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It's been an emotional week for Tina and David Curl. They traveled from New York to witness last night's execution of Donald Moeller.
Moeller raped and murdered Tina's 9-year-old daughter, Becky O'Connell, 22 years ago.
Tina says Moeller's execution was her final reason to come to Sioux Falls. She doesn't think she will be back in town again.
On her last day in town, she and members of her family visited the spot where her daughter was murdered for the last time, just to tell Becky justice was served.
David Curl, Becky's step father, and his brother Tom Curl played some of Becky's favorite songs.
"'Last Kiss' she liked, that was her favorite and 'I Still Miss Someone' is mine, that's my favorite song for her," said Tina Curl.
For some of Becky O'Connell's family members, it was their first time at the scene of her death.
"I had some knots in my stomach coming down the highway. I just didn't know what it was going to look like," said Tom Curl.
After 22 years, the spot still brings Becky's mother chills.
'It's a lonely cold spot, It just leaves me feeling cold and pissed off at him every time I see it," said Tina Curl.
Curl did say last night's execution gave her some relief.
"It was too quick, too quick and painless, but it's done, he isn't breathing any more," said Tina.
Last night, Tina received a time lapse picture of what Becky could have looked like today. She was also given the clothes Becky was wearing the night she was killed.
"I went though them and touched them at one of the trials but it still hurts…The clay and dirt are still on them, the leaves are on them. Of course her pants are inside out, he did that," said Tina.
She plans to bury her daughter's clothes with Becky on May 18th. It will be the 23rd anniversary of her death.
Becky is buried in Lake Luzerne, NY, just a few minutes away from Tina's home.


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Atomic Number: 6
Symbol: C
Atomic Weight: 12.011
Discovery: Carbon exists free in nature and has been known since prehistoric time.
Electron Configuration: [He]2s22p2
Word Origin: Latin carbo, German Kohlenstoff, French carbone: coal or charcoal
Isotopes: There are seven natural isotopes of carbon. In 1961 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry adopted the isotope carbon-12 as the basis for atomic weights.
Properties: Carbon is found free in nature in three allotropic forms: amorphous (lampblack, boneblack), graphite, and diamond. A fourth form, 'white' carbon, is thought to exist. Diamond is one of the hardest substances, with a high melting point and index of refraction.
Uses: Carbon forms numerous and varied compounds with limitless applications. Many thousands of carbon compounds are integral to life processes. Diamond is prized as a gemstone and is used for cutting, drilling, and as bearings. Graphite is used as a crucible for melting metals, in pencils, for rust protection, for lubrication, and as a moderator for slowing neutrons for atomic fission. Amorphous carbon is used for removing tastes and odors.
Element Classification: Non-Metal
Density (g/cc): 2.25 (graphite)
Melting Point (K): 3820
Boiling Point (K): 5100
Appearance: dense, black (carbon black)
Atomic Volume (cc/mol): 5.3
Ionic Radius: 16 (+4e) 260 (-4e)
Specific Heat (@20°C J/g mol): 0.711
Debye Temperature (°K): 1860.00
Pauling Negativity Number: 2.55
First Ionizing Energy (kJ/mol): 1085.7
Oxidation States: 4, 2, -4
Lattice Structure: Diagonal
Lattice Constant (Å): 3.570
Crystal Structure: hexagonal
Electronegativity: 2.55 (Pauling scale)
Atomic Radius: 70 pm
Atomic Radius (calc.): 67 pm
Covalent Radius: 77 pm
Van der Waals Radius: 170 pm
Magnetic Ordering: diamagnetic
Thermal Conductivity (300 K) (graphite): (119–165) W·m−1·K−1
Thermal Conductivity (300 K) (diamond): (900–2320) W·m−1·K−1
Thermal Diffusivity (300 K) (diamond): (503–1300) mm²/s
Mohs Hardness (graphite): 1-2
Mohs Hardness (diamond): 10.0
CAS Registry Number: 7440-44-0
References: Los Alamos National Laboratory (2001), Crescent Chemical Company (2001), Lange's Handbook of Chemistry (1952)
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I, Mr. Rosewater, do find myself guilty of graduating, supporting, dreaming, funding, and overall smiling with giddy nostalgic happiness at the now pummeled institution we now call The Pennsylvania State University, or as you call it "Penn State".There are several actions you can take to punish me for my past affiliations. But I want to let you know that I am currently re-tiling my shower stalls. I was going to go with blue and white but the guy at Home Depot said red and yellow might be better because, you know, I am guilty of Jerry Sandusky's horrible crimes against children.
I confess: I knew who Jerry Sandusky was before the rest of the country became aware of his existence and his virulent transgressions. He was what our football culture labeled "Defensive Coordinator". I knew that all the way back in 1992 when I first set foot on campus in State College, Pennsylvania. Guilty!!!
I apologize. You want to exact punishment now without any due process or consideration of my point of view. Okay. But before you take me to the showers - hahahaha - I want to let you know that as of now my opinion of the four "leaders" cited in the Freeh Report is less than favorable. I've almost given up on them. I hope I'm wrong but man it does not look good.
Hey, by the way, have you guys watched Game of Thrones on HBO?
Man, those Dragons kicked butt! Hey, maybe you'll let us change our mascot from Nittany Lions to Baby Dragons. Yeah!! And maybe we'll change "Penn State" to the "House of the Undying"? You know, to separate ourselves from pedophilia to a magical house of magic?
Okay, okay, on to the punishment. Look, I don't have much money. But take it and keep it in your bank account. What else? I've got two cats that I love. Send them to the shelter? I dunno. Does Mark Emmert love cats? Maybe he can take care of them. Pussy cats are all alike, right? What else? The Penn State football team? Okay. I'm not affiliated with the football department but if you think it'll hurt me then go for it. I mean, after all, whatever makes you feel justice has been served. I'm cool like that. I respect your position. What else? Take away my HBO? That's fine. There's nothing else on until Game of Thrones returns next year. Take HBO away for five years? That's fine. I've read all the books so I know what will happen. Take away my books? That's fine. I have it memorized. Take away my memory?
Have you been watching too many movies?
Hey hey, whatever. I didn't know you had access to fictional technology. Wipe away my memories. I don't need them. I've always believed we are doomed to our destinies anyway.
Suspend Black Shoe Diaries? Okay. We are all Penn State affiliated. And it is founded on our football culture. You know, cuz no other school has football culture except us. We are all about football unlike USC, Alabama, Notre Dame, Florida State, Appalachian State (they beat Michigan), and Michigan. Nope. They can't touch us when it comes to tradition and heritage and the tradition of heritage.
In fact, punish all of us punitively and rest assured those other schools will
think twice about reporting child abuse or any other sex crime to the police behave and comply accordingly.
