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Swimming: WVU Successful on Day One
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Three first-place finishes led the West Virginia swimming and diving teams in day one of competition at the Pitt Invitational. The men are currently sitting in second place with 339 points, while the women are in third place with 228 points.
Pitt leads the men's competition with 350 points, followed by WVU (339), Connecticut (271), Cincinnati (107) and Michigan (76).
Ohio State leads the women's portion with 393 points, followed by Pitt (250), WVU (228), Connecticut (177), Cincinnati (90) and Michigan (47).
"The teams came out this morning in the preliminaries in a great way," coach Vic Riggs says. "For the first time swimming long course this season, they swam very smart races which set us up for finals. Before finals we discussed that as good as our morning swims were they didn't earn us any points and we needed to swim smart and with passion in the finals. The teams did that and we had a very strong night."
The women's 200 free relay team of Tierra Butkus, Rachael Gorrie, Danielle Smith and Rachael Burnett led off the night with a second place finish in 1:34.44.
The men followed the performance up with first- and third-place finishes in the men's 200 free relay. The squad of Tim Squires, Scott Fetsko, Taylor Camp and Brad Eichenseer finished first in 1:20.92, while Brandon Carr, Eric Johnson, Bryce Bohman and Jake Kudrna took third in 1:23.83.
Four women saw themselves in the "A" finals of the 500 free, with Burnett taking first place in a time of 4:46.48. Mandie Nugent took fourth (4:51.08), followed by Kata Fodor in sixth (4:54.22) and Danielle Smith in seventh (4:56.57). Sloan Storie swam in the "B" finals and took 16th overall (5:06.49).
The men had two finalists in the 500 free with Daeton Davenport finishing third (4:30.97) and Tim O'Malley placing sixth (4:39.16). The Mountaineers also had two swimmers in the "B" finals with Jake Querciagrossa and Eric Johnson finishing ninth (4:32.72) and 10th (4:37.67), respectively.
Breanna McCann represented WVU in the women's 200 IM and swam to a third-place (2:01.74) finish, while Brandon Carr finished in fourth (1:53.76) for the men's squad. Joseph AbuRahma took ninth (1:55.01), followed by Martin Vanis and Jack Greenhalgh in 11th (1:55.87) and 14th (1:59.03), respectively.
Butkus was the lone WVU finalist in the women's 50 free, finishing eighth in a time of 24.64. Three Mountaineers swam in the "B" finals with Julie Ogden finishing ninth (24.04), Gorrie finishing 11th (24.33) and Eva Burlingham taking 16th (25.13).
Squires captured first place (20.42) in the 50 free and was accompanied by Eichenseer in third (20.69), Fetsko in fifth (21.03), Bohman (21.31) in seventh and Carr in eighth (21.70). Camp swam in the consolation finals and finished ninth (20.81) overall, while Kudrna and Joe Bailey took 13th (21.51) and 16th (22.08), respectively.
Smith, McCann, Nugent and Burnett combined for a second-place (3:42.86) finish in the 400 medley relay to end the night for the women's squad.
Bohman, Greenhalgh, Camp and Eichenseer ended the evening with a second-place finish in the 400 medley relay in 3:20.53. Johnson, Vanis, Carr and Squires took fifth place (3:27.18).
Haily VandePoel led the WVU divers with a fifth-place (234.80 points) finish on the women's 1-meter board.
The squads will return to the Pitt Invitational for day two with the preliminary swims beginning at 10 a.m., and the finals starting at 6 p.m.
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(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)— This summer, there are a lot of happy campers clustered around Mary Beth Spirk, women's basketball coach and assistant director of athletics at Moravian College. And not just the girls in Moravian's basketball camps for teenage players in June and July, but a couple of hundred youngsters, ages 3 to 16, at the Bethlehem YMCA, where Spirk is putting in 400 hours -- yes, that's 400 hours -- of service as sports camp director.
All this makes for a breathless couple of months for Spirk, who's accustomed to down time in the summer. Normally, summer is when she takes a break from the daytime classes, afternoon practices, and evening games of the academic year. But not this year.
Spirk is finishing a master's degree in sports administration through the U.S. Sports Academy in Daphne, near Mobile, Alabama. She's done all the coursework on-line and will take her comprehensive exams in July. But before she qualifies, she must put in 400 hours of what the curriculum calls "mentorship": hands-on work in the field.
"I had a lot of options," says Spirk, who has been an instructor at Moravian since 1987. "I could have gone to New York and worked with the New York Liberty [women's basketball team]. But I'd been teaching racquetball at the Y through Moravian, and I thought: 'Why don't I just do it here? I already know everybody.' "
Randy Ballangee, executive director of the Bethlehem Y, knew a good thing when he heard it. "It's been really good for us," he said. "We're having fun."
"They were ecstatic!" Spirk says of the Y's response to the idea of a college-level coach leading a summer sports staff that's largely composed of high school and college students.
For Spirk, whose first job after graduation from Dickinson College was at Wiley House, a forerunner of KidsPeace, in Schnecksville, it was a return to an age group she enjoys.
"With little kids, you have different goals," she says. "You try to keep them occupied, you get them to play with each other, to channel all that energy, to listen. You want everyone to leave with a smile on their face. And you want them to achieve some kind of success in every session, whether it's learning to run in a zig-zag or play with a buddy or just meet someone new."
In the first two weeks of the Y's summer program, she worked with 30 children at its main facility in Bethlehem and another 30 at the Fountain Hill branch. Ballangee said the camps draw an average of 25 kids, starting with preschoolers, in areas such as youth sports (for younger children), soccer, and basketball.
In addition to the day camps, she is leading clinics at the Y in basketball and racquetball. She also is teaching cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to the Y staff. "They were talking about the need for someone certified in CPR at a staff meeting," she says. "And I didn't know whether I should tell them, but finally I said"—and here her voice gets very tiny and timid—" 'Um, I'm certified in CPR.' "
That was enough to get her some more service hours toward her degree.
The U.S. Sports Academy, which offers the graduate program requiring such a heavy commitment to field work, is a non-profit agency founded 30 years ago, just after the United States was trounced in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The USSA web site explains the "inferior performance" as the result of poor administration, lack of medical support, and unscientific coaching and training, all of which the academy was formed to address.
