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Ray Bryant: Little Susie
Little Susie
Ray Bryant (piano)
Ray Bryant Trio Plays the Complete Little Susie (Lone Hill Jazz LHJ10278)
Ray Bryant (piano),
Tommy Bryant (bass), Oliver Jackson (drums).
Composed by Ray Bryant.
Recorded: New York, September 21, 1959
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Ray Bryant's "Little Susie" spent 6 weeks among the Cash Box Top 100 singles in 1960. No kin to "Wake Up Little Susie," a #1 hit by the Everly Brothers in 1957, "Little Susie" peaked at #81, far behind 1960's #1 hit "The Theme From A Summer Place" by Percy Faith & Orchestra. Yet even this relatively modest success was remarkable for a jazz piano trio. The tune, dedicated to Bryant's young daughter, had been recorded twice previously by Ray and his bassist brother Tommy under the leadership of ex-Count Basie drummer Jo Jones, once for the Vanguard label and again for Everest, neither of which made a splash. Still, Bryant's simple medium-tempo 12-bar blues was catchy, and in the fall of 1959 the brothers Bryant covered it twice again, with a different drummer each time, first for entertainer Steve Allen's Signature label and three weeks later for major label Columbia. Moreover, as if four "Little Susies" recorded within two years were not enough, Signature released a 45-rpm single with "Little Susie (Part 2)" as its A side and a slightly shorter alternate take, "Little Susie (Part 4)," on its flip side, sans explanation of missing Parts 1 and 3. Then, to further glut the marketplace, Columbia released its own single to compete with Signature's, which by then was gaining traction. When "Little Susie" charted the following spring, Cash Box (clueless as to which version was selling more) threw up its hands and credited both Signature and Columbia.
Like Signature's "Little Susie (Part 2)," Columbia's "Little Susie" was distinguished from "Little Susie (Part 4)" by in-studio handclaps added on beats 2 and 4 for part of the take. Columbia's audio is better, as expected; but the performance seems a tad calculated compared to Signature's livelier version. For this 2007 EU import CD, which includes both Signature takes, "Little Susie (Part 2)" appears as "Little Susie (2)" and "Little Susie (Part 4)" as "Little Susie (1)." (Confused yet? Welcome to the club.)
Bryant's 2-handed funk may remind listeners of Vince Guaraldi's "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (1962), and the clapping, while contrived, foreshadows such festive piano-trio party favorites as Ramsey Lewis's "The 'In' Crowd" and "Hang on Sloopy" (both 1965). But "Little Susie" has its own identity and, as one of the few jazz hit singles of its day, a place in history.
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West Caldwell, NJ, July 21, 2008 - Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment, announced that it has received five prestigious awards for its environmental marketing materials. The awards were given by leading design publication Graphic Design USA, the Art Directors Club of New Jersey, and the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The posters and POP (point-of-purchase) displays detail Ricoh's recycling programs, ENERGY STAR® qualified devices, and software solutions that reduce paper and energy usage. Produced by Ricoh's Environmental Marketing & Communications Group and designed by Morris/Weber, a New Jersey-based advertising firm, the series feature large vibrant images of flora with text that conveys Ricoh's commitment to the environment while promoting the "total green office solution" mantra that guides the company's eco-initiatives."Environmental preservation has been a top priority at Ricoh for more than 30 years, so we are very proud to be recognized in the design community for our achievements with our latest poster series and POP shelf displays," said Carla Cicco, director, Environmental Marketing and Communications, Ricoh Americas Corporation. "This year's materials exceptionally communicate Ricoh's sustainability efforts to its employees, dealer partners and customers."Graphic Design, USA, (GDUSA) selected Ricoh as one of its 2008 American Inhouse Design Award recipients out of more than 5,000 entries. Each year, GDUSA recognizes corporate, non-profit and institutional in-house departments that create high-quality, innovative promotional materials and features them in their Awards Annual. This year, Ricoh was recognized at the Art Directors Club of New Jersey (ADCNJ) with two Certificates of Excellence; the materials were selected from more than 600 entries to be featured in the ADCNJ's 45th annual art exhibit. Finally, in its international competition honoring professionals involved in the creation of traditional and emerging media, the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals gave Ricoh's POP displays the Gold Medal honor and awarded Honorable Mention distinction to its poster series in the 2008 Hermes Creative Awards program. With more than 130 entry categories, AMCP's program features the best and brightest in the marketing communications industry and draws submissions from across the globe. Ricoh established an Environmental Protection Group in 1976 with the objective of keeping Ricoh's environmental goals and strategies as a key consideration when planning, developing and designing new products. The group has concluded that companies need to develop specific action plans by focusing on the environment in the long-term. By taking this action, Ricoh is helping organizations maintain operational efficiencies and at the same time reduce their carbon footprints. For more information about Ricoh products, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com. About Ricoh Americas CorporationRicoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd., the 72-year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year 2007 sales in excess of $22 billion, a 7.3 percent increase over the previous year. Ricoh Americas Corporation is a leading provider of document solutions. Ricoh's fully integrated hardware and software products help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation directly or through its network of authorized dealers markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.Information about Ricoh's complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.ricoh-usa.com.# # #All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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I made that. :b I made it in my old school, my arts teacher got it framed and hanged in the school hallway.
Where is it right now? Where I left it, in the cellar, next to the classroom (so noone would break it)
It's just made out of cardboard block thingies my teacher had
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That's cool that your teacher hung it in the hallway for all to see~
It'll stay there a loooooong time, too
Wait, then why was it in a cellar? XD
You see, the classroom where we had art was actually where we had lunch before the NEW mess hall came in o3o
It's big too, and where the cellar is now is where they had storage, and now it still stores things too. Except art. -3- I put it there since it might break, since it can maaaaybe handle someones weight, but I doubt it


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We used to think Brazilian waxes were a royal pain—until we got the royal treatment from Shays. The Queen Bee owner and Bath, England, native escorted us to a sunny room, where the Union Jack was on prominent display, and distracted us with friendly chitchat while she got busy. We were impressed by the supersmooth consistency of her wax (she imports it from Italy but wouldn't divulge its name), as well as her method of pressing our skin immediately after each rip to stifle the sting. She brushed on jojoba-and-grapefruit oil to quell puffiness and sent us on our way with a spotless bikini line.
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GENEVA, N.Y. — The Hobart Statesmen defeated the Neumann Knights by a 3-2 score to win the ECAC West Play-In game. With the win, Hobart moves on to meet Elmira in the Semi-final round on March 1.
Up and down play marked the first 10 minutes of the opening period as the teams vied for an advantage. Hobart struck first at 7:29 to take the early 1-0 lead.
Bobby Cahill caught a pass from Aleksey Koval at the far blue line and raced into the Knights zone on a 2-on-1 breakaway. Cahill whipped a wrist shot from the right faceoff dot that beat Neumann goaltender Mike Collichio high on the blocker side for the goal.
We didnt want it to be wide open, but with all the calls that are out there now, it is easy to get a wide open game when you are so nervous about playing hockey, said Hobart coach Mark Taylor. We dont want to run and gun with them. Weve been sharper but did a lot of good things and won a playoff hockey game against a good team.
