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SALISBURY – City voters will head to the polls Tuesday, deciding between District One candidates, incumbent Shanie Shields, community activist April Jackson and businesswoman Cynthia Polk, along with District Two candidates, incumbent Debbie Campbell and urban redevelopment activist Jake Day< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
The candidates were present at a forum this week, and the here's a glimpse at one of the more general questions so readers can get a glimpse of their views.
Q: Give us a 90-second accounting of your platform, as well as your visions for the City of Salisbury in the next five and/or 10 years.
Campbell: First my mission for Salisbury prosperity is that we have the jobs here because we can't have families that are working two and three jobs and can't pay attention to their children because they can't pay the bills. I run into people like that when I go door to door. I have seen the foreclosures and I have seen the vacancies in our communities. We certainly do not need more subsidized housing. We have EDUs, we don't need to be using our EDUs to build more units of housing than we already have that are vacant and foreclosed.
We do need to increase our tax base. We need to have a place where people want to come and stay. We need to increase our curb appeal, like our parks, we need to take good care of our parks. We need to take care of the businesses that are already here. We need to find a way with the county to improve our schools because the things that businesses and their employees look at when they come or when they decide to stay is are the communities safe, do they have good schools, and what do your neighborhoods look like.
I think that Salisbury can be a wonderful place. I love it and my family has been here for seven generations and I know what it looks like when it is wonderful and we are back on our way, we have righted the ship …
Day: My vision for Salisbury is as a city that is the capital of the Eastern Shore, the cultural, transportation, the economic capital of the Eastern Shore … it starts with a vision but it cannot end there. It has to take a plan and then it has to take great people and a changed culture.
We have to have an open community, we have to restore partnership to our city government, we have to restore prosperity to Salisbury ultimately, that is the only way that we are ever going to restore pride to Salisbury, and when we have a place that we are proud of or a place that we know as our home that is when we have a competitive advantage over the Berlins, and the Cambridges and the Eastons and the Snow Hills.
Shields: Building partnerships for a positive change, and as I have said constantly, you have to bring the stakeholders to the table to prosper Salisbury and move Salisbury forward.
One of the projects I would like to see … is implementing some of these studies that we paid all this money for. One of these, the North Prong Study, which is between Isabella Street and Route 50, I would like to see a river walk on that side of town, which is in District 1. We have a beautiful river walk by the Holiday Inn … we need to cross over the Lake Street side and put a river walk so people can enjoy that side of the river. Not destroying the businesses as they have been told and scaring them half to death. I do not want to close businesses down but I think there is room for improvement on that side of town.
Jackson: My five-year plan is bringing in big and small businesses, bringing in tourists, which brings in jobs, bringing in higher-wage jobs, revitalization of the entire City of Salisbury, bringing the crime rate down and keeping it at a level that we can actually control and deal with…better housing, better education for our kids to make sure our youth are prepared for these high-tech jobs that we are going to bring here.
I am not going to say we are not going to do it. My plan is that we are going to bring these jobs here. I have no doubt in my mind that we cannot do this.
Higher paying jobs so we can pull the majority of our people of our population out of the slumps, so there may be prosperity here in Salisbury. I am looking to make Salisbury prosperous, not only Salisbury but making the people of Salisbury prosperous because when we are prosperous the City thrives, and that is what I am looking for, our City to thrive.
Polk: My campaign slogan is "A Candidate for the Rest of Us", and I believe to create jobs is a top priority because everything is in our jobs. It makes for better housing, people buy cars and people go out to restaurants. It is just not our jobs but you have to have money that pays the rent, and then you can do extra things.
And how are you going to rely on us to do this? Well, the first thing will be to collaborate with the universities because they are constantly…being innovative about studies. UMBS was able to have someone that invented soy beans without the soil.
Also, take a look at enterprise zone. Enterprise zone gives small businesses a ten-year property tax break, and also a State income tax credit. I would like to expand that enterprise zone to more in District 1 and what I found out about the enterprise zone is with just $50,000 you could be able to utilize this provided if in that area.

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Big Rapids, Mich. - Defending national finalist and Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) regular-season champion Ferris State opened its 2012-13 campaign in impressive fashion on Sunday (Oct. 7) with a dominating 8-2 exhibition win over Ryerson University at the Ewigleben Ice Arena.
The preseason nationally 11th-ranked Bulldogs poured in three first period goals and cruised past the Rams before an announced crowd of 1,498 fans in Big Rapids.
Sophomore forward Nate Milam put the Bulldogs on the board first at 13:19 of the opening frame on an even-strength goal in unassisted fashion.
FSU added another goal at 15:41 of the first when junior wing Garrett Thompson cashed in during a 4-on-4 situation with a marker assisted by Travis White.
The final Bulldog goal of the first stanza came from senior captain Kyle Bonis off assists from Thompson and senior Travis Ouellette at 17:58.
The Bulldogs increased their lead quickly to start the second period by scoring two goals only 22 seconds apart. The first came from junior wing Justin DeMartino at 3:09 off a feed from freshman defenseman Brandon Anselmini. The next was by freshman forward Kenny Babinski, who notched his goal at even-strength on an assist from fellow rookie forward Dakota Klecha.
Ryerson finally cracked the scoreboard at 14:49 of the second period when David Searle notched a power-play goal for the Rams that was unassisted.
The Rams trimmed the margin to 5-2 to start the third and final period when Michael Fine was able to light the lamp off a pass by Daniel Lombardi only 31 seconds into the period.
However, the Bulldogs quickly answered as DeMartino notched his second goal of the game 2:02 into the frame. The goal was assisted by both Babinski and freshman forward Matt Robertson.
Robertson got into the scoring act himself with less than two minutes to play when he scored off a feed by sophomore forward Justin Buzzeo.
DeMartino wasn't done, though, as he found the back of the net again to complete a hat trick effort at 19:38 on a goal assisted by both Buzzeo and junior forward Andy Huff.
