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WATERTOWN, S.D. – Jan. 31, 2013 – South Dakota Ducks Unlimited has named U.S. Fish and Wildlife Partners for Fish and Wildlife Project Leader Kurt Forman as its 2013 "Friend of the Ducks." Forman was given the award at DU's recent state convention in Watertown.
"Kurt is strongly dedicated to working with private landowners to protect, restore and improve wildlife habitat—especially waterfowl production habitat in South Dakota," said Warhurst, DU manager of conservation programs for South Dakota. He says hundreds of small wetlands have been restored on Conservation Reserve Program grassland tracts by Forman and his team of biologists, located in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) offices across the state.
A Windom native, Forman developed his love of waterfowl and wetlands while hunting the marshes of southern Minnesota's Heron Lake. He began working with FWS on private lands conservation in the 1990s and has written numerous successful grant proposals for South Dakota wetlands conservation.
"It is certainly an honor to receive this award," Forman said. "I have always had the utmost respect for Ducks Unlimited and look forward to continuing our partnership together for a shared vision of wetland and grassland conservation in the Dakotas."
Warhurst says Forman has courageously led the effort to establish responsible management practices for wetland resources in South Dakota and throughout the Prairie Pothole Region. "Kurt always handles himself professionally and diplomacy is his strong suit," Warhurst said. "He certainly has 'ducks in the gut' and is a member of the 'mallard mafia fraternity'—a designation given to those biologists who fight hard for the ducks."
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meskibob wrote:With most apps that have an .exe installer, I expect options to enable/disable the Start Menu folder, the Desktop shortcut, and the Quick Launch shortcut, but no such options are currently available with the PMS installer.
a)I don't have any icons on my desktop or quick launch, so it's annoying to remove them when updating applications, especially when it's something like PMS that is receiving fairly regular beta updates. I added Start Menu for completeness as I know other people that keep that fairly clean.marco275 wrote:Why? You can add or remove them manualy after installation, all this implementations will result in a bulky application eventualy.
NaDs wrote:+1
i would love to see this in my startup programs, and be able to have the option in the installation
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Yarn Profile: Baby
First Impressions
At $11.99 per 60-yard skein, it is somewhat more expensive than other bulkies. The difference is that you're paying for 100% merino fiber. And, of course, you're helping support the great Tahki / Stach Charles / Filatura di Crosa empire.
Baby is available in 22 solid colors and four multicolored blends. Its loose two-ply spin adds texture to downplay the plush loft of the yarn, but there's no hiding the fact that this is a fast-knitting yarn.
Knitting Up
Knitting was almost shamelessly fast and easy. Although the yarn is loosely spun, it held together well enough for me to knit by touch alone without any snagging problems.
There were only two clouds that shaded my sunny picnic: First, I discovered a knot halfway through the skein; and second, the stitches appeared slightly uneven. On a positive note, the uneven stitches could add an extra dimension of texture to the swatches.
Blocking / Washing
The dry, flattened swatches felt much more relaxed, yet no matter how many times I measured the swatches I couldn't detect a change in gauge.
First, I dissected a foot-long piece of the yarn. The two plies stuck together tightly and had to be pried apart, which to me was a good sign. Even the firmest tug wouldn't break the yarn, nor could I pull a single ply apart easily.
Only after excessive thrashing did the swatches begin to pill. Considering that pilling is a fact of life for merino fibers, I was impressed.
But the bulk has some benefits. You can't beat the speed with which you can produce a project - helpful when you're impatient or you've forgotten an important person's birthday, for example.
Also, it knits up at the same gauge as Cleckheaton Gusto, Reynolds Bulky Lopi, Reynolds Allagash, Swedish Yarns' Quick, and Colinette Isis. This means you have a world of patterns at your disposal.
Speaking of patterns, you can see two examples of Baby in the Fall 2001 issue of Vogue Knitting.
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"Without a tighter twist to hold the short merino fibers in place, it seems they'd be much more likely to pill or simply wear thin with age" Merino has an average staple length of about 3 inches and is quite crimpy (about 11-12 crimps per inch) Yarns are usually best spun to match the amount of crimp, so merino is generally spun with a higher twist than other yarns. Were the fibres much shorter than 3 inches? If so, then this would account for the pilling, if there is any. Pilling usually occurs when the fibres have been broken in the processing. About.com's Weaving/Spinning Guide, 8/21/2001
"Thank you for the information on the Baby Bulky yarn. Very interesting to note that as a bulky the merino could stand a lighter twist. For me, being a hand spinner, I have found the twist with merino needs to be tight. I am brand new to your site so I am very pleased with what I have found. Thanks!" bkofruth, 8/20/2001
"I can't wait to try Baby. Also, thanks for the tip that the fall issue of Vogue Knitting is out! I tried Tahki's Capri earlier this summer. I liked knitting with it; however, I encounted the same knotting problem with those skeins as well. Out of the 7 I used, 4 had knots and one of those skeins had 2. It looks like the Tahki skein wrappers could use some follow up training or quality control measures need to be put into place. (Gee, can you tell that I'm writing this from work?)" alicobb, 8/16/2001
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Hi- I am a total Newbie-
I was running on the street, but stopped when someone is car threw stuff and hit me with it (there was no way it was unintentional).
So, I started running on trail near my house- its a straight trail, so I run up, turn around, and run back to where I started. At first, I didm't really think about my safety, as I wasn't running very far- but now, my runs are around an hour- and recently, a woman in town "disappeared", so it has kind of started weighing on me.
I try to be aware of what is going on around me, and my mother-in-law suggested I carry pepper spray. I don't have any, but that does seem like a good idea.
Does anyone have any tips about not just how to be safe on the trail, but also how to feel safe? I think I am psyching myself out a little, and I dont want to stop running because I'm too scared.
I am afraid of dogs so I carry pepper spray with me but a couple weeks ago a strange man pulled up in a van in front of me and wanted to give me a ride (it was obvious I was on a run, running clothes, iPod, ect). I was glad then that I had the pepper spray. I would definitely recommend it.
I have to agree with Longtallsallee pepper spray is nice to have and I would have a waist pouch and carry your cell phone just in case you need to use the pepper spray on someone just to call 911 if need be.
I run 6:15 still dark and I live in the country I do run on a road with some houses but there are woods too, so I plan on buying myself some pepper spray. Good luck - be safe.
It is always important to be aware of your environment and surroundings. If you have the opportunity, change the time, distance and course of your route. I know this is difficult to schedule, but a retired FBI agent once told me that my running routine was too predictable and it made me an easier target to become a victim.
It is true that perps look for patterns, and sometimes trails turn into "hangouts" or meeting places for other activities, so maybe check with your local running club or try and observe the flow of other walkers/runners/people with dogs to see if there is a particular time that seems to be more crowded with those exercising.
As you stated, the street has its own hazards, but mostly it is preoccupied, careless drivers, clueless teenagers, irresponsible pet owners, jealous neighbors or just plain ignortant, mean people. I have literally dodged cars that intentionally swerved in my direction just so they could laugh as I had to leap into a gutter or nearby yard, so do not be discouraged about the throwing incident. In general, there is also a segment looking out for you whenever you are running, so the good usually outweighs the negative that comes along. The other day, I was chased by yet another wandering pitbull and two neighbors quickly bolted to assist me, so running in well populated areas also has some benefits.
