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Two teenagers died, two others were seriously hurt in a Nov., 2012 crash in Detroit. Sunday, one of the survivors came home -- with a warning for other teenagers.
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"Don't get into stolen cars. Say no," says Enijah Lamb, 15, of Detroit.
The teen suffered a brain injury and other serious injuries when the stolen car he was riding in with four other teenagers slammed into a tree. Two 15 year olds, his cousin and his best friend, died in the crash. One other teenager survived. Police say the car was going about 100 miles an hour on the 5400 block of Holcomb when the driver lost control. The car burst into flames.
"How's it feel to be home?" we asked. "Good," Enijah answered. "What did you miss the most about being away?" "My family," he replied.
Doctors kept Lamb in a medically induced coma for 6 weeks after the crash. He's still unable to walk on his own.
"Only thing they said, they don't know how he's gonna end up. Is he going to wake up? Is his brain going to come back to normal? Is he going to walk?" said Enijah's mother. "I pray to God every day every day that he is gonna come through this."
Enijah's stop home was only a visit. He'll head to a group home for more rehab and to learn how to walk again. Family members say it could be six more months before he's able to return home for good.
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Sheriff Saba spoke to county commissioners Monday.
The county hired a company to study pay rates for employees. Saba says he fears employees won't get the necessary raises.
He says that's a problem since his deputies and other county workers haven't gotten cost of living raises in the last three years.
"If you want good employees, you've got to pay them. We've got good employees. I'd hate to see them leave that's all," he said.
Saba says when his deputies finish law enforcement training, they make two to three dollars less per hour than APD officers.
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text: Fear and Loathing ArticleDeckWhat is is about snakes and spiders that gives us the willies? Page Image Page ContentPublished in the May/June 2011 issue of Ohio State Alumni Magazine by Richard Warrenphoto by Chris CrookFor arachnophobes and ophidiophobes, just looking at photos of spiders and snakes can induce panic. John Corby '78 was thumbing through an encyclopedia as a child when he came across a photo of a giant South American spider. "It was a foot across, with legs bigger than my fingers," he said. "I was sure it could jump on me, kill me, and eat me." Corby, who hosts a radio talk show on WTVN-610 in Columbus, said he also read about spiders that burrowed into the ground and constructed trapdoors of their silk. Could they ensnare small children? Even as an adult, Corby is worried that spiders will attack him. He has candidly discussed his fear on the air, inviting listeners to call in and describe their own phobias. Still, he hasn't sought treatment. "It's not been all that debilitating," he said. For others, though, their phobias create havoc in their daily lives. Some people can't leave home without wearing protective clothing against spiders. Others develop elaborate coping techniques, such as sending someone ahead of them into an unfamiliar environment to make sure the dreaded creature isn't lurking there. "It's hard to draw a clear line between a clinical level of phobia and a strong fear," said Michael Vasey, who directs the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Clinic at Ohio State. "With phobics, what we're talking about is on the order of a panic attack. Their fear disrupts their ability to function in their everyday routines." The 'ick' factorWhere such fear comes from is still being debated. There may be an evolutionary component: those with a blithe disregard of what some spiders and snakes can do may quickly find themselves out of the gene pool. And there's a difference between having a realistic fear of, say, lions and recognizing the dangers involved in everyday objects. People don't develop phobias about electric outlets, for example. There's also evidence that a phobia can be learned. Chimpanzees watching videos of other chimps reacting in terror to a spider learned the same behavior. But when the tape was edited so the onscreen chimps appeared to be terrified by a flower, the watching chimps didn't develop the same reaction. "There's something special about spiders and snakes," Vasey said. Plus, there's the "ick" factor. Spiders and snakes make many people's skin crawl. "Disgust sensitivity comes into play," Vasey said. "People may not say 'I'm afraid,' but they sure as heck don't want to go near them or touch them." 'They're more afraid of you . . .'Vasey uses exposure therapy to desensitize phobics. The person is put in the same room with a spider inside a glass tank. The individual begins 12 steps away, then moves to five feet, then two feet, and gradually gets close enough to take the lid off the tank and poke the spider with a pencil. The process is repeated four times. The phobics are typically poised to run like mad should their worst fear come true and the spider tries to attack them.What they learn is what most people understand: spiders aren't aggressive. By the end of the therapy, Vasey has even seen phobics admiring the spider's colors. With many people, however, the fear returns when they come back for a second round of therapy. The results of studies Vasey recently did with fellow psychology professor Russell Fazio may hold promise for these folks. The trials combined exposure therapy with novel treatments. Fazio studies the formation of deeply held attitudes and the automatic responses those attitudes create. He theorizes that a phobia is just another kind of attitude, but one that triggers a fear response. Vasey and Fazio suspected that the individuals whose fear returned in the second therapy session had learned simply to control the fear, not to make a change in their attitude toward spiders that would ease their anxieties.They created two procedures to encourage a positive association. In the first, the subjects were shown a stream of pictures on a computer screen. They included photos of spiders mixed with pleasant images such as ice cream, mountain scenes, and dolphins at play. The other technique used a joystick that the phobics were told to push forward when they saw the word "toward." Just prior to the "toward" command, a subliminal image of a spider flashed on the screen. Those who received the supplemental treatments showed significantly less fear in their additional sessions. Though the techniques might not work with other fears, Vasey and Fazio hope they've found another way to make life a little easier for spider phobics. PageContent_Postscript PageContent_Sidebar Celebrating AlumniReunion WeekendAlumni Cup Golf OutingBuckeye BashesAlumni Tours


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Study results show herbal remedies trump pain drugs for osteoarthritis relief
By Alexander Shikhman, MD, PhD, FACR
As the number of aging baby boomers with degenerative ailments begins to rise, public and clinical interest in integrative therapy and the effectiveness of dietary supplements is bound to follow suit. And while adult use of joint health supplements has been fairly flat for the past fifteen years, recent study results presented at the World Congress on Osteoarthritis show that herbal remedies may in fact trump traditional pain medications when it comes to patient relief — a finding that stands to have a major impact on the next generation of osteoarthritis patients nationwide.
According to a recent report in Nutraceuticals World, the time is ripe for joint health ingredients to begin playing a bigger role in the natural supplements market. Industry experts explain that consumers are seeking products that demonstrate proven efficacy – not just for pain relief, but for functional improvements and overall health benefits as well. Combined with the sobering fact that nearly 16 million Americans currently suffer from osteoarthritis (a mere fraction of the nearly 40 million current arthritis patients nationwide), these consumer trends speak to the need for an increased focus on joint health supplement development that caters to integrative health goals, cost consciousness and individual medical needs – all while aiding in cartilage tissue growth and contributing to a more comfortable and active quality of life.
