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New Four-Year Degree at Maui CC Approved by UH Board of Regents
Degree in Applied Business and Information Technology to be first-ever baccalaureate degree offered by a community college in HawaiiMaui College
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In an effort to meet the increasing demand for postsecondary education opportunities on the neighbor islands, Maui Community College will become the first community college in Hawaiʻi to offer a four-year degree. A proposal to establish a new four-year Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Applied Business and Information Technology (ABIT) at Maui CC was approved by the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) at its monthly meeting last week.
"I thank the Board of Regents for their support of this tremendous new opportunity for the residents of Maui County. This is a significant step forward for the community colleges, especially for the neighbor islands," said UH President Evan S. Dobelle. "The mission of the community colleges is to ensure access to all, and, in living up to that mission, Maui County residents will soon have the opportunity to earn a baccalaureate degree at home in a high-demand field within the Maui community."
In support of the development of baccalaureate degrees at the community colleges, Dobelle committed $500,000 in August 2001 to what is now called Project 2+4. Maui CC received support for its provost, Clyde Sakamoto, to be assigned to direct the project for the community college system. Support was also included for the appointment of an acting provost and acting dean of instruction, faculty curricular and program development, baccalaureate faculty appointments, student services and library needs, travel, and other baccalaureate start-up requirements.
"In addition to the resounding support we have received on this endeavor from President Dobelle, I also must commend the excellent work and efforts of numerous faculty and staff at Maui Community College who have spent an enormous amount of time and energy to see this project through thus far," said Project 2+4 Director Clyde Sakamoto, who will be returning to his position as chancellor of Maui CC effective July 1. "This degree will be of immeasurable benefit and offer great opportunities to the people of Maui County."
A Maui CC baccalaureate advisory committee and a baccalaureate curriculum development team were formed to assume leadership and work collaboratively to develop the degree program. Residents of Maui County were sent surveys asking them to voice their opinions on a proposed four-year baccalaureate degree, and results showed that computer science and business were both high demand areas of study.
The ABIT degree was developed in response to the needs voiced by the community and is unique within the UH system as it is a business degree, emphasizing small to medium sized business management, with a strong information technology component.
Approval of the degree by the BOR was required of Maui CC by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) and the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities (ACSCU). It now allows Maui CC to proceed with filing required substantive change and eligibility application documents with the ACCJC and ACSCU to be considered for candidacy as a community college offering a single baccalaureate degree.


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ELDENA – Robert H. Hazelwood Jr., 71, of Eldena, died Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at KSB Hospital in Dixon. Robert continued operating Hazelwood Sewer Septic Service in Dixon after his father passed away.
Robert was born March 8, 1941, in Dixon, the son of Robert H. and Darlene (Grizwald) Hazelwood Sr. He married Veronica Stein on Sept. 4, 2003, in Dixon.
Survivors include his wife, Veronica Hazelwood of Eldena; three sons, Gary (Laura) Hazelwood and Charles Hazelwood, both of Dixon, and Jeff (Carolyn) Hazelwood of Gary, Ind.; a daughter, Lori (Jeff) Raines of Dixon; a foster son, Gary Swartz of Lanark; two stepdaughters, Ashley Woodstrom of Dixon and Amanda Woodstrom of Princeton, Minn.; 16 grandchildren; and many great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday, with family present from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m., at Preston-Schilling Funeral Home in Dixon. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Vincent O. Marrandino, director of pastoral care at KSB Hospital, officiating. Burial will be at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Dixon.
A memorial has been established.
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Director to screen documentary on race in America at Loyola
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The Gillis Long Poverty Law Center in the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law presents a screening and discussion of the documentary, "The Presumption of Guilt," on Sunday, June 10 at 6 p.m. in the College of Law, Room 308. It is free, open to the public and co-sponsored by Citizens United for Economic Equity and the Irvin Mayfield Foundation.
"The Presumption of Guilt" examines the complex issue of race, class and crime in American society. Directed by Hafiz Farid, the documentary is based on the best-selling book, "The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America," by Harvard professor Charles J. Ogletree, J.D. "The Presumption of Guilt" features Maya Angelou, Alan Dershowitz, Anita Hill, anti-racist activist Tim Wise, public relations professional and author Terrie Williams and civil rights advocate and writer Michelle Alexander, among others.
Following the film, there will be a discussion with Farid and Ogletree. Ogletree is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard University and director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. In the film, Ogletree uses his book as a lens to examine the challenges faced today on the long journey towards racial and legal equality.
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The kids have a really cool plan for Digit's b-day-a surprise party! But in order to keep the secret, they pretend to forget his big day. Disappointed, Digit goes off on his own and runs into Hacker. The vexatious villain is only too happy to take advantage of the situation: If he can convince the dejected Digit that he is his one true friend, he can reprogram the cyboid to gain access to Motherboard! Meanwhile, the kids have a special gift made for their pal-a chocolate "Digit" sculpture. D
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The IP cam I put on order offers mjpeg streaming, which I haven't heard about before, but it looks like you can direct a webbrowser to an IP:port that's streaming and webbrowsers like firefox and chrome will "just wrok" and play the stream (unconfirmed =/ but that style of streaming would simplify things for other projects I have). Unfortunately, the only example I could find for that is a java example, which is a language I'm only so-so at (links working again).
Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on streaming images in a simple yet versatile way using ruby?
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Hello guys!
I want to show you my first attempt to make inarizushi from scratch including frying the aburaage and cut pouches into it. I have read here that it would be impossible to do them at home, because there are special processes to be made by machine.
But mine came out pretty well, so maybe you wanna try it, too! :) I just love inarizushi in Bento! <3
My blog is in german language, but you can read in english using google translate, which is in the right sidebar.
I also will put the recipe for inarizushi online in a few days :)
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That is very cool. I tried it last year and had only about a 25% success rate. I think I may have cut my slices too thin maybe, because the ones that did puff up were perfect, but the ones that didn't just turned into crisp wafers.
