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"When the team conducted 11-on-11 drills Thursday, players not in the action formed a blockade to prevent us from viewing who's on the field, what plays they're running or how they looked executing them." Does this excite anyone else that the Bills are adding some mystery to what they are going to be doing. Something that has to be kept secretive? Idk.


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"In many cases, it is much easier to redirect a laser beam at a target than to steer the laser itself. We intended to develop a way to do this efficiently and without moving anything," says Dr. Michael Escuti, an associate professor of electrical engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper on the research. "We also wanted to be able to steer the beams over a wide range of angles, which is important for practical applications."
The key to the Escuti team's success was the use of "polarization gratings," which consist of a thin layer of liquid crystal material on a glass plate. The researchers created a device that allows a laser beam to pass through a stack of these polarization gratings. Researchers manipulated the optical properties of each grating, and were able to steer the laser beams by controlling how each individual grating redirects the light. "Because each individual grating is very good at redirecting light in the desired directions with almost no absorption, the stack of gratings do not significantly weaken the laser power," Escuti says.
Another advantage of the system, Escuti explains, is that "every grating that we add to the stack increases the number of steerable angles exponentially. So, not only can we steer lasers efficiently, but we can do it with fewer components in a more compact system.
"Compared to other laser steering technologies, this is extremely cost-effective. We're taking advantage of materials and techniques that are already in widespread use in the liquid crystal display sector."
The technology has a variety of potential applications. For example, free space communication uses lasers to transfer data between platforms - such as between satellites or between an aircraft and soldiers on the battlefield. This sort of communication relies on accurate and efficient laser-beam steering. Other technologies that could make use of the research include laser weapons and LIDAR, or laser radar, which uses light for optical scanning applications - such as mapping terrain.
Escuti's team has already delivered prototypes of the technology to the U.S. Air Force, and is currently engaged in additional research projects to determine the technology's viability for a number of other applications.
The paper, "Wide-angle, nonmechanical beam steering with high-throughput utilizing polarization gratings," was co-authored by Escuti; NC State Ph.D. student Jihwan Kim; former NC State Ph.D. student Chulwoo Oh; and Steve Serati of Boulder Nonlinear Systems, Inc. The paper is published in the journal Applied Optics. The research was funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.
NC State's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is part of the university's College of Engineering.
Publication: "Wide-angle, nonmechanical beam steering with high-throughput utilizing polarization gratings"
Authors: Jihwan Kim, Chulwoo Oh, Michael J. Escuti, North Carolina State University; Steve Serati, Boulder Nonlinear Systems, Inc.
Published: May 1 in Applied Optics
Abstract: We introduce and demonstrate a ternary nonmechanical beam steering device based on Polarization Gratings (PGs). Our beam steering device employs multiple stages consisting of combinations of PGs and Wave Plates (WPs), that allows for a unique three-way (ternary) steering design. Ultra-high efficiency (˜ 100%) and polarization sensitive diffraction of individual PGs allow wide steering angles (among three diffracted orders) with extremely high throughput. We report our successful demonstration of the three-stage beam steerer having 44[degree] field-of-regard with 1.7[degree] resolution at 1550 nm wavelength. A substantially high throughput of 78% ? 83% is observed that is mainly limited by electrode absorption and Fresnel losses.
Source: North Carolina State University

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Amazon announced the beta launch of a free A/B testing capability for Kindle Fire developers.
A/B Testing is the latest in a growing list of new services and tools that enable developers to grow their business using Amazon's end-to-end platform for building, monetizing, marketing and distributing their apps and games
SEATTLE--Dec. 6, 2012-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon today announced the beta launch of a new, free A/B Testing capability for Kindle Fire developers. With A/B Testing, developers can test simultaneous treatments of their apps, receive data about what's worked best, and quickly adjust their apps to take advantage of this customer learning. A/B Testing is the latest developer service that Amazon has launched (along with Achievements, Leaderboards, Whispersync across devices, In-App Purchasing, and 1-Click Purchasing) that make it simpler than ever for app developers to concentrate on the differentiating parts of their apps rather than the undifferentiated infrastructure and engagement components. Starting today, developers can download the A/B Testing beta SDK at: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/ab-testing.html.
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"Our team is integrating Amazon's A/B Testing service and we believe it will become a key component of our game development process," said Adam Schroeder, CEO, Difference Games. "We have always wanted to add A/B testing to our development toolkit but didn't want the hassle and cost of running our own service. Amazon's A/B Testing service is built on AWS and scales effortlessly so we can spend our time focused on iterating our games and not running the service."
A/B Testing is free to all developers and is the latest in a series of new services and tools that make it even easier for developers to build their mobile and tablet apps quickly, integrate features to make more money, and distribute their apps through the Amazon Appstore for Android and on the growing family of Kindle Fire devices.
"Amazon offers the best end-to-end solution for app and game developers," said Aaron Rubenson, Director of Amazon Appstore for Android. "Developers can use Amazon Web Services' building blocks as the infrastructure for their games. To enhance customer engagement, they can add features like GameCircle's Leaderboards, Achievements, Friends, and Whispersync. Amazon's In-App Purchasing allows developers to generate additional income. Finally, since discovery can be a major challenge for app developers, we're providing more and more ways to help developers reach customers on Amazon, Kindle Fire devices, and in our Appstore. We're working hard to make lives easier for developers, and to give them more ways to grow their business."
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- New Maps API – The new Amazon Maps API is now available to all developers and makes it easy to integrate mapping functionality into apps that run on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD. The Maps API offers two core features: Interactive Maps, which embed a Map View enabling customers to pan, zoom and fling around the world, and Custom Overlays, which allow developers to display the locations of businesses, landmarks and other points of interest with customized markers and pins. The Maps API is already being used in popular apps like Zillow, Hipmunk, Evernote and Trulia.
- Test Drive on Kindle Fire – Test Drive enables customers to try out apps before buying them. Amazon has offered the ability to Test Drive apps on the web for more than a year, and this popular feature is now available on the Kindle Fire HD 7", Kindle Fire HD 8.9" and Kindle Fire (2nd generation). More than 20,000 apps are currently Test Drive enabled.
- Kindle Fire Emulator – Amazon now offers emulators for Kindle Fire HD 8.9", Kindle Fire HD 7", and Kindle Fire so developers can test and debug their apps even if they don't have the devices. This allows developers to be confident that their apps' user interface, navigation and flow through the application are functioning as intended. These emulators also include support for some of the Kindle Fire unique capabilities such as GameCircle, In-App Purchasing, and Maps.
- Unity Plugins: Amazon recently launched free Unity plugins for the In-App Purchasing and Amazon GameCircle APIs, making it even faster and easier for developers using Unity (one of the most popular tools for building mobile games) to add these features into their games and apps.
