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Hi all I have a tricky one here..
I have some code I'm using to interact with USB devices (windows driver kit). I'm targeting "USB MASS Storage" and hopefully "USB Composite Device" basicaly I want any device that has a drive letter where i can read/write from.
- basicaly i need to know the drive letter of the usb device
- the code works for some devices, USB mass storage device having a GUID of
const string GUID_DEVINTERFACE_DISK = "53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b";
devices are thumb drives, removable HD's things that are class "USB MASS Storage"
however a USB composite device has a different GUID of
const string TEST_GUID = "36fc9e60-c465-11cf-8056-444553540000"; and the code fails to return the device.
devices are Phones... class of "USB Composite Device"
so i changed the GUID and ran the code and it did not find any device using the GUID for composite device... so it must be checking something else as well... here is the method that gets a device by its drive letter... please help me out in getting it to work with compisite devices as well.
or at least point show me the general area what needs to be changed.
im fairly new to c# and i dont understand this low level stuff....
this method accepts a drive letter and attempts to find a device matching the drive letter.
seems like it will work right, phones have drive letter.. but no it looks at GUID etc..
--- code ---
// usb mass storage device
const string GUID_DEVINTERFACE_DISK = "53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b";
// Find a device based upon a Drive Letter
static public USBDevice FindDriveLetter(string DriveLetter)
USBDevice FoundDevice = null;
string InstanceID = "";
// We start by getting the unique DeviceNumber of the given
// DriveLetter. We'll use this later to find a matching
// DevicePath "symbolic name"
int DevNum = GetDeviceNumber(@"\\.\" + DriveLetter.TrimEnd('\\'));
if (DevNum < 0)
return FoundDevice;
Guid DiskGUID = new Guid(GUID_DEVINTERFACE_DISK);
// We start at the "root" of the device tree and look for all
// devices that match the interface GUID of a disk
IntPtr h = SetupDiGetClassDevs(ref DiskGUID, 0, IntPtr.Zero, DIGCF_PRESENT | DIGCF_DEVICEINTERFACE);
if (h.ToInt32() != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
bool Success = true;
int i = 0;
// create a Device Interface Data structure
SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DATA dia = new SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DATA();
dia.cbSize = Marshal.SizeOf(dia);
// start the enumeration
Success = SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces(h, IntPtr.Zero, ref DiskGUID, i, ref dia);
if (Success)
// build a DevInfo Data structure
SP_DEVINFO_DATA da = new SP_DEVINFO_DATA();
da.cbSize = Marshal.SizeOf(da);
// build a Device Interface Detail Data structure
SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA didd = new SP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA();
didd.cbSize = 4 + Marshal.SystemDefaultCharSize; // trust me
// now we can get some more detailed information
int nRequiredSize = 0;
int nBytes = BUFFER_SIZE;
if (SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail(h, ref dia, ref didd, nBytes, ref nRequiredSize, ref da))
// Now that we have a DevicePath... we can use it to
// generate another DeviceNumber to see if it matches
// the one we're looking for.
if (GetDeviceNumber(didd.DevicePath) == DevNum)
// current InstanceID is at the "USBSTOR" level, so we
// need up "move up" one level to get to the "USB" level
IntPtr ptrPrevious;
CM_Get_Parent(out ptrPrevious, da.DevInst, 0);
// Now we get the InstanceID of the USB level device
IntPtr ptrInstanceBuf = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(nBytes);
CM_Get_Device_ID(ptrPrevious, ptrInstanceBuf, nBytes, 0);
InstanceID = Marshal.PtrToStringAuto(ptrInstanceBuf);
} while (Success);
// Did we find an InterfaceID of a USB device?
if (InstanceID.StartsWith("USB\\"))
FoundDevice = FindDeviceByInstanceID(InstanceID);
return FoundDevice;


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The parents of an ill 5-year-old British boy suffering from a brain tumor are under arrest and the child is receiving medical care at a Spanish hospital after police in that country stopped their car Saturday and ended a furious two-day international manhunt, authorities said.
The ill boy, Ashya King, was found safe with "no visible signs of distress" after police in the Malaga region of Spain pulled over their Hyundai at just before 10 p.m. local time, Hampshire constable Chris Shead told reporters. It is unknown why his parents, Brett King, 51, and Naghemeh King, 45, took the child, whose condition requires complex care that police feared the couple would be unable to safely provide on their own.
"There are no winners in this situation, but thankfully, we have found Ashya," Shead said at a news conference. "Obviously we now need to speak to those parents to determine exactly what was the motivation behind them taking Ashya." The parents were arrested on an international warrant for neglect. The parents took the boy from Southampton General Hospital in the U.K. on Thursday, police said, and there were serious concerns for the boy's life if he went too long without professional treatment.

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Biological mother on drugs. Adopted at age two, but saw bio-mom on the streets. Teased by other kids. Determined to do better for myself. At 10, formed singing group with best friend. Performed for friends and family. Worked at a coffee shop for minimum wage. Broke. Shared tiny apartment. Best friend and I got a producer. At 21, signed by Interscope. Money didn't come overnight. Worked really hard for three years. Opened for Kanye West. Toured with Usher and Fat Joe. Kept working, working, working. Can't get excited—yet. Until I'm selling out arenas, it's not time to celebrate.
Born in Iran. At five, moved to Chicago. Hated winter. Iran was sunny and 80°! Attended Stanford; law school. Married boy next door. Had perfect daughter, perfect job, imperfect marriage. Divorced boy next door. Chucked job to work for mayor's office. Recruited Michelle Robinson (now Obama) to work with us. Joined Barack's first state senate race. Knew he'd go as far as he could dream. Watched election-night returns with the Obamas. Backstage at Grant Park. What to say in this moment? We'd waited so long. We locked eyes for 20 seconds, silent. I got teary. One look said 1,000 words.
Came to New York from Texas after college. Married at 25. Nine years of obnoxiously bad dead-end temp jobs. Lived in shit hole in Queens. Never thought I'd publish anything. Turning 30 felt like end of world. Made random decision to teach self to cook by making all 524 recipes in Julia Child's cookbook. Worked day job from 8:30 A.M. to 8:00 P.M., cooked and blogged at night. Got call in cubicle from The New York Times. Wanted to profile my project. Explosion. Book deal. Film starring Meryl Streep. Another book deal. Still in shock this is my life!
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Grew up in house full of artists; human weirdness was hip. Mom black, Dad white. Went to NYU for five minutes. Actress for a while—not a very good one. Got married. Wrote four or five terrible screenplays. Got divorced. Had weird psychic moment and called childhood friend. Hit him over the head and dragged him back to my cave. Married him. Created drama program for my son's school. Taught kids three things: The audience won't believe unless you believe; be honest with yourself; wave your geek flag high. Applied those rules to myself: Wrote Rachel Getting Married.
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The jailing of Raja Petra Kamarudin, a self-described risk-taker who has led Malaysia's lively blogging culture, has come to symbolize the government's new assault on Internet expression. On September 12, police raided Raja Petra's residence, seized documents, and arrested the popular blogger under the draconian Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial.
Two weeks later, Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar ordered the detention extended for two years on charges that Raja Petra published seditious and anti-Islamic articles on his blog,Malaysia Today. The government, signaling a wider crackdown on dissent, detained a newspaper journalist and an opposition politician the same day.
