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CIVILIZING FORCE: François Bégaudeau manages a rambunctious microcosm of a new multinational France in 'The Class.'
To Monsieur, With Love
'The Class' pits teacher against student in a tough Paris neighborhood, and everybody wins
By Richard von Busack
In taking the pressure-cooker atmosphere of a high-school classroom and making it absolutely compelling, Laurent Cantet's The Class shows the excitement of doing a desperately important job. According to the journalist Sanche de Gramont (a.k.a. Ted Morgan), there was a time when a French education minister could look at the clock and instantly tell what subject was being taught in every classroom in his nation. That's changed, obviously. The Belleville-area school in Paris we see here isn't old-school in any sense of the word. Students of every nationality in the old French sphere of influence attend: Tunisian Arabs, sons of Francophone Africa, a kid from Martinique or some other French island in the Caribbean—there's even a Chinese illegal alien. In some ways, what we see is like an "FSL" class instead of "ESL." The class of the title is French, specifically grammar. The teacher in the class is leading students through imperfect tenses, and they prefer street argot. But it's also his job to get them to read The Diary of Anne Frank and to coax them to open up about their lives when they prefer to look as cool and streetwise as possible.
Another measure of how much French schools have changed since The 400 Blows is seeing how the students have a little control in matters. Student representatives are allowed to witness disciplinary hearings and exercise a bit of clout. This power leads to trouble in the conclusion of this tightly paced yet naturalistic docudrama. The focus on the schoolroom is intensive—the few night scenes are filled with parent-teacher conferences and other administrative problems. The classroom is small and packed with kids ages 14 and 15. Some of the few exteriors are high-angle shots of the schoolyard; it is prisonlike in its compactness, and it has high walls.
The French title of François Bégaudeau's memoir, Between the Walls, must be deliberately meant to recall jail. In this restaging of events in his classroom, Bégaudeau plays what he is in real life: a correct, graceful, unflappable teacher who can handle what his always-chafing kids throw at him. One kid suggests that Bégaudeau is a "Camembert"—the slang for a Frenchy Frenchman, the suit-and-tie type, as opposed to the hip-hop-loving kids of the class. Naturally, a few of the students question Francois' sexuality. He handles the gossip with a beautifully thrown rhetorical dart: Who wants to know? The heckling students show their spirit. Bégaudeau shows his spirit by giving without giving away everything he's got. It makes him the kind of teacher you might have had, the ones who were more intriguing than the ones who shared everything. They were mysteries. What exactly did they do in their spare time, when they were so devoted to teaching? The Class is another strong and worthwhile film by Cantet. He's creating a specialty for himself, a focus on the workplace and overwork, just as he did in the excellent film Time Out. The Class is a specific type of labor movie, and it's not the kind that's not being done much, if at all, in American movies. It's a sympathetic film without being sloppy, and it is of equal fascination to students and teachers alike.
THE CLASS (PG-13; 128 min.), directed by Lauren Cantet, written by François Bégaudeau, Robin Campillo and Cantet and starring Bégaudeau, plays valleywide.
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H.R.624 - Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act113th Congress (2013-2014)
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (November 8, 2012) – For the third straight year a Breeders' Cup champion passed through the Calder Casino & Race Course stable gate just days after achieving the ultimate glory on American racing's biggest stage as Sprint winner Trinniberg returned to his south Florida stall during the early morning hours on Wednesday.
"He was a little tired in the morning and slept until nine," trainer Shivananda Parbhoo said of his prized colt. "But he bounced right back today and I can tell you that the same way he went into the race is the same way he has come out of it. He's back to himself."
"He really loves the track out there and that's what made me think about the Malibu, but he's done for the year," Parbhoo said. "I'll probably send him back to the farm. I plan to run him as a 4-year-old, but because of what happened to (Giant) Ryan (who broke down in the True North Handicap at Belmont in June) I am going to be very careful with him."
So with the curtain closed on his 3-year-old season, Trinniberg can claim 2012 wins in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint, the Grade 2 Woody Stephens, the Grade 3 Bay Shore, and the Grade 3 Swale, a quartet of victories that leads Parbhoo to believe his colt is worthy of being named champion sprinter.
"Right now, if I had to give a percent, I'd say it is 70 to 80-percent that we will win the Eclipse Award," Parbhoo said. "There are still two months of racing left, but I truly believe the award is ours.
"Off the top of my head, the only horse I can think of right now that might have a chance is The Lumber Guy. We both have grade-one wins, but we've won more stakes than he did, and we beat him in the biggest race. Maybe Amazombie would have had a chance if he would have finished better in the Breeders' Cup."
Eclipse Award or not, the 2012 Breeders' Cup victory by Trinniberg caps off a remarkable 12-month period for Parbhoo that saw the Trinidad native, along with his father Bisnath, start two horses in the 2011 Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs, run a horse in the Dubai Golden Shaheen as part of the prestigious Dubai World Cup program, and have a Kentucky Derby starter.
"There are trainers out there that would love to run a horse in any one of those races, but for us to run in all of them within a year, and then to win one, wow" Parbhoo said. "Back when my family started in this business, all we wished for was that we could win a grade one race. That was it. Never mind the race, just a grade one anywhere and we'd be happy. And now, it's just amazing."
Equally amazing to Parbhoo was the reaction Trinniberg's win elicited not only from his home island of Trinidad, but how the win resonated across the vast string of island nations that traverse the Caribbean Sea.
"After the race, I got calls and text messages from all over the islands, not just Trinidad," Parbhoo said. "I got calls and texts from St. Kitts, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, from places that I didn't even know the location, or how they got my number.
"I heard from one guy in the Cayman Islands that said the OTB parlors went berserk when Trinniberg won. No jockey, trainer, or owner from the islands had won a Breeders' Cup race. We were the first. We went on the world stage and won. And that's a very big thing."
Calder will present a special ceremony in tribute to Trinniberg following the seventh race on Saturday's Florida Million Day card that will include the colt being paraded in front of the Calder grandstand with representatives from the Parbhoo family in the winner's circle.
One week after winning the Breeders' Cup Sprint with Trinniberg, Parbhoo will look to repeat that feat, albeit on a smaller scale, when starting Off the Jak, an allowance winner in each of his last two starts, in the $125,000 Jack Dudley Sprint Handicap.
"I feel like I've just come back from the moon, but now it's back to business," Parbhoo said. "It's a tough race, but I figure my horse to be right there. He has speed, I like his post (5), and while I think Bull Dozer will probably be the favorite, we beat him the only time we ran against him."
In that race, a December 3 starter allowance at Fair Grounds, Off the Jak finished second, four lengths ahead of Bull Dozer, who crossed the wire third that day.
The Jack Dudley Sprint will go as the 10th race on the 12-race card.


