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Domenickhas been at Ursinus since 1997. Prof. Scudera received his B.A. with honors in English and in Fine Arts from Colgate University and his M.F.A. in Directing from Pennsylvania State University. In addition to teaching acting, directing and theater history, he has been an active professional theater artist since 1987. In the greater Philadelphia region, he regularly directs plays for many theaters such as the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater and the Delaware Theater Company. He is a member and Resident Director of the Waitstaff Sketch Comedy Troupe. He has served in the administrations of several area theaters as well, including many years as Casting Director for the Wilma Theater. He is also a playwright whose work has been performed thousands of times by Historic Philadelphia Incorporated. As a performer, he has premiered his original work at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and performed nationally at various venues.
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Associate Professor of Theater / Chair of the Theater and Dance Department Dr. Redman received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego having completed her dissertation on the history of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. She also holds an M.F.A. in directing from UC Irvine and an M.A. in Composition and Rhetoric from Georgetown University. Bev has taught at Charles County Community College, Georgetown University, University of California, Irvine, Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at El Paso. At Ursinus, she teaches voice and speech, theater history and literature, and she also directs for the department. Professor Redman has been with Ursinus College since 2006.
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Production Manager and Technical Director/Adjunct Faculty for Theater and Dance Department Jacob Rothermel came to Ursinus College after receiving his MFA in Production Technology & Management from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. Prior, he worked as Technical Director for the Act II Playhouse & the Bristol Riverside Theatre, both in the greater Philadelphia, PA area. He has also served as a production manager, production & assistant stage manager, as both scenic & stage carpenter, and entertainment rigger & electrician at theatre companies and in all types of performance spaces in and around Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. since receiving his BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. He has also done technical engineering & drafting work with commercial production companies in New York & Washington, D.C. 30-hr OSHA-certified in General Industry, Jacob teaches Theatre Stagecraft here at Ursinus as well as supervises student technicians in all manner of production work in the Kaleidoscope Center for Performing Arts.
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The Green Bay Packers will be without their star LB Clay Matthews for at least a month while he recovers from a fractured thumb. Didn't that dude in Arizona lose part of his finger and only missed a week?
This is a big time loss for the Packers defense. It is always difficult to replace a talent like Matthews. Nick Perry would be a player that the team would want to step up and make plays, but he has been a disappointment so far in his career.
Matthews has had 3 sacks this season and forced a pair of fumbles already. He also has 18 tackles in the first 4 games of the season.
The Packers also lost LB Brad Jones and LB Rob Francois to injuries in week 5 against the Lions. It was a tough day for Green Bay Packers linebackers.
Next man up. Rookie Nate Palmer is the next man on the depth chart. The Packers might want to see if anyone is available in free agency to help out on defense.
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Here is the color palette of The Graduate. In other words, "every frame in a movie compressed into a line, giving an idea of the colour palette used by the filmmakers."
We've got an interview coming up this week with Dustin Hoffman. He'll talk a bit about The Graduate, but not about its color palette. Which is why we thought it urgent and important to share with you here.
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ILLUM SPHERE and DABRYE took to a 2 hour back to back session (3 or 4 tunes each on rotation)
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Devonte Graham just became very popular in Lawrence, Kansas.
Wednesday at approximately 4:20 EST, top recruit Myles Turner informed the nation of his intentions to attend the University of Texas. Turner chose Texas over other finalists Duke, Kansas, SMU, and Oklahoma State.
So, with Turner choosing the Big XII rival Longhorns, where does Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks go with its last available scholarship for next season?
The most likely option is Devonte Graham.
Graham initially signed with Appalachian State in 2013 before deciding to attend a prep school after Appalachian State would not allow him out of his letter of intent to attend the school.
Graham is a six-foot-tall Point Guard from North Carolina that could fit into Bill Self's offense perfectly. Graham is described by ESPN as a:
"crafty point guard with excellent court vision. He can push the ball well and is athletic for his size."
He is also known not to be a big risk-taker, which could be good for Kansas as current starting Point Guard Naadir Tharpe has had issues taking to many risks.
The knock on Devonte is obviously his lack of size. He weighs only about 170 pounds and could easily be overpowered by bigger guards such as the Harrison twins of Kentucky if the two teams were to meet next season.
Despite his lack of size, Graham would be able to make an impact at Kansas if he were to choose to attend KU. Other schools currently in the running for his talents include NC State and the 2014 ACC champion Virginia squad.
If Graham does choose Kansas, he would definitely have to fight for significant playing time. Returning to the team next season are current starter, and senior guard Naadir Tharpe, and sophomore point guards Frank Mason and Conner Frankamp.
Graham would have to prove himself in order to make it into the rotation. If he can impress Bill Self enough, Kansas fans may be seeing a lot of time spent with two point guards on the floor at the same time.
Adding Devonte Graham to the Kansas roster for the 2014-15 season would do nothing but help the Jayhawks in their search for a National Title. Point Guard play is what held the talented Jayhawks team back last year and the addition of Devonte Graham could eliminate Kansas' biggest glaring weakness.
I certainly feel like Devonte Graham could be the Jayhawks answer but, do you?
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Convergence kills the Flip-what's next?
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Sources said Cisco had signaled its desire to exit the consumer market and was advised to seek a buyer for the Flip business. It is not known if Cisco engaged in discussions with any other company about a possible sale. A spokesperson for Cisco did not immediately respond to a request for an interview.
"Sometimes it comes down to what the accountants have to say," Gartenberg said. According to Gartenberg, it seems likely that Cisco calculated that it would be easier and ultimately less costly to simply shutter the unit and write it off, rather than going to the time and trouble of finding a buyer and selling Flip at a considerable loss. "Someone at Cisco ran the numbers and decided that this was the way to go," Gartenberg said.
New York Times columnist David Pogue last week theorized that the most plausible reason Cisco choose to kill the Flip business rather than sell it is because Cisco wants to hold onto the Flip technology, presumably to apply to other areas. But it's not clear what about the Flip technology would be applicable to Cisco's other businesses, though the company said in its statement last week that video remains one of its five key company priorities. (Pogue also reported that Cisco was supposed to release a new Flip model last week, FlipLive, capable of live video broadcasting to the Internet).
Jordan Selburn, a consumer electronics analyst at market research firm IHS iSuppli, said that despite Flip's position in the marketplace, the Flip unit may have simply been unprofitable. "Cisco may have simply decided that they don't have consumer DNA," Selburn said.
"Part of the problem with Flip was once you bought one, you never had a reason to buy another one," Gartenberg said, adding that Cisco "lacked an understanding of the marketplace."
"This is a sad thing for the whole industry," said Rick Doherty, co-founder and director at the Envisioneering Group. Doherty said the Flip design team made a serious impact on the consumer electronics world and predicted that its members would resurface and "spread their wings."
"Camcorders are still a good business for many people," Doherty said. "There will be more innovation there, and great things will probably be coming. It's just a shame that Cisco took this route of not heeding industry trends and not, it seems, even respecting the company that they acquired."
So it would seem that we can't make a case against convergence alone in the killing of the Flip. But clearly its fingerprints were among those found at the scene of the crime. According to Selburn, the "dedicated single-tasker"—a gadget with only one application—is under fire in all areas of consumer electronics, thanks in large part to the threat posed by multiple-application devices like the smartphone and media tablet. "That doesn't mean that they are all going away or doing badly," Sulburn said.
Let's take a look at some of the other heretofore popular—even beloved—consumer electronics devices that face threat from this menace at large.


