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Box OfficeMagzine It's the beginning of the end for Bella Swan, but for the actress who plays her, it's the end of the first major milestone in her career. Just 21, Kristen Stewart has spent the last three years of her life being one of the most famous faces in the world. The Twilight Saga can't be avoided—it's released a film a year since 2008 and made tabloid staples (for better or worse) out of stars Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. For a young actress whose first love is the craft, not the celebrity, it's been intense. But as Kristen Stewart tells Boxoffice, she's so fused with the role of Bella Swan, she's invented whole pages of Bella's history that she swore were in the original books—until she looked it up and realized she'd just imagined those memories. So since she knows Bella better than anybody—maybe even better than Stephenie Meyer—we ask if she really thinks Bella is ready for marriage? And after so many years on the set, what was it like waking up knowing she'd never play Bella again?
What's it like working on a film where people are so fascinated by the tiny details? However you and your hair designer decide to style your hair for the wedding, thousands of girls are going to copy it for their own wedding or prom.
It's funny. It's something you have to put out of your mind while you're working, or else it's incredibly heavy, it weighs you down. You want to do something that is clear to you. But at the same time, it makes it exciting, like, "I hope they like it!" I'm also on their level: I'm just as worried about how the hair is going to look. It's just not normal for other people to be as concerned about something that you're concerned about on the movie. Usually, people don't know, people don't care. It's unique, really unique in that way. I've never experienced that on another project.
Knowing that other people take your role as seriously as you do—it's kind of a great confluence of actor and audience.
Yeah. It really is pretty amazing, and it's so different. I've had a taste of it in a couple movies, but this case was the most extreme. Playing real people, you get a similar experience. With Joan Jett [in The Runaways] and then and then On the Road, where I play this woman who's absolutely f–king incredible, LuAnne Henderson [who inspired the character of Marylou in the novel and film]. That was so important on a level that had nothing to do with me. So it's a similar experience. Usually, I own these parts—they're mine and the director's and the writer's. But this has relevance on another level in the real world.
That's true. Especially with On the Road, Marylou is based on a real person but she's also existed in the minds of readers for six decades. And you've got the pressure to make them all happy with your take on that character. Were there moments during Twilight where you were wondering how much you could make the character your own?
Having read the books and sitting down with everyone involved, it's so funny. People don't love the same things you love all the time. And some things I would remember from the book never existed. It was odd. Like, that something had happened to Bella between films and I would fight tooth and nail for it, but it wasn't there. I had made it up. It was something I had imagined from between the times that are there. Which is a strange experience, especially when you're arguing with the director. Then I'd go back and read chapter 23 and it wasn't there. It was so weird. But different things are important to different people and you've got to choose. And that's what makes the job cool, that's what makes the movie ours. It's a strange thing. It's owned by so many people at this point—it has such a huge past and we've had so many directors. I must sound totally corny and weird, but it's loved by an insanely diverse and large group of people.
We've culled pictures of Twilight fans posing with their favorite piece of memorabilia, or posing next to paintings they've made—sometimes even whole wall murals in their own house. I love their enthusiasm.
So do I. I always feel this intensely about things I work on, but to suddenly look up and see that other people do as well, there's nothing more to say other than that it feels good. It's nice to share that. On an energy level, that's going to fuel you. It feels cool.
You mentioned all the directors you've been through. That makes you and Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner the old guard—you know the characters and this world so well. What do you tell the directors when they start?
Everyone was so different, it always felt fresh. As much as going back and working with Rob and Taylor and the rest of the cast and everyone else who'd been there the whole time was like picking up where we left off, at the same time we were pretty accepting of the fact that we were going to have different directors on every one. The director, you follow him. He sets the tone 100 percent. I love that. Feeling lost is not a cool thing and I rely heavily on directors. It's the nature of doing the job—I don't dictate, he does. Everyone genuinely had different ideas—not even different ideas, they were moved by very different things. The things that got them off about the project were all very, very different. That was interesting to see.
How did Bill Condon fit in? What made him different?
He had this very unobtrusive gentleness. He's incredibly sweet. It's funny, now I'm describing him as a character, but he accepts things that are simple, and I feel the same way. Somehow, the romance is easier to accept in this movie. Things started to feel genuine again, things started to feel real again, because he believed in them so much. And that's pretty awesome considering the point in the series that this movie is at. I think that Bill is really collaborative and awesome, and I think that he really was able to get that Edward and Bella are united now and they really do feel, at least to me—or they're working on becoming-whatever the f–k it means to be "adult." And it's nice not to see them scrambling around and not knowing what the f–k they're doing. They're incredibly steadfast at this point, and I feel like I believe it mostly because of Bill. For whatever reason, it's hard to make these movies and I like how this one turned out, I really do.
Which makes sense because this is the book where things really get real: they make permanent decisions. Do you think Bella understands what marriage means at 18 years old?
Marriage means something so different to everyone. I think that's just another step for her. I think it's an interesting story point that marriage has no regard for her—she's doing it for him. I get asked constantly whether I think she's a strong character, whether I think she's subject completely to this man and is a mindless follower. I think it takes a really ballsy person—and someone who really knows themselves—to be able to give it up and know that it's worth it and know that the person they're doing it with is on the same level. I just don't really understand why people approach it from that way. Imagine if they were both girls or both guys, I think that Edward would probably be criticized just as much. They're both kind of lost and crazy and stupid in the beginning, and in the end they really have f–king committed to each other. They both give things up and lose things. And I don't understand why it's criticized. Maybe because I've played the part and worked through it in my head in every way, but I don't get it.
People look at Romeo and Juliet as this infatuation story between two stupid kids, but if they had lived longer, they might have been able to prove themselves.
Yeah. That was totally circumstantial. You look back on it and go, "No! Why the f–k did that have to happen?" Luckily, Edward and Bella are just a little bit more lucky.
I'm projecting some of my own fears onto this, but the idea of playing a character who is pregnant with something literally otherworldly that's dominating her from within sounds totally terrifying. Especially having never been pregnant yourself.
What was strange was that was my every inclination playing the scenes, what the first rehearsal would always end up being. But ultimately, it became one of my favorite things to play: this pregnant, feral cat in the corner of a room who's just like, "Stay the f–k away from me!" All that matters is what is inside, and that is awesome. But it took a little bit to get inside and on that page in a real way. It's funny, you look down and your instinct is to be like, "Ugh!" But you can't do that. It hurts, but it's something that you're willing to take. And it's f–king weird. It really was like an alien baby pregnancy. It was so weird to get all of the logistics right and talking to Stephenie [Meyer, the author of the Twilight series] about really weird s–t. About [gestational] sacs and how you can get through them-just so many conversations about logistical pregnancy vampire baby stuff.
You know this character so well, what's it like to take her through this huge change when she becomes a vampire herself?
It felt good. It was really weird. It was such a long process of the two movies being shot at the same time as if they're one. You shoot, obviously, out of order and you keep going back and forth between pregnant, human and dead vampire Bella. There's so many different versions of Bella in this, it's insane. It was a strange experience walking on set the first time I played a scene as a vampire because I'd watched everyone around me doing it all the time. I sound so lame, but vampire Bella really is my favorite character—she's very representative of a matriarch. She's very intuitive on almost a psychic level and no one ever acknowledges it, which is interesting. Maybe that says something about Stephenie that she doesn't get respect for all of her f–king amazing qualities. And that's also one of the things that makes her appealing to me, so that's not a strike at it—that's something that I like about it. And I think it's nice to see her finally get what she wants. That's probably the best thing, even if it sounds simple and indulgent, which is why the f–king thing is criticized all the time. It's nice to see people be happy. And she really-if I've played it right-is born to be where she is.
