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As the boys in blue baseball jerseys trooped over the Savin Hill bridge, led by the skirling of bagpipes and a slow-moving fire engine, they saw a row of men standing with hands over hearts, many with moist eyes and all wearing shirts that read, "We are Martin's Firefighters."
The Savin Hill Rangers — one player short this year after 8-year-old Martin Richard was killed in the Marathon bombings — held up their hands and high-fived the firefighters, who chanted the team's name and encouraged the boys to hit home runs.
For Nolan McKenna, 9, a teammate and friend of Martin's, the outpouring of support at Saturday morning's annual parade to start the Little League season left him with mixed feelings.
"I am grateful and sad," he said. "It's great that so many people have come out to remember him, but I just miss him a lot."
Under a bright sun, with flowering trees blossoming all around, hundreds of players and parents in the Savin Hill Little League made a mournful morning march through the closed streets of Dorchester to the manicured fields of McConnell Park in Savin Hill.
Along the way, there were signs of support with simple messages, such as "Hope," and "Love." Some wore blue-and-yellow Marathon jackets and others held up signs bearing only the number 8, which was also the number Martin wore on his jersey.
Tony King, president of the Savin Hill Little League, said he was confident Martin was there, looking down on all his friends preparing to play their first game.
"We miss him dearly," he said of the boy who died in the same instant his mother and sister were severely injured; Martin's brother survived, as did their father, who suffered shrapnel damage to his legs.
"He would have been here today," King said. "We're all devastated."
Shawn McDonough, who coaches the Rangers, described Martin — a utility player who hit two home runs last season and played shortstop, pitcher, and second base — as "always smiling, polite, and absolutely a great athlete."
"It's just not right — just not fair," he said. "It's really tough now, but we're never going to forget him. We'll try to go out and have fun and do what he would have done."
Many wore red, white, and blue ribbons in Martin's honor, and the streets were lined with bunting and similar ribbons. Many stood on their porches, in silent prayer as the procession passed. Off-duty police officers wore "Boston Strong" shirts.
Other friends of Martin's recalled a boy who was as talented a joke teller as he was an athlete. He had a knack for knock-knock jokes, they said.
"He was really funny and happy," said Andrew Smith, 9, who pitches for the Rangers. "He always smiled."
Governor Deval Patrick, who arrived late after attending a similar gathering of Little Leaguers in Watertown, doled out hugs and said he came to show his support.
"This community has been shaken," he said. "I think they need to know we're still standing with them."
As the parade made its way past the Vietnamese restaurants and auto body shops on Dorchester Avenue and past the wine bars and pristine gardens along Savin Hill Avenue — all closed off by a large number of state and local police on motorcycles — the North Shore Pipe Band played "Minstrel Boy," "Wings," and other dirges in Martin's memory.
"We felt the need to be here for him," said Cindy Carrancho, the band's pipe major.
When the procession made it to the park, where the Fire Department draped a large American flag from the top of a ladder truck, the players gathered around the field, where the league had painted a large number 8 on the grass. At home base, a group of little leaguers held a handmade sign that read "One Team."
They played the national anthem, and when a local priest said a prayer in Martin's honor, the young players held their caps over their hearts. An honor guard representing police, firefighters, and paramedics — first responders to the bombings — tossed the ceremonial first pitches.
Before the first games began, James McGee, 8, who joined the Rangers this year, said it meant a lot to him to play on Martin's team.
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SPIN-UP/TYC Report to NTFUP
July 15, 2002
The Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at Two-Year Colleges project, SPIN-UP/TYC, is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program through the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation. This project, award DUE-0203862, is funded for 18 months (starting June 1, 2002) for $270,540 and is awarded to the American Association of Physics Teachers. Elizabeth Teles is our Program Officer at NSF. The Principal Investigators are Thomas L. O'Kuma, Lee College; Mary Beth Monroe, Southwest Texas Junior College; and Warren W. Hein, AAPT. Mary Beth Monroe will serve as the Project Director with Tom O'Kuma and Warren Hein as Co-Project Directors. The External Evaluator for the project is Karen Johnston of Momentum Group. AAPT will provide fiscal management of the project. Support for the project is also provided by Lee College and Southwest Texas Junior College. The SPIN-UP/TYC proposal is included for your consideration.
The SPIN-UP/TYC Project will have an Advisory Committee to provide advice and guidance to the project. Advisory Committee members are:
Alex DickisonSeminole Community College, advocate of TYC physics, PI of ICP/21 project, and TYC21 Steering Committee member
Carolyn HaasSalem Community College, Two Year College Member-at-Large
of the AAPT Executive Board
Jack HehnAmerican Institute of Physics, Manager of Education Division of
AIP, AIP liaison to NTFUP and PhysTEC Co-PI
Ruth HowesBall State University, SPIN-UP Co-PI and NTFUP member and
Bernard KhouryAmerican Association of Physics Teachers, Executive Officer of
AAPT and AAPT liaison to NTFUP
James PalmerIllinois State University, Research Specialists in Community
Colleges; TYC21 advisor and editor
Fred SteinAmerican Physical Society, Director of Education and Outreach
Programs of APS, APS liaison to NTFUP and PhysTEC PI
David WilkinsonPrinceton University, NTFUP member
Susan WoodJ. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Past President of
American Mathematics Association of Two Year Colleges
2. prepare a set of Case Studies of Exemplary Two Year College Physics Programs.
3. Selection of the 10 TYC site will occur in early fall with site visits beginning in mid-fall. Approximately 5 site visits will be done during Fall 2002 and 5 site visits will be done during Spring 2003. For the selection of the 10 TYC sites, a document was developed that lists the goals of the SPIN-UP/TYC project, describes a "Successful TYC Physics Program" with ten indicators, and contains the site selection criteria. An additional document was developed that lists the research questions that will be addressed by these site visits.
4. Prior to the 10 site visits, a series of documents has been developed. This set includes: a "letter" to the physics program chair/coordinator or physics faculty member explaining the purpose of the site visit; a "contract" with the site host; and a "Physics Program Questionnaire" that will be completed and shared with the site visit team members prior to the actual site visit.
5. The SPIN-UP/TYC leadership team is developing a web site to be mounted on the AAPT web site with mirror sites at Lee College and Southwest Texas Junior College.
6. A poster presentation of the SPIN-UP/TYC project will be presented at the AAPT Summer Meeting at Boise in August. Materials for the project will be available in the TYC Resource Room during the Summer Meeting.
7. A national TYC Physics Program Survey will be developed with the AIP Statistics Division. We are hoping to have the instrument finished this summer with a target date of early to mid-Fall for the mailing of the survey to all TYCs in the nation.
8. There will be "partial" Advisory Committee meetings at the AAPT 2002 Summer Meeting and the AAPT 2003 Winter AAPT Meeting. A full Advisory Committee meeting will be held in the Spring 2003.
9. The Writing and Planning Conference (WPC) has been tentatively set for June 26-28, 2003, at a site to be determined. Preliminary work on the goals, objectives, and schedule for the WPC has begun.

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Years ago when I was a manager I offered Tai Chi courses for my team during the lunch time break as a tension decrease method. I brought in professional educators and participated myself. We found out to take a breath efficiently and relocate the sluggish, rhythmical motions of this martial fine arts exercise.
I was really embarrassed initially because I can not get the movements. However, as I advanced I began to feel the stress release effects of Tai Chi and wanted to discover even more. Tibetan singing bowls are a great tool to relax.
The most shocking outcome for me was that my tennis improved, specifically my bombardments. As I examined this additionally, I found that Tai Chi helped me in 2 key ways.
1. Ending up being centred via Tai Chi
Focusing yourself or coming to be based is an essential concentration of Tai Chi Some proponents motivate you to embrace the "horse" position when you practice this martial fine art and this is designed to focus yourself and allow your electricity flow openly.
When you are focused you could concentrate more strongly and for longer durations. Your mind is on-the-job and you are concentrating on your tennis game and tennis movements.
You will usually see the momentum change in a game of tennis when one player loses emphasis, even when they are succeeding. This can take place to even the elite players. They may be thrown off-centre by a bad line call or a poor try they dipped into an essential time. The very leading gamers, like Federer, have actually established methods to stay centred and maintain their focus over long durations.
Tai Chi is crucial for centering and preserving emphasis – make it a component of your internal game of tennis.
2. Enhance your balance through Tai Chi.
Tai Chi is taken into consideration a relocating form of mind-calming exercise and focuses very much on achieving equilibrium and understanding of equilibrium.
You have actually most likely seen groups of individuals utilize the funeral pace movements in the local park or at the seaside and observed just how well balanced they are when doing movements on one leg.
Tennis requires a bunch of equilibrium, acquiring yourself set for the next movement. You will certainly listen to tennis analysts often mention, 'It was an inadequate try since he was off-balance when he struck the ball.'
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Several years ago when I was a supervisor I provided Tai Chi lessons for my personnel during the lunch breather as a tension decrease strategy. You will usually see the drive shift in a game of tennis when one gamer loses concentration, even when they are succeeding. Tai Chi has great deals of perks including stress launch, improved breathing and circulation, and a healthier heart. The need to boost your tennis game can provide the best motivation to adopt this martial fine art. In the procedure you will certainly improve both your equilibrium and your potential to stay concentrated and, as a result, appreciate your tennis game a whole lot more. Visit SilverSkyImports.com for more info.


