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MANSFIELD, OHIO: An Air National Guard base that has faced possible closure twice in the past eight years will get about 200 new jobs � a move that a base commander and area officials attribute largely to community support.
Officials have been waiting for some good news for a long time, Col. Gary McCue, commander of the 179th Ohio Air National Guard base in Mansfield in north-central Ohio, told the Mansfield News Journal. �Community support is really what did it,� combined with the work of Ohio members of Congress, he said.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown announced Thursday that the airlift wing, which was included on a list of air guard bases around the country facing cuts as recently as last year, would be getting a new mission and eight C-130H planes from the Air Force, resulting in around 180 new jobs.
The base was faced with possible closure last year after the federal budget for 2013 recommended cutting the nation�s fleet of C-27J military aircraft as part of a plan that would cut 200 planes from 60 military installations in 33 states. Those cuts included four C-27J Spartan cargo planes and could have eliminated an estimated 800 jobs.
The 179th will still lose the four C-27J planes. But under the plan announced Thursday, the Air Force will ship the eight large transport planes to the base, and that means more personnel. The first of the planes are expected to arrive by September.
Economic development officials said residents and private and public officials in Mansfield and Richland County worked hard to save the base.
�The whole community rallied behind the base, and we were able to get over 20,000 emails to Congress in support of it,� Bridget McDaniel, executive director of the Richland Community Development Group, said Friday.
Brown a Democrat who was born and raised in Mansfield, said Thursday that the base �will be alive and well,� The Columbus Dispatch reported.
The initial plan to make cuts at the base drew objections from Brown and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and was an issue in the 2012 presidential race. President Barack Obama pledged last year to find a new mission for the base, and Brown said the president kept that commitment.
Portman said in a release Thursday that �it�s been a long fight to show the White House that getting rid of the 179th was the wrong decision.�
McCue says the additions will push the number of employees up to about 850, with most of the new jobs being part-time in the areas of operations and maintenance.
Tim Bowersock, economic development director for the city of Mansfield, said Friday that the base has an annual economic impact of about $45 million on the region, including items such as salaries, taxes and spending. The city has a population of about 48,000 residents, with about 126,000 residents countywide.
Bowersock says community officials are pleased about the additional jobs, but also the new mission �helps ensure that the base is going to stay.�
McCue told the News Journal that �we will never consider ourselves completely safe,� but added that �the morale here is very high.�


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When budgets are tight, marketing might be the first expense you look to cut. Here is a list of seven tips to give you a competitive edge. Being smart with SEO company in Brooklyn ensures the success of your business by attracting more customers, and keeping them coming back. Learning how to improve marketing for your organization can only benefit your business's bottom line. And if you've been neglecting your database, your entire marketing for small companies strategy could be off-kilter. Small businesses tend to be a little slow with marketing developments. Some are cutting-edge, of course – but most wait until there are proof tactic works. You might not have the resources of the big guys, but that doesn't mean you don't have your own ace up your sleeve. It may seem like an extra step that takes time, funds and focus away from your sales funnel, but a marketing strategy will help amplify your message and increase sales.
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In my previous trips to Macau, I had only explored the Central and Southern parts of Macau island. On Valentine's Day, Jacob and I took another day trip to the former Portuguese colony and headed to a part that wasn't engulfed in casino and resort construction. After crossing the border, we hopped on a free shuttle to Hotel Lisboa, and from there caught a bus to Coloane, Macau's southernmost island.
Coloane is a tiny, laid-back island that is a great antidote to Central Macau's bustling streets. I, for one, was glad to get away from the diesel fumes and noise of motorcycle engines. (Motorcycles were out in full force yesterday, probably Spring Festival vacationers expending last bits of pent-up energy before starting work again.) Coloane Village is a nice place to walk around for an hour and admire the low-lying buildings that fuse Portuguese and Chinese styles. I was reminded of little villages in Lantau and Hong Kong's New Territories, where people leave their doors open and you can peak in and see what locals are eating for lunch, or watching on TV. (Not that I peak, of course.)
Taking a break from walking, we ducked into Lord Stow's Bakery in the main square. In addition to Macanese egg tarts, the bakery also carried chocolate tarts, breads, chocolate puddings, and milk teas. Macanese egg tarts are like Cantonese egg tarts except with more sugar and with a caramelized top. I don't know about the bakery's claim to having invented the Macanese egg tart, but the tarts provided just enough sugar to satiate my sweet tooth.
The highlight of Coloane was Fernando's, a Portuguese restaurant located on Hac Sa (Cantonese for "black sand") Beach. I have read a lot about this restaurant before, as it is recommended by all the guide books as one of the best places to eat in Macau. I usually take such recommendations with a grain of salt, but couldn't pass up dining here since we made it all the way out to Coloane.
"Make sure they know you're waiting," said a middle-aged British man who was sitting at the bar. "They have the worst service..." he paused, then sighed, "...but THE BEST food."
Sure enough, service was gruff, but there were little complaints as we chowed down on the hearty Portuguese/Macanese fare. Macanese fried rice had a delicious blend of shrimp, bacalao, Portuguese sausage, and olives. It was great for eating alone or for sopping up the feijoada, a stew of refried beans and fatty pork. I especially liked the roast suckling pig, with sweet crackly skin and tender meat, served with a salad with thick homemade fries.
The dining room is a bit spartan; it looks like equal parts beach house, lodge, and Italian red-sauce joint. But the food is what keeps people coming, as it was still busy at 3:30 in the afternoon when we left. The meal was a bit pricey; entrees ranged from 50 to 130 Macau dollars, at 8.03 patacas to the USD. But the house red wine (25 Macau dollars for a half carafe) was a relative bargain, and great for sipping to celebrate a low-key Valentine's Day in a low-key part of town.
To get to Coloane Take bus 15, 21A, 25, or 26A from Central Macau.
Lord Stow's Bakery 1 Rua da Tassara Coloane Town Square, Coloane Island, Macau
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Five Lessons We Learned While Making STARLET/
by Blake Ashman-Kipervaser (producer)
As a film producer I find that each production I work on has its own unique set of challenges and the process can feel a bit like a roller coaster ride at times. Yet somehow things always seem to work out, and hopefully after its done you feel you've learned something or become stronger at what you do. With STARLET undergoing finishing work and getting ready to be released later this year I've thought back on some of the recent close calls and other experiences we survived during the making of the film and how fortuitous many of them seem to be in hindsight. Here are five examples which I hope will help other filmmakers in some shape or form.
1. The right place at the right time
While developing another project STARLET director Sean Baker,
executive producer Shih-Ching Tsou and DP Radium Cheung shot tests with a DSLR camera and a vintage Iscorama anamorphic lens adapater Sean had purchased on Ebay. The results looked promising. We thought we'd be able to use the adapter on the STARLET shoot even though we'd changed cameras to the Sony F3. As it turned out when we finally had a chance to test the F3 with the Iscorama adapter the results were not acceptable. This left us in a major bind scrambling at the last minute to find a set of anamporphic lenses that a) were available and b) were affordable. Both equally challenging! The risk being that if we couldn't find anything that worked we'd have to compromise by shooting the film in the flat 1:85 format instead of scope 2:35 which Sean and Radium had always envisioned.
A year earlier while researching options online Radium found a person who appeared to rent and sell anamorphic lenses. We got back in touch with him and it turned out he was living in a trailer park sixty miles north of LA and had one set of lenses available for rent. When we visited him at the trailer park we looked at the lenses and sure enough they were the real deal. Russian lomos from the 70's but in perfect condition. Despite the fact that they weighed a ton they were great lenses. He explained to us that he had acquired a stockpile of Russian lenses just after the fall of the Soviet Union. Sort of a right place, right time situation. He was introduced to the right contacts in Moscow and went back several times to purchase more. He'd been making a living off renting and selling them for the last 20 years. We were lucky he had this one set available. When we went back to him during post for a reshoot he had already sold them.
(l to r) Shih-Ching Tsou, Sean Baker, and Adam Kolkman at the trailer park testing a lens.
2. There are others out there just like you
Our script included a few scenes in which some of the main characters play a first person shooter style video game. We needed to find a game that would allow us to use their footage in the film, and for a reduced price. Because STARLET does contain some explicit content we tried to only approach companies that wouldn't have a problem with this. We had an ally who is well connected in the video game industry help make the initial calls for us. After receiving rejections from the first couple companies approached we learned of one that seemed excited about working with us. They gave us permission to use their footage and we filmed it off the monitor during production. Contractually we agreed to show them the scenes with their footage in the final edit before they signed off so they could be sure we weren't depicting their game in a derogatory way. Very deep into post-production we sent them clips of those scenes and everything seemed to be ok. They sent an executable copy of the agreement to our attorney which I signed and sent back. Then all of a sudden they came back and insisted we show them the entire film. Once they saw the sex scene in the film they pulled out (no pun intended). Due to the corporate nature of their business they just couldn't be associated with something so risque. Ironically, they create games for adolescents that revolve around killing everything in sight.
As you can imagine this was an extremely stressful situation for us. We were warned by our contact in the game industry that we wouldn't be able to find anyone else. However, we refused to believe that as we knew that the game community has just as many independent creators as the film community. It had to be a good opportunity for somebody! We searched Kickstarter and IndieGoGo for crowdfunding campaigns and sent messages out. Within a couple days we connected with Jason Welge of Panzer Gaming Studios who responded enthusiastically to our request. He was psyched about having his game 'Left to Rot' appear in the film. And it worked perfectly for us. It was a win win for all.
3. Dreams do come true
Our co-lead character Sadie is an elderly woman living in the Valley. Initially we wanted to cast an aging starlet for the role. Along with our casting director, Julia Kim we approached several famous actresses for the role. We got one of them on board. It was an exciting moment in our pre-production. But just as quickly as we got her attached, she dropped out. Ultimately, we weren't able to meet her budget needs. Around the same time our executive producer Shih-Ching Tsou was exercising at a YMCA in West Hollywood when she discovered Besedka Johnson. When she approached Johnson and asked her if she'd ever acted, Johnson's eyes lit up and she responded "I've never acted but I've always dreamed of it." A few days later we auditioned her for the role and she immediately won us all over. We cast her and the rest is history. At SXSW she was awarded a Special Jury Recognition for her performance. She told the audience at the premiere "Dreams do come true".
4. Strike quickly when opportunity knocks
During pre-production while we were out scouting one of our locations, Talent Testing Services, a very well-known adult film performer Manuel Ferrara was on his way out as we were walking in. Sean had been considering him for an important role in the film and had mentioned this to me a few days earlier. Shortly after Manuel exited the clinic, Sean leaned over to me and whispered "That was Manuel, should I go follow him and talk to him about the film?". I nodded yes and Sean chased him down in the parking lot. When Sean returned a few minutes later he gave us the good news that Manuel said yes.
5. Divine Intervention
One of our greatest challenges during the making of STARLET was finding a car for our lead character, Jane. We wanted something with some character, a little beat up, and a little outdated, but nothing over the top or quirky. It also had to have working air conditioner as we were shooting in the Valley in August which is hot as hell, and it needed to be automatic for our actress. That last condition we failed to make happen. We spent several weeks searching used car lots, rental places that specialized in renting damaged cars, as well as asking all of our friends if they knew of anything. Finally we found something that worked. A late nineties Saturn. We paid too much but by that time we were desparate. And we had exhausted all our other options. We later found out it had a lein on it too but that's another story...
The car lasted us a couple good weeks of shooting before it broke down, erupting with heavy smoke while I was driving to set on the 405. We were exremeley aggravated at the thought of throwing more money into trying to fix it, after already having spent too much to begin with. Later that day, while shooting a scene, our DP Radium Cheung was framing a shot, looking into the lens when he saw an identical looking car stopped a red light in the deep background. He yelled "That's our car!!" I literally ran into the intersection and pitched the female driver the possibility of renting it to us for the rest of our shoot. Amazingly she agreed! If that hadn't happened I'm not sure what we'd have done.
As these stories suggest, filmmaking is not for the faint of heart. Those 5 lessons only scratch the surface of what we've had to overcome to make STARLET. One final lesson is that sometimes, even when the stars align, you still need help to get to the finish line. We were very fortunate to have premiered the film at SXSW and received positive responses from audiences and critics alike. This led to a N. American distribution deal with Music Box Films – a company whose work we admire and who believes in our film. It also led to Rezo Films acquiring the film for international sales. Both of these companies are taking a risk on STARLET and will have to work hard to ensure that it finds its audience. There is no easy path for true independent films.
That is what brings us to Kickstarter. We have been short on funds for a while as we've tried to take the film to completion. Due to lack of time and money we screened the film at SXSW before having done a proper sound design and mix, and color correction. We licensed only festival rights for the music. We went into debt just to be able to attend the premiere. And now we need your help. We will be able to get this film out there in the way that we also intended if we are able to meet our goal on Kickstarter. We hope that you will be interested in supporting our project and our future filmmaking efforts.
Blake Ashman-Kipervaser is an independent film producer based in New York. STARLET premiered at SXSW 2012 and will be released later this year by Music Box Films. They are currently raising finishing funds on Kickstarter. Please visit their page here: http://kck.st/Lt62Ay to support the film.


