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BC and Quebec Top Canadian Governments in Actions to Make Producers 100%
Responsible for Post-consumer Products and Packaging Waste
Update: September 17, 2013
Today EPR Canada announced that the Province of Quebec and the Province of British Columbia received the top grade in the 2012 EPR Report Card. Each received a B+. The results were released at the Conference on Canadian Stewardship in Toronto. EPR Canada released the score that each government earned in its second annual Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Report Card, which reflects the progress each jurisdiction made in establishing EPR policies and programs in 2012.
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Some waste diversion programs are designed and operated by governments (municipalities or provinces) or by quasi-governmental administrative authorities in which producers, if involved, are in a minority. These programs are financed by government or by fees levied by government on producers and/or consumers. These programs are considered examples of product stewardship or partial EPR, depending on the degree of producer involvement in designing, operating and/or financing the program.
Only programs where producers are solely and fully responsible for designing, operating and financing the diversion program and are accountable for the program's environmental performance are considered full EPR.
Diversion programs implemented by provinces and territories were often originally designed as product stewardship programs, delivered by government or by quasi-governmental administrative authorities. Given the direct or indirect involvement of government, these programs typically deliver the province's desired environmental outcomes.
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is an environmental policy approach in which a producer's responsibility (physical and/or financial) for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of the product's life cycle. EPR shifts responsibility upstream in the product life cycle to the producer and away from municipalities and regional waste authorities. As a policy approach it provides incentives to producers to incorporate environmental considerations into the design of their products. EPR also shifts the historical public sector tax-supported responsibility for some waste to the individual brand owner, manufacturer or first importer.
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) has become a widely used environmental instrument for the management of end-of-life products and wastes. Governments and the public started the drive for EPR, but it is producers that have stepped up to take responsibility and operate a number of cost effective programs with high rates of waste diversion and positive environmental impacts. EPR is a Canadian environmental success story.
EPR Canada has been formed as a not-for-profit association by a small group of like-minded individuals who have been connected with producer responsibility programs across Canada for a combined period of over 100 years. The mission of the association is to help ensure the continued growth and improvement of EPR policies, programs and practices in Canada.
EPR Canada is dedicated to fostering informed debate and to being a forum through which EPR public policy officials, practitioners, stakeholders and experts can work together to advance EPR in Canada. EPR Canada will focus on and promote:
EPR Canada developed Canada's first environmental Report Card of federal, provincial and territorial EPR policies and program performance as its founding project initiative. The results of first EPR Canada Report Card were announced and published in July 2012.
EPR Canada is currently in the midst of developing the 2012 EPR Canada Report Card according to the following stages:
To learn more about EPR Canada and the EPR Report Card 2012 project that is now underway, please visit the following pages.
EPR Canada is grateful for the graphic expertise of Bev Stone who has contributed time and skills to assist us in producing the presentation of our EPR Report Card and other communication materials. Bev can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The members of EPR Canada contribute their time and efforts to further the organization's objectives voluntarily and without remuneration, although some expenses are reimbursed. To assist with expenses related to the announcement and publishing the results of the 2012 Report Card, we are grateful for the support of the following sponsors. Through their financial contributions, EPR Canada can continue to encourage EPR policy and program development, implementation and harmonization across Canada.


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A child with either no parents or with a single parent who supports the child can be ab admitted to the Ashrama.
Rules and Regulation
A child may be admitted to the Ashrama under the following circumstances:
1. He or She is from age 6 and above.
2. The parent or relatives has no means of supporting the child.
3. The child has been mistreated or abused.
4. Referred to us by the Jabatan Kebajikan Negeri.
5. Referred to us by the community leaders.
Kindly download the orphan admission application form (below) and fill it up together with recommendation from of the following parties:
* School (if the child is schooling) and Jabatan Kebajikan Negeri.
* People's representative (M.P).
* District Officer.
* Temple Head.
* Social Service Organization.
* Political Party Leaders.
Admission Process
The Ramakrishna Ashrama Case Sub-Committee will assemble and discuss on the applicant's suitability. The members will then make an appointment with the applicant to visit the home and look at their living conditions. Base on their observations, decisions will be made by the committee on admission into the Ashrama.

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Opponents misstate 'stand your ground' law
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I would like to clear up a misconception that has been published and republished in every paper that has covered the recent public hearing for House Bill 135, which would repeal parts of the so-called "Stand Your Ground" law in New Hampshire.
The primary sponsor of the bill, Representative Stephen Shurtleff, claimed in his testimony to the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee that part of the law he wants to repeal, RSA 627:1-a, protects someone from civil litigation if they accidentally injure or kill an innocent bystander while defending themselves. The law that he refers to is this:
"A person who uses force in self-protection or in the protection of other persons ..., in the protection of premises and property ..., in law enforcement ..., or in the care or welfare of a minor ..., is justified in using such force and shall be immune from civil liability for personal injuries sustained by a perpetrator..." (emphasis added).
Throughout the entire proceedings, Rep. Shurtleff and other supporters of HB 135 claimed that under current law, innocent bystanders who are injured or killed have no legal recourse. This is a complete falsehood. Feel free to look it up yourself.
One finds themselves speculating whether Rep. Shurtleff and his co-sponsors and supporters simply haven't read the law that they wish to repeal, or whether they are deliberately and blatantly misrepresenting the law to further their own cause. In either case, they have no business proposing legislation to "fix" something that isn't broken, and so-called investigative journalists have no business parroting false information that is so easily verified.
Louis Miller
How to find missing EBT recipients
To the editor:
With regards to the 19,000 EBT card recipients that the Department of Transitional Assistance (welfare department) could not find, I have a suggestion.


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LFM's Govindini Murty at The Huffington Post: Talking With Director Steven Knight About His Innovative and Enthralling Film Locke
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I'm a big fan of films that use new digital tools to experiment with the traditional structure of the movies. , Locke succeeds at being both formally inventive and emotionally gripping. The entire movie, with the brief exception of the opening and closing shots, takes place in the interior of a car and features only one actor on-screen, Tom Hardy. At the Sundance premiere of Locke, director Steven Knight told me that he and his talented team used Red digital cameras to shoot the film continuously from beginning to end each night, like a stage play.
Stripped down to the bare essentials as a result, Locke focuses on what matters most: character, emotion, and story. The film proves that even in the contemporary cinema, with its obsession with surface visual effects, movies can still delve below the surface and capture something essential about human nature in much the same way literature can.
