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Boston - "More Than A Feeling" 7" Vinyl Record Wall Clock
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Judging by what celebs are wearing on the red carpet recently: Skin is in.
It's certainly not a new trend in Hollywood, by any means, but it is surprisingly given the season.
The latest star to don a skimpy ensemble? Selena Gomez. The singer wore one of her most risqué looks to date last night at a Flaunt magazine party at Hakkasan in Beverly Hills.
Clad in a little black dress by Cushnie et Ochs, the "Come and Get It" singer sported a plunging neckline that would have reached her belly button if not for a tiny connecting piece slightly above her midriff. Calling this a cutout or a keyhole doesn't feel quite right, considering the amount of skin showing. The star paired the provocative frock with a deep mulberry lipstick and a messy side braid.
NEWS: Is Kate Hudson's Gucci gown the sexiest look of the year?
At the event she told E! News that she's single and loving it: "I'm having fun. This has been the best year for me: I just turned 21, my record, the tour. I have a really good thing good."
It shows, Selena!
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When J.G. Ballard died in April 2009, he left behind a body of work dominated by a few key ideas. First were the erotic possibilities of violence, as embodied by his 1973 novel "Crash." Equally important was his sense of suburban life as not just soul-dead but also dangerous — where beneath a surface layer of conformity we find ugliness and rage. It's easy, in an age of workplace violence and school shootings, to take such a vision for granted; what Ballard is reflecting back at us is the essence of ourselves. But when he first explored these concepts in the 1960s, it was a departure as radical in its way as any of that era.
For Ballard, nominally a science-fiction writer but actually one of the great postmodernists, the point was that "in a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom," an aesthetic that marks books including "Vermilion Sands" and "Running Wild." His workseeks to illuminate our hearts of darkness while undermining our assumptions about what literature is meant to do. "The bourgeois novel," he told Salon in 1997, "is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters."
This tension — between the comforts offered by the bourgeois novel and the chaos of the world we occupy — resides at the center of "Millennium People," published in England in 2003 but only now available in the United States. Narrated by a psychologist named David Markham, whose ex-wife, Laura, is killed in a bomb attack at London's Heathrow Airport, it evokes both Ballard's fascination with the implications of violence and his sense of the middle class as suspended between desperation and control.
For Markham, in line to become director of a research institute, life appears to have a narrative, a flow. But after Laura's death, he realizes that this has never been anything more than a set of self-deceptions, an illusion about society. "Look at the world around you, David. What do you see?" a disaffected priest named Stephen Dexter asks him. "An endless theme park, with everything turned into entertainment. Science, politics, education — they're so many fairground rides. Sadly, people are happy to buy their tickets and climb aboard."
Dexter belongs to a band of urban revolutionists who may or may not be involved in the airport bombing, and with whom Markham gets involved. Yet for all that the psychologist believes he is infiltrating the group, in the end, it is its members who infiltrate him. "I had changed," he tells us late in the novel. "The guinea pigs had lured the experimenter into the maze."
This is the key conflict of "Millennium People," the struggle between the observer and the observed. Ballard makes the point explicit by highlighting the apparatus of a security-obsessed state and juxtaposing it against the growing alienation of the middle class. The insurgents Markham discovers are not members of some angry proletariat; they are middle managers upset over mortgage rates. "Believe me, the next revolution is going to be about parking," says a university lecturer named Kay Churchill, who seeks to bring the fight to Chelsea Marina, the planned estate in London where she lives.
All this is ripe for satire, and Ballard has a good time exposing the hypocrisies not only of the broader culture but also of his well-heeled revolutionaries. After the residents of Chelsea Marina take over their community, the authorities shut off the utilities. "It's a little crude but good psychology," Markham reflects. "No middle-class revolutionary can defend the barricades without a shower and a large cappuccino."
Still, if that highlights the naiveté of these suburban rebels, Ballard is not satisfied with easy fun. Instead, he moves between humor and an inquiry into the insignificance of contemporary society, where everything has been flattened beneath the blandness of the greater good. "[A] Pret A Manger in the King's Road, Tate Modern, a Conran restaurant scheduled for the British Museum, the Promenade Concerts, Waterstone's bookshops," he writes, "all of them exploiters of middle-class credulity. Their corrupting fantasies had deluded the entire educated caste, providing a dangerous pabulum that had poisoned a spoon-fed intelligentsia. From sandwich to summer school, they were the symbols of subservience and the enemies of freedom."
Such an insurrection can't help but take on a life of its own. That's one of the realities of this novel, which becomes sinister with the introduction of Richard Gould, a pediatrician-turned-revolutionary theorist who longs to bring the system — no, the very universe — down. "We can't see the road for all the signposts," he tells Markham. "Let's clear them away so we can gaze at the mystery of an empty road."
If Markham is the yang of "Millennium People," Gould is the yin. And yet, there's a certain existential purity to his point-of-view. Gould may be villainous, but he is also honest, the only character in the novel willing or able to see what is at stake. "We emerge from the void, stare back at it for a short while, and then rejoin the void," he explains. "There's only silence, so we have to speak."
What Gould is saying is that in a world this over-saturated, where we are overwhelmed by either obligation or distraction, the most essential act is the emptiest, the one that forces us to face that there is nothing behind humanity's facade. "Not one of the works of art in the gallery," he says of an attack on the Tate Modern, "remotely matched the limitless potency of a terrorist bomb." And later: "To keep the world sane we depend on motive, we rely on cause and effect. Kick those props away and we see that the meaningless act is the only one that has any meaning."
The temptation is to read this as a Don DeLillo-esque meditation on terror, how it destabilizes everything. But with Ballard, that's just the tip of the iceberg, because his contention all along has been that we need to be destabilized. It's no coincidence that he was fascinated by the Baader-Meinhof Gang, upper-middle-class West Germans who in the 1970s embraced a militant, brutal terrorism. Their rage, and their futility, are the ghosts in the machine of this disturbing and effective novel, in which "[v]iolence, as Richard Gould once said, should always be gratuitous, and no serious revolution should ever achieve its aims."
"Millennium People"
By J.G. Ballard
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Unconfirmed sources state that there was a murder on the Spirit Lake Nation this week.
Those sources also state that the body of Dustin "Kricket" Jackson, was found by a farmer in a ditch approximately 10 miles from the community of Tokio. Jackson was allegedly beaten to death.
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Santa Monica shootings claim fifth victim
A fifth person, Marcela Franco, died Sunday from injuries sustained in Friday's Santa Monica shooting spree. The suspect's first two victims may have been family. VPC
John Zawahri is believed to have killed his father and brother at the start of his shooting spree.
