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News 12 at 6 o'clock, February 15, 2008
AUGUSTA, Ga. --- A Richmond County bus driver is suspended without pay, but she says it's not all her fault. She says the kids are continuously causing a problem on the bus.
Now, she is speaking out to News 12 about what happened this week on her bus.
Pink slips that Shirley Oliver has are write-ups letting Gracewood Elementary School know she is having problems with kids on her bus.
"I even told the parents I need help," says Shirley.
But now, some parents are turning against the bus driver. On Wednesday, driver Shirley Oliver says she pulled out of a road on her route, around a car. And the kids in the back of the bus were making a lot of noise.
"And I said, those of you in the back move forward. That was the only one's in the back of the bus. I'd say 3 or 4 of them screamed real loud so I applied my brakes," says Shirley.
The loud screaming would be against the code of conduct for the students while on the bus. Shirley admits the bus was moving when she told the kids to move. But now, a parent saying their kid was sent to the ER, diagnosed with a concussion, bruised kidney and hip.
"How can I speed up from there to right here to send kids to the emergency room," says Shirley.
She told the transportation supervisor what happened and drove her normal bus route on Thursday.
This is what happened on Friday Morning. She came to the Richmond County bus garage to get her bus for the day. That's when she noticed something was wrong. When she got on the bus, the keys were not in the ignition. So, she went to the office to find out just what is going on.
"Mr. Shinn told me I was getting suspended without pay," says Shirley.
Mr. Shinn, the director, would not comment since the investigation is ongoing. But he did tell News 12, the district is following procedure.
"When I explained to them what happened and if they thought I was in the wrong, they should have told me something then. I should have been suspended then," says Shirley.
News 12 got a copy of the drivers manual. Shirley says she does not remember ever being written up or verbally warned by Mr. Shin.. But she's talked to him so technically, this could be considered her second violation. Which, if administrators felt she endangered others, she could be suspended. One parent did tell News 12, she never had a problem for 2 years with Shirley.
We don't know when the investigation will be complete.
News 12 did try to contact the Gracewood Elementary Principal for comment, but she was unable to be reached.


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MUMBAI: One person was killed and scores injured in clashes between workers and managers at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant, the company said on Thursday, with production suspended and shares in India's biggest carmaker down more than 8 per cent.
Maruti Suzuki spokesman Puneet Dhawan said protesting workers at the Manesar plant attacked senior officials and started a fire at the plant. Labour unrest cost the company more than $500 million in lost production in 2011.

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Heart-warming scenes this week when the Beckhams turned up en famille to their children's sports day, and both David and Victoria took part in the parents' races.
Whilst CW understands those mothers who went up against Posh in the mothers' race — tbh, in the kind of ridonkulous heels that Posh wears, CW would have chanced its own arm doing the race in a series of roly-polys — the 20 or so fathers who stood, at the starting line with professional footballer and international sporting icon David Beckham have utterly won CW's heart.
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I use both IE and Firefox for sometime. They both worked at good condition.
But when I download the 1.5 version and start to run the firefox, I can only
see blank page. It just show the searching message in the bottom bar. I
try to uninstall it and run again. The same situation. I do in my office's
computer. The same siutation.
I think it may take sometime to for it and keep it running for the whole
night. The next morning I could still only see a blank page in my monitor.
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Even "Crimes of the Heart" have consequences. The 1979 hit from Beth Henley will detail each of those painful, but equally laughable, moments for audiences joining in the spring production of the Union College Theatre. The production opens Wednesday, April 1.
The Union College men's basketball team can now add one more historic accomplishment to the list for their banner 2014-15 season, as the Bulldogs end the year with their highest ranking in program history, coming in at No. 11 in the final NAIA Division II Coaches' Poll of the year.
The Union College baseball team comes in at No. 24 in this week's NAIA Coaches' Top 25 Poll, marking the first time on the 2015 season that the Bulldogs have been voted in the top 25.
There is much more to a book than just the words on a page. A discussion group on campus has furthered this principal during the semester with several forums focused on Appalachia authors. The group will meet once more in April, closing the discussion series for the semester.
Union College President Marcia Hawkins, Ph.D., recently joined the Knox County education community in presentation of "The Sneetches." The Dr. Seuss work is a collection of four short stories collectively referenced as "one of the top 100 books for children."
The Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced on Tuesday the 2015 WBCA National Intercollegiate Athletic Association (NAIA) Coaches' All-America Team, Lydia Nash and Haley Perkins landed on the honorable mention squad for the Bulldogs.
Union College center Deante Johnson has been named an NAIA All-American Honorable Mention for the second straight season, as the organization announced the 2014-15 Division II Men's Basketball All-America Teams on Wednesday.
Help is on the way for Kentucky college students interested in transferring their credits or associate degree to a four-year university. Union College will participate in an online transfer fair and will be waiving application fees for prospective students.
Embry-Riddle's Dalton Barnes scored a game-high 21 points, as the No. 2 Eagles pulled away late in the second half past the No. 15 Union College men's basketball in an 89-75 win in the Second Round of the 2015 NAIA Division II National Championship in Keeter Gymnasium.
The Union College men's and women's swimming teams ended their 2014-15 seasons on Saturday evening, finishing off action at the 2015 NAIA National Championships at the Oklahoma City Community College Natatorium.
Union College is preparing to welcome prospective students and their families to campus with its spring Open House on Saturday, March 28.
Union College alum Phillip Sharp, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a faculty member of the Department of Biology and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, will receive the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal at Heritage Day, May 14, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
For the first time in program history, the Union College men's basketball team will enter the 2015 NAIA Division II National Championship as a National Seed, as the Bulldogs are seeded 15th in the field, and will play Northwestern Ohio in the First Round Wednesday, March 11 at 9:30 a.m. EST
Guard DeAntray Stevens scored a game-high 20 points off the bench to lead the way, as the No. 17 Union College men's basketball team captured the 2015 Appalachian Athletic Conference Tournament Championship in a 84-63 victory over Milligan (Tenn.) on Saturday afternoon.
Dr. Sarah Hendrix, a beloved member of the Union College family, lost her life on February 11, 2015, along with her husband Kevin, daughter Gracie and son Jason, in a family tragedy that remains difficult to understand.
A timeline of Union College's history
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Definición de cakewalk en inglés:
1 informal An absurdly or surprisingly easy task: winning the league won't be a cakewalk for them
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- I don't think anybody knows how long it would take, and I don't think anybody should go on the impression that it's going to be easy or a cakewalk or whatever those phrases are that people use.
- The fact that the guard was a thin man considerably shorter than Walker made the task seem like a cakewalk.
- 'To get established was not easy, it was not a cakewalk for me,' she admits.
2 historical A dancing contest among black Americans in which a cake was awarded as a prize.
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- I learned that the cakewalk, a highstepping dance, began on Southern plantations in the 1840s.
- It arose in the slavery period as an accompaniment to plantation dances like the cakewalk.
- Her dance revue, Le Jazz Hot, included vernacular forms like the shimmy, black bottom, shorty george and the cakewalk.
2.1A strutting dance popularized by minstrel shows in the late 19th century.
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1 informal Achieve or win something easily: he cakewalked to a 5-1 triumph
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- 'I wouldn't want to be cakewalking through games and then get to the playoffs and not have this kind of experience, 'Donovan said.'
- Tell me again why the Liberals are expected to cakewalk through the coming election?
- Only a few teams have a chance to prevent Arizona from cakewalking through the rest of the season.
2Walk or dance in the manner of a cakewalk: a troupe of clowns cakewalked by
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- The whole Virginia Minstrels chorus joins in while cakewalking in line behind Emmett.