If you decide to carry pepper spray, a stun gun or some other method of protection, get a professional opinion (military or law enforcement) about quality and fully prepare yourself to use it in an emergency situation. Your comfort level is the most important factor, so just evaluate those issues, ask others, and make a plan to reduce the risks.
Finally, never underestimate your own instincts. If you get a strange feeling, turn around early, go another direction, stop and walk, take your headphones off and so on.
Wishing you every safe venture and all the best.
I agree with Jasko that the pros and cons of street running are more of a wash. At least you are more likely to get help if anything goes wrong. Less second chances out on a trail when they know you are alone. Someone in town disappeared? Might still be someone in town that disappeared them.
I was once pelted by a 40mph slurpee while running on the street, on Halloween night of course. Never happened before or since. One thing that helped me was running with traffic instead of against it. If I had been running toward that same slurpee instead of away from it, I might have lost an eye. As it is, I only had minor lacerations when the cheap cup broke my skin and drew a little blood - on my upper back. Better than taking it head-on. It's harder for someone to draw a bead on you from the other direction, too.
I'd get back out there where even the weirdos aren't too sure nobody's watching. Maybe you got your bad luck up front, and it will never happen again!
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In other Thibodaux City Council action: July 16, 2013
Published: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 11:13 p.m.
The following is a rundown of all action taken by the Thibodaux City Council on Tuesday. All votes were unanimous. Chad Mire was absent.
Action: Proposed an ordinance to approve the final plat of the Rienzi Place Subdivision.
Action: Proposed an amendment to an ordinance pertaining to supplemental appropriation.
Action: Renewed a contract with Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services for inland marine insurance.
Action: Renewed a contract with O'Brien's Response Management for disaster debris removal monitoring.
Action: Authorized a contract with CERES Environmental Services for disaster debris removal.
Action: Approved a 1.8 percent adjustment to civil services salary ranges beginning in 2014.
Action: Called a special meeting for Tuesday to conduct a pre-budget conference.
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It's really because of the DEG. But the DEG is absolute mayhem and it's spilling over on either side of it.
YEM, Fluff> Stash, Oh Kee> Suzy ("THAT BITCH" said with such venom it makes me thoroughly uncomfortable) Melt, Coil is a murderer's row. Brief insane MSO before Big Black Ebeneezer's Energy Guide hits and renders everything else obsolete.


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Location: Grain Legume Genetics Physiology Research
Project Number: 2090-21000-002-01
Start Date: Sep 01, 2011
End Date: Aug 31, 2016
This project will focus on the three main alfalfa seed and hay production areas in the Western United States: the Walla Walla valley and Columbia Basin in Washington, the Treasure Valley in Idaho and Oregon, and Fresno County in California. Monsanto has agreed to provide us with the locations of RRA hay and seed fields and will be giving us permission to use their event-specific PCR primers. We will be using greenhouse seedling assays and protein based, commercially available test strips to carry out qualitative tests for RRA presence in leaf, seed and hay sampling. Positive tests will be confirmed using PCR. Landscape genetics is a newly emerging field which provides powerful geostatistical tools to understand how gene flow is influenced by landscape variables. We will be using a landscape genetics approach to analyze transgene movement across the landscape. Since we want to generate information that has immediate relevance to industry's efforts to establish coexistence strategies, our research will be focused at the commercial field and landscape level.


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A chance to witness history
Westlawn, University Place choir to perform at inauguration festival
Published: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 11:49 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | On April 21, the Westlawn and University Place middle schools' combined concert choir won a first-place silver award at the 2012 Heritage National Music Festival in New Orleans.
Their victory earned them a national title and afforded them an opportunity to represent Tuscaloosa and the state at a historic event — the Presidential Inauguration Festival in Washington, D.C., Thursday through Jan.22.
The invitation to perform at the inauguration of President Barack Obama was a proud moment for the 19-student choir, but it didn't appear that they could afford the $625-per-student cost to travel until about a week ago.
Thanks to an overwhelming response from Tuscaloosa residents, Alabama residents, local politicians, state politicians and even people in Washington, D.C., the choir has the money to pay for the trip and some spending money to spare.
"I was overwhelmed and pleasantly shocked that the community was behind us and donated the money we needed," said Levert Hedgemon Jr., choral music director at Westlawn and University Place.
"It had never dawned on me to ask for help," he said. "We were trying to do it all ourselves. Also, state senators and representatives gave each student a commendation commending them for representing Alabama in D.C."
Hedgemon said that, initially, the students didn't understand the gravity of the trip. But when donations from the community and politicians started pouring in, the significance of the occasion became real.
"I feel successful," said LaKinda Griffin, a 12-year-old seventh-grader at Westlawn who sings soprano. "I feel like we've accomplished a lot. This is my first time seeing the president and going to D.C. I'm excited about all of it."
Damon Smith, a 13-year-old eighth-grader at Westlawn who sings tenor and baritone, said the opportunity to sing for the president at his inauguration is a once-in-a-lifetime honor that he's ready to tackle.
"I feel good," Smith said. "At first I was nervous, but now it's worn off and I'm ready. A lot of people wanted to go on this trip, but they were having a hard time paying for it. It feels good to know that the community has stepped up and helped us go."
In addition to attending the president's inauguration, while in D.C. the choir will visit the National Museum of African American History, the National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian, the Lincoln Memorial, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the Washington Monument and Fort McHenry, where Francis Scott Key penned the words of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
The choir will have three performances while in the nation's capital.
They leave for D.C. on Thursday and return Tuesday.
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Ansonia pulls away from Derby in Valley showdown
DERBY — Derby kept Ansonia close for a while Friday night, but in the end it was too much Arkeel Newsome. And too much Jai'Quan McKnight.
The Chargers' two playmakers combined for 562 yards of total offense and eight touchdowns as Ansonia stretched its winning streak to 33 with a 62-28 win over the Red Raiders before an estimated crowd of 3,500 at DeFilippo Field.
"It's a rivalry game — fun, right?" Ansonia coach Tom Brockett said. "That's the way it's supposed to be."
When it became clear early that Derby (4-1, 2-1 NVL Brass) was somewhat able to slow down Newsome, soon to be the state's all-time leading rusher, the Ansonia coaching staff decided it was time to put the ball in McKnight's hands.
McKnight came up with the big play on four straight Ansonia scoring drives in the second and third quarters to turn a 7-7 tie into a 34-14 Chargers lead.
"He brings everything," Newsome said of his quarterback. "He has the running game and the passing game. He's got it all. He gives me a breather."
Newsome's 77-yard touchdown run and Michael Kreiger's 5-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Dobek knotted the game at 7-all after one quarter, but in the second McKnight and the Chargers' offense began to use Newsome as a decoy.
