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A federal judge's order denying bail for Sarcoxie School Board member John Lewis makes mention of evidence that Lewis was in alleged possession of nude photographs of local youths.
U.S. Magistrate Judge David Rush entered an order Tuesday in federal court in Springfield that Lewis continue being held without bail.
The 67-year-old former associate professor at Missouri Southern State University has been in federal custody since his arrest Feb. 21 following a long investigation by the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force. He is being held at the Christian County Jail in Ozark.
An initial complaint and supporting affidavit filed in federal court alleged that child pornography was found on computers taken from Lewis' home by investigators in October. A federal grand jury indicted him Feb. 28 on one count of receiving child pornography and a second count of possessing such material.
In denying the defendant bail, the judge noted a potential danger Lewis poses to the community inherent in allegations that he exposed himself to two 16-year-old boys who worked on his farm and that he possessed photographs of "unclothed young men from the area, who may not have been above the age of consent at the time the photos were taken."
The judge further noted a flight risk the defendant poses since he "is a seasoned world traveler, who has visited approximately 30 foreign countries." Although Lewis currently holds a passport, he told an officer of the court that it had been stolen and then told the judge that it had been misplaced, the judge's order notes.
"More tellingly, the defendant recently applied for a new passport," the judge wrote.
The judge also cited the "substantial financial resources" of Lewis, with an estate worth about $2.2 million, a lack of family ties to the area since he was an only child and his parents are deceased, and the fact that he is retired and not currently employed.
The affidavit filed in support of the initial complaint had contained the uncharged allegation that Lewis exposed himself to two Sarcoxie High School students. The students told investigators the incident took place in late spring of last year while they were working for him on his farm.
The students disclosed that after swimming with them in a creek, Lewis stood up in an all-terrain vehicle and pulled down his underwear, exposing himself near a student seated in front of him. They told investigators that he had talked with them about masturbation and would touch them on their buttocks as they were working.
The affidavit stated that Lewis told investigators that he had downloaded images of children from a nudist website to a desktop computer. But the document made no mention of nude photos of "young men from the area."
The judge's phrasing of the order suggests that the ages of the subjects of the photos may be an investigative matter.


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President Obama took his fight for Wall Street reform to lower Manhattan on Thursday, chiding the financial industry but also asking for its titans to join his cause.
"Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street," Obama said, outlining a series of reforms that he argued were crucial to ending future bailouts. In the wake of Obama's speech at Cooper Union college, pundits remain skeptical that the president and Congress will truly deliver on the promise of no more bailouts, ever. But many agreed that by investing in Wall Street reform, Obama is on the cusp of reaping political dividends:


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Director Kevin Smith has brought a firestorm down on Southwest Airlines after being ejected from a flight for being too fat, demonstrating the power consumers wield with social media.
Southwest got some practice implementing crisis control in the Internet age after Kevin Smith sent out a flurry of Twitter messages to his legion of followers. Fans were furious, the media picked up on the story and the rest was history.
Southwest Airlines has apologized in blogs and defended itself in the face of furious Tweets. The fracas brought so much attention, it crashed their feedback page.
So many public relations people diligently make a daily practice of blogging, Tweeting and Facebooking, mostly to an audience of no one. Only when things fall apart is the importance of having those established networks made clear.
But the true test is whether Southwest's spin control was able to smooth the feathers it ruffled. Are you satisfied by Southwest's reaction? Do you think Smith was making a big deal over nothing? Do you think Smith got the reaction he did only because he's famous, or do you think an average consumer could have made the same impact?
Still, Smith doesn't think Southwest handled things very well. But in a situation like this, who gets the last word?
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State health officials warned Thursday about a "second wave" of fungal infections in Minnesota from contaminated steroid medication made at the New England Compounding Center (NECC), a pharmacy in Framingham, MA.
The outbreak has hit 13 people in Minnesota, the latest a woman in her 20s who the Minnesota Department of Health said Thursday contracted a bone infection. Eleven of the Minnesota victims had a different kind of infection: fungal meningitis.
Nationwide, the outbreak has killed 32 people (none in Minnesota) and infected nearly 500, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Six clinics in Minnesota used the medication:
- Medical Advanced Pain Specialists (MAPS) in Edina, Fridley, Shakopee and Maple Grove
- Minnesota Surgery Center (MSC) in Edina and Maple Grove
Here is the announcement from the MDH:
Case # Gender Age Group Infection Type Outcome 1 Female 40s Meningitis Survived 2 Female 40s Meningitis Survived 3 Female 40s Meningitis Survived 4 Female 70s Meningitis Survived 5 Female 20s Meningitis Survived 6 Male 50s Meningitis Survived 7 Female 40s Meningitis Survived 8 Male 60s Meningitis Survived 9 Male 50s Bone Survived 10 Female 60s Meningitis Survived 11 Female 70s Meningitis Survived 12 Male 50s Meningitis Survived 13 Female 20s Osteomyelitis Survived
Health officials announce 13th case of fungal infection and stress need for continued vigilance
States now seeing a second wave of cases with clinical manifestations other than meningitis
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has identified a 13th patient with an infection following treatment with contaminated injectable steroids from the New England Compounding Center (NECC) of Massachusetts. The patient is a female in her 20s and not currently hospitalized. Her infection is consistent with osteomyelitis, an infection that occurs inside the bone. One previous Minnesota case also had an infection of the bone.
Infected fluid collections, or abscesses, occurring at the site where patients received the contaminated injection have also been identified in a number of cases in other states.
