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RICHMOND — While Councilman-elect Gary Bell remains hospitalized in Redwood City with meningitis amid continuing mystery over his condition and prognosis, city staff has agreed to waive penalties for his tardy campaign finance reports.
Bell's family had received mail notices charging him $10 for every day he was late with his final campaign statement following his Nov. 6 election, Councilman Nat Bates said.
Bates had put an item on Tuesday's City Council agenda seeking council approval but pulled it after learning that City Clerk Diane Holmes had already waived the late charges unilaterally.
"The family is dealing with a serious medical situation," Bates said. "It doesn't make any sense to fine the guy and give them any more to worry about."
Bell was struck with viral or bacterial meningitis in the weeks before the Nov. 6 election, according to friends and associates. He was hospitalized in the days before his election then released before being rushed back to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Richmond on the afternoon of Nov. 10.
Doctors in Richmond decided to transfer Bell to a Kaiser facility in Redwood City for emergency surgery to relieve swelling on his brain. The Redwood City campus is home to the Neuroscience Center that provides specialized neurological care to Kaiser members from all of Northern California.
Bell's campaign coordinator, Angela Smith, responding to dozens of concerned residents on Bell's Facebook page, wrote Nov. 12 that Bell was recovering from two surgeries on his head.
The next day, Nov. 13, Holmes sent a letter to Bell's address saying all penalties for late reports would be waived.
"My staff and I are praying that you will have a complete recovery," Holmes wrote.
Since then, information about Bell's condition and prognosis has been scant. Smith said Bell's wife, Shelley, and his two adult sons "want privacy right now," and added that she is not receiving updates on his condition.
Staff at Redwood City Kaiser have said no patient under the name "Gary Bell" is at the facility. But Bates said Bell is there and remains in the hospital's intensive care unit. Bates said he visited the Redwood City hospital on Thanksgiving Day and chatted with Bell's wife and sons but was not admitted into Bell's room.
"I talked with Shelley and gave her my support and comfort," Bates said Tuesday. "I have no idea what his condition is. If (Bell's family) wanted me to know, they would have volunteered that information, so I didn't ask."
Bell, 54, was elected to the City Council on Nov. 6 with just over 15 percent of the vote, earning him the third and final available seat. Incumbents Bates and Tom Butt were re-elected, meaning Bell is set to be sworn in as the only new council member Jan. 8. If Bell cannot perform the duties of the office, the City Council can either vote on a replacement or call a special election.
"The charter calls for the swearing in on Jan. 8," Holmes said, adding that there is some uncertainty about whether the date may be delayed in the event that Bell needs more time.
"We'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it," she said.
Bell is president and CEO of Cooperative Federal Credit Union in Berkeley. A call to the credit union was not returned Tuesday.
Bell was first elected to the Richmond City Council in 1999, serving one term. In 2006, he ran for mayor in Richmond, losing in a tight three-way race with Gayle McLaughlin and incumbent Irma Anderson.
This year, Bell defeated Richmond Progressive Alliance candidate Eduardo Martinez by a narrow margin. He raised more than $60,000 for his campaign, his most recent filing reports show, and benefited from more than $100,000 from Chevron Corp.-funded independent expenditure committee Moving Forward. The committee spent nearly $200,000 more opposing Martinez and Marilyn Langlois.
Holmes said Bell was late with two campaign finance reports, which she added was "out of character for Gary."
A filing due on Oct. 25 was turned in one day late, and a report due Nov. 2 was never filed, Holmes said.
Bell's political rivals at the RPA said they signed and sent a get-well card to the family.
"We certainly wish him well and a return to health," said RPA member Mike Parker.
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Jamie Chung & Naya Rivera: 'The Hangover Part III' Premiere!
Jamie Chung is sexy black while attending the premiere of her latest flick The Hangover Part III held at Westwood Village Theater on Monday (May 20) in Westwood, Calif.
The 30-year-old actress was joined by her co-stars Mike Epps and Sasha Barrese.
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Glee's Naya Rivera was also spotted showing off her midriff while walking the red carpet.
"Praying for the victims and their families that were violently taken by the storm in Oklahoma," Jamie tweeted on the same day.
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The Samsung Galaxy S3 is here. It's big, it's bold and it's probably going to be one of the best-selling phones of the year. But how does it compare with the HTC One X and the iPhone 4S?We've dug into the spec sheet, fondled the phone itself and mused deeply on what a smartphone is to find out. Here's what we found… Body and build
Samsung Galaxy S3 - Plastic, Gorilla Glass II
HTC One X - Plastic, Gorilla Glass
iPhone 4S - Metal, Gorilla GlassIf you want a giant-screened phone, you'll have to accept that your mobile will have a plasticky finish that probably won't feel quite as good as the hard and dense vibe of smaller metal phones. It's not a hard and fast rule that big phones can't use a metal like aluminium, but most manufacturers stick with plastic to keep weight down.
The HTC One X has taken a leaf out of Nokia's book, with a Lumia 800-like plastic finish. Samsung's Galaxy S3 comes in two shiny plastic finishes - white and a dark blue brushed metal-effect, but it's still definitely plastic. LIke the Samsung Galaxy S2 before it, the battery cover is a very thin piece of plastic. It looks nice, but doesn't feel a million dollars converted into phone form. On the other side of the fence, the iPhone 4S is covered on each side by layers of toughened glass. It helps to keep the phone feeling ultra-premium, but doesn't half make you worried about dropping the thing. Dimensions and weight
Samsung Galaxy S3 - 131 x 63.7 x 8.9mm, 133g
HTC One X - 134 x 70 x 8.9mm, 130g
iPhone 4S - 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm, 140gUsing plastic as the main body material pays off in weight. Both the Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X are significantly lighter than the iPhone. We say significantly, but its only so in phone design terms. The sub-20g difference is only worth worrying about if your arms are weaker than our puns.
What's less easy to forget is that the Samsung and HTC are both very large, on account of their oversized screens. Two centimetres in length and one in width makes the larger phones completely different to hold. In our experience, though, larger phones slip into most pockets fairly easily because they're so thin. The iPhone 4S is the thickest device of the three and - let's face it - it's hardly a porker. Screen
Samsung Galaxy S3 - 4.8in Super AMOLED, 720 x 1,280 pixels
HTC One X - 4.7in Super IPS, 720 x 1,280 pixels
iPhone 4S - 3.5in IPS, 640 x 960 pixelsAn important question for phone buyers in 2012 is - IPS or Super AMOLED? As more manufacturers start to move on from the so-so S-LCD screens of 2011, these higher-performing screen types are becoming the standard at the top-end in 2012.The HTC One X and iPhone 4S use a variation on the IPS type - which stands for in-plane switching. These screens are also used in iPads, and most top-end tablets. Benefits include excellent viewing angles and great overall picture quality. The one chink in the IPS armour is the use of a universal backlight. In a dark environment, the luminescence of the backlight is visible - appearing greyish or blueish.