Yes, take away my life and everyone else's lives and passions so that child abuse may be wiped from this planet. Because punishing us will temper the sexual urges of pedophiles. Thank God the statue was taken down!! Having it stand would mean more children will be raped. It would be a reminder to the masses that children would be raped. Not only do the Masses not want to be reminded, they also won't do anything about it because surely they cannot donate money to child abuse foundations and such because the economy is in the Pitts. Just like it's easier for sports journalists to decry the existence of Penn State than it is to enter their credit card numbers to a charity dedicated to such crimes because it's unwise to broadcast your credit card number to the public. I mean, someone might steal Stephen A. Smith's identity!!!
Look, I get it. You, the NCAA, are punishing me because there's no other way for you to fight child abuse, right?There's no other way a powerful, rich, organization can bring justice to these heinous crimes other than to take my HBO away.
You're right. I can't think of another way.


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NOTE: Some of the math in the original version of this article was incorrect. ALSO NOTE: I am terrible at math.
Its tagline reads: "Lola Versus Sex, Love, Lola Versus the World." To which we can now add one more opponent:
Lola Versus Film Critics.
Over the weekend, the creators of "Lola Versus" sent out an email to their mailing list, later posted on Twitter by Film.com's Eric D. Snider, blaming the film's poor box office performance (an estimated $34,000 at four theaters) on the negativity of male critics. The email is signed by "The Breaking Upwards Team" -- which I assume is the film's director/co-writer Daryl Wein and actor/co-writer Zoe Lister Jones. Here's an excerpt from the full text:
"Our new movie with Fox Searchlight, 'Lola Versus,' just opened in theaters in NY and LA. The male critics are attacking the film and our box office really struggled last night. We think this has a lot to do with it being a female driven comedy about a single woman, and the older male critics don't like messy unapologetic stories with women at the center. There was a similar backlash against HBO's 'Girls' at first from men, but we don't have the luxury of a full TV season to change their minds."
The filmmakers allege that male critics -- and specifically older male critics -- don't like the film because they don't like any films that involve "messy unapologetic stories with women." It's almost a complete inversion of the discussion around "The Hunger Games" and female critics, when blogger Jeffrey Wells informed his readers to "be wary" of positive reviews written by women because he believed they were "more susceptible to the lore" of the franchise. In that case, math proved Wells incorrect: a nearly identical percentage of critics from both genders liked "The Hunger Games." So what about "Lola Versus?" Have male critics been giving it an especially hard time?
At Rotten Tomatoes, "Lola Versus" currently holds a 43% approval rating, with 13 positive reviews against 17 negative reviews. 5 of the positive reviews are by women, 7 are by men, and 1 is by a couple writing together; meanwhile, 3 of the negative reviews are written by women, and 14 are by men. If we look within each gender, we see 63% of female critics liked "Lola Versus," compared with just
50% 33% of male critics. That seems like a small but notable gender disparity. But let's look closer.
One of the reviews written by a woman, Betsy Sharkey of The Los Angeles Times, is listed on Rotten Tomatoes as positive, but it reads, at least to my eye, as mixed-to-negative (Last line: "[Wein] creates a movie that, like Gerwig, is lovely to look at -- which is almost, almost enough.") Metacritic agrees with me, and ranks that review as a 50, alongside a piece by Time's Mary Pols ("A movie that aspires to be deep but never gets out of the shallows") that Rotten Tomatoes lists as negative. If you flip Sharkey's piece from positive to negative, that makes 4 positive reviews and 4 negative reviews from women, which makes 50% approval rating for the women. That's still slightly higher than the approval rating of male critics, but still, in the parlance of Rotten Tomatoes, a "rotten" average.
The claim that it's older male critics raining on "Lola Versus"' parade is harder to fact-check on short notice -- writers don't typically sign their reviews with their age and birthday -- but at a glance, the Rotten Tomatoes' page includes pans by Indiewire's Eric Kohn and Movies.com's David Ehrlich, two guys I know are younger than me, and I'm only 31. And if I count as an "older male critic" this post is never going to get finished because I have to go sit in the shower and cry for the next three hours.
I haven't seen "Lola Versus." It might be amazing; it might be terrible. Obviously the reviews weren't great -- from both men and women -- but the marketplace it opened into was even worse. The film's per screen average was $8,525 -- a solid figure, but good enough only for sixth best last weekend behind "Moonrise Kingdom," "Dark Horse," "Prometheus," "Madagascar 3," and "Safety Not Guaranteed." If you ask me, the real problem wasn't critics. It was competition.
Not only were there a lot of new movies last weekend, most of them -- at least three of the other five films -- were also targeted at "Lola Versus"' audience of young, hip twentysomethings. So is the HBO series "Girls," which the email above cites as an example of male critical bias. But maybe it's just one more example of the glut of similarly themed pop culture fighting for one small niche's attention.
True, the other films ahead of "Lola Versus" on the box office chart got better reviews. But they also featured bigger stars like Bill Murray and Bruce Willis and established indie directors like Wes Anderson and Todd Solondz. Critics didn't help "Lola Versus." Realistically, though, in this sort of competitive environment, the reviews could have been scented with pheromones designed to subconsciously spur potential viewers to the theater and Wein and Lister Jones would still have had problems. When that tagline said Lola was going to take on the world, brother it wasn't kidding.
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Bill | June 23, 2012 4:06 PM
This from a writing team that sold "Motherf#@%er" as a pitch for millions. A one joke concept that can never be advertised at any theater in the Midwest or South. Which means they'll have to lose the joke and they will only have the "Breaking Upwards" team's crappy writing and a played concept about a guy falling for his future mother-in-law.
These two are the luckiest stiffs on the planet and they still have an attitude. Try this for a bottom line. No one wants to to see their crappy Brooklyn centric post mumble core crap and that's why no one goes to see any of these movies. even the ones with 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
dorothy nightshade | June 22, 2012 2:30 PM
Funny about the number crunching. I can't do math either but it seems fairly obvious that, well, there is some dickishness lingering about. (I mean: DUH). Here's a funny article -- it does do the math: http://thehairpin.com/2012/06/versus-lola
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alternative troll | June 13, 2012 8:03 AM
oh wuups -- they musta meant "old women" critic. their bad.
Kevin | June 12, 2012 6:15 PM
It looks like the filmmakers might actually be right here. I took a closer look, and if you compile all of the legitimate reviews online from media sources on google for "Lola Versus" there appear to be 71 in total as of today. Rotten Tomatoes only accounts for 32. That is less than 1/2 of the overall statistical pool. Of the male critics, only 10 were positive, 3 were mixed, and 30 were negative. Of the female critics, there were 19 positive, 3 mixed, and only 6 negative. That breaks down to 68% positive reviews from women, and only 23% positive reviews from men. Or, depending how you look at it, 70% negative reviews from men and 21% negative reviews from women.
Shelly | June 12, 2012 5:59 AM
Wein has been blaming other people for his crappy work for years. He sends responses to his rejection letters.
JC | June 11, 2012 9:26 PM
In order for the filmmakers to prove their hypothesis, they would have to show that their target audience (females under 34?) regularly reads the reviews of older male critics and heeds their advice. Did Wein and Lister Jones actually do that in their email?