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text: Annals of Law October 4, 2010 Issue The Scholar She was brilliant. Was she also a fraud? By Jeffrey Toobin Table of Contents Rachel Yould studied at Stanford and Oxford, but, in recent months, she has shuttled between safe houses for victims of abuse. Credit JOHN RITTER; PHOTOGRAPH: COURTESY THE ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS/MCT/LANDOV Few American college students in the mid-nineteen-nineties showed as much promise as Rachel Hall. In 1994, Glamour named her one of its Top 10 College Women. "Rachel Hall is a Truman Scholar, former White House intern, licensed massage therapist, onetime Virgin Islands lifeguard, varsity rower and chair of the United Nations' Global Federation Youth Cabinet," the magazine wrote. "A double major in Japanese and international relations, Hall recently transferred from UC-Davis to Stanford University. Her future plans include a graduate degree in Japanese and a career in international relations." The following year, Stanford endorsed Hall's application for a Rhodes scholarship. Hall's grades at both schools were "literally perfect," Peter Stansky, a history professor and the chairman of Stanford's Rhodes panel, wrote. "Ms. Hall is a very polished and mature candidate who has had a wide variety of experiences from which she has very intelligently managed to learn prodigious amounts." Hall won the Rhodes. Lean and fit, with pale skin and a cascade of strawberry-blond hair, Rachel stood out, even on big campuses. "Rachel was the most remarkable student I ever had," Joyce Moser, who taught Hall in a seminar on literature and the arts her first year at Stanford, said. "Rachel wrote an imitation of Plato's Republic that I still have. It was so good that I kept it for fifteen years. Each of the students had to do a presentation, and Rachel did one on eighteenth-century music. She turned off the lights and put candles all over the classroom. She put Mozart on softly in the background. She had images to go with it. It was the closest thing you could do to create an eighteenth-century environment in a seminar room. She was just an unforgettable student." In recent months, Rachel Yould (her married name) had been living an itinerant existence in Anchorage, where she shuttled, often in disguise, between safe houses established for victims of domestic violence. A group of local women, mostly domestic-violence survivors, cared for Yould; her "safety team," or Team Rachel, as the group was known, insisted that outsiders who wanted to meet her first sign a confidentiality contract, so that her father, who she claimed had abused her, could not find her. Yould saw her husband once a week, and her "big outing," as she put it, was a weekly trip to church. On September 10th, Team Rachel escorted Yould to the federal courthouse in Anchorage, where she was treated not as a victim but as a perpetrator. There she was to be sentenced by Judge John Sedwick, of the U.S. District Court, for carrying out a complex scheme to defraud the governments of Alaska and the United States. Yould's life after Stanford had turned into a sprawling saga that unfolded in half a dozen countries on three continents. Documents relating to her fraud case filled an entire room of the U.S. Attorney's office in Anchorage. Before her sentencing, her supporters wrote moving letters asking Judge Sedwick for leniency. As one family friend wrote, "Rachel is a kind, loving person and her goal has always been to help others." A series of domestic-violence experts, retained by Yould's public defender, told the judge about the implications of the abuse that she said she had suffered. Dr. Eli Newberger, who is affiliated with Harvard Medical School, examined Yould and wrote in his report, "In my forty years of experience in this area of practice, I have never seen such a heartless and systematic torture of a child by a parent." The prosecution presented a very different picture of Rachel Yould. In a hundred-and-twenty-page brief, Retta-Rae Randall, the Assistant U.S. Attorney on the case, wrote, "The case is not about abuse, but about lies and greed." In another court filing, Randall wrote that the defendant "claims 'safety concerns,' needing a 'safety team,' being a 'victim' of domestic violence, not only to manipulate the court, but also to defraud agencies which support true victims of domestic violence. No evidence, not even a proffer, of any legitimate threat to the defendant's safety since she arrived in Anchorage in January 2009, has been provided to the court or to the United States Probation Office. Yet the defendant has been allowed to take up space at a 'safe house' for domestic violence victims, to the detriment of those women who are truly fleeing a present danger and need a safe place to reside with their children." The question raised about Rachel Yould is, then, a simple one. Is she a brilliant, heroic survivor and a victim of injustice—or an incorrigible con artist? Sheryl Davis grew up in a small town in Alabama and went to college at Auburn University. There she met Robert Eyre Hall, and the two were married in 1969, shortly before he graduated and enlisted in the Army. Hall was assigned to the Panama Canal Zone, where Rachel Eyre Hall, the couple's only child, was born, on January 3, 1972. After Robert Hall left the service, the family moved to Glendale, Arizona, where he attended business school at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. The family moved to Illinois, where Robert went to work for a company that sold agricultural products; in 1975, the couple divorced. Sheryl and Rachel moved back to Alabama. "He was never violent to me," Sheryl Davis told me, speaking of her ex-husband, "though he did throw a shoe at me once." Hall's career led him to live, over the next few years, in Puerto Rico, New Jersey, and, eventually, near Atlanta. Sheryl was a teacher, and she and her daughter moved often as well; by the time Rachel was in sixth grade, she had lived in six places and gone to five schools. In 1982, Sheryl married Glenn Denkler, a Vietnam veteran, who enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America, in Hyde Park, New York. In 1985, after he graduated, the couple decided to move to Anchorage, where Denkler became a cooking teacher at a vocational high school, and Sheryl also taught school. Rachel came with them, but, from the time she was five, she spent a few weeks with her father every summer. As part of her defense, Rachel Yould wrote an autobiography of sorts, which was circulated among her supporters. It consists of more than fifty single-spaced pages, and is composed in her characteristic torrential writing style—an intense agglomeration of detail and explanation that is evident even in her routine correspondence, which often runs to thousands of words. "I have no memory of a life without abuse," the account begins. "Among my earliest recollections are disjointed montages of heavy breathing and touching and thrusting and pain and nausea and an unsettling inability to reach that place inside me from which tears would, for most people, issue forth." She goes on, "My childhood was peppered with moments of clarity and desperate cries for help, but they were fleeting and failed to save me." Robert Hall has always denied abusing his daughter in any way, but Rachel's account is full of detailed recollections. "I remember refusing to allow a doctor to examine me during a childhood doctor's visit to diagnose one of countless urinary tract infections," she writes. "I told my mother quietly that it was because of daddy and she conveyed to the doctor that I was resisting the pelvic exam because of problems we'd had with my father. I was spared the exam but little else. My mom took no action to investigate my assertion or curtail my visits with my father, who was no longer living with us at that time." In a letter to the judge, Sheryl described Rachel as an "anxious, emotionally excessive" child. "She was a loving, gentle child—not a discipline problem—whose angst was early and internal." According to her mother, Rachel saw a series of counsellors but never received a diagnosis. Sheryl says that Rachel never told her of any abuse. "I think Rachel tried to tell me many times, but she was not heard," Sheryl told me. "At a certain point, she just stopped trying." The report assembled by Eli Newberger, the medical expert retained by the defense, includes an account of an incident in Yould's adolescence. "On one occasion, after Ms. Yould had a mole removed without first seeking Mr. Hall's permission, she described having awakened tied up, and recalled his saying, 'If you want less flesh on your hip, I'll show you less flesh,' " Newberger wrote. "Ms. Yould described that Mr. Hall took out a knife and a second implement with a curved protrusion at the end and 'started carving, pulling out this long plug of skin, fat, and muscle.' She described how strange it was to feel and then see a part of her no longer being a part of her. Her pain on this occasion was deeper and more sustained, and she said she bled more than usual. She noted shivering consistent with shock and persistent bleeding, and lapses of consciousness." In a written statement to the court, Yould recalled seeing something in the basement of her father's house. "I walked close and stared and then suddenly felt like a cosmic jolt had just vacuumed all of the air out of my chest," she wrote. "It was a hunk of desiccated flesh pinned to the wall and I knew from the approximate size and shape and just the nature of life in that house that it was mine. It was a piece of me pinned to the wall." Yould said that she took refuge from the abuse by excelling at school. "My elixir was superstar achievement," she wrote. "I was a top honors student, an athlete, and president of everything. I was a community volunteer, a creator of civic programs, an advocate of social causes. The crushing pace required to keep these countless responsibilities aloft, while destructive to my ailing spirit, rendered life manageable." Still, she wrote, she was plagued by "flashbacks," which sometimes caused her to drive off the road: "The two realities that I had spent