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Later, after the men in jumpsuits had driven up and begun digging the hole, Stevick would remember that the guy on the bench beside him had been gazing puzzledly into the cone of his large coffee and had tried to interest him in the question of whether the café's brew aftertasted of soap or not. This day was gray, with heavy portents of rain. Not the best for sitting on the coffee shop's bench, but the interior of the café had become insufferable in all ways to Stevick: the shop's ambience and fancy name, its well-programmed iPod and fake-industrial chairs and tables and counters succeeding too completely, the room seething with overdressed-dishevelled types, nerve-rackedly Web surfing or doing the real-world equivalent with eye orbits through the room, every last one of whom made him feel mossy, corroded, replaced. Add to that the danger of running into his ex, Charlotte, and he never even glanced within in hope of a seat—he didn't want one. Just black, to go. He was an outdoor-bencher, he'd take his chances with the others here, backs to the shop's window, and if rain drove them off he'd have it to himself. Nor did he care to consider whether the coffee tasted of soap or not. He was getting his morning thrill on, his eye-opener, and this place, besides being on the right corner of the right block for him to stumble in, made a fine, joltingly strong concoction strictly from the addict's point of view. It could taste of lysergic acid or oysters, for all he cared. Maybe every cup of coffee he'd ever drunk had tasted of soap, so he couldn't discern soap from coffee—who knew?
Stevick, meant to be job hunting, wasn't. Too generous severance had blurred his motivation in the months when it would have mattered. Now, season slanting to Memorial Day, the flag of Manhattan's office life was at half-mast until September. So Stevick was propped like a morning crow on that bench when the truck arrived. His front-row seat recalled to him memories of childhood puppet shows, of gazing up at the slotted stage from which Punch and Judy and their like protruded. The soapy-coffee theorist was curled over some device, brow knit, thumbs-deep in a text-message campaign, making Stevick the only witness to the disembarkment of the truck's occupants.
They parked, apparently heedlessly, in the space in front of a hydrant, but without coming nearer than three feet to the curb. Cars slowed to pass. Stevick doubted that a garbage truck could have made it through. Surely a temporary placement, a compromise, then. The vehicle was an ungainly bolted-iron thing, resembling some reconfigured laundry or diaper truck, not massive like those used for transport of money, but solid enough in its way. Two men in jumpsuits popped out of the cab, and within a minute had orange traffic cones up to claim the territory that extended a few feet behind the truck, as well as between it and the curb. One contemplated the hydrant and then wryly topped it with a cone, which perched there like a dunce cap. It made an effective preëmption of any indigenous neighborhood protest, an easy trump: the men in jumpsuits seemed to have some official function, even if their truck was unmarked.
The tools with which the two men dug the hole were notably quiet and efficient. After first marking a square of asphalt with yellow spray paint, using a band saw of daunting size and intensity they carved the blacktop along the lines of drying paint. At this point, Stevick's might still have been the only eyes attending. Perhaps these activities had drawn distracted, unsustained glances from a passing postal worker or nanny. Certainly nobody emerged into the chill morning from the café's interior, where those not obliviously earbudded were likely hunkered in routine annoyance against the saw's zip, much as they'd be for a passing siren or the clunk of a truck's axle in a pothole—nothing off the ordinary urban-decibel scale. The soap complainer had wandered away when Stevick wasn't looking.
The jackhammers, though, drew complaint. Several exasperated café denizens packed their laptops and muttered in the loose direction of the truck and its jumpsuited operatives as they fled the scene, like birds flitting to another treetop, and no more courageous. One of the café's counterpersons, a chubby guy in an apron, seeing business spooked, made a more forthright protest, even shaking his fist. But the small dimension of the task blunted his protest: by the time the jumpsuited pair had ignored the counterperson for a minute or two, minute smiles perhaps rippling their lips—or was this an effect of the device's vibration?—they were shifting the jackhammer back into the truck, in favor of shovels and picks, with which they deftly cleared the hole of shattered black chunks. Stevick nodded consolation to the counterperson, who had, after all, poured his soapy coffee forty-five minutes before. What remained of it was cold.
The excavation was complete by the time Stevick wandered by half an hour later, having picked up his dry cleaning from the Korean and used his own bathroom before circling back to the café. Rain still threatened, hadn't arrived. Stevick couldn't say why he was enthralled by the activities that had commenced with the truck's arrival; some intimation, he supposed in retrospect, though it wasn't uncommon for him to buzz the café two or three times in a procrastinating morning. The hole was steep and accurate, hewing to the spray-painted plan still visible in two corners where the lines of paint, meeting, had pooled and blurred: an inverted phone booth of emptied dirt and rubble. Three fat fitted planks lay stacked beside the hole, sized to make a rough cover, Stevick guessed. The hole's former contents had been heaped precariously at the curb—the hydrant wasn't likely to be back in commission too soon, at this rate. The orange cone remained, like an ill-fitted condom stuck on its head. The truck, however, was gone.
And then it was back, jerking to a halt at the curb before him, as if responsive to Stevick's own presence, to his attentions; however absurd this notion might be, Stevick had conceived it. With an unhurried persistence, the jumpsuited men emerged again and opened the van's rear, then stepped inside to wrangle out what at first might have seemed another object but then revealed itself to be a man, a human captive. The man was dressed in the same uniform, as though recently demoted from their company. But his skin, Stevick noted wearily, as if this fact beckoned to outrage he ought to feel rising within him but didn't, was darker than theirs. His head shaved, where their hair was intact; his two-or-three-day beard rough, where theirs were, in one case, trimmed into a goatee and, in the other, shaved clean. So the jumpsuits, rather than suggesting equivalence between the three, framed difference. A cruddy cloth gagged the captive's mouth; another bound his wrists in front of him. His eyes didn't trouble to plead as his captors led him to the fresh hole and lowered him within, taking care not to scuff his elbows on the crumbled lip. They'd measured well: the captive nestled just underneath the three fat boards when these were fitted over his head. One of the jumpsuited operatives stood atop the boards, testing their firmness with apparent satisfaction, while the other quickly loaded the cones into the back of the truck. Now, at last, the rain began to fall.
"How—?" Stevick began, then faltered, unsure of his question. "How long are you going to leave him in there?"
The two could barely be bothered to hesitate, in their hurry for the shelter of the truck's cab. "We're on installation and delivery," the clean-shaven one said as he assumed the driver's seat. "Pick-up's another department."
"Are we talking hours or days or weeks?" Stevick said, locating, perhaps belatedly, some faint civic courage, a notion that he'd absorbed certain duties as a local witness to the open-air procedure, perhaps by default, but no less legitimately for that. Besides, others inside the café might be watching through the window. His question was perhaps a feeble one, but, for anyone observing, the fact that he'd stood up from the bench and begun some sort of stalling interrogation could be seen as crucial, either in a deeper intervention to be conducted by more effective or informed members of the community or in some later accounting of Stevick's comportment and behavior.
"I really didn't look at the schedule in this case," the driver said. "But they're rarely installed for more than three or four days in a single location."
"Anything longer wouldn't be seen as humane, I suppose?"
"More like these measures simply aren't effective beyond a certain point. Listen, we've got to go."
"Those boards are in no way tight enough to keep the rain from falling on him," Stevick pointed out. By placing their hole so near the hydrant, they'd prevented a parked car from giving shelter to the hole. On the other hand, perhaps they'd spared the hole's inhabitant something terrifying in being doubly pinned by the low ceiling of a vehicle's undercarriage. Probably Stevick was guilty of overthinking: it was impossible to find a parking space in this neighborhood, so they'd settled on the obvious solution.
"That's generous of you to notice, citizen," the driver said. He gestured to the occupant of the passenger seat, the goateed man, who'd been sitting with his arms crossed and rolling his eyes, miming impatience. Now this silent partner produced something from the floor of the truck's cab: a compact black umbrella—the inexpensive double-hinged kind you might purchase at a shoe-repair shop, having ducked in during a gale. He handed it to the driver, who passed it through the open window to Stevick. "This is why we're grateful you came along when you did," the driver said, nodding to indicate the hole. "Don't be afraid to stand on top—it'll easily support your weight."
With that they were gone, and for the last time. Stevick never saw them again; the driver hadn't been misleading him when he alluded to the narrow specialization of their tasks. Now there was only the hole, its occupant, and Stevick, with his own duties. For, when freed by the truck's departure he turned to face the café, no one in fact was regarding him from the window, now streaked with rain and curtained by a dripping overhang. Stevick opened the umbrella. The hole was silent. Stevick could easily have gone home, but instead he stepped over, tested the soundness of the footing on top—there was little doubt, he'd watched them work—and sheltered both himself and the sturdy boards from the rain as well as he could beneath the feeble rigging of black cloth and wire.
In a lull the aproned counterman stepped outside the café's doors for a cigarette break. He nodded curtly at Stevick, exhaled smoke rising into the rain. "So you're in charge now, huh?" he said.
"I didn't want to leave him completely alone." There had been no sound, barely a detectable motion from the hole beneath his feet, where the captive now sat braced, knees wedged in dirt. "I wouldn't say I'm in charge in any wider sense," Stevick continued. "I'm something of a stopgap or placeholder, really."
"I more than understand," the café employee said. "We're in a similar situation. Just a gig between real jobs, that's what I keep telling myself." He tossed his fuming butt into the gutter, quite near. "There's a million stories like yours and mine."
"That's not what I was getting at," Stevick began, but, uninterested, the counterman had returned inside. The café's population had never completely recovered from the jackhammer exodus; that, combined with the rain, kept Stevick's vigil a lonely one. He preferred it, actually. The usual early-afternoon dog-walkers passed by, hunched in tented plastic ponchos, their smaller dogs, the terriers and dachshunds, sheathed in sleeveless plaid coats, but Stevick had always regarded the walkers as ships on a distant sea, some passing flotilla. Even on days of bright sunshine, they were too occupied with canine herding and the management of plastic-bagged turds to engage in the human life of the street. Though few other humans acknowledged him, Stevick liked to believe that he was still a participant in this mainstream. Whether his relation to the man beneath the boards qualified as a human transaction was another question.
Toward evening, the rain tailed, though not enough so that Stevick lowered the umbrella. The café's clientele turned over; the tables were set for dinner, decorated with lit candles, menus in place; the staff even switched off the WiFi, in order to chase out the most tenacious of the afternoon Googlers. Others of Stevick's neighbors, the professionally dressed, beleaguered rush-hour subwayers, slavers in financial offices, trudged past the corner with their own umbrellas. Though Stevick always thought of them as upright sheep, some were surprisingly bold in their muttering.
"What did you say?" Stevick shouted back.
"You heard me, friend. You're lowering property values for the rest of us."
"Not in my back yard, eh?" Stevick said. "Boy, when something like this arrives in your midst you learn pretty fast who's who in this neighborhood, you yuppie." Stevick spoiled for a fight, feeling now all the insurgent defiance he ought to have summoned for the diggers of the hole. But what was done was done. Defense of what should never have been in the first place had become Stevick's province.
"You artists need to grow up and learn the difference between an installation piece and a hole in the ground," the man sneered. Surely Stevick's age or younger, yet dressed like Stevick's grandfather, he added, "Slack-ass."
Stevick was incensed. "There's a man in this hole!"
"Don't bore me with your disgusting personal situation!"
"It's not a personal situation, you fucker!"
"Roll up and die, grubbie!"
"Yaaaaarrrr!" They charged with umbrellas outheld, Stevick feeling he'd abandoned his station but unable to stem the urge to gore the man on the sidewalk and see him plead for mercy in the rain. Yet the two men essentially missed, failed to engage, the broad opened umbrellas merely grazing in a rubbery wet shudder as they passed. The single thrust having apparently exhausted his neighbor as much as it did Stevick, the man regathered his briefcase tightly beneath his elbow. "I need to go pay the nanny," he murmured as he slunk off. Stevick retreated to his task.
It was night, and inside the café the menus at several of the tables had been taken up, wine poured, little plates delivered by the time another specialist made contact with Stevick. He wasn't, as Stevick might have hoped, a sentry arriving to relieve Stevick of a duty that, now that he contemplated it, he had to admit was self-assigned. Rather, the jumpsuited man, a sturdy, almost fat one this time, with heavy, black-rimmed eyeglasses and a Yankees cap shielding him from the rain, appeared to be some kind of inspector, charged with insuring the rightness of the site and recording in cryptic shorthand, with a ballpoint pen on a clipboarded sheet, certain impressions. The man double-parked his car, the blinking hazard lights of which gave clear evidence of the passing nature of his visit, and suggested to Stevick a long itinerary of random checks still ahead of him. He then politely asked Stevick for assistance in drawing aside the cover of planks. Stevick, in turn, extended the umbrella to help protect the operative's clipboard while he wrote.
The captive, Stevick noted with relief, didn't appear any more—or less—uncomfortable than when he'd first been lowered into his hole. He stood, as if to acknowledge the inspector's attentions, but didn't glance upward, possibly not wishing to incur rebuke, or perhaps he had merely grown incurious about what were, for him, routine operations. When the inspector went back to his car and returned bearing a wax-paper cup with a straw and a pair of plastic-wrapped sandwiches, Stevick understood that he intended to feed the man in the hole, and saw also that the captive had at some point spat the dirty cloth from his mouth, so that it now encircled his throat like a necklace. Probably it had never been secure to begin with, and the captive had not wished to embarrass the men who'd dug the hole by flaunting their ineffectual knotting skills. The inspector lowered both the cup with the straw and half a sandwich to within range of the captive's mouth, and the man in the hole quietly and efficiently fed and drank. Stevick considered the fact that the captive could have cried out at any point and had chosen not to. Perhaps he'd learned that it led only to more punishment, if punishment was the right word. Stevick had begun to realize that he ascribed a certain strength, a gravity and authenticity, to the man in the hole, or perhaps to the hole itself, with which he wished to be associated, as in the sense of a shared undertaking. The passerby with whom he'd crossed umbrellas had been, in a manner, right: this was a kind of personal situation.
Stevick helped the inspector replace the wooden planks over the hole, then gratefully accepted the gift of the second wrapped sandwich, which turned out to contain pleasantly peppery chicken salad, albeit on soggy white bread. Stevick had been hungrier than he realized. Before departing, the inspector went back to his car one last time, returning now with an olive-green duffel, which he chucked gently to the edge of the hole, just beside Stevick.
"What's that?"
"Standard issue," the inspector explained obscurely. "It'll be there when you need it." He offered Stevick a quick salute and was off.
It was only after the café had closed for the night, the chairs overturned on the tables, that the rain ceased completely, leaving Stevick with the question of whether his shift here ought to conclude. He shook out and shuttered the umbrella, and had just reached for the enigmatic duffel when he was greeted by the sound of his own name in the familiar voice of his ex, Charlotte. It was perhaps inevitable that she'd pass by if he camped out here all day. In another lifetime, which was what even yesterday seemed to be after this present occurrence, he might have been guilty of doing exactly that. As it happened, he'd overlooked completely the possibility of her wandering past. Charlotte was dressed and scented for a night on the town, clacking in her heels toward the subway entrance, most likely to undertake her usual carrousel of Stevick's former favorite bars in the company of his lately-out-of-touch friends.
"Well, now, look at you," she joshed. "Keeping busy, as usual."
Stevick guiltily withdrew his hand from the duffelbag and stood alert to indicate his vigilance, though now, rain cleared, umbrella folded, it was hardly evident what his duties were. He'd always had to straighten his posture in Charlotte's presence, her height and perfect carriage a kind of warning or rebuke to him, and now he found himself wishing that she'd step off the curb, down to his level. The three planks that covered the hole were too expertly flush to the asphalt to be any help to him.
"There's a man in this hole, Charlotte." It was the second time he'd tried to even the field by stating this absolute truth, almost as if he needed to hear it himself to believe it, though he'd been presiding there all day. He wanted acknowledgment of his effort, but first he had to establish the basic situation.
"Sure," Charlotte said. "I've heard of this sort of thing."
"I guess I'd heard of it, too, though it's different to have it right in front of you. Still, I guess it has to be somewhere."
"True enough," Charlotte said. "I just hadn't pictured you getting involved. But by your logic, I suppose, someone had to step forward."
Stevick couldn't really improve on this sentiment, so he let it stand.
"So, what's in the bag?" Nothing was lost on Charlotte, he had to give her that.
"More sandwiches, I suspect," Stevick said, surprising himself with the guess. Should they be called rations, or provisions? It depended on who was eating them, he supposed. "They're not bad, if you like chicken salad. Take one, if you're hungry."
Charlotte had by this time poked inside the bag, assuming her usual privileges in regard to Stevick's boundaries, and pulled out a plastic-wrapped jumpsuit, identical, except for its virgin state, to those worn by the operatives, and by the captive below. There appeared to be four or five of these stacked within the small duffel.
"You're hired!" Charlotte exclaimed. "You've been promoted from a temp position to staff."
Stevick found himself pleasingly able to ignore her goading. In many ways, Charlotte, like much else, was receding from view. The new conditions made irony a luxury. Was he meant to hoard the jumpsuits for his own use or to recruit other operatives from the neighborhood? Or, for that matter, were they intended for future incarcerees? Stevick considered the possibility that he'd eventually be fitted for a hole himself. The beauty of the uniform was that it settled nothing.
"Do you want to see him?" he asked Charlotte, and immediately regretted a question that seemed inappropriate, even somewhat craven on his part. He knew only after he'd said it that he would never again let himself use the man in the hole as a token or a bargaining chip. He was a person!
Charlotte's cavalier reply felt predestined. "No, thank you," she said. "I should go, I'm running late. But it's really good to see you doing so well, Stevick." Her voice was like a pat on a baby's downy skull.
The hint of tenderness cloaking Charlotte's dismissal disgusted Stevick. Talk about your passing connections! Stevick felt closer after a single day to the man in the hole, though they'd exchanged not a word. As he watched Charlotte make her way up the street, Stevick experienced only relief that she'd refused his suggestion. To pry up the planks when he had nothing to offer was a small indignity he had spared the captive below. The last thing Stevick wished to do, after all, was annoy him with inessentials. Success in an endeavor like this one lay in the details. Stevick was certain he was going to do a good job. ♦


