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The two newly elected New Hanover County commissioners have spent the weeks since their election meeting with county staff and catching up on the issues they will be dealing with immediately upon entering office.
The two newly elected New Hanover County commissioners have spent the weeks since their election meeting with county staff and catching up on the issues they will be dealing with immediately upon entering office.
"I've been primarily reading past presentations," Beth Dawson said. "The staff has been bringing us up to speed on issues the former commissioners have dealt with and on administrative things regarding the office, introducing us to the staff."
"Started Wednesday morning after the election reaching out to Commissioner (Jonathan) Barfield and the senior staff to start immediately getting the information I need to be an effective commissioner," Woody White said.
Among the key issues for the new commissioners will be making a final decision on a plan to have Covanta Energy refurbish the county's incinerator, also known as WASTEC, after the current board could not come to an agreement on a proposed contract.
White and Dawson also said that economic development would be a key focus, though neither identified any specific initiatives they had in mind for creating jobs.
The new board of commissioners is largely Republican, with Barfield as the lone Democrat. But both White and Dawson said they do not think the board will split down party lines.
"Water, sewer, trash and schools are not partisan issues," Dawson said. "These issues are of importance to everyone and I will make decisions based on the best interest of everyone."
"Delivering county government services to citizens is not partisan. The seats are partisan. They are on the ballot that way, but Commissioner Dawson, Commissioner Barfield and I recognize that very few times will there be partisan issues that will divide us," White said. "Almost always the issues are non-partisan. They are just dealing with efficient government service. They are dealing with what's best for the community at large and these aren't partisan issues. We will not always agree on things, but we will always work together whether we agree or not."
White and Dawson said that working together with their fellow commissioners is a top priority, but acknowledge that may be easier said than done with one member in particular.
"I have not spoken to Commissioner (Brian) Berger. We did communicate via text the day after the election and he has two years left on his term," White said. "My hope is that he will see this as an opportunity for a fresh start and demonstrate to the citizens of this county that he is capable of going to meetings on time, being prepared and participating. I believe in giving people second chances and although I don't know Commissioner Berger, my hope is that he will see this as an opportunity and will work together with Commissioner Barfield, Dawson and myself and whoever replaces (Rick) Catlin so we can move away from the distracted issues and focus on the serious issues."
"I will reach out and treat him (Berger) with respect as I will all of my fellow commissioners," Dawson said.
White and Dawson will be sworn in at Monday's meeting. Barfield, who was re-elected in early November, will be sworn in for his second four-year term.
Commissioners receive a salary of $16,446 annually and the chairman receives $24,234. They also are eligible for standard county benefits, including health insurance.
Travel inside the county is included in their base pay, and commissioners typically use county vehicles for any additional travel. All commissioners will also receive a laptop and a cell phone stipend if requested.
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CHICAGO, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Jay Cutler returned from a concussion to go 23-for-31 through the air with a touchdown Sunday in the Chicago Bears' 28-10 decision over Minnesota.
Cutler started the contest in a game-time decision after missing last week's loss to San Francisco and responded with 188 aerial yards, including a 13-yard TD pass to Matt Spaeth.
Michael Bush scored a pair of rushing touchdowns en route to 60 yards on 21 carries as the Bears (8-3) snapped a two-game skid.
The Vikings (6-5) fell for the third time in four games as Christian Ponder was held to 22-for-43 passing efficiency for 159 yards, one touchdown and one interception.
Adrian Peterson amassed 108 rushing yards on 18 carries for the Vikings.

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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police in Manchester, N.H., say a man walked into an 89-year-old woman's bedroom and took her jewelry box while she was in bed watching a Red Sox game.
The woman told police the man tried to conceal his face Monday night by pulling a dark-colored sweatshirt over his face as he removed the wooden box from her dresser. He didn't say anything to her but reportedly appeared to be speaking to a second person just outside of the bedroom door, although the woman just saw one person. The man then fled.
Police said it appears the suspect or suspects accessed the home through a front window by pushing in an air conditioning unit.
Police are investigating.


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Watch Dr. Philip LaRussa Discuss the Global Health Initiative in South Africa
The Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Columbia University has been involved in the Pediatric HIV research and treatment effort in the United States since 1987. However, although the situation in the U.S. has improved dramatically as a result of active antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected children and adolescents and the implementation of highly effective preventative regimens the same improvements have not yet been seen in many parts of Africa and Asia. Led by Dr. Philip LaRussa our international training efforts started with teaching seminars at the Medical School of the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, Zimbabwe in 2001. Subsequently, he has established research collaborations and treatment programs for HIV-infected children not only in Zimbabwe, but at the King Edward Hospital in Durban, South Africa. Drs. LaRussa and Natalie Neu have also collaborated with Dr. Joseph Haddad, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Columbia University to set up routine HIV testing for children in Tegucigalpa, Honduras who are candidates for plastic surgical repair of cleft lip and palate defects.


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Roadway Express got its start because of the rubber industry in Akron, Ohio. Carroll Roush and "Chick" Morrison founded a trucking company named R & M Transportation in 1930. R & Ms purpose was to transport tires manufactured in Akron to automobile companies. Soon, Carroll Roush's brother Galen, a local lawyer, joined the company. R & M Transportation changed its name to Roadway Express, Inc., before the end of the year.
Although many businesses suffered during the Great Depression, Roadway Express prospered. The company originally hired truckers who drove their own vehicles, but after World War II Roadway purchased its own fleet. As automobiles became more common and the road system improved throughout the United States in the decades following World War II, Roadway and other trucking companies benefited. Trucks became the preferred method of shipping for most businesses, surpassing railroads. Roadway built more than five hundred terminals across the United States to improve shipping times and to make the company more accessible.
Roadway Express has grown even more during the past few decades, going international in the 1980s. The company began serving Canada in 1992, and it opened a subsidiary named Roadway Bodegas y Consolidacion in Mexico in 1986. The firm expanded its services to other parts of the world as well in the 1980s and 1990s. As a measure of its success, Roadway Express became a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ in 1996.


