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It was love at first bite for me and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers. And even though as a teen working at a Red Robin in Albuquerque I was stuffed inside a giant "Red" bird suit and force to hand out free onion-ring coupons at the movie theater across the street, I bear the chain no ill will. In fact, I've had many baskets of bottomless steak fries since then. So I was interested to hear that the company, which got its start in Washington but is now based in Greenwood Village, had plans for a smaller, almost fast-food-esque Red Robin, a model that would take on other fast-cazh burger groups like Five Guys Burgers & Fries and Denver-based Smashburger.
The prototype debuted last November in the Shops at Northfield Stapleton. There are some slight — but significant — differences between the original Red Robin and Red Robin's Burger Works, the new, compact version of the concept. The full-sized Red Robin stores are traditionally located in suburban areas, and since these restaurants are usually over 5,000 square feet, they're tough to stuff into some urban markets. The Burger Works model would let the company move into small but lucrative spaces like food courts, stadiums, airports, military bases...and Stapleton. "The Northfield location also gave us a great opportunity to see how our guests would respond to a smaller, non-traditional restaurant in a suburban lifestyle center," says Peter McKellar, associate manager of communications for the company. "Our subsequent restaurants are located in other areas that the smaller footprint of Burger Works allows us to reach, such as college campuses and central business districts like downtown Denver." That 16th Street Mall store opened on May 21, two months after a Burger Works debuted at Ohio State University; Metropolitan State University will soon get its own outpost, as will Boulder.
But do these smaller Red Robins offer the big fun of the original? At the full-size restaurants, the lobbies have video games; everything is painted in loud, primary colors; and the one where I worked even had carousel horses for decor. Red Robins are frolicsome jumbles of music, food and the signature Freckled Lemonade: sweet lemonade topped with chunky strawberry purée. They are restaurants that you can take your kids to — or just sit at solo, watching TV on one of the big plasma screens at the bar and drinking an Absolutely Absolut Freckled Lemonade. Could this fun, sometimes boozy circus be effectively compacted?
The Northfield store is located smack dab in the middle of a "suburban lifestyle center" — read: outdoor mall — which was busy at 6 p.m. on a recent Saturday. From the outside, Burger Works looked sizable, but inside there was just one room, with the dining area in front and the semi-open kitchen and ordering line at the back. And in the far right corner stood a glowing, steely, refrigerator-sized "Freestyle" Coca-Cola machine — capable of dispensing a hundred different flavors and combinations of Coke products, but no Freckled Lemonade.
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Unlike at the mother store, there's no table service here. Instead, you order at the counter, working off digital menu screens along the side wall. This limited Burger Works lineup carefully plucks the most popular items from Red Robin, such as the Whiskey River BBQ burger, hand-breaded chicken tenders, veggie portabella burger and "Hand-Spun Real Ice Cream Shakes," as well as some new dishes designed for the new concept, including sweet-potato fries and shoestring French fries instead of steak fries. Also unlike at Red Robin, everything at Burger Works is à la carte, so I started with some shoestring fries, then added a Royal burger, a jalapeño'd-up 5 Alarm burger, and the Banzai burger with teriyaki sauce and grilled pineapple, subbing a Morningstar Farms veggie patty for the beef on the Banzai. The counter person did not ask me if I wanted my burgers cooked to "some pink" or "no pink" — the way that Red Robin identifies medium and well-done.
Burger Works has a beer-and-wine license, not the full hotel-restaurant liquor license of most Red Robins, and the lineup is an ultra-limited selection of bottled beers like Corona, Fat Tire and Stella Artois — there are hipsters in nearby Stapleton, after all — as well as one-serving bottles of Woodbridge Chardonnay. Instead of going for beer, I approached the scary, robotic Coke machine. It's effin' great to have a hundred different choices of beverage, but the machine gave me a chilly, suspicious feeling, like it wanted something from me...like my brainwaves. When an employee opened the machine to replace a soda cartridge — which looked like an enlarged ink cartridge for a printer — I peeked into the abyss of complicated chips and wires. It looked like something out of a 1980s movie that was used for human mind control.
I grabbed a sugar-free raspberry Powerade, found a seat and waited for my meal. The dining room was unreasonably noisy for being mostly empty, with just four other tables occupied. I could hear every word spoken and every scrape of the metal chair and table legs on the concrete floor. But then, the decor is meant to be stripped down and utilitarian — and to discourage lingering. But without an adult Freckled Lemonade, what's the incentive? And what's with that beverage machine, anyway?


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Memphis Police Experiment With Getting Mentally Ill Help Instead of Handcuffs
By Matthew Roy, The Virginian-Pilot (Hampton Roads, Va.)
Officer Rick Herbert of the Memphis, Tenn., police crisis intervention team consoles a teenager whose family was afraid she was going to hurt herself or them after an argument. Using techniques learned during training, Herbert was able to defuse the situation.
