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ATLANTA (AP) _ The niece of a 92-year-old woman killed by
Atlanta police officers who fired 39 shots into her home during a
botched drug raid sued the city and the police department today on
the one-year anniversary of the slaying.
The lawsuit in Fulton County State Court, which seeks
unspecified damages, alleges racketeering, civil rights violations,
assault, false imprisonment and negligence in the November 21st,
2006, death of Kathryn Johnston at her Neal Street home in Atlanta.
It alleges the officers who raided Johnston's home violated her
rights against unreasonable searches and seizures and the use of
unreasonable and excessive deadly force. The state racketeering
allegation involves several overt acts, including homicide and
witness tampering.
Named as defendants are the city of Atlanta, Atlanta Police
Chief Richard Pennington and five other current and former police
The lawsuit also seeks an injunction against the city to stop
police from violating anyone else's civil rights.
An attorney for the city, Jerry De Loach, declined to comment.
He said the city has yet to be served with the lawsuit and wants to
review it before responding.
Tonight, Franklin, Pennington and police officers were among
about 100 people taking part in a candlelight service at the
Lindsay Street Baptist Church. After the ceremony, a group holding
lighted candles and led by Johnston family spokesman Markel
Hutchins walked a few blocks to the elderly woman's house where
they released some doves.
Pennington said he had no comment about the lawsuit, but hoped
that through the service, which was sponsored by the police
department, city officials could show their sincerity of their
remorse over the incident.
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Black skirt tetras?
I'm not positive if this is in the right spot so feel free to move :)
I was thinking of getting 6 black skirt tetras for a 20 gallon (is that to many?) and I was wondering if you guys think they would be aggressive towards african dwarf frogs? I've heard their only bad when it comes to fin nipping, so would the frogs be ok? Also, would a black skirts be a threat to corys?
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Cories will be okay. I have not kept frogs but I doubt they'll ever try to harass the frogs.
Ok thanks you :D :D
I didn't think so, but I guess ill try it and see how they like them. The good thing about them is that they can be moved to a small 5 gallon - 10 gallon if they bullied :)
your frogs should be ok but give them hiding spots. People underestimate the power of frogs, they could easily be the ones to bully your tetras and cories :-)
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"A Night at the Museum" was a movie my family had been looking forward to watching, and we weren't disappointed at all. This movie was funny and action-packed, while still throwing in bits and pieces of history without the kids realizing it.
"A Night at the Museum" features actor Ben Stiller as Larry Daley, a divorced dad who can't keep a job or an apartment, who still continues to believe his luck is going to change at any time. At the beginning of the movie, he is facing eviction again and his ex-wife tells him that maybe their son would be better off not visiting his dad until he gets his life together. The threat of losing his child is enough to make Daley find a stable job, and he ends up accepting the position of night watchman at the local historical museum.
Daley is expecting a quiet night at the museum, but not long after he arrives and locks up for the night, the exhibits come alive. The giant T-rex skeleton races down the hall after him, the miniature cowboys in the Wild West exhibit tie him to a train track and run a steam train into his head, and the lions try to eat him for supper. Daley survives the night and things go better the following evening, when he's prepared for the nighttime antics of the exhibits. But a few nights later when Daley's son comes to spend the night at the museum with him, the former night watchmen decide to rob the museum. Things get interesting as Daley, his son and all the various exhibits, from cavemen to Attila the Hun, realize they have to work together to save the museum.
The plot line moved so quickly that we were surprised the movie was over so soon. There was a little minor violence and bloodshed when the bad guys fight Daley, but nothing most kids can't handle. This movie was a great delight to all three of my kids, ages 8, 10 and 13, while still being fun for adults to watch. We can't wait for this one to come out on DVD. Liz DeCarlo
"A Night at the Museum" is PG-rated.
Mayor Daley's "Holiday Sports Festival"
The post-Christmas blues will vanish when you dust off your sneakers and head out to Mayor Daley's "Holiday Sports Festival." This festival has been a highlight on our family's calendar for the past three years. If this year is the same as in years past, you can introduce your kids to a cornucopia of sports and remarkably, it's all free.
