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WOONSOCKET — Mount St. Charles Academy moves up to Division I this season after winning the last two Division II state championships.
The Mounties go there knowing full well the challenge that awaits them, head coach Tom Seaver was saying on Monday night while contemplating this question:
"What's the difference between Division I and II?"
Seaver weighs the query for a moment and then quickly responds.
CUMBERLAND – Dan O'Brien has several memories of retired Cumberland High swim coach Bruce Calvert.
His first three years for the Clippers, O'Brien recalled a person that was not only dedicated to his craft, but a person that knew how to motivate with his unique style of dealing with student-athletes.
"You could go out and drop ten seconds and he would still have something to tell you that would improve it," he said. "I guess some people would say that he had a negative outlook on your swim, but in a way it motivated us to try harder and drop our times more."
At what point in Tiger Woods's golf career will the media stop trailing the guy around like he's still the No. 1 player in golf?
Even though Woods has been a non-factor in most tournaments since Thanksgiving of 2009, the long-time No. 1 player in the world still gets an inordinate amount of face time on television as he struggles to regain his old form. I guess the guy is news, no matter what he shoots each day. Or maybe we all just like to watch the golfing version of a train wreck unfold each time he plays.
SMITHFIELD --- The Woonsocket North Stars Mite B Blue Team defeated a very strong Northern Rhode Island Vikings squad 3-0 this past Tuesday evening at the Smithfield Ice Rink to complete an impressive season and capture the Gold bracket Mite B State Championship.
The WNS Mite B Blue entered the round robin format playing their best hockey of the season fresh off impressive tournament wins as well as some fierce state league competition.
The hockey season concluded less than a week ago and to no one's surprise it was Mount St. Charles that was celebrating on the ice with another state championship. Except for a four-year dry spell from 2003-07, that's the way it has been since the 1977-78 season for the Mounties, who have racked up 42 state titles in their storied history.
In boys' swimming, Bishop Hendricken has won every team title since 1989-90, a total of 22 straight crowns.
PROVIDENCE – When Kyan Anderson and Markus Crider signed on with Providence College, each player was under the premise that Keno Davis would be coaching them.
Might Ed Cooley's standing as the Friars' new head coach rekindle the sparks with high school prospect and fellow Providence native Ricky Ledo? Time will tell, says Ryan Hurd, Ledo's head coach at Notre Dame Prep, located in Fitchburg, Mass.
EAST PROVIDENCE — After three straight years of bringing home the hardware in Division II and posting a combined 56-2 overall mark during that span, Mount St. Charles Academy has moved up to the state's top division this season.
Head coach Josh D'Abate is looking forward to the challenge where his squad will compete against the likes of defending state champion Bishop Hendricken and other powers such as North and South Kingstown.
GLOCESTER — Beth Keeling has had a strong involvement in Ponaganset High athletics, particularly over the last decade.
Keeling is the school's "unofficial" photographer at various sporting events and also has been an avid supporter, including following the stellar football and track & field careers of her three sons, Mike, Jacob and Nick.
Her three sons have since graduated, but the retired special education teacher has still found a way to stay connected with her "kids" on the athletic spectrum at Ponaganset.
PROVIDENCE — As he wrapped up his first press conference as Providence College's new basketball coach, Ed Cooley was asked about his first order of business.
"Recruit, recruit, recruit," was Cooley's quick-to-the-point response.


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Clerk responds to criticism over policies / Center Post Dispatch / 5-24-12
SB12-155 Violates Colorado Constitution * Allows Voter Intimidation * Ballots Would be Traceable / 4-2-12
'Phantom' votes raise doubts for November
ByPat Beall
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Posted: 11:19 p.m. Saturday, June 2, 2012
Almost half of Florida's voters will have their ballots counted this November by machines that can malfunction in as little as two hours and start adding votes.
A New York study found that the precinct-based vote counter added votes in some races on a ballot, which can invalidate some or all of the votes.
Although not used in Palm Beach County, Election Systems & Software's DS200 scanner will count votes in some of the most populous counties in Florida, including Miami-Dade, Broward and Orange.
State elections officials stand behind the scanner, which they say has been thoroughly tested.
Even so, the manufacturer issued a nationwide bulletin warning that the scanner needs to be carefully cleaned to avoid adding "phantom" votes.
The addition of extra votes can generate overvoting - instances where two or more candidates are chosen on a ballot in the same race. If a voter doesn't correct the ballot, his or her vote in that race is thrown out. In 2008, overvoting rates were so high in Florida counties using the scanner that an estimated 11,000 people lost their vote for president, an analysis by the nonprofit watchdog group Florida Fair Elections Coalition concluded. Miami-Dade County precincts with large numbers of minority and non-English-speaking voters were especially hard-hit.
Ballot design was part of the problem, the coalition said. However, the group requested that the state Division of Elections temporarily remove the DS200 from its list of authorized voting equipment.
That didn't happen. But the Florida report on the DS200 caught the attention of election watchers in New York, who filed suit to stop the hardware from being used there.
While the suit was pending, voters went to the polls for the 2010 elections.
Overvoting problems immediately surfaced. A Bronx precinct recorded especially high levels of invalid votes. There, elections officials discovered a scanner was reading candidates' names as marked, even when voters had not touched them. The problem surfaced after the scanner was left on for two hours, not an uncommon practice in precincts with busy daylong voting.
ES&S emphasizes that the New York report involved a single malfunctioning scanner. "The DS200 has been used in hundreds of elections and has counted millions of ballots accurately," said an ES&S spokeswoman.
"We don't know that problems were limited," responded Lawrence Norden, deputy director of New York University Law School's Brennan Center Democracy Program and author of nationally recognized white papers on voting systems.
In New York, elections officials examined machines in only one precinct, Norden pointed out, and overvoting occurred throughout the city.
"I think that the fact that this could happen to one scanner means it could happen to all scanners," said attorney Douglas Kellner, co-chair of the New York State Board of Elections. "There was nothing to indicate that this problem is unique to this machine."
Further, so-called phantom voting is only one problem linked to overvoting and the scanners. Critics say there's a design issue that lends itself to trouble. Unlike many other optical scanners counting Florida votes, the DS200 was not designed to automatically spit out a ballot when there is an overvote, which would give a person the chance to correct the mistake.
Instead, it was designed to offer voters the choice of hitting a red button marked with a large "x" or a green button marked "accept."
The voter must hit the red button to correct the overvote. If the voter hits accept, his vote will be accepted but tossed out. "It's confusing," said Kitty Garber, research director for Florida Fair Elections.
In New York, ES&S agreed to reconfigure its equipment to provide clearer instructions on what voters should do if they overvoted. Similarly, said ES&S, " there have been successive DS200 message enhancements (color and word changes) incorporated into Florida" systems. The state did not elaborate on what the changes were.
Florida overvoting, meanwhile, hasn't gone away. Election Day overvote rates for counties using the DS200 in the 2010 Senate race were roughly 64 percent higher than scanners with the second-highest level of overvotes.
