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MythBusters Features Tech Footage ... Again
SOCORRO, N.M. November 2, 2009 – New Mexico Tech will make its fifth appearance on MythBusters in November.
The new episode on Wednesday, Nov. 18, will include footage shot at the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center during the spring of 2009.
|The MythBusters cast members pose in front of EMRTC during their 2008 visit to Socorro. From left are Jamie Hyneman, Grant Imahara, Kari Byron, Adam Savage and Tory Belleci. EMRTC photo
"I'm excited to see that MythBusters will air footage from New Mexico Tech again," Vice President of Research Dr. Van Romero said. "Originally, this footage was scheduled to appear in a show last spring, but it was so dramatic that they held it over for a later date."
The show airs at 8 p.m. on the Discovery Channel. Romero said he could not divulge the test that was filmed near Socorro, but he did say the footage will be visually dramatic.
"This is the most spectacular stunt ever done at New Mexico Tech for MythBusters," he said. "I can't reveal the exact details of the test, but I can say that it involves a high rate of speed and a very dynamic response from the target."
New Mexico Tech was first mentioned on MythBusters when Romero was interviewed as a guest expert. During those filming sessions, Romero suggested to the show's stars and producers that they visit Tech to conduct tests.
The MythBusters cast and crew filmed two experiments in Socorro in late 2008. EMRTC technicians taught the stars how to make diamonds using explosives and set up a high-speed test track experiment that mimicked a two-vehicle collision at 650 mph. Romero said the new footage will be the best footage yet.
"Every time we appear on national shows, I personally see an increased interest in New Mexico Tech – both from people contacting us directly and casual comments while I'm traveling," he said. "Plus, the MythBusters' audience is right in the sweet spot of the type of students that we want to come to Socorro. Because of that, the exposure is priceless."
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech

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So what was the pre-Week One players-only meeting in Tampa all about?
Recently, running back Doug Martin told Pro Football Talk that the meeting was aimed at collecting concerns that could be passed along to the coaching staff.
Albert Breer of NFL Network has more details of how the process unfolded, and the results.
Players, per Breer, didn't like Schiano's "overly rigid and rugged coaching methods." So they got together, collected their complaints, and first-year safety and defensive co-captain Dashon Goldson took them to Schiano.
"When you come into a place and you have to change some things, you're not looking for a whole lot of suggestions at the beginning, because first you gotta figure out who your guys are," Schiano explained to Breer. "Now, I really know who our guys are because they wouldn't be here if they weren't our guys. I really appreciate their feedback. But some of the pictures that have been painted . . . it's not like they're outside the door with torches, 'We must change!'"
But changes apparently didn't come quickly. As one player told Breer, "He came into the team meeting, said you guys gotta trust me, we're in half-pads that day, then the next day, it's back to the same thing."
"I've been coaching 26 years, and there are gonna be some things you're gonna disagree with, and you gotta trust me because I've been coaching longer than some of you have been alive," Schiano said. "And then there are some things I gotta trust them on. They're doing it, and if they don't feel they can, then we have to adjust. But that isn't new — Is that new this year? — it's been my whole career, that's how I've operated."
Still, Breer reports that some players are now questioning Schiano's credentials after the 1-5 slide to end 2012 and the 0-2 start to 2013.
There's reason for optimism. As Mike Reiss of ESPNBoston.com points out, Schiano is currently in a position similar to Bill Belichik's predicament after two games in 2001. The Pats lost 11 of 16 in Belichick's first year and started 0-2 in 2001. A 44-13 win over Peyton Manning and the Colts helped turn things around in Tom Brady's first career start.
While a 44-13 outcome may be a bit unrealistic today, it's not out of the question for the Bucs to beat the Pats, which could go a long way toward getting the players to buy in.


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The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project, announced on September 27, 1983, by Richard Stallman at MIT. It initiated the GNU operating system, software development for which began in January 1984. The founding goal of the project was, in the words of its initial announcement, to develop "a sufficient body of free software [...] to get along without any software that is not free."[1]
To make this happen, the GNU Project began working on an operating system called GNU. GNU is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not Unix". This goal of making a free software operating system was achieved in 1992 when the last gap in the GNU system, a kernel, was filled by a third-party Unix-style kernel called "Linux" being released as Free Software, under a GNU GPL v2 license.
Current work of the GNU Project includes software development, awareness building, and political campaigning.
Although most of the GNU Project's output is technical in nature, it was launched as a social, ethical, and political initiative. As well as producing software and licenses, the GNU Project has published a large number of philosophical writings,[2] the majority of which were authored by Richard Stallman.
The first goal of the GNU project was to create a whole free-software operating system. By 1992, the GNU project had completed all of the major operating system components except for their kernel, GNU Hurd. The Linux kernel, started independently by Linus Torvalds in 1991 filled the last gap, and Linux version 0.12 was released under the GPL in 1992. Together, Linux and GNU formed the first completely free-software operating system. Though the Linux kernel is not part of the GNU project, it was developed using GCC and other GNU programming tools.[3]
From the mid-1990s onward, with many companies investing in free software development, the Free Software Foundation redirected its funds toward the legal and political support of free software development. Software development from that point on focused on maintaining existing projects, and starting new projects only when there was an acute threat to the free software community; see High Priority Free Software Projects. We should not forget that one of the most notable projects of the GNU Project is the GNU C compiler, which has been adopted as the standard compiler on almost all UNIX and UNIX-like systems, including Apple's iPhone and iPod.
One example is the GNOME desktop. This development effort was launched by the GNU Project because another desktop system, KDE, was becoming popular but required users to install certain proprietary software. To prevent people from being tempted to install that proprietary software, the GNU Project simultaneously launched two projects. One was the Harmony toolkit. This was an attempt to make a free software replacement for the proprietary software that KDE depended on. Had this project been successful, the problem with KDE would have been solved. The second project was GNOME, which tackled the same issue from a different angle. It aimed to make a replacement for KDE, one which didn't have any dependencies on proprietary software. The Harmony project didn't make much progress, but GNOME developed very well. Eventually, the proprietary component that KDE depended on (Qt) was released as free software.[4]
Another example is Gnash. Gnash is software to play content distributed in the Adobe Flash format. This has been marked as a priority project by GNU because it was seen that many people were installing a free software operating system and using a free software web-browser, but were then also installing the proprietary software plug-in from Adobe.


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Bulldogs Conclude Busy Stretch Of Home Games
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Bulldogs will kick off February where they spent most of last month - in the friendly confines of the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Yale completes a busy stretch of home games with visits from Penn on Friday and Princeton Saturday. Both games tipoff at 7 p.m.
At 3-1 in Ivy play, the Bulldogs are still very much in the Ivy League title race. Ten years ago, Yale was in the same situation heading into the Penn-Princeton weekend. That 2001-02 team won both games and went on to earn a share of the championship. A number of players from that team will be on hand for Saturday's Alumni Day festivities. In order to have a chance to duplicate that feat, the 2011-12 Bulldogs will have to take better care of the basketball. Yale committed 41 turnovers in splitting games with Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend. Nevertheless, the Bulldogs showed great resiliency in rebounding from Friday's loss to Harvard to earn a 62-52 victory over the Big Green on Saturday. Captain Reggie Willhite led the way with a 16-point, nine-rebound, three-assist, two-steal performance. Willhite leads the Ivy League in steals (2.1 per game) and is in the top-10 in five other categories - scoring (t-9th, 12.2 ppg.), field goal percentage (5th, .500), assists (6th, 3.7), blocked shots (8th, 0.8) and assist/turnover ratio (10th, 1.4). Austin Morgan continues to lead the league in free throw percentage (.909) but has fallen to sixth nationally.
The Bulldogs lead the Ivy League in scoring offense (72.4 ppg.) and rebounding margin (+6.6). Yale is second in blocks (81) and assists (14.3), tied for second in three-point field goal percentage (.369), third in field goal percentage (.448) and fourth in free throw percentage (.700).
• Four of the Ivy League's top five scorers will be in Lee Amphitheater this weekend. Penn's Zack Rosen (18.8 ppg.) is the league leader, followed by Yale's Greg Mangano (18.7 ppg.) and Princeton's Ian Hummer (17.5 ppg.). Penn's Tyler Bernardini (15.6 ppg.) is tied for fourth.
• Mangano has 634 career rebounds entering the weekend. He needs five to pass Dean Campbell '91 to move into 10th place all-time at Yale.
• Austin Morgan is three three-pointers shy of cracking Yale's career top-10 list. He has made 121 treys.
