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Description: Final Rule
On November 6, 2012, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published in the Federal Register the attached final rule amending its rules of practice and procedure for national banks (12 CFR part 19) and federal savings associations (12 CFR part 109) to adjust the maximum amount of each civil money penalty (CMP) within its jurisdiction, as required by law. The adjustments apply only to violations or practices that occur after December 6, 2012, the effective date of this rule.
The Inflation Adjustment Act requires federal agencies with CMP authority to publish regulations to adjust each CMP authorized by law that the agency has jurisdiction to administer, as appropriate. The purpose of these adjustments is to maintain the deterrent effect of CMPs and promote compliance with the law. The Inflation Adjustment Act requires the adjustments to be made at least once every four years. The prior adjustments by the OCC and the Office of Thrift Supervision were published in the Federal Register in 2008.
This rule revises the tables applicable to national banks (12 CFR 19.240(a)) and federal savings associations (12 CFR 109.103(c)) that identify the statutes that provide the OCC with CMP authority, describe the different tiers of penalties provided in each statute (as applicable), and set out the maximum penalty the OCC may impose pursuant to each statutory provision. This final rule also implements section 100208 of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, which amends the CMP prescribed in 42 USC 4012a(f)(5) by increasing the maximum CMP per violation from $385 to $2,000 and eliminating the $135,000 cap on the total amount of penalties assessed against a single regulated lender in any calendar year.
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Nutrisystem dropped Lawrence Taylor's role as a spokesman for the weight-loss company late Thursday, the same day Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor was arrested for the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl according to USA Today.
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Lawrence Taylor refutes the charges against him. Florida celebrities Don Shula and Dan Marinoare also spokesmen for Nutrisystem.
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|ITA honors WTEN for academics
The University of Idaho women's tennis team, and three of its individuals, earned academic recognition from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association on Friday, as the Vandals earned the ITA All-Academic Team award, and Almudena Sanz, Molly Knox and Vicky Lozano earned ITA Scholar-Athlete recognition.
"It's great to see the girls getting rewarded for their hard work off the court," Idaho coach Dan Pollock said. "They had a stellar year athletically, but have also excelled off the court and as a team they are excellent examples of successful all-around student-athletes. The University of Idaho is a great academic institution and we hope to continue to attract players that will represent the university well both on and off the court."
The ITA All-Academic Team award is open to any ITA program that has a cumulative team grade point average of 3.20 or above (on a 4.00 scale). ITA Scholar-Athletes must have a GPA of at least 3.50 (on a 4.00 scale), be a varsity letter winner, and have been enrolled at their present school for at least two semesters.
In addition to the ITA academic honors, six out of the seven players on Idaho's spring 2012 roster earned Academic All-WAC honors. Knox, Lozano and Annamaria Gould were on the spring Academic All-WAC team, while Beatriz Flores, Sophie Vickers and Sanz qualified for the freshman and transfers team.


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East Baton Rouge Parish
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The monthly residential Solid Waste User Fee increased from
$15.50 to $19.00 effective January 1, 2008. Effective the same date, the City-Parish implemented a
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meet federal eligibility requirements. The program allows the fee increase of $3.50 per month to be waived for eligible residents.
The East Baton Rouge Parish Office of Social Services
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Proof of income of all household members
age 18 or older.
A copy of an energy bill (must be within
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the same address as the service address on the energy bill.
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Since 2002, the Arts Center of the Grand Prairie Summer Art Camp program has provided a nurturing, safe environment for students to work with professional teacher artists.
Presently the summer program has grown from one week in 2002 to four weeks, offering opportunities for students in Kindergarten through eighth grade. Each student participating attends three separate classes each morning mentored by faculty and staff to create wonderful lasting memories, Chuck Law, director of the Arts Center of the Grand Prairie, explained.
"Many times the art projects created at camp are entered in the Grand Prairie Festival of the Arts in the fall," he said.
This year will be no different with students having the opportunity to attend four separate classes taught by professional artists.
The tuition cost to attend the camp since its conception in 2002 has been $75, which is all-inclusive, Law said.
"Similar program models charge over $300-plus a week to attend and do not offer any type of scholarship assistance," Law said. "Our class size has also not changed over the years, and we consistently provide small class rooms with helpers to insure each student receive the attention needed."
Teachers will include Jennifer Henley and Hannah May, plus new and exciting faces for the students to work with, he explained.
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Ormond Beach's Emma Albrecht (82-84—166) advanced to a championship flight match in the Women's Western Golf Association's National Junior Championship in Dubuque, Iowa.
Emma's sister, Claire (95-99—194), also participated.
MCMILLAN IN WOMEN'S AMATEUR: Ormond Beach's Linda McMillan (87-85-78—250) finished 32 shots behind the winner at the Women's Amateur Stroke Play Championship in Fort Myers.
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Princeton freshman Alanna Wolff won her flight final at the Wildcat Invitational Saturday in Illinois, defeating Belinda Niu of host Northwestern in three sets.
Niu was ranked 105th in the nation by the ITA on its preseason chart. Wolff was one of four Tigers in action Saturday at Northwestern, and all of Princeton's Saturday results are below. Updated draws through the second day of play are available at the PDF link on this page.
The tournament will continue Sunday.
Purple Draw, consolation: Lauren Chypyha (Wisconsin) def. Katherine Flanigan (P), 6-1, ret.
Orange Draw, final: Alanna Wolff (P) def. (105) Belinda Niu (Northwestern), 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
Black Draw, consolation final: Brooke Rischbieth (Northwestern) def. Katie Goepel (P), 6-0, 6-2
White Draw, final: Zaina Sufi (DePaul) def. Emily Hahn (P), 6-5, 6-4
Yellow Draw, consolation quarterfinal: Alicia Barnett/Lok Sze Leung (Northwestern) def. Katherine Flanigan/Alanna Wolff (P), 3-2
Yellow Draw, consolation: Zita Engbroks/Whitney Wofford (Oklahoma) def. Flanigan/Wolff (P), wo
Brown Draw, quarterfinal: Katie Goepel/Emily Hahn (P) def. Jana Knoppe/Kathryn Sharples (Ill.-Chicago), 6-1
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How P&G Plans to Cut $1 Billion From Marketing
Procter & Gamble Co. doesn't just use the latest digital technologies for marketing -- the company partners with technology providers to help drive innovation. That's part of the consumer products giant's big cost-savings plan.