On a third-and-7 at Ansonia's 25-yard line, McKnight sent Newsome in motion around the right side as if the Chargers wanted to get him the ball in the flat. Instead, McKnight turned to his left and found his wide-open fullback, Saiheed Sanders, who ran 67 yards to inside the Derby 10. Three plays later, McKnight sneaked in from 1 yard out for a 14-7 Ansonia lead.
"We ran it all week in practice," McKnight said. "We fake-pump to Arkeel and everyone will run with him, and the fullback will be wide open. Whether we fake it or send (Newsome) in motion, their eyes key on him and it leaves our other receivers to get open."
"That was a good call," Derby coach George French said of the screen. "Our whole team flew after Newsome because our goal all week was to take him out of the game, and they beat us with a couple plays like that one."
The Red Raiders countered with Tyrae Small's 78-yard kickoff-return touchdown that tied the game at 14-all midway through the second, but that was the last time Derby was within striking distance.
On Ansonia's ensuing drive, McKnight hit Thomas Majchrzak with a 47-yard play-action pass that set up Newsome's 5-yard touchdown run, which put the Chargers ahead for good at 20-14.
Ansonia (5-0, 2-0) stopped Derby on downs to end the half, and McKnight scored on runs of 46 and 8 yards to begin the second half and give Ansonia a 34-14 lead with 3:07 left in the third.
"When you get into a game like this — it's a long game with a lot of plays — we wanted to take a load off Arkeel at certain times," Brockett said. "Saiheed's screen was huge and Majchrzak's catch was huge. I thought we did a good job using different guys tonight."
Newsome later added touchdown runs of 49, 14 and 21 yards to end his night. He finished with five scores and 311 yards, giving him 7,988 career rushing yards. Newsome is 292 yards away from breaking Alex Thomas' state mark of 8,279 yards.
McKnight ran for 104 yards and three scores, and he added 147 passing yards. The Chargers' defense held Kreiger to 12-of-27 passing for 134 yards, with a touchdown and an interception.
Small led Derby with 185 rushing yards and three total touchdowns, two of which came on runs in the fourth quarter.
Derby held Newsome to 149 first-half yards and also forced him to fumble out of the end zone for a touchback. The Red Raiders forced a pair of punts and kept Ansonia to a season-low 20 first-half points before the Chargers pulled away.
"We came out swinging and our kids didn't back down," French said. "For as bad as the score looks, we did some good things. We gave Arkeel everything we could give him. Some of the things they did, they haven't done them all year."
"You can't push the panic button; that's for other people," Brockett said. "You have to keep playing, and we welcome those challenges."
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Note: This column originally appeared in 2010.
I admit they are attractive, in a cheap, floozy, dime-a-dozen sort of way, although they're 69 cents for a five-pack at Safeway. They are a dentist's nightmare, or dream, depending on whether you have a nice, ethical dentist or a rotten, money-grubbing one. They are harbingers of spring and the apocalypse all rolled into adorable little globs of sucrose, monosaccharides, disaccharides and trisaccharides.
They are Peeps, emerging by the millions daily at the Just Born candy company in Bethlehem (the Pennsylvania one) and displayed in their cellophane incubators on grocery and drugstore shelves everywhere. They are basically clumps of marshmallow rolled in colored sugar and formed to resemble small chicks and bunnies in eye-searingly bright Easter pinks, blues and yellows, or molded into other holiday shapes such as orange jack-o-lanterns and white ghosts for Halloween -- although I don't see how they can truly be Peeps if they are anything other than chick-shaped. Bunnies don't "peep." Neither do jack-o-lanterns. Or ghosts, for that matter. Unless they are the ghosts of chicks. And then it would be more of an eerie, unearthly "Peeeeeep! PeeEEEeeep!" sound in a deep Vincent-Price-style voice.
If you are not familiar with the snack, grab the nearest throw pillow, peel back the fabric down to the inner foam form, sprinkle some sugar on a corner and take a nibble. This will mimic the general taste and texture. You see, Peeps are a tasteless anti-food. The pink ones don't taste like strawberry, nor the yellow like banana. They don't even taste like marshmallow. They are merely sugar in sugar, and sugar in and of itself is not a flavor.
Love 'em or hate 'em
Despite and/or because of such detrimental qualities, these wee treats-gone-wrong have an unnatural hold over humans, able to elicit near-fanatical responses of either extreme Peep-ophilia or downright hatred. For some, the twain meet -- people write songs about them, dedicate fan sites to them and make them do strange and sometimes beautiful things in diorama contests. But ingest them? Heaven forbid.
I, too, take a strong stand on Peeps. I dislike them intensely. And they know it, which merely bolsters their resolve. I can see it in their beady little food-colored eyes -- their defiance, their sheer pluck. You can't get just one Peep, you know, and that's no accident. They come in packs. One might even say, battalions.
Do not misunderstand. Marshmallow utilized properly is a delight, as in Rice Krispies treats. Or roasted over an open fire. Or in See's scotchmallows with yummy caramel and dark chocolate. Or even in my great-grandmother's dessert recipe in which you boil orange juice and crushed pineapple and then melt in exactly 42 marshmallows, fold in some whipped cream, pour the fluff over vanilla wafers and top it off with maraschino cherries. It was the style at the time.
But plain, blah marshmallows that have been rolling around in colored sugar like a wet dog in the sand? Simply vile.
They won't die
One time, in a fit of Peeps hatred, I tried to do away with a purple bunny Peep here at work, but it would not die. I microwaved it on a paper plate. It melted and shriveled, stubbornly maintaining its general structural bunny integrity, but bubbling up in a grotesque fashion, becoming warped and distorted and revealing its native evil self. Like when S.F. celebrity attorney Melvin Belli appeared on one of the original "Star Trek" episodes as a jovial "friendly angel" who was actually an evil entity trying to control the Enterprise, and once his cover was blown, he turned all gnarled and warty, chanting "Death to you all!" and finally disappearing into thin air. Probably Melvin Belli's usual courtroom theatrics.
Sadly, the melted Peep did not vanish. It willfully clung to the paper plate, so I wrote "Rest in Peeps" on it as a warning to others and we pinned the malformed blob on the wall where it resided, mocking us, for a few years. I think someone tossed it when we moved to our new building in 2008, but no doubt it lingers in a landfill somewhere. Mocking. Plotting.
Our sports copy editors valiantly tried to thin the general Peeps population back in the late '90s/early '00s, when they had an annual Peep-Off Peep-eating contest. According to a source close to the Peep-Off, each contestant would get 12 minutes to eat as many Peeps as possible. You had to finish a row of the same color before moving on to the next color. One guy kept a memorial Peep from each contest on his computer. They eventually petrified into mini tombstones, capable of serious damage if either digested or utilized as a weapon.
"Too often, contestants complained of upset stomachs. One winner even threw up later in the shift," my source revealed. "Even in victory, I don't ever remember the winner being truly happy."
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OAKLAND -- A city-commissioned report into the first violent Occupy Oakland protest found that police made numerous mistakes that are indicative of major shortcomings within the department.
The 82-page report, overseen by former Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas Frazier, faulted police for failing to adequately plan for the Oct. 25 nighttime protest that followed the evacuation of the Occupy Oakland encampment. It also criticized the department's handling of demonstrators and the ensuing investigation of officers whose actions might have might have warranted criminal prosecution.
