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EQCA-Sponsored resolution calls for an end to discriminatory military policy
Sacramento -- Today, the State Assembly Judiciary Committee officially endorsed a resolution calling for the repeal of the discriminatory federal policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Sponsored by Equality California (EQCA) and introduced by Senator Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego), the resolution calls on the United States Congress to pass and President Barack Obama to immediately sign the Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2009, which would end the unfair policy and allow gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans to serve openly in the armed forces.
During the committee hearing, EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors was joined by two former service members, Zoe Dunning, retired US Navy Commander and Service Members Legal Defense Network (SLDN) Board Co-chair, and Joseph Rocha, retired US Navy Master at Arms, 3rd Class, as well as SLDN Board member Julian Chang and West Hollywood Councilmember Jeffrey Prang in supporting the resolution.
"We applaud our lawmakers for taking a stand for equality in the military," said EQCA Executive Director Geoff Kors. "I am confident the state of California will soon join the growing chorus of current and former service members who have called for the repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell.' We urge President Obama and Congress to fulfill their promise to protect the rights of all Americans and to overturn this discriminatory policy immediately."
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was first authorized in 1994. Since that time, more than 13,500 service members have been discharged under the policy, including more than 800 specialists serving in 'critical operations,' such as counterintelligence, medicine, and translation. According to a General Accounting Office report, 323 language specialists have been discharged, resulting in a critical shortage of qualified translators in intelligence gathering posts. Currently, 186 members of the U.S. House have signed on as co-sponsors to the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, which would repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and replace it with a policy of non-discrimination across the armed forces. Last year, 77 members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama requesting he immediately suspend discharges under the discriminatory policy.
"A soldier must display courage, patriotism, commitment and ability -- none of which have anything to do with sexual orientation," said Senator Kehoe. "Overturning this shameful policy will help ensure that gay and lesbian Americans will be afforded the same opportunities as any other American who wants to serve our country."
More than 24 other nations currently allow gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals to serve openly in their militaries, including Canada and the United Kingdom, alongside whom American forces have served in combat. Recent public opinion polls show that a majority of both the American public and active service members believe the policy should be overturned and that gay and lesbian Americans should be allowed to serve openly in the military.
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Application procedure for the Post-professional Program
Application Deadline: One semester preceding the expected semester of enrollment.
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Vermonters making the trip include Lianne Rush, RN; Phoebe Cole of Fletcher Allen Health Care; Karin Stafford, RN, a NCCC grad who works are FAHC; Janet Salotti Page of Rutland, a medical records technician at Genesis Health Care, Mountain View Center; Donna Jackson, RN, a nurse manager at Genesis Health Care, Mountain View Center; Sarah Neff, a social worker at Genesis Healthcare, Mountain View Center; Stephanie Mozzer, RN, and Ritza Arias Nunez, a student.
While in Honduras the group will work with local doctors. They plan to visit three villages and expect to see 800-900 patients.
"We see a lot of people in an eight-hour day," Russell said. "We start by setting up a computer data base so future brigades can see what treatments patients have received. We then do triage before we provide care. Finally, each patient goes to a dental station for treatment.
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"You never know what you'll find," Russell said. "Last year we had a woman whose foot had been run over by a car. She walked miles to reach us and get treatment. It was fractured and we didn't have any splints. We made a splint out of cardboard and duct tape. We call it MacGyver medicine.
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Dwyane Wade Talks Brief Split From Gabrielle Union On Jay Leno
Sometimes couples need a break and some time apart in relationships to make their love stronger.
Earlier this year, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union quietly took a break from their relationship during a critical moment in their careers, and no one knew about it [The way it should be!!!] Last night, on Jay Leno, Dwyane 'fessed up that the couple became very busy in their careers and decided to split:
Celebrity relationships are very hard. For us this was a big year for our relationship from the standpoint she was shooting her show, Being Mary Jane and gone most of the year. I was dealing with my injuries [and] trying to win a championship. So we kind of took a step back. We supported each other but we took a step back for a little while. At the end of the day, we came back together and said we want to continue this and we want to get better each day. She's been with me and I've been with her all summer long. We're going strong now.
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You gotta decide who u want watching your back when the ish hit the fan… #ibelieve #reallove #D&G
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Below is the poem entitled The worst morning after which was written by poet
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The worst morning after
One bottle and half of brandy gone
And my, how I did carry on
The morning after, goodness me!
I was a just heap of misery
The wife, she left me in the car
I think she thought I'd gone too far!!
She really had no sympathy
And made me clean up after me
My head was twirling round and round
Oh, what Karma I had found
My neck, my head, my everything
Oh what pain this morn did bring
For two whole days this lasted for
I said I'd never drink no more
That was so many years ago
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The Canon PowerShot A2100 IS replaces the previous A2000 model in the company's lineup, and is based around a 1/2.3" 12.1 megapixel CCD image sensor, DIGIC 4 image processor, and a Canon-branded 6x optical zoom lens. The A2100 IS's lens offers focal lengths ranging from 36 to 216mm equivalents, and features true optical image stabilization. Maximum aperture varies from f/3.2 to f/5.9 across the zoom range, and macro focusing is possible to just one centimeter.
There's no true optical viewfinder, with the Canon A2100 IS instead offering only a 3.0" LCD display with 230,000 dots of resolution. The maximum image dimensions are 4,000 x 3,000 pixels, and 30 frames-per-second VGA (640 x 480) movie recording is also possible with the Canon A2100. Sensitivity ordinarily ranges from ISO 80 to ISO 1,600 equivalents, and can be extended to ISO 3,200 equivalent in a high sensitivity scene mode. A built-in flash strobe is rated as good to 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) at wide angle, and 6.6 feet (2 meters) at telephoto. Images and movies are stored on SD cards, and the Canon PowerShot A2100 draws power from two AA batteries.
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Bulinus truncatus is a freshwater snail with the widest distribution of all Bulinus species. It is found across much of Africa, the near east and the Mediterranean.
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Britney Spears takes her sons Sean and Jayden James to a Starbucks in Los Angeles on Dec. 15, 2012.
