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John Kerry's gaffe yesterday was a self-inflicted wound, greatly compounded by his refusal to apologize and his bizarre attack on the Republicans, as if they had somehow made him stick his foot in his mouth. One wonders what possessed Kerry to say that soldiers are both dumb and lazy: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." And not only to say it, but to stand by it at considerable political cost.
It seems clear that the roots of Kerry's blunder–like so much else where Kerry is concerned–go back to Vietnam. It was an article of faith among liberals (and many others) at that time that the Army consisted largely of the poor–kids who couldn't get into college and thereby obtain a deferment. It was also an article of faith that non-white Americans died in disproportionate numbers in Vietnam. That turned out not to be true, and I confess that I was astonished to learn, only within recent years, that there was no such ethnic disproportion in the Vietnam dead.
The stereotype of the poor, dumb soldier is firmly entrenched among liberals of the Vietnam era. We often see it repeated by younger liberals today, even though the stereotype has no application whatever to our current volunteer army, which is demonstrably equal, at least, to the civilian population in talent and accomplishment.
Why are liberals so determined to hang on to these discredited stereotypes of the past? I suspect it is because the young men and women who serve in the armed forces are a constant reproach to liberals' facile, politically-motivated pronouncements on foreign policy. Iraq is a disaster (never mind that I voted for it)! But the young men and women who are stationed there don't think so. They re-enlist in remarkable numbers; a large majority beieve in their mission; and they are working hard, risking their lives, and making considerable progress on many fronts. So it's helpful for liberals to think: what do they know? They're only soldiers–they must be dumb!
UPDATE: Dafydd ab Hugh offers some textual criticism and a like-minded analysis of the cultural origins of Kerry's view of the military.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A letter written by Mercury 7 astronaut Gus Grissom that exposes resentment over the pick of John Glenn as the first American to orbit the Earth has failed to sell at auction.
The October 1961 letter to his mother had a high bid of $13,155 in the online sale run by RR Auction of Amherst, N.H. Before the auction ended Thursday, company officials estimated it could bring $80,000.
A spokesman said Friday that because the minimum price was not offered, the letter was withdrawn.
In the letter, Grissom divulges the flight crew for the first orbital mission. He writes: "All of us are mad because Glenn was picked."
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Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee are fighting over pardons. Huckabee issued an extraordinary number of pardons and commutations when he was governor of Arkansas, and, as we noted here, Huckabee's championing of parole for rapist Wayne Dumond was an embarrassing lapse in judgment.
Romney has made an ad contrasting his record on pardons and commutations with Huckabee's:
Romney's record is indeed extraordinary: in his years as governor of Massachusetts, he never granted a single pardon or commutation. Tough on crime, indeed!
But Huckabee is now fighting back. He defends his own record:
"My opponent saw 100 of them. I saw 8,700 of them, 90 percent of them I denied," Huckabee said, defending the ones he approved.
"Many of the clemencies were 35-year-old single moms trying to get a job and raise a family and they couldn't get hired because we require background checks," he said. "They wrote a hot check when they were 17 or 18 years old. I think they were good decisions and I stand by them."
Well, maybe. But Wayne Dumond was no single mom. So Huckabee tries to change the subject, criticizing Romney for his stinginess with pardons and suggesting that it was politically motivated:
Turning the tables, Huckabee pointed to Romney's denial in Massachusetts of the request for pardon from an Iraq war veteran who was trying to become a police officer after his National Guard service. Anthony Circosta's offense was that, as a 13-year-old, he shot a friend in the arm with a BB gun.
Huckabee accused Romney of denying the request for political reasons.
"Here's a young man who made a mistake when he was 13," Huckabee said. "You have to decide whether we make a decision based on our political future or the future of a young man who was strong and went to war. The smart political thing is always deny all of them."
It's worth noting that Romney never attacked Huckabee's motives, only his judgment. Huckabee's quickness to attack a rival's motives is perhaps revealing. Beyond that, Huckabee wants to steer our attention toward Anthony Circosta and away from Wayne Dumond. I hadn't heard of the Circosta affair, and was surprised to see that it has generated a lot of news coverage, like this ABC News article.
It's apparently true that Circosta shot another kid with a BB gun when he was 13, went on to become an Iraq war hero, and applied for a pardon so that he could become a Massachusetts policeman. Romney apparently denied the pardon request twice.
But, while seemingly true, the story makes little sense. Huckabee's charge that Romney denied a pardon in order to enhance his own political standing is silly. Pardoning Circosta would have been popular with Republicans (and everyone else), which, of course, is why Huckabee now wants to talk about the incident. Far from being a case of political pandering, Romney's refusal to pardon Circosta's transgression as a 13-year-old looks like a case of over-scrupulous adherence to principle.
Or else, perhaps, an appropriately scrupulous regard for separation of powers. Does anyone understand the premise that Circosta couldn't become a Massachusetts policeman unless he obtained a pardon for having shot another kid with a BB when he was 13? I don't. Was he tried as an adult? Presumably not. Apparently either the State of Massachusetts, or a particular locality where Circosta wanted to be a policeman, enacted a statute or regulation providing that no one who had ever had a "firearms offense"–including an errant shot with a BB gun at age 13–could thereafter be a police officer.
The appropriate response to such a statute or rule is not to ask the Governor to pardon everyone, as to whom application of the rule would be ridiculous. The appropriate response is to repeal the statute or rule. It seems that Massachusetts' liberal legislature, or some the state's liberal municipalities, passed a dumb anti-gun law. Now Mike Huckabee says that Romney should have taken the liberals off the hook by negating the effect of that prohibition. I don't blame Mitt Romney for declining to do so. But on a political level, Huckabee's effort to deflect attention from his own prodigality with pardons, commutations and parole recommendations may well succeed.
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natty_dread wrote:I'm working on a first draft. I'll release it as soon as I can.
I'm trying to find a similar (public domain) image of the moon without all the text in there.
Hope this helps. I have some ideas I had (still have) I can post later if you want!
isaiah40 wrote:It is a very, very rough draft. I was thinking on having a couple of the Apollo landing sites, and adding in landing sites for the USSR and Japan. With bonuses for holding the oceans, craters etc. along with bonuses for holding everything within the equatorial and polar zones. Maybe adding in some sort of minerals, precious metals etc.
natty_dread wrote:Heh, amazing how similarly we've thought about this project... that's about exactly how I have envisioned the gameplay
Apollo landing sites are something I definitely would like to include in the map. Maybe as starting points?
Anyway, Rb0:s moon image looks really cool, I'm thinking maybe we should use that...? If it's ok with Rb0.
isaiah40 wrote:I was thinking of the landing sites as starting points, but for an 8 player game we may need to throw in another country fighting for the moon, like maybe China? Then we can have 2 landing sites for each as starting points. For the bonuses, since some of the territories will overlap the "zones", that might make it for some interesting play.
So who does the graphics for this one? You or me? What colors should we use? I'm was thinking grays and browns. The font something like I have on my very rough draft, but diffidently futuristic. Yes, no?