(Photos: Chris Tyree, The Virginian-Pilot)
One approach, in Memphis, Tenn., has drawn interest from Virginia and is spreading to departments across the country. It emphasizes bringing mentally ill people into treatment - not jail.
Members of the Memphis police crisis intervention team get 40 hours of training on mental health and conflict resolution, then regularly handle calls involving disturbed people. They work closely with a hospital that accepts people for psychiatric assessments around the clock.
By contrast, mental health training for Hampton Roads officers typically consists of several hours in a police academy, with occasional refresher courses. No 24-hour psychiatric drop-off facility exists. Officers who think somebody should be detained must enlist a mental health professional and a magistrate - a process that can take hours. They may have to transport the person to a distant mental hospital.
It is quicker to make an arrest, said David L. Simons, a former police chief who is assistant superintendent of Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth.
In Memphis, fewer than 1 percent of calls handled by the police crisis intervention team result in arrest, compared with an estimated national average of 20 percent on similar calls, said Randolph Dupont, a psychologist who has worked with the program.
"There's a lot of individuals standing on a street corner who may be cursing and may be yelling and may be going in and out of traffic," said Maj. Sam Cochran, the program coordinator. "Each of those would be an infraction - disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, or something of that nature. But who really cares if the individual goes into the criminal justice system? The public wants that person off the street."
Officer James Smith takes a break from patrolling the streets of Memphis to check on Joseph, a man he has dealt with in the past. Team members often establish a rapport with some of the mentally ill people in their precincts.
The Memphis model stresses peaceful resolution of confrontations. Officers say they rarely resort to force.
Not long ago, a man went door to door in a Memphis neighborhood, holding a box-cutter blade to his throat. "I need to die," he told startled residents.
Police found the man and began talking with him as he sat on a curb, clutching the blade. He was dirty, possibly homeless.
Officer Lee Allison, a team member, opened his trunk and retrieved a fearsome-looking weapon called the SL6 launcher. It has a stock like an assault weapon, a fat black barrel and a revolving six-shot magazine. It fires nonlethal rubber rounds the size of a stubby cigar. Just the sight of the SL6 usually inspires cooperation. Another officer tried to reason with the man.
Each time the man raised the blade to his throat, Allison would aim the SL6. Finally, the man tossed down the box-cutter and officers took him to the hospital.
Such dangerous calls are what spawned the crisis team.
In 1987, a man slashed himself 100 times with a knife and then lunged at officers, who shot and killed him. Facing a public outcry, police and mental health advocates created the team. Today, 233 officers - about a quarter of the city's uniformed patrol officers - are members.
They take the lead in situations involving disturbed people, and their approach can be different. Officers are able to spot and address the underlying human aspects of a situation, Cochran said.
On an autumn evening, shards of glass crunched underfoot as Officer James Smith, a team member, stepped into a small apartment.
The man inside had called police to say his girlfriend had attacked him. She smashed the front window on her way out.
The shaken man volunteered that he was a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. He suspected his girlfriend had been using crack. She had scars from self-mutilation on her arms. "Her daddy warned me about her," he lamented, his head in his hands.
Smith asked, Are you thinking of hurting yourself? The man said he suffered from depression. He had been suicidal, but wasn't now.
Smith pressed. Is there a gun in the apartment? Yes, the man said.
"It's going to be all right," Smith assured him. "But I don't want you by yourself tonight."
The man picked up the phone and arranged to spend the night at a friend's.
Setting up a similar program in Virginia isn't easy.
Some Virginia Beach officials considered the Memphis program years ago. At first, it looked promising, said Deputy Chief James A. Cervera. But police realized the city had no psychiatric drop-off center, and also noted potential barriers in state law.
Nonetheless, some departments in Virginia are adopting crisis intervention models. Roanoke County started a similar program in 2000. Police from several rural New River Valley departments in western Virginia finished their training earlier this year.
Portsmouth officials are discussing the idea, too. Meanwhile, many mental health and legal professionals in Hampton Roads try to intercede when they see sick people headed for jail.
On the Peninsula, mental health workers sometimes go to court to secure the release of inmates, said Charles A. Hall, executive director of the Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board.
That has happened in Virginia Beach, too. Mental health workers also have steered people from the jail to psychiatric hospitals and mental health supervision in the community.
Norfolk has launched the region's first formal court program intended to address the problem.
Participants in Norfolk's new mental health court wait to discuss their progress with Circuit Judge Charles E. Poston.
Norfolk Circuit Judge Charles E. Poston beamed as a young man approached the bench one afternoon.
"I hear you got a job," Poston said.
"Temporarily," the man answered with a shrug.
"It's a job, isn't it?" Poston persisted.
Each Tuesday, nonviolent offenders with histories of mental illness appear before Poston on charges such as drug possession and violation of probation. Most have been jailed for at least a short while; some have been locked up time and time again. The court offers them a chance to regain their freedom, health and stability. At first, they must attend weekly.