The Bulldogs utilized three goaltenders in the contest with sophomore CJ Motte playing the initial 20 minutes and making 10 saves. Freshman Charles Williams stopped five shots in second period action while junior Rob Granett recorded a team-high 11 saves while playing the third and final period.
The Rams also used three netminders with Troy Passingham starting the contest and making 11 saves. He surrendered three goals to the Bulldogs. Steve Gleeson played the next 20 minutes and had 16 saves with Louie George finishing the outing in the third period and making nine saves.
Ferris State held a decisive 44-28 edge in total shots, which included a game-high 18 in the second period along with 14 in the first and 12 in the third period.
FSU finished 0-of-3 on the power play while the Rams were one-of-three with the man advantage. Ryerson had seven penalties for 33 minutes with the Bulldogs netting six for 23 minutes.
Ferris State will open the 2012-13 regular-season on the road next weekend as the Bulldogs visit RPI on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 12-13, for a two-game non-league set in Troy, N.Y. Action gets underway both nights at 7:05 p.m. (ET) and the broadcast can be heard live on Sunny 97.3 FM and the Bulldog Sports Network online at FerrisStateBulldogs.com.
The Bulldogs will play their home-opening series on Oct. 19-20 as they entertain the Mercyhurst Lakers at the Ewigleben Ice Arena for a pair of 7:05 p.m. (ET) faceoffs. FSU will celebrate its historic national runner-up finish a year ago by hoisting new banners inside the facility on Oct. 19. Tickets can be obtained by calling the FSU Athletics Ticket Office at (231) 591-2888 or by visiting www.startickets.com.
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Re: starwars sketch art...
a work in progress for a comic...sorry its vertical.
Something wicked this way comes...
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a work in progress for a comic...sorry its vertical.
Something wicked this way comes...
Wow they are really funky, well done
I really liked them. You have got a nice drawing style
thank you devil girl, i am definitely trying to get back into drawing. for a time i exiled myself and have just recently sharpened my pencils again.
...stay tuned for more funkiness in the near future.
and as for corran...youll always be my technicolor hero
very cool drawings!
I like your style of drawing. Very nice.
thank you "chosen one" and "force master R".
i am pleased to be one of the many talented artists on this site...some of which i collaborate with. a shout to "balancesheet" and "corran fett".
i just finished a sketch of an echani ive been mulling over since kotor.
remember the echani bounty hunter in the bar on that water world?(his armor was yellow and he acted arrogant and indifferent when you tried to engage him).
i sorta copied the helmet from that...
and incorporated a jetpack with a few motifications. instead of a rocket in the pack i changed it to a
tracking laser blaster.
a vibro-blade as well...since echani like to travel light.
his name oddly enough is "kujo".
Very nice drawing, as I rack my brain trying to recollect what he looked like (I only vaguely remember the mask). From what I remember. Very nice drawing. I really like the tracking blaster. Gives them more of a hunter (predator) look.
Man, I wish I could draw that good.
I can't even draw a straight line.
again, thank you. its always nice to hear that people like ur work.
drawing is like anything. daunting if you dont break it into steps.
the hardest part is developing ur style. mine is shaped by many,
but primarily by todd mcfarlane and other earlier spiderman artists.
if u r indeed interested in drawing i would suggest breaking it into steps. like so.
(sorry its crude)
but if done from a stick figure to shapes and then start to flesh out details. i think
you'd be surprised with the outcome.
Interesting...thank you for sharing this information cujo.
Very Nice!
Nice stuff. Love the predator touch with the shoulder tracking blaster. Also the mask connected to the chest plate, gives him a Darth Vader like feeling, but with a jet pack
this a sketch of "holiday special" fett...a fellow bffc-er is coloring it for me,
because i have no skills with the color.
Cool two new artworks. I like the Echani, cool concept, although the drawing's kinda busy and his hands were a bit hard to make out.
As for Holiday Special Boba: good job on that as well, except for the armor-plates (I wonder why you don't draw the diamond?) it looks like 1:1 from the cartoon.
How's gonna color that, if I may ask?
btw, I'm sorry to have you still waiting for my next two colorings. It's a busy, test-laden week at school, but I'll really try to get at least one done by the weekend. *shy*
hello bffc-ers.
take ur time corran fett, its ur world world man. i am looking forward to see ur work.
and ur right on the "kujo" is too busy. the curse of the black and white artist.
...the curse continues
and valthonin aka indy fett it didnt even occur to me that vader-esque mask but "kujo" is a character
with some respatory issues. every bad a55 has to have a vulnerability. he is born into an era about two thousand years before the prequels.
i came across a rather sloppy but i think entertaining sketch i think. its the laurel and hardy of the of
the starwars world.
ZUCKUSS and 4-LOM in "the stake out".
spiker! this guy is quickly becoming a favorite EU character of mine...
I'm guessing that you finally won over Zuckuss via eraser persuation
I'm guessing that you finally won over Zuckuss via eraser persuation
nope, actually not happy with that sketch and it will be replaced when i get time to redo it...zuckuss and 4lom
r not the easiest guys to draw correctly...
wanted to do a sketch of garindan w/out his googles on...i might be the first person ever to speculate what his eyes look like...wrap ur noodle around that....
some 4lom love...
Excellent indeed.
Sweet like ur Garindan.
These are some sweet sketchings
thanks for the kind words. i do think that garindan is unique and i might have to go back and refine it.
my original character "kujo" is a work in progress, here is version 2.0 do you guys think the mask is better here?(the first kujo can be seen by scrolling up the page)
ur imput is always appreciated.
Woah, cool updates!
I really like your take at Garindan... very interesting! 4-LOM looks cool as well, only his pose seems a bit too "Stormtrooper"-ish.
And that Kuji V2.0 looks awesome! *applause* Veeeery original concept, way better pose, and the helmet looks better too. Great job!
Keep up the great work, bro!
And gosh, I still haven't colored that final page, have I? I promise I'll get to it as soon as wheather starts to get worse, again, because my room's hot like hell, and it's no fun to work at high temperatures, and I rather go swimming... *whistling*^^
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More news about: Bethany
Nov 10, 2012
Numerous single-season records were broken Saturday, as the Bethany College football team finished the 2012 season on a high note by defeating Saint Vincent 54-27 at sunny Bison Stadium.