In the four years since he launched Malaysia Today, the 58-year-old Raja Petra has established a reputation for running news and commentary critical of the administration. This year, as the ruling party's influence has slipped, the government has stepped up harassment of the blog's founder. Raja Petra's reporting on a politicized murder case led to several days of detention on sedition charges in May and, later, to three counts of criminal defamation. In August, government regulators ordered domestic Internet service providers to block Malaysia Today on grounds that the blog was publishing seditious material. The move also happened to coincide with Raja Petra's plans to post real-time results of a special election eventually won by opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim.
Despite the government's actions, Malaysia Today has managed to survive. Raja Petra got around the censorship order by publishing the blog on a mirror site and creating new Internet addresses in foreign countries. His wife, Marina Lee Abdullah, and colleagues have continued to publish since his imprisonment. And in a September 30 post written and smuggled out of prison, Raja Petra remained defiant as he described his conditions.
That attitude was on display when CPJ interviewed Raja Petra a month before his imprisonment. "I've been charged with everything from insulting Islam, the prime minister, the sultans--every known living thing," he said, relaxing that day in a restaurant in the Bangsar neighborhood. "Islam makes it mandatory to oppose oppression. It's your duty, and it's what I'm doing."
A former businessman turned political activist, Raja Petra started Malaysia Today in August 2004 in response to what he considered to be a chronic lack of critical coverage in the state-controlled mainstream media. The site runs commentary and news from three regular, pseudonymous writers. With a steady stream of hard-hitting reports, he claims a higher daily readership than most Malaysian newspapers.
Malaysia Today has been at the forefront of the country's vibrant and proliferating blogosphere, which independent researchers, press freedom advocates, and journalists say has expanded the boundaries of Malaysian press freedom. News-driven blogs like Raja Petra's have taken hard aim at the government and individual politicians, providing a sharp counterpoint to state-led television news and ruling party-influenced newspapers. "We take risks no one else takes," Raja Petra told CPJ in August.
The Malaysian government has long held local newspapers and magazines in check through a renewable licensing system that has also led to arbitrary suspensions. National security laws such as the Internal Security Act, Sedition Act, and Official Secrets Act have instilled a culture of self-censorship at most news publications.
But a government pledge not to censor the Internet, first made in 1996, has allowed bloggers and online news sites to tackle tough issues the mainstream media habitually neglect. The no-censorship policy, developed by then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, was designed to lure foreign investment to the Multimedia Super Corridor project, a big ticket, state-led bid to incubate Malaysia's own version of the Silicon Valley.
The country's commitment to an open Internet appears to be in doubt now. With only a clutch of multinational companies in residence, the incubator project has failed to live up to commercial expectations. And as Malaysia's blogosphere has grown in political significance, the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) has seen its own position weakened. In March elections, UMNO lost its two-thirds majority in parliament and control over five of the national federation's 13 states. Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi and others have lashed with greater frequency against bloggers, claiming they publish false and libelous material.
The government's actions against Malaysia Today were the first instances in which the government directly broke its no-censorship pledge, but journalists and human rights lawyers told CPJ that troubling signs had been coming throughout the year. "The government seems to be intent on creating a climate of fear, although with dubious procedures," says Jun-E Tan, a doctoral student at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University who recently co-authored a book on Malaysian blogs and their impact on democratization.
Unconfirmed blog reports, for example, said that a hard-line UMNO faction working alongside the Science Ministry had explored closing YouTube and template blog sites such as Wordpress and Blogspot in the run-up to the March election. Around the same time, reports posted on several blogs said that UMNO's youth wing had compiled a list of 30 local bloggers it considered potential threats to social stability.
Information Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek would not confirm or deny those reports. In e-mail comments made to CPJ before Raja Petra's arrest, he said "the government encourages the growth of online journalism" and that Malaysia "was one of the freest environments on earth where blogs and bloggers are concerned, even compared with the United States, Britain, and Europe."
"What we stress is accountability. ... The government is, of course, concerned with anyone who is out to undermine the country's peace and stability," said Ahmad Shabery. "If the person who tries to incite racial discord happens to be a blogger, the government will act against him, not because he is a blogger, but because he is out to create trouble."
That's clearly how the government views the likes of Raja Petra. Last year, the blogger ran a 12-part series on corruption among police, particularly alleged links to organized crime syndicates. Before that, he ran a series of investigative reports on alleged nepotism involving Abdullah and son-in-law Khairy Jamaluddin, deputy chief of UMNO's youth wing.
"I have deep throats both inside and outside government," Raja Petra told CPJ before his imprisonment. Yet neither those sources nor his lineage to one of Malaysia's main royal families has shielded him from government harassment. Since launching his blog, Raja Petra says he has been hauled in for police questioning more times than he can remember. He has also received anonymous death threats on his cell phone, although he said he doesn't take the calls too seriously."I'm a risk-taker, not a troublemaker," he said in August. "We see how far we can go with what the government considers a crime and see if we can get away with it." Now, as Raja Petra sits in solitary confinement, the Malaysian government appears to have responded.
Shawn W. Crispin is a Bangkok-based journalist and consultant to CPJ's Asia Program.


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First-quarter 2009 net sales were $49.3 million, compared with $75.9 million in the same period of 2008. Supreme's core dry-freight and bus product sales were off 44% and 26% year-over-year, respectively.
Supreme is a Goshen, Ind.-based assembler of commercial vehicles that partly shares the same supplier base with the RV industry.
The company noted that, due to the effect of the recession and restrictive credit markets, there was a severe and pervasive downturn in commercial vehicle sales during the first quarter. Additionally, in management's judgment, a number of StarTrans customers delayed bus product purchases in anticipation of finalized Federal mass-transit stimulus funding.
The net loss for the first quarter was $1.4 million, versus net income $200,000, in last year's comparable quarter.
Robert W. Wilson, Supreme president and COO, said, "In anticipation of the steep decline in business activity, management has been prudently allocating resources to longer-term initiatives while addressing the recessionary market conditions. To date, management has implemented annualized cost reductions of approximately $12.3 million, with a large component of the savings resulting from our 36% headcount reduction."
He continued: "With the bus backlog now growing, we recently added production of the StarTrans shuttle bus line to our Woodburn, Ore., plant, where we now manufacture curved-wall fiberglass shuttle buses such as Supreme's Senator and Candidate models. This new bus production capacity enables Supreme to provide enhanced service capabilities west of the Rockies and in western Canada and improves our competitiveness in these markets due to freight-cost savings. With a full line of bus products, our nationwide presence and a strong sales organization, we are strategically well-positioned in this sector.
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Two years ago, plywood walls went up inside the Capitol sealing the west wing from the rest of the building while a massive renovation project was undertaken.
Two years ago, plywood walls went up inside the Capitol sealing the west wing from the rest of the building while a massive renovation project was undertaken.
The walls are about to come down and when they do, people may not recognize the place.
Gone is the institutional beige paint scheme, replaced with stenciling and colors that were there when the building first opened.
Long time fixtures like the first floor newsstand and the basement cafeteria are also gone, as is the mezzanine that once housed offices for news outlets that covered the Statehouse.
The maidens have returned, light fixtures originally designed for the building but deemed too risqué for 19th century Illinois sensibilities and never installed.