a lifetime cleaving into two separate people—the bad, scary me that haunted my nights versus the light, accomplished me that carried me through each day—came crashing together." By the time she graduated from high school, her nightmares "had reached new heights as had the sleep-deprivation and anxiety that would render me persistently ill for years to come." During her summertime visits to her father, Yould said, she became close to her stepbrother John (Robert Hall had remarried), who fell ill with AIDS-related symptoms in 1990. She learned to perform massage therapy on him, and ultimately began a program to provide massages to AIDS patients in Sacramento, which is near U.C. Davis. "When my step-brother was ill with AIDS, I began writing to Mother Teresa as an outlet for my grief," she later wrote. "I honestly didn't know if anyone read my letters, and I certainly did not expect that they were reaching Mother." After John died, in 1993, "I received a letter inviting me to come work in Mother's Home for the Dying, to care for her terminally ill patients as I became accustomed to being unable to care any longer for my brother. I traveled to India for a short time while in college to do just that." According to a letter written in 1997 by Brother Vinod, an associate of Mother Teresa, "Among the hundreds of patients who Rachel has personally diagnosed and treated during her three-month stay here, I have observed marked improvements. . . . Rarely in my career have I encountered such dedication to contributing professionally for the benefit of the poor." A subsequent job as a massage practitioner at a spa near Sacramento ended less happily, when, according to her employer, she left shifts uncovered and once skipped work "due to her visiting a male friend not kidney cancer as she told us." Yould always drew extreme reactions, sometimes even from the same people. Peter Duus, a professor of Japanese history, knew Yould at Stanford. "I felt that there was something phony about her, not in the sense that she was fraudulent but that she was excessively insistent in talking about her accomplishments, her skills, and her ambitions," Duus told me. "For example, at various times she told me that she had spent a year nursing her brother through a devastating illness, and that she had been treated for ovarian or cervical cancer and would never have children. I took her behavior to reflect the fact that she had lived a harder life than other students had—and was trying to compensate for that." In 1993, Yould's father agreed to pay for a summer program at Georgetown, in Washington. "I was not spared what had become my annual hospital stint, but it did not dull my enthusiasm for the experience," she wrote of that summer, when she also worked part time as a White House intern. "Toward the end of my program, there emerged an acute problem with one of my vaginal glands, a common byproduct of childhood trauma to the genitalia," she wrote. "It required immediate surgery and a hospital stay." According to Yould, Robert Hall came from his home, in Georgia, to attend the closing ceremony for the Georgetown program. Hall took his daughter to dinner and ordered "bottle after bottle of champagne." Rachel passed out asleep on the one bed in her father's hotel room, while he went to sleep on the couch. "I awoke that night with my father on top of me," she wrote. She said that he raped her. The next morning, she returned to her dorm room. "I may well have remained sitting in that dorm room for more than two days without moving. I lost all sense of time. The only sensation of which I was aware was the life bleeding out of me." She went on, "My reverie was broken by a summer Resident Adviser knocking to inform me that my airport shuttle had arrived. I had packed before the ceremony and followed my escort compliantly down the corridor to the van, not having even showered since the rape. And off to the airport I went." She next saw her father in Georgia, the following year. During that encounter, she later said, "he took a vise and chiseled out a treasure map onto me so I saw every time I get undressed where he is going to stab me." Father and daughter have not seen each other since the mid-nineties. Yould won the Rhodes in late 1995, but delayed going to Oxford for a year, because of health problems, which she later described as "unpredictably intermittent bouts of significant pain." Notwithstanding the health problems, Yould entered and won the Miss Anchorage pageant in 1996 and also took a summer internship, as part of her Truman scholarship, at the Pentagon. This was extended with an unpaid consultancy, which included a trip to Japan. Brett Yould, her boyfriend, joined her in Washington; the pair then hoped to be hired as paid consultants. When an offer was not forthcoming, Rachel wrote a lengthy letter to a superior at the Pentagon, reflecting a remarkable sense of entitlement: Clearly, there are situations when age is not an inherently relevant criterion for capability assessment. Just as I struggle with the complexities of possessing a genius-level IQ, medically certified photographic memory, and fluency in several Asian languages at such a young age, Brett grapples with being a recognized computer genius in an industry that considers age a factor. Rachel and Brett met as high-school classmates in Anchorage, and they started dating when both were home on breaks from college. "We saw each other at a cotillion reunion dance during my freshman year," Brett told me. "We danced to 'Stairway to Heaven.' We were instantly head over heels for one another." Brett had majored in psychology at Colorado State University; he had a job in computer training. Cautious where Rachel was bold, besotted but also bewildered by Rachel, Brett was content to live in her shadow. Rachel and Brett spent some time in Portland, Oregon, in 1996, and Rachel later told the police that she began receiving "obscene phone calls from Robert Hall several times a day." She said that during those calls her father told her that he was watching her and that she could never get away. One day, according to Rachel, there was a break-in: "The lock on my baby chest had been broken and someone had rifled through all of my baby memorabilia. The only item stolen from the sizeable unit, which contained a variety of valuable items, was an Elvis Presley album. Elvis Presley is Robert Hall's favorite musician." At Oxford her academic progress was, for the first time, less than meteoric. She studied with Professor Arthur Stockwin, who was then the director of Oxford's Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies. (He is now retired.) As Stockwin testified in a deposition in England as part of the fraud case, Rachel Yould began her Rhodes by taking a master's course in Oriental Studies to improve her Japanese, because her skills were not "quite up to the level required." (She was not fluent in Japanese or any other Asian language.) Yould was pursuing a doctorate, with a dissertation on Japan and the Internet, but Stockwin was unhappy with the first chapter she submitted. "I wrote to her that I was rather alarmed by the indifferent quality of the chapter," he testified. Brett had followed Rachel from Washington to India and then to Oxford, with an interlude spent doing construction work in Alaska. "My life really got pushed to the background," he said. Eventually, he also became a student at Oxford, where he earned an M.B.A. According to Rachel, there was still no respite from Robert Hall's calls. Brett remembers just one phone call from him in Portland, and one at Oxford from someone who could have been Hall. "I was waiting for Rachel to finish her D.Phil., but she has always had a hard time finishing things," Brett Yould said to me. "She told me, 'Professor Stockwin says I need to go to Japan for one year, and then I promise I'll be finished.' I enrolled and studied Japanese for one academic year and then started teaching English. I waited for her to buckle down and finish." Yould never completed her doctorate; she didn't even submit any more chapters. The couple married in 2000 and moved to Japan the following year, with a Fulbright scholarship to support her dissertation research. Though still technically a student, Rachel at this point in her life turned her attention to a kind of entrepreneurship. Rachel Yould was a student for a longtime. It took her five years to get a college degree (three at Davis, two at Stanford). The Rhodes Trust paid for three years at Oxford, rather than the customary two, and she stayed on for a fourth at her own expense. What was supposed to be a single year in Japan turned into about seven. The criminal case against Yould is based on the way she financed her education. Most student-loan programs have lifetime borrowing limits, and Yould started to run up against them toward the end of her time at Oxford. In 2001, when she applied for a student loan of ninety-five hundred dollars from the State of Alaska, she received only three thousand five hundred and fifty, because she had reached the sixty-thousand-dollar lifetime cap. Later, Yould reached the limit in other federal student-loan programs—sixty-five thousand five hundred for subsidized Stafford loans and seventy-three thousand for unsubsidized Stafford loans. As her student-loan sources dwindled, Yould began trying to obtain a second Social Security number. She made use of a little-known program within the Social Security Administration called Harassment, Abuse and Life Endangerment (HALE), which is designed to assist survivors of domestic violence. "The basic rule has always been that you only get one Social Security number for life, but back in the nineteen-eighties we started to bend that policy for victims of domestic violence," Jessica MacBride, who leads the group that handles number-assignment policy at the Social Security Administration, said. The rationale for the HALE program is that a parent or spouse would know the victim's Social Security number and could use that information to track her movements. "You need a credible third-party report that you are endangered, like a police report, in order to get a new number," MacBride said. Since 1998, about five thousand