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TAUNTON — Police Chief Edward Walsh struck an ominous note Tuesday night while responding to questions from the City Council about the ongoing problem of illegal ATV use in Weir Village.
"There's an element down there you don't want," he said.
Walsh, who appeared before the Committee on Police and License, was reacting to council member John McCaul's account of how he and others in the neighborhood are subjected not just to rampant ATV riding on Sundays, but also to the sound of gunshots.
McCaul, who said he's lived in the Weir for 17 years, recounted taking a walk the previous Sunday on West Water Street to a small cemetery adjacent to land owned by Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant.
He said he came upon shooting range targets, including a human silhouette, pierced with bullets and propped up on sticks.
McCaul described the rutted tracks leading in and out of the area as having been made by all-terrain vehicles.
"I hear gunshots all the time. I guess they take target practice in the cemetery," he said.
As for ATV drivers, McCaul said the activity level peaks on Sundays and can usually be heard from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
This was the third time in the past three weeks the topic of illegal ATV use in the Weir came up at a city council meeting.
The week before, a 67-year-old East Water Street resident told the council about ATVs driving up and down his street. That night, he also recounted how, while boating one day on the Taunton River, he heard gunshots and saw the splash of bullets in front of his vessel.
Walsh said police responded to a report of shots being fired in the Weir last week, and came across a father and son taking target practice with guns. He said officers spoke to the pair but didn't make an arrest.
It's illegal to ride an ATV in the state without permission of a private land owner or in an area designated for its use. Riding on paved or public roads is prohibited.
Police in Taunton and other municipalities say they have a tough time enforcing that law because of the mobile nature of ATVs and dirt bikes.
Officers, including Walsh, have said they don't want to risk damaging patrol cars and seek to avoid the possibility of causing injury or death in pursuit of a fleeing ATV.
"They'll drive up to a police cruiser, give the middle finger and take off," said Walsh, describing the brazen and defiant attitude of some ATV operators.
Complaints in the Weir have centered on Fifth Street, East Baker Road and Somerset Avenue.
City councilors say constituents complain about noisy quads driving on streets and along railroad beds in the woods sometimes for hours on end, mostly on weekends.
Walsh said he has a strategy to utilize his department's handful of ATVs. He also said he has beefed up the police department's traffic unit, but the chief said he didn't want to reveal too many details of his plan.
At one point, he blamed local media for following the issue too closely — thereby possibly tipping off perpetrators before they can be caught in the act, which he emphasized is no easy task.
Walsh said when patrol cars do manage to box in an ATV, it is then towed. But he said having to pay the tow fee isn't always a deterrent to ATV owners.
"For some of these folks, money's no object," he said.
Walsh also told the committee some ATV owners in the Weir are keeping their off-road vehicles in privately owned buildings, enabling them to drive straight to a designated spot instead of relying on a pickup truck to drop them off.
He said illegal operation of an ATV is an "arrestable offense." He also emphasized that the problem is widespread and not unique to Taunton.
"It's a national issue, (but) no one has really addressed this nationally," Walsh said.
Council member Deborah Carr reiterated how she'd gotten calls from residents alleging that the owner of Sunny's Gas on Lawton Avenue has allowed ATVs to gas up, and that he is considering creating space for trucks to park after depositing ATVs.
Walsh agreed to come back to the council in one month with an update. In the meantime, he said, he'll be keeping a close eye on the situation.
"I know who the players are and where they're going," he said.


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With 50-plus combined years of fishing experience, Dixon native Ryan Wilson and his partner, Brandon Newby, have heard plenty of big fish stories.
The week leading up to the North American Ice Fishing Circuit's national championship tournament Dec. 15 and 16 in Mille Lacs Lake, Minn., was no exception.
While the duo scouted every inch and mannerism of the lake, stories of lunkers – but not the lunkers themselves – were swimming laps.
"You start to realize that there's certain people who don't know what they're talking about," said Wilson, a member of Dixon High School's Class of 2000 who now lives in Waupaca, Wis. "We had some of that going on the day before. It makes you nervous. You're thinking, 'They found some big ones, and we hadn't seen any of them.'
"I can tell you it'd make me nervous, if I didn't know enough about the lake."
That's a big if, though, and one that Wilson and Newby ultimately didn't have to worry about, thanks to their exhaustive scouting.
Welcome to the war room
Wilson says he and Newby never spent so much time scouting an event. The preparation culminated with an intense pow-wow in the duo's hotel room Friday night.
As they rigged about 20 poles with different lines and jigs, they made a plan, a backup plan and a plan to back up that one.
"Our stomachs are in knots the whole time we're doing it," Newby said. "We're nervous. 'Are we making the right choice?' The pressure is amazing."
Plans B and C weren't necessary. The duo set up shop in the rain Saturday morning and immediately struck ice fishing's version of oil. The barrage of crappies captured by the Aqua-Vu fish finder throughout the week were back. And hungry. It didn't take long to hit the 16-fish limit of eight crappies and eight bluegills.
"We thought we'd just keep fishing, and we kept upgrading our crappies and kept waiting for truly big ones to come through," Wilson said. "We kind of found the right spot, started with quite a bit of weight and kept adding to it."
Wilson and Newby hooked 13.52 pounds worth of fish the soggy first day to lead by 1.8 pounds.
"We actually hoped the bite got tougher," Newby said.
Prayer answered
Mother Nature honored the request and, as a cold front rolled in, so did the competition. Teams formed a 15-foot-radius halo around the leaders for the bone-chilliing second day.
"We saw a lot of people on Sunday who became our buddies," Wilson said. "Fifteen feet is something they usually just eyeball. But on Sunday, it was right down to the inch."
Competitors sheepishly asked if they could fish near the front-runners.
"I said, 'You'd be stupid not to,' " Wilson said. "If you weren't trying to crowd us on Sunday, I'm not sure what you were thinking."
Despite the cold front pretty much killing the perch bite, Wilson and Newby still caught the required eight by mid-morning Sunday. They again had their eight crappies by 9 a.m. and steadily upgraded with bigger ones.
Their 32 fish totaled 24.83 pounds – a record-setting haul – to win by 6½.
"It wasn't just a win," Newby said. "It was a domination-type of deal."
They became the first team from Wisconsin to win a national title, and the first duo, period, to win weight on both days.
"Winning Day 1 was winning a playoff game," Newby said. "Winning Day 2 was the Super Bowl."
They both got Super Bowl-worthy gold rings – valued at $3,200 apiece – as well as a $7,500 payout that Wilson says will simply allow them to keep competing. They've got two events in the circuit lined up for February.
Fish tale of redemption
So what's next after winning the whole shabang? Building a dynasty.
"The only thing we can do better is go out and win it again next year," Wilson said. "It gives us confidence. If the fish aren't biting for whatever reason, you can think, 'If anyone's going to get these fish to bite, it's me.' "
"There's more to be won," Newby said. "To be honest, we should be able to go anywhere and win."