Health department officials are continuing to encourage patients who received contaminated steroid and have persistent symptoms to see their health care providers. Health officials are also advising health care providers who are seeing patients who received the contaminated NECC product to have a low threshold for further evaluation of patients that may include imaging to look for infections in the bone or abscesses.
The U.S. Federal Drug Administration is investigating other products from the pharmacy. More than 100 facilities in Minnesota received shipments from the NECC including clinics in the cities of: Minneapolis, St. Paul, Burnsville, Eagan, Northfield, Shakopee, Woodbury, Inver Grove Heights, Stillwater, Maple Grove, Apple Valley, Edina, Plymouth, Fridley. However, officials have not linked these other medications to the outbreak. All 13 of Minnesota's victims were patients at the original six clinics listed above.
Federal officials and NECC co-owner Barry Cadden are appearing before Congressional committees this week; Cadden invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and did not respond to questions.


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Welcome to Symphony Notes!, the official blog of the Lexington Symphony!
We kicked the season off to a great start on Sept. 17, and now we're launching into the blogosphere. Posting weekly editions of what's happening at the Symphony, we'll be giving you an inside look at what's going on behind the scenes, including some up close and personal chats with our musicians, music director, guest artists, board members, and other members of our community.
So, bookmark Symphony Notes and check back regularly for the latest Symphony news. Here's a look at what's going on at the Lexington Symphony now!
After a successful opening night concert, we're gearing up for our November 5 concert. We're pleased to welcome back guest conductor Bruce Hangen, music director of the Orchestra of Indian Hill and director of Orchestral Activities at the Boston Conservatory. Maestro Hangen brings experience and passion to his role as conductor, and the symphony musicians are excited to be working with him.
The program begins with The Birds by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. This audience favorite is in five movements, each inspired by a particular birdsong and the music of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century composers. Each movement is named after a particular bird – the dove, the hen, the nightingale, and the cuckoo.
Not ready for fall just yet? In addition to music inspired by birdsong, the symphony also presents Les Nuits d'Été (Summer Nights), a setting of six French love poems by Hector Berlioz. Lexington Symphony's performance will feature countertenor Matthew Truss. Praised for his "mellifluous voice and ebullient manner," Mr. Truss is making his mark as a young countertenor whose "precocious" voice "boasts both beauty and volume." Mr. Truss received his Bachelor of Music degree from Boston Conservatory with an emphasis in opera performance. Stay tuned for an up close and personal discussion with Mr. Truss next week here at SymphonyNotes!
Finally, in a turn toward winter landscapes, Maestro Hangen will be leading the orchestra in Sibelius' breathtaking Symphony No. 1. First performed in 1899 by the young Jean Sibelius, this symphony was influenced by Tchaikovsky and Borodin, but is clearly the work of a young composer who had already developed a distinct musical voice. Sibelius went on to be a prolific and popular symphonic composer – writing a total of seven stunning symphonies. He was inspired by the bleak landscape of Finland, and said of one of his symphonies that it reminded him of "the scent of the first snow."
For information about the Nov. 5 performance, or to buy tickets, go here. Have questions? Email Lexington Symphony General Manager Vanessa Gardner at email@example.com.


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The Current Figure, Axes, and Object
Searching for Objects by Property Values — findobj
MATLAB® assigns a handle to every graphics object it creates. All object creation functions optionally return the handle of the created object. If you want to access the object's properties (e.g., from a function or script), assign its handle to a variable at creation time to avoid searching for it later.
You can always obtain the handle of an existing object with the findobj function or by listing its parent's Children property.
See Searching for Objects by Property Values — findobj for examples.
See Protecting Figures and Axes for more information on how object handles are hidden from normal access.
The root object's handle is always zero. The handle of a figure is either:
An integer that, by default, is displayed in the window title bar
A floating point number requiring full MATLAB internal precision
The figure IntegerHandle property controls the type of handle the figure receives.
All other graphics object handles are floating-point numbers. You must maintain the full precision of these numbers when you reference handles. Rather than attempting to read handles off the screen and retype them, you must store the value in a variable and pass that variable whenever MATLAB requires a handle.
An important concept in the Handle Graphics® technology is that of being current. The current figure is the window designated to receive graphics output. Likewise, the current axes is the target for commands that create axes children. The current object is the last graphics object created or clicked on by the mouse.
MATLAB stores the three handles corresponding to these objects in the ancestor's property list.
These properties enable you to obtain the handles of these key objects:
get(0,'CurrentFigure'); get(gcf,'CurrentAxes'); get(gcf,'CurrentObject');
The following commands are shorthand notation for the get statements:
gcf — Returns the value of the root CurrentFigure property.
gca — Returns the value of the current figure's CurrentAxes property.
gco — Returns the value of the current figure's CurrentObject property.
Use these commands as input arguments to functions that require object handles. For example, you can click a line object and then use gco to specify the handle to the set command,
or list the values of all current axes properties with
You can get the handles of all the graphic objects in the current axes (except those with hidden handles),
h = get(gca,'Children');
and then determine the types of the objects.
get(h,'type') ans = 'text' 'patch' 'surface' 'line'
While gcf and gca provide a simple means of obtaining the current figure and axes handles, they are less useful in code files. This is particularly true if your code is part of an application layered on MATLAB where you do not necessarily have knowledge of user actions that can change these values.
See Controlling Graphics Output for information on how to prevent users from accessing the handles of graphics objects that you want to protect.