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I feel compelled to respond to Sound Off caller 'John from Mont Clare' who suggested, in his efforts to provide justification for teacher salaries, that it is teachers who taught the children everything, not the parents. My purpose is not to react to the determination of appropriate salaries; that is for school boards elected by the people to decide. My point is on the ultimate responsibility for teaching children. I want to point out that a great deal of teaching is done by the parents before their children get to school age; as a matter of fact, perhaps the most vital teaching!
After the children do go to school, it is incumbent on parents to correct errors in the instruction their children may have received in the schools. My children and grandchildren know that the human being is a marvelous act of our Creator, not the result of some process they call evolution which suggests that we are some sort of an improved animal. My children and grandchildren know that God created the human family to be comprised of a husband and wife who, when blessed by God with children, are a father and mother. I am grateful to teachers and their commitment to their profession, but I also know that the parent is the one ultimately responsible for the upbringing of their children, not the teachers. It is the parents who are responsible before God to do the best they can to provide their children with the real truth, and not the fabrications of man. Many thanks to teachers who are doing their job, but they will never replace the parents and their role in teaching their children.
John, it might be a good idea for you to do a little research on public education and check out the report on public education done by a bipartisan commission appointed by President Ronald Reagan under the charge of Secretary of Education Bell in the 1980s. That report was entitled 'A Nation at Risk.' A careful study of that report will show that 1962-63 was a turning point in the success of public schools, the year which started a downward slide in their performance. I find it interesting that the downward slide began the very year that the Supreme Court decided that prayer and Bible reading in the schools ought not to be. This exchange of the Judeo-Christian ethic for our current humanistic secular culture, in my opinion, is not a good one for our nation. It has caused an erosion of the family and family values, making the job of parents much more difficult.
John, you are probably a great guy, and I think I understand the point you were trying to make; but I do not want to see the role of parents and the family diminished.
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Italian coach Massimo Barbolini: "After three matches, all the 14 players in my team have played. This can be useful, this fact, because all the players must know what it means to play at this level. "We played against Kenya three years ago in the World Cup, and the development of this team since then is very good. They play some situations very well. They did not get so many points in the first two sets because we played very well. They are improving their level a lot."
Italian captain Eleonora Lo Bianco:"I would like to congratulate the Kenyan team. They have improved a lot during these years. We prepared for this game like we do every one. We want to continue to play well and improve day after day."
Kenya coach Hidehiro Irisawa:"We had a meeting last night. The captain asked us to use other players as well. The right wing players did very well today and that's what happened."We trained for two weeks prior to this competition. The captain Brackie was the centre of the team, and we had five veteran players. We worked very well today, and the captain instilled a good atmosphere in the whole team. We've had a really good few days, and I hope we can do better and better."
Kenya captain Brackcides Khadambi:"The first set and second sets we were very afraid. We were not sure if we could play well or not. But then the head coach told us 'Even if we lose, it doesn't matter: just do your best'. In the third set, we played with all our heart and did our best. If we continue playing with this mindset, we will do better. It was the best game we have played. But I know we can do better than that."


