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New York Sculptor and Art Critic Visit Baylor's Allbritton Art InstituteNov. 1, 2013
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WACO, Texas (Nov. 1, 2013) - The Allbritton Art Institute at Baylor University welcomes internationally renowned sculptor Roxy Paine and acclaimed art critic Jason Edward Kaufman as they speak at its annual lecture on Tuesday Nov. 5, which features distinguished art historians and scholars from the United States and abroad.
Students and the public may take advantage of the annual Allbritton Art Lecture to hear learned discussions of topics relating to 19th- and 20th-century art.
Paine's sculptures are inspired by the juxtaposition of nature and industrialization. His work combines the organic and the manufactured, resulting in works such as his Dendroids series, which he began in the late 1990s, creating large-scale stainless steel sculptures of trees using industrial tools and materials.
His art has been exhibited in several major art museums around the world. He has works permanently sited at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, Wash.; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; and the Wanas Foundation in Sweden. He lives and works in New York.
Kaufman is a widely read arts journalist whose criticism, reporting and photography appear regularly in major newspapers, magazines and museum exhibition catalogs. He is contributing editor at Art & Auction and Artinfo.co;, a regular contributor to The Washington Post; and editor of the online publication IN VIEW, distributed twice monthly to thousands of subscribers around the world.
The Allbritton Art Institute is conducted in conjunction and affiliation with the department of art in Baylor University's College of Arts & Sciences. The program focuses on the study of 19th- and 20th-century art history. It provides courses for undergraduate students and is part of preparation for further study at the graduate level.
The lecture will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Room 149 in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center, 60 Baylor Ave. This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. For more information, contact the Allbritton Art Institute at (254) 710-1826.
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Baylor University is a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution, characterized as having "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 15,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating university in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 11 nationally recognized academic divisions. Baylor sponsors 19 varsity athletic teams and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference.
The College of Arts & Sciences is Baylor University's oldest and largest academic division, consisting of 26 academic departments and 13 academic centers and institutes. The more than 5,000 courses taught in the College span topics from art and theatre to religion, philosophy, sociology and the natural sciences. Faculty conduct research around the world, and research on the undergraduate and graduate level is prevalent throughout all disciplines. Visit www.baylor.edu/artsandsciences.
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The August 13, 2007, issue of U.S. News & World Report declared 1957 to be "A Year That Changed America." The article focused on ten disparate events. Among them were the Cold War Soviet launch of Sputnik, setting off the race for space; the Dodgers and Giants both deserting New York for California, bringing big-time baseball and world attention to the West Coast; growing racial tensions hitting their peak in Little Rock; the introduction of the birth control pill; and a former ad man, Dr. Seuss, revolutionizing the way that children learned to read.
U.S. News began the Seuss segment, The Birth of a Famous Feline, with this accolade, "Greece had Zeus—America has Seuss," and continued in part, "In the 50 years since The Cat in the Hat exploded onto the children's book scene, Theodor Seuss Geisel has become a central character in the American literary mythology, sharing the pantheon with the likes of Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Of his many imaginative stories, The Cat in the Hat remains the most iconic."
Ted Geisel had been writing children's books for twenty years when The Cat in the Hat first stepped into our lives and onto the world stage in 1957, literally supercharging his career. Geisel's quirky Cat put him on the fast track to becoming a force in children's literacy due in part to the book's origins in an emerging philosophy of phonetic learning. Not only was the vocabulary largely taken from a list of 220 beginner's words but Ted crafted the story in anapestic tetrameter, marking out a cadence that was easy for young readers to grasp. Using this model, Ted, Helen, to whom he would be married for forty years, and Phyllis Cerf, the wife of the Random House president Bennett Cerf, would go on to found Beginner Books at Random House.
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Hopes dim that Sharif's election will ease Pakistan-India tension
A diplomatic initiative by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to kick-start peace talks with regional foe India, stalled since a murderous November 2008 rampage across Mumbai by Pakistani militants, has failed because of opposition from his powerful military, officials in Islamabad indicate.
The failure comes amid mounting evidence that the Pakistani military has resumed covert support to the Lashkar-i-Taiba group believed to be responsible for the assault on Mumbai, which killed 166 people, and other groups with a history of terrorist attacks against India.
Following the victory of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party in May general elections, Sharif had reached out to Manmohan Singh, India's premier, saying his "heart's desire" was for Singh to attend his June investiture as prime minister.
Singh declined Sharif's invitation because, as India's foreign minister, Salman Khurshid, subsequently explained, the Indian government would wait to see whether Sharif's new civilian government would assume the ultimate decision-making role in Pakistani foreign policy from the military, which has staged four coups since Pakistan's independence in 1947 and remains the country's most powerful political force.
Then any hope for a resumption of diplomatic negotiations were knocked back on July 9 when Pakistani and Indian troops opened fire on each other along the countries' disputed border in the Himalayan state of Kashmir, ending a decade-long ceasefire.
Five Indian soldiers were killed in what New Delhi said was a joint operation by the Pakistani military and Pakistani militant groups opposed to India, including Lashkar-i-Taiba. Sharif denied there had been any infiltrations by Pakistani militants into Indian Kashmir but promised to take action to prevent any.
But when McClatchy visited the Rawalakot area of Pakistan-administered Kashmir in August, it found the Jaish-i-Mohammed and Harakat-ul-Mujahideen militant groups were openly whipping up paranoia of a supposedly impending Indian invasion. It was the first time those groups had been active since 2002, when they were constrained by the junta of Gen. Pervez Musharraf under U.S. pressure.
Veteran commanders of the Harakat-ul-Mujahideen group based in Kashmir said they were in the process of re-recruiting fighters who had led peaceful civilian lives since the Musharraf regime disbanded them.
Commanders of the same group based in the southern city of Karachi, visited there in late September by McClatchy, said they had recalled militants who were fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan and were redeploying them to Kashmir.
Islamabad-based political activists of a Pakistan-backed trans-Kashmir alliance of political parties, the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference, also confirmed ex-militants were being contacted by the militant groups and browbeaten into rejoining.
The commanders and activists spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing violent reprisals for talking to a reporter without authorization.
By October, the Lashkar-i-Taiba's front organization, Jama'at-ud-Dawah, was raising funds across Pakistan on the pretext of Eid al-Adha, the annual Muslim festival of sacrifice.
Exchanges of fire along the so-called "line of control" in disputed Kashmir spread to the northernmost point of the countries' international border, near the eastern Pakistani city of Sialkot, and continued well into October, despite an agreement Sharif and Singh struck on Sept. 29 on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York to end the fighting.
But by the time the two prime ministers met, their diplomatic positions had hardened to the point of inflexibility. Singh ruled out the resumption of bilateral dialogue until Pakistan prosecutes seven Jama'at-ud-Dawah activists arrested after the Mumbai attacks. Sharif responded by reintroducing, for the first time in a decade, the Kashmir dispute as the cornerstone of Pakistan's policy toward India.
