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Schools criticized for not closing for snow
Hudson, Windham stay open despite messy morning commute
Superintendents of at least two school districts in New Hampshire are being criticized for deciding to keep the buses running during Wednesday's snowstorm.
Snow disrupted the morning commute in New Hampshire, causing significant backups in some areas. Hundreds of schools closed for the day, but schools in Hudson and Windham stayed open.
Hudson Superintendent Bryan Lane said the decision of whether to close is made after keeping a close eye on forecasts and talking with other school and transportation officials.
"We do have a network where we speak to each other on mornings like this," Lane said. "The information was that there would be probably 2 inches of snow by 9 o'clock, and if that was the case, the road crews could keep up with it."
Windham Superintendent Henry LaBranche said he made his decision based on the information he had.
"Given the information that I have at the time, I thought I was making the responsible decision," he said.
But as the morning progressed, road conditions took a turn for the worse. Soon, the commute was a nightmare, and parents started to question why schools were open.
School buses from Hudson and Windham were involved in minor accidents, but nobody was hurt. School officials said parents flooded the districts with phone calls and emails, saying that the safety of their children was put at risk.
"Lots of phone calls, lots of emails, all checking my sanity to make sure that I haven't lost it completely. 'What was I thinking?'" LaBranche said.
"Some of them are real supportive, but not the majority today," Lane said.
The superintendents said student safety is their top priority, and they believe Wednesday's experience will affect their future decisions. But they both stood by the process by which they made their decisions.


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We saw great photos of this on Dirty Tackle a couple days ago, but have been waiting for the video to emerge. And it is fantastic.
Fourth tier German side Magdeburg had gone five games without scoring, and their fans were geting fed up. So for a home game against Berliner AK 07, the supporters (apparently the only people in attendance) brought fluorescent arrows to point the way to the opposing goal. Very creative, and they did indeed score on a 79th minute goal from American Christopher Wright, but Magdeburg still lost 2-1. [FC-Magdeburg.de]

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May 4, 2013
To halt the decline of educational standards, the Church of Scientology has published a new brochure, Scientology: How We Help—Applied Scholastics, Achieving Literacy and Education.
There is little doubt that American schools are failing in their duty to provide adequate education to our nation's youth.
It was this fact that led U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to tell representatives of the National Newspaper Publishers Association on March 14 that he and President Obama agree that "schools must be accountable for the needs and performance of all students."
Over the past several weeks, New Jersey, Illinois, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee have joined introducing legislation or taking drastic measures in an attempt to remedy failing schools. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie just announced the takeover of the Camden Central School District because of its dismal academic record. Chicago has sparked massive protests with its planned closure of 54 schools in an attempt to solve the problem. North Carolina and Kentucky have introduced or passed legislation to raise the school dropout age. In Tennessee a bill was recently introduced that would lower a family's welfare benefits by 30 percent if their children fall behind in school.
There has been no lack of educational theories paradigms and projects over the past 40 years. What has been lacking is consistent and uniform results.
Author, humanitarian and Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard recognized the consequences of lowered education standards and literacy levels of the individual and society, and in the mid 1960s he intensified his examination of the subject of study and isolated the precise causes for the success or failure of any activity or study.
These discoveries were so fundamental to the field of education that they can remedy the educational crisis schools face today. Applied Scholastics is a secular nonprofit public benefit corporation that makes Mr. Hubbard's Study Technology broadly available.
Several comparative studies have been conducted on Applied Scholastics programs, documenting substantial and measurable results. Applied Scholastics programs have been studied in a wide variety of contexts, community programs and schools in both urban and rural settings. These and case studies are available on the Applied Scholastics website for educators and others interested in documentation of results of these programs.
Applied Scholastics was founded in 1972. Over the past 40 years it has trained nearly 140,000 educators and has helped more than 39 million individuals with Study Technology.
The Applied Scholastics campus in Spanish Lake, Missouri, was established in 2003 to make possible broad implementation of this technology to government heads of education and schools. The Spanish Lake facility provides many courses available for postgraduate continuing education credits. It also offers a full schedule of courses and workshops on specific aspects of Study Technology. The organization works with hundreds of affiliated schools and educational programs throughout the world.
The brochure Scientology: How We Help—Applied Scholastics, Achieving Literacy and Education is one of a series of publications presented by the Church of Scientology International to meet requests for more information about the Scientology religion and its support of global humanitarian initiatives and social betterment programs. For more information, visit the Scientology website at www.scientology.org/AppliedScholastics.


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Kathy Chapman writes-
Yesterday I had the privilege to ride on the Tea Party Ship Beaver in the parade to its new berth at the Tea Party Ship Museum in Fort Point Channel, Boston. Once in place the masts will be stepped and the rigging will be completed.
It was a perfect day, hundreds of people welcomed us.
What a great accomplishment for master shipwright Leon Poindexter (shown close up) and his crew at the Gloucester Marine Railways. Mr. Poindexter is known for his artistry and has worked on many vessels on the National Register of Historic Places as well as serving as the master shipwright for 20th Century Fox to retrofit the tall ship Rose for the Academy Award Winning motion picture Master and Commander starring Russell Crowe.
Photos © Kathy Chapman 2012
For Kathy Chapman's incredible slideshow of the morning's events click on the picture below to view-


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You can change the size of an entire SmartArt graphic, or of individual shapes within a SmartArt graphic. If you want to change the size of another type of object, see Change the size of a picture, shape, text box, or WordArt.
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Overview of resizing SmartArt graphics, shapes, and text
When you change the size of an individual shape in a SmartArt graphic, the remaining shapes may adjust their sizes and positions, depending upon the layout of your SmartArt graphic and the amount of available space. In some cases, only the individual shape that you resize will change. In others cases, corresponding shapes will change their size as well.
When you resize a shape that contains text, the text automatically resizes to fit. However, if another shape at the same level in that SmartArt graphic does not have room to display larger text, the text size will remain the same for all shapes at that level. Also, if you have previously customized the text size in any shape, then the text in that shape will not resize.
For example, the following SmartArt graphic has three similarly sized shapes.
If you add more text to the first shape, and then make that shape smaller, the other two shapes decrease slightly in size and the text size decreases in all three shapes.
If you now make the third shape larger, the text size does not increase in any of the shapes, because the first shape is already full of text that cannot be any larger without overflowing the available space.
If you make the first shape larger, however, the text in that shape then has room to expand, and so the text size in the other two shapes also increases. However, if one or more shapes in your SmartArt graphic contains text that is much smaller than the free space in the shape allows (such as in the third shape above), you can manually change the text size by selecting the text in the shape, and then selecting the font options that you want in the Font group on the Home tab.
As a general rule, if typing more text in the shape increases the shape size, then increasing the text size will also increase the shape size. Conversely, if deleting text from the shape decreases the shape size, then decreasing the text size will also decrease the shape size. However, increasing or decreasing the text size does not automatically change the shape size for all shapes, depending on the SmartArt graphic layout that you choose.
Also, depending on the layout for the SmartArt graphic that you choose, when you change the size of an entire SmartArt graphic, shapes within thSmartArt graphic will either scale proportionally or adjust to optimize spacing and flow.
Resizing associated shapes
Associated shapes are shapes that are combined to make up a larger shape. Your SmartArt graphic will usually contain several of these larger shapes. If you select all of the associated shapes in an SmartArt graphic (such as those in the Bending Picture Accent List layout in the List type) and then resize them, your SmartArt graphic may look distorted. In the example below, all of the associated shapes in a larger shape are selected. If you want to resize only one of the associated shapes, such as the small circular shape (the picture placeholder with the sun and mountains), be sure to select only that shape. If you want to resize the entire larger shape, select all of the associated shapes, as shown below.
Resize a single shape
Click the shape that you want to resize.
To resize multiple shapes, click the first shape, and then press and hold CTRL while you click the additional shapes.
Under SmartArt Tools, on the Format tab, in the Shapes group, do one of the following:
To make the shape bigger, click Larger.
To make the shape smaller, click Smaller.
You can also use sizing handles to resize a shape. Point to one of the sizing handles, and when the pointer becomes a , drag the handle to make the shape larger or smaller.
To restore a shape to its original size, under SmartArt Tools, on the Design tab, in the Reset group, click Reset Graphic.
Important: Any geometry, color, style, size, position, and effects changes previously made to that shape and to all other shapes in the same SmartArt graphic are lost.
If you change to another layout for a SmartArt graphic, any size, position, rotation, mirroring, direction (left to right or right to left), and shape geometry changes made previously may not transfer to the new layout. However, if you switch back to the original layout before you save and close your 2007 Microsoft Office system document, all of your customizations reappear in the original layout. Some customizations are not transferred because they might not look good in the new layout.
Resize an entire SmartArt graphic
Click the SmartArt graphic that you want to resize.
Point to a sizing handle on theSmartArt graphic border, and when the pointer becomes a , drag the handle to make the SmartArt graphic larger or smaller.
Give two SmartArt graphics the same size and position in their slides
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Before you begin, you should create two SmartArt graphics on different slides.
Resize the first SmartArt graphic to make it the size that you want.
Right-click the first SmartArt graphic, and then click Size and Position on the shortcut menu.
On the Size tab, in the Size and rotate area, make a note of the values in the Height and Width boxes.
On the Position tab, make a note of the values in the Horizontal and Vertical boxes.
Click Close.
Right-click the second SmartArt graphic, and then click Size and Position.
On the Size and Position tabs, enter the size and position values that you made a note of from the first SmartArt graphic.
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Feb-04-08 DCA Announces New Executive Director of the New Jersey Historic Trust
DCA Announces New Executive Director of the New Jersey Historic Trust
TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey Department of Community Affairs' (DCA) Commissioner Joseph Doria today announced the appointment of Dorothy P. Guzzo as the Executive Director of the New Jersey Historic Trust.
"Dorothy is dedicated to the preservation of New Jersey's historic treasures," said Commissioner Doria. "She is a wonderful addition to the Historic Trust team and I look forward to working with her as we continue to restore and preserve our state's history for future generations."
Prior to her appointment, Guzzo served for twelve years in the Department of Environmental Protection as the Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. She received her masters' degree in historic preservation planning from the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. Guzzo has served on the New Jersey Historical Commission, Heritage Tourism Task Force, and various historic-preservation related nonprofit boards. She has also served on the Mount Holly Township Council, Planning Board, and Historic Preservation Commission.
"While saddened to leave the Historic Preservation Office and the Department of Environmental Protection, I am excited at the prospect of taking on a new challenge," said Dorothy. "It is an important time for planning the future of the Trust and I am grateful to have been entrusted with this opportunity. I am looking forward to continued good relationships with the historic-preservation community, albeit in a new capacity."
"No one person I know is better suited to take the Historic Trust to its next level then Dorothy Guzzo," said Carolann Clynes, Chair of the Historic Trust. "She knows historic preservation better than anyone in the State. It is truly a joy for the Trust and a preservation 'boost' for New Jersey."
Established in 1967, the New Jersey Historic Trust is the only nonprofit historic preservation organization in New Jersey created by state law. The Trust officially became a DCA affiliate in November 2002, in an effort to better realign the state's smart growth initiatives with historic revitalization. Its mission is to advance historic preservation in New Jersey for the benefit of future generations through education, stewardship and financial investment programs that save our heritage and strengthen our communities.
For more information regarding the New Jersey Historic Trust, please call 609-984-0473, or log on to http://www.njht.org/.