Two days after a shooting spree shocked the affluent beachfront city of Santa Monica, the rampage claimed a fifth victim Sunday with the death of a woman who had been shot in an SUV.
"I am saddened to report that Marcela Franco passed away this morning at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center," Santa Monica College President Chui Tsang said on the school's website.
Tsang said Franco, 26, had registered to attend classes this summer. She was a passenger in the vehicle being driven by her father, school employee Carlos Franco, when both were shot. Her father died of his wounds Friday.
The heavily armed gunman, who was killed by police in the school library Friday, was identified by Police Sgt. Richard Lewis Sunday as John Zawahri, whose victims included his father and brother, according to the Associated Press.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Zawahri, 23, had been angered by his parents' divorce and had some mental health issues in his past. The Times cited several sources in Los Angeles and in Washington, D.C., who declined to be identified because the investigation was ongoing.
The Times said detectives believe Friday's shooting spree was sparked by a family dispute. The suspect's past mental health issues occurred when he was a juvenile and are not available to the public, the Times said.
CNN reported that John Zawahri's attack began when he killed his father, Samir "Sam" Zawahri, 55, and brother, Chris Zawahri, 25, in a Santa Monica house.
As that house burned, the shooter opened fire on a woman driving by, wounding her, and then carjacked another woman, Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said. Seabrooks has declined to identify the shooter, saying family members were still being notified.
The carjack victim, identified by the Times as Laura Sisk, 41, of Culver City, told the Times that when the man, dressed in black and body armor and wielding an assault rifle, approached her vehicle she assumed he was with the police or Secret Service. She noted that President Obama was visiting the city that day.
"You're going to drive me to Santa Monica College and let me out," the man told her, according to the Times. "He looked like a SWAT officer," she said.
But that idea was shattered when the man fired a number of shots into a bus and into a neighborhood. At least one woman was injured, according to witnesses. As she drove, crying and shaking, the gunman reassured her, she said.
"He told me to calm down, 'You'll be all right,' " Sisk told the Times. "He said he'd let me go if I didn't do anything stupid."
He did let her go. Police had received multiple 911 calls by the time the gunman arrived at Santa Monica College, a two-year school with about 34,000 students. The gunman was enrolled at Santa Monica College in 2010, Seabrooks said.
On campus, he opened fired on Carlos' Franco's Ford Explorer. Franco was killed and his SUV crashed through a brick wall into a faculty parking lot. His passenger and daughter, Marcela, was gravely wounded and died Sunday.
The gunman walked across campus, shooting indiscriminately. Students were seen leaping out windows of a classroom building and running for their lives. Others locked themselves behind doors or bolted out emergency exits.
Trena Johnson, who works in the dean's office, heard gunshots and looked out the window and saw a man shoot a woman in the head outside the library. College Police Chief Albert Vasquez told CNN a woman was fatally shot outside the library; her name had not been released.
Surveillance photos showed the gunman in black strolling past a cart of books into the library with an assault-style rifle by his side.
Vincent Zhang, an economics major, was studying in the library when he heard a female scream, "No, no. Please no."
Zhang ran out of the emergency exit while others took cover in what Seabrooks called a "safe room," barricaded behind a door.
The gunman was killed by police in the library.
The superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu school district told CNN that Zawahri attended a high school for students behind in academic credits in 2006.
"We are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragedy that so far has taken five lives and, once again, shatters our nation's confidence," Superintendent Sandra Lyon said.
Police had contact with the gunman in 2006, but because he was a juvenile then, authorities couldn't release further information, Seabrooks said.
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Huell Howser interviews Sierra Club LeConte Lodge Curator Bonnie Gisel and National Park Service spokesman Scott Gediman
This video is provided courtesy of Huell Howser, from his acclaimed California Gold television series.
Excerpted from California's Gold #9007 - "Yosemite Buildings" first aired in August, 2007.
When most people think of Yosemite, they imagine towering peaks and cascading waterfalls, but there is an amazing human history that is told through some of the many buildings that dot the valley floor.
In this visit, Huell Howser discovers two small buildings that are very historic and very beautiful. He visited the Yosemite Valley Chapel (not shown here), and the LeConte Memorial Lodge, a National Historic Landmark. In this video visit to LeConte Memorial Lodge, Huell interviewed Sierra Club Curator Bonnie Gisel and National Park Service spokesman Scott Gediman. Huell exclaims, "This beautiful stone structure is a real gem!"
For more information, during the summer contact Sierra Club LeConte Memorial Lodge Curator, P.O. Box 755, Yosemite, CA 95389, 1-209-372-4542.
During the winter, contact LeConte Lodge Committee Chair, Harold Wood, P.O. Box 3543, Visalia, CA 93278; phone: (559) 697-3525; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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'It's 100 degrees in Palm Springs "my brother told me . We were all going to Palm Springs for a family reunion and I was wondering about the temperature. 100 degrees ! That didn't sound like a good temperature . That sounded like we were all going to fry like little eggs !
"Oh , it's dry heat 'my brother continued dryly.'You can sit in the pool . So – Are you going to yarnbomb while you are here ?"
'Um , sure. I can bring something ." I said . Most of the tags I have are 15 ft skinny bannister covers for the Oakland Museum .
"Maybe you could yarnbomb the house itself !'
Hmm , that actually sounded fun and like a good little house warming gift for the owner . I had been seeing yarnbombing in Roche Bobois catalogues. I wanted to yarnbomb my own house but I always want more fame and glory than I can get for that .
We flew to Palm Springs and were driven to our vacation house . The house and pool and tennis court and 2 waterfalls and hot tub and 6 bathrooms were supreme. I had never seen a house with an outdoor kitchen . There were so many bedrooms that I could never find mine. The lighting was done by a Broadway theater lighting guy. I just stood around lighting things . This house definitely needed a little yarnbomb.
I decided to yarnbomb one of the pool chairs. I wanted something pretty that you would notice – but subtle , nothing very aggressive.
I thought it was a good little gift . Knitting is always about giving gifts to the people you love . Yarnbombing is also a gift – just to a wider and more unsuspecting audience . I like the idea of going to friend's houses and sneaking off and yarnbombing their furniture.
This little vacation in Palm Springs was a gift. To be with lots of people you love all at once -what could be more complete ? I try to remember that all of life is a gift to enjoy. I remember this about once a month .
And dry heat ? Great.
