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Reply #10 on:
November 19, 2011, 12:38:26 PM »
Its a good thing. They are considering you.
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November 20, 2011, 04:36:16 PM »
You saying the Dean is above a good old fashioned drunk prank call?
That's elitist!
Quote from: fortook on November 19, 2011, 12:38:26 PM
Its a good thing. They are considering you.
Re: opinions please on felony for law school
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December 04, 2011, 02:06:12 PM »
Is this typical? I got an email friday that says..
Recently, we received your C&F statement regarding the instances that you disclosed on your application. Thank you.
Please submit the Police Reports for these instances as well as the court documentation showing that all fines have been paid and that the cases are closed.
Will every school ask for this? I believe these will be hard to obtain.
Re: opinions please on felony for law school
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December 04, 2011, 02:25:55 PM »
They may all ask because its a felony. I suspect that they all won't though. It is not hard to get if you are still in the same jurisdiction where the arrest and conviction was. Go to the police department and ask for you record. They should have everything you need to submit, including disposition and whether all your fines are paid. Every jurisdiction is different though, that is how mine works. Its easy enough.
Ask a clerk at the courthouse what you need for grad school apps (play dumb, its likely they have debt with it before and know what you need). Once you get it you can photo copy it and mail it to the schools or, if they let you scan it and email it to them. Its a pain, but once you get the documents, keep them, you may need them in the future for all kinds of stuff. You'll have to deal with this for the rest of your life, be prepared in the future. Good luck.
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December 17, 2011, 02:00:54 PM »
I'm getting a little discouraged, according to my numbers, I should be getting into some schools. I have been rejected by 3 schools with median LSATS in the upper 150s-low 160s with none admitting me yet.
I can't help but think my C&F is the problem.
Any speculation or advice would be appreciated.
Re: opinions please on felony for law school
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December 17, 2011, 05:47:22 PM »
Of course its a problem. Make sure your research the state bar examiner rules. A felony isn't an out right bar in most states, but in a few it is.
Did you reach out to anyone who went to law school with a felony? I know there are some. Good luck man.
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January 12, 2012, 09:36:01 PM »
unc23, send me a message if you want to discuss further. I'm the one on Law School Numbers. 175/3.76, and out of the 11 schools I initially applied to (GW, Houston, New Hampshire, Virginia, Georgetown, Fordham, Maine, Charlotte [yes, Charlotte], Northeastern, Texas Tech, Texas Wesleyan) - I only got into GW and Houston - two of the more highly ranked schools. I later applied (very late) to Harvard, Yale, and Chicago, but did not gain any additional acceptances. I applied to these three only after realizing the error in my reasoning: I had naively assumed that I would have better odds at getting in to lower-ranked schools because they would want my numbers. Wrong. When it comes to felonies, schools have other things to worry about, such as security, whether you'll pass the bar, employment potential, etc.
Do not expect to get in to any school on account of your numbers. Period. If your numbers are lower than what is reasonable for the school, then you'll be denied. Beyond that, your application will be a highly personal decision. From numerous conversations with admissions deans and law school deans, this weighs very heavily. Misdemeanors, especially first-time DUIs and drug offenses, are common. Even some first-time felony drug offenses are more easily overlooked. Other than than, I would strongly suggest investing significant time into building face-to-face relationships with those at the school(s) you want to attend. That's how it worked for me.
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January 14, 2012, 11:01:00 AM »
Ha, this inter highway thing is truly wondrous. ^ that's the guy I was talking about and he was nice enough to contact you. Good luck.
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January 18, 2012, 10:15:43 PM »
You have great scores and I think that speaks volumes. The best you can do is write a sincere addendum on your applications expressing your sincere regret. You'll need clearly spell out the facts of what happened, say what you learned, and convey that you truly feel bad for what happened (think about if you were the victim). Own up to everything completely in this statement because I don't think it could affect your case in anyway. If you have nothing else on your record, I think its still possible you could get in somewhere.
Sorry if this is repetitive but I'd check the character and fitness info for the NC bar just to double check that its still possible for you to practice when you get out. I'd imagine it will be, considering your age and lack of other offenses.
Just in case...I personally know a really good attorney if you are in the Greensboro, High Point...triad area. He practices pretty much everything related to defense, is very accessible, and loves to litigate.
Now its back to my own applications...sigh
Re: opinions please on felony for law school
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January 23, 2012, 08:21:02 AM »
unc23, thanks for sending me the message. I will reply shortly with the message below, which others might also find helpful.
Being candid on your character and fitness addendum is important. I would, however, strongly recommend contacting the admissions office anonymously and asking them what level of detail they're looking for. My charges were fairly serious. That said, Houston just wanted the basics (charges, dates, courts, sentence, etc., followed by a brief explanation). Once admitted, they sent a letter asking for certified court documentation (indictments, police reports, judgment/sentence orders) noting that admission was conditional on the documentation matching what was in the application.
Other schools wanted more detail. I started all addenda the same way (essentially bullet-point data at top - don't bury the bad news deep in the letter, just get it out there, atone for the wrongs, and then show [don't tell] what you've done re: rehabilitation). The last point is important. Don't just say I'm sorry and I feel bad for it and now I'm committed to living the life of an upstanding citizen or whatever other crap is easy to say. Be real. In a sentence or two, explain how it was that you got to a point in your life where you could commit a crime. Cite tangible accomplishments you've had since then - hundreds of volunteer hours with a certain organization, stability in marriage or employment (i.e. for 2 years + of either), degrees and awards you've earned since then. Ask nicely to be judged on your present potential to practice law, rather than on your youthful transgressions, however serious they may be.
If you get the vibe that an admissions dean is willing to work with you more personally (several were in my case - even from 3 of the schools that ended up denying me... in those cases, the dean apologized profusely and encouraged me to apply again next year), then by all means reach out to them. Ask them if you can send them your C & F addendum for their feedback. Some will laugh at you, but others will respond with comments in a Word Document. If you're not the kind of person that feels comfortable asking these things, you might consider a different profession. After all, if you won't advocate for yourself, how will you advocate for another?
Finally, re: the bar, New York is a great bar to take and has relatively lenient policies toward convictions, assuming you can get a bevy of recommendation letters, preferably from other members of the New York bar in long-time good standing.
Edited to add:
important thing to include in your addendum, come to think of it, is actually a statement to the effect that you've contacted the bar examiners in whatever state you're planning to take the bar, you've discussed your situation with them, and they've advised you that [fill in the blank]. Ideally, the fill in the blank will be something like "character and fitness determinations are made on a case-by-case basis depending on circumstances at the time you have your examination" - but you ought to find a state where that is the case, and you ought to intend to practice in such a state. The NCBEX website has more information. Some states have hard and fast rules about convictions, but many are actually case-by-case.
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2012: New Hampshire's year in reviewBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 30. 2012 9:07PM
A high-ranking state politician fell from grace. A Seacoast hospital found itself under investigation after an employee allegedly infected numerous patients with a deadly disease. A University of New Hampshire student disappeared and was presumed murdered.
The election season gave New Hampshire a new governor and saw Democrats assume power in the state House and Executive Council, while the Granite State joined with others to give President Barack Obama four more years. New Hampshire made history by having the governor's office and the state's Congressional seats all held by women.
The Granite State was hit by a hurricane and felt the tremors of an earthquake.
A respected police chief in Greenland was killed while several other New Hampshire police officers were shot carrying out their duties.
New Hampshire and the nation felt the sad shock wave after a man murdered 20 children and several adults at an elementary school in Connecticut.
A Paralympic swimmer from Exeter won four medals and a Dover Middle School student spelled - and charmed - her way to the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
The world did not, despite interpretations of the Mayan calendar, come to an end in 2012.
These were just a few of the stories that dominated the news in a busy 2012.