I also got a kick out of how they framed their opinion (older male critics don't like messy unapologetic stories with women at the center) as object fact.
Neruka | June 11, 2012 8:42 PM
"5 of the positive reviews are by women, 7 are by men, and 1 is by a couple writing together; meanwhile, 3 of the negative reviews are written by women, and 14 are by men. If we look within each gender, we see 63% of female critics liked "Lola Versus," compared with just 50% of male critics."
I don't care about the movie, but your math looks to be off. 7/21 men liked the movie, according to your numbers. That's a third, not half. Awkward.
J_Brisby | June 11, 2012 8:25 PM
This is a perfect example of what I call Bad Feminism. One of the characteristics of the Bad Feminist is a pathological refusal of accountability. They didn't make a bad movie, oh no, it's male critics' fault.
Thomasi | June 11, 2012 8:16 PM
And that title. It's a Kinks reference, no?
I know I could see the movie to find out, but I'm an older (45) white male and apparently, we don't like the movie much. Too bad, because Greta Gerwig is the most gifted actor to come along in about three generations.
Melissa Silverstein | June 11, 2012 3:10 PM
I think that a writer/director should be really wary before declaring that sexism is what brought down a film. You need to have the facts to back you up.
I don't think that the problem with this film has anything to do with sexism which is clearly articulated in this piece. The reviews on this film are not divided along gender lines.
I also think it's important to note that I haven't seen many people agreeing with Daryl's assessment. It hurts to throw out the word sexism when your film doesn't perform well for other reasons -- namely the film -- because when there really is sexism people might not see it.
Kate Erbland | June 11, 2012 2:51 PM
I'm a twentysomething female critic and the movie didn't fly with me either (and it would appear, at least from this note, that the filmmakers were gunning straight for my demo). No dice. http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/review-lola-versus-kerbl.php
CHASE WHALE | June 11, 2012 2:15 PM
I liked the movie just fine. http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/lola-versus-indie-film-review/
SoulHonky | June 11, 2012 1:44 PM
The "Girls" backlash comment doesn't make any sense. The backlash came because of the show's insanely positive reviews. That's why it was called a backlash. In this case, there was never anything to lash back at. (And how many people have really changed their mind about Girls? I know most people think the pilot was the worst episode but the people who didn't like it pretty much all still don't like it.)
As for the box office, were they really expecting this to do boffo business? As the article points out, there's a lot of competition right now and I'm not sure why they ever expected this film to find footing in the busy summer marketplace.
Old male (and white to boot) | June 11, 2012 1:38 PM
I guess my opinion doesn't count because of my demographic, but if you want to look for a reason the film underperformed this weekend, how about the fact that it wasn't very good? Critics or no, I have a hard time imagining the film will generate much positive word of mouth.
Credit to the performances, but the key problem is that each of the 4 leading character was loathsome for one reason or another, cheating and lying with impunity and treating their best friends/lovers with total disregard. Nobody to root for makes it a hard film to get through... if commercial success is your objective.
I appreciate the author's gallant attempt here to blame the film's underperformance on competition, but that's a canard. This is the type of marketplace any indie film finds itself opening into -- fact is, the Fox Searchlight marketers for LOLA VERSUS don't (and shouldn't) spend a lot of time worrying about competing with MADAGASCAR and PROMETHEUS. Totally different audience. MOONRISE KINGDOM did just fine, thank you, opening against the much larger (and slightly more demo-targeted) AVENGERS, with demo bullseye HUNGER GAMES still in the marketplace as well.
I can't believe I'm becoming one of those bitter "the film sucks" commenters... I appreciate how difficult it is to make a compelling film and the characters in this one felt genuine. But just because real people are really awful (though still living fairly privileged comfortable lives in NYC) doesn't mean I want to see a movie about them.
Oh Long Johnson | June 11, 2012 12:59 PM
What's the CALL TO ACTION w/ this film? There's no real plot statements in the trailer or even the articles. Ms. Lister Jones had a great Huff Post article, but it really felt like she was trying to explain Breaking Upwards and her relationship w/ her boyfriend than selling us on her latest.
At least Breaking Upwards, which I enjoyed , had a clear "this-is-why-we-made-this-movie" statement that made me want to watch it in a theater. Getting goosebumpy at the sight of Ms. Gerwhig isn't enough.
MOONRISE charms the mothereffer out of you. So does SAFETY NOT GURANTEED. It's summer. I want to feel awesome and giddy when I leave a theater. In the husband and wife breakfast conversation of "What film do you feel like seeing, dear?" - Lola Versus just doesn't compete.
Truthfully, what works w/ this couple is when they put themselves on camera. Even if they made this more of an ensemble film about NY. I'd be more intrigued.
Peter Labuza | June 11, 2012 12:46 PM
Aren't most of the people who continue to praise "Girls" week after week older male critics?
Patrick | June 11, 2012 11:59 AM
Hmm...sounds like a cheap attempt to get publicity for the movie....but I am a cynical person (being an "older" male that happens). I have to go chase some kids out of my yard now..bye.
Noomi Repace | June 11, 2012 11:57 AM
Might I remind Mr Wein that the film that came in #2 at the overall box office this weekend is a female driven action/sci-fi film which reviews have pretty much universally confirmed is a "messy, unapologetic story with a woman at the center." A woman, by the way, who has starred in far fewer English-language films than the prolific Ms. Gerwig. Of course I understand the difference in finances behind the two titles - but playing the misogyny card on critics because your film underperformed is bullshit.
jimbo | June 11, 2012 11:53 AM
could it be the film just wasn't that good?
Jordan Hoffman | June 11, 2012 11:43 AM
You buried the lede - you sit in the shower?
But seriously, folks, I took a dump on this movie not because it was a "messy unapologetic stor[y] with women at the center" but because it was vapid and unfunny with unrealistic conflicts and no interesting characters.
But I was sold on "Girls" about ten minutes into the pilot DESPITE my natural inclination to dislike it because of the whole nepotism controversy. Why? Because "Girls" is clever and well-made and has something to say. Lola Versus, on the other hand, is awful.


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Our friend Paul Myerberg of Pre-Snap Read and the NY Times is continuing his tremendous preview series. Yesterday, he tackled N.C. State.
FSU killed the Wolfpack last season 34-0. I've been told that there is no way N.C. State can beat the Noles after what happened last year. Those people apparently forget that Florida State blasted Wake Forest 31-0 in Tallahassee in the '10 season and then dropped a game last year to Wake 35-31.
The bottom line is that this game is not a lock. FSU doesn't project to be a double-digit favorite. And if there was a team last year that had as many injuries in disadvantageous spots as Florida State, it was the Wolfpack.
The game is in Relaigh and will be coming off two majorly emotional games in Clemson and at USF. FSU should be expected to win, but you need to check out this preview. Here's a snippet.
