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We drove into NOL from DFW, and stayed at the Super 8 motel on Chef Menteur Highway so got to leave our car in their secure lot while we were gone. The price was great, only $56.86 total including parking. It only cost us $7/pp each way to the port. The motel was clean and comfortable. The breakfast in the morning was great!! The staff is very friendly. Some had said that the area was not good, but I didn't think it was any worse than any place else.
That night we did the vampire/ghost tour in the French Quarter. It was ok, but it was too hot and humid for me. It probably would have been better in the French Quarter if they weren't having the Santa Run going on. You couldn't even push your way through the crowds on the sidewalks. I guess I'm just not used to all the crazy people around..lol..The women were dressed in real skimpy Santa costumes and when one of the male Santas came up to my daughter and said "HO HO HO", my DD looked around and said "Yes, there are a lot of them around here"...lol...
Embarkation: We arrived at the port at about 9:30 so we had to wait a few min. After check in, being in a suite, we got to go to the VIP lounge with yummy snacks, coffee and juice. We even got to bring some of our CC roll call friends with us that weren't even in a suite. There we met our concierge Patrick. He handed out our cabin cards and led us onto the ship before the rest of the people could board. We checked our carry-on and went to Cagney's for lunch. Wow!! The shrimp cocktail was really good. By the time we finished lunch, our suite was ready and we dropped off our luggage to explore the ship.
Our cabin: It took my breath away at how big and bright our cabin was. It had floor to ceiling windows on one full side. I was thinking that it would be perfect for an Alaskan cruise so you didn't have to be out in the cold to see it all. All I had booked before was inside, so you can imagine my delight at the size of the family suite. It is in the part of the ship were the Spinnaker used to be, so everything is brand new. We had a large screen TV with a dvd player and more storage than my DD and I could ever use. I especially liked the look, the colors are dark wood and really soft tan carpet. I set up the M&G, so when we did the cabin crawl, we had about 25 people in the cabin and there was still plenty of room! The cabin has a King bed that you can pull a solid wall across on one side and a curtain across on the end. In the dining area, there was a Murphy bed that my DD slept on. That had curtains that pulled all the way around that area. The lounge area had a sofa that pulled out into a bed, a coffee table and two chairs with great view! The closet area had closets all along both side of the "hall" to the bathroom. The bathroom had a separate shower with a body spray and rain shower head, and tub also with a body spray. There were 2 sinks with storage drawers by each. Here are the links to the videos my DD took of the cabin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdVP5AA52wY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEpPoTEZguU I can't say enough about NCL's suite life!!!!
The Ship: We loved the star and you will never meet a nicer crew. The pool area was really nice but I really think they could have done away with the water slides. I wanted to try them, but even the kids were having a hard time getting up enough speed to make it down. Not enough water rushing through them. We used the hot tubs and pool quite a bit. The buffet was nice, but we hardly used it at all. I really try to stay away from the buffet because there are always more kids that are on vacation and very over stimulated what with all the sugar from the desserts...lol..The food around the pool had just about anything you might want for a snack or lunch. The layout of the ship was pretty easy to navigate.
Dining: The first night, we ate at Cagney's and the filet melted in your mouth! By booking it the first night, we got a bottle of wine with dinner. The next morning we ate at Cagney's for breakfast. Filet and eggs...wow...home was never like this...lol..We also had lunch there. We ate in each of the MDR's and found the food great. We also ate at Moderno's and in MHO, that was my least favorite meal. We were the only ones in the dining room and we had made a late reservation, so I personally felt that the meat was a little dried out.
Entertainment: They had the cocktail party with the Capitan for the suite guests and the Ill tell you what, martinis flowed like water..lol...it was awesome. Our concierge noticed a couple of or CC friends waiting outside for us to go to dinner, and told them they could go in and sit with us and have drinks as well. That really impressed me. We went to Second City and Elements, it didn't seem like there was enough time to see all of them. We got to sit in the reserved suite section and I was so impressed, when I ordered a frozen mudslide, I didn't even give my card for the order because our guests paid, I got my drink and it had my name written in chocolate on the top...I don't know how they knew my name..lol.. We did enjoy the shows we went to and it was very nice to be able to sit in the sofa style seats in the balcony because I'm not a small person and the regular seats tend to be tight for me.
The Ports: We love this itinerary and this was our second time to these ports.
First stop was Costa Maya. It was a Lazy beach day for us. We went to NOHOCH KAY and Jamie is wonderful and made sure our drinks kept flowing and we got plenty to eat. We each got a massage on the beach for about $30, it was amazing.
Next stop was Belize: We took a ruin tour and we found it interesting. My DD wanted to do it the week before 12/21. We got to see most of the city on the way there and way back, and it didn't seem as horrible as people had said. In the port area, they have a pharmacy that is run by a lady that used to be a pharmacist in NOL so you can get all of your pharmacy needs met.
Next stop was Rotan: We got to do the discover scuba two tank dive through Island Marketing. The only thing I was a little upset about was that put us with some people off a CCL ship. They got there early and had to leave by noon, so it cut our tour short. IMHO, they should have had them with one instructor and put us with the other so we could have gotten our full time. We did however have a wonderful brother and sister team that drove us to the excursion and back to the port. They also took us to a local grocery store on the way back, and we got some really cheap prices on alcohol and local food. They had both grown up on the island, so were very good tour guides and gave us all sorts of interesting facts.
Next stop was Cozumel: We had been there 3x before, so just kind of wondered around town for a while and shopped in the part of town that didn't have the prices in dollars, only pesos, then caught a cab to the other side of the island and Coconuts for lunch. It was a great time for all! I really enjoyed our welcome back party on the dock when we boarded the ship. I must say, NCL crews seem to have a lot of fun and seem to enjoy their job.