Slaughter of Innocents
On Dec. 14, the nation reeled with emotion in the aftermath of the Newtown, Conn., shootings.
The killer, Adam Lanza, was born in New Hampshire and an uncle still lives here. His mother had reportedly vacationed in the White Mountains just days before Lanza killed her, six school officials, 20 small children and himself.
Authorities have not figured out why Lanza went on his rampage.
Arlen's triumph
Exeter's Victoria Arlen dominated in swimming events during the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, winning three silver medals and, thanks to a world-record performance in the 100-meter freestyle, a gold medal.
After the Games, she visited family and did several media events during a tour of Scotland. She then headed back to New Hampshire, where she began her senior year at Exeter High School, went to a parade in her honor, signed with an agent for speaking engagements and modeling appearances and began practicing with the sled hockey team at the University of New Hampshire.
"It's still been hectic," Arlen said in October, "but I've been able to hang out with my friends and do normal teenage stuff."
Shot in the line of duty
Six police officers suffered gunshot wounds in the line of duty in 2012.
In March, Manchester officer Daniel Doherty survived several gunshots at the hands of Myles Webster, who was convicted of attempted murder in December. Doherty, still on the road to recovery, said he is looking forward to returning to police work.
One month later, Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney and four other Seacoast-area officers were shot by Cullen Mutrie while serving a warrant to Mutrie, a suspected drug dealer. Maloney, who had led one wounded officer out of the line of fire, was killed. Mutrie killed his ex-girlfriend, Brittany Tibbetts, then himself. Maloney was just eight days away from his retirement fron the force.
The Greenland shootout was part of a particularly violent month of April, with more than a dozen homicides occurring in New Hampshire during the month.
Hepatitis C scare
Several deficiencies at Exeter Hospital were found by federal inspectors after the hepatitis C outbreak was uncovered in May and late linked to accused "serial infector" David Kwiatkowski. The hospital radiology technician allegedly infected more than 30 Exeter patients by stealing syringes filled with the painkiller fentanyl, injecting himself, and then returning the tainted syringes, partially filled with saline, to be used on the unsuspecting patients.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a report on Oct. 11 stating that the hospital wasn't compliant in several areas, including infection control, and that it failed to ensure that all areas were identified and investigated related to the hepatitis C infections.
The deficiencies could have meant a revocation of Medicare funding for the hospital, but the agency issued a report in early December saying the hospital had addressed its problems and was in compliance with standards.
Bantering at the Bee
Dover's Emma Ciereszynski spelled her way to the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, coming in eighth place.
But it wasn't just her ability to spell words like "bombycine," that got the attention of ESPN announcers. Ciereszynski's smile and wit, in the midst of other serious or nervous spellers, charmed the national television audience.
Ciereszynski had won the Union Leader's New Hampshire Spelling Bee title to advance to the nationals. She exuded confidence and would frequently banter and joke with the Bee's official word pronouncer, Jacques Bailly.
Contestants hearing the dreaded ding indicating a misspelled word often left the stage in tears. But when Ciereszynski misspelled a word to be eliminated in the final round, she shrugged and smiled.
'Cane and quake
Hurricane Sandy blew through the Northeast in October, with winds and rain knocking out power to 137,500 customers and causing millions of dollars in damage, leading to the state being declared a disaster area. Despite the damage, New Hampshire fared better than other states, particularly New Jersey and New York.
The hurricane hit less than two weeks after a 4.0 magnitude earthquake, centered a few miles over the Maine border, shook New Hampshire in communities as far away as Concord and Manchester. The tremor caused little damage.
A student disappears
In early October, police and state officials began searching the waters near Peirce Island in Portsmouth, trying to find Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire sophomore. Shortly after the search began, authorities said she was presumed murdered and charged Seth Mazzaglia, 29, of Dover, with second-degree murder for allegedly suffocating and/or strangling Marriott in his Mill Street apartment on Oct. 9.
A second person, Kathryn McDonough, 19, of Portsmouth, was arrested on Christmas Eve on accusations she gave police a fake alibi for Mazzaglia.
Marriott's body still hasn't been found.
Election season
The year began with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney winning New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation Republican primary. Romney, who outlasted challenges from several rivals, ultimately was defeated by President Barack Obama.
At the state level, several Republicans and Democrats entered the race to replace popular four-term Gov. John Lynch, who had announced that he would not seek reelection. In November, Democrat Maggie Hassan defeated Republican Ovide Lamontagne.
Republicans, who swept races in 2010 to take majorities in the state House, Senate and Executive Council, found themselves hanging onto only the Senate, as Democrats took back majorities in the House and Executive Council.
Women rule
Hassan helped make history, as her election, along with the wins by Carol Shea-Porter and Ann McLane Kuster for the state's two U.S. House of Representatives seats and the presence of sitting U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte, meant New Hampshire became the first state to have women occupy the governor's office and an entire Congressional delegation.
In addition, Portsmouth state Rep. Terie Norelli was selected as Speaker of the House.
Bettencourt's sudden fall
Former state House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt was considered a rising star among state Republicans. At 28, he was the youngest to have served in the House's number two post.
Then he suddenly announced his resignation May 25, saying he was going to leave the House in June to accept a new job that would be a conflict with his elected position and was looking forward to getting married.
That story quickly fell apart.
On May 26, the New Hampshire Sunday News reported that Bettencourt, at the time a third-year student at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, had fabricated documents detailing an internship with Chichester attorney and former state Rep. J. Brandon Giuda that, Giuda told the Sunday News, never happened.
"When I saw the reports, I was blown away," Giuda said at the time. "Because it was literally a fiction novel, making up things that never occurred."
Bettencourt immediately resigned from the House on May 27 after acknowledging his actions. He didn't graduate from the law school, despite a picture of him in cap and gown at a graduation ceremony with Maine's U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe. He had received a hollow tube with no degree.
Boy beaten, mom and boyfriend run away
In November, the state reeled in horror and anger after 3-year-old James Nicholson was allegedly beaten and burned by Roland Dow, the boyfriend of Nicholson's mother, Jessica Linscott. The boy was hospitalized for weeks with severe injuries that caused partial blindness.
The couple ran away after dropping the boy off at Exeter Hospital after he'd suffered multiple seizures. Their flight prompted a nationwide search that ended when the pair were arrested after watching a parade at a theme park in Orlando, Fla.
Dow has been indicted on assault charges and Linscott was charged with several counts of endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly failing to take action when her son suffered his injuries.
Huge fire on a nuclear sub
In May, a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard worker set fire to the nuclear submarine USS Miami, causing $400 million in damage, apparently because he was anxious over text messages with his girlfriend and just wanted to get out of work, authorities said.
Casey James Fury, a painter and sandblaster from Portsmouth, pleaded guilty in November to charges he set fire to the submarine in May and again in June. The first fire caused the majority of damage. The second was quickly extinguished and caused little damage.
Doctor assaulted
Dr. Eduardo Quesada and his wife were brutally attacked in their Bedford home Nov. 24, with both suffering severe injuries.
Police have not caught the assailant or named a suspect. The incident rattled the community and led to a public grilling of Police Chief John Bryfonski in early December about police actions in the hours and days after the attack, including police not entering the Quesada home until 30 minutes after the incident was reported by his wife.
The assault also caused a sharp increase in the number of Bedford residents requesting permits to carry a concealed firearm.
Other noteworthy events in the last year included:
-- There was no closure in the murder of Celina Cass, an 11-year-old West Stewartstown girl whose body was found in the Connecticut River in 2011. No arrests have been made.
-- Manchester city schools contended with issues of overcrowding, leading some partnering communities that send students to Manchester, including Hooksett and Candia, to consider rescinding their contracts.
-- The year saw announcements of some high-profile resignations and retirements, including those of Manchester schools Superintendent Thomas Brennan, Stonyfield CEO Gary Hirschberg and Catholic Medical Center CEO Alyson Pitman-Giles.