In New York, the prime ministers agreed on measures to prevent further escalation, notably a face-to-face meeting between the military operations' chiefs of the Indian and Pakistani armies.
Instead, the fighting continued into early November, in part because the Pakistani army has stonewalled its government by not providing a date on which its director-general of military operations, Gen. Amir Riaz, would be available to meet his Indian counterpart, Gen. Vinod Bhatia.
Spokesmen for the Pakistani military declined to comment, passing on inquiries to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which said it still hopes the meeting will go ahead but can't say when.
The generals otherwise speak by telephone every Tuesday to exchange details of troop movements so that they are not construed as preparations for military aggression.
Diplomatic tension between India and Pakistan peaked in December, following the Dec. 3 release of a written statement by the government of Pakistan-administered Kashmir that quoted Sharif as telling officials there that "Kashmir is a flashpoint and can trigger a fourth war between the two nuclear powers at any time."
His office later backtracked, saying the apparently threatening nature of his statement was the handiwork of overzealous Kashmir government officials, who have since been suspended.
Nonetheless, India's Singh's Dec. 5 response was bellicose, saying there was no possibility "of Pakistan winning any such war in my lifetime."
Sharif's foreign policy adviser, Sartaj Aziz, joined the fray on Dec. 6, calling on India to withdraw troops from the Siachen glacier in Kashmir, the world's highest battleground, saying their presence was causing the glacier to prematurely melt and threatened Pakistan's water supplies, which are almost wholly dependent on precipitation stored in Himalayan glaciers.


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The Obama administration and a private-sector working group have announced a cooperative initiative to combat malicious botnets, which are being called a growing threat to the online economy and national security.
The Industry Botnet Group and the Homeland Security and Commerce departments released on May 30 a set of principles for addressing the challenge of botnets across the entire Internet ecosystem. In addition to this framework for collaboration, the government also will step up public outreach efforts to educate users about online threats and will coordinate efforts to address the technical threats posed by botnets.
On May 30, the National Institute of Standards and Technology hosted a workshop on the technical aspects of botnet activity, aimed at disrupting the botnet life cycle and removing malicious code on compromised devices.
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Botnets are networks of compromised computers that can be coordinated through command-and-control servers operated by criminals or others. Malware on compromised computers can be updated and used for a variety of purposes, including information stealing, spamming, mounting distributed denial-of-service attacks and infecting new computers. The networks often are rented out by their controllers for malicious purposes, and because of their distributed nature they can be difficult to defend against.
The Industry Botnet Group was formed in January as a result of a Commerce Department effort to develop a consensus on how to combat the threat of botnets.
Because botnets extend from individual user devices through networks and service providers and can threaten a government and private-sector enterprises with a variety of high- and low-tech exploits and attacks, it was decided that a unified effort was needed to address them. One of the group's first goals was to develop a set of voluntary principles for cooperation across organizations and sectors:
The NIST workshop is addressing technical issues of botnets, including:
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Juvenile Arthritis
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The Arthritis Foundation is boldly leading the fight against juvenile arthritis (JA) and other childhood rheumatic diseases. We understand your unique needs and challenges, and offer the focused attention you and your family deserve. We're all-in – strongly committed to making sure you have easy access to life-changing resources, community and care. Together, we can look forward to saying Yes, from here on out. Yes to running. Yes to playing. Yes to just being a kid.
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We have many other resources and information to help you on your journey with juvenile arthritis. Take time to visit our website devoted your family, www.KidsGetArthritisToo.org. It features many timely and relevant resources, including news about the latest treatments, an educational rights toolkit, stories of kids and teens told in their own words and more.
A diagnosis of juvenile arthritis can turn life upside down and make you feel powerless. The Arthritis Foundation understands and cares. That's why we offer our JA Power Pack – a toolkit with useful information and tools to assist newly diagnosed children and teens, as well as their parents. These resources were designed to give you and your family the POWER to make living with JA easier.
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Our JA camp programs give kids living with juvenile arthritis and other childhood rheumatic diseases the chance to be themselves. Each of our 50 camp programs provides a safe and nurturing environment that is supervised by trained staff and medical professionals. All camps feature traditional summer camping activities, from canoeing and archery to campfires and sing-alongs. In addition to forging new friendships and amazing memories, campers gain a better understanding of their disease while increasing independence and self-confidence.
The Arthritis Foundation hosts JA family events throughout the year to help kids and their families live better with JA and other childhood rheumatic disease. These programs are informative and supportive events that deal with various aspects of living with JA, including an overview of the disease, medications, pain management techniques, exercise and more!
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The Arthritis Foundation's annual Juvenile Arthritis Conference is where kids, teens, young adults and their families come together from across the world to get better informed about juvenile arthritis and other childhood rheumatic diseases. Attendees are given the opportunity to share stories, exchange tips that can make living with their condition easier, and build lifelong memories and friendships.
The Arthritis Foundation partners with the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) to find the causes of pediatric rheumatic diseases, develop the most effective therapies to treat those affected and ultimately find a cure. Through the CARRA Registry, researchers collect information on individual patients over time. Questions about medical and family history, how the disease affects life and physical function all contribute to a better understanding of pediatric rheumatic diseases. You and your family may help solve the mysteries of pediatric rheumatic disease by participating in this important research. To find out if you are eligible, talk to your healthcare professional and ask if they are a CARRAnet site.


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The Wapakoneta Engineering Department is responsible for all engineering related projects in the City. This work includes reviewing and issuing building permits, contractor registration, administration of public works and other construction projects, technical reviews and reports for the City Council, Planning Commission, Zoning Commission and issuance of sanitary sewer and water authorizations.
The department is also responsible for all water and sanitary sewer service connections, the preparation of engineering plans and specifications for a variety of public works projects, the supervision of subdivision road construction, and traffic engineering reports.
In 2014 Community Development Block Grant funding will be used for several sidewalk maintenance projects including replacement of sidewalk along one side of Gibbs Street from Benton Street to the rail road tracks. On Wagner Street, a sidewalk will be installed from Douglas Street to Verterans Memorial Park and on Lincoln Street, a sidewalk will be installed from the Wapakoneta Manor to the Defiance Street Intersection.
Wapakoneta has received a grant under the 3rd phase of Safe Routes to School, which will provide funding for a sidewalk on Laurel Drive east to Hamilton Street and the west side of the block between Poppy Drive and Carnation Drive.
The annual reclamite program will be executed again this year. An asphalt rejuvenator, Reclaimite promotes and extends the life of existing asphalt surfaces by 5 to 7 years. Streets listed for 2014 include Carnation from Stoneybrook to Warren, Poppy, Parlette Court, Veit, Apollo and Riverside.