• Greg Mangano reached another career milestone in Friday's game with Harvard. Mangano, who already holds the school record for blocked shots, scored the 1,000th point of his career on a three-pointer with 12:40 left in the first half. He became the 24th player in school history to reach the mark and the first since Alex Zampier in 2010
• Friday's capacity crowd of 2,532 was the first sellout in Lee Amphitheater since the 2008-09 season opener against Stanford
• Yale has now won six straight and 10 of the last 11 meetings with Dartmouth.
• The Yale coaching staff wore sneakers for both games as part of Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers Weekend, which supports the American Cancer Society and its vision of a world with less cancer and more birthdays.
The Quakers (11-9, 3-0 Ivy) have won four straight games, including an 82-67 victory over Princeton on Monday night. Zack Rosen (18.8 ppg.), Tyler Bernardini (15.6 ppg.) and Miles Cartwright (10.7 ppg.) account for nearly 65 percent of Penn's scoring. Rosen, a two-time first team All-Ivy selection, is Penn's all-time assist leader.
Princeton (10-9, 1-2 Ivy) has won nine of its last 13 games after starting the season 1-5. One of those losses, though, came at Penn, 82-67, on Monday night. The Tigers play at Brown on Friday. Ian Hummer leads the team in scoring (17.5 ppg.) and rebounding (7.5 rpg.).
Yale and Penn are playing for the 215th time, and the Quakers hold a 145-69 lead in the all-time series.
Yale and Princeton have met at least once every year since 1902, which ties the series with Yale-Columbia as the oldest continuous series in Division I. The Tigers lead the series 143-80.
The Bulldogs have swept the Princeton-Penn home weekend three times during James Jones' tenure as head coach at Yale.
Greg Mangano was a part of the 12-player roster that represented the United States in the 2011 World University Games in August in Shenzhen, China. In six games during the tournament, Mangano averaged 3.2 points and 3.2 rebounds. His five blocks were second on the team, and he also contributed four steals. His top performance came against Mexico when he scored eight points and grabbed eight rebounds. He added seven points, three rebounds and two blocks in the win over Finland. The team was coached by Purdue's Matt Painter. Joining Mangano on the Team USA roster were: Tim Abromaitis (Notre Dame); Marcus Denmon (Missouri); Ashton Gibbs (Pittsburgh); Draymond Green (Michigan State); JaMychal Green (Alabama); Scoop Jardine (Syracuse); John Jenkins (Vanderbilt); Orlando Johnson (UC Santa Barbara); Trevor Mbakwe (Minnesota); Ray McCallum (Detroit Mercy); and Darius Miller (Kentucky).
Jeremiah Kreisberg played for Israel at the Under-20 European Championships in July in in Sarajevo, Bosnia. He appeared in six games (he missed the last two games with a minor injury) and averaged 12.3 points and 5.7 rebounds, while averaging nearly 30 minutes per game. He led the team in rebounding and was second in scoring. Kreisberg headed to Tel-Aviv in June, spent three weeks training with the Israel team and took part in the team's preparation tour through Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
Yale got a bit of a head start on the 2011-12 season. The Bulldogs spent 10 days in China last May and played four games, winning three, including a victory over a Chinese professional team. The trip allowed the Bulldogs to bond as a team and work on some things for the upcoming season.
Mangano and Kreisberg weren't the only players to have interesting off seasons. Austin Morgan spent two months in Mauritius, an island nation off southeast coast of Africa, as an Eli-Africa fellow. He helped run an after school program for local children, teaching a class on health and fitness. Sam Martin was in Washington, D.C., interning for Senator Jack Reed of his home state of Rhode Island. Freshman Armani Cotton founded DOSA (Division One Student Athlete) Basketball Clinic. After gaining approval from the NCAA and the Ivy League, Cotton ran two week-long clinics in New York City and three in Lake Naomi, Pa. Cotton created the program in an attempt to deflate the idea that being valedictorian and a star athlete are mutually exclusive. DOSA focuses on the values of hard work and discipline as well as basketball IQ and Division I skills in order to challenge campers intellectually and physically.
Reggie Willhite trained with former Duke stars Christian Laettner and Grant Hill earlier this fall. Willhite's father heard an interview with Laettner on the radio. Laettner mentioned he was looking for some Division I players on the East Coast to train. Willhite's father reached out to Laettner, who agreed to train Willhite. Reggie spent two weekends working out with Laettner and Hill. Hill's father is legendary Yale football player Calvin Hill.
Yale was picked second, along with Princeton, by the select panel of 17 Ivy media representatives who voted in the official Ivy League preseason media poll. The Bulldogs received one first-place vote and 103 points. Harvard is the league favorite with 16 first-place votes and 135 points. Princeton also had 103 points followed by Penn (90), Brown (62), Cornell (52), Columbia (50) and Dartmouth (17).
The John J. Lee Amphitheater, the home of Yale Basketball, was featured in ESPN The Magazine's College Basketball preview issue. The title of the feature is Grand Stands, the game marches on, but a dwindling number of college basketball cathedrals can still take us back to when it all began.
The Palestra in Philadelphia, Butler's Hinkle Fieldhouse and Fordham's Rose Hill Gymnasium were the only other venues selected.
"To walk through these gates and settle into these seats is to remember the game's roots," wrote LaRue Cook. "Because sometimes sports aren't about results – they're about beauty and style and being connected to something bigger than the game."
Lee Amphitheater sits inside historic Payne Whitney Gym, which was constructed in 1931 under the direction of John Russell Pope. Yale's first basketball game was played there on Dec. 18, 1932, and it has been the home of the Bulldogs ever since.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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DALLAS — Mark Cuban told jurors in federal court that he became angry in 2004 when he learned of a pending development that would reduce the value of his investment in an Internet search company.
The CEO of Mamma.com told the billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner that the company planned to sell more shares to the public. That would dilute the value of Cuban's stake.
"I was upset," Cuban testified Thursday in federal court in Dallas. But he said he couldn't recall other details of the conversation.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is suing Cuban, charging him with insider trading for dumping his stock after learning confidential information.
The CEO of Mamma.com Inc., a Canadian search-engine company, testified that he told Cuban about the planned stock offering in a phone call. Cuban, who owned 6 percent of the company, was angry because he realized he couldn't sell his shares until the company announced the stock offering, the CEO said.
Cuban has at times jousted with Jan Folena, the SEC lawyer questioning him. At other times, he has smiled and made a few jokes, appearing relaxed on the witness stand. Experts say jurors' impression of Cuban could factor into the outcome of the trial.
Cuban was still on the stand and hadn't been asked about the CEO's claim when U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater called a brief break in the testimony.
The case is a civil lawsuit. The SEC wants Cuban to pay a fine, but he isn't charged with a crime. Cuban denies doing anything wrong.


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Nigerians were determined to get it right this time, and from all appearances, they did it last Saturday, April 16, when they elected Goodluck Jonathan as the next president of Nigeria. Although there were reports of instances of violence, the election was exactly what everyone had hoped for: free, fair, and credible.
Nigeria has not developed a reputation for free and fair elections in recent years, but may have turned the corner this month, having held National Assembly elections the week before the Presidential vote. I was detailed to assist the Public Affairs Section in Abuja during the elections period, and took the opportunity on April 16 to participate on an embassy observer team that went out to visit polls in Kogi State in the center of Nigeria.
Traveling with two embassy staff members, our team set out at 6:00 a.m. to travel two hours south in hopes of catching a polling station in the process of opening up and accrediting the voters. The embassy SUV was one of the few vehicles on the road heading out, and we encountered the last of the trucks and buses trying to get to Abuja before the roads were locked down for the day to all but official traffic. Hundreds of domestic and international observers were scattered across the 36 states of Nigeria for the exercise in hopes of seeing a credible vote take place in the 119,733 polling units. The previous presidential vote in 2007 had been marked by fraud and vote theft, and had left Nigerians disillusioned in the democratic process. The popular refrain had become, "we must get it right this time," an optimistic feeling that was in the air as we ventured to different polling stations in the Lokoja vicinity.
At the first poll, located at Koton-Karfi, we saw a cluster of people surrounding the table set up for the accreditation of the registered voters, a slow process of matching an individual's voter card with the picture and information on the voter lists. It was obvious that the election officials took the process seriously. It was just as obvious that the voters themselves were completely engaged in the process. When I greeted one of the village elders patiently sitting in the shade, he broke into a big grin and held up his voter card, saying without words, "I am here to vote!" I had to wonder if he had such a feeling in previous elections, or if he had even felt the need to participate in the earlier flawed processes.