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Boycott: Pitch problem 'hurts' game
Former England batsman Geoff Boycott believes the abandonment of Friday's play in the fourth Investec Test against India at Emirates Old Trafford could damage the game.
A sodden outfield prevented any play after a torrential downpour hit the Manchester ground early in the afternoon session.
Groundstaff made considerable efforts to get the surface fit for play after the rain stopped - and the sun came out - but large puddles at the Brian Statham End proved impossible to clear sufficiently.
Heavy rain brought an early end to the second day of the fourth Test at Old Trafford
So whilst the vast majority of the playing area was ready, umpires Marais Erasmus and Rod Tucker felt they had little option but to abandon play on safety grounds following a 5.40pm inspection.
Mike Watkinson, director of cricket at host club Lancashire, later said that recent construction work at that end of the ground had meant drainage was not as efficient as it should be.
Boycott told BBC Test Match Special: "How many cricketers would run down there? This sort of thing hurts cricket.
"The evening is set, we could easily play on. Did the groundstaff know about this? If so, they should have covered it or brought the boundary in.
"It wouldn't have been pleasant fielding on it, but we have to get on with the game. There's a bigger picture. People pay a fortune to watch. That's bigger than a couple of cricketers slipping over."
The players left the field at 2.15pm amid drizzle but that quickly became heavy rain. It did not relent until what should have been the tea interval, which was still taken as scheduled at 3.40pm.
Most of the exposed parts of the ground were covered in puddles but they drained well in all areas, aside from those in front of the new media stand and hospitality area.
Old Trafford has undergone a multi-million pound facelift in recent years in order to safeguard its future as a Test venue.
Watkinson conceded the ground staff's attempts to alleviate the problem with motorised super-soppers were futile.
The former England all-rounder told Sky Sports: "This area of ground is constructed in exactly the same way as the rest of the field.
"It's been completely reconstructed and new grass put down in April and our problem today is that the grass isn't as established as the rest of the outfield, and there's still a bit of sand in the top-dressing that's showing through there and that's where the water has settled.
"It's a low point in the field and if we have got anything wrong we've hit it with the water hog and disturbed the surface. Ideally, left alone, it will pass through.
"If you have got a crowd they expect the groundsman to be active and physically out there trying to move the water. The best way to get the water from this area is to let it go through naturally as it performs really well."
The problem comes just a week after Lancashire's T20 Blast quarter-final against Glamorgan at the same venue had to be put back a day because of rain.
Watkinson added: "Last Friday evening the entire ground was under water. A lot of water held around this area, so no chance of play on Friday.
"There was a lot of rain again on Saturday morning and we made a start at 3.15pm in the afternoon.
"So it will take the water, it drains naturally, and tomorrow will be fine for a start."
Former England captain Nasser Hussain was unimpressed with the situation.
Hussain said on Sky Sports: "On a Test ground it should be possible to restart in a reasonable amount of time."
England had been starting to regain firm control of the game when the players were taken off, having recovered from an indifferent morning to reach 237 for six, extending their lead to 85.
Batsman Ian Bell, who had earlier been dismissed for 58, said: "I think everyone is frustrated.
"It is disappointing, with the Test match balanced so nicely, not to be out there."
Tucker said the affected area was not safe for play.
The Australian told Sky Sports: "People want to see the cricket and we want to give them some.
"The area is still part of the playing area so it's got to be fit, it's a Test match, it's not an under-12s match, so player safety is an issue."
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Engineered with pro-level features and performance, the 12.3-effective-megapixel D300 combines brand new technologies with advanced features inherited from Nikon's newly announced D3 professional digital SLR camera to offer serious photographers remarkable performance combined with agility.
Similar to the D3, the D300 features Nikon's exclusive EXPEED Image Processing System that is central to driving the speed and processing power needed for many of the camera's new features. The D300 features a new 51-point autofocus system with Nikon's 3D Focus Tracking feature and two new LiveView shooting modes that allow users to frame a photograph using the camera's high-resolution LCD monitor. The D300 shares a similar Scene Recognition System as is found in the D3; it promises to greatly enhance the accuracy of autofocus, autoexposure, and auto white balance by recognizing the subject or scene being photographed and applying this information to the calculations for the three functions.
The D300 reacts with lightning speed, powering up in a mere 0.13 seconds and shooting with an imperceptible 45-millisecond shutter release lag time. The D300 is capable of shooting at a rapid six frames per second and can go as fast as eight frames per second when using the optional MB-D10 multi-power battery pack. In continuous bursts, the D300 can shoot up to 100 shots at full 12.3-megapixel resolution. (NORMAL-LARGE image setting, using a SanDisk Extreme IV 1GB CompactFlash card.)
The D300 incorporates a range of innovative technologies and features that will significantly improve the accuracy, control, and performance photographers can get from their equipment. Its new Scene Recognition System advances the use of Nikon's acclaimed 1,005-segment sensor to recognize colors and light patterns that help the camera determine the subject and the type of scene being photographed before a picture is taken. This information is used to improve the accuracy of autofocus, autoexposure, and auto white balance functions in the D300. For example, the camera can track moving subjects better and by identifying them, it can also automatically select focus points faster and with greater accuracy. It can also analyze highlights and more accurately determine exposure, as well as infer light sources to deliver more accurate white balance detection.
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Bucky Covington, 'Drinking Side of Country' (Feat. Shooter Jennings) – Song Review
Country outlaw Shooter Jennings and one-time 'American Idol' contestant Bucky Covington make an odd marriage, but on 'Drinking Side of Country,' their voices and styles compliment each other like bar stool buddies telling the same story. They may be too similar, in fact, as it's difficult to tell who's who during parts of the rowdy rolling cut from Covington's upcoming album.
Both men are casual with their dirt road deliveries. Jennings has worked the outlaw style on recent albums (let's be honest, it's in his blood), while Covington is exploring new territory. It's a good fit.
"We roll, we roll / We roll down the highway / On the drinking side of country / Like some old ramblers on the run," the men sing during the chorus. There's chemistry between the two long-haired country boys from very different backgrounds.
'Drinking Side of Country' reminds us of two things: Bucky Covington has range beyond the feel-good, mushy radio singles he released with Lyric Street, and radio would sound better with Shooter Jennings. But the son of Waylon seems about as agreeable to playing Nashville politics as the son of Hank Williams Jr., so it seems this is as close as we'll get.
"So we went up to Detroit, took some country to the city / Like some old hillbilly tourists, I guess we look real silly / Cause they were laughin' at us man 'til we fired up the band said / You hicks are pretty slick, so then we jammed and then we split," the men sing, sharing lyrics like a pack of cigarettes on a drive through the desert.