The win spelled redemption for Wilson, who toiled in unfamiliar territory at the Ice Fishing World Championships last February in Kazakhstan.
"It was kind of like a recharge," he said. "It kind of made me focus so hard on what we were doing, so it makes you a better fisherman all-around. It made you fine-tune everything."
Back on American soil, he was ready to go after the best ice fishermen in the nation with renewed vigor.
"It just makes you know that if you slip up at all, they're gong to take you out," Wilson said. There's no room for error."
Two lures in a tackle box
Wilson and Newby go together like minnows and wax worms. They know what buttons to push on each other the same way they know what bait is going to hit on a cloudy day.
To think the dynamic duo formed over – what else – a big fish tale. While playing darts on the same team about 7 years ago, Wilson overheard Newby telling a buddy he'd placed fourth in an ice fishing tournament.
"He called me a liar to my face," Newby said.
So they went out fishing with some buddies to see who could land 25 fish first, as a sort of lie detector test.
The third and fourth wheels had landed four fish when Wilson and Newby both hooked their 25th. At the same time.
"At that point, I figured, if you can't beat him, join 'em," Newby said.
One thing that sets them apart: While Wilson works in tree service year-round, Newby's blacktop trade finds him in his offseason.
"I felt bad for Ryan after we won," said Newby. "I didn't really do much for the next 2 days after I got home."
So, after battling the shifting elements, Wilson's form of celebration was going home to see his wife, Erika, and his two sons.
"After being on the road that long, the most exciting thing is to pack up and go home," Wilson said. "It's completely draining."
Ryan Wilson file
Age: 31
Hometown: Dixon
High school: Dixon, Class of 2000
Resides: Waupaca, Wis.
Family: Wife, Erika; sons Trevor, 3, and Cooper, turns 1 in April
Education: Studied urban forestry and business at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point ... Earned bachelor's degree in 2005
Professional: Full time – Asplundh Tree Expert Co. Part time – Wilson Tree Service


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Washington D.C., Aug 2, 2012 / 12:05 am (CNA).- A bipartisan group of six former U.S. ambassadors to the Holy See has joined together to support presidential candidate Mitt Romney and is calling on other Catholics to do the same.
The ambassadors said on July 31 that despite their own political differences, they all believe that Mitt Romney "can be a great force for good in this nation."
They explained that they are united in their support of Romney's candidacy by the conviction that all Catholics are "called to advance the moral teachings of Christianity in the life of our country."
Former ambassadors Frank Shakespeare, Tom Melady, Ray Flynn, Jim Nicholson, Francis Rooney and Mary Ann Glendon are the new national co-chairs of the Catholics for Romney coalition.
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BONIFAY � Festivities for the 2012 Northwest Florida Championship Rodeo begin Thursday in Bonifay.
BONIFAY � Festivities for the 2012 Northwest Florida Championship Rodeo begin Thursday in Bonifay.
�We�re really looking forward to this year�s rodeo,� said Bonifay Kiwanis President Bill Bullington. �It is our 58th and I hate to say it but I was there at the first one. It�s been a long road we�ve been down since it first came along.�
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|2011-01-30, 08:44
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This series isn't 'dark' yet, hardly approaches it in my opinion. I'd be glad if it keeps up this way, IMO pointless death and misery is just stupid.
|2011-01-30, 10:20
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That was my point. Mami's death fits thematically into the story, which seems clearly to me to have something to say about the bright side of life. "Dark for a Magical Girl show" doesn't mean much to me as I don't typically watch them, but I don't come to Shinbo for sick and depressive stuff; instead, that would be brilliant stylisms/artistic creativity combined with either (occasionally perverted) humour or human drama. Thus far, Puella Magi has been providing the latter just about perfectly while approaching nowhere near the darkness of other serious works out there.
|2011-01-30, 11:06
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Which is why people suspect Mami's death is just the tip of the iceberg
|2011-01-30, 17:18
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I got into this series because everyone wouldnt stop talking about this episode....
People would just assume that nothing like that will happen just because they believed Mami was in the "main cast". Just cuz a character is in all the advertisements or in the OP, ED doesnt mean that nothing will happen to them throughout the series...we should know that by now.
But I do like the series overall thus far, really love the unique art style when battling the witches.
...though it makes you think, where's the line that seperates magical girls from witches? Isnt it just "age"? LOL, magical girls these days...they just have to blow $#!t up...orz
|2011-03-21, 22:54
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i've been revisiting mami too, can't get enough of her fighting theme.
btw, i don't know if this was pointed out before but i noticed a continuity error. after homu-chan destroyed charlotte, homu changed into her school uniform. she warned the girls about becoming pm, changes to wide-shot, then close-up homura in pm attire again. or it was a plot device that has some relevance later on?
this just struck me since i'm seeing screencaps regarding minor differences in ep10 tv and nico stream broadcast.
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|2011-03-27, 08:38
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Mami's theme is probably my favorite piece of BGM from this anime. Mind you, there's a few different pieces of BGM in this anime that I like a lot, but Mami's theme is probably my personal fave of them all.
|2011-03-27, 13:40
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Oh.....thank god it's not just me then. Started feeling ackward after I watched that scene for the 50th time just for the music. ^_^;
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I just finished this episode! (Yes, I'm a little behind. This is my first time watching an ongoing anime...) This anime is already so entertaining! Mami was such a great character, it's a shame to see her go so soon...
Excuse me for the short post, I'm not sure what to say, really. I'm in awe.
A magical girl's anime has never been so nicely done! I ranked this episode a perfect 10.
Not that I won't miss Mami, though. o_o;
|2011-08-02, 00:32
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I had nothing else going on tonight so I decided to throw on some episodes of this.
So this series is going to be all serious business then. We find out this episode that being a magical girl is actually dangerous in this show cause weird snowman face monsters can eat you. Apparently Madoka has a lot of potential as a Magical Girl, but have they ever stated why that's the case or did I miss a bit of dialogue or did I miss something? Perhaps it's because some of the imagery in this show can be really distracting at times, which is a bit of a problem I'm running into in this show.
The weird world that the witches seem to live in is just so different from the rest of the artstyle in the show that I have a hard time accepting it as part of the universe of this show and it kind of detaches me from what's going on with all the characters. That's a bit of a problem cause there's a lot of dramatic dialogue (not the most eloquent stuff either given the severity of the speeches being made) in this episode and it's kind of hard to absorb it when the source of the trouble is giant photorealistic cookies in the background and weird snowman face monsters. It's kind of like a conflict of goals almost between the art direction and the plotting and character development.
Here's an analogy to try to clear up what I'm getting at here. It's like when you have CGI in a movie with live actors (say Star Wars Episode 1) and you see them trying to make the real interact with the artificial, but a part of your brain knows when something is not real and it takes you out of what's going on cause it registers as not real or hard to accept. That's the feeling that everything that goes on in the Witches world gives me because of the severe contrast in art style.
