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PopTech is thrilled to announce the first raft of speakers who will be joining us at our annual convening in Camden, Maine in October. The musicians, engineers and artists are all carefully curated to fit this year's theme: "Sparks of Brilliance," a vivid exploration of the nature of creativity itself.
Todd Reichert and Cameron Robertson are among our spectacular speakers to take the stage in Camden. They are the duo who designed the world's first human-powered flapping-wing aircraft. Artist Helen Marriage will share her insights about staging sweeping, city-scale events, and Zach Lieberman will show how he creates visual interpretations of sound and speech. A groundbreaking psychologist, an unconventional musician, a music engineer, an improvisational performer and an international advocate will join them this fall.
This year's conference also features a new twist to the agenda. On Saturday, Oct. 26, PopTech participants will enjoy the opportunity to enrich their experience and choose from a series of intimate, hands-on immersion adventures unique to beautiful Midcoast Maine. Enjoy an antique schooner sail, go for a hike in the mountains overlooking the sea, visit a sustainable island farm or learn how to make traditional Maine chowder! The current adventures offer a taste of what is to come, more immersions will be added as the conference nears. Exercise the creative spirit generated from "Sparks." See you in Camden.
Filmmaker Laura Poitras who helped bring Edward Snowden's secrets to light
Laura Poitras (PopTech 2010) is a filmmaker who has chronicled America's drift since 9-11 to war-weary nation and surveillance state. She was also instrumental in bringing to light the secrets of Edward Snowden, who has leaked a raft of documents and data on American electronic spying that has rocked the U.S. intelligence apparatus and sparked fresh debate about the balance between intelligence gathering and civil liberties.
Poitras is now the subject of a lengthy New York Times Magazine article that details her interactions with Snowden from the start, showing how they first engaged in cautious, skeptical online contact and later collaborated to bring to light a huge story.
Poitras has also been the subject of relentless government surveillance as well as something akin to harassment as she has traveled to and from the United States. "The work is widely out there," she said about her groundbreaking documentaries. "It is known in the field. It has also attracted the attention of the U.S. government."
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2013 Bellagio/PopTech Fellows Announced
By Andrew Zolli, PopTech and Robert Garris, Rockefeller Foundation
This August in Bellagio, Italy, the Rockefeller Foundation and PopTech are bringing together a group of select Fellows to participate in the inaugural offering of a unique collaborative incubator focused on topics relevant to the lives of poor and vulnerable populations. The Bellagio/PopTech Fellows program will also serve as a laboratory for the study of the nature of collaboration itself as a profound tool for creative problem-solving and solution development.
We are pleased to announce the first class of Bellagio/PopTech Fellows, who will focus on how data science and technology can contribute to the creation of more resilient communities.
An ever-expanding human footprint has precipitated increasing challenges in public health, climate adaptation, social policy, ecology, resource planning and urbanization. This is also a moment of breathtaking expansion of new data sources and insights that might improve our resilience in the face of those threats, unleashing new potential to design systems that persist, recover or even thrive amid disruption. Large, complex data sets, collectively referred to as big data, are at the fore of this trend.
Big data's potential is certainly real: Researchers at IBM suggest that advances in IT have been so dramatic that we now produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day; an astounding 90 percent of all of the data in existence was created in the last two years alone.
But the reality of harnessing data's power is much more nuanced. Data literacy generally lags far behind the ability to produce it. Big data's promise hinges on questions about the production, ownership, openness, veracity, social life and limits of big data. In such an environment, how do we avoid making poor inferences or drowning in information overload? How do we socialize the right mindsets and behaviors?
The 2013 Bellagio/PopTech Fellows, made up of key innovators in the fields of data and computer science, the arts, and the humanitarian and ecological spheres, will explore these questions and begin the path to practical answers. Our goal is to bring new ideas and opportunities to bear on the practical intersection of these two major themes of the day, big data and resilience.
The Fellows will meet for two weeks in late August, and benefit from visits by several "catalysts" to further spur their thinking. We hope that this gathering of eclectic minds will result in unconventional breakthroughs.
A salon for improving financial inclusion in the U.S.
On Sept. 17, 2013, with the support of Serve from American Express and Innovations for Poverty Action, PopTech will bring together a select group of financial experts, technologists, behavioral scientists, antipoverty activists and social innovators to explore new ways to improve the financial lives of unbanked, under-banked and unhappily banked Americans.
