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Eagle Books Toolkit Now Available Online
The Eagle Books feature a colorful cast of animal characters and young friends, exploring the benefits of being physically active, eating healthy foods and seeking the wisdom of elders, regarding healthy living. The online toolkit contains information, ideas, downloads, and how-to instructions to help organize a community health fair, school assembly or other wellness event. On the site you'll also find lots of Eagle Books materials and activities for parents and teachers.
Environmental Health Sciences/Niehs Kids Pages
This page is geared toward children, but covers information, using basic terms, that any adult would want to know.
Ten Tips to Protect Children from Pesticide and Lead Poisonings
The EPA offers 10 tips to help protect children from poisoning.
Lead in Paint, Dust and Soil
The EPA offers a comprehensive site of information regarding lead exposure, work safety, regional contacts and a hotline.
Childhood Lead Exposure
This feature from CDC offer parents basic information about lead poisoning and some sources to avoid in order to protect children.
Navigating the Maze
The Department of Defense is offering its online toolkit tailored to military parents of children with special needs. The kit contains sample letters, parent resources and intervention tools.
Protecting Your Family from Lead Poisoning
The CDC will offer two new podcasts for parents who are looking to protect their family from lead poisoning, especially for families living in homes built before 1978.
Tracking Your Child's Developments
The CDC is offering information and interactive tools to help parents monitor their child's development beyond the usual signs parents look for, like height and weight. Although the site provides information for parents who may be concerned about autism, developmental signs are available to any parent who desires to see if their child's behavior corresponds with his or her age.
We Can!™: "Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition"
We Can!™ or "Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition" is a national program designed for families and communities to help children maintain a healthy weight. The program focuses on three important behaviors: improved food choices, increased physical activity and reduced screen time.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Resources on child abuse prevention, protecting children from risk of abuse, and promoting healthy families. Includes information on supporting families, protective factors, public awareness, community activities, positive parenting, prevention programs, and more.
Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health
The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health provides online access to survey data that allows users to compare state, regional, and nationwide results - plus resources and personalized assistance for interpreting and reporting findings.
Pregnancy Care for the Disadvantaged
Are you pregnant but financially disadvantaged? If you are pregnant, programs in your State can help you have a healthy baby. These programs offer medical care, support and advice for pregnant women, information about health insurance and other services you and your baby may need.
National Birth Defects Prevention Network's Population-based Birth Defects Surveillance Programs
This web page contains birth defects resources grouped by state as well as national and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) links.
CDC's Folic Acid Page
This page provides useful information on folic acid including FAQs, a list of cereals that contain folic acid, a folic acid quiz, information on the National Folic Acid Campaign and a section for health professionals.
National Birth Defects Prevention Network
This web site offers a network formed to establish local, state and national birth defect resources. The focus is on surveillance and research, identifying prevention strategies, and assisting families and their providers.
March of Dimes
Ever on the vanguard in research into birth defects, this organization provides a one-stop shopping platform that has something for everyone from the novice as well as the advanced user.
Birth Defects (from A-Z)
The information on this web page is categorized into useful chunks such as Diagnosis/Symptoms, Prevention/Screening, Coping and Specific Conditions. It is a great starting page for learning about birth defects.
Halloween Safety Resources
Be safe this Halloween.
American Bar Association Youth at Risk Initiative
This initiative is intended to help youth at risk and addresses all aspects of the number of legal issues that affect them. This initiative will touch on topic areas such as: Better Hearing the Voices of Youth in Court, Reforming the Juvenile "Status Offender" Process and Enhancing Teen Access to Safe and Appropriate Prevention and Treatment Services.
National Institutes of Health Web Site for Child Health and Human Development
This National Institute of Child Health and Human Development site provides fast and easy access to a wide array of information, from child health, to developmental disorders, to women's health, to basic and clinical research. This site is useful not only to people who need health information; it's also a tool for scientists who need research information. It is intended for the general public, scientists, and the news media.
Breastfeeding - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web Site
Both babies and mothers gain many benefits from breastfeeding. Breast milk is easy to digest and contains antibodies that can protect infants from bacterial and viral infections.
Read more about the benefits of breastfeeding by visiting CDC's breastfeeding home page.
Preconception Care - Start Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy before it Takes Place
Preparing for a healthy pregnancy starts before the pregnancy itself. Use the resources on this web site as a guide for having a healthy and happy preganancy. The main goal of preconception care is to provide health promotion, screening and interventions for women of reproductive age to reduce risk factors that might affect future pregnancies.
Child Abuse Training & Technical Assistance Centers (CATTA) Newsletters
Current and past editions of the CATTA newsletters are available for viewing and downloading on this site providing information and resources for professionals and laypersons involved in the prevention, intervention, treatment and/or investigation of child abuse. It is published quarterly.
Child Welfare Information Gateway Library
The Child Welfare Information Gateway's online library has an extensive collection of 48,000 documents that you can access on topics related to protecting children and strengthening families.
Child Welfare Information Gateway Publications
The Child Welfare Information Gateway publications search feature will allow you to search on documents that the Child Welfare Information Gateway distributes, which include factsheets, bulletins, and research summaries either produced by Information Gateway or other organizations. Topics include child abuse and neglect, child welfare and adoption related issues.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families.
Food and Drug Administration Kid's Page
This web site focuses on links to health issues for kids. Written in a child-friendly language, it focuses on such topics as food safety, memory testing, all about vaccines, braces for your teeth, health information for teens, a parents corner and much more.
National Center on Birth Defects and Development Disabilities
This web site focuses on the early years of a child's life which are crucial for cognitive, social and emotional development. Therefore, it is important that every step necessary is taken to ensure that children grow up in environments where their social, emotional and educational needs are met.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is part of the National Institutes of Health, the biomedical research arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It supports and conducts research on topics related to the health of children, adults, families, and populations.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) - Asthma and Allergy
Asthma is a disease that affects the lungs. It is one of the most common long-term diseases of children. It causes repeated episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and nighttime or early morning coughing. This site provides links to asthma sufferers resources including NIOSH Safety and Health Topics, information from the National Center for Environmental Health, speakers kits, basic asthma facts and much more.
5 A Day
5 A Day for Better Health is a national program and partnership that seeks to increase the number of daily servings of fruits and vegetables Americans eat to five or more.
Insure Kids Now!
This national campaign links the nation's 10 million uninsured children--from birth to age 18--to free and low-cost health insurance. The campaign puts families in direct contact with state children's health insurance programs through this Web site, the toll-free hotline 1-877-KIDS-NOW, and other outreach.


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Dixie Lea Davis, 69, of Centerville, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 at Mercy Medical Center in Centerville.
She was born May 28, 1944 in Centerville, the daughter of Archie and Aline (Large) Chapman. Dixie married John Ned Davis on Feb. 14, 1960 in Centerville. They later divorced.
Dixie began her working career as a certified nurse's aide. She worked as a CNA for both the Corydon Nursing Home and the Seymour Care Center. Dixie then changed careers and became employed with Neely Manufacturing in Seymour. She was employed with the company for eight years until she relocated to Centerville and began working for Viskase. Dixie worked for Viskase for 14 years, retiring at the age of 63.
She was active in her free time. Dixie enjoyed fishing, camping, cookouts with family, reading romance novels, playing cards and watching western movies — especially John Wayne movies. Most importantly, Dixie loved spending time with her family. Family members describe Dixie as being a selfless person who always puts others ahead of herself. She enjoyed time spent volunteering at Angel's Hands in Centerville.