The Bison (3-7, 3-5) started the scoring with a pair of first-quarter touchdowns. Following a Saint Vincent turnover deep in their own end, junior QB Matt Grimard started his huge day by running 11 yards for a touchdown. Then on the last play of the first quarter, sophomore Brandon Hill scored his first collegiate touchdown on an four-yard scamper to make it a 14-0 lead.
Bethany erupted in the second quarter for four more TDs. The first came when Grimard tossed a screen to senior WR Marcus D'Aguiar-Alexander, who picked up a couple blocks and outraced Bearcat defenders for a 52-yard touchdown catch. Senior WR Ed Holmes started his record-breaking day by hauling in a 21-yard touchdown catch to extend the lead to 28-0.
After forcing Saint Vincent to punt on its next drive, junior Michael Howcott broke through to block the kick and when it rolled into the end zone, Howcott managed to pounce on the loose ball for the score and a 34-0 BC advantage with 7:46 left in the half. Saint Vincent (0-10, 0-8) hit on two long TD passes before the half, but in between their scores, Holmes snared a 37-yard touchdown aerial from Grimard, a record-breaking play on two fronts, and Bethany carried a 41-14 lead into halftime.
The TD pass from Grimard-to-Holmes was the duo's second of the day and gave Holmes 10 for the season, which breaks the Bethany single-season record of nine shared by T.J. Parker (2006) and Matt Cruse (2007). It was also the 22nd TD pass of the year for Grimard, which snapped the previous seasonal record that was set by Milton Joyner in 2007.
Both teams found the end zone twice in the second half. After Saint Vincent scored following a Bison turnover, BC used a short field set up by a 47-yard punt return by senior Jeff Joyce to strike again. Grimard posted his second rushing TD of the game with a two-yard keeper. The junior signal caller then added to his touchdown pass record by hitting junior WR Cam Cooper for a 79-yard scoring connection to swell the Bethany lead to 54-21.
The Bearcats would post the only score in the fourth quarter, but the damage had been done. Bethany's 54 points was its highest output since lighting up the scoreboard for 66 in a victory over Saint Vincent in Sept., 2007. The Bison also broke the team record for points in a season, as the Green and White scored 301 this year to surpass the previous high mark of 280 set in 2008.
It was a day of record breaking all around for the Bison. Grimard, who was 21-of-31 for 290 yards and four TDs and rushed for another 74 yard and two scores, set a second standard in the game. His 2,605 passing yards for the year broke Jeff Beer's 1980 record of 2,367 yards in a season.
One of Grimard's favorite targets also enjoyed a landmark afternoon. While Holmes was setting the touchdown receptions mark, senior Johnathan Foster gathered in eight catches Saturday. That gives him 72, which took down the previous Bison record of 71 set by Parker in 2006.
Although the BC defense didn't set any records, it did enjoy a strong day. The unit forced four turnovers, including interceptions by Joyce and freshman LB Larry Kpadehyea and made four sacks, including one each for Kpadehyea, senior Gage Lotozo and freshmen linemen Etahn Barnes and Eric Campbell. Senior linebacker Kyle Arrington, who set a new Bethany career record for tackles last week, made a team-high seven stops Saturday and finished with 99 for the season.


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If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I was livid Tuesday while reading an article in TIME magazine titled "The Myth about Exercise" by John Cloud. I know that not many people probably care as much as I do about this but I would like to post a rebuttal to this article which I will also be sending to TIME magazine as a formal complaint. If you would like to read the full article to see that I'm not exaggerating its faults, you may do so here.
I've always considered TIME to be a reputable magazine and was truly shocked that they published such irresponsible journalism. I heard about this article through Healthy Tipping Point, a blog I read regularly, while I was on vacation. I was actually quite happy when I returned to work to find that someone had left the issue on my desk with the article in question as the cover story. I was automatically annoyed and intrigued by this cover.
It only took me one glance to understand what this article was really about. Next to a picture of a woman using a sugared donut as a stability ball, the caption read: "Pain - and then gain Whether because exercise makes us hungry or because we want to reward ourselves, many people eat more (and eat worse) after going to the gym." So...this article is about finding something else to blame other than a person's own eating choices for their unhappiness with their weight. But, still, I gave it the benefit of the doubt and read the entire article. I had to take several breaks to make it all the way to the end, but I did.
This is not a tirade without facts or reason. This isn't a personal vendetta or grudge that I am holding. There are several statements in this article that are very misleading and some that are completely untrue. Even the way it is titled and described is misleading. Americans will see the title, be excited that they can blame exercise for their weight and go on without reading between the lines.
Many people will not be able to see the inconsistency in the studies Cloud used for his research. He used two studies that dealt with how the amount of time one exercises affected their weight. One study was done with women and the other was conducted with children. How are those studies even comparable?? Within the woman's study, they were only given 6 months! 6 months is not enough time to study healthy, attainable and maintainable weight loss! Not to mention that exercise and diet affects each and every person differently; this is why every diet and/or exercise program should be tailored to each person. And I'm curious as to whether these 464 women were all the same height and weight with the same amount of body fat and no diseases or conditions that may affect weight or metabolism, which is the only way this study could be credible.
Another point Cloud makes in the article is that "self control is like a muscle: it weakens each day after you use it." I don't know how else to say it other than this: he is wrong. That is not true. A muscle does not weaken after each use. It grows tired but then grows stronger. Cloud made a completely incorrect analogy no matter which way you spin it. This makes Cloud even less credible.
Cloud defines exercise as time spent in the gym and nothing else. Taking the stairs, going for a short walk on a lunch break or even carrying in the groceries are all forms of exercise. When trying to lose weight, these things are actually recommended and fitting these and similar physical activities wherever possible can really help. I don't know where Cloud acquired the idea that exercise only happens in the gym, but that simply is not true. "Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health." (Wikipedia) Cloud's definition of exercise skews the entire article because every time he refers to "exercise" he is referring to weight lifting, running 5 miles or killing yourself on the elliptical. It is quite possible to lose pounds and maintain a healthy weight without ever doing any of these things. A stay-at-home mom (or dad!) who spends all day chasing their children around gets plenty of exercise without ever joining a gym or doing a push-up. These different forms of physical activity should be considered. Cloud's narrow definition of exercise leads to the inaccuracy of his argument.