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"World Democracy, Deep Politics, and the 2008 Election" with Byron Belitsos (Q&A)
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"World Democracy, Deep Politics, and the 2008 Election" with Byron Belitsos (Q&A)
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Author, editor, publisher and political activist Byron Belitsos talks with host Matthew Gilbert about Democratic World Federalists. Byron provides a brief history of the proponents of an elected global governance system, including Albert Einstein. He and Matthew discuss the differences between the World Trade Organization, which is primarily run by large corporate elites, and a potential global body of elected representatives with legislative authority, Democratic World Federalists. Byron sees these two groups as potentially becoming two major parties in a global governance system similar to Republicans and Democrats. He describes many possible routes to creating a world government, some preferable to others. One example could be a gradual process of establishing elected advisory positions within the United Nations. This makes a clear case that global governance is an opportunity to embody our highest principles in global law that promotes the evolution of the whole.


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NEW ORLEANS - A mysterious, difficult-to-diagnose, and potentially deadly disease that was only recently discovered can be controlled most effectively if treatment is started within the first month that symptoms occur, according to a new report by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers analyzed 565 cases of this recently discovered paraneoplastic condition, called Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, and determined that if initial treatments fail, second-line therapy significantly improves outcomes compared with repeating treatments or no additional treatments (76 percent versus 55 percent). The research is being presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
The condition occurs most frequently in women (81 percent of cases), and predominately in younger people (36 percent of cases occurring in people under 18 years of age, the average age is 19). Symptoms range from psychiatric symptoms, memory issues, speech disorders, seizures, involuntary movements, to decreased levels of consciousness and breathing. Within the first month, movement disorders were more frequent in children, while memory problems and decreased breathing predominated in adults.
"Our study establishes the first treatment guidelines for NMDA-receptor encephalitis, based on data from a large group of patients, experience using different types of treatment, and extensive long-term follow-up," said lead author Maarten Titulaer, MD, PhD, clinical research fellow in Neuro-oncology and Immunology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "In addition, the study provides an important update on the spectrum of symptoms, frequency of tumor association, and the need of prolonged rehabilitation in which multidisciplinary teams including neurologists, pediatricians, psychiatrists, behavioral rehabilitation, and others, should be involved."
The disease was first characterized by Penn's Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD, adjunct professor of Neurology, and David R. Lynch, MD, PhD, associate professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, in Annals of Neurology in 2007. One year later, the same investigators in collaboration with Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD, professor of Neuroscience, characterized the main syndrome and provided preliminary evidence that the antibodies have a pathogenic effect on the NR1 subunit of the NMDA receptor in the Lancet Neurology in December 2008. The disease can be diagnosed using a test developed at the University of Pennsylvania and currently available worldwide. With appropriate treatment, almost 80 percent of patients improve well and, with a recovery process that may take many months and years, can fully recover.
In earlier reports, 59 percent of patients had tumors, most commonly ovarian teratoma, but in the latest update, 54 percent of women over 12 years had tumors, and only six percent of girls under 12 years old had ovarian teratomas. In addition, relapses were noted in 13 percent of patients, 78 percent of the relapses occurred in patients without teratomas.
As Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, the most common and best characterized antibody-mediated encephalitis, becomes better understood, quicker diagnosis and early treatment can improve outcomes for this severe disease.
The study will be presented in a plenary session on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 ET at 9:35 AM at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting.
[PL01.001] Clinical Features, Treatment, and Outcome of 500 Patients with Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Maarten Titulaer, Lindsey McCracken, Philadelphia, PA, Inigo Gabilondo Cuellar, Eugenia Martinez-Hernandez, Francesc Graus, Barcelona, Spain, Rita Balice-Gordon, Philadelphia, PA, Josep Dalmau, Barcelona, Spain
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine is currently ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $479.3 million awarded in the 2011 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -- recognized as one of the nation's top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital - the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2011, Penn Medicine provided $854 million to benefit our community.


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I like stainless steel camlock fittings in my brewery. Very quick, but they don't seal off when you remove the hose. So you have to be quick or there will be wort or water all over the place. Self sealing quick connects would be great except that they tend to collect debris like hops and grain in them. I've just learned how to live with the camlocks.
Here's the Mc Master numbers. 'Brass Coolant Hose Couplings' male connectors ( p/n 6739K59) and female hose connectors ( p/n 6739K64).