-- Former U.S. Sen. Warren Rudman of Nashua died in November at the age of 82.
-- After several months of controversy, the City of Keene agreed to accept a $285,933 Homeland Security grant to buy a LENCO BearCat armored vehicle. Opponents said the tank-like vehicle was a waste of tax dollars that would militarize the police force.
-- The Portsmouth High School baseball team saw its 89-game winning streak, a national interscholastic baseball record, come to an end in April.
-- In Mont Vernon, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names changed the name of a body of water at the foot of Grand Hill from Jew Pond to Carleton Pond.
-- The Balsams Grand Resort and Hotel in Dixville Notch was sold to local developers who have said they plan to renovate the resort.
-- The Northern Pass power line controversy continued with PSNH parent Northeast Utilities and local North Country foes vying for land rights needed for the line from Hydro Quebec.
-- In late March and early April, James Earl Rand, 44, of Concord, went on a crime spree, committing several robberies. His actions are notable because Rand, who has a long criminal history, was freed from prison in error March 30 when officials made a mistake during parole proceedings.
-- In July, Russell Ouellette resigned as a Manchester alderman after he was arrested on sex assault charges.
-- After years of waiting for funding, the federal prison in Berlin was opened.
-- A misreading of the Mayan long-count calendar claimed that the world would end on Dec. 21. You're reading this, so it seems we're moving on to 2013. Happy New Year.

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Dan Goia Promoted to Professor at Clarkson University
Clarkson University President Tony Collins has announced that Dan V. Goia has been promoted from associate professor to professor of chemistry and biomolecular science in the School of Arts & Sciences.
Goia obtained his master of science degree from the University of Cluj (Romania) and his Ph.D. degree from Clarkson. After a successful career in industry, he joined the Clarkson faculty in 2001. Prior to his move to Clarkson, Goia worked for more than 20 years in the research organizations of several companies involved in the development and manufacturing of fine particles (pigments, metals, ceramics, etc.). His latest position in industry was as R&D director in the Electronic Materials Division of Degussa Corporation.
For the past two decades, Goia's research has been focused on the preparation, characterization, and modification of micrometer and nanometer size simple and composite metallic particles for electronic, catalytic, metallurgical, optical, and medical applications. While at Clarkson, Goia has been particularly interested in the elucidation of the fundamental mechanisms governing the formation of highly dispersed uniform particles in homogeneous solutions. In this area he has authored 37 publications and 20 patents and enjoys worldwide recognition in both academic and industrial circles, as evidenced by his 40 invited lectures in the U.S. and abroad. Goia's research has been also recognized by the National Science Foundation, which has awarded him and his colleagues over $1.4 million for work related to fine particles.
Goia also plays an active role in teaching at Clarkson. His contributions include courses and labs in the areas of analytical, inorganic, and materials chemistry at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His experience as a researcher and manager in large corporations brings valuable insights in the development of skills that are meaningful for the professional development of students and their preparation for future careers.
Another important area of Goia's research is the development of electrocatalysts for energy conversion and storage applications. His research in this field secured a $540,000 multi-year grant from Degussa, OMG, and Umicore/Germany to develop highly dispersed Pt and Pt alloy nanoparticles deposited on various substrates. Professor Goia has also received $350,000 from NYSTAR and NanoDynamics for research involving the development of precious and base metal electrocatalysts for solid oxide fuel cells.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3,000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.


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On Alert Against Cybercrime
Cybersecurity was something Ciena chief financial officer could usually delegate when he joined the network provider six years ago. Now, he spends as much as 10% of his time making sure Ciena and its technologies are protected from hackers, cutthroat competitors and other potential cybercriminals.
"With all the things that have been in the news—hackers and, frankly, the Chinese—it's all caused us to think about" how to cut the potential cost of a data breach, says Ciena's James Moylan Jr. As a result, he is considering cyber-risk insurance.
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This was actually part of the conversation back in the good 'ole days. Considering that grandmother Edna Kearns' oldest daughter Serena was a poster child for the suffrage movement, Edna definitely felt sensitive about criticism for taking her daughter on the campaign trail. Often people shouted at her from the sidelines: "You should be at home taking care of your child." For Serena, accompanying her mother was thrilling and no doubt, educational. Even though at the turn of the 20th century it was noteworthy for a young person to join the movement, there were instances of young people taking part, such as with this photo, above, of children barnstorming for the movement. Edna's in the photo, though barely. You can barely see the top of her head to the left of the driver, behind the flags. Edna handled media relations, so I expect she was responsible for this image appearing in numerous Long Island and NYC publications. The news article below illustrates Edna's response to criticism that suffragists weren't good mothers.
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The clock is ticking on the superhero craze in Hollywood, according to Matthew Vaughn, the director now filming "X-Men: First Class" for Fox in London.
"It's been mined to death and in some cases the quality control is not what it's supposed to be," Vaughn said. "People are just going to get bored of it."
Vaughn, who produced, directed and co-wrote "Kick-Ass," says he pounced on the chance to make a film about the uncanny mutants from Marvel Comics because he expects the current boom in superhero cinema to fizzle out in the near future.
"I've always wanted to do a big-budget superhero film and I think we've kind of crossed the Rubicon with superhero films," Vaughn said. "I think [the opportunity to do one], it's only going to be there two or three more times."
"Then," he added, "the genre is going to be dead for a while because the audience has just been pummeled too much."
Next summer, "X-Men: First Class" will join "Captain America: The First Avenger," "Thor" and "Green Lantern" in a parade of costumed heroes in big-budget films at the cineplex.
Vaughn said audience fatigue is already starting to set in. The subject material can't sustain the Hollywood trample, he said, and the inevitable box-office duds and derivative projects will mark the end of the gold rush by studios.
"It is a crowded room," Vaughn said "It's too crowded."
The 39-year-old filmmaker (who is married to German model Claudia Schiffer) is known for a candor that is rare in Hollywood circles.
He had been in talks to direct the third "X-Men" film but that didn't work out (he instead went off to make the underrated "Stardust") and the superhero project went to Brett Ratner ("Rush Hour"), who delivered "X-Men: The Last Stand," the 2006 film that became the biggest money-maker in the franchise despite far more sour reviews than the two previous films.
Vaughn didn't shy away from slagging on Ratner's film: "As it happens, I could have made something a hundred times better than the film that was eventually made," Vaughn told the Daily Telegraph. "It sounds arrogant, but I could have done something with far more emotion and heart."
Vaughn made his mark in movies as the producer of three Guy Ritchie films — "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch" and "Swept Away." He made his directorial debut with "Layer Cake" in 2004. "X-Men: First Class," starring James McAvoy as Charles Xavier (aka Professor X) and Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr (aka, Magneto) is due in theaters in June 2011.
— Geoff Boucher
Shared dream? After "Inception," Vaughn axes "First Class" scene
Bryan Singer on "First Class": It's got to be about Xavier and Magneto
James McAvoy will think big as Professor X
Was it real? Ryan Reynolds and the cute kid at Comic-Con
Ian McKellen surrounded by evil mutants on "The View"
Robert Rodriguez may dip into "Deadpool"
IMAGES: Top and bottom, "X-Men: First Class" by John Cassaday (Marvel Comics). Middle, Claudia Schiffer and Matthew Vaughn at the March premiere of "Kick-Ass" in London (Fergus McDonald/Getty Images)


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Metascore®Generally unfavorable reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
Getaway seems built for non-English speaking territories in which dialogue is as disposable as Bulgarian police cars. If only those audiences were as dumb as the action itself.
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A car-chase clunker that can't escape its own noxious emissions.
Terrible but, in its squealing way, sporadically fun-terrible.
Getaway is pretty much a 90-minute car chase. That's it.