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Our view: Oil and gas boom offers opportunities, risks
By now it's not news that "fracking" underground shale formations — cracking them open with high-pressure jets of water, chemicals and sand — has unlocked new supplies of natural gas and oil in places such as North Dakota and Pennsylvania.
OPPOSING VIEW:Move away now from dirty fuels
What's surprising is how big those supplies are, and how much they might change the world.
Here's one measure: In its latest annual forecast, released last week, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) says fracking means the USA will overtake Russia to become the world's largest natural gas producer by 2015 and pass Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2017.
Longer term, the forecasts get even better. By 2035, the USA could become virtually energy independent, the holy grail of every president since the 1973 Arab oil embargo created long gas lines and shocked Americans by showing them how dependent they were on foreign oil.
Talk about dramatic change.
Not long ago, U.S. natural gas production was lagging so badly that energy companies were planning to import huge quantities of liquefied natural gas from abroad. Now some of those same companies want to convert their import terminals into facilities for exporting U.S. gas.
So much new supply of gas is coming from shale formations that futures prices, which soared to almost $13 per thousand cubic feet in 2008, dropped to little more than $2 earlier this year before rebounding to about $3.50 recently. Inexpensive natural gas has given U.S. manufacturers a competitive edge over foreign factories, helping to revive U.S. industry.
The news for oil is also good, though less dramatic. U.S. oil production is expected to rise from 7.3 million barrels a day in 2010 to 10.3 million barrels a day in 2020. That should be enough to slash imports about two-thirds by 2035, making America less dependent on oil from the volatile Middle East.
As welcome as the oil and gas boom is, like any positive development it comes with an array of caveats.
For one thing, it doesn't portend a dramatic decline in gasoline prices for future Thanksgiving trips to grandma's house. Much more than natural gas, oil is a world market, and demand is rising rapidly in developing nations such as China and India. So unless there is a massive shift to vehicles powered by electricity or natural gas, most U.S. drivers will remain subject to the swings of international petroleum markets.
Nor will the U.S. military be able to disengage from the Middle East, because key allies will still rely heavily on oil imports from there, or will be threatened by hostile nations such as Iran.
The increase in fossil fuel supplies also comes with potential serious environmental costs: Fracking, if not done carefully, can strain or contaminate water supplies. Lower prices for oil and gas can undercut progress toward clean-energy sources such as wind and solar.
Moreover, greenhouse gases produced by burning fossil fuels remain a serious concern: The IEA's likeliest scenario for the next quarter century shows world energy demand growing by one-third and the long-term average global temperature increasing by 3.6 degrees Celsius, just short of the 4-degree rise a World Bank study says would produce catastrophic global warming.
These hazards point to the need for careful oversight of fracking to prevent a backlash against the practice. Tight efficiency standards, combined with a continued push toward renewable energy, can also help curb demand. And for electricity production, natural gas can be a cleaner alternative to coal.
The unexpected oil and gas boom offers the United States a unique opportunity, but one that must be handled deftly, lest its benefits be squandered.