I still like Madoka as a character (some would probably think of her as a Mary Sue, but I don't know, her personality is pretty endearing) in this which is why I'm going to continue to follow it, but I'm not sure I'm liking the this abrupt turn for the overly violent yet. Not so much the turn itself, but how it was handled and how some of the elements clash with each other in the leadup to the climax with Mami's apparent death. I know that's weird to say for someone who enjoyed Higurashi and how that went from being sugary to a violent horror series (not that this was ever really overly sugary, but it did get really violent this episode when before it had just been cartoonish of the kind that is more the norm for magical girl fare), but that was more of a gradual change in tone whereas this feels like the tone of the show and overall goal got changed up right in the middle of production or something and they didn't have enough time to up the style of the dialogue to suit the change in tone so they just worked in some catty barbs between Mami and Akemi. Am I expecting too much in the dialogue here for a more dramatic take on the magical girl tone? I can't really answer that myself which is why I'm moving onto the next episode right away.
As for now, I like the characters and their storylines so far (even if Mami and Sayaka's wish storylines are a little tropeish in featuring the oft seen tragic storylines the car crash and the sick kid, not that I can consider it a detriment, but I am keenly aware of it), but there's just a lot of conflictings elements in this show for me to really get into any of it right now and I hope that clears up soon cause I've got about another 9 episodes of Madoka Magica to get through.
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The Land Yacht is back.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Airstream Inc., the maker of distinctive aluminum-skinned premium travel trailers, is expected to announce that it will build a new generation of its trademarked "Land Yacht" trailers, based on a concept developed with Italian yacht designer Mauro Micheli.
The recreational vehicle industry overall has revived during the past several years as the U.S. economy has recovered from the recession and fuel prices have stabilized.
A subsidiary of Thor Industries Inc., Airstream has focused under CEO Bob Wheeler on expanding its appeal to affluent consumers with silver-skinned trailers that look retro on the outside, but have modern interiors with colors and materials rarely found in the utilitarian trailers of the past.
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Set your enemies to dislike: This is always the responsibility of the attacker and can be done as soon as right after logging in or as late as a split second before the actual attack but the bottom line is that it must be done.
There is a hostile button available through the radial menu. It can be quick slotted. Right click->Assign Special Abilities->Class->Hostile. Target an individual to hostile him or her, or target the ground to hostile everyone.
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At first, it sounds as if the band is just tuning up. Mick Jagger honks out a call on his harmonica. Guitarist Mick Taylor responds with a blues run. Ron Wood twiddles between a couple of notes.
Then Keith Richards lands the haymaker opening chords to "Midnight Rambler," Charlie Watts crashes his way in on cymbals and drums and the long-running locomotive that is the Rolling Stones roars to full, satisfying life, careening down the rails, popping rivets, threatening to jump the tracks.
It was one of several highlights Monday at the Verizon Center, where the band brought its "50 and Counting Tour" for a final American stop, conjuring unflagging energy for a 21-song set of hits dating back half a century, a few album cuts, and a couple of new songs.
Seeing the Rolling Stones live in 2013 is a multigenerational affair: The crowd ranges from preschoolers to the elderly – in some cases, within the same party – all there for a late glimpse of the combo that once billed itself as the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band.
On the evidence of the records, the Rolling Stones sound better live now than they did when they were making that claim. Where they once were given to abridging their material in concert – excising introductions, simplifying riffs, paring down harmonies – they now take care to play the songs as they recorded them. So we get the foreboding opening guitar run to "Gimme Shelter," electric sitar on "Paint It, Black," the Washington Chorus singing the choral opening to "You Can't Always Get What You Want."
The proceedings start Monday with a loop of the samba introduction to "Sympathy For The Devil," embellished with Carnival drums. Then, the opening beat to "Get Off My Cloud," the chords, and Jagger explaining, once again, that he lives in an apartment on the 99th floor of his block.
It's the second song that sets the template for the evening: Richards rips off a Chuck Berry riff. Wood responds with a variation. Richards answers with the bending refrain from Berry's "Carol," and the band drops into a rough-hewn take on "It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)."
It's what Richards and Wood have called the "ancient art of weaving" – two guitars in conversation, calling and responding, barrelling into or making space for each other. Wood, in particular, provides many of the bluesiest runs, while Richards chugged fat rhythms. They are abbetted sometimes by Jagger, who takes the lead riff on the fine new "Doom And Gloom," and Taylor, the prodigal Stone, who adds a searing lead to "Midnight Rambler" and acoustic chords to "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."
Longtime sideman Darryl Jones invests old bass lines with a new funk, particularly on the disco-era hits "Miss You" and "Emotional Rescue." Among the other backing musicians, singer Lisa Fischer shines in her soaring, Gospel-inflected vocal on "Gimme Shelter."
Watts is a marvel, his whipcrack drumming holding the enterprise together.
If Watts is a marvel, Jagger is a freak. The quintessential frontman, who turns 70 next month, snakes and shimmies his impossibly lithe form through two and a half hours, gathering steam as the evening progresses, captivating the enthusiastic audience. An early highlight is his falsetto on "Worried About You;" later come strong takes on the set-closing run of hits from the band's late 1960s-early 1970s sweet spot: "Tumbling Dice," "Brown Sugar" and "Sympathy For The Devil."
He also gets off a good one for the Beltway crowd, saying, "I don't think President Obama is here tonight – but I'm sure he's listening in."
Jagger gets a break only during Richards' two-song showcase, when the guitarist sings an affecting "You Got The Silver," with Wood on slide guitar, and the pirate-outlaw anthem "Before They Make Me Run."
Still, Jagger and the band have energy to spare for the encore, an energetic "You Can't Always Get What You Want," followed by tight rips on two of their greatest: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Satisfaction."
And so concludes the last U.S. appearance on the schedule.
These Rolling Stones, they are giants.
Get Off My Cloud
It's Only Rock 'N Roll (But I Like It)
Paint It, Black
Gimme Shelter
Worried About You
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Sympathy For The Devil
You Can't Always Get What You Want (with the Washington Chorus)
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Roxbury Preparatory Charter School
|Boston, Mass.
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This urban middle school was founded in order to prepare its African American and Hispanic students to enter, succeed in, and graduate from college. Located in Boston's tough Roxbury neighborhood, this charter school is filling a gap in local students' education choices. Unlike any other middle school in this impoverished community, Roxbury Preparatory Charter School (RPC) features an academic program designed specifically to prepare students for college.
The philosophy driving Roxbury Prep is that when curriculum is engaging and rigorous, when student character and community responsibility are emphasized, and when the community network supports student academic, social, and physical well-being, all students can succeed in college preparatory programs, even the 66 percent of the school's incoming students who are reading one or more grade levels below the norm.
The key to Roxbury Prep's success in bridging the achievement gap is its relentless and systematic focus on academic achievement. There is an urgency in the school, an understanding that this is a life-changing opportunity for students.
