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By Joe Lacdan, Army News Service August 25, 2017
FORT MEADE, Md. -- The Army reached a number of milestones over the past two years as it continued service-wide integration of female Soldiers into combat career fields and other areas of service.
This summer, women made history at Fort Benning, Georgia, graduating as the first female cavalry scouts and M1 tank crew members. Earlier this month at West Point, the U.S. Military Academy named the first African-American woman as First Captain of Cadets.
As part of Soldier 2020, the recent integration efforts are led by U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, overseeing an Army-wide program to better match Soldiers with career fields that align with their abilities.
The integration of women into armor and infantry began last year with officers leading the way so that female leaders would be in place at units when the first female enlisted arrived.
The Armor Basic Officer Leader Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, has graduated 32 female Soldiers and one female Marine from its three-phase program. Also at Fort Benning, 21 female infantry officers graduated this year.
In addition, Fort Benning graduated 38 female enlisted Soldiers in its first gender-integrated Infantry One Station Unit Training, or OSUT phases.
Eight enlisted women have graduated so far as 19D cavalry scouts at Fort Benning while 10 women completed M1 armor crewman training.
At the Army's prestigious Ranger School, seven female graduates made the cut since April 2016.
In all, the Army opened 138,000 combat positions to women in 2016.
To date, 567 female Soldiers have graduated from Fort Sill in artillery occupational specialties since the field was opened to women. A total of 601 women have become combat engineers after graduating from training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri since 2015.
The Army's changing demographics in combat career fields has seen its impact among Soldiers, said Capt. Nargis Kabiri, one of the service's first female field artillery commanders. Capt. Kabiri was commissioned in 2010.
"What I've seen from 2010 to now is a change in culture," Kabiri said. "Back then, I'd walk into a unit and people were hesitant to say anything because there was a female present. Now that culture has changed, when females walk into a room, everything remains the same because it's become the norm."
West Point Cadet Simone Askew became the first black woman to earn the title of First Captain or cadet brigade commander at the U.S. Military Academy. The 20-year-old history major was sworn in Aug. 14. Women were not allowed to attend West Point until 1976 and the academy graduated its first class with women in 1980.
"I can't believe this has happened in my lifetime," said Pat Locke, an African-American woman who graduated in the first class of female cadets. "When I entered the academy in 1976, the men did not want us there. Now 40 years later, everybody recognizes the talent and skills women bring to the game."


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Theories on Chemistry – Mark DeRosa
I was thinking the other day about last season and how each guy's success fed the next guy's. The inverse happens, too. No doubt about it.
Just like good hitting is contagious, so is bad hitting. I don't know why it's like that. Maybe if your big guys aren't hitting, the guys below them have a tendency to think, "Well, if they're not doing it, I'm not expected to do it.'' Or maybe it's the reverse: When the big guys aren't hitting, the guys below them start pressing and try too hard.
Right now everyone's scrapping. And you can spin out theories and explanations all day. Here's another one I'm thinking about. If you're a hitter, all you hear on radio and TV, and all you read in the papers, is how you're letting down the pitchers, how awful you are with runners in scoring position. Our pitchers are so good that all they need are two or three runs, and the hitters keep failing to deliver. So you are constantly beaten over the head with this, and you start focusing on getting runs for the pitchers, for the guy in the stands reading stories about how bad you are with RISP. You're thinking about getting a hit simply to restore a measure of respect for the beleaguered lineup. As a result, you stop just going out there and being a pro and getting good at-bats to win a ball game. You stop focusing on the narrow, straight-forward task of getting a hit off this particular pitcher at this particular moment.
It's really pretty amazing that, given that our lineup is a shell of the one we broke camp with, that we're hanging onto first place, or staying within striking distance. Buster goes down. Freddy goes down. You're losing big pieces of the puzzle. You're not just losing great hitters; you're losing great teammates — guys who care about winning, who are not afraid to speak their mind.
And you're asking other guys to take their places. It's not easy to do. Guys are used to having certain roles with this team and– boom — everything changes. Whitey's never been asked to catch every day. Nate's not accustomed to playing every day. Brandon Crawford. Manny Burriss. A lot of guys are being asked to play not above their abilities but above what they were prepared for.
If we can find a way to grind through this, we're going to be better team and a closer team. We have to figure out how to keep ourselves above water until we can get some guys back. As we found out last year, it's doesn't matter how you get into the playoffs. It doesn't have to be pretty. We made it last year on the final day of the season. All that matters is getting in.
As for me, I'm graduating from the fungo bat and batting tee to real bats and real pitches. I'm trying different models of bats to figure out what might work best with my wrist. If I have learned anything during my long road of rehab, it's patience. Not that I have a choice. It's either learn patience or go home. And I'm not ready yet to go home. I wish someone could assure me there will be a light at the end of the tunnel, but we're pretty much in uncharted waters. No one has an answer. And the only other guy in the majors with the same injury, Jay Gibbons, is no longer in the majors. He was designated for assignment by the Dodgers two weeks ago.
Thanks for reading.
– Mark
Next time: taking fielding practice with Brandon Crawford.
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Great read, Mark. I hope you can get some of your teammates to read it! Keep the faith….
Hang in there. Maybe the big picture is what your experiences can impart to others, and I am sure that you have been a tremendous support to your teammates and touched their lives in ways you'll never know.
As a Giant's fan, I can tell you I have always rooted for you and felt your disappoint as if it were my own–same with Buster and Freddy. Nobody thinks you let us down, not in the least.
Thanks for this, Mark — really valuable insights,well expressed, esp. as a contrast to the echo chamber of guys gripping on Twitter.
All good luck in your path back to playing!
Very interesting and intelligence. Thank you.
Keep fighting! We're all rooting for you and the guys. If the today is anything to go by, the bats are coming and you're staying strong! Good luck on the rehab and we're all glad you are there to keep everyone thinking positive. Viva Gigantes!!
Wow thanks mark. Amazing to give fans such insight into the team. Giants are lucky to have a veteran like you that is positive, articulate and a leader. You obviously have a lot to contribute in the locker room even if you can't be on the field right now. We look forward to seeing you out there soon.
Really good blog. All makes sense, a bit of a downer with comparison to Gibbons. Hope you get back soon, patience is the word. I saw a kid playing in College World Series tonight with a broken wrist, all bandaged up. Am wondering what his future will be. Best of luck to you.
Mark, Thank you for your insightful comments. Obviously, all we fans hear is commentary from the outside. Having your thoughts reveals much about the team and how it all fits togther. I am hoping the camraderie and "chemistry" to which you refer will keep the train moving and bring success on the field. As far as your rehab is concerned, I hope you're able to get your strength back and stay with the club and contribute on the field. We fans can see how your presence in the dugout inspires your teammates but your frustration is understandable. I hope you continue to write. It's a pleasure to read each entry.