In Locke this is largely done through the power of the close-up. In the best movies, the close-up serves to bring emotional transparency to a film, whereby the candor of an actor and the attentiveness of a director work together to draw out the inner life of a character onto the big screen. And it's there on the big screen that the human face takes on mythic qualities, elevating specific human experiences into universal truths. On the big screen there's no place to hide as an actor – but if one is as talented as Tom Hardy, one doesn't need to. Hardy sensitively pulls off Ivan Locke's volatile and heartbreaking mixture of machismo, passion, humor, anger, and doubt – depicting Locke like a bear trapped in a cage of his own making.
I spoke with Steven Knight (Academy Award nominated screenwriter for Dirty Pretty Things) at the Sundance premiere of Locke and asked him how he pulled off such a technically complicated and emotionally wrenching film. The interview has been edited for length.
GM: I'd like to ask you about the innovative way you made the film. Why did you choose to do such a tight character study and film it in these continuous takes? Tell me about your process.
SK: I just finished making a film with Jason Statham the conventional way [2013's Redemption]. And two things occurred. One was: anything we shot from the car at night was beautiful, and I thought the thing to do would be to make an installation of that – make it as a piece of art with just the moving traffic patterns.
And then, I also asked the question of myself: the basic task here is to get a lot of people into a room, turn the lights off, and get them to look at a screen for 90 minutes. That's the basic job you're doing. [But] are there other ways of doing it? So I thought that maybe that beautiful frame of the moving road could be the theater. And … it would need to be one man, and if you're going to get one man, it better be Tom Hardy. So I approached him and I said I want you to do a play, effectively. I want to shoot it as a play, but in the environment of a car. He was really keen, read the script and the next weekend we were shooting it. The whole point all the way through was to shoot it in sequence so that it's an actor's performance. Don't split it up, don't turn it into a conventional way of shooting it. And I think the rewards are immense, because the actors feel like they are in control of their own performances. Continue reading »
LFM's Jason Apuzzo at The Huffington Post: The Ultimate Southern California Movie: Criterion Restores It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World to Its Full Glory
[Editor's note: the post below appeared yesterday at The Huffington Post.]
By Jason Apuzzo. Sunny southern California rarely gets its due at the movies. Ever since the 1940s, when film noir classics like Double Indemnity and The Big Sleep depicted Los Angeles as a dark urban labyrinth, you might get the feeling that southern California has remained in a permanent Blade Runner nightfall of neon signs, wet streets and detectives pulling fedoras down over their eyes. A world of call girls and corrupt police, of murder and car crashes; a bleak landscape of paparazzi and Black Dahlias, of washed-up actresses and sleazy district attorneys who wear too much aftershave.
It's a shadowy, sexy and malevolent vision — except that it's not really the day-to-day SoCal that longtime residents know and (mostly) love. Actually, the place is a lot brighter and more cheerful than that. And a lot goofier.
For one thing, southern California is actually huge, wide-open and flat — with endless horizons, whether of the Palm Springs or Redondo Beach variety — instead of the cramped, angular spaces you typically find in crime thrillers. And it's got color — lots of color, from the saturated blues of the ocean and sky, to the lurid red-and-gold Fatburger signs on Pacific Coast Highway. Whoever dreamt up southern California was clearly dreaming it in 65mm Ultra Panavision Technicolor.
And contrary to popular belief, most people in southern California don't pack guns or talk like they just stepped out of a Raymond Chandler novel, diverting as that would be. Most SoCal residents are sedate, middle-class people with just a hint of craziness to them — that quiet spark that drove them long ago to pack up and leave the East Coast/Midwest/Deep South to pursue their pot of gold right here in the Golden State.
And this brings us to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
The wonderful folks at Criterion, who are forever saving our cinematic heritage from the ravages of time and neglect, have recently outdone themselves in producing a five-disc set (two Blu-rays + three DVDs) of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, all built around a pristine 4K transfer of the film and a newly restored 197-minute 'roadshow' version of the movie not seen in 50 years. (See a video on the restoration at the bottom of this post.)
And this new, authoritative version of director Stanley Kramer's beloved epic comedy makes one thing abundantly clear: that It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is the ultimate southern California movie.
For those unfamiliar with the film, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World depicts a pack of otherwise unremarkable southern Californians unleashed in a frenzy of greed when they learn that a stash of $350,000 in stolen money is waiting for them, ready to be dug-up in a park at Santa Rosita Beach (in real life, Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes). Unable to come up with an equitable way of sharing the loot, the group breaks up into separate teams, frantically racing toward their hidden treasure by land and air — comedian Jonathan Winters even rides a girl's bicycle for a while — all while the Santa Rosita Police, led by Spencer Tracy, tracks their progress.
So it's off to the races, as airplanes smash through billboards (and even a restaurant at one point), cars roar off cliffs and bridges, an entire gas station is demolished, cast members are flung through the air by an out-of-control fire ladder, and every major speed law in southern California is broken. And although the wild conclusion of the film — a Hitchcockian visual effects extravaganza filmed in downtown Long Beach — leaves none of the avaricious group satisfied with their financial arrangement, it does leave everyone with smiles on their faces. (You'll have to see the movie to find out what that means.)
And that's really it. The premise of Mad, Mad World — greed — couldn't be simpler, but it's enough to power a non-stop, three-plus-hour chase from Yucca Valley to Santa Clarita to Malibu, all filled with dangerous stunts and comic gags performed by the greatest comedians of their time: Milton Berle, the recently passed Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney, Jonathan Winters, Buddy Hackett, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Ethel Merman, Peter Falk and Jim Backus, just to name a few. Mad, Mad World also features spot cameos from the likes of Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis, Carl Reiner, The Three Stooges and more comedy talent than you can shake a stick at. Continue reading »
LFM's Govindini Murty & Jason Apuzzo at The Huffington Post: On the Waterfront: Eva Marie Saint and Why the 1954 Best Picture Oscar Winner Is Still a Classic 60 Years Later
[Editor's Note: The post below appears today at The Huffington Post.]
By Govindini Murty & Jason Apuzzo. This year marks the 60th Anniversary of On the Waterfront, the winner of the Best Picture Oscar for 1954. In honor of this weekend's Oscars, we're taking a look at what still makes this film such a timeless classic. We had the pleasure of seeing On the Waterfront last year at the TCM Classic Film Festival with star Eva Marie Saint in attendance. It was truly a delight to hear the lovely Ms. Saint talk in person about working with such brilliant talents as Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, and Karl Malden – and the full interview featuring Ms. Saint's discussion with Robert Osborne, followed by screenings of three of her films, including On the Waterfront, will air March 31, 2014 on TCM.
For those unfamiliar with the film, On the Waterfront tells the story of Terry Malloy (Brando), an ex-boxer turned longshoreman who struggles with his conscience when a criminal investigation into waterfront crime puts him at odds with a corrupt union boss (Lee J. Cobb) and his own brother (Rod Steiger). Inspired by a tough local priest (Karl Malden), and stirred by a touching, guilt-ridden love affair with Edie Doyle (Eva Marie Saint), Terry eventually turns away from his complicity in waterfront crime and sparks a labor revolt against the corrupt boss.
