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PASADENA -- At one point during the TV critics winter press tour, which concluded Wednesday, I found myself in a line of reporters on the set of "Scandal." We were waiting in a fake Oval Office to have our picture taken with a fake president of the United States, played by amiable actor Tony Goldwyn.
Yes, it was kind of kooky and cheesy. But it seemed oddly fitting for this ABC melodrama, which continues to grow more popular even as it gets more absurd.
"Scandal" is a sophomore series from prime-time soap maestro Shonda Rhimes ("Grey's Anatomy," "Private Practice") that follows a team of D.C. crisis managers led by Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington). She, ahem, has had a torrid affair with the aforementioned president, who just last week woke up from a coma after an assassination attempt nearly took his life.
To enjoy the sexy, salacious "Scandal" -- and millions of viewers are certifiably hooked -- you have to be willing to cut it some slack. Lots of it. It's full of morally questionable hookups, crazy cover-ups and wild twists that simultaneously make your jaw plunge downward and your eyes roll upward. In this week's episode, the surprises keep coming, including a laughably hammy turn by Barry Bostwick as the president's politico father.
During our visit to the set at Gower Studios in Hollywood, a critic told Rhimes that he gets the sense many fans love "Scandal" because it's absolutely "bonkers" and wondered if she was OK with that.
"I think I'm OK with anybody loving the show for any reason they want as long as they don't say it's their guilty pleasure," she replied.
"And why is that?" I asked.
"Because when you call a show a guilty pleasure, basically, you're saying it's crap, but I can't stop watching it," she said. "If they say they watch because it's bonkers, that's fine."
Of course, a high-gloss Rhimes show always puts a premium on hot bods, steamy romances and complicated relationships, which has proved to be TV catnip for ABC's largely female audience.
"We never wanted the show to be 100 percent about what Washington is really like," said Rhimes, who noted that we had "The West Wing" for that. "We wanted to be a little high drama, a little Shakespearean if we could, in the sense of what the characters are up to."
Often those characters are up to no good -- a rigged election, anyone? And that includes the fast-talking, brazen Olivia Pope, who isn't above lying and cheating to accomplish her end game.
"I really admire Shonda's courage and commitment to making sure Olivia is human and complex," said Washington, who describes "Scandal" as a "really fun combination of 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'West Wing' and 'Damages.'
"I think there's a lot to appreciate about the show no matter who you are," she added.
But what does the future hold? Can "Scandal" get any wilder, any more over-the-top, without imploding on itself? Rhimes, of course, is ultrastingy with plot details, but fans will have some of their key questions answered -- via flashbacks -- in this week's episode, provocatively titled, "A Criminal, a Whore, an Idiot and a Liar."
In addition, a major development will put President Fitzgerald Grant "in a hopeful, excited place where he thinks that anything is possible," teased Rhimes. And Olivia soon will come clean to Quinn (Katie Lowes) about her "origin."
"I think eventually there's going to come a time for Olivia where not telling the truth is going to become more of a burden than telling the truth," the "Scandal" boss said.
In the meantime, Rhimes and her fellow writers will continue to concoct new ways to seduce and surprise the show's rabid fans.
"We're having the most fun we've had in a while," she says, referring to the members of her team who have worked on her other shows. "That's one of the things we talked about: We're going to have a good time, no matter what."
SPOTLIGHT ON OAKLAND: Oakland apparently is ready for its close-up. After shunning the East Bay city for years, TV producers finally think there's a there there.
On the most recent season of "Sons of Anarchy," Oakland was the home to crime boss Damon Pope (Harold Perrineau). And in April, it will be the main setting for "Rogue," a new DirecTV drama pegged to a fictional undercover detective (Thandie Newton) in the Oakland Police Department.
Oakland is also the setting for "City Hall," a pilot script for ABC about a fictional mayor and her young, establishment-bucking staff. The network likely will decide by the end of the month whether to greenlight "City Hall."
Matthew Parkhill, the creator of "Rogue," said he picked Oakland for several reasons, but mainly because he envisioned his story in a working-class port city.
"There were places we didn't want to set it, because we felt they had a very distinguished history in terms of cable dramas," he explained. "So we weren't going to set it in New Jersey because of 'The Sopranos,' or Baltimore because of 'The Wire,' or Seattle because of 'The Killing.' ... On many levels, Oakland fit the subject matter like a glove."
Added executive producer Nick Hamm: "And Oakland is underrepresented (on TV) and a great place, frankly, to locate a show."
Of course, locating a show in a city is not the same as actually shooting it there. While "Rogue" did use Oakland for some second-unit setup shots, the series is being principally shot in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"Rogue" premieres April 3 on DirecTV.
THIS 'N' THAT: CBS entertainment chief Nina Tassler is interested in doing another season of "Two and a Half Men," and she wants Angus T. Jones to be part of it. Jones infamously ripped the show as "filth" in a viral video. "At the end of the day, (the producers) want him to come back, and he wants to be back, and we move on," she said. ... Tassler also said that CBS is close to sealing the deal for a ninth season of "How I Met Your Mother." ... The CW is developing a "Vampire Diaries" spinoff starring Joseph Morgan and Phoebe Tonkin. ... In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, PBS plans to air a series of specials that "continue the public conversation on gun laws, mental illness and school security." The "After Newtown" programming will air Feb. 18-22.
Contact Chuck Barney at email@example.com. Read his TV blog at http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/category/tv, and follow him at Twitter.com/chuckbarney and Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.ChuckBarney.
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Top 5 Quotes From Sunday News Shows
Here are Washington Wire's top five quotes from the Sunday News Shows:
1. "I don't know if his Etch A Sketch is on tilt, George. I'm not really taking advice from Eric Fehrnstrom right now." — RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week," reacting to criticism from Mr. Fehrnstrom over the Hillary Clinton movie controversy.
2. "I think, no question about it, violent crime will go up. This is not a program; this is something that is integral to policing." — New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly in an interview broadcast on NBC's "Meet the Press."He was commenting on a judge's recent ruling that the city's "stop and frisk" tactics were illegal.
3. "That means gas prices go up for us, the Suez Canal gets compromised and Egypt becomes a staging area for terrorist acts against Israel. This is an absolute disaster in the making." — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on the consequences if Egypt becomes a failed state, speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation."
4. "We essentially have two choices in Egypt. And that's a military government, which hopefully will transition as quickly as possible to civilian government, or the Muslim Brotherhood. I don't think the Muslim Brotherhood is a choice." — Rep. Eliot Engel (D., N.Y.), speaking on ABC.
5. "I think the constitutionality of these programs needs to be questioned. And there needs to be a Supreme Court decision that looks at whether or not what they're doing is constitutional." - Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) on the need for judicial review of NSA surveillance programs, speaking on "Fox News Sunday."
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GOP Lawmakers Blast White House on Egypt Aid
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Priebus Deflects Criticism With 'Etch A Sketch' Gibe

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By Rebecca Teti
Wednesdays: Natural Family Planning
(Join each day's Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun: Changing Roles)
This weekly thread is a place where you can share your struggles, triumphs, links, resources, concerns, and questions about all things related to Natural Family Planning.
Please join the conversation!
I recommend reading John and Sheila Kipley's books. We read together books on Natural Family Planning. We practiced the Sympto-Thermo Method. Try it. You will find out that you are Only Fertile, Three Days before Ovulation, the Day of Ovulation, and Three Days after Ovulation. You are Fertile Seven Days out of One Month. Sperm can live Three Days, in the right conditions. The stretchy mucus allows for it to swim towards an egg. So, refraining from sex, during this time, for serious reasons, is okay, with the Catholic Church; provided both spouses consent. Working together in your married life is, of course, God's Holy Will. May God be praised!