P&G plans to save $10 billion over the next four years, cutting $1 billion from the marketing budget, by thinning out marketing executives and spending more efficiently. That means more use of lower-cost digital marketing and less reliance on pricey broadcast ads, said Marc Pritchard, P&G global marketing and brand building officer, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal's Emily Glazer.
Pritchard, who stepped up as P&G's marketing head in 2008 after more than 20 years at P&G, said he started out by working with a small group to master digital marketing and drive it throughout P&G, starting with search, then digital banner ads. The same thing is underway now with social media, including Twitter and YouTube.
Pampers, Old Spice, Secret, and the SK-II skincare brand in Asia are furthest along in digital marketing. "We love to see people try different things and watch it explode," he told the Journal. Brands with the smallest budgets are often the most innovative. Aussie, a hair-care brand, is all-digital, as is Secret deodorant. Old Spice had a small marketing budget; it advertised its "Smell Like a Man, Man" campaign prior to the Super Bowl rather than during the game, then got a lift from YouTube, with extra PR through Twitter.
P&G partners strategically with tech firms to drive innovation, including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook. "The deal with these partnerships is that we grow together. They exchange ideas, new approaches, and technology with us. We exchange our ideas and insights. It's mutually beneficial," Pritchard said. P&G also meets with venture capital companies to learn about new technology on the horizon. The company recently investigated Shazam and Klout.
P&G is working on an industry-wide initiative to improve ROI measurement for social marketing initiatives, specifically defining Electronic Gross Rating Point (EGRP), a measure of audience reach. "You can look at what an impression from Google, or Facebook or Twitter is actually worth," Pritchard said. P&G is working with the Association of National Advertisers on ROI metrics.
P&G plans a big marketing push behind the Olympics, using Twitter, Google, YouTube, and Yahoo. More than 30 brands will use the Olympics for marketing, with 150 athletes. The brands and athletes have Facebook pages. Community managers will amplify the discussion, engaging on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other platforms.
P&G said in late January that it plans to cut about 1,600 "overhead" or non-manufacturing jobs, including some in marketing, and use digital marketing to help contain long-term media spending.
P&G plans to take advantage of free distribution for digital marketing to drive down costs, chairman-CEO Bob McDonald said in an earnings conference call in late January. Short-term, heavy spending on the 2012 elections is likely to drive up the cost of TV advertising, he said.
The company plans to continue to spend 9 percent to 11 percent of sales on advertising long-term. The company is increasing spending this quarter and next for global Olympics-related sponsorship, which McDonald said the company expects will add $500 million in incremental revenues.
What do you think? Can a global brand like P&G succeed by shifting marketing spending from broadcast to digital? Or is digital still too unproven?
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Life Technologies will exclusively license to Novartis its Dynabeads® CD3/CD28 CTS™ technology, designed to isolate, activate and expand therapeutic T cells to express chimeric antigen receptors for treating cancer—the first collaboration for the tools giant going beyond companion diagnostics—into development of a gene therapy that uses infusions of the patients' own T cells genetically engineered to attack their tumors.
Life Tech—which is being acquired by Thermo Fisher for $13.6 billion, plus $2.2 billion in debt, in a deal announced April 15—signed a long-term supply and exclusive licensing agreement with Novartis, financial and other terms for which were undisclosed. The pharma giant gained rights to use Life Tech's intellectual property exclusively toward chimeric antigen receptors for cancer treatment.
"The current agreement with Novartis represents a significant step in the growth of Life Technologies from a research tools provider to a leading medical device company," Greg Lucier, Life Tech's chairman and CEO, said in a statement. "Taken with our previous announcements of companion diagnostic collaborations, the current agreement demonstrates how Life is uniquely positioned to facilitate drug development through alliances with pharma."
Novartis aims to commercialize a personalized immunotherapy technology developed at the University of Pennsylvania, for which it acquired exclusive rights last year. The therapy consists of removing blood cells from cancer patients; isolating and activating T cells; genetically modifying the T cells thereby programming those cells to recognize and attack cancer cells; expanding the T cells; and, lastly, introducing those cells back into the body so the patient's immune system can take over.
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Outside Hanna Zavorotnya's cottage in Chernobyl's dead zone, a hulking, severed sow's head bleeds into the snow, its gargantuan snout pointing to the sky in strange, smug defeat.
The frigid December air feels charged with excitement as Hanna, 78, zips between the outlying sheds wielding the seven-inch silver blade that she used to bring the pig to its end. "Today I command the parade," she says, grinning as she passes a vat of steaming entrails to her sister-in-law at the smokehouse, then moves off again. In one hand she holds a fresh, fist-size hunk of raw pig fat—there is no greater delicacy in Ukraine—and she pauses now and then to dole out thin slices to her neighbors. "I fly like a falcon!" says Hanna, shuttling at high speed back toward the carcass. Indeed, falcons—as well as wolves, wild boar, moose and some species not seen in these environs for decades—are thriving in the forests and villages around Chernobyl. One particular falcon, however, has not fared so well. A large gray and white specimen, it is strung up, dead, chest puffed and wings outspread against the slate sky, above Hanna's chicken coop as a warning to its brethren. "He came and ate my chicken, so I beat him with a stick," she says. But if this falcon has not survived, Hanna and her neighbors have—against all odds and any reasonable medical prediction.
Twenty-five years ago this month, on April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's Reactor No. 4 blew up after a routine test, and the resulting fire lasted 10 days, spewing 400 times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The government (then Soviet) declared the surrounding 30 square kilometers uninhabitable and immediately resettled 116,000 residents with a pension, an apartment and sketchy information aboutthe health risks that lay ahead. In the ensuing months and years, these first resettlers were followed by a few hundred thousand more, all displaced, most from the land where they'd grownup. But Hanna, who had been forced out in the first group, did not accept that fate. Three months after being relocated, she returned with her husband, her mother-in-law and a handful of other members of their collective farm, the main building of which now lies like a carcass, silent and overgrown, its sunken roof collapsing, a half-mile down the road from Hanna'shouse. When government officials objected, she responded, "Shoot us and dig the grave; otherwise we're staying."