A downtown overlay with enhancements project is planned with a grind off and resurfacing of Auglaize Street from Blackhoof to the CSX Crossing. New striping, decorative crosswalks, hanging baskets, banners, trash recepticals are expected when merchants and the engineer finalize the list. The contractor is expected to be able to grind and prepare the street in one day and lay the new surface the following day.
The storage building across from the gazebo in Harman Park is to be converted into a public rest room facility.
Augalize County will be paving Glynwood Road this summer and has agreed to add a bike lane on the north side of the street from Hamilton to Stoneybrook.
Planning for more improvements:
In 2015, the West Auglaize Street reconstruction project will be started with $2.3 million from the Small Cities grant. The engineer has proposed spending $775,000 to improve Buchanan Street with an Issue 1 grant covering $350,000 of the cost if the grant can be secured. If the money cannot be secured, this project would be moved to 2016.
In 2016, the city would like to begin to improve the area behind downtown and start the Heritage Walkway project designed by Garmann-Miller & Associates. Grant writing has begun toward this goal.
In 2017, the engineer has proposed improvements to County Road 25A with a grant that she will apply for in 2014. This project is currently estimated to cost $1.56 million.
In 2018, the engineer has proposed $1 million be spent on improving Stinebaugh Drive.
Each year the reclaimite and asphalt overlay projects will continue to extend the life of existing pavement costing approximately $130,000.
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Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham play best friends on TV, and if their on-screen chemistry seems real, it is. They met doing improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and have been writing partners ever since. They co-created and star in Playing House, a new comedy about female friendship that's more reminiscent of Lucy and Ethel than it is Carrie Bradshaw's gang.
Playing House follows Emma and Maggie, two women who have been friends forever. Maggie stayed in their hometown, got married, and is expecting a baby. Emma has been professionally ambitious, closing business deals in Shanghai, and hasn't been back to visit for what must be years.
Parham and St. Clair join us to talk about the marathon improv sessions that produce the show's jokes, the designer home "girl porn" that provides contrast to their characters' weirdness, and their real-life friendship.
Playing House airs on the USA network Tuesday nights at 10/9c.
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Whether you're looking to zombie-fy yourself, or get absorbed into the world of a contract killer, Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder's got just the game for you. He's the host of the Gweek podcast, and he drops by to suggest a couple of his favorite new games. He recommends checking out the multi-player Zombie Dice to collect brains and avoid shotgun blasts to the head. If you prefer a game you can play solo, he suggests the strategy-based (and bloodless) game for iOS, Hitman Go.
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When Bob Saget was in his twenties, he had a lot of plates spinning. He tried film school (and dropped out after just a few days). He performed stand up. He warmed up sitcom audiences. He appeared in a Richard Pryor movie. He even worked for a few months as a morning talk show host, before he was told he was "too hot for TV."
But the part that changed everything wasn't controversial, or crazy. It was playing the straight man, on a sitcom aimed at families.
And despite the schmaltzy moments and broad jokes aimed at kids, Saget is proud of his role as widower and family man Danny Tanner on Full House. He'll tell us why.
Saget's new memoir is Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian. It's very personal and sweet and also sometimes vulgar, which is pretty much exactly what you might expect. He's also touring his new stand up show. You can find details on his website.
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Rash joins us this week to talk about the awkward-yet-motivational summer talks he had with his dad and stepdad as a teenager, exploring writing techniques with TV showrunners on The Writers' Room, and writing for Community during Dan Harmon's absence.
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London theater to reopen after ceiling collapse
LONDON (AP) — The owner of a London theater whose ceiling partially collapsed in the middle of a performance says the venue will reopen next month.
Almost 80 people were injured, seven seriously, when chunks of plaster and wood fell from the ceiling of the century-old Apollo Theatre on Dec. 19.
Nica Burns said Tuesday that the venue will re-open March 26 with the upper gallery roofed in so experts can continue to examine the ceiling. The cause of the accident is still being investigated.
Burns told London's Evening Standard newspaper that she hoped to open with a stage adaptation of vampire movie "Let the Right One In."
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," which was on at the Apollo when the ceiling fell, is moving to a new venue.
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|The Raider J Pro is the racer-replica technology descended from the Raider Breed - reknowned as the leader of the pack in the sporty underbone category. It is specifically designed for that dynamic and exciting performance within your reach. The Raider J Pro speeds up the ride with its high torque engine that gives quick acceleration and high power.
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|109.70 ccm (6.69 cubic inches)
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|53.5 x 48.8 mm (2.1 x 1.9 inches)
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|1,220 mm (48.0 inches)
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arch 19, 1865, dawned soft and balmy in central North Carolina. A brass band played the hymn "Old Hundred." The hymn's tranquil strains reminded the 30,000 men on the Left Wing of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Union army group that it was Sunday, while blossoming fruit trees called to mind quiet homes and families far away. Many of the soldiers looked forward to the end of the war, which now seemed imminent.
But the idle thoughts of a Sunday morning exploded as the Federals approached the farming community of Bentonville. Just outside of town 20,000 tattered Confederates, the remainder of a once-powerful army, attacked the Union troops. Dreams of joyous reunions were soon replaced by the carnage of war, and men who had marched to the front now lay wounded on the battlefield.
Four years earlier, at the beginning of the war, these men might have remained, untreated, on the battlefield for days. At the First Battle of Manassas in 1861, for example, many Union doctors fled in fear and those who stayed found themselves without adequate supplies or ambulances for their patients. As the war progressed and casualties mounted, however, military surgeons became more adept at caring for wounded. By the Battle of Bentonville, one of the last major engagements of the Civil War, the United States Army Medical Department had developed an effective system for operating field hospitals and an ambulance corps. This improved organization was typical of the advances in logistics that helped the North's war effort.
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At the 2014 Games Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, where the very latest and greatest games are being revealed, we were pretty surprised to hear some news about our beloved Temple Run!
Temple Run's getting on for three years old now, and we thought that we knew everything that there was to know about it! However, lead developer at Imangi, Keith Shepherd chose the 2014 conference to share some details of the game he first showed off there in 2011. He was eager to show the world how Temple Run first evolved from the game they were calling "Max Adventure", and it fact very quickly came together over just a few weeks.
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the history, language, holidays, festivals, customs, legends, foods, creative arts, lifestyles, and games of the title country. A creative alternative to student research reports and a time-saver for teachers since the activities and resource material are contained in one book.Gray, Shirley W. is the author of 'Brazil' with ISBN 9780756512019 and ISBN 0756512018.[read more]
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(CNN) -- The presents had been opened; the wrapping paper was stuffed in the trash bin. Watching his 2-year-old daughter Cadence playing with her brand new Christmas toys, Kerry Hoffman was suddenly struck by a thought:
"I need to be here to walk her down the aisle."