As Fox News reported late last month, new research in the field of osteoarthritis prevention and treatment now stands to complement these trends – and to provide patients with added resources for holistic therapy and relief through the use of herbal extracts. After comparing the pain and mobility management effects of the prescription drug celecoxib (generic for Celebrex®) with that of herbal supplements comprised of turmeric root and boswellia extracts, scientists at the Anugraha Medical Center in India concluded that the herbal products demonstrated superior results for patients – and did so without significant or dangerous side-effects. According to the study, about 93 percent of the patients taking herbal remedies reported improvement in or even elimination of pain, while only 79 percent of those taking the drug confirmed successful pain management. In addition, 93 percent of those taking the herbal extracts succeeded in walking more than 1000 meters after treatment: by contrast, only 83 percent of those taking the drug celecoxib reported similar results.
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Scott Tipton's Vast Reserves of Education Funding
United States Representative Scott Tipton of Colorado's 3rd congressional district, has found himself literally sitting on vast underground reservoirs of energy resources. And with a little intrepid political exploration he has figured how to turn that energy into a gusher of funding for K-12 education. Scott Tipton's district is one of the largest, north to south, east to west, in the nation. It covers fully one half of the state of Colorado. Colorado is one of the most energy-rich regions in the world and has enough clean coal, natural gas, and petroleum resources to power the United States for at least 100 years.
The Energy and Education Act of 2011 (H.R. 3235) is designed to draw upon the vast energy reserves in the United States, and will devote a full 33% of the federal portion of oil and gas revenues to K-12 education across the country. H.R. 3235 would direct those revenues derived from oil and gas leases in the states, back to the departments of education of those particular states. The bill would also distribute to all of the states the remaining 17% of the federal portion of the revenues. The allocation of these revenues would only apply to new leases granted by the Secretary of the Interior. The bill also allows for education funding in states that develop their mineral resources under the same process. "States with areas under new leasing authority will see a direct investment in educational funding for revenues collected."
Congressman Tipton has been very thorough in the writing of the Education and Energy Act of 2011. He lets no potential well of funding go untapped. The act also requires that revenues from domestic oil and gas leases which are above the amount anticipated for a given year will also be "apportioned for education funding as the states see fit."
Scott Tipton is no Jed Clampett, and this is no accidental bonanza. This is a well crafted, ingenious piece of legislation that literally pits the teachers unions against their ideological bedfellows, the environmental Left. Now I know that Scott Tipton is a nice guy, and whether this feature of H.R. 3235 was intended or not, I can't say with certainty. But I find it delightful. Education coffers would fill, teaching positions would be restored, facilities would be built or renovated, and public schools would have access to the best technologies. The only thing that might potentially stop this from occurring would be the prohibitive activities of the EPA, the Department of the Interior, and leftist environmentalist organizations. H.R. 3235 presents a catch 22 for hard-core liberals, but for prosperity-minded conservatives, it is a mother lode of cunning.
The Education and Energy act boils down to a common sense approach to incentivizing energy development and supporting K-12 schools without raising taxes on American citizens. This act implements a sort of directional drilling for new sources of education funding, through new energy leases, without negatively impacting the economy as it recovers from years of recession, over-taxation, and over-regulation. Modern energy exploration and recovery technologies impact the environment very little in comparison to past drilling techniques. Opposition to energy development is primarily a gesture from liberal politicians and monster bureaucracies to appease radical environmentalist groups. Every lease that is submitted by an energy company is an lawsuit waiting to happen. But H.R. 3235 will turn the tables and every lease submitted by an energy company that is blocked by environmentalists, is the equivalent of removing funding from the public education system. I can't wait for this excellent legislation to be passed and then implemented. I will enjoy the contentious duels between teacher's unions and environmentalist wackos, all to be played out in the gladiatorial arenas of America's vast energy reserves. I will be rooting for the kids. I want them to have the best education that energy leases can buy.
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Skilled cover man Talib gives Patriots flexibility
The Patriots are taking a chance on CB Aqib Talib, but he is a skilled cover man who can allow Bill Belichick to be flexible with the secondary.
Buccaneers trade CB Talib to Patriots
The Buccaneers traded CB Aqib Talib to the Patriots, the Bucs announced Thursday at the trade deadline.
Patriots release DB Moore
The Patriots released DB Sterling Moore and signed LB Mike Rivera and DB Derrick Martin.
Wednesday's 60-second rant: Dealing draft picks at deadline risky
The NFL's extended trade deadline looms, but teams like the Lions and GM Martin Mayhew should be leery of trading away draft picks for players.
Patriots release LB Carpenter
The Patriots cut LB Bobby Carpenter on Tuesday, the team announced.
AFC East Spin cycle: Dolphins keep pace with Patriots
The Patriots and Dolphins asserted themselves as the AFC East's top two teams with convincing Week Eight victories.
Patriots rout Rams in London
Tom Brady led touchdown drives on the Patriots' first five possessions Sunday and New England ran over the St. Louis Rams 45-7 in London.
Patriots place CB Dowling on I.R.
The Patriots placed CB Ras-I Dowling on injured reserve for the second year in a row.
Wednesday's 60-second rant: Who is the second-best team in the AFC East?
In a muddled AFC, the team that finishes second in the AFC East could snag a wild-card berth, but it's hard to decipher which team that will be.
AFC East Spin cycle: Patriots rally after another blown lead
The Patriots took over first place in the AFC East after edging the Jets and the Dolphins moved into second while on bye.
Sanchez's fumble in OT gives Patriots the win
Rob Ninkovich recovered a fumble by Mark Sanchez after Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 48-yard field goal in overtime as the Patriots held on to beat the Jets.
Patriots add LB Tarpinian
The Patriots signed LB Jeff Tarpinian from the practice squad to the 53-man roster on Saturday.
Dennard getting his opportunity in Pats' secondary
Patriots rookie CB Alfonzo Dennard has seen extra playing time the past two weeks and could spark a Pats secondary that still has its flaws.
Key matchup: Patriots RB Stevan Ridley vs. Jets run defense
The Patriots' three wins have come when Stevan Ridley and the run game have dominated, and the Jets will look to contain them on Sunday.
Scout's Notebook: Patriots ORG Dan Connolly
PFW evaluator Nolan Nawrocki analyzes the traits of the Patriots very consistent, underrated ORG Dan Connolly.
Solder, a first-round draft pick out of Colorado, has been impressive in training camp and preseason for the Patriots. Now, with starting right tackle Sebastian Vollmer missing practice again Friday and expected to be sidelined for Monday night's game against the Miami Dolphins, Solder figures to move from his usual left tackle position to the right side.||||||| Solder says he is ready for the challenge, although "I don't know exactly what's been going on with that (Vollmer's injury), but I'm going to play wherever they need me to play."
Solder has signed with New England and joined the Patriots at training camp.||||||| Coach Bill Belichick said Thursday that the Solder deal was done and the 319-pound offensive lineman would be practicing with the team in the afternoon. Solder was a first-team All-American last year at Colorado and started in 36 games during his college career, including four as a tight end. He is the last of New England's first six picks to sign.