- As the troupe becomes even more successful, their stage set at the Maxwell Theater features a huge Sambo backdrop through whose grinning mouth the minstrels cakewalk onto the stage.
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hi there.
excellent plugin but would it be possible to enhance it with a small feature?
I'd love to have the option, when uploading a picture, to i.e. check a checkbox for a specific picture and having it not resized, i.e. I want a particular picture to be uplaoaded with the original size?
right now you have to go to the settigns tab and disable the resizing, then go back and upload,...


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37 comments found.
Great theme ! GLWS
A few questions:
What theme is this based off of?
Is the Java menu a custom addition or is that a module?
Does it come with the side settings bar that pops out included or is that only for the demo on here?
Is the product filtering scale slider bar a module or is that custom?
Is most of the site done with views? or have you implemented alot of custom PHP inside blocks?
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for your questions, I will answer each one individually.
1. It's our own custom base theme that uses Bootstrap as the CSS Framework. We also include a starter sub-theme that you can use for your own customizations much like you can use an Omega sub-theme.
2. I'm not sure what you mean by Java menu, do you mean the main navigation menu or the menu that appears when you scroll down? The main menu is powered by Superfish (not using the Superfish module we call the Superfish JS from the theme) and the scroll menu is custom (there is an option in the theme settings to disable it). The main menu itself is a block region so you can add any menu you want.
3. That is built into the theme but it's commented out by default.
4. The price slider is powered of the Search Ranges module. All of the sidebar filters on the store page are also powered by the Search API and Facet API modules.
5. Almost everything is powered by Views including the Slider, Portfolio, Store page, Blog page and many of the sidebar widgets like the featured projects and tags. A couple things use blocks with a bit of markup like the side-wide callout bar, Twitter and Flickr widgets, etc.
Let me know if you have any more questions I can answer for you!
Hello Refacktor, This is my third theme I purchased from you guys, Montreal, Blocks and Now Expressa, Your work is of utmost quality thank you for the time and care you place in to your theme products. I was wondering if I could pay for additional support in assistance and guidance as I am fairly new to Drupal and want to utilize the theme to the fullest extent if it's capabilities. Thanks, Frank
Thank you very much for your continued business and support, we truly appreciate it.
I believe we already spoke via email a few weeks ago on the same topic so I will ask that you go ahead and read through my response again as it outlines our current policy on custom work/consulting.
We will however offer you the same dedicated support in the forums that we offer each and every one of our customers. We have helped dozens of customers with minor customization support and consultation and we would be happy to provide the same support to you
This theme already have Payment method API for Paypal or I'll implement Paypal by myself?
We have included the Commerce Paypal (http://drupal.org/project/commerce_paypal) module, you just have to configure it for your account and enable it as a payment option.
Thanks ^^
Hi, I a planning a cross european big shop (over 700 products with each product some variances).
Some pre-purchase questions IF the theme includes … OR can easily be expanded to do the following things: .multicurrenyc .multilanguage .shipping rules .tax rules .checkout without creating an account (in the demo we cant see the last step of the checkou) -harmonica for the cataloque in the right sidebar (your demo has 6 catagories. we have 20 catagories which would use up vertical page space) -put sidebar not on right but on the left -topcatagories in the horizontal header AND after selecting a top catagory the right sidebar only shows those related.
.a newsletter subscribe
.wher do we put terms & conditions/ warranty/shipping info
Hello there,
Anything that Drupal Commerce can do you can do with this theme. I'm fairly certain that Commerce supports all the things you are asking about, including checkout without making an account which we are using on the demo.
Everything else you're asking about would require some minor customizations but we have a dedicated support forum where you can get help with such things (http://refaktorthemes.com/support).
I'm also having a bit of trouble understanding the last thing that you said, can you expand upon that a little or provide an example?
Hi, I a planning a cross european big shop (over 700 products with each product some variances).
Some pre-purchase questions IF the theme includes … OR can easily be expanded to do the following things: .multicurrenyc .multilanguage .shipping rules .tax rules .checkout without creating an account (in the demo we cant see the last step of the checkou) -harmonica for the cataloque in the right sidebar (your demo has 6 catagories. we have 20 catagories which would use up vertical page space) -put sidebar not on right but on the left -topcatagories in the horizontal header AND after selecting a top catagory the right sidebar only shows those related.
.a newsletter subscribe
.wher do we put terms & conditions/ warranty/shipping info
Hello there,
Anything that Drupal Commerce can do you can do with this theme. I'm fairly certain that Commerce supports all the things you are asking about, including checkout without making an account which we are using on the demo.
Everything else you're asking about would require some minor customizations but we have a dedicated support forum where you can get help with such things (http://refaktorthemes.com/support).
I'm also having a bit of trouble understanding the last thing that you said, can you expand upon that a little or provide an example?
Today 28.05.2013. There seems to be one issue (bug?) that scares me a little bit: select for example the shoes-
> then change color to black -> then the whole add to cart button and the image dissapears. customer cant add to cart etc. Would you be able to fix and deploy (and so we see in the demo). We are intending to purchase and set-up in a week so would be great to know this is fixed before purchase . We initially want to go fully with the theme (apart from some CSS work and minor changes like adding a newsletter) so would like it the out of the box version is fully functional. Then we can focus more on adding content (we will have many articles). Many thanks
Thank you for pointing out that bug, that is very odd indeed and I'm going to look into it right away. It seems to be the only item that is doing that, for example take a look at http://refaktorthemes.com/expressa/store/womens-t-shirt which is functioning as it should.
I'll let you know once that first product is taken care of.
Alright there seemed to be an issue with one of the variations but it's been resolved: http://refaktorthemes.com/expressa/store/shoes
Hi, good theme, setting fluid?
I'm sorry I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to ask. Could you try asking again?
Excellent theme – five stars. The detail is of the highest quality, and spot on with Drupal best practices. I've purchased other themes from Refaktor in the past, and I'm always blown away by them. Never disappointed. They really provide fast and excellent customer support as well – better than any other seller on Themeforest. You won't go wrong with this theme or any of their other ones. Drupal is the best CMS out there hands down, and it really badly needs more quality themes like this one.
hi, i installed the full version of the theme. Then I added new product display with different variations. After adding successfully, at first the product display page shows the variations in drop down properly. However, after i filter and select other variation, the product display page will not show other variations anymore. see screenshot hosted elsewhere: Before filtering variation: http://eins.com.my/sites/default/files/styles/flexslider_full/public/screen1.pngAfter filtering variation: http://eins.com.my/sites/default/files/styles/flexslider_full/public/screen2.png
This happens to newly added product display, it does not happen to the product display that exists with the theme, ie Mens T-Shirt (Black, Large). However, if i change the post created date of the existing product display Mens T-Shirt (Black, Large), the same problem mentioned above will happen.
Thank you for your purchase, we appreciate your business. Please register for our support forum as that is our preferred method of handling support. You can register at http://refaktorthemes.com/support and then reply with your username for posting access. Once you have access please post your question in the forum and we will help you troubleshoot your issue. Thank you.
hi, thanks for your fast feedback. Yes i would like to raise my question in forum, but after registration it says that i dont have the access to create new post and message.
Per my last comment you need to give me the username you registered with so I can give you posting access.
my forum name is also socaialv. Thanks!
Great thank you, we look forward to speaking with you on the forums.
Thanks a lot for fast feedback. I have posted my question in forum.
Ok great we will respond to your post shortly.
Hi refaktor.
Due to the twitter api change i cant use the twitter blocks – I see you have uploaded an update and posted some instructions on support, but as I've already set up the site & theme, I wonder if you could advise what modules etc I will require (oauth etc) and anything else that may be required for manual set up?