The racing is spectacular, especially when you consider director Courtney Solomon's claim that no CGI was used in the crash scenes... Solomon wanted to put the audience in the middle of events and inside the car; he certainly does pull that off. Believe me, your head will spin. After a while it all becomes mind-numbing.
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OK for kids 14+
Lackluster action flick has too many smashed cars to count.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Getaway is a near-nonstop car chase from beginning to end. Ethan Hawke stars as a former race car driver whose wife has been kidnapped. The villain instructs him to drive a customized sports car on a specific route, plowing through crowded pedestrian malls, eluding the cops, causing all sorts of mayhem, and destroying too many vehicles to count. Selena Gomez co-stars as an unwilling passenger who becomes his ally. There's a bit of swearing ("s--t," "ass," etc.) and some serious product placement for the Shelby Super Snake -- the muscle car that's the real star of the film -- but the real issue is the constant loud crashing and destruction.
Messages: The bad guy tries to steal a fortune, and the good guy destroys hundreds of vehicles while threatening to run down scores of pedestrians and policemen, so there's no real positive takeaway here.
Role models: The main character will do almost anything to rescue his kidnapped wife, even if it involves untold vehicular mayhem.
Violence: Near-constant car chases, with too many smashed vehicles (cars, motorcycles, more) to count. They flip, fly, roll, tumble, and are destroyed in many other ways. A few scenes also include shoot-outs, and in one sequence, a woman is violently kidnapped.
Sex: Not an issue
Language: Language is mainly variations on "s--t," "ass," and "hell," with one possible use of "f--k" and a crude finger gesture thrown in, plus "damn," "crap," "oh my God," etc.
Consumerism: Several Apple products have prominent roles, including an iPhone, an iPad, and a Mac laptop. The star of the film is a customized Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake sports car, with the logo and brand name appearing all through the movie.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: The villain savors a martini while choreographing the mayhem.
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Fear of childbirth increases postpartum depression
London, Jan 4 (IANS) Women who are afraid to give birth have an increased risk of postpartum (postnatal) depression.
According to a Finnish study, expectant women with prenatally diagnosed fear of childbirth are at an increased risk of postpartum depression, and the consequences may be severe.
"Postpartum depression may affect the mother's abilities and skills to engage in delicate interaction with the child, and thus impair the development of an attachment relationship – possibly affecting the child's later development and well-being," said the study published in the British Medical Journal "Open".
After studying over 500,000 mothers in Finland, the researchers came to the conclusion that fear of childbirth puts women without a history of depression at an approximately three times higher risk of postpartum depression – a new observation which may help healthcare professionals in recognising postpartum depression.
The risk of postpartum depression is highest after the first child's birth.
Postpartum depression was diagnosed in 5.3 percent of women with a history of depression, while approximately a third of women experiencing postpartum depression had no history of depression.
In these women, physician-diagnosed fear of childbirth during pregnancy was discovered to nearly triple the risk of postpartum depression.
Other risk factors included caesarean section, pre-term birth and major congenital anomaly, said the study.
Postpartum depression affects one in every five new mothers in India.
What begins as insecurity, usually within 30 days of the baby's birth, rapidly expands to other symptoms that typically include sadness or anxiousness through the day that often worsens in the evening; crying spells; low self-esteem; lethargy and sleeplessness.
The milder version is called postpartum blues, where the mother's feeling of being overwhelmed, low and having difficulty sleeping resolves on its own within a month.


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Teachers receive $100,000 in STEM Research Grants
Society for Science & the Public is excited to announce that we have awarded $100,000 in STEM Research Grants to 23 science teachers across the country. These teachers are mentoring students, many of whom are underprivileged and underrepresented, in authentic STEM research projects.
The grants help fund transportation to research facilities and the purchase of project materials such as robotics kits, DNA research equipment, microscopes, electrophoresis classroom kits, field biology collection kits and general laboratory supplies including petri dishes, sensors and pipettes. The possibilities for meaningful STEM research opportunities afforded by this grant are endless. Thanks to the STEM Research Grant, these teachers will have the resources necessary to inspire the next generation of STEM leaders with exciting research.
Congratulations to these teachers for receiving a STEM Research Grant!
Judith Barrios | Union, N.J.
Laurel Bingman | Houston, Texas
April Blaze | Haines City, Fla.
Scott Bolen | Conyers, Ga.
Cristobal Carambo | Philadelphia, Pa.
Antonio Gamboa | Pomona, Calif.
Tahnee Harrell | Miramar, Fla.
Loree Harvey | Monte Vista, Colo.
Joel Kuper | Greybull, Wyo.
Lauren Levites | Chicago, Ill.
Shawn Lowe | Alexandria, Va.
Janette Lugo-Garay | Fajardo, P.R.
Jesusa Merioles | Bronx, N.Y.
Pradip Misra | Bagdad, Ariz.
Andre Pineda | Whiteriver, Ariz.
Sherry Richardson | Washington, D.C.
Linda Sciaroni | Lynwood, Calif.
Sonia Solis | Yuma, Ariz.
Susan Swope | Deming, N.M.
Laura Tenorio | Taos, N.M.
Julie Throne | Athens, Ga.
Peggy Veatch | Eldon, Mo.
Michelle Wyatt | Columbia, S.C.


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Obituary published Nov. 16, 2012 in The Mexico Ledger
Evan A. Current, 16 of Mexico died unexpectedly at his home on Thursday November 15, 2012.
Memorial services will be held 3:00 PM Sunday at Arnold Funeral Home with visitation from 1:00 PM until the time of the service at the funeral home Sunday.
Evan was born on October 1, 1996 the son of Aaron D. Current and Michelle (Oliver) Current.
Evan was a sophomore at Mexico Senior High School. He was an avid NFL fan, and was interested in every make and model of automobile. Evan wanted to pursue a career in automobile mechanics and coach football.
Evan is survived by his parents, a sister, Jillian Current; his maternal grandparents, Sam and Lillie Oliver; his paternal grandparents, Ron and Elaine Beedle all of Mexico; his great-grandmother, Goldie Herren; many aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends.
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I have not done bread baking for long, kind of missing the smell of bread from the oven early in the morning. Baked some cinnamon roll with raisins days ago, the smell and aroma of bread baking was great!
I used the same old recipe for the bread but glazed with sugar icing instead of cream cheese frosting. T loved it very much. I believe the aroma of bread baking brings back lots of memories of our life in Sydney... those bread baking days and waking up in such lovely aroma.
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John Poelstra, RHCE
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Hi, I'm John!
A majority of my time as a Red Hat employee is dedicated to Fedora as Program Manager. This means I help with general project management and act as the Feature Wrangler for new features in each new release. You'll also see me doing project management things like proposing and updating the release schedules, chasing blocker bugs, and facilitating our release readiness meetings.
I also work on the Bug Triage process.
For Fedora 12 and 13 I served as a Fedora Board member.
While I try to be as transparent as possible in my Fedora work, some of it is less visible when I am working with groups internal to Red Hat to make sure Fedora and Red Hat are aligned and working well together.
My Project Goals
- Releases that ship on time
- A clear list of Features and their status for upcoming Fedora releases
- Predictable schedules that people can trust
- Detailed schedules that remind everyone what it takes to complete a release and when those tasks need to be completed to finish on time
- A smooth running new Feature process
- A well maintained bug tracking system
How to Reach Me
- IRC: irc.freenode.net with the nick poelcat
- Channels: #fedora-meeting, #fedora-devel
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The University of Rochester will serve as a sponsor for the 2013 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival, which returns this year from Sept. 19-28 with 28 venues, 360 shows, and five additional days showcasing multi-genre performances of theater, music, dance, comedy, and more.