This was the feeling we found at every polling station that we visited. Whether it was a group of youths at Adankolo polls, proclaiming, "We want to chose our leader," or a man lined up to vote at that poll stating that this was the best election since independence while pointing at his graying hair to signify his many years of experience at the process, saying, "And I didn't buy this," the air of optimism permeated at every corner.
Perhaps the most impressive poll was located in Ganaja, where 3,252 voters had registered and an estimated 2,500 had turned out to vote. Standing in two long lines stretching at least two football fields in length, people patiently waited their turn in the plus 100-degree heat, many holding multi-colored umbrellas to protect themselves from the scorching sun. The election officials worked in unison, each performing a duty checking the records, issuing the ballots, or directing the voters to the voting booth placed in-between the lines thus assuring the visibility and the transparency of the process.
Ultimately, it was the judgment on the fairness of the election process by the Nigerian people that is most important. The various international observer organizations have pronounced the elections as credible, but it was the words of a driver yesterday that appeared to echo the sentiment of most Nigerians, "We did it this time!"Related Content:Statement by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on the Election in Nigeria
Michael in Nigeria writes:
I'm a Nigerian and this year's election is a unique one for us. We have never witnessed a peaceful election as this although there were some minor hiccups earlier.
We thank God that the presidential election is concluded and the right person has been elected. We chose him because we believe he will do us good.
I'm also using this medium to thank the US president: President Barrack Obama for his undiluted efforts and encouragement to the people in concern.
Thanks and God bless.
We hope Nigeria soars like eagle every minute of the day. This is because, truly we are blessed!
Thank you.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
I'm very, stupid comments, Thanks for the opportunity to speak. However, before going, the going to happen between two people? I'm far away, and keep a chance to access information blocked, so that I do not know what happens. If possible I would like to know. election?
Orikinla in Nigeria writes:
Your observations from the few places you visited are not enough to endorse and applaud the disputed election of President Goodluck Jonathan. Diplomatc lip service does more harm than good. The corrupt ruling party rigged the election with massive thumb printing of ballot papers reported in many places and the video evidence is on YouTube. It was so bad that a chieftain of the ruling party used police men and hired thugs to snatch ballot boxes, attacked supporters of the opposing party and set their village ablaze in Benue State. These reports of massive rigging and intimidation of voters by the ruling party caused the catastrophic post election violence. Have you seen some of the gory pictures on Nairaland?


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When I saw Nathaniel Anthony Ayers back in his usual location, I had to ask: How could he stand playing a crummy violin when he had a brand new cello waiting for him several blocks away?
Nathaniel lowered his eyes. He was dying to play that cello again, he admitted. But not if he had to trudge through the heart of skid row in downtown Los Angeles and play it at a drop-in center for the homeless and mentally ill.
He wondered if I would go get the cello and bring it back to 2nd and Hill. That's his spot, he told me, just like the L.A. Times building is my spot. Second and Hill is where I had first seen Nathaniel playing a violin with two missing strings, and it's where Nathaniel had first played the cello that was donated by a reader.
I told Nathaniel I'd love to go get the cello and bring it back, but I didn't think it was a good idea to lug a valuable instrument through the streets. Someone could mug him and run off with it.
I didn't let on that I also hoped he'd make a connection at Lamp Community, which treats the mentally ill. At some point, Lamp counselors say, Nathaniel could be a candidate for an apartment in their independent-living program.
"I looked through the door to the courtyard," Nathaniel said of Lamp, "and I saw one of the biggest purse snatchers who ever worked this city." He also saw people smoking, and he can't stand cigarettes.
Nathaniel promised he'd go back sooner or later, but I had my doubts.
Be patient, the Lamp staff told me. It could be weeks, months, or years. These things can't be rushed, especially in the case of someone who enjoys his solitude as much as Nathaniel does.
A few days later, I got an early-morning phone call.
"I have some good news," said Shannon Murray, a Lamp director. "Nathaniel is in the courtyard, playing his cello." His impromptu concert was still in full swing when I arrived. Nathaniel, diagnosed with schizophrenia 30 years go, looked a little more ill-at-ease than usual, but he was OK with the compromise for the moment. The onetime phenom, who grew up in Cleveland and went to New York's famed Juilliard School on a scholarship, had an audience of a dozen homeless and mentally ill clients, about half of whom were paying attention.
"He can't play," sniffed one critic.
A woman seated at a table fell asleep while eating a piece of chicken, her head resting near her lunch. A young gent with short-cropped hair marched into the courtyard and barked in an angry voice: "Yeah, like this family can ever have a sensible conversation." Nathaniel played for hours, searching for fragments of the Schubert and Dvorak pieces he studied so many years ago. He didn't even look up when a social worker announced: "Anger management. Anybody here want to go to anger management?"
Patricia Lopez, another Lamp director, said she wished I had caught an earlier conversation between Nathaniel and Carol, an elderly resident of the shelter. Carol, diagnosed 40 years ago with schizophrenia, had approached Nathaniel to say she had read all about him in The Times.
"He told her his expertise was music, and she told him her expertise was salvage," Lopez said. "They sat down and talked for about half an hour." By the time I caught up with Carol, Nathaniel's concert was drawing to a close. He was itching to get back on the street.
"It was a big treat to have him playing here," Carol said. With her coiffed white hair, neat clothes and angelic smile, she looked like she got lost on her way to Sunday Mass and decided to take up residence on skid row.
I asked about her salvaging operation, and Carol went into great detail.
She walks through downtown, she said, collecting plastic bottles and aluminum cans and taking them to recycling centers. As I listened to her lecture on waste, I wondered if on some level she was offering a commentary on the way society discards the mentally ill.
"The world wastes too much," Carol said, and too many people are out of work. She insisted she can attack both problems by opening a large-scale salvage operation, and she is undeterred by the small matter of being in her mid-70s and living in a shelter for the mentally ill.
"I've got to dream," she said.
Her plan is both rational and delusional, an echo of the inspired madness I often get from Nathaniel. I've been working toward the day when I can talk to Nathaniel about his condition, but Carol seemed instantly comfortable describing the landscape of a schizophrenic mind.
It hit when she was about 37, Carol said. She was a Highland Park homemaker with an interest in horticulture, and she and her husband -- a floral designer -- had two children.
"That's when I had my breakdown," she said.
Was she aware of it at the time?
"Oh my, yes. I was running away from my family for days at a time." She didn't know why, or where she was going. But she slept on the street and in neighbors' yards while her family searched frantically for her. Eventually, she landed in a mental hospital, where her first instinct was to pick a fight with the biggest woman on the ward.
"She was about 6 feet tall," Carol said.
When I asked why she would do such a thing, she paused before answering.
"I'm different," she said. "I'll admit to a lot of anger in me. And paranoia too. It's not so much fear as it is suspicion." She said she didn't want to talk about it, but she thinks her late husband might have been trying to poison her. The family television set couldn't be trusted, either.
"I was getting messages from the TV."
What kind of messages?
"That's personal, Steve." She was more comfortable talking about the voices she hears.
"It's never anything like, 'Go kill yourself.' It's just someone calling my name. I don't know who it is, but it's happened four times in the last six months." No matter how sick she gets, though, Carol claimed she will never go back on medication. The side effects are wretched, she said, and the medicine they gave her in the hospital turned her legs into jelly.
"It didn't immobilize me, but it would weaken my muscles and lower my blood pressure, so that I would stand up and faint." Worst of all, she said, the drugs leave her in such a fog, she can't enjoy one of her passions -- reading.
"I really think the medical system is overmedicating people and under-counseling them," she said. "We need more talk therapy."
Carol's daughter Brynne, who lives in the Highland Park house where her mother went mad, confirmed Carol's story. Brynne told of her family's decades of love, worry and exasperation, with countless searches for Mom in the neighborhood and on skid row, along with multiple visits to psychiatric wards.
"I really feel that I lost a lot as a child," said Brynne, who is 47 and regularly visits her mother. "I didn't have a mom." Her mother's odyssey parallels a history of failed policy, from the shutdown of mental hospitals, to the broken promise of adequate community clinics and halfway houses, to the teeming population of addled street dwellers living in squalor.
"I've developed so much more compassion for someone on the street, and it frustrates me to death that they've taken so much funding away from the mentally ill," Brynne said.
At Lamp, Brynne's mother watched as Nathaniel tried to pull a fast one. When no one was looking, he loaded the cello onto his shopping cart and was prepared to wheel the instrument away, breaking his promise. Lamp counselor Raul Gonzalez was on to him, though, and adeptly talked Nathaniel into leaving the cello in the office.