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Study examines family trips, start of school
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A new study by the University of Minnesota Tourism Center examines family travel patterns when school starts before Labor Day.
Its researchers say it will provide data for policymakers mandating a school start date.
The study found family trips of two or more nights away decreased 50 percent in August or September when the start of school was before Labor Day. It also found family overnight travel from May to September decreased 30 percent when school opened before Labor Day.
Data for the study was drawn from the American Time Use Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The university says that while past studies have asked hypothetical questions about travel, the Tourism Center study examined actual travel behavior of families in five states -- Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and Virginia.


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Red Carpet to be Live Streamed on DIVAS.VH1.com on Sunday, December 16
VH1 "DIVAS" Hosted by Adam Lambert Airs Live Sunday, December 16 at 9PM/8c
VH1 Divas Tickets On Sale Now at http://on.vh1.com/DIVAStix.
NEW YORK, NY - November 28, 2012 - VH1's beloved, popular franchise "VH1 Divas" announced today additional performers to join this year's dance music tribute Kelly Clarkson, Melanie Fiona, Metric and Pitbull will join VH1's dance party, along with Havana Brown as House DJ/artist. Airing live from the L.A. Shrine Auditorium "VH1 Divas" will be hosted by Adam Lambert on Sunday, December 16 at 9PM/8c on VH1. To purchase tickets for VH1 Divas please visit http://on.vh1.com/DIVAStix.
This year "VH1 Divas" red carpet will be live streamed on DIVAS.VH1.com on Sunday, December 16 from 7-9PM ET/4-6PM PT (#VH1DIVAS). Sponsored by Samsung, the live stream will provide fans an unfiltered front-row seat to all the red carpet action and will feature real time interviews with entertainment's biggest stars. Beginning Monday, December 17, fans can view a curated red carpet highlights video on DIVAS.VH1.com.
"VH1 Divas" is bringing together Ciara, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Kelly Rowland and Jordin Sparks to pay homage to the greatest divas of dance music with performances featuring current and classic dance hits. In the spirit of celebration and appreciation VH1 Divas will include a tribute to two divas we lost this past year, whose voices always lead us straight to the dance floor, Whitney Houston and Donna Summer.
As in previous years, this edition of "VH1 Divas" will benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping music education alive in American public schools. To date, VH1 Save The Music has provided more than $49.5 million in new musical instruments to 1,850 public schools in more than 128school districts around the country, impacting the lives of over 2.1 million children. To purchase tickets to the VH1 Divas live concert and Official After-party hosted by VH1 Divas and Foundation Ambassador Jordin Sparks with special Guest DJs, The Dolls: Mia Moretti and Caitlin Moe and KISSette please visit http://www.vh1savethemusic.com/divas2012.
This year's sponsors for "VH1 Divas" include: AT&T, BURGER KING(R), COVERGIRL, FIAT(R), GEICO, The Hershey Company and Old Navy.
VH1.com will be offering a complete second screen experience on desktop and mobile, streaming LIVE from the red carpet and backstage so fans don't miss a moment of the action. VH1.com will also host a live Twitter Tracker to keep tabs on the up-to-the-minute social media action around the show, and the show will be prominently featured in VH1's Co-Star application. For more information about the show visit DIVAS.VH1.com, "Like" VH1 on Facebook, and follow @VH1DIVAS on Twitter and use the hashtag #VH1DIVAS to talk about the show.
Additional performers, presenters, special guests and sponsors will be announced as they are confirmed.
Premiering on VH1 in 1998, "Divas" became synonymous with some of the most memorable, live, female vocal performances in television history. The show quickly became a highly anticipated annual phenomenon, generating speculation amongmusic fans and industry executives on who would be part of that year's telecast. Last year, the "Divas" paid tribute to the great cities of Soul Music including: Chicago, Detroit, London, Memphis and Philadelphia with "Divas Celebrates Soul" featuring Mary J, Blige, Kelly Clarkson, Florence + The Machine, Jennifer Hudson, Jessie J, Chaka Khan, and Jill Scott. Previous featured performers over the years included Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Cher, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, Chaka Khan, Adele, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson, Leona Lewis, Jordin Sparks and numerous others have graced the "VH1 Divas" stage.
"VH1 Divas" is executive produced by Jesse Ignanovic for Den of Thieves and Rickey Minor. Lee Rolontz and Rick Krim are executive producers for VH1.
VH1connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter to them most with TV series, specials, live events, exclusive online content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 99 million households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital channels and services including VH1Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 Mobile, and extensive video on VH1.com. VH1 is a unit of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms.
The VH1 Save The Music Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring instrumental music education programs in America's public schools, and raising awareness about the importance of music as part of each child's complete education. To date, VH1 Save The Music has provided more than $49.5 million in new musical instruments to 1,850 public schools in more than 128school districts around the country, impacting the lives of over 2.1 million children. The 2012 Ambassador Class - dedicated to raising awareness and funds to benefit The Foundation - includes: Jordin Sparks, Katy Perry, Gavin Rossdale, AJ McLean, Vanessa Carlton, Matthew Morrison, Daughtry and Lupe Fiasco. Get involved at www.vh1savethemusic.org and follow the foundation on twitter @vh1savethemusic.


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Feb 25, 2012
D3hoops.com will broadcast the Great Northeast Athletic Conference title game at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and the Skyline Conference title game at 8:00 p.m.
The link will go active at 7:45 p.m. (pregame show). Frank Rossi and Jody King (former Farmingdale State assistant coach) will be the commentators.
So if you aren't joining us for the game, watch the Rams play for the Title online!!


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NORRISTOWN - A former Montgomery County defense lawyer awaiting sentencing for selling oxycodone to an undercover detective faces new allegations he stole more than $87,000 from a client he represented in a civil lawsuit.
Gregory Robert Noonan, 53, formerly of the 100 block of Oberlin Terrace, Towamencin, waived his preliminary hearing Friday before District Court Judge Margaret Hunsicker on charges of forgery, theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received, receiving stolen property, theft by deception, theft by unlawful taking and misapplication of entrusted property in connection with an alleged January 2012 incident.
Noonan, once a widely-known lawyer in Montgomery County legal circles whose office was in Norristown, was transported back to jail where he will await trial on the charges. Assistant District Attorney Jeremy Abidiwan-Lupo is prosecuting the new charges.
Noonan also is awaiting an Oct. 21 sentencing hearing after he previously pleaded guilty to charges in connection with two oxycodone sales to undercover detectives between Nov. 23 and Dec. 19, 2013, near his Norristown law office.
With the drug charges, authorities alleged Noonan sold an undercover Philadelphia police officer 179 oxycodone pills, with the agreement he'd be paid $15 per pill, while the pair met inside Noonan's 1997 Jaguar vehicle parked in the 500 block of Swede Street about 6:55 p.m. Nov. 23. Noonan called the undercover officer again on Dec. 19 and set up another meeting in Norristown, where the officer gave Noonan $3,250 in cash for a pill bottle containing 180 oxycodone pills, according to county detectives.
With the new charges, county detectives alleged a Bridgeport man hired Noonan in January 2008 to represent him in a civil suit brought against a Plymouth Township business.
'(The victim) stated that over the next couple of years he went back and forth discussing the lawsuit with Noonan over the telephone and at his office,' county Detective Jeffrey Koch wrote in the arrest affidavit. '(The victim) said that every time he asked Noonan for updates about his lawsuit, Noonan would just say, 'we are working on it.''
The victim told investigators he never received any funds from Noonan or from the defendant in the suit, never approved a settlement of the suit and that Noonan never informed him that the lawsuit was settled, according to the arrest affidavit.
'(The victim) also verified that he never saw or signed a settlement check and never gave Noonan or anyone else permission to sign his name to a check,' Koch alleged.
Detectives, according to the criminal complaint, met with Noonan in April to discuss the allegations. At that time, Noonan allegedly admitted he received a settlement check, totaling $87,520, from the defendant named in the lawsuit. Detectives alleged that settlement check was dated Jan. 23, 2012.
Noonan allegedly admitted that he forged his client's name to the settlement check and 'deposited it into his law firm's business account,' according to the arrest affidavit. Noonan allegedly admitted he made withdrawals until all the funds were gone.
Noonan never informed his client that his lawsuit was settled nor did the victim ever receive any of the settlement funds, detectives alleged.
Noonan, who has clients incarcerated in the Montgomery County jail, is currently being held in the Chester County jail, in lieu of $99,000 cash bail, according to court records.