Startled by the idea, he turned and caught his reflection in the window, noticing his substantial arms, belly and neck. It was a sight he had grown accustomed to as the years passed, but on this particular day, a new resolve animated him.
"I can control this," he thought. "And I've never really tried before."
At that moment, he made a promise to himself that he would lose the extra pounds -- he didn't know how just yet, but he would do it all the same. At 6 feet 1 inch tall, he weighed 343 pounds.
It wasn't always this way.
"I graduated (high school) at 250 pounds, but not necessarily fat. I was from a very small town, and football was king. I started lifting weights at about 13," Hoffman said. The problem was, "I never did any cardio. I could care less about running. ... I ate whatever I wanted."
That was the status quo until after he graduated college and got married. Then tragedy struck.
"I lost my father to liver disease when he was 55," Hoffman said. "I think I was subconsciously using food as a coping mechanism because I loved to cook, and I loved to eat, and I still do. ... Hindsight is 20-20."
The day after his "aha" moment -- December 28, 2011 -- Hoffman joined a new gym near his house. He also scheduled an appointment with the doctor for New Year's Day 2012.
The doctor performed a routine checkup, noting that Hoffman was already on medication for both high blood pressure and high cholesterol. But Hoffman wanted one more question answered. Near the end of the physical, he requested that the doctor test his blood sugar. It was 277, almost 200% above normal.
It was official: He had diabetes.
"I told the doctor, and this is a direct quote, 'I'm going to lose over 100 pounds, and I'm going to cure myself of diabetes.'"
The doctor was skeptical, telling him that many people decide to lose weight on New Year's, and that very few succeed. Hoffman decided to try anyway.
The first day of his new exercise regimen began with a shrill alarm at 5:30 a.m. He had made a commitment not to take time away from his family, so early morning workouts were the logical choice.
When he arrived at the gym, it was completely empty. Immediately, he was struck by the astounding variety of exercise equipment that was available, and his complete lack of experience with any of it.
"I didn't know what speed to try, what incline. I just tried the treadmill because it seemed simplest. I was terribly out of shape, didn't know what a good calorie burn was, how long to go -- I didn't know anything. I was a newbie."
Even so, he kept it up, five days a week. His wife, Emily Hoffman, was surprised at his commitment.
"He was so determined," she said, "and any small positive change in his body kept him moving forward."
The most difficult obstacle for Hoffman was changing his diet.
"Once you're addicted to food, you're always addicted to food," he said. "If somebody put a fresh plate of brownies in front of me, it would be just as hard to say no as it was at the beginning. (But) you can never outwork a poor diet."
Hoffman began keeping track of his caloric intake with a smart phone app, limiting himself to 2,000 calories a day. He also tried to find healthy versions of his favorite foods: cheese made with skim milk, pizza made with wheat dough and even black bean brownies.
Over the course of the year, Hoffman made swift progress. As the holiday season rolled around again, he made another trip to the doctor. When the results came in for his blood pressure and sugar level tests, both he and he doctor were stunned.
"The doctor called all the nurses and doctors and pediatricians out of their rooms and said 'This guy actually did it,'" Hoffman remembered proudly. "Everyone clapped."
But that was not the end. Today, Hoffman weighs 190 pounds.
In order to maintain his healthy lifestyle, he continues to wear a calorie tracker every day. He also keeps two pictures beside his bed, one from before his weight loss and one after, reminding himself every morning and every night, "Never again."
Hoffman also continues to look for new ways to improve his personal fitness, describing himself as "a fitness dork." Earlier this year, he participated in his first triathlon. After training "like crazy," he snagged first place.
From 343 pounds to a lean 190. From not knowing how to use a treadmill to winning a triathlon. From "newbie" to "fitness dork." In a short time, Hoffman made a drastic change.
After that, he just kept going.


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JUBA, South Sudan — The northern Sudanese air force bombed a key airstrip Tuesday in the rugged Nuba Mountains in what aid groups said might be an effort to cut off humanitarian assistance to the region a month before southern Sudan is scheduled to become an independent nation.
The bombing of the Kauda airstrip could leave hundreds of thousands of Nuba tribesmen, most of whom sided with the south during Sudan's long civil war, without an aid supply line. When Sudan splits into two countries on July 9, the Nuba will fall on the northern side of the border.
Fighting has raged for 10 days between government forces and former rebel fighters, and reports from the region indicate that the predominantly Arab northern forces have targeted Nuba civilians, who are minority Africans.
"The reports being received from various quarters point to a deliberate process of ethnic cleansing; unfolding before us is yet another human tragedy in Sudan," said a statement Saturday from the All Africa Conference of Churches.
It's the second time in the last month that northern Sudanese forces have been accused of ethnic cleansing against ethnic Africans near the north-south border. On May 21, the northern military and aligned militias stormed into Abyei — a disputed border district held by the south — and pushed out more than 100,000 southerners. An internal U.N. human rights report May 29 described the northern actions, which included burning and looting of homes, as "tantamount to ethnic cleansing."
This time, however, civilians caught in the fighting in and around Sudan's Nuba Mountains — within the northern border state of South Kordofan — have nowhere to flee, and are coming under heavy aerial attacks.
Death tolls are impossible to determine. Many humanitarian agencies have evacuated their staffs and those still there have limited access on the ground.
The only major international contingent in South Kordofan — a United Nations peacekeeping force — is mostly hunkered down within its base in the state capital, Kadugli, trying to protect and feed 6,000 Sudanese who've fled to the vicinity of the base for safety.
Fighting in Kadugli also intensified Tuesday. Northern aircraft bombed the city and the surrounding area for much of the day, while Nuba fighters aligned with the south claimed to have seized a significant portion of the city, including some northern military barracks. Other reports suggest that a sizable contingent of northern forces mutinied. None of the information was verifiable.
Days of heavy aerial bombardment over civilian areas also hasn't slowed.
"We are extremely concerned about this bombing campaign, which is causing the huge suffering of civilian populations and endangering humanitarian assistance," said Kouider Zerrouk, acting spokesman for the United Nations mission in Sudan.
In the early 1990s, during Sudan's civil war, the Nuba came under systematic attack by the government. Arab militias razed villages and as many as 500,000 Nuba were estimated to have died, more people than are thought to have died in the ethnic slaughter in Darfur since 2003.
Aid workers and others in the area say they think that Nuba civilians are being targeted in the current fighting because of their ethnicity. In some cases, soldiers are going door-to-door, and the bombing campaign seems to be targeting civilian centers.
Outside humanitarian aid groups have effectively been shut out of the area. The northern government has shut down the Kadugli airport, and U.N. stockpiles are dwindling.