- Localization Support – Developers can now localize their apps by adding marketplace-specific pricing as well as language translations for their apps, in-app purchasable (IAP) items and subscriptions.
- Developer Forums – The new Developer Forums gives developers a place to ask questions and have discussions with other developers in the Mobile App Distribution Program. Developers can find the Forums at https://forums.developer.amazon.com.


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama kicker Cade Foster received a supportive note from President George W. Bush.
Foster missed two field goal attempts and had a third blocked in the Crimson Tide's 34-28 loss to Auburn on Nov. 30.
He posted a photo of the letter on his Twitter and Instagram accounts Wednesday.
Bush wrote:
"Dear Cade ((hash)43),
"Life has its setbacks. I know!
"However you will be a stronger human with time.
"I wish you all the best --
"Sincerely --
"another 43
"George Bush"
Bush was the 43rd President and Foster wears No. 43.
"Framing this," the kicker wrote on the Instagram caption
The letter was first reported by al.com.
No. 3 Alabama plays Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl, but had been trying for a third straight national title.
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The Short Life of Flash Mobs
Who'd have thought a single email designed to mock New York scenesters would have turned into an international craze? The founder of flash mobs talks to Stay Free! about his experiment in social networking.
[ by Francis Heaney ]
Someday, I'll be talking to my grandchildren (which is what my wife and I will call the creatures cloned from our genetic material, grown in a vat, and raised by robots) and they'll say, "Tell us again about flash mobs!" And I'll say, "You lazy kids, why don't you just read that interview I did with the guy who came up with flash mobs?" "You mean the one where you started with that tortured introduction and where it sounded like you were never going to explain what the hell flash mobs were?"
This is why I don't want children.
Anyway, a flash mob is an event where a large group of people, having received instructions in advance, converge upon a place, do something odd there, and leave peaceably within minutes. For instance, at an early flash mob in Manhattan, participants descended upon Macy's rug department and claimed to be members of a commune in Williamsburg shopping for a "love rug." Sounds amusing, yes? Enough people evidently agreed that what started out as a single forwarded email inviting people to join an "inexplicable mob" turned into a sprawling, global fad practically overnight--and then largely faded away almost as quickly as it appeared.
To find out how and why it all happened, Stay Free! talked to the fellow who sent out the first email, Bill--or, as he is often known to journalists, "Bill." -- Francis Heaney
STAY FREE!: How did you first come up with the idea for flash mobs?
BILL: Basically, it started with an email. I created an email email@example.com forwarded an email to myself, and then I forwarded it to about forty or fifty friends on the premise that they would think, "Oh, Bill's heard about this interesting thing."
STAY FREE!: I didn't realize it had started out as kind of a con job.
BILL: Yeah, I wanted it to appear like one of those things circulating around the internet.
STAY FREE!: If you'd just sent it from the Mob Project, they would wonder: how did they get my email address?
BILL: Exactly. The original idea was to create an email that would get forwarded around in some funny way, or that would get people to come to a show that would turn out to be something different or surprising. I eventually came up with a lazy idea, which was that the thing would just have one simple, in-your-face aspect to it--there wouldn't be any show, and that the email would be upfront about the fact that it was inviting people to do basically nothing at all.
STAY FREE!: Well, it wasn't nothing. It was inviting people to have the opportunity to confuse other people.
BILL: That's true. But the idea was that the people themselves would become the show, and that just by responding to this random email, they would, in a sense, create something.
STAY FREE!: They become the show and the audience.
BILL: Exactly. I had conceived it specifically as a New York thing. People in New York are always looking for the next big thing. They come here because they want to take part in the arts community, they want to be with other people who are doing creative stuff, and they will come out to see a reading or a concert on the basis of word-of-mouth. Partly they want to find out what everybody else is so excited about, but partly they just want to be a part of the scene. You have this in other places too, but I feel like there's something in New York that makes it kind of a city-wide pastime. Part of what I liked about this idea was that it would be very frank about the pure scenesterism of it. What is it that would make people come to the flash mob? Well, it would be the fact that if it went off as planned, lots of other people would be coming. The desire to not be left out was part of what would grow it. I didn't have all of these grandiose notions about it at the time; I mostly just thought it was funny. But I thought of it as a stunt that would satirize scenester-y gatherings.
STAY FREE!: In a lot of ways it's so much better than other scenester activities because you don't get stuck in a club for an hour and a half. You're in and out in five minutes.
BILL: True. There was something purposely cynical even about the five-to-ten minute constraint, in that I wanted the thing to be readily consumable. "Oh, I can do that, it's only ten minutes, it's right after work, and it's near a major subway line . . . . "
STAY FREE!: They were all in the midtown Manhattan area?
BILL: Some of them were downtown near Broadway-Lafayette; they were all really accessible. The first mob was going to be at Claire's Accessories at Astor Place. I used to walk by places and think: where would it be really funny if one day there just happened to be a mob of people there? And Claire's Accessories fit that description. It's just this little sleepy store, kind of a hole in the wall. So I picked that place.
STAY FREE!: And then you got ratted.
BILL: About ten minutes before the first mob, I get a call from Eugene, and he's like, "There are seven cops and a police wagon out in front of Claire's Accessories." So I get there and they're not letting anybody stand in front of the store. They made it look as if a terrorist had threatened to wage jihad against Claire's Accessories.
STAY FREE!: Which, in a way, is just as funny.
BILL: But it made me mad. The first email said "Mob #1" and at the bottom I wrote, "Await instructions for Mob #2," or something like that. But at the time, I wasn't necessarily convinced that there would ever be a Mob #2. But now I see the cops, and I'm like, "I've got to find a way to get around this, because we've got to get a future thing." So for Mob #2, I hit on the notion of meeting in pre-mob locations, and then people would come through at the last minute and hand out flyers with the mob location. That worked fine for the second mob, which was at Macy's.
STAY FREE!: It's like debugging. You run it through the first time, and you see how it can be broken, and then you make sure it can't be broken that way.
BILL: I was sad, though, because I had hoped that the thing could be run anonymously. It's not so much because I cared if people knew who had come up with the idea. The bigger issue is that I didn't want it to seem like there was a leader. The project grew when people took it on as their own and forwarded the emails; that was what made the idea work. So it was sad having to resort to the pre-mob-location, because then there had to be people who were clearly in on the planning, walking around with the flyers. If I had figured out text-messaging . . .
STAY FREE!: . . . then you could've had text messages arriving.
BILL: Yeah, but by and large, the thing worked well and, in a way, the fact that the first one got broken up by the cops helped the project as a whole, because it felt like there was something actually at stake.