I think that you nailed it Mark – This group knows how to scrap… pinch and claw and fight to make the most of every opportunity. I got to tell you, that is why I LOVE this team. You guys go to work everyday; put in the sweat and make it happen. I think that there are many lessons in sports, but one of the most powerful is that the team can be more than the sum of its parts. You guys show it again, again and again.
Best of luck with you wrist. Can't wait to see you back out on the diamond again!
Great read, Mark. Good luck in your recovery!
Thanks for another insightful contribution. Good luck with rehab. All the best to you and the team for hanging in there against all odds. Can't wait to see you on the field again having fun!
there's a light at the end of the tunnel. it's a little hard to see it clearly but it is there. just stay focused on the narrow, straightforward task of rehab, like you wrote above; one day at a time
Mark, Thanks for sharing your progress and the struggles. Sounds like you're keeping at it with a good attitude, and still have great faith in your teammates. I'm not as worried as it seems some others are about the lack of offence. We've seen these past couple of weeks what happens when the team collectively puts their minds in to it; regardless of the missing key (and very dear) components.
Hmmm…do I sense future manager in this guy?

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I just started my first highschool programming class this semester and it seems we are delving into Java a bit too quickly and deeply for anyone in the class to understand.
Despite this, our teacher decided to give us an assignment that most likely seems simple to him yet is too challenging for us (we barely understand how to create basic object contructors, for/while loops, etc.).
This is the outline of the assignment:
To travel as the crow flies is an expression that refers to travelling between two points directly. A bird isnt hindrered by only travelling on roads or sidewalks. Obviously this is the shortest route.
Create a program that accepts as input two points on a Cartesian plane. Your program will then output the distance between the points as the crow flies as well as the distance by travelling on on a North-South-East-West road grid. The program will also output the difference in distance. Between the two means of travel.
If that isnt enough, your program must also determine the equation of the line that the crow would fly from one point to the other.
* 5 series of points will be written in a text file called data1.txt (provided by me)
* All points will form a diagonal line
* equations of lines must be in y=mx+b form
* All points will be in quadrant 1 (no negative numbers)
* All calculated distances must be rounded to one decimal point
* Output must be written to a file called outfile.txt
* Points will be written in input as 2 1 4 11
o Represents (2,1) (4,11)
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2 2 8 6
o 3 4 7 12
Sample Output
As the crow flies distance: 7.2
Street distance:10
Difference: 2.8
Crow equation: y = 2/3x + 2/3
As the crow flies distance:8.9
Street distance:10
Difference: 12
Crow equation: y = 2x - 2
Grading & Submission
* Due: Wednesday March 9
* Late penalty: 2^n% per day, where n is the number of days late. To a max of 5 days.
* Completion = 20 marks, Style = 5 marks
* All java files must be submitted electronically & printed
* Java files must also be sumbitted in hardcopy
* Output file must be submitted in hardcopy
* Additionally, your program will also be tested using another input file
Obviously, I'm not asking anyone to do my assignment for me. We've been taught to pseudocode first, but I'm not really even sure about that, as I don't know enough about Java to be able to break up a program into plain English directions and go from there. We were told we'd be using arrays, and by talking to people who know something about computer programming, I've been advised to create a 100 x 100 array and use that to input coordinates and find the two distances, the difference, and the formula for the line.
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EARLY childhood teachers who work in childcare centres rather than schools would have their university fee debts wiped out under a Greens proposal being considered by the federal government.
On January 1 next year all childcare centres must employ at least one teacher as part of a federal government program to raise the quality of care and education provided in centres. But centres are struggling to attract teachers, who can earn significantly more in schools than doing the equivalent job in a childcare centre.
''Currently dozens of childcare workers leave the sector each week and it's not surprising when you consider that many people who work in the centres are paid less than those who clean them,'' Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
''As parents, we expect that the people caring for and educating our children to be qualified. Currently this just isn't the case and it needs to be fixed.''
The scheme has been proposed by the Greens and will be released on Thursday.
The Department of Finance was given the go ahead to do the costing by the Prime Minister's office, which is examining a suite of measures to make childcare more affordable and available. The department estimated the program would attract 400 teachers to childcare centres in the first year at a cost of $2.5 million.
The scheme would write-off a year's worth of fee debt for each year early childhood education graduates taught full-time in a childcare centre.
Teachers who went to disadvantaged or remote areas would receive a waiver of two years' fees for each year of full-time work.
About a third of childcare centres now apply for exemptions from staff qualification requirements because they are unable to find workers with the required qualifications.
''It is essential that we keep costs as low as possible to help mums and dads who are struggling to make ends meet and this scheme, which adds to the wages of early childhood teachers, will improve the quality of care without increasing the cost to either centres or parents,'' Senator Hanson-Young said.
Stephanie Peatling is a senior writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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With the American Film Market just around the corner, there's been a flood of new projects making headlines, the latest of which is the crime thriller Rob The Mob. Based on a true story, the film focuses on a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde who decide to hit the pockets of some of New York City's most notorious mobsters. While their plan is to knock over some criminal-run underground clubs, their heists lead them to something much bigger than they anticipated, inciting not just the mob but also the FBI and their own families to join the hunt to track them down.
Deadline reports Raymond De Felitta, who has helmed such NYC-set features as City Island and Café Society, will direct Rob The Mob, which was penned by Jonathan Fernandez. Boardwalk Empire's Michael Pitt will produce as well as front the feature opposite rising star Nina Arianda, who won major acclaim including a Tony Award for her scintillating performance in David Ives' Broadway play Venus In Fur.
While Pitt is an established actor in gritty efforts—from Hedwig and the Angry Inch to the English-language version of Michael Haneke's Funny Games—Arianda only broke into film in 2011 with a supporting role in Tom McCarthy's charming dramedy Win Win. Shortly thereafter she appeared in Vera Farmiga's directorial debut Higher Ground and Woody Allen's Oscar-winning romance Midnight in Paris. Then, just last week she appeared as Jack's Pokemonning girlfriend Zarina on 30 Rock.
However, Rob The Mob marks a major advancement for Arianda's film career since she'll be shouldering the feature side-by-side with Pitt. This might soften the blow that Roman Polanski opted to cast his wife in his upcoming adaptation of Venus In Fur, instead of allowing Arianda to reprise the role she originated. There's no word on when Rob The Mob might roll into production, so its unclear if Arianda will shoot this before the year's out, or after Joplin, in which she'll star as the iconic but tragic figure, that is expected to shoot early next year.


