hewlett)
The three-sport athlete was a solid performer for Hewlett's soccer and basketball teams, but DeNapoli left her mark on the lacrosse field. She scored 48 goals and added 10 assists as a senior, and earned All-County honors for the third consecutive season. Her seven-goal effort led the Lady Bulldogs to a 14-13 victory over Lynbrook. DeNapoli will play lacrosse at SUNY-Binghamton.


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Greeted by a small orchestra, about 200 people entered state Rep. Gordon Dove's home Friday evening for A Night Out for Goodness' Sake, the annual fundraiser that benefits Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma.
Greeted by a small orchestra, about 200 people entered state Rep. Gordon Dove's home Friday evening for A Night Out for Goodness' Sake, the annual fundraiser that benefits Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma.
Several state and parish officials came out to show their support. Guests included state Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, state Rep. Lenar Whitney, R-Houma, and Terrebonne Parish council members Dirk Guidry and Danny Babin. Attendees enjoyed silent and live auctions, food, drinks and live music to benefit the charity hospital that serves Terrebonne and Lafourche residents.
"This fundraiser is put on each year to purchase equipment for the hospital — equipment that would otherwise take a long time to get," Chabert said. "You might put in a request and have to wait five, six, eight, sometimes 10 years to get quality items. The bigger ticketed the items, the longer they could take to get."
Chabert said he remembers growing up when his late father, the hospital's namesake, had to "literally fight in the capital outlay process to get a cancer-screening machine." That same machine later was responsible for his father's cancer diagnosis.
"That's why we're so proud to say that 100 percent of the proceeds from this event go directly to equipment and patient care," Chabert said.
This year's auction included items that appeal to men and women, Chabert Foundation Board President Pamela Bonvillain said, such as six-night stays in condominiums in London and San Francisco, fishing trips, jewelry, an autographed New Orleans Saints football, a big screen TV, children's items, furniture, food, art and more.
Guests enjoyed food from Copeland's, Melvin's Restaurant, Nancy's Seafood Shack, Edible Arrangements, Big Mike's Smokehouse, Ground Pat'i and Cafe Dominique. Special guest chef Dean Schouest cooked shrimp and crab meat jambalaya, fried fish and fried oysters on site.
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The foundation also bought a bone scanner, which helps detect abnormalities such as tumors. Patients used to have to travel to out-of-area facilities to get a bone scan, and the wait could sometimes be as long as six months.
Started in 1999, the medical center foundation provides a vital service because some of the hospital's equipment is original to Chabert, which was opened 34 years ago, said foundation Executive Director Sam Hotard.
"This hospital covers about nine parishes in this area, so it isn't just important to Terrebonne," Hotard said. "It's one of the few left of its kind with our clinics and residencies and so much more. So this gala helps us stay up-to-date to be able to continue to provide these services."
This year's support comes at a time when the hospital has faced state budget cuts and damage from this week's tornado.
On Monday, Green said, the doors to the emergency room were blown out, and there was damage to the switch that controls generator power and the boilers and chillers that supply steam to sterilize equipment.
Several windows at the hospital were shattered, and there was other minor damage. Cars in the hospital parking lot were damaged, and the windows on four state-owned vehicles were shattered.
The medical center received good news in December when a public-private partnership was announced to avert layoffs and devastating service cuts.
The partnership came about after federal Medicaid reimbursement cuts were made in early 2012. Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration and LSU hospital system officials ordered cuts totaling about $152 million among the seven state charity hospitals.
Chabert's share was $14.3 million, which officials said would result in 245 layoffs, about a quarter of its staff, and decimate services.
Ochsner Health System and Terrebonne General Medical Center have stepped in as partners to lease the hospital from the state.
Details of the partnership must be worked out, but state officials said Ochsner and TGMC will lease the 80-bed hospital from the state and maintain Chabert as a safety net for the poor and uninsured.
Besides the fundraiser, the hospital always accepts donations, Bonvillain said. Checks can be made payable to the Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center Foundation. Contact Hotard at 873-2200.