Nathaniel wasn't happy about it. He walked half a block down the street, pulled a tennis ball out of his shopping cart and tossed it against the wall for a while, using his Christmas stocking as a mitt. A few days later, he returned to Lamp, and this time, he managed to sneak the cello out.
I saw him playing it on Friday in his favorite spot, just outside the 2nd Street tunnel.
Don't worry, he told me, a T-shirt wrapped around his head like a turban. He had kept the cello on the street the previous night, and nobody bothered him. He said he had tied the cello to his violin, hid the instruments under a tarp, and slept next to them on the sidewalk near 4th and Los Angeles streets.
He still had every intention, Nathaniel promised, of taking the cello back to Lamp. At some point.
Carol, for one, would like that.
"My favorite piece is Beethoven's Sixth," Carol told Nathaniel on the day of his courtyard concert.
"The Pastorale," Nathaniel said, hearing the music and waving a hand as if conducting an orchestra.
I called Nathaniel's sister Jennifer in Atlanta that day from Lamp to describe the scene. Nathaniel brightened when I handed him the phone and he spoke to his sister for the first time in several years.
"I'm very fond of you too," he told her.
Reach the columnist at email@example.com and read previous columns at www.latimes.com/lopez.


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* Modern Kundalini yoga
* Stimulate the chakras through breathing, movement and mantras
* Clear the mind and body
*Taught by classical pianist and performer Maya Fiennes
Maya Fiennes combines her talents as a successful classical pianist and performer with her upbeat personality to create a unique style of Kundalini yoga for modern living. In this 60-minute practice, she takes you through a series of exercises to stimulate the powerful centers in the body, the chakras. Through breathing techniques, movements and mantras, Maya demonstrates how to clear the mind and body, allowing viewers to tap into the universal forces and manifest anything in life. 60 minute


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Vending for Profit
Vending in a health club can mean more than just pocket change. It's a way for your club to set up on-site profit centers without having to establish a major retail operation, like a pro shop or smoothie bar, which most clubs don't have the expertise, time or space to do. In addition, significant retail sales usually require about half of your retail traffic to come in from outside the club, unless you have a large membership base.
Vending, however, is done internally and doesn't require outside traffic. It also eliminates many other issues involved with conventional retailing, especially staffing and theft, which means your company can sell items at a more competitive price.
Vending has become so sophisticated that you can vend, within reasonable parameters, just about anything in health clubs. Machines now can accommodate items of nontraditional sizes and shapes. In the past, soft drinks have been the product usually vended, but at our clubs, we've branched out into sales of bottled water, sports drinks and fruit juices, in addition to sodas. Other appropriate items for vending would include different types of nutrition bars, headphones, weight gloves, socks, T-shirts, vitamins/supplements and even specialty coffees. In vending you're limited only by your imagination.
Health clubs traditionally aren't set up to handle a lot of cash, and vending is also a solution to this problem. Today's vending machines are designed to accept different types of payments so you have direct control of your money with no cash registers. I'd advise getting equipment that accepts $1, $5, and $10 bills (and gives change) for purchases like water or nutrition bars. Keep your eyes on the horizon for machines that will accept credit cards as well for more expensive vended items.
Finally, I see an enormous future in the use of "smart cards." Sooner than later, we'll convert our own membership cards (which are already bar-coded) into smart cards that could be credited with up to $50 at a time. Then members won't have to bring cash with them or find change or bills to put into the machines; they'll just swipe their smart cards to make an automatic purchase. Just place vending machines as close to the front of your club as possible without blocking member traffic and let the sales begin!
The simplest way to make money through vending is to go through a vending company that counts the sales and money, and returns to you a percentage of sales, which amounts to somewhere between 10 to 25 percent of the total. You may keep as much as 60 percent of the revenue if you elect to do the labor yourself, leasing the machines and buying/stocking the inventory. Though the percentages sound low, if you've got a good flow of people and a variety of items that people want and need, vending can mean an extra $1,000 of hassle-free profit per month for your club, which is pretty significant for a lot of businesses.
In short, vending is another convenience and service you can offer to members inside your club, thereby aiding member retention; and it's also a profit center. Whatever you do, plan ahead. Think about your space requirement, what types of items your members would be tempted to purchase and how labor-intensive you want your vending arrangement to be. You can find information about vending operators through the National Automatic Merchandising Association, (312) 346-0370, www.vendline.com or simply look in your local Yellow Pages.
- Tony de Leede, a native of Sydney, Australia, is the owner and president of Atlanta-based Australian Body Works (24 locations).
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This October 2010 accident report is provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. Published as an educational tool, it is intended to help pilots learn from the misfortunes of others.
Aircraft: Grumman G164. Injuries: None. Location: Edson, Ga. Aircraft damage: Substantial.
What reportedly happened: During a routine agricultural application flight, the pilot noted that the right rudder pedal felt soft. He returned to the airport at the conclusion of the flight and, just after touchdown, applied pressure to both brake pedals to stop the airplane. While the left brake operated normally, the right brake was ineffective and the plane went off the runway.
A post-accident examination revealed evidence of brake fluid leakage at the internal fuselage hydraulic line fitting. No reliable determination of the brake fluid quantity prior to the accident could be made as the right brake system had been compromised during the accident, but testing of the system with replacement fluid lines showed normal operation.
Probable cause: Leakage of hydraulic fluid from the internal fuselage line fitting, resulting in a subsequent loss of the right brake's effectiveness.
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New Travel Gadgets for Finding Stuff
Two New Ways to Find Your Lost Stuff & Other Cool Travel Gadgets
By Margaret Gaby
We get gadgets. Boy do we ever! The following is a round-up of some of the cool new products that have come into our offices, each tested by our staff.
Travel Lost and Found Kit
Here are two solutions for the age old problem--where did I leave my keys phone purse luggage camera or briefcase. It's the Travel Lost and Found Kit. The kit includes ID tags and Techware for a "hassle-free recovery of lost items."
Attach these stickers or tags to everything you are traveling with to ensure you can find it if it's lost. Each tag has a "Findercode" on it that when scanned by smartphone (or on the website findercodes.com) utilizes GPS to locate the finder tag and your item.
The owner's identity is confidential, only a cell phone number is provided, there are no subscription fees, it works with smartphones or PCs, and the tags are durable and waterproof. You can even change your contact information and the tags will still work. The company's website is set up to send you an email and also a text message telling you that your property has been found. Thekit comes with two large luggage tags, two medium tote tags and four adhesive tags for electronic devices. $24.95
My Stuff Lost & Found
Another company makes something similar, again, perfect for a traveler. These are small 2" steel plates that attach with a tough steel cord to luggage, briefcases or maybe your keychain. They also have durable stickers that are small enough to stick to the bottom of a laptop, phone, camera or anything else, with a number and the Okoban.com website. If someone finds your property they can go to the site and type in the number to find your identity.
Okoban has another bragging point--their system is linked to the airline industry World Tracer system, used by 330 airlines in more than 2200 airports and "hundreds of 'frequent finder' locations in hotels, restaurants, rail stations and other public facilities around the world." Both of the company's websites were pretty easy to navigate and to set up.
Both products require a registration, but it's pretty easy and straightforward. Six stickers $19.95, three tags $19.95. The Travel Lost and Found Kit is a less expensive option and they are very similar products.
IriScan Portable Scanner
Ever wish there was a way to rid yourself of the frustrating effort of scanner while on the go? Well, now you can scan and convert documents from wherever you are with the IRIScan Express 3.
This lightweight scanner is very accessible for all your scanning needs. To setup it's not too difficult. As long as you test both sides when putting the calibrating paper through the machine. To setup the buttons and the device to you computer is very simple on both PC and Mac (by inserting a CD-Rom). It pops up right on your deskstop and it walks you through the process.
Simply plug it in with the USB cable and it immediately lights up and is ready to go. After you have set up the device is it really easy to use. Just insert your document, receipts, business cards,images and it scans it so you can throw the papers away. It can be used with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Adobe Photoshop (for PDFs). It also comes with a black velvety sleeve to carry the silver device. This would be good for any business traveler who wants to lighten his briefcase load. Buy this on Amazon.
Liquid Armor's Invisible Screen Protector
Liquid-armor protects your cellphone screen with a special glossy sheen.
Ever get tired of staring at that bubble in your iPhone or Android screen protector? Well now there's an alternative solution that offers twice times the protection; Liquid Armor's Invisible Screen Protector for tablets, e-readers and cellphones.