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NO missile threat to Hawaii.— Hawaii EMA (@Hawaii_EMA) January 13, 2018
Residents in Hawaii were startled by an emergency alert Saturday morning on their phones indicating that a ballistic missile was heading for the island that urged people to take shelter. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency quickly followed up on the message tweeting that there was no missile threat to Hawaii.
The alert on resident's phones told residents to take shelter and that the it was "NOT A DRILL."
Tulsi Gabbard, a congressman from Hawaii said she confirmed that there was no missile inbound on the island with officials.
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Today's alert was a false alarm. At a time of heightened tensions, we need to make sure all information released to the community is accurate. We need to get to the bottom of what happened and make sure it never happens again.— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) January 13, 2018
HAWAII - THIS IS A FALSE ALARM. THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILE TO HAWAII. I HAVE CONFIRMED WITH OFFICIALS THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILE. pic.twitter.com/DxfTXIDOQs— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) January 13, 2018
AGAIN FALSE ALARM. What happened today is totally inexcusable. The whole state was terrified. There needs to be tough and quick accountability and a fixed process.— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) January 13, 2018


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"Everybody's got a pistol. This must really please the NRA" — from "Gun" by Gil Scott-Heron
"Everybody's got a pistol. This must really please the NRA" — from "Gun" by Gil Scott-Heron
So maybe the NRA is about to get its wish.
Here we are, a little over three weeks after the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., a little over two weeks after the National Rifle Association said there should henceforth be armed guards at every school, and at least one school system, Marlboro Township in New Jersey, is taking its advice.
Under a pilot program in partnership with local police, students who returned to school last week found their campuses patrolled by armed officers.
But here's the thing. If this is truly a good idea — "The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre in a news conference — then why stop there? After all, it is not just our schools that are being shot up. So let us follow this advice to its logical end.
Four firefighters in upstate New York were shot, two of them killed, on Christmas Eve when they responded to a call and were ambushed by a man with a semiautomatic rifle. So we should have armed guards on all our firetrucks.
Two customers were killed two days before Christmas when armed men opened fire with semiautomatic handguns inside a grocery store in Delray Beach, Fla. So we should have armed guards at all our grocery stores.
Two people were killed and one injured on Dec. 11 by a gunman who started shooting at a shopping mall near Portland, Ore. So we should have armed guards at all our shopping malls.
Two people were killed and two others injured Nov. 6 when an employee started shooting inside a chicken processing plant in Fresno, Calif. So we should have armed guards at all our chicken processing plants.
One man was killed and five others wounded in a shooting at a New Year's Eve party in a private residence in Lakewood, Calif. So we should have armed guards at all our private residences.
One man was killed, a pregnant woman and her unborn child wounded, in a Dec. 9 drive-by shooting on a street corner in Miami. So we should have armed guards on every street corner.
That list, by the way, represents only a random sampling of recent shootings, most so run of the mill, so plain vanilla ordinary, they didn't even make news outside their local areas. Which should give you an idea how common gunfire in this country is. According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, nearly 98,000 of us are shot each year, a figure that includes law enforcement activity. That's 268 a day, 11 every hour.
By the reasoning of the NRA, you do not address that sad state of affairs by crafting laws that strive to balance the rights of responsible gun owners with the need to block the irresponsible, the dangerous, the criminal minded, the unhinged, from access to these WMDs. No, by the NRA's reasoning, the solution to too many guns is more guns still.
The organization frames this as a defense of freedom. To which the best rejoinder is provided by Gil Scott-Heron in the song quoted above: "Freedom to be afraid is all you won." It is a trenchant observation. One wonders how much more of this "freedom" we can take.


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Williams and PHAT Team Discuss Truth about Ski Helmets and Program Expansion
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- By Jennifer Nachbur
With plenty of recent snowfall and midway through the 2012-13 ski season, many skiers and riders have been getting out on the slopes, some with and without helmets. PHAT (Protect Your Head at All Times/Protect Your Head on All Terrain), a ski helmet advocacy program, has had a strong presence at ski areas across the state and beyond for more than a decade. This year, the program has launched a partnership with other sport groups where helmets are used as part of an expansion to a year 'round program called PHAT 4 All Seasons.
Supported by Fletcher Allen in partnership with the UVM College of Medicine and the Vermont Children's Hospital at Fletcher Allen, PHAT's partners also include the National Ski Patrol, the Vermont Ski Areas Association, and several ski areas, in addition to Okemo, including Smuggler's Notch, Bolton Valley, Bromley, Jay Peak, Mad River Glen, Stowe, and Cochran's. Mount Snow, Stratton, and Sugarbush have supported the program in the past.
Recently, PHAT co-founder Robert Williams, M.D., pediatric anesthesiologist at Fletcher Allen Health Care and University of Vermont associate professor of anesthesiology, discussed ski helmet facts in a "HealthSource" radio interview featured on the Fletcher Allen website.
A meta-analysis study conducted by investigators at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and published in the November 2012 Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery showed that helmets are lifesavers and do not increase the risk of injury. However, despite these statistics, there is still resistance to wearing a helmet, most often in older skiers who are more set in their ways, says Williams. "The title of the article says it all and in much stronger terms than we have used in the past – 'Helmets Save Lives of Skiers and Snowboarders,'" Williams says.
Vermont is doing better than the nation in using helmets. "We have a pretty high penetration use, somewhere around 75 percent, which is better than nationwide," he says in the "HealthSource" interview.
Though helmet use is increasing, Williams explains that he and other helmet advocates will not be satisfied until universal helmet use is achieved. "Head injuries are unique, with the potential for life-long morbidity," he says. "We know that there are about 8,000 head injuries in the U.S. that could be prevented. They're such an effective tool in preventing head injuries." In addition to saving health care costs, preventing or reducing the severity of head injuries also ensures better well-being for individuals and their families.
Now more than 11 years old, the PHAT program likely has something to do with Vermont's higher rate of use. The PHAT team employs what Williams calls a "several-pronged approach" that includes a website; discussing and sharing information about the pros and cons of helmet use; and finally, going to resorts where the team sets up a table, performs demonstrations, provides information on helmets, and gets the word out – in a positive non-coercive, non-threatening manner – that ski helmets are a really good idea. "In fact," says Williams "that it's such a good idea that no skier or snowboarder should go out without a helmet. We particularly encourage role models such as parents and uniformed ski professionals to set the standard by promoting responsible helmet use."
Okemo Mountain Resort provides an example of the support the PHAT program has gained in Vermont. On February 12, 2013, the resort hosted its annual PHAT Tuesday celebration.
"Okemo has made a point of having the PHAT team join us every year for what we tout as 'PHAT Tuesday' – our unique version of the Tuesday in February when most resorts are celebrating Mardi Gras," says Bonnie MacPherson, director of publication relations at Okemo. "They have become a regular part of our celebration of the National Ski Areas Association Safety Awareness Week in January. The PHAT team provides us with a non-coercive way to educate our guests about helmet safety."
The program plans to continue this approach as it expands to PHAT 4 All Season. First among the new groups to join the program are Burlington-Vt.-based Local Motion, a bike advocacy group and VASA, Vermont's All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) advocacy group. "Both groups advocate for helmets when participating in their sports," says PHAT's Karen Williams. In this new iteration, the program's members aim to have a year 'round presence throughout Vermont and beyond. "We are working at present to reflect this in our website and future events," says Williams.