The findobj function provides a means to traverse the object hierarchy quickly and obtain the handles of objects having specific property values. To serve as a means of identification, all graphics objects have a Tag property that you can set to any string. You can then search for the specific property/value pair.
For example, suppose you create a checkbox that is sometimes inactivated in the GUI. By assigning a unique value for the Tag property, you can always find that particular instance and set its properties:
uicontrol('Style','checkbox','Tag','save option')
Use findobj to locate the object whose Tag property is set to 'save option' and disable it:
set(findobj('Tag','save option'),'Enable','off')
If you do not specify a starting object, findobj searches from the root object, finding all occurrences of the property name/property value combination that you specify.
This plot of the sine function contains text objects labeling particular values of the function.
Suppose you want to move the text string labeling the value sin(t) = .707 from its current location at [pi/4,sin(pi/4)], to the point [3*pi/4,sin(3*pi/4)] where the function has the same value (shown grayed out in the picture). To do this, determine the handle of the text object labeling that point and change its Position property.
To use findobj, pick a property value that uniquely identifies the object. This example uses the text String property:
text_handle = findobj('String','\leftarrowsin(t) = .707');
Move the object to the new position, defining the text Position in axes units.
findobj lets you restrict the search by specifying a starting point in the hierarchy, instead of beginning with the root object. This results in faster searches if there are many objects in the hierarchy. In the previous example, you know the text object of interest is in the current axes, so you can type
text_handle = findobj(gca,'String','\leftarrowsin(t) = .707');
Suppose you create the following graph and want to modify certain properties of the objects created:
x = 0:30; y = [1.5*cos(x);4*exp(-.1*x).*cos(x);exp(.05*x).*cos(x)]'; h = stem(x,y); set(h(1),'Color','black',... 'Marker','o',... 'Tag','Decaying Exponential') set(h(2),'Color','black',... 'Marker','square',... 'Tag','Growing Exponential') set(h(3),'Color','black',... 'Marker','*',... 'Tag','Steady State')
The following instance diagram shows the graphics objects created in the graph. Each of the three sets of data produces a stemseries object, which in turn uses two lines to create the stem graph: one line for the stems and one for the markers that terminate each stem. There is also a line used for the baseline.
Controlling the Depth of the Search. Make the baseline into a dashed line. Because it is parented directly to the axes, use the following statement to access only this line:
By setting -depth to 1, findobj searches only the axes and its immediate children. As you can see from the above instance diagram, the baseline is the only line object parented directly to the axes.
Limiting the Search with Regular Expressions. Increase the value of the MarkerSize property by 2 points on all stemseries objects that do not have their property Tag set to 'Steady State':
h = findobj('-regexp','Tag','^(?!Steady State$).'); set(h,{'MarkerSize'},num2cell(cell2mat(get(h,'MarkerSize'))+2))
See the regexp function for more information on using regular expressions in MATLAB.
Using Logical Operators. Change the color of the stem lines, but not the stem markers. To do this, you must access the line objects contained by the three stemseries objects. You cannot just set the stemseries Color property because it sets both the line and marker colors.
Search for objects that are of Type line, have Marker set to none, and do not have LineStyle set to '--', which is the baseline:
h = findobj('type','line','Marker','none',... '-and','-not','LineStyle','--'); set(h,'Color','red')
The following picture shows the graph after making these changes.
You can copy objects from one parent to another using the copyobj function. The new object differs from the original object only in the value of its Parent property and its handle; otherwise it is a clone of the original. You can copy a number of objects to a new parent, or one object to a number of new parents, as long as the result maintains the correct parent/child relationship.
When you copy an object having child objects, MATLAB copies all children as well.
Suppose you are plotting a variety of data and want to label the point having the x- and y-coordinates determined by 5π÷4,sin(5π÷4) in each plot. The text function allows you to specify the location of the label in the coordinates defined by the x- and y-axis limits, simplifying the process of locating the text:
text('String','\{5\pi\div4, sin(5\pi\div4)\}\rightarrow',... 'Position',[5*pi/4,sin(5*pi/4),0],... 'HorizontalAlignment','right')
In this statement, the text function:
Labels the data point with the string {5π÷4,sin(5π÷4)} using TeX commands to draw a right-facing arrow and mathematical symbols.
Specifies the Position in terms of the data being plotted.
Places the data point to the right of the text string by changing the HorizontalAlignment to right (the default is left).
To label the same point with the same string in another plot, copy the text using copyobj. Because the last statement did not save the handle to the text object, you can find it using findobj and the 'String' property:
text_handle = findobj('String',... '\{5\pi\div4,sin(5\pi\div4)\}\rightarrow');
After creating the next plot, add the label by copying it from the first plot:
This particular example takes advantage of the fact that text objects define their location in the axes data space. Therefore, the text Position property did not need to change from one plot to another.
You can remove a graphics object with the delete command, using the object's handle as an argument. For example, you can delete the current axes (and all of its descendants) with the statement
You can use findobj to get the handle of a particular object you want to delete. For example, to find the handle of the dotted line in this multiline plot,
use findobj to locate the object whose LineStyle property is ':'
line_handle = findobj('LineStyle',':');
Use this handle with the delete command:
You can combine these two statements, substituting the findobj statement for the handle:


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INDIANAPOLIS — Democratic lawmakers say more should be done to prepare Indiana for implementation of the federal health care overhaul.
New Republican Gov. Mike Pence has ruled out building a state-run health insurance exchange, arguing that the state program's estimated $50 million cost isn't worth the limited autonomy granted in return.