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Thank your for your reply! :D I'm happy you like it! Just try to cut them 7 to 10 mm, than they mus be okay!
Here is my recipe on how to turn the selfmade aburaage-pouches into inarizushi:
I think it turns out quite good! :) Enjoy!
Your post is great, but unfortunately Google is not so good at translating recipes from German to English, but I was able to click a not well labeled (at least not when translated) link to this page http://shizuokagourmet.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/tofu-recipe-aburaage/
Which has a very nicely explained recipe in English originally, and is easier to understand.
I've never really fried anything, but I love the inarizushi at my local sushi restaurant so much, I want to try it. And the recipe is very clear.
Thank you for your post.
Thank your rosefaery! :)
Yes google translation is a not that good, but I'm too busy (or lazy *ggg*) to wright alle my recipes in a second language ^^°
I'm happy you found the link to shizuoka gourmet. It's a great food blog and I love it, too! I will try to label all the links a little better for my english readers, too. Thank you! :)
I need to learn how to make these!!! :D And when I do , I will definately post them up on my blog.
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Department of Revenue News Release
July 21, 2009Bidders Will Present Business Plans to Operate Hartville, Kahoka, Linn, Louisiana, Vienna & Warsaw License Offices
JEFFERSON CITY – For decades, governors have awarded Missouri's 183 license offices based on political patronage. Implementing a new competitive system that emphasizes efficient office operations and customer service is a top priority for Gov. Jay Nixon.
"Although some offices in the past have been awarded to local governments or not-for-profit groups, most were awarded through a patronage system to political supporters," Gov. Nixon said. "Now, each interested person or group competes to operate an office, and they submit detailed plans that show how they will run their office. This new process is a vast improvement over the old system."
The governor also noted that he recently signed legislation that permanently puts his new competitive bidding process into state law.
"Republicans and Democrats both recognized that a change had to be made," he said. "Legislators saw the need for reform and followed my lead by passing this much-needed and long-awaited legislation."
The six offices put up for bid this week are in Hartville, Kahoka, Linn, Louisiana, Vienna and Warsaw. Bidders will have five weeks (or until August 25) to respond to bid proposals overseen by the Office of Administration (OA). Teams from the Missouri Department of Revenue will evaluate the bids.
Alana M. Barragán-Scott, acting director of the Department of Revenue, noted the benefits of the new competitive process.
"New bidders will bring fresh ideas to the table and current agents will now have an incentive to review their operations and make improvements," she said. "The department asks bidders to submit information about their past experience, plans for hours of operation, the office location, and other office operations. Office customers will be the ultimate beneficiaries of this new and more rigorous competition."
Common transactions that take place at local license offices include renewing or applying for a driver license, renewing or applying for registration on motor vehicles, boats and outboard motors, and applying for titles and paying sales taxes on these units.
Copies of the Request for Proposals (RFPs) that bidders will use to develop their bids can be viewed at https://www.moolb.mo.gov/. To review an RFP, select "Guest" on the home page, click on "Open Bids By Agency," then scroll through the list of bids until the appropriate bid is located. (Bid numbers for this week's offices are located below.) Additional information regarding the bidding process can be obtained at http://oa.mo.gov/purch/vendorinfo/DORoffices.pdf or by calling OA at (573) 751-2387.
The time to bid for 124 of Missouri's 183 license offices has ended. The list of bidders on offices for which the bidding time has closed can be obtained at http://oa.mo.gov/purch/dorlist.pdf. Thirty-eight offices have been awarded under the bidding process. For a list of winning bids for license offices, please go to http://oa.mo.gov/purch/awardedfeeoffices.pdf.


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- Iron pillowcase to remove creases and wrinkles first.
- Fold pillowcase in half, lengthwise, and then cut a small opening, on folded side, for the neck . Unfold and then cut a slit down the back, only, about 5 inches long from the neck opening.
- Across from the neck opening, at each side seam, cut away a 1/4 inch slice for the arm holes.
- Dab a bit of white glue onto the cut edges to prevent fraying, if desired.
- Print "bones patterns" and cut out.
- Trace onto felt and then cut out and set in place on the pillowcase to form the skeleton. Using the craft glue, glue into position and let dry.
- Add some white face paint for both hands and face or a skeleton mask from the dollar store. We think it looks cute by itself also. Happy Trick or Treating!


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The New Colonies (Working Title)
NOTE: The title The New Colonies is only a working title. The final game will be called something much more appealing. Possibly even catchy.
The New Colonies is a game of exploration and diplomacy. Players take control of a colonial expedition which has ventured forth to claim stake in the newly discovered continent of Carsinth.
By claiming territory and establishing settlements, players begin to build their colonies from the ground up. Expect very little help from your homeland, as resources are scarce and the journey is dangerous. Truth be told, aside from the very occasional shipment of supplies, the only help you can expect from back home will be that of settlers to increase your population.


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Teach in Korea for Chung Dahm Learning Beginning this August!Chung Dahm Learning
Teach in Korea for Chung Dahm Learning Beginning this August!
Chung Dahm Learning, Korea's foremost leader in English education, is currently looking to fill numerous teaching positions beginning this Summer, with the majority of positions starting in August.
We are seeking people who are interested in making an impact on children's lives, learning about and becoming a part of a new culture, and growing professionally both as an individual and within the Chung Dahm community. We are continuously recruiting so we will do our best to accommodate your start time.
One of the great perks about working for Chung Dahm Learning is no prior teaching experience is needed and you will go through formal training prior to teaching your first class. Chung Dahm offers a generous benefits package that will help you live comfortably in Korea while allowing you to save and travel during your teach abroad experience.
