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on January 17, 2013 - 12:11 AM
Who knew that the National Rifle Association would end up as Andrew Cuomo's best friend?
Sensible gun owners have only the NRA to blame if it seems that politicians such as New York's governor are moving too far, too fast to restrict gun rights.
As Cuomo raced to be the first presidential hopeful on his block to have an assault weapons ban – and bragging rights for the smallest ammo clip – gun lovers shouldn't fume just at him.
If NRA leaders had been more reasonable, there could be middle-ground solutions. But their tone-deaf response to the Newtown tragedy created an atmosphere in which almost anything from gun-control advocates sounds sane by comparison. Even so, parts of the new law seem as much about politics as about public safety.
Cuomo's "one feature" assault weapons restriction goes beyond the old federal ban on guns with two or more military-style features. Granted, there's no legitimate civilian use for flash suppressors. But seriously, how many are used in mass shootings?
The bottom line remains. All semiautomatics – from my Ruger .22-caliber Mark II pistol to a semiautomatic hunting rifle to the Newtown shooter's AR-15-style .223 – operate essentially the same: One pull of the trigger fires one bullet. Beyond that, the FBI's 2011 Uniform Crime Reports show that rifles – all kinds, not just assault rifles – accounted for only 3.8 percent of gun deaths. In fact, twice as many people died from fistfights – 728 – as the 323 killed by rifles.
In short, it's not the guns themselves.
That's why researchers for the U.S. Department of Justice said that the effects of the 1994 federal assault weapons ban were "small at best" and that any effect was offset by more use of other guns with large-capacity magazines.
Banning the guns is for show. Banning 30-round magazines makes sense – though not to everyone. "Changing a magazine takes about 2 seconds, … so it doesn't really matter," notes Harold "Budd" Schroeder, of Lancaster, chairman of the statewide Shooters Committee on Political Education. He's right about the timing. But maybe in those few seconds, someone can intervene.
Yet even on magazines, Cuomo's PR thirst is obvious in his seven-round limit, three less than in laws elsewhere.
My Ruger magazine holds 10 bullets. But I guess if I hear someone breaking in at night, I should load only seven. If I shoot the intruder eight times, I'll be breaking the law. It's the stuff of which "Saturday Night Live" skits are made.
Still, much proposed by Cuomo and President Obama makes good sense – such as universal background checks, mental health registries, and crackdowns on trafficking that floods cities with the handguns used in most murders. The hype on "assault weapons" in the media and video games also must be addressed.
Yet gun bans draw most of the attention. Legislative overreach becomes publicly acceptable when the other side is so unyielding. Now, I wonder if the NRA has set the stage for its worst fear.
I used to laugh when "gun nuts" said the ultimate aim of new laws was to eliminate most gun rights. I'm not laughing today.
Given the functional equivalency of banned "assault weapons" and other semiautomatics, if crazed mass shooters do turn to those other guns, what's next?
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For those who think BlackBerry or Nokia should switch to Android, here's why it is a bad idea
0. phoneArena 16 Aug 2013, 14:18 posted on
Every once in a while, we hear from those who think that Nokia or BlackBerry should drop their current operating systems and use Android as a replacement; on the surface, it would seem to make sense. Android, after all, is the top smartphone OS globally. With Windows Phone 8 and the new BlackBerry 10 platforms struggling, why not go with the leader...
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1. kozza3 (Posts: 698; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
so basically your saying because Samsung sells the crap out of Android, no-one else should try and sell an Android device? there is a flaw here...
3. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)
If Google wanted they could deny Samsung all of their android licenses. Samsung does not own android they just develop bloatware and do good advertising.
12. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4208; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
Legally how could they? It's open source, as long as they adhere to Google's TOS, there is no legal reason that would allow them to that. If they wanted Samsung could take android and fork it similar to how Amazon did with the Kindle, but in doing so they'd lose access to Google's services and the Playstore, which is what happened with Acer earlier this year.
15. LordDavon (Posts: 135; Member since: 19 Sep 2011)
I was just going to tell them that there isn't an Android License. The Google Services license can be pulled, which would mean that Samsung would have to host its own store, maps, etc. Not really sure that it would be that damaging, as Samsung already has many services of their own, which could be used in their place. Besides, Amazon seems to be doing well without Google Services, and is rumored to be releasing a phone soon.
19. ZeroCide (Posts: 773; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
The same way they did to MS with the youtube app... Make something up, put it in the TOS. Then Ding samsung for it.
65. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4208; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
Nice try, the TOS you are referring to was in place long before WP, during the WinMo6.5 days. What I said was based on facts, try and see if you can do the same.
76. tedkord (Posts: 11691; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Not with open source software like Android. Anyone, and I mean anyone, can modify, fork, distribute Android or use it stock.
91. Topcat488 (Posts: 1396; Member since: 29 Sep 2012)
What is Nokia gonna say when Samsung become the best seller for M$... I mean even as of today, Sammy make more tablets for WP. Sammy is king of all the OS's except ios.
104. Glim12808 (Posts: 394; Member since: 26 Oct 2011)
What you're saying is just conjecture at this point - Lenovo is best seller for W8/W7 and Nokia for WP8. It'll probably remain that way for some time.
42. 007james (Posts: 15; Member since: 03 Aug 2013)
Don't ever go full...
52. rd_nest (Posts: 1593; Member since: 06 Jun 2010)
"If Google wanted..."
Exactly the reason why you have reasonable guys running large corporates. People like Page, Brin, and other leaders don't make decisions just based on emotions and whims. The moment someone takes decision based on emotion and undermine business sense will end up nowhere.
No, the thought itself is irrational. It's a mere fanboy fantasy. Just try discussing this topic with google shareholders. Check their reactions.
63. jromy (Posts: 114; Member since: 26 Feb 2013)
Awww dude...you're killing me! The "what if's" are what make reading the comments so good!
38. qeru8676 (Posts: 5; Member since: 16 Aug 2013)
check comment no 26 for true facts and summary
66. jroc74 (Posts: 6005; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Gotta agree with ya. If Nokia went Android, they would still have the photography niche....with a wildly popular mobile OS.
How is that a bad thing?
Same thing for ppl that like BB hardware, QWERTY phones. Both Nokia and BB would get alot more exposure by going Android.
99. juandante (Posts: 463; Member since: 23 Apr 2013)
Exaxctly man !!!!! What is this joke Phonearena news ?
106. Reluctant_Human (Posts: 886; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
Agreed jroc74. As far as Nokia is concerned it's only a matter of time of before the other manufacturers catch up to their camera technology and by then it'll be too little too late. It's getting near that now or never time so let's what they decide and how they do it.
68. jroc74 (Posts: 6005; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Another thing that a see ppl do is forget that the Motorola Droid line was once wildly popular, waaay more popular than Samsung. If Samsung had been afraid to compete with Motorola in Android land we wouldnt be having this discussion right now.
Seems some ppl forget when and where Android came from, who started it all: HTC and Motorola.....both OEMs were way more popular than anything Samsung had out before the Galaxy line. Samsung just outdid HTC and Motorola, thats all. Now its time for HTC, Motorola, LG, etc to step their game up. Thats all.
73. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
another biased author strikes again.