The judge often asks about their families and how they're feeling.
"One of the big things is you've got to keep taking your medication," Poston often says.
Modeled on similar courts around the country, the program began in the spring and has grown to include more than 20 defendants. It operates hand-in-hand with mental health services.
Defendants get a tailor-made treatment plan designed to keep them healthy and on the right side of the law.
Along with advice, Poston dispenses consequences. One day, a woman told him why she skipped court the previous week. Poston raised his eyebrows. "What makes you think you can make those decisions without my permission?" he asked. He ordered her jailed for a week, and deputies led the stunned woman away.
Wilford Anderson entered Norfolk's new mental health court program after being caught with $5 worth of cocaine. He failed drug tests, though, and was sentenced to two years behind bars.
Wilford Anderson was one of the first defendants selected for the court. A longtime drug abuser, he had been caught with $5 worth of rock cocaine in his pocket, along with a knife. By some estimates, three of every four mentally ill people in the criminal justice system abuse alcohol or drugs.
Anderson, 48, initially arrived early for court, sporting dress slacks, leather shoes and a tie. With an amiable smile, he told Poston he was a singer, a starving artist.
Like most of the defendants, he pleaded guilty and his sentencing was put off. He was placed on supervised probation and was forbidden to drink or use drugs. He was to be tested. He was to live with his mother, and he was ordered to comply with treatment recommendations, including those for his substance abuse.
Outside of court, Anderson said he wanted to be clean. But he also spoke fondly about cocaine. Word reached Poston, who subsequently confronted Anderson from the bench.
Anderson answered timidly. Cocaine helped him lose weight and stopped the voices he had heard, he told the judge. Poston frowned. He warned Anderson that cocaine was the road back to jail.
A week later, a contrite Anderson read in court a poem he had written, titled "I Apologize." I throw myself on the mercy of the court, And pray to God for those who have fought To make America a drug-free nation And those that are strong enough to resist temptation.
"I appreciate that," Poston told him. "I think we all do."
Drugs proved Anderson's undoing, though. He repeatedly failed tests. He missed court. In October, while other defendants watched, he was led into court in a striped jail jumpsuit. Poston sentenced him to serve two years.
Most in the program have fared better. Some have found full-time jobs.
One young man eagerly recounted his week to Poston: He skipped a party and found out later the police raided it. He was getting along better with his parents. He had agreed to meet with a career counselor.
He described a recent job interview at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The interviewer kept looking at his waist. He figured he'd blown it - he had worn a leather belt.
Poston laughed and told him to keep looking.
The court and a few other programs around Virginia are being watched as promising means to keep the mentally ill out of jail. Though the state has not provided money, officials are interested, said Dr. James Reinhard, the state mental health commissioner.
A statewide group of mental and legal professionals recently made several recommendations to state officials. Among them: take a census of inmates with mental illness, share innovative means of dealing with them, and establish a model police crisis team, possibly based on the Memphis program.
A crisis team alone can't do the job; a patchwork of community programs is needed, said Memphis' Maj. Cochran.
The state must invest more in programs that promote mental health, not only responses to crises, said Valerie Marsh, the executive director of the Virginia chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Local community services boards that deliver services are chronically starved for cash, she said. Norfolk's board eliminated outpatient mental health counseling in 2003 because of budget cuts.
In Memphis, team members sometimes take a special interest in the people they meet, establishing bonds and developing rapport.
In the hardscrabble southeast precinct, Officer James Smith, crisis team member, was having a busy afternoon. He questioned a man who had threatened a woman, recovered a gun from a muddy ditch and calmed feuding families at a housing project.
Between calls, he spotted a lanky man on foot.
"Hey Joseph!" the officer shouted.
Joseph, headed away, didn't look back and quickened his pace.
Smith brought his Dodge 4-by-4 around and pulled in front of Joseph, who broke into a grin when he saw the officer.
Joseph was a local high school basketball star who became mentally ill in college. Now he was doing better but still had occasional "episodes." Smith wanted to catch up with him.
When Smith stepped out of the car, Joseph awkwardly embraced him.
"How's Momma doing?" the officer asked.
Good, Joseph said. He added that he was doing well himself - keeping in shape and staying busy.
That's good, Smith said. They shook hands. Joseph strolled off down the leafy street.