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Starring: Hal Linden and Harry MorganAlexander Blacke was a debonair detective who had recently retired as a society magician and who now used his bag of tricks to nab murderers and other scoundrels. His understanding of illusion and deception often proved useful in figuring out how seemingly impossible crimes had been committed. Assisting Alexander was his father Leonard, a not quite reformed flim-flam man and master of disguise, whose skills came in handy in setting up ways to expose the bad guys. Unfortunately Dad still found it difficult to stay on the right side of the law, requiring his son to periodically bail him out.
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i have a form with a picture on it, and im lookinga t allowing the user to vary the picture. im deliberately choosing pictures of an average colour value, like sunsets and beaches; the whole picture is roughly belonging to one colour channel, so i can set the label caption to a complementing colour channel for it to stand out; light yellow on dark blue for example
but i'd like to know if it's possible, (even by drawing the text on a per-pixel basis?) to render text onto the image as the inverse of the colour underneath it.. hence a picture that was part red, part blue, would have text that was part cyan (on the red part) and part yellow (on the blue bits)
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Zoo's meaningless apology: sexualised photoshopped image of Sarah Hanson-Young still there for readers' pleasure
Lad's mag pretends to apologise
noun, plural a·pol·o·gies.
a written or spoken expression of one's regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another
I find myself pondering the question: do the editors at Zoo Weekly Magazine understand what an apology is?
This week a Change.org petition, initiated by Collective Shout supporter Matt Darvas, a man who, with his family, cares passionately for refugees and is deeply engaged with refugee communities in Newcastle, NSW, resulted in an apology from Zoo for an appalling competition to find Australia's sexiest boat person.
Zoo Weekly was asking female asylum seekers who had "swapped persecution for sexiness" to send in pictures — and joked about "shooting" them with a camera.
In the world of lad's mags like Zoo, even female survivors of the most horrendous human rights violations on earth can be offered up as masturbatory material for its male readers. Hot refugee women for you to get off on! Brutalised beauties for your viewing pleasure!
Less than 24 hours after Matt launched the petition, and with 6000 signatures and growing, Zoo announced it was ditching its evil competition.
The apology, published on its website and hardcopy issue stated:
"ZOO Weekly regrets any offence caused to any of our readers, and to any asylum seeker or refugee and their families and supporters. We apologise for being insensitive." — Tim Keen, editor of Zoo Weekly
Mr Keen, editor of jerk-off weekly, said the apology was extended to Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.
Zoo had tried to persuade the Senator to pose for the magazine, promising to host "the next boatload" of asylum seekers in its office is she did so. She said no. But no matter. The editors just photoshopped her head onto the body of a bikini model. Problem solved! No consent required!
Nothing will stand in the way of Zoo reader's ejaculatory fantasies – even a woman who says no. As ACP – publisher of Zoo – states,
"ACP Magazines leads the industry in knowing what matters the most to magazine buyers…"
Especially men who want to get off on female political leaders.
But wouldn't an apology mean you'd take down the original post? To show you were serious? The July 2 piece featuring the hybrid Senator/lingerie model woman is still there. They haven't removed it.
Which suggests they don't really mean it. Regret, remorse, sorrow? Who actually believes that?
The same publishing house that brings you Australian Women's Weekly, Women's Day and Dolly (which recently took out the Federal Government's inaugural positive body image awards) also churns Zoo's special version of female degradation through the same printing presses.
Have the female editors and staff of these magazines, which claim to advance female equality, had anything to say about their stablemate's treatment of female refugees and elected representatives. The condemnation should be loud and unequivocal.
Without any accountability to or discipline from ACP, Zoo continues to be enabled to continue this exploitative and sexist behavior.
See also: 'Because all women must be brought to their knees', MTR, October 26, 2010
'Not on my life would I want any daughter of mine to be a topless model': former lads mag editor shares his regrets
The day that summed up the sheer ludicrousness of what it meant to be the editor of Loaded, the most notorious 'lads' mag' of all time, is one etched on my memory.
It was January 2004, and my team had been through our rivals' magazines doing a 'nipple count' — meticulously tallying the number of bare nipples that appeared in one issue.
To our dismay, we'd been trumped by Maxim, who'd weighed in with a hefty 83 (which included one bare-chested man, but we let them have that).
'Damn, they beat us this month,' I announced. 'What are we going to do about it?'
When one wag responded, 'Why don't we print 100 pairs of boobs, over six pages, in glorious close-up?' we all whooped with delight and reported to the pub to celebrate.
So it was that we did a 'We Love Boobs' special, which notched up a then-record (although by today's standards relatively tame) 200 nipples.
As an extra layer of schoolboy comedy, we decided to caption each picture with a jokey term for breasts. From 'aardvarks' to 'Zeppelins', we had it covered.
Sitting around a boardroom table with six other university-educated men trying to think up 100 comedy words for breasts summed up just how low British men's magazines had sunk.


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Musicians coming together to jam isn't a new phenomenon, but the all-star line up and covers that came out of a fortuitous pairing of a rock god, hip hop's most versatile band, and a comedian skilled at the art of impersonation are going to give Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber a few reasons to worry about their status as YouTube's most viewed artists.
On the November 16 episode of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," the comic sat down with legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen, who is currently promoting "The Promise," a collection of unreleased tracks and rarities discovered while the Boss was compiling material left over from 1978's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" sessions.
After chatting about the uncovered material, the host brought out Springsteen's long time sidekick, "Little" Stevie Van Zandt, to talk more about "Because the Night," a Springsteen song made famous by Patti Smith. As if to show that the song was still a product of his, Springsteen and Van Zandt jumped on stage to perform a rendition, with the help of in-house band, hip hop stars The Roots.
Joined by the E Street Band's pianist Roy Bittan, the three rock stars and the multi-talented hip hop act ripped through a passionate version of the song, much to the delight of the studio audience. They also performed one of the lost tunes from the forthcoming album.
That would have almost been more than any music fan could handle, but then another rock "legend" stopped by to up the ante.
Fallon, doing his dead-on impression of Neil Young, appeared alone on stage and started to sing Willow Smith's hit single, "Whip My Hair." Halfway through, Springsteen -- decked out with a pageboy cap and sunglasses to recall his look from the 1970s -- joined for the chorus.
Who would have guessed that the 10-year-old daughter of Will Smith would already have her work covered by The Boss?


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I'm working on a slightly complex application and I have a problem. A few destructors are not getting called when the program quits.
I have a few classes, all are initialized just fine, the program runs fine, no crashes or anything. The problem is that when I quit I find a lot of memory leaked. I checked everything and I was able to fix some of them, the problem was that I was not freeing those variables. But I have a problem where memory is leaked at exit even though I free the momory in the destructor. Basically its
OBJECT_MANAGER which manages all the Objects, then here are loaded the Objects from a file, when the text is parsed a new OBJECT is created. In the OBJECT class there are different classes depending on the parsed text. If its is a sound then SOUND_MANAGER is called and depending on the sound format it may call the MP3_CLASS or OGG_CLASS. The problem is that the OBJECT destructor is not called at exit so nothing is freed, I end up with a lot of memory leaked. How can I make sure that the destructor of each class gets called?