people have taken advantage of the HALE program to obtain new numbers. Yould applied for a new number under HALE in 2001, while she was in Japan. (She said that her father's harassment continued by telephone there; Brett recalls no such calls in Japan.) Also in this period, she enlisted Michael Brain, a lawyer in Anchorage, in pursuit of a restraining order to prevent her father from contacting her; she cited this effort to support her HALE application. The Alaska state judge in the case denied Rachel's request on December 19, 2002, ruling that, because Robert Hall lived in Georgia, and Rachel was in Japan, he had no jurisdiction. Still, on August 7, 2003, she was formally granted a new Social Security number. Though Yould was in Japan, she was still on the books as a student at Oxford, and she needed a way to pay her fees there. (The Fulbright paid her about forty-one thousand dollars a year, but only for her first three years in Japan.) So, starting in 2003, she applied for loans under her married name, and using her new Social Security number. Over the next three years, she went into a kind of borrowing frenzy. In September, 2004, Rachel Yould sought two hundred and forty thousand dollars in a "consolidation" loan from Sallie Mae, which asked her to submit an updated loan application and income verification for her co-borrower—Rachel Hall. As prosecutors later noted, "Yould re-submitted the application signed by her on September 29, 2004, and by Hall on September 30, 2004, using distinctively different handwriting." In 2004, Yould commuted to Washington for an unpaid fellowship at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a well-known think tank. She used that position as a vehicle to secure more loans. With the application for one loan, in October, 2004, Rachel Yould submitted a pay stub showing that her co-signer, Rachel Hall, had earned $251,131.97 from the I.I.S.S. in the course of the year. According to a deposition by an I.I.S.S. administrator, "The whole payslip is false and inaccurate. Rachel Yould was never given any wage at all from IISS or IISS-US." In all, during the period from 2003 to 2006, Yould obtained more than six hundred and fifty thousand dollars in fraudulent loans. She used some of this money to buy a condo in Anchorage; she and her husband rented it out as a source of income. "I asked Rachel, 'How much have you taken out in loans?' " Brett told me. "It was upsetting to me. And she'd blow me off and say, 'Don't worry about it.' " The amount of the loans far exceeded Yould's tuition bills. Much of the money, it appears, went to fund a business venture, the Oxford International Review. The O.I.R. was a student publication that had been dormant when, in 2001, Yould revived the name. She appointed herself editor-in-chief. With the help of research assistants recruited from Oxford and the ranks of Truman Scholars, Yould, who was then based in Japan, spent 2004 and 2005 flying to different countries to interview prominent people for the O.I.R. ("Rachel was gone about eight months of every year, doing interviews all over the world," Brett said.) The list of subjects included Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Hamid Karzai, Norman Schwarzkopf, Wesley Clark, Elie Wiesel, David Gergen, and dozens of others. Yould listed many of the people she interviewed as members of the O.I.R. Advisory Board. The result, which was not published until 2008, is a singularly peculiar publication. Yould's O.I.R. consists largely of transcripts of interviews (which were mostly out of date): a thousand and thirty pages, in a volume that weighs more than five pounds. The bulk makes the O.I.R. almost unreadable, and it appears that no more than a dozen copies were printed. "She had very big plans for O.I.R., and I don't really understand what those plans were," Brett told me. "She just blew it way out of proportion. I saw it as a scholarly journal, but then she wanted take it further into an organization where students from around the world had a chance to get together and share thoughts. I didn't get it." The financial arrangements surrounding the O.I.R. were opaque. Yould used a California firm to set up an offshore company, based in the British Virgin Islands, to act as a for-profit adjunct to the nonprofit O.I.R. publication. She explained in an e-mail to the California firm that Oxford "is very strict with the use of its name in publication titles. . . . Should the University ever challenge our right to produce under this title, we feel we would be better positioned as a non-UK entity to engage such potential challenges." By 2007, the United States Postal Inspection Service, which investigates many fraud cases, had started to examine Yould's finances. The theory behind the government's prosecution was that Yould never really intended to be an academic and that she used the O.I.R. and its for-profit affiliate to build a worldwide consulting business. In fact, she seems to have made only halfhearted attempts to work as a consultant, though she was finally taken off the student rolls at Oxford in 2006. The Youlds lived modestly. To all appearances, Rachel was motivated less by greed than by a kind of undifferentiated longing for status and acceptance. She won fellowships and attended conferences hoping to win more fellowships and attend more conferences, in an endless loop of résumé-building. Even knowing that the government was tracking her, Yould made a series of outlandish claims, in order to find a sponsor to pay a twenty-thousand-dollar fee for her to participate in the Clinton Global Initiative conference, in New York, in September, 2008. In e-mails to representatives of HSBC Bank and the Emirates Foundation, Yould wrote that the O.I.R. had been selected by the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to "administer the U.S. portion of his recently announced multi-billion-dollar fellowship program for Iraqi graduate students." This was false, and no one paid her fee, but Yould went to the conference anyway. Officials from the Clinton Global Initiative later pressed her for payment, without success. One day around this time, while Rachel was on the road, a certified letter arrived for her in Japan. Brett opened it. "It was a target letter, saying that she was suspected of committing fraud," he said. "She was in the U.A.E. at the time, and I called her right away. Rachel was often so busy and stressed out on the road that she sometimes didn't return my calls or e-mails. And she gave me the silent treatment for about a week. And I got pissed off and I said to her, quite frankly, 'If you don't answer me, we are going to have serious problems.' " Finally, Rachel called and explained that the letter referred to a misunderstanding that had since been settled. It was more than a misunderstanding, of course, and Rachel and Brett soon returned to Alaska, to face the investigation. Rachel Yould was indicted by a federal grand jury in March, 2009, on ten counts of fraud relating to the student loans and, later, on five charges relating to the purchase of the Anchorage condo. On April 1, 2010, Yould pleaded guilty to the first ten, and in June she pleaded guilty to the remaining charges against her. Throughout the summer, I spoke often by phone with Valerie Harris, a freelance anti-domestic-violence campaigner and crime buff who had been advising Rachel Yould. (Harris became interested in criminal law while following the case of Scott Peterson, who was charged with killing his pregnant wife.) Through the efforts of Harris and others, Yould's case became something of a cause célèbre in domestic-violence circles, and several activists submitted letters on her behalf to Judge Sedwick before sentencing. I went to Alaska in August and, one morning soon after my arrival, Harris told me to go to the lobby of my hotel, where I would be met and taken to see Yould. Paige Hodson, the leader of a small organization called Alaska Moms for Custodial Justice, and a domestic-violence survivor, was waiting at the wheel of an S.U.V., with a non-disclosure contract for me. After I signed the paper, promising not to reveal where Yould was, Hodson drove a circuitous route to arrive at another building. We entered through a side door and went into what looked like a downscale corporate apartment, with generic furniture and without personal touches. There were seven people inside. Rachel's mother, Sheryl Davis, and stepfather, Glenn Denkler, were seated at a dining-room table. They recently retired from their teaching jobs in Anchorage and live in Washington State. (As a gesture of support for his stepdaughter, Glenn Denkler adopted Rachel, shortly before her marriage; her full name is Rachel Eyre Denkler Yould.) There were four people from the domestic-violence community: Hodson; Dara Carlin, from Hawaii, who has studied the HALE program; Paul Stanley Holdorf, a retired attorney, who did an analysis of Yould's finances for the defense; and Sharon Vaughan, an activist from St. Paul, who accompanied Yould to depositions in Japan and England. Rachel Yould sat in the middle of an L-shaped sofa. At thirty-eight, she looks remarkably similar to the college student photographed in Glamour sixteen years ago: clear-skinned, with the same long strawberry-blond hair. She speaks in a serene, confident murmur that recalls a late-night FM disk jockey. She cuts, in all, a strikingly charismatic figure, and her supporters seemed unable to keep their hands off her—stroking, patting, kneading, embracing her as she told her story. "We think that my case is the only time a federal court has ever approved a safety plan for a defendant," she told me. "The court is not aware of my location. Only the probation officer assigned to my team knows where I am. Most members of the team are not here. There is a bond between us, and my life is managed by the safety team. I check in every day. They manage secure transit for me, they know where I am at all times, they arrange safe housing for me. I'm on my eighth move since the indictment. I can't stay in a domestic-violence shelter, because that's the kind of place that would be staked out." As for why Yould still needed elaborate security precautions a decade and a half