Spirk says its on-line or distance learning program is perfect for coaches, whose lives are bounded by sports seasons and summer camps. But because there are no classes to attend, the program is thick with papers. Spirk found the research a challenge and the writing time-consuming. "I came to basketball practice one day," she says, "and I said to the team: 'OK, I'm not in a good mood. I have two 25-page papers to write and I procrastinated, and now I've got to finish them.' " But she found "no sympathy there." "Coach, you've got to learn to budget your time," scolded the players, just as Spirk scolded them when they complained of being overloaded with class assignments and term papers.
Now her schedule looks more like theirs. By the time the summer is over, her camps will have seen a couple of hundred children. This is in addition to the basketball camps at Moravian and such administrative holdovers as the search committee for a men's lacrosse coach at the College. On a typical day, she may find herself at the Y from 8:00 a.m. to noon, running to Moravian for a committee meeting on her lunch hour and going back to the Y from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. "Right now I'm excited, and my energy's high," she says with a grin. "Check in with me at the end of August, when my camps are over and my comps are done."


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Prevalence of FASDs
- We do not know exactly how many people have fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Several different approaches have been used to estimate how many persons are living with FASDs in the population. FASDs include several diagnoses related to exposure of the baby to alcohol during pregnancy. More specifically, fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the most involved diagnosis, used when several physical and developmental abnormalities are present (see Facts about FASDs).
- Using medical and other records, CDC studies have identified 0.2 to 1.5 infants with FAS for every 1,000 live births in certain areas of the United States.1 The most recent CDC study analyzed medical and other records and found FAS in 0.3 out of 1,000 children from 7 to 9 years of age. 2
- Studies using in-person assessment of school-aged children in several U.S. communities report higher estimates of FAS: 6 to 9 out of 1,000 children. 3,4
- Few estimates for the full range of FASDs are available. Based on community studies using physical examinations, experts estimate that the full range of FASDs in the United States and some Western European countries might number as high as 2 to 5 per 100 school children (or 2% to 5% of the population).3,4
Prevalence of Alcohol Use among Women
- Prevalence estimates of alcohol use among women of childbearing age vary from state to state. View your state's alcohol consumption rate in 2012.
Text description of this map is available on a separate page.
- The lifetime cost for one individual with FAS in 2002 was estimated to be $2 million. This is an average for people with FAS and does not include data on people with other FASDs. People with severe problems, such as profound intellectual disability, have much higher costs. It is estimated that the cost to the United States for FAS alone is over $4 billion annually. [Read summary]
Alcohol Use and Binge Drinking among Women of Childbearing Age - United States, 2006-2010
- 7.6% of pregnant women (or 1 in 13) and 51.5% of nonpregnant women (or 1 in 2) reported drinking alcohol in the past 30 days.*
- Among pregnant women, the highest estimates of reported alcohol use were among those who were:
- Aged 35-44 years (14.3%);
- White (8.3%);
- College graduates (10.0%);
- Employed (9.6%)
- 1.4% of pregnant women (or 1 in 71) and 15.0% of nonpregnant women (or 1 in 7) reported binge drinking in the past 30 days.†
- Among binge drinkers, the average frequency and intensity of binge episodes were similar, about three times per month and approximately six drinks on an occasion, among those who were pregnant and those who were not.
- Among nonpregnant binge drinkers, binge drinking prevalence, frequency, and intensity were highest among those aged 18-24 years.
Potential Limitations to BRFSS Data:
- BRFSS is a survey of households with landline telephones, so the results might not be representative of certain segments of the U.S. population. BRFSS will include data for respondents with cellular telephones beginning with the 2011 data set.
- Alcohol use is self-reported and might be underreported.
- Recent changes in BRFSS methodology might have affected findings using 2006-2010 alcohol consumption data:
- In 2006, BRFSS adopted the new gender-specific definition for binge drinking (four or more drinks on an occasion for women). This definition change sets a lower threshold for binge drinking among women and therefore has the effect of increasing the prevalence estimate.
- A possible reason this increase was not observed in the pregnant population for the 2006-2010 data may be because beginning in 2006, pregnancy status was asked before the alcohol consumption questions, while in the past, the order was reversed. Women who have already disclosed that they are pregnant may be less likely to report alcohol use in the past 30 days.
*Any alcohol use was defined as having at least one drink of any alcoholic beverage in the past 30 days
† Binge drinking was defined as having consumed four or more drinks on an occasion at least one time in the past 30 days.
Text description(http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/fasd/prevalence-text.html) of this map is available on a separate page.
Alcohol Use Data Sets
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS): This telephone survey tracks national and state-specific health risk behaviors of adults, aged 18 years and older, in the United States. The BRFSS is administered and supported by the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC.
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS): The NHIS is a multi-purpose nationwide household health survey of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population conducted annually by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC, to produce national estimates for a variety of health indicators.
National Survey on Drug Use and Health: This survey provides information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use and abuse in the general U.S. population, 12 years and older. It is conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies (OAS).
Alcohol-Related Disease Impact (ARDI): This software, supported by CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, generates estimates of alcohol-related deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) due to alcohol consumption.
1 CDC. Fetal alcohol syndrome-Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, and New York, 1995-1997. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2002;51(20):433-5. [Read article]
2 CDC. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Among Children Aged 7-9 Years – Arizona, Colorado, and New York, 2010. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015;64(3):54-57. [Read article]
3 May PA, Baete A, Russo J, Elliott AJ, Blankenship J, Kalberg WO, Buckley D, Brooks M, Hasken J, Abdul-Rahman O, Adam MP, Robinson LK, Manning M, Hoyme HE. Prevalence and characteristics of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Pediatrics. 2014;134:855-66. [Read summary]
4 May PA, Gossage JP, Kalberg WO, Robinson LK, Buckley D, Manning M, Hoyme HE. Prevalence and epidemiologic characteristics of FASD from various research methods with an emphasis on recent in-school studies. Dev Disabil Res Rev. 2009;15:176-92. [Read summary]
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My first lawyer was very laid back and encouraging me to settle. Karen explained what I could reasonably expect and the result was more than satisfactory. Everyone on her staff from Marge to April, Shane and Michael were always helpful when needed. There are lawyers out there who promise the world and deliver less. Go with Ulmer Law and you can expect honest, realistic advice on what outcome to expect and then realize those very results. I would use this firm again for any future legal needs.