Just 21 seconds later, Hobart was whistled for the first penalty of the game and Neumann cashed in on the ensuing power play. Neil Trimm, the Knights leading scorer, took a wrist shot from the middle of the slot that wound its way past Hobart netminder Keith Longo to tie the game 1-1 at 9:07.
Play settled down a bit after the spat of goals as the teams found it hard to keep up the torrid pace as the period wound on. Both teams had good scoring opportunities late in the period but the score remained tied 1-1 at the first intermission.
There was a little bit of feeling out going on out there, said Taylor. We got done what we need to do.
The pace picked up again in the second period and this time the teams were able to keep it up for the full twenty minutes.
Neumanns leading goal scorer, junior Mike Hedden, had two first rate scoring opportunities during the first ten minutes of the period. The first one came four minutes in when Longo stuffed him on a scramble just to the left of the net.
The second chance came mid-period when Hedden dinged a blast from the top of the left faceoff dot off the left post and into the corner.
Hobart recovered and took the lead at 12:44 of the period. The Statesmen were moving the puck around the perimeter while on the power play when Jordan Zitoun let got a slap shot from the right point. The puck deflected off the body of Hobarts Blake Bonham in the slot and in the short side of the net to give the Statesmen the 2-1 lead.
Hobart (18-6-2) got into penalty trouble early in the third period, giving Neumann a 5-on-3 advantage for 1:41 just five minutes into the period. The Knights threw everything they had at the Statesmen net, resulting in three great scoring opportunities, but the Hobart penalty killers held up and kept Neumann off the board.
After they got back to even strength, Hobart put on an aggressive forecheck and did a great job of pinning the Neumann players in their own zone.
What we wanted to do was just keep the puck in deep on them, said Taylor. It was key to battle their D with our forwarders and make their forwards play in their defensive zone instead of our offensive zone.
Neumann (17-9-0) pulled goaltender Collichio with 1:30 remaining in the period, but the ploy didnt work. Instead, Hobarts Thomas Capalbo launched a shot from center ice while falling down that went into the empty net at 19:18 to seal the victory.
Neumann got a late goal from Kyle Casey with eight seconds remaining, but it was too little to late for the Knights.
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The story of Liang and Zhu is one of the four folklores in our country which people have been taking delight in talking about and has a reputation at home and abroad. In Korea, Japan, Europe and America, the story of Liang and Zhu is reputed as the oriental version of the famous play "Romeo and Juliet".
The temple of Liang Shanbo, which was built in 397, has a history of more than 1600 years. Over the years of instability, the temple experienced rise and fall. With the temple of Liang Shanbo as the main body and the story of Liang-Zhu as the main clue, the park is composed of a good many scenic spots, including Kwan-yin Hall, Spouse Bridge, Conjugal Love Pavilion, Lotus Pond, Nine Dragon Pool, Dragon Valvule Pavilion, Bailing (One Hundred Year Old) Road, the Statue of Liang and Zhu Transformed into Butterflies, the Large-scale Fountain Square, Wansong (Ten Thousand Pines) College and Sacred Gentleman Liang's Temple.
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The legend of Liang and Zhu is a beautiful, doleful, and moving love story. In the East Jin Dynasty, in the village of the Zhu family, in the county of Shangyu in Zhejiang Province, on the bank of the Yushui (Jade Water) River, there was Yuanwai (a minister appointed outside of the usual structure of official posts) Zhu who had a daughter called Yingtai.
The girl was beautiful and intelligent. She learned to write poems from her brother since she was a child. Envying the scholarship of Ban Zhao and Cai Wenji, and regretting the lack of excellent masters at home, she was intent on visiting masters and pursuing studies in Hangzhou.
Yuanwai Zhu rejected his daughter's request, but Zhu Yingtai, who was hungry for study, dressed herself like a man. Her father saw his daughter in men's clothes without any flaw and had no choice but to consent with disinclination as he couldn't bear to disappoint her.
Yingtai was dressed up like a man and went a long way to Hangzhou for study. On her way, she was encountered with Liang Shanbo, a scholar from Kuaiji (now Shaoxing) who also went to Hangzhou for study. They felt like old friends at the first meeting and had a happy time studying together. Therefore, they gathered some soil as incense and took vows of brotherhood in the pavilion of a thatched bridge.
In less than a day, the two had arrived at the Wansong College of the city of Hangzhou, and learnt from masters. Hence, they read in inseparable companion. They had been classmates for three years with ocean deep love. Yingtai was in deep love with Shanbo, but Shanbo didn't know she was a female all along, and therefore he only thought of brotherhood without special feelings.
The father of Zhu missed his daughter and urged her anxiously to return home. Hence, Yingtai had no choice but come back home in a rush. The Liang and Zhu parted reluctantly. On the way of Shanbo's seeing Yingtai off for eighteen miles, Yingtai expressed her love constantly in an explicit way with the aid of objects. Shanbo was true and simple, thus not being able to understand this.
Yingtai had no choice but lie that she had a sister called "Jiumei" back home, who looked very much like herself, and she was willing to promote a marriage for Shanbo. However, Shanbo was from a poor family and didn't arrive as scheduled. When Shanbo went to Zhu's house to propose a marriage, Yingtai's father had married her to Ma Wencai, who was the son of a procurator living in Mao City (now Yin County).
A perfect union had become a shadow. The two met at platform, gazed at each others' tearful eyes and bid farewell to each other sadly. When they parted, they took a vow: even if they can't sleep in one bed, they want to be buried in one grave!
Later Liang Shanbo was appointed as the magistrate of Yin County by the Court. However, Shanbo was so depressed he soon became ill and died. His dead body was buried in the Nine Dragon Ruins of Mao City. When Yingtai heard of Shanbo's death, she swore to sacrifice her life.
When Yingtai was forced to get married, she made a detour to hold a memorial ceremony in front of Shanbo's grave. Under the influence of Yingtai's lamentation, it stormed, thundered and lightened, and the grave burst. At that time, Yingtai jumped into the grave and the grave was folded again. The wind and rain stopped with a rainbow hanging high up in the sky. Liang and Zhu turned into butterflies and flew away together.
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"Community Networks at the Crossroads"
A discussion document by
Wally Bowen
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Community networking is at a crossroads. Should community networks focus solely on building appealing content, the "If you build it, they will come" approach? Or should community networks provide Internet access as well as compelling content?
As director of a rural community network, I believe that content and access cannot be separated. Furthermore, I believe that the survival of community networking is inextricably linked to providing local citizens an alternative route to the Internet.
Though many observers believe that Internet access will become ubiquitous and cheap -- even free -- the privatization and commercialization of the Internet could place most community networks so far off the "beaten path" that they're rarely visited.
To understand how this situation could evolve requires some historical perspective. Though the Internet is break-through technology, it has also emerged into a commercial media environment with deep and powerful historical roots.
The Public Media Movement
Citizen-access community networking is descended from the grass-roots "public media" movement of the 1920s. That movement -- led by several hundred non- profit, citizen-operated radio stations -- failed miserably. (Public TV and radio -- authorized by Congress in the late 1960s and early 70s -- are not true grass-roots public media. Their "top-down" structure provides little access for average citizens, and their programming choices are increasingly circumscribed by Congressional and corporate pressure.)