This incredible product has nano-coating technology that provides a scratch-free protection like no other. It provides for a weather free, dirt free, water spill-resistant surface. It's been tested by GoNOMAD's editor on two iPhones and so far, so good!
To use, make sure your device is turned off and completely cooled down. Clean your screen throughly with the microfiber cloth provided. Squirt one or two sprays onto the microfiber cloth. Gently apply this to the screen using a back and forth motion, avoiding any circular motion for 10-20 seconds until the screen is evenly coated. Wait 10 minutes for use and 24 hours to come in contact with water. If you need to buff it after the 24 hour period simply use the cloth (the Liquid Armor continues to harden). Buy this on Amazon
IZON 2.0 WI-FI Video Monitor
This device is a portable video monitor that's very small, and you can watch it over the web on your iPhone or Android phone.
Did you ever want to see what your dog or your family is doing while you're still at the office? Now, you can with the IZON 2.0 WIFI video monitor by steminnovation.com for iPad, IPhone, IPod touch. You could simply give this device to your son and have it sit on the bench during the game if you can't make it to his little league game.
Watch and listen from anywhere. Automatically records noise and motion. You can securly view live video, receive alerts for noise and motion and automatically record event clips online. You can be there even when you are not.
This device is easy to install and is controlled through a free app on your iphone/ipad device and scanned bar code from your device. It takes mere minutes to install. It mounts to wall or ceiling and pivots on a super cool magnetic base. It has a one-year limited warranty. During the testing it is very accessible but just make sure you have wifi available.
It's a great device and is very lightweight. An earlier version of this product that we reviewed did not work well. But this updated model works great. Buy this on Amazon
On-go smart phone speaker.
This tiny speaker puts out great sound, and doesn't need a cord to play. Cool colors too!
Ever want to share your music on your phone with others and find that the built-in speaker is not loud enough? Well the IFIT-1 on-go smart phone speaker is very easy to use just simply plug it in and turn on your music. This cute little speaker is about as big as two decks of cards. It's small,lightweight, and portable.
It comes with a smart stand for watching movies anywhere. It has a 360 degree sound field that integrates a cone design with a custom-built speaker to project sound in all directions. It has a very great sound. It sounds like you are playing from larger device. It also charges with a USB cable and the charge lasts for 6 hours. It's small enough to fit in your pocket or purse. Buy this on Amazon
This is a great accessory to play all your devices.
The Power Dock Pro Flex provides a place to charge two phones and easily see your phone while driving.
Power Dock Pro Flex
Ever want to charge your iphone in your car at the same time, be able to look at it while it's charging? Bracketron's USB Power Dock Pro Flex is the answer. This product has a height-adjustable holder, a 30 pin charger (which unfortunatly won't be compatiable with the IPhone 5) a 180 degree rotation, flexible neck design, LED power indicator, 12V PowerGrip and comes with a micro usb cable to charge other devices. You can charge an Android and your iPhone at the same time, while riding down the road listening to your music!
This product is excellent for long trips. It is safe driver approved and insures that you have access to your device while driving without having to hold it. Buy this on Amazon
PowerBar Fatcat Travel Charger
Did you ever want to use your tablet on the beach? Or simply not have to worry about always running out of power? The PowerBar Fatcat Travel charger is a great option. This device is ideal for smartphones, it's like having a small battery as a back-up to plugging in and charging. If you are at a sporting event and want to catch a certain moment on your smartphone camera without the phone powering down you can use this power charger to help you through the rest of the game.
The powerbar Fatcat provides up to three months of charge for those who need to re-power their devices when they're nowhere near a plug.
About the size of a deck of playing cards, it's packed with 9600 mwh of power which is enough power to fully charge any tablet. The PowerBar works with most devices including cell phones, MP3 players, gaming devices, GPSs and PDAs. When you first get it is is pre-charged so you can start using it right away (70% charge). The device lasts for three months worth of charges!
This is a great portable device to have for any occasion. Buy this on Amazon
Duracell rechargeable instant USB Charger
If you don't need as much power, this Duracell charger is much smaller and lighter and gives up to 180 minutes of talk time for a dead iPhone.
This is a compact on demand power charger for all your USB powered devices. It's smaller than the the Fat Cat, a little taller than a Zippo lighter. Simply plug in device with the included USB cable and you have additional charging. With the iPod classic you will have up to 50 extra hours of run time, Ipod Nano, up to 45 hours, Iphone 3G, Blackberry Curve, and Motola Razor V3 up to 180 minutes of extra talk time.
This charger is an excellent choice for extra battery power with a 3- year guarantee against defects, and it's small enough to stow in a purse. The Fatcat is a little more deluxe with a lot longer power life. Buy this on Amazon
Dart Laptop Tote
Need a new laptop case that fits all your devices? Try the Dart Tote B7301 from ecbc (ec-bc.com) This compact messenger bag fits most 13 inch laptops AND a tablet and accessories and cords. There is plenty of room for everything that comes with a laptop. The bag comes with a convenient luggage trolley handle pass-through feature, adjustable, detachable padded shoulder strap, front pocket for your passport or other important items.
There are also pencil holders inside. There are heavy duty YKK zippers and a high quality ballistic nylon exterior ensuring its durability against the harsh weather. It only weights 1.52 lbs and comes in black and grey. This is a great bag that actually holds your laptap along with anything else you want to bring along with you (so you don't end up looking like a bag lady with a purse and laptop bag, for example). The padded strap also makes a big difference when it comes to extended or heavy toting. Buy this on Amazon
Margaret Gaby is an English major at the University of Mass and an editorial assistant at GoNOMAD.com.
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USA Rugby now accepting bids to host 2014 spring playoff events
BOULDER, Colo. – USA Rugby is now accepting bids for the 2014 men's and women's collegiate and senior club playoffs.
The 2014 Men's Division I-AA and Women's Division I & II collegiate playoffs will commence the weekend of April 26 and conclude the weekend of May 10. USA Rugby is seeking four to eight regional sites as well as one to two championship venues. Each regional location will host 4 to 12 teams, with the number varying on the geographic needs of the bracket and the availability of quality venues.
1 Regional Venues: April 25-26 Women's DI / Women's DII (4-8 Teams per Venue)
3-7 Regional Venues: April 26-27 - Women's DI / Women's DII / Men's DI-AA (4-12 Teams per Venue)
1-2 Championship Venues: May 9-11 – Women's DI / Women's DII / Men's DI-AA
2012-2013 women's collegiate events were held in Stanford, Calif.; Allendale, Mich.; Annapolis, Md.; and Pittsburgh, Pa. 2013 men's collegiate events were held in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Tucson, Ariz.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Madison, Wis.; and Bowling Green, Ohio.
Full details regarding hosting requirements can be found in the 2014 hosting bid packet.
Bid to Host a 2014 Collegiate Playoff Event
The 2014 Women's Division I & II and Men's Division I, II, & III club playoffs will be held on May 17-18 and May 31-June 1. The national quarter-final and semi-final events will be held in two regional locations (1 in the Western U.S.; 1 in the Eastern U.S.) and feature 20 teams per site (12 men's; 8 women's).
2014 Club Playoffs
2 Regional Venues: May 17-18 Men's Division I / Men's Division II / Men's Division III / Women's Division I / Women's Division II
1 Championship Venue: May 31-June 1 Men's Division I / Men's Division II / Men's Division III / Women's Division I / Women's Division II
2012-2013 senior club events were held in Virginia Beach, Va.; Irving, Texas; Lawrenceville, Ga.; Fort Myers, Fla.; and Glendale, Colo.
Full details regarding hosting requirements can be found in the 2014 hosting bid packet.
Bid to Host a 2014 Senior Club Playoff Event
Priority will go to venues that have either qualified teams in the area or are central to potentially qualified teams. Additional priority will go toward venues that are within one hour from a major international airport and can provide affordable accommodation and transportation for teams. USA Rugby prioritizes affordability for traveling teams and will not require teams to stay in designated hotels
USA Rugby will be accepting bids until Nov. 8, 2013. It is expected that spring venues will be selected and announced by December 6, 2013.
If you have any questions regarding 2014 national championship series events, please contact Erik Geib at email@example.com or 303-539-0300 x118.