In a nutshell Tom O'Brien's kingdom for a true, consistent running game - and for some help at defensive tackle and at linebacker. It's the little things that separate an eight-win team from a conference and national title contender; for N.C. State, it's the little things that will prevent it from leapfrogging from four A.C.C. wins to the top of the Atlantic division, ahead of Florida State and Clemson. When it comes to the Seminoles, as noted earlier, it's hard to take the Wolfpack's chances seriously when this offense tends to be far too one-dimensional - Florida State's defense feasts on pass-first offenses just as it does against run-heavy teams, and as good as Glennon is, he can't go it alone. It's a different story against Clemson, which gets the Wolfpack at home, but the Tigers will be entering their second season running Chad Morris' dynamic offense; the Tigers should also be motivated to avenge last season's ugly, disinterested loss.
So N.C. State is headed to a third-place finish in the Atlantic, in my opinion. But that doesn't mean that this team can't make a run towards nine wins, should it find a bit more balance on offense. What should help is this experienced offensive line, which along with another backfield option in Greene should lead to at least a slightly more productive running game. That will help this offense as a whole, seeing that Glennon is only going to be better as a second-year starter. What about this defense? The Wolfpack can overcome some issues along the front seven if the secondary continues to force turnovers in bunches. But if Amerson, Bishop and company don't match last season's total it will reveal some significant personnel issues: N.C. State lacks options at tackle and is more inexperienced than any B.C.S. conference team in the country when it comes to linebacker. Again, the little things make the difference. Thanks to a wonderful quarterback and a dangerous secondary, N.C. State will win eight games in the regular season. But the Seminoles and Tigers rule the roost in the Atlantic division.
Dream season The Wolfpack get off on the right foot with a nationally televised victory over Tennessee. Florida State proves too tough to handle and Wake Forest notches an upset, but N.C. State wins 10 games in the regular season for only the second time in school history.
Nightmare season This would be disappointing: N.C. State starts 0-2 and finishes 3-5 in A.C.C. play to slide back out of bowl play. Yes, that would be extremely disappointing.
Now go check out the whole thing.


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It's widely assumed that this increase in risk is because alcohol has biologically disinhibiting qualities that make taking sexual and other risks more acceptable, but is that true? Will alcohol always increase the odds that a couple will practice unsafe sex? Or is combining drinking and sex risky for a different reason entirely?
There are several possible ways that alcohol might increase sexual risk taking. It might make people less likely to talk before having sex, make it harder to remember to use condoms or use them correctly, increase the likelihood that someone would choose a risky partner, or make it more likely for someone to do things (or sleep with people) they wouldn't consider when sober.
There is data, in fact, that alcohol can do all these things, but the reasons may not be precisely what you expect. Several studies have suggested that alcohol isn't naturally disinhibiting, at least not to the extent it seems to be in American society. Instead, the reason alcohol use is associated with sexual risk taking is that people expect it to be.
People who believe that alcohol is disinhibiting -- that it encourages sexual risk taking, violence, or other behaviors that people avoid when sober -- are more likely to be disinhibited by alcohol than people who have no such expectations. Interestingly, several studies have found that an increase in sexual risk taking while drunk is particularly problematic with casual partners (people who aren't in a long term relationship but aren't having sex for the first time), when compared to new sexual partners or regular sexual partners. This may be because people are trained to be cautious with new partners, and condoms may be habitual with regular partners, but with casual partners no pattern has been established.
What's the take home message? Alcohol may increase sexual risk taking, but it doesn't have to. It's possible to combine drinking and sex in a relatively safe manner if you believe that you can. Therefore, alcohol use is no excuse for indulging in risky behavior -- sexual or otherwise. The things you do when you're drunk are your responsibility -- as is the fact that you chose to get drunk in the first place.
One final note: The 2005 study that looked at the risks of drinking and sex also discovered something disturbing about how college men think about their relationships. Although monogamy is generally thought to be associated with a reduced risk of STDs, almost every young man in the study stated that they were in monogamous relationships even when they had multiple partners within a period of a few days to a few weeks.
This type of serial monogamy, where a person is only having sex with one person at a time but quickly moves from one partner to the next, is not the sort of low-risk, mutually-monogamous relationship that most educators are referring to when they praise the benefits of monogamy. Instead, the false assumption of safety may actually make serial monogamy a higher risk lifestyle than having multiple concurrent partners -- where the level of danger must be acknowledged so that safe-sex becomes a priority.
"Alcohol use, partner type, and risky sexual behavior among college students: Findings from an event-level study." Brown JL, Vanable PA. Addict Behav. 2007 Dec;32(12):2940-52. Epub 2007 Jun 9.
"Effects of alcohol, expectancies, and partner type on condom use in college males: event-level analyses." LaBrie J, Earleywine M, Schiffman J, Pedersen E, Marriot C. J Sex Res. 2005 Aug;42(3):259-66.


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Corti first started lighting shows in his home country of Argentina back in 1982, at the age of 14, in the production and sound end of touring. Speaking about working on some of his favorite tours, with such bands as Lords of Acid, he says, "I always try to relate to the people I'm working with as family and not just as clients. You're out on tour with these people for lengths of time, and you get to know them; it's more pleasant when you can relate on a more personal level."
For The Cult, Corti is using the new Vari*Lite® VL2402s™, and "I just learned the Vari*Lite Virtuoso™ console which I will be using when we go out with Aerosmith for some dates after our tour is over. Coming from being a Wholehog fan for years, I think it's a great console."
Corti co-designed this show with Rick Canny, the band's manager. "Personally I always like to go to the band and get feedback on the way it's going," Corti explains. "Even if they say, 'Do whatever you want,' I like the feedback. For instance, I found out that they don't want too many gobos. They used to be kind of heavy metal but they don't want to have that look anymore, so they don't want to see ACLs, or many PAR cans. Singer Ian Astbury is a very artistic person; he's great to design a system around — and they're a blast to work with."
The Cult teamed up with Aerosmith for a fall tour, including an October 4 date at LA's Grand Olympic Auditorium, which was recorded for a live DVD. The two bands toured through December 19.
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Stephen D. Steinour is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated, a $56 billion regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. During Steinour's tenure, the bank set records in customer growth, became the third largest SBA lender in the country and won a series of national awards for customer service.
Prior to joining Huntington, Steinour was Managing Partner of CrossHarbor Capital, responsible for the general management of the firm. Previously, Steinour was President and Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Financial Group (CFG) responsible for overseeing the commercial bank holding company's business lines and operations. Under Steinour's leadership, CFG, headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, was one of the 10 largest commercial bank holding companies in the United States in total assets and deposits. Prior to the expansion of his responsibilities, Steinour was Chief Executive Officer of Mid-States Regional Banking, comprising the states of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Before leading the Citizens Bank transition team into the company's Mid-Atlantic Region in 2001, he was Vice Chairman, Wholesale and Retail Banking. In addition to overseeing CFG's state banks in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Steinour had company-wide responsibility for wholesale banking activities, cash management, international, and consumer lending, as well as technology and operations. Wholesale banking units included private equity, leasing, asset-based lending, dealer floor plan, communications and publishing, and commercial real estate capital markets. Steinour has in the past been responsible for CFG's treasury and capital markets and asset-liability management and was Senior Credit Officer and Risk Management Executive. He was named Vice Chairman in January 1997.