At the end of a long journey down the McCormick Place corridors, you'll be rewarded with the ultimate sports experience. Throughout the three - day festival, there are ongoing volleyball, soccer, basketball and floor hockey tournaments as well as gymnastics meets. The table tennis tournament is a treat, since it's rare to watch one live. (The speed and agility of the players will amaze you.)
This festival isn't just about watching, though. It's also about giving kids a first-hand experience with a variety of sports. You can bring your own balls for the open volleyball and basketball courts, but also seek out games that are out-of-the-ordinary for your family. At the fishing "pond," kids receive individualized instruction on how to cast a line (don't worry, there aren't any hooks), and then try to score a prize by landing their lure in a bucket. The tennis area also offers one-on-one attention. Last year, my (then) 5-year-old triplets received a 30-minute private tennis lesson from enthusiastic instructors.
The giant climbing walls are an exciting challenge for many, though my kids were too short last year. Novice climbers are surrounded and supported by the pros, who help lift and land climbers safely. At the golf course section, kids use plastic clubs to practice driving, chipping and putting. Less subdued is the football obstacle course, where kids run with a football down the field, around rings and cones and over hurdles. My kids felt like hot stuff when they (finally) crossed the finish line.
There's also a timed 50-yard dash (out-of-shape adults, beware-you might strain something), hockey, martial arts, skateboarding, football, boxing, badminton, cheerleading-and if that's not enough, head for the giant inflatable slide. You can find activities for the wee ones at the tot zone-last year it housed tricycles, little pedal cars, an inflatable obstacle course and mini-gymnastics area with rings to hang from.
This year, aerobic and yoga classes will interest teens and parents, as will health screenings and lectures on nutrition from personal trainers. Need more motivation? Sign up for the 15th Annual Race to Taste 5K Run/2-Mile Walk in summer 2007. It's a $5 fee here instead of the usual $20 (pay by cash or check only). Jill S. Browning
"Holiday Sports Festival" Dec. 28-30, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (Tournaments may be later or earlier, depending on the sport; check www.cityofchicago.org.) Free. McCormick Place in Halls A & B. 2301 S. Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago.
"Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker"
My parents, my little sister and I made some popcorn and watched "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker" on DVD. We all had a good time with this movie.
Alex Rider is a James Bond-type movie except it is fit for kids. There is no blood or bad language, but there is violence.
I liked it because it had a good story line and was fun to watch. At the beginning of the movie a guy is hanging upside down out of a helicopter over a moving car. There were some really great chase scenes including one on a bike, one on a motorcycle and one on a horse. It was a great action-packed movie. The only thing I didn't like was the cheesy bad guys. I would say that this movie is good for all ages above 6 for the violence. It may be a bit scary if you're younger. Alek Pedersen
"Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker" is rated PG.
The Little WoWo: My First Nursing Pillow claims to allow young children to be like their parents by having their very own nursing pillow. My 3-year-old daughter has enjoyed using her pillow, although she tries to hold her baby sister on it. She likes that she can hold her dolls on it and pretend to nurse them.
My daughter loved the ballerina design and the details on the pillow. She also loved using the burp cloth as a blanket for her dolls. The bottle is optional and the price is $1 less without it. There are enough dolls that come with bottles that a toy that is supposed to promote the benefits of breastfeeding does not need to come with a bottle. I would recommend this product-my daughter has enjoyed using it.
This is a well made, very cute toy. My daughter loves the fabric and the burp cloth got a lot of play when it first got here. The only problem I see with it is that they are all trimmed with pom-pons. I know this is a toy for children over 3, but it is marketed at people with babies as well. The pom-pons are very cute, but not necessary and are tempting for the little ones to chew on. Michelle Fisher-Rohde
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Stockton, MO -- May 27, 2004 -- Hammons Pantry of Stockton, Missouri is conducting a voluntary recall on its distribution of raw whole almonds, produced by Paramount Farms of California and packaged as "Hammons Pantry whole almonds," due to the possibility of contamination with Salmonella enteritidis. The recalled almonds are packed in 8 oz. or 16 oz. packages under the Hammons Pantry label, or in 5 pound boxes, and were purchased between October 2, 2003 and May 25, 2004.