The Samsung Galaxy S3's Super AMOLED screen avoids this effect. It uses light-emitting pixels rather than a standard backlight, letting pixels displaying black stay perfectly dark. Another big consideration in screens here is, of course, size. To watch movies or play games on, the extra screen inch of the HTC and Samsung Android phones comes in seriously handy. In the iPhone 4S's defence, the ultra-high 326 dpi pixel density lets you get your face pretty close to the screen without any eyestrain. While the HTC and Samsung feature many more pixels than the Apple device, their pixel pack-ness it actually a smidge lower - per inch - at around 319dpi. Power
Samsung Galaxy S3 - Quad-core 1.4GHz Exynos 4212, Mali-400 GPU
HTC One X - Quad-core 1.5GHz Tegra 3, GeForce GPU
iPhone 4S - Dual-core 1GHz Apple A5, PowerVR SGX543MP2Cores are the new megapixels in the phone world. If you don't have four cores at the very least, you're not going to be able to hang with the cool kids. Of course, this theoretical power doesn't amount to much if it doesn't translate to real-world performance. Of the three processors, the Tegra 3 is generally thought of as the weakest for graphics. It's routinely outperformed in benchmarks by Apple's current devices. Early benchmarks show that the Exynos 4212 is also significantly faster than the Tegra 3 - this time across the board rather than just in graphical performance. However, in terms of getting apps and games that'll actually make full use of the power, you're much better off with an iPhone. Android developers have to consider the masses of different chipsets Android phone and tablet owners might use, where iOS devs only have to consider the last few generations of A-series chips. Devs don't just think about the lowest comon denominator, but they can't always max everything out for the luckiest phones owners out there.Storage
Samsung Galaxy S3 - 16/32/64GB, microSD
HTC One X - 32GB, non-expandable
iPhone 4S - 16/32/64GB, non-expandableA disturbing trend has begun in top-end Android smartphones. They've started leaving out the memory card slot that was once the staple of every Android phone. They have fallen to the way of the iPhone. Apple's iPhone has never had expandable memory, and it's not something that's likely to change with this year's iPhone 5, either. However, leaving out the microSD card slot in the HTC One X is arguably even more annoying than it is in iDevices. You can buy a 64GB iPhone, but the HTC One X maxes-out at 32GB. That's not really enough to house a large music collection, plus apps and games. The Samsung Galaxy S3 continues the trend of its predecessor the Galaxy S2, with at least 16GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot. Best of both worlds? Yes, although the 64GB does not come cheap. This post sponsored by:
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Alumni Exhibit Success in All-Oswego Show
In the fall, art department alumni spanning four decades shared their work and their stories in a special
exhibit at Tyler Hall.
Some 35 alumni artists were included in the first such show in nearly 20 years.
Commercial artists, teachers and children's book illustrators were all represented. The exhibit included many New York pieces as well as imports from several states.
"It is by and large positive recognition of their time spent here," said Michael Flanagan, assistant director of the Tyler Art Gallery. It's also inspiration for current students, who got a flavor for the variety of careers artists can pursue.
The recognition came with much appreciation from artists like Mario Romano '05, who wrote, "I look back at my undergraduate degree and I am thankful for the freedom I had to express what was necessary for me at that time."


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Minnesota House OKs Bill With $150 Million More for College
ST. PAUL (AP) - Minnesota's state House has backed a higher education financing package that architects say will freeze undergraduate tuition at public colleges for two years.
The plan passed Thursday by a bipartisan vote of 86-44.
It would steer $150 million more than is spent now into higher education programs. Of that, 80 percent is earmarked for tuition relief.
Democratic Rep. Gene Pelowski says the bill is aimed at preventing people from being priced out of college. It includes more budget accountability goals for the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.
The increase in spending would push the state's higher education spending above $2.7 billion for the next two years.
The House bill now heads to conference committees to be reconciled with a differing Senate version.


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Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park [3] is a large conservation area located in the north of Tanzania. The park flows over into neighboring Kenya where it's known as the Masai Mara.
The park is but one of several conservation areas within the Serengeti region of East Africa, though a vitally important one. As well as conserving wildlife, flora and iconic landscapes, Serengeti National Park has emerged as a major traveller and tourist destination, many making the journey there to engage in safari. The name Serengeti comes from the Maasai language, meaning 'endless plains'.
Two World Heritage Sites and two Biosphere Reserves have been established within the 30,000 km² region. Its unique ecosystem has inspired writers from Ernest Hemingway to Peter Mattheissen, filmakers like Hugo von Lawick and Alan Root as well as numerous photographers and scientists.
The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Early man himself made an appearance in Olduvai Gorge about two million years ago. Some patterns of life, death, adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves.
It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back.
Over 90,000 tourists visit the Park each year.
Wildlife viewing in the Serengeti Ecosystem with its Great Migration is tremendous! Nowhere on earth is there a sight rivalling the spectacle of 1.5 million hoofed animals on the march. Serengeti has the highest concentration of large mammals on this planet and is famous for its 2,500 lions, the highest concentration found anywhere! Unlike in Kenya (and with the exception of the Ngorongoro Crater), you rarely see other tourists or vehicles on a game drive in the Serengeti National Park.
Early and late daylight hours are usually the best times to observe the more than 518 species of birds which have been identified in the Serengeti. Some of them are Eurasian migrants who are present in the European winter months from October to April.
The Serengeti falls into the classic bimodal rain pattern of East Africa. The short rains are concentrated in November/December, the long and heavier rains in March - May. Mean monthly maximum temperatures are relatively uniform throughout the year being constant around 27 to 28 degrees centigrade (or 75 - 80 degrees Fahrenheit) at Seronera. At Ngorongoro Crater the nights can be very chilly due to altitude.
Get in
The nearest international airport to the Serengeti is Kilimanjaro Airport near Arusha. KLM is currently the only international airline that flies directly into Arusha (on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from Amsterdam). Other airlines such as Swissair will fly into Nairobi, Kenia (from Zurich) or Dar-es-Salaam, from where you can get a connecting flight to Arusha.
By car: The main access road into the Serengeti from Arusha passes the gate of Lake Manyara National Park, mounts the Rift Valley Escarpment, goes on through communal farming lands to the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area, drops down onto the plains past Olduvai Gorge to the east, and enters the Serengeti through Naabi Hill Gate. The distance is 325 km and the drive takes around eight hours. At Seronera and Lobo, garage facilities are available to refuel cars. Breakdown facilities, however, are virtually non-existent.
Park fees can be very expensive in Tanzania. If you book your trip through a travel agent they are generally included in the overall trip cost. In Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation area the park fee is US$ 50 per person per day, for camping US$30 per tent per day and US$ 30 per vehicle per day. There is a number of definite "don'ts" in the Serengeti. These include approaching too close and disturbing animals, making an unacceptable noise, picking flowers or destroying vegetation, discarding litter, exceeding 50km/h speed limit, bringing pets or firearms into the Park, and going off the roads within 16km of Seronera.
Get around
Interactive Map of Serengeti National Park
Lake Lagarja/Lake Masak, South Serengeti
From December to May, depending on the rains, the large herds are concentrated on the low lying grass steppe between Olduvai, Gol, Naabi and Lagarja. A base on Lake Masak or Lake Lagarja is then ideal because one can travel from there in all directions. Day excursions take one into areas that are little known so that you can enjoy in peace an animal paradise: for example Hidden Valley, the Soito Ngum Kopjes or the Kakesio Plains. You will enjoy the freedom of travelling cross country in order to be able to find the best places and thus have the chance to see rarer animals such as honey-badgers, wild cats, porcupines. In the right season, Southern Serengeti is not to be surpassed.
Moru Kopjes and Seronera, Central Serengeti
Here the savanna animals are joined by species that have adapted to living in the rocky cliffs. From here, or whilst in transit, you visit Seronera in the centre of the park searching for rare leopards and cheetahs. You can also enjoy the ever changing landscape with gallery forests, kopjes and water holes.