Other than when we handed out the flyers, the mobs basically did become leaderless. Sometimes I wouldn't even get there in time to participate. One flash mob was at a shoe store in SoHo. The idea was that people would suddenly swamp the store and get on their cell phones and pretend to be calling their friends and talking about how awesome the shoes were. But by the time I got there, the store was completely full. The sales clerks eventually shut the doors and the rest of us were all stuck out on the sidewalk, looking in. But that's the way that it should be; I'm not really any more inside to the project than anybody else.
STAY FREE!: So eventually it took off in other cities as well?
BILL: Yeah. Wired News wrote a story about the first successful one, Mob #2, and bloggers picked it up, and the email account started getting messages, people saying, "I'm in Chicago, are you gonna do this here?" You know, "I'm in L.A.--Can I steal your idea?" I was like, "It's not really much of an idea. Go ahead!" I had imagined it as kind of a parody of New York insiderness, and I didn't anticipate the fact that it would take off other places.
STAY FREE!: But all the places you're naming are big urban areas, and certainly they have something in common with New York--that drive toward insiderness. At least in Los Angeles.
BILL: Yeah, but there's such a big creative group in New York that you can make a living just making fun of the group around you--whether you're a writer or comedian or artist. In the art world, for example, there are all of these art projects that make fun of the art world. In New York, you can sort of do that. But one of the first places was in Minneapolis, for example, at a mall. The sensibility of the participants seemed very much to be: we're here to show all you people here in the Mall of America that we're thinking on a different plane. So it was much less of a cynical in-joke on scenesterism and much more of a genuine self-expression. The New York mob was, in a certain way, about anti-expression. It was kind of like, we're all just going to show up and we're going to chant and be a big physical presence for no reason other than we think that it's funny. Whereas in other places it took on almost a "happening" kind of vibe, to express a certain kind of commonality, and to express, say, a certain opposition to corporate space. It was taken up almost entirely in a politically tinged way, even though it was never explicitly political. When it spread to other cities, there always seemed to be a sense of ,"This is a movement." Like, we know this is absurd, but by taking part we're making a statement about the right of the people to peaceably assemble wherever they want.
As it started to spread and as I saw how people were responding to it, it became clear that it meant something different to them. I might have been the only cynical guy from the beginning! I sort of became persuaded about the political relevance of the idea.
STAY FREE!: And the potential for getting a message across?
BILL: I didn't know how they were going to become genuinely political, but I could tell that everybody wanted them to, and, in a way, I became a sort of sociologist just like anybody in the media who was writing about the phenomenon. I had to ask myself, "What is it that so many people are responding to?" To a certain extent, I became an outsider almost the moment the thing took off. I kept doing them, and I kept putting them on, and I kept trying to intuit my way towards ideas for flash mobs that I thought people would find funny.
STAY FREE!: Why do you think flash mobs took off in so many other places? What need was it fulfilling?
BILL: People have been spending a lot of time in virtual communities since the internet took off, and I think people liked the flash mobs because they had an internet component, yet allowed you to see this virtual community made literal and physical.
STAY FREE!: The net made flesh?
BILL: Yeah. If, after you get a funny email and forward it along, you asked yourself, "I wonder what would happen if all the people who got this thing showed up at the same place for five minutes?" you'd want to go just to see how many people there were.
STAY FREE!: I have a theory about why it took off as a vehicle for political statement. I used to go out with someone who was much more politically active, and so I'd go to meetings, and--Christ Almighty!--those things are boring; nothing ever gets decided. The flash mob affords an opportunity for doing something and yet completely sidesteps the whole process of discussing how it's going to happen. It's just, "Here's this opportunity, and if you agree with it, you can come be in on it, and it's going to be very quick."
BILL: I think that's true. When people asked me for advice on doing a flash mob in their city, I was basically, like, "Look. It should spread around through email. The gatherings should be less than ten minutes long. And they should be absurd or funny, they shouldn't be explicitly political." But then, people still saw the absurd things as being political.
In wanting to be a part of a flash mob, you're not really expressing anything with content, you're expressing a vague feeling: "I'm unhappy with the way things are going and I want to be out there with people showing our numbers." If you went to the Iraq war protest, you would see tons of people holding signs that you disagree with. But you want to be out there with these people who on some level feel similarly...
STAY FREE!: You can't stay home because of the nutjobs.
BILL: One thing a lot of people really liked was the fact that the mobs were generally taking place in some kind of commercial space. People wanted the mob to be disruptive.
STAY FREE!: Was that the first inkling of politicizing it--a sort of anticonsumerism?
BILL: I think that was part of it. Commercial space is quasi-public space. You're welcome to come in so long as you are considering buying something.
STAY FREE!: So if you do something crazy--
BILL: Once you try to express yourself in a way that indicates that you're not interested in buying anything, you're suddenly a trespasser. And so, when you think in those terms, the idea that all these people who seem to be shoppers show up at a Toys 'R' Us and do something completely out of their minds . . .
STAY FREE!: Like worshipping a dinosaur.
BILL: Like worshipping a dinosaur--there was a big political component to that, even though the literal statement that was made didn't have one.
STAY FREE!: So flash mobs seem to have mostly quieted, although when the Republican National Convention was here, there were a lot of flash-mob-style protests.
BILL: I've seen two strains of flash mobs that still seem to be persistent. One of them is explicitly political--organizers using flash mobs as a tool for getting people together. They've been doing this First Amendment mob down near Ground Zero--
STAY FREE!: That's Reverend Billy?
BILL: I'm not sure if it's Reverend Billy himself, but somebody in his coterie has been organizing First Amendment mobs.
STAY FREE!: Yeah, they go to various locations and mill around. It looks like they're just talking on their cell phones, but if you walk around, you notice that all these people on cell phones are reciting the First Amendment, and it's sort of subliminal. Then they get louder and louder.
BILL: There are still die-hard flash-mobs-for-the-sake-of-flash-mobs movement people out there. I got an email the other day from a Polish flash mobber who sent me to a website where they're planning a global flash mob day. The idea of flash mob solidarity is fascinating to me. On the one hand, I kind of admire it, because the flash mobs for flash mobs' sake is much closer to my original idea. And yet, I conceived of the flash mobs as a very local phenomenon.
I liked it when people who did flash mobs in other cities would pick places in those cities that made a lot of sense; it would reframe a place as the site of a mob. The idea of a global flash mob does strike me as a little weird. I don't really know what flash mobs mean in other countries, especially in countries with more real public space than we have here.
STAY FREE!: What's an example of a way people reframed a space in a city?
BILL: In San Francisco, they went down into the center of the financial district, on Market Street, and twirled through the crosswalks; they took a show of absurdity to a non-absurd part of town. They also did an event where they rolled out red carpet in front of a BART station and applauded people coming off the subway. That's a funny idea anywhere, but it's even more powerful in San Francisco, because fewer people use the public transportation system there. They're more worthy of applause.