But New York is sticking with the revised DS200. Kellner describes the ES&S system as state of the art - though, he adds, it still takes rigorous pre-election testing and post-election audits to ferret out possible technological problems. After all, he said, " you have to keep in mind these are just machines."
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Posted: 05/31/2012 01:00:00 AM MDT
Colorado taxpayers paid for errors in Saguache County tax assessments
Updated: 05/31/2012 08:27:36 AM MDT By Sara Burnett
The Denver Post
The exterior of the Saguache County building on Thursday, February 24, 2011 (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)
SAGUACHE Colorado taxpayers have oversubsidized schools in Saguache County by an undetermined amount of money for up to a decade, thanks to a county assessor who hasn't kept up in adding new construction to the cash-strapped county's tax rolls, a state-ordered examination has found.
The omission meant that some property owners including Saguache County commissioners and other government officials have paid property taxes that are a fraction of what they should be, while others paid more than their fair share.
Among those who benefited are a county commissioner who paid $34 in taxes last year on 120 acres and a house valued at $328,279, and the owners of a bed and breakfast that has operated since 2007 but whose property is still being taxed as vacant land. Those property owners paid $392 in taxes last year, though the property was listed for sale at one point for $1.25 million.
The lack of assessed value meant the state picked up the tab for what may be tens of thousands of dollars in school funding that it otherwise would not have been required to pay only a portion of which will have to be reimbursed.
That the county was able to get so far behind without drawing state scrutiny also revealed a lapse that extends statewide: In the nearly 30 years that Colorado has audited assessors' offices, it never has verified that new construction is being added to the tax rolls.
That's because it never occurred to lawmakers or state officials that an assessor intentionally or not might not make adding new construction a top priority, state officials said. New construction is not subject to the same TABOR limits as other types of revenue.
"It's very much to the assessor's advantage to pick it up," said Cherice Kjosness, manager of administrative resources for the state Division of Property Taxation and the person who is overseeing the reappraisal. "It's one way to make your commissioners happy."
When that property isn't added, it affects not just the county and its taxing bodies but property owners statewide.
"If there's big pieces of that (local property tax) missing, we all pay a little more," Colorado Property Tax Administrator JoAnn Groff said.
Complaints filed
The extent of the Saguache County situation surfaced last year after two complaints were filed with the state, and a state audit revealed problems with how home sales were being recorded.
One of the complaints was filed by the Baca Grande Water District, which stated in a letter to the State Board of Equalization that it had sent Saguache County Assessor Jackie Stephens a list of 85 residential properties that have had homes on them for many years some more than a decade but are still reflected in county records as vacant land. The district also alerted Stephens of properties with improvements that had not been added, the letter states.
Years earlier, the water district had made a monetary donation to the assessor's office to try to get the property records brought up to date, but Stephens who said the work wasn't getting done because she was understaffed never got fully caught up, a lawyer for the district wrote.
"By not valuing properties appropriately, the natural result is that some property owners are shouldered with paying more taxes while others slide by without paying their fair share, all while receiving the same services," the letter states.
Among those paying more were Terry and Trish Cole, who bought a home in the Baca Grande area of eastern Saguache County in the shadow of Great Sand Dunes National Park in 2000.
The Coles always felt their taxes were high, but they felt bad about complaining because they knew how the local school districts, located in one of Colorado's poorest counties, were struggling.
They filed their complaint with the state in May 2011 after they tried to compare their tax bill to their neighbors' and learned that the information wasn't available online. Nor were they able to contact anyone in the assessor's office.
When the information finally was available, the Coles learned their three-bedroom, two-bath home was valued much higher than similar neighboring properties. Over four years, they determined, they had paid nearly seven times the $392 in property tax paid by the owners of the nearby bed and breakfast still listed on county tax rolls as vacant land.
At the time of the complaint, the bed-and-breakfast property was listed for sale at $1.25 million.
"We believe in paying our taxes," Terry Cole said. "We also believe in fairness. It was obvious it wasn't fair."
Stephens told The Denver Post she accepts responsibility for what happened.
"It was my job to do," she said, "and I slacked off."
Reappraisals orderedIn most counties, there is a clear, fairly simple process for ensuring new construction is considered when a property's value is determined. Typically, property owners must get a building permit from their county land-use office when they want to construct a new home or other structure.
The assessor's office is responsible for regularly looking through the permits, verifying if the construction actually occurred and, if so, recalculating the value of the property. The information is then updated in the county's computer system.
That didn't happen in Saguache County.
In October, the State Board of Equalization ordered that all residential property in the county about 477 properties be reappraised under state supervision. It was the first such order to be issued in about six years, Groff said.
Working with the county, state officials discovered about 1,535 building permits that had been issued but that the state could not confirm had ever been reviewed and added to the county's tax rolls. Some of those permits were more than 10 years old.
Stephens said she had several factors working against her. Saguache County is about 3,200 square miles, and until recently, her office had just four full-time staff members. While many homes are concentrated in a handful of communities such as Saguache, Crestone and Center, others are in more desolate areas, some of which cannot be reached in winter or when unpaved roads are muddy, she said.
The situation worsened in recent years when the county switched computer systems a conversion that took more than two years and was plagued with problems, Stephens said. With that process consuming the bulk of her time, she couldn't keep up with other duties.
Though the reappraisal is only about half complete, 2011 notices of valuation and some 2011 tax notices now available online provide a clearer picture of just how far off some of the previous assessments were.
County Commissioner Michael Spearman, for instance, paid $34.12 in taxes in 2010 on his 120-acre property near Del Norte, which includes outbuildings and a home he built several years ago. The 2011 notice values the home at $328,279, and his 2011 tax bill is $1,736.
Commissioner Linda Joseph lives on property she co-owns that is known as EarthArt Village. The "environmental, social and spiritual" sustainable community is on 480 acres near Crestone and has three common buildings, according to its website. In 2009, its owners paid $49 in property taxes. That amount increased to $672 in 2010 and $673 in 2011, according to tax notices.
And county co-administrator Wendi Maez's home on 1.25 acres outside Center was taxed $8.53 in 2009 and $13.15 in 2010. The 2011 bill for the same property is $548.96.
Joseph said her appraisal was completed years ago but was not put into the computer system until 2010, because of the computer-system conversion. Maez did not respond to a request for comment.
Spearman deferred comment to Commissioner Sam Pace, who said Spearman and others repeatedly asked Stephens to update their property values an account Stephens confirmed.
Pace said he believes Stephens is doing a "wonderful job" in a difficult position. But he also said politics may have played a role in how things went wrong.
Stephens, he noted, has been re-elected multiple times since she took office 22 years ago.
"Nobody wants to pay any higher taxes, and I'm sure that has something to do with it," Pace said. "The majority of citizens of the county have been happy with the way they've been being assessed."