Another problem with the suggestion that "exercise won't make you thin" is that exercise is vastly recommended for a healthy lifestyle, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT OVERWEIGHT. Losing weight is about becoming a healthier person and making a lifestyle change, not just about those 30 pounds. Exercise has numerous health benefits, including, but not at all limited to, long- and short- term disease prevention, less likely to suffer injuries from minor accidents, extended life span, younger and tighter looking skin and even stronger bones. Cloud alludes that exercise is at fault for the extra pounds, silently suggesting that those trying to lose weight should cut exercise out. Instead of learning to channel cravings into something healthier, these people will loose out on all of the great benefits that come from exercise.
Cloud explains his exercise regimen as something he has "done for years." The body's muscles have memory. They get used to doing activities. If Cloud runs 5.5 miles every week, his body will learn how to run these 5.5 miles. These miles will still be beneficial becuase Cloud is raising his heartrate but he will not burn as many calories because he doesn't have to put as much effort into it. Cloud's muscles are running on auto-pilot. In order to keep all the muscles in engaged, one needs to switch up a routine, surprising the different muscle groups with activity, to always challenge the body. This could be a reason Cloud has found himself in a rut.
Cloud, and probably more people than I realize, have a skewed vision of a normal and healthy diet. A reward system where you "reward" yourself with food every time you do something good is setting yourself up to fail. The rewards will more than foil the efforts of the good deeds. Patting yourself on the back for burning 300 calories on the treadmill by eating a 360 calorie muffin, as is featured in the article, is not a logical thing to do. You become 60 calories worse off. Instead of just taking the exercise away from this equation, the muffin should be the thing to go.
Cloud's description of "compensation" is one of the main problems with this article. "Whether because exercise makes them hungry or because they wanted to reward themselves (or both), most of the women who exercised ate more than they did before they started [exercising]." Compensation is blaming exercise for what a person eats afterward. A "post-exercise reward" Cloud calls it. Yes, exercise can make you hungry, but that doesn't mean you have to you have to eat "perfectly salted, golden brown french fries after a hard trip to the gym." Or go "stopping at Starbucks for muffins afterward." How is this exercises' fault?? Cloud is blame-throwing. Being healthy isn't something you do part-time. You have to make good decisions every, single day. And yes, no one is perfect - an occasional treat or slip-up will not ruin everything. But eating a "reward" after every workout is not occasional. How can exercise even be considered beneficial if this is the approach? I get hungry after a workout as well...but I grab baby carrots or a glass of milk. Almonds or an apple. It's YOUR choice to eat whatever you like after working out. But it's not the exercise that made you gain a pound. It's the act of choosing french fries instead of something healthier.
"But while physical activity is crucial for good health, it doesn't melt away the pounds - in fact, it can add them." The negative outlook Cloud is placing on exercise does not go away just because he says one good thing about it. It's like saying "no offense", and then saying something offensive. Saying "no offense" beforehand doesn't make the offensive statement any less offensive. Saying that exercise is crucial for a healthy lifestyle and then bashing it and blaming all your weight woes on it for 5 pages does not make it look better. It simply creates the outlook that Americans would be better off only watching what they ate without any exercise. Which is definitely not the message the "overweight Americans" Cloud is speaking to need to hear.


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So yesterday I finally made a tutorial on more dragons but instead of them fighting, standing, or flying, I made a lesson on "how to draw dragon love", step by step. I am so happy with the way that this lesson turned out because it really is so pretty. All the tutorials I made for today are in my book, awesome. This is going to be somewhat easy to tackle since the dragons in the drawing are thin, and don't have too much detail. The tails intertwine as they embrace each other lovingly and the heads also are joined together for an ever locking pose to show how much love is shared between them. Someone asked me on Facebook what the purpose for the necklace was, and to answer that again, it just simply shows which dragon is a boy, and which is a girl. I really hope that you all love this tutorial that is going up first today on "how to draw dragon love". Anyone who loves these flying, majestic beasts of myth should also love the tutorial too. Please remember to fav, rate, and comment on any or all of the lessons you see on Dragoart.com.
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This is a request for a list of examples of problems (or other mathematical situations) that are not initially of algebro-geometric nature, but can be solved or understood by using algebraic geometry.
Here are some applications that are not of the kind sought:
Diophantine equations or other problems whose basic data are specified in algebraic terms, or have an immediate translation into such terms.
GAGA or reduction to finite characteristic arguments, but applied to problems that are clearly already within (or very near) the algebro-geometric sphere, involving varieties or moduli spaces, or cohomology of such spaces.


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Emmanuel Levinas
French philosopher
Emmanuel Levinas (French pronunciation: [leviˈna, leviˈnas]; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher and Talmudic commentator of Lithuanian Jewish origin.
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- If every pure character in the Old Testament announces the Messiah, if every unworthy person is his torturer and every woman his Mother, does not the Book of Books lose all life with this obsessive theme?
- On the doctrine of prefiguration.
- Persons or Figures (1950)
- To ignore the true God is in fact only half an evil; atheism is worth more than the piety bestowed on mythical gods.
- A Religion for Adults (1957)
- The moral consciousness can sustain the mocking gaze of the political man only if the certitude of peace dominates the evidence of war. Such a certitude is not obtained by a simple play of antitheses. The peace of empires issued from war rests on war. It does not restore to the alienated beings their lost identity. For that a primordial and original relation with being is needed.
- Totality and Infinity (1961)
- The comprehension of God taken as a participation in his sacred life, an allegedly direct comprehension, is impossible, because participation is a denial of the divine, and because nothing is more direct than the face to face, which is straightforwardness itself.