Lobo, North Serengeti
The North Serengeti is very different from the grassy plains in the South. As there is always water present the big herds retreat there in the dry season. In addition there are many species that live here permanently and you will also fairly regularly see elephants. A world for itself are the Bologonja Springs on the border to Kenya. The 'Corridor', West Serengeti
This is a special area which is seldom offered on safari tours. Long distances, poor communications (few vehicles are equipped with a radio) and the frequently difficult road conditions still keep away most visitors from this part of the Serengeti which stretches almost as far as Lake Victoria. An important aspect of the Serengeti is therefore lost to them. This area is very different from the other main zones of the park. In the dry season large stretches of the route westward can be practically empty of animals. The last quarter of the route is however ideally suited to be the home for thousands of animals the whole year round. Gnus and zebras who are resident here do not join their migratory relatives who pass through every year on their way northwards. Big herds of giraffes, buffalo, eland, topis, kongonis, impalas, waterbuck and Thompson's gazelles live here together with them. All the big cats and hyenas are present in a good number as well. A special attraction, that has become quite famous, is the crocodile population of the Grumeti River. This is particularly large at Kirawira, where the river does not dry up. The time spent at this life-giving water source can be among the most inter-esting. Here there are not only crocodiles and hippos to observe but also a large number of varieties of birds. Those tourists with a lot of time (or luck) will be able to discover the Black and White Colobus monkey in the crowns of the trees. On the wooded savannahs of the Ndabaka plains there is always something to see. You will always feel at peace at the calm pools and mysterious "korongos". During your excursions in this least visited part of Serengeti, you can stay at the most luxurious and exclusive camp near Kirawira, the "Kirawira Serena Camp", at Conservation Corporation's "Grumeti River Camp" (also very exclusive!) or at the cheaper, but good and charming new Speke Bay Lodge right on the shore of Lake Victoria (4 km outside the park, an hour's drive from Kirawira).
Take photographs! A good zoom and a large memory card make the results so good you'll be looking at the photos months and months later. (Save them on high quality image and you can do amazing things with your photo program when you get home!)
Shopping in the Serengeti naturally is extremely limited due to the absence of human settlements. In Arusha, however, and other major towns you will find curio markets where you can buy all sorts of carvings, masks, Maasai spears, textiles, drums, tinga-tinga paintings, batik work, silk shawls, locally made jewelry, coffee, etc. The Arusha Heritage Centre offers a large variety of souvenirs and crafts. Also, The Sayari Camp had arrangements with locals to supply a little "gift shop" and the money goes right back into local programs.
Eat fresh roasted cashews, drink watermelon juice, try the tiny sweet bananas.
Coffee, bungo juice, Tusker lager, Amarula!
Safari Lodges The term and the concept of the Safari Lodge are of Tanzanian origin. Here you will find buildings of exciting design, specially build to fit in with the wild landscape of the parks, yet with all the amenities of a luxury hotel, such as swimming pools and fine food. As you eat, drink, laze by the pool or sit on your private veranda, you will be able to observe game, often at only a few yards distance.
Luxury Tented Camps The are a few Luxury Tented Camps in the Serengeti offering an absolutely unique Safari experience. The tents usually offer fully equipped en-suite bathrooms, private verandas and elegant furniture. At night you can listen to the wild sounds of the Serengeti cuddled up in a warm and comfortable bed!
Organised Safaris If you go on an organised Safari with a tour operator you will mostly sleep in mobile camps. Here facilities are more limited. The tents usually have simple beds with lining and duvets, camping toilets and showers depending on the Safari Operator.
Camping A much cheaper alternative is to stay on one of the Serengeti's nine campsites. If you wish to stay at them you must obtain permission from TANAPA or the nearest park warden.
The official currency of Tanzania is Tanzanian shillings and cents. However, US dollars are mostly favoured. You will need very little spending money on most safaris as the majority of meals and activities are included in your package cost. Bills may be settled by US cash, by travellers cheques or by credit cards. Please do not rely on automatic teller machines (ATM's) to withdraw currency with your credit card. Make sure you bring enough cash with you in US dollars or carry a sufficient number of travellers cheques (see below). US cash or travellers cheques can be changed into local currency at airports and banks. Small bills are best. Do not exchange too much money, as US dollars are mostly favoured and you will lose a considerable amount of money changing it back. The current official exchange rate is: 1 US$ = 790 TSH This exchange rate should only affect you if you use international credit cards (which makes using them very expensive - so better keep the plastic for emergencies!) Sticking with cold hard cash or traveller cheques, there are Forex bureaus in most cities offering much more favourable free-market exchange rates.
Tipping at restaurants (at your discretion) is 10%. We recommend tipping US$5 for each traveller per day at lodge based safaris; US$ 10 per day for your driver guide and US$5 each per day for the camp staff when camping on mobile safaris.
Stay safe
As in most major cities throughout the world street crime including mugging, petty and vehicle theft is common in Tanzania. A good practice is to leave valuables, such as cash, passports, and airline tickets, locked away or under the supervision of your camp/ lodge manager. Please keep in mind that road conditions are usually bad and the safety of Public Transportation is poor.
Food and Water
Most visitors are surprised by the quality and the variety of the food available on safari. No matter whether you are staying in a lodge, a tented camp or a mobile safari camp, you will be served freshly prepared food according to international tastes and standards. Bottled water can be purchased at all the lodges and camps and is provided by all Safari Operators. Non alcoholic drinks are often included in the all inclusive rates. It is wise to stick with bottled drinks.
When travelling to Tanzania a course of anti malaria tablets is essential and many doctors also advise a Hepatitis A vaccination. All childhood vaccinations, especially Tetanus, should be up to date. Malaria prophylaxis and a stand-by suppressant (as well as insect repellents) are advised. When entering Tanzania a proof of immunisation against Yellow Fever is required. We highly recommend that you consult a local travel health specialist at least 6 weeks before travelling. Medical facilities in Tanzania are limited, and medicines are often unavailable. Doctors and hospitals often expect immediate cash payment for health services. In case of serious medical problems we recommend immediate evacuation to your home country or hospitalization in Nairobi, Kenya.
Swahili, otherwise known as Kiswahili, is the main language of Tanzania. English is spoken widely throughout the country.
The main electricity supply is 240 volts. Many lodges and tented camps operate their own generators or solar lighting systems providing intermittent electricity.
Visa and Entry Requirements
All visitors require a visa except citizens of some Commonwealth countries and a few other nations. The cost of the entry visa varies according to your nationality. Visas can be obtained upon arrival in Arusha or Dar-es-Salaam at a cost of US$ 50 or issued by your nearest Tanzanian High Commission before departure.
Clothing and Packing
On Safari comfortable cotton clothing in subdued safari colours is very practical. During the day, shorts or casual lightweight trousers are ideal, but the nights can get chilly, so do not forget to bring a few warm sweaters. After sunset long sleeves limit the chance of being bitten by mosquitoes. You should also bring a pair of comfortable, closed walking shoes as well as a pair of sandals. Furthermore, your packing checklist should include: - a hat, sunglasses and sunscreen
- insect repellent
- a small flashlight
- malaria stand-by medication + first aid kit
- passport (6 month valid) + vaccination certificate
- a sufficient amount of cash and/or traveller cheques
- plenty of films
- and a good deal of patience and a sense of humour - for this is AFRICA!


