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Governor Chris Christe (R,NJ) came out wielding verbal attacks on David Wildstein, the Port Authority attorney who claims that Christie knew about the lane closures on the George Washington Bridge as they were happening according to CNN, Feb. 1, 2014.
In his appearance before reporters, Christie distanced himself from Wildstein, claiming that although he knew Wildstein and went to a "three year high school" with him, that they never were "friends" and never were "close." Christie claims that there was a twenty-three year gap during which he and Wildstein did not see each other at all, from 1977 to 2000. He asserts that even after he and Wildstein met again in 2000, that they only saw each other "in passing' in the hallway and that they never were cordial with one another.
Christie told reporters that Wildstein had been seeking immunity from prosecution in this matter since its inception and that he believed that Wildstein was fabricating the story that he knew about the lane closures so that the Port Authority would pay his legal fees. Wildstein had claimed that he received a call from an aide to Governor Christie, Bridget Anne Kelly, in which Kelly told him that it was "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee." Kelly's statement is believed to have been intended as retribution against the Mayor of Fort Lee for failing to endorse Christe in his gubernatorial reelection campaign.
Christie also took aim at the New York Times for what he called "sloppy" reporting regarding attorney Alan Zegas's statements to the effect that "evidence exists" that Christie knew about the lane closures as they were happening.
The New York Times refused to alter its story on Zegas's statement, stating the following through a spokesperson:
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Barbour, A D (1978). A stochastic model for the transmission of bilharzia. Mathematical Biosciences, 38(3-4):303-312.
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Although the transmission mechanisms of helminthic infections are extremely complicated, models based on unrealistically simplified assumptions may still be useful as a guide to controlling the diseases. The basic model discussed in this paper is a stochastic version of Macdonald's model. It is used to give an estimate of the probability that an infected person entering a community previously free of the disease will cause it to become established there. A more complicated model is then put forward, which takes rather more of the detail of the transmission cycle into account. This in principle enables a more realistic estimate to be obtained, and it is shown that, under reasonable hypotheses, the estimate is very similar to that suggested by the basic model. Since the true probability depends heavily on the fine detail of the transmission mechanisms, however, the importance of such estimates is largely confined to their qualitative response to changes in the underlying parameters.
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"The '80s called… they want their store back." That was the opening line for Radio Shack's 2014 Super Bowl ad, which gave viewers a major throwback Sunday when a mob of 1980s icons ransacked an outdated Radio Shack store. The commercial featured just about every '80s pop culture reference imaginable.
On Feb. 2, People magazine identified the list of the commercial's guest stars, which included everyone from Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton to "Friday the 13th" villain Jason Voorhees.
In addition to those '80s icons, Cliff Clavin from "Cheers," wrestler Sgt, Slaughter, the California Raisins, Alf, Twisted Sister front man Dee Snider, Kid 'N play, and even the "Clash of the Titans" owl Bubo appeared in the ad. (You can see the full list of cameos here.)
According to the Wall Street Journal, the electronics retailer was a big winner with ad, along with Super Bowl ad Chrysler and Anheuser-Busch, who frequently score well with their game day spots. Branding expert Dean Crutchfield told the WSJ of the Radio Shack ad: "It's great to see a brand make fun of itself."
Speaking of making fun, the commercial's actors know how to do that too. After the ad aired, wrestler Hulk Hogan, tweeted: "@RadioShack commercial was fun to film, everyone from the 80's has to dress like they looked back then, I just showed up, nothing's changed. HH."


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Last Friday afternoon I went for the first time in 20-years to a basketball game at a local High School.
In the soft winter hills of St. John's a steely looking building with red as its main color, serves as the school where teenagers begin to structure their transition into adulthood.
I sat two levels up in the bleachers as I wasn't sure if I could get down in a hurry should I suddenly need the ladies room, or start to cough-the Juniper bush allergies are a part of my Halls cough-drop-living these days.
The home team, the St. John's Redskins, beat the visitors Pinon Eagles in the Verl Heap Gym at St. John's High School, 61-34.
This event was so many things for so many and the score and who won was incidental because the way they played, both teams, was thrilling. If you believe, and I do, that it doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's how you play the game, then the Junior Varsity teams on this February 7th winter afternoon could very well have written that saying.
Over the sounds of sneakers squeaking and the coaches whistles, the game crescendoed with the pounding of determined feet. Tense moments with those free shots from the basketball rules book...only then did the place get quiet.
Each player played for their team-directed and focused-passing the ball toward their own court-dribbling fast like lightening in an open Arizona sky; they ran and with the hoop as their target were relentless until the end…until time ran out and the score was final. They blocked out distractions like families and friends taking pictures and cheering. With all the support and the great facility they had to play in it's no surprise that they played so well.
For the visiting team, the Eagles, their edge was lost in the length of their bodies, but the way they darted in between the taller competitors was exciting and charismatic. Of special note, Junior Toderick Nez #30, at 5"9" clearly has some star power –nothing got past him – and if he plays his future the way he did this game-I would say remember him; this kid has a great shot at life. Also, Milton Tso a sophomore at 5'7" went for a straight shot and got it.
The St. John's Redskins were clearly at home-so much talent in this team, Levi Udall at 6'2" had leverage with his height but knows his game and kept the hoops coming with great side shots. Adam Sullivan a sophomore at 6'0" has a great style and ran down court to his hoop and walloped it in with the determination of a winner. St. John's started out with the win and kept it till the end. The Eagles never gave up; shot those baskets till the end in true winner style. The great gym, the support from the community, the faculty involvement - St. John's seniors like Andrew Sullivan and Jake Zieler will be missed next season as their contributions to the winning score were obvious.
As I climbed down the two steps to get to the well shined gym floor the recall of my own high school days bounced back: In sports everyone wins whether you are playing or a spectator it doesn't matter. It's a game and watching how it get's played-out is the experience of watching young people fill a pre requisite of life…learning to live together no matter what team they are on.


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iPhone 4S will be available in China and other countries on January 13
Apple has just announced that the iPhone 4S will become available in China and some other countries on January 13 – in nine short days from now.
That's excellent timing by Apple (well, maybe except for the fact that it's a Friday the 13th), especially considering the Chinese New Year which falls on January 23 in 2012. The run-up to that day is in China akin to the famous 'holiday shopping season' in the 'Western' world, and many Chinese will surely choose an iPhone 4S as the item to gift this year.
Apple certainly needed to do all it could not to miss this huge sales opportunity. And now it won't. So expect the worldwide sales numbers for the iPhone 4S in the first quarter of 2012 to be heavily influenced by the Chinese launch.
The other countries and territories that will also get the new iPhone on January 13 are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Botswana, the British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, the Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guam, Guinea Conakry, the Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, and Uganda.