Tell me about the morning after the last day of shooting whee you woke up knowing you'll never go back to that set.
You literally go through a range of every single emotion. I didn't care, and then ten minutes later I'd care a lot. I think it's different on every movie, and obviously this it's going to be the most heightened. Luckily I don't have to say goodbye to anyone. That's different. Usually, you kind of know at the end of a five week thing that you're not going to hold on to every single relationship that you form on these little movies, and I've done a lot of those. But Twilight's been a unique experience. It wasn't like saying goodbye to everyone and how sad that is. It's more like that you feel done. You feel like you've done your job. And obviously, it's been a long process and I can't just generally say, "Oh yeah! I was completely happy!" It's definitely been torturing me for a little while. At the end of the day, I really f–king love it. I can't wait for these two to come out. I feel like we really take it up a notch.
You started acting at nine and already had your own career before Twilight. And between Twilight films, you've pursued your own daring films like The Runaways [as Joan Jett] and Welcome to the Rileys [as a homeless teen hooker]. Now working with child actresses like Mackensie Foy [cast as Bella's fast-growing vampire daughter] who is the same age now that you were then, what advice can you give about carving out their own career.
It's tough to say. I've done what I've done, and it feels like a lot. But at the same time, I feel so young, so it's weird for me to spout out stuff or give advice. It makes me cringe a little bit. But if I personalize it, I think it's pretty important not to do anything that doesn't feel right. People do things constantly in this business that they do not believe in, and that's obviously where people make huge errors. Even if I make a bad movie, I look back and go, "Well, that thing didn't necessarily turn out the way I wanted it, or it could have been better, but I loved the experience and it was something that was worthwhile. Basically—and this is so lame—but if you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly. Whenever I hear anyone giving acting advice, it's either really vague and general like, "Follow your dreams," which is basically what I'm saying, or actual agent-y weird s–t that I have absolutely no idea about.
Corny advice is corny because it's true.
Exactly. In most cases.
You're shooting Snow White and the Huntsman right now which imagines Snow White as this warrior princess. What's her fighting style like?
Not to trivialize it at all, but it's hard to play an action hero who is also the most compassionate person on earth. You can't hate. You epitomize bleeding hearts, so how the f–k do you do an action movie like that? She is sort of the last shred of hope for her land. She has this ethereal, spiritual connection to her people-she really feels things—and so it's like we don't really feel empathy. I've had some f–king eye-opening experiences on this movie. I think that to truly care for something isn't just putting yourself in that situation aesthetically and then going, "Oh my god, I feel so bad for them." It's truly not thinking of yourself at all. The way that you fight is that you must take out anything that hurt your people. Basically, I'm fighting evil—I'm fighting the most evil motherf–kers-and it's fine that they're being killed. It's anguish. It's literally f–king anguish. She takes absolutely no pleasure in ever hurting anything. I'm exhausted right now and I was thinking, "The fight stuff is coming up, maybe that won't be so bad." And then I realized that they're probably going to be my most emotional scenes because I'm killing people and I'm Snow White. It's a really f–king cool way to approach a movie where so many people die. Not that I'm criticizing violent movies—I love them, generally—but it is nice to do it this way.
You're the type of fighter who would take a bullet.
Yeah, and also very impulsive. She hasn't learned how to fight—she's just smart, she's just fast. If you're smarter than someone and you're not scared and you know you're doing it for the right reasons, it doesn't matter how big you are: you could probably f–k them up. She's a weird kind of savant. She has to kind of click off her mind. You either have to completely feel it or completely turn it off and just slaughter people. Which is awful, but they're the bad guys, so whatever.
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Brewers win ninth straight behind dominant Lohse
MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Brewers have arrived on Cloud No. 9.
Red-hot Milwaukee won for a ninth consecutive time Sunday, sweeping the Pirates out of Miller Park with a 4-1 victory led by a razor-sharp Kyle Lohse, whose 100-pitch, nine-strikeout performance was the picture of efficiency over 8 2/3 innings.View Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Brewers have arrived on Cloud No. 9.
Red-hot Milwaukee won for a ninth consecutive time Sunday, sweeping the Pirates out of Miller Park with a 4-1 victory led by a razor-sharp Kyle Lohse, whose 100-pitch, nine-strikeout performance was the picture of efficiency over 8 2/3 innings.View Full Game Coverage
Lohse allowed one run on four singles and no walks, throwing 76 pitches for strikes and leading his team to a 10-2 record (best in baseball) in just two hours and 11 minutes. When he allowed a two-out single to Andrew McCutchen in the ninth, manager Ron Roenicke was met with a smattering of boos as he sauntered out to take the ball.
"Sometimes the decisions aren't very popular, but they're decisions as a manager you need to make," Roenicke said. "I thought Kyle pitched a great game and I was hoping he could get through it, but I didn't want to force him and I didn't want to push him.
"I think he understands. When you get to 100 pitches, that starts to put pressure on a pitcher and we've got a long season to go."
Will Smith made the manager look plenty smart, throwing three pitches -- all strikes -- to whiff Pedro Alvarez, end the game and record his first Major League save.
Lohse looked stronger as the game went on. He threw just 12 pitches in the seventh inning and 12 more in the eighth -- 11 strikes in both -- and struck out five of the six batters he saw. Prior to McCutchen, he had retired 14 straight batters.
"The bottom line is we've got to win that game and just keep the momentum going," Lohse said when asked about missing out on the complete game. "If that guy gets on, then it turns into the tying run [at the plate], and you just want to stop it before you get there. I know Ron talked about his numbers against lefties. I want to finish it, but if I want to finish it, then I've got to get that guy out, McCutchen. But it's not going to take away from how I feel about the game."
Lohse, who also laid down a sacrifice bunt that helped plate a run in the third, continued to pitch well even after he was hit by a Charlie Morton pitch in the fifth.
"It hurt," Lohse said. "It's a good thing it got me where it did. Otherwise, it might have blown up my kneecap because it was just above it. It wasn't anything different after that. They were swinging through some good pitches and I was just really executing well there for a stretch. Really, the whole game was early on getting the fastball and the slider, but it was after those innings I got everything else going and kept it rolling."
Aramis Ramirez improved to 9-for-12 with runners in scoring position (.750) when he plated Ryan Braun with a go-ahead single in the fourth against Morton (0-1). Braun hit an opposite-field double leading off the frame, and the quick offense picked up Lohse (2-1) after he surrendered his only run in the top half of the frame.
Milwaukee tacked on two insurance runs on a major Pirates miscue in the sixth. With runners at second and third, Scooter Gennett struck out on a ball in the dirt for the second out. When he tried to advance to first, Pirates catcher Tony Sanchez sailed the throw into right field. Both runners scored, and Gennett ended up at third.
"I blew open with the front shoulder, kind of rushed it," Sanchez said. "I butchered a routine play, and that can't happen in that situation. ... In a one-run ballgame, it's hard enough to tie it up, then you put your team down three runs to a guy like Lohse, how on he was … it wasn't a good recipe."
"I think anytime you play good baseball and are doing things right, you seem to get more breaks," Roenicke said. "When we're not playing well, I know it goes the other way. You see it all the time. Everything is going good. The bullpen is nice to have back there knowing there are three, four, five guys and they're all doing their job. The starter went really deep today, which was nice. We had a couple of guys off in the bullpen tonight, so it was nice for Kyle to get deep."
Continuing the theme of efficiency, Smith made quick work of the lone batter the bullpen saw Sunday.
"Just right time, right situation, lefty coming up," Smith said. "What those starting five have done for us to start the season has been unbelievable. They've been throwing the ball well and keeping us in games."
The Brewers improved their Major League-best bullpen ERA to 0.82, holding opponents to a .153 batting average.