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For the approximately 2.5 million men living with prostate cancer, a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that eating nuts and other foods high in vegetable oils may play a role in lengthening their lives.
Compared to men with prostate cancer who ate the least amount of vegetable fats, the men who ate the most had a lower risk of dying during the study from cancer or any other cause. Study analysis also concluded that men with the disease may lower their risk of dying by replacing calories from carbohydrates and animal fats with vegetable fats.
The study included 4,577 men diagnosed with nonmetastatic prostate cancer between 1986 and 2010. Every four years the men reported their typical diet during the previous year, answering questions on fried food consumption and what type of fat they used to cook. The study focused on mortality related to consumption of different types of fats: saturated, polyunsaturated, trans, animal, and vegetable fats.
After a median of almost 8 and a half years, 1,064 of the men had died. Most of the men – almost a third –died from heart disease. Another 21 percent died from prostate cancer specifically and another 20 percent from other cancers. Read more… "Study: Men with Prostate Cancer May Survive Longer with Vegetable Fats"


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Sencha's HTML5-based mobile application framework has just passed more than 100,000 downloads since the start of its public beta program back in June of this year. The company, formerly known as "Ext JS", says that it has tapped into a "wide and latent" need for creating high-performance web apps for touch-based mobile devices like Apple's iOS iPhone and iPad, Android, and Blackberry.
The first full release of the Sencha Touch framework will be out of beta toward the end of September. Available under both GPLv3 and commercial license options, the company says that Sencha Touch is the world's first app framework built specifically to leverage HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
With tools including the ability to make user interfaces resolution independent, developers have been using the beta to produce touch-based games such as Remember The Card and exploring the potential to create cross-platform web apps that look and feel like native apps. With Apple being infamously sluggish and unpredictable to approve new software for its App Store, developers may consider a Sencha Touch "app" (which is effectively just a website) to be a smart route towards monetization.
Sencha's vice president of products and marketing Michael Mullany used his corporate blog to explain the company's technology proposition, "I won't take this space to go over the entire feature list, but we feel confident that a majority of mobile apps today could be developed with Sencha Touch and deployed as pure web apps because they don't need access to device capabilities like cameras or Bluetooth."
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EasyDAQ is the creator of a wide range of relay controllers with USB, Ethernet, Serial, and XBee interfaces. EasyDAQ partnered with ioBridge to web-enable their serial relay control modules. The integrated system includes web-based control of up to 16 opto-isolated relays, a custom serial cable that interfaces the serial relay controller to the ioBridge IO-204 module, and an international / universal power supply.
Web access is provided by the ioBridge.com platform via widgets and the Static Widget API. The API provides a conduit for commands sent by HTTP or HTTPS POST/GET requests. HTML, LabVIEW, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP and Ajax are access/programming options. Refer to the ioBridge Wiki for protocol and information on controlling the EasyDAQ SER8PRMx and SER16PRMxN relay cards using the ioBridge.com platform.
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A central reason for the existence of the BELIEVE resource is to try to provide the best such information that we could accumulate. Many of our subject presentations include (separate) articles written by Protestant Christian scholars, Catholic scholars, Jewish scholars, Orthodox scholars, Muslim scholars, etc, to try to provide the broadest possible view of a subject, by including perspectives from many different (scholarly) directions. We have also included excerpts from important Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and other religious texts, which often seem to show the same charity, kindness, patience and other characteristics which are familiar in nearly all religions.
Churches each INTERPRET many different things to generate their own ideas about how a Church is supposed to be. An interesting example to ponder might be a few paragraphs from a respected Christian scholar's discussion regarding Jesus' 'self awareness' during His earthly activities. That scholar notes that at NO time did Jesus ever refer to Himself as Son of God or as anything very different from terms used for Jewish Rabbis of the time, such as "my Lord". The Post-Easter Church, AFTER He had Died, developed nearly all of the titles by which we now refer to Jesus. But modern Christians and modern Churches all believe that they were applied to Jesus while He was Alive on Earth. That was not the case. Jesus clearly realized that He had an unique and intimate relationship with the Lord, but He never implied that He felt it was as Son or as any other Divine Being! It IS possible that He made such comments AS AN ASSUMPTION, based on the fact that each time that He requested a Miracle, it occurred! The reality that He Was the One True God of the Universe meant that such Miracles would occur because He wished them! But HE did not realize all of that, and He believed that He had to REQUEST Miracles "from the Father"! Churches have Taught for centuries that those things were accurate and true statements, but they appear to have been primarily OPINIONS of leaders of the Post-Easter Church as it was developing. (In the final few weeks of His life, the Bible gives evidence that Jesus began to fully realize just how unique He was! Until then, He felt the need to ask the Father for such things as Miracles, and as a result, both He and everyone else started referring to Him as Son.) We feel that the Lord Wishes us all to KNOW the actual Truth, and not necessarily just the opinions of that Truth held by Ministers of any specific Church. Doesn't that seem what He would Want?
BELIEVE is currently a collection of over 7,000 articles by respected scholars on around 2,300 religious subjects. Protestant Christian Churches, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Orthodox Church, all follow Faiths which involve hundreds of individual subjects, which are each thoroughly presented in BELIEVE. Many of these subjects are very important to Faith, like Eschatology, but which are seldom presented in Church Services or during Bible Study. Others are commonly known religious subjects, like Salvation, or Baptism, that we just present more thoroughly than is usually available.
We think you might find it refreshing that we have no intention of pushing you toward any specific attitudes or positions. We also have no intention of trying to get you to like or dislike any specific group or Denomination or Faith. (We DO hope that you will pursue SOME Faith and some method of Worshipping God!) Our intent is only to present you with enough accurate, unbiased information such that you can make your own thoughtful conclusion about any particular subject. If you have Doubts about God, Christianity, Religion or questions, concerns, doubts, skepticism, you're probably in the right place to get actual information on which to form your own conclusions. We have tried hard NOT to include opinions or unsupported logic. Our attitude is that YOU must find your own conclusions (as long as you have accurate information to work with) and it is not our place to try to drag you anywhere!
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The New iPad: First Impressions and Screen Surprises
My new iPad—Apple's third-generation tablet—showed up this morning. My first impression is that there's a lot to like, but there are a few things I find surprising and not quite right yet. I'll post more after spending some time with it, but here are some unboxing shots and some initial thoughts.
Thanks to FedEx, my device showed up this morning, so I avoided those crazy lines. Not too surprisingly, the box looks a lot like the iPad 2's.
See PCMag's full iPad coverage.
Inside, you'll find the device, wrapped in plastic, as well as the cable, wall charger, and the usual sparse documentation. Again, it's pretty much the same as it's always been.
After opening it up, you pick a language and the country.