STAY FREE!: This brings us back to the idea of flash mobs as political protest. You can question whether things like this are useful as political protest, but you could say that about any political protest.
BILL: Well, sure. But take, for example, the fact that flash mobs were less than ten minutes long. You don't go and make a political statement and then wilt into the background. That doesn't really work symbolically.
STAY FREE!: True, but to some extent visibility is defined by whether something is covered by the media. And how many more journalists wrote about people buying a "love rug" than some of the political protests that have happened in New York? Groups try their damnedest to get coverage, and often whether they get coverage depends on whether writers consider it interesting.
BILL: I know--in a way, flash mobs became really a media phenomenon above everything else. I had to make the decision early on as to what to do about the media. At the very first mob, the one that got broken up by the cops, an NPR reporter actually tracked me down. It was sort of fateful, because they had somebody on tape saying, "This was organized by my friend Bill." So when they found me at the bar afterward, I gave them an interview. Given that they already had my name on tape, I had to go by Bill, and so that set the tone from the beginning. Then I decided that I was going to give interviews to every single person who wanted to write about flash mobs. I decided that I had to have a rule, because the mob was an experiment and I had to play the thing out to its end, and so the rule was that the mob exists to grow.
STAY FREE!: "And if I do as many interviews as possible, it will grow the mob."
BILL: Exactly, and I developed a slogan: "anything that grows the mob is pro-mob." I would say that sometimes as a joke, but then at a certain point, I would use it in a serious way to my friends. But I also understood that as the Mob Project got bigger, and as it spread to more and more cities, there was inevitably going to be a backlash, and that, in the end, growing the mob was going to make the mobs less cool, and that thereby the mobs would become less popular. But I had to play the thing out to that end.
STAY FREE!: Because if there's never a backlash, were you ever popular enough in the first place?
BILL: Right, and then I would just have to keep doing the things in perpetuity. So if I could play the thing out to the point where it exploded and then became uncool, then I could just stop, which was basically what happened. The backlash took less than two months. All the different wire services had done stories on us--the New York Post did a big story, Time Out did a big story, and the New York Times hadn't. So when the woman from the Times called me, she said, "we've sort of gotten in late on this, so we're going to do a story for the Week in Review about it." We do the interview, and it becomes very clear that she is writing the backlash story . . . The flash mob phenomenon was such a light thing; there wasn't really a movement to begin with! The movement was a creation of the media.
STAY FREE!: But how much was the movement a creation of the media? It was aided by the media, but it wasn't created by them. They didn't create the desire in people, though perhaps they prodded them.
BILL: The media spread the mob. The media said, "This is the next big thing," and then the New York Times ran the first mob backlash story less than two months after the first mob, which I thought was awesome. I knew that there was going to be a backlash story, but I couldn't have dreamed it would happen that fast.
STAY FREE!: And in such a great venue!
BILL: Yeah, and so that was, on some level, the beginning of the end.
STAY FREE!: Did you do the last one thinking, "This is going to be the last one?"
BILL: Yeah, I told everybody it was the last one. And I actually think if I really had wanted to play it out, I should have kept doing it until the mobs were so lame that no one would come, but I guess my pride got in the way. Really, I should have played the experiment out to the point where I was having mobs and it would just be me saying [in a sad voice], "I guess nobody likes flash mobs no more."
STAY FREE!: For the movie version, though, that's a good wrap-up.
BILL: And they pretty much died out soon after that in other places, with the exception of these places overseas.
STAY FREE!: Well, I have to say--good job picking such a self-replicating meme. Lots of people forward email jokes, but nobody knows which one is going to be the next thing.
BILL: True. You come up with these ideas that you think are really going to spread, and nobody picks up on them. Eugene and I tried to do this thing at the Republican Convention called "Conservative Children for America." The premise was to have a bunch of children in three-piece suits handing out bizarre pro-conservative tracts using child-related examples about, for example, not being forced to share. It would be pro-conservative propaganda written by children and distributed by children, but their parents would kind of disavow it: "It's just a phase we hope he grows out of." Anyway, I sent this email around trying to recruit children, or parents with children, and the thing just didn't get anywhere. It didn't even get derided, it just went into the atmosphere and plummeted to earth. I thought it was such a good idea.
STAY FREE!: It is funny, but you've got to have something easy to do. You've got to have a kid and the kid has to have a suit
BILL: I was prepared to purchase suits for the children. But, yeah, the whole meme-making thing is weird. I have friends who basically make memes for a living--for art projects that involve spreading ideas through the internet. But things spread for reasons that are unknown to all of us.


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Revenge is on the agenda tonight as the Buffalo Sabres look to win their fourth straight match and avenge a season opening overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens. Despite registering more than double the amount of shots as the Habs, 35-17, Montreal
earned stole two points in the first meeting. Since then, it's been role reversals with the Sabres sitting one point out of the Division lead with three games in hand on the Boston Bruins and the Canadiens only five points ahead of the bottomed Toronto Maple Leafs.
Montreal has alternated wins and losses for the most part this season failing to reach any consistency. Defeat today spells four in a row in that category. In Buffalo's case, it's a fourth straight successful outing they seek in a stretch where they have connected superb offense (12 goals) with stellar goaltending/defense (three goals allowed). It'll be Ryan Miller and Jaroslav Halak backstopping their respective squads.
Five thoughts on each team below.
- You name it, Ryan Miller's on top or close by. In reference to save percentage, goals against average and shutouts, the 29-year-old is setting the bar leading all netminders. His 15 wins are bested by Evgeni Nabokov and and Marc-Andre Fleury. Matt Stajan and Ron Wilson applauded his efforts in Monday's 3-0 result in Toronto.
- As I said, Halak is in and he's actually won both career starts when facing Buffalo but was beaten six times in the process. Montreal's hopes rely heavily on him for the sake of a decent result because of injuries and the fact that the Sabres have their A-game going.
Henrik Tallinder notched his first goal in over a year three days ago creating a 2-0 lead and taking the life out of Toronto. Ready for another frightening fact? The last time the Swede scored twice in as many contests was May of 2006 during the playoffs. Go get em Henrik.
Mike Cammalleri and Tomas Plekanec have been the noticeable offensive producers. Besides them, nobody has 14 points although Brian Gionta likely would were he not hurt. They'll have to make their chances count because Buffalo usually out-shoots Montreal and Miller is seeing everything.
Jason Pominville, Derek Roy and Jochen Hecht are riding two-game point streaks. While they aren't large streaks by any means, it seems like a new person is stepping up daily to shoulder the load. Who will it be tonight?