I have a question about the Marquette post-partum method, which I am using, or trying to! I've been testing every other day, and every day when my fertility monitor reads two bars or higher. Anyway, it's been at two bars for almost a week. I haven't gotten my cycles back yet, and I was wondering if that's a sign of returning fertility or should I just regard it the way I would if it were only reading the lowest level? My husband seems to think it's the "new normal" and eventually the monitor will figure my body out and go back to the lowest level. I hope that's not too unclear, I guess what I'm asking is, is that normal, and does it mean that I have to abstain on days that it reads like that?
MaryC- I am also using the Marquette method postpartum. This was my sixth pregnancy, and he is now 8 months old but breast feeds almost exclusively so I have not had cycles resume yet. However this is the first time I have used this method so I am learning. I am using the breast feeding protocol which says to test every other day unless unless you get a high reading(2 bars) and then u test every day until you get a peak and cycles resume. To avoid a pregnancy you have to abstain when monitor is high or peak. In November I experienced a period where I was always getting high readings for almost 2 months. When I would reset the monitor after 20 days I would get a few days of low and then high again until I reset monitor. I read previously on this forum that once u get a high reading the monitor will always read high until u get a peak reading or cycles resume. While I know it is not foolproof, we would then pay attention to cervical mucous as we have been trained in Creighton method as well. As long as I was not noticing cervical mucous, we continued relations during this time. But technically to avoid pregnancy u need to abstain when monitor reads high or peak.
Mary C, I think unknown is right, based on how I understand the protocol. I'd post your question on the forum, just to make sure, though. It would probably to be good to do that, if only to verify for your husband that you need to abstain on high days.
Thanks for sharing the charting post link, Rebecca. I plan on teaching my girls to chart. They won't need to know all the rules concerning conception, but it's such a wealth of information about their bodies and their health. We are wonderfully made!
Hi Ladies, Hope everyone is well today:) I just wanted to ask if anyone has ever found they have PCOS after having babies, and if/ you experienced secondary infertility. Also, if you've had low progesterone resume to "normal" after your baby is no longer nursing. Just really interested to see what other's stories are and how you've made it through! God Bless, MNS~
I don't have PCOS, but I had low progesterone prior to and during my most recent pregnancy. I was on supplementation for that during my first trimester, but my levels evened out after that. However, once my cycles resumed, I started noticing the symptoms again--so I would say my experience is the reverse of yours. I'm on 200 mg of progesterone for the last 10 days of my cycle now. I haven't had a blood test to confirm the deficiency yet (and probably won't until my check up in April), but I had the typical symptoms of spotting before and after menstruation, a shorter luteal phase, and moodiness/anxiety. The supplement I'm on now seems to be taking care of the moodiness and luteal phase, so I feel pretty confident that I was experiencing low progesterone. Having said all of that, my doctor has mentioned that any hormonal experience (pregnancy, miscarriage, and breastfeeding would all qualify) can affect progesterone positively or negatively, so it's possible that your progesterone level could have leveled out on its own.
@MaryC. I am post-partum for the 7th time but first time using Marquette. I have had numerous periods of "high" or 2 bar readings that seem to go on forever but they do spontaneously change back to low intermittently. I believe that these are "at risk" days for pregnancy so it depends on how badly you want to avoid . . . I suspect if you treat them as lows that there is a very good possibility that you will get pregnant. I say this as someone who has gotten pregnant at least 6 times without having my period after the prior pregnancy (hmm, sounds bad but I should note we didn't care/weren't trying to avoid, LOL). Therefore, while I know I am very fertile, it is still a time when MOST can get pregnant. (My husband was reading over my shoulder and groaned b/c he too is not real excited about the terminal highs!)
Thank you all for the help, I really appreciate it!
NFP is great. No health risks whatsoever however doesn't the Church also teach temperance and self control? We are supposed to be above the other animals in creation in that we are able to use restraint in our coital activities. I heartily admire families that have two children and are also practicing NFP. They realize that we are approaching the state where human population is outstripping the resources on our planet. More than that however, they realize marriage isn't just about conjugal relations.


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April 1st- Middle Dubs*- Middle Park, Bettendorf IA
April 22nd- Camden 1 Solo**- Camden Park, Milan IL
May 6th- Middle Singles**- Middle Park, Bettendorf IA
May 13th- Devils Glen- Devils Glen, Bettendorf IA
June 3rd- Iron Lion Safari= Richmond Hill, Geneseo, IL
June 16th- Kiwanis Open**= Kiwanis Park, Galesburg IL
July 8th- Rumble Doubles* Credit/Camden, IA/IL
July 14-15th Rumble Credit/Camden/WL IA/IL
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Aug 19th Iron Lion Open Prospect/Eastern IA/IL
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Sept 23rd Eagle Point ** Eagle Point Park Clinton, IA
Oct 5th-6th ????
Oct. 26th King Of Courses* Matzen Lake Open Orion, IL
Nov 4th Camden Triples* Camden Park Milan IL
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** Sanctioning Possible/Pending
Sanctioning is undecided on a few events because more people have asked for less sanctioned events to play. I am trying to work on a shorter tourney schedule ( the ** events ) that I may try offering sanctioning at or near unsanctioned prices, to try to get some of those on the fence in the game. The March, August 5th and September 1-2nd dates are pending as of now, but expect something to happen that weekend!
2012 looks to be a busy year for the competitive player! As anyone who has been to our events knows, its well worth the price of admission. Ill post changes and info as it comes. Thanks!
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UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento and Dameron Hospital in Stockton will form a joint venture that will own and operate Dameron Hospital.
Officials say the pact, expected to launched next spring, will strengthen the Stockton hospital's core medical services while delivering more care locally, and advance UC Davis' historic land-grant mission to identify and help meet important societal needs.
Read Tuesday's Record for more on this story by staff writer Reed Fujii.
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OSI for CCNA Layer 5: Session
Part of the CCNA All-in-One Certification For Dummies Cheat Sheet
As a certified CCNA, you'll work in communications between applications. Some applications need to open logical communication channels between the computer hosts. Logical communication channels (sessions) maintain data about the communication established between the network application running on the sending host and the network application running on the receiving host. The session layer does the following:
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There were 69 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday. At that time, there were 1,403 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Assault with a deadly weapon: A 25-year-old woman told police she was driving near California and Park streets about 3 p.m. Wednesday when someone shot at her vehicle. The windows were shot out, but the woman was unharmed. There was no description of the shooter.
Assault with a deadly weapon: A 27-year-old man and an unidentified passenger were driving near Pilgrim and Church streets about 6:20 p.m. Tuesday when two Latino teens on the northwest corner fired multiple shots from a handgun. The victim's vehicle was struck three times before he drove out of the area. No one was injured.
The California Highway Patrol did not submit an incident report Wednesday.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 74 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday, including 10 vehicle accidents, 53 medical calls and one structure fire.
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What did Jesus look like? Most people probably have a mental image of Jesus. This picture is based on paintings and actor portrayals of Jesus we have seen over the years. But the reality is, no one alive on earth today really knows what Jesus looked like when he walked this earth. There were no cameras 2,000 years ago, of course. And as far as we know, Jesus did not pose for a painter or sculptor. Did he have long hair and a beard, as he is usually depicted? Probably, since that was typical of Jewish men 2,000 years ago. Was he dark-haired and dark-skinned? Being a Semitic person who lived in the Middle East, that's a pretty safe assumption. But finally, only the people who were with Jesus would know for sure.
Thankfully, the man who knew Jesus perhaps as well as any other; the man referred to as "the disciple whom Jesus loved;" the one Jesus entrusted the care of his mother to as he died on the cross, gives us several descriptions of Jesus. That man is the apostle John. In the last book of the Bible, Revelation, John gives us several portraits of Jesus following his resurrection. These portraits aren't literal, physical descriptions of what Jesus looked like. Rather, these are descriptions of what he was like - his glory, his power, his mercy, his grace. Think of them as Picasso portraits, rather than Norman Rockwell illustrations.
