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Jacarri Jackson
Approximately 20 NFL Teams on hand
Louisiana Tech vs. Tulsa
Bulldogs return to action next Saturday at UTEP
Kansas hits game-winning 52-yd field goal
Coach Holtz speaks with the media
Photos from LA Tech's 2014 Pro Day
Louisiana Tech vs. Army in the Heart of Dallas Classic
Louisiana Tech vs. Lamar, Sept. 7, 2013 at Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, La.
Louisiana Tech at NC State
The first scrimmage of fall camp 2013
2013: Played in nine games catching four passes for 63 yards and a touchdown ... Caught a 30-yard pass in the season opener at NC State (8/31) ... Caught a three-yard touchdown pass against Lamar (9/7) ... Caught a 23-yard pass against Army (9/28) ... Caught one pass for seven yards against North Texas (10/19).
2012: Caught three passes for 33 yards during the 2012 season ... Suffered a broken clavicle early in fall camp, returning to action starting with the team's 44-38 win at Virginia (9/29) ... Caught one pass for 23 yards against UNLV (10/6) ... Caught two passes for 10 yards against Idaho (10/20) in a 70-28 win.
2011: Played in 11 games, catching six passes for 62 yards to average 10.3 yards per catch ... Saw action against Southern Miss (9/3), Central Arkansas (9/10) and at Idaho (10/8) ... Caught one pass for nine yards at Utah State (10/22) ... Caught one pass for 13 yards against San Jose State (10/29) ... Caught one pass for five yards at Fresno State (11/5) ... Caught one pass for five yards in a 27-7 win at Ole Miss (11/12) ... Caught one pass at Nevada (11/19), a critical 25-yard reception that set up Tech's game-winning touchdown for a 24-20 win after trailing by 17 points with 13 minutes remaining ... Caught one pass for five yards against New Mexico State (11/26) ... Saw action in the Poinsettia Bowl against No. 15 TCU (12/21).
2010: Played in 11 games, starting in four ... Caught 10 passes for 113 yards ... Made his collegiate debut against Grambling (9/4), catching four passes for 27 yards ... Caught two passes for 11 yards against Navy (9/18) ... Caught two passes for 24 yards against Southern Miss (9/25) including a 17 yard catch ... Caught one pass for 10 yards agains Utah State (10/9).
2009: Redshirted, did not play.
High School: Lettered three years for coach Durrett Woods at Logansport High School in Louisiana ... Two-time all-district selection for the Tigers ... Also named all-area by the Shreveport Times for two straight years ... Named all-state as a junior ... As a junior caught 54 passes for 1,076 yards and 10 touchdowns ... As a senior caught 46 passes for 878 yards and seven touchdowns ... Also lettered for four years in basketball and as a freshman on the track team, competing in the 400-meters, high jump and long jump ...
Personal: Full name is Jacarri Deandrell Jackson ... Son of Linda Gatlin and Early Jackson ... Has two sisters, Tamara and Talia ... His cousin Shedrick Belle played football at Texas State ... Born Dec. 10, 1990 in Shreveport, La.


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Gearing up to its co-hosting of the 2012 EUFA European Soccer Championship in June/July, the vibrancy of Ukraine's burgeoning wealth is patent throughout the streets of its capital city, Kiev. Amidst scintillating fashion house boutiques and copious black tinted luxury cars lining the main streets, it is hard to grasp that this country gained its independence from the Soviet Union a mere 21 years ago. Surely, such ostentations are a reflection of Ukraine's solid economic performance since 2000, with an average annual growth of more than 7%, up until 2008 when the global economic crisis hit the country's finances hard, demonstrated by a 15% contraction of GDP in 2009. Despite the severe blow to its economy, Ukraine has been recovering at a faster rate than its Western European counterparts with growth rates upwards of 4% in 2010 and 2011, partly boosted by the country's accession to the WTO in 2008. But what has such rapid development done for the country's healthcare? The blunt and disheartening answer is: close to nothing. This reality is even more distressing when you consider that Ukraine was once the scientific and manufacturing nucleus for all of the Soviet Union's pharmaceutical needs. Yet, the situation has perhaps become so dire that a wave of change seems to be in motion and promise of a new healthcare ecosystem could soon become a reality. Welcome to the fallow pharmaceutical nation.
When compared to the rest of the world's life expectancy statistics, Ukraine ranks 116th, akin to some of the poorest African countries, with a dismal average life expectancy of 62 for men and 74 for women. This is exactly 100 positions lower than the country's ranking in 1960 when, under the Soviet Union, healthcare in Ukraine was universal and annual medical check-ups were mandatory for the entire population. Today, "Ukraine's public healthcare is very limited and only supports five programs for major diseases, such as oncology, HIV, tuberculosis, diabetes, transplantology, and rare children's diseases. Treatment of any other health condition must be paid entirely by the patient and this is something that they have gotten used to already," explains Irina Gorlova, CEO of Support in Market Development (SMD), one of Ukraine's leading data research providers. In light of this, the government has been mulling over the idea of introducing a reimbursement system for more than 15 years.Ironically, the reason behind such poor health indicators lies in Ukraine's pharmaceutical expertise and manufacturing prowess during Soviet times. Oleksiy Solovyov, head of the State Administration of Ukraine for Medicinal Products (SAUMP), the country's regulatory authority, recounts that "in the Soviet times many sectors of the economy, particularly the pharmaceutical industry, were concentrated in Ukraine. Most academic institutions, which developed drugs, as well as manufacturing facilities, were located in Kiev and Kharkov. In that time the main purpose was to provide a wide range of products for the treatment of all major diseases, and increase the number of units produced. The objective of the USSR's healthcare system was to provide a certain level of health." Indeed, it was that legacy that led to the powerful group of private Ukrainian pharmaceutical producers that today account for almost 70% of all the units sold in the market, however in terms of value, the generic medicines manufactured by these companies only add up to 30%. Nevertheless, Ukraine's top 10 pharmaceutical companies in terms of value still counts four national producers, including Farmak at the No. 1 spot with a total market share of 3.8%. Farmak's market share is also illustrative of the sector's high fragmentation with more than 100 companies marketing their products in Ukraine.
Vladimir Ignatov, executive director of the Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (AIPM), explains that "the national healthcare system has not changed much since the days of the Soviet Union, under which the state was expected to pay for all national healthcare expenses. However, the reality of the situation is that today patients are paying for the vast majority of their treatment out of pocket (85-90%) because the government has ignored their role in regulating and streamlining the system, assuming that the private interests of the pharmaceutical industry would automatically do that. What has happened is that a large gap has been created between the performance of the pharmaceutical industry and the healthcare system, and this has caused some tensions between the two." Essentially, this has led to the stunting of the pharmaceutical sector in Ukraine, which today is valued at US $3 billion (SMD estimates) for a population of nearly 46 million, bringing the average annual per capita expenditure on medicines to a meager US $65 million. Under such conditions, Ukraine has amongst the lowest average prices for medicines in all of Europe, driven mostly by a robust local generic industry that only began conforming to international standards of production about seven years ago.
