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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials are searching the Moscow offices of Human Rights Watch and the corruption watchdog Transparency International, intensifying the recent wave of pressure on non-governmental organizations.
Rachel Denber of Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that officials from the prosecutor general's office and tax police were conducting an "unannounced audit" and demanding documents.
Transparency's Russia chief Elena Panfilova said that her organization's office was also being searched.
Russian officials have searched as many as 2,000 non-governmental groups in the past month, according to Pavel Chikov, a member of the presidential human rights council, whose human rights law group is also being searched.
The searches began after President Vladimir Putin gave a speech to the FSB, the KGB's successor agency, in February, urging them to focus on groups receiving foreign funding.

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A well-taken headed goal from Paulo Guerrero was enough to send Corinthians into the final of the Club World Cup, as they defeated Al-Ahly 1-0 in the semi-final at the Toyota Stadium in Japan.
The Brazilian side took a deserved 1-0 lead when the forward headed Douglas' inch-perfect cross past opposing goalkeeper Sherif Ekramy in the first half, and despite their African opponents improving after the break, an equalising goal never materialised.
Corinthians, making their first appearance in the tournament since winning the inaugural edition 12 years ago, had a reported 20,000 fans in the stadium, and it certainly sounded like an accurate figure as Timao's supporters spurred them on from kick-off.
It was the Copa Libertadores champions that fashioned the first shooting opportunity of the match; their attacking midfielder Douglas flashing a half volley just wide from a difficult position outside the Al-Ahly penalty area in the ninth minute.
That Douglas chance seemed to spark Al-Ahly into life as, after nearly going behind, they immediately went up the other end and threatened to break the deadlock themselves. Ramy Rabia was the player who came close, as his header from a fine Walid Soliman cross drifted off target.
Corinthians' first-half dominance finally paid off in the 30th minute when they went 1-0 up through Guerrero. The former Bayern Munich man headed Tite's side into the lead after connecting well with an audacious cross from the outside of Douglas' left boot.
The African champions were without their captain Hossam Ghaly after he limped off during their quarter-final victory over Sanfrecce Hiroshima on Saturday and despite the influential Mohamed Aboutrika taking his place in that game and scoring the winner, the 34-year-old was named on the bench this time around.
As Al-Ahly continued to struggle to create chances after the break, their coach Hossam El-Badry introduced Aboutrika in an attempt to revive his team and it had an instant impact on their attacking play.
Their best spell of the game soon followed, and it culminated with decent efforts from Rabia, Soliman and right-back Ahmed Fathy narrowly failing to find the back of the net.
Aboutrika's influence on the game grew in the second half, but his probing play failed to inspire an Al-Ahly equaliser, as the Brazilians held out for a narrow 1-0 victory.
Corinthians will now face the winner of the semi-final between Chelsea and Monterrey, with the final itself being held at the International Stadium in Yokohama on December 16.


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MINOX BV 10x25 Binoculars Review
MINOX 10x25 BV Optics
As I do with all my reviews, to get an objective opinion, I compared the view through these with my benchmark compact binoculars, that have a configuration of 10x26.
Image Quality
The image produced was as clear and sharp as my benchmark, contrast was also about the same, which means that they are above average and as good as or better than any in their price range. The colour reproduction for a compact was good and the amount of colour fringing (chromatic aberration) around the edges of a dark object when viewed in front of a light background was extremely minimal, but no more than other binoculars in this class and only noticeable if you are really searching for it.
MINOX DTC 1000 Trail Camera Review
Overall Minox have once again produced an excellent trail camera that definitely improves upon their already excellent previous models.
It is tough, waterproof and the batter life is excellent and I love the ability to be able to send any captured images to your phone or e-mail address all of which mean that you can leave it out on location over very long periods of time with complete confidence.
The improvement in the video quality along with the fact that it now also records sound is excellent as this was something that I mentioned as being a shortfall on the DTC 600.
So in my opinion if you are looking for a tough, high quality trail camera, the Minox DTC 1000 is up there with the very best.
We received a pair of Minox BN 7x50 DC Binoculars from our friends at Pelagic Outfitters to play with. Like most serious fishermen and hunters, we here at BDO know that optics are not the place to "cheap out".
As soon as you take them out of the box, you can tell this is a quality pair of binoculars. Comfortable ergonomics, a rubberized coating and an overall solid feel gave me a great initial impression.
Immediately after unpacking, we all went outside for a little test drive. Right away we were impressed with its light gathering ability. The image was exceptionally bright and razor sharp.
I'm one of those people that have trouble with cheaper binos. I can never seem to align the images correctly and I quickly get a headache and stop using them. These binos didn't suffer from that issue. They adjusted easily, came into perfect focus and were comfortable for extended periods of time.
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MINOX HG 8x43 - Best Binoculars Reviews - Best Wildlife Observation & Hunting Binocular 2012
Winner in 2011 and once again in 2012, the Minox HG 8x43 scored a hugely impressive 87% overall on the Best Binocular Reviews Ratings scale, that included a 10/10 for body construction quality. So you just know that these water and fog proof binoculars are extremely well made and easily tough enough to handle pretty much whatever you throw at them whilst you are out there in the wild.
As well as this, at only 650g (22.9oz), these are one of THE lightest full sized binoculars that I have ever reviewed, this combined with their well made and well padded neck strap will make them as comfortable as possible even if you have to carry them with you all day.


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Edmonton, Alberta. This years American Association of Physics Teachers' (AAPT) Summer Meeting will be held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. Scientists, students, and all levels of physics educators from across the United States and Canada will assemble to present over 400 discussions and posters related to the theme of this year's meeting: "Physics from the Ground Up." These discussions are among the most unique and diverse of any scientific meeting.
Journalists are invited to cover the meeting on site or by directly contacting the presenters listed below. Some meeting highlights:
Plenary Speakers and Awardees
Damian Pope is the Senior Manager of Scientific Outreach at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He studied in Australia and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Queensland. After this, he engaged in two years of postdoctoral research in quantum information and the foundations of quantum theory at Griffith University.
Klopsteg Memorial Award Plenary - Michio Kaku, is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and a major popularizer of science in mainstream media. He holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York (CUNY), where he has taught for over 25 years.
Robert Wolkow directs research into using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and other theoretical methods to examine and control molecules on semiconductor surfaces. He is a pioneer in STM techniques and instrumentation. At IBM, he pioneered STM for studying surface chemistry. At the NRC Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences(NRC-SIMS), he and his colleagues used STM and modeling to understand the behavior of organic molecules on semiconductor surfaces. Eventually, they demonstrated self-directed fabrication of organic nano-scaled structures on silicon.
Wednesday, July 23
Pre-College Awards Plenary –
Mark Davids, Grosse Pointe South High School, Pre-College Physics Teaching Award
Corinne Manogue, Oregon State University, Undergraduate Physics Teaching Award
AIP writing awards, Broadcast Media Category
Bob McDonald, Host, Quirks & Quarks, Radio Science Program
Pat Senson, Producer Quirks & Quarks, Radio Science Program
Jim Handman, Executive Producer, Quirks & Quarks, Radio Science Program
Mark Freeman, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Condensed Matter Physics
Roger Moore, Associate Professor of Physics
Aksel Hallin, Professor and CRC Tier I Chair in Astroparticle Physics
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The Future of Upper Division Lab Experiences
Canadian Women in Science
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Southeast Asian Salmon Sub with Chile-Lime Dressing
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Source: Chicken of the Sea
Sandwiches are stars at fast-casual concepts and Asian sandwiches are an up and coming sub-category. This Asian-American hybrid layers salmon, julienne veggies, peanuts and mint with a drizzle of chile lime dressing on a hoagie roll. The result should appeal to both mainstream and adventurous customers.
