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11 Products That Kept Dad Looking Dapper
Dad's (or Granddad's, depending on your age) grooming routine didn't always consist solely of soaking his dentures in Polident and occasionally trimming his ear hair. Believe it or not, he was once a dashing young rake who got all dressed up and spit-shined before going out on the town. How many of these products do you remember the ol' man using to look and smell his best?
1. Brylcreem
The secret to achieving shiny patent leather hair à la Clark Gable or Tyrone Power was Brylcreem. Apparently, nothing drove women wild back then like a head that Exxon could use to pump 20 barrels of oil a day. The company's slogan was "a little dab will do ya," but judging from the way their hair stayed plastered in place, it appears that most men were overdoing the dabs.
2. Vitalis
Even after Clark, Tyrone, Cary, et al. had been replaced onscreen by Marlon Brando and James Dean, Brylcreem was still embraced by younger men who constantly combed the stuff through their DA's. (Those Fonzie-types weren't called "greasers" because they ate a lot of deep-fried food.) When Brylcreem started to get identified with teenage hoods, the makers of Vitalis water-based hair tonic had a brainstorm and launched an advertising campaign disparaging grown men who still used that "greasy kid stuff." The phrase went viral and was even the topic of a 1962 novelty tune by Janie Grant.
3. Groom & Clean
Another water-based pomade, Groom & Clean's main selling point was that, with regular use, you could just run a wet comb through your hair to remove unsightly oil and dandruff. Because God forbid you should try shampooing more than once a week.
4. Afro Sheen
Men who wanted to blow out their hair to Clarence Williams III-size proportions turned to Johnson Products' Afro Sheen Blowout Kit. President Barack Obama revealed at a Democratic fundraiser last year that he sported a 'fro back in 1978, but that it was never as "good" as Dante de Blasio's, the son of NYC's mayor.
5. Dry Control by Vitalis
Once men started growing their hair longer and feathering it, they needed something manly to protect it from the elements. Plain ol' Aquanet would have done the trick, but professional athletes don't want to go around smelling like a beauty parlor, do they? Gillette introduced The Dry Look in the early 1970s, and once it proved to be successful, Vitalis followed suit with Dry Control. Pete Rose, Bob Griese, and Pete Maravich all appeared in TV commercials for the product, thus providing it with some definite testosterone credentials.
6. Wildroot Cream Oil Hair Tonic
In the 1920s, the makers of Wildroot advertised it as a treatment for "falling hair"—that is, it would help to prevent baldness. Once the Federal Trade Commission started getting picky about such claims, Wildroot was promoted as a tonic in the same vein as Brylcreem. The secret ingredient was lanolin, which certainly held one's hair in place; it also tended to cause acne-like eruptions around the hairline among the more sensitive-skinned folks.
7. Aqua Velva
When Aqua Velva aftershave originally hit store shelves in 1937, it was the color of straw and had a fairly high alcohol content. In fact, during World War II, military base PXs couldn't restock the product fast enough. Soldiers and seamen weren't buying AV for its skin-bracing effect; they were drinking the stuff! It was cheaper and more readily available than liquor. The Ice Blue variety that our Dads started wearing was a result of WWII abuse—the government asked JB Williams to add something to their product to discourage our fighting men from downing it. The bittering agent the company used turned the product bright blue without changing the fragrance. But military types weren't dissuaded: They simply poured the product through a slice of bread before drinking to remove the bitterness. Civilian males, meanwhile, started buying up the product because of that cool blue color.
8. Hai Karate
Hai Karate aftershave was launched in 1967 in an effort to capitalize on the burgeoning martial arts craze. Thanks to his role as Kato on TV's The Green Hornet, Bruce Lee had become a "name" in the U.S. and chop-socky movies were gaining a cult following. Hai Karate's success was mainly due to an imaginative advertising campaign, wherein any male who used the tantalizing fragrance (which actually was a sort of sickening patchouli incense-type smell) would immediately attract so many sex-crazed females that he'd have to resort to tae kwon do to fend them off.
9. Lectric Shave
We've discussed aftershaves, but Williams' Lectric Shave is a before shave product. Electric shavers were quick and efficient, but they just didn't give the close cut of a traditional razor. Enter Lectric Shave, which contained enough alcohol to close the facial pores and lift the whiskers away from the skin a tad as well as some isopropyl myristate for a bit of lubrication.
10. Bay Rum
Once upon a time every barbershop reeked of Bay Rum when you first stepped inside. It was the stuff the barber slapped on a man's face after giving him a good old-fashioned straight-razor shave. According to the label, it "invigorated and stimulated" the skin, which is marketing-speak for "it stings like a sonuvagun!" But it did smell good.
11. Noxzema Medicated Shaving Cream
Sure, a lot of men still use this regularly every morning. But how many of them visualize former Miss Sweden Gunilla Knutsson seductively encouraging them to "Take it off. Take it allll off" while they scrape their faces? Shaving in the 1960s was a much sexier affair.


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Thursdays game wasnt the most aesthetically pleasing affair.
But at the end of the year, they dont ask how, they ask how many. And for the Durango High School girls basketball team, the answer is nine.
The Demons proved to be the less turnover-prone of the two teams as they took advantage of Montezuma-Cortez miscues to lead by as much as 20 before sealing a comfortable 45-28 victory at DHS to move to 9-5 and 2-3 in the Southwestern League.
Neither team shot the ball particularly well. DHS shot 19 of 68, while Cortez made just 10 of 42 shots. But the Durango defense helped the Demons overcome 30 turnovers by forcing an eye-popping 49 as the Panthers struggled to get the ball up the floor against Durangos press.
Our whole goal was to go out and put pressure on them from the very start, so we tried a couple different defenses to try and rattle their ballhandlers, and it was kind of fun, DHS head coach Nancy Smith said.
It proved to be a strong bounceback game for the DHS defense, which had allowed 52, 65 and 62 points in dropping three consecutive games.
The Demons stymied the Panthers (0-13, 0-5 SWL) at every turn, holding them without points for the first 6 minutes, 8 seconds of the game. DHS led 20-12 at halftime and 37-21 after three quarters, going up by as much as 20 at 43-23 midway through the fourth quarter.
We were looking for that because we know they werent a very strong offensive team, so we were going to capitalize on their mistakes, and so we just needed to go out strong and get those steals, said guard Katie Wiegert, daughter of Coby and Jill Wiegert. So our defense was our offense.
Wiegert led the way offensively for Durango, scoring a game-high 10 points. Dominique Ward chipped in nine points.
Durango did well to fight off the recent injury bug to snap their losing streak. The Demons were without forward Emily McCue, who may return next weekend from an elbow injury, and Jessi Sigillito, whos out with a knee injury. And they lost guard Molly Barnes for a stretch with an ankle injury. Fortunately for the Demons, Barnes was able to return.
We have some fast, athletic girls ... Man for man, we can usually match up pretty well guard-wise defensively, Smith said of her depth.
DHS will need to cut down on its own turnovers against strong teams such as Fruita Monument, Montrose and Grand Junction. On Thursday, the miscues may have been a byproduct of a group a bit overeager in a rivalry game.
Weve just got to slow down. We were too rushed, Wiegert said. We were going too fast.
Simone Lopez and Nicole Demby led the Panthers with six points apiece, while Naomi Pinnecoose had nine rebounds.
The victory was a much-needed shot in the arm for Durango, and its a good start to a long homestretch thatll see the Demons play their next four games at home, starting next Friday against Fruita Monument.