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2 blokes in a pub. What they say, & what they (possibly) mean:
Hello mate, did you see the match last night? ( I've been sitting in this pub by myself all night; I'm so alone)
Yeah – they were rubbish weren't they. (I'm lonely too . Will you be my friend?)
The problem with Arsenal is that they just wanna pass it into the net. (Yes I'll be your friend!)
I'll get the beers in then (Do you want a lollipop?)
Make mine a Stella (I'd love a lollipop!)
There you go mate (Here's your lollipop!)
Thanks mate (Yummy!)
Yeah, Arsemal, right, they need to stop playing through the middle all the time, & use the wide men more. (Just 'cos I gave you my lollipop doesn't mean that I'm not better than you)
They're far too predicatble: if they hoofed it up to a front man with his back to goal they'd have more variety & unsettle defences more (I like your lollipop but you're not better than me)
The Liverpool defence was pretty good. Very organised at set pieices. (I'll be your friend but I'm not gay OK?)
Yeah their goalie played a blinder. (I'm not gay either, but I like your T-shirt)
That van Persie though: what a player. Did you see the way he lollipopped 1 guy, nutmegged the next then slotted it in? (To be honest I am a bit gay but I don't really know how to deal with it)
And what about that Spanish bloke Fabregas? He glides through the defence like Torvill & Dean skating to Bolero (Actually I'm a total screaming bender but I have no idea how to tell anyone)
Tell you what mate why don't we go to mine & watch the big match over a few more beers (I fancy the arse off of you ,why not come over to my place & see what happens, big boy!)
Your're my besht mate you are you are! (I fucking love you!)
Let's be clear everyone: This never happens


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Ascom transfers Defense unit to Ruag - this good Swiss solution ensures continuity
Ascom is transferring its Defense unit, the largest part of the former Security Communication Division, to Ruag. A good Swiss solution has thus been found to ensure continuity.
As of 1 March 2012, Ruag (Switzerland) Ltd. is taking over from Ascom (Switzerland) Ltd. all rights (including customer prepayments) and obligations pertaining to the Defense unit. All 84 employees and 10 apprentices will be taken over at their existing locations and they transfer to Ruag. The purchase price amounts to CHF 16 million. In addition, the purchaser has agreed to an earn-out payment of up to a higher single digit amount in CHF dependent on future success in the international business. The interest benefits related to transferred customer prepayments will be compensated with an additional amount of CHF 1 million.
Defense is the largest and most important business unit within the former Security Communication Division and is a recognized provider of reliable, secure communication solutions for tactical communications for national security institutions. In August 2011, the Board of Directors and Executive Board decided to seek new owners for the Security Communication operations due to strategic considerations. Ascom is pushing ahead with the remaining divestments, Civil Security, Infrastructure Operators and Ascom Austria.
"With the sale of its defense activities to Ruag, Ascom is pleased to have found a good solution that optimally serves the interests of customers (in particular the Swiss Army) and employees alike and also retains jobs in Switzerland. I am convinced that Ruag is the right partner to develop this business further, since the Defense unit is an ideal fit for Ruag, both strategically and in terms of the corporate culture," emphasizes Fritz Mumenthaler, CEO of Ascom
Information about RUAG:
RUAG is an international technology group for aerospace (space and aviation) and defence (security and defence technology) with a high level of competence in technology. The head office is in Bern (CH). RUAG has production facilities in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Sweden and the USA. RUAG has a workforce of 7,700 employees worldwide. Of these, 5% are trainees and 5,000 are employed in Switzerland.
This document does not constitute an offer or solicitation to subscribe for, purchase or sell any securities. This document is not being issued in the United States of America or the United Kingdom and should not be distributed in any jurisdiction in a manner where such distribution would not comply with regulatory requirements. In particular, this document may not be distributed into the United States, to United States persons or to publications with a general circulation in the United States. In addition, the securities of Ascom have not been and will not be registered in any jurisdiction outside Switzerland. The securities of Ascom may not be offered, sold or delivered and no solicitation to purchase such securities may be made within the United States or to U.S. persons absent an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the United States securities laws or within any other jurisdiction and in a manner where such offer, sale, delivery or solicitation might not be in compliance with regulatory requirements (including the United Kingdom).


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UNIONDALE, N.Y., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Dion Phaneuf snapped a shot past Evgeni Nabokov 1:11 into overtime Thursday, giving Toronto a 5-4 victory over the New York Rangers.
The wild victory came after the Maple Leafs gave up a two-goal lead in the third period.
Phaneuf took a pass at the point from Mikhail Grabovski and headed for the net. His quick shot caromed off Nabokov's pads and slipped across the line.
Toronto's Nazen Kadri produced his first career hat trick and he finished off a stretch of three straight goals in the third period that gave the Maple Leafs a 4-2 lead.
Andrew MacDonald and Kyle Okposo then tallied for the Islanders in the third period to force overtime.
James van Riemsdyk contributed one of the three Toronto goals in the third period, his 12th of the season. That moves him into the top five in NHL goal scoring, two behind league-leader Steven Stamkos of Tampa Bay.
The win went to James Reimer, who made 23 saves. Nabokov surrendered all five goals on 28 shots.


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Number Four Mountain isn't particularly tall, compared to the other peaks of the Moosehead region. Yet in 1925, a 48-foot fire tower was constructed on the its 2,890-foot summit, to be manned by a warden who lived in a cabin halfway down the mountain.
The tower was deactivated about 40 years later, along with many other fire towers throughout the state, but the trail the warden used to reach his cabin, and then the summit, remains for the few hikers who enjoy seeking out the lesser-known trails of the Maine wilderness — hikers like me.
On March 15, I set out to find Number Four Mountain. After passing through downtown Greenville, I drove along the east side of Moosehead Lake, past Beaver Cove and into the mountains.
Today, the 1.5-mile trail to Number Four Mountain's summit isn't well traveled; perhaps because the name "Number Four Mountain" doesn't sound quite as appealing as the nearby Big Moose Mountain and Mount Kineo, made famous by Henry David Thoreau. And some people may even confuse Number Four Mountain with the nearby Fourth Mountain – understandably.
Early lumberman named Number Four Mountain, however practically, after the original township it lies in, which has since been change to Township A Range 13, according to "Mountains of Maine: Intriguing Stories Behind their Names."
According to my guidebooks and online sources, the trailhead wouldn't be hard to find.
So with confidence, I parked on the side of Frenchtown Road, strapped on my snowshoes and set out to hike 2.5 miles on unplowed back roads (approximately 1.5 miles on Lagoon Brook Drive and 1 mile on Meadow Brook Road) to the trailhead.
Everything went well in the beginning. The sun was shining. Three snowmobilers waved at me as they zoomed by. I inspected moose tracks with glee.
I was further reassured that I was headed for the trailhead by several signs stating that "#4 Mtn Trail" was just ahead, scrawled in black permanent marker.
So I kept walking and walking … and walking.
A hiker, I enjoy walking more than the average person, but I have to admit, I grew a little tired of trudging along on the side of a road that was gradually climbing up the mountain I was supposed to be hiking.
"To #4" the sign read. It pointed down a wide ATV trail – or was it a road for vehicles that was marked with several ATV signs?
Another snowmobile flew by. Sun and wind burned my face.
I marched on, and up… and up.
I scanned the forest edge for another sign pointing me to Number Four Mountain, and I started to view the occasional ATV sign with disdain.
The road continued to switch-back up the mountain. A few smaller ATV trails led away from the main trail. But without signs, I had no idea where they led.
After walking a bit farther, the road leveled off and started to wind its way around the mountain and down. I'd been walking since 10:45 a.m. It was 2:30 p.m. and clearly time to turn back.
As I backtracked, I searched for the trailhead sign once again. Maybe I'd missed it. Or maybe it had fallen over and was buried in the snow. I was back at the car by 5 p.m. And while I'd spent the entire day outside in the sun, the trip was certainly a "hike fail."
I should have brought a GPS, a newer guidebook, a more detailed map – sure, I can say that now. But it doesn't help to dwell on those things at the time, when all you have is what you've stuffed in your backpack, along with makeshift road signs and miles upon miles of snowy roads.
A few days after the long walk, I spoke with some guides at Northwoods Outfitters in Greenville, who assured me that I was walking along the correct roads yet somehow managed to miss the trailhead.
So I pored over the Delorme Maine Atlas and Gazetteer once more. I ran my finger along Frenchtown Road to Lagoon Brook Drive, which is unmarked in Delorme but marked in Moosehead.net's map of the route to Number Four Mountain). I then traced my way to Meadow Brook Road and paused. At this left turn, I remember looking down the road at Number Four Mountain looming straight ahead.
I ran my finger down halfway down Meadow Brook Road and paused. An ATV road, drawn with a dashed line, led off to the left. This must have been where I went wrong. The image of a yellow sign popped into my head — a sign that pointed left, "To #4 Mountain." It was likely there that I turned left, though Meadow Brook Road continued straight.
With my finger, I traced the ATV road as it wound around Number Four Mountain to the east ridge, which it climbed to nearly 2,000 feet in elevation. Walking along the ATV road, the mountain would have been to my right, which it had been. With a ruler, I traced the ATV trail and came up with a little less than 2.5 miles, which would mean I walked a little less than 8 miles that day on roads and ATV trails.
It made sense. From the east ridge of Number Four Mountain, Katahdin lied to the northeast, in full view, as it had been on the day I got lost.
Since I didn't have a GPS with me on the walk, I can't be absolutely certain that this is the route I traveled, but it's my best guess.
In the 17 months I've been producing "1-minute hikes" — weekly hiking videos of different Maine trails — I've failed to find two trailheads.
The failures remind me to plan better, be less impulsive and research more updated information. But I hope it shows readers that: 1. A day outside is a day outside, regardless; and 2. Things happen — signs are torn down or (in my case) created, new logging roads are built continually, trail markers fade, rotting trees fall across trails, and sometimes, the hike is just too difficult for a person to tackle.
One thing's for certain – I will attempt Number Four Mountain again, just as I plan to hike Whitecap Mountain, a trail head I failed to find last year.
I'll return with GPS and perhaps someone who has climbed the mountain before and can simply say, "There, that's where you went wrong."