Hanna was among some 1,200 returnees, called self-settlers, most over the age of 48, who made their way back in the first few years after the accident, in defiance of the authorities' legitimate concerns. For despite the self-settlers' deep love of their ancestral homes, it's a fact that the soil, air and water here in what is now known as the Exclusion Zone, or Zone of Alienation, are among the most heavily contaminated on earth. Today 230 or so self-settlers remain, scattered about in eerily silent villages that are ghostly but also somehow charming. About 80 percent of the surviving self-settlers are women in their seventies and eighties, creating a unique world of babushkas, to use a Russian word that means "grandmother" but also refers to "old countrywomen."
Why would the babushkas choose to live on this deadly land? Are they unaware of the risks, or crazy enough to ignore them, or both? These are reasonable questions for Westerners who might stand in a grocery-store aisle debating whether to pay the extra $3 for organic almond butter. The babushkas see their lives, and the risks they run, decidedly differently.
When Reactor No. 4 blew up, roughly 30 percent of the initial fallout hit Ukraine and parts of western Russia, and 70 percent landed downwind in Belarus. The gamma radiation was death dealing: Some 30 first responders were incapacitated immediately and expired within weeks. But the explosion's long-term effect on the surrounding area was harder to quantify. "Unlike the ground zero fallout from a nuclear bomb, which can be measured out circularly with a compass, radiation from a nuclear fire such as Chernobyl lays waste in a spotty, inconsistent manner," explains Anna Korolevska, scientific director of the National Chernobyl Museum. Which villages got doused? Which did not? Dosimeter readings, which indicate accumulated radiation exposure, varied wildly, and sometimes the authorities accepted bribes to alter them. Confusion, bravery and corruption marked the postexplosion weeks and months, and hardly anyone on the ground fully understood the dangers. A secretive Soviet bureaucracy added to the cloud of misinformation.
what is clearabout nuclear contaminants (cesium,strontium, plutonium and others) is that they enter the food chain through the soil, that they spread via wind and fire and that their effects are cumulative and linked to, among other things, increases in fetal mortality and cancer. In some cases, the contaminants stick around for thousands of years. After the accident, cows ingested grass tainted with radio-active iodine-131 (radioactive milk largely accounts for today's sky-high thyroid-cancer rates in the area). As the "invisible enemy" enveloped the spring countryside, the babushkas may or may not have noticed that the birds fell silent and the honey-bees ceased flying, but they were alarmed when emergency workers made them dump their cows' milk.
Maria Urupa, 77, was thinking about her cow when the soldiers arrived to evacuate her village of Paryshev. "I planned to take my cow and hide in the basement," she says. Instead, she and her neighbors were relocated to a hurriedly constructed housing project outside Kiev (renamed Kyiv in 1991 after Ukraine became independent), on land where many people had died in the 1930s during the Holodomor, the massive genocide-by-famine that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin instigated in order to subjugate Ukraine and move peasant farmers onto state farming collectives or into factories. According to recent estimates, between 3.5 million and 5 million Ukrainians died during this period, and many of the babushkas lost their fathers. Some almost died themselves, since during the Holodomor, starving villagers sometimes resorted to cannibalism, slaughtering one child to save the rest. Half a century later, the site where Maria and her family were relocated still held grim reminders of the Holodomor. "People's legs were sticking out of the ground," she remembers. Three months after moving there, Maria and her family returned to their home in the Exclusion Zone.
When I meet her, in December 2010, she's standing on her porch in subzero weather, looking healthy and stout, wearing only a cotton housedress and a threadbare sweater. With a small sled in tow, she's on her way to gather wood for her stove—"Would you like some soup with mushrooms?"—but she doesn't mind stopping to talk. Maria recalls the day Soviet troops under orders from Stalin marched onto the Urupa family farm. "They took away two bulls, two pigs and all the potatoes," Maria says. "My father was working for the church, and that was not allowed then." When her father asked if he could keep a few potatoes, the soldiers threatened to kill him if he tried, saying, "Your soul will fly away, and we'll wrap your guts around the telephone wire."
After Stalin came the Nazis, who slashed their way across Ukraine in the 1940s, raping and killing. About 10.5 million Ukrainians died during World War II. Having survived all that, the babushkas were not inclined to cut and run after the Chernobyl explosion created invisible threats in the air, soil and water. Hanna, who as an infant was nearly eaten by her family during the Holodomor, says it succinctly: "Starvation is what scares me. Not radiation."
Most of the babushkas share the belief that "if you leave, you die." They would rather risk exposure to radiation than the soul-crushing prospect of being separated from their homes. "You can't take me from my mother; you can't take me from my motherland. Motherland is motherland," says Hanna. Aphorisms slip matter-of-factly from the lips of the babushkas. "Replant an old tree, and it will die," says one woman. One refrain I heard often was, "Those who left are worse off now. They are all dying of sadness."
What sounds like faith may actually be fact. According to reports by the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Children's Fund, many of those who were relocated after the accident now suffer from anxiety, depression and disrupted social networks, the traumas of displaced people everywhere. And these conditions seem to have health effects as real as those caused by radiation. "Paradoxically, the women who returned to their ancestral homes in the zone outlive those who left by a decade," says Alexander Anisimov, a journalist who has spent his career studying the self-settler community. No health studies have been done, but anecdotal evidence suggests that most of the babushkas die of strokes rather than any obvious radiation-related illnesses, and they've dealt better with the psychological trauma. Toxic levels of strontium and cesium in the soil are real, but so are the tug of the ancestral home and the health benefits of determining one's own destiny. East or West, pig fat or organic almond butter, few would deny that being happy helps you live longer.