1/2 cup julienne carrots
1/2 cup julienne cucumbers
4 sesame seed hoagie or sub rolls, split
1 (7.1 oz.) pouch skinless and boneless pink salmon, flaked
2 tbsp. chopped roasted peanuts
1 tbsp. chopped fresh mint
1 large shallot, thinly sliced
3 tbsp. fresh squeezed lime juice
2 tbsp. sugar
1 1/2 tbsp. Thai-style chile sauce
1 tbsp. rice vinegar
1 tbsp. sesame oil
2 tsp. light soy sauce
- In bowl, combine carrots and cucumber; evenly divide among hoagie rolls.
- Top with salmon, peanuts and mint.
- In a jar or small bowl, combine shallot, lime juice, sugar, chile sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil and soy sauce; shake or mix until well blended. Drinzzle Chile-Lime Dressing over sandwich filling. Serve immediately.


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The Biology Department relies on donations from our friends to carry out several important functions. There are currently several ways to put your dollars to work within the Biology Department. To make a donation to a particular account, please use a form available from the Give to JMU page and include the account number(s) mentioned below. A secure online form is also available.
Biology Department. Gifts designated to the Biology Department account (#14263) fill the gap for underfunded areas. These gifts are truly valuable because they grant the Department the flexibility to allocate funds to the areas with the most need.
Biology Visiting Speakers Fund. Exposing faculty and students to scientists and research outside of JMU is very beneficial. Gifts designated to this account (#14265) will provide funds for travel expenses and/or honoraria for visiting scientists to give seminars in the Department.
Undergraduate Research in Biology. Student research is supported by the Trelawney Undergraduate Research Endowment (#25838). Dr. Gil Trelawney was head of the Biology Department for over 23 years until his retirement in 1994.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans familiar with a new White House offer on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff say it looks almost exactly like President Barack Obama's budget proposal last February.
GOP aides say Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner presented an offer calling for $1.6 trillion in new tax revenue over the coming decade, extending the 2 percentage point payroll tax deduction or something comparable to it and $50 billion in stimulus spending on infrastructure projects.
The White House plan calls for $960 billion over the coming decade by increasing tax rates and taxes on investment income on upper-bracket earners and $600 billion in additional taxes. Republicans view the offer as a step backward with the fiscal cliff — an economy-rattling set of automatic spending cuts and tax increases — looming at years' end.
The only new spending cuts in the plan would come from administration proposals curbing health care programs by $400 billion over the coming decade and modest cuts from non-health programs like farm subsidies and cutting Postal Service costs and through higher fees on airline tickets. The plan would also boost spending by extending unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, deferring looming cuts to Medicare payments to physicians and helping homeowners refinance "underwater" mortgages..
The aides said that Geithner also requested the equivalent of a permanent extension of the government's borrowing ability to avoid wrangling over the issue as in last year's summertime crisis over raising the so-called debt limit.
The measure would block $109 billion in automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as a sequester from striking the economy in January.
The aides required anonymity because of the sensitivity of revealing the offer made by Geithner to top Republican lawmakers in meetings in the Capitol on Thursday. A senior Capitol Hill Democratic aide confirmed that the GOP description of the Geithner proposal is consistent with the latest Democratic position. The aide was not authorized to discuss the proposal publicly and would do so only on condition of anonymity.


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Steak Salad Au Poivre
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Source: Recipe from Chef Jeffrey Buben
Peppercorn crusted steak tops this salad. Fennel, arugala and a mustard dressing have plenty of flavor to stand up to the steak.
1 1⁄3 cup Pommery mustard
1 cup mayonnaise
1⁄2 cup dijon mustard
1⁄2 cup fresh tarragon, minced
1⁄4 cup red wine vinegar
2 tsp. lemon juice
Hot pepper sauce, to taste
Worcestershire, to taste
4 12-oz. center-cut boneless sirloin steaks
1⁄2 cup black peppercorns, coarsely ground
1⁄2 cup peanut oil
1 3⁄4 cup olive oil
4 fennel bulbs, julienned
4 vidalia onions, peeled, julienned
16 shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced
3 tbsp. garlic, minced
1⁄2 cup sherry vinegar
8 cups arugula
1. In a bowl, whisk together the first eight ingredients. Season to taste and reserve.
2. Rub steak with peppercorns on both sides. In a large skillet, heat peanut oil and cook steak approx. 3-4 min. each side. Discard excess fat.
3. In same skillet, heat 3⁄4 cup olive oil. Add fennel, onion, shiitake mushrooms and garlic. Sauté briefly and season to taste. Add sherry vinegar and transfer mixture to a bowl. Season and reserve.
4. In a separate bowl, toss arugula with remaining olive oil and season to taste.
5. Slice steak and fan on a plate. Mound fennel mixture in center of plate and top with dressed arugula. Spoon mustard dressing around plate and serve.


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So how do you like this small ball?
A little of both? Or way too much of both?
The Phillies rallied to win their home opener with a string of six seeing-eye singles that started from the middle of their lineup, scoring three ninth inning runs against Houston closer Brandon Lyon for a 5-4 victory over the Astros. John Mayberry's pinch-hit single to center brought home Ben Francisco – the early goat with a two-base error – to seal the unlikely victory and send the sellout crowd of 45, 237 home extremely happy…
And convinced that maybe this small ball might work after all.
The rally erased a day of frustration at the plate at the hands of Houston starter Brett Myers, who outdueled Roy Halladay, leaving after seven innings with a 4-2 lead. Never known for his economical work in Philadelphia, Myers needed just 45 pitches to get through five innings and didn't need more than 12 pitches in an inning until the Phillies finally scratched out a pair of runs – one of them unearned – in the seventh.
Only three times over the first six innings did a Phillies at-bat extend more than four pitches. Four hits, one for extra bases, a caught stealing and one earned run over eight innings – this was not the small ball we had in mind.
As for their ace among aces, early on, it looked as if Roy Halladay would carry over the dominance of a spring in which he recorded a 0.45 ERA in five spring training starts. He struck out four of the first six batters he faced, leading each with a first-pitch strike – five called.
While less spectacular, Myers matched Halladay's zeroes and first-pitch strikes, allowing only Ryan Howard's centerfield single in retiring the front of the Phillies new-look lineup the first time around. Not once in that span did a Phillie batter swing and miss. Indeed, until Jimmy Rollins fouled one off in the seventh, every batted ball off Myers was in the field of play.
Halladay - who is known for his economy - needed 57 pitches over the first four innings. The quick strikeouts that marked his first two innings became lengthy, fouled-off at-bats the second time through the order. Much to the delight of his Houston teammates, Myers flared a 1-2 pitch up the middle for the Astros first hit in the third inning. Ryan Howard's outstanding snare of Michael Bourne's line drive prevented that from becoming more than a footnote. With Bill Hall on second and two outs in the fifth, Myers poked a single between first and second. Hall stopped at third as Francisco – whose error put him on second – threw a perfect strike to the plate.
Bourne flew out to deep right, but when the fifth was over, Halladay was up to 79 pitches.
He finally allowed a run in the sixth, but it could have been much worse. The Astros had two runners in scoring position with no outs after Phillie-killer Hunter Pence doubled off the rightfield wall. But Carlos Lee hit a soft fly to second, Halladay induced an RBI ground out by Bill Hall and retired Chris Johnson on a fly out – his 101st pitch.
Had the Phillies played the infield in, he may have even escaped the jam.
Pete Orr pinch-hit for the Phillies ace in the bottom of the inning. In 33 starts last season, Halladay failed to pitch into the seventh inning just four times.
It's one reason he won the Cy Young award. Another is the 21 victories he recorded, which required at least a little run support. There were 34 games last season in which the Phillies scored one run or less, and they still won 97 games.
They had 10 hits today - one for extra bases. But they also didn't strike out once, the first time that's happened since May 7, 2009 against the Mets. That team scored a lot of runs. This team scored enough today.


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PEORIA — The local food movement takes another step forward when the first regional food summit is held at the RiverPlex Recreation and Wellness Center, 600 NE Water St., from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
"There is a lot more locally-grown food available today in central Illinois, but we have a long way to go," said Kathleen Brown, a community and economic development educator with the University of Illinois Extension.
