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Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling has "suspended" his campaign for governor, according to an email to supporters this morning. The action was first reported last night on the blog, Black Velvet Bruce Li, and on Twitter by Ben Tribbett.
This isn't really a surprise. The entrance of AG Ken Cuccinelli into the 2013 governor's race was the first nail in the LG's coffin. Still, there was a glimmer of hope because Republicans had voted to choose the party's nominee by primary. Virginia's open primaries meant Democrats could have participated. (I discussed this very thing with some Democrats a year ago – and no, I won't name names. But they scoffed at the idea, saying we should let the Republicans make their own decision. Obviously, they have never been to my precinct during Democratic primaries, where the Republicans routinely participate.)
The final nail was the change to a convention. No way anyone outside of party activists were going to participate in that. And many of the party activists love Cuccinelli and consider Bolling an establishment Republican. I guess you could call him that; he has shown that he's willing to put party before self, in stepping aside for Bob McDonnell in the 2009 contest.
However, there is little difference between Bolling and Cuccinelli when it comes to policy (just as there was little difference between Bolling and McDonnell). The only thing that separates them is the method of delivery. Bolling has an affable personality and says things with a smile, while Cuccinelli throws a lot of elbows. But it's the same message.
So, unless someone else enters the race, it will be a matchup between Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe. Let me remind you of Virginia's history. Since 1977, Virginia has elected a governor from the party opposite that of the president.
|1976 – Jimmy Carter (D)
|1977 – John Dalton (R)
|1980 – Ronald Reagan (R)
|1981 – Chuck Robb (D)
|1984 – Ronald Reagan (R)
|1985 – Gerry Baliles (D)
|1988 – George H.W. Bush (R)
|1989 – Doug Wilder (D)
|1992 – Bill Clinton (D)
|1993 – George Allen (R)
|1996 – Bill Clinton (D)
|1997 – Jim Gilmore (R)
|2000 – George W. Bush (R)
|2001 – Mark Warner (D)
|2004 – George W. Bush (R)
|2005 – Tim Kaine (D)
|2008 – Barack Obama (D)
|2009 – Bob McDonnell (R)
|2012 – Barack Obama (D)
|2013 – ????
Will 2013 be different?
The Bolling email is below:
When I was growing up my dad was a coal miner and my mom waited tables. We didn't have much, but my parents instilled in me a love of Virginia. I never dreamed that I would one day have a chance to help lead this wonderful state,but thanks to you, that has been my privilege.
Throughout my 21 years in public service I have done my best to stand strong for our shared conservative values, while at the same time working with Republicans and Democrats to get things done in state government. I think that effort has been successful, and I hope you agree.
For the past seven years I have had the honor of serving as Virginia's Lieutenant Governor, and it had been my intention to seek the Republican Party's nomination for Governor in 2013. However, not everything we want in life is meant to be.
I am writing to advise you that after a great deal of consideration I have decided to suspend my campaign for the Republican Party's nomination for Governor of Virginia. Needless to say, this was a very difficult decision for me, and I know it will come as a surprise and disappointment to you, but I am confident it is the right decision.
Four years ago I decided to set my personal ambition to be Governor aside and join with Bob McDonnell to create a united Republican ticket. Time has proven the wisdom of that decision. Governor McDonnell and I were elected in 2009 by historic margins, and for the past three years we have successfully worked together to get Virginia back on the right track.
I had hoped that Attorney General Cuccinelli and I would be able to form that same kind of united Republican ticket in 2013. However, late last year Mr. Cuccinelli unexpectedly announced that he intended to challenge me for the Republican Party's nomination for Governor.
While I was surprised and disappointed by Mr. Cuccinelli's decision, I was confident in my ability to win our party's nomination for Governor in a statewide primary election, which was the method of nomination that had previously been adopted by the State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia.
However, in June of this year the newly constituted State Central Committee voted to change the manner in which we will nominate our candidates in 2013 from a statewide primary to a closed party convention. While I did not support that decision, it had a dramatic impact on the 2013 campaign.
For the past several months my campaign team has worked hard to restructure our campaign to effectively compete in the convention process. While we have made a great deal of progress, I reluctantly concluded that the decision to change the method of nomination from a primary to a convention created too many obstacles for us to overcome.
In addition, I know how divisive conventions can be, and I was concerned that a prolonged campaign between Mr. Cuccinelli and me could create deep divisions within our party. The convention process would have forced Republican activists to take sides against their friends in local committees all across our state. The wounds that can develop from that type of process are often difficult to heal.
Conventions are by their very nature exclusive, and at a time when we need to be projecting a positive image and reaching out to involve more Virginians in the Republican Party, I am unwilling to be part of a process that could seriously damage our image and appeal.
While it may have been in my self-interest to have continued the campaign and done my best to win without regard to the consequences of those actions, I have never chosen to place my self-interest ahead of our Party's best interest, and I will not do so now.
I know that my decision will surprise most people and disappoint many people, but I'm confident it is the right decision. I hope that my friends and supporters, as well as those who have chosen to support Mr. Cuccinelli, will respect and appreciate the reasons for my decision.