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Editor's Note: The following is the story of a Washington County man who has experienced the effects of drugs and alcohol in his life, and was willing to share his story with our readers. He does so here under the condition of his last name not being revealed.
He started drinking when he was 10 years old. By 11, he was using marijuana, and at 15, he had moved on to crack cocaine. Dustin, a 21-year-old Washington County man, said he has been in and out of jail for drug related incidents, and he didn't even care.
The regularly scheduled visit of the American Red Cross Blood Mobile will take place today from noon until 5 p.m. at the Springfield Baptist Church. This visit will be in honor and support of Jason Flinn, husband of Anne Nicole Davis Flinn, in his fight against caner, as he is in need of a lot of blood.
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Know your role
I'm going to expose my inner geek right now and use a quote from the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."
The local filming of a Bluegrass Cellular TV commercial slated for Friday morning has been moved until Sunday afternoon due to a rainy weather forecast.
Extras are still needed, and anyone interested in being part of the commercial should arrive in downtown Springfield at the parking lot behind Rumpke across from B&E Furniture by 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Participants must sign a release to be in the commercial, and anyone under 18 years of age must have a parent or guardian sign the release on their behalf.
Hey, Springfield, do you want to be in a commercial? Then put on your favorite casual weekend wear and head to downtown Springfield Friday morning. The town has been selected as the location for a new television commercial from Bluegrass Cellular, and you are asked to be a part of the filming.
The St. Catharine College volleyball team will play volleyball Saturday with a cause. Three matches will be played in Lourdes Hall Saturday with the entire gate proceeds to benefit breast cancer research.
The action in the tri-match will begin at noon when Indiana University-Southeast plays Midway. At 2 p.m., Midway takes on St. Catharine and at 4 p.m., St. Catharine plays IUS.
The volleyball matches will benefit the Side-Out Foundation, a charitable organization that raises money to fight breast cancer nationally.
If you like to ride horses, then you have the chance to saddle up and help provide needy children with Christmas gifts this year by participating in the Washington County 4-H Toys for Tots Trail Ride on Saturday, Oct. 10 at Camp Calvary in Mackville.
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Blue vs. Gray. The Hatfields vs. the McCoys. The Roadrunner vs. Wile E. Coyote. The road of history is paved with heated rivalries. It's no secret that when it comes to the Border War between Washington and Marion counties, things can get as serious as any major conflict. That's why, when these two teams clash on the gridiron, it's time to give it all you have and play for bragging rights.
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Limousine, Midnight Blue
Billy Collins (the popular two-time Poet Laureate of the U.S.) described the book this way:
"Ovid himself might have taken notice of this volume. It's one thing to turn a woman into a tree, another more advanced thing to transform fifty frames of the Zapruder film into as many sonnets. Limousine, Midnight Blue is a radical display of poetry's ability to freeze time, to catch fugitive-and here, disputed-moments in the amber of form".
The text is enriched by the author's deep acquaintance with the sources of the Western tradition. A translator of Sophocles and Plato, Jamey Hecht has written on the disaster of 11-22-63 in the pages of Counterpunch, Media Monitors Network, Global Outlook, The Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, and www.fromthewilderness.com, where he was Senior Staff Writer from 2003 to 2006. Hecht has spoken at conferences of both J.F.K. Lancer and C.O.P.A. (the Coalition on Political Assassinations), and edited the books Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert, and Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History by Larry Hancock. Hecht has taught world literature at various universities on both coasts, and his poetry and prose have been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals and literary magazines. He earned his Ph.D. in literature at Brandeis University (1995), where he studied poetry with Frank Bidart, Allen Grossman, and Mary Baine Campbell. Dr. Hecht's position regarding 11-22 is essentially that of theologian James W. Douglass in his heartbreaking, insightful, and well-documented recent book, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters (Orbis Books, 2008).
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syslogd describes the config format, but not the logfile format.
Ideally, the description would give the fields official names like (date, time, host, entry) or (datetime, hostname, message). Maybe additionally some regular expressions. I'd like to use the names and regexes in my script, to avoid an unnecessary deviation from the standard, and to make sure, that the script runs everywhere.


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The Catalyst Series: Women in Chemistry presents individual films about Nancy Chang, Uma Chowdhry, Mildred Cohn, Mary L. Good, Kathryn Hach-Darrow, Paula Hammond, Stephanie Kwolek, and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.
The featured women work in a variety of careers and come from different generations, countries, and racial and ethnic backgrounds. All have made significant contributions to the chemical sciences.
Women have contributed to the field of chemistry since the age of alchemy. But for many centuries they did so largely unseen and unheard. Throughout the 19th and much of the 20th century, the few women who pursued professional careers in chemistry often faced intense discrimination and were allowed only ancillary roles in the laboratory.
Even today, as women are gaining prominence in chemical fields, the legacy of the past persists. Women constitute only 16% of the tenured faculty in chemistry departments at U.S. colleges and universities. They also tend to be overlooked by award committees. Only four women have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and only two have received the American Chemical Society Joseph Priestley Medal.
While today the number of women in the sciences is on the rise, more work needs to be done to achieve parity. This series of short films and accompanying web resources offers a glimpse into the wide array of professions available in chemistry and related sciences and encourages viewers to consider studying chemistry as a way to positively impact the great environmental, medical, and technological challenges of our times.
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NOVELLA REVIEW: Iron's Prophecy by Julie Kagawa
IRON'S PROPHECY (The Iron Fey #4.5)
by Julie Kagawa
PUBLISHER: MIRA Ink
RELEASE DATE: 7th September 2012
FORMAT: Kindle, 67 pages
GENRE: Paranormal, Young Adult
Meghan Chase is finally getting used to being the Iron Queen, ruler of the Iron Fey. Her life may be strange, but with former Winter prince Ash by her side at last, she wouldn't have it any other way. But when they travel to the Summer and Winter courts' gathering for Elysium, the oracle from Meghan's past returns with a dire prophecy: "What you carry will either unite the courts, or it will destroy them." Now Meghan faces a devastating choice that may determine the future of all fey—and her and Ash's unborn child…A novella from the bestselling Iron Fey series. (Goodreads)
REVIEWER: Becs
I am a huge fan of the Iron Fey Series and the IRON'S PROPHECY is no exception. It is mainly setting the scene for the new series, The Lost Prince, and also acts as a review of the previous books in the Iron Fey Series.
With such a short novella we are thrust into the action from the off, as The Oracle arrives unannounced and informs Meghan that she is pregnant and the child she is carrying could determine the future of all the fey. Scared, confused and needing a deeper understanding Meghan sets out on a quest to find The Oracle to understand the exact nature of the prediction and to see if there is anything she can do to prevent her son from destroying the faeries.
I enjoyed returning the land of Faery to follow another quest in the Wyldwood with the infamous Puck, Iron Queen Meghan, Ice Prince Ash and of course Grimalkin, following their tricks and banter.
Dealing with faeries is always a complicated business and no quest ever runs smoothly, so the IRON'S PROPHECY is no different. As we join the adventure we see a new side to Ash after he won his soul in the Iron Prince with some of the old and with a few unexpected twists the IRON'S PROPHECY is a fun light-hearted read.
Meghan is as courageous as ever and her powers have increased making her a queen to be reckoned with, and an uncanny ability to deal with the obstacles that are trying to prevent them from reaching their goal, quickly and effectively. The Iron Queen now pregnant with a son that could become the downfall of the faeries has some tough decisions ahead of her.
Will Meghan be strong enough to give up that, which she wants the most? and can Meghan and Ash be good enough parents and prevent the future that is predicted for their son?
First they have to find the Oracle to determine the severity of the prophecy and to see if there is any hope to change the fate that has been predicted.
"Nothing is certain," he murmured. "The future is constantly changing, and no one can predict what happens next. We have the power to change our destiny, because fate is not set in stone, and we are always free to make a choice."
"We are only slaves to fate if we let it control us. There is always a choice."
I can't wait to read The Lost Prince to find out what happens next and to see if the prophecy becomes fulfilled.
The main purpose for the IRON'S PROPHECY is to promote the new series and Julie Kagawa has got this spot on. I maybe a little biased as I love the Iron Fey Series, but the IRON'S PROPHECY is a good little novella linking the original series to the sequel, The Lost Prince, which is set to be released at the end of October 2012. I enjoyed it, and now understanding what the new series will be about, I'm ecstatic. I love that all the main characters are together again on this new short quest, as Puck, Ash, Grimalkin and Meghan have a special place in my heart and their banter together is very entertaining.
IRON'S PROPHECY is a little slow at times but that is only because I have read all of the previous books and can remember them almost flawlessly, so I didn't need the catch-up. I am looking forward to The Lost Prince as we see what mischief the new Prince Keirran will get up to and if Meghan and Ash can help him change his fate.
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Height: 6-2 Weight: 249 lbs.
Born: September 19, 1933 in Detroit, MI
Died: April 19, 2011 in Bloomfield Hills, MI
High School: St. Mary's of Redford
College: Michigan St. (school history)
Drafted by the Chicago Cardinals in the 2nd round (18th overall) of the 1956 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 20 (4825th overall since 1950)
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Is Lady Gaga's Born This Way the most pretentious album of all-time? We'd tend to think not: There was this decade a little while ago called "The '70s," and a whole bunch of dudes spent that timespan making albums about dragons and totalitarian regimes and teenagers pissed off at their parents and whatnot, with crazy time signatures and unlistenable guitar solos and instruments called the "mellotron" and "harmonium." Still, it was certainly not without pretension—albums with songs entitled "Judas" and "Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)" rarely are—and UK music rag the NME decided to give it that #1 of all-time tag. Writes NME blogger Priya Elan:
For a while Gaga was the most exciting pop star on the planet. Then on 'Born This Way' she seemed to believe in her own hype, convinced that she had a message to share. Cue an album of unwieldy 'anthems' that couldn't mask the fact the fun had left the building. Most Pretentious Moment: The German sung 'ScheiBe'. Did electroclash die for this?
Not entirely unfair criticism, though whether that means it should rank above Lou Reed and Metallica's Lulu or Smashing Pumpkins' Machina: The Machines of God (only #9???) for any reason other than making headlines remains somewhat dubious.
In any event, the article was enough to draw Gaga's attention. Mother Monster tweeted her response to being rewarded the distinction:
Oh the irony of winning "Most Pretentious Album Ever" from none other than NME. *eyeroll* I might laugh forever + then return to narcissism
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) February 23, 2012
While we're glad that Lady Gaga isn't taking this super-seriously, we would encourage her to embrace the distinction wholeheartedly. Being the #1 of anything isn't something you should take for granted, and hey—nobody ever accused Madonna of having the most pretentious album of all-time, did they? Blaze your own ground, Stefani.