The period flavor extends right down to the exit signs, specially designed for the project to convey a turn-of-the-century feel as much as an electric exit sign can.
The work has come at a cost. The project price tag has grown to about $50 million from the $43.3 million when bids were awarded. The project includes not only historic restoration of the west wing, but replacement of the outdated heating, air-conditioning and ventilation system, and bringing the area up to modern life safety and disability access standards.
"This project is on budget," said Capitol architect Richard Alsop. "We had money in the budget for contingencies, so we are still within our budget range."
Money for the project is coming from bonds issued by the state to pay for public works projects. Alsop acknowledged the price tag would have been lower had the work been limited to upgrading mechanical, electrical, plumbing and ventilation systems as well as required public safety and disability access improvements. More than half the cost was for "work we needed to do," Alsop said.
However, he said it would have been a mistake to ignore historical renovations while the wing was undergoing the extensive repairs.
"If we're not going to touch this wing for 50 to 75 years, let's try to bring it back to what we call its period of significance, 1867-1908," Alsop said. "It wasn't all for life safety, but as long as we are going through that step and doing renovations that are going to last 100 years, you should really take advantage of it. Having a building like this is a jewel, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with the state Capitol being a building that draws the public in."
One thing that might draw in the public are the new doors on the Capitol's west entrance. They are wood clad with copper on the exterior. Right now the copper is as shiny as a new penny, but Alsop said they will lose their shine over the next four to five months and become a deep brown.
"The original doors were oak on the outside and black walnut on the inside, but they had a lot of bronze ornamentation," Alsop said. "Bronze is 90 percent copper."
Metal-clad wooden doors are not new, he said, and without the copper the doors would probably have to be replaced in 20 to 30 years. Alsop could not provide a price for the doors.
"We didn't create the palace, the palace was already here," Alsop said. "We just short of shined it up a little bit."
Alsop also said he could not provide a cost for the elaborate light fixtures installed through most of the wing to replicate fixtures in place during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Two of the fixtures are in offices that will be occupied by state senators that once were the offices of the attorney general. The medieval-looking fixtures each have a number of small lamps that now contain bulbs, but once would have held oil to burn for light.
St. Louis Antique Lighting fabricated the fixtures relying on historical photos and its own archives of lighting fixtures, Alsop said.
Restoring the decorative painting was a similar process. In many areas, layers of paint were scraped away until the plaster was exposed. Then restorers took a step back to the first layer of paint to uncover stenciling and colors that were part of the original building. Evergreene Painting Studios did much of the work, both repainting and creating the original designs on canvas that were then installed on walls and ceilings.
If old photographs and paint samples didn't provide enough information, the state could always turn to Iowa. Its Capitol is identical to Illinois', only it is about three-fourths the size. Both were designed by Alfred Piquenard. There was a limit to Iowa's cooperation, however.
As part of the Illinois renovation, the maidens bronze light fixtures have been installed at the bottom of the staircase leading to the third floor. The maidens were designed by Piquenard and were supposed to be installed in the original building, but they were deemed too risqué for Illinois.
"There was an Iowa delegation in town who said we'll take them. They're not too risqué for us," Alsop said. "Illinois let them have them because the same architect designed both Capitols."
They are in the Iowa Capitol to this day.
No longer thought to be too risqué, Illinois approached Iowa about getting back the maidens that were originally meant for Illinois.
"We said, hey, can we have these back. They said no," Alsop said.
Illinois then asked to make molds of the maidens. Again, no. In the end, St. Louis Lighting scanned the Iowa maidens in 3-D, allowing the company to make replicas.
Some of the restorations will seldom be seen by the public. Third floor offices to be used by Senate Republicans and their staffs had the elaborate ceiling restored. The office area itself resembles a library, appropriate for a space that once housed the state library. The offices include an elevator that goes just from the third floor to a fourth floor section that will be occupied by state senators, something required by ADA codes, Alsop said.
ADA codes are indirectly responsible for the end of the cafeteria in the Capitol basement. The basement floor had to be made level, which meant lowering in some places by as much as 18 inches. That exposed the massive limestone footings that support the building. The footings weren't spaced far enough apart to accommodate a commercial kitchen, hence no cafeteria. Much of the space will now be used by the news media displaced when the mezzanine was removed.
"The mezzanines weren't done for any other reason than space," Alsop said. "That's not always the best reason to do something, just for more space."
Workers are still putting some finishing touches on parts of the west wing. Alsop said he expects lawmakers, staff and others will be moving back in by late September and the west wing reopened to the public.


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We want to thank everyone who has been using our Robot Virtual World software and providing valuable feedback. Just so you know we're listening, here are some of the major improvements that will be coming soon!
We had to do an overhaul of our infrastructure, but our VEX Sack Attack and FTC Ring it Up competition tables now support encoders on each joint! Here's a screenshot of the Sensor and Motor Debug windows – look at all those inputs and outputs!
FTC Ring it Up!
Every NXT and TETRIX Motor on the robots is now equipped with an encoder. Due to several requests, we've also replaced the Compass Sensor with a Gyroscope! (Click the picture to enlarge)
VEX Sack Attack
Like the Ring it Up table, we've added encoders to the "shoulder" motors on Scooperbot and Clawbot. We also added a potentiometer to the scooper on Scooperbot, and Gyroscopes on all three of the robot models! (Click the picture to enlarge)
These are just some of the major improvements we've made in the competition tables. We've made lots of other great ones that you'll just have to wait to see.
Keep an eye on our blog for their public availability, scheduled for the very beginning of November.


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Broad Bean from Taiwan is crunchy and yummy. Broad bean is a perfect snack while traveling or watching TV. Broad bean is a little salty taste with natural flavor, no additive added. Once you start, it is hard to stop. Ingredients: Broad Bean, salt. Net weight: 9.8 oz. Product of Taiwan.
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Sen. Eldridge Joins Half of Senate as a Co-sponsor of Recycling Legislation
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BOSTON– In a sign that the Updated Bottle Bill has gained greater momentum for passage than ever this session, 95 legislators have signed on as a co-sponsor of the Updated Bottle Bill, including half of the Massachusetts State Senate.
"More than ever, legislators realize that the time to act and finally pass the Updated Bottle Bill is now," said State Senator Jamie Eldridge, a strong supporter and co-sponsor of the bill. "Updating the Bottle Bill is a common sense law that would help increase recycling and reduce litter in our parks, along our roads and in our streams. Passing this bill has been one of my top environmental prioritiesand it is encouraging to see that the majority of legislators are rallying together to express their strong support for this important piece of recycling legislation."
"The fact that we have twenty State Senators co-sponsoring this bill underscores the message from the Senate—a body which passed the Updated Bottle Bill in May, 2012—that this bill is right solution for the Commonwealth," said Senator Cynthia Creem, the Senate's chief sponsor of the legislation.
"I'm heartened that so many of my colleagues have joined me this session in support of an Updated Bottle Bill, and I'm optimistic that we'll pass this bill soon and protect our environment from the scourge of plastic that is permeating our environment," said Representative Tom Conroy (D-Wayland), a cosponsor who shares a portion of Senator Eldridge's district.