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The folks at Pittsburgh's Phipps Conservatory are making a stink over their newest exhibit. Then again, the exhibit itself is contributing to the stench.
A rare corpse flower is blooming and the conservatory was staying open until 2 a.m. Thursday to give visitors a chance to see — and smell — the unusual plant.
The plant blooms only every six to 10 years and, even then, it last only one to two days. While in bloom, the plant gives off a pungent odor that some say smells like trash and others say mimics rotting flesh — hence the plant's name.
The conservatory has named the plant Romero after Pittsburgh filmmaker George Romero, the man behind the 1968 cult zombie classic "Night of the Living Dead," which was being screened twice Wednesday night at Phipps.
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
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What are the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity? The econometric analysis discussed in this report exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. The authors find that the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with intangible capital, and non-R&D intangible capital has a higher estimated output elasticity than its conventionally calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital produce productivity growth spillovers via mechanisms beyond those previously established for R&D.
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Multiple sclerosis has made me look at myself in new ways at every turn. I'm wondering if you find yourself looking at others differently.
The pages of this blog are filled with comments from people who are glad to know that they are not alone in a particular symptom or group of symptoms. There are no shortages of comments from people who have or are redefining themselves post diagnosis or as new symptoms arise. Neither do we have to look far for comments on how we feel that we are seen and treated by those around us.
It only seems logical that we examine how we look at others then, as well.
There are so many different reactions others have to us after MS. I suspect that we could look at ourselves and see that we have changed in our reactions and relationships to them as well.
I am in an area of the world with very spotty internet service, so I'll keep this short but do expect that a moment or two of self-reflection will lead to many comments (if we are willing to really look).
I have seen better in some people than I would have ever thought. I have become closer with some friends and I have distanced myself from others. I have gutted relationships. I do look at people differently after MS.
How about you?
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
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Centennial Concert Hall
To Aug. 30
Tickets $45 to $96 at Ticketmaster
4.5 stars out of 5
The return to Winnipeg of the touring musical Wicked — the untold story of a misunderstood witch of colour — convincingly confirms that its appeal is evergreen.
A repeat viewing at the Centennial Concert Hall after a three-year interval has not altered the appreciation for this complete — and completely satisfying — stage spectacle, featuring flying monkeys, a soaring score and airborne witches.
Wicked delivers dazzle and depth with a tale that is moving, funny and timely. The only disappointment came before Thursday night's show, when it was learned that star Laurel Harris was off sick with a sinus infection and her understudy, Alyssa Fox, would go on as the emerald-hued wicked witch Elphaba. Fox's stellar performance, however, only raised curiosity about how Harris could be any better.
In his 1995 book, novelist Gregory Maguire spun off L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to give the future Wicked Witch of the West a history, focusing on her friendship with Glinda the Good Witch in the land of Oz before Dorothy dropped in.
The story gradually meets up with the Wizard of Oz, with scenes reminiscent of the 1939 movie. Along the way, the movie's fans get answers to several questions, including how Elphaba came to wear the distinctive, all-black costume and pointy hat, where her green skin came from, and how the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow found themselves wanting.
But at its essence, Wicked is a buddy story about schoolmates Elphaba, with her smarts, magical powers and a cauldron-sized chip on her shoulder caused by her frightening appearance, and Galinda (her pre-witch name), who is, in sharp contrast, the fairest of them all (as well as ditsy, spoiled and blondfully ambitious).
One of the heartfelt moments of the evening finds a young Elphaba, not so comfortable in her green skin, defiantly alone on the dance floor at the Ozdust Ballroom, making spastic moves reminiscent of Seinfeld's Elaine while her contemptuous fellow students snicker. She is saved from her moment of crushing awkwardness and loneliness when Glinda tentatively joins her and they take their first clumsy steps towards friendship. Elphaba becomes a hero for many young girls because they can empathize with the way her parents rejected her and schoolmates shunned her.
Fox possesses the big mezzo-soprano voice that Elphaba needs, and she brought down the house with her signature numbers The Wizard and I, Everest and Defying Gravity, the first-act climax that sends the audience into intermission wowed.
She also proved that she can dial down her feminist passion and display vulnerability in the haunting musical gem I'm Not That Girl, which expresses a sentiment many in the audience can sadly identify with.
Right from the moment the beaming Galinda floats onstage in her metal bubble with the greeting, "It's so good to see me, isn't it," she is perky perfection. She's right; it is always good to see her onstage during the almost three-hour evening. Kara Lindsay brings real comic magic to the irresistible tune Popular, in which she wiggles, sashays and flounces in her attempt to make over Elphaba.
Kathy Fitzgerald makes Madame Morrible marvelously malevolent, while Matt Shingledecker's heroic Fiyero is far more three-dimensional than the previously seen incarnation of the character. Understudy Lauren Haughton, as the tragic Nessarose, also puts a grittier edge on what always seems a thankless role.
Lee Slobotkin is an appealing Munchkin Boq, whose tortured heart leads to a surprising and familiar development. Gene Weygandt's ethically challenged Wizard of Oz is both fatherly and, when he has to be, menacing.
Visually, Wicked is a wonder, starting with Eugene Lee's Victorian steampunk set, which suggests the inside of a giant clock. The smoke-breathing, red-eyed dragon looming over the stage is impressive but otherwise irrelevant. Susan Hilferty's whimsical costumes appear to be a cross between Tim Burton and Dr. Seuss, while Kenneth Posner's lighting adds to the eye candy even in quiet moments, as when a slanted rain falls on a despondent Elphaba.
Stephen Schwartz's rich and catchy score holds Wicked all together, although the first act's numbers are far superior. An accepted measure of a good musical is whether patrons leave humming any of the songs; on the way out Thursday night, it sounded like the peppy Popular was the clear crowd favourite.
Centennial Concert Hall
To Aug. 30
Tickets $45 to $96 at Ticketmaster
4.5 stars out of 5
Updated on Friday, August 22, 2014 at 5:55 PM CDT: Adds photos
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Dan Uggla hit his first home run in nearly three weeks, and Julio Teheran produced yet another stellar start with six hitless innings for the Braves in Saturday afternoon's 3-2 win over the Astros at Champion Stadium.
Uggla and Evan Gattis drilled second-inning solo home runs off Philip Humber to provide an early lead for Teheran, who recorded 10 strikeouts during his six scoreless innings. The only blemishes on the 22-year-old right-hander's pitching line came courtesy of three walks, including the two he sandwiched between three strikeouts in the first inning.