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I have recently bought a few English ivy plants, but within a few weeks i noticed tiny bugs in miniature spiderwebs in the leaves. Shortly afterwards, the leaves turned brown and dry, and eventually fell down. The entire plants were dead very quickly - what are these bugs and how can I get rid of them? How can I make sure that the next English ivy plan I buy stays alive for more than a few weeks? Thanks,
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The primary pest of English Ivy houseplants is the dreaded spider mite. Many people refuse to bring these plants into the home for that very reason! ME, for example, lol. The easiest way to get rid of spider mites on this plant is to fling it as far away from your house as you can and never get another one. Fire does a good job, too. You could try putting your plants in a blender and giving them a whirl, but I expect that the mites would come back. Seriously, you can begin an assortment of regular treatments as soon as you walk in the door with your next one. This could include spraying with an alcohol and water solution, insecticidal soap, neem oil, etc. Be sure to concentrate your efforts on the under side of all of the leaves, as this is where mites tend to congregate. |
- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 1, 07 at 20:17
Provided you don't bring the plant back from the store or nursery already infested (a very good possibility in about 90% of the cases), a good preventative measure is misting your plant or a twice weekly rinse in the shower or under a spray of water. Increasing the humidity and keeping the plant clean and free of dust will go a long way in reducing spider mite problems. Personally, I like Rhizo's technique :-) There are far better and lower care requirement houseplants available and English ivy should never be planted outdoors in a large part of the country. Opt for something different next time! |
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Marvin Gaye sang about it, but you can also find bits and pieces of evidence in the medical literature of the power of sexual activity to fix medical problems. An Israeli neurologist published a case report about two male patients whose headaches went away after sexual intercourse or orgasm (although sexual activity as a cause of headaches is far more common). Researchers have reported that women who have intercourse regularly are more likely to have regular menstrual cycles. And sex may be a pretty good germ fighter. German investigators reported that white blood cell counts went up in men after sexual activity. That's in keeping with other research suggesting that sex gives the immune system a boost.
Granted, these studies are too small or short to be anything but speculative and suggestive. The fact is that much of the research into health and sexual activity has focused on how illness adversely affects sexuality, a worthy topic, but it might be revealing to turn the tables and pay a little more attention to the vice versa: how sexual activity may have ameliorating effects on illness.
We're resting easier (sometimes longer) these days because of the laurels that sleep is winning for its health benefits — or, more precisely, because of the evidence of all the bad things that can happen when we don't get enough of it. Several epidemiologic studies — the kind that involve following thousands of people over many years — have shown that "short sleepers" put on more pounds than people who sleep seven to eight hours a night, which is the amount that seems optimal for most adults. Other studies have linked skimping on sleep to the high-risk pool for heart attacks, diabetes, and early death. The risks are more pronounced for people who sleep less than five hours a night, but the danger seems to extend to those averaging less than six. It's easy to poke holes in epidemiologic evidence, but short-term experiments in sleep deprivation have lent credence to these findings. When healthy volunteers stay awake for long stretches, it wreaks hormonal havoc: levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, go up, and leptin and ghrelin, hormones that influence appetite, get thrown out of whack.
Of course, lack of sleep has a very direct effect on the brain, influencing memory, mood, and attention. We've all experienced grogginess after not getting enough sleep. Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, a Harvard sleep expert who has campaigned for limiting the working hours of medical residents, says averaging four hours of sleep a night for four or five days results in the same level of cognitive impairment as being legally drunk.
Can you sleep too much? Several of the epidemiologic studies of sleep show that long sleep (nine hours nightly or more) is associated with just as many health problems as short sleep, if not more. But it's probably more often the case that an underlying illness (depression is a prime example) causes people to sleep more, not the other way around.


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I do agree the new system is could use improvement. Yes, autojoin sucks.
I'm an not an Xbox Live player but friends tell me they have some nice grouping tools.
I would like not only the ability to Ignore individuals but also the ability to rank individuals. This would be settup to allow me to see what I have ranked my interaction with another character before and also a composite ranking of what other players have ranked the player. Would need some structure araound this to prevent it from becoming a total popularity contest. Maybe something like the ebay feedback rating. May have a positive effect on peoples "Interactive" behaviour. Sorry if a little off topic.


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can i do it without a cd and just copy the vlinuz, initrd and the iso.
edit my grub and boot?
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install the iso without a cd
edit my grub and boot?
anyone tried installing slack without a cd?
help please.
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Not Slack but maybe this will help.
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With some effort, you could probably get unetbootin to work with Slackware as well:
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no i think i don't need this as i'm already using fedora and mediapup. i just want to use slack in the 3rd partition since i'm trying to edit this Linux Live for CD & USB
although its not required to use slack i just want to install it. my programming is just a crash course. so installing slack might give me a clear view on whats going on.
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The Slackware installer is very versatile. It doesn't care where the packages are. Whether you get them over NFS, have an .iso file mounted or what have you.