Dixie is survived by her three children, Bill (Laurie) Davis, Kathy Davis and Cindy Davis all of Centerville; five grandchildren, Jeffrey Davis, Timothy (Jaimie) Davis, Caitlin Utterback, Kairee Davis and Nikki Davis all of Centerville; one great-grandchild on the way; two brothers, Robert (Becky) Chapman and Lyle Chapman all of Centerville; and two sisters, Barb (Willard) Armstrong of Centerville and Judy Garcia of Clifton, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents; grandparents; daughter, Jennifer Lynn Davis; brother, Jerry Chapman; and numerous other family members.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 at Lange Funeral Home and Crematory in Centerville with Pastor Larry Hudson officiating. Burial will follow in the Confidence Cemetery. A visitation will be held Saturday at Lange Funeral Home from 1-2 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorials have been established to the family and may be given to Lange Funeral Home and Crematory, 1900 S. 18 St., Centerville, Iowa, 52544.
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Munich, Jul 22, 2014
The reconstruction work on the interior of the Ludwig Ferdinand Palais, a registered historic building at Wittelsbacherplatz in Munich, has now reached the halfway mark. Siemens developed the remodeling plans in close cooperation with Bavaria's Office for the Preservation of Historic Places. In 2013, the City of Munich granted a building permit for the project.
Munich, Jul 17, 2014
Siemens' central research department and the electric vehicle manufacturer StreetScooter agreed today to equip an electric car with an innovative electronic and software architecture. The associated technology was developed during the RACE project. Siemens is the consortium leader of the research project, which receives funding from the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy. For the first time ever, the architecture will make it possible to retrofit functions such as electrical brakes and systems such as lane-keeping assistants using a plug-and-play process like on home PCs.
Munich, Jul 16, 2014
Siemens Healthcare is selling its microbiology business to Beckman Coulter Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Danaher Corporation. The activities of the microbiology business include systems for the identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing (ID/AST) of microorganisms.
Munich, Jul 15, 2014
Partners from industry and science are joining forces in a novel collaborative research alliance to address the future-oriented fields of automation and digitalization. Siemens is the first company to forge a research alliance with universities and research institutes that will utilize a new, fully integrated approach in order to bundle outstanding expertise and make possible wide-ranging innovations in processes and systems.
Munich, Jul 14, 2014
Olaf Bolduan (61), Chairman of the Works Council at the Dynamowerk Berlin, has been appointed by the Charlottenburg District Court (Berlin) as an employee representative on the Supervisory Board. Bolduan was proposed by the Central Works Council and the Assembly of Delegates of IG Metall to succeed Lothar Adler, who retired at the end of May 2014 and accordingly left the Supervisory Board. "I would like to welcome Mr. Bolduan on behalf of all the members of the
Supervisory Board and look forward to working with him in the future," said the Chairman of the Siemens Supervisory Board, Gerhard Cromme.
Erlangen, Jun 27, 2014
In line with its new company strategy, Siemens is reorienting its research activities toward the innovation fields of electrification, automation and digitalization in order to further strengthen its leading technology position in these areas. Siemens is the first company to form a research alliance with leading universities and institutions in this connection – an alliance that aims to combine outstanding expertise with a new, all-inclusive approach and make possible wide-ranging innovations in processes and systems.
London/New York, Jun 26, 2014
Siemens and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) today announced 31 finalist projects from 26 cities competing in 10 categories for the 2014 City Climate Leadership Awards. The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony to be held in New York on September 22, 2014.
Munich, Jun 20, 2014
Siemens has noted the announcement of the French government to stronger respect national interests itself, regarding the reorganization of Alstom. "We respect and understand the political interest of the government in the field of energy technology. Together with our partner MHI, we had verifiably the better offer with respect to industrial and strategic sustainability as well as regarding financial and social aspects. But the safeguarding of national interests is a matter of the State," said Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens, and added: "Dealing with Alstom, we have proven our competence, entrepreneurship, strategic finesse and last but not least discipline."
Munich and Tokyo, Jun 20, 2014
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Siemens today submitted an offer letter specifying further the proposed transaction to Alstom. With the specified offer MHI and Siemens reaffirm their commitment to strengthen Alstom as an independent Global Player in Energy and Transport. After extensive discussions with all stakeholders over the past days MHI and Siemens reviewed their proposal with regards to reducing complexity, strengthening execution and narrowing risk exposure.
Munich/Paris, Jun 17, 2014
As part of the planned acquisition of the gas business of Alstom, Siemens AG has announced its intention to provide training for an additional 1,000 French young people over the next few years. The additional training positions will include both technical and administrative professions. Siemens will invest about €32,000 annually for each trainee. Siemens President and CEO Joe Kaeser made this commitment at a meeting with French President François Hollande on Tuesday.


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Kevin Williamson (Executive Producer), Julie Plec (Executive Producer), Leslie Morganstein (Executive Producer), Bob Levy (Executive Producer), Michael Allowitz (Director), Rebecca Sonnenshine (Writer), Joshua Butler (Director), Elisabeth Finch (Writer), Holly Brix (Writer), Melinda Taylor (Writer), Matthew D'ambrosio (Writer), Paul Wesley (Director), Brian Young (Writer), Caroline Dries (Writer), Leslie Libman (Director), Brett Matthews (Writer), Neil Reynolds (Writer), Pascal Verschooris (Director), Chris Grismer (Director), Lance Anderson (Director), Darren Genet (Director), Kellie Cyrus (Director), Sonny Postiglione (Writer), Julie Plec (Writer), Rob Hardy (Director), Jeffrey Hunt (Director), Jesse Warn (Director), Darnell Martin (Director), Michael Narducci (Writer), J. miller Tobin (Director), Evan Bleiweiss (Writer), Jose Molina (Writer), Garreth Stover (Director), Charlie Charbonneau (Writer), Brad Turner (Director), John Dahl (Director), David Von ancken (Director), Michael Cinquemani (Writer), Daphne Miles (Writer), John Behring (Director), Turi Meyer (Writer), Al Septien (Writer), Wendy Stanzler (Director), David Jackson (Director), Wendey Stanzler (Director), Kevin Williamson (Writer), Mike Daniels (Writer), Paul Sommers (Director), Andrew Chambliss (Writer), Michael Katleman (Director), Marcos Siega (Director), Sarah Fain (Writer), Elizabeth Craft (Writer), Elizabeth Allen (Director), Ralph Hemecker (Director), Liz Friedlander (Director), Charles Beeson (Director), Julie Plec (Director), Jeff Woolnough (Director), Patrick Norris (Director), Bryan Oh (Writer), Barbie Kligman (Writer), Dennis Smith (Director), Kevin Bray (Director), Brett Conrad (Writer), David Barrett (Director), Sean Reycraft (Writer), Bryan Holdman (Writer), Rick Bota (Director), Gabrielle Stanton (Writer), Ernest Dickenson (Director), Andrew Kreisberg (Writer), Guy Ferland (Director)
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A few months after their parents are killed in a tragic car accident, Elena Gilbert and her brother, Jeremy, are trying to come to terms with their grief. For Elena, formerly popular and involved with school and her friends, it's a struggle to hide her sadness. She finds herself drawn to a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan, unaware that he is a centuries-old vampire doing his best to live peacefully among humans. His brother, Damon, however, is the embodiment of vampire stereotypes, including violence and brutality, and the two brothers wage a war for the souls of Elena and everyone else in her small Virginia town. Based on the series of novels by L.J. Smith.
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Alabama has snagged the top spot in The Associated Press preseason college football poll as the team sets its sights on a third-straight national title.
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"The [Crimson] Tide received 58 of 60 first-place votes from the media panel to easily outdistance No. 2 Ohio State and match Florida in 2009 for the highest percentage of first-place votes received in the 63-year history of the preseason rankings. The Buckeyes received one first-place vote.
