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Register now: General Hugh Shelton webcast, February 16
Join us Feb. 16 when we host General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now Chairman of the Board of Directors of Red Hat, in the next Open Your World Forum webcast.
General Shelton's recently published autobiography, Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, chronicles his distinguished and nearly four-decade military career, spanning a history from the Vietnam War to 9/11 and his time as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During the webcast,
he'll reflect on that career and the links that his own experiences and the military in general have to the principles that the open source way comprises.
When we talk about the open source way, what we're really talking about are a set of principles and values, including meritocracy, transparency, rapid prototyping, and authenticity. And although open source communities are seldom considered militaristic, they have quite a bit in common with the military around these principles.
For example, militaries around the world and throughout history are perhaps the closest examples we have to true, functioning meritocracies. Shelton's career from his entry into the Army through his promotion to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1997 was built on the military's long-standing meritocracy. In his autobiography, he writes, "I recognized that moving into the general-officer ranks, I might...have a chance to make a much greater impact...in terms of making the Army better. Greater responsibility came with the turf, and I viewed the promotion as an opportunity in that regard."
Rapid prototyping has become increasingly important when fighting modern threats like terrorism, which move quickly, unbounded by national borders or the international rules of armed conflict. Decades ago, during the Vietnam War, General Shelton was early in his career and already experimenting with rapid prototyping in intelligence gathering and analysis.
General Shelton has exemplified transparency in his military career, which on the surface seems to be the least likely place for overlap with the open source way. After all, there's national security and the chain of command to consider. But there's also balance required, and the public's trust in its military relies on a level of transparency into its actions. "I'm frequently asked if (in the interest of national security) I have ever lied to the press," General Shelton wrote in Without Hesitation. "My answer: no. They often follow up by asking if there is ever an occasion when it might be necessary to do so. My answer: I sure can't think of any at the moment."
We hope you'll join us to hear more from General Shelton on February 16 about these stories and more. You'll also have an opportunity to ask your own questions.
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I bet Jon Stewart is going to learn a thing or two after opensource.com's interview with General Shelton on the 16th... :)
i know free software knows no boundaries, hate it when the community is perceived as monolithic but having a career soldier to head the board is still nauseating.
with 30-40 countries bombed since WW2 and twice as many overthrown and bases in over 145 countries on the planet, the only person who could have been worse would have been a pedophile.
business is business and if you are good at killing people it obviously counts in the board room.... lack of morals is universal.
I can't wait to participate in this Webinar. I've already registered and submitted my questions. Thanks for putting this together!
I can't wait!
will be interested to hear this - particularly after the recent TECH@STATE open source conference last week in DC. http://www.state.gov/statecraft/tech/opensource/index.htm


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The evening begins, though, with six different venues catering to the discriminating tastes of the revelers, whether they prefer rock 'n roll, bluegrass, country, gospel, folk or family style with a little magic and ventriloquism. Model train lovers and people with a penchant for the past also have venues to visit.
Tickets remain on sale for $8 each or children 10 and under free when accompanied by a ticket-bearing adult. Veterans can also get free admission. Ticket outlets include Salem Giant Eagle, Salem Community Center, Salem Chamber of Commerce, all Salem banks, and the Salem Historical Society.
The Kent City Center Auditorium rock 'n roll venue on Lincoln Avenue opens at 6 p.m. Monday with the Sugartree Alley steel drum band, followed by Beatles tribute band Abbey Road with local member John Gilbert, and special guest, World War II veteran Robert Zelenak, at 7 p.m. and Abbey Road again at 9 p.m. The Tribute Band featuring local longtime rocker Randy Strader, his sons Jeff and Brandon and grandson Mike Chestnut will perform at 8 and 10 p.m. Stormn Normn will take the stage between sets.
The bluegrass and country music venue at the Masonic Temple on East State Street also kicks off at 6 p.m. with Allegheny Drifters, who will perform again at 8:30 p.m., followed by local popular country artist Zach Paxson at 6:50 and 9:20 p.m. and the Stockdale Family Band at 7:40 and 10:10 p.m. Paxson has a following and the Stockdale Family has performed at New Year's Eve Salem all nine years.
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The Memorial Building will be the site for the children's venue, featuring the Jason Alan magic show in the gym at 5:30 p.m., ventriloquist Daniel Jay at 6:30 p.m. in the gym and Chip Richter and the Chipmunks Band at 7:30 p.m. in the gym. The gym fun ends with a ball drop, then moves to the Red Room on the top floor of the Memorial Building for some folk music by Dulci-More at 8:30 and 10:10 p.m. and Linda Sigismondi and Bill Schilling at 9:20 p.m.
The Sugartree Alley Depot Model Train Display at the back of Fred Naragon's law office will be open from 6 to 10 p.m. with the entrance off of the alley. The Salem Historical Society venue at the Dale Shaffer Research Library meeting room off of South Lundy Avenue will be open from 4:30 to 8 p.m. with a show featuring the Music and Toys of the Baby Boomers. The display will also be open from 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. 6 if weather permits.
Admission tickets don't cover the cost of the food offerings at each site, which will carry a separate price. Each venue will feature pizza and soft drinks. The Salem Area Amateur Radio Association will offer a hot dog bar in Room 207, south of the auditorium in the Kent City Center, featuring hot dogs, cheese dogs, chili dogs, kraut dogs and kielbasa.