"I'm so excited about the variety of people coming in, representing producers, government and non-profit groups. Saturday presents a unique opportunity to talk collectively about what we're doing well and what we need to do," she said.
Speakers include Julie Ristau, Gayle Prest and Kristine Igo, all involved with developing local food efforts in Minnesota.
Brown said that only a limited number of community supported agriculture enterprises are available in central Illinois. CSA's involve consumers who purchase a share, generally costing between $400 and $600, to receive a box of locally-grown produce each week for a 26-week period.
"We need more people growing food in this area," she said.
Mary Ardapple, the owner of Apple's Bakery, 8412 N. Knoxville Ave., and a local food advocate, said the promotion of local food provides both health and economic benefits.
"Access to fresh food improves both mental and physical health, while the economic development function means more jobs plus retaining money in the local community," she said.
"We need to take a larger step when it comes to growing our own food," said Ardapple.
"We've become desensitized to the idea of locally-grown products because of the diversity of goods available in many stores, but there are people in our community who don't have fresh food as an option," she said.
Ideas such as community gardens and food co-ops are all part of the local food movement, said Ardapple. "Besides, it's awesome to know the people that grow your food," she said.
The cost to attend the food summit is $15. A light lunch and continental-style breakfast will be provided. Registration is available at http://web.extension.illinois.edu/fmpt/.
Steve Tarter is Journal Star business editor. Tarter's phone number is 686-3260, and his email address is email@example.com.


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Hi Bob! > Today on passes of both SO-50 and AO-27, there were > terrestrial QSOs going on. It was especially bad on AO-27 > with a few people clearly unable to get through due to the > strength of the QRM. It almost sounded like there was a > repeater setup on 145.850 with Roger beeps happening. > So, what is the "proper" thing to do in situations like this? > > Ignore it and talk to anyone who can overpower them? > > Stay off the air and hope you can hear callsigns that you can > ask carefully to QSY? > > Something else? AO-27 regularly picks up non-ham transmissions from Central America (two-way radio and long-range cordless telephone conversations), and lately I've heard what sounds like hams chatting on 145.850 MHz simplex not realizing they are on a satellite uplink. Without the PL tone, SO-50 won't retransmit the QRM, but the QRM sometimes overpowers any legitimate transmissions up to the satellites. Up to now, it seems like AO-51 has been free of the non-ham QRM. In the past, the non-ham stuff from Mexico had been identified and - with lots of pressure - the Mexican authorities forced the taxis and Red Cross ambulances to move their radios to other frequencies. Unfortunately, some of the new frequencies were somewhere else in the 2m band, but at least the satellite uplinks were free from those QRM sources. It took a lot of work by some Mexican hams to find the sources of the transmissions, sending the documentation to the Mexican "FCC", along with complaints from outside Mexico showing the international impact of these illegal transmissions before any action was taken. What should you do? If possible, record the passes that you work. You never know what you might hear, and the recording might be useful for someone trying to determine the source of the QRM. Generally, I just try to work the satellite despite the QRM. With an HT, I might not get through all the time, but I'll still try. If the QRM is from two hams chatting on the satellite uplink simplex, they are not affected by your transmissions up to the satellite unless they are close to your location. If it's from Central America or Mexico, the problem generally goes away on passes where the satellites are moving from south to north - moving away from the QRM. If you hear callsigns coming through the satellite from those chatting on 2m simplex, and if you can find an e-mail address for those stations, send them a note mentioning you heard them through a satellite and politely suggesting they use another frequency. If you have a recording of the pass, send a copy to them to show what you heard. Invite them to try working the satellite, since they obviously have stations that are able to transmit to the satellite based on what you heard. Good luck and 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ _______________________________________________ Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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Through the use of Safety Management Systems (SMS), business aircraft operators can proactively identify and manage risks. Under a formalized SMS, operators identify potential hazards and ensure that a process is put in place to effectively manage them.
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International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO)
Best practices designed to help flight departments worldwide achieve high levels of safety and professionalism. Learn More.
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- NTSB Lauds Business Aviation at Hearing on GA Safety
- June 26, 2012
At a recent National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing on general aviation (GA) safety, NTSB Chair Deborah A. P. Hersman pointed to business aviation's stellar safety record as an example for other segments of the industry. The NTSB did not include business flying safety in its two-day hearings because of that industry segment's already-enviable safety record. The latest available figures from long-time industry analyst Robert E. Breiling Associates, Inc. show the 2010 corporate flying accident rate at just .007 per 100,000 flight hours. For airlines that year, the accident rate was 0.016. "Business aviation's safety record reflects the community's voluntary adoption of very high standards," said Doug Carr, NBAA vice president, safety, security, operations and regulation. "One accident is too many, and the only way to extend this safety record is by advancing our safety knowledge, culture and commitment." Read more on the industry's safety record.
- A First for Australian Business Aviation
- June 25, 2012
Australia's Revesco Aviation received its International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO) Stage 2 certification by the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) in May, just two months after receiving its IS-BAO Stage 1 accreditation. It is the first Australian business aviation operator to record that achievement. The Australian Business Aircraft Association (ABAA) hailed this achievement as a boost for both IS-BAO and ABAA members. "This was a trail blazing achievement, in the true spirit of Western Australian entrepreneurship at the time, and paved the way for several other Australian companies who have since gained IS-BAO registration. Accreditation with Stage 2 IS-BAO is most significant and marks another milestone for Revesco," ABAA Executive Director David Bell said. Read more about business aviation in Australia.
- FAA Recognizes IS-BAO as Meeting ICAO SMS Standards
- April 18, 2011
The FAA issued InFO 11010 on April 11, 2011, encouraging general aviation (GA) operators to implement a safety management system (SMS) and providing information on SMS resources. The FAA does not currently require GA operators to establish an SMS, but aviation authorities in several other countries are imposing such requirements, as directed by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards. In the InFO, the FAA recognizes the International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO) as an SMS validation program that meets ICAO standards. Jointly developed by the International Business Aviation Council and NBAA, IS-BAO is a worldwide standard with over 500 registered operators. View the InFO.
- Is SMS Worthwhile? Study Explores the Question
- April 8, 2011
A five-year, data-driven study of 58 flight departments – conducted by the Van Allen Group and presented at NBAA's 19th Annual Leadership Conference in San Diego last February – shows a correlation between management buy-in for a Safety Management System (SMS) plan and a flight department's accident or safety event history. Learn more.
- FAA Withdraws ANPRM for SMS Proposal Citing Focus on Part 121 SMS Proposed Rulemaking
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$1.5 million gift to Bethlehem school raises spiritsBy BOB HOOKWAY
Special to the Union Leader
April 21. 2013 11:35PM
BETHLEHEM - Amid the brutal tragedy that struck their campus in January, administrators of a small private school in Bethlehem say they've managed to find at least a ray of hope and some positive news for their 110 students.
That came in the form of a $1.5 million donation to The White Mountain School. The gift from a female graduate who said she preferred to remain anonymous will go largely toward what administrators say are important renovation projects.
But $300,000 of the money will be used to help build an arts center on campus to be named for Catherine "Kitty" Houghton, a 1960 graduate of the school who was stabbed to death on the night of Jan. 28 in the lobby of a Littleton hotel.
More than 50 years after her graduation, the Novato, Calif., woman was serving as a trustee of the school and was in the North Country this winter to attend a board meeting when, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, Rodney Hill, 37, of West Danville, Vt., stabbed and slashed her at the Hampton Inn off Route 302.
The multilingual 70-year-old veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service was pronounced dead later that evening at Littleton Regional Hospital of a stab wound to the neck.
Hill, who is charged with second-degree murder, has been held without bail at the Grafton County jail in North Haverhill since his arrest outside the hotel on the on the night of the killing.
Prosecutors have not made the motive for the attack public.
Back in December, administrators at what is largely a boarding school in Bethlehem started immediately to search for something positive following the death of Houghton, who attended the school when it was called St.-Mary's-in-the-Mountains.
