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Black Cubans Still Suffering from Hurricane Sandy
Black Cubans Still Suffering from Hurricane Sandy
Tuesday, 13 November 2012 09:49
Some say assistance given to white Cubans first, little for Blacks
By José Pérez
Special to the NNPA from The Miami Times
For centuries, Santiago de Cuba has been a loud and lively city nestled
at the foot of mountains that meet the Caribbean Sea. Birthplace of
people like Desi Arnaz, Rita Marley, and Afro-Cuban military genius
Antonio Maceo, Santiago and its residents are always vibrant. It is
because of this that a walk around the densely-populated city in the
immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy indicated that something was very
wrong. "Santiago is wrapped in a deafening silence of despair," said Dr.
Alberto Jones of the Caribbean American Children's Foundation, who grew
up in nearby Guantanamo and had been in Cuba visiting family and friends
when the killer storm hit.
What Jones witnessed in Santiago was not limited to Cuba's second city.
He describes what he saw in places like Songo, La Maya, and Guantanamo
as "horrifying, devastating, and unbelievable." Describing the damage
inflicted on Eastern Cuba as "massive," Jones added that "hundreds of
roads are blocked and overflowing rivers have washed away railroad
tracks and bridges" in the area. Jones notes that 90 percent of
Santiago's residents are Black Cubans.
Ventura Figueras Lores, a reporter in Guantanamo, said that, despite
obstacles, "chlorine and other disinfecting products to purify water for
human consumption" are being distributed for free through the Cuban
government's pharmacy network. Both men point out that rebuilding
efforts are already underway. Even nontraditional workers like older
adults and children are involved with the process, says Jones.
His wife, Sylvia Jones, says such a proactive approach to hurricanes is
nothing new for Cubans.
"Cuba has the best record in the Caribbean as far as casualties after
storms are concerned," she said. "Everyone knows where to go, what to
do. And they don't wait for you to evacuate — they come and pick you up."
Death still strikes
In light of that, the Joneses and many others were devastated by the
news that 11 people in Cuba alone were killed because of the storm.
"There are tens of thousands of roofless or windowless homes, schools,
healthcare facilities, nursing homes, daycares and cultural centers that
were partially or totally destroyed," Jones added. "It is simply
"Here, despite all of the adversity is a real human hurricane," Figueras
He explained that this "human hurricane" is evident by "the people along
with the authorities rushing into affected areas with help despite the
scarcity of resources."
But while volunteers have been going into Eastern Cuba to aid with the
recovery, more help is clearly needed.
"We are asking every concerned and caring individual to open their
hearts," said Jones, who has spent more than 20 years directing
humanitarian efforts in Eastern Cuba from his home in Northeast Florida.
Mrs. Jones says they must "get the word out," for the need for help for
Black Cubans who often do not benefit from the remittances that Cubans
in the U.S. (many of whom are white) send to their relatives on the island.


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I just finished an extensive response to one of the Wish List items on the "roadmap" only to push "POST" and have to re-log in. Of course the time and effort spent on that particular moment of feedback are lost and will have to be recreated now.
Can editors of the site be allowed to remain logged in without compromising site security??
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Love In The Wild: Gwenn Semeel's Crimes Against Nature
Artist Gwenn Semeel has created a children's book and a series of paintings based on her research into the incredible variety of gender roles, family structure, and partnering in the animal kingdom...
Hyperallergic featured her work, writing "The diversity of sex and gender in the animal kingdom is totally overlooked when people use the argument 'it's not natural' to say that someone's lifestyle goes against their personal moral constructs." Semeel said her project was inspired by her inability to have children, and her frustration with "being told again and again that the urge to reproduce is primordial". She started delving into the mating, family habits, and social structure of animals, and realized "that this wasn't just about baby-making. It was about all the things that we think women and men have to be in order to be natural".
Here are a few of my favorite pieces, along with the text from her children's book..
Happily ever after (Black Swan): "Among black swans, males sometimes pair-bond with other males. These couples tend to be successful as parents since the combined strength of two males allows the swans to maintain a larger nesting territory. They acquire eggs to raise either by briefly forming a trio with a female or by taking over the nest of a heterosexual couple."
Not necessarily a lone wolf (Grey wolf): "Some boys and girls don't make babies at all. Gray wolves tend to live in packs with only the dominant male and the dominant female reproducing. Other members of the pack nurture the young along with the parents."
Love-in (Red-sided garter snake): "And some boys have sex with boys and girls. When red-sided garter snakes emerge from winter hibernation to mate, they are cold. The first male snakes to arrive at the surface use the sun's heat to raise their body temperature. The next wave of snakes—also males—attract the warm males with a perfume that all snakes exude when exiting the den. Warm and cold males writhe around in mating balls, waiting for the appearance of the females who will also use the perfume to announce their presence."
Girls just wanna have fun (Bottlenose dolphin): "Sometimes girls have sex with girls. Both male and female bottlenose dolphins participate in homosexual exchanges and, usually, they do so more than participating in heterosexual encounters. Females seek out clitoral stimulation and other nonprocreative sexual interactions from partners of both sexes."
What really happened when Nemo's mother died (Clownfish): "Boys can become girls. When a clownfish female is removed from her anemone home, the male turns into a female and one of the couple's young becomes a mature male. The new pair continues to breed in the same anemone."
(All images by Gwenn Semeel, via Hyperallergic)


