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Preview: Bruins look to continue dominance of Panthers
Coming off a rare road loss in regulation Monday, the Bruins (27-15-7) return to TD Garden Wednesday to face the 22-21-5 Panthers. It is the fourth meeting between the two clubs this season, with the Bruins having won the first three. The B's took their most recent matchup in a shootout on Dec. 27. The game remains the Bruins' only shootout win this season. WHERE IT'S AT - The Bruins are 12-9-3 at home this season. They have lost two of their last three games at the Garden, most recently dropping a 4-2 contest to the Sabres last Thursday. -The Panthers are 11-13-0 on the road. Wednesday will mark just their fifth road game in January. They are 2-2-0 on the road so far this month. NOTABLE NUMBERS - Milan Lucic has three goals over his last four games after going his 12 previous games without a goal. His continued output is key for this offense without Marc Savard getting a chance to improve to being his old self. Lucic had a hat trick agains the Panthers on Nov. 18. - No surprise that David Booth leads the Panthers with 168 shots on goal this season. The Florida winger put 14 shots on Rask in that Nov. 18 contest. It was the lone game this season in which Booth has had double digit shots on goal, though he's had multiple nights with nine. He's 17th in the league in shots on goal. - The Panthers are 0-for-13 on the power play over their last four games and are 30th in the league with an 11.4 power percentage. The B's are third in the NHL with a 84.9 penalty kill percentage. - In the same game that Lucic had his hat trick, Nathan Horton had three assists, which made for his season-high in points. The slumping winger has just one goal over his last 19 games. STORLYINES GOING IN - Tuukka Rask got his only shout of the season in the B's 4-0 win over the Panthers on Nov. 18. He made 41 saves in the victory. On the season, Rask is just 4-10-1 despite his .923 save percentage. - With the Canadiens taking a 5-2 loss to the Flyers on Tuesday night, the Bruins have an opportunity at expanding their lead in the Northeast Division four points. The B's and Habs will have played an equal amount of games (50) at the All-Star break after the Bruins played the season's first four months with games in hand. - The Panthers have just one win over their last five games (1-2-2), a 4-3 victory over the Rangers Tuesday night. Florida is 3-5-0 when playing their second game in as many days.


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Ahhh... Don't you just love Tammy's sweet images? She is darling! =)
This image is called Breeze In Spring and it's printed on PTI's Stamper's Select White cardstock, cut and embossed using a Standard Circles Large die then colored with Copic markers.
Can you tell that I am into fish tail tabs lately? =) The patterned paper is from the beautiful Songbird 6x6 Paper Stack by Prima. I stamped Hero Arts Newspaper Background on the card base with Classic Kraft ink. The sentiment is a PTI anniversary set from a couple of years ago called Round & Round. All paper edges are inked with Tea Dye distress ink.
That's all for today. Hope you have a wonderful day! =)
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Join us for a storytime and a special activity for preschoolers & toddlers from 9:30 to 10:30 every Monday morning. Come and enjoy the fun!
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Local native Katie Matthews recently added another accolade to her running career.
Matthews, a standout athlete and five-time All-American at Boston University, was named 2013 America East Woman of the Year on June 4.
The awarded is given to a senior female athlete who best demonstrates a "commitment to service, leadership, athletics and academics during their collegiate careers," according to the America East.
The 22-year-old graduate student was chosen from nine other nominees to receive the honor. Recently, Matthews finished fifth in the national finals of the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a time of 33:43.26. During the indoor season, she finished fifth in the 5,000-meter event at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a school-record time of 15:42.27. She was named a first team All-American and set three school records in 2013.
She will now be considered for the NCAA Woman of the Year title.
The NCAA award isn't the only thing on Matthews' radar. She has set her sights on road racing this summer and fall; her first stop was the Legends Run at Wesleyan University on June 30. Matthews was the first female to cross the finish line with a time of 22:02, narrowly beating UConn's Lauren Sara in the 4-mile event. Matthews was also scheduled to join the 60,000 participants at the 10-K Peachtree Road Race, a Fourth of July tradition in Atlanta, Ga.
"I want to start to make a name for myself on the roads," said Matthews. She is working with shoe companies for sponsorship opportunities.
Matthews maintains a rigorous training regimen, running between 70 and 80 miles a week.
She qualified for the 10,000-meter track and field event at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. She finished 22nd with a time of 33:45.22. Matthews said she was injured before the trials and didn't compete as well as she would have liked.
The 2016 Olympics remain a possibility. "I could be improving every year and running awesome, but in this sport, it's hard to predict three years in advance," said Matthews.
While Matthews said she wants to focus on a professional running career, she is also working to earn her master's degree in speech and language pathology. She is working in Cape Cod this summer, where she will complete clinical work. "As a runner, you're so dependent on your performances; if you're to get injured and plateau for some reason, you're not going to make money."
Matthews has not competed at the Boston Marathon, but was at the race when the bombings took place this year. She recalled being shocked and angry, but still determined to compete in road races.
"It made me want to run even more to prove that you can't take the heart out of that event," said Matthews. "You wait years to run a marathon; it's a huge part of these people's lives. So for someone to take the experience away from these people, it was very unsettling."
Matthews attributes a lot of her success to her roots in Rocky Hill. Although she has always had a natural talent, it wasn't until her high school coach Brian Graca recognized her potential that her career took off, she said.
"I would definitely credit my high school coach for being the catalyst for my running career," said Matthews, "He took me under his wing."
Graca, who teaches AP/Honors mathematics at Rocky Hill High School, is currently the head coach of boys' and girls' cross country and track and field. During Matthews' tenure at Rocky Hill High, Graca worked with her and told her that she needed to run year-round in order to be successful.
"She didn't really start taking her running seriously until junior year," said Graca. "Junior year of cross country was when she really came into her own as an athlete."
Matthews was a successful runner in high school. She won several indoor and outdoor state championships, including the t wo mile race during her junior and senior years. She was her team's MVP sophomore through senior year and received All-New England, All-American, and All-Conference honors.
Graca recalled Matthews' first big win. "We had talked a lot going into the state championships her junior year of cross country," said Graca. "I was fully confident in her winning." Graca said she was wearing a white long-sleeved shirt under her jersey and as he waited for the runners to come out of the woods to finish the race, he was thinking, "Come on Katie, show me those white sleeves."
"The first runner that came out of the woods had white sleeves," he said. That "was really satisfying as a coach."
Matthews still keeps in touch with her coach and former teammates in Rocky Hill, she said. She still goes home to run with friends and visit the Meadows.
"The Meadows is one of my favorite places to run and whenever I go home; I just can't wait to run there," said Matthews.
Matthews is planning a trip home this summer. She is also intent on competing in the New Haven 20-K in September and the Thanksgiving Day Manchester Road Race.


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How to prevent broken bones
By Betsi Blodgett, Pure Matters
Common sense and certain safety precautions, however, can head off a trip to the emergency room.
The CDC and other experts offer these safety tips to help prevent broken bones:
- Wear the right gear when exercising or playing a sport.
- Make sure your home is safe from hazards that can cause falls.
- Wear a seat belt when driving and make sure children are secured in safety seats or booster seats, depending on their age.
- Build up strong bones with good nutrition and exercise. Strong bones are less prone to fractures.
- Stay in good physical shape, because exercise increases muscle strength and reflex speed.
- Keep your weight in a healthy range.