The Masonic Temple will feature a more traditional meal of turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, beans, cake and drink or a turkey sandwish and separate sides.
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quote: When the F-35 came out, it was marketed as the low-cost complement to the F-22. It was supposed to have a good percentage of the capabilities of the F-22 at a greatly reduced price. All the hype was surrounding the F-22 and its capabilities and the F-35 was just going to be the watered down, less capable, more numerous fighter.
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LIMA, 14 June 2012 – The Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Kandeh K. Yumkella, met with President Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso during his official visit to Peru.
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Peru's Minister of Production, Gladys Triveño, later announced that the new UNIDO office will be located at her ministry.
Yumkella visited Peru while en route to Rio de Janeiro to attend the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
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August 15, 2014 - Extraordinary IRS Scandal News
The order from U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan was certainly clear enough. In a landmark victory for Judicial Watch, the federal judge ordered the IRS to submit sworn declarations detailing what happened to Lois Lerner's "lost" emails and what steps were being taken to find them.
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Arthur Post can be forgiven for a spot of hubris. After all, it�s not bragging if you can back it up.
�It�s already an unforgettable season � I really pulled out all the stops,� the Musical Director of the San Juan Symphony said at the outset of his �Musically Speaking� concert preview Wednesday evening at Toh-Atin Gallery.
The 2012-13 season will begin Saturday night at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College with �Rock �n� Roll in Vienna,� a title that itself hints at some different and fun things to come this year. The first program contains just two works of about 35 minutes each with absolutely no down time.
Up first is Friedrich Gulda�s 1980 composition Concerto for Cello and Wind Instruments, followed after intermission by Ludwig van Beethoven�s Symphony No. 7, which turned 200 years old earlier this year.
�You can call it his best � along with his fifth, third and ninth,� Post quipped. �But the Seventh is special for me because it�s just incredibly positive.�
In stark contrast to the recognizable Seventh, Gulda�s Concerto will likely be heard for the first time by Saturday�s crowd. It�s a hodgepodge of sounds, beginning with an almost funk-like riff that�s reminiscent of a 1970�s cop show and segueing into much more pastoral sounds evoking the Viennese countryside. And the final movement sounds like an Oktoberfest oompa band.
Israeli-American cellist Inbal Segev will be the featured soloist. She and Post were classmates at Yale University in the 1990s and she last played in Durango in 2008.
The opening program will set the stage for the season�s theme of �Lollapalooza,� which also will feature �Dread, Redemption, Nirvana,� �Back to the Future� and �Bach and Beatlemania� in the coming months.
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On India's Streets, Women Run a Gantlet of Harassment
BARASAT, India—Juhi Nondi, a 20-year-old college student, takes the train every day to and from school here, toting a satchel of textbooks and looking stylish in her skinny jeans and T-shirts—and long, sharp fingernails.
"They're not just for fashion," she says of her pink nails, "but also for self-defense."
Aggressive sexual harassment is a daily part of her commute in this bustling suburb of Kolkata. A man grabbed her breast one morning, she says. Another day, someone grabbed her hip. Friends carry chili powder, she says, to throw in the eyes of an assailant, a sort of homemade pepper spray.
"If I'm even a half-hour late coming home, my parents panic," Ms. Nondi says.
Barasat, which boasts a shopping mall, a KFC restaurant and a growing number of women in the workplace, is a typical, if modest Indian economic success story. But it is typical of urban India in another way, too: Here and nationwide, women say harassment of women is a fixture of daily life.
In December, India's climate of sexual violence burst onto the world's consciousness after a young woman on a bus in New Delhi was so brutally gang-raped and assaulted that she died of her injuries. That attack provoked nationwide protests and prompted national introspection about the broader spectrum of harassment—from stalking to groping—that often goes unpunished and can lead to more aggravated assault, experts say.
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The WSJ profiles the victims and the accused in last year's death in New Delhi, and examines the widespread problem of harassment of women in India.
- Victim's friend describes the young couple's complex love story (1/30/2013)
- The bus helper with a singsong voice: New details emerge about the accused (1/10/2013)
- "Wake up, wake up," she urged her friend. How the fateful day began (1/9/2013)
- Victim's body is flown home as grief and outrage sweep India and the world (12/30/2012)
Here in Barasat, interviews with two dozen women yielded consistent stories of recent and repeated harassment. Men trail women on foot or on scooters, making crude remarks and grabbing at the scarf worn to cover the chest. It happens at the train station, they said, in the fish-market lane, on the road to the university and outside the police station.
Many women interviewed complained that police do little to stop it. One local officer, when asked about that by a reporter, responded: "If these incidents don't happen, what will happen to our jobs?"
A senior Barasat police official said the police take all complaints seriously. The police said the department couldn't provide hard numbers on harassment complaints, arrests or convictions.
Women say they travel in groups, some carrying sharp objects—safety pins, pocket knives—to discourage harassers. Still, occasionally there are more serious assaults. In early 2011, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death trying to protect his 22-year-old sister, Rinku Das, as she returned home one evening from her call-center job.