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Read more news at: https://www.mlb.com/news
Winter League roundup: Rosario solid in DR
Rockies catcher delivers RBI double to lead Aguilas to win over Toros
Dominican Winter League
Escogido 3, Estrellas 2 (10 innings)
Escogido's Pedro Ciriaco led off the bottom of the 10th with a double and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly by Pirates prospect Gregory Polanco. Ciriaco and Polanco had two hits, as did Brennan Boesch and Wilkin Castillo. Escogido's Edward Valdez allowed two runs (one earned) on two hits and struck out nine in seven innings. Box score
Aguilas 3, Toros 1
Colorado's Wilin Rosario had an RBI double and Dan Black drove in another run for Aguilas. Jim Adduci led Toros with two hits. Box score
Gigantes 10, Licey 1
The Gigantes scored nine runs in the first three innings, seven off Chris Volstad. Phillies prospect Maikel Franco went 3-for-4 for the Gigantes, as did Marcell Ozuna. Jonathan Diaz and Moises Sierra also each homered for the Gigantes. Box score
Venezuelan Winter League
Lara, Caracas -- PPD (RAIN)
Caribes 7, Zulia 3
Gorkys Hernandez and Oscar Salazar each drove in a pair of runs for Caribes, while Eduardo Escobar added two doubles and Jose Gil homered. Jose Pirela led Zulia with two hits and a walk while Jose Flores plated two. Box score
Magallanes 5, Aragua 4
Magallanes stormed back to score four runs in the bottom of the ninth, capped by Adonis Garcia's walk-off, two-run double. Rangers prospect Rougned Odor went 3-for-4 for Magallanes, while Luis Maza, Ronny Cedeno, Guillermo Quiroz and Oswaldo Arcia all had two hits for Aragua. Box score
La Guaira 13, Margarita 3
La Guaira scored six first-inning runs to open its romp against Margarita. C.J. Retherford went 3-for-4 with four RBIs, while Cesar Suarez was 2-for-4 with a grand slam and five RBIs. White Sox prospect Carlos Sanchez was one of four other La Guaira players to notch two hits. Box score
Puerto Rican Liga de Beisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente
Caguas 3, Ponce 2
Aaron Bates' two-run double in the sixth put Caguas ahead, while Rey Navarro and Johnny Monell each went 2-for-4. Ivan De Jesus was 2-for-4 and Royals prospect Christian Colon had an RBI double for Ponce. Box score
Mayaguez 5, Santurce 3 (11 innings)
Luis Figueroa drew a bases-loaded walk and Rene Rivera followed with a sacrifice fly to put Mayaguez ahead in the top of the 11th. Chris Curley and Jerry Sands had three hits for Mayaguez, while Michael Taylor added three knocks, one a solo home run. Cincinnati's Billy Hamilton and Astros prospect Jonathan Singleton had two hits for Santurce. Box score
Mexican Pacific League
Los Mochis 8, Guasave 4
Los Mochis' Brian Burgamy and Ramon Orantes each launched two home runs. Burgamy went 3-for-4, while Jake Fox and Jamie Johnson added two hits. Zelous Wheeler led Guasave by going 3-for-4. Box score
Mazatlan 12, Hermosillo 3
Mazatlan scored seven runs in the fourth inning and was led by Issmael Salas, who went 3-for-4 with four RBIs. Jesse Castillo and Erick Rodriguez also plated two, while Henry Mateo, Oswaldo Morejon and Blake Gailen had two hits. Box score
Obregon 4, Navojoa 3
Daniel Castro paced Obregon's four-run second inning with a two-run single. Jose Chavez, Luis Fonseca and Wes Bankston each had two hits for Navojoa. Box score
Mexicali 14, Culiacan 3
Former Major Leaguer Russell Branyan went 3-for-5 with two home runs and five RBIs to lead Mexicali's rout. Ben Guez and Oscar Robles each had three hits, while Guez and Chris Roberson went deep. Box score
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This is just a modest suggestion, not a declaration: I wonder if you and Rogov had my attitude about making the experience pleasurable for the staff if it might be noticed and appreciated and increase the effort that is put forth for you so that you might end up with more rewarding experiences.
That's a thought, Covert. Maybe I need to have more of a "let me help you, help me" attitude.
Fortunately, I have had very few overtly bad experiences in fine dining restaurants over the years. I had one bad experience at a well known restaurant in New Orleans many years ago, and one at a heavily hyped restaurant in Chicago a few years ago. Neither experience involved problems with wine.


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Oct. 21, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second week in a row and third time this season Leslie Hansen and Anastasia Vishnevetsky were selected the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Doubles Team of the Week. The Engineers have collected a league-high five weekly awards throughout the regular season.
Hansen and Vishnevetsky had a great week as they finished the NEWMAC regular season undefeated by outlasting the Wheaton tandem of Sarah Geocaris and Catherine Teague, 9-7, at the top spot, en route to a 6-3 team win. The pair also had a great showing at the NEWITT Tournament, advancing to the semifinals in the A Draw. On their way, Hansen and Vishnevetsky defeated teams from Tufts University, Suffolk University, and Williams College, before bowing out to Amherst College.
MIT will return to action on Sunday, Oct. 26 as the No. 2 seed in the NEWMAC Championship Tournament hosted by Mount Holyoke College. The Engineers will take on either No. 3 Wheaton College or No. 6 Smith College in semifinal action starting at 9:30 a.m.


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On a day when many of us take to the streets of London to demonstrate ahead of tomorrow's G20 summit - and various publications dust off old arguments bemoaning the lack of protest in modern music - Alexander Tudor considers Peter Doggett's excellent, unromanticised account of the Sixties counter culture.
The hefty title and actual physical heft of the book itself tells you plenty – this is going to be a scholarly account of the equivalent of our own last days of Rome (~ 1966 – 1972). Still, the quote on the cover is particularly revealing:
'Grab a copy By Any Means Necessary – 5 Stars, MOJO'
Peter Doggett is a Mojo writer himself, and recipient of their award for Best Book 2008, but this isn't a point about nepotism – they're right, you DO need this. The point is that they didn't say 'Steal This Book' – and they couldn't. That phrase has been as debased as any other slogan and image of the era (you thought The Pope Smokes Dope was a T-shirt from Camden Market?). In a sense, that's the depressing message you might glean from it all – everything gets commodified in the end, especially dissent, which is why (heavens no!) we couldn't possibly ask anyone to steal this book; he needs the money...
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, though. What Doggett has produced is an intelligible, enjoyable, thorough – perhaps even 'definitive' – account of the pivotal moment when it was possible to believe that music, art, poetry, street theatre, and sloganeering could change the world. From the start, all those epochal developments – the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the Nixon administration, Communist expansion in Indochina, the rise of the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers – aren't just in the background: they are the story. You've probably read a hundred features about rock'n'roll bands in which you get a potted history of the Sixties or Seventies in the first paragraph. Thing is, the CIA really did consider these people a threat, there were running battles in the streets, and Huey Newton really did treat Highway 61 Revisited as a prophetic text about the oppression of the American negro (Maggie's Farm = capitalism, etc). Revolutionaries didn't merely flirt with rock stars to raise funds and awareness – they each thought they were the other, and were ultimately destroyed by the same temptations (drugs, groupies, wanton egotism).
Doggett separates the strands elegantly, and effectively: 1) Folk and Rock Stars involved in the Civil Rights and Protest Movements; 2) Radical Black Movements, Christian and Non-Christian; 3) Black Musicians and Poets involved with these Movements; 4) Poets, Artists, and other Agitators connecting the Movements. Having done so, it's easy to see whose methods were going to be more or less problematic; why the most significant (or positive) development arising from all this was that black record labels and radio-stations were the major inroads for black-owned business; how all four camps treated their 'sisters' just as shoddily, and might as well have never heard of feminism.
It's hard to think of any account of the counter-culture that gives equal weight to these strands, or shows the necessity of considering them together – you'd have to look to Marxist analyses like Dell Hymes' essay Reinventing Anthropology (1972), or Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces (1989), which attempts to link up manifestations of Communalism from the Middle Ages to the Sixties and then punk, but ultimately comes across almost as loopy as the people it describes.
Doggett, on the other hand, shows the lives of the main players intersecting with global politics, and effortlessly moves between the personal and geopolitical, with a deftness (and profundity) that recalls The Shock Doctrine (2007) by Naomi Klein. This isn't easy to do – John Gray's Black Mass (also 2007) told a similar story, to considerable acclaim, but failed to show the human impact, and mistook the political writing of an age for its actual character. When Doggett discusses an artifact like Lennon & Ono's Some Time in New York City, say, he digs up reviews proclaiming it the most important protest album ever made, juxtaposes them with more critical ones; tells us about the figures celebrated in song who had all been released from prison by the time it came out; shows that Lennon had some success funding violent direct action groups whilst fighting his battle with US immigration; ends the book with Lennon, Ginsberg, and others watching Nixon's re-election, during which Lennon denounced them all, shagged Abbie Hoffmann's lover, and then went home with Yoko, who he'd just blamed for drying up his creativity with her own projects about women's rights.
In other words, this is a magnificent account of a period whose repercussions are felt today: in a sense, reality was being adjusted circa1966, but we've never really lost the sense that you can change the world by watching TV, listening to angry music, or complaining. There was a time when people sincerely asked, often in song: could you wish the bombs away? Could you put flowers in the barrels of guns? Was the problem that no-one thought to give peace a chance? The Shock Doctrine presents a powerful theory explaining the state of contemporary society, but this book goes a long way to explaining the origins of the Apathy Doctrine, or the Cynicism Doctrine that pervades contemporary culture, keeping young voters from caring, and allowing older voters to smugly tell themselves 'at least we tried'. By the end, Bob Dylan only seems ahead of his time because he became cynical a decade before everyone else; Joan Baez comes across as the bravest of the lot (travelling to North Vietnam to deliver letters to POWs, shortly before the peace agreement), but also futile, because black groups didn't like her, and white men neglected her. John Lennon comes across as even more of a monstrous prick than you ever thought possible, making Richard Nixon look almost sympathetic.
Doggett doesn't say much, himself, about the after-effects – his epilogue suggests that the perceived failure of the counter culture by 1972 prevented anyone protesting about the subsequent CIA-sponsored coup in Chile, which signalled the US had learned nothing about the perils of intervention – nonetheless, the implications are evident and endless. It's daring to write a book so bleak and so damning but it's no less vital for it.