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First off, it seems rather depressing to me that someone would compare a twenty mile-per-hour expansion of driving speed to the taking of someone's life. Second, attempted murder is a crime because yo...Franson
We all know who the band Oasis is. And we all know the generation of this name for this website, as though everyone apart of this watering hole must be a fan of the band Oasis. But I would like to take some time, not too much, and rewrite history. I don't want to substitute a lie for a the truth, the history of events was never the tr...Andrew Gross
Kinamand (Meaning Chinaman in English) was a beautiful and interesting film. The main character, Keld, is a plumber who is more or less stuck in a rut. When his wife of many years leaves him for another man, unable or unwilling to cook for himself, he begins to eat at a Chinese restaurant near his house every day. This begins a friendship be...Jesse G. Donat
[img69|l|sm300] I've mentioned several times before watching a movie strictly for atmosphere. If any move I've ever seen has been worth watching for Atmosphere, its Last Life in the Universe. By Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, the director of 6ixtynin9 (Ruang Talok 69), it's a truly whimsical, slow yet perfectly paced film. The film revolves around...Jesse G. Donat
I don't like to use Oasisband just to post things, but this is worth a listen ...Jesse G. Donat
We are really not all that different, we are both people who really don't meet people. This is probably because of our own faults. These things need to be corrected in my opinion but we are both stubborn or maybe passive is a better word (well is it for you). I've been trying to change or at least adapt these last few years and really I have no ide...Forshizzle
Let me begin this by stating that I have in fact read every letter you have ever posted to Oasisband and have claimed otherwise because frankly, I've had no idea how to respond to them, with that in mind, I hope we can spark the conversation back up, because I need it. How about you? I am beginning to realize just how poor a medium the Internet i...Jesse G. Donat
Believe it or not I still somewhat "maintain" the code of Oasisband.net after all these years. It actually takes a little bit of work here and there to keep it running.
Last night I moved it over to a new web server, and in the process upgraded it to sweet sweet Let's Encrypt powered SSL - taking Oasisband.net boldly into the new millennium.
You can probably notice the wonderful new 'https://' appended to the URLs.
Another major piece of what helped Oasisband.net thrive in its heyday is sadly going away tomorrow. AOL Instant Messenger is shutting down forever.
We used it to communicate; it drove the word-of-mouth spread around the high school. We would never have reached the heights we did without it.
It was the literal backbone of "Oasisband.net" as a community.
Heck, our AIM usernames are still listed on our profiles on the "About Us" pages.
If not for AIM, we never would have found Joel, who provided us with free hosting for almost ten years. Who later provoked me to pursue programming and my career no less!
We all have a lot to thank AOL Instant Messenger for.
On top of everything else, our dear friend and writer Meka T. Slorne, who passed away some years back, at this very moment still shows as online thanks to never having been signed out by his "dumb-phone". I still connect to AIM, and seeing him in my buddy list every day has stood as a solemn reminder.
Today is truly a time for reflection. I'm sad to see it go.
Geocities is shutting down today. I am more than a little disheartened, and will miss Geocities. For all the mocking and scorn Geocities receives, and don't get me wrong, much of it rightly so, what it did do is encourage me, and I'm willing to bet multitudes of other children, to learn HTML. My first couple sites were hosted there, and hell, for a good piece of Oasisband.net's heyday it was hosted there. I cannot humbly thank them enough. It was by this I learned the skill by which now I make my living. As Geocities slips into the night with an almost inaudible wimper, I feel such gratitude and respect.Rest in Peace, Geocities. You will live forever in my heart, and forever haunt the Wayback Machine.
As the title implies, Oasisband 3.5 is in the works. I know you and I know what you are thinking: "But Jesse, Oasisband 3 was never fully completed". And you're right, but the work I invested in Oasisband set me up with a decent framework to base other sites off. The problem was it lacked sophistication. It was written awkward and weird, inheriting mistakes from someone learning PHP and MySQL while creating it.
During work on other sites the framework has matured and blossomed into something wonderful. Fully encapsulated modules, much simplified image management, clean up of stacks. I plan to open source this framework at some point in the future, the preemptive name being "phrame" with the note that this is just a codename until something more suitable is found.
Also, as a side note I intend to use this framework on my other site as well, PHPStandards.net which is a work in progress.
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Well I was looking to log onto the server because I wanted to update my Ipod as I forgot to do it before coming. But since I can´t find the ftp server I might as well make a comment on this dead website.
Currently we have no understanding what the media´s role is on the cognitive development of kids. The only studies that are done in this area are studies that attempt to get kids to consume more media and how to go about doing it. But what we don´t know is whether or not kids immersion into the media makes them more or less susceptible to subconsious control through the media.
Does completely omnipresent, unregulated, ever sophisticated, and incredibly addictive forms of media make children better consumers, less like to think creatively and develop resistance and revolutionary attitidues towards our current system of massive thought control...well I would have to think so.
The fear that you might be addressing Jesse is that the government would start playing a role in what kids and others are able to access. Sure, this seems like the common cold war fear that the federal government will be censoring us in order to believe that they are our masters and we should simply lie down and obey.
But on the other hand, what does a completely unregulated media system mean. It means the people that are controlling what we have access aren´t even people that we elected. They are people that are responsible to a system of capitalism that cares not for the individual, cares not for society, but only cares for an increase in the share value for the next quarter.
On one hand we have the federal government regulating, and on the other hand we have a bunch machine like capitalists regulating. It seems necessary that the two forces at least try and balance one another, at least there needs to be some conflict between these two forces. One tries to create new and ever more addictive media, and other tries to think about the consequences and if it believes those consequences are atrocitious they should try and do something.
Rampant government and, or rampant industry provide no hope for a future where the individual is able to think and act freely. Government regulation is a small pebble amongst a massive culture of thought manipulation.
If you haven't already noticed, there is a tear in the upper left. Shame on you, America, for making Oasisband.net cry! Vanity and fear have brought onto this country a great pestilence. We'll see if Oasisband outlasts another president. One not even elected for a day already talking about censoring media.
I would call upon the video game industry to give parents better information about programs and video games by improving the voluntary rating system we currently have. Broadcasters and video game producers should take it upon themselves to improve this system to include easier to find and easier to understand descriptions of exactly what kind of content is included. But if the industry fails to act, then my administration would.
And even if the industry does do some responsible self-policing, there's still a role for the federal government to play. We need to understand the impact of these new media better. That's why I supported federal funding to study the impact of video games on children's cognitive development.
Oasisband.net has not had a post in forever, so here it goes. The Obloglog is, and has been for quite some time, 95% functional with posting everything but images and movie reviews (mostly because movie reviews *require* posting images...) completed. I think the community just fell out in the down time between OB2 and OB3 because not only has no one posted anything, but we have not had a single comment I didn't write since OB3 went up.
Other news, I got my drivers license today, finally. This was my second attempt, the first time featuring me turning from the wrong lane of a one way into a two way... see: here.
After a long hard weekend of fighting with code, the new Obloglog (writer admin) is nearly complete. There are some unresolved issues / inconsistencies with the way foreign characters are handled, ie: my review of Amélie... but I'm working hard to figure these out as well as some issues with the manner in which post attributes function, but writers will soon be able to post again without bugging me!
Update: Very Rough Version is Online!!!