The PHAT program, which receives financial support from the Vermont Health Foundation, the Children's Miracle Network, the Vermont Department of Health, and Kohl's department stores, also distributes informational materials to physicians' offices, schools and through wellness fairs and community recreation groups.


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Oil hovers around $107 a barrel after Obama speech
The price of oil hovered around $107 a barrel on Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama said he asked U.S. lawmakers to postpone a vote authorizing the use of military force against Syria.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for October delivery was down 14 cents to $107.25 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Tuesday, the contract fell $2.13, or 1.9 percent, to close at $107.39 a barrel on the Nymex.
Obama, in a televised speech to the nation late Tuesday, said he wanted to give Syria a chance to turn over its chemical weapons before he asks Congress for consent to intervene in the country's civil war.
Oil prices have been at elevated levels for two weeks following Obama's call for action against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad in retaliation for what the White House says was a deadly chemical weapons attack against civilians last month.
Syria's surprise announcement Tuesday that it would accept a Russian plan to turn over its chemical weapons stockpile raised the possibility of a resolution to the standoff between Obama and Assad and lowered tensions in oil markets.
"In view of the abating geopolitical risks, oil prices are likely to fall further, for the oil price level is still too high from a purely fundamental perspective," analysts at Commerzbank in Frankfurt said in a report, listing ample global supplies and strong production by OPEC members as factors weighing on prices.
While prices edged off a recent two-year high as the likelihood of a Syrian strike diminished, some analysts predicted prices would remain high for the time being.
"Although recent political events have decreased the probability of an international military intervention in Syria, we still see the risks to oil prices as skewed to the upside over the next several months," said analysts at Goldman Sachs in an email commentary.
Market fluctuations appeared to support this view, as the Nymex contract fell as low as $106.53 earlier Wednesday before traders began buying again, taking advantage of the dip and betting on the situation in Syria to keep supporting prices.
Syria is not a major oil producer, but oil traders say the possibility of a wider conflict could interrupt production and shipping routes in the Middle East and cause prices to rise.
A draw of 2.9 million barrels in U.S. crude stocks last week, as reported late Tuesday by the American Petroleum Institute, also sustained prices. Data from the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration — the market benchmark — will be out later Wednesday.
Brent, the benchmark for international crudes, was up 53 cents to $111.78 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
— Wholesale gasoline rose 0.26 cent to $2.7383 per gallon.
— Natural gas lost 1.7 cents to $3.567 per 1,000 cubic feet.
— Heating oil added 1.45 cents to $3.0813 per gallon.
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Research In Motion shares on Friday tumbled nearly 15% in pre-market trading after the troubled smartphone pioneer reported a sharp decline in profit and a slip in subscribers.
The BlackBerry maker reported a third-quarter profit that slid 97% on revenue that was down 47% compared with the same period a year ago, beating Wall Street's expectations.
RIM noted that it shed 1 million subscribers, down to 79 million in the quarter. The company also cautioned over service fees and increased spending on marketing of its next-generation devices.
Shares of RIM fell to $12.04 in late-morning trading.
RIM is under siege from the likes of Apple's iPhone and Android-based devices as it struggles for relevance in a market it once ruled.
Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM eked out a quarterly profit of $9 million, or 3 cents a share, on revenue of $2.73 billion. In the same quarter a year ago, it reported a $265 million profit, or 51 cents, on $5.17 billion in revenue.
Analysts were forecasting a loss of 35 cents per share, according to the survey of estimates from Thomson Reuters. On an adjusted basis, RIM reported a loss of 22 cents per share.
RIM's stock price has shown signs of a pulse over the past three months, with shares more than doubling in value. On Sept. 20, the stock closed at $6.91.
"We have put in place a clear road map," RIM CEO Thorsten Heins said on a conference call with analysts. "Today we are on the verge of launching BlackBerry 10."
The future of RIM rests on BlackBerry 10. Its upcoming smartphone line will be available Jan. 30 as a touchscreen-only device or version with its classic hard keyboard. RIM's revamped BlackBerry operating system includes a predictive text keyboard and BlackBerry Hub that users can access at any time to view texts, e-mails and other information.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: BlackBerry 10
The features for BlackBerry 10 fall more in line with the traditional options many consumers have expected in the smartphone market, currently dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iOS, and which also includes a rising line of Windows 8 phones.
Heins said that management remains "laser focused" on returning the company to profitability. He said that RIM remains focused on being a leaner organization in a bid to conserve cash. RIM's cash reserve grew $600 million in the quarter to $2.9 billion.
In September, RIM said it hosted 80 million subscribers after posting better than expected revenue during its second-quarter earnings report.


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I liked Matt Gemmell's take on iOS 7. The point that lingered with me was his take on traditional cues for affordance, suggesting they're a design vestige:
In the field of user experience, there's a huge and unhelpful overemphasis on similarity, familiarity, and the ability to formally reason about interfaces. People are more nuanced. We respond based not only on experience or reason, but also on emotion and intuition.
Too many interfaces run immediately to the well-worn toolbox of simulation and explicitness, imposing a cognitive straitjacket not only on the user, but also the designer. We too easily forget that the only thing that matters to people are their goals: their own tasks, and content. With limited attention, we want to devote our focus to what's important, rather than distractions and artifice masquerading as design traditions.
I can't say I fully agree. If affordance were a color, I'd saturate everything with it.


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Hi, im gettimg scared.......my tama is on its (13 th gen but has baby so almost 14 by the time u read this) 14th gen and my other tama is 7years old (but this may vary, i mean, i could be 71 by the time u read this) and im worried about my tamagotchis running out of batteries.....now, can u resume ur game after ur tamagotchis running out of batteries, like when u press restart on the back it says "RESTART" or "DOWNLOAD". So can u download ur game after changing ur batteries????
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Concern for the environmental future of our island has resulted in a beautiful book entitled "Conanicut the Book." Jamestowner and photographer Coffee Bell has put together more than 70 of her photographs that wonderfully capture the very pristine essence of our island. It's a must for every island home and will make a classy gift for visitors and former Jamestowners.
Coffee said that a disability forced her to slow down. She came to the island almost 10 years ago and "Jamestown has become my muse. I put the book together to show my appreciation for the beautiful environment that I call home." The book will soon be available from local merchants.
Before coming here, Coffee lived in Newport for more than 30 years. In addition to her photography, she is a painter and sculptor. She is a member of the Conanicut Island Art Association and the Newport Art Association and shows and sells her work locally. She taught after-school art classes at Sheffield School in Newport, was one of the original members of Project One, an outdoor community art program, and was heavily involved in the Women's Sacred Art Festival and Exhibit for several years.
We'll let you in on a little secret. Coffee's birth name is Karen. She picked up the Coffee name in high school and it stuck.
In the book's opening comments she says, "Conanicut the book is a photo journal (over 70 images) from the eye, the heart and camera of Coffee Bell."
There's plenty of the heart part.
The Jamestown Community Theatre has announced that auditions for its November production, "Miracle on 34th Street," are set for Sunday, Aug. 17, and Monday, Aug. 18. Artistic Director Mary Wright says there will be more information on the requirements for auditions in coming issues of the Jamestown Press.