Benefits Include:
Salary: Entry level monthly range between 2.0M and 2.8M Korean Won
Vacation: Paid Vacation
Insurance: 50/50 contribution to medical and pension
Housing: Housing provided depending on contract. If not, employee will receive a higher salary.
Airfare: Flight reimbursement
Severance: provided upon contract completion
Class Size: Small classes with an average size between 8 and 12 students
Hours: Typical teaching hours from 4 pm to 10 pm
Support: Training is provided and there is ongoing teacher support
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Columbia police are investigating the shootings of five people at a nightclub.
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On Wasco Street in Hood River, just up from the 13th Street intersection, there lies an unassuming, beige, quad-plex that from the outside, looks mostly like any other apartment building you might find in America.
On the inside, however, the walls of this apartment have born witness to hundreds of stories regarding some of the darkest, most heinous acts that occur in Hood River County. Here, approximately once a week, on average, a harrowing story of abuse is told to forensic interviewers, sometimes of physical abuse, sometimes of sexual abuse, but always involving children.
It can also, however, be a place where the healing process begins.
The building in question is the Columbia Gorge Children's Advocacy Center — a nonprofit responsible for collecting evidence of child abuse for the courts by directly interviewing and examining the victims. The site, which serves Gilliam and Wheeler counties in addition to Hood River, also provides coordinated support services for child abuse victims.
April is Child Abuse Awareness Month and CGCAC has worked to highlight the issue by holding an open house at its Wasco Street site as well as through its Blue Ribbon Campaign, which asks businesses and individuals to wear or display blue ribbons to show support for victims of child abuse.
CGCAC is the smallest of Oregon's 21 children advocacy centers, but the center has seen nearly 250 children in its four and a half years of operation — treating, on average, a child per week, the vast majority of which live in Hood River County. And as of late, those numbers have been increasing.
Carrie Rasmussen, deputy district attorney for Hood River County, is responsible for prosecuting the county's child abusers. She recently gave a report to the Hood River County Board of Commissioners about the county's "ever-increasing" number of child abuse cases, noting that the actual number of child abuse cases rose by 50 percent last year. Many of these cases involve children who witness domestic violence, which is classified as abuse due to the emotional trauma it inflicts on a child. It also changes a misdemeanor assault charge to a felony.
Perhaps most troubling is the fact that those numbers Rasmussen keeps are, by her own words, "conservative" for a crime that is already underreported.
"These numbers are by offender, so they don't represent actual numbers of cases," she told the board, "but what I am seeing, however, though, is a dramatic increase in child abuse."
Rasmussen, who has been the county's DDA for the past nine years, spearheaded the launch of CGCAC, which opened its doors in September 2009. Rasmussen says she was motivated to start the center after she lost a "very difficult" child sexual abuse case due to issues with evidence collection.
"There were so many things that went wrong with that case that I knew we needed a children's advocacy center," she says.
Prior to CGCAC, child abuse victims were interviewed at police stations, the Department of Health and Human Services, or had to be taken to Portland. Rasmussen envisioned a more homey, nurturing environment where these interviews could take place.
Rasmussen says CGCAC got off the ground thanks to all the many people, businesses, and organizations in the community who offered to help with either their time, money, or donations of materials. Currently, a third of the center's funding comes from the Oregon Department of Justice through its Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Intervention (CAMI) program, while the rest comes from donations, grants, and fundraising events.
Debi Baskins, CGCAC's executive director, is the only paid employee at the center. The center's two forensic interviewers, Beatriz Lynch and Michelle Tremblay, as well as its pediatrician, Dr. Michele Beaman, all have day jobs, but volunteer at the center on an on-call basis.
"We are able to operate on a pretty slim budget because these women are willing to do this," notes Baskins, adding, "They do the really hard work."
The staffers of CGCAC work in conjunction with DHS and local law enforcement during the abuse cases and the outside agencies often come into CGCAC to provide backstory. They are often present during the interview process, which is conducted in a room in the back of the center.
Baskins says the main goal of CGCAC, in addition to evidence collection and support services, is to make the child feel as comfortable as possible while at the center.
"It's like walking into a home," she says of the center. "There's a living rooms area with toys and stuffed animals. Our goal is to make them feel safe and comfortable when they go into an interview. Our hope is that they don't leave here traumatized."
Indeed, the main room of the center does look like a living room, furnished with couches, a coffee table, a television that has children's movies besides it, and a veritable F.A.O. Schwartz-sized collection of fuzzy stuffed animals for the children to play with.
After the children have had some time to play, they are taken down the hall to Dr. Beaman's, whose workspace resembles a typical pediatrician's examination room, complete with a patient table, supply cabinets, colorful mobiles hanging from the ceiling, and a chart adorned with animals frolicking around the letters of the alphabet. Also in the room is a device called a colposcope, which Dr. Beaman explains is used to take close up images of wounds sustained during a sexual assault.
An infant weight scale sits on a counter in the room. When asked the age of the youngest patient she's seen here, Beaman answers, "6 months old."
The work can be difficult for Dr. Beaman, who is a pediatrician at Legacy Emanuel's Randall Children's Hospital in Portland. As a pediatrician, she says she "wants to fix things" that are hurting children, but in this case, it's not so easy to do.
"Sometimes you're just heartbroken, but it's good to have a team to share that with," Dr. Beaman says of her fellow volunteers at CGCAC.
Tremblay, whose task at CGCAC is to interview the children, agrees that it's emotionally demanding work.
"They talk about some pretty harsh things here," Tremblay notes, who works as a family therapist at Child Protective services as well as the juvenile departments of Klickitat and Skamania counties. "Things you wouldn't even ask your mate, I have to ask a 4-year-old."
The interview room consists of two chairs that face a two-way mirror, where a camera on the other side of the glass records the conversation. Baskins says every interview begins by asking the child for permission to be recorded, explaining how the two-way mirror works, and establishing the difference between a truth and a lie. She adds that interviewers are trained to ask non-leading questions about the abuse incident that are geared toward the age of the child so the answers will hold up in court.