"The crowd control tactics used by OPD are outdated, dangerous and ineffective," Frazier wrote, adding that "many assigned investigators and supervisors lack the technical proficiency and, in many cases, the experience to conduct comprehensive, aggressive and unbiased investigations."
Frazier also wrote that Oakland's arsenal of less-than-lethal weapons was outdated and dangerous. He didn't say whether their use against protesters was justified.
He quoted Internal Affairs officers warning that the investigative unit was overwhelmed with work. "The sink is overflowing, but we are not turning off the faucet," one officer told Fraizer.
City leaders released the report at a Thursday afternoon news conference, where they acknowledged that the findings were damning and risked damaging police morale.
"We're really not afraid of the truth," Mayor Jean Quan said. "We know it's hard. We know the city has been struggling with reforming some parts of the police department for decades. But I believe that this chief has the courage to make those changes, and we'll stand behind him to make those changes."
Frazier, whose consulting firm was paid $100,000 for the report, was not present at the news conference. City leaders, who have had the report since late April, said they had already begun addressing nearly three-fourths of the 68 recommendations and that the new policies are responsible for the improved handling of Occupy Oakland's May 1 protests.
"I ask that you not only judge us by the mistakes that were made, but also by how we correct them," Police Chief Howard Jordan said. He called the report "a road map" to improving the department.
The city hired Frazier in December to investigate the police department's handling of the Oct. 25 protests, when thousands of demonstrators moved to retake Frank H. Ogawa Plaza after police removed dozens of protesting campers early that morning.
During the heated confrontations, an Oakland police officer fired a bean-bag projectile that hit one protester, Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen, in the head. As other demonstrators tried to care for him, another officer fired a tear-gas canister at them.
In one of the most damning findings, Frazier wrote that the department's Tango Team officers, who are equipped with the less-than-lethal munitions, did not fill out records that night showing that they were issued the munitions or that they used them.
Frazier also questioned whether officers at the scene gave an honest accounting of the Olsen incident. "The fact that no law enforcement officer, supervisor or commander observed the person falling down or prostrate in the street during the confrontation was both unsettling and not believable," he wrote.
Frazier wrote that the department mishandled the criminal investigation of officers involved in the Olsen incident and urged police to reopen the investigation. Jordan said the criminal investigation was never closed and remains ongoing.
The Frazier report comes as Oakland's police department faces a potential federal takeover for failing to implement reforms spelled out in a 2003 agreement that settled the Riders police misconduct case.
Jim Chanin, an attorney for the plaintiffs in that case, said the Frazier report made it even more likely that he will pursue receivership for the department later this year. "We simply can't wait to see who else goes to the hospital or is seriously wounded or killed next time," he said. "We need to see performance, and that's the one thing we have not seen at all."
City officials said that several recent proposals have come in response to the Frazier report. The city plans to move the Office of Inspector General out of the police department and to pay for a second police academy to keep the ranks from falling below 640 officers.
Fraizer wrote that the police understaffing was a major cause for the department's struggle handling the protest, noting that officers from other departments intermingled with Oakland police tactical teams when working separately would have been more effective. Frazier also praised Jordan and his top deputies for trying to change the department's culture but wrote that much work still needed to be done. "We did not see (Oakland police) historically as a 'learning organization -- one which senior leadership has placed a high value on succession planning, career development, formal training and post-incident reviews designed to provide departmental members the opportunity to learn from, and to improve from, recent experiences."
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Published: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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TUSCALOOSA | Sitting in a tiny cell in the Birmingham jail on April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. penned a letter that became a defining piece of literature in the civil rights movement.
In celebration of the letter's 50th anniversary Tuesday, the Tuscaloosa Public Library held two public readings of the 16-page letter at its main and Weaver Bolden branches. The letter was read, page-by-page, by people of different ages, races and backgrounds.
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed," said one of the volunteers who read King's letter aloud. "Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was 'well timed' in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation.
"For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This 'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never.' We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.' "
King wrote the letter in response to a statement that eight white clergymen made in a local newspaper criticizing King's methods of nonviolent demonstrating and protests. The clergymen stated that the fight for social injustice should be fought in the courtrooms and not on the streets.
King disputed their opinion, saying they had a legal right to publicly demonstrate and that public demonstrations must take place because "The Negro has many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them.
"So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides and try to understand why he must do so," he wrote. "If his repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history."
Mary Elizabeth Harper, executive director of the Tuscaloosa Public Library, said the library chose to celebrate the anniversary of King's letter because his words remind everyone that people need to treat each other with respect.
"It's been 50 years, but in the grand scheme of things, that's very little time," Harper said. "It's important to know that if you don't remember the past, you're condemned to repeat it. There are lessons for us all in this letter.
"The crafting of the letter was excellent, but the content went beyond that. It was easy to read because it was so well written, but it was hard to read as well because of what it said. He put hard truths into words that resonated with many people."
Harper said King's letter helped people understand that the racial division couldn't be healed unless it was faced and dealt with. She said racial tolerance has improved in the 50 years since King's letter, but there are still many areas of injustice in the country regarding race, gender, sexual orientation and religion.
"Yes, we do indeed have a ways to go," she said. "We've probably come further because of people like Dr. King and that 6-year-old girl who sat here today and read the entire letter (to herself). She gives me hope."
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If you ask Stephen Curry, it's a no-brainer who he wants to defend when the Warriors host the Oklahoma City Thunder Thursday night: Russell Westbrook.
The same goes for Chris Paul. For Derrick Rose. For Tony Parker. Curry wants, as he said after Thursday's shoot around, to defend all the best point guards.
"Of course I do," Curry said.
But that assignment usually goes to guard Klay Thompson, Curry's backcourt mate. Thompson is 6-foot-7 with good athleticism and size who is sneaky good at moving laterally and contesting shots. It causes problems for point guards, especially the smaller ones, and it makes Thompson much better at keeping them out of the paint than Curry.
That is essential to the Warriors' defensive game plan, protecting the paint. Not to mention, Curry's propensity for foul trouble and heavy load on offense are also factors. That's why Jackson sticks with the game plan. No matter how hard Curry lobbies.
This is the side of Curry people often don't see. The uber-competitive, super-confident, ever-so-resilient Curry. He does have an ego. It's usually suppressed by his humility, but it's there. And it hears the talk about his defense and who he can't guard. He'd love nothing more than to hush his critics, even at the risk of giving them more fuel.
That leads him to get in Jackson's ear, just as he does when he's trying to talk Jackson to let him play through an injury.
"I'm allowed to lobby," Curry said, "but I'm sure he has his mind made up before I even approach him. They're healthy conversations. I've been working on the defensive part of my game. But I'm trying to stick to the game plan. I don't have to do anything special, just do what they're asking me to do. I think I can do that every night."
Curry will probably defend Thabo Sefalosha Thursday night. Usually he's on the wing player who spends the most time on the perimeter. This frees Curry up to take advantage of his quick hands (probably his best defensive attribute).