100. juandante (Posts: 463; Member since: 23 Apr 2013)
Extremely biased. I think Phonearena is paid by micro$oft (witch doesn't surprise me when you know micro$oft's history.)
80. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
No, he's implying that samsung manufactures most of its components and is therefore more profitable than other android OEM's.
81. GTR722 (Posts: 261; Member since: 20 Oct 2012)
It is SamsungArena after all.
88. zoom007 (unregistered)
Exacty! I dont think Sammy s gonna survive with that 95% share once nokia enters the market with android...Design, camera, build quality...hell lot of things matter...Lumia 520 offers the best hardware possible for such a low price...even better if it was flavoured with android. You think stupid phones like galaxy fame could compete with it?
After all, we all originally loved nokia more than sammy!
89. ShenAlJoker (Posts: 113; Member since: 19 Jul 2013)
samsung is ruining the android QUALITY!!!!!!!
98. Jaeel (Posts: 27; Member since: 18 Apr 2013)
No. He's saying: Samsung is selling the crap out of Android, and everyone else is also trying to sell Android devices, but we all can see it doesn't work.
2. CELLKONTECH (Posts: 11; Member since: 23 Feb 2013)
I tell u guys...y phonearena thinks that Nokia and Blackberry shouldn't move to android.its because PHONEARENA is a big fan of APPLE and the ios and iphones..because of being frm the same country USA..if nokia and blackberry moves for android..then all the smartphone's in this world will be running android os which means apple will be in loss.USA will be in loss to as it is big company.so in a way Phonearena will be in loss
21. Commentator (Posts: 3690; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
Those are some nice, racist, uneducated remarks there buddy.
Question: what country do you think Android is from? Take your time.
22. Dastrix (unregistered)
Ahem.. How's that racist? o.o
24. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
+1 for you.
27. Commentator (Posts: 3690; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
Citing no evidence at all he claims that PA supports Apple based solely on the fact that they're a US company, and they don't want to see a US company do poorly.
Sorry, maybe "nationalist" would've worked better than "racist," but his claims remain remarkably ignorant because he thinks that the US will be at a loss if BlackBerry and Nokia switch to Google, a US company.
74. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
you're right Dastrix I didn't read anything racist on CELLKONTECH comment
50. Ninetysix (Posts: 2381; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
You just went full potato. The original article didn't even come from PA.
53. Dion25 (Posts: 42; Member since: 25 Jul 2012)
Did you read what was said in the article? 2.7% profit was shared between Sony, Htc, Motorola and others. Why would Blackberry or Nokia come to Android? What's funny is the 10 Thumbs up this comment got smh.
77. tedkord (Posts: 11691; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Because each of those companies is selling more smartphones than either Nokia or BB?
71. neutralguy (Posts: 1152; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
I actually like how phonearena post these kinds of articles to stir the community it hosts.
Also, I believe nokia should not go on android, yet. As I can see, their doing good. Having 3 to 5 percent of the market by wp and wp being held by nokia is not actually bad. Nokia should just focus to wp just now. I think there are more things that will come up if developers would just help wp to gain more followers.
4. CELLKONTECH (Posts: 11; Member since: 23 Feb 2013)
*almost all the smartphones
5. santy (Posts: 60; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)
Poor analysis. If Samsung dominates with 95% profits , it is the job of other manufacturer's to try and grab that share . This is called COMPETITION. As of last year it was non existent. This year things are changing with better competition from LG with G2 , HTC ONE and SONY with Ultra and Honami. I will not be surprised if Samsung profits drop from 95 to 80-85 this year.
13. jdoee100 (Posts: 334; Member since: 04 Jun 2013)
Definitely. It's loser's talk by Nokia saying that they can not compete in android because of Samsung.
96. zuckerboy (banned) (Posts: 898; Member since: 22 Dec 2011)
they made up that samsung thing in order to use wp. That is not surprise Elop decided to use wp. I think that if nokia used android , it would be blown the samsung.
101. juandante (Posts: 463; Member since: 23 Apr 2013)
Nokia would even overblow Samsung indeed. Camera quality, build quality, hardware features... All those things Samsung needs (and in extension Android) and WP is limiting. Biased article, once again. Nice one phone(crosoft)arena ! Wonder how much Microdollar is paying you all to post those things ?
55. MartyK (Posts: 819; Member since: 11 Apr 2012)
You are 100 % correct, Nokia ( Elop & Nokians) is using this lie as an excuse, Android only true Leader is Google ...Not Samsung or HTC.
Heck if Motorola bring out the Moto XXX ( I made this up)
with 5.5 Screen/ (FHD), S800 /with always listen on and SD Slot!.
Note-3 and the rest would be in trouble!
59. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)
Does the Moto XXX come preloaded with porn?
84. MartyK (Posts: 819; Member since: 11 Apr 2012)
;) 1 year free subscription...lol
6. Googler (Posts: 813; Member since: 10 Jun 2013)
Nokia should do both, and could pull it off. BB should go back to their roots while staying relevant in other areas, with their roots being security.
29. tusshharish (Posts: 342; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
in my opinion nokia should release android tablets to make profit and use extra money on wp handsets more so that there will be greater windows phone market.......
35. zuckerboy (banned) (Posts: 898; Member since: 22 Dec 2011)
I disagree with you. I think nokia should release android phone. Because nexus tablets are the best choices when it comes to android tablet. Nokia would not gain profit as large as you said. İf they release android phone they will get profit more than they got from wp phones. But at the same time they should keep makiing wp phones because diversity is advantage.
57. MartyK (Posts: 819; Member since: 11 Apr 2012)
+1000 to you, I've been saying this for months..BB drop the ball
they could had took control of the Business world again if they would had came correct....
their marketing was the worst I've ever witness
BB should been:
1.5.6 screen /FHD with a pen ( for business use)
2.Multi-antennas/ for international traveling
3.BBM ( sell BBM to other OS users android,IOS WP)
4.Talk about their Enhance Security Features.
7. santy (Posts: 60; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)
Also going by the analysis it means LG HTC and SONY are fighting a losing battle and should either die since they are competing with Sammy or make their own proprietary OS.
8. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4208; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
I never said that either should drop their current OS and switch. I've said they should produce android alongside their current OS, which would help shore up said OS. No different than people who have a day job that allows them work on their main interest. In most cases they could basically use the same hardware with android inside.
9. yowanvista (Posts: 340; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
Those points are moot, you don't need the bigs numbers to be successful in the Android ecosystem. Sure Samsung has the money, the wild range of devices and colossal profits but a lot of OEMs are actually investing in both WP & Android and that hasn't stopped them from making profits. Sony is a perfect illustration, they managed to grab a significant slice of the Android marketshare within few quarters primarily due to their handsets which clearly distinguish themselves from the competition. Switching isn't what matters, adoption does. Nokia doesn't require an immense lineup or the need to flood the market with senseless phones like Samsung.
A Nokia powered Nexus device featuring PureView would make investors happy again and it'll surely sell more than any of those WP devices. Nokia could still release a 'Google Edition' phone with Pureview, that would still give them the advantage of having superior hardware, they have the quality hardware, the camera technology and the brand recognition like no other Android OEM out there; all that combined with Android would certainly prove to be successful. They should go with a dual platform imho.