Embraced by both audiences and critics, the gritty and emotional film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards – eventually winning eight, including the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando), Best Supporting Actress (Saint) and Best Director (Kazan).
Filmed documentary-style in bitter cold on location at the Hoboken docks, On the Waterfront exhibits the kind of earthy realism that many studio-bound productions of the 1950s avoided. As Kazan noted in his autobiography, "[t]he bite of the wind and the temperature did a great thing for the actors' faces: It made them look like people, not actors – in fact, like people who lived in Hoboken and suffered the cold because they had no choice."
The film further created a sensation due to parallels between Terry Malloy's testimony before the film's waterfront crime commission and Elia Kazan's controversial appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in 1952, during which he'd been pressured to 'name names' of estranged former colleagues alleged to have been communists. Indeed, On the Waterfront in its day not only became a gritty poem of the American working class, but also Kazan's plea against conformity – both of the communist and McCarthyite variety.
Whatever one thinks of Kazan's questionable behavior – the true motivation of which remains obscure – the artistry of his film has never been in doubt. Indeed, controversies over the film's politics have abated in the sixty years since On the Waterfront's release, and what remains today is a stark, austere, almost religious masterpiece that derives its strength from the honesty of its emotions – unencumbered by the usual Hollywood trappings of celebrity narcissism, violent action or visual effects.
Indeed, seeing On the Waterfront on the Chinese Theatre's gigantic screen during the TCM Classic Film Festival reminded us again of why simple human truth in storytelling – particularly as conveyed by expressive faces in close-up – is always so compelling. On the Waterfront emerged out of the tradition of documentary realism – standing midway between the Italian Neorealism of films like Rossellini's Rome, Open City and Fellini's La Strada that arose out of the ashes of WWII, and the later avant-garde realism of the French New Wave films of Truffaut and Godard. On the Waterfront found the ideal, humanistic point between these two styles, and in the process created its own, uniquely American idiom – one featuring strongly defined, heroic characters, expressive film noir photography, and a poignant clash between group conformity and individual integrity. Continue reading »
LFM's Govindini Murty at The Huffington Post: Thirteen Years in the Making: Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster Talk About Their Film American Promise
[Editor's Note: the post below appeared yesterday at The Huffington Post.]
By Govindini Murty. One of the enduring hopes of the digital age is that technology can break down the barriers between peoples and races. Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson explore this idea first hand in their compelling new documentary American Promise. A film thirteen years in the making, American Promise follows two African-American boys (one of them Brewster and Stephenson's own son) from first grade through high-school, showing the challenges and opportunities young black men face in today's education system. Currently playing in select theaters nationwide, American Promise expands to additional cities this week and will air on PBS in February of 2014.
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, American Promise follows Idris Brewster and his friend Seun Summers as they attend The Dalton School, an elite private school in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Despite the high hopes of their parents and teachers that Idris and Seun will succeed as part of the school's diversity program, the boys have trouble dealing with the pressures of their environment. In part this is because Idris and Seun have learning disorders that go undiagnosed for years, and in part it's because neither boy feels at home in the predominantly WASP culture of Dalton. Ultimately, Idris and Seun must balance their needs for self-determination with the high expectations of their successful, hard-charging parents.
Ever since the pioneering anthropological documentaries of Robert Flaherty and Merian C. Cooper in the 1920s, and Albert and David Maysles 'direct cinema' documentaries of the '60s and '70s, the cinema has played a powerful role in collapsing the distinctions between peoples and creating a sense of empathy and common humanity.
Michael Apted's acclaimed 7-Up documentaries took this idea a step further. An inspiration to Brewster and Stephenson, the series documented the lives of a group of fourteen English children at seven-year intervals, beginning in 1964 and continuing through today. The 7-Up series (the kind of project known in sociology as a 'longitudinal study') took advantage of the cinema's ability to master time, using the movie camera as an all-seeing eye to examine human lives over the course of decades.
The observational capabilities of the cinema have been further expanded by the digital revolution, with low-cost digital cameras making possible the kind of lengthy, first-person videography that comprises American Promise. A classic longitudinal study, American Promise draws on an impressive accumulation of thirteen years of footage to distill insights about families and children that otherwise would go unnoticed in the rush of day-to-day life.
As a result, American Promise elicits lessons that apply not just to African-American children, but to all children as they navigate the shoals of childhood and adolescence. As co-director Joe Brewster noted when we spoke at Sundance, "when people see the film, they get so immersed in the characters, these become their kids."
The monumental size of the American Promise project required a special level of commitment from the filmmakers and their talented crew. As I chatted with American Promise's editors and videographers at Sundance (in the photo below with Brewster & Stephenson), it became clear what a labor of love the film had been for them. Editors Erin Casper, Mary Manhardt, and Andrew Siwoff and cinematographers Errol Webber, Alfredo Alcantara, Margaret Byrne, and Jon Stuyvesant all deserve kudos for their work. Continue reading »
LFM's Jason Apuzzo & Govindini Murty at The Huffington Post: Young Man on the Run: Catching Up with Shia LaBeouf and Charlie Countryman
[Editor's Note: the post below appears today at The Huffington Post.]
By Jason Apuzzo & Govindini Murty. Shia LaBeouf can't keep still.
That's what stands out when you meet the voluble 27 year-old star of the new indie thriller-romance Charlie Countryman, which opens in limited theatrical release and on VOD this Friday, November 15th. The hustling young man we've gotten to know in the Transformers and Indiana Jones movies – the fast-talking, nebbishy tough guy with a big heart, always improvising, always on the move – is very much the same guy in person.
Charlie Countryman premiered at Sundance earlier this year (back when it was called The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman), where we talked to LaBeouf, co-star Evan Rachel Wood, and director Fredrik Bond at the film's press day.
Charlie Countryman takes LaBeouf in a direction familiar to anyone who remembers him playing impulsive teenager Sam Witwicky in 2007's Transformers: that of a sentimental hot-head on a hopeless quest for a girl, comedically improvising his way into and out of one scrape after another.
"It's not a humongous departure from my real life," LaBeouf said at the press day. "This is a guy who thinks with his heart, rather than his mind … and who doesn't show a lot of caution toward consequences, which isn't far from who I am."
Charlie Countryman follows LaBeouf on a wild, hallucinogenic vision-quest through post-communist Bucharest as he pursues a world-weary femme fatale cellist named Gabi (Evan Rachel Wood), while battling over her with a pair of unhinged Euro-mobsters (Mads Mikkelsen and Til Schweiger). Infused with heart-on-your-sleeve sentimentality by director Fredrik Bond, the film is both a coming-of-age story for Charlie and a picaresque, 'everyman'-style thriller reminiscent of the novels of Eric Ambler (The Mask of Dimitrios, Journey into Fear).