The Innovation for Financial Inclusion Salon will convene at Yale for a daylong series of presentations and collaborative discussions, capped by an evening lecture event open to the Yale community.
Financial stratification over the past 40 years has resulted in a growing banking crisis for some Americans. More than 10 million U.S. households – 1 in 12 – don't have an account with an insured, traditional bank, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Add the under-banked – those without checking accounts – and the figure rises to 28.3 percent of U.S. households, more than 68 million people.
The United States can learn from the developing world, where in some places the unbanked are now utilizing novel financial services innovations. Often these new financial tools are available in regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, where regulatory barriers to entry are typically low. The Internet and mobile technologies have transformed the way consumers interact with information, and with each other, and have reshaped ideas about what money is and how it is transacted.
There are powerful ideas for new approaches to serve the unbanked and under-banked in the United States. In spite of significant regulatory compliance barriers, financial innovators are developing new forms of payments, transfers and stored value for new kinds of commitment savings and micro lending products.
There is also a deep behavioral revolution underway in the social sciences. New research tools are revealing the critical psychological dynamics that are essential to making these products work. Among other things, this research guides the design of incentives to ensure cognitive investment and provoke behavioral contagion to help these products spread from person to person.
The Salon will include participants from the financial services, emerging technologies and behavior science sectors, along with relevant international participants, to explore new potential pathways and points of collaboration. We hope this convening and our related efforts will accelerate awareness and galvanize action around significant social innovation opportunities
A taste of exploring creativity at 'Sparks of Brilliance'
Some previous speakers at PopTech convenings have already started the exploration of creativity that will be the focus of this year's conference in Camden. Whether it is probing the basic concept of form in the field of design, researching the creative process by breaking down modern inventions into their components, or mapping the brain, the nature of creativity has always been a rich vein of interest in the PopTech community.
PopTech's 2013 "Sparks of Brilliance" conference is currently being carefully curated to dive deeply into that pool of thought and research. The format will include presentations and discussions about the latest science on the creative mind and how technology creates new platforms for creative connection.
Some of the most riveting presentations about creativity from the past several years hint at the likely flavor of "Sparks," though this conference will chart its own course.
Neri Oxman (PopTech 2009) explores the nature of the design process. She is particularly interested in products that mimic the multi-functionality and customization of nature, like building materials that both support a structure and transmit heat and light. "For many years I have been asking myself this one simple question," she said in her talk. "What is the origin of form?"
Thomas Thwaites (PopTech 2011) became so interested in the process of invention, design and construction that he decided to go backwards in time and technology. He built his own toaster — meaning he went out to a mine to gather iron ore and forged plastic and made copper wire to build the 400 parts that make up a modern toaster.
Sebastian Seung (PopTech 2010 salon speaker) is working on mapping the connectome, a chart of the 100-billon neurons and ten times that many connections between those neurons in the human brain. That guide to how that system operates will expose how our genetic makeup and our experiences blend to mold our thoughts and personalities.
These thought leaders are pioneering 21st Century explorations into the nature of creativity. And it is only a small taste of what is likely to come at "Sparks." See you there.
Great, diverse minds gather for 'The City Resilient' design charrette
A diverse, multi-disciplinary crowd gathered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on June 25 for a daylong design charrette and intense brainstorming as part of PopTech's 'The City Resilient' event, made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. Around 100 technologists, community activists, landscape architects and other experts participated in the workshop, which included small group discussions and exercises designed to spark creative thinking around the concept of urban resilience.
This was no ordinary crowd: The diversity and intellectual horsepower at BAM Tuesday was exceptional. It's a remarkable thing to have a coastal environment official, an urban forestry guru, a hyper-local community activist, and a compassion researcher all sitting around the same table discussing the best way for a community to respond to a hurricane, or a dirty bomb or other disruption. The whole gathering was like that.
The day started with a brainstorming session managed by the Pomegranate Center's Milenko Matanovic. Matanovic posed a question: "What do you think are critical elements of neighborhood resilience?"
Participants responded by developing a list of 66 elements. Examples from that list: social capital; volunteerism; ownership; knowledge retention across generations; communication within and between neighborhoods; access to resources; humor and play; trust action and compassion; diversity; and, people who act as nodes.