The school was started in 1999 by a team of educators-John King; Evan Rudall; Roger Harris, then principal of the James P. Timilty School; and Keith Motley, the vice chancellor of student affairs at the University of Massachusetts, Boston-who recognized that Roxbury did not have any public schools dedicated to a college preparatory program. With a charter from the state of Massachusetts, they originally intended to create a school for grades 6-12. Amid the challenges of start-up, however, they realized that managing such a comprehensive facility and providing all the options that come with a high school program, such as sports, was beyond their means. The board of trustees and administrators decided that, rather than launch the high school program, they preferred to focus on developing an outstanding college preparatory middle school for students in grades 6-8. As John King says, "It was better to focus on doing middle school well."
Roxbury Prep has 180 students: 72 sixth-graders, 58 seventh-graders and 50 eighth-graders this year. Eighty percent of the students are African American and 20 percent are Hispanic. Female students outnumber male students by 56 to 44 percent. Three-quarters of the students come from the Boston neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan.
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Roxbury Prep has developed many schoolwide structures to create a common culture and work ethic for students. The academic day runs from 7:45 to 3:15, followed by mandatory enrichment classes, after-school clubs, and a homework center. Each day begins with breakfast in advisory groups and 25 minutes of Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) time. Students take six academic classes of 50 minutes each plus physical education and computers twice a week. Each day students have two periods of mathematics and two periods of reading/language arts; the extra emphasis helps students make up ground as needed and get ahead in these basics.
Fridays are structured differently, to allow for 1:30 p.m. dismissal so that teachers can meet for professional development. Saturdays find the school open and as many as half the school's 20 teachers and 20 to 30 students on hand.
Classroom practices promote continuity from one class to the next. For example, each day teachers outline on the blackboard a specific, measurable "Aim" for the day, a "Do Now" activity, and homework. When students enter any classroom at Roxbury Prep, they move quickly to their assigned seats and begin working silently on the "Do Now" activity, a five-minute warm-up that gets them settled and immediately focused on school work.
|Each day students have two periods of mathematics and two periods of reading/language arts.
In a math procedures classroom, the "Mad Minute" routine is used to check basic math facts, helping students to develop speed and accuracy. The 24 sixth-graders are serious and focused on the work at hand. The teacher does not want students having side conversations with their neighbors, instructing them, "You have a question? You ask me." The class is fast paced, highly structured, and the tone disciplined.
Classes do not use textbooks, except for reference. The teachers draw from a curriculum prepared by staff during the previous summer and aligned both to state and Roxbury Prep standards. This curriculum, in turn, is refined using the plans developed in previous years.
In addition to a focus on basics, the school offers many enrichment classes, including Spanish, art, sports, choir, drama, computers, mock trial, and yearbook. Clubs include a history movie club, a science club, peer tutoring, music, and the student newspaper.
Character development is also an explicit part of the Roxbury Prep experience. It is woven into the daily interactions in the classrooms. As one teacher says, "Students are developing a sense of respect, how you speak to someone, how to ask a question for help. It is part of the daily learning." Friday advisory meetings have a specific character development focus at each grade: the sixth grade focuses on responsibility and time management, the focus at seventh grade is community and non-violence, and eighth-graders address leadership and community. Additionally, every eighth-grader is paired with a sixth-grade buddy, usually a student who rides the same bus, to help create a supportive sense of community across grades. Schoolwide community meetings are another opportunity to reinforce school values. The entire school comes together to share what they are learning in their classes, see performances by enrichment classes or clubs, and celebrate student academic achievement.
To ensure a safe, structured, and focused learning environment, Roxbury enforces a strict code of conduct and discipline. All students wear blue shirts, navy pants or khakis, and brown or black shoes and belts. Boys wear ties. Students not in compliance are not allowed to attend class and parents are asked to pick them up or bring them appropriate clothing. Students are required to be in line and silent in the halls when passing from one class to the next. In class they are expected to be focused and on task. Students are polite when they ask questions, raising their hands and using a respectful tone.
Students may be given demerits for conduct violations such as tardiness, school bus misbehavior, chewing gum, talking in the hallways, disrupting class, arriving unprepared, not completing homework on time, or disrespectful behavior. Three demerits lead to after-school detentions, and multiple demerits result in extended detentions on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. Any student who is struggling academically may be pulled out of enrichment or physical education classes for tutoring. Students may also be required to attend after-school tutoring, homework center, Saturday school, and summer school to improve their academic performance.
Continuous Learning
Multiple assessments guide Roxbury's curriculum and instruction. Comprehensive exams based on the school curriculum guide ongoing adjustments to meet student learning needs. Students all take a benchmark comprehensive exam at the beginning of the year. Comprehensive exams at the end of each trimester indicate fine-grained academic progress aligned with the RPC standards, state standards, and Stanford 9 standards, when relevant. Teachers create extensive spreadsheets to show each standard and knowledge area tested and how each student performed on each question. Analyzing these results helps teachers see which students need additional support in specific areas. Students receive progress reports monthly and report cards each trimester. Students take the Stanford 9 at the midyear and at the end of the school year to monitor academic progress.
Each Friday, teachers engage in an afternoon of professional development. They devote one hour to grade-level team meetings, one hour to inquiry groups, and a half hour for a staff meeting. By collaborating to address challenges that arise, teachers solidify their teams and delve deeply into pedagogy, problem solving, and teaching issues. During inquiry group meetings, teachers share their efforts and analyze student work in order to focus their instruction. For example, one team of teachers saw the need to focus on the use of evidence in writing. They developed a shared vocabulary, rubrics, and a teaching system across classes so that when students were writing paragraphs in one class, they would know to draw on strategies they were learning in their other classes.
During the summer, staff are paid an additional stipend to devote three weeks to planning and preparing curriculum for the school year. They develop Curriculum Alignment Templates (CATs) that align with Roxbury Prep standards, the Massachusetts standards, clear and measurable benchmarks, learning activities, and assessment for each unit. A school curriculum file is maintained in binders and electronically, and teachers are required to save all CATs, syllabi, assessments, and course materials in hard copy and on the server. The process is valuable for developing shared knowledge among the staff and passing it on to new teachers, who can review the CATs for the courses they are teaching and build on those lesson plans and curriculum units.
|Parents can expect to hear from their child's teacher adviser at least once every two weeks.
Parents and Partners
The school brings families into the school culture with an orientation that presents the ways that Roxbury Prep is different from traditional public schools. Families and students sign the Family and School Contract at the beginning of the year, agreeing to make the school a safe and orderly environment and to ensure that students arrive at school and class on time, with homework completed. Parents also agree to participate in school activities, to communicate regularly with the teachers, and to follow the guidelines of the school.
When the school first started, the codirectors believed that all families needed to carry the responsibility for making sure that students completed their homework, but as it became clear that some students did not have a quiet place to study or needed additional support while working on homework, the school added more support systems. With students having two or three hours of homework every night, there is now a homework center, where teachers can provide academic help and students have a quiet space to complete their assignments. The homework center can be mandatory for students who are not completing their work or are falling behind and receiving poor grades.