Amber Rose is over all the Kardashian drama.
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Inked: Naples men join national trend to tattoo medical wishes on body
NAPLES - The first time Jimbo Carriero died, it lasted only a few minutes.
"I didn't see the white lights everyone talks about, but I sure got an overwhelming feeling of total bliss," Carriero said of complications following a stent procedure after a heart attack in September 2008. "It was beautiful, just a beautiful feeling, like all my bills had been paid."
So the next time, he wants to stay there.
The 52-year-old owner of Body Branding Tattoo Emporium in Naples had "Do Not Resuscitate" tattooed on his chest a year later.
He is among a growing number of people who want a more permanent medical alert. The Canadian Medical Association Journal reported in May that medical tattooing appears to be increasing, partly because the often-pricey medical alert bracelets can be lost or broken, some people prefer tattoos and others can't wear jewelry at work. The journal detailed tattoos for diabetes, blood types and end-of-life wishes.
Like Carriero, Spencer Cootware nearly died. After a day of fishing on Dec. 29, the 50-year-old Naples bail bondsman felt the worst pain he'd ever experienced, "like an alien crawling out of my back." Clutching his cellphone, he dialed 911 and shouted for help as he fell to the floor at home.
He'd suffered a ruptured aorta. After that, he bought a medical alert card for his wallet and a bracelet and dog tag with his medical information stored on a USB device.
"I don't want them to do unnecessary surgery," Cootware said of emergency medical technicians and doctors, adding that it was corrected with medication.
Last week, he took a more permanent step: A medical tattoo on his right wrist with the words "Medical Alert: Type B Thoracic Aortic Aneurism."
"If I'm incapacitated and can't talk, they would do a screen of my body and see the aneurysm and think it just happened," he said of his fear.
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This spring, Pennsylvania-based Hope Paige, which makes medical ID bracelets, began offering a free temporary "in case of emergency" tattoo with a bracelet purchase to let people "get their feet wet before making the leap to permanent tattoo."
The National Tattoo Association doesn't track medical tattoos, but "Sailor" Bill Johnson, a spokesman, does "a couple a year."
"Usually, it's for a diabetic or allergies, like penicillin," said Johnson, who owns Tattoo Time in Orlando. "It's not something that's going to be seen unless it's very obvious, like a tattooed diabetic bracelet. I always tell people not to depend on a tattoo of that nature."
The increase is seen on the Internet. Type "medical tattoo" into Google and numerous diabetic tattoos pop up, including Insulin Dependent and Type 1 Diabetic.
Such alerts can be life-saving, but as more people turn to medical tattoos, doctors say guidelines are needed to specify what they look like and where they're located. American Medical Association guidelines don't address medical tattoos, but first responders are trained to look for a medical bracelet or a medical alert necklace.
"There have to be more standards if medical tattoos become a more common practice," said Dr. Saleh Aldasouqi, a Michigan State University endocrinologist who began studying the issue four years ago and writing about it in medical journals.
At a national clinical endocrinologist conference in late May, he spoke of the need for standards.
"With a tattoo, would you see it?" he asked during a telephone interview. "You really have to be focused on saving a life. We want to make the job of emergency personnel easier. Seconds and minutes count when saving a life."
A medical tattoo could help if someone lost a medical alert bracelet or necklace during a car crash, he said, adding, "If someone has a tattoo, we would say check that person's blood sugar immediately. It could be a lifesaving intervention, to give them blood sugar through an IV."
Although he doesn't advocate tattoos, he leans more toward those that could be life-saving, alerting medics to diabetes, hemophilia or rare blood types.
"The medical alert purposes are valid and make sense to me, but the issue got a little clouded by folks who decided to put DNR on their chests," he said of end-of-life directives.
With a Do Not Resuscitate tattoo, Aldasouqi said, doctors and EMTs would still begin resuscitation while others searched for a legal, medical directive as confirmation.
"Otherwise, if you take the other option, it's not going to be reversible," he said. "A tattoo may help as guidance, but not for decision-making because people do change their minds. The first thing we look for in their charts is a directive."
Noting that people do make bad decisions, he cited a medical journal article that chronicled a young man losing a card game that required the loser get a DNR tattoo.
But he said a 60-year-old Kansas City pathologist with "No CPR" tattooed on his chest was old enough and had the medical knowledge to make that decision.
Carriero knows he made the right decision, tattooing his wishes across his chest.
"I've lived a good life ... and you have to go some time," he said.
He's done "one or two" medical tattoos at his 18-year-old Naples tattoo parlor.
"It was for people who didn't want to wear a bracelet, diabetics and insulin users," he said.
Jeff Cleary, vice president of MedicAlert Foundation, contends tattoos can't replace what the 56-year-old nonprofit organization does through its 800-number, which is staffed 24/7 with employees who speak to EMTs and medical staff or contact relatives in emergencies.
The foundation manufactures bracelets and necklaces for medical conditions, including diabetes, hemophilia, Alzheimer's, dementia and autism — and has roughly 1.1 million members who pay for the service.
"We can release information and we can contact the loved ones while the EMT is working on them," Cleary said, noting there are no standards for tattoos, but MedicAlert is known for its standards and lifesaving work.
"With a tattoo, each time you get a new condition, you'd have to go back to a tattoo artist ... and you'd have a tattoo crawling down your body," he said. "With us, a member can call our hotline and provide updated information."
Cootware said his doctor was surprised he lived and recommended he get a medical bracelet or card, so he found the (in case of emergency) U-tag and got a card, bracelet and dog tag.
"If you're incapacitated, the first thing they do is look in your wallet," he said. "But with a bracelet and dog tag, they would see that. If I'm on the boat and don't have the tags on me, I have the tattoo. I don't wear it all. I really recommend if people have a medical condition, they do something."


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Comment Super high res laptops are great, but... (Score 1) 397 397
Comment The joy of surfing other people's collections (Score 1) 243 243
The best thing about Napster was getting almost any music you could think of in a moment, for free.