The Patriots used the 17th pick on Thursday night on Nate Solder, a first-team All-America player last year who lined up for every offensive snap for Colorado as a senior. They had taken another 6-foot-8 tackle, Sebastian Vollmer, two years ago and he started every game for them last season. And Matt Light has been the starting left tackle the past 10 seasons.||||||| Solder missed just two snaps in his last three seasons at left tackle where he protected the quarterback's blind side. He never played the right side in college, and coach Bill Belichick said he will be a left tackle in the NFL. "There's a lot of things he'll have to improve on. He's a smart kid, a hard worker," Belichick said. "For a big guy, he moves very well."


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This guy is a prototypical QB for what Turner Gill wants to do and is a great all around athlete
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"He's a real easy person to talk to," he said. "He's very understanding and didn't want to rush me into a decision. The one thing about him was that I was worried he'd leave and I asked about that. He said it's not just about money, he's dedicated to this program and I felt confident in him."


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Tara's Embarrassing Mix-Up
Tara's Embarrassing Mix-Up
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Tara was the last to find out she will not be staring opposite Robert De Niro. Apparently she got a phone call on Saturday night while partying at the Delano in Miami saying she'd been cast in a movie, and Bobby would be her co-star. R&M reports Tara was "jumping up and down and screaming. It's all she talked about all week. She told so many people out there! Her assistant even made a toast for her at the Blue Door, congratulating her on getting the movie." Too bad De Niro was never attached and his spokesperson was quick to issue a denial: "He's not involved. It's not true." Oops! Poor Tara thought she landed a real deal. Sadly the actress remains better known for her drinking and many nip slips.
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XoxRainbowshineXoX 8 years
She needs to invest in some duct tape. Just tape those things down or something.
TriniBaby81 8 years
OOOOooooohhhhh...Still just a drunken D-Lister, that's gotta hurt.LOL
rkdub 8 years
or a playboy centerfold.... yuck!
evermore 8 years
I do feel bad for her, she must be running out of money by now..... now that i've said that, i feel an album coming out.
ethiopian_princess 8 years
luna, for the same reason people stop to look at car crashes
Luna13 8 years
What on earth happened to this woman? She used to be so beautiful and effortlessly cool, now she looks 'used' and old. Why is she still in the tabloids she has done nothing for years and i dont see her getting any betta
Adriana42 8 years
what a genious, i wanna be smart like her
PrincessPixie 8 years
Poor Tara, that would suck soooo much.
mle983 8 years
if i have to look at this picture again, i might just chop off my *own* nipple. ugh.
OMGSHitsKAT 8 years
Ha sucks for her. I dont like Tara.
SugarySweet022 8 years
sad & pathetic........no other way to describe it.
pink_magnetism 8 years
Sounds like someone played a big joke on Tara. I feel sorry for her that she doesn't realise she wouldn't get a movie with Robert DeNiro.
ethiopian_princess 8 years
wow people. leave the girl alone. i genuinely feel very bad for her.
FB1977 8 years
Haha Frankennipple...i'll never forget seeing that term used when she first got her tits done.
pinkylover 8 years
Toronado, her Frankentits probably float. So if you think that'd be the end of her, you're likely mistaken. Unfortunately...
pinkylover 8 years
What strange nipple placement! Did she get her boobs done in a back alley in Tijuana? My goodness...
Toronado 8 years
Bwaaaaah-ha-ha!! That's priceless! Bobby DeNiro's in a league all his own, the likes of which that skank will never, ever see. He's been one of my favourite actors for years; even if she was to actually be in a flick with him, I'd still see it, but definately not because of her. Anyway, he's probably well-aware of the fact that she's pure box office poison...I don't even know why she's still famous. She can take her Frankentits and jump off the Golden Gate bridge for all I care.
Blondieforever 8 years
Well, you know the saying...."don't count your chickens before they hatch." JennaV, I love that phrase- "hot mess!" have you ever seen the Chelsea Handler Show on E?
team_aspartame 8 years
OK!!! if i were her i wud make some money off of it since she has slipped her nip so many times now ... i wud be a few thousand dollars richer
Indiana 8 years
Tara-ble! She needs to get sober and start taking care of herself. At this rate, she won't see 35!
BlackBarbie21 8 years
hahahaha! Nasty skank! You can go back to your gangbang now.
Miller1 8 years
OMG she looks like my Aunt Ophelia who smokes a pack a day and smells like pine sol. Except Aunt Ophelia's left tit always popped out.
malibu-stacey 8 years
oooh.... tara got punkd! heehee...
sweet-caroline 8 years
come on really .. i have a better shot of being in a movie with deniro lol there is no way she could have thought that i dont buy this story for some reason
JennaV 8 years
She does seem nice, so it is sad that she has turned into a big hot mess. I see LL being where Tara is now in no more than 3 years or so. She is like Tara lite now but is on her way to taking over the crown.
mar 8 years
she is the perfect example of what not to do when you get to Hollywood. She ruined herself by drinking and smoking and doing drugs. It really is sad. She also got so much bad surgery that she did not even need, and she looks horrid. I really do feel bad for her right now. I dont think she has ever been a bit*h or a snob, she seems nice, so it really is a shame.
yayita 8 years
Deniro is full of himself, he's no big deal anymore. Too overated in my opinion
CRAZiiBEAUTiiFUL 8 years
she disgusts me
pinkangelmonkey 8 years
i feel bad for her too, she thought she was gonna work with deniro i would be devastated if i were her!
FB1977 8 years
Well then, her friends need to intervene, if she even has any. She'll never be taken seriously as an actress unless she cleans up her act.
yayita 8 years
I wish she would clean up her act, get decent and start taking work seriously. She needs a make over from bottom up!
abomb88 8 years
I agree she shouldn't have gotten the implants, but maybe she has serious problems that noone knows about and a drinking problem. She may not be able to help how her body has aged. But I also agree with you FB, she should have done something about it before it got to this degree.
filthycute 8 years
I never thought I'd say this, but her nipples are now the least scariest thing about her.
TNgirl 8 years
This girl needs help she has seriously went down hill fast and Lohan seems to be following in her footsteps.
FB1977 8 years
yeah but come on! I don't feel bad for her...just look at her. She should have kept her original cute body, tamed her partying ways, and maybe, just maybe, she could've had this role. She's her own worst enemy, as far as I'm concerned.
abomb88 8 years
I feel bad for her as well, she was so excited and telling everybody!! That really has to hurt. Well, we all know how she will ride this one out. Magaritas anyone?
Shiloh-Jolie-Pitt 8 years
it's like she never knows where her boobs are going...
LuckyStar 8 years
hahah thats so embarrassing..!!!!!!!!!
gwynethmania 8 years
ohhh i somehow feel sorry for this chick..get yourself together tara and find another day job err..night job?? since you love the nightlife so much why not put up a club?? and invite all you party pals..like say..umm paris hilton? or kim stewart...
musiclvr224 8 years
i do feel a little bad for her but still did she honestly believe that?!?