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ATLANTA -- Embattled presidential candidate Herman Cain told aides Tuesday that he's reassessing his campaign a day after an Atlanta businesswoman alleged a 13-year extramarital affair with the Republican.
Cain has denied the affair as well as several other accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior that have dogged his candidacy over the past month. Throughout it all, Cain has repeatedly vowed to stay in the race. Even so, he told senior staff in a mid-morning conference call lasting roughly 10 minutes that all public events will go forward this week but he will review the campaign's strategy over the next several days.
One participant on the call, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the conversation, said that as part of that assessment, Cain's campaign is examining the impact of the newest allegations. This person described the tone as positive but also said there was some uncertainty coming from Cain.
"He said obviously it's taken an emotional toll on his family, but he's moving ahead with the campaign," Steve Grubbs, Cain's Iowa campaign chairman and another person on the call, told The Associated Press. "He said that they will be reassessing the campaign," including how to move forward given that the allegations have damaged his fundraising.
Grubbs added: "He said this lady was a friend, someone he thought was a friend, that he was trying to help out financially and had been a friend for some period of time. But that nothing inappropriate occurred."
Publicly, Cain sought to project an aura of campaign business as usual even as his team worked behind the scenes to assess the fallout of the latest allegation. It came just five weeks before the Iowa caucuses that kick off the state-by-state voting process for the GOP nomination. Cain was set to deliver, as planned, a foreign policy speech at Hillsdale College in Michigan later Tuesday.
"Yes," said J.D. Gordon, Cain's spokesman, when asked early Tuesday whether Cain is definitely staying in the race.
After the conference call, Cain attorney Linn Wood told AP: "Any report that Mr. Cain has decided to withdraw his candidacy is inaccurate."
"I think they are assessing the situation, just as I would expect the campaign to do or any prudent business person to do," said Wood. He added that he would hate to see what he described as false accusations drive Cain out of the race for the presidency.
On Monday, Ginger White said in an interview with Fox 5 Atlanta that her affair with Cain ended not long before the former businessman from Georgia announced his candidacy for the White House.
"It was fun," said White, 46, as she described Cain buying her plane tickets for a rendezvous in Palm Springs, Calif. "It was something that took me away from my sort of humdrum life at the time. And it was exciting."
Cain went on television to flatly deny White's claims even before the report aired.
"Here we go again," Cain told CNN as he denied White's accusation. "I didn't do anything wrong."
He said in the interview that he would not abandon his bid in light of the allegations, "as long as my wife is behind me and as long as my wife believes I should stay in this race."
Wood, however, issued a public statement that included no such denial of the affair and suggested that the media -- and the public -- had no business snooping into the details of consensual conduct between adults.
Cain's response was faster and more deliberate than he had managed when it was reported that three women alleged he had sexually harassed or groped them when he was the president of the National Restaurant Association in the mid- to late 1990s. The trade group paid settlements to two women who had worked there.
As some conservative Republicans sought an alternative to Mitt Romney, Cain surged in the polls while pushing his 9-9-9 tax plan and providing tough criticism of President Barack Obama during televised debates.
But as the harassment allegations surfaced, Cain stumbled in explaining his views about U.S. policy toward Libya and other foreign policy issues, creating an opening for rival Newt Gingrich to assert himself as a more reliable, seasoned politician to challenge Romney and even Obama. Cain fell in the polls and Gingrich began to rise.
In a statement released immediately after the Fox 5 Atlanta story aired, Cain's campaign said detractors were trying to "derail the Cain Train with more accusations of past events that never happened."
In her interview, White said she decided to come forward after seeing Cain attack his other accusers in an appearance on television.
"It bothered me that they were being demonized, sort of, and being treated as if they were automatically lying, and the burden of proof was on them," she said. "I felt bad for them."
She said she first met Cain in the late 1990s in Louisville, Ky., when he was president of the National Restaurant Association. They had drinks and he invited her to his hotel room, she recalled.
She quoted Cain as telling her, "You're beautiful to me and I would love for us to continue this friendship," then produced his personal calendar and invited her to meet him in Palm Springs.
White has been accused of lying before. A former business partner, Kimberly Vay, filed a libel suit as part of a larger business dispute with White. Vay's attorney, Kurt Martin, said a judge sided with Vay after White failed to respond to the suit. Martin said a jury must still decide whether to award damages.
White's attorney, Edward Buckley, acknowledged the libel suit. He said White thought the libel claim had been settled as part of a larger settlement.
Ginger White says she decided to come forward after seeing Herman Cain attack his other accusers in an appearance on television.
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PEORIA — You may see more cluck than chuck on the grill this Fourth of July weekend.
In the past five years, the cost of a pound of ground beef has jumped 76 percent while the cost of chicken has risen only 3 percent, according to Rabobank, a Dutch-owned bank, the biggest ag lender in the world.
Rabobank also identified beef prices as increasing 14 percent in the past year while releasing the company's first annual bar-b-q index, a look at costs for the average U.S. barbecue on the Fourth of July weekend, considered the fourth and largest of the four big grilling weekends of the year.
"The four big beef weekends are Memorial Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day and July 4th. Once we get beyond July 4 and experience that extreme heat over the summer, the thirst for outdoor grilling has been quenched and beef consumption tapers off," said Don Close, Rabobank's VP of food and agribusiness.
The question is whether higher beef prices will drive even more consumers to alternatives such as chicken and pork, he said.
The rise in beef prices is the result of a supply limited by number of factors, said Close.
"First off, it's just economics. It wasn't profitable for producers to push forward with production. Then we had extreme droughts in the west and southwest in recent years that forced additional liquidation of herds. Finally, higher grain prices have seen some pasture land converted to cultivated ground," he said.
Steve Shaw, president of Mercedes Restaurants Inc., a firm whose dining establishments include Alexander's Steakhouse, 100 Alexander St., knows about beef economics.
"We've seen increases in the range of 17 to 20 percent from where we were a year ago. Sometimes you can make buys. The problem is that there's not a lot of meat out there," he said.
At Alexander's, where customers have the option of grilling their own dinner from a selection of slabs of beef or seafood items, diners are getting some additional choices, said Shaw.
"We've put some smaller steaks on the menu. We're not compromising quality but offering some lower-cost choices," he said.
Even at the higher costs, customers aren't shying away from buying beef, said Shaw. "We're still trying to bounce back from a terrible first quarter when people just didn't go out," he said.
In addition to reduced traffic from a harsh winter, Alexander's suffered water main breaks that forced the restaurant to close for several days for repairs, said Shaw.
At the Harvest Cafe in Delavan, owner Libby Mathers said she's seen rising prices but is holding the line on the price paid by customers. "Our rib-eye would be $35 anywhere else, but we're selling it for $23. We want people to come in and see the difference with what we do in-house," she said.
Mathers said the Harvest Cafe gets beef that's "artisanally raised" from northern Illinois and Wisconsin.
Along with drought and higher grain prices, ranchers have faced other cost increases, she said. "Hay used to cost for $2 to $3 a bale, but now it's $8 to $10 a bale," said Mathers.
A number of national eateries have raised prices or adjusted menus in light of higher beef prices, according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported a 12-ounce rib-eye being added to the menu at Ruth's Chris Steak House, a cut smaller than its traditional 16-ounce version, while the Hardee's chain, which typically features big, beefy burgers, introduced a five-ounce chicken sandwich in May.
The supply shortage won't be quickly solved, said Close. "It will be a two to three-year process at best and, more likely, a three- to five-year process to beef up the nation's herds," he said.
Steve Tarter is Journal Star business editor. Tarter's phone number is 686-3260, and his email address is email@example.com. Follow his blog, Minding Business, on pjstar.com and follow him on Twitter @SteveTarter


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Sol 94 Update on Curiosity from USGS Scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Driving in Flagstaff10 November 2012
The fifth scoop of Martian soil was successful, and Sol 94 planning was focussed on processing the sample and delivering it to CheMin. The X-ray diffraction instrument will then analyze the sample overnight. There was enough power and time left for a couple Mastcam mosaics in the afternoon.
I served as Science Uplink Representative (SUR) for the first time since Sol 3. The operations schedule has been significantly compressed since then, so had less time to get my job done. And this was my first tactical shift since the transition to remote operations, which added the challenge of interacting with the rest of the team from my office in Flagstaff. We had some trouble with the web broadcast tool that were overcome by starting over a couple times, otherwise planning went well. The SUR is the science team lead for the second shift, so I ended up working until almost 11 PM local time. This would have been less of a problem if the first storm of the season hit Flagstaff the same night. During a break between the last two sequence reviews, I decided to drive home before the roads got icy. It was more difficult to participate in the last meeting using my laptop and home phone, but it worked. Hopefully the weather will be better for Sol 95 planning.


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Want to get the people on your gift list something unique this year? Why not try something from one of Central New York's many locally-owned businesses? To get you started, here's an A-to-Z primer, with descriptions and suggestions. Got your own favorites? Feel free to share on our Facebook page.
All in the Kitchen
Info: Sugarwood Plaza, 7575 Buckley Road, North Syracuse; 218-6218; allinthekitchenonline.com
Gift certificates? Yes
As you might have guessed from the name, All in the Kitchen carries everything you could possibly need for your kitchen — baking pans, linens, small appliances, utensils and more. The shop also carries goods for commercial kitchens, plus items for kids and baby. If that doesn't convince you to shop here for the cook/baker on your list, owner Christine Cameron, for whom opening the store was a lifelong dream, often runs special promotions where she donates a portion of the store's proceeds for a given day to a particular charity. The store will also do special orders if it doesn't stock a particular item you're looking for.
Basic Baby Education Center and Shop
Info: Shoppingtown Mall, 3649 Erie Boulevard, DeWitt; 632-6110; basicbabyshop.com
Gift certificates? Yes
This "natural baby shop," which opened two years ago, is dedicated to training parents in the use of cloth diapers. As such, it sells products associated with cloth diapering, including the diapers themselves, covers, swim diapers, ointments and balms and more. The store, owned by Josh and Colleen Fox, also sells carriers, car seats and more for babies, including products from eight local vendors. Recommended by Cicero Parks and Rec employee Julie Raddell, Basic Baby also offers a number of products for mothers.
Café at 407
Info: 407 Tulip St., Liverpool; 451-8555; opheliasplace.org/café
Gift certificates? Yes
The Café at 407 opened in 2009 as a joint venture with Ophelia's Place, a center for those struggling with eating disorders and their families. The café not only supports the mission of Ophelia's Place; it also offers fantastic food, including soups, sandwiches and coffee, plus live music on weekends. The yummy meals are made with fresh local produce; the café has a partnership with a church in Camillus to grow veggies in its own community garden, and it uses local food whenever possible. Freshly ground coffee, mugs and Ophelia's Place merchandise are also for sale.
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Chrome 2.0 has a whole slew of improvements up its sleeve. It obviously comes with the latest and greatest WebKit relase, adding support for CSS gradients, CSS canvas drawing, and partial implementations of CSS reflections and CSS masks, in addition to a lot of bug reports and speed improvements of course. The latest WebKit release also enables support for full-page zooming (not just text, but all elements) and autoscroll.
Chrome 2.0 will also feature form autocomplete by remembering what you typed into the form before, a feature sorely missing from Chrome 1.0. Several improvements to the spell checker have also been made, such as the ability to turn it on and off per text field, as well as the ability to change language without having to go to the options menu.
Support for browsing profiles has also been added, along with the ability to start each tab or window in a different browser profile. You can now also dock dragged tabs into various positions (for instance, dragging it to the side of your display will make it take up half the screen). Chrome 2.0 will also come with new window frames for XP and Vista, allowing for window cascading and tiling.
Experimental user-scripting support is also coming to Chrome (like Greasemonkey), by launching the pre-beta with the
--enable-user-scripts flag. More information on this is available in the documentation.
Interesting are the references to the Mac and Linux versions:
Here's to hoping that Mac and Linux users will soon finally be able to use Chrome natively. Chrome is my browser of choice, and I would love to be able to use it on my Mac and Linux installations as well.