When we got back to the ship, our steward Benjamin had made a towel person, not an animal this time. It was so cool. He always left little notes for us telling us how much he appreciated our kindness to him...he was incredible!
Next was a sea day. That was the day our CC M&G group got to do the bridge tour. Our group was so big that they had to split it into 2 groups. I'll tell you, NCL does things up right, champagne and mimosas with snacks. What a wonderful time for all! That night, we got our gold luggage tags for the priority debarkation and then went out to see the ship one last time. While we were sitting in the atrium, our steward saw us and showed us the lovey perfume he had purchased for his wife for Christmas. It made me feel a little bad when he told us that she would share it with his daughters. That really made me realize how good we have it and just the fact that he could be so happy and caring all the time was a true credit to his personality when he and his family obviously didn't have much.
Debarkation went ok, but because we wanted to stay on the ship as long as we could, we got into a little crowd getting off. Had we done the priority debarkation, I'm sure we wouldn't have had to wait as long.
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Small Town of the Day – DeSmet, SD
If you're from South Dakota and have ever read a book, you probably know of DeSmet, SD, today's Small Town of the Day.
In fact one of my first recollections of reading, other than The Cat in the Hat and Curious George was probably books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Little House on the Prairie perfectly describes the tranquility mixed with hardship that growing up on the plains of South Dakota in the late 1800′s must have presented.
The way I figure, there are more grandpa's and grandma's who have called their kids saying, 'hey, we'll take your kids for the weekend. We have a place we would like to take them and show them a little South Dakota history. We're going to DeSmet.
I did a little research on DeSmet, SD. According to Wikipedia,
It was named for Belgian Father Pierre De Smet, a 19th-century Jesuit missionary who worked with Native Americansin the United States and its territories for most of his life. De Smet was settled as early as 1860′s and was
originally, "De Smet, Dakota", being part of the Dakota Territory until 1889 when South Dakota became a statehood. In the mid 1880s, failures of crops after three-year period of drought and prairie fires caused settlers to relocate their farms and homesteads.[9] By 1917, it was a cow town, with many trains passing through every day.[10]
It's amazing how many of the towns we talk about were located and still are located by the rail system. DeSmet, no exceptions.
DeSmet is a quite little town. Population about 1000. And in the summer, many come from all over the country, and I imagine all over the world to see the town that Laura Ingalls Wilder both lived in, and wrote about.
Since 1971, De Smet has hosted a pageant, held over several weekends in July, to honor Laura Ingalls Wilder. Five of her classic Little House books were based on her experiences in and around the community.
The story of how Charles Ingalls and his wife Caroline arrived in De Smet in 1879 by covered wagon from Walnut Grove, Minnesota, is told by a cast of thirty in an open-air theater near the old Ingalls homestead and the
Surveyors' House. Nearby are Silver Lake and the Big Slough, locations mentioned in her books. Reminders of De Smet's pioneer past are evident throughout the town, including the First Congregational Church, where the Ingallses worshipped. Laura, husband Almanzo Wilder, and daughter Rose left De Smet in 1894 to live on a farm in the Ozarks near Mansfield, Missouri. There Laura Ingalls chronicled her De Smet memories in such works as The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years. Many residents in De Smet have made a special effort to learn the Ingalls story in hopes of assisting inquiring tourists each summer.[12]
I also like what is written on the front page of DeSmet's website.
Come to experience our heritage as the Little Town on the Prairie. You'll witness wide open spaces and enjoy an outdoor paradise. What you'll find is a vibrant, modern LITTLE town, with friendly people and the same spirit of family, hospitality, integrity, and opportunism always found on the frontier.
If your from South Dakota and have never been to DeSmet, it's really a great little town for a 'day trip.' It's a town with so much history, all you have to do is walk the streets and watch for the next wonder to appear. If you're into SD history, this town is a must see.
They feature loads of restaurants to grab a bite to eat, and also boast great hunting and fishing year round. We'll be adding more to this story throughout the day about 'DeSmet, SD…Our Small Town of the Day.

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COLLEGEDALE, TN. (WRCB) -- Search crews took to the air Tuesday morning, after a plane and its pilot were reported missing. First responders discovered the plane's wreckage not far from the Collegedale Municipal Airport.
Its pilot, an 82-year-old Signal Mountain man, was pronounced dead on the scene.
When Clay Ingle's team got the call for a ground search, he knew they'd be looking for one of their own. "Clarence is a big part of our team," Ingle says. "We're more than a rescue team, we're a big family." The 82-year-old retired engineer had not been seen since Sunday, when he took off in his homemade Cassutt Sport Racer. His daughter told police he'd recently reassembled it and was likely taking it up for a test run. "Collegedale airport, you just check in when you leave and check in when you land," Ingle says. "And the way his car was parked nobody could see it. So when he took off, they just thought he came back." It wasn't until Tuesday morning airport personnel noticed his dog and truck in the parking lot. The airport director called Andrews' daughter, who called police, saying she feared her father crashed. "They got that information from the ping on his Verizon cell phone and searched that area," says Amy Maxwell, with Hamilton County EMS. Andrews' plane was found, just north of the runway, upside down, with his body was inside. "The community has lost a great man," Ingle says. "He was so full of life, so knowledgeable, and helped so many people." Clay Ingle remembers Andrews and his dog Abby making a crucial discovery a few years ago. "In Marion County, we had a gentleman we were looking for and Clarence's dog found him," Ingle says. If he wasn't helping others, he was in the air. Ingle says he died doing what he loved. "It will make us a stronger, better team for it," Ingle says. "We'll be stronger, and we'll honor Clarence in that way."