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SAHS Girls Pull off Major Upset
The 15th ranked SAHS Warriors girls pulled off one of the biggest upsets ever in Maine High School basketball. The Warriors stopped the second ranked Fort Fairfield Tigers in overtime to advance to the Quarterfinals. Coach Harris Tucker feels the Warriors strong first quarter was the difference in the game.
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The Nine of Pentacles Tarot Card…
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The Nine of Pentacles also known as the Nine of Coins indicates that you have managed to achieve some form of financial security. It shows wise investment of time, energy and money into the right projects have paid off.
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Positive connotations associated with this card are material success and achievement.
Negative connotations associated with this card are financial insecurity. The Pentacles or Coins represent money, career advancement and material goods and the skills needed to provide security. This suit represents practicality and groundedness.
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Docs to Watch: The Fat Body (In)Visible
Via What Tami Said, The Fat Body (In)Visible is a neat, new, 25-minute independent documentary about fat acceptance and fashion featuring Keena Bowden and Jessica Jarchow. Keena and Jessica share their experiences of people judging their mere existence just because they're fat, becoming empowered through fashion, the intersection of race and fatness, and finding community. Oh yeah, and there are tons of cute outfits!
The film puts into action what Jessica and Keena are talking about—the opening and closing of the film features still frames from the awesome Adipositity Project, which promotes size acceptance through gorgeous photographs of fat physicality (and is mentioned in the film). That means those parts of the movie are Not Safe For Work.
the fat body (in)visible from Margitte Kristjansson on Vimeo.
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"Maybe if I changed my body..."
This was a really powerful moment for me, where Keena wonders if she could avoid the stares, the judgement, the scorn from others if she just changed her body to meet their expectations. But the thing is - no matter how much weight you lose, no matter how small you get, it never stops.
I wanted to come out of the
I wanted to come out of the woodwork and say a resounding THANK YOU to the ladies who made this video. You are wonderful.
This was beautiful
This was a beautiful piece... I am not a fat body so I never get the perspective of one and it saddens me that these women have to endure such hate and negativity simply for existing. I applaud their courage and the work they are doing for the fat community, they are truly beautiful. Also, I LOVE their fashion!
Thank you for posting this
Thank you for posting this documentary. Hearing real women speak so openly and honestly about their bodies is truly inspiring.
Such a lovely video. I'm glad I got to see it. I was really interested in the idea of the (in)visibility of fat women in various social settings, and the desire to be more or less visible. The two women featured were so pretty, and talk about great fashion sense! The photography is beautiful, too.
Loved it! One question, though...
1st impression: I loved this little video. As a fellow fat person, I didn't really glean any new information, but it is so wonderful to be validated. I was nodding along the whole time-- "I've felt that pain... fear... confidence... joy." I especially enjoyed Ms. Jones photography. I'm a self-procaimed prude, but those pictures were just what I needed to see! I'll leave the internet today with a renewed sense of beauty in other fat girls as well as within myself.
My one question.... Is Keena also a fat activist? This was the first credential listed forJessica (along with age). It surprised me that Keena was introduced differently. If they are both fat activists, why weren't they introduced with the same language? If I misunderstood, forgive me, I've just been reading the blogs on Women of Color, and my mind is wrapped around that idea at the moment.
Keena's titles
Hi there! You are very astute, indeed. When editing the film, I chose not to put "fat activist" in Keena's title because, at least when we originally started filming, she did not identify as such. She is definitely a fat woman who loves her fat body and loves the fat acceptance movement, but she did not (at least at the time of taping) identify as a fat activist.
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Is it possible to order this video? I'd love to show it to women in body image groups.
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Torridge District Council approve plans for a wind turbine in Buckland Brewer
Posted: November 15, 2012|
A TORRIDGE councillor is surprised an application for a wind turbine in Buckland Brewer has received more letters in favour of it than against.
The council received ten letters from people supporting plans for the 50kw turbine on land at Craneham Farm and seven letters of objection.
The turbine will have three fibreglass blades and will measure nearly 40 metres in height.
Councillor David Lausen said: "For the first time in a long time we have had more letters in favour than against. This is unusual for Torridge. We should approve it straight away."
The applicant, Christopher Bond, said the turbine would help with the upkeep of the farm. He said: "My family and I run a dairy farm. We have seen costs rise. This wind turbine would reduce our electricity bill and give us a small income. Hopefully our carbon emissions would be reduced which can only be a good thing."
Councillor Harold Martin said he was in favour of approving the turbine, saying dairy farmers have been under immense pressure trying to make a profit.
Mr Lausen proposed approval, which was seconded by Councillor Mervyn Langmead. Members unanimously granted planning permission.
After the meeting Mr Bond said: "This is a good result. Renewable energy has to be a good thing.
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openGL gets "stuck" when window is selected (various drivers)
Hi All. This is an odd issue. I can't figure it out and have googled for a few hours to try to find similar issues. This happens on only a subset of computer here and other computers around the office here are not symptomatic.
In my application I am writing if I choose the window by clicking on the window itself the content stops updating. When going into the logs I get stuck on the first glBeing(GL_QUADS) call that I make after i select the window.
The exact same symptoms are seen when using glxgears. When I click directly on the gears bringing the window to the top it stops updating until i select another window.
The computer is a fully up-to-date Ubuntu 8.04, with screens configured in a two panel xinerama system (which I think might be a part of the problem).
Kernel = 2.6.24-23
X server = 22.214.171.124
Nvidia Driver (Installed from a deb package): 180.29
However, this is also happening on a fully-up-to-date Fedora 8 computer with a 177.81 driver. I have also removed the 180.29 deb package and installed the 180.51 driver directly from the .run package and it still occurs. The symptoms are the exact same. The problem does not occur for a while after a X-reboot, but only after half a day or two.
I have attached the nvidia-bug-report.log as well.