Uggla began the bottom of the second inning with a high fly ball that carried over the left-field fence for his second home run of the spring and first since March 3. Two batters later, Gattis drilled a towering shot that hit more than halfway up the 60-foot batter's eye in straightaway center field.
Gattis' solo shot gave him three home runs in a span of four at-bats dating back to Friday's win over the Phillies. The 26-year-old rookie's recent power barrage has seemingly only enhanced the likelihood that he will begin the regular season as Atlanta's backup catcher.
Rick Ankiel's one-out seventh-inning double off Jordan Walden accounted for Houston's only hit until Craig Kimbrel served up a two-run homer to Ankiel in the ninth.
Humber proved perfect in three of his first four innings and retired the first two batters he faced in the fifth before allowing Jordan Parraz to add to Atlanta's lead with a home run over the left-center-field wall. The three solo shots accounted for the only runs and hits Humber surrendered in his six innings.
Up next: Kris Medlen will attempt to bounce back from his worst start of the spring season when he takes the mound in Sunday afternoon's game against the Nationals in Viera, Fla. Medlen allowed nine runs and 14 hits in five innings during Monday's win over the Phillies. Jason Heyward, Justin Upton and Freddie Freeman are all expected to make the trip. The game will be shown on MLB.TV and first pitch is set for 1:05 p.m. ET.


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Stop the Snobbery! Why You're Wrong About Community Colleges and Don't Even Know It
By Kim Leeder
Several weeks ago I attended my first community college commencement. Despite my staff status, I was pleased to be invited to sit among the faculty behind the stage. From this vantage point I was able to watch the ceremony and play a small role in it (faculty, please stand; faculty, please sit) while reflecting upon the conclusion of my first year as a community college librarian. I watched the joyful antics of our students, their families, and the pride in the faces of our faculty and realized truly, for the first time, that our college's focus on student learning is not just a catch phrase. It is real, and it has helped to change the lives of nearly seven hundred people this year.
This was, to say the least, a transformative year for me. I will admit now that I felt some trepidation last summer in altering my career path from university to community college libraries. It wasn't because I would now have to drive fifteen miles to work instead of biking two. I didn't mind a commute. And it wasn't because this particular community college was only two years old and has not yet been accredited by our regional association, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. I was willing to bet on the success of this new institution and was excited about participating in its creation. Instead, the cause of my concern was something that most, if not all, of you will understand intuitively. The position I was interviewing for was a spectacular opportunity in terms of challenge and responsibility, and it allowed me to leap the typical years-of-experience requirements for a director-level role. It should have been a no-brainer, but at the time I had to ask myself the question: was it a step up or down?
My name is Kim Leeder and I am a recovering snob. There, I said it.
I might mention, in my defense, that I had never even visited a community college before (Seriously? Snob). Or that I only knew a few people who had attended a community college and had not talked to them about their experiences (Why wasn't I interested? Snob). Or that I was simply a product of a society that devalues the critical role that community colleges play in higher education, such as in the current NBC show, Community (Better, but still a snob). The truth was that my ignorance was complete: until this position was posted and a friend brought it to my attention, I had not even thought about community colleges other than as the place you go for school when you can't succeed at a four-year institution. Shall we say it together? S-N-O-B.
Rather than continue wearing my snobbish hairshirt, I'd like to use the remainder of this article to share some of the inspiring truths I've learned about community colleges in the past year. Some of them may sound familiar, but I encourage you to pay attention because chances are you haven't really listened before. For most people, something gets lost in the translation. What I've discovered is that when my colleagues and I try to share our enthusiasm about our work, our four-year peers just don't really "get it." In "What Graduate Students Want to Know About Community Colleges, Part 2," Rob Jenkins observes, "professors at four-year institutions, and especially at research universities, do look down on faculty members at two-year colleges. It's very easy for search committees to pigeonhole candidates with community-college experience as not worthy of serious consideration." To their ears, our joys sound like rationalizations for our underachievements.
Community colleges are often described as uniquely American institutions, or "people's colleges," in that they provide an education to everyone without prejudice. As Gail O. Mellow and Cynthia Heelan write in Minding the Dream, "[They are] committed to trying to create success for all manner of students who enter [their] doors…. it might be argued that community colleges are the single point of effective education for thousands of poorly educated poor kids" (10). High school dropouts, military veterans, laid-off workers, single mothers, immigrants, others facing unique personal or social challenges: all are welcome at a community college. The success Mellow and Heelan mention can look a wide variety of ways, too, from job training and professional certificates to transfer to a four-year institution. In this article, I offer you a glimpse of the community college lifestyle as you may not have seen it before. And for my community college colleagues out there, I hope you think I've done it justice. Your responses are invited at the end of this article, so please weigh in.
It's All About the Students
A wonderful thing about community colleges is the fact that they are entirely focused on students and student learning. While faculty and staff have advanced degrees and many pursue research projects and professional service activities, the whole emphasis of our work is the students, their needs, and how to support them. For faculty, this translates into teaching loads that would be considered heavy at a four-year institution, but without research and service requirements. With faculty teaching more, class sizes stay small and students get face time with their professor instead of a graduate student assistant.
For librarians, this focus on student learning means expanding our basic information literacy instruction efforts without any need to address upper-division or graduate course content. Considering the fact that many instruction librarians prize their upper-level instruction, this might sound like a deterrent to prospective community college librarians. However, based on my experience, the opposite is true: although I have taught more introductory information literacy in the past year than in prior years, I have also enjoyed it more than ever before.
The reason for this? I'd like to say that I'm just creative enough to keep it fresh. But the true answer is: it's the students. The university English composition courses I've taught for in the past, for example, have been full of traditional students more focused on texting their friends about the evening's festivities than on learning about research. The community college English composition courses I've taught for, although identical in every other way to their university counterparts (and created so for transfer purposes), are different. The students are different: they're talkative and engaged. They ask questions. They challenge me to explain why they shouldn't just use Wikipedia when it has cited references and doesn't that make it reliable? They debate and they argue. It's delightful.
There are a number of reasons why community college students are different. The simplest explanation is that they have had to work harder to get to college. Many of them have overcome significant obstacles to attend school, from family obligations to financial challenges. More than half are first-generation college students. As a result they are more motivated to get the benefit of the time and money they're investing in their education than the average four-year college student. It's also worth mentioning that community college students also differ widely from each other, so any effort to speak about their overall characteristics must be acknowledged as a generalization.