"The [Crimson] Tide received 58 of 60 first-place votes from the media panel to easily outdistance No. 2 Ohio State and match Florida in 2009 for the highest percentage of first-place votes received in the 63-year history of the preseason rankings.
The Buckeyes received one first-place vote.
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That morning cup of Joe is a daily, practically sacred ritual for many of us.
How a baby begins life after birth affects the rest of the baby's development. The Baby Friendly Initiative, begun by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, recognizes that. It currently has made inroads in 152 countries, including the United States, and now Oklahoma. The first hospital to make the grade is Claremore Indian Hospital.
Georgiana Sweetwater, who goes by Gibby and is from the Pawnee Nation, is the Nurse Manager for OB In-Patient Services and Women's Clinic. She attended a workshop sponsored by the United Nations in Albuquerque.
The National Park Service has awarded the Chickasaw Nation more than $7,000 to help the tribe return ancestral human remains and cultural objects.
The grant money is part of more than $65,000 that the NPS awarded to various tribes, museums and groups under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
NPS Director Jonathan B. Jarvis says in a news release that Protection and Repatriation Act helps correct mistreatment of Native peoples' by returning human remains and sacred objects.
Oklahoma's governor and the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation have signed agreements that will allow tribal citizens in all 77 Oklahoma counties buy a Cherokee Nation license plate.
Two compacts were signed Friday by Gov. Mary Fallin and Principal Chief Bill John Baker. They authorize the Cherokee Nation to be the first tribe in Oklahoma to offer car tags to its citizens statewide.
One compact allows Cherokee citizens in Tulsa, Wagoner, Rogers, Mayes and Muskogee counties to purchase a tribal car tag at the same rate as Cherokee citizens have for 10 years.
Foreign aid to post-conflict countries usually focuses on rebuilding physical infrastructure. Peter Weinberger says in countries where there are deep divisions between religious, ethnic, or tribal groups, social reconstruction is more important, and can be much more difficult to achieve, than physical reconstruction.
Weinberger is a Senior Program Officer at the United States Institute of Peace. He now teaches at USIP's Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding after working with various non-governmental organizations in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, and the western Balkans. Weinberger says in "divided societies" like these, group identities are salient and cause a lot of conflict between people – even decades after the immediate violence ends.
Following a "soft" launch in July, KGOU commits to full season of Backstage Jazz.
Hosted by resident jazz lover and independent producer Jeremy Gossett, Backstage Jazz is the culmination of Gossett's three-year quest to create a radio program that showcases both regionally-admired and internationally recognized jazz artists. Gossett told the Oklahoma Gazette what he means by "Backstage".
Students are back in school in Moore, Oklahoma, nearly three months after a deadly tornado tore through town.
The storm killed a total of 25 people, including seven third-graders who had hunkered down at the Plaza Towers Elementary School with their teachers.


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— TRAVERSE CITY - Traverse City commissioners selected their top candidate for city manager.
Commissioners on Saturday unanimously picked Jered Ottenwess from a field of six candidates. He is expected to replace outgoing City Manager Ben Bifoss.
Ottenwess currently works as a manager for the community of Ishpeming in the Upper Peninsula.
"He's going to be a very good and interesting fit for the community," said city Commissioner Mike Gillman. "He's the youngest of the candidates, but it was clear he has a level of enthusiasm about him that was impressive, as was the amount of homework he'd done looking at Traverse City. He knew what our operations were."
Ottenwess still has to undergo a background check. Gillman said the commission also has to negotiate a contract with him.


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A year ago, 32-year-old Jenn McRann could never have imagined she'd be where she is today, competing against 20-year-old girls in bikini fitness competitions – and beating them.
Five months back the 5-foot-6, tattooed brunette decided to start getting in shape again after being a medic for a year and a half. She wanted to work out correctly, so she approached Versatile Fitness trainer Bonnie Burrows.
"I wanted a trainer so I could learn how to train and not hurt myself," McRann said. "I wanted to learn the right way, but then Bonnie just pushed me right into competing."
"She told me right off the bat, 'We're going to do this and you're going to place.' The whole time I was thinking, 'I'm going to Vancouver, I know what the women are like there, they're beautiful. Like yeah right, little old me?'"
After five months of working out three to four days a week at Energetics Family Fitness Centre and doing a blood-type specific diet, McRann and Burrows travelled to Vancouver to compete in the 2012 Sandra Wickham Fall Classic with 300 other competitors.
At 5-foot-6, McRann was put in the Bikini D division (divisions go by height) with 20 other girls. As the girls all got ready in their bikinis, McRann noticed right away how she stood out from the rest of the blonde, "ribby" girls around her.
"I was definitely the older girl up there," she said. "They're all so beautiful, they really are. I didn't think I had a shot at all. I'll be 33 at the end of this month and all these girls are like 20."
"I was worried about [my tattoos], especially with the judges. Is it dainty enough for bikini? But I also think it made me stand out in a good way. I met the judges the night before and made a point of saying hi."
Despite what she called the "cattiness" of the competition, McRann stayed positive, met some friends and kept confident.
"The judges watched me come out and they didn't even watch the other girls, the just watched me," she said. "I stood out like a sore thumb."
"When the judges asked me to step into the second place position, I heard Bonnie yell, 'Boom!' from the balcony. It was great. I had the biggest smile of my life."
Compared to others who compete in similar events, McRann's journey might've been a bit shorter to get there (five months), but the overall results meant far more to her than just a second place finish and qualifying for provincials.
It was a life changer.
"It's changed who I am inside as a positive person. I was kind of going the other way; we have our moments, we get down," McRann said.
"I'll never go back to an unhealthy diet again. I feel that good about myself. I haven't looked this good since I was 20 years old. That was 13 years ago and I actually got on stage with all those young'ens."
As she started to train with Burrows, McRann had to cut out caffeine and chocolate from her life (two of her favourite things), get up early to do cardio and lift weights, something she'd never done before and sometimes dreaded, but the trade off was worth it, she said.
She made two great friends in Burrows and fitness competitor Angela Fowler (who inspired to her to train), got a new positive outlook on life, found new goals and even found romance, something she never thought she'd do.
"Bonnie was determined I'd find someone," McRann laughed. "She got me on this website called Fitness Singles, and the first guy I met was pretty much perfect."
"She's a miracle in my life, that's exactly what she is."
McRann also found something else she didn't think she would – pride.
"My mother is so proud of me," she said, "And that makes me so happy because her opinion means so much. She's everything."
"A year ago, I could never imagine I'd be doing this, feeling this good. I'll never go back."
Because McRann placed second at the Sandra Wickham Classic, she gets a bye to the provincial championships next summer. Of course she said she's "going for first" and in two years' time she'll be able to compete in the Masters division.
She's more determined than ever, she said, and there's no looking back.
When asked why she's where she is now in her life, McRann's answer was simple: Bonnie Burrows.
"I needed her, she was my everything," she said. "What can I say, the woman is incredible, as a trainer, friend and family, that's how I view her now. You don't come across people with a heart of gold like that everyday."
"I could make it all about me but that's not what I want. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the two of them. Bonnie saw potential in Angie and now Angie's going to Nationals. She saw potential in me and she pushed me."
"I'm here because of them and if I didn't have them I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't have done it without them."
McRann would like to thank her sponsors, Team Versatile and her friends for all of their support.
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Shortly before the Sochi Olympics, the Russian government surprised many by granting amnesty to 20,000 prisoners including high-profile opposition activists like Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot and recently jailed members of Greenpeace. That was followed by the even more surprising release of President Vladimir Putin's longtime antagonist, tycoon-turned-activist Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
It seemed at the time like a fairly transparent bid for some good publicity ahead of the international media's arrival in Russia for the Olympics. And given the events that have transpired in the three days since the games ended, those suspicions now seem confirmed.