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Inbetween a Smartphone and Laptop: Motorola ATRIX 4G
The Motorola Xoom tablet received high praise and great interest during CES for a variety of reasons, but it was actually its smaller sibling, the Motorola ATRIX 4G, which impressed us with its differentiating features which bridged the smartphone category nearly over to laptop capabilities/utility: a dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU, 4″ touchscreen 960×540 display, and most notably, a laptop dock which converts the ATRIX into a powerful, quasi-netbook of sorts.
The docking feature takes advantage of the horsepower inside the Froyo equipped smartphone, allowing users to use a full-sized keyboard and monitor with a customized version of Flash-friendly Firefox 3.6, complete with tabs and windows. In docked mode, the ATRIX switches over to a Linux OS to offer three applications: a file manager, an Android App launcher and the Firefox browser, converting a pocket device into a laptop workstation (just don't expect to be working in Photoshop with this handset).
At quick glance, we thought we were just looking at a desktop machine with the ATRIX docked to it, but it was indeed the pint-sized Android 2.2 smartphone powering the setup over at the Motorola display (unfortunately, they paired their handsets with the most awful looking Dell keyboards that made us wince; a nicer looking wireless ATRIX keyboard will be available).
The handset felt comfortable, though a little light in the material quality department, with browsing and navigating through the UI was whip fast, thanks to the dual core Tegra inside. There was none of the jerky performance that has hampered some of the current Android devices; a 1930 mAh battery will hopefully keep the device charged and usable for more than a few hours, a concern considering the power requirements imposed by the dual core within.
Considering many smartphones are now nearly the size of smaller tablets, and for the fact for many smartphone users a tablet would be a redundant device, we were duly impressed with Motorola's new perspective of extending the practical use of a smartphone beyond traditional mobile device features. It's amongst the contenders of Android devices we're personally considering for our return to cellphone ownership after years of living without one, alongside the LG Optimus 2X, HTC Inspire and the huge 4.5″ Samsung Infuse. If anything, we left CES with a stronger curiosity about owning and using an Android device, considering the possibility something like the ATRIX could eliminate the need for tablets (at least for some users).
The Motorola ATRIX 4G will be available at AT&T at the first part of this year at a yet to be announced price.


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Franklin Park, Ill.-based Garvin Industries recently held its annual Oktoberfest Open house in celebration of it's 116 years as a manufacturer of electrical, datacom, and telecom installation hardware. More than 500 attendees, including electrical and low-voltage distributors, contractors, and electrical inspectors, were present at the event.
"The event provided an excellent opportunity to receive feedback from the people that use our products every day," says Brian Brown, director of marketing. The festivities included a display of all Garvin Industries products as well as the future items that will be released in upcoming 2008 catalog.
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JohnZ needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 17 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
Better, Safer, Smarter
We're a small web shop that has a client that wants to combine their 2 web sites and make one that looks much better.
The approach here is a more conservative design. While kids are the end use of some of the prodcuts. It's not just about the kids.. so we need a balance, but remember the product name is PlaySafer... which could be changed... in the future.
Deliverables will be PSD files please with all layers intact. Thanks.
Parents to School Administrators
1. RubberMulch.com and Playsafer.com
- Need to design a new web site (homepage and inner page or use a layout that works for both pages that combines both RubberMulch.com and PlaySafer.com)
Play Safer is the Brand Name of this product. Greenscape is the landscaping product. Use both of these names.
- Current Critique: Too busy, hard to read, way too many colors, bad use of colors
- Use only these new Navigation Tabs:
Better, Safer, Smarter, About Us, Products, Press, Contact Us
- Image Links on homepage to: RMA studies, Research…
- Motto: From the White House to Your House
- On http://www.rubberecycle.com/ there is a pop-up – use that image in a video player or in a big way to show that the White House and Obama use this product.
- See current marketing collateral for content/ideas in the YouSendIt Link below (just tone them down)
- Homepage: Say what the product is, use endorsements,
- They need SEO for terms like: turf grass, rubber mulch, wood mulch, wood fiber, sand, pea gravel within the content on the page…
- Design: Tone down the color spectrum.
- Use Social Media Icons on the pages
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Cameron Diaz: 'I'm not too old for kids'
The Charlie's Angels star, who has dated Justin Timberlake and baseball star Alex Rodriguez, previously confessed her plans for a life of domesticity were dashed when she landed her breakout role in The Mask at the age of 21, and marriage and babies quickly took a backseat to her film career.
Since turning 40 in August (12), single Diaz admits her priorities haven't really changed and she is still not that keen on getting married.
She tells Esquire magazine, "It (marriage) just wasn't the thing I was drawn to. I certainly didn't want it in my 20s. Or my 30s."
But that doesn't mean Diaz is not interested in having kids, and she reveals she wouldn't be opposed to adoption if that's the path her life takes.
She says, "I don't need to have the children in my life be a part of my literal flesh. And anyway, there's still a possibility of that, I ain't that old. I'm feeling very... capable."
And Diaz insists she's happier now than she has ever been before: "Contentment is about coming to terms with life as it is, rather than getting all p**sed off that things didn't fit into your little prescribed box."
The actress' plans for kids may be influenced by her best pal, newlywed Drew Barrymore, who gave birth to a baby girl named Olive last week (26Sep12).


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Channeling A Deserted Island … At Home
The closest I've ever gotten to being on a deserted island are summer visits with friends to El Matador State Beach (right outside of Los Angeles). And usually, on the trip home, the overall feeling is a state of relaxation and peacefulness. But sometimes it's nice to channel the deserted island feeling at home–especially when a trip to the beach is out of the question.
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Creating outdoor seating underneath a DIY canopy gets my vote anytime! I also love the look of a makeshift tent for lounging and relaxing. And if your space allows, design a place to sleep outdoors with the help of an indoor (or outdoor) patio. Summer evenings are great for enjoying the cooler weather once the sun goes down–channel your own deserted island at home by cozying up the outdoors.
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I've also been a big fan of shell decor since the first (of many) family vacations to the beach. Bringing home souvenirs of travels always made the memories last year-round. A giant clam shell can function as a decorative bowl or container for the landing strip. You can also string a handful of shells and create a mobil for your space. The versatility of shells is what I love best–allowing you to change up your decor over time.
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To me, nothing is more inspiring than a beach sky (be it stormy or crystal clear). Incorporating these beautiful, blue hues in your home is a great way to surround yourself in a sea of tranquil bliss.
(Images: 1. Flickr member HGruber licensed for use under Creative Commons License 2. Create A DIY Canopy To Make Your Own Outdoor Room, 3. Relax In A DIY Hammock 4. Bill & Beth's Sleeping Porch, 5. Survey: Do You Sleep Outside In The Summer?, 6. Flickr member mrlins licensed for use under Creative Commons License, 7. Look! Clam Shell Dog Bowl, 8. 4 Mulch Ideas for Potted Plants, 9. Summer Collecting: Bring A Little Sand In, 10. Best Souvenirs To Display In The Home, 11. ColorTherapy: The Ocean Room