The public media movement reawakened in the 1970s with the advent of citizen- operated, public access cable TV channels. Though public-access TV has had sporadic success, chronic lack of funding and public support have severely limited the medium's development.
More recently, the "micro-radio" movement is attempting to resurrect the 1920s tradition of small, low-power radio stations owned and operated by average citizens and small non-profits. This movement is vigorously opposed by the industry-dominated Federal Communications Commission.
Ultimately, the public media movement has roots going back to the American Revolution. The political system spawned by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights was nurtured and shaped by free and open "public spaces" -- the village greens, town halls and taverns -- where citizens could gather, exchange information, and organize into a self-governing body politic
The Loss of Public Space
The 20th-century has been marked by an alarming decline in democratic, public spaces. From the disappearance of locally-owned, locally-accountable newspapers to the middle-class retreat to the private realm of suburbs, shopping malls, and TV-land, 20th-century America made a dramatic -- but little-noticed -- shift in how citizens access and use information.
In analyzing this shift, the philosopher Jurgen Habermas sees a direct correlation between the shrinking of the "public sphere" and the rise of voter apathy and cynicism. Public space, writes Habermas, is a vital arena -- between government and the private, commercial realm -- where citizens meet to hammer out differences and reach consensus through rational discourse.
For example, in colonial America, the voices and opinions of citizens could be heard and judged in public spaces based on the relevance of those opinions to the general health and welfare of the body politic.
In 20th-century America, however, only those voices and ideas which meet rigid marketing criteria and formulae are available for general, widespread consumption. The validity of these voices and ideas are judged primarily by standards and values based -- not on the health of the body politic -- but on the health of Wall Street and the bottom-line.
Enter the Internet. Despite the media hype, the Internet will not change the dominant, commercial media order of the United States. Passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on Feb. 8 -- and the lack of public debate on its democratic impact -- is ample demonstration of how entrenched the private, commercial media order has become.
Nevertheless, the Internet does present an historic opening for using new digital technologies to reserve some electronic space for public, non-profit, civic and democratic use.
Built mainly by taxpayer dollars, the Internet evolved as open, public space. However, no one should assume that the Internet will retain its "public media" character. Although some techno-philes argue that the Internet is inherently democratic and will subvert any attempts at commercialization and privatization, this belief is based more on faith than on any historical or empirical evidence.
The Changing Internet
The privatization and commercialization of the Internet is clearly underway. What began as an open medium is being rapidly colonized by commercial interests, whose goal is to create appealing proprietary "domains" to attract and hold the interest of consumers.
Media companies make money in two primary ways: they sell audiences to advertisers, and they sell products directly to consumers (subscriptions, pay-per-view, pay-to-play, etc.). Some combination of these two ways of turning a profit will soon dominate the Internet.
Selling audiences to advertisers is the model of so-called "free TV," or what the National Association of Broadcasters -- the industry's powerful lobbying arm -- calls "the American way" of broadcasting.
In this approach, free access to the medium by consumers is subsidized by advertisers, who are willing to pay handsomely for specific target audiences. The presentation of compelling content is used to attract the time and attention of target audiences.
Fox Network, for example, built a fourth major network mainly around advertisers' most prized demographic targets -- the 18-34 age groups. In this commercial relationship, access and content are inseparable and synergistic.
Cable TV, meanwhile, represents the second profit-making model: selling products directly to consumers. Home shopping, pay-per-view, and pay-to-play characterize this "interactive" approach. As cable companies such as Turner/Time-Warner and TCI have amply demonstrated, profit-making opportunities multiply when access (cable systems) is combined with content (Warner Brothers, CNN, Home Shopping Network, etc.)
"The Internet will evolve along a similar path as broadcasting," a leading Wall Street analyst recently predicted. "By the end of the decade," he added, "four private data broadcasters will emerge that will bundle and package branded content on a global basis to a broad array of personal computers."
A similar prediction was reported recently by the trade publication, "Internet Business Advantage": "With the telephone and cable companies entering the Internet service market, the days of the small ISP are numbered, predicts the Yankee Group. Yankee estimates that of the 1,400 ISPs now in the U.S., fewer than 200 will still be around by 2000." Most of those 200 remaining ISPs will be subsidiaries of a handful of dominate media conglomerates.
For these companies, controlling access is inextricably linked to their ability to sell content, and to sell audiences to advertisers. Without access, content-providers (Disney) are at the mercy of those who control the channels of communication (ABC/Capital Cities). For the emerging media conglomerates, access and content go hand-in-hand (Disney/ABC).
Indeed, passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was driven by the media industries' need to break down the barriers between access-providers (telephone, broadcasters, cable companies) and content providers (Hollywood and TV studios, software manufacturers, newspapers, publishing houses, etc.).
This is why Microsoft, to take just one prominent example, is busily trying to overtake Netscape's lead as the dominant World Wide Web browser (access), while it undertakes strategic partnerships with General Electric/NBC (content and access), purchases the Bettemann photo archives (content), and holds talks with other companies such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (content and access) and TCI (content and access).
Whither the Community Network?
Meanwhile, community networks will live or die based on their relationship to the increasingly privatized, commercialized Internet. Assuming that access to the Internet will be plentiful and cheap -- perhaps free -- is to enter a devil's bargain.
As noted earlier, access to the Internet will be "free" provided that it's subsidized by advertising and pay-per-view/pay-to-play revenue. But in order to turn a profit, commercial access-providers must hold the attention of their target audiences within their proprietary, commercial domains. America On-Line is a precursor of the "free TV" model that will soon dominate the Internet.
When AOL subscribers log-on, they do not enter the public space of the Internet. Instead, they enter a domain constructed and owned by AOL. Subscribers can get to the public Internet, but AOL creates stumbling blocks and disincentives (such as higher fees) when subscribers leave the commercial, proprietary domain.
Advertising-supported media are in the business of selling "impressions," an industry term used to describe the time and attention a consumer devotes to the advertiser's message. Commercial media justify the fees they charge advertisers by certifying that the advertiser's message is being exposed to, or impressed upon, specific numbers of consumers meeting a certain demographic profile (middle-class, suburban teens, for example). In commercial broadcasting today, this certification is based on yardsticks such as Nielsen and Arbitron ratings.
Access to these commercial domains will be cheap or perhaps free. Once in these domains, however, consumers will encounter many incentives to remain in the domain (fun graphics, Lotto, celebrity "encounters," etc.), thereby generating revenue via exposure to advertising or via payments to view programming or to play interactive video games. This is the "amusement park/shopping mall" model perfected by broadcast and cable TV.
Meanwhile, community networks which entrust Internet access to the commercial sector will scratch their heads and wonder why more citizens don't visit their local, public domain. The reasons illustrate how content and access are interrelated:
1. Building a community network without direct and convenient access is like locating a public market far removed from a city's main bus and car routes. Those routes run directly and quickly to the shopping mall, but to get to the public market, you've got to change buses several times, take a few back roads and go farther out of your way. For the vast majority of folks, the shopping mall will do just fine because it's so convenient. The problem is access.
2. The "shopping mall/amusement park" domain will also be more appealing because it has the latest in technical glitz and glamour. Because the community network is relatively inaccessible and operated by volunteers, it will lack sufficient funding to approach the commercial sector's level of technical and graphic innovation. This is a content problem, aggravated by lack of access and funding.