Fellow trustees decided to name a planned arts center for her, and donations began pouring in. The fund is quickly nearing the needed total of about $1.5 million, according to Rob Constantine, the school's director of advancement.
"With all of the troubling news we've seen the last couple of days, I'm glad to be able to share some nice news from WMS," he said in an e-mail message.
Tim Breen, head of school, said in a written statement, "It is so rewarding on all ends when a donor finds an opportunity to make a significant and lasting impact on something they care deeply about. This is one of those times."
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If your Spanish is rusty, yes, that title translates to "Snow White."
Yet even if you raise your hand when someone asks, "Who's tired of the recent wave of reimagined fairy tales?"—I raise both of mine—there's reason "Blancanieves" doesn't land on the pile of tired revamps along with "Red Riding Hood," "Mirror Mirror" and "Jack the Giant Slayer."
Right off the bat, of course, this Spanish-language spin on the brothers Grimm's fairy tale arrives silently, in black and white, perhaps so people whose only silent/black-and-white viewing experience is "The Artist" don't have to go backward in film history to see another one. (Your loss.)
Writer-director Pablo Berger's stylistic choice benefits this delicate film, both because it sets "Blancanieves" apart and because the form allows Berger to streamline the story's base emotions. Transposing the saga of evil stepmothers and poison apples to the world of professional bullfighting (!), the film follows long-tormented Carmen (played as an adult by Macarena Garcia), whose mother dies in childbirth. This happens shortly after Carmen's matador father (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) lands on the losing end of a bull's horns and later succumbs to the wiles of a nurse (Maribel Verdu of "Y Tu Mama Tambien," always coming between people!) who cares for her new husband's riches, not his baby daughter without a mother.
Growing up, Carmen must do objectionable chores such shoveling coal, and her stepmother threatens to kill Carmen's pet rooster Pepe if the girl disobeys. ("Do you like Pepe-ry chicken?" the cruel woman asks.) Later, after surviving an attempt on her life but losing her memory, Carmen holes up with six little people, whose absence of a seventh dwarf causes a funny error on promotional materials for their bullfighting act. As opposed to the way films such as "Mirror Mirror" treat the dwarves as comic relief with no valid emotions, "Blancanieves" recognizes the real love that can grow when a person of any size discovers another with a kind heart.
"Blancanieves" may not have much depth to its characters or particular surprise, but its lovely depiction of family's ability to harm and mend has the flair of flamenco and the sorrow of opera.
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My Death Knight is Blood Spec DPS. And he does a good job of it. (Recount+GearScore tell me so.) So when I join the Looking for Dungeon queues I do so as DPS.
I've enjoyed the instance running since I started it at level 72 or so. I'm now 80 and in Tier 9+. And I've run every dungeon, in Heroic Mode, through the Pit of Saron. (I've been to the Pit of Saron twice, and on the 2nd visit managed to free some slaves. 7/15 so far. I have to free them all, 15 at least, to complete the quest and move on to the final 5-man instance in the game, the Halls of Reflection. If I'm not mistaken.) That's to say: I've been around the block with my Death Knight as DPS.
Now since I'm obviously one Death Knight in the group, and the LFD tool doesn't tend to stack multiples of the same class on purpose, I've very rarely partied with a tanking Death Knight. (On an oddball run with my wife's level 71 Death Knight, we found ourselves in the Nexus with 3 DPS Death Knights. I kid you not. There were more ghouls than you could shake a stick at.) But, again, I've not had any experience with partying with tanking Death Knights on my Death Knight. Once, in the Halls of Stone. He did pretty good and I was making mental notes of how it was done.
But Cenotaph has pretty much rounded out his kit now. You can't accrue any meaningful amount of Badges of Frost running the daily random dungeon. 2 a day isn't a lot. And I got my 50 and bought a cloak with it. To accrue enough to buy the full set of Tier 10 will take 1,234 days, or some such, and I'm not going to put myself through that. And with the gear I have I can see all 5-man content and I'll have to content myself in picking up the best of the 5-man content offerings on a catch-as-catch-can basis. There *are* some upgrades yet and I look forward to getting my hands on them.
However, and the point of the topic, I am now running the random dungeons with my Level 80 Paladin. I PvPed him into a full set of Deadly Gladiator gear, with additional Titan Forged items and a PvP ring. He's also got the crafted DPS gear (iLevel 200 helm & boots & titansteel destroyer) so his hit rating is heroics ready. And so I took him into some random heroics, as DPS, where, as luck would have it, in the few runs I've done, I've mostly had Death Knights tanking. They may look mean and have all the right plate in the right places, but dang, they sure do take a lot of damage while they're tanking. One was dual wielding, the other two-handing it. The one with the two-hander did a better job of holding mobs and surviving the fights.
I've always maintained two sets of gear on my Paladin. DPS (3 sets actually, full PvE Hit, PvP Resilience) and a tanking set. (The tanking set includes iLevel 200 crafted helm, boots, and shield. I've got the tourney axe as well.) I've got 534 Defense in his tanking gear. So I'm 1 point short of what Heroics will need. Trouble is I haven't tanked anything since the Headless Horseman last October. Queuing him as a Tank, I'd have seconds to wait till a group popped for me. (Not the 12-15 minutes required for DPS runs.) I've got the basics down. I've followed the recommended talent build. I've set up the 96969 sequence and spent a bit of time on a practice dummy getting the flow of it. (In Seal of Command my mana dropped like the gas gauge on a '71 Plymouth Roadrunner. With Seal of Wisdom up it felt like I could continue the cycle forever.) Anyway, being a Paladin, my heart is not in DPSing, but tanking.
How do I handle a group when I start tanking for them? I've run every instance in heroic mode, as melee, so I've got the gist of what happens. As a test I went into normal Utgard Keep and tanked my way solo past the entry and the burners. I'm not some paper-thin strawman. Do I let them know "I'm new at this, bear with me." ? If I offer to let them kick me, and they do, does my dungeon cooldown start or am I free to try again immediately? With 12 minute waits for DPS, I'd say the world needs more tanks. I have a tanking class, and from what I can tell, Paladin's tanking make for the smoothest runs.
And I figure I'd better get used to tanking with my Paladin before I venture into Death Knight tanking ala dual wielding Frost. (That Rimefang's Claw that dropped for us, which I won with a 100 greed roll (earning me "Greedy") would be a shame to waste and should be a good compliment to the slow mace that I got in the Tournament of Champions.)
Alas, there's no practice dummies for tanking. Only unwitting party mates that queue up and get stuck with you.


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Baghdad, Iraq - While millions of Americans take a day of from work to reflect and enjoy each others company, the aerial port of Baghdad and the USO, that serves the 1000 passengers a day, were working at full speed. "Mission Critical" is when important work takes priority above all else, but the meaning of this day is too important to over look.
USO Duty Manager, Courtney Haueter, lead the National Moment of Remembrance and the entire aerial port staff, passengers and visitors paused for a full minute at 3:00pm local time. USO customers ceased all calls, IMs, games and movies while the military crew of Sather Air Base paused operations during that time.
Commanding Officer of the 447th, Col Bruce Taylor USAF, led the Memorial Day ceremony and spoke of heroes gone and not forgotten. Honor Guard for both the Air Force and Army took part in the remembrance and did outstanding work in saluting their brothers in arms.
An essay by Theater of War's Bryan Doerries in today's Washington Post - After a reading of Sophocles' "Ajax" and "Philoctetes" for members of the Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Stewart, Ga., a soldier approached me. His hands were trembling and he was fighting back tears.
"For a while now, I have been separated from my unit, the guys I fought alongside downrange. Being separated from your unit is like being stripped of your humanity. I think Sophocles wrote these plays to bring soldiers together to restore their humanity." He leaned closer, his eyes locking with mine. "Without our humanity, none of this means anything."