Viktor Poushkarev, head of the CIS Region for Finnish Orion Pharma, elaborates that "Ukraine holds the status of a branded generics market. An important difference between the Western European and Ukrainian branded generics market is the level of production control. We have very specific generic competition, in which products containing the same API can come from production facilities with very different levels. This can influence the finished product severely, with a tablet from one company containing 40mg, a tablet from another producer containing 30mg, and the tablet of a third will contain nothing. Control on production facilities is still weak, even though Ukraine recently joined PIC/S in January 2011." Orion has a clear understanding of the evolution of Ukraine's pharmaceutical market due to Finland's historical trade agreement with the Soviet Union, which allowed the company to be one of the first entrants into the market back in 1993. Poushkarev further explains that "healthcare expenditures from the state budget increase by 10-20% annually. Nevertheless, the quality of the healthcare has not changed in a positive way. This means that the main problems are still part of the system, which is understandable as it is a tax-financed system."
While the government does allocate about 10% of its budget to healthcare, SMD's Gorlova explains that "public healthcare institutions in the country are antiquated and extremely inefficient, and this is represented by the fact that only 7% of the country's healthcare budget is used to pay for the treatment of patients, while the remaining 93% is related to administrative costs." Gorlova used to head the operations of IMS Health in Ukraine before the company decided to leave the market in 2003 due to a lack of access to quality data. In response to this, SMD has resourcefully struck partnerships with pharmacies that today willingly provide them with market data. "This kind of data was a necessity to develop the full potential of Ukraine's pharmaceutical sector. In particular, multinational pharmaceutical companies were demanding such data in order to make their forecasts and report back to their headquarters. Our aim was to support them in this endeavor by providing the same quality data and services that they are used to in other markets. In doing this, SMD also serves to promote Ukraine and the region as a great opportunity for investment," she concludes.
One final hurdle that companies experience in Ukraine is the prevalence of corruption stemming from the fact that the pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated sector with countless layers of bureaucracy. Furthermore, state employee wages are unbearably low and therefore the temptation for them to make extra money through covert means is rather high. In fact, the circumstances were so blatant that the regulatory authority today contains an anti-corruption branch that employs former secret service investigators to weed out tainted officials.


text: Home Culture Adrian Peterson's Son Has Died From Injuries The 2-year-old succumbed to head injuries sustained in alleged abuse by his mother's boyfriend. By: Breanna Edwards Posted: Oct. 11 2013 6:24 PM 0 Adrian Peterson during a training session last month (Harry Engels/Getty Images) Updated Fri., Oct 11, 6:50 p.m. EDT: A son of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has died from the injuries he sustained after allegedly being abused by his mother's boyfriend, multiple sources, including USA Today and CNN, have reported. The boy was being treated at a hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., where he was in critical condition. Peterson tweeted out his gratitude to his teammates and his fans later that afternoon. Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. — Adrian Peterson (@AdrianPeterson) October 11, 2013 The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. — Adrian Peterson (@AdrianPeterson) October 11, 2013 God Bless everyone and thank u so much. — Adrian Peterson (@AdrianPeterson) October 11, 2013 The boy's name has not been released, but according to CNN, he is not Peterson's other son, Adrian Peterson, Jr. Earlier: Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson's son is in critical condition after being allegedly abused by his mother's boyfriend, USA Today reports. According to the news site, the 2-year-old was in the Sioux Falls, S.D. apartment of Joseph Robert Patterson, 27, who is dating the child's mother, when Patterson called 911 to report a choking. It became clear at a hospital that the boy, who was found unresponsive by the police, had suffered from head injuries that were not accidental. Police believe that the mother was "gone for a short time" when the incident occurred. Patterson had previously been involved in domestic disputes, including one for simple assault involving another woman and a male child. He has been charged with aggravated assault and aggravated assault on an infant in this latest case and is being held on a $750,000 cash bond. Peterson, who was excused from Thursday's Vikings practice, returned on Friday and asked for privacy. "I really appreciate all the support that I've been receiving from fans, the Vikings organization," he said, according to USA Today. "This is a private matter, and I would ask you all to please just respect my privacy and not ask at all about the situation at hand." Peterson is expected to play on Sunday against Carolina. Read more at USA Today. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Get what we're watching delivered to your inbox everyday! Sign up for our daily video newsletter below. Page 1 of 2 NEXT PAGE > Powered by Livefyre 0


text: By Jan RahnManaging Editor Clinging to God's promise of renewal, Jim Styskal looks forward to being back home this spring to watch new life burst forth. Styskal, who has been in the confines of Craig Rehabilitation Hospital in Englewood, Colo., since Jan. 16, places his hope in the Lord for a full recovery and new beginning. The rehab center where he has resided for nearly 10 weeks specializes in spinal cord injury and brain injury. Styskal was paralyzed from the neck down after suffering a fall in the wee hours of Christmas Eve on Dec. 24, 2012. He and his wife, Bev, had just finished preparing for a talk on marriage they were scheduled to give to young adults in a few days, then they were off to bed in their usual routine. Bev was awakened by a thud when Jim, who had gotten up to go to the bathroom, blacked out and fell forward, hitting his head on the bathroom door which wrenched his neck in a backward motion. It was later determined his blackout was from medication he'd taken for years which caused a severe drop in blood pressure. He was taken to Perkins County Hospital by local EMTs and then transported by helicopter to Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff where he remained until arrangements were finalized for acceptance into Craig Rehabilitation Hospital. While at Scottsbluff, Jim had surgery which restored movement in his arms, however, his hands remained numb and not flexible. His paralysis, deemed a spinal cord injury, not a severed cord, has caused swelling that impaired his movement. More function of his body is returning as swelling subsides. He has room for improving as time goes along, which could take up to two years or more. Daily therapy for preparation in returning to their home in Grant begins early with physical, occupational and educational therapy, ranging from working arms and legs, doing therapy in a pool (which incidentally he dreamed about early on while in the hospital at Scottsbluff), electronic biking, and equipment which helps him walk on a treadmill. At the age of 71, Jim's lifestyle of being very active and fit has proven to be beneficial during the strenuous physical therapy and occupational therapy. "We have seen answered prayer in many ways and have experienced firsthand God's miracles in various ways on our journey," she said. "We try extra hard not to dwell on our circumstances, but to keep our eyes upon the Lord." Jim's Top Notch Automotive business is on hold. There are no employees to keep things going. He is working hard toward the goal of someday being able to return to doing what he loves. On May 11, the business will celebrate its 50th anniversary. By his side the entire time, Bev has been absent from her position at First Insight Eyecare where she has been employed for 28 years. Her position is also on hold for the time being. "They [First Insight] are all like our second family," she said. "Speaking of family, they are keeping the home and business fires burning. It's great to know we do not have to worry about anything at home." Their son, Mike, who lives in Seattle has been by his Dad's side a lot also. Last week, Bev went to Seattle to attend a "Fundracer" for Jim at the Seattle Space Needle and Chilhuly (blown glass) museum where Mike has done some work. Their faith as a couple is what they have hung onto since Dec. 24. Their days aren't easy, and they question why this happened, just like any person would. But they wait in anticipation for the healing that the Lord has planned and have claimed Isaiah 40:31 as "their" scripture: "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." Jim will push on toward his goal, backed by love and support of family, friends, and his community that awaits his return.