Complete isolation might have been cemented by the Kauda airstrip bombing Tuesday. That dirt landing strip served as a backdoor route for humanitarian assistance from East Africa during the war, and has remained active.
Kauda is also the traditional base of the Nuba rebel forces, and it's still the base of many of the humanitarian organizations that operate in the surrounding area.
Meanwhile, northern soldiers and militiamen were reported ominously circling the U.N. compound in Kadugli and the displaced families outside.
"It is a very, very worrying situation," said a fearful U.N. Sudanese staff member, who asked not to be identified, speaking Tuesday from within the U.N. Kadugli compound. "Our lives and the lives around us are at a lot of risk."
The U.N. employee said the northern forces were targeting Nuba in the camp outside and even among U.N. employees themselves. He said that since Sunday, two Nuba U.N.-associated colleagues had been assassinated just outside the U.N. gate.
The U.N.'s Zerrouk said he couldn't confirm the killings. "We take these allegations seriously, and we'll definitely investigate the matter," he said Tuesday.
(Boswell is a McClatchy special correspondent. His reporting from Sudan is supported in part by Humanity United, a California-based foundation that focuses on human rights issues).
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With controversy still buzzing about the all-white 2016 Oscar nominations, the conversation surrounding the diversity issue in Hollywood has continued across seas at the Berlin Film Festival.
Meryl Streep – the president of the festival's primarily female, white jury – was asked about the lack of diversity among panelists during a press interview on Thursday, to which she responded: "We're all Africans, really."
According to USA Today, an Egyptian reporter asked the Oscar winner about whether she and her panel could fully understand films from North Africa and the Middle East.
While she admitted she isn't incredibly knowledgeable on that part of the world, she said, "I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures," adding, "There is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture, and after all we're all from Africa originally. Berliners, we're all Africans really."
Streep later explained that she is entirely committed to including people "of all genders, races, ethnicities, religions" in the Berlin Film Festival.
She noted, "This jury is evidence that at least women are included and, in fact, dominate this jury, and that's an unusual situation in bodies of people who make decisions. So I think the Berlinale is ahead of the game."
Streep's comments have received some mixed reviews on social media, especially considering the current controversy surrounding the all-white Oscars.
So far, the lack of diversity at the Academy Awards has sparked the resurfacing of 2015's famous #OscarsSoWhite hashtag and even resulted in some people, like Jada Pinkett-Smith and Spike Lee, boycotting the show.
The backlash has been so harsh, the Academy's president, Cheryl Boone Issacs, and the Board have put immediate, historic action into place.
As of Jan. 21, lifetime voting rights were reframed and limited to only those who have been active in the film industry over the last 10 years. Three new governor seats were also added, which will be elected by the president, and committees were restructured to support that. All of these measures have been taken by The Board of Governors with a goal of doubling the number of women and diverse members of the Academy by 2020.
"The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up," Isaacs said in a statement at the time. "These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition."
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Georgia College softball team (13-5) had their six-game winning streak snapped in their final Mid-South Classic Tournament contest by Lenoir-Rhyne University (13-4), 3-2 Saturday night at Tiger River Field. The game featured two Bobcat solo home-run blasts in the fourth inning that kept Georgia College within a run of tying the game in the final three innings.
The Bears got all of their offensive output early, scoring one run in the first and two runs in the third to go up 3-0. Sophomore Abi LeRoy (Dublin, Ga.) led-off for Georgia College in the fourth with a towering blast that made the score 3-1, and then just two batters later sophomore Taylor Campbell (Warner Robins, Ga.) homered as well to bring the Bobcats within a run.
Georgia College out-hit the Bears six to five, but Lenoir-Rhyne's hits had better fortune particularly with no Bobcat runners on the bags for each of the Georgia College homers. Senior Whitney Okvist (Kennesaw, Ga.) and freshman Carly Lewis (Seymour, Tenn.) rounded out the Bobcat hits with a pair each.
Lewis and sophomore Marisa Boyette (Marietta, Ga.) split time at the mound with the former recording the loss. Instead of playing back-to-back games, Georgia College had an unusually long break between games Saturday. After starting their first game in the morning, the Bobcats concluded their final game in the evening.
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After a four-week reign as the most popular dystopian YA movie based on a dystopian YA novel in a dystopian era of Hollywood filmmaking, The Hunger Games was trotted out to the box-office public square and unceremoniously beheaded by the generally meh romantic comedy, Think Like a Man, which made $33 million. Maybe it wasn't all that dramatic — Games still hauled in $14.5 million, which is way more than that Eddie Murphy movie nobody saw will ever make, though probably way less money that Eddie Murphy has in his Scrooge McDuck swimming pool. Now we'll once again wade into a summer of bloated action movies not featuring strong female leads, so here's hoping everyone inflated their swimmies and got as much pleasure from the Hunger Games dominance as they could.
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Justin Martyr, beheaded for the faith in A.D. 165 said, "The more we are persecuted, the more do others in ever increasing numbers embrace the faith and become worshippers of God through the name of Jesus" (Dialogue with Trypho 110). Contrast the impact of modern-day martyrs for other causes. Who remembers what Che Guevara stood for? Luke's account of Stephen's death helps us understand the effect dying for the gospel has, and in so doing challenges us to accept its truth claims.
Stephen's stoning climaxes his witness and introduces an important turning point in the witness of the Hellenistic Jewish Christians of Jerusalem. The intensity and scope of persecution and the extent of witness both take quantum leaps.
Stephen's indictment (7:51-53) so penetrates "uncircumcised hearts" that the Sanhedrin is furious (literally "sawn through in their hearts"; compare 5:33). They are "torn up" not with repentant sorrow for their sins but with seething anger against the preacher of repentance. They grind their teeth with such a hissing sound, such a hateful screwing of the mouth, that Stephen knows they have but one aim: to do away with him (compare Ps 34:16 LXX; 36:12 LXX). As we have seen before, when faced with the truth those in error will either accept the message or seek to silence the messenger, even permanently (Acts 4:18; 5:28, 40).
One man full of the Holy Spirit faces a gallery of men full of hate. Luke is not describing a special momentary gifting in Stephen (as Haenchen 1971:292; Bruce 1990:240), but the fitting climax of a life in the Spirit (6:5, 8, 15; Williams 1985:132). The gallery concentrates on him; Stephen gazes into heaven (atenizo is stronger than the NIV looked up to; compare 1:10; 3:4, 12; 6:15). God grants that Stephen may peer into heaven itself with his mind's eye and see the glory of God (either a circumlocution for God the Father or the shekinah glory that both conceals and reveals the divine presence and nature; compare 7:2; 22:11).