The event also included breakout sessions managed by frog in which groups of 6 to 8 participants worked for hours to develop new ideas for how a hypothetical city could respond to a disaster. In one exercise, for example, the made-up coastal town of Faraway Beach, population 100,000, is struck by killer storm Hurricane Hartmut. The scenarios were further complicated by the addition of "slow" disruptors, like economic collapse.
This precipitated a flurry of small-group discussions about specific proposals for preparing for and then dealing with the chaos that follows major disruptions of the kind that are only likely to increase in frequency and severity over the next century. Participants considered how to communicate when electricity and technology are gone. People weighed how to forge and utilize relationships across communities, rather than just in them. And they brainstormed how to get a community to enthusiastically embrace disaster preparedness — by making that preparation fun.
It was all part of a discussion that has just begun. Matanovic told the participants, "We know the journey is not complete, but you have done an amazing amount of work."
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At 'The City Resilient,' systems for handling change
Hundreds of participants gathered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater on June 24 for PopTech's 'The City Resilient,' a day-long exploration of the diffuse and increasing threats to cities and communities around the world. The event also featured a full day of presentations and Q&As that tugged at strands in the tangle of strategies designed to make cities more resilient.
It started with an honest and sometimes frightening accounting of the risks. Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin joined a number of speakers in delivering a sobering account of the trends facing cities. When the Rockefeller Foundation opened in 1913, 1 in 10 people around the world lived in cities. Now half of us do. By 2050, around 75 percent of humanity will live in urban areas.
Those mega-cities will face greater risks from global challenges like climate change. And disruptions will metastasize, as cities become more interwoven as a result of globalization. Rodin said 'The City Resilient' wasn't about rebuilding after disasters like Superstorm Sandy, an example that dominated much of the discussion Monday, but more about the systems that will better prepare cities for the next challenge. "We have to build back stronger and smarter," she said. (Nancy Kete, who leads the Foundation's global work on resilience, also moderated a panel that further explored those issues.)
This scary era of increasing threats may already be upon us. Dr. Irwin Redlener, who is the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, examined nine major disasters over a 215 day period starting in late 2012, including Superstorm Sandy, the Newtown shootings, the Boston Marathon bombings and horrendous tornadoes in Oklahoma.
Redlener says we are not doing well. He described recovery efforts in general over the past decade as often "very, very slow and painful." He said in some ways that U.S. disaster recovery efforts are strangely backward, leaving victims to muddle through a complicated web of efforts that are supposed to help them. "We have actually put people who have suffered in a disaster setting the stage as the coordinator of their own recovery," he noted. "And this is an impossible situation."
So what works? The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs early Monday released a new poll conducted among people in communities hit by Sandy that showed just how much they valued friends and family — the immediate community — before during and after the storm. (The Center's Director Trevor Tompson discussed the new findings from the stage at 'The City Resilient.')
Those survey results were widely reflected in the research of some of the speakers Monday as well as community and local government officials on stage that day from communities hit hard by one major disaster or another. Robert Sampson, who conducted a decade of research about community resilience in Chicago, said that resilient neighborhoods have a strong social fabric — what he called "collective efficacy." This can be measured in a series of factors like how much people know and trust their neighbors or by the prevalence of nonprofits and other community organizations in a neighborhood. "These kinds of networks vary tremendously," he explained. "We can measure them."
Other speakers broke down the building blocks of resiliency all the way down to the personal level. David DeSteno is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University who conducts research on how to provoke compassion and altruism. His research shows how simple cooperative activities in a laboratory like having strangers pounding on a table together in a rhythm made tremendous impact on how likely his subjects were to behave altruistically towards each other. His research also shows that mediation also has a dramatic impact on provoking compassion.
And some experienced civic leaders echoed similar sentiments about breaking resilience down to the level of the individual in the community. "When we talk about resiliency, it is about people," said LaToya Cantrell, a New Orleans City Council representative who fought to re-establish damaged areas after Hurricane Katrina. Dawn Zimmer, the mayor of Hoboken New Jersey, which was flooded in Sandy, agreed. "The core of being prepared is preparedness for the individual."
But it is also about physical systems. Landscape architects, designers and technology researchers took the stage at BAM to explore everything from designing Internet and cell-phone technology in interconnected "web" formations to resist outages to mixing man-made infrastructure and natural infrastrcture along coastline to better cope with storms. Hopefully it can all be woven together into a tapestry to be ready for the increasing threats to come.