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Brain Eating Amoeba: Boy, 4, Dies in Mississippi (VIDEO)
A brain eating amoeba has claimed the life of a four year old boy this week, according to officials in Mississippi.
The identity of the young boy has not been released, but it appears that he contracted the brain-eating Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri) amoeba while visiting a home in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana in August.
The water at the Louisiana home was tested, and officials have confirmed that it tested positive for the amoeba. It is believed that the young boy contracted the amoeba when he was playing with the water.
"The child contracted it by playing for a very long period of time on a slip n' slide in the front yard of the residence they were visiting," Parish President Dave Peralta said.
Officials have also confirmed that the parish's water supply didn't test positive for the amoeba, but St. Bernard Parish has still decided to treat it as a precautionary measure.
N. fowleri amoeba is found in fresh water all over the earth, including lakes, ponds, mud puddles and untreated swimming pools, according to WebMD.
Although the amoeba is relatively common and regularly found, the possibility of contracting the brain-eating amoeba is very rare. Even if the amoeba is detected in a water supply it does not necessarily mean that a person will contract it, as it does not reach the brain through drinking it, but only reaches the brain through the nose.
The amoeba so rarely affects people that only a handful contract it each year, however, it is almost always lethal to those who are infected by it.
"Ninety-nine percent of people who get it die," Dr. Dirk Haselow of the Arkansas Department of Health said.
Symptoms include vomiting, fever, headache and loss of appetite.
At first the infection caused by the amoeba does not usually seem that serious, however, as the infection spreads, seizures and hallucinations are common, and many have fallen into a coma as they are overwhelmed by the infection.
Here is a previous news report from earlier this summer into the brain-eating amoeba:


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Dr. Frank Kameny lived many of his 86-years as an out activist, leader and hero. It is with only a blessed form of irony that he left us today, on National Coming Out Day. May Frank's memory be for a blessing. To understand our LGBT American history please get to know a bit more about his story. Our history and our civil rights seemed to be paired perfectly with Frank Kameny's once radical notion that we have a right in this country to stand up for, "First Class Citizenship for Homosexuals." Right on, brother.
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SOCHI, Russia – They were touted as the fastest speedskating suits in the world.
Looks like they might be slowing the Americans down.
The new high-tech skinsuits, developed with help from a prominent defense contractor and unveiled just before the Sochi Olympics, were a major topic of debate at Adler Arena during Friday's break in the competition.
Through the first six events, no U.S. skater finished higher than seventh – a stunning downfall, given the team's strong results on the World Cup circuit this season. Among those who have faltered: two-time Olympic champion Shani Davis, and female stars Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe.
Heading into the men's 1,500 meters on Saturday, Davis and the Americans are scrambling to turn things around before this becomes a total bust of a Winter Games.
"Morale is down right now," said Joey Mantia, another of the U.S. skaters in the 1,500. "We need to pick that up in the coming races."
Much of the focus was on the secretive Under Armour suit, which was supposed to give the Americans a big technological edge. After all, aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin was involved in the design of the "Mach 39."
"There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is the most scientific suit in the whole world," said U.S. skater Patrick Meek. "These guys make F-16 fighter jets. If they can invade Afghanistan and Iraq, they can build a speedskating suit."
That said, an effort was underway to get the International Skating Union to allow American skaters to switch back to their previously approved suits if they wanted – maybe in time for Saturday's race.
The suits have become a convenient explanation for the American woes, since they were unveiled so late in the game, without giving the skaters a chance to wear them in competition.
Even before the Olympics began, the designer of the Dutch suits expressed skepticism about the American claims. Bert van der Tuuk said he even tested some of the elements used in the U.S. suit – rivets, seams, bumps and a diagonal zipper to cut down on drag – and found they provided no significant edge.
The Dutch athletes began testing their new suits during the World Cup season, and were allowed to use them at the country's highly competitive Olympic trials. That seems to have worked out just fine for the speedskating powerhouse, which has won 12 of 18 medals – including four golds – at the big oval.
"The human factor is by far the largest piece out there," said U.S. coach Kip Carpenter, a former skater and Olympic medalist. "There's not an athlete out there who is slowing down a second per lap because of the suit they're in. What is it: a parachute on their back?"
Another coach, Matt Kooreman, questioned whether the Americans peaked too soon and became complacent after their impressive World Cup showings.
"Did we lay off the gas after it looked like things were going well?" he said. "I'm sure the Dutch went back home after those North American World Cups and were really in attack mode."
Some skaters were making low-tech alterations to their new suits.
"They did adjust one part on the back, but it was just putting rubber over the mesh there," Richardson said after a disappointing performance in the 1,000, a race she dominated during the World Cup season. "It had no effect, really."


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In 2014, President Obama established the My Brother's Keeper (MBK) Task Force at the federal level. The Task Force was an interagency effort focused on closing and eliminating the opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color so that all young people have the chance to reach their full potential.
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Butterfly Kisses Childcare in Amherst is holding a benefit to honor the memory of Jayden Tresp, a preschooler enrolled at the center who was killed in a car accident on Aug. 30. Jayden's loss is felt deeply by everyone at the center, and the benefit is being held to honor his memory and support his family.
The benefit will be held Sunday, Sept. 29, from 2-6 p.m. at the Town of Tonawanda Police Club, located at 25 Roswell Ave., Tonawanda. Tickets are $25 per person and include beer, pop and food. The event will include a 50/50 raffle and Chinese auction. Proceeds from the event will go to assist the family with funeral expenses and for a memorial at the center.
Tickets may be purchased through Butterfly Kisses Childcare, either by phone at 716-688-8266 or at the center at 596 N. French Road, Amherst. Baskets, raffle items and other donations may also be brought to the center by Wednesday, Sept. 25.
Butterfly Kisses Childcare is a privately owned, state-certified child care center that serves the Buffalo and Western New York area. For further information, visit www.bfkisses.com, call 716-688-8266 or email [email protected].