"We have a lot of fun down there. But when the phone rings, it's time to go to work. It's business time," Smith said. "Winning is always fun, it just happens to be nine in a row. Even if we do lose one, we'll come back the next day and get right back out there."
Lohse retired the first nine men he faced, then allowed a leadoff single to Starling Marte, who scored just ahead of the throw on a sacrifice fly by McCutchen two batters later. In the third, Milwaukee grabbed a 1-0 lead when Martin Maldonado doubled in just his second game of the season, moved to third on the Lohse bunt and scored on a Carlos Gomez sac fly.
The Brewers made two highlight-reel defensive plays in the first and second innings. Jean Segura dove for a ball in the hole at shortstop and recovered to throw out McCutchen, and Logan Schafer flagged down an Alvarez fly ball just before colliding with the left-field wall.
"Schaf going into the wall like that, that's huge when you get that," Lohse said. "That would have been leading off the second inning. That's normally a double and you have some work to do. It was a good couple of plays that kept me rolling and kept the pitch count down."
Brewers starters have compiled nine quality starts in 12 outings.
"It's kind of a friendly competition against each other," Lohse said. "You see what the guy in front of you did and, 'Alright, you think that was good? Let me see what we can do here.' That's what we knew we had in Spring Training. When we signed Matt [Garza], we knew we had five guys that could go out there and do that kind of thing. We just have to keep executing one at a time. We have a good mentality right now."
The nine-game winning streak matched the run registered last April by the Brewers, though last year the streak began after Milwaukee opened the season 2-8 and included a majority of home games, whereas this year's streak began with a 6-0 road trip. The Brewers will bring the best record in baseball into a three-game series at home against St. Louis, starting Monday.
JR Radcliffe is a contributor to MLB.com.

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Editor: Written on behalf of Communities In Schools of Lexington/Davidson County, this letter would typically focus on asking our friends and neighbors to help us accomplish something.
Editor: Written on behalf of Communities In Schools of Lexington/Davidson County, this letter would typically focus on asking our friends and neighbors to help us accomplish something.
Of course, if we had our way, everyone inclined to be a volunteer would choose us; they would choose to spend an hour a week mentoring a young person through one of the 24 programs we administer in both the Lexington City and Davidson County school systems.
But this letter isn't about that. It's about telling you how lucky we think we are to already have close to 300 people regularly donating to us and to our mission something that is often more valuable than dollars — time.
According to Independent Sector, a national leadership network for nonprofits, the value of volunteer time is $22.14 per hour. For us at CIS, that means volunteers provided more than $13,600 worth of service during the month of February alone. In other words, our at-risk children received more than 600 hours of dedicated attention that neither their school nor our agency could have afforded to buy outright.
National Volunteer Week lasts from April 21 to 27, and we're choosing to celebrate it by recognizing the legion of mentors, board members, site coordinators and community partners who are giving of themselves to help make life a little easier for local kids at risk of dropping out of school.
We encourage you to celebrate this week along with us by thanking someone who volunteers for one of the countless nonprofit agencies, civic groups and churches in this area. And don't just thank them — ask them why they do what they do. Chances are you'll get a wide range of answers, all of which will make you consider donating a little bit of yourself to a cause that you find meaningful if you don't already.
This week is special because it encourages all of us to take a step back and examine volunteers for what they really are — powerful change-agents who seek nothing but the satisfaction of being on the ground, in the dirt, turning pipe dreams into realities.
People who volunteer know that our strength is in numbers; that we accomplish big goals when we work together. It's the reason we push ourselves to give up our lunch hours, to stay away from our cozy homes for just a little longer in the evening or even to get up early on our weekends off. Deep down we know how crucial volunteer work is to the continued existence of so many of the services provided in our community to the people who need them most.
So for whatever you do, however you do it — thank you.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For the second year in a row, MIT shutout Elms College en route to a third-place finish at Vassar College's Betty Richey Tournament. This past weekend, the Engineers fell to King's College (Pa.), 5-1, in the opener but overpowered the Blazers, 3-0, in Sunday's consolation game. Lauren McCarthy and Alex Wright represented the Engineers (1-2) on the All-Tournament Team.
Against Elms, Jessica Oleinik registered her second hat-trick in three games as MIT notched its first win of the season. She opened the scoring 16:12 into the contest when she deflected a long hit from Nirupama Yechoor. The Engineers maintained their slim lead until Oleinik converted a feed from Ekavali Mishra in the 64th minute. Wright found Oleinik for the final goal of the day with 3:16 left on the clock. In net, Alexa Herman recorded her eighth career shutout without facing a shot on goal.
In Saturday's semifinal, King's found the back of the net after 3:24 had elapsed and then added two more goals late in the first half. The Monarchs extended their advantage to 5-0 following goals in the 46th and 62nd minutes. MIT ended the shutout with 4:14 remaining in the game. On a penalty corner, Oleinik found Katie Boothe for the junior's first goal of her career. In 45 minutes of action, Herman collected seven saves as Sally Simpson closed the game with three stops.


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BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) - Riding around their Bayou Corne neighborhood, Roy and Ethel Gaudet talk fondly of the people who build lives there. Poised on a golf cart- a standard mode of transportation in the small community- they pause here and there to point out different houses, even pulling up into one neighbor's yard to point out some bubbles in the nearby swamp.
When they cruise past their own home, talk turns bittersweet.
"We put about 80 to 90,000 dollars into our home in the last twenty years. We have built the way we want it. Sometimes she goes out and sits on the back porch and cries. We know we're never going back there," said Roy.
Like 350 other residents, the couple hasn't lived in their home in one year, since the sinkhole began eating away at their community. In that one year, nearly 23 acres of land have slipped away into the slurry, dragging with them the hopes of this small town.
"It's a sad day for Bayou Corne because there was so much we didn't know a year ago and there's still so much more that we don't know today. The sad thing about it is the community is being dismantled, piece by piece, home by home, family by family," said resident and owner of Cajun Cabins, Dennis Landry.
Frustration, disappointment and exhaustion seemed to overwhelm the residents of Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish as they assembled August 3, marking the anniversary of the giant Louisiana sinkhole.
An equal mix of sweat and tears ran down the faces of residents during an emotional ceremony marking this anniversary under a hot August sky. Residents spoke of a struggle to hold the community together through a yearlong evacuation, the sinkhole and now pockets of dangerous gas.
"We're willing to stay, we're willing to take the risk we're just not ready to give up our piece of paradise," said Landry in a speech to his neighbors.
Others said a sad good bye.
"I really need to go on with my life, and a lot of us feel that way. Our lives have not had any resemblance of normal in a year. None," said resident Candy Blanchard who says she will never return to her home on the Bayou.
Still more called for action from the company responsible for the underground cavern that caused the sinkhole, Texas Brine, and from the state government.
"That 45 minute drive from here to Baton Rouge can almost be on another planet. The legislation of Louisiana is more concerned about gun control… as oppose to looking out for the people and making sure we have the right laws to control what these companies are doing," said Ret. Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré. "
On August 2, Governor Jindal and Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced that the state will be suing Texas Brine for environmental damages caused by the failed Texas Brine cavern.
Governor Bobby Jindal's office reports that the Governor stated the following:
"By filing suit, we are staying committed to holding Texas Brine accountable for the damage they've caused to Bayou Corne and to Louisiana. We have already pushed for buyouts for affected residents and are undertaking a thorough review of all of Texas Brine's permits in our state. This suit is just the next step in making sure Texas Brine does the right thing and properly addresses the mess it's caused."
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell commented as well on his concerns about the safety of Louisiana citizens is the most important.
"The safety and welfare of our citizens is the top priority. Additionally, Louisiana has expended significant financial resources to help the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou communities receive the assistance and protection they need. We are pursuing this lawsuit to hold the appropriate parties responsible for this tragic event," said Caldwell.