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DOVER — Eight points are all that separate the Dover High School football team from a 3-1 record in Division II and a legitimate threat to host a playoff game, and where it stands now, at 1-5 overall and fighting for its playoff life.
The Green Wave have done well to rally late against a pair of top teams in their last two games, but the end results were agonizing, losses.
"It's not something you just flip a switch and overcome," Dover coach Ken Osbon said. "The plays we're not making at the end of the game are some of the same mistakes we're making at the beginning of the game when we're not playing how we should be playing."
Two weeks ago against undefeated Winnacunnet The Green Wave came back from a two-touchdown deficit in the fourth quarter, only to lose 31-24 in overtime. Last week against Keene, Dover found itself down again by a pair of touchdowns, rallied, but ultimately lost 21-20 on a missed extra point midway through the final frame.
"Two slow starts," Osbon said. "Poor execution and we didn't play a physical enough game in the beginning when we needed to. When they wore down a little bit, we took advantage and crawled our way back in. Teams that do that don't always have a great success rate of finishing. In our case, we didn't make enough plays at the end of both of those games to come away with a win."
Tonight the Green Wave (1-3 in Division II) host Bedford (5-1, 4-1). The Bulldogs ran for 286 yards last Saturday in a 48-14 drubbing of Manchester West. Dylan York had 107 of those yards on 17 carries, along with two touchdowns.
"They're probably the best team in Division II," Osbon said about Bedford. "And I think they're probably as good as a lot of Division I teams. They're balanced really well. They've got depth, size and speed and they're very physical. They can hurt you a lot of different ways."
Kyle Seawards ran back a kickoff for 85 yards against Keene. He also scored on a 47-yard pass play from Derek Stegman. Colin Shaughnessy ran 6 yards for Dover's other touchdown.
After tonight, the Green Wave will have three games against teams with a combined D-II record of 4-10 going into this weekend. Dover can make the playoffs with a 5-3 league record. Lose tonight and the best the Green Wave can finish is 4-4, which would require a good deal of help from other teams. Timberlane qualified for last year's playoffs with a 4-4 D-II mark.
"Mathematically, we're still there," Osbon said. "We'll need a little help at some point down the road if we're going to get in, but we can't concern ourselves with that. (Now) we have an uphill battle. But, one at a time and see what happens. They understand what's at stake."
St. Thomas Aquinas's decision to bring in portable lights for its game against Trinity means all 10 local football teams will play tonight. The Saints and Pioneers are currently tied with Windham for second place in Division IV. All three teams sport 5-1 records. The Saints, who haven't played on their home field since Sept. 15, are coming off a 28-9 win over Lebanon last week at Exeter High School. Ryan Monette scored three touchdowns for St. Thomas in the win. Also in D-IV, Kingswood (0-6) looks for its first win but will have a hard time getting it against Plymouth (6-0).
Traip Academy is coming off its first loss of the season, and will visit Old Orchard Beach tonight in a key Western Maine Class C contest. Both teams are 5-1. In Western Maine Class B, Marshwood (5-1) visits Spruce Mountain (3-3) and in Western Maine Class A, Noble (3-3) tries to snap a two-game skid when it hosts Massabesic (2-4).
In Division II, Spaulding (1-5, 1-4 in D-II) is coming off a spirited effort in a 34-20 loss at Winnacunnet and will visit Manchester West (3-3, 2-3). In Division III, Portsmouth (4-1, 3-1) is at Merrimack Valley (0-6, 0-5).
In Division V, Somersworth (5-1) hosts Inter-Lakes/Moultonborough (0-5) in Epping/Newmarket (1-4) is at Stevens (4-1). In Division VI, Farmington/Nute (1-5) looks to snap a five-game skid when it visits Bishop Brady (3-3) in Concord.
All of tonight's action kicks off at 7 p.m.
Material from the Manchester Union-Leader and the Keene Sentinel was used in this report.
H.S. football: Dover looks for consistent effort vs. Bedford
DOVER — Eight points are all that separate the Dover High School football team from a 3-1 record in Division II and a legitimate threat to host a playoff game, and where it stands now, at 1-5 overall and fighting for its playoff life.


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The IEEE-SA's involvement in electrical standards dates back to 1890, when the AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers) proposed a recommendation for the practical unit of self-induction. As a pioneer in voluntary electrical and information technology standards activity, IEEE became a founding member of ANSI (American National Standards Institute) in 1918.
In 1963, when the AIEE merged with the IRE (Institute of Radio Engineers) to form the IEEE, a formal standards body was established to support standards development. Envisioning the expanded role that standards were to play in the future and their impact on industry, IEEE formed its first Standards Board in 1963.In 1998, The IEEE Standards Board was reorganized, and given additonal autonomy as the IEEE Standards Associaton. As a standards body, the IEEE-SA has responded to changes in the marketplace and as a result, the IEEE-SA of today is quite different and innovative-but still committed to providing the most current, reliable standards knowledge.
In 2009, IEEE-SA was responsible for:
- 866 active standards
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- More than 15 Handbooks and Special Publications
- 526 projects in hand
- More than 450 technical working groups and committees
- More than 10,000 individual IEEE-SA members in 95 countries
- Nearly 50 IEEE-SA corporate members
On average, the IEEE-SA publishes 80 new and revised standards annually and conducts more than 245 standards projects ballots, in which a combination of approximately 13,000 individuals participate.
Major IEEE standards include:
- The IEEE 802® wired and wireless networking standards for telecommunications (e.g., IEEE 802.11™ for local area networks, aka Wi-Fi).
- The IEEE 1394™ standard, commonly called Firewire, for the serial buses that connect computer systems and peripherals.
- The 12 Color Books, which are industry-proven standards tools for engineers involved in electrical power production, distribution and utilization in commercial and industrial power systems.
- The National Electric Safety Code®, which sets electrical construction standards.
- IEEE 1512™ standards for efficient communications in managing accidents, planned roadway closures, disasters and other transportation-related events.
- Software engineering standards, which are used throughout industry to maximize software development investments.
There is a complete year-by-year list of Standards Board members available here.
There is a complete year-by-year list of Standards Association Board of Governors members, available here.
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The 28-year-old actress is following in the footsteps of Zooey Deschanel and will sing the theme song in Cotton's new TV ads, which will launch this Friday on major networks.
"We were looking for people from the movies who were really seen as young, female fashion leaders and Kate came to the forefront quite quickly with that kind of perspective," Ric Hendee, senior vice president of consumer marketing for Cotton Inc., said (via WWD).
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MACON, Ga. – The third coaches poll for the Atlantic Sun Conference cross country season saw the Lipscomb women's squad remain in first place and the men's squad hold second place.
"It's always nice to get recognition," Bill Taylor, director of cross country and track and field, said. "The teams work hard and have had a great season so far."
The women continued to be a unanimous choice in first place, receiving all 10 first place votes for a perfect 100 points.
North Florida was second with 88 points while Jacksonville and ETSU received 72 and 71 points, respectively.
The Lady Bisons rank fifth in the South Region of the USTFCCCA Regional Poll. LU is the only A-Sun squad in the region poll.
The men remained in second place but gained ground on first place ETSU, receiving six first place votes and sitting just two points out of the top spot. ETSU received just three first place votes while USC Upstate, sitting fourth, received the last first place.
"I was surprised by the men's poll since we beat ETSU two weeks ago and are ranked higher in the regional poll," Taylor said.