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Baraboo, Wis. (December 10, 2012) – Producers interested in learning new things and networking with others should check out Accelerated Genetics' Leadership Conference. This year's event will take place March 15-17, 2013 in Warrens, Wis., at the Three Bears Resort. The conference goal is to 'Develop Leaders Who Deliver Results."
Accelerated Genetics has specifically tailored the Leadership Conference for persons who would like to improve leadership skills, participate in educational activities, network with other producers and have good time doing it. Speakers Jolene Brown, Stan Erwine, and Eliz Greene will be featured at the conference, along with other educational and fun-filled sessions designed to help producers manage and lead their family, farm and cooperative in the future.
The Leadership Conference is for emerging agricultural leaders who are positioned to lead the farm business and agricultural industry in the future. And, the event is designed for persons who have not previously attended.
More details about the Leadership Conference are available online at www.accelgen.com. To make reservations for the Leadership Conference, call 1-800-451-9275 or email firstname.lastname@example.com by February 18, 2013. Register early, as the conference's capacity is limited to 80 producers.
Accelerated Genetics is a global provider of bovine genetics and research, reproductive services, and solution-based animal health products. With a focus on People, Products and Pride, Accelerated Genetics' vision is to be the producer's trusted first choice
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(View a BBC slide show of School Galadima here).
OLPC in Nigeria: School Galadima
"I like it when I use it in class."—Emmanuel, Primary 5, June, 2007
One Laptop Per Child foundation (OLPC) provided School Galadima in March 2007 with an XO laptop for each child in Primary 4, 5 and 6 and also for each member of the staff. The XOs are for the children to take from home to school every day. From March until December 2007, the XOs have been in a Nigerian educational context as well as in the everyday lives of these children. Pending new funding, the experiment is closed.
Learning together (Photo by Rowland)
L.E.A. Primary School Galadima is a public school in the outskirts of Abuja Model City, with a student population that has its origins in rural areas. School Galadima is a paradigm for OLPC worldwide. The school has no electricity and no water, although neighboring houses do. The children, teachers, principal, and parents are pioneers, who, with the support of the sector's educational authorities, as well as private and non-private corporations, have in one leap made of the OLPC educational project a matter-of-fact affair at school and at home, in class and, quite often, even at recess. All of a sudden, School Galadima has gone from the age-old chalk-and-board teaching technology to the avant-garde one-laptop-per-child XO technology with cutting-edge features.
Nevertheless, OLPC's mission focus is not on its state-of-the-art innovative technology, but on its educational approach that fosters discovery of knowledge by the children themselves, encouraging them to find the application of that knowledge in a practical and meaningful context. Both, the technology of the OLPC laptop and the methodology of the Constructionist educational approach has been inspired, researched, developed, and implemented by MIT scholars.
Photo by Carla
This successful, on-going experience is setting the basis for a larger deployment in Nigeria and in other developing countries around the world. School Galadima teachers have been developing activities for their classes. Having as an aim that, while compatible with the goals of the public school system's scheme or educational program, they go beyond it, to the advantage of the children, by enhancing their learning modes and turning them from passive students who just absorb, memorize, and repeat, into active constructionists who actively collaborate, investigate, experiment, and create solutions.
Teachers also collaborate with each other by talking about their activities and their results, even by coming to another teacher's classroom and participating in an activity to later adapt it to their own group.
Children enjoy working with the laptops in class and out of class. They help each other in their activities and also do projects on their own, some individually, and some in collaboration with their mates, as in the dictionary project. Five primary 4 children are working on a dictionary of their local languages, and working on here means constructing. The project has been modified from a list of words that Abiword (the word processing software activity) did not recognize to a formal-looking local language to English dictionary. They split the team into two to work on two different local languages simultaneously. It is simple but outstanding work. These children work on their dictionary project during school hours in between class assignments, when otherwise they would be restless. Other projects have started in one group, and then, as it evolves, some children from other groups join in.
One day in class, children were using Etoys (a programming software) to work on math concepts while doing animations. Children that had tried it before were reseated in between children that had never worked with Etoys. Then the teacher explained how to start, step by step. It was more effective to have children helping children than paying attention to the teacher. But, since there were so many children, both methods were used to go faster and get to the animation (math logic) part faster and do it all together. However, once children start facilitating you can't stop them. So, after 15 minutes, some children had animations with persons turning round and round, while making frog noises here and there, and then after 30 minutes, there was a whole pond of croaking frogs.
"Pupils go even beyond what I can teach in the class. It's a very interesting thing to use. I personally have a better idea about teaching... We discovered that giving them time to discover something and to do it in their own way, they feel more happy and they are so excited in using it."— A School Galadima Teacher --Carla 07:32, 1 October 2007 (EDT)
School Closing Ceremony
The first stage of XO testing was concluded on the school's closing day, after students completed their end-of-term examinations. The day was marked with fanfare, photo shoots and an address by some of the stakeholders with excited students and parents looking on.
The event was also spiced up by the students with performances in the form of traditional dances, activities and school work done on the XOs, a technical demonstration by some students on how to maintain and troubleshoot on their XOs. --Ahmad 13:11, 13 August 2007 (EDT)
Our Stories Summer School
In the days that followed the Close out, the team returned to the school to meet with students (as scheduled between both) to work on the Our Stories activities. Asabe and the students also organized an indoor picnic with the students to spice up the preps for the Our Stories activity. This included rehearsals for "Interviews" the students would conduct among themselves and with other people at their respective home areas. XOs would be used as the interviewing tools (audio-video capture). It seems Ahmad got a little too excited while observing and he drew a logo; Galadima News Network to inspire some of the students on conducting interviews...like pros.
See also
- OLPC: Afrikanske børn elsker den bærbare (Olpc: African children love the laptop)
- http://tomidavies.blogspot.com/2007/07/olpc-test-project-in-nigeria-concludes.html
- visit June 2008 Comparison between OLPC and Classmate


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12/19/2013 7:43amPlanning birthday or anniversary celebrations around the holidays can be stressful. Here are a few tips on how to make events that fall near Christmas more enjoyable and less of a headache.
2 businesses robbed by same men, investigators say
12/19/2013 8:05amInvestigators believe the same gunmen may be responsible for two armed robberies in Weber County Thursday morning.
Ad campaign targets proposed nondiscrimination law
12/19/2013 8:24amTelevision ads opposing a proposed statewide nondiscrimination law in Utah are scheduled to hit the airwaves Sunday, the first volley in what promises to be passionate debate over the issue.
Catching up with recently inducted CFL Hall of Famer Ben Cahoon
12/19/2013 9:41amFormer BYU wide receiver Ben Cahoon was recently inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. KSL.com spoke with him about his induction, his career in the CFL, and his short tenure and subsequent release as a BYU coach.
Team at Westminster designs mind-controlled computer
12/19/2013 10:43amA group of faculty and students at Westminster are hoping to build an interface that would allow a person's mind to control a computer using a standard operating system.
12 Days of Reading students celebrate with Santa, Chopper 5
12/19/2013 10:45amNot all events warrant pulling 26 busloads of kids out of school. But Price Mayor Joe Piccolo believed a reading celebration qualified.
Tips to avoid backcountry winter hazards
12/19/2013 11:01amDon't want your snow-covered backcountry adventure to turn into an ordeal? Understanding the hazards and risks can help you come home safely.
2nd man charged in connection with white supremacist gang kidnapping
12/19/2013 11:34amA second man has been charged in connection with a white supremacist gang accused of tattooing a woman's stomach for allegedly snitching.
Local politician seeks earlier divorce class requirement
12/19/2013 11:45amA Utah representative hopes to change the timing of the state's mandatory divorce initiation class so it has to be completed before divorce papers are filed.
Utah joins anti-human trafficking fight
12/19/2013 11:55amUtah's acting Attorney General Brian Tarbet has joined other states in asking Congress to fund anti-human trafficking measures.
12 bald eagles found dead in Utah
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Utah company gives school lunches for holiday break
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Children reported 'missing' after miscommunication with mother, neighbor
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Car filled with Christmas presents stolen in WVC
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Local barber lands NYC dream job through Instagram
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Attorney for Former WVC detective looks for justification of firing
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Record number of medals to be awarded at Sochi Olympics
12/19/2013 7:05pmThere will be 1,300 medals awarded at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Santa assists in Orem man's marriage proposal
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Religion gives hope, renewed confidence to inmates, chaplains say
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Committee finds Swallow covered up, destroyed evidence of wrongdoings
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People's theatre
They're playing the European chess championsips in Plovdiv. I've been there, in 1991: the amphitheatre in particular is superb, and you can actually see it.
You expect to, of course, that's what amphitheatres are for. Everywhere but Huesca. Two years ago they discovered an old Roman amphitheatre (Huesca originated as the Roman town of Osca) during the construction of flats inside a buolding just a few metres away from where I live. Experts came in and pronounced it a most promising architectural find, possibly extending a long way under the surrounding area, very important and exciting: the mayor came along to have his photograph taken with the excavators, to say how important the find was and how the Town Hall would assist the excavators' work. Then everybody went away again, the construction of the flats continued and nothing more was heard of the amphitheatre. The flats are finished now and they're for sale, competing with three million other unoccupied dwellings in Spain.
I suppose at least it's protected from graffiti - though not from other kinds of cultural vandalism - unlke Plovdiv, if the photos are anything to go by. I remember seeing graffiti on the walls when I was there: one of the messages said WEST BROM and another one said QPR.