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I have been trying to find a way to send a form to an email using asp, ie.
when the user submits the form, the content of the form will be formated
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I installed the newest Eclipse Juno manually (not through software center nor apt-get), and then install Eclipse CDT from the help > install new software menu.
However, when I try to compile a simple C++ code it show errors like Program "g++" not found in PATH.
I tried g++ from terminal and it worked just fine. Anyone know where the problem might be?


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Photos: SWR's Udvadia wins 5K race
Ryan Udvadia is no stranger to winning races. After a banner season last year as a junior for Shoreham-Wading River's cross country and track teams, Udvadia kicked off his summer with a pair of victories in the SWR July 4 Foot Races.
Udvadia won the 5K race in 16 minutes 39.32 seconds, well ahead of the second-place finisher. He warmed up for the 5K by running the 13 and over 1-mile race. He crossed the finish line together with Dan Purschke and Keith Steinbrecher.
Udvadia will be going into his senior year at Shoreham.
The 29th annual race, which raises money for scholarships, featured a large turnout despite the humidity and heat early in the morning. The race began near the Miller Avenue School in Shoreham.
A Shoreham graduate was the top female finisher in the 5K. Kathryn Sheehan, who ran track at Marist College, crossed in 18:42. Sheehan said she is planning on running the New York City Marathon.


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Don't miss this fabulous attraction when you're at the Old-Time Fun Fair. Once aboard the pirate ship the rough seas of the world's oceans will shake and swing you 24m up into the air, back and forth. Beware of seasickness!
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Swing boat featuring back and forth movements.
Children up to 7 years must be seated next to an adult.
Due to the nature of the experience you should be in good health and of sufficiently strong muscles.
The following persons are not permitted on the ride:
Persons with back or neck problems or other conditions that may be aggrevated by this ride.
Persons with high blood pressure and / or heart problems.
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Clothing and footwear required.
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I've been seeing a LOT of ReTweets of a guest post I did today, so I thought I'd share it here, too. I recently posted 5 Steps to make Your Organization Sound Human Online at the V3 Integrated marketing blog (thanks, guys!), and it was reposted at Ragan.com.
here are my 5 steps (go check out the article to see the rest of the story!):
- Type Like You Talk
- Be Visual
- Use Video to Connect
- Ask Questions
- Celebrate Customer Loyalty
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Radical Theologies and Philosophies is a call for transformational theologies that break out of traditional locations and approaches. The rhizomic ethos of radical theologies enable the series to engage with an ever-expanding radical expression and critique of theologies that have entered or seek to enter the public sphere, arising from the continued turn to religion and especially radical theology in politics, social sciences, philosophy, theory, cultural, and literary studies. The post-theistic theology both driving and arising from these intersections is the focus of this series.


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WASHINGTON — Disappointment. Disgust. Grossly unfair.
That's how some families who lost loved ones in December's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school view the Senate's defeat this past week of the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades, as they pledged to keep fighting for measures to prevent gun violence.
Neil Heslin, Erica Lafferty and Carlee Soto were among the Newtown, Conn., family members who spent a week on Capitol Hill describing how their loved ones died at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. But their stories of horror and heroism were no match for a threat from the National Rifle Association to rate the vote, and concern from Republicans and a small band of rural-state Democrats.
Lafferty, whose mother, school principal Dawn Hochsprung, lunged unarmed at the gunman to stop him from firing the assault weapon, said she was "honestly disgusted that there were so many senators that are doing nothing about the fact that my mom was gunned down in her elementary school, along with five other educators and 20 6- and 7-year-old children."
The Senate rejected on Wednesday a series of gun control bills that would have tightened background checks for buyers, banned assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, and loosened restrictions on carrying concealed weapons across state lines, the last measure backed by the NRA.
Within hours of the votes, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords accused senators who opposed the new regulations of "cowardice" in a piece published in the New York Times' op-ed page. Giffords was among 13 people wounded two years ago when a lone gunman opened fire as she met with constituents in a Tucson, Ariz., shopping mall, killing six others. She and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, had lobbied for the bills' passage.
On CBS' "Face the Nation," moderator Bob Schieffer asked Heslin, Lafferty and Soto Sunday whether the words "cowardice" and "cowards" were appropriate to describe Wednesday's vote.
"I do," said Heslin, who's 6-year-old son Neil Lewis died at Sandy Hook. "I feel they're not standing up for what they should be."
Carlee Soto, recounted her sister Victoria's courage to try to save her students, Neil Lewis among them.
"My sister wasn't a coward that day. My sister pushed the kids up against the wall, out of sight," she said, adding, "She protected her kids. Why aren't they protecting us?" referring to the senators who voted against the gun bills.
The families say the gun legislation would have strengthened laws already in effect rather than undercut the Second Amendment, which provides a constitutional right to bear arms.
"It's beyond me how these congressmen cannot stand up and support something that would prevent — or help prevent — something like this from ever occurring again," Heslin said.
"We aren't going to go away. I know I'm not," he added. "We're not going to stop until there are changes that are made."
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Colorado River water report released in Vegas
Wed., Dec. 12, 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rising demand and falling supply have water managers in the arid West projecting that the Colorado River won't be able to meet the demands over the next 50 years of a population of 40 million people and growing.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday issued what he termed "a call to action" along with a three-year study of the river, its flows and its ability to meet the future needs of city-dwellers, Native Americans, businesses, ranchers and farmers in seven Western states.
The study found the population in the West could double, while today's drought-stricken Colorado River is expected to only recover about 85 percent of its historic flows.
"We are in a troubling trajectory in the Colorado River basin, as well as the Rio Grande basin," Salazar told reporters on a conference call outlining the math in the findings of the Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study.
"There is no one solution that is going to meet the needs of this challenge," Salazar said. "We need to reduce our demand through conservation. We also need to augment supply with practical measures."
The government's top water official dismissed as politically and technically impractical some ideas in the study, including piping water from the nation's heartland and towing Arctic icebergs south to help such thirsty U.S. cities as Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix.
But Salazar and Bureau of Reclamation officials warned that the Colorado River's historical 15 million acre-feet per year flow has been reduced by 12 years of drought to about 12 million acre-feet. Officials say an acre-foot can meet the water needs of up two families per year.
The study projects that by 2060 the river flow could be 3.2 million to 8 million acre-feet short of regional needs.
Water interests and the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming together lay claim to all the water in the river and then some.
Mexico also has a stake in the river, and officials last month set new rules to share Colorado River water south of the border and let Mexico store water in Lake Mead near Las Vegas.
A "very believable estimate" using climate change scenarios projects the river flow increasing to just 13.7 million acre-feet per year by 2060, said Kay Brothers, a former Southern Nevada Water Authority executive in Las Vegas who co-managed the study.
"We're going to have problems in the future meeting the demands of the Colorado River basin," Brothers said. "We have to begin now starting to put measures in place to meet the imbalance and prepare for a drier future."
Even before the report was released, some advocates criticized it as a "fundamentally flawed," and based on inflated projections of the amount of water in the river and the number of people in the region.
"States cooked the books to show higher demand for water consumption to set up a federal bailout on expensive water projects," said Molly Mugglestone, director of the advocacy group Protect the Flows.
But Anne Castle, assistant Interior secretary for water and science, said the data came from the best experts, science information available. And Carly Jerla, a federal Bureau of Reclamation analyst, told reporters the range of future growth scenarios went from a small increase to doubling the regional population.
Another advocacy group, the Environmental Defense Fund, was measured in its assessment.
"The Colorado River is the lifeblood of the dry West," said Dan Grossman, an official with the Boulder, Colo.-based organization. "We can't keep bleeding the river dry. The basin study says loud and clear that it's time for a new approach that puts conservation first."
The report considered almost 160 suggestions, Brothers said.
Salazar bluntly dismissed proposals like a multi-billion dollar pipeline running some 670 miles from the Missouri River to Colorado.
But he left open the discussion about options ranging from eliminating thirsty invasive but prolific plants like tamarisk, capping reservoirs and irrigation canals to reduce evaporation, and desalting seawater.
Salazar noted that the federal government already operates a desalination plant near Yuma, Ariz., to treat saline agricultural irrigation water as it returns to the river.
The report also cites the possibility of entities increasing cooperation to swap water credits and "bank" the valuable resource.
Advocates on all sides seized on elements of the 163-page report to bolster their positions.
Boulder, Colo.-based Western Resource Advocates said the study should quickly spur states "to press the 'go' button" on conservation, reuse and efficiency measures.
Denver-area water chief Jim Lochhead issued a statement urging a go-slow approach.
"While this is a critical issue for Colorado, we have time to approach solutions thoughtfully," he said.
In Wyoming, the Family Farm Alliance pointed to the implications for food production in study estimates that irrigated acreage in the Colorado River basin will decrease by 2060.
"Policy makers and Colorado River stakeholders must understand the critical implications of taking 6 to 15 percent of existing irrigated agriculture out of production," alliance President Patrick O'Toole said.
Matt Niemerski, with the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group American Rivers, said climate change and population growth in the region make status-quo management of Colorado River water resources "untenable."
"This is the start of the conversation," Niemerski said, "about how the tens of millions of people who depend on the river for water are ultimately going to be able to live there."
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Say hello to a new arrival at FTB: Avicenna.
He tells us a little about himself.
I am Avicenna (named after the islamic golden age Doctor) and I am terrifyingly weird and am a giant nerd. I am a british indian medical student doing my clinical rotations in India. I basically qualify in a year and a bit and then I plan to continue to work for charity here before I go back home and have a career. However to keep sane I started blogging. And it kind of got out of hand…
I am (naturally) an Atheist (otherwise me joining here would probably win the "biggest misunderstanding" award) but Hinduism is the religion I don't believe in. All my old gods are crazy as fuck. Good for stories or inspiration for metal bands but not so good for normal life.
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Quick and easy diffuser for your external camera flash
One of the biggest challenges with flash photography is the possibility that you might have to content with harsh shadowing and over exposure in your shots. One way to deal with this of course, if by using a diffuser.
As you probably know by now, I'm a big DIY fan. So, with that in mind, here's an easy way to rig yourself up with a DIY diffuser for an external flash unit. And one of the best things about it – you probably won't have to buy anything. Unlike many of these projects, I can all but guarantee that you have sufficent materials just laying around your house or apartment.
What you'll need:
1. A rubber band – one that will fit tight and hasn't lost it's elasticity.
2. A piece of thin white material. I'd recommend something like a handkerchief or glasses cleaning cloth. But all in all, so long as it is fairly thin, most materials should do the job just fine.
What to do:
1. Wrap the material around the main part of the flash unit co it covers over the light emitting portion as tightly as possible.
2. Place the rubber band around the the white cloth in order to hold it in place.
That's it, you're done. In all of 30 seconds we can have a quality, effective diffuser!