Democratic Sen. Karen Tallian of Portage said Wednesday a bill she's filed would put a state exchange in place and give Indiana more control over it. The exchanges will allow individuals and small businesses to compare and buy private insurance policies.
Republican House Ways and Means Committee chairman Tim Brown says the state should be cautious in starting its own exchange and can learn from the "growing pains" others states will have in the program's first years.


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By John Finnerty
Meadville Tribune
Gov. Tom Corbett announced Monday that he would like to skirt Medicaid expansion by funneling federal dollars to offer health insurance to 520,000 low-income Pennsylvanians through exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act.
Corbett hinged his plan on a handful of controversial caveats. These include:
n Benefits for the 2 million Pennsylvanians already enrolled in Medicaid will be tinkered with to save money to offset any increased costs;
n People enrolled in the new plan will have to pay nominal premiums;
n Unemployed people added to the new insurance plan must meet job search requirements; and
n Children enrolled in CHIP, Pennsylvania's popular children's insurance program, must be allowed to remain in it.
"If, and only if, the federal government approves Pennsylvania's plan to reform our existing Medicaid program," Corbett said, the state would agree to use the federal dollars to provide insurance in the exchanges to people with income up to 133 percent of the poverty level.
"I see no reason (the federal government) shouldn't go along with it," Corbett said. "It's common sense."
The federal government has already notified Pennsylvania that the children's insurance program must be folded into Medicaid. And no other state has requested the right to demand that people look for jobs to get health insurance.
Corbett's plan irked both opponents of Medicaid expansion and proponents who feel that the governor is creating unneeded barriers.
Advocates described the governor's proposal as a "big step in the right direction."
But Corbett is still "putting ideology above common sense" by insisting on things like the work-search requirement and the need to shift people into the exchanges rather than Medicaid, said Neil Bisno, president of the SEIU Health Care of PA, a union representing health care workers.
"The quickest, simplest and best way is to expand Medicaid," Bisno said.
On the other side of the issue, Republicans who oppose Medicaid expansion said no matter where the government-funded health insurance is housed, it's still a benefit that is contributing to runaway government spending.
"This proposal is almost as bad as doing it exactly how (President Barack) Obama wants us to do it," said Republican state Rep. Brad Roae of Crawford County.
Roae was one of 30 GOP lawmakers who said in June that they would vote against any 2013-14 budget that included Medicaid expansion.
"The national debt was about $10 trillion when Obama was elected and today it's almost $17 trillion. Why would we cosign a loan for the federal government?" Roae said. "That is essentially what we would be doing because we know they really cannot afford to pay, so we will end up paying."
Other Republicans look at it as a more palatable alternative to full Medicaid expansion.
"Today's announcement by Gov. Corbett is a huge step toward securing that mutual objective, and I applaud him for taking this step," said Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Montgomery County. "It would be foolish to leave billions of Pennsylvania tax dollars in Washington, D.C., when that money can be used to expand health care coverage and access to the residents of our state in a fiscally responsible way."
"I'd rather go this way," said Rep. Dick Stevenson, R-Mercer County.
Stevenson said he shares the concern that the federal government will not meet its obligations to fully-fund the expansion of health care.
"I'm apprehensive about going down that road," he said. "Once you start a program, it's difficult or impossible to stop it."
Corbett said he does not believe he needs the approval of the Legislature to move forward with this plan. The state Senate voted in favor of Medicaid expansion. The House stripped Medicaid expansion language from the welfare code.
Stevenson said that if Corbett didn't come up with an alternative, he believes Medicaid expansion would eventually pass in the House, as well.
Finnerty works in the Harrisburg Bureau for Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. He can be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @cnhipa.


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Married soccer dad looking for a mom
He's a "normal married white soccer dad type of guy" from Natick. But he'd like to find a married girl in the same situation, which is a "little bored and curious with the current home life. Would be fun to connect and see where things go." Again, this is in the "platonic" section. Note: another "married soccer dad" from Natick posted days before. The only difference? He was 40. Either the married soccer dad just had a birthday, or lied about his age.
Did you need a ride to Jersey?
Someone in Natick is taking off to Parsippany, NJ, on Friday, Feb. 15, after 5 p.m. He'd like to share the ride with someone. He'll be driving back to town on Feb. 18.
Looking to unload a frontloader
Someone Northborough is giving away a Gallery front loading washing machine for free. It "works through to the spin cycle, then the spin makes a clunking noise - like a bearing is bad. It is on the road for pickup."
The home "became too small"; now these cats need homes
A person in Milford needs to find homes for five adult cats, all of which are roughly five years old. They are well mannered cats, but this person's living situation is "becoming far too small for them and it is only fair to send them to a better home." We have to wonder if the person thought that the home would grow after adopting the cats, or if it is shocking that the home is too small for five cats now.
If it doesn't scare the crap out of you
There is a pretty creepy looking (depending on the movies you've seen) Pierrot doll or the large variety for sale for only $5. The doll is from Germany, but now resides in Shrewsbury.
Stop! No need to buy those centerpieces for the bat mitzvah
Someone in Northborough is giving away a plethora of centerpieces for bar/bat mitzvahs that include themes such as girls soccer, boys hocky, guitars, and boys soccer. They're in perfect condition and include the bases.
Maybe you thought he wasn't interested. He is, silly!
And this clear message on Craigslist ought to just seal the deal. Recently at the Christmas Tree Shoppes in Framingham, a guy noticed you. You being blonde and in your late 40s or early 50s. He's not sure if you noticed him, and says he tried to make eye contact but "maybe you thought I wasn't interested." Well, clearly he is!