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Corporate chief executives ramped up their calls on Monday for US Congress to reach a compromise deal that keeps the looming "fiscal cliff" from crushing the US economy and starts to shrink US debt levels.
CEOs of some of the largest US companies said that Congress will need to raise taxes on the wealthy and cut federal benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security to effectively shrink federal debt and safeguard economic growth.
Their message runs squarely against long-held partisan positions on Capitol Hill, where Republicans have resisted any revenue increases to reduce deficits and Democrats have largely vowed to maintain popular entitlement programs.
"There has to be shared pain," Robert Greifeld, chief executive of stock exchange operator NASDAQ OMX Group Inc, told a Bloomberg Television roundtable.
"It's very difficult for politicians to run on a platform where they're getting everybody mad at them. But for us to address this, there's going to have to be revenue increases. There are going to have to be spending cuts," Greifeld said.
"We need compromise," United Parcel Service Inc CEO Scott Davis added.
"It's not going to get solved on one party's wishes. Simpson-Bowles lit the path forward. It was a good plan," Davis told the Bloomberg Roundtable, referring to the 2010 US presidential commission that recommended both tax hikes and spending cuts.
Simpson-Bowles' prescriptions were never adopted.
The corporate chieftains are among 100 CEO members of a campaign called "Fix the Debt," which is urging Washington to set aside partisan differences to put the US on a sustainable fiscal path.
Steven Rattner, head of Willett Advisors LLC and former US Treasury auto industry "restructuring czar," said that CEOs were converging on solutions that are "balanced and where everything is on the table."
"For the first time, there is tremendous support in the business community even if it isn't exactly what everyone in the business community would want to see," Rattner said.
The head of the US' most prominent CEO lobbying group also chimed in, warning on Monday that uncertainty over the year-end fiscal cliff — about US$600 billion in looming tax hikes and automatic spending cuts — is choking off hiring and investment.
Business Roundtable President John Engler, a former Republican governor of Michigan, also called for compromise — Simpson-Bowles style — in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club.
"I think the American people care about the future of their country, and they understand there's going to have to be a compromise," Engler said. "Our present course is unsustainable and unfair to future generations."
Republicans in Congress have long resisted any revenue increases — especially through higher tax rates — as part of any deal to cut deficits, which just ended a fourth year above US$1 trillion.
While CEOs have been voicing concern about the fiscal cliff for months, US consumers do not appear fazed yet. US retail sales rose more than expected last month, with increased purchases of everything from cars to electronics, in a sign that consumer spending is driving faster economic growth.
The 1.1 percent jump last month in retail sales reported by the US Department of Commerce beat forecasts and was powered partly by the release of Apple Inc's new iPhone 5, analysts said. It comes after US consumer sentiment on Friday spiked to its highest level in five years in a Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Survey taken following a drop in the unemployment rate.