- Former Sabre blue-liner Jaroslav Spacek has struggled with nine points on the year. I guess someone forgot to tell Bob Gainey that last season's 45 points came in a contract year.
- Energetic forward Tim Kennedy is still looking for that first goal at HSBC Arena. The local 23-year-old beat Martin Brodeur for goal No.1 and the other came in Toronto. With each coming against a historic goaltender or franchise, it would be worthy of breaking that funk through Montreal.
- Good news for Andrei Markov who is expected to now return at some point in January rather than February. While it won't affect the outcome of this match, the sooner the Canadiens can activate their most valuable performer, the better.
Craig Rivet may return to the line-up tonight after missing two games confirming that he's healed up. The final decision will be on Lindy Ruff whether to allow him right in or wait given how well the defense has played recently.
- I still can't believe Montreal pursued Scott Gomez and his ridiculous contract. This guy has 11 points to reward Gainey for $8 million dollars worth of salary. Chalk another stupid choice up to the general manager.
Four of the last seven battles have gone to overtime so expect a tight match-up if history is any indication. By the way, Toronto shutout Montreal 3-0 the day after Buffalo did the same to the Maple Leafs. Is it our turn to be closed down completely or am I just superstitious?


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Hanks will make his glorious return to sitcomdom on an upcoming episode of "30 Rock." I'm starting to get "Bosom Buddies" flashbacks.
Natalie Portman: Black Swan, White Swan or No-Dancing Liar Swan?
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You know who's super angry these days? Academy Award winner Natalie Portman's dancing double for 'Black Swan'. She's one pissed off pirouetter.
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Beatty won a court case, so he gets to keep the rights to Dick Tracy. Will he ignore them for another couple of decades?
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Victoria Justice stars in the Nickelodeon series "Victorious," which I don't know because it wasn't part of the Snick line-up. Now she's the lead in 'Fun Size'.
Whoop, There He Is: Will Sasso Is Curly In 'Three Stooges'
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The Farrelly Brothers need actors more… in their current league. They got Will Sasso from "MadTV."
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I'm not sure how many casual fans had heard of Neil Melanson prior the story of him opting to have his toe removed, rather than spending a year on the sidelines, and away from the sport he loves. What I do know, a whole lot more people, sure as hell know who he is now.
As the head grappling coach at Xtreme Couture and Randy's head jiu jitsu trainer, Neil Melanson has come a long way from Sturbridge, Mass. After serving time in the military, he went on to train with some of the sports most recognizable fighters, such as: Chael Sonnen, Vitor Belfort, Gray Maynard, and many more.
During our conversation, Neil details how Karo Parisyan played a role in his MMA career, Working with WWE wrestler Daniel Bryan, The Rashad vs Tito fight, and how he sees the outcome of a potential Chael and Anderson rematch, and what to expect from his forthcoming book.
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Gerry Rodriguez: First question-how does a kid from Sturbridge, MA., end up as the head grappling coach for Randy Couture and Xtreme Couture?
Neil Melanson: The dream of working at Sturbridge Village and making horse shoes fell through through(laughs). I don't know how I ended up here. I was pursuing a totally different career path. I did seven years in the military. I kind of joined the navy as a way to get out of a small town, plus I didn't know what I wanted to do at the time. Fortunately, after the military,I got into the Air Marshall service. Once your in the federal government like that, you can kind of start to pave your own way and that's when I finished my college degree. I didn't know if I was going to go FBI or CIA; that's how I wanted to spend my life. I got involved in grappling, as a way to spend some time and have some fun. Within a short amount of time I was hooked; nothing ever satisfied me the way grappling does. It was a crazy ride.
Gerry Rodriguez: How did you end up training under Karo Parisyan and how did it lead to you becoming Randy's coach?
Neil Melanson: I started training in Cincinnati with a small shoot fighting club. I was desperately seeking a coach, I had flown out to LA a few of times and trained with Phil Corr and Karo was there. I had seen him fight in the UFC and thought this kid so unbelievable, so I transferred out there just to train. It was Karo that pulled me under his wing and sent me in the direction that I eventually went in. He really pushed me. Eventually I lost vision in one of my eyes and had to medically retire from the military and decided to do this full time. He definitely trained me to be where I'm at, eventually I got good enough where I was figuring things out for myself. I met Randy a few times through Karo. Robert Drysdale was at Randy's but he was opening up his own gym so there was a spot going to be open, so I said Screw it, I'll go to Vegas. I didn't expect things to take off like they did. It really pushed me to get my game to another level and it caught the attention of a lot fighters. Randy saw what I could do for UFC fighters. I taught him so much stuff and he applied it so well....he was my best student: Period.
Gerry Rodriguez: You mention losing vision in one of your eyes. Did that help with your grappling and improve your senses and feel for your opponents?
Neil Melanson: It definitely did. At one point I actually went blind in both eyes for about a month. I remember Karo telling me, "just quit, you don't need to grapple, don't be stupid and just take care of yourself". Then he obviously he saw that was not going to happen and he started hinting that you don't need to see to grapple, you can grapple with your eyes closed. The only thing that changed is, I started going turtle a lot. It helped my game immensely. I have my higher level student grapple with their eyes closed and it does help, you become very sensitive to touch and balance. I don't suggest you burning your eyes out to become good at it, just close your eyes.(laughs)
Gerry Rodriguez: You have a book called, Mastering Triangle Chokes, which is coming out very soon; what made you write a book on that specific submission?
Neil Melanson: It's kind of a personality trait of mine, when I find something I love, I become obsessed, it rules my thoughts. I was originally just a leg lock guy and remember Karo telling me I was an idiot because my legs were so long, that I should be a guard master and an amazing triangle player. I had never thought of that before, it didn't sound fun at all. I appreciated him because it's hard to get someones time like that and I started to learn the basic variations and all the guard systems. It became my strength. The book is not just a triangle choke book, its a book about the guard system. You're going to learn how I switched the guard systems based on the position of my opponent. It's going to open a lot of eyes as to how to use the guard system in MMA.
Gerry Rodriguez: Let's switch gears, the question I have to ask...The toe coming off, does it earn you the title of being the most dedicated mma guy in the world?
Neil Melanson: I can not believe how much attention I got from that. Honestly it was embarrassing. I just bumped into the guy that wrote the original story not too long ago and he could not believe, of all the stories he's done, how the story of me cutting my toe off, took off. I guess people thought it was interesting. What are you going to do? Fight magazine photographer Paul Thatcher took a photo of the toe before and after the surgery and it's going to be hilarious. If they don't use it, and I don't see why they wouldn't, I'll ask them for photos and put it up on my site.
Gerry Rodriguez: WWE wrestler Daniel Brian-I read you've worked with him, how did that come about?