On Monday, hundreds - including Tolokonnikova and Alykhina - were arrested in Moscow for protesting against sentencing of seven men on charges related to the mass protests that broke out around Putin's return to the presidency in 2012.
Tuesday, a number of prominent opposition leaders, including activist and blogger Aleksei Navalny and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov. were sentenced to several days in prison for resisting arrest during the rally.
Navalny - one of the most dynamic and effective leaders Russian opposition leaders to emerge in years - is in a particularly delicate position. In July he was sentenced to five years in prison on embezzlement charges, but was released, pending appeal, following protests against the sentence, which was widely seen as politically motivated. Navalny's current sentence is only seven days, but it wouldn't be too surprising to see him returned to jail for longer.
Russia continued to some extent to crack down on activists during the games, but now that the global spotlight has lifted from the country, it seems more likely that the gloves will come off, particularly with the opposition looking to events in neighboring Ukraine.
Keating is a staff writer at Slate focusing on international news, social science and related topics. He was previously an editor at Foreign Policy magazine.
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---- — CLINTON — Ashford students, faculty and staff met with Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds Tuesday to talk about the university and state education initiatives.
"We've invested about $40 million and brought 400 jobs that probably wouldn't be here otherwise," Ashford University Vice President and Campus Director John Ballheim told the state leaders during a tour of the campus.
In the past years, the university has upgraded its science facilities and other technology as well as added a locker room and concession area to its athletic facilities on 14th Street, among other investments.
Beyond the financial investments, Ashford President Richard Pattenaude talked about the steps the company has taken to increase student retention and move away from its alleged focus on student recruitment. Those steps include steps such as adding more full-time faculty and reducing the amount of admission representatives. Some of those steps were in response to the university's initial accreditation denial from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, which last month reversed its decision and approved a five-year accreditation for Ashford.
"Student success is really good business for us," Pattenaude said.
Ashford, along with other for-profit colleges, last year came under fire from Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, for its exponential growth and recruitment practices. Branstad Tuesday called the criticism "unfortunate."
"I think Ashford has done some great things for Clinton. It's created jobs, it's purchased buildings in the community, built athletic facilities and it focuses on education. We also appreciate when a company makes a $40 million dollar investment in Iowa. We want to encourage and support their success," Branstad said.
After the tour of the campus, Branstad and Reynolds spoke with faculty, staff and members of the Student Government Association about the initiatives Iowa is implementing, such as the STEM Advisory Council that promotes science, technology, engineering and math programs.
"The lieutenant governor and I have really focused on bringing more good jobs to Iowa, revitalizing our education system in our state and restoring Iowa to be a leader in the nation in student achievement," Branstad said.
The visit was part of the governor and lieutenant governor's tour of each of Iowa's 99 counties. The five-term governor will be up for re-election in 2014 and potential opponents are lining up to challenge him in the gubernatorial race.
"You are the future and we want to build a future that is bright in our state by reducing the tax and regulatory burdens and increasing our commitment to education and making sure we're doing all we can to create good jobs," Branstad said.
The pair fielded questions from Ashford students and staff, including one from a parent concerned that Iowa's standardized tests are holding back her child.
"What we're hearing is 'we don't think this test is a good measure either,'" Branstad said of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. "In fact, in the state of Iowa, we've developed state standards and now we're part of the consortium that is trying to align these tests with the state standards. We think that's a better test than the ITBS."
Iowa also is part of the Smarter Balanced consortium to implement tests that are in line with the Common Core, which could help the disconnect between standards and standardized tests, Branstad explained.
"Competency-based and hands-on learning should really be driving education," Reynolds said.
Branstand and Reynolds also discussed the number of students who receive their educations in Iowa only to leave, as well as how to recruit immigrants to live and work in the state.
"We need to encourage and support legal immigration to Iowa," Branstad said. "We have a lot of international students that come here and take math and science and we need to be able to make it possible for them to stay here."
Ashford faculty asked what the governor and lieutenant governor are doing to add more opportunities for students and businesses in the state by supporting internship programs.
Reynolds said as part of the STEM initiative, the state is working to build a repository of businesses and industries that are looking for internships at the high school and college levels.
"In business and industry there is such a skills gap right now and such a need for employment that they really are reaching out," Reynolds said. "Then the students can start to see the relevancy and it goes right into employment."


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LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —
The New Orleans Saints picked up both a win and a loss in the span of a couple of days.
Last Friday a three-judge appeals panel ruled that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell needs to clarify whether he punished the players (involved in the alleged bounty scandal) for conduct, which is within his rights as commissioner, or because of payments of performance, which is a salary-cap issue which he does not have jurisdiction.
What this meant was that linebacker Jonathan Vilma, defensive end Will Smith, former linebacker Scott Fujita and former defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove were all reinstated and eligible to play in Sunday's game against Washington.
That was the win.
As for the loss, that came Sunday against Washington and rookie quarterback Roger Griffin III. Behind RG3's strong performance, the Redskins downed the Saints, 40-32. Griffin was 19-26 for 320 yards and two touchdowns, by far the best performance of any of the rookies starting on Sunday.
The ruling that was handed down about the bounty scandal being more of a salary cap issue is, well, ludicrous. This was paying someone basically under the table to go out and injure another player. Kind of like putting a hit out on a person. It's all shady and hush-hush.
By lifting the suspensions of these players, the message sent was it's O.K. to hurt someone intentionally as long as you do it so it falls under the jurisdiction of the collective bargaining agreement.
What Goodell did by suspending these players was what you would expect a commissioner to do. What the courts did was, well, what you would expect them to do. Step in and allow criminals to play.
And yes, those who were involved in the scandal are criminals to me. They should be man enough to accept their punishment and get on with it. But no, they had to file an appeal and have their suspensions overturned.
I can't put a bounty on someone's head in the real world and expect to get away with it. Why are these players any different?
Football is a dangerous enough sport as it is without intentionally trying to hurt someone.
Staying with the NFL, guess Indianapolis wrote off Peyton Manning a little too soon.
Manning looked like he hadn't missed a step in Denver's 31-19 win over Pittsburgh Sunday night. Manning was 19-26 for 253 yards and two touchdowns. He showed no ill-effects from missing all of last season due to neck surgery.
And what of Andrew Luck, the rookie who replaced Manning for the Colts? Well, his debut wasn't as stellar, going 23-45 for 309 yards and an interception in Indy's 41-21 loss to Chicago.
I think the Saints losing and the Colts losing was just karma for the off-season happenings.


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I think the perception I had when I came to LA was, Oh my gosh, there are so many people, it is going to be crazy. There are so many cars, and so much exhaust it is going to be overwhelming.
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This is Opal Island. Opal Island is a Free City that serves as a capital of sorts for the Republic of Sanmyr in my homebrew DnD game. Opal Island lies in the center of a large body of freshwater named Silver Lake. An ancient place of power, in ages long past it was blessed by the very deities themselves so that it would always have pleasant, near-tropical weather and that its fields would always produce bountiful crops, 10 times that of a comparable sized lot of land. Opalialgos, as it is known in the old tongue, has boomed over the last century growing from a small monastic agrarian settlement to the bustling cosmopolitan metropolis of well over 60,000 permanent citizens. In the summer months this population swells beyond counting as thousands come to see the Regal Games hosted in the the Arena.