After a year, residents say they hoped to the situation would be resolved. They express anger at the way they feel they have been treated. Several residents asked why no state officials were present during the anniversary ceremony.
Unfortunately for these residents, both parish and Texas Brine officials agree that this is far from over. While 3D seismic surveys conducted by Texas Brine seem to indicate that the sinkhole itself is beginning to slow and stabilize, the recovery has focused on a new danger: natural gas gathering underneath a nearby aquifer.
"With the amount of gas to be vented here at its current rate of flaring, it's going to take another three years to complete that," said Assumption Parish Emergency Operations Director John Boudreaux.
According to Texas Brine, in March the company was venting and flaring about 160,000 cubic feet of natural gas each day. Now, that amount has reduced to less than 20,000 cubic feet per day. The company has 37 vent wells scattered around the area.
"We've seen a substantial reduction in the amount of gas we are flaring from the 37 vent wells. But, we realize we have some gas remaining and our efforts are targeted in removing what gas remains," said Texas Brine spokesman Sonny Cranch, who adds that the exact amount of remaining gas is hard to estimate.
However, Cranch says make no mistake, Texas Brine has not taken any of the past year lightly.
"This has been a disruption [for residents] and we regret that. We want to move this to a point where they feel safe to live in their homes," said Cranch.
Boudreaux says he has been in Bayou Corne everyday for the past 14 months, and he will not be going anywhere until the crisis is over.
"We're committed to see this thing through," said Boudreaux.
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Location and General Characteristics
Kenny neighborhood is located in southwest Minneapolis. It is bordered by Highway 62, 54th Street, Lyndale Avenue on the east, and Logan Avenue South on the west. The neighborhood, its park and its elementary school were named for Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian nurse who developed the Kenny method of treating polio. The neighborhood has a lake on its south end called Grass Lake. Houses in the neighborhood tend to have been built in the 1940s or later and are generally larger than the houses in adjacent neighborhoods such as Armatage and Windom. The neighborhood has a balanced mix of longtime and new residents.
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The Digital Classroom Framework
Acer's goal is to provide the education environment with the digital framework to enable a new way of interaction and exploration. Digital learning refers to creating real-world 21st-century learning environments that break
through conventional barriers - an approach that combines the best of traditional classroom teaching with digital learning tools and methods to make learning more fun and improve academic results.
To create a digital classroom framework, Acer provides a suite of products and services to serve the education community, from portable devices (tablets, notebooks and netbooks) to facilitate intelligent classrooms and mobile learning, to fixed solutions (desktops, monitors, projectors) designed to provide reliable classroom solutions.
Service and warranty
Acer's customer service and support always offers the highest standards. Acer Service is well organized to complete repairs efficiently and quickly, while the Acer call centers can give users all the information they need. Specialised technicians perform repairs with the best tools on the market. Moreover, each Acer Repair Center has a quality control team that tests repaired products and replaced parts as well as the chassis to ensure the machine was correctly assembled.
All Acer products come with a standard Warranty*. On top of it, Acer offers on the whole product range the Acer Advantage, a warranty extension program that can be purchased and grants a priority repair service. Notebooks can even be covered by the Accidental Damage Insurance, which takes care of any accidental and unforeseen damage to the product.
Mobility at school
Tablets are a new category of products that can answer very well the Educational needs due to their portable design and interactive capabilities. Thanks to tablets, teachers can develop innovative pedagogical approaches: prepare lessons, improve learning resources and use them in class or outdoor. The use of tablets can motivate and encourage learning. Tablets can easily display high-resolution video, illustrate and reinforce concepts, and with online assignments, students gain the ability to interact with the topics they're learning.
A complete line up of notebooks with different configurations and sizes allows to find the solution that meets everyday classroom demands. Acer's notebooks offer full connectivity, manageability and security and are ideal for both content creation and consumption.
Acer notebooks are also equipped with Education software either pre-installed or free to download, that is specifically designed to provide teachers with the ability to instruct, monitor and interact with their students in class.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For the second time in as many weeks MIT collected New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Weekly plaudits with Joanna MacKay and Leslie Hansen earning Doubles Team of the Week honors. Last Monday, Hansen was selected as the Singles Player of the Week.
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Oral bacteria responsible for most cases of halitosis
by Rallie McAllister
Everyone has bad breath sometimes, but if the people around you keep getting whiplash whenever you open your mouth, you could have a more serious problem. Halitosis is the official medical term for malodorous breath, defined as any disagreeable odor of expired air.
You're allowed to have bad breath if you've been munching on garlic cloves, but if your breath smells like dirty socks most of the time regardless of what you eat, you may suffer from halitosis. Having bad breath is not your fault — the bacteria inside your mouth are responsible for the offensive odor.
With plenty of leftover food on your tongue and between your teeth to snack on, these mouth-dwelling microbes break down proteins in food particles, creating sulfurous byproducts in the process. The volatile sulfur compounds produced by oral bacteria are similar to the gases released by rotten eggs.
Most people put a serious dent in the bacterial population of their mouths whenever they brush and floss. But even the most militant brushers and flossers tend to neglect their tongues, especially the part at the very back.
Enter the tongue scraper, a specially designed device that effectively cleans the surface of the tongue without gagging you in the process. Tongue scrapers and cleaners can be purchased at pharmacies, supermarkets and dentists' office, but for folks on a budget, a plastic spoon turned upside down works just fine.
Research reveals that the use of tongue scrapers can significantly reduce the number of bacteria in the mouth, as well as the levels of the odiferous volatile sulfur compounds they produce. If your tongue-scraping efforts don't solve the problem completely, a few additional strategies can help detoxify your breath.
Your first order of business is to schedule appointments with your dentist and your family physician to rule out any serious health conditions that might be at the root of the problem. Proper treatment of tooth decay, gum disease, chronic sinus drainage and stomach ulcers can correct many cases of halitosis.
Watching what you eat can bring about significant improvements in your breath. Most food odors dissipate from your breath in about 10 minutes, but odors from smelly foods like peanut butter and chilidogs can linger for hours.
The odiferous reminders of garlic, onions and alcohol stick around even longer. Odor-producing compounds in these foods migrate to your bloodstream after digestion, and they're exhaled through your lungs with every breath.
If you've indulged in a malodorous meal, you might try to reverse the damage with breath-freshening gums, mints or sprays — and there are plenty to choose from. The quest for minty-fresh breath has spawned a multibillion-dollar industry in the United States, which offers an impressive lineup of breath aids.
Many of these products do nothing more than give you a false sense of confidence, but mouthwashes and rinses containing antibacterial ingredients have been shown to help control oral bacteria and improve breath odor. A few herbs and nutritional supplements, including magnolia bark extract and xylitol, can help freshen breath naturally.
The results of a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry revealed that breath mints containing magnolia bark extract killed more than 61 percent of odor-causing oral bacteria. Without the magnolia bark extract, the mints killed only 3.6 percent of the germs.
Mints, gums and mouthwashes containing the natural sweetener xylitol have been shown to reduce tooth decay, gum disease and bad breath by inhibiting the growth of Streptococcus mutans and other oral bacteria. Products containing xylitol and magnolia bark extract can be found at most health-food stores.
Saliva is one of the best breath fresheners known, and it's a lot cheaper than a jug of Lavoris. Saliva washes food particles and odor-producing bacteria out of your mouth and into your stomach.
The more saliva you have in your mouth, the less likely you are to have bad breath. Because mild dehydration can reduce saliva production, it's important to drink plenty of water throughout the day.
Certain over-the-counter medications and prescription drugs can rob your mouth of saliva. Antihistamines and decongestants are notorious for leaving you with a parched palate, but dry mouth is listed as a side effect of at least 300 commonly used medications.