What I think should work is this:
/dev/hda1 is the rootfs for Fedora
/dev/hda2 is where you want Slackware
Put all files: kernel, initrd and .iso on /dev/hda1
Point a grub entry towards the Slackware kernel and initrd
reboot and select Slackware
Now the kernel and initrd get loaded. You now work from RAM, and the Slackware installer will give you a bash environment. Mount hda1, and mount the .iso
Be sure not to mount anything under /mnt, rather you just make a special directory like /fedora
Run setup, and it'll ask you where the path to the Slackware packages. So just direct it to the mount point of the .iso
Sometimes it takes a little experimenting with the correct path. The installer expects you to point it at the directory that has the package collection (a/ ap/ d/ e/ f/ k/ kde/ kdei/ l/ etcetera) so the path would be something along these lines:
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Greg Gallop II, a senior at Thomas Dale High School, was no exception to the rule. Two weeks ago, Gallop decided that he would play college football under Mike London at the prestigious University of Virginia, majoring in political science with aspirations to attend law school.
"It came down to two things," said Greg. "Scholarship money and the depth chart."
Greg is currently listed as fourth on the UVa. depth chart at defensive tackle, with a senior, a junior and a redshirt freshman ahead of him; and speaking of money, he is nominated for the University Achievement Award at UVa., which is worth about half of his tuition.
Other factors in the decision included law programs, playing time and coach London moving from the University of Richmond to UVa. The University of North Carolina also jumped in late in the recruiting process.
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"I have it exactly clocked out," said Valerie Gallop. "It's just an hour and 41 minutes to go to the games and see Greg and support him academically, as well. It will also be exciting to go back to my home state of North Carolina to see Greg play."
According to his mother, Greg has been fortunate enough to have many role models throughout his life that helped mold him and shape him into the person he is becoming.
"Our pastor at First Baptist Centralia, Dr. Wilson Shannon, and Greg's godparents, Jack and Thelma Glass, were particularly large influences on him," said Valerie Gallop. "I have to give thanks to God, and it definitely takes a village to raise a child, we've had plenty of help."
Greg's father is both thankful for the help and teeming with support and pride for the University of Virginia.
"We definitely want to thank everyone for all of the support," he said. "But I'm still getting all of my Hoos gear together, I'm so ready for this. It's important for me that I see all of Greg's home games at least, I've never missed a game he's played in since he was young."
Looking at Greg's resume is very impressive. He has won numerous awards on and off the field.
On the field this year, he enjoyed an impressive season, of course, capped by a state championship. He was the speaking captain of the team this year, brought home first team All-State and district honors. What are perhaps even more impressive are the academic and public service awards he's amassed.
Greg has earned several awards for his work in the classroom, such as the 2009 West Point Leadership Award, the Leader of the 21st Century Scholarship, the 2008 TDHS Student of the Year Award and the list goes on and on.
For public service, Greg is a member of multiple ministries, and relies on his faith; he has performed community services on many occasions participating in several events.
"I just want to thank God for giving me all of my opportunities," said Greg. "I also want to thank my parents and my support groups, also with the recent tragedy at UVa., I want to send out condolences to everyone involved in the situation."
Speaking of Greg's bright future next year, several other Thomas Dale alumni will join him at the next level next season. These student-athletes include: Airek Green at William and Mary; Spencer Randolph at Bloomsburg; Michael Dudley at Virginia State; Mike Edmunds, Demetrius Campbell and Brian Walker at UVa. Wise; and Roderick Doggett at Averett.


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We have already seen fire response times fall by two minutes in the last few years. As any fire fighter will tell you two minutes is the difference between extinguishing a fire and a house being burnt to the ground.
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US Atty's office collects more than 1.35M in FY'12 U.S. Attorney Charlie Oberly says his office collected more than $1.2 million dollars related to criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2012. More than $620,000 of that amount came from criminal actions, and more than $650,000 from civil actions. Oberly's office also collected nearly $240,000 stemming from criminal and civil forfeitures. Nationwide, U.S. Attorney's offices collected $13.1 billion from civil and criminal actions in FY2012. |
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BERLIN December 1, 2011, 02:28 pm ET
BERLIN (AP) a** German prosecutors are investigating information
authorities received that Iran has been planning attacks on American
targets inside the country, but has no indication of anything in the
works, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
Germany is home to many U.S. military installations, including the
Ramstein and Spangdahlem air bases, and the investigation was opened after
authorities received information that Iran might be planning retaliatory
attacks to be launched in the event of an American strike on Iran.
A search turned up no evidence, however, and there have been no arrests,
the prosecutors' office spokeswoman said on customary condition of
anonymity. She would not say where the search took place, or how
authorities received the information that led to the investigation.
"Despite the search, there are no indications that there was a planned
crime nor an imminent danger," she said.
The Iranian Embassy could not be reached by phone and did not return an
email request for comment.