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Welcome back, PS2., PS2 games coming to PSN
Welcome back, PS2., PS2 games coming to PSN
Sep 22 2009, 06:16 PM
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After the Metal Gear Solid 4 Bundle Pack for the PS3, everyone was upset when they found out that the system was no longer PS2 backwards compatible; SONY took away one of the most important features to the system. To me, I have over 100 games and I can not do anything with them unless I buy another PS2, which Im still debating on.
Recently there was a meeting between SONY Computer Entertainment America and SEGA, and what was discussed was that SCEA wants to sell all PS2 games on the PSN. When I heard this I cried for a little, in more places on my body than needed. I thought SONY was going to abandon the system forever, like a mother bird abandoning her youngling if they made contact with the human species; I watch too much Discovery Channel. But no, they are bringing PS2 back in our lives and theirs, and once again, SONY has made me extremely proud to be a gamer. I wonder if they will put the game Wizardry on the PSN; it was a very hard game to find.Also at the meeting there were talks to bring Dreamcast games and Japanese imports to the realm of PSN. The prices for the Japnese games will range between $9.99 to $39.99 . It will be nice if the Japanese games have subtitles, so I can finally know what they are saying. Some of the Dreamcast games that are coming to the PSN will have some exclusivity, meaning that many games could also be available on XBOX Live. I cannot wait until I can start playing my PS2 games once again. Go SONY!
I don't know how official the source is, but this is pretty good news. Many people were pissed about the lack of backwards compatibility in their new PS3 systems. While it still stinks that they can't play their discs (cept me OG PS3 ftw ,) this should put a lot of minds at ease. At least they can re-buy them and have digital copies.
This affects me in no way, however, because not only does my PS3 have backwards compatibility, but I still have a PS2 slim and a million games
Except all my GTA's.. I sold those a while back when IV came out.
Sep 22 2009, 06:53 PM
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Except all my GTA's.. I sold those a while back when IV came out.
Blasphemy. That's the reason I still have my PS2, besides Okami, RE4, Onimusha Dawn of Dreams and Time Splitters 2.
On topic, this seems more like a Microsoft move than a Sony one: "Thanks for years of loyalty and all of the money you have spent supporting our company. In our show of appreciation, you can now pay for the games you've already paid for but our new system doesn't support."
The lack of backward compatibility was the reason I went with a 360 over a PS3 when I upgraded to next-gen. If the new (thin) PS3 supported backward compatibility, it would be on my Christmas list. Otherwise, I see no point.
Sep 22 2009, 08:14 PM
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I also have the 60gb, so i can play PS2 games. I only have GTA3, VC, SA, PSU and FFXII mind you though.
Sep 22 2009, 08:40 PM
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doesn't play well with others...
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yea, i saw that story earlier today... i am pissed too that they might be making you re-purchase some of your favorite games again just to play them on the PS3... but, i am not doing it... i'll just hook my PS2 up in the computer room to my SDTV because, the PS2 looks blurry on an HDTV... now, if they re-polish the graphics like they will with the GOWI & II pack then, i might re-purchase some of them but, if they are just straight ports then, fuck 'em...
Oh, good one. The "you're on the internet so you must have no life" insult isn't moronic or unoriginal at all. You must, without a doubt, be a very important member of society, not at all a waste of the already barely valuable gift of life.
As is the case for everyone who takes issue with people who make them sad on the internet, you are one of two kinds of people:
You are exactly what you claim I am, and that is a lonely, pathetic basement dweller. You life is spent eating eight pounds of junk food per day, masturbating to anything you find online that's even remotely feminine, and wishing you had good looks and social skills. You continue to live with your mother until she dies of a combination of lung cancer and liver failure brought on by the chain-smoking and heavy drinking she used to cope with what a failure you are. Your mother mercifully dead and free of the living embodiment of failure she regretfully thrust from her loins, the bills start to pile up and you, unemployed and unable to pay these bills (of course), lose the house and everything in it. Somehow even more of a failure than you already were, you wander from place to place eating out of dumpsters and sleeping in your own filth until you finally die of AIDS, which you contracted from a diseased whore you scrounged up enough money to pay for, so you could finally lose your virginity while at the same time pretending that your mother was back in your life.
You are the type who was an athlete in high school, who was genetically doomed to be an idiot but managed to finish school and even get a college scholarship because you were so good at a worthless children's game. You went off to college with a suitcase full of polo shirts and condoms, the polo shirts, because you're a douche, and the condoms to prevent you from impregnating the dim-witted young college girls whom you could never touch without the aid of Rohypnol, a drug you refer to as "roofies" because you can neither spell or pronounce Rohypnol. You scrape by with borderline D's for the next four years, and leave the campus to go out into the real world where your realize you're not intelligent or talented enough to do anything of value with your life. Misery and minimum wage ensues for thirty years, then you blow your brains out, and your corpse, alone and forgotten, is not discovered until the smell of rotting flesh seeps under your door and your bodily fluids finally soak through the floor of your studio apartment and into the room below you. Your body is cremated, the ashes scraped into a garbage bin because there was no one in your life who valued you enough to pay for a casket, funeral, or burial plot.
You're undoubtedly one of the two, otherwise you would have better things to do than complain about the theme of a forum that doesn't care about anything you have to say.
Sep 22 2009, 09:15 PM
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I had over 100 PS2 games, and I sold most of them off. I dont really use my PS2 now, but I might play the games agin cause its on the PS3.
Sep 22 2009, 11:07 PM
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Well, if my PS2 ever breaks I know not to bother spending money for another since I don't have many games for it anyway.
gta 5
Sep 22 2009, 11:55 PM
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"Another Age, Another Age, please god Another Age"
Sep 23 2009, 12:25 AM
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Hmmm, I hope after the ps2 has ran its course they will put software emulation back in the ps3. It would make sense.
I get bored...
Sep 23 2009, 12:56 AM
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*Crosses Fingers*
"Another Age, Another Age, please god Another Age"
If that's Armored Core, I'm going to kill you.
Sep 23 2009, 02:14 AM
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Forgot about member titles for awhile there...
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Bit of a burn that people are might have to buy a game again.
Sep 23 2009, 03:37 AM
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i got a 60 GB PS3 (now 160 gb) so i dont really need this... but maybe ill check out some games i missed before.
i hardly use backwards compability though.
Sep 23 2009, 03:34 PM
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If that's Armored Core, I'm going to kill you.
Sep 23 2009, 04:43 PM
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Somehow I don't think it'll also mean backwards compatibility for disc based PS2 games. Probably only for games downloaded on the PSN store.
It'd be cool if they do retroactively put it in though! My PS2 broke a long time ago and my 40GB can't do shit
Sep 23 2009, 06:08 PM
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Talking of ps games. I read an article which complains about DL games being priced higher then physical disc's of these old games. Which doesn't seem very fair for the consumer. As far as i know it is only happening with psp games atm.
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Cool. I'm starting to get fucking bored of my PSP.
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(WUSA) -- Saturday is the 9th of the month. But you don't have to wait until then to call your Buddies. A monthly BSE, annual mammogram, and a visit to a doctor or nurse practitioner can make a difference when it comes to your breast health.
Two months into the New Year, how are you doing with your resolutions? Next week, on Valentine's Day, instead of chocolate, show your love by giving a beautiful basket of fruits and veggies.