Go ahead and register for our forums (http://refaktorthemes.com/support) and reply with your username for posting access and we can discuss this with you in the forums. Thanks.
Hi. username for support forum is alewis
Ok great thank you, I just gave you access and look forward to speaking with you on the forums.
Hi Refacktor, great theme. I have problem with Views. When i add new product then in Views (More Items or Latest Items) have new store item without image. How fix it?
Please go ahead and register for our support forum as that will be a much better environment to help you troubleshoot. You can register at http://refaktorthemes.com/support and then just make a post with your question and as much info as you can provide. Thanks!
Hi How I can download the lasted version? (1.0.2) I have the previous version, and when I go to my download page I only can get the previous, not de updated version ¿?
I just downloaded the version available on ThemeForest and the changelog is showing me that it's 1.0.2. What does the changelog.txt file say in the version you have downloaded?
Hi, thanks for your answer. When I unzip, I see: - documentation folder - drupal_7 folder - expressa_content folder - 3 zip files - licenses folder - Licensing folder
Where I find changelog.txt ¿?
There is an expressa.zip file inside which is a zipped version of just the standalone theme. Extract that and you will have the 1.0.2 version. The changelog.txt will be inside the theme folder and you can confirm there.
Ah! Ok ok. I see 1.0.2, sorry! I want to reinstall with this new version, I only upload drupal_7 folder and restore sql file to mysql? It's correct to have 1.0.2 ¿?
If you're wanting to start over with the demo install then yes. But if you have your own content that you've worked on you will lose that if you import our demo SQL file again.
First of all, fantastic theme. Good work on this. I am considering your theme for my non profit website. First thing i want to ask is – we are not going to add any kind of shopping cart in our website. Would you still advice us to buy this theme? If answer to my first question is yes, here is my second question – For us, login module and forms are very important. Your theme demo doesn't show any of those. Can i know how they will look, or will be supported with your theme? I am sorry if my question is too naive, this is going to be my first ever drupal theme purchase. I am also asking the same question for your other themes that i like, i hope that is fine.
If you simply like the look and feel of the theme then yes you certainly can use it without all of the Commerce modules and blocks enabled. There is a standlone version of the theme included in addition to the full demo install so that would be good for your needs I think.
When you say login module are you referring to the basic user login form? http://refaktorthemes.com/expressa/user
Thanks for this great theme. To anyone wondering whether or not to purchase this, we'd say, 'Go do it'!!! Not only do you get a very well constructed theme, you also get very effective documentation that will enable you to understand and get going with Drupal Commerce.
We found the theme a great way to get started with Drupal Commerce, which we wanted to add to an existing site. The documentation helped us understand how to install it, which modules are required – for the theme as well as for a good Commerce installation – and populated our Commerce installation with all the necessary Views and other settings to make the shop work. We still had to learn Commerce – a bit of a job but worth it in the end – but this theme was what made it possible for us to learn Commerce.
Also, the theme comes with a complete standalone Drupal Commerce site, which we've used as an example from which to learn how to add Commerce to our site.
Naturally, you could use this standalone possibility to get a Drupal Commerce site up and running from scratch – easily!
So, thanks again folks, for making this excellent theme and making our graduation to Commerce on our site possible.
Best wishes to you.
ubercart is integrated within this theme?? how free am i when building my own website with this theme (i mean i can add modules and blocks where i want ??)
This is a Drupal Commerce theme, not Ubercart. Sure you can add whatever modules and blocks to the various regions you want, you're not limited to what we include with the full install.
I can work with less features? I have a store small and need disable for now all payment methods.
Can enable a order form only?
Sure you can disable the payment methods if you want, its not required.
Love the Theme. Can you just help me to find where i can change the text "view Project" on the portfolio page for each item. I would like to change it to something like "see more" I can't find a field in views to edit the "view project" button etc
Many Thanks Andy
For future support please post in our forums at http://refaktorthemes.com/support
To change that you can edit the /templates / node-
view-portfolio—page.tpl.php file
This will be my first Drupal commerce website build. Once Drupal is installed on my server how difficult is the upgrade to Drupal Commerce?
Do you provide complete documentation on the set up process?
I do not see an About Us page or any type of generic pages, is that an option?
Is it possible to have an image and some text on a page? I do not see any other page templates?
Thank you.
We have a full demo install which we recommend, especially for our Commerce themes as Commerce can be tricky when you're first learning how to use it. There is full documentation included as well.
You can create any type of page you want, you're not limited to what you see in the demo.


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Aircoach invests €3m in ten new coachesThursday 30 January 2014 14.51
Aircoach has announced a €3 million investment in ten new coaches, which will enter service from today.
The private bus operator – which is owned by FirstGroup – said the new coaches will operate on the daily service running between Cork, Dublin city and Dublin Airport.
The company said passenger volumes on the route have continued to grow, with 36 departures now running every day.
The new coaches are a Volvo B11R chassis with a Plaxton Panther 3 body and feature wheelchair access, on board toilets and device charging points on each seat.


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New Hyundai Sales in New Hampshire
Prices do not include any dealer installed options.
**All factory to customer eligible rebates are included. Offers not in conjunction with others; subject to prior sale. Price does not include document and title fee of $429 or any dealer or port installed options.
When it comes to finding you a car, our Manchester Hyundai dealership will work diligently until you're behind the wheel of the car of your dreams. You deserve a car buying process that is catered around you and there's only one dealership that will not only match what you're looking for, they'll exceed it!
From the moment you walk through our dealership doors to browse our impressive stock of Hyundai models you're greeted by our team of dedicated salesmen. They're here for any and all your car questions, and they'll leave you impressed with all that they know.
Shop from the Hyundai Elantra, Hyundai Santa Fe, all the way to the Hyundai Tucson, no matter what you're looking for we have something to pique your interest. Research all the impressive rides at our Derry area Hyundai dealership without ever leaving you home from our convenient website. If you do have any questions though, our team is never farther away than a phone call.
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Plenty of us have succumbed to the notion of retail therapy: Did you bomb a work assignment or get in a fight with your boyfriend? Go buy a new outfit to cheer yourself up! It's no wonder we turn to the mall when we're down: It's fun to try on outfits and treat ourselves to something new, and when we put the purchase on a credit card, we get instant gratification without paying a dime (at least, at the moment). In fact, shopping has been shown to boost our dopamine, a brain chemical responsible for making us feel pleasure, what some researchers call the "shopping high."
Dr. Catherine Birndorf is a psychiatrist specializing in women's health, founding director of the Payne Whitney Women's Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in NYC, co-author of The Nine Rooms of Happiness and SELF's Happiness Expert.


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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Reviews have been mixed around the league for the NFL's experiment with longer kicks on extra points.
Regardless, it appears there's a future for them.
Eight kicks from the longer distance -- usually 33 yards -- were missed during the first two weeks of the exhibition season. The 94.3 percent success rate (133 of 141) was below the regular-season rate (99.6 percent) from 2013 when the ball was snapped from the 2-yard line instead of the 15.
Only five of 1,267 short kicks were missed in 2013.
All of this summer's misses came with the ball snapped from the 15. Snaps will move back to the 2 this week and for the regular season.
NFL officiating director Dean Blandino says he believes longer PAT kicks are "in the league's near future." The results this summer will be brought to the competition committee, and a proposal for change almost certainly will be presented to team owners at next March's annual meetings.
Blandino isn't sure the 15-yard line will be the focal point of any change.
As with any alterations to the game, coaches and players offered a variety of viewpoints.