As usual, her brother picked her up on his bicycle from the station, Ms. Das says. Three men blocked the bike, she says, poured alcohol on her, and attacked her brother as he sprang to her defense.
As her brother was being beaten with bamboo canes, Ms. Das says, she pounded on a nearby senior police officer's bungalow. The guards outside told her they couldn't help. "I screamed and shouted for help in the middle of the street," she says.
Kalyan Banerjee, the main police officer dealing with Ms. Das's case, said the bungalow guards aren't allowed to leave their posts.
The three alleged attackers face murder charges and have pleaded not guilty. They are in judicial custody.
After the killing, police say, they intensified patrols, put more plainclothes officers on the street and opened a new women's police station across from the Barasat Government College. From there, 18 female officers patrol high-frequency harassment areas.
But the roots of the problem run deep, starting in childhood. Across India, daughters are often less valued than sons—a reality that shows up in India's skewed gender ratios.
India has 37 million more men than women, partly because the preference for sons prompts sex-selective abortions and infanticide. Women also have a higher overall mortality rate than men, partly because of bias and neglect over a lifetime, according to recent research, as well as mortality during childbirth.
Some argue that the harassment is a byproduct of economic growth in places like Barasat. A few decades ago, Barasat was a dirt-road town of a few thousand people. Today it is a growing suburb of sprawling Kolkata, with apartment buildings and gated communities with names like Fortune Township. The population tops a quarter-million.
Men and women alike have benefited greatly, but society remains deeply conservative. "For generations, men haven't seen women so empowered," says Mayank Saksena, an executive at consulting firm Jones Lang LaSalle JLL -3.02 % who has developed real estate in Barasat and has studied the town closely. "It builds jealousy and envy."
In particular, men lacking enough formal education to climb the economic ladder may find casual work as food vendors, rickshaw pullers, drivers or laborers, which might pay about $100 per month. Around them, in Barasat, they see growing numbers of young, modern women making their way to colleges and call centers.
A report commissioned by the Indian government after the Delhi rape and murder described the danger nationwide of "young, prospect-less men" whose frustrations are "lending intensity to a pre-existing culture of sexual violence."
In response to that report, the government this month enacted a temporary ordinance that cracks down on various types of sexual harassment and assault. For example, "unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures" are punishable with up to five years in prison, while "making sexually coloured remarks" can yield a one-year jail term. Parliament must ratify the ordinance to make it permanent, otherwise it will expire in several weeks.
Anima Sarkar, a political-science student, described an encounter with three Barasat men late last year. The 23-year-old and three of her male friends were walking the few hundred yards from the college to the train station, when the men started verbally harassing her, she says. "Women are like a commodity, a product," she recalled one of them saying. "You are a good product."
She scolded one of them, she says, by asking: "Don't you have a sister or mother at home?"
A skirmish ensued between the men and Ms. Sarkar's friends. One man grabbed her scarf and hand, she says, and she slapped him.
Bystanders intervened and dragged one of the alleged attackers, Tapan Sen, down the street to the police station. Police later tracked down two other suspects, Mintu Sarkar (no relation to Anima), and Raju Biswas.
The men, who spent a night in jail, are out on bail as police investigate harassment-related charges. None has been charged with any wrongdoing. In interviews, they say they were out shopping that night and encountered Ms. Sarkar but deny harassing or assaulting her. They allege that a fourth man, whom they know by the nickname "The Master," insulted and groped her.
Mr. Sen, 23, is a part-time driver who dropped out of school after ninth grade to work at a car-repair shop. He earns about $75 a month.
Mr. Sarkar, 34 years old, owns a shop that makes door and window frames. "I really began this business from scratch," he said. He is unmarried and lives with his parents, two elder brothers and their wives. He has a high-school diploma.
Mr. Biswas is a 23-year-old orphan with a wife, a 3-year-old daughter and no formal education. He says he makes about $150 a month as a contract laborer in Mr. Sarkar's shop, getting paid according to the number of pieces he makes.
The men described the fourth man, The Master, as a middle-aged, part-time teacher who hung around their window-and-door-making shop. "He would stare lewdly at women passing by in the market," Mr. Biswas said.
According to Mr. Biswas's account, The Master was with them the night of the attack. He spoke to Ms. Sarkar and lunged at her, but then disappeared into the crowd, Mr. Biswas alleges, leaving the others to take the blame.
The Master couldn't be reached for comment. Police said they were unaware of him and his alleged role in the attack.
After the incident, Ms. Sarkar says, her neighbors told her parents that she must have done something wrong—that somehow the attack was her fault. Her parents grounded her for weeks, so she lost her job tutoring kids in math and science.
Ms. Sarkar, the daughter of a fruit vendor whose family of four lives on about $100 a month, plans to go to law school, but not in Barasat. "My friends and I say it's better if we run away from here when we graduate," she says.
Police say they are investigating charges of harassing a woman with intent to "outrage her modesty." Before the new ordinance, it was the only crime in India's criminal code dealing with harassment of women.
The law allows for a maximum of two years' imprisonment. In practice, such punishments are rare. Maheshwar Banerjee, public prosecutor in Barasat, said that he can't recall any harassment case since he took charge of the office in October 2011 that resulted in punishment.