The entire process takes approximately 2-3 hours, depending on the situation. Afterwards, the guardian of the child is directed to support services used to help victims of abuse.
Although the kids that comes through CGCAC's doors have suffered through some traumatic incidents, Baskins notes that sometimes, there are happy endings.
"A lot of times kids will come in, clinging to their mother's arms, and very apprehensive, and oftentimes, they are smiling as they are leaving," she says. "It's amazing."
How to help: Like many nonprofits, CGCAC operates on a very limited budget and CGCAC will be holding a fundraiser called, "Spring for Kids" to help raise money for the center. The event will be held Saturday, April 19 at Springhouse Cellar in Hood River. Food, live music by the Groove Project, a no-host wine and beer bar as well as a silent and live auction will be featured. The event is sponsored by A Kidz Dental Zone and DelCarpine Automotive. The charge for adult admission is $10 and all proceeds go to benefit CGCAC. For more information about this event and the Blue Ribbon Campaign, please call CGCAC at 541-436-2960.
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1 The vision of Obadiah.
This is what the Sovereign Lord says about Edom –
We have heard a message from the Lord:
an envoy was sent to the nations to say,
'Rise, let us go against her for battle'–
2 'See, I will make you small among the nations;
you will be utterly despised.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rocks[a]
and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
"Who can bring me down to the ground?"
4 Though you soar like the eagle
and make your nest among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,'
declares the Lord.
5 'If thieves came to you,
if robbers in the night –
oh, what a disaster awaits you –
would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
would they not leave a few grapes?
6 But how Esau will be ransacked,
his hidden treasures pillaged!
7 All your allies will force you to the border;
your friends will deceive and overpower you;
those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,[b]
but you will not detect it.
8 'In that day,' declares the Lord,
'will I not destroy the wise men of Edom,
those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
9 Your warriors, Teman, will be terrified,
and everyone in Esau's mountains
will be cut down in the slaughter.
10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,
you will be covered with shame;
you will be destroyed for ever.
11 On the day you stood aloof
while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
12 You should not gloat over your brother
in the day of his misfortune,
nor rejoice over the people of Judah
in the day of their destruction,
nor boast so much
in the day of their trouble.
13 You should not march through the gates of my people
in the day of their disaster,
nor gloat over them in their calamity
in the day of their disaster,
nor seize their wealth
in the day of their disaster.
14 You should not wait at the crossroads
to cut down their fugitives,
nor hand over their survivors
in the day of their trouble.
15 'The day of the Lord is near
for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
your deeds will return upon your own head.
16 Just as you drank on my holy hill,
so all the nations will drink continually;
they will drink and drink
and be as if they had never been.
17 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;
it will be holy,
and Jacob will possess his inheritance.
18 Jacob will be a fire
and Joseph a flame;
Esau will be stubble,
and they will set him on fire and destroy him.
There will be no survivors
from Esau.'
The Lord has spoken.
19 People from the Negev will occupy
the mountains of Esau,
and people from the foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,
and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
20 This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
will possess the land as far as Zarephath;
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the towns of the Negev.
21 Deliverers will go up on[c] Mount Zion
to govern the mountains of Esau.
And the kingdom will be the Lord's.
9 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stings, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, 'Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.' 15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulphur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulphur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulphur that came out of their mouths. 19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshipping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood – idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Holy Bible, New International Version® Anglicized, NIV® Copyright © 1979, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


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Back to Basics: How to Set Up Your Receiver
You might think your TV is the most important part of your home theater system. But the real heart of any home-entertainment setup is the A/V or digital surround receiver - the one element that ties all the others together and lets you select and adjust what you watch or listen to.
If you've never set up a receiver before, the cornucopia of connections and bounty of buttons can be intimidating. But fear not - unlike your monthly phone bill, receiver setup isn't as complicated as it seems.
Before you start hooking up your new receiver, spend a few minutes browsing through the owner's manual to get a feel for what it has to offer. Don't worry if your eyes glaze over - manuals tend to walk you through every aspect of operation in obsessive detail and can make everything look more complicated than it really is. Still, it's a starting point.
Putting It in Its Place The first step in setting up an A/V receiver is to find a good location for it. Look for a place where it'll get plenty of ventilation. Its amplifiers can generate a lot of heat when you're playing CDs or DVDs at high volume for long periods, and excessive heat can shorten the receiver's lifespan or even cause its protection circuitry to shut it down. Also, put it where you can get to the back panel easily. You don't want to have to pull it out of a cabinet or break down your entire setup every time you add or change a connection.
Come Around Back The back panel is the main interface between the receiver and the rest of your components . Understanding it is the key to knowing how to wire your system. All those connections might seem confusing, but the layout is actually very logical, with audio and video inputs and outputs grouped by function.
While even the most basic receiver has at least a couple of dozen jacks, you'll see only a handful of different types of connector. That's because most components use the same few kinds, and they're repeated many times to accommodate all the gear you might want to connect.


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Several Lake Wales-area college students and Lake Wales High School graduates are working as academic coaches at their alma mater, even as they take their own classes.
LAKE WALES | Math is tough, especially in high school.
"I think people just don't like math, so when they see it they just kind of zone out," said Jolene Lake, 30, a Polk State College student.
Lake is one of several Lake Wales-area college students and Lake Wales High School graduates working as academic coaches at their alma mater, even as they take their own classes.
Lake Wales High Principal Donna Dunson said a confidential donor gave $100,000 to provide academic coaches for math students, an instructional coach to help the math teachers and college counseling. The academic coach program alone costs $45,000.
Dunson said she and her staff visited top-performing math schools over the summer, including an inner-city school in Boston with 10-hour school days and a partnership with Harvard University.