This second scenario is analogous to the historic problem of public access cable TV. Some big-city, citizen-operated channels (such as Seattle and Minneapolis) have ample revenue streams (franchise fees, grants, donations, etc.). They can afford first-rate cameras and editing decks as well as professional staff to train volunteers to produce programming that approaches the technical standards of commercial TV.
This level of professionalism allows public-access programming's inherent advantage to shine through -- it's home-grown, local and civic, with no commercial strings attached.
However, many smaller public access operations have inadequate revenue streams. Therefore, they rely on out-dated, hand-me-down equipment, untrained volunteers, and haphazard scheduling. Their programming and audiences reflect the inadequate funding. Any funding they do get from local government is always subject to budget-cuts because the "nobody is watching" claim is credible.
The best-case scenario for citizen-operated, citizen-access TV is when the cable system is publically-owned. Some communities, like Morganton, N.C., discovered that the coaxial "load-control" cable used by their municipally-owned water or electric systems could also carry a video signal. These communities now offer a full array of cable TV channels plus public, education and government (P-E-G) access channels. The citizens pay their monthly bills to the community-owned and operated cable system. The revenue stays in the community to support and maintain the operation.
Think Globally, Act Locally
With the advent of the Internet, communities now have the historic opportunity to create their own locally-owned, locally-accountable computer networks. Those communities who seize this opportunity will give their citizens an alternative to the "shopping mall/amusement park" version of the Internet now being deployed.
Citizens in these communities will probably choose to have two accounts: the "free" access commercial account, and the modestly-priced community network account that supports home-grown, local content and discussion forums.
In return, the community network has sufficient revenue to operate a reliable and appealing civic network that points not only to local content, but also to global content of local interest. In this way, community networks can create a "civic information order" that ties local issues and concerns to the global power and resources of the Internet. This approach is an historic opportunity to breathe new life into the civic slogan, "Think globally, act locally."
If the foregoing analysis is accurate, community networks must view content and access as synergistic and inseparable. Providing citizens an alternative, non-commercial route to the Internet will be just as valuable as providing vital local content and discussion forums.
Citizens are more likely to volunteer for, and financially support, a community network which they feel provides a vital service. They are more likely to enter the realm of civic engagement if they feel like they have a stake in that realm. If the Internet follows the shopping mall/amusement park model of commercial TV, nothing will be more vital for the civic health of our communities than an alternative place where citizens can act as citizens.


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Arizona @ Iona
Iona College Tip-Off Tournament
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Friday, Nov. 8
6:30 p.m. ET
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Head coach Niya Butts and the Arizona women's basketball team will open their regular season on Friday, Nov. 8 in New Rochelle, N.Y. at the Iona College Tip-Off Tournament.
The Wildcats will face Iona at 6:30 p.m. ET on Friday and will play either Michigan or Bowling Green on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. ET.
Arizona brings a new team identity to the floor this year, as it returns several key players, but welcomes some important contributors as well.
For more information, check out the season preview.
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In the spirit of Halloween, independent developer Battery Acid Games has released to the App Store a hilarious game packing morbid humor and endless fun! In Skull Kick, compatible with the Apple iPhone®, Apple iPod touch®, and Apple iPad®, your task is to help Skully, an adorable undead creature, kick and bounce his head as far as possible! With its intuitive controls, kicking heads quickly becomes second nature. Scully's head happily bounces on various graves it encounters - some make the head bounce father, some higher, and some contain hidden and rare power-ups. Just watch out for those controlled by the Grim Reaper as they will stop Skully's head in its place! Halloween fun!
Skull Kick might not include a bag of Candy Corn or a basket of treats, but the game does include the intuitive gameplay, multiple character outfits for Skully, and local and global leaderboards to compare your skull kicking abilities against other players! The graphics are cute, crisp and colorful, and the game also features an original soundtrack.
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PALOS VERDES, Calif. - The first ranked University of Arizona women's golf team is in first place after day one of the TRW Regional Challenge with a team score of 4-over-par 288. The tournament is being held at the Palos Verdes Golf Club in the Palos Altos Estates, which is a par-71, 5,900 yard layout.
Sophomore Cristina Baena is tied for first place with Tulsa's Stacy Prammanasudh after each scored a 3-under-par 68. UA senior Jill Gomric shot an even 71 and is in fourth place , while junior Christina Monteiro is tied for fifth place, scoring a 1-over-par 72. Rounding out the Arizona line up are freshman Julia Kraschinski (6-over-par 77) tied for 40th place and junior Jenna Daniels (9-over-par 80) tied for 69th place.
Pepperdine, Southern California, Texas Christian and Georgia round out the top five schools in the team race.
Day two of the three-day tournament resumes tomorrow with another 18 holes of play.
T1 Cristina Baena 33-35 68 -3 4 Jill Gomric 34-37 71 E T5 Christina Monteiro 35-37 72 +1 T40 Julia Kraschinski 38-39 77 +6 T69 Jenna Daniels 40-40 80 +9


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We don't know the question, but the answer is innovation. And with innovation it's more, more, more. Whether it's more with less, or a lot more with a little more, it's always more. It's bigger, faster, stronger, or bust. It's an enhancement of what is, or an extrapolation of what we have. Or it's the best of product one added to product two. But it's always more.
More-on-more makes radical shifts hard because with more-on-more we hold onto all functionality then add features, or we retain all features then multiply output. This makes it hard to let go of constraints, both the fundamental ones – which we don't even see as constraints because they masquerade as design rules – and the little-known second class constraints – which we can see, but don't recognize their power to block first class improvements. (Second class constraints are baggage that come with tangential features which stop us from jumping onto new S-curves for the first class stuff.)
To break the unhealthy cycle of more-on-more addition, think subtraction. Take out features and function. Distill to the essence. Decree guilty until proven innocent, and make your marketers justify the addition of every feature and function. Starting from ground zero, ask your marketers, "If the product does just one thing, what should it do?" Write it down as input to the next step.
Next, instead of more-on-more multiplication, think division. Divide by ten the minimum output of your smallest product. (The intent it to rip your engineers and marketers out of the rut that is your core product line.) With this fractional output, ask what other technologies can enable the functionality? Look down. Look to little technologies, technologies that you could have never considered at full output. Congratulations. You've started on your migration toward with less-with-far-less.
On the surface, less-with-far-less doesn't seem like a big deal. And at first, folks roll their eyes at the idea of taking out features and de-rating output by ten. But its magic is real. When product performance is clipped, constraints fall by the wayside. And when the product must do far less and constraints are dismissed, engineers are pushed away from known technologies toward the unfamiliar and unreasonable. These unfamiliar technologies are unreasonably small and enable functionality with far less real estate and far less inefficiency. The result is radically reduced cost, size, and weight.
Less-with-far-less enables cost reductions so radical, new markets become viable; it makes possible size and weight reductions so radical, new levels of portability open unimaginable markets; it facilitates power reductions so radical, new solar technologies become viable.