25. Dastrix (unregistered)
I agree. I also like the idea of a dual platform. Adopting that strategy might necessitate some test marketing on Android island though. So, yeah, a Nexus device with Pureview Phase I and II combined should do the trick :P
On a side note, I wouldn't quite say that Sony has captivated a significant Android market share. It may have been quick in the beginning, but the underlying fact is that it's pretty much stagnating at the moment... 2.7% was split by HTC, Motorola, Sony and others. I'm a Sony and Nokia fan, but I must say that it's a tough battle for Sony, and all the other Android OEMs, excluding Samsung.
10. noim1 (Posts: 297; Member since: 15 May 2012)
Who said anything about dropping their current OS ? ...make a few Android models and see how the market responds ! If its a failire then simply quit and stick with their current OS...I just want Nokia to make sone Android models , I dont care abt BlackBerry. ..
11. jdoee100 (Posts: 334; Member since: 04 Jun 2013)
Nokia is not "selling like hotcakes," it's the android that's selling like hotcakes. Nokia's marketshare is less than 4% in most places, and in few places it's ~10%. Besides, their "hotcakes" are so cheap, that they don't make any profit(lost more than 100million last quarter). If Nokia had gone to android, they would have had 4-10% of marketshare easily and would have made profit like the other android makers(LG, Sony, HTC).
BB is different than LG,Sony and HTC. They can separate themselves from other makers including Samsung by focusing on security and other BB-specific advantages. If BB had gone android, they'd be alot better off than now(on the market with no prospects). How could they possibly be worse than now??
14. sats.mine2k4 (banned) (Posts: 208; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
Most pointless article ever written award goes too "Phonearena's Alan.F" yay......
16. Dastrix (unregistered)
Great article. I knew it all along, and I'm really happy that others feel the same way! :)
As you mentioned in the article, a 2.7% share of Android's profits were split by HTC, Motorola, Sony and others. Now, it would appear that Nokia is actually in a better position than these companies because the exact phenomenon is occuring with Windows Phone, albeit the majority of profits are earned by Nokia. With that in mind, the upcoming Sony i1 Honami might find itself in a much tougher battle, in that it would not only rival with iOS and WP, but also other Android OEMs i.e. the other stranded castaways on Android island. What these other OEMs fail to realize, however, is that they're pretty much standing on Samsung's home turf. They, as such, face a much fiercer battle than Nokia. Nokia made a good decision to go with WP in that respect. It still wouldn't hurt them if they made an Android flagship though, and see how that goes. That would be awesome! :)
You're totally right, I expect the same thing; that by next year, we could as well be talking about the big three. The battle has just started.
61. ThreeFourSeven (Posts: 34; Member since: 23 Nov 2011)
Even with Microsoft pumping Nokia money. Nokia still hasn't made profit from their handset division. Nokia has only made profit from NSN, that's why they wanted full control. So you're basically saying, it's better for Nokia to make no profits from their handset division than the others sharing 2.7% of profits.
17. CELLKONTECH (Posts: 11; Member since: 23 Feb 2013)
This Analysis by phonearena is bad of all
Is there any person right now in this world who wouldn't buy a nokia smartphone running android jelly bean 4.3 os with 41mp beast camera on the back (if there was one) ...nokia must move to android :)
20. Dastrix (unregistered)
I agree, but wishful thinking much? xD
33. Hammerfest (Posts: 383; Member since: 12 May 2012)
I wont lie, I would purchase a nokia if it had Android on it...
I wouldnt touch Nokia with WP on it...
Personal preference, but I tried WP7, and while waiting for AT&T to rape my soul for phone service I played with a WP8 deivice this last week and... nope... over my dead body
18. noim1 (Posts: 297; Member since: 15 May 2012)
Nokia would have no problem at all grabbing androids 30% share out of 80% global market share. Nokia was the King and will be the King if they made some Android devices besides WP.i am a Nokia fan and always will b..I am using a crappy Samsung only bcuz Nokia does not adopted Android. ..i am100% certain that ppl will move away frm Samsung if Nokia steps in the Android game....I just hate Samsung designs and look...but what can I do I am bound to use it since I love Android but Nokia does not have android. ..:(

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quote: She went into an outlet to get help removing a virus and they sent her home with a packet to update her phone to 2.4.
quote: That said, I WOULD be kind of upset if I was stuck on Android 2.1 or earlier.
quote: Most are not stuck at 2.1 (and not upset as far as I can tell). 2.1 to 2.2 brought some changes to Android that I appreciated. That's why being stuck at 2.1 would have been frustrating. It's not clear to me why that makes everything I've said irrelevant, since I'm basically saying some updates are more important than others.
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Jay Leno stepped down Thursday night as host of "The Tonight Show." It seems everyone has a Jay Leno story. Here's mine.
In April 2005, I attended the American Copy Editors Society national conference in Hollywood. My arrangements to attend the conference were made too late to stay at the main hotel, so I was walking back to my hotel that late afternoon.
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West Texas A&M quarterback Dustin Vaughan took a huge step Thursday night in a bid to capture the Harlon Hill Trophy, Division II's version of the Heisman Trophy.
Vaughan could be the first WT football player to win the award. After an All-American season last year, he boosted his value with a prime-time performance Thursday.
Vaughan led WT's comeback from deficits of 24-6 and 31-16 as the fourth-ranked Buffs beat 18th-ranked Chadron (Neb.) State 34-31 on Sergio Garcia's last-minute field goal at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
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A lot of talk in Major League Baseball centers on how horrendously bad the Houston Astros are. But has anyone noticed that, after Wednesday's games, the Astros are only 4.5 games behind the Los Angeles Angels?
The Astros, whose team payroll is the lowest in MLB at $21.1 million this season, are 11-30. They would finish with a 44-118 record at that pace.
The Angels, whose team payroll is seventh-highest at $127.9 million, are 15-25. They would finish with a 61-101 record at that pace.
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The things I notice when sitting at a stoplight. Take Monday afternoon, for example.
I'm at the stoplight on South Pierce Street intersecting with Southeast Fourth Avenue. I look up, do a double-take and then a triple-take.
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Baseball season starts tonight, and here's a quick preseason predictions blog.
AL East: Most interesting division. A case could be made for any order of finish in that division. Can the Orioles continue to win all those one-run games? Will Toronto's additions pan out? Will the Yankees finish last? Where will Boston and Tampa Bay fit in? (Yes to the Orioles, whose pitching depth will carry the team. No idea about the Blue Jays. Yes, the Yankees will finish last. Boston and Tampa Bay will battle for the division title.)
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The freedoms enjoyed by 300 million people in the United States are dependent upon one thing: Trust.
When driving, we trust the other drivers are going to stay on their side of a painted yellow-striped line.
When eating at a restaurant, we trust complete strangers to serve us healthy, edible food.
When on a walk, we trust we are safe around every dark and hidden corner.
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And what to my wondering eyes should appear?
Hey look, up in the sky. It's reindeer. It's a sleigh. It's Santa Claus.
Take a close look at the photo. Click on it to enlarge. Do you see what I see? With a little imagination, the cloud formation above the disappearing sunlight looks like it could be Santa's sleigh being pulled by reindeer.
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Sophie the dog brought down the hammer the other night when she challenged Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps to a winner-take-all swim. How this happened is beyond me.