after she last saw her father, she told me that his harassment was continuing through proxies. Just this summer, she said, she was in a coffee shop in Anchorage with one of her escorts. "A man came up to me and took my picture and said, 'Daddy says hello,' " Yould told me. I asked whether I could speak with the security escort, and Yould demurred, saying that he was out of earshot at the time of the incident, and, besides, the escort had been having health problems lately. Even under close questioning, Yould never admits error or ignorance; she is a compulsive, if not always persuasive, explainer. In a phone conversation with Yould, I asked her more about the charges. "This is not an abuse-excuse case," she said. "I am not saying I did this because I was abused. The argument has always been that no crime was committed." Yould said her problems were the fault of the HALE program. "This is about a flaw in the program. You have debt under the two names. The first difficulty is, how do you transfer the old debts? How do you figure out how to pay the old debts? They don't guarantee the old academic credentials. You have the student-loan debt, but you may or may not be able to transfer the degrees. They give you a letter that says call if you have any questions, but there's no manual, no rule book, no intergovernmental coördination at all. You get ad-hoc advice." In short, the heart of Yould's defense was that she thought she was allowed, under the HALE program, to use the new Social Security number to apply for the loans above the lifetime cap and to use one name as a co-signer for loans to the other. "I pled guilty because it became clear that there was no way for me to have a fair trial," Yould said. "The judge ruled that I couldn't discuss the abuse or the violence or the harassment. It's impossible to discuss this case without talking about how we got into this program." In addition, she said, there were documents in the case that proved her innocence but that could not be retrieved. "My e-mails magically disappeared," she said. Actually, Judge Sedwick had never ruled that the domestic-violence evidence would be completely off limits. Yould pleaded guilty before Sedwick made any rulings about the scope of evidence that would have been allowed in a trial. There is, in fact, very little evidence to corroborate her claims of abuse and harassment, especially in recent years. Yould has said that she was repeatedly hospitalized—in Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon, and at Stanford, among other places. In one submission to the court, she said that in the autumn of 1995 she experienced swelling in her right kidney, which temporarily ceased functioning, "once again due to the previous abuse perpetrated by Robert Hall. I was informed that the crimp in my right ureter, manifest from a previous blow to the back, could not be treated and might result in intermittent bouts of renal failure throughout the course of my adult life. I was hospitalized for a week at Stanford University Medical Center." It is true that Yould was hospitalized at Stanford for four days in 1995, but it was for removal of a kidney stone. As the government noted in the sentencing memorandum, "Her history reflected in the medical records from Stanford Health Services (the only medical records disclosed by the defendant to date) at the time of her admission does not include a report by her of any injury to her kidney from previous physical abuse." In all, Yould's defense team produced records of just two hospitalizations, both at Stanford, one for the kidney stone and the other for serious allergies. Yould said that the reason for the lack of records went back to her attempt to file a restraining order against Robert Hall, in 2002. "I was going to lay it all out for the court, but he had it thrown out on the basis of venue," she told me. "I made the decision to get rid of it all, all the records. Why do you keep this gross stuff? My lawyer, Mike Brain, advised me that no court would ever take jurisdiction of the case, so I made the decision to get rid of it." That does not explain why Yould did not track down the hospital records after she was indicted. And Brain told me he never saw any documentary evidence that Yould had been abused, and never advised her to get rid of any records. "As a general proposition, as an attorney, I would never say to destroy a document," Brain said. "I can say that categorically." The prosecution never specifically charged that Rachel Yould invented all the abuse claims; rather, the Assistant U.S. Attorney limited herself to asserting that Rachel was never in any danger from her father while in Anchorage. To be sure, Dr. Newberger, the defense expert, who examined her last March, concluded that various scars on Rachel's body were consistent with abuse. Clearly, though, a strong current of skepticism about the abuse runs through the government presentations in the case. For example, the government gave the judge photographs of the swimsuit competition in the Miss Alaska contest, which took place in 1996, after, according to Rachel, her father mutilated her hip; in the photographs neither hip shows any marks. Brett says that he recalls a dime-size scar on Rachel's hip, but no other notable marks on her body. He stands by Rachel's claim that her father abused her. "I have wrestled with that over the past year," he said. "I don't know what it's like to have been abused, to have been beaten up and raped. A lot of people say to abuse survivors that their fears can't be warranted, and then they wind up dead." Robert Hall vividly remembers when a pair of police officers knocked on the door of his home, outside Atlanta. "It was late 2002, the middle of the night, and I was very sick," he told me. "They came to serve the papers on me that Rachel was trying to get the restraining order in Alaska. We invited the cops in, and my wife and I sat there at our kitchen table and read all those pages of the things she said about me. I had never heard her claim any of that stuff before. It was unbelievable. I never laid a hand on that child." Hall acknowledges that he has had a complicated passage through life. Now sixty-two years old, he has been married and divorced four times. He had a drinking problem, and at the time the police came he was awaiting a liver transplant, which he later underwent. He retired about three years ago, after thirty-six years with the agricultural-supply company. "Without drinking, Bob is a normal person," Andrea Pena, his fourth wife, who was divorced from him this year, told me. "But once he had a drop of alcohol he was different. He never hit me, but he tends to throw things around when he drinks." Money is tight these days, and Hall is currently trying to sell his house. But he is emphatic that he never abused, much less raped, his daughter. As Hall recounted it, his relationship with his only child followed a depressingly familiar trajectory for families riven by divorce: "She and her mother were very good at cutting me out of things. I never knew what she was doing. I had no input on where she went to college. All I did was pay up." In 1990, Hall went to Rachel's high-school graduation, in Anchorage—his only visit to Alaska—and she stayed with him for some months in Georgia during a year off before she went to college. "Her mother was more lenient than I was about certain things, and I started to get irritated that her room was a mess—really unsanitary," Robert told me. "She wanted to go to massage school in Atlanta. I had agreed to pay half her college fees, but I wasn't going to pay for that. Her mother paid for the massage school." Around this time, Robert's stepson John was given a diagnosis of AIDS. In its December, 1996, issue, Good Housekeeping ran a profile of Rachel, called "A Sister's Loving Touch," which chronicled how she flew to Atlanta to be with her brother after the diagnosis. "Within days she had enrolled in a massage-therapy school so she could provide him with daily comfort," the article said, and Rachel was quoted as saying, "Massage gave us a way to talk when there weren't any words left." Robert Hall said that this portrayal was fictional. "She said she cared for John, gave him massages, and that's a total lie," Robert said. "She saw him once the whole time he was sick." In some ways, Robert's accounts of his life with Rachel match hers. He said that he did pay for her Georgetown summer program in 1993, and travelled to Washington for the closing ceremony. Moreover, he did take her to a dinner where liquor was served and then shared a hotel room, and a bed, with her. On the crucial issue—whether he attacked her—their versions diverge. "We were staying at the Courtyard, in Virginia, and when we got back to the room I tried to sleep in the love seat, but I couldn't sleep. So I slept over the sheets of the bed, fully clothed, while she slept under them. The next day, we got up, we cleaned out her apartment in Georgetown, and I delivered her to a couple of her mother's friends. I thought nothing of it." Their contact diminished, though, and Rachel started making veiled comments about her father to his family. "Rachel called our home once in the spring of 1995, and I spoke to her on the phone," Cathy Cahill, who was married to Robert Hall at the time, told me. "Rachel knew I had two daughters, and she told me I should be very careful about leaving them alone with Bob. She just said, 'You'll find out why.' I was extremely shocked and dismayed. Bob was never anything but appropriate with my daughters." (This was six years before Rachel began her efforts to get a new Social Security number.) Rachel also got in touch with her father's sister, Peggy Neill, in 1991 or 1992. "Rachel called me and said that she was having problems with Bob's and my brother"—Rachel's uncle—"that he had in some way compromised her, making advances," Neill told me. "She told me I should watch out for my two girls around my other brother. It was nonsense. Rachel was always very dramatic." The final breach between father and daughter concerned a subject that has preoccupied Yould through much of her adult life—student loans. "She told me she needed me to co-sign a loan for her