Most cases of halitosis are entirely treatable, but you have to recognize the problem first. If you're not sure how your breath ranks, just ask the people closest to you.
Rallie McAllister is a board-certified family physician, speaker and the author of several books, including "Healthy Lunchbox: The Working Mom's Guide to Keeping You and Your Kids Trim."


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ETBU experienced significant growth in several enrollment areas. Graduate student enrollment increased 88.5% as compared to last fall. A total of 49 students are enrolled in graduate programs offered in counseling, religion and teacher education. ETBU enrolled 350 freshman students this year, which is a 6.4% increase over last fall's freshman class. Additionally, this is the third largest freshman class in the 100 year history of the University.
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Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Sizes Included: Women Medium
Yarn Lines: Bare Stroll Fingering Sock Yarn, Stroll Tonal Sock Yarn
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Device: iPhone 4, Astak EZ Pocket Pro, Kindle 3 3G
My Review of Astak 5" Pocket Pro
I was torn with the B&N Nook, Sony PRS300 and Astak Pocket Pro. But I choose Astak because it has expandable memory, replaceble battery, supports lots of formats, and for it's price. Sony got the price but without the expandable memory, replaceable battery and lots of formats. And Although Nook has expandable memory and replaceable battery, it doesn't have the supported formats I want and the price is $60 more. The price might not matter (if you keep on thinking about it not to matter Hehe) but this is just my first dedicated ereader. So, Astak it is. My Astak Pocket Pro was ordered on Nov 7 and I received it Nov 13, Friday 2PM. So I have this device for just 10 days since it's Nov 22nd now. My take is this:
When I opened it I charged it first eventhough I want to play with it right away I have to resist. It says to charged it for 12 hours but it finished charging after 4-5 hours. There's a light indicator on top left hand corner. Then I hook it up on my PC so I can delete the chinese manual on it after that I upgraded the firmware. I deleted the chinese manual so that I wont have an error in Calibre as what other users said here in the other thread. But I still had an error message but it's a different error, more on that below. Since I've had it on Nov 13, I still have'nt recharged it. It still has 3 bars of battery on it. I already finished reading 4 books on it.
Inside the box:
-Classic Maroon 5" EZ Reader Pocket Pro
-Battery which is already put in my EZ Reader Pocket Pro
-Leather Book Cover
-User Manual
-1 small screw driver to open the back to get to the battery
-USB Cable
-Wall outlet charger/AC Adaptor
-Wrist strap
-2GB Kingston SD Card with 400 free ebooks
Physical Appearance:
It's very good. Text is crisp and sharp. No glare. If you're out in the sunlight to read, it's very, very comfortable. If the font is small you can just increase the size, for a comfortable read. If you're indoors the background looks a little darker, but I guess it's because of the lighting. But with my LED Book Light, it's very clear and white. There is hardly no strain in your eyes.
It's good. But you have to really push it sometimes. Or wait for the light indicator to stop before you could push another button. It has numbers 1-0 buttons, thumbwheel, power switch, the round back and menu buttons. 6 is for bookmarks, 7 for catalog if your ebook supports it, 8 for zoom, 9 for previous page and 0 for next page. There's also a control from the left side for turning pages and on the right side the thumbwheel controller for turning pages though you can't use it to scroll through in the menu. The power key on top can be use to lock the keypads. At the back, there's a reset button. I only reset it once since I have it.
I love where they put the page turner because its easy for you to read and turn pages whether you use your left hand thus using the left side functions for turning pages, thumbwheel controller if you're holding it on your right hand or the number 9 and 0. Page turning is pretty fast, and I got used to the flash everytime it changes page.
Look and Feel:
The maroon color is not too bright a color that it will distract you when reading. I thought the color will be glaring but it's not. It has a nice rubberize feel to it. It's square looking but very light. It's a little smaller than a paperback book. The paperback is just 1" longer than the EZ Reader Pocket Pro. It has a sturdy feel to it eventhough it looks quite generic for an ebook reader device.
-Dimensions: 6"(L) x 4.1" (W) x 0.4" (H)
-eInk Vizplex Display with 600 x 800 pixel
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-internal memory of 512MB
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Syncing to the Computer:
Computer PC Vista
It will easily see your EZ Reader as a Removable Storage Device and you can just drag and drop your ebooks to your device. The best thing I love with this is that you can organize your books by folders. All my books are organize by authors.
I love this folders very much because I don't want to dump and mix all my ebooks, for me it's too disorganized and I'm very OC when it comes to filing things neatly. The probs I have is that I have these ghost folders appear in my EZ Reader. I don't know why this is here I still need to find out why and how to erase it 'coz it won't appear if I hook it up in my PC so I could get rid of it(ghost folders). The ghost folders named FOUND.000, FOUND.001, and so on. And on the right side it says 0 directories 0 files. I can't erase it. If someone knows please help.
Using Calibre:
I find that if I use the desktop of Calibre, they will see my EZ Reader as a BeBook Mini and the problem I have is that they have problems communicating. I'll get an error message, so what I did so I can use this program is open it with windows explorer and transferred organized ebooks done by calibre in my Calibre Library. And it works just fine.
Using Adobe Digital Editions:
When I first hook it up, it ask me if I want to authorized my device and computer. And I did that first. You need Adobe ID to do this. Just sign up/registered for one in adobe website. After that(authorizing your device) you will see below in your bookshelves your EZ Reader Pocket Pro. If you have your books already loaded in ADE, all you have to do is drag and drop it. I only used this with my DRM ebooks and borrowed ebooks from the library. To my non-DRM ebooks I just use my drag and drop in windows explorer. I was able to borrow books from the public library and transfer them to my device. It wasn't a breeze/easy to use though. It took me some time before I was able to transfer my ebooks using ADE. Also when I hook it up with ADE, ADE was really slow. It keeps on crashing, which I understand is not the devices problem.
Supported Formats:
It supports PDF, ePUB, PDB, FB2, DOC, T XT, HTML, LIT, PRC, MP3, WOL, CHM, PPT, TIF, PNG, GIF, RAR, ZIP, DJVU, JPG and BMP. Also support Text to Speech.
What I've tried of the format versions are these:
It reflows your .pdf files really good. There are just some .pdf files that is hard to read. From what I understand it depends on how the pdf files were saved. I have one pdf file that no matter how much I push the zoom, it wont zoom in because of how it was saved. But most of my pdf files does reflow it pretty nicely. You can read it in a 5" display really comfortably. Some .pdf files have none or 3 zoom levels, others have 5 levels of zoom.
This is by far the best reading format I tried next to mobi. It zoom in really nice, it have 3 or 5 levels to zoom.
I have 2 .mobi file and it read as great as ePub. I did'nt find anything wrong with it like some user experienced I read here in the forum. But since I only have 2 file of mobi I guess you need to see it for yourself.
It flows on your screen really good too. You can zoom it in like the above file extensions.
TXT and Rich Text Format (RTF)
Very Good, it has 5 levels of zoom in levels and the font style can be change too if you choose a different font style in settings.
It reads but it's too slow and sometimes it stops/freezes. Have to push back button for 10 seconds or turn it off then back on again. If you zoom in 3 times it automatically reads in landscape mode and I find it hard to turn the page if I read it landscape. If I push to turn the page in landscape mode the stop sign at the bottom right side near the battery icon appears.
I was surprised that this don't read well in EZ Reader PP. If you saved your file in a 10 font size, it's hard to read. Too small. You can zoom in 3 times but on 3rd level it will automatically read in a landscape mode like LIT format. And it's kinda hard to turn the page in a landscape mode, like LIT it gives the stop sign when I turn the page. I think it's a software glitch in EZ Reader PP and I'm hoping it(page turning in landscape) will be corrected. So if you want to read your ebooks in a .doc format you have to change the font size first to 18 or 20. A minor irritant but it'll do.