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reports, but could not comment on cooperation with German authorities or
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In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S. is
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Road trip to Providence for documentary class |
Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 11:35 AM Author: Krissy Cole (H&SS Editor) |
A select few students who are enrolled in Professor Steensland's documentary class were given the opportunity to travel on a road trip for one of their class assignments. Christian Davis, Kayla Miller, Todd Bailey, and Joanna Hatch volunteered to take on this project and were given the opportunity to get some great hands-on experience in the art of filmmaking the weekend of the Sept. 30. The road trip took the group to Providence, R.I. to film a documentary on Kelly Murphy, a children's book illustrator. As Steensland is publishing his first book for children, called Behind the Bookcase, he needed an illustrator and Murphy took on the role. The students have worked with Steensland in class for several weeks now setting a focus for the film, interviewing Murphy through Skype, discussing the set-up and feel of the film and creating the detailed shot list for the documentary. In order to get the final product they had to go through all the steps. "I get asked so many times in class 'Why don't our films look like your films?'," Steensland said. By having the professor on site to be a mentor during filming, students are able to see the type of work and time that goes into putting together a real documentary. The first night consisted of meeting with Murphy and her husband for dinner. This helped create a level of comfort which made it easier for the students to be able to begin filming the next day. The shoot began on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and was finished up five hours later. With a project like this, it could take more time than expected to set up for one scene. It takes great care to get the right shot. "It took an hour and a half to get the lighting just right. It was worth it though because our footage looks amazing," said Miller. Most of the footage at the beginning of the shoot consisted of the interview, while the second part of the shoot after lunch focused on the B-roll shots, which will play in the documentary over Murphy's interview. Hatch said the best part was "Just the opportunity to get out of the classroom and into the field." Hatch said, in reference to what she loved the most about the trip. In this class it's more than just working in class; students are able to explore all the possibilities. Other students in the class are also working with Steensland on other documentaries. There is another group working on a similar project that relates to Steensland's book. Every film has a different style and allows students to get great experience working on these projects. All of these projects allow students to try something new that they may never have the chance otherwise to experience. "When you're dealing with something hands-on, there's no substitute for that out of class experience," Steensland said. That's what makes the class so different and appealing. So after all that work, the students begin the editing process on all the footage to create the final product. By using Adobe Final Cut Pro and several other programs in the communication labs in Kochel, the students can put the pieces together and add the background music and other sound effects. The students are no strangers to using these editing programs. "Editing has been surprisingly easy. Kelly Murphy was a dream to work with," said Miller. "All of the film projects I've worked on in previous classes translated well into editing our film," said Bailey. As this class is a 400 level, there were some prerequsites of course. Practice can make perfect, and the more film editing classes students take the more experience they can get. "Class work is a real opportunity to experiment," Steensland said. It's not every day students get to create a professional documentary. |


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The outcry over University of Colorado student Max Karson's latest offense-generator, a February 18 opinion piece for CU's online Campus Press titled "If It's War the Asians Want...," has spawned more than just hysterical headlines and blogosphere blather. In reacting to fallout from the essay, CU came close to placing the Press under some measure of faculty control — a move that could have triggered a First Amendment lawsuit university lawyers weren't sure they could win.
Administrators eventually edged away from this precipice and are now trying to find less legally problematic ways of preventing another Karson-like uproar in the future — moves spelled out in a March 3 internal memo that calls for the creation of three committees to deal with the Press. Posturing and power plays continue behind the scenes, though, and so does a de facto investigation into the entire matter that Press advisor Amy Herdy fears could cause even more damage if not handled carefully.
"The entire process needs to be transparent," says Herdy, who's presently fending off attacks from assorted critics, including four former Press editors who feel very differently about her than do their successors. "When you start having secret processes and secret meetings and you start pulling students aside, it fractures cohesiveness and pulls down morale. This isn't just a class. It's a newsroom."
True enough — and Paul Voakes, dean of CU's journalism department, believes that these twin identities make dealing with the Karson affair exceedingly tricky. "It's a pretty goofy situation," he says. "You've got a student newspaper that has evolved into a culture of editorial independence by virtue of 27 years of doing things that way. And yet it's still within the school curriculum."
As a result of this awkward setup, Herdy, who previously worked for the Denver Post and Channel 9, must walk the finest of lines. Students are required to take her course to work as Press staffers, but she can't read, edit or influence the site's content under the code of ethics developed by College Media Advisers, the standard-setting organization for college newspapers. Individuals who've castigated Herdy for approving "If It's War..." apparently don't understand that she was precluded from seeing it beforehand, and she says she didn't — an assertion confirmed by Press editor Cassie Hewlings and assistant managing editor Ashleigh Oldland.
For his part, Karson declined to comment for this column, as did his attorney, Dan Williams, who first represented him in April 2007, when he was arrested after making statements in a CU class following that month's massacre at Virginia Tech. Karson, whose record will be wiped clean if he stays out of legal trouble for a year, reportedly said he could understand why someone might want to kill 32 people, since he was upset about all kinds of things, including fluorescent lightbulbs.
These remarks were intended as satire, just like an attention-getting 2006 offering about the "myth of the female orgasm" that appeared in the Yeti, Karson's self-published newsletter. "If It's War..." aimed for solidarity with minority students using a similar technique — but his decision to portray himself as a newborn racist who wants to force standoffish Asians to participate in a 100-round beer-pong tournament angered rather than amused readers from a wide variety of backgrounds.