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that ended up really nice - great job
Hi all,
This is an encounter map for an adventure by Silver Crescent Publishing for its Realms of Twilight campaign setting. Basically, the PCs are travelling through some trackless wastes and are ambushed by a tribe of scary barbarian type halflings called "nightlings". They're well hidden in the hills surrounding the PCs and have nasty blowguns. Halfway through the battle a group of shadows, attracted by the combat, burst onto the scene - the area is fairly infused with necromantic energy. It's one of those battles you love to hate as a player.
The WiP thread is here. I learned a lot working on this map and I may be doing more in a similar style if the publisher and I can work out an arrangement (we're trying to do a services barter sort of thing, since we're both small publishers).
Hope you like it.
that ended up really nice - great job
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A fine map!
Nice colors, good atmosphere. Well done!
Bravo! Well done...
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Thanks all. I'll apparently be doing a couple more of these for Silver Crescent as well as a map of a castle - in exchange the publisher is going to help me with some of the fuzzy bits of my mythology/cosmology, something at which I do not excel. So. Look for more of these in the coming weeks.
Great atmosphere! Nice map. Love the trees and all the detail in the ground -- so realistic!
BTW, I really like how the ground turned out too. I used a picture of cracked ground found at www.imageafter.com and edited out the out-of-scale stuff (grass, etc.) using clone stamp and paint tools. Then I separated out the cracks (dark) and little brush debris (light) into two layers so that I could amp them up while toning down the background texture. All of the little scrub and bone-like bits are painted into separate layers using sampled brushes that I got from a covermount disc in an issue of ImagineFX - $17 magazine on fantasy painting, but worth every penny.
I'll just put the others in this series here as I do them. This is an encounter with some ?werewolves? at a campsite in an area of grasslands. Same WiP thread as before.
Edit: BTW, the hokey titling on thise probably won't be on the finals. It's just something I added while working on them...providing flattened, unlabled files to the client.
I just love the realism! This one is going straight into my Inspiration folder (or my "mearrin69" folder into my Inspiration folder )


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Statehouse Beat : Power in Legislature is fluid
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- House Speaker Rick Thompson contends that a new Ethics Commission decision holding the speaker and Senate president to higher ethical standards than other legislators could effectively bar the two leaders from having jobs outside state government.
Which might not be a bad idea. Making the two leadership positions full-time jobs, with salaries in the $95,000 range (equal to state auditor, treasurer or secretary of state) would be a small price to pay to avoid potential conflicts of interest with powerful interest groups.
Thompson, D-Wayne, contends that the state Ethics Commission, in its ruling, has overstated the authority the House speaker and Senate president have over their respective bodies. He said members of a part-time citizen Legislature will inevitably have conflicts over bills that could benefit themselves or their employers, and that the House and Senate have recusal rules for those circumstances.
Of course, there's a big distinction between a teacher-legislator voting on the school aid formula and the most powerful member of the House entering into a legal counsel contract with a large, powerful state teachers union.
Thompson is correct to say that power in the Legislature is fluid: On a close passage vote, an obscure but uncommitted delegate can momentarily be the most powerful member of the Legislature.
However, the Ethics Commission was correct to say that the speaker and president should be held to greater ethical standards when it comes to outside employment -- both in terms of reality and perception. (Does anyone really believe that Thompson's predecessor, Bob Kiss, was hired by a Charleston law firm in 2004 strictly because he was the best available tax attorney?)
Making the speaker and president full-time positions isn't that farfetched. In 2011, Thompson drew total compensation as speaker of $52,100 while Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Marshall, drew $48,200.
In addition to the $20,000 legislative base salary, the speaker and president receive an additional $150-a-day compensation for each day the Legislature is in session, in interim meetings and for other days spent "attending to legislative business."
Thus, Thompson worked a total of 214 days -- 67 in regular and extended session, 13 in special session, 24 in interim meetings, and 110 days attending to legislative business. Kessler had a total of 188 days.
Considering that a normal work-year, with four weeks' vacation and six paid holidays, is 235 days, the speaker and president's jobs aren't too far away from being full time already. Throw in all the extra holidays that state employees get, and it's almost a wash.