"The inaugural First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival was a smashing success and fortified Rochester on the nation's cultural map," said University President Joel Seligman. "Building on that success is exciting as we see the 2013 festival grow to an even larger exhibition of our community's diverse talents and creativity. The University is proud to join with our local partners to present the Fringe Festival, as well as play host to many of the performances at our Eastman School of Music and right on Gibbs Street, many of which feature our students, faculty, and staff."
In addition to headliners and local performers, around 30 performing groups comprising University of Rochester students and faculty from the College, the Medical Center, and the Eastman School of Music will perform at venues throughout the city of Rochester.
Erica Fee, who is the festival's producer and graduated from Rochester in 1999, worked with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, where the original festival premiered in 1947. When Fee returned to Rochester in 2009, plans for a local Fringe Festival began with crucial support from Seligman.
"We have a rich cultural background in Rochester, and a high concentration of talent," said Fee. "The University provides not only financial support, but the sheer talent of various faculty members and students."
Missy Pfohl Smith, director of the Program of Dance and Movement at the University of Rochester and the College's Fringe Festival coordinator, said she's excited for students and faculty to perform in Rochester venues. "It's a way for the community to be exposed to the high caliber of arts going on at the University," she said.
The festival's board of directors includes representatives from Boylan Code LLP, the University of Rochester and its Eastman School of Music, Rochester Institute of Technology, George Eastman House, Geva Theatre Center, Method Machine, Mengel Metzger Barr, PUSH Physical Theater, and the City of Rochester.
There are more than 200 fringe festivals worldwide, including 20 in the United States, with festivals closest to Rochester in Toronto and Philadelphia. Last year's festival in Rochester, which saw over 32,000 attendees, was one of the most successful Fringe Festivals in the nation, ranking third in attendance.
To view the schedule of performing groups affiliated with the University, visit www.rochester.edu/arts/fringe/. For more information on the festival or to order tickets, visit rochesterfringe.com.


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A demographer predicts big changes for the West's housing landscape
Are we all headed to "megapolitan" areas like the Wasatch Front and Sun Corridor?
Arthur "Chris" Nelson has an unofficial motto: Act now. In his new book, Reshaping Metropolitan America, Nelson documents the "sweeping generational changes" underway in housing demographics. By 2040, he says, most of America will live in "megapolitan" areas, such as Utah's Wasatch Front, Colorado's Front Range or Arizona's Sun Corridor. Ownership of single-family dwellings will plummet as the demand for rentals climbs. Nelson calculates that, by 2040, the United States – with an estimated population of roughly 450 million – will need 464 billion square feet of new retail, residential, office and educational space. He recommends that communities start preparing for the future now, rather than waiting passively until change is forced upon them.
Nelson is 61 and brims with energy. A native Oregonian, he spent over 20 years teaching urban planning, public policy and urban finance at colleges in the South. Currently, he is the presidential professor of city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah's Metropolitan Research Center. Freelance writer Samuel Western spoke with him in his office in Salt Lake City in August.
High Country News Your research indicates that, as far as development patterns go, we're on the cusp of a major change. Can you describe it for us?
Chris Nelson From 1950 to 2010, the baby boomers drove the market. They made up 84 percent of America's housing demand. Between 1990 and 2000, about three-quarters of all houses built were single-family detached homes in the suburbs. Yet people can't seem to grasp that pattern is history. When we look forward, it's a little daunting: That same 84 percent who drove the demand for suburban homes will drive the demand for smaller lots, smaller homes and rental homes.
HCN Home ownership is declining, right? But there's going to be 1.5 million new homes built in the average year. How does that work?
NELSON Between now and 2030, 86 percent plus of all population growth in America will be among minorities, which I define as everyone else except white non-Hispanic. We're not educating these minorities to the extent that we educated the boomers. With their education, boomers drove the economy and they invested in the economy through their homes. The people following them are much more diverse, more challenged in education, and with a different cultural orientation. Whites own homes at a 74 percent rate. Minorities – except Asians – own homes at about a 45 percent rate. So the alternative is to depress housing prices so low that minorities can buy the homes.
HCN Will that happen?
NELSON Possibly, in some markets. The more likely scenario is that the people who want to sell the homes will realize that they can't unlock the equity. They'll rent them out.
HCN What about the senior housing market?
NELSON Many more will become renters. They will begin unloading homes by the millions at the end of this decade. When they sell, they will either rent or go into independent living or apartments.
HCN What does America's growing population mean for the Rocky Mountain West?
NELSON Rural outlying areas are not going to grow much. But they are a relatively small part of the population. The population centers like Denver and Albuquerque will grow. The dynamics of the Wasatch Front are particularly worth watching. In the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, about half the demand for new housing will be for rentals. All the growth will be attributable to minorities.
HCN You mentioned a survey in your book that shows that while 56 percent of the people interviewed prefer some sort of smart-growth option, 43 percent preferred sprawl.
NELSON At best, half of all people want to live in a walkable neighborhood with an integrated mixed-use environment. But the other half doesn't. My issue is that we're not meeting the demand right now for those who want to live in that different living environment. To move our markets from where they are now to where the market says it wants to be, every new home has to be built in the new configuration. (At the present rate) by 2040, we still wouldn't meet the demand.
HCN Even in rural counties?
NELSON When you drill down on the rural counties in the West, you're getting into people who are culturally different or who move there to join the engrained culture. Rural counties with resource-based economies lend themselves to more open spaces and larger lots.
HCN But where do their children want to live?
NELSON Some want to stay close, but many – more than half from the studies I've seen – want to get out of the country and get to Denver as fast as they can and live in a loft.
HCN What about energy production, with its high-paying jobs, as it expands across the West?
NELSON Fracking is going to change the dynamics of many rural counties. In 30 years, there might be – at most – 1 million people involved in the energy economy, up from 200,000 now. So in 2040, you have 1 million people out of a workforce of 240 million people. ... They will have a huge impact on those counties but not on the nation.
HCN What's the future of second homes in the West?
NELSON It's a tiny market, really. Only 4 percent of all dwelling units are second homes. But they can be a big share of the local economies in some parts of the country. As the boomers age, they are unloading their primary homes and their second homes. Thus, when it comes to the second-home market, you'll need to be unusually well-positioned in an affluent market and/or located near a major metropolitan area where they have an airport, like Park City. You take away those niche markets, the rest of the second-home market in the West is basically doomed.
HCN How about ski area towns in general?
NELSON Park City, Breckenridge and Aspen will be just fine. But if you look at those more outlying areas, possibly Crested Butte, possibly Big Sky, those second-tier and definitely third-tier ski area markets, they're in trouble. Even Taos may be challenged.
The perfect analogy is golf courses. Golf courses boomed in the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s and early 2000s. The boomers had the money and the cultural orientation towards golfing. Now, more golf courses are closing each year than are being built. By the 2020s, there might be two or three closed golf courses for every one built.
HCN Pretend I'm a county commissioner from an isolated and modestly depressed Rocky Mountain county. A developer wants to build a large-lot subdivision, mostly for retirees or for people desiring second homes, about 15 miles from town. I get between 30 and 50 percent of my annual revenue from property taxes. What advice would you give me?
NELSON I would want to do a fiscal analysis to see the extent to which the county over 30 years is better off or worse off from this development. (Then I'd) ask the developer to provide a qualified market analysis showing there really is a demand for his project. Then I would recommend that once I see his market study, I might spend $10,000-$20,000 of your own money to double-check. I'd hire a third party. Then I'd hire another staffer or another consultant – and yes, spend some more money, because it's better to spend $100,000 up front than be losing $1 million per year at the back end – and figure out the fiscal costs and benefits of providing services to the development.
HCN Why aren't more county commissioners and planning and zoning departments doing this?
NELSON The word isn't out. It's all a matter of education.


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Shortstop Erick Aybar chuckles as he recalls the 2010 version of himself, the one the Angels tried in the leadoff spot.
The 5-foot-10, 180-pound switch-hitter fit into the role then about as comfortably as he would fit into Albert Pujols' uniform.
