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Lady Knights roll Orange County, stay perfect
The No. 16 ranked CCRI Lady Knights basketball team traveled to Middletown, N.Y. to play the Colts of Orange County Community College. The Lady Knights defeated the Colts 107-60. With the victory, the Lady Knights improved to 7-0 on the season.
The Lady Knights dominated the play from the opening tip for the final buzzer. CCRI shared the ball well with 14 assists and played solid defense, swiping 10 steals with 52-percent shooting in the first half while making six 3-pointers. It led at the half 58-29.
The Lady Knights finished the game shooting 42-percent from behind the 3-point arc and shot 49-percent from the floor.
Captain Jahira Smith (Brooklyn, N.Y.) scored a game-high 23 points and just missed a triple-double with game-highs of nine assists and nine steals. Freshman Lexi Barros (New Bedford, Mass.) poured in 21 points, including a season-high five 3-pointers with five steals and three assists. Nyjah Porcher (New Britain, Conn.) chipped in with 15 points, eight rebounds and three assists, Alison Littles (Holyoke, Mass.) scored 12 points, grabbed seven rebounds and swatted four blocks and Moe Plummer (Fairfield, Conn.) had 10 points and four assists.
"We haven't played in over a week and you always hope that you don't come out flat and that you pick up where you left off which was the case last night," CCRI head coach Kate Lynch said. "I was pleased with the effort."
The Lady Knights will host No. 1 ranked Johnson County Community College from Overland Park, Kan. on Saturday at 2 p.m. for a battle to top 20 teams at the Vincent A. Cullen Fieldhouse.
Lady Knights' Smith signs with Claflin
The CCRI women's basketball team has had a strong start, and its early success yielded the program's first signing during the women's basketball early signing period. Smith was signed by the Lady Panthers of Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C.
"I cannot really begin to say how very proud I am of Jahira and what she has accomplished at CCRI," Lynch said. "'Jah' has set numerous records and has set the standard for where we want to take our program. She makes everyone around her better, both on and off of the floor. Jahira is the consummate teammate, a true leader, and a competitor. She has all of the intangibles that you dream of in a player. Jah is going to continue to flourish."
Smith exploded on the scene for the 2011-12 Lady Knights, leading them in almost every statistical category while also leading them to their ninth consecutive Region XXI title. She was the top scorer with 502 total points, averaging 16.2 points per game where she was ranked No. 41 nationally. She led in rebounds with 217, averaging seven rebounds per game. Smith also set the single season record for assists with 183 total and 5.9 per game, blowing away the former record of 156 by Nicole Girard in 2008-09. She is also ranked No. 14 nationally in assists nationally. Smith recorded an impressive 11 double-doubles and one triple-double in her 31 games played. In addition, she tied the single-game assist record when she recorded 14 versus Orange County CC on January 21st.
Lastly, she crushed the CCRI steals record with 110 steals so far, averaging 4.2 per game. In her sophomore campaign, through six games as a starter, Smith is averaging 20.2 points, 5.8 assists, 4.3 steals and 3.7 rebounds per game.
Smith was signed the same day as Karahn Scott from Toledo, OH.
"Jahira and Karahn come from hard-working families and it shows in their game," Claflin head coach Tiffany D. Tucker said. "They are excellent students and accomplished athletes. Smith and Scott come from championship programs and they understand what it takes to win. They have the ability to become 'program changers' within our system."
Knights overcome OCCC's comeback attempt
The CCRI Knights men's basketball team traveled to Middletown, N.Y. on Saturday afternoon to play the Colts of Orange County Community College for a northeast Division II showdown. The Knights defeated the Colts 82-78. With the victory, the Knights improved to 4-2 on the season.
The Knights fell behind the Colts early in the game 8-2 and the colts were able to extend their lead to 13-9 at the 15-minute mark. However, the Knights took their first lead of the game at the 10-minute mark 19-17. The Knights would keep a four-point lead for rest of the half before scoring the final four points of the half to go in leading 42-34.
In the second half, the Knights extended their lead to 11 points 68-57 with seven minutes to play in the game. The Colts would not break, though, as they stormed back to get within 79-78 with just 1:50 left in the game. From there, the Knights hit 3-of-4 free throws, two from Bryan Yarce (Cranston) and one from Rob Alers (Central Falls) to secure the hardfought road victory.
Leading the way for the Knights was captain Isaac Medeiros (Johnston), who charted a double-double with game-highs of 25 points and 13 rebounds. Yarce scored 15 points, and had six assists and three steals. Also helping the Knights was freshman guard Chris Light (Derry, N.H.), who shot 4-of-5 from the 3-point arc to contribute 12 points. Pat Marchand (Cranston) had nine points, five rebounds and two assists, Jerome Harris (Hartford, Conn.) added nine points and five assists and Rob Hazard (North Providence) also dished out five assists to help the Knights' attack.
"Solid road victory for our young men," CCRI head coach Rick Harris said. "We had to throw every one of our defenses at them in order to secure the win. Different players stepped-up and performed for us in this win today. This is exactly what we need with Desmond Williams (Torrington, Conn.) being sidelined."
The Knights were scheduled to be back in action Wednesday against the Warriors of Massasoit Community College. Those results were unavailable at press time.


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Get Your Skysight On!: How to Change the Way We Perceive the World
In the 1980s, Oregon artist Daniel Dancer came upon the Nazca Lines of Peru—giant sketches drawn in the desert by ancient peoples. With Kansas artist and friend, Stan Herd, Daniel created similar-scale images on a field by using a tractor as a paintbrush and crops for color. One day, Daniel invited an entire elementary school of students to be the beads on the headband of a 25-acre Indian head. The result was stunning and life changing. This is Daniel's story.
"Dead" I said, as I pointed to the desiccated pelican sprawled on the beach. My daughter, Sierra Sky, was about 18 months old, and I made her repeat the word. "Dead, she said. It's an easy word to say and I wondered if she made the connection to the real pelicans flying about, to the fragility of life...the impermanent nature of all things.
A few months ago, in the midst of facilitating the creation of a giant, living painting of a pelican in Florida—a painting made of 700 kids and teachers, sand, mulch, and thrift shop clothing—I recalled the long-ago event with my daughter on the beach. The students at Chaires Elementary School (near Tallahassee) wanted to make a statement about the Gulf oil spill, and they chose to celebrate the pelican. I'm pretty sure they understood what death was after seeing image after image of oil-soaked birds washed up on the beach. It's the "we're all connected part" that's not so easy to teach in a society embedded in the illusion that we're separate from nature.
Studies have shown that we remember 20 percent of what we read and 80 percent of what we experience. This fact was reflected in Johnny Malone's experience. In 1980, Johnny, who was 8 years old at the time, was one of 600 elementary school kids brought out to a 25-acre field. On that field, Kansas crop artist and my good friend, Stan Herd, with a tractor and various implements, gracefully etched the image of an Indian head. The kids were dressed in red and blue, and they each became a bead in the Indian's headband.
I ran into Johnny 20 years later while visiting my old Kansas stomping grounds. Johnny said that collaborating with his entire school on that project was the one thing he remembered from his school days. The profound experience helped him understand the importance of working together and holding a big picture view of life. His comment led to the birth of Art For the Sky. Since its inception in 2001, Art For the Sky, an aerial artist-in-residence program, has reached over 100,000 students and teachers in eight countries and 25 states.