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The Media Center, the Charleston-based satellite uplink and video production company owned by Joe Stevens and Dan Shreve that does a lot of live video feeds for state agencies, will be doing live segments during Pittsburgh Pirates pre-game shows on the Root Sports Pittsburgh network.
Stevens says they'll be doing live shots from Appalachian Power Park, with interviews of Pirates prospects on the West Virginia Power. Which should be a good opportunity to showcase the ballpark and city on a network available on cable systems throughout most of Pennsylvania, most of West Virginia, eastern Ohio, western Maryland and upstate New York.
By the way, some of the most recent work Media Center has done for the state are uplinks for the January 11 State of the State address ($2,000, paid by the Educational Broadcasting Authority), coverage of the Tomblin inauguration Nov. 13 ($9,100, paid by the governor's office), and live uplinks from the secretary of state's office for the Oct. 4 special gubernatorial election ($2,800).
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Finally, I hadn't picked up a copy of Columbia Journalism Review for quite some time, so when I happened upon the current issue, I was surprised to find that not only has the magazine has added a feature called "Open Bar," profiling bars around the country popular with journalists, but that the issue's featured bar is Charleston's own Red Carpet Lounge.
Among "distinguishing features", it cites the bar's signature red carpet, along with its five video lottery machines, and notes, "Smoking was banned in 2008, but resinous walls still evoke a more decadent past."
Under "who drinks there," it states, "Blue-collar locals, plus journalists, lawmakers, legislative staffers, and lobbyists from the nearby state Capitol."
Among "celebrity sightings," it lists Nick Nolte (I'll relate my favorite Nick Nolte at the Carpet story at a later date, if anyone's interested) and the late Leslie Nielsen, whom the article notes was "a fan of the Mountain State."
In the "off the record" category, it notes, "If someone invokes the "Red Carpet privilege," it means everything you hear is on background." (Actually, under the RCP, all conversations at the Carpet are deemed to be on background.)
It wraps up by misstating the bar's nickname as "Carpay Rouge." Actually, it's "Carpe Rouge," a fractured Latin/French translation of the bar's name.
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Homeless nerds
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"So they basically smell not too good but are computer-savvy"
Homeless nerds, found in every major city, can be identified by their thick-rimmed glasses, tattered laptop cases, and plastic bags full of assorted cables and surge protectors. Homeless nerds often roam around the subway looking for wifi hotspots and batteries, but recently they have begun to form gangs. These gangs wander the streets, mugging businessmen for their laptops and starting gang fights over whether Kirk or Picard was the better captain.
Although nerds have graced the planet since the early 80s it wasn't until the early 00s that many nerds lost their comfortable place in their mother's basements and were sent out among the homeless. Homeless nerds can now be seen all across the many metropolises that grace this fine earth. The most notable cities to find large Homeless Nerd populations are: Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, London, and Ludington, North Carolina.
One Homeless Nerd was quoted as saying after he was removed from his home. "She called it freeloading, next thing I knew I was out on the street. Just me, my laptop, and a Netstumbler." This same nerd was later relocated to a Foster Basement.
Homeless Nerd Shelters
Luckily various Nerd relocation programs have begun due to the efforts of youth at Atom's College. Many of the previously homeless nerds are finding places to stay in foster mother's basements. Also, many of the previously homeless nerds are settling for rooms over garages, attics, and trailers; thus allowing for wider placement of nerds.
"We cannot allow Nerds, homeless or otherwise to be subjected to the streets. They need special care." Said Gabriel Legend during one of her rare interviews. The elusive writer, and nerd's rights activist is also the foster mom of several previously homeless nerds. "They were all troubled nerds. It's hard to find a place for them. Society doesn't want them. The other homeless don't want to be seen hanging out with them or even sitting near them at lunch."