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In 2007 over 950,000 businesses in 175 countries were certified with quality management systems that comply with ISO 9001, and over 150,000 businesses in 148 countries were certified with environmental management systems that comply with ISO 14001.
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As 2013 begins, now's a good time to look at the future prospects for the stocks you own. If you don't know where a company's headed in the next year and beyond, then it's impossible to make an informed decision about whether you should add the stock to your portfolio -- or sell it if you already own it.
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Analysts expect Altria to keep its slow but steady upward pace this year. With earnings expected to rise about 8%, the target stock price is about 10% higher than its current price, even with expectations that sales growth will slow down in 2013.
It's easy to focus on Altria's past success and argue that it's destined to succeed in the future. Since the 1950s, the company has posted average returns of about 20%, crushing every other stock in the market.
But Altria faces a threat that it hasn't had to deal with throughout most of its history. Its spinoff of Philip Morris International has boxed Altria in, essentially trapping it in the hostile U.S. regulatory environment without being able to turn to international markets for growth opportunities. Moreover, even as earnings growth has stagnated, huge demand for the big dividends that the stock pays has driven valuations higher throughout the past year.
Moreover, domestic competitors are finally standing up to Altria. Even though Reynolds American has joined Altria in cutting jobs, Lorillard has seen growth in both its high-end Newport brand as well as its lower-cost discount brands. As money has remained tight, even discount specialist Vector Group has seen growth in popularity, and with payroll tax hikes in 2013, that trend could easily continue.
For Altria to reignite growth, it needs to overcome negative advertising, regulatory threats, and legal restrictions to reverse the tide of anti-smoking sentiment. That's a tall order, but Altria has overcome similar challenges several times in its past.
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As a Route Sales Representative, you will drive the widely recognized SCHWAN'S® truck to sell and deliver more than 300 varieties of frozen foods to families around the area. Your drive and ambition can go a long way toward your ability to meet the needs of current customers, secure new customers, and in defining what you earn through the real earning potential of sales commissions.
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•Sells and delivers frozen food and other company products to up to 120 customer's homes or places of business daily.
•Completes all assigned route and building days according to schedule determined by manager.
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•Follows guidelines of Good Sales Practices, including but not limited to; displaying products, calling on all customers, following up on missed/not at home customers, professional demeanor.
•Informs customers of new products and special promotions.
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Waldwick High School hosted its 2014 Senior Prom at The Estate at Florentine Gardens in River Vale, where students and their dates enjoyed a night of fun to celebrate the end of their final year of high school.
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Eminence city employees neutralized a hornets' nest on King Street Wednesday, after the aggressive wasps stung a resident of Hillcrest Street three times.
Patrons of the Henry County Public Library who regularly check out the free materials and services can get a good return on their tax dollars, said Library Director Jessica Powell in a report at the August meeting of the Fiscal Court.
Henry County Public Schools officials are considering a 68.5 cent-tax rate in order to get a 4 percent increase in revenue, according to information from Superintendent Tim Abrams.
A new childcare facility specializing in providing services for infants and toddlers opened on Aug. 4 in Eminence.
It was a game only a night owl or a Wildcat fan could love on Friday night at Henry County High School.
As with many games across the state, lightening delays pushed the scheduled start time of the game between the Henry County Wildcats and the Shelby County Rockets back two hours.
When play finally got under way the Wildcats dominated the first half and then held on to win 16-14.
The Eminence Warrior volleyball team got off to a rough start in their home opener on Aug. 18 as they fell to the Kentucky Country Day Bearcats 2-0.
Both teams struggled for consistency in the opening minutes of the first game and could not string together a significant run of points. The game seesawed back and forth until at 17-17 KCD put together 6-0 run to take a commanding lead.
From there the warriors managed only one more point and KCD closed out a 25-18 win with a service ace.
A 69-year-old New Castle woman charged last December with murder solicitation of her ex-husband pleaded guilty Thursday to a lesser charge in Henry County Circuit Court.
Henry County Lady Cat golfer MacKenzie Peyton fired a 67 in tough conditions to win the Bullitt East Invitational at Heritage Hills Golf Course in Shepardsville on Saturday. Maddie Hensley shot an 80 to finish 11th in a field of 98 players.
Peyton finished ahead of regional rivals Maddie Hamilton of Sacred Heart who had a score of 69 and Madison Thomas of Shelby County who shot 71. It was her second win in a large invitational tournament of the season.
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Douglas A. Kysar, deputy dean and Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at Mercer Law School's 2012 Law Day luncheon on March 16. His presentation is entitled "Limited Government in an Era of Unlimited Harm: A Case Study of Climate Change Litigation."
Kysar received his B.A. summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1995 and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998. After a federal judicial clerkship and two years at Foley Hoag and Eliot in Boston, he began his law teaching career at Cornell Law School in 2001. He joined the Yale Law School faculty in 2008. His teaching and research areas include torts, environmental law, and risk regulation. He has published articles on a wide array of environmental law and tort law topics, and is co-author of a leading casebook on torts. His recent book, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity (Yale University Press 2010), seeks to reinvigorate environmental law and policy by offering novel theoretical insights on cost-benefit analysis, the precautionary principle, and sustainable development.
The 2012 Law Day Luncheon starts at 12:30 p.m. and will be held in the University Center on Mercer University's main campus. The luncheon is $20 for alumni that register before March 9 and $30 at the door. Registration is available online or by contacting Leslie Cadle at firstname.lastname@example.com or (478) 301-2180. During the event, Mercer Law School will recognize two alumni for their outstanding contributions to the legal profession: Judge John T. Laney, LAW '66 and CLA '64, Outstanding Alumnus Award, and Dwight J. Davis LAW '82, Alumni Meritorious Service Award.