Among those portraits John "paints" for us in Revelation is the one we find in chapter five, where Jesus is described as "the Lamb who was slain." The depiction of Jesus as a lamb takes us back to the Old Testament, when lambs were slaughtered for the Passover. In Exodus, God had commanded his people to take year-old, perfect male lambs. They were to slaughter them, and then roast them for the special meal they were about to eat. But it was the blood of these lambs that was especially important. This blood was to be painted on the door frames of their homes. That night, the Angel of the Lord would visit Egypt, raining down death. But the homes that had the blood of the lamb would be passed over.
That's the picture of the risen Savior John paints in Revelation 5. He's the Lamb who was slain. Normally, one would think that a slaughtered lamb would make an ugly, repulsive picture. But this is a beautiful portrait. It's beautiful because the blood of the Lamb of God, like the blood of the Passover lamb, saves us. It washes away our sins and makes us worthy of life eternal. But it's also a beautiful portrait because it's not a picture of a dead lamb, but the living Lamb of God. Jesus was slain, but he rose. He was dead, but he lives forever.
However you may picture Jesus in your mind, see him as the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
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Children's Health
Childhood Head Injuries Can Improve Over Time
Jan. 24, 2012 -- Serious head injuries in kids can affect development for years, and parents worry their child may never recover fully or get worse.
Now, Australian researchers who followed a small group of children for 10 years after head injuries from falls or car accidents have some answers.
They find, not surprisingly, that severe brain injury is associated with the poorest recovery.
However, they also find an ''injury threshold'' beneath which children with less severe brain injuries may escape serious problems. They make developmental progress, although they may never catch up entirely with peers.
Environment matters in recovery, says study researcher Vicki Anderson, PhD, professor of pediatrics and psychology at the University of Melbourne.
"After injury, we can improve outcomes by optimizing the child's environment," Anderson tells WebMD. For instance, a stimulating home environment helped pave the way for a better recovery, says Anderson, who is also director of critical care and neuroscience research at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute at Royal Children's Hospital.
The study is published online in Pediatrics.
Head Injuries in Kids: Study Details
About 1 in 30 newborns will have a traumatic brain injury by age 16, some researchers have found. Researchers also know that the impairments after these injuries persist until at least five years after the accident. However, less is known about which factors matter for recovery.
In this small study, Anderson's team evaluated 40 children who had a traumatic brain injury. The accidents happened when they ranged in age from 2 to 7. They divided them into three groups depending on how bad the injury was:
- Seven had mild injuries.
- Twenty had moderate injuries.
- Thirteen had severe injuries.
A mild injury often results from a fall, Anderson tells WebMD. Motor vehicle accidents are a leading cause of severe brain injury.
The researchers compared the children with brain injuries to healthy children without them. At the study start, this comparison group had 32 children. By the 10-year mark, the comparison group only had 16.
They tested the children on several measures, including their IQ, thinking skills, and social and behavioral skills. They also measured their adaptive ability -- such things as their response to daily demands and any learning difficulties.
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Stockton police are investigating a possible murder-suicide in the parking lot of a motel on Fremont Street, west of Interstate 5.
A waste management employee found a Mitsubishi Montero with two bodies inside at the Red Roof Inn parking lot at 1707 West Fremont Street when he went to empty a garbage bin located behind the vehicle.
Read more on this story by Record staff writer Jason Anderson in Wednesday's Record.
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Last Modified: Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 7:36 a.m.
Pardee will host a blood drive for the Blood Connection on Friday, Jan. 11, from 12:30–4:30 p.m. at Pardee Health Education Center at Blue Ridge Mall.
In order to donate blood, one must be healthy, at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds or more and not have donated blood in the past 56 days. Walk-in donors will be accepted, but those with appointments will be seen first.
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Temperatures have been near normal to slightly below normal, and precipitation continues to be frequent and widespread. These conditions have maintained habitat throughout southwest areas, where Parkland wetlands are in excellent condition. Most northern ranges of the Parklands have received average to above-average rain, while the Killarney pothole regions and the southern portion of the Virden landscape have received well-above-average amounts.
Broods are being observed frequently. Some initial broods of early-arriving species have fledged, while younger broods of later-nesting and renesting birds are readily observed.
Mortality due to haying, which was expected to be abnormally high, was lessoned due to frequent rain events that delayed producers and allowed additional nests to hatch. Crop harvest is not expected to be as early as in 2012, and will be extended as crop readiness is highly variable due todelayed spring seeding activities.
Most species common to the province are well represented in duck brood observations by staff. Resident Canada goose populations also appear to be growing.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act into law.
First duck stamp, designed by Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist, Jay N. "Ding" Darling, issued.
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BERKELEY -- UC Berkeley's new chancellor likes it here already.
"Coming to Berkeley is like coming to Mecca," said the new leader, Nicholas Dirks, on Monday. "It's a premier institution of higher learning at every level."
The former Columbia University vice president officially assumed his post in June, moving into the century-old chancellor's mansion on campus with his wife, Janaki Bakhle. But the true weight of his new role begins now, as students flood back to the campus. Just days before the semester's start, Sproul Plaza was full of students and jammed with information booths for groups and causes.
On Monday, Dirks and his cabinet marked the semester's opening by touting the 25,000-student campus's graduation rate and generous financial aid for low-income and middle-class students, saying it provided the kind of value that President Barack Obama called for last week in speeches about college affordability and performance.
This year, Cal will add classes in computer science, math and other popular subjects; launch a $650,000 scholarship program for 32 science, math and technology undergraduates; offer more support to veterans and student-parents; and expand a department-based initiative, Berkeley Connect, to match undergraduates with graduate student mentors and students with similar intellectual interests, according to Dirks and other top administrators.
Dirks was appointed to the post in November. Over Gov. Jerry Brown's objections, he was granted a $486,800 base salary and a nearly $9,000 annual car allowance, among other perks.
Bakhle, who taught history at Columbia University, was appointed as a history professor at Cal. Dirks and Bakhle have a ninth-grade son who attends an East Coast boarding school.
The campus's 10th chancellor inherits a much different financial situation than his predecessor, Robert Birgeneau, did in 2004: The campus gets less than 15 percent of its funding from the state, compared to 30 percent back then.
"It's been a striking difference," Dirks said.
A 5 percent increase in state funding this year follows years of relentless cuts to California's public colleges and universities. Berkeley's vice chancellor for administration and finance vowed to keep advocating for more state funding, saying it would take another 18 years of modest increases to reach the pre-recession funding level.
"It's in the state's interest to support what is probably the best public education system in the world," said the vice chancellor, John Wilton.
But Wilton added that the University of California "is too important to leave to the politicians," suggesting the campus will continue to look to the private sector and elsewhere to pay the bills. "We will do everything we can to make sure that is the case."
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Clinking glasses with friends and new acquaintances make for the happiest of hours.
—Alexander Pope, 18th-century English Poet
Tiffany crystal is an elegant tradition at the table. Over the years, this is the crystal that celebrates every day and honors the most special occasions. These heirlooms, with proper care, can be handed down for generations.
In 1837, Charles Lewis Tiffany arrived in New York City and
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From Working Title and Universal comes the first official teaser for costume drama virtuoso Tom Hooper's big-screen adaptation of Claude-Michel Schönberg's stage adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables.
You know what this is; no need to waste words.
Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Amanda Seyfried as Cosette, Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert, and Anne Hathaway as Fantine. In theaters December 14th.
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It has been announced as available for a while now, but only recently was the download made publically available again for FFmbc 0.5. Lead developer Baptiste is doing a super job moving this project forward, but really needs the support from more media professionals to fully realise the early promise of this open source, broadcast media focused, transcoding solution.
FFmbc 0.5 download available here.
FFmbc 0.5 feature updates include:
- Sync on FFmpeg svn r25202.
- Yadif video deinterlacing filter.
- Overlay video filter.
- Fade video filter.
- HQDn3d video filter.
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Listening back, it's not the greatest performance but the sense of humor and fun is there, and they weren't yet taking themselves too seriously.
They had also not developed their improvisational mastery...hints of what was to come were there, but it was mostly songs.