However, others are less interested in helping the homeless nerds and supporting nerd shelters. "Enough is enough," said the director of San Francisco's Homeless Support Network. "We're willing to put up with the alcoholics, the knife-wielding schizophrenics, and the heroin addicts. But we're drawing the line at nerds. I mean, it's one thing to have people harassing pedestrians for beer money, passed out on the sidewalks, or defecating on the streets. But these guys are really uncool and they're making the streets of our fair city totally lame. I mean, DC -where most of the homeless are former jocks and cheerleaders- is making fun of us. Who will want to be our friend as long as we've got these guys hanging around?"
Nerd gangs
Nerd gangs are most notable by their unusual tag sign (sometimes referred to as WARchalk) and their unusual style of dress. The Noobs and Hackers are names synonomous with Hell's Angels/Grannies in nerds. Their strong influence can be seen not only online but also on the many subways, buses, and airports of this planet.
Nerd gangs are most active during the daylight hours, enraged by the sunlight on their sensitive skin. Nighttime is the best time to avoid Nerd gangs, unless you live in Europe in which case it is safer to avoid traveling alone at any time. Too many people have suddenly turned around as they were going home and found their laptop creaking in the wind, an empty shell thanks to the attention of a nerd with fast reflexes and a screwdriver.
Tips to avoid homeless nerds and nerd gangs
- Carry a bar of soap and a comb. Few things keep a nerd at bay like the threat of good personal hygiene.
- Travel with female companions. The thought of having to interact or maybe even speak to a woman will make nerds too nervous to aproach.
- Avoid places where nerds hang out. It is wise to avoid all hotspots, particularly Panera Bread, or any gaming shop after hours. Never carry a laptop case; they will steal it in hopes of finding software disks or extra RAM. Also it is wise to refrain from using PDA devices in public. Many of the homeless nerd population find PDA devices very appealing. They are also known to steal calculators, light up pens, and batteries. It is best not to carry or advertise the use of any of these items in areas known to harbor nerds.
- Be on your guard for LAN party hijacking. In extreme cases, nerds have simply wandered or hacked into a network while the actual user was away, slowly resulting in a building completly overun with 48 Hour long sessions of Starcraft and mass Everquest or Runescape clans, often moving as a colective unit. The building often has to be evacuated by non-nerds as highly skilled nerd recovery teams coax them from their computers or laptops, using caffeinated beverages and Cheetos as bait. In very bad cases, the building has been abandoned to the nerds, and often becomes a nerd shelter when the authorities manage to get into the unused rooms.
- Ask him what he thought about Attack of the Clones. While the nerd works himself into a fever ranting about the poor acting, Jar Jar Binks, and the superiority of the Battle of Hoth to the computer generated special effects, you can make your getaway. You can also mention Lucas' decision to make Greedo fire first in the Special Edition of Star Wars.
What to look for
It's really not that hard to spot and avoid a homeless nerd, due to their outrageous attire, which may include(but is not limited to) the follwing items:
- Lab Coats
- Trenchcoats
- Wooly Jumpers
- Combat jeans
- Tinfoil
- Large rucksacks
- Glasses of any kind
How to help
There are a number of ways to help homeless nerds. First of all, donate your time or money to the local nerd shelter, nerd soup kitchen or nerd charity. To help socialize the nerd, try to engage him in conversation about non-nerdy topics, such as girls or sports. Dispose of your old technology properly. Left lying around in street, it can easy attract nerds, who will then fight over it. On your front lawn.
Don't give nerds money. The nerds will typically say that the money is for food, a cup of coffee, or a bus ticket. In reality, they will spend it to support their ribald habits and blow the money on Dungeons and Dragons dice, memory for their laptop, and their online gaming addiction. Giving the nerd money only encourages him to continue acting as a nerd.
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Missouri's Madison producing, this time as starter
Thursday, September 22, 2011
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When Brad Madison signed his letter of intent, Missouri knew it nabbed a talented offensive lineman.
But one of the Big 12's best defensive ends?
"He is one of the great recruiting stories of all time," coach Gary Pinkel said. "I wish we made that mistake more often."
The 6-4, 265-pound junior from Bethany, Mo., made only two starts last season in place of injured Aldon Smith, now with the San Francisco 49ers, but made the most of his opportunities. He led the team with 7.5 sacks and 11 tackles for loss, and tied for the team lead with two forced fumbles, working his way into the regular rotation early in the season.