Rounding out the film's impressive cast are Rupert Grint as one of Charlie's drug-crazed buddies, Vincent D'Onofrio as Charlie's depressive brother, and Melissa Leo as Charlie's hippyish mother – with LaBeouf's Indiana Jones co-star John Hurt providing narration.
Charlie Countryman's biggest star, however, may be Bucharest itself – which the film presents as an exotic, old world blend of high culture and low-life gangsterism, still adjusting to the post-Cold War world. LaBeouf's nocturnal adventures in Bucharest – a darkly glamorous city that somehow seems trapped in a 1990s time warp – often feel like an MTV version of Joseph Cotton's nighttime journeys through crime-ridden, post-War Vienna in Carol Reed's The Third Man.
LaBeouf lights up on the subject of Bucharest, gesticulating and going into one of his typical, animated riffs. "I arrived quite ignorant, you know – I'm an ignorant American," he quips. "I haven't really done much traveling beyond my work life. I never really picked up a Romanian book, or decided to study Romanian.
"But you get there, and you hear about [former Romanian communist leader Nicolae] Ceaușescu, you get to the [Revolution] Square, you see where the blood fell, talk to these people – you know, some people who still want communism, who are upset that it's gone – and you don't quite understand what that's about …
"I've heard people say that we have dated villains [in Charlie Countryman] – that's because … Romania is dated – it's 10 years behind. They're still playing the 'Thong Song' in clubs," he cracks. "It's no joke, so this is part of the world of these dudes [the film's gangster villains]. It's not artificial – this is what we ran into.
"And it's very sexy," he smiles. Continue reading »
LFM's Jason Apuzzo at The Huffington Post: Putting Computers in Their Place: Computer Chess & The Nerd Origins of Today's Technopoly
[Editor's Note: the post below appears today at The Huffington Post.]
By Jason Apuzzo. Computers need to be put in their place. They really do.
That's why I've been looking forward to the DVD release this week of Andrew Bujalski's cult Sundance hit Computer Chess. Computer Chess finally spills the beans about where these little monsters came from in the first place.
Every time I pick up a newspaper these days – I'm one of the twelve people left who still read physical newspapers – I read about how computers are spying on us, destroying jobs, or infuriating health insurance customers. Like a hungry Rottweiler off its leash, computers are getting out of control and tearing up the neighborhood.
If you believe what you read, computers are also in the process of wrecking the book publishing and music industries, eliminating celluloid photography – and just this week computers claimed their latest victim, one near and dear to my heart: the local video store, as Blockbuster finally succumbed to laptops, smartphones and tablets as the preferred ways of renting all those movies you couldn't afford to see (or were too embarrassed to see) when they were in theaters.
No more video stores – who would've believed it, even just ten years ago? That means no more pimply teenagers to recommend midnight horror movies to me ("Sir, I definitely recommend C.H.U.D. over TerrorVision"), no more aimless browsing or listening to neighbors argue over which Steven Seagal movie to rent, no more cheap licorice sticks at the checkout counter.
I never thought I'd miss those things so much – but suddenly I do. And it's all because of our 'friend' the computer. Computers are becoming like the Yankees during the '90s: gobbling up everybody else's talent, then telling us how good it is for baseball.
The propaganda over the wonders that computers supposedly bring to our lives is getting out of hand. In the very least, it's out of proportion to the destruction computers are simultaneously causing – that 'disruptive' effect Silicon Valley gurus salivate over, like vampires at a blood drive.
So as Twitter – the company currently reducing our public discourse to snarky, 140-character outbursts – celebrates its gaudy IPO right now, I'd like to recommend a new movie out on DVD this week that casts digital technology in a very different light: Computer Chess. Continue reading »


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Certificate programs require between 6 and 18 credit hours and are composed of courses specific to an area of study; all classes leading to a certificate must be taken for credit; courses cannot be counted toward more than one certificate; students are designated as "certificate students" when they declare an intent to complete a certificate plan and a university application; upon completion of certificate requirements, the program director will authorize the issuance of a printed certificate; certificate programs are not noted on a student's official transcript.
Communication StudiesGeneral Communication (Speech) Certificate -- contact: Dr. Scott Robson Public Relations Certificate -- contact: Dr. Scott Robson Advertising Certificate -- contact: Dr. Scott Robson Organizational Communication Certificate -- contact: Dr. Scott Robson
GeosciencesGIS User Certificate -- contact: Dr. Richard Lisichenko GIS User Certificate via Virtual College -- contact: Dr. Richard Lisichenko
Museum Studies Certificate -- contact Geosciences
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HTML5's <audio> tag gives you a way to embed audio files directly into a web page and could end up fuelling a new class of online audio editing suites »
For a number of years I've been on a mission to help the sonically sick and needy. You could say I'm like Mother Teresa, only with headphones instead of medicine »
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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota
Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics should
Accession numbers: None; 977-1
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant
awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Catalog ID number: 001703772
Copies of monthly payroll figures of the various exchanges comprising the company's Minnesota telephone operations. Arranged by telephone exchange and thereunder by date; the payrolls provide the rate and total wages received by each employee. No employee names are included.
Contains files designated "117" and "M-316."
Hearings in the matter of the consolidation of telephones and division of territory, between the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company, in the State of Minnesota. The four hearings took place between March 11 and April 29, 1918.
Index cards used for construction estimates in the 1918 consolidation of telephones and division of territory between the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company.
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Fact-checking the debate over food stamps
Democrats assailed a Republican decision to pass a farm bill in the House without addressing food stamps, breaking a tradition dating back to the 1970s. We checked a claim related to food stamps -- that "more Americans receive food aid than work in (the) private sector." We found multiple problems with the comparison.
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With the question of who will be at the top of the Republican presidential ticket looking more and more settled, attention is turning to the No. 2 spot. Who will be the vice presidential pick?
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Fact-checking the West-Wasserman Schultz feud
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PolitiFact Florida couldn't have asked for a better first year than 2010 -- an amazing election cycle with plenty of interesting facts to check. Which items did you like most in 2010? We unveil the readers' Top 10 Truth-O-Meter items of the year.
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Doors open at 6:00. Event starts at 7:00. Women's intros begin at 7:30, men's at 7:45, with scrimmages presumably following. And maybe an actual, real, not-student dunk contest, too.
It'll be broadcast on CSN+ for the locals - check your channel guide to figure out what channel it is, because there's usually not a standard CSN+ channel - and will be featured on ESPNU's whip-around coverage (though obviously no idea when it'll be covered). Non-locals ... you're kinda out of luck, because it's not being streamed online like it normally is. So people who are there or can at least watch it on TV, tweet and update liberally, please.