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The WRVR broadcast station is a location in the Commonwealth in 2287.[1]
George Cooper, Anne Hargraves, and Rex Goodman (if Curtain Call has been completed), may be found here. They perform plays on the radio, with Anne taking on all the female roles. She may be asked to join a settlement however, and leaves readily, without any protests or remarks from her colleagues.
The station is a small, bunker-like building with a radio tower on the roof. It is situated next to a river and a bridge that spans the river.
The interior consists of a reception area and a slightly larger room that leads to a bathroom and an acoustically-treated studio. In the larger room is a ladder leading to the roof. It has a table containing an aluminum tray, upon which is a baseball bat and several baseballs, all of which may be freely taken.
- Anne Hargraves
- George Cooper
- Rex Goodman (if Curtain Call has been completed)
Notable loot
- Live & Love issue #3 - On a table in the middle room.
- Notice to WRVR - On a desk near the ladder, after successfully completing Curtain Call.
Related quests
If Curtain Call has not yet been discovered, it is possible to start it here by talking to Anne Hargraves and George Cooper. If already started, there is extra dialogue about how Rex has gotten into a mess.
- A leveled radscorpion may burst from the ground directly in front of the entrance.
- Unlike those at radio tower 3SM-U81, the satellite dishes here are not extendable.
- When inside the building, several companions will make comments about the inhabitants, calling them the "Charles River Trio" and expressing disdain for their apparently infamous broadcasts. Despite this, no radio station featuring the Trio exists in-game.
- If you bring MacCready here he will comment that he misses hearing Three Dog's Radio.
The WRVR broadcast station only appears in Fallout 4.
Behind the scenes
- In the documentary The History of Bethesda Game Studios, an early map for Fallout 4 is shown. A location called "KFOW Broadcasting" can be seen where WRVR broadcast station is in-game, indicating this was an earlier name of the station during development. However, the KFOW name would have been inaccurate, as Boston is east of the Mississippi River, where all call signs starts with the letter W, as in WRVR.
- In the real world the call letters WRVR belong to a radio station operating out of Memphis, Tennessee, 104.6 The River.
|The following is based on unverified behind the scenes information and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
- The station's external appearance and the name of the station manager suggest a reference to the movie UHF.
|End of information based on unverified behind the scenes information.
PC Playstation 4 Xbox One George and Anne will initiate their conversation about Rex being held captive by the super mutants upon entering the station for the first time even if Curtain Call has been completed and Rex is already inside the station. [verified]
- ↑ Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide p. 356: "This local radio is home to the Charles River Trio and famous for their radio plays, though the third member of the group has gotten himself into a bit of a pickle. Listen to his panicked message and save him to help these folks out. Need a baseball bat? There's one on the roof."