This international story not only has the Internet buzzing with excitement, but it is overheating from increased traffic from texts, tweets, blogs, emails and the like.
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Dear parents of all Tascosa High School students:
Before you know it, Tascosa's two-year stint in the revamped District 2-5A will be here for students in all extracurricular activities.
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Sophie the dog and I were on a road trip a few weeks back. She loves riding along and listening to whatever book on CD, musical CD or ESPN Radio station that happens to be playing.
For the most part, she sleeps, looks out the window and waits for a treat to help pass the time.
However, Sophie's ears perked up when I popped in the Beatles "1" CD. Song after song she told me how things would have been if she had been the fifth Beatle. Of course, I told her the group broke up in 1970, 31 years before she was born. No matter.
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Twain, 45, bought her wedding gown at a small boutique in Switzerland, near her home. (Her shoes – which her groom is carrying in the photo – are by Calvin Klein.) Her son Eja, 9, walked her down the aisle.
"Love, peace and happiness is taking me in to 2011," Twain wrote on her Web site last month, as she announced her engagement, "and I'm feeling refreshed and optimistic about the future. I'm looking forward to what the new year has in store."
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The state Health Department has approved an application from Erie County Medical Center to open two new operating suites, prepare two additional "shelled" operating rooms for future expansion and add related recovery and surgical services space, the hospital announced Wednesday.
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The new suites are needed because of a 10 percent increase in ECMC's surgical volume during the past two years, officials said.
The increased volume is related to an increase in emergency room cases, consolidation of Great Lakes Health's transplantation programs for kidney and pancreas on the ECMC campus, and an increase in surgical cases from the hiring and partnering with new surgeons and physicians in the last few years, officials said.
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Dian Fossey founded Karisoke on September 24, 1967 between two of Rwanda's Virunga mountains that inspired the name she chose: Mt. Karisimbi and Mt. Visoke. The center expanded from two small tents to a series of cabins that were destroyed, rebuilt, and finally destroyed again during periods of civil unrest since Fossey's death. But the gorilla monitoring and protection Fossey initiated have continued for more than 40 years, with only one brief interruption in time of war. Karisoke staff now protect nearly one third of all the mountain gorillas in the Virungas.
The Karisoke Research Center has brought international attention and support to the plight of the mountain gorilla, and connected local communities with gorilla conservation through partnerships, education, and health and development projects. Scientists have access to a 40-year database of information about gorilla life, behavior, habitat and conservation, one of the longest-running primate studies. As a result of the continuous protection and monitoring by Karisoke staff in partnership with national park authorities in both Rwanda and the Congo, the mountain gorillas of the Virungas are the only great ape population to have increased in number in recent decades, from some 260 when Fossey arrived to 380 at the last census.
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City Police Det. Dave Talbert said the investigation into a hit-and-run Friday night which killed a 9-year-old girl is progressing as he continues to interview and re-interview witnesses.
Olivia Thompson, a fourth grader at Reilly Elementary School, was laid to rest Tuesday as family members and friends said their last goodbyes at the First United Methodist Church.
In a courtroom in Lisbon Tuesday morning, the man accused of hitting her with his pickup on State Street in downtown Salem made his initial appearance. Todd R. Roberts, 27, of 375 E. Main St., Washingtonville, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in a death, a third-degree felony.
He was arraigned on the charge and a preliminary hearing has been set for 3 p.m. Monday in Columbiana County Municipal Court. He's out of jail on a bond.
According to Talbert, a preliminary report from the Summit County Coroner's Office confirmed that Olivia died as a result of the accident.She had initially been taken to Salem Community Hospital the night of the accident and was taken by medical helicopter to Akron Children's Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries Saturday morning.
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He's working with Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Todd Jester, who's an accident reconstructionist, and items of evidence from the scene, the coroner's office and the pickup truck have been submitted to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. The black Chevy S-10 pickup belonging to Roberts remains in the custody of police.
Talbert said previously that any further charges will be reviewed by the county grand jury. The third-degree felony against Roberts alleges that he "did knowingly operate a motor vehicle, having knowledge of an accident or collision that resulted in the death of another person, failed to stop after the accident or collision."
The charge carries a possible prison sentence of one to five years upon conviction.
Police officers were called to the 500 block of East State Street at 9:20 p.m. Friday for a vehicle/pedestrian accident, learning that a young girl had been struck by a vehicle described as a black pickup which continued traveling east, fleeing the scene. Witnesses indicated to police that the pickup had been seen coming through the Lundy Avenue intersection recklessly.
According to Talbert, all indications were that the victim was not in the crosswalk. He confirmed that Olivia was spending the night at a former neighbor's home on Third Street and she and her 14-year-old friend were going to Dollar General to get some pop to go with a pizza. The store was closed, so they were crossing the street to go to Quaker Village, which is located at the corner of South Lincoln Avenue and Pershing Street.
He said the 14-year-old girl indicated during an interview that she was nearly hit by the pickup.
In a court affidavit, Talbert said Roberts called 911 Saturday morning at 7:16 a.m. to report he was involved in the accident. Salem Police responded to his residence in Washingtonville and located his pickup in the garage, with Roberts granting "consent for the police department to 'search and seize' the vehicle."
The affidavit said evidence recovered confirmed the vehicle was involved in the crash and during an interview, Roberts allegedly admitted to being the operator of the vehicle "and was aware that a pedestrian had been struck and that the vehicle sustained operable damage."
Roberts was taken into custody Saturday evening after being asked to respond to the police station for a second interview.
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According to Mahoning County Court records accessed online, Roberts was fined for a traffic control device violation in February this year and for speeding in January this year. He was found guilty of a reduced charge after being cited for operating a vehicle under the influence in July 2008 and was fined for failure to control in April 2008. A charge of endangering children in May 2008 was dismissed.
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Kelvin Sheppard has been with the Buffalo Bills for just two seasons, but he's already had his fill of confounding defeats.
Exhibit number Too Many To Count came Sunday in Ralph Wilson Stadium, where the Tennessee Titans came away with a last-minute 35-34 victory, leaving a sold-out crowd of 68,836 to file out in stunned silence.
"At this point the talking is done," Sheppard said. "It's over. To lose a game like that in front of your home crowd, it's embarrassing and it's pretty sickening."
The Bills tried and tried again to give away the game, finally succeeding when – on a fourth-and-9 play – Titans quarterback Matt Hasselbeck hit Nate Washington in the end zone for a 15-yard touchdown pass with 1:05 remaining.
"I think this is enough," Sheppard said. "I mean, seriously. This is only my second year – I know this type of stuff has been going on for about a decade here – but this seriously is enough.
"You go out there, you've got your home fans rooting you on – it was as loud as I've ever heard in there. You say you want to be a great defense? Well, we were in a situation to win a football game and we didn't get it done."
Worse for the Bills, it came against an opponent they viewed as inferior. Tennessee came to Orchard Park 0-3 on the road, having been outscored, 106-31, in those games.
"I just think we could have beat them," linebacker Nick Barnett said. "I'm really disappointed in that game. … You know, I hate to sit here and say this because we lost, but they shouldn't be in the game with us. We should have beaten them – bad."