The half-life of constraints is long, and the magic from less-with-far-less builds slowly. Before they can let go of what was, engineers must marinate in the notion of less. But when the first connections are made, a cascade of ideas follow and things spin wonderfully out of control. It becomes a frenzy of ideas so exciting, the problem becomes cooling their jets without dampening their spirit.
Less-with-far-less is not dumbed-down work – engineers are pushed to solve new problems with new technologies. Thermal problems are more severe, dimensional variation must be better controlled, and failure modes are new. In fact, less-with-far-less creates steeper learning curves and demands higher-end technologies and even adolescent technologies.
Our thinking, in the form of constraints, limits our thinking. Less-with-far-less creates the scarcity that forces us to abandon our constraints. Less-with-far-less declares our existing technologies unviable and demands new thinking. And I think that's just what we need.
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I live in a rural area (near a city). This is a blessing to us in many ways. We enjoy the space and peace of nature while living near any convenience we could ask for. Our property connects to an extensive trail network that allows us to run in a state park without ever touching road.
Because of this, we rarely bring a leash for our poodle Cooper anymore. He runs the woods, chasing turkey, squirrels and deer, usually sticking very close to us.
The flaw in this, is that he is an incredibly social animal. He can't understand why a dog, or horse, or field mouse wouldn't want to play with him. Today it caught up to him.
My husband was out running with him when he heard him yelp in the woods not far from the trail. Cooper had encountered porcupines before, but we had spotted them first and verbally commanded him away. Hubby didn't see this porcupine but Cooper came out with a face full of evidence.
I apologize for the poor quality of these pictures, I wanted to get a few quick shots before we started the long (and difficult) process of pulling the quills out one by one. I wasn't going to take the time or effort to compose a shot, not when my pup was uncomfortable.
We were lucky, he only had about 40 quills in his nose, lip and under his chin. Had he gotten a hundred, or gotten some in his mouth, we would have had to bring him to the vet. They would have put him under for quill removal and followed up with precautionary antibiotics. My checkbook would have shed a tear or two.
Instead we worked together. I held Cooper down, while my husband pulled the quills out one by one with pliers. Cooper got bits of cheese ever few quills. Pups are so easy to bribe. The ones under his chin were the worst. He cried and fought us, so we had to take breaks more often. During every break, he would perform all kinds of calming signals. He would shake off, lick his lips, lift his paws. I think he was trying to get us to chill out with the torture.
I think he must have been sniffing the porcupine when he got hit with the tail. Of course, he probably didn't even remember the incident thanks to a 45 minute run home.
As for Coop, he seems to be back to himself. I'm sure he wont learn his lesson the first time though. That weird spiky dog just needs some extra work to become his friend.


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Texas Tech baseball sweeps West Texas A&M with 19-4 Sunday victory
LUBBOCK, Texas - The Texas Tech baseball team completed a three-game sweep of West Texas A&M with a 19-6 victory Sunday at Texas Tech's Dan Law Field. The victory improves Texas Tech to 3-1 on the season and drops West Texas A&M to 0-3.
The Red Raiders are next in action on Tuesday and Wednesday when they play a two-game series against TCU in Fort Worth.
Texas Tech got on top early with a 3-run first inning and went up 9-1 with a 4-run sixth inning. The Red Raiders finished off the Buffaloes with a 7-run eighth inning.
Offensive highlights for Texas Tech were many. Keith Ginter went 3-4 with 6 RBI and two runs scored, Jason Landreth finished 3-3, Junior Rodriguez hit his third home run in the first four games and finished 3-5, Josh Bard went 3-4 with two runs scored, Miles Durham went 2-5 with two runs scored, Kevin Jordan went 1-3 with 2 RBI and Jose Alvarez drove home 2 RBI on a single.
Starter Shane Wright (1-0) earned the victory on the mound after pitching 6.0 innings, striking out seven and allowing only one run on four hits. West Texas A&M's Britt Cornwell (0-1) took the loss.
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Lets Get Twixtored
Posted Sat, Oct 22, 2011
I have been playing around with the awesome Twixtor Plugin for After Effects for the past few weeks. Twixtor allows you to create super slow motion videos by interpolating the frames that would usually be missing when time remapping. Sometimes the interpolation causes weird warping artifacts, but with a bit more tweaking I am sure I will be able to clean these up. But for now here are some quick tests I have done.
Twixtor Basket Ball:
Twixtor Mountainboard Jump: (and hair flick, haha)
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The Music Department has been a vibrant part of the COM community for over 80 years, starting with just a small orchestra and chorus in the late 1920s, building up a larger music major program after WWII. The comprehensive university level transfer program and the community performing groups were created in the 1960s, along with construction of a new performing arts building which still houses the department today.
We take pride in the quality of our faculty, not only in their teaching excellence, but also in their contributions to the Bay Area music scene through performance and composition. This great tradition of service to our community is carried out by our large performance groups: the College of Marin Symphony Orchestra, Marin Oratorio, the Symphonic Band, Jazz Ensemble, and Contemporary Opera Marin. These groups make exceptional performances accessible to the Marin County community, both on our campus and at many other venues throughout Marin.
The Music Department offers a comprehensive music major program leading to an Associate of Arts degree in music or for transfer to a four-year college or university. Many of our former students have gone on to successful careers in musical performance or composition, in classical, jazz, popular and film music. In addition to our classes for music majors, many of our courses are also appropriate for those wishing to rekindle their musical abilities and interests, increase instrumental or vocal competency, or perform with a large or small ensemble. Whether you want to pursue a career in music, improve your own musical technique, or just listen to great music, the COM Music Department has something for you.
Department location: The Music Department is located inside of the Performing Arts Building at the College of Marin, Kentfield Campus. We are at the corner of Sir Francis Drake and Laurel Avenue.
Parking Information: Parking fees waived on performance nights in all parking lots.
Kentfield Campus parking permits are $4 and may be purchased from machines located in parking lots 7 and 9. Machines accept credit cards, cash, and coins (exact change only). The machine in parking lot 6 accepts credit cards, cash, and coins; and will give change in the form of $1 coins for $5, $10, and $20 bills.
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Let $S$ be a $K3$ surface. Is it true that any sheaf on $S$ with zero Chern classes is isomorphic to $\mathcal{O}_S^{\oplus n}$ for some $n$? If not, do you have any counterexample?
The answer is no. Here is a counterexample.
Take an ample divisor $L$ on $S$ and let $Z \subset S$ be a zero-dimensional subscheme of length $\ell(Z)=L^2$.
Now consider the coherent sheaf $$\mathscr{F}=\mathscr{O}_S(-L) \oplus \mathscr{O}_S(L) \otimes \mathscr{I}_Z.$$
Straightforward computations show that $$c_t(\mathscr{O}_S(-L))=1-Lt, \quad c_t(\mathscr{O}_S(L)\otimes \mathscr{I}_Z)=1+Lt + \ell(Z) t^2,$$
hence $c_t(\mathscr{F})=1$.
So $\mathscr{F}$ has zero Chern classes, but it is not isomorphic $\mathscr{O}_S^{\oplus 2}$ because it is not locally free.
Note that this construction holds for any smooth projective surface $S$, in fact the assumption $K3$ is not used here.


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Rolls Royce says no to diesel. After the rejection of possible future hybrid and electric systems, it now appears that customers of the luxury British manufacturer do not want diesel-powered vehicles in the Rolls Royce range.