No matter if I am in California or India, when I tell students in the audience that they are all going to die someday, they always look at each other a bit startled as if thinking, "No one ever told us that!" We all grow up with this denial in modern society, and it is mirrored in many ways—the most potent, perhaps, being our refusal to accept and do anything about the impending dangers of climate change. To combat this, every Sky Art image features, in some manner, the number "350." It is the most important number in the world. Why? Leading climate scientists agree that 350 is the maximum allowable parts per million of carbon in our atmosphere if we want to continue life as we know it on this planet. It is now 390 and going up.
A project last year at the Maryland Green Schools Summit featured a polar bear standing on a melting iceberg made of bed sheets. As the lone human laying on the ice, the governor of Maryland represented humanity. When a team of helpers pulled away the sheets, the view from high atop a crane—where these images are always filmed—was of the polar bear made of kids falling into the ocean. Can the experience of becoming an endangered polar bear, crocodile, or woodpecker with your schoolmates arouse an awakening or sense of urgency? A willingness to want to do something about their plight? This is the hope. For as every ecologist knows, it is our plight too. Endangered animals are "canaries" warning us of our own potential demise.
It all comes down to awakening what I call our skysight —a way of seeing the world through the eyes of all beings, and through the eyes of future generations. Training our imaginations to rise above our world to see how everything fits together. Two hundred years ago, Immanuel Kant wrote: "For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first." Evolving, as opposed to learning. Hmmm, that just might be the key as this badly needed change in perception seems so difficult for us humans to learn.
The quantum leaps in brain evolution that have occurred in human history have long puzzled scientists. It is the mission of Art For the Sky to somehow help evolve this new way of seeing the world. A way of perception where the long-term health of polar bears and pelicans—of all life on Earth—are automatically taken into account with every decision we make. This is the very best way to protect our own future as human animals on Earth. Every sky art creation concludes with everyone shouting, "Get Your Skysight On!"
We all long for tribe, for belonging and wholeness. This longing is at the heart of the human experience. It is this very longing that creates and recreates the universe every single day. This need to be complete—to be whole—lives in all things. It is the essence, I think, in the magic of these giant collaborative, living paintings for the sky.
As the tiger, seahorse, or eagle nears completion, there comes a moment when it becomes a metaphor for how change happens. For how wholeness manifests. For creation itself. Consider physics for a moment: a critical mass of electrons arise out of chaos, align, and bond together. And, voilà! An atom is born. Physicists call this moment, "phase transition." On the ground, in the art, everyone can sense this sudden field of created energy. It is evident in the joy and magic on every face. "Phase transition"? I simply call it LOVE.
The Six Teachings of Art For the Sky
Sky Art has been around for 3,000 years. On the parched desert plains of Peru, giant birds, whales, gods, and geometric figures can still be seen etched upon the Earth. Art For the Sky is an application of teachings inspired by the ancients, that dissolve separation and help bring us back into right relationship with the Sky, the Earth, the Animals, and one another.
- Intention: Intention is the foundation of all creation. Each Sky Art creation begins with an intention to make the world a better place for the creature we embody on the field, to awaken our skysight, and to begin a new relationship with the sky.
- Skysight: The ability to see the whole first is what Art For the Sky seeks to awaken. I call it our skysight. Training our imaginations to see the elusive Giant Picture and how each part fits into the whole is a vital skill that can lead us to the most creative solutions. By embodying a bear, a salmon, an eagle, or other creature, we can begin to learn to see through the eyes of all beings and through the eyes of future generations.
- Collaboration: Giving all participants the opportunity to succeed together as ONE in the creation of something magnificent is a wonderful community strengthening experience. When we THINK BIG and collaborate with others we always make the greatest difference— a rare and special experience that can serve us our entire lives.
- Interconnection: There is only one cause of human problems, and that is a sense of separateness. The sense that the world can be divided into "me" and "not me." Just as we need each individual for our design to work, in Nature we need ALL the myriad communities and species of nature intact to sustain a healthy planet. What we do to the Earth and Sky we do to ourselves.
- Gratitude: Participants are encouraged to view fleeting art in the indigenous tradition of "The Giveaway"—a gift of hundreds of hearts beating together, from Earth to Sky, honoring all the blessings of life on Earth. The experience of BEING the art, and then releasing it, is a model of gratitude that is everlasting.
- Impermanence: Art that leaves no trace is a lesson in impermanence, in understanding that nothing lasts. Everything is always changing, and we must appreciate each moment as precious. This is how nature works.
Daniel Dancer wrote this story for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Daniel is a part Mohawk, arts activist, educator, author, photographer, filmmaker, environmental community developer, and founder/manager of the only wilderness cemetery in America. He uses various media in an effort to break the culture-wide amnesia that endangers all life on Earth. Daniel's worldwide Art For the Sky residency programs, which inspire a new way of perceiving the world, along with his recent book, Desperate Prayers: A Quest for Sense in a Senseless Time, signify Dancer as a pioneer for the emerging new paradigm.
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ARCADIA >> A family of three escaped from a home-invasion robbery late Friday by jumping from the roof of their Arcadia home, officials said.
A man and wife estimated to be in their 50s and their son, estimated to be in his 20s, were inside a home in the 600 block of West Lemon Avenue when three robbers broke into the home through an unlocked rear window shortly before 11 p.m., according to Arcadia police Lt. Mike Castro.
The victims saw two of the robbers, but only heard the third, he said. One of the robbers brandished a dark-colored handgun.
"The suspects took the victims to an upstairs bedroom where they were forced to lie face down on the floor," Castro said. "One of the suspects held the victims at gunpoint while the other two ransacked the house."
But the gunman became distracted while talking to his accomplices, and the family saw their opportunity to escape, Castro said.
"When the suspect was not watching, the victims got up, raced to the window, pushed out the screen and jumped onto the roof. The victims then jumped from the roof to the front yard where they were screaming for help."
Neighbors called 9-1-1 after hearing the screams, Castro said. Police searched the area but did not find the robbers, who were believed to have fled out of the back of the home, Castro said.
Two of the victims were hurt jumping from the roof, Castro said. The husband suffered an injury to his leg and possibly a broken bone, while his wife suffered apparently minor injuries, the lieutenant said.
The son suffered injuries described as bumps and bruises.
The two robbers who were seen by the victims were described only as two black men, one wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and the other wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.
Because the home was ransacked and the homeowners were hospitalized, it was not clear what the robbers stole during the break-in, Castro said.
No one appeared to be home at the house Saturday afternoon.
There was no apparent reason the robbers targeted the family, Castro said.
A sign on the front lawn indicated the home is protected by a burglar alarm.
A married couple that lives nearby, who asked that their names not be published for fear of retaliation, said they were watching TV when the robbery occurred and heard nothing out of the ordinary until they noticed police outside.
"We locked the doors and set the alarm," the wife said.
The couple said they only knew the residents of the home from brief greetings in the neighborhood.
"It's terrible," the wife said. After two decades of relative tranquility in the area, the woman said it seemed crime has been creeping closer and closer over the past two to three years.
"We're thinking about installing metal bars on our windows," the husband said.
Jose Antonio Parra, a 35-year-old father of three, died after he was shot during a Dec. 12. 2011, home-invasion robbery about two miles away, in the in the 11000 block of Kristi Court. A robber or robbers confronted Parra and his family when they arrived home and robbed them of their rent money, investigators said. The robber then forced Parra's girlfriend and three children into a bedroom before fatally shooting Parra.