The second best thing, a close second, was surfing other peoples' collections. For a few months in 2001, almost every week, I discovered new bands and unknown albums and singles of bands I knew already. I would browse the collections of people who were sharing stuff I liked, and sometimes just download everything -- everything I didn't already have. Since I was on a T1, that could take just a few seconds in some cases. I would have a week of new music to discover, from the collections of people around the country and possibly the world, in an instant.
I wish there had been some way to pay for Napster rather than having it shut down. Both iTunes and the new-style (free, illegal, Torrent-based) file-sharing services pale in comparison, both in user experience and in sense of community (or lack thereof) -- Napster had community, even though I never once made any contact with another user I didn't know, except by downloading and sharing music with them. I'll always be a Napster kid.
Comment You should probably stick with QWERTY, alas. (Score 1) 307 307
I agree with those who say don't bother with Dvorak. I taught myself Dvorak around 2000 until giving it up in 2004 (fighting with library computers throughout the intervening years). I might have been a little faster in my prime at Dvorak, but not much, and that training probably could have been better spent practicing QWERTY.
In theory, maybe Dvorak is faster for someone like you, whose typing is fast enough to challenge his max raw finger speed, because of reduced stretching for common letters. But I would say with the retraining there is *risk* -- learning a new layout kills your old muscle memory. Seems all too possible you might confuse your muscles, tangle up your pathways and never get to where you are at QWERTY, or back to where you were if you switched back.
It is true that the world's fastest English-language typist used Dvorak, however. Barbara Blackburn was a certified Guinness record holder, a Dvorak electric typewriter typist who once maxed out at 212 wpm, and for her efforts was once on Letterman. The Letterman segment is very silly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NndiiezGkNY. NB, the days of the true specialist expert typists are past, alas.
If you think you are pretty good, check out video of Sean Wrona competing at SXSW in 2010. Seems like there is a little circuit where you can try out your stuff and maybe win a bit of cash.
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No, I'm not tired either. This is a story that must be told so everyone knows how deplorable Apple's legal strategy is. Apple is cannibalizing the very culture of creativity and innovation that created its success; ultimately, legal impediments like those Apple is throwing up will kill the U.S. tech industry -- yes, and with it, Apple itself -- unless the courts and Congress wake up and put an end to this nonsense.
SOPA died when Congress started hearing from the innovators, the entrepreneurs, and the young people. They heard from them through informal channels, from social media to their own dining room tables (see this article and the linked livestream of Alec Ross at SMWNY 2012 telling this story). Similar forces will be needed to knock back Apple's lawyers and lobbyists bring our IP system into the modern era.
Apple's strategy, though it clearly started well before Jobs died, now it seems to originate in fear: without Jobs at the helm, is the pipeline of new and original products deep enough to support anything like this level of profitability? Apple's actions, like Microsoft's in the 1990s, appear to be those of an industry leader afraid it might be losing its creative edge. A justifiable fear, but not one that we should favor with legal protections for invalidly obvious patents like Apple has been granted in error over the last 10 years. We need to keep calling Apple out on this, and not give the company a free ride just because we like or love its products of the last 5, 15 or 25 years (including NeXT!).
Comment Re:Not 180k -- it's 85k (Score 1) 342 342
Comment Lack of Alt- Sequences (Score 3, Interesting) 484 484
In *some* previous versions of OSX you could turn on alt-sequences. Others, not -- I bought a used MacBook Pro in 2005 and couldn't figure out how to get these to work after ~10 hours of research, so I resold it a month later. I frankly don't use Macs enough to know whether it's easy to do this now, but from casual use I know that it isn't available as a default, which is silly, whereas it is on Windows. And thus Windows encourages developers to include these sequences, which is a real boon for every app where they work.
Mice are great, but they are slow! Why would you ever want to aim three clicks when you could type four letters? Imagine if you had to type text in Word, Excel, VS or Eclipse by clicking an on-screen keyboard with your mouse... you'd probably just give up and write with pen and paper (or a manual typewriter), and hire some low-wage laborers to do all that slow, boring clicking. That's how I feel when I use Excel on a Mac.
Submission + - Thin and light notebooks/"Ultrabooks" as development workstations?
Portability is very important to me, so I'd like to go with an "Ultrabook" or a MacBook Air. I'm fairly agnostic as to operating system: Python runs fine on Windows for what I need it to do, though Eclipse on the JVM runs rather slowly. I could see switching to a Mac or dual-booting to Linux if that would make my life better in some way. Any thoughts on best Ultrabook choices for either of the above setups (running Windows only, dual-booting) or the MacBook Air switch would be very much appreciated.


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Randy Shaw: While the media's highlighting "the unfortunate" during the holiday season raises vital private donations to help their needs, letting the politicians responsible off the hook perpetuates the crisis.
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Joseph Palermo: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently submitted a "budget" to the legislature that eliminates CalWORKS, the state's highly successful welfare-to-work program that is needed now more than ever. This move would make California the only state in the nation to dismantle its safety net.


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Un dragon au Château/ Tourbillon
Few months ago, I was asked to illustrate and design this book: now that it's finally out, I can't be happier because it really turned out great! It was lot of fun, and luckily I was able to maintain the color palette very simple with few different shades of grey and brown and with just blue and red to personify the bad dragon and the good guys.
I realized I usually don't share too much (or anything at all) about my sketches, so I decided it was time to share: (click on the image to enlarge)
First step: the shape of the castle.
Second step: the sketch. In this phase I prefer to spend more time drawing the characters rather then focusing on the background.
Third step: I draw every character and stall of the illustration on a separate level, so if there are any corrections, I'll be able to whip them up quickly.


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This season's Super Bowl requires the same electricity flow as 12,000 homes. The utility for New Jersey, which is hosting the game, wants to keep that power flowing. The nightmare would be a repeat of last season's 34-minute blackout in New Orleans. So the company installed three power lines, any one of which could run the event. Hopefully that works since the last power failure was blamed on a broken device installed to prevent power failures.
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I always make sure that each child has a name tag above their cubby or locker to give them a sense of belonging and to give them their own place to hang their coat and lunch bag when they arrive for their first day of school. It brings a smile to my face when I see how delighted the children are to have their own personal space. It is such a simple, yet impactful way to help each child feel like they truly belong to their new Montessori classroom community. It is also nice to include the child's photo with their name tag to personalize their space even further. And for the younger children who aren't yet able to recognize their written name, they take great delight in seeing their photo and knowing which cubby belongs to them.