Autocar reports that Rolls-Royce received a negative feedback on diesel engines and its customers do not want to compromise with such a system, which seems like a cheap solution compared to more powerful petrol engines. "Don't bring diesel anywhere near a Rolls-Royce, we won't buy it." These are the opinions of loyal and important customers in regard to the matter.
According to reliable sources of the British magazine, it also appears that Rolls Royce does not want to follow Aston Martin and Bentley's decision to launch a SUV range. Rolls-Royce is not after sales volume and therefore does not need a new vehicle range to further expand its market.


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Was delivered about a hour ago. I fired a full mag of ball I kept wondering when dam thing would run out of bullets. Seems to be pretty accurate but. Since this is a Beretta clone I have a question or 2.
Why would you carry a pistol this large in 9mm when a 1911a1 45 is more compact. Yes I know 1/2 the ammo also. But I'm not doing a 9 verse 45 stoping power. In most SD shootings 2 to 4 rounds is all you need.
2. The Taurus has the ability to be carried C&L like a 45 or Decocked for first shot DA. Does Beretta also have this.
I found the pistol nice to shoot and I guess 17+1 of 9mm has a place. But I would never carry as a SD pistol or reach for as a home denfence pistol unless Zombies are over running place. Then I might. I guess my girls will enjoy shooting .I think I will clean and put up for later use.
Notice I haven't said Beretta or Taurus are bad just I see no reason for this size pistol . Not even in military. But then I'm old like my 1911a1's :lol:


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Community Complaints Lead to Search Warrant of Nuisance Property
Posted on 02/27/2014 4:33 pm
- 2500 block Washington Street, Wilmington, Delaware
Date of Occurrence:
- Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Parker Blake, 56, 2500 block Washington Street, Wilmington, Delaware
- Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Tier 5 Quantity
- Possession of Marijuana
An ongoing cooperative effort between the Community Policing Unit, Street Crimes Unit, and the Drug, Organized Crime and Vice Division led to the successful execution of a search warrant at a nuisance property in Wilmington.
Community Policing Officers Devon Jones and William Ball received numerous complaints from the community about ongoing drug sales and activity from a residence in the 2500 block of Washington Street. Officers Jones and Ball partnered with the Street Crimes Unit to surveil and perform controlled drug purchases from that residence.
On February 26th the officers, in collaboration with the Drug, Organized Crime, and Vice Division, executed a search warrant at that residence yielding 631 bags if heroin valued at $3,155 and 2 grams of marijuana.
Parker Blake was taken into custody at the residence. He was arraigned at Justice of the Peace Court 20 and committed to Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in lieu of $25,000 cash bail.


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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2010 Article IV Consultation with FrancePublic Information Notice (PIN) No. 10/103
July 30, 2010
Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post assessments of member countries with longer-term program engagements. PINs are also issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Board in a particular case. The staff report (use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this pdf file) for the 2010 Article IV Consultation with France is also available.
On July 28, 2010, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with France.1
A fragile recovery is underway in France. The recession was less severe in France than in most other advanced economies, reflecting the comparatively low trade openness, fairly resilient financial sector, large social safety nets, and timely and decisive government intervention. Nonetheless, the unemployment rate has risen steeply, notably among the young. The financial crisis and economic downturn have exerted a significant toll on public finances, and in the financial sector concerns remain about asset quality, and possible spillovers from mature markets.
The authorities have taken important policy actions to stabilize the financial system and have implemented a suitable fiscal stimulus to cushion the downturn. With the recovery underway, the policy focus is shifting from crisis management to strengthening the foundations of the economy through fiscal consolidation, supporting the full recovery of the financial system and improving financial regulation. The authorities are also implementing structural reforms to raise potential growth, create jobs, and strengthen competitiveness.
In light of the sharply increased public debt and the turbulence on European financial markets, the authorities are firmly committed to strong fiscal adjustment beginning in 2011, and to reduce the overall fiscal deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2013. The fiscal stimulus is set to expire by end-2010. Revenue and expenditure measures that have already been announced are sizable and would reduce the deficit by some 2 percentage points in 2011. However, further measures at all levels of government are needed to achieve the envisaged fiscal consolidation over the medium term. In June, a major pension reform was announced that is to be legislated in the coming months. The reform would gradually increase the effective retirement age and aims to achieve financial equilibrium in the pension system by 2018.
French banks are emerging relatively stronger from the global financial crisis and a gradual exit from crisis-related government support is underway. The EU-wide stress test results released on July 23 have confirmed the resilience of French banks. The new supervisory structure that merges banking and insurance supervision responds to the need for systemic supervision while measures to control financial sector remuneration aim to reduce incentives for excessive risk-taking. The regulatory reform will be completed by the planned creation of a systemic risk board with participation of all relevant supervisors and government bodies. However, increases in nonperforming loans as a result of the recession and possible spillovers from the European sovereign debt crisis may exert renewed pressure on the financial sector and constrain lending growth. On the structural front, the authorities continue to implement their ambitious reform agenda, particularly in the labor and product markets, with a view to boosting job creation, increasing growth, and strengthening competitiveness.
The French economy is expected to recover gradually. Real GDP is projected to grow by 1.4 percent in 2010 and 1.6 percent in 2011, somewhat faster than in the Euro Area as a whole. The same features of the French economy that partly shielded it during the recession are also likely to slow the pace of the recovery. Risks to the outlook are slanted to the downside. Lingering concerns about sovereign risks in the Euro Area could dampen confidence, increase financing costs, and depress demand.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors noted that the French economy weathered the global crisis better than most of its peers. The timely government intervention succeeded in stabilizing the financial system and cushioning the downturn. Directors noted that the outlook is challenging and that growth is expected to pick up only gradually. Unemployment and public debt are relatively high; the imminent fiscal consolidation in France and most European countries will weigh on demand; and lingering concerns about sovereign risks call for continued vigilance. A vigorous implementation of the authorities' reform agenda will be needed to support the recovery.
Directors considered the fiscal stimulus in 2009-10 to be well designed, including the abolition of the local business tax. Given the sharply increased public debt, the focus in the years ahead should be on a significant and credible fiscal consolidation. Directors commended the authorities' determination to reduce the overall fiscal deficit to 3 percent of GDP by 2013. They welcomed the already specified consolidation measures, including continued spending restraint in the central government and a nominal freeze of transfers to local governments. The announced pension reform is a key component of the consolidation strategy and rightly emphasizes an increase in the retirement age. Efforts to better control healthcare spending should also be pursued.
Directors noted that beyond the measures to meet the fiscal target for 2011, further steps, including contingency measures, will be needed to achieve the medium-term objectives. To enhance the credibility of the consolidation effort, Directors stressed the importance of ensuring that the multiyear budget framework is based on realistic macroeconomic assumptions, and saw merit in proposals for the establishment of an independent council and the adoption of a fiscal rule.