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Vicious Machete Attack in New Jersey Caught on Tape
[There was a video here]
Police in Paterson, New Jersey announced on Wednesday that they'd arrested three men wanted for viciously assaulting two men with a machete inside a restaurant back in September. How'd they do it? They posted the surveillance footage on Facebook in an effort to crowdsource the investigation.
Sure enough, it worked. One suspect "turned himself in because he felt all this pressure from everywhere," explained one police official. The security camera footage that the Paterson cops released is above. Do be warned, though: It's pretty graphic and not for the faint of heart. [CBS New York]


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Royal Ballet Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta's first feature film will be released in UK cinemas on 29 November.
We have two tickets to the London premiere to give away. For a chance to win, tell us your favourite of Carlos Acosta's dance roles via the comments below, or via Twitter using #CarlosAcosta.
Day of the Flowers, a British comedy directed by the BAFTA award-winning John Roberts, follows two strong-willed Scottish sisters (Charity Wakefield and Eva Birthistle) who travel to Cuba to scatter their late father's ashes. Carlos plays Tomas, a Cuban dance teacher-turned-tour guide.
'Carlos was a natural in front of the camera,' says John. 'Of course he has great charisma, but he is also very focused and completely held his own along with some experienced actors. It was a pleasure working with him, particularly in his native Cuba.'
For Carlos, the acting experience and meticulous process of filming with retakes was a far cry from the immediacy of live stage performance.
'I think he found the slowness of the process quite taxing and would often rehearse his ballet moves just off camera,' continues John. 'I'd look round and suddenly there was Carlos in full flow and I'd think, "Wow! That's Carlos Acosta - what's he doing here?"'
Day of the Flowers had its premiere at the Edinbugh International Film Festival 2012, and was nominated for Best British Feature Film.
Carlos has also recently released his first fiction novel Pig's Foot, which was was selected as one of the Waterstones Eleven for the best fiction debuts of 2013. The book, which explores the tumultuous history of Cuba across three generations, is currently available to buy online and in the Royal Opera House Shop.
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Army has exceeded its workforce limit, while all services may have cut jobs recklessly.
The military services failed to fully rely on competency gap assessments when reducing their civilian workforces to meet a Pentagon cap, according to a new report.
Only about one-third of the assessments have been made, the Government Accountability Office found. The Pentagon told the auditors they will not be completed until 2015.
The Army failed to reduce its civilian workforce to the Pentagon's cap for 2012, according the report, while the Navy and Air Force successfully met the limit.
The Defense Department mandated the military branches cap their civilian workforces at 2010 levels through 2013, with certain exceptions for mission-critical positions. The Army exceeded that level by more than 10,000 full-time employees.
GAO said without the assessments, the military branches cannot guarantee they are making wise choices about how and where to make workforce cuts.
"A fully developed workforce plan, with all completed gap assessments, would help DoD make informed decisions about reducing its workforce and develop strategies to mitigate skill shortages that impact on achieving the mission," the auditors wrote in their report.
Defense's civilian workforce, which now exceeds 800,000 full-time or full-time equivalent employees, has risen by 17 percent since 2002, most of which occurred since 2008.
GAO recommended the Pentagon follow a strategic workforce plan when cutting jobs. It said Defense officials should utilize functional community managers, who are responsible for identifying competency gaps.
"With the long-term fiscal challenges currently facing the nation, reductions to the civilian workforce may be considered in the future as an option to achieve cost savings, especially in light of the drawdown in Afghanistan," GAO wrote. "However, identification of critical skill and competency gaps and involvement of stakeholders, such as functional community managers would help the department manage its workforce more strategically."
The Defense Department partially concurred with GAO's recommendations, but said it already uses appropriate tools in determining its workforce size and alignment.
"We are aggressively working towards fully meeting the statutory requirements of the Strategic Workforce Plan," Rich Robbins, the Pentagon's director of total force planning and requirements, wrote in a letter to GAO. "However…the size and structure of the workforce is driven by capabilities, mission, and workload and not by competencies and skills. Future reductions to the workforce, or possible increases, will be justified by workload and supported by resource availability."


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Q. After running sessions I often have sore knees. Are there exercises I can do to improve knee strength?
A. This is a frequent complaint from runners and triathletes. The most common problem is called runner's knee. This is a pain just below and to the outside of the knee. It's caused by a tight iliotibial band (ITB), a band of connective tissue that runs down the outside of your thigh to the top of the tibia bone on the lower leg.
Pain comes on after a certain distance, on downhill sections or if you're running on cambered roads. It tends to afflict triathletes who pronate (the foot rolls inwards when it contacts the ground) and when you increase distance.
To find out if you pronate, stand barefoot and see if you have an arch on the inside of your foot. If you have a very low arch the chances are that you will pronate. You can limit this inward rolling by using orthotics and by doing calf stretches and calf raises.
Key stretches
Generally speaking, the best way to strengthen your knees is by improving the strength and flexibility of your quad muscles (the muscles at the front of the thigh), in particular the vastus medialis oblique muscle, the small teardrop-shaped muscle just above the knee on the inside of the thigh.
Strengthening this muscle will take the stress off the knee and transfer it to the muscle. The best exercise for building this muscle is leg extensions. Sitting down, with your feet hanging towards the floor, extend your legs until they are straight. This can be done with no weight at all or with a light weight resting on top of your feet.
It is best to start with both legs and as you become stronger you can progress to single-leg extensions, using heavier weights. A more intense variation is to angle your knee outwards when doing the leg extension and just concentrate on the final phase of the lift until the leg is straight.
Other useful exercises are squats and lunges, but take care not to extend the knee in front of the ankle. This means that you have to sit back when doing a squat, as if you were sitting on the toilet, so that the knee joint is in line with the ankle. When doing lunges you need to do an exaggerated stride as you bend into the lunge, keeping your body upright. You don't need to go far, a 45-degree angle is sufficient.
The easiest way to prevent sore knees in the first place is to stretch properly before and after sessions. Tight quad muscles can pull on the knee and cause pain. My DVD Flexibility for Triathletes and Runners outlines simple quad stretches, as well as glute and ITB stretches that will improve your flexibility and help prevent juries, or improve the condition of any that you have.
Ralph Hydes
Ralph Hydes is a running, duathlon and triathlon coach. He has helped many athletes reach international-level competition and has been the trainer to corporate teams for the London Triathlon since 2001. Ralph is a freelance coach, designing individual triathlon training programmes, providing one-to-one coaching and offering nutrition advice. His new DVD is Flexibility for Triathletes and Runners. Visit ralph-hydes.com.


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2014 Outdoor: Broke her own school record while winning a silver medal in the 400m hurdles at the 2014 America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships… Crossed the line with a time of 1:00.36 in the finals, trimming her prelims time from 1:01.49… Helped the 4x400m relay team capture gold at the conference meet at Vermont… Qualified for the ECAC Championships in the hurdle event at the Pepsi Florida Relays with a time of 1:01.59… Finished 17th in the 400m hurdles at the ECAC meet at Princeton… Named to the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2013-14 Indoor: Earned a bronze medal in the 500m run and advanced to the finals for the 60m hurdles at the 2014 America East Indoor Track and Field Championships… Recorded a season-best time of 1:14.01 during the prelims of the 500m run at the conference meet in New York… Clocked in with a season-best 60m hurdle time of 9.04 during the event prelims, a time which ranks sixth in the UMBC record book… Finished ninth in the finals.
2013 Outdoor: Broke the school record in the 400m hurdles four times during the season, including twice at the 2013 America East Outdoor Championships… After setting it at 1:01.64 and earning a spot at the ECAC Championships while competing at the Duke Invitational, she trimmed it to 1:01.59 at the George Mason Invitational…. At the conference meet at Binghamton, she lowered it to 1:01.33 in the prelims, and then to 1:00.83 while winning a bronze medal in the event… Anchored the UMBC 4x400 relay team to a silver medal at the America East meet... Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2012-13 Indoor: Reset the school record while winning the 500m run at the 2013 America East Indoor Championships… Set a career-best time of 1:13.69 during her gold medal run… Claimed the top spot in the event prelims as well during the conference meet in Boston… Led off for the gold medal winning Retrievers' 4x400 relay at the conference meet in Boston… Led off for the same squad which set the school record of 3:44.06 at the ECAC Championships… Also competed in the 400m dash and 800m run during the season.
2012 Outdoor: Broke the UMBC school record in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:01.97 while placing fourth at the America East Outdoor Championships... Led off for the sprint medley relay team which broke the school record with a time of 4:04.37 at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia... Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2011-12 Indoor: Helped the 4x400 relay team set a school record time of 3:48.54 while winning a bronze medal at the America East Indoor Championships... Also finished eighth in the 500m dash (1:16.09) at the conference meet in Boston.
Background: Was named an All-American in the shuttle hurdle relay… Named MVP for her high school team by her coach in 2009… Named to Second and Third team honors for the WCAC.
Personal: Daughter of Willie Fogle, Jr. and Sharon Dailey… Has two siblings Adriel and Kiah… Majoring in psychology and earning a minor in political science... Wishes to be either a pediatrician or lawyer… Born Aug. 5, 1993.