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LOVINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Authorities in southeastern New Mexico say two puppies have died after being burned with acid.
Police in the city of Lovington say it's the third time dogs have been doused with acid since last month and they're trying to catch whoever is responsible.
Albuquerque TV station KOB reports (http://bit.ly/1BkUL0w ) that two 3-week-old pit bulls were in their yard Monday when someone threw acid on them, killing the dogs.
The incident follows those of last month, when authorities say a Lovington family came home from vacation on July 4 to find their dog burned by acid. A week later, a pit bull was stolen from its home and burned the same way. Both dogs survived.
Crime Stoppers is offering a reward in the case, and community members are helping raise money.
Information from: KOB-TV, http://www.kob.com


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Unless otherwise noted, the following requirements are common to all gateway configurations.
In this section, you can find information about the minimum hardware and settings for your gateway and the minimum amount of disk space to allocate for the required storage.
When deploying your gateway on-premises, you must make sure that the underlying hardware on which you deploy the gateway VM can dedicate the following minimum resources:
Four virtual processors assigned to the VM.
16 GiB of reserved RAM assigned to the VM.
80 GiB of disk space for installation of VM image and system data.
For more information, see Optimizing Gateway Performance . For information about how your hardware affects the performance of the gateway VM, see AWS Storage Gateway Limits .
When deploying your gateway on Amazon EC2, the instance size must be at least xlarge for your gateway to function. However, for the compute-optimized instance family the size must be at least
2xlarge . Use one of the following instance types recommended for your gateway type.
Recommended for file gateway types
General-purpose instance family— m4 or m5 instance type.
Compute-optimized instance family— c4 or c5 instance types. Select the instance size or higher to meet the required RAM requirements.
Memory-optimized instance family—r3 instance types.
When you create a gateway using the c4 or m4 instance type, it can't be changed to the c5 or m5 instance type. For information about how to upgrade your instance to the c5 or m5 instance type, see You Want Your File Gateway to Use a C5 or M5 EC2 Instance Type Instead of C4 or M4 .
Recommended for cached volumes and tape gateway types
General-purpose instance family—m4 instance types. We don't recommend using the instance type.
Compute-optimized instance family—c4 instance types. Select the instance size or higher to meet the required RAM requirements.
Storage-optimized instance family—d2 or i2 instance types
When deploying your gateway on an Amazon EC2 instance, you must make sure that you allocate the following minimum resources:
If you have more than 5 million objects in your Amazon S3 bucket and you are using a General Purposes SSD volume, a minimum root EBS volume of 350 GiB is needed for acceptable performance of your gateway during start up. For information about how to increase your volume size, see .
If the energies of the early women's liberation movement had been largely domesticated by Capitol Hill or acculturated within the academy, there was one strand of radical feminism that aimed instead to leverage its relation to the state. Because the anti-discrimination laws were never designed to cover the rights and wrongs of gender relations, feminist attorneys were confronted with the task of trying to make sure they did. This involved incessant litigant activism to extend the scope of the law—expanding 'discrimination on grounds of sex' to include sexual harassment and child-bearing—with foundation-funded attorneys bringing individual test cases to push the boundaries, one judgement at a time, in the twin domains of employment and education.
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Since the 70s, court rulings, executive interventions, new regulations from the eeoc or orc , Supreme Court decisions and Congressional interventions have continually reinterpreted the meanings of sex discrimination and harassment, extending the liability of employers and universities, and increasing the damages that can be extracted from them. The result has been a legal field in a state of permanent agitation—unlike that in countries where expressly drafted statutes leave less room for manoeuvre and feminist activism is more likely to take extra-legal forms. The litigant-driven process made it, in the view of one young attorney, an exciting, thriving area of law—'there's always a court that might be willing to extend the definition of sexual harassment.' [53] Cited in Abigail Saguy, 'French and American Lawyers Define Sexual Harrassment', Directions in Sexual Harassment Law , pp. 609–10.
This inherent instability opened the way for one strand of radical-feminist jurisprudence to advance a more militant agenda. This was most fully formulated by Catharine MacKinnon, who scoured the Marxian tradition for clues on how to construct a similarly 'epic theory' for feminism—one that would grasp society's laws of motion in their totality, enabling women to become a 'group for itself'. [54] Catharine MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State , Cambridge, ma 1989, pp. x, 39. The concept of 'epic theory' was borrowed from Sheldon Wolin, 'Political Theory as a Vocation', American Political Science Review , vol. 63, no. 4, 1969. She identified 'work' as the fundamental category of Marxism, and posited 'sexuality' as its feminist equivalent—the process through which 'social relations of gender are created, organized, expressed and directed'. Sexuality, in this view, should not be confused with arousal, mutual pleasures or love-making. Its dynamic was hierarchical, involving a systematic division of social power, enforced to women's detriment, in which 'male' and 'female' were created through the eroticization of dominance and submission, and women were taught to identify themselves as beings that exist for male sexual use. MacKinnon flatly rejected the understanding of sexuality as cultural-anthropological practices shaped by historically changing conditions of gender inequality, as well as the Freudian model of an innate drive repressed by the processes of socialization, which should be allowed greater expression. For her, 'Sexuality is gender inequality: male excitement at the reduction of a person to a thing is its motive force.' The proof of this was revealed by feminist consciousness-raising about women's lived experience, exemplified in 'rape, incest, battery, sexual harassment, abortion, prostitution and pornography.' [55] MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State , pp. 3, xiii, 41, 113, 110, 130–1, 109.
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Rochester residents indicted on robbery chargesBy JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent
April 25. 2013 1:55PM
DOVER - Two people were indicted for felony robbery after police say they robbed a woman in Rochester in February.
Jacob Nyberg, 22, of 10 Pleasant St., Rochester, was charged with four counts of robbery, while Sandra Jean Fallon, 24, of 11 Olde Farm Lane, Apt. 5, Rochester, was charged with two counts of robbery and one count of falsifying physical evidence.
A Strafford County grand jury handed up the indictments April 18.
The charges stem from a Feb. 14 incident in which the pair allegedly robbed a woman along Davey Anne Locke Lane in Rochester. While committing the theft, police say they put a gun in a woman's face and struck her.
Fallon, who previously lived on Atkinson Street in Dover, hid a purse under her own bed after the incident, according to the indictments.
The woman, who said she recognized Fallon and Nyberg, was later treated for non-life threatening injuries at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
Nyberg and Fallon, who have been held in the Strafford County jail on $25,000 and $10,000 cash bail, respectively, are scheduled to be arraigned in Strafford County Superior Court May 2 at 9 a.m.
Each count of robbery is a class A felony that could result in a sentence of up to 7½ to 15 years in prison. Falsifying physical evidence is a class B felony which could yield up to 3½ to 7 years in prison.