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Farmers continue to watch the clock, and Washington, as they wait indefinitely for the now-immobilized federal government to re-adjourn and act on a farm bill that expired Sept. 30. At stake for them locally and across the nation is the stability of milk prices, certain disaster relief programs, and specialty crop research.
The partial government shutdown that became effective at midnight on Monday, Sept. 30., forced some 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspended most nonessential federal programs and services. It also pulled some farmers deeper into a muck of uncertainty.
Margaret Hilton, co-owner of Hilton Farms and Hopewell town supervisor, said some local farmers will feel the impact of shuttered government agencies more than they will the lack of a farm bill. And they�ll see it in their bottom line.
�The immediate effect it has is with the Farm Service Agency and Direct Payment Program,� Hilton said. �It�s a subsidy for 2012 that would be coming out in October. For some farmers who are expecting and depending on that, it will be a hardship because the offices are shut down.�
The farm bill � officially known as The Agriculture, Reform, Food and Jobs Act � directs nearly 70 percent of its funding to nutrition assistance programs, such as food stamps. But it�s the other 30 percent that�s of special importance to farmers. According to state Farm Bureau Spokesman Steve Ammerman, the bill also dictates a price formula for milk, as well as some disaster relief programs and specialty crop research initiatives.
The bill, which expired Sept. 30, is the primary agricultural and food policy tool of the federal government. It provides a safety net for farmers and allows the U.S. Department of Agriculture to control milk supplies and keeps milk prices stable for consumers.
�(Not having the bill in place) just adds to the whole climate of uncertainty for our farmers,� Ammerman said. �If that farm policy isn't in place, if they don't know the safety nets, it certainly can affect how they run their farms and what they grow on their farms.�
It also could mean exorbitant milk prices for consumers with estimates between $6 and $8 per gallon.
�You're not going to notice it right away,� Ammerman said. �I don't think it's really going to hit consumers until potentially Jan. 1 if nothing is done.�
But there�s more to the problem of pricing than the farm bill alone can solve, Hilton said.
�The dairy prices have always been very volatile,� said Hilton. �The formula is very antiquated and they haven�t been able to fix it. So (with or without the bill) it�s going to stay volatile. It�s not just�the farm bill that will solve the problem.�
Eric Hansen, fourth generation farmer and vice president of Hansen Farms LLC in Stanley, said he doesn�t feel any direct impact from the farm bill one way or another.
�My concern with the shutdown is more on what it will do to grain exports,� Hansen said. �I don�t export, but the people I sell to do. I don�t know what it will mean for overall grain prices in the future.�
And any safety net that might be afforded by the farm bill is of little value to Hansen, who said his farm buys very little insurance for crop loss, but instead relies on preventative planting to offset loss.
�I�m not going to be in dire straits if the farm bill never passes,� said Hansen. �If you�re banking on the government in order to keep afloat, then you shouldn�t be farming.�
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Shutdown: Will farmers take a hit?
Farmers continue to watch the clock, and Washington, as they wait indefinitely for the now-immobilized federal government to re-adjourn and act on a farm bill that expired Sept. 30. At stake for them locally and across the nation is the stability of milk prices, certain disaster relief programs, and specialty crop research.


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STS Lord Nelson was two years in the making. Commissioned by the Jubilee Sailing Trust she would be the 'flagship' for the Jubilee Sailing Trust's mission to enable people with disabilities to sail. Early trials aboard the barque Marques, the brig 'Royalist' and subsequently the brigantine Soren Larsen, enabled Colin Mudie to design a ship that would meet requirements.
In the summer of 1984 enough funds had been raised to enable a start on the building of Colin Mudie's design no 342, Lord Nelson.
A contract was awarded to James W Cook, and the decision announced by Lady Donaldson, then Lord Major of London at a press conference in July 1984. The ship was to be constructed at Wivenhoe, Essex.
Work began in earnest. The keel of the ship was laid in October 1984 after funding was secured through a generous donation from Sir Jack Hayward. Sir Jack performed the keel laying ceremony on a date which was chosen to be as close to Trafalgar Day as possible, the day in 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson achieved his most famous victory.
Many decisions had to be made about the final layout of the ship, to enable her to be functional and practical for people of all physical abilities. It was almost a year after the formal keel laying that the ship was launched, by Lady Aitken whose late husband, Sir Max Aitken's generous donation had enabled the JST to set up its first office in London.
Lord Nelson was now afloat, but was no means ready to take voyage crew. She now entered the fitting out stage of her construction as she made her first voyage to the fitting out basin. The deck was covered with ply and nine miles of teak was laid on top. Deckhouses were installed, engines and generators fitted, along with most of the wiring and plumbing.
Unfortunately, it was not all 'plain sailing' from then onwards. J W Cook's financial position deteriorated rapidly and the company went into voluntary liquidation. With Lord Nelson only half finished and the naming ceremony looming, the decision was taken to move Lord Nelson to Vosper Thornycroft's yard in Woolston, Southampton.
Vosper Thornycroft worked hard to complete the work, for the naming ceremony which was attended by HRH Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, who performed the ceremony, on the 4th July 1986.
Work was not complete however, and Lord Nelson returned to Vospers yard to be met with more uncertainty. Vospers were hit by an industrial dispute, which meant that once again Lord Nelson had to move.
Arrangements were made to take Lord Nelson to Coles Yard in Cowes where the remainder of the work was carried out.
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Bus solves a big problem for students
On a sunny Friday morning in November, the express bus traveled past New London's Union Station to meet students awaiting the 8:25 a.m. run to Three Rivers Community College in Norwich. Inside the bus, about 10 students looked out the window, read or took a nap before beginning their school day.
"This is quiet and safe," said Carol Balbuena, a freshman who lives in New London.
Before the express route was added, Balbuena would spend two hours on three buses to get to Three Rivers. Now it's a 20-minute ride. She gets to campus at 8:45 a.m., which gives her time to study and print out her homework before her 10 a.m. English class. She sometimes arrives before class starts to ask the professor questions.
"It's very convenient," added her friend, Tylea Banks, a sophomore from New London.
The $2.50 Southeast Area Transit express fare is pricier than a regular route. But Banks said it's much cheaper for students than driving and paying $3-plus per gallon at the gas pump.
"If it weren't for the bus, we wouldn't be there," Balbuena said.
Balbuena became involved with the college's transportation advisory committee, which Banks also serves on, after having some difficulty getting to class. Balbuena, who plans to become an attorney, said she has heard of many students who had dropped out of the college because they didn't have access to transportation.
SEAT began the express service from New London and Groton to Three Rivers on a trial basis in September. The express bus, which ends at Mohegan Sun, makes three runs from Groton - morning, mid-morning and afternoon - and two afternoon runs from the casino.
The service continues to build ridership and is awaiting news about future funding, which college administrators and SEAT representatives are hoping will be available.
Meg Wichser, the college's transition and retention specialist, said some students had reported in college surveys that they were having a difficult time getting to class on public transportation.
The bus has carried 1,340 passengers since beginning the run in September through the third week in November, according to SEAT data. The express route is still building ridership, Wichser said, but the college community has taken steps to make it easier for students to access the new service. For example, the school began selling bus passes on campus and tweaked the route in early October to help pick up more students.
Bus ridership has been growing since its inception, and Wichser believes that will continue. "We're hopeful and anticipating it will in the next semester," she said.
For one thing, Wichser said, word is now out about the service. In addition, the new service started after students had signed up for their classes this semester, but next semester students may arrange their schedules to allow them to take the express route.
SEAT, which the state assumed management of last winter, is hoping it will receive funding from the state to offset the approximately $90,000 cost of the express route for the fall and spring semesters.
"We're guardedly optimistic," said Michael Carroll, SEAT's general manager.
Three Rivers has offered a $10,000 grant for the service out of money set aside for transportation in its budget. The student government contributed about $3,000, and faculty and staff offered $500 for scholarships offering reduced bus fares, said Jacqueline Phillips, the college's director of student development.
For future years, SEAT would need to see if it can roll the service into its existing budget or if it would seek subsidies from the college, Carroll said.
SEAT is not the only transit district meeting the demand of college students. The Estuary Transit District, also known as 9 Town Transit, has increased service on a route from Old Saybrook to Middletown, a bus popular with students attending Middlesex Community College. The district increased hours in spring 2012, in part to meet times that would coincide with student use, said Executive Director Joseph Comerford.
"This year has been great, and the students are a big part of it," Comerford said. "They're not the only people who use it, but the student ridership has really grown."
Three Rivers is looking at the "whole picture" of transportation and remains in discussions with SEAT on whether there are any routes that can be tweaked to help students in other areas get to class, said Wichser. "The whole project has really shone a light on the needs," she said.
Banks and Balbuena have ideas about shifting the route to areas that could also serve local employees and increasing the number of people who take the bus. "I think Three Rivers is going above and beyond being a community college," said Banks toward the end of the ride. "We have a bus with our name on it. I think this is going to be our legacy."