Often, the complainants don't appear in court because they are afraid of tarnishing their family's image or hurting their marriage prospects, he said. "The women's families don't like to pursue the cases," he said.
The areas where women complain harassment is most commonplace are the busy markets and intersections near the train station and the heart of town. One lane from the station passes the local courthouse. The other lane begins at a police station, passes a fish market and vegetable vendors and reaches the office of the District Magistrate, the most senior official.
The streets are packed with bicycle rickshaws and shoppers visiting jewelry stores, Internet cafes and snack vendors. Men gather at the tea stall on the road to the college.
Behind the college is an alley known for illegal liquor shops, where men drink and gamble. Barasat has one police officer for every 1,030 people—just about India's average—compared with one policeman per 390 people in the U.S. and one per 236 people in New York City.
Some policemen appear more concerned about being punished for not stopping harassment than protecting women from such incidents, according to several women interviewed who commute regularly by train.
Shumi Kundu, 22, says that last month she had an encounter with two police officers that left the impression they were more concerned about their own well-being than hers. At the time, she was sitting on a bench at a train platform. The cops approached her and asked her to leave.
"They said if I didn't leave and something bad happened to me, they'd be blamed for it," Ms. Kundu said.
A.K. Sarkar, an official in the Barasat Railway Police, which is in charge of security on train platforms, said officers take their duties seriously. "If anything at all happens, then we go and intervene," he said.
—Uzma Jahangir contributed to this article.


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Intelligent Tinkering, published in 2011, uses the restoration of tropical dry forestland in Hawaii as an in-depth case study to investigate the scientific, practical, and philosophical issues associated with performing ecological restoration in the messy real world. Cabin explores the relationship between science and practice in ecological restoration through his entert... read more
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Old Fields, published in 2011, brings together leading experts from around the world to synthesize past and current work on old fields, providing an up-to-date perspective on the ecological dynamics of abandoned land. The book provides readers with a broad understanding of why agricultural land is abandoned, the factors that determine the ecol... read more
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Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land, published in 2010, provides a step-by-step process for developing, implementing, monitoring, and refining on-the-ground restoration projects that are applicable to a wide range of landscapes and ecosystems. The first half of the book introduces the process of ecological restoration through specific examples from t... read more
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A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration, published in 2007, is the first book to offer practical, field-tested solutions to the critical problem of dryland degradation and desertification. Author David Bainbridge has spent more than 25 years actively involved in restoring lands across the American Southwest. This book presents the results of his years of fieldwor... read more
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River Futures, published in 2008, discusses the emergence of this new era of river repair and documents a comprehensive biophysical framework for river science and management. The book considers what can be done to maximize prospects for improving river health while maintaining or enhancing the provision of ecosystem services over the next fifty ... read more
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Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge, published in 2009, provides a synthesis of the most up-to-date, scientific and practical information on the management of cork oak woodlands across a range of biophysical, historical, and cultural contexts. It also includes sixteen pages of full-color photos that illustrate the tree, agro-silvop... read more
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Restoring the Pacific Northwest, published in 2006, gathers and presents the best examples of state-of-the-art restoration techniques and projects. The Pacific Northwest is a global ecological "hotspot" because of its relatively healthy native ecosystems, a high degree of biodiversity, and the number of restoration initiatives that have b... read more
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SER, along with the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) and the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM), sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on June 20th offering their expertise to the recovery of the highly endangered Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi). Current recovery efforts are still being guided by a plan from 1982, and the three scientific societies are urging the... read more
SER, along with the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) and the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM), sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on June 20th offering their expertise to the recovery of the highly endangered Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi). Current recovery efforts are still being guided by a plan from 1982, and the three scientific societies are urging the FWS ... read more
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WINCHESTER, Va. - Apple Creative Theater's Youth Musical "Godspell Jr." will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday and March 7, 8, 14 and 15; and at 2 p.m. Saturday and March 9 and 10 at St. Paul's on the Hill Episcopal Church, Senseny Road. Cost is $6 per ticket.
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WINCHESTER, Va. - The Parents of the Handley High School Class of 2013 proudly announce that the nationally acclaimed "Capitol Steps" will perform at 3:13 p.m. Sunday at the Patsy Cline Theater. The Capitol Steps is a nationally acclaimed political satire troupe which has performed in all 50 states. Tickets are available at the box office, located in the Slaughter Tennis Pavilion on the Handley High School campus. Box office hours are from noon to 2 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; from 4 to 7 p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday.
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Play celebrates W.Va. independence
SHEPHERDSTOWN - "A New Home for Liberty" celebrates the West Virginians who rejected control by the secessionist slaveholding aristocracy of old Virginia. The performers bring to life the soldiers, industrialists, abolitionists, farmers, free blacks, and slaves who united to help create a new state, where greater equality for all people could flourish. The production explores how issues of race and slavery played a prominent role in the creation of West Virginia. The project also educates West Virginians about the state's first African American attorney.
An encore presentation of the stage production of "A New Home for Liberty" will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 8, at the Guy Frank Center at Shepherd University. The production is free and open to all.


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When you see something so cute that you squeal, giggle, get dizzy, and generally make an idiot of yourself over. This affliction generally more openly affects girls than guys.