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August 1, 2014
PINE KNOT, Ky. (WYMT) - Police continue to search for a man who robbed a McCreary County convenience store.
It happened at the Town Mini Mart on Kentucky 2792 in the Pine Knot community.
Troopers say a man armed with a knife entered the store, demanded money, and then ran away.
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This weekend's gun buy-back program took in 330 illegal guns, including nearly 200 handguns, 15 assault rifles and seven sawed-off shotguns.
There were even two Tec-9's collected, semi-automatic handguns.
Nassau County's program was held at the Grace Cathedral in Uniondale where residents could bring in the weapons with no questions asked. The participants were paid on a sliding scale for their weapons, so long as they were operational:
The payment scale, which did not allow for licensed guns, long guns and replicas, was:
- $100 for a rifle
- $200 for a handgun
- $400 for an assault rifle.
"Gun Violence has ended far too may promising young lives, torn close-knit families apart and held once thriving neighborhoods hostage," said Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice.
County Executive Edward P. Mangano said community support is critical to the program's ongoing success, which has taken more than 2,600 guns off the streets in the past dozen times the buy-back was offered.
In an interview, Mangano said many of the weapons were brought in by relatives of the owners. "The program works so well because we work with the local clergy and people feel like they have a safe place to come," Mangano told Patch. "People also feel they are doing the right thing."
Rice added that the program's impressive yield, which was on display at a press conference Wednesday at the Nassau Office of Emergency Management may have been, in part, a response to the Sandy Hook murders in Newtown, Conn.
"You can't understate the impact of the horrible tragedy at Newtown," Rice said. "That may have influenced the number of guns we saw turned in."
In fact, at least one of the assault rifles in the collected arsenal on display Tuesday was the same type of weapon used by Adam Lanza to slaughter 27 people Dec. 14, including 20 kindergarten students and six school employees.


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WATERFORD, CT -- Kindergarten graduations are supposed to be cute but the Waterford Friendship School's ceremony on June 11 turned downright ugly when a brawl ensued over which parent should have their child's diploma.
Waterford Police were called to the scene at 11:24 a.m. following reports of a fight in progress in the school lobby. By the time they got there, the warring parties had been separated but police were able to determine that everyone involved was related either by blood or by marriage.
According to police reports, the argument started when the child's mother asked her daughter's paternal grandmother if she could have a copy of the child's diploma. Witnesses told police that the child's father, 24-year-old Ernesto Quinones of 40 Crystal Avenue in New London, took exception to that.
Police stated that Quinones, who has sole custody of the child, responded by grabbing his mother's purse to prevent her from handing over the diploma. At that point, other family members who had been standing around taking photographs joined the fray.
"A melee ensued in which most or all of the family members began to fight with one another," the police incident report said.
The whole fracas was recorded on the school's surveillance cameras. Police stated that the video shows Ernesto slamming his mother into a concrete wall, but the women weren't merely the victims in all this. Far from it.
Footage shows one woman, who the police report describes as being five months pregnant, grabbing another by the hair. The pregnant woman ultimately fell to the ground at which point, she told police, she was kicked in the head.
Police arrested Ernesto Quinones and charged him with breach of peace, with engaging in a fight capable of causing minor injury, and with risk of injury to a child. Police also arrested 20-year-old Felicia Strong of 93 State Pier Road, New London, and 31-year-old Diana Quinones of 40 Crystal Avenue, New London, and charged both women with breach of peace and with engaging in a fight that could cause minor injury.
Correction: An earlier version of this story based on an incident report in which most of the names had been redacted incorrectly stated that Felicia Strong is the child's mother. Strong is a relative but the child's mother was not among those who were arrested.


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After receiving a great deal of emails and replies on my declining ore grade work in the top gold and silver miners, I thought I would write this post to clarify a few misunderstandings.
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At the Forge - XOOPS
Over the last few months, we've been looking at content management software (CMS) that makes it easy to create Weblogs, personal journals that continue to grow in popularity and influence. There are no hard-and-fast rules as to what constitutes a Weblog (or blog), but most people probably would agree that the contents typically are short articles, with the newest ones displayed first.
But there is a larger, slightly different, class of Weblogs out there as well, which probably can be called Slashdot-style, for lack of a better term. These Weblogs are edited by a small group of people but have a large number of contributors. In many ways, these are closer to on-line forums or bulletin boards than to Weblogs. However, such software also provides Weblog capabilities for its individual members. That is, a visitor to the site can read the main discussion, create his or her own Weblog and read through other users' Weblogs as well.
Although some packages—most notably Slash, which powers Slashdot, use.perl.org and some other high-profile sites—were designed around the idea of public and private Weblogs, other packages have grown to incorporate this idea. One such package is XOOPS, which supposedly stands for Extended Object Oriented Portal System. XOOPS is an outgrowth of the PHPNuke and PostNuke family of portal servers.
This month, we look at XOOPS, paying particular attention at WeBLog (pronounced Wee-Bee-Log), a module designed to facilitate the creation and administration of public and private Weblogs. I have reservations about XOOPS, but it can be an excellent tool for a certain type of audience. In particular, the ease with which it can be installed and administered, and with which each user can be granted his or her own Weblog, is hard to beat.
XOOPS testifies to the power of the GNU General Public License, to the Open Source community and to the fact that not all forks or splits in an open-source project are bad. The XOOPS story begins with PHPNuke, a suite of programs written in PHP and using MySQL for its database back end. PHPNuke apparently was built on top of ThatWare, a now-abandoned Slash clone written in PHP.