Instead, it's the Bills who are left searching for answers as they head into the bye week with a 3-4 record. The questions they're facing are the same ones they've dealt with all season: How do they fix the league's worst run defense, one that's given up 1,238 yards through seven games – including 197 to the Titans on Sunday and a mind-boggling 937 in the last four? And how can they get more consistent play out of quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, who erased all the good he had done through three quarters Sunday with an ugly interception that set up the Titans' game-winning drive?
Coach Chan Gailey made it clear those answers will come from within, offering a simple and emphatic "no" when asked if he would consider changes to his defensive coaching staff over the bye week.
As for his quarterback, Gailey reaffirmed his support.
"It's the same," he said of his confidence level in Fitzpatrick. "He made a bad throw at the end. Other than that, he played really, really well. He made one bad throw. If you get rid of all of the quarterbacks for one bad throw, you are not going to have any quarterbacks left."
Facing a third-and-7 play from the Bills' 39 with 3:03 left, Fitzpatrick made an ill-advised throw intended for Donald Jones up the right sideline. The ball was easily intercepted by Titans cornerback Jason McCourty, who read the route perfectly.
"I just got greedy in a situation I didn't have any business being greedy in," Fitzpatrick said. "It was a dumb throw, dumb decision by me. Third down at the end of the game, game on the line, Chan put the ball in my hands essentially and I threw an interception, so that one hurts."
The Titans took over possession at their 48 and drove 52 yards in seven plays for the go-ahead points. With the Bills in their nickel defense, Washington got behind cornerback Justin Rogers and Bills safety George Wilson could not get over in time to provide support.
"It was a basic route combination," Rogers said. "We had seen it the whole game and pretty much knew they were going to run it. I just got to make a play. I got my head turned, and he put it right on the money. I wish I could have had that one back. It hurts. I make that play, we win.
"I can't even explain. Being the competitor I am, I feel like I let my teammates down."
Rogers, though, was far from the only culprit on defense. Titans running back Chris Johnson looked like the 2009 version of himself, gashing the Bills for 195 yards (the third-highest single-game total of his career) on 18 carries, including touchdown runs of 16 and 83 yards in the first quarter.
"He challenged us and we did not step to the plate," Bills defensive end Chris Kelsay said of Johnson. "We had guys out of gaps and he is the type of guy who if you give him a crease he is going to hit it."
Despite Johnson running wild early, the Bills stayed in the game thanks to some big plays of their own, including an 89-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Brad Smith that tied the game, 14-14, in the first quarter.
The Bills' elite running backs also came to play, with Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller combining for 141 yards rushing and another 81 receiving. Fitzpatrick got going in the third quarter, as well, making two perfect throws on touchdown passes to Jones and Stevie Johnson, covering 16 and 27 yards, respectively.
After both of those scores, the Bills bypassed a chance to go for a two-point conversion, the first of which could have tied the game and the second of which could have given them a seven-point lead with 5 seconds left in the third quarter.
"In general through the years, I have felt like you don't go for two until you get to the 10-, 11-minute mark of the fourth quarter," Gailey said. "I thought the way the scoring was going there was going to be quite a few other opportunities either way if we needed to do that."
In the end, it turned out to be another decision to second guess in a season full of such moments.
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Around this time last year, Gabby Douglas dropped a bomb on her coaches and family: She wanted to quit gymnastics – and maybe try getting a job at Chick-fil-A.
"What," she says now, "was I thinking?"
Of course, she didn't. And the rest is history.
Four months after becoming the first black woman ever to win Olympic gold in individual all-around gymnastics, Douglas, 16, is looking back on her magical year – one that includes a new memoir Grace, Gold, & Glory: My Leap of Faith, to be published Dec. 4, and excerpted exclusively in PEOPLE this week.
"My life has changed so much," says the bubbly former PEOPLE cover girl, who spent the morning before Thanksgiving chilling with her big sister, Arielle, 23, in her sweats and chatting with PEOPLE in her midtown Manhattan hotel. "It's been really fun."
Among the highlights: meeting her celebrity crush Ian Somerhalder, appearing on the VMAs and hobnobbing at the White House with the President.
"He was so down to earth," says Douglas.
These days, with two golds at home – and a bunch of great friends by her side – Douglas admits she has every reason to smile.
At their Manhattan hotel Nov. 20, Douglas and her teammates – who were in town to walk in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade – spent a giggle-filled night playing Twister, eating snacks and watching videos on YouTube, including their fun new take on Psy's viral "Gangnam Style."
"They're like sisters," says Douglas of her teammates.
Now, before starting training again, Douglas says she'll be cherishing time at home in Virginia Beach, Va., with the other most important people in her life: mom Natalie Hawkins, 42, brother John, 18, and sisters Arielle and Joyelle, 19.
"I'm so thankful for them," says Douglas. "I feel so blessed."
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The Influence of Personality on the Job Performance of Key Account Managers
Mahlamäki, Tommi
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2010-08-20
Language: en
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Key account management (KAM) is a current and relevant topic in the business-to-business marketing context. KAM can be defined as identification and serving of company's strategically important customers. Although KAM is widely studied, less attention has been paid to KAM's essential ingredient: the key account manager. This research focuses on the job performance of the key account manager; more precisely, on the influence of personality on that performance. While identifying the relationship between personality and key account manager job performance, different research methods were used. Development and validation of a personality inventory called for survey research with analysis tools ranging from correlation to confirmatory factor analysis. For the research on the relationship of personality and job performance 180 Finnish key account managers were surveyed. In the data analysis, correlation and regression analyses were utilized. The academic contribution of this research can be divided into two parts: scale development and relationship identification. The first contribution of the research is the personality inventory, which can be used to assess the Big Five personality traits in the Finnish context. The second contribution is the increased knowledge of the relationship between personality traits and key account manager job performance. The results showed that extraversion had the strongest relationship with job performance. The positive relationship was identified as statistically very significant. Conscientiousness and agreeableness also had statistically significant, positive relationships with job performance. Openness to experience had a weak relationship with job performance. Finally, emotional stability was found to have no statistically significant relationship with job performance. This research increases the knowledge of the influence of personality on key account manager job performance. Organizations can use this information in their recruitment processes. These results could also be found useful for some aspects of training and new employee orientation processes. It would be beneficial to the research community to know more of the personal aspects that influence key account manager job performance. Effects of motivation, intelligence, or narrow personality traits concerning job performance could be analyzed. Finding out the profile of the well performing key account manager would also be both scientifically interesting and commercially valuable.
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I have this friend.
His name is Eddie.
Eddie is a man cursed by misfortune, a victim of his own circumstances.
Take the time during our younger days when we took a trip to the farm.
Read backwards, from the end result to the beginning, as if watching a movie in rewind mode.
Trust me. It works.
12:31 p.m.
Eddie comes out of the ER, stepping gingerly. The look in his eyes betrays a feeling of a line crossed that offers no return trip.
We stand stock-still.
We barely dare to breathe.
Not a word, Eddie says in a Mickey Mouse voice as he digs at his ear with his red handkerchief, which is OK with us.
No words can describe what we witnessed and we stand there in mute silence.
Im going home, he says.
Eddie doesnt ask for a ride. We dont offer.
12:30 p.m.
Never seen a case like it before in all my 25 years of practice, the doctor says, Things should return to normal in a few days. Use lots of ice.
12:16 p.m.
Its OK, son, its not as bad as it looks, the doctor tells Eddie. This should be easy really. Youve already laid the track. All we have to do is back up the train.