"In only ten years as a law professor, Doug Kysar has established himself as one of the nation's premier scholars in the areas of environmental law and torts. His writing consistently offers not only analytical rigor but also new and creative ideas," Mercer Law Dean and Macon Chair in Law Gary Simson said. "Having been his colleague during his first few years of teaching, I can also attest to his talents as a teacher and speaker. From the start, students fought to get into his classes and, after only a year or two, they elected him to be the faculty speaker at graduation. I very much look forward to hearing his thoughts on Law Day about climate change litigation. I am sure it will be a stimulating and memorable address."
Established in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Law Day is designed to strengthen the public's understanding of the American justice system. Though the national observance of Law Day is generally May 1, many law schools, including Mercer Law School, publicly recognize it earlier in the spring semester due to the heavy academic demands in May. The Law Day theme this year is "No Courts, No Justice, No Freedom."


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What is a mammogram?
When is mammography used?
How do I prepare?
What can I expect?
Breast Health Specialist: An additional resource
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Trinity's mammography campaign.
A mammogram is an x-ray of the breast tissue. The mammogram uses low-dose x-ray to produce black and white images of the internal structures of the breast. These images help physicians screen for and diagnose abnormalities of the breast.
There are two types of mammograms-a screening mammogram and a diagnostic mammogram. In a screening mammogram, breasts that appear normal are checked for abnormality. A diagnostic mammogram involves additional views of the breast, which help physicians diagnose changes such as:
Women should work closely with their physician to determine the screening schedule that is right for them. Advocate's mammogram guidelines are as follows:
Family history of pre-menopausal breast cancer
Women with a strong family history of pre-menopausal breast cancer should begin getting a yearly mammogram at an age 10 years younger than when a mother or sister was diagnosed.
Under 50
Women under 50 without a strong history of breast cancer in their family are advised to take a shared decision-making approach. A woman and her doctor, based on identified risk factors, decide on the proper schedule of screening mammograms. Typically this would be every 1-2 years beginning at age 40.
Over 50
A screening mammogram every 1-2 years is recommended for women over 50.
In addition, Advocate Health Care urges women to use a three-step method to screen for breast cancer. The three-step method includes practicing monthly self-breast exams, having a physician exam 1-2 times a year and a mammogram once a year after the age of 40. Used in combination, these three steps raise the detection rate of breast cancer to 96%.
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Mammography is most comfortable when scheduled seven to ten days after the first day of your monthly period. You can minimize discomfort by eliminating caffeine-such as coffee, tea, sodas and chocolate-from your diet several days prior to your mammogram. You may also consult with your physician about the potential benefits of taking ibuprofen an hour before the mammogram.
On the day of your exam, do not wear any powder, deodorant, lotion or perfume as these may contain small metal particles that can interfere with the quality of the image taken. It is also helpful to wear a two-piece outfit such as a blouse and pants so that you will only have to undress from the waist up.
Remember to bring your physician prescription, picture I.D. and your insurance card. If you have had a previous mammogram at another location, you should also bring these films with you. Previous mammogram films are important because they allow the radiologist to make comparisons and determine if subtle changes, that would otherwise possibly go undetected, have occurred. They may also prevent the need for further testing such as ultrasound or biopsy. Be sure to contact the facility where the mammogram was performed well in advance of your appointment with us, so you can arrange to pick up or have original films mailed to you.
You will be asked to undress from the waist up in a private dressing area, and put on an examination gown. When you are ready, a specially trained mammography technician will position one of your breasts within the mammography imaging unit. The unit will gently compress the breast to flatten breast tissue so an image can be made. You will feel some pressure for a few seconds during compression, though most women report little or no discomfort. Two x-rays-one from the top and one from the side-will be taken of each breast. The entire process usually takes less than 20 minutes to complete.
A diagnostic mammogram involves additional views, which focus on the problem area.
Advocate Trinity Hospital uses a technology called computer-aided detection (CAD) for mammography. First a radioloigst looks at your test. Then CAD takes a second look. By providing physicians with this extra tool, we can improve detection of breast cancer.
A radiologist, a physician with special training in reading x-rays, will interpret your mammogram. If the radiologist determines a biopsy is necessary for further evaluation of the breast tissue, you will be notified directly following your mammogram. A report will be sent to your physician within three to fives days of your mammogram, and a summary of your results will be sent to your home address within seven to ten days.
To schedule a screening mammogram, call us at 773.967.1000 to arrange a time that is convenient for you.
Trinity also offers routine mammograms with no appointment needed on Thursdays. Just come in between 8 a.m.- 4 p.m., any Thursday.
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A flight to Atchison, KS, landed five people behind bars after authorities found a plane load of pot.
The 42 pounds of high quality marijuana came inside suitcases that were loaded onto the plane.
"We were prepared even though we had to act quickly," said Atchison police Chief Mike Wilson.
It was Wednesday morning when Atchison police learned an airplane full of pot was heading from Colorado to the Amelia Earhart Airport outside of town. Within hours a dozen officers, many undercover, were on the scene, lying in wait.
"I don't think they were counting on landing in a small rural airport and having law enforcement intervention at that point," Wilson said.
Wilson said when they got information about the plane, they also learned two people from Kansas City would be driving up to meet the aircraft. The car arrived first, and about an hour later, the plane landed with three people on board and the suitcases full of pot.
"As the events unfolded, we had a sweep by a squad of officers and took five people into custody," Wilson said.
The police department seized the plane, the Saab the suspects were driving and recovered an estimated $120,000 in marijuana.
"I'm sure they were frustrated they lost the marijuana, but they also knew their time was up," Wilson said.
All five suspects are facing charges of possession of marijuana with attempt to distribute.