For these women, environmental contamination is perhaps not the worst form of devastation. And that is proving equally true for some of Chernobyl's wildlife. The mass exodus of human beings has been a boon to some species. Storks may have dropped dead from the skies over Sweden days after the accident, but 25 years later, their massive nests of sticks, hay and feathers are perched atop telephone poles around Chernobyl, and wild animals roam the Exclusion Zone. Their return illustrates the controversy among scientists and laypeople about exactly how living creatures cope with radiation. Do they adapt (as some scientists—and babushkas—claim people do)? Is survival of the genetically fittest at work? It's likely to be decades before we know. Scientists have discovered DNA mutations in the species that have returned, and a few physiological anomalies (one example: Bird brains are smaller).
In the Zone of Alienation and in designated nearby areas, it is officially forbidden to hunt or eat wild animals, which can be highly contaminated. But that is the sort of edict people tend to shrug off in a country experiencing acute economic crisis and corruption, where there is a deep connection to the soil. "I often collect berries and mushrooms to eat," says one babushka, mentioning the two most infamous carriers of radiation. "It's forbidden, but I go anyway. When I see the police, I hide in the bushes." Hunters also sneak into the zone, and the contaminated meat from animals they poach has been known to end up in the restaurants of Kyiv. Police generals, charged with enforcing the rules, are rumored to shoot wild Przewalski horses and other game from helicopters. Contaminated meat isn't the only dangerous item to slip out of the zone. Pilfered metal from machines and vehicles used during the cleanup makes its way to China. Irradiated toilet seats looted from the evacuated ghost town of Pripyat—where background radiation levels are a whopping 100 (my visit there was brief)—are now scattered throughout Eastern Europe. Twenty-five years after the accident, Chernobyl's legacy lives on.
At first, of course, the main victims were those who were initially exposed to extreme doses of radiation. After the first responders were felled, the Soviets deployed robots to put out the fire, but radiation levels were so high, the machines went berserk. The government then sent in a phalanx of human beings, dubbed liquidators, the translation of a Russian word that can also mean "cleaner." Thousands of young soldiers were strong-armed into volunteering by being presented with the following choice: Spend two years on the bloody Afghanistan front or two minutes shoveling radioactive matter off the reactor complex. Most of them took a shot of vodka and the latter. They stopped a fire that, had it spread, could have caused the other reactors to explode, leaving parts of Europe uninhabitable. Most of these men are now dead, dying or disabled. But they weren't the only liquidators that beautiful, tragic spring. The term also refers to the hundreds of thousands of women and men throughout the region who took part in the cleanup and support effort.
Galina Konyushok, now 71, was called to duty as a liquidator almost immediately. She worked in a nearby bread factory at the time of the accident and was charged with driving to the town of Chernobyl every day to pick up wheat so the government could feed the people working the disaster. Of course, the wheat itself was highly contaminated. Sitting today with three babushka neighbors in a kitchen bright with the reflection of the snow outside, Galina, who has thyroid cancer, looks strong and healthy; she's talkative, and her thick eyebrows dance with almost every word. Her friend Nadezhda Tislenko, 71, has been bent over at a right angle by osteoporosis, yet she is outstandingly gracious. "Please, please have some cake," she offers. ("Nyet spasiba," I say, deploying my standard response so as to avoid potentially contaminated food.) Galina's house is located in the town of Zirka, a few hundred yards outside the Exclusion Zone, whose boundary is demarcated by a chain-link and barbed-wire fence. Her small village "used to have 76 cows but now only has two," she says. The arbitrary process by which Zirka came to be considered a "normal" village despite high contamination levels is a common tale of misguided bureaucracy.
"All the villages around us were evacuated when the reactor blew. But a special strain of potato had just been planted in the fields [of Zirka's collective farm], so they said our village shouldn't be evacuated," recalls Galina, adjusting her purple head scarf around her ruddy face. "They haven't checked for radiation here in 15 years."
Although it wouldbe a stretch to call the babushkas a sisterhood, a deep camaraderie connects these women who have spent their entire lives in the area. They help one another at slaughtering time. They visit one another's homes (on foot; they do not have cars) to play cards and gamble. "But not for money. I keep telling them, the more you play, the more your brain works," Galina says, laughing. The women joke about moving in together if heating-gas prices get too high (they are on fixed, modest government pensions), but emotional attachment to their homes runs too deep for that; home is the entire cosmos of the rural babushka. They have electricity, but most villages in the zone have a single phone; nobody has running water. Those with a TV might sit down with handwork to watch a soap opera after the chickens are fed and the wood is chopped. When asked about the dearth of men, Galina responds, "The men died, and the women stayed. I wish I had a husband to quarrel with!" The old ladies crack up when Galina tells a gallows-humor joke about a woman being gang-raped by Nazis. (The babushkas are unfazed by how I squirm at the joke; they also ignore the click-click-click of my dosimeter, which is measuring ever-fluctuating background radiation levels.)
In a corner of Galina's house, beneath a bright window, stands the bed where her husband died 17 years ago (after making her promise never to leave their home). Galina's exquisite needlework and embroidery, stacked in neat piles and framed on the walls, gives warmth and color to the three-room house (maybe 900 square feet) where she's lived for 52 years and raised four children, who visit her often—a pleasure denied her neighbors inside the Exclusion Zone. There, adult family members may visit after jumping through several administrative hoops, but children under 18 are allowed in only once a year to see their babushkas and visit the graves of their ancestors, on a spring holiday called Remembrance Day.
On a small table in the same room, a dozen or so medicines, an identification card and a blood pressure machine tell a more somber story. An ID reading disabled, first groupindicates her liquidator status and her -thyroid-cancer diagnosis. She waves away the table of meds, as if to shoo off its significance, and shows me a piece of fabric embroidered with the message bring happiness and health to my motherland. "I'm not afraid of anything anymore. It's difficult to be old, but I still want to live," she says.