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All is fair in love, war and music it seems for The Civil Wars.
The Civil Wars
The Civil Wars (Sensibility Music/Columbia Records)
All is fair in love, war and music it seems for The Civil Wars.
The Grammy Awards-winning duo of Joy Williams and John Paul White are back with their stellar, self-titled sophomore album, but at what costs?
In November, Williams and White abruptly called off a European tour, citing "internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition," which is a weird way to promote the duo's self-release, multi-Grammy-winning breakthrough "Barton Hollow."
For all accounts, it appears that Williams and White are going through a messy divorce, despite being married to other people.
Williams, 30, a former Christian-pop singer, lives in Nashville with her husband, who manages the duo, and their year-old son, while White, 40, a closest rock 'n' roller, lives in Alabama with his wife and four children. The two came together at a Nashville songwriting workshop and exhibited an incredible, uncanny and one-of-a-kind chemistry together, so much so you wouldn't know that they couldn't stand each other.
Currently "on hiatus," the two singers have reportedly not communicated directly with each other since completing their sophomore chart-topper in the spring. Despite the drama unfolding behind the scenes, The Civil Wars' tension-filled, read-between-the-lines latest is darker, deeper sounding and more compelling than the duo's impressive debut. Go figure.
The Civil Wars commiserate about getting caught in the rush of the romantic chase and the anticlimactic lull that follows at the end of the pursuit on the heartbreaking showstopper that kicks off the album, "The One That Got Away." Wrestling with unresolved feelings of amour and the harsh chill of reality, Williams curses the day she first laid eyes on White, while confessing, "I miss the way you wanted me/When I was staying just out of your reach/Begging for the slightest touch/Ooh, you couldn't get enough." Holding onto the intoxicating fantasy of what could have been rather than facing up to how their romantic spark has fizzled out, Williams passionately belts out her myriad conflicting emotions with hellish fury while the two tempestuous singers beautifully harmonize and poignantly express their shared regret.
On "I Had Me A Girl," White sings about a hell of a dame who taught him how to get down on his knees and pray to the heaven above, while Williams sings about a nidealistic young boy who gave her tarnished soul a well-needed spit-shine. By song's end, it is revealed that the two gifted singers are singing about each other, but it's Williams (playing the girl in the title) who lets them both down. Shrouded in a dark and foreboding atmosphere created by fuzzy electric guitars and clanky percussion, Williams sounds like a woman possessed, a fiery powder-keg of conflicting emotions, violent mood swings and dark impulses. She agonizingly howls out with unbridled passion and deep, longing regret, while White soulfully laments his harrowing plight. What he doesn't convey in his vocals, he does in the song's gritty, finger-shredding guitar strums.
It's not the same old song and dance with The Civil Wars as evident on the stellar, honky-tonk heartbreaker, "Same Old Same Old." Already establishing themselves as masters of bare-bone emotions and rich conveyers of those difficult to describe feelings of amour, Williams and White play two lovers who want to throw in the towel on their stale relationship but won't until they give it one more fighting chance. White's caressing whispers meshed with plucking acoustic guitars and mandolin strums are more subdued and relaxed despite the uneasiness of the tense narrative, while Williams' powerhouse vocals practically swallow White's contribution in the song without even trying. As emotions intensify, so does the intensity of rootsy rock arrangement. Still, the opus is more poignant and powerful when Williams is pouring her guts out with the force of a geyser alongside little to no musical accompaniment.
Williams helps White burn his protective walls down to the ground on "Dust to Dust." Accompanied by mournful pedal steel and a gurgling bass line that sounds indebted to Springsteen's "I'm on Fire," the duo is perfectly cast as two lonely hearts turned unlikely soulmates. The two smoking hot vocalists share an emotional connection while revealing themselves to each other and inevitably sharing the epiphany, "You've been lonely/You've been lonely too long/We've been lonely too long." Hopefully, they will heed their own advice.
With just her lover and the moon on her skin, Williams would rather be held tight then be told the unbearable truth about their doomed relationship on "Eavesdrop." Revealing her feelings over a rudimentary mix of acoustic guitar strums and sparkling mandolin riffs, Williams makes the impassioned plea, "Oh, who says it ever has to end," and makes a persuasive case for putting off the inevitable. Almost as if she controls the elements, Williams cries out for her lover not to to let go, and the arrangement erupts with an urgency that equals her intense passion for love and life.
Williams is fiery and intense in the role of a god-fearing good girl who has it bad for a bad man on "Devil's Backbone." Knowing saying a few Hail Mary's is not going to do the trick, Williams pleads, "Oh, Lord, Oh Lord, what have I done/I've fallen in love with a man on the run/Oh Lord, Oh Lord, I'm begging you please/Don't take that sinner from me." Williams' haunting cooing, combined with chain-rattling percussion, gives the listener an eerie sense that her soul is already damned.
On the Etta James inspired "Tell Mama," Williams plays an over-protective and incredibly catty matriarch who comforts her heartbroken son while turning his pain-inflicting girlfriend into mincemeat. While her encompassing vocals are loving and nurturing, Williams will probably cause more emotional damage on her offspring than the mother on Pink Floyd's "The Wall" did in the end.
The Civil Wars take a stab at delivering a classic murder ballad with "Oh, Henry."
With a wedding band and the name of a wandering man who she loves the best she can, Williams, in full Southern Gothic heroine mode, confronts her two-timing hubby and plans his demise. A jangly guitar groove lays down a vengeful strut while Williams snaps, "Boy, if you're smart/You know you'll only have my heart/'Til death do us part/Oh, you and I both know/That at the end of that forbidden road/There's a six-foot hole." That's a threat and there is no reason to doubt that she will make good on it.
While White plays second-fiddle to Williams on the bulk of the album, he is given ample room to shine on the Smashing Pumpkins' cover "Disarm." Sung in a tender, borderline falsetto, White's countrified reworking of the Billy Corgan alternative classic comes off as being more heartfelt and introspective, as well as less angry, defiant and whiny, than the original.
The tail-end of the opus turns into a fiery duet on which Williams and White are trading off lines and combining forces for the stinging sentiment, "The killer in me is the killer in you." Talk about killer.