Directors observed that the French banks are emerging from the crisis with improving profitability, and welcomed the confirmation of the resilience of the French banks by the Europe-wide stress test results. They noted that the communication of key exposures helps transparency and allows for a better assessment of financial sector stability. A sluggish recovery and relatively high exposures to peripheral Europe may pose new risks, including for asset quality. Although these risks appear manageable, they require continued strong supervision. Directors recommended that the authorities should be prepared to take appropriate additional measures to support banks, if needed. They welcomed the recent unification of banking and insurance supervision and encouraged France to continue to play an active role in promoting international regulatory reforms.
Directors stressed the importance of pressing ahead with the structural reform agenda, in order to strengthen competitiveness, boost job creation and promote innovation. In addition to labor market activation and training policies, minimum wage moderation should continue to gradually establish a motivating pay scale for young and low-skilled workers. For senior workers, efforts to improve incentives for continued work, including effective job-search requirements, need to be pursued in tandem with the pension reform. Directors encouraged further steps to improve product and services market flexibility.


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The water sports enthusiasts that (WSET-TV) news reporter Katie Brooke interviewed at Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia are convinced that "Flyboarding" is the next big deal. According to Brooke, "They're calling it the most exciting thing in water sports since the jet-ski."
What that means might be debatable, however, there are several undeniable certainties reported in Katie Brooke's column. The first is "Flyboarding is a new phenomenon that flies you up in the air, propelled by water." Second, "The flyboard is made in France and has been in existence for just two years. Third, "Wet Connections at Crazy Horse Marina just purchased one and has been using it for about a month now. Finally, Wet Connections at Crazy Horse Marina just purchased one and has been using it for about a month now."
Cynthia Landrum, Co-owner of Wet Connection Boat Rentals confirms, "The fly board is the newest equipment in water sports.
Dalton Hodges, Certified Flyboard Instructor, explained "You can go about thirty feet in the air and as long as you maintain your balance you can stay up there for any amount of time"
Hodges added that since they began using the fly board in May they have done several demonstrations, and close to 10 people have tried it themselves.
The biggest thrill, according to Hodges is that "You look down and you see you're 30 feet in the air and you're just suspended by water not even cables or anything, it's really different. The sight really gets people talking."
Mike Reed and Brenda Watson are two of the "people talking." Mr. Reed says that in all the years that he docked his boat at the marina, "He's never seen anything like it."
Reed Added, "We actually rolled up on it a couple weeks ago when they were testing it and messing with it and it's something else to see, it's pretty cool."
Brenda Watson first experienced flyboarding last year while on vacation in Cozumel, Mexico. "It was brand new. Nobody realized, when you see a guy floating up out of the water, you didn't really understand it."
Now according to Watson "She can't believe the water sport is at Smith Mountain Lake."
Watson is convinced "They will love it, it's something that really draws attention, because it's something we don't have here."
"If you want to be up in the air, this is your chance to do it," according to Dalton Hodges.
The owners at Wet Connections say they wanted to make the sport affordable for anyone to try. Employees say at some other areas it costs $2000 rent a flyboard for 30 minutes.
At Smith Mountain Lake, you can go up for 30 minutes for just $50 dollars
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12/11/09: Fall Scholar Athletes
11/23/09: A-10 Academic All-Conference Feature
2009 Photo Gallery
2010-11 (Senior): Outdoor Track: Competed in four meets ... Set the fifth best time in UMass history in the 10K while placing third at the IC4A Championships (5/13) by recording a time of 30:14.53 ... Took home fifth in the 5K at the A-10 Championships (5/8) with a time of 14:45.15 ... At the Larry Ellis Invitational (4/22), qualified for the IC4A Championships in the 5000 meter run while setting a time of 14:34.95, good enough for 47th place ... Qualified for the IC4A Championships while placing fifth in the 10,000 meter run at the Sam Howell Invite (4/1) with a time of 30:17.74. Indoor Track: Did not compete. Cross Country: Competed in three meets during his senior campaign ... Was the Minutemen's top competitor in 2010 ... Captured first on the team in all three meets competed in ... At the NCAA Regional Championships (11/13) finished 36th overall in 31:02.9 ... At the A-10 Championships (10/30), crossed the line at 24:59, good enough for 12th place ... Captured 50th overall at the heavily competitive Chili Pepper Festival (10/16) with a time of 30:54.91.
2009-10 (Junior): Outdoor Track: Competed in one meet ... Finished seventh in the 5,000 meter run at the A-10 Championships (5/2), with a time of 15:20.17. Indoor Track: Did not compete. Cross Country: Competed in five meets ... Named to the Atlantic 10 Academic All-Conference Team and was an All-Atlantic 10 selection ... Chosen as UMass Athlete of the Week on Nov. 2 ... Led the team in three-of-five meets ... Helped earn 323 points for UMass at the NCAA Regional Qualifier (11/14), while taking first place on the team and 43rd overall with a time of 32:47 ... Captured seventh overall and first on the team at the Atlantic 10 Championships (10/31) with a time of 26:57.8 ... Ranked first on the team at the ISU-Pre Nationals with a time of 24:49.4 (10/17) ... Crossed the line with a time of 24:30 at the Paul Short Invitational, good enough for second place on the team and 42nd overall ... Took third place on the team and sixth overall at then UMass Five-Way Meet (9/19) with a time of 25:50.00. Indoor Track: Did not compete.
2008-09 (Sophomore): Outdoor Track: Placed eighth at the Atlantic 10 Championships (5/3), in the 10000 meter run with a time of 31:05.31 ... Placed third in the 10000 meter run with a time of 30:45.63 at the UMass Six Way Meet (4/11) ... At the UConn Invitational (4/4), placed fourth in the 5000 meter run with a time of 15:01.81. Cross Country: Earned Academic All-Conference honors in the fall with a 4.0 GPA ... At the NCAA Regional Meet (11/15), finished fourth on the team, 57th overall with a time of 33:23.9 ... Aiding the Minutemen to their second-ever A-10 title, finished seventh on the team, 20th overall, with a time of 25:08.7 ... Finished third on the team, 106th overall, at the ISU Pre-Nationals (10/18) with a time of 24:58.2 ... Season-best time of 24:53 for a 69th place finish at the Paul Short Invitational (10/3) ... Ranked ninth overall at home versus Maine, Vermont, Colgate, and UConn. Indoor Track: Did not compete.
2007-08 (Freshman): During the cross country season, competed in two events ... At the Atlantic 10 Championships (10/27), finished sixth on the team, 30th overall, with a time of 26:41 ... At home versus Maine and Vermont (9/15), recorded a season-best time of 25:58 to rank 17th overall.
Before UMass: A 2007 graduate of Ludlow High School ... Ran three years on varsity helping his team win the league championship in his junior year and the Western Mass Championships in his senior year ... Second team All-Western Mass as a sophomore ... First team All-Western Mass as a junior and senior ... Western Mass twomile champion as a junior.
Personal: Kevin Crowley Johnson ... Born Octobber 27, 1988 in Tully, N.Y. ... Son of Timothy and Susan Johnson ... Has two siblings Matthew and David ... Matthew is also on the cross country and track teams at UMass ... Majoring in biology.
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The Treasure development partnership hopes to return to its discussions with the Park City Planning Commission late in the fall, more than four years after the talks were put on hold as City Hall leaders and the partnership attempted to reach some sort of conservation deal.
The partnership involves the Sweeney family, which is the historic owner of the Treasure acreage, and a firm called Park City II, LLC. Each has a 50 percent stake in the partnership.