Neil Melanson: He's one of my closets friends. He was my student first, he showed up at Xtreme Couture and he made Vegas his home so he can grapple. I didn't realize he was on the indy scene and he was the Dynamite Kid of our generation and that he was a great wrestler. I love rolling with him, he just won the Money in the bank ppv. He's my roommate now, he didn't know he was going to win until the day of the ppv. It's exciting because he wants to bring back wrestling and submissions to the WWE. They've been letting him do more and more and you'll be able to see what he does. The Le bell lock, I named it after Gene Le bell, who is one of my idols, its an omoplata with a neck crank. He's also a great guy and human being. It's been a lot of fun for me. He helps me out all the time for training Frank Trigg, he'll come in and roll with them. He's a legit grappler and uses a lot of leg locks; he's dangerous. I get to live through him the whole experience of coming up with submissions that are exciting for the crowd to see. Some of these pro wrestlers are so big that he couldn't do some of the moves without really hurting them. I love seeing him in the ring because he's so awesome at it.
Gerry Rodriguez: Does he have any aspirations of one day transitioning into MMA?
Neil Melanson: I don't think so, he's very physically strong for his size; he drives me nuts. My hands get exhausted trying to fight him. His whole dream is to be the best he can at pro wrestling; I do see him doing legit grappling tournaments but he has to be able to dedicate a lot of time.
Gerry Rodriguez: Do you ever get the itch to compete?
Neil Melanson: Because of my eye, I would never be able to get sanctioned so I have to mentally not go there and think about it, but I would love to do some grappling super fights. Last year I thought I was going to have to retire due to my health but this years has been good and I've had a resurgence.
Gerry Rodriguez: Who are the guys you'd love to grapple against?
Neil Melanson: I don't want to sound like I'm calling anyone out, I just want to grapple the best. I don't know many people who wouldn't want to roll against Roger Gracie or Jacare, I've always looked up to him. For some reason I've always wanted to go against Fabricio because he's so good and another big heavyweight. It's hard when you're a coach because guys that usually wears two hats, end up dropping one of them.
Gerry Rodriguez: This hype around Roger, is it legit?
Neil Melanson: I'm sure he is good. It's hard to prove that wrong because he's beaten so many people. I've talked to people that have rolled with him and they say he's not overwhelming technical but he's so good at the basics and very strong and has great balance. He's not going to do stuff that's going to surprise you but it's hard to stop what he's doing. It'd be cool to go against someone that everybody is crowning the king.
Gerry Rodriguez: Who do you think is the best pound for pound fighter in MMA?
Neil Melanson: That's a tough one, I can't really answer that. I know a lot of people say Anderson (Silva), and I know he's awesome...but Chael beat the dog shit out of him and he submitted him in the end like a true champion, but that was one of the most one sided losses I've ever seen. If he doesn't retire and he has to fight Chael again, he doesn't win, but he's a bad ass. GSP is also a great. I do have my favorites, guys like Leben, Bonner, Forrest griffin; guys that are warriors to the bone
Gerry Rodriguez: Let's talk about someone you've recently stated as wanting to coach; Rashad. How do you see his fight against Tito going down?
Neil Melanson: It's going to be hype fest, Rashad doesn't really lose and he is more athletic. The thing with Rashad, he's so fast and has power in his hands, that he can either play away and then take you down and win the decision or he can knock you out. He's one of the few guys that can work at few speeds. Tito doesn't have those two speeds but he's a great fighter and had a good win over Bade. He's another guy that I'd love to work with and think I could do a lot for him. I think Tito is going to be a step behind and I don't see him beating Rashad.
Gerry Rodriguez: With Rashad's athleticism and wrestling ability, if he incorporated more ground and pound to his game, would he still have his title?
Neil Melanson: I think if Rashad fought a different game plan he could have beaten Machida. I talked to Greg (Jackson) and I think the game plan was different and it just wasn't applied but, yes, I would like to see more elbows in the guard to cut his opponents and certain side chokes. I think if Rashad set it up, he could submit a lot of top guys. He can control the shit out of people if he wanted to. When guys are good at smothering, they are usually good at setting up side chokes. I think if he put his energy in that direction, I think he would have an easy time putting these guys away. I just really believe in the guy and have been a fan since the show. I think he's awesome.
Gerry Rodriguez: Before I let you go, do you think we will see Randy fight again?
Neil Melanson: I know he's not. His last camp, it was a good camp. You would never know he is the age he is. I remember thinking if we had this Randy Couture, two years ago, to have him technically at the level he was at, he would be holding the title right now. I couldn't believe how fast and how hard he was hitting. All this happened at the very end of his career that he got so technical. Randy was saying, "You know this is the first camp I felt stiff in my knees and I'm starting to feel it a little". I think he was pretty happy he was able to walk away from MMA without arthritis or brain damage. What the hell is going to accomplish that he hasn't already done? It's too bad, I think if they could have gotten the Fedor fight going, he would have done that. At this point he's doing movies and he's busy. He still comes in and rolls with me and work on stuff, but its just for fun.
Neil would like to thank Xtreme Couture, X cap supplements, Victory Belt publishing. Go to www.neilmelanson.com to stay updated or find him on Facebook.


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Taking slow food to a new dimension: a standstill. I agree.
Fortunately here in the boonies, there's nobody driving anything around (except the milk tankers that pick up the harvest down the road at the various dairies, or me with my colander and basket out in the vegetable garden).
I've never tasted fried trendy, I have to admit. What kind of wine do you serve with that? : )
Even from over here in Paris (and here, it's a concept that doesn't even exist yet) , the media buzz on food trucks is getting nearly deafening…
Our local paper just printed their "Bargain Bites" edition with a number of "mobile selections". Paying $7.75 to eat a sandwich in an industrial warehouse parking lot is not the same as eating in a restaurant. I'm sorry so many mom and pop places fell off the list to make room for the hip and trendy spots.
Embracing your inner Basho, I love it.
love this-you go! so much to say and with so little words.
a. pho. king. men.
incidentally, if pho. king. ever becomes a mobile pho truck i will die.
pho king hell!
We're counting everything sold in an airstream trailer in this hypefest, yes?
I do get how convenient it is for construction crews to get something hot midday from trucks but seeing as I don't do construction work, I'll happily take my meals sans the street noise and exhaust, thankyouverymuch.
the laws in Montreal prohibit food vending, but Toronto is inundated with great food carts – and Montrealers crave the food carts.
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BTW I love your blog!
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The only Mobile Food I eat is what I pack in my lunchbox……and it is all home made. ewwww……If I don't wanna feed myself packaged, processed stuff why would I go with food from a truck served with a side of exhaust???
I don't want to grab a paper bag full of duck confit or pan seared scallops from a food truck and then try and eat or even enjoy that while sitting on some stairs outside my office on a busy weekday surrounded by cell phone squackers.