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Sharpening your protective responses, such as reflexes or postural changes, may help stop or break a fall. For instance, when you put your hands out to break a fall, you land on the heel of your hand. The hands absorb the flat impact and the wrist bends as it absorbs the force, resulting in a fracture. And although this may result in a wrist fracture, it is much better than a potentially life threatening hip fracture -- especially in the elderly.
Avoiding danger on the home front
Many falls take place in the home. This is especially true for elderly adults, as balance problems, poor eyesight, and brittle bones combine with household hazards to cause bone-breaking falls.
You can reduce the trip-and-fall factor by removing frayed rugs and removing extension cords that could cause a fall. Handrails help steady older adults and children on stairs. Proper lighting lets you see objects on the floor and avoid tripping over them.
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Strengthening bones is especially important for preteen and teen girls, because women who don't get adequate calcium and vitamin D as teens may be at increased risk for developing osteoporosis later in life. You can work to avoid osteoporosis, which makes bones brittle, through adequate calcium intake, exercise, and plenty of fruits, vegetables, and vitamin D throughout your life.
Calcium requirements change during one's lifetime. The body's demand for calcium is greater during childhood and adolescence, when the skeleton is growing rapidly, and during pregnancy and breast-feeding. Postmenopausal women and older men also need to consume more calcium. According to the National Institutes of Health, children 1 to 10 years old need 500 to 1,200 mg of calcium each day. Those 11 to 24 years old need 1,200 to 1,500 mg per day. Adults ages 25 to 50 need 1,000 mg a day, and those 51 and older need up to 1,500 mg per day.
Your body uses vitamin D to absorb calcium. Being out in the sun for a total of 20 minutes every day helps most people's bodies make enough vitamin D. You can also get vitamin D from eggs, fatty fish, and vitamin D-fortified cereal and milk. If you think you need to take a supplement, check with your health care provider.
Treating a broken bone
Doctors still use X-rays to diagnose most broken bones, although more high-tech imaging devices may be used to detect subtle breaks, such as stress fractures. A stress fracture is a tiny fissure in bone often caused by sports overuse.
Most broken bones in an arm, leg, hand, or foot require a cast or splint. Heavy, awkward plaster casts have given way to brightly colored fiberglass casts. These are lighter, easier to apply and remove, and more appealing to children.
In general, fracture repair is directly related to age. So the older you are, the longer it will take to heal.
Doctors can use a variety of mechanical and biological methods to speed healing. Electric and ultrasound stimulation have been used on U.S. gymnasts.
The type of fracture also dictates recovery speed. A simple fracture heals quicker that a complicated break requiring bone grafts. Research on genetically produced growth-promoting proteins is promising. Such proteins may decrease extensive surgical fracture repairs.
Source: http://resources.purematters.com/healthy-body/bone-health/preventing-broken-bones


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Another Confirmation on the Aging Process and Cast for Epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Apr 16, 2009
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Several times in the past, we've reported on various cast members, such as Rupert Grint (Ron), discussing the epilogue for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and the possible aging process to be used on the original cast members. Today, MTV has a new article where film producer David Heyman also weighs in on the epilogue, noting:
"We will shoot it' producer David Heyman confirmed for MTV News.
Rowling wrote a flash-forward ending to "The Deathly Hallows" that
shows where the characters end up as they grow older. Heyman also
indicated that the original Hogwarts actors would be filling those
roles for the sequence, rather than being replaced by older lookalikes.
"Yes' he acknowledged, nodding that aging done to the characters would use the existing cast.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is currently in production in London, England, with Part One due in theaters November of 2010, and Part Two, July of 2011.


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I'm having trouble putting the pieces together. In SM, neutral kaon oscillation is heavily constrained. This means, roughly, that the squark mass matrices have to be diagonal. And this is called universality of soft parameters.
What exactly is universality and why do we have universality in this situation? Furthermore, is having diagonal squark mass matrices sufficient? In a lot of SUSY theories, they go one step further and assume the scalar masses are the same for the first and second generations (pMSSM for instance). Why is this additional step necessary?


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Experience daily life in the German capital through the eyes of a newcomer, find out about the country and its people, and learn German effortlessly along the way!
This book is designed to help beginners make the leap from studying isolated words and phrases to reading (and enjoying) naturally flowing German texts.
Using simplified sentence structures and a very basic vocabulary, this collection of German short stories for beginners is carefully crafted to allow even novice learners to appreciate and understand the intricacies of coherent German speech.
Each chapter comes with a complete German-English dictionary, with a special emphasis on collocative phrases (high frequency word combinations), short sentences and expressions.
By working with these "building blocks" instead of just single words, learners can accelerate their understanding and active usage of new material and make the learning process more fluid and fun.


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5 Fresh Dress and Jacket Pairings For Party Season
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5 Fresh Dress and Jacket Pairings For Party Season
If there's anything we've learned from past party seasons, it's that anything goes — and when it comes to layering up ahead of a chilly-night event, there are more ways to stay warm and look great than one might think. For instance, we love the look of an edgy leather jacket over a frothy party dress (nobody does this quite like Sarah Jessica Parker), and designer Joseph Altuzarra once told us that he's really big into "a parka over a slipdress or cocktail dress. It's very Kate Moss in the '90s, really sensual and raw." So there you have it.
To help you think outside the box this holiday, we've styled up five fresh, unexpected party dress and jacket combos that will ensure you look (and feel) like a million bucks.


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King's College Professor Retells Road to Emmaus Story Through Modern-Day Lens
NEW YORK – The Road to Emmaus story is a historical account of a conversation between two disciples as they grapple with despair and disillusionment following the crucifixion of Jesus. They meet a stranger who is actually Jesus, but it is only when their eyes are opened that they see him for who he is: the resurrected Messiah. The biblical drama is retold through modern-day lens by historian Joseph Loconte in The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt, which releases this week.
Loconte, associate professor of history at The King's College, spoke about his new book at a Socrates in the City meeting Thursday at Central Presbyterian Church in the Upper East Side. He was invited by host Eric Metaxas, who founded Socrates in the City as forum to examine the "big questions of life." Metaxas is known for his bestselling biography Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.
During his lecture, Loconte examined the force that seized the travelers in Luke's account of the Road to Emmaus. The disciples were shocked and in utter disillusionment that their leader, the one they thought would redeem Israel, had been crucified. They had lost all hope, yet something calls them out of their state of doubt and to the stranger coming alongside them on the road. They did not recognize him as Jesus – yet – but their intuition drew them to him.
"Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scripture to us?" they asked each other.
Something provoked them. What was it?
What attracted them to Jesus, according to Loconte, was the desire for "moral beauty." As Jesus spoke, their hearts were ignited by God's story of healing, courage and rescue. Amid their despair, they get a vision of a world they were meant to live in.
Loconte said C.S. Lewis detected a universal longing to bridge the divide between this world and the other world. He described the perpetual longing as our "inconsolable secret."
In The Searchers, Loconte recounted some of the stories that exemplified virtue and "moral beauty" in our time. In the 1800s, Florence Nightingale was known as the Lady with the Lamp for tending to wounded soldiers during the night. During the Civil War, Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain believed in the cause of abolition so much that he told his men to hold their ground even when they ran out of ammunition. In the final years of the Second World War, villagers in LeChambon-sur-Lignon opened their homes to rescue 3,500 Jews, all of whom survived the war.
At Thursday's Socrates in the City, Loconte told the audience that all of us – sooner or later – will enter into a valley of doubt and disillusionment that launches our personal quest for answers, meaning and ultimately God.