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Monthly Archive for September, 2006
Brian Chasnoff: The Wrong Guy
Some local criminals apparently picked the wrong guy to kidnap this week. Ryan Garza may only be 19-years old, but he said he's also an avid mountain climber, scuba diver and sky diver (read: thrillseeker). As Garza left a North Side bowling alley around 1 a.m. on Thursday, a car occupied by two men and […] [Read More]
Vincent T. Davis: D.O.A — Dead on Arrival
Seconds after the acronym squawk from a scanner, it's a scramble to dial police and EMS dispatchers for confirmation. Then it's off to track down the address to find out from officers if it's a suicide, natural death or foul play. That's the case … most of the time. The first time I heard the […] [Read More]
Vincent T. Davis: Standoff — Dusk to almost dawn
When the shots rang out Sunday, Aug. 27, the sun was about to set. Witnesses said the incident began when a man was walking along the 4600 block of Callaghan Road holding a 9 mm handgun by his side. An argument broke out between the gun-toting man and resident John Campbell in his front yard. […] [Read More]
Brian Chasnoff: The Law's Mysterious Hand
Is Richard Lee bluffing? By all appearances, the beleaguered local poker star has nothing to hide. The morning after police searched his Shavano Park home Tuesday night and seized many of his possessions, Lee agreed to an impromptu interview. The next day, after police froze his bank accounts, Lee called a proper press conference. In […] [Read More]


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Another track featuring on the forthcoming soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby is Jack White's cover of Love Is Blindness.
This version was originally recorded by Jack for the album AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered, a 20th anniversary tribute album to U2's Achtung Baby. Love Is Blindness also forms the b-side to the single Sixteen Saltines.
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Im new in this instructables thing, but this is the little bag I wanted for hearing music in the shower or to put it in the front of my bicicle. Since Im planning to make video tutorials in my vlog: www.mercenario.org. I tought it was a good idea to make some test in here with one really simple instructable.
Step 1: Cosas que necesitas / Things you will need
Get some "make up bag" that fit your speakers and some thread and needle.
Step 2: Hacer los agujeros / Make the holes
Make a mark by the sides where the sound will come out and cut the mark this way to make the hem, take care to not cut the lining (almost every "make up bag" has a lining )
Step 3: Coser el dobladillo / Sew the hem
Sew the hem with dotted lines and make your tag (signature?) in the back.
Step 4: Al final / Finally
Put in the speakers and the player taking care to cover the player to avoid scratches (my player is old so I dont care).


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Patrick NagelErotica // Sunday, August 14, 2011
80's pin-up artist Patrick Nagel was known for his women, album work for Duran Duran, and contributions to Playboy.
Lady NoirErotica // Saturday, August 13, 2011
Sophia Santi is Lady Noir in this beautiful erotic spread.
TGIF Booty GIFS!!Erotica // Friday, August 12, 2011
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Mariel Clayton's Barbie WorldErotica // Friday, August 12, 2011
A sublime encounter in a Tokyo toy shop led artist Mariel Clayton into the surreal world of Japanese miniatures, and ultimately to the stories that could be told with them.
Egon SchieleErotica // Friday, August 12, 2011
Egon Schiele, June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918, was an Austrian painter, a protege of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century.
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Dita Von Teese is an American burlesque mode and artist. Von Teese is well known for her fascination with 1940s cinema and classic retro style and achieved some level of recognition in the fetish world as a tightlacer. Through the wearing of a corset for many years, she had reduced her natural waistline to 22 inches (56 cm), and can be laced down as far as 16.5 inches (42 cm)
Naughty NewsErotica // Thursday, August 11, 2011
Decim8, the iPhone app for photo destruction, is a well-done modernist photo app. It pixelizes, distorts, saturates, inverts your images. In short, it decimates them. It's not "traditional" photography — it's more like "Corrupt JPEG on a dying hard drive". It's an interesting app that can destroy your pixels in new and stunning ways.
Naked yogaErotica // Thursday, August 11, 2011
Tattooed vixen, Sophia Santi in Naked Yoga trailer for Cafe Glow... sigh....
The Odyssey of DesiresErotica // Thursday, August 11, 2011
The Odyssey of Desires is a continuous brief of The Seven Emotions and Six Desires: The Fantasy or Reality, which is a mixed media assemblage by Cherry Tong, a London based graphic designer, tattoo artist, sculptor and illustrator.


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COLUMBIA — The State Election Commission would receive about $5.6 million in one-time money to buy laptops that can speed up precinct voting lines and to start saving for a future replacement of voting machines under the House budget plan.
The money is part of $113 million that the budget proposal, approved this week, distributes from the current fiscal year's rainy-day fund.
Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire said $600,000 would buy 1,200 laptops with electronic voter registration lists that can help move lines because poll managers can process voters more quickly, compared to searching for names on paper lists.
"Lines at polling places usually form at the check-in table," Whitmire said. "Over a 12-hour voting day, it can have a big impact on how quickly the lines can move."
The electronic look-up also would enable poll workers to tell voters who show up at the wrong precinct where they need to go.
Paper print-outs list only the names of registered voters for that particular polling place, he said.
The third benefit of going electronic would be to speed up the agency's post-election processing that provides statistics on who voted and helps keep voter rolls current, Whitmire said.
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Companies are missing out on major cost cutting opportunities by paying scant attention to software licensing on Microsoft products, according to an analyst's note.Researchers at Directions on Microsoft have produced a note saying IT administrators could save large amounts by taking another look at their licensing deals with Microsoft over software."Making the wrong choice can cost you thousands of dollars, or worse, expose you to legal risk because of non-compliance," said to Rob Horwitz, chief executive of Directions on Microsoft."There are ways to save money if you know where to look."A key problem is that the licensing system is self-policing and yet the penalties for not buying the correct licenses are severe, and board members are liable. As a result companies often overbuy on licenses to play it safe.Part of the issue is the sheer size of the product offering from Microsoft. The licensing schemes are liable to lead to companies either buying the wrong licenses or sign up to all-you-can-eat Enterprise Agreements.The note says that licensing terms were highly complex and were likely to remain that way since to simplify the existing system would mean Redmond loses cash in the short term and faces a complex task in changing the current system.