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Beware the insurmountable barriers to entry which the retailing of organic tomatoes bestows on its business owner. We mentioned this situation whereby the Whole Foods/Wild Oats completed M&A was under fire since the "deal would harm consumers who shop at "premium natural and organic supermarkets."", treating this business as if it were impenetrably walled off from the rest of the economy.
U.S. Circuit Court Judges Janice Brown and David Tatel "agreed that this Court has the power to grant relief despite the merger having already taken place." That could mean either stopping further efforts to eliminate Wild Oats as a separate brand or possibly ordering Whole Foods to reconstitute Wild Oats, re-creating the same level of competition that would exist today if the merger had not taken place. That process, known as "unscrambling the eggs," is a rarely used remedy in antitrust law.
It would seem to make more sense just to let the merger happen, give it some time, and then see how badly luxury grocery shoppers are hurt rather than assume this will be the case. If not to allow for economic freedom to exist, then merely to set us up for the next round of hilarious opposition in say two years, whereby Whole Founds becomes accused of price gouging on life necessities such as Cornish Hens.
But why wait for future comedy, when there's more nonsense to expose in the current situation.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission also said that if the court ruled that the agency had a strong case against Whole Foods, the government would also seek to rebrand the acquired stores with their former Wild Oats signs and create an independent management team to supervise them.
So we could be on the way to national control of the organic and premium grocery industry, as to some this business seems too important for private market forces to control. Ahem.
For a simple way to just end the discussion with any naysayers, show them Whole Foods stock, (WFMI), it has been creamed, down massively from 52-week highs. Also, its all time high was in 2006, before the merger. Obviously a whole lot of people don't see some sort of invincible monopoly ahead due to Wild Oats being acquired! So why do a few judges see it this way? Someone should send them a WFMI stock chart, its been falling for years from its 2006 peak and speaks for itself. This debacle is complete baloney and unfit for the US.


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As Senate Democrats continue to make a mockery of the judicial confirmation process, the arguments of their allies in liberal advocacy groups and on editorial boards become increasingly frivolous. In this piece for National Review Online, Robert Alt takes on the latest such argument — that certain Bush nominees are federalists, and that federalism is just a code word for a rigid states rights philosophy, which in turn is a pretext for a virulently reactionary form of conservatism. Alt patiently demonstrates that federalism does not necessarily produce conservative outcomes; rather it is an outcome-neutral set of constitutional rules. His analysis is worth reading, but ultimately beside the point when it comes to the plight of the Bush nominees. The Senate Democrats and their boosters don't care what federalism is or is not. They are prepared to argue anything, and more importantly do anything, to block confirmation. Their effort to prevent the Senate from fulfilling its role in the confirmation process is as disgraceful as it is unprecedented. The Republicans need to settle on, and implement, one of the available strategies for countering the Democrats' behavior, and they need to do this sooner rather than later.
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American Idol alum Kimberley Locke will perform her cabaret show Friday night at Score Nightclub on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. Doors open at 10 p.m.
"She recently released a remix album that includes her new single, FINALLY FREE as well as a cooking show – COOKING WITH KIMBERLEY – debuting at the same time. Her corresponding music video for single FINALLY FREE recently premiered on Entertainment Tonight, and, if you can believe it, she is celebrating the ten year anniversary of smash hit EIGHTH WORLD WONDER!," says her spokeswoman Katie Smith.
"As you may know, Kimberley managed to lose 40 pounds in her post-Idol days, partly in thanks for Celebrity Fit Club and Jenny Craig endorsements, but the even bigger feat is that she has kept it all off. Her music is still going strong as is her cooking; she is also running her own business, I Am Entertainment. Most recently, Kimberley is going to be a part of the New York Marathon, running for team "Malaria No More" on November 4th."


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If I were the activities director at Camp B2B, I'd build a program of reflection, assessment and improvement with a focus on people, pipeline and process:
- People: Make learning a priority. There's no dearth of best-practice advice for marketers. The content marketing efforts of marketing automation vendors, and research from analysts and consultants, could fuel a two-year degree program in "Modern Marketing". But, no one has time to read it all. So, crowd source knowledge acquisition. Develop learning objectives for disciplines you believe will improve your execution and performance—writing for SEO; creating a buyer journey map; using ad retargeting, and so on. Challenge the most appropriate team member to augment her existing knowledge with reading and research, and then share that knowledge in a 'lunch and learn'. Give a reading assignment (a book, a research report) and request a 'book report'. These simple techniques will raise your team's marketing acumen and create a more collaborative, calibrated team as a bonus.
- Pipeline: Take a hard look at marketing's contribution to the revenue pipeline. According to Forrester's research, 40% of B2B revenues can be attributed to marketing-sourced leads, on average. For assessment purposes, assume you will not improve your end-to-end conversion ratios (and timescales) over last year. Are you still on track to meet your 2013 goals? If not, what programs for accelerated lead acquisition can you launch in September? What lead development programs can you implement to shorten sales cycles or accelerate deals? If you are on track, focus on longer-term lead development projects. For example, use the summer to launch that multi-pronged thought leadership program that you know will help you engage higher level executives.
- Process: Identify your conversion weak spots and remediate. Immediately throw way that assumption that you won't improve your end-to-end conversion ratios (and timescales) over last year. Forrester's research indicates that the average end-to-end conversion ratio (initial lead to closed deal) for B2B marketers is 0.75%. It doesn't take a 'mathlete' to see that model doesn't scale. Time to move beyond 'funnel thinking'. It's no longer enough to move hundreds or thousands of leads through a process of sequential attrition until tens or hundreds of deals emerge. You need to develop a customer engagement process that optimizes your development of each single lead to a customer ...and then repeat that process hundreds or thousands of times.(More on this can be found in a recent blog, Introducing the Lead Escalator).
It's never been more challenging to be a B2B marketer. The number and scale of changes hitting us is staggering. The social and digitally empowered buyer has forced a philosophical shift from promotion to engagement. The number of channels through which we engage keeps increasing. The techniques to optimize digital marketing efforts are arcane and ephemeral. And, in the face of all this, expectations for marketing performance are higher than ever. Take advantage of the summer's promotional hiatus to focus on fundamental improvements in your people, your process and your pipeline performance so you can be 'match fit' by September.