Adding to the bill's surge of momentum, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Rick Sullivan recently proposed an increase in the bottle bill handling fee. This handling fee is what the bottling industry pays at redemption centers, grocery stores and other businesses for collecting and transporting bottles and cans for recycling. For years, bottle redemption centers, small, family-owned businesses that are a key part of making the bottle bill work, have been asking for an increase in this fee, which has stood at 2.25 cents for over 20 years. Raising the handling fee establishes a greater financial incentive for redemption centers and provides more places for consumers to turn in their bottles and collect the deposit fees.
Mass Audubon Director of Advocacy Jack Clarke echoed Pruitt's remarks: "We hope that EEA's proposal, a welcome and necessary one, and the tremendous support from this year's legislature will give even more momentum to our coalition's effort to pass an update to the Bottle Bill in the legislature. Containers without the 5-cent deposit, like water, sports drinks, vitamin beverages and iced teas are becoming more popular, and creating more litter in our ball fields, parks and beaches. Updating the bottle bill, which would get that 5-cent deposit on these everyday beverages, would reduce litter, increase recycling and save cities and towns money in litter pick up and disposal costs," Clarke added.


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Undecided about what to serve on Super Bowl Sunday? Even if [insert your favorite team] loses, here are 21 suggestions that are sure to please a crowd -- and if you're still in need of inspiration, take a look at last year's Super Bowl roundup.
Caramelized Pork Bánh Mì by monkeymom
Michelada (aka Bloody Beer) by TheFlyingFoodie
Caesar Salad with Pancetta by Marie Viljoen
Horseradish Dill Potato Salad by thirschfeld
Terence Hill's Beans by Marie Viljoen
Tipsy Maple Corn by thirschfeld
Broccoli Rabe, Potato and Rosemary Pizza by TasteFood
Dip Included Buffalo Wings by foodfighter
Roasted Fennel and White Bean Dip by singing_baker
KFC: Korean Fried Chicken Wings by ravenouscouple
Devils on Hatchback by Helenthenanny
Dan Barber's Braised Short Ribs by amanda
Caramelized Onion Dip by ADRIENE
Crispy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies by merrill
Butternut Squash and Roasted Garlic Galette by lorinarlock
Party Mix for Grownups by merrill
Lamb Burgers with Cilantro Yogurt by naomi
Pasta Al Forno with Pumpkin and Pancetta by merrill
Brussels Sprouts Salad a la M. Wells by amanda
Curried Lentil Dip by safenervine
Hungarian Meatballs by Bogre
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This week, Papa Kenn reviews the film that many critics are lauding as "Perfect" and "one of the best films of 2012″… ZERO DARK THIRTY! Does it really stand up to their praise?
"Zero Dark Thirty"
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writers: Mark Boal
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Harold Perrineau
Review Transcript:
So how do you take the story of hunting down and killing Osama bin Laden, and make it into a bore of a movie? Well, you could make it a documentary, or you could do what Hollywood did and make it a feature film called…Zero Dark Thirty!
Now don't get me wrong, this movie is technically well done. Technically well done. The acting is ok…I guess. Jessica Chastain gives a decent performance, though I've seen her do better. She gets a pass though because she's hot and has red hair. Sorry, it's a weakness. Otherwise the film looks good and…is historically accurate-ish? Actually it's hard to say it always looks good because of the shaky camera shots!
So why do I say Zero Dark Thirty is boring? Well to start off, they went for the realistic approach. Normally this isn't a bad thing, because the writers and directors behind other realistic historical films take enough creative license to create tension and/or make them interesting! Now admittedly it's hard to make or even maintain tension in a movie like this because it spans an entire decade, and almost every explosion is telegraphed if you've paid attention to 1/100th of current events over the past ten years.
While the acting is fine, there is not a single interesting character. No, not even Jessica Chastain as Maya. It's all bland, bland, boring, politics, moody, bland, telegraphed explosion! In fact the only time anyone seems to show any real emotion, they're either being tortured or telegraphing their own demise. Then one character who only shows up for one scene is literally there to gush about Maya and to act as a source of exposition to get things moving along because she found vital information that got buried due to "human error" (aka convenient plot point). We never actually see her finding this information, nor do we ever see her again, but that's the exposition fairy at work I guess.
The last three films I've seen have all been over 2 hours in length: The Hobbit (2:49), Django Unchained (2:45), and Zero Dark Thirty (2:37). Both The Hobbit and Django Unchained I could have watched for another hour or two and still loved them. Zero Dark Thirty on the other hand…I was ready to get up and leave because I checked my phone and saw that I still hand over an hour and a half left to watch.
So what kept me in my seat? Knowing that the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was coming. No matter how boring I found the rest of the movie, surely the big attack we've been building up to this whole time would have the intensity and passion that the rest of this movie was lacking, right? Wrong! No tension, no passion, and instead of sounding like a group of trained soldiers on a serious mission, they sound like your average Joe in combat gear out for a stroll around a paintball field! This wouldn't be a big deal except for the fact that they're supposed to be Seal Team Six! I don't know, I would expect that they'd actually be taking the mission seriously!
Bottom line, this movie really disappointed me. The fact that it was nominated for four Golden Globes (one of which was won by Jessica Chastain) simply baffles me, and high rankings from both critics and regular viewers alike simply blows my mind. It's "well made" and apparently pleases a fair number of people, but I say save your money and watch Cartman kick bin Laden's *** on South Park.
I give Zero Dark Thirty: 2/5
I'm Papa Kenn, and spoiler alert: wait until after the credits for a sneak preview of the upcoming sequel "O-zombie bin Laden-pocalypse", directed by Michael Bay. Because…why the hell not?
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Can you get stage fright on reality TV?
"Taxi" star Tony Danza admitted that the thought of standing up in front of high school students for his soon-to-be released show, "Teach: Tony Danza," was enough to give him butterflies in the stomach, the L.A. Times reported.
"You're intellect is on display," he said before a Television Critics Association panel. "It's nerve-wracking."
Danza spent the past year teaching English class to 10th graders in Philadelphia's largest high school.
"I hope the series shows what it's actually like to be a teacher in a public school in America," Danza told EW.com, "and shines a light on some of the problems facing us all as we try to educate our children."
Danza deals with grading quizzes, teaching band class, and confronting cell phones in the classroom.
The former "Who's the Boss" star said one of the most surprising lessons he learned while shooting the show was that high school students could text with their phones still in their pockets.
"They can look right at you and they're texting. It's the craziest thing you've ever seen!" he said.
Danza was offered Kelsey Grammar's role on Broadway in the play "La Cage Aux Folles" during filming of the reality show, but chose to remain on the A&E project.
Before leaving the TCA press conference, Mr. D did take a shot at another reality TV show thats making an impression with teenagers: Jersey Shore.
Danza said the MTV show is teaching kids that "bad behavior pays off."
His new show is set to debut in October.


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The app is a story book for toddlers and young children. The story titled -"The Lion and The Hare", is adapted from fables called Panchantantra. The story, which is told through the animals and birds, have an universal appeal and intends to entertain and enrich the children.
In this app, the story is narrated by a grandfather to his grand kids in a contemporary setting. The app offers a great illustration, engaging storyline and some interactive features. Enjoy over 40 colorful pages of this classic story filled with fun, interaction and imagination.
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The head of the United Nations called for a Middle East cease-fire late Sunday, hours after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed 12 people, most from one family.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged an immediate end to the violence between the Israelis and Palestinians, which was headed into its sixth day. Ban said he would go to Cairo to try to help engineer a truce.