This vision positively culminates the climactic thesis of Stephen's sermon: God dwells in heaven, not in temples made with hands (7:48-50). The Son of Man standing at the right hand of God is at the center of Stephen's attention and the heart of his confession. Son of Man, a phrase otherwise present primarily on the lips of Jesus during his earthly ministry, points at once to Jesus' incarnation, saving death and resurrection, and heavenly exaltation, universal dominion, and glorious future reign (Mt 8:20; Lk 9:22, 44; 18:31; 19:10; 21:27, 36; 22:69/Dan 7:13; Ps 110:1). When we think of the title against its background (Dan 7), the divine nature of this figure comes to the fore.
By this confession Stephen and Luke invite us to see Jesus for who he really is, and in that vision to recognize him as worthy of worship, of complete devotion and obedience even to death.
The Sanhedrin will have none of this "Jesus worship." To them it is a blasphemy (Mk 14:61-64) that their loud yells must drown out and their hands must prevent from entering their ears (Strack and Billerbeck [1978:2:684] relate the rabbinic teaching on such a pious duty). And what a perfect picture of their spiritual deafness, these who are "uncircumcised in ear" and refuse to take that essential first step to salvation--having ears to hear God's message (7:51; Lk 4:21; 8:8; 9:44; 14:35; Acts 28:27/Is 6:10).
Like a herd of stampeding animals (compare Lk 8:33), yet intent on one purpose (NIV all), they rush together against Stephen, drag him out of the city and begin to stone him. Throwing him down from a high place, they gather and heave paving stones on top of him until death comes. These are the appropriate punishment, place and executioners (the witnesses) for the sin of blasphemy (Lev 24:14; Deut 17:7; m. Sanhedrin 6:1, 4; 7:4).
In an extraneous note indicating the custodian of the witness-executioners' cloaks Luke introduces us to a young man named Saul. He will figure prominently in the advance of the church in the near and long term (Acts 8:3; chaps. 9, 13--28).
When we reflect on how quickly a dignified high court was transformed into a lynch mob, we see how thin can be the veneer of civility and judicial order in society. This is especially true when those opposing God's truth see themselves as guardians of his message. There is nothing to stop their violence, as Stephen and many martyrs in his train have learned.
Jewish custom prescribed that the condemned be given opportunity to confess his sins on his way to execution so that he might have "a share in the world to come" (m. Sanhedrin 6:2). Stephen's declarations reveal his innocence and his Christian grace to those who have wronged him. In prayer he calls on Jesus to take him into his presence at death (compare Acts 2:21). He echoes his Lord's words of confident trust on the cross and again confesses Jesus' divinity (compare Lk 23:46/Ps 31:5). Having used Lord very sparingly in his sermon (Acts 7:31, 33, 49), now without hesitation he addresses Lord Jesus with the most important petition any human can bring to God. He is answered, and so can we be, for the Lord Jesus stands at God's right hand, ever ready to receive us to be with him in glory at the time his sovereign will has ordained (Lk 23:43).
Whether falling under the weight of a paving stone hurled from above or deliberately kneeling in prayer, Stephen cries out with a loud voice (contrast Acts 7:57), asking that Jesus not "establish the sins" of his executioners (Rom 10:3; compare Lk 23:34). How will this happen? If they will hear and receive the good news (24:47; Acts 2:38; 3:19; 5:31; 10:43), then their sins will be forgiven, and they will not have to face the final punishment for a sin standing against them.
Is Stephen's prayer answered? Augustine said, "The Church owes Paul to the prayer of Stephen" (quoted in Barclay 1976:62). In fact, Saul is the one adversary named in the incident. Luke is laying the groundwork for the great victory God will win through Saul's conversion and subsequent missionary service.
Like his Lord, Stephen dies at peace with God, himself and the world--even his enemies. He fell asleep. By showing us how to die, he also shows us how to live and models the secret of staying power of Christian witness even to death. If he can die for his Lord like that, confidently, forgiving his enemies, there must be something to this Jesus who he says reigns at God's right hand.
In what may be a reverse parallelism, Luke concludes Stephen's martyrdom with the twin themes of persecution and the church's further advance. The hinge phrase on which they turn is except the apostles. Whether because Hellenistic, not Hebraic, Jewish Christians are targeted in the persecution or because the apostles feel a duty to hold things together at Jerusalem, they stay there. Their continued presence in Jerusalem certainly does provide stability and continuity for the young church's life and mission. There is no hint from Luke that their lack of initiative at this point is disobedience to Acts 1:8.
From this apostolic center the centrifugal forces of persecution and ever-expanding witness push out. The main impetus is a great persecution against the church at Jerusalem. It is closely connected with Stephen's death, for it happens on that day. Persecution--"harassing somebody in order to persuade or force him to give up his religion, or simply to attack somebody for religious reasons"--encompassed a wide range of activities from ridicule to social ostracism to occasional beatings to confiscation of property to imprisonment to execution (Marshall 1980:151; Krodel 1986:158). Saul "tried" (attempted, not incipient, action as NIV; E. F. Harrison 1986:140; Gal 1:13, 23) to destroy the church, as a wild animal mangles its prey (Lake and Cadbury 1979:88; compare Acts 20:28; Is 65:25). He goes from house to house and drags both men and women off to prison. This imagery and these actions give us a sense of the severity of the persecution.
But the dispersion through persecution creates a band of missionaries, not refugees. All are scattered, as seed is sown, and go about evangelizing (Acts 8:4; compare Lk 8:5, 11). Judea and Samaria, the second two theaters for the Great Commission's fulfillment, have now been entered. A Christian witness is raised in Jerusalem even after Stephen's death. Devout men, whether non-Christian Jews (E. F. Harrison 1986:139; compare 2:7) or Hebraic Christian (Williams 1985:136), bury Stephen and publicly mourn him (NIV does not point out the public aspect with its wording mourned deeply). This is a courageous witness to Stephen's innocence, for Jewish custom forbade public mourning of one executed for blasphemy (m. Sanhedrin 6:5-6).
Indeed, "the blood of martyrs is the seed of the church." And today the same dynamic is at work, whether in China since the coming of communism or in Uganda and East Africa with their political turmoil or in the previously predominant religious hostility of Latin America. The fruit of witness under persecution, even martyrdom, is now being harvested. The gospel born by Spirit-filled Christians is life. Death cannot stop it!
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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
|News Release Number2011-014A
|Information: MURDER
|Date: May 7,2011
|Time: 3:11a.m.
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The victim of the stabbing at 4825 Linden Rd. on May 7, 2011 has been identified as Todd Michael Kegel (DOB 6-1-71/ 39yrs old)/Rockford, Illinois. Winnebago County Sheriff's Detectives reviewed the results of the investigation with the Winnebago County State's Attorney's Office and the following have been charged. #1 Von Edrick Johnson (male/ DOB 7-17-71/39yrs old)/Rockford, Illinois. Johnson is charged with First Degree Murder(2Cts), ARMED ROBBERY AND ROBBERY #2 Tina M. Balas (female/DOB 12-21-68/ 42yrs old)/Rockford, Illinois. Balas is charged with Robbery and Conspiracy to Commit Robbery. Both Johnson and Balas are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. The charges filed are merely accusations. Photos of Johnson and Balas will be released at a later time due to the continuing investigation.