The good news: Maryland has a fairly substantial subset of recruits in the building tonight, including their biggest priority in Roddy Peters.
The bad: yeah, it's probably going to be terrible again. The uniforms will be unveiled - which is cool - but past that there's been no talk of a musical cameo, which almost certainly means there will be no musical cameo, which probably means it's going to be more or less the same as last season. And to make matters worse, this is taking the place at the same time as the O's, Yanks, and Nats all play elimination games, which will draw plenty of sports die-hards away. Plus there's a comedy show on campus at the same time, too, which will take away the casual folk just looking for something to do on a Friday evening. So it's probably going to be a little empty and not exactly rowdy.
And can you really blame the students/fans? That's a rhetorical question, for the seven of you who will, in fact, blame the students/fans. Because no, you can't really blame them. The A.D.'s done nothing to incentivize attendance; it's a boring event, has been for years. Unless you're a super-mega-ultra fan, like me and (possibly) you, why go? It's mostly a waste of a Friday night. Hell, it's actually a waste of a Friday night for me, too. There's absolutely nothing can't-miss about MM, and so when there are events considered can't-miss elsewhere, fans will choose not to miss them, even if it means skipping on MM.
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The (at least) 10 Rules of Writing
Elmore Leonard's famous 10 rules have just been published in book form (with brilliantly sinuous, hard-boiled drawings by Joseph Ciardiello) in the UK, but you can read them for nowt here on The Guardian's website, along with more 10 rulers from Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, and Jeanette Winterson.
Leonard's rules also featured on BBC2′s Culture Show and be viewed/downloaded here.
The Guardian contributors' rules elicitied a nice tetchy response from Lynne Reid Banks (the author of The Indian in the Cupboard) in a letter published in last Saturday's (6 March) Review section. Sadly, this isn't published on the website, but ends with her Rule No 3:
"For God's sake, know your place in the scheme of things. The world will wag on very well without you as a writer – as it can't without the practitioners of some other professions, such as medicine, science, bus-driving and plumbing."
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PEORIA, Ill -- Peoria County announced Wednesday that work is expected to begin on Mossville Road on May 24.
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Jimmy Howard was nearly flawless for the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night, stopping 47 of the 48 shots he faced in New York against the Rangers.
So what happened on that one shot? A microcosm of the Red Wings' season.
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Mats Zuccarello's shot deflected off the stick of Red Wings defenseman Brian Lashoff and harmlessly hopped over Howard into the net for the only goal of the game.
And with that, the Red Wings are now three points behind the Rangers in the Eastern Conference playoff race and are quickly sliding down the standings.
The Red Wings managed to get 38 shots of their own on Henrik Lundqvist but couldn't get one past him. As far as 1-0 games go this was probably as entertaining as they get. Unless you're a Red Wings fan or Jimmy Howard. Then it was probably pure torture.
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Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.
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BUCKNER – More than 200 competiitors participated in the Oldham County Parks and Recreation Mini-triathlon Saturday in Wendell Moore Park.Competitors swam 400 meters at the aquatics center, biked eight miles and ran three miles through wooded trails in the park in the compe
We've heard a contentious debate during the past few weeks about the value of welcoming the Ironman Triathlon, its participants and spectators to Oldham County.
Colton Hounshell participated in the Kentucky United Nations Assembly conference as part of the Oldham County Middle School delegation in the spring.The conference was held at the Executive West hotel.More than 20 middle schools were present and each school voted for one of the n
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BUCKNER – If the first play of this year's Oldham County Youth Football League season is any indication, the league is in for an exciting year.Kyle Fidanza, of the Junior Tackle Bucaneers took the first kickoff of the season back 60-yards for a touchdown as the league
It started innocently enough, with a sweet chocolate lab from the Nelson County Animal Shelter they named Nelson.The next week, Curtis and Chrissy Critchfield visited a reptile show – he wanted a bearded dragon, she wanted to face her fear of snakes.
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Im curious what you guys think some of these names can amount to as far as upside or ceiling. I have a decent idea of what they have done thus far but do any of you know what scouts or people closer to the organization have said about them? Have you seen any of them play?
Jonathan Lucroy C MIL
Austin Romine C NYY
Danny Worth SS DET
Brad Suttle 3b NYY
Matt Mangini 3b SEA
Caleb Gindl OF MIL
Brian Friday SS PIT
Lucas Duda NYM
Jamie Skelton C DET
Andrew Lambo LAA
Adam Moore C SEA
Greg Halman OF SEA
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Jess Todd P STL
Barry Enright P AZ
Brant Rustich P NYM
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I don't know about the overall gold, but it seems like this accident is already the ocean contamination champion.
Does anyone know how ocean contamination from Fukushima compares to contamination from bomb testing in and above the ocean?
My wife was recently reading an article from a Japanese women's magazine that was advising readers to avoid eating seafood bones and shells because of the risk of Strontium contamination. It is impressive how so much food/water from so many areas is contaminated now. It makes it that much more difficult to feed the kids (here in Japan) a healthy diet.
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as he tries to keep up with all aspects of Japan dealing with nuclear power and fallout involving tea. seaweed, to cement, etc. Also. maybe check the Greenpeace site for information as they asked Japan for permission to test seawater and fish near the accident and were refused but try to keep track of the fallout.
On a sensor, the difference in readings from an adult holding it, to a child holding it, to laying on the ground can be 100 fold. Defenseless children are more susceptible to fallout just being nearer the ground as dust kicks up first to their level.


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The South Side Shuffle
The South Side Shuffle The South Side Shuffle is a street party of sorts, a "shindig" that takes place in colonia Emiliano Zapata of Puerto Vallarta every other Friday from 6 to 10 pm, in the vicinity of Basilio Badillo and Constitución streets. Everyone is
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Celebrating the Day of the Dead
Celebrating the Day of the Dead in Puerto Vallarta The Day of the Dead is a Mexican celebration that honors the pre-Hispanic deceased of November 2, it begins November 1, coinciding with the Catholic celebrations of All Souls Day and All Saints. UNESCO has declared the Mexican holiday as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity Hotel Posada de Roger with the Asociation Vallarta Centro always stays true to its Mexican
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Traditional pilgrimages
Traditional pilgrimages in Puerto Vallarta $27 usd per night in double occupancy Traditional festivities are celebrated in the month of December and Puerto Vallarta is no exception , starting the month with the most colorful guadalupanos celebrations. The traditional pilgrimage to the Virgin of Guadalupe
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History of Posada de Roger
At the beginning of the seventies during a great moment of this seaport, Rogelio (Roger) Garcia Valdez, founder of Posada Roger, decided to take a chance and built a small inn [posada] with simple rooms and common bathrooms on Basilio Badillo street in an area which is known today as the romantic zone of Old
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Vallarta´s Painter, "Javier Nino"
PAINTER OF HIS OWN REALITY Originally from Puerto Vallarta, was born in that town magic when he was only 5000 people. He started making his sketches from school, making cartoons to their classmates. He is a painter since age 7. At an early age met extraordinary painter Manuel Lepe from Vallarta, for which he received
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Hidden Beaches Puerto Vallarta
We present a list of the Best Tours that you can`t miss where you`ll find an unforgetable experience. The main tour yoy should take is "Hidden Beaches or Marietas Islands", it`s located just 30 minutes from Puerto Vallarta. How to get there? Take a boat from the Maritime Terminal in the Bay of Banderas up
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For those that were fans of the busty Czech model Denise Milani, you might enjoy her Polish neighbor Ewa Sonnet. She's certainly well endowed, and the model claims her breast are all-natural. She was discovered about five years ago by those in the entertainment industry, and the 23 year old has launched a pop singing career out of her fame. You can even buy her album on Amazon.