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Bucknell Defeats ODU, 83-82 in Double Overtime
By ODU Athletics
Nov. 25, 2008
LEWISBURG, PA.-- Justin Castleberry's layup with 16 seconds left in the second overtime period lifted the Bison of Bucknell (1-3) to a 83-82 double overtime win over Old Dominion University (1-2) Tuesday night.
ODU was led by Gerald Lee(Finland) with a career high 26 points along with seven rebounds, followed by Red-shirt sophomore forward Frank Hassell (Chesapeake, Va.)with a career high 20 points and game high 11 rebounds. 16 of Hassell's points came in the second half.
Bucknell jumped out to a 37-29 halftime lead, as Justin Caslteberry scored 14 and Patrick Behan added ten for the Bison. In the second half, ODU went on a 19-11 run and tied the game at 48 with 12:52 Let in regulation on a jumper by Hassell. The game was tied four more times in the second half. Hassell Hit one of two free throws with 37 seconds left in the regulation to send the game into overtime.
In the first overtime, Ben Finney hit a free throw, Jonathan Adams nailed a trey and Gerald Lee hit A free throw to send it to the second overtime period tied at 74.
In the second extra period, Frank Hassell put ODU up three, 82-79 with 1:48 left. Justin Castleberry hit two free throws to cut it to 82-81 with 1:26 left. After a couple of ODU misses, Castleberry hit a layup with 16 seconds left to put the Bison up 83-82. After a timeout The Monarchs had a final shot and Jonathan Adams jumper rimmed out.
ODU shot .370(27-73) from the floor, while Bucknell was at .464 (32-69). Justin Castleberry led Bucknell with 31 points. Patrick Behan added 16 points with eight rebounds, while Darryl Shazier scored 14 points with nine boards, and Bryan Coahen 12 points and nine rebounds. Tonight's game was Bucknell's third straight overtime game. Bucknell outrebouned ODU, 45-42.
Kent Bazemore scored 10 points with four assists for ODU, while Ben Finney scored five points And hauled down nine rebounds. Sophomore point guard Darius James played a career high 44 Minutes with out a turnover and six assists.
ODU returns to action on Saturday when they travel to Huntington, WV. To play at Marshall. Gametime is 11:30 a.m.


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(Programming Note: Look for more guest blogs like this on The Texican in the future. I figured the first one ought to be really wild. Now I just need to find someone who can counter the Nuge….)
By Ted Nugent
"The good guys are back in Houston to celebrate freedom…"
Some 70,000 National Rifle Association members and other freedom enthusiasts are celebrating the NRA's 142 annual meeting in your fair city that was named after another freedom enthusiast, Sam Houston.
Across Texas and beyond, guns represent freedom every bit as much as our other cherished rights and freedoms such as our constitutional right to freedom of speech.
Without guns there would be no America, no Texas.
There would have been no "shot heard around the world" at Concord Bridge. We would still be subjects, not citizens with inalienable God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The 2nd Amendment was not written by our forefathers to protect hunting. It was written to ensure future generations of Americans had the means to protect themselves from tyranny.
There are myriad statements and references from our forefathers regarding their unambiguous support of the 2nd Amendment and the right of ordinary people having the means to keep and bear arms and to protect themselves.
One of the nation's oldest organizations, the NRA's sole purpose is to protect the 2nd Amendment. There are almost five million NRA members.
The NRA has been blamed, pilloried, and scorned by bureaucrats, various media, organizations, and individuals for the actions of psychotics who massacred innocent Americans in an Aurora theater and beautiful little children and their teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Any number of laws and gun restrictions were violated by the murderous psychotics who committed these massacres. With over 20,000 local, state and federal gun laws in America, it is unreasonable to believe more gun restrictions would have prevented these massacres or any crimes for that matter. It is even more unreasonable and bizarre to place any blame on the NRA families for such offences.
More gun laws are not the answer to quell the violence in America. Psychotics and thugs will always find weapons to commit mayhem and robbery. The only people who abide by laws are the law-abiding.
The NRA is committed to making America safer. We believe in locking up criminals who commit violent crimes, and throwing away the key–not punishing law abiding citizens for the actions of psychotics and street thugs.
We know that roughly 20% of criminals commit 80% of violent crimes. These varmints should be permanently removed from society. By just doing this, violent crime would plummet.
We believe that those teachers and administrators who want to carry concealed weapons in schools should be allowed to do so, as they are in Utah and South Dakota. Good people trained with firearms are an effective force against evil.
The president's gun violence commission headed up by Vice President Biden was misguided and sadly off target. Banning semi-automatic firearms, magazine size and closing a non-existent loophole would do nothing —nothing— to reduce violence in America. These measures were politically correct symbols over substance.
Fortunately, common sense prevailed and none of the president's anti-gun proposals were turned into public policy, yet the NRA was once again blamed by the president for the Senate failing to pass any of his bad and counterproductive policies.
Statistics say the majority of Americans, unlike the president, know that more gun laws and restrictions are not the answer.
If anything has come out of the president's nonsensical anti-gun attempts, it has been skyrocketing gun sales and hundreds of thousands of new NRA members. Ironically, President Obama has been the greatest gun salesman in the history of firearms.
I am stopped by friendly Americans and gun owners each day in my travels around the country. The message is largely the same: they don't trust the president and other bureaucrats who believe in restricting rights and not advancing and supporting individual freedoms.
On behalf of the NRA and the tens of thousands of members who join me at our annual convention here, please accept my thanks to the good citizens of Houston for your Texas hospitality.
The NRA represents the good the guys and I am very proud to be one of them and proud to be a Texan.


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Costa Rica has introduced regulations banning dolphin and whale captivity; "swim-with" programs are also now illegal. The country is renowned for its progressive approach to conservation, but this success is largely due to three years of hard work by Fundación Promar. The group's Pricilla Cubero Pardo provided a Spanish translation for our swim-with brochure, and we are pleased it was useful in the campaign.
Captivity and swim-with programs are growing at an alarming rate in Central America and the Caribbean. In light of this fact, we would like to applaud the Radisson Seven Seas Cruise line's decision to discontinue its dolphin encounter programs out of respect for wild dolphins.