Veteran kicker Phil Dawson of the 49ers didn't get a chance to try a long extra point because the 49ers didn't score any touchdowns in their first two exhibition games. He sees the positive and negative sides of a longer kick.
"It could rear its head in a game where the kicker hasn't been on the field in a while," Dawson said. "It's hard to stay loose and then all of a sudden there's a sudden score, maybe a fumble recovery, kickoff return, interception return. You might not be super loose yet. It's one thing to go out there and pop through a 20-yarder. You back up (another) 13-15 yards and you're a little stiff, you could possibly run into some problems there."
On the other foot . . .
"Any rule change that's designed to highlight what guys do well, I'm all for it," Dawson added. "If that rule change is motivated by, 'Man, our kickers are really good and we want to showcase what they do well,' I'm all for it."
New York Jets kicker Nick Folk, who has never missed an extra point in his seven-year career, believes longer tries make the more accurate kickers even more valuable. But "I think most kickers want to keep it the same as it's been."
So does Tom Coughlin.
"I didn't think much of it when it was suggested," Coughlin said. "There are some ways to change that part of it if the intent is to make it more exciting. I think that certainly would be one of them."


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TRENTON, N.J. - Rowan Tower has a bad reputation. Gangs walk the streets nearby, and police are a constant, and some say ineffective, presence at the 15-story apartment building a stone's throw from the Statehouse's golden dome.
A 13-year-old girl was killed last year in a drive-by shooting a block away, and not a single person stepped forward to help police identify the attackers. This week, though, the mothers, grandmothers and children who live in the tower saw crime there sink to a new depth.
The reported gang rape of a 7-year-old girl who police say was offered for sale by her 15-year-old stepsister to a group of grown men has shocked residents and put them in a quandary. If they identify the men responsible, they risk violent retaliation from the street gangs that stalk the neighborhood.
"We are mothers," said tenant Shawntel Abner. "If we aren't here, there is no one to watch our children. You are asking a lot of us. You are asking us to put our lives on the line."
Police said the rape unfolded this way:
The 15-year-old went to a party Sunday with some young men on the 13th floor of the building; her 7-year-old stepsister tagged along because she worried about the older girl's safety.
The 15-year-old sold sex to men in the room, then took money to let them touch the younger girl. Touching turned to forcible sex as at least seven men raped the 7-year-old. The little girl then put her clothes on and left the apartments. That's when two women found her crying and took her home.
The 15-year-old has been charged with promoting prostitution, aggravated sexual assault and other crimes; police have not released her name.
A 20-year-old man has been charged with having sex with the 15-year-old, but police don't know who might have attacked the 7-year-old. Officials say, though, that someone in Rowan Tower does and are urging, even threatening, neighbors to identify them.
"People absolutely know who these men are," Mayor Doug Palmer told The Associated Press on Friday. "If you were there and didn't participate, you really need to come forward. If you don't come forward, then you are going to be charged like you participated."
'We all care'
Rowan Tower sits on a stretch of West State Street near downtown Trenton and is surrounded by blocks of abandoned, boarded-up homes. It's fronted by a well-manicured lawn and features a colorful playground and a basketball court. An American flag hangs from a pole to the right of the front door.
Tammy Blake lives in apartment 13-F, just down the hall from where the rapes are said to have happened. She said that she didn't hear anything but that loud music and raucous behavior are the standard, not the exception, in the building.
"You get so used to the way things are here," said Blake, 47. "We all care because this is where we live."
But fear, she said, keeps people quiet.
"It's hard for us because there's drugs, crime and gangs," she said. "If we speak out, we never know what's going to happen. There could be someone kicking our door in and putting a gun in our face because they heard or saw that we were talking to someone. People here, they're thinking about their lives. It's not that they're being inconsiderate about the 7-year-old girl."
Neighbor William Johnson said police come and go from the tower all the time.
"I don't see how that can happen," he said of the rape. "Where were the adults at?"
Sixty-year-old Frances Claridy has lived in the building for 19 years and said that there are good neighbors and bad — and that the two groups don't socialize.
"Our apartments are good," Claridy said. "It's just some people in this building are not."
Unrelated sweep
Claridy and several other residents were picked up on warrants for minor infractions Thursday during a police sweep, an effort Palmer says was planned before the report of the March 28 rape. But those caught up in the raid said police clearly had the girl's rape on their minds.
In 2009, the same neighborhood was reeling from drive-by shooting death of 13-year-old Tamrah Leonard during a block party for a City Council candidate less than a block from the tower. Not even cash would drew information out, Palmer said.
"People knew," he said. "They even offered a reward, and no one took it."
The size of Trenton's police force did not budge in 2008, according to data from the attorney general's office, despite an increase in rape and thefts in the city. Law enforcement agencies, however, appeared to be making progress as violent crime overall was slightly down.
The rape case comes as Trenton stands to lose police officers to layoffs if state lawmakers approve a $42.3 million reduction in aid.
Gov. Chris Christie said he was floored by reports of the rape.
"What happened in Trenton with that young girl is deplorable," Christie said Thursday. "For a parent, it's nightmare-inducing."
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'People here, they're thinking about their lives. It's not that they're being inconsiderate about the 7-year-old girl.'
I can't think of anything more inconsiderate to the girl than refusing to talk to the police whatsoever.
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Where is the outrage from Jackson and Sharpton? Oh, I see, likely no white folks involved.
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A good analogy to Trenton is Washington DC.
They are both capitols (state and country)
and residents of both are majority urban black and governed by urban blacks.
The murder and corruption is like South Africa.
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obama worshippers do not care for morals nor life ... especially children's
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That's just sick.
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Humanity at it's worst...Sad to see this dumbed down, drugged out, Apathetic culture that exists.
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exterminate these sick fuckz .
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obummer land!
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Ghetto Law...what a joke; turn in the SOB's and friggin move!
Blacks always want to play the victim; saying they're not treated fairly...question is; why should you be treated as humans when you act like animals.
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These people and the Nazi-Jews have alot in common. They don't turn on their own no matter what the crime is, aswell.
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Sometimes the stories that come out of America, make it sound like its South Africa or some shit.
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Hey police, you have my permission to go above the law on this one.
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I am not surprised one bit.
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The headline reads,Residents in N.J. complex REFUSE to help in rape of 7yo girl.I would think that if the
residents refuse to help in the rape, that would be a
good thing. Cheers
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KFC makes you retarded.
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I didnt hear nothing - - - I didnt see nothing - - - I dont know nothing ! ! !
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~this is why black lives don't matter, cause you stinking animals won't even watch out for your own -you filthy cowardly dogsh*ts!!
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The group received $40,000 in pledges over five days toward removing the Nevada Democrat's name from the school's Outdoor Engagement Center.
University President Scott Wyatt acknowledged Friday that he was under pressure from a group of conservatives to remove Reid's name but insisted that politics had nothing to do with his decision.
He's lying, of course. Well, only partly. It was politics, but it was also money:
Wyatt also said the school's 2011 naming of the center in Reid's honor generated no donations to it from the senator's friends as had been hoped.
Further, I'm sure this pissed Reid off. Is it petty? Of course. But every little bit hurt. And I get a warm tingle down my thigh just thinking of Reid, in a rage, throwing a glass of single-barrel bourbon against the mahogany wall of his office when he got word of this.
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The Waynesburg University Yellow Jacket, a weekly student-run newspaper, recently won a Region One Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Mark of Excellence Award for its in-depth reporting of Waynesburg University's announcement of Mr. Doug Lee as president elect.