Born in Rybnik, Poland she had risen to some international fame and we'll have to see what she does next. In the mean time, you can check out her MySpace page or just look at some of the pictures below. Unlike Milani, Sonnet has posed topless, but we'll keep these pictures a little safer for work. Sorry if that upsets you.


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Joe Thomas is a member of the NFL Cleveland Browns.
Thomas is a Offensive tackle for Cleveland Browns and has the #73 squad number.
Joe Thomas was born in Brookfield, WI and is now 26 years old.
Thomas's height is listed at 6'6" and weight 312 lbs.
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Leaders Inducted Into Candy Hall of Fame
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CLEVELAND -- Fourteen confectionery business leaders, including two candy pioneers, were honored with induction into the Candy Hall of Fame on Saturday in Tampa, Fla.The inductees were Robert Bandel, Mars Chocolate North America (Retired); Cornelis Boon, BENEO-Palatinit Inc.; Russell Crosio, Crosio & Associates Inc.; Patricia Green, The Chocolate Tree Inc.; Reginald Groves, Groves & Co.; Gary Guittard, Guittard Chocolate Co.; Frederick Hintlian, Varick Enterprises Inc.; Pat Magee, P Magee Enterprises; Eric Ostrow, Ce De Candy Inc.; Tom Pagano, Ferrara Pan Candy Co. Inc.; [image-nocss] Edward Seguine, Mars Chocolate North America; and Thomas Zucca, L.J. Zucca Inc.
Pioneers Eduard Haas III, who invented the PEZ dispenser, and Joseph Terry, who established Terry's of York, were also inducted.
Honorees were recognized at a gala dinner and highlighted in audio/visual biographies of their personal and professional lives. The event took place as part of the 111th National Confectionery Sales Association (NCSA) Annual Meeting, October 22 to 24.
NCSA administers the Candy Hall of Fame.
More than 200 industry dignitaries, family members and friends attended the induction banquet, including many international guests.
The association, formed in 1899, is dedicated to furthering positive growth and acceptance of confectionery products and to recognizing the achievements of category leaders from all sectors of the international industry. The Candy Hall of Fame was founded in 1971 and recognizes lifetime career achievements in the confectionery industry, with induction based on dedication to the overall betterment of the industry.


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Police say they've arrested the man who killed a mother of five in 2012.
On New Year's Day, authorities found the body of Edlyn Villegas Munoz under a bridge.
They say 27-year-old Francisco Lopez attacked the mother.
He then asked a friend to help move her body. His friend declined but told people what Lopez asked him.
The people he told then tipped off police.
"The only thing is it, doesn't really make a difference, like we said. We do feel a little bit better that he is in jail, and they have him already. But we still have to move on the same."
Police arrested Lopez in New Jersey.
Investigators say Lopez is also a suspect in another case in Pasadena involving the rape of a teenage girl.
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text: Victoria Christina 5pts I personally think the CLA looks so much better than the C-Class on the exterior, but the interior of the new C-Class is sexier. I have a weakness for red leather, so the interior has completely given me a heart attack. I just wish they'd change the C-Class' tail lights, they look horrible. Overall, I think Mercedes did a great job with the 2015 model and I will finally stop making fun of how ugly C-Classes are. Also people need to relax with the whole ipad thing. I've seen the CLA so many times in person and it doesn't look idiotic at all. I like the navigation screen! Obviously it looks weird through pictures, I said the same exact thing when the CLA was first released. You honestly get over it and learn to like it. The C-Class' screen looks amazing in comparison to the CLA. So I'm going to have to figure out which one to get after my lease is over. TOUGH ONE!


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You wont believe what happened.
We went to a place called Boston, and the pepple all talk like Mikey Viles and Timmy. I can not enderstand what they say all the time, even though some of the guys let me watch Jerzey Shore the other night. They made me leave when Snooky did the smooch smooch. It is funy that our wiener dog is named Snooky too.
Anyway, we played the Red Sox on Monday and the game went way past my bedtime. I was so tired! It was raining real hard when the game was supposed to start, and Coach Kevin said we should go back in the clubhouse to take a nap. I wanted to but I was scared as the last time I took a nap Frenchy put shaving creem in my hand and tickled my nose which made me put shaving creem on my face. I still like Frenchy, sort of.
Anyway, on Monday I was sitting in my place on the bench eating sunflower seeds and the game lasted SO LONG. I went threw five bags of sunflower seeds and did not get to play even though noone could score a run. I almost fell asleep, but I kept looking at the crowd to see if the Sittuation or Jwow was in the crow, their my favorites. Eric finally scored a run and everyone likes him. Coach Ned made me sweep the sunflower seeds up as I did not take a shower after the game as I did not play.
On Tuesday I did not start the game and everyone kep getting hits both our team and the other team. Coach Bob and Coach Ned were talking real loud and Coach Bob said something like he's xspendable and looked at me. Coach Ned said I was going to pitch! Fat Billy said something like that is nedtarded, but I went out anyway. I got to the mound and everyone was looking at me!
The first guy that I pitched to was trying to hit for something called the cycle and would hit for the cycle if he hit a home run. I do not know what the cycle was and I thought that he would win a bycycle or something if he hit a home run. I thoght that if he did not hit a home run, I would win the bycycle. I need one as the guys gave my bycycle to a new guy named Moose. I tried my best and the guy hit it high to the big wall in left. Alix caught it! He did not even have to jump like I did last week. I asked Coach Ned about my bycycle after the game and he said he would think about it.