"Please note that there will be a large chorus, but in addition, there will be a smaller group who will perform music that will require more sophisticated singing and harmony. This group will not be required to be at all rehearsals, and may in fact, rehearse separately," Mary said.
Bob Kinder was in with last week's poser.
Gimme a little kiss will ya huh?
Whadda ya got to miss, will ya huh?
Gosh ooh gee why do you refuse?
I can't see what ya got to lose.
Larry Lewis said it was "recorded famously by Sinatra and not so famously by Whispering Jack Smith in 1928, among others."
Bill Fleming of Braintree, Mass. responded with "Eddie Arnold sang 'What's a little kiss between a fellow and his girl' in the 40s." Bill didn't answer the question about the "Inner Sanctum," but said the radio program "was founded in the 40s by Himan Brown."
What was the name of the host on "Inner Sanctum?" Larry wrote that the show "was squeakily introduced by 'Your host, Raymond' (Raymond Edward Johnson). He closed the program with, 'Pleasant dreaaaams, hmmmmmm?' The creaking door was in reality a desk chair that worked just as well!"
Thanks, guys!
First it was the Easter Skulker who shows up early Easter mornings to drop off beautiful pansies.
Now we have the Chair Skulker who a week ago Sunday dropped off two brand new Adirondack chairs with a note reading "Enjoy." The chairs were left for Mim because the note continued by saying, "For all the good things you do. You deserve to take some time to just relax and enjoy life."
Thank you, whoever you are.
The latest donations from people who wanted their money blown up came in from Christa and Richard Casey; Delia Klingbeil of Clinton Avenue; Susan Baccari, Rub Street; Christiana and Charles Matley, High Street; and Allie, August and Leigh Gribble of Valley Road.
Head 'Hog Gregg Charest sends "a special Hog thanks to JEMS for setting up the first aid station, the Jamestown Fire Department for putting out brush fires, and the Jamestown Police for explosives detail, and traffic and parking control.
"We would also like to thank everyone who we hustled for money on the beach - this gives us seed money for next year. That's right, we'll be back asking for more money to send sky-high. There's even talk about bringing it back downtown, so stay tuned for more information."
On the Hogs' web site, www. rockethogs.com, there is a pictorial timeline showing the activities of setting up for the shoot beginning at 2 p.m. on July 12 through 8:30 a.m. the next morning.
The ear-shattering noise on weekends from visiting motorcycles is getting pretty bad even for those of us with old hearing.
Cut back on those showers, it looks like it's going to be one of those dry summers.
A Snapple cap moment: A crocodile cannot move its tongue.
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T.I. ended up back in federal custody on Thursday after a conflict over his luxury bus ride to a halfway house.
The rapper – real name Clifford Harris, Jr. – left an Arkansas prison on Wednesday after serving 10-months of an 11-month sentence for violating probation last year.
The Live Your Life hitmaker then rode a deluxe motor coach 375 miles (603 kilometres) to Georgia, where he was due to check into a halfway house.
But federal authorities "moved T.I. to a different facility" over an issue with his bus, according to his lawyer Steve Sadow.
Sadow tells The Associated Press, "There appears to be confusion surrounding the method of transportation", but insists the problem was not drug-related.
A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons could not comment on the hip-hop star's whereabouts.


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Kelly Reichardt calls it "a thriller with a small t." Her newest film, "Night Moves," has its North American premiere Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival following its world premiere a little over a week ago at the Venice Film Festival. Set amid alternative farming communities in Southern Oregon, the film explores the tension between idealism and activism, and the difficulty in negotiating between the two.
Lest that sound like a dry essay, there is a bomb plot motivating the action and the pacing of a paranoid thriller throwback to the conspiracy films of the 1970s. The intense, internal Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) works on a small organic farm and connects with young Dena (Dakota Fanning), who has turned away from her society family but still has access to money. Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard) walked away from his time in the military with both skills and a cynical disaffection. With conviction, funding and know-how, the three together set in motion a plan to blow up a hydroelectric dam as an act of protest.
Reichardt's collaborations with co-writer Jon Raymond have made her among the most critically lauded independent filmmakers in America, even if her work has yet to break through with wider audiences. Their films have been noted for their social consciousness, subtly political storytelling and quiet emotionalism. In 2008's "Wendy and Lucy," Michelle Williams played a young woman traveling alone with her dog who is stranded in a small town when her car breaks down, highlighting the fragile equilibrium of those on the economic edges. In the ambitious period story of 2010's "Meek's Cutoff," an 1845 wagon train becomes lost on its way out West, creating an allegory on leadership and society-building.
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Though their new story is set against a world of alternative agrarianism and direct action, with "Night Moves" Reichardt and Raymond were looking to explore caper film mechanics and the modulation of tension more than they did the specifics of an issue. In making their version of an action-thriller, the pair focused on process as much as results, the feelings of the characters as much as their motivations.
"I think it's a character film about these political people, more than I think of it as being a political film," Reichardt said in a phone call from her home in New York. "I want the movie to not have a political agenda. We were really just focused on these three characters, three imperfect people."
"I think we are both politically minded people, but we're not politicians in any way," said Raymond in a phone interview from Portland, Ore. "The way I ended up explaining it is: Personally I'm interested in political questions to generate a story and characters, but I'm not that interested in political answers to those questions. There's a point at which the question has to give way to drama."
The cast committed fully. Reichardt noted that Eisenberg lived in a yurt during part of the shoot, also working on the farm where the film was being shot and more than once helping to get a truck unstuck from the mud. Sarsgaard often drove a boat even when he wasn't on camera, and Fanning pitched in with her costars and the crew when bags of fertilizer needed to be moved in haste due to a change in schedule.
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"The cast is down in it. They're not off in a trailer waiting for us," said Reichardt. "They are deeply involved in the filmmaking. No one sits it out."
The film was shot in southern Oregon over some 30 days last year. Working again with cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt, who shot "Meek's Cutoff" and worked on Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," Reichardt for the first time shot "Night Moves" digitally. She again edited the film herself, as she has all her features, going back to 2006's "Old Joy."
At the Venice festival, the Guardian remarked that the filmmaker takes a "volatile story and handles it with care and precision, as if transporting unstable nitroglycerin."
The title for "Night Moves" comes from the name of the boat the central trio acquires for its mission. Yet "Night Moves" also brings to mind the 1975 film of the same name directed by Arthur Penn and starring Gene Hackman and a young Melanie Griffith in a detective story that combined post-noir characters with a post-Watergate disillusionment. Reichardt noted that she had always felt "a connection" to the Penn film because it was shot in the Florida Keys near where she spent time with her family while growing up in Miami.
Especially coming off the extensive period research and physically grueling production that went into making "Meek's Cutoff," the pair was excited to make a contemporary-set film. "We wanted it to be really today," said Reichardt. "I kept calling it a crunchy noir."
The film is the fourth collaboration between Reichardt and Raymond. Reichardt also teaches film at Bard College in New York, while Raymond was recently nominated for an Emmy for his work on "Mildred Pierce" with Todd Haynes. (It was Haynes, a mutual friend to both, who first introduced the pair.) Reichardt will be scrambling to get back to Bard to teach classes around festival appearances with the new film, which is currently looking for U.S. distribution.