I think its going to raise us to another level. Weve got that confidence now, Wiegert said.


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Hunt should be open to trappers
To the Editor:
According to the DNR, they are considering another wolf hunt. Why not. It is their responsibility to manage, and the only cost effective way of doing so, is regulated hunting and trapping.
DNR Director Keith Creah correctly pointed out that trapping is controversial; which is probably the reason why the 2013 wolf hunt didn't include trapping. It is also a legitimate method of take. So what if it is not socially acceptable to some people. This is wildlife management, not social science.
An important precedent was set several years ago, when at the request of trappers, the Natural Resources Commission opened up the northern Lower Peninsula to Bobcat trapping. In response, organized dog groups sued to stop this season, claiming that the Bobcat population couldn't sustain the added harvest pressure. The real reason is that they didn't want to share the resource. The DNR prevailed in court and the bobcat season was reinstated.
This Appeals Court decision supported a management perogative that all legitimate user groups should have equal access to the resource. That is referred to as a resource allocation. As long as the regulations are fair and provide for equal opportunity, it's the right thing to do.
Why not for wolves? The department should accomodate both hunters and trappers. The reason they didn't reach their goals last fall, is that they didn't allow trapping.
It seems, that with controversial issues, the DNR resorts to political expediency. As a result, they cling to flawed reasoning and impractical implementation. This management prescription has had unintended consequences. In otherwords, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
One subject missing from this debate, is that aside from intrinsic worth, most game species have economic value. Those that do, have advocates willing to spend time, money and effort on their behalf. For example, Whitetail Deer have a lot of supporters.
The wolf is a furbearer and trophy animal. Potentially, hunters, trappers and the guiding industry have a stake in their welfare. That benefits people and businesses in rural areas.
Hunting and trapping are under siege all over the country. Sound science is the only effective way we have to defend against political and legal challenges like the ballot fight we face in the fall.
Science is the justificationfor regulations that are based on sustainable use – a concept Michigan voters decisively supported in 1996.
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Our appetite signal can't be trusted. For proof, just look at all the overweight people in this country, who consume more calories than their bodies need. The next time you get the urge to eat, here's how to tell if your hunger is genuine:
1. Look for a slow build. Physical hunger comes on gradually, while emotional hunger is sudden.
2. Listen for the growl. When your stomach is truly empty, it'll feel hollow, and you'll experience gurgling and hunger pangs.
3. Ask yourself what you're hungry for. True hunger can be satisfied with any food. If only a particular food will do, you're not really hungry.
4. Wait 10 minutes. Hit the timer on the stove or the one on your sports watch and distract yourself with a task until you hear the ding. Usually by that time, if it's a craving, it will have passed.
5. Drink eight ounces of water. Many people confuse hunger with thirst, thinking they need food when their bodies actually need fluids. So drink a glass of water, then wait 10 minutes. If you're still hungry, it's legitimate.
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Rob Hickok's 1985 Chevrolet S-10 Pickup (and 2009 Best Chevy at the Stylin' Trucks High Low Truck Show) could be considered a lesson in the law of accumulation.
Hickok bought the truck in 1992 while working as a daily driver.
"I became involved with stereo competitions and soon installed a huge stereo to compete with," the Akron, Ohio resident said. "After the stereo, I decided to get a custom paint job, and an adjustable hydraulic suspension set-up. All this occurred between the years of 1993 and 1996."
The custom truck bug continued to gnaw at Hickok. He wanted to add another dimension to his ride. Hickok teamed up with a couple of his buddies to "body drop" the pick up truck. It proved to be a mind-blowing venture, he said.
"Most of the people in the custom auto industry had no idea how to achieve this or even knew where to begin," Hickok said. "Six months later, we were on our way to a show in Dayton, Ohio, with a completed show truck.
He continued, "Everything had been completed, from the tweed interior to custom lime-green paint." Hickok's truck started to get a little notoriety in custom truck circles, especially in the Midwest.
"This is when I began attending shows religiously. Every weekend I was on the road traveling to events in Ohio and the surrounding states," he said. "I showed the vehicle in that form until 2000, when I had more plans to step up the level of quality."
After two years of traveling to shows across the Midwest, Hickok decided to tear into his prized Chevy truck. He refinished the motor with chrome accents, and swapped out the hydraulic suspension for an air-ride suspension. Hickok also decided to part with his custom stereo equipment to dive head first into a clean, street-rod-type vehicle.
The attention to detail has paid off. The shaved, smoothed S-10 proved to be a constant attraction placing high in various competitions across the Midwest and East Coast. Hickok's S-10 even graced the covers of Truckin, Sport Truck and Mini Truckin'.
After a good run of truck competition, Hickok said he's ready for his next challenge: Customizing his 2005 Cadillac Escalade ESV.
"The future plans include 20" wheels, new interior, and a small stereo set-up," he said of his next adventure. "I'd also like to change the rear suspension to a 4-link set-up."
If the end product garnishes half of the accolades his prized Chevy did, we are all in for a treat. Good luck, Rob!
Here's a video of Rob Hickok and his award-winning 1985 Chevy S-10 during the HIgh Low Truck Show in August 2009:
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4 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced as for scalloped potatoes
2 Granny Smith apples, cored and sliced but unpeeled
1/2 cup dried cranberries or raisins
1/2 cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Coat a 9-by 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray, or prepare a foil packet that sits on a cookie sheet.
2. Layer sweet potatoes, apples and cranberries in the dish or foil packet. Sprinkle with brown sugar.
3. Drizzle butter and cinnamon over the mixture. Close the foil packet or cover the baking dish with aluminum foil; bake for 30 minutes.
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How To Drive a Boat
by Zak Stone
If you don't know how to drive a boat, ask a friend first, don't listen to me. If you do know how to drive a boat listen up, I will try my best to give some good tips that will help. If your friends don't ride well, they will blame you, so lets make sure they can only blame themselves.
First look for the flat water. It hides close to shore where the wind is coming from. So you've found the best water, now you wanna make sure you keep heading that way. Try driving in straight lines. If your bro falls, stop the boat first and make a slow turn so you don't send rollers down the path. (If on a river this is a must, you'll mess up your water and everyone else.)
Making speed adjustments. Try to feather the throttle slowly, no herky jerky motions here. It helps to take your boat for a spin and play with the throttle and steering. It's fun and you learn how your girl handles.
Ok wake shape. You as the boat driver must give the rider the best wake to bust their tricks on. So, first make sure your boat is balanced weight-wise. Tell your passengers to move around so that you don't see any white wash on the wake. If it's balanced but it still isn't right, there're more you can do. Mike Ferraro told me to turn the boat towards the rider a little bit. Don't keep it turning the whole time, just when they cut out to edge back in. Also if you have someone going wake 2 wake, turn the boat to the side they land on with help give them just enough slack to make it. (Or turn the other way and pull the slack or line out to make them crash, which is kinda fun!)
Well, this is the best of what I can give at this time, Just remember you don't have brakes so when parking or picking up a rider make sure you move slow and in control.


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China has been an unofficial price-setter for most metals over the past decade. And this week, the country became an official participant in setting prices for one of the world's
Even as India shines as a rare bright spot in a sluggish global economy, the country's business-savvy prime minister is watching his popularity wane. Narendra Modi swept into power in
China's Shanghai composite index plunged more than 6% Thursday — its biggest one-day drop in a month — amid ongoing fears about the health of the world's second largest economy.