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A new poll shows the value of community in a disaster
In a major disruption it is family, friends and neighbors that seem to matter the most. A new survey of people in areas impacted by Superstorm Sandy shows that they found those in their immediate community to be most helpful before, during and after the storm. Only seven percent of those surveyed said the storm brought out the worst in their neighbors.
Aid organizations like the Red Cross and the Salvation Army as well as first responders were also considered particularly helpful in Sandy's wake. But state and federal governments as well as utility companies polled relatively poorly. Sadly, the poll also showed that the impact of the storm continues to disrupt the daily lives and social relationships of people in many communities affected by Sandy.
The survey of more than 2,000 people in neighborhoods hit hard by Sandy was conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, a partner in PopTech's "The City Resilient," a summit on community resilience held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on June 24. "Our survey data powerfully illustrate how important the help of friends, family and neighbors can be in getting people back on their feet after natural disasters," AP-NORC Center Director Trevor Tompson said of the data. Tompson is also a speaker at "The City Resilient."
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Astrid Scholz brings green, smart development to 'The City Resilient'
Like all PopTech audiences, the crowd attending the upcoming event, "The City Resilient," will be filled with people of extraordinary talent and knowledge. As examples, PopTech asked a handful of these thought leaders to answer three questions about their work and their views on community resilience. Here is Dr. Astrid Scholz, President of Ecotrust.
Please briefly describe your work and your typical working day.
My typical working day changed quite a bit in December of last year, when I stepped into the role of President of Ecotrust, a 22-year-old organization based in Portland, Oregon working at the intersection of social, economic, and environmental change. We are working to foster the resilience of systems that are critical to our wellbeing, such as Food and Farms, Forests, Fisheries, Finance, and the Built Environment, to name a few. I lead a staff of 65 with deep sectoral expertise in these areas, as well as in cross-cutting disciplines—economic analysis, creative finance, mapping, GIS, software development, and storytelling.
We are a hybrid organization, using a mix of for-profit and nonprofit initiatives to drive transformative change in the region where we live and work. We believe that resilient solutions arise from the intimate relationship between people and the places where they live, and the specific characteristics of the natural, social and environmental assets of those places. Building on those relationships, we work on disruptive institutional innovations, which we then try to scale through the use of public, private, and philanthropic capital.
While our work is grounded in the region where we live, we recognize that the challenges we face in the 21st century are global in nature. So we see our home as a living laboratory, where we experiment and prove out resilience approaches that we are now more actively working to share with other regions, and to learn from them as part of a larger community of resilience practitioners.
How does your work relate to efforts to build resilient communities?
At its core, resilience is the capacity to influence and adapt to change. Creating resilient communities involves the adoption of principles and practices that foster that capacity, especially with an understanding of specific social, economic, or ecological vulnerabilities that a particular community might face. In our recent report, Resilience and Transformation, we describe this approach, and how it requires a shift from top-down community development models that are geared toward goal-oriented outcomes to one that recognizes the need for cultivating new dynamic, bottom-up institutional models that embody resilience principles and address vulnerabilities at multiple scales.
In addition to programmatic initiatives, Ecotrust works to deploy creative financing through our working endowment (the Natural Capital Fund) and other sources of catalytic capital (such as New Markets Tax Credits) to invest in early-stage innovations that are building resilience in our urban and rural environments. For example, we made an early investment in Seattle's new Bullitt Center, which aspires to be the world's first commercial "living building."
Another example is our work on FoodHub, an online marketplace for connecting wholesale producers and buyers of local food. It is a critical piece in the puzzle of imagining regional food systems, helping create new value chains by facilitating the connections between local growers and large buyers such as schools and hospitals, and laying the groundwork for the needed aggregation and distribution infrastructure.
Please describe one key principle for building resilient communities.
One of the core design principles we recognize for building resilient communities is the cultivation of rich and highly networked relationships. Rich and diverse relationships allow for the development of social capital, local and regional self-reliance, and robust feedback loops that allow for learning and adaptation. We start by asking how these relationships might better support the viability of local and regional economies; how they can more openly and broadly share information? We believe that building robust networks for learning, with rich feedback loops will allow us to respond and innovate more quickly in the face of increasing challenges and change.
A couple of years ago we commissioned an artist to illustrate what we are after, and literally paint a picture of the resilient economies towards which we are working.