Before joining CFG in 1992, Steinour was division executive for loan recovery at Fleet Financial Group. Prior to his tenure at Fleet, he was executive vice president at Bank of New England.
Following his graduation from Gettysburg College in 1980 with a degree in economics, Steinour was an analyst for the U.S. Treasury Department and subsequently worked for the FDIC. He is a graduate of The Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Steinour is a member of the Board of Directors of Exelon Corporation and a Trustee of Liberty Property Trust. He is a member of The Columbus Partnership and a Trustee of the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation. Steinour is also a Trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowships and is member of the American Bankers Association. Steinour is the past chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and a former Trustee of the National Constitution Center.
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Watford's match against Yeovil Town remained goalless at half-time despite an end to end first period at Huish Park.
The hosts had the ball in the net within two minutes as Ishmael Miller turned in Joseph Edwards' long range shot past Manuel Almunia from close range but the linesman had his flag raised for offside.
Alexander Merkel had Watford's first chance of the match as Troy Deeney laid off a deep cross to the midfielder who half-volleyed over from just inside the area.
Deeney should have given Ikechi Anya a one-on-one as Watford broke from a corner. Anya was sprinting through and just needed the ball into space to run on to but Deeney's pass was carelessly underhit and cut out.
Thomas Lawrence was, along with Miller, was Yeovil's most potent threat in the first half.
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With news that the awards are to be announced this week I figured it would be fun for us to guess who might be winning these awards. My guesses after the jump.
Defensive Player of the Year: Clay Matthews: Green Bay. I know he is a popular pick around here to win, but he is popular around the league to win. With his 13.5 sacks and his disruptive play all year he gets the nod and wins.
Offensive POY: Phillip Rivers: San Diego: Many people feel that Tom Brady will win this but Rivers put up some major numbers. His team struggled but not because of him.
Defensive ROTY: Ndamukong Suh: Detroit: What a year. Lions fan should be very excited about this young defensive stud on the line for many years to come.
Offensive ROTY: Sam Bradford: St. Louis: Statistically the best year by a rookie QB. I think those stats and the fact they were 1 game away from the post season helps.
Comeback Player of the Year: Micheal Vick: Philadelphia: Vick had a year we have never seen from him before as a passer. He was given up for a has been after his prison stint before leading the Eagles to the postseason and winning the fan vote for the Pro Bowl.
Coach of the Year: Raheem Morris: Tampa Bay: I don't want to hear that they didn't make the playoffs. Morris lead a very young team that many people felt would be lucky to sniff .500 to a 10 win season.
MVP: Tom Brady: New England: Terrific Tom had another year that set him apart from others. 36 TDs, 4 INT. That stat alone says a lot but not all of it. Brady had a mid-season offense change and seemed to get better. His accuracy is top notch and that showed in many games this year. A record setting year gets capped with the MVP award.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Tom Thibodeau has worked his way up from coaching Salem State College to being named head coach of the Chicago Bulls this summer. It's been a 25-year basketball journey, including 21 seasons as an assistant coach in the NBA.
Sports staff writer Mike Grenier, who has known Thibodeau since his Salem State days in 1985, talked to the Bulls head coach for a two-part series. Today's story concentrates on Thibodeau's development under various head coaches, his thoughts on LeBron James and his hopes and plans now that he's in charge of the Bulls.
In part two tomorrow, Thibodeau talks about his three years with the Boston Celtics, including the 2008 NBA championship season, the loss to the Lakers in this year's Finals, the rise of Celts point guard Rajon Rondo and Boston's future as a contender.
It's been 26 years since Tom Thibodeau was the basketball coach at Salem State College, but even though he's come a long way since then, he never considered it a lowly, entry level job.
To Thibodeau, coaching a Division 3 college team was pure basketball. As the new head coach of the Chicago Bulls, Thibodeau is making a lot more money than he could've dreamed of and the stakes are much higher, yet to him it's still pure basketball.
"I could have been perfectly content at Salem State," Thibodeau, 52, said from the Bulls headquarters in Deerfield, Ill. "I could have stayed there forever. It was a wonderful situation.
"The way I look at it, there are great coaches at every level, from high school to small college to Division 1. I've just been very fortunate. I had some great breaks along the way. But whether it's Salem State or this team, I'm still doing what I love to do."
A 21-year veteran of the NBA coaching ranks, Thibodeau, who has a reputation as a defensive wizard, was considered a mortal lock to be elevated to a head coaching position after the Celtics won their 17th championship in 2008. He was the right hand man for head coach Doc Rivers, who went out of his way to promote Thibodeau as someone who was equipped to take on larger responsibility.
Thibodeau could've jumped at other opportunities during his three-year stint with the Celtics, but he wanted to be smart about it, and he was willing to be patient. Here he was coaching Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and an emerging force named Rajon Rondo. All these superstars and the complementary players were buying into his defensive system and the Celtics were always a threat to win it all, so he was in no particular hurry to go to some dead end team as a head man.
The situation had to be right for Thibodeau to make the commitment. He could've taken the New Orleans Hornets job after the Celtics lost to the Lakers in seven games in the NBA Finals this season, but the Hornets appear to be a fading team. The Bulls, with young players such as Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah, Taj Gibson and Luol Deng, were a much better fit. Thibodeau signed a three-year deal with the Bulls, reportedly for $6 million.
"So much of it is timing," said Thibodeau, who's been so busy that he hasn't had a chance to move out of his Watertown residence. "The timing was bad a couple of years ago. We played so late into the season (while winning the NBA title) that all the jobs were gone. You look at the league and there are only 30 (head coaching) jobs and they're difficult to get.
"I've been fortunate over the years to be involved with a lot of good teams that were winning and playing (deep into the) playoffs, so the (head coaching) opportunities didn't come along," added Thibodeau, who got his start with the Minnesota Timberwolves and moved on to the San Antonio Spurs, Philadelphia 76ers, New York Knicks and Houston Rockets before joining the Celtics. "I was never disappointed in that. Winning was always first and foremost. I was working for great head coaches. The big thing about getting a head coaching job is that you want it to be with as good a team as possible."
Even though he feels he's more than ready to run the show, it wasn't easy to leave the Celtics. Thibodeau grew up in Connecticut and has had strong ties to Massachusetts since his Salem State days. The Celtics have all that history and tradition, and they came so close to winning it all again this season, upending the favored Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic along the way. It's tough to distance yourself from all of that, but he had to move on.
"It's bittersweet," said Thibodeau. "You grow up watching all these guys as a kid and then you're coaching the Celtics and meeting all the former Celtics, all the legends like (Bill) Russell, (John) Havlicek, the Jones boys (Sam and K.C.), Tommy Heinsohn, Jo Jo White, and (Peabody's) Rick Weitzman (who played on a Celtics championship team in 1967-68). It was an unbelievable time for me, but Chicago is a great city and the Bulls have their own history. They also have young players and cap space, so it's an exciting chance for me."