This extension files can only be read if you use ADE to transfer the ebooks to your device. It reads very nice and comfortable in your EZ Reader.
It display the picture or cover picture of the book really good. In black and white.
It's okay. I rather read it myself than listen to a robotic voice. It just can't differentiate the present from past tense and some words were read wrong.
Haven't tried the MP3 yet and all other supported formats.
There's a bunch of languages it supports but I only use English though. It has 25 languages here. These are English, Simple and Traditional Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polski, Romana, Slovensko, Svenska, Deutsch, Bulgarian, Catala, Czech, Greek, Estonian, Magyar, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Espanol, Turkish, French.
Overall Impression: Very Good. For a first time dedicated ereader device I owned it's very good. It has some minor glitch and irritations but it's doable. (I only have to reset it once.) If you're looking to buy an ereader device this is worth checking out to compare with other branded ereaders that is out in the market. Especially if you don't want to spend a whole lot of money on it. It can read all kinds of formats, have replaceble battery, expandable memory card, MP3 player, Text to Speech capability, Can organized ebooks by Multiple Folders and very portable. You can put it on your purse or jacket pocket very easily. Since I had it, I brought it with me wherever I go. All I can says is that I love it. I can have my DRM and non-DRM books together in an organized folder. And that's the key word: Organized Folders
NOTE: I only have this for 10 days so I still don't know what problems I might encounter with this device. This post is what I have experienced so far. Let's see what will happened after a few weeks or months. I don't know yet how durable it will be after months or even a few months of usage.
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A great and candid review Diokdin. I enjoyed reading it. It is good that you are enjoying your new Pocket Pro. Epub is the format I most like also. Welcome to paperless reading with Astak!
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Thanks for your review! I'm disappointed to hear it doesn't read a simple format like .doc all that well as I have a lot of stories in that format but I guess I still always have my ebookwise for those which reads them perfectly.
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In Windows Explorer:
Tools | Folder options
On the View Tab "Hidden files and Folders: [Mark] Show...
BTW those folders and files are what results from a damaged "File Structure" that has been fixed. They are the pieces that were found when some file operation went bad.
BTW Calibre was Blue screening when I tried to send a bunch of books to my PEz. Checking the disk for errors created a bunch of those files and fixed the BSOD problem.
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Some of my ebooks files were damage when I have it transfer on my PPro, it wont open. It's says file damage. Is that the file structure that went bad and been fixed? And when I hook up my EZ reader PP it ask me if I want to scan it and it found something error and fixed it. Those damage files that wont opened on my PPro, I already erased. So if I erase those ghost files will the bad stuff came back again? Or not since I got rin with the damaged file that wont open. I'll try what you suggest here tools, folder option etc. See what will happened.
I'm not a tech person, so I don't understand what you're saying about BSOD. How do I check the disk error? Or did I already did it? Sorry... :-\
I know what they said about Vista but as for now, I'm stuck with this OS. :-\
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To check your PEz drive, it must not be "in use". You must QUIT Calibe. Right click the Calibre Icon in the tooltray and choos Quit.... No more Icon.
Explore "My Computer".
You should see your drives (Floppy, C drive, DVD-RW. Whatever)
One of the Removable drives will be your SD Card (if inserted),
The next letter is the PEz Built-in storage.
You can explore them to figue whick is the Card and Internal.
Anyway at the Drive Level of My Computer, Right-click the one you want and select properties.
Select the tools tab (on properties)
Click "Error checking: Check Now" button
You will be given some choices. Tick only the Automatic fix option
Click that "Start" (not the one with the logo )
If you get an "Disk check could...." Message, Calibre or there is another "Explorer" window using it. Answer: "NO" . Fix the unwanted usage and try again.
Delete Only those "Ghost" files, if they end in ".chk" and the "found###" folder. Do Not Mess with other hidden files
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Thanks for being patient. I really appreciate the help. I did what you said and the olny hidden files it sees is the adobe digital edition(.adobe-digital-editions). It didn't see those Found ### files. But if I look it on my EZ PPro I could see those files and click on it. It doesnt have anything on there. It just added clutter.
Is there other way to do this? TIA
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As for .doc being simple, oops! Ok, not a simple format. I figure I'll try some of them on my PP and if it's too difficult I'll just continue to read those on my ebookwise since it reads them with no problems. But will be using the PP for everything else.
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Something is odd . If you can see the .adobe-digital-additions
You should see a folder called Found.000 (or with other 3 digits).
Inside that is the .chk files
Sort (view by) by name to make it easier to find Found,### folders
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Well, what I did is this: (Actually my husband help me with this) I went to the command prompt and change the directory to where the SD card and built in memory of EZ Reader and put this command: dir f*.00? /s /a and it found all those FOUND.### files and I deleted it like that. But still no success. It's still there.
So we did another thing. We click on TOOLS then FOLDER OPTION, click on VIEW then uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) so we need to uncheck that aside checking shows hidden files and folders. And all those hidden files appeared together with the .adobe-digital-editions. This works. I got rid of those ghost files. Yipeee!!!
Again Thanks so much for the Help and your Patient. Appreciate it!
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There is Hidden and there is Hidden system.
You got all the space those files represented back for use.
Depending on what folder had originally failed, that could be a sizable amount.
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this is about the Jim Carrey clips.
i cant watch them coz i dont have real player, and i cant get the free trial coz id have to pay, and i'm only 15 years old, i dont have any type of credit card of my own, and my parents probobly wont pay for it.
is there some way i could watch them without having real player?
or is there a way i can get real player without having to pay, even if they say its a FREE trial?
(keepin in mind, that the word "FREE" means you dont have to pay, aswell as it meaning "Not imprisoned or enslaved; being at liberty". )


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8th ave wrote:32 wrote:LMFAO
I guess we'll see this summer
Lets do a friendly bet, 32. One of those signature bets for a week. If Landry opts out I win. If he opts in and stay you win. Personally, if i win, I'd want you to take a picture of yourself holding a sign that reads, "8th ave is my daddy". Lol. Whataya say?
Hahaha, I dig it.
But lemmie alter it slightly; if he stays a Warrior, opt out or no (like, say he opts out, tests the market and ends up signing a 1-year deal with us), I win it. But if he's gone for somewhere else next year, you collect the W.
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When mentoring our pre-service and in-service teachers we need to describe and model both research-based and clinically tested best practices, and demonstrate how these best practices can be applied in the real (i.e. physical) and virtual (i.e. online) classroom for both teaching and teacher training. The combination of face to face instruction in a physical setting and online learning is called blended learning. In this section of the blog we will describe how the internet can serve as a supplemental resource for instruction and the mentoring of pre-service and in-service Jewish educators. In this post we will discuss how Portfoliogen.com, an e-portfolio web tool, can be used to promote Judaic instruction and to mentor/train Jewish educators.
But what is an e-portfolio?
What is an E-portfolio?
An e-portfolio or electronic portfolio is a collection of selected digitized artifacts (i.e. pictures, documents, articles, honors, work experience, files, etc.) that describe your interests, hobbies, personal and professional goals. Instead of curating these artifacts and placing them in a physical collection (e.g. album, or scrapbook) they can be located online. Judaic Studies students would want to create their own e-portfolios for the following reasons:
- To document, demonstrate and measure knowledge acquisition, and skills
- To collect artifacts of learning over a period of time (i.e. elementary school, high school, etc.)