"However, we barely beat ETSU, and I think our teams are very evenly matched. It shows our men that they have a lot of work to do still to gain respect. It's a motivator for us and a reminder that the conference title is determined in the championship, not in the polls."
The Bisons continue to be ranked above ETSU in the South Region Poll. The Purple and Gold are sixth while ETSU is ninth as the only two A-Sun squads in the poll.
Both squads return to action Oct. 4 at the Notre Dame Invite in South Bend, Ind.


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This activity will take about 45 minutes.
After participating in this activity plan, which is designed to help participants learn about campsite selection, participants will be able to
Your group will use a sketch of a heavily used alpine area and one of a pristine desert area to help them decide the best location for setting up a campsite. The sketches will provide a focal point for questions and discussions.
Distribute Scenario 1Alpine SettingAlpine Backcountry, and Scenario 2Desert SettingDesert Backcountry. Have participants compare the two drawings and share what they observe about the two scenes. In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different? Explain that they will use these two drawings to make decisions about how to choose the best campsite in an area that has experienced heavy visitation and in an area that has experienced little or no visitation.
1. Distribute Scenario 1Alpine Setting Activity Sheet.
2. Divide the group into teams of three or four. Tell them that each group is part of a larger group on a trip to a primitive area. Before starting the activity, each group should determine the size of the larger group, keeping in mind that this wilderness area allows no more than 10 campers per group.
3. Distribute the tents (dots) to each group. Assume two people will share one tent: 10 backpackers 5 five tents (dots).
4. Review the directions for scenario 1 and have participants complete the activity.
A close review of the Background on the Principles of Leave No Trace is needed to effectively lead the following discussion.
Where would you advise your group to camp? Most people will choose an established campsite. Discussion should focus on choosing a site that will protect the land and help prevent new impact to the area.
Why is camping close to a lake or stream not an acceptable option? Discussion should focus on protection of riparian zones, the fragile, green area along the bank of the stream, on water contamination, and on scaring wildlife from approaching the stream for a drink. Also, sound carries across open bodies of water.
Rearrange the tents (dots) if the discussion causes participants to change their minds. Have participants explain the reasons for their changes. Summarize key points for heavily used areas.
Distribute Scenario 2Desert Setting Activity Sheet. Repeat steps 2 through 4 listed under scenario 1.
A close review of the Background on the Principles of Leave No Trace is needed to effectively lead the following discussion.
What areas will your group select for a campsite? Most people will choose the most durable surfaces, such as flat rocks or sandy areas free of cryptobiotic soils. Discussion should focus on use of durable surfaces, on dispersal of activities, and on alternative routes to and from locations.
Rearrange the tents (dots) if the discussion causes participants to change their minds. Have participants explain the reasons for their changes. Summarize key points for pristine areas.
Your campers have practiced how to select campsites that will preserve the naturalness of the outdoors for wildlife and visitors. How well have they learned their lesson?
Have participants imagine they are on a backcountry trip and their leader has selected a campsite 50 feet from a stream. Your group has learned about the criteria for proper campsite selection.
Given what they know:
Refer to the Background on the Principles of Leave No Trace for answers.
Congratulations on conducting a well-prepared meeting for your group!
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With minutes to spare we got our last needed set of brake pads replaced (check yesterday's post to see why) and headed to the starting line of stage #2 of the 2012 Pisgah MTB Stage Race. The stage started out of the Cradle of Forestry, a first ever for the Pisgah Stage Race.
The Performance Team of Chris Danz and Johnny Pratt ended up in second place for the duo team category after stage one. Therefore, we had to do our best with sore muscles to maintain our position. While the weather for stage one created a mindset of strictly business to finish the stage, day two's sunshine brought about smiles, excitement, and chatter among the racers as we barreled down the technical singletrack.
Do not be fooled however, because pretty soon the climbing ensued. The beast of the stage was a particularly steep 4 mile climb that put our mental game to the test. With mind and body battling it out we anticipated the infamous Farlow Gap downhill. Let's just say this section is extremely difficult to complete in dry conditions, with so many drops, ledges, and boulders making up the descent. Then you throw in the downpour from yesterday and you now have the Farlow Gap Waterfall. Johnny was able to clean the line somehow, all the while passing racer after racer attempting to walk (more like slide) down with their bikes.
Meanwhile Chris was putting his medic skills to use bandaging up victims of the descent.
We both came out alive on the other end and powered our way to the finish.
We took third place for the stage and maintained our 2nd place position overall. We are excited to see what challenges stage 3 will bring us tomorrow.
Items we're glad we had – Rockshox Reverb dropper post, White Brothers Loop Suspension Fork, Ergon GS1 Grips.
Casualties of the day: 1 Bottom Bracket – Even sealed bearings couldn't survive yesterday's stage.
Now we're just a few back-porch repairs away from sleep. Tomorrow's stage will be the shortest of the race at only 25 miles. Does that mean we'll have a super easy time of it? Will our bikes hold up? Will we hold off that third place team? Stay tuned to find out!


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'Game of Thrones' Season 3 Character Posters Revealed!
Emilia Clarke shows off her light and dark side on the character poster for the new season of her hit HBO series Game of Thrones!
Posters were revealed for twelve different characters: Daenerys Targaryen (Clarke), Jon Snow (Kit Harington), Robb Stark (Richard Madden), Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey), Jamie Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), Sandor Clegane (Rory McCann), Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner), Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley), Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson), and Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright).
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All metaphor breaks down somewhere. That is the beauty of it. It is touch and go with the metaphor, and until you have lived with it long enough you don't know when it is going. You don't know how much you can get out of it and when it will cease to yield. It is a very living thing. It is as life itself.
Each of us is capable of inventing metaphorical relationships of our own. Is a tree in summertime a piece of broccoli for a giant? If you think a tree is such a food, you could find words to express that. And so on.
Toward the end of his essay, Frost talks about four beliefs. It is much more difficult to invent a belief than it is to invent a metaphor. Careful use of metaphor; i.e., careful use of language, will help us to better understand our beliefs. As one seeks to better understand one's beliefs, one begins to see the importance of one's own attitude toward each thing held in one's thoughts. Does language serve me? Do I serve ideas I didn't invent?
During his career, Frost saw the rise of New Criticism. I often wonder what Frost thought of their insistence on the preeminence of the text and their deliberate turning away from any significance the biography of the poet might have. I don't know that he had any interest in it one way or another.
And when the so-called Confessional Poets began doing their thing, what did Frost make of that?
Into this soup of thoughts I'd like to throw the notion of intuition. In particular, the sense of what's possible. Each of us has a sense of what's possible. This sense grows as we continue growing. We have a sense of what's possible not only for our own lives but for the communities in which we participate. Our sense of what's possible will tell us when the community is enervated, just as someone familiar with metaphor will be able to tell when the metaphor breaks down.
I suspect, however, that a community participant who senses that the possibilities for her community are somehow limited is somehow unable to use language sufficiently well to share with others in her community her concerns and ideas regarding the future of the community. And if she is unable to communicate intelligently regarding such matters with people in her community, what will she be able to say about those limited possibilities to anyone outside her community? And so her anxiety grows.
I started out with the idea of recommending Frost's essay to readers. And I do make that recommendation. But now I want to bring in another line of thinking. Recently I listened to arguments by Ken Robinson for creativity in education. "What if," Mr. Robinson asks, "we regard creativity in education as highly as we regard literacy?" His remarks have been recorded and posted at YouTube.