There were snickers from some fans and bloggers in the Chicago area after Thibodeau was officially named the Bulls head coach during the NBA Finals in June. The main complaint centered around Thibodeau's lack of head coaching experience. In that sense, he was compared to the guy the Bulls had just fired, Vinny Del Negro.
But their situations weren't comparable at all. It was rather ludicrous. Del Negro, a former player, was a radio commentator for the Phoenix Suns shortly before he was hired by the Bulls. Thibodeau, meanwhile, had spent his life learning from guys like Jim Calhoun, Rick Pitino, Tom Davis (BC), Don Chaney, Bill Musselman, John Lucas, Jerry Tarkanian, Jeff Van Gundy and Rivers, to name a few, and he had 21 NBA coaching seasons under his belt.
The Celtic players were strongly in favor of Thibodeau's move to Chicago, even though they knew they'd be losing a knowledgeable coach.
"Thibodeau is great," Boston center Kendrick Perkins said prior to one of the home games against the Lakers in the Finals. "He's hard-nosed and he doesn't take any garbage from anybody. He definitely lets you know how he feels about what's going on throughout the game. During film sessions, he'll call you out. I always liked that about him — he'll call out all 15 guys on a team. He's worked incredibly hard here. He's another example of hard work paying off.
"It's very evident how much we improved defensively after he got here. We won a championship. We lose Ticket (Garnett) the following year and we still make the playoffs and compete with the Orlando Magic. So you can see what he's done. I'm very happy for him."
Tony Allen often included Thibodeau's name in his postgame discussions, citing his game plan and preparation. Allen did his best to make life difficult for the great Kobe Bryant in the Finals and had reasonable success. Allen put his complete trust in Thibodeau after seeing what a workaholic the coach was.
"This is so well-deserved for Thibodeau," said Allen, who has since signed with the Memphis Grizzlies. "He's worked hard to get where he's at. He's the first guy here in the morning and the last one to leave.
"He's been a big key to my development," continued Allen. "As a player, he puts you in the right position to do things that will help the team. He relates well to players. One thing he might learn from Doc Rivers (as a head coach) is to let players speak their mind. We respect Doc enough to know he's the head coach, but he also lets the players give their input. I think as a head coach, you've got to be able to accept advice and not just give it. But Thibodeau is great. He'll never put you in the wrong spot."
There was tremendous commotion in Chicago almost from the moment Thibodeau came aboard. It was the beginning of free agency and there was a lot of talk about LeBron James joining the Bulls.
But how serious could it get with LeBron? If he came to Chicago, he'd have to live up to Michael Jordan and his six NBA championships. That's a heavy legacy. Instead, James opted to sign with the Miami Heat. No surprise there.
"It was kind of open-ended with LeBron," said Thibodeau. "We were cautiously optimistic about getting him. We presented our case and that was it. We're not disappointed. We ended up signing Carlos Boozer."
Boozer, an eight-year veteran out of Duke who has spent the last six seasons with the Utah Jazz, is an upper tier player who has averaged 17.2 points in his career. The Bulls also recently acquired the top three-point shooter in the league in Kyle Korver, who shot 53 percent from beyond the arc last season. With those two guys joining Rose, Noah, Gibson and Deng, Thibodeau feels he has some building blocks.
"We're strong up the middle," said Thibodeau. "Rose is a great young point guard who can penetrate and Noah gives you rebounding and energy. Gibson was an impressive rookie who played outstanding defense last season and Deng is a real nice player who kind of gets overlooked. Boozer is a low post presence who can face up and shoot, and he can rebound. Obviously, Korver gives us the three. We're looking to be a dominant rebounding team that will play good defense and go to its strengths on offense."
The Heat, of course, have already had what might be described as a pre-championship party. They have Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh to go with James and it was like a circus when they were introduced at their home arena in front of 14,000 fans.
If Thibodeau thought the Heat were a lead pipe cinch to win it all, he wouldn't bother to show up in the Bulls offices every day.
"They have three great players," Thibodeau said of the Heat. "The question is how quickly can they come together. But in the East, you can't count out the Celtics. If healthy, they still have three great players and you can make a case for a fourth (referring to Rondo). You have to remember that they haven't lost a playoff series when they're starting five is intact. I also think it's shortsighted if you don't include the Orlando Magic in the picture."
Meanwhile, the Bulls, guided by Thibodeau, should be vastly-improved, right?
"I'll let you be the one to say that," joked the former Salem State coach.
Former Salem State College basketball coach Tom Thibodeau was named head coach of the Chicago Bulls last month. He spent more than two decades as an NBA assistant with the following teams:
Minnesota Timberwolves (1989-91)
Seattle Sonics (1991-92, advance scout)
San Antonio Spurs (1992-94)
Philadelphia 76ers (1994-96)
New York Knicks (1996-2003)
Houston Rockets (2003-2007)
Boston Celtics (2008-2010)


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Sam is four months old. Right now, he is exactly the age Madeline was when we found out about her vision. We got our diagnosis of Optic Nerve Hypoplasia from Emory on April 16th, exactly 4 months after her birth on December 16th.
I can't figure out why this feels so significant, but it does.
She was born around Christmas, and Sam is this semi-significant age around Christmas. He is four months; she turns four years. It's all loosely connected in a way that makes it difficult to pinpoint what it all means. I just know that I can't stop thinking about it, and I can't stop feeling about it. It's hovering silently beneath the surface this month.
After a lot of feeling and only a little bit of thinking, this is what I've concluded:
It means life goes on.
It means God can redeem anything, everything.
It means I am thankful for two healthy pregnancies and two healthy children.
It means time flies.
It means life is different than I imagined it would be; I know braille. This is possibly less surprising than the fact that I live in Alabama.
It means that I am very specifically thankful for Sam's vision. Every day I whisper, "He can see." I'm sure other parents would be every bit as thankful if it occurred to them to be. But it occurs to me. A lot.
It means that there is a soft spot in my heart for babies that are four months old.
It means that in His rock-steady faithfulness, His goodness, and His all-sufficient love, God has carried us through a difficult four years – and we are alive and together and sane only because of His mercy toward us.
It means that I have given Sam four months worth of kisses, which I estimate to be somewhere in the hundred thousands.
It means that I am a feeling, emotional person who is also a mother, and I love my kids to the moon and back, a million times.
And that's it. That's all I got.
Happy fourth birthday, darling Madeline. And happy four months, sweet Sammer. You guys are the best.
Yes, she is wedged in a corner behind boxes of Christmas decorations. We told her it was like a fort. Roll with it, okay?


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President Barack Obama will name UN ambassador Susan Rice as his new national security advisor Wednesday, months after her hopes of becoming the top US diplomat were scuppered by the Bengazi affair.