- To provide a job interviewer with a digital portfolio of work experience, knowledge and skills
- To celebrate the wealth of experience, honors, knowledge and skills your have accumulated
- To assess the strengths and limitations of your experiences, knowledge and skills
For more information on e-portfolios click onto this link: http://electronicportfolios.org/
Assumption: The teacher or mentor teacher has an interactive white board (i.e. SMART Board, Promethean, etc.), a Tablet PC (also called a Slate or Blade), a computer presenter or computer with internet access attached to an LCD projector in the classroom. It would be ideal if students or mentees had access to their own laptop computers or Ipads. Given parental and school approval, and the development of specific guidelines, smartphones can be used to enhance instruction as well.
Note: Although Portfoliogen.com can be applied in the Judaic Studies blended learning classroom, it can be also be used for training pre-service and in-service Jewish educators for professional or staff development. It is our hope that Jewish educators around the globe will form an online community of practice, a CoP, a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession, to enhance the delivery of instruction and training of Jewish educators. For example, here is a CoP you might want to join.
Note: Portfoliogen.com can be used in a face to face and virtual classroom.
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Martha Coakley calls Medford home, and so it was the logical place for her to kick off her three-day, 18-city-and-town gubernatorial announcement tour. The message of that swing: This is not the listless, coast-on-your-laurels candidate who lost a winnable race to featherweight Republican Scott Brown in 2010.
No indeed. The new Coakley will be a candidate who campaigns until the last dog dies.
Or dozes off. For as her dull and largely content-free campaign roll-out suggests, the specter of 2010 isn't Coakley's only problem. This is a campaign about little beyond her notion that she should be the next governor.
Start with her campaign video. It would have worked well as a tourism ad, certainly; its picturesque images made one ache for the Cape. But as campaign fare, it was a sugary diet of empty-calorie cliches. To wit: "But what we really have are the strongest, the toughest, and most resilient people in this nation . . . ordinary people with extraordinary courage, people who you'll see in the grocery store or at your kid's game or in the next cubicle over at work or at church or the beach."
Or at Petco if they need flea and tick medication for their pooch. Or refilling their wiper fluid if it's run so low that only an anemic little trickle issues forth when they try to clean the windshield. Or just stopping by a coffee shop to get a cup of joe before they go about the extraordinary-disguised-as-ordinary tasks of their daily lives.
Which sets the stage for Coakley's Medford event. She was supposed to greet voters in Dempsey's Breakfast & Lunch, which is just the sort of coffee-brewing, fat-chewing breakfast spot a Medford resident might well frequent, even if she were a high elected official, if she wanted to keep her finger firmly on the pulse of the people.
Alas, when the Medford resident in question strode purposefully across the street to the small plaza Dempsey's fronts on, she made her way instead to the door of adjacent Dino's Pizzeria. Dino's was closed; like Bertie Wooster, Medfordians evidently prefer eggs and b. when it comes to breakfast fare.
Fortunately, Medford Mayor-for-life Michael McGlynn was on the scene and quickly guided the confused candidate to Dempsey's welcoming portal. (Why the mix-up? Well, two of Dempsey's regular patrons told me they had never seen the attorney general there before.)
Are these substantive criticisms? Let's put it this way: They are the sort of quibbles that grow larger in a vacuum. And Coakley's kickoff was just that: vacuous. Take, for example, her expatiation on the state's business climate. "I am a big believer that there is room in this state for businesses large and small."
Or her comments on education, the subject that will apparently be her gubernatorial raison d'etre. Coakley wants to "modernize" our schools so everyone can compete in today's economy. Fine, but how? The only thing that approached a specific was her general embrace of an extended school day.
If done right, a longer day can pay big rewards, particularly for underprivileged urban kids. But it's also very expensive. Consider: Massachusetts currently spends about $14 million to fund extended-day programs in 19 schools. The state has more than 1,500 traditional public schools.
So how would she pay for a longer day?
"We have to have a balanced approach to look at," Coakley said. "What are the revenues, how do we keep those revenues up by turning the economy around. We are going to take a look at everything, I think, will be on the table, in terms of how we pay for it, not just through taxpayer dollars but through private-public partnerships and what are those investments that we in Massachusetts are ready to make."
Oh my.
Now, I understand that, after her dismal 2010 race, Coakley wants to show she's an indefatigable meet-and-greet machine. Thus her stress on barnstorming the state and "talking to folks."
But it's not enough just to talk. To be persuasive as a gubernatorial candidate, one actually has to have something to say. You would think Coakley would have fleshed that out before she declared her candidacy.
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We all know it's going to happen, that evening after a great day outside when we neglect to prepare. It's like getting caught out with only your prescription sunglasses as night falls. You might look cool, but you're regretting not be being prepared.
The same will happen when we start getting the chills on that first autumn evening and reach for the right wine to pair it with, only to find that we are (gasp!) unprepared.
So, here's a little warning and some recommendations for six wines you should have on hand right now. Be prepared for the end of summer, the beginning of fall and, with any luck, a little bit of an Indian summer to laze away a few more precious weekends before we return indoors for our annual hibernation.
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Once-bustling construction sites around Moscow have fallen silent since the financial crisis hit and the city's real estate bubble burst last fall. Most people shudder at the sight of the crane-topped skeletons of unfinished skyscrapers – reminders of an economic disaster that is still spreading.
But some prominent Muscovites see a silver lining. They say the city has gotten a second chance to halt the breakneck destruction of its historic center, and replace the anything-goes building splurge of recent years with a plan to preserve Moscow's architectural heritage.
"During the past 15 years we've lost our Moscow," says David Sarkisyan, director of the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow. "Something like 600 buildings, key pieces of the city's architectural cocktail, have been ruined, and 300 more are under threat. But, strange to say, the crisis is helping. All the city's main developers are bankrupt, and the bulldozers have been stilled for the time being."
The extent of Moscow's helter-skelter transformation in recent years has been documented in a huge study published this summer by the Moscow Architectural Preservation Society (MAPS), a group founded five years ago by foreign journalists that has since expanded to include dozens of architects, historians, tour guides, and other Moscow-lovers. The report decries Mayor Yury Luzhkov's profit-driven strategy of allowing developers to rip apart famous old buildings and replace them with "sham replicas" – which have underground parking and modern amenities – as a "theme park approach to an historic city."
"There is no other capital in peacetime Europe that is being subjected to such devastation for the sake of earning a fast megabuck," the study said.
Critics blame Mr. Luzhkov – whose billionaire wife, Yelena Baturina, is one of the city's main real estate developers – for allowing a property boom to sweep aside restraint.
"In Moscow's center, only 5 percent of historic structures are still intact," says Irina Korobyina, director of the independent Modern Architecture Center and member of Moscow's advisory city-planning council. "The authorities declare their intent is not to do damage, but it's enough to walk around downtown Moscow to see that there are no effective instruments of control and no guarantee that the law will be followed. The only aim of development appears to be to satisfy the greed of developers."
The Moscow mayor's office, citing summer holidays, declined to make an official available for comment.
Many people do seem impressed by the rapid transformation of the city's core, which has modernized its appearance, upgraded facilities, and cleaned away Soviet-era jumble and grime.
Still, many of the changes have altered Moscow's historic center and enraged preservationists, including:
•The Hotel Moskva. The first major Soviet-era hotel, built in the 1930s next-door to the Kremlin, was a hulking Stalinist monument constructed from materials looted by the Bolsheviks from churches and Czarist-era palaces. Torn down by Luzhkov in 2004, it has been replaced by a "replica" that's set to open as a five-star hotel. "Of course, you couldn't love the Moskva for what it was," says Kevin O'Flynn, one of the original founders of MAPS. "But it was a building of its time and it made sense where it was."