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David Ruben Piqtoukun
Canadian, b. 1950
Airplane, 1995
Brazilian soapstone, African wonderstone
26 x 36.5 x 27.5 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Rosalie Seidelman
G-97-17 abc
David Ruben Piqtoukun is originally from the western Arctic community of Paulatuk. He is known for his exploration of cultural loss and confusion in the lives of the Inuit people. This sculpture reveals a childhood memory of the artist. An airplane came to the camp where he lived with his family and he was taken away to live at a residential school in the town of Inuvik. He was not permitted to speak Inuktitut or to hold any Inuit cultural beliefs. He gradually lost touch with his parents, as he often was unable to locate their camp when he was returned to the Paulatuk region each summer. This work was featured at the WAG in the 1996 solo exhibition of the artist's sculpture, Between Two Worlds.
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The world premiere of Natural Koncepts' Creepin' for Life took place in NYC, Saturday November 19 at Anthology Film Archives, one of the raddest theaters in the Big Apple. The star studded NYC crowd of supermodels, artists, skaters, designers, rockstars, Vice Magazine's crew, MTV execs, Milkstudios crew, and the entire Natty Kon posse filled the theatre. The afterparty at the Parkside Lounge on Houston street kicked ass. At War With The 60's rocked out on stage 'til 3:30a.m. and Dog Soldier Society finished the night off around 4:30a.m. A truly epic rock-n-roll night in NYC. The entire Natty Kon crew flew to NYC for this event, which made it even more exciting kicking off a 28-day USA premiere tour from NYC all the way to L.A. So keep an eye out for the NK crew creepin' through your city.—JZ
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When you come on our food tours in London, you'll get to try many famous British foods, all guaranteed to get your taste buds tingling.
- Firstly, your local London guide take you to the exciting Borough Market to soak up the atmosphere and eat some English fudges/chocolate. This eating paradise was not even on the tourist foodie radar a few years ago.
- Still around the market, you will try award winning Lincolnshire sausages followed by the best and most fresh fish and chips in town (and you will get to see the difference between 'chips' and 'French fries').
- There is so much to see in the market that your guide will give you 10-20 mins to look around yourselves, giving you a chance to buy gifts or eat any samples.
- Your personal guide will explain the history of the market and the sounding areas including the Sir Walter Raleigh's Golden Hind, the Shard and Southwark Cathedral.
- Your tour will continue to a historic pub where you can try the best of British cheeses, served with grapes, fig cakes and chutneys.
- Washed down with real London Beers, Ales, or delicious ciders (or non-alcoholic options).
- You'll also see the world famous London Bridge and Tower Bridge on the River Thames and also the Battleship HMS Belfast.
- Finally, the tour ends with classic desserts, such as cheese cakes, chocolate brownies or treacle sponge pudding all washed down with a pot of refreshing tea
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It is simply personal preference what one likes the most in waves, a TT or a Mutant or a Waveboard, of course.
But, this topic is all about "Why a directional in waves", from the original poster, right ?
Many prefer the TT in waves because they are relatively new, or experienced riders that has reached a level where they cant/dont evolve more, or a bit frightened in the waves, so will choose the safe choice they know
Which is fully understandable
Others are so much into freestyle, that they use TT's in waves and dont really ride waves at all, which is also understandable
Then some like something in between, a Mutant t.ex.
But very few today, as most want both a TT and a Waveboard instead - so choosing depending on what they like to do on a given day and conditions.
If you have some wave spot where the fins will get ripped off by underwater rocks pretty fast, a TT also makes sense, as fins are less likely to break and easier to replace
One could say, that with a waveboard you have the perfect board for riding waves of any size and direction, and you can jump high too - but not do the same easy freestyle moves, nope.
With a TT you can ride more powered/bigger kite, thus maybe sqeeze slightly more height in jumps - or maybe not.
But definitely more hangtime, as the kite is bigger.
And easier for the less experienced to "manage".
And Rightguard - if you choose a small waveboard, you get exactly what you want - better in the waves, but still feeling "small" and agile in jumps
You have to feel it yourself - before you know what the difference is, between a TT/Mutant and a Waveboard, but you have got many good answers in this thread now.
The reality though, is for most riders, that eventhough they got waveboards and jump a lot in the start (first years), it will wear off and one will begin to focus on waveriding and tricks in the waves instead - as jumping high gets boring pretty quickly, COMPARED to riding waves on a waveboard.
And a few stay in the "jump" mode forever, on waveboards - but not as many as those who ditches jumping almost for good, or just as the "occasional" blast - as it is awesome to just boost max on a waveboard
Simply a fact that for most riders, jumping wears "off" after starting to waveride - and then many ride strapless also, as it does not matter if they dont jump anyway - or maybe want to jump strapless and challenge themeselves even more.
But because waveriding is so awesome and a good feel on a waveboard, its a good thing - our own choice as we can do what we want, jumping or not
Riding on a TT or a very TT like board, most never experience above, and wonder why so many ride waveboards instead
Just trying to sum things up, to the original posters question.


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Baccalaureate and Commencement at Hope College are scheduled for Sunday, May 4.
Some 667 graduating seniors will be participating in this year's graduation exercises, the college's 143rd.
Commencement will be held at 3 p.m. at Holland Municipal Stadium. Baccalaureate will be held earlier in the day, at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The Commencement speaker will be Dr. Steven Hoogerwerf, associate professor of religion. The Baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by Dr. Dennis Voskuil, who is president of Western Theological Seminary, and Betty Voskuil, a long-time Reformed Church in America staff member and volunteer leader locally and internationally. In addition, the Voskuils will each receive the Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) degree during the 9:30 a.m. Baccalaureate service.
Hoogerwerf has taught at Hope since 1992. During the college's Commencement exercises last May, he received the 43rd annual "Hope Outstanding Professor Educator" (H.O.P.E.) Award from the graduating Class of 2007. He was also the 2006 recipient of the college's Janet Andersen Excellence in Teaching Award.
A recent focus of his work has been in the area of service-learning. Eleven members of the 2008 graduating class were part of his 2007 May Term course on the Pine Ridge Reservation, where students learned about the history, culture and religion of the Oglala Lakota tribe partly in the context of direct involvement in service to reservation residents.
For several years he has accompanied Hope students participating in the college's annual spring break mission trips. He also co-leads a training session for leaders of the Hope trips and continues to develop resources to help students reflect on what they are learning as they engage in service to others.
In February 2007 Hoogerwerf received a Michigan Campus Compact (MCC) Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Award. The awards recognize outstanding community service and service-learning by faculty and staff at the colleges and universities that are members of MCC, with recipients honored for engaging or influencing students to be involved in community service or service-learning through modeling, influence or instruction.
He was a member of the Hope committee that drafted the grant proposal for the CrossRoads Project, funded with support from the Lilly Endowment Inc. The program, which began with the 2003-04 academic year, is designed to help students think theologically about the role of calling or vocation in their lives.
Hoogerwerf's scholarship focuses on ethics, medical ethics, and religion and society. During the current school year he has been teaching the college's Senior Seminars on "Vocation and Health Care" and "What Really Matters?" as well as the courses "Religion and Atrocity," and "Introduction to Theology: Christian Love."
Hoogerwerf has also served as an adjunct member of the faculty of Western Theological Seminary since 1996. Other appointments through the years have included serving as director of adult ministries at Second Reformed Church in Zeeland; spiritual care coordinator with Hospice of Holland Inc.; interim associate minister at Olin Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, N.C.; associate minister of United Reformed Church in Somerville, N.J.; and staff associate with the office of social witness of the Reformed Church in America.
His current community involvements include serving on the ethics committees of Holland Community Hospital, and as an ethics consultant to North Ottawa Community Hospital and Resthaven Patrons Inc.
Hoogerwerf graduated from Hope in 1977 with majors in religion and philosophy. He completed his Master of Divinity degree at Western Theological Seminary in 1981 and his doctorate, in theology and ethics, at Duke University in 1991.
In the event of rain, Commencement will be held at the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse. Admission to Baccalaureate, and to Commencement if indoors, is by ticket only.


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Put the duck, breast side down, on a cutting board and using kitchen shears, cut up 1 side of the spine, starting at the tail or pope's nose, all the way to the top. Turn the bird around and cut back down the other side of the spine, being careful not to cut into the thigh. Press down on the bird to flatten and make a shallow cut through the breastbone to further flatten the duck. Remove the neck flap and any extra pockets of fat. Turn the duck over, breast side up, and make a long slash in the skin and fat of each breast, making sure not to puncture the meat.
Sprinkle both sides of the duck with the kosher salt and lay the duck, breast side up, on top of a broiler pan. Line the bottom of the pan with paper towels. Put the duck, uncovered, on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for 3 to 4 days or until the skin is dry and reaches a near parchment consistency.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
If there is still salt visible, brush it off. Remove the paper towels from the bottom of the pan. Put the pan in the middle of the oven and roast for 30 minutes. Rotate the pan 180 degrees and continue to cook until the thigh reaches an internal temperature of 180 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer, about 30 more minutes.