You then can choose to set up the device as a new one or to make it look just like an existing iPad, from either iTunes or iCloud. It asks you to agree to the terms of service and starts the setup.
In my case, I chose to restore from iCloud, which took about 20 minutes. After I agreed to use dictation, the system was ready to use.
Unfortunately, I guess I hadn't backed up my iPad in a while, so I had to update a lot of my applications. It looks like iTunes was pretty busy today, as that took another 15 to 20 minutes. When I was done, my iPad and its applications were ready to use.
Screen Differences
The most obvious difference between the new iPad and the previous generation iPad 2 is the 2048-by-1536 Retina Display, which is immediately obvious when simply viewing a webpage in Safari.
The iPad 2 looks pretty good, but if you look closely, you can see the little dots that make up the pixels, in a screen-door effect. On the new iPad, I can't see the dots at all. It looks much more like paper and I think that's a huge advantage. I can't say I noticed any real difference in the speed of rendering such pages over Wi-Fi, which may in fact be a result of the A5X processor's fast graphics compensating for the additional pixels on the new display.
But there were a few things about the differences in the displays that surprised me. To begin with, the new iPad appeared dimmer in most settings and most locations, whether it was manually adjusted or with "auto-brightness" on. When I took both units, with auto-brightness on, from a bright room into a dark room, the newer one became noticeably brighter, albeit temporarily, as it then reset to a less bright setting. I'm not sure why they would be different. This isn't a big deal, as you can manually adjust the screens, but surprising.
In addition, the screens have a different color temperature; the iPad 2 leans a bit more toward the blue (a little "cooler") and the new iPad a bit more toward the yellow. I doubt I would have noticed had the screens not been side by side, and I'm not sure whether it's better or worse, but it is different.
In the few applications I've been able to try thus far, the higher resolution screen can make a noticeable difference, although the resolution of this webpage means that the pictures probably don't do it much justice.
As I said, this was obvious in using the Safari Web browser and The New York Times application also appeared to be noticeably crisper on the new iPad.
However, with the Wall Street Journal, I had the opposite impression. The higher-resolution seems to lead to more distortion, as what appears to be anti-aliasing on the fonts becomes noticeable.
I'm sure this will be fixed by a new version of the app that better understands the new display, but it's interesting to note, and a minor problem for now.
I'm looking forward to spending more time with the new iPad and seeing whether 4G LTE will actually work for me in enough locations. While I wish the Wall Street Journal app had already been updated, in general, I'm already seeing a big difference in the screen display, and I think that's going to turn out to be quite significant.
For more, see PCMag's "Hands On With the New iPad" and "Unboxing the New Apple iPad."


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Workshop 1: Creating a Community of Writers
Additional Resources
Atwell, Nancie. "Cultivating Our Garden." Voices From the Middle 3.4 (November 1996): 47-51.
Atwell, Nancie. In the Middle: New Understanding About Writing, Reading, and Learning. 2nd Edition. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. ISBN: 0867093749.
Augsburger, Deborah J. "Teacher as Writer: Remembering the Agony, Sharing the Ecstasy." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 41.7 (April 1998): 548-552.
Barbieri, Maureen and Linda Rief, eds. Workshop 6: The Teacher as Writer. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994. ISBN: 0435088165.
Browlie, Faye and Judith King. Learning in Safe Schools: Creating Classrooms Where All Students Belong. Portland, ME: Stenhouse, 2000. ISBN: 1551381206.
Brunce-Crim, Marna. "What Is a Writing Classroom?" Instructor 101.2 (September 1991): 36-39.
Calkins, Lucy McCormick and Shelley Harwayne. The Writing Workshop: A World of Difference. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1987. ISBN: 043508450X.
Eggemeier, Judith K. "Developing the Craft of Writing in the Sixth-Grade Classroom." Primary Voices 7.4 (April 1999): 23-32.
Elementary Section Steering Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English. The Literate Life: Exploring Language Arts Within a Cycle of Learning. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997. ISBN: 0814129765
Finders, Margaret. Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997. ISBN: 0807735604
Fletcher, Ralph. Breathing In, Breathing Out: Keeping a Writer's Notebook. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. ISBN: 0435072277.
Fletcher, Ralph and JoAnn Portalupi. Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. ISBN: 0325003629.
Fountas, Irene C. and Gay Su Purnell. Guiding Readers and Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. ISBN: 0325003106.
Freeman, Marcia. Building a Writing Community: A Practical Guide. 2nd Edition. Gainesville, FL: Maupin House Publishers, 1995. ISBN: 0929895134.
Frost, Helen. When I Whisper, Nobody Listens: Helping Young People Write About Difficult Issues. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. ISBN: 0325003521.
Gleeson, Anne and Vaughn Prain. "Should Teachers of Writing Write Themselves?: An Australian Contribution to the Debate." English Journal 85.6 (October 1996): 42-50.
Harwayne, Shelley. Lasting Impressions: Weaving Literature Into the Writing Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1992. ISBN: 0435087320.
Knowles, Trudy and Dave Brown. What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. ISBN: 0325002665.
Langer, Judith A. Effective Literacy Instruction: Building Successful Reading and Writing Programs. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2002. ISBN: 0814112943.
Manion, Betty Byrne. "Writing Workshop in Junior High School: It's Worth the Time." Journal of Reading 32.2 (November 1988): 154-157.
McIntyre, Ellen, Ann Rosebery, and Norma Gonzalez, eds. Classroom Diversity: Connecting Curriculum to Students' Lives. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. ISBN: 0325003327.
Moore, David, Thomas W. Bean, Deanna Birdyshaw, and James A. Rycik. Adolescent Literacy: A Position Statement. Newark, DE: IRA, 1999. Product: 1036-553.
National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. Standards for the English Language Arts. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996. ISBN: 0814146767.
National Council of Teachers of English. Motivating Writing in the Middle School. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996. ISBN: 081415287.
Olafson, Lori and Margaret M. Latta. "Expecting, Accepting, and Respecting Difference in Middle School." Middle School Journal 34.1 (September 2002): 43-47.
Phelan, Patricia. "A Classroom Community." English Journal 80.7 (November 1991): 19-31.
Ramsey, Katherine D. "Middle Talk." English Journal 90.5 (May 2001): 127-134.
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A bombshell new report claims that Michael Jackson is not the biological father of his two oldest children -- rather a Los Angeles dermatologist is.
Dr. Arnold Klein, is the father of Prince Michael Jr., 11, and Paris, 10, according to UsMagazine.
"He is the dad," a Jackson insider told the magazine. "He and Debbie [Rowe] signed an agreement saying they would never reveal the truth."
Jackson was married to Rowe and allegedly fathered the two children with her, but Rowe worked as a nurse for Klein.
Rowe had said in the past she carried the children as a favor for Jackson.