Most recently in the San Gabriel Valley, a West Covina woman and her elderly mother became the victims of a home-invasion robbery July 6 in the 3000 block of Larkwood Street, according to West Covina police officials. The daughter was struck in the head during the crime and suffered a minor injury. The two robbers fled with cash, jewelry, electronics and a safe.
Anyone with information on Friday's robbery in Arcadia was asked to contact Arcadia police at 626-574-5150. Tips may also be submitted anonymously to L.A. Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.


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Working in the maritime industry is tough and demanding. The job that you are in requires strict adherence to certain rules and procedures; you are also expected to meet high standards, to be attentive and conscious of what is going on around you. You have made a habit of mastering and following the regulations and guidelines that are part of your job. But that has not prevented you from falling victim to an accident.
The fact of the matter is that the company also has a responsibility. It is incumbent upon them to ensure that you work in a safe work environment in which hazards have either been eliminated or identified and mitigated.
No matter your particular job, working in the maritime industry exposes you to certain dangers. It is possible to sustain an injury in or on:
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If you have been in an accident in one of these places or in some other circumstance while you were working and you are convinced it owes to negligence on the part of your employer, then you should contact a Pharr, TX maritime injury lawyer. A Pharr, TX maritime injury lawyer can provide you with the legal advice you need to get justice.
It is important to realize that no matter how many pledges your company has made to you regarding the value they place on your safety cutting corners and putting workers in jeopardy in order to save money or make more of it is a constant temptation to owners and management. They may be privy to a danger that you are not aware of, and when they keep the information from you and put your life in danger they ought to be held accountable.
Incurring an injury that puts you in the hospital, that causes you great physical, mental, and emotional suffering, and that keeps you from earning income puts tremendous strain on you and your family. This is not a situation you should accept just because the people you trusted with your life wanted to save a few dollars. Your life and your health are valuable, and you should fight for them and for the recognition that they are.
Hiring a maritime injury lawyer in Pharr, TX will allow you to do just that. If you are convinced that the accident was not your fault, that it was the result of negligence on the part of your employer, then you should retain a lawyer who is specialized in maritime law. The latter is filled with complexities and subtleties that only a lawyer with deep knowledge and insight can sort through and employ in the service of your cause.
And you should not be in any doubt: what you are fighting for is a legitimate cause of justice. A Pharr, TX maritime injury lawyer will be able to gather the relevant facts, examine them, introduce expert and eyewitness testimony, and apply the right parts of maritime injury law in pursuing your case.
Reyna Injury Lawyers in Pharr, TX have considerable experience helping people who have been in maritime accidents. They have won many cases and have the knowledge, skill, and insight to fight companies whose negligence has led to worker injury.
As of now, you only have a justifiable belief that your company is liable for your accident. You must still prove it. A Pharr, TX maritime injury lawyer can help you put together the case you need to achieve victory. The company you are suing will put up a fight. The outcome of the case will nevertheless hinge on evidence and truth. These are things that are out there to be discovered. Your Pharr, TX maritime injury lawyer has the knowledge and persistence to get them and put them in service of your cause.
Not every such case goes to trial. Indeed, the company you are suing will most likely want to settle if they see the evidence goes against them. However, such companies always have a settlement strategy. They will go through a process that is designed to get you to settle for a low dollar amount. The right Pharr, TX maritime injury lawyer will have enough expertise and experience to see through such ploys. Your attorney will not advise you to accept any cash settlement that is not commensurate with all that you have suffered and lost as a result of the accident.
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Obituary: Richard Goldstone (1912-2007)
May 28, 2009
Thanks to a tip from author Jim Rosin, I've done some checking and verified the death of producer Richard Goldstone, on March 7, 2007. Goldstone was born on July 24, 1912, so he would have been 94 at the time. As far as I know, his death has not been reported anywhere until now.
Goldstone was a veteran screenwriter turned producer whose early career coalesced in MGM's short subjects department during its heyday. After that his name appears on some good films noir, including Robert Wise's The Set-Up, Gerald Mayer's Dial 1119, and Anthony Mann's The Tall Target.
In the fifties, Goldstone moved over to Twentieth Century-Fox and into television. He is credited as the producer of Adventures in Paradise during most of its first two seasons, but seems to have left less of a creative mark on the show than some of the other members of the show's large staff (which included Dominick Dunne and later William Self). In his memoirs, Paradise producer William Froug depicts Goldstone as a passive personality, willing to defer to Froug on key story matters; he may have handled mainly the physical production.
The same arrangement seems to have been in effect on Peyton Place, another Fox show, which Goldstone produced during its first season. But no one I've talked to from Peyton Place remembers Goldstone, and the executive producer, Paul Monash, kept tight control over the story content and casting. Goldstone also filled in for Gene Levitt as producer of a few Combat segments during the 1963-1964 season.
I never know quite what to do with these belated obituaries when I come across them. I've run a couple on the blog over the past year and a half. They're not exactly news, but it seems to me that the information should be recorded in some reliable spot on the internet. It used to be that the trade papers, or just Variety at least, would report the deaths of every small-part actor, assistant director, or makeup man in the industry – and very often, the spouses, parents, or children of same. But the filmmaking community isn't a community any more. Now if you're an industry veteran and you die, and a member of your family thinks to fax over a press release, the trades might reprint it, albeit without any further reporting, proofreading, or fact-checking. If you're lucky.
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November 1, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Did Richard Goldstone have any surviving relatives? I can find no reference to his wife and child.


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Friday, 16 May 2014 09:43 AM
Visitors to the high Arctic can now walk in the footsteps of great polar explorers like Roald Amundsen and send messages from the telegraph station that was first to receive news of the North Pole's conquest nearly 90 years ago.
Norway has renovated Amundsen's telegraph station at Ny-Aalesund, the world's northernmost permanent settlement on the remote Svalbard archipelago, and tourists, arriving mostly on cruise ships, will from next week be able to use it to send electronic messages around the world.
Amundsen, the first to reach the South Pole in 1911, had his sights on the North Pole but settled for Antarctica when American Robert Peary beat him to the top of the world.
When credible doubts later emerged about Peary's feat Amundsen took up the quest again. In 1926, along with Italian airship designer Umberto Nobile, he sailed over the North Pole in a zeppelin, becoming the first to officially reach the pole.
"This station was their only connection," says Dag Blakkisrud, who heads the telecom firm Telenor's heritage programme, which paid for the refurbishment.
"Amundsen sent several messages to Ny-Aalesund from the journey and a few years later when he got lost in a plane searching for Nobile, who was himself lost out in the ice. The station also received two telegraphic messages from him, which was the last we ever heard from Amundsen," Blakkisrud said.
Those would be the last messages ever received from Amundsen, whose remains or his airplane have never been found.
The town transformed into a mining colony after the expeditions but was abandoned after a 1962 accident killed 21 workers. It now functions as a research station.
"We brought back all the original equipment left when the town was abandoned 50 years ago. The telegraph will be the only way for tourists to send a message home as there is no mobile phone reception here," said Aasne Dolve Meyer, an adviser at Kings Bay AS, which runs the town.
Kings Bay expects around 30,000 visitors to Ny-Aalesund this year.