for her last year at Stanford," Robert Hall said. "She said she'd make the payments, but she just needed me as a co-signer. But when the paperwork came I saw that it was only my name on it. I asked her, and she said it didn't matter, she'd still pay it. It was for something like sixteen or eighteen thousand dollars. I wasn't seeing her. I didn't really want to do it. But I said, 'What the hell, she'll pay it.' So I signed it. That's what you do for your kids. Well, she never paid a cent of it back. I was stuck paying the whole thing. I had no legal recourse." (Cathy Cahill, then Robert's wife, corroborates this.) Robert Hall was interviewed several times by the Postal Inspection Service. By now, paternal feeling has largely yielded to bitterness. "Rachel has always been a bit of a conniver and used to having things her way," he said. "I feel like I've been taken advantage of in a very malicious way. She claimed that I was stalking her, calling her in Japan. I wouldn't even know how to call Japan if I wanted to. She has not been part of my life for years. She is making me out to be some ogre, and I'm just an average, normal guy." Before Rachel Yould's sentencing, on September 10th, Rich Curtner, the federal public defender in Alaska, who represented her, asked Judge Sedwick for a sentence of probation. Randall, the prosecutor, sought five years in federal prison. "Yould is a sophisticated liar and manipulator who justifies her conduct by blaming others," Randall wrote. About two dozen of Yould's supporters settled into the benches behind the defense table in Judge Sedwick's courtroom. Brett was there, too. For the first six months after he and Rachel came back to Anchorage, as Rachel moved between various shelters, he made an effort to stay in touch. "I'd make her food and take it to her wherever she was," he told me. To return to Alaska, Brett gave up a marketing business he had started in Japan and eventually took a job in a plumbing-supply warehouse in Anchorage. "We saw each other once a week for a while, then about once every three weeks," he told me. "Finally, about six months ago, I told her I couldn't do it anymore. I said, regardless of the outcome, I'd be seeking a divorce. She had her support team. She didn't need me. I was exhausted, I was worn out, and it was time for me to rebuild my life." Hall's supporters in the courtroom were virtually all members of the domestic-violence community. Except for her family, Rachel had almost no one there who knew her as a person rather than as a cause. Over the years, Rachel made dozens, if not hundreds, of contacts at Stanford and Oxford, and in Japan, as well as during her fellowships and internships; the absence of such people was noticeable. With ferocious intensity, Rachel strove first for accomplishments, then merely connections, and, finally, just status, and she made no lasting friends along the way. In her statement to the judge, Yould seemed almost to acknowledge that her isolation, whatever its cause, might have been at the root of her problems. "I don't know that anyone could regret these circumstances more than I," she said, in precise, almost elegant diction. "The violence and stalking I've suffered are not actually the hardest experiences I've endured. The most difficult thing for me is the isolation brought on by living a life that most people seem unable to relate to or understand. It's a very lonely experience." She continued to portray herself as a victim. "The truth of this case, as I perceive it, is that the Harassment, Abuse and Life Endangerment program is endangering women like me through the reckless provision of instructions meted out by poorly trained and largely unsupervised field officers and government contractors." Blaming HALE was no more successful with the judge than it likely would have been with a jury. The defense argument that Yould "was so dependent on hearing guidance from Social Security bureaucrats," Sedwick said in court, "borders on the ludicrous." Indeed, the judge said, "it would be risible in the case of a Stanford University graduate to believe that that had happened. But this woman is more than just a Stanford University graduate. This woman has achieved great distinction because she is exceedingly bright. She can figure out what the rules are—in fact she did. But she thought she found a way around them. It was very convenient to have that second Social Security number." The judge could come up with no more than a theory of why Rachel's life took such a bizarre series of wrong turns. "I think what really happened is that Ms. Yould became enamored of the idea that she could have a prominent role, have great stature, in the international academic community. Indeed she already had it," he said. "But she wanted to keep it, she wanted to pursue it, she wanted to embellish it, she wanted to make it better. And, as a consequence, she became willing to take the unlawful steps, which she took, in pursuit of that goal." In the end, as with most criminals, the reasons for her behavior mattered less than the conduct itself. Judge Sedwick sentenced Rachel Yould to fifty-seven months in prison, and ordered her to pay restitution of almost seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to lenders, and also to former employees and venders of the O.I.R. Her lawyer asked the judge to let Yould remain out on bail pending her assignment to federal prison. The judge said no, and Yould went straight from the courtroom to jail, to begin serving her sentence that afternoon. ♦ Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and the senior legal analyst for CNN since 2002. Bio All work & You Might Like Jigsaw Puzzle Strongbox Submissions Goings On App About Us Caption Contest The New Yorker Festival ✕ The New Yorker Strongbox Strongbox is a new way for you to share information, messages, and files with our writers and editors and is designed to provide you with a greater degree of anonymity and security than afforded by conventional e-mail. 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Online Obituaries
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As some funeral homes and cemeteries raise prices in response to loss of market share and dwindling revenues, New Tacoma has stayed constant for over 2 years, even lowering some prices. Our commitment to the community has not and will not change, and that is to provide the highest level & quality of service at reasonable prices, in a compassionate manner, while maintaining our facilities and grounds to the high standards we ourselves would expect. Being "non-profit" allows us to focus on our families, not the bottom line. We've been a part of the local community since 1875 assisting families in their time of need. We have a tradition deeply rooted in this community that will continue for many many more years.
New upright memorial section and private family estate areas being developed now. Come see the new offerings today and receive special "pre-developed" pricing discounts.
Our pet cemetery was developed to provide compassionate care when the loss of a beloved pet occurs. We can provide burial or a private cremation of your pet. We DO NOT provide communal or multiple pet cremations unless specifically requested and authorized. See our "Pet Services" tab.
If you feel you are not being accommodated in your needs by another funeral provider that gives you the impression they're "too busy" and you're not important to them, call us. I'm sure we can restore your confidence and assist your family.
To keep our lot owners better informed - see the "Events & Updates" tab for information on improvements and work in progress in the cemetery or planned for the future.
Click on the "Cremation" tab at the top to see what makes us different from all other cremation providers in the Tacoma/Lakewood area.
Please give us a call; we are available 24 hours a day to assist you when needed. Our promise is to assist any family in need, regardless of financial ability. One thing that makes us unique among larger area cemeteries is that New Tacoma Cemetery is a registered "not for profit" cemetery, meaning our profits are reinvested into our property rather than going to an out of state "corporate office". When you buy an interment right for burial or urn placement at New Tacoma, you actually become an "owner" in the cemetery.
I promise the staff of New Tacoma will act with compassion, integrity and honesty in helping you each step of the way.
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8300 East Dana Drive has a Walk Score of 29 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
This location is in Prescott Valley. Nearby parks include Prescott Valley Recreation Area and Prescott Valley Community Center Park.
Nearby schools include Park View Middle School, Acorn Montessori Charter School and Mountain View Elementary School.
The closest grocery stores are B Z Exotics LLC, Gaea Gourmet Inc and Desert Lavender Botanicals.
Nearby coffee shops include Prickly Pear Cafe, Emmanuel's Cafe & Bakery and Starbucks. Nearby restaurants include SUBWAY® Restaurants (C-Store / Gas Station), Casa Bonita Family Restaurant and Azteca Grill.
8300 East Dana Drive is near Prescott Valley Recreation Area and Prescott Valley Community Center Park.


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Everything you do is handsome ;~;
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LMAO. Poor ignored Kyu hahahahahahahaha.
Kyuhyun trying to tell them how popular he is in Thailand
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My tough Busan namja has turned into a softie :P It's okay, baby I love you more for it :P :*
jonghyun: i cry so easily lately it's become a talent
to kim gura: just looking at you makes me want to cry hyung
Yoo Yeon Seok, Making of the KakaoTalk Stickers, BTS (x)
This is the same guy who's an ace in playing them villainous roles. Don't fall for his traps.
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Yoo Yeon Seok judging his own self for every agyeo pose he made for Kakaotalk Stickers-Emoticons
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*knock knock* Hi, I'm just here to steal your heart
Heart, liver, kidneys, they're all yours baby.