"This must stop," he said in a statement. "I strongly urge the parties to cooperate with all efforts led by Egypt to reach an immediate cease-fire."
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said his government was willing to consider a cease-fire but only after a total halt to rocket fire on Israel, Israel Radio said.
Palestinian health officials said at least 26 Gazans were killed Sunday, including at least 14 women and children, the BBC reported.
The British network said more than 70 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed since the latest outbreak of hostilities last week. Palestinian officials said at least 600 more have been wounded, The New York Times reported.
Israel's "Operation Pillar of Defense" has included more than 1,000 Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, while hundreds of Palestinian rockets have rained on Israel.
Israel said the bomb that wiped out 10 members of a family in its Gaza home and two neighbors was aimed at a top Hamas militant, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. Israeli subsequently said the Hamas militant in question, Yehya Bayaa, may have survived the attack. Hama vowed to retaliate.
Haaretz quoted Israeli military officials as saying the wrong house was hit because of a "technical error."
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told reporters before his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday Israel is prepared to escalate its military operation.
"We are exacting a heavy price from Hamas and the (other) terrorist organizations, and [Israel's military] is prepared for a significant expansion of its operations," Netanyahu said.
The BBC said Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi warned an Israeli ground invasion will have "serious repercussions" and added Egypt would never accept it "and neither will the free world."
U.N., Arab League and European diplomats -- including French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius -- have been trying to defused the violence.
"War can be avoided," Fabius said after meeting Sunday with Netanyahu. "War must be avoided."
President Barack Obama said Sunday violence in Gaza threatened to further complicate the already slow progress toward a lasting peace in the region.
Speaking at a news conference in Thailand Sunday, the president said he had been in contact with the leaders of Egypt and Turkey and reminded them that a workable deal to end the current violence was vital.
"What I have said ... is that those who champion the cause of the Palestinians should recognize that if we see a further escalation of the situation in Gaza, then the likelihood of us getting back on any kind of peace track that leads to a two-state solution is going to be pushed off way into the future," he said.
Obama said halting Hamas rocket attacks was a required first step toward getting Israel to wind down its counteroffensive.
"There is no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders," he said. "So we are fully supportive of Israel's right to defend itself from missiles landing on people's homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians."
Israeli officials said about 120 rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza Sunday -- with at least 38 of them intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system. However one rocket struck a vehicle in the town of Ofakim, injuring an undetermined number of people, and another struck a carport at a home with a woman inside the home, CNN said.
Explosions were heard around Gaza City, and Israeli forces said they knocked out a transmitter that Hamas had been using on the roof of a building used by international journalists.


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On February 2, 2012, the California Fish and Game Commission voted 5-0 to add both species of the mountain yellow-legged frog to the list of animals protected under the California Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be releasing its proposed rule related to listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in October 2012.
Details are provided in the Frog Blog.
Purpose of this Site
This site provides up-to-date information on the natural history and conservation of the mountain yellow-legged frog, a group of two closely-related species (Rana muscosa and Rana sierrae) that inhabit California's highest mountains.
As an aquatic ecologist fascinated by the fauna of mountain habitats, I've spent the last 15 years studying mountain yellow-legged frogs in the Sierra Nevada. Unfortunately, this research and that of my colleagues indicates that this once-abundant amphibian is disappearing. Many of the lakes and ponds in which I observed mountain yellow-legged frogs just a few years ago no longer contain them, leaving behind an eerie silence.
Against this background of population disappearances, it is heartening to see the growing interest in conserving these frogs. To further that interest, this site distills the burgeoning scientific and management literature on mountain yellow-legged frogs down into the key facts related to natural history, current status, threats, and ongoing conservation efforts.
The information on this site is based on the latest available scientific studies, but also includes the scientific opinions of its author, Dr. Roland Knapp.


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TRU-SPEC Named a Premier Sponsor of Georgia Tactical Officer's Association
Marietta, GA – TRU-SPEC®, one of the leading suppliers of uniforms and personal equipment to the military, law enforcement and public safety markets, has announced their title as a Premier Sponsor for the 10th Annual Georgia Tactical Officer's Association Conference, held March 3-5, 2014 at the Macon Marriott City Center in Macon, GA. As part of the sponsorship, TRU-SPEC will be giving the first 300 registrants to the conference a 24-7 Series® Tactical Tee Shirt. The instructors and board members will also be outfitted in TRU-SPEC® 24-7 Series® Tactical Pants and Polos throughout the show. The GTOA Conference was created to bring affordable, quality training to tactical police officers in the State of Georgia. This year it will host over 30 law enforcement instructors from as far away as Los Angeles and Chicago bringing their knowledge and expertise to the GTOA members.
"The GTOA Annual Conference, which began with less than 25 tactical officers in attendance is now training over 250 police officers a year," stated GTOA President, Lt. Dennis Valone. "This conference has grown substantially over the past 5 years and a big part of that growth is the continued support GTOA receives from its corporate sponsors. Since the first conference few sponsors have been dedicated year in and year out to our mission- Saving Officers Lives Through Training. I am proud to say that TRU-SPEC® has been there since day one and is still a valued and trusted corporate sponsor."
In addition to their sponsorship, TRU-SPEC® will be displaying their popular line of apparel, including several new items, in booth 39 & 40 at the GTOA Vendor Expo on March 3.
Among those items to be highlighted include, the MultiCam® Black pattern, developed by Crye Precision and DURO Industries. The pattern projects a distinctly authoritative presence appropriate for domestic operations and is designed to compliment officer's existing equipment, while presenting a sharp, professional image for the top-tier law enforcement units. MultiCam® Black will be available in TRU-SPEC® high tech Tactical Response Uniform (TRU), constructed with CORDURA® NYCO fabric which provides exceptional durability, comfort and No Melt, No Drip thermal performance.