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There has been a war of words evolving between Ashton Kutcher and Charlie Sheen of an intense nature. Kutcher is tired of Sheen trashing him on Twitter, reported E! Online on Feb. 6, 2014. The feud has been developing ever since Kutcher took over the leading role on "Anger Management" from Sheen three years ago.
Kutcher hit back at Sheen for his sharp criticisms on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," reports the New York Daily News. Sheen tweeted to Kutcher last month to "quit barfing on my old brilliant show." Kutcher replied, "Dude, shut the f--k up!" Kutcher continued, "Seriously, like. Enough already. Like it's like three years later and you're still blowing me up on Twitter. Like come on dude, really?" Sheen seemed baffled by the intensity of this reply and at first didn't make any comments.
It took a little while for 48 year old Sheen to regain his composure after being hit with a retaliatory attack from 35 year old Kutcher asking him to shut up already. Sheen than tweeted, "Ashton, message received. So sorry. U sounded like me! Well done! My bad. I was pissed at other crap & took it out on you. Hope u r good." Kutcher and Sheen should come to terms with their differences and appear on a TV show together. With their joint public appeal chances are such a show would be very popular.


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Max was relaxing in wonderful sunlight this morning, and was gracious enough to sit still when I got close with the camera. I liked the color version of this photo, but it was a bit dark which led me to the black & white version. I think I like it better this way. Still very dark, but it highlights his white face well.


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There are times when evaluating talent for the NFL that a look at the player's measurable tells the tale. For Mississippi State OLB Benardrick McKinney, the measurables that matter all happen to fall in his favor, in a very big way.
McKinney is 6'4-3/4" tall, currently weighs 252 pounds and has a ho-hum 7 percent body fat. He can gain weight and grow without losing any explosive playmaking ability at all. He is expected to post a 42" vertical jump, a 10'3" broad jump and a 40-yard dash time around 4.45 seconds. These numbers are going to make NFL people drool.
There are reasons for McKinney to enter this draft, some that will remain quiet, and some as obvious as looking at anyone's big board. Elite athletes always are near the top of the draft, but this year you will not find a body type like his anywhere near the top of the 2014 draft big board.
McKinney is going to be a pass rusher in the NFL. Let's look at the elite pass rushers available in Round 1. UCLA OLB Anthony Barr is 6'3" and 235 pounds. Buffalo OLB Kahlil Mack is 6'2" and 244 pounds. Clemson OLB Vic Beasley is 6'2" and 235 pounds. BYU OLB Kyle Van Noy is 6'3" and 235 pounds. Ohio State OLB Ryan Shazier is 6'2" and 226 pound.
There is a body type that's missing, and in particular one attribute missing. That attribute is length and we know what long arms can do for a player trying to get to the quarterback. McKinney has the body type that bridges the gap from the solely defensive end types (think Clowney) to the OLB types. The OLB types are going to have a tough time setting the edge against the run as they are too small.
Benardrick McKinney is a player who has the movement skills to play OLB at the next level. When you look at his long-armed frame and then consider that he weighs 252 pounds at 7 percent body fat, it means he can add weight and play defensive end. There aren't many players who are capable of doing this, especially one as highly thought of as McKinney.
McKinney played OLB as a freshman in the 2012 season and totaled 102 tackles. Needless to say, he had an incredible freshman season. The Mississippi State staff moved him to the middle of the defense for the 2013 season and his production dipped, but are they truly playing McKinney at his strength by moving him inside?
At the end of the day, McKinney offers something different than the other premier players in the 2014 NFL draft. He offers height, length and long arms to go along with electric athletic ability and while some of the other prospects may have a few of these physical and athletic traits, none have them all in one package like Benardrick McKinney does.


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The ministry of sports and culture has kicked off the celebration of Harvest Day (umunsi w'umuganura) with a carnival and exhibition. The festivity is held under the theme 'Harvest the pillar of self-reliance.'
'Umunsi w'umuganura' is celebrated on August 1 and it was a traditional practice for Rwandans to celebrate their harvest by sharing food and dancing together.
Today, the harvest festival is seen as an action that strengthens unity and cohesion among people as they share what they get from the work of their hands.
According to Musanze resident Schadrack Ngirabakunzi, 48, the harvest festival also promoted the culture of respect among people. "Sharing strengthened the ties among people and everyone was considering the neighbor as someone close which also is the reason that other peoples feared Rwanda. That's why they said 'Rwanda attacks but is never attacked'," he pointed out.
However, while this tradition is no longer given high consideration, older people say this has had negative consequences as people no longer have time to get to know each other as many are living on their own.
The first day of the festival was marked by an exhibition at Petit Stade to showcase Rwandan traditions at a time when fewer and fewer people are conversant with traditional cultural practices.