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New 2019 ToyotaHighlander XLE V6 SUV
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2019 Toyota Highlander XLE AWD 7-passenger
ALL WHEEL DRIVE, Backup camera, Smart Key entry with Push Button ignition, Bluetooth, Toyota Safety Sense P, 2nd Row Bucket Seats, Blind spot sensor: Blind Spot Monitor (BSM) warning, Rear-Seat Blu-ray DVD Entertainment System. 20/26 City/Highway MPG
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Front seat headrests force head too far forward
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By bethereornot on Monday, April 09, 2018The ride, power and technology is awesome. But like I said in the Summary, I give the the Navigation and the Voice recognition a big fat 0 out of 10. I thought Siri could be bad, this takes bad to another level. NAV never takes the route that my phone gives me, not even close. My brother and I both bought a new Toyota about a week apart and the experience is the same for both of us, so much we joke about it on the phone because he lives 500 miles away. We will be in our SUV and say listen to this. Directions to main st Columbus Ohio, it will come back and say finding a doughnut shop closest to you (just an Example) We have both trained and retrained the system but owell we both have smart phones to rescue us and that isnt why either of us bought our SUV. I would buy it again even with the short comings of some of the techy stuff.
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By Seth on Thursday, September 05, 2019Drives like a beauty and very comfortable and spacious. It's front row seat has 4 more inches of leg room than the Honda Pilot so if everyone moves up a few inches in the front and middle row there is plenty of leg space in the 3rd row for even adults. Furthermore, the Highlander has a power mode which is easy to turn on every time you start the engine on the middle screen which gives you more power and downshifts quicker from stop signs and the accelerator becomes light as heck. I drive it in power mode most of the time and am still getting the same great average gas mileage (34 mpg on the freeway and 20 mpg on the street) as I don't drive it like a sports car. It has plenty of storage and seating room(wide seats) as well and the steering is smooth and the cabin is so quiet even in the freeway. I highly recommend it for its all around quality and Toyota dependability.
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Genre based navigation on the Web. Proceedings of the 34th Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS). Maui, HI, January: IEEE. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2001.926478. (2001). 09814013.pdf (210.61 KB)
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2 indicted over gifts to Ohio GOP candidates in 2011
Two Ohio businessmen have been indicted on charges of funneling illegal campaign donations to two Buckeye State Republican politicians, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Benjamin Suarez, 72, of Canton, and Michael Giorgio, 61, stand accused of conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws, making false statements, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Suarez faces an additional count of witness tampering.
In an indictment handed up Tuesday by a grand jury in Cleveland, the government alleges that both men were part of a scheme to deliver about $200,000 in campaign contributions to a U.S. Senate candidate and a U.S. House candidate in Ohio in 2011.
The candidates were not named, but have been identified in other media reports as Rep. Jim Renacci (R-Ohio) and failed GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel.
The defendants allegedly made donations with their own funds and corporate funds in other people's names, according to the indictment.
The indictment alleges that both men used funds from Suarez Corp. Industries — a corporation that Suarez founded — to reimburse their straw donors for the cost of their donations.
The two stand accused of disguising the reimbursements as salary and profit sharing payments. The company allegedly "grossed up" the reimbursement payments to cover payroll and other taxes.
In the 2012 cycle, federal law capped donations to candidates at $2,500 per primary or general election. The law also set an overall donation limit to all political candidates at $117,000.
Further, campaign finance law bans corporations from donating to federal candidates. Corporations can use a political action committee funded by employees to make donations directly to parties or candidates, and can use their corporate funds on issue ads or independent expenditures.
Suarez and Giorgio stand accused of violating the dollar limits and the ban on corporate contributions, among other things.
"Benjamin Suarez and Michael Giorgio engaged in behavior that blatantly ignored and directly circumvented clearly established campaign financing laws," Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland Office, said in a statement.
"The FBI is committed to fully investigate any such intentional violations of these laws, which exist to help ensure fair, honest, and transparent elections," Anthony said.
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Lioi, a President George W. Bush appointee, was assigned to the case but recused herself Wednesday. She did not give a reason.
The case was reassigned to Judge Patricia Gaughan, an appointee of President Bill Clinton.
Josh Gerstein contributed to this report.


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Desktop and Screen Saver Preferences on Your MacBook
The Desktop & Screen Saver pane of the Systems Preferences window on your MacBook offers you a variety of ways in which to customize your desktop.
The settings on the Desktop tab are
Current Desktop Picture: You can click a picture in the thumbnail list at the right half of the screen to use it as your Desktop background. The Desktop is immediately updated, and the thumbnail appears in the well.
To display a different image collection or open a folder of your own images, click the Add Folder button at the lower left of the window (which carries a plus sign) and browse for your heart's desire; click Choose to select a folder and display the images it contains.
Layout: You can tile your background image, center it, fill the screen with it, and stretch it to fill the screen. (Note that filling the screen may distort the image.) The layout pop-up menu appears only when you're using your own pictures, so you won't see it if you're using a Desktop image supplied by Apple.
Change Picture: Select this check box to change the Desktop background automatically after the delay period that you set, including each time you log in and each time your Mac wakes up from sleep mode.
Random Order: To display screens randomly, enable the Random Order check box. Otherwise, the backgrounds are displayed in the sequence in which they appear in the thumbnail strip.
Translucent Menu Bar: When enabled, this feature turns your Finder and application menu bars semi-opaque, allowing them to blend in somewhat with your Desktop background. If you'd rather have a solid-color menu bar, deselect this check box.
Click the Screen Saver tab to see the following settings:
Screen Savers: In the Screen Savers list at the left, click the screen saver that you want to display an animated Preview of on the right. To try out the screen saver in full-screen mode, click the Test button. (You can end the test by moving your finger across the trackpad.)
If the screen saver module that you select has any configurable settings, click the Options button to display them. (A screen saver is configurable if the Options button is enabled.)
Start Screen Saver: Click and drag the slider here to specify the period of inactivity that triggers the screen saver. To disable the screen saver, choose the Never setting at the far right of the slider.
Use Random Screen Saver: Just what it says: If this check box is enabled, a different screen saver module is used each time the screen saver is activated.
Show with Clock: If you want your selected screen saver to display the time as well, click this check box to enable it.
Hot Corners: Click any of the four pop-up menus at the four corners of the screen to specify that corner as an activation hot corner (which immediately activates the screen saver) or as a disabling hot corner (which prevents the screen saver from activating). As long as the pointer stays in the disabling hot corner, the screen saver doesn't kick in no matter how long a period of inactivity passes.