I held the soldier's gaze and shook his hand, thanking him for his comment, which I promised to share with military audiences at performances throughout the United States…
Watching the soldier at Fort Stewart exit the auditorium last month, it suddenly seemed un-coincidental to me that the ancient plays that we were performing for the U.S. military during the ninth year of the war in Afghanistan and so many years into Iraq depicted what happened to the Greek armed forces during the ninth year of the Trojan War. Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, the visionary leader who made our project possible, has said repeatedly of today's armed forces: "Never has so great a burden been placed upon the shoulders of so few on behalf of so many for so long."
We are not a nation at war. We are a nation with a volunteer army at war… Click here to read the full essay.
From Snag Film's Rick Allen - "For 99% of Americans, Memorial Day is a chance to circle a barbeque grill; for us, it's about gathering together in a cemetery." Probably nothing captures the enormous gulf between how veterans and civilians treat Monday's national holiday than that quick but pointed reminder I heard Wednesday from Paul Rieckhoff. Paul is the charismatic founder of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and author of the acclaimed book Chasing Ghosts, about his tour of duty in Iraq. As most of us celebrate the "official" start of summer this weekend, hopefully the words of Paul Rieckhoff, or the roar of Rolling Thunder, or the quiet comfort that the USO brings every day to service families, will break through our routine.
My generation was the first beneficiary of our modern volunteer armed service, in the sense that no longer would all able-bodied men be expected to spend time in uniform. The ability to outsource our service keeps us personally untouched by combat, but raises societal issues and comes with countervailing personal trade-offs. Sebastian Junger's new book War and his companion film Restrepo vividly detail the depth of camaraderie that come from absolute commitment to the safety of your fellow squad members. Those of us around our family barbeques can instinctively appreciate how common mortal danger binds brothers and sisters-in-arms; our challenge now is to find better ways to hold our veterans close to the whole community and to demonstrate our appreciation for what they've given for our freedoms.
IAVA joins many other governmental and non-profit organizations in working on the full range of issues facing today's returning warriors. At a time when our economy struggles to produce new jobs, an estimated 30% of veterans of our current conflicts are out of work. The Veterans Administration is more invigorated under Secretary Shinseki than it has been in many decades – but a huge number of vets, particularly the young ones, will never willingly walk into a VA hospital or ask for government help, despite what may be significant need.
Many organizations are hard at work to bridge these gaps. The USO assists service members and their families around the world. IAVA has created an incredible online community of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan operations, and advocates for federal action on jobs, health, education and other pressing vet issues. There are various levels of government that deliver services as well as recreational opportunities to active duty warriors and their families, and veterans. But more is needed, from our society collectively and each of us individually.
Leon Cooper will be on CNN Monday morning. Leon is 90, a WWII vet living in Los Angeles and working with a consistency and energy of someone in his 20s. That's how old he was at Tarawa, one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history. Leon returned to that atoll when he learned that the beach that held the bones of his fallen comrades was now a garbage dump for islanders without arable land for alternatives. His final campaign is captured in the film Return to Tarawa, which you can watch here. Thanks to Leon's indomitability, the power of the film, and the tools of SnagFilms, Congress last year directed the Department of Defense to identify the remains on Red Beach and bring them home. In two months, the DOD teams will wing west to begin a task of memory and responsibility we have deferred for nearly 7 decades.
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We too need to make an effort, each in our own way. Memorial Day provides many such opportunities. At the very least, it provides the chance for reflection and appreciation. Our founder, Ted Leonsis, coined the term "filmanthropy" to combine the communication power of film with the interactivity of the web, and allow an engaged audience new ways to start a conversation or take an action. We've pulled 11 films together from different conflicts and perspectives for Memorial Day – you can watch them from the widget below, or at http://bit.ly/SnagMemorialDay . Enjoy them alone or with others. And make your Memorial Day into something to remember.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (May 9, 2012) – ETSU freshman golfer Gabriella Wahl (Heidenheim, Germany) will begin her quest for a national championship on Thursday, as play begins in the NCAA Central Regional.
Wahl, who earned an at-large berth thanks in part to her back-to-back individual victories in the final two tournaments of the spring, will join the nation's top teams and individual participants at the regional, which is scheduled for May 10-12 at the Ohio State University Golf Club's Scarlet Course.
After learning of her invitation to participate in the regional, Wahl was ecstatic about having a chance to continue what has been a remarkable first season at ETSU.
"I'm really excited about this opportunity to continue my college season for a few weeks," said Wahl, who captured both the John Kirk/Lady Panther Intercollegiate and the Atlantic Sun Conference championships to end the spring season. "Going to nationals and having the opportunity to represent ETSU is an honor. I'm really excited."
The A-Sun freshman of the year and a first-team all league pick, Wahl ended the 2011-12 season with Bucs' lowest stroke average at 74.2.
Her season also included record-breaking performances, such as a school mark for three-round score with a 212 at the John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate. Her 5-under-par 67 in the first round of A-Sun Championships also matched that event's best single-round score ever.
Fans will be able to keep up-to-date with Wahl's efforts at the NCAA regional by visiting Golfstat.com to access live scoring. In addition, ETSUBucs.com will have a full update following each round.
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Posted by ESC on January 15, 2007
In Reply to: Top of his game posted by Lewis on January 15, 2007
: : : : : : he was writing at the top of his game what is the meaning of this phrase which is said about a writer.
: : : : : : thanks
: : : : : It is said about a lot of things. Whatever vocation or path in life a person is most associated with or known for is "his/her game." To be at the top of it is to be the best he/she has ever been in this profession/sport/vocation. I hate using slash/vergula this way, but any other way is just as confusing. Would you like a translation into actual English?
: : : : At his or her peak or prime.
: : : I'm sorry, I'm not sure if ESC's post is a correction, or an alternate phrasing. My post emphasizes skill and ability. I don't know if ESC wishes to substitute physical fitness, good physical shape. Obviously, physical fitness is very important to be at the top of your form, at least in sports, although I think more than that is required to be at the top of your form. I had something more figurative in mind.
: : : For "top of one's form," these are examples from the OED: "1933 A. POWELL From View to Death iii. 89 It had come at a time when he was not feeling at the top of his form. 1947 L. P. HARTLEY Eustace & Hilda vii. 138, I can't pretend that she was at the top of her form."
: : : A discussion in German that Google educes has a short glossary, including: "to be at the top of one's game: to be in top form, to be at one's best".
: : : Sports is naturally a good place to be "at the tope of one's game." Here's a paragraph about Canadian-born golfer Dawn Coe-Jones. "With three professional wins in her 20 years on Tour, Coe-Jones knows how it feels, no matter how long the wait, to be at the top of one's game."
: : : I like the notion that cosmetics can make one feel at the top of one's game. "'The book] Beauty Junkies, in its balanced reporting, allows the reader to reflect on the notion that these costs are offset by the confidence one gains through looking and feeling one's best, and at the top of one's game,"
: : : The term, like so many, is a bit elastic, but not so much as to make its meaning difficult to grasp.
: : Alternate phrasing. I am all for good physical shape. But peak or prime means more than just physical fitness. It means to be at your best.
: the phrase doesn't imply physical fitness (IMO) only that the person is 'on form' and doing well at their particular specialism - 'game' means any activity, but particularly competitive ones - including business or academia.
: if somebody is 'at the top of their game' it means the equivalent of 'on form to record a personal best', not that they would be THE best.
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- The Committee is an advisory committe that focuses on the effective navigation design and structure for the library web site. The goal of the Committee is to facilitate bringing users to desired content quickly, efficiently, and seamlessly. Making the web easy to use so library resources are easy to access and use is the key objective. The Committe may consult with the Web Advisory Committee, the Library Web Manager, the Electronic Access Services Coordinator, and other individuals inside and outside the libraries.
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- Provide users with a seamless approach to discovery and use of library resources, especially databases, electronic journals and books, and locally digitized materials.
- Develop integrated navigation to the Library's digital resources so they are more visible and easier to find.