I saw a picture of a baby otter on tv and got a serious case of the squeeggles for several minutes.
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Ajit Kolethe and his family had just returned to his in-laws' home on Woodlawn Avenue in Niagara Falls on Friday night, when the strong winds and heavy rains hit at about 9:30 p.m., knocking out power to the home.
"After the lights went out, maybe a few seconds later, we heard a big thud," the 40-year-old Kolethe recalled Saturday afternoon. "We opened the door, looked outside and saw the fallen tree."
What they could barely see was their Mazda 3, covered by a tree limb, branches and leaves that flattened the vehicle's roof and sliced through the back windshield.
That smashed car was one of many victims of the violent overnight storm late Friday and early Saturday that dumped more than 4 inches of rain in some parts, leaving more than 23,000 customers without electric power in Niagara and Erie counties.
Niagara County proved to be the bull's-eye for the violent storm.
Shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday, National Grid reported 17,345 customers without power in Niagara County and another 5,966 customers in Erie County. By late afternoon Saturday, the two-county total had dipped below 10,000.
On Saturday afternoon, a ride through southern and western Niagara County yielded the sights and sounds of power saws cutting through tree limbs, leafy branches being hauled out to the curb and a few downed power lines hanging in the air.
Niagara County clearly was hit the hardest, with the National Weather Service listing unofficial rain totals of 4.5 inches in Pendleton, 4.3 in North Tonawanda, 4.0 at the Niagara Falls International Airport and 2.6 inches in Lockport during a 24-hour period that ended at about 8 a.m. Saturday.
Further south, weather spotters reported 2.2 inches in Tonawanda and 2.0 inches in Depew, while the official mark was 1.77 inches at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
All that rain could have caused some substantial flooding, if the ground hadn't been so dry.
"It was a fairly substantial storm, over 4 inches of rain in a 6- to 8-hour period," National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Kelly said. "We were fortunate that the ground was dry and could absorb a lot of it. If the ground had been saturated, the flooding could have been worse."
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German customs officials quarantined Justin Bieber's pet capuchin monkey on Thursday, People reports.The increasingly erratic pop star attempted to bring the monkey, which he named Mally, into the country without the proper documents.Check out the Biebs and other child stars gone bad"Justin Bieber brought his monkey to Germany, but had no official paperwork with him," Thomas Meister, spokesman for the customs office at the Franz Josef Strauss Airport in Munich, told the magazine. "We were forced to confiscate the animal."Mally was given to Bieber last week from record producer Jamal Shaid. The pair quickly bonded, with Bieber frequently featuring the monkey on his Instagram feed.
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|KELLY MADIGAN was born in Massachusetts and has lived in Lincoln, Nebraska since 1980. Her poems and essays have appeared or will appear in Barrow Street, Crazyhorse, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern California Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Born in the House of Love won the Main-Traveled Roads Chapbook Award in 2004. She is the recipient of a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and received a Distinguished Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council in 2006. Madigan has worked since 1983 as a drug and alcohol counselor and is the author of Getting Sober: A Practical Guide to Making It Through the First Thirty Days (McGraw-Hill, 2007). In recent years, she has been exploring Nebraska rivers by canoe, including the Middle Loup, Dismal, Platte, Missouri, Elkhorn, Little Blue, Cedar, Calamus, Niobrara, and Big Blue rivers.


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Arne Zuidhoek studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, and eventually settled in Utrecht. In 1968, he started Studio Wapper with Wim van de Sanden, through which he created comics for several local publications. The first was 'Bertus Knijp & Pieters' in Nieuw Utrechts Dagblad in 1968-1969, followed by 'De Vieze Nazels' in both Havenloods/Het Zuiden and Groot Utrecht in 1970-1971. Nieuw Utrechts Dagblad and Havenloods/Het Zuiden also ran his strip 'Wally' in 1969-1970.
He worked with Guus Dijkhuizen on 'Orgus' in Gandalf (1969-1970). Zuidhoek also published a comic in an art magazine and his comic 'Co-Starring Ko' appeared in the Dutch music magazine Aloha in 1969. He has written and illustrated many books, such as 'De Verzinsels van Vader Wapper' (1974), and text stories for Donald Duck.
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Zuidhoek spent several years sailing with the merchant navy, and with his 63-foot schooner De Hoop. He is considered one of the leading publicists in maritime subjects, with an oeuvre of over thirty books. In the 1980s Zuidhoek moved to Santa Cruz, California, and decided to fully concentrate on his painting work, with a specialization in washed ink-drawing and orgrisaille techniques. One of the recurring themes in his paintings are pirates, and in 2002 there was an exhibition of his pirates in Slot Zeist.


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Since day one, Governor Cuomo has deployed an aggressive economic development strategy that has redefined the relationship among government, academia and the private sector, leading to new partnerships and regional collaboration that is attracting investment, growing businesses and creating new jobs for New Yorkers. For three straight years, we have held the line on spending and cut taxes, making great strides in improving the business climate and reversing New York''s reputation as a high-tax, anti-business state.
The 2013 legislative session is the latest chapter in the new New York, and the most productive session yet to find ways to promote business and job growth in the Empire State. It may, in fact, mark a turning point that rallies the state's economy to new heights and puts us on a path to prosperity that will be felt for generations.