But I love a great authentic taco, or a bowl of spicy chili, or a perfect hot pretzel from a well maintained well staffed food truck. It's quick, easy, delicious, and it can even be healthy and well prepared depending on the truck of choice. And some days that really works for me. I can find a great sunny spot to plop down and enjoy the outdoors for half an hour while not eating a boring sack lunch from home which I made at @ 6 am from odd leftovers or waiting in line and paying a lot for a restaurant meal which is very time consuming.
I have always loved street food. Wherever I am in the world I find something new to try and sure, some things I wouldn't dare eat. Some street food no matter how good it looks or smells I won't touch in fear for my life But a lot of it is just the kind of authentic delight you can't find anywhere else. And the experience is always memorable, good or bad, and I love that.
A bowl of perfect Ramen in some tiny jam packed alley in Tokyo slurped down standing up side by side with local office workers, Las Du Falafel in Paris is so good even Parisians will eat one in the park, Samosas in India, tacos in Cali, pretzels in Philly, fish & chips in Edinborough drenched in malt vinegar and sea salt wrapped in newsprint, and so on…A cart, a stall, a market, and even the crazily hip for now foodie truck…. I love it. Sue me
I agree with Sarah. Why criticize the trucks? The hype will die down soon enough and then the conversation can be about the quality of the food. LA is doing something really interesting right now and a lot of people are involved making exciting and unique food. I think it's nice that it's being supported on a local and national level. Especially during the economic downturn it's cool to see so many eateries opening instead of closing, they're just being more creative really. Can you imagine what the real estate next to the LACMA would cost for a normal restaurant?
What does bug me is that people act like Kogi invented the food truck, when it's been a proud Angeleno tradition for a long time before they started tweeting.
Wish I was out visiting LA. The food trucks sound amazing.
Agree with Jen. You could do a great perspective shot with the trucks. Give the impression they were much bigger than they are.
Some of these trucks are actually peddling decent food, but at least back away from the fume-spewing vehicle and cop a squat on the sidewalk when you eat. It bothers me to watch people eat while walking or standing… relax! Food is meant to be enjoyed in a leisurely fashion. You're worth it.
Hey Matt,
Have you considered blogging about Farmers Market Foods, visit a local farmers market and surprise yourself and your readers.
Love food – we can't live without it!
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K-villian among top 25 conservative 'journalists'
University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame comes in at number 22 on the list. I doubt Reynolds would claim to be a journalist although he, like many others, certainly practices journalism. But heh, it's the Daily Beast's list so they can call it the way they see it.


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If the winter blues are getting you down-- it could be caused by the foods you are eating.
There are plenty of foods that can help improve your mood including foods that have omega three fatty acids, like tuna or salmon.
Also foods rich in vitamin D like eggs, low fat dairy products, and mushrooms can help.
"Having a higher protein breakfast can really make a big difference as far as decreasing cravings throughout the day so aim for at least 20-25 grams of protein at breakfast," said Emilie Fielder, a registered dietician.
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Vans Dirt & Roll
Tomas from the Czech Republic just sent us a bunch of information about a dirt contest they're doing there, and it sounds like they are doing it right… the event is taking place 29-30 June, in Jicin – for more info, hit
Vans Dirt&Roll
29. – 30.6.2012
Jicin, Czech Republic
Prize money 1.000 EUR
Unique connection of bmx dirt jump event and rock'n'roll music festival will be hold in Jicin, Czech Republic. You can expect amazing course of 6 – 7 jumps designed by Tomas Kudrnac, Dusan Antalik and Martin Capek, more in trails style than dirt jump. The music part will include about 10 concerts going from hardcore to alternative, guitars on all the time for sure. That all for free, count also cheap and excellent Czech beer, beautiful Czech chicks, good time and party all the time. I mean anything a guy can want.
At last not least, Jicin is also known as "trails-town" in Czech Republic. Type "L.E.S. trails" at google, that's it. Trails are less than 15 minutes to pedal from event, sessions are planned there as well.
More info www.dirtandroll.com


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Simple Halloween Costumes for the Family
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Sausage Pasta Skillet Recipe
"Here is a recipe I made up one night when I came home from work with no plan for supper," writes Patricia Weller from Emmitsburg, Maryland. "My kids really loved it and we've had it many times since." TIP: Iced tea and a side salad or garlic bread rounds out this hearty meal-on-the-double.
- 5 cups uncooked penne pasta
- 5 Italian turkey sausage links
- 2 cans (10 ounces each) diced tomatoes and green chilies
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, remove casings from sausage; cut into 1/2-in. slices. In a large skillet, brown the sausage; drain. Drain the pasta. Add pasta and tomatoes to the skillet; heat through. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Yield: 8 servings.
Originally published as Sausage Pasta Skillet in Simple & Delicious May/June 2006, p25
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My family loves this!!! If you want less spice, I've used 1 can rotel and 1 can diced tomatoes. I have 2 small children and they gobble this up!! Quick and easy meal!!
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I think I would use rice instead of the pasta. I used rotel, only 1 can and I found it to be spicy for the kids. Maybe add some red beans w/it too.
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Question: What are some fun, screen-free rainy day games? I am looking for activities that will keep my kids busy and active ... but won't be so rambunctious that they wreck my home!
Answer: A little TV isn't a big deal, but none of us want our kids to be sedentary all day (or for several days running, if the rain just won't go away). Mix things up with rainy day games that encourage physical activity, but are safe for indoor play.
These indoor toys will tempt younger kids away from the tube; or try one of these board games with a healthy twist. If you don't mind switching on the set for a little while, active video games are an option too (try dancing or boxing for the biggest energy burn). Or get creative and make your own life-sized board game.
If your kids have a favorite outdoor game or sport, look for ways to bring it indoors, with inside-appropriate gear or modifications. If you have a dog who's stuck inside with you, try these suggestions for indoor activities for kids and dogs.
These indoor party games work for a rainy day—hold the cake and ice cream. Here's one especially for your soccer fan. Some of these cooperative party games (that is, no winners or losers) will work indoors too. Ditto for these relay races and oversized arts and crafts projects.
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You can also turn to these suggestions for rainy day games and activities:
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text: Technically, this isn't Pirates-related, but it's Pittsburgh and baseball, so I figure that's close enough. Sean Forman has added Negro League statistics to the B-R database. It was a massive effort - there's a description of the data collection here. The link in the header goes to the stat page for Josh Gibson, who needs no introduction. Take some time this afternoon, and look around.


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Are you one of those secretive poetry writers, afraid to admit your hobby lest you be outed as an angsty 16-year-old?
Sometimes you want to go where no one knows your name.