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Labor force participation of mothers and fathers
June 10, 2005
The labor force participation rate for mothers with children under 18 was 70.4 percent in 2004, down by 0.7 percentage point from the prior year.The labor force participation rate for mothers with children under 18 has been declining since 2000.
In 2004, most of the over-the-year decline in the labor force participation rate of mothers with children under 18 occurred among mothers with children under 6; their rate declined by 1.0 percentage point to 61.8 percent.
The participation rate of mothers whose youngest child was 6 through 17 declined slightly.
In contrast, the labor force participation rate of fathers showed no change in 2004, whatever the age of their youngest child.
These data are from the Current Population Survey program. To learn more about employment and unemployment in families, see Employment Characteristics of Families in 2004 (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 05-876. The labor force participation rate is the labor force as a percent of the population. The labor force comprises all persons classified as employed or unemployed.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Labor force participation of mothers and fathers on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2005/jun/wk1/art05.htm (visited June 27, 2016).
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Alexandera Pendragon is an art student at San Francisco City College's Fort Mason Art Campus. She enjoys the humorous possibilities and luminous colors of watercolor. Asked about where Wild Celery originated from, she says "he just grew organically , I woke up one morning and he was there."
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Take your pick from hotels overlooking Puget Sound, the Cascade Mountains or the city skyline with this guide to the top 10 hotels in Seattle.
Spacious meeting rooms, computer rentals and an airport location make the Doubletree popular for business gatherings. Rooms feature contemporary lines with polished wood, russet fabrics and lobby fireplaces.
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18740 International Blvd., Seatac 98188
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Get away from it all, snuggling under thick duvets in guestrooms that meld 1901 architecture with contemporary black, taupe and steel decor. Outside, Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market are just blocks away.
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1007 First Ave., Seattle 98104
Ornate, wrought-iron staircases, gilt and crystal chandeliers and oak and cream furniture fill the rooms of this downtown Italian Renaissance gem. The glittering hotel restaurant, the Georgian, is one of Seattle's most elegant.
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411 University St., Seattle 98101
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Hotel Moncao Seattle is one of Seattle's most stylish hotels, with boldly striped wallpaper and eclectic art, and is also one of its most animal-friendly. Curl up with your fuzzy friend in your animal-print bathrobe. If your pet can't travel, ask for a complimentary goldfish to keep you company.
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1101 Fourth Ave., Seattle 98101
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Located on Lake Union's southern shore, this Residence Inn is just outside the bustling downtown. Full kitchens and spacious suites are decorated in bold plums and greens, most with lake views.
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800 Fairview Ave. N, Seattle 98109
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Seattle's favorite downtown attractions – ferry docks, Pike Place Market and the Seattle Aquarium – are near this brightly-decorated Puget Sound hotel. CD players and pay-per-view movies are available, as are cots and rollaway beds.
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Pink neon letters sit atop The Roosevelt, advertising this 1929 landmark near Pike Place Market and downtown shopping. Guests relax before a marble lobby fireplace with live piano music. Rooms feature warm, russet hues and antiques.
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1531 Seventh Ave., Seattle 98101
Washington's wineries take center stage at Hotel Vintage Park, with each room named after a favorite. Burgundy-colored coverlets and oversized fireplaces warm guests on Seattle's rainy days; evenings include complimentary wine tastings.
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1100 Fifth Ave., Seattle 98101
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Rediscover a sense of calm and rejuvenation at the W Seattle, indulging in shiatsu and hot stone massage, a facial or pedicure. Guestrooms continue the experience, decorated with warm navy and cream fabrics and freshly cut flowers.
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Seattle's hippest hotel, the Hotel Deca has drawn style-conscious guests to this University District location since 1931. Look for Art Deco moldings and furniture, modernized with chartreuse and red details and animal print throws.
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Beautiful Photographs from Provence, France
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I am a professional photographer currently living in the capital city of Bern, Switzerland. For the past seven years I have travelled around the country by motorcycle and hiking boots searching off the beaten path locations for unique and often missed photo opportunities. You can see some of my photos in a gallery at BetterPhoto.com The phone number listed above is a Florida USA phone number with Vonage. Dialing that number will connect you with me in Switzerland without any International dialing fees.
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When I heard that they were making a sequel to Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later," I couldn't help but wonder why. How could you make a sequel to a movie like that without it being the same old thing? 20th Century Fox put together a company called Fox Atomic which specializes in horror movies and sequels to horror movies because god forbid the money stops there! They already released "The Hills Have Eyes 2." I thought the remake was great, but I was not as excited about seeing the sequel because it had a different director who had directed some crap horror films.
Now they have released "28 Weeks Later." That's great, milk it as much as you want. No mercy and no respect for the franchise. But of course, these were my thoughts before I actually watched the movie. It had the good luck of at least having Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on as executive producers so that this follow up wouldn't go straight to hell (and that's regardless of the subject matter which is about the world going to hell). Under the tense direction of Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who previously directed "Intacto," "28 Weeks Later" adds itself to the list of sequels that, at the very least, equal the original in terms of vision and sheer terror, and it ends up delivering what it promises - an extremely intense and unsettling movie going experience.
All the main characters from "28 Days Later" are absent here, so we have a whole new cast of characters trying to stay alive while stranded in a part of the world engulfed by the rage virus. It starts off with a group of English people who managed to find refuge in a home where they hide from the infected. The main characters are a married couple played by Robert Carlyle and Catherine McCormick who are seen preparing dinner when the movie begins. Most of the actors here are not too familiar to audiences, and that helps the movie in its approach. Carlyle will definitely be familiar to those who remember him from "Trainspotting" and "The Full Monty," and each of those movies show off the range he has.
The opening of "28 Weeks Later" has a supreme amount of tension that never lets up. I got to see it at Grauman's Chinese Theater, and I sat in the back with my hands over my ears because I was eagerly anticipating all hell to break loose as soon as the movie started. I typically watch most horror movies like that because it's not what I see that gets to me, it's the sound. Look no further than the original "Halloween" for an example of that.
The opening is brilliantly shot because you feel like you are right there with these people inside the house. You don't see the outside world until they do, and it ain't pleasant. When the infected make their inevitable entrance, Carlyle's character ends up abandoning his wife who screams at him from a window in disbelief. He runs full force away from the infected, and the fact that he escapes with his life is both astonishing and shameful.
"28 Weeks Later" then moves to London after the outbreak and with things finally returning to normal. The US army has taken over, and the first of the survivors are now coming back into the safe zone (oh yeah, sure) to start their lives over in a land that is now free of infection. We get to meet the children of Carlyle's and McCormick's characters. They are played by Imogen Poots (never seen a name like that before) and Mackintosh Muggleton (beware Harry Potter). Carlyle's character is of course unprepared to tell his children that their mother perished among the infected, and he lies to them about what happened to her. As much as you despise him for that, you can't help but feel a little sorry for him. Don't you hate that?
Anyway, his lie about their mother being killed gets exposed when she is found alive in a closed off area of England. She has been bitten by the infected, but somehow she has not been overtaken by the rage virus. Her blood seems to have some sort of immunity from the virus that keeps her from going completely apeshit. It ends up being incredibly tragic that her husband doesn't have the good sense to keep from kissing her. A kiss is just a kiss? Not in this movie!
So of course all hell breaks loose, otherwise there wouldn't be a movie. The military tries to control the situation and they end up resorting to, when nothing else works, code red as they quickly see that there's no stopping this infection. They can't tell the difference between who is human and who is the infected, so they resort to killing everyone to keep the situation contained. What makes this scenario so terrifying is that it is a very realistic and depressing solution to a horrifying situation that threatens to engulf the world. So those young kids now have to find their way out of the "safe zone" and away from those who have no choice but to bite and infect them.
There is a lot of shaky handheld camera work in "28 Weeks Later" which gives the movie an immediacy that sucks you in just like the original did. I have been back and forth in regards to hand held filmmaking because it can veer easily from being exciting to the becoming relentlessly annoying. Don't even get me started on the later movies of Woody Allen. I can't even begin to tell you how nauseous I got while watching "Deconstructing Harry" on the big screen!
But here, the shaky camerawork is perfect as it sucks us into the chaos that these characters are feverishly trying to escape with their lives. The camera goes all over the place to where we can't tell where the exit is and if we can trust the person next to us. Fresnadillo is excellent in drawing you into the mindset of the chaos and confusion of what the characters are forced to experienced. What if you can find your way out? What is the person next to you is infected? Where is the safest place to go? Everyone is running for dear life, but where is the best direction to head in?
What also makes "28 Weeks Later" work is that it's not just based on thrills and chills as there is an intelligence at work here. There's a subtle critique of the seemingly endless occupation of military forces in other countries as they futilely try to control a situation that is completely beyond their control.
Aside from those kid actors who are terrific and very down to earth, there are a few others worth mentioning. Jeremy Renner plays Doyle, a military shooter who quickly develops a conscience when he decides not to follow orders and instead a little boy who doesn't deserve to die. Renner also played a sniper in Clark Johnson's "S.W.A.T." where he was the bad guy, but while he may be playing the same character here, at least he is one of the good guys.
I also want to mention Rose Byrne who plays the army doctor, Scarlet. I like it when a movie where there is a very strong female character who thinks she has found the key to eradicating infection. Of course, no one listens to her because the quick fix-it answer is to kill the host and everyone else if it comes into contact with. Byrne is very believable as a soldier who has no choice but to hold it together when the world around her crumbles horribly.
"28 Weeks Later" is an incredibly tense ride from start to finish, and it never lets up. There's an unnerving sequence where the main characters have to flee from a chemical attack by going into the underground subway which is pitch black, and the only way they can keep an eye out for infected is through the scope of a military gun which has night vision on it. In many ways, this is one of the scariest sequences in the movie.
Whereas "28 Days Later" had hope at the end of it, "28 Weeks Later" is unrelentingly bleak. Any hope is vanquished by the end, and its last shot features a famous landmark which shows how inevitable it is that infection will spread across from country to country.
"28 Weeks Later" proves to be very respectful to its original predecessor, and it goes even further into the nightmare that the world is caught up in and beyond everybody's control. It makes me eager to see what I am sure will be "28 Months Later." But personally, I am waiting for "28 Millennium Later." The way things are going right now, humanity is doomed in one way or another.