European and Asian markets rallied Monday as Japanese stocks surged after dismal growth data raised hopes of extra stimulus from Tokyo. Japan's Nikkei 225 index rebounded from a 5% dive
Europe is racking up billions in deals with oil-rich Iran as its president, Hassan Rouhani, makes a goodwill tour less than two weeks after the lifting of international sanctions on
China's benchmark index plunged more than 6% Tuesday, after a renewed slump in oil prices kept investors on edge about
China's economy grew at its slowest rate in 25 years last year, according to official statistics released today. The Communist-led
Chinese stocks started the week with heavy losses, diving more than 5% Monday as other global markets also fell. U.S.
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Oil prices jumped on the first trading day of 2016 as Middle East tension outweighed a selloff in financial markets
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The University of California is now led by a woman, but men — especially men in sports and medicine — dominate the top of the pay scale.
UCLA Bruins basketball coach Steve Alford came out on top with $2.64 million in 2013, closely followed by Cal's ex-football coach Jeff Tedford ($2.44 million), who was fired in 2012, according to new data on employee earnings released Thursday by the university system.
Also earning north of $2 million were Tedford's successor Daniel "Sonny" Dykes ($2.37 million), UCLA football coach Jim Mora ($2.41 million) and former basketball coach Ben Howland ($2.32 million).
Seven of UC's 10 highest-paid employees were in athletics.
Coaches and top medical-center staff were the exclusive members of UC's million-dollar club, with earnings often including incentive pay and money from grants.
Of the 29 employees with seven-figure salaries, 28 were men.
UC President Janet Napolitano isn't too far behind. In her first three months on the job, she earned about $242,500, according to the database. Her annual base salary is $570,000.
The university system's payroll grew from $11.2 billion to $11.7 billion between 2012 and 2013, while its total workforce, including student and part-time workers, grew slightly to 194,800, according to the university's analysis. UC had about 101,000 full-time employees.
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U.S. Officials Shut Down Unsafe Bus Operators From New York To Florida
Federal officials just executed a mighty coup against 26 bus operations that transported more than 1,800 passengers a day between New York and Florida, closing them down for safety violations. The government says this is the largest single safety crackdown of the motor coach industry in at least a decade.
The companies shuttled customers along Interstate 95 on a daily basis, says the Associated Press, and were shut down for posing imminent hazards to public safety by teams of officials from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
While the companies were based in six states: Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, most of the 233 bus routes originated or terminated in NYC's Chinatown neighborhood.
The crackdown was the end result of a yearlong investigation by the safety administration that focused mainly on three companies. Each of those then oversaw a broad network of other bus businesses.
Every year, the motor coach industry transports more than 700 million passengers in the U.S., almost equal to domestic airlines. Investigators found that those carriers that were shut down had multiple safety violations, including the bad habit of using drivers who didn't have valid commercial driver's licenses and operating buses that hadn't been subjected to regular inspections and repairs.
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- Binding API: Well, OK, yet another one. Here is hoping that it will not be too cumbersome and find broad acceptance. The API will include observable collections (which are handy for GUI lists and tables).
- Media framework: for audio and video. About time.
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Playskool is a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. and is known for their educational toys and games for children and infants. This is largely due to its founder, Lucille King, who was a schoolteacher. She began the company in the 1920's when she had an idea for toys made of wood while working at a lumber company. She started with wooden toys that could be used in the classroom to help develop coordination and stimulate the children's minds.
By the 1930's Playskool had a line of more than 40 different toys, including wooden beads, blocks, a pegboard, a pounding bench, and more. They were endorsed by child guidance experts and carried that reputation as being educationally enriching with them throughout the decades since then.
The early Playskool toys were thought to increase intelligence and testing scores. This was due to the hand-eye coordination that they encouraged. In 1943, the company purchased the J.L. Wright Company, which made Lincoln Logs. These building logs are still one of the most popular toys offered by Playskool.
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An invisibility cloak would pretty much be the coolest piece of wearable technology ever. You could sneak around undetected, listen in on conversations you probably shouldn't be listening too, hide a bad hair day, you name it. They would also be handy for some super top secret missions, but a new use for invisibility cloaks would blow all those other ideas out of the water. A researcher from University of California Berkeley is proposing the idea of using invisibility cloaks for ships at sea. This "cloak" would have the capability of protecting the ship from rogue waves, minimizing damage and saving lives in the process. It may sound a bit far-fetched, but the technology may not be that far off.
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Before you start imagining a giant iridescent cloth that captains would drape over their ships – the technology isn't quite like that. Most cloaking technology is based on transformation optics and tweaking materials so that light and waves pass through. A cloaking device for ships in the water still relies on waves, but it actually involves changing the shape of waves so they pass under the boat without causing harm.
Reza Alam, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, recently presented his findings at the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting, held from November 18-20, 2012, in San Diego, CA. Alam's research delves into the variation of density in ocean water and waves. Ocean or sea water varies greatly in density based on temperature and salinity which creates stratified layers. Stratified waters contain "internal waves", which are based on gravity, as well as "surface waves" caused by weather. Both of these waves are then affected by the undulations of the sea floor, but have different energies.
Alam took his understanding of waves and their influences and used computer simulations to transform a surface wave into an internal wave as it approaches an object. Basically, in his computer simulations, Alam changed the sea floor to affect the wave and make it do what he wanted. Outside of the computer world on the open ocean, the idea is that a ship would have the technology to project a new sea floor below and in front of its path. This projection would change the shape of the wave causing it to safely move under the ship without causing harm. How this technology actually works is still to be worked out, but the concept could save lives and a lot of money. This cloaking device could also be used on near-shore and on-shore sites to protect buildings and property from storm surge.
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Keith Urban on 'Idol' Competition: 'It's 'The Hunger Games"
'American Idol' is getting serious, and judge and country star Keith Urban is aware of how tough the competition can be. He says that dynamic can make it even harder for contestants to open up.
Despite the fact that things are getting serious, Urban says he's seeing all remaining contestants grow. The younger ones lack life experience but he's able to see them grow week to week.
"I think in cases like... Sam (Woolf), you know, he's 17 and he's got this incredible voice. But there's a life experience thing that's got to come into play," Urban tells E! News. "You know what's great is we're actually seeing little bits of that happening week to week because of what happens off-camera, what these guys are going through, being away from home."
'Idol' fans don't get to see everything that happens though, which includes behind-the-scenes rivalries."There's friendliness but you've got the rivalry too, I mean lets not deny it. It's 'The 'Hunger Games.'"
Thursday night's (April 17) 'Idol' was memorable, maybe even shocking. The final two came down to Dexter Roberts and Jessica Meuse. Urban looked beyond surprised when Seacrest announced that the country-leaning Roberts would be going home. "Oh my gosh," he said open-jawed as it was announced.
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20 killed after militants storm UN compound in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Seven al-Qaida-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the U.N. compound Wednesday with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the assault.
At least three foreigners were slain during the raid in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, where the United Nations expanded its presence this year, about 18 months after Islamic insurgents were pushed from the seaside city.
The militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack, calling the U.N. "a merchant of death."
African Union forces expelled al-Shabab from Mogadishu in August 2011, ending years of daily violence that had caused the rest of the world to shun the capital for two decades. After the ouster of al-Shabab, the international community had started trickling back into the capital, and the U.N. began moving in its personnel from Kenya, a process that accelerated in recent weeks.
Wednesday's attack, however, underscores the fragile security situation and will force the U.N. and embassies to review safety plans and decide if they have the resources to withstand a sustained assault from al-Shabab.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commended the U.N. security guards who defended the compound, a spokesman said.