Galina gives me a tour of her cellar, where the dim light of a single bulb reveals the antler racks of five roe deer. "My son shot them for me," she says. Local intelligence claims deer are the most contaminated species in the region, but Galina eats the meat from this land, as all babushkas do. The cellar is also heaped with brown eggs, beetroot, jars full of pickled foods and, of course, potatoes: the year-round, hardscrabble labor of the babushkas represented in a single room. "They used to not take potatoes from me, but now they do," she says of her son's family, whose vigilance about not eating contaminated food has apparently waned. Thinking of her son perhaps, Galina looks upward, and with a mischievous, proud smile says, "In the attic I have 40 liters of -moonshine that I made. When I die, my family will drink it! They won't have to buy any." We climb up to the attic so I can see the stash. A shaft of afternoon light blazes through the attic window, refracting through a dozen hefty glass jugs of hooch; stars of light bounce off the blades of old-school brown leather ice skates, circa 1940, hanging over a rafter.
There is a breed of heroic resilience, of plainspoken pragmatism, specific to those who rise at 5 am and work, with few modern conveniences, until midnight in subzero weather; to those who bury their two-year-old next to their own parents, as Hanna did; to those who've earned—the hard and personal way—the right to joke about Nazi atrocities. It's not as if they wouldn't want things to be easier. Some acknowledge the radiation and its impact on their health. But as one 82-year-old put it, with a patina of typical, simple defiance, "They said our legs would hurt. And they do. So what?"
Findings about the long-term health effects of Chernobyl are controversial and contradictory. The World Health Organization predicts that more than 4,000 deaths will eventually be linked to Chernobyl, and it reports that thyroid-cancer rates have shot up in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, largely among those contaminated in the weeks immediately following the accident. However, WHO now considers the psychological impact to be at least as detrimental as the physical. Being depressed and unmotivated, pursuing an unhealthy lifestyle and clinging to a victim mind-set, they say, has proved to be the worst fallout for the "Chernobylites" 25 years after the accident. Other organizations, such as Greenpeace, contend that Chernobyl is responsible for tens of thousands of illnesses and deaths, even though these cannot yet be scientifically linked to the accident. All agree it will be generations before the consequences of Chernobyl can be fully understood.
Meanwhile, life goes on. Until it doesn't.
Five babushkas bob in single file along a snow-swept, single-lane road, a squat platoon of hunched women swaddled in dark clothing and head scarves, marching home from the funeral. The second one that week. Their figures are all that moves in the frigid, bleak landscape. Lyubov Koval, 84, the mother of the deceased, describes her 55-year-old son's final days. "He screamed and screamed," she says, her narrowed blue eyes showing pain for only the tiniest moment. "There was some problem with his kidneys," she reveals, regarding the cause of death. "They won't say it was the radiation," adds his sister Olga Kudla. Six gravediggers sit at a long wooden table, eating wild-goat liver, blintzes and dumplings, and drinking. "He was a liquidator in the zone," one of them says. "They wouldn't give him the medicine he needed. He wouldn't have died if they had." The babushkas keep bringing piles of steaming food, brown bread and sweet homemade wine—pushing, pushing, pushing food as if it were love and life itself. Refusing is death. A full shot glass of moonshine sits in the middle of the table for the deceased.
After the explosion in 1986, a shelter was built to cover Reactor No. 4 and prevent leakage of radioactive materials. That structure now sits cracked and rusty in the winter dusk. Catfish, some 10 feet long, troll the waters of the cooling pond that served the four now-defunct reactors. According to experts on-site, some 200 tons of nuclear "lava" simmer below the ground. The shelter was intended to last 20 years, not 25, but a mire of bureaucratic shenanigans, politics and economic woes has added up to little action toward the construction of a new one. Part of the problem is that the shelter is leaking so much radiation that nobody wants to work anywhere near it. Collective fingers are crossed that the aging sarcophagus does not collapse and explode, the consequences of which could dwarf those of 1986.
While it has been possible since 1999 for visitors to pass the heavily guarded police checkpoints and enter the zone with a guide, the Ukrainian government recently announced that there would be official tours of the Exclusion Zone, but as we went to press, the rules and procedures for entering the area had not changed (see "How to Visit"). For those who want to experience Chernobyl firsthand, these babushkas could become a stop on an ethnographic tour.
For now, their spirit shines amid the bleak, silent dead zone. A fearless babushka stands watch over a garden at night, poised to bang a gas bottle with a metal bar to ward off attacks from wild boar. Galina recently harvested 20 big bags of potatoes. "All clean. No worms this year!" she says gratefully. Flashing a glint of gold from her lone tooth, Hanna reveals that she has saved another pig to slaughter for Remembrance Day. "I only think of the good things in life," she says, rolling onto the balls of her feet. "Come back tomorrow," she tells me, holding up a chunk of thick, white pig fat. "We are going to party."
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First published in MORE, April 2011.
HOLLY MORRIS is the author of Adventure Divas and hosts the PBS travel documentary series Globe Trekker. The episode "Ukraine" airs in April.


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Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone has had a great holiday so far.
Today I'm reviewing a candy that I've had sitting around for a long time. I have a lot of candy in my office that sits around for a few months before I get to reviewing them. I am not happy with this, so my "New Years Resolution" is to be better about reviewing candy closer to when I find them. I also would like to do more "classic" candies that we see everyday, instead of the more foreign and limited edition candies that I feel I've been focusing on.
Well, enough rambling! Today's review is Orbit Melon Remix. It's one of the "newer" gum flavors from Orbit, which I imagine resulted from the competition from other gum brands. It seems recently that gum has been trying more original and unique flavors to keep consumers interested. This package is thing and contains fourteen sticks of gum.
To be honest I was unsure what to expect from this flavor. It's labeled as "Melon Remix" but doesn't really understand the "remix" part of the flavor description. Before I open the package, I tried to smell the gum. I do really enjoy when I can smell the gum through the packaging. It makes the gum seem really inviting and yummy. With this flavor, I can smell the gum. It has the distinct aroma of bubblegum with a hint of honeydew. Opening up the package, the aroma only gets stronger. I'm surprised as to how much the scent leans towards bubblegum and less toward melon. It's very interesting to me. Unwrapping a piece, the gum is a very faint pink. Modest and very, very pretty.