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Lily Rabe, who has earned acclaim for her New York stage performances and whose Hollywood cachet has risen thanks to the popularity of the FX series "American Horror Story," will star in a new adaptation of August Strindberg's "Miss Julie" at the Geffen Playhouse.
"Miss Julie" is scheduled to open May 1 and will have a limited run through June 2. The classic 19th century play has been adapted by Neil LaBute and will be directed by Jo Bonney.
Rabe will play Strindberg's heroine, the daughter of a wealthy aristocratic type. Laura Heisner will take the role of Kristine, a lowly cook in the household. Chris Messina, who currently appears in Fox's "The Mindy Project," will round out the cast in the role of John, an ambitious manservant.
LaBute's adaptation of the play moves the action to ritzy Long Island shortly before the 1929 stock market crash.
Preview performances of the Geffen's "Miss Julie" are scheduled to begin April 23.
Rabe won acclaim for her performance in the Public Theatre's production of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" alongside Al Pacino, which opened in New York's Central Park before transferring to Broadway in 2010.
She played Rosalind this summer in the Public's production of "As You Like It."
Her other Broadway credits include Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar" in 2011 and George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" in 2006.
The actress is the daughter of playwright David Rabe and the late Jill Clayburgh. She recently signed on for the third season of "American Horror Story."
In other Strindberg news this week, it was announced that Liv Ullmann will direct a new film adaptation of "Miss Julie" with Jessica Chastain in the title role.
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San Fancisco-based data center company Digital Realty Trust announced Wednesday it has formed a joint venture with Prudential Real Estate Investors, a business unit of Newark-based Prudential Financial Inc., in the amount of $369 million.
According to the announcement, Digital Realty seeded the joint venture, which was formed in late September, with nine data centers totaling 1.06 million square feet and valued at approximately $366.4 million, plus closing costs. The properties are expected to generate cash net operating income of approximately $24.5 million in 2013, representing a 6.7 percent cap rate. The properties are 100 percent leased, with an average remaining lease term of approximately nine years. The Prudential-managed fund will take an 80 percent interest in the joint venture and Digital Realty will retain a 20 percent interest.
The transaction generated approximately $328.6 million of net proceeds to Digital Realty. It will recognize a gain on depreciated book value of approximately $115 million on the sale of the 80 percent interest in the nine properties during the third quarter of 2013, the company said in a statement.


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To access the New Chat Room, click onto the Mets Chat. I'll been in an out during the doubleheader. Hoping we can chat some tonight.
Jon Niese and RA Dickey go tonight, arguably the No. 2 and No. 3 starters next spring with Santana out. Both have overachieved a bit and have come back to Earth. Dickey, simply, might be the Mets' most valuable pitcher. Who knows where they might have landed without him.
Pleased to hear, Jerry Manuel's admission of mistakes the other day. He threw himself under the bus first and pointed a minimum of fingers. I can't say it would be enough to save him, ever if the Mets run the table and finish over .500.


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Spartanburg School District 7 is looking at a plan that would put laptops in the hands of every high school student this fall. Leaders also hope to phase in mobile devices to students in elementary and middle grades.
Spartanburg School District 7 is looking at a plan that would put laptops in the hands of every high school student this fall. Leaders also hope to phase in mobile devices to students in elementary and middle grades.
Superintendent Russell Booker presented the proposal for district-wide digital conversion to the Spartanburg High School student council on Monday and will discuss the idea with community members Tuesday during his annual State of the District address.
"We feel like this technology could be the game-changer for us — the most immediate game-changer," Booker said, noting that the district is still committed to more long-term strategies for success, like early learning. "It's inevitable. It is where things are going."
Locally, District 7 would join Spartanburg District 3 in the 1:1 approach to technology. District 3 will distribute tablets to all seventh- through 12th-grade students in the fall, then phase in devices for younger grades.
Pending approval from the District 7 school board next month, the technology plan would assign a MacBook Air to every high school student when the 2013-14 school year begins. The laptops will also be phased in to the middle schools, and elementary students in third, fourth and fifth grades will receive iPads.
The plan would not only give students access to the technology at school, but allow them take the devices home to complete homework assignments and build upon classroom learning. For added security, the computers would run through the district's web filter, even when used off-campus.
Booker said district-wide implementation will cost roughly $5.5 million over a span of four years. The financial framework will be presented to the school board at its April 9 meeting, but Booker said the plan won't require a tax increase to implement.
"We can do this in our means," he said.
On Monday, Spartanburg High students said the new computers would be a welcome change. They commented that they feel more engaged in learning when technology is involved and agreed that the move would put District 7 ahead of the curve.
"It's going to prepare us for college and the real world in general," said freshman Elisa Gonzales, 15.
"I think it's so great the district is willing to invest so much money in us," added senior Evie Tate, 17. "It's a great learning experience. Whatever your job is, it's going to involve technology."
Booker shared with students that in areas already using the 1:1 approach, graduation rates have increased and discipline issues have decreased. He talked about the advantages for students at both ends of the academic spectrum, and everywhere in between.
The proposal calls for all District 7 teachers to receive MacBook Airs in May to allow time for training and planning during the summer.


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RIPLEY, WV- The Ripley Police Department has long been shadowed by troubles within the department. Accusations leading to the arrest, trials and convections of former officers have given the department a black eye in the community.
However, during the scrutiny of the City's law enforcement, Chief Raymond L. Fridley and the rest of his officers steadfastly performed the duties covered in the oath that each swore to up hold.
Seeing the need for additional safety measures for the protection of the community, Chief Fridley is employing a new approach in the hiring process. Previously applicants for law enforcement positions were weeded out through a PT test. If the applicant passed the PT test a rigorous interviewing process followed as well as a background check.
Nevertheless background checks are not always full proof. If an applicant committed crimes that were not reported, the applicant will appear to have a clean record.
To prevent unknowingly hiring individuals of questionable character in the future, Fridley has added one more item to his interviewing arsenal.
Said Fridley, "We are using a program that is similar to a lie detector test. It's an extra precaution that we are taking to prevent this from happening again. Anyone applying for an officer position will have to submit to the test. I think this will help us a lot during the hiring process."
When the tragic news was announced that students had been victims of another cruel and senseless shooting spree, Ripley officers took action.
Said Fridley, "My officers went to the schools and made sure that there were no problems and I went to the schools too. We made several check ins during the day. It made the students feel safer knowing that we were there. We continue to check the Ripley Elementary and middle schools and during certain days of the week they have an officer at the middle school, these are our children and their safety is important to us."
Other areas that Fridley is working on in his department are officer training.
"I think we are doing good on our DUI arrests and the grant money that we got from the West Virginia Highway Safety Fund Committee", said Fridley, "The Ripley Police Department received $20,000 (Twenty thousand dollars) to do DUI patrols, to seek out seat belt violators, speeding complaints and red light violations. The $20,000 covers all of this and that's exactly what I had asked the safety commission for and they have been very good at working with the Ripley Police Department. We had a call from the lady that we work with and she said we were doing good with our DUI arrests."
With this grant the chief stated that there were requirements.
Explained Fridley, "With DUIs the men will come out and work four hours at a time and must make three contacts in an hour. So that means they should have 12 contacts. Verbal warnings don't count. It has to be something in writing where we can send and prove that we are out stopping vehicles. Lastly, patrolmen must complete in service credits. Part of the credits entails taking weapon qualifications twice a year.
Ended Fridley, "I'm really proud of the job my men are doing."
Changes in hiring practices in place for Ripley Police Dept.
RIPLEY, WV- The Ripley Police Department has long been shadowed by troubles within the department. Accusations leading to the arrest, trials and convections of former officers have given the department a black eye in the community.


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Free throws lift Hartford over New Hampshire 49-44
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Mark Nwakamma scored 12 points and Nate Sikma 11 as Hartford held off New Hampshire for a 49-44 America East Conference win Wednesday night.
Nwakamma hit two free throws to give the lead back to the Hawks, 38-37 with 5:55 remaining, after New Hampshire had rallied from an 11-point deficit early in the second half.
Just under a minute later, two free throws by Sikma gave Hartford (15-12, 8-6) the lead for good after the Wildcats (7-18, 3-10) had regained a one-point advantage.
Nwakamma hit four free throws in the final 11 seconds to secure the victory.
Chandler Rhoads scored 16 points for New Hampshire, whose only lower output this season was a 51-40 loss to Hartford on Jan. 24
The teams combined to shoot 22 percent (11 of 50) in the first half, which ended with Hartford leading 18-12. New Hampshire made just 4 of 22 shots (18.2 percent).