- Totality and Infinity (1961)


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Petraeus scandal tests D.C. code
The first rule in Washington: loyalty.
Working in this town can be an ongoing test — defending a boss not only from prying journalists and rival lawmakers, but also themselves.
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Several former staffers who've worked for lawmakers embroiled in scandal of all varieties told POLITICO that the unfolding tale of Gen. David Petraeus' affair with his biographer, and a related story about Gen. John Allen's flirtatious emailing with a married Florida woman, is a case study in the staffer-boss Washington code.
"You've got to fight like hell for your boss," said Jim Manley, who helped Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) through a land deal scandal, "but it's also important that you not lose sight of the bigger picture."
"As a press secretary you are always fighting for as much information as possible when it comes to legislative issues, for instance, but at some point and time in a scandal you thank the Lord above the lawyers aren't telling you everything," Manley, who also served as press secretary to then-Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). "You've got to trust your boss. You've got to trust the lawyers. I got lucky in both jobs with people that fit both of those descriptions."
So far, the aides around Petraeus — known to have a circle of loyalists — and Allen have stood by the two men. On Tuesday, a senior official even did damage control for Allen Tuesday, telling The Washington Post there's no way he had an affair.
It's an experience that's played out over and over in politics: Bosses engage in untoward behavior, but staff stands by them — even keeping their secrets. For some staffers, being on the clock even means acting as a minder at alcohol-fueled evening events.
Rep. Anthony Weiner's questionable tweeting wasn't outed by his circle. Aides to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford tried to cover up his affair with an Argentinian woman by saying he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. Another said the governor was recharging after losing a fight over stimulus funds. Sen. David Vitter's staff remained tight-lipped after the Louisiana Republican's phone number was found on the D.C. Madam's list.
Washington insiders say those reactions by staff aren't a surprise.
"In a crisis atmosphere, there's a sense of hyper-vigilance that kicks into the entire operation, where everyone is watching and bracing for the next incoming piece of information, while at the same time responding to the current atmosphere," said veteran GOP communicator Ron Bonjean.
Bonjean is no stranger to defending bosses in precarious positions. He served as House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) spokesman when Hastert faced calls to step down when news of Foley's inappropriate communications with House pages broke. Bonjean was also a top aide when Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) was forced to step down as majority leader after making comments at Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) 100th birthday party that were perceived as racially insensitive.
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Côte d"Ivoire (also known as the Ivory Coast), in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea, is a little larger than New Mexico. Its neighbors are Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. The country consists of a coastal strip in the south, dense forests in the interior, and savannas in the north.
Côte d"Ivoire was originally made up of numerous isolated settlements; today it represents more than sixty distinct tribes, including the Baoule, Bete, Senoufou, Agni, Malinke, Dan, and Lobi. Côte d"Ivoire attracted both French and Portuguese merchants in the 15th century who were in search of ivory and slaves. French traders set up establishments early in the 19th century, and in 1842, the French obtained territorial concessions from local tribes, gradually extending their influence along the coast and inland. The area was organized as a territory in 1893, became an autonomous republic in the French Union after World War II, and achieved independence on Aug. 7, 1960. Côte d"Ivoire formed a customs union in 1959 with Dahomey (Benin), Niger, and Burkina Faso. The nation"s economy is one of the most developed in sub-Saharan Africa. It is the world"s largest exporter of cocoa and one of the largest exporters of coffee.
From independence until his death in 1993, Felix Houphouët-Boigny served as president. Massive protests by students, farmers, and professionals forced the president to legalize opposition parties and hold the first contested presidential election in Oct. 1990, which Houphouët-Boigny won with 81% of the vote.
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FAYETTEVILLE – Towson University Director of Athletics Michael Waddell has been named Senior Associate Athletic Director for External Operations and Strategic Communications at the University of Arkansas it was announced by Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Jeff Long on Monday.
Waddell will join the athletic department's senior leadership team and oversee the department's external areas including marketing, licensing, media relations, public relations, ticket operations and RazorVision. He will also be the department's liaison with the new SEC Network leading the program's strategic engagement with the new television channel and digital platform.
Since October 2010, Waddell has served as the Director of Athletics at Towson University in suburban Baltimore, Maryland. At Towson, Waddell was the lead administrator for the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) program which features more than 500 student-athletes and 150 coaches and staff. During the 2012-13 season, the Tigers claimed six (6) CAA Championships, had four (4) coaches named CAA Coach of the Year, five (5) student-athletes named CAA Player of the Year, nine (9) All-Americans and more than 53 named to All-Conference status, while also having 131 student-athletes achieve a 3.5 GPA or higher and while engaging the Greater Baltimore Community with more than 10,000 hours of service. Waddell also positioned Towson as one of the country's most progressive programs in the areas of marketing, communications and corporate sponsorships, including soon to be naming rights for Towson's new 5,200-seat venue which will open next month and a new multi-year footwear and apparel agreement with Baltimore-based Under Armour.
"Michael is a tremendous addition to our administrative team and will provide Razorback Athletics an informed perspective to help our program capitalize on the valuable exposure opportunities we will have moving forward," Long said. "With our program's continued success and the launch of the SEC Network, it is important that we strategically coordinate our messaging to effectively tell the story of Razorback Athletics and the extraordinary success of our more than 460 student-athletes. Michael's proven leadership and diversified experience within intercollegiate athletics will enable us to bring all of our external communication and marketing resources together to accomplish that goal."
During his tenure at Towson, Waddell developed a program motto of "EXPECT SUCCESS," that quickly helped re-shape the department and led to many accomplishments of the program on and off the field. The 2012-13 men's basketball team capped off a dramatic reformation, going from 1-31 in 2011-12 to 18-13 this season, the biggest one-year turnaround in the history of college basketball. Early in his tenure, Waddell negotiated a multi-media rights partnership with CBS Collegiate Sports Properties and expanded the department's development staff leading to record totals in annual giving over the last two years.