Reichardt is reluctant to draw a connection between the idealistic activism of the characters in "Night Moves" and her own commitment to making her films in her own way, saying only, "I don't want to put that burden on myself." However, she does allow, "I feel fortunate we've been able to make these films. Not that I think they're perfect, but the mistakes are mine."
Even after setting out to make a film with more genre elements, the deliberate pacing and clipped storytelling of the other collaborations between Reichardt and Raymond nevertheless emerged. They can't get away from themselves, even when they try.
"We thought, 'Wow, this is action-packed for us,'" said Reichardt. "And I just remember calling Jon at some point while I was editing to say it doesn't feel so 'other' from the other films. It just has more plot."
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Carlos Juliao, Riscos illuminados de figurinhos de broncos e negros dos uzos do Rio de Janeiro e Serro do Frio (Rio de Janeiro, 1960), plate 34. The prints used as plates in this book are housed in the Secao de Iconografia in the National Library of Brazil; the historical introduction and descriptive catalog were written by Lygia da Foneseca Fernandes da Cunha. (Copy in Tulane University Library)
The man on the left is simply identified as a "Black Seller of Capim," a type of grass or "Guinea grass" which he is carrying on his head; while the man on the right is specifically identified as a "Slave Seller of Milk," and is shown with a pot of milk on his head; he is also wearing the iron collar and leg band that was placed on slaves who had a tendency to become fugitives. Born in Italy ca. 1740, Juliao joined the Portuguese army and traveled widely in the Portuguese empire; by the 1760s or 1770s he was in Brazil, where he died in 1811 or 1814. For a detailed analysis and critique of Juliao's figures as representations of Brazilian slave life, as well as a biographical sketch of Juliao and suggested dates for his paintings, see Silvia Hunold Lara, Customs and Costumes: Carlos Juliao and the Image of Black Slaves in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil (Slavery & Abolition, vol. 23 [2002], pp. 125-146).


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The Student Bar Association (SBA) is the governmental body for all law students. Every School of Law student is a member of the SBA. The purpose of SBA, as set forth by its constitution, is to provide the students of the law school with a forum for the expression of ideas concerning the social, moral and intellectual aspects of the legal profession, and also to provide an opportunity for the students of the law school to participate in the formulation and administration of the educational policies of the law school.
The SBA serves as an umbrella organization for all of the student groups within the law school. The SBA provides funding for student organizations, coordinates activities among students, works in conjunction with the Deans' Office in addressing student concerns, and represents the law school in the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) of Saint Louis University.
The SBA is committed to creating the best learning environment for all students, and we encourage everyone to actively participate in SBA activities. The SBA is here to help make your law school career a success. The goal is for all students to use the SBA as a resource for any questions, concerns or needs. Please feel free to contact the president or any of the officers, and they will be happy to help.


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In the heart of Stuttgart, on the very spot where the Friedrichsbau Theatre once stood, a new theatre was built in 1994: the Friedrichsbau Variety Theatre. Since then, the theatre has been enhancing the Baden-Württemberg cultural landscape with an eclectic mix of entertainment. With acrobatics, magic shows, comedy, music, dance and drag on the bill in this delightful venue, you can be sure of a thrilling night.
On this historical site, showtime greats such as Josephine Baker and Charlie Rivel once transported 1920s audiences to another world. Today, the equally varied and distinctive programme bears the unmistakable stamp of Bernhard Paul, artistic director of the Friedrichsbau Variety Theatre and director of Circus Roncalli. Fresh new faces are given stage slots alongside the big stars and it is precisely this variety, combined with the theatre's magical atmosphere that has made such an impact upon its audiences. A constant stream of crowd-pleasers such as Robert Kreis, Tango Five, Topas, Arabeske, the Thuranos and the Kessler twins have passed and continue to pass through its doors. During the winter season, the theatre also lays on a matinee for the whole family called 'Zimt & Zauber' (Cinnamon and Spells), which is a great favourite with children and grown-ups alike. The Friedrichsbau Variety Theatre is also an ideal events venue, lending a particularly special note to anniversaries, work parties or private functions – including a show, supporting programme and excellent catering.
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Position Classification is the systematic categorizing of positions based on duties and responsibilities in accordance with guidelines provided by the State Office of Human Resources. The classification process involves an assessment of the job duties, skill level of work performed, and the overall knowledge requirements of the position. A pay range is established for each classification, and positions that are substantially similar in nature are allocated to the same job classification.
Individual requests from supervisors and managers for position classification reviews may be submitted at any time. Such requests may include the establishment of new positions that will be available for recruitment and selection, or for positions that have experienced significant and permanent changes in duties and responsibilities (vacant or filled). Positions may be reclassified to either a higher, lower or equivalent level. The incumbent must meet the minimum training and experience requirements of the new classification.
Compensation encompasses both wages and fringe benefits that employees receive in return for services rendered to the employer. The Medical University of South Carolina strives to ensure fair, consistent and equitable compensation practices for its employees, regardless of gender, race, age, nationality, religion, disability or veteran status.
The State Office of Human Resources, acting as an agent of the State Budget and Control Board, establishes and monitors the Compensation System including the classification listing, the pay band schedule and policies governing the administration of the overall Pay Plan.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Minnesota Twins have had all of two managers over the last quarter-century, so it's a bit startling to see Ron Gardenhire beginning the last year of his contract, his job seemingly on the line after back-to-back seasons of more than 95 losses.
Of course, Gardenhire isn't alone. Four years after winning the World Series, Joe Girardi is in the final season of his deal with the New York Yankees. Don Mattingly is in a similar situation with the Dodgers — and even Walt Weiss, who just took over the Colorado Rockies in November, is signed for only a year.
Every season, a handful of managers find themselves under increased pressure, and 2013 is no different. Sometimes a struggling team wants to keep its options open, or perhaps a contender starts losing patience. A manager facing the end of his contract isn't necessarily doomed, but these next few months will be crucial for some of baseball's biggest names.
"I've got a contract for this year. That's all I know. And I have a job to do, and I'm getting paid to do it," Gardenhire said. "The Twins have been very, very good to me, so I'm not going to complain."
There's actually a decent amount of managerial stability in baseball these days. Coming into the 2013 season, the average manager has been with his team for 3.4 years, according to STATS, LLC. That's up from 2.13 a decade ago — and 1.65 back in 1983.
Gardenhire took over in Minnesota before the 2002 season after Tom Kelly managed the Twins for over 15 years. Gardenhire has won six division titles with Minnesota, but the bottom fell out when the Twins went 63-99 during a 2011 season wrecked by injuries. They improved by only three games last year.
Gardenhire's challenge is to piece together a rebuilt pitching staff. His contract status doesn't appear to be weighing on him.
"There's not much I can do about it, so why worry about it? I don't worry about it," he said. "Whatever happens, happens. I'm going to go out and do my job. Hopefully, I stay here forever. I like it here, my family loves Minnesota, but it's not something I too often worry about."