"It was almost like I was a little kid back then," said Aybar, now 31. "I put too much pressure on myself."
In his first try as a leadoff man, Aybar was tabbed to replace Chone Figgins, who hit .298 with a .395 on-base percentage and an American League-leading 101 walks in 2009 before signing with the Seattle Mariners.
Aybar is an aggressive hitter and has never walked more than 36 times in a season....


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From Fedora Project Wiki
Games Live DVD
Fedora Games spin is a custom variant of Fedora targeted at Linux gamers. Fedora Games Spin demonstrates the gaming potential of Fedora without altering user's existing configuration. This Live DVD also allows installation to hard disk or USB flash.
Please submit any must-have games/utilites to the list below, and propose suggestions to fedora-games-list .
Download Fedora Games Spin
Current Games Spin page
Release Notes
- Just a installable Live DVD for now. Might have a Live CD in the future.
- A dialog box for 3d games in Fedora when DRI is not available to help new users. (see the README in opengl-games-utils).
- A autodownloader for gaming content for some Fedora games.
- Many 3D-intensive games, both on a "best-foot forward" theory and to act as a sort of hardware purchasing Shibboleth. Take the disc to the store. If the card you're considering won't run your favorite games with free and open source drivers, you'll know and can opt for another card.
- Not just more mainstream action/puzzle/strategy games, but some educational and kid's games, as well as simulators.
- Game Spin specific theme, release notes and Firefox bookmarks are being considered for a future spin.
Open Questions
- Review and compare with other gaming distros?
Kickstart File
You can customize the games spin or roll your own. As root user, run
yum install livecd-tools spin-kickstarts livecd-creator --config /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-livedvd-games.ks
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Man saved woman, hopes Manchester police will find hit-and-run driverBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 23. 2013 6:22PM
MANCHESTER — A city man is nursing injuries and facing surgery after he saved a woman by pushing her out of the path of an oncoming car early Sunday morning and was hit himself.
The impact sent Abraham Santiago, 23, 10 feet up into the air and briefly knocked him out. The vehicle, described by witnesses as a dark-colored Explorer or Expedition, did not stop.
"I saved a woman's life and screwed up my own," said Santiago who has no health insurance and whose injuries prevent him from going to his job at R & D Enterprises in Londonderry. So far, he said, medical bills total $5,000.
The muscles on the left side of his body were bruised when he came crashing down onto the pavement, breaking his wrist, which will require surgery to repair, he said.
The incident happened about 2 a.m. Sunday at Union and Central streets. Santiago was at a party when his friend, Geanary Arroyo, 20, began crying and left the gathering.
He followed her to see if she was OK. They walked out of an alley, just south of Laurel Street, and started to cross Union Street, near Central Street, when Santiago said he noticed a Ford Expedition about 50 feet away heading toward them.
Santiago said he waved at the vehicle to draw the attention of the driver, but when he and Arroyo were three or four feet from the sidewalk, the SUV swerved toward them. He said he shoved Arroyo out of the way and then he was hit.
"I owe him everything," said Arroyo. "He saved my life."
She said she was just ahead of Santiago as they crossed Union Street, and didn't notice the vehicle until Santiago said something.
"I looked and I just saw lights," she said. "Then I was on the ground. I turned around and I looked and I saw the car hit him."
For a second, Santiago was pressed against the front of the car before he went airborne.
"It didn't even brake," she said of the SUV. "It just hit him and kept driving, like it was nothing."
Lt. Maureen Tessier said there were witnesses who confirmed Santiago's account.
Tessier said witnesses described the SUV as a dark-colored Ford Explorer or Expedition, with a shiny or chrome grille. No one could give police a description of any of the people in the SUV — a driver and one or two passengers.
The Ford had New Hampshire license plates; the first three numbers are 338.
Santiago believes the SUV was a 1998 Ford Expedition with a grille outlined in gold trim.
He's hoping the driver, if caught, will have insurance to cover his medical bills.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 668-8711 or Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org
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Police: Pedestrians hit at Derry carnival
May 03. 2013 11:07PM
DERRY - Police have responded to an accident in which pedestrians have reportedly been hit by a car at a carnival in Derry, an officer confirmed Friday night.
Police were at the scene of the incident about 11 p.m. Friday and the officer said he had no further information about it, including how many people may have been hit by the car.


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LOS ANGELES — During her four seasons gliding through "Dancing With the Stars" in skintight, bedazzled bodysuits and spray tans, professional ballroom dancer Julianne Hough confidently guided an Olympic gold medalist and an Indianapolis 500 champion to victory.
Getting Hollywood directors to consider her a true leading lady, however, hasn't been easy.
"When people's primary association with you is dancing around in a sequin costume being sweet and happy, that sophistication doesn't always come through," said Diablo Cody, the writer of films including "Juno" and "Young Adult" who encountered Hough when looking for stars for her directorial debut, "Paradise," due out later this year.
But after showing off her dancing and singing ability roles in three films — "Burlesque," "Footloose" and "Rock of Ages" — Hough this year gets several real shots to prove, as she put it, she's more than "just that chick from the dancing show."
The first came on Valentine's Day, when "Safe Haven," an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' bestselling romance novel, arrived in theaters. Though the movie isn't exactly Michael Haneke's latest somber European drama (it is from the man behind "The Notebook," after all), the film offers Hough, 24, an opportunity to explore a darker side of herself — with no musical numbers to fall back on.
Hough plays Katie, the victim of an abusive relationship who flees to a sleepy seaside town in North Carolina to start her life over. But just as she begins to fall for a local widower (Josh Duhamel), her past threatens to derail the relationship.
The actress said part of the reason the role resonated with her is because of her own history with abuse. In an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine last month, Hough revealed that while studying dance in London as a teenager, she was subject to both mental and physical abuse, though she didn't identify her abuser. Hough shared her personal stories with "Safe Haven" director Lasse Hallstrom in the pair's first one-on-one meeting to help convince him she was right for the part.
"I was like, 'All right, I have to sell myself for this movie.' And I wanted him to know that there was more to me than just this happy, bubbly, jumpy girl," she recalled in an interview the morning after the film's Los Angeles premiere.
Hallstrom was surprised by Hough's candor. "I thought it was bold of her to share this," the Swedish filmmaker said, "and I could tell she used a lot of that experience. She was doing things on set that were very interesting because she knew who the character was."
Hough declined to get into specifics about her experience in London, where she attended a performing arts school and competed in professional dance competitions from ages 10 to 15. As a sophomore, she returned home to Utah, where she is one of five children in a devout Mormon family. Her father, Bruce, has twice been chairman of the Utah Republican Party.
At 18, she told her dad that she had $5,000 in her bank account when she really only had $2,000, and she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of being in show business. Shortly after arriving in town, she landed a spot on "Dancing With the Stars," but was hesitant about taking the gig.
"At first, I was like, 'I don't know if I should do this, because I really want to be a respected actress and singer, and I don't know if being a reality star is where it's at,'" she recalled. "But after saying no a few times, I thought this could be a really good opportunity to get my foot in the door."
Indeed, the program did lead her to some film roles, including as a wide-eyed, aspiring singer fresh to Hollywood in "Rock of Ages" last year with Tom Cruise.
"I didn't want to go so far out of the box that people who watched me on 'Dancing With the Stars' would be totally freaked out. But also it was like, well, I'm not really getting offers for 'Silver Linings Playbook,'" Hough admitted, referring to David O. Russell's Oscar-nominated dramedy featuring Jennifer Lawrence.
Hough will follow "Safe Haven" with Cody's film, in which she stars as an evangelical Christian who renounces her religion and embarks on a wild night out in Las Vegas. Cody said she considered virtually every well-known actress between the ages of 18 and 27 for the role before Hough won everyone over with her audition tape.