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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council approved the July 1 deployment of a Mali peacekeeping force tasked with helping the government regain control of rebel-held areas and organize crucial elections, all while facing harsh challenges in a vast desert territory.
A June 18 accord between Mali's government and the Tuareg rebels has raised hopes that the West African country is on track to regaining stability after losing half its territory last year to a rebel invasion.
The 15-country Security Council unanimously decided that conditions are in place to start deploying the peacekeeping mission on July 1 as scheduled, Britain's U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant told reporters after a council meeting. The 12,640-member U.N. force will replace a 6,000-member African-led mission now in Mali.
Some of the French troops who ousted radical Islamic groups from northern Mali in January will remain in the country, ready to intervene under a soon-to-be signed agreement if the U.N. mission comes under "imminent and serious threat," said Herve Ladsous, the U.N. undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations.
French Ambassador Gerard Araud said some of the 3,000 French troops now in the country will begin withdrawing at the end of the summer with the aim of reducing the force to 1,200 by the end of 2013.
The Tuareg rebel force seized the major northern cities of Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal last year. But on their coattails came a trio of al-Qaida-aligned armed groups that within weeks seized much of northern Mali. In January, France scrambled fighter jets over Mali to beat the Islamic radicals back. The Malian army quickly returned to Timbuktu and Gao, but the Tuareg separatists have retaken Kidal and established a shadow administration.
The immediate challenge for the new U.N. force will be to help implement the agreement with the separatists in Kidal, including disarming the rebels and accompanying the return of the Malian army to the city. That is crucial to the success of presidential elections scheduled for July 28, said Albert Gerard Koenders, the secretary-general's special representative for Mali.
The U.N. mission will play a key support role in the election, including distributing of identification cards to voters in the north, many of them displaced by the fighting, Koenders told the council.
The extreme heat in northern Mali has made the U.N. force "one of the most logistically challenging missions the United Nations has ever launched," said Ameerah Haq, the U.N. undersecretary-general for field support.
An engineering assessment team has determined that the mission cannot tap into Kidal's reservoirs without jeopardizing the local water supply. Haq told the council that means the United Nations must look into other technologies to produce water from air humidity.
The U.N. force will comprise the majority of troops from the African mission already there, who have four months to meet U.N. human rights and equipment standards.
Those include Chadian troops who helped the French fight the Islamists in January, their experience in desert terrain proving crucial. Human rights groups have objected to the inclusion of the Chadian military in the new force because it is on a U.N. "list of shame" of child recruiters. Ladsous said the U.N. "is making every effort to screen the Chadian contingent to ... ensure that no troops under 18 are among them."


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CAIRO (AP) — The burly, bearded men in hard hats hunker down with long sticks behind waist-high, makeshift brick walls surrounding a mosque that has become the heart of a Muslim Brotherhood encampment.
Egypt's Islamists are trying to recreate the atmosphere of Tahrir Square from 2½ years ago in the hope that their deposed president will be returned to power.
But where those 2011 protests against Hosni Mubarak took place in the center of the city and involved a broad cross-section of Egyptians, the gathering that swells to tens of thousands every night outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya Mosque is restricted largely to the Brotherhood faithful — displaying a strong feeling of isolation from the rest of society.
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood say it is just a matter of holding their ground for the sake of their democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi.
The Monday morning killing of dozens of their supporters just 500 meters (yards) away has raised the stakes for their embattled enclave. The demonstrators say the armed forces opened fire during dawn prayers without provocation, but the military says it came under heavy assault by gunmen and snipers who killed a soldier and two policemen.
"Demonstration, demonstration, demonstration — the people will demonstrate until the president is released and comes back to us. Then we will all talk together and set an agenda," said Hamza Zouba, a spokesman for the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood's political arm whose domination in the last year provoked million-strong anti-government protests June 30 that led to the military overthrow of Morsi.
Zouba said the military hadn't realized the breadth of Morsi's popularity, and he spoke of demonstrations across the country Monday for his release — a claim that appeared to be an exaggeration.
"We are waiting for the decay of the coalition against us," Zouba said, explaining how the killing of Brotherhood members had provoked condemnations across the political spectrum, including the pullout of a religious conservative party from the military-backed coalition.
His optimism was shared by many in the tent city that contains just a few thousand in the mornings but swells every evening to tens of thousands who cheer the speakers on a floodlit stage.
"Most of us were in Tahrir until Hosni Mubarak left, so we have that experience and we know how to outlast a despotic regime," said Ibrahim Abdessattar, a medical doctor, as he relaxed in the shade of his tent under the still-fierce late afternoon sun.
With him were colleagues, neighbors, friends and even a patient who all came from the Giza neighborhood on the other side of the city to show their support for the deposed president.
"I will stay here until Morsi returns," said Ihab Karamallah, another doctor who goes to his clinic in the morning before returning to the sit-in. "I'll bring my wife and children here if I have to."
Every morning, volunteers move through the camp, where tents are pitched along the sidewalks and grassy median of the crossroads, picking up trash and cleaning the streets. Men line up at public tap to wash, and children run through the streets chased by their mothers.
The crowds come from all social classes with men both clean-shaven and with full beards, although women without the conservative headscarves or face-covering veils are not to be found, and there is a female-only section in front of the stage.
As the crowds thicken and heat increases, men move through the throngs with water-misters in an only mildly effective effort to cool everyone down.
A whole sub economy of vendors has sprung up, selling Egyptian flags, orange juice, Egyptian fast food and, ominously, stout walking sticks and studded clubs.
Hastily built brick walls seal off each end of the main streets leading to the crossroads in front of the mosque, lined by serious young men in hard hats, with makeshift shields near at hand. Behind them are small piles of broken paving stones, ready for any assault.
After the deadly clash with the military, however, it's hard not to feel like the Brotherhood is still preparing for the last war. It's no longer 2011, when the army was largely on the sidelines and the major aggressors were gangs of government-hired thugs backed by the occasional cavalry charge.
The military has released footage of what it says is from Monday morning, showing Brotherhood supporters firing guns and hurling firebombs, but none of those weapons were in evidence in the encampment.
The speakers on the podium also have a slightly desperate edge as they echo the frustrations of the Brotherhood supporters that more people don't see the injustice of Morsi's overthrow.
"Where are the international human rights groups?" called one female speaker in a headscarf.
"Army, we are your brothers. We are all Muslims!" said another speaker, his voice cracking with emotion. "Don't shoot at us. We are Muslims!"
Taking a page from the Tahrir days, one speaker chanted the names of the protesters' opponents as the crowd responded with, "Batil!"— Arabic for "rejected."
Yet the list of those rejected became so long that it became a testament to the forces arrayed against the demonstrators: the head of the army, the new interim president, the Coptic Christian pope, the head of the main Islamic institution of learning, and the youth movement known as Tamarud that gathered millions of signatures for Morsi's recall.
Mohammed Gouda, a heavily bearded English teacher, admitted that Morsi did make some mistakes in his first year, but still maintained it was no reason to depose.
"Is it right to judge a president of a country after just a year? How much did Obama achieve in his first year?" he asked, expressing hope that the deaths in the morning would lead to a groundswell of support for the Muslim Brotherhood.
"I hope after this slaughter, people will come to save their brothers," he said.