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In the last few days much talk on has centered around Apple's recent rejection of of an app called Endgame: Syria. The event has many lamenting Apple's policies regarding violence in games, which insists that enemies in in software "cannot solely target a specific race, culture, a real government or corporation, or any other real entity." But the game itself deserves some attention for how it uses mechanics to inform the user about a complicated issue: the real-world Syrian civil war.
Endgame: Syria rests somewhat uncomfortably in the mainstream conception of a "game". The app places the player in the midst of the modern Syrian conflict, asking him or her make decisions for the rebels and guide them in their struggle to gain public support and inflict military damage upon the regime. Though it presents a complicated issue with a somewhat simple perspective, Endgame ia an interesting case study on how games address serious issues.
Endgame doesn't seek to be a simulator – to comprehensively embody the complex interplay between politics, society, and war in Syria – but it does impart a basic understanding of the sort of challenges faced by the Syrian opposition. The player makes decisions during two "phases" of interaction: the Political stage, where the player strives to earn support from world leaders and enact various sanctions against the regime, and the Military stage, where rebels face off against powerful government forces.
Through gameplay, Endgame emphasizes the relationship between the military and political achievements of the Syrian rebels. Support from Qatar, or Saudi Arabia, or France in one phase directly translate into support during another, supplying the rebels with resources necessary to employ fighters. By placing the user in the position of making these important decisions, the game instructs the player on how vital these international supply lines are. Quite apart from being told that politics are important to the rebel cause, the player experiences the reality of resource scarcity firsthand.
As the game progresses, the regime steadily brings greater and more powerful forces to bear, including tanks, helicopters, and jets. The opposition must work with smaller forces, typically infantry. The player is presented with an attack from the regime and must choose which among his or her (mostly inadequate) forces will be selected to repel the opposing fighters. Using more powerful engines of destruction – captured tanks, often – results in a greater fighting chance but endangers the lives of civilians, which directly translates to a loss of foreign and domestic support. Placing the player in the shoes of an opposition leader making these decisions makes the combat realities of the Syrian rebels a little more understandable.
Endgame falls into a series of games which force the player to make difficult decisions and come to understand the perspective of real-life decision makers. Like Impact Game's Peacemaker, which places the player in the role of either an Israeli or Palestinian leader in the peace process, Endgame revolves around making difficult choices where short-term decisions have long-term consequences regarding public approval and support. Sitting down in front of either of these games, the player can experience the challenges faced by a Syrian opposition commander, who has to balance waging a war with protecting civilians, or an Israeli politician, for whom ordering the evacuation of a settlement may amount to political suicide.
The experience is certainly an interesting way to encourage the average consumer, playing the game on an Android device or in a browser, to engage with the Syrian conflict that has claimed more than 60,000 lives to date.
Not everything about the game is perfect. Issue might be taken with Endgame: Syria's somewhat simplified and smoothed take on a very messy war. The conflict is distilled down to monolithic representations of the regime and the rebels, leaving aside, for the most part, a wealth of sectarian and political subdivisions that exist on both sides. In having the player always responding to regime attacks, the rebels are presented as generally on the defensive, while real-life opposition forces have been on the offensive seizing land and making strategic gains across the country. Nowhere in the game is the player presented with the option of brutally executing captured regime soldiers, an act which has occurred after opposition victories and makes at least some of the rebels liable to be indicted for war crimes. For all its ambition to convey some of the challenges of a rebellion with legitimate grievances, the game runs into the classic problem of media surrounding conflict: how to tell a compelling story without wandering into the realm of propaganda?
Yet while the game may provide a simplified version of the regime and the rebels, it might be forgiven. Endgame: Syria provides a more serious take on war than most games on the market. Each of the player's choices are connected with the inevitable death of civilians, driving home the reality that the war he or she is waging has real-world consequences for innocents. The game has multiple end states, including a peace deal that fully satisfies none of the parties, and a violent breakup of the nation into chaos. Most often, the player will simply lose, succumbing to Assad forces and leaving the dictator to rule over a broken country. Far from being a power fantasy in the vein of the world's Call of Duty franchise, Endgame: Syria conveys an ambiguous, inglorious image of war… uncommon enough, in the games market today.
The game's designer, Tomas Rawlings, is well aware of the challenges associated with engaging with a serious topic through a medium most often associated with frivolous entertainment. The trailer above was released alongside Endgame, as a sort of introductory primer for audiences unfamiliar with viewing games in a serious style. In the video, Rawlings pays homage to the work of Joe Sacco, whose exploration of the Palestinian conflict through a comic is an example of what Rawlings considers to be a "pioneer" of a addressing serious topics in non-traditional mediums. Sacco's work addresses the themes of death, loss, and suffering in a medium that until recently was considered only appropriate for less serious fare. Rawlings, the creators a game focusing on rebellion and warfare, seeks to have Endgame exist within a similar space.
Today, comics appear to have made the leap into cultural acceptance in a way that games have yet to accomplish. Yet one can see that the two mediums have undergone similar journeys. One of the most famous serious comic series, Maus by Art Spiegelman, tells the story of the author's father's experience of the Halocaust. Although he eventually received the Pulitzer prize for his work, Spiegelman often worried that the story might be too complicated for comics to convey. Games, it seems, are beginning to experience a similar trial. "It is not the medium that is the issue," says Rawlings, "but what you do with it." Endgame: Syria is an honest look at a complicated issue, and is what we should hope to see in the medium of games.


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People dressed up as anime characters attend opening day of the Anime Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center on July 3, 2014. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Twenty-one-month-old Aria Chan, from San Francisco, dressed up as Chun-Li from the video game "Street Fighter," and Jonathan Hernandez, 21, of North Hollywood, dressed up as Peter Pan. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Derek Fu, 20, of Diamond Bar, dressed up as Fujitora from the anime show "One Piece." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Artist Sylvia Shi, of Baltimore, displays her art that is for sale at her booth during the opening day of Anime Expo. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Hope Donovan, left, of San Francisco, dressed up as Rin from the anime show "Free!," adjusts the scarf of friend Cyrene Cruz, of Los Angeles, dressed up us as Haru, a character from the same show. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Kim Zak, left, of Los Angeles, dressed up as Elsa from Disney's "Frozen," gets help with her gown from friend Tyler Amano-Smerling, of Los Angeles, dressed up as Ursula from Disney's "Little Mermaid." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Kimura U, right, the Ambassador of Cute, makes her way inside the Los Angeles Convention Center. She was appointed by the Foreign Ministry of Japan to promote Japanese culture abroad. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
A fan is dressed up as the male version of Ahri from the video game "League of Legends." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Kevin Nakashima, left, of Whittier, dressed up as Colossal Titan from "Attack on Titan." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Justin Boaz, right, of Vista, dresses up as Tuxedo Mask. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Klaura McKelvey, 15, dressed up as Aradia, a character from the web comic series, 'Homestuck." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Fans gather inside the Los Angeles Convention Center during Anime Expo. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Mikaylee Collins, left, dressed up as Grell Sutcliff, and Jenny Joboyan dressed up as Angelina Dalles, both characters from the anime series "Black Butler." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
From left: Renee Wallin, Danielle Smith, Lily Kim, Emily Tran, and Alex Tanguay, all from Arizona, pose for pictures. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Emily Moreno, 6, dressed up as Satoko from the anime show "Higurashi When They Cry," shows her new stuffed animal to Katie Ehrlich, 18, left, dressed up as Raven, and her friend Liza Woythaler, dressed up as Starfire, both characters from "Teen Titans." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Elyse Campos, 25, of Glendora, wears an original character she designed and named Allen, a white German shepherd. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Dakota Dennis of Woodland Hills, wearing the titular mask from the "Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" video game. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Johnny Yang, of Corona, portraying Gray Fullbuster from the anime show "Fairy Tail," walks around with his ice cannon. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Joshua Gainey, left, of Chino, dressed up as Kurloz Makara from the web comic series "Homestuck." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Tiana Jellum, of Los Angeles, dressed up as Stocking from the anime series "Panty &Stocking with Garterbelt." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Avery Perez, of Ventura, holds his bed foam and cardboard creation that he made in the likeness of Bad Batter, a character from the "Off" game. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Nathalie Urrutia, left, and Joseph Escobar, both of Burbank, dress up as characters from the puppet video series "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
Devin Izmirian, of Colorado, dressed up as Rem from the anime show "Death Note." (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Link
The 23rd Anime Expo, the largest anime and manga convention in North America, is opening Thursday at the Los Angeles Convention Center for four days of exhibits, panel discussions, concerts, commerce and, yes, cosplay (take a peek at the gallery above for duds from 2014).