Detroit resilience maven Shel Kimen will come to 'The City Resilient'
Like all PopTech audiences, the crowd attending the upcoming event, "The City Resilient," will be filled with people of extraordinary talent and knowledge. As examples, PopTech asked a handful of these thought leaders to answer three questions about their work and their views on community resilience. Here is Shel Kimen, Founder and CEO, Detroit Collision Works.
Please briefly describe your work and your typical working day.
I wish I had a typical day every now and again! Because I am a start-up social enterprise with a working prototype, my time is split in three core areas: 1) Community outreach: meeting people in the city that have aligned programs or could somehow benefit from what we are creating, 2) Start-up operations, which is everything from finalizing our land sale and plan for community financing, to keeping people up to date on progress and architecture/design, 3) Operating the prototype, which means keeping office hours at our demo unit, coordinating special events designed to bring diverse people together, having one-on-one or small group conversations/story sessions with 20 or more people a week, as well as construction of the second unit which is about to start next week! It's more than I ever thought I was capable of and extremely rewarding.
How does your work relate to efforts to build resilient communities?
Resilient Communities need intentional and dedicated spaces for sharing, empathy-building, and co-creating our new futures.
The space I am creating, a boutique hotel and community space designed to connect people through storytelling, is made to do just that. It's a platform for *all* the voices in Detroit, an opportunity to connect some dots, integrate travelers with ideas and valuable experiences into our culture, and spend some worthwhile time reflecting on where we are now and where we want to go — together. Our past stories hold valuable lessons for our futures.
Please describe one key principle for building resilient communities.
I'm hanging my hat on empathy. When you hear someone's story you see the world through their eyes. When you can feel a little of their pain, joy, love and fear, you are more inclined to reach out, lend a hand, and trust begins working its magic. You also learn stuff! Communities get strong because empathy helps them understand the inter-relationship of all the people within it and value the contribution each brings. Empathy breeds an extraordinary capacity to weather hardship of which we in Detroit have had plenty (!) and also weather the growing pains of success, which we are about to face head-on (gentrification, culture clashes, and conflicts of vision).
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Daniel Radcliffe enjoys his privacy, and to help maintain it, he keeps away from social media and movie premieres for films that aren't his own.
"There's certain things you can make a lot easier on yourself," Radcliffe, 24, tells the U.K.'s Sky News. "If you don't, for instance, go to premieres that aren't [for] a film you're in, or don't just turn up at other events and stuff like that, then that's obviously gonna help to not fuel [interest]."
Radcliffe adds that when celebrities regularly divulge details of their lives on Twitter, it makes their requests for privacy seem less genuine.
"Also, I don't have Twitter and I'm not on Facebook, and I think that makes things a lot easier because if you go on Twitter and tell everybody what you're doing moment to moment, and then claim you want a private life, no one's going to take that request seriously."
Radcliffe has learned to manage his fame over the years, admitting that it used to upset him.
"When I was 18 or 19, there was definitely a level of frustration around. ... I did have to think where I went more than a lot of my friends, and you do get a little frustrated around that age. But ultimately it's childish, petulant," he adds.
"People always say to me, 'Do you feel like you missed out on a childhood? Do you feel like you had your childhood taken away?' And I'm like, 'No, that's ridiculous, kids who are abused have their childhoods taken away from them," the actor explains.
Radcliffe costars with Jon Hamm (who himself also stays away from Facebook) in the new miniseries A Young Doctor's Notebook. The actors play the same character at different stages of his life even though there's a considerable height difference between them – Daniel is 5-foot-5 and Jon is 6 feet tall.
"Jon is actually really small, he just wears heels," Radcliffe joked.
Daniel Radcliffe: Why I Avoid Twitter and Facebook
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Captivate, compel and inspire your viewer with color! Award-winning artist Joseph Dolderer guides you through three variations of the block study as you learn to use color to express form and value. Discover how to analyze and paint color and plane changes, and depict transitions using warm and cool hues. Paint a simplified still life and use color, highlights and value shifts to create a fully dimensional, sculptural quality. With each exercise, you'll hone a powerful system for mapping out compositions as masses of color and light. Once mastered, this skill will help you simplify much more complex subject matters. Still lifes, landscapes and portraits will come together faster, easier and more radiant than ever before!
Meet your instructor, artist Joseph Dolderer, and learn how you'll explore color and planes over the course of this class.
Prepare for your first study, which consists of a single block against a solid-colored background. You'll learn how to lay in elements as you create a grisaille to set the stage for your color work.