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El hotel Ansteys Lea Business hours of reception: from 08:00 a.m. to midnight The Ansteys Lea Hotel is a gracious Victorian building, built in 1870, and deriving its name from the enchanting Ansteys Cove, once a smuggler's haven and now a local beauty spot, just a short wooded walk away from the hotel. It is situated between Torquay's Town Centre and Marina and Babbacombe Downs with its magnificent sea views. All our pleasant and comfortable bedrooms have en-suite facilities. They are centrally heated and have televisions and tea and coffee making facilities. Many rooms have a superb view across the leafy Ilsham Valley to the sea. Because we understand the difference good food makes to the enjoyment of your holiday, we prepare all our menus daily, using fresh local produce. To compliment your meal, we have an interesting and varied wine list to suit all tastes. The delightful surroundings of our beautiful Blue Dining Room can only add to the enjoyment of dining at our hotel. Inside, you can enjoy the comfort of our splendid lounge or unwind over a drink in our delightful gardens or laze around on the sheltered sun terraces which surround our heated outdoor swimming pool. (fuente: Hotel.info)


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iPhone related questions
15 Dec 2009, 02:28
Rebecca Brown (2 posts)
I am a Mac user and very frequent contributor the the Album Art Exchange, http://www.albumartexchange.com, and album art is as critical to me as the sound. I have spent the better part of the evening here tweaking scripts from Doug's AppleScripts http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ to extract the art from my entire library and I'm trying to understand what happens to the art when it is sent to the iPhone.
I know that I want the art to be perfectly sized on the page in Coverflow mode so no scaling takes place. I have therefore made the image 320 pixels wide to match the screen width.
I have found what I consider to be the perfect tradeoff of quality and size using a batch resizing application when I embed the art in Music Collector Pro 3.3. Build 2. The issue is that when I view the images on the iPhone they look as if the application has compressed them to the point of visible artifacts at the time of export.
Is the application automatically doing this to me? Can I turn it off or at least adjust it? I see no adjustments. Is the app also downsampling to a smaller pixel matrix that what I am trying to send over? I love the apps and have the newest version of them both and this is driving me crazy.
15 Dec 2009, 13:08
Bill Dudney (917 posts)
Hi Rebecca,
This forum is a developer forum, I don't think you will get many folks that know much about what Music Collector Pro 3.3 does.
Good luck!
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my iphone 4g firmware version 4.3.5 dead during jailbreak i try to restore but show error 3194 i use tiny umberaila this error clear but show another error 1600 …. i try many procedure to clear the error but problem not solved any sugession ??? ..
30 Jan 2012, 13:24
Chris Adamson (323 posts)
zhzubair4: Two suggestions
Don't jailbreak
# If you must break rule 1, and it doesn't work out, ask for help in a Jailbreak forum, not a forum for an out-of-print iPhone programming book
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DHANGADHI, FEB 10 - A woman killed her two daughters before she committed suicide at Joshipur VDC in Kailali district on Saturday evening.
Laxmi Chaudhary, in her mid-thirties and a resident of Janakinagar VDC-5, fed her daughters Bishnu (11) and Bindu (5) poison before hanging herself from a tree in a nearby forest, police said. The daughters were also found lying dead near the tree.
It is learnt that Laxmi was in deep mental stress for the past one month over the treatment of her mentally ill husband.
She was forced to bring her husband home from a hospital in Lucknow, India, a few days ago as she did not have more money for his treatment there.
The man is now undergoing 'treatment' at the hands of a local shaman.
Police Inspector at the District Police Office Sudam Rawal said Laxmi might have murdered her daughters as she thought that her committing suicide would leave the children helpless.
Adding to Laxmi's woes was the fact that one of her daughters, Bishnu, was physically challenged and that she was not able to arrange money for her treatment, according to the police.
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In his newest book, Science Ink, bestselling author Carl Zimmer tackles an unusual topic: tattoos. Showcasing hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology to astrophysics—Zimmer reveals the stories of individuals who express their science passions through body art. Each tattoo provides a leaping-off point for Zimmer to reflect on the science in question, from the importance of Darwin's finches or the significance of the uranium atom inked into the chest of a young radiologist.
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Previous comic (Basketball gaiden part 2) - Next entry (Rookie Season top ten comics b'cuz eveybody likes year end top ten lists, right?)
(This post is going to be a little different. It should be obvious that there is no finished comic posted above these words.
Some stuff has come up this week- and with the upcoming holiday I won't have time to finish a new comic until next weekend- so I'm taking this opportunity to write a little message thanking everyone that has read Bx3 so far.)
The occasion of this post, (other than not having a new comic to post) is that we're coming up on the one year anniversary of BounceBounceBounce. I had various reasons for starting the comic. I had spent too long not doing something I greatly enjoy- drawing and creating. The last time I did a comic on the reg' (it wasn't about basketball) was when I was a freshman in college. Elton Brand and Steve Francis were the co-rookies of the year that year. It was a long time ago.
Of course I also started Bx3 because I also love basketball. ...and comics, but only a small percentage of comics spoke directly to my interests. I lived in Japan for a couple years after college, and some of the most popular comics there are sports based (comics were the only thing at my Japanese reading level). To my knowledge there are very few sports themed comics in English.
So I started Bx3 with a rusty drawing hand, a slowly dying but powerful laptop I inherited from my generous brother-in-law (thank you), and just a general sense of what I was aiming for. At some point I realized if you want to make something you've just got to start making it (deep). So I did three comics, thought they were good enough, and posted.
I wasn't sure initially how much of an audience there would be for such a thing either. I can genuinely say though that I've met some great people through the comic already (Hoopism guys, Wayne Washington, Yago, Dante, Felix, Doug Merlino to name just a few), and I've gotten great feedback and support from readers. The online basketball community is unmistakably awesome. I'm not getting thousands of hits a day (or even 100's most days), but then again it's only been a year.
I think we're getting somewhere. I have a vision of what I want to do with this- and I'm working to get there. If you'll keep reading (and maybe even telling others about it occasionally???), I'll keep working on my skills, putting in the reps, breaking sweats, and working through the drawing-hand cramps in pursuit of (hopefully) providing a little basketball themed comic entertainment.
Whether there's an NBA season or not, I've got characters to develop. Basketball lives in the alleys and parks and school gyms and minds of fans everywhere. This comic is partly for me, but it's also for the game of basketball itself and the devoted players and fans of the game. If only I can get my game up to a level worthy of them.