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text: Show Hide image Politics 15 November 2012 Shane Warne: King of the spinners Ed Smith reviews a biography of Shane Warne, modern sport's method actor. Sign-up On Warne Gideon HaighSimon & Schuster, 224pp, £16.99 Facing Shane Warne was only incidentally about cricket. Sport was the medium but the substance was drama. He turned cricket into a show and appointed himself the leading man. It went deeper: he projected an aura of certainty that he was also writing the scripts. He united three forms of psychological dominance: one part circus master, one part chess wizard, one part Hollywood star. That left you, the batsman, to choose between being a clown, a pawn or a walk-on part. Many – most – acquiesced. I played quite a few matches against Warne, spread over seven years when he played for Hampshire (three of them as captain). They were the most absorbing hours I ever had with a cricket bat in my hand. It would be absurd to boast about it – especially as he got me out three times in first-class cricket – but I spent enough time at the crease to observe how he operated, the traps he set for you. His bowling was merely brilliant. His psychological mastery of events was much better. Above all, he always suggested he knew something you didn't, some secret that gave him the eternal upper hand. "Part of the art of spin bowling," he has argued, "is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't." The phrase "It was a privilege to play against him" is tossed around too lightly but that is exactly how I feel about Warne. Leg spin is the hardest thing in cricket and arguably the most artful activity in sport. All leg-spinners live on the precipice of disaster. They risk their own humiliation in the pursuit of the batsman's. Most leg-spinners are fragile match-winners, the equivalent of frail foot-balling playmakers. Warne was the exception. Far from crumbling under pressure, he craved it. Fans loved him for his bullying of lesser players. Cricket insiders respect him for the opposite reason: the way he relished bowling at the greats. Warne was the opposite of a flat-track bully. He was also extremely gracious, pointedly so. If an opponent played well, even if it had been just a cameo, he singled them out after the game. When he felt an opponent had shown positive intent or had "had a go", he rarely missed an opportunity to say so. Nor was he aloof. When I was a 22-year-old Kent player and Warne was one of the best-known sportsmen in the world, I passed him in the corridor at the back of the dressing rooms. It seemed the most natural thing in the world for him to say, "G'day mate!" even though we'd never met. I'd been introduced to England captains and received frostier reactions. Gideon Haigh's slim, elegant book On Warne has its own kind of confidence. A highly intelligent Australian cricket writer, Haigh doesn't exaggerate his limited access. The title is deliberately essayistic and Haigh is an excellent essayist. Rather than trying to have the last word on Warne, he wants to capture a truthful likeness, even if it is necessarily impressionistic. The assumption of the book is that an astute and independent writer can strike deeper truths than a compromised but diligent biographer. Haigh is right. It goes without saying that Warne is a quintessential Australian – bleach-blond, fun-loving and ultra-competitive. Haigh, however, thinks that Warne is a very particular type of Australian. Where Donald Bradman embodied the gritty self-reliance of rural Australia, Warne reflected socially aspirational suburbia. But is that how Australia likes to see itself? Warne has complained that he is treated more kindly in this country than his own. Perhaps his personality is a bit too close to the bone for Australian tastes. Australia is split along a different axis, too. There is an American Australia and there is an English Australia. The American Australia is optimistic, bullish, welcoming but a bit brash. The English Australia is studiously modest, self-parodic and despises showing off. Warne is very much an American Australian. He might be engaged to Elizabeth Hurley but he has always given the impression of a man who could nip off to Las Vegas at any moment. That was one of the tensions that ran through Warne's career in the baggy, green Australian cap. Steve Waugh, preferred over Warne for the captaincy, cultivated the idea of the humble Aussie battler. Warne was never going to fit easily into that mould. Paradoxically, Warne went back a generation into a formative friendship with Ian Chappell, the ultimate alpha-male warrior captain of the 1970s. Warne and Chappell happily united in shared contempt for the uselessness of coaches (Chappell loves saying that the only use for a coach is to drive you to the ground), health drinks, warm-ups, psychobabble and team bonding exercises. Yet sportsmen tend to cherry-pick their sense of history. One of the book's telling dressing-room anecdotes describes Warne urgently ordering a beer just before a visit from a group of hardbitten rugby players. His cricketing teammates ribbed him mercilessly for affecting a yeoman simplicity. Would Warne really have enjoyed cricket so much back in the day, when it was a commercial backwater and a night out meant 15 beers and possibly a shaved eyebrow or two? Haigh suggests that Warne's self-image as a throwback to the no-nonsense "good old days" fails to acknowledge how much he benefited from the changed status of professional sportsmen. On Warne is full of lightly worn erudition. Haigh quotes Alan Ross's poem "Watching Benaud Bowl": "Leg spinners pose problems much like love/Requiring commitment/The taking of a chance." Haigh contributes plenty of exquisite phrases himself. This is his summary of the Warne run-up: "Eight paces: that's all it was. And only the last few counted . . . Something so simple, so brief and so artless could cause so much perplexity at the other end." Haigh captures the way Warne passed the ball from hand to hand between deliveries – "languidly, voluptuously, like somebody feeling warm sand run through his fingers". Haigh is equally astute on how the great spinner changed. "Early Warne" was so good that he could destroy teams with near unplayable balls. "Late Warne", Haigh argues, was more interesting because he relied more on intelligence. "The bluff, the kidology and air of cultivated knowingness grew with each passing year – the sense that you were watching Shane Warne playing at being Shane Warne." Haigh does not take his logic further. Might that cultivation of an act have caused deep problems elsewhere? He leaves unexplored the possibility that a carefully cultivated persona can be constraining as well as liberating. Bit by bit, many great sportsmen lose track of who they once were. In seeking mastery of an authentic personality on the stage, authenticity in "civilian" life becomes ever more elusive. Perhaps that goes with the job. The word "player" derives from the stage. Only recently has a player been a sportsman rather than an actor. Warne's showmanship reminds us of that link with the word's past. All great actors sacrifice something of themselves in their pursuit of a truthful performance. So do sportsmen. Warne, the great method actor of modern sport, has perhaps paid a higher price than most. Ed Smith's "Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters" is published by Bloomsbury (£16.99) Ed Smith is a journalist and author, most recently of Luck. 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The Wayne National Forest is located in the hills of southeastern
Ohio. This small national forest, in the heart of the heavily populated
Midwest, covers almost a quarter million acres of Appalachian foothills. The
Wayne is divided into three blocks administered by two Ranger Districts at
Athens and Ironton. A field office is also located east of Marietta.
Visitors to national forest lands are welcome to camp, hike, hunt and
fish. The Forest boundaries surround a checkerboard pattern of ownership,
with public and private ownership interspersed. There are over 300 miles of
trails on the Forest for hiking, all-terrain vehicle (ATV) riding,
mountain biking, or horseback riding.
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Discover the wonder and beauty of the Wayne National Forest. Tucked away
in the Appalachian foothills, you'll experience the natural beauty of
wildflowers, rocks formations, trees, butterflies, and abundant wildlife.
Explore the Forest's hills, fishing lakes, rivers, and trails. Every
season holds its own special beauty: the white dogwoods and pink redbuds of
spring; summer's emerald hills reflected in quiet lakes; the colorful pallet
of autumn; and the shimmering beauty of a new snowfall. Campgrounds
sheltered under towering trees and thousands of acres open to hunting and
nature study await your visit.
The Wayne NF is located in three units. These units are located across
twelve Ohio Counties. Although the boundaries include 833,990 acres, most of
the land within those boundaries is in private ownership. The national
forest exists as a patchwork across the land, normally occupying lands less
suitable for agricultural or commercial development.
The mix of open land and forest provides a wide variety of wildlife
habitats. Common mammals include white-tailed deer, gray fox, woodchuck,
opossum, and gray squirrel. Common birds are turkey, ruffed grouse, pleated
woodpecker and wood duck.
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Wayne National Forest
13700 US Highway 33
Nelsonville, OH 45764
(740) 753-0101
Additional Information:
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The Wayne
National Forest manages many resources with the objective of
caring for the land and serving people. Management protects
natural resource values, public health and safety, and is
consistent with the Forest land and resource management goals
outlined in the Forest Plan. In order to meet these objectives,
permits may be required for the occupancy and use of Forest
Service land or resources. Additionally, passes assist is
funding certain management projects or activities.
Two documents may help with these type of permits in the "Other
category". The first document describes the application process and
the second is the form applicants need to complete.
Please contact the appropriate
Ranger District Office for more information on obtaining
a permit.
Backpacking or cross country hiking is permitted anywhere on National Forest
(NF) lands. Take extra precautions during hunting seasons by wearing bright
orange clothing. It is a good idea to carry a compass. Forest streams do not
meet the safety standards for drinking water. We recommend taking your water
with you. NF ownership is not continuous and private lands are interspersed.