It was $4 at the door, and there were like 150 people there. I bought Junta on cassette that night and it turns out I had a defective copy that was dubbed at the wrong speed or something. Every song was too fast and about a whole step higher than the actual key.
Anyway, today is the 24th anniversary of this show so I'm listening on Phishtracks. What a trip...so glad I went.


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SAN JOSE -- San Jose State's men's basketball team broke one long drought Wednesday, but it couldn't snap a more important one.
The Spartans led in a game for the first time in more than 295 minutes but couldn't secure their first Mountain West Conference win and lost to Air Force 51-48 before 1,326 at the Event Center. SJSU (6-18, 0-12 MW) has now lost 26 consecutive conference games dating back to last season.
San Jose State had the ball trailing by a point with 23.4 seconds to go, but Isaac Thornton turned it over and Air Force's Max Yon made two free throws.
Thornton missed a potential game-tying 3-pointer at the other end, but the Spartans kept possession on a held ball situation. Devante Wilson, who led SJSU with 15 points, had his 3 at the buzzer blocked by DeLovell Earls.
"We have to get better at finishing games," Spartans coach Dave Wojcik said. "We've got to learn how to win, and we're not there yet. They made a couple plays down the stretch, obviously, and we didn't.
SJSU's Chris Cunningham finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds. Kamryn Williams led Air Force with 15 points.
The Spartans took a brief lead when freshman Dylan Alexander, who a minute earlier buried a 3-pointer to get within one, made a jumper to give SJSU a 48-47 advantage with 2:58 left. That was the Spartans' first lead since a 37-36 advantage with 18:16 left in the second half on Jan. 15 in their first meeting with Air Force, a span of 295 minutes and 18 seconds.
The Falcons regained the lead on their next possession, and SJSU didn't score again. Even in the loss, the Spartans felt encouraged to finally be competitive for the first time in a while. The past seven losses had all been by double digits.
"It actually does feel better because we took some tough losses," Wilson said. "We know we're getting better and we're all learning."
Added Wojcik: "It was nice to in the final 30 seconds be in the game and make plays that matter. I'm really proud of the guys. They played hard. We didn't play great and we didn't play smart all the time."
"I just feel for my kids right now. They're really struggling right now mentally."
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In one of the Bay Area's more disputed ballot battles of 2013, Sunnyvale voters on Tuesday might decide to go much further than state lawmakers and the governor did this year in imposing new gun controls.
The Silicon Valley city of 146,000 is neither besieged by crime nor extremely liberal, yet it has become a new front in the national struggle over gun policy.
With Congress paralyzed, gun safety measures "need to come from the ground up, not the top down," says Mayor Tony Spitaleri, Measure C's driving force. "We've got to start somewhere. We just can't accept the fact that this (gun deaths) is the norm now."
Measure C would require gun owners to notify police within 48 hours of the loss or theft of their firearms; keep firearms locked up when not in the owner's immediate possession; and ammunition sellers to keep buyers' names for two years. It also would prohibit having ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Each provision mirrors bills that failed this year in Sacramento.
The National Rifle Association has vowed to sue if Measure C passes; the group also urges voters to consider the millions of dollars other cities have spent defending gun-control ordinances.
The NRA is seeking cases it can take to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Measure C "presents a great opportunity for us," said Chuck Michel, the group's West Coast attorney.
State laws pre-empt Measure C, and it infringes on gun owners' constitutional rights, he said. "Measure C will confiscate the property of Sunnyvale residents and mandate an inappropriate universal firearm storage requirement that ignores individual circumstances, putting gun owners' lives at risk."
Emotions are running high. More than 1,000 residents signed a petition urging stricter gun control earlier this year, and the City Council in June voted 5-2 to put the measure before voters. But after hearing from angry opponents Sept. 24, the council decided not to endorse or oppose it.
One city's gun control measure is not likely to have a deep effect, one expert said Thursday.
It's tough for a city's law to affect crime if the cities around it and the rest of the state don't follow suit, said John Donohue III, a Stanford law professor and gun policy expert. Yet "people are so frustrated by gun violence that they want to take expressive or symbolic action, even if they realize it won't make much difference," he said.
Sunnyvale has a median household income about 50 percent higher than the state's and a lower violent crime rate than most cities its size.
Spitaleri said Measure C is not about reducing crime. "This is about making it safer for people who have guns in the home, so that they pay more attention to how that weapon is handled."
Sunnyvale's largest gun store, U.S. Firearms, launched a counterattack on its website, calling on volunteers to fight Measure C.
"Tired of California politicians beating up on law-abiding gun owners? Then here's your chance to pitch in and roll back the anti-gun tide," it says. "Voter turnout will be low, so with your help WE CAN WIN THIS FIGHT!"
The pitch refers would-be volunteers to Steve Sarette, a member of the committee against Measure C. Neither Sarette nor store owner Eric Fisher would comment for this story.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg contributed $3,000 for Measure C, a big boost above the $5,400 the measure received by Oct. 19. The anti-C committee had raised and spent $468 by that date.
Michel said Bloomberg, co-founder and a major funder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns -- of which Spitaleri is a member -- wants Sunnyvale to be a social engineering experiment but won't be there to pay its legal bills. Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser said that "when a city is taking an innovative approach to solving a long-standing problem, Mayor Bloomberg is happy to offer his support."
Other cities have had mixed results defending their gun ordinances.
San Francisco voters in 2005 banned the manufacture, sale, transfer or distribution of firearms or ammunition and also banned handgun possession. Michel represented the NRA and other groups in a lawsuit that kept that ordinance from taking effect, and a court later struck it down. San Francisco paid $380,000 for the plaintiffs' legal costs.
San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday approved a high-capacity magazine ban similar to Measure C's. Michel is preparing a legal challenge, and he said he will do the same if Los Angeles enacts a similar ban. And Michel on Oct. 7 asked a federal appeals court to overturn a trial court's refusal to block San Francisco's 2007 safe-storage ordinance.
Spitaleri denounced the NRA's lawsuit threat: "All they are doing is bullying."
But Michel said the NRA lawsuits are "a promise to the people who don't want their rights infringed," not a threat against those who vote for such measures.
Josh Richman covers politics. Contact him at 510-208-6428. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.
Each part of the city's gun-control measure on the Tuesday ballot mirrors 2013 state bills that did not become law.


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EDWARDS - On a team that's based on defense, Vail Christian's Gracen McGuckin stood out Saturday.
She got the unenviable task of covering North Park's Taylor Sykes, and McGuckin held her to nine points as the Saints took care of the Wildcats, 38-31.
"That was really pretty notable," Vail Christian coach Doug Bruce said. "That girl can play."
The coach was referring to Sykes, but he might as well been talking about McGuckin, too. The Saints, not surprisingly, got off to slow offensive start, but McGuckin seemed to get the squad going with a big 3 in the second quarter.
"I thought we played great in the second quarter, but we couldn't get the shots to fall," Bruce said. "Gracen gave us some juice."
The shots started to fall in the second half after the Saints were trailing, 17-16, at the break. Jessie Hartley led the Saints with 13 points, while McGuckin and Paris Baker each had eight.
In the nightcap, the Vail Christian boys team showed they could play defense as well, dispatching North Park, 81-40. The Saints put the clamps on during the second quarter, holding the visitors to just three points. North Park had 19 of its 40 points in the fourth quarter, well after matters were decided.
And while it's December, this was a big win with regard to the 1A district tournament in February. The Saints, who are 2-0 in the 2A Slope, drop down to 1A for the postseason, so finishing head of North Park and Plateau Valley is paramount for advancing.
"We're ahead of the curve, instead of being behind the eight-ball," Vail Christian coach Sheldon Kuhns said of his squad's lengthy quest to make regionals for the first time in school history.
On the rebounding front, Branden Currey had 11, while Kevin Boselli picked up eight. Robby Bowles led the Saints with 16 points, while Austin Ellsworth put up 14.