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Tennessee State might want to consider changing it's name to the University of Florida North given the look the Tigers' roster has taken on this season. And it's paying off in a big way.
There are 27 Florida players at the Nashville school, which lost for the first time in eight games this past Saturday in a 31-28 thriller against Jacksonville State.
Quarterback Michael German and running back Trabis Ward lead the way for the Tigers, who play in the Football Championship Series Ohio Valley Conference (Division I-AA).
German, of Pompano Beach Ely, has thrown for 1,829 yards and 12 touchdowns on 140-of-233 passing, with seven picks.
Trabis, of Fort Lauderdale Dillard, has 1,076 yards rushing in eight games, with 14 touchdowns, while fellow Floridian RB Telvin Hooks, a New Smyrna Beach product, has 398 yards and two touchdowns.
The top two receivers are also from Florida, including University of Florida transfer A.C. Leonard, a 6-4, 245-pound tight end out of Jacksonville University Christian. Leonard is second on the team with 29 catches for 426 yards and three touchdowns, while Fort Lauderdale Boyd Anderson product Travis James, a redshirt senior, leads the way with 36 catches for 482 yards and three TDs.
On defense, Miami Booker T. Washington product DB David Van Dyke (6-0, 185), a redshirt junior, is second in tackles with 39, and Cross City Dixie County DB Steven Godbolt III (6-1, 185), a redshirt sophomore is fourth with 37 tackles.
Central Florida is well represented on the Tigers' roster with seven players: Hooks, redshirt freshman DB Chris Robinson (5-9, 161) of Lake Mary, junior OL Kadeem Edwards (6-4, 290) of Sanford Seminole, junior FB Vernon Frett (5-11, 250) of Winter Garden West Orange, freshman DE Marquaveus Jackson (6-4, 250) of Daytona Beach Seabreeze, redshirt sophomore DB Joe Johson (5-11, 180) of New Smyrna Beach, freshman LB Jarvis Mott (5-11, 225) of Daytona Beach Mainland, redshirt sophomore Je-Marc Sears (6-3, 230) of New Smyrna Beach,
Robinson, a transfer from Kansas, leads the local contingent on defense with eight tackles, and Jackson has four, including a sack.
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Do sexy flight attendants really sell more seats?
By Ramy Inocencio in Hong Kong and Frances Cha in Seoul, CNN • Updated 22nd March 2013
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Images of bikini-clad women in Thailand posing suggestively in an online ad for a local airline inflamed passions -- both positive and negative -- earlier this year.
Domestic low-cost carrier Nok Air stood at the center of the frenzy. The airline had employed the
provocatively clothed women
to attract more attention in a Facebook publicity move.
It worked.
"I kind of expected it to be fairly controversial, but at the end of the day more people ended up liking it than hating it," says Patee Sarasin, Nok Air's chief executive officer.
"When it debuted on Facebook, we had over 200,000 likes. I'm happy."
Thailand-based low-cost carrier Nok Air's controversial calendar.
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The campaign proved to be a social media success -- it also brought into focus the different ways international airlines use the attractiveness of cabin crews to brand and market their product.
Though acknowledging that "beautiful does not equate to being a good flight attendant," Ji Yang Xiong, director of China's Foreign Airlines Service Corporation, notes a difference in aesthetics when comparing airlines from the East and West.
"Maybe Asian airlines emphasize looks just a bit more when compared to European or Middle Eastern airlines," says Xiong. "European airlines don't have any requirement on looks. They mostly focus on personality and having the right attitude for the job and a service-oriented mindset."
Legal issues: Grounded at 30?
While some Asia-based airlines openly embrace glamour in the cabin, most U.S. and European airlines long ago altered such strategies to reflect shifting social standards and more severe legal restrictions.
"It's one thing to be able to help people out of an emergency exit door, it's another to say they must weigh less than 130 pounds, as Pan Am and others might have done in times gone by," says Kenneth Quinn, partner and head of aviation practice at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Pillsbury Winthrop.
"Most governments have enacted laws and other protective measures against gender and age discrimination, as well as fitness discrimination," says Quinn. "But Asian countries have less precise formulas in their labor laws that permit airlines to impose age and appearance limitations upon flight crews."
In addition, says Quinn, governmental bodies in Asia are generally less committed to regulatory oversight in this area.
"They try to leave it to the airlines and unions and work forces to deal with any problems," he says. "Certainly weight and appearance limitations tend to be not strictly enforced."
"Laws covering employment and particularly discrimination tend to be less rigid in Asia," agrees Tom Ballantyne, aviation expert and chief correspondent for Hong Kong-based "Orient Aviation" magazine.
"A British Airways or a Qantas in Western society would never get away with promoting the sort of image that, for instance, Singapore has always done with its Singapore Girls."
Nok Air has no flight attendants over the age of 30, says CEO Sarasin. While laws in the West protect against discrimination, "it is kosher here in Asia to push youth and beauty," he says.
How a Thai budget carrier keeps its flight attendants young and hot
The lifespan of a Nok Air flight attendant is short, according to Sarasin.
They typically take to the skies from graduation around the age of 23, stay in the company for three years -- maybe another two if they're "really, really good" -- then can move to non-cabin crew departments or get help with being placed with other airlines.
"We keep them young -- not because we're sexist -- but because our customers prefer younger crews," says Sarasin. While "everyone is unionized in the United States, we are much more open. That's what gives Asia the magic. We've been radical from day one, differentiating our marketing. If we don't, we die."
How to reject propositions and other flight attendant training tips
Profits: No link between beauty, bottom line?
The jury is still out on whether sex sells more seats.
"I've never seen any evidence that directly links the beauty of flight attendants to the bottom line," says Ballantyne. "Certainly it is true that many airlines in Asia-Pacific, especially low-cost operators, base part of their brand image on young, attractive flight attendants. How that translates to additional passenger numbers I'm not sure."
"I'd say it's impossible to put a monetary value to the contribution of the Singapore Girl to Singapore Airlines' success over the years," agrees Nicholas Ionides, spokesman for legacy carrier Singapore Airlines, referring to the well known imagery of the company's female flight attendants -- conceived in 1972 -- wearing distinctive "sarong kabaya" uniforms.
Thai airline's calendar too sexy for the government
Nok Air's Sarasin himself hedges on whether his company's Facebook stunt helped pull in more profits.
"It's hard to measure if it boosts sales or not," he says. "Load factor (the number of seats sold for flights) has always been in the 80 to 90 % range. But it did bring Nok Air into the limelight in terms of brand awareness."
If anything, the charismatic CEO believes the added publicity brought a change to the passenger mix.
Before the photo shoot, international travelers made up 10 percent of the passenger manifest. After the shoot, the percentage jumped to 18 percent based on passport checks.
With Nok Air set to make its first international flight -- to Yangon, Myanmar, in the third quarter of 2013 -- Sarasin says: "It's good timing."
Sexy flight attendant uniforms of the past
Offensive: Is "sexy
a bad word?
Thailand's Ministry of Culture received complaints from local organizations and critics who
were shocked
by Nok Air's sexy photo shoot, according to local Thai media.
One fear was that the photo shoot might propagate Thailand's image as a destination for sex travel -- but the Ministry of Culture says no laws were broken.
"The Ministry of Culture didn't call me. In fact, I received no call from any government agency," points out Sarasin. "We were all careful not to expose the women to be too naked."
Contacted by CNN, the Ministry of Culture says it's no longer commenting on the matter.
While sex appeal is the blatant strategy for Thailand's Nok Air, further north "sexy" is a bad word in the Korean airline industry -- which is not the same as saying that Korean carriers don't value what might politely be called "attractiveness."
At ANC flight attendant academy in Seoul, students practice role-playing in a classroom simuating a plane.
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"Projecting any sort of sexy image in a flight attendant interview would be hugely risky here," says Mi-kyung Chung, a former flight attendant who now teaches at the Airline News Center (ANC) flight attendant academy in Gangnam, Seoul.
This might come as news to flight attendants on South Korea's Asiana Airlines, whose union has been in a long-running conversation with the airline about ending its skirts-only dress code and relaxing strict guidelines for hairstyles and makeup. In February, the airline said it would adopt a trousers option on its next uniform renewal.
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With a "few thousand students" -- mostly women -- ANC is considered the largest flight attendant academy in the country. The school charges $1,440 for an all-inclusive package in which students can take classes for as many months -- or years -- as they need.
Despite Korean Air's obvious use of old fashioned sex appeal in its widely distributed "For life on a whole new scale"
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, professionals insist that sex isn't the primary appeal.
Instead of sexy, "bright, clean and sophisticated" is the look that's most sought after in the recruitment process for Korean airlines, according to Jinah Lee, a flight attendant turned ANC lecturer.
Korean airlines have been setting the standard for flight attendants for almost a decade now, says Eunice Kim, head of BCCA flight attendant academy in Shinchon, South Korea, which specializes in foreign airline recruitment.
She admits that looks are part of the package.
"Recruiters for the foreign airlines I work with often tell me that Korean flight attendants are much more good looking and better to work with compared to flight attendants from other countries," says Kim.
She says the BCCA's 2,200 students include many foreign-educated young women, "NYU grads," PhDs and graduates from the top universities in Korea.
According to Kim, a number of foreign students come to South Korea to study at the academy. Some, she says, even undergo cosmetic surgery during their stay in the hopes of being recruited by foreign airlines.
When asked about the demand for Korean flight attendants at foreign airlines, Kim cites "high education rates ... good teeth, complexion, height and positive outlook" as attributes.
Students at Seoul flight attendant academies practice getting the right look.
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In addition, Korean flight attendants embrace the service mentality more completely, says the BCCA head.
"Personally, I think it comes from the conservative Confucian background, where women were expected to do a lot of the service in the household," says Kim.
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Chinese flight attendant hopefuls at an interview for China Southern airlines in Beijing.
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The sentiment is similar in China, where the Foreign Airlines Service Corporation (FASCO) recruits Chinese flight attendants for foreign airlines, such as Emirates Airlines and Qatar Airways.
At the end of 2012,
helped about 1,200 Chinese nationals find flight attendant jobs around the world, according to director Ji Yang Xiong. In 1996, when the company first began recruitment services, just "a few hundred" candidates applied.
While airplane safety, meal service and customer hospitality are taught, physical fitness is also emphasized.
"Aerobics classes are held in both aviation schools and in training centers in order to keep the aspiring flight attendants in shape, to refine their figure and posture and to strengthen their body," says Xiong.
Some candidates even learn kung-fu and yoga "so that they are ready to face stressful situations."
Training and attitude might well go farther than a mere attractive image in explaining the success earned by Asian flight attendants.
"American service standards generally have dropped vastly below Asian service standards in many industries, and most particularly in hotel and leisure and travel communities," says aviation law expert and frequent traveler Quinn.
This may seem self evident to certain frequent fliers, says Quinn, but for those flying on an Asian carrier for the first time, the difference can be a surprise.
"What tends to be lost in the debate over this is that it's not a crime to insist upon high standards of service and courtesy and professionalism in flight crews," says Quinn. "For the U.S. businessperson who spends a lot of time in Asia -- I'm just back from Tokyo this week -- the contrast between U.S. service standards and Asian carrier service standards could not be more stark.
"It's a quantum leap in service standards as soon as you hit Tokyo and go beyond, whether you're on a Japanese carrier or Singapore Airlines or an airline from Hong Kong or Thailand. They're all vastly superior in the service level.
"U.S. carriers are trying to catch up, but they've got a long way to go."
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Long-term effects of testicular cancer chemo seen
Men wondering about the long-term side effects of chemotherapy for testicular cancer may now have a road map defining likely outcomes.
A Norwegian study, published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, reveals that long-term side effects vary depending on the dose of chemotherapy given and how many cycles of chemotherapy the men received.
"A continuous aim in the care of testicular cancer patients is to reduce toxicity without comprising the high cure rate," Dr. Marianne Brydy of Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway wrote in an email to Reuters Health. "Treatment plans should thus follow the existing guidelines with recommendations for treatment based on risk," she advised.
Between 4 and 21 years after treatment for testicular cancer, Brydy and colleagues asked 1,402 men about their symptoms of hearing loss, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), numbness or tingling in the hands or feet, and what's called Raynaud-like phenomena (discoloration of the hands or feet on exposure to cold).
Compared to men who never received chemotherapy, men who had received any chemotherapy reported significantly more trouble with the aforementioned symptoms, even years after treatment.
Among chemotherapy-treated men, 39 percent reported Raynaud-like phenomena, 29 percent reported hearing impairment, and 22 percent reported tinnitus as major symptoms troubling them quite a bit or very much, the investigators found.
They also found that men who were treated with radiation therapy were much more apt to report numbness or tingling in the hands or feet than men who did not receive radiation therapy.
Studying the common chemotherapy drug cisplatin, the researchers found that the men who had the most severe symptoms years later were the ones who had received high-dose treatment with this drug, or had received five or more cycles of the drug.
Men who had received high-dose cisplatin-based chemotherapy were more likely to have long-term problems with ringing in the ears and hearing loss, whereas those who received five or more cycles of chemotherapy were more likely to experience long-term problems with Raynaud-like symptoms and numbness or tingling in the extremities.
Additionally, men in the study group who smoked on a daily basis were more likely to have symptoms of Raynaud's, numbness or tingling in the hands or feet, and hearing impairment than the men in the study who had never smoked.
Interestingly, note the researchers, the study found no significant difference in symptom severity according to length of time since treatment, suggesting, they say, that side effects likely remain permanent after a certain length of time.
Source: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, November 25, 2009.