- Define discovery tools that enable users to search and retrieve across diverse and distributed websites, library catalogs, and databases of information resources.
- Assess tools that give users the ability to create personalized views of the knowledge base.
- Lead library-wide discussions that re-vision access.
- Recommend and participate in implementation, training- particularly for staff - and marketing strategies.
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- Assess the usability/navigability of the Libraries' Research Gateway through interaction with users via focus groups, surveys, and other means. Analyze what is and what is not effective. Recommend specific improvements.
- Specifically, evaluate the methods users have to gain remote access to the libraries' resources. Evaluate the proxy as an access tool. Evaluate the login page for usability and clarity. Recommend improvements.
- Evaluate and make recommendations concerning training and marketing for UF's Digital Collection.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Responders say a main tow line has been attached to a Shell oil-drilling ship that grounded on rocks near a remote Alaska island.
Unified Command spokesman Ignacio Gonzalez says Royal Dutch Shell's Kulluk was attached to the towing vessel Aiviq on Sunday.
The command center says an attempt to tow the drilling ship off Sitkalidak Island would come Monday though it could come sooner, weather permitting. Crews want to tow the ship 30 miles to shelter in Kodiak Island's Kiliuda Bay.
Responders say there's no sign the hull of the Kulluk has been breached or that oil has spilled from the vessel.


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It's Product Review Friday and we have the last of three pleasure objects we received from that wonderfully GREEN boutique manufacturing house in London, Made To Pleasure.
But wait! You haven't missed any of the reviews in this series, have you? Well not to worry if you have, because there are archived on my site. Look for them HERE!
Today's review is brought to you by Dr Dick Review Crew members Joy & Dixie.
The Ripple —— £50.00
Joy & Dixie
Joy: "Damn! It's been over 6 months since we've posted a review. But we have an excuse; we've been on the road…again. As we've said before, we sometimes get fed up with our day jobs and just say fuck it. We hop in our RV and hit the road. It does a person good to simply get up and go see something of the world around her."
Dixie: "But here's the thing; despite our footloose wanderlust, we never leave home without the essentials. And for us that means sex toys. We picked up our traveling companion back in March, just before we left on our road trip."
Joy: "And what a brilliant companion The Ripple turned out to be. We loves us some fancy dildos and this beautiful double-header deeply satisfies. For those unfamiliar with the term 'double-header', that just means you can insert either end."
Dixie: "The operative word for me is 'deeply'. The Ripple is just over 6" long and just under an inch and a half in diameter. It's not too big, it's not too small; it is just right! And since it doesn't use batteries, nor does it plug-in, it is the perfect travel buddy."
Joy: "And when I said fancy; I meant it! The Ripple is gorgeous. This is our first encounter with an insertable made out of acrylic (aka Lucite). It's crystal clear, just like glass. But it's much lighter. It also shares a lot of the other, more familiar properties of glass — waterproof, nonporous, phthalates-free, hypoallergenic and latex-free. You can use whatever kind of lube you want with The Ripple. And it cleans up as easily."
Dixie: "Acrylic is another ideal material for a sharable toy. Mild soap and warm water does just fine for everyday cleaning. But you can sanitize it for sharing by wiping it down with a lint-free towel moistened with peroxide, rubbing alcohol or a 10% bleach solution."
Joy: "Both Dixie and I prefer a textured dildo. And in this regard The Ripple doesn't disappoint. The wave, ribbed or rippled end is very nice for an in and out motion. And the bullet-shaped end is all about your G-spot. The Ripple comes packaged with a bullet vibe, but we thought that was a waste of time."
Dixie: "Oh, and don't forget that acrylic is dandy for sensation play. It can be chilled and warmed for extra sensations. I also want to comment about the packaging. The Ripple comes in an elegant embossed black matte gift box. Inside the box you'll find The Ripple wrapped in black crêpe paper lying on a bed of black felt. It is tied in place with a black satin ribbon. It's a totally stylish presentation, but all the components are biodegradable. Kudos to this boutique toy company for their GREEN outlook!"
Joy: "Speaking of made to pleasure. We'd be remiss if we didn't tell you that this company will custom make any toy you design using their design tool on their website. How cool is that?"
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ROME (AP) — If opinion polls are right, he's the man headed to win Italy's elections this month.
No, not Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant media mogul chased out of office by Europe's debt crisis and attempting a comeback. Nor Mario Monti, the star economist-turned premier credited by financial circles with saving Italy from ruin.
Grabbing fewer headlines but a greater share of support: Pier Luigi Bersani — a cigar-chomping, former Communist with a resume thick with unglamorous posts and almost zero name recognition outside Italy.
His high forehead burrowed in a frown, Bersani came across as looking so stern in early campaign posters that aides had to scramble to replace them with one showing him smiling. Still, he handily beat the easy-going, rakishly handsome young mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, in a primary last fall of their Democratic Party to become the center-left candidate for premier.
And that might point to his appeal: Italians seem to find his complete lack of glamour refreshing after the rambunctious Berlusconi years.
"His strongest point is he's the opposite of Berlusconi," said Jonathan Hopkin, a political scientist at the London School of Economics. "Berlusconi is a showman. He (Bersani) is not entertaining."
The ascent of Bersani — whose camp in late January enjoyed roughly 33 percent support against some 27 percent for the Berlusconi side — also has much to do with his ability to draw on the former Communist Party's entrenched network of activists, funding and economic connections, such as business cooperatives. The publication of poll results is banned in the last two weeks before elections in Italy.
But Bersani also has risked alienating that base through his pragmatic approach to Italy's crisis.
Bersani has been Monti's most loyal backer in Parliament, which was dissolved because Berlusconi yanked his support for the government. Bersani staunchly endorsed tough-minded reforms needed to win back confidence in Italy, even though they went against the grain of the left. In particular, his support for raising the retirement age and making it easier to fire workers broke longstanding taboos in the progressive camp.
Monti looks set to play kingmaker rather than king, as he and his centrist allies have been notching only about 15 percent support. He has repaid Bersani's loyalty by taunting him throughout the campaign about the left's traditional ties to militant unions.
But in the counterintuitive world of Italian politics, Bersani has long embraced the economic liberalization role in several stints in government.
As industry minister under ex-premier Romano Prodi, Bersani waged an uphill battle to free up such areas of the economy as energy, insurance and banking services.
Even the smallest reform efforts brought resistance. Operators of Italy's gasoline retail network called a strike in 2007 when the government decided to allow supermarkets to sell gasoline. Similar protests frustrated plans to auction off cab licenses and to allow supermarkets to sell nonprescription drugs, like aspirin. Years later, even Monti had no luck trying to persuade the powerful lobby of pharmacists to surrender their hold on nonprescription drugs.
Bersani, as transport minister, branded transport unions "irresponsible" when an airport ground workers strike combined with an air traffic controllers' strike on the same weekend train workers walked off the job.
He also worked to undo the center-left's image as supportive of a sprawling state economy, especially in the energy sector. He championed legislation that ended a 37-year-old monopoly by then state-controlled electric utility ENEL.
It all means that despite some of the harsh election rhetoric, Bersani has a surprising amount in common with Monti — raising the possibility of a reformist government with Bersani as premier and Monti in a top economic post.
Born in 1951 — 15 years to the day after Berlusconi — Bersani grew up in Emilia Romagna, the affluent north-central region at the heart of Italy's so-called "red belt." There, citizens in cities like Bologna voted for decades for Italy's Communists, and later, for the Communists' post-Soviet heirs.
Bersani's website shows him posing in a childhood photo with his parents against a backdrop of Esso gas pumps. His father, a car mechanic, ran a gas station.
In his autobiography, Bersani recounts an episode from his childhood that points to what might drive him as a leader.
He once organized a strike of fellow altar boys after the church pastor refused to divvy out to the tips that families left for them after weddings or baptisms. "The pastor would seize the money and buy sweets and nougat bars for us at Easter and Christmas. That didn't seem fair to me."