Just like the disciples on the way to Emmaus, Loconte pointed out, we start our journey with doubt but then get drawn to stories of healing, courage, and rescue. The disciples were at first captivated by Jesus' description of the Kingdom of Heaven and the story of God's rescue mission for the human race. But eventually, they were drawn to Jesus, himself, recognizing him as the Messiah.
Loconte said that travelers on this road are asked to make a choice. The "burning" that the disciples experienced as they listened to a stranger led them to Jesus but did not solve the problem of their "inconsolable secret." It was only when they accepted Jesus as the Messiah and submitted themselves to this truth that their search was complete.
"It is not enough to know the truth about God's love," said Loconte. "The travelers on the Road to Emmaus are asked to submit themselves, to fulfill their own part in this great story of rescue and redemption."
To further illustrate the importance of our decision, Loconte quoted French mathematician Blaise Pascal:
"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their heart because they know Him, and those who seek Him with all their heart because they do not know Him."
During the Q & A, Metaxas questioned Loconte on a chapter of his book, "The Poison of Religion," which gives a hardline critique of counterfeit religion. Metaxas also spoke about phony religiosity in his National Prayer Breakfast speech in February. The speech was recently released in an e-book titled Jesus Hates Dead Religion.
Why was Loconte's criticism of organized religion different from that of New Atheist authors such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens? posed Metaxas.
Loconte answered that that there is a difference between skepticism and cynicism. These authors are not probing Christianity because of skepticism but out of their overwhelming cynicism, which has hindered their ability to see the good, useful, positive and life-giving aspects of Christianity.
He added that even skepticism, at best, is intellectual confusion and dishonesty. Jesus has always recognized the inclination of evil to abuse the faith.
"Those guys failed to recognize that within the Christian story itself, within the life of Jesus, no one is tougher on the poison of religion, on hypocrisy than Jesus. He calls the religious people of his day 'white-washed tombs,' 'unmarked graves' and 'children of the devil,'" said Loconte.
Loconte's new book The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt releases June 5 from Thomas Nelson.
The conversation on militant atheism is expected to continue at the upcoming Socrates in the City event on June 12. Dr. David Berlinski, a senior fellow in the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, will sit down with Eric Metaxas and speak on his book The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions.


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Shields Date Garden in Indio dates to 1924. Saunter up to the counter for a date shake ($4.25) and duck into the theater in back for the free video on the sex life of the date and the history of Shields.(Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times )
Sure, you could go to the beach again. Or you could turn your back on the Pacific and head instead for a desert land of date shakes and camel races, jumbo windmills and creationist dinosaurs, native palms and gay parties, mountain views and midcentury buildings. We'll get to those details later, but by now you know we're talking about the Coachella Valley.
It's about 110 miles from Los Angeles City Hall to Palm Springs — a few miles longer than the drive to downtown Santa Barbara, a few miles shorter than the drive to downtown San Diego. But the light here is different from that on the coast. The pace is different. The entire man/landscape relationship seems to change as you slip through windy San Gorgonio Pass and find Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, La Quinta and Indio lined up along State Highway 111 (a.k.a. Palm Desert Drive) like camels in a caravan.
Just don't come in July, unless you're looking for an average high of 108 degrees.
Southern California Close-Ups: An article in the Nov. 25 Travel section about the Coachella Valley reported that California 111 is known as Palm Desert Drive. It is that in the city of Palm Desert, but in Palm Springs and Cathedral City, it is known as Palm Canyon Drive. —
Here are nine desert micro-itineraries, designed to get a newcomer started or remind an old-timer that things keep changing even in a territory that dearly loves the 1950s. This package is part of our ongoing series of Southern California Close-Ups. (To see others, go to latimes.com/socalcloseups.)
1. Designers and dinosaurs
Even before you get to Palm Springs, the spending opportunities begin. A little east of Banning on Interstate 10, the Desert Hills Premium Outlets (48400 Seminole Drive, Cabazon) include about 130 upscale retailers with names such as Armani, Ferragamo and Gucci, along with a few more that aren't Italian. Then come the Cabazon Outlet Stores (48750 Seminole Drive, Cabazon), about 15 retailers with a sporty slant, including Puma, Rip Curl, Oakley and Columbia. It's a generic atmosphere raked by gusty winds, but the prices are good. If you have a child in tow, reward his or her patience with another stop just beyond the towering Morongo Casino Resort & Spa — at the looming Cabazon dinosaurs (50770 Seminole Drive, Cabazon). Created by sculptor Claude Bell in the '70s and '80s from leftover freeway-building materials, the towering creatures Rex (a Tyrannosaurus rex) and Dinny (an apatosaurus) these days are presented by new owners with a creationist spin. "By design, not chance" is their slogan, and management has printed a children's picture book to explain how the dinosaurs were created, not evolved, thousands of years ago, not millions. Unless somebody in your traveling party really needs to climb up and look at the freeway traffic through the gaps in Rex's teeth, don't bother with the Robotic Dinosaur Exhibit and T-Rex Museum (adults $7.95, children $6.95). Instead, admire the concrete beasts for free from the parking lot or flop on the grass at their feet.
2. Long live modernism
On the way into Palm Springs, stop at the Palm Springs Visitors Center (formerly the Tramway Gas Station) and marvel at its midcentury modernity. Browse the brochures for free, or plop down $5 for a map of modern architecture landmarks in the Coachella Valley. From the visitors center, continue down Palm Canyon Drive to the Uptown Design District, a formerly grim stretch now humming with stylish design shops and galleries, including Not Neutral (pillows in cool patterns; 800 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs) and Shag (modernist beach towels; 725 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs). You might grab breakfast or lunch on the patio at Cheeky's (622 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs); lunch or dinner in the bold, white interior of Workshop Kitchen & Bar (800 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Suite G, Palm Springs); dinner or a nightcap in the buzzing dining room of Trio (707 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs). To sleep amid yet more modernism, head for the vintage Orbit In (562 W. Arenas Road, Palm Springs), its sibling the Hideaway (370 W. Arenas Road, Palm Springs) or perhaps the Del Marcos Hotel (225 W. Baristo Road, Palm Springs), which has been splendidly updated in recent years. To wallow more deeply in all things modern, come during Palm Springs Modernism Week (Feb. 14-24, www.modernismweek.com). But if you want a quiet time, don't visit during those days — or during Dinah Shore Week (April 3-7, www.thedinah.com) or the weekend of Jeffrey Sanker's White Party (March 29-31, www.jeffreysanker.com), when the city's lesbian and gay party scenes rev up like Formula One Ferraris.
3. San Jacinto, floor to ceiling
The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway is a standard tourist stop — and at $23.95 per adult, not a cheap one. But it's also a wondrous thing: a 10-minute ride up the steep, rocky slopes of Mt. San Jacinto from 2,643 feet above sea level to 8,516 feet. Hike near the top, or throw a snowball if it's winter. Trams run until 8 p.m., so you can catch the glimmer of distant desert city lights after dark. There are a couple of restaurants up top (one fancy, one cafeteria), and in Round Valley, two miles from the top of the tram, there are 28 campsites (www.pstramway.com/camping.html). Then again, you might rather sleep on a bed. You can often find good prices at the Riviera Hotel (1600 N. Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs), where Vegas '59 meets Studio 54 around a big pool done up with posters of bathing beauties from the age of Eisenhower.