The flavor is very fresh and juicy when you first start to chew. Now that I can actually taste the gum, the curiosity in regard to the "melon remix" name start making sense. It's about 75% watermelon and 25% honeydew, despite the heavy honeydew aromas it has. So it's a much more sweet melon flavor, in my mind. It's got the refreshing flavor of the watermelon with the added sweetness of the honeydew. I do taste some accents of a bubblegum flavor in there as well, but it's also not as intense as the aroma suggests. Sadly the flavor on this one doesn't stay around for very long. I chewed it for five minutes before the gum became tough and the flavor was very faint. I certainly enjoyed it, but I do wish it lasted longer.
I don't want to sounds like a broken record in regard to gum, but I liked it. Not enough to start chewing it regularly, but if a friend offered me a stick of it I wouldn't refuse it.
Rating: Will Eat Again
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maybe things will cool down a little bit --a few things are coming to the market so maybe there be a few things come back in stock shortly.
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Jim Tressel has been known as a remarkably successful college football coach. With the publication of The Winners Manual for the Game of Life, (1) he is now known in the sports world and beyond as a coach and author. The book is a distillation of a nearly four-hundred page handbook called The Winners Manual which Coach Tressel gives to his football team each year as they begin preparation for a new season. He changes it slightly each year.
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Neshama works at the Fairfax Library.
This is an official blog for the Marin County Free Library.
All branches of Marin County Free Library will be closed on Monday, July 4 for Independence Day.
This installment: a cataclysmic coming of age memoir; more disappearing girls; Frazier's laugh-a-minute spoof; Munro's latest magnificent short stories, a novel set in Rwanda; and a novel set in Amsterdam featuring travelers with all manner of baggage.
Disaster Preparedness by Heather Havrilesky
The author came of age in the '70s where cataclysms seemed to lurk around every corner, especially in this Kansas family with parents who detested each other. The material is all very familiar--all the discomforts of growing up, but Havrilesky articulates them with humor, candor, and rueful wisdom. And at the end, after all that adolescent angst and flailing, there's the grace of embracing imperfection and having managed to come through. A good lesson for all of us and nicely done at that.
Say You're Sorry by Michael Robotham
Another variation on theme of teenage girls who disappear and are much later discovered imprisoned by a madman. (I've read at least two other book on the subject and it never ceases to fascinate.) In this case a clinical psychologist, Joe, puts the pieces together. The police want to blame it on a very disturbed local boy but Joe perseveres with his insights and hunches. All the characters are well-drawn and three dimensional, in addition to a gripping plot and mounting suspense--all of which makes for a very satisfying mystery. Set near Oxford, England.
The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days by Ian Frazier
This is an absolutely ridiculous book but it made me snort, chuckle and guffaw so many times that I have to share it with you. Everything that can go wrong does in the benighted but perpetually hopeful life of Cursing Mommy, who spews expletives like a blender with the top off. She starts off full of self-improving plans but into this life a veritable monsoon of trouble must fall: doomed recipes and craft projects, bad husband, bad children, and lots of alcohol to blunt the edges. (Frazier writes "serious" books too, which I've also enjoyed.) Cozy up with CM and your own life, no matter how flawed, will shine by comparison.
Dear Life by Alice Monroe
This Canadian octogenarian writer is the best, and I'm so glad she's still going strong. Her stories are direct, modest, yet masterfully subtle--you aren't specifically aware of technique or exquisite language but are just deeply drawn into the worlds she creates. For instance the one in which a woman keeps getting more and more confused and lost, like a bad dream in real life, and then in the last paragraph you find out the real circumstances. It took my breath away. She includes some semi-autobiographical pieces at the end, an additional pleasure.
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
A novel set in Rwanda. Jean Patrick hopes to represent his country in track at the Olympics. But he's a Tutsi in a land of brutally retaliating Hutus and his dreams shrink to survival and escape as he loses almost everything: home, family, schooling, love. A Scottish geology teacher befriends him and his coach, a dark and complicated figure, also plays a part in saving his life. Sometimes a bit exhaustingly dramatic, but it's very possible life was like that in Rwanda's darkest times.
The Light of Amsterdam by David Park
Three sets of travelers, unknown to each other, set out from Ireland on the same flight for a presumably festive weekend in Amsterdam. But they all come with considerable emotional baggage. A single mother is dragged along on her spoiled daughter's pre-wedding hen party. A teenage boy is dragged along to a Bob Dylan concert by his divorced father since Mom's off to Spain with her lover. And a wife who senses her marriage has gone cold arranges a shocking "present" for her unwitting husband. As you can imagine, there are times of great frustration, but all the characters arrive at some expanded self-knowledge and peace by the end. Sometimes a bit sentimental, but it was worth it for the comforting denouement. (One ringer, though, which I have to note here: he speaks of the song "Quanta La Mera" which I believe must be "Guantanamera". That's the kind of editing detail that makes me crazy.)
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If you have any tendency toward foot pain, choosing the right shoe can make the difference between agony and, if not exactly ecstasy, at least reasonable comfort. "The shoe should look somewhat like your foot," New York City podiatrist Johanna Youner says. Most department stores have a "comfort shoe" department, which is a good place to start. Before you flatly refuse, be aware that styles are improving. Here are some brands that the doctors we interviewed recommend:
For daily wear: A shoe with a wide toe box is best for almost every problem. Youner likes Munro, which has a huge se-lection of sizes available (from AAAA to EE), and Ecco, which offers shoes made of soft leather. Arche, she adds, "makes great day-to-day, stylish city shoes that provide good support and excellent shock absorption." Birkenstocks, if you can tolerate the stiff arches built into the footbeds, also offer a lot of support and are especially good for people with plantar fasciitis.
For exercise: "Look for a sneaker with motion control and stability," says UCLA podiatrist Bob Baravarian. He's partial to both Asics and New Balance.
For dress: Baravarian recommends Dana Davis. "The shoes have insoles built in and are constructed with podiatrist input about where to provide support and cushioning," he says.
For summer: Thick-soled FitFlops get Youner's vote: "They have more support than regular flip-flops.
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The Treasures of the Sea Museum at Delaware Tech, 18800 Seashore Highway, is celebrating its 25th anniversary by offering free admission from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 20.