"The award is notable because it includes schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and all of New England," said Brandon Szuminsky, co-adviser to the Yellow Jacket and instructor of communication at Waynesburg University. "While we're regularly regarded as one of the best student newspapers in our state, we're extremely proud to be recognized as such for such a large area."
Six members of the Yellow Jacket staff were part of the winning submission and all but one will travel to the Region 1 Spring Conference Friday, April 12 through Saturday, April 13, to accept the regional award and learn if they qualify for a national award. Szuminsky will also attend the conference in New Brunswick, N.J., on the campus of Rutgers University.
"I'm really excited for the trip because it is giving us the opportunity to receive public recognition for all the work we have done this year," said Sarah Bell, executive editor of the Yellow Jacket and president of the Waynesburg University SPJ Chapter. "The ceremony is part of SPJ's Region 1 conference, so we will also be able to spend a lot of time focusing on professional development and networking."
The Yellow Jacket has won SPJ Awards in the past, but this is the first year they've won in the "In Depth Reporting" category. The students accepting the award won't find out what place they've won until attending the conference. If they receive first place, staff members will be invited to the national awards later this year.
"While we don't yet know how our entry placed, knowing that we are at least in the top three for in-depth reporting for that large of an area truly speaks to the quality of our students at Waynesburg," Szuminsky said.
According to Bell, the staff had to work particularly diligently on the special edition due to changes in presidency. The staff members learned that Mr. Lee would become the next University president on a Monday morning; the Yellow Jacket production nights are Monday and Tuesday.
"In a 24-hour time span, we set up interviews, wrote six articles and put finishing touches on the graphic," Bell said. "The Department of Communication has an unofficial motto, which is 'Make it Happen.' I really feel like the Jacket staff put that to practice with this issue of the Yellow Jacket."
Society of Professional Journalists, as a national organization, hosts the Mark of Excellence awards each year. Campuses do not have to have their own chapter of SPJ to participate, although Waynesburg University applied for and received SPJ membership last year.
"There are a lot of schools with student newspapers, but there are very few with students as dedicated to not only producing a news publication but to doing so with the utmost commitment to ethical journalism as you have here at Waynesburg," Szuminsky said. "Of all the schools in Southwestern Pennsylvania, we're one of only five who have an active SPJ chapter."
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Milpitas Unified School District's Board of Education voted unanimously Feb. 25 to approve the move to full-day kindergarten programs at all Milpitas schools for the 2014-2015 academic year that begins in August.
More than 75 percent of schools in Santa Clara and Alameda counties already have full-day programs and more districts are moving toward that model, said Matthew Duffy, assistant superintendent of educational services, at the meeting.
Multiple factors affected the decision to move to a full-day program, according to Duffy, including:
n An increasing number of parents requesting it for the 689 kindergarten students enrolled in 23 classes
n An increasing number of students in the transitional kindergarten programs who will come into the kindergarten program
n Research showing the benefits of a full-day program
n Positive surveys and data from the pilot full-day programs at Robert Randall, William Burnett and Joseph Weller elementary schools.
According to research included in the staff report, kindergartners in a full-day program have increased opportunities to learn and develop more academically, socially and emotionally.
Some of the concerns that were brought up in discussions with the administrators, teachers and parents centered on the length of the day, the number of students per class, curriculum and having adequate teacher support, said Cheryl Jordan, assistant superintendent of human resources.
"We feel confident in the plan we have. We got great feedback about what teachers really needed," Jordan said at the meeting.
Prior to this, districts had the option to claim half of the class size reduction funding from the state by offering morning and afternoon kindergarten classes.
With this change, the class size will have to stay the same regardless of a half-day or full-day program being in place.
To accommodate the new program and the general enrollment growth at the elementary schools, two portables may be added at John Sinnott Elementary School and one portable may be added to Curtner Elementary School, along with an increase from six to eight kindergarten teachers districtwide.
Jordan said that the average class size for the last six years in kindergarten has been 32:1, but with the changes the student to teacher ratio would be 25:1 to 27:1, with sites varying based on the state's class size reduction formula.
Jordan said the response from parents and teachers already part of the full day program has been positive.
"The parents have all said they appreciate having a longer time for their child to be in class, and the teachers have said there is more of a continuity," Jordan said.
Starting in the 2014-15 academic year, the district's plan will allow kindergarteners to have a half day for the first week of school, with kindergarten classes being allowed to end earlier than other grades (no less than 20 minutes and no more than 40 minutes earlier). Teachers will meet monthly to develop curricular expectations for the district.
Registration for transitional kindergarten and kindergarten began March 1 and will run until summer. Applications can be picked up at each school site.


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Micro-blogging site Twitter has acquired internet security firm Dasient for an undisclosed amount, the Business Standard newspaper reported Tuesday.
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September 23rd, 2006, 10:39 PM
Anyone use the new chatterbaits. If so how do they work
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September 23rd, 2006, 10:39 PM
Anyone use the new chatterbaits. If so how do they work
September 24th, 2006, 12:49 AM
i got one its the most worthless lure i have seen yet only works good for me in the mississippi river
October 4th, 2006, 01:07 PM
I have a couple of the larger version of the chatter baits for muskie. I've had several follows with them but no hookups. I"ll keep using them.
October 24th, 2006, 04:01 PM
I've used them and the Gambler Swim blades. I like them both, hooked up a 3 pound black bass the first trip out with them. The blade is fixed so it doesn't spin like a spinner blade and it has rattles embedded in the body. It twitches back and forth during the retrieve which makes the rattles work. The swim blade does pretty much the same thing only with a little more action imitating a wounded bait fish.
January 18th, 2007, 10:17 AM
I used one at a friend's private lake and hooked at least 25 largemouth bass ranging in size from 2 lbs to over 5 lbs. I would jerk the bait, then let it fall, they would usually hit it on the fall. I will definately buy another one.
January 22nd, 2007, 01:46 PM
I have not had any luck but watched a friend catch some great smallmouth on those stupid baits.
January 23rd, 2007, 05:34 PM
They piss the bass off and can get you a strike on days were nothing else will work. Match color and size with where you fish for best result.


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Compression wear in no longer a changing room chortle, the days of adding more neoprene products to an ailing body are either gone or masked by the layering of compression wear.
Whilst 2 major companies seem to have captured the market share, that same rapid expansion of a "premium price" product has allowed others to take advantage of a lower price point entry but fewer still when evolving on a sound principle. Until now.
010 GEAR, started by Ex New Zealand fast bowler Iain O'Brien after finding the existing products were not to his liking. So what do you… research, plan and develop your own. And judging from his blogs it's been a long road after initially penning the idea back in 2008 whilst on tour in Bangladesh.
The pants
010 GEAR have come to market with pants, with long pants and compression tops are not to far away… but it's their quirkiness (stemming from the owner if you have ever followed Iain O'Brien on twitter) and strap-line that caught our attention. Compression and Comfort… for you and your manatomy.
For those of you that have worn compression pants will know their are a few gripes to be had. The benefits are always well documented but they never say that by the 4th over of bowling you'll be needing a full frontal rearrangement and a hoist to pull them back up after they work down your buttocks or bunch in the gusset.
A simple observation and the desire to rectify such flaws has been made, albeit from a selfishly male perspective. The 010 GEAR pants have added material and incorporated an ergonomic "pouch" for the male anatomy… which whilst writing this i will confess is comfortable…very comfortable.