Sica 8 years
I think she´s trying to prove something to someome..Like she has the biggest nipples of America or something..it´s nasty!
ethiopian_princess 8 years
i actually feel bad for her. that has to be reeeeeeally disappointing.
atoxicsparkle 8 years
that is the oddest looking nipple i have ever seen, wait, actually pam's nipples were the weirdest. why am i talking about nipples? just go to yayita's last poll, it has got me in the wierdest mood now ;)
Jinx 8 years
American Pie curse, lol, you could be onto something there. But it did renew Eugene Levy's career.
FB1977 8 years
Wow, the girl has to be smoking something...did she seriously think SHE would star in a movie with DeNiro? Umm...yeah.
Genteel 8 years
OMG, can she seriously NOT feel it when her boob slips out of its makeshift harness? Maybe the nerves died during all of the snip-snip she's had done. And, I'm reserving comment regarding the weird shape/size/color of the, um, peak. ;-)
bluebear24 8 years
I agree lexaboo. And she really is (was) so pretty. I kind of feel sorry for her, it's like she's got Britney-syndrome (has no clue how she appears to us)
sheetal215 8 years
shes gettin grosser and grosser! another nipple slip
nicachica 8 years
wasn't this in an episode of So NoTorious? I'm half snickering, half feeling sorry for her. Lol, okay really i'm 85% snickering and 15% feeling sorry for her...
musiclvr224 8 years
She could never star in a movie with Robert De niro, she is way too bad of an actress and he is way to good of an actor!
sashak 8 years
Maybe the American Pie trilogy was cursed. She might be able to play a slagged-out street walker that Bobbie D passes on the street...
lexaboo 8 years
She is looking more andmore unattractive with every picture I see of her recently.
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The United States are already trailing Guatemala in a match that they absolutely cannot afford to lose, thanks to a terrible miscommunication at the back between the two U.S. central defenders. There's really no excuse for that kind of start by the United States, and they're now seriously up against a tough task.
Carlos Ruiz was the man who put Guatemala up 1-0, scoring on a long ball over the top of the defense. Carlos Bocanegra and Geoff Cameron were not on the same page regarding where they were setting the defensive line, nor did either of them pick up Ruiz. He was let clear through on goal and rounded Tim Howard, then finished calmly from a narrow angle on an empty net.
There are 85 minutes left for the United States to get back into this match, but there's no way they could have anticipated this kind of start. That was some unfathomably poor defending.


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Right-Eye's children and wife weren't raised because Redcloak did not control the financial resources of Team Evil; Xykon did, and he wasn't ponying up three 5000 gp diamonds to bring back three of the lowest-level henchmen he had. Evil characters are neither prohibited nor even discouraged from raising the dead in the OOTS universenor in any other D&D world of which I'm aware, unless they specifically serve a god of Death.
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This multidisciplinary concentration is designed to serve undergraduate students wishing to attain reasonable fluency in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean and specialized exposure to selected East Asian subjects. The concentration serves students with two types of professional and academic interests: those who wish to pursue professional careers related to the East Asian region, and those who will continue their education at the graduate level in the humanities or social sciences with special emphasis on China, Japan, or Korea.
Concentrators' academic experiences should culminate in their senior project. Concentration advisors will guide and supervise in the planning of individual concentrations to ensure the development of coherent programs of study.
The Language Requirement: The concentration requires students to demonstrate a basic proficiency in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. For the purposes of the concentration, proficiency is determined to be consistent with successful completion of the Departments third-year course sequence in either Chinese or Japanese (0500-0600), or its equivalent. Native speakers of these languages may, for example, demonstrate competency such that language courses may be unnecessary. Department language instructors may also determine that course work completed at one of the language-intensive study abroad programs attended by our undergraduates is comparable to courses offered at Brown. Because the Department normally only offers the first two years of Korean, students wishing advanced instruction in that language would normally do so as part of a study abroad program. Note that we do not equate completion of third-year Chinese, Japanese, or Korean with fluency in these languages. Rather, we believe that students who have demonstrated the skills associated with third-year Chinese, Japanese, or Korean have acquired a foundational understanding of the languages grammar, vocabularies, and conversational patterns, such that they are able to make themselves understood in everyday situations, and to understand both spoken and written communication.
For the purposes of the concentration, language courses through the third-year are treated as an accompanying requirement.
Required Introductory Surveys: All concentrators are required to complete successfully both History 0410 Introduction to East Asian Civilization: China and History 0420 Introduction to East Asian Civilization: Japan. Both courses are offered annually by the History Department; History 0410 in the fall, and History 0420 in the spring. These courses offer chronologically broad surveys of Chinese and Japanese history. They are required for concentrators in order to provide them with common frameworks for thinking about historical change in East Asia, and to raise an awareness of issues and developments outside of their particular geographical or temporal areas of focus. Department faculty are also aware that many undergraduates come to Brown with backgrounds in Western Civilization and North American history, but little if any exposure to the histories and cultures of East Asia, and believe that these courses play an important role in addressing those deficits. We encourage students to take these introductory courses early in their careers at Brown.
Content/Topics Courses: The revised concentration requires seven courses in addition to History 0410 and 0420. At least one elective must fall outside the primary focus of the concentrators course of study, which may be defined in linguistic, chronological, thematic or cultural terms. One of the seven electives may, with the consent of the concentration advisor, be a course topically unrelated to East Asia, but beneficial to the students disciplinary and/or theoretical interests.
As is common for interdisciplinary concentrations, a wide range of courses, including many taught by faculty in other departments, may be counted toward the concentration. These include courses offered by East Asian Studies faculty, faculty with courtesy appointments in the Department, and courses with a significant focus on East Asia offered in such disciplines as Archeology, Anthropology, Economics, International Relations, and others.
Advanced seminars: At least one of the seven elective courses must be an advanced research seminar, typically taken in the junior or senior year. The research seminar will normally provide students with the opportunity to develop a project or paper focusing on one or more of their areas of inquiry within the concentration. Students are strongly encouraged to find ways to incorporate the use of Chinese, Japanese or Korean language materials in their research and learning in these courses. Courses falling into this category include but are not limited to the East Asian Studies 1950 series and History 1970 series. The Department will provide a list of pre-approved advanced seminars every semester. Students wishing to add courses to that list must submit their requests in writing to the Undergraduate Advisor at the start of the semester.
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After the 49ers recent preseason defensive dominance a lot has been made of their depth. A few have ventured so far as to say that the 49ers backups are better than some of the other 31 defenses out there. Since I have 30 minutes left of work and not much else today I thought I'd explore this a bit.
Defensive Line: Dobbs, Jerod-Eddie, and Dorsey have all preformed well this preseason but over 16 games I don't know how they would hold up. Glenn Dorsey is a solid player and would probably be a starter on most teams. Dobbs and Jerod-Eddie could perform well but we haven't seen them go up against other team's starters much. In the end I would have to say this is probably a very weak defensive line, but possibly an upgrade over a few really really bad defensive fronts. I'm looking at you Oakland. On the other hand, lets remember that the Niners are waiting on a couple of draft picks to get healthy. I can't predict how Tank and Dial will preform but Tank was a beast at Florida St. and a lot of people were really high on him last draft. Luckily none of those people run any of the other 31 team's drafts.