"I said, 'Let me do this. You need to be a dad. You have been so good to me,' " she said in 2002.
Meanwhile, TMZ.com cited sources that said that neither Jackson nor Rowe were the biological parents of the two eldest kids -- but the paparazzi portal didn't offer any alternative lineages. The site also reported that Jackson never officially adopted the kids.
Rowe released a statement late Tuesday via her attorney Marta Almil stating: "We refuse to be drawn into addressing the various rumors and speculation swirling in the media. The vast majority of what is out there is untrue. Particularly hurtful and insidious is the most recent rumor - which is entirely false - concerning the maternity of the children. Ms. Rowe is the biological mother of the two oldest children."
The mother of Jackson's youngest kid, Prince Michael II, 7, has never been revealed.
And with the battle over the Jackson's estate brewing -- his mother, Katherine Jackson, has filed for control, and it's unclear who will end up with his kids -- a will has surfaced from seven years ago, according to the venerable Wall Street Journal.
The will from 2002 reportedly divides the King of Pop's estate among his mother, his three children and one or more charities.
The lawyer for Michael Jackson's family, L. Londell McMillan, said a will for the late pop star has been presented and is to be filed in court.
McMillan said the singer's advisers are looking for additional documents.
The existence of a will, and the likely appointment of an executor, could complicate a petition by Jackson's mother Katherine to become the administrator of his estate.
The Jackson family said the children — Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (known as Prince Michael), Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince Michael II — are living at the Jackson family compound in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.
And at about the same time a judge granted Katherine Jackson authority over at least some of her son's estate Monday, pickup trucks and a large dump truck towing a flatbed were seen entering the 2,500-acre Neverland Ranch, a major piece of the singer's debt-strapped financial empire. It was not clear who had requested the fleet or for what purpose.
Clearly one of his most valuable assets is his recording catalog, which his father could potentially rerelease through his new record company if the family gains control of his assets. There could also be recordings in Jackson's estate that he had never released.
There's also a financial bonanza to be had in the Sony/ATV Music Publishing catalog of which Jackson owned 50 percent. The 750,000-song catalog includes music by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Lady Gaga and the Jonas Brothers.
Financial documents obtained by the Associated Press state that Jackson had $567.6 million in assets, including Neverland and his share of the music catalog, but he had debts of $331 million. That leaves him with a net worth of 236.6 million, yet he only had $668,215 in cash as of June 12, 2007, all according to a statement of financial condition prepared by Washington, D.C.-based accounting firm Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio & Associates.
The report puts a net value on Jackson's stake in the Sony/ATV Music Publishing catalog — his most prized assets — at $390.6 million.
Another of Jackson's prized possessions, his Neverland Ranch, is valued at $33 million, according to the report. It says Jackson took out a $23 million loan against the 2,500-acre property in the rolling hills of Santa Barbara County.
He also had $20 million worth of cars, antiques, collectibles and other property.
The Jacksons say they have not heard from Rowe since their son's death. Rowe's attorney, Marta Almli, did not respond to an e-mail message seeking comment Monday. She previously said, "Ms. Rowe's only thoughts at this time have been regarding the devastating loss Michael's family has suffered."
Sharpton said on ABC that the Jackson family's status as a longtime show-biz family gives them valuable experience in dealing with the children.
"You must remember, they're going to have to grow up as Michael Jackson's children," he said. "They need someone that understands that culture, that scrutiny, that unusual life they're going to have to live."
The legal steps were taken even as investigators continued their probe into the singer's death. Officials with the Los Angeles County coroner's office returned to the mansion he was renting at the time of his death and left with two large plastic bags of evidence.
Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said the bags contained medication. He declined to elaborate.
Lawyers for Jackson's cardiologist Dr. Conrad Murray, who was with Jackson when he collapsed, said the physician never prescribed the powerful drugs Demerol or Oxycontin for Jackson and did all he could to revive the singer.
Attorney Matt Alford said it took as long as 30 minutes for paramedics to be called after Murray found Jackson with a faint pulse and performed CPR.
The delay was partly because Jackson's room in the rented mansion didn't have a telephone and Murray didn't know Jackson's street address to give to emergency crews, Alford said.
Eventually, Murray found a chef in the house and had him summon a security guard, who called for help while the doctor continued to perform CPR.
Lou Ferrigno, the star of TV's "Incredible Hulk" who was helping Jackson train for a planned concert tour, said Jackson didn't look like he was in pain the last time they met.
"He might have been a little thin because he was under a lot of stress because of the tour," Ferrigno said on "Good Morning America." But he said he believed Jackson would have made it through his concert tour. He said Jackson was a vegetarian who ate only one meal a day.
Jackson's body will return to Neverland on Thursday and a public viewing is set for Friday. A private service is planned for Sunday.


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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Releasing Wharton the right move -- but a tough one
Wharton will and should find work somewhere else. He's 30 -- which is fairly old but not ancient for an offensive lineman -- and he's a class guy. Wharton was one of those players you like on your team -- never involved in any controversy, no injury issues like Jeff Otah and versatile enough to play guard or tackle. He started 99 games in eight years with Carolina.
But ultimately a good contract caught up to him. Wharton's cap number was too high -- that's all this was. He was set to make $5.7 million in base salary this year and have a cap figure of $7.6 mililon. The Panthers cleared more than $3.8 million in cap space by releasing him.
In the NFL, you pay big money for your left tackle (to protect the quarterback's blind side). Your right tackle and center are also worthy investments, particularly if they are Pro Bowl caliber like Ryan Kalil. But guards are traditionally the place where teams try to get away with a lower-paid player unless the guy is one of the best 3-4 in the NFL at the position. The Panthers have occasionally tried to pay big money to a guard -- anyone remember Mike Wahle? -- and it has rarely seemed to work out.
So this was a necessary move for Carolina, but a tough one. I wish Wharton, the former South Carolina Gamecock, well and imagine he will be on another team's roster before long, because that huge cap number fortunately won't follow him elsewhere.
The Panthers have also reworked Thomas Davis's deal, which they had to do (according to a report by ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas). Davis's reworking will save the team another $3.8 million off this year's salary cap.
On a totally different note, here's my column for Wednesday's newspaper about the joy of last-second shots in basketball -- even one shot in particular that I'm sure you never saw.
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Could he be signed anew at a lower salary?
This is sad.
- March 14, 2012 at 12:24 AM
I agree, why can we not restructure his contract like Davis?
- March 14, 2012 at 12:50 AM
- John said...
Maybe they couldn't (not sure what rules might apply in this circumstance) or maybe they tried but Wharton declined.
Cap rules are pretty complicated and some apparently aren't even written down, just ask the Cowboys and Redskins!