The ladies head (3-1) to Soroco Wednesday, while the boys (also 3-1) host Vail Mountain Tuesday. Both are nonconference games.
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The instructions that I shall give you now are only to provide you with additional information so that you may return to your deliberations and see whether you can arrive at a verdict.
Along these lines, I would like to state the following to you. The verdict to which each of you agrees must express your own conclusion and not merely the acquiescence in the conclusion of your fellow jurors. Yet, in order to bring your minds to a unanimous result, you should consider the question you have to decide not only carefully but also with due regard and deference to the opinions of each other.
In conferring together, you ought to pay proper respect to each other's opinions and listen with an open mind to each other's arguments. If the much greater number of you reach a certain conclusion, dissenting jurors should consider whether their opinion is a reasonable one when the evidence does not lend itself to a similar result in the minds of so many of you who are equally honest and equally intelligent, who have heard the same evidence with an equal desire to arrive at the truth and under the sanctions of the same oath.
But please remember this. Do not ever change your mind just because other jurors see things differently or to get the case over with. As I told you before, in the end, your vote must be exactly that -- your own vote. As important as it is for you to reach a unanimous agreement, it is just as important that you do so honestly and in good conscience.
What I have said to you is not intended to rush you into agreeing on a verdict. Take as much time as you need to discuss the matter. There is no need to hurry.
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PARKERSBURG - As part of the second term shakeup of President Barack Obama's cabinet, a Roane County native is being touted as a possible new Secretary of Transportation.
Deborah Hersman, the current chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, has the backing of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D- W.Va., for the post.
Prior to her appointment by former President George W. Bush, she was on the staff of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, chaired by Rockefeller. During part of her time with the committee she was the senior adviser.
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The Wall Street Journal reported unnamed sources close to the selection process said she is a top pick for the cabinet position to replace Ray LaHood, who has resigned.
Rockefeller tweeted Hersman "has experience to be terrific USDOT Secretary," according to The Hill. He said Hersman's priorities will be safety and investment in infrastructure if she is appointed.
Rockefeller said Hersman has strong West Virginia ties and she is an asset to the board.
Hersman, who is in her second term as chairman of the five-member board, has publicly stated she wants to focus on her current position and is not interested in the secretary post.
Hersman received bachelor's degrees in political science and international studies from Virginia Tech, and a master's degree in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University. She holds a commercial driver's license
The U.S. Department of Transportation has almost 60,000 employees. President Obama's 2013 budget request includes $74 billion for the department.
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The Minnesota Department of Agriculture says consumers should not eat fresh cilantro sold at certain stores because of possible salmonella contamination.
Routine testing found a sample of the product contaminated with salmonella.
The fresh cilantro was sold in bunches that were shipped to retailers in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan between July 26 and Aug. 6. All stores that received the cilantro have been notified to remove the product from their shelves.
The advisory applies only to cilantro shipped to the stores between July 26 and Aug. 6.
Consumers who bought the cilantro bunches are advised to throw them out or return them to the store for a refund.
No illnesses have been reported.
Minnesota is working with California regulators to determine the source of the product.
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My blog today is a part of the Children in Film Blogathon hosted by the wonderful Comet Over Hollywood, May 24-26, 2013. �I decided to focus on Jane Withers, who is still alive and thriving and who herself is a fan of classic films. � I was most familiar with Jane from her tv commercials as the bubbly, �helpful plumber, Josephine, extolling the cleaning virtues of Comet Cleanser. �I was not as familiar with Jane's early beginnings in the entertainment industry and here is what I discovered. Jane Withers was born in Atlanta, Georgia on April 12, 1926. �She was an only child, much loved by her parents, Walter and Ruth Withers. �By the age of 3, Jane was achieving local fame on an Atlanta radio station as "Dixie's Dainty Dewdrop" with her singing and imitations of famous movie stars. � Soon, it was on to Hollywood to try and make it into show business and Jane did child modeling and won a few bit parts in some movies in 1932 and 1933. � Her big break came in 1934, co-starring in the movie Bright Eyes, with Shirley Temple. �Jane was glad to be cast in the movie, but worried about playing a character who is mean to Shirley Temple! �She was concerned audiences wouldn't like her and that that could be the end of her career. �In Bright Eyes, Shirley is the daughter of a maid for the rich and mean Smythe family. � Jane played Joy Smythe, the rich family's daughter. �In one of her meanest scenes, she told Shirley's character," There aint' any Santa Claus because my psychoanalyst told me!" �David Butler, the movie's director, told Jane years later that she stole that film from Shirley. �Mrs. Temple, an ever present person on the movie's set, must have sensed how good Jane's acting was �because she limited how much time Shirley could spend with Jane and she also ordered that Jane wash her hands before and after all scenes that she had with Shirley! � Jane adored Shirley and they did manage to become friends in their teen years and are still friends today.
Bright Eyes was a box office hit and Jane received many positive notices from movie critics. � 20th Century Fox took notice of Jane and she was signed to a long-term contract. � �In 1935 she starred in the films Ginger and The Farmer Takes a Wife. �1936 �arrived and Jane starred in the film Little Miss Nobody. �She was also listed as one of the Top 10 Box Office Stars for 1937-1938. In the 1940s, Jane was in 16 films, produced by Fox, Columbia, and Republic Studios. �In 1943, �Jane was in the cast of the film The North Star and received excellent notices for her role �She also wrote the screenplay for the 1941 film Small Town Deb. As I read about Jane, and looked up pictures from her career, I saw that her persona was used to sell children's clothing, Jane Wither dolls, and as she arrived in her teen years, she was featured in many movie fan magazines. �Whitman Publishing Company even created �Authorized Editions which were 16 books, published from 1941-1947, featuring famous actresses in mystery adventures, similar to the popular Nancy Drew books. �Jane was featured in three of these books: Jane Withers and the Hidden Room, Jane Withers and the Phantom Violin, and Jane Withers and the Swamp Wizard.
In 1947, �Jane married Texas oil man William P. Moss, and they had �three children: William, Wendy, and Randy. �Sadly, the marriage ended in divorce in 1955. �That same year Jane wed for a second time, to Kenneth Errair, one of the singers in the group The Four Freshman. �This marriage was successful and produced two children, Ken and Kendall Jane. With her roles expanding as wife and mother, Jane's acting career took a bit of a back seat at times. �She did appear in the 1956 film, Giant, starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean. � Jane played Vashti, a good friend of Elizabeth's character, Leslie. �During filming, Jane got to be very good friends with James Dean. �Dean had a favorite pink cowboy shirt that he was hesitant to have washed as he was worried that the studio's laundry would ruin it or lose it. �Jane offered one day to wash the shirt for Dean and from then on, he had her wash that shirt for him. �One afternoon, she washed it as usual, not realizing that Dean would never wear it again; he tragically died in a car accident that evening. �Jane still has that pink shirt and keeps it as a very special reminder of a great friend. �Jane's parents were christians, active at their church in Atlanta, helping to teach Sunday School classes, and Jane has said that that strong, spiritual faith has helped �her through many personal challenges. �I would like to add how refreshing it was to read about �a child actor who made it successfully to the level of adult actor, without any bitter comments or experiences to share. �Her parents were loving and supportive of Jane, not conniving to spend all of her earnings, not negative "stage parents", �which sadly seems to be the case for a lot of child actors.
Throughout the 1960′s, 70′s, 80′s �Jane appeared on many television shows. �She has also done voice work for animated features in the 1990s. �Check out Jane Withers at IMDb for a �full list of her acting work. �In 1979, Jane was �honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its first Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award. � �I would be remiss in not mentioning another blog, Journeys in Classic Film. �Kristen, who writes this great blog, �was able to attend Turner Classic Movies Film Festival �in Hollywood in late April and she got to meet and interview Jane Withers! �Click on the link for that interview and some more pictures of Jane at the festival. �I'll close with some more great photos I found of Jane from her career.