Teachers work hard to keep communication lines open with families. Classroom teachers send home weekly syllabi for parents' information and signature, and parents are asked to check homework assignments nightly. Regular parent-teacher conferences keep parents informed about their child's academic progress. In addition, parents can expect to hear from their child's teacher adviser at least once every two weeks. Teachers each serve as advisers for 12 students. They know these students well, spending breakfast and lunch with them,the morning DEAR time, and the Friday character development advisories. Parents appreciate the Roxbury teachers' commitment. "They come early and stay late," says one. Another parent reports what a pleasure it is that when teachers call, it is not always bad news. She also notes that her daughter can call her teachers until 8:00 at night if she has a question.
|All Roxbury Prep graduates have gone on to high schools with college preparatory missions.
The Family Involvement Committee organizes potluck dinners and ongoing ways for families to be involved with the school program. Two parent representatives are on the school's board of trustees and serve on board committees.
In addition to several small community partnerships, Roxbury Prep benefits from donors who provide the school with about $350,000 annually in grant funding.
Governance and Accountability
Roxbury Prep operates on an annual budget of about $2,350,000. The school receives state-funded tuition of about $9,500 per student and other state and federal monies for programs such as Title I and special education, but the average cost to educate a student is estimated at $13,000 per year. The difference represents a healthy amount, and members of the board of trustees are valued in part for their ability to help the school raise funds. Of the 12 board members, 10 are Boston-area community members and two are parents.
The school has two codirectors. John King oversees curriculum and development and teacher observation and evaluation, and Josh Phillips is in charge of facilities, operations, and fundraising. But as they explain in unison, "We make the major decisions together."
Roxbury's charter was renewed in February 2004. Among the state's predominantly African American schools, Roxbury Prep students in 2002-03 had the highest average scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests in sixth-grade math, eighth-grade math, and eighth-grade science, and the second-highest average score on the seventh-grade English test. Students averaged over 2.5 grade levels of progress on the Stanford 9. Of course, the most important measure of success to the school's families and staff is students' ability to continue on a path toward college. All Roxbury Prep graduates have gone on to high schools with college preparatory missions, and the school's recent graduating class earned over $400,000 in scholarships and financial aid toward tuition in private high schools.


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Can anyone please translate the two dramas from Assorted Shana Vol. 2. From the second drama i think Margary is trying to teach Kazumi to use her boobs as a tool to win over Yuji. Also I think Ike accidently conffesses to Shana and stuff. Someone please translate it!
|2006-03-25, 19:43
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Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 32
Gaaaaaaaaah, it was one of those ended's where you wish that a second season started a week after, i know it would be. ^^;
I'm happy that Mathilde was mentioned in the last episode.. it might of just been for a few seconds, but at least we anime watches know how she died.. and now i want a flashback movie even more, but i don't think it'll happen. The movie'll probably just be another story from the novel.. hope it doesn't get rushed though.
Some people could say the last episode was rushed, but i think it went at a good speed, Shana finally got to say what she should have said around 15 episodes ago. As for a Shana & Yuji kiss, thats not something i wanted.. thats something that should happen right at the end of the story. ^^;
Well, its gonna be kinda empty without the kicking arse flamed haired Shana, maybe a rewatch is in order.
|2006-03-25, 21:00
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yea i like how it ended too, yuji seemed to be able to even control a sword with his power of existence.and shana releasing the true form of alastor was great.u can see a figure of a fire type huge firegod stuff engulfing the existence made by the tomogara.anyway i like the way when the end says "i will never lose to u" lol it sounds like some anime esp Shuffle! not losing to get over Yuji rofl.
overall i think there should be a Shakugan The Movie or otherwise its still 90% complete? lol i wan see why balle masque ppl are running away.issit becoz this is the balance they all had been having? like good and evil has balance? sounds like it.
anyway i juz hope that if there's a 2nd season,all the characters should be more grown up and sorts.and proceeding to eliminate the tomogara once and for all.
some hints the tomogara professor said " Not again!" which basically would mean they did fail b4.hmm tats the part
2nd season or movie,i'm supporting this anime if they can make a game for it.fighting game of coz
|2006-03-25, 23:11
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 34
You know what, I didn't really have a problem with that ending. It was pretty much how I expected it to turn out, so I wasn't especially disappointed in any way... even with the unanswered questions and deus ex machina. But, it was a happy ending, which is what I wanted from this series. I don't think I would have been comfortable with anything overly shocking or dramatic, and the ending kept to the same vein and mood as the rest of the series, so in that respect I felt it worked. It did the rest of the series justice.... which is how an ending should be, IMO
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|2006-03-26, 13:06
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I'm not really buying the DVDs for extras, but let's hope that there's going to be BOX II with vol.6 or vol.5 and some Shakugan no Shanatan to go along with all that too. ^^
BTW, has anyone bought any of the extra clothing or the big Shana towel? I was thinking if I should get it, but I'll try to save up for an auction bid for the Shana pillow.
|2006-03-26, 14:43
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They identified the man who died hours after the Wednesday morning shooting as 48-year-old Steve Singer. He's the CEO of Fusion Contract Centers Inc.
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unifont.org >> LASi
2011-10-03 New Release Announcement: libLASi-1.1.1
Our development team is proud to announce the release of libLASi-1.1.1 which incorporates several bug fixes for the previous (1.1.0) release. The most important of these is a correction for the positioning of diacritical marks that has been suggested by Yotam Medini. Most of this change is internal, but it does require a backwards-incompatible change to part of our public API that is rarely used externally. So most users of libLASi will just need to recompile the applications that link to libLASi (as forced by our SOVERSION bump) without actually having to change those applications.
The libLASi-1.1.1 file release area (including release notes, a detailed ChangeLog, the source tarball, and a detached gpg signature for that tarball) is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lasi/files/lasi/1.1.1%20Source.
Enjoy using libLASi-1.1.1 to make some very nice looking PostScript results. Your feedback on the lasi-devel mailing list is welcome.
Alan W. Irwin on behalf of the libLASi developers.
2008-02-08 Previous Release Announcement: libLASi-1.1.0
The LASi development team is proud to announce the release of libLASi-1.1.0 which has significant improvements (a new build system based on CMake and some small code updates to make libLASi more robust) compared to prior releases.
The new CMake-based build system allows building libLASi on both Unix and Windows platforms and automatically detects freetype version so split releases to cater to different freetype versions are no longer necessary.
The robustness improvements mean that libLASi now renders an empty box rather than erroring out in those rare cases where glyph information returned by pango/cairo/fontconfig is not available or else is in a glyph form that is unusable by libLASi.
The file release area (including release notes, a detailed ChangeLog, the source tarball for version 1.1.0, and an md5 checksum for that tarball) is located at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=187113.
Enjoy using libLASi to make some very nice looking PostScript results and your feedback is welcome.