- March 14, 2012 at 6:55 AM
There's one thing not being addressed about Wharton - he isn't very good.
The one year he played left tackle, he was the worst left tackle ever. Once he moved to left guard, he was very good for a while. But his play was slipping. Let's not forget he was a starter on the 2010 team, which was the worst offensive line ever assembled in the history of the sport of football, on any level, in any era. The line wasn't any better last year, but since we have such a great running QB, the line looked better. Kalil is very good, and Gross is decent (glad to hear that he has restructured his deal as well; he isn't good enough to be paid like an elite LT). Other than those two, I'm encouraged to see the Panthers try to redo the O-line.
Now, if we can only get Rivera to stop bringing in all these Charger rejects, we'll be in good shape...
- March 14, 2012 at 7:31 AM
Wharton was never any good. Built like a turtle and not as fast
- March 14, 2012 at 8:05 AM
- Dr. Jack Kavorkian said...
They could have kept Wharton if they had Gamble lower his salary cap number, as it is WAY OVER INFLATED!
Chris Gamble deserves to be counted no more than $2.5 Million against the cap. Sorry, but when you can't make a tackle, and you are afraid of contact, you don't get paid as much.
- March 14, 2012 at 9:26 AM
I read that he was offered a pay cut and turned it down. Didn't leave us much option.
- March 14, 2012 at 10:25 AM
It WOULD help IF Hurney didn't handicap the organization by mismanaging the salary cap in the past (i.e. surprise overspending last summer). It's clear GM Hurney has NO foresight to see the consequences of his actions. I hope he doesn't continue to make unreasonable moves, selections or signings...but I'm not going to hold my breath on that. That said, it's not a big deal that we haven't sign BIG NAME free agents, as long as we CAN DRAFT well in ALL rounds of the draft, which Hurney has yet to do.
- March 14, 2012 at 1:08 PM
I think it is time for GM Hurney to go myself.
- March 14, 2012 at 4:01 PM
The sad part of this is Wharton can sign elsewhere for much less. I don't like Hurney, he's not a football guy...but it's the Cap that sucks.
- March 14, 2012 at 4:25 PM
That's messed up.Anybody besides me remember Wharton playing left tackle due to injury, while Delhomme threw those suicide jumpballs to Steve Smith ?
- March 14, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Cut Baker too.
- March 14, 2012 at 5:49 PM
Let hope Ryan's brother, Matt, fails to the panthers in the draft, so that they can move Gross to LG.
- March 14, 2012 at 7:14 PM


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The adrenaline of human life
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The young skateboarder
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The following night a young doctor
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for a long 24-hour chaotic shift.
Hostility erupts when a drunken father
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His young daughter was in the car
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The little girl's skull is crushed.
The father unhurt
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Making the astrological connection
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as well as fill up the obstetrics department
with laboring women.
A young nurse struggles to be gentle
with another accident victim
who when questioned becomes nervous and fearful,
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Rated R. This fantasy/drama film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko, a troubled teenager living in Middlesex, Virginia, depicts the adventures of Donnie as he seeks the meaning and significance behind the his troubling Doomsday-related visions. This film developed a large cult following and also stars Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Norah Wyle, Jena Malone and Mary McDonnell.
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City of Socorro Starts New Van Service to Valencia County, Aug. 21, 2008
By Thom Guengerich
SOCORRO, N.M., Aug. 21, 2008 The City of Socorro will begin a van service to Rio Communities and the RailRunner depot in Belen beginning Monday, August 25.
The van will leave Socorro from Sedillo Park at 6:15 a.m., stop in Rio Communities and then stop at the RailRunner station in Belen. The van will leave Belen after the 7:30 a.m. train arrives in Belen and stop at New Mexico Tech at about 8:15 a.m.
The afternoon trip will leave the parking lot of the Fidel Center at New Mexico Tech at 5:15 p.m., then arrive at the RailRunner station in Belen in time to catch the 6:30 p.m. train to Albuquerque.
The van will also make two other mid-day runs. The van will leave Socorro at 11 a.m. and at 2 p.m., with the only drop at the bus stop in Rio Communities. Deborah Dean of the City of Socorro said students attending UNM-Valencia can then take the Los Lunas bus to campus.
The cost is $1 per ride or $10 per week. Dean said riders who reserve space by the week will get priority over those who don't.
Anyone interested in catching a ride should call the City of Socorro at 575.835.1501. To arrange transportation within the Belen-Rio Communities area, call 505.864.8630. To arrange transportation in the Los Lunas area, call 505.352.3595.
Three vans currently transport Tech faculty, staff and students between Socorro and parts north. Each of the three vans operate independently from the university.
The Socorro Los Lunas Van Express currently has openings. For more information about SoLLVE, e-mail Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman at Tech.
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The 2013 NFL Draft is now two weeks old, and this column might be a day late and a dollar short, but I don't think this is a topic that should be swept under the rug and ignored.
I previously questioned whether the Packers lost out on selecting now St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey with the 93rd pick in the third round of draft.
Now it's time to speculate whether the Packers made a mistake in misjudging the market for centers in the fourth round.
The Packers entered the draft with center as an obvious need. Evan Dietrich-Smith signed his one-year restricted free agent tender in early April and enters the season as the only legitimate center on the team's roster.
There was an opportunity for the Packers to sign Dietrich-Smith to a multi-year extension during the offseason, but either they or Dietrich-Smith chose not to.
Perhaps "EDS" wants to test the free agent market next season, but more realistically, the Packers declined to offer more than a one-year deal, or at least offered less than what Dietrich-Smith was seeking.
Essentially, Dietrich-Smith enters a "prove it" season. His future with the Packers will lie largely on how he performs in 2013. If he wants to sign a long-term contract with the Packers, he's going to have to earn it.
But the Packers also entered the draft knowing they don't have a center locked up beyond 2013. At the very least, you would think they'd be looking to add depth, a just-in-case insurance policy at the center position.
The third day of the draft would seem to be the perfect time to add such a player, a low-risk alternative who could possibly become a starter a year down the road.
The Packers entered the fourth round with three draft choices: 4.12, 4.25 and 4.28.
With the 10th choice in the first round, pick 107 overall, the Tennessee Titans took California center Brian Schwenke, so the Packers didn't have the opportunity to take the second true center to come off the board after the Dallas Cowboys took Wisconsin's Travis Frederick in the first round.
Two picks later, Green Bay made Colorado tackle David Bakhtiari their first of three fourth round picks, passing on taking either Alabama's Barrett Jones or USC's Khaled Holmes.
If the Packers were banking on either Jones or Holmes being available with their second pick in the fourth round, they missed out.
Jones was selected by the Rams with pick 4.16 (113 overall), and Holmes was taken by the Indianapolis Colts with pick 4.24 (121 overall), exactly one slot before the Packers took J.C. Tretter with pick 4.25.