It has been a great honor to serve as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia for the past seven years, and I wouldn't trade the experiences and opportunities we have had for anything in the world. You helped make that possible, and for that I will always be grateful.
I look forward to serving the remainder of my term as Lieutenant Governor and as Virginia's Chief Jobs Creation Officer, and working with Governor McDonnell and the rest of our great team to build a better Virginia.
I want to personally thank everyone who has done so much to support Jean Ann and me over the years, and I especially want to thank the thousands of people who had already pledged their support to my campaign for Governor. Your support means more to us than words can express. My greatest regret in suspending my campaign is the thought that I have let you down.
In the coming days Jean Ann and I will be evaluating our future political options. I love Virginia and I value public service a great deal. I assure you that I will continue to look for ways to make a contribution to the public life of our Commonwealth.
I can tell you this, I intend to remain actively involved in the 2013 campaigns – perhaps not as the Republican nominee for Governor, but as a more independent voice, making certain that the candidates keep their focus on the important issues facing our state and offer a positive and realistic vision for effectively and responsibly leading Virginia.
Thanks again for your friendship, confidence and support. It is a privilege to serve you, and I look forward to seeing you soon in our travels across Virginia.
Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling


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The biggest transformation in sports journalism has been the rise of league and team news sources on the web. Leagues and teams are hiring traditional journalists and new media bloggers to provide in-depth and often exclusive content to fans. Though there is rightful skepticism about whether this information is a bit pravda'd, allowing fans to hear things directly from players and in a more complete form than in print and TV journalism has been a net positive for fans and the web.
It's created additional challenges to traditional journalists to add analysis value above what fans can receive directly from teams. For diehard fans, there can never be too much quality content.
What I've wondered about is what business model should leagues/teams do in providing journalism-like services? There's a long tradition in print journalism of "It bleeds, it leads." That is, if it is a flashy, visual, emotional story, it gets more promotion.
In new media, non-league publishers tend to promote page view sorts of snark stories. That they may not necessarily be fair stories to players, coaches, teams, but tend to be hot button or visual things that get eyeballs on a website. On TV, producers love promoting hate viewing: from Howard Cosell to manufactured Baylessized debates on ESPN.
Should leagues and teams embrace that model of potstir, pageview journalism at the possible expense of the integrity of their brand? The following Twitter exchange about a NFL.com gallery captured by Storify provides one example of this. Be sure to read until the end:
Sometimes I think the web desensitizes people to just basic right and wrong behavior and things. I worry some about kids seeing these sorts of things and thinking that they are normal. Maybe that's an old fashioned way to be. Or maybe that's just being a mom.

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It was an uphill battle from the start, seeking to make a major improvement to the Pilsen road. It would have taken a large investment at a time when it seems that nobody at the local or state level is interested in committing a lot of money, even to a worthwhile project.
Warren Kreutziger, on behalf of the VFW, pressed county commissioners for plans for the Pilsen road on Monday. And the commissioners have a plan — double chip sealing Remington Rd. from U.S. 56 to Pilsen and chip sealing it from Pilsen to 290th Rd. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, chip sealing refers to spreading oil on a road, then spreading gravel or other material on top of that, and double chip sealing is repeating that process.
It results in a blacktop road that very roughly approximates asphalt. It prevents dust (unless the wrong kind of gravel is used, as the county found out in 2009 with 190th Rd. and Upland Rd. going to the county lake). And as long as it's in good condition, it provides a smoother ride than a gravel road. It's a far cry from the quality of an asphalt road, though. Asphalt is smoother and more durable. So why use a double chip seal?
Because it's cheaper. The state doesn't want to and won't provide money for the Pilsen road, and the county doesn't have the money to do it right without cutting spending elsewhere or raising taxes. Overall the county plans on the project costing $467,500. That's a fraction of what it would cost to overlay 4 inches of asphalt. A 6-inch overlay on 4 miles from K-15 to Tampa cost about $2 million.
Instead of doing it right, the county is going to do it right now. That's better than leaving it in the condition it's in. By all means, put a bandage on it. Then the county should start planning how to make a more substantial, longer-lasting improvement — every year, set aside funds specifically for it. If that doesn't happen, soon enough we'll be in the same position again, wondering how it got so bad and what we can do about it.


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The View From 1776
§ American Traditions
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§ Decline of Western Civilization: a Snapshot
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005
The Prostitution of Science
When you hear the words "scientific authority," check to be sure your wallet is still there and hold onto it tightly.
Prostitution of science is using its good name for base purposes: falsifying data, and misinterpreting statistics to support a new theory, with the objective of gaining personal fame and fortune.
Recent publicity about such debased conduct should have two consequences: (1) people ought to become more skeptical about new scientific pronouncements, and, as they do, (2) they ought to become more aware that the supposedly sharp dichotomy between scientific certainty and metaphysical inquiry is simply an illusion.
With regard to the second consequence, more in the social sciences than in the physical sciences, atheistic liberals have characterized their socialistic nostrums as pure thought based on materialistic reality. That strand of rationalism was called by Marxians scientific socialism. They look condescendingly upon religion, morality, and philosophy as relics of earlier civilizations beyond which humans have evolved to higher standards of certainty and understanding.