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Helping you to repent is a special part of a bishop's calling. Your conscience will tell you when you need to talk to him.
You may wonder why you are taught to confess to your bishop or branch president when you have committed serious sins. You may say to yourself, "Isn't repentance a personal thing between me and the Lord? If I have stopped my wrong behavior and have confessed it to God, why do I need to talk with my bishop?"
Why the Bishop and Not Someone Else?
Many youth feel more comfortable confessing their mistakes to their parents or youth leaders. Although your parents and leaders can provide necessary support and counsel, the Lord has declared that the bishop is a common judge in Israel (see D&C 107:72, 74). He has the responsibility to determine the worthiness of the members of his ward. By ordination and righteous living, the bishop is entitled to revelation from the Holy Ghost regarding the members of his ward, including you.
The bishop can help you through the repentance process in ways your parents or other leaders are unable to provide. If the sin is serious enough, he may determine that your privileges in the Church should be restricted. For example, as part of your repentance process, he may ask you to refrain from partaking of the sacrament or exercising the priesthood for a period of time. He will work with you and determine when you are worthy again to resume those sacred activities.
Your bishop will counsel you on what to do to strengthen your ability to resist temptation. He may encourage you to study a doctrinal topic, such as repentance, and then to share with him what you have learned. He may ask you to visit with him each week to report how you are doing in removing yourself from tempting situations.
When Should I Talk to Him?
You may be thinking, "That all sounds good, but how can I know if what I have done is serious enough that I need to talk to the bishop?" The short answer: "Your conscience will tell you." When you feel the sting of conscience, act immediately (see Alma 34:31–34).
Regarding repentance, King Benjamin taught, "I cannot tell you all the things whereby ye may commit sin; for there are divers ways and means, even so many that I cannot number them" (Mosiah 4:29). So rather than giving a detailed list of things that you must confess to your bishop, let me share some principles that will help you make that decision.
What Do I Need to Confess?
I know that you have tried to be obedient, but maybe you have made some mistakes—even some serious mistakes. Most of the mistakes people make can be resolved through personal prayer and sincere repentance. Some mistakes, especially those regarding immorality, require confession to the bishop before you can receive the Lord's forgiveness.
As you think about mistakes you have made, you may be feeling guilty, unsettled, unhappy, or even miserable. If you are experiencing any of those feelings, then you probably need to talk with your bishop about those mistakes.
"Your bishop or branch president is the spiritual physician's assistant who is authorized to help you repent and heal." —Elder David A. Bednar
Don't try to excuse yourself or rationalize your way out. You may be thinking, "It would be too embarrassing to tell the bishop what I have done. He thinks I am a better person than that. He will be shocked if I tell him what I did. He won't like me anymore."
I promise you he will not condemn you. As a servant of the Lord, he will be kind and understanding as he listens to you. He will then help you through the repentance process. He is the Lord's messenger of mercy to help you become clean through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
The Lord has said: "Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
"By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins—behold, he will confess them and forsake them" (D&C 58:42–43).
When you confess and forsake your sins, the Lord will forgive you. You will not have to account to Him for those sins when the time comes for you to be judged.
What If I Don't Confess?
Sometimes a person will stop doing wrong but never confess, when it is needed, to his or her bishop. As a consequence, the person continues to carry the burden of sin alone, instead of letting the Savior take away the burden.
Let me give you an example. One evening a few years ago, I was interviewing adults for renewal of their temple recommends. A middle-aged woman came in for her interview. She had been married in the temple and was active in the Church all her life.
I sensed a deep sadness in her soul. As the interview progressed, I received a spiritual impression. I said to her, "Sister, I have the impression that you made a serious mistake when you were a teenager that you haven't confessed to a priesthood leader. Would you be willing to tell me about it?"
She immediately began to cry. She told me that was true, but she had always felt too embarrassed to confess it to a bishop. As she confessed what she had done, she shared sufficient detail for me to make a determination of her worthiness.
The confession of her sin to a priesthood leader marked the end of her repentance process rather than the beginning. She had unnecessarily carried the burden and sorrow of that sin for more than 30 years.
Because she had completed the final step of repentance, her guilt was swept away. I would occasionally see her after the night of that interview. Her countenance became bright, and she was happy.
If you have feelings of guilt but are not sure if you need to confess to your bishop, go see him. Let him help you.
I want you to know that I do not remember her name. The Lord can remove such memories from bishops. What I do remember is that through confession to her priesthood leader, a middle-aged woman was relieved of feelings of guilt that she had carried far too many years.
Please don't make that mistake. If you have feelings of guilt but are not sure if you need to confess to your bishop, go see him. Let him help you. Don't risk carrying an unnecessary burden through your life, which will leave you feeling miserable. Through your confession to the bishop and your repentance, the Lord will lift that burden from your soul (see Isaiah 1:18).
Why Do I Need to Repent?
Jesus Christ paid the price of the sins of all mankind through His atoning sacrifice. He invites you to repent and avoid additional sorrow and suffering. "Repent, lest … your sufferings be sore—how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not.
"For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent;
"But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I. …
"Wherefore, I command you again to repent, … and that you confess your sins, lest you suffer these punishments of which I have spoken" (D&C 19:15–17, 20).
I testify that through His suffering, Jesus Christ already paid the price for your sins. You can be forgiven insofar as you repent. Don't try to pay the price for your sins. No amount of your own suffering will redeem you; it is only through the Atonement that you receive forgiveness.
May you exercise faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement. I testify in the name of Jesus Christ that through repentance, including confession to your bishop when necessary, you will become clean. In addition, through the Savior's grace—His enabling power—you can be strengthened in your ability to resist temptation in the future. Thus, you will have peace of mind and happiness in this life, and you will inherit eternal life in the world to come.
Our Great Physician
"The Savior is often referred to as the Great Physician. … Guilt is to our spirit what pain is to our body—a warning of danger and a protection from additional damage. From the Atonement of the Savior flows the soothing salve that can heal our spiritual wounds and remove guilt. However, this salve can only be applied through the principles of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, repentance, and consistent obedience. The results of sincere repentance are peace of conscience, comfort, and spiritual healing and renewal.
"Your bishop or branch president is the spiritual physician's assistant who is authorized to help you repent and heal."
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, "We Believe in Being Chaste," Ensign or Liahona, May 2013, 44.
This article originally appeared in the October 2013 New Era.


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The Azure Code Samples are currently available in English
Data Catalog Import/Export sample tool
The Import/Export tool is a sample that shows how to use the Azure Data Catalog REST API to fetch information from the Azure Data Catalog and how to register items with the catalog. It also shows how to manage a catalog.
To get started using the sample, you first need to build the executable. You need to do the following steps.
- Download the sample project.
- Open it in Visual Studio and fetch the dependent nuget packages.
- Create (or use an existing) Azure Active Directory Application Id and the corresponding information. If you do not have one and need instructions on how to get one see here.
- Add the following to the app config for the app where the first two values are the ones you got from the previous step.
<userSettings> <ADCImportExport.Properties.Settings> <setting name="ClientId" serializeAs="String"> <value /> </setting> <setting name="RedirectURI" serializeAs="String"> <value /> </setting> <setting name="ResourceId" serializeAs="String"> <value>https://datacatalog.azure.com</value> </setting> </ADCImportExport.Properties.Settings> </userSettings>
- Compile the app
- You are now ready to run it.
The app can be run in one of two modes:
In export mode you specify -export on the command line and state where you want the exported catalog metadata to go. Here is an example of the command line:
ADCImportExport.exe -export c:\temp\DemoCatalog.json
The sample tool prompts for credentials (it uses the credentials to identify which catalog it should be exporting from). Once you have authenticated, it pulls down all the assets from the catalog and stores it in the file location specified. The file is a json format. You can inspect the format to get a feel for how it is stored. The set of information is slightly different than what you get from a search result as the format is setup to be able to easily import the catalog metadata back into the same catalog or a new catalog.
There is also an optional parameter to scope the set of assets you want to export. Use the -search parameter to specify a search query. Only the results of the search query will be exported. Here is an example of the command line:
ADCImportExport.exe -export c:\temp\DemoCatalog.json -search tags=Demo
This will export only the assets that have a tag with the value of Demo. (Note that equality searching is case sensitive so it won't match assets with a tag equal to "demo" or "dEmo".
In Import mode you specify -import on the command line and state where the imported catalog exists. Here is an example of the command line:
ADCImportExport.exe -import c:\temp\DemoCatalog.json
The sample tool prompts for credentials (it uses the credentials to identify which catalog it should be exporting from). Once you have authenticated, its starts pushing up all the assets found in the json file.
The sample tool leverages the standard Data Catalog API for searching and registering items in the catalog. This means that all items are created in the context of the person running the tool. So all notions of ownership both at the asset level (the owner) and the annotation level (the contributor) are lost when doing the export. Because there is no owner, the visibility restrictions are also lost. When importing a catalog to another tenant this is necessary because none of the identities would exist in the new tenant anyway. Even if you are staying in the same tenant (say exporting, deleting the catalog in one region, recreating it in another region, and then importing) identities cannot be preserved as the annotation owner (i.e. the contributor) is set by the system to the user identity that is logged in when the API is called.
To simplify the behavior, all items are created with the contributor set to "Everyone" which is a special identity that means any user has permissions to edit or delete that item. (Whereas only the contributor on the original annotation in the original catalog had the power to edit or delete). The sample tool also changes the creatorId to make this more explicit by putting the word imported_ on the front of the value so it is clear this is an imported item. Users can then copy over the imported metadata into their own new annotations for which they are the contributor.


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Get the Look: Rosario Dawson at the Met Ball 2012./
Hair stylist Oscar Blandi did Rosarios Dawson's hair for the 2012 Met Ball.
INSPIRATION: To complement the high neckline of her leather Calvin Klein dress, Oscar created a sleek, understated chignon.
Step 1: Prep the hair with Oscar Blandi Volumizing Spray.
Step 2: Blow-dry the hair with an emphasis on the roots to create lift and a solid foundation, but leave the ends of the hair damp.
Step 3: Create a left side part and pull the hair back into a ponytail just above the nape of the neck.
Step 4: Spray the ponytail with Oscar Blandi Jasmine Protein Mist. Combine a dime size of gel and a few drops of Oscar Blandi Jasmine Oil Serum in your hand and run it through the ponytail. This combination will harden the hair and give it the perfect amount of shine on the carpet.
Step 5: Split the ponytail into three parts and braid it; twist the braid into a chignon and secure it in place with bobby pins.
Step 6: Finish the look by spraying Oscar Blandi Lacca Hairspray all over to keep style in place.