2-year repayment limit
State officials agreed the work of a rural assessor comes with unique challenges.
Adding to the problem is the fact that some counties don't require residents to obtain building permits or to file certificates of occupancy an indication that a new structure has been completed and is now occupied.
"If a permit doesn't have to be pulled, there's a chance the assessor won't catch it," Groff said.
Under state law, if new construction or improvements are not added to a property's value because of a government error, the county may go back to taxpayers and bill them for no more than two years' difference between what they should have paid and what they did pay.
That additional money will be distributed, as appropriate, between the local taxing districts and the State Education Fund the pool of income-tax revenue that subsidizes school districts that cannot reach minimum per-pupil funding based on their local tax revenue.
Bob Shaffer, the chairman of the Colorado State Board of Education, said there are occasionally "anomalies" in local tax situations that require some kind of adjustment in state payments.
But the Saguache situation is unusual because of how long it has gone on, he said. The problem is exacerbated by the two-year limit for recouping payments.
"For years, the rest of the state has been paying more than their fair share," he said. "(The two-year limit) means the county's been on a gravy train for another eight years."
Meanwhile, the state Division of Property Taxation is working to ensure that future audits will catch similar problems earlier, Kjosness said.
Staffers will recommend to the state legislative council, which oversees the audits of county assessors, that starting next year, auditors begin verifying that assessors are keeping up with building permits or certificates of occupancy.
Because the state has never done so, Groff said there's no way to say for certain whether cases such as Saguache have occurred elsewhere.
"We hope not," she said.
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May 24, 2012
Clerk responds to criticism over policies
By Brad Friedman on 4/2/2012 4:55pm
Palm Beach, FL Elections Settled by Hand-Count After Op-Scan Computer Misreported Results
After admitting a failure in its software caused the problem, Dominion Voting changes its story...
A public hand-count of paper ballots in Palm Beach County, FL over the weekend has decisively determined the winners and losers of several disputed elections after paper ballot optical-scan computer tallying systems made by Sequoia Voting Systems (now owned by Dominion Voting) declared the incorrect "winners" of several races in a March 13th election.
But a dispute over who is to blame for the initial failure flared up again over the weekend as Dominion issued a statement that seems to contradict their previous admission that their software was to blame.
"The hand-count was 100%. We weren't missing a ballot," the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher told The BRAD BLOG this afternoon about what happened over the weekend. "Frankly, without paper ballots and without audits, we would have let the wrong winners serve."
What will happen next, however --- for Palm Beach County, one of Florida's largest, as well as the other 285 jurisdictions across the country where the very same voting system is currently in use --- is anything but clear...
John Greene, who was initially announced as the loser of the Wellington City Council race by the Dominion/Sequoia system was pleased with the results of Saturday's public hand-count which was only allowed in the state of Florida --- where it is now illegal to manually examine paper ballots for a hand-count after they've already been tabulated by a computer --- after a judge gave the okay.
"Regardless of where people stood, who they supported, I think they really feel that we've got the right people elected, their vote counted," Greene told WPTV, the local NBC affiliate in Palm Beach County, FL after the manual count. [See video embedded below].
As importantly, if not more so, Shauna Hostetler, who was initially announced as the "winner" of Wellington's Council Seat 1, only to learn she didn't actually win after all, said, "I am very happy that the recount was approved and done and thankful for those who gave their whole day here."
Saturday's public hand-count of paper ballots, which we've long described as "Democracy's Gold Standard" (at least when its done on Election Night, at the precinct, in front of the public) settled all questions about the results. But it hasn't settled all question about what went wrong, and whether voters in the 14 states which currently use the faulty Dominion/Sequoia system --- many of them swing states --- should rely on the results reported by it.
Rather than hand-counting in the first place, and avoiding such problems, Palm Beach County relied on easily-manipulated, oft-malfunctioning optical-scan computer systems to tally the paper ballots. Or, in this case, to mis-tally the ballots. Unfortunately, the state of Florida gives them little choice, as hand-counting ballots is now illegal in the Sunshine State.
Similar, if not identical paper-based computer tallying systems are set to be used across the country for some 70% of the votes cast in this year's Presidential Election, despite the myriad of failures and vulnerabilities in such systems that we've been reporting here at The BRAD BLOG for nearly a decade.
As we explained last week, the computer systems in Palm Beach had mis-reported the results of several races, including the race for Mayor. A post-election audit (really, a spot-check, now mandated by Florida law) tipped off election officials that something had gone terribly wrong. After receiving permission from the court, the hand-count was carried out and the questions were settled. At least the questions about this particular election.
This time officials and candidates and voters were lucky enough that someone bothered to discover the problem. But who knows if that has always been the case in Palm Beach County and elsewhere that the same and similar systems are used.
"I have a feeling that this isn't the first time, but we never noticed," Bucher told us today, referring to elections that took place prior to her tenure as Supervisor of Elections before new state laws mandated a manual 2% post-election spot-check "audit" of paper ballots.
Dominion Changes Its Story
On March 23rd, Waldeep Singh, the Vice President of Dominion Voting, the Canadian-based firm which now oversees and services Sequoia Voting Systems' hardware and software, issued a statement on behalf of the company [PDF] taking responsibility for the failure. He chalked up the failure to "a mismatch between the software which generates the paper ballots and the central tally system."
By Friday, however, Bucher's main contact with the company, Vice President Howard Cramer, was suddenly "on vacation" and unreachable, according to Bucher, and the company was singing a very different tune in a separate statement [PDF] sent directly to the Florida Secretary of State.
"It is clear that the mismatch was not the result of a 'bug' that generated this anomaly," the letter from Dominion President John Poulos to Sec. of State Ken Detzner reads. Poulos says that the software used to create ballot definitions and process results "acted as designed and, as such, it is our opinion that this is not an issue that could have been revealed during state certification testing."
The company concedes, however, "that a shortcoming in the user interface of WinEDS 3.1 makes identifying and recovering from such an event more difficult than it could be."
Poulos went on to recommend that upgrading to WinEDS 4.0, a version which is not currently certified for use by the state of Florida, "provides enhanced features which make it easier for the operator to take corrective action when such a mismatch occurs more readily than in the existing version of software which is in use."
In other words, it wasn't a bug, it was a feature. A bad one. And one that Bucher says her staff could have done little about, even if they had known about the system's shortcoming in advance, since the software is proprietary and her staff is not even allowed to look at most parts of it --- by law. She says she had never even seen the screen the company now recommends using in order to correct the problem, even if they had noticed it before the election somehow. The industry standard "Logic and Accuracy" tests she had performed before the election failed to reveal the problematic 'feature'.