CU reacted to the subsequent clamor by hosting a February 27 public forum and supplementing its website with apologetic letters from the likes of Voakes and Herdy. In addition, Press leaders suspended the opinion page in lieu of a section reorganization and agreed to attend diversity-related training sessions.
Plenty more took place out of the public eye, at a closed-door faculty meeting held prior to the forum. (Campus Press representatives were told they could sit in for the last part of the get-together, but neither they nor Herdy were allowed to do so, supposedly because the executive-session portion ran late.) Opinions among attendees about what to do "ran the entire gamut," Voakes says — from free-speech absolutists to those who wanted to decrease the site's independence to avert future catastrophes. Voakes, who'd planned to announce the faculty's proposals for the Press at the forum, doesn't reveal the majority's verdict. Still, he says that when he got to the part of his address "about how much faculty control there would be on the content," he balked about including it because "I hadn't run it by the university counsel's office to make sure what we were doing was within our rights, especially as it concerned the issues of prior restraint of student expression."
Within days, Voakes got his answer. "It was pretty unambiguous," he says. "They felt that somebody could make a very compelling case for unconstitutional prior restraint or censorship on the part of the school" if the faculty suddenly began insisting upon pre-approving content — and he admits that a Press rebellion might well have followed. "So," he continues, "it was clear to us that we weren't going to go there."
Hence, Voakes set up another meeting on March 3 — and this time, Herdy and Press reps such as Oldland were invited. The first draft of a memo about the gathering, penned by Voakes, pledges to study "whether the Campus Press should operate independently from the school's curriculum" — a shift that would distance CU from dust-ups and erase ambiguity about responsibility for content.


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March 30, 2012 by Guest Blogger · 2 Comments
I started life as a normal raccoon … you know, cute bandit face, pointed nose and a beautiful bushy ringed tail in shades of black, gray and white. My day began at sunset and I was content to eat fruits, nuts, birds' eggs and crawfish. Ah, as I expanded my territory, I discovered something called a neighborhood and within the 'hood' there were lines of cans certain days of the week. Oh the goodies that came out of those cans when they were tipped over. It was something to look forward to.
In this neighborhood I made a remarkable discovery … an award-winning campground called Cross Creek Camping Resort, in Delaware, Ohio. It was here that my new life began … gone were the days of fruit, nuts, eggs and fish in the wild. Here to stay were trash bags to tear into and people to entertain with my antics. Everyone was taking notice and I became a mascot! One year, the owner held a contest to give me a real name and I became CiCi. Now I'm really important! I have a real job to do.
While my furry little relatives can be found high in the trees or raiding the dumpsters or visiting a campsite, I can be found mingling with my new-found friends. I spend my time riding the fire truck, kiddy train, or dancing with the young'uns. I like to visit folks on their birthdays or other special occasions.
I can be found at trade shows encouraging folks to come camp at Cross Creek. I have my own grass skirt for the luau weekend and a large colorful beaded necklace for the Mardi Gras weekend. I would have to say my main job is posing for pictures with the families who camp at "The Creek".
I can be found at the playground, near the swimming pool, or marching at the front of the glow parade at night, perhaps even raiding the public trash cans just for fun.
Winter brings a new sense of adventure as I mosey through the campground, especially where the "Annual Folks" hang out. While I need to work harder in search of food, I love those long nights when I can join my relatives as they play in the woods. I love Cross Creek Camping Resort and the activities that go on year 'round. Winter is the time when things at "The Creek" are slower and I find myself dreaming of spring with the start of a new season at "The Creek."


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I've never been much of a pastel person for some reason. I'm a girly-girl, so it surprises me that I don't drool over them; I just never got into them, I guess. Brights? Sure. Neutrals? Yes. Jewel tones? Yes please! Pastels? Meh. …until recently.
What happened? I have no idea. All I know is that spring polishes hit the shelves in all their pastel glory and my cold, pastel-disliking heart melted a little. And then another strange thing happened. I usually don't like blue polish; again, I have no idea why, it's just not my jam. But what pastel shade really caught my eye? Blue. What's going on with me? Maybe I'm sick or something but, for the first time ever, I left a store with a pastel blue polish in my bag. Zoya Blu to be exact!
Blu is a beautiful, light blue pastel. It makes me think of hyacinths and clear spring skies. It's the perfect pastel color to brighten up this dismal winter weather that's still hanging around! Application-wise, Blu was a smidge thick but it wasn't a problem. The formula applied smoothly and evenly; the first coat was a little patchy, but the second coat evened itself out. Click to enlarge the swatches below:
My verdict? Gorgeous! This is such a beautiful blue (blu?), and I never thought I'd say that about a blue shade because I usually turn up my nose at them. The formula is great, as Zoya formulas generally are. It just snowed here, but this polish has me dreaming of spring skies ahead :) I've got to admit it, I'm glad that this is my first official pastel polish – thanks, Zoya! I also think it will be an especially pretty polish to layer glitters over.