The doctor looks at his two orderlies and nods.
OK, the doctor says. On the count of three two one!
I hear a high-howling, blood-curdling scream echo from far down the hall beyond the closed double doors of the Emergency Room.
12:10 p.m.
The doctor lifts the sheet and takes a peek underneath.
Oh my, he says, this cant be good.
12:09 p.m.
So the doctor checks his chart, Edward. What seems to be the problem today?
Eddie speaks, but at the moment nothing that walks on two legs can hear his reply.
Somewhere outside the emergency room, dogs begin to bark.
We find a wheelchair and rush Eddie into the ER. He is screaming and curled into a tiny ball.
The nurses bump Eddie to the head of the line and take him back first. Its the smell. Jimmy wrinkles his nose in odiferous distaste and espouses poetically, It seems the bovine fecal matter has struck the automated rotary oscillator.
I concur.
11:45 a.m.
The bull spies Eddies red handkerchief dangling from his hip pocket lolling lazily in the gently wafting zephyr. It reminds him of days gone by and he relives his glory days one last time.
Eddie rises to all fours.
Guys? I cant see a thing for all this
We grimace as Eddie flies without the benefit of wings.
11:43:30 a.m.
Help me!
Eddie might have made it to the fence were it not for the cow patties.
He steps.
There follows a heavy wet squishing sound and Eddie yelps in surprise, Whoopsie Daisy!
Eddies feet go up. His face goes down. The resulting double somersault scores a 9.5 if this were Olympic gymnastics.
But its not.
11:41 a.m.
We watch in horror as a pair of long, mournful howls shatter the tranquil silence of the pasture, first from the bull as it begins to buck and jump around, snorting angrily, and then from Eddie as he realizes his egregious error.
The enraged bull shakes its massive horned head and sights in on the first sign of movement, Eddie running frantically away, the red handkerchief dangling from his back pocket.
11:40 a.m.
Thats odd, Eddie says. Its not working.
Eddie squeezes and yanks down hard.
11:37 a.m.
Frowning Eddie squats and pokes around. Ahh, there it is, he says and wipes off his hands. He stuffs the red handkerchief in his back pocket.
11:35 a.m.
Do we tell him his cows actually a bull? Jimmy asks as Eddie hops the fence to trot off down the pasture.
Nah, I reply. Some things are best found out by ones self.
11:30 a.m.
Check this out, Eddie says pointing, during our recent visit to the farm.
We look.
Ever milk a cow?
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May 2, 2013
Morgan County voters are faced with conflicting desires, the education of children and the lowering of Morgan County taxes. But then, we face these conflicts daily as we make our purchases....
I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think cutting the teachers' benefits is it. They don't make very much for what they put up with as is.
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Blacklick Valley will host Glendale this morning in its second football scrimmage.
If everything goes according to plans, it will be the last day game played at Lloyd McMullen Field.
Posts arrived in Nanty Glo on Thursday, and, barring something unforeseen, it looks like lights will be installed in time for the Vikings' home opener against Rockwood the second week of the high school football season.
"Everything the school has done for us has always been first class, but the facilities were lacking," Blacklick football coach Bill Zamboni said. "Now we'll have facilities as nice as everyone else's."
Assistant coach Garry Wurm, Denny Palko and Mike Shultz spearheaded the effort to make Friday night football a reality in the central Cambria County community.
Night football has been discussed for years at Blacklick, but it took foresight, good fortune and timing to bring it to the threshold of reality. Wurm, Palko and Shultz were part of the group that bought lights for the town's youth baseball field two years ago. To get the best price for the lights, they had to buy in bulk, but they only needed to use 12 of the 60 lights they purchased.
Faced with selling the rest or finding a use for them, they decided to put them up at the football field.
Wurm said the total cost of the project would be between $30,000 and $35,000 because of shrewd purchases and the help of businesses like Rural Electric and Enmacon Electric. The field isn't owned by the school district, so the project is being funded solely on donations and with the help of money left over from another attempt at installing lights a few years ago that had to be shelved.
The Blacklick Valley Gridiron Club still is accepting donations - a $25 gift provides membership and a t-shirt imprinted with the phrase "We will light you up." Those can be sent to P.O. Box 111, Nanty Glo, Pa. 15943. Wurm said any extra cash raised will go toward other improvements at the field.
"I'll be able to hunt now on Saturdays. People come up and say, 'This is good. It will free our weekend up,'" Wurm said. "I feel a buzz in our town. I really do."
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Despite that, Hartman was in the process of his second year of his coaching comeback with the Mount Union football team. However, it was decided last week to turn the reins over to wrestling coach Corey Wertz.
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Lockheed Martin and Boeing have had a strong hold on the Air Force's launch missions for the last six years. But last month, the Defense Department instructed the Air Force to find a new contractor to break the launch monopoly in an attempt to cut costs. In early December, it was announced that SpaceX was selected for trial missions.
SpaceX scored a $900 million contract with the Air Force for two launch missions in 2014 and 2015. The trial missions will test to see if SpaceX can successfully carry military and spy satellites.
As expected, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, which are partnered in a venture called the United Launch Alliance (ULA), are not too happy about it. They took a few jabs at SpaceX's inexperience in both space launches and in the military.
"I'm hugely pleased with 66 [successful missions] in a row from ULA, and I don't know the record of SpaceX yet," said Robert Stevens, chairman and chief executive at Lockheed Martin. "Two in a row?"
Lockheed Martin also took a stab at the Department of Defense's search for cheaper alternatives to ULA, saying that cutting corners will have poor results.
"Cost doesn't matter at all if you don't put the ball into orbit,'' said Stevens. "You can thrift on cost. You can take cost out of a rocket. But I will guarantee you, in my experience, when you start pulling a lot of costs out of a rocket, your quality and your probability of success in delivering a payload to orbit diminishes.''
SpaceX Elon Musk fired back, saying that "All of SpaceX's Falcon 9 missions have reached orbit and completed all primary mission objectives." As far as costs go, Musk said that SpaceX's equipment is cheaper because it contains better technology.
"The fundamental reason SpaceX's rockets are lower cost and more powerful is that our technology is significantly more advanced than that of the Lockheed-Boeing rockets, which were designed last century," said Musk.
The ULA's Delta 4 and Atlas 5 rockets cost about $464 million per launch, more than double a previous estimate of $230 million.
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It doesn't make it a bad spacecraft. Heck, in my opinion it was the one and only thing that should have survived the expiration of Constellation. I was thrilled when everything else was circular filed and Orion was kept.
The SLS issue is the same, though slightly lesser magnitude, as Ares. It's bigger than it needs to be for its intended mission (see Augustine, et al), it costs more than it should, and it will take forever and a day to build. That's not Orion's fault. If Orion had a functional launcher it could fly in relatively short order.
That said, I want SLS to succeed because I do see a benefit to an wholly-owned NASA rocket with eyes firmly toward BEO. But I think it could have been done in a better fashion than the 'everything for everyone' approach it was built under that caused so many problems with STS. In short I fully believe SLS is the rocket congress wants, not necessarily the one NASA wants for the job.