Pat Sweeney, who has represented the family in the discussions with the Planning Commission, said in a message this week there is lots of material to prepare before the Treasure partnership appears again in front of the panel.
He said the Treasure developers are working with the Park City Planning Department and reacquainting themselves with planning-related issues. The Treasure side "will then crystallize its position on these" followed by comments from the Planning Department, Sweeney said.
"Once this process is complete, this package will be presented to the Planning Commission for consideration," the message said.
It said the Treasure partnership intends to update the project's website, treasureparkcity.com.
It appears there will be movement on Treasure in the coming months after the spring collapse of the discussions between the partnership and City Hall about a conservation deal. Those negotiations launched in the spring of 2010.
There has been significant turnover on the Planning Commission in the years since the panel was last heavily involved in Treasure, prior to the start of the negotiations in the spring of 2010.
The Treasure partnership is seeking an approval allowing approximately 1 million square feet of development on a hillside overlooking Old Town along the route of the Town Lift. The Sweeney family secured an overall development approval involving the Treasure acreage and nearby parcels in the 1980s. The partnership, though, must still win another important permit for the Treasure project itself.
People who live or have properties along streets like Empire Avenue and Lowell Avenue have been the chief opponents. They argue traffic headed to and from Treasure will overwhelm the streets and the Treasure buildings will loom over Old Town, among other issues.
The Treasure developers, though, counter that the traffic can be handled and the project will boost business on Main Street.


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15th Ibero-American Summit supports Cuba
Nineteen Latin American nations, plus Spain, Portugal and Andorra, sent high-level representatives to Salamanca, Spain, Oct. 14-15. The occasion was the 15th Ibero-American Summit.
Millions More Movement draws thousands to D.C.
Hurricane Katrina thrust racial disparities onto the nation's political agenda and top civil rights leaders, fueled by outrage over the disaster, headed to Washington Oct. 15. The occasion was the 10th anniversary of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, a long-planned event that shaped up as a stage for Black America to respond to the devastation in New Orleans.
British playwright and war critic awarded Nobel Prize
In announcing the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, Horace Engdahl, chairman of the Swedish Academy, said that British playwright Harold Pinter was an artist "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms."
Good Night, and Good Luck a must see
With "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney proves once and for all he's more than just a pretty face. With this film, his second as director, he shows himself to be smart, courageous, politically savvy — and a hell of a storyteller.
Robert Owens money problem
New Lanark is one of the big tourist attractions in the south of Scotland. Designated a world heritage site by the UN, it is an almost perfectly preserved model industrial village run by Robert Owen 200 years ago. It has a large and elegant school building, an "Institute for the Formation of Character," workers' houses and the original mills. An exhibition and theme ride puts across some of the basic facts about Owen, the pioneer of socialism, trade unionism and the cooperative movement.
Will science lose to intelligent design?
The religious right is increasing efforts to force its dogmatic beliefs onto American society. Its agenda includes efforts in many states to force the teaching of religion in public schools. Its adherents argue that evolution is not a discipline of science but "only a theory," and that "intelligent design" (formerly "creationism") should have an equal place in public education.
Editorial: No gas shutoffs!
Throughout much of the United States, home heating in winter is as much a necessity as food, clothing and a roof over one's head. With oil and natural gas prices rising steadily in recent years, thousands of families have faced cruel choices as the temperature drops — whether to heat their homes or buy food, medicine or gas to get to work.
Editorial: Blood on their hands
One thing is clear about special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of White House officials: the Iraq war lies and cover-up are vast and ugly. Bush administration officials have blood on their hands. And so do The New York Times and its reporter Judith Miller.
Lifting the curtain: Immigrant detention centers in U.S. charged with abuse
A recent Associated Press article sheds light on how human beings are treated when they are detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The AP article reports allegations that as many as six federal Homeland Security deportation agents assaulted and tortured a shackled Nigerian man at the ICE facility in Oklahoma City. ICE officials have denied widespread abuse of detainees. The FBI is investigating
Heat or eat?
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich. — Earlier this year President Bush enacted an energy bill into law that gave $85 billion dollars to big oil and gas companies. This month, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives gave billions more in tax breaks to the oil industry while doing nothing to lower gas prices.


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Dorothy L. Lowery, the daughter of the late Charles and Elizabeth Harvey Sivert, was born in Lawenceville, Illinois on May 29, 1917, and passed away at the Puxico Nursing Center in Puxico, Missouri on January 7, 2011, at the age of 93 years, 7 months and 9 days.
She had lived in Stoddard County all of her life and had lived in Puxico the past 41 years. She enjoyed piecing and quilting guilts.
On March 30, 1935, she was married to Bacil Lowery in Dexter, Missouri. He preceded her in death on November 9, 1996.
Surviving are one son, Leo Lowery of Puxico, Missouri; two daughters, Shelba Sifford of Puxico, Missouri, Norma Baker of Lamar, Missouri; nine grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; and ten great great grandchildren. Other relatives and friends also survive. She was preceded in death by one son, Jerry Eugene Lowery; one daughter, Carolyn Sue Hollis; and two brothers, Robert & Harry Sivert.
Visitation will be Monday, January 10, 2011, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Puxico.
Graveside services will be held Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at 10:00 AM in the Bloomfield Cemetery in Bloomfield, Missouri with the Rev. Dennis Doublin of Puxico, Missouri officiating.
Interment will be in the Bloomfield Cemetery in Bloomfield, Missouri with Watkins & Sons Funeral Service of Puxico in charge of arrangements.


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The executive producer of TV5's primetime variety gameshow "Willing-Willie" has penalized two members of "WW. Girls" dancers who recently figured in a catfight.
Jay Montelibano, the former business unit head of the defunct noontime show "Wowowee," imposed the penalty of suspension to Aprilyn "Congratulations" Gustilo and Monique "Pak" Natada. The two dancers confronted each other after the show's Nov. 1 episode over a misunderstanding that was reportedly fueled by work fatigue.
The suspension took effect from Tuesday, Nov. 2, and will last until Saturday, Nov. 6. Montelibano added that the penalty will also serve as a lesson to the rest of the all-female dance group.
A good numbers of the dancers including their choreographer were formerly part of "Wowowee." They reportedly moved to TV5 to follow Revillame after he resigned from his mother network, ABS-CBN.


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G-Technology has announced two new portable external storage solutions. The G-DRIVE slim and G-DRIVE mobile are now available with 7,200 RPM hard disk drives (HDDs).
When compared to 5,400 RPM-based HDD models, these external drives deliver up to 20-40% faster data transfer rates for quicker access to photos, videos, music and documents, says Mike Williams, vice president and general manager, G-Technology.
The US$89.95 G-DRIVE slim is a portable drive designed for the MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air. It sports a 7mm z-height, 7,200 RPM, hard drive — the Travelstar Z7K500 — and USB 3.0 interface, the G-DRIVE slim delivers transfer rates of up to 125MB per second, nearly 23 percent faster than other 5,400 RPM-based external drives. The $139.95 G-DRIVE mobile features an USB 3.0 interface and a 1TB, 7,200 RPM HGST Travelstar7K1000 mobile hard drive.
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