After feedback from last year's attendants, the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, which organizes the expo, has expanded the role of costume play in the event, creating more sets where cosplayers dressed as their favorite anime (animation) and manga (comics) characters can take photographs.
"Anime Expo draws a lot of people who get into costume, and we wanted to provide an area for them to be able to take some really good pictures. We have a lot of really cool sets," said Meg Amo, the society's brand manager, citing a Japanese garden and a tearoom, among others.
The event will draw 60,000 people from various countries and cultures, Amo said, typically within the age range of 18 to 25. They look to meet people with an interest in anime as well as see the latest premieres and products.
In addition to a record 280 exhibits at this year's expo, two classic franchises will receive a spotlight: "Sailor Moon" and "Dragon Ball Z."
"Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods" marks the anime series' first theatrical feature in 17 years. The film premiered in Japan last year and starts a limited theatrical release here Aug. 5. Goku, the hero of the series, faces off against Beerus, the god of destruction, to save Earth in this English-dubbed continuation of the story, produced by FUNimation. The red carpet premiere is at the nearby Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on Thursday, followed by a panel with voice actors and crew from the English version of the film on Saturday at the expo.
"I would say safely that 'Dragon Ball Z' is the largest of all animes in the last 20 years or more that have come out of Japan," said Justin Cook, FUNimation's director of production.
Since 1996 FUNimation, which will have a booth at the expo, has created English dubs of "Dragon Ball Z" animation developed from the Japanese manga series by Akira Toriyama. Chris Sabat, voice actor and voice director for the English dub, said fans who followed the show at its peak popularity in 1999 and 2000 have brought new generations to the series.
"When I'm making an appearance or whenever I meet anyone, it's 'Man, I ran home from school every day to watch that show, and I'm introducing that show to my kids,'" Sabat said. "I think it's going to have a large impact because there's such a wide demographic of people who were watching it when it was originally popular and people who are watching it now that it's popular again."
Amo said the '90s anime series "Sailor Moon" is also getting a revamp in the form of the new series "Sailor Moon Crystal" — available for streaming on Hulu and Viz Media's Neon Alley starting Saturday — and a new dub of classic episodes from the series. "Crystal" retells the start of the series, when heroine Usagi Tsukino first discovers her powers.
On the premiere date of the new series, the expo will present a panel featuring the show's voice actors, a screening and a meet-up for cosplayers sporting the signature blond buns of Sailor Moon or other looks in the series.
Cosplayers already have begun previewing their attire for the upcoming expo on Instagram. Ariane Brandt, 25, of San Diego, has attended the Anime Expo for the last seven years, devoting extensive time and money to her costumes before stepping into the convention center.
A "Sailor Moon" fan, she worked with nine friends to re-create the outfits of 10 "sailors" of "Sailor Moon" for this year's expo. She spent more than 30 hours sewing five of the 10 costumes. The payoff? Wearing the outfits to cosplay meet-ups and drawing attention from other attendees.
"You always want to see your work appreciated. You don't want it to sound like it's a popularity thing, but it kind of is," Brandt said. "At the convention, it's always the most fun when you have a lot of people taking pictures, asking for pictures, asking how did you make something or how did you put it together. Talking about the craft is one of my favorite parts of cosplay."
Brandt's Instagram account showcases the fruits of her labor, and on Thursday — a day off from her job as tech support for radiology software — she'll have a chance to put on a show for the thousands of other expo attendees.
— Haley Goldberg | @LATHeroComplex
Anime Expo 2014
Where: Los Angeles Convention Center
When: Thursday-Sunday
Tickets: Four-day admission $25-$75; one-day admission $40; Thursday-Saturday, entry to exhibit hall only is free after 4 p.m.; parking is $20
Information: anime-expo.org
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SEATTLE, Wash.—Dealt with a loss from Washington State yesterday, UC Santa Barbara (1-5) looked to regain its winning ways with a tough and well played win against No. 41 Washington (5-1). Facing two of the very tough Pac-12 programs this weekend, Santa Barbara could not record a win this weekend as the team suffered a 7-0 loss to the Huskies.
From the start of the morning, UCSB was put on its heels as the team faced an uphill battle. Washington showcased its talented squad with the doubles pairs dominating the groups of the Gauchos. Junior Paola Cos and freshman Kaiulani Boyer highlighted the Gauchos as they were the pair on court No. 1. Cos and Boyer had flashes of good play, but it was not enough as the pair went through a 6-2 loss. Junior April Scatliffe and sophomore Priscila Garcia paired up on court No. 2, but faced a tough 6-0 loss while the pair of Stacy Yam and Luisa Ortiz Candido finished with a 6-1 defeat.
The singles matches did not fair as well for the Gauchos as the team faced a tough challenge of pulling off a come from behind victory against the Huskies. Boyer was once again seeded onto court No. 1 and proved to be a challenge for Washington. In the end, Boyer ended with a tight 6-2, 7-6 loss. Scatliffe came even closer to a victory as she suffered a tough three set 7-6, 3-6, 10-6 loss. Washington proved to be too much for the Gauchos as the Pac-12 program completed the 7-0 sweep.
The Gauchos will finally return home next weekend and host Pacific on Sunday, February 16th at 10 a.m.
Feb. 9, 2014
Seattle, Wash.
No. 1 Elianne Douglas-Miron/ Riko Shimizu def. Paola Cos/ Kaiulani Boyer, 6-2
No. 2 Grace Ysidora/ Natali Coronel def. April Scatliffe/ Priscila Garcia, 6-0
No. 3 Sophia Bott/ Angela Chen def. Stacy Yam/ Luisa Ortiz Candido, 6-1
No. 1 Grace Ysidora def. Kaiulani Boyer, 6-2, 7-6
No. 2 Elianne Douglas-Miron def. April Scatliffe, 7-6, 3-6, 10-6
No. 3 Julija Lukac def. Paola Cos, 6-0, 6-1
No. 4 Riko Shimizu def. Stacy Yam, 6-0, 6-0
No. 5 Natali Coronel def. Melissa Baker, 6-2, 6-2
No. 6 Natalie Allen def. Luisa Candido Ortiz, 6-3, 6-1
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Gildan ActivewearGildan Activewear is a vertically integrated manufacturer of basic, frequently replaced, nonfashion apparel. Activewear/underwear (t-shirts, sports shirts, underwear, fleece sweat shirts/pants) account for 80% of the top line, while socks comprise 20%. The company has yarn-spinning, textile making, sewing, and distribution operations. Gildan primarily sells "blanks" (plain tees and sweatshirts) to distributors serving silk-screen printers. Printed tees and sweatshirts are marketed at sporting events and stadium concerts.