A new study finds micro-nutrients in these foods can reduce your breast cancer risk. They help keep tumors from growing. Something else you can do today to fight cancer is support a special bike ride this weekend in Bethesda.
"From that mirror all the way over there a sea of bikes---a vision to behold," said Adin Alai, DC Metro Area Manager of EEEquinox in Bethesda. He's excited about hosting Sunday's Cycle For Survival. Nearly 200 bikes will span the entire length of the gym's second floor. Riders will be cycling all day long in two shifts.
Mary Dolbashian, a survivor, told us, "Every bike is full with people who put themselves out there willing to stand for the possibility for a cure for cancer."
Dolbashian will be on one of those stationary bikes Sunday. She and her 16-member team will be getting a strenuous workout and celebrating months of successful fund raising to help finance therapies into rare cancers.
"My individual goal is $10,000, which I'm $35 short of at the moment. And my team goal was 3$30,000 And I'm at $27,036 right now," shared Dolbashian.
This is Dolbashian's second year Cycling For Survival. One hundred percent of all the funds raised will benefit the most promising research and clinical trials into rare cancers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NY.
It's not just a worthwhile cause for Mary; it's highly personal. After being misdiagnosed in 2009, she endured 9 surgeries to fight Stage 3 Metastatic Breast Cancer. She still faces severe side effects from the toxic cancer treatments she received aimed at preventing a recurrence.
Dolbashian says she had 34 radiation treatments, developed chronic lung disease and has heart damage. "If you're not strong-- it's not good," said Dolbashian.
Today that stronger, determined Dolbashian is not content to just sit on the sidelines. She is fully engaged in the fight against breast cancer, and all rare cancers and she's asking for your support her.
Dolbashian told us, "We're all in this together. No one beats cancer unless we all beat cancer."
Registration to be a DC Cycle For Survival team member this year is closed. But you can still support Team Mary. Make your donation to Team Mary until April at cycleforsurvival.org
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So you hear the word centrifuge and what comes to mind? That crazy fair ride from childhood, what did they call it, the Gravitron? Or does it drum up black and white photos in your head of USAF Colonel John Paul Stapp's face stretched all the way back as he rocketed down rails during his ejection seat testing? If you're a pilot and search YouTube for interesting aviation videos as much as I do then you've probably also witnessed the funny videos of military aviators going through centrifuge training – some successfully and some not so successfully. And yet, even with all of these somewhat unnerving sites and thoughts I have to admit that when I saw that the NASTAR Center was looking for aerobatic pilots to volunteer for a research project using their Phoenix full-fidelity sustained-G flight simulator I jumped at the opportunity!
You might be saying to yourself, what the heck is a full-fidelity sustained-G flight simulator…I know I was! After spending more than a week there "flying" in it each day I can now say that it is a very impressive machine. Imagine a centrifuge that can be manipulated on all axes and that inside lies a cockpit (which is interchangeable) that is the replica of an F-15. Sounds like fun to any pilot, right? Well, for the research we were more like a guinea pig and less like a pilot as we were riding through profiles instead of flying, but the last day once testing was finished up we got to each try our hand at an actual flight – and this included a carrier launch and attempted trap (I know, I know…F15's don't land on carriers…we took a little creative leeway with the flight).
With a simulator that can easily do +9 and – (I don't want to know) all I can say is wow. I will admit I was definitely a skeptic when I arrived – I have played a lot of video flying games an have even gotten the opportunity to fly the T-37 full motion sim as well as the T-6 Texan II's 270 degree wrap-around simulator but none of them really felt real. As soon as the door was secured closed as I was spun up to idle speed I will fully admit I was 100% immersed in the experience and it definitely felt real! Loops, rolls, the world's BIGGEST immelman – it was all there – the G's felt right, the sensations felt right, I was flying an F-15! I'm sure you're wondering if I successfully trapped and alas I must admit I balked – but it was a nice carrier touch-and-go!
Although this was very fun and exciting I must give one more thought on this – it's really about training, and this machine is something that I believe holds that power to increase the quality of aviation training both for the military as well as for the airlines by leaps and bounds. By providing sensations that mirror actual flight sensations perfectly the pilots are even more likely to lose themselves in the experience and forget the fact they are in a simulator increasing their learning capabilities as well as inducing more appropriate human reaction to emergency situations. This definitely isn't your grandma's flight simulator!


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PHILADELPHIA (Sports Network) - Roy Halladay tossed a two-hitter on Friday to help the Philadelphia Phillies earn an 8-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in a rain-shortened second test of a four-game set at Citizens Bank Park.
Halladay (2-2) surrendered a pair of solo home runs and walked two while striking out six over seven strong innings before the heavy rain came down and forced the game to be called in the middle of the frame.
Humberto Quintero went 2-for-3 with two RBI, while Chase Utley, John Mayberry and Ben Revere added an RBI apiece for the Phillies, who had lost a season- high four straight games.
Jaime Garcia (1-1) gave up eight runs -- four earned -- on nine hits and two walks over three frames to absorb the loss.
Carlos Beltran and Matt Holliday each clubbed a solo shot for the Cardinals, who had won two of three coming in, including a 4-3 decision in Thursday's series opener.
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Absolutely. Even if no one here gets any immediate use out of it, having it available might aid someone in the future.
Hello, All.
After doing a search on the site for AutoREALM, I couldn't determine if there was an active thread in which to pose my question. Consequently, I've created this thread in the Software Applications Forum.
Would anyone be interested in a PDF file of the AutoREALM, version 2.2 User Manual documentation? I've just completed the creation of this PDF and am more than willing to share it with anyone interested.
Just let me know and I'll post it in this thread.
In the end you will see, you is you and me is me.
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Absolutely. Even if no one here gets any immediate use out of it, having it available might aid someone in the future.
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
Agreed.... anything that is not official and copyright protected content should be fine. As Mid. says, just because there does not "appear" to be anyone using this product here, that does not mean they are not out there or might not come here in the future. Also, if you have any tips and tricks, feel free to post a new thread in the tutorials section.
My Finished Maps
Works in Progress(or abandoned tests)
My Tutorials:
Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
How to create ISO Mountains in GIMP/PS using the Smudge tool
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Hi, Midgardsormr and Mr. Frazier.
Thank you for your input. I do appreciate your comments. I'm still just a bit leary to do things on my own without know that it is okay to do so.
As I am still "gathering" a number of mapping tools, I've yet to install and use AutoREALM, however; it appears that it would be a great learning tool as well as can be used to create some rather decent maps.
I have attached the AutoREALM User Guide complied from the on-line Help Files at the AutoREALM Website. All I have done is to compile the help files together and edit them for spelling and grammar. The content remains as it is on the Website.
I certainly hope that y'all will be able to use this guide.
In the end you will see, you is you and me is me.
© May 29, 1980
Wow... just snagged your users manual Gary and it look pretty slick. I was going to port my Dark Fantasy map in GIMP, but hopefully with the help of your guide I can continue to use AutoREALM and complete the map.
Thats cool Vandy. I'll add AutoRealm to my keyword index too.
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Much coolness. I don't use AutoRealm all that much anymore, but I still have it and having a compiled user's manual for it is always handy. Nice work!