[NOTE: The Sequoia Voting Systems' hardware and software, as The BRAD BLOG revealed in an exclusive series of reports in 2008, summarized here, is actually the Intellectual Property of the Hugo Chavez-tied Venezuelan firm Smartmatic. When Dominion purchased Sequoia Voting Systems in 2010, just after purchasing Diebold Election Systems' assets as well, to become the second largest e-voting vendor in the country, they lied about Sequoia's Chavez-tied ownership of their Intellectual Property in the press release announcing the acquisition. We reported that rather remarkable point to very little notice at the time. To our knowledge, nothing has changed in that ownership since our 2008 and 2010 series of reports.]
Dominion President Poulos' newer claim to the Secretary of State, that the problem was "not the result of a 'bug'", is in stark contrast to what Dominion Vice President Singh had told Bucher previously, when he sent her his statement on company letterhead explaining: "This synchronization difficulty is a shortcoming of the version of software currently being used by Palm Beach County and that shortcoming has been addressed in a subsequent version of the software."
A "Product Advisory Notice" issued March 30th [PDF] --- almost three weeks after the failed Palm Beach County election and two days after Poulos' letter to the Sec. of State claiming it wasn't the fault of the software --- backs up Bucher's account that the problem is, in fact, in the software:
When a WinEDS database is edited for example to add title blocks to
an AVC Edge display layout, the contest order on the ballots in the
database can become out of sync with the contest order shown on the
corresponding paper ballots. If not identified via the Ballot Management
component of WinEDS or through pre-election Logic and Accuracy Testing
and corrected, election results will show the correct number of votes,
but assigned to the wrong candidate or measure response.
The "Product Advisory Notice" is "an admission," Bucher says, that the failure was not due to her or her staff, but that "the software operated just as it should have" --- incorrectly, in this case, with losers being reported as "winners" and vice versa.
She says the designer of the program also admitted to her that he had seen the problem before.
'The Technology Failed, Our Procedures Prevailed'
The inaccurate results were discovered during a routine 2% post-election hand-audit of the March 13th election, Bucher explained.
"We go in to have the post-election audits, 15 cities worked fine, one city didn't. The ballots we counted in the first two precincts matched the results (reported by the poll tapes printed by the precinct-based optical-scanners) for a different candidate."
She knew they had a problem, but what to do about it was another question. Legal complaints started flying, and a judge ultimately allowed for the complete hand-count that occurred over the weekend. Without an order from a judge, it is illegal to hand-count ballots in the state of Florida, even if problems are found like the one that was discovered by the Supervisor of Elections in Palm Beach County during the spot-check of the March 13th election.
Bucher was a Democratic legislator in Florida when the state passed the law allowing for just six days to certify an election. She says she was "ecstatic" when they were able to broker a deal that allowed for the 2% post-election audit, but didn't realize at the time that election officials would run smack-dab into a nightmare if results were certified before the post-election spot-check audit could be satisfactorily completed and resolved in the event that problems were discovered.
In this case, they were able to resolve them with a hand-count and the permission of a judge. In the event of a larger race, such as a Presidential Election, Bucher is not as confident they wouldn't have had a 2000-style nightmare on her hands.
Palm Beach County was the home of the infamous Butterfly Ballot during the 2000 Presidential Election debacle, though Bucher, who says she ran for Supervisor of Elections to fix the long-standing problems in Palm Beach, was only elected in 2008. She says the county has run 23 successful elections under her stewardship, to her knowledge, until this one.
This time, she says, "the technology failed, but our procedures prevailed."
Whether or not that will be the case come this November remains a separate question. Right now, she says, she's uncertain how the county --- the largest one in the state to use the Dominion/Sequoia system --- will proceed. The failure is currently under investigation by the state, though clearly Bucher is furious at the way Dominion has handled the problem and then, more recently, tried to suggest to the media that the fault was hers rather than theirs.
The options for moving to a different voting system and a different vendor, as allowed by the state of Florida, which has yet to even certify the newer version of WinEDS, are few. She says moving to another company's optical-scanners, such as ES&S, whose systems are used across most of the state, is not a good option either, as there have been reported failures with their systems as well.
In February, we reported on ES&S optical scanners which failed in the state of New York during the 2010 election. In one South Bronx precinct, as discovered almost two years after the fact by the New York Daily News, the op-scanners mistallied some 70% of the ballots cast in the September primary election and then 54% of the ballots cast in the November general election.
Concern about similar failures by secret vote counting hardware and software led one Board of Elections in the state, in Columbia County, NY as we recently reported, to hand-count 100% of their ballots in every single election.
In Florida, however, Bucher is allowed no such option, as the state legislature has made hand-counting paper ballots illegal without a court order. That has left the Elections Supervisor none too happy. "I don't want you to have to trust your election officials," Bucher told us. "I think your election officials have to prove it."
That's difficult to do when we're all forced to trust in secret vote counting by oft-failed computer systems. And yet, that's what voters will be forced to do once again around the country this year.
According to Verified Voting's database, voting systems made by Sequoia, featuring the "not-bug" which hit Palm Beach in March, are used in some 285 jurisdictions around the country, including a number of swing states.
Sequoia systems will be used again this year in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and almost all of Wisconsin, where the GOP Presidential Primary will be held tomorrow, and where contentious recall elections for the state's Republican Governor Scott Walker, his Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican state Senators are set to begin next month.
Similar paper-based optical-scan systems are used in every other state
in the union, and in almost none of them are results fully verified
--- or often even verified at all --- before "winners" are
announced to the public and official certified as "accurate",
whether they actually are or not.
WPTV Newschannel 5's weekend report on the successful public hand-count of paper ballots in Palm Beach County's incorrectly reported Wellington elections follows below...
By Trip Jennings | 07.17.09 | 12:01 am The New Mexico
The ES&S M100 voting tabulator is an example of voting equipment election officials may decide to scrap
SANTA FE New Mexico spent $18 million on a new paper ballot system just three years ago.
But state and county elections officials are so frustrated with the cost of maintaining New Mexicos fleet of new voting tabulators and voting machines for the disabled that theyre considering scrapping the equipment in favor of leasing new machines.
Deputy Secretary of State Don Francisco Trujillo II told state lawmakers Thursday that his agency is investigating the idea of leasing equipment and, later in an interview, added that it was a serious move.
We are investigating the possibility of completely changing systems, Trujillo said Thursday following a legislative meeting at the state Capitol. The county clerks have asked us to look at that possibility, as long as there isnt a $20 million up front to buy a bunch of new machines. We wouldnt expect the Legislature to buy into this.
Trujillo mentioned Premier Elections as the firm that the state is contacting to see if it could supply such services.
Trujillo and the president of an association of local elections officials cautioned Thursday that there were many unanswered questions, and that a decision to change voting systems, if it ever came to that, is still several years off.
But the news that elections officials are so dissatisfied with the states current voting system comes only three years after New Mexico converted to a paper ballot system and spent $18 million to buy more than 1,900 voting tabulators and specially designed voting machines for the disabled.
The state purchased the equipment from Nebraska-based ES&S. A representative of ES&S could not be reached Thursday night for reaction.