Here's to a sophomore season working in that direction..
Thanks again (you know who you are).


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Learn about the best way to know if a car battery is dead. Here, see helpful tips for knowing if that's the issue or if the problem is more serious.See Transcript
Transcript:How to Know if a Car Battery Is DeadHi I'm Nick Jaynes from DownForce Motoring for About.com and this is how to know if your car battery is dead. I'll be using information found on About.com's auto repair guide site.
Why It's Difficult to Know if a Car Battery Is DeadIt's all happened to us before: we come out to our car in the morning and it just won't start. Unless you're a trained mechanic, it's hard to know what is causing your car not to start. But here are a few helpful steps to follow to help diagnose what's going on with your car. It turns out; the most common reason cars refuse to start is a dead battery.
Tips for Knowing if a Car Battery Is DeadA dead battery can be caused by many factors: you left a dome light on over night, your alternator is worn out and recharging the battery, or the battery has simply hit the end of its useful life. If you have a battery tester that can measure cranking amps and voltage, you can test your battery to see if it's weak. At rest, the battery should be at 12.5 volts. And with the car at idle, the battery should be at 13.5 volts. This is because, in order to charge the battery, the alternator needs to create at least one more volt than normally required in the system. If you can't test it yourself, you can test the battery indirectly by jump-starting the car. If it starts right away, your problem is most likely a dead battery. Jumping the car will tell you that the battery is the no-start culprit because jumping essentially circumvents the battery with the battery from another car. If the car cranks and fires on the power provided by another healthy battery, you know you need a new one.
Knowing When It's Time to Replace the Car BatteryAt this point, it's time to replace the battery. You can do this yourself by going to an auto parts store or in some areas there are mobile auto battery sales that will come to you. AAA has just such a mobile battery sales unit. Just know if you buy a battery from a mobile auto battery replacement company, you will pay top dollar for the convenience.
Once you've replaced the battery, clean the battery connections to ensure good contact between the battery cables and your brand new battery. This way you are guaranteeing your new battery will receive the power it needs from the alternator and make certain you get as much usable life from the battery as possible.
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Posted by Jane, UWS on 05/01/2006
I took my meat-loving hubby here for the first time last weekend. I admit, I was a little worried that the "healthy" aspect would put him off, but he had steak frites and declared it "better than Ben Benson's" - an old favorite. The steak and fries came with peppers and onions - I tried a mouthful and it was delicious. It was a special on that night, but I hope they put it on the menu proper. Who could resist fries with a third of the fat of regular ones, but that still taste great? Dessert a little ordinary. Service was charming. Overall a healthy surprise! PS Their chicken teriyaki stirfry on the takeout menu is to die for. Josie's is about to get two new regulars!
Posted by Anonymous on 03/31/2006
I realize that this is just a local uws restaurant so i'm not expecting that much, but i just had my second dinner in a row here with below average/rude service. Little things like not serving bread until your order is placed and not allowing very simple subsitutions should not be the way a restaurant that charges $17 for a salad operates.
Posted by veggie on 02/25/2006
My non veggie-husband and my vegetarian self both loved our food at Josie's. Lots of choices, good portions, NOT bland at all, even for my spice loving husband. I will definitely be back.
Posted by Anonymous on 02/17/2006
The food here is okay. i live in the area and have been going here on and off throughout the years. actually, the food really depends on the day...some days they do a good job other times they really screw it up. it seems like the portions are never consistent too. my friend and i ordered the same thing and my portion was A LOT more generous than hers. now seriously, it seems like almost every waiter here is poorly trained or has a bad attitude. There are a lot better restaurants in the area which I would suggets spending your money at.
Posted by Meatball on 02/08/2006
I do like the atmosphere and service but the food is bland and they recently revamped the menu that took away the mushroom ravioli that my father enjoyed. I will not be back.
Posted by Anonymous on 11/24/2005
My friends and i went to the west side josie's for their thanksgiving day prix-fixe menu. We had a reservation; however, by our seating, the kitchen ran out of one of the appetizers, and unbelieveably, all three of the dessert choices. The management was not apologetic and did not offer any compensation. The food has always been good and tonight was no different, but it would have been nice if the management/kitchen had accounted for the number of people with reservations when preparing a holiday dinner menu. We were disappointed not only in the remaining food choices, but also in the way the manager failed to answer our frustrations. In the future, i will stick to the east side location.
Posted by Menu and service getting worse... on 05/23/2005
I have gone to Josie's for a while, and have always enjoyed the yummy, healthy food and the fun atmosphere, despite the longish wait. But this last time, they said a 5-10 minute wait, which was 45 minutes, the service was slow, and although the waitress was lovely, the manager was unfriendly when we mentioned that we were a little frustrated by the whole thing. Plus, it's gotten more and more expensive with fewer vegetarian options.


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"Computing Advances Pave the Way for the Information Highway,"
Adm. James B. Busey IV, USN (Ret.), Feb. 1994, p. 12.
"Technology Trumps Policy in Information,"
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"Consortium Sows Seeds for Information Infrastructure,"
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"Competition, Consumers Are Shaping Information Highway,"
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"Facile Information Exchange Underpins National Prosperity,"
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"White House Unleashes Reform Policy for Telecommunications,"
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"Federal Electronic Commerce Offers Acquisition Holy Grail,"
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"Cooperative Effort Encourages Safe Information Highway Travel,"
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"Information Infrastructure Key Enabler for Innovation,"
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"Countries Collaborate to Share Information-Age Benefits,"
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"Information Chiefs Join Federal Executive Teams,"
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"Justice Department Readies Infrastructure Defense Plans,"
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"National Vulnerability Intensifies As Infrastructure Reliance Grows,"
Col. Alan D. Campen, USAF (Ret.), July 1998, p. 20.
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Clarence A. Robinson, Jr., July 1998, p. 23.
"U. S. Seeks Alliance Support For Infrastructure Protection,"
July 1998, p. 29.
"Information Age Warfare Must Enlist Civilian Partnerships,"
Col. Alan D. Campen, USAF (Ret.), June 1999, p. 65
"Hidden Hazards Menace U.S. Information Infrastructure,"
Robert K. Ackerman, August 1999, p. 17.