Now, he's a big producer as a full-time starter.
After recording a sack and four tackles for loss in a 69-0 rout over Western Illinois on Saturday night, Madison again leads the team in sacks (3) and tackles for loss (5) heading into the Big 12 opener at top-ranked Oklahoma. He also forced a fumble against Western Illinois tying him with Brayden Burnett for the team lead.
"I'm just trying to work hard every day and whatever happens, happens," Madison said. I'm trying to come out every week and be more consistent that I was last year."
Like virtually all of the starters, Madison is fresh for this week's challenge. The Sooners are three-touchdown favorites to get revenge for the Tigers' upset in Columbia, Mo., last year that knocked them from No. 1.
Madison had only 27 plays against Western Illinois, compared to 60 or more during a normal game. Missouri allowed only 44 total yards and a single first down.
"We did everything almost perfect in that game," Madison said. "People may look at the opponent and say 'Wow, they're a bad team,' but we did everything right.
"We played a flawless game, I think."
A second-team All-Big 12 selection last year and a preseason first-team pick this year, Madison says the accolades don't add any additional pressure. The key, he says, is to remain focused on the task at hand.
Two years ago, the job was switching sides of the ball. After playing offensive line on the scout team his redshirt year in 2008, he moved over to defensive end in 2009 and played in 12 of 13 games.
"It was pretty big," Madison said. "It's a completely different game. But I played that in high school, so it was something I was kind of used to, so it was all right."
Madison was an all-state offensive lineman his senior year in high school and all-conference as a defensive lineman.
He's found a home, saying it was "definitely" the right decision.
"It's fun," Madison said. "You don't get to do a lot on the offensive line. It's fun getting a sack and getting back there."
Despite being a junior alongside three seniors on the line, Madison is carving a leadership role for himself through work ethic.
"One of the great things about him is his great motor," Pinkel said. "He has one speed, and it's flat go. It's a great visual aid for all our players, too. They see what we're talking about with 'selling out every single play.' That's what he does. Those kind of guys can make things happen."
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Author(s): Zorzo AF, Romanovsky A, Randell B, Stroud RJ, Welch I, Xu J
Abstract: Coordinated Atomic actions (CA actions) provide a scheme for coordinating complex concurrent activities and supporting error recovery between multiple interacting objects in a distributed object-oriented system. In this paper we show how CA actions can be applied to two different areas: safety-critical systems and fault-tolerant parallel systems. We have used a Production Cell case study to show how we can use CA actions to control a safety-critical system, where safety requirements play a fundamental role, and we have used an example based on the GAMMA paradigm to demonstrate how CA actions can be used to add fault tolerance to a parallel computation model. We discuss how CA actions provide these systems with dependability features, and describe our Java framework for constructing CA actions.
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The 2010 Youth Action AIDS Institute team.
When he headed to Shreveport last week for his second YAI, he was no longer a newbie, but the conference's lead coordinator.
The goal of the Youth Action Institute, which ended last Friday, is to turn out young AIDS leaders just like Roberts. Each year C2EA brings a gaggle of 14 to 26-year-olds to a college campus and teaches them to become the AIDS policy-makers and protest leaders of tomorrow.
While some of this year's 34 participants arrived with a bit of knowledge about AIDS, most were like Roberts was in 2009: inexperienced but eager to learn.
"They don't know [about HIV/AIDS issues] because they haven't been informed," said Roberts. For these participants, "YAI, it's almost like an 'Ah-ha!' moment."
Adult-supervised but youth-run, YAI seeks to educate and inspire a generation vulnerable to a disease they often know little about. Most participants did not grow up during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, when Americans were dying of the disease at alarming rates. However, the rate of young people diagnosed with HIV is rising, particularly among young black men who have sex with men.
"This conference is saying to young people, 'Yes, you do have a say, your opinions do count and you can make a different in eradicating HIV/AIDS,'" said Roberts.