Another important aspect is ensuring that there are a variety of "Entry Items" on the shelves.
As much as possible, NAMC's web blog reflects the Montessori curriculum as provided in its teacher training programs. We realize and respect that Montessori schools are unique and may vary their schedules and offerings in accordance with the needs of their individual communities. We hope that our readers will find our articles useful and inspiring as a contribution to the global Montessori community. © the North American Montessori Center - originally posted in its entirety at Montessori Teacher Training on Tuesday, August 31, 2010.


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The Many Worlds of Rick Bartow
Poignant, whimsical, troubling, and powerful, the work of this renowned artist is now on exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
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- (informal) A celebrity, often a woman, who is much admired by lesbians.
- 2004 She [viz., the television presenter Kirstie Allsopp] says the screen Kirstie – who is now something of a dykon thanks to her bossiness, her spike heels, her 'luscious dark hair' – is pretty close to the real thing, 'just more domineering'. — The Observer Magazine, 5 September 2004, page 17


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If you're still looking for Art Forum by way of PBS the episode title should tell you exactly how disappointed you will be with this season of Work of Art. Unless you're one of the countless artists who "secretly" watched and then discussed how awful it is and how it's the death knell of serious art while simultaneously guaranteeing its success because that kind of interest cannot be ignored or left unexploited.
So the new season started last night, and as with every reality show, the talent pool deepened significantly. Even the joke contestants have decent resumés, even if they work primarily in graphic design and photojournalism…or toy making. But reality TV isn't about resumés, it's about entertainment because they will make a Beard nominee look like he works at Waffle House if they have to.
With that in mind we meet the contestants and their self portraits. They're all competent but the standouts to me were Dusty Mitchell's crayon portrait and Michelle Matson's paper sculpture featured above. They're literal portraits rendered in unique materials and make strong immediate impressions. I pegged Dusty as a likable underdog because he's small town but well-trained, but I really didn't expect to like Michelle's. Bravo didn't do well in creating any idea of who she is via their bios other than to place her smack dab in the middle of all the almost interchangeable 20-something women.
But this season will clearly belong to Morgan "The Sucklord" Phillips. This is no surprise because he calls himself The Sucklord and has already appeared on another reality show, on VH1 no less, but he's also been on All Things Considered and is quite handy at his chosen venue of toy making. Simon both owns and has auctioned his work, so he's not just an attention whore. He's clever and obnoxious, self-aware and annoying. He could have been built in a VH1 lab in Secaucus to create the ultimate reality show competitor because he will appeal to the people who want someone they love, "love to hate," who "gets it," who's "mocking the process," and most surprisingly, who has talent and something to say.
I'll be the first to admit I pegged him as the asshole, which he probably will still be, but he'll be a likable asshole. Or as Sarah Jessica Parker herself said while talking about Roger Clemens, he'll be my asshole. I'm looking forward to his work and his taking the piss out of everyone, including the audience.
The brief was to choose a piece of yard sale/flea market art and elevate to fine art status while retaining its basic characteristics. In two days. Being the first challenge the show couldn't exactly focus on too many people so they gave away the winners and losers but there wasn't a lot that differentiated the vast middle.
Except that Young Sun is going to continue giving performance artists a bad name because his mask and self-referencing is already wearing on my soul. He's a "big in the art world/annoying out of it" type of performance artist and I don't really get him. I will accept it's because I'm a dilettante. To me, if it's all going to be about you, Young, at least be an interesting person. Although I will grant that a big part of my negative response could be that his mask was reminiscent of Danica Dakić and her movie, Isola Bella was lovely and sad and very Balkan and Young is very…young.
This week's guest judge was Mary Ellen Mark and, hey, I know who she is. Of course, she's a photographer and that's probably the only medium where I can name someone, but I still know who she is and that makes me feel a little less dumb. Mary Ellen was one of those nice, thoughtful judges who doesn't know she's supposed to be pushy or aggressive on TV but she did stand up for The Sucklord's awesomely elementary school clay sculpture of Gandalf, even in the face of Jerry Saltz's edited disdain, so she gets points from me.
Michelle Matson won when she transformed a tacky wooden faux totem pole into a headstone and crafted the paper skeleton sculpture. Looking at it in the photo it doesn't seem quite as thoughtful as it did in the episode, though. But there were a lot of restrictions in this challenge so it's not like anyone was going to make a masterpiece. The piece did speak to a personal event, she was the victim in a hit and run accident, and tried to make the personal universal so it was more than just tasteful living room art.
The same can't be said of Ugo's piece, cleverly titled Premier for the American audience that may or may not know it just means "first" in French. It was a busy red line drawing over a busy red background that looked like boutique hotel lobby art from 1997. He was very sexy and very French but his "art" was very artless and he got the boot. It wasn't completely unwarranted but he really could have saved himself for another week if he'd taken away the red background BEFORE showing the piece because at least the complex and clever shadow would have been visible and it wouldn't have been as hilariously bad and amateurish as this…
Because this was awful and really should have lost. Seriously, I was making deeper and more meaningful collages when I was cutting out Andy Gibb's picture from Sixteen and taping it to my closet door.
Bayeté has a decent resumé but between his self-portrait of him talking to himself about "selling out" by appearing on the show, which The Sucklord hilariously asks which one is the sell out and tells Bayeté that one won since he's here, and this, his first impression is superficial and literal. I pegged him as the likable professional who gets the early, shocking boot, but after this week, unless his work improves dramatically, his boot won't be shocking.


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Government should respect Article 19
Inclusion London responded to the inquiry by the Joint Committee of Human Rights, into the implementation of the right to independent living for disabled people, as guaranteed by Article 19, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Our submission argued that Article 19 was not being furthered by government policy. In fact, we argued, government policy in restricting eligibility for Disability Living Allowance, disability employment benefits, closing the Independent Living Fund, weakening the public sector equality duties and other policies ran directly counter to the letter and spirit of Article 19. We strongly welcomed the JCHR's inquiry and called for government policy to support independent living – including by reversing its restrictions to DLA and other policies.