When nothing is going right and you can't find someone else to blame, start beating your head against the wall, 'cause it'll feel so much better when you stop.
this is my first post on this forum. Thanks I was looking for maping information when the hero boards member nogalth mention this board.
This is a grreat help with autorealms as the help file will not work with vista.
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i cant seem to find how to install anywhere on the interwebz ive exctracted the files and all i see is setup and _isdel and neither will run ofter telling it to
I just want to let you know that there are people making use of this manual out there. Thank you very much for your efforts, for they haven't gone to waste. I use AutoRealms and this surely comes in handy!


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GERMANTOWN, Md. (AP) - Residents in Germantown have been awaiting the grand opening of a new Wegmans grocery store.
About 1,000 people were lined up outside the new store at 7 a.m. for the opening Sunday. Store manager Phil Quattrini says they were out of shopping carts about 20 minutes later.
The store is located in the new Seneca Meadows Plaza in Germantown, off Interstate 270. The store is 123,000 square feet and has about 70,000 products to choose from.
The Wegmans in Germantown includes a coffee shop, a cheese shop, a seafood market, a kosher deli, a pizza shop and an Asian food bar. The store also has an entire section devoted to gluten-free products.
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This module is to be administered to all women who have had a live birth in the 2 years preceding the date of the interview. If the woman has had no live births during the 2 years preceding the interview, you should leave this module blank and skip to the next module. The purpose of this module is to obtain information about protection from tetanus for infants through vaccination of their mothers. Neonatal tetanus is easily prevented if a woman receives the immunization while she is pregnant with the baby, or receives several vaccinations against it at an appropriate interval before the birth. Ask these questions, even if the most recent baby is no longer alive. --- First, ask whether she has a vaccination card or other documentary evidence of vaccination. Ask to see this evidence and record that you have seen it by circling '1'. If a card is presented, use it to assist with answers to the following questions. If the woman says she has a card but does not/cannot show it to you, circle '2'. If the card is not available ('2' or '3' circled in TT1), you must try to find out how long ago the last tetanus toxoid (TT) dose was received, and the total number of TT doses the mother has received in her lifetime. Use the probing questions, and record her answers in the spaces provided. Women who do not have immunization cards may have difficulty identifying whether injections they received were tetanus toxoid injections.


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FOX Racing Shox 34 Talas 27.5in 150 CTD-Remote $0.00
It's not uncommon for trailside banter to include a jab at someone's 'brand new' equipment that, in actuality, is little more than an update in color. And, it may look like just that on the outside of Fox Racing Shox's 34 Talas 27.5in 150 with CTD-Remote. However, there's much more going on here than meets the eye.
Long-time Fox riders will immediately notice Fox's Climb, Trail, Descend damper adjustments. And there's no need to worry, you're still getting the same adjustments to high- and low-speed compression, only it's now packaged in a more user-friendly format. Climb mode provides the most damping for a near locked-out feel. Meanwhile, it still provides a bit of cushion for any unexpected hard hits. Click the damper into the Trail mode, and you'll find that there's ample low-speed compression in order to keep the fork riding high in the travel through berms, jumps, and rocks. Better yet, it still provides plenty of compliance in order to smooth out the ride. And, as you may have guessed, Descend mode provides the lightest compression damping for a plush ride.
Talas stands for Travel Adjust Linear Air Spring. And true to the name, a quick flip of the spring side fork cap adjusts the travel from 150mm to 120mm, and back again. Accordingly, the 120mm setting lowers the axle to crown height by 30mm. This effectively lowers your handlebars and bottom bracket, as well as steepening the head angle in order to improve climbing control. The reasoning behind this design is relatively elementary. You see, tall forks and slack head tube angles yield more control for descending, but make your bike unwieldy when climbing. This makes the Talas' travel reduction especially important on the current generation of trail bikes. Additionally, Fox has updated the spring rate to provide more resistance to bottoming out than previous Talas springs. So, this version of the Talas is ideal for aggressive riders.
The 34 Talas 150 is strong enough to ride rough trails day- in and day-out. This is thanks in part to the massive tapered steerer tube, which fights flex under hard braking. And speaking of stiffness, Fox uses Shimano's 15mm QR axle assembly, which provides both added stiffness and increased security over a traditional 9mm QR skewer.
The Fox Racing Shox 34 Talas 27.5in 150 with CTD-Remote has a post mount front brake interface and a 1.5in tapered steerer tube. It is only available with black lowers, and it's only compatible with 27.5-inch wheels.
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Hey Tim,
This fork retails for $985.00. Feel free to contact me directly with any additional questions.
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Is this fork part of the recall issued by...
Is this fork part of the recall issued by Fox?
Yes, this fork will kill you for sure. It will break in half, explode into a ball of flames and incinerate your body.
But it's against the law to sell products under recall.
Jarp68371's answer is much better than any I could ever come up with. I respect his brutal honesty. However, I will clarify that we do have more of these forks coming in and they will in no way be effected by the recall. Please check back with us soon.
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"it's only compatible with 27.5-inch wheels." Is there a reason why you can't use a 26in wheel?
I use a 650b pike on my 26 inch bike with no issues, it will work fine, just ride a little taller is all. I will have a 650b bike next season so I just got a fork I could use on that as well.
It will alter the geometry and void warranties.
What model year is this fork?
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It is a 2013. I asked the chat help the same question
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Is Revenge New Tonight — Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013?
Revengers, prepare your bodies. Tonight's brand new episode, "Sacrifice," is set to be the most gripping one yet.
Remember: Easy on binge eating the caviar. Those bandage dresses can't suck everything in. But it wouldn't hurt to knock back a few bellinis when so much drama is a brewin' in the Hamptons.
In tonight's episode, we'll lose at least one of our favorite characters forever!
The official synopsis reads:
Even with threats on their family closing in, the Graysons are in rare form as they put on a bold showing at their annual Labor Day bash. Jack and Amanda sail off on their honeymoon but the seas prove to be deadly, and this time Emily can't control the outcome.
We know that both Jack and Fauxmanda are definitely in danger, but will they survive their honeymoon from hell? Guess you'll have to tune in to find out!
Revenge Season 2, Episode 14, "Sacrifice," airs Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.


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|Good food, good fun at Grant Congregational Church event
People from all over the region came to the Octoberfest chicken noodle dinner at the Grant Congregational Church on Saturday, Oct. 12. The event was filled with good food, conversation and featured a bake sale, quilt raffle and crafts.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Say what you will about Miley Cyrus, but Barbara Walters finds her fascinating.
Cyrus makes Walters' list of the 10 most fascinating people of 2013.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian also make the list, along with Jennifer Lawrence, the cast of "Duck Dynasty," "Good Morning America" host Robin Roberts, long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Pope Francis and the royal baby Prince George.
PHOTOS: Miley Cyrus through the years
Walters will reveal her number-one most-fascinating person during her ABC special.