"Malicious terrorist attacks … will not deter the United Nations or weaken its resolve to stand by the people and government of Somalia as they work courageously to build peace in their country," said U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., condemned the "brazen assault on civilians working for peace."
Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon said he was appalled by "such barbaric violence." An African Union official, Mahamet Saleh Annadif, condemned the "cowardly" attack and sent condolences to the families of the victims.
The attack began about 11:30 a.m. when the seven al-Shabab militants from what the group called its martyrdom brigade blew up an explosives-laden truck at the gates of the U.N. compound and gunmen rushed in, said a U.N. official who insisted on anonymity because he was not an official spokesman.
At least two other blasts followed, said Ben Parker, a spokesman for the U.N. Assistance Mission in Somalia.
Dozens of staff from U.N. humanitarian and development agencies were in the compound, and many were moved to a secure bunker in the complex, Parker said. Later, they were evacuated to a secure military base and airport complex across the street, where U.N.-backed African Union military forces are based.
Fadumo Hussein, a shopkeeper who was in her shop near the scene of the attack, described a narrow escape.
"It started with an earsplitting explosion, followed by heavy gunfire," she said, showing holes made by bullets on her shop. "I crouched and then crawled like an animal. I am very lucky. It was a shocking moment."
African Union and Somali security forces responded and took control of the compound by 12:30 p.m.
An Associated Press reporter who went into the bullet-scarred compound afterward saw two bodies of what appeared to be al-Shabab attackers wearing Somali military uniforms. The seven attackers died, said a U.N. official who insisted on anonymity because he was not an official spokesman.
Del Buey said one U.N. international staff member, three contractors, and four Somali security guards died inside the compound. A number of Somali civilians were also killed and wounded outside the compound, del Buey said at U.N. headquarters.
Ambulance driver Mohamed Ali said he took away five dead civilians and 10 people who were wounded.
Two of the dead were South Africans from the company Denel Mechem who were working to get rid of land mines, said Vuyelwa Qinga, a spokeswoman for Denel, a manufacturer of defense equipment.
"There was not very much time to get into the safe area," Parker said.
The top U.N. official on Somalia, Nicholas Kay, who was not in the compound when it was attacked, said he was horrified by the attack.
"The United Nations common compound houses U.N. personnel working on humanitarian and development issues for the Somali people. This was an act of blatant terrorism and a desperate attempt to knock Somalia off its path of recovery and peace-building," he said.
A statement sent on al-Shabab's Twitter feed said: "The U.N., a merchant of death & a satanic force of evil, has a long inglorious record of spreading nothing but poverty, dependency & disbelief."
Ban had visited Mogadishu in December to announce the return of the U.N.'s political office to the country.
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We'd heard reports about an Acme Company movie ages ago, but now it's apparently really happening. And producer Dan Lin explained to Collider that it's not an animated film, it's a live-action comedy — and Acme's most famous customer, Wile E. Coyote, won't be in it.
Said Lin:
We're not going to use Looney Tunes in the ACME movie, it's a live action movie. What were so excited about is the lead character is a Steve Jobs meets Dean Cameron kind of character and because it's ACME you can create some incredibly funny, wacky inventions that you can't do on any other movie. So naturally it's just a super imaginative movie.
Meanwhile, Lin said there's actually a screenplay for the long-delayed movie of DC's Suicide Squad comic, written by Justin Marks — but it's not actually happening any time soon. Said Lin, "I think Warner Brothers wants to finish their A-list stories first and then we'll talk about stories like Suicide Squad." In the right hands, a Suicide Squad film could obviously be amazing — but only if they're able to nail the bleak, character-oriented tone of the 1980s Ostrander comics.
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How to Spy Android Phone without getting caught
Do you want to monitor the company phones of your employees, or the personal phones belonging to your children? Or do you just want to figure out who has used your cell phone or what happened to your cell phone?
Well, it is all possible with the latest android monitoring software. There are certain key things that you should know about android spying software before purchasing it. In this brief writing we will cover all those areas along with the mystery question of how to spy the android phone.
Qualities of the Best android spying apps
Before you learn how to spy android phone, it is necessary to know how you can ensure the safety and security of your phone and yourself by purchasing the right android spying app. Here's what an ideal android monitoring app you should have.
- It should be totally hidden from the end-user and should not leave traces of spying after usage. Of course, so that you don't get caught spying.
- It should be able to monitor all android functions and apps remotely.
- Access to target phone should not be required for viewing recorded activity.
- It shouldn't be visible from the phone's task manager and should be prevented from force closing the spying app.
- It should be compatible with not just Android but all of the popular mobile operating system, in case the target decides to change the phone.
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Before considering to spy someone's phone you should be aware of the ethical implication of spying. Spying android phone should be seen as a precautionary measure and not as a means to intrude privacy of others. It's acceptable and unethical use is a matter of judgment and you should ask yourself if it is ethically right or wrong. For example, it may be considered acceptable to spy on employee's company phones to prevent the valuable business information from leakage. However, spying in order to learn about their personal life and what employees are doing outside of office may be considered unethical. In certain circumstances you should consider it appropriate to tell the target (like employees or your children) that their activity is being monitored and unauthorized use is not allowed.
In any case you should take decision as to how you want to manage and control the activities of people around you and lay out your strategy accordingly. So here is the secret of how to spy android phone, any android phone.
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You can post to the public newsfeed to start a conversation that everyone in your organization can see. You can add a variety of features to a post, such as a picture, #tag or @mention, and links to documents, websites, and videos. Anyone who sees your post can reply to it. People who are following you see your post in their Following view as well as in their Everyone view. People who aren't following you see your post only in the Everyone view of the newsfeed.
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IBM Boosts Share Buyback and Dividend
IBM said today that its board of directors has approved an additional $5 billion in share buybacks and a 12 percent hike in its quarterly dividend. The new dividend will be 95 cents a share. It's the 18th year in a row that IBM has increased its quarterly dividend, and it has been paying one consistently since 1916. The move follows a quarterly earnings report that fell short of expectations.


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At least one college within Ohio State University is planning cuts for this fall to make room for faculty and staff salary increases.
At least one college within Ohio State University is planning cuts for this fall to make room for faculty and staff salary increases.
The College of Arts and Sciences must cut about $8 million, which could lead to job reductions, primarily to meet a universitywide mandate to raise salaries by a total of 2 percent.
Officials at the OSU public-relations office would not say whether other colleges or schools at the university face similar cuts, and a spokesman said high-level officials were too busy to speak to a reporter last week. The university has not provided financial records that The Dispatch requested on Tuesday under state public-records laws.
But a memo obtained by the newspaper says the College of Arts and Sciences will face difficult cuts. The June 20 memo from the dean of Arts and Humanities, part of Arts and Sciences, describes a budget shortfall of $10 million in the college.
University spokesman Gary Lewis said the number has dropped since then, to about $8 million. The university cut the college�s budget by
$2.6 million, in part to help freeze undergraduate tuition for next year, Lewis said, and the college is cutting $5.1 million elsewhere to offset pay raises for its faculty and staff members.
�It�s important to note that units make decisions on how they will manage their budgets and allocate dollars within their operating budget,� Lewis said.
According to the memo, though, the College of Arts and Sciences might have had no choice but to cut so it could provide raises.
�Unlike last year, when base funding remained flat but departments had to reallocate resources to cover mandatory expenses (salary increases), this year we must actually cut base funding from the budget,� according to the document, signed by Arts and Humanities Dean Mark Shanda, who did not return calls.