"You had the Jennifer Lawrences and Emma Stones — people who have the commercial and critical heat on them — but the funny thing is that after everyone saw Julianne's tape, they all agreed she was the best," Cody said.
Hough also had the least experience of anyone up for "Safe Haven," said her costar, Duhamel. She initially auditioned for the role with the actor via Skype, and the producers weren't sold on her, but Duhamel — who was already attached to the project — urged Hallstrom to let her try out in person.
"I said, 'If you're in person, there's a lot more going on than you would think — especially for a girl that beautiful who doesn't have a lot of experience,'" he said. Though Hough said executives at Relativity Media, the studio behind the film, told her that she'd "had her shot and it was going to be a tough thing for (her) to get back in there," she eventually convinced them otherwise.
The actress has exhibited bullheadedness in other areas of her life too. Her boyfriend of three years, 38-year-old "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, had to pursue Hough for months before she decided to overlook his celebrity and go out on a date with him.
"She really resisted going out with him," said Adam Shankman, who directed Hough in "Rock of Ages." "But he is so madly in love with her that he treats her like beautiful blown glass — she is so precious to him."
The actress says Seacrest often offers her career advice. "On the business end of things, he's like, 'Don't let people … you. Make sure you've got good people around you to get you the best deal,"' she said, imitating his voice.
As for her conservative father, Hough said he doesn't have as big an issue with the couple's 14-year age difference as he does with the fact that they live together.
"He won't stay at our house," Hough said.She's more than a pretty face and nimble feet, she insists, and her past is not all sweetness and light.
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YARNELL, Ariz. (AP) — The wildfire that killed 19 firefighters came at the start of Arizona's monsoon season — a weather phenomenon that brings lightning strikes, gusty winds, dust storms and sometimes rain to the state during the summer months.
The winds that helped fuel the fire were highly unpredictable and contributed to the rapidly shifting nature of the blaze.
Arizona's monsoon season began on June 15, but didn't produce many storms until this past weekend. Unlike the flash-flood-producing storms late in the summer, the early monsoon storms typically have plenty of lightning and wind, but often have little rain.
The rain-less storms combined with the dried out conditions of a prolonged drought in Arizona — the state has been in rain deficit for more than a decade — greatly increase the potential for devastating fires.
"If we're talking about Arizona, this is definitely the most dangerous time as far as wildfires go," Ken Waters, warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Phoenix, said on Monday. "Basically, June into about mid-July, that's definitely a problem. It's a time when fire starts by lightning are more likely."
The monsoon begins when upper-level winds shift to bring moisture from the Gulf of Mexico into states like Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.
When the moisture collides with the high heat of the Southwest, it creates thunderstorms across the region, producing produce multiple lightning strikes, gusty winds and dust storms, along with and isolated downpours.
The firefighters, part of the elite Granite Mountain Hotshots based in nearby Prescott, were apparently overwhelmed by the erratic nature of the lightning-sparked fire near Yarnell on Sunday in the nation's biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years.
Fire officials aren't sure how the firefighters became trapped, but outflow boundaries from thunderstorms and a channeling effect caused by the topography of the mountainous area can cause varying wind speeds and directions during the monsoon season.
Yarnell sits along a stretch of a highway that climbs about 2,500 feet in a span of four miles from the desert below. The town of about 700 is at an elevation of just over 4,700 and in a rugged area once known for its mining.
The up-and-down topography creates a funneling effect for the wind over the passes and through the valleys, creating unpredictable speeds and directions.
"There are so many variables here with the terrain, and the terrain tends to modify the winds where you get this channeling affect where the winds can change direction and intensify as they get compressed," Waters said. "Basically, you're trying to squeeze the winds into a smaller area when you get a pass or something and you get what we call channeling. And if you throw in the outflow boundaries from these thunderstorms, that greatly increases the erratic nature of these winds."


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Miso-is a Python for S60 utility library, which was developed in the PDIS project at HIIT. The idea of the library is to provide simple utility functions and classes that are easy to implement using native Symbian OS resources, but which would be difficult or impossible to implement in pure Python. The library consists of a single Symbian OS native dynamic link library that has a Python interface.


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Something special is always going on in Alpena. Festivals and events that celebrate Independence Day, antique steam engines, classic cars, lighthouses, Santa Claus, the Thunder Bay River, and a fish called "Big Brownie" are just a smattering of the special events that take place in Alpena year round. Great performances at the Alpena Fine Arts Shell, Alpena High School Auditorium, the Alpena County Library and Alpena Community College's Granum Theatre are scheduled throughout the year.


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Spring is a great time to not only get outdoors and enjoy some nice weather, but to teach your kids what it means to go green. There are so many takeaways that can be gained from gardening, including developmental growth, fine motor skills through dealing with small seeds, and gross motor skills as they water their plants and dig. To show you all of the potential gardening presents for your preschooler, we've decided to share some key takeaways and learning lessons that will help your child become a balanced learner.
Key concepts:
-Plants grow from seeds
-Food we eat at meal times comes from plants that we grow from seeds
-Water, soil and sunlight are all needed to help a seed grow
A few tasks to get you started:
- Prepare the garden: this is the time when you have to prepare your gardening area for planting. You can have kids help you with everything from clearing away leaves, to pulling weeds, to washing out plastic pots for sowing.
- Make sure your early crops are sown directly into the soil: this includes making sure that plants that need to get an early start are planted outside: can include carrots, spring onions, peas, lettuce, red cabbage, radishes, etc.
- Sow tender crops: these crops can be grow by windowsills inside your home. They can include cucumbers, peppers, sweet corn and tomatoes.
4 Gardening Lessons for Preschoolers
1. Getting creative
-Get your kids exciting by letting them see what they'll be planting. By ordering seed catalogs online, you can have children cut out pictures and paste them onto colorful construction paper; when it comes time to plant, you can choose from the selections your child made.
-All of the plants you will be growing need labels, which will provide the perfect chance for little hands to use their art skills as they make plant signs and stakes! It will definitely bring a personal touch to your home garden.
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-Plants will have to be watered regularly; giving your child this shared responsibility that the plant depends on to grow will help them to understand routine, a fundamental part of their developmental process. You will have to stress that watering and weeding daily are an important part of gardening.
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-Children will have to get their muscles working as they break out the child-sized tools to help you with tasks varying from raking soil, pulling weeds, spreading topsoil, to digging holes for seeds to be planted in. When the plants finally do break through the soil to saying hello, kids will appreciate that all of their hard work paid off.
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I posted about the DVF Allen pants one year ago, after seeing it in a magazine. It was for sale later on net-a-porter.com. Somehow I never got around to making it last year.
This pant is NOT to meant to be worn when pregnant, but it could be (provided you find the right top). As a matter of fact, it looked much better on me 3 weeks ago when I finished it and my "waist" was almost 2" smaller.
The original pant is made from a silk-blend (92% silk, 8% spandex). It has elasticated bands at hem, front pleats, side-slit pockets, and simply slip on. The elasticated casings at the waistband and at the hem are attached, not turned under. Also, the entire pant is constructed with French seams.
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sort of, kind of but not reallyWednesday, March 12, 2008
Last fall I picked up a very large stack of wool at the church fair. I had thoughts of wool jumpers and tights with boots. Lots of them. I wanted a closet full of jumpers. Plaids, black, brown and grey. I would wear them everyday. Don't exactly know where I was going, but by golly, I would be in my jumper.
Fast forward to Monday, March 10th. No jumpers hanging in my closet. Nope, not a single one. And then I saw this. (And this is where the internet makes me crazy). I stopped everything I was doing, (I guess I was probably reading blogs and doing laundry, maybe a little knitting) grabbed my pattern, the wool, pins and scissors, and became a person with a mission.
I actually wore it to work today. Probably the only time I will ever wear it.