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Final Fantasy XIII Trailer
Video Title: Final Fantasy XIII Trailer
Game Title: Final Fantasy XIII
Publisher: Square Enix
Developer: Square Enix
Platform: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Category: RPG
About: Cocoon — a utopia in the sky. Its inhabitants believed their world a paradise.
Under the Sanctum's rule, Cocoon had long known peace and prosperity.
Mankind was blessed by its protectors, the benevolent fal'Cie, and believed that tranquil days would continue forever.
Their tranquility was shattered with the discovery of one hostile fal'Cie.
The moment that fal'Cie from Pulse — the feared and detested lowerworld — awoke from its slumber, peace on Cocoon came to an end.
Fal'Cie curse humans, turning them into magic-wielding servants.
They become l'Cie — chosen of the fal'Cie.
Those branded with the mark of a l'Cie carry the burden of either fulfilling their Focus or facing a fateharsher than death itself.
A prayer for redemption.
A wish to protect the world.
A promise to challenge destiny.
After thirteen days of fates intertwined, the battle begins.Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XIII, PlayStation 3, RPG, Square Enix, Trailers, Xbox 360


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This white oak plane is similar to a traditional Japanese plane; however, a metal chip breaker with a capscrew replaces the traditional wooden wedge. To increase the cut, simply tap the front of the plane with a mallet; to decrease the cut, tap the back of the plane. The high-carbon steel blade will hold a keen edge to achieve tissue-thin shavings, even in difficult woods.
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Five fascinating films within a year turn star Naomi Watts into a supernova.
She's one of Hollywood's most prolific actresses, commanding $5 million per film, so it's no wonder Oscar-nominated Naomi Watts is one confident British-born, Aussie-bred actress. But it's her time in New York and her experience of becoming a mother while in her 40s that have made her so down-to-earth.
When we sat down at a Chelsea studio for her cover shoot just days after Hurricane Sandy slashed through New York, leaving lower Manhattan powerless, Watts waxed poetic on the candlelit "lovely moments sitting around at home" in the apartment she shares with Tony-winning thespian Liev Schreiber and their two sons, Alexander (Sasha) and Samuel (Kai), playing iPad Scrabble. Once the reality had set in that power was not going to be restored anytime soon, the family made their way to the Upper East Side's luxurious Mark Hotel, where their "life is short" lifestyle continued in the form of ice skating and hand-stitching Halloween costumes. The close-knit couple isn't married—"Marriage?" Watts jokes. "It feels like, 'Why fix it if it ain't broke?'"
The 5-foot-5 blond beauty with long, luscious locks (the length is a condition of her contract as the "face" of Pantene) gushes over her iPhone photos of Schreiber and their boys skating in Rockefeller Center. But as she sat getting her perfect-featured face painted, wearing a Helmut Lang gray ribbed sheer shirt, J.Crew MacAlister wedge shoe-boots, black jeans with leather piping and carrying a black Chanel bag—all of which Schreiber had picked out as he packed for the family's move to the Mark—Watts didn't complain that she wasn't with the family. After all, she didn't get to be one of the most sought-after screen sirens without knowing about hard work.
It seems the best is yet to come for her. Within a year, Watts has five fascinating—and we mean fascinating—films slated for release: The Impossible, Sunlight Jr., Two Mothers, Movie 43 and Diana. Last month, The Impossible, a true-life tsunami survival saga co-starring Ewan McGregor, became the top-grossing Spanish film of all time. In 2013's Sunlight Jr., we'll see Watts playing the pregnant blue-collar girlfriend of paraplegic Matt Dillon. In Two Mothers, with Robin Wright, two friends fall for each other's sons. In Diana, Watts plays Princess Di in the years just before her death. And in Movie 43, with an ensemble cast that includes Emma Stone and Gerard Butler, Watts rekindles her love of twisted comedy (à la I Heart Huckabees)—"my favorite kind of role," she says.
What's the secret to her successful juggling act? Shooting films in a very short amount of time. Sunlight Jr. was filmed in a month. Movie 43? Two days. Two Mothersbrought her home to Australia with the whole family, and Diana has her going back to London for a few weeks here and there with Sasha, who's only just starting kindergarten. "It's very rare that I miss a bedtime," Watts says. It also helps to have a devoted dad as a partner. For screen sensation turned dutiful dad Schreiber, taking on Wolverine (as Victor Creed in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine) was nothing compared to taking care of the kids while Mom's away. When I talked to him during Watts' last trip for Diana, he said, "It ain't easy, but I'm holding down the fort."
Watts' 2013 films fall out of the thriller genre she's famous for—films like The Ring, Eastern Promises, King Kong, Fair Game, Dream House and J. Edgar, to mention just a few. "I pick whatever speaks to me," she says. "There's never any planning involved. And, obviously, the filmmaker has so much to do with it."
Watts is drawn to playing gutsy women (like her character in 21 Grams, a role that earned her an Oscar nomination in 2004) because she says they teach her something. "I certainly don't consider myself courageous," she explains, yet the women she chooses to play often are—such as Valerie Plame in Fair Game (opposite Sean Penn) and Helen Gandy in J. Edgar (opposite Leonardo DiCaprio). Even in the female drama Two Mothers, Watts' decision to take on such a perverse character (and one for whom she actually manages to elicit sympathy) was brave. "I read the script and thought, this is really twisted," she says. "I love the shift of feeling—one minute you're judging these women, the next you're forgiving them."
Playing Princess Diana, among the most visible of women in modern history, required perhaps the greatest amount of courage. "It was the hardest thing I've done," Watts says, "because of the pressure of everyone's beliefs about who she was, and the fact that it was just really hard to claim her as my own, since everybody else feels they know her." But Watts maintained an interpretive posture: "I don't want to get caught up in mimicry and have a mannered performance—that's the worst thing. I want to try to embody her and get the essence of her. Those things are really important to me. The film concentrates on a story that people don't know much about—her love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon, which I didn't even know about. That love story ended sadly. Everyone remembers the Dodi story, of course."
Besides the A-list of leading men she's collaborated with, Watts can boast about having worked with some of the best directors, like Woody Allen (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger), Clint Eastwood (J. Edgar), Jim Sheridan (Dream House), Doug Liman (Fair Game), David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises) and David Lynch (Mulholland Dr.). Without any hesitation, when I ask her who she'd still like to work with, she replies, "Alexander Payne [The Descendants, Sideways] as a director, and Daniel Day-Lewis as an actor. One day…"
Here in New York, Watts and Schreiber have struck the balance of the best the area has to offer, splitting their time between their 4,000-square-foot, $4 million Tribeca loft and their Amagansett home. "I love going to parks, scootering, bike rides… Liev bought this crazy bike that can fit three people. When we do the school run, often he'll take both kids and I'll ride my bike."
For the holidays, says Watts, "I love the cold, and going to see the Rockefeller Christmas tree and skating, and then fires and cooking at the beach in Amagansett." There, she entertains friends (like Nicole Kidman, who brought her a toaster as a housewarming gift once), and family (photographer brother Ben lives in neighboring Montauk). "One thing this hurricane brought on for us—an insatiable appetite!" she says. "Is it human instinct to suddenly want to hoard food in the event of a crisis? It's like animal instinct to crave things you wouldn't normally touch—like fried foods!"
Watts' passion for New York isn't hindered by a force of nature—it's New York's frantic pace that challenges her. "I love it, but the energy can drive me mad as well. I have a love-hate relationship with it." High up on her wish list for 2013? Some quiet time. "This year's been crazy. Too much travel. I grew up traveling, but it's tiring."
Too much travel, maybe, but you can never have too much success.