Despite those cuts, the university�s general-fund budget is expanding by $14 million next school year, or 2.1 percent, according to a statement provided by Geoff Chatas, the chief financial officer.
The College of Arts and Sciences is receiving less because of the tuition freeze and because students have been taking fewer credit hours in the college, said Joseph Steinmetz, executive vice president and provost, also in a prepared statement. Steinmetz also wrote that the $2.6 million cut is only 1 percent of the college�s budget. Shanda warns in his memo, however, that the cuts could lead to job reductions for staff, lecturers or graduate-student teachers.
�While not a desirable option, in some cases it may be the only option available to achieve the target amount,� he wrote.
Graduate students have started to see some cutbacks. The president of the Council of Graduate Students, Josh Coy, urged officials to keep jobs for graduate-student teachers, who he said teach the majority of undergraduate-level classes.
Programs that face the deepest cuts within Arts and Humanities, according to Shanda�s memo, include: the OSU Arts Initiative, the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, the Diversity and Identity Studies Collective at OSU and the Foreign Language Center.
Directors of those programs did not return calls or emails from a reporter. Shanda instructed them to propose cuts by July 15. The university has yet to provide those proposals under a records request from The Dispatch.
Workers at Ohio State received 3 percent pay raises last year and 2 percent in each of the two years before that.
As the cost of going to college has increased, some economists and education experts have criticized growing faculty salaries.
Data collected by the American Association of University Professors show that, last school year, the average salary for a full-time OSU professor was $136,948, the highest among 11 Ohio schools for which data were available.
This year, pay increases will be tied more closely to performance but should average 2 percent, according to a memo that interim OSU President Joseph Alutto sent all deans in April when he was provost.
Alutto�s memo doesn�t guide departments on how to pay for the raises. Officials in other colleges would not discuss budgeting. In Arts and Humanities, college leaders gave departments amounts that they need to cut.
�I am sorry that this is necessary,� Shanda wrote, �but despite this temporary setback to the college�s ambitious goals, I remain optimistic about our overall fiscal future as a college.�


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A solo Stacy Keibler was out on the town in NYC on Thursday night for the launch of Jacob & Co's (a.k.a. Jacob the Jeweler, Jaco Arabo) new Palladium collection.
The 33-year-old looked stunning in a a Marchesa cacoon shift dress with embroidered detail and ostrich feather sleeve as she checked out wares at the bash, which was also attended by Kim Kardashian and Carlo Gugino. The actress, model and former wrestler tried out watches with Arabo — and then proceeded to try out one diamond engagement ring after another! (HauteLiving.com has more details on her night out.)
Keibler's man of one year, George Clooney, wasn't by her side as she tried out the rocks. Keibler made a splash on her own one day earlier at the Marchesa fashion show alongside Tyra Banks, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Vogue's Anna Wintour.
The pretty blonde spent most of her summer by Clooney's side at his home in Lake Como, Italy. On Tuesday, a rep for Clooney was on the defensive after British tabloid The Sun claimed the pair had called it quits. "Total fabrication designed to sell newspapers," Clooney's rep told Us.
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September 2005
Carbon tetrachloride and chloroform accumulate and resist migration in Hanford aquifer sediments
In work funded by DOE's Environmental Science Management Program (EMSP), scientists from PNNL and Fluor Daniel Hanford have detected and quantified migration resistant fractions (MRF) of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) and chloroform (CHCl3) in Hanford Site aquifer sediments. The MRF is a portion of a contaminant plume inventory that exhibits slow release. Slow release and degradation are key processes that contribute to organic contaminant transport and fate long after the major portion of the contaminant inventory has been depleted or removed.
Natural attenuation is a potential strategy to help achieve closure at Hanford's CCl4 site after every effort has been made to remove source contamination using available technology. The presence of these fractions coupled with lower than expected concentrations of CCl4 in the sediments suggest the occurrence of natural attenuation in Hanford's CCl4 plume. The presence of CCl4 in an MRF increases residence time, an important condition that allows natural attenuation processes to work (e.g., hydrolysis of CCl4 to CHCl3) to remove CCl4 in Hanford groundwater. In addition, MRF appears to be a significant storage place for some CHCl3 against rapid aquifer migration.
This project reports the first measurements of CCl4 and CHCl3 partition coefficients in contaminated Hanford sediments with varying physical/chemical properties. The CCl4 values are an improvement over and can replace estimated or assumed values, as they are more accurate and less conservative than those previously used to model CCl4 transport in Hanford groundwater, thus improving site assessment decision-making. The discovery of CCl4 and CHCl3 MRF suggests the need to develop a numerical descriptor for MRF for incorporating into future versions of transport models.
The work may also apply to conditions at DOE's Savannah River and Idaho sites where volatile chlorinated hydrocarbon compounds (i.e., CCl4, trichloroethene, and tetrachloroethene) contaminate low organic carbon aquifer sediments. The research team is led by PNNL scientist Robert Riley and includes James Amonette, David Rector, and Steve Yabusaki, PNNL; and Virginia Rohay, Fluor Daniel Hanford.
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The Obituarist
Author: Patrick O'Duffy
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What happens to your Facebook account when you die?
Kendall Barber calls himself an obituarist – a social media undertaker who settles accounts for the dead. If you need your loved one's Twitter account closed down or one last blog post to be made, he'll take care of it, while also making sure that identity thieves can't access forgotten personal data. It's his way of making amends for his past, a path that has seen him return to the seedy city of Port Virtue after years in exile.
This is definately a book that I normally would not have picked up. However, I found the authors blog while I was looking at trackbacks on another article I was reading and was intrigued. In this day and age of social media, what is going to happen to our accounts when we die. When I write my will, do I need to provide account information for them to have access, or is it given. Even in something as simple as a divorce, and a dual account – who gets to keep the access and the "friends" and who has to start from scratch. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out in the next few years.
So started reading the Obituarist while I was waiting at the medical facility on Friday, since apparently technology had decided it didn't want to work and it make the 60 minute wait fly-by (even if I did keep getting distracted with people wanting to chat). It is relatively short (Amazon clocks it in at 91 pages), but enjoyable. There were some plot points that I wish had been move developed, and a few places where I was left scratching my head thinking WTF. But I am intrigued enough to want to check out more by the author in the future. 3 stars overall.
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In our Global Pricing Study, we regularly ask executives and managers across all major industries worldwide for their views on hot pricing topics, the competitive environment, profit outlooks and recent trends. The unique study is the largest survey of its kind and each edition reveals new and surprising insights.
Global Pricing and Sales Study 2017
The Global Pricing & Sales Study 2017 surveyed 1,925 companies across major industries in over 40 countries. The study focuses on digitalization and reveals that 77 Percent of companies fail to impact their Top Line with their digital initiatives. Another insight: The true "digitalization heroes" only make up 18 percent of companies. Read more about the study's key findings here.
Previous versions of the Global Pricing Study
The 2016 edition of the Global Pricing Study focused on Digitalization, which for the respondents represents both an opportunity and a threat. About 2,200 executives and managers of companies from 25 industries and over 40 countries participated in the survey. While sales are believed to grow thanks to digital technologies, many companies see big risks for prices and margins, if not managed well. Read more about the study's key findings here.
The Global Pricing Study 2014 reveals that 72 percent of all new products flop, mostly because high price pressure, price wars, or low-cost competition make it impossible for companies to achieve the prices they want for their innovations. Still, there is broad agreement that launching new products is the principal way to overcome profit and price pressure. Top insight: Companies whose innovations succeed in difficult environments integrate marketing and pricing into their processes from the product inception onwards. Read all about it in our free eBook, Profitable Innovation, or request the full study.