DE: Dobbs
NT: Dorsey
DE: Jerod-Eddie
NFI and potential stud: Carradine
Linebackers: This group is without a doubt the strongest of the backups, and they have been lights out this preseason. Wilhoite is looking like he is one of the better middle linebackers in the league and I'll go as far as to say that he is a top 15 player at his position. Moody has performed well but he is learning a new position and while he has shown promise I doubt that he'd be an upgrade for most teams out there. The Lemonier, Johnson, Skuta trio on the outside reminds me a bit of the Brooks, Parys, Smith trio from 2011. None of them are as good as the 2011 squad but they aren't that much worse either. You have you your run stuffer in Skuta, do everything well nothing great guy in Johnson, and pass rush beast in Lemonier. All in all this probably isn't an upper echelon group this year (next year maybe) but they'd be far from the worst in the league.
OLB: Skuta
ILB: Wilhoite
ILB: Moody
OLB: Johnson
Pass Rushing OLB: Lemonier
Corners: Corners have been considered a weakness for the Niners for the past few years, but I think it is just the weakest part of a very strong defense. The way I see it the Niners lack a top tier corner (depending on how you feel about Brown) but have a bunch of guys who are very quality numbers twos. Asomugha, Cox, and Brock were all fighting for the number three spot but I think that other than Seattle, Arizona, St. Louis, the Jets, and Chicago each of those guys would be in a battle for the number 2 even number 1 spots on a lot of teams. Atlanta and Washington come to mind as teams who would probably end up starting anyone and maybe all three of these guys.
CB: Asomugha
CB: Brock
Nickle CB: Cox
Safeties: Overall this is the area of the defense with the least quality depth. Dahl is an OK backup but a bad starter; just ask St. Louis. Spillman shows flashes but never seems to threaten the depth chart much. I really liked Robinson coming out of college but his height holds him back and he hasn't shown much in his limited time. Thomas has always been intriguing but again his inability to move up the depth chart doesn't inspire much confidence. Out of the four I don't even know who the starters would be. I'd guess probably Spillman and Dahl because they were the two competing with Reid, but I don't think a lot of teams would be clamoring to get any of these guys into their starting lineups. Of course at the end of this season we might look at the utter mess that has transpired in the New England secondary and think to ourselves "Damn! … They could have really used Dahl this year."
FS: Dahl
SS: Spillman
Conclusion: The thing this defense would be sorely lacking would be one or two true play makers. Lemonier and maybe Asomugha are the only two who might provide a bit of game changing ability and even that is very very debatable. On the other hand, other than safety you don't have any really bad players. The cornerback and linebacking corps actually look quite strong. The defense line wouldn't scare too many offensive lines but they wouldn't be a bunch of pushovers either. Once Tank is activated and starts making offensive linemen cry, their nickle defense looks pretty good too. Come to think of it going Dobbs, Dorsey, Carradine, and Lemonier in a four man front could be quite effective maybe even top 10. The safeties are the biggest question marks and probably would hold the whole group back a bit. If you had slightly better safeties then you'd probably have the beginning of a very nice bend but don't break group of players.
The question was would this group preform better than any of the other 31 defenses out there. I'm going to say that this defense would be right in the mix with the likes of Oakland, New Orleans, and Washington for one of the bottom 3 spots in the league. They would probably preform pretty well against the run in base sets and could cover fairly well on the outside. I just think the lack of quality safeties leads to a lot of big plays. However, if you look at just the players I think you have 8 or 9 guys who could challenge for and probably win a starting role on a lot of teams.
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Mt. Vernon's David Modert will again represent the boys cross country team at the Peoria state finals.
Modert finished eighth overall in a time of 15:39 at the Decatur sectional.
"He was able to get out and run well," Mt. Vernon boys cross country coach Clint Turner said. "He says he feels pretty good so leading into state that's a good deal."
The Rams as a team placed ninth. The top five teams advanced to state. Mahomet-Seymour won the team title with a score of 60. Mt. Vernon finished with a 232 in the 12-team field.
"If you look at the five teams that got out, all five had at least two guys in the top 20," Turner said. "And then you always have to think all your team needs to be in top no worse than 50, 60 at absolute worst. And that's what we talked about."
Other runners for the Rams were: Jordan Wilemon 36th (16:23), Daniel Flood 54th (16:37), Ethan Badger 67th (16:49), Hagan Schneider 78th (17:01), Brykell Patton 106th (17:24) and Tyler Williams 129th (18:04).
"Our times were pretty good," Turner said. "They weren't too bad. What we didn't have that everybody else had was that qualified was not one guy up in the top 20, they had two. It just makes for a good score."
Girls sectional
A pair of runners competed for the Lady Rams at the Decatur sectional.
Kate Bushue finished 34th overall in a time of 19:27. Camilla Bauer was 53rd in a time of 20:05. Both times were season bests.


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The Honeymoon Murder of Anni Dewani
Shrien and Anni
Shrien and Anni Dewani were married in a lavish three-day ceremony in Mumbai on October 29, 2010. Following the ceremony, the wealthy British couple traveled to South Africa for an extended honeymoon in a series of South Africa's most exclusive vacation properties. It must have seemed a dream come true — to escape the dreary confines of the looming English winter to spend a couple of weeks reveling in their new love and their new life in a warm climate.
At 30, Shrien Dewani was two years older than his wife. Raised in the suburbs of Bristol, England, Shrien trained and practiced as an accountant before resigning from his job in order to run his family's chain of nursing homes. More of a practical businessman than a dreamer, he helped build the chain of homes into a highly lucrative business, making himself a millionaire along the way.
The couple's first date was to see a performance of the musical The Lion King, and soon thereafter they were deeply involved. In June 2009, Shrien proposed to Anni, offering her a massive engagement ring worth nearly $40,000. The couple's engagement seemed almost ideal, if a bit strained by distance. At first they alternated weekends between Stockholm and Bristol, but, after a few months of hectic travel, Anni resigned her position with the telecom company and moved to Bristol to help Shrien run the family business. She also entered as a contestant in the British version of the popular reality show, "Top Model."