But, back to the point, Orion hasn't flown yet and won't before manned Dragon. And it is being built by Lockheed which has built exactly as many manned space vehicles as SpaceX (read 0). It is more expensive and it is over initial time estimates. And so naturally when someone starts on a litany of all the risks and problems with Falcon/Dragon, the first reaction of those who support it is to point out the exact same flaws in SLS/Orion. But I think they should both be built. I just think the debate needs to fairly note the benefits and flaws of both systems instead of pointing out one system's flaws in a vacuum.
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Winner Update: This giveaway is now closed. Thanks so much to everyone that entered! And the randomly selected winner is: Commenter # 235 – Lynn, who said, "I love the cocktail napkins and the drink me flutes What a cute selection they have!" Congrats, Lynn!
If you love colorful, clever, and unique entertaining finds, then today's SURPRISE GIVEAWAY is for you! HostessJo.com was born from Joanna's passion for entertaining and it shows! You'll find everything from hilarious Anne Taintor products to stylish Jesse Steel aprons to backyard BBQ accessories in her shop.
This week, HostessJo.com is offering a $100 Shopping Spree towards your favorite hostess gifts & entertaining products on their website! (A few of my personal favorites pictured below: Cork Cheese Spreaders, Girls Night Glass Stick 'Ems, Casablanca Wine Glasses, and Colorful Stripes Coasters.)
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Pictured below: cool cocktail napkins from the partyware section, clever Ant Tablecloth Weights (great for picnics!), and just a couple examples from the fabulous selection of themed Koozies.
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• Post a comment here telling us which item(s) from HostessJo.com that you think are especially fabulous – or would love to get if you win!
• Giveaway ends Monday, June 8th at midnight PST. Winner is chosen randomly and will be announced Tuesday, June 9th. Good luck!!
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East Germany in 1980, in the excellent drama "Barbara," is a country of browns and dingy yellows. The wall through the divided city of Berlin is still standing, and it is still keeping its people "in."
However, in the communist country's less populated rural provinces, compliance is enforced in much more personal ways.
It is there that Barbara, a young doctor, finds herself. Alone and on edge, she has recently been freed from detention (her offense is never made clear) and exiled from Berlin to work in an undersupplied, understaffed medical center on a windswept stretch of the northern coast.
From her first moments on screen, Barbara is watchful, purposeful and unapproachable.
Her arrival at the center is observed from a window by another doctor, André, and an unidentified man. "What's she like?," asks the long-haired physician. "If she were 6, you'd say she was sulky," responds the other man, dismissively.
Barbara, played with brittle, beautiful clarity by Nina Hoss, is rightly standoffish. She has no remaining friends, and trusts no one in her new surroundings, especially not the particularly effusive, furry André (Ronald Zehrfeld), who, after spying on her earlier, offers her a ride home – and does not even bother asking where she lives. He already knows, and she notices.
Director Christian Petzold, who co-wrote the screenplay, has a masterful way of letting actions and body language tell his story, with conversation floating above the true meaning of things like a delicate, empty bubble. (The film is in German, with easily read subtitles.) When the Stasi push into Barbara's home for a surprise search – and here we meet again the anonymous man from the opening scene, now revealed as a Stasi officer – Barbara stands silent, rigid, looking nowhere, revealing nothing. When the female officer puts on her rubber gloves for the final part of the search, we can sense Barbara's scream of anger and humiliation, although again, we hear nothing.
But there is much going on, and once the frame is built, the puzzle of this troubled young doctor starts to come together. She travels to a distant restaurant, where an unlikely contact hands her a package of cash in a ladies room; later, a handsome blond businessman meets her for a tryst in a forest – it is her Western boyfriend Jörg, bringing small gifts and a plan for escape.
Back at the hospital, a terrified, pregnant and seriously ill teenage runaway named Stella somehow breaks through Barbara's armor and touches her heart.
As her hopes for a life outside her cultural prison begin to rise, Barbara also begins to soften to André's insistence on friendship. In brief, strong and perfectly normal moments – there are no lightning bolts here – Petzold chips away at the loneliness of all his characters, to a point where, though they may never feel trust, they are at least able to share respect, and perhaps a little more.
It is an elegantly, thoughtfully made film. Its small budget shows, and it is not particularly beautiful, but the effect is remarkably appropriate for the time and place Petzold is re- creating. It is quiet, deliberate and sometimes incomplete.
"Barbara" was Germany's entry for consideration for this year's Academy Award for Foreign Film. It is not one of the finalists, but as a window into a world not so long past, when the wrong words, the wrong friends or the wrong dreams could ruin the most normal of lives, it is worth seeing.
Three stars
Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Jasna Fritzi Bauer
Director: Christian Petzold
Running time: 105 minutes
Rating: PG-13 for some sexual material, thematic elements and smoking. In German with subtitles.
The Lowdown: A Berlin doctor released from detention is exiled to northern East Germany in 1980, where her hopes for freedom conflict with her medical instincts.
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Stetson women's soccer head coach Manoj Khettry announced the date for a Prospect Identification Camp to be hosted by the Hatters women's soccer program on Tuesday. The ID Camp is scheduled for (UPDATE: Saturday, May 11), and will be held on the fields at the Stetson University Athletic Training Center.
The camp is for current high school aged players (13-19) looking to become Stetson Hatters or to continue their development as a player. The Stetson Prospect ID Camp will expose players to the standards and style of coaching, as well as expectations of players at Stetson.
Players will be evaluated by the Stetson coaching staff, which includes Head Coach Manoj Khettry and other Stetson soccer coaches. The Prospect ID Camp will center on becoming technically cleaner, playing and keeping possession in tight spaces, small-sided games, as well as a Power-Point presentation geared to educate players (and family members) on what it takes to be a college soccer player.
The camp is intended for players with a high level of interest in playing at the NCAA Division I level and Stetson University.
During the clinic players will have the opportunity to tour the new Athletic Training Center and play on the brand new fields.
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Where are all the dinosaurs?
While most people are introduced to paleontology through dinosaurs and pterodactyls, most paleontologists work with other creatures. Paleontology is the study of the history of life on earth. Just like there are biologists who work on bears, fish, trees and insects, there are also paleontologists studying the histories of each of these groups. Furthermore, paleontologists are often limited in what they can study based on what is preserved in the fossil record. Entire forests are rarely buried in mud. As a result, there are few squirrels to be studied in the fossil record. Sand dollars, on the other hand, spend most of their life in the mud. As a result, they have a much richer fossil record.
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McALISTERVILLE - Fayette Elementary School in McAlisterville is in the running to win a $30,000 playground makeover, and students and parents are asking for community support.
Tyler Barth, a first grade student at the school, discovered the Dannon Rally for Recess contest information on a box of his favorite smoothie drinks.
Though his mother, Kelly Barth, usually saves the treat for special occasions, she bought a box and went online for more information about the contest.
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Tanner Barth and Andrew Hunter, fourth grade students at Fayette Elementary School, handwrite index cards to mail for Rally for Recess contest codes. The McAlisterville school is in the running to win a $30,000 playground makeover.
Barth said the Rally for Recess contest will award a $30,000 grant to five schools that earn the most points by entering codes online. With nothing to lose, the Barth family registered their school.
"Maybe we would be lucky and win," she thought.
Barth said word of the contest spread quickly and other parents at the school got involved. Since then, what started as a quick afterschool snack has evolved into a school-wide effort to bring new playground equipment to Fayette Elementary School.