The impetus for the possible revolt is two fold, officials said. First and foremost, the price ES&S wants to charge the state for maintaining the machines New Mexico bought when it converted to the paper ballot system has angered many elections officials. Secondly, theres the overall unreliability of the ES&S equipment. ES&S equipment will just stop working. No warning. No reason, added Sheryl Nichols, president of the New Mexico County Clerks Affiliate, an association for local elections officials.
As of now, most of the states voting tabulators and voting machines for the disabled are not covered by a maintenance agreement because of what ES&S is charging for the service, officials said.
Originally ES&S wanted $1.3 million to maintain the voting equipment. In 2007, the firm sent bills for maintenance to New Mexicos 33 counties, who have custody of most of the states more than 1,900 voting tabulators and more than a thousand voting machines for the disabled. The price left many counties in sticker shock. And most counties balked at paying.
Recently, ES&S sent a new cost estimate for maintenance and for training technicians to provide that maintenance just under $600,000, Trujillo said.
Trujillo said he hadnt had time to carefully read the offer.
Trujillo insisted that announcing publicly that the state was considering the leasing of voting equipment was a serious possibility and not just a negotiating tactic to force down ES&Ss price.
But it doesnt hurt as a negotiating tactic, he said.
He added that theres a possibility of the state staying with ES&S if the price is right.
Some state lawmakers left the meeting disgusted after hearing all the problems associated with finding reasonably priced maintenance for the states voting equipment.
Its really sad that the state has wasted this much money, state Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, said of the states spending on the new system three years ago.
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It was a starry night on May 13 at the 2012 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards and Best Actor in a Play nominee Adam Chanler-Berat was ready to capture all the vodka-tonic fueled antics for his Broadway.com video blog Boy's Life. With his trusty camera in tow, the Peter and the Starcatcher star had one thing on his mind: to prove the Broadway.com Awards are hands-down the "most important night in theater!" From the uber-cute finger-sized cannolis to the life-sized and equally delectable Darren Criss, Chanler-Berat filmed it all for your viewing pleasure. Click on below to watch highlights from the red carpet, ceremony and super exclusive afterparty at the Allen Room. But that's not all. Be on the look-out for cute cameos from Jackie Hoffman, Nick Adams, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Andrew Kober, Broadway.com staffers Beth Stevens, Jenny Anderson and Bruce Glikas and the candid "drunk confessions" of Ghost star Caissie Levy! Cheers!
Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Rupert Grint, Stockard Channing and the rest of the super starry cast of It's Only a Play talk about opening nights, theater people and the comedy, which begins previews at the Schoenfeld Theatre on August 28.August 20, 2014
In this week's episode of The Broadway.com Show, we talk about Broadway plans for Neverland and On Your Feet!, give a big thumbs up to Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt and watch one Genie salute another.August 20, 2014
In her final Phantom vlog, Sierra Boggess lip syncs with Norm Lewis, has a run in with a certain Jean Valjean, takes a cello lesson and plays Heads Up backstage.August 19, 2014
If/Then's James Snyder learns the ropes of being an usher at the Richard Rodgers Theatre and covers a little Iggy Azalea with Jenn Colella.August 18, 2014
Get ready for Miss Trunchbull's rules to back to school, exclusively on Broadway.com!August 18, 2014
It's back-to-school time, and Broadway.com is rolling out a series of tips from esteemed Headmistress Agatha Trunchbull (Christopher Sieber) of Broadway's Matilda for incoming maggots. Learn how to get good grades and stay out of Chokey!
Stars Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson talk about starring in This Is Our Youth. Kenneth Longergan's play, directed by Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro, opens on September 11 at the Cort Theatre.August 18, 2014
Talking up new Hedwig and the Angry Inch star Andrew Rannells with Tony winner Lena Hall, John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask and the Broadway favorite himself.August 15, 2014
With plenty of high-profile movies on the way (including Into the Woods) and a stellar turn off-Broadway in Sex with Strangers, Tony nominee Billy Magnussen is on a roll. And dude, he's psyched.August 15, 2014
Correspondent Amber Milt is on location in NYC as Annie looks for its new leading young lady to headline the show's national tour. We hear from the hopefuls who would love to step onto a stage and belt out, "Tomorrow."August 15, 2014
This week, James Monroe Iglehart introduces us to the cast of Aladdin and invites you to tweet your questions to him at @jamesmiglehart with the hashtag #askthegenie.August 14, 2014
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LINCOLN — Davies Tech head coach Victor Oliveira usually has an inkling as to how his squad will execute prior to a contest. It's based on collective attitude, and how they're conducting themselves.
On Wednesday afternoon, he had no doubt.
Senior tri-captain Paulo Chavez and classmate Daniel Munoz each netted a pair of goals and junior Mauricio Agudelo chipped in a tally and two assists as the sixth-seeded Patriots walloped No. 11-ranked Johnston High, 7-0, in a R.I. Division III Tournament preliminary tilt.
LINCOLN – A confident John Taylor told the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce Wednesday that Twin River will "absolutely" be able to compete with the planned Massachusetts casinos if the ballot questions to allow table games at the casino are approved by voters next week.
WOONSOCKET – The practice of voting for members of the School Committee will soon come to an end if voters approve a referendum question at the polls on Tuesday to make the panel's members appointive.
Question 8 on the ballot would give the mayor the power to select members of committee subject to ratification of the City Council. That would make Woonsocket only the second city in the state where school committee members are appointed, after Providence.
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CHEPACHET- Craig S. Shepherd, Jr., 34, of Wilmington, NC, formerly of Chepachet, died October 17, 2012.
Craig was born in Woonsocket, he graduated from Ponaganset High School in 1996.
He was an avid sports fan who loved the Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots. He also enjoyed gaming and outdoor sports.
National Grid crews worked throughout the day Tuesday, methodically restoring power to many of the estimated 117,000 households that lost electricity when Hurricane Sandy grazed the state on Monday.
As the 2012 election campaign enters its final week, a new poll shows the 1st District congressional campaign virtually deadlocked, with incumbent Democrat David Cicilline holding on to a slender one-point lead over Republican challenger Brendan Doherty.
The poll, taken for WPRI Channel 12 by Fleming & Associates, shows Cicilline with 42.6 percent of the vote to Doherty's 41.6, with Independent David Vogel picking up 6.3 percent and 8.3 percent undecided.
On the evening of Thursday, Oct. 18, Glenn Ginish, Jr., a performance analyst for a renowned bank in Boston, was taking the "T" home to Jamaica Plains when he figured he'd call his kid sister, Laura, back at her mom's apartment on Mendon Road.
He did so just so the two could catch up with each other's lives.
All day long, a steady stream of curious spectators traversed the historic stretch of Ocean Road in Narragansett Pier Tuesday, from Monahan's Dock to the south, up to the famous Coast Guard House and historic Towers, to the north. Along the way, one couldn't help to notice an odd sight in between, a huge gap in the seawall, taken out by powerful waves that crashed here all day long Monday. Some onlookers had never seen such a sight in their young lives, and paused to ponder the might of such an angry storm.