Discover new ways to identify and adjust color as Dolderer walks you through ways to lay in each hue efficiently, work with cast shadows, add a second color cycle and work with temperature changes.
Add more blocks to increase the complexity of your studies as you develop each block and the background, working with anchor points and various planes as you go.
Continue the study you started in the prior lesson as Dolderer walks you through troubleshooting tips and best practices for identifying more complexity in various planes, values and hues.
Once you've gained the skills to work with multiple blocks, you're ready to start tackling the challenge of round objects. Dolderer walks you through specific considerations to take into account when creating the grisaille and early color cycles, continuing to challenge your eye as you examine color in new ways.
Continue your round object study with an in-depth look at planar relationships, developing your eye to identify subtle, sculptural elements in your work. You'll add highlights and final transitions before learning when a piece is "done."
In the conclusion of this class, Dolderer applies the color and value studies you've developed to complex dimensional studies such as everyday objects and the human form. You'll examine the play of color, value and light in portraits and consider how to continue developing your new-found skills in future works.
"I have so enjoyed this class (...) this class is just what I needed to get me back trying to learn to paint. Joseph does a great job explaining and breaking down light and shadow and the color of light on form. I am determined to do lots of grisailles and block color studies this summer and watch his class over and over. I would love to see more from Joseph here on Craftsy with him teaching more simple still-life classes. I would sign up for every one!"
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At the end of the day, even the optimists and pessimists came to a consensus. The Buffalo Sabres' glass was empty.
The latest loss, a 4-3 setback against Pittsburgh on Sunday, had enough twists to give both faithful fans and fed-up followers evidence for their causes. Buffalo showed character in rallying from a dreadful start, and the Sabres were in position for a weekend sweep of two elite teams. Then they failed to deliver, continuing the run of crucial mistakes that have turned this into a season of frustration.
"At the end of it all, we'd be a lot happier with the two points we deserved to be walking out with," said Steve Ott, who gave the Sabres a 3-2 lead with 14:43 to play. "We should have worked our way back, clawed, scratched and left here with some points. It's disappointing when we're walking out of it empty-handed."
The Sabres had nothing to show for the effort because their only lead lasted less than two minutes. Pittsburgh collected a turnover by Jason Pominville, got the Sabres running around and tied the game with 12:54 left.
With 2:04 to play, Paul Martin shot past a screened Ryan Miller to send the Sabres to their third loss in four games.
This one ate at Miller. The goaltender unleashed several profanities after the Sabres fell to 3-4-1 in First Niagara Center. In every regulation loss, the game was tied during the third period.
"We're neither competent enough nor experienced enough with the lead in the third period," Miller said. "That burned us. It's not acceptable.
"It's 3-3, get to overtime. It's 3-2, [expletive] make them come all the way down. We worked too hard."
They did work hard …
"But in the end we still have zero points," defenseman Christian Ehrhoff said. "That's what matters. Obviously, we played a lot better against a very good hockey team. There's more positive things we have moving forward, but still frustrated because there was definitely more in that game for us."
The way things started, it's surprising the Sabres even had a chance. They added another chapter to their history of poor starts, falling into a 2-0 hole after just 87 seconds. Yes, No. 87 was involved.
Pittsburgh picked on Cody Hodgson to open the scoring 35 seconds after the anthems. Pascal Dupuis easily stole the puck from the center to give the Pens possession, then got in position to deflect Brooks Orpik's point shot.
The Sabres quickly compounded their problems by heading to the penalty box. Tyler Myers was whistled for high-sticking with 1:08 gone, and the Penguins' second-ranked power play connected.
Evgeni Malkin fired a shot off the back boards, with the carom heading to Sidney Crosby at the goal post.
His shot nearly crossed the goal line before Mike Weber dug it out, but the Sabres defenseman knocked it back in with 87 seconds gone to match the number on Crosby's sweater.
"Our first minute and a half was definitely pretty tough," Ott said.
Hodgson gained a measure of revenge by making it 2-1 with 6:32 off the clock. The center got in front as Ehrhoff shot from the point, grabbed the rebound and went wide to beat Marc-Andre Fleury for his seventh goal.
The Sabres' struggling power play came through midway through the second to change the game. Crosby went to the box with 7:39 gone, and Tanner Glass joined him two seconds later for a faceoff violation. The fans promptly cheered the impending five-on-three, and their enthusiasm was rewarded.