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Trading was fast and furious in August on shares of a little-known manufacturer of organic health foods. Market analysts, portfolio managers, and stock traders pored over earnings reports and financial data. Brokers scurried to fill buy-and-sell orders before the market closed.
Then came the news: Fires in Russia, floods in Pakistan, and a heat wave in the Midwest had sent prices on hard red winter wheat futures soaring in the trading pits of the Kansas City Board of Trade. Heavily dependent on wheat, shares in the health food company plunged.
Rest assured that your portfolio did not sustain a hit. The health food manufacturer was one of six fictional companies whose pretend shares were "traded" by 50 children attending the Bull and Bear Investment Camp in Kansas City, Mo.
Started by financial adviser Douglas Coe, the camp is designed to introduce young people to the basics of finance in a fun way.
"We have camps in our community and throughout America that train our children's bodies, and we need that," Mr. Coe says. "But we also need camps to train our children's minds."
Though it doesn't offer hiking in the woods, sleeping under the stars, or canoeing on a river, the Bull and Bear Camp has been popular since its inception in 1992. The free one-week session is promoted primarily in the inner city, but any youth between fourth and 12th grade can attend.
Campers are divided into two groups, the Bulls and the Bears. Each team member has a job: head trader, portfolio manager, economist, market analyst, stock trader, or commodity trader. The teams buy and sell stock in that summer's mock companies. The team with the highest portfolio value at the end of camp is declared the winner.
Bounding into a meeting room at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center and Museum on Kansas City's east side, sharply dressed in a suit and tie, Coe looks every inch the financial adviser. An animated speaker with a sunny disposition, hearty laugh, and seemingly limitless energy, he has no problem holding the attention of 50 young people for two hours.
Part teacher, part preacher, and part entertainer, he provides plenty of opportunities for classroom participation.
By the end of the week, the campers have learned about the principles of supply and demand, inflation, credit and debt, bonds, commodities, compound interest, market sectors, market indices, ticker symbols, algorithms, and electronic trading.
One highlight is a trip to the Kansas City Board of Trade, a commodities exchange, where, after-hours, the children engage in a mock trading session on the floor of the exchange.
On the last day, Coe delivers a passionate oration on the traps of bad credit, high-interest payday loans, and excessive debt, which he calls financial slavery.
"Owing someone else is worse than being broke!" he warns.
His goal is not to steer the children to careers in financial services – though he says he would love to see more minorities and women in that field – but to inspire them to begin saving early and not to be intimidated by financial matters.
"I think the camp is doing a tremendous amount of good," says Michael Braude, the retired president of the Kansas City Board of Trade, who gives talks at the camps. "A lot of what we say goes over their heads, but some of it sticks. And what sticks gives the kids something to build on."
Sierra Williamson, a 10th-grader, has attended the camp twice. Because of what she learned, she is more conscious of not spending money frivolously and saving for the future, she says. "I want to be a stock broker and be able to handle money. Even though I don't have any bonds or anything like that now, I like saving my money."
Coe grew up in a predominantly African-American Kansas City neighborhood in a middle-class family that valued education. His father has a doctorate in education. His mother, an attorney, is active in local politics and served on the city council. His grandfather was an economist in the Lyndon Johnson administration.
"Education and giving back were always stressed in our family," Coe says. "Be a person who not only climbs up, but who reaches back and lifts others up."
After graduating from Atlanta's Morehouse College in 1991 with a journalism degree, Coe worked as an investment consultant for Kemper Securities. In 1995, he started Moody Reid Financial Advisors, an investment firm.
While Coe was at Kemper, he was invited to talk to a group of at-risk children about basic financial matters. He realized the need for financial education, especially among children in the inner city. These children, as well as children from all backgrounds, are at risk if they are sent out into the world without the basic tools they need to manage their finances, he concluded.
Coe receives requests to conduct his camp in other communities around the country. He has held it several times in New York City and plans to present it next summer in Baltimore and Atlanta. His ultimate goal is to make it a national program.
With the economy so uncertain, Coe feels that more than ever children need to grasp the fundamentals of financial literacy. "We know how difficult it is out in the world," he says. "We love our children so much, we know we have to do a better job of preparing them for the new norm."
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Jean Nouvel, the French architect behind some of the industry's most talked-about projects - including One New Change, a brown glass retail development next to St Paul's Cathedral in London, and Gasometer A in Vienna, the transformation of a former gas tank into a dramatic residential facility - has been tipped as the winner of an international competition to design the new National Art Museum of China in Beijing.
The architects shortlisted for the project were Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Moshe Safdie, however a 'well-placed source' has informed the Architectural Record that Nouvel has been awarded the project. An official announcement is yet to be made and Ateliers Jean Nouvel had not replied to a comment request at the time of publication.
At 1.3million sq ft, the project is due to sit next to Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's celebrated Beijing Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, and is allegedly designed to outshine the treasured Olympic Stadium. The immense building will replace the existing, outdated building that currently acts as the National Art Museum of China.
Hadid's concepts for the project were predictably curvaceous, with draped folds characterising the building's façade and three clearly individual volumes - two masses sitting atop a banded ground-floor level. In contrast, Gehry's proposal had a basic cuboid form with a series of cylindrical forms erupting from the centre and organic silhouettes of trees gracing the exterior, finished with abstract patterns and a translucent façade. Nouvel's (allegedly winning) design is yet to be released.


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Heidi Nelson and Brady Raines, both of Spirit Lake, announce their engagement and upcoming marriage.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Tom Nelson of Sherburn, Minn. She graduated from Spirit Lake High School in 1996 and from Iowa Lakes Community College in 2002. She is employed at Erichsen, Eckard & Associates in Spirit Lake.
The groom-to-be is the son of Karen Raines of Ringsted. He graduated from Armstrong-Ringsted High School in 2006 and works at Rosenboom in Spirit Lake.
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In western Egypt, Bedouin tribesmen break with Muslim Brotherhood
In the tribal lands of western Egypt, the Bedouins may appear the same – long dresses, turbans, and sun-burnt complexions – but their political allegiances have shifted like the sands.
Months after backing Islamist politicians in parliamentary elections, many Bedouin tribesmen had thrown their support behind former dictator Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafik, instead of the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate in this weekend's runoff election for president.
"It was a disappointing partnership with the Islamists," said Saleh Salem, a 32-year-old deputy chief of the Jebeihat, a powerful tribe that occupies lands stretching from the coastal Egyptian city of Alexandria and the Libyan port of Tobruk.
Noting the Egyptian constitutional court's decision last week to dissolve Parliament on legal grounds – a move that was heavily criticized by the Brotherhood, the largest bloc in Parliament – Salem said, "This Parliament deserves being dissolved and I am endorsing Shafik for the presidency."
The decision by Bedouin tribesmen such as Salem to support a holdover from the old regime – despite being severely marginalized during Mubarak's 30 years of strongman rule – reflects the disillusionment felt by many Egyptians with the Muslim Brotherhood, whose candidate, Mohammed Morsi, was contesting the presidential runoff against Shafik.
In interviews at a coffee shop in the seaside desert town of Marsa Matrouh, tribesmen expressed disappointment with the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, the ultraconservative Salafists, who together were the big winners in parliamentary elections last fall but have been outmaneuvered by the ruling military council in recent weeks. Morsi seemed likely to lose the presidential runoff to Shafik, with final results expected by Thursday.
Salem, who is prominent locally for his acres of olive trees, says his tribe lost all confidence in Islamists "because of their shameful performance as parliamentarians."
"They started by turning their backs on us when it comes to community needs, and ended with sex scandals," said Salem, referring to the Salafist Nour Party parliamentarian Ali Wanis who, according to security officials, was caught "performing public indecency with a girl in his car" last week.
But the tribesman had less respect for the Brotherhood than for the Salafists.
"The Muslim Brotherhood wants to impose their ideology on tribal customs and traditions that ruled this part of the world for hundreds of years."
While millions of Egyptians refer to Shafik as "flool" – a disdainful term for remnants of the Mubarak regime – Salem accused the Islamists of being "like Mubarak, who never respected us, understood or even tried to understand us."
"They want to invade this community and erase our tribal character," he said.
Officials with the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Marsa Matroh, who were following the elections from their headquarters two blocks away from the coffee shop, expressed confidence that their candidate, Morsi, would prevail in the voting. But they acknowledged that their support had slipped.
"Some people lost confidence in us because they were fooled by the constant smear campaign led by the military government against us," said Fouad Zaghlol, the party's secretary-general in Marsa Matroh.
Zaghlol argued that the dissolution of Parliament, in which the Brotherhood held 47 percent of the seats, increased support for Morsi after people realized the "counter-revolutionary conspiracy" led by the ruling military council.
On Sunday, the second and last day of runoff voting, judges here complained about the low turnout. One polling station received less than quarter of its registered voters by Sunday afternoon, eight hours before voting ended.
Heavily armed military personnel were stationed at every polling station on the western coast leading to the Libyan border, from which countless weapons have been smuggled into Egypt since the uprisings in both nations began early last year.
Mahmoud Sharaf, who voted for Morsi on Sunday, had one month earlier voted for Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, the defected Muslim Brotherhood official.
"I am voting for Morsi because he comes from an Islamic ideology, from an organization that will apply Islamic law," said Sharaf, a 45 year-old driver who covered his car windows with Nour Party logos.
But Salem, the tribesman, said he couldn't trust Salafists "because of their changing decisions."
"They might announce endorsing Shafik tomorrow," he said.