What happened next is controversial, to say the least, and demonstrates what can happen when an open-source project gets ugly: a large number of PHPNuke contributors decided to fork the project and named their version PostNuke. Today, PHPNuke and PostNuke both exist, and little love is lost between the user and development communities. From what I can tell, and without examining the code in any depth, PHPNuke mainly continues to be developed by Francisco Burzi, with the main criticisms having to do with his management style, the hobbyist orientation of PHPNuke modules and issues having to do with security. Although PostNuke is quite popular and seems to have the edge on security, administration, commercial-oriented modules and database-independence, maintainers are accused of changing APIs too frequently and of designing PostNuke to be too resource-intensive. Meanwhile, some of the central PostNuke developers have left that project, forking it into software that originally was known as LostNuke and now goes by the name of Xaraya.
Finally, XOOPS seems (from what I can tell) to be an object-oriented rewrite of PHPNuke. The XOOPS maintainers believe that by rewriting the system to use objects, it is more secure and easier to develop and maintain.
The good news is that all of these systems are available under the GNU General Public License. That said, forks generally are seen as a last resort in the Open Source community—and the fact that so many have happened on this software probably testifies to the lack of strong management and leadership of these projects. Reviewing the history of these projects renewed my admiration for people like Linus Torvalds, Larry Wall and Guido von Rossum, all of whom have managed to keep their communities together, despite differences of opinion among the core developers.
XOOPS seems to have a smaller community than either PHPNuke or PostNuke. However, the number of built-in and third-party modules is quite large, and its object-oriented facilities mean it is fairly easy to build your own module. Indeed, although the number of modules has remained fairly modest, I was impressed by how easy it was to install. Does this mean you should use XOOPS over another one of the Nuke-alikes? That seems to depend as much on politics and your planned use as on the technology itself, although the fact that XOOPS uses objects does give it an edge, at least in theory, from my experience.
Now that we have reviewed the historical evolution of XOOPS and related pieces of software, let's set up our own XOOPS server. In order to run XOOPS, you need a MySQL server—I am running the admittedly old version of 3.23.58 on my workstation—and a copy of Apache (version 1 or 2) with PHP installed.
Installing XOOPS is one of the most impressive and painless software installs I have done in a long time. I downloaded the code from the XOOPS Web site (see the on-line Resources section) and opened up the .tar.gz file in a temporary directory. I then copied the entire HTML subdirectory into my Apache content root, as /usr/local/apache/html/xoops. Once I had done that, I was able to access the XOOPS installer at the URL /xoops on my system.
The installer is fully Web-based and walks you through the process slowly but surely. The most confusing part probably was the page on which you need to enter the user name and password of a MySQL user who is authorized to create a new database and tables. The installer also could be a bit more verbose in its error messages at this initial phase, given that many people installing XOOPS are unlikely to be experienced Web/database programmers.
That said, the installation was fairly simple and painless. I returned to the /xoops URL on my system and was greeted with a simple introductory screen that invited me to log in. I logged in as the site administrator, and although the main screen was relatively blank, I was able to move quickly to the Administration menu on the left side of the screen (Figure 1).
Administering XOOPS is fairly straightforward, once you understand that everything in XOOPS is a module. The first order of business for most XOOPS administrators then is to install additional modules. Go to the Administration menu and choose Modules. The top of the screen lists the modules already installed, and the bottom of the screen lists those available but uninistalled.
To install an available module, click on the appropriate icon next to the module's name. After you confirm your choice, you should see an indication of which tables are being created in the MySQL database, what access permissions have been added to the system and whether the module was installed correctly. Assuming that it was, you can return to the Module Administration page, where you should see the newly installed module at the top of the screen rather than at the bottom.
The default layout of a XOOPS site is rather empty. To include additional items on the home page, you must go to the Blocks administrative page, which lists the content features each module includes. The News module includes three blocks—bigstory, topics and top. The main Blocks Administration menu lets the site manager indicate which blocks are visible. But the real power happens in the Edit menu associated with each block, allowing you to indicate where on the screen the block should appear—on the side, in the center or somewhere else entirely.
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With a name like Couture, you had better look good
With a name like Couture, you had better be well designed.
A glassy, 44-story tower called The Couture has been proposed for a primary spot of lakefront, an area that city and county officials have talked about fashioning as Milwaukee's front door and cultural hub.
The slim, oval-shaped tower would replace the aging and underused Downtown Transit Center, a structure that no one is going to miss, with high-end apartments, a hotel and retail.
The $120 million building has a price tag roughly equivalent to the Milwaukee Art Museum's Santiago Calatrava-designed expansion, which is essentially across the street.
This, of course, raises a few questions: Is the design excellence of The Couture up to the standards of this essential location? Does it fit in with the larger, overall plan for lakefront development (which as I pointed out in a recent article on the Saarinen-designed War Memorial has been piecemeal over the years).
The plan is being recommended by County Executive Chris Abele and would be developed by Rick Barrett, whose 30-story Moderne apartment high-rise is nearing completion downtown. It is designed by Rinka Chung Architects, which also designed the Moderne.
So, weigh in, what do you think of the design of this new tower?
(I am on vacation this week, but will return on Monday, July 16, with more to say on this).
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GO, Ms. Schumacher, GO! Perhaps, the readers/viewers need a tutorial on color, choice of building material, and the 'freeze/thaw' cycles of a lakefront location! Just look at track record of the 'old' City Hall renovation, PLUS, all the track records of the Chicago's east side high rises!