In 2010-11, Towson Athletics embarked on "telling its own story" with a new technology-first approach starting with its web presence and the addition of more video content and daily features on the student-athletes and coaches. The results was an increase of 500 percent of page views to the department's website and an increase of more than 200 percent of the site's unique visitors.
"I am excited to join the Arkansas Razorback Family and to work with the outstanding student-athletes, coaches, administration and staff at the University of Arkansas," Waddell said. "The opportunity to work with a program that has a rich, long-standing tradition and for an athletics director in Jeff Long who has proven to be one of the most innovative and proactive in all of college athletics is something that I am eager to engage. I am looking forward to working with this outstanding team to take advantage of emerging opportunities to share our story of success and position the University of Arkansas at the forefront of college athletics."
With his leadership, Towson developed one of the nation's most comprehensive class attendance policies which led to increased academic performance including a program-wide GPA of 3.07. Towson also implemented a new structure to the areas of Sports Medicine and Strength and Conditioning by integrating the two areas for improved cohesiveness placing Towson at the forefront of student-athlete care.
Prior to being named the athletic director at Towson, Waddell spent five years as a Senior Associate Athletic Director for External Relations at the University of Cincinnati. At Cincinnati, Waddell's primary responsibility was to oversee the revenue generating areas that included marketing/fan development, ticket sales/customer service, sports communications, game day programming, and information technology. He coordinated all of Cincinnati's football bowl planning, including back-to-back BCS Bowl Appearances in 2009 (FedEx Orange Bowl) and 2010 (Allstate Sugar Bowl).
Acclaimed for his marketing strategies, 10 of the Bearcats' top 11 all-time largest football crowds were recorded on his watch. Football season tickets sales rose 122 percent, attendance was up 83 percent and overall season tickets revenues grew by 170 percent. Waddell was Cincinnati's liaison with IMG College – the multimedia and corporate sponsorships rights-holder for UC athletics; adidas – the Bearcats' official footwear and apparel outfitter; and with ESPN, the exclusive television partner of the Big East. His efforts in renegotiating Cincinnati's multimedia sponsorships agreement resulted in a net gain of $14 million over the term of the IMG College agreement.
Developing the UC website as a communications and recruiting tool was a focus. The site was redesigned, adding video, audio and a handful of bloggers producing original content on a daily basis. Traffic to the site increased 247 percent in his last three years with the program.
Prior to his Cincinnati assignment, Waddell served as the Associate Athletics Director for External Relations at the University of Akron where sports marketing revenues increased more than five-fold during his tenure through the creation of the "Team Akron" corporate patron program.
In 2006, Waddell received the Sales & Marketing Executives International's Distinguished Sales & Marketing Award. His "Fear the Roo" campaign at Akron won the NACMA's 2005-06 "Best of Show" as the nation's top collegiate sports revenue generating initiative.
During his tenure as Akron's Interim Director of Athletics the school made its first and only postseason football bowl appearance in the 2005 Motor City Bowl while its No. 1 ranked men's soccer team also advanced to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight before bowing out to eventual national champion Maryland.
Before joining the Akron staff, Waddell served as the director of marketing and broadcasting at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was responsible for the development of all athletics corporate partnerships, marketing, promotions and multimedia development. He created the Army Sports Radio Network, securing WABC-770 AM in New York City as the flagship station.
From 1997-2000 Waddell, a North Carolina native, was the Director of Athletics external operations at Appalachian State. His tenure was marked by the signing of a 100,000-watt WKBC-FM as the flagship radio for Mountaineer football and basketball. His 1999 football marketing theme "Rock Solid" spawned Kidd Brewer Stadium's nickname "The Rock" that has been adopted as part of ASU tradition.
Waddell received his B.S. degree in Sport Management from Guilford College in 1991, where he was also a two-time letterwinner in football. He earned his M.S. degree in Sport Administration from the prestigious Ohio University graduate program.
Waddell began his career in athletics in broadcasting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia, where he was also the Director of Sports Marketing for Charlottesville Broadcasting Corporation. He is an active member of the NACDA and is a founding member of the Cincinnati Sports Professionals Network.
Waddell and his wife, Heidi, have two children; Drew and Caroline.


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The most memorable sound on "Glee" this season hasn't been the singing – it's been the repeated, unnerving slamming of Kurt against his locker by a homophobic bully apparently terrified of his own sexual feelings.
The very real violence – as opposed to the cartoonish Slushie facials delivered to the glee club members – has provided crucial grounding to a show trailed by chatter that it's already in danger of pirouetting over the proverbial shark.
The plotline makes Tuesday night's episode – the showdown between New Directions and the Warblers, the singing group at Kurt's new private high school – a must-see for fans with a scenario that promises "Glee" at its best: high-stakes camp mixed with genuine emotion.
"Glee" bounces so quickly at times from the silly to the surreal to the serious that viewers might be left wondering at times how long the creators can keep up the song-and-dance act as the show nears the midpoint of its second season.
But for all the gimmicks (the bizarre Britney Spears tribute and the "Rocky Horror" salute) and stunt casting (Gwyneth Paltrow, John Stamos and Carol Burnett), the show's sophomore effort, so far, can best be called The Season of Kurt.
And that's a great thing.
The groundwork for Tuesday's show was laid last week with a strong episode featuring Kurt's dad and Finn's mom – always heralds that a dose of reality is on the way.
Yes, they finally got married, being allowed some moments of joy after years of respective widowhood and the heart attack suffered by Kurt's dad earlier this season in the epic "Grilled Cheesus" episode.
But they were also on hand to protect the teen from Dave Korofsky, the football player whose secret attraction to Kurt (Chris Colfer) has manifested as violent rage, death threats – and, in one stunning instance, a kiss. Thanks to some Emmy-worthy acting by Colfer, we've absorbed Kurt's feeling of dread that lurks every moment he's alone in the school hallway, anticipating another body-slam and more verbal venom.
The confrontation scene in Sue Sylvester's office during played against stereotypes. We've already seen that Kurt's blue-collar dad, Burt, understands him best and is his strongest defender. We met Korofsky's father, who defied expectations by coming across as a rational, gentle person. Usually nasty Sue showed another side with her visceral reaction against bullying and expelled Korofsky, who was later reinstated by the school board.