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West Alabama weekend baseball schedule changed
Published: Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 11:42 p.m.
LIVINGSTON | The University of West Alabama baseball team's home series against Rollins College this weekend has been moved to a road series in Winter Park, Fla., because of approaching storm conditions in the Livingston area.
The Tigers were also scheduled to host Stillman College on Friday morning. That game has been canceled.
The Tigers' three-game series at Rollins begins with a doubleheader Saturday at 1 p.m. The series will wrap up with one game Sunday at 11 a.m.
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Published: Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
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One year into business, Thibodaux's one-of-a-kind distillery is dripping out spirits at a steadily increasing rate.
In lieu of a potential deal to export Donner-Peltier distillery's Oryza gin to a distributor in Italy and a mid-November rollout of the first Louisiana-produced whisky since prohibition ended, distilling crews are working 72-hour shifts to keep up with the volume of sales.
Co-owner Beth Donner shuffled through piles of papers in her Thibodaux office on Wednesday afternoon. The phones in the background rang almost constantly as she rattled off the advancements of her fledgling still.
"The gin just blew people away," Donner said. "It has been so encouraging to receive such a warm reception from restaurant and bar owners."
It has been a rapid-fire 12 months for the four-member ownership team at Donner-Peltier. The distillery has increased its staff from two to nine and switched from a local to a national distributor, moving its products into two additional states.
Sales, Donner said, are up 50 percent since the beginning of August, when the company rolled out its unique rice-based gin. The company recently purchased new equipment that will effectively double the capacity it can handle.
The team's cabinets are no longer bare of medals. The local handcraft distillery brought home a total of six medals — four gold — at worldwide spirits competitions in 2013.
Local mixologists have taken note. Among Donner-Peltier's growing list of customers is Lu Brow, bar manager at Café Adelaide's Swizzle Stick bar in New Orleans' Central Business District.
"When I heard about a gin being introduced in Louisiana I didn't quite know what to think," Brow said. "I was completely blown away by it. It's light and crisp, everything I love about gin. I'm just so proud that it's a Louisiana product."
Brow said the home-grown label she uses to market the gin to her worldly customers has been a boon. Since she introduced the new gin at this year's Tales of the Cocktail event in September, her Chockey Cocktail, which features the Louisiana-made, Louisiana-proud gin on the menu, has become one of her best-selling items.
Hoof-work marketing has worked remarkably well in spreading the product throughout local markets.
It was a visit from Johnny Culpepper, vice president of sales for Donner-Peltier, that won over Ryan Iriate, manager at the High Hat Café on New Orleans' burgeoning Freret Street corridor.
Iriate said the two products he purchased, Rougaroux Sugarshine rum and Oryza vodka, were not just attractive because they were local, they were unlike any other products he offered.
"I love the Sugarshine because it tastes almost like Caxaca," Iriate said, referencing a popular Brazilian sugar cane liquor. "It's not like any other rum, it has some very good characteristics. I find it works really well with the punch. Because it has high alcohol I can do things that I can't do with a 40 percent alcohol."
Iriate generally doesn't look to buy vodka, he said, but when Culpepper brought in a sample of Oryza, it was just too different to pass up.
"It was the first vodka I've had that had character to it," Iriate said. "I almost wish they wouldn't call it vodka. It tastes more like an over-proofed sake (rice wine), which is a great thing to offer customers who don't normally like vodka."
When deciding to roll out a range of products, Donner-Peltier had customers like Iriate in mind. While most micro-distilleries focus solely on a single product or type of liquor, Donner-Peltier wants to meet all markets with premium, small batch products.
Oryza is the only rice vodka currently available for distribution in the United States, according to Donner, a key factor in the owners' decision to diverge from rum into other product lines.
"I was reluctant to do vodka at first, just because there are already so many vodkas out there," Donner said. "But the reality is that's what people are drinking, so we wanted to be in that market. I said let's do a vodka, but let's make it completely unique."
It is rice grown from central-Louisiana rice patties that give Oryza vodka and the raw sugar cane from Peltier's local farms that give Donner-Peltier's products the flavor profile that have been enticing buyers like Iriate and Brown.
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Authorities say the soldier who opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood was an Iraq War veteran who was being treated for mental illness.
Ivan Lopez allegedly killed three people and injured or wounded 16 before killing himself yesterday. One of the victims who was shot but survived is Western New York native Patrick Miller was injured during the shooting at Fort Hood yesterday. Miller is from Allegany and went to St. Bonaventure and Syracuse University.
Within hours of the attack, investigators started looking into whether his combat experience caused post-traumatic stress.
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The president of a company hired to build a South Carolina facility to turn weapons-grade plutonium into nuclear reactor fuel says he's worried the project won't be adequately funded.
Shaw AREVA MOX Services president Kelly Trice told reporters Thursday he thinks the Obama administration believes in the mission of the mixed-oxide fuel facility but admitted he's worried about funding.
The plant at the Savannah River Site near Aiken is part of an international nonproliferation effort, with the United States and Russia committed to disposing of at least 34 metric tons each of weapons-grade plutonium.
MOX has been plagued by cost overruns and delays. Last month, the General Accountability Office said the project's price tag had ballooned to $7.7 billion.
The administration is to release its budget proposal next week.
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Fix Memory Card Error on BlackBerry Without Computer
I take quite a few pictures with my BlackBerry for work. Luckily, my employer was nice enough to buy me a 4GB micro SD card that fits in nicely behind the battery in my Curve.1 Unfortunately, I started receiving the following error a couple weeks ago:
A Media Card has been insterted that contains errors. To correct the errors please use a disk error-checking utility on a computer.
This error would pop up any time I tried to access something on the media card through the phone, or any time I plugged the BB into my computer and entered Mass Storage Mode.2 There were some other odd issues, too. Images on the media card still showed up on my phone background or as profile pictures, but I couldn't access them through the phone. I could, however, access them through the computer. Additionally, the phone wasn't able to store photos to the media card directly when taken, and I couldn't move photos to the media card after they were taken.
While trying to figure out a solution, I was able take pictures and get them onto my computer by storing them in my device memory and then emailing them to myself one at a time. This obviously was a large pain, particularly knowing how quickly my BlackBerry memory filled up and what this could do to my call/email history.3
The obvious solution (I thought) was to reformat the card through a computer, but I had a few issues with this. First, my work laptop (where I have the BlackBerry Desktop Manager4 installed) is severely locked down and doesn't allow disk reformatting. Second, my personal laptop is a Mac and doesn't have the BlackBerry Desktop Manager installed (and thus doesn't mount the media card when I plug it in).
I'm sure there are ways around both of these, but it turns out there's a much easier way to resolve this issue: The BlackBerry Curve, in all of its not-an-iPhone glory (sarcasm), has the ability to reformat media cards itself. Simply follow these steps:
- Move all data from the media card to your desktop or another location. (This can be done using Mass Storage Mode and BlackBerry Desktop Manager.)
- Disconnect/eject the BlackBerry from the computer.5
- Select Options from the BlackBerry menu.
- Select Media Card.
- Push the menu button (just left of the navigation ball) while viewing the Media Card screen.
- Select Format Card.
- Answer Yes to format the media card. (If you're not okay with losing all data on the card, go back to step 1 and start again.)
- Move your data back to the card once the formatting finishes.
Voila! Everything is good to go. Well, maybe not everything. You will need to go into your camera options and set it to store photos on the media card when taken. Otherwise, as I mentioned above, you might run into memory/data loss issues.3
The most confusing thing about all of this is why the error message is so misleading. Why point the user in another direction (i.e., a disk error-checking utility on a computer) when the BB itself includes an easy way to fix the problem?
1 I thought this was really sweet until I ran into a coworker with a 16GB micro SD card. I was simultaneously amazed and annoyed. The amount of space on that tiny card is impressive, no doubt – but why has Apple not yet released a 30GB iPhone?
2 Mass Storage Mode allows the BlackBerry to show up as a separate drive on your computer (to/from which you can move songs, ringtones, photos, etc.).