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Army Pvt. Bradley Manning might be behind bars for the next 35 years, but he's not surrending easily his ability to influence his accommodations.
The former military intelligence analyst, who was convicted of Espionage Act violations amongst other crimes for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, stunned the military court the day after his sentencing by seeking assistance in dealing with his gender identity disorder. The disgraced enlisted man wants to be treated as a woman, referred to as Chelsea, and given hormone treatments to help facilitate his condition.
The problem, of course, is that Fort Leavenworth's military facilities is exclusively male. And, according to a Pentagon spokesman, the location does not offer such hormone treatment nor does it do sex-reassignment surgery. The most Manning likely would receive at Leavenworth is access to psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.
That might not be enough. Many in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are announcing their support for Manning to have his request granted, or risk having the Army be found responsible for denying basic health care.
While the whole notion might sound far-fetched to many in our readership, case law is on Manning's side. The Eighth Amendment prohibits the government from inflicting cruel and unusual punishment. Denial of health care regularly has been found to violate that standard.
As such, when Manning says: "As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible," the military has to respond.
We have sympathy for both sides of this unique situation. Manning's request is a first for the military, and it must be cautious as it negotiates a solution.
Gender identity disorder, which causes individuals to have a strong personal identification with the opposite sex, might not be common but it is real. Persons experiencing GID who ultimately transform to their preferred gender do require hormone treatments and surgery. They also need to experience society in their new role for an extended period of time prior to undergoing the physical metamorphosis, and receive extensive psychological attention. Absent the proper and supportive counseling, a transexual likely will fail in their efforts.
But we cannot lose sight of what Manning did. The service member purposefully violated his military oath and placed fellow soldiers and diplomatic personnel at risk with his acts of espionage. Manning committed the crimes as a man, was convicted as a man, and was sentenced as a man.
We believe he should serve that sentence as a man. Attempts to experience society as a woman will be impossible in the prison environment. It is far from an ideal setting for working through the psychological issues Manning faces. To demand otherwise is farcical. Any patient's self-diagnosis and their own intense feelings for sex reassignment is not to be viewed as a reliable indicator of transexuality.
Granted, Manning does have a professional diagnosis. And, after he has served his time, we would hope Manning takes the steps necessary for transformation to a woman. It is a disorder that should be addressed -- just not during his extended stay at Fort Leavenworth.
Manning's request is a clever ploy to game the system -- and should be denied. We must not lose sight of the crimes committed.
Editorial by Patrick Lowry


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Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins is following in the foot$teps of fellow Young Adult authors J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter) and Stephenie Meyer (Twilight) by turning her series of novels into a blockbuster movie franchise - one that is already setting records for advanced ticket sales. However, the eager early ticket buyers were most likely those who were already fans of The Hunger Games novels; the movie's appeal to the general public will rest entirely on the quality of the film that director Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) has put together.
Of all the many opinions on The Hunger Games movie that will be forthcoming in the next few weeks, there is almost certainly one opinion that matters more than the rest: that of Suzanne Collins herself. Well, the author has now seen the finished version of her story onscreen; read on to hear her thoughts.
This is what Collins posted on her Facebook Page regarding The Hunger Games movie:
Dear Readers,
I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of The Hunger Games. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another. The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places… like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.
And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've embodied the characters and brought them to life.
So I'd like to sincerely thank all the many people who devoted their time and talents to the film, especially producers Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, and the excellent teams at Color Force, Larger Than Life, and Lionsgate.
I hope you enjoy the film!
Suzanne Collins
Now, first reaction might be to say that Collins would praise the film no matter what, given the stake she has in its success. But really, that's kind of a cynical (and specious) stance to take. Plenty of authors past and present (and future) have seen their work translated from page to screen, and have been very vocal about the fact that little or much was lost in that translation. Then there are writers on the level of eccentric comic book icon Alan Moore, who has such disdain for movie adaptations that he severs all ties from any film based on his work (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), going so far as to prohibit the filmmakers from using his name anywhere in the film credits or promotional materials.
I say all that to say: Collins doesn't have to play it false. So if she is saying that she liked the film, the cast, and how Gary Ross (an Oscar-nominated director, mind you) and his team have widened the scope of the book (which is told exclusively from Katniss Everdeen's (Jennifer Lawrence) point of view) and brought the world of Panem to life in gorgeous detail....well, there's no reason to doubt that she had that genuine reaction to the film.
But again, whether or not those who aren't already attached to these characters and story will walk away with such shining praise remains to be seen.
BONUS: If you haven't already seen it, check out this first clip from The Hunger Games!
The Hunger Games will be in theaters on March 23, 2012.


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Thanksgiving Day,national holiday in the United States commemorating the PilgrimsPilgrims,
in American history, the group of separatists and other individuals who were the founders of Plymouth Colony. The name Pilgrim Fathers is given to those members who made the first crossing on the Mayflower.
..... Click the link for more information. ' celebration of the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621, after a winter of great starvation and privation. The celebration was probably held in October. The neighboring Wampanoags, who outnumbered the colonists, joined them for three days and contributed food to the celebration. The first proclaimed day of thanksgiving in the colony was not held until 1623 (probably at the end of July), following an improvement in prospects for the still struggling colony, and was a day of prayer, not feasting.
After the American Revolution the first national Thanksgiving Day, proclaimed by President George Washington, was Nov. 26, 1789, and the Episcopal Church began celebrating an annual day of thanksgiving on the first Thursday in November. Some states established an annual Thanksgiving Day, but there was no annual national holiday until President Abraham Lincoln, urged by Sarah J. HaleHale, Edward Everett,
1822–1909, American author and Unitarian clergyman, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1839. He was the nephew of Edward Everett. The pastor of a church in Worcester, Mass.
..... Click the link for more information. , proclaimed one in 1863, appointing as the date the last Thursday of November. Although the only known contemporary account of the 1621 Plymouth harvest celebration had been rediscovered in 1841, the national Thanksgiving Day initially was not officially linked to it.
In 1939, 1940, and 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Thanksgiving the next-to-last Thursday in November. Conflicts arose between Roosevelt's proclamation and about half of those of state governors, and in 1941 Congress passed a joint resolution decreeing that Thanksgiving should fall on the fourth Thursday of November. The day is observed by church services and family reunions; the customary turkey dinner is a reminder of the wildfowl served at the Pilgrims' celebration. Canadians also celebrate a national Thanksgiving Day, on the second Monday in October; prior to 1957 it was on the last Monday of the month.


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Holland gets nod for home opener against Angels
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Matt Harrison is the Rangers' Opening Day starter, but Derek Holland will be on the mound for the home opener on April 5 against the Angels. Holland is slotted to be the fourth starter behind Harrison, Yu Darvish and Alexi Ogando.
Harrison starts on Sunday, March 31 against the Astros while Darvish and Ogando will start the next two games of the series. The Rangers have two off-days during the first week of the season, including the Thursday before the home opener.
That would allow them to bring back Harrison to pitch the home opener and manager Ron Washington mentioned that as a possibility earlier this week. But the Rangers have decided to pitch Holland that day. That would leave Harrison and Darvish to pitch the next two games against the Angels and Ogando to pitch Monday, April 8 against the Rays. That leaves April 9 as the first day the Rangers would need a fifth starter.
Ogando is scheduled to pitch Sunday against the Reds in Surprise and Friday against the Padres in San Antonio. Holland is scheduled to pitch on Monday against the Padres and the following Saturday against them in San Antonio. He is 7-5 with a 5.58 ERA in 13 starts and three relief appearances against the Angels in his career.