To test these pants I thought that bowling/batting in an hour long net session vs a more common yellow threaded but popular manufacturer would be applicable, but I'll confess after bowling in the rivals (yellow thread)and having to hitch them back up every 4th delivery i was becoming keen to try the new purple label. What you feel from the outset is everything you are told when looking to buy… compression and comfort. They are very well constructed (British Made I might add "ED") to the same standard as the rival pair and slide on with a reassuring hug to the thighs and buttocks. But then it hits you… real comfort. Yes, i do personally feel a wider waistband would be a good thing. But no longer am i having to stop, rearrange the "frontage". The test in those conditions was a one sided win… the compression values of both are fairly equal, but it's the compassion for the male anatomy that has won the day. The fact a cricket box sits inside this area without assistance is also a plus for the 010 pants.
The run down
So comfortable are they that I have worn them for a day with no issues. It maybe a simple advancement but an advancement none the less and one that rectified an issue a lot of us had and only one self motivated person addressed.
We rate the reasonable priced 010 GEAR pants highly and it would be a perfect score if it weren't for the narrow waistband that these shorts all suffer from. But for a first outing and a company keen to point out that "everything has its place" they maybe right as they have found theirs in this competitive but one sided arena.
Cricket Insight score the 010 GEAR pants 8.5 out of 10.
Price £25 / Delivery UK £1.50 / International £5.00
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BELL CITY -- D. Jane Bollinger, 79, died May 19, 2012, at the Jackson Manor.
Born Dec. 18, 1932, at Bell City, daughter of the late Charles and Maude Overbey Cossou, she was a retired secretary for Bill City High School and a member of the United Methodist Church in Bell City.
Survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, David and Pat Bollinger of Kelso; two daughters and a son-in-law, Donna and David Swindell of Evansville, Ind.; and Dana Bollinger-Barrett of Jackson; two brothers, Jerry Cossou of the state of Oklahoma and Michael Cossou of Kelso; one sister, Janet Nesler of Bell City; and eight grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Visitation is after 4 p.m. Tuesday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee, where services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday with David Swindell officiating.
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Last October, we looked at the grit and grace of Mumford & Sons' stellar sophomore album Babel - but just this week they released a new video to accompany the title track. They take a sparse and minimalist approach here, rotating a lens steadily over a bleak black and white scene where the band plays their instruments and sings their song. (Aesthetically, that's a nice change in pace from most music videos.) But with a simple and subtle camera trick that increases as the video plays, the song's title and lyrics become the centerpiece, albeit in an unexpected way.
As I watched the video, I wondered about the story of the tower of Babel, and realized that I had never read much about it at all. A quick search revealed some interesting tidbits - for instance, the epigraph (and title) of CS Lewis' That Hideous Strength references a poem about the tower; and a fourth century Biblical commentator, St. Gregory of Nyssa, insisted that a plurality of languages existed before Babel, and that the story of the tower was primarily one of discord and disharmony.
Most interesting of all, one writer made the tower the focal point of a short play - the 20th century jazz-aficionado-turned-Trappist-monk Thomas Merton.
Ought we, Raphael, to join
The builders of this city?
We can quickly learn
Their language and their ambition.
No, we must stand apart.
If we learn their language
We will no longer understand
What is being said.
If we imitate their zeal
We will lose all sense of what is to be done.
They are clear-minded men
Of one purpose.
No. They only appear
To know what they are building.
They think it is a tower
That will reach heaven.
They think they speak the same
Language, that they are of one
We shall discover that they are
Only of one voice. Many minds,
Many thoughts signifying nothing.
Many words, many plans
Without purpose. Divided hearts,
Weak hands. Hearts that will be
Closed to one another. Hands
Armed against one another.
There is no agreement
There can be no tower.
Raphael seems to be onto something; after some discussion between two builders about how fantastic the tower is, there are already hints of the tower's own destruction. The Captain of the builders notes that "when the tower is built, we shall have war...taste the excitement of war." Then, a chorus chants: "Grow, Babylon, grow, Great Babylon, touch the stars. What if the Lord should see you, now?" All of this hubris and self-adoration on the part of the builders, Raphael instructs Thomas, reveals their true motives, and spells disaster:
RAPHAEL: They suppose that if they build a high tower very quickly, they will be nearly as strong as God, Whom they imagine to be only a little stronger than themselves. And if the highest part of the tower is level with the lowest part of heaven, man and God will have to discuss everything on equal terms.
THOMAS: It is therefore a religious tower, and they are men of faith.
RAPHAEL: No, it is a tower of unbelief.
THOMAS: What have they failed to believe in?
RAPHAEL: Two things: First they do not believe in themselves, and because of this they do not believe in God. Because they do not believe in themselves or in God, they cannot believe in unity. Consequently they cannot be united. There-fore they cannot finish the tower which they imagine they are building.
THOMAS: Nevertheless they are very busy with whatever they think they are doing.
RAPHAEL: That is a pretense. Activity is their substitute for faith. Instead of believing in themselves, they seek to convince themselves, by their activity, that they exist. And their activity pretends to direct itself against God, in order that they may reassure themselves that He does not exist.
THOMAS: Why so?
RAPHAEL: Because if He does not exist, then they do not have to be troubled with the problem of their own existence either. For if they admit they exist they will have to love one another, and this they find insupportable.
THOMAS: But surely they love one another! Otherwise how could they unite in a common endeavor? Surely, they are united, and their union has brought them success.
RAPHAEL: No, they have only united in their common, though hidden, desire to fail.Their ambition is only the occasion for a failure they certainly seek. But they require that this failure come upon them, as it were, out of the stars. They want to blame their ruin on fate, and still have the secret satisfaction of ruining themselves.
THOMAS: Why should they do so much work in order to fail?
RAPHAEL: Their hearts seek disaster as a relief from the tedium of an unsatisfactory existence. Ruin will at least divide them from one another. They will be able to scatter, to run away, to put barricades against one another. Since they cannot stand the pretense of unity, they must seek the open avowal of their enmity.
The tower, then, is a tower of unbelief. They are trying to make themselves like God, but do not really believe in God or themselves. Instead, the tower is a "pretense" - a flurry activity geared toward a paroxysm of self-destruction, fueled by a pride that is, at bottom, really only self-loathing, enmity, and a "secret satisfaction" at ruin.
This is all very abstract, and clearly applies on a grander scale than simply the tower's builders - but Merton isn't finished. Soon, their Leader makes a strange declaration about words being the steel "instruments of war" meant to divide, and a desire for the "one word" that "strikes at the heart of creation, and dissolves it into its original nothingness." In short order, chaos ensues - winds blow, the tower nods, fear spreads, and finally, the tower falls. Thomas suggests that this is Babylon's end, but Raphael again corrects him. "No, it is Babylon's beginning!"
There is a second scene which is a kind of trial meant to determine who is guilty for the destruction of the tower and the "dishonor" of Babylon. A professor is called, who insists that "words create reality as fast as they are eaten by it, and they destroy reality as fast as they themselves come back to life." Words, then, are the key suspects! They call up three forms of language - Truth, Propaganda, and Falsehood.
First comes Truth, who lives "in things as they are, in minds that see things as they are, in wills that conform to things as they are." They accuse him of destroying the tower, and he tells it like it is: "You are your own enemies. You destroyed your own Tower." A philosopher (a postmodern one, we gather) jumps to Truth's defense, insisting that there is no Truth - Truth is not to blame because Truth does not exist.
Next comes Propaganda, who compares people to "zombies," and blames the destruction of the Tower on the following groups: "the religious warmongers, the clergy, the freemasons, the Pope, the millionaires, the Elders of Zion, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Jesuits, and the Legion of Mary." The Leader praises him, saying, "go forth and form the minds of the young." (Merton is being very subtle here.)