The fusion of electric guitar and banjo over a rolling drum beat draws one into the song, but the lyrics fail to satisfy. This story rambles from one city to the next without leaving an impression or striking a memorable image of any of the bars or women they visit — except for maybe the redhead. Covington wrote the song with his brother Rocky… and it could be better.
"A brunette from Minnesota drinking / Jim Beam and cola / Kept buying wild shots / She was trying to get him drunk," Covington sings before the last verse. Clumsy pacing isn't enough to slow down his and Jennings' mojo, however. Perhaps one could even argue that the story matches the alcohol-fueled message the singers bring to the song.
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YORK, PA - For the third time in school history, the York College men's soccer squad will host the sectional round of the NCAA Touranment as announced by the NCAA on Monday morning. The Spartans will host Messiah College, the University of Scranton, and Stevens Institute in a four-team pod starting on Saturday.
The Spartans face the top-ranked Messiah Falcons on Saturday in their opening game. The Falcons, who are 20-0-1, earned their way to the sectional with a 3-0 win over Emory on Sunday after getting one of the two first round byes. The two squads played earlier in the year with the Falcons picking up a 1-0 double overtime win in Grantham.
Stevens enters the sectional 18-2-1 as they won a pair of games last weekend to advance. The Ducks knocked off Methodist 2-0 and Haverford 3-0 to advance to face Scranton. The Royals enter the weekend with a record of 16-2-2. Scranton earned their way to the sectional with a 6-0 win over Elms and then notched a 2-1 overtime win over Colorado College.
Game one will kick off at 11:00 am on Saturday morning followed by the 1:30 pm contest. The determination which games will be played when will be made on Monday. Saturday's winners will square off on Sunday at 1:30 pm with a trip to the NCAA Division III Final Four on the line.
Please check www.ycpspartans.com for further tournament details. As soon as ticket prices and policy is announced, it will be posted on the site.
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Graham Field - York, Pa.
First Round - Saturday, November 17, 2012
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Bernard and Brenda Rinn Jr. of Harborview Dr., Warwick, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jacqueline Kelly Rinn, to Jeffrey Louis Ferreira, son of Armando and Maria Ferreira of Providence.
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Sixty years ago, "work Jeep" meant a rig destined for commercial or agricultural pursuits with special equipment installed. Back then it was common to see a Jeep groaning under the weight of a trencher or backhoe. Those days are pretty much done for the Jeep brand, but there are still Jeeps that go to work. John Conrad's CJ-8 is one of those, but it ain't luggin' around a backhoe.
John is a well-known custom fabricator in Indiana with a rural shop just far enough west of Indy to be considered truly country. You are just as likely to see a combine or a soil sampling rig at JB's 4x4 shop as you are a wheeling rig, given that he's deep in the farm belt. Over the years, JB's 4x4 has built some noteworthy 4x4s, many of which have graced the pages of 4x4 mags.
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Well, after some amount of begging, finagling, stock-selling and unusually good luck I managed to make it to Devaamo Summit 2012 in beautiful Tampere, Finland. And after some amount of procrastinating and blathering about other subjects, I'm finally managing to share the experience with you.
The Trip Out
Of course not all luck was good. A delay in getting the funds from the stock sale led to less-than-ideal air travel tickets. Which in turn led to being stranded on the DFW airport tarmac for an hour as a hail storm pelted the plane. Which finally resulted in an overall delay of three hours since my connecting flight out of Atlanta ran into equally aggravating weather. Then in Amsterdam my gift to good friend Timo (timoph/timorph) Härkönen of a bottle of Texas hot sauce was confiscated because their security didn't trust ours. Finally, when I landed at Helsinki Vantaa airport, I realized my new travel guitar had not yet made the trip.
Ultimately it wasn't all bad, though, as Timo (along with his gracious better half Niina and our mutual friend Carsten Munk) was kind enough to make a two hour trip by car to pick me up at Helsinki Vantaa airport. That was cool. It certainly beat a solo train or bus ride, and if I remember correctly I paid something like 8 euros less for refueling their car than I would have for a train ride. That's, like, a whole beer.
Timo had taken time off of work, and Niina went off to visit friends and family, so we did the bachelor thing for a few days. Minus strippers and alcohol-induced stunts that is. In all seriousness, Timo is not only a great friend but a truly wonderful host. He made sure I got where I needed to go at all times. And his cool cat Rog kept me good company at night.
The first day we enjoyed a lazy breakfast during a beautiful morning. Then Timo and I trekked the short distance to New Factory to help set things up and then enjoy a Mer Project "birds of a feather (BoF)" talk conducted by Carsten (stskeeps) along with David (lbt) Greaves. It was a great way to begin as this sort of highly-interactive session loosens participants up and gives them an idea of event nature. A relative to Maemo, the Mer open source mobile device core project is a favorite of mine so it was good to see that it still plugs along (and as we later discovered, will be at the heart of Jolla's efforts).
The next day was the event proper, and I got roped into session moderator duties by the hard-to-resist Carol (cybette) Chen for the first half. I was a bit nervous at first because I had never done that before and was concerned about what I would say. Those who know I rarely shut up are surely surprised to read that, but it's true: if I'm not prepared I tend to stutter or blank. Fortunately I made it through without catastrophe.
At lunch time several of us went out to enjoy some delicious Italian fare at the Bella Roma restaurant in the complex. I have to say that the food and service here have been excellent all three times I have been. I really recommend the monster calzones.
I had my own session to conduct after lunch. Intro to 3D Parametric Design had been rejected at first but they managed to find room for me at the last minute. Which meant that I had neglected to put anything together until just before I flew out. That turned out to be an issue; as one reviewer noted, I didn't cover enough material. We had 30 minutes and I actually wrapped up in 20, unwittingly skipping a few parts of the demo I had planned. I had hoped the audience would ask more questions then the one from the illustrious Henri (bergie) Bergius; what I should have done when none were forthcoming was go back to the demo and play around some more. Ah well… point learned the hard way.
I don't really need to go into more detail about the event itself, because the reviewer who (rightfully) panned my talk does a really good job of sharing what he experienced. So does Timur Kristóf.
After the event wrapped up the traditional party commenced. There was plenty of beer and a local comedian regaled us with some pretty decent jokes. He started in English for the sake of the multinational audience but had to beg off into Finnish after a just a few jokes. Judging from the native response, he did fairly well. Meanwhile I had some great conversations with Lucian (ltomuta) Tomuta, Timur (venemo), Jenifer (msjen) Hanen, Thomas (tbr23) Rucker and others. See some pictures here.