You can purchase Blu and/or the rest of the Spring 2013 Lovely collection for $8 each on the Zoya website or at a major beauty retailer that carries salon brands (like Ulta).
What do you think of Blu? What about pastels in general? Are you as ready for spring as I am?
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A Beautiful Day
Laurence Kingston
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Cover of the U2 song, "Beautiful Day"
The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stoney ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for God's grace
It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
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Ready family
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I'm Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.
Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards – every season is disaster season, so it pays to be prepared, and a federal disaster response expert says this can start with just thinking ahead.
The director of HHS' National Disaster Medical System, pediatrician Andy Garrett, says that's notably true for families. He says talking with your family about how to be ready for disaster is among the most important things to do:
"Having the time to speak with your family about where you are going to get together after a disaster, how you are going to find each other and what type of access you are going to have to food and water. These types of things that seem simple today could be impossibly complex after a disaster, when normal resources aren't available."
This includes having medical records and any medical supplies you might need.
Learn more at Ready.gov/prepare.
HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I'm Ira Dreyfuss.
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161 Critchley to Department of External Affairs
Cablegram K124 [KALIURANG], 3 June 1948
The Americans now appear to accept an analysis of the Dutch policy on the lines of my telegram K.117. [1]
2. The Committee intends to forward the Republic's protest against the BANDUNG Conference along with its own comments and comments of the Netherlands by the end of this week. [2] The Committee's stronger attitude (see paragraph 5 my telegram K.120 [3]) seems to have had effect. Van Mook in his opening speech at Bandung said that the Conference was not a constituent assembly and described it as a consultative body-quite a marked difference from earlier public statements.
3. The Americans with the State Department's backing accept the need for the Committee to take a strong initiative as quickly as possible. They have accepted as a basis my revised proposals for a political settlement and a detailed scheme for elections to the constituent assembly. We hope to have a plan accepted by Committee so that a comprehensive plan or a series of leading questions can be presented formally to the parties next week.
4. The Committee's activities in the next month will be crucial.
The Dutch endeavour to keep things as quiet as possible during this period and are unlikely to force a breakdown of talks before the elections are held in Holland.
5. Military Situation. On present information Dutch military strength is 120,000 plus or minus 20,000 with paratroops and amphibious supporting elements. Offensive units have regrouped and would be able to commence military operations at short notice. The Americans now realise the possibility of another police action and it is intended that military observers of all nations should obtain as much data of Dutch military activities as possible. Our own report based on the investigations our own observers initiated three weeks ago should be ready in a few days.
6. Neher and Vredenburch are to see Hatta tomorrow not as members of a delegation but as representatives of the Netherlands Government.


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Home › Academics › Colleges › Collins College of Business › About the College › Business Hall of Fame › King P. Kirchner
In the 43 years since King Kirchner co-founded Unit Corporation, the company has grown from three to 116 drilling rigs and from three to 3,000 employees – more than half the population of Perry, Oklahoma, where he first set foot on an oil field.
Today Unit Corporation is the fourth largest land drilling contractor in the United States, and its oil and gas company, Unit Petroleum, operates approximately 6,500 wells. Together, these enterprises comprise a company with $2.4 billion in market capital.
Kirchner grew up on a farm six miles west of Perry and began his education in a one-room schoolhouse. He traces his business savvy to his teenage days, when he rode a Harley Davidson to the oil fields and worked as a roughneck, earning 87 cents an hour.
Kirchner earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma A&M, now Oklahoma State University and worked briefly for Lufkin Foundry and Machine Company before his military service. After a tour of duty in Germany during the Korean War, he continued his education, earning a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
From 1954 to 1963, Kirchner worked for the Unit Drilling Division of Woolaroc Oil Company in Bristow, Oklahoma, advancing from engineer to vice president. In 1963, Kirchner and his silent partner, Don Bodard, bought three rotary drilling rigs from Woolaroc Oil, along with the Unit name, and established Unit Drilling Company, which became the Tulsa-based Unit Corporation.
In 1979 Unit Corporation was listed on NASDAQ as a publicly held company, and on Kirchner's 54th birthday in 1981, the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Over the next two decades, Unit Corporation expanded its operations to the Mid-Continent, Rocky Mountain and Gulf Coast Basins, with regional offices in Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming.
Kirchner retired as CEO in 2001 and as chairman in 2003 but continues to serve as a company director. An avid pilot who owns a number of planes, he has logged more than 8,000 hours of flying time. He also continues to support many community organizations including the United Way, Philbrook Museum of Art, Gilcrease Museum, the Arthritis Foundation, American Red Cross, American Cancer Society, and the Tulsa Air and Space Museum.