3 Not long after I got my BB Curve, I noticed my entire email and call history would disappear without warning. After doing some searching online, I found this was the result of the phone running out of memory. The best (only?) way to prevent it is to perform a "hard restart" (i.e., pull the battery out of the phone while it's on). This clears the phone's memory – including any build-up from used applications – as well as closes any open applications.
4 "BlackBerry – Software Downloads 2." BlackBerry.com. Accessed February 2009 from https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=A8BAA56554F96369AB93E4F3BB068C22.
5 I think this could be one reason my media card developed errors. I don't know if it's because my work laptop runs Windows 2000 (yes, that's right), but there's no option to eject the BB once I've entered Mass Storage Mode. I tried the little green arrow in the system tray, as well as right-clicking on the drive itself. No dice. So, I end up just unplugging it without ejecting it, which gives me an error message every time.
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Wipe Clean - Learn to Write Your Numbers Flash Cards
- Overview
Help kids develop early learning skills with this deck of fun flash cards, Each card includes a colorful picture – a fuzzy duckling, four pretty presents, and others – with an outline of the corresponding number below that kids can trace, wipe clean, and trace again, until they learn to master writing numbers all by themselves.
- 5" wide x 2" deep x 8" high
- Includes high-quality, durable, wipe clean activity cards.
- Comes with three colored wipe-clean pens and cloth.
- Ages 3 and up.
- Dimensions & Care
- Wipe clean with cloth (included).
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Book your room at Mercure Sydney International Airport
Get an overview of this hotel4-star hotel with restaurant and bar/lounge
Collect 200 points
Simply enter your Nectar card number when prompted. Your points will be credited 30 days after you return from your trip.*Offers may apply
Situated near the airport, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Kogarah Golf Course and Wolli Creek Village Square. Rockdale Plaza Shopping Centre and WIN Jubilee Oval are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a 24-hour business center. Other amenities include a conference center, WiFi in public areas, and 24-hour room service.
Room Amenities
All 271 soundproofed rooms feature WiFi and 24-hour room service. For a bit of entertainment, flat-screen TVs come with satellite channels, and guests can also appreciate conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Mercure Sydney International Airport22 Levey Street Wolli Creek NSW 2205
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms.
High-speed wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. Event facilities measuring 9289 square feet (863 square meters) include a conference center. This business-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, a picnic area, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle at scheduled times is offered to guests. Limited onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis (surcharge).
Mercure Sydney International Airport is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 9
- Bar/lounge
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-out
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Express check-in
- Total number of rooms - 271
- Laundry facilities
- ATM/banking
- Meeting rooms 11
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Picnic area
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Long-term parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 863
- Conference space size (feet) - 9289
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Elevator/lift
- Conference center
- Number of meeting rooms - 11
- 24-hour business center
- Smoke-free property
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( AUD 24.95 per 24-hour period ), Wired internet access ( AUD 24.95 per 24-hour period )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( AUD 25 per 24-hour period )
Long-term parking (surcharge), Self parking (surcharge), Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Pay movies
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Satellite TV service
- Air conditioning
- Flat-panel TV
- In-room massage available
- Soundproofed rooms
- In-room safe
- Shower/tub combination
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Room service (24 hours)
Where to Eat
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 5:30 AM and 10 AM.
Seasons Restaurant - This restaurant specializes in regional cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
The Bar - This lobby lounge specializes in regional cuisine. Open daily.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
24-hour check-in
Parking height restrictions apply
- Deposit: AUD 100 per stay (for stays between 1 January - 31 December)
Optional extras
- Fee for full breakfast: AUD 27 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: AUD 24.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): AUD 24.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: AUD 25 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Airport shuttle fee: AUD 6 per person (one way)
- Airport shuttle fee per child: AUD 6.00 (one way), (from 0 to 18 years old)
- Self parking fee: AUD 25.00 per night
- Late check-out fee: AUD 120
- Rollaway bed fee: AUD 44 per night
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
Hotel Name
- Mercure Hotel Sydney International Airport
- Mercure Sydney International Airport
- Mercure Hotel Sydney Airport
- Mercure Sydney Airport Hotel Wolli Creek
- Mercure Wolli Creek
- Mercure Sydney International Airport Hotel Wolli Creek
- Mercure Sydney International Airport Hotel
- Mercure Sydney International Airport Wolli Creek
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
National Rating
This property has been awarded a star rating from the Australian Star Ratings Agency, Star Ratings Australia.


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Contractor's favorite for collecting bulky leaves, fallen branches and fruit, and for grading new lawns. Sturdy construction with three solid aluminum bows and a long steel shaft. 28"-wide head has 3-3/4" teeth spaced 1/2" apart. 60" hardwood handle. USA made.


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DOLGEVILLE � A Dolgeville man has been accused of breaking into a residence and entering a woman�s bedroom as she slept, Dolgeville police said.
Christopher L. Traskey, 26, of Military Road, was charged with felony second-degree burglary, police said.
The alleged incident took place at about 2 a.m. Tuesday. The woman awoke to find Traskey standing in her bedroom, police said.
He then began walking toward her bed and she began yelling, which awoke her brother, who was sleeping down the hall, police said.
Traskey, who was known by the victim, then fled, police said.
He was arraigned in Manheim Town Court and was sent to Herkimer County jail on $15,000 cash bail or $30,000 bail bond.
Additional charges are pending.
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By some of the most important measures of social progress, black and Latino residents of Colorado have lost ground compared with white residents in the decades since the civil rights movement.Minority gains made during the 1960s and 1970s have eroded with time, an I-News Network analysis of six decades of demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau found. In other categories, the gaps between whites and minorities have steadily widened since 1960.The analysis focused on family income, poverty rates, high school and college graduation and home ownership. Health data and justice records examined also revealed disparities.Similar racial and ethnic inequities appear nationwide. But one glaring fact about Colorado is that it went from a state that was by most measures more equitable than the national average in the first decades covered by the analysis to one that is less so now.According to most experts, racial and ethnic inequality will pose a significant future handicap for a state in which minorities are a rising population."I was actually shocked," said Eric Nelson, vice president of the Aurora NAACP, after reviewing the I-News analysis. "You would think we as a nation would have overcome a lot of things since then. It's like, 'Wow! We're spinning our wheels going in reverse.'"There are important caveats, of course, including the decades-long rise of professional classes among both blacks and Latinos and striking examples of individual wealth and achievement. Minorities have made gains in a number of categories, as well, but in most have not kept pace.By the broad gauge of the census measure, recent decades have not been kind to aspirations of equality by the state's minority residents. Almost 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his generation-defining "I have a dream" speech, income and education gaps have remained stubbornly high.In 1970, for example, black families earned 73 percent of white family incomes and Hispanic families earned 72 percent. By 2010, those numbers had fallen to about 60 percent and 50 percent, respectively.Almost 60 percent of Latino households were owner-occupied in 1970; now it's just beneath 50 percent. Most experts attribute an immigration influx with pulling down Latino numbers.The gaps among adults with college degrees have steadily widened since 1960, with the percent of whites with college degrees three times higher than the Latino rate and double the black rate. Those disparities are the nation's worst for both Latinos and blacks.Among more positive trends, 86 percent of black adults had graduated from high school in 2010, up from 31 percent in 1960. Latinos have also improved high school graduation rates through the decades, but still lagged badly at 65 percent, compared with 95 percent for whites, in 2010.For other minority groups in Colorado the numbers were too small to statistically compare, particularly during the early decades of the analysis.Poverty, income and education gaps in the state parallel other important disparities outlined in many studies that show blacks and Latinos lagging behind whites in one critical measure of health after another.The Census Bureau only began tracking data about health insurance in recent years and does not collect other information about overall health. But data compiled by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment over the last 15 years shows that the state's ethnic minorities do not fare as well as white residents when it comes to disease and death.Blacks and Latinos, for example, experience significantly higher rates of infant mortality and