-- Alan W. Irwin on behalf of the libLASi developers, 2008-02-08.
libLASi is a library written by Larry Siden
that provides a C++ stream output interface
( with operator
<< ) for creating Postscript documents that can
contain characters from any of the scripts and symbol blocks supported
in Unicode
and by Owen Taylor's Pango layout engine.
The library accomodates right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew as easily as
left-to-right scripts. Indic and Indic-derived Complex Text Layout (CTL)
scripts, such as Devanagari, Thai, Lao, and Tibetan are supported to the extent
provided by Pango and by the OpenType fonts installed on your system.
All of this is provided without need for any special configuration or layout calculation
on the programmer's part.
Although the capability to produce Unicode-based multilingual Postscript documents exists in large Open Source application framework libraries such as GTK+, QT, and KDE, libLASi was designed for projects which require the ability to produce Postscript independent of any one application framework.
libLASi is now a Sourceforge project -- Please visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/lasi to find out the latest development information.
This document outlines the motivation and strategy employed in the development of LASi.
libLASi-1.1.0 Latest Stable Release
Download the latest stable release, libLASi-1.1.0, from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=187113.
Sourceforge SVN Repository
For the latest development version of the library, visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/lasi to learn more about accessing libLASi's SVN repository. To check out the latest code from the repository, you can use the following command line:
svn co https://lasi.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lasi/trunk lasi
Font Resources
The example programs included with LASi contain Unicode text in various languages. To obtain Open Source and otherwise liberally-licensed fonts required for proper generation of the example Postscript output, please visit Unifont.org's Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems.
Prerequisites and Dependencies
The code base in the Sourceforge SVN repository uses a CMake build system. You will need at least version 2.4.5 to build LASi from SVN.
LASi uses Owen Taylor's Pango text layout engine. Pango itself depends on the glib infrastructure library of the GTK+ toolkit and on the FreeType 2 font handling library.
Almost any modern Linux or similar free *nix operating system will already have the FreeType2 library installed. If you have the Gnome desktop or GTK+-based software like the Gimp installed on your system, then you may be able to use the glib and Pango libraries already present on your system.
If you decide to download glib and Pango, be sure to download "matched" libraries from the Gnome web site. For example, if you go to the download area for Gnome 2.8, you will find glib-2.4.6.tar.gz and pango-1.6.0.tar.gz. Glib-2.4.6 and pango-1.6.0 are "matched" for building a stable version of Gnome and should thus provide you good results when used with LASi.
General CMake Build Instructions for libLASi
As CMake is a new build system which many developers are not yet familiar with, we provide the following general CMake instructions to get you started:
1) Create an empty build directory and
cd to it:
mkdir build_dir
cd build_dir
2) Configure libLASi using
cmake or
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install/prefix \
-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON /path/to/lasi/source/code >& cmake.out
ccmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install/prefix \
-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON /path/to/lasi/source/code
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX option lets the user specify the install prefix
CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON insures the subsequent make commands give
verbose results.
ccmake is a GUI frontend for
cmake that gives you other
annotated options you can set.
3) Build and install libLASi:
make >& make.out
su -c "make install >& /tmp/make_install.out"
Note: '
su -c "<root command>"' is the
conventional way to execute a command requiring root privileges on Linux. On some other systems,
such as OS X, you might invoke "
sudo" instead, while on other systems you might need
to start a root shell using the "
su" command.
Platform Specific Notes
Recent Linux distributions will already have most, if not all, of the tools and libraries that you need to build LASi already installed. This will likely not be the case on other platforms. Therefore, if you plan to build LASi on a non-Linux platform, be prepared to spend some time downloading and installing required tools like CMake and DOxygen, as well as dependent libraries like GLib and Pango.
Development of LASi takes place primarily on Linux workstations with fairly recent distributions installed. As a result, most of the tool and library dependencies described in the preceding section will normally already be present on your machine. A possible exception is CMake : be sure to get at least version 2.4.5.
We have achieved the best success with the least frustration by building the required tools and libraries directly from source code. However, if you don't really like this idea, you might want to try http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki which provides a Gentoo-like build experience.
Due to numerous problems encountered with Fink, we cannot recommend Fink at this time.
Here then are build instructions for Apple OS X:
1) Get CMake: Download the latest Darwin Universal (Tiger only installer) .dmg from www.cmake.org. This will install cmake in /usr/bin.
2) Get SVN: Matthew E. Porter provides SVN .dmg installers for OS X that do not require Fink. Importantly, these binaries are compiled with SSL support, which is required for checking out LASi from the Sourceforge SVN repository. The URL is http://metissian.com/projects/macosx/subversion/. This binary will be installed in /usr/local/bin .
3) Get PKG-CONFIG: Build from source. http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.20.tar.gz. If you install libraries using different prefixes, don't forget to "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH" as necessary so that pkg-config can find the installed libraries. For example:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
4) Get DOXYGEN: Build it from source. Available from http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ . DOxygen is needed to create the LASi documentation. Installs in /usr/local/bin by default.
5) Get libxml2 from http://xmlsoft.org/ and build it from source. This library is required to compile fontconfig.
6) Get fontconfig from http://www.fontconfig.org/wiki/ and build it from source.
7) Get FREETYPE: Build Freetype from source. Available from http://freetype.sourceforge.net/ . Using the defaults, Freetype will be installed in /usr/local/lib and --importantly-- the freetype.pc file will be found by LASi's CMake build system.
8) Get CAIRO from http://xmlsoft.org/ and build it from source.
9) Get GLIB and PANGO from the Gnome project. At the time of this writing, the latest version was 2.16.13: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.16/2.16.3/sources/ . Download the latest versions of glib and pango. Be sure to build and install glib first. These will be installed in /usr/local/lib by default.
10) Finally you should now be able to build LASi without any problems. :-)
Other *Nix Systems
On other, non-Linux *Nix systems be prepared to spend some time chasing down missing dependencies. The instructions for OS X above will give you a fair idea of what may be required.
You may find that your life is easier if you install a recent version of the GCC compiler suite along with GNU gmake.
You will almost certainly need to use the C++ standard library that comes with the GCC compiler suite (Even compilers like Intel's icpc compiler uses the GNU C++ standard library when linking projects on Linux). Other C++ libraries, such as on Sun Solaris, may not be sufficiently up-to-date.
Make utilities on some platforms, such as OpenBSD, do not have some of the capabilities of GNU gmake which are used frequently, so you will probably save yourself some trouble by using gmake.
After carefully satisfying all dependencies by installing packages from the ports tree or from source, we encountered no problems building libLASi on OpenBSD version 4.0 on i386.