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Hello and thanks so much for reading and any help,
(I'm a father in need of help for my wife)
We had our first child 5 days ago. We opted to go the BF route due to many reasons but have now found out that it is far from a easy, natural process. During our day after birth at the hospital my wife had a very hard time getting our daughter to latch properly. Baby would cry at the breast and my wife was in pain during the entire BF process. Nipples became very cracked and She was finally able to get a few ok feedings and felt with a few more days my wife's milk would fully come in and that things would settle down.
So 2 days ago we had our first follow up Dr appt. They were concerned that our daughter had lost 11% birth weight and advised us to supplement with formula. My wife continued to BF and we would feed formula once a day (our daughter hates the formula). We figured that BF would become easier and things would hit their stride at some point soon. The evening of the Dr appt my wife had her first real feeling that her milk had come in.
The problem is that nursing is still VERY painful and sometimes baby seems to be getting very little milk. We have studied up or how to get baby to have an appropriate latch and seem to be doing well at it. When my wife hand expresses she gets VERY little milk to produce and her right breast was VERY swollen and seemed to be plugged. She has tried hot compress and massaging the breasts to free any possible plugging. There are many knots in her breasts so we were concerned that her ducts were plugging.
What is going wrong here? Why does it seem to be really hard for our baby to get enough milk during a BF session? How do we prevent plugging?
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Is Iron Wolf The Next Call of Duty Game?
Iron Wolf, an apparent codename for the next game in the Call of Duty series, has been allegedly leaked over Xbox Live.
The game is rumoured to be currently in development at Treyarch, which suggests it could be the 2012 entry to the series.
The leak came after an Xbox forum post went live yesterday, together with alleged screen shots of someone at Treyarch playing the game over Xbox Live.
You can check out the forum post and alleged images here.
The jury is still out on this one, as it seems unlikely that Treyarch would openly test the game on a retail Xbox console, and in public no less.
However, the codename Iron Wolf does fit into both the Call of Duty canon, and the Black Ops timeline.
Iron Wolf is a Lithuanian special ops unit that was formed in 1991, after the decline of the Soviet empire. The events leading up to the unit's formation were triggered by the cold war, an era that featured prominently in Black Ops.
This suggests that the alleged game will focus on the downfall of Soviet Russia between the end of Black Ops in 1963, all the way through the Nixon and Reagan presidencies and the final years of the Vietnam conflict.
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MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Federal officials say they've finally found a contractor to clear tons of Superstorm Sandy debris from New York's Fire Island before an endangered bird species makes removal more complicated.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has awarded a $10.1 million contract to Environmental Chemical Company of Burlingame, Calif.
Officials face a deadline to have the estimated 9,650 tons of debris cleared by the end of March.
After that, truck access to beaches will be restricted to protect nesting areas for the endangered piping plover. The Army Corps says it expects to meet the deadline.
Officials have struggled to find a contractor for the job. ECC is the fifth company named after deals with previous companies were challenged.
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With nearly 12,000 employees, and a budget of close to $1.2 billion, the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is one of the largest state agencies in Maryland. Our functions include the operation of state correctional and Baltimore City pretrial facilities that total 27 institutions, and 45 community supervision offices. DPSCS is also responsible for maintenance of Marylands Criminal Justice Information Repository, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commissions, the Emergency Number Systems Board and many other valuable criminal justice functions. Administrative functions such as human resources and procurement play a large role in the operations of this agency as well. A full list of our agencies/offices and a link to their subsequent pages is found below.
Our primary objective, as outlined in our mission and vision, is to keep communities safe so that all Marylanders can enjoy living and working in the state. We are achieving this through the increased security of our institutions and by supplying offenders and ex-offenders the tools necessary to stay out of the criminal justice system. We are also working together with partner agencies to share important intelligence information that can reduce crime and violence, while performing tasks needed by our neighboring communities that save tax payer dollars and improve the sustainability of Marylands natural resources. Learn more about these efforts under the Initiatives tab.
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The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services protects the public, its employees, and detainees and offenders under its supervision.
The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services will be nationally recognized as a department that believes its own employees are its greatest strength, and values the development of their talents, skills, and leadership.
We will be known for dealing with tough issues like gang violence, by capitalizing on the strength of interagency collaboration.
We will be nationally known as the department that takes responsibility for the greatest of problems, and moves quickly and quietly to bring about successful change.
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services will be known as one of the national leaders in the development and use of technology through system interoperability.
Others will look to this department for its effective leadership and evidence-based practices.
We will be known for our belief in the value of the human being, and the way we protect those individuals, whether they are members of the public, our own employees, those we are obligated to keep safe and in custody, or victims of crime.
The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services will be known as an organization that focuses on its mission and takes care of its people.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Three people charged in a gas explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood, killing a couple, are set to appear before a judge.
Homeowner Monserrate Shirley, her boyfriend Mark Leonard and his brother, Bob Leonard, face initial court appearances set for Monday morning.
The three were arrested Friday on charges of murder, arson and other counts following the Nov. 10 blast that killed a couple living next to Shirley's home. The explosion destroyed Shirley's house and four others and damaged dozens more.
Investigators say the three planned the explosion for an insurance payout. Court documents say Shirley was facing $63,000 in credit card debt and bankruptcy proceedings. Prosecutors say Mark Leonard recently lost $10,000 at a casino.
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Georgia: Olympic guests must not visit Abkhazia
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia on Wednesday called on foreign visitors to the Winter Olympics to keep out of Abkhazia, a Russia-aligned breakaway territory just south of Sochi along the Black Sea coast.
The International Olympic Committee, however, said there was no reason not to go to Abkhazia.
Abkhazia declared independence shortly after Russian forces crushed the Georgian army in a brief 2008 war, but most of the world still considers it Georgian territory. Only Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and two Pacific island nations have recognized Abkhazia as an independent country.
Russia's attempts to facilitate travel across its border with Abkhazia, only five kilometers (three miles) south of Olympic venues, was "a provocation aimed at undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia" and "misleading foreign citizens," the Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Asked the IOC's view on Olympics visitors going to Abkhazia, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said "why not."
"The talks and exchanges between the two governments, that's entirely been to the two governments," he said. "In terms of going to Abkhazia ... well if it's safe, people will go there."
Alexandra Kosterina, spokeswoman for the Sochi organizers, refused to comment.
While Abkhazia and another breakaway region, South Ossetia, remain sticking points in restoring diplomatic relations between Georgia and Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he hoped the Sochi Games would help to mend fences and expressed a willingness to meet with his Georgian counterpart.
The Georgian government responded positively to Putin's overture.
Mutual personal enmity had prevented any meeting between Putin and former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, whose term ended in November.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said a possible meeting between Putin and Georgia's new president, Giorgi Margvelashvili, would be discussed at talks in early March between envoys from the two countries.
Associated Press writer Angela Charlton in Sochi, Russia, contributed to this report.