"Any of the schools in high-poverty areas that score high (in academics) have longer school days," she said. "I've looked."
Dunson said she fashioned the Lake Wales High tutoring program after the ones she saw and is particularly focused on algebra.
"Algebra is a gateway course for professionals," she said.
Lake agreed that is key.
"If you don't understand basic algebra, there is no way to go on to the higher math," she said. "That's why we're pushing this so hard, because they need it for the higher math."
Tina Morrow, instructional coach at Lake Wales High, said she works with Amy Roberts, head of the school's math department, to identify students who need help and schedule them for tutors.
Tenth-grader Artishia Harris, 16, said the coaching has helped her deal with fractions, word problems and general confidence in math.
"It does give you confidence, because I am not strong in math at all," Harris said. "But when you have that feeling of getting something right and it clicks, it's really good."
And because each class is for a grade, Harris said she takes them very seriously.
Lacey Helms, 15, said it's hard to ask parents for help but said it's often easier to ask someone who just got out of high school.
Polk State student Taneika Thomas, 20, said sometimes it's just a matter of getting students used to the equations.
"Yes, it is OK that letters are in the problems," she said.
Thomas said she struggled with word problems the first time she took algebra, as did her brother — 18-year-old Michael — who also attends Polk State.
The academic coaches are paid, and Michael Thomas said one student told him, "You aren't doing this out of the kindness of your hearts." But for him, it became more than a job when he saw how he could help students.
It takes work on the students' parts, too.
"I think most people don't really have the attention span for math. It takes a while," said Amber Hardee, 18, a Lake Wales senior who has already taken algebra. "If you don't understand it, you don't understand it, and you have to wait for it to click with you, and only then can you really enjoy the process."
Lake said the learning never really stops. She never studied for high school math but does now at PSC for her college-level statistics courses.
She's teaching students that it's a lot of repetition — and good handwriting.
"If you can't write it out properly and write it in a straight line and be organized, you're never going to get the problem right," Lake said.
Lake said her coaching doesn't just help the students. It also helps tutors like her get experience as trainers and teachers.
And it helps the school connect with the community, Morrow said, by giving another way that Lake Wales High can ensure each students reaches full potential.
"We want to pay attention to each student," she said.
Phil Attinger covers the Babson Park, Dundee, Frostproof and Lake Wales areas and may be reached at 863-401-6981 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"For nearly thirty years we've been having this discussion, asking the question: do violent movies, music or video games make people violent? Well according to Brad Bushman and Craig Anderson of Iowa State University, yes. Based on the results of their research they concluded in 2001 that video games and violent media can make people aggressive and violent. Based upon their data and their conclusions, however, it's safe to say that photos of snakes, crispy bacon, or a particularly rigorous game of chess can also make people aggressive and violent." And politicians?


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Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult will put split aside for X-Men movie
The two stars met on the set of X-Men: First Class in 2011, but their relationship came to an end late last year (12).
The split came shortly before they were both announced in the cast for the follow-up film, X-Men: Days of Future Past, which is due to begin filming later this year (13).
Hoult has now insisted they will remain professional when they are called to work together again.
Asked whether the movie will be awkward for the former lovers, Hoult tells the London Evening Standard, "No, not at all. We had a great time making that first film..."
The actor is also asked whether he feels "weird" seeing his ex-girlfriend voted among the sexiest women in the world, and he adds, "No, because I know her. I never really get starstruck by actors."


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|Todd Bonheyo has been running
Gallaudet's option offense with a great deal of success as a
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Chuck Goldstein was new on the Gallaudet staff and when they were playing Hiram. He was upset with the way things were going on the field and went all Bobby Knight, throwing a chair at halftime. Only one kid turned around.
"I said, 'this is not going to work,' " Goldstein said.
Now, Goldstein is the head coach at the school regarded as the world leader in education and career development for deaf and hard of hearing students.
The Bison are playing in a league that has been turned upside down the last two weeks. Defending champion Norwich and SUNY-Maritime were the favorites to win the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference before the season began. Both are 0-1. Martime got beat by Castleton State two weeks ago and this past week Mount Ida stunned Norwich 36-32.
"It might be a year where three or four teams can win a championship," Castleton coach Marc Klatt said.
At least. You can't cross Norwich and Maritime off the list of contenders off the one loss. Certainly, Ida and Castleton are in the picture and people are impressed with the athleticism of a Becker team that is 1-0 in the ECFC after whipping Husson 34-7 on Saturday.
The team that might not be on the radar of the ECFC fandom is Gallaudet. That is only because the Bison play on the southern tip of the league, far away from the rest of their league brethren located throughout the Northeast. But you can be certain the coaches are well aware of the team that sits in Washington, D.C.
How could they not be? They opened by playing Otterbein tough, losing 15-0. Otterbein, in the highly respected Ohio Athletic Conference, is now 4-0. Then, Gallaudet reeled off three straight victories by big margins. They beat Catholic and Apprentice and then Saturday defeated Anna Maria 52-24 to get the ECFC campaign off to a 1-0 start.
Gallaudet's average road trip in the league is eight hours. This week's is much longer. The Bison will leave Thursday night, sleep on the bus and then pull into Bangor, Maine where the opponent will be Husson University.
"We just approach it as a business trip," Goldstein said.
They will ride into Bangor with this three-game winning streak and a plenty of playmakers.
Two of them are brothers Todd and Ryan Bonheyo. They played at Maryland School for the Deaf where their father Andy Bonheyo is the head coach and one of the most successful high school head coaches in the country.
Todd and Ryan, like their parents, are deaf. There is only one player on the roster who has normal hearing and he is in a program to be an interpreter.
Todd is the quarterback in the triple option attack. He ran for 169 yards and two touchdowns and passed for another 109 yards and two scores against Anna Maria.
Amazingly, he came to Gallaudet with the thought of playing only basketball.