To find out more information and to download Inclusion London's submission, visit our Policy page.


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New PacificoPosted by vernon adams | Google Webfonts | No Comments
Oxygen Font – more testingPosted by vernon adams | Free Fonts, Free Webfonts, Google Webfonts, newtypography, Oxygen, Oxygen Font | One Comment
Work on Oxygen has been many steps forward but even more steps back. Finally reaching the stage (close) where it's possible to imagine the fonts functioning well for their intended purpose. The final stages will include a lot of super-tweaking, to get the fonts as pixel perfect as possible at default desktop sizes on the more GUI heavy Gnu / Linux distros and desktops. Currently testing on the Gnomes, Mate, Cinnamon, KDE, and OpenBox, plus Android…
More Anton + works-in-progressPosted by vernon adams | Anton, chromebook, Free Fonts, Free Truetype Fonts, Free Webfonts, google chromebook, Google Webfonts | No Comments
'Bethany' (above)
'ABlock' (above) work in progress
'Bethany' (above)
'Bethany' (above), 'ABlock' and 'Venus-x' (below)
'Stokke' (below) work in progress
'Keemon' (below) work in progress
'Damion' & 'Skoma' (below)
'Anton' (below)
'Anton' (below)
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Rokkitt 2013-14Posted by vernon adams | Free Fonts, Free Truetype Fonts, Free Webfonts, Google Webfonts, newtypography, Rokkitt, Truetype Fonts | No Comments
Coming up are some minor overhauls to Rokkitt, plus finally finishing the italics, plus some more weights. Expect to see the new and improved weights coming online with Google Fonts in early 2014.
Bevan Rotund / BethanyPosted by vernon adams | Google Webfonts | No Comments
A new version of Bevan, re-tweaked, improved, and with slightly rounded corners.
Oxygen Sans Progress – new release coming!Posted by vernon adams | chromebook, Free Fonts, Free Truetype Fonts, Free Webfonts, google chromebook, Google Webfonts, KDE, Oxygen Font, Oxygen Sans, Truetype Fonts | 3 Comments
Finally getting some serious work done on Oxygen Sans. The 'plan' could be to get the Latin Regular and Bold weights to a major release state, then float the project onto KickStarter or Indiegogo, to fund some next major release stages; e.g. More weights, plus cyrillic.
Coda Font – IngressPosted by vernon adams | coda, Google Webfonts, ingress, niantic | No Comments
Coda Font is used extensively in Niantech Labs new game 'Ingress'.
New Oswald webfont + Mertz SansPosted by vernon adams | Free Fonts, Free Truetype Fonts, Free Webfonts, Google Webfonts, Mertz, newtypography, oswald, oswald webfont, oswald webfont, Truetype Fonts | No Comments
Oswald webfont now get's pulled over 683,000,000 times per week just from the Google font servers. That sort of usage deserves some extra functionality! Oswald has proved itself as a useful webfont, so it's a safe bet that more weights for people to play with is a good idea. Work is now under way to add at least 200, 500 and 800 weights. Above and below are examples of the thinnest and boldest weights that are being used in the interpolation set up to create an array of new weights.
Also, some good work has started on Mertz again. This may possibly form the basis of a commercial font release some day. Mertz is based on a 'mash up' of several old early Twentieth Century type designs, including some early cuts of Metro, Gill's Sans, and Nobel. Mertz is not a 'revival', or a purist study of old designs.
"Ramo Sans" – a reworking of RammettoPosted by vernon adams | Google Webfonts, Ramo Sans | No Comments
Rammetto started as a reworking of the old Stephenson Blake design from 1927, 'Basuto', with the addition of a set of lowercase characters, as the original Basuto design contained only uppercase characters. 'Ramo Sans' (working name) is the result of cleaning up the Rammetto design and then degrading it via some Inkscape filters before re-importing the svg outlines back into FontForge. Ramo Sans is imagined as a distinctive typeface to be used in graphic, display publishing such as magazines, posters and packaging.
'Jertzy' (Jinko x Mertz) plus More OswaldPosted by vernon adams | Google Webfonts, Jinko Sans, Mertz, metafont, metapost, newtypography, oswald, oswald webfont, Truetype Fonts | No Comments
'Jertzy' (working name) is a crossbreed between the Jinko and Mertz fonts. Work in progress, but it looks like it may be a handy font family some day.
Also, the next few months will see a major expansion and further improvements made to the Oswald webfonts. This work will include the introduction of a Cyrillic character set, and new weights to give Oswald web weights from 200 (Extra Light) to 700 (Bold), and possibly 800 and 900 too. Also developing a Metafont version of Oswald to aid even further expansion to expanded, condensed versions and genetic spin-offs.
Codename 'Seven' webfont – Playing with Metafont and MetapostPosted by vernon adams | Free Fonts, Free Truetype Fonts, Free Webfonts, Google Webfonts, Main Posts, metafont, metapost | No Comments
Metafont was devised by Donald Knuth in the late 1970′s to define vector fonts to be used as part of the TeX typesetting system. One characteristic of Metafont is that the forms and construction of glyphs are defined purely via geometrical equations. These equations can describe multiple fonts and the interpolation between them. Knuth devised this system so that the typesetter using TeX had access to, for example, multiple font weights from within a single Metafont file (a 'meta' font). Using Metapost based tools, we can interpret Metafont data to output as postscript fonts. So we can create fonts in the Metafont language and output an array of instances as web browser readable fonts.
'Seven' is a sans serif typeface (above), being created as part of a project to create families of related webfonts using Metafont data. The power of Metafont is that potentially large amounts of separate webfonts can be created from a single file. Not just the 'weight' of glyphs can be controlled, but also the glyph width, the 'roundness' of curves, aspect ratio, font slant, stroke width, and lots more. In the future, type could be produced, en masse, and on demand, by freedom loving fontbots.