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Then being cleared to go back to work in March of 2012, I found a job and started April 30th. ( the rest of what I tell you here takes place over a 4 month period) The first 2 weeks of work went pretty well considering I was out of shape and went from being disabled to working overtime at a physical shipping and receiving job, then I started noticing hip and groin pain when getting up after resting for a moment, this pain soon went away after making a few strides (walking) and things seemed ok, I figured it was just my body adjusting to the work, during the next couple weeks the hip pain gradually kept getting worse to the point that it just wouldn't go away anymore after getting up and moving around, the pain was there all the time during movement but it much better at rest while sitting or lying down. At this point I was taking Aleve and lots of it with no relief from the pain and was now walking with a pretty noticeable limp. The pain got to the point that I had to see a doctor so I went to the local clinic on June 4th where they did X-Rays of my hips, and they told me everything looked good and wrote it off as Bursitis, and sent me back to work, and then on June 6th - only a day and a half later - I finally couldn't take it anymore and had to quit my new job, which I was only about 5 weeks into, I felt awful but what do you do? After three more doctor visits where they tried treatments of high dose Naproxen, which failed and then a treatment of Prednisone which also failed, I finally got to see an orthopedist on August 13th which at that time he pulled up the original X-Rays that were taken back on June 4th here at my local clinic and reviewed them and said "I don't know who read these X-Rays but" and then proceeded to show my wife and I where he detected AVN ( Avascular Necrosis / Osteonecrosis ) of both hips and immediately scheduled an MRI for the following day. Then later I returned for the follow up appointment with the orthopedist for the MRI results, the doctor found that both my hips are now past treatment that could reverse or stop the AVN and suggested the only fix at this point would be THR (total hip replacement) for both hips. The pain is severe in my right hip and I'm just starting to feel discomfort in the left hip, some days are better and some are very difficult I get pain in the hip, groin, buttocks, thigh, knee and sometimes into the calf, even sitting, standing and sleeping can be difficult at times, getting dressed can be joke and I walk mostly with cane and if I go to a store I use the electric carts there. The Orthopedist has set me up with an appointment on September 5th for Cortisone shots through fluoroscopy into both hips to ease my pain and we will continue these injections as needed, for as long as possible since the head of the femur has not yet collapsed and if the pain can be controlled he would like to hold out for 1 year or even more if possible, although he don't think it will go that long.
My AVN is most likely due to having Pancreatitis, Chemotherapy, and extended doses of Dexamethasone which i received during complications with Leukemia. I hope the cortisone injections work as it will be a long painful wait for new hips if they don't. I didn't write this to seek help from others although any input would be welcome, but more to inform others of my situation and share some knowledge of my experience thus far with AVN. Thanks, Jim
Good luck.
I just had 2 TKR done in late June 2012, After all the information I received ,the hip replacements are alittle easier than the knees. You have had other complacations that would make you think twice on having your hips fixed. Just remember how your hips feel now and having them done and having all that pain fixed will be such a relief. Yes you will have pain no doubt...but it will be a healing pain that you feel ...Try the shots..see if you get any relief..then make your decision.Sit and talk with the Dr.and ask him what ever you want and make sure you understand it all. Remember you want to fix the pain and get your life back.Good luck with your shots and any thing else you plan on doing!
I had pain meds in the hospital right after the surgery, but I do not like the drowsiness they caused so I requested Tylenol. And that is all I took for the pain. There was so little pain to begin with, I was amazed. I am a big fan of my surgeon who, after the surgery when I told him he did a great job, he said "I've got a great team". He didn't take the kudos for himself. He's special, no doubt about it.
My point here is the hip surgery is definitely major surgery, but the latest procedures are so much quicker, easier and so much more tolerable. I am still amazed. And my family and close friends are also amazed at the difference this time around.
You will do fine, I have complete faith in that. And to be pain free is WONDERFUL. I really had forgotten what that felt like! Good luck, and have faith in your surgeon. All will go well with you, I'm quite sure of that. Keep us posted, OK?
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The course is ready.
"It's been a busy week, but a lot of people put a lot of work in," Tom Rutledge said. "It's going to be really neat.
"The course is in great shape. It made it through the rains, and it looks like the weather is going to cooperate. You won't recognize it with all the banners up and things out there. It's really quite exciting."
Rutledge and Patty Vavra, the cross country coaches at Missouri Southern, report their squads also are ready for today's NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships. Starting times are 10:30 a.m. for the men's 10K and 11:30 for the women's 6K.
"The workouts have been going good," Rutledge said. "We have four strong guys, and my fifth and sixth guys have to get up and do their job and run well. If they do, we'll do well. Everyone is as healthy as they can get."
The Lions finished second behind Augustana in the Central Region two weeks ago, also on the MSSU course. Eric Schott placed fifth overall to lead the Lions, and Jacob Benton and Adrian Todd were 13th and 19th overall. Also running today for the Lions will be Andrew Webster, Colton Wooldridge, Ryan Jackson and Nick Niggemann, who was a member of the Lions' last team to run in nationals when they were 11th in 2009.
"This is the time of year when you taper back and give them every opportunity to have fresh legs," Vavra said. "All the base work has been laid throughout the season.
"We do have athletes with national experience. Marlee Tegenkamp I believe is our first athlete from either gender to qualify for the national meet all four years. She has a wealth of experience from being in the 'big dance.'
"Kaitlyn Belisle and Cassy Kendrick have experience in national championships they won at Cowley County. They've run at a high level as well. Any time you've been put in that setting, it gives you more confidence and more of an idea what to expect, and hopefully that spills over to the rest of the group."
The MSSU women were fourth in the region behind defending national champion Augustana, Winona State and Mary (N.D.). Rachel Schrader was the Lions' top finisher in 11th place, followed by Tegenkamp in 18th and Belisle in 21st. Lauren Baehr, Adelene Mengwasser, Kendrick and Jet Hovis complete the Lions' entries.
This is the third time the cross country nationals have come to the Missouri Southern course.
The Lions did not qualify a team for the 1999 event, dominated by the Western State men and Adams State women.
Five years ago the Lions finished 12th in the men's division and 13th in the women's race. Dustin Dixon was 23rd overall and Isaac Garcia 35th to lead the MSSU men, and Kimi Shank took 22nd in the women's race. Abilene Christian men and Adams State women won team championships.
"Place in the top eight, that's always one of our goals," Rutledge said. "Win conference, top three in regional, top eight in nationals. Top eight is like the golden number … it gives you an extra team in next year's regional.
"These are the best teams in the country. It's great to be a part of it. It's great to have it in Joplin on our home course. There will be a lot of people there. I told the guys to stay relaxed, it's your course and do the best you can. I expect their best race. If we do that, we'll do OK."
"Getting to the national championships is great and wonderful," Vavra said, "and being on our course allows some advantages. We can stay within our routine. We haven't had to incur the difficulty of travel. Hopefully we have some great fan support from our local community and our university community.
"We'd like to finish the season with our best race, both individually and as a team. We want to represent Missouri Southern and Joplin in a positive light."
The Lion men are making their 11th national appearance in 14 years. They placed sixth in 2000 in Chino, Calif., and seventh two years later in Ashland, Ohio.
Missouri Southern's women have made the national meet for the fifth time in six years, spiced by a third-place finish in 2009 in Evansville, Ind. Tegenkamp was the No. 5 runner on that team.


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Sawyer Haney scored his varsity high of 18 points to lead Cooperstown's boys to a 54-39 Center State Conference basketball victory over visiting Westmoreland on Monday.
"He just went to the basket really well, and he got some steals in the open floor for layups," Redskins coach Dave Bertram said of Haney. "He also guarded their best player (John Gerace) and he did an excellent job. (Gerace) had been getting about 15 a game and he only had three."
Twelve of Haney's points came in the first half as Cooperstown built a 32-19 lead.