The Sabres ended a power-play drought of 13 straight. Ehrhoff, at the right point, slid a low, hard shot toward Thomas Vanek in the slot. The NHL's leading scorer calmly deflected it home with 23 seconds left into the two-man advantage for his 12th goal.
The Sabres put the Penguins in a hole for the first time with 14:43 left.
Nathan Gerbe's shot from the right side hit Orpik, and the carom went directly to Ott in the slot. Buffalo had a late 3-2 lead and a chance at two wins in a row after beating Boston on Friday.
"You know you have that opportunity to seize the moment," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said, "and we didn't."
The tying goal came after Pominville came close to the blue line but didn't cross it. The Penguins took advantage. Kris Letang threaded a cross-ice pass to Dupuis, who celebrated his second of the day with 12:54 left.
"Giveaways will happen," Pominville said. "It's part of the game. You just have to make sure we play well in our zone, and at that point we didn't. They end up making a play."
They made another to deprive the 19,070 fans from seeing overtime. Crosby had the puck knocked away deep in the Buffalo zone, but it went to Martin at the top of the circles. His high shot flew off Ehrhoff's hip at the top of the crease to give the Penguins their third straight victory and make Buffalo's comeback moot.
"We've got to learn how to bury teams when we have the chance," said Hodgson, whose team hosts Winnipeg on Tuesday. "We went up a goal, had momentum again. We were rolling there for a little while, and it's just too bad how it worked out."
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Shelley Moore Capito has failed to discharge her oath of office.
The very first law passed by the first session of the House of Representatives was "An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths."
According to Matthew Spalding at The Heritage Foundation, under current law any individual elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services, except the President, shall take the following oath: "I (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I well bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter." (33U.S.C. & 3331)
The 4th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution reads, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Given the resent disclosure of the myriad spying programs (Xkeystroke and prism, look these programs up for yourself) it has become abundantly clear that the National Security Administration is deliberately and knowingly violating the Constitutionally protected Godgiven rights to be secure in our person, houses, papers and effects from unreasonable searches and seizures of every American that uses a computer to search the Internet, uses email or makes a cellphone call.
There is no warrant needed to do this spying so therefore there is no due process either. Due process is a bedrock principle of these Untied States. Without due process we are nothing more then mere subjects of the ruling class, vassals of the elite, to be handled anyway the "government" deems reasonable. Is this the government Jefferson, Madison and Henry left us? I think not. History tells us this is the very form of government that we are "duty bound to alter or abolish."
So why did I open this letter with the charge that Shelley fails to discharge her oath? You see on July 24 the Honorable Justin Amash, representative for the state of Michigan, proposed "amendment 413 - An Amendment ... to end authority for the blanket Collection of records under the Patriot Act." It would also stop the NSA and other agencies from using Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect records, including telephone call records, that pertain to persons who are not subject to an investigation under Section 215.
It should come as no surprise that Shelley Moore Capito voted against the very Constitution she swore to protect and defend as she voted for the Patriot Act not once by twice. Since this amendment would undo a small portion of that act, she just could not bring herself to admit her vote for the Patriot Act, which by the way condoned and permitted the various spying agencies to turn their technologies inward onto the citizens they are charged with protecting, was a huge mistake and is a direct assault on the protections guaranteed by the 4th Amendment.
In the May 2014 primary election, Shelley Moore Capito is running for a seat in the U. S. Senate. She has had 13 years as a congresswoman and has failed to discharge her oath of office on numerous occasions. In campaign mode, she says all the right things, but when it comes down to action she abandons the Constitution and West Virginians.
I urge everyone to do their own homework and review her voting record. Should we send her back to Washington, this time as a senator, because she has name recognition? Or should we support a true conservative Republican?
Gerald L. Hayes Jr.
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If you're like me the the traditional fruit cake, layered in marzipan and thick, hard white icing is about as appetizing as cold noodle soup. So here's a perfect alternative that all the family will love.
It's chocolaty, it includes Guinness and you can decorate the top of the cake with the kids as normal. The perfect solution!
Warning the likelihood of there being leftovers of these cake are nil.
Here's the recipe:
250ml Guinness
250g unsalted butter
75g cocoa
400g caster sugar
1 x 142ml pot sour cream
2 eggs
1 tablespoon real vanilla extract
275g plain flour
2 1/2teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
300g Philadelphia cream cheese
125ml double or whipping cream
Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180°C, and butter and line a 23cmspring-form tin.