Henri spent the bulk of the evening trying to get me drunk it seemed. He came close but did not quite succeed. Better luck next time, Bergie! I just hope your motives are pure. ;)
Once the party wound down and we had to leave the facility, a good number of us headed off to a park along the river where we battled advancing inebriation and tough Finnish mosquitoes. By this time my travel guitar had completed its traveling and we were reunited. I had brought it solely for songwriting purposes since I'm actually a crappy player, but as it turned out some guy named Sakari (shyoty) Hyöty was highly skilled and entertained a few of us with his playing. I was impressed that he was able to pick up some of my original songs so quickly. He seemed like someone I would love to work with.
Timo and I both tired before most of the crowd so we headed back to his apartment to watch Iron Sky. It was a bit campier than I had thought it would be, but overall I'm impressed with what the low budget production team managed to accomplish with this partially-crowdsourced effort.
I had nothing personally scheduled for Sunday so Timo and I took it easy again in the morning. That afternoon we headed back to New Factory for post-event cleanup and a delicious Thank You dinner at Plevna Bewery and Restaurant. Afterward Matti (smoinen) Saastamoinen was kind enough to take me by Timo's to collect my things and then drop Carol, Timur and I off at the train station. The latter two saw me off as I headed to Helsinki, where I planned to catch a few hours' nap at Jens (jnwi) Wiik's apartment before catching a plan out of HEL at the ungodly hour of 6:30 AM. But Jens and I were too wired so we chatted about music, games and Maemo memories before I walked the several blocks to the bus station.
I was sad at the shortness of my stay and how swiftly departure time came, but so glad for the opportunity. Thanks so much to Carol Chen for tirelessly soliciting travel funds for me (I promise I'll start paying people back soon!) and of course to Timo and Jens for their hospitality. My appreciation also to Timur, Henri, Attila, Jenifer, Thomas, Carsten, David, Lucian, Jukka and other friends for making me feel so welcome! I want to bring you all over here! During cooler weather of course.
There and Back Again
Once back at home and settled into my usual groove, I immediately began missing the Devaamo experience. Here in Texas I've attended numerous events of a related nature, but none with quite the same spirit. So I've been on a mission the past few years to share that spirit everywhere I go in the hope that it will catch fire here. Texas has lost quite a bit of industry to outsourcing and employees to hotbeds of innovation like Silicon valley; we need to get creative if we are to recapture any of that and take advantage of exploding opportunities like 3D printing.
One of those efforts involving transplanting New Factory itself. To that end, I've proposed a local "pre start-up" hackerspace (i.e., collaboration center) as part of a Fort Worth improvement project called Plan 2023. So far it's been very well-received. But I'm not stopping there: this venue may not turn into anything so if we can't make this happen via Plan 2023, I'm open to any other means of accomplishing this goal for the Fort Worth area. And I'm looking for help! We held a recent meetup to brainstorm possibilities and that was a good start– let's keep the momentum going!
There's no reason the "Devaamo experience" should be limited to Tampere. But I'm looking forward to returning next year!


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At Native Sun we support the efforts of the Non-GMO project and will soon add their "Non-GMO Project Verified" seal to the products on our shelves. For Native Sun, our support of the Non-GMO project only reinforces our commitment to clean food while providing our customers with additional assurance. We pride ourselves on setting the industry standard, not adopting the industry standard, and for the last decade Native Sun has rigorously researched and scrutinized each and every product on our store shelves. In order for their products to end up in our stores, companies must respond and verify that they operate in accordance with our "GMO letter" which openly questions the quality of the raw materials involved in production as well as each company's stance on GMOs in general.
We refuse to compromise our standards in an effort to capitalize on industry trends or appease the mass market. If you shop our stores, do so with confidence, understanding that we are continually working to bring you the cleanest products available. GMOs represent the fundamental antagonist to pure foods, jeopardizing the integrity of the food we eat as well as the natural food industry itself. Genetic drift, poorly regulated industry standards, and dishonest manufacturers dirty the lens that magnifies the natural food industry's every move. Biotech companies anxiously await a fatal misstep that will reveal the supposed hypocrisy of the health food industry that seeks to remedy the ills threatening the future of clean food, not deceive its customer base. Those who manufacture, purchase, and plant GMO seed and produce GMO products fail to understand that they are ruining the food supply we work so diligently to protect.
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ROCHESTER — James Nesbitt, who was tasered four times in July after he allegedly cut wires under a woman's car before eluding police for some time, was indicted on a witness tampering charge in connection with the incident last month.
Nesbitt, 25, of 154 North Main St., was arrested on multiple charges on July 26, after he allegedly cut a wiring harness under a woman's car in the parking lot of the Lilac Mall earlier that day.
When police arrived to the scene at the Lilac Mall, after a report of a domestic disturbance there, Nesbitt had already departed, and the woman's vehicle would not start, according to a police affidavit.
While Nesbitt briefly returned to the scene, he left again upon seeing police officers, states the affidavit. He then was seen on the Route 202 bypass, and did not pull over despite an officer turning on the cruiser's emergency lights and sirens.
After stopping briefly at the Spaulding Turnpike, Nesbitt was seen entering Maine, police allege, and after an officer reached him by phone, Nesbitt agreed to return to the scene.
Nesbitt was then located by police in East Rochester, where his vehicle broke down on Grove Street, according to police.
A struggle ensued after Nesbitt was told he was under arrest, and officers deployed their Tasers four times to gain control over him and take him into custody.
On July 26, police charged Nesbitt with three misdemeanors — criminal mischief for allegedly cutting the wiring harness of the woman's vehicle; disobeying an officer for allegedly not pulling over for police; and resisting arrest for allegedly pulling away from officers during attempted arrest.
The witness tampering charge was brought forward by Assistant County Attorney Dorothy Walch during Nesbitt's arraignment at Rochester Circuit Court on July 27. That day, Walch also brought forward a misdemeanor charge of simple assault of a police officer, alleging that Nesbitt pushed an officer during the struggle.
Nesbitt was indicted on the witness tampering charge Sept. 20.
The grand jury indictment alleges on July 26 he asked the alleged victim "to tell the police that there was a misunderstanding about the wires he is alleged to have cut."
The witness tampering charge is a Class B felony. If convicted, Nesbitt could be sentenced a maximum of 31⁄2 to 7 years in prison.
Nesbitt will be arraigned on the witness tampering charge on Thursday at Strafford County Superior Court.