4. Downtown Palm Springs
Come to where the restaurants hiss (it's the misters, keeping customers moist) and "Marilyn" stands tall. The best night to do downtown Palm Springs is Thursday, when cars are banished from part of Palm Canyon Drive and Villagefest invites pedestrians and farmers market vendors to take over. The Palm Springs Art Museum (101 N. Museum Drive, Palm Springs), open Tuesdays-Sundays, is full of fascinating works such as Indian blanket designs and contemporary glass. (The museum has also taken over a glass-walled midcentury modern bank building on Palm Canyon Drive and is redoing it as a center for architecture and design, aiming for a 2013 opening.) The people watching is top-notch as you stroll past big, popular restaurants such as Las Casuelas Terraza and Kaiser Grille at South Palm Canyon Drive and Arenas Road. Sit for your own lunch or dinner at the big, new LuLu California Bistro (200 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs) or the smaller Zin American Bistro (198 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs). Don't miss the 26-foot-high "Forever Marilyn" statue by Seward Johnson at Tahquitz Canyon Way and Palm Canyon Drive. ("Marilyn," who arrived this May, is due to leave next June.) When your energy runs out, sleep at the stylish but humble Alcazar Palm Springs (622 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs) or Los Arboles Hotel (266 Via Altamira, Palm Springs), which, unlike most small Palm Springs hotels, welcomes families. You can also dream about the near future, when local boosters say that Desert Fashion Plaza, an indoor mall that's been shuttered for more than a decade despite a prime location on Palm Canyon Drive, will be razed and replaced by a redevelopment project underwritten by a voter-approved increase in local sales tax.
5. Coffee and canyon
Start early with caffeine at Koffi (1700 S. Camino Real, Palm Springs), then head to the Indian Canyons (38500 South Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs), which open at 8 a.m. Yes, Indian Canyons sounds like a mall, but — are you sitting down? — it's actually a trio of canyons owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Your destination is Palm Canyon, which is 15 miles long, its floor shaded by some of the few native palm trees in all of Southern California. You don't have to hike 15 miles. In fact, you could go just for the view of palms and canyon and the dozen or so hummingbirds that congregate at the feeders by the Palm Canyon Trading Post. But if you're able, do the three-mile loop hike that begins with a mile at the frond-shaded bottom of Palm Canyon. You'll return following a ridgeline with commanding views. The hike takes about 90 minutes. For more advice on what to do and see, look around for tribal junior ranger Raven Longbow, who wears a long pony tail and says, "I look at this place like a cathedral." (In Tahquitz Canyon, closer to town, there's a two-mile loop trail and seasonal waterfall.) After your Palm Canyon adventure, load up on a Mexican dinner at El Mirasol (140 E. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs). Then flop at the hipster-friendly Ace Hotel (a former Howard Johnson at 701 E. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs) or the color-drenched Saguaro Hotel (a former Holiday Inn at 1800 E. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs). For a more intimate setting where children are basically banned (and TripAdvisor ratings are boffo), try the Desert Riviera (610 E. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs) or Hotel California (424 E. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs).
6. European theater, Pacific theater, senior theater
Start with the Palm Springs Air Museum (745 N. Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs) and its colorful collection of World War II aircraft. The museum stands next to the city's airport, and one hangar is devoted to the Pacific Theater, with large, helpful maps and other exhibits; another hangar covers Europe. There are more aircraft outside, many featuring stylish girly "nose art." For a more personal perspective on the exhibits or the war, you can count on a healthy presence of volunteer docents. Later, head to the Fabulous Palm Springs Follies (128 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs), where cast members are all in their 50s and beyond. The show, a playful revival of old vaudeville, runs November through late May.
7. Busy children
The Living Desert (47900 Portola Ave., Palm Desert) is a great place to tiptoe into the landscape. In addition to its extensive cactus and succulent gardens, the institution has a large collection of animals, including giraffes, camels and bighorn sheep that roam on a steep but enclosed hillside. The institution's daily "wildlife wonders" show might include a golden eagle, a New Guinea singing dog and a long-legged African cat known as a serval. There's an epic model train setup too. Expect to spend hours here. But if your family includes indefatigable kids, you might want a next stop. That could be the Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert (71701 Gerald Ford Drive, Rancho Mirage), which has a host of hands-on activities. Don't miss the laser harp, with red light beams that take the place of vibrating strings. When day is done, repair to the massive JW Marriott Desert Springs (74-855 Country Club Drive, Palm Desert), where the water features (and two golf courses) seem to go on for miles. Yes, those are real pink flamingos near the entrance.
8. The good life
A few decades ago, before Palm Springs proper got its mojo back, a lot of wealthy desert dwellers shifted their focus (and their retail habits) farther southeast to Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage and environs. To get a taste of that prosperous world, head for the El Paseo shopping district, which includes scores of shops and restaurants along El Paseo Street between Portola Avenue and Highway 74. Most of the busiest shops are national chains such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Coach and Pottery Barn, not local creations, and you'll probably spot a few vacant storefronts near Portola Avenue. But the goods are plentiful and the scene is pleasant. Then you can head over to Sunnylands (37977 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage), where the late TV Guide mogul and philanthropist Walter Annenberg and his late wife, Leonore, held court from the 1960s into the 2000s, entertaining seven U.S. presidents and other world leaders. Since February, nine acres of the Sunnylands gardens and a handsome, glass-walled Sunnylands Center building have been open to the public for free, Thursdays-Sundays. The carefully arranged gardens and twin reflecting pools are a great haven, and you can grab a salad or sandwich at a cafe on the grounds. For a deeper look at the Annenbergs' desert sanctuary (and a big dose of luxe modernism), you can take a 90-minute tour that takes you inside the main house ($35, reservations required, no children younger than 10).
9. The '20s roar again
Begin the day by waking at La Quinta Resort & Club (49-499 Eisenhower Drive, La Quinta). This sprawling Spanish-style retreat, about 40 minutes southeast of downtown Palm Springs, has 796 hotel rooms (often available for less than $200 a night) on 45 acres, along with 41 pools, 23 tennis courts, seven restaurants and five public golf courses. The resort's history dates to 1926; hence the name of its restaurant Twenty6, where you can choose among 11 versions of eggs Benedict. For another echo from the '20s, make the 10-minute drive to Shields Date Garden (80-225 US Highway 111, Indio), which dates to 1924 and is as homespun as La Quinta resort is salubrious. Saunter up to the counter, get a date shake ($4.25) and duck into the theater in back for the free video on the sex life of the date and the history of Shields. Also, if you're near Indio on a Friday night or Sunday afternoon in January, February or March, think about the Empire Polo Club (81-800 Avenue 51 off Monroe Street, Indio), where you can often watch polo matches for free. But remember that for several weekends every year, those polo grounds are taken over by thundering tunes and hordes of young music fans. Next year, the polo club will host the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 12-14 and April 19-21 (www.coachella.com), and the Stagecoach country music festival on April 26-28 (www.stagecoachfestival.com). Also, the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival (that's all one event) is scheduled for Feb. 15-24 at the nearby Riverside County Fairgrounds (82-503 Highway 111, Indio; www.datefest.org). As is customary, camel and ostrich races are planned.


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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 21, 2013) - The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today met with stakeholders to discuss the next phase of the Government of Canada's plan for safe streets and communities.
"As we build on the successes of the last seven years, we will continue to focus on restoring the confidence of Canadians in their justice system," said Minister Nicholson. "The next phase of our plan for safe streets and communities will make additional progress to hold criminals accountable, put victims first, protect our children, and make Canada's justice system more efficient."
The Government will take further action in the following areas:
Tackling crime by holding violent criminals accountable for their crimes
Enhancing the rights of victims
Increasing the efficiency of our justice system
|Key Accomplishments
|Sexual Offending Against Children and Youth
|Criminality in Canada
Internet: www.canada.justice.gc.ca
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Backgrounder: Key Accomplishments
The Government of Canada has made significant accomplishments in three key areas: tackling crime by holding violent criminals accountable for their crimes, giving victims of crime a stronger voice, and increasing the efficiency of the Justice system. In total, over thirty measures have been enacted into law since 2006.