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If you take a quick look at the handy-dandy labels down the right side of the page, you'll notice that our focus here at Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies trends very strongly toward films of the 1970s. Not for nothing, either--if there's ever been a decade chock-full from one end to the other with bloody, sexy, awesome goodness, that's the one, baby.
But much as I like to sink myself deep into the hot, sticky voluptuousness of a Naschy monster mash or palpate a paean to Satanic Panic from my favorite era, every now and then I do come up for air to see what's up in the World of Horror, Present-Day Version. Most of these explorations lead to a quick deep breath and another dive, leaving only a bubbly turbulence on the surface, but occasionally I see something that catches my attention and gives me hope for the future. And such was exactly the case when I recently got a look at an indie slasher flick with a difference, Michael Shelton's 2008 effort Basement Jack.
Now as far as it goes, Basement Jack does not break much new ground. A young boy abused by his psychotic mother grows up to become a legendary, unstoppable killing machine; a sexy young girl survives one of his rampages and devotes herself to putting an end to his reign of terror before any more innocents suffer under his knife. An inexperienced cop joins forces with the survivor girl against the dictates of his stuffy, by-the-book chief and his deriding coworkers, leading to the expected confrontation with the killer and an ambiguous conclusion that serves as a swinging unlocked door to Sequelville. Eighties' Slasher 101, right?
But remember, I said Basement Jack was a slasher with a difference--and for me it had that little something extra, that distinguishing detail that looms larger and larger upon reflection until at last it grows into a juggernaut of awesome that--for the first time in a long time--has me chomping at the bit for the sequel. That detail is not a what, but a who--and that who is not the Rookie Cop, not the Sexy Survivor Girl, not even the electrified menace of Basement Jack Riley himself.
The detail's name is Nathan Bexton, aka THE MANAGER. Make a note. Jot it down. You're going to want to remember it.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves:
an archetypal Urban Legend set-up (one of my top 5 archtypes): a boy and a girl making out in the back seat of a land yacht up at Inspiration Point or its equivalent. As things get hotter and heavier, the music on the radio is interrupted for a SPECIAL NEWS BULLETIN. A psycho killer is on the loose in the vicinity, a phantom of a man with the unusual MO of hiding in the basements of family homes until his homicidal rage is triggered by a lightning storm, at which point he murders everyone in the house--hence his media-assigned moniker "Basement Jack." Thunder rolls in the background, and the girl's sexy mood dissipates. She insists that her frustrated lover take her home before the storm hits.
By the time they reach the girl's home, the storm is in full force and the power is out. The boy gallantly accompanies his girlfriend inside, where they make the expected gruesome discovery: the whole family--mother, father, younger siblings, the lot--are arrayed around the dinner table, their throats cut, while before them the gutted family dog serves as an attractive centerpiece. A flash of lightning reveals the killer himself in the shadows, a tall thin dude with long dark hair and a dripping machete. Again adhering to the outlines in the back of the 80s Slasher Handbook, the randy boyfriend falls victim to the killer's blade, and after a bit of required tension the girl escapes into the night.
A decade later that girl, Karen Cook (Michele Morrow) is hunting Basement Jack across country, a roadmap in one hand and weather pattern charts in the other. Along the way she meets Officer Chris Watts (young Naschy lookalike Sam Skoryna), a rookie cop in trouble with the department over a recently blown collar. (He forgot to read the suspect his rights--curse you, Miranda protections!) Of course no one but Chris believes that Karen might actually be able to help them capture the previously untrackable killer, and so she is roundly ignored and derided by everyone in the department, except for her beefy first-year admirer. Throughout the rest of the movie, Karen and Chris hunt the killer, their helpful suggestions ignored by the department as Basement Jack cuts a bloody swath through the community every time the lightning flashes, which as you'd imagine is incredibly often this time of year.
candy-colored 1950s-style flashbacks, all centered around Jack's...shall we say, "problematic" relationship with his mother.
Jack's mom is one of the two real casting coups of the flick, as the producers secured a true horror/exploitation legend (in Vicarious circles, anyway) for the role, the fabulous Lynn Lowry (Romero's The Crazies, Cronenberg's Shivers, and David E. Durton's MMMMMasterpiece I Drink Your Blood). Lowry is absolutely riveting as Jack's unhinged mother, who cradles and sings to a life-sized toddler doll when she's not punishing her disturbingly silent son most harshly for any and every transgression, real or imagined.
And how does she punish him, you might well ask? Why, with mother's little helper: ELECTRICITY! At various points throughout the movie we see her forcing Jack to stick his tongue to a...well, battery of 9-volt batteries duct-taped together (nota bene: do NOT try this at home--18 volts has more of a kick than you might think), strapping him to a chair in a puddle of water and running live lines near his soaking feet, and most memorably chaining him to a metal post outside just as a thunderstorm starts and telling him "God will punish you!" The fact that she follows each of these punishments up with a sing-song refrain, "Mama loves you, with a cuddle and a kiss!" just ratchets up the child-abuse ickiness another few notches.
the young boy is subjected to electroshock therapy--"with a cuddle and a kiss." But my favorite fucked-up Mommy scene is one in which she takes it upon herself to educate Jack in the mysteries of sex--by forcing him to sit by and watch while she blows a dumpy bald guy! I can't decide what's more awesome about this scene: the excellent looks of comical discomfort on Lynn's assistant's face, cutting his eyes down to the bidness and then back to the eerily silent audience of one--or the fact that, for no reason I was able to determine, the dude is dressed only in the lower half of a CHICKEN SUIT!)
(No, wait, I've decided: it's the chicken suit.)
So there you have it--screwed-up childhood, understandable Mommy issues, and a psychological aversion to but physical tolerance for high levels of electricity--not too shabby, as serial killer back stories go. And as Basement Jack does his dirty work, we get buckets of blood, a few decent kills, a smattering of gore scenes (though we also have to suffer through some rather iffy CG stab effects--as even in the best it is), and some fairly well choreographed fight scenes between Jack and Karen. The quirkiness that spawned the chicken suit shows up in a more restrained form later as well, when in one his basement hideouts Jack discovers a SUPER-MACHETE complete with lower-arm support brace and billy-club grip! WHO has that in their basement--I mean, besides AWESOME people?