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Goodrich Corp. has signed a research agreement with Rolls-Royce to develop the new fuel nozzles for "lean burn" combustion technology systems for gas turbine engines, Goodrich announced today. Rolls-Royce has also chosen Goodrich to supply the fuel nozzles for the new Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine for the Airbus A350XWB widebody. The contract calls for all work to be performed by Goodrich's Engine Components team in West Des Moines, Iowa.<o:p></o:p>
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There are many things I enjoyed about this film. All the performances were excellent, my personal favorite being Samuel L. Jackson's, who played an intense bastard of an Uncle Tom. The dialogue was sharp and funny, particularly that of Christoph Waltz's character and one hilarious scene about proto-Klansmen fussing with their hoods. Tarantino was also brilliant with his use of violence, making the brutality against the white slaveholders satisfying to the audience while the similarly graphic pain inflicted on the protagonists and the innocent sickening and upsetting. However, I have a few issues with the story of DJANGO UNCHAINED. In order to explain what I mean by this, there will be spoilers. So, SPOILER ALERT
In DJANGO UNCHAINED, our hero Django (Jamie Foxx) is purchased by bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) for the purpose of identifying his former owners, The Brittle Brothers, who are wanted criminals. Schultz agrees to free Django after finding and killing the Brittle Brothers; he keeps his word and, at this point, Schultz offers to teach Django to be a bounty hunter. Django agrees to work together over the winter, after which Schultz will help Django find his wife Broomhilda, who's still a slave. After finding the plantation where she is being held, Schultz and Django con the plantation owner Calvin Candie into selling them Broomhilda. Their rouse is discovered and a bloodbath ensues where both Schultz and Candie are killed. Django surrenders and is sold back into slavery, only to trick his new white slavers into untying him, allowing him to kill them and head back to the plantation. He rescues his wife and blows up the plantation's main house after shooting the white residents and severely injuring Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson). Django and Broomhilda ride off together, happy to be reunited and free.
Now, before I continue, I want you to think about KILL BILL and INGLORIOUS BASTERDS for a moment. Imagine that KILL BILL had been the story of Beatrix Kiddo being found by a kindly assassin right after she'd come out of the coma caused by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad's vicious assault, when she was at her most weak and emotional. Imagine that this man trained her and helped her find those who'd hurt her, so that she could become a bad ass by the end of the film and kill Bill. Or imagine that INGLORIOUS BASTERDS had included the story of Shoshana (the Jewish French movie theater owner) as that of a child found by an undercover American agent right after she'd escaped the Nazis who murdered her family, when she was terrified and alone. Imagine that this man trained her and helped her keep an eye on Nazi activity, so that she learned to out-think the Nazis and successfully trapped and killed Hitler at the end of the film.
Basically, imagine that these horrifically wounded characters had to be saved and transformed into strong people by an outsider before the idea of taking a stand against their enemies even occurred to them.
That, right there, is my biggest issue with DJANGO UNCHAINED, both because I think it makes for a weak revenge story and because I think it's (at best) patronizing to black people.
See, to me, the main reason revenge stories are enjoyable is because we like seeing those who've been tortured and humiliated rise up in spite of (or because of) this abuse to brutally defeat their antagonists. We like seeing power taken away from someone who doesn't deserve it (i.e. Bill, Hitler) by someone who does (i.e. Beatrix Kiddo, Shoshana, the Basterds). So, when you introduce an outsider (i.e. Schultz) who has to train and encourage the persecuted main character (i.e. Django) to take action against their oppressors, you weaken both the protagonist's motivation and lessen the injuries they've suffered. This makes for a less compelling story.
I especially find it disconcerting that Tarantino chose this plot for a black character, as it reinforces our cultural narrative that the systemic oppression of black Americans ceased only because peaceful civil disobedience made white Americans see the error of their ways. While it's of course true that the tactics of Martin Luther King Jr were incredibly important to the success of the Civil Rights movement of the '50s and '60s, this version of events completely ignores all the instances in our history where black Americans stood up and demanded to be treated like human beings, whether it was in the form of slave rebellions or the Black Panther party. By omitting these aspects of our history, we take away the agency of black Americans and perpetuate the idea that they were given basic human rights only because white people allowed it. This ideology helps define black people as lesser beings who need white people, which contributes to both the passive and overt racism that black Americans face today.
To me, a better story would have been a fictionalized retelling of a slave rebellion (like the Nat Turner Rebellion), both because it would be compelling in the same way as KILL BILL and INGLORIOUS BASTERDS were and because it would work against this destructive cultural narrative. Imagine watching a group of downtrodden, abused slaves organize and rise up to exact bloody vengeance against their cruel owners. It would've been glorious and, in the Tarantino universe, a successful slave rebellion could've inspired others around the country and ended up being what started the Civil War. How bad ass would that have been?
Instead, DJANGO UNCHAINED felt like a missed opportunity, despite its great performances and dialogue.
Let me lay down a scenario for you:
One day a friend and I were having a drink in a public space (a novel idea!) when the word "Watchmen" caught my attention. A man in his mid thirties was speaking to a small group of people behind us, specifically a young woman. It was about the time the movie was released and he was describing having seen it. The young woman at one point said, "Wasn't that a comic?" to which he responded, "No, it was a a graphic novel."
It took every ounce of self control to not get up and stab the man in the throat for his arrogant utterances. You see, The Watchmen was a comic book. It was released monthly by DC comics.
The difference you ask? In the industry there is no such thing as a graphic novel. The industry terms are serial (monthly release), one-shots, trade paperbacks (individual issues collected into a book-like Watchmen or The Dark Knight), omnibuses (which were originally large collections that contained everything printed, including one-shots and such), and OGN's or Original Graphic Novel. An OGN refers to a work that has never been printed in any other form. Think Blankets by Craig Thompson. No, Ghost World is not an OGN and neither is Sandman. They were serials. Comics. Yes, you read a comic you pretentious prick.
At the end of the day they are all comics. So What's the harm in using the term "graphic novel" you ask?
You have to think about why you are using it. The harm is that people use it to distance themselves from comics while perceiving themselves to sound more intelligent. In this country there is this weird stigma that art and words have to be kept separate. A painting: intellectual. A novel or poetry: intellectual. Put them together: for children. In my mind it opens up a whole new world of possibilities and removes boundaries of the imagination. The story telling methods become endless! Yet, even today comic books are viewed as a waste of time, lacking intellectual merit, and mainly made for children. The truth is far from that, as any comic fan would know, and it isn't secluded to such media recognized titles as Maus.
Unknown Soldier by Joshua Dysart is set against the realistically depicted backdrop of modern day Uganda and all the politics and humanity issues one could ask for. 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello has a brief but incredibly powerful scene that so perfectly delves into the psyche of a rape survivor while giving her a clear voice (seriously, how often does that happen when it isn't a revenge fantasy? Has it ever?). Superman: Peace on Earth by Paul Dini and Alex Ross has the man of steel trying to solve ALL of the world's problems and learning that he can't and must simply lead by example.
You bet your ass. Good writing is good writing, no matter what form it takes. So proudly pick up an issue of Hellboy and announce to the world "Yeah I'm reading a comic, and it's damn good too!"
I've never been a huge fan of Apatow Productions. This is not to say that I have anything against their movies, just that, with the exception of Superbad, the humor doesn't resonate with me. However, Kate Beaton gave Bridesmaids a very positive review on her Twitter feed and many others have been calling it the female counterpart to The Hangover. This idea intrigued me, not to mention the fact that all the main characters were women and the script was written by two women. I had high hopes.
I must admit, I was disappointed. Despite some hilarious sequences (in particular, the one on the airplane and the one where Annie, the leading lady, tries to get Officer Rhodes' attention), its overall quality made me wish I'd downloaded it instead of paying for a ticket.