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Kathryn Tucker WindhamKathryn Tucker Windham was a master storyteller, author of twenty-four books, playwright, accomplished photographer, and popular public television and radio personality. Her National Public Radio segments for "All Things Considered" won her national acclaim. Though ghost stories predominated much of her earlier career, Mrs. Windham wrote several cookbooks and collections of reminiscences covering a wide experience of Alabama life. Many in the history community agree that her work is a treasure trove of source material documenting Alabama's social history.
Born in Selma on June 2, 1918, to James Wilson Tucker and Helen Tabb Tucker, Mrs. Windham spent her childhood in Thomasville, and attended public schools there. At the age of twelve, she began her writing career as movie editor for her cousin Earl Tucker's weekly newspaper, The Thomasville Times. She also got her first camera that year, a Brownie, and soon discovered that she loved photography almost as much as writing.
Mrs. Windham earned a B.A. degree from Huntingdon College in 1939. In 1940, she went to work as a reporter for the Alabama Journal, breaking barriers in the newspaper industry by being one of the first female reporters (perhaps the very first) to cover the police beat for a major daily newspaper in the South. In 1942, she moved to Birmingham to become publicity director for the Alabama War Bond Committee. In 1944, she joined The Birmingham News, and it was there in 1945 that she met Amasa Benjamin Windham upon his return from serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. They were married in 1946 and moved to Selma where their three children were born. After her husband died of a heart attack in 1956, and after her youngest child started to school, Mrs. Windham joined the staff of The Selma Times-Journal where she won several Associated Press awards for her writing and photography. She left newspapering in 1973 to become Community Relations Coordinator for the Area Agency on Aging, an organization serving twelve rural counties in southwest Alabama.
Mrs. Windham received honorary doctorates from Huntingdon College, the University of Montevallo, and Spring Hill College. Other honors include the establishment of the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum in Thomasville on the campus of Alabama Southern College (2003), induction into the University of Alabama College of Communications Hall of Fame (2001), Alabama Humanities Award (2000), Governor's Award for the Arts (1995), the National Storytelling Association's Circle of Excellence Award and Lifetime Achievement Award (1995), the University of Alabama's Society of Fine Arts' Alabama Arts Award (1990), and Selma Rotary Club's Citizen of the Year (1995). She was one of thirteen Alabama artists selected by the Alabama State Council for the Arts to represent Alabama in France and Monaco in 2000.
Mrs. Windham was the proud mother of three children: Kathryn Tabb Windham (Kitti), Amasa Benjamin Windham, Jr. (Ben), and Helen Ann Windham Hilley (Dilcy); and two grandsons, David Wilson Windham and Benjamin Douglas Hilley.
Mrs. Windham died on June 12, 2011.


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SAN ANTONIO -- The U.S. Army Installation Management Command began in April to record headstone images and review interment records at 29 Army post cemeteries worldwide.
The nine-member IMCOM Cemetery Operations team will travel to 19 installations this summer to conduct a thorough review of interment records and grave markers.
This verification initiative will validate information of more than 45,000 graves. The goal is to achieve 100 percent accountability at all IMCOM post cemeteries.
The multi-faceted process incorporates many new technologies, including a customized smart phone application to take photos of both the front and back of each grave marker, Army Mapper to capture coordinates of each grave marker location, and a research tool--developed and managed by the Army Analytics Group--to validate the information. The ICO team will validate and correct, if needed, each record of interment and grave marker. During the site visits, the ICO team will train garrison staff to use the technology tools to sustain the accountability process into the future.
"Establishing and maintaining the highest standards of appearance and accountability will be an enduring mission at IMCOM," said Gregory Kuhr director of G4, Facilities and Logistics, for IMCOM. "This work honors all those who rest in an IMCOM cemetery. Visitors will know their loved ones are treated with dignity and respect and are in an environment befitting their sacrifice," he said. The ICO team, established in 2011 at the direction of the Secretary of the Army to raise the standards of cemetery operations, is following the lead of Arlington National Cemetery, where nearly 300,000 gravesites were validated. The same business rules and best practices applied at Arlington will also be applied during IMCOM's accountability project. "We've been planning the accountability mission for over six months and are now ready to execute," said Judith Tarbox, acting ICO chief. In addition to a comprehensive campaign plan that outlines a five-phase approach to sustainable, standardized cemetery operations, ICO also developed training plans and materials, standard operating procedures and common levels of service.
The goal of these efforts will be 100-percent accountability of all those interred at IMCOM post cemeteries; an online, searchable database of interment images viewable by the public; and a smart phone application that allows cemetery visitors to easily locate grave locations. Gravesite information will be automated across all Army cemeteries. Another aspect of the mission to achieve sustainable results is the realignment of duties and responsibilities of garrison staffs in the management of IMCOM cemeteries. Currently, Garrison commanders determine operations and management responsibilities at their post cemeteries. Once the accountability process is complete, standardized processes will be implemented and oversight realigned to Department of Public Works (DPW) within each garrison.
"The end state will be an enhanced experience for cemetery visitors," said Mr. Kuhr. "The cemeteries grounds will be improved through consistently applied standards and measures, adequate funding and sustainable operations into the future."
The team expects to reach 100 percent accountability at IMCOM post cemeteries by end of summer 2013, with sustainability attained by mid-2014. The online database should be available in late 2014. Garrison Gravesite Accountability locations:
- Aberdeen Proving Ground - Carlisle Barracks - Edgewood - Fort Benning - Fort Bragg - Fort Campbell - Fort Devens - Fort Drum - Fort Gordon - Fort Huachuca - Fort Knox - Fort Lawton - Fort Leavenworth - Fort Leonard Wood - Fort Lewis - Fort Meade - Fort Riley - Fort Sheridan - Fort Sill - Fort Stevens - Fort Worden - Presidio of Monterey - Schofield Barracks - Vancouver Barracks


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Homestead Gardens gets its stormwater under control
A new river runs through Homestead Gardens. It's a little out of the way, off to the side of the garden center with its plants, trees and shrubberies. But this river, which only runs when it rains, is at the center of making Homestead's 12 acres a zero contributor to the pollution of Beard's Creek, the South River and Chesapeake Bay.
This river flows at the bottom of a grassy bowl. Before it was built, rain rushed down the sides of the bowl in a torrent strong enough that it tore out a neighboring driveway in its rush to the creek, the river and the Bay.
Now a series of terraced wetland beds collects the rainwater. Hillocks between the beds, sheathed in native limestone from a quarry on the Patuxent River, interrupt the flow, creating ponds and wetlands. The whole acre-and-a-half system contains the flow of stormwater and processes polluting sediment and nitrogen through the earth's natural filtration system.
The goal, according to Kirk Mantay, the South River Federation's manager for this project, is for as little water and pollution to leave the site as possible. "We don't want it to go downstream," he said.
Add a few thousand more projects like this one and Anne Arundel County will be on target for reaching its pollution reduction goals, according to South River Federation executive director Erik Michelsen.
Looking down on the pools and the dry bed of the river, walking on its mulched edges as frogs jump and dragonflies hover, it seems easy.
It wasn't.
The Homestead project was more than four years in the making.
Way back when, the South River Federation surveyed its creeks for problems that needed fixing. More recently Anne Arundel County added the Homestead site as the second-highest priority for restoration in the Beard's Creek watershed.
Meanwhile, the Federation was directing its efforts and developing expertise in on-the-ground restoration, as well as seeking grants to fund the work. Grants from Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Chesapeake Bay Trust invested about $88,000 in this project. Homestead had to be willing, of course, and developing that partnership took negotiations with owner Don Riddle, then his son and successor Brian Riddle.
Only this summer did earthmovers cut the riverbed and shape its ponds. Now Homestead is adding landscaping, interpretive signage and a gazebo on an overlook, making the river one of its attractions.
"We all have a part in restoration of the watershed," Homestead president Brian Riddle said.
Homestead's new river — officially known as a regenerative stormwater conveyance system — wasn't easy. And it wasn't cheap.
But the know-how is there. So are the partners. So is the money. On just this one Bay watershed, "several million dollars in restoration money from state and federal governments" is waiting to be invested in projects like this, Michelsen said.
Take a look at this project on your next visit to Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville. It could give you ideas that your own riverkeeper can help put into action.