Next comes Falsehood, who proclaims:
The Tower has never been destroyed. Just as I am immortal, the Tower is indestructible. The Tower is a spiritual reality and so am I. The Tower is everywhere. What you call the fall of the Tower was only its beginning, its passage into a new, more active phase of existence. The Tower is not a building but an influence, a mentality, an invisible power. The Tower stands, and I am the King who lives on the summit of the Tower. And because I am everywhere, everywhere is the Tower of Babel.
The Leader just about kneels in adoration of Falsehood's obvious lies, calling it "divine and omnipresent Majesty." The chorus returns to its chant - "grow, Babylon, grow!" - and the last witness, Silence, is dismissed. "Useless!" the leader shouts. "Throw him out! Let silence be crucified!"
With Merton's short play in mind, the song and video for Mumford & Sons' "Babel" takes on fresh meaning. We watch the band members, each in his own world, and each literally divided against himself, wailing on their instruments, as Mumford sings:
Cause I know that time has numbered my days
And I'll go along with everything you say
But I'll ride home laughing, look at me now
The walls of my town, they come crumbling down...
Cause I'll know my weakness, know my voice
And I'll believe in grace and choice
And I know perhaps my heart is farce,
But I'll be born without a mask
Like the city that nurtured my greed and my pride,
I stretched my arms into the sky
I cry Babel! Babel! Look at me now
Then the walls of my town, they come crumbling down
You ask where will we stand in the winds that will howl,
As all we see will slip into the cloud
So come down from your mountain and stand where we've been,
You know our breath is weak and our body thin
Press my nose up, to the glass around your heart
I should've known I was weaker from the start,
You'll build your walls and I will play my bloody part
To tear them down
Mumford & Sons, on the other hand, transform the story into the most particular of settings: the human heart. In the video we see each person multiplying into various facets and attitudes, sometimes both present at once. Yet the story they sing is the same: every human heart has its Babel, made of walls and masks, a farce of greed and pride, that comes crumbling down; it makes the breath and body weak and thin, reducing the singer to silence and humility by some sacred, howling wind.
One gives us the universal, one the particular; but both might best be summed up by a line from Proverbs, a truth that is not only a well-attested historical, anthropological, and psychological fact, but also the first law of spiritual physics:
Pride goes before disaster, and a haughty spirit before a fall.


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Ten Years Later, Enron Pales in Comparison
Ten years on, the Enron Corp. scandal looks like a cakewalk.
We've been through a 2008 mortgage-inspired global financial shock from which we've yet to fully recover. And in that still-fragile economic state we stare at the baleful and not fully imagined implications of the raging European sovereign debt crisis.
Still, anniversaries are important. They lend perspective. Friday, Dec. 2, marks the 10th anniversary of the Chapter 11 filing of Enron, the once high-flying, new-fangled energy company that was an investor favorite.
The collapse of Enron in the wake of massive accounting fraud was symbolic of an era that also saw major bookkeeping-related shenanigans at U.S. corporate giants Worldcom and Tyco International.
A still-debated law was ushered through in the scandals' wake. Like the divisive Dodd-Frank law that reset financial regulation in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law still can raise blood pressure among opponents who see it as symbolic of heavy handed regulation.
But SarbOx, as it came to be known, did what it aimed to achieve. Accounting among U.S. corporations is more accountable than it was when the likes of Enron had their day in the sun.
Critics bristle at a couple of sentences that require internal audits of a host of financial practices at large public companies, but somehow the companies survived the burden.
Corporate boards of directors got more power, but the regulatory response was seen at least in part provoked by widespread board ineffectiveness.
And the Occupy Wall Street crowd and others would probably harrumph at the perceived lack of individual accountability after the 2008 financial meltdown, compared with stiff jail sentences received by top corporate officers of Enron, Worldcom and Tyco.
"This law says to every dishonest corporate leader: you'll be exposed and punished. The era of low standards and false profits is over. No board room in America is above or beyond the law."
That populist cry was uttered by none other than the then President of the United States, George W. Bush. The Republican wasn't usually known as an anti-capitalist firebrand. He said it at his signing of SarbOx on July 30, 2002.
Lessons learned 10 years later were pretty evident even at the time. There were the duped Enron employees who put most of their 401K savings in the stock of their employer. Don't. No matter how much you love your company, diversify your 401K.
A couple of others from Nov. 30, 2001: One money manager paraphrased Warren Buffett explaining to Dow Jones Newswires why he stayed away from Enron stock. Don't invest in things you don't understand.
And that other sturdy bromide: If something seems to be too good to be true, it is.


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Tips and techniques from the world of web development.
Web Tricks
Busy web developers are always looking for an edge. This month we explore some tricks for faster and more effective websites.
Today's website is more than pictures and text. Sometimes simple HTML just isn't enough. Developers look for ways to maximize traffic and minimize development time. And the point of the exercise is always the same – do more with less: better performance, higher click through, more pages, fewer dollars. We rise to the challenge with this month's Web Tricks cover story.
We start with a look at how to configure trackbacks. A trackback is a tool for bloggers to provide notice of their conversations with other bloggers on themes of common interest. Alert use of trackbacks can lead to increased traffic, higher search ratings, and a richer experience for viewers.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a tool for defining a website's style, but you can use CSS for so much more. The second article in this month's set explores some tricks with CSS. You'll learn how to use CSS as a fast and flexible tool for tasks that once required scripting or hard-coded HTML.
The next article examines Apache Jackrabbit, an implementation of the Java Content Repository specification. A content repository combines features of a filesystem and a database. You'll learn how Jackrabbit can save you programming time and add convenient features to your web service applications.
We finish this month's set with a look at how to set up web server load balancing using features of the Apache web server. If you are a web developer, a blogger, web admin, or even an interested web user who likes to learn about the latest development techniques, you'll find something useful in this month's Web Tricks cover story.
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Mirantis Joins Hands with SUSE To Offer RHEL Support; Red Hat Not Happy
Competitors get in the game with RHEL without Red Hat
Linux on Windows 10 Poses a Security Risk
Security researchers have already notified Microsoft; some fixes are available
Mirantis to Refactor OpenStack Fuel for Kubernetes
The company is collaborating with Google and Intel to use Kubernetes as an engine for Fuel
Canonical Joins Document Foundation Advisory Board
The upcoming release of LibreOffice will be available as a snap package
SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?


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With memories of the last state and national election still fresh enough to cause a wince or two, perhaps now is a good time to reflect and look forward with at least the good intentions of not allowing a repeat.
The early returns based on advertising directed toward New Hampshire residents, and even more so in Iowa, don't bode well, and that's all within the same party. The tone set for the top national office has an unfortunate trickle-down effect.
It's difficult for people those in politics say they represent to have a great effect on the tone of the discourse, as their voices rise only at the end of the campaign in a count of yeas and nays. By that time, it's too late.
Perhaps a recasting of the language would be in order. Instead of "right" or "wrong," which cast a morality that may have no place in politics, those we've elected and who seek our votes could use "agree" or "disagree."
Good people can disagree and continue to get along. Shaping the arguments as right or wrong, however, tend toward the kind of unbridgeable divisions that make compromise (the true art of politicians) increasingly difficult.
Given the year just past in Barnstable's politics, we also have hope that such notions of compromise and respectful disagreement take hold in the town council chambers. The immediate tension has eased, and there's reason to hope the openness demonstrated by councilors new and old will continue.
Agree or disagree, please accept best wishes from everyone at the Patriot for a happy, healthy and kind New Year.
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AHMEDABAD: Gujarat plans to create a port city on the lines of the one in Kobe in Japan, said a state government press release. The decision came during a four-day visit of a Gujarat delegation to Japan. The government also aims to make Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) larger than the one in Shanghai.