The main thing that made this movie fail for me was how predictable the female relationships were. Annie's antagonist was the bride-to-be's new best friend Helen. They spent most of the movie competing with each other because, hey, that's what women do, right? The portrayal of every main characters' sexuality was equally boring: Annie compulsively had unfulfilling sex with a "hot" jerk because she was afraid of being single. Supporting characters Becca and Rita each had husbands who they didn't enjoy sleeping with (due to inexperience and lack of communication in one case and rape in the other). In fact, the only character who actively enjoyed and sought out sex was Megan, the fat comic relief who was allowed to become a bridesmaid only because she was the groom-to-be's sister.
The unfortunate reality is that this interpretation of female relationships and sexuality is the mainstream, so I've come to expect it from most movies. I was hoping this one would be different, like Waitress or Mean Girls or Whip It, but instead it was a well-crafted comedy that failed to accomplish anything of interest.


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A Dynamic Model of Investment in the U.S. Beef-Cattle Industry
AbstractReproduction constraints lead to some a priori information that may prove valuable in econometrically modeling inventory dynamics within the U.S. cattle herd. The distributed-lag models estimated for animal inventories suggest an implicit incorporation of the age distribution of the herd that is crucial to understanding the retention/culling (investment) decisions. The estimated equations are validated using postsample observations that were withheld prior to estimation. The final-form dynamic equations have complex roots and protracted price and investment effects. The parameter estimates are used to calculate intermediate and long-run elasticities at the means of relevant variables.
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Made for the deepest, darkest recesses of the club. From the Drone Logic LP, released this week on Phantasy Sound. Though immediately accessible, the album has a ton of depth to it. All around, its a sleek, sophisticated acid house record.
Lo-fi deep house banger from Vancouver's Cloudface. From the Devonian Garden EP, the first release from the Mood Hut collective. Its now out on 12".
Sunrise music.
Wow. A track to get lost in tonight. To be released July 1 on the always amazing L.I.E.S. imprint.
Sunny deep house cut by Outboxx. From their debut LP, released this week on the Idle Hands label.
Ghosts On Tape - Nature's Law (Jus-Ed Remix)
Dub Techno with a house nod on this wicked track from the Icee Hot camp.
Doc Daneeka - Sunset to Neath
Deep house cut from the Sketches Of You EP, out now on 2020 Midnight Visions.
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Laid back summer vibes on this massive house tune.
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AOL wants to dig for spammer's gold
This is one of the more bizarre stories I've seen recently:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dig this: AOL believes a renegade Internet spammer buried gold and platinum on his family's property in Massachusetts and wants to bring in bulldozers to search for the treasure and satisfy a $12.8 million judgment it won in federal court.
The family says it knows nothing about any buried treasure and will fight AOL's gold-digging plans.
The Internet company said it intends to search for bars of gold and platinum that AOL believes are hidden near the home of Davis Wolfgang Hawke's parents on two acres in Medfield, Mass., and near his grandparents' home in nearby Westwood.
Hawke's ex-girlfriend, Patricia Lingenfelter, told investigators he confided to her that he had once buried cash in his mother's garden. She called Hawke "fundamentally lazy" and said she believes he likely buried gold on the property owned by his parents and grandparents, according to court records unsealed Wednesday in the case.
AOL won a $12.8 million judgment against Hawke last year in U.S. District Court in Virginia but has been unable to contact him to collect any of the money he was ordered to pay. AOL accused Hawke of violating U.S. and Virginia anti-spam laws by sending massive amounts of unwanted e-mails to its subscribers. It won its case in a default judgment against Hawke, who didn't show up in court.
"I don't care if they dig up the entire yard. They're just going to make fools of themselves," said Peggy Greenbaum, Hawke's mother. "There's absolutely no reason for them to think that Davis Hawke would be stupid enough to bury gold on our property. My son is long gone."
Lingenfelter, the ex-girlfriend, said Hawke buried cash but worried it would be damaged by water. She said he regularly left alone on overnight hiking trips carrying a fireproof safe and shovel, but he never confided where he buried his loot.
"I would ask him and then he would give me the same thing. 'It's none of your business. It's mine,"' she said.
At the height of Hawke's Internet activities, experts believe, Hawke and his partners earned more than $600,000 each month — much of it cash — by sending unwanted sales pitches over the Internet for loans, pornography, jewelry and prescription drugs.
The head of J.J. Teaparty Inc. of Boston, Miles Coggan, told AOL's lawyers that Hawke bought $350,879.50 worth of gold from the company between August 2003 and March 2004, court papers said. Hawke told Coggan he earned the money "selling pills on the Internet," Coggan told lawyers.
"They were millionaires, if only briefly," said Brian McWilliams, a journalist who interviewed Hawke and wrote extensively about him in "Spam Kings," a 2004 book about e-mail spammers. McWilliams said Hawke lived a nomadic life as an adult, eschewed luxuries and described burying his valuables.
"Hawke lived like a pauper really," McWilliams said. "He drove a beater of a used car, an old cop car. He never owned a house or anything."
Greenbaum said her husband and father intend to challenge AOL's plans to dig on their property and search their two-story, 3,000-square-foot home in a wooded residential area of Medfield, a small town about 20 miles southwest of Boston. She said AOL's lawyer notified the family that the company intends to use bulldozers and geological teams to hunt for gold and platinum on their property.
In court papers, Hawke's grandfather told AOL's lawyers, "I have no interest in helping people find him." But Robert J. Davis said he knew nothing about any gold buried on his land. He described his grandson as highly intelligent but allowed he was "maybe not great on common sense."
Greenbaum said she has not talked with her son in more than a year and complained about the embarrassment and humiliation he brought to the family.
Greenbaum said the family believes Hawke buried gold in the White Mountains 130 miles north of Boston.
She said he once confided to her that he used proceeds from sending Internet spam to buy gold — rather than expensive homes or cars — because it would be more difficult to seize in lawsuits. She told AOL's lawyers that Hawke once quipped that people will need to dig up five states to find his money.
"We don't know where is he," she said. "We certainly wouldn't allow him to put any gold on our property."
AOL said it will try to accommodate Hawke's parents by not being too obtrusive.
"The dig isn't something out of "Treasure Island," AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said. "This is a court-directed, judge-approved legal process that is simply aimed at responsibly recovering hidden assets."
To win a judge's permission for the search, AOL submitted receipts reflecting large purchases by Hawke of gold and platinum bars, Graham said. The company indicated it believes Hawke buried the loot on his parents' property using a shovel.


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ALPHA—The first of the season Porter School Faire will be held on Saturday, May 4, at the Porter School Market Place in Alpha.
The doors of the historical school building will open at 9 a.m. for the event. If the weather continues its warming trend, vendors will also be set up on the lawn area.


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Police in Decatur arrested a man and charged him cashing several forged payroll checks.
Investigators said the checks were cashed at a bank in Decatur and that the transactions were caught on video.
Quinton Lovell Anderson was arrested Tuesday and charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument.