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A list released Thursday of colleges and universities under federal investigation for their handling of sexual violence and harrasment complaints had two notable features. First was the large number 55 and second was the inclusion of schools that are among the academically elite, with campus cultures that would be especially sensitive to the issue of rape.
The list released by the U.S. Department of Education includes three Ivy League universities and the elite private schools Amherst, Swarthmore, Sarah Lawrence and Carnegie Mellon. Also on the list are North Carolinas Guilford College and UNC-Chapel Hill.
The news behind the list isnt what it includes but what it suggests: Sexual violence on the nations campuses is more widespread than commonly thought, and its a problem not only at large universities and so-called party schools but also at the best and most politically correct institutions.
The scope of the problem and the way complaints have been mishandled are discouraging and worrisome for college students and their parents but it is encouraging to see this long-hidden and too often dismissed problem getting full national attention.
Indeed, its surprising how long it has taken campus sexual assault to emerge as a national issue. A 2007 study commissioned by the National Institute of Justice found that nearly 1 in 5 women and 1 in 16 men are victims of an attempted or completed rape while in college. Women active in the movement to stop sexual violence on campus say those statistics appear to be low in light of their experiences and the reports of victims theyve encountered.
The Obama administration gave the issue a major push this week with a White House task force report that urged campuses to curb sexual violence and to improve the process when victims report attacks. Vice President Joe Biden released the report Tuesday, saying, Colleges and universities can no longer turn a blind eye or pretend rape and sexual assault doesnt occur on their campuses.
Sexual violence against women and sometimes men on campus is difficult to control. Its the nature of college life that students get together for parties and drinking. But these gatherings both on and off-campus can be exploited by sexual predators or friends or acquaintances who dont stop at no.
The social lives of college students arent likely to change, but sexual violence certainly can be sharply reduced. What it will take is a message to victims that its not their fault and to all students that nonconsensual sex is a crime and will be prosecuted.
Biden put it well when he described the standard that must apply. I cant say often enough it doesnt matter what coat she was wearing, whether she drank too much, whether it was in the back of a car, in her room, on the street, it does not matter. It does not matter if she initially said yes and changed her mind and said no. No means no, wherever it is stated, he said.
While no school wants to be on the list released Thursday, the inclusion of some reflects that a new intolerance for sexual violence is taking hold. That is the case at UNC-Chapel Hill where two victims of sexual assault, Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, responded to the alleged mishandling of their cases by filing a federal Title IX complaint in early 2013. Title IX, a 1972 federal law, prohibits discrimination based on sex and requires schools to properly respond to reports of sexual assault. Pino and Clark are now part of a national group, End Rape of Campus, that helps other students file complaints when schools dont handle reports properly.
Clearly, theres a lot still to be done. The mishandling of a rape complaint against Jameis Winston, the Florida State quarterback and 2013 Heisman Trophy winner, shows how the response can be slow and inept when it comes to sexual violence that involves students and drinking.
Nonetheless, this was a good week for shedding light on a problem too long in the shadows, and thats the best way to solve it.


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Is Jack Connors the Last King of Boston?
WHAT A GROUP. That's all Sister Gail Donahue could think. For 49 years she'd been a teacher and administrator at Catholic schools in the Boston Archdiocese, and now to have two well-known business leaders — Liberty Mutual's Ted Kelly and EMC's Joe Tucci — sitting across the table from her, here in her teachers' lounge? I've read their names in newspapers, she thought. Wait till the sisters hear about this.
[sidebar]The man who had organized the meeting stood behind Sister Gail on that October day in 2009, wearing the preferred outfit of his nominal retirement: crisp white shirt, tie, gray pants. At 67, Jack Connors still moved with the insouciance of the self-assured. His hair was white but not so wispy that he couldn't still part it; his shoulders remained broad, his build slim, his cheeks forever ruddy, as if he had just finished laughing at a joke he'd made.
Connors told the men how, four years earlier, Archbishop Seán O'Malley had said that some of the archdiocese's schools were under threat of closure. The Archbishop had asked if there was anything Connors could do to help. Connors could do a lot. He not only raised millions; he also altered the way the archdiocese thought about schools. Why should neighboring parishes compete for the dwindling number of parents interested in a Catholic education for their children? Why not pool resources and build parochial academies?
This school, Pope John Paul II in Dorchester, was one of four such academies the church had built. Outside was only a mangled stretch of Columbia Road, but inside, as Kelly and Tucci had just seen on a tour, were refurbished floors, clean halls, bright rooms, and children of every color, religion, and income level.
What Connors needed now, he said, was for his guests to consider their own education, and how they had benefited from it. The room went quiet. He then asked the campus's principal, Claire Barton Sheridan, and Sister Gail, its director of guidance and health, to speak. When it was Sister Gail's turn, she cited what the money Connors raised had provided: books that weren't 22 years old, hot meals, an office that handled tuition so that she and her fellow teachers could, well, teach. The academy teaches what she and Principal Sheridan like to call the "whole child." Though the school has standard hours, the building's doors are open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., which gives harried parents a chance to keep their children off the cruel streets, and gives their kids a place to learn about gardening, or physical fitness, or music. Ninety-seven percent of students in the Boston Archdiocese go on to college.


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HOWTO: Connect a FreeNAS to a TiVo
Bob Bakh discusses how to connect a FreeNAS (Networked Attached Storage) to a TiVo.
Recently, I had someone send me a question from a previous post about how to hook up a FreeNAS to a TiVo. Bob Bakh was generous enough to provide a description of how he hooked everything together.
Take it away, Bob!
I configured a box to run FreeNAS on my network to manage storing Media, and backing up vital information in my home.