Rice will take over from Obama's current national security advisor Tom Donilon in July, in a shake-up of his foreign policy team that will see former aide and genocide expert Samantha Power take over at the United Nations.
The move marks a swift turnaround in fortunes for Rice, who pulled out of consideration to be Obama's second term secretary of state earlier this year, a victim of the controversy over the attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya.
"The President will announce that after more than four years at the National Security Council, Tom Donilon will be departing as National Security Advisor in early July and will be succeeded by Ambassador Susan Rice," a US official said.
The official said that Obama would also use the ceremony to name Samantha Power, a former foreign policy aide and genocide expert, to replace Rice as US ambassador to the United Nations, the official said.
Donilon has been at Obama's side since he entered the White House in 2009, and took over from the president's first national security advisor, retired general James Jones, in 2010.
He has been at the center of the decision to pull US troops out of Iraq, to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year and the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
Donilon has also been a key figure in China policy and recently traveled to Beijing to prepare for the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to California and a meeting with Obama later in the week.
Rice, who served as an assistant secretary of state for Africa in the Clinton administration, has long been one of Obama's closest foreign policy aides, dating back to his 2008 campaign.
She was widely expected to be named secretary of state to follow the departing Hillary Clinton.
But she was accused by Republicans of deliberately misleading Americans over the origins of the attack on the Benghazi mission on September 11 last year, which killed four Americans including the ambassador.
However, recently released email traffic between top administration officials shows she had no role in crafting the talking points on the attack which she then used on Sunday television talk shows to argue that the assault was part of a spontaneous anti-US protest rather than a planned terrorist attack.
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New Hampton, NH, 03256-0325
Tel: (603)677-3401
Grades: 9 - 12 | 305 students
Located 100 miles north of Boston in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, New Hampton School is a co-ed independent, boarding school for boys and girls in grades 9-12 and postgraduate.
New Hampton provides students incredible opportunities with its International Baccalaurete curriculum, wonderful sense of community, exceptional athletic teams, energetic faculty, and spirit of innovation, typified by one of the most successful iPad programs in the country.
The School was named an Apple Distinguished School in 2013.
School Overview
|School Membership(s)School Assoc.
|New England Association of Schools and Colleges
National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)
The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS)
International Baccalaureate (IB) World School
|Religious Affiliation
|Grades Offered
|Grades 9 - 12
|Offers Post-Graduate Year
|Learning Difference Programs
|Year Founded
Student Body
|Total Students
|305 students
|Student Body Type
|% Students of Color
State avg.: 10%
|Students by Grade
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|Total Classroom Teachers
|70 teachers
|Student : Teacher Ratio
National avg.: 13:1
|% Faculty w/Advanced Degree
|Average Class Size
|11 students
|Number of AP Courses
|2 courses
|Classroom Dress Code
Finances and Admission
|Admission Deadline
|Feb. 1 / rolling
|Yearly Tuition Cost
|Tuition Notes
|Day students: $31,500
|% on Financial Aid
|Average Financial Aid Grant
|Acceptance Rate
National avg.: 85%
|Admissions Director
|Suzanne Walker Buck
|Total Sports Offered
|23 sports
|Alpine Skiing, Ballet, Baseball, Basketball, Climbing, Cross Country, Cycling, Dance, Equestrian, Field Hockey, Football, Freestyle Skiing, Golf, Ice Hockey, Kayaking, Lacrosse, Mountain Biking, Rock Climbing, Snowboarding, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, WeightliftingAlpine Skiing, Ballet,
Baseball, Basketball,
Climbing, Cross Country,
Cycling, Dance,
Equestrian, Field Hockey,
Football, Freestyle Skiing,
Golf, Ice Hockey,
Kayaking, Lacrosse,
Mountain Biking, Rock Climbing,
Snowboarding, Soccer,
Softball, Tennis,
|Total ExtracurricularsTotal Extra-curric.
|6 extracurriculars
|Math Club, Model UN, Outdoor Adventure, Robotics, School Newspaper, Yoga Math Club, Model UN, Robotics, Yoga, Outdoor Adventure,
School Newspaper,
School Notes:
- Founded in 1821, New Hampton School offers a globally focused education to young men and women from across the country and around the world. The first New England Boarding School to offer the International Baccalaureate Program, the School's rigorous college preparatory curriculum is rooted in personal exploration, civic engagement, and global awareness. It balances the rigor of IB with a highly regarded Academic Support Program. Students take advantage of outstanding facilities in the arts, the sciences, and athletics; a wide range of opportunities for service and hands-on experience; and a talented faculty committed to holistic development. Located in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire near the magnificent White Mountains, the school is ideally situated to help students explore issues of environmental sustainability. The School, which was named an Apple Distinguished School in 2013, is known as an innovator in technology integration and supports a 1:1 iPad Program. Alumni of New Hampton School matriculate to competitive colleges and universities and go on to take leadership roles in politics and culture, business and finance, science and medicine, education and philanthropy, or wherever their dreams and talents take them.
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Eleven years ago, the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil was so devastating, that there is not one standard sign for it. There are many - and all of them evoke deep emotions. Ask anyone from the deaf community to sign "Twin Towers" or "9/11" and you'll different signed interpretations to the event that changed the world forever. Some of us punch a fist against the "1" hand shape. Others, two index fingers slowly dropping one by one. For others, it's an explosion or collapse.
Different signs, yes, but still a similar experience. Many in the deaf community share an unequal footing in the hearing world, and as an oft-underrepresented minority group, we are among the most vulnerable in a situation as dire as 9/11.
So posits a documentary called 9/11 Fear in Silence (cc for access). According to this film, the work of Ann Marie "Jade" Bryan in association with Deaf Filmworks, there were 22 deaf and hard of hearing people working in the World Trade Center (WTC) on Sept. 11, 2001. Though they could not hear the horrifying sounds, their other senses were heightened at the brush with death.
Robert Jacaruso, a deaf WTC 1 Survivor who worked on 74th Floor, described the smelling burnt skin from 80th floor workers, seeing the red and blue colors of the airplane falling past him, and feeling the building sway violently as the first plane hit at 8:45 A.M.
Then he describes how, just like many deaf during emergencies, he 'missed the train':
"Everyone dropped everything and ran into a stampede toward the escape doorway. They dropped papers, everything and ran toward the stairs, except me."
Were it not for a co-worker who eventually realized he needed help, Jacaruso may not have gotten out in time.
Edwin King, a deaf chef and WTC2 survivor who was working on the 3rd floor, had a similarly delayed realization: "The floor was caving in. I couldn't figure out what happened. It's hard to explain what I felt as a deaf person because I couldn't hear exactly what it was."
It's hard to find a silver lining in a cloud so large and dark. Not only do we have to reflect on 9/11 again for the 11th time, we also worry about doomsday scenarios like the Mayans' apocalypse prophecy. But whether it's a school practice fire drill, a real fire, or the worst terrorist attack on American soil, we are slowly moving out of the dark ages of emergency response readiness.