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Born in New York, NY on Dec. 21 1937, Fonda's childhood required staying in her pathologically cold father's good graces, where having a perfect body and being "on the winning team" were of primary importance, while emotional expression was met with disgust and disdain. When she was 12, her 42-year-old mother, socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, slashed her own throat with a razor - the actress was told that she had died of heart failure, but learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in art class. A year later, Fonda began seriously hating her own body, resulting in bulimia and an addiction to Dexedrine that persisted well into her forties. Meanwhile, she was sent t... Continue Bio >>
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The Tulane University Presidential Search Committee has retained Russell Reynolds Associates, one of the world's leading executive recruiting firms, to assist its efforts to find a new leader for Tulane when current President Scott Cowen steps down in 2014.
"The person who succeeds Scott Cowen is going to have to be a remarkable individual indeed," search committee co-chairs and Board of Tulane members Rick Rees and Andy Wisdom said. "Russell Reynolds Associates gives us the worldwide reach we need to find a new dynamic, bold and visionary leader for Tulane."
Russell Reynolds Associates has offices in 26 countries. Its higher education practice focuses on recruiting presidents, provosts and deans at some of the country's leading universities including MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Duke, the University of Southern California, Northwestern, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas, the University of Virginia, NYU, Georgetown, George Washington University and more.
The firm has a particular expertise in recruiting leaders for the Association of American Universities, an organization of 62 leading U.S. and Canadian public and private research universities, including Tulane.
Russell Reynolds' higher education practice is headed by Ilene H. Nagel, who has more than 30 years experience in higher education, including appointments in Ivy League schools and, most recently, as the chief academic officer for the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Tulane's Presidential Search Committee members, who will vet the candidates, include representatives from the university's board, faculty, students and staff. The committee is co-chaired by Rees, co-founder and managing member of LongueVue Capital and Wisdom, principal investment management consultant for Crescent Capital Consulting. The committee plans to announce Tulane's new president by the end of 2013 or early in 2014.
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The Ouachita Baptist University Tigers rewrote OBU football history on Saturday with their 41-20 victory over rival Henderson State University. In addition to winning the 88th Battle of the Ravine, the Tigers finished the regular season with an undefeated, untied 10-0 record for the first time in program history.
Along with claiming the Great American Conference championship outright with the win, the Tigers finished the season with a No. 1 ranking in Super Region Three of the NCAA Division II Football Championship. That means Ouachita will host a second round matchup on Saturday, Nov. 29, also a first since the Tigers have been competing in D-II.
The playoff game will pit seventh-ranked Ouachita against the winner of a first-round game between the University of Minnesota Duluth, also undefeated at 11-0, and Northwest Missouri State University, the defending national champions with a 10-1 season record. Ouachita will host the Nov. 29 postseason game in Cliff Harris Stadium where the Tigers remain undefeated in the stadium's inaugural season. Kickoff is scheduled for 12:00 p.m.
Tickets will go on sale Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the OBU Business Services office, 140 Cone-Bottoms Hall. Reserved tickets are $15 and general admission tickets are $8. Student tickets are $5. Reserved tickets not claimed by season ticket holders will be available to the general public beginning Tuesday, Nov. 25.
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At Ebertfest, where no one mutters about the color of your ticket and the 'Times' doesn't rule
Most film festivals can be summed up as a party, a marketplace, or a platter of cultural fruit and vegetables. Ebertfest, now 14 years old, is a love-in.
Chaz Ebert presides over the film screenings the way my mother used to usher people into her kitchen and fix them a heaping plate. Chaz's famous husband Roger selects the films they show with an emphasis on love and understanding. The characters in Ebertfest films are motivated by love, hobbled by obstacles to understanding. When they fight their way through problems to find some kind of clarity, blindingly beautiful things happen.
One of Roger Ebert's good friends, the maverick Australian filmmaker Paul Cox, said at a Q&A at the festival, which took place last week, "Our eyes need caressing as much as anything else."
He was talking about the blunt, all-business visual flow of contemporary mainstream cinema, where every moment is sold hard and fast. The characters who attend Ebertfest learn that they don't have to enter the theater bracing for a beating or a hustle. They're home.
The event reflects the place it lives in. Ebertfest has been staged in Ebert's hometown, Champaign-Urbana, Ill., from the start. Audiences and guests come from around the world and from down the block. There are locals who grew up with Roger Ebert and locals who simply could not bring themselves to leave after moving here. I spoke with at least 20 adopted Champaigners who told this story of love at first sight. Most are near retirement age but settled here in their 20's, 30's and 40's. At one dinner, I sat with an astronomy professor, a park ranger, and an executive who all gave off the same glow of settled happiness.
Between screenings, rather than take lunch with festival V.I.P.'s and filmmakers, I would sometimes go for long walks around town, hoping to see rather than hear about what people get so stuck on here—and for evidence of the humble Midwestern paradise that Ebert describes in his memoir, Life Itself. (Certain passages made me wonder what Terrences Malick and Davies, the masters of cinematic time travel, would do with these chapters.)
Just a block away from Ebert's childhood movie palace and the heart of Ebertfest, The Virginia Theater, is West Side Park. My festival host, Tony Olaivar, a local volunteer who shuttled me around in exchange for being able to see whatever movies I saw, had raved about the park on the drive in from the airport. He'd taken a hand off the wheel to slide me an iPhone full of snapshots of him camping in West Side with his kids. They would sleep in tents under the park's low canopy of trees.
"There's so much exploring you can do just around town," he said. "I take my kids on adventures right here in Champaign."
I grinned at a series of crooked shots of him sleeping in the tent, imagining one of his kids giggling and snapping away.
The park, like most other places in Champaign I visited, is immaculate, unfussy, blushingly pretty. There are towns that want you to know their people have made it big, and to watch your step. Champaign seems like it just wants to give you a break, for all your trouble. Bob Dylan co-wrote two songs titled "Champaign, Illinois." One, written with Carl Perkins, gives the impression that a man could happily lose his heart to a sweet gal here; the other proposes that Champaign just might be heaven.
About a mile away, the University of Illinois at Champaign campus takes over the town. It's a typical assemblage of institutional buildings siding the main quad, and a shopping district for the college kids. The school's Illini Union Hotel, where many of us festival guests stayed, seems to sit at the head of the table. This colonial style community center feels like a citadel somehow designed to invite rather than repel the hordes. Democracy is the vibe. Completed in 1941, the hotel was another great product of Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration—a time I have trouble imagining now, when government blessings like universal health care are portrayed by some powerful people as a pact with Stalin-Satan.
Ebertfest volunteers range from U of I undergrads to retirement-age folks like Carlo Anzelmo, a longtime cooking instructor in town and possibly the friendliest human being on earth. "Steve! I saved your seat!" he would call out when I got to the back rows near the start of a new day's screenings. He greets people like they're back from the war.
It's all so pleasant that I thought back to my experiences covering the New York Film Festival with a bit of heartburn: an NYFF 2010 intern having a mild panic when I couldn't produce an orange ticket to get me on the line for The Social Network.
"You don't have an orange ticket. Where is your orange ticket, gotta have an orange ticket ..." she chanted, fearing the worst.
Every staffer at every festival tries to be nice and calm before the public. It's just that at the major international festivals in the big cities, where folks are trying to make life-changing deals for new films, some try too hard. Publicists whose mouths are fixed in a smile while the eyes plead, calculate, and threaten. Video crews that would murder you if that were the fastest way to get you out of their shot of the celebrity on the red carpet.