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Named CWPA Northern Division Rookie of the Year ... Tabbed to CWPA All-Northern Division First Team ... Honored as Rookie of the Tournament at Eastern Championship and selected to All-Tournament Team ... Named to CWPA Scholar-Athlete Team and ACWPC All-Academic Team ... Selected Harvard's Rookie of the Year ... Tallied a game-high five goals and collected five streals in career debut against NYAC (Feb. 14); Netted a score later in the day against No. 8 Michigan ... Scored four goals the following day against Siena (Feb. 15) ... Named CWPA Northern Division Rookie of the Week (Feb. 16) ... Scored four times against Villanova and once against Princeton (Feb. 21) ... Tallied a hat trick against George Washington and Bucknell (Feb. 22) ... Scored four goals against Maryland and Bucknell (Feb. 28); drew five ejections against the Bison ... Had a goal and drew three ejections against Princeton (March 1) ... Scored in win at Sonoma State (March 22) ... Tallied team-high four goals at Pacific (March 24) ... Had eight goals in doubleheader against UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis, including six tallies against the Banana Slugs (March 26) ... Scored a career-high 10 goals against Cal State Monterey Bay (March 27); was named Northern Division Player of the Week and COOP Student-Athlete of the Week for effort ... Had five goals against Brown and a hat trick against Hartwick (April 4) ... Tallied a hat trick against Connecticut College and scored twice against Utica (April 5) ... Scored two goals and had three kickouts drawn against Brown (April 11) ... Netted three goals, had two kickouts drawn, handed out two assists and made two steals against Hartwick and tallied a goal against Brown at Northern Division Championship (April 18) ... Found the back of the net four times against Utica at Northern Division Championship (April 19) ... Scored against Hartwick at Eastern Championship (April 24) ... Had two goals, two ejections drawn and three steals against Indiana at Easterns (April 25) ... Tallied the game-winning goal against Bucknell at Eastern Championship (April 26).
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Earned 12 varsity letters at Santa Catalina High, including four each in water polo, swimming and basketball ... Four-year starter in water polo ... Captained water polo and basketball squads ... All-American honorable mention in 2007 in water polo ... USA Water Polo Academic All-American as senior ... MTAL/CCS Most Valuable Player in 2005, 2006 and 2007 ... All-League first team on four occasions ... First team All-Section once and was selected to the second team twice ... CCS Scholar-Athlete of teh Year in 2008 ... Led water polo and basketball teams to league titles ... Cum Laude Society member ... Gold Chord recipient.
Sister, Sarah Kennifer '02, played water polo at Harvard ... Sister, Katherine Kennifer, was a water polo player at Notre Dame, graduating in 2005.


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Effect of moving OSU game?
I was talking with my buddy last night about the upcoming OSU game and he commented that this may be one of the last years he will be able to make it to the game, as he always travels to see family for thanksgiving weekend.
I hadn't really thought about the impact of this, as I rarely go to The Game in person, but it got me to thinking: how will the change in schedule affect ticket prices and crowd participation in coming years?
I live in Ohio and out of state tuition made going to U of M an impossibility, so when Miami offered me a full ride, I took them up on it. Now I know Miami and U of M are both small schools, but I dont know how similar the student population is. At Miami, the campus was DEAD on 3 day or holiday weekends. I rarely left on these weekends, but even I was only on campus for one thanksgiving weekend.
Will having The Game on thanksgiving weekend mean more students will be likely to sell their tickets as they are going home to see familiy? or will more parents come to campus to see the game?
Will alumni be any more/less likely to go?


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The Adolescent Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital was created to meet the complex, growing health care needs of adolescent patients (patients aged 12-21), who require general and specialized care that is tailored to their mental, physical and social development.
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Children's Hospital at Missouri Baptist Medical Center
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I am going to ask you to think outside the box for a moment.
I am going to ask you to think outside the box for a moment.
In 1963, there were 161 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in the United States. In 2011, that figure rose to 386 per 100,000. So, in my lifetime, the per capita violent crime rate has more than doubled. The rate for rape and assault has nearly tripled. The murder rate is almost the same while the rate for robbery has doubled.
Needless to say, things have not improved in the last 50 years. In fact, the crime rate has steadily increased.
With all the new technology, we continue to spend more and get less return on our investment. Law enforcement relies on tax dollars to fund police protection, probation and parole, the courts, jailers and others in the quest to �control� the crime problem. Support industries such as uniform suppliers and outfitters for special equipment and firearms suppliers profit.
Attorneys defend the accused for a fee. Prisons grow larger to accommodate more convicts. Because the entire criminal justice system relies on the existence of crime the �Industry of Crime� continues to grow.