An indictment is not an indication of guilt; rather, it means a grand jury found sufficient evidence to warrant a trial.
Rochester man who was tasered 4 times after avoiding police is indicted
ROCHESTER — James Nesbitt, who was tasered four times in July after he allegedly cut wires under a woman's car before eluding police for some time, was indicted on a witness tampering charge in connection with the incident last month.


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Five teams of oceanography students at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy have been selected as semi-finalists in the 2012-2013 Spirit of Innovation Challenge. They are among 130 innovative teams selected from over 235 entries from around the world to qualify.
Sponsored by the Conrad Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to 21st century immersive learning, The Spirit of Innovation Challenge provides an opportunity for teams of students to create commercially viable products or services to address issues of global sustainability.
SCH oceanography students used design thinking strategies and generated ideas to improve the ocean environment. Included among their ideas were an app to measure mercury in fish, a self-sustaining fish farm, a device to prevent underwater collisions between manatees and boats, and high tech oil spill and plastic recycling facilities to clean up pollution on the surface of the ocean.
"These teams exceeded our expectations in their innovation and creativity when applying STEM principles to their product and service concepts," said Jennifer Fotherby, Spirit of Innovation Challenge executive director. "The quality of these diverse products reaffirms our belief that young people working together can bring about significant and vital change for our global community."
The five SCH teams are preparing detailed proposals for the second round of the competition, including a technology report, a business plan, technical drawings, and a promotional video. Each group's proposal will be submitted online to the Conrad Foundation in January.
In March the finalists will be announced; they will be invited to the Finalist round which involves a trip to meet NASA scientists and a possible $10,000 prize.


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ALAMEDA — A crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, which is based in Alameda, seized more than 2,400 pounds of marijuana from a boat about 300 miles west of San Diego and apprehended three suspected smugglers on Friday, according to Coast Guard officials.
It happened after a crew aboard a Sacramento-based Coast Guard C-130 Hercules aircraft patrolling the Pacific Ocean over international waters spotted the boat, prompting the three individuals to begin tossing the bales of suspected contraband overboard, the Coast Guard said.
The aircraft notified the nearby Waesche, which dispatched its onboard helicopter and a boarding team on a small interceptor boat.
Along with taking three individuals into custody, the Coast Guard said its members recovered 70 bales containing marijuana from the ocean.
Details about those taken into custody, such as their ages and nationality, were not immediately available.
The 418-foot Waesche is the second of the newer National Security Cutters launched to replace the 378-foot High Endurance Hamilton class cutters, which have been in service since the 1960s. The Waesche is named after Russell R. Waesche, the first member of the Coast Guard to achieve the rank of admiral.
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Siemens acquiring LMS: What Does It Mean? – By Dennis Nagy
November 12th, 2012 by David Heller
Commentary by MCAE industry veteran Dennis Nagy
November 11, 2012
A historic event: the largest acquisition in the history of the mechanical engineering simulation software market (MCAE)
On Thursday (Nov. 8, 2012) Siemens announced its intention to acquire LMS International of Leuven, Belgium for EUR 640M (~$865M), topping previous acquisitions of Ansoft ($824M) and Fluent ($589M) by ANSYS in 2008 and 2006, respectively. Two professional MCAD/MCAE pundits whom I highly respect (Monica Schnitger and Jeff Rowe) have already written on Friday (Nov. 9, 2012) about the facts of the announcement, so I will not repeat those here. As a 40-year MCAE industry veteran (ironic that I write this on Veterans Day) who has worked in the past for or with both Siemens and LMS in the specific area of MCAE, I am particularly familiar with both parties to this acquisition and I have clear views on what I think it will mean for the engineering simulation software industry going forward.
LMS started in 1980 as Leuven Measurement Systems*, a mechanical vibration testing company, and has been a leader (both in thought and action) in the combination of mechanical vibration/dynamics testing and MCAE for almost two decades now. They have always realized the synergy between simulation and testing (not simulation vs. physical testing) and have delivered on that synergy with software, testing hardware, and related consulting for their growing customer base in automotive, aerospace, and other industries. So Siemens (and their Siemens PLM [SPLM] Business Unit, into which LMS will be integrated) gains both a strong mechanical testing software/hardware presence and a highly-respected set of MCAE/testing consulting engineers.
In the traditional MCAE software arena, SPLM will have some shorter-term tactical challenges in positioning (and integrating), marketing, and selling their multiple/overlapping offerings in finite element modeling/analysis (FEM/FEA) and multibody dynamics simulation (MBD) through their multiple sales channels.** I am confident that SPLM and LMS (both known for their solid, professional management teams) will find ways to overcome these merger-related birth pains and be able to focus on the much more strategically significant (to me, at least) move into Mechatronics that this acquisition represents.
Key statements in the Siemens and LMS acquisition press releases (my emphases italicized/bolded) support this view:
The convergence of mechanical and electrical/electronics engineering needs (including embedded software in digital controls) has rapidly descended upon the traditionally decades-long separate vendor markets of MCAD/MCAE and ECAD/EDA/ECAE. We only need to look at the rapid evolution of digital electronic cost content in automobiles over the past decades (electronics from 10% in 1970 to 40% in 2010 and embedded software from 4% to 13% in 8 years [2002-2010]), to sense that meeting design requirements now demands a more integrative engineering approach at all levels from system to sub-system to component design.
LMS acquired the French company Imagine, and its promising product AMESim, in 2007 and has been heavily promoting (with apparent success) the resulting LMS Imagine.Lab platform for system simulation and Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE). SPLM previously had no real offering in this emerging MBSE space and now arguably jumps to the head of the class. Dassault Systems (DS) does have a similar product in Dymola, but it is housed in the CATIA business divisions of DS, separate from the rest of DS's MCAE line in Simulia, and seems more competitive with MATLAB/SIMULINK from MathWorks (a whole other story). ANSYS has a lesser (in my opinion) product in SIMplorer (acquired as part of the Ansoft acquisition in 2008), and finally MSC acquired, with great promise, EASY5 from Boeing way back in 2002 but seems to be slowly starving it to death since then, choosing to focus instead on acoustics and materials simulation with its recent smaller acquisitions and partnerships and some aspects of MBSE in its traditional MBD line (MSC.ADAMS and related tools).
SPLM now has the ingredients to respond to the growing need for integrated mechatronics/MBSE simulation environments. Some astute automotive engineering observers believe that the obstacle to such integration (and corresponding vendor success) lies more with the traditional "silo" organizational structures of major automotive OEMs than it does with available pieces of tools and technology. But that's a whole other topic. Stay tuned!