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Stocks little changed after mixed earnings
NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market finished pretty much where it started Wednesday as a mixed bag of earnings from big-name American companies left investors uninspired.
The Dow closed down 43.16 points, or 0.3 percent, at 14,676.30. The Standard & Poor's 500 index -- the market's most widely used barometer --was flat at 1,578.79.
In other markets, the price of oil soared, posting its biggest gain this year. The price of gold and the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury rose.
The Dow was held back by big drops in Procter & Gamble and AT&T. P&G issued a weak quarterly profit forecast and AT&T lost subscribers from its contract-based plans for the first time.
But other companies impressed investors and boosted their stock prices with strong quarterly earnings: Defense contractor General Dynamics and airplane maker Boeing easily beat expectations from financial analysts.
While the majority of corporations have delivered profits that were better than expected in the first quarter, their revenue hasn't been as impressive, suggesting they are struggling to grow.
"Overall, the earnings environment is very lackluster, for want of a better word," said Robbert van Batenburg, director of market strategy at Newedge.
P&G, the maker of Tide detergent and Gillette razors, dropped $4.82, or 5.1 percent, to $77.12 after its forecast came in below what financial analysts were expecting. P&G was hurt by uneven demand for new products.
AT&T dropped $1.96, or 5.2 percent, to $37.04 after it lost phone subscribers from its contract-based plans in its latest quarter. It's a sign that industry growth is slowing now that most American have smartphones.
General Dynamics, the aerospace and defense company, jumped $4.62, or 6.9 percent, to $71.73. CEO Phebe Novakovic called the quarter's results a "strong start" to achieving the company's goals this year, saying they reflected its focus on cuttings costs and generating cash.
Boeing climbed $2.65, or 3 percent, to $90.83 after the airplane maker said its first-quarter net income rose 20 percent despite problems with the 787 Dreamliner. The company said it would meet its financial and airplane delivery goals this year.
So far, 175 of the companies in the S&P 500, or 35 percent, have reported quarterly earnings and two-thirds of the Dow's 30 members have reported.
Sixty-nine percent of companies in the S&P 500 have beaten profit expectations, better than the 10-year average of 62 percent, according to S&P Capital IQ. However, only 39 percent have beaten revenue forecasts.
Looking ahead, the outlook dims. Of the 35 companies that have given earnings forecasts for the second quarter, 28 have been "negative," according to S&P Capital IQ, with only four "positive" and three "in-line."
"We think that most managements are appropriately cautious in their outlooks, because it's very possible that the second-quarter will continue to slow," said Jim Russell, a regional investment director at U.S. Bank. "We're watching with cautious optimism that this is a second-quarter-only soft patch in the economic data."
A report Wednesday that orders for long-lasting U.S. factory goods fell more than economists expected added to concerns that global growth is slowing.
The Commerce Department said orders for durable goods declined 5.7 percent in March following a 4.3 percent gain the previous month. February's figure was also revised lower.
The Nasdaq composite edged up 0.32 point at 3,269.55. The Russell 2000 index of small-company stocks fared better. It rose 0.5 percent, or 4.75 points, to 934.11.
Last week, stocks logged their biggest weekly drop in five months after growth in China, the world's second-biggest economy, slowed and commodity prices plunged. Weaker hiring and manufacturing growth in the U.S. have also weighed on the stock market.
The Dow and S&P 500 reached record highs on April 11, but their gains have slowed sharply since then. The Dow is up just 0.7 percent this month while the S&P 500 has gained 0.6 percent.
During the first three months of the year, the indexes averaged monthly gains of more than 3 percent, driven by optimism that the housing and job markets were recovering and that company earnings would continue to climb.
Companies made money in the first quarter, however, and are on track to increase their earnings by an average of almost 3 percent, according to S&P Capital IQ.
"Overall, I'm really quite comforted," said David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan Funds. "It's not an easy environment in which to make money, but companies are finding ways in which to hold costs in line and grow earnings."
Crude oil rose $2.25 to finish at $91.43 a barrel as U.S. supplies rose less than expected last week. Gold for June delivery rose $14.90 to $1,423.70 an ounce.
In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.71 percent from 1.70. The yield fell to 1.69 percent last week, close to its lowest of the year.