Extreme cotton-price volatility hurt fiscal 2012's bottom line, while relative price stability, contributions from acquisitions, and operating margin improvement of almost seven percentage points were the catalysts behind record earnings in fiscal 2013. Expanded production capacity at Gildan's factories in Bangladesh helped support an increase of over 30%, year to year, of its international (Europe and Asia) printwear sales in the December quarter.
The ramp-up of sales of the company's branded apparel lines also augurs well for solid results during the balance of fiscal 2014. Although the company remains predominantly a generic garment manufacturer, Gildan branded shipments of socks and underwear to Wal-Mart (WMT - Free Wal-Mart Stock Report) began last year, and similar programs with other large retailers are now under way. New licensing agreements with the Under Armour, New Balance, and Mossy Oak labels are other considerations for Branded Apparel's bright sales growth prospects.
Even at the recent elevated price, this timely stock offers good 3- to 5-year earnings growth potential to 2017–2019.
Tractor Supply Company
Tractor Supply Company is the predominant operator of retail farm and ranch stores in the United States. It operates under the Tractor Supply Company and Del's Farm Supply banners and is three times larger than its five nearest competitors combined. Approximately one quarter of sales are derived from high-margined private label merchandise. Its customer base consists mostly of homeowners with above-average incomes and little debt, including recreational farmers and ranchers, as well as those who enjoy the rural, "out here" lifestyle. Product offerings include horse, pet, and small animal products necessary for their health, care, growth, and containment; hardware, truck, towing, and tool products; seasonal items including lawn and garden goods and power equipment, maintenance products and work/recreational clothing and footwear.
Tractor Supply management is calling for solid 9.5%-13% earnings growth this year, but that range is significantly below the 20%-plus gains recorded in the 2009-2013 period. One reason for the ''slowdown'' is expected deflation of zero to down 1% (which could limit comp-store sales gains to 2.5%-4%) due to lower input costs. Other factors limiting bottom-line growth are a move to a new corporate store-support center and higher medical costs tied to greater employee enrollment and the Affordable Care Act. Additionally, Tractor is incurring higher freight costs as it operates more stores in the widely spaced western states. We expect the company's above-average earnings growth to resume in 2015.
Nonetheless, management has outlined aggressive growth plans through 2017. It's targeting annual earnings increases of 14%-16%, bolstered by 3%-5% in comparable-store growth and yearly operating margin expansion of 25 basis points. Other pluses include square footage growth and share repurchases.
These neutrally ranked top-quality shares ought to interest long term investors. A mid-teens earnings growth rate along with a pristine balance sheet exceed the promise of many equities.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Another View -- Marjorie Smith: Show me the moneyMARJORIE SMITH
March 01. 2014 10:52PM
Watching my grandchildren gathered around the game board playing Monopoly, I could not help but think about my legislative colleagues engaged in the same activity, but with real money - not their money, but the public's.
Both activities are played with rules. Parker Brothers developed the rules for the board game. For real-life monopoly, a legislative committee used public money to hire a firm that is in the casino consulting business to write the bill that sets up the rules.
White Sands officials are justifiably proud of their effort. They say that the top tier casinos really like the rules in the casino legislation now going through the New Hampshire House. And why wouldn't they? It's like the fox writing the rules for access to the chicken house.
We've had state-sanctioned monopolies in the past - created to meet the needs of the public. Telephone and electric power distribution monopolies used to be justified because the services were essential. In recent years, the nation's thinking has changed, and communication and power distribution are governed increasingly by the marketplace.
So, who can explain why a state - the state of New Hampshire, which prides itself on its libertarian traditions - would even consider putting the state seal on an out-of-state monopoly existing to generate revenue for out-of-state private investors?
Some say it's for the jobs. What jobs? I studied the bill and see no mention of job guarantees, so I looked to see what casino operators have done when they moved into other states. There were construction jobs - a good thing. But overwhelmingly, the workers were hired from other jurisdictions without any protections afforded to unionized workers. That's not surprising since at least one of the major casino operators funds one of the most active anti-union lobbies in the country. Even the labor unions know this. When one labor leader appeared before the Ways and Means Committees, after acknowledging that nowhere in the bill is there any job guarantee, he said his first step would be to try to find a compromise with the operators where his union workers would agree to work for less than the level they have fought so hard to establish.
After construction is finished, there would be jobs. The record shows that the high-paying jobs likely would go to out-of-state casino professionals already in the industry. I understand that. The casinos stand to make a lot of money and can't take the chance that new people might not understand the basic principles of this for-profit operation.
There will be jobs available. Low-wage jobs, many of which would be tip-dependent and therefore below the minimum wage, and testimony was presented that casino patrons tip less than usual if they are not winning - which means most patrons. But even for these jobs there is no guarantee of even a minimum number of jobs in the bill.
There will be the need for other jobs and other service workers to help those families torn apart by gambling, workers to help address increased crime - just two examples of what has been experienced elsewhere.
So much for jobs. What about money?
There is lots of talk about money; money that slots bring into the casino coffers, money that table games bring to the same coffers.
There is language that sets the cost of a license, and language that sets the percentage that would go to the state. Some of my colleagues otherwise opposed to casinos are supporting the bill because revenue will come to the state, but how much?
No one on any side of the issue truly knows the answer to this question. And there is certainly no guarantee in the bill concerning revenue to the state.
There is some money in the bill to address the social costs of gambling, but no plan for how those funds are to be used, or by whom.
The state hasn't done very well in the past with money for tobacco cessation. I am not confident that we would address gambling addiction any better.
But we do know what happens in other states.
In Delaware, for example, the casinos are not bringing in the revenue, that the operators expected, and they have now asked the state for an $8 million bailout. So there's a specific dollar amount, with the money going the wrong way.
I can see money changing hands - from citizens to the casino industry, from citizens to social service and policing agencies, from the casino industry to well-paid casino professionals, from the industry to construction workers who will get short-term jobs at the lowest wage scale and to others who will work for tips.
I see money coming to the state government for licenses out of which the state will have to pay the cost of research and evaluation of the applicant, and start-up services for the three years it likely will take to open the casino if the bill is enacted, but see nothing in the bill that guarantees revenue to help the state deliver essential services other than those funds for research and prevention already mentioned.
What I can't see is why the state of New Hampshire would grant a monopoly to a private, forprofit, out-of-state business to take our money and run.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) DeAndre Jordan and Blake Griffin each had double-digit points and rebounds while leading a dunkfest Wednesday night in the Los Angeles Clippers' 106-84 victory over the San Antonio Spurs, who lost for the first time this season.
Griffin had 22 points and 10 rebounds and Jordan had 20 points and 11 rebounds to lead six players who scored in double figures while helping the Clippers snap a two-game skid against the team that swept them out of the second round of the playoffs last season.
Danny Green scored 12 points and Tim Duncan added 10 for the Spurs, whose 4-0 start was the best in franchise history.