After a year of teaching information literacy in the community college environment, I now feel a little sorry for my university colleagues who are still stuck wrestling students off Facebook. Where before I felt burdened by so many lower-division instruction sessions and looked forward to the upper-level courses, my viewpoint has rotated one hundred and eighty degrees. When I can count on my class presentation turning into a real conversation about information with curious students, teaching basic information literacy becomes great fun.
Dumb and Dumber (Or Not)
Don't be fooled by the stereotypes: community college students are the intellectual equals of their four-year counterparts. Those students who have the luck, privilege, or excessive motivation to complete a Bachelor's degree program immediately after high school are only a subset of those who have the brains and desire to succeed in college. Many intelligent high school students choose or are forced to take other paths due to family, economic, language, or other challenges. Mellow and Heelan assert:
It is essential that America begins to understand the college experience of the majority of its students in context. That context must consider the number of students, especially minority and urban students, who don't complete high school in their teens, the number of well-schooled and middle-class students who enter but do not complete their studies in four-year colleges, and ultimately the impact of any educational advancement at any level as the United States moves into the future…. The issue is not who is in college, but who should be in college (8-9).
For the students described by Mellow and Heelan, who comprise nearly half of all undergraduates in the United States, community colleges step in to fill the gap. Community colleges are the most democratic of all educational institutions, providing an affordable and accessible education to anyone motivated enough to pursue it. This mission means that community colleges make higher education available to those who are academically accomplished as well as those without much, if any, academic background. As Walter Benn Michaels demonstrates in The Trouble with Diversity that SAT scores, for one, correlate to annual family income, there are socioeconomic implications as well as academic ones (98). The community college mission results in a student body that tends to be wonderfully diverse in every demographic, including age, race, ethnicity, class, physical ability, veteran status, and more.
In "The Myth of Inferiority," T. Allen Culpepper asserts that students in general are "more alike than different" regardless of what type of institution they attend. Having taught at a variety of different types of colleges and universities, he has encountered poorly prepared and academically gifted students in his classes regardless of the institution. Culpepper admits that the proportion of poorly to well-prepared students tends to differ between institutional types, but the range of student preparation and ability is a constant across the board.
This diversity of students and academic programs translates into libraries in a variety of ways. In reference it means understanding that many students come into our colleges who still need to learn basic study and computer skills as well as critical information literacy concepts. Brand new to academia, these students may not even know where to start when they have questions. The best community college librarians cultivate an open, patient demeanor to help students feel comfortable asking those "stupid" questions and learning the ropes. On the collection development side, librarians use their knowledge of their unique student body to select accessible–but not overly simplified–materials that address the wide mix of academic, professional, technical, basic skills, ESL, and community education programs that their institution may offer.
There's No Ph.D. in Team
Possibly the most pleasant surprise to be unearthed in the move from university life to community college life is the remarkable collegiality of faculty and staff at the latter. Many faculty and staff members at community colleges hold Ph.D.s, but research degrees are considered to be more in the realm of recreational activities rather than job requirements. With the competitive element of a more "rigorous" institution allowed to fall away, faculty and staff become more relaxed, more open, and frankly more fun to work with. Individuals are judged, if they are judged at all, based on their teaching and service to the college, not external achievements. No workplace is perfect, of course, but overall at a community college you'll find that everyone is on the same team. As described earlier in this article, community college staff and faculty are there for the students first, and this emphasis brings everyone together in wonderful ways.
When it comes to hiring, community colleges are able to prioritize not just academic credentials, but personality and "fit" in ways that four-year institutions don't have the luxury of doing. Rather than seeking out the candidate with the most academic credentials, community college search committees look for those with the most teaching experience, the most sincere focus on the students, and the best understanding of what community colleges do. Rob Jenkins in Part 1 of his Chronicle of Higher Education duo sees a dark side to this in that sometimes a search committee made up of Master's level faculty will hesitate to hire a candidate with a Ph.D. due to a fear of "Ph.D. snobbery." Jenkins may be somewhat jaded himself; my own reading is that search committees may be concerned, with good reason, that an individual who has attained a Ph.D. may have a research agenda that is incompatible with the teaching focus of a community college. Indeed, Arthur M. Cohen and Florence B. Brawer agree in The American Community College, as they note, "most doctorate holders have been prepared as researchers, not teachers, and…they expect fewer teaching hours and higher salaries" (86). This circumstance in hiring can be reframed as an emphasis on collegiality that allows community college hiring committees to select the most talented and sympathetic candidates without regard for their level of educational attainment beyond the Master's. As Jenkins explains, "the truth is, at most two-year colleges, your most impressive credential will be your teaching experience, not your degree."
This holds true for librarians as well. While the Master's-Ph.D. tension doesn't generally translate to librarianship, the student focus is universal. Those interviewing for librarian positions at community colleges should not be surprised if hiring committees are less interested in their publications and research plans than in their on-the-ground work with students, their expressed understanding of the community college mission, and their approachable energy and enthusiasm. The heart of the issue is: tell us about your work with students, your great ideas for making the library better for them, and how you'll partner well with faculty. That's what matters most at a community college library.
If you look down on community colleges, consciously or unconsciously, you may be surprised to learn that community colleges don't look up at you. Faculty, staff, and students are proud of their colleges and their accomplishments. An Associate's degree may seem like a small thing to some, but when an individual has overcome all odds to complete a two-year degree, you can bet they'll be proud – in fact, just as proud as the faculty and staff will be of them. My particular institution doesn't even have sports teams, but we wear our logo items with pride, knowing that we're contributing to and supporting something bigger than ourselves.
One of the best things about community colleges is that they make an impact. This was evident at my college's commencement: the stories of our students' achievements and the obstacles they had overcome made me feel that I was truly doing work that was helping to make other people's lives better. According to most estimates, about half of all community college students require some developmental coursework to prepare them for undergraduate study. Without community colleges to provide such students with a bridge to further study or careers, they would have very little opportunity to advance. Mark Blankenship, in "Is Community College Really College?," notes, "community colleges are not only enrolling students, but also helping them to become upwardly mobile for the first time." Community colleges offer every citizen the opportunity to become more informed and to improve their life, in whatever ways they define that improvement, through education. It is completely egalitarian and completely inspiring.
Rob Jenkins (Part 1) ends his article with the question, "What's it like working at a community college?" If you think it's somehow a career compromise, think again. Jenkins answers this way:
[A]ll I can say is: I wouldn't trade careers with anybody. I enjoy the work that I do, I like my students and colleagues, I believe that I've been able to make a difference in people's lives, I've found it relatively easy to maintain an acceptable balance between work and life, and I've been able to make a decent living. What more can anyone ask from a career?
After my first year as a community college librarian, I find Jenkins understated. Perhaps the shine will fade and the honeymoon will come to an end, but for me the shift from university to community college has been enlightening, inspiring, and fun. My institution boasts warm, collaborative staff and faculty, interesting and committed students, and a creative, agile environment that is more focused on student success than institutional bureaucracy. If the other community colleges in this nation are even half as wonderful as places to work, the rest of you are just plain missing out.