While the Twins focus on returning to relevance, the Royals are trying to end a long rebuilding phase. Kansas City picked up manager Ned Yost's option for 2013 over a year ago, so he's back and under pressure to guide the Royals at least into contention after the team dealt Wil Myers and a package of other top prospects for James Shields and Wade Davis.
In Colorado, Weiss takes charge of a team that lost 98 games last season. The former shortstop is making the jump from high school coach to major league manager — with a one-year contract right at the start.
Weiss' inexperience bears watching, but even managers who have won big must constantly prove themselves. Charlie Manuel has won a World Series and two pennants with the Philadelphia Phillies, but their streak of five NL East championships ended last year.
Philadelphia looks determined to make another push for the playoffs. Beyond this season, the future is murky.
Manuel said at the beginning of spring training he wasn't going to answer constant questions about his expiring contract. His attitude isn't unusual. Job security is a sensitive topic that can become a distraction.
Jim Leyland was in the last year of his deal in 2011. Two AL Central titles later, he's still in charge in Detroit. The Tigers signed him to a one-year extension after winning the American League pennant in 2012, and the 68-year-old skipper seems content with that arrangement, which allows Leyland and the team to re-evaluate things every 12 months or so.
In Washington, there isn't much doubt about Davey Johnson's future. He's expected to stop managing after this season and move into a consulting role.
Mattingly, on the other hand, has only been managing a couple years. The Dodgers went 86-76 in 2012, but the team acquired Carl Crawford, Hanley Ramirez, Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett and Zack Greinke in the last year.
"I'm not burying my head in the sand. I know people expect us to win, basically," Mattingly said. "All the expectations are just noise to me and the club, that we should win the Series and all that. My job and my staff's job is to prepare the club to play the best it possibly can, and I can't worry about the noise. The job doesn't change."
The Dodgers went on a spending spree, and Mattingly's task is to make it work. Girardi can probably relate to that after five years managing the Yankees. New York won the World Series in 2009, but that memory fades a bit more with each postseason flameout.
The Yankees were swept by Detroit in last year's AL championship series, and instead of loading up with free agent stars, New York spent much of the offseason waiting to see how Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez would recover from their injuries.
But this is still the Yankees, so Girardi shouldn't expect much of a pass if it turns out to be a down year in the Bronx. He's in the final season of a three-year deal.
"I don't worry about where I'm going to be next year," said Girardi, who got used to moving around during his playing career.
"When I signed, I was called up in 1989 and thought I'd be a (Chicago) Cub the rest of my life. Lo and behold, I was with three other teams, back with the Cubs. I was all over the place. So you get used to not worrying about next year, and I'm not worried about it."
Across town with the Mets, Terry Collins was under .500 in each of his first two seasons at the helm. Collins is in the last year of his deal, too.
"I have nothing to prove to myself," Collins said. "You turn it over to the guys that can play, and my job is to get them ready to play, and I've got to do a better job of it because it wasn't good enough last year."
Like Gardenhire, Girardi, Manuel and the rest, Collins figures there's no use dwelling on what he can't control.
"I'm not going to worry about having a tough loss or anything else," Collins said. "I've got a job to do, and I'm going to go do it. I can't worry about the future."


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STOCKTON - Cory Popham recovered beautifully from his first outing of the year.
STOCKTON - Cory Popham recovered beautifully from his first outing of the year.
The right-hander opened Pacific's baseball season last week in a loss at San Jose State, giving up four runs in 4 2/3 innings. Friday, he went the distance in a 3-0 win against UNLV at Klein Family Field.
Popham spread out five hits with one walk and five strikeouts for the first complete game shutout for the Tigers (2-3) since a 10-0 win last season against Brown on March 24.
"He was a little bit uptight in that first game and was rushing a little bit," Pacific coach Ed Sprague said. "Tonight we saw the Cory Popham with good tempo that we liked when we recruited him."
Popham, a junior, is in his first season with the Tigers out of Glendale Community College. He shut down the Runnin' Rebels (4-3) after they opened the season by taking three of four games from Tennessee.
The most trouble Popham got into was in the seventh inning when the Rebels loaded the bases on two singles and a hit batter. He got out of the jam by forcing Collin Yelich to ground out.
"My goal was to come out and throw strikes with my fastball, changeup and slider," Popham said. "The changeup I just started throwing and it looks a lot like my fastball."
The Tigers went ahead 1-0 in the fifth inning when Erik Lockwood led off with a single and advanced on a ground out. A wild pitch followed and Lockwood scored when the catcher tried to recover and make a throw to third base that missed high. Pacific got two more runs on a single by Jacob Goulder.
Lodi products Joey and Patrick Armstrong started for UNLV, with Joey going 2 for 4. Patrick was 0 for 1.
UNLV assistant coach Stan Stolte returned to Stockton after serving as Pacific's pitching coach from 1990-96.
"This was a tough one tonight," Stolte said. "But it is great to be back. I met a lot of wonderful people here and have been lucky to see some of them so far."


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James Cameron's "Avatar" was the catalyst for numerous movie theaters around the world to finally install 3D technology. The director foresees the same scramble happening in the home, leading up to the Blu-ray release of the movie next year, and moving into the PC.
Despite the Blu-ray spec being finalized just last week, Cameron says he's ready to sit down on his couch, throw on the goofy glasses and watch some eye-popping films. Doesn't this technology need more time to incubate before we invite it into our living rooms?
"It's not too early. I think it's going to be great," Cameron said in an interview with G4's "Attack of the Show" (video embedded below). "Everybody's going to be scrambling around for 3D content. We can't make these big, blockbuster movies fast enough."
Cameron doesn't expect "Avatar" to be the main driver of the trend, as it was in theaters. Well, not the movie, anyway.
"I think as it comes into the home initially, it's going to be sports, and I think it could be gaming," Cameron said. "The 'Avatar' game is the first stereoscopic, 3D console game."
The NFL was testing 3D broadcasts a year ago. PC games have been doing it for at least a decade — not very well, for the most part.
"The 'Avatar' game is a kick in 3D," Cameron said. "I just can't imagine anybody who's a serious gamer not wanting to get into the world of their game in a much more immersive way."
Cameron's biographer is practically convinced that he can see the future. So, Hollywood's Nostradamus has some more predictions to rattle off.
"Pretty soon, it's going to be just everything," he said. "I think it's quickly going to get adopted down to smaller devices. It works beautifully on a laptop because… [the laptop] is a single-user environment."
"You've got to orient yourself to it so you don't have to wear the glasses," he continued. "Well, that's called a laptop last time I checked."
"The smaller the display area, the more having z-depth to kind of sort and stack stuff behind stuff, windows behind windows, will actually kind of make some sense," he said.
Of course, it could get annoying having to recalibrate your position to the software every time you adjust how you're sitting with the computer. But we can imagine the huge benefits of being able to see our iTunes window peeking from behind the browser. We can imagine it because Cameron shows us some of that conceptual computer technology in "Avatar."
"It's going to come blowing in pretty fast here over the next couple of years," Cameron said.
It sounds a little far-fetched for such a short timeframe. But so did "Avatar" a year ago when commentators speculated that the most expensive movie of all time might get lost in space.