He doesn't have the length or explosion to close out on shooters as well as Thompson or Andre Iguodala. So if Curry gets caught in between, his man will get a good look. But reading the angles and providing the help, digging down on post ups and getting deflections — he can do all that if he is not trying to cling to the star point guard. When he's on point, he's doing all that and not losing sight of his man.
Curry's biggest struggles on defense is staying in front of his man, especially against the elite athletes. Staying in front of the likes of Westbrook is nearly impossible a task to begin with, but Curry doesn't have the attributes (lateral quickness, strength, athleticism) to attack with. Against the top-tier point guards, you have to take something away, which takes certain skills (even intangibles) that Curry doesn't have in spades. If sheer will were enough, Curry'd probably be your guy. But if you're Jackson, getting the win trumps Curry's desire to vindicate himself on that end of the court.
SIDE NOTE: I have always believed Curry tries too hard on defense. Seriously. Not that he should be lazy on defense. But he has a Napoleon complex, a little guy trying to prove himself. So he winds up trying to be extra physical, trying not to get pushed around, playing too close up on drivers, reaching for steals to make a play. He's much better playing that end cerebrally, living on angles and percentages (see: Iguodala).
Jackson loves that Curry has the pride to want to defend the best, but the selflessness to buy into the game plan. Curry said, in the end, that's what it's all about: the game plan. That's how the Warriors are No. 3 in the league in defensive rating thus far, how they've been especially dominant at home. So Curry ends up swallowing his pride, ignoring the talk about how he can't play defense.
But he said he encourages himself with one reality.
"I'll get my turn throughout the course of the game," Curry said, "And I'll have to step up and make defensive plays."


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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- Is the third time the charm? Two schools in Aiken County already have freshman academies and now there's another one on the list.
High school can be full of hurdles like landing the right grades and scoring big with your peers.
Cameron Smith is an eighth grader at North Augusta Middle School. He describes high school as "scary, because it's a bunch of older people."
Breana Thomas is an eighth grader, too. She goes to Paul Knox Middle School and told News 12, " I think of bullies."
Eighth graders like Smith will soon start high school, but they know very little about what it's really like.
"Saved by the Bell; I was like is that how high school really is?" he said.
Simone Smith is Cameron's mother. She said, "Before you just throw him to the woods, it actually gives them time with the whole process of high school."
Cameron's mom is talking about a new freshman academy at North Augusta High School.
"It sounds like it's going to be wonderful," she said.
You can sign her up and hundreds of others agreed.
"Instead of just turning them loose with all of the other students," said Mary-Ann Couvillon. Her son goes to Paul Knox Middle School.
Freshman Academy Project Teacher Jane Monroe described Freshman Academy as "a school within a school."
What does that really mean?
Monroe said, "That means their lockers are going to be on that hall, their classrooms are going to be on that hall and they'll have a separate lunch."
Schools in the northeast have been doing it for years.
Monroe replied, "But I think the southeast is slowly coming on board with the idea of a freshman academy."
It's something sophomore Paul Liner wishes he would have had. "I didn't really like my freshman year. I was very worried about what the seniors and upperclassmen thought of me and now with this new freshman academy, we have the ability to segregate the freshmen from the rest of the people."
Leaders say it's more than that. It's about ensuring freshman are on the right path to a successful academic career. So an academy for Cameron would mean starting high school on a high note.
"My passion is music and I'm looking forward to high school," said Cameron Smith.
The program at North Augusta High School will officially take off next school year, but Monday night was an opportunity for incoming freshmen to learn more about it.
The school district is working on a shoestring budget, but it'll cost them about $165,000. That is about the cost of two teachers and a guidance counselor.
This academy was just recently put in place at two other high schools in Aiken County.


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Those crazy Europeans.
Long known for having access to desirable and fuel-efficient cars not available in the United States, the European Union may be about to propose a drastic measure that would finally end its supremacy.
According to new reports, the EU will announce plans to ban all fossil-fuel-powered cars in European cities by 2050. The detailed plan, due out Monday, will be outlined in the European Union's Roadmap on Transport. Within 20 years, the EU plans to reduce fossil fuel traffic in urban areas by half.
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Television news in the internet age may exist solely so field reporters can put themselves into harms way in order to emphasize the danger of inclement weather. Enter NBC's Miguel Almaguer, who had to be rescued yesterday from a mudslide east of Los Angeles.
Almaguer was out in the Azusa area of L.A. on Friday to do a story on the massive storms currently dropping feet of water on California. To demonstrate the depth of a mudslide in the city, Almaguer waded into the muck up to his knees live on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Then, at some point, he got stuck.
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Did you miss the MTV Video Music Awards 2013? Or maybe you're a One Direction fan that just wants to relive the night? No worries, we have you covered.
It was a night of endless Justin Timberlake, limited 'NSYNC, more Miley Cyrus than some fans could handle, and not as many emotional songs (like "Same Love" from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis) as we might have wanted.
There wasn't a major faux pas by a major celebrity, and the night didn't generate any overwhelming interesting hashtags or GIFs.
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And Miley Cyrus did manage to stir up some controversy.
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Here's Lady Gaga singing "Applause." Does it sounds like people are booing? Or are they just being ironic, given the title of her song?
Here's One Direction for all you 1D fans out there.
"Saturday Night Live" star Vanessa Bayer gets her Miley Cyrus on. As it turns out, she's dressed far more modestly than the real Miley.
Here's the real Miley Cyrus in all her twerking glory. She's wearing more clothes than the nude models in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" video, but for some reason she got all the hate on social media for what some saw as a risque duet with Thicke. Go figure.
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Taylor Swift did some of her best work dancing in her seat next to Selena Gomez. Here she is with her trademark look of surprise as she wins her millionth award. Hard not to love the dress. What do you think?
Here's Justin Timberlake reuniting with 'NSYNC for less time than it takes for Usain Bolt to run a 100m dash. On the other hand, Timberlake's endless career-retrospective set was longer than most pop musician's careers.
Here's Macklemore and Ryan Lewis performing "Same Love" with guest Jennifer Hudson. This was the performance of the night.
Here's Katy Perry closing out the night with her rendition of Sara Bareilles's "Brave" aka Perry's "Roar." Okay, they're not technically the same song, but they sound a lot alike. At least Perry's boxing theme was original, unless she borrowed it from Mike Tyson or something. What do you think?


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How do you replace Microsoft Outlook? Do you go for Evolution or Kontact? Can a combination of Mozilla Thunderbird and Lighting do the trick? Do you split the features and are there any compromises to be made?
Regular readers will immediately recognise this as the next in my free software for the voluntary sector thread but the questions I'll be looking at apply equally to other sectors. The background to this is that Contact a Family have been using Microsoft Outlook XP for about 6 years. We don't use Microsoft Exchange and we have our own POP3 server with users dotted across the UK. Myself and my team have long had enough of supporting Outlook and recently I've noticed an increase in user complaints about it. Note these are not about the mail server being slow or the levels of spam (although I do get those): these complaints are about Outlook in particular. They range from the way it "forces" you to top-post (yes, this was from an end--user!) through the terrible attachment handling to not permitting spaces in distribution list names. Personally, I dislike the monolithic PST files and the inability to view plain text by default without a registry hack. Yes I know this is possible in 2003/7 but I'm not paying for the upgrade just for that!