The Ending House Arrest for Property and Other Serious Crimes component of the Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10) (Effective date: November 20, 2012)
These amendments restricted the use of conditional sentences including house arrests. A conditional sentence is a sentence of imprisonment that may be served in the community provided certain conditions are met. The amendments provided an expanded and clear list of offences for which conditional sentences are not available.
The Targeting Serious Drug Crime component of the Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10) (Effective date: November 6, 2012)
The Safe Streets and Communities Act amended the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) to address serious organized drug crime. The CDSA now provides mandatory minimum penalties for serious drug offences, including those carried out for organized crime purposes and those that involve targeting youth. The legislation supported the National Anti-Drug Strategy's efforts to combat illicit drug production and distribution and help disrupt criminal enterprises by targeting drug suppliers.
The Protecting Canadians from Violent and Repeat Young Offenders component of the Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10) (Effective date: October 23, 2012)
The Safe Streets and Communities Act included reforms designed to help ensure that violent and repeat young offenders are held fully accountable, and that the protection of society is given due consideration in applying the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The Protecting Children from Sexual Predators component of the Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10) (Effective date: August 9, 2012)
The Safe Streets and Communities Act amended the Criminal Code to better protect children from sexual predators by ensuring that the penalties imposed for sexual offences against children are consistent and better reflect the heinous nature of these acts, and by creating two new offences that take aim at conduct that could facilitate the sexual abuse of a child.
The Increasing Offender Accountability component of the Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10) (Effective date: June 13, 2012)
The Safe Streets and Communities Act included amendments to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act that provide better support for victims of crime, increase offender accountability and ensure that the "protection of society" is the paramount principle of corrections and conditional release.
The International Transfer of Offenders component of the Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10) (Effective date: May 3, 2012)
The Safe Streets and Communities Act amended the International Transfer of Offenders Act to enshrine in law a number of additional criteria that the Minister of Public Safety may consider when deciding whether to allow the transfer of a Canadian offender back to Canada to serve a sentence.
The Eliminating Pardons for Serious Crimes component of the Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10) (Effective date: March 13, 2012)
The Safe Streets and Communities Act amended Criminal Records Act, preventing the most serious criminals from seeking a record suspension.
The Tackling Auto Theft and Property Crime Act (Bill S-9) (Effective dates: November 18, 2010 and April 29, 2011)
The Tackling Auto Theft and Property Crime Act gave law enforcement and the courts better tools to tackle auto theft and the entire range of activities involved in the trafficking of all types of stolen or fraudulently obtained property.
The Response to the Supreme Court of Canada Decision in R. v. Shoker Act (Bill C-30) (Royal Assent March 23, 2011, effective date: pending)
These amendments and supporting regulations will help control repeat criminal behaviour by ensuring that individuals comply with court orders prohibiting drug and alcohol use.
Truth in Sentencing Act (Bill C-25) (Effective date: February 22, 2010)
This legislation provides the courts with clear guidance and limits for granting credit for time served in custody prior to conviction and sentencing.
Identity Theft and Related Misconduct (Bill S-4) (Effective date: January 8, 2010)
This legislation provides police and justice officials with important new tools in the fight against identity theft. The act created three new "core" Criminal Code offences targeting the early stages of identity-related crime, all subject to five-year maximum prison sentences.
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (organized crime and protection of justice system participants) (Bill C-14) (Effective date: October 2, 2009)
This Act provided important new tools to fight the threats to Canadians posed by organized crime. The Act made murders connected to organized crime activity automatically first-degree, created a new offence to address drive-by and other reckless shootings, and created two new offences of aggravated assault against a peace or public officer and assault with a weapon on a peace or public officer.
The Tackling Violent Crime Act (Bill C-2) (Effective dates: May 1 and July 2, 2008).
The Tackling Violent Crime Act strengthened the Criminal Code in the following five areas:
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (street racing) and to make a consequential amendment to the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (Bill C-19) (Effective date: December 14, 2006)
This legislation aimed to protect Canada's streets and communities from the harm caused by street racing by creating new offences that increase penalties, including mandatory driving prohibitions for repeat offenders.
The Protecting Canada's Seniors Act (Bill C-36) (Effective date: January 13, 2013)
The Protecting Canada's Seniors Act better protects seniors by helping ensure tough sentences for those who take advantage of elderly Canadians. Evidence that an offence had a significant impact on the victims due to their age - and other personal circumstances such as their health or financial situation - must be considered an aggravating factor for sentencing purposes.
Citizen's Arrest and Self-defence Act (Bill C-26) (Royal Assent: June 28, 2012, effective date: pending)
Under this legislation, an owner, a person in lawful possession of property, or someone authorized by them will be allowed to arrest a person within a reasonable amount of time after having found that person committing a criminal offence either on their property (e.g. when the offence occurs in their yard) or in relation to their property (e.g. when their property is stolen from a public parking lot).
The new citizen's arrest authority will only apply in circumstances when it is not feasible for a police officer to make the arrest. The police will continue to be Canada's first and foremost criminal law enforcement body.
This legislation will also reform the "self-defence" and "defence of property" provisions in the Criminal Code. These provisions have been simplified to make it easier to determine whether individuals who claim to have defended themselves, others, or their property, should be charged with or convicted of a criminal offence.
An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service (Bill C-22) (Effective date: December 8, 2011)
This legislation protects children from online sexual exploitation by requiring suppliers of Internet services to report online child pornography. It will help identify victims so they may be rescued, and will improve law enforcement's ability to identify, apprehend and prosecute offenders.
Protecting Victims from Sex Offenders Act (S-2) (Effective Date: April 15, 2011)
This legislation strengthens the National Sex Offender Registry and the National DNA Data Bank through the following fundamental reforms:
Serious Time for the Most Serious Crime Act (Bill S-6) (Effective date: December 2, 2011)
This legislation ensures a "life" sentence means life by repealing the "faint-hope clause," which allows murderers to obtain early parole. Victims' families will be spared the anguish of attending repeated parole eligibility hearings and having to relive their losses over and over again.
Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act
(Bill C-48) (Effective dates: March 23 and December 2, 2011)
This legislation helps ensure that each life taken is acknowledged in the sentencing process and that those who commit multiple murders will serve a sentence that more adequately reflects the heinous nature of their crimes. It allows judges to impose consecutive parole ineligibility periods on individuals convicted of more than one first- or second-degree murder.
Abolition of Early Parole Act (Bill C-59) (Effective dates: March 23 and March 28, 2011)
This legislation abolishes the current system of Accelerated Parole Review, which allows those convicted of non-violent offences to obtain day parole after serving one-sixth of their sentence and full parole after serving one-third.
Standing Up For Victims of White Collar Crime Act (Bill C-21) (Effective date: November 1, 2011)
This legislation cracks down on white collar crime by toughening sentences for fraud, including a mandatory minimum penalty of imprisonment for frauds over $1 million, and by requiring judges to consider restitution for victims.
Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (Bill C-10) (Effective date: March 13, 2012)
This legislation allows victims of terrorism to sue perpetrators and supporters of terrorism, including listed foreign states, for loss or damage that occurred as a result of an act of terrorism committed anywhere in the world.