When the teams met in late December, Ethan Bliss scored his season high of 34 points and made nine three-pointers in a Redskins blowout. This time, Westmoreland opened in a box-and-one on Bliss, who finished with 13 points and three threes.
"Jordan Manikas stepped up and Jack Donnelly did a nice job coming off the bench," Bertram said. "You have to have that (balance), especially when they're going to key on one guy. If not, you'll lose. Collectively, we played really well."
Donnelly and Manikas scored nine and seven points, respectively, for Cooperstown (6-5, 4-3), which will play Cobleskill-Richmondville in the consolation of the Dick White Tournament at 6 p.m. Saturday at Cooperstown.
Tyler Taverne had 15 points to lead Westmoreland.
Mohawk 70, Edmeston 39
Freshman Clayton Lyon scored his varsity high of 10 points, but visiting Cooperstown was no match for Mohawk in the championship game of the Ray Clement Tournament.
The tournament started two weeks ago at Morris. Snow forced the postponement of the championship game, so Edmeston and Mohawk agreed to play the final at Mohawk.
"They're big, quick and good," Edmeston coach Darren Belden said. "We were just a step behind and in foul trouble."
Carson Murphy and Kainan McCarthy scored 26 and 19 points, respectively, to lead Mohawk. Both players are around 6-foot-4 and each scored 10 points in the opening quarter as Mohawk took a 29-10 lead.
Murphy had 18 by halftime as Mohawk's lead grew to 46-17.
Brandon Fallon contributed eight points for the Panthers (3-8), who will travel to Gilbertsville-Mount Upton on Wednesday.


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The sunflower yellow and purple color scheme and huge tilted mirrors that allow patrons to glimpse ...
"Excellent cuisine in an intimate setting. Extensive list of traditional Italian items, also featur...
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Casual and upbeat atmosphere with sandwiches, salads, and classic Italian specialties.
(American, Eclectic, Salads, Burgers)
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A recently completed renovation has brought the Bath City Bistro back to its original turn-of-the-ce...
From burgers and pizza on the spacious lakefront patio to filet mignon in the dining room, from a c...
"The Belleville Grille is Wayne County's premiere lakefront restaurant located at 146 High Street in...
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"An upscale, rustic setting in a magnificent turn-of-the-century hunting lodge a lá Ralph Lauren. T...
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Authentic Japanese food including sushi. 170 seatings in four different atmospheres including tata...
After a long run as an upscale eatery, Brian Polcyn has reinvented the Milford space as a Mexican re...
$1 pints served 11 a.m.-7 p.m., seven days a week. Menu features everything from appetizers, sandwic...
A full-service bar and restaurant with over 100 bottled and draught beers with 16 on tap. Features a...
"The Clansman Pub offers a casual dining atmosphere with a cedar and stone interior. It is located o...
"Best known for their fresh, high quality coffee, Coffee Studio features a highly trained staff that...
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"A Wolverine's favorite pizza. A true Italian dining experience where everything is made from scratc...
The Country Epicure restaurant and lounge features a snappy, casual atmosphere in a French country d...
Prime rib and lots of homemade entrees, plus a large vegetarian selection.
One of the most popular U of M sports bars, especially as far as the athletes are concerned. Built i...
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National Sports Media Turn to Prof. McCann for Insight
March 30, 2011
The national media are increasingly turning to Professor Michael McCann for his insight into major sports issues, including the perjury trial of home run king Barry Bonds, the prospect of big-time college athletes getting paid, and the NFL's legal challenges. On one recent day, March 30, McCann spoke with The New York Times, USA Today, FRONTLINE and Sports Illustrated/CNN.
New York Times: Players Detail Dealings With Bonds's Trainer
USA Today: NCAA president: Time to discuss players getting sliver of revenue pie
FRONTLINE: Money & March Madness
Sports Illustrated/CNN Video: New Lawsuit Causes More Trouble for NFL
McCann, one of the nation's foremost experts on sports law, is director of the VLS Sports Law Institute. He also is a legal analyst for Sports Illustrated and a columnist for SI/CNN.com.


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Obviously Im a huge fan of Highlander, both the movies (first and 4th only) and especially of the series. I always thought Adrian Paul, who played Duncan MacLeod, would make a good one. He kinda resembles Sean Connery, has the English accent and is a pretty good actor.
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Nobody has replaced Sean Connery yet....well, that's because he can't be replaced. He is James Bond. :D
Nicole Kidman. I wouldn't put it past Hollywood...
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YES I agree with your statement SEAN IS THE BEST NO WHIPPY BONDS PLEASEOriginally Posted by Demiurge
This fellow kinda reminds me of David Mcallum (sp) co-star of the Man from U.N.C.L.E., well I guess we will just have to see.
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That's a great idea!! A female Bond....just imagine the love scenes with the Bond babes.... :DOriginally Posted by Toxis
Someone posted the fact that he looks like a bad guy. This would be correct, since Americans only really know him as Conner Rooney in "Road to Perdition".
Why did they choose him? "Because it's all so F-ing hysterical"
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This is a staggering figure....should've back up the $$$ truck to Pierce's mansion.The 20 official Bond films have netted nearly $4 billion in global ticket sales since "Dr. No" in 1962, of which Brosnan's four films grossed around $1.5 billion, industry figures show.
they say theres no miss moneypenny in this movie either, is this true? as i believe she is in all the novels, almost one of the main characters, there seem to be alot of changes going on in this movie
When are they finally going to put this franchise to rest?
Isn't the truly lousy last installment justification enough?
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Amen! It should have come to an end when the original director of the movies died a few yrs back.
His widow is doing a terrible job!
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When the Obama administration announced in August a plan to grant two-year deportation deferrals to young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, it sparked anger among some critics who said it was little more than a free pass.
Hopefully, those critics can rest a bit easier now. As it turns out, the most recent data provided by the Department of Homeland Security indicate far fewer undocumented immigrants have applied for the program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, than expected.


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10 Things You Didn't Know About Janet Napolitano
1. On Nov. 29, 1957, Janet Ann Napolitano was born in New York City. Napolitano grew up in Pittsburgh and Albuquerque, N.M., where she attended high school.
2. Growing up, Napolitano was a Girl Scout and is a lifetime member.
3. Napolitano loves music. She enjoys listening to opera and played the clarinet in the band at Sandia High School. As a senior, she was named the best musician in her class.
4. After high school, Napolitano followed in her father's footsteps and attended Santa Clara University, where she studied political science. In 1979, she was valedictorian of her graduating class, the first female to earn the honor in the school's history.
5. In 1984, a year after receiving her J.D. from University of Virginia, Napolitano worked at the Phoenix law firm Lewis & Roca. Napolitano worked at the firm for 10 years, making partner in 1989.
6. In a close race in 1998, Napolitano was elected Arizona's attorney general. State history was made in that election because women were elected into the top positions of governor, attorney general, state treasurer, secretary of state, and superintendent of public instruction. The women were nicknamed the "Fab Five".
7. During her first term as governor, Napolitano focused on education. She implemented a full-day kindergarten, started a literacy program, and secured funding for an increase in teacher pay. In 2005, Time named her one of the five best governors in the United States.
8. When Napolitano was first elected governor of Arizona in 2002, less than 12,000 votes separated her from her opponent, Republican Matt Salmon. Napolitano's 2006 re-election was a landslide: She received 63 percent of the vote.
9. Napolitano has been active in the National Governors Association, for which she has served on the executive committee since 2007. She has also served as vice chair and became the first woman to serve as chair.
10. Reading, whitewater rafting, and hiking are some of Napolitano's hobbies. She has hiked in Arizona's Superstition mountains and New Mexico's Sandia mountains and has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and the Himalayas.