We have been programmed to believe crime is extremely difficult to curtail. Do you believe this? Crime control, to include prevention, prosecution, defense, adjudication and incarceration, is a business.
Crime exists, at least in part, because the industry surrounding it is a lucrative one. Our justice system is broken and the punishment almost never matches the crime. Why is that?
Some would place the blame on economic reasons. �We simply can�t afford to house all the criminals,� they say.
Others would place the blame on poverty and social issues or alcoholism and other addictions. I say there is no motivation or incentive for the multiple offenders to change their ways and certainly no example made of them. The convict usually has better health care and nutrition in jail than we do. The industry continues to thrive through recidivism.
But is there more to the story?
The economic paradox is that by �fixing� the crime problem, the industry surrounding crime would fail. Like General Motors, the industry is just too big and we won�t let it fail. Careers and livelihoods would be lost. Jail cells would sit empty. Taxes would go down. We allow lax sentencing for intolerable criminal acts and, in turn, perpetuate the downward spiral of crime suppression.
From an economic standpoint, tolerating a higher rate of crime to keep this industry alive is perverse, but we allow it as a society.
Socially, we suppress crime to an acceptable level, one the public can tolerate. We all need a sense of security, but at what price? We allow this lax mindset because some think it is inhumane to punish to the full extent of the law.
It is also easier to allow this nonsense to continue than to �fight city hall.� Sending a known criminal back into society with a slap on the wrist for his infractions is like putting a Band-Aid on a severed artery. The prevailing mentality is, �We can afford Band-Aids.�
Why not repair the severed artery once and for all? Why not punish to the extent that the crime is deterred? Is infliction of pain no longer an option?
I have worked with kids that have grown up under severe conditions. Not everyone has a great childhood. But when that child grows up and rapes or murders someone, there is nothing that can reverse the crime or bring back a loved one. The now adult criminal must suffer suitable consequences. And we all know that doesn�t happen in today�s society.
Why are we allowing this to continue? Why do we tolerate this nonsense? My intent is to provoke thought and expose truth. It is not to accuse any entity or subset of this industry of intentionally milking the system.
Most of you reading this never gave the idea much thought; you just want to be safe. The justice system, to include law enforcement, adjusts to the ever-changing socioeconomic challenges.
We now offer unrealistic rehabilitation options to criminals that don�t want rehabilitation. When rehabilitation won�t work, a harsher, more effective punishment is in order. The �rehabilitated� criminal reappears over and over again in the �revolving door� phenomenon.
We get caught up with human rights issues and hear the mantra about what kind of childhood they had. If they murdered someone because they had a bad childhood, game over. It�s too late. It�s a vicious cycle. Enforce penalties that match the crime.
We can build all the jails and prisons we want with our money, but if there is no true consequence for negative behavior, we will see more crime and more growth in the industry associated with it. It is our responsibility as citizens to bring about change. The government works for us, not the other way around.
Our country was founded on the premise that the purpose of government is to provide for its citizens those things they can not provide for themselves. Things like infrastructure and protection from outside invasion would qualify.
Many of us can protect ourselves from the majority of criminal attacks. Our forefathers provided us the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution for that reason. But today, we stand a higher risk of being incarcerated by defending our own home than by allowing the government to do it for us.
We allow our Constitutional rights to slowly disintegrate. We pay higher taxes and support a larger government on the local, state and federal level.
In 2011, transfer payments, such as Social Security, Medicare, disability and pensions, consumed 61 percent of expenses paid for employees and retirees from government jobs. This is an average but includes the justice system employees. So, in effect, only 39 cents on your tax dollar is left to actually fight crime.
How ridiculous is that? But this is what we have come to as a nation.
Don�t forget that �We the People� do have a voice, that we live in a Republic whereby elected officials represent our interests. It is your responsibility to have dialogue with those elected officials and hold them accountable.
This country belongs to you and me, not the bureaucrats at the local, state or national governmental levels.
Our Constitutional rights are under attack every day. It is our responsibility to protect those rights for future generations. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness come at a price and freedom is never free. Stop ignoring the issues that are sending this country down the drain.
Write or call your legislators, visit your local county commission or city council meeting and be a part of the solution.
John Nix is the owner of Matrix East, a former Kinston City Council candidate and part of the Nix v. Holder federal lawsuit. You can reach him at email@example.com.