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Who would have thought that grammatically deficient cats could be big business?
The Internet has long trafficked in photos of kooky pets, but few have capitalized on them as successfully as the Cheezburger Network. The company started with a simple gag: a photo of a goofy gray cat, mouth agape, with the superimposed caption, "I can has cheezburger?"
The joke exploded. Teens, housewives, and grandparents now upload their own cat photos, add intentionally misspelled captions, and share their creations millions of times over. The Cheezburger Network has grown to include more than 50 websites, featuring everything from examples of computer auto-correction gone wrong to photos of real signs written in comically poor English. This mix of charm and sarcasm, with a touch of schadenfreude, pulls in 18.7 million people a month.
But the company doesn't hire writers, photographers, or comedians. All the images and jokes – all the reasons for visiting the Cheezburger Network – come from the audience. In this very Internet-age dynamic, leadership, according to Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh, comes from setting the tone and then getting out of the way.
"For us, the trend has been turning more and more of the company over to the users," says Mr. Huh. "I think what we're going to see is more companies trusting the user. And that is something that I find very much in parallel to being a leader in my company."
The network runs somewhat like an online newspaper. As new images roll in, Huh's editors select the best and publish them in the appropriate sections. These regular updates run alongside ads, which bring in much of Cheezburger's seven-figure annual revenue.
That money pays for Huh's 87-person team of editors and programmers but not the people who actually create the content. Without frequent, quality contributions from the community, the company would quickly evaporate.
That's why Huh stresses the importance of building a great playground but then letting the people decide how to enjoy it. Of course, this requires a lot of trust in the users. Few places bring out the dark side of schoolyard behavior quite like the Internet. But Huh compares this faith in the users with his faith in his employees.
"If you trust your employees, you have to give them leeway on their interpretation of your vision," he says. "The same actually goes for our community as well, which is, I expect that our community will put the best interests of the community at heart – that they will act within social norms. And if that is actually the case, than we should give them more tools so that they can make that happen."
The network receives 12,000 to 15,000 submissions a day. Of those, maybe 10 to 12 percent are funny enough for the home page, says Lisa Kacerosky, one of Cheezburger's senior editors. They regularly toss aside inside jokes and offensive humor. But the most unfortunate kind of reject, she says, are legitimately hilarious submissions attached to crummy or poorly edited photographs. While Cheezburger can't do much about blurry images, the company has built several online tools to make creating a joke as easy as possible.
For example, Ms. Kacerosky recalls one of the first big gags to emerge after she was hired two years ago. During the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, rapper Kanye West stormed the stage during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, grabbed the microphone away from her, and declared that Beyoncé should have won the award for Best Female Video. For the next few weeks, the Web brimmed with jokes about Mr. West's audacity.
Cheezburger editors saw the wave coming early on, says Kacerosky, and met to discuss how best to ride the trend. "Do we need to prepare ourselves?" she remembers someone at the office asking. "Do we need to Photoshop [a cutout image of] Kanye to show people how this is done?" Users could then take the high-quality image of West and apply it to any scene they wanted.
This kind of subtle shepherding is common at Cheezburger. The editors help guide the creative process but allow people to stray from the herd. After all, that's how the network grows. Many of Cheezburger's 50-odd websites sprang from user submissions that didn't fit into any of the current sections. If there's enough good content, Huh says, then he's happy spinning off countless side projects. Of course, it's up to Huh to define "good."
This is one of Cheezburger's strong suits, says Danah Boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft who specializes in social media. Long before Huh bought the original Cheezburger site from a pair of Web entrepreneurs, grammar-challenged cats roamed Internet forums such as 4chan, an online community that somehow embodies everything that's wonderful about the Internet and everything that's terrible about it. Users on 4chan create, mock, innovate, and chew through Web culture at a rapid clip. But unlike Cheezburger, 4chan sets no expectation of decency. Sharp, incisive humor mingles with crass, offensive filth. This is no place to send your mother.
Yet countless Web phenomena have sprung from 4chan's primordial goo, explains Ms. Boyd. And once a joke evolves to the point that it's ready for a mass audience, the Cheezburger Network is there to snatch it up and present it to the world.
Compared with the wilds of 4chan, the Cheezburger Network is "much more thoughtful about creating [a community-driven website], curating it, and making it a fun, clean space," says Boyd.
Fostering this mom-friendly image is part of Huh's leadership by example, Huh says.
When his editors moderate visitor comments, "we look at it as if it were our house, and if a guest in our house behaves inappropriately, you kick them out," he says. "In our community, we expect you to abide by the social norms of our community. And we initiate those social norms."
Huh invites sarcasm but says that he draws the line at hateful comments. He gives the example of Wedinator, a Cheezburger site that he almost shuttered. The page gathers curious wedding photos – a bride in ice-hockey skates, a groomsman falling off a dock into the water, a guest conspicuously filming a ceremony with his large Apple iPad. At first, certain members sneered at the submissions and grew a little too mean-spirited.
"What happens, though, is the community starts to self-police," Huh says. "They start to [demote] things that they think are too mean."
Wedinator's sour tone has changed in the past few months, he says. Community comments are now increasingly positive. "You would think that being snarky and negative is the one thing that draws attention and traffic, because people talk about controversy," he says.
"But it turns out that communities are built on things that are rewarding, as well as funny. And so the positive community started to build upon that, and now [Wedinator] is more of a unique and interesting and kinda quirky wedding site that sometimes makes fun of bad stuff, instead of the other way around."
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A 3-year-old child witnessed the killing of three people in a remote area of Montana's Crow Indian Reservation and named a family member as the shooter, according to an FBI affidavit.
Sheldon Bernard Chase, 22, was captured in Washington state and made an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Cynthia Imbrogno in Spokane on Thursday. He was ordered held on three counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his grandmother, cousin and cousin's boyfriend at their rural home on Tuesday. He faces life in prison if convicted.
Chase, dressed in a yellow jumpsuit and wearing leg shackles, gave yes and no answers to a series of questions from the magistrate, and asked to be returned to Montana as soon as possible to face the charges.
The violence inside a prominent Crow family known for its adherence to traditional tribal values has roiled the reservation south of Billings, and the FBI affidavit offered new insight into what happened.
Chase suffers from mental illness, according to authorities and those who know him. The affidavit said Chase had stopped taking his medications prior to the shootings, although it does not specify when or what the medications were.
A day before the shootings, he left his mother's house on North Dakota's Fort Berthold Reservation taking with him a "Sitting Bull commemorative gun," according to the affidavit.
Shortly before noon Tuesday, Chase's 21-year-old cousin, Levon Driftwood, sent a text saying Chase had made it to the Crow Reservation, where he had been attending college and living with extended family in a small cluster of houses about 10 miles outside Lodge Grass.
The matriarch of the tight-knit clan, Gloria Cummins, had suffered a stroke several years ago and was cared for by Driftwood. Driftwood and boyfriend Rueben Jefferson had two-year-old and three-year-old sons, and the affidavit indicates two children were home when Chase arrived.
Within minutes, a fight ensued between Chase and Driftwood's boyfriend, Rueben Jefferson. Chase shot Jefferson, Cummins and Driftwood, and was seen by a neighbor driving away from Cummins' house at 12:10 p.m., according to the affidavit.
"During an interview of one child, age 3 years, he disclosed Chase and RCJ (Jefferson) were fighting and Chase shot RCJ. The child further stated Chase also shot GSC (Cummins) and LFD (Driftwood)," the affidavit stated.
Jefferson's body was found outside the house by FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs agents who responded to the scene. The bodies of Cummins and Driftwood were inside, and all three had gunshot wounds to the head or face. Authorities allege Chase used a high-powered hunting rifle in the killings.
Chase's former employer described him as acting erratically in the past, when he was said to cycle on and off medications for mental illness.
"When he was on his medications, he was a nice guy. When he came off them, he would just keep wandering around and around," said Doug McCormick, owner of the Little Horn IGA, a supermarket where Chase stocked groceries part time. "He was a different duck."
McCormick said he did not know what medications Chase was taking or what illness he suffered from. He said he did not have direct knowledge of when Chase was taking medications but that it was discussed among his employees.
Authorities so far have offered scant details of Chase's mental health history. The priest at the Catholic church in Lodge Grass that Chase frequented, Father Jim Antoine, said Chase had witnessed a traumatic event as a teenager that left him "haunted."
Others in the community have described Chase as a loner who spoke infrequently but was always well-dressed and had a close relationship with Cummins and other family members.
His capture Wednesday afternoon in Spokane followed a manhunt that stretched from the rugged Crow countryside across much of the northern U.S. Chase was arrested without incident near the Spokane Valley Mall, more than 600 miles west of Lodge Grass, by a team of federal and local law enforcement officers.
Frank Harrill, FBI supervisor in Spokane, said agents learned that Chase was in the Spokane area and converged on the scene. He declined to reveal how agents got their information.
Schools on reservations in southeastern Montana and western North Dakota were closed and residents stayed indoors for safety during the search.
Eric Barnhart, FBI supervisor in Billings, said investigators were still trying to piece together what led to the shooting.
"At this point, we still don't know," he said following Chase's capture. "With some history of mental illness, that's an X factor."
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Kent Singers ready for 40th year
KENT >> Matthew Travis, Music Director at Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling, N.Y., is the new Conductor for The Kent Singers, a choral group celebrating its 40th Anniversary Season.
"I am absolutely thrilled to be appointed Music Director of The Kent Singers," Travis said.
Travis, who has been with Trinity-Pawling School since 2010, earned a bachelor's degree in Voice Performance at University of Michigan and master's degree in Choral Conducting at Penn State University.
While at Penn State he served as assistant conductor for the Men's Glee Club, which performed internationally.
Travis has also participated in numerous summer programs including the Yale Summer School of Music, Eastman Conducting Institute, and the prestigious Oregon Bach Festival with Helmuth Riling.
He recently received the Lannom Fellowship from the American Choral Director's Association (ACDA) to study and conduct performances at the Massachusetts ACDA Convention.
The 40th anniversary spring concerts, "Brahms, Bach and Copeland in Love and Song," will be Sunday, April 21 at 3 p.m. at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Kent, and April 28 at 3 p.m. at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Bridgewater.
Tickets are $12 in advance and $20 at the door. Contact The Kent Singers at PO Box 774, Kent, CT. 06757, call 619-8110, or visit www.kentsingers.org.