The video runs about 8min 20sec. I thought it was easy to listen to.
So where am I going with all this? I am saying that it seems to me that the activity of meeting informally to read and discuss poems is a profoundly healthy and liberating activity. I will develop reasons and arguments for this but my sense of what's possible tells me there is an abundance of rich possibilities here. To organize such informal occasions around the birthdays of poets is to simply find one way of organizing.


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This is an activity about magnetic fields. Learners will use various magnets, magnetic film, and a compass to see and illustrate what magnetic fields look like. This is the fourth activity as part of the iMAGiNETICspace: Where Imagination,... (View More) Magnetism, and Space Collide educator's guide. Instructions for downloading the iBook educator's guide and the associated Transmedia book student guide are available at the resource link. (View Less)
In this demonstration activity, students make structural models of gas molecules using pipe cleaners and polystyrene balls and test their molecules for their resonant frequency. Students shake the models, count vibrations, and compare the resonance... (View More) frequencies of different gases. Students learn that photons of infrared energy vibrate at the right frequency to transfer their energy to carbon dioxide and methane, which in turn causes those molecules to vibrate, which is experienced in the real world as heat. The teacher's guide includes illustrative videos for this resource. This activity is supported by a textbook chapter, What's So Special about CO²?, part of the unit, Climate Change, in Global Systems Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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This is an activity about the relation between day length and temperature. In one team, learners will create and analyze a graph of hours of sunlight versus month of the year for a number of latitudes. In another team, learners will graph... (View More) temperature versus month for the same latitudes. The teams then compare data and draw conclusions from their analyses. (View Less)
This is a lesson about the magnetic field of a bar magnet. The lesson begins with an introductory discussion with learners about magnetism to draw out any misconceptions that may be in their minds. Then, learners freely experiment with bar magnets... (View More) and various materials, such as paper clips, rulers, copper or aluminum wire, and pencils, to discover that magnets attract metals containing iron, nickel, and/or cobalt but not most other materials. Next, learners experiment with using a magnetic compass to discover how it is affected by the magnet and then draw the magnetic field lines of the magnet by putting dots at the location of the compass arrow. This is the first lesson in the first session of the Exploring Magnetism teacher guide. (View Less)
This is a lesson to demonstrate magnetic field lines in 2- and 3-dimensions. In the first activity, learners sprinkle iron filings over a magnet underneath a paper and record their observations. The second activity involves building a 3-D magnetic... (View More) field visualizer using a clear plastic bottle, a cow magnet and iron filings. This is the second lesson in the first session of the "Exploring Magnetism" teacher guide. (View Less)
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In this activity, students will model the time after the Big Bang when the first nuclei of hydrogen and helium were created. The students will move and display cards that show the elements that are formed. This activity requires a large area - e.g.,... (View More) an outside location, a large classroom with seats moved back, or a gym. This activity is part of the "What is Your Cosmic Connection to the Elements" activity and information booklet. The booklet includes teacher notes and instructions as well as follow-up questions. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about measuring magnetic field directions of Earth and in the environment. First, learners go outside, far away from buildings, power lines, or anything electrical or metal, and use compasses to identify magnetic North. Next, they... (View More) use the compasses to probe whether there are any sources of magnetic fields in the local environment, including around electronic equipment such as a CD player and speakers. This is the first lesson in the second session of the Exploring Magnetism teacher guide. (View Less)
This is an activity about electromagnetism. Learners will use a compass to map the magnetic field lines surrounding a coil of wire that is connected to a battery. This activity requires a large coil or spool of wire, a source of electricity such as... (View More) 3 D-cell batteries or an AC to DC power adapter, alligator-clipped wire, and magnetic compasses. This is the third lesson in the second session of the Exploring Magnetism teachers guide. (View Less)
In this activity, students will interpret and analyze the information presented on the Evidence for Hidden Mass graph. They will observe trends in the graphs, and use it to determine if there is evidence for hidden mass. This is Activity 6b in the... (View More) "Hidden Lives of Galaxies" information and activity booklet that was designed for use with "The Hidden Lives of Galaxies" poster. The booklet includes student worksheets and background information for the teacher. (View Less)
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This is lesson to begin learners' thinking about magnetic influence. Learners will watch a classroom demonstration about the effect of magnets on iron filings and then complete a journal assignment to record their reactions and thoughts. This is the... (View More) first activity in the Mapping Magnetic Influence educators guide. (View Less)


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Hey, litterers. Remember that banana peel or water bottle you so carelessly tossed in the street instead of a trash bin? Well, let's hope this Brooklyn-based artist didn't get her hands on it because she's been using remnants of the DNA you've left all over town to create 3D portraits of what you could possibly look like.
The project is part of Heather Dewey-Hagborg's "Stranger Visions" series which reconstructs the face of the DNA owner using simple genetic information found around New York City. She extracts DNAs from wads of hair, chewing gum, and cigarette butts to figure out the right maternal ethnicity, hair color, and gender before designing a matching 3-dimension face with a self-written software. Said software will draw up various possibilities of facial features, and Dewey-Hagborg would use her judgement to create the most aesthetically appealing versions of the DNA owner.
"I started fixating on this idea of hair and what can I know about someone from a hair," she tells Co.Exist. Although DNA from hair can determine simple physical features, she says you must also take into account that the DNA owner may bare recessive genes. "There's an 80 percent chance that this person has brown eyes and 20 percent chance that they have green eyes … You have to make that call."
We know what you're thinking: Dewey-Hagborg should sell the software to police academies and help 3D model criminals from their DNA tracks, right? Sadly, the technology just isn't quite there yet. Because the DNA information can only reveal certain features but not exact shapes, the software won't accurately depict the right face (not yet, anyway). However, she is planning on adding other genetic features, such as obesity or freckling, so at the very least, the portraits will look more complex.
Another issue Dewey-Hagborg raises is that a computer generally does not understand what a human face means, so she is forced to manually input all the data of what each cultural features look like. This, essentially, creates a stereotype. And that's probably not something we want computers to start doing, too.
It's an absolutely strange, fascinating, but rather creepy experiment which makes us think twice about the DNA we leave behind in our daily lives. At this very moment, Dewey-Hagborg could be attempting to create a 3D portrait of me right now, and heaven knows what I touched or how much of my hair shedded over the week. Let's hope the stereotyping is not too bad, because I have no idea where this dude in the photo on the left is supposed to be from. Seriously, those are the most "aesthetically pleasing" features you can combine on a person?
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Last week I went to hear my friend and fellow counselor Anne Lundblad speak about balancing speed and endurance while training for endurance events. Anne should know all about this topic--she is a many-time member of the US 100K World Cup Team, and was the silver medalist at the 2005 World Cup 100K. Basically, she can run really fast for a very long time (her PR at 100K is somewhere in the sub-7:50 range). Yowsah!
During her talk, Anne shared her training tips as well as tips for balancing life's other demands while training at a high level: balancing working full-time and being a mom, racing and training, and indulgence and sacrifice. She is also a real believer in the power of positive mental imagery, especially using affirmations during the race such as "You are strong, fast, and tough." During the past two years at Hellgate, I used a similar mantra as I was running through the rocky dark: "Smooth, light, and steady." It really helped me and I give Anne all the credit, as she has been very helpful to me over the years whenever I asked her for training advice. I am looking forward to using lots of her training tips as I prepare for my 2008 races...including a *possible* 100-miler...YIKES.