Jordan, Griffin and Chris Paul, who had 10 points and 12 assists, left the game for good with 4:47 remaining and the Clippers ahead by 25 points. They had just finished a raucous stretch of dunks off alley-oop passes during a 12-2 spurt. Griffin had three big dunks in the sequence after Jordan's high-flying act dominated the third quarter.
The Spurs got no closer than 11 points after opening the fourth on an 11-2 run. Jamal Crawford hit a 3-pointer to reignite the Clippers' offense.
The Clippers took an 82-62 lead into the fourth after outscoring the Spurs 35-21 in the third while shooting 71 percent from the field. Los Angeles dominated the defensive glass 12-2 and its second unit extended the lead to 20 points while Griffin and Paul spent the last few minutes on the bench.
Eric Bledsoe led Los Angeles' reserves with 15 points and Matt Barnes added 12.
Jordan had three highlight dunks in the third quarter, including a fast break off an alley-oop pass from Paul. The Spurs were held to 37 percent shooting and outscored 22-10 in the paint.
The Clippers led 47-41 at halftime after being ahead by 11 points early in the second. They had just six turnovers after committing 13 in the first half against Cleveland in their previous game. Griffin, Paul and Jordan propelled the Clippers' offense in the second quarter, with Jordan scoring eight points, including consecutive dunks, and Griffin and Paul four each.
Notes: G Manu Ginobili scored nine points playing in his 670th game as a Spur, moving him into fifth on the franchise's all-time list. ... Griffin played with a sleeve covering his right elbow for the second straight game. He has fluid on his elbow and a stiff neck. ... The Spurs' loss left the Knicks as the NBA's only undefeated team. ... Billy Crystal and Floyd Mayweather Jr. were among the Clippers' fourth sellout crowd of the season and 53rd in a row.


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Bob Hahn, left, and Bill Sweetman, members of Punta Gorda Elks Lodge 2606, pick up bags of toys from Toys for Tots to deliver with food baskets to needy families in Charlotte County for Christmas.
Members of the St. Andrews South Golf Club collected donations again this year for the Center for Abuse and Rape Emergencies, during their December luncheon meeting. These gifts will brighten the holidays for families served by CARE. Lois Bolger and Janet Proudfoot delivered the collected items to Kathy Mena, operations leader at CARE.
Congratulations to the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office District 4 Commander, Lt. Michael Anderson. He recently graduated from the FBI National Academy Program in Quantico, Va., according to a release from the Sheriff's Office. Anderson was one of 260 who graduated in the FBI's 251st session. It consisted of law enforcement officers from 49 states, 29 countries, four military organizations and six federal civilian organizations.
Speaking of the Sheriff's Office, congratulations go out to sheriff-elect Bill Prummell. He recently was one of 15 to graduate from the Florida Sheriffs Association's New Sheriffs Institute Training in Tallahassee held Dec. 2-7, according to a release from the CCSO. The program is held every four years following elections, and provides critical resources and training for the newly elected sheriffs and their command staff.


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Joseph A. "Joe" Rose
Deacon Joseph A. "Joe" Rose of Warwick passed away July 17, 2013 at the Roberts Health Center. He was the beloved husband of the late Elizabeth "Betty" (Makin) Rose for 64 years.
Joe was born in Providence, the son of the late Joseph A. Rose and Hazel (Snow) Rose. Joe worked for Bulova Watch Company for 43 years retiring in 1982. He was active in St. Kevin Parish in Warwick and St. Thomas More in Narragansett. He was ordained a Permanent Deacon for the Diocese of Providence in 1979 with a ministry serving various nursing homes. He was a volunteer at South County Hospital and for the St. Vincent DePaul Society. He has been a 3rd degree member of the Knights of Columbus since 1957. He resided in Destin, Florida for many years with Betty. He enjoyed golfing, the beach, maintaining his home garden and most recently working at the Wood Shop at the Pilgrim Senior Center.
He leaves sons Richard and wife, Anne, Thomas and wife, Joyce, and a daughter, Barbara, and husband, William Leahy, all of Warwick. He also leaves eleven grandchildren; and twenty great-grandchildren.
His funeral will be held Monday at 10 a.m. from the Thomas & Walter Quinn Funeral Home, 2435 Warwick Ave. with a Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. in St. Kevin Church, Sandy Lane. Burial in St. Ann Cemetery, Cranston. Visiting hours Sunday 5-7 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, contributions to St. Kevin Church, 333 Sandy Lane, Warwick, RI 02889, will be appreciated. Information and condolences, visit TheQuinnFuneralHome.com.


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Re: Help! 8 mth old won't eat!
hi, im a new mom and it worries me when my dd does that.. but i figured out a way to get her to eat especially when i know she hasnt eaten in many hours (i bf her full time though, no miss)
usually my dd would eat if there's someone or something that's distracting her.. she would stare at my mom when my mom is making silly faces while i put the spoon on her lips and she'll just open up while still looking at my mom.. she'll play with her sippy cup or any of her loud noise making toys and will just open her mouth when i put a spoon in it without even looking at what im putting in her mouth (lol, ofcourse it's all edible, but just ex. ukno) this has been working pretty good for us.. (if it's you distracting her though, it's not very effective.. lol, i cant seem to feed her solids when im the only one around or when she's not distracted, my mom and my bro do a good job tryna make silly faces for about 15 minutes til she's done eating..)
and this distracting technique is also effective when there's a little bit left in the plate and she wouldnt eat anymore.. pretty much anything you can think of that you cant make her do, she'll do it when being distracted by something else.. just like when she cries.. she stops crying when she's given a toy..
just from experience.. i wish u good luck!
(my dd btw eats only baby cereals, puffs, and white rice.. bananas every now and then)
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Three people, including two police officers, were wounded in a suicide attack Sunday in Afghanistan, while 21 other civilians were wounded in a separate attack.
Zia Durani, spokesman for the police chief in southern Kandahar province, said that the suicide car bomber targeted a police checkpoint in the Daman district.
Elsewhere, 16 civilians were wounded after a bomb hidden near an electric station exploded in eastern Kunar province, said Gen. Abdul Habib Sayedkhaili, the provincial police chief.
Meanwhile five civilians were wounded after a bomb attached to a motorbike exploded in Aibak, the capital of northern Samangan province, said Sediq Azizi, spokesman for...


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Officer punched in the face on dashcam video
Officer punched in the face on dashcam video
LONGWOOD, Fla. —
Dashcam video shows a Longwood police officer getting punched in the face Thursday night.
The video shows a traffic stop at State Road 434 and U.S. 17-92.
The car pulls over in a parking lot and a man is seen exiting the car with his hands up, but then he takes off running.
As he is being tackled, you can see him take a swing at the officer and hit him in the face.
Police did not release details about the event.
Demetrius Harris, 24, was charged with aggravated battery, possession of cocaine, battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting a law enforcement officer with violence and other charges.


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SOURCE: Chang, Joseph S. M. J. "Julius Caesar in the Light of Renaissance Historiography." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 69, no. 1 (January 1970): 63-71.
In the following essay, Chang views Julius Caesar as a demonstration of Shakespeare's historical relativism.