On Tuesday afternoon, the school stood in second place with slightly more than 3,000 points among the top 100 participating schools in their division.
"We have a very, very excellent chance of winning," Barth said. "This would be a wonderful way to have some positive things happening in the community."
Christa Watson, also a parent at the school, said points are earned by collecting codes on Danimals smoothie drinks or Danonino yogurt with "Rally for Recess" packaging.
The inside of specially marked packages includes a combination of 10 letters or numbers, Barth said. The codes can be redeemed for points by entering them at www.rallyforrecess.com.
"We can also get free codes by mailing in a request," said Ruth Hunter, another parent at the school.
To make a code request, supporters are asked to handwrite their name, birthdate and firstname.lastname@example.com on a 3x5 inch index card. One index card per envelope should be mailed to Dannon Danimals Rally for Recess Free Code Request, P.O. Box 760017, El Paso, TX, 88576-0017. Parents organizing the event will receive the free codes at the Fayette Playground email address and will redeem them for points through the contest website.
Those interested in helping can also offer monetary donations to purchase postage for free code envelopes at www.gofundme.com/helpfayette.
"I feel that this contest offers a great life lesson to the students on teamwork, dedication and persistance," Barth said.
She said students at the school have been hanging posters, helping to write and mail free code cards and reading codes to parents as they enter them into the website.
"Our kids have been a part of this process the entire time and winning would reinforce all of those traits," she said.
If Fayette Elementary School wins, Barth said the old wood-style playground equipment, swings and seesaws would be updated to include safer and more interactive equipment.
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According to USA Today, Damaine Mitchell, 19, of Westwood, Ohio, stood before Judge Melba Marsh on Wednesday charged with selling marijuana on June 12 in a parking lot. He faced a maximum prison sentence of 1 1/2 years.
Judge Marsh is a Hamilton County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court judge, and by all accounts, a fair and reasonable one. She talked to young Damaine as a concerned mother or aunt would. She told him that she would do whatever was in her power to keep him out of jail, including sending him to a drug treatment program. Indeed, if he completed the program she would not only not imprison him but would "expunge" the conviction from his record. Her only requirement, beyond successful completion of the program, was that he must stop smoking the demon weed.
"That's going to be hard for me to do, to be honest with you," Mitchell told the judge.
The good judge began a "negotiation" of sorts with the young man. Could he stop smoking marijuana maybe until April? If so, he'd have to submit to regular and (surprise) drug tests to ensure that he was following the straight and narrow.
Mitchell gets big points for honesty here. He told the judge point blank:
"That's going to be a challenge," he said. "I like smoking weed. I have been smoking weed since I was, like, 10-years-old."
Then the judge actually bent over backwards. Well, she asked, when could you stop? By Easter? Nope. Valentine's Day? "I won't want to," Mitchell told her. New Year's Day? Christmas? Thanksgiving? "If I put my mind to it I can, (but) I won't want to," he said.
That's when our young defendant made a counter-offer.
"I know this is probably not the right question to ask, (but) can I get a little time at least (to) get one more joint in?" he asked the judge.
Incredulous, "shocked," even, Judge Marsh flatly refused.
"No. You can't have one more joint for old time's sake." she said. She then sent him back to the lockup for now – to let him think about it, I guess.
It's unfortunate that Mitchell does not live in one of the two states which voted this past election to essentially legalize marijuana. Or in one of the states where medical pot is legally available.
It's also too bad that this young man has been smoking pot since he was 10-years-old. He apparently does not have an extensive criminal background (never been caught before). And, it appears that there is no one in his life to advise him of how to deal with this first brush with the law.
His "addiction" is apparently severe. It's unlikely that a treatment program of a few weeks, or even months, will break its hold. My guess is that he will take the 1 ½ years, do one, and begin the process of becoming a hardened and incorrigible criminal. He will then likely spend most, or a very good portion, of his adult life behind bars wishing every day that he had taken the judge's offer.
In my work with ex-offenders I see this kind of behavior almost daily, (although no one I've worked with has ever asked a judge to let them have one last fling). If this wasn't so sad, it would be funny. Sad..sad, sad.
But, Judge Marsh deserves lots of credit and kudos for at least trying.


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on March 6, 2013 - 12:26 AM
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A furious fourth-quarter rally mounted by New York State officials – including a top aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo – has fallen short in keeping the film "Draft Day" in Buffalo.
The movie, which was to depict Kevin Costner as a fictitious Buffalo Bills general manager trying to restore his team to past glory, will instead be shot in Cleveland, with the actor portraying the Cleveland Browns GM.
The big reason, said Tim Clark, who heads the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission, was economics.
"At the end of the day, it was a money thing. I think Mr. [Ivan] Reitman really wanted to shoot here, but it just came down to the cost factor. What we were told is that the Cleveland incentives were better," Clark said.
"I feel the worse for the Buffalo Bills, because they worked real hard to convince the film company that Buffalo was the place to shoot this, and that Buffalo was America's team."
Last month, Reitman, the film's director, and a location scout toured Ralph Wilson Stadium, asb well as other local sites, and seemed excited about filming the movie in Buffalo, Clark said. But Lionsgate, the film's distributor, thought otherwise despite efforts by state officials to sweeten the pot and keep the movie here.
Howard Glaser, chief of state operations, was enlisted by the governor to talk with Lionsgate officials in an attempt to change the studio's mind. Howard Zemsky, one of Cuomo's go-to guys in Western New York, also was brought in to try to find a solution.
"The state responded in short order in a very robust way and was able to narrow the gap considerably. But at the end of the day, the producer selected Cleveland," Zemsky said.
Despite the added incentives offered by New York State, it was still about $3 million cheaper to film in Cleveland than Buffalo, a source said.
One factor was that there is a 35 percent tax deduction incentive for making the movie in Cleveland for Ohio crew members, 5 percent higher than New York State. A bill sponsored by State Sen. Patrick Gallivan, R-Elma, would increase incentives for upstate and Western New York, allowing up to a 45 percent credit for Buffalo.
Such legislation, sponsors say, would boost the local film industry and create the kind of workforce that would mean it would not be necessary to bring in stagehands and other crew members from New York City, with the added expenses of transportation and per diem payments.
"I wish I could say what happened was a rarity, but it's becoming a more common occurrence," Clark said. "I don't know if the Reitman film would have come here if we had a higher tax incentive upstate and in Western New York, but it wouldn't have hurt."
Gallivan also weighed in on the loss of the movie: "The news today that Cleveland was selected over Western New York as the filming location for 'Draft Day' is just the latest example of why New York State needs to expand and reform its film production tax credit program," he said.
"We have desirable locations through the area, and we have near-universal support from within the community, but we are lacking an incentive program that can compete with neighboring states.
"Western New York didn't lose a movie today, we lost jobs. A failure to act after this latest development would be inexcusable," Gallivan said.
Principal photography is expected to begin next month at the NFL draft in Radio City Music Hall.
Gallivan's legislation has received the support of the Buffalo Common Council and the New York Production Alliance, based in New York City and representing 75,000 movie and TV professionals, in a letter to Cuomo.
Downstate theatrical stagehand unions have also expressed support for boosting the tax credits in upstate and Western New York.
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