But Quentin Williams was going to be redshirted due to an injury and Todd came out to compete for the quarterback spot.
"He won the starting role by week two and hasn't looked back since," Goldstein said. "He is getting better every week. He has a calm presence. The sky is the limit for him."
There is a lot of sky. Eligibility wise he is a freshman.
Ryan is a rarity in that he received a full scholarship to an FCS program. He was playing at Towson on the defensive side of the ball.
"Towson has a good deaf program. It just wasn't the best fit for him. He wanted to play on offense," Goldstein said. "He was a 1,000-yard back in high school."
And then there's Tom Pangia. Talk about first impressions. Pangia's high school coach sent the Gallaudet coaches a video of him and as soon as they watched it they got in the car and drove to New Jersey to meet with him.
"He is a typical D3 player. He is very good and just undersized," Goldstein said of his linebacker. "He is the heart and soul of our defense."
|Tony Tatum has contributed
all over the field, including turning in the D3football.com
Play of the Week earlier in September.
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Pangia has been a first-team All-ECFC selection each year. He also has had the Hammer Award the staff gives out for the biggest hit in his locker for three consecutive weeks.
"He's just that kid," Goldstein said.
Tony Tatum is the kind of corner you hardly find at this level at 6-3, 210 pounds and who runs the 40 in 4.5 seconds.
His athleticism also has him playing some wide receiver and contributing on special teams.
If that sounds to you like a player who could play on Sundays, you might be right.
"The Eagles have come around, the Kansas City Chiefs call every week and the Jaguars are interested," Goldstein said. "Someone is going to invite him to camp."
Jaris Alleyne is another mainstay of the defense at linebacker.
"He kind of fell into our lap. He is another I-AA type of kid," Goldstein said.
Goldstein knows SUNY Maritime's Keith Barnes is a special linebacker and there are plenty who feel he might be the Cadillac of linebackers in the ECFC. But Goldstein believes strongly that when it comes to a linebacker tandem he has the best in Pangia and Alleyne.
Recruiting at Gallaudet, as you can imagine, is a different game. The deaf schools are a pipeline.
"We know them and they know us," Goldstein said.
The other players they have to go find and the scope of their recruiting is national. They might fly to any region of the country to see a player or, as in Pangia's case, hop in the car and drive to Jersey.
Usually if a talented player is deaf there will be a feel-good story written about him and between Google and the school's admissions department, there aren't many talented deaf players who do not get their attention.
One they were not aware of was Castleton State's Brandon Boyle who caught a school record 17 passes in a game a couple of weeks ago. Boyle is hard of hearing.
"We didn't even know about him. We missed a good one there, but I don't know that he would have been happy in our offense," Goldstein said.
The D.C. area is exploding today with sports success. The Nationals and Orioles have become the Major League Baseball stories of the season and Robert Griffin III is all the rage with the Redskins. The Bison are hardly part of the excitement in the Beltway. Only 512 people saw the ECFC opener at home against Anna Maria.
But when Gallaudet hits the road, the team is the object of plenty of attention,. This week the Bison will have plenty of people from Maine coming to see them.
"There is a huge deaf community in Maine. There will be a group of about 200 people and there will be a tailgate for them," Goldstein said. "If Gallaudet is in town, the deaf community will be there. We represent the deaf."
People who really count are at the Bison home games, Goldstein said. "Our president, provost and dean of students are all on the sidelines. Our athletic director gives us great support and likes where Gallaudet football is heading."
And Goldstein throws a lot of credit toward his staff. There are many areas where he is not involved in the game planning, preferring to let his coaches coach in their area of expertise.
"If I am a good head coach it is because I have hired a great staff," he said.
Thursday night the Bison will board the bus for the longest road trip of the year that will take them up I-95 to Bangor. They will hope to get a win over the Eagles and push their league mark to 2-0, keeping themselves in good position in what looks to be a wild ECFC race where the winner gets a spot in the Division III playoff field.
"It's competitive. You don't know what is going to happen each week. It is going to go right down to the wire. I'm sure of that," Goldstein said.
Mount Ida muddles ECFC picture
Down to the wire. And it looks like Mount Ida could be one of those at the wire after the big win over Norwich.
Scott Drosendahl threw for 389 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Mustangs to the win.
"The big thing with Scotty is that he is tough, mentally tough but also physically tough," Mount Ida coach Mike Landers said.
And Landers concurs with Goldstein about the fight to the finish in the ECFC.
"Every game is going to be an alley fight," Landers said.
The first three weeks the league's coaches were all pulling fot one another against nonleague competition. And the ECFC carved out a very good record, particularly against the rival New Engalnd Football Conference, going 7-3.
"We were all together then and it was nice to be a part of it. Now, we're all fighting each other," Landers said.
In an alley. Week to week.
Don't count out Becker
Don't forget about Becker in this ECFC chase. The Hawks won their league opener with Robert Baker throwing for a school record 491 yards and four touchdowns.
And speaking of records, Pat Meggers set a couple of school marks for Coast Guard in the Bears' 59-0 pasting of Fitchburg State in the NEFC. Meggers had 211 receiving yards and his 98-yard touchdown reception also put him in the program's record book.
But the biggest splash in the NEFC continues to be made by Salve Regina. The Seahawks went to 5-0 and logged their 11th straight victory, 43-0 over Western New England. Steven Wilken threw three TD passes.
Framingham State was down by 14 points in the fourth quarter and roared back to nip Mass. Maritime 35-28. Matthew Silva was back at quarterback after being shelved by an injury and threw for 289 yards and two scores and Melikke Van Alstyne provided the complement on the ground, rushing for 158 yards and three touchdowns.
MIT also had to rally. They trailed by 13 points at halftime and scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to edge UMass-Dartmouth 28-27. Peter Williams threw a 21-yard scoring pass to Samuel Inman with 2:32 left to give MIT the win. It was one of three times in the game Williams and Inman hooked up for a touchdown pass.