It was a great tool, however I wanted more, mainly the ability to simply play media stored on the FreeNAS box on my home TV without the use of a general purpose computer. One way was to use my AppleTV, hack it and use an AFP mount, or an NFS mount directly to the AppleTV, this worked well, but was a pain, and a hacked AppleTV is not a happy AppleTV. So I gave up on that plan.
I looked at my TiVo and realized I had the makings of a decent setup there, so I started to Google around for some solutions. I stumbled across a simple one in my world, which was to TiVo Desktop with the GoBack feature enabled. I used the free TiVo desktop from TiVo. And the GoBack function allowed by a hack from Visual Hub, however that hack is no longer available. A PC version is available.
You will need to buy the TiVo desktop plus to accomplish this, but it does take some manual setting of what video files you want to transfer.
Okay, so this worked, and my computer showed up in the TiVo now playing menu and allowed me to see videos that were in a mounted directory from the FreeNAS. I would select the video and it would transfer to the TiVo, and life was good, it was a bit slow, but it worked.
Now my issue with FreeNAS and other software based NAS systems was that I had to manage the hardware, and it got to be a little warm in my home office where I stored the system, so I made a few changes.
I now run a QNAP TS-509 , a 5 disk raid 5 self contained NAS system. It runs on a micro Linux kernel, has redundant network connections, and runs really cool, so my office is no longer 10 degrees hotter than the rest of my house, and it's a whole lot quieter.
I originally had it configured the same way as the FreeNAS system, and it worked fine, but I was on the hunt for a better solution. The QNAP has a little thing called ipkg, which allows me to install UNIX utilities written and packaged for its kernel.
I installed the following
- binutils - 2.17-2 - The GNU assembler and linker and related tools
- bzip2 - 1.0.5-1 - Very high-quality data compression program
- confuse - 2.6-2 - a configuration file parser library
- ffmpeg - 0.svn20080409-2 - FFmpeg is an audio/video conversion tool.
- flip - 20050821-1 - Utility program to convert text files between UNIX or Mac newlines and DOS linefeed + newlines.
- grep - 2.5.3-1 - Global regular expression parser
- libc-dev - 2.6.1-3 - libc development files.
- libdb - 4.2.52-3 - Berkeley DB Libraries
- libnsl - 2.6.1-4 - Network Services Library
- libstdc++ - 6.0.9-6 - Standard C++ library, needed for dynamically linked C++ programs
- ncurses - 5.7-1 - NCurses libraries
- ncursesw - 5.7-1 - NCurses libraries with wide char support.
- openssl - 0.9.8i-1 - Openssl provides the ssl implementation in libraries libcrypto and libssl, and is needed by many other applications and librari
- pcre - 7.8-1 - Perl-compatible regular expression library
- python - 2.5-1 - This is a package that sets up the default python.
- python24 - 2.4.5-1 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
- python25 - 2.5.2-2 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
- python26 - 2.6-1 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
- python30 - 3.0-1 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
- readline - 5.2-2 - The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are
- ruby - 1.8.7-1 - An interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.
- sqlite - 3.6.4-1 - SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.
- zlib - 1.2.3-3 - zlib is a library implementing the 'deflate' compression system
Then I visited pyTiVo. This is the home of pyTivo, a python script that emulates a TiVo server on your network.
This allowed me to configure a directory on the system as my TiVo directory, and now I serve up videos straight from my QNAP to my TiVo, much more efficient, and no more gateway box.
There is also a nice windows version, Mac version, and Linux version available of pyTivo.
I used the pyTiVo installation instructions. What this gave me is a great way to manage my videos, and with a workflow based on handbrake and visual hub, I'm able to convert my children's DVD collection to MPEG-2 and have them view it on the TiVo, and able to keep months of their TV shows stored offline for their viewing.
It has been a great solution.
I think you may be able to install pyTivo directly on the FreeNAS system, but I never tried it.
I hope this answers some questions for you, and I can help if there are any others.
Bob Bakh
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santhiNovember 28th, 2013 at 3:49pmHi John,
Thank you for posting this. I was looking to link my QNAP and TIVO. I have Qnap TS-109 model which has 500 mghz processor. I was wondering whether this is enough to play videos on tivo from QNAP.


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Sonia Shiels far-fetched works are vested in make-believe and indiscretion. They are composed of paintings and sculptures, videos and animated sculptures that share overarching narratives and the central materiality of paint. Set in ungoverned, lawless and fictional environments, her protagonists in their various pursuits, are confronted by nature, worry, wonder and mortality, mocked by chance and other systemic obstacles of their own creation.
She has had solo exhibitions at The Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin; The Model, Sligo; Temple Bar Gallery and Studios; Kulturbunker, Frankfurt; The Galway Arts Centre; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny among others. Recipient of the Arts Council's Project Award, she has recently completed the 2014 Art & Law Program at Fordham Law School while participating on the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), in New York. Shiel's practice is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin.
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2011 was a banner year for our favorite hobby. To buy every game worthwhile would put even good ole' Saint Nick in the poor house. There's bound to be a few you missed or held out for, which you'll be asking Santa to shimmy down the chimney and stuff under your Christmas tree right next to the pair of socks your parents bought you.
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We found that the cabin noise was unbelievable. We could hear the person next door to us snoring and we could hear the kids on the other side of us complaining about not wanting to go on the day excursion...we could hear their tv also.
The food was mediocre. We chose the Dawn for the "freestyle" dining, which was complete fiasco. We waited over 45 minutes for supper in the Venetian dining room (which wasn't that great anyway) and were told that if we were willing to share a table we would get in faster...which sort of defeats the whole purpose of freestyle dining doesn't it!! We ended up eating most of our dinners at the buffet, which actually was just as good or better than the main dining room.
the entertainment was quite good. Nathaniel Reed on the piano did a great job of performing special songs from Ray Charles/Cole Porter/and was a wonderful pianist.