Remove the duck from the oven and increase the heat to 450 degrees F. Once the oven has come to temperature, return the duck to the oven and roast until the skin is golden brown and crispy, about 10 minutes.
Remove the top of the broiler pan, with the duck still on it, and put it on a sheet pan to rest. Pour off the duck fat from the bottom of the pan, measure 1/4 cup, and reserve the rest for another use.
Decrease the oven heat to 350 degrees F.
Put the broiler pan on the stove over medium heat and add the 1/4 cup of the fat. Add the onions, celery, salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring frequently, until the onions and celery are translucent, approximately 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine the cornbread, oyster crackers, thyme, sage, eggs, oysters and their liquor in a large mixing bowl and use your hands to mix well, breaking up the oysters as you go. Add the onion and celery mixture to the bowl and stir to combine. Transfer the dressing back into the broiler pan and spread evenly. Put the dressing on the middle rack of the oven and bake until golden brown and crisp around the edges, about 30 to 35 minutes. Transfer the duck to a serving platter and serve with the dressing.


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Five All-Conference Honors for Women's Soccer
- Martorano and Merrill named First Team, Cerverizzo, Lasota and Smith receieve Second Team Honors
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's soccer team had five players named to the All-Skyline Conference Team. Freshman defender Theresa Martorano (Commack, N.Y.) and freshman forward Christina Merrill (Levittown, N.Y.) were named First Team, while sophomore midfielder Katrina Cerverizzo (Center Moriches, N.Y.), freshman defender Jillian Lasota (Massapequa, N.Y.) and freshman midfielder Jamie Smith (Holtsville, N.Y.) received Second Team honors.
Martorano started every game for the Rams this season, scoring three goals and recording three assists from her defensive position. Martorano led the Skyline's top defense, which allowed only one goal in nine conference games.
Merrill scored seven goals and had 10 assists for a team-high 24 points. Merrill was ranked 3rd in assists and assists per game in the Skyline Conference. In conference games, she ranked 1st with eight assists, 2nd in points with 20 and scored six goals which is tied for 6th place.
Cerverizzo was second on the team scoring nine goals and third
with 18 points this year. Cerverizzo had three game-winning goals,
which was tied for 5th place in the conference.
Lasota led a defense that allowed only 14 goals this year and shutout 13 opponents. Lasota helped the Rams post a 0.11 goals against average in conference games.
Smith led the team with 11 goals and 24 points from her midfield position. Smith had four game-winning goals this season, two of which came in playoff games. She scored six goals in nine Skyline regular season games.
The 2009 All-Skyline Conference Team for Women's Soccer and Individual/Team Honors is as follows...
Player of the
Kim Larie, Bard
Rookie of the Year
Lauren Dorsey-Spitz, Bard
Coach of the Year
Bill Kelly, Bard
Sportsmanship Award
First Team
GK – Brittany McDonald, Sage
D – Samantha DeFoe, Sage
D – Theresa Martorano, Farmingdale State
D – Ashley Panepinto, Purchase
M – Ashley Allain, Sage
M – Cosie Andujar, Bard
M – Jennifer Campisi, Old Westbury
M – Abigail Katz, Purchase
F – Christina Merrill, Farmingdale State
F – Cassandra Esposito, Old Westbury
F – Lauren Dorsey-Spitz, Bard
F – Rebecca Marszalek, Sage
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GK – Megan Cotta, Mount Saint Mary
D – Nicole Christensen, St. Joseph's
D – Emilie Buse, Purchase
D – Jill Lasota, Farmingdale State
M – Kate Arthurs, St. Joseph's
M – Katrina Cerverizzo, Farmingdale State
M – Jill Sage, Bard
M – Jamie Smith, Farmingdale State
F – Danielle Bucco, Mount Saint Mary
F – Lauren Dorsa, Mount Saint Mary
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An Atlanta police helicopter crashed late Saturday, killing two officers, police said.
Police Chief George Turner confirmed the deaths at a news conference, NBC station WXIA of Atlanta reported. There were no injuries on the ground. The victims' names were not released.
"One of our helicopters went down and two officers were killed," police spokesman Carlos Campos told Reuters.
WXIA reported that witnesses said the helicopter hit power lines before crashing about 10:30 p.m. in northwest Atlanta. The helicopter was searching for a missing 9-year-old boy, police said.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the aircraft crashed near the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. and Hamilton E. Holmes drives. Power was out in the area.
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Trayvon Martin
Defense witnesses say 911 screams were George Zimmerman's
Defense attorneys presented a parade of witnesses Monday who testified, one by one, that the chilling screams on a 911 call came from their friend, George Zimmerman.
And jurors soon will learn that Trayvon Martin had marijuana in his system on Feb. 26. 2012, the night Zimmerman shot him. Seminole County Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, who had previously held off on a ruling on the toxicology report's admissibility, said late Monday she would let the defense present the information to jurors in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial, now entering its third week of testimony. Prosecutors rested the state's case on Friday.
Defense attorneys seemed to gain momentum Monday with testimony from two Sanford police investigators who said that Tracy Martin, the father of slain 17-year-old Trayvon, told them the screams on the recorded call did not belong to his son.
But, in what legal observers said was a risky move, defense lawyers then called Tracy Martin to the stand. He remembered a different version of what he told police after they played him the 911 call two days after Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon in a gated Sanford community.
Investigator Chris Serino "basically just said, 'Do you recognize the voice?'" Martin said. "My response was... I pushed my chair away from the table, shook my head and said I can't tell. I never said, 'No, that wasn't my son's voice.'"
Later, Martin said, he recognized the voice as his son's.
"After listening to the tape maybe 20 times, I knew that it was Trayvon's voice."
Monday's list of defense witnesses — the first five, including two married couples, said they believed they heard Zimmerman yelling for help on the 911 call — served to counter testimony Friday from Trayvon's mother and brother, both of whom identified the voice crying out for help as belonging to the slain Miami Gardens teen.
The defense witnesses also offered testimony aimed at bolstering the image of the defendant, a former neighborhood watch coordinator who prosecutors are painting as a frustrated, wannabe cop. Zimmerman, 29, maintains he acted in self-defense after Trayvon violently attacked him. Zimmerman faces up to life in prison if convicted as charged.
One couple, John Donnelly and Leanne Benjamin, spoke of Zimmerman in parent-like fashion. She talked about mentoring the defendant in starting his own business, while her husband choked up a bit when he described buying Zimmerman suits for the trial and teaching him to tie a Windsor knot.
Another Zimmerman pal, Mark Osterman, previously called as a state's witness, took the stand Monday as a defense witness, telling jurors about teaching his "best" friend about firearm safety. Osterman's wife, Sondra, who also took the stand, repeatedly referred to Zimmerman as "Georgie" and identified the voice on the 911 call as Zimmerman's.
"The voice witnesses on both sides will probably cancel each other out, especially because each one has a built-in bias," said former Miami-Dade prosecutor David Waksman, who watched part of Monday's testimony.
"But for the defense, these witnesses were important to humanize the defendant. They want him to be Georgie, George, your next-door neighbor."
Although several neighbors in Sanford's Retreat at Twin Lakes community placed 911 calls the night of Trayvon's death, one particular call, from Jenna Lauer, captured several harrowing seconds of yelps followed by a single gunshot.
The "Lauer call," as defense attorney Mark O'Mara referred to it, was played multiple times in court Monday so witnesses could say who they thought was screaming.
"There's absolutely no doubt in my mind, that is George Zimmerman, and I wish to God I did not have that ability to understand that," Donnelly testified. He said his experience as a U.S. Army medic in Vietnam taught him to identify screams in traumatic situations.
On cross-examination, Donnelly said he had given $4,700 in clothes, money and food to Zimmerman after the shooting. He also acknowledged that he had never heard Trayvon's voice, which meant he was unlikely to have been able to identify it on the 911 recording.
Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda countered O'Mara's playing of the Lauer call by playing, on cross-examination, Zimmerman's non-emergency call to police when he reported Trayvon as suspicious. In that call, Zimmerman uttered profanities that the state has argued showed ill-will, spite or hatred — elements of second-degree murder.
Jurors, who have heard the recordings about a dozen times during the trial, remained attentive but took only occasional notes as the audio played.
Trayvon's parents stayed in the courtroom throughout the re-playing of the 911 call. Earlier in the trial, they had been leaving the room before the graphic tape was played.