Note that you can also set the Sleep, Mission Control, Launchpad, and Dashboard activation corners from here.


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With continued turmoil in the advertising market, people who work at newspapers and magazines are wondering if micropayments will save them, with recent speculation in this direction by David Sarno of the LA Times, David Carr of the NY Times, and Walter Isaacson in Time magazine. Unfortunately for the optimists, micropayments — small payments made by readers for individual articles or other pieces of a la carte content — won't work for online journalism.
To understand why not, there are two key pieces of background.
First, the label micropayments no longer makes any sense. Some of the early proposals for small payment systems did indeed imagine digital bookkeeping and billing for amounts as small as a thousandth of a cent; this was what made such payments "micro". Current proposals, however, imagine pricing digital content in the range of a dime to a dollar. These aren't micro-anything, they are just ordinary but small payments, no magic anywhere.
The essential thing to understand about small payments is that users don't like being nickel-and-dimed. We have the phrase 'nickel-and-dimed' because this dislike is both general and strong. The result is that small payment systems don't survive contact with online markets, because we express our hatred of small payments by switching to alternatives, whether supported by subscription or subsidy.
The other key piece of background isn't about small payments themselves, but about the conversation. Such systems solve no problem the user has, and offer no service we want. As a result, conversations about small payments take place entirely among content providers, never involving us, the people who will ostensibly be funding these transactions. The conversation about small payments is also not a normal part of the conversation among publishers. Instead, the word 'micropayment' is a trope for desperation, entering the vernacular of a given media market only after threats to older models become visibly dire (as with the failed attempts to adopt small payments for webzines in the late '90s, or for solo content like web comics and blogs earlier in this decade.)
The invocation of micropayments involves a displaced fantasy that the publishers of digital content can re-assert control over we unruly users in a media environment with low barriers to entry for competition. News that this has been tried many times in the past and has not worked is unwelcome precisely because if small payment systems won't save existing publishers in their current form, there might not be a way to save existing publishers in their current form (an outcome generally regarded as unthinkable by existing publishers.)
Faith in salvation from small payments all but requires the adherent to ignore the past, whether existing critiques (e.g. Szabo 1996; Shirky 2000, 2003; Odlyzko 2003) or previous failures. Isaacson's recent Time magazine cover story on micropayments, How to Save Your Newspaper, a classic of the form, recapitulates the argument put forward by Scott McCloud in his 2003 Misunderstanding Micropayments. That McCloud advanced the same argument that Isaacson does, and that the small payment system McCloud was proselytizing for failed exactly as predicted, seems not to have troubled Isaacson much, even though he offers no argument different from McCloud's.
Another strategy among the faithful is to extrapolate from systems that do rely on small payments: iTunes, ringtone sales, or sales of digital goods in environments such as Cyworld. (This is the idea explored by David Carr in Let's Invent an iTunes for News.) The lesson of iTunes et al (indeed, the only real lesson of small payment systems generally) is that if you want something that doesn't survive contact with the market, you can't let it have contact with the market.
Cyworld, a wildly popular online forum in Korea, is able to collect small payments for digital items, denominated in a currency called Dotori ("acorn"), because once a user is in Cyworld, SK Telecom, the corporate parent, controls all the distribution options. A Cyworld user who wants a certain kind of digital decoration for their online presence has to buy it through Cyworld if they want it; the monopoly within the environment is enough to prevent competition for pricing of digital goods. Similarly, mobile phone carriers go to great lengths to prevent the ringtone distribution network from becoming general-purpose, lest freely circulating mp3s drive the price to zero. In these cases, control over the users' environment is essential to preventing competition from destroying the payment model.
Apple's ITMS (iTunes Music Store) is perhaps the most interesting example. People are not paying for music on ITMS because we have decided that fee-per-track is the model we prefer, but because there is no market in which commercial alternatives can be explored. Everything from Napster to online radio has been crippled or killed by fiat; small payments survive in the absence of a market for other legal options. What's interesting about ITMS, though, it that it contains other content that illustrates the dilemma of the journalists most sharply: podcasts. Apple has the machinery in place to charge for podcasts. Why don't they?
Because they can't afford to. Were they to start charging, their users would start looking around for other sources, as podcasts are offered free elsewhere. Losing user attention would be anathema to a company that wants as tight a relationship between ITMS and the iPod as it can get; the potential revenues are not worth the erosion of audience.
Without the RIAA et al, Apple is unable to corner the market on podcasts, and thus unable to charge. Unless Apple could get the world's unruly podcasters to behave as a cartel, and convince all new entrants to forgo the resulting vacuum of attention, podcasts will continue to circulate without individual payments. With every single tool in place to have a functioning small payment sytem, even Apple can't defy the users if there is any way for us to express our preferences.
Which brings us to us.
Because small payment systems are always discussed in conversations by and for publishers, readers are assigned no independent role. In every micropayments fantasy, there is a sentence or section asserting that what the publishers want will be just fine with us, and, critically, that we will be possessed of no desires of our own that would interfere with that fantasy.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the media business is being turned upside down by our new freedoms and our new roles. We're not just readers anymore, or listeners or viewers. We're not customers and we're certainly not consumers. We're users. We don't consume content, we use it, and mostly what we use it for is to support our conversations with one another, because we're media outlets now too. When I am talking about some event that just happened, whether it's an earthquake or a basketball game, whether the conversation is in email or Facebook or Twitter, I want to link to what I'm talking about, and I want my friends to be able to read it easily, and to share it with their friends.
This is superdistribution — content moving from friend to friend through the social network, far from the original source of the story. Superdistribution, despite its unweildy name, matters to users. It matters a lot. It matters so much, in fact, that we will routinely prefer a shareable amateur source to a professional source that requires us to keep the content a secret on pain of lawsuit. (Wikipedia's historical advantage over Britannica in one sentence.)
Nickel-and-dimeing us for access to content made less useful by those very restrictions simply isn't appealing. Newspapers can't entice us into small payment systems, because we care too much about our conversation with one another, and they can't force us into such systems, because Off the Bus and Pro Publica and Gawker and Global Voices and Ohmynews and Spot.us and Smoking Gun all understand that not only is a news cartel unworkable, but that if one existed, their competitive advantage would be in attacking it rather than defending it.
The threat from micropayments isn't that they will come to pass. The threat is that talking about them will waste our time, and now is not the time to be wasting time. The internet really is a revolution for the media ecology, and the changes it is forcing on existing models are large. What matters at newspapers and magazines isn't publishing, it's reporting. We should be talking about new models for employing reporters rather than resuscitating old models for employing publishers; the more time we waste fantasizing about magic solutions for the latter problem, the less time we have to figure out real solutions to the former one.