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Honor societies have a long tradition in higher education. They exist to recognize and promote excellence in academic accomplishment. Participating in honor societies can develop your leadership and professional skills, and honor societies can be a valuable way to network with students, faculty, and professionals in your field of interest.
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Chi Alpha Epsilon
Chi Alpha Epsilon is the official honor society of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), C-STEP, and Project Excel.
Golden Key International Honor Society
Campus contact: Dan Smith, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Membership is offered to first and second year college students with outstanding academic achievement. NSCS offers students access to scholarships, community service, career resources and leadership opportunities. NSCS also provides students with a network of other members and alumni on their campus and across the country. NSCS invites students who have achieved a cumulative 3.4 GPA and are ranked in the top 20% of their first or second year class on their campus to join as lifetime members.
Campus contact: Sue Faerman, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, organizes students, staff, and faculty who, while excelling in their academic and professional work, have contributed in special ways to the University at Albany. The society recognizes leaders in the areas of scholarship, athletics, college and community service, social and religious activities, campus government, journalism, speech and the mass media, and the creative and performing arts.
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Eligibility for Phi Beta Kappa requires students to have a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.85 by junior year and 3.75 by senior year, with a balanced distribution of courses including math, science, foreign language and a representation in each of the Humanities and Arts, Social Science, and Math and Science. Every student is automatically considered. Individual nomination is not necessary.
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The Presidential Honors Society is unique to the University at Albany. The PHS has a strong service focus and seeks to "create a true honor society through service to the campus and community that brings prestige to the University, the individual, the organization and its members."
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Diana Krall: Too Marvelous for Words
Too Marvelous for Words
Diana Krall (vocals, piano)
Quiet Nights (Verve 12433)
Diana Krall (vocals, piano), Anthony Wilson (guitar), John Clayton (bass), Paulinho Da Costa (percussion), Jeff Hamilton (drums).
Orchestra arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman. Composed Richard Whiting and Johnny Mercer.
Recorded: Hollywood, no date given (CD released in 2009)
Rating: 92/100 (learn more)
I learned one thing on the playground basketball courts as a kid . . . if you keep on using the same moves over and over again, they stop working. You can't always fake to the left then move to the right.
Musicians are no different from hoopsters in this regard, yet they are tempted to return again and again to the formulas that worked in the past. This is all preamble to asking whether Diana Krall should return to the studio with the same musicians, the same arranger and conductor, the same languid bossa nova tempos, the same types of songs from the same era, the same producer, etc. etc. that she has worked to such perfection in the past. Okay, let's be fair, and give her credit for a striking new hairstyle. Other than that, the offerings on her new Quiet Nights CD could easily be holdovers from her The Look of Love sessions in 2001.
Krall fans will respond: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." They have a valid point. No one handles this type of material better than Diana Krall, and it is no small feat to take a song from 1937, and revivify its inner emotional life. Krall always seems to go a few steps deeper than the thousand or so cabaret performers who tackle these same numbers routinely. By the way, Krall also appears to be going deeper into her singing register these days. She takes this song in A flat, although I would think her voice would be better matched to the melody if it were a few steps higher, up in B flat or C territory. This is more like Cassandra Wilson's home turf, and it forces the vocalist to sing under much of the arrangement. An odd decision for Krall, but in some peculiar way it enhances the confessional angle of the lyrics.
So Krall makes the same move again, and I am caught flat-footed and watch her glide to the hoop. But next time down the court I fully expect her to surprise me with a pick and roll.
Reviewer: Ted Gioia
If you liked this track, also check out
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- Diana Krall: I've Got You Under My Skin
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Sue Russell
// Apr 01, 2009 at 06:54 PM
Watch what you say about cabaret singers. You're perpetuating a stereotype that says cabaret equals shallow and jazz equals deep. This comment really says nothing about what makes Krall's performance distinctive or interesting.
Ted Gioia
// Apr 02, 2009 at 02:58 PM
In Sue Russell's comments, she modestly neglected to mention that she has written an insightful article for this site on the very issue of jazz singing versus cabaret singing. Check it out here.