And then there's the hierarchy of film critics at the press screenings. I'll never forget overhearing the cry, "We can't start. Janet's not here yet," at the 1999 New York Film Festival press screening of Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy. Janet who? Janet Jackson?
After a tense wait, Janet Maslin, then The New York Times' lead film critic, burst through the door and—no joke—at the precise moment her posterior met the seat, the house lights faded, as if her seat cushion were push-button.
Ebertfest has its share of celebrities and selling, but little of the urgency of the market-type festivals. It started out as part of a U of I technology event called Cyberfest in 1997 (where 2001: A Space Odyssey screened in 70mm), then branched out on its own as The Overlooked Film Festival, eventually changing to Ebertfest in 2007. Its core philosophy was championing films that never got their fair share of acclaim, in Ebert's view. This often meant booking films that were already past the starting-gate frenzy of courting distributors.
This was my first Ebertfest, but it seems it's become more spiritual and personal in emphasis, with the name change and the past six years of Ebert's winning but costly battle with salivary cancer. His essay on his friend Paul Cox, which Chaz read before showing On Borrowed Time, a documentary on Paul's life and work, captures the festival's soul: "Cox's theme is, more often than not, the difficulty that complex people have in finding serenity and happiness. This is a difficulty we all share. It has nothing to do with a 'search for love,' although romance may be the venue, as in the masterful Innocence (2000). His protagonists are invariably adult, often in middle or old age. He has little interest in the 20-somethings who overrun the commercial cinema, because, I suspect, their problems often stem from practical, immediate reasons, or involve situations rather than the deeper currents of life."
There are some young people running around and making a mess of "situations" in this year's Ebertfest films, but in the ones I saw, a wise and generous eye kept the deeper currents in plain view. Both Azazel Jacobs' Terri and Robert D. Seigel's Big Fan, two films that seemed to conjure up the spirit of '70s maverick Hal Ashby, profiled a sensitive, guileless iconoclast. But the public pajama-wearing fat kid in Terri and the obsessive sports fan in Big Fan aren't pushing to change either society or themselves. They just won't give an inch to a society that has a problem with who they are to the core.
These are the kind of people Ebert celebrates in his memoir, which is as much a collection of biographies of his friends as it is his own story. He focuses on endearing quirks and bizarre episodes that might have been serious at the time but are hilarious in retrospect.
Kinyarwanda, a low-budget epic of the Rwandan genocide with a big-budget feel, settles so deeply into the shoes of each character—killers and victims, Muslims and Christians, teenagers and elders—that no onscreen violence is necessary to induce a sense of horror. Writer-director Arlick Brown understands that, in terms of audience involvement, delicately observed intimacy is worth a thousand bullets.
A tour de force opening sequence, which moves from a teen party in sublime sunlight to tragedy at night, unfolds elegantly, like nuclear ash falling silently on a playground. Brown is master storyteller. Only some obvious musical cues directing us to feel sad or scared bring the superior Kinyarwanda closer to the over-earnest Hollywood telegraphy of Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April. But maybe a version of Kinyarwanda without its flattening score would be too intense to take. The biggest shock happened during the Q&A: The audience gasped when Brown revealed that he and his team shot Kinyarwanda in just 16 days.
Joe versus the Volcano, a truly overlooked major studio film, resurfaced in an eye-popping digital form taken straight from the original negative. A brilliant comedy about groping for meaning in a world of Tati-like choreographed absurdity and Chaplinesque visual poetry, it flopped when released in 1990. Who knew playwright-screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's directorial debut, last seen drawing a small cult following on VHS and DVD, was so solidly constructed and visually stunning? Afterward, the cinematographer, Stephen A. Goldblatt took a lot of credit for the film's look, and gave just as much to the production designer, Bo Welch, without denying that it was Shanley's strange vision that had pushed them to be so good.
Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, the foreign-language favorite of directors and Academy voters last year, demonstrates the old Jean Renoir quote, "The truly terrible thing is, everybody has their reasons." It shows what pressure everyday working families are under, every day. Economic pressure, social pressure—and in this Iranian film's context, special legal and religious pressure. These forces test the principles of a divorced middle-class couple and a committed working-class one while insidiously pitting them against each other. If this masterpiece were remade in America, it would be called Something's Got to Give. (And if, God forbid, Ho'wood's grave-robbers ever get around to a remake of Paul Schrader's Blue Collar, they should at least import Farhadi for the job.)
Sitting on the Separation discussion panel, good old Paul Cox cried out, "Why on earth can't we make something this good over here?" He joked that A Separation was budgeted at a fraction of "the cocaine budget of the average Hollywood movie." The seriousness of the joke might have been lost on those who believe American indie films fill the void. Cox seemed to be calling for films like A Separation to occupy the 3,000-screen, widely promoted status of tentpole films like The Avengers.


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About Cherry
|Release Date: January 15, 2013
|Running Time: 102 mins.
|MPAA Rating: None
|Genre: Drama
Ashley Hinshaw
Lili Taylor
Dev Patel
Diane Farr
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Summary:Angelina is an 18-year-old on the verge of finishing high school and rushing to escape her broken family life. After reluctantly taking nude photos at her boyfriend's behest, she takes the cash to skip town with her best friend. Angelina gets a job as a cocktail waitress in a San Francisco strip club where she meets Frances, an affluent lawyer who introduces her to a high-class world of luxury beyond her wildest dreams. At the same time, Angelina begins exploring San Francisco's porn industry, using the moniker Cherry, under the wing of a former performer-turned-adult-film director. But before too long, Cherry's life begins to come apart at the seams.


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|Wearing: Springfield blouse, bag & necklace, Massimo Dutti skirt, BOO shoes
January 22, 2012
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Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably heard President Obama unveil a detailed plan-23 executive orders, mind you- yesterday detailing how his administration will "properly address gun violence" in response to the Sandy Hook massacre.
It's no secret that this administration and many on the Left disparage law-biding gun owners. This president claims to respect the Second Amendment and our Constitution, but his actions and abuses of power as President of the United States point to the opposite.
The question beckons: Why must the few yet tragic criminal acts of violence define how guns should be viewed in our society? What about all the unreported stories of women and men using guns to defend themselves and their families against attack from burglars and other criminals? Why can't this administration shed light on these positive stories rather than vilify the Second Amendment? Simple: they don't care about the Second Amendment or what we think.
Below is an outline of the 23 executive orders you must make yourselves aware of:
The following is a list, provided by the White House, of executive actions President Obama plans to take to address gun violence.
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
11. Nominate an ATF director.
12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.
(Source: Fox News Politics)
No universal background check, no ban on high-capacity magazines, and certainly no ban on "assault" weapons will deter criminals from committing gun crimes. It comes from education and parenting.
Renowned conservative thinker Walter Williams expounded on this subject in this column titled, "Erosion of Traditional Values, Not Guns, to Blame for Senseless Violence" on January 15, 2013:
Today's level of civility can't match yesteryear's. Many of today's youngsters begin the school day passing through metal detectors. Guards patrol school hallways, and police cars patrol outside. Despite these measures, assaults, knifings and shootings occur. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2010 there were 828,000 nonfatal criminal incidents in schools. There were 470,000 thefts and 359,000 violent attacks, of which 91,400 were serious. In the same year, 145,100 public-school teachers were physically attacked, and 276,700 were threatened.