The Global Pricing Study 2012 focuses on the relevance of organizational aspects of pricing in order to increase profits. The clear result: companies' profits jump when CEOs take an active role in pricing. Strong C-level commitment to pricing – combined with a dedicated pricing organization – is essential for profitable growth. Have a look at our free eBook, The Key to Higher Profits: Pricing Power, or request the complete study to gain more insights.
The Global Pricing Study 2011 shows that 68 percent of managers use the inflation rate as a benchmark for their price increase targets. Consequently, they only increase prices below or in line with inflation rates. This is a high risk for their profits, because the majority of companies do not achieve their price increase targets. So they not only set the bar low, they also fail to jump over it. The result: Profit erosion. Take a look at the key findings.


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The Museo Sicilian di Arte in Taormina looks like a hoarder's version of the ultimate Sicilian attic. The gallery's collection of folk art and cultural detritus seems to bulge with the leftovers of every area flea market, but even in the midst of its, um, eclectic (the polite word) haul, one exhibition redefines the overused word quirky. This is the wing devoted to paintings of local disasters, which includes some eye-popping art works. There is the portrait of a chef being mauled by a cat, his face eclipsed by a furious fur-ball, and another of a man trampled by bulls. There are images of a boy pulling a dart out of his eye and a woman attacked by feral dogs. Then there is the surreal painting -- half macabre, half camp -- of a woman plunging through the air, her skirt ballooning out around her while a crowd below runs for cover.
I found myself returning to the museum and that hall of domestic horrors over the course of a recent week in Taormina, although I wasn't sure why until the end of my visit. The museum's folksy-gone-freakish paintings, really local inside jokes, evoked something essential about Taormina -- the way it has stubbornly held onto it singular, authentic and sometimes inscrutable soul.
Soulfulness was the last thing I expected when I came to town. That's because Taormina is most famous as a resort luring waves of tourists since its birth in the 6th century B.C. as a Greek colony. It's easy to see why. Perched seductively on the northeastern coast of Sicily, overlooking a blue bay of the Ionian Sea, fringed by cliffs and popping with lemon trees, the town is difficult to resist, and few have.
After the Roman bachelor parties came and went, the beauty spot morphed into an Edwardian escape for Europe's dandies. This is where the German photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden photographed the local youth, posing as neoclassical shepherds, playing flutes in draped togas and sometimes nude. Edward VII, Richard Strauss, Oscar Wilde, minor aristocrats and café society followed. Then the town settled into a life as a more mundane port of call until Sicily became chic again in the past decade. Taormina, renovating some of its star landmarks and never looking better, started attracting the stylemakers once more.
The result is a split personality. Is Taormina a tourist town or your chance to glimpse a genuine slice of Sicilian life? In fact it's both, and that means you can assume two roles, by turns tourist and honorary insider.
Sights include a Greek theater
I started my week as an unapologetic tourist, minus the fanny pack but tackling the easy three-step tour that lets visitors skim the best of Taormina's obvious charms. That meant beginning with the only absolutely essential attraction in town, the Teatro Greco, (aka the Greek Theater), which is one of Italy's most impressive, and most photographed, classical ruins. Sprawling on Greek foundations, the ruins of the Roman stage and amphitheater have recently started playing host again to some crowd-pleasing performances, including an Elton John concert. But what's remarkable about the place is really its setting and a view that Goethe called "the most beautiful panorama in the world." Like every travel quote, that's probably an overstatement, but I could see his point: The craggy amphitheater sits on a high point just above central Taormina so you look out on a sublime stage set, sprawling just behind the stage itself. There is the sweeping blue bay of Naxos, then snow-capped Mount Etna, and then the tumbling silhouette of Taormina itself, all red-tiled roofs and golden stone.
When other tourists started obscuring my view, it was a short walk to the second station of the tourist trek. Just below the theater sits the Grand Hotel Timeo, a classic grand dame property built in 1873 and recently purchased and seriously renovated by Orient-Express Hotels. The payoff is an exquisite 72-room property that wisely eschews the generic trendified, minimalist-meets-funky look of the moment for a note of Italianate grandeur (think wall sconces, gold-leafed mirrors, lots of plasterwork and draped chintz). If you can't afford the price of a stay, you can still admire another stellar sea view and down a limoncello (in my case, a fruit punch) on the hotel's Literary Terrace, which comes by its name honestly; D.H. Lawrence once holed up in the Timeo for four years.
Then, the third step: Descend by funicular to Taormina Mare, the town's long pebbly beachfront. I headed to the most scenic strip, the beach of the Isola Bella Bay, where lidos like Pizzichella offer sun beds, a diving center, boats for rent and casual seafood cafes. The real draw, though, was the Timeo's sister property, Villa Sant'Andrea, another recently renovated hotel that is becoming famous for its beachside terrace Ristorante Oliviero, complete with piano bar and ringside views of a Sicilian sunset. I ended up eating here almost every night, plowing through a master class in Sicilian signature dishes: pizza with eggplant, and then pizza with shaved parmesan and prosciutto; a sublime seafood salad thick with shrimp, mussels, octopus and squid tossed in olive oil; spaghetti with sardines crowned with bread crumbs; pasta dressed with a pistachio cream sauce; a perfect grilled scampi; lemon mousse with strawberries; a pistachio semifreddo drizzled with chocolate sauce. And maybe some more pasta in pistachio cream sauce.
A classic Italian promenade
And then I had enough of the tourist's life. I decided to devote the rest of my week in Taormina (except for my dinners at Sant'Andrea) to living like a local and that meant dropping the touristic circuit and adopting a different kind of walk. This is more of a shambling, loose promenade, the stroll of a native who doesn't have to tick off sights but can take the time to explore, wander aimlessly, stop, muse. The only requirement: The walk should always start and end on the Corso Umberto -- not just Taormina's central anchor but one of Europe's great streets, a combination Main Street, High Street, open air mall, local hangout and running smorgasbord. The street seems to run on forever, from one end of Taormina to the other. It is lined with mom-and-pop shops, al fresco cafes and medieval stone townhouses sprouting wrought iron balconies crammed with flower pots.
It's a street I came to know well and it never seemed less than dreamy, even when I settled on a routine. If it was midday, I would wait for the wedding processions that pile into the Corso Umberto's row of baroque churches. These are epic odes to the extended Sicilian family. You can always count on at least one elegant grandmother, a knot of brown-eyed brothers and a moon-faced flower girl, but the best part is the march of the bride, who invariably sweeps down the Corso dragging her white bridal gown through the swirling dirt of Taormina. The ritual feels like some sort of benediction and the crowds on the street always make way for the bride, as if they are part of her extended family, too. They probably are.
After the wedding, I usually stopped into the Minotauro Pasticceria, where the town hobby of turning marzipan into artwork has been perfected. Forget marzipan apples and oranges. The bakeries lining the Corso Umberto and its side streets construct entire marzipan baskets bulging with prickly pears and lemons, swirling vines and bunches of grapes.
Then I made a regular detour into L'Agora, an antique print shop where I debated, all week, between hand-colored engravings of a smoking Mount Etna, a complicated mythological scene involving gorgons and the image of an eight-armed cuttlefish waving all those busy appendages languidly in the air.
The flamboyant cuttlefish, of course, won out.