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The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, started by Pete Frates, is something of a viral sensation on the internet right now, but one group of friends has turned the tables completely around and wants to get the word out on another issue at hand.
In Trevor Neuhoff's video, he and two friends show other ways in order to bring awareness to the Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. They show how easy it is to bring awareness to an already troubling issue in the world, access to fresh, drinkable water sources.
Access to fresh drinking water is something that has been an issue worldwide for quite sometime. The Water.org campaign offers solutions to this worldwide epidemic that's been getting better, but still needs to be addressed. Along with water issues in some places, California is currently in the middle of a drought too. Matt Damon showed how to save water and still do the Ice Bucket Challenge in the process, along with others that recognize the water crisis too.
Using ice water on the Ice Bucket Challenge is a great way to get the word out about ALS research, but donating to the cause is just as effective. When you do donate to the research of the ALS, you can also donate to the water crisis through Water.org. Check out the links below in order to donate to both causes and help get the word out about ALS and fresh drinking water issues throughout the world. While you're at it, donate to the Pete Frates Fund, as well.
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Aviva Drescher isn't mad, or at least she won't publicly admit to being mad, that her dad, George Teicher, secretly got married to the much younger Dana Cody. As reported by NaughtyButNiceRob on Tuesday, August 5, the "Real Housewives of New York City" star said that she's actually happy about her dad's marriage.
In a statement to the website, Aviva said that she definitely would have went to the wedding if she had known about it. She said that the marriage is "a great surprise" and that she's "so happy for them." Aviva's apparent delight over her 76-year-old dad marrying the 25-year-old nail salon owner in Malibu on Sunday, August 3, isn't all that surprising since she has been publicly supportive of their relationship. She even threw George and Cody an engagement party, at a sex museum of all places, which was filmed for the show.
In mid-July, George told Radar Online that Aviva was in charge of planning the wedding and had already started looking at wedding venues and wedding dress designers. All of Aviva's work isn't necessarily wasted now that George and Cody have already eloped. Aviva pointedly told NaughtyButNiceRob that George and Cody will have to have another wedding so that her kids can attend. Perhaps the second wedding will be featured on the next season of "The Real Housewives of New York City," if Aviva gets invited back?
Aviva also revealed how she learned of the wedding. She said that her father sent her a text when he was honeymooning in Hawaii with Cody. George's text stated that they decided not to marry for "showbiz [and] its accompanying notoriety, narcissism, fortune, [and] fawners" but rather "for eternal love."
After the secret wedding, Aviva Drescher's new stepmother addressed why the controversial reality TV star was not there. In response to an article that implied that Aviva wasn't there because she didn't approve of the relationship, Cody pointed out that no family members were present because they simply decided not to tell anyone. The big question now that's likely on many people's minds is whether the marriage between the two will actually last.
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DeKALB, Ill. - For the second-straight game, the Northern Illinois baseball team (9-17) tallied at least 10 hits and runs in a game as it defeated UW-Milwaukee (11-12) in the Huskies home-opener, 10-6. Freshman Bobby Kuntzendorf (Yorkville/Aurora Christian) earned his first career victory as the starting pitcher. Senior Jamison Wells batted 3-for-4 with three runs, four RBI and a career-high three stolen bases.
"When you win a game or two, it really starts to relax the guys and their natural tendencies come through and the players don't fight themselves. I think we're at that point right now," said Head Coach Ed Mathey after the game. "We had pretty good zone discipline today, we didn't chase a lot of balls outside of the zone and Alex Klonowski really got momentum going for us in the first inning. I think those runs we scored in the first inning really helped Bobby relax out there."
Milwaukee jumped out to early lead in the top of the first inning as Derek Peake got a leadoff single and scored after tagging on a shallow fly ball in the outfield dropped by NIU to make it 1-0.
With leadoff batter Wells reaching base after being hit by a 1-2 pitch, the Huskies mounted their comeback charge. Wells stole his first base of the ball game and would tie the contest on an RBI single up the middle by Alex Klonowski (Kearney, Mo./Kearney). Northern Illinois would gain its lead with two outs as Landon Tenhagen (Burlington, Wis./Madison Area TC) singled through the left side to score Jeff Zimmerman (Tinley Park/Andrew) from second base, 2-1.
"I thought Bobby did a fine job today," said Mathey, "he was a little tentative in the first inning, trying to feel some things out and by the third and fourth innings his breaking balls were really starting to snap and that became a really effective pitch for him to keep both left-handed and right-handed batters honest."
Northern Illinois tacked on five runs in the bottom of the fourth inning on four Huskie hits and two errors by the Panthers. Wells recorded his first of two twin RBI singles in the fourth inning to lead the NIU scoring. The senior centerfielder notched his second two RBI single in the fifth stanza.
"Jamison got a couple big hits with two outs on him and we took advantage on a couple of their errors out there. Those are all good things by us from an offensive standpoint," added Mathey.
The Huskies threw six relief pitchers in the game for a total of seven pitchers in the game. The bullpen combined for four hits, three strikeouts, three walks and four earned runs in the game. Heading into the game, Coach Mathey stated he wanted to get the bullpen some work during the week to get them ready for the weekend at Central Michigan.
"I think overall the bullpen did fine. We want to get guys ready for the weekend and the best way to get ready is to be in the line of fire. We didn't do a good job in the seventh inning though when Milwaukee scored its runs - hit by pitches, walks and non-plays on our part. That makes it tough for the pen. We didn't give up a lot of hits today and Milwaukee is a good hitting team. As the year plays out, it will prove that they are good hitting team. It played to our favor today and if they had hit the way they normally do this game would've been a lot closer."
NIU last scored 10 runs in back-to-back games May 15-17, 2012 versus Milwaukee (W, 10-4) and Ball State (L, 11-10 (10)). Leftfielder Brandon Mallder (Bridgeview/St. Laurence) finished 2-for-4 at the plate with two RBI. Also finishing 2-for-4 were Joe Battaglia (Westchester/St. Joseph) and Tenhagen.
The Huskies will return to the diamond Friday afternoon for a three game series at Central Michigan for Northern Illinois' first Mid-American Conference West Division showdown. Game one of the series will start at 2 p.m. Central.