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A test browser for Zope and Plone.
Project description
ftw.testbrowser is a browser library for testing Plone web sites and applications. It integrations directly into Plone / Zope and uses lxml for parsing and querying pages. It supports all the basic features such as filling forms.
- Documentation: http://pythonhosted.org/ftw.testbrowser/
- Main github project repository: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.testbrowser
- Issue tracker: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.testbrowser/issues
- Package on pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ftw.testbrowser
- Continuous integration: https://jenkins.4teamwork.ch/search?q=ftw.testbrowser
This package is copyright by 4teamwork.
ftw.testbrowser is licensed under GNU General Public License, version 2.
1.12.1 (2014-05-29)
- Fix error in z3cform choice collection widget when using paths. [jone]
1.12.0 (2014-05-29)
- Add a z3cform choice collection widget. This is used for z3cform List fields with Choice value_type. [jone]
- Add select field node wrapper with methods for getting available options. [jone]
1.11.4 (2014-05-22)
- browser.open(data): support multiple values for the same data name. The values can either be passed as a dict with lists as values or as a sequence of two-element tuples. [jone]
1.11.3 (2014-05-19)
- Fix browser.url regression when the previous request raised an exception. [jone]
1.11.2 (2014-05-17)
- Make NoElementFound exception message more verbose. When a .first on an empty result set raises a NoElementFound exception, the exception message now includes the original query. [jone]
1.11.1 (2014-05-17)
- Fix browser cloning regression in autocomplete widget "query". The cloned browser did no longer have the same headers / cookies, causing authenticated access to be no longer possible. [jone]
- New browser.clone method for creating browser clones. [jone]
- Update standard page objects to accept browser instace as keyword arguments. This makes it possible to use the page objects with non-standard browsers. [jone]
1.11.0 (2014-05-14)
New browser.base_url property, respecting the <base> tag. [jone]
New browser.debug method, opening the current page in your real browser. [jone]
New browser.on method, a lazy variant of browser.open. [jone]
New browser.reload method, reloading the current page. [jone]
Improve requests library support:
- Support choosing requests library, make Zope app setup optional. When no Zope app is set up, the requests library is set as default, otherwise mechanize.
- Support form submitting with requests library.
- Improve login and header support for equests library requests.
- Add browser.cookies support for requests library requests.
- Use requests library sessions, so that cookies and headers persist.
- Automatically use "POST" when data is submitted.
Login improvements:
- Support passing member objects to browser.login(). The users / members are still expected to hav TEST_USER_PASSWORD as password.
- Refactor login to use the new request header methods.
Add request header methods for managing permanent request headers:
- browser.append_request_header
- browser.replace_request_header
- browser.clear_request_header
Refactor Form: eliminate class methods and do not use the global browser. This improves form support when running multiple browser instances concurrently.
- Form.field_labels (class method) is now a instance property and public API.
- Form.find_widget_in_form (class method) is removed and replaced with Form.find_widget (instance method).
- Form.find_field_in_form (class method) is removed and replaced Form.get_field (instance method).
- Form.find_form_element_by_label_or_name (class method) is removed and replaced with browser.find_form_by_field.
- Form.find_form_by_labels_or_names (class method) is removed and replaced with browser.find_form_by_fields.
- New Form.action_url property with the full qualified action URL.
- Fix form action URL bug when using relative paths in combination with document-style base url.
Fix wrapping input.label - this did only work for a part of field types. [jone]
Fix UnicodeDecodeError in node string representation. [mathias.leimgruber]
1.10.0 (2014-03-19)
Add NodeWrapper-properties:
- innerHTML
- normalized_innerHTML
- outerHTML
- normalized_outerHTML
[jone, elioschmutz]
1.9.0 (2014-03-18)
- Add support for filling AT MultiSelectionWidget. [jone]
1.8.0 (2014-03-04)
- Add a context property to the browser with the current context (Plone object) of the currently viewed page. [jone]
1.7.3 (2014-02-28)
- Fix encoding problem in factories menu page object. The problem occured when having a "Restrictions…" entry in the menu. [jone]
1.7.2 (2014-02-25)
- Form: Support checking checkboxes without a value. Checkboxes without a value attribute are invalid but common. The default browser behavior is to fallback to the value "on". [jone]
1.7.0 (2014-02-03)
- ContentTreeWidget: support filling objects as values. [jone]
1.6.1 (2014-01-31)
- Implement logout on browser, logout before each login. [jone]
1.6.0 (2014-01-29)
- Add cookies property to the browser. [jone]
1.5.3 (2014-01-28)
- Fix multiple wrapping on browser.forms. [jone]
1.5.2 (2014-01-17)
- Implement archetypes datetime widget form filling. [jone]
1.5.1 (2014-01-07)
- Fix encoding problems when posting unicode data directly with Browser.open. [jone]
- Support form filling with bytestrings. [jone]
- Fix form filling with umlauts. [jone]
- Fix form fill for single select fields. [jone]
1.5.0 (2014-01-03)
- Implement AT file upload widget, because the label does not work. [jone]
- Implement file uploads. [jone]
- Add "headers" property on the browser. [jone]
1.4.0 (2013-12-27)
- Deprecate normalized_text method, replace it with text property. The text property is more intuitive and easier to remember. The text property has almost the same result as normalized_text, but it represents <br/> and <p> with single and double newlines respectively. text is to be the lxml text property, which contained the raw, non-recursive text of the current node and is now available as raw_text property. [jone]
- open_html: make debugging file contain passed HTML. [jone]
- Sequence widget: implement custom form filling with label support and validation. [jone]
- Sequence widget: add additional properties with inputs and options. [jone]
1.3.0 (2013-12-11)
- Implement "query" method on autocomplete widget. [jone]
- Implement form fill for z3cform datetime widget. [jone]
- Fix setting attributes on nodes when wrapped with NodeWrapper. [jone]
- Implement form fill for z3cform autocomplete widgets. [jone]
- Implement form fill for z3cform sequence widgets. [jone]
- Add webdav method for doing WebDAV requests with a ZServer. [jone]
1.2.0 (2013-11-24)
- Add open_html method to browser object, allowing to pass in HTML directly. [jone]
1.1.0 (2013-11-07)
- Add dexterity page object, refactor z3cform page object. [jone]
- Add table nodes with helpers for table testing. [jone]
- Merging "Nodes" lists returns a new "Nodes" list, not a "list". [jone]
- Show containing elements in string representation of "Nodes" list. [jone]
- Fix direct child selection with CSS (node.css(">tag")). [jone]
- Add a recursive option to normalized_text. [jone]
1.0.2 (2013-10-31)
- When normalizing whitespaces, do also replace non-breaking spaces. [jone]
1.0.1 (2013-10-31)
- Add first_or_none property to Nodes. [jone]
1.0.0 (2013-10-28)
- Initial implementation. [jone]
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James Gandolfini, the most important actor in the most influential television series of the last decade and a half, died suddenly Wednesday, in Italy. He was only 51, and though he had been a busy working actor -- in film and onstage as well as on TV -- for two decades, and had (with writer David Chase) created a character for the ages, he was also at what, especially in light of an early death, felt like the beginning of his career.
Even though he spent the years of "The Sopranos" and afterward taking parts that told the world there was more to him than a New Jersey mob boss -- that is to say, waste management consultant -- its length and depth, its cultural mass, guarantee that Tony Soprano is the role for which he'll be most remembered. Tony was more than a character, of course; he was the fulcrum of a shared experience, the instrument of a new age of television. "Breaking Bad" and Walter White owe him everything.
If it is impossible to imagine "The Sopranos" without Tony -- indeed, the show ended with what is generally, if not unanimously, taken to represent the snuffing out of his consciousness -- it is also impossible to imagine Tony without Gandolfini.
The casting was bold and almost subversively counterintuitive. In the normal way of Hollywood, where physiognomy is destiny, Gandolfini might have spent his life in the sort of supporting roles that had earlier defined his career, limited by his ethnicity, his bulk, his encroaching baldness. Among its other gifts to television, "The Sopranos" demonstrated that star quality does not depend upon Hollywood's narrow conception of good looks. (Even in gangster films, the leads have traditionally been conventionally handsome. In "The Sopranos," by contrast, the too-handsome character was always somehow to be regarded with suspicion.)
Gandolfini was only 37 -- or, in acting-life terms, already 37 -- when "The Sopranos" premiered in January 1999. (Its six seasons took until 2007 to complete.) He had played thugs and gangsters before, across the 1990s, in films including "True Romance," "Terminal Velocity," "The Juror" and "Get Shorty." But this was something different: a bad man in a psychological crisis triggered by a family of ducks leaving his backyard pool -- a character that could easily have become a joke (not that there wasn't comedy to be played) in the hands of a lesser actor.
Tony was, as the situation demanded, a villain, a hero, a sex symbol and a slob. He was a put-upon son, a concerned if misguided father, a philandering though not exactly disloyal husband, a frequently exasperated boss, a person of more than average intelligence but limited vision, a thug not without sensitivity or a sense of humor and, in ways that mattered to the audience, at least, better than the men who surrounded him.
It was always a little bit of a shock, in the "Sopranos" years, to see the actor as himself, to find him relieved of Tony's spiritual heaviness, the Dorian Gray crust of sins he wore just beneath the skin when he played the character. With Tony Soprano, he emphasized mass and force, but like many big men -- like, Oliver Hardy, say, whom he could have played with aplomb -- Gandolfini was light on his feet, graceful and elegant in spite of his size. It's instructive to watch him in the first episodes of "The Sopranos'" sixth season, when, in a coma, he dreamed himself an "ordinary person," or as the sensitive gay hit man he plays in "The Mexican," or lip-syncing Engelbert Humperdinck in John Turturro's "Romance & Cigarettes," or as the fond, if demanding father in "Not Fade Away," the film that reunited him with David Chase.
There was a softness, and a sweetness to Gandolfini -- qualities that, indeed, may have been what kept Tony Soprano bearable company through the years. Because even taking the part of a most violent man, he could not hide, or chose not to, what was clear for us to see: that he was an artist.