To the contrary, science, in liberal-Progressive publications like the New York Times, amounts to little more than the Fad of the Month. If a "scientific" thesis puts business or religion in a bad light, it's proclaimed on page one as truth incised in stone for all eternity. Wait six months or a year, however, and new studies will contradict yesterday's certainty. But if the new study discredits one of the Times's editorial hobby horses, it will be ignored or buried deep within the back pages.
Even a cursory review of "scientific breakthroughs" over recent decades makes increasingly obvious that grounding one's beliefs exclusively in materialistic science is like building a house on quicksand in the path of an onrushing hurricane.
An article by Brian Martin, published in the June 1992 issue of "Prometheus" explains the tenuous nature of scientific research the appears in the media as rock-solid, established "scientific fact." Mr. Martin writes: "Ask most scientists about scientific fraud and they will readily tell you what it is. The most extreme cases are obvious: manufacturing data and altering experimental results. Then there is plagiarism: using someone else's text or data without acknowledgement. More difficult are the borderline cases: minor fudging of data, reporting only the good results and not citing other people's work that should be given credit. Because obvious fraud is thought to be both rare and extremely serious, the normal idea is that it warrants serious penalties.
"That is the usual picture, anyway, for public consumption. Probe a bit more deeply into scientific activities, and you will find that fraud is neither clear-cut nor rare….In the heads of scientists are various half-formed ideas, long-held desires, prejudices, and the vague recollections of articles read, seminars attended, conversations with colleagues and discussions with collaborators…....
"One of the most common misrepresentations in scientific work is the scientific paper itself. It presents a mythical reconstruction of what actually happened. All of what are in retrospect mistaken ideas, badly designed experiments and incorrect calculations are omitted. The paper presents the research as if it had been carefully thought out, planned and executed according to a neat, rigorous process, for example involving testing of a hypothesis. The misrepresentation of the scientific paper is the most formal aspect of the misrepresentation of science as an orderly process based on a clearly defined method ."
With regard to the first consequence, let's stipulate that most scientists are not crooks. But too many of them have uncalibrated moral compasses, and we pay for it in ignorance and retardation of true science, increased health risks, wasted public funds, lost jobs, bankrupted companies that can no longer fund pensions, and new products that never get to market for fear of litigation.
Prostitution of science runs mainly along three tracks:
1. so-called expert scientific witnesses prepared to support any bogus claim in court for a fee;
2. researchers corrupted by lust for fame and fortune who falsify or misinterpret research data;
3. and '"scientists" so intent upon propagating the gospel of secular materialism that they betray the most basic processes of science and even work to prevent consideration of new and contradictory evidence.
A few examples:
—Newspapers reported within the past few days that South Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk allegedly falsified results of stem-cell research once hailed as a major breakthrough. Stem-cell research, of course, is a matter of almost religious worshipfulness to liberal-Progressives.
—The Boston Globe, in its March 18, 2005 edition, reported: "In the worst case of scientific fakery to come to light in two decades, a top obesity researcher who long worked at the University of Vermont admitted yesterday that he fabricated data in 17 applications for federal grants to make his work seem more promising, helping him win nearly $3 million in government funding."
—The BBC, on June 4, 1998, reported that: "Doctors have warned that medical researchers who fake evidence are risking lives. A major new report has concluded that fraud and fabrication is widespread throughout medical research. The practice has potentially devastating implications because doctors base treatment on published research….The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) was set up last year following mounting concern among editors of scientific publications that research studies contained faked results. It is thought that increased pressure to achieve results to obtain scarce funding resources has pushed many scientists into acting dishonestly. The COPE report cites 25 cases of scientific fraud. In one case a[n American] scientist who claimed to have transplanted black skin onto a white mouse had in fact simply coloured the mouse with a felt-tip pen. A British Medical Association spokesman said that members of the committee had been approached by a "phenomenal" number of people revealing cases of fraud and misconduct, and that the problem was far more widespread than was first thought.
—The British Medical Journal issue of May 1999 reported: "Half of the US biomedical researchers accused of scientific fraud and subjected to formal investigations in recent years have been found guilty of misconduct, a new review has found. In the biggest review of scientific fraud ever published, the US Office of Research Integrity, has released data on nearly a thousand allegations investigated over the five years from 1993?to 1997.?The review covered inquiries into allegations of misconduct into research funded by the US Public Health Service, which has a budget of $15bn (?9bn)."
—An article in the New York Times's December 13, 2005, issue by Gina Kolata is headlined: Environment and Cancer: The Links Are Elusive
Within the article, the reporter notes: "But pinning cancer on trace levels of poisons in the environment or even in the workplace is turning out to be a vexing task. There has been recent progress in addressing the issue, but the answers that many people believe must be out there remain elusive…. Researchers, for their part, say they have not given up the quest. In their search for answers, they are trying a variety of methods. They are looking for reliable ways to detect environmental exposures and determine whether they are linked to cancer risk. They are studying the bewildering array of factors that can determine a chemical's effects on individual people. And they are looking at cancer statistics and asking whether there are blips in cancer rates that may point to an environmental cause."