So during one ceremony, the altar boys took off their cassocks and walked out of the church. "The next Christmas, the pastor gave the boys an equal share of the tips of that year, stipulating one condition: that our mothers knew the exact figure we got."
Fairness is a quality Bersani promises to promote if elected premier: "At the first Cabinet meeting, we have to think about those who have nothing to eat," he told a campaign rally.
Bersani was a key force behind the transformation of the post-Communist party that was the political child of former Communist leader Massimo D'Alema, following the Soviet collapse. Even as a young man, he says in his autobiography, "in my head, the Soviet Union had always been synonymous with oppression."
Bersani helped create the current Democratic Party, a force which draws inspiration from U.S. President Barack Obama's own Democratic party. Notably, his brief autobiography on his website makes no mention of his roots in the Italian Communist party.
Since becoming party leader in 2009, Bersani's has tried to unite the left's frequently squabbling factions.
That could be mission impossible: The Democratic Party's leaders bring disparate backgrounds, ranging from left-of-center former Christian Democrats to former ex-Communist militants.


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December 03. 2012 11:35PM
Manchester special ed teacher charged in abuse of students is officially fired
By TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
Abuse in school: A city teacher and a late report
MANCHESTER - The McLaughlin Middle School teacher charged with abusing special education students has been officially terminated, a year after she is alleged to have shoved one student, dragged another and tied a third to a chair.
The Board of School Committee voted last month to terminate Martine Gambale, who has been on paid administrative leave since April, when district officials say they first became aware of the allegations.
It's unknown if Gambale has appealed the decision to the state Board of Education. Gambale could not be reached for comment, and a call to her attorney, Kevin Sharkey, was not returned.
Gambale was paid $59,341 in 2011; her 2012 salary was not available.
The district confirmed that Gambale's employment with the district was terminated Nov. 14, the same day as a special non-public school board meeting, after the New Hampshire Union Leader made a right-to-know request.
Indictments against the special education teacher were handed up in August in Hillsborough County Superior Court on two simple assault charges, for allegedly dragging a student down a hallway and shoving another, and one false imprisonment charge, for allegedly tying another student to a chair. The charges are all misdemeanors, but two of them carry enhanced penalties of up to five years in prison because the alleged victims were under 13.
Jury selection in the trial is scheduled to begin March 18, 2013.
Gambale's attorney is defending her on the grounds that any physical contact with the students was justified under a state law that allows teachers to use physical force on special education students in certain circumstances.
Superintendent Thomas Brennan would not comment on the case, citing the district's policy on personnel matters, except to confirm that Gambale is "no longer working for the district."
Asked about protections for special education students, Brennan added, "We have several safeguards for all students ... We take all steps that are appropriate and necessary."
Hillsborough County Attorney Dennis Hogan told the New Hampshire Union Leader in August, after the indictments against Gambale were made public, that the allegations came to the attention of law enforcement through "mandated reporters" - or people "in the system who are required to report" suspected abuse or neglect.
Gambale is alleged to have put her hands on the back of a student, then 12, and pushed him toward a gymnasium wall at some point last fall, according to the indictment.
The other indictment accuses her of shoving a then 11-year-old student, grabbing him by the wrist, and dragging him down a hallway last Sept. 30.
The incident in which Gambale is charged with tying a student to a chair in the classroom is alleged to have occurred between Sept. 6, 2011 and last March 29, when the student was 13 years old.
Gambale's attorney, Kevin Sharkey, is invoking the "justification defense" under the state law RSA 627:6, according to court documents.
The law states that "a teacher or person otherwise entrusted with the care or supervision of a minor for special purposes is justified on the premises in using necessary force against any such minor, when the minor creates a disturbance, or refuses to leave the premises or when it is necessary for the maintenance of discipline."
The law, revised in 2009, further states that the justification "does not apply to the malicious or reckless use of force that creates a risk of death, serious bodily injury, or substantial pain."
Ben Dick, the president of the Manchester Teachers Association, the city teachers union, said he had no comment on the case.
There are no civil lawsuits against Gambale on file at the Hillsborough County Court at this time.
Gambale was one of at least two employees on paid administrative leave this school year. The former principal at Manchester High School West, MaryEllen McGorry, remains on paid leave since she was suspended in September for reasons that the district has not disclosed.


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Nineteen months after former New Jersey Governor Corzine became chairman and chief executive officer, MF Global Holdings Ltd. yesterday filed for bankruptcy. Corzine's decision to boost risk-taking, including a $6.3 billion wager with the firm's own money on European government debt, triggered the collapse.
Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman, pushed to curb wagering by financial firms that have federal guarantees or are so entrenched in markets that they're deemed too big to fail. Regulators and the industry are wrestling over the fine print in the so-called Volcker rule, which takes effect in 2012. Now, three years after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. failed, MF Global's implosion and a probe into whether client money is missing may buttress the argument for tighter trading limits.
"In the wake of 2008, when we all should have learned a lesson, Jon Corzine told me himself that it was a relatively staid, not risk-oriented firm and he needed to ratchet up the risk," William Cohan, author of "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World," said on Bloomberg Television. "Well, he does that and it blows up in his face and for the first time he can't unwind the trade. Honestly I'm still shocked and it should not have happened."
MF Global, with 2,894 employees and $2.5 billion in capital as of Sept. 30, wouldn't have been affected by the rule, unlike larger rivals such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. or JPMorgan Chase & Co.
'Bad Bets'
Corzine's failure "is OK because MF Global is not such a large institution that it's going to bring down the entire financial system with it," Neil Barofsky, a former special inspector for the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program, said on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack." "If this is Goldman, if this is JPMorgan, if this is any of those institutions, we're going to have to go in and bail them out and we're going to bear the brunt of their bad bets, not the shareholders and possibly the debt holders."
Corzine, 64, learned the strategy of making big trading bets during his 24 years at New York-based Goldman Sachs, which he ran from 1994 to 1999 before being forced out. It was the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history before converting to a bank holding company in 2008, when smaller rival Lehman Brothers went bankrupt.
'The Big Leagues'
"Jon Corzine made his bones at Goldman Sachs by going big," said Cohan, a Bloomberg View columnist who interviewed Corzine for his book on Goldman Sachs. "I see this as a case of Jon Corzine ramping up the risk that MF Global was taking, trying to put it into the big leagues of investment banking, make it more like Goldman Sachs."
While Corzine sought to recreate the Goldman Sachs that he remembered, the firm's current management was reducing risk- taking -- in part in response to the Volcker rule. It closed Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies, a prop-trading team that bet primarily on equities, and the Global Macro Proprietary Trading desk, which wagered on bonds, currencies and commodities.
The Volcker rule also will require Goldman Sachs to reduce investments in private equity and hedge funds to no more than 3 percent of each of the funds -- or 3 percent of Goldman Sachs's Tier 1 capital. In the latest quarter, such investments were responsible for the firm reporting its second quarterly loss since going public in 1999.
'Implemented Quickly'
"Mr. Corzine's activities at MF Global are exactly what the Volcker advocates wanted to protect against," Richard Bove, a bank analyst at Rochdale Securities LLC, wrote in a note to clients. "It is exactly why they were so adamant that the regulators were not enough to stop speculative activities and a strict law had to be passed to stiffen regulator actions."
Bank executives including Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer David A. Viniar and Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, 53, have noted their firms' cooperation in shutting down stand-alone prop-trading businesses while warning of reduced market liquidity if the rule is interpreted too strictly.
"The Volcker rule needs to be fully implemented quickly to ensure that banks can no longer put taxpayers at risk for making the kind of proprietary trades MF Global made," U.S. Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who pushed for the rule, said in an e-mailed statement.
U.S. regulators are investigating whether hundreds of millions of dollars are missing from client accounts at MF Global, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Corzine and Tiffany Galvin, an MF Global spokeswoman, didn't respond to e-mail and phone messages requesting comment.