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AT THE CASEY-O'DONNELL FUNERAL HOME Waterbury - Mr. Edward J. Mariano, age 87 of Carver St. Waterbury died Monday at the Cheshire House Nursing Center, Waterbury after a brief illness. He was the widower of Grace (Marafino) Mariano who passed away in 1985.
Edward was born in Beacon Falls CT on July 8, 1921, the son of the late Jake and Mary (Smith) Mariano. He attended Naugatuck High School and was a Veteran of the US Navy, having proudly served his country during World War II. He was employed for many years at Uniroyal Footwear, Naugatuck. He was a member of the Naugatuck VFW Crusader Post #946, Naugatuck BPOE, Lodge of Elks #967 and an avid Boston Red Sox fan. Edward was a very proud American and was always sure to purchase and support products Made in the U.S.A.. He was a parishioner of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Waterbury.
Edward is survived by three children, his son, Richard of Bethel and two daughters, Dr. Sandra Alfano and her husband Joseph of Hamden and Carol Miller of Waterbury. He also leaves two grandchildren, Christopher and Jessica Alfano. His brother Robert and sister Barbara Perugini both of Naugatuck are deceased
Funeral services with Full Military Honors for Mr. Mariano will be held on Friday, February 6, 2009 at 9:30am from the Casey-ODonnell Family Funeral Home, 1581 East Main St Waterbury to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 785 Highland Ave Waterbury for a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30am. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery, Waterbury. Family and friends may visit at the funeral home on Thursday February 5, 2009 from 5 " 7pm. In lieu of flowers donations in memory of in Mr. Mariano may be made the American Cancer Society 1075 Chase Parkway Waterbury, CT 06708. For more information, to leave an online condolence or light a virtual candle kindly visit the funeral home website at www.caseyodonnell.com.


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In the city of Richmond, Va is a street named Monument Avenue. On it, every few blocks are statues of the various personages of the Confederacy from Virginia who participated in the Civil War. The street was later modified to contain statues of famous people from Richmond, Va to include tennis great Arthur Ashe and famous oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury. 8 US Presidents hailed from Virginia, yet in our State capital there is a major street dedicated to dead confederate generals. Welcome to the South.
Now to say that Civil Rights upset some folks in Virginia is an understatement. One County, Prince Edward, shut their entire Public School System down for 5 years to prevent desegregation. So racism is no stranger to the state.
The City of Alexandria, Virginia was also the home and residence of confederate General Robert E. Lee. The Lee-Custis Plantation sat on the very grounds of what became the Arlington Cemetery. Several of Lee's descendants still live in the City. The reason Arlington Cemetery sits where it is is that through the front door of his mansion, Arlington House, Lee would have to confront some of the hundreds of thousands of those he was responsible for killing as part of the war…Each and every day. In case you are wondering where the Custis name came from, Lee's wife, Mary Anna Custis Lee, was indeed the great granddaughter of Martha Custis, George Washington's wife.
Law requiring Confederate street names questioned
Alexandria, a Northern Virginia city steeped in Civil War history, is considering repeal of an old law requiring certain new streets to be named for Confederate generals.
City Councilman Justin Wilson introduced legislation for Tuesday night's council meeting to do away with a 1963 law requiring that any new "streets running in a generally north-south direction shall, insofar as possible, bear the names of confederate military leaders."
Wilson's bill also would eliminate a requirement that new east-west streets be named for persons or places prominent in American history.
Wilson said he wants to remove a series of anachronistic laws, and his proposal also would repeal a ban on "lewd cohabitation" and laws regulating a bygone fad of "rebound tumbling," a form of trampolining.
As a practical matter, there is little likelihood that the city will be naming new streets any time soon. The city, inside Washington's Capital Beltway and separated from the nation's capital by the Potomac River, is essentially built out. In fact, the street grid of the city's Old Town section dates to Colonial times.
Wilson said that symbolically, he believes it's a good thing to strip from the code a provision that in some ways glorifies the Confederacy. But he made clear he is not proposing that the city change existing street names, some of which honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney, whose Dred Scott decision denied citizenship and constitutional protections to blacks before the Civil War.
"I think we struggle in the city with our history," Wilson said.
Alexandria was occupied by Union troops for most of the Civil War and, like the rest of Virginia, has a history of slavery and segregation. It is now a liberal bastion in Virginia – Barack Obama won 71 percent of the vote in 2012.
On historic Duke Street in Old Town, the building that was once home to the nation's largest domestic slave trading company is now home to the Northern Virginia Urban League, which operates the Freedom House Museum there to tell the story of the slave trade.
Cynthia Dinkins, president and CEO of the Northern Virginia Urban League, said she personally supports any legislation that keeps the city from unduly honoring the Confederacy. Still, while she is wary of glorifying the Confederacy, she said care must be taken remember unpleasant parts of American history.
"Some of my challenge in dealing with Freedom House is that people don't want to remember" that part of our history, she said.
Wilson said he has not heard of any opposition to his bill so far.
Officers with the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which has occasionally protested when it sees efforts to scrub recognition of Confederate leaders from the public square, did not return emails and phone calls seeking comment Tuesday.
A public hearing on Wilson's legislation is scheduled for Jan. 25.


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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will introduce the annual Jane Scott Memorial Lecture Honoring Excellence in Rock Journalism with a talk by pop music critic Ann Powers titled "Rock and Roll Started with the Shimmy: The Erotic Engine of American Pop" on Wednesday, September 21 at 7 p.m. in the Museum's Foster Theater. Click here for more information and details on how to attend this free event.
As a music critic, I am preoccupied with sex. I'm human, and happen to be heterosexual, so I have noticed the charms of certain rock and soul seducers from Robert Plant to Maxwell, over the years. But that kind of desire only goes so deep. What I'm talking about is more serious: the quest to understand how rock and roll, and really most of American music, became the main metaphorical space where we pursue ideas about sexuality, and flesh out our emotions.
American popular music has been "dirty" pretty much since its beginnings in the illicit vulgarity of the minstrel show, described so well by Eric Lott in his classic book on the subject, Love and Theft. Yet as it moved through the decades, American music retained its ability to shock. The ribald blues of 1920s queens like Ma Rainey gave way to the lascivious croon of Frank Sinatra; Elvis Presley's snake hips and Little Richard's whoops; the teen-baiting tunes of the British invasion; 1970s "cock rock" and omnisexual disco; New Wave androgyny, and so on all the way to Britney Spears.
What's strange about our moment, in the second decade of the 20th century, is that the shock effect has somehow faded. Sexual content is arguably more present in the mainstream than ever before: references to oral gratification, S&M, multiple partners and even encounters with aliens have recently graced the Top 40. We absorb these assaults on propriety and move on; little girls dance the hoochie coochie to Beyonce songs in their school recitals while parents applaud. The taboos of old all seem to have been abandoned.
Yet one restriction remains. We don't really talk about what these songs are saying, not only in their lyrics but in their rhythms and through the performances they inspire in both the artists who co-author them, and in the fans who respond. We still have no language to really describe and analyze the erotic nuances of popular music. Sure, there's groupie lore; there are "Sexiest Rocker" lists and intermittent scandals. We sometimes stop to debate whether a certain song or performance goes too far (Super Bowl 2004 – Never Forget!). But none of these brief forays really go anywhere; they only skim the surface of what is deepest and most fundamental about rock and roll: its eroticism.
My goal is to make a start at finding that language, by reaching for a new origin myth for rock and roll and finding different markers for following its history. Rock and roll, as I see and hear it, began more than a century before Elvis sang "Hound Dog," in the sung dances of African slaves working to preserve their culture under the oppression of industrialized labor. There was a seed of sensuality, of hips and shoulders connecting with spirit, in those ring shouts. It cross-pollinated with other secular celebrations of the mind-body connection and lived on in social dances and the music invented to serve them. Music and dance together formed a new lexicon; lyricists found the words to help it along.
It may seem obvious to say that rock and roll – which I define as the dominant strain of American popular music beginning with the African diaspora and continuing all the way to today's global dance floor – is all about sex. To thoroughly interrogate that statement, however, requires a major shift in perspective. I hope that my inquiry begins to take us toward that new place, where we can really feel how the music kept bringing sexy back.