Respect the rights of these owners by staying on public lands.
Keep away from oil/gas operations, they are private property and potentially
dangerous. Pump jacks may begin to operate without warning and any open
flame, firearm discharge, or spark could cause an explosion.
Except for seeing eye dogs, all pets must be caged or placed on a leash no
longer than six feet long when using designated trails, at trailheads, or
within any developed recreation areas.
Primitive Camping
Primitive Camping is allowed on NF land away from developed campgrounds and
anywhere that your camping equipment and/or vehicle do not block developed
trails or road right-of-ways.
Plan to bring enough drinking water for the duration of your stay. Leave a
clean campsite by packing out all refuse. There is no charge for primitive
camping, although a 14 day limitation is in effect. It is not normally
necessary to check in with the Forest Service. However, groups larger than
25 people require a permit and prior coordination is required.
Small, open fires are permitted except during extremely high fire danger. No
special permits are required. Please use extreme caution with campfires and
make sure they are dead out before vacating the campsite. Use only dead and
down material for firewood. Cutting or defacing live trees or shrubs is
prohibited. Campfires are not allowed within rock shelters.
Permits Required
A Forest Trail Permit is required to operate off-road vehicles and mountain
bikes or to ride horses on the Wayne National Forest. Please review the
Forest Trail Permit System.
Non-motorized bicycles are permitted on the ATV trail systems on the Wayne
NF. A handout is available showing which trails allow for mountain bikes.
Use caution since bicycles are sharing the trails with ATVs and hikers.
All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs)
There are several areas which provide designated ATV trails. All vehicles
must be properly licensed or have an APV sticker and drivers must abide by
State laws.
Campground Reservations
Reservations are not required for developed campsites. However, to be
assured a campsite, especially on holiday weekends, you may wish to make a
reservation. To reserve a campsite at the Vesuvius or Leith Run Recreation
Areas call the National Reservation System at the toll free number
1-877-444-6777. Hearing impaired persons should call 1-877-833-6777. You can
also reserve a site online at www.recreation.gov. A reservation service fee
of $10 will be charged. You should call 5 days in advance. Camping is
limited to 14 days within a 21 day period.
Personal property should not be left unattended for more than 24 hours and
campsites should be occupied the first night.
Hunting, Trapping, and Fishing
State laws on hunting, trapping and fishing are enforced on NF lands,
requiring either a resident or non-resident license. Generally hunting is
allowed anywhere on NF land. An exception is recreation areas with
designated boundaries. In all areas with scattered ownership please have a
detailed map and do not trespass on adjacent private land.
Discharging a firearm (including a bow and arrow) is prohibited in or within
150 yards of a developed recreation site, trailhead, a residence, or any
place where people are likely to be. Shooting across roads or bodies of
water is also prohibited. State law prohibits target practicing on all
public lands (including the Wayne National Forest), except when legally
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Partnerships in Character Education Program
Oregon Department of Education Abstract
Contact: Robert Siewert
Oregon Department of Education
255 Capitol Street NE
Salem, OR 973100203
(503) 3783600 ext. 2291
Web site: http://www.ode.state.or.us/cifs/grants/charactered
Oregon Partnerships in Character Education Program
Application Number: R215V980004
Project Period: 7/1/986/30/03
FY 1998 Award: $185,551
FY 1999 Award: $190,044
FY 2000 Award: $197,180
FY 2001 Award: $204,057
FY 2002 Award: $223,150
The goals of the Oregon Character Education Partnership Project are to:
increase capacity in Oregon schools to establish comprehensive character education programs that will foster high academic achievement and good character in students; and
improve student achievement, attitudes and behaviors, staff morale, and community support for schools by developing and implementing comprehensive models of character education.
The project is aligned with other initiatives that support school improvement in Oregon. These include:
integrating character education into Oregon's broader school reform initiative through the use of the continuous improvement model;
establishing 12 effective comprehensive models for other schools to emulate; and
documenting, analyzing, and disseminating the project's products and processes through an online clearinghouse.
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Darien Junior Legion swept by Stamford
Mustering only five runs over a three-game set, Darien-New Canaan Junior Legion was swept this past weekend by second-place Stamford in a critical series that dropped the team one game out of the state playoff picture.
Last Saturday, Stamford (17-5) scored six runs in the first inning en route to a 6-2 series-opening victory, before it took both ends of a Sunday doubleheader at Darien High School. Billy Blau fired a complete game shutout and batted in two runs during the afternoon's first contest, a 3-0 Stamford win, leading up to a pitchers' duel in the finale. As each team managed only a single hit until the final two frames, Darien-New Canaan left the bases loaded at the final out of an eventual 4-3 defeat.
Darien-New Canaan (12-11) lost its sixth straight overall, while Stamford all but solidified itself a spot in the state tournament later this month. Armed with an aggressive approach at the plate and on the base paths, Stamford scratched across a run in each inning from the third through the sixth, despite tallying only four hits.
"Our approach is always to be very aggressive and put the pressure on the defense," Stamford coach Scott Giorgi said. "All three games were very close. It was a good team we played, and we were very fortunate to come out on top."
Darien-New Canaan starter Charlie Sealy went the distance in the one-run loss, as did each of his team's hurlers who preceeded him against Stamford. Over seven innings, he totaled four strikeouts and allowed only one hit ball to leave the infield, a triple to right-center from Ruben Rodriguez, which opened the sixth. In the subsequent at-bat, Rodriguez came around to score for the second time on the game via a sacrfice and extend Stamford's lead to 4-0. It was Sealy's lone earned run of the day, as the defense behind him recorded three errors.
"Those small, small errors turned into big ones today. Whenever they got a runner on base with nobody out, they were able to manufacture that into a run, and that's what hurt us," Darien-New Canaan coach Michael Patrona said."Charlie's been great. He's an excellent pitcher. He knows what he needs to do ... If he gets a little help from his defense, this game might've ended differently."
However, the star of the game was Sealy's counterpart, 14-year-old Stamford starter Anthony Franglose. Franglose, who will be entering the ninth grade this fall, threw six and a third innings and took his exit only after surrendering a pair of late walks. First baseman Chris Clemmenson then entered and loaded the bases with a walk of his own, before inducing outs from Danny O'Boyle and Thomas Williams around a run-scoring hit by pitch.
"He's a monster. He's a man-child and he's just a super kid," Giorgi said of his starter. "We gave him his first start and he pitched great. He just kind of got a little tired towards the end, and we used one of our guys in relief."
One inning earlier, Darien-New Canaan infused some much-needed life into its dugout by putting runners on every base with one out. Next, the home team plated two runs via a pass ball and fielder's chocie, but the much-needed, clutch RBI-hit still evaded Darien-New Canaan, as it has for the last half-dozen games.
"We have to realize we have to have that kind of energy for seven innings," Patrona said. "And that's the hard thing with summer baseball. Today it's hot, it's muggy and whatever ... but if you want to be a good team, you've got to have that energy."


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As the New Hampshire House of Representatives came back into session last week, a new atmosphere of bipartisan cooperation and open communication between the two parties was symbolized best by the new seating plan that had Republican and Democratic House members seated next to one another rather than split into voting blocks.