Attendees will see the collection of Spanish treasures from the 17th century shipwreck of the Nuestra Seniora de Atocha. The Atocha went down in a hurricane Sept. 6, 1622 off the Florida coast. Hunter Mel Fisher recovered the shipwreck's treasure with the help of investors. The treasure is calculated to be worth more than $4 million.
Visitors to the museum will watch a 15-minute movie about the ship, search, and recovery of the treasure.
The museum is located in the Stephen J. Betze Library on the campus of Delaware Technical Community College. The GPS address is 21199 College Drive, Georgetown.
For more information: (302) 856-5700 or visit treasureofthesea.org.
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Turkish Airlines wins international award for 'best food and beverage'
Turkish Airlines' exquisite inflight catering has been once again voted as the best in the world, receiving another prestigious award at the Passenger Choice Awards 2013
Turkish Airlines has won the 'best food and beverage' award at this year's Passenger Choice Awards, a US based awards program that collects airline passengers' votes.
By winning the award, Turkish Airlines has reaffirmed its position as a global leader in onboard catering. A few months ago Turkish Airlines has been also named as the best airline for its 'Business Class Catering' excellence in the Skytrax Awards, while maintaining its position as the 'Best Airline in Europe' for the third year running.
What is Passenger Choice Awards?
The Passenger Choice Awards were created by the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) to give voice to airline passengers. The 13 categories of awards ranged from best entertainment options and inflight publication to best overall. In its fourth year, the Passenger Choice Awards are recognized as a leading way to measure industry excellence and to garner direct passenger feedback.
You may visit Flight Destinations for more great prices and destinations, take a glance at our inflight magazine Skylife or purchase online ticket.
For detailed information you may contact our Call Center at +90 212 444 0849 or visit any Turkish Airlines Sales Office.
Turkish Airlines is named the Best Airline in Europe at the 2011, 2012 and 2013 World Airline Awards, by Skytrax.
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In WordPress how can I add a menu link to an archive for Posts? I can see that I can add category archive links but what if I want to have an archive of all the posts (therefore including all categories?)
If your blog is setted to show last posts on home page, the link you need is just the home page link, that can be inserted using custom link.
If your blog is setted to display a static page as front page, also create a page and set it as "Posts page", then the link to that page, will be the link for posts.
If you need to change something on how posts are shown, e.g. the number of posts showed, use
As pointed out in comments, when home page is setted to display last posts, often it is styled differently from normal archives, in that case the solution is create page template.
E.g. create a file named
After that in
Now you have to create a page in dashboards, assign the page template and use this page to show posts.
It can seems a bad, hard work, but once WordPress as not a specific archive for standard posts only alternative to this is put the query in the pgae template, but in that case you will rune 2 query one to retrieve the page, one for posts, using my code you will rune one query, so for performance is better.
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Just yesterday I released a new plugin Clever Rules using that plugin what you ask can be done with a line of code and without adding any additional page.
After you have installed and activated the plugin, create a new file called 'myrules.php' in it put:
After that save this file in your plugins folder. Go to dashboard and activate this "My Rules" plugin. You are done, now when you visit the url
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Knowing our Ocean, Protecting our Marine Treasures, Empowering Ocean Citizens
20 Jun 2012 - 20 Jun 2012In partnership with:
T-9 RioCentro
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World Meteorological Organisation
Tara Oceans
World Heritage
Sandwatch Foundation
A number of initiatives that support the Rio+20 ocean targets leading to the sustainable use of the ocean will be presented and discussed. The side event will be structured around three inter-connected themes:
Knowing our Ocean
How can science and technology be at the service of coastal nations to manage ocean and coastal resources sustainably, protect their coastal populations, and maintain ecosystem services? Much of the ocean remains unexplored and many ocean characteristics are still unknown, although knowledge is the first step toward sustainable use of the ocean. We cannot protect and preserve what we do not know. This theme will stress the importance of science and observation for the sustainable management of the ocean. It will focus on the importance of observing systems, data collection and monitoring. It will also consider how science and early warning systems can help coastal communities to become more resilient to the impacts of climate change and coastal hazards. Ocean and freshwater linkages will be examined, particularly in developing strategies to cope with natural disasters at the sea/land interface.
Protecting our Marine Treasures
How can we better preserve the natural and cultural heritage of the ocean and coasts and the essential services they provide to society? Appropriate tools and mechanisms are needed to protect and conserve marine and coastal resources for future generations, whether natural, cultural or aesthetic. This theme will focus on the importance of marine protected areas (MPAs) and ongoing efforts to identify and protect some of the richest marine environments, consolidate coastal ecosystems, and develop new relationships between people and the ocean so that we can continue to appreciate the beauty and the bounty of our seas. Forty-five marine areas are currently inscribed on the World Heritage List for their exceptional natural features. Together, they cover 1/3 of the total surface of all MPAs on the planet and they include five of the world's largest MPA's.
Empowering Ocean Citizens
How do we empower ocean citizens and society? Effective ocean stewardship requires the participation of all members of society in defining a common ocean future and in promoting behavioural change towards the ocean. The ocean is our common heritage and it is important to not only raise awareness on those issues but also to empower those who can act to protect the ocean. Focusing on training, decision-making skills, team building, fund-raising and cooperation is essential.
Sustainable use cannot be attained without the support of empowered coastal communities. This final segment will provide an opportunity to deepen existing cooperation on ocean awareness, education and advocacy.
This event will demonstrate the need for inter-related actions to move towards the sustainable use of our undivided ocean?s resources. Two speakers will provide an overview of the main issues relating to each theme and highlight concrete and innovative actions in support of the theme. The first speaker will set the global picture, and the following speaker will provide a local perspective. A number of pre-identified participants will intervene from the audience to highlight and raise key issues under a given theme.