Criticism of Julius Caesar has moved steadily toward the position recently taken by Mildred E. Hartsock, that the play "is a demonstration that the truth of character cannot be known."1 Earlier critics had become reconciled to a divided characterization of Caesar, and they began to find inconsonances in Brutus as well.2 The more the play is examined, the more one is inclined to accept the conclusion Miss Hartsock tentatively offers: "Perhaps Shakespeare was playing a bitter 'modern' trick, and, in the spirit of Pilate's embarrassing question, implying that the truth cannot be known." The difficulty, by her own admission, is that this interpretation comes close to proposing "that in 1599, a...
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Nate Bollinger enters his second season as an assistant coach on the Spartan men's basketball staff in 2015-16. He brings a wealth of basketball knowledge and experience as he finished out an outstanding collegiate playing career in 2014.
Bollinger began his collegiate career at Delaware Valley College where he totaled 693 points while helping the Aggies win a Freedom Conference Championship and achieve a trip to the Division III National Tournament for the first time in program history. As a freshman, he started 21 out of 28 games at the shooting guard position as he averaged 8.6 points per game. Named a team captain in his sophomore campaign, Bollinger earned All-Freedom Conference Second Team honors after ranking second in the conference in scoring average with 18.1 points per game. He also set a school record by scoring the fifth most points in conference history with 50 against Wilkes University on Jan. 28, 2012.
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I'm not sure about this from Wheelock:
'Tantalus sitiens flumina ab ore fugientia tangere desiderabat.'
I'm assuming it means: 'Tantalus, being thirsty, desired to touch the rushing river by his mouth.' or Because Tantalus was thirsty, he wanted to drink from the rushing river. I'm not sure what the 'ab' of 'ab ore' is doing there. Wouldn't just 'ore' by itself be correct? Unless it's ablative of agent, in which case can a mouth be an agent? I thought only whole people could be agents, not just bits of them.


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When it comes to sharing the details of her life, Mariel Hemingway is an open book. Her new documentary, "Running from Crazy" (executive produced by Oprah Winfrey), tells the story of how she coped with her family's history of mental illness. Her new book, "The WillingWay: Stepping Into the Life You Were Meant to Live" (co-written by boyfriend Bobby Williams),shares tips and insights into their wellness lifestyle — a topic Hemingway approaches with great enthusiasm.
"It's about reorganizing how you think about your life," said Hemingway, who at 51 looks younger than most do at 31. "This isn't about meditating for hours a day. It's about taking time for yourself and realizing it's not the amount, it's about the quality."
Hemingway, who lives with Williams in the Los Angeles area, believes the best way to embrace a wellness plan is by going back to the basics.
"This country was built on farms and communities, and we've lost that," she said. "We distance ourselves. People say they're doing their own thing. And I think this creates illness. I say, take the 'i' out of illness, put in 'we' and create 'wellness.'"
Here are some of Hemingway's tips for embracing a healthy lifestyle:
Start the day with purpose.
"What you think at the start of the day is so important. Get up 15 minutes earlier so you can be silent for a few minutes. Fill your mind with grateful thoughts — the people you love and what's important to you. Then move your body slowly. So often we jump out of bed and that's very jarring to the system. Be gentle with yourself when you wake up."
Change one meal a day.
"If creating new eating habits seems too hard, start with one meal," she said. "I like to suggest breakfast because what we eat in the morning sets the tone for the whole day. So make an effort to really enjoy that first meal and make sure it's nothing processed or with chemicals. Use real, natural ingredients. You'll find you crave the good things after you start eating them more regularly."
Grow something.
"I'm not saying everyone has to have a farm or have chickens, but if you live in the city, grow herbs in your window. I guarantee if you take the time to grow that basil or that oregano that if you put it on your food, it will taste that much better. It's another connection to the process and it helps you appreciate what you eat so much more. We can start small with what we have."
Get outside.
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The comment was originally posted at Hacker News, and was verified to be from an anonymous developer at Microsoft who works on the Windows NT kernel. He later deleted the comment, but allowed Bevand to repost it on his blog - but with the proof, "the SHA1 hash of revision #102", removed. It paints a grim picture of the state of Windows.
He claims Windows is indeed slower in lower-levels than Linux, and the root cause of the problem is "social". While Linux' open nature attracts developers working for glory and recognition, this is not the case within Windows - in fact, we run into something that has long been a problem at Microsoft: fragmentation. Windows development is managed by many different teams, and these teams do not work together at all.
This means there's no incentive on working on small, incremental improvements, according to the Windows developer, because only huge improvements might get you credit - small improvements "just annoy people and are, at best, neutral for your career". This is the exact opposite of, say, the Linux kernel, where there is a continuous stream of small improvements and experimentation.
There are external issues as well - such as a talent drain to other companies, like Google. This means Microsoft has to rely more and more on people straight out of college, and these have no knowledge about why things work the way they work, and they are afraid to change things that do work. They then tend to recreate existing features instead of improving old ones.
All in all, it paints a not-so-pretty picture of Windows development. Since the blog post hit publicity the anonymous developer has had a few more words to say - the usual stuff in this scenario, trying to make it all a bit less harsh. Still, even with the harshness reduced, it ain't pretty.
It'll take a very strong manager to break down the walls and change all this, but you'd think upper management is aware of these issues and working on them.


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"Mine!" This all-too-familiar children's cry can drive parents to distraction. Nevertheless, Michael Tomasello from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig firmly believes that – unlike our nearest animal relatives, the great apes, who largely lack the capacity for collaboration – children are naturally cooperative and helpful.
Neanderthals mated with modern humans! This revelation generated great excitement among the media, but it's old news for anthropologists. They are more interested in the genome of our closest relative.
As far as cognitive scientists are concerned, the children's game "I spy with my little eye" is anything but child's play. It is based on the assumption that the person whose turn it is can imagine what the other players are able to see -- or not. But do dogs and apes, for instance, also share this ability? At the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, scientists study social cognition factors in different species.
Steep mountains, impenetrable forest and muddy ground are all part of a day's work for Martha Robbins. Far from her home base at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, she roams the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda in her study of mountain gorillas. She shares the large and small dramas that mark the lives of these rare primates – and she is also not a stranger to a certain amount of adventure.
"This will completely transform anthropological research," declares Jean-Jacques Hublin, jumping out of the chair on which he'd just sat down. He goes over to the window and points to the courtyard below: "Do you see the container down there? We use that to transport one of the highest-resolution computer tomographs around the world to scan the unique finds we uncover on-site. The objects do not need to be taken to the scanner, the scanner comes to them."
A bit of saliva can tell the story of an entire people. Since scientists learned to identify the human genome letter for letter, they can sometimes gain more information from it than they can from potsherds or yellowed papers. Thus, Mark Stoneking and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology use it to investigate, for example, how various peoples gradually dispersed.


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WILMINGTON, Mass. — The Bruins confirmed two things today at Ristuccia Arena that most expected even before the team took the ice for practice.
First, general manager Peter Chiarelli confirmed that forward Nathan Horton will not return during the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Horton has been out with a concussion since Jan. 22.
Horton has missed 36 games and he has hit several roadblocks in his attempt to return to the lineup. For more, check my NHL.com story.
•After his team's final practice in preparation for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals with Washington Thursday night, head coach Claude Julien said that defenseman Adam McQuaid would not be available against the Capitals. McQuaid hasn't skated since leaving the game in Ottawa April 5 with an upper-body injury.
Julien also said a decision would be made on Johnny Boychuk Thursday and that Tuukka Rask would not be available unless the medical staff tells the coach differently Thursday. Both Rask and Boychuk practiced three straight days this week.


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