It's a nice project. The name is dumb.
If I had the money I would fund this project myself. I have been to almost every small, medium, and large city in this country and find Milwaukee's sky line pretty boring for a city of it's size. Bellevue Washington which has 122 thousand people residing there has a better sky line than Milwaukee. I can go on and name a few much smaller city's that trumps Milwaukee. This city needs to pull itself out of the 80's and move forward. I have family from Seattle (pop.606 thousand)and they joke about the one 601ft. tall building we have compared to their many. I'm sick of taking them to Chicago just to look at buildings!!!! Milwaukee needs this makeover. Just wish they would make it much taller than the U.S. Bank Center. The design is beautiful and compliments our Art museum and the lake front.


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By Martin Neville
Thursday, November 15, 2012
From left, Jill Harlow, destination data officer, Oli Whitehurst, web editor, David Thornton, chief executive and and Liz Walker, tourism development. Picture by Laura Holme.
PLANS to attract an extra 300,000 visitors a year to the Isle of Wight have been announced today (Thursday) by the new man at the helm of tourism.
Speaking at the official launch of new tourist board Visit Isle of Wight, its chief executive David Thornton revealed some of the ideas he hopes will encourage more holidaymakers to visit the Island.
The plans have already had support from the man in charge of promoting tourism in England, James Berresford — chief executive of Visit England — who said they were destined for success.
Mr Thornton said: "Visit Isle of Wight hopes to generate new visitor growth for the whole Island, which means engaging with shrinking markets and digging deeper to uncover more opportunities.
"Our number one priority is to encourage more people to come here, over a longer year, bolstering and widening peak periods while building troughs up to create a smoother curve of visitors across the year."
Mr Thornton announced Ventnor Michelin starred chef Robert Thompson, Radio 1 DJ and Bestival curator Rob Da Bank, and eco-fashion label co-founder Rob Drake-Knight, as the Isle of Wight's first "media ambassadors."
They will promote the Island at media briefings and mainland events, including the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham where Mr Thompson will promote the Isle of Wight food and drink to some 100,000 people.
Mr Thompson named Hovertravel and English Heritage as Visit Isle of Wight's latest private sector investors, each contributing £10,000 a year, and revealed plans to create a Visit Isle of Wight office at Osborne House.
He said he wanted to reconnect with what he described as "the UK value driven holiday market — the honest worker who has seen their pay shrink, has real worries about the future, but feels under pressure to deliver a great holiday experience for their family."
He said: "It's time to return to Treasure Island, Captain Sunshine and great family holidays in a place that feels a little like being abroad but is just four miles from the mainland."
Among those to attend the launch was Visit England chief executive James Berresford who has backed the project.
After the launch Mr Berresford said on Twitter: "A passionate board, a determined CEO and a local authority willing to commit for nine years — Visit Isle of Wight is destined to succeed."
Other ideas highlighted by Mr Thornton to boost tourism included:
• Merging the existing Islandbreaks.co.uk and gowight.com websites to create an official tourism portal, to be known as VisitWight and launched on Valentines Day next year.
• Extensive early promotion of events and festivals that have the largest potential to attract off-Island visitors.
• Harnessing the potential of the Island's landscape, working with the AONB Partnership and the National Trust.
• Taking a thematic approach to marketing — food and drink, heritage and royalty, retro chic, sport and adventure.
• Extending the holiday season through projects like Robin Hill's Electric Wood event, held during the October half-term.
• Having 'welcome ambassadors' on ferries to greet people as they travel over, telling them about what's happening on the Island, and other useful information.
• Promoting the Island as a film location.
• Exploring opportunities for educational breaks.
• An Isle of Music campaign to enhance the Island's reputation for music.
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by Susannah Thornton
16th November 2012, at 12:59:49
As a Tourist who has visited the beautiful Island for the past ten years consecutively, I won't be visiting again in 2013 unfortunately. As everyone says the Ferry fares are now too extortionate, but also the Island has over the years become less and less attractive to the Tourist. The toilets, if open, are disgusting, need cleaning and refurbishing. Prices, albeit like the mainland too, have increased for attractions and value for money is just not there. I'm going to miss not seeing the places I love, the Island I hoped to one day buy property on, but back in the real world its not feasible for me anymore either financially or for what is there. Sorry IOW, I will miss you and hope maybe one day to return.
by David Howarth
16th November 2012, at 12:31:39
Excellent news. The Island landscape is the biggest attraction for tourists. The network of footpaths and cycle ways must be developed to encourage more use by people of all abilities. A new coastal path is a must.There must also be a recognition that people take shorter UK holidays and the addition of expensive ferry fares is a real deterrent to these shorter visits.It is important that Islanders support these initiatives and not just criticise. We will all see the benefits of better bus routes and information systems.
by Mike Crowe
16th November 2012, at 07:27:21
How will all these thousand of people get here? On the backs of the Flying Pigs?