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Three trick-or-treaters were robbed of their candy by a woman with a knife Thursday night in Portland.
Portland police officers reported that they were called to Northeast 22nd Avenue and Thompson Street minutes before 10 p.m. where they spoke with the mother of one of the girls who said her daughter and two friends, all 14, were robbed at knife-point.
A white female reportedly struck up a conversation with the girls, but as the three girls walked away the woman pulled out a pocket knife and demanded they give her their bags of candy, police said.
The girls handed their bags to the woman, but soon realized their cell phones were inside, police said. Two girls were able to get their cell phones back, but the third could not find hers. The woman took the two bags of candy without the phones and left in a waiting vehicle, police said.
The woman is described as five foot 6 inches tall, 120 pounds, thin build, long brown hair and wearing black shorts and a black zip-up hooded jacket. The vehicle is described as a green 2005 Subaru 4-door.
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Extended-stay travelers play by different rules & need a hotel that understands your unique needs. Candlewood Suites-Slidell/Northshore is located less than a mile from Camp Villeire, just minutes from Textron Marine & Land Systems, Smuckers/Folgers, Cargotec, Michoud Facility, and Stennis Space Center. We give you the amenities that make you feel at home. Fully equipped suites, room to spread out, space to work, space to relax & great shopping, dining & exciting entertainment less than .5 mile from the hotel. Take time to enjoy the local sites: Pinewood Golf Course, Cajun Encounters Swamp Tours, Pelican Park & Bay St. Louis. The Gulfport/Biloxi Casinos, French Quarter, Bourbon Street& downtown New Orleans are just a short drive from the hotel.
When it's time to get connected we know what you need — free wired & wireless high speed Internet, cable, sports & movie channels. When you need to burn some energy the fully equipped fitness center will help melt the stress away. For a relaxing evening, use our gas grill in the Gazebo to cookout whenever you crave a taste of home & for a late night snack you can always grab a treat in our Candlewood Cupboard, open 24 hours.
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The Purchase Jazz Orchestra, directed by Todd Coolman, will explore the varied repertoire of jazz legend Woody Herman while being accompanied by three alumni of the Woody Herman Orchestra in a concert titled "The Thundering Herds of Woody Herman." Trombonist John Fedchock, drummer John Riley, and saxophonist Ralph Lalama will be joining the Purchase Jazz Orchestra for the performance. The show begins at 7:30PM in the Performing Arts Center on Thursday, December 4. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the Box Office (914-251-6200) or at www.artscenter.org.
Woody Herman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1913. As a child, he was a vaudeville performer and by the age of 15, was a professional saxophonist. Over the years, he was a member of many bands, but it was his time with Isham Jones that led him to lead his own band. Herman founded The Band That Plays The Blues and The First Herd, as well as others including The Second Herd, Third Herd, and The Thundering Herd, which was a unit from 1959-1987. The music of this extremely influential group will be explored at this concert. In 1987, Herman was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the same year he passed away at the age of 74.
Todd Coolman, director of the Jazz Studies program at the Purchase College School of the Arts, Conservatory of Music, is one of the more in-demand bassists on the New York jazz scene today. He has performed and/or recorded with a virtual "who's who" of jazz artists, including Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Benny Golson, Art Farmer, Tommy Flanagan, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman and numerous others. Today, he is actively performing with an impressive array of artists, including James Moody, Ahmad Jamal, Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, Frank Wess and the Jon Faddis Orchestra.


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An admitted drug user has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison for fatally stabbing a police dog.
After H. Keegan Graves entered his plea to several charges, he told the judge that his methamphetamine addiction had led him to violence. He admitted that he intended to kill the Clark County sheriff's dog, Kane, out of desperation to escape as the dog pursued him April 2.
He said as the dog bit him, he pulled out a 3-inch pocket knife, stabbing Kane repeatedly.
Clark County Superior Court Judge Rich Melnick on Tuesday gave Graves the high end of the sentencing range for the crimes of harming a police dog, second-degree assault, two counts of possession of a stolen vehicle and identity theft. Graves' guilty plea also resolved an earlier case in which he was caught at the Battle Ground Fred Meyer store with a backpack of stolen IDs and a stolen car.
Melnick said he wished he could give Graves more time, but his hands were tied.
"I think, frankly, you're lucky the range is low," the judge said. "A lot of people do drugs and don't do the things that you did."
The case resulted after Graves, 31, and Natasa Cresap, 22, were spotted shortly after midnight driving a vehicle with switched license plates. As deputies pursued the vehicle, Graves drove through yards, on sidewalks and against traffic. After trying to hit a deputy's patrol car (which relates to the second-degree assault charge), he smashed the stolen vehicle into a fence in the 8800 block of Northeast 107th Avenue and ran away.
Kane, an 8-year-old Dutch shepherd, was unleashed to chase Graves to a nearby mobile home park, where the stabbing occurred. The dog was rushed to St. Francis Animal Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Kane's handler, Deputy Rick Osborne, was present for the Tuesday afternoon sentencing, but did not wish to speak. The courtroom was void of other police officers or TV cameras, as the sentencing wasn't publicized on the public court calendar.
The hearing was rescheduled numerous times by attorneys, so the final date didn't end up in the court computer system.
Attorneys still mentioned the high-profile nature of the case.
"I think the community was hurt deeply and scarred by this incident," said Senior Deputy Prosecutor Camara Banfield.
When it was his turn to speak, Graves said he wanted to apologize to the community and hopes he can be a better man upon his release from prison.
"Never did I intend for things to come undone the way they did," he told the judge.
Graves' sentence also includes an order to pay about $25,000 in restitution, Banfield said. Money will go toward the training of police dogs.
Laura McVicker: 360-735-4516; Twitter: col_courts; email@example.com.


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Membership warehouse shopping is always an adventure. You can walk in, armed with a shopping list listing a specific numbers of items, and before you know it you're walking out of the store with a plethora of goods that caught your eye along your route. Let's face it: we don't NEED five gallons of mustard, but boy, that price is so much better than the mustard at regular stores. If you had to buy five gallons of mustard at the store it'd cost twice as much as at the warehouse! How about 96 packs of fruit snacks? Or five pound blocks of cheese? Yep, it's all offered at the warehouse, usually at temptingly great prices. And wine is no exception.
If you journey to Costco, you can find a 1.5 liter bottle of 2012 Kirkland Signature California Cabernet Sauvignon for $7.99. A 1.5 liter bottle! Is it good? Can you serve it to company? You'd better believe it!
Costco's private brand, Kirkland Signature, does contain a large selection of quality items ranging from foods to bottled water, and this wine is thankfully one of them. It's ruby in color, with notes of cherry pie, cinnamon, and mineral on the nose. The palate contains unripe blackberries, coffee, violets, cherries, and leather. The tannins are mild, and the finish is smooth. It's not the most remarkable Cabernet in the world, but it's a pleasant contender. Enjoy with a steak.
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