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If you're like me, you used to think that your Intel Mac was a pretty powerful computer. With all of those super zippy cores and RAMs and caches and all that, everything does seem to go a lot faster on the newer machines. My JustLooking compiles went from nearly 4 minutes on my PowerBook G4 to about 35 seconds on my 2.33GHz laptop.
But then came all those 1080p MKV files, with their unbelievable (basically unwatchable) jerkiness, and you found yourself questioning the new religious order. Is the machine, perhaps, actually a piece of junk? Was it that hard disk upgrade you did? The new RAM you installed? Leopard? Some awful combination thereof?[Read Rest of Article]
TunnelerX is an application for Mac OS X to let you run a single SSH tunnel from your system menu bar, typically to securely re-route HTTP (web browsing) traffic to a remote proxy server. If you have ever had to run one of the following commands in a little Terminal window in the corner of your screen, then this application is for you:
ssh -N -L 8123:localhost:8123 email@example.com ssh -N -D 8123:localhost firstname.lastname@example.com
Changes for 0.9.5:
- The application is now named TunnelerX instead of Tunneler
- A few bugs have been fixed related to sleeping and waking up the computer
- New graphics and icons for the application. It's a bit less ghetto looking now.
For the 1.0 release (upcoming), I will add Growl notifications for those who wish them. The Growl website is currently down, so I can't do much yet.
Downloading[Read Rest of Article]
Tunneler is an application for Mac OS X to let you run a single SSH tunnel from your system menu bar, typically to securely re-route HTTP (web browsing) traffic to a remote proxy server. If you have ever had to run one of the following commands in a little Terminal window in the corner of your screen, then this application is for you:
ssh -N -L 8123:localhost:8123 email@example.com ssh -N -D 8123:localhost email@example.com
Downloading[Read Rest of Article]
I recently spent two weeks converting JustLooking, my Mac OS X Image Viewing program, from NSImage to CoreImage and friends. This experience was overall much easier than I expected, and I have learned a bunch of things, some of which might have been handy to have known in advance.
The good news is that it mostly lives up to the hype. The bad news is that it's not without tricks and traps of its own. Here are some notes and comments.[Read Rest of Article]
The other day, I was working on JustLooking, changing the appearance and the like of a couple of dialogs. As I ran the programs and went to show the dialogs ("panels" in the local terminology), nothing would show and I'd get an error in my XCode results window:
"Unknown class 'CustomCombo' in nib file. using 'NSObject' instead."
I spent the next half hour trying to figure out why Interface Builder didn't know about this class: it was there in the class inspector, and the ui widgets were correctly set up to use that new class, and all the hookups in the UI also seemed correct.
Well, I finally figured out: when I first developed the class, I had some errors in it, but wanted to test a few things out in my program elsewhere. So I had unchecked it in XCode, telling the IDE not to compile and link it.
Thus, when Cocoa tried to load the NIB file, it couldn't find the definition for the class, and just put in NSObject instead.
Here's to hoping that this blog entry saves somebody that 30 minutes I spent on that one.[Read Rest of Article]
So, after a month or so of active development, I'm almost ready with version 2.0 of JustLooking. I'm just waiting for some localisation help, and then I'll go ahead with the release. The first releases were quite functional, but pretty ugly, I think. A few users from the internet made some suggestions on how to improve the UI and I have completely redesigned it.
In addition to a complete update to the user interface, I have added the following new features to version 2.0:
- Saving of rotated images (JPEGs, GIFs, PNGs, BMPs, and TIFFs)
- Remote Control Support in slide show mode.
- Image displaying and resizing is muuuuucchhh faster now.
- Hold down the 'OPTION' key on startup goes to full screen slide show.
- many bug fixes in the code, including some animated GIF problems.
I will spend the next week or so fixing the last couple of bugs in the program and waiting for the last bits of localisation help to come in, and will then release it both on this server and on the BitTorrent networks.
Please feel free to send me your requests for future versions or reports of any bugs or problems you find in the program. I'm thinking the next big features will lie in image resizing and saving of images in different formats.[Read Rest of Article]
In normal times, buying a new computer is a rather fun experience. In addition to the endorphin rush caused by plonking down a huge wad of cash for such a small – but often 好看 (that's Chinese for good looking) – piece of hardware, you get to take it home and play with it and discover all the new and fun things that are different about the new toy. Even if it's still running Microsoft Windows, your new vendor has probably come up with some new set of stuff to include with the machine. Or, far more common with me, my last attempt to finally come up with the "ultimate organisation of my hard disk™" was a miserable failure, and I'm excited about trying out something new.
So, imagine my disappointment when I recently upgraded my 15" Powerbook G4 to a shiny new 15" Macbook Pro.[Read Rest of Article]
For a recent project written in Cocoa for Mac OS X, I found myself wanting to get the following set of information for a particular printer:
- A list of all available paper types
- Printable names for these paper types
- Page Sizes
- Imageable Margins for those same pages.
It turns out that there is no way to get this in Cocoa, and actually it's not all that easy to find this information in Carbon either.
So, after some research and investimigation on the Intarwebs, as well as much combing through the various PM* header files (buried so deep in a directory on my machine that I had to save the directory name somewhere so I'd be able to find them again!), I've come up with the following method to do all the above.
It returns an
NSArray. Each paper type supported by the printer gets one item in the array, which is an
NSDictionary set-up to use key/value pairs. There are the following pairs:
NSString): The system name for the paper.
NSString): The display name for the paper.
NSValue): The size of the paper in 72dpi User Space Units. Use
[NSValue -sizeValue]to get the actual value.
NSValue): The imageable bounds of the paper in 72dpi User Space Units. Use
[NSValue -rectValue]to get the actual value.
I've noticed that there are some issues with memory allocation in the following code: If I run it a few hundred thousand times, I start to see some memory leaks, which is most upsetting. Given that I can't free anything else in this code without crashing it, I worry that it might be a system leak. However, given how rarely this code is ever executed (maaaaayyybe 5-10x per process lifetime in an extremely print happy case), It's something that can be investigated later.
Here be the code, laddies:
+ (NSArray *)paperSizesAndNamesForPrinter: (NSString *)printerName
PMPrintSession printSession = NULL;
CFArrayRef printerList = NULL;
PMPrinter thisPrinter = NULL;
int numPrinters;
OSStatus err;
int i;
err = PMCreateSession(&printSession);
if (err != noErr)
[JLUnknownPrinterErrorException generate];
* Get a list of all printers.
err = PMServerCreatePrinterList(kPMServerLocal, &printerList);
if (err != noErr)
[JLUnknownPrinterErrorException generate];
* Now, loop through them until we find the printer we're looking
* for. Then we can get the properties. We throw if the printer
* isn't found.
numPrinters = CFArrayGetCount(printerList);
for (i = 0; i < numPrinters; i++)
CFStringRef thisPrinterName;
thisPrinter = (PMPrinter)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(printerList, i);
thisPrinterName = PMPrinterGetName(thisPrinter);
if ([(NSString *)thisPrinterName caseInsensitiveCompare: printerName] == NSOrderedSame)
return [NSPrinter extractInfoFromPrinter: thisPrinter];
thisPrinter = NULL;
* Clean up. Exceptions will still throw back up the stack.
if (printerList != NULL) CFRelease(printerList);
return nil;
+ (NSArray *)extractInfoFromPrinter: (PMPrinter)printerInfo
NSMutableArray *outputArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity: 10];
CFStringRef paperName = NULL, localised = NULL;
NSMutableDictionary *paperProps;
CFArrayRef paperList;
PMPaper thisPaper;
int j, numPapers;
OSStatus err;
* First, get a list of the paper sizes and create an NSArray
* for them all.
err = PMPrinterGetPaperList(printerInfo, &paperList);
if (err != noErr)
[JLUnknownPrinterErrorException generate];
numPapers = CFArrayGetCount(paperList);
for (j = 0; j < numPapers; j++)
NSValue *imageableMargins, *paperSize;
double paperHeight, paperWidth;
NSRect adjustedMargins;
PMPaperMargins margie;
thisPaper = (PMPaper)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(paperList, j);
* Get the system non-localised paper name.