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This book is a comprehensive text on scientific knowledge about sports-related concussion. It provides practical guidelines for evaluating mild head injury and making crucial return-to-play decisions for athletes at all levels, from school children through high school, college and professional players.
Chapters by national and international clinicians and researchers give essential information on the nature and prevalence of mild traumatic brain injury as well as pre and post-concussion assessment. It describes the effects of age and gender on athletic activity. The complex process of return-to-play decision making is examined in depth. Contents cover the spectrum from the most sophisticated evidence-based neurocognitive techniques to guidelines for counseling athletes.
While grounded in research, this book is practical and readable.
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Interest in sports-related brain injury has increased exponentially over the past 15 years. This increase has been generated by extensive media exposure and the retirement of several prominent professional athletes due to enduring symptoms following cerebral concussions. Concerns about player safety were raised by newspapers, television specials, and sports commentators. Professional leagues like the National Hockey League and the National Football League began to take a serious interest in cerebral concussions and player safety. This interest then cascaded to college programs, high school programs, and recreational athletes. Historically, neuropsychology has not been centrally involved in sports injuries despite the fact that neuropsychology has a long track record of studying mild traumatic brain injury in the general population, with pioneering work conducted by Harvey Levin, Dorothy Gronwall, Sureyya Dikman, and others. Neuropsychology only recently became involved in sports with the seminal work of Jeff Barth and his colleagues at the University of Virginia in the mid-1980's. Within a very short time frame, neuropsychology has become the cornerstone for the assessment and management of sports-related concussion (Aubrey et al., 2002).
The primary objective of this book is to provide clinical neuropsychologists and psychologist with an introduction to the rapidly emerging area of sports neuropsychology. The book is designed as a resource for the clinician on the diagnosis and management of concussion, the development of concussion management programs, consultation with sports teams, and interpretation of clinical data. The authors of the chapters were chosen because they are the leading figures in the field, and each bridges the gap between science and practice in his or her daily work. Although each of the chapters integrates the scientific literature with clinical practice, the focus of this book is largely clinical and is not intended to be an exhaustive review of the scientific literature.
The book is divided into five parts. Part I presents a historical context for the development of sports neuropsychology and ends with a discussion of the issues involved in consulting with sports teams. Part II provides an understanding of the pathophysiology of mild traumatic brain injury and the epidemiology of sports-related concussion. While neuropsychologists are largely involved with the evaluation of players days after injury, this section also outlines the process for making the real-time (sideline) decision of whether or not a player has sustained a concussion and whether of not he or she should be removed from play. The last chapter in this section describes the complexities inherent in the return-to-play decision-making process. For neuropsychologists, this is a unique position, since no other practice area of neuropsychology involves the act of deciding when it is safe to return a client to a situation where the risk of sustaining another brain injury is relatively high.
Part III provides the framework for clinicians and researchers who wish to develop concussion management or research programs for a variety of populations ranging form school-age children to professional athletes. The authors of these chapters have experienced the rewards and frustrations of developing programs where none had previously existed. The reader will benefit from a discussion of their successes and challenges when developing their own programs.
One of the exciting and promising developments in sports neuropsychology has been the development of computer platforms that allow for cost effective and efficient methods for assessing athletes. Which computer program should a clinician choose when establishing a new concussion management program? Part IV describes the four major computerized assessment programs. The authors describe their programs, summarize the reliability and validity studies that have been conducted, discuss interpretative strategies and provide case examples.
Sports neuropsychologists work closely with professionals from other disciplines who are involved with athletes on a daily basis. Part V introduces the perspectives of a team physician and a certified athletic trainer, who provide the reader with information regarding the nature of their training and their role in working with injured athletes, and discuss how neuropsychology has been incorporated into their practice.
In closing, I would like to thank the authors who contributed to this book for their scholarship, hard work, and support in the development and completion of this project. I would also like to thank the teams, coaches and players who have trusted us with their care.


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So how is it that after nearly a decade of ridiculous security theater at the airport — from taking off our shoes and belts to the body scanners introduced years ago, but only taken notice of this week, the U.S. suddenly erupted into a frenzy of TSA hatred that captured both the left and the right? Well…
It started with a Libertarian activist — Libertarians being all the rage since Ron Paul and the tea parties came along — who decided to go through airport security, and low and behold, to videotape his experience. Now how did it just so happen that this kid was rolling when his proverbial junk was getting touched? If you were wondering that this week, I guess I'm you. From Moe Tkacik at the Washington City Paper, a bit of background about the anti-junk touching activist in question:
What has gone under-appreciated in the media frenzy over John Charles "Don't Touch My Junk" Tyner III is that he was preceded in his online activism by one Meg "Smeg" McLain, who first raised a shitstorm over her personal traumatic experience of being physically violated whole days before Tyner embarked upon his hunting trip. On a libertarian radio show to which she regularly contributes, McLain shared her Orwellian tale of being "singled out" for a body scan and when she refused, placed in solitary confinement and submitted to a 30-minute lecture about terrorism at the hands of a nasty TSA apparatchik who mocked her for having "opinions" and ripped her plane ticket in half before summoning 12 fellow agents and cops to handcuff her and drag her out of the airport. The only reason this wasn't a wayyyyy sexier story than Don't Touch My Junk guy was that it seemed—after all, as one of the libertarian hosts pointed out, McLain is "smokin' hot" albeit in a "Nickelback on iPod" sort of way—was because the TSA quickly released surveillance video suggesting that maybe McLain had, in her post-traumatic state, stretched the truth juuuust a bit.
But Das Krapital would much like to see McLain re-instated as the lead star of the #tsa meme—not least because she belongs to Free Keene, an intriguing community of liberty activists in Keene, N.H., probably best-known for its organization, in warmer months, of a ritual called Topless Tuesdays, in which young libertarian ladies, led by the lovely (and libertar-ially tattooed) Cassidy Nicosia, parade through the streets exposing their nipples like the socialists used to, sometimes while carrying guns.