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November 15, 2012
$100,000 Weiler donation funds scholarships focusing on completion
Robert Weiler
At this evening's Board of Trustees meeting President Harrison will announce a donation of $100,000 by Robert and Missy Weiler that will allow Columbus State to launch a new scholarship program for graduates of Columbus City Schools.
Ten new Columbus City Schools graduates a year will receive $1,000 scholarships beginning in autumn 2013. If the students maintain a 2.75 grade point average, they will receive an additional $1,500 for their second year at Columbus State.
"We are extremely grateful to Bob Weiler for his generosity and for his vision that the Robert Weiler Family Scholarship will be about earning a degree, not just attending college," said President David Harrison. "Many scholarships help students get started in college. But when you award more funding in the second year, you're giving students a great incentive to succeed and to finish."
The donation will total $25,000 a year for the next four years, with options to continue funding the scholarship into the future. The scholarship program will continue until the funds are exhausted.
Weiler said, "Missy and I are thrilled to partner with Columbus State Community College. The college has provided, and we know will continue to provide, an outstanding education for our Columbus City Schools graduates as they pursue their college dreams."
Columbus State's annual tuition for full-time students is $3,679, so over two years, the Robert Weiler Family Scholarship will pay for more than a third of a student's total tuition costs as they pursue an associate degree—and the first two years of a bachelor's degree. With other financial aid, many of the scholarship recipients will have little or no out-of-pocket tuition expenses.
The scholarship recipients must be enrolled full-time at Columbus State, with plans to complete two years at Columbus State and a bachelor's degree at another college or university. They must have a cumulative high school GPA of 3.0 and must demonstrate financial need. Preference will be given to first-generation students and students interested in business or education.
More information about the scholarship is available at www.cscc.edu/scholarships.
Complete College Ohio attendees hear about strategies to increase attainment of degrees
President Harrison joined Ohio Board of Regent Chancellor Jim Petro and hundreds of higher education trustees and professionals from across Ohio for the Complete College Ohio conference, hosted by Columbus State November 13.
Dr. Harrison leads a panel discussion at the Complete College Ohio conference with, from left, Dolan Evanovich, Wade Lucas and Steve Lyons.
The event was an expanded version of the annual OBOR trustees conference, and featured a mix of presentations by state and national experts as well as an opportunity to learn about and discuss the Ohio Board of Regents Complete College Ohio Task Force recommendations, which focus on practical solutions to improve college readiness and keep students on track to attain a degree.
At the conference, President Harrison led a panel discussion with Dolan Evanovich, Ohio State Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Planning; Wade Lucas, Superintendent of Olentangy Local Schools; and Steve Lyons, Vice President of Member Services and Community Engagement for The Columbus Partnership.
The panel discussed The Ohio Compact, a document created with input from local educators over the course of three Higher Education Summits convened by Dr. Harrison at Columbus State. The Ohio Compact outlines strategies for increasing the attainment of a post-secondary credential (degree or certificate) to 60 percent of all central Ohio residents. Currently, our region stands at 44 percent attainment.
It's a lofty goal, according to Dr. Harrison, as only four cities in the U.S. currently have a rate higher than 50 percent—Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, and Minneapolis.
Evanovich talked about three of Ohio State's completion strategies, including the "strong, robust Preferred Pathway program," with guaranteed admission and inclusion in the university's First Year Experience for qualified students. He also noted the "co-branded" campus at Delaware, where Ohio State's Marion students and Columbus State's Delaware students attend classes on the same campus and share resources. Another strategy to increase completion rates is the Reverse Transfer program – in which students who transfer to OSU before completing their associate degree, would have their credits transferred back to Columbus State as they earn them—receiving their associate degree along the way to their bachelor's degree.
Superintendent Lucas said that "although 60 percent of our residents (in Delaware County) have a degree, we have to decide whether to rest on our laurels or lead this parade!" In the Olentangy Local School District, Lucas says that 90 percent of all sophomores are ready for college, and their goal is to have every student earn at least one year of college credit before graduating from high school. One way to pass school levies, said Lucas, is to show parents how they will save on college costs by utilizing "shared services," such as having high school students attend college classes at the Columbus State Delaware Campus during their junior and senior years. That program will begin in the fall of 2013.
When it comes to economic development, "forget about tax incentives," said Steve Lyons from the Columbus Partnership. "It's all about talent, talent, talent. We need a better talent pipeline. There are businesses out there who don't know how education works, and that's where members of the Ohio Compact can help." He described the joint effort between Columbus State and Franklin University, serving the insurance industry in central Ohio, who needed "MBA talent." The two colleges were able to create a pipeline to feed that need, he explained. "Intellectual capital makes you more competitive. That's why aligning our efforts is so important."
Compete in the Second Annual Holiday Challenge!
"Maintain No Gain" with Mt. Carmel Workplace Health this holiday season, and you can take care of your health and win a gift certificate, too!
As the holidays approach, the cold weather makes it hard to stay motivated to work out. Plus, all those holiday gatherings involve the consumption of high-calorie and high-fat foods--yikes!
Join the Columbus State Wellness Initiative and Mt. Carmel Workplace Health in this year's Holiday Challenge and keep your motivation in high gear through the end of the year!
Mt. Carmel representatives will weigh in participants before the Thanksgiving holiday on November 19 and 20. Participants will weigh in again on January 9 and 10, after the holidays. Employees who gain fewer than five pounds will receive a gift card! The contest is open to the first 100 employees to sign up. RSVP to Nichole Bowman-Glover, Wellness Coordinator, at ext. 3989 or email@example.com by Monday, November 19 and stay motivated over the holiday season!
Student wins recipe contest at La Chatelaine
A dish created by Columbus State chef apprentice Matthiew Henry will accompany the new wine at La Chatelaine's annual Beaujolais Nouveau Soiree today, November 15. His entree of chardonnay-braised roasted chicken with a fresh tomato and black and green olive reduction with almonds, and jasmine rice was judged the winner in the local restaurant's annual contest to choose the dish for the Beaujolais party. A native of Haiti, Henry is a third-year student in the Hospitality Management Chef Apprenticeship program. He resides in downtown Columbus and is employed as a cook at the Westin Columbus.
Read more about our student in the news here!
Thomas and tubas play to full house
Thomas Lloyd, center, director of the Columbus State Concert Band, poses with the members of the tuba/euphonium quartet "All the King's Tubas," who were featured at the band's Fall Concert, held Tuesday night in the Conference Center ballroom. Lloyd's band played to a standing-room-only crowd, and performed all kinds of music, from Star Wars marches to Irving Berlin ragtime!
Staff Advisory Council continues with two fundraisers
Please join the Staff Advisory Council this holiday season and donate to one or both of their fundraisers, the Firefighters for Kids Toy Drive, and/or the Columbus State Mid-Ohio Foodbank Drive.
The Foodbank drive ends Monday, November 19, and you can drop any non-perishable food items in one of donation boxes located around campus. You can also donate online here, by selecting "Columbus State Community College –SAC" when you check out.
The Toy Drive runs through December 13, and you can drop a new, unwrapped toy in one of the donation boxes located around campus, or give a check or gift card to your SAC representative. Checks should be made payable to Firefighters for Kids. The Bookstore also has a display of children's gifts that can be purchased for $5-$20 and donated to the cause as well!
Be thankful you've got The Partner this November
The newsletter from Human Resources is out and you should check out the following content in this month's edition:
Payroll submission dates
Healthcare Reform and how it pertains to your benefits
Wellness events including "Maintain Not Gain"
How to report a workplace injury or accident
Information regarding the increase in minimum wage
Payroll tax reminders
Professional development courses and academic onboarding
Planning Guide information
Landscape students' poinsettia sale has been extended!
You can still order a poinsettia or two from the Landscape students, to support their trip to the PLANET 2013 competition in March! The deadline to order has been extended to Tuesday, November 20, and you can get an order form sent to you by email from Samantha August, the president of the Columbus State Landscape Association!