In other words, scientists who believed passionately in environmentalism and consequently blamed private businesses for most of our problems, set out with a preconception and have spent decades and billions of dollars looking for proof, rather like Monty Python's make-believe, comical quest for the Holy Grail. So much for the popular image that scientists dispassionately scrutinize raw data and inductively reach logical conclusions.
—Reporting on the massive asbestosis claims under the tort bar's class-action suits, the Wall Street Journal, in its November 5, 2005, issue notes: "...asbestosis litigation, which had previously focused on malignancies and other debilitating injuries, shifted radically from the traditional model of an injured person seeking a lawyer to an entrepreneurial model. Lawyers spent millions to sponsor mass screenings of upwards of 750,000 industrial and construction workers. Of the 850,000 asbestos claimants that have so far brought suit against over 8,400 different defendants, about 600,000 have been recruited by these mass screenings….This all became clear when 10,000 of the 35,000 pending silica claims were centralized into a federal multi-district litigation (MDL), presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Janis Jack, a Clinton appointee. During the course of the MDL, one of the doctors recanted all 3,617 of his diagnoses of silicosis, provoking Judge Jack to observe that "it's clear this . . . [diagnosing] business is fraudulent."....Judge Jack concluded that "the lawyers, doctors and screening companies" were "all willing participants" in a "scheme [that] manufactured [diagnoses] for money"—the equivalent of a finding of pervasive fraud…..Asbestos litigation, meanwhile, prevented the creation of 500,000 jobs because of the diversion of capital in over 70 asbestos-related bankruptcies."
The next time you hear climatologists stating that "all the world's scientists" support the green-house gases hypothesis, or biologists declaring that Darwinian evolution has been scientifically proved, know that they are stating falsehoods, or, at best, no more than their speculative hypotheses.
When only the crooks write the statue books, crime will cease to exist. When only global-warming theorists and Darwinians are permitted to define "science," no contradictory facts will be admitted as science. Don't be surprised that they will fight to prevent students from hearing the vast array of inconsistencies and gaps that make their hypotheses improbable if not impossible.
The next time you see a court case report mentioning testimony from "scientific experts," scrutinize it with a large measure of skepticism. In too many cases, "scientists" are merely plying their trade for their whoremasters, the tort bar.
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MIDDLEBURY — Longtime Middlebury Union High School varsity football coach Peter Brakeley will return to the sidelines this fall and lead a Tiger squad, but will not return to the same post he left a year ago for medical reasons.
Instead, Brakeley, a cancer patient who also in January returned to his Middlebury Union Middle School teaching job after a medical leave, will take the reins of the MUHS junior varsity football team. He will replace his son, Gus Brakeley, who will assist the Middlebury College football program.
The Bristol Planning Commission took a welcome stance last week when it staked out a more thorough process to solicit public comment on gravel and resource extraction that would be included in its revised town plan. The revisions have been ongoing for the past couple of years and the planning commission hopes to have the proposed draft completed for selectboard review this fall. It has finally put a full-court press on gathering public opinion on this controversial topic — but, hey, better late than never.
MIDDLEBURY — Vermont officials said they're pleased federal officials are cobbling together a national health care reform plan, but want to make sure new federal legislation does not undo reforms the Green Mountain state has enacted on its own during the past three years.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — A Middlebury-based environmental firm has developed a "carbon footprint calculator" that allows people to compute how they are individually contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, while also prescribing ways they can reduce those emissions.
VERGENNES — On Saturday, May 10, 1969, Vergennes resident Jim McEvilla responded to a ringing phone, raced to city hall, fired up a Chevrolet station wagon parked in the rear garage and drove off to a nearby medical emergency.
That was the first of 94 calls in the first year in what is now the 40-year history of the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad.
That's a far cry from the most recent 12 months, when VARS' three ambulances, with full crews and complements of life-saving equipment and drugs, responded to about 860 calls for help from its Panton Road headquarters.
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Dooney Leads Way as Three Elis Finish in Top 50
NEW YORK, NY—The Yale men's cross country team did exactly what it set out to do on Friday at the Division I NCAA Northeast Regional Championships, finishing in seventh place with 199 points—its best finish at Regionals in nine years. The 10K race, held at New York City's Van Cortlandt Park, pitted the Bulldogs against all the top teams in the region, including many of their Ivy League rivals. The team appeared more than up for the challenge, finishing in line with their seventh-place regional ranking coming into the race. Yale finished just behind Dartmouth (101 points) and Harvard (155), while placing ahead of Central Connecticut State University (270) and Cornell (326). As expected, Syracuse (57), Columbia (78) and Iona (81) finished in the race's top three spots, respectively.
Sophomore Kevin Dooney (30:28.4) was the story of the day for the Bulldogs, finishing first on the team for his fourth consecutive race and placing 11th overall. By finishing in the race's top 25, Dooney—competing at Regionals for the first time in his career—earned All-Regional recognition. And by placing so highly in the top 25, Dooney very likely earned himself an automatic individual bid to the Division I NCAA Championships on Nov. 23 in Terre Haute, Ind., although announcements regarding official NCAA bids will not be announced until Saturday, Nov. 16. If Dooney qualifies for the NCAA Championships, he would be the first Yale runner to do so since Jeff Perrella in 2010.