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Well, Reddit, that was a lot of fun.
We asked you out to a nice steak dinner the other day and when we got to the restaurant, it was filled with people we like talking about shows we love and offering us superfluous amounts of A1 Sauce. Oh, and Carl Sagan was there. We were so flattered.
Let's take a step back for the uninitiated. On Wednesday, we asked Reddit.com, a social news aggregation site that is also the de facto Zagat Guide of Cat Videos on the Internet, to edit the Featured Content section of our home page for today. We weren't expecting much of a response out of it. We just like Reddit.
Two days, 5,210 upvotes, and 2,069 karma points for Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" later, we're blown away. We can't thank you enough for the help.
We've collected Reddit's Top 10 Videos from that thread, which includes Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Community, and a documentary called "The End of Poverty." The collection is a spot-on view of Reddit from the outside: It's funny, it rewards excellence and, at the end of the day, it's socially conscious. That's what we like about you.
To all of our Reddit friends abroad who voted accordingly, we hear you loud and clear. We're working hard to bring our content to you. We once did that thing in a picture where it looked like we were holding up the Arc de Triomphe with the bridge of our nose and the crest of our chin. It was hilarious.
Basically, what we're tying to say is that we love you too much not to be volleying for business trips to places with monuments like that, if only so we can pretend to balance those monuments on other interesting parts of our face.
Anyways, as a tribute to Charlie from It's Always Sunny, we've added a Wild Card 11th choice to the playlist. It's Alton Brown talking about waffles, because we love Alton Brown, and we love waffles.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming of Woody from "Toy Story" hanging off the back of a Chevy Trailblazer.
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The Succulent Wife's note: We are always wary of the latest diet fad and never pay much attention, but friends and family members seem to be raving about this particular diet. Really. Firsthand accounts. So we decided to take a closer – and scientific – look by asking our very own Dr. T to weigh on the merit of Dukan's approach. Seems valid but, of course, decide for yourself.
By Mrs/Dr. T, Snarky PhD Scientist and Guest Contributor
What do Kate Middleton's middle, Pippa's rear, and J Lo's stems have in common? Purportedly, The Dukan Diet.
If you haven't heard of The Dukan Diet, perhaps you're familiar with its other names: The Atkins Diet or The South Beach Diet. Sure, the book jacket is different and the "allowable food lists" vary slightly between the three diets, but strip away these nuances, and what you have is essentially another low carbohydrate, high protein diet. So if it's just a reincarnation of its predecessors, why is it one of the most popular diets in France and quickly gaining popularity around the world? It's simply science…these diets work.
There have been dozens and dozens of research trials conducted on low carbohydrate, high protein diets. In studies where participants are compliant with the diet (and this is key), there is greater weight loss and the weight is lost more quickly on a low carbohydrate, high protein diet. Why? According to The Dukan Diet, the diet works because the body has to burn energy to digest and metabolize protein. Dr. Dukan writes, "after eating 1,500 calories worth of proteins…only 1,050 calories remain after digestion" (pg. 28).
While this is true to some extent, tests have shown that it's more like 70 calories a day that are burned up by eating a higher protein diet. And it's not because it takes that much more energy to digest and metabolize protein…our bodies are highly efficient at converting food into energy. But rather, high amounts of dietary protein (and estimates are ~20 grams of protein per meal) stimulates synthesis of proteins within the body, which takes energy. While 70 calories may seem small, it does add up over time giving higher protein diets a metabolic advantage over other diets.
Protein is also more satiating than carbohydrate or fat. In studies where participants are given different foods and asked to eat until full, they consume fewer calories when munching on protein-containing foods. It's not exactly clear why, but most experts think that the building blocks of protein (also known as amino acids) trigger hormones in the body that tell the brain it's full.
There is another big and underappreciated reason why high protein, low carbohydrate diets work: food group restriction. Chips, crackers, candy, soda, alcoholic beverages…these food groups go hand in hand with mindless munching. High protein foods, generally speaking, do not. Have you ever sat on the couch and inhaled a carton of hard boiled eggs? Take all of these easy-to-grab, cheap, carbohydrate foods out of your life and calorie management gets a little easier. Coupled with the greater satiety benefit of protein and the "70 calorie advantage", chances are the pounds will peel off a lot easier than with other diets.
Will a low carbohydrate, high protein diet work for everyone? A resounding NO! In fact, if you look at all the research studies, you see that there are always certain individuals that GAIN weight on these diets. Differences between people in metabolism, taste preferences, hormones that control appetite, and lifestyle choices can influence how many pounds are lost or gained on any the diet. Individual differences also explain the appearance of side effects (e.g., constipation is the big one) in some people, but not others on a low carbohydrate, high protein diet. One day, it may be possible to take a quick blood test to find our ideal diet for weight loss based on our body chemistry. Until then, the best we can do is a little trial and error. If you're still on that quest, The Dukan Diet is a good one to try. Viva la Protein!
Mrs/Dr. T would like to remind everyone to stay healthy by having regular check-ups with a healthcare professional and enjoying an active lifestyle.
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Former NSW resources minister Ian Macdonald rushed to open up the Bylong Valley to coal mining despite advice from a top bureaucrat that the process should be more orderly, a corruption inquiry has heard.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on Monday was told that from May 2008 Mr Macdonald was pushing his department for information on coal deposits in the Bylong Valley, in central NSW, in a scramble to put a number of exploration licences out to tender.
One of the disgraced minister's former staffers said Mr Macdonald even ignored the advice of Alan Coutts, the respected deputy director-general of the Department of Primary Industries, who was urging the minister to slow down the process.
The Labor MP's then deputy chief of staff, Jamie Gibson, said Mr Coutts and Mr Macdonald had clashed repeatedly over the headlong rush to open up 11 areas of the state, including the Mt Penny tenement in the Bylong Valley.
Mr Macdonald is accused of favouring his former colleague Eddie Obeid by granting an exploration licence at Mt Penny, where the Labor powerbroker and his family owned property.
Mr Gibson told the inquiry that from May 2008 Mr Macdonald had shown a particular interest in Mt Penny and had been the one to decide to open up the area to mining.
It was the speed at which he wanted the invitation-only expression of interest to go ahead that concerned Mr Coutts, who had wanted more exploration work done on the proposed mining areas, Mr Gibson said.
"Was he suggesting that it should proceed at a more orderly and slower opening up, rather than what appears to be the rather expedited time period that was put on these specific areas?" junior counsel assisting the inquiry, Nicholas Chen, asked.
"To my recollection he was," Mr Gibson replied.
"He was advocating as well as he could, as his position in his department allowed, to the minister."
"Was he suggesting that the pace at which these were being opened should be far slower?" Mr Chen asked.
"I do remember he was advocating a proper look at the process before it commenced," Mr Gibson replied.
Mr Gibson said the pair "certainly disagreed" often, before Mr Coutts was moved on to head the NSW Food Authority in November 2008.
"Ministerial officers and ministers and departmental heads from time to time have very robust debates," Mr Gibson said.
"And if you mean strongly, do I mean things like swearing and things like that, then yes, that is a natural part of executive government, unfortunately.
"From your observation from the dealings you had with Mr Coutts, did you form the view that something was going to give in the relationship between Mr Coutts and Mr Macdonald?" Mr Chen asked.
"And that was always going to be, I take it, Mr Coutts?"
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"It's like lifting cement. They say it's 2 feet, but I think it's more like 3 feet," says landscaper Michael Levesque, who was shoveling snow in Quincy, Mass.
All throughout New England, residents began the grueling task of digging out from as much as 3 feet of snow Saturday. Emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overnight on New York's Long Island after a howling storm swept through the Northeast.
About 475,000 homes and businesses remain without power, down from a peak of about 650,000, and some could be cold and dark for days. There have been at least five storm-related deaths in the U.S.
Roads across the New York-to-Boston corridor of roughly 25 million people were impassable. Cars were entombed by drifts. Some people found the wet, heavy snow packed so high against their homes they couldn't get their doors open.
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In the transition from KDE 3 to KDE 4, a new file manager, Dolphin, was often discussed and now officially moved to the base part of KDE. "I just stumbled over this message saying that the file manager Dolphin is now part of kdebase (of KDE 4): 'Moving Dolphin to kdebase, as discussed with Peter and others. The big plan is: Dolphin will become the default file manager (kicker buttons and file:/ links bring it up).' The question remains what now happens with Konqueror - keep in mind that one of the goals of KDE 4 was to only keep one app for each task inside the base packages. But with Dolphin as the potentially new file manager and Webkit as the new browser we may see Konqueror vanish."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It took an ode to five-time Oscar winner Federico Fellini to break Italy's 14-yearlong drought in the foreign language category.
"The Great Beauty," which many critics have compared to Fellini's 1960 film "La Dolce Vita," broke the dry spell.
Asked backstage if the pressure of his countrymen had gotten to him, director Paolo Sorrentino said it had.
"I felt a sense of responsibility in the last days from my country because too many people were talking about this award," he said. "It was a little bit hard to live. But now I am happy. I am very happy."
The movie, heavily favored since winning awards from the Golden Globes and British Academy, follows writer Jep Gambardella, who at age 65 begins to re-examine the luxuriant life he's led in Rome, years after writing the one book that elevated him into high society.
While at the same dividing critics for its focus on the malaise of some of Rome's inhabitants, the film has been hailed for bringing out the city's sumptuous beauty.
Sorrentino said backstage that the music in the movie brought out the city's inherent contradictions.
"The music in the film is a very simple mix between sacred music and profane music because in my mind, Rome is a city that has this big characteristic," he said. "It's the center of the Vatican, the center of the Catholic world. At the same time, the profane world works under the Vatican."
In a tribute that may have confused his countrymen, Sorrentino thanked several luminaries, from Fellini and Italian-American director Martin Scorsese to Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer star.
Sorrentino explained backstage that he was born in Napoli, Italy, where Maradona played when the director was still a boy. "For me, he was very important," he said.