With Kurt in fear for his life, his dad and new stepmom gave up their Hawaiian honeymoon to use the money to send him to the tony Dalton Academy, where they have a great glee club – and no tolerance for bullies. Kurt will be pitted against his former glee-mates in the key sectional competition.
The season's subplot has played out amid the growing national conversation about bullying, spurred, in part, by the tragic suicide of a Rutgers University freshman who killed himself after two students allegedly streamed video of him in a romantic encounter with a man.
Colfer is among the notables who since have taped spots for The Trevor Project, which runs a suicide hotline for "gay and questioning youth."
"I know what it's like to be bullied and teased every single day," Colfer says in the video. "You are not alone....I promise, it gets so much better."
"Glee" is very much about high school's travails, most played for laughs and others occasionally played dead serious. The bullying storyline is another sign that character development is more important to the show's ultimate success than, say, fantasy sequences featuring Spears.
The program's constant shifts in tone are part of the fun – and part of the challenge of being a "Glee" fan. That means learning to live with the misfires – Will Schuester kissing Coach Beiste came off as more weird than sweet, ditto for Sue's plan for a wedding (to herself) – because a new Grilled Cheesus could be waiting in the cafeteria at William McKinley High.
We're far from ready to slam the locker shut on "Glee."
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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One dead after domestic disturbance in Tyler County
A woman in fear for her life shot and killed her husband in Tyler County on Thursday, May 9, sheriff's deputies said.
Peggy Dean shot her husband, Gary Keith Dean, after he reportedly forced entry into her home and shot her boyfriend, Billy Stanford. Dean and her husband were separated, but he was still living in a small house on the property where she resided. According to the Tyler County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Phil Ryan, Gary Dean forced his way into the house and opened fire on Stanford and Peggy Dean. Peggy Dean was apparently "protecting herself," Deputy Ryan said, and returned fire on her estranged husband. During the altercation, Stanford was struck by a bullet in the shoulder and later transported to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston via Life Flight where he was reportedly in stable condition as of May 9.
According to Deputy Ryan, "everything looks correct" regarding the facts reported for the shooting. Charges have not been brought against Peggy Dean, who is believed by investigators to have shot her husband in self-defense. Deputy Ryan confirmed officers have been dispatched to the residence multiple times previously regarding complaints from neighbors of disturbances.


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SCOTIA, N.Y. — If only the real Harry Potter could escape the muggle world for Hogwarts or locate an invisibility cloak.
Harry "Skip" Potter of Scotia, N.Y., said having the same name as a fictional wizard hero is "a real pain in the neck."
Whenever a new "Harry Potter" film is released his phone rings off the hook -- most of the late-night calls are from college students who have been drinking.
Potter, who works for the postal service, has gotten so many prank calls over the years, he has taken several of the callers to court for aggravated harassment. None of the cases ended in his favor. He's also reluctant to have his number unlisted.
The latest movie in the series based on the popular J.K. Rowling books, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," was released Wednesday,
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Video SummaryIn "Subjects Matter," Patsy Lightbown, Professor Emeritus of Concordia University in Montreal, addresses the balance between form and content in a content-based language classroom. Professor Lightbown also joins a round-table discussion on effective ways of planning for content-based instruction, moderated by University of Pittsburgh professor Richard Donato, and including teachers Jai Scott of Columbus, Ohio, and Yo Azama of Salinas, California. The video also features excerpts from Mr. Scott's and Mr. Azama's classes, as well as other classes across different grade levels and languages.* The video addresses the following questions:
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The Handbook of Liquid Crystals is a unique compendium of knowledge on all aspects of liquid crystals. In over 2000 pages the Handbook provides detailed information on the basic principles of both low- and high-molecular weight materials, as well as the synthesis, characterization, modification, and applications (such as in computer displays or as structural materials) of all types of liquid crystals.
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For one owner of a '52 Chevy pickup, the culprit was an extremely stiff clutch pedal. It had plenty of throw, but was so hard to engage that it made it difficult to drive the four-speed truck. The owner eventually got frustrated and sold the truck to Wil Sakowski at Sakowski Motors.
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In Ukraine, the president may face his toughest foreign policy test yet. Is he up to the task?
As Vladimir Putin's troops seize control of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, President Obama is facing what some have called the biggest foreign policy challenge of his presidency. True or not, it's clear his response to this crisis will test him as rarely before. Will he risk a war in Europe to save Ukraine? Punish the Russians through sanctions and diplomatic isolation? Negotiate a face-saving compromise? Or let Putin have his way?
The world is anxious to see how this unlikely leader of the free world responds. But what kind of foreign policy thinker is Obama? Early in his tenure, he appeared an idealist, winning a Nobel Peace Prize, calling for a world without nuclear weapons and urging democratic reform in the Middle East and parts of Asia. But, as Fred Kaplan argues in the March/April issue of Politico Magazine, lately the president has proved himself more of a realist, willing to negotiate with the likes of Iran and refusing to get sucked into a raging civil war in Syria, despite a death toll topping 100,000. So what really drives Barack Obama's foreign policy—the belief that he can and should make the world a better place or that America should intervene abroad only when the benefits to the United States are worth the costs?
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In recent days, Obama has pledged his support for the people of Ukraine, calling Russia's advance a violation of international law and threatening to " isolate" Moscow through economic and diplomatic means. But how far will Obama be willing to go to protect Ukrainian sovereignty? Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser and an arch-realist, said in an interview with Politico Magazine that Obama's "eminently sensible" approach so far in dealing with Russia is yet more evidence that the 44th president is also a realist. "Realism doesn't mean you immediately start an atomic war," Brzezinski said. "You first, discourage, deter, punish and isolate through other means … enough to make the Ukrainian adventure very costly to the Russians." We asked seven other foreign policy thinkers to weigh in on how Obama sees the world—and what it means for the days ahead in Ukraine.