Head Men's Cross Country Coach Paul Harkins went so far as to compare Dooney to both Perrella and Lucas Meyer, the Yale cross country runner who qualified for back-to-back NCAA Championships in 2003 and 2004 (and the last Bulldog to qualify for the NCAA Championships before Perella).
"Dooney is starting to rank up with those guys," Harkins said. "He knew what he had to do in order to get in, and he was going after it. He got it done. It was impressive."
The rest of the Elis' squad also made its mark on Friday. Junior John McGowan (35th – 31:06.1) finished second on the team, concluding his season with the impressive distinction of having placed in Yale's top three in every race in which he competed. Sophomore Duncan Tomlin (46th – 31:22.0), meanwhile, ran by far his best race of the season, finishing third on the team.
Rounding out the Elis' scorers were junior Isa Qasim (54th – 31:27.6) and freshman James Randon (55th – 31:28.8), who crossed the finish line nearly side-by-side. Qasim—who improved on his 90th-place finish at last year's Regionals—ended his season on a high note, finishing fourth on the team at both the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships and Regionals. Randon, for his part, concluded what has been a remarkable freshman campaign. The youngster emerged as one of the Elis' top runners this season, and his strong showing at Regionals can only be a positive sign of things to come during the next three years.
Sophomore Alex Conner (57th – 31:30.3) finished just a couple seconds behind Randon and Qasim. After a solid freshman season last year, Conner cemented his place as one of the team's most consistent performers as a sophomore, finishing first on the team at both the Harvard-Yale race and Iona Meet of Champions and consistently placing highly at each race in which he competed.
Senior Michael Cunetta (113th – 32:23.2) was the final Bulldog to cross the finish line, capping off an accomplished cross country career with his first ever Regionals race.
Harkins praised the entire team for its performance on Friday.
"I was very pleased with how the guys ran today," he said. "I'm just impressed with how the guys react day-to-day, week-to-week, and the progress they've made since the start of the year."
Indeed, after suffering a lopsided loss to Harvard in the team's opening race, the Bulldogs have made great strides this season. The team finished only 44 points behind the Crimson on Friday—a relatively small margin in a field as large as the one at Regionals.
"We aren't the same team we were when we first raced Harvard," Harkins added. "Obviously, the goal is always to beat Harvard, but we closed the gap significantly."
While Friday's race marked the end of the cross country season for most of the team, Dooney will likely run at the NCAA Championships next weekend, pending an official announcement from the NCAA on Saturday.
Even with a probable trip to the NCAA Championships waiting, Harkins could not help but voice his optimism for next season.
"Looking forward to next year with the young guys we have coming back," he said.
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The Washington Times is beginning a series of editorials on "underreported good news from Iraq." This is, of course, something the right-leaning half of the blogosphere has been up to for some time. Today's editorial focuses on education and Iraq's economy:
Primary-school enrollment has jumped 20 percent over the Saddam years, according to the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index. In a country where 22 percent of adults never attended school, according to the International Monetary Fund, this is a momentous change. It's also a change going almost entirely unreported by U.S. news organizations. ***
Iraq's GDP rebounded by an estimated 50 percent in 2004, according to the IMF, mostly due to increased oil revenues. About one-third of Iraqis are unemployed — an alarming rate — but this is sigificantly better than two years ago, when half or more of Iraqis were unemployed. A Lexis-Nexis search shows that the terms "Iraq" and "GDP" or "Gross Domestic Product" appeared together in the above papers in just 10 articles in the last month. Only two actually discussed Iraq's GDP.
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I am still looking for a few more good 3.5-4.0 players (especially single players) for my mens tennis team in the City. Season will start in 3-4 weeks. If you are interested please let me know. Thanks!!
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Thanks for responding. I can't hit Sunday unfortunately but I'm fairly flexible rest of the week. I can hit nights or even late afternoon. Lemme know if you have a time and maybe we can rally for a short bit.
Huan, I am usually free after 4pm during weekdays. Let me know if you have time to come out and hit a little bit.
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Hangover Helper: Veggie Enchiladas from Chuy's in Austin, TX
Just what the doctor ordered.
On a dehydrated, electrolyte-suppressed morning, the late-summer sun in Austin somehow feels even hotter. When I finally dragged myself into an outpost of the popular chain Chuy's, the chips and salsa on my table evoked rumbles from my empty stomach. Along with two big glasses of water, I devoured the chips as well as a small dish of their tasty, vegetable-specked queso.
The Veggie Enchiladas ($10) come with rice and refried beans, making for a heaping plate of food. The enchiladas are wrapped in house-made blue corn tortillas, which had a nice chewy texture, and are topped with a combination of melty cheese and plenty of ranchero sauce. My favorite part of the dish was the mass of vegetables inside the tortillas—a combination of squash, onions, peppers, chiles, and corn. The vegetables were clearly fresh, and I told myself that their healthiness justified the amount of cheese I was consuming. I couldn't finish the whole plate, but not for lack of trying.