*At the time LMS was founded in 1980, the clear leader in modal analysis-based mechanical vibration testing was Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) of Milford (outside Cincinnati), Ohio (and I worked for SDRC at that time). SDRC also had a good presence in MCAE and decided to grow outward in different directions from the mid-1980s through 2000 (into 3-D MCAD and PDM), losing its mechanical testing interest and consequently its lead to LMS. LMS, in turn, realized the future required a strong synergy between MCAE and testing and created their LMS Virtual.Lab platform in response to that need. SDRC was taken private by EDS and merged with Unigraphics in 2001, later to be spun out again as UGS and eventually acquired by Siemens as their new Siemens PLM Business Unit in 2007. Now that SPLM is acquiring LMS, the many former SDRC employees/executives who are still in key positions with SPLM are finally getting their mechanical testing mojo back!
**More specifically, SPLM will have the following technology/positioning issues to deal with:
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With so many new faces on this year's roster, the basketball season can't start soon enough for Lipscomb men's basketball Coach Scott Sanderson. At least, with the Bisons' upcoming tour through the Dominican Republic taking place later this summer, Sanderson won't have to wait very long.
The NCAA allows basketball teams to take "foreign" tours every four years. Lipscomb's trip to the Dominican Republic will take place August 10-16 and was organized by the group Score International.
Lipscomb's last "foreign" tour was five years ago, a 2006 trip to Canada.
"I think it's huge from a team camaraderie standpoint," said Sanderson. "For a new team, it's a great opportunity in so many ways. We can do some great team-building work and all our guys can start to really learn their new roles."
Sanderson said he can't emphasize enough how important the trip will be with so many new players on hand. Eight of his team's 14 members are new to the team and include five freshmen, two red-shirted freshman and one JUCO transfer.
"We've got so many new pieces and we get 10 extra days to practice with them ahead of the trip," Sanderson said. "It's great for our players, but it might be even better for our coaches since we have so many new guys. We want to see what these guys can do and get a feel for what it's going to be like working with them.
"We may play a little bit differently this year in some ways, but having a chance to work with these new players a little more with the extra practice can tell the coaches a lot of things."
This year Lipscomb is also playing in an exempt event (the Cancun Challenge) during the regular season which gives the team four games that will only count as three. This means instead of entering the conference tournament having played 30 games including an exhibition, the Bisons will enter having played 35 games including the Dominican Republic trip and an exhibition.
Sanderson said he waited an extra year to schedule this year's trip because he knew he would have a lot of young players on this year's roster and he wanted to build their experience quickly.
"I wanted to wait until we had a new team so we'd get as much out of the trip as possible," Sanderson said. But Sanderson wasn't just talking about his team's opposition in the Dominican Republic, which he said will likely include strong, professional competition, but he was also talking about the character-building mission work that his players will be partaking in while on the trip. It's the first time the program has incorporated mission work in a "foreign" trip.
"We saw former player Josh Slater go down to the Dominican Republic a few years ago and saw pictures of him working with kids and we saw how it changed him," Sanderson said. "Josh was a good person before he went down there, but he came back an even greater person.
"That's what we wanted for the rest of us. Doing mission work in the local community while we're down there should really be an eye-opening experience for all of us. It's a chance for us to give back to some people that are less fortunate than us. We have it so great here, but it will be good for us to go experience helping others that don't have it as well as we do."
Sanderson said that he and his staff and players are really starting to look forward to the trip and the work that lies ahead of them on and off the court.
"It'll be good competition and a good chance to do some good work," said Sanderson. "We're really excited about it. A friend of mine sent a team down there and said it went very well. We just feel really comfortable with the group that helped us put this together and we're ready to get to work."
With so many new faces on this year's roster, the basketball season can't start soon enough for Lipscomb men's basketball Coach Scott Sanderson. At least, with the Bisons' upcoming tour through the Dominican Republic taking place later this summer, Sanderson won't have to wait very long.


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SUV Deals: November 2012
Shoppers interested in a good deal on an SUV this month are in luck as many automakers are offering aggressive discounts to spur shopping as temperatures cool down. We've searched through the November SUV deals to find some great prices on several top SUVs, giving buyers a variety of appealing options, whether they're interested in a compact crossover or a full-size family hauler.
Ford Edge
Although Ford isn't offering any incentives on the larger Explorer crossover this month, families who can fit into the slightly smaller Edge can take advantage of several deals throughout November. For cash buyers, Ford is advertising $2,000 cash back on most 2012 models, or $2,500 back on the upscale SEL and Sport trims. The automaker is also offering zero percent interest for up to 60 months on all 2012 Edge models, or 0.9 percent interest for 36 months on the 2013 Edge. Lease shoppers can also get a good deal on the Edge this month as Ford is advertising a tempting 24-month lease with payments starting at just $299 with $3,088 due at lease signing.
Honda CR-V
Honda has three different deals on its recently redesigned 2012 CR-V in November. According to the automaker, qualified shoppers interested in leasing a base-level CR-V LX with a low monthly payment can get one for just $239 per month for 36 months with $2,699 due at lease signing. For shoppers who must have the latest and greatest, Honda is offering its 2013 CR-V LX for only $259 per month after $2,699 down, representing just a $20 per month hike over the 2012 model. And for buyers interested in financing a CR-V, Honda is offering remaining 2012 models with a 0.9 percent interest rate for up to 36 months, or 1.9 percent for up to 60 months.
Hyundai Veracruz
The seven-passenger Hyundai Veracruz will soon be replaced by a long-wheelbase version of the automaker's Santa Fe crossover, which makes now a great time to buy the large SUV. According to Hyundai, shoppers interested in a 2012 model can get interest rates as low as zero percent for up to 36 months or 1.9 percent for up to 60 months plus up to $1,000 cash back. Hyundai is also offering lease rates starting at just $299 per month for 36 months, which is among the cheapest rates available for an SUV in the Veracruz's class.
Jeep Grand Cherokee
We like Jeep's latest Grand Cherokee SUV--especially considering the deals available on it throughout November. According to Chrysler, shoppers interested in financing the SUV can get zero percent interest for up to 36 months, while buyers paying in full can take advantage of cash back offers as high as $1,500 on nearly all trim levels. While the same deals don't extend to the 2013 Grand Cherokee, Jeep is offering the latest model year with interest rates starting at 1.9 percent and lease rates from $309 per month after $2,499 down.