deaths from diseases such as diabetes than whites in Colorado."The general statement that I make is, we're sicker than most and dying sooner than we should," said Grant Jones, founder and executive director of the Center for African American Health in Denver.The implications of inequality for the future are enormous: The number of minority babies being born nationally recently eclipsed that of whites, and, in Colorado, 46 percent of children under one year of age in 2011 were minorities, the Census Bureau reported.That holds economic consequences in the future for all Colorado residents.I-News explored the social phenomena behind the numbers with community activists and politicians, researchers from liberal and conservative think tanks, educators, church leaders and people in the street. The reasons given for the gaps were myriad and complex. They are rooted in history and intergenerational in nature.Among those cited:> The civil rights era policies that provided a boost to minorities in the 1960s and '70s, such as affirmative action, have been diminished or dismantled."For all intents and purpose, affirmative action has been wiped out," said former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb. "There is no longer a desire to assure that minorities are being placed in jobs."Affirmative action programs, first envisioned by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and strengthened and expanded by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, have been narrowed or eliminated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions and, in individual states, by legislative action or by voters.Many thousands of Colorado's good paying, blue collar manufacturing jobs - think of Pueblo's CF&I Steel or Denver's Gates Rubber Co. or Montbello's Samsonite Corp. - have disappeared, hurting minority families disproportionately."CF&I Steel once had 13,000 employees," said former State Sen. Abel Tapia of Pueblo. "That used to be a path towards middle-class prosperity. Pueblo took a really, really big hit in the '80s when the steel company downsized. In a community of 100,000 when you are talking 13,000 jobs, that was a big hit."> Support for K-12 education has diminished. The cost of attending college has skyrocketed."We seem to be leading the way in the country on how not to fund education," said Jim Chavez, executive director of the Latin American Educational Foundation.The percentage of single-parent families and the number of births to single mothers has soared among black households, exacerbating the gaps, and immigration and teenage births in the Latino population have also led to widening disparities, experts said."You have a majority of children, particularly in the African American community, growing up in single-parent households," said Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, who is black. "There's nothing that impacts those issues - issues of economics, their education, their quality of life - more than the economic challenges faced by single mothers."Apart from the census numbers, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2010, in Colorado, 45 percent of black infants, 35 percent of Hispanic infants and 18 percent of white infants were born to single mothers.That corresponds to a dramatic surge in the past five decades of children raised in single-parent homes, but the rate is particularly striking among blacks - 50 percent of black households with children in Colorado were headed by a single parent in 2010, compared with 25 percent of white households. Among Latino households with young children, 35 percent were headed by a single parent, according to the I-News analysis.In a stark way, that boils down to ongoing economic disparity and impacts general prosperity, said Alan Berube, senior fellow and research director for Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program.> The gaps among adults with college degrees have steadily widened since 1960, with the percent of whites with college degrees three times higher than the Latino rate and double the black rate. Those disparities are the nation's worst for both Latinos and blacks."In part, it's about how many adults you have and the income generating power these different households have," he said."From an economic standpoint, one plus one equals two," said Christelyn D. Karazin, an Internet activist striving to reduce the birthrate to single mothers. "Even if two people are working at McDonalds, that's two McDonalds salaries right there."Census data show that single motherhood is a greater indicator of poverty than race. Children living in a female-headed household in Colorado are four times more likely to grow up in poverty, the I-News analysis showed, than children in married-couple households."If you wanted to announce a systemic assault on the African American community, that's how you would do it," said Barry Fagin, a senior fellow with the Independence Institute, of the rate of births to single mothers.In addition, the incarceration of a highly disproportionate number of minority men is a significant factor in numerous problems, including the single-parent family, said Denver Mayor Hancock, among others."There is one area where I think that many members of the African American community would agree that the drug war is basically a war on black men," said Fagin.
Regardless of which way the causal arrow runs, poverty and education are intertwined across the range of societal distress. Several experts said the state's pullback in funding education over the past two decades has narrowed the path for escaping poverty.Between 1992 and 2010, according to census data, Colorado plunged from 24th to 40th on overall state spending per student for K-12 education. When compared to per capita personal income, Colorado ranked 45th among the states on K-12 spending.Public school funding, very much dependent upon property taxes, is "inherently unequal" from district to district, said Corrine Fowler of the Colorado Progressive Coalition. And even within the same district, schools in affluent neighborhoods have the ability to fundraise in ways that schools in poor neighborhoods do not."Right now, today, I can almost predict where you're going to be, based on your mother's educational level and your family income," said Nate Easley, who recently resigned as a member of the Denver school board, in an interview with Colorado Public Radio. "And until we correct that, our democracy is in jeopardy."Said Fowler, "Education should be the great equalizer. It should not be that just because your parents have more money or you come from a more affluent background that you should then get better educational opportunities. That is completely unjust."A separate report last year by the State Higher Education Executive Association found only New Hampshire and Vermont spent less per full-time college student than Colorado's $3,316."Almost every one of those (disparity) trends, the underlying cause or factor is education," said Chavez of the Latin American Educational Foundation. "We've seen the financial resources the state spent to help families with students go down dramatically the last 10 years."Said former Denver City Councilman Sal Carpio, who also served as head of the city's housing authority, "The biggest single factor is all the effects of poverty. It's like a funnel... A few trickle out. The funnel has gotten bigger. It still trickles, but there's just more people in there that can't get out."
The widening gaps in Colorado are related to national political swings through the decades, both liberals and conservatives agree, but they disagree substantially on just how that has worked.The civil rights era begat President Johnson's war on poverty, a host of society-altering civil rights laws, financial support to the poor and many other programs aimed at leveling the playing field. Some said the opposite happened."What we've done in America is design a system that rewards people for not working and locks them into poverty," said former Republican Colorado U.S. Sen. Hank Brown. "It's a tragedy of the first order because the vast majority of people who are in poverty don't want to be on welfare. They want jobs."Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the historical narrative is complex, but has much to do with the nation's changing political will and policies."Almost all of the efforts in the sense of positive impetus were abandoned by or shortly before the Reagan era," he said. "We had a narrowing of the income gap for a long time in part because we taxed higher income people pretty heavily and we had an increasingly generous set of social policies for disadvantaged people. We did just the exact opposite in the Reagan tax cuts and the Bush tax cuts. And there were simultaneous cuts in programs and services and dramatic reversals on civil rights policies."It just isn't any kind of big surprise," Orfield said. "It is quite clear there was an intentionality both about the narrowing of the gap and the growing of the gap."The widening gaps, in most appraisals, do not bode well for Colorado's future.The Brookings Institution's Berube noted that more and more of Colorado's under-18, school-aged population is brown and black, growing up in households that are economically disadvantaged, "which all the research shows places a negative strain on their educational potential."Racial inequality poses a threat to the future economic viability of the state, Berube said, if in 20 years disadvantaged minorities are the majority of the workforce."You still have on balance an aging white population and a young minority population. There are only so many white people youcan pull from the rest of the country to help adjust for that imbalance and the challenge it is bringing," he said.For others interviewed by I-News, the inequities are a moral as well as an economic issue. If left unchallenged in the coming decades, they threaten Colorado's future.


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Thibodaux burglary suspect arrested at bank
Published: Monday, January 14, 2013 at 12:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 14, 2013 at 12:35 p.m.
The suspect of a Thibodaux burglary was arrested Friday at a bank.
Rodrick Lacey, 43, 1102 St. Patrick St., Thibodaux, is accused of taking two generators Nov. 11 from a business in the 1500 block of Canal Boulevard, Thibodaux Police said.
Evidence connected Lacey to the burglary, and on Friday, someone called with a tip that Lacey was at a bank just south of the city, detectives said. Thibodaux officers and Terrebonne sheriff's deputies arrested Lacey at the bank.
Lacey is charged with simple burglary. He is in the Lafourche Parish jail in lieu of a $25,000 bond, Thibodaux Police said.
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