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STOCKTON - A California Highway Patrol helicopter circled over Stockton for more than an hour Tuesday night while officers on the ground searched for three people who committed grand theft earlier in the evening in Livermore, authorities said.
STOCKTON - A California Highway Patrol helicopter circled over Stockton for more than an hour Tuesday night while officers on the ground searched for three people who committed grand theft earlier in the evening in Livermore, authorities said.
CHP officers attempted to stop a 2006 Dodge Charger about 7:30 p.m. near March Lane and Interstate 5, officials said. The Charger matched the description of a vehicle used in a robbery about an hour earlier in Livermore, where thieves stole several thousand dollars' worth of merchandise from a high-end department store, authorities said.
The Charger stopped in a Jack In The Box parking lot but then fled at high speeds, officers said. During the pursuit, three people exited the vehicle and fled on foot, officials said.
A CHP helicopter helped CHP and Stockton police officers locate one suspect who was hiding in the water along the north canal bank south of Brookside Road, authorities said. Richard Tafoya, 27, was arrested on suspicion of grand theft and conspiracy, police said. Two other suspects managed to escape, but authorities have identified them, officers said.
Livermore police officers responded to the scene and impounded the Charger, officials said. Inside, they found more than $6,000 worth of stolen merchandise, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Officer Dan Martinez at the Stockton-area CHP office at (209) 943-8666.
STOCKTON - A man was arrested Wednesday at San Joaquin County Delta College after police found him in possession of a loaded firearm, authorities said.
Delta College police were dispatched to the campus bookstore about 3:25 p.m. to investigate a possible theft, officials said. Before officers arrived, the suspect left the store and walked toward the Budd parking lots, police said.
Officers approached the man on a pathway between the Holt 1 and Budd 4 parking lots, officials said. While conducting a pat-down search, officers discovered a loaded firearm concealed in one of the man's pockets, authorities said.
Javier Vasquez Espino, 20, of Stockton was arrested on suspicion of three felony crimes, including carrying a loaded firearm and carrying a concealed firearm, police said.
STOCKTON - A family of five was displaced Tuesday morning when fire damaged a south Stockton home, authorities said.
The fire was reported shortly after 11 a.m. at a home in the 2200 block of Cambria Drive, the Stockton Fire Department said. Damage to the 1,200-square-foot home was described as minor and the fire was contained to one bedroom, but authorities requested temporary assistance from the American Red Cross to aid one adult and four children who live in the house.
The cause of the fire was under investigation, but it appeared to be accidental, Chief's Operator Ralph Ibarra said.


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- Synthetic Biology 5.0: The Fifth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
Date and location to be decided.
- Symposium: New Directions in Synthetic Biology 30 April 2010, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Synthetic Biology Symposium Lustrum MSV Alchimica 23 March 2010, Wageningen, Netherlands
- European Commission Workshop on Synthetic Biology: From Science to Governance 18-19 March 2010, Brussels, Belgium
- UK Research Councils' Networks in Synthetic Biology (NSB) Grant-holders' workshop, 16-17 March 2010, Swindon , UK
- BioSecurity: How synthetic biology is changing the way we look at biological threats March 11 2010, Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars, Washington DC, USA
- Symposium: Signalling meets Synthetic Biology 23.09.-25.09.2010, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg i.Brsg., Germany
Previous events
- Euro-Chinese Workshop on Synthetic Biology and Biosafety 20 January 2010, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
- Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature's Inspiration 19-22 Nov, 2009, Irvine, CA, USA. This was the 2009 annual conference of The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative. Grant applications are due 12 Feb, 2010. Ten podcast tutorial interviews with synthetic biology leaders are available online[1]
- Biofine 2009: Applied Industrial Synthetic Biology conference 16 April–17 April, 2009, Freiburg, Germany
- Joint NSF/EPSRC sandpit on synthetic biology 30 March-3 April, 2009, Warrenton, Virginia, USA
- Second European Conference on Synthetic Biology (ECSB II): Design, Programming And Optimisation Of Biological Systems 29 March–3 April, 2009, Sant Feliu de Guixols (Costa Brava), Spain
- BioSysBio 2009 23-25 March, 2009, Cambridge, UK
- Life Under (Re)Construction
November 13-14, 2008, Vienna, Austria. Programme
- Systems and Synthetic Biology - Scientific and Social Implications:
November 7-8, 2008 at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany
- Workshop Synthetic Biology
November 6-8, 2008, Groningen, The Netherlands
- The Future of Synthetic Biology: Workshop at the Wellcome Trust
November 3-4, 2008, London, U.K. Programme
- Synthetic Biology 4.0: The Fourth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
October 10-12, 2008 at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
- Open SYNBIOSAFE e-conference on ethics, safety, security, IPR, governance, and public perception of synthetic biology (background paper)
May 5 - June 9, 2008.
- BioSysBio 2008
April 20-22, 2008 at Imperial College London, U.K.
- Toward A Synthetic Biology: NASA-NSF Joint Workshop at HHMI Janelia Farm, Virginia, U.S.A.
April 3-4, 2008. Workshop speakers and report
- European Conference On Synthetic Biology (ECSB): Design, programming and optimisation of biological systems
24-29 November 2007 at Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
- Caltech Workshop on Self-Replicating Chemical Systems
August 27-28, 2007.
- Synthetic Biology Workshop
August 27-28, 2007 at Göteborg, Sweden.
- Systems Biology and Engineering
April 20-21, 2008 in Seattle, WA, USA.
- First q-bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing
August 8-11, 2007 at St. John's College campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
- Synthetic Biology 3.0: The Third International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
June 24-26, 2007 in Zurich
- Boston University Symposium on Synthetic Biology
May 11, 2007.
- IGEM:China Workshop
April 16-17, 2007.
- Synthetic Biology: Transforming Life Science Research and Discovery by Informa Learning (associated with IBC Life Sciences) and Beachhead Consulting
March/April 2007 in Cambridge, Massachustts, USA
- See Tom Knight's note regarding this conference.
- BioSysBio 2007: Computational Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Synthetic Biology
January 11-13, 2007 in Manchester, United Kingdom
- Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Engineering Principles in Biological Systems
December 3-6, 2006 in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA.
- Workshop on Computation in Genetic and Biochemical Networks
September 4-8, 2006 in York, United Kingdom.
- Synthetic Biology 2.0: The Second International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
May 20-22, 2006 at UC Berkeley.
- Institute of Biological Engineering Annual Meeting
March 10-12, 2006 at University of Arizona in Tuscon, Arizona, USA
- special Synthetic Biology session!
- special student paper contest in bioethics!
- 2nd ASM - IEEE EMBS Conference on Bio, Micro and Nanosystems
January 15-18, 2006 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Sixth International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2005)
October 19-24, 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Venter Institute Conference: Genomes, Medicine, and the Environment
October 17–19, 2005 in Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA.
- Synthetic Biology 1.0: The First International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
June 10-12, 2004 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.