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Toyota Venza
While the car-based Venza may not look like an SUV, it gets crossover status by virtue of its Camry platform, increased ride height and available all-wheel drive. In November, it's a great deal thanks to available zero percent interest for up to 60 months, even on the latest 2013 models. Toyota is also offering a special lease rate this month for the Venza, advertising payments as low as $209 per month for 36 months with $2,999 due at lease signing. That's a great offer considering the Venza's base price, which starts around $28,000 including destination.
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The percentage of people who smoke remained essentially unchanged from 2010 to 2011, but over time the prevalence of heavy smoking declined significantly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Overall, 19% of U.S. adults described themselves as smokers in 2011, down just a hair from 19.3% in 2010, but among those who self-described as daily or heavy smokers, the proportion who said they smoked 30 or more cigarettes a day decreased by more than 25% since 2005 (12.6% to 9.1%).
State-level funding for tobacco-control programs fell well short of CDC recommendations, as described in the November 9 issue of MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report.
"Despite increases in excise tax revenue, state funding for tobacco control programs has actually decreased during the past 5 years," reported Israel Agaku, DMD, of the CDC Office on Smoking and Health in Atlanta, and colleagues.
"Full implementation of comprehensive tobacco control programs at CDC-recommended funding levels might result in a substantial reduction in tobacco-related disease and death and billions of dollars in savings from averted medical costs and lost productivity," they said.
Coinciding with the 37th annual Great American Smokeout on Nov. 15, the report emphasized the ongoing health and economic burdens of smoking: 443,000 deaths annually as a result of smoking-related illness; $96 billion in direct medical expenses; and $97 billion in lost productivity.
Data from the CDC's 2011 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) provided the basis for the report. Involving a sample of 33,014 adults, the NHIS showed no significant difference in smoking prevalence between 2010 and 2011. Smokers were defined as individuals who had smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetimes and continued to smoke every day or on some days.
Of the estimated 43.8 million smokers in 2011, 34.1 million (77.8%) smoked every day. The 19% total prevalence included 21.6% of men and 16.5% of women. Smoking prevalence was highest among non-Hispanic American Indians/Alaska Natives (31.5%) and among people ages 25 to 44 (22.1%) and lowest among non-Hispanic Asians (9.9%) and adults ≥65 (7.9%).
From 2005 to 2011, the largest decline in current smoking occurred among adults 18 to 24 (24.4% to 18.9%, P<0.05). Among self-reported daily smokers, the mean number of cigarettes decreased from 16.7 in 2005 to 15.1 in 2011 (P<0.05).
More than half (51.8%) of smokers and those who had quit in the past year had attempted to quit for more than 1 day during the past year.
Despite some evidence of progress toward tobacco control, smoking rates remained well above the 12% target set by the HHS Healthy People 2020 program.
For fiscal year 2011, only two states funded tobacco control programs at CDC-recommended levels, Agaku and co-authors noted. Funding was less than 25% of recommended levels in 27 states.
A summary of the report included the public health implications: "To meet the Healthy People 2020 target for smoking among adults, effective interventions need to be continued or augmented, such as a combination of smoke-free laws, tobacco price increases, access to tobacco cessation treatments and services, and anti-tobacco media campaigns featuring graphic personal stories on the adverse health impact of smoking."
The authors reported no conflicts of interest.
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Some Connecticut leaders must be ashamed. That can be the only reason they continue to conspire to diminish the state's worldwide reputation as a leader in freedom of information laws. Year after year, friends of liberty look to Connecticut for instruction on how to build a system of access to government where none exists. At the same time, the law in Connecticut is under sustained attack from people who ought to be proud of the state's trailblazing heritage.
On Monday, a delegation of Liberian officials will arrive in Connecticut to learn how to establish and promote government transparency in a nascent democracy that's recovering from a brutal civil war. The six leaders of the West African nation will visit the United States under the auspices of the Carter Center.
The Liberians had many choices on where to learn how to adopt, implement and abide by freedom of information laws. They selected Connecticut. There's a reason, and we should celebrate it. In 1975, Gov. Ella T. Grasso initiated the nation's strongest freedom of information act. Other states followed her lead, though none with a law as strong as Grasso's.
A nation of just less than 4 million people on the Atlantic coast of Africa, Liberia lost hundreds of thousands to armed factions battling over maintaining or overthrowing one dictatorship for another. Bringing peace to the poor nation through a civil society has fallen to brave Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first female president, now serving her second six-year term.
Defusing the mistrust and vengeance that permeate a nation recently at war with itself must seem like an endless task. Maintaining peace has required the assistance of United Nations peacekeepers. Liberia is "the first West African country to enact a comprehensive freedom of information law," according to the Carter Center's website. Information diffuses mistrust. To implement this historic law, the Liberians are coming to Connecticut to find the way forward. They are not the first — secretive China has also looked to this state on how to shed light on the people's business.
Freedom is our great unsung export. It requires no enormous public subsidies to billionaires or dodgy financial behemoths. That may take some of the glamour away from it in the eyes of our leaders. Worse in their eyes, it often allows or requires us to face unpalatable, damaging truths. The public knowing what our government does in our name may offend powerful, favored interest groups.
The Liberians may pick up some surprising tips from the Connecticut experience. They may see that the powerful never stop trying to bar citizens from learning what government does. It's not only their yearly attempts to exempt more information from public view. There are also the periodic attempts to hobble the independence of the agency that enforces our right to information. In this, felonious former Gov. John G. Rowland and incumbent Dannel P. Malloy are more similar than either would like to admit.
Former Gov. Jodi Rell's chief of staff was a notorious double deleter of emails so that records meant to be preserved would instead disappear. The Malloy administration has undertaken the squalid practice of skirting the law by using private email accounts to communicate, avoiding the state system that will preserve those documents. There is an enduring lesson in this for more than the earnest Liberians: The powerful in a democracy often fear sunlight. It is a malignant strain that crosses parties and ideologies.
Though our open records and meetings laws are a model for the world, Connecticut's supreme court seems to relish narrowing the application of the law and placing obstacles in the path of curious citizens. Legislators forget that freedom of information laws allow them to obtain documents that they would otherwise be denied by a bossy executive branch.
Every free society needs to keep an eye on its police. That's why many of the records the police keep are available for public inspection. They often don't like it and although some police departments will act as if they are exempt from its requirements (I'm talking about you, West Hartford), they are not.
Leaders from Liberia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Chinese are awakening to the glories of freedom under the rule of law. Connecticut's leaders could learn as much from them as they hope to learn from us.
Kevin Rennie is a lawyer and a former Republican state legislator. He can be reached at email@example.com.