Anderson was transferred to the Morgan County Jail on a $5,000 bond.
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The School Committee's decision last Tuesday after they have already received three hot lunches with no money on account has pointed up some confusion surrounding the prepay lunch program.
Some parents (including this reporter) were completely unaware that all school children from first grade through high school are able to, essentially, "charge" lunch. According to school officials, students are given an i.d. number that stays with them through their school years. At lunchtime, if they choose to buy lunch, they punch in their number on a key pad that sits next to the cashier. Then they either pay for their lunch with cash or the cost of lunch is deducted from money a parent has deposited in an account. (A video of a few transactions is attached at right.)
According to Aramark, the food service company for East Greenwich, children who punch in their number and have no money and no prepay account will still get a lunch. Parents who do not want their child to buy lunch or want to place limits on how much they can order can, through the NutriKids website, put those prohibitions in place. However, several parents said that until the story surfaced last week, they were not aware they could do that.
"I just logged in to Nutrikids and looked around," wrote Sue W. . "There is a setting that you can change to send you an alert via email when you reach a dollar amount balance that you choose. Who knew?"
"This has been a very important lesson," said School Committee Chairwoman Deidre Gifford Friday. "We can do a better job of communicating with families."
The School Committee decided to establish the "cold cheese sandwich" practice because some students owed as much as $100 for lunches. The policy does not affect those children who receive free or reduced-cost lunches.
For the rest of the student population, hot lunches cost $2.25 in the elementary schools, $2.50 at Cole Middle School and $2.75 at EGHS. There are extras that students can buy at Cole and EGHS, such as chips, ice cream and juice drinks. And students at any of the schools whose parents have signed up to prepay can buy more than one lunch.
Students are told by cashiers when their account is running low, except at Meadowbrook and Frenchtown, where employees are not allowed to tell students when their account is low or empty. According to Aramark's Kelly McKeon, assistant food manager for East Greenwich, that sort of decision is made by individual building principals.
But, she said, that could be the reason that one elementary school, in particular, has a high deficit. "There is no connection between the cashier and the students about talking about balances or anything like that," she said, declining to name the school.
NutriKids allows parents of any student who buys lunch, regardless of how its paid for, to track what their children eat, if they choose to look. And they can put limits on how much a child can spend. McKeon said, for instance, that a parent at Cole just contacted her about putting a $5 limit on how much her child could spend at lunch.
McKeon said that Aramark sent information about the lunch program home with students in September.
The events of the past week, however, have convinced the School Committee's Gifford that a more concerted effort needs to be made to inform parents.
"Parents do have a responsibility to monitor the balance, she said, but "the district definitely needs to do a better job. We also want to make very sure that any family who had a change in financial circumstances or if they have a balance that they're struggling to pay, to talk to the school principal and set up a payment schedule."


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Bob McDonnell has issued a conditional pardon ordering the release of a man who was convicted of a sexual assault his accuser now says never occurred.
The governor's office says the action means that Johnathan Montgomery will be released Tuesday night from the Greensville Correctional Center.
In issuing the conditional pardon, McDonnell called Montgomery's imprisonment a "travesty of justice."
The 26-year-old Montgomery was convicted in 2008 of sexually assaulting Elizabeth Paige Coast. Then 17, the accuser claimed Montgomery assaulted her outside her grandmother's house in Hampton in 2000 when he was 14 and she was 10. Montgomery was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison.
Coast now faces prosecution for perjury. A copy of the pardon may be viewed here.
Speaking about the granting of the pardon, Governor McDonnell said, "It is a travesty of justice when an innocent person is confined in a jail or prison, and it should never occur in our society. Our office became aware of Mr. Montgomery's situation last week. Since that time members of my staff, along with the Virginia Indigent Defense Commission, the Mid-Atlantic Actual Innocence Project, the Hampton Police Department, the Hampton Commonwealth Attorney's Office, the Office of the Attorney General, the Virginia Department of Corrections and the Virginia State Police have worked diligently to gather all necessary information in this case and review the matter thoroughly. I asked Mr. Montgomery's attorneys to file a petition for a pardon with our office, as that action would allow me to exercise my gubernatorial authority and take immediate action. We received that petition at 10pm last night, and began reviewing it immediately.
"Our staff, together with their counterparts in various state and local agencies, did a great deal of work on this petition in under 20 hours. And I thank them for that service. After reviewing the petition for a conditional pardon sought by his attorneys, the evidence that came with it, and additional evidence gathered by our staff, I have granted Mr. Montgomery a conditional pardon, as requested, effective immediately. Mr. Montgomery will leave Greensville Correctional Center this evening. This situation has been a tragedy. An innocent man was in jail for four years. While tonight Mr. Montgomery is free from prison, he will never get those years of his life back. Tonight I called Johnathan to personally offer, on behalf of the citizens of the Commonwealth, our heartfelt apologies for all that he has been put through due to this miscarriage of justice. I am thankful that the witness in this case finally stepped forward to recent her testimony. Justice, while tragically delayed, has been served. I thank everyone who worked so hard on this case to achieve tonight's outcome. More than anything else, I wish Mr. Montgomery a successful and fulfilled future with his family and his friends."
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Mountain West announces academic all-conference honorees
Rams garner 101 nods for work in classroom
2013-14 swimming & diving season recap
Rams finish with best dual-meet record in 4 years, return majority of talent
Trio of Rams earn All-Mountain West swimming & diving honors
Bollig, Milone, Shepard among league's best
Swimming & diving recap: Rams conclude Mountain West Championships in 10th
Seniors close out careers with scoring performances
Swimming & diving recap: CSU's Shepard finishes 5th in 100 Backstroke
Rams hold 9th after Day 3 of Mountain West Championships
Swimming & diving 2013 Championships
The Swimming & diving team finished seventh in the 2013 MW Championships in San Antonio, Texas February 20-23.
2012-13 (FRESHMAN): Was a strong performer in the backstroke events, finishing as the second-best performer on the team in the 100 Backstroke, only behind NCAA qualifier Breann Fuller... Swam a best time of 54.78 at the Mountain West Championships, good for a 10th-place finish... Recorded a time of 2:00.74 at the Championships in the 200 Backstroke (third on the team; 15th in the conference)... Also finished second on the team in the 200 IM (2:04.41; 19th at MW Championships)... Was part of several relay teams, including the school-record-breaking 200 Medley Relay team (1:41.17).
HIGH SCHOOL: Was a 2012 graduate of Dripping Springs High School... Awarded Texas State Athlete of the Year and Female Athlete of the Year in 2012... At the 2012 state championships, broke the state record in the 100 Backstroke and received All-America recognition... Lettered all four years... Was on the all-state first team for the 100 Backstroke, 200 IM and the 200 Medley Relay... Also swam with West Austin Aquatics.
PERSONAL: Born March 17, 1994... Raised in Dripping Springs, Texas... Daughter of Jim and Becky Shepard... Has one brother, Ben, and one sister, Emily... Majoring in health and exercise science.
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