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So cute I cannot even ;~;
Chilbong: perfect husband and dad material
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TCU men's basketball never scored 80 points in a game a season ago. In fact, the Horned Frogs only scored 70 or more three times under first-year coach Trent Johnson, who is known for defensive-minded teams.But that might change in 2013-14. TCU defeated Arkansas-Fort Smith 81-74 in an exhibition game in front of about 300 in attendance Friday at Daniel-Meyer ColiseumThe Frogs' newcomers, including Karviar Shepherd, Brandon Parrish and Hudson Price, showed a scoring touch seldom seen a year ago. Jarvis Ray, who missed much of last season because of injury, returned to the starting lineup and led TCU with 18 points on 4-of-7 shooting.Shepherd, Ray and point guard Kyan Anderson each picked up two early fouls and didn't play much in the first half. That allowed Charles Hill Jr., Parrish and Price to step up and lead the team before halftime. Hill had 13 points, Parrish had 10, and Hudson had nine points and nine rebounds. The scoring balance was encouraging to Shepherd, who led the team with 10 rebounds, including three crucial boards in the final five minutes when the Lions made it close with two 3-pointers."That means we've got great chemistry," Shepherd said. "We're family and we feel like everybody can produce, so we're going to give everybody the ball and they're going to shoot and we're going to believe they're going to make it."TCU led by as many as 14 with just over 10 minutes remaining, but had to hold off Fort Smith's rally in the final minutes, caused in part because of TCU's 0-for-9 streak from the free-throw line. TCU shot just 57.1 percent from the line.Overall, Johnson liked the poise his young team showed, especially when the Lions pulled to within 75-72 with 1:22 left."I look at where they're at, and I compare it to some of the freshmen I've had over the years. They're going to be fine," Johnson said.Ray hit two free throws, and Anderson slashed the lane for a reverse layup and fed Ray for a dunk in the final minute to defuse Fort Smith's rally.TCU opens the season against SMU at 6:30 p.m. Friday at American Airlines Center.Player updatesForward Amric Fields' progress coming back from last season's knee injury is still a wait-and-see situation, Trent Johnson said. Fields did not play Friday. UTEP transfer Chris Washburn has still not heard whether the NCAA will grant him a waiver so that he can play this season. TCU hopes to hear before Friday's season opener.
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211 East Felton Road has a Walk Score of 62 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
This location is in Cartersville.
The closest school is Cloverleaf Elementary School.
The closest grocery stores are Santana Mexican Grill, Banana Boat Grocery Salvage and Ingles Markets Inc..
Nearby coffee shops include Cyber Tech Cafe, Dunkin' Donuts and Gate Coffee Shop Inc. There are 17 restaurants within a 15 minute walk including Pizza Hut, Martin's Restaurant and Sonic Drive-In.


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West Berkshire Card
The combined leisure centre discount and library card for residents of West Berkshire
The West Berkshire Card is a great, free way to gain discounts on:
- activities in the council's sports and leisure centres
- DVD, video and CD hire (save 10%) at West Berkshire libraries
- on the entrance fee to Shaw House
If you're over 60 years old, have a disability or are on a low income you may be eligible for a Concessionary West Berkshire card which offers bigger discounts of some sports activities.
Please see the West Berkshire Card Information Leaflet [1Mb] for full details.
Applying for a West Berkshire Card
- apply online or pick up an application form from any council sports and leisure centre
- complete and sign your form - if you're under 16 years your application must be signed by a parent or guardian
- take your completed form to one of our leisure centres with the following supporting documents:
- Proof of address
- Proof of identity
- Proof of age (for junior or senior cards)
- If you are applying for a concessionary West Berkshire Card you MUST also bring:
- members over 60 not in employment/retired should bring a pension book, bus pass and/or proof of retirement/unemployment
- members with a disability should bring disabled person's bus pass or doctors letter
- members on low income and their families should bring proof of receipt of one of the following - income support, housing benefit, invalidity benefit, working tax credits, NHS tax credit exemption certificate or child tax credit plus one of the above
Library Cards
Please note that West Berkshire Cards issued as library cards require separate activation for use at leisure centres.
Similarly, cards issued at leisure centres will require activation at a library before they can be used as a library card.
Non residents can purchase a card for use only at leisure centres - full details can be obtained by contacting one of our leisure centres.


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Gadsden, AL
Music has always been part of the culture of the south and Gadsden adds to that culture with the Gadsden Riverfest. The Riverfest offers Gadsden locals a panoply of bands and activities, ranging from live music through dance parties to a boat-decorating contest. Local breweries also bring their wares to the Riverfest Pub, making it a party no one wants to miss. Starting out in a mall parking lot in 1986 with no more than 750 attendees, Riverfest's expansion into the rip-roaring festival it is today shows what a blast locals and visitors alike have at this musical gathering.
Folks make sure to get downtown on the first Friday of every month for Gadsden's First Friday, a monthly celebration of music, fun, and classic cars. Lovingly maintained classic cars line the street on proud display while bands play up and down the street. City officials close off Broad Street for the evening as people dance, shop at the various downtown stores that keep their doors open late on First Friday and get delicious food at the food vendors and restaurants. Even if you just stop through Gadsden while traveling, you could do worse than stop by on First Friday.
The Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts is part of Gadsden's regard for the arts, providing museum-quality exhibits and then some to the community at large. Locals can visit the Center repeatedly without seeing the same thing twice as it has plenty to offer. Rotating art exhibits show visual arts from artists local, national, and international, live music shows can be seen in the Center's Courtyard Concert Series and dance performances are also shown. In addition to that, the Center offers art classes to the community so that locals can learn music and visual arts.


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Obit of the Day: He Got Us to "Like Ike"
In 1948, when General Dwight D. Eisenhower was sitting in retirement after successfully leading the U.S. military to victory in Europe during World War II, there was already a stirring for him to become president. One enterprising reporter from Pittsburgh went to A.G. Trimble and his son, Richard, to create a campaign button as a way to encourage Eisenhower to run. The reporter was frustrated, telling the Trimbles, "I can't come up with a slogan, but I do like Ike*."
A.G. Trimble, who had made campaign buttons beginning in 1920, told the young man, "That's your slogan." Richard Trimble set to work to design the now iconic "I Like Ike" button that would first be produced in 1948 and then take off in 1952 when Ohio Senator Bob Taft recruited General Eisenhower to run for the Republican nomination in 1952. (Eisenhower would win in 1952 and again in 1956)
Richard Trimble wasn't supposed to be in the family business. He was trained as a chemical engineer at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) but was severely poisoned in 1944 while working on a project for the war. After taking a year to recover he found himself working at the side of his father and would spend his career at A.G. Trimble Company.
On November 28, 2012, two days after his 91st birthday, Richard Trimble passed away. He ran the company from 1972 until he handed over the reigns to his son, current president Rick Trimble, in 1988.
Random note: A.G. Trimble, the company's founder, who died at the age of 102 in 1983, was born on election day 1880. Because of that, his father wanted to name him Garfield Arthur Trimble for the winning Republican ticket of James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. His mother interceded and decided Arthur Garfield was better. A.G. Trimble was such a staunch supporter of the G.O.P. that he refused to manufacture campaign buttons for Democrats until Richard convinced him to make a Truman button in 1948.
Sources: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, AGTrimble.com
(Images: Top left, www.loriferber.com; bottom left, www.conservapedia.com; bottom right, www.affordablepoliticalitems.com. I could not determine which button was the original created by the Trimbles.)
* "Ike" was a nickname that evolved from Eisenhower.


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Digonex inks retail deal
An Indianapolis dynamic pricing company says a new deal is part of an increased focus on the retail sector. Digonex, which works with sports organizations to price tickets depending on inventory, weather and opponent, is now implementing its dynamic pricing system for Indianapolis-based LIDS Sports Group's online marketplace. Digonex COO Jeremy Eglen says prices will be based on factors including market conditions and the performance of the player or team represented on the merchandise.
Manufacturer expects production by year's end
A Texas-based pipeline manufacturer believes an increase in use of North American tar sands provides an opportunity to expand in northern Indiana. Tejas Tubular Products Inc. CEO Max Tejas says the company is hoping to receive final county approval next month on a major expansion that could create 150 jobs in New Carlisle over the next two years.
Muncie leaders planning trip to China
A delegation of Delaware County executives is set to travel to China next month for a trade mission. The 10-day trip will include a trade show and an update from cooking oil producer Godeagle, which signed a memorandum of understanding with the state last year to set up a processing facility in Muncie.