— Mark Milian
Photo: James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis, attend the premiere of
"Avatar" in Japan at Roppongi Hills in
Tokyo on Monday. Credit: Junko Kimura / Getty Images
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NEW YORK (AP) — Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets fell $4.89 billion to $2.696 trillion for the week that ended Wednesday, according to the Investment Company Institute.
Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds fell $7.60 billion to $924.13 billion, the Washington-based mutual fund trade group said Thursday. Assets of taxable money market funds in the retail category fell $5.32 billion to $722.42 billion. Tax-exempt retail fund assets fell $2.29 billion to $201.71 billion.
Meanwhile assets of institutional money market funds rose $2.72 billion to $1.772 trillion. Among institutional funds, taxable money market fund assets rose $4.04 billion to $1.688 trillion. Assets of tax-exempt funds fell $1.32 billion to $83.72 billion.
The seven-day average yield on money market mutual funds was unchanged from the previous week at 0.02 percent in the week that ended Tuesday, according to Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet Inc. in Westborough, Mass.
The 30-day average yield was flat at 0.02 percent from last week. The seven-day compounded was unchanged at 0.02 percent. The 30-day compounded yield was also flat at 0.02 percent, Money Fund Report said.
The average maturity of portfolios held by money market mutual funds rose to 48 days from 47 days.
The online service Bankrate.com said its survey of 100 leading commercial banks, savings and loan associations and savings banks in the nation's 10 largest markets showed the annual percentage yield available on money market accounts was unchanged from the week before at 0.12 percent.
The North Palm Beach, Fla.-based unit of Bankrate Inc. said the annual percentage yield available on interest-bearing checking accounts was flat from the week before at 0.05 percent.
Bankrate.com said the annual percentage yield on six-month certificates of deposit was flat at 0.17 percent. It was also flat at 0.27 percent on one-year CDs and flat at 0.43 percent on two-year CDs. It fell to 0.87 percent from 0.88 percent on five-year CDs.


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UAA/Career Record: 250-138, 13 years as head coach; 26 overall at UAA
Education: B.S., Education, Univ. of Texas, 1988;
M.A., Educational Administration, SW Texas State, '90
After leading Alaska Anchorage to 12 straight winning seasons — including five NCAA Tourney appearances — Rusty Osborne has clearly established himself among the top coaches in both Division II basketball and school history.
Under Osborne's leadership, UAA has gone 239-122 (.662) over the past 12 years, including victories over 11 Division I teams and 15 nationally ranked D-II teams.
In 2011-12, Osborne piloted the Seawolves to a 23-7 record — the second-best winning percentage (.767) in program history — and their second straight NCAA 2nd Round appearance. In fact, UAA is 6-3 in NCAA play in its last three appearances, with two of those losses coming to the eventual national runner-up. The 2016-17 campaign was Osborne's fifth with 21 or more victories.
During his head coaching tenure, Osborne's squads have also produced four All-Americans (including 2012 Div. II Bulletin National Player of the Year and GNAC POY Taylor Rohde), three CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-Americans, 10 All-West Region performers and 22 All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference first- or second-team honorees, while 18 Seawolves have moved on to play professionally.
In 2007-08, Osborne earned the GNAC Coach of the Year award as UAA posted the best record in school history (29-6), won its first GNAC title, and advanced to the Div. II Final Four for the first time in 20 years. The Seawolves produced a pair of All-Americans -- including GNAC Player of the Year Luke Cooper -- and rose as high as No. 4 in the national poll, earning their first-ever No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed.
In seven of the last 10 campaigns, Osborne's teams have finished in the top 10 of the NCAA Div. II national stats in either three-point or free-throw percentage, including 2008-09 when UAA was 2nd nationally from the charity stripe and 7th from long range. Osborne's teams have also gained a reputation for defense, leading the GNAC in points allowed in six of his 13 seasons.
From 1991-2004, Osborne spent 13 seasons as an assistant with the Seawolves, including 11 years as Charlie Bruns' chief assistant. The Houston, Texas, native joined the UAA staff after serving under former Seawolf coach Harry Larrabee three seasons (1988-91) at Div. I Southwest Texas State.
The Seawolves have won 64 percent of their games with Osborne on the staff, claiming four conference titles and nine trips to the NCAA Division II Tournament.
As an assistant, he was responsible for the recruitment of five All-Americans, 12 All-West Region players, 28 all-conference performers and five league Players of the Year. In addition, 17 of his players have gone on to the professional ranks in the United States and abroad, including recent stars such as Kemmy Burgess, Luke Cooper and Taylor Rohde.
Since coming to UAA, he has been involved in organizing Seawolf Outreach games in Barrow, Kotzebue, Kenai and Fort Richardson. He is also the director of the Sullivan Arena Jumpshot Basketball Camp, and has put on many clinics in rural Alaska.
Before making the move to the collegiate ranks, Osborne worked for one year at the prep level as an assistant coach at Hyde Park Baptist in Austin, Texas, helping the team to a 36-8 finish and a state title.
Osborne prepped at Alief-Elsik High in Houston, where he was a two-time all-district selection and senior captain. Collegiately, he lettered his freshman season at Mary Hardin-Baylor in Texas, and redshirted at Eastern New Mexico.
Osborne graduated from the University of Texas in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in education and received his master's degree in educational administration two years later from Southwest Texas.
He and his wife Staci, an Anchorage native, are the parents of five children — sons Sagan, Austin and Kylan, and daughters J.J. and Kadyn.
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Well in my knowledge brush up for 70-431 Exam I used this book backed up by BOL.
If you have previous SQL Server experience this book and BOL is all you really need to pass the Exam.
If you're a newbie who is just getting it's feet wet then first get some experience and comfortability with SQL server first.
The book is a very easy read and although it has some errors they're not huge so i didn't need errata (fixed errors) for it.
It nicly summarizes the topics that you need to know about and the chapters are just long enough.
Content fits very nicly with the exam itself. It doesn't get too techical if it doesn't need to be.
I liked the "Note" and "Exam alert" paragraphs throughout the book that warn you about what you need to study more in depth.
Each chapter ends with practice questions and their answers with full explanation of why it's a correct one and where to look in the book for more info.
Very usefull.
The book also contains 2 practice exams with 40 questions each that are on the same level as those on the exam.
All in all i can't really say anything negative about the book. It serves it's purpose well. And that's it.
You can't really keep it as a reference or anything like that because it's to general.
Amazon link here.
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Div. II Boys' Hoop semis: Pembroke rolls into finalBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 14. 2014 10:30PM
EXETER — The Exeter High School gym was packed at the start of Friday night's Division II semifinal between top-seeded Pembroke Academy and fourth-seeded Pelham, but there were plenty of seats available by the end of the third quarter.
Pembroke, last year's Division II champion, was in control from the start and extended its season with a 62-40 triumph.
Top-seeded Pembroke will meet second-seeded Portsmouth for the Division II championship today (3 p.m.) at the University of New Hampshire's Lundholm Gymnasium. Portsmouth handed Pembroke its only loss this season, a 53-49 setback in Pembroke.
"I think we played real smart and in practice we went over their plays all week," Pembroke guard Pat Welch said. "That was the key to making it an easy-looking game. We built a lead and took good shots after that."