•The Manege. The Czarist-era royal stables were turned into an art gallery in Soviet times, and burned down in 2004. The fire, whose causes remain unexplained, forcibly settled a dispute between the Ministry of Culture, which wanted no changes to one of Moscow's most beloved structures, and Luzhkov's planned renovation. A virtual replica was recently unveiled in the place of the original.
•Voyentorg. An Art Nouveau classic built in 1912, and turned into a military department store by the Soviets, it was the first major Moscow landmark demolished by Luzhkov, in 2003. Critics are beside themselves with fury at the high-end shopping mall set to open in its place. "It's a scapegrace, an awful parody of what Voyentorg used to be," says Nikolai Lyzlov, a Moscow architect.
•The Bolshoi Theater, built in 1824, has been draped in tarpaulins and gutted for almost five years and is scheduled to reopen in 2013. In July, its chief conductor, Alexander Vedernikov, quit over the renovations, complaining that "the theater is putting bureaucratic interests above artistic ones."
Amid the pause created by Russia's financial crisis, there is a chance to save not only Moscow's shrinking heritage, but also that of other major cities, such as St. Petersburg, where the bulldozers have barely started work, says Marina Khrustalyova, an architectural historian and a director of MAPS.
"Where Moscow goes, the rest of Russia follows," she says. "We need to attract attention to this issue now, while there's still something left to save."


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Grozny (Russian: Гро́зный GROHZ-nyh) is the war-torn capital city of Chechnya. Since the end of the Second Chechen War, Grozny has undergone a renaissance in development and many abandoned or low-quality apartments and houses demolished and replaced with newer re-built apartment buildings and suburbs. Grozny was originally a Russian fort and named after Ivan the Terrible, as Grozny is Russian meaning "terrible" and Ivan the Terrible's Russian name is Ivan Grozny. Throughout 1994 and the early 2000s the city underwent chaos as Russian military battled Chechen rebels. As of today, Grozny is undergoing redevelopment but is extremely dangerous and the Russian Mafia is very active in the city.
Grozny was originally founded in 1818 as a Russian fort. It was a major stronghold for the Russians during the Caucasian Wars during 1818-1864. During the early 20th century, population boomed because of the city's rich oil reserves which drove many Russians from other parts of the country to work in the city.
During World War II, Josef Stalin thought the Chechens were working with the Nazis to overthrow the Soviet government. It was decided to deport all Chechens to concentration camps in Northern Kazakhstan. Although they were allowed back into the city after Stalin's reign, many were angry with years of inequality.
In the 1990s, rebels began to form groups in an attempt to destroy Russian control in the city and the rest of Chechnya. The government lost partial control and the city was very much dangerous every day. Peace finally began to restore during the late stages of the war in the 2000s and currently the government is beginning to reconstruct the city.
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Because of Grozny being highly devastated by years of war, transportation is often tricky and hard as much of Grozny's transportation system has been destroyed. However, since reconstruction began, it's possible to take a flight to the city or use a train, bus or the convenient highway system.
By plane
The only two ways to get to Grozny by air is by using the Vnukovo Airport in Moscow and the Sabiha Gokcen Aiport in Istanbul. Rusline is one airline with regular flights between Moscow and Grozny, and Grozny Avia is the regular flights between Istanbul and Grozny, although it may be difficult if not impossible for non Russian visitors to gain proper authorization to travel there. The flights to Grozny are extremely guarded since the war and 9/11, so expect delays.
By train
A night train departs from Moscow every second day, taking two nights. Due to terrorist threats, this train is heavily guarded, expect delays and hassles. Also, there is a night train from Rostov-on-the-Don and a day train from Astrakhan. Local trains connect with Khasavyurt and Gudermes.
By car
Grozny is connected to the rest of Russia by a large highway system. The P-308, P-307 and M-29 highways connect the city to other cities in Russia. Keep in mind that it's best to take a map with you, or else you can get lost.
By bus
A bus usually leaves from Nazran to Grozny and other cities in the Caucasus region of Russia, so remember when you are going to stop.
Get around
It's very difficult to get around Grozny since during the Siege of Grozny the tram and trolley system was almost destroyed. The tram is not expected to re-open, but the trolley has re-opened this year. The trolley still has not fully developed, so it's advised to use a car to travel the city. There is a (religious) taxi company operating in the city called Islam, which uses green-painted cars.
Because of the region's war's affect on the economy, many items in Grozny are cheap. Don't expect to find much Western essentials you can find in other parts of the country in many stores. Many authentic swords and daggers can be bought at low prices. There is a flea market with many Chechen and Russian merchants. Again, don't expect much and expect to find some bootleg copies of well-known products.
There aren't many bars in the city, but there are many local vendors which sell beer. Common sense must be used when approaching alcohol, and beer can only be sold legally between 8:00 and 10:00 AM.
Grozny has only partly stabilized enough to be safe for travel. Take extreme caution when visiting war-torn areas as there are some unexploded land-mines. Rebels often take tourists as hostages, so try to blend in with the population. It's said that the Russian Mafia have more members in the city then there are police, so be careful. It's advised NOT to speak Chechen in the city, as a foreigner speaking the language will attract a lot of unwanted attention. If you plan to visit Grozny, take lots of precaution.
Many foreign governments, including the UK, Canadian and US governments, strongly warn their citizens not to travel to Chechnya under any circumstances. They report that there have been many incidents of their citizens visiting there as well as Russian citizens being missing, killed, or kidnapped for ransom.
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Who exactly is available that would be an upgrade on Edler?? Kinda like Topper said, this notion that we can just acquire who we want because we want them is pretty silly. Edler is a top-10/12 d-man in the league. He's not top-5, and top-5 guys aren't available. We have to live with what we have, which shouldn't be hard cuz most teams would LOVE Alex Edler @ $5M/season.Meds wrote: He should have been traded with someone for an upgrade.
He's 6th in Goals by d-men. The guys above him are Subban, Green, Phaneuf, Markov and Yandle.
Last year only Karlsson, Byfuglien, Campbell, Chara, Pietrangelo and Weber had more points from the back end.
I'm curious who we'd be able to "upgrade" to. Forget Pietrangelo, Weber, Chara, Subban and Karlsson (and add Doughty, Suter and Letang to this list). They aren't moving. I imagine Yandle is in there unless we're giving up too much.
I wouldn't want Green ($6M for worse d-zone play/health issues), Phaneuf ($6.5M, ditto), Markov ($5.75 Age/health), Campbell ($7.1M age/contract), Byfuglien ($5.2M drug addict). I wouldn't trade Edler for any of them.
Next season Edler's contract puts him as the 24th highest paid d-man in the league (cap-wise). He's tied with Paul Martin. I'd rather have Edler.
The Canucks should be looking to add someone that allows Edler to play his game, not trade him for someone better. The guys that are BETTER than Edler, and there aren't many, simply aren't available unless we're willing to gut our franchise for them.


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When it came to creating psychedelic imagery, Lee Conklin had no peer. BG126 reveals more with each perusal, albeit revealing a lot of "ubiquitous breasts and butts" with every viewing. The first lineup featured two great blues-rockers, pioneering bluesman Albert King and Linda Tillery's Loading Zone, and the second headlined Ten Years After with virtuoso guitar player Alvin Lee and traditionalists Canned Heat.
About Lee Conklin
Lee Conklin's early influences were pen and ink masters Heinrich Kley and Saul Steinberg.After seeing articles featuring Wes Wilson's poster art, Conklin was inspired to visit San Francisco and show his art to Bill Graham. Conklin was soon commissioned to do posters and produced 31 original designs for the Fillmore between 1968 and 1969. Conklin rendered both graphics and calligraphy in intricate detail. What began as a personal challenge to disguise images within images and lettering soon turned into a concerted effort to turn every single letter and figure into another form, stretching the imagination to new limits.