Warm thanks to Ellie Collier, Erin Dorney, Micah Vandegrift, and Eric Phetteplace for their thoughtful feedback that helped to shape this article.
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When our votec and community colleges merged by legislative fiat in 1995, there were turf wars wherein the "academic" faculty potshotted the "techies" as uncredentialed knuckle-draggers. It took nearly a quarter century for members of the "new" faculty to discover that "it's about the students, stupid" and that there were enough inquiring minds to keep us all on our toes if we were to support their collective and indiviidual successes. This was a tremendous article. Good on you!
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6 The S–Matrix Expansion.
6.1 Natural Dimensions and Units.
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7 Feynman Diagrams and Rules in QED.
7.1 Feynman Diagrams in Configuration Space.
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8.3 Photon Polarization Sums.
8.4 Lepton Pair Production in (eþe—) Collisions.
8.5 Bhabha Scattering.
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8.7 Scattering by an External Field.
8.8 Bremsstrahlung.
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9.3 The Electron Self–Energy.
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9.5 The Vertex Modification.
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9.7 The Infra–Red Divergence.
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15.3 The Renormalization Group.
15.4 The Strong Coupling Constant.
15.5 Applications.
15.6 Appendix: Some Loop Diagrams in QCD.
16 Weak Interactions.
16.1 Introduction.
16.2 Leptonic Weak Interactions.
16.3 The Free Vector Boson Field.
16.4 The Feynman Rules for the IVB Theory.
16.5 Decay Rates.
16.6 Applications of the IVB Theory.
16.7 Neutrino Masses.
16.8 Difficulties with the IVB Theory.
17 A Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions.
17.1 QED Revisited.
17.2 Global Phase Transformations and Conserved Weak Currents.
17.3 The Gauge–Invariant Electro–Weak Interaction.
17.4 Properties of the Gauge Bosons.
17.5 Lepton and Gauge Boson Masses.
18 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.
18.1 The Goldstone Model.
18.2 The Higgs Model.
18.3 The Standard Electro–Weak Theory.
19 The Standard Electro–weak Theory.
19.1 The Lagrangian Density in the Unitary Gauge.
19.2 Feynman Rules.
19.3 Elastic Neutrino–Electron Scattering.
19.4 Electron–Positron Annihilation.
19.5 The Higgs Boson.
Appendix A.
Appendix B.
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Ferrari charity auction in Tokyo: over 500,000 Euros collected
Maranello, 4 July 2011 – Over 200 passionate clients and collectors participated in today's charity auction at the Italian embassy in Tokyo to collect money for the city of Ishinomaki, which was severely hit by the earthquake in Japan last March.
The auction was a great success, where some shirts, signed by the Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, and the first FF on the Japanese market, were auctioned off.
Ferrari Chairman Luca di Montezemolo, the Italian ambassador Vincenzo Petrone, the Japanese Minister of Industry Banri Kaieda and Ishinomaki's mayor Hiroshi Kameyama participated in the event. The FF was won at the auction by an architect from Tokyo, who offered more than the other bidders. With the over 500,000 Euros collected, Ferrari will build a school for the children of Ishinomaki. This initiative is a first and was also used to celebrate the first 35 years of Ferrari in Japan.


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Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex & the City, The Family Stone, Failure to Launch) gives a stunning performance in a powerful adaptation of Rebecca Gilman's controversial play, hailed by Time Magazine as one of the year's best.
Sarah Daniels (Parker) has barely settled into her new job as Dean of Students at a small elite college when a series of hate crimes throws her world into turmoil. Because of Sarah's experience at an inner-city school, the investigation becomes her responsibility. She calls the police, only to find her every decision challenged by Dean Catherine Kenney (Miranda Richardson, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Phantom of the Opera) and President Winston Garvey (James Rebhorn, Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr. Ripley), who are more concerned with maintaining the school's image than solving the case.
An anonymous call brings investigative reporter Aaron Carmichael (Mykelti Williamson, Lucky Number Slevin, After the Sunset, Forrest Gump) to the campus and Sarah is ordered to be his escort in order to prevent negative publicity. Against Sarah's advice, Professor Burton Strauss (Beau Bridges, Jerry Maguire, Sidekicks, The Fabulous Baker Boys) holds a "Forum on Race" which turns into a riot and Sarah is forced to watch as the situation spins out of control.
The discovery of the truth behind the hate crimes shocks Sarah into realizing that she cannot run from her own prejudices; she must confront them.
Spinning Into Butter reveals the racial tensions that still simmer under the surface of our politically correct society and challenges us all to look deeper within ourselves.


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I hope this topic is appropriate for MO. I have a tenure-track position at a US university in a location where my spouse is very unhappy, severely underemployed, and has no real prospect of finding suitable employment. I know the economy/job market is bad now and that I will likely have to stay put for a few years. But, hopefully in the near future, things will improve and I would like to test the job market.
Question One: How should I go about obtaining a teaching letter? I work in a small department and I do not think any other faculty member would willingly help me "test the market." (Things could be especially awkward if I cannot find another suitable position and decide to stay in my current position with everyone knowing I tried to leave.)
Question Two: Is it better to apply for other jobs right before or after I get tenure at my current university? (Can having tenure be detrimental in the application process?)
Thanks in advance for any advice ...


text: Like the original Stetson hat that symbolized American independence, integrity, and individuality, Stetson eyeglasses are in a class by themselves. Stetson men won't settle for anything but the best, and this is why Stetson eyewear is constructed with the latest in frame and lens technology and offers a high degree of scratch resistance and extreme durability. A leader in the field since 1982, Stetson provides the assurance that even in the rough-and-tumble of daily life there are some things that can always be counted on.


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While no means a great film, Fant4stic Four isn't nearly as bad as critics would have you believe.
The third son of a candle-maker, and secretly a spy, Tsiao Fong Wei betrayed his family, clan, and town to the merciless Qongg Dynasty, causing the deaths of his own family members. He survived to an old age hiding out in the country side and keeping a low profile. One day however, the "Paper Knife" finally found Tsiao Fong Wei , and exacted his revenge on behalf of the folk, dead and tortured.
After a furious struggle, the "Paper Knife" plunged twin burning candles into the eyes of the traitorous old man and laughed, as Tsiao Fong Wei howled in dismay and pain. Some say Tsiao Fong Wei died that day. Others say that the old man somehow escaped despite his sudden anguish and utter blindness.
The truth is lost to time.