Time for a change
So it's time to change. We're looking at changing a lot more than just the MUA though: IMAP in place of POP3, better automatic server-side inbox filtering, implementing more uniform retention policies and the avoidance of monolithic PST files as a mail store. Ideally I'd like to use Maildir as my store format and most IMAP servers support that. Of course much of this is not dependant upon the MUA but moving to an IMAP/groupware server will usually require additional--and paid for--plugins for Outlook. So we're looking for alternatives.
Any of Evolution, Kontact or Thunderbird will do the mail job admirably but Thunderbird is lacking stability on the calendaring side--even with Lightning. Thunderbird does have the advantage--in this instance--of being cross platform: it has a native Windows client. This would mean I not having to upgrade all of my end-users to GNU/Linux just yet*. I should point out that KDE 4 is being ported to Windows and will probably bring Kontact with it. Evolution already has a Windows port but it remains largely untested.
* This is a project planned for the future but right now there are a few reasons why it's impractical.
Moving away from the desktop
One of the needs of my users is the ability to access their e-mail from home as well. Currently--with our POP3 setup--this is "handled" using third party web-based POP clients but it's not ideal and creates its own set of issues. Moving from Outlook to say another desktop client won't really resolve this. As I've already mentioned I'm looking into web-based group--ware applications as a solution. The front runners are OpenGroupWare.org (OGo and no relation to OpenOffice.org), eGroupware and phpGroupWare--all three being reasonably mature. The former grew out of the Skyrix proprietary solution. In fact Skyrix is now the "enterprise distribution" of OpenGroupware.org--I guess the relationship is similar to that between Openoffice.org and StarOffice.
eGroupware: forks (and knives?)
eGroupware began as a--quite acrimonious--2003 fork of phpGroupware so the two--kind of--share a common codebase. That said it's been 4 years so there will inevitably be some differences in direction by now. Interestingly the eGroupware project has hit the headlines again recently with the inclusion and then expulsion of the Tine2.0 codebase. Normally I see forks, healthy debate and codebase sharing as a good thing but too much of this kind of activity makes me--probably incorrectly--question the codebase itself. Perhaps I am being unkind--and I have not been able to follow the whole situation very closely--but in my experience too much political activity can often distract from the purpose of creating and maintaining good software. Then again one of the purposes of free licencing is so the code will survive even if the project is going through a rough time.
Getting back to the comparison of the three, they all seem to tick the boxes I have in front of me. OGo and eGroupware both claim support of PDA synchronisation--which I know some of my users will want. phpGroupware may well do that as well but on-line docs are harder to find just now and I haven't installed it yet. All three have hardware and OS requirements well within our reach. So it just comes down to how easily they can fit our needs, how intuitive (for my users) their interfaces are and--in the end--whether they will create or save me and my team some work in the long-term. The answers for which will take more space than I have here and which I haven't fully established yet.
So which way to jump?
I think we'll probably go for a group-ware solution with web-based clients--we already have a well used Intranet and this would make a good addition to it. Not having a specific desktop client will open up the possibilities for migration to a free desktop in the future. We already plan to migrate to OpenOffice.org and a web-based PIM solution will be the last piece in that puzzle as well.
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has been through this--how hard is migration from Outlook (with or without Exchange) to one of these? Comments just below here please.
Egroupware Brazilian version
Look at http://www.expressolivre.org/html/expressolivre/index.php?page=comunidade
Even if in Portuguese, I hope you can grasp the important parts.
Probably one of the largest eGroupware deployments, with some additional modules and functions.
Hi mate, have tried most of these, and I think XXXX is the best (www.XXXXX.com) [EDITED: This is about a non-free product, and this comment is too marketing-speech. Also, the user was created just to leave this comment. Too suspicious.] . It has a truly excellent web based interface, and is free for 10 premium users (slightly older version 10 is free for 25 users). Premium users can use the provided outlook connector (for versions 2000 thru to 2007). Unlimited Number of "standard" users can be added, who are confined to (brilliant) web interface, which can be accessed internally as well as externally (i even found it ran at acceptable speed on a laptop with 56k dialup connection). Stability is outstanding, my mail server has been running for 4 years now with around 500k emails and never has been down once. Zimbra also had a nice offering if i remember correctly. Good Luck !
And Zimbra?
Very interesting post but I wonder why you missed the Zimbra suite (http://www.zimbra.com).
I have no idea about how good or bad it is but IMHO it's at least a nice app to test (or write about).
Best regards
Zimbra + Exim?
Very interesting post but I wonder why you missed the Zimbra suite http://www.zimbra.com.
Well it hasn't really crossed my radar that much - not sure why but there you go - so I guess it slipped my mind when researching. When I have looked into it I've heard of some issues with integrating it with Exim--which is what we use as an MTA and would like to continue doing so. If anybody knows different--feel free to comment. Shame really because at first glance it looks good.
thanks Ryan
Did you try Zimbra and considered Zarafa?
We use Zimbra in our company and are quite happy with it. For clients that need or insist on having a fully outlook compatible Groupware server, we sell and recommend Zarafa, a MAPI Server running on Linux that looks to outlook clients as an exchange server, and has a web interface(I cannot say uch about it as I didn't try it myself - I'm currently workjing more in the areas of virtualization, automatic installation and Java development).
OGo & Skyrix
"I guess the relationship is similar to that between Openoffice.org and StarOffice."
It isn't. The relationship is described in a recent interview over at Linux World.
"OpenOffice.org is a much larger community than the OpenGroupware.org community, and Sun is a much larger company than SKYRiX, so the projects cannot meaningfully be compared. SKYRiX is a small company which works together with a few other companies on the development of OGo [OpenGroupware.org]. OGo is a very open project and SKYRiX places very few restrictions on OGo's development. Contributors to OGo do not need to assign copyrights to SKYRiX. The most active members of the OGo community are not employed by SKYRiX, although a few occasionally do paid work for SKYRiX customers."
Scalix is definately worthwhile
I have been using it for about a year. The community edition is free. You can pay for support if you want. There is a large community if you want help. Yes I did register to leave this comment. Though I may likely keep the account.
My problem with Zimbra is the cheesy web interface. It just looks terrible.
[Edited to remove marketing type speech]
Scalix is not free software
The community edition is free. You can pay for support if you want. There is a large community if you want help. Yes I did register to leave this comment. Though I may likely keep the account.
I and many others have a problem with the licence used by Scalix. It's a modified Mozilla Public Licence and although you do get the source code the modifications place restrictions on your use of the software. Specifically there is a clause which insists you place the Scalix logo on every page produced. So although the community edition is open source (although the OSI have never approved it), it is not free software and that is why I did not consider it.
You probably realised this but when we speak of free software here we do not mean cost but freedom. It's to do with what you can do with the software rather than what you pay. Have a look at the following links for more information on what we mean by free software.