Preventing the Trafficking, Abuse and Exploitation of Vulnerable Immigrants Act (Bill C-10) (Effective date: July 4, 2012)
This legislation would authorize immigration officers to refuse work permits to vulnerable foreign nationals when it is determined that they are at risk of humiliating or degrading treatment, including sexual exploitation or human trafficking.
Federal Victims Strategy:
The objective of the Federal Victims Strategy is to give victims a more effective voice in the criminal justice system. The Department of Justice works in close collaboration with other federal institutions, as well as victims, victim advocates, provincial and territorial governments, service providers and others involved in the criminal justice system. The Department of Justice develops policy and criminal law reform, funds various programs to meet the needs of victims of crime, and shares information about issues of importance to victims of crime.
Within the Federal Victim Strategy, the Victims Fund is a grants and contributions program administered by the Department of Justice. Funds are available each year to fund provinces, territories and non-governmental organizations whose projects, activities and operations support the objectives of the Federal Victims Strategy.
Since 2007, when the Government introduced the Federal Victims Strategy, more than $90 million has been committed to respond to the needs of victims of crime. Most recently, in Economic Action Plan 2012, the Government committed an additional $5 million over five years for new or enhanced Child Advocacy Centres (CACs), bringing the total Government of Canada commitment to CACs to $10.25 million.
Child Advocacy Centres aim to minimize the trauma of being a child victim of crime. CACs are a collaborative team of professionals who work in a child-friendly setting to help a child or youth victim or witness navigate the criminal justice system. The work of the CAC staff can greatly reduce the emotional and mental harm to the child.
Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime
The Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime is an independent resource for victims in Canada. The Office was created in 2007 to ensure that the federal government meets its responsibilities to victims of crime.
Victims can contact the Office to learn more about their rights under federal law and the services available to them, or to make a complaint about any federal agency or federal legislation dealing with victims of crime. In addition to its direct work with victims, the Office also works to ensure that policy makers and other criminal justice personnel are aware of victims' needs and concerns and to identify important issues and trends that may negatively impact victims. Where appropriate, the Ombudsman may also make recommendations to the federal government.
National Action Plan on Human Trafficking
Canada's National Action Plan, with participation from 18 federal departments, is a comprehensive blueprint to guide the Government of Canada's fight against the serious crime of human trafficking.
The National Action Plan will:
These new measures, totalling $25 million over four years, build on and strengthen Canada's significant work to date to prevent, detect and prosecute human trafficking, such as targeted training for law enforcement officials and front-line service providers and enhanced public awareness measures.
Elder Abuse Initiative
In 2008, the Government of Canada launched the Federal Elder Abuse Initiative (FEAI), a successful $13 million, multi-departmental, three-year initiative to help seniors and others recognize the signs and symptoms of elder abuse and provide information on available supports. This initiative successfully concluded on March 31, 2011. Building on the momentum created through the FEAI, the Government remains active in addressing elder abuse through its elder abuse awareness campaigns and the New Horizons for Seniors Program.
The New Horizons for Seniors Program is designed to help ensure that seniors benefit from, and contribute to, the quality of life in their communities through social participation and active living. The program was expanded in 2007 to include elder abuse awareness activities. The elder abuse awareness objective of the program helps organizations develop national or regional education and awareness activities to reduce the incidence of abuse of seniors. Additional funds were announced in Budget 2010 for projects that focus on raising awareness of the financial abuse of seniors. In 2011, the Government increased its investments in the program by $5 million per year for two years, bringing the program's annual budget to $45 million. A portion of this funding will continue to support projects that expand awareness of elder abuse, including financial abuse.
Fair and Efficient Criminal Trials Act (Bill C-2) (Effective dates: August 15 and October 24, 2011)
This legislation ensures that "mega-trials," or large and complex cases involving illegal activities such as drug trafficking, white-collar crime, terrorism, organized crime or gang-related activity, can be heard more swiftly and effectively. The Fair and Efficient Criminal Trials Act will help improve Canada's justice system through stronger case management, reduced duplication of processes, and improved criminal procedure.
Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Criminal Procedure, Language of the Accused, Sentencing and Other Amendments) (Bill C-13) (Effective date: October 1, 2008)
This legislation included:
Backgrounder: Sexual Offending Against Children and Youth
This fact sheet highlights some of the publicly available research on the prevalence and nature of sexual offending against children and youth in Canada.
The exact prevalence of sexual offences against children in Canada is unknown. The reasons for this are many, including that sexual offences are among the most underreported crimes in Canada, with an estimated 88% of sexual assaults not reported to police in 2009.1
The majority of information on sexual offending against children and youth in Canada is based on police-reported incidents. Additional information is also found through child welfare data.
General Prevalence
Police-reported incidents of sexual offending against children indicate the following:
Gender Differences
Police-reported incidents of sexual offending against male and female children indicate the following:
|1 Perreault, S., and S. Brennan. 2010. Criminal Victimization in Canada, 2009. Ottawa, ON: Statistics Canada. Last accessed January 30, 2013, from http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2010002/article/11340-eng.htm#a18
|2 "Sexual offending" is an umbrella term to include all offences of a sexual nature, that is sexual assault and other sexual offences such as sexual interference, sexual exploitation, invitation to sexual touching, luring a child via a computer, incest, voyeurism, corrupting children, anal intercourse, and bestiality, and unknown other sexual offences.
|- Statistics Canada. 2011. Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile. Ottawa, ON: Statistics Canada. Last accessed January 30, 2013 from: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-224-x/85-224-x2010000-eng.pdf These points are based on full-year data submitted by police services representing 99% of the population of Canada.
|3 Sexual assault includes only the three levels of sexual assault as defined in the Criminal Code and does not include other sexual offences.
|- Data obtained through a special request to the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, October 2012; based on data submitted by police services representing 99% of the population of Canada.
|4 Brennan, S. 2012. Police-Reported Crime Statistics in Canada, 2011. Ottawa, ON: Statistics Canada. Last accessed January 30, 2013 from http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11692-eng.pdf
|5 Data obtained through a special request to the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, August 2012.
|6 Ibid., 4.
|7 Ibid., 3.
|8 Ibid., 4.
|9 Ibid., 4.
|10 Ibid., 3.
Backgrounder: Criminality in Canada
Canada's legal and operational framework for extradition and mutual legal assistance is in need of significant reform to address delays and capacity issues. These challenges are compounded by growth in transnational crime (such as terrorism, cybercrime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, child pornography, and money laundering) and the complexity of multi-jurisdictional investigations and prosecutions.
For example, the average time for a Canadian criminal proceeding for more serious matters (e.g. homicide) from first appearance to case completion is 391 days.9 By comparison, it takes on average approximately 2 1/2 years to process an extradition case from the time the extradition request is received in Canada to the time the person is surrendered to the requesting state. In exceptional circumstances, this can take much longer. For example, in the case of Rakesh Saxena, it took 13 years to surrender him to Thailand to face fraud charges.
|1 Brennan, S. 2012. Police-Reported Crime Statistics in Canada, 2011. Ottawa, ON: Statistics Canada. Last accessed February 1, 2013, from http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11692-eng.pdf
|2 Ibid.
|3 Ibid.
|4 Ibid.
|5 Ibid.
|6 Carrington, P., Matarazzo, A., and deSouza, P. (2005). Court careers of a Canadian birth cohort. Crime and justice research paper series. (Cat. No. 85-561-MIE - No. 006). Ottawa, ON: Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 29, 2010 from http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-561-m/85-561-m2005006-eng.pdf.
|7 Zhang, T. (2008). The Costs of Crime in Canada, 2008. Ottawa, ON: Department of Justice Canada. Retrieved February 1, 2013, from: http://canada.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/rs/rep-rap/2011/rr10_5/index.html.
|8 Latimer, J.and Lawrence, A. (2006). The Review Board Systems in Canada: An Overview of Results from the Mentally Disordered Accused Data Collection Study. Ottawa, ON: Department of Justice Canada. Retrieved February 1, 2013, from http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/rs/rep-rap/2006/rr06_1/rr06_1.pdf.