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November 06. 2013 12:57PM
Charges dropped against Domaingue
By LARISSA MULKERN
Special to the Union Leader
— The Carroll County Attorney's Office on Wednesday set aside, or "nol prossed" in court terms, child pornography possession charges against a retired newspaper editor.
Carroll County Attorney Robin Gordon confirmed that eight counts of felony child pornography possession charges against Edward Domaingue, 65, of Ormond Beach, Fla., who owns a summer home in Wakefield, have been set aside, but stressed that the charges may be reinstated following additional investigation.
"The charges were nol prossed — they are not going away. We need further investigation and decided the trial track was coming up too fast," said Gordon.
Domaingue's case had been scheduled for a morning pre-trial conference in Carroll County Superior Court on Wednesday, but that hearing was canceled. Gordon said the charges have not been dismissed, an action required by a judge.
"Essentially, the investigation is ongoing," she said. "There was more work we needed to do on the case and we would have been jammed." She said no plea agreement was considered.
Domaingue and his attorney, David Ruoff of Howard & Ruoff law firm in Manchester, released a written statement on Wednesday.
"All charges against my client, Edward C. Domaingue II of Wakefield, NH, and Ormond Beach, Fla., have been dropped by the Carroll County Attorney's Office.
Domaingue, who retired from the New Hampshire Union Leader several years ago, issued the following statement: "This 14-month, 425-day legal nightmare has been nothing short of devastating for all five members of our immediate family. While the decision to drop all charges supports my steadfast claim that I did not commit any of the crimes I was so publicly accused of, the resulting damage to every member of our family cannot be ignored.
"I'd like to publicly thank my wife, my children, my attorney and those people who reached out to us in friendship during this horrible ordeal. The strength of their support helped get us through this nightmare. I maintained from the very first moments that I did not commit any crime. The fact that these charges were dropped, a mere three weeks before we were set to go to trial, supports that position. However, that does not mitigate the mental, physical, emotional and financial toll imposed on me and on my family. We will continue to explore all of our legal options."
Ruoff added, "My client, Mr. Domaingue, has indicated he will have nothing further to say regarding this case at this time."
A Carroll County grand jury handed up the felony-level indictments on May 17 alleging that on or about Sept. 4, 2012, Domaingue committed the crime of possession of child sexual abuse images. The images listed in the indictments are two computer video files and six photographic files of young girls under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activities. The charges are all Class A level felonies punishable by a jail term of seven and one half to 15 years.
Domaingue was arrested in Wakefield on March 15 by the Wakefield Police Department after he turned himself in without incident. At the time Wakefield Police Department officials said they teamed up with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force in August of 2012 after receiving information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Domaingue allegedly possessed child pornography on his computer. Search warrants in the case have been sealed.


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I´m reposting here my short story, after making a few changes. Could anybody see if it´s alright? I thank you very much for any comments you may have!
The day was drawing to a close, the deep blue night inevitably falling as all the passengers and their friends and relatives stood on the pretty much empty platform, waiting for the night train to Paris. After having visited a few other countries in Europe during her month-long vacation, Araci Elias, a nineteen-year-old Brazilian, was ending her amazing six-day trip in Austria, her grandfathers homeland. Her cousin, his wife and a dear friend of her grandfathers were there saying their goodbyes to her, wishing her a good and safe trip home. Aracis plans for going back home were simple: ride a train from Vienna to Paris, then change trains in the City of Light to reach Lisbon, where she would finally catch the plane to fly back to Brazil. Traveling on a low budget had forced her to make some not so logical transportation arrangements; nonetheless, she thought, whichever way one travels in Europe is amazingly enriching.
Once onboard the Eurail train, which moved steadily and smoothly along the rails, Araci, still with tears in her eyes and already missing all the awe-inspiring experiences she had been through, walked down the well-lit aisle and attentively looked inside each of its second class compartments, which was all she could afford, until she finally found an empty one. As she was going to spend the night traveling and, therefore, she was going to sleep on the train, she thought it would be better to be on her own in the compartment, if at all possible. Each compartment had two bunk beds, one across from the other; the window was opposite the door, in between the bunk beds. A simple and convenient layout. She comfortably arranged herself and her scanty belongingsa fully packed backpack and a pretty much ragged duffle bagon one of the lower beds, in such fashion that she was able to see through the large window that was facing her. For the next hour or so, until she fell asleep, she silently took in the night view as she recollected how wonderful a trip she had had in Europe. All she could hear, through her headphones, was the calming voice of one of her favorite Brazilian singers:
Eu conheço o medo de ir embora;
O futuro agarra a sua mão.
Será que é o trem que passou?
Ou passou quem fica na estação?¹
The first and only stop came about a couple of hours later, in the somewhat noisy industrial city of Munich, late at night. Being a person who sleeps deeply and easily, provided it is night, the dim light in the compartment did not prevent Araci from sleeping quite well, so she was only half awaken by the rather heavy steps of somebody who then entered the compartment. It was a young man with plain features and blond, disheveled hair, maybe in his early twenties, carrying a single duffle bag. He quickly stowed his dark-colored bag away on the top bed across from where Araci was, and immediately plunged himself onto the yellowish narrow bed, right beside his bag. Although feeling terribly sleepy, the girl started getting annoyed by the new traveler in the compartment, as he would not stop looking at her. Watching him a little more carefully, through her only partly open eyes, and slowly getting more alert, she could notice he had a pencil and a notepad in his hands, and that he would scribble something on the pad from time to time, right after furtively looking at her.
At that point, her discomfort grew much stronger than her weariness, and she could not help feeling suspicious and fairly scared. Since the young man would not stop looking at her or scribbling on his pad, she figured she should try to strike up a conversation with the stranger, and find out what he was up to. Hi, there. Are you headed long ways from here? As if already expecting the question, he promptly answered, Going up to Paris. You? So am I, she said, and anxiously completed, What are you writing there? I´m drawing pictures of you, he said, at the same time that he turned the notepad for her to see it. Oh, she said, not knowing what to say to that or about the very poor, childish drawings she could see on his pad. She was sure that man was insane: his face, his way of speaking, his strange behavior gave him away.
Doing her best not to look alarmed, Araci left the compartment, not even worrying about her belongings, and walked down the long aisles from one end of the train to the other, looking for a vacant bed in the other compartments, just to despairingly find that there was none available. Having nowhere else to go, Araci went back to her compartment, where she found the young man playfully and continuously lighting his cigarette lighter. She had no doubt she would not be able to go back to sleep, and thought the best thing she could do was talk to the man, as if she could then control the situation and prevent anything bad from happening. And bad things were all she had on her mind. Not letting go of the lighter for a long timeas if his goal was only to heighten Araci´s fears and anxiety, in fluent English, though with a noticeable accent, he calmly answered all her questions, which she did her best not to make sound as if they were a questionnaire, but rather a friendly chat.
Among the pieces of information Araci could get from the stranger were that he was German, and was called Maurice Fritz: he had been named after his recently deceased French grandfather. This one specific fact about his name calmed Araci down in a certain way, as she thought it to be good evidence of Maurice coming from a caring family. A family which, for sure, had been able to bring him up to be a good man, she thought. Her worries had only began to be soothed when soon she found out that Maurice was on that train because he was escaping from his family, for they wanted him to go back to the psychiatric hospital. Back?!, Araci could not help immediately asking. And she learned then that he had already been hospitalized three times, one of them because he had set fire to his brother´s car. Maybe feeling inspired by that talk, Maurice picked up the lighter and started playing with it again. Although Araci was at that point pretty much speechless, Maurice mentioned he had written a letter to his parents, explaining why he was leaving them; so he was sure they were not worried about him. Araci was taken aback when he put the lighter down only to zip his bag open, from which he took out a rather creased envelopethe letter that was supposed to inform his parents of his escape. If there had been a chance of that man not being insane, that chance was gone. Araci´s fears could not be stronger: her mind was filled with thoughts of fire, mentally-disturbed people, her traveling alone, her familyhow come she was so far away from her family and dear friends when she most needed them? The flickering flame of the lighter brought her back from her thoughts to the dreadful train compartment. When she could not clear her mind enough to decide what she should do, she noticed the train was coming to a slow halt, and it was only then that she realized they had finally gotten to Paris.
She quickly grabbed her belongings and started leaving, trying to look as casual as possible. Maurice walked right behind her, as if not wanting to break whatever connection had been built between them. Araci was feeling such great relief! Or was that happiness?, she thought, without being able to decide, though. It really did not matter. Her only wish was to free herself from him. They only said their goodbyes when already on the sidewalk outside the beautiful station Gare De Lyon. Maurice Fritz gave Araci one of the drawings, asking her to keep it so that she would never forget about himas if it were necessary, she thought. Araci briskly thanked Maurice for the drawing, telling him to take care. Having already started walking away from him, she turned and said, Hey, don´t you forget to mail that letter.
Será que é o trem que passou?
¹ Montenegro, Oswaldo. Estrada Nova. Estrada Nova. Jam Music, 2002.