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Lawyer for Irish nanny accused in Mass. baby's death says prosecutors presented deceptive info
WOBURN, Mass. – A lawyer for an Irish nanny charged in the death of a 1-year-old Massachusetts girl has accused prosecutors of presenting "false and deceptive" information to a grand jury.
Aisling Brady McCarthy, of Quincy, is charged with murder and assault and battery on a child in the January death of Rehma Sabir, of Cambridge. She was hospitalized on her first birthday with severe head injuries and died two days later.
The defense attorney made the allegations against prosecutors on Tuesday as she asked a judge to dismiss the charges. The defense previously claimed prosecutors did not have enough evidence.
A prosecutor said the evidence was not misleading or false, and that authorities had to present a complete picture of the girl's injuries.
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DEPUTY Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel and Small Business Services Commissioner Robert W. Walsh and I announced the formation of two new Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) — the Atlantic Avenue BID in Brooklyn and the Chinatown Business Improvement District in Manhattan.
I signed legislation creating the new BIDs at City Hall on Sept. 27.
BIDs help make neighborhoods more inviting to businesses and residents and support economic activity and job creation.
The formation of two new BIDs brings the count to 66 in New York City, including 22 formed during the Bloomberg administration — the highest number of BIDs created under a single administration.
The diversity and vibrancy of New York City's retail corridors and the small businesses that comprise them are among our city's biggest assets, and our Business Improvement Districts provide targeted programs and services that help them thrive and create jobs.
With the formation of BIDS on Atlantic Avenue and in Chinatown, we've now added 22 new ones since 2002 that are serving 5,000 businesses in all five boroughs.
One of our economic development priorities is to create conditions that are attractive to businesses, residents and visitors and BIDs are one of the successful ways we're doing that.
"Encouraging the commercial revitalization and growth of New York City's vibrant and dynamic neighborhoods is at the heart of the Bloomberg administration's economic development strategy," said Deputy Mayor Steel.
"The addition of these two new BIDs means that more neighborhoods will benefit from the enhanced security, sanitation and business attraction activities that have made BIDs so impactful across the five boroughs."
"We are proud to welcome two new BIDs that will allow neighborhoods to grow and thrive through increased economic development," said SBS Commissioner Walsh.
"I commend all our partners for their dedication and hard work towards achieving this formation."
The Atlantic Avenue BID is located in Brooklyn in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill.
The BID aims to promote the Avenue's long-term economic development thereby creating a thriving boulevard that attracts both residents and visitors to its vast array of services, shops and dining, while preserving the Avenue's rich history and diverse character.
The District consists of properties lining Atlantic Avenue, the areas' major thoroughfare, as well as those on side streets one block south and one block north of Atlantic Avenue.
The BID will serve 360 retail businesses with a first year operating budget of $240,000.
"The creation of the Atlantic Avenue BID is an important step in the ongoing transformation of the Avenue and hundreds of businesses in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill," said Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.
"Our local BIDs play a vital role in helping our small businesses-the backbone of our economy-but on a larger scale they help foster the job creation, commercial and residential space, diverse retail, excellent transportation, institutions of higher education, medical facilities, green space, parks and eclectic neighborhoods that have been the hallmark of our thriving Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods. My office looks forward to working with the new Atlantic Avenue BID."
"Congratulations to the businesses of Atlantic Avenue. Forming a BID can be hard work, but the businesses and residents of the neighborhood will see the quality of life and economic improvements that come with it," said Council Member Brad Lander.
"I encourage other commercial streets to follow their lead."
"For years, non-profit organizations and volunteers have worked tirelessly to maintain and improve Atlantic Avenue," said Council Member Stephen Levin.
"The formation of the BID will provide sustainable resources for marketing and promotion for businesses along the Avenue, thereby generating additional foot traffic and revenues in the area. As the Council Member representing the neighborhood and whose office is located within the BID, I look forward to the continued revitalization of the Atlantic Avenue corridor. I would like to thank all of those involved for their hard work and dedication."
The Chinatown BID, which includes Broome Street on the north, Broadway to the west, Allen and Rutgers Streets on the east, and White, Worth and Madison Streets to the south, will be one of the largest in the city and will serve approximately 800 retail stores with a budget of $1.3 million.
"The signing of the Chinatown BID into law is a historic step for Chinatown," said Council Member Margaret Chin.
"This effort is a long time coming. I thank my colleagues in the City Council, as well as the organizers and community members who have supported the formation of this important BID for Chinatown. I am 100 percent confident that the BID will improve the business environment in Chinatown, help bring new visitors to our community, and enhance the overall quality of life for residents."
BIDs are voluntarily formed community organizations that promote business development and improve the quality of life in neighborhoods across the city by providing maintenance and sanitation services, security services, marketing and promotion of local businesses, holiday lighting, economic development, beautification and landscaping.
The BIDs established have collectively contributed over $27 million in supplemental services to more than 5,000 businesses.