The next guy was named Big Poppy or something and he was big. I threw the ball and he hit really hard and high. I thught it was a home run but it hit the big wall and Melky threw it back in. Big Poppy only got to second. If it was my friend Jarod he would have got a home run and be on the bench steeling my sunflower seeds. I was scared but only for a second.
The next guy came up and hit a line drive towards second. I thought that my friend Chris was playing second and forgot that Mikey was playing second and felt a little sad. Last week, we had this guy named Lee Judge come talk to us and he said Chris never makes a mistake so I wanted Chris to be playing second. Mikey did goot and caught the ball on a bounce and threw it to Eric. Two outs!
The next guy broke his bat when he hit my pitch! It popped up and I caught it and ran to the dugout. I new I did good but I was scared that French was going to hit me in the nads or something so I went to the bathroom to hide. I came out in a little bit and talked to Coach Ned and he said I did good! There was another guy sitting in the stands and he only had sunglasses and boxer shorts on. I asked him how he thught I did and he said something about small sample size and that I need a 3rd pitch. I told him that I only get to play once in a while so all my playing is small sample size.
i think that I really like pitching and could play more if I pitched. Some of the pitchers play every six days which is moor than me. Coach Bob said that I shuld go talk to a guy on the other team named Timmy Wakefuld and he could teach me a nuckleball. I think I might take some sunflower seeds to Timmy tomorrow and ask real nice if he could teach me the nuckleball. If I could be a pitcher I would be able to go to baseball camp earlier and I know that Dad would like this.


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By Tayleigh Davis - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) -The economy may appear to be slowly climbing, but it's jumping to the top at one retail store in Albany. Clothes seem to be a bigger hit than traditional flower arrangements this Easter.
Hazel Green is shopping for her children and Grand Children. She has eight children and drove from Baker County with her family to grab some last minute Easter dresses for her kids.
"I love my babies and I spoil them rotten even the grown ones," Green said.
Her grandson Treshon Williams already has his Easter clothes early for church Sunday. Green has already found several dresses for her little girls.
While we were here, one employee was knocking down prices as part of an Easter deal that lasts through tomorrow evening.
"I've been finding great deals because everything is 40, 50, and 60 percent off. It's wonderful," Green noted.
The register rings constantly at Kohl's people buying other hot Easter items including dresses, and men's clothing. It's a bit different for Lynn Terry and her mom at Albany Floral on North Monroe Street. She says sales from Spring arrangements and corsages have dwindled over the years.
" We used to have a lot of corsages but now people don't buy them as much," Terry said.
This week Terry has delivered between 50 and 75 arrangements compared to hundreds a few years ago. With Valentines day in the past and Easter not so hopping', Terry is looking forward to another busy Holiday in May-Mother's Day. It's a perfect time for Hazel Greens children to thank her for their Easter gifts.
CNBC reports people are expected to spend more than $19 million on clothing and almost $8 million on flowers this Easter.
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Danielle Caldwell assists in Saturday's relay wins
Dec. 18, 2011
SAN ANTONIO, TEX. - Another day completed at The Aquatics Center and the Utes continue with strong finishes across the boards.
The Utah women maintain their sweep of relay events after Traycie Swartz, Samantha Zuch, Hannah Caron, and Danielle Caldwell get the win in the 200 medley relay (1:43.59) with Sarah Cox, Kayla Buck, Melissa Paakh and Maddie Jamora, the Ute `B' squad, taking 11th (1:49.88). The top spot in the 800 free relay went to the Utes as Caron, Caldwell, Swartz and Zuch touched in a time of 7:28.64.
With a time of 4:30.45, Ligeza takes fifth place in the 400 IM while also finishing eighth in the 100 breast (1:08.19). Zuch placed fourth in the same event (1:05.62).
The 200 free results landed Zuch with the top time for the Utes, 1:53.65, placing her sixth while Danielle Caldwell rounded out the top-ten (1:53.02).
Swartz earned her second individual win of the meet when she took the crown in the 100 back (56.73). Caron was just two seconds behind as she snagged third place (56.73). Caldwell earned her second 10th place spot of the day in the event (58.62).
The Ute men also pulled out a win in the 200 medley relay as Austin Fiascone, Ken Tiltges, Karson Applin and Nick Soedel touched in a time of 1:30.40. The team of Major Robinson, Andrew Choi, Winter Heaven and Bjorn Gunnarsson placed eighth (1:36.23).
Applin and Tiltges took the two-three spots in the 100 breast (55.74 and 57.92), while Andrew Choi placed 13th (1:00.83).
In the 100 back, Austin Fiascone placed sixth (50.92) and Robinson touched in eighth (52.32).
The Utes 800 free relay team of Eric Murray, Soedel, Robinson and Heaven came in fifth (6:52.40) as the `B' squad of Tiltges, Ryan Hansen, Andy Lamb and Alex Brown took eighth (6:59.27).
The third and final day of competition at the Incarnate Word Invitational will resume tomorrow at 10 a.m.


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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals elected a new pope to lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics on Wednesday, overcoming deep divisions to select the 266th pontiff in a remarkably fast conclave.
Tens of thousands of people who braved cold rain to watch the smokestack atop the Sistine Chapel jumped in joy when white smoke poured out, many shouting "Habemus Papam!" or "We have a pope!" — as the bells of St. Peter's Basilica and churches across Rome pealed.
The pope, whose identity isn't yet known, is due to emerge from the loggia overlooking St. Peter's Square to deliver his first words as the bishop of Rome. The lag time was giving Romans plenty of time to get to St. Peter's and a steady stream of pilgrims and tourists were making their way.
Chants of "Long live the pope!" rose from the throngs of faithful, many with tears in their eyes. Crowds went wild as the Vatican appeared on the square, blaring music, followed by Swiss Guards in silver helmets and full regalia. At least 50,000 people jammed into the square.
"I can't explain how happy I am right down," said Ben Canete, a 32-year-old Filipino, jumping up and down in excitement.
Elected on the fifth ballot, the pope was chosen in one of the fastest conclaves in years, remarkable given there was no clear front-runner going into the vote and that the church had been in turmoil following the upheaval unleashed by Pope Benedict XVI's surprise resignation.
A winner must receive 77 votes, or two-thirds of the 115, to be named pope.
For comparison's sake, Benedict was elected on the fourth ballot in 2005 — but he was the clear front-runner going into the vote. Pope John Paul II was elected on the eighth ballot in 1978 to become the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.


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Tifton-- Tifton religious leaders hope to end the violence in the area with a special walk. The walk began at city hall in Tifton and ended at Our Divine Savior Catholic Church where seven murder victims were memorialized.
In Tifton, dozens of people take to the streets to walk for peace. "The people are here to support one another," says Father Alfonso Gutierrez. Walkers put each foot forward in hopes of building unity. They're using the light from candles as a guide.