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Local officials will soon have to decide whether to raise ferry tolls to keep up with maintenance of the system.
Local officials will soon have to decide whether to raise ferry tolls to keep up with maintenance of the system.
The N.C. Department of Transportation at its December meeting released a proposed schedule of toll increases that must then be voted on by what are known as Rural Planning Organizations (RPOs) or Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) before they can take effect. The transportation organizations, generally composed of local elected officials, help set regional transportation priorities.
The plan proposed by DOT would raise $5 million across the state ferry system, both by raising existing tolls and by placing fees on ferry routes that had been previously free. No money would go toward operations of the ferries.
For the Southport-Fort Fisher ferry, there would be no increases for pedestrians, bicycles or motorcycles. There were would be an increase of $2, from $5 to $7, for vehicles under 20 feet. For vehicles between 20 feet and 40 feet, tolls would go from $10 to $14. For vehicles greater than 40 feet, tolls would increase from $15 to $28.
Previously, systemwide passes were available for $150 that covered all ferries. Under DOT's plan, passes would still sell for $150 but would be only for a single ferry route. The exception to that is for $200, a single car can get a three-in-one pass designed for folks that live on Ocracoke Island. For that price, individuals would get the sound routes: Ocracoke Island to Swan Quarter; Ocracoke to Cedar Island; and Ocracoke to Hatteras, said Tim Hass, spokesman for the DOT's ferry division.
Hass said the state Board of Transportation at its December meeting passed a tolling methodology that requires the RPOs/MPOs to sign off on any proposed increases.
There had been controversy about planned toll increases late last year.
DOT had planned to increase various tolls starting in July 2013. Some lawmakers suggesting alternative fundraising activities such as naming rights, but that legislation failed to pass.
The proposal requiring local transportation organizations to approve ferry toll increases was buried near the end of the 400-page budget document that came out of last year's legislative session.
Allen Serkin, local government services director coordinator for the Cape Fear Rural Planning Organization, said local officials will have to weigh their options this spring.
But, he said, one thing to consider is that if area users want to have funds to maintain their ferries, increases might be necessary.
"We have to set the toll at whatever rate it needs to be to accommodate the capital projects," Serkin said.
Otherwise, ferries would compete with the regular state transportation projects – including bridge and highway work – for scarce funding.
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Mennen Maidens and Barbasol Babes
Nope, no double entendre here!
Long before Axe discovered you could sell grooming products to men by draping delicious damsels all over your advertising, Mennen had that number. The ladies were lounging around in lingerie waiting for men with a smooooth Mennen shave!
Meanwhile, over at Barbasol they'd come up with an entirely different strategy. I don't know what they used to put in this stuff, but apparently it was something so intoxicating it knocked women on their ass...
... and dropped them to their knees at the mere thought of any guy who'd squeezed his tube that day. Barbasol tube that is.
Lest you find images like this a little risqué and manipulative, let me assure you that the ad men of the '40s and '50s absolutely did not intend to mislead in any way. They earnestly believed that showing beautiful dancing girls together in a state of semi-undress was the most sincere and effective way of describing the beneficial qualities of a men's shaving product.
These ads were conceived with only a desire to inform and educate.
About croquet, for instance.
Or popping popcorn.
Any sexual innuendo you may perceive in these ads...
... is purely a figment of your prurient 21st century imagination.
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My favorite bit of purple prose from Barbasol is this bit, accompanying an illustration with a girl and a soldier on a bike:ReplyDelete
Concerning a smooth ride and a Barbasol shave - Yes, where moving parts are concerned, SMOOTHNESS makes for SPEED. And comfort, too. That's why Barbasol means a faster, finer, sweeter shave. Its SUPERFINE ingredients give your blade a smooth ride through your whiskers and PREVENT FRICTION between your skin and razor. Try Barbasol and get yourself a smoother Barbasol Face - the kind a LADY likes to keep in touch with! Try Barbasol and see how entirely superior it is for BETTER SHAVING.
It's hard to tell for sure, but that second piece with the girl on the phone looks like it's signed by the famous Mad magazine cover artist Norman Mingo (?)ReplyDelete
It's called "the tease". Obviously the purpose was to catch attention, and if a guy believed that after using the product, he would really be irresistible to gorgeous babes that look like the ones in the ad, then he's hopelessly living in his own fantasy world. There were many different ways to promote a product, the written word, visually and emotionally, etc. Ads can imply or suggest all they want, but the bottom line is if the product can compete in the marketplace. Beautiful women and marketing go back a lot further than the 1940s'. During WW2, the pin-up calendar girl was incredibly popular, so it is no surprise to me that it was used in ads, when promoting a male oriented product.ReplyDelete
Okay, time to stock up on Barbasol, or maybe I should switch to Menen.. hummmmm. I sure as hell not going to grow a beard and miss out on the rewards of a smooth face. ;-)
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Actually,these ads merely illustrate the simple,unvarnished truth that most men wouldn't shave,use mouthwash,change their underwear or socks,comb their hair,or bathe unless they wanted to impress women.ReplyDelete
As for the "double entendre"comment,I don't know about your Canadian swingers' clubs,but I believe that"Your chances...are better..."refers to getting a smootch,rather than the total wanton lust-fest we expect in these modern times.
But hey...nice artwork.Way to go,Norman Mingo!
Steve; I'm sure you're right - when trying to convey the message that one should shave if one want to 'get a smooch' its important to show women spilling out of their scantiest apparel. That makes perfect sense. Otherwise how would men realize the girl wants to kiss them?ReplyDelete
I'm not sure what the 'Canadian swingers' clubs' has to do with this, but if you're referring to how each summer, during the two weeks when the snow recedes, Canadian children emerge from their igloos and run to their local playgrounds to use the swing sets, then yes, those are indeed popular clubs up here, I suppose. It does however take quite a bit of skill for the kids to balance their Tim Horton's coffees in one hand and their Dumaurier cigarettes in the other while swinging. ;^)
Tom; I think you proved my point, so thanks! It is indeed called 'the tease' - as in striptease... and just as a stripper manipulates the gullible male into surrendering his hard-earned dollars with the illusionary promise of sex, so too do these ads attempt to manipulate the gullible male consumer into believing his use of the product will attract "the women in the red dress." Those 1950s ad men were no fools in their understanding that the average guy is a fool.ReplyDelete
But hey - I was lead to believe you were only here for the "eye candy" - not to discuss "ideology." So, enjoy, pal. ;^)
Okay Leif, what if all products were advertised on the bases of a picture of the product, a can of Barbasol in this case? I guess that the best looking can might sell the best.. right? But that's not much fun just looking at a can with the product name, etc., so as a male consumer, you just might enjoy looking at an ad that had sexy babes around the product. And, you just might remember that product over the competition, and give it a try. There are some men that might think that if they buy and use that product, they will suddenly become irresistible to women, just because they saw an artist's conception of a man's face being caressed by a sexy babe, and the copy alluded to that. We called these men "idiots", and focusing only on the consumer "idiot" was usually not considered a winning strategy. Even the guy that watches a strip tease or a pole dancer, is there for eye candy and a turn on, while he kicks back and loosens up with his buddies. There are always exceptions, as I pointed out with the "idiot", but I think Barbasol and Mennen were more interested in the average guy.. unless you think the average guy in mid century American was an "idiot". Did I prove your point again? if so, "your welcome".
Tom Watson
Look, buddy, I've shaved with Barbasol from a tube, and I never had a pneumatic babe jump on my chest and rub my face! This stuff is hooey...ReplyDelete
By the way, if you haven't used tubed shaving cream, you haven't enjoyed the closest thing to smearing curdled pig fat on your face. Only the ministrations of one of said pneumatic babes would convince me to try it again.
And by the way again, Norman Mingo's career as a commercial illustrator goes back to the 1920s. He ran an art studio; their pieces were often signed with a pine-tree symbol. As I heard the story, Mingo was in semi-retirement when he saw Bill Gaines' classified ad looking for a cover painter.