There's speculation that the Packers will convert Tretter into a center just as they've done with other college left tackles in the past, but the question is whether Tretter is the consolation prize. Did they really covet Jones or Holmes?
Admittedly, this is all speculation on my part. The Packers got their man with the first pick in the fourth round in Bakhtiari. They had the opportunity to take Jones or Holmes at that point and decided to take a pass.
But will it end up being a mistake?
When Dietrich-Smith is a free agent a year from now, it's worth asking whether the Packers will have to overpay simply because they have no other choice.
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Apple is the giant and they have the repo amongst the users. There is no doubt that the products of Apple are costly, but they are well configured too and they give the users a royal and stylish treat. After getting the Apple product users feel please to use them. After the success of iPhones and iPads company move forward towards the latest trend and made the luxurious smartwatch for the users and announce the watch on 9th March 2015 on their official event. However the watch is bit costly in comparison with others, but the watch is more stylish and has the many good specs. Here we are going to discuss what the Apple watch offer to the users.
Design and Display
Apple is believed in versatility and style and for continuing the trend they launched their watch with different style and versions. The watch will be available in three types; sports style, luxury edition and leather edition. They all have a different price and the leather edition is the costliest from all of them because they used gold for designing the plate of the watch and the sports version is more affordable. The sports watch is made up with the aluminum body and colorful belts make the watch more pretty and the straps are made up with the rubber which seems to be polymer material for handling the rough treat and if we look towards the regular watch version the watch is made up with the 316L stainless steel and has leather or metal strap option. The smartwatch will be available in two different sizes; 38 or 48mm in width.
As we already told that the watch will be available in two sizes and according to the sizes the pixel resolution is also changed. The larger 42mm version it's 390 x 312 pixels and for the smaller Apple Watch, the 38mm has 340 x 272 resolution. Well the resolution is quite balanced in this tiny timepiece.
User Interface
Apple official confirmed that they used new operating system for their Apple Watch, but the name of that operating system is still not known, but it is still being called Watch OS. The Apple Watch is the touch screen device but it is not 100% touch screen and has the digital crown key and it amaze the users by going the analogue which is similar with Sony Mobile pointer and the purpose of this to control the Watch OS. The button is worked as a home key and users are able to twist and zoom the apps with this button.
Hardware Combination
Apple Watch will run a totally new chipset which the company is calling the S1. Apple uses Samsung built ARM-based chips for the iPhone range and its Korean rival is said to behind the RAM and NAND flash storage and assembles itself, for the Apple Watch's System in Package (SiP). Wearables are all ahs the combination of sensors, and the Apple Watch has a gyroscope and accelerometer to track your movements, for the health tracking. Another interesting fact is found that the Apple Watch has 8 GB storage capacity and from that storage 2 GB is reserved for t he music.
Apple already informed the users that this is not the GPS device and they need to charge the battery of the smartwatch every day. According to the Apple official; "We think people are going to use it so much you will wind up charging it daily."
There is no Lightning connector on the Apple Watch found. Instead it uses something tiny which is similar the MagSafe connector found on Apple MacBooks to provide wireless charging.
Apple Watch Apps
Apple Watch have a bunch of built-in apps and users are find There is a stopwatch, a timer, an alarm system, a world clock, a weather app, stocks and a settings app to control it all. Users get their calendar, turn-by-turn navigation through Maps, music control and even an on-watch remote for Apple TV and iTunes too. These are the pre installed apps present in Apple Watch.
Users are able to receive the notifications such as sms, email, calls, Twitter and Face book all featured. If users receive the sms notifications they are able to reply using templates which are pre installed in the Apple Watch the system is smart/nosey enough to analyze the SMS and include any custom reply options that it thinks you might need. Another choice is to dictate a message back which can either be sent as an audio file or transcribed by the watch.
Phone calls can be full voice by using the Apple watch waterproof speaker. Users are able to open email direct on your phone or flagged for reply at a later date and for performing this function they don't on-screen keyboard.
Heart Rate Monitor
Optical heart rate monitors are specifically used for sports. Apple's stuck one into the back of its watch and it uses infrared and standard LEDs to measure the capillary blood flow and detect the pulse.
Digital Touch
Digital Touch is the novel features of Watch. It is a person to person way of communicating to other Apple wearable users. Users can sketch images, use it like a voice walkie-talkie, send a simple tap to let people know you are thinking of them or even make them feel your actual heartbeat vibrating on their wrist.
Apple Activity App
Fitness tracking is one of the essential parts in any smartwatch and Apple also facilitates the users with this app but the company has split the feature into two main areas. The first is the Activity App which monitors health, movement, wellness and user's daily routine rather than sports features, and there are three main areas within that. Each of them is based around filling up a colored ring graphic throughout the course of each 24 hours. Complete the circle and you have hit your target.
Apple Workout app
Running, cycling and walking are what the Workout App tracks. It plugs the GPS information from your mobile into data from the on-board accelerometer and heart-rate monitor to give users all the time, distance and pacing metrics they will need. It will recommend goals for the day, words of encouragement during your sessions and detailed stats on milestones and achievements.
Apple Pay
Apple Pay is an NFC contactless payment system which was introduced with the iPhone 6. It leverages all those loyalty, credit and debit card numbers that Apple users have been keeping tucked away in the Passbook app to process cash transfer just by waving your device in front of a reader in one of hundreds of thousands of locations in the US.
Apple Pay is set to work just the same with Apple Watch. Users will need to double click the button on the side wave their wrist and then they confirm that it is all gone through.
Time Teller
Apple is specially pointing out this feature that the watch is actually a good timekeeper too. It checks in and synchronizes with a universal time standard through the phone's GPS to stay accurate to within 50ms. Users can tell people that when they are late to meet you. They will have to listen.
Don't need new iPhone to use Apple Watch
The other big achievement of Apple is that users do need an iPhone to use Apple Watch, but it does not have to be the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. In fact, it does not even have to be the generation before either. Anything from the iPhone 5 onwards will do the trick.
Apple iWatch: Price
As stated above, prices start from £299 / $349. That gets you the 38mm Apple Watch Sport; it's £40 / $50 more for the 42mm model. The regular Apple Watch has prices starting from £479 / $549 for 38mm and $599 for 42mm, going right up to £949 / $1,000+. The Apple Watch Edition, with its luxury materials, costs from £8,000 / $10,000 and will be in limited availability at selected stores.


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MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION High School student Gloria Kamencik leads the chorus line through a rehearsal of the school's fall musical, "Guys and Dolls." The show will be presented on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectmen later this month will consider a new "idle-free" policy calling upon motorists to switch off their vehicle engines when they are not traveling.