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CHICAGO, March 14 (UPI) -- Patrick Kane's backhander provided the only score in a shootout Tuesday, handing the Chicago Blackhawks a 4-3 victory over NHL-best St. Louis.
After the two teams battled to a 3-3 tie in regulation and following a scoreless overtime, Kane began the tiebreaker by speeding in on the Blues' Jaroslav Halak, faking a forehand shot and moving to his backhand before putting it between the netminder's pads.
Chicago's Corey Crawford made shootout stops on T.J. Oshie, Andy McDonald and David Perron to secure the Blackhawks' fourth win in six games.
Brent Seabrook scored the equalizer in the third period while Andrew Brunette and Viktor Stalberg also tallied for Chicago.
Crawford relieved starting goalie Ray Emery after Emery allowed three goals on six shots to begin the game. Crawford went on to earn the win with 18 stops through the final 45 minutes of regulation and overtime.
McDonald, Patrik Berglund and Jamie Langenbrunner scored for St. Louis, which leads the NHL with 98 points.
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Before we get back to our a semblance of our normal routine, I want to share a few things with you.
First, for those who want to help the Sandy Hook families with funeral expenses and paying for counseling, Atheists Giving Aid has set up a fund. You can donate here.
I will have some more substantial things to say at a later time. I do know one thing: things here will change. We'll still have our fun and our geology and so forth, but you'll see more of a focus on social justice issues than before. This latest mass shooting crystallized the entirety of A+ for me. The reason why we need movements like A+ is because we have so damned much to fix. As I've said repeatedly over the past few days, there's no single way to prevent these shootings. Getting an assault weapons ban passed is just taking the keys out of the drunk person's hand – it will probably reduce the incidence, but it won't eradicate the causes. We will never completely solve these problems. That's no reason not to begin somewhere.
And on that subject, I literally cannot speak to people who refuse to hear word one about a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity clips. One of my friends, whom I love and know to be a good, caring person, argued with me on the way to work that even if we restrict those sorts of things to the gun range, people wanting to shoot up a school full of kids will just go fetch their guns. And I was so angry I was spluttering. It's like hearing someone say, "Well, rapists are just going to break in anyway, so don't even bother locking your doors." "Well, people are just going to die in car crashes anyway, so you might as well give keys to anyone who wants them." "Well, children are just going to find a way to get into the cabinet anyway, so we might as well not put drugs and cleaning products on the high shelf behind a lock, and to hell with child-safety caps."
Add your analogy of choice here.
You know something, people who don't think it's even worth trying? I can't even buy fucking pseudoephedrine. It's locked up behind the counter, and I have to present ID and all kinds of bullshit, and by the time I need a cold medicine, it's usually at a time when the pharmacists have gone home for the night, and I'm too fucking sick to chase down a 24-hour pharmacy. If I do manage to drag my sick arse to the pharmacy when the pharmacist is on duty, I have to present ID and put my name on a register where it will stay for two years saying, "ZOMG she bought a packet of Sudafed, she's probably cooking meth!!!" I can't buy as much as I want. I can't stockpile the shit because I can't buy enough of it in a month to even begin. I can hoard freeze-dried food and assault weapons and ammunition that is designed to kill humans (not shoot at targets or hunt deer, let's don't get stupid and pretend it's anything but murder-inna-casing), but I can't stock up on fucking cold medicine for the coming apocalypse.
And that's not right, but only because guns and ammo aren't subject to stringent restrictions. We're willing to make it extremely difficult for sick people to get some decongestant because criminals use it to cook meth. They still cook meth, have been ever since the restrictions were put in place, but are we shrugging and saying, "Meh, they're doing it anyway, might as well make it easier for them to get their hands on pseudoephedrine so I don't have to suffer an extra five minutes' worth of sniffles"?
And so when you say to me, "But killers will just find a way to get guns anyway," what you are saying is that you don't care about making it harder for them to get their hands on serious fucking weaponry. You don't want to give them that extra bit of time to think things through as they drive to the gun range and get their guns out of their locker. You don't want to give other people a chance to notice something's up as Johnny Mass Killer goes bopping out the door of a busy range with enough weaponry to supply both sides in a small civil war. You don't want to consider things like, oh, I don't know, making it illegal to remove your very dangerous shoots-umpteen-rounds-a-second-people-killer-and-its-zillion-round-drum from the gun range and also putting tags on it that will set off an alarm if you try to waltz off with it? So that maybe, just maybe, one of those NRA nuts who thinks we should live like it's the 1870s, only with less gun control, can have his chance to play hero as the cops are called? This is too much to ask to prevent horrific violence on our streets, in our schools, our malls, our theatres, our restaurants?
To my friends who say they'll just find a way to get guns anyway: fuck you. On this issue, I think you are an appalling excuse for a human being.
Also, read this. Seriously, anyone who is against gun control, or who thinks they're for it but then starts coming up with excuses as to why we shouldn't do anything more than cosmetic bs, read this. Do it now. These are the things I would say to you if you hadn't just reduced me to sputtering, incoherent rage.
Then read this. Read it all the way through to the ends, where it says, "I didn't think, 'Damn, I wish I had a gun, too.' I thought 'Damn, I wish he didn't have a gun.'"
You know what? That's exactly what I think every time I hear of some fuckwad shooting people. I thought it with Zimmerman, and Dunn, and all of the endless stories of some assclown getting quick with the trigger and taking some kid's life because they were too loud, or too black, or both. I thought it when a mother came into my bookstore looking for books on how to grieve because a man had shot her teenage son for cutting across one small corner of his yard. I thought it when foreign exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori stopped by the wrong house on his way to a Halloween party, and ended up shot by a man who'd rather have his wife fetch a gun so he could shoot down a kid in a silly costume rather than go inside and lock the door if he was so frightened of the young Japanese dude. I've thought it every time I've heard of someone getting shot because they were careless, or foolish, or doing all the right things but still getting shot because guns are dangerous. I've thought it every time I've heard of a child getting killed because the parents couldn't be bothered to properly secure their deadly weaponry. And I've thought it after every mass shooting.
There was a time when I thought a gun would make me safer. Right after I was raped at knifepoint in my home, I thought a gun might be a pretty good idea. Then I thought of the kids in the neighborhood, and my friends who sometimes like to pull pranks, and family members barging in unexpectedly, and pets making strange noises, and non-dangerous strangers making me nervous without realizing, and the fact that a gun would not have helped anyone but my rapist that morning, and I said, "Naw." Not worth it. There were so many times I might have ended up taking someone's life by mistake, and no time when a gun would have done me any good.
Now I just think, "I'm glad my rapist didn't have a gun. I wish other assailants, I wish incautious people, I wish kids, hadn't had one, either."
And one last thing. Listen up, because a lot of people I otherwise love and respect have been making a bloody stupid mistake and I want it to stop:
Stop blaming mental illness for what Lanza did.
Seriously. Stop it.
We don't know much about him yet and may never, but at this stage it's not sounding like he was so terribly different from many of us. If these early reports are to be trusted (you know how that goes), he didn't even play first-person shoot-'em-up games. There goes another famous scapegoat. Oops.