"Deft Federal Burglar Alarms Receive Funding Jump-Start,"
Clarence A. Robinson, Jr., Mar. 2000, p. 17.
"Intelligence Is the Long Pole in The Information Operations
Col. Alan D. Campen, USAF (Ret.), Mar. 2000, p. 35.
"Coordination Key to Defending National Infrastructure,"
Terry B. Bollinger, April 2001, p. 21.
"Commercial Forces Unite to Combat Cyberthreats,"
April 2001, p. 40.
"Keeping the Lines of Communication Open,"
Maryann Lawlor, April 2001, p. 17.
"Commercial Coalition Tackles Security Complexities,"
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"Demonstrations Focus on Coalition Communications,"
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"Protecting America With Information Technology,"
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Real Housewives Producers Casting For Real-Life GCB
In Calabasas, CA — known best as the stomping ground of celebs like the Kardashians — producers from the wildly successful Real Housewives franchise are looking to break ground on a new show focusing on women who spend as much time in church as they do putting mileage on their credit cards. Think GCB, but with more beaches and fewer spurs.
TMZ reports that the producers are searching for "accomplished and upscale women in the Calabasas area who have fabulous lives, are very social, are involved in the community, but also have a very deep commitment to their faith."
We think that description shouldn't be hard to fill in this gated community that claims Cameron Diaz, Leann Rimes, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, and (momentarily) Justin Bieber as residents. With a laundry list of high-profile denizens, the possibilities for guest stars are endless!
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Interpol chief Ronald Noble on Tuesday said al-Qaida and associated organizations continue to pose the greatest threat to global security even after the death of longtime leader Osama bin Laden, Reuters reported.
"Even before bin Laden was captured and killed, the biggest threat was not only al-Qaida but al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups around the world," the secretary general for the International Criminal Police Organization said to journalists at an aviation conference in Singapore. "I think that remains the biggest threat now as it was before his death."
Passenger airlines and other modes of mass transportation face the greatest terrorist threat, Noble said.
"The airline and air industry continues to be a prime target for terrorists, but we've seen from recovered intelligence, etc., that they are also focusing a lot on mass transit," he said. "But airlines continue to be a special target."
Computer files and documents seized by U.S. special forces during their raid last month on the bin Laden compound in Pakistan revealed the terrorist leader had encouraged his followers to develop attack plans on U.S. targets similar to the September 11 assaults in style and scope.
The Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has also been linked to the attempted 2009 Christmas Day bombing of an airliner as it prepared to land in Detroit, as well as the 2010 attempt to hide explosives in printer cartridges loaded onto cargo aircraft.
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Hi, this is Angela Dawn with About.com coming to you from Moon Lake Trading Company in Mentone, Alabama, and today I am going to show you how to make a lasagna garden.
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To set up a lasagna garden you will need, newspaper or cardboard, some green which includes leftover vegetables, grass, and some brown, which are things like, hay, top soil, dead leaves, and bone meal, coffee grounds and wood ash. You can also collect some medium size rocks to make a border around your garden or pieces of wood.
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NEW YORK • Beyonce's surprise album has sold surprisingly well: Her fifth solo effort sold more than 600,000 units in its first three days, setting a record for first-week domestic digital sales.
Beyonce's self-titled album was released early Friday morning exclusively on iTunes unbeknownst to the public. Apple said Monday that the album sold 617,213 in its U.S. iTunes Store. It sold 828,773 internationally.
"You have to be innovative. The Internet has changed the game. You've got to look at how to address the fact that most artists' albums leak before their release plans," said Lee Anne Callahan-Longo, the general manager of Beyonce's production company Parkwood Entertainment, who released the album alongside Columbia Records.
"Look at where your opportunities can lie and that's kind of how we approached it," she continued in an interview Monday. "We had a multitude of things we were trying to accomplish, some things we were trying to avoid, and this turned out to be the right perfect plan for us."
Beyonce surprised fans with the release of the album, which features 14 songs and 17 videos, and social media website exploded with mentions of the singer and her new music. In three hours, it sold 80,000 units, and the build-up continued over the weekend.
"It really wasn't about making a hit record or chasing what sounds like today's music for singles," explained Callahan-Longo, who has worked with Beyonce for seven years
"Beyonce" features collaborations with Jay Z, Drake, Frank Ocean and Justin Timberlake, who co-wrote two songs. The album is being sold by iTunes exclusively for a week at $15.99. It will be sold in retailers and others websites this week.
"It wasn't easy and we were really careful," Callahan-Longo said of keeping the album a secret. "It started with a very small core group of people and only grew when necessary in order to make something happen. It got a little dicey there and concerning as we got closer and closer as the circle had to widen."
"Beyonce" broke the first-week digital sales record for an album in the United States. It also marks the singer's best first-week numbers. It will debut at No. 1 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart this week.
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I would guess that the vast majority of kits I have collected have never been sent for testing. Or, at least, the results were never used, because if they were, I would have been called upon to testify about how I collected the kit. In my 10 years doing this work, I have collected at least 500 kits and only heard back from the police about one of the rape kits.
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The day after my rape kit was collected I went to the police for my interview. The police officer spent the whole interview asking me about my character, my actions that night. He didn't seem interested in hearing about my rapist's behavior. At the end of the interview, he told me he didn't think I had a very strong case. I called for months afterwards to see if they were going to test the rape kit, but I never heard back.
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We want every one of our rape kits tested. Every kit is evidence, and has so much potential to help a case—potential that you don't even realize until you get the test results back.
—Tom Byrne, chief of detectives, Chicago Police[79]
As of May 2010 there were at least 3,926 rape kits in Illinois storage facilities that law enforcement confirmed were not tested, based on public records data sent to Human Rights Watch from 148 agencies. This number may be higher, as it only represents those rape kits where law enforcement could confirm their status. There are an additional 2,094 kits in storage that law enforcement could not confirm whether they were tested or untested. The vast majority of these untested rape kits were never requested for testing. But in some instances, the rape kits in police storage were sent for testing, but returned from the crime lab untested because the case was closed by the state's attorney's office.