In 2010, BIDs employed more than 550 employees that removed more than 2.7 million bags of garbage and over 27,000 graffiti incidents; distributed over 3.8 million district guides; held over 1,000 public events with an estimated 3 million attendees; and beautified their districts by adding over 16,000 new plantings and 1,300 new pieces of street furniture.
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Nokia is attempting to get the Windows Phone community involved in making new Lumia 820 cases. The company has released a 3D-printing Development Kit (3DK), which not only comes with the required raw files for 3D printers, but also guidance on what materials could be utilised, tips on what to look out for in creating a unique case, and other advice.
Should you have access to a 3D printer of some sort, you'll be able to use the 3DK files released by the manufacturer to craft new shells for the Lumia 820. But if you don't happen to own a 3D printer, there are a number of services online that can produce results from submitted designs for a fee. It'll provide an avenue for consumers to head down to create unique cases.
So what's currently available from Nokia for 3D printing? The following will help one get started:
- Mechanical drawings
- Back shell printing parts (in separated form)
If you're not into the whole 3D printing thing, then be sure to be on the look for available cases that offer further protection and / or wireless charging. It'll be interesting to see if Nokia releases a similar 3DK for the Lumia 620, another Windows Phone that supports interchangeable shells. For further information on the Nokia 3D printing kit, be sure to check out this lengthy blog post (and interview with John Kneeland, a Nokia Community & Developer Marketing Manager) over on Nokia Conversations.
We previously looked at 3D printing back in September where we recommended looking at the manufacturing process if you're unable to get your hands on some unique Windows Phone accessories. It's great to see Nokia attempting to motivate the community into creating their own shells and accessories. It'll be interesting to see how much interest is shown in the 3DK and printing Lumia 820 cases.
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In an amend to the earlier cast change, due to injury, Dutch National Ballet Principal Igone de Jongh will be replaced by Marianela Nuñez for performances of Symphony in C on Tuesday 28 May and Wednesday 29 May. Rupert Pennefather will be replaced by Thiago Soares.
The rest of the cast remains unchanged.


text: Obama said a Mexico where citizens are against violence and impunity is arising [EPA]US President Barack Obama has admitted that guns from his country are partly to blame for deadly violence in Mexico, as he pledged to forge an equal partnership between the two neighbours as they battle powerful drug cartels. Obama also said he sees a "new Mexico" emerging, with a deepening democracy and growing economy, as he addressed an audience dominated by students on Friday. The president was visiting Mexico to discuss drug policy and immigration, among other things, with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Obama conceded that the root of much violence in Mexico is the demand for drugs in the US, and acknowledged that most guns used to commit crime in Mexico come from across the border. He also said a rising economy is changing Mexico and improving its middle class. "It's time to recognise new realities including the impressive progress in today's Mexico," he said. "I see it in the deepening of Mexico's democracy, citizens who are standing up and saying that violence and impunity is not acceptable. "In this relationship there is no senior partner or junior partner. We are two equal partners, two sovereign nations that must work together in mutual interest and mutual respect." Improving trade relations Obama said he is optimistic that the US will change its patchwork of immigration laws. With about 6 million Mexicans illegally in the US, the issue resonates deeply in Mexico, which also has seen deportations of its citizens rise dramatically under Obama's time in office. Underlying Obama's visit is his desire to persuade the US public and politicians that Mexico no longer poses the illegal immigration threat it once did. "The long-term solution to the challenge of illegal immigration is a growing and prosperous Mexico that creates more jobs and opportunities for young people here,'' Obama said. To that end, he called for improving the growing trade relationship between the two countries. While the Mexican economy is growing, some of that growth is due to the fact that wages largely have stagnated, while China's have risen, making Mexico more of a low-wage paradise. Mexico's economy grew by about 1 percent in the first three months of the year and the country is not creating the million jobs annually it needs to employ all the young people entering its workforce. Obama was due to meet other Central American leaders in Costa Rica on Friday to discuss violence in the region and the American perception that, with fewer Mexicans crossing the border illegally, the rest of the region has become the main source of illegal immigration into the US. SOURCE: Agencies US & Canada Latin America China Costa Rica Mexico


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To see Grace's thoughts about her experience at the State House, check out her blog post all about her visit to Rhode Island on May 14th! If you or your students attended KRARI, it would be wonderful if you left her a comment ...thanks in advance.
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Check out the Brown University Lion Dancers who invited Grace Lin to feed lettuce to them ... which they spit into the crowd! Fun!


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Cameron Jerome and Robert Huth eased Stoke into the fifth round of the FA Cup with a 2-0 victory over a lacklustre Derby.
Striker Jerome's close-range effort in the fifth minute and centre -back Huth's 81st-minute volley comfortably saw the Potters home at Pride Park.
Derby, who had won their previous five league and cup matches on home soil, barely mustered anything of note as goalkeeper Asmir Begovic enjoyed what was virtually an afternoon off.
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The Langlois Affair began on February 9, 1968.