PMPaperGetID(thisPaper, &paperName);
* Get the localised paper name.
err = PMPaperGetName(thisPaper, &localised);
if (err != noErr)
[JLUnknownPrinterErrorException generate];
* Finally, build up the size.
err = PMPaperGetHeight(thisPaper, &paperHeight);
if (err != noErr)
[JLUnknownPrinterErrorException generate];
err = PMPaperGetWidth(thisPaper, &paperWidth);
if (err != noErr)
[JLUnknownPrinterErrorException generate];
paperSize = [NSValue valueWithSize: NSMakeSize(paperWidth, paperHeight)];
* This gets the imageable margins for the page type, which
* is very useful.
PMPaperGetMargins(thisPaper, &margie);
adjustedMargins = NSMakeRect(margie.left, margie.top,
(paperWidth - margie.left - margie.right),
(paperHeight - margie.top - margie.bottom));
imageableMargins = [NSValue valueWithRect: adjustedMargins];
* Finally, create a dictionary with these values and then add
* them to da array.
paperProps = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity: 3];
[paperProps setValue: [NSString stringWithString: (NSString *)paperName]
forKey: PAPER_NAME];
[paperProps setValue: [NSString stringWithString: (NSString *)localised]
forKey: LOCALISED_PAPER_NAME];
[paperProps setValue: paperSize forKey: PAPER_SIZE];
[paperProps setValue: imageableMargins forKey: PAPER_IMAGEABLE_MARGINS];
[outputArray addObject: paperProps];
paperName = NULL;
localised = NULL;
if (paperName) CFRelease(paperName);
if (localised) CFRelease(localised);
return outputArray;
I actually implemented this as a category on
NSPrinter. You can do this too by simply creating the following header:
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
#define PAPER_NAME @"paper_name"
#define LOCALISED_PAPER_NAME @"localised_paper_name"
#define LOCALIZED_PAPER_NAME @"localised_paper_name"
#define PAPER_SIZE @"paper_size"
#define PAPER_IMAGEABLE_MARGINS @"printable_margins"
@interface NSPrinter (MyNSPrinterExtensions)
// returns an NSArray of NSDictionaries: see constants above.
+ (NSArray *)paperSizesAndNamesForPrinter: (NSString *)printerName;
+ (NSArray *)extractInfoFromPrinter: (PMPrinter)printerInfo;
Finally, you'd then wrap the above two functions in
@implementation NSPrinter (MyNSPrinterExtensions)
Sorry if you've got a small screen and this article scrolls horizontally. I've decided that, unlike other languages that I can easily keep to 80 columns (or even 65 for writing articles), Objective-C simply requires huge amounts of horizontal real estate.
Also, like most of my code, this uses the new Objective-C structured exception handling, which requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or greater. If you're not using it, you should be. I was slow to get into SEH when I first saw them many years back, but now I feel any language is incomplete without them.[Read Rest of Article]
I am happy to announce the immediate availability of JiaId3 0.9.1. New features in this release include:
- Fixed bugs that caused error dialogs to pop up on Intel Macs as well as some Panther systems.
- I fixed up the .dmg so that it looks a bit better when you mount and show it for the first time.
I have actually coded up a lot of FLAC support, but it is currently disabled, as FLAC files appear to have a number of wild permutations, including native FLAC format, FLAC embedded in Ogg streams, and weird FLAC/ID3 hybrids that are widely seen but not supported by any available code base.
You can download the (Universal Binary) .dmg file from:
More details about JiaId3 can be found in the following locations:
As always, any comments, questions, or bug reports should be sent to me. I'd love to hear from anybody using the program.[Read Rest of Article]
I recently started working on an image viewing program for Mac OS X using Cocoa, and one of the features I decided to add was the ability to rotate images in 90° increments. I did some searching on the internet, and found a few things:
- Some other people who were struggling with the same thing and posted some code snippets.
- Code for a rotation function that supports arbitrary rotation and scaling.
- Apple Documentation on Drawing
Neither of the first two was exactly what I wanted—the first didn't quite work, while the second was too complicated and, in order to support arbitrary rotation, created an NSImage object that was way too large.[Read Rest of Article]
I am happy to announce the immediate availability of version 0.9.0 of JiaId3. The big change in this version is support for Ogg/Vorbis (.ogg) audio files. I have also seriously cleaned up error handling and added some architecture to support more audio file formats as I learn about them.
JiaId3 0.9.0 can be downloaded from:
The source code can be downloaded from:
About JiaId3
JiaId3 0.9.0 is an information tag editor for your audio files. It currently supports editing the ID3 information associated with MP3 files, as well as the tag information associated with Ogg/Vorbis .ogg files. I will add support for more file formats as I approach version 1.0.0. I first sat down to write this application when I found a directory on my hard disk with a bunch of "junk" MP3 files whose tag information was all messed up. Instead of throwing them all away, or having them mess up my audio libraries, I set about to write an application to let me fix them.[Read Rest of Article]
JiaId3 version 0.8.0 can be downloaded from:
http://chipmunkninja.com/download/JiaId3-0.8.0.dmg[Read Rest of Article]
Last night, after a nice weekend of varying activities (yoga, studying, yoga, sleeping), the plan was to lie in bed and read some Apple Developer Connection documentation for a while and generally learn more about some stuff I've been working on lately.
So, it was with some dismay that I sat down with Samantha's PowerBook G4, clicked on Safari and got … nothing. The icon bounced twice and then stopped. System logs showed nothing, and the application appeared to be all fine in its folder in /Applications.
Uuuuuh. Now what? Oh yes, the System Console, in /Application/Utilities. It gave me the following very helpful message:
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2006-08-20 22:32:29.825 Safari[249] Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting
Today I had a glimpse into the future of Apple's Mac OS X, and I was more than a little frightened.
When I think about why I use my Powerbook so much and shun Windows whenever possible, the reasons are not what most people might think. I don't care about the cost (okay, 200$ USD for Windows is a bit much, but I happily paid 130$ USD for the 10.4 "Tiger" Upgrade to OS X on our 12" Powerbook), and while I'm more than a little alarmed by the security problems endemic in Windows, I can avoid many of them by using Firefox, and Microsoft is slowly learning how to do the automated patching game.[Read Rest of Article]
In March of this year, having largely finished writing my first book on web application programming with PHP and MySQL, I realised it was time to find another contract. I hadn't worked in nearly a year, and the reserves were getting a little bit lower than I would normally like.
Around then, I started getting a number of emails and phone calls from people interested in having me come work for them for a while. Most of the jobs were to write some .NET applications or tools, or otherwise C/C++ things related to OLE2/COM that I did all the time when I worked for Microsoft in the 1990s. The money for these contracts is usually good, and I was relieved to learn I wasn't going to be smashing open the piggy bank for extra funds.[Read Rest of Article]
Many Mac OS X users seem to be having problems getting AMP (Apache, MySQL, and PHP) working properly on various versions of the operating system. In this article, I will describe the process by which I did this on my Powerbook which started out running Panther (10.3) and then Tiger (10.4) (the instructions are the same for both OSes).[Read Rest of Article]