Accomplishments during the 2013 session include:
- The Third Straight Balanced, On-time Budget, closing a $1.3 billion gap with no new taxes or fees
- Tax Relief for Middle-Class Families for the second straight year
- Tax Cuts for Businesses, including an income tax cut for small business and manufacturing rate cuts
- START-UP NY, which will spur entrepreneurialism and job creation by transforming public higher education through tax-free communities across the state
- NYS Business Incubator & Innovation Hot Spots will foster innovation and facilitate the transition from ideas and research to marketable products
- Round III of Regional Economic Development Council Awards will enable regions to continue investing in their own future, rather than through the old Albany, top-down approach
- NY Works Task Force Infrastructure Investments will leverage regional assets, maximize existing resources and focus on long-term job growth and economic opportunities
- Cutting Red Tape for Businesses, including reforms to unemployment insurance and workers' compensation, and streamlined regulations for farmers and brewers
- A Historic Commitment to Tourism with the largest investment in decades -- nearly $60 million -- to grow this vital jobproducing industry
- The Upstate NY Gaming Economic Development Act will establish four destination gaming resorts in upstate New York and boost tourism and economic development in the regions
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WHO: Charity Rose Thielen (vocals, violin, percussion), Chris Zasche (bass), Josiah Johnson (vocals, guitar, percussion), Jonathan Russell (vocals, guitar, percussion), Kenny Hensley (piano), Tyler Williams (drums)
WHERE: Seattle, Washington
CONNECT THE DOTS: Toured with Dr. Dog, Dave Matthews, Vampire Weekend
CLAIM TO FAME: They're just really good. (Plus they just got signed to Sub Pop!)
YOU WILL LIKE THEM IF YOU LIKE: Husky male vocals, collectives, bearded men in plaid, log cabins
[MP3]: The Head and the Heart – "Sounds Like Hallelujah"
Seattle is a very luck state. Composed largely of Seattle transplants, The Head and the Heart was certainly the state's best kept secret (up until now that is). I, myself, only discovered them this past summer (after finding their eponymous self-released full-length debut); but now that they've just been signed to Sub Pop Records, these guys are about definitely about to, for lack of better terms, "make it big."
Crafting beautiful songs out of the heartache, they remind us not to dwell on the pains of sadness and instead focus on the beauty of it all. Just a bunch of friends singing around a proverbial bonfire, they've etched out a special little niche for themselves in a genre that seems overflowing. With a focus on instrumentation, their music is a seamless meshing of rustic harmonies, piano, percussion, acoustic guitar, violin, and yes–shakers. It's a good 'ol foot-stompin time.
Though I honestly don't know too much about them as a band, but what I do know is that you should give them a listen. I guarantee you will like them. "Sounds like Hallelujah" was the first track of theirs that I heard, and damn, that transition to "Momma, don't put no gun in my hand" really hooked me. "Down in the Valley" is another stunner, and you can now download it HERE, along with a new song, for the price of FREE (a.k.a. an email address), so there isn't really a good reason not to check them out.
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Dear Car Coach: The headlights of my 1999 and 2004 Taurus are cloudy due to oxidation. I've used the Meguirer's system, but it has to be redone every few months. Are there other systems that work for a longer period of time?
- B.B., Hamburg
Dear B.B.: Hazy headlights can limit your visibility at night, look horrible and can lower your resale value. You can repair the headlight lenses yourself with a lens renewal kit. They are designed to provide increased brightness to plastic lenses. These kits come with everything you need to do the job - just add a drill! It will remove the hazy, yellow layer from lenses. There are multiple brands so look for a name brand. There are wipe-on methods that work for a few months.
Dear Car Coach: I was recently pulled over for speeding and was wondering what is the proper procedure so that I can possibly get out of the ticket? I thought you would know.
- S.C., Amherst
Dear S.C.: If you are guilty, you usually can't get out of ticket, but the police officer, judge or district attorney may reduce it. However, here are some rules if you get pulled over by a police officer.
If you see those lights behind you, pull over in a safe and lighted area as quickly as possible. If you think that you might be the one that highway patrol car is after, pull over anyway. This shows that you have proper respect for emergency vehicles' right of way.
Once you are on the right shoulder of the road or in a parking lot, be aware of all your moves, as the officer will be watching.
Here are some dos and do nots:
. Don't pull over on the left as you may obstruct traffic. Pulling over next to a guardrail may make it difficult for the officer to safely approach your car.
. Don't get out of the vehicle unless you are directed to.
. Don't give the officer a piece of your mind or ask why he didn't pull over those other motorists who were speeding, too.
. Don't argue with the officer. If you choose to challenge the officer, you will surely leave with a ticket or two.
. Do know where your paperwork is located. Normally, a police officer will ask for your license, registration and insurance. Try to have this in your glove box.
. Do turn on your dome or interior light at night - this is for the officer and your safety.
. Do always keep your hands in plain sight and don't make any sudden movements.
. Do roll down the driver's side window all the way.
. Do stay in the car. Use common sense and don't put the officer in an uncomfortable situation.