Workers survey the damage to the Coast Guard House, a familiar landmark on Ocean Road in Narragansett Pier Tuesday. Wind and waves from Hurricane Sandy swept through the historic structure Monday afternoon at the height of the superstorm, gutting the popular restaurant. Hundreds turned out to view the damage all day Tuesday, many with tears in their eyes, some reminiscing about their own weddings held here years ago.
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HARRISVILLE- Gerard R. "Gerry" Cournoyer, 66, of 100 Whipple Ave. died Mon. Oct. 29 at Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island, surrounded by his loving family after an illness.
He was predeceased by his wife of 38 years Constance M. (Charpentier) Cournoyer who passed away in 2005.


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TransCanada by Rail Itinerary - Toronto to Vancouver
Day 1
Arriving independently at your downtown hotel you will pick up your information kit at the front desk upon check-in. The remainder of the day is at leisure to explore Toronto. Spend the night in Toronto.
Day 2
Discover the many identities of this cosmopolitan city on a sightseeing tour of Toronto (inc). The remainder of the day is free to explore the city. Spend the night in Toronto
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Niagara Falls Excursion/VIA Rail The Canadian
Niagara Falls Excursion/VIA Rail The Canadian
Embark on a wonderful westward journey on the VIA Rail train. Sit back, relax and enjoy the mesmerizing scenery. Spend both nights onboard VIA Rail's The Canadian. Breakfasts, lunches and dinners included.
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VIA Rail - The Canadian
Embark on a wonderful westward journey on the VIA Rail train. Sit back, relax and enjoy the mesmerizing scenery. Spend both nights onboard VIA Rail's The Canadian. Breakfasts, lunches and dinners included
Day 6
VIA Rail - The Canadian to Jasper
Continuing your journey west you will enjoy the spectacle of nature as the train enters Jasper National Park. Spend the night in Jasper. Breakfast and lunch included.
Day 7
Jasper is a wonderful mountain town bursting with a quaint and unique charm. Enjoy exploring all that is on offer in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Spend the night in Jaspe
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Jasper to Lake Louise
Today will be an unforgettable journey as you travel the Icefields Parkway, one of the most scenic roads in all of Canada. At the Columbia Icefield, ride in an Ice explorer to the Athabasca Glacier (ride included). Spend the night in Lake Louise
Day 9
Lake Louise To Banff
Journeying onto Banff today you will be in awe at the beauty of the National Park. Arriving at Banff there is so much to see and do so enjoy the rest of the day exploring. Spend the night in Banff
Day 10
Banff is the most popular mountain town and it is bursting with a vibrant atmosphere with so much to see and do! We recommend a trip on the Banff Gondola to take in the breathtaking surrounding views. Spend the night in Banff.
Day 11
Rocky Mountaineer Banff to Kamloops
Embarking on a trip of a lifetime this morning you will board the Rocky Mountaineer train. You won't want to miss one second of the passing scenery! Spend the night in Kamloops
Day 12
Rocky Mountaineer Kamloops To Vancouver
Lakes, waterfalls, forests and enchanting wildlife pass you by as you continue onto the coastal gem city of Vancouver. Spend the night in Vancouver.
Day 13
The day is yours to really explore this amazing city. There is so much to see and do you won't know where to start! Spend the night in Vancouver.
Day 14
Victoria Day Excursion.
Included today is a full day excursion across to the historical capital of British Columbia with a visit to Butchart Gardens. Spend the night back in Vancouver
Day 15
Vancouver - End of Tour
Your final morning is yours to squeeze in some last minute shopping and sightseeing before you make your way independently back to Vancouver airport.


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Veering away from the dark, serious side of the sound, Rusko bought a highly driven energy and fun approach to the dubstep massive, quickly coining his own take on the genre that infected . His sound appealed to many people outside of the dubstep world as his productions became more adventurous in formula, sound and energy. His huge hit "Cockney Thug" has been played by everyone from Pete Tong, Switch, Diplo and Santogold. And has been remixed by Buraka Som sistema, Diplo, Drop the Lime and the Scratch Perverts. Now part of the Mad Decent Camp with collaborations on the horizon with the likes of Switch, Diplo , Santigold, Trouble Andrew, Hot Chip and more…the future sure is looking bright. Currently setting the radio airwaves alight with his own productions and remixes of artists such as The Prodigy, Basement Jaxx, Little Boots and plenty more, Rusko is only going in one direction. Onwards, upwards and far beyond any other young producer could dream of.
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The Pasteur Museum
The Pasteur Museum is housed in the apartment where Louis Pasteur spent his final seven years and offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the living and working environment of the world-renowned scientist. Visitors can gain a unique insight into his everyday life alongside his wife and can admire his rich and diverse scientific work.
Discover a charming place where science meets art and history.
At the cutting edge of biomedical research
The Institut Pasteur's scientific strategy focuses on developing original and innovative topics and promoting interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary cooperation and approaches. The Institut Pasteur teams have access to the technological resources needed to speed up and further improve the quality of their outstanding research.
Teaching students from around the world
Ever since the introduction of the world's first "Technical Microbiology" course in 1889, teaching has been a priority for the Institut Pasteur. The Institut Pasteur has an international reputation for quality teaching that attracts students from all over the world who come to further their training or top up their degree programs.
The mission of the Industrial Partnership team is to detect, promote, assist and protect the inventive activities from research (inventions, know-how and biological materials) conducted at the Institut Pasteur (and in some Institutes of its international network), and transfer there to industrial and/or institutional partners, in order to serve the patient needs and for the benefit of the society, as well as to contribute to sustainability of the Institut Pasteur's resources.
With international courses, PhD and postdoctoral traineeship, each institute of the Institut Pasteur International Network (RIIP) contributes to the transmission of knowledge with the training of young researchers all around the world. In this context, doctoral and postdoctoral programmes, study and traineeship fellowships are available to scientists. Alongside training, dynamism and attractiveness of RIIP will result in the creation of 4-year group for the young researchers.
Challenges for statistical modelling during the STEC/HUS outbreak in Germany, 2011
Abstract: During May-July 2011, Germany was confronted with a large outbreak of gastrointestinal disease caused by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O104:H4 associated with sprouts. A total of 2,987 cases of diarrhoea without the haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) complication and 855 cases of HUS were attributable to the outbreak, making this one of the largest STEC outbreaks ever reported. In my talk, I will focus on a number of challenges this outbreak induced for statistical modelling, especially, latency periods and their consequences. This includes the latency period between exposure to the disease and onset of diarrhoea in cases and the inherent reporting delay present in any public health surveillance system. Based on an incubation-time estimation, non-parametric back projection was used to retrospectively back-project the daily number of diarrhoea onsets of STEC and HUS cases. Furthermore, a nowcasting procedure was used to extrapolate from observed to actual counts by adjusting for reporting delay. Altogether, this allowed us to assess epidemic trends during the outbreak and to identify the time interval, where the majority of contaminated food was consumed. If time permits, I will also briefly touch upon challenges in classical case-control methodology for source identification, e.g. estimating odds ratios in 2x2 tables with zero cells and the computation of odds ratios in the light of exposure misclassification bias.