There was a duo that performed often, which were basically singing to back up music off of a laptop...think Karaoke!! not the best there.
Greg London and Second City were a nice treat and we enjoyed their shows immensely. The staff productions were the usual cruise/all inclusive type shows. Dance numbers, loud music and costume changes...but we didn't come for the anyway so didn't really care.
ports of call were unfortunately just a place to spend money on hand made souvenirs that were all the same. We took an excursion to the Chaccoben Ruins in Mexico and loved them. We wish we had taken more excursions because there wasn't much else to do. In Roatan, we were taken to a beach which was so crowded that we left after 2 hours. Make sure you get the taxi driver to take you across the island to the lesser populated beaches. Cozumel was just more of the same shopping. A shame, because we were there 20 years ago and it was a wonderful place to visit.
Unfortunately, to us a good holiday is superb food, restful nights and great ports of call and we felt that this cruise was below par for all three.
Customs on the ship was unbelievably slow and a waste of time.
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PEN Center USA's 23rd annual Literary Awards Festival at the Beverly Hills Hotel was a dazzling mix of literary Los Angeles and Hollywood, as Joan Didion was winning the Lifetime Achievement Award. Many of the 400 or so attendees, from producer Laura Bickford to authors Bret Easton Ellis, A.M. Homes, Janet Fitch, Cari Beauchamp and Michael Tolkin, were disappointed that the diminutive and frail New York writer was not able to attend, after a recent fall.
Governor Jerry Brown and Harrison Ford had been friends with Didion for some 40 years, and valued her friendship--and sophisticated dinner parties. Ford used to do carpentry for Didion and her late husband John Gregory Dunne, and worked on their Malibu house, before his acting took off. "To be part of Joan Didion's world gave me a sense of support and validation," Ford said. Anjelica Huston read Didion's acceptance speech, in which the writer thanked a list of PEN attendees including her long-time L.A. agent, Ron Bernstein.
Didion's nephew, actor-director Griffin Dunne, is making a Didion-narrated documentary for HBO, which he started independently, he said, which still needs more funding. The excerpted footage looked strong.
PEN Center USA recognized literary excellence in eleven categories: fiction, creative nonfiction, research nonfiction, poetry, children's literature, graphic literature, translation, journalism, drama, teleplay, and screenplay. (Winners are listed below.) Entries in the eleven categories were reviewed and judged by panels of established writers, critics, and editors. Each winner gets a $1,000 cash prize and a free year of membership with PEN Center USA.
Screenplay winner Mark Boal shared credit for "Zero Dark Thirty" with his dinner companion, director Kathryn Bigelow, but said he'd take the award home. The duo told me "they're chipping away" at something. Danny Strong won for his teleplay for Jay Roach's Sarah Palin cable drama "Game Change." Other Hollywood insiders in attendance were Sundance Institute executive director Keri Puttnam, who was on the event's Benefit Committee along with her husband, litigator Marvin Putnam, who happily won the recent Michael Jackson case.
Oliver Stone made the presentation to journalist Chris Hedges, winner of the First Amendment Award for a writer who has "fought for freedom of expression to protect the First Amendment" stateside. The Freedom to Write Award goes to an international candidate, this year, Afghan-American activist and filmmaker Sonia Nassery Cole. Both awards reward someone who has "produced exceptional work in the face of extreme adversity, who have been punished for exercising their freedom of expression, or who have fought against censorship and defended the right to publish freely."
Stone first met Hedges when he was researching his film "Salvador." He spent seven years covering the Middle East for the New York Times, then went on to Bosnia and then won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on Al Queda. But Hedges left the New York Times after they reprimanded him for denouncing Bush's call for war in Iraq. Now Hedges writes books--he has published 12--and for Truthdig. His latest book is set inside the U.S.: "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" is about America's "sacrifice zones." In his acceptance speech Hedges praised whistleblowers such as Edward Snowdon and Chelsea Manning as "forming the last line of defense against corporate totalitarianism."
Stone says he does his own tweets, although he has help managing his @Theoliverstone account. He wishes that people would pay more attention to his years-in-the- making "Untold History" on Showtime than his offhand "Breaking Bad" comments--which he totally stands by.
Kickstarter won the Award of Honor, but did not show, saying in an acceptance speech that after 4 1/2 years they are still finding their voice. Laura Dern in her intro reminded that while the crowdfunding site raises financing for projects from Zach Graff and Spike Lee and the "Veronica Mars" movie among many others, Kickstarter hasn't reinvented the wheel, but rather revised its function. She praised the Kickstarter team's values: they believe in a moral obligation to artists --and are not chasing an IPO.
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I. Mopp | October 15, 2013 9:58 PM
Apparently, Sonia Nassery Cole experienced much of this "adversity" in the good, old USA because even though she didn't pay her film crew what they are contractually owed, didn't bargain in good faith, and didn't credit the main writer of her film, she still managed to make her film. I even read in the NY Times that she told a story that her original lead actress had her feet cut off by rebels, however days later the Times printed a follow up correction of that story revealing it was made up to promote the film. This belittles the real victims of war and terror.