Amidst an undercurrent of general discontent in France, the culture minister André Malraux tried to fire the co-founder and head of the Cinématèque Française, Henri Langois, over a long-running budget dispute. He was replaced by a man named Pierre Barbin. Barbin was an obscure and relatively inexperienced film-festival organizer, and Langlois was a culture hero, a status recognized even by his adversaries. Langois was an extremely popular and respected figure, particularly with the French "new wave" directors, so when the news of the sacking hit Cannes towards the middle of the 1968 festival, all hell broke loose. Louis Malle and Roman Polanski both immediately resigned from the festival jury, joining the call from François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and a host of other French filmmakers, for the festival to be closed down as a sign of protest. The feelings ran so hot that on 19 May 1968 the directors burst into the noon screening and literally hung from the curtains to prevent the festival from continuing. The festival was cancelled shortly after with many foreign filmmakers finding themselves trapped in France for several days in the face of the nationwide strikes that had brought the country to a standstill.
Henri Langlois, a man possessed by his love of film, co-founded the famous Cinematheque Francaise with Georges Franju in Paris in 1936. But while Franju went on to a filmmaking career, Langlois, who died a lonely death in the early '90s, carried on with an unparalleled film-collecting, film-preserving and film-promoting career that made him every bit as famous as Franju.
During the Occupation, Langlois managed to hide many film treasures from the Nazis. In the decades that followed, his near round-the-clock screenings at the Cinematheque, whether at the Avenue de Messine, Rue d'Ulm or the more familiar Palais de Chaillot location, attracted generations of aspiring filmmakers like Truffaut, Chabrol, Godard, Pialat, Rohmer, et al. These great directors are among the many celebrated talking heads who help explain Langlois' importance in the world of film.
Langlois' tastes were broad and generous. He championed silent films like those of Lumière, Méliès and Keaton and those from lesser-known locales like Denmark. He brought greater recognition to stars like Louise Brooks and Gloria Swanson and assiduously created rich archives of film prints and, in the '60s, a film museum (since destroyed by fire) of familiar movie props and accoutrements. Langlois saved thousands of prints; including—The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Blue Angel, The Great Dictator.
Langlois started collecting silent movies in the 1930s, and showed them in a small cinema in Paris. Soon he developed a passion for saving anything he could, buying whatever negatives and prints he could find, or if necessary salvaging them from the trash and restoring them. After the war he went into high gear, with constant screenings of films from all over the world, often programmed according to directors or themes. This was the only chance for film lovers to see all these movies, so they mobbed the Cinematheque, and movie mania was born. His audiences ate and breathed movies, feverishly absorbing and discussing Griffith , Chaplin, Eisenstein, Ford, Hitchcock, and all the other directors and styles. A group of young enthusiasts that included Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer learned their craft at the Cinematheque, going on to make movies of their own in the late 1950s and into the 60s, in the movement that came to be known as the French New Wave. By sheer force of personality, Langlois made the various incarnations of his Cinematheque into film temples that year after year attracted throngs of film buffs to their screens.
There are cinéphiles and cinéphages. Truffaut is a cinéphile. A cinéphage – a film nerd – sits in the front row and writes down the credits. But if you ask him whether it's good, he'll say something sharp. But that's not the point of movies: to love cinema is to love life, to really look at this window on the universe. It's incompatible with note-taking!
Henri Langlois
[The Phantom of the Cinémathèque, 2004]
When I started collecting these things, I was criticized – they said, "What's the use? Fetishistic idiocy," etc. My aim was to recreate an atmosphere, transmit a feeling. The artistry is in the actual film. So, Martine Carol's or Marlene Dietrich's dress doesn't send me. What counts is a composite reference. We're matchmakers of illusion.
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.
Henri Langlois, on the destruction of original film reels by large distribution studios
Le Phantome de Henri Langlois (2005) dir. J. Richard
François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Henri Langlois (Baisers Volés)
In Richard Roud's 1983 biography of Langlois (A Passion For Films) Truffaut's foreword to the book:
"[Langlois was] a man as picturesque and as contradictory as a Dickens character, a man who gave his friendship sparingly, and who could withdraw it on a caprice, a suspicion, or an "intuition."
"In Mr. Arkadin, the title character, played by Orson Welles, recounts a dream he has had: wandering through a cemetery, he noticed that all the tombstones had pairs of dates very close to each other: 1919-1925 or 1907-1913. He asked the cemetery watchman, "Do the people in this country all die young?" "No," answered the watchman, "these dates indicate the length of time that a friendship lasted."
[…] "Like all "haunted" men, Henri Langlois divided the world, people, and events into two camps: (1) what was good for the Cinémathèque Française and (2) what was bad for it. Even if you had been friends with him for a decade, he never wasted time asking how you were, or how your family was getting along, because the very notions of health and family could be related only to the health of the Cinémathèque, the family of the Cinémathèque."


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The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Younger Adolescents: Research Issues in Developing Countries
This publication reviews quantitative and qualitative evidence on adolescents' sexual and reproductive health from a number of developing countries and, where possible, highlights findings for boys and girls aged under 15 years in those studies. The review is organized around six interwoven processes that mark girls' and boys' passage through adolescence, with an emphasis on the early years. The concluding section brings together a number of research topics and approaches that could form the basis of a coordinated multicountry research agenda for young adolescents' sexual and reproductive health and rights.