On Sunday, I took Anne and her hubby Mark on a 17-miler on the country roads near White Hall...we had a great time catching up, sharing our WS100 experiences and race goals for 2008, and I loved showing them one of my all-time favorite running loops. When we were done, Mark went on for another hour or so, while Anne and I met her mom and daughter Emma for coffee at...where else but Greenberry's!
A great run in the country with good friends, with coffee afterwards... balancing life's simple pleasures!
Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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- Kevin said...
Why didn't I know you blog?
Kevin at www.civilwarmemory.typepad.com
- January 20, 2008 at 8:34 PM
- meredith said...
Thanks for sharing! Great insight by both you and Anne. I hope you are well!
- January 21, 2008 at 11:32 AM
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And we have a winner! comment #2 Devin from For Making's Sake! I hope you enjoy the needles! (shoot me an email at mle_mcclendon(at)charter(dot)net with your address)
Here are some very mediocre pictures of a quilt I made for my Aunt about a month ago. I used the Fenced In pattern from The Practical Guide to Patchwork by Elizabeth Hartman (Oh Fransson) but made fewer blocks for a smaller quilt. I think it ended up being about 52" by 64", a perfect throw size.
This was a fun pattern, I highly recommend it!
Love the Modern Meadow tree fabric by Joel Dewberry!
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Milford resident Deborah Long, a social studies teacher, has been named the 2013-14 Sussex Technical High School Teacher of the Year.
Milford resident Deborah Long, a social studies teacher, has been named the 2013-14 Sussex Technical High School Teacher of the Year.
This is the second time Long has received this honor, having been named teacher of the year in 2008-09. Long has been teaching at Sussex Tech for eight years. She teaches world history and psychology and has been an assistant varsity softball coach for the Lady Ravens.
Long was nominated by a student who, on the nomination form, wrote, "No matter who you are or what your grade is, Mrs. Long is always working to make things better and easier to understand."
Long will represent Sussex Tech in the state teacher of the year competition this fall.
Q: Why did you want to become a teacher?
A: I enjoy history. I like trying to teach students history so they can enjoy it and find it relevant to their lives today.
Q: What's your favorite part about your job?
A: Probably working closely with the world history personal learning community. Our world history teachers meet twice a week to collaborate closely and create activities. What we produce as a group, we share with our students in helping to make things interesting and relevant. It makes my time with the students more enjoyable because of the work we put in.
Q: You were nominated by a student. How does that make you feel?
A: It made me feel pretty special. You get a letter saying you were nominated and asking if you want to go through the process, because it's very involved. I thought that because I'd already been Teacher of the Year, maybe it would be nice to give someone else a chance; but because I was nominated by a student, I felt I needed to follow through.


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Is there such a script or code etc that i can apply to the right mouse click menu so i can crop out photos to 640 x 480 ?
I have Photoshop Elements but just need something basic to right click, select the tool from the menu & the 640 x 480 border is shown,hit select etc.
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In the surrealistically violent action blockbuster "Wanted" -- which premieres at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Thursday and arrives in theaters June 27 -- several thousand rats are turned into four-legged weapons of mass destruction. Laden with explosives, they're let loose in a fortress-like textile mill with the intended purpose of maiming and killing as many people as possible in the bloody buildup to the film's climactic set-piece. Needless to say, the results aren't pretty.
Based on Mark Millar's graphic novel series of the same name, "Wanted" stars Scottish actor James McAvoy as a cubicle-bound, windbreaker-wearing accountant who discovers the blood of a killer runs through his veins. (Blame heredity: His father was the Michael Jordan of assassins.) Morgan Freeman appears as the head of a secret society of hit men called "the Fraternity," and Angelina Jolie plays a tough-as-Kevlar hit woman who schools McAvoy's character in the ways of the warrior (which in his case involve getting repeatedly sliced by butcher knives, punched with brass knuckles and learning to curve the trajectory of bullets so they swerve around stationary objects).
It's a film fixated with surfaces -- fiery sunsets, shattered glass, open wounds -- and packed with visceral images that fairly leap off the screen: arterial spray, spent shell casings and exploding rodents chief among them. But also in ways both profound and ridiculous, "Wanted" is the ideal film to open the LAFF (co-sponsored by The Times).
A determinedly populist "festival of discovery," the Westwood-based fest's tag line asserts: "The audience is king." It has long been dedicated to celebrating film in all its forms. But unlike other North American festivals, such as the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, New York's Tribeca Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival -- which still command greater name brand cachet with cinéastes and acquisitions executives -- Los Angeles' cultural identity as home of the movie industry has been something of a historical liability for the LAFF.
In a town where movies premiere almost every night of the week, the local economy rises and falls on film production schedules, and the array of independent and international movies in theaters in a given week is nearly unrivaled, the paradox is this: How do you get locals excited about their hometown film fest?
However, thanks to the flashy counterprogramming step of including popcorn movies and big-budget studio fare like the closing-night selection "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (a comic book adaptation from Oscar-nominated writer-director Guillermo del Toro) and "Wanted," the 10-day festival's stature has grown in recent years. And so has attendance, which is up almost threefold, from around 30,000 in 2005 to 83,000 last year, with expected gate totals in excess of 100,000 in 2008, organizers said.
"We are a film festival, but don't think of us like other film festivals," LAFF director Richard Raddon said. "We've never been opposed to screening big studio movies as long as we had the right context for them. We're open to thinking outside the box."
Added fest director of programming Rachel Rosen: "The festival has to be right for the city it's in. We're a film fest in L.A. in the summer. To pretend that we're not seems ridiculous."
With that in mind, consider the pedigree of "Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov. His Russian-made fantasy-action hit "Nochnoi Dozor" (Night Watch) screened as part of the LAFF in 2005. And that same year, the Kazakh-born TV and music video auteur was cherry-picked by Universal to direct "Wanted," his first Hollywood blockbuster.
"I have a very specific relationship with film festivals: They don't like me," Bekmambetov said. "In general, my films aren't in competition. I feel very proud to be part of this."
The director also admitted some shock that Universal gave him enough free reign to make what's essentially an art-house action movie on steroids -- a darker, quirkier, more violent and more ironic film than any summer tentpole in recent memory. "I don't understand and can't explain why the studio supported our creative ambitions," Bekmambetov said. "It was very surprising that I had the chance to do whatever I wanted. I think we witchcrafted them."
Which, when considered a certain way, is a microcosm of what's on offer at the LAFF: a synergistic mash-up of art for art's sake, bottom line-boosting commercial product and the kind of indie movie alchemy that could come out of only one dream factory -- Hollywood.
Transforming moment
ALTHOUGH IT'S easy to overlook the fact that the festival's identity is very much a work in progress, what is generally regarded as the LAFF's watershed moment took place last June when four theaters in Westwood Village simultaneously premiered Michael Bay's sci-fi blockbuster "Transformers." The event nature of the screening was capped off by a massive premiere party that closed several blocks of Broxton Avenue and featured animatronic robots, free booze and a singular co-mingling of celebrities and hoi polloi.
Hard to imagine the equivalent thing at, say, the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. But the programming move broadened perceptions about what the LAFF is -- and more important in terms of studio relationships, about how mainstream it's willing to be.
"The general public never gets these opportunities -- they never go to premieres," Raddon explained. "We made the experience of a big Hollywood premiere accessible. For $25, you go see the movie and go to the party. The idea being if this isn't what you like, maybe the Chinese documentary down the street is. But the people that came out had a great time."