There are no broad, bright and shining lines between us and them. Stop trying to paint one, because all you're doing is tarring the vast majority of the mentally ill for being something they're not. It doesn't help us prevent these killings, it doesn't help folks with mental illnesses, and it certainly doesn't help your humanity.
That is all for today. Go do something good.


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Mayor Walsh increases funding for Boston's Main Street districts
Today, Mayor Martin J. Walsh joined Boston Main Street Directors, city officials, and community leaders in Roslindale Village to highlight increased funding for Boston's 20 Main Street Districts. As outlined in Mayor Walsh's FY15 budget, released this week, Main Streets District funding will increase by $400,000 over last year, with each Main Streets District receiving $75,000 annually from the City -- a 30 percent increase.
"Investing in our Main Streets districts preserves and protects our neighborhood commercial centers, and helps our small businesses thrive, grow, and adapt to the changing economy," said Mayor Walsh. "Access to a variety of retail in neighborhoods is critical to maintaining robust and connected communities."
Main Streets Districts programs across Boston offer varying business support services and programs, often unique to the needs of each district. Recent programs have included enhanced cleanliness programs, storefront improvement programs, promotional events, farmers markets, and social media training events. The increased funding will be used to implement innovative new programs to continue the critical support work.
The Roslindale Village Main Street District was the first urban Main Street District in the country. With more than a dozen ethnic grocers, bakeries, small family restaurants, and specialty shops, it is a shopping and food destination for the community and the Greater Boston area. The increase in funding will enable Roslindale Village Main Streets to explore potential programs such as a year-round model for their Saturday farmers market, which currently attracts more than 3,000 people on Saturdays throughout the spring and summer.
Mayor Walsh identified the increased funding in his $2.7 billion Operating Budget for fiscal year 2015. Other planned projects in Boston's Main Streets Districts include free public WiFi, and a new partnership between the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Department of Neighborhood Development that will invest in neighborhood innovation and incubator space, funding for programs such as crowdsourcing to identify community need, and other resources to look at challenges such as access to capital and the way vacant storefronts are filled with new potential businesses.
There are more than 4,000 businesses across Boston's 20 Main Streets Districts. The Boston Main Streets initiative was created in 1995, as the first urban, multi-district Main Streets program in the nation, with the goal of establishing thriving commercial districts throughout the city. Named by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change as one of 19 "Solutions for America," Boston Main Streets continues to empower individuals in both the small business sector and residents to have a direct role in the economic health, physical appearance, and development of their own community. Today, Boston Main Streets provides funding and technical assistance to 20 neighborhood-based Main Streets districts throughout the City of Boston and has served as a national model to urban areas seeking to revitalize neighborhood commercial districts including Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, Detroit, and New Orleans.
Districts include: Allston Village Main Streets, Brighton Main Streets, Chinatown Main Street, Dudley Square Main Streets, East Boston Main Streets, Egleston Square Main Street, Fields Corner Main Street, Four Corners Main Street, Greater Grove Hall Main Streets, Hyde/Jackson Square Main Street, Hyde Park Main Streets, JP/Centre South Main Streets, Mission Hill Main Streets, Mattapan Square Main Streets, Roslindale Village Main Street, St Mark's Area Main Street, Upham's Corner Main Street, Washington Gateway Main Street, and West Roxbury Main Streets.


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Mark Selby lifted the Betfred World Championship last night to complete a miserable evening for China.
First, World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn announced a campaign to take the World Championship overseas to China had failed, after announcing a 10-year deal to keep the tournament in Sheffield.
Then world No 1 Selby broke the heart of Sheffield-based Ding Junhui – and a viewing audience estimated at over 100 million tuning in from his native China – after an 18-14 win at the Crucible Theatre.
Ding, roared on by the crowd in his adopted hometown, was aiming to become the first Asian player to win the world title.
He had battled back from 6-0 and 16-11 down to slash the deficit – "I had a very bad start, at 6-0, I was nervous" – but could not deny Selby joining an elite group who have won multiple Crucible titles.
Hearn claimed "the winner is Sheffield" after a deal was thrashed out with Sheffield City Council to keep snooker in the city until 2027, beating off competition from a "host of major international cities".
And even though the 980-seat capacity is restrictive – next year's final sold out "inside five minutes" after going on sale yesterday, in a day which saw £1m worth of ticket sales – Hearn is adamant the World Championship belongs in Sheffield.
"Sheffield is synonymous with the Crucible," Hearn told The Yorkshire Post. "That's not to say if they want to knock it down and build us a bigger venue, I wouldn't be in favour because I have had murders today with the amount of people wanting tickets.
"The Crucible is where we come from, that's our history.
"The atmosphere here is what we call British eccentricity. There is no other venue in the world that has a semi-final that lasts three days. There's no other event in the world, of this stature, that has 400 million people watching that takes place in a 900-seater auditorium."
The World Championship – watched by over 400 million people across the planet in 89 different countries – has been staged at the iconic Crucible since 1977, making next year its 40th anniversary.
Hearn believes the deal will bring financial investment into Sheffield, as well as an "international trade partnership" with the city being promoted at 17 overseas events on the World Snooker Tour.
Hearn said: "They (the council) were very supportive from day one. It was just a case of finding a reasonable common ground with the financials and investment.
"The winner is Sheffield rather than the council or Barry Hearn, because the exposure that Sheffield gets – the international investment coming into the city – it's a very good deal for Sheffield."
Ding – a former UK and Masters winner – trailed 10-7 overnight, and yesterday afternoon won three of the opening four frames.
Both players had chances in the opening frame, but Ding potted an 89 clearance.
If Ding was to win, he could not rely totally on his heavy scoring, and had to match Selby's safety play. So taking frame 19, a 50-minute safety fest – a scenario where Selby usually comes out on top – was a real statement of intent for Ding.
The Leicester cueman was 34 points in front, with 35 remaining, but Ding dropped a difficult red, and an even trickier pink, to clear up.
Back-to-back centuries followed – Selby's 126, before Ding notched 103 – but losing the previous safety battle was a body blow to the world No 1.
Ding had been forced to win three qualifying matches just to reach the televised stages at the Crucible, after a poor season saw him drop out of the world's top 16.
Having moved to Sheffield from China as a teenager, Ding has lived in the Steel City for over a decade but has struggled to perform in his adopted hometown since making his debut in 2007.
As a qualifier he has flown under the radar this year, and the Crucible crowd were cheering on the underdog. But Selby did not earn his reputation as a granite-tough player for nothing, and at 11-10 won three of the next four frames to go into the evening session 14-11 ahead.
He did have some good fortune, though. He stalled on a 52 break, a lead of 27, with 27 points remaining on the table. Ding got the snooker, only to then gift Selby an easy yellow and the frame.
It was a similar story in frame 23. Selby was in front again, with a 68 break, but Ding had a chance to pinch the frame only to miss a simple red.
The pair exchanged the last couple of frames of the afternoon session, Ding firing in a 52, before Selby replied with a 55.
It meant Selby needed just four more frames from last night's session, a swift 57 break accounting for the first.
When he missed a long-range red, Ding nipped in for a 60 break. But he was punished for not making the frame safe, as Selby cleared the remaining balls including a stunning final black.
At 16-11, Ding was on the ropes, but kept his cool to knock in breaks of 73, 70 and 103 – the 86th century this year to equal a tournament record – to claw back the deficit. It also prevented Selby from potting a single ball in nearly an hour.
But Selby crawled to the next frame, which dragged on 51 minutes, before a 74 break secured the trophy and £330,000 prize money.


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