Beginners guide to free software (FSM issue 15)
Free Software Foundation (FSF)
I have been using eGroupware for a couple years now, and overall have been very pleased with it. However, from an admin standpoint it is not 'easy'. Installation took me awhile, and I consider myself fairly savy.
I recently upgraded to the newest version, choosing to do a fresh install for a variety of reasons, and while the installation has not gotten any easier, it went smoothly. I was never able to get the imap mail client to work in the previous install, but it is working great.
We're a construction company, so having shared, remote access on job sites was the major reason for moving to eGroupware from previously using ACT!, and the bonus of it being open-source for me was huge. I've also just recently helped a friend set it up for his company.
We both work for small companies, (dozen or fewer employees) so I can't speak to how well it works on a larger scale, but it has met the majority of our needs consistently, and I would recommend it.
Rob Portinga
Group-Office groupware
Please consider Group-Office as an altenative too. We developed a brand new version with an interface that's very close to a desktop application but it's still web based and works in all major browsers. You can share projects, calendars, e-mail, CRM and synchronize this information with mobile phones. The link:
Already are
As it happens we are seriously considering this. In fact I think you've been communicating with one of my team regarding it (Charity discounts ring a bell?).
Oddly enough I am just composing a follow up to this regarding Group-office but yes it is very good.


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Where Can I Find Free Newspaper Archives Online for Canada?
Online newspaper archives are a wonderful source for researching your ancestors, studying history, learning more about your family, hometown or roots, or simply browsing to learn what was happening in day-to-day life in earlier times. There are some wonderful free newspaper archives online covering history and news in Canada. Did I mention they're free? Take a look!
Canadian newspapers and the Second World War. A rich resource for Canada's important role in the Big One!
British Columbia, Canada newspaper archives, from 1926–present. A nice collection from the Terrace, BC Public Library, with an unusual search interface. Worth a visit.
The British Colonist, British Columbia, 1859-1860. A few more items from BC.
The Prince George newspaper project, 1909-1961. Still more from British Columbia; Newspapers from Prince George and Fort George, with more papers and years to be added.
Nechako Chronicle, 1928-1984 (British Columbia). Yet another BC archive from the Vanderhoof Library…they're busy there in the North Country.
Toronto Star. One of Canada's major news publications, so I've included it here, though it's only sort of free. You can search its abysmally unfriendly interface at no cost, but if you want the full article, you'll have to pay up.
Manitoba Newspaper Archives, 1859-present. A good, rich collection of more than a dozen newspapers in both French and English.
Winnipeg Free Press, 1874-2008. Another free archive from one of Manitoba's main newspapers.
Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada Maritime Newspaper Archives, 19th and 20th centuries. Two papers are here: the Twillington Sun (1884-1924) and Le Gaboteur, in French (1984-1995), Collections are browseable by date. There are a number of other digital resources here as well.
Quebec Newspaper Archives, 1826-1978. Over a dozen newspapers here, in French and English, naturellement. Browseable by date only, courtesy of the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec.
Alberta Newspaper Archive, 1885-2001. A large archived collection, but only browseable, rather than text-searchable. Sigh!
Canada Gazette: The Official Newspaper of the Government of Canada, 1841-1997. A government publication, but surprisingly interesting.
Multicultural Canada. Another sigh! This is an important collection representing Canada's rich cultural diversity, but is poorly designed, and not well described. Includes archives of Canadian India Times, Al Hilal, Voice of Pakistan, L'Ami duPeuple, and several Chinese and Vietnamese sources.
Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers. Small but lovely. These are 'special issue' newspapers, such as Christmas editions, going back to 1885.
Halton Newspaper Index (Ontario). There are several local newspapers here, from this community near Toronto. Archives are mosty from the 1950's and onwards, though there are sporadic issues from earlier as well.
NewspaperArchives.com. This is a fee-based resource, but is such an amazing archive collection that I had to list it anyway. Their holdings from Canada include about a dozen newspapers, going back to the mid-1800's. Well worth a look.
If readers know of additional sources that should be added here, please leave a suggestion in Comments, and I'll be sure to have a look.
Happy hunting!
David Sarokin
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Don't sign up for Newspaper archives.com as I have seen horror stories about non-existent customor service and once you sign up they won't let you easily cancel your service.
To find such stories Google is your friend.
Most of the links are either broken or require a library card.
This comment does not match my experience. I found newspaper archives.com an excellent service. Google cannot provide the kind of archival access that this site and similar provide. The best online service I have found, so far, is the New Zealand one. The isolation of NZ (and Aust) meant that coverage of major world news was first class, especially after the telegraphic cable was connected in the 1870s.
Newspaperarchives.com makes you jump through many hoops to cancel. It felt very sleazy.
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If they've been making versions of the Nintendo Wii's new board game for 20 years, if Nintendo themselves are publishing it—choosing to sell this to us this holiday season instead of other Japanese games still awaiting translation—then surely it must be good and worth buying?
Stephen Totilo, who got really close to giving this eye-sore a Yes: This game is a tougher, virtual Monopoly. It's a Monopoly that lets you buy stock in the neighborhoods where people buy and upgrade property. Imagine, for example, that you could buy stock in Park Place or Boardwalk on a Monopoly board instead of or in addition to buying that property and adding houses to it. If someone else bought Park Place or Boardwalk, your stock value in that location would go up. If someone turned their houses to hotels—boom!—your stock values go up. If someone lands on Boardwalk and has to pay rent to the person who owns the space, then you, the person who owns stock in the neighborhood, gets a dividend.
This core stock-investing idea is great (if not catchy). It lets you concoct devious strategies. For example, you can screw competing players out of meeting a match's money goal by pulling your stock out of a neighborhood they've also invested in and plunging the value of their stock.
The problems, however, are many. Fortune Street is probably the ugliest software Nintendo has published on the Wii. The graphics are oddly blurry and animate with Nintendo 64 primitiveness. The mash-up of Super Mario and Dragon Quest characters and themese produce silly mid-game character chatter that only slows down the already tediously-pokey matches played with computer opponents. You can have up to four human players competing with one or more Wii Remotes. That's ideal. But games play too slowly, and the interface is too cluttered. There is online support. I played against people in Japan. That was fun, but that too played too slowly and lacks the ability to play asynchronously— a must for those of us who don't have time to devote several hours knocking through a round of Fortune Street in one sitting.
This series was invented in 1991. Twenty years later, it should be more polished than this. There is, fundamentally, a great game in here, but it's buried under one of the worst presentations Nintendo has ever foisted on its consumers. Rent it. Don't buy it. This is a No.
Flash forward to 2007, and Square Enix got the notion that Mario characters could be an even bigger money maker, and bam, we get Itadaki Street DS. The latest incarnation, known as Fortune Street in the West, continues the Mario-meetsDragon Quest, and it's perhaps everything wrong with not only video games, but Square Enix and Nintendo—and even the post-industrialized world.
Must game companies drive beloved characters into the ground? Is there really a reason why Square Enix and DQ maestro Yuji Horii couldn't simply create new characters for it digital board game? Is originality that difficult? Why is Square Enix farming this off to its C-team? And why the hell is Mario in this? Oh right, those gold tissue boxes.