Most individual police department policies that Human Rights Watch reviewed in the course of its research for this report still allowed detective or department discretion in deciding which rape kits to send to the crime lab, a practice which will be remedied by the 2010 Sexual Assault Evidence Submission Act's requirement that all rape kits collected by police be sent to the crime lab for testing within 10 days of collection.[80]
Law enforcement gave Human Rights Watch various reasons for not sending rape kits to the lab for testing. By far the most common reason was the belief that testing was not necessary in an "acquaintance rape"—when the identity of the alleged perpetrator was known to the victim no matter the history, or lack thereof, in their relationship. Law enforcement held this view despite the possibility that the collected evidence could connect a suspect to multiple rape kits and establish a serial rapist, discredit the suspect's version of events and affirm the victim's version of events, or exonerate innocent suspects. As one police official told Human Rights Watch, "We don't need the DNA test when we know who the suspect is already without it. It would be a waste of everyone's time and money."[81]
Police also told Human Rights Watch they would not submit a rape kit unless they thought they had a "winnable" case on their hands. For example, one police official told Human Rights Watch in explaining why his department did not send every rape kit for testing, "I don't know if you know about our community but we are a university community—98 percent to 99 percent of criminal assaults involve acquaintances and end up without prosecution. That may be where the issue is—a consent issue. A lot of our sexual assault reports [involve sexual assaults that] start out as consensual sex but then turn non-consensual."[82]
Other officers have pointed out to Human Rights Watch that victim credibility is often the key issue in deciding how to move a case forward, including whether to submit the rape kit for testing. As one officer told Human Rights Watch "In my experience, many rape victims are lying. They come forward to hide from their parents that they had sex with their boyfriend, or they want attention. In other cases, the victim's story doesn't make sense, or maybe it does but there is no way a jury is going to believe her over the suspect."[83]
Backlogs at the state crime laboratory may also influence officers not to send in rape kits. Some officers told Human Rights Watch that they don't submit the rape kit for testing because they know it could be months, if not years, before it gets tested. An investigative detective told Human Rights Watch, "If the evidence is absolutely crucial to making the case, I will beg the crime lab to test the kit, and put it closer to the top of the pile. But if I am not sure the rape kit test will add anything to the case, I will save up my favors with the crime lab for another case."[84]
Not sending a rape kit to the crime lab for testing can have a significant impact on a victim's experience with the criminal justice system. One victim told Human Rights Watch, "I feel so stupid for going to the police. What made me think they would take my case seriously? I would feel better if I had just kept my rape to myself."[85] Even if law enforcement decides not to test a rape kit, communicating that decision to the victim in a timely and informative way may ease the victim's experience. As one rape victim told Human Rights Watch, "They may have had a reason not to test my kit, but I wouldn't know because I didn't get any information about my case, much less information about why certain investigative decisions were made. Just knowing the reasoning behind the police's decision not to move my case forward may have helped me a little."[86]
Even in instances where the police do move an investigation forward, not sending the rape kit for testing to the crime lab in a timely way can have negative consequences for the victim. Human Rights Watch spoke with a family member of a 7-year-old child who was repeatedly raped by her stepfather over a period of two years.[87] When she reported what was happening to her mother, she took the girl to the hospital and the nurse noted the presence of semen. If the police had tested the rape kit and found the stepfather's semen, the state could immediately move forward with rape charges, as there is no defense for statutory rape. Although the police were moving the investigation forward, and charges were eventually filed against the stepfather, the rape kit sat untested in police storage for more than a year. During that time, the victim's family had gone to family court to obtain an order of protection against the stepfather. In the absence of the rape kit evidence as proof of the stepfather's crime, the victim had to testify at the hearing, "which was a very difficult experience for her," a family member told Human Rights Watch.[88] The daughter also seemed to feel that the rape kit evidence was important. "Although we believed her story, I think she was looking for some outside evidence that what she was saying was true. The stepfather was denying anything had happened, and the daughter seemed to grow increasingly anxious to have proof in her case that what she knew happened had really happened."[89] After a year, the police finally sent the rape kit to the lab for testing, and the test results showed that the stepfather had raped the child.
The large number of untested rape kits in Illinois storage facilities, and the lack of knowledge on the part of most law enforcement agencies of their true number, make it especially important that Illinois's response to its rape kit backlog is part of a comprehensive, specific, state-wide plan that is made known to the public and subject to significant monitoring and oversight. The 2010 Sexual Assault Evidence Submission Act, if effectively enforced, will provide such a plan and result in each of these untested rape kits, as well as every future rape kit booked into police evidence, being sent to Illinois state crime lab system (or other designated laboratory) for testing.[90] But as Human Rights Watch's research demonstrates, the crime lab already has its own backlog. The arrival of backlogged kits from police departments will exacerbate the problem. The crime lab simply does not currently have the capacity or resources to test every booked rape kit in Illinois in a timely manner.
[77] Human Rights Watch telephone interview with sexual assault nurse examiner, Peoria, IL, August 11, 2009.
[78] Human Rights Watch telephone interview with rape survivor, Aurora, IL, April 2, 2010.
[79] Human Rights Watch telephone interview with Chief of Detectives Tom Byrne, January 15, 2010.
[80] Sexual Assault Evidence Submission Act of 2010, http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB3269lv.pdf, sec. 10.
[81] Human Rights Watch telephone interview with police official, Galesburg, IL, November 4, 2009.
[82] Human Rights Watch telephone interview with police officer, southern Illinois, January 26, 2010.
[83] Human Rights Watch telephone interview with police officer, central Illinois, January 25, 2010.
[84] Human Rights Watch telephone interview with police detective, Joliet, IL, October 12, 2009.
[85] Human Rights Watch telephone interview with rape victim, Evanston, IL, November 6, 2009.
[86] Human Rights Watch telephone interview with rape victim, Chicago, IL, April 4, 2010.
[87] Human Rights Watch telephone interview with rape victim family member, Bloomington, IL, June 16, 2009.
[88] Ibid.
[89] Ibid.


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More often than not, a dancer stumbles before she soars. Sarah Walborn breezed through her training years at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, spending summers at San Francisco Ballet School. After high school, she accepted SFB artistic director Helgi Tomasson's offer to become a trainee, and by her second year was hired as a company apprentice. "I had a phenomenal time," she says. "I really felt a connection to the company."
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