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Vladimir Putin defines power in the old-fashioned way: If former Soviet republics with ethnic Russian minorities don't toe his line, he will either exploit separatist movements or simply move militarily to reincorporate these areas into Russia. Transnistria, Abkhazia and now Crimea are testimony to the Putin doctrine—and he does not let international norms or even international agreements Russia has signed get in the way.
In responding to such an undisguised military aggression, both "idealists" and "realists" would feel compelled to impose a cost for such behavior. Idealists because an international norm is being violated, and collective security requires that such norms must not be violated with impunity. Realists because if we fail to impose a cost, Putin may not stop only in Crimea, and deterrence requires that Russia's leader must understand he will pay a price.
President Obama is now acting to mobilize a set of diplomatic and economic consequences. Is he doing so out of idealist or realist impulses? I, for one, don't know that any American president can ever be neatly characterized as a realist or idealist in foreign policy. George W. Bush's "Freedom Agenda" would certainly put him in the idealist category, yet he recognized limits and did not apply it to Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, given U.S. interests in stability in the oil-rich kingdom and our need for Pakistani cooperation on Afghanistan and fighting terror more generally. Obama's hesitancy to intervene in Syria leads many, including Fred Kaplan, to conclude that he is a traditional realist. And, there is much in Kaplan's article that supports his conclusion; I am sure if he were writing it now, he would seek to explain the president's response to Putin's move in Ukraine as one guided by realism.
But Obama, like his predecessors, cannot be characterized in such exclusive terms. When the president called for Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to leave office, seeing him on the wrong side of the forces of history represented in Tahrir Square, that was not the position of a realist. Similarly, President Obama's intervention in Libya was driven very heavily by humanitarian instincts. It is true, as Kaplan says, that there was a division on whether we should intervene, but it was not between those who said go in heavy or not at all. I was a participant in those debates, and there were those who argued that we had no vital interests and should not intervene; those who argued that we could not allow a massacre to take place in Benghazi when we had the means to prevent it; and those who argued that we had moral and practical reasons to intervene—particularly given the consequences of mass killings that would trigger a flood of Libyan refugees into Egypt and Tunisia at a time when both were in the early stages of their transitions.
The president opted to intervene while also deciding to manage our intervention in a way designed to keep it limited in kind, scope and responsibility. In explaining his decision, he spoke of Muammar al-Qaddafi's brutality and "a looming humanitarian crisis." "To brush aside America's responsibility as a leader and—more profoundly—our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are," Obama said. "Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different." Those are not the words of a realist—who see humanitarian interventions as moral crusades that drain American blood and treasure and make us less capable of intervening where our interests demand it.
So how does one square these words with the president's reluctance to intervene in Syria where there is not a looming humanitarian crisis but an existing humanitarian catastrophe that shows no sign of ending? Here Kaplan is closer to the truth. I would say that what guides Obama in his decision-making on interventions as much as anything is feasibility. Can we succeed at an acceptable cost? Can we limit our involvement? Do we have an exit strategy? Clearly, like any president, he has to evaluate those costs against what we have at stake. Those who tend toward realism evaluate stakes one way, and those who tend toward idealism evaluate them differently.
But decision-making does not take place in a vacuum. Context and legacy matter. Two wars, trillions of dollars spent and thousands of casualties for outcomes that the American public now question undoubtedly affect Obama's calculus. No wonder that feasibility and the nature of the threat to us weighs heavily on him.
The problem, of course, is that it is always easier to measure the costs of action—they seem concrete and immediate. The costs of inaction are almost always more theoretical and abstract. Having stated that there will be consequences for Russian aggression in Crimea and Ukraine, the president understands that the costs of doing nothing would be high, and we must now demonstrate the meaning of those words—even if that does not translate into military action.
In Syria, the costs of inaction always inclined me to favor a more activist approach for both moral and strategic reasons. When 40 percent of the Syrian population can be displaced and Bashar al-Assad can target and starve non-combatants as a deliberate policy with essentially no consequence, "never again" and "responsibility to protect" look to be little more than slogans. Strategically, as long as Assad remains in Syria, he will be a magnet for every jihadi worldwide. It is only a matter of time before jihadi bases in a fragmented Syria will use their presence to attack not just Assad but U.S. interests, friends and even our homeland. While our options may not be good today, the landscape and our choices have consistently become worse over time—and Obama, who takes the responsibility to protect the United States very seriously, will, I suspect, at some point evaluate feasibility and stakes differently over the coming months. Will our actions then be driven by idealism or realism—or both?
Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and professor in the practice of diplomacy at Georgetown University. He served as special assistant to President Barack Obama from 2009-2011.


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The wall has been inciting controversy since it was envisioned nearly a decade ago by two local architects, Pete O'Shea and Robert Winstead, who won a design competition (and a whopping $500 prize) sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.
Celebrity presenters Mayor David Brown, novelist John Grisham, musician Boyd Tinsley, poet and novelist George Garrett, and Slate (the magazine not the chalkboard) senior editor Dahlia Lithwick looked ceremonial. (Actor Morgan Freeman, in town to shoot the sequel to Bruce Almighty, was invited but didn't attend.)
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make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/gpu_sdk/OpenCL/common'
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/gpu_sdk/shared'
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make -C src/oclConvolutionSeparable/
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/gpu_sdk/OpenCL/src/oclConvolutionSeparable'
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make[1]: *** [../../..//OpenCL//bin//linux/release/oclConvolutionSeparable] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/gpu_sdk/OpenCL/src/oclConvolutionSeparable'
make: *** [src/oclConvolutionSeparable/Makefile.ph_build] Error 2
Afeter installing the nvidia-current-dev package I went to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ and made nvidia-current.conf where I specified /usr/lib/nvidia-current and /usr/lib32/nvidia-current. Then I used ldconfig for caching the new locations.
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Since this is essentially a blog about travel, it seems fitting that I should have at least a blurb about my personal favorite mode of transport: the fixed-gear bicycle (or track bike). Fortunately, The New York Times put together a great package yesterday about the bicycles themselves and the culture that surrounds them. Includes photosets and audio, too!
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