Panel Speakers:
Irina Bokova
Director-General of UNESCO
The Honorable Julia Gillard MP
Prime Minister of Australia (To be confirmed)
High Level representative of the Government of Denmark
To be confirmed
Patricia Miloslavich
Marine Biologist (Census of Marine Life)
Michel Jarraud
Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Clayton Lino
Mata Atlantica Coastal and Marine Biosphere Reserve, Brazil
Representative of World Heritage Marine Sites network
Etienne Bourgois
President of Tara Expeditions
Gillian Cambers
Co-director of Sandwatch Foundation
Veolia Environnement Representative
To be confirmed
Wendy Watson Wright,
Executive Secretary and Assistant Director General
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
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Former Florida Gators football coach Urban Meyer called into ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning show and gave his thoughts on the current college football system and the relationship between the NFL and NCAA in reference to dishing out punishments to "rogue" college football players.
On if the college football system is broken.
Urban Meyer: Well I disagree, I don't think it's broke. I still think college football is the greatest of all sports, it's at an all-time high. All the interest level.. so I would disagree with that it's broke. When I hear that, matter-of-fact, I get kind of angry when I hear that because so many people put their lives into this great game. I think there certainly needs to be a sincere, hard look at some of issues that have occurred and how to prevent those in the future. I, once again, it's time tested that this is not the first institution, first organization, to have issues with discipline and guys making poor decisions. I think at the end of the day what needs to be overhauled is not the entire sport, is the risk-reward, the punishment system right now is obviously failing.
On former Ohio State Terrelle Pryor punishment and if the NFL should take some role in supporting NCAA in punishments.
Urban Meyer: "When I was a college football coach, [Roger Goodell] was very interested in supporting college football, supporting the presidents, athletic directors, the institution of college football. And for the NFL to support, if a guy makes a mistake in college and he hurts the university, he won't just get free access into the NFL and move about your business without some kind of punishment. I agree with the NFL if they do support [the NCAA]. If this goes through and they say, he's not eligible for the draft and it sounds like he is now, what they can't do is allow for that to be a safe haven for people that run rogue in college and go about their business and move on to the next level. If college football and the NFL want a close relationship and I think it's getting closer with coach Goodell, or I mean Roger Goodell, I think you're going to see how these guys work together."
Interesting thoughts, but I disagree with Urban Meyer on both parts.
The college football system is broken in so many ways beyond the rule-bending, just ask Boise State about the BCS. Furthermore, the problems of rogue runners/agents isn't an isolated situation at isolated schools. This has been going on for decades at prominent Division I college football and men's basketball programs (see SMU football, UNLV men's basketball, University of Miami football parts I and II, etc…)
To his second point, the NFL's involvement with the NCAA introduces a very gray area. On the one hand, we're getting the message that these are student-athletes with the emphasis on the student. This isn't a minor league farm system for professional sports. But if the NFL and NBA start getting into bed with the NCAA, this sends a very mixed message about amateur sports and its relationship to professional sports leagues. It's better to keep the two entities separate.
So what's your take? Do you think the college football system is broken? Do you think the NFL and NBA should get more involved with the NCAA?


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Johnson Sets Single-Game Saves Record in No. 9 Women's Water Polo's Sweep
Led by Ashleigh Johnson's 38-save performance, the ninth-ranked Tiger women's water polo team opened the year with a sweep Saturday to kick off the Princeton Invitational. The tournament opened with a 9-4 win over Wagner and closed out with an 11-4 victory versus Iona.
The Tigers (2-0) resume tournament action Sunday with an exhibition game versus NYAC at 10:30 a.m., followed by a 1:30 p.m. meeting with VMI.
Sophomore Johnson is accustomed to breaking records, including her own in the Tigers' season openers. Eclipsing her previous record of 19, the goalie opened the tournament with a record breaking 20-save performance versus Wagner for a new single-game Princeton saves record.
Johnson's dominance extended into the Iona game as she made 18 stops in the cage to bring her total to 38 on the day.
Led by a stellar defensive effort stopping Wagner's attackers from capitalizing on shot attempts, Princeton's offense opened slowly with a 1-0 lead in the first quarter before they seizing control for good to go into halftime up 5-1. With the lead and momentum on their side, the Tigers outscored Wagner 5-3 to close out the contest.
Junior Ashley Hatcher headlined the offensive attack with three goals and added a steal. Diana Murphy and Katie Rigler each had a pair of goals, while Molly McBee had a team-high three steals and an assist.
Again in the latter game it was the defense to hold a steadfast wall and prevent Iona from every taking control.
Princeton saw a well-distributed effort, with Jessie Holechek, McBee and Murphy each scoring two goals apiece. Holechek also had a team-high three assists and added a steal. In the field, Hatcher and freshman Sydney Saxe each had two steals for team highs.
Freshmen Hannah Lapkin, Morgan Hallock and Saxe each made their Princeton debuts in the game. Along with Saxe's steals, Hallock had an assist and Lapkin made a steal versus Wagner for collegiate firsts.
No. 9 Princeton: 1 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 9
Wagner: 0 – 1 – 1 – 2 - 4
Goals: Murphy 2, Hatcher 3, Hooks 1, Rigler 2, Klein 1
Assists: McBee 1, Hallock 1, Temple 1, Gross 1
Steals: Hatcher 1, Hooks 1, McBee 3, Dunstan 1, Rigler 1, Lapkin 1, Holechek 1, Gross 1, Johnson 1
Saves: Johnson 20
No. 9 Princeton: 2 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 11
Iona: 1 – 1 – 1 – 1 – 4
Goals: Murphy 2, Hatcher 1, McBee 2, Dunstan 2, Rigler 1, Temple 1, Holechek 2
Assists: McBee 1, Rigler 2, Holechek 3, Gross 2
Steals: Hatcher 2, Dunstan 2, Holechek 1, Saxe 2, Johnson 1
Saves: Johnson 18


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1984′s iconic Legend album by Bob Marley and The Wailers is the world's best-selling reggae album with a reach surpassing 40 million copies sold. The Diamond-certified album now for the first time gets an official remix treatment on Legend Remixed and it's something special indeed.
The work showcases the 16-tracks brought to new realms by the crème de la crème of remixing talent, including Stephen Marley, Ziggy Marley, Pretty Lights, Thievery Corporation, Z-Trip, Photek, Roni Size, and Nickodemus, amongst others.
Listen to the album preview below and after the jump catch the album trailer!


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