These instructions from Werner Smekal should allow anybody to compile libLASi on Windows platforms with the MinGW and Visual C++ compiler:
1) Download the following from http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html :
- glib-2.12.7.zip and glib-dev-2.12.7.zip
- pango-1.14.9.zip and pango-dev-1.14.9.zipy
- pkg-config-0.20-zip
- libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip
- cairo-1.2.6.zip and cairo-dev-1.2.6.zip
- freetype-2.2.1.zip and freetype-dev-2.2.1.zip
- fontconfig-tml-2.3.2-20060825.zip and fontconfig-dev-2.3.2-tml-20060825.zip
- gettext-0.14.5.zip and gettext-dev-0.14.5.zip
Unzip all packages in a directory, e.g.
C:\Dev\gtk .
2) Download from ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/expat.zip:
- expat.zip
Unzip expat.zip and copy only the xmlparse.dll in the bin directory to
C:\Dev\gtk\bin. Rename
xmlparse.dll to
3) Some additional things need to be ironed out:
Change last 3 lines of
gtk/lib/pkg-config/pangoft2.pcto (add freetype2 as requirement and delete absolute directories in Cflags):
Requires: pango,freetype2
Libs: -L${libdir} -lpangoft2-1.0
Cflags: -I${includedir}/pango-1.0
- The freetype import library for Visual C++ is missing and we need to create it (pexports is available here: http://www.emmestech.com/software/cygwin/pexports-0.43/download_pexports.html) -- for MinGW omit this step:
cd C:\Dev\gtk\lib
pexports ..\bin\freetype6.dll > freetype.def
lib /machine:i386 /def:freetype.def
4) Set environment variables for cmake (
USER_ROOTDIR is the
development directory, e.g.
rem setup glib, pango, cairo, freetype, pkg-config
set PKG_CONFIG_PATH=%USER_ROOTDIR%\gtk\lib\pkgconfig
set PATH=%USER_ROOTDIR%\gtk\bin;%PATH%
5) Build libLASi in a command line environment:
- Run the following commands (similar for Visual C++):
mkdir build (we assume the lasi directory is in the same folder as the build)
cd build
make -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DBUILD_SHARED=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\Dev\gtk ../lasi
mingw32-make install (compiles and install into gtk directory)
If you have trouble building LASi ...
If you have trouble building LASi, the usual culprits are:
CMake or ccmake problems. You need version 2.4-patch 6 or newer. As of this writing (2007.03.07), most
distributions will only have an older version of CMake, if they have CMake at all. You will most likely have to
download and build the
latest version from a source code package.
It is always best to start with a clean LASi source tree, a separate (initially empty) build directory,
and be sure to specify "
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<your installation path>" on the command line as recommended in the directions above. If you have trouble with the interactive
ccmake, revert to using
cmakecaches results from the first run; Try "
rm CMakeCache.txt" in order to start off again with a clean slate and no cached results.
- pkg-config problems. Sometimes your system has all of the required libraries installed, but
the pkg-config utility doesn't have a clue where they are. Make sure you check
PKG_CONFIG_PATH. For example, if FreeType2 is installed in
/usr/X11R6/liband Pango is installed in
/opt/gnome/lib, then you might have to execute "
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig" from your shell in order to get pkg-config and, by extension, the LASi
cmakebuild system to find these libraries.
- Multiple installed versions of FreeType, Pango, or glib. This sort of issue is much harder to deal with.
Theoretically, it should not matter that you have multiple versions of FreeType2,
Pango or Glib installed. In the past we saw cases where the configure script detected one version of
a library
but at link time the linker linked against another version. With the new
cmake-based build system, most of these kinds of problems should be a thing of the past. Nevertheless, the easiest way to avoid problems is to avoid having multiple versions of the dependent libraries present on your machine. If that is not an option, and you have a good idea of what you are doing, you can play around with
ldconfiguntil you get it to work.
API Documentation
Note: The DOxygen documentation generated when you build LASi will be more up-to-date than the documentation here. However as the API is already quite stable, the differences will be few:
Examples are provided in the
examples subdirectory of the software distribution.
The makefiles included with the examples illustrate how to link a program against LASi.
Here is a simple example of what source code using LASi
looks like.
Original Author
Larry Siden firstname.lastname@example.com is the original author of LASi.
Project Maintainers and Development Staff
Please visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/lasi/ for the most current information regarding project maintainers and development staff.
- Ed would like to sincerely thank Larry Siden for producing such an elegant and simple-to-use software interface.
- Ed would also like to thank Ritu Khanna for her interest and help in resolving bugs in the software and installation scripts.
- All of us would also like to thank Dr. Julia Richards of the Kellogg Eye Center at the University of Michigan Medical Center for providing us the opportunity and support to work on this project.
My friend, Ed Trager, who first envisioned and motivated me to write LASi, suggested that I assign the name "Lasi" to this project, as "Lasi" is composed of the first two letters of my first name, Larry, followed by the first two letters of my last name, Siden. Since this immediately delighted by own sense of vanity, I had no trouble indulging Ed. Out of concern that the name "Lasi" might invite ridicule by jeolous programming rivals who would no doubt take every opportunity to mock it's connection to the beloved TV canine hero, I changed it's spelling to the post-modern, hi-tech moniker "LASi".


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Rachel Bilson: Burberry Prorsum with Kate Bosworth!
Rachel Bilson arrives for the Burberry Prorsum presentation at Kensington Gardens during London Fashion Week on Monday (February 21) in London, England.
During the show, the 29-year-old actress sat next to her pal and BFF & Baby costar Kate Bosworth.
Also in their row was Douglas Booth, who was recently linked to Glee's Naya Rivera.
While Kate attended events at New York Fashion Week last week, Rachel was home in Los Angeles.
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CAMBRIDGE and SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- At the 2011 New England Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships today, five Brandeis student-athletes were honored with All-Region accolades. The Judges had three top-three finishes on the day, as the women placed 14th overall with 19.3 points at MIT, while the men took 19th place with six points at Springfield.
On the women's side, senior Lucia Capano (Manchester, N.H./Manchester) earned All-New England honors for the sixth time in her career including indoor and outdoor competition. Capano finished sixth overall in the triple jump with a distance of 10.85 meters (35 feet, 7 1/4 inches). It was her third triple jump accolade to go along with three in the long jump.
The Judges' best finish was turned in by junior Lily Parenteau (Scarborough, Maine/Scarborough), who tied with two other competitors for second place in the high jump. Her height of 1.58 meters (5 feet, 2 1/4 inches) was just shy of her season best, but good enough for her first-ever All-Region honor.
Brandeis had two All-New England performers in the mile run. Senior Grayce Selig (Narberth, Pa./Springside School) was the top seed in the event, but ended up finishing third overall with a time of 4:57.18. She still owns one of the fastest times in the nation this season. This was the fourth All-New England honor of her career, to go with regional championships from 2010 in the 3,000-meters indoors and the 1,500 outdoors. She also was part of an All-New England distance medley relay as a rookie. Classmate Marie Lemay (Saco, Maine/Thornton Acad.) added her third consecutive All-Region honor in the mile with a time of 5:09.23, good for fifth place, matching her best finish at the New England Division III Championships.