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My name is Kyle Conrad and I'm an inspiring video game/sports editor and Japanese translator. I currently am a freshman in college at The Ohio State University, and I plan to major in Japanese and minor in something as well, maybe English and/or Journalism.
Video games are one of my few passions in life. I have been playing them ever since I can remember. In fact, I've been playing them ever since I was too young to realize I was trying to play a Super Nintendo game with a Sega Genesis controller. That's right, Since the SNES and GEN only had 2 ports, whenever my older brother and his friend were playing, they would give me a controller to whichever console they weren't currently playing and I would think I was playing. As I got a little older, I started to catch on and we had to start learning how to take turns.
In the future, I would really like to be a Japanese translator or a video game/sports editor. I think that would be really cool, and I think it would be cool to do both, some sort of Japanese import editor for some video game media website.
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Cowboys didn't upgrade offense's biggest flaw
June, 21, 2012
By Tim MacMahon | ESPNDallas.com
The Cowboys handed out nine figures' worth of contracts in free agency this offseason but didn't address their biggest offensive weakness.
Phil Costa will still be the starting center when the Cowboys report to training camp. His competition: 2011 seventh-rounder Bill Nagy, who played guard before suffering a season-ending broken ankle in the fourth game last season; and second-year undrafted free agent Kevin Kowalski, who missed offseason workouts because of a foot injury.
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Jason O. Watson/US PresswirePhil Costa, who ranks low among NFL centers, won't have much competition when training camp begins.
There was some thought about free-agent addition Mackenzy Bernadeau playing center, but that was tabled after his hip surgery. The Cowboys plan for Bernadeau to focus solely on guard when he's ready to begin practicing, perhaps midway through training camp.
The Cowboys thought Costa, who joined the team as an undrafted free agent in 2010, was ready to be a starter when they cut overweight, overpaid Andre Gurode last summer. They thought wrong.
According to ProFootballFocus.com's grades, Costa ranked 30th among centers last season. There were only three centers who had worse grades in pass protection.
"Absolutely he has to do things physically better and he has to do things mentally better and emotionally better and all those things," Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said. "He's working very hard at that. Certainly the experience will help him. The fact that he was a starter and played all those snaps for us last year will help him. But he has the right approach."
You can't question Costa's work ethic. Garrett loves his "bulldog mentality," and Costa probably spends more time lifting weights and watching film than he does sleeping.
But Costa has physical limitations that won't change. His short arms -- the primary reason he didn't get drafted -- aren't going to grow. It's tough not to get overpowered in NFL trenches if you can't get your hands on the man you're battling.
Costa's work last season provided plenty of examples of that. The most glaring was probably when blitzing linebacker Brandon Spikes planted Costa on his butt a few yards deep in the backfield on the first play of the three-and-out series in New England that preceded the Patriots' game-winning drive.
There aren't many plays that work when the center gets driven backwards.
Maybe the Cowboys can give Costa more help after signing Nate Livings, who was inconsistent for the Bengals, to start at left guard. But the interior line was the offense's biggest issue while finishing middle of the pack in points scored last season, and that hasn't changed.
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Since hard to find the guide in Youtube for clearing Hello Hero Dungeon Level 62, here some caption of mine maybe could help you..
1. Need provoker (i use Officer King). 1st to do is Keep Provoke and shield, enemy will give alot stun and silent, that one will make Officer King cant cast Provoke and shield continously, you need 2 "spell remover".
2. Prepare 2 healer (i use Mareed and Amelia) , keep heal the Provoker, dont let it die.
3. Spam "decrease Attack" ( i use Teddybear), keep do it when the skill finish the cooldown time and ready to use.
4. Keep do 1,2,3 step, well that will spent 10-15 minutes, but it work :)
5. Since i have gilbert, i do spamm "reduce armor" too, it help fasten the battle.
Hero :
Officer King
Teddybear Grey (its good, have reduce attack and spell remover)
tips: if u no have Teddybear Grey, try use Talisa, but change Gilbert with other hero that have "spell remover".
Hmm, additional info, with this same deck, i can finish Dungeon Level 63 and 64. and Ongoing 65 now.
Have a nice try. :)
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Locating the Gothic Conference and Festival: a South African Review(17 Nov 2014)
By Miss Esthie Hugo
Just over 3 weeks ago, I travelled from Cape Town, South Africa, to Limerick, Ireland, in order to attend 'Locating the Gothic' – a three-day conference and festival organised by Tracey Fahey and Maria Beville celebrating all things sinister, creepy and macabre. I was to present a paper entitled 'Hide and Sick: Gothic Pop Culture in the Contemporary South African Moment', and capitalised on the long journey in order to actually compose the thing. Before arriving in Ireland, I met up with fellow Gothic scholars Rebecca Duncan and Shannon Rollins in Edinburgh, and after some sight-seeing and 'research-participation', the three of us arrived in Limerick somewhat fragile and, certainly in my case, travel-weary. My fatigue was quickly forgotten, however, when the first day of 'Locating the Gothic' commenced on Thursday October 23rd at Limerick School of Art and Design.
Keynote speaker, Dr Iain Biggs, opened with a presentation entitled 'Mapping Spectral Traces: notes from, and on a Debatable Land; Or: (Re)Locating the Gothic?' (The full text can be found on Dr Biggs' website: http://www.iainbiggs.co.uk/2014/10/locating-the-gothic/). Despite Biggs' interest in the Gothic being somewhat incidental (via an interest in animism) his presentation provided a moving account of Gothic as a potential discourse of empathy and vulnerability. Biggs' address was framed by a phrase that all Gothic scholars will know and love: Angela Carter's 'We live in gothic times'. Taking these words as his frequent point of reference, Biggs argued that Carter's phrase is made powerfully manifest in the long term treatment of sufferers of Myalgic Encephalo-myelitis (ME for short) in contemporary Britain and elsewhere. The treatment of ME sufferers animated what Biggs termed 'a literal enactment of Gothic terror' imposed by people in authority onto others rendered vulnerable and helpless by this chronic illness. These painful elements of every day existence necessitated what Biggs termed a 're-mapping' of the Gothic – one which works to support coping strategies that 'enable us to face, rather than belittle, deny, privatize or otherwise exploit the human pain and suffering that grounds our commonality'. At the close of his presentation, Biggs posed a probing and difficult question by asking whether the psychosocial value of the Gothic has been somewhat diluted – or even perverted – with the dawn of mass media consumption and entertainment?