I like Dragon Quest. I like Mario. I do not recommend you buy Fortune Street. I do not care if it's the greatest digital board game ever made. Buying this simply tells Square Enix (and Nintendo) that this sort of pointless hyper branding is a-okay, that whoring out your characters instead of taking the time and effort to make new ones is peachy. If you want a board game, get Monopoly. Playing as an old metal shoe is far more interesting than being any of these characters again for the umpteenth time. No.
Matt Buzzi, Kotaku intern who plunged into a multiplayer match and gave it his best: Fortune Street initially appears to be a shallow attempt to cash in on the two popular franchises it incorporates: Super Mario and Dragon Quest. Once you start playing, however, the game reveals itself to be surprisingly deep, even complicated. Players move along a Mario Party style board, but rather than engaging in mini-games and collecting stars, you purchase and invest in shops, buy shares of stock, and generally try to screw opponents out of their cash.
There's a pretty steep learning curve (Totilo and I got badly out-maneuvered by the computer opponents), but it is definitely not a bad game. It is quite dry, though. The aesthetic is very boring, combined with what seems to be minimal effort in the graphics department. The maps don't engage the players at all, and are merely paths of squares on top of varying backdrops. In addition, the games moves very slowly, taking multiple hours to complete.
Games of Mario Party can drag on, but Fortune Street is even more sluggish, and tracking stocks can only remain fun for so long compared to mini games. I didn't play all of what it has to offer, but enough to get a grasp of the gameplay. If Fortune Street were a downloadable game for $10 or $15, it would be a tempting offer (it costs $50). However, at full retail price, and with all the other great games out this time of year, I can't give it a recommendation, and have to say No.


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New York City's Working Fathers Get 'Daddy Bonus': Study
A new study by City University of New York has found that men with children earned higher incomes than any other population group in New York City between 1990 and 2010.
Titled "The 'Mommy Tax' and the 'Daddy Bonus'' the report examined data from the Census Bureau between 1990 and 2010, adjusted for inflation in 2013 values, to look at the relationship between gender, income and parenthood.
The study found that men with children earned a higher median personal income than other population groups, including men without children and women with or without children.
"It's sometimes called the 'Daddy premium'," said the report's author, Justine Calcagno, a social psychologist and Ph.D. candidate at CUNY's Graduate Center. "We just consistently see men with children earning higher personal incomes than all other groups."
The study comes amid discussions of pay inequality following the ouster of New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson. It refers to the impact on women as the 'mommy tax,' "because women with children don't get that bump, that men get," Ms. Calcagno said.
The findings were consistent across age, education levels, occupations, race and ethnicity groups in the data sets, according to the report.
According to the study, in 2010 women with children in New York City earned significantly less than men, up to 27% less when comparing employed mothers to employed fathers.
While a number of factors might be behind the findings, including sex discrimination and gender discrimination in occupations, Ms. Calcagno also said that within social psychology, there are theories that favorable stereotypes about men with children might come into play, leading to a more positive evaluation of male employees and, as a result, better compensation.
"There are some social psychologists who [describe] certain stereotypes about men with children – that they're more warm, that they're more devoted – all these sort of positive factors we attribute to dads," said Ms. Calcagno. "That may be one reason why employers are biasing in terms of their pay."
The study was conducted through CUNY's Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies. Ms. Calcagno now plans to study the same data on a national level and in addition look at U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to see if factors such as the number of hours worked has an impact on findings.


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Southern Company is all booked up for tours for the rest of the year as groups come into Burke County from all over the world. (WRDW-TV / June 18, 2012)
News 12 at First at Five / Monday, June 18, 2012
BURKE COUNTY, Ga. -- As foot by foot of concrete is poured, two new nuclear reactors come a little closer to reality, and officials traveled all the way from France to Burke County to see it for themselves.
"It's very impressive. First, I saw the nuclear power plant of Vogtle 1 and 2, which are now operating, and they do very, very well. And I saw, also, the work site where you are building the Vogtle 3 and 4," said Bernard Bigot, the chairman of the French Atomic Energy Commission.
It's a government agency in France that looks at alternative energy, including nuclear power. Bigot's goal was to learn about the old part of Plant Vogtle as well as the new.
"For me, it's just the best thing you could expect to see the work process from the very early nuclear power plant to the most advanced one," Bigot said.
The two advanced ones are Westinghouse AP1000 reactors. They're the first to be built in the United States and some of the only to be built in the world.
"It is building and growing right in front of our eyes, so we're excited about the work that's being done here," said Chris Womack, the executive vice president of Southern Company.
Womack says America's nuclear renaissance is happening here, and the whole world is watching.
"It's an opportunity to let them see the work we're doing here at Vogtle but also an opportunity for them to see Georgia -- the State of Georgia -- and Waynesboro and the Augusta community," he said.
He says that's why Bigot is here -- to learn. The Vietnamese ambassador recently visited as well. Southern Company is all booked up for tours for the rest of the year as groups come into Burke County from all over the world.
The French officials also visited the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility at Savannah River Site on Monday afternoon. Mixed oxide fuel is derived from nuclear weapons and is made into fuel for nuclear reactors. France uses a lot of it, and they're particularly interested in the MOX facility being built at SRS. Bigot says Congress should continue to fund it. He says MOX will be safe and effective for the United States, just like France.


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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The juvenile court system is facing big changes. Some worry it comes at the cost of diversity. The top superior court judge is speaking out about the controversial changes for the first time.
"And for this to happen at this time and in this place simply bespeaks the fact that I was right." said Juvenile Court Judge Willie Saunders. "They don't respect you."
Saunders sounded off on weekly radio segment on 96.3 KISS FM with Fattz and Cher after learning he and fellow Judge Ben Allen are off the bench effective Sept. 30.
"The most qualified people got the job," said Chief Superior Court Judge Carlisle Overstreet.
Overstreet is speaking out for the first time since word broke there would be no African-American judges in juvenile court. It is a court where more than 80 percent of the young people coming from places like Augusta's Youth Development Campus are African-American.
"It creates a situation where you are telling one segment of society that there is no hope for you," Allen said.
Overstreet concedes the move might not be good politics.
"The politics of it," Overstreet said. "It may be a good thing to try to grind and maybe make an issue of it. I don't think the people in Richmond County are that concerned about it. I think they want to go forward."
Overstreet says it was time for the court to go in a new direction.
"Juvenile court has always been a mixture of not so much court, but involvement in the community, and it needs more of that," he said. "And we think we didn't have that with them."
Overstreet notes the part-time judges will be replaced by three full-time judges to better tackle an already heavy case load.
"You don't pick somebody just because of their skin or where they live or how much money they make," Overstreet said. "You pick the most qualified [person], and I assure that that's what drove us in this case."
Besides, Overstreet says the courts are diverse.
"I know we have 3 percent of the lawyers are African-American," he said.
Allen says the people should have the final say by reaching out to the Augusta Commission. The commission controls the court's purse strings.
"Tell our elected officials that until diversity is achieved -- no funding." Allen said.
Judge Overstreet says Allen is a "good friend." He says the courts are just going in a new direction.