"When we have some dark situations, we need light from God. From our faith, we can find light," says Father Gutierrez. They hope that light leads them to understanding. "I hope so. I hope so," says Father Gutierrez.
The footsteps will help to walk away from fear after a string of deadly home invasions that left six Hispanic men dead. "I was scared because everybody says different things," says walker Angel Aguilar. The six men are honored in the march along with an African-American man killed in a separate murder by a Hispanic male. "We're all people and it doesn't matter colors or anything. We're persons and it hurts when you hurt somebody from any community," says Aguilar.
With the exception of the beating of a drum, the procession is silent but leaders hope the message is loud and clear. "The message, we can be here together in Tifton and share the life, the place, everything," says Father Gutierrez.
"I'm white and I'm Jewish. What brought me out was to join with them in solidarity," says walker Susan Eigen. Solidarity and silence also gives walkers a chance to think.
"Not only to talk to yourself but also an opportunity to talk with God," says Father Gutierrez. They pray the violent deaths have finally ended. "I, I hope it gives anybody in there who's despondent, I hope it gives them heart," says Eigen.
With a community of hearts and feet, it's the first step to bringing peace, unity and understanding.
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The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner's Office has confirmed this morning that
A medical examiner at the office this morning said Achilli, 54, of Santa Cruz, is the deceased Jane Doe that Cal Fire and CHP investigators found at the scene of the grisly accident that was reported shortly after 12:23 a.m. Tuesday.
Mark Achilli, 53, was killed March 14, 2008, when he was shot eight times in the driveway of his Overlook Road townhouse in Los Gatos. Michele Achilli was left to care for her three children alone, living with the pain of the horrific tragedy.
Longtime friend Chuck Cucco declined comment on the tragic death, but acknowledged knowing about it.
Similarly, employees at who were longtime friends of the Achilli family, declined comment.
A bartender at , who described Mark Achilli as a dear friend, said he was shocked and upset about the death and declined to give his name.
, said he was shocked and saddened by the reports of Michele Achilli's death.
"She showed remarkable courage and grace during the tragic events surrounding her husband's murder and will be deeply missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends, especially her daughter, Alexandra. We are hopeful the family's privacy will be respected during this difficult time," Fletcher said.
A close friend of Michele, who declined to be identified, said the news has devastated the family, especially the children. She added that a memorial service is already being planned, but will be private for just close friends and family.
Achilli owned the popular downtown Los Gatos nightspot Mountain Charley's saloon and the adjacent 180 Restaurant until 2007, when he sold them to Garcia.
The Volkswagen Beetle and her body were discovered after Cal Fire responded to a report of a brush fire off the road of Highway 9. After fighting the blaze, officials found the vehicle and the remains, said CHP spokesman John Darling.
"Everything is still under investigation," Darling said Tuesday morning about the crash, adding that preliminary reports indicate the vehicle was traveling at a speed too great for the driver to negotiate a turn, causing the vehicle to leave the roadway, where it caught fire as it impacted an object, killing the driver.
Michele Achilli's car was 50 feet off the roadway and 125 feet down the embankment, which made recovery difficult, Darling said.
The medical examiner said it would take several weeks to complete a full autopsy report, which will be made available to the public.
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A large dog attacks two children in Killeen on Saturday, leaving one dead and the other in the hospital.
Police say just before 5:00 Saturday evening an 18-year-old male, 8-year-old girl and two-year-old boy were walking back from the park.
All of a sudden a bull mastiff comes out of a garage and attacks them.
The Coon family is heartbroken over what happened right next door, saying it could have been their children.
"We were in the backyard at the time when it happened. Any normal day we would be out in the street; it would be my two-year-old and seven-year-old and they're out every single day on the street," says Neil Coon, neighbor.
Killeen Police Officers were called out to the 4100 block of Pennington Avenue on Saturday regarding shots being fired.
While en route, they were told a dog had attacked several children.
Police say the three kids were walking back from the park on the sidewalk, when the dog came out of a garage.
A bull mastiff went after the 8-year-old first.
As neighbors pulled the dog off of her, he then went after the two-year-old.
Officers say the child was dragged down the sidewalk until one neighbor fired rounds to scare the dog away.
Neil Coon says by the time he heard, it was too late.
"I didn't hear the gunshot, my seven-year-old daughter did. If I would have only reacted a little bit faster, maybe I could have gone out there and helped. By the time I went out, the dog was already inside the house," says Coon.
Mildred Lubina is a nurse who lives right in front of where the attack happened; she ran out to help.
"I saw the kid and I started doing CPR. The child started to breathe but blood was coming out," says Mildred Lubina, neighbor and nurse.
A scary situation for her, knowing that the two-year-old was in bad condition.
"Looking at the child, I felt so bad for the helpless child," says Mildred Lubina, neighbor and nurse.
The boy was taken to Darnell Army Medical Center in critical condition and later died from his injuries.
The 8-year-old girl is currently in stable condition.
The Killeen Police Department says up until recently, dog attacks were rare.
"Unfortunately we've had a couple of them in a couple of weeks. Fortunately, the children that were bit a couple of weeks ago were able to survive theirs, but it could have happened to them as well. Unfortunately we had a death on this one and we don't want this to happen again," says Carroll Smith, Killeen Police Department.
In that case, the owner was charged with dog at large, which is a Class C misdemeanor.
Smith says you should always keep an eye on your pet, especially if you know it's aggressive.
Neighbors say, the bull mastiff never seemed aggressive before.
"Too big for his own good. He seemed pretty playful, barking every now and then like a normal dog. It's just one of those things, you never know when something like that could happen," says Coon.
In the city of Killeen, dogs must be on a leash any time they are outside of a fenced-in yard.
Neighbors tell us the owner of the dog was out of town at the time and was being watched by his mother.
The bull mastiff is currently in possession of Killeen Animal Control.
A two-year-old girl was killed in a dog attack two weeks ago in Temple.
Police say her family was watching a pit bull for a friend on February 17th.
The dog attacked Je'vaeh Mayes in the backyard of her home after she slipped out of the house without her parents' knowledge.
She later died at the hospital.
H.B. 1355 Lillian's Law took into effect in 2007, making dog owners vulnerable to felony charges when dogs attack.
According to the law, there are two provisions. The first allows dog owner's to be charged when they act with criminal negligence in allowing a dog's unprovoked attack that causes serious injury or death. The second is if an owner knows a dog has been labeled dangerous and it makes an unprovoked attack outside its enclosure causing death or injury requiring hospitalization.
The offense would be a third-degree felony if the dog causes serious bodily injury to a victim in an unprovoked attack, punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a possible $10,000 fine.
It would be a second-degree felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, if a victim dies as a result of an unprovoked attack.
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