All of this, though, was really a prelude to my favorite stop of all. This was at Gelatomania, a perpetually crowded small gelato shop on the Corso. I started with the fruit gelatos: peach, apricot, mango, passionfruit, melon. Each distilled the essence of the fruit, with a tart, almost juicy tang.
But I finally settled, midweek, on a surprising favorite. It was the chocolate mousse gelato, a profoundly creamy, opulent scoop that somehow located a perfect, rounded chocolaty high note, not too sweet and never too bitter.
The cone was my talisman. By late afternoon, just when the sun starts to turn a bit dusky and golden in Taormina, every other person on the Corso Umberto is licking a scoop of gelato and I'd walk with my chocolate mousse held nonchalantly aloft, feeling like part of the spellbound crowd.
I know, though, that I wasn't even close to qualifying as a genuine insider. That won't happen until one of my own misfortunes -- the day I dropped that scoop of gelato into my book bag, or the morning my sun bed collapsed, or the evening I choked on a furry piece of frito misto -- gets included in the hall of minor tragedies. I'll probably have to aim at a more melodramatic disaster on my next trip to Taormina.
Raphael Kadushin regularly writes about food and travel for the Star Tribune, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler and other publications.


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2009 Outdoor Track Season Recap
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's and women's outdoor track team had an outstanding season. At the ECAC's, sophomore Qasim Ellis won the Triple Jump on his sixth and final jump. Junior Jermaine Carter competed in three events at the meet, he placed 6th in the 400M and ran two impressive relays.
Ellis won the Long Jump and Triple Jump at the Monmouth University season opener. Ellis took second place in both the Long Jump and Triple Jump at the New York Relays, leading Farmingdale to the team championship at Icahn Stadium in Manhattan. At that event, the men's team won two events, including Sean Tiernan's 3,000M steeplechase win and the win by the 4x100m Relay Team of Jason Chin Chitty, Naveed Mohammed, Jermaine Carter and Joe Scher. At the same meet, sophomore Gina Pierre won the Hammer Throw, breaking her own school record.
The men's team won both the 4x100m and 4x400m relay's, placing the team in 6th at the CTC Championship at Richard Stockton College. Chin Chitty, Mohammed, Carter and Scher ran the winning 4x100M Relay team and Carter, Steven Brown, Greg Denis and John Bates took first in the 4x400m Relay. At the same meet, Brown took 3rd at the 110m high hurdles and 5th in the high jump, while John Roselle finished 3rd in the Hammer Throw with his distance placing him #3 on the FSC All-Time List.
The women's team finished in 13th place at the CTC's. Sarah Pope finished in 6th place in the 3,000m steeplechase and Deborah Harris's throw of 41' 4 ½" placed her number 6 on Farmingdale's All-Time List.


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This is a cute video reminder about Knit in Public Day, (next weekend!)
I'll be at Olympic Plaza in Calgary, with my sticks and string. ; and now, will be watching out for knitted dinosaurs and donuts. Hopefully, I can finish a few projects (socks and socks and a vest) in the sunshine. If its raining, we will be inside the Epcor Centre, so it's all good.


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NMT Student Dies in Roll-Over Car Accident, Oct. 3, 2005
by George Zamora
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Article on Robert Jones in Valencia County News-Bulletin
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 3, 2005 – New Mexico Tech sophomore Robert Jones died Saturday morning, October 1, of injuries sustained in a single-car rollover accident which occurred about four miles north of Socorro. He was en route to his home in Los Lunas when the accident occurred.
Jones, who was known to his friends as "Robbie," was a full-time student who was majoring in mechanical engineering at the state-supported research university.
"From what we've garnered from his friends and professors here at New Mexico Tech, we understand that Robert Jones was an outstanding student who made a lasting impression on all who knew him," said New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López.
"The entire campus community shares in the loss of this exceptional young man, and we extend our thoughts and prayers to his parents and the rest of his family during this profound personal tragedy," López added.
Robert graduated as valedictorian from Los Lunas High School in 2004. While at Los Lunas High School, Robbie excelled not only in academics but also in swimming, jazz and marching band as well. He went on to attend New Mexico Tech to major in mechanical engineering with the intent of pursuing a master's degree in aerospace engineering. While at New Mexico Tech, Robert was a member of the National Honor Society, the Math Club, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. During the summer, Robert worked as a head lifeguard at the Los Lunas High School pool.
Jones is survived by his mother, Linda; his father, Chris; his brother, Matthew; his girlfriend, Erin Drew; his grandmothers, Gloria Dunne and Martha Jones; and a large extended family.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be sent to the Robert Jones memorial fund at New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union. Funds will be used to support the band/swimming programs at Los Lunas High School. French Mortuary 1111 University Blvd. NE 843-6333


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Greta Van Susteren has abruptly quit after 14 years as a prime-time anchor at Fox News Channel, saying that Fox "has not felt like home to me for a few years."
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Word of the surprise shake-up in what has been cable TV news' most stable and successful lineup was announced only minutes after the settlement of former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson's harassment lawsuit against deposed Fox News chief Roger Ailes.
Van Susteren, in a Facebook post, did not say what she meant by Fox News not feeling like home anymore. She had defended...


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Are you sick of Bigfoot's genital fixations? We all are. That's why you need to see this awesome trailer for the remake of 70s Bigfoot classic The Legend Of Boggy Creek.
Director Brian T. Jaynes told Dread Central:
It's a thriller that centers around a story of five young kids who get caught out in a swamp in Boggy Creek, Texas. They end up crossing paths with an ancient evil creature that lives in the swamp. We're kind of combining [Bigfoot legends] with some ancient Caddo Indian mysticism and mythology. We took a little creative license with it and painted our own version of Sasquatch.
The original Boggy Creek, released in 1972, is a cult flick set in Arkansas, probably best known for being one of the earliest movies to do the Blair Witch fake documentary thing with a scary monster and college students. Seems like the update has left the pseudo-documentary style behind and preserves only the spirit of Bigfoot from the original.
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The CovaSolutions initiative will be offering Galician companies an educational and networking platform aiming to facilitate and promote commerce between Galicia and the United States of America. We believe that with the right tools and contacts Galician entrepreneurs can bring many success stories back to Galicia and the IGAPE. Please save the date for Friday March 4th to attend an exciting multi-sectorial business event where legal and financial advice will be provided directly by US based companies specialized in assisting Spanish companies during their expansion abroad.
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Good pianist, interesting programme. Swiss, daughter of veteran pianist. Peter Lukas-Graf. Venue, Swiss Church in Endell Street, Covent Garden, handsome –plain white room, altar the only clue to its ecumenism – alas, dreadful acoustic, bathroom style, fortes distorted.
Nice Schubert Sonata, the smaller one in A major, melodies to the fore but never running too long.
Next, Chopin's Andante spianato, not the best of this composer but some truly magical moments. Followed by Prokofiev a piece that I have never come across before in sixty years of recital-going with the title Après des vieux cahiers Opus 29, alternately gruff and rough like the second Concerto for piano, and lyrical, listener-friendly more like the third of his five.
The next work showed the pianist as a composer, talented at that. It was the world première of Announcement (of what we were not vouchsafed) the five-minutes of its duration gave no definite hint – hatch, match, despatch, certainly not bankruptcy. It featured one tone repeated many times, almost like a Fantasy on One Note. It paralled Le Gibet of Ravel but never sounded like that composer.
Finally, two of the Moments Musicaux of Rachmaninoff, one slow, one faster, not vintage S.R., no gorgeous lyrical passages but skilful wandering.