On the witness stand Monday, Trayvon's father said the sounds still haunt him.
"You realized that was the shot..." de la Rionda began to ask.
"That killed my son, yes," Tracy Martin said.
"My world from that point and until today has just been turned upside down," Martin continued. "I was listening to his last cry for help, listening to his life being taken, trying to come grips with the fact that Trayvon isn't here...
"I was trying to figure out ... why did the defendant get out of his vehicle and chase my son?"
The judge's ruling on the marijuana issued, made after jurors were dismissed for the day Monday, was a big win for the defense and a correct decision, legal experts said. A state's witness, assistant medical examiner Dr. Shiping Bao, opened the door for the drug report last week when he revealed, outside the presence of jurors, that he believed the marijuana in Trayvon's system could have had an effect on him that night.
The decision to allow testimony about the marijuana use was "not even close," said Miami defense attorney Brian Tannebaum, because prosecutors have brought in so much of Zimmerman's past, including his college courses, interest in law enforcement and physical training.
"What's good for one side is good for another. It's pretty clear," Tannebaum said.
Former Miami-Dade prosecutor John Priovolos said that while the defense could make an argument that the teen's use of marijuana made him aggressive, the evidence also could be seen as a significant blow to the credibility of a key state witness: Rachel Jeantel.
The Miami teen told jurors that she was on the phone with Trayvon moments before his death and heard him describe Zimmerman as a "creepy-ass cracker" who was following him.
"Their best bet is to say Trayvon is not a bad person because he was smoking dope, but his statements to Rachel that night might not be credible because of the drug use," Priovolos said.


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Mar 09 2009
France Celebrates the International Women's Day
The 8th of March was made the official day for women worldwide in 1977 following a decision of the United Nations and the socialist government chose to apply it in France in 1982. Unlike many countries, this is not a day off but many events take place across the country such as a march in Paris where feminist associations, political parties and trade unions gather together in order to claim equal salaries and the expansion of the right to abortion fir instance. Indeed, according to a report given by the International Labour Organization (ILO), women are more likely to lose their jobs in the context of the international economic crisis. Moreover, a French woman out of three claims to have suffered discrimination on the basis of gender although they are generally more qualified and maternity is seen as a handicap to get a promotion by 16% of French women. Job equality will therefore remain the burning element in the debates that are taking place during the international day for women.
Here is the poster for an exhibition that is currently taking place in Paris.
Many people were demonstrating on Sunday March 8th, and came most of the time from political parties from the left, trade unions or feminist associations such as 'Ni putes ni soumises':
However, if the situation is still far from being perfect, some real advances have been made over the last decades and many laws are now preventing any discrimination based on gender. In politics, everyone remembers the final duet for the presidential race that was opposing for the first time a woman (Ségolène Royal) against a man. Furthermore, the principle of parity has been integrated to the French constitution in 1999 and in 2000, a bill was passed, forcing political parties to open up to women if they want to avoid financial sanctions. The current government is therefore made up of 15 ministers, among whom seven women:
Finally, here is a vox pop that has been carried out in Paris the day before the international day for women. People are sharing their opinions about this special day and explaining what it does or does not represent to them:
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Podcast - April 2011
Welcome to the April 2011 Podcast
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In a press conference held near the site of a possible "Runaway Toyota" crash, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D.-N.Y., today asked that Toyota cooperate fully with local investigators looking into the incident.
"It's time for Toyota to work in good faith with the Harrison Police Department and turn over the information that the investigators need to get to the bottom of this accident," Schumer said. In the Tuesday accident, a driver hit a stone wall with her 2005 Prius after what she described as unintended acceleration.
Schumer also claimed that until pressure from his own office, from acting Harrison police chief Capt. Anthony Marraccini, and from Rep. Nita Lowey, D.-N.Y., Toyota had refused to turn over relevant information from the crash. Initial press accounts said that Capt. Marraccini felt Toyota had refused to provide information from the car's Electronic Data Recorder, the "black box" that records electronic information about the operation of a vehicle prior to a crash.
Press accounts and congressional testimony have indicated that it is more difficult to get Event Data Recorder information from Toyota officials than from other car companies. A recent Associated Press report said that Toyota has refused to provide information to crash victims, and has sometimes settled lawsuits rather than provide information or released only partial information.
In a statement to ABC News, Toyota strongly denied that it is slow in providing information, and said it always cooperates with law enforcement. Toyota denied that it had refused at any point to provide the EDR data to the Harrison investigators, saying it has a policy of always sharing the information with NHTSA and law enforcement officials upon request.
"We will happily offer up the information to any law enforcement agency with jurisdiction," said Toyota spokesperson John Hanson.
In an interview with ABC News prior to the Schumer press conference, Marraccini said Toyota had agreed to provide the black box information.
According to Marraccini, after the Tuesday accident Toyota had asked him to release the vehicle to the company for inspection, but he had refused because the car was part of an ongoing investigation. He says he did not initially "receive an affirmative answer" from the company on reading the black box, but has now been told yes.
"They're willing to cooperate and offer whatever comfort level we need to protect the integrity of the investigation," Marraccini said.
Marraccini said the managing counsel for Toyota called Thursday night to say the data could be read on March 17. He said that on Friday morning, Toyota faxed him a letter confirming that the company would read the EDR information and otherwise cooperate in the investigation.
"As we discussed, Toyota is glad to assist your law enforcement agency with your current vehicle accident investigation of a 2005 Prius. You requested we provide technical assistance with regard to the read out of the vehicle's Event Data Recorder. One of our technical analysts, [NAME WITHHELD], will provide that expertise. We have agreed on an inspection date of Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010. We understand we have the authorization from the owner."
"I don't think that's a bad turnaround time," said Marraccini.
"We will happily offer up the information to any law enforcement agency with jurisdiction," said Toyota spokesperson John Hanson.
During congressional testimony Thursday, former NHTSA head Joan Claybrook compared Toyota's record on black box data to that of other car companies. "Toyota, unlike U.S. manufacturers, has made it almost impossible to secure black box information," said Claybrook, testifying at a House Commerce Committee hearing. "It has not made available any downloading systems, saying the one it had in the U.S. was a prototype."
Said Claybrook, "To the best of my knowledge, Toyota has not made available to NHTSA any black box information about its vehicles involved in sudden acceleration crashes."
Toyota has attributed the difficulty to differences in its system of data collection. Toyota uses proprietary software, and the black boxes in Toyotas could previously only be read in Japan or at Toyota's U.S. headquarters in California. Toyota has pledged to increase greatly the number of data readers available in the United States. Three readers have been delivered to NHTSA, and 150 will be distributed for commercial use before the end of next month.
The Harrison incident occurred Tuesday morning as the 56-year-old driver had just turned out of a long and winding driveway. Though she had not previously experienced problems with sudden acceleration in the car, because of news reports she was taking the car to a local Toyota dealership to be checked.
"She said the car accelerated and continued to accelerate," Marraccini told ABC News. "She said she tried to brake." According to Capt. Marraccini, the driver kept hitting the brakes, but the car wouldn't stop. The vehicle traveled about 150 feet before the driver lost control, crossed two lanes and hit a stone wall. The woman suffered an injury to her knee.
Marraccini said his department checked to see if the floor mat might have caused the accident. "From our investigation, it doesn't appear the floor mat was the cause," he said. The floor mat was secured to the car floor with the factory-issued hook and also tied to the seat base with a plastic tie. Marraccini said he believed it had been taken to a Toyota dealership to be serviced.
Like the 2008 Prius, the 2005 Prius is covered by the floor mat recall, but not the gas pedal recall.
At his Tuesday press conference, Sen. Schumer also announced a bill that he said would protect consumers from buying products that are under recall or are known to the seller to be dangerous. "This is about basic fairness," said Schumer. "If a person goes out to buy a product, they have the right to know all the facts. If a product is being recalled, then the information should be readily available for consumers as well, and that's what I'm going to fight to make happen."


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A special grove that will be planted as part of a new environmental and commercial area in the southern city of Beersheva will be named in memory of the 26 children and teachers who were mercilessly gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, CT last month.
The Zionist women's organization Hadassah came up with the idea for the grove, and to date has collected enough donations for the Jewish National Fund to plant 3,300 trees in the grove.
Hadassah in turn got the idea from Veronique Pozner, mother of little Noah Pozner (pictured), who was the only Jewish victim of the school shooting. When asked how sympathizers could honor her son, Mrs. Pozner reportedly told them to plant trees in Israel.
Hadassah President Marcie Natan told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that she wanted to honor not just Noah, but all those killed in the tragedy.
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