Trinity was down 13-3 in the fourth quarterback and came back to beat Williams 17-13 on two touchdown passes from Ryan Burgess to A.J. Jones. The Bantams had a wide edge in rushing yardage, 261-39, with Evan Bunker supplyong 165 of those yards.
Wesleyan's Gibson: Workhorse and thoroughbred
Wesleyan sophomore Kyle Gibson will never forget his first start. Neither will Hamilton. Gibson was given the ball 35 times and rushed for 244 yards, including the go-ahead touchdown in the third quarter as the Cardinals defeated Hamilton 34-13 to go 2-0 in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.
Wesleyan, Middlebury, Trinity and Wesleyan are the 2-0 teams in the NESCAC.
Middlebury did it by defeating Colby on the road 42-13. It was the second straight week the Panthers scored 42 points and the second week in a row that saw McCallum Foote fire five touchdown passes.
Amherst stayed perfect by clipping Bowdoin 22-10 as Max Lippe completed 18 of 22 passes. He ran for two scores and threw for another. Ryan Silva did the job overland for the Lord Jeffs with143 yards and Wade McNamara had eight catches, one for a touchdown.
Spencer lances MMA
Worcester State's Corey Spencer had another big day through the air. He led the Lancers to their 47-34 victory over Maine Maritime by throwing four touchdown passes and running for another score. Worcester State coach Brien Cullen has compared Casey Hippert to the NFL's Aaron Hernandez in describing the type of player he is. He looked the part, catching six passes for 123 yards and a couple of touchdowns as the Lancers went to 4-1.
Endicott beat Curry in the NEFC 33-28 and Plymouth State topped Nichols 20-14 in overtime when Dustin Matthews scored from a yard out.
The big games
No question about the big game in the NESCAC. Amherst and Middlebury put 2-0 records on the line in Middlebury. Can the Jeffs slow down Foote who already has 10 TD passes this year?
The ECFC? I think we have already established that every game is big in this league with Rozellean type parity. The question is: Which alley will have the best fight?
It might be in Northfield where the Norwich Cadets host Castleton State College in the battle for the Maple Sap Bucket. The Bucket is important when it is the only thing on the line. Saturday at Sabine Field there will be so much more. Norwich is 0-1 and all of a sudden facing a critical game. Castleton comes to own 1-0 in the league with quarterback Shane Brozowski, the newly minted New England Division III record holder for career passing yardage.
In the NEFC, Worcester State and Framingham State sit atop the Bogan Division at 2-0 and will look to keep pace with another. Framingham should have the easier time against Fitchburg State. Worcester State hosts Mass. Maritime.


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Recall Details
Airbags use a chemical reaction contained in an inflator module to create the pressure necessary to inflate the bags when deployment is required. These vehicles are being recalled because the front passenger airbag inflator may produce excessive internal pressure when deployed. As a result, the inflator module could rupture, causing metal fragments to strike vehicle occupants. Dealers will inspect and replace any defective passenger front airbag inflator module found.
Our Quick Take
The passenger front airbag inflator could rupture when deployed, allowing metal fragments to strike vehicle occupants and increasing the risk of personal injury.
What Should You Do?
Toyota will notify owners of affected Toyota and Lexus vehicles and General Motors will notify owners of affected Pontiac Vibe vehicles. As of this writing the manufactures have not released their owner notification schedules for this recall.


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Some investors are steering clear of mortgage-backed securities tied to retail real estate, The Wall Street Journal reports, in a story that includes as one of its case studies the sale last fall of Parmatown Mall. The paper says that "commercial mortgage bonds, including these shaky malls, have lagged behind a recent rally and retail loans in new deals are getting greater scrutiny from investors and rating firms." Overall, default rates on mortgage securities backed by shopping malls, shopping centers and other retail properties "are lower than on most other commercial-real-estate categories — 7.7% of the $172.5 billion in retail loans outstanding in bonds are delinquent," according to The Journal. "But when individual retail properties get into trouble, their values plummet faster than other property types, which can result in greater losses for investors." The newspaper notes that one example of mortgage investors' pain came with the sale last November of Parmatown. "Holders of the mall's $61.6 million securitized mortgage received proceeds of $5.9 million from the sale, 90% less than they were owed," The Journal reports. The paper says Parmatown, opened in 1962, had struggled since SouthPark Mall opened 10 miles away in Strongsville in the 1990s. Parmatown's previous owners, founders of Forest City Enterprises Inc. operating as RMS Investment Corp., had redeveloped the mall and added a Walmart in an anchor location long abandoned by Dillard's. "Based on an appraisal in 2004, just before the commercial-mortgage-bond market began its explosive growth, Parmatown was valued at $111.50 a square foot," The Journal reports. "That was reduced to $17 a square foot at last year's sale to Cincinnati-based mall owner Phillips Edison & Co."
Parmatown serves as poster child for commercial mortgage risk
A good investigative piece on PublicIntegrity.org finds that the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision "unleashed nearly $1 billion in new political spending in the 2012 election, with media outlets and a small number of political consulting firms raking in the bulk of the proceeds." Federal Election Commission data show that throughout the 2012 election, "corporations, unions and individuals that could take advantage of the high court's ruling were responsible for about $933 million of the estimated $6 billion spent during the contest," according to the story. Nearly two-thirds of the new money — about $611 million — went to 10 political consulting firms, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis. All but one of the top 10 recipients "bought advertising in various media markets on behalf of super PACs and nonprofits," the story notes. "Eighty-nine percent of the expenditures made to the top 10 went to spots attacking candidates, the data show." The story then details the murky world of campaign finance. One of the top 10 recipients was American Media & Advocacy Group, a favorite of conservative groups, which ranked No. 5 at $27 million. In Ohio, the story notes, American Media & Advocacy Group was paid by the conservative Congressional Leadership Fund "to purchase ads slamming Democrat Betty Sutton in the House race for District 16." American Media was also working for the Rep. Sutton's Republican opponent, Rep. Jim Renacci. "The same person was listed in records as buying media in the Cleveland market — at the same TV station in at least one case — for both the Renacci campaign and the Congressional Leadership Fund," according to the story.