Dan | October 15, 2013 7:57 PM
The sleeper story at Pen was the "Freedom to Write" award given to Sonia Nassery Cole. The award given to those who have overcome oppression in order to write, the script itself was actually written by David M. O'Neill who shared co-writing credit on the film. Although Pen USA was notified months earlier, no effort was made to recognize the actual writer of the piece. More of a story here to come... IMDB writersSonia Nassery Cole | David Michael O'Neill
Michelle Page | October 15, 2013 5:44 PM
Sonia Nassery Cole was an odd choice for an award. Perhaps she should pay her crew instead of accepting accolades.
anonymous | October 15, 2013 4:43 PM
No mention in this article of the Motion Picture Editors Guild IATSE 700 protesting this event because Beverly Hills socialite cum film producer Sonia Nassery Cole hasn't paid her post production workers. Oh yeah, maybe that's because SNAGFILMS which owns this site is also distributing the film... Zoink! Also I thought Chris Hedges quit the PEN organization earlier this year because he thought the leadership had been "hijacked" by government officials who have neo-con tendencies. This award show is losing its credibility...


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By popular demand, for Houston.pm's October meeting Erin Schönhals will be presenting some small examples from a bag of tricks useful for taking on a number of file manipulation tasks, more specifically those suited to manipulating human readable text.
Such tricks include but are not limited to:
- Quick and easy recursive file operations
- Editing files in-place; or, a better alternative
- A blurb on ispell and Lingua::Spelling::Alternative
- Some notes on Template::Toolkit
- Handling errors gracefully in the midst of a large pile of work
- Mass renaming of files; good for managing media collections!
Slides and example code will be made available online after the meeting. Each example will be introduced with enough explanation to help grasp the most important moving pieces. Plenty of room will be left over at the end of the presentation for Q&A. Hopefully the keen attendee will be able to string these methods together with confidence.
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ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) -- A former northern Illinois sheriff's deputy who investigated child pornography has pleaded guilty to federal charges involving sex with a minor.
The U.S. District Attorney's Office and the FBI say 38-year-old Gregory M. Pyle of Crest Hill, Ill., entered the plea Friday in federal court in Rockford.
Pyle is a former McHenry County Sheriff's Department deputy who prosecutors say once led that department's child pornography investigations.
He admitted in court documents that he took a 9-year-old boy from suburban Chicago to Milwaukee in 2008, sexually abused him and posted the photos online.
He'd been with the sheriff's department for 10 years when he was charged in 2012.
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There was a dusting of snow at Sunrise earlier this week. Today it's Paradise's turn. This is a screen grab from the webcam that looks toward the Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center at Mount Rainier National Park.
With temperatures hovering around 32 degrees much of the night, there was a little snow on the ground.
The snow level has been around 5,000 feet, but is expected to rise to about 6,500 feet by Thursday and getting higher through the weekend, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
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Prison of Christ - In the north-east side of the complex there is The Prison of Christ, alleged by the Franciscans to be where Jesus was held. The Greek Orthodox allege that the real place that Jesus was held was the similarly named Prison of Christ, within their Monastery of the Praetorium, located near the Church of Ecce Homo, at the first station on the Via Dolorosa. The Armenians regard a recess in the Monastery of the Flagellation, a building near the second station on the Via Dolorosa, as the Prison of Christ. A cistern among the ruins near the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu is also alleged to have been the Prison of Christ.
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Modern civilization began right here in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley. Also known as the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia, this is the place where, six thousand years ago, agriculture, writing and mathematics were brought into widespread use.
The term "Middle East" comes from the British navy, which used it to describe the countries on the trade route from Europe to India and China. Everything from Afghanistan to Morocco may possibly be classified as "middle eastern", depending on whom you ask -- and when.
Only a partial list of past Empires in the middle eastern territory includes Sumeria, Babylonia, Persia, the Ottoman Empire and the Roman Empire!
When northern Europe was still lurking about in slimy cold stone castles playing chess, the Middle East was enjoying the flowers of poetry, luxurious craftsmanship, music and literature. In fact, the Renaissance in Europe was partly inspired by stories brought back from the middle east by travelers along the trade route.
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Admin not logging in
23 July 2008 at 7:47am
Seems to be an issue with my admin login. I used the login details I created when I installed SS.
When I login nothing happens, the page stays on the login and the url changes from:
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23 July 2008 at 5:58pm
would indicate that the login failed and it redirected you back to the form you submitted. Make sure you admin details are correct otherwise try adding this to mysite/_config.php
Security::set_default_admin("test", "test");
then try login to yoursite.com/admin with test / test
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24 July 2008 at 6:20am
that seems to just kill the page and makes it empty.
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24 July 2008 at 9:52am
Sorry got my method name wrong it should be
Security::setDefaultAdmin() not set_default_admin()
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24 July 2008 at 10:02am Last edited: 25 July 2008 4:52am
Security::setDefaultAdmin("user", "crazynewpassword");
Ok, I got this working, how do I edit my login details or add new admins?
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25 July 2008 at 5:21am
So I timed out my brief time on the admin section and again it wont let me login.
Is there something I need to purge? cache?
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25 July 2008 at 11:27am
You should be allowed to login with that account again theres no limit etc.. You can create new admins the same way as you do normally - by clicking the Security link at the top and creating a new member entry in the Adminstrators folder
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For some reason adding that bit of code just isnt working.
Security::setDefaultAdmin("admin", "test");
Is there a proper place for it inside the config file? Should it not just work?
I'm loosing my mind as to why it would work once and not again.
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SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of a new Washington state law that would require classified advertising companies to verify the ages of people in sex-related advertisements.
Gov. Chris Gregoire signed the law this year to cut down on child sex trafficking. The law that had been scheduled to take effect in June received unanimous approval from the Legislature.
The decision issued by U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo S. Martinez on Friday is temporary, until the case can be heard in court.
The website Backpage.com and a nonprofit that runs a popular archive of Internet sites asked for the preliminary injunction.
Backpage, which is owned by Village Voice Media, makes millions of dollars a year operating an online clearinghouse for escorts. The company was the main target of the new law.