Take, for instance, the Art6 Gallery (6 East Broad St., Richmond, Va.), where poetry readings and open-mic nights come in all colors, shapes and sizes, mixed in with live rock during River City Secrets.
The next one is Friday, Jan. 13 from 7 to 9 p.m., with a $5 cover charge -- and there's no additional fee to sign up to perform. Don't be afraid. You are among friends/strangers (choose whichever makes you less nervous).


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Lebanon police are looking for the man who stole a family's van right out of their driveway, and the whole thing was caught on camera.
It happened Friday around 2 a.m.
The father, who is a firefighter, says they had the van serviced recently and noticed the spare key was missing.
Police believe the crook used that key to steal the van.
So far there are no suspects.
The van is a 2012 Honda Odyssey with a blue Oregon professional firefighter's license plate.
There are also three car seats inside.
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Where is the once-vibrant PNP Women's Movement?
Sunday Observer news analysis
Sunday, December 25, 2011
No prison bar can ever defeat /The women who will never retreat /Oh women of Jamaica /Unite, unite and fight. — Excerpt from The (PNP) Women's Song
AS it is with the churches and most organised entities in Jamaica, women are the backbone of the political parties. The absence of the once-vibrant People's National Party Women's Movement (PNPWM) in the 2011 election campaign is palpable.
A long-standing party insider suggested that since the departure of the late Michael Manley from the political stage, the women's movement has lost its importance and has all but died under new leader, Portia Simpson Miller, who has shown little interest in the organisation.
Jennifer Edwards, the former president of the PNPWM, remains the only known name in the movement which has been reduced to issuing the occasional news release, the most recent of which was a weak protestation that a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate mentioned from the platform that that party had pretty women among its candidates.
"I don't believe that the persons that we are selecting to represent us ought to be selected on the basis that they are pretty women. I hope that the women who have been selected have a lot more to offer than that," she was quoted as saying. "I believe it is an insult to them and their intelligence and to women, generally, for the only attributes to be flaunted on a political platform to be their external beauty. I believe that there should be a lot more that they bring to the table than that," she added.
The PNP Women's Movement reached its zenith in the ideologically intense 1970s when it was led by Beverley Anderson-Manley and had people like Maxine Henry-Wilson, Heather Robinson, Marjorie Taylor, Alethia Barker, Karlene Kirlew Robertson, and an array of other bright, articulate women, all of whom are now far removed from the movement.
Its mission statement proudly proclaimed: "To mobilise, motivate and educate the members of the Movement, of the Party and of the Society to accept that they have equal rights and responsibilities in every aspect of spiritual, cultural, social, economic and political sphere of life; to encourage, foster and promote women's integration in all areas of national development; and to protect and promote the rights, equality and dignity of women."
At its peak, the PNPWM exercised awesome clout in the PNP, and was able to influence far-reaching legislation including those that decreed equal pay for women; the Maternity Leave Act, forcing employers to give pregnant women three months' leave, two of them with full pay; and the Status of Children or 'bastard' Act which abolished the concept of illegitimate children born to unwed parents.
When the United Nations launched the International Year of Women, which represented a massive breakthrough for the gentler sex, Anderson-Manley proudly led a Jamaican delegation to the UN in 1975 to receive the adulation of many Third World women leaders.
The women of the movement became critical to the success of the PNP in elections from the 1970s to the early -1990s. But with the departure of Manley, who had given full encouragement to the PNPWM, the organisation began a precipitous slide. It found its voice from time to time under PJ Patterson, but never regained its former pride of place. Under Portia Simpson Miller, the movement lost all its remaining lustre, as members complained that she sidelined those regarded as competitors. Edwards, the former Spanish Town mayor and Portia loyalist, tried valiantly to keep the movement going but to no avail.
In a complete reversal of political party history, the JLP, which had a women's group called National Organisation of Women (NOW) that never attained the heights of the PNPWM, has now fielded more women in the elections than the PNP. It's a measure of how women have lost power in the party of Norman Manley.
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Not bad at all fellas and glaals. Thanks.
The protest is inappropriate and there is nothing ugly people hate so much as the very thought of beauty. But beauty is an inspiration and when joined to talent and the willingness to serve it should be celebrated. But the PNP hate it and I remember when they were trashing it in the seventies how Sir Florizel put it, "I have always been an admirer of feminine beauty." If Jennifer or the PNP women find beauty so offensive maybe they should chase Lisa Hanna out of the party.
Yeah advanced women's Rights alright!
According to Comrade PJoke, one of his signature achievements is: more man have gyal....how's that for Rights of women?
As with all issues, Comrades of the PNP has debased everything touched. There are no issues that is mutually exclusive re men and women in Jamaica. Having destroyed the economy, the Education system and Criminal/Justice systems, Comrades have zero claims to advancing anyone's Rights on the Rock!
the pnpwm should be at the top of there game under Simpson-miller not stagnant
Strength is what is missing from the PNP, don't just go out and make a statement because it sounds good at the moment. Weigh the pros, cons and in-between of something, and if you still feel right about it afterwards then go and shout it out as loud as you can. Otherwise, such person will come out looking trivial and neither here nor there loosing support on all sides. The Manley's were a force to be reckoned with and as such were able to attract bright, strong women and men to the PNP. Seems to be the PNPs magnificence has worn dull.
They were nothing but paid lackeys like all Comrade fronts. They cared zero for the plight of women except the ones wearing Red and Orange
I am disappointed that in a country where 51% of the population are women, to the extent that you have a movement named to hail that, the PNP could come up with only 5 women on a slate of 63 candidates. That is woefully inadequate and a seeming disregard for the role of JAM women in leadership. I suspect that if the PNP is elected to lead the country women may be equally unrepresented in government positions (Cabinet; Senate). Where are the voices of the women's groups in Jamaica?
This issue is irrelevant as far as the PNP is concerned. Theyve grown & matured. It was the PNP who advanced womens rights over the yrs, and the first party to present a woman as a leader. Gender is a non issue, hence the need for PNP womens movement has almost died, not as relevant (needed) as it was years ago. Jamaicas first & only female PM, was PNP, end of story. The JLP can field all the pretty women they want, but are they OK with a woman leader of JLP? Doubt it. They have issues.
Do you believe that the 'protestation' against the 'pretty women' platform statement should have been stronger?


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An injury accident that sent one person to the hospital slowed down traffic on a busy road in Wichita Falls. It happened around 5 a.m. Friday morning at the intersection of McNeil and Southwest Parkway.
Newschannel 6 was on the scene. We're told a car collided with a semi truck.
The driver of the car was taken to the hospital in a ambulance, the other driver was not hurt.
Traffic on Southwest Parkway was reduced to one lane on both directions. All lanes are now back open.