A matter of antitrust: Bloomberg reports that Cleveland law firm Squire Sanders is beefing up its antitrust practice with the addition of Mark Botti, antitrust head of Washington, D.C.-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, and two colleagues, J. Brady Dugan and Anthony Swisher. Mr. Botti, head of Akin Gump's antitrust and unfair competition practice, previously spent 13 years at the U.S. Justice Department, Bloomberg notes. There, he was the assistant chief of the Antitrust Division and oversaw hearings by the Federal Trade Commission on health care during 2004 and 2005. "The expansion of our antitrust practice has been one of the key strategic goals of our Washington, D.C., office and our regulatory practice," said Jim Maiwurm, chairman and global CEO of Squire Sanders, in a statement. "As antitrust scrutiny and enforcement continue to rise around the world, the addition of this team to the firm's existing global antitrust and regulatory capabilities will enhance our ability to support clients in this strategically critical area." Mr. Botti represents clients on antitrust matters that include government investigations, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. Drinking problem: Need more evidence you should stay away from consumer energy drinks? Check out this Associated Press story, which includes a comment from a suburban Cleveland doctor. "From 2007 to 2011, the government estimates the number of emergency room visits involving the neon-labeled (energy) beverages shot up from about 10,000 to more than 20,000," the AP reports. "Most of those cases involved teens or young adults, according to a survey of the nation's hospitals released late last week by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration." More than half of the patients considered in the survey who wound up in the emergency room told doctors they had downed only energy drinks," according to the AP. In 2011, about 42% of the cases involved energy drinks in combination with alcohol or drugs, such as the stimulants Adderall or Ritalin. "A lot of people don't realize the strength of these things. I had someone come in recently who had drunk three energy drinks in an hour, which is the equivalent of 15 cups of coffee," Dr. Howard Mell, an emergency physician in the Cleveland area who serves as a spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, tells the AP. "Essentially he gave himself a stress test and thankfully he passed," he says. "But if he had a weak heart or suffered from coronary disease and didn't know it, this could have precipitated very bad things." Music to his ears: Real estate developer Bruce C. Ratner of Forest City is spreading his wings. Mr. Ratner, who leads Forest City Ratner Cos. in New York City, built the Barclays Center in Brooklyn that already has hosted concerts by Bob Dylan, Barbara Streisand and the Rolling Stones, among others. But, as The New York Times notes, "when the genre chosen was Jewish music, (Mr.) Ratner decided to take charge himself." The developer, whom the paper says "cut his musical teeth on cantorial singing at a synagogue in his hometown, Cleveland," is the de facto impresario of a concert at the Barclays Center announced this week that will feature the violinist Itzhak Perlman and Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, the cantor from the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan who has been a leader in the revival of Jewish liturgical music. "The two musicians will perform at the 19,000-seat arena on Feb. 28 in an event where food carts will feature glatt kosher food and a special section will most likely be set up with separate seating for men and women, to accommodate the customs of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who make up a sizable share of the Jewish population of Brooklyn," according to The Times. Mr. Ratner tells that newspaper that Brooklyn has a storied tradition of "chazzanut" — the cantorial singing largely centered around synagogue prayers. The Times says Yossele Rosenblatt, known as the Jewish Caruso, led prayers at First Congregation Anshe Sfard in Borough Park in the 1920s and 1930s and the legendary Moshe Koussevitzky was the cantor at Temple Beth El in Borough Park in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Linux Mint 12 has just been released, and solves the problem by adding several components to the core GNOME 3 experience to make it look, work, and behave more like GNOME 2. They're called the Mint Gnome Shell Extensions.
"MGSE (Mint Gnome Shell Extensions) is a desktop layer on top of Gnome 3 that makes it possible for you to use Gnome 3 in a traditional way," the team writes, "You can disable all components within MGSE to get a pure Gnome 3 experience, or you can enable all of them to get a Gnome 3 desktop that is similar to what you've been using before. Of course you can also pick and only enable the components you like to design your own desktop."
I've dabbled around a bit in the final release, and at least in my experience, this is clearly not particularly stable or done just yet. It's slow, often unresponsive, and I've even had several components - both GNOME 3 and MSGE - crash. It's also a bit of a mess in the visual department - two different themes intermingling. It all has a very KDE 4.0-esque feel to it.
To satisfy those of us who just want a plain old GNOME 2 experience (for the love of god), Mint 12 also includes MATE, the GNOME 2 fork. I'm personally praying to the gods of computing that MATE picks up as much steam as possible, since I strongly dislike both Unity and GNOME 3 - whenever I use those two, I get the feeling like I'm fighting my own computer - and I'm not some sort of anti-change stuck-in-my-ways kind of guy, since you can give my any phone, desktop, or tablet, and I'll get by just fine.
So, MATE promises me GNOME 2, and that makes me happy. I like GNOME 2. It's elegant and understated, and at least in my eyes, very pretty. I never quite understood why GNOME 3 had to be so radically different, but alas, maybe I'm just stupid and don't see the light. Whatever. In any case, despite the warnings of lacking functionality and stability, my experience with MATE has been far more positive than with FrankenGnome3, GNOME3-proper, or Unity.
The final change I want to highlight is the fact that Linux Mint has a new search provider - DuckDuckGo. We covered DuckDuckGo in January, and all the benefits I outlined then still apply today. The partnership is sure to be beneficial to both Mint and DuckDuckGo.
Head on to the downloads page to get Linux Mint 12.


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