by Kevin Barclay-Jay
16th November 2012, at 01:53:18
Anybody can come up with a list of maybes...but until anybody spends more tha tuppence ha'penny on attractions we will never get the families back. The Island is a shambles for tourists..a situation ably assisted by our awful council The ferry price for tourists wouldn't be an issue if there was something worthwhile here for them to do
by alan naylor
15th November 2012, at 20:42:36
Thats great news Mr Thornton but where are all these holiday makers going to pee when they are out of there hotel enviroment and them that are open are not clean
by david wright
15th November 2012, at 19:18:20
Total waste of time! As soon as prospective tourists go to book the ferry if there is actually one running at a time they want to come over they will reel in horror at the exorbitant ,unrealistic,daylight robbery fare and go somewhere else!!! Many holiday makers who have come here for years now go elsewhere as the ferry is just too expensive!!! Wightlink dont see it but it is a fact.Ad that to that,run down high streets and shops and attractions, poor road sweeping,closed Tourist information offices and toilets and i wouldn't come here if they paid me! Don't get me wrong i love the IOW but too many people in positions of power have taken the money in high wages and not reinvested so the infrastructure is now dilapidated and not attractive at all.The IOW is in danger of pricing itself out of existance because of the ferry rather like a rubbish shop that charged you £150 entrance fee. Would you go in???
by david williams
15th November 2012, at 18:14:01
i cant believe these people dont see the bigger picture, more people would come to the island if the ferry companies didnt charge exorbitant amount of money to get over here, no wonder people would rather go abroad
by Stephen Elliott
15th November 2012, at 17:31:36
Oh n no doubt the ferry companies will raise there prices to cash in on these extra 300,000 people.
15th November 2012, at 17:30:28
Indeed Tony, personally I wouldn't come here if I didn't live here.
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There are early signs of trouble with Nokia's initial round of Windows-based smart phones.
The Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone company has bet its future on a decision to shift its high-end hardware to Microsoft Windows Phone software and away from its proprietary Symbian OS. The company recently started selling the first fruits of its arrangement with Microsoft, the Lumia 800.
Bernstein Research analyst Pierre Ferragu pointed out a research note Friday that checks on Google Trends finds that the buzz level for the Lumia 800 is about on a part with the Nokia N8, the company's top-of-the-line but poor selling smartphone a year ago. He thinks this one could be a dud, too.
"With no breakthrough innovation, we believe Nokia's new phones are unlikely to get traction in a highly concentrated high-end," he writes in a research note. "Second, we don't believe Lumia phones are competitively priced. Third, we believe in economics of increasing returns for mobile ecosystems and judge rather unlikely that Windows can gain critical mass against Android and iOS. Fourth, we have seen evidences of lack of traction for the Windows operating system over the last 12 months and challenge the idea that the Nokia brand can make a meaningful difference today."
TheFlyOnTheWall.com reports this morning that Pacific Crest told investors this morning that shipments for Nokia's new Windows-based phones are "surprisingly weak." Details on the report when I get them. (Note: See update below.)
NOK is down 49 cents, or 7.5%, to $6.02.
Update: Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette wrote in a research note that shipments of Nokia's Windows Phone 7 units in the December quarter could prove disappointing. "We believe that shipmentsof Nokia's new Windows Phone 7 products have been lower than we had previously anticipated," he writes. "We had expected that the company could ship as many as 2 million units into the six targeted markets for the holidays; however, we now believe that those shipments are likely to be less than 1 million for the quarter." He adds that sell-through checks find "disappointing sales" for the Lumia so far, and that December quarter sales could be under 500,000 units.
The Wall Street Journal has reported on the same issue. The lack of buzz around the Lumia 800 is overwhelming. See: http://blogs.wsj.com/overheard/2011/11/21/for-nokia-smartphone-window-still-slamming-shut/
Not even the faithful Nokia fans will buy a phone based on the Microsoft OS.
Nokia made a fundamental mistake in putting all the eggs in the same basket and the basket is falling apart.
To me, it appears that Nokia faces the same uphill struggle in the States as it always faced because the underwhelming response some sources cite is confined to the US market. I'm seeing quite the opposite in the EMEA region. And there's plenty of helpful cross-talk on Google Plus about the Nokia Lumia.
I'd let the real sales figures do my talking after the handset gets proper retail marketing.
All tech blogs have been fawning over the Lumia 800 the buzz is clearly there all that matters now are the sales numbers.
We've heard from Orange in the UK that pre-orders are the highest they've ever been for a Nokia device.
We're hearing the the Lumia 800 is sold out in Finland
And Frances largest cellphone retailer says the Lumia 800 is their best seller
As for the Nokia N8… its sold 4 million units in the first 3 months of its release…. dud? oO
probably not a good idea the jventure nok-msft?
but what about analist who revised his forecast for this year down to half million from 2million.
Way too early for such histrionics. In 6 months, the wrinkles will be out of Windows Phone and Nokia will have some truly high-end devices, instead of these first ones they rushed out.
Microsoft has done well so far in bringing the ecosystem to life, and this will increase with closer Windows 8 tie-ins. Nokia will be fine.
mr Eric Savitz in your profile you say
"This Is Annoying Me…
Stupidity always annoys me".
I agree with you.
but you also say
"Can't Do Without
My kids and my wife.(I agree with you too) And my iPhone 4″.
Hei! Relax yourself, nobody is going to steal it from you.
Oh please, you're writing this based on an "analyst" who used Google Trends? Really? The company that does Android? Wow… And Who has heard about Pacific Crest?!!! Who the F+++ are they? Here's proof of Lumias 800 being the top selling phones in Vodafone. http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/catalog/phoneListView.jsp?categoryId=cat70018
already posted my thoughts on how stupid Forbes attacks on Nokia have been, but some how they disappeared. Can't take the heat?
Surely the more important stat is where Nokia will be after six months of handsets, after a US launch, and the market share of Windows Phones end up… rather than one estimated number of a very small analyt firm looking to make a name for themselves.
The U.S. is not the main market, so – no, that isn't the more important stat.


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