But to this day the children of the Red-Ridge County towns and villages are told by their parents to always beware twin lights in the darkness and to never venture into the woods at night, and to keep an ear open for the Groaning Ghost, for somewhere out there Tsiao Fong Wei the Traitor, now a vengeful spirit, stumbles about the darkness moaning and wailing, candles still sticking forth from out of his otherwise empty eye sockets. And though the candles plunged into his eyes all those years ago were a'flame going in, now the wax protuberances are somehow lit from within and burn without, and two flickering lights in the darkness, always portend his coming.


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Police are looking for a man who shot a dog in the face and left it for dead in a New Haven, Conn., park.
A witness called police around 8:30 a.m. Sunday after watching the events unfold, according to a report from the police.
The witness told police a man walked the dog, a 1-year-old pit bull, into Edgewood Park on a leash. The dog seemed to trust the handler, according to the witness.
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As the man and the dog reached the bridge by the duck pond, the man tied the dog's leash to a concrete railing tightly, which kept the dog from moving at all. The handler pulled out a gun and shot it in the face, the witness said.
The bullet missed the dog's brain by a centimeter, and somehow he miraculously survived the shooting. Officers have named the dog "B." He was taken to the Pet Shield veterinary hospital in North Branford for treatment.
After the shooting, the witness followed the man to the Kensington Street area but lost sight of him after that, police said.
The shooter is described as a man in his 30s and between 5 feet, 9 inches and 5 feet, 11 inches tall. He had very short dreadlocks and wore a black Champion jacket with a black letter "C" on the left breast.
According to a veterinarian, "B" should have no long-term effects from the shooting. He is still recovering and is not up for adoption at this point but could be put up for adoption at a later date, police said.
Anyone with information on the incident or recognizes "B" is asked to call police at 203-946-6313.


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Pick REIT ETFs for Your Portfolio
Although more than 30 REIT ETFs are currently available to U.S. investors, a handful really stand out for their low costs and reasonable indexes. In fact, making the selection shouldn't be all that hard.
U.S. domestic REIT ETFs
These two funds are strikingly similar, and either one fits the bill nicely when it comes to investing in the U.S. REIT market.
Vanguard REIT Index ETF (VNQ)
Indexed to: The MSCI U.S. REIT index, which tracks roughly two-thirds of the U.S. REIT market
Expense ratio: 0.12 percent
Number of holdings: 108
Top five holdings: Simon Property Group, Equity Residential, Public Storage, Vornado Realty Trust, Boston Properties
Once again, Vanguard brings to market the most economical investment vehicle. You can't find a better way to invest in the U.S. REIT market than through VNQ. This is a broadly based ETF with an ultra-low expense ratio. Like all Vanguard ETFs, this fund trades free of commissions if held in a Vanguard account.
Focus Morningstar Real Estate ETF (FRL)
Indexed to: The Morningstar Real Estate Index, which tracks the market for publicly traded U.S. REITs
Expense ratio: 0.12
Number of holdings: 85
Top five holdings: Simon Property Group, Equity Residential, Vornado Realty Trust, Public Storage, Boston Properties
Focus Morningstar ETFs from FocusShares are the creation of Morningstar and Scottrade. All FocusShares ETFs trade free of commission at Scottrade.
Given the similarity in construction to Vanguard's VNQ and the identical expense ratio, this fund could be a substitute if you want to use FocusShares instead of Vanguard (such as if you have an account at Scottrade). Vanguard VNQ and FocusShares FRL are both about half the price of any other REIT ETF on the market.
Global REIT funds
If you split your REIT allocation between U.S. and international, the next two ETFs come in handy. The first fund, VNQI, invests only in markets outside the United States and pairs quite nicely with VNQ. The second fund, RWO, is divided between U.S. and non-U.S. REITs, so it provides one-stop shopping for REIT investments (although at a higher cost than you'd pay for the Vanguard options).
Vanguard Global ex-U.S. Real Estate ETF (VNQI)
Indexed to: The S&P Global ex-U.S. Property Index, which tracks the performance of REITs in both developed and emerging markets outside of the United States
Expense ratio: 0.35 percent
Number of holdings: 424
Top five holdings: Sun Hung Kai Properties, Mitsubishi Estate Company, Cheung Kong Holdings, Unibail-Rodamco, Westfield Group
Top five countries: Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore
There is no less expensive way to tap into this asset class. This fund trades free if held at Vanguard, and it makes a very nice companion fund to VNQ. Do take note that foreign REITs, like all foreign stocks, are going to be subject to currency flux as well as market volatility. In other words, expect a bit more of a rollercoaster ride with this and all foreign ETFs than you would expect of domestic ETFs.
SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate (RWO)
Indexed to: The Dow Jones Global Real Estate Securities Index, an index based on the publicly traded real estate market in both developed and emerging-market nations
Expense ratio: 0.50 percent
Number of holdings: 216
Top five holdings: Simon Property Group, Westfield Group, Unibail-Rodamco, Brookfield Asset Management, Equity Residential
Top five countries: United States (50 percent of the fund), Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
If you have a smaller portfolio, or if you lust for simplicity, go with this perfectly fine ETF. But for most folks, you'd be better off to combine the Vanguard domestic REIT ETF (VNQ) with the international REIT fund (VNQI). You'll wind up with pretty much the same mix of REITs, but you'll be spending less than half as much on management expenses.


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COLUMBUS, Ga. – The road to the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament Championship came to an abrupt halt Tuesday for Georgia College baseball (35-17), as the Bobcats lost 6-2 to regular-season champion Francis Marion University (37-13) on day two of tournament action.
The East No. 1-seed Patriots advance to face the loser of today's Augusta State University/UNC Pembroke contest, while the West No. 2-seed Bobcats are eliminated from the tournament.
FMU dominated the middle innings of the game, putting up a pair in the fourth and one more in the fifth to take a 1-1 game to 4-1 in a hurry.
The Bobcats were handcuffed by All-PBC starter Jeffrey Stoner (8-0), going seven innings, scattering five hits and two runs. Patrick Mincey added the save with the final two innings of work.
GC second baseman Luke McKay (Augusta, Kan.) was one of the few Bobcats to solve the riddle, getting involved in both runs. In the third with GC down 1-0, he led off with a double down the leftfield line, scoring on an infield single by Josh Young (Lake Havasu City, Ariz.).
McKay supplied his second home run of the season in the seventh, cutting a 4-1 lead to 4-2 before the Patriots tacked on two insurance runs in the ninth.
Senior Eric Pettepher (Gordon, Ga.) took the loss (5-4) in relief, going just one inning and allowing two runs. McKay was the lone multi-hit performer, going 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI on the home run.
The Bobcats now await the at-large announcements for the NCAA Regional Tournament to begin later this month. GC was ranked fifth in the most recent region poll.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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