Sitting in the audience that morning, having travelled a great distance in order to talk about Gothic's potentialities in the contemporary South African context, I could not help but be powerfully struck by Biggs' question. Considered from post-apartheid South Africa, a context that is still largely informed by the extreme traumas and brutalities of my country's oppressive history (and indeed present), this question cut right to the bone of what I think it means to be a scholar of the Gothic in the global – but still markedly violent and oppressive – world today. If the Gothic, as Biggs suggested, holds the potential to function as a critical mode by which to better comprehend 'our need to find and continually renew, ways of facing, of coping with, suffering, horror, cruelty, loss, grief and death', then surely the field contains powerful psychosocial value, not only for the fraught political and social context of my country, but also for the complex oppressions and realities that frame the broader, globalised world?
In light of this remapping called for by Biggs, it is worth drawing attention to the fact that a number of papers at 'Locating the Gothic' engaged with this suggestion in a variety of insightful ways. (These, I must emphasise, are only a few of the presentations I can mention for the purposes of word limit, and are by no means the only papers that left an impression). I was privileged to hear of work done by Laura Kremmel, for instance, on medical Gothic – a field of research that engages with the Gothic mode in order to transcend the limitations of scientific thought. 'The Gothic Imagination', Kremmel suggested, could take up the scalpel and work on dissections and treatments of its own, and thus reach beyond the limits of the clinical, the scientific and the medical. (Throughout Kremmel's presentation, my mind kept returning the disturbing images and narratives we are continually confronted with in the media of the growing Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Surely Gothic studies can offer us a way to better sensitise, not demonise, this traumatic and horrific occurrence?) I learnt, too, of Gothic's impact on the relatively new field of eco-criticism – this via Elizabeth Parker's 'Perverted Edens: Evil Dead and the ecoGothic', which cast light on Gothic as it is currently engaging with the troubling and indeed troublesome relationship that exists between Nature and humanity. Kristy Butler made use of the Gothic in another memorable paper entitled 'Repossessed: Fear, Foreclosure and Economic Crisis' in order to describe the painful haunting currently enacted by the breakdown of the economy in the United States. In a similar vein, my friend and colleague, Rebecca Duncan, offered the Gothic as a crucial critical idiom through which to re-think the frightening economic vulnerabilities that are experienced by many in South Africa as a result of the country's embracement of neo-liberal politics.
This is not to suggest that 'Locating the Gothic' was all work and no play. The conference boasted not only a wide array of engaging papers by some of the field's leading scholars, but also a wonderful festival complete with art exhibitions, music, theatre and a wicked zombie walk. By bridging the worlds of the academy and the recreational, the conference and festival served as a reminder of how Gothic can engage vibrantly with both the enjoyable and the critical. Thanks to an entertaining and illuminating few days, 'Locating the Gothic' confirmed the ways in which the Gothic remains alive to the delights, the vulnerabilities and the complexities that continue to inform the contemporary world.
P.S. Stay tuned for my upcoming posts on 'Reflections on the Gothic in Contemporary South Africa: Music, Mayhem and Malevolence'. . .


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Authors: Ketteman, Helen
Title: Senorita Gordita
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Albert Whitman, 2012
Characteristics: 1 v. (unpaged) :,col. ill. ;,29 cm
Summary: Resets the tale of the Gingerbread boy in the southwest, where the scrumptious Gordita eludes her pursuers until she meets a clever owl. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a gorditas recipe.
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Over three extraordinary albums in the early 1990s, Iris DeMent established herself as a brilliant singer and songwriter whose timeless material embraced country, folk, and gospel while probing rare depths of emotion. Her voice in particular—brittle yet fortified with inner spirit; weary yet unbowed, glowing with a deeper wisdom—seems as elemental a force of nature as an Appalachian brook or the prairie wind. And it's perfect for her songs, which often grapple with scenes of life and death seemingly captured on sepia-toned photographs. But apparently DeMent's muse arrives only at odd intervals. She hasn't recorded an album of new material since 1996's The Way I Should, although recently she's said she almost has enough material for a new album. Maybe she'll slip a new one into her already rich catalog during this relatively rare foray up from Iowa.
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I enjoy cooking and am constantly on the lookout for new recipes to try. I feel very fortunate when I find a dish like this that becomes a family favorite. Ever since I found this recipe several years ago, it's the main way I fix pork loin. -Virgina Barrett, Rochester, New York
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Prep: 10 min. Bake: 2 hours + standing
2 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1-3/4 teaspoons salt,
1 teaspoon ground mustard
1 teaspoon caraway seeds
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon rubbed sage
1 pork loin roast (4 to 5 pounds)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The UFC is expanding its promotion of women's mixed martial arts by opening a second weight class.
The UFC is adding a 115-pound strawweight division after acquiring the contracts of 11 fighters from Invicta FC, the respected MMA promotion focused on female fighters. UFC President Dana White announced the move Wednesday.
"The fans like it, I'm thrilled with it, and we're going to dive into the 115-pound division," White said in a phone interview. "We're invested. We're in, as far as the women go."
The 115-pounders will compete next year on a season of "The Ultimate Fighter," the UFC's competition reality show on Fox Sports 1. White said the winner of the competition, which will begin in May, will become the UFC's first strawweight champion.
The UFC opened a women's bantamweight division late last year, backtracking on White's long-standing declaration that the UFC would never promote the women's sport. White and his partners made the move largely to create a showcase for Ronda Rousey, the former Olympic judoka who has swiftly become one of the UFC's biggest stars.
"From the guy that was saying, 'Never, never,' I'm excited about the growth," White said. "There was definitely a feeling-out process, and I think it went extremely well."
White said the UFC's move had nothing to do with creating content to fill its ambitious plans for 2014, which could include up to 50 events around the world -- nearly one per week.
Rousey will defend her belt for a second time Dec. 28 in Las Vegas against Miesha Tate, her fellow coach on the just-concluded season of "The Ultimate Fighter." That edition of the reality show included female contestants for the first time, but also featured 135-pound men.
Beyond Rousey's success, White has been thrilled by his sport's reception for the entire 135-pound women's division, which has staged a series of entertaining, competitive fights on UFC cards this year. White is confident the UFC's move into a second weight class will prompt a surge in women's MMA around the world, and he anticipates signing more fighters.
"There are some talented women out there, and we're going to go after the best," he said.
The Invicta contracts acquired by UFC are for strawweights Emily Kagan, Joanne Calderwood, Paige VanZant, Tecia Torres, Carla Esparza, Alex Chambers, Claudia Gadelha, Felice Herrig, Bec Hyatt, Juliana Lima and Rose Namajunas.
White believes the UFC's interest in signing 115-pounders will allow Invicta to rebuild its strawweight division quickly.
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A champion jockey is about to enter an important race on a new horse. The horse's trainer meets him before the race and says, ''All you have to remember with this horse is that every time you approach a jump, you have to shout, 'ALLLLEEE OOOP!' really loudly in the horse's ear. Providing you do that, you'll be fine.''
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