(During my viewing I noted this weapon snarkily as a "power-up"--so you can imagine my delight when I found that, in the production notes on the Basement Jack website, writer/producer Brian O'Toole admits that Jack's weapon upgrade was inspired by his love of video games. Credit for Intention, and for Going There when just about everyone would have told you not to. That's the way you take something goofy and make it goofy and AWESOME, IMO. And Brian, if you need a quality tester for Basement Jack: The Game, LET ME KNOW.)
Now I said Lynn Lowry was one of two slices of casting brilliance in Basement Jack--and she is just GREAT, make no mistake. But the other one, the one that has me excited for the sequel and in a happy place generally replaying his scant scenes in my mind, is the aforementioned future icon, Nathan Bexton as The Manager.
The Necropolitan. (Currently #1 and #3 on the Vicar's "Names of buildings I want to live/die in" lists, respectively.) Bexton is The Manager of The Necropolitan, and unless my count is off he has a total of four scenes--and I'd be very surprised if those scenes totaled up to more than seven or eight minutes before the cameras, probably somewhat less. Still, I honestly can't remember the last time an actor with so little screentime made such a huge, lasting impression on me, but Bexton DID it.
You see, I'm a sucker for substrate. I get a little frisson of geeky pleasure whenever a throwaway line of dialogue or a strange bit of business in the background makes the suggestion that somewhere, behind or beneath or even above the actions we're watching on screen, there's a whole OTHER movie going on that happens to intersect this one at just this specific moment. It's not done often, but when done right, little things like this add a depth of imagination and fantasy to the proceedings that sets my brain whirring and ups my enjoyment factor by at least a full point.
And that's the pitch that The Manager knocks out of the park. Bexton invests the character with a knowing, sinister, devilish playfulness that's hard to describe objectively. It's in his old-fashioned wardrobe and exciting facial hair; it's in the way he holds his mouth, the twinkle in his eyes, his small gestures and odd inflections of seemingly mundane pleasantries. Everything about Bexton's performance lets you know that behind that door, behind those eyes, something evil and awesome is going on--and if you're anything like me, you're DYING to know what that thing is.
I really don't want to spoil Bexton's performance for anyone, because it's a tour de force that must be seen and appreciated by all. suffice to say no one collects rent like The Manager, and that's not *all* he collects. A late scene in which he answers the door to Basement Jack while chatting to unknown parties on his cell phone is, for my money, an Icon-Builder, and his return for an ending coda had me bouncing in my seat with glee. It was all I could do not to stand and applaud--which, the more I think of it, I *totally* should have. Nathan Bexton earned it.
Getting back to the film at hand, though--Basement Jack is not without its problems. While imposing visually, Jack himself is too one-dimensional to be very interesting as a character, and the fact that we spend so much time lurking with him as he offs one piece of machete fodder after another did result in a bit of drag for me. Sticklers for logic will also note that the machete is a slashing/chopping weapon, ill-suited for stabbing, though Jack habitually runs his victims through before chopping them up (using some of the aforementioned bad CG, in the most egregious cases).
That said, the flashbacks always held my interest, and Director of Photography Mathew Rudenberg provides a plethora of striking, interesting compositions and atmospheric lighting effects throughout--I don't know what the budget was, but I'd be willing to bet Rudenberg made it look a lot more expensive than it was. The leads and supporting characters all give it their all (though I never quite got any chemistry off Morrow and Skornya), and Eric Peter-Kaiser as Jack does a good job kickin' the serial killer Eerie Von-style. Throw in Lynn Lowry's fantastic turn as Mamma Riley, and then sprinkle on the awesomeness of Nathan Bexton as The Manager, and those gripes outlined above fade into the shadows. It's a movie that, the more I think of it in the cold light of day, the better and better I like it. And how many movies can you say THAT about?
Basement Jack's jockstrap, and it's a crying shame that the film is not yet out there in front hungry, appreciative fans. It's running the festival circuit, though, and hopefully one day soon a DVD distributor will pull his head out of his ass long enough to see that he should TOTALLY be putting out Basement Jack. Come on guys, get on the horn--you can even have a back-cover blurb from the Vicar, free of charge:
"Basement Jack is an exciting, kick-ass old-school slasher, and Nathan Bexton walks the earth like a freakin' God!"
I will not stop until that man is an Icon. Mark my words.
Started out a 2.75 thumbs, but further reflection on The Manager has pushed it up to the coveted 3 thumb stratosphere. See it if you can, tell all your friends. And tell The Manager that the Vicar sent you.
And to call me.
(All photos © Island Gateway Films/Black Gate Entertainment. Check out Basement Jack's official site here. Please don't sue me, guys. Tell Nathan I love him.)
Friday, October 31, 2008
Basement Jack (2008): or, It's the Manager's World, We're All Just Leasing It
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 11:30 AM
Labels: '00s, 3+ Thumbs, Nathan Bexton, Psycho Killer
3 comments:
- Tenebrous Kate said...
Vicar, I must confess that I, too, am MANAGER-MAD and you've done this movie GREAT JUSTICE with your review. Such GREAT JUSTICE, in fact, that I've got nothing to add. Except that I will *totally* pitch in by making tshirts for the Nathan Bexton Fan Club you're planning on founding.
- November 1, 2008 at 5:04 PM
- Mike Everleth said...
I saw "Evilution" before "Basement Jack" and also knew about the Necropolitan trilogy going into this film.
I was really curious what someone going into "Jack" cold would think about the Manager subplot since it did seem like it belonged to another movie, so this was a really interesting review to read. I'm looking forward to the third film and an expanded role for Bexton, too.
If you liked this film, I really recommend "Evilution." I reviewed both films on my own film site, Bad Lit.
- November 18, 2008 at 12:44 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Thanks for stopping by, Mike! As for Evilution...keep watching this space! ;)
- November 19, 2008 at 8:08 AM


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