But, just as there is hope for a renewed focus on working across party lines to find common ground and solutions to the problems facing our state, there are some issues that the House was forced to revisit early in the session.
Some have criticized the new Democratic leadership for revisiting the gun ban in the House chamber and gallery on our first day of session. While I agree that there are many more important issues facing our state, I want to set the record straight about why the House dealt with this issue on our first day.
Quite simply, the House needs to approve rules on their first day of session in order to conduct all other business and the gun ban, as it had existed for 40 years, was a part of the House Rules. This was not simply a decision to reverse the decision of a Bill O'Brien-led House, but rather a return to a policy that had worked for Democratic and Republican majorities dating back to Republican Speaker Marshall Cobleigh in the early 1970s.
While the Republican-led House was widely (and rightly) criticized two years ago for repealing the gun ban in the House chamber on their first day, the criticism was largely derived from the House GOP reversing a policy that had been in place for close to 40 years and without regard for public safety concerns of having guns in a public building that is regularly visited by school groups.
And while there were certainly many other issues that we could have spent our Wednesday afternoon discussing, as representatives, we have a duty to have an open and honest debate of all issues that come before the House. Unlike the previous House leadership, we did not limit debate, nor will we going forward on any issue.
I would also add that reinstating the gun ban was not the first piece of business that the NH House acted upon this year. Even though it was not as exciting a headline, prior to the debate on the House Rules, the House unanimously approved a bill to help save the taxpayers of the Newfound School District hundreds of thousands of dollars when it passed a fix to legislation passed through the GOP-led legislature 2 years ago.
This first piece of legislation showed that Democrats and Republicans could effectively work together to help solve problems and it set the right tone for the coming session. While there will be times that the NH House must revisit and reverse some of the more extreme policies that were passed by the Bill O'Brien-led House over the last 2 years, the priority of House Democrats is to focus on finding common-sense solutions to the problems facing our state.
Editor's note: We stand by an earlier editorial criticizing the Democratic-led House for making the gun debate its first order of business. It was an unneeded confrontation when the Republicans did it. It was likewise unneeded from the Democrats. We would also note that State Rep. Jim Verschueren, a Dover Democrat, supported efforts which could have avoided or at least minimized this distraction from the critical issues of jobs and the economy. As for the headline offered by Rep. Shurtleff for this editorial response, we would suggest Democrats did refight an ideological battle.


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Dennis and Joyce O'Connell's '55 F-100
Have you ever heard the saying "third time's a charm"? Well, for Dennis O'Connell you could say forth or fifth time is a charm. It all started with Dennis building a couple Volkswagens for his kids, but he always wanted a hot rod for himself—a '32 Ford coupe to be exact. While at a softball tournament for his daughter in Denver, Colorado, he got a phone call the type of which every parent fears. It was the Chico (California) police saying that his son had been in a serious car accident. Dennis's first question was if he was still alive. The officer said yes, but he was hurt pretty bad. So Dennis booked the first flight home to see his son and be there for him during his recovery.
While at the hospital the family talked about what to do with the crashed Jeep and decided to give the young O'Connell the family Chevy van as his replacement vehicle. Dennis says that if he could've given his son a tank to drive he would have. Dennis and his wife, Joyce, had a follow-up discussion, again, at the hospital, about what he was going to drive now that the van was spoken for. Dennis suggested that he buy a truck and build it with an old-school hot rodding theme in mind. Well, Dennis admits that he sort of took advantage of Joyce's fragile mental state at the time, but he would try anything to get his mind off his boy's recovery. Joyce had spent a lot of time going to road races and other car-related events so it really wasn't that hard of a sell for Dennis. Lucky guy.
While Dennis sat next to his son in the hospital bed he searched for a truck and spotted an ad for a '55 Ford for sale in a nearby town. The truck already had a Ford 429 big-block and a front clip from a Thunderbird, and Dennis thought that would work great.
Knowing that he'd have a high level of anxiety from leaving his son's bedside for long, he knew that if he were to purchase the truck it would have to be a quick turnaround trip. A few days went by and Dennis' brother-in-law came to visit and so he thought this would be an appropriate time to get away and take a look at the '55. Dennis really didn't know what he was looking for at the time but when he got a chance to drive the Ford it drove straight and accelerated like a bat out of hell. When he got back from the test drive he took a peek under the hood and the 429 had a circle track-style carb that was either fully on or off, like a light switch. You couldn't take off from a stop without spinning the tires, and Dennis thought it was perfect. On such a high from the test drive Dennis agreed to pay the ridiculously high asking price and a few days later picked it up and drove it back to the hospital to see his son again.
The truck drove great but the paint lacked the glossy finish that he thought it deserved. The original paint had been painted over several times and the previous owners' attempts to do paintwork were not very good. Also, the rear fender had a nasty patch job and the tailgate was bent from abuse. The faded red paint and blue spots with sandpaper scratches had to go. Dennis said the hardest part of building the truck was learning how to do bodywork and use a spray gun. Dennis tried over and over to get the bodywork right, then one day it clicked in his head on how to do it perfect. After a little trial and error with body filler Dennis finally painted the '55 the way he had envisioned it.
Driving home one year from Hot August Nights the wind kicked up in the middle of the desert and the fresh paintjob suffered from sand and rock damage. This time he thought it would be a great opportunity to repaint the truck in PPG Henna Red and add some scallops to the hood and bed. The second paintjob turned out to be nicer than Dennis could have imagined. Not bad for a home enthusiast. In fact, I would let him paint my truck!CT
Dennis & Joyce O'Connell
Brentwood, California
1955 Ford F-100
Frame: modified stock
Modifications: front clip
Rearend / Ratio: 9" / 3.25
Rear suspension: drop leaf
Rear brakes: Ford 11" disc
Front suspension: Thunderbird
Front brakes: Thunderbird
Steering box: Thunderbird
Front wheels: American Racing Torq-Thrust II 15×7
Rear wheels: American Racing Torq-Thrust II 15×10
Front tires: BFGoodrich Radial T/A 235/60R15
Rear tires: BFGoodrich Radial T/A 285/70R15
Gas tank: stock tank in cab w/ Triangle Engineering under bed
Engine: Ford 429 bored to 435 by Skip Govia Racing Engines of Hayward, CA
Heads: Ford Dove C with SS valves
Valve covers: Ford SVO
Manifold: Edelbrock
Ignition: Mallory Unilite distributor w/ Promaster coil and 6A ignition box
Headers: Mad Dog Ford Galaxy headers
Exhaust / Mufflers: 3" custom
Transmission: Ford C-6 built by Shucks Transmissions of Dublin, CA
Modifications: shift kit
Shifter: Lokar
Style: F-100
Fenders front: stock
Hood: stock
Grille: stock
Bed: stock w/ cover
Bodywork and paint by: owner painted, scallops by the late Cary Greenwood
Paint type / Color: PPG / Henna Red
Headlights / Taillights: stock
Outside mirrors: stock
Bumpers: stock front will holes filled, SS rear
Dashboard: stock
Gauges: Sacramento Vintage Ford
Air conditioning: Hot Rod Air
Stereo: hidden
Steering wheel: Grant Elite GT 14"
Steering column: Flaming River
Seats: re-covered stock
Upholstery by: owner
Material / Color: vinyl / black
Carpet: black loop