Aglaia is rising 27, pretty, nice manner on the platform, should have a successful career.But I would have to hear her in surrounding more conducive to enjoyment than this Swiss church to write a meaningful review.


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Beet, Ginger, and Spinach Salad
Inspired by a salad I enjoyed at Gayle's, and having found some lovely organic beets at our Farmer's Market, I set about to make my own salad with beets, ginger, and spinach.
Brendon of Something In Season recently posed the question When Does a Recipe Become Blogable? As I like reading about how others develop their recipes, what works and what doesn't work for them, I say after (or even during) the first experiment. I always enjoy Alanna's "Next Time" comments on A Veggie Venture, where she details her ideas on how to improve a recipe she's made. A useful tool for recipe development, I'll be including similar "Next Time" notes in my posts. I also find it very educational when someone posts about a failed recipe or a failed recipe that they managed to turn around.
When I'm working on a new recipe, I often get carried away with tasting and adjusting and forget to make a strong mental note of the amount used. So in this recipe, I have to say the amounts are approximate.
I steamed my beets, unpeeled, with their tail left on and a little stump of leaf to keep in all the juices. After they were cool, I peeled and sliced them. I thinly sliced about 1 tbsp of red onion and soaked it in the juice of one lime (a Nigella trick from the Watermelon & Feta salad). I chopped about 2 tbsp of crystallized ginger into tiny cubes and added that to the lime juice-onion mix to soften.
I heated 1 tbsp olive oil and cooked 1 small minced garlic clove for 2 minutes then added 4-5 oz baby spinach, sauteed the spinach, and turned off the heat.
I mixed together the beets, onion-lime-ginger mix, and sauteed spinach with a squeeze of lemon juice and 1-2 tsp balsamic vinegar and 1 tbsp of ginger juice (a bottled product). I seasoned and tasted. Too acidic! And it needed more ginger. So I added 1 tsp of minced ginger and 1+ tbsp organic maple syrup, which worked wonders, containing the acidity and really brightening the sweetness of the beets and the freshness of the ginger.
The end result was delicious, although not really like Gayle's salad, which was mellower. The beets and ginger really are a winning combination and definitely benefited from the green, leafy spinach. Next time, I'll skip the lemon juice, cut back on the ginger juice, and remove the little stems from the baby spinach (purely aesthetic).


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MONTREAL - The mother of a Canadian woman arrested in connection with a Mexico City firebombing says she's deeply concerned about her daughter's well-being.
Mexican authorities detained Canadians Amelie Pelletier and Fallon Rouiller Poisson earlier this week following a Molotov cocktail attack Monday against a government office in the capital.
Poisson's mother, Line Rouiller, told The Canadian Press on Wednesday she was stunned to hear about her daughter's arrest.
"I don't feel good at all ... I don't know what's going on," said Rouiller, who was also unsure of the severity of the accusations against her 20-year-old daughter from Montreal.
"If (the alleged attack) is against government property, she's in big trouble."
The mother's comments came as people who know Poisson, a recent Quebec college grad, described her as someone with strong political beliefs who became an energetic participant in the province's large-scale, 2012 student protest movement.
Veronica Perez of Mexico City's attorney general's office said Wednesday that Poisson and Pelletier were nabbed after Molotov cocktails were tossed at a building that houses the Department of Communications and Transportation.
Mexican officials have said no injuries were reported in the attack, which damaged several vehicles outside a nearby car dealership. The motive was not immediately clear.
A Mexico City prosecutor told local media that a Mexican national was arrested along with the two Canadian women, who were later transferred into the custody of the Central Investigation Agency. He said police have alleged that one of the Canadians was seen discarding a backpack that contained a number of homemade explosive devices.
Police in Mexico could not be reached Wednesday to comment on the case and whether the women had been formally charged.
Rouiller said she's been in contact with the Canadian Embassy in Mexico and was waiting for information about Poisson's situation. She added that her daughter was mistakenly identified by Mexican authorities as Fallon Poisson Rouiller.
Canada's Foreign Affairs Department has confirmed it is aware that two Canadian citizens were detained in Mexico.
"Canadian officials are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and consular services are being provided," department spokesman Mathieu Roy said Tuesday.
Following her arrest, Poisson phoned her grandmother in Canada. Rouiller said she told her grandmother she had been roughed up following her arrest.
"They hurt her a bit," said Rouiller, who added she had never heard of Pelletier. "I don't think it's a good place to get arrested."
Rouiller said Poisson participated in Quebec's massive 2012 student demonstrations, but insisted her daughter would never take part in such destruction.
"I know my daughter," Rouiller said in a phone interview from her home in suburban Montreal, an area where Poisson grew up.
"She's the adventurous type, but she's more sporty and likely to go to a protest than to destroy someone else's property."
A former colleague of Poisson's described her Wednesday as someone with strong political beliefs.
"She was extremely dynamic in everything she did," said Etienne Philippart, the co-ordinator of the students' association at Poisson's former junior college, CEGEP du Vieux-Montreal.
"When she's implicated in something, she goes right to the limit of her convictions."
Philippart, who employed Poisson at the association's office from the start of the 2012 fall semester until her graduation last June, said she was very involved in political life at the college, which was recognized as one of the most militant schools during Quebec's student crisis.
The student movement, which erupted over tuition-fee hikes and became known as the Maple Spring, made international headlines with its huge, nightly marches on the streets of Montreal over a period of several months.
"She participated very actively in the Maple Spring," said Philippart, who added that Poisson was in favour of some of the more-active forms of protest witnessed during the crisis, such as blocking bridges.
"She had an ideology, she believed it and she had strong, precise convictions."
As for Pelletier, Philippart said he had never before heard of her, either.
One fellow Vieux-Montreal student, also a former co-worker of Poisson's, described her as a "militant anarchist" involved in radical organizations such as anti-capitalist groups.
"She was quite an emotional person, very enraged by the system," said the student, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of concern of facing harassment for speaking to the media about her.
"She was very, very anarchistic."
The student called her a decent worker and added they never had any personal conflicts when they shared shifts at their off-campus job.
As an employee, Philippart recalled how Poisson was kind to him when his wife fell ill, saying she was quick to volunteer to fill in for him when he had to attend doctor's appointments.
He said Poisson earned good grades and graduated from the school's Optimonde social-sciences program, which included Spanish lessons and an internship in Ecuador.
Poisson's mother, meanwhile, said her daughter travelled to California in September and has been in Mexico since November.
"My daughter isn't like this," Rouiller said, referring to the allegations.
"I'm very surprised."
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Oct. 29, 2005
TEMPE, Ariz. - Day two comeback meant a big win for UCSB against Arizona State University. After yesterdays upset UCSB came back in full force to take the victory from Arizona Saturday at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center. Penn State defeated both UCSB and ASU.
With the momentum from yesterday's swims the Gauchos did better than expected. Freshman Jenisse Demeulenaere won the 50 yard fee style (24.26) against both ASU and Penn State. Teammate junior Jen Schwalb won the 200 IM (2:03.98) with freshman Jessica Cruzat behind her taking third over all and second to ASU. The spectacular 400 relay formed by Nadia Dwidar, Liz Wagner, Courtney Jenkins, and Jenisse Demeulenaere took first to ASU and second to Penn State, just a touch behind them.
"This is a big step for our women" Said Head Coach Gregg Wilson. "They have beaten two out of the three Pac-ten teams they have faced this year."
The Gauchos are heading home to face UC San Diego on November 5, 2005 at 10:00am at Campus Pool.