On the men's side, the Judges' top performance was turned in by rookie Vincent Asante (Bronx, N.Y./High School for the Arts, Imagination and Inquiry) in the 55-meter dash. Asante won his heat with a time of 6.62 seconds to qualify for the finals in the fourth slot, then improved to 6.55 seconds in the finals to finish in third place. It put Asante just one-hundredth of a second off the school record in the 55 meters and five-one-hundredths shy of qualifying provisionally for the NCAA championships.


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Green Day Planning Two Documentaries to Coincide With Three Album Blitz
A pair of new Green Day documentaries is being lined up for release to coincide with the band's upcoming trio of albums, '¡Uno!,' '¡Dos!,' and '¡Tre!' One doc will focus on the making of the three discs, which will drop one at a time starting in September and wrapping in January 2013.
That documentary is being lensed by Tim Lynch, who produced the 'Green Day: Bullet in a Bible' film and Tim Wheeler, a co-producer and editor of 'The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights,' a Canadian tour doc. A second Green Day documentary will highlight the band's pre-fame, pre-'Dookie' days.
Lynch and Wheeler have spent the last year-and-a-half shooting Green Day rehearsing, recording and rocking clubs. They also plan to capture more footage as the band prepares to travel to Japan and Europe for a few festival dates.
"It's not going to be the sitting down, head shot of me going, 'We started out blah blah blah,'" frontman Billie Joe Armstrong tells Billboard. "We wanted to get into lifestyles of rock 'n' roll and playing rock 'n' roll and letting the story kind of tell itself rather than create revisionist [history]."
The making-of movie tentatively will drop early next year with a possible premiere at the Sundance film festival. '¡Uno!' drops Sept. 25.


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BOSTON (AP) � John Tavares tipped in Matt Moulson�s shot for the late tiebreaking goal, Evgeni Nabokov stopped 32 shots, and the New York Islanders snapped a five-game, road-losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins on Saturday.
BOSTON (AP) - John Tavares tipped in Matt Moulson's shot for the
late tiebreaking goal, Evgeni Nabokov stopped 32 shots, and the New
York Islanders snapped a five-game, road-losing streak with a 3-2
victory over the Boston Bruins on Saturday.
Josh Bailey and Moulson also had goals for the Islanders, who
won for just the second time in six games. New York, 0-4-1 in its
five previous road games, completed a 1-2-1 trip.
Tyler Seguin tied the game for Boston with his 22nd goal early
in the third period. Milan Lucic also scored his 22nd for the
Bruins, converting on a first-period power play.
The defending Stanley Cup champion Bruins have dropped five of
eight and hold a three-point lead over Ottawa atop the Northeast
Nabokov bounced back from allowing five goals on 29 shots in a
6-3 loss at Philadelphia on Thursday with a strong outing.
Tim Thomas took the loss in relief of injured starter Tuukka
Rask, who left the game with an undisclosed injury midway through
the second period. Thomas stopped 11 of 13 shots after Rask gave up
one on 12 shots.
Rask got hurt when he kicked out his left pad to try to stop a
shot that went wide. He dropped to the ice in pain and was helped
off by two players holding his arms as he skated off the ice.
Thomas was already expected to start Sunday when the Bruins visit
the New York Rangers.
The Islanders will play their next three games against New
Jersey, beginning Sunday at home.
New York grabbed the late lead when Moulson fired a shot from
the top of the right circle that was tipped by Tavares. The puck
dipped and slid between Thomas' pads with 4:39 left.
The Bruins pulled Thomas for an extra skater with 1:20 to play,
and Lucic had a good chance on a rebound during a scramble in the
closing seconds.
Boston was held to two goals or fewer in eight of 13 games in
February and was shut out five times. The Bruins rebounded with a
4-3 overtime win over New Jersey on Thursday - the first day of
March - but were shut down again by the Islanders until Seguin tied
the game at 2 at 7:29 of the third period.
The Bruins had taken a 1-0 lead on Lucic's power-play goal 15:10
into the game before New York tied it on Bailey's score 2:26 later.
Bailey to got the rebound of Frans Nielsen's backhander and tucked
the puck past Rask's right pad for his fourth goal in three
The Islanders made it 2-1 on Moulson's power-play score against
Thomas with 4:25 left in the second. Moulson, positioned at the top
of the crease, netted his team-leading 28th goal when he slid a
shot under Thomas just 28 seconds after defenseman Adam McQuaid was
whistled for tripping.
Lucic scored when he lifted a shot over Nabokov from just
outside the crease. Brian Rolston, acquired from the Islanders at
the NHL trade deadline on Monday, set up the goal with a soft
New York, which entered with the second-worst record in the
Eastern Conference, had dropped the previous two meetings - both in
November - to Boston. They lost 6-2 in Boston and 6-0 at home.
NOTES: Boston D Andrew Ference didn't play because of an
undisclosed lower body injury sustained Thursday against New
Jersey. D Johnny Boychuk returned after missing two games with a
concussion. ... Bruins D Mike Mottau, acquired from the Islanders
on Monday, was a healthy scratch. ... New York had given up 14
goals in its previous three games, all losses.


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And all through the Mission
Everyone came to the Dark Room
Because our show was so bitchin'
It is an All Thanksgivinged Eve to remember at the Dark Room this week, as we welcome a cornucopia of guests to the Business. From Los Angeles, we have Aparna Nancherla and SF native Emily Maya Mills, and from New York City, we have Alameda's own Emily Heller! Holy shit, if the Wampanoag had brought this kind of lineup to the Pilgrims back in 1621, they all would have died of laughter! And probably scurvy or rickets, because medicine was very primitive back then.
Aparna Nancherla is a Washington D.C. native who now entertains Los Angeles with her absurdist wit. She's performed all over the place. including Last Comic Standing, the Bentzen Ball, the Bridgetown Festival, WTF with Marc Maron, and, most importantly, The Business LA. I yam excited to hear her stuff!
Emily Maya Mills - "the Edward James Olmos of comedy" - is an actor, writer and stand-up comic based in Los Angeles, and is regarded by many as "the hottest 65-year-old in the business." She's been seen on Parks and Recreation, Ellen, Conan, Childrens' Hospital, Key and Peele, Downers Grove and many of television's weirder commercials. She's one of our favorite comics and favorite people, and we're thankful to have her back.
Emily Heller recently performed as one of Comedy Central's Comics To Watch in New York City, but she's still humble enough to return to her Dark Room roots. She's performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest... look, you know who Emily Heller is already. In 1621, she would have been known as a "sassy pilgrim," refused to eat turkey, and then probably burned at the stake. But instead, she'll be lighting it up on the stage!
We've also got regular Businessman Sean and Bucky, the gravy to this holiday smorgasbord. Also expect surprise guests, cardboard hand turkeys, pumpkin-based snacks, and one thousand six hundred and twenty-one laughs. $5, no wampum.