I can't find McLain in the movement's relatively chaste footage of these inspiring acts of civil disobedience, but Keene is a very small town—so small the Free Keene movement's goal of getting 20,000 "liberty minded" people to move there would nearly double the population. So it's no surprise that McLain and Nicosia are friends on Facebook and, most likely, judging from their mutual attendance at this 420-themed thing and probably a bunch of other events extensively documented on the Internet that I don't have time to find right now, in real life also. But since McLain seems like the Free Keene movement's designated airport anarchist—according to this interview she often attempts to fly without showing ID—it was probably a good idea to "opt out" of getting herself arrested for flashing her tits to the general public before she got the opportunity to be arrested for refusing to show them to the TSA.
So who exactly are these Free Keene people? Do go on…
The Free Keene movement was founded by a political science professor at SUNY Buffalo named Jason Sorens, an affiliated scholar of the ardently free-market Mercatus Center at George Mason University, which was in turn funded, and is bankrolled in large part, by famous billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. The project dates back to 2001, when Sorens, then a Yale PhD., published an essay in the Libertarian Enterprise calling for a "secessionist" project by which all the nation's foes of big government would migrate to various clusters of freedom scattered across the union with the goal of eventually annexing territories and liberating them from laws, or something like that. The essay made the rounds, and the next year Sorens got a fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies, which is also located at George Mason and funded by Charles and David Koch. There, Sorens had rebranded his "secession" movement into something called the Free States Project, which proceeded to host a 10-state convention tour of sorts to determine the ideal location to host a kind of Zionist movement for disenfranchised lovers of liberty.
… Sorens, who also got help from another Koch scholar named Peter Eyre, eventually fixed on New Hampshire, where according to this story the nebulous movement proceeded buying up properties under the names of various limited liability corporations. At some point the movement migrated south from Grafton, N.H., to Keene, and Sorens delegated responsibility to Ian "Freeman" Bernard, the host of a syndicated radio show called Free Talk Live and an apparently brilliant guerilla marketing mind. Since he joined the movement, the Keeniacs have garnered national attention for stunts like Topless Tuesdays and calling for intellectual comrades to drink alcohol on public property in protest of the tyranny that is the local open container statute. On the subtler side, Bernard seems to have wooed the hearts and minds of liberty minded individuals turned off by the Tea Party Movement …
So what does that have to do with airport security? Well, it seems that John Charles Tyner decided to take his iPhone to the airport and record an incident, which he then uploaded to Youtube. He picks up a link from Matt Drudge, and Presto! He's "the business traveler's Rosa Parks." (Jesus…)
Still, as the folks at Gawker point out, this, like the tea party movement, is something of a velvet revolution, since whether it's the so-called "porno scanners" or the infamous pat down (I've had one, it's really not that spectacular…) Americans are on the TSA's side:
More Americans think 9/11 was an inside job than oppose naked X-ray screenings at airports. But the ones who oppose the X-rays happen to have access to your televisions and computers, so America is freaking out about the TSA.
The poll data is about as stark as it gets: 81% of respondents to a CBS News poll say they support full-body X-rays at airports, while 15% were opposed. (The number who think planted explosives brought down the Twin Towers: 16%). There aren't many U.S. policies that receive such widespread support, and that poll was taken just a week and a half ago. Back in January, a Gallup poll found that 78% of frequent travelers support scans that display "a graphic image of a person's body underneath his or her clothes."
n other words, America is overwhelmingly, categorically, and incontrovertibly unconcerned about naked x-rays. So why are we all freaking out about naked x-rays? Politico's Ben Smith sums it up:
There's no doubt about who won on this issue: Matt Drudge chose it and drove it, illustrating both his continued power and his great sense of the public mood, and it now seems a matter of time until he gets results.
Smith is right that the TSA freakout is a classic example of the Drudge-driven bullshit story. But it goes beyond that. Drudge's obsession with the scanners—and the junk-touching that, it needs to be repeated, only comes into play for folks who refuse to go through the scanners—fits in with his general paranoid worldview. But it also fits in with the fact that he flies all the time. He told the London Times that he spends 30% of his time traveling, and does things like fly to London on a whim for dinner. Most of the producers, reporters, writers, and other assorted hacks who followed Drudge's instructions to concoct a populist revolt against the scanners also fly all the time. They're among the 16% who oppose them because they don't want, personally, to have to go through them.
Even after the media freak out, 64 percent of Americans continue to approve of the TSA procedures, with those who fly more frequently objecting slightly more than those who don't. That proves two things: the media badgering worked to sour public opinion, but public opinion never did reinforce the breadth and clamour of the media coverage.
Worse, it turns out that while there are genuine stories of TSA horror, and many people who've traveled by plane, myself included, have been annoyed at the TSA's procedures and hold-ups, many of the most egregious tales are in fact false. That little boy wasn't made to take his shirt off – his dad took it off. There are no exceptions for Muslim women in hijabs. And the "don't touch my junk" guy didn't react to a spontaneous act of groin touching by an overzealous agent. He set the whole thing up to gain attention for his Libertarian cause. And of course, the story place neatly into the wingersphere's paranoid fantasies about Barack Obama rounding them up and putting them in dog pens, or whatever dastardly deed Beck and those fatheads at Big Government are dreaming up this week.
So why is this story getting so much airtime?
1. Because media people travel a lot, so this story interests them.
2. Because the story is a great holiday mover during what's normally a slow media season
3. Because it's a great opportunity to restate a catchy phrase over and over again, plus a way to milk that damned SNL clip for all it's bloody worth.
And once again, the left has proved a useful partner to the far right on this one, since the sturm and drang over the pat downs received by like 2 percent of passengers has now opened the door to the people, like Florida's John Mica, who have wanted all along to prevent the TSA from replacing the former private system with one of professional federal employees who god forbid might be unionized. Instead, the Micas of the world are now pushing to re-privatize airport security, which will benefit airport security corporations like the one former Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff lobbies for, even more than the public system has — and the public system has been very, very good to Michael Chertoff (and to Tom Daschle's wife, who also lobbies for a security concern. Did I mention Daschle was also a cosponosr of the the legislation that created the TSA in 2001? So was John McCain, and a then-Rep. Jim DeMint…) Oh, and Mica takes lots of money from those companies who would benefit from privatization… and of course, Ron Paul has introduced a bill to abolish the TSA altogether (and let the private airlines profile people however they want.)