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Rockstar, the massive patent troll in which Apple is a majority shareholder, sued Google for patent infringement. Of course, Rockstar filed suit in the Eastern District of Texas, the usual venue for patent trolls. Because of Apple's involvement, Google motioned to have the suit take place in California instead, where it stands a much greater chance of winning. Judge Claudia Wilken sides with Google. She states in the ruling:
Google and Apple's rivalry in the smartphone industry is well-documented. Apple's founder stated that he viewed Android as a "rip off" of iPhone features and intended to "destroy" Android by launching a "thermonuclear war." Defendants' litigation strategy of suing Google customers is consistent with Apple's particular business interest... This 'scare the customer and run' tactic advances Apple's interest in interfering with Google's Android business.
Every now and then, someone just gets it. Judge Wilken looked beyond the constructed sham companies and legal cobwebs - such as Rockstar setting up a sham company in Delaware with zero California contacts and transferring all patents-in-suit to that company a day before it sued Google.
The world needs more judges like this. In addition - it seems like Jobs' remarks about Android are catching up to the company. Delightful.


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A European Central Bank policymaker said on Friday the bank had had a "very serious" debate about cutting interest rates this week and that a cut was possible next year if the euro zone economy does not pick up.
The German and Austrian central banks separately suggested such a pick up is unlikely, forecasting scant growth in their economies in 2013.
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The ECB kept interest rates on hold on Thursday, but Governing Council members held "a wide discussion" about cutting interest rates from their current record low of 0.75 percent.
Jozef Makuch, one of the Council members, used the term "very serious" on Friday to describe the debate.
"If the situation does not improve, and there is relatively a small chance there will be a significant improvement, it is possible to expect a move in interest rates next year," said Makuch, who is also the governor of Slovakia's central bank.
The latest growth forecasts paint a gloomy picture.
The Bundesbank expects Germany's economy to grow just 0.4 percent next year, down from a June forecast of 1.6 percent. The new projection is marked by "a high degree of uncertainty", it added, and "the balance of risks is on the downside".
Austria's central bank cut its 2013 growth forecast for the country's export-dependent economy to 0.5 percent from the 1.7 percent it had expected in June, due to the global downturn, weak investment and sluggish consumer spending.
The downward revisions come a day after the ECB lowered its forecasts for next year, pointing to weaker growth prospects for the bloc's core countries such as Germany, France and the Netherlands.
"Given the difficult economic situation in some euro-area countries and widespread uncertainty, economic growth will be lower than previously assumed," the Bundesbank said.
"The cyclical outlook for the German economy has dimmed. Enterprises are cutting back their investment and hiring fewer new staff," the German central bank added.
Germany has been a key growth driver of the euro zone, now in its second recession since 2009, but the country's resilience to the crisis is wearing thin and the central bank's new projections reflect this.
Germany could even enter a recession -- defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth -- the Bundesbank said: "There are even indications that economic activity may fall in the final quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013."
The euro, which had dropped earlier in the day against the dollar after the growth forecasts were published, extended its fall after Makuch's comments.
Economists expect the German economy to contract in the fourth quarter but to improve as soon as in the first quarter.
"The Bundesbank is quite negative about next year," said ABN Amro economist Aline Schuiling. "What we are currently seeing is more and more evidence that the global industrial cycle is bottoming out."
Industrial orders and output have dropped in recent months, with exports falling at their fastest pace since late last year.
German industrial production fell by a much steeper-than-expected 2.6 percent in October, weighed down by weaker output in the construction sector and in investment goods, Economy Ministry data showed on Friday.
Auto industry association VDA said on Tuesday German new car sales could fall to the second-lowest level in more than two decades next year, as demand is hit by the euro zone crisis.
But some German economic data over recent weeks has been encouraging, with business morale rising for the first time in seven months and unemployment growing less than expected.
In Berlin, the German government was cautiously optimistic the economy will continue to grow.
"We have no doubt that we are still growing," Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters. "There are many indicators and they don't all point to a recession. The government is cautiously optimistic that we'll keep growing."
The Bundesbank said the slowing of the global economy, as well as recessions in other euro zone countries, were dragging on the German economy. But "the Bundesbank does not see a protracted slowdown but instead anticipates a return to growth path soon", it added, forecasting 2014 growth of 1.9 percent.
Austria's central bank forecast its economy would grow by 1.7 percent in 2014.
Austrian central bank chief Ewald Nowotny said his bank assumed the euro zone economy would reach its nadir in the fourth quarter, but past experience had shown expectations were not always met on time. "I hope this is not the case but I cannot rule it out," Nowotny said.


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Immunization Record Copies
Copies of your immunization records are acceptable as long as they are signed by the clinician or have a school or clinic stamp on the copy. If you have had a name change, make sure the name under which you have registered at ASU is on the information you submit.
Immunizations at the Student Health Center
The Mumps, Measles, and Rubella (MMR) - 2 doses required.
Hepatitis B vaccination - This vaccine is not necessary for admission, but is mandatory for certain programs of study. The SHC offers Twinrix, which is a vaccine against both hepatitis A and hepatitis B. Twinrix is administered over three doses. The first injection is given at the initial visit, the second is given one month (31days) from initial shot, and the third is given five months (155 days) from the second shot for a total of a 6 month schedule. Students 18 years or younger may go to the Health Department on Washington Ave. Call (870) 933-4585 for an appointment.
Tuberculin Skin Test - This is not an immunization, it is a skin test (screening) to determine if someone has developed an immune response to the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). It is given annually if needed for employment or to meet specific program requirements and to international students that have not had previously in the United States.
Influenza Vaccination - This is not required for admission, but is recommended and available in the fall semester each year.
Meningococcal Meningitis Vaccination - Meningococcal Meningitis is a rare but potentially fatal illness. Although not required for admission, meningococcal vaccine is recommended by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention for college freshmen living in dormitories and protects about 90% of people who receive it. Meningococcal vaccine is not kept on hand at the SHC, but is available upon order through local pharmacies. Students 18 and younger may go to the Craighead County Health Department, call (870) 933-4585 for an appointment. All students may utilize the First Care Clinic on Parker Road for adult immunizations, call (870) 972-8181 for an appointment.
Allergy Injections – Allergy injections prescribed by an allergist can be given at the SHC. You will need to obtain copies of your doctor's orders/prescription for your specific shots. Please call and make an appointment for the initial visit and instructions as to what you will need to bring. In case of an anaphylactic reaction, a specific dose of epinephrine will be administered.
Prophylactic medication for travel – The SHC provides prescriptions for medication to prevent diseases such as malaria prior to travel outside the United States. Please call for appointment.
More specific information regarding any & all immunizations can be obtained at The Student Health Center.


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Summer Tablescaping in a Shaker Home
Every summer we go to visit friends up in the Berkshires. Their family lives in a remarkable series of buildings, which once comprised a small Shaker village. It's a magical place, which I've documented pretty fully in the past (see below), but last weekend I got to do one of my favorite things and do the table for dinner.
Some pics from inside and outside the house
It's amazing to work with a really old room and really old elements, weaving flowers and moss into the mix. This is the sort of thing that's not only a great weekend project, but it also makes a huge impact. People really enjoy sitting down to a well done table. Enjoy the pics and use them as inspiration for your next table!
• Shaker House 2006
• Shaker House 2005
• Nice Pics of close by Hancock Shaker Village, which is open to the public
The table at start with dishes and glasses ready...
The spot where I found a nice piece of moss...
Rolling out the moss! (I returned it back outside the next day.)
Night is falling & just before dinner...


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Alcest wrote:Sgt.WinterMk.2 wrote:Who knew those quest giver icons could be detached? O.o I shall have to copy Marmalade's advanced technique.
The next horde quest giver I see, he's getting a Pyroblast to the FACE! XD
Pewpewblast's Quest: Bring me your SOULS! >:3
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A. Time to forget Windows NT 4.0's GUI and go to the command line. I know of some wonderful—and easy—commands that can solve your problem. I prefer Net Config Workstation, which will tell you about the workstation's configuration. (For example, Figure 1 shows information about the notebook on which I'm writing this article.) Various command-line utilities are available to help you find information or set up a network. To learn more about some of these utilities, see Paul Niser, "Take Command of Your Management Tasks," February 2001.
Figure 1: Net Config Workstation command
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