The new policy is being pitched by the Middlebury Area Global Warming Action Coalition (MAGWAC), an ad hoc citizens group that is working on ways to reduce the community's carbon footprint. The group reasoned the town could significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions — as well as look after the collective health of its citizens — by adopting an idle-free policy.
November 15, 2007
By MEGAN JAMES
GOSHEN — The tension was palpable at the Goshen selectboard meeting Monday night. With a new chairman, Bruce Webster, at the helm, some two dozen residents clashed over the town government's spending policies.
The tiny mountain town in the past few months has seen the resignation of several key town officials — including the departure of Town Clerk Erica Sabatini, announced Monday — and is struggling with paying for services with a small tax base.
At the center of the discussion was road foreman Jim Hayes, who at the end of October purchased a $3,000 sander to replace the town's older, malfunctioning one. According to Hayes, Selectmen David McKinnon and David Gale authorized this purchase at a board meeting in August.
McKinnon and Gale confirmed this, but Webster, who was not on the board at the time — he was appointed to replace Thomasina Magoon when she resigned at the end of September — said he could not find a record of the authorization in the minutes. Sabatini was absent from that meeting and so there were no minutes.
When Webster consulted the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, they told him the sander should not have been purchased without written authorization.
"They said, first of all, if it wasn't in the minutes, it's not verifiable, it didn't happen," Webster said.
McKinnon and Gale maintained they had advised Hayes to use his discretion, to buy the sander if he deemed it necessary. After all, he has been taking care of the Goshen roads for 11 years, and he has always been frugal, they said.
"We've done this three or four sanders before this one," Gale said. "It's the way we've always done business."
But Webster said he wants to change the way Goshen does business.
November 15, 2007
By MEGAN JAMES
MIDDLEBURY — "Brooms down. Eyes closed. And the snitch is loose," boomed Xander Manshel, commissioner emeritus of the Middlebury College Muggle Quidditch League. The crowd cheered as a gold-clad player dashed away and two teams of undergraduates wearing capes and holding broomsticks between their legs took the field.
As the players scurried around Middlebury College's Battell Beach on Sunday afternoon the first intercollegiate Quidditch World Cup Fall Festival was under way.
The tournament included more than a dozen teams playing the magical sport portrayed in J.K. Rowling's wildly popular Harry Potter novels. Unlike in the books, where wizards and witches fly through the air on souped up broomsticks, the Middlebury quidditch players remained strictly earthbound. The competition was no less keen, despite the lack of magic.
"It's a full-contact sport," said Middlebury sophomore James Schonzeit, as players from another team tackled each other on the field to wild applause. "A violent ballet, of sorts."
A dozen home teams competed for a final game vs. visiting Vassar College, in an afternoon that featured 12 games, a half-time show and five or six musical and juggling performances. Middlebury, represented by team Molly Wobbles, took the victory as the sun set on the five-hour-long tournament.
The referee, junior Victor Larsen, explained the game using a plethora of Rowling jargon to a hapless reporter lost in the crowd of Harry Potter buffs.
"Only the seekers can touch the quaffle, only the beaters can touch the bludgers," he said, never peeling his eyes from the action on the field.
"Keepers' job is to keep, the chasers score, the seekers seek," he said.
SARAH ROSCOE WORKS on wooden airplane toys at Maple Landmark in Middlebury last Thursday morning. The local toy company has been the unexpected beneficiary of a surge in business as consumers respond to recent recalls of toys manufactured in China.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
MIDDLEBURY — A recent spate of toy recalls has turned many consumers away from major manufacturers and foreign markets and prompted them to seek out smaller, more environmentally friendly companies — like Middlebury-based Maple Landmark Woodcraft.
"We're seeing a huge increase in the demand," said Michael Rainville, founder and president of Maple Landmark. "We are the beneficiaries of the problem that has been going on. And there are not too many U.S. manufacturers (of wooden toys)."
Rainville said that incoming orders in early October were about 70 percent ahead of where they were at the same time last year. Shipments last month were up 37 percent.
"Almost all of this change we're seeing is related to people being afraid of what they're buying," Rainville said. "There is a segment of people that is not willing to trust anything that says 'Made in China' on the back right now. So they are coming to us."
That sentiment has come through loud and clear through client input Maple Landmark has received through its Web site.
"They'll write all sorts of things in the comment box, like 'We threw out all our toys and we're starting over,'" Rainville said. "Some dealers are realizing they have too many 'Made in China' toys on their shelves and are looking for a better balance."
They are looking to Maple Landmark to help achieve that balance, and orders for the company's more than 1,000 different products have been flying in.
November 12, 2007
MIDDLEBURY — Addison County Community Action Group (ACCAG) officials are concerned there may be fewer holiday gifts for area needy children this year because eligible families are not getting enough information about a key program that offers free presents.
At issue is ACCAG's "Giving Tree Program," through which income-eligible families can fill out wish-list applications for children under 18 years old. The application is then condensed into an tree-shaped tag that is forwarded to participating businesses. Customers and employees of those businesses can pick up one of the tags and buy a present, which is then picked up by ACCAG and given to the family. The recipients' names are kept confidential.
Last year ACCAG received 760 Giving Tree applications and has previously taken in more than 900 in one year. But ACCAG Executive Director Jeanne Montross on Thursday noted that she had received only 300 applications thus far, a very low number compared to previous years.
Montross theorized a big reason for the drop has been because some Addison County schools have now declined to send Giving Tree Program application forms home with students. In the past, all students had been given the forms and eligible families would then return them to ACCAG. But Montross said some schools don't want to run the risk of having students bringing confidential family information at school.
"It's been significant," Montross said of the impact on the schools' decision on the Giving Tree program. She said Middlebury schools have continued to send the forms home with kids, but Vergennes and Bristol-area schools have not participated this year.
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
ADDISON COUNTY — Kathy Ciociola of Vergennes had tried to stop smoking more than once, but never managed to stay away completely until she found out about the "Ready, Set… Stop!" program of the Addison County Tobacco Control Roundtable. Ciociola found the atmosphere of that program more helpful than trying to quit on her own, and she has now been smoke-free since June 15, 2002.
To Ciociola, the difference was the program's message. "It's not one of those 'smoking is bad' things. It's more of a positive, 'How can we help you' thing," Ciociola said. "Smokers know it's bad for them … (Quitting) doesn't have to be that bad."
Those looking for a reason to stop smoking could look for help this Thursday, when the Addison County Tobacco Control Roundtable will join with the rest of the nation in recognizing the Great American Smokeout, a day when smokers take a day away from their cigarettes, cigars and pipes.
Ciociola, 52, decided to quit when she began thinking about her son starting a family of his own.