There was a little more than a minute to play when the Pembroke fans began chanting UNH ... UNH … UNH, but the chant could have started much sooner. Pembroke led 16-7 after one quarter, 31-17 at halftime and 45-23 entering the fourth.
The victory raised Pembroke's record to 20-1. Pelham completed its season with a 17-4 record.
"It was just their physical defense," Pelham coach Matt Regan said. "They fought through everything and disrupted our shooters. We're averaging 70 points a game, but we didn't get any good looks."
Pembroke senior Kafani Williams, a 6-foot-4 forward, led all scorers with 23 points. Pembroke received 22 points from Welch and 12 from junior forward Dominic Timbas.
At one point late in the third quarter, Welch had scored as many points as Pelham (19).
"We had seven turnovers, so the guys did a real good job handling the press," Pembroke coach Matt Alosa said. "I've seen Pelham go on 20-point runs with a 2-2-1 or man-to-man press. We were real cautious when we had a lead.
"They want to play Portsmouth," said Alosa. "I know they were hoping Portsmouth won. For me, it's nice to see the two best teams on the court at UNH at the end. I think it will be a great final."
It was the second time Pembroke beat Pelham this season. The Spartans won the regular-season matchup 63-49.
The highlight for Pelham came when senior Jake Vaiknoras scored his 1,000th career point early in the fourth quarter. Vaiknoras led Pelham with 12 points.
"I've never been around a 1,000-point scorer who's as unselfish as he is," Regan said. "He's the hardest-working kid in games and practice."
Joe Slattery added nine points for Pembroke, Portsmouth played a box-in-one on Welch when the teams met earlier this season. "I wanted to get another shot to try and take (Portsmouth) and I think we're going to be able to," Welch said. "We just have to concentrate on defense and be patient on offense, because they're a good help-side team. On that big court I don't think the box-and-one is going to work."
Portsmouth 49, Lebanon 43
It was a strong start and a strong finish that carried the second-seeded Clippers (19-2) to today's championship game.
Portsmouth scored 10 of the game's final 13 points to pull away. Nick Mackey gave Portsmouth its first lead of the second half when he made a jumper with 3:13 to play that put the Clippers up 41-40.
Portsmouth also scored the game's first 11 points. "We had a tough start, and then in the end we were forced to foul," Lebanon coach Keith Matte said. "It's hard to score on them and they did a nice job of holding the ball. They had some pretty long possessions in the final two minutes."
Guard Donovan Phanor scored a game-high 12 points for Portsmouth, which advanced to the Class I/Division II championship game for the fifth time in the last eight years.
Brothers Patrick and Joey Glynn each finished with 10 points.
Dom Morrill scored a team-high 11 for third-seeded Lebanon, which completed its season with a 17-4 record. Nic Shepherd added eight for the Raiders.
Portsmouth led 11-6 after one quarter, but trailed 24-18 at halftime. Lebanon had a 33-29 lead entering the final eight minutes.
"In the second quarter we got totally beat up on the boards," Portsmouth coach Jim Mulvey said. "They weren't making shots on their first try, they were making second and third shots. At halftime we told them, 'There's no more of that.'" Portsmouth's last title came in 2012, when it beat Bedford 58-33. The teams will have less than 24 hours to prepare for today's title game.
"I'll play right now," Mulvey said. "It's not going to be easy. No doubt about it."


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With full-backs Jose Enrique and Martin Kelly both out injured, Glen Johnson looks set to carry on at left-back with Wisdom possibly filling in on the right side.
But should manager Brendan Rodgers pick him, the young defender is confident he will be able to handle the pressure of the game.
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"I'm not a nervous person. I just take things in my stride and try to keep my head down and get on with stuff. You can't allow the pressure to get to you.
"United have some great players but so do we and our form has been good. We'll go there with the right attitude and give it our all.
"We'll have a strong team out and confidence is high. We know how much this game means to the fans. The support they give us is unbelievable and hopefully we can reward them with a good result."
If the 19-year-old steps out at Old Trafford on Sunday, it would cap a memorable week for the defender who recently signed a new long-term contract at the club.


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Gorham man arraigned for kidnapping Abigail Hernandez, but details remain scarceBy JOHN KOZIOL
Union Leader Correspondent
July 29. 2014 8:34PM
CONWAY — With Abigil Hernandez looking on, Nathaniel E. Kibby was arraigned in Conway District Court Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping the Conway teenager last October.
Kibby, 34, of 4 Brookside Drive in Gorham, appeared before Judge Pamela Albee. She ultimately ordered Kibby — who has been in her court on several previous occasions to face unrelated charges — to be held on a $1 million cash-only bond pending a probable-cause hearing on Aug. 12.
"How a child like that can get through the nine months, and endure, I'm not sure," New Hampshire Associate Attorney General Jane Young said at a news briefing after the arraignment. Young said Abby "has a level of strength," that not many people may have.
Abby's disappearance last Oct. 9 launched a massive search that ended July 20, when the 15-year-old returned home. Investigators have said it was information that she gave them that led to Kibby's arrest Monday at his home at Gateway Trailer Park.
During a news conference after the arraignment, Young said the arrest of Kibby was "the first step in this case."
Young said there appeared to be only one person involved in the kidnapping of Abigail Hernandez.
Public defender Jesse Friedman reserved the right to address at a future hearing the bail request made by Young, a decision that effectively precluded any discussion of the state's case against his client on Tuesday.
Court officials said the only information available to the media was the complaint charging Kibby with knowingly confining "A.H. with a purpose to commit an offense against her."
After the arraignment, Young acknowledged the lack of detailed information about the connection between Kibby and Hernandez, but said that was because the case was still under investigation.
Friedman, who entered a plea of "no plea" on behalf of his client, earlier had asked Albee to grant him and his fellow defense counselor Allison Schwartz access to the probable-cause and search affidavits against Kibby. Albee, who had sealed both affidavits, initially told Friedman that as the state was expected to make its argument for the high bail, he might get some of his answers.
Young said she "vehemently" objected to Friedman's request, adding that if he wanted to find out what Libby did to face a single count of kidnapping — a Class B felony punishable by between 3 1/2 to seven years in prison — "he has his client."
"I'm not asking for public disclosure," Friedman said, just the selected release of information so that "we can accurately advise Nate here today."
Joined by her sister, and their mother, Zenya, Hernandez sat in the front row of observers, directly in front of Albee on Tuesday. Although Abigail watched the proceedings quietly, her mother several times addressed comments to family friends and was the last person with whom Young spoke before the arraignment began.
Paul Kirsch and Amanda Smith, who are friends of the Hernandez family and have acted as their spokespersons, both declined to comment on Tuesday's arraignment.
Kirsch did say, however, that Abigail and her family are doing well "all things considered," adding that the kidnapping of Abigail and the prosecution of Kibby continue to be a "traumatic experience."
Meanwhile, at Gateway Trailer Park, where Kibby has lived for the past five years, residents are wondering if Hernandez had been in their midst all the time.
"I think so. I don't know where else he'd put her," said Wallace Corrigan Jr., whose father owns the 50-home park and is a frequent visitor. "He couldn't hide her at his mom and dad's home."