What happens in the East Coast, profoundly affects the West Coast. Locally in Seattle, we are proud to note that we have a Washington State 9-1-1/TTY Education Program at the Hearing, Speech and Deafness Center. This program collaborates with state and local 9-1-1 and emergency management agencies so that the deaf, deaf-blind, hard of hearing or speech-challenged can have equal access during times of crisis.
Further from home, the FEMA started a grant-funded project called the Community Resilience Project (CRP), which in the wake of 9/11 hired mental health professionals qualified to work with the North Virginia's deaf and hard of hearing community. They are collecting stories from our Community, to advocate for improved emergency response services.
Also following 9/11, the Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI) created the Emergency Responders and the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community: Taking the First Steps to Disaster Preparedness course, in an initiative supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
These are examples of projects set up to help us, the differently-abled, learn to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies.
We'd call that progress. But as with many social justice issues, we're nowhere close to done.
That goes for the municipal, state, and federal level – as well as private offices and local businesses.
Because all workers are someone's Dad, sister, son, husband, or Grandma. Someone who, whether hearing, hard of hearing, deaf, or deaf-blind, is beloved.
Because 9/11 was a day that reminded you that everyone deserves salvation in equal measure.
Because being deaf-friendly isn't just about creating an enjoyable consumer experience, or following the ADA rules. It's about creating an environment where our will to survive can be matched to our ability to survive.
Nearly 36 million people in America have hearing loss. That's one out of ten people who could seriously be left alone, unaware and vulnerable in dangerous situations.
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Andretti Autosport announced today that Team IZOD driver Ryan Hunter-Reay is set to run the remainder of the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series season after a group of team sponsors stepped up collectively to fund the effort. In addition to confirming Hunter-Reay's full-season participation, the team also unveiled a new charitable initiative connected to the #37 entry called "Racing For Cancer." The program, which was developed by Tom Vossman - chief executive officer of team sponsor Inland Industrial Services Group - will raise money for cancer research and other charitable causes in honor of Hunter-Reay's mother, Lydia, who lost her battle with colon cancer in November 2009.
At the annual Fuel Ethanol Workshop in St. Louis Monday, ICM, Inc. and Green Plains Renewable Energy, both industry leaders in the development and production of biofuels in the U.S., announced they are teaming up to sponsor the #37 Ethanol USA-Team IZOD car from Andretti Autosport driven by Hunter-Reay at the Iowa Corn Indy 250.
Ryan Hunter-Reay will compete with Andretti Autosport during the 2010 IZOD IndyCar Series season with Phillips-Van Heusen's IZOD brand as the primary sponsor of the No. 37 entry. Hunter-Reay's schedule is still in development, but will include the Indianapolis 500 and races before and after the May 30 event.
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Water rates jump in Hastings and it's a sign of things to come as the city addresses high nitrate and uranium levels.
"We continue to see nitrates increase in our groundwater," Hastings Utilities Director Marv Schultes said.
If left unchecked, in two short years Hastings wouldn't have enough clean water for customers, as nitrates, believed to have traveled from farms, continue into the water supply.
Schultes said, "All the studies we've done on it show it looks like that's going to continue and we have to do something to keep the water under the required parts per billion."
Hastings Utilities recently took the first steps to address it, buying land for a $45 million project.
"We've been working on a process to figure out what the solution is, it's a very difficult solution, a very expensive solution, a very challenging solution," Schultes explained.
They invite farmers to be part of the solution, as they work with local natural resources districts and offer incentives to farmers who monitor soil and water.
Schultes said, "Get some help from them if we can because it's a major challenge for the community."
Little Blue Water Specialist Daryl Andersen previously told NTV they want to work with farmers, and even have programs to share costs.
He said, "It's an evil that nobody wants to do, is more regulation, but we emphasize the education side of it. We want to educate people that we're regulating not because we want to but sometimes you've got to get everybody on the same page."
And some farmers could benefit from the process to remove nitrates.
Marv Schultes said, "The idea would be to pump the top, the high nitrates, and use that to irrigate farm ground, farm ground needs high nitrates anyway."
But as the $45 million price for the project suggests, it's not cheap and that's why water bills are going up.
Schultes said, "Water rates increased by 12 percent January 1, 2014 and we look for that trend to continue as we continue with treatment of water."
Uranium levels have also been rising. The project should alleviate that along with the nitrates.
"It's a huge problem, a huge challenge for all of us in the area, and it takes the cooperation of all parties involved to try to keep the water safe for people to drink," Schultes said.
At their January meeting, the Board of Public Works approved a land agreement on Baltimore Avenue in Hastings, the first of several steps in the project.
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This is the first book from my travel to Kenya in November of 2006. It was a jouney of people, not safai's and animals. I stayed in their homes, ate with them, laughed and cried with them. This is the story of the people I found.
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It was once said of Bonnie and Clyde, the his-and-her gangster team, "They're young. They're in love. They kill people." And now, thanks to this rousing and breathlessly exciting new musical, you can add a fourth description: They sing. Composed by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde) with lyrics by Oscar-winner Don Black (Sunset Boulevard), Bonnie & Clyde weaves rockabilly, blues and gospel music into the story of how two small-time nobodies in West Texas became America's most notorious folk heroes. San Jose Stage Company presents the regional premiere of this Tony-nominated tale of love, adventure and crime. Learn More
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A federal appeals court has found that consumers were not likely to be misled by an online software advertiser that purchased a trademarked keyword of its competitor.
In its ruling yesterday, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated an injunction that had barred Network Automation from buying the keyword, "ActiveBatch," the trademarked name of a rival company's software, according to stories by the Online Media Daily, Courthouse News Service and PaidContent.org. Network Automation's website was listed as a sponsored link when people searched online for "ActiveBatch."
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The band's web site announced the August 9th performance in Erie. But leaders of the non-profit Presque Isle Partnership say they are still in the process of finalizing the deal. So ticket information is not yet available.
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As this is a key topic of conversation --- I say we end all speculation and just vote now and see who comes out the idiot in July. Since we don't know what BK and DWill and Wallace have said in private, let's agree on the following and end all speculation till we have the answer:
The trade was good if:
1. Deron stays --- there was a chance he'd stay anyway, but we have to assume he was part of the discussion for Wallace so if he stays, then it was a good trade. Doesn't matter if Wallace stays if Deron leaves
The trade was bad if:
1. Deron leaves whether Wallace stays or not
So let's hear it ... who thinks Deron leaves, who thinks he stays. That pretty much determines if the trade is bad.
*** I'm adding this because of the below comments. Whether Wallace is better or worse than a potential draftee is irrelevant because we could have had Wallace in the offseason if we gave him a long-term contract (which we would have to do now to keep him anyway). So you can not say Wallace > draft pick so therefore it's a good trade. If Deron told us he would be gone no matter what, we would have had wallace AND a draft pick. And please --- don't insult my intelligence with some ridiculous loyalty story of how Wallce will sign for less because he played 2 months on our team. That's a joke