Which isn't to say that the majority of the LAFF's 230-plus feature films, shorts and music videos all aim for Michael Bay-esque mass appeal. (Which would be nigh impossible anyway for movies such as the minutely observed geektastic comedy-romance "HottieBoombaLottie," the real-life "Spinal Tap" tale of the heavy metal band Anvil in "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" or the in-your-face Angeleno artist documentary "Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe.") The operational idea, organizers say, is to run the festival as "a big celebration of movies" covering the cinematic spread by appealing as much to ravenous cinephiles as popcorn movie fans drawn out by next Sunday's screening of the family sci-fi adventure "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in 3-D.
But just as important in a town where connections are everything and finding the Next Big Thing is a primary directive, festival programmers vet international movies (such as the intense Mexican drama "Where Are Their Stories?" or the Swedish apocalypse comedy "You, the Living") with an eye toward discovering crossover filmmakers like Del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth," "Hellboy") and Christopher Nolan ("Memento," "Batman Begins") who have demonstrated a capacity for connecting with both the art house and the multiplex.
"If you wanted to be ahead of the curve and find the next Guillermo or Timur, you'd go see these films," said Raddon. "We're trying to promote that fact to agents: You will get clients out of this festival. During the day, we set up meetings between filmmakers and agents, managers, publicists, distributors and executives at production companies. We cover the whole spectrum of the biz and are trying to discover new talent."
Just ask "Wanted" producer Marc Platt. As he points out, Bekmambetov's ascendance from relative obscurity (circa '05 when "Night Watch" played in competition at the LAFF) to hired gun for Hollywood serves as testimony to the festival's effectiveness as a launching pad. "It speaks to the quality of the film festival in terms of having a good eye," he said. "That's how festivals grow in stature. You have that eye, you premiere films and their directors eventually get discovered."
Swear like Tony Montana
BUT IN an already crowded landscape that sees new film fests cropping up like kudzu, establishing a clear identity and vying for market share with the likes of South by Southwest or even Cannes hasn't been easy for the LAFF -- and not nearly as seamless as its Hollywood pedigree might suggest.
"It's a crowded pack," Raddon said. "The reality is we do want to distinguish ourselves."
Hence the "Swear-A-Long Scarface" screening at the Ford Amphitheatre on Friday, where audience participation takes on a whole new meaning. The Ford's al fresco crowd is encouraged to curse in time with Al Pacino's coked-out Miami drug lord character who drops no fewer than 226 F-bombs over the course of Brian De Palma's 1983 crime classic "Scarface."
Even without all the bells and whistles, filmmakers are hungry to be part of the LAFF.
By her own reckoning, Academy Award-nominated writer-director Nanette Burstein's coming of age documentary "American Teen" has already screened at more than 20 festivals, including Sundance, where it was acquired for distribution by Paramount Vantage.
Still, the director feels its inclusion in the LAFF (the movie is being screened Wednesday at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood) will play a crucial part in raising its audience awareness.
"Being a part of the Los Angeles Film Festival is kind of a big deal," Burstein said. "It's near our time of release, it's the first time the film has screened in L.A., the mecca of the film industry. And there's only a handful of festivals where you can launch a film as far as distributors and press are concerned. A lot of films have their birth here."
To hear it from Bekmambetov, however, "Wanted's" festival premiere is cause for contentment but not unmitigated joy; for him, it's less about the "celebration of movies" than maximizing the broadest promotional platform available for his film.
"I just expect it will be quite loud, and people around the world will hear this loud event," he said in halting, Russian-inflected English. "It will help us to promote and release the movie here. Nothing more, nothing less."
For more information about the festival, go to www.lafilmfest.com.


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"A hundred years from now, it will not matter the sort of house I lived in, what my bank account was, or the car I drove....but the world may be different because I was important in the life of the animals and the creatures on this earth." -Unknown
"I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually true.... There may be people who wish to live their lives under cradle-to-grave divine supervision, a permanent surveillance and monitoring. But I cannot imagine anything more horrible or grotesque."
― Christopher Hitchens
― Christopher Hitchens
"Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them."- Hunter S. Thompson
"Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that."--George Carlin
"I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks him on the head and kicks him in the nuts, I enjoy that. I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings whatsoever. None. And no matter what kind of problem humans are facing, whether it's natural or man-made, I always hope it gets worse."--George Carlin
"Recent history has repeatedly proven that nothing said by Washington and its officials should be accepted at face value. No other government in the world has been implicated in so many egregious lies as the United States."
-- Bill Van Auken
"The unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary for the indifferent and the ungrateful." -Anonymous Grafitti
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem.": -Howard Zinn
"If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." -Anatole France
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."- Frederick Douglas
"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent, in fact, I am religious."- Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." -Albert Einstein
"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin
"Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole,"- Marx
"I heard too many lies spewed out by Ronald Reagan and the State Department to justify these killings. And by the time I was in Gaza, looking at the twisted limbs of dead women and children and listening to Israeli and U.S. officials describe an Israeli airstrike as a "surgical" hit on Islamic militants, it was over. I knew the dark heart of America.
I knew who we were, what we did, what we actually stood for and the terrifying and willful innocence that permits most Americans to think of themselves as good and virtuous when they are, in reality, members of an efficient race of killers and ruthless profiteers."-Chris Hedges. American Journalist and Pulitzer Prize Winner.
"Tis better to remain silent and be thought the fool than to speak and remove all doubt".-Johnson, Lincoln, Twain????
"He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity." -Voltaire
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."- Anatole France
"The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth." ― Henry Beston
"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." --Frank Zappa
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." -- John Adams
"The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free."--Aldous Huxley
"An accumulation of wealth at one pole of society indicates an accumulation of misery and overwork at the other". --Karl Marx
"An accumulation of wealth at one pole of society indicates an accumulation of misery and overwork at the other". --Karl Marx
"Americans are the most entertained and least informed people in the world."- Neil Postman
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
"I have as much authority as the pope, I just don't have as many people that believe it." -George Carlin
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." --Huang Po
"Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms - of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. "- Frederick Douglass
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."- John Steinbeck
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."- Malcolm X
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."- Howard Zinn
"Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It's because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time. "
― George Carlin
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."- John Steinbeck
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."- Malcolm X
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."- Howard Zinn
"Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It's because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time. "
― George Carlin
"Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention." -- Molly Ivins
"Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws... It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world. I was a part before the sun rolled into shape and burst forth in the glory of change. I was, when the earth was hurled out from its fiery rim. I shall return with the earth to Father Sun, and still exist in substance when the sun has lost its fire, and disintegrated into infinity to perhaps become a part of the whirling rubble of space. Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men?" - Zora Neale Hurston
"Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life.It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your Honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant,self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."-Mark Twain
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Dec. 3, 2005
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - MIT made a strong appearance at the Cardinal Invitational this Saturday, winning the 400 medley relay and getting some solid swims from its first-year class. The Engineers missed the final session, but swam well in the four-team meet.
MIT's freshman class headlined Saturday's top performers. Deke Hu swam a season-best 2:01.06 to out-touch fellow frosh Jeremy Chang for first place in the 200 IM, while also securing runner-up honors in the 50 and 100 fly. Despite missing on a chance to win the IM, Chang responded with a first-place finish in the 100 breast and a runner-up finish in the 50 breast.
Freshman Peter Wellings also enjoyed a pair of second-place efforts, just missing on wins in the 50 and 100 back.