. If you are in line for a speeding ticket, you can ask to see the police officer's radar gun calibration records. Just ask nicely.
Stay calm, even if you're upset about being stopped. Remember, you may have been pulled over for something other than speeding. Let the officer speak first. The old adage that you get more bees with honey will help here. Be respectful and you may have a chance of being sent on your way without a ticket.
Dear Car Coach: My daughter has a black 2004 Chevy Cavalier and the paint job looks terrible. The paint/clearcoat is peeling away on the hood, roof and trunk. I went online and it appears as if others are experiencing the same problem. Do you know of any recourse available to the consumer?
- F.M., Buffalo
Dear F.M.: There have been many complaints about the clear coat peeling off this model year vehicle and there are no current recalls to utilize. The only recourse is to contact GM, but since this happened in 2004, it is highly unlikely there is much that can be done about it today. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but once your clear coat starts to fail there really isn't any way to stop the spread. Almost always when clear starts to fail, it happens where the clear coat and color coat bond, meaning it spreads from the bottom of the clear upward and outward, not from the top down. Sometimes you can slightly minimize the appearance, but that is usually a very short-lived concealment. The bottom line is that the car will need to be repainted. The best way to protect your paint is a regular car wash and wax. Remember to use automotive products to clean your vehicle.
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Someone who under estimates how far away cliffs and things of the sort are, usually resulting in them falling.
"Did you hear about that guy who fell off of the Grand Canyon?"
"Yeah, he was such a precipicimist"
"Yeah, he was such a precipicimist"
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Dems left workers behind
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"Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity," Franklin Roosevelt intoned in 1936, "than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own......
Obama cares nothing about dems or republicans. He's not discriminating about whom his polcies harm. Dictators have no friends; only those they can bribe and pull around by the nose. Thus; Joe Biden, vice-nose hook.
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DNC is finished. And they did it to themselves. Arrogantly acting and self-absorbed morons. They know it's payback time next election. That is why most dems including Rockefeller refuse to run again; they KNOW they are NOT getting re-elected ever again.
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Obama and democrats left the entire country behind. They acted like the uneducated, spoiled, greedy, selfish, self-absorbed crooks and theives that they always were over the past 6 years! Now, they see their re-elections in jeopardy as their constituents are 'fighting' back and going to give them exactly what they deserve; a FIRING of MASS PROPORTION come election day!!! Enjoy your unemployment stinking crooks!
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Unions getting exactly what they deserve. THEY stood with the liberals while Obama/Reid/Pelosi arrogantly snubbed their noses at ALL PEOPLE IN AMERICA when they went AGAINST majority of voters and passed ILLEGALLY all their SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST legislation. NOW they're seeing that the left in this country really don't care about ANYONE but themselves. Enjoy your trip. You earned it. LOLOL.
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Democrats were never party for poor or civil rights. And they aren't now either!! Only ones surprised are the unthinking left.
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"Amour" is devastating.
The word, of course, is French for love. As an immensely powerful film, Michael Haneke's movie opening today has a kind of long-lost sibling – Raymond Carver's magnificent, haunting short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" in which a long-married couple injured in a terrible accident ask only of their remaining time on earth that they remain in each other's sight.
"Amour" isn't merely one of the unquestionably great films of 2012, it is, without question, the most surprising. That's because this laceratingly empathetic film about a devoted elderly couple facing the depredations of mortality comes from Haneke, who has put on screen some of the most detestable moments in contemporary cinema. There are ordinarily peaceful and vehemently nonviolent critics (count me among them) who have wanted to punch Haneke in the snout after watching the Austrian director's films – most notably the original German language version of "Funny Games," although Haneke's almost exact remake in English will also suffice.
Haneke's virtuosic craftsmanship and mastery of detail as a film director are used here not to give us his usual audience-battering malevolence but rather more empathy for our universal humanity than we could ever possibly stand as a regular cinematic diet. What clearly connects it to other Haneke films is the director's usual brutal relationship to our sensibilities. In the case of this singular film, though, he's serving a common humanity he shares with us, not his mind-boggling contempt for us just because we're a film audience.
Among the many surprises at this year's Oscars – almost all understandable after seeing this film – are these: it was one of the eight nominees for Best Picture; its lead actress, 85-year-old French film mainstay Emmanuelle Riva, became the oldest actress ever nominated for an Oscar; and director Haneke was nominated for Best Director in a category that excluded Ben Affleck for "Argo" and Kathryn Bigelow for "Zero Dark Thirty."
Nor, I think, in this case is that due to an academy viewership up in years and all-too-familiar with intimations of the mortality that lies at the core of this story. It is as close to a universal adult experience as any – helplessness during the physical decline and death of a loved one.
The story couldn't be simpler: Georges and Anne are an elderly couple of former piano teachers who live a quiet and mutually devoted old age in a beautiful Parisian apartment. They keep up with ex-students performing in town. And they read newspapers and magazines. But they are more preoccupied with each other and their everyday lives than with culture, including even the music that was once their lives. No television is visible in their house; we never hear its subdued chatter as their apartment's basic hum.
They, quite literally – and without untoward drama – live for each other.
And then one morning at breakfast, Anne freezes in her chair. She stares straight ahead, soundlessly. Georges tries to get her attention but can't. She cannot understand what he's saying or respond.