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Maria Gracheva has been appointed assistant professor of physics at Clarkson University. She began teaching this fall.
Gracheva received her master of science and doctoral degrees in solid state physics from Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) in Russia.
Her research interests include computational bionanotechnology, computational and theoretical biophysics in particular biochemical sensors, DNA sequencing, biological cell signaling and cell substrate interaction with an emphasis on large scale and multi-scale computations.
Before coming to Clarkson, Gracheva worked as a postdoctoral associate at Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), in the Department of Mathematics at University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), in the Physics Department at Lehigh University, and in the Department of Physics and Technical Application of Superconductivity at MEPhI.
A reviewer for The Journal of Theoretical Biology and The Journal of Computational Electronics, Gracheva has also co-authored 30 publications and was listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 10th Anniversary Edition, 2008-2009.
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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FREEPORT — The custom drum kit rises from the center of the cozy theater like an other-worldly contraption of aluminum, electronics and elastic, with a nervous system of wires dangling from a table of electronics nearby.
Matt Tardy, 31, presses a few buttons before he and his brother Jason Tardy, 33, whip into action, their fluorescent sticks flying over 20 drum actuators that produce the heavily layered electronic music that defines their performance group, AudioBody.
The duo's brand of genre-defying performance art — wrapping together music, comedy and technology — has taken them across the country, to the Caribbean and twice to the White House.
But after four years, countless shows and hundreds of thousands of miles, the quirky, tech-driven act will take up more permanent residence in Freeport, occupying a 99-seat venue on Depot Street renamed the Theater of Awesome. The brothers will make their home theater debut Friday evening.
It's a professional evolution for the performers who were weary of the frenetic rhythms of life on the road.
"We were headed on this trajectory that was sending us more and more away from our families," said Jason Tardy. Both brothers have two young children, and make their homes in Turner. "No human should be forced to do what we were doing."
Their transition from vagabond performers to stewards of a bricks-and-mortar venue appears to suit the Freeport business community, which is hungry to complement its well-known retail stores and restaurants with more vibrant nightlife options.
"We're thrilled to have another choice for live theater," said Carolyn Krahn, interim executive director of the Greater Freeport Chamber of Commerce. "It seems like it's going to be a really great fit."
The location also is expected to help boost the brothers' fledgling business, Jason Tardy said. Freeport's proximity to Maine's major population centers gives the pair access to a wider audience than their previous regimen of driving or flying to far-flung venues to perform for more narrowly tailored groups, such as college students or corporate clients.
"There are a lot of people with disposable income looking to have a good time," Jason Tardy said.
The brothers' performance can be difficult to define, mixing the exaggerated physicality of vaudeville, traditional circus arts such as juggling and a hacker's flair for electronic ingenuity.
From Matt Tardy's basement workshop, the brothers have designed their instruments virtually from scratch, or have heavily modified off-the-shelf audio components to suit their needs.
The drum kit is crafted from L-shaped pieces of aluminum that screw together and fold into a single 76-pound rolling suitcase — small enough for them to pack for air travel. Each of the 20 drum actuators acts like a simple switch, with a span of stretched elastic that when pressed down by a hit from a drum stick, completes an electrical circuit. The electronic burst is sent through a loom of wires that hang from the rig like bundles of nerves.
From there, the signals are sent to a computer that translate them into the enmeshed sounds and layered arpeggios that comprise each segment of their 90-minute routine. The components must be functional and tough, yet visually obvious in their operation, so that young audience members can understand how the thwack of a stick makes the sound they hear.
"Most people invent things in a practical way," said Matt Tardy. "We have to invent things that are visually appealing."
Yet neither brother possesses any engineering training, or for that matter, a college education. Many of their techniques for device construction, computer programming and wiring have been gleaned from a vibrant online community of like-minded tinkerers.
"We have a degree in YouTube," Jason Tardy joked. "We went out and sought that knowledge ourselves."
However, their core skills — comedy, stage craft, performance techniques — were handed down from others in a traditional apprenticeship.
Since they were young teens, both Tardy brothers have performed with Michael Miclon, who for 14 years operated the Oddfellow Theater in Buckfield, an Oxford County town north of Lewiston. Miclon is a seasoned vaudevillian who hosted a local variety show, "The Early Evening Show."
Miclon took the Tardy boys under his wing, allowing them to travel with him, meet more experienced performers and learn the craft.
In exchange, they helped Miclon around his property, sometimes stacking firewood or painting a deck.
Within a short time they were regulars in his act.
"In the second year, I was pulling them full-time into the shows," Miclon said Thursday.
While Miclon once provided the forum for creativity to the young pair, the 45-year-old mentor will now be a guest in his students' space, bringing his show to Freeport.
Jason Tardy said that while he and his brother reformulate their schedules, they will continue to take their show on the road at times, allowing other performers to rent the theater in their stead.
"I think they're going to do amazing things," Miclon said. "I can't wait to see what their version of a theater looks like."
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The Central Connecticut swimming and diving team fell in its first meet of the season on Saturday, Oct. 12, to LIU Post by a score of 165-94. The Blue Devils claimed nine top-two finishes on the day, including two winning performances.
Senior Kathryn Kiely and freshman Christine Rasile led the Blue Devils with the only two CCSU victories. Kiely claimed the top spot in the 1000 yard freestyle with her time of 10:53.23 while Rasile touched the wall first in the 200 free with her time of 1:57.18. Coming in just behind Kiely in the 1000 free was classmate Kasey Chilton who notched a time of 10:53.37.
Rasile also claimed a pair of individual second-place finishes in the 100 free (54.27) and the 50 free (25.04) while also swimming the anchor leg of the 400 free relay, clinching a second-place team finish.
Joining Rasile on the relay squad were seniors Erin Massey and Kellen Power as well as freshman Stephanie Czulewicz.
Massey also finished just behind Rasile in the 200 free with her time of 1:59.26 and turned in a consistent performance on the day claiming third in the 100 free (55.05) and fourth in the in the 50 free (25.84).
Also earning a second-place finish for the Blue Devils was junior Karen Novak, who touched the wall in 5:22.09, before sophomore Selene Chilton who followed in 5:26.22, good for third. Chilton also placed second in the 200 yard butterfly registering a time of 2:15.51.
From the diving board, reigning NEC Champion Jessica Goldman topped the squad, earning a score of 240.35 from 1-meter and 242.10 from 3-meters. Sophomore Kaitlyn Beaver came in second in the 1-meter, with a score of 197.50 and junior Kaitlyn Dwyer finished second in the 3-meter with her score of 217.10.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed QB Jerrod Johnson, TE Jamie McCoy, OG John Malecki, OTs Chris Scott and Trevis Turner, DL Mike Blanc, DT Kade Weston and Corbin Bryant and CBs Marshall McFadden and Antonio Smith to future contracts. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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Colin Kaepernick threw for two touchdowns in his first career start and a smothering San Francisco defense gave the 49ers an emphatic 32-7 win over the Chicago Bears on Monday night.
Playing in place of an injured Alex Smith, who is suffering from a concussion he sustained in last week's tie against the Rams, Kaepernick went 16-for-23 for 243 yards and led the 49ers (7-2-1) to scores on their first four possessions.
Smith passed the NFL's ImPACT testing protocol and was able to practice in a limited fashion by Thursday. He reportedly planned on playing Monday night, but was ruled out earlier in the day after being evaluated by 49ers medical director Dr. Dan Garza.
The San Francisco defense, meanwhile, held the Bears to just 151 yards and pummeled Jason Campbell all game. Second-year linebacker Aldon Smith posted 5 1/2 sacks, and the team finished with six along with two interceptions and a safety in the win.
San Francisco head coach Jim Harbaugh was on the sidelines after being sent to the hospital last Thursday with an irregular heartbeat. He had a cardioversion procedure done on his heart, which is an electric shock that restores the heart's normal rhythm, and was back on the practice field on Friday.
"I thought he did a great job and showed a lot of poise in the pocket," said Harbaugh about Kaepernick. "He found his receivers and acquitted himself fantastically out there. There was a lot of good things about this game, especially the defense which had a great night."
Campbell made his first start of the season in place of Jay Cutler, who suffered a concussion due to a helmet-to-helmet hit from Houston linebacker Tim Dobbins in last week's loss to the Texans. Campbell, though, didn't fare nearly as well as his counterpart, as he went just 14-for-22 with 107 yards and a touchdown along with the two picks for the Bears (7-3), who dropped their second straight to fall into a tie with Green Bay for first place in the NFC North.
"It definitely wasn't the way we prepared all week," said Campbell. "You never want to come out and have this kind of performance, but give their defense credit because they came out hard and kept it up. Tonight was probably the worst nightmare."
The Niners started the game with the ball and Kaepernick went right to work with an 8-yard pass to Mario Manningham that saw the team get another 15 yards on an unnecessary roughness call on Chris Conte for a late hit on Manningham. The drive stalled in the red zone, but a 32-yard field goal from David Akers gave the team a 3-0 lead.
Chicago went three-and-out and San Fran struck quick. On the third play, Kaepernick went deep down the right sideline and hit Kyle Williams in-stride for a 57-yard pickup. On the next snap, Kaepernick found Vernon Davis in the end zone on a 3-yard score and a 10-0 lead with 6:14 to play in the first quarter.
The Bears got a couple of first downs on their next touch, but had to punt and the 49ers got the ball back at their own 4-yard line. Frank Gore took the first snap 13 yards and Randy Moss followed with a 12-yard catch. Davis made a 32-yard grab on the first play of the second quarter to get the ball past midfield. Four plays later, Kendall Hunter took a handoff up the middle and into the end zone on a 14-yard score for a 17-0 advantage.
Tarell Brown jumped the route on a Campbell pass for the pickoff and took it to the Chicago 44. That led to a 37-yard field goal from Akers and a 20-0 lead with 6:32 to play in the half.
San Francisco kept its foot on the pedal coming out of the break as the team held Chicago to a three-and-out and went back to work.
Starting at their own 38, Gore ran for 11 yards and Manningham followed with a 37-yard catch down to the 14. Two plays later, Kaepernick found Michael Crabtree in the left corner of the end zone for a 10-yard score and a 27-0 lead.
Chicago finally put together a successful drive as the team got across midfield for the first time and made it into the end zone. On the 13th play of the 74-yard march, Campbell lofted the ball to the right corner of the end zone and Brandon Marshall came down with it for a 13-yard catch and a 27-7 game with 3:43 to play.
San Fran then went three-and-out and Chicago got the ball back, but Dashon Goldson picked off Campbell and Akers hit a 32-yard field goal with 11:46 to play.
The 49ers added a safety two minutes later as Campbell fumbled the ball in the end zone as he was tackled. The ball was recovered by guard Chilo Rachal and he tried to pass it out, but he was tackled in the end zone. Initially the play was ruled as an intentional grounding, but a replay showed that he was tackled and the safety was awarded.
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Gore finished the game with 17 carries for 78 yards ... Matt Forte led Chicago runners with 21 carries for 63 yards ... Davis led all receivers with six catches for 83 yards ... Chicago hosts Minnesota on Sunday ... The 49ers play in New Orleans on Sunday ... The Bears had won three of four against the 49ers coming into the game ... San Fran totaled 355 yards.


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The finale of The X Factor on Thursday was marred by backstage drama after three crew workers were injured in a freak accident.
The Simon Cowell reality TV show wrapped up its first series with a live final featuring performances from star names including 50 Cent, Justin Bieber and Leona Lewis.
However, just before the In Da Club hitmaker took to the stage, a stair riser came unhinged and two workers were hit in the head, with a third taking a knock to the elbow, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Paramedics were called to the Los Angeles studio and the three stagehands were treated for their injuries backstage, while 50 Cent was performing. They were later taken to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for further assessment.
However, the medical drama did not stop the live show – Melanie Amaro, who was mentored by Cowell, fought off competition from Josh Krajcik and Chris Rene to be crowned the winner of the series.