What explains today's behavior versus yesteryear's? For well over a half-century, the nation's liberals and progressives — along with the education establishment, pseudo-intellectuals and the courts — have waged war on traditions, customs and moral values. These people taught their vision, that there are no moral absolutes, to our young people. To them, what's moral or immoral is a matter of convenience, personal opinion or a consensus.
During the '50s and '60s, the education establishment launched its agenda to undermine lessons children learned from their parents and the church with fads such as "values clarification." So-called sex education classes are simply indoctrination that sought to undermine family and church strictures against premarital sex. Lessons of abstinence were ridiculed and considered passé and replaced with lessons about condoms, birth control pills and abortions. Further undermining of parental authority came with legal and extralegal measures to assist teenage abortions with neither parental knowledge nor consent.
Customs, traditions, moral values and rules of etiquette, not laws and government regulations, are what make for a civilized society. These behavioral norms — transmitted by example, word of mouth and religious teachings — represent a body of wisdom distilled through ages of experience, trial and error, and looking at what works. The importance of customs, traditions and moral values as a means of regulating behavior is that people behave themselves even if nobody's watching. Police and laws can never replace these restraints on personal conduct so as to produce a civilized society. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. The more uncivilized we become the more laws that are needed to regulate behavior.


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Market Watch
What to Get at the Farmers Market in August
It's National Farmers Market Week, and there's no time like the present to savor the late summer harvest while supporting your favorite farmers market. In August the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market is brimming with heirloom tomatoes, sweet summer corn, juicy summer grape varietals and peppers in a wide range of colors and piquancy. Here's what not-to-miss this month:
Market Watch: Spanish Inspired Winter Favorites with Chef Mat Schuster
On Saturday, February 22, Mat Schuster, executive chef and owner of Canela Bistro and Wine Bar, will be in the CUESA Classroom to demonstrate Spanish inspired ways to use winter produce. In addition to demonstrating three of his favorite dishes—a traditional tortilla, clams cooked in Cava, and a winter gazpacho – he'll also come armed with Spanish pantry items and talk about how to use these ingredients to compliment the seasonal flavors of the late winter market.
Market Watch: A Symphony of Bittersweet Flavors
From kumquats and blood oranges to sweet, fragrant green garlic, lemony sorrel and punchy dandelion greens, winter at the farmers market is a symphony of bittersweet flavors. This month at CUESA and the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market we'll be celebrating the bitter, the sweet, and everything in between.
Market Watch: Little Apple Granola
In 1999, Dan Lehrer and his wife Joanne Krueger (of Flatland Flower Farm), moved to Sebastopol and took over a small apple orchard. They then converted the land to organic, planted new varieties of heirloom apples and erected three greenhouses on the property to grow plant starts. Their apples are harvested in late summer, and for much of the year they offer edible, native and rare plant starts to market shoppers.
Market Watch: Chicories are the New Kale
Kale has gotten a lot of attention in the past couple of years, and though I was partial to this leafy stalwart long before the recent craze, this winter is all about the chicories for me.
Market Watch: Special Wednesday Thanksgiving Market
Satisfy all your Thanksgiving feast needs this week at the special Wednesday edition of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market!
Market Watch: Cold Season Cures from the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market
When the temperatures drop, cold season always rears its ugly head. Luckily, at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, there are many natural, nutritional ways to help keep the dreaded cold or flu at bay.
Market Watch: Five Don't-Miss Happenings in November
This month, I'll be scoping out the market and searching CUESA's seasonal recipe archives for dishes to wow my friends and family with on Thanksgiving. In addition to the return of some of late-fall and early-winter favorites like citrus, cardoons and kiwi, there are many great things happening at CUESA and the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market this November that you won't want to miss.
Market Watch: Seasonal Market Favorites From the Chefs at Fog City
Erik Lowe and Aaron Toensing are well accustomed to scouring the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market for their seasonal menus.
Market Watch: Five Items Not To Miss in October
Autumn officially began almost two weeks ago, but October brings the true seasonal shift at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. We may be saying goodbye to plums, basil and eggplant, but we're also welcoming back pumpkins, Brussels sprouts and early citrus varieties. Here are some fall treats you won't want to miss this month at the market:


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At 9:08 a.m., a man walked through the front door of Rifle Middle School with a visible handgun. He turned right and walked down the sixth grade hall.
Immediately, school staff who observed the man from the front office ordered a lockdown of the entire school, called 911 and sent text messages to administrators in Garfield School District Re-2, letting them know the situation. A minute later, three gun shots were heard.
None of this was real. Hopefully, the nearly 800 students at the sprawling, two-block school will never be put in such a dangerous situation, nor any other school in the area.
But on Friday, Jan. 31, the day off for students under the district's four-day school week calendar, school and district staff, Rifle police, Garfield County Sheriff's Department and Colorado River Fire Rescue representatives gathered to go through just such a potentially tragic event.
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Connecticut, and deadly shootings at places like Columbine High School and the Aurora movie theater in Colorado, emergency officials nationwide are reviewing their plans for such incidents.
School resource officer Dustin Marantino organized the table top exercise at the middle school and planned to hold similar exercises at other schools in the district.
"We choose Rifle Middle School as the first one because it's the largest and is so geographically spread out," he said.
School staff members noted the time the incident began would put nearly every student in a classroom, and Assistant Superintendent Brad Roy said the district office's role would be to coordinate resources, establish a single contact point at the school and communicate with parents.
Marantino then said the "active shooter" scenario continued at 9:10, with the gunman running out the door at the end of the hallway and toward Centennial Park.
Police and other law enforcement officers who responded began searching the area immediately, as well as securing the school so the gunman could not double back and re-enter the school.
Fire and medical responders staged at the nearby Garfield County Fairgrounds and prepared to treat any injured parties. Area hospitals were notified, and the Care Flight medical helicopter was put on standby.
The All Hazards Response Team, a specially trained team of officers from several departments, arrived within 30 minutes. They specialize in negotiating, and if necessary, forcing their way into buildings if a suspect is barricaded.
Marantino noted he walked from one corner of the school to the farthest corner in two minutes and 40 seconds, so a search through rooms for a suspect "would take awhile."
Fire Marshall Kevin Whelan noted teachers walking the halls could become victims in such situations.
"Everyone knows if they're in a classroom in a lockdown, they lock the doors, get everyone in the center of the room and away from windows," Marantino said.
Police Sgt. Vaughn Miles reminded school officials to keep the number of 911 calls from the school to a minimum, so officers don't get conflicting or repeat information.
Seven school buses would be available to help evacuate the school, Ray said.
Summing up the exercise, Re-2 maintenance director Craig Jay said the district was looking into the possible purchase of a "panic button" system, similar to those used in banks. That system would implement a lockdown, call 911 and electronically lock doors, he said.
While most such "active shooter" incidents last mere minutes, noted Ray, "the fallout from something like this can last 20 years."
Miles said someone who finds themselves in such a situation should remember three things.
"If there's a shooter on the grounds, run and hide," he stated. "If you can't do that, then fight. That's good advice for schools and businesses."