The episode is no transient speed bump in their lives. It lasts minutes. And then it seems to pass, after which Georges, for obvious reasons, insists he take Anne to the hospital. They'll do no such thing, says Anne at first – until she pours a cup of tea into the saucer not the cup. And doesn't know why.
The next scene we see, they have obviously gone to the hospital. Their lives then become both familiar and horrifyingly strange. We find out she's had an obstruction in her carotid artery. Her right arm is paralyzed. She makes him promise never to take her back to the hospital.
They become each other's worlds. Even when one of her former pupils – played by touring pianist Alexandre Tharaud – comes to their apartment for a sympathy visit and plays, at her request, a Beethoven bagatelle, it seems more of a reminder of what is hopelessly lost than a triumph from the past. Sometimes, she says flatly, "I don't want to go on."
And worse – much worse – is still to come: another stroke, all of the commonplace but familiar indignities of such terrible decline: loss of speech and control over bodily functions, total inability to impart anything to her husband but confusion and fearful noise.
He deals with it all to the point where he considers visits from their daughter more intrusive than helpful or even loving. He dresses Anne, cleans her, spoon-feeds her, listens to her incoherent interjections and jumbles of words in the forlorn hope that some meaning will materialize.
It is here that you need to know the monumental triumph of Haneke's cast. Georges, Anne and their daughter are played by actors who virtually define French cinema in our time – Jean-Louis Trintignant, whom Americans first saw with a nude Brigitte Bardot in "And God Created Woman," Riva, whom we first saw with glistening skin in Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" and Isabelle Huppert playing their daughter.
It's difficult to convey the power for lifelong filmgoers of seeing Trintignant and Riva – whom we know from sensual youths on screen – in their old age and in these roles. Riva, in particular is, at the beginning, a living symbol of elderly radiance and loveliness. And then, after Anne's second stroke, this great actress embodies so much that dying can take away while leaving nothing in its wake but confusion, contortion and incapacity.
If you've got a heart – or ever had one – "Amour" will tear at it.
It's far from a perfect film. For all Georges and Anne's conjugal devotion, there seems to be a weird lack of intimacy. Even at the beginning before Anne is stricken, they seem to have no private jokes or references. Even in the daily business of a five-decade marriage, there doesn't seem any evidence that they have ever, in their lives together, truly enjoyed talking to each other. They have gone beyond comfort to a kind of joyless unanimity.
The coda of this death sonata is strangely unsatisfying. The dramatic climax of the film is both shocking and predictable in its way. But in the minutes that follow, it's as if Haneke doesn't know how to get his actors off screen. Nor does he seem to know how to turn his camera off.
You can't blame him. After being previously responsible for so much coldness and contempt on film, he has shown us so much love in this movie that he has been hopelessly confused by it.
At the end of this exceptional film, its creator himself, I think, no longer knows what we talk about when we talk about love.
Four stars
Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud
Director: Michael Haneke
Running time: 127 minutes
Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material including a disturbing act, and brief language. In French with subtitles.
The Lowdown: A devoted elderly couple faces the terrifying consequences of human mortality.
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Teenage Jace leaves his parents' house with almost nothing after a particularly brutal fight with his father. He sets off from Chicago with his camera and the New Mexico address of his older brother who disappeared several years earlier. Jace's brother Christian is less than thrilled to see him with a bruised face despite having come from and escaped the same back ground. Their transition is rocky and a lesser book would have trivialized this time. Instead their difficulties felt genuine.Read more »


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I'm a sports fan, and to be more specific I'm a fan of the Toronto Raptors. I've always been a huge basketball fan, and I was so thrilled when the Raptors joined the NBA in 1995. From the days of Vince Carter to Chris Bosh and now Kyle Lowry, I've never failed to follow the team's games.
However, what I want to talk to you about today isn't the Raptors but of my wonderful experience with a local Toronto locksmith. You see I had just moved to a new house, and I wasn't too happy with the way the locks looked. I decided to try the different locks around the place and in the course of my experiment, locked myself out of the house, with the keys inside!
Worst of all, the Raptors had a game tonight, what was I going to do?
I did some quick research on the web and found a locksmith named Mike and called him immediately. It was a Thursday when I called, and I told him what happened. I said if he could come soon please do so, and he said sure. Sure enough, Mike showed up at my door less than ten minutes later, and I was very happy to see him.
I showed Mike the door and explained to him what happened. He was very attentive and we talked a lot about locks and why this stuff happens, and he explained why having a duplicate key is very important. Anyway, I got a call and had to pick up a few things, and I let him do his thing. After a few minutes he was able to get the door open.
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If that was all Mike did I would've been more than happy, but he actually inspected all the doors and agreed with me that they could use improvement. I showed him all the doors around the house and what I wanted done, and he listened carefully, asking questions here and there. I felt like he was the top emergency locksmith from Toronto that I have had the pleasure to work with.
Mike started inspecting the doors, and when he noticed something odd, like the plastic screw on one of them, he told me about and said it should be replaced with metal. He went back to his van, got some tools out and replaced the plastic with a metal screw. All in all, Mike did an excellent job, and his fee was very reasonable, and he worked fast too.


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