Event to toast canned beer
Indianapolis-based Sun King Brewing Co. has announced what it's calling the first canned craft beer festival in the Midwest. Organizers expect the September event to draw 30 breweries, including more than a dozen from out-of-state.
State, teachers union reach settlement
Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson says the Indiana State Teachers Association and National Education Association have agreed to a $14 million settlement over fraud allegations. Lawson's office says the organizations sold health plans to 27 school corporations and misrepresented how the funds were being used.
Indianapolis Indians extend deal with Pirates
The Indianapolis Indians have extended their player development agreement with the Pittsburgh Pirates through the 2016 season. The organization has been affiliated with the Pirates since 2005.
'Demo Day' to feature early stage startup pitches
An event later this month in Jeffersonville will showcase pitches from several early-stage startups. Velocity Indiana's Demo Day will feature southern Indiana companies from its business accelerator program, including a crowd-funding platform for Greek organizations and a new photo sharing app.
Former presidential adviser to speak at Krannert
A former adviser to four U.S. presidents will speak at the Purdue University Krannert School of Management's annual Leadership Speakers Series. David Gergen, who is now a senior political analyst at CNN, will deliver the keynote address at the September event.
Lilly lung cancer treatment clears hurdle
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. says a study indicates a potential lung cancer treatment is showing positive results for patients with a hard-to-treat form of the disease. It was combined with a pair of other treatments and met the primary endpoint of a recent Phase III study.
Indiana Tech names marketing VP
Indiana Tech has appointed Brian Engelhart vice president of marketing. He most recently served as director of client services at Britton Marketing & Design Group in Fort Wayne.
IWL announces conference details
Integrating Woman Leaders Inc. has unveiled the speaker lineup for its major conference next month in Indianapolis. Organizers expect hundreds of attendees for the annual event featuring sessions on communications skills, work-life balance and networking.
Find more Indiana business news at www.InsideINdianaBusiness.com.


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By Tim Redmond
Already, I'm hearing whistpers from both sides of the Leno-Migden contest, and already, they're getting nasty. Mark Leno told me this week that he will run an upbeat campaign, and that any negative attacks on Midgen "won't come from me." I suspect I will hear the same from Migden. But it's common in campaigns for elected officials to try to take the high road and let others -- their allies and suppoerters -- do the dirty work. Read more »
By Steven T. Jones
Invoking the spirit of George Moscone and Harvey Milk "so that we may be worthy of their powerful legacy," Assembly member Mark Leno today announced his candidacy for the Senate seat now held by Carole Migden, setting off a high-profile fight between the two for the Democratic Party nomination next year. "Welcome to democracy in action. Read more »
Good article in the Boston Phoenix on the fallout from the New Times-Village Voice merger. The basic point that writer Adam Reilly makes:
The core of the old New Times chain was Southwestern and Southern. And those regions of the country have a different political culture — more socially conservative, more reflexively anti-government — than coastal markets like Los Angeles and New York, or progressive Midwestern enclaves like the Twin Cities. Read more »
By Steven T. Jones
After an uncomfortable exchange with Mayor Gavin Newsom at the Project Homeless Connect event earlier in the day, Alex Tourk was out with friends (including a long list of prominent people, many still in Newsom's camp) at Finnegan's Wake last night celebrating his birthday and I happened to run into him. Read more »
By Steven T. Jones
The next Board of Supervisors race would appear to be only a faint blip on the horizon -- coming as it does after this year's mayor's race, the presidential primary a year from now, and the state primary fight in June '08 that will feature the Leno-Migden battle royale -- but contenders are already starting to position themselves. Read more »
By Steven T. Jones
Sup. Sean Elsbernd is the smartest conservative on the Board of Supervisors, but he may now be regretting his latest effort to challenge city spending. This afternoon, he took issue with a $642,000 budget appropriation intended to offset federal cuts in funding for AIDS programs. Read more »
By Sarah Phelan
It's hard to stay in the public eye when you're stuck in jail and denied in-person and on-camera interviews, as freelance journalist Josh Wolf has been for the over six months. So, I have to give it to Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders for reminding everyone of Josh Wolf's plight, even if what I really have to give Saunders is a Lemon Award. Read more »
A couple weeks ago, we gave Mark Leno a little slap for showing up to celebrate Pacific Gas and Electric Company's solar project at the LGBT Center. Today, Beyond Chron is whacking Carole Migden for being too frinedly with PG&E.
The nice side of all of this: It clear that both candidates consider PG&E to be politically radioactive, and simply proximity can breed political fallout. It's about time.
That's the question all over San Francisco politics now that Leno has announced he's running against state Sen. Carole Migden. His campaign kickoff is at noon this Friday, at YBC, and it will be the first sign of what sort of support he's been able to line up.
The people who show up will risk infuriating Migden, which is nothing to trifle at (and will make it tougher for city officials, who have to work with her on legislation). Leno is much calmer and milder, but he'll also remember who his friends are (and aren't).
Sup. Read more »
The San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee is going to vote Feb. 28th on a resolution against the war. Read more »


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Hospitals Getting Smarter on Credential Strategies and Access
Smart cards and smart lockdowns are healthy cures for hospital security and safety
The open architecture design of a smart credential means that it is capable of accepting a customized key for multiple, diversified applications. This lets hospitals add applications on their own terms, expanding as slowly or as quickly as they like. With memory options of 2K, 4K and 8K bytes, hospitals can get the memory they need, without paying for extra memory they don't.
Not only can they access physical locations, but also the hospital's computer networks and EMR (logical access). Smartcards can be used to match a healthcare provider with the patient to ensure safety during care. Employees will also find them convenient for payments at the cafeteria or vending machines, to check out scrubs, equipment and tools, for time and attendance, secure printing and other applications.
With the price of smart credentials being comparable to proximity today, the roadblocks for deploying smart credentials during the hospital's next implementation, even if only for physical access control, are eased.
Caveat – There is More than One Type of Smart Card
To heighten security, ranging from protecting patients themselves to their medical records, hospitals need to use a contactless smart credential that is armed with mutual authentication and encrypted with (Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128- bit diversified keys. With such a capability, the card and reader verify that they are authorized to communicate bi-directionally. Additionally, 128-bit keys virtually ensure no one can read or access credential information without authorization.
The technology behind AES has been approved by the NSA (National Security Agency) for classified information. A message authentication code (MAC) further protects each transaction between the credential and the reader. This security feature ensures complete and unmodified transfer of information, helping to protect data integrity and prevent outside access,
If implemented, hospitals should use an open solution smart credential, one also built to adhere to ISO 14443, a four-part international standard for contactless smart credentials. This results in faster data transfer between credential and reader, up to 848 kbps baud rate (1K baud = 1,000 bits of data per second). ISO 14443 technology, the same standard used by the U.S. government, is especially recommended for hospitals applications requiring large amounts of data such as biometric templates to be used at pharmacies and other high security locations.
The secure access solutions available with open system smart credentials have several ROI implications. For example, when a smart card program is introduced, it immediately solves the problem of (forgotten) passwords for network access, a nemesis for both users and administrators. Hospitals will reduce overhead costs simply by not having to administer passwords. Or, for added security, using a smart card along with a password adds the protection of dual authentication to sensitive systems.
Also, the roll-out of smart credential solutions for physical access control is typically done in tandem with the implementation of card management systems that involve card issuance, personalization, access rights, management and post-issuance.
Using Smart Phones like Smart Cards
As Near Field Communications (NFC) technology is now being added to a growing number of mobile handsets to enable access control as well as many other applications, more and more organizations, including healthcare centers, are considering joining the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend and having their users deploy their own smart phones and their access control credentials. It is projected that over 285 million NFC-enabled smart phones were expected to be sold in 2013 and over half the phones sold in 2015 will be NFC-capable.
NFC provides simplified transactions, data exchange and wireless connections between two devices that are in close proximity to each other, usually by no more than a few inches. A web-based credential management system allows NFC-enabled smart phones to grant access to buildings and various rooms as well as partake of other badge ID applications just like smart cards.