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While looking at the Job Manager script from last week, I omitted the section where each job section of the batch returns the result to the manager.
The job serialises a hash containing the results to disk using Storable. When the jobs have all finished, the manager retrieves the data using the identifier.
my $results = {}; my $id = $manager->identifier(); foreach (>/tmp/*_$id.result<) { if (! m{^/tmp/(\d+)_}) { say "Error: unable to retrieve id from $_"; next; } $results->{$1} = retrieve($_); } use Data::Dumper; print Dumper($results);
Now it turns out, there is yet another handy cpan module called parallel::iterator, which can return the output of each job in an output list. (Under the covers, it has pipes between the processes and serialises the data between them using Storable).
And I was going to say, it would be nice if folks on Ironman talked about useful modules they came across from time to time.
Except they do already. dagolden already spoke about parallel::iterator here.
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A kid in my year bet $30 on the trifecta of Makybe-On a Juene-XCellent.
He's now got $231,000 as an 18th birthday present
xcellent is more suited to hard tracks as well ffsOriginally Posted by benchmark00
"Matt Damon"
That makes me sick.Originally Posted by andyc
I got $4.6 for Makybe off a bookmaker, put only $40 on the nose, come up with about $185. One of my mates got the same odds and put $100 on it, this was a week after he put $500 on the nose of it in the Cox Plate.
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Indeed. He wouldn't have beaten her though but would certainly have been 2nd.Originally Posted by nibbs
As well as losing a shoe, some of his foot came off at the 1600 when he got his foot stuck in an especially soft part of the track. What a hero.
Don't think it would have mattered the way the race was run, the super quick tempo set it right up for Makybe...Originally Posted by benchmark00
One thing people need to remember about the watering of the track issue, is that if the track wasnt watered there would have been alot of horses pulling up injured...
The track before watered was relatively hard and with such a hot day it would have dried out quite alot meaning that injuries were a certainty..
Another thing people are forgetting is that tracks are always watered... The reason all the hype is because this time the water suited the favourite and that favourite is one of the best in history, People are looking for any reason to bring her down.. Its always the nature people want to peg the people at the top down...
Yeah other horses might like firm going but Firm and rock hard is a big difference in racing...
The track was dead at the start of the day and the info i got from a trainer who had a horse in the race after the Cup was that it was as close to good as could be without officially being there...
People need to stop making excuses and sit back and admire this champion like she deserves...
No other horse has won 3 Melbourne Cups, not even the great Phar Lap... to run in 3 is a feat on its own...
Makybe you are a Legend!!!!
R.I.P. Best Mate
"One day lad, all this will be yours"
"What, the curtains?"
Can't cop people comparing her to Phar Lap, though. It's a modern day thing that really bugs me - people think that the current champions have to be the best, and that nothing in the past could have ever have been as good. For instance, I remember back in April 1997 when Tiger won his first major, and people said he was the greatest golfer ever, even though Jack Nicklaus had won 12 majors! Anyway, back to the horses....Phar Lap raced 51 times for 37 wins, and was placed in five of the other races. Astonishingly, he was unplaced in his first four starts.
This is something that always intrigues me (you can tell that this is going to be in really bad taste, can't you, just because it's me?)Originally Posted by Anna
What happens to the great racehorses (but not the absolute top of the pile) when they turn their hooves up? I appreciate that Red Rum was buried by the winning post at Aintree and had a life-size bronze statue erected at the course, and that no-one really knows what happened to Shergar (although Irish Stew has never tasted so good).
Arkle (the other 3-time Cheltenham Gold Cup legend, and the greatest racehorse of my lifetime) got a nice, dignified burial too, as I suppose Best Mate is bound to really, but what of the others?
Anyway, if Best Mate isn't immortalised in the next few days, watch out for adverts for 'Kennomeat Supreme', 'Pal Plus' or even 'Mr Dog Gold (Cup)' and shares going up in the pet food industry.
You have been warned.
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He's being buried in Exeter.
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Alongside Neil's career?Originally Posted by PY
You have to have been alive before you can be declared dead and buried.Originally Posted by luckyeddie
Indeed, and Phar Lap carried 62.5kg to win the cup as a 4yo, before of course going over to America and breaking the track record in winning their biggest race of the time.Originally Posted by howardj
I don't think you can compare horses from separate generations, better to just accept that they're both great.
Seachange continued her unbeaten record with an impressive win in the $275,000 One Thousand Guineas at Riccarton today...four from four now and Aussie jockey Gavin McKeon makes the trip over to ride her every time she starts, looks a pretty talented filly.
spot on Ed...also after winning the Melb. Cup @ 62.5 he was given 68kg the next yearOriginally Posted by _Ed_
Both are great horses and will be remembered for a long, long time.
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'The Omnivore's Dilemma' by Michael Pollan
At one point, "What's for dinner?" was a relatively easy question to answer –– you ate whatever you hunted, gathered or grew. Now, humankind has evolved way beyond that with many choices available. Add to that the worries about our health and the environment, and you've got what Michael Pollan calls "The Omnivore's Dilemma."
In his new book, Pollan follows the origins of four meals –– one from McDonald's, one made up of ingredients from an organic supermarket, one from foods grown on a small farm in Virginia and one he foraged himself –– for a comprehensive and surprising look at the state of the food we eat.
'House of Sand and Fog' and 'The Garden of Last Days' by Andre Dubus III
After the noted author Andre Dubus left his wife and four children to live a life of poverty in a Massachusetts mill town, his oldest son and namesake chose to deal with the drugs and violence around him by becoming a brawler and a bully. Yet, every Sunday, the Dubus children spent time with their father on the campus of Bradford College in Haverhill, Mass., where he taught, and where they definitely didn't fit in with the students around them.
The lost connection with his dad and the angry violence that had characterized the younger Dubus' adolescence have since found a voice in two superb novels: "House of Sand and Fog" and "The Garden of Last Days," as well as in his riveting memoir, "Townie.'
'O: A Presidential Novel' by Anonymous
Hmm ... let's see: a White House insider who wishes to remain unnamed writes a novel about a president with the initial O and the behind-the-scenes preparation for his 2012 campaign. Joe Klein did a similar thing in 1996 with his novel "Primary Colors," about a president sort-of-like Bill Clinton. This book, by all accounts, is well done and provides a real feel for modern politics –– despite the gimmicky premise.
'The Secret Soldier' by Alex Berenson
In his fifth adventure, now-retired CIA operative John Wells takes a freelance job with the King of Saudi Arabia. The aging King Abdullah fears his ambitious family is plotting to overthrow him as terrorist factions push the populace toward rebellion. He hires Wells to find out who is behind all the turmoil. It turns out, though, that overthrowing Abdullah is just the first step for the terrorists, who will not stop until the whole Middle East is torn apart.
'Virtually Yours: the Dangerous Powers of the e-Personality' by Elias Aboujaoude
The Internet has certainly revolutionized our lives in many ways, and it has also become a way for many to reinvent themselves –– sometimes with shocking results. Psychiatrist Elias Aboujaoude has seen many examples of people whose personalities and moral behavior change drastically when they are online –– frequently not for the better. He reveals his disturbing findings in "Virtually Yours."
'The Second Son' by Jonathan Rabb
Georgia writer Jonathan Rabb closes his trilogy set in Berlin during the World Wars in "The Second Son." Now 62, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner has been forced into retirement from the Kriminalpolizei since the discovery that his mother was Jewish. With his wife dead and his older son, Sascha, firmly entrenched with the Nazis, Nikolai centers his attention on his younger boy, Georg, a photographer who is in Spain to cover the People's Olympics. When civil war breaks out in Spain and Georg loses contact with his wife and young children, Nikolai sets out to find him.


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Q: Hey Vanessa!
I just wanted to say I love reading your blog, I read it like a religion, hehe. I've always used a stick eyeliner but decided to change to liquid. I bought Wet n Wild liquid eyeliner in Megaliner. When I put it on I got a burning and itching sensation. I didn't understand why, the only thing I'm allergic to is bleach. Do you have any theories of why this happened? I'm scared to get a different liquid liner now. Thanks!
A: Hi Mary!
I am glad you asked me this because I have the same experience with SOME liquid eyeliners. Prestige liquid eyeliners and surprisingly MAC liquidlast eyeliners give me a burning sensation recently to the point where I find myself scrambling for a makeup wipe to wipe it off because it stings so much! I am not quite sure what causes these allergic reactions, as I don't experience this with my Revlon Colorstay Liquid eyeliner in "Blackest Black", nor do I experience this with my Indelible Gel Eyeliner.
I suggest you give the Indelible Gel Eyeliner a shot if you have a steady hand because it's very soft and creamy, easy to move and use, and perhaps won't cause such a reaction. Also, try using different drugstore brands such as Maybelline or Covergirl and see if those do the same thing, if you purchase from Rite-Aid (not sure what state you live in), but some drugstores have a very lenient return policy in which you CAN return opened makeup items in the event it doesn't work out.
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i also had the same experience with the wet and wild brand of liquid liners> it made my lids itchy and buffy and red. but i had the worst reaction yet by using the e.l.f brand of liquid liner that looks like a marker. my eyes blew up, it happend on sat and it is now tue and it has not gone down> even after a steriod shot, pills, and tons of benadryl. hope to find out what it is soon.
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Hey jon, just thought this was a really moving letter, and thought I would share it with everyone.
Greetings all from hot, hot, hot Iraq,
are short indeed...although not quite as short as we had originally
thought...our flight home has been posted and is showing up 3 days
later than planned. The good news is that we leave in the middle of the
night and arrive (all admin complete, including turning our weapons
into the armory) ! around dinnertime at Pendleton on the same day we
leave (11 hrs time difference). The other good news is it appears we've
got commercial contract air carriers taking us home...so we don't have
to worry about sleeping on the cold steel deck of an Air Force C-17.


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HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, Calif.… played both baseball and football for Bellarmine… high school baseball team made it to the Central Coast Section semi-finals in his senior season and the section finals in his junior season… batted .452 his senior season… football team won West Catholic Athletic League titles, two CCS titles, and the state finals in 2010…hit 3 HR senior season… was named first-team all-league and first-team all-section in baseball and honorable mention in Football….played club baseball for the California Smoke.
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