"I didn't want to be a smoking grandmother," she said. When she Melanie Clark, program coordinator of the Addison County Tobacco Control Roundtable (and now Ciociola's daughter-in-law) asked her for advice about the program, she decided to sign up.
She said the program was successful for her partly because it had an intentionally positive message rather than focusing on the many problems caused by smoking. The health effects of smoking are well documented and the messages right on cigarette packages warn that "smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and may complicate pregnancy.
"Smokers know it's bad for them," Ciociola said. "Quitting doesn't have to be that bad."
THE CLASSIC RODGERS and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," which originally opened on Broadway in 1959, comes to Vergennes Union High School this week with performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. The show features Katie Jordan as Maria.
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RealNetworks Banks on Cloud for Video-Sharing Comeback
Sep 25, 2013 2:52 PM PT
RealNetworks on Tuesday announced RealPlayer Cloud, a new service that allows users to upload video files to the company's servers and then view and share them across devices.
Billed by the company as the first integrated video player and cloud service, RealPlayer Cloud automatically transforms video formats in the cloud to give viewers the highest-quality experience possible, no matter what device or screen size, RealNetworks said.
RealPlayer Cloud apps are now available for Android, iPhone, iPad, PC, Web and Roku devices with 2 GB of free cloud storage for users in the U.S. and Canada. Additional storage is available via subscription plans that start at US$4.99 per month.
"The amount of video content that consumers are capturing and watching is exploding, but moving that video around is often painfully difficult," said Rob Glaser, founder and interim CEO of RealNetworks. "RealPlayer Cloud is a seamless and easy way to move, watch, save and share videos across all devices."
RealNetworks did not respond to our request for further details.
Autoformatting Technology
RealNetworks, which was one of the first services to bring video to the Internet, has seen its relevance chipped away as rivals such as YouTube have made it easier to post videos online.
Now, however, it hopes to become a central hub for personal videos, thus vying with the likes of YouTube and Instagram in the personal video space.
RealPlayer Cloud's multidevice functionality is enabled by SurePlay, a proprietary technology from RealNetworks that enables autoformatting of videos to fit the device type, size of screen, available bandwidth and storage space available.
A 'Me-Too Play'?
"RealNetworks' new cloud service is a good example of a company aiming for a neglected or ignored niche -- in this case, creating a video service that isn't beholden to any single platform or device," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times.
"That may not seem particularly revolutionary until you consider how vendors from Apple to Facebook to Google and so on have attempted to exclusively corral specific media outlets and assets as value-adds for their own proprietary platforms," King added.
However, it could also be a "me-too play," suggested Jagdish Rebello, research director for cloud technology at IHS iSuppli. "They are offering the ability to have cloud storage. That is really only the distinguishing feature they have.
"It is something they need to have in today's market," Rebello told the E-Commerce Times. "Otherwise, they become irrelevant."
At the same time, "without software installed on a device, they need to have the cloud-based option, Rebello added. Yet "they aren't trying to create a new paradigm as much as trying to exist in that paradigm. They are essentially a lot more about storage than others, and that could put them at a disadvantage."
'Very Hard to Beat'
For that reason, it could make it very hard for RealPlayer Cloud to shine when there are already so many options out there for sharing video.
"They do support Roku, and there isn't a YouTube client for it," said Colin Dixon, principle analyst at nScreenMedia. Apart from that, however, "there are no particularly distinguishing features that make this stand out from YouTube. On every phone in the universe there is an option to upload to YouTube, so that makes it very hard to beat that juggernaut."
Where the proposition could work is to keep those few RealPlayer customers using RealPlayer.
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"Think of this as a way to hold customers in the service and hold out expanding competitors," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "A cloud offering tends to work the same on every platform, and if you are a RealPlayer customer, you will be more likely to stay a RealPlayer customer as a result."
In other words, "this will more likely slow defections and buy them time," added Enderle. "The firms they are now competing with are better-funded and have more ways to get through to the user. Real is fighting for its life here, and they aren't alone."
Indeed, whether RealNetworks can succeed with this approach is anyone's guess, King concurred. "It really depends on whether consumers are sick and tired enough of vendors snarling and posturing to adopt a new, handy, easy-to-use, heterogeneous platform/player."


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Jozy Altidore insists he has not recovered completely from an injury-filled summer, a promising thought given his latest performance.
Altidore scored a pair of second-half goals in his return to the U.S. national team, and the Americans rallied to beat Peru, 2-1 in an exhibition Friday night in Washington.
"Your body might feel good, but your mind isn't there yet," Altidore said. "I'm feeling better. I'm taking my time."
Preparing for next month's one-game playoff against Mexico for a berth in the 2017 Confederations Cup, the Americans fell behind in the 20th minute. Daniel Chavez's 20-yard shot caromed off defender...


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R U OK? Reach Out Today And Start The Conversation
Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley is urging Australians to reach out to their mates on Thursday and check how they're coping.
It's R U OK? Day - a national day organised by the suicide prevention charity of the same name that encourages friends to ask anyone who might be struggling that simple question.
Ms Ley says it's about reaching out to family, friends and colleagues to make sure they're okay.
"Starting a conversation could make a real difference to someone's life," she said.
Small acts of kindness like listening without judgement and providing support could make all the difference to someone struggling with a mental illness, she said.
"It could help save a life."
About 2800 Australians die from suicide each year but Ms Ley says many of those deaths could be prevented.
The R U OK? charity will on Thursday mark the national day with an event in Sydney's Bondi.
Ms Ley is asking people to learn and acknowledge signs of mental illness and not be afraid to tell loved ones help is available.
R U OK? Day comes two days before World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10.
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Harry Styles of One Direction Buys His Mom a House
Just in case we didn't have a zillion reasons to love Harry Styles of One Direction already, the curly-topped cutie has given us a new one: He's good to his mum!
Hazza treated his mother, Anne Cox, to a new four-bedroom house for her birthday. (We're tearing up. We can't.) "Harry is really close to his mum Anne and loves being able to treat her to nice things," a family friend told Now Daily. "This is a special gift for her, to say thank you for all the wonderful things she's done over the years."
Cox is in the process of moving out of her old neighborhood, and the locals are going to miss her and her little boy. "Everyone in the village is talking about Anne leaving," a source said. "She's moving further into the countryside in a four-bed luxury house with lots of land. Harry is a great lad and very much liked by everyone around the village."
The source revealed that Styles and his mom didn't have the easiest time. "Anne's struggled with two divorces and being a single mother," the source added. "Harry couldn't wait to give her the keys on her birthday as a massive thank you." Okay, seriously? He's adorable, talented, successful and a complete and total sweetheart? We think we've found the planet's last perfect man.
It's not the first pad Harry's purchased recently. He plunked down a cool $4.8 million on a new mansion of his own in London — that may be haunted!
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