Now in it's fifth year, there were several "firsts" at YAI 2010:
The centerpiece project of YAI 2010 is a video proposed, filmed, edited and posted on Facebook by participants. The video hits on what is now perhaps the nation's most-pressing AIDS issue: The urgent need for state and federal governments to address huge funding shortfalls for AIDS Drugs Assistance Programs (ADAPs). With thousands sitting on wait lists for lifesaving drugs, the YAI team constructed a piece urging Louisiana's Gov. Bobby Jindal to restore ADAP funding to its 2008 levels. "Be the benevolent governor of the people and step up to our demands," the video concludes.


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CHICAGO (AP) — Finally, there may be relief in sight for Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.
Less than two weeks after a shocking upset to Mercer in the NCAA Tournament, a day after losing assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski to Marquette, and as Jabari Parker and Rodney Hood contemplate leaving early for the NBA, the Hall of Fame coach will likely be watching all four of his 2014 signees show off their skills at today's 37th Annual McDonald's All-American Game.
The game annually showcases the 24 best high school senior basketball boys players in the country.
The Duke class, which may be one Krzyzewski's best, is led by 7-foot, 270-pound center Jahlil Okafor, who won the Morgan Wootten National Player of the Year award. Okafor follows the footsteps of Parker, a fellow Chicagoan who also won the award the last year before starring for the Blue Devils.
The class also features point guard Tyus Jones from Apple Valley, Minn., and shooting guard Justise Winslow from Houston. Jones and Winslow were selected to the West squad.
The less-heralded recruit of the class, Grayson Allen from Jacksonville, Fla., put on the biggest show so far at the dunk contest Monday. The 6-4 guard wowed the crowd by leaping over Okafor to claim the title.
"That was our objective, to showcase the four recruits going to Duke. Our Twitters were going crazy," said Okafor, who will team up with Allen on the East.
Okafor and Parker are close friends, but he said he won't try to convince him to stay at Duke for another season.
"I've been in contact with him, but I haven't asked him to stay or leave. It's whatever he wants to do," Okafor said.
While NBA general managers wait for Parker's decision, they were lined up at the practices leading up to the game, which caught Okafor's attention.
"I learned how important these practices were going to be a week ago. I never knew there would be NBA GMs all across the sidelines," Okafor said.
Okafor is not the only dominant big man from Chicago selected to the game. Cliff Alexander, a 6-9 forward from Curie High, will be going head-to-head against Okafor as a member of the West team if he is cleared to play after injuring his wrist in Monday's dunk competition.
Alexander has powered up the player rankings because of his size and athleticism. The Kansas commit beat Okafor's high school team for the Chicago Public League Championship, but the win was negated after the league ruled Curie used ineligible players.
Tyler Ulis, a 5-9 point guard from Chicago's south suburbs, was also selected to the game as a member of the East Team.
"I am very proud we get to represent the city of Chicago. Show them that there is a little more to it than just the violence you see on TV," Ulis said.
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Columbia has QT ... which is why their prices are driven lower than surrounding areas. Nowhere else in the nearby area is there a national chain that promotes lower prices. These businesses are pricing to the lowest competitor so therefore the same company that provides gas to JC and Columbia have different prices because there are no other competitors in JC to lower the price to meet.
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Hopefully the new director will change the hours to accomodate the community. If she wants to meet the public then she should host events during hours where the public can attend (after 5p). If she wants the library to grow and thrive then she'll need to offer hours that the public and attend. I've tried going to the library at 6:15p on a Friday and they were closed. I've tried taking my daughter on days when she's off school and they were closed. How is the general public getting any use out of a library that is closed so often???


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Democrats are riding high in California these days, holding supermajorities of more than two-thirds in both houses of the state Legislature and every statewide office, from governor down to treasurer.
But while they still enjoy a registration margin of 14.3 percent over Republicans, there's strong evidence they don't understand the future of the state's politics any more than the GOP.
That's clear from the voter registration numbers racked up last fall, figures which only recently have undergone full analysis.
If the actions of young voters, those in the 18-24 age bracket, are harbingers of the future, the newest figures indicate voters will increasingly want politicians independent of superstrong party commitments on either side. Rather, they'll want candidates not slavishly devoted to the "no new taxes" pledges signed by almost all Republicans or the strictly pro-union agenda followed by most Democrats...