"We would like to develop a model port city and a Disaster Management Museum like Kobe," said Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat during a function organised by Kobe-Hyogo Prefecture Governor Toshizo Ido at the Governor House.


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Ohio Owns the NCAA Tournament
After as up-and-down a tournament opening as ever, our NCAA Sweet Sixteen is set in stone, with a break in the action over the next few days for fans to catch up on missed work and spousal obligations. Most of the top guns are still here and looking strong, as three of the four top-seeded teams advanced to the fourth round by a double-digit margin of victory. But there are still scrappers in this fight hoping for some kind of extended Cinderella run and fans who will root for them even if it means breaking their bracket, because what's a little office money compared to that kind of fun?
The underdog narrative is joined this time by a historic angle: For the first time in NCAA history there will be four teams from one state in the Sweet 16. Cincinnati, Ohio State, Xavier and Ohio University all continue to represent the Buckeye State. Of those four, Xavier and Ohio are two of the three remaining teams with a double-digit seeding. There's a chance to see three of those teams advance to the Elite Eight (Cincinnati plays Ohio State), which would enable some truly unprecedented regional pride. It may not be an easy bet, as 13-seeded Ohio is still an underdog to North Carolina even with Kendall Marshall's broken wrist. But stranger things have happened than a March Madness upset. "Everyone knew Ohio would be a battleground state in 2012, but it figured to be in November for the presidential election, not in March for the NCAA basketball tournament," the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Doug Lesmerises writes. "Isn't this a football state?"
Still, the most recognizable of these Davids may be the 11th-seeded North Carolina State Wolfpack, in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2005 under rookie coach Mark Gottfried. To get there, they had to eke out a tight win over a Georgetown Hoyas team that the Journal's Jared Diamond calls "the Monet of choke artists" after losing to its third double-digit seed in three years. Which doesn't exactly make this Rocky vs. Ivan Drago or anything, but it's a nice turnaround for a storied program that had to watch ACC rivals North Carolina and Duke each win a title while languishing in the conference cellar over the last few years. "Gottfried wasn't a terribly popular choice. After he was out of coaching for two seasons, some wondered if he was a safe pick for the job," the Star-Ledger's Brendan Prunty writes. "That's all ancient history now."
Now, the Wolfpack will play a second-seeded Kansas team that pulled out a last-minute win against the Purdue Boilermakers after trailing for most of the game. With Kendall Marshall's broken wrist throwing UNC's championship hopes into flux – seriously, that injury is a doozy – Jayhawk faithful may be seeing a suddenly easy path to the Final Four. A nailbiting comeback is all it takes to strip one of assumptions, though. "When it comes to Bracketville, Kansas fans already know better," writes Fox Sports's Sean Keeler. "And for that, they have Purdue to thank."
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Alex Smith had a very nice 2011 season for the 49ers after six years spent in arrested development. He almost led his team to the Super Bowl. But that doesn't count for much in the NFL when a first ballot Hall of Famer is available for the taking, which is why the former number one pick is officially exploring his free agency options as San Francisco continues its low-key courtship of Peyton Manning. Smith spent five-and-a-half hours meeting with the Miami Dolphins, intriguing because Miami is also thought to be in hot-though-recessed pursuit of Manning. That might make things a little awkward if the 49ers miss out on Manning and must come crawling back for Smith's services, though a pay raise would probably resolve any hurt feelings. "While Smith's distress is understandable to a point, he also must realize that a seven-year NFL career in which he's enjoyed just one above-average season puts him well below Manning in the food chain," writes Yahoo's Doug Farrar. "He excelled as never before in [Coach Jim] Harbaugh's offensive system last season, helping the 49ers come very close to their first Super Bowl since 1994, but he's also the very definition of a system quarterback."
Manning, on the other hand, is the system, which is why at least three teams are patiently playing the waiting game for his services. There are those 49ers, who suddenly boast an intriguing receiving corps after luring former Giants Super Bowl hero Mario Manningham to join the recently signed Randy Moss. The Denver Broncos and the Tennessee Titans are also contenders, though a different front-runner emerges by the hour depending on which source you choose to believe. The Denver Post reports that the Broncos might be offering something similar to Manning's recently-voided contract with Indianapolis, which is a lot of dough to pay a quarterback who hasn't taken an in-game hit in over a year and has a neck that may be in worse shape than your Uncle Rich's. It might not even be the biggest money out there: Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams reportedly offered a deal "for life", whatever that might mean.
While Manning explores his options, there are a handful of quarterbacks waiting to see how their job status will be impacted by his decision. One of the more intriguing options was removed from the table as the Seattle Seahawks handed out a modest three-year, $26 million contract to Matt Flynn, best known as the Aaron Rodgers backup who threw for 480 yards in a Week 17 blowout last season. With just two starts under his belt, Flynn is somewhat of an unknown, but the Seahawks only need for him to be better than Tarvaris Jackson. That could be enough to contend in the talent-challenged NFC West, though the division stands to be a lot more competitive should Manning end up in San Francisco. "It's possible that Flynn could develop into a player who ranks in the upper half of quarterbacks in the league," Jerry Brewer writes for the Seattle Times. "He doesn't figure to be on the top shelf of that list, but he could be very good – and good enough to give a defensive-minded, run-centric team the kind of quarterback play it needs to win close games in the fourth quarter. The Seahawks lost six such games a year ago."
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The BNP Paribas Open is not the most prestigious event Roger Federer has won in his long career, but it is one he's dominated on a historic level. By defeating John Isner at Indian Wells, Calif., on Sunday, Federer claimed two things: vengeance against one of the two men who've beat him since last year's U.S. Open (the other being Rafael Nadal, who fell to Federer in Saturday's semifinals) and a record-breaking fourth title in the event, moving out of a tie with Jimmy Connors and Michael Chang. That shouldn't be too surprising to any serious tennis fan, regardless of any lost step in his game. "Along about the time Federer lost in an agonizing semifinal at last year's U.S. Open to Novak Djokovic, holding two match points and a 2-0 sets lead, many who type on computers and babble into microphones for a living began to theorize what appeared obvious: Federer's career is in the twilight. Let's show respect and celebrate the old guy as he hits a few more overheads before settling in next to a fireplace in a ski lodge in Switzerland," Bill Dwyre writes for the Los Angeles Times. "But wait. It appears that rumors of Federer's demise are premature."
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Printmaking and Book Arts Programs - School of Arts, Design, and Media Arts
Concentration in the AA in Fine Arts degree
Printmaking is a way to make amazing marks on paper - marks that cannot be drawn or painted. Bring your drawing ideas, your love of painting and of course your photo skills. We have something for each of you; or if you are a beginning artist, this is a great way to jump in! Check us out...we promise you an exciting and creative art adventure!
"What is Book Arts?" is a frequently asked question. The great difficulty with this question is that a single definition for an artist book remains elusive despite the fact that Book Arts is becoming increasingly popular. Book art involves every possible type of book making, every possible form, every kind of shape and different degrees of durability.
The richness of an Artist's Book as an art form comes from the wide spectrum of artistic activities from which it is drawn. Artists are given the opportunity to have their book be the vehicle of a concept; for example, the book may be made in the shape of a house or a piece of bread and the text and images incorporated to go with those ideas.
Likewise, the book could be a container for a collection of memories, art, prose or even a blank journal. We cover a variety of ways to sew books and book structures, including ways to get images and content onto your pages.
For more information, please contact Patricia Pearce, 505-428-1504, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Empower Students, Strengthen Community. | Empoderar a los Estudiantes, Fortalecer a la Comunidad.