In the end, it's all just media roulette, with the only sure winner being the corporate interests who profit while the rest of us squabble over whether to put our shoes in a separate container or the same one as our handbags.
As for the machines — maybe they'll eventually be replaced by something equally profitable for someone, we'll have to take off some other article of clothing in response to the next creative would-be bomber, and the vicious cycle will continue. Or maybe the suddenly national security unconscious GOP will succeed in removing all impediments to flying that might inconvenience their friends (better to just profile the "Muslim looking people) and the better to blame Barack Obama the next time an airliner gets blown up.
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Nobody likes cleaning up someone else's mess. That's particularly true of illegal dump sites. Bags of garbage, sofas and old tires discarded by the roadside do not present a favorable first impression of our region to visitors.
We all bear the cost when it comes to cleaning up these dumps. Instead of valuable tax dollars going to fund schools, roads and utilities, these public funds are often used to pay government employees and private citizens to clean up discarded tires, old refrigerators and garbage dumped in rural communities.
It just shows how thoughtless and lazy a few of the residents of our area can be. Unfortunately, few of these illegal dumpers are ever punished for their contemptible behavior.
The problem is catching litterbugs in the act. Law enforcement officials say they have neither the manpower nor the resources to patrol for littering violations. Modern technology, however, may be able to catch these litter bugs. Many communities are now installing hidden cameras in remote areas where illegal dumping occurs.
You can help by keeping an eye out for litterbugs. If you see someone tossing trash out a car window, take down their license plate number and call the proper authorities.
You can also help by participating in litter cleanup and beautification projects in your community. Neighborhood associations in Johnson City often sponsor litter and household hazardous waste cleanup days. Get involved in these programs.


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Last week, a tornado touched down in Harrisburg, Ill., creating a path of destruction that could be seen for miles. The storm had a big impact on our newspaper there as one of our employees lost two family members in the storm.
The three-person Daily Register newsroom used a ton of really good tools during the coverage of the storm, but two that I found to be very interesting were their Hot Links and their breaking news bar.
Hot Links is the area under the navigation. It's usually a position to put links to trending things that people are talking about, like controversial issues in a community or new initiatives a newspaper is rolling out. It's pretty obvious what the breaking news bar is meant for.
The newspaper used the Hot Links area to put severe weather alerts to cities or counties they cover. It was a terrific way to get information to readers without having to write a long story with information about each community's weather. It also helped readers who landed on the site find information about the town they were most interested in.
The breaking news bar was used to get news out to readers as it was breaking. But in addition, the paper used the bar to communicate with readers. For example, GateHouse decided to pull the pay meter off of the site last week and the paper used the breaking news bar to promote that fact. The paper produced a few special sections and promoted those sections in that breaking news bar. One of the great things about that breaking news bar is that you can change the words "breaking news" to say what you want, like "a message to our readers."
On a daily basis, it's pretty clear how to use the Hot Links and breaking news bar areas, but when something significant like a tornado breaks out, it's great to see our sites use the tools they have in creative and innovative ways.
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Crowds gather as demolition work on Memorial Coliseum continues
Reaction to demolition mixed
CORPUS CHRISTI - Some people drove by slowly, windows down, staring open-mouthed at the rubble.
Others honked their car horns, shouting hoots of approval.
A small gathering of people sat quietly across the street, saying their goodbyes.
Demolition crews ripped off the facade of Memorial Coliseum and its exterior walls Thursday, beginning the first steps of demolition.
The building will be gone in 45 to 50 days, A&R Demolition project manager Vernon Carr said.
Pedro Martinez, 67, and his wife, Anita, attended dances, their daughter's graduation and concerts in the building. They sat silently watching the crews from a bench across the street. Tears welled in his eyes when he talked about moments there.
"We have a lot of memories," he said. "They should have never destroyed it."
Despite legal proceedings that delayed demolition for nearly two months, Carr said crews haven't seen any protesters or encountered any problems since asbestos removal work began last week.
No problems other than scores of cockroaches crawling from beneath the walls, he added.
The architectural demolition of the walls should be complete by Saturday, he said.
Next, crews will take asbestos material off the roof.
Workers then will remove the seating and anything else inside the building.
Crews will determine how much time it takes to safely remove seats and sell them based on that cost, Carr said. No price is set yet.
The last thing to go will be the roof and supporting beams.
The demolition drew people from out of town to watch.
Matt Roach drove from Woodsboro to photograph the work with two friends. He grew up near Corpus Christi and has mixed feelings about the demolition.
Rene Ramirez, who drove from McAllen to watch, said he contacted city officials months ago, trying to convince them to convert the building into a transit station.
Most gathering to watch the demolition didn't want to see it go.
"This was more than just a building. It was a memorial," said Kay Ledbetter Donovan, a Corpus Christi resident.
Judi Gutierrez, a military wife who said she valued the building's designation as a World War II memorial, said after the city neglected the building's upkeep, the memorial wasn't the same. Still, she didn't want to see it go.
"It lost what it was meant to be," she said. "I sure hope whatever they put up here honors that."
Memorial Coliseum opened in 1954 and served as the city's main event center until the American Bank Center opened in 2004. The City Council voted to demolish it in February after more than five years trying to find an adaptive reuse.
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Travis Dean Bell was given one year of the five years to serve in the Jones County Law Enforcement Center with credit for the time he has served since his Dec. 7, 2012, arrest. The remainder of his sentence may be served on probation.
Bell was arrested with Matthew Kyle Walton and Timothy Jacob Parsons, who were involved with several burglaries that occurred in the same neighborhood.
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Man arrested for fake theme park tickets | tickets, lim, park - Entertainment - The Orange County Register
I hope this isn't posted elsewhere on the site, as the search feature isn't working today for me. And I cannot seem to get past page three (is the site not functioning properly?)
Anyway, $40K - wow. That seems like far more than they should have gotten away with. Who wouldn't notice after, say, the first 20K?
To me this quote is laughable: "More than 10 victims reported that they purchased tickets they were unable to use at parks, [Cpl. Andy] Luong said"