You see, even though I took my time matching the top to the bottom, trying to line up the plaids, this still happened.
Whoops! Thank goodness for slouchy cardigans and longish hair. It actually felt good to wear it once. I think I got the jumper craze out of my system. This plaid wool won't go to waste. I still want to make one of these.
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It is so cute! Thank goodness for long hair to cover up mistakes! The bag is cool, too, though, maybe the fabric will get multiple lives!ReplyDelete
too cute. love it!!!ReplyDelete
will you make me one???
It's so adorable! Maybe it can be fixed somehow? Maybe?ReplyDelete
I love that bag of Erin's too - I have a bunch of squares that she sent me that are waiting to become one.
I'm with you on the wool jumper thing-----love them!! And I'd probably continue to wear it even if it's just the taddest bit wonky----it's too cute!ReplyDelete
you still rocked it, friend! everything looks great on you.ReplyDelete
the bag will be really cute, too, though, and won't matter if it's the slightest bit wonky.
"'Scuse me while I whip this out!" OMG, Leslie, you are incredible. Must. Have. Jumper. And voila? Jumper. And cute, too, despite what you see as flaws.ReplyDelete
...This is where I wish that I was a B cup instead of a DD cup and that my knees were even remotely attractive...ReplyDelete
I veer toward the perfectionist end of the spectrum so I understand where you're coming from, but I gotta say, that's a damn cute jumper and you look damn fine in it. I doubt a soul would notice the slightly askew neckline. I know you wont listen to me (if I were you, *I* wouldn't listen to me) but that needed to be said...even if you're still going to cut your jumper up into small squares.
It is so darling, please make a matching one for Libby and matching vests for the boys...ReplyDelete
you are too cute!ReplyDelete
when you get to the bag, i have a tip for you. :)
You look great!ReplyDelete
how cute are you in your jumper? you totally have to wear that again.ReplyDelete
the internet makes me crazy like that sometimes, too. :)
Very sweet. I'm dying to make a jumper too, but I've been holding off. I've still got a knitting needle case that I owe a friend for a past birthday!ReplyDelete
Well it looks great to me! The cardigan is lovely too!ReplyDelete
Life is full of grace moments and wearing this great outfit again could be one of them. Enjoy the feel & look & creativity of your outfit. Focusing on the minute problems that no one else will notice negates all the wonderful things you've put into it. You're wearing a creative dream come true. Enjoy. Flaunt it a little and enjoy a moment of grace.ReplyDelete
Thanks for makin' me crazy! Now, I want one ; )ReplyDelete
It looks great! The whole outfit is perfect!! Love the Slouchy with it. You did a darn good job lining up those plaids!
Holy Mackerel!!! That is AMAZING Leslie! If you ever want to make things for my store, you would be a billionaire! Unbelievable...and the plaid matches up, unless you get out your microscope, jeez!ReplyDelete
Aha! So now you know what it feels like to be me... Well, except skinnier and prettier, but still - that is exactly what the sweater I just made - whose name shall not be spoken! - looks like. Except in the front. Where there's no hair to cover it. Also it doesn't look half as cute as the jumper. OK. So you still don't know what it's like to be me, after all. That's probably a good thing.ReplyDelete
It looks great! I would never notice that mistake--I think we look at our own work much more closely than others do.ReplyDelete
You look like a model. :) So stylish in all of your handmade clothing.ReplyDelete
I would never have noticed that little boo boo.
What I have noticed is a lot of store bought clothing these days looks sloppy in its finishing, and it's sad. I think your jumper/dress is much, much better than anything I have seen in stores these days.
So cute! I love it! Wear it again!ReplyDelete
I really need to learn how to sew. I have taught my self everything/knitwise but am *so* intimidated by sewing for some reason.
I just made a dress for my daughter for a colonial Williamsburg project...the same thing happened with the zipper. I was so bummed but she said don't worry mom, it doesn't have to be perfect. Fortunately she has long hair to cover the back and I made adjustments with the waist and the apron covered it.ReplyDelete
However, if you had not shown us the minor glitch, we never would have known...you look smashing walking out the door!
- Willemtje3/16/2008
Pity not to wear it again. I bet nobody will notice anyway. I used to have the same problem with zippers, but I found a solution, first sew them with wrong sides of fabric and zipper facing outward, then fold back and sew another seam on the "right side", because the zipper is already fastened it does not "move" so easily, then finish the rest.ReplyDelete
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You are amazing.I love it and the style.ReplyDelete
Well now that I have read the other comments I understand that when you say 'jumper' you are actually referring to the dress you are wearing. I got a bit confused as we also call that kind of dress a 'pinafore' and a 'jumper' is a sweater. In any case, it's dead cute and so are you! I think I have to do this for a winter work outfit for sure!!ReplyDelete


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Thermal protection is an important task in the development process of Mercedes Benz. Therefore a combination of heat exchangers and fans are applied for engine cooling. In some cases the set-up of fan and heat exchangers can cause a flow field, in which the temperature and velocity are strongly non-homogeneous in front of the engine fan. Under these conditions the thermal behaviour of the axial fan cannot be simulated in a proper way with the commonly applied quasi-steady Multiple Reference Frame model (MRF). For a reliable prediction of the thermal behaviour unsteady numerical simulations or additional experimental data are thus required.
In the present work we propose a strategy to remedy the current shortcoming in the MRF. It is found that the wrong prediction of the temperature field after the fan is caused by the simplification of the energy transfer through the fan. Therefore, the mean flow field through the fan is first generated with MRF. Afterwards the corresponding radial and circumferential displacement of the temperature is calculated based on the retention time in the fan. The results are compared with experimental data from a test bench, unsteady RANS and the MRF model without the above described correction.


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VISHAY_New Family of Hybrid Solid-State Relays Offering High-Reliability Replacements for Mechanical Relays
【产品特性】Current limit protection
• Isolation test voltage 3750 VRMS
• Typical RON 22
• Load voltage 400 V
• Load current 140 mA
• High surge capability
• Clean bounce free switching
• Low power consumption
• High temperature range
【产品应用】General telecom switching
• Medical
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【文字介绍】The first three devices in its new VOR family of hybrid solid-state relays designed to deliver high reliability and noiseless switching for telecommunications, industrial, security system, and metering applications. As replacements for traditional mechanical relays with lower reliability and shorter lifetimes, the new Vishay Semiconductors 1 Form A VOR1142A6, VOR1142B6, and VOR1142M4 provide high input-to-output isolation, current limit protection, and low power consumption.
The relays released today are normally open single-pole, single-throw (SPST) switches. Allowing for simple customization, the devices feature a modular construction consisting of a GaAIAs (gallium aluminum arsenide) IRED actuation control and MOSFETs for the switch output.
The single-channel relays are offered in DIP-6 (VOR1142A6), SMD-6 (VOR1142B6), and SOP-4 (VOR1142M4) packages. Devices in the SMD-6 and DIP-6 packages offer high isolation test voltage of 5300 V / 1 min, while devices in the smaller SOP-4 offer isolation test voltages of 3750 V / 1 min. All relays offer low typical on-resistance of 22 Ω, high load current of 140 mA, load voltage of 400 V, and very low turn-on current of 0.25 mA typical. The devices are VDE and UL certified to meet reinforced insulation requirements for most applications.
Electronically isolated, the VOR1142A6, VOR1142B6, and VOR1142M4 offer clean, bounce-free switching over an ambient temperature range of -40 °C to +100 °C. Typical applications will include line, load, ground, signal, and alarm switches; I/O cards; ground isolation; electro-mechanical noise isolation; automation; automatic test equipment; and motor drives.
Available in tape-and-reel and tube packing, the devices are RoHS-compliant, halogen-free, and Vishay Green.
Samples and production quantities of the new 1 Form A solid-state relays are available now, with lead times of eight to 10 weeks for large orders.
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