'Up in Smoke'
A version of the Volcker rule released by regulators last month already has been criticized by banks and analysts. Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., said the rule may shave 25 percent from fixed-income trading desks' revenue. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency estimated that it will cost banks $917 million for raising more capital and an additional $50 million in compliance and legal expenses.
Arthur Levitt, a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman and adviser to Goldman Sachs, said Wall Street lobbyists will fight to postpone and weaken the regulations.
"This is going to be a long slog, and much of that rule that you see today is going to go up in smoke," Levitt, a Bloomberg LP board member, said on "Bloomberg Surveillance" with Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt on Oct. 13. Levitt said he was speaking for himself and not expressing the views of Goldman Sachs.
Avert Failure
MF Global's board had met through the weekend in New York to consider options including a sale to avert failure, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation. Following a record loss announced last week, MF Global was suspended yesterday from doing new business with the New York Federal Reserve, according to a statement on the regulator's website. Trading in MF Global's stock also was halted.
MF Global shares declined 67 percent last week and its bonds started trading at distressed levels amid its disclosures of bets on European sovereign-debt. MF Global held talks with five potential buyers for all or parts of the company, including banks, private-equity firms and brokers, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the talks were private.
Early yesterday, MF Global told regulators it didn't have a deal "and reported possible deficiencies in customer futures segregated accounts held at the firm," the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and SEC said in a joint statement. The regulators said they decided a bankruptcy led by the Securities Investor Protection Corp. would be the best way to safeguard customer accounts and assets.
'A Risk-Taker'
"MF was highly leveraged and I think Corzine came in trying to do what he did at Goldman Sachs," Levitt said yesterday on "Bloomberg Surveillance." "He was a risk-taker, and the markets went against him."
Stand-alone proprietary-trading groups at six bank holding companies -- Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan, Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley -- had a net loss of about $221 million from June 2006 through the end of 2010, according to a July 13 Government Accountability Office report.
The business of betting money for banks' own accounts produced positive net revenue in 13 of the 18 quarters examined, totaling $15.6 billion, and generated losses of $15.8 billion in the other five quarters, according to the report. The study didn't address prop trading conducted in other groups besides the stand-alone desks.
'Exceptions and Loopholes'
Regulators including the SEC, Federal Reserve, OCC and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., issued a 298-page proposal of the Volcker rule on Oct. 11. The agencies are seeking public comment on the draft and may make changes before it takes effect July 21.
The Volcker rule, as written in the Dodd Frank Act, had "so many different exemptions and exceptions and loopholes that it almost became nearly impossible for the regulators to fashion a rule that can live up to its original intent," said Barofsky, a Bloomberg Television contributing editor.
Among the exceptions are trading of U.S. government and government agency obligations and anything that assists a firm in making markets for clients or hedging those positions. While Wall Street lobbyists have helped to water down the bill, the Treasury Department didn't fight hard enough for it after the Volcker rule was added to the Obama administration's original financial-reform proposal, Barofsky said.
'Late Add-on'
"Remember, this was sort of a late add-on to what was originally proposed in regulatory reform and I don't think that their heart was necessarily in the legislative process," Barofsky said. "So you see all these exemptions that really are going to enable a lot of different types of trading to go forward even under the Volcker rule."
Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin supported the rule when he testified with Volker, an Obama administration adviser, during a February 2010 hearing before the Senate Banking Committee. Barofsky didn't work on the Volcker rule during his tenure as special inspector for TARP.
"The Volcker rule is an important component of the reform of America's financial system and a provision that would not have been in the legislation but for the strong advocacy of the president and the Treasury Department," Colleen Murray, a department spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement.
The bankruptcy also may influence debates related to other parts of financial-industry rulemaking. MF Global, alongside hedge funds and brokers, had succeeded in urging the CFTC to open access to derivatives clearinghouses for firms with less net capital than Wall Street's largest swaps dealers.
The CFTC completed a rule on Oct. 18 that would require clearinghouses to open access to firms with at least $50 million in net capital. Clearinghouses would still be able to scale a member's participation depending on how much capital a company holds above $50 million. Wall Street's largest derivatives- dealers have said members need experience and adequate resources to manage defaults.
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Jet lag syndrome, also known as "time zone change syndrome", is a common problem associated with airline travel across multiple time zones. The majority of individuals traveling across 5 or more time zones will experience jet lag to some degree.
Jet lag is the result of a rather sudden mismatch between the body's own internal clock (circadian rhythms) and that of the environment around us. The body's circadian rhythms usually cycle somewhere between a 24 to 25 hour time period and tell us when it is time to go to sleep and when to awaken. These rhythms are reset daily to match a 24 hour day by factors such as exposure to daylight and social cues, for example when meals are eaten. However, when traveling across multiple time zones rapidly (i.e. by jet flight), these influences now occur at times different from what the body is expecting, and this mismatch can result in problems.
Common symptoms include difficulty falling asleep, poor sleep, daytime tiredness, difficulty concentrating, and sometimes nausea. Most individuals can adapt to a new time zone within 2-3 days. However, depending upon the individual and the number of time zones crossed, symptoms can linger for 5-7 days in some cases.
Traveling eastward, as opposed to westward, is a more difficult adjustment for the body. This is because it is easier to lengthen our internal clock rhythms to a day longer than 24 hours than it is to shorten them to a day less than 24 hours. Numerous approaches have been tried to treat jet lag with varying degrees of success.
In the few days before traveling, trying to change your body's internal rhythm to match that of the time zone you will be traveling to may be useful. This can be accomplished by gradually moving (about 1 hour per day) your bedtime and rising time at least 3 days before travel. Also, trying to time meals to more closely match meal times of your destination may help.
During the flight, staying well-hydrated and avoiding alcohol will minimize some of the symptoms. Upon arrival at the destination, minimizing napping on the first day and eating meals at typical meal times in the new time zone will help. Probably the most important factor to resetting your body clock is obtaining appropriately timed bright light exposure (sunlight is best).
If traveling eastward, then early day light exposure is best. If traveling westward, exposure to sunlight late in the day will help to strech your internal clock to more closely align it with that of the new time zone. However, if you are traveling across a large number of time zones (i.e more than 7 or 8), the timing of light exposure can become complicated and it is best to seek the advice of a Sleep Specialist before traveling.
Medications to ease the symptoms of jet lag have been recommended in some cases.
Melatonin - Melatonin, a hormone produced by the brain in response to darkness, helps to promote sleep. It is the best studied medication for the treatment of jet lag when traveling in an eastward direction. Taking 5 mg in the late afternoon, usually starting the day before or the day of travel, and then continuing this for a few days after arrival, seems to help reduce the symptoms associated with jet lag. Appropriately timing the medication for westward travel is more complicated and one should seek advice from a Sleep Specialist before pursing this. This drug is available as an over the counter dietary supplement and therefore is not regulated by the FDA. If one considering taking melatonin, the consumer should look for a reliable and quality-tested source from which to purchase it.
Melatonin-like Medications- Two melatonin-like medications, ramelteon (brand name: Rozerem) and taimelteon (brand name: Hetlioz) have been FDA approved for management of insomnia (ramelteon) and irregular sleep-wake schedules (taimelteon). These medications, similar to melatonin, may be of benefit in the treatment of jet lag, though have not been well studied in this situation yet. Both medications require a prescription from a physician. They have no reported abuse potential and are not habit forming.
Sedatives and stimulants - Other medications that have been tried in jet lag include stimulants to help one stay awake, and sedatives to help one sleep [benzodiazepines such as triazolam (brand name: Halcion) and nonbenzodiazepines such as zolpidem (brand name: Ambien) or zopiclone (brand name: Lunesta)]. There is limited information on the use of these agents for jet lag. Stimulants such as caffeine or prescription drugs, may be helpful in keeping one awake in the new time zone, but have side effects such as insomnia and sleep disruption that may actually worsen the situation. Similarly, some of the sedatives can be helpful with improving sleep quality, but side-effects, such as confusion, morning sleepiness, or nausea, may limit their usefulness. If interested in trying one of these medications, consultation with a Sleep Specialist is recommended.
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