Pour the Guinness into a large wide saucepan, add the butter – in spoons or slices – and heat until the butter's melted, at which time you should whisk in the cocoa and sugar.
Beat the sour cream with the eggs and vanilla and then pour into the brown, buttery, beery pan and finally whisk in the flour and bicarb.
Pour the cake batter into the greased and lined tin and bake for 45 minutes to an hour. Leave to cool completely in the tin on a cooling rack, as it is quite a damp cake.
When the cake's cold, sit it on a flat platter or cake stand and get on with the icing. Lightly whip the cream cheese until smooth, sieve over the icing sugar and then beat them both together. Or do this in a processor, putting the unsieved icing sugar in first and blitz to remove lumps before adding the cheese.
Add the cream and beat again until it makes a spreadable consistency. Ice the top of the black cake so that it resembles the frothy top of the famous pint.
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Ark. authorities to tackle school shooter training
UPDATED 7:03 PM CST Jan 04, 2013
Authorities in Arkansas plan to form a committee that will provide schools with a training plan for active-shooter situations
Arkansas State Police said Friday that Ken Jones, director of the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training, will head up efforts to establish the committee.
State Police also say the training will only be offered at the request of local school district officials.
The news of the committee comes after a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, last month at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. The shooter also killed his mother and himself.
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After technical and supply-chain problems postponed delivery of Boeings latest and greatest airplane for more than three years, the 787 Dreamliner program has had a mostly positive 2012.
Plane problems
Shimming: In February, Boeing admitted incorrect shimming was performed on support structure on the aft fuselage of 787s. That faulty spacer work was performed in one of the North Charleston factories.Engine shaft: In July, the second Boeing 787 built in South Carolina experienced a fiery engine failure that prompted international headlines, then a National Transportation Safety Board investigation and a Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive.Cooling unit/electrical: In September, Indian media reported problems with the cooling and electrical systems on Air Indias first plane.Fuel leak: In November, Boeing recommended inspections of its fuel-line connections after it received reports of fuel leaks. On Wednesday, the FAA issued an airworthiness directive requiring inspections of the couplings, especially the lockwires that help hold them together.Unknown: On Tuesday, a new United Airlines 787 had to make an emergency landing in New Orleans after a mechanical issue arose on its way from Houston to Newark, N.J. The exact cause has not yet been identified, but investigators are looking at a failed generator.READ MOREFor more coverage, go to postandcourier.com/boeing
But while taking several steps forward this year, like delivering 35 planes to eight airlines, the jet program also has suffered the occasional stumble, including a couple this week.
On Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued an airworthiness directive requiring inspections of the 787s fuel line connections.
It is the second 787-related AD in four months. The second S.C.-built 787 experienced a fiery engine failure during pre-flight taxi tests in late July that led the FAA in September to require repetitive checks of the GE-made engines.
The new directive came a day after a weeks-old United Airlines 787 had to make an emergency landing in New Orleans after a mechanical issue arose on its way from Houston to Newark, N.J.
The jet landed safely, and the passengers continued their journey on another plane. While the exact cause has not been determined, investigators found that one of the jets six electrical generators failed, the Seattle Times reported Wednesday.
Scott Hamilton, a longtime Boeing watcher, called the issues new-airplane bugs.
If more of these show up, there could be some passenger avoidance, but Id say its too soon to worry about that, Hamilton, of the Issaquah, Wash.-based aviation consulting firm Leeham Co., wrote in an email.
This weeks directive, or AD, applies only to U.S.-registered planes, the three delivered so far to United, but it follows a Nov. 25 recommendation from Boeing to all its 787 customer airlines to perform the inspections and any necessary fixes.
We are issuing this AD to detect and correct improperly assembled couplings, which could result in fuel leaks and consequent fuel exhaustion, engine power loss or shutdown, or leaks on hot engine parts that could lead to a fire, the FAA directive stated.
Hans Weber, an airplane engine expert in California, said the latest airworthiness directive is sort of embarrassing for Boeing.
But its not a big deal, said Weber, president of TECOP International Inc., calling the fuel line problem readily checkable and its readily repairable.
The directive was prompted by reports of fuel leaks on two in-service 787s. Subsequent inspections showed several improperly assembled couplings on in-service and production airplanes, according to the FAA.
The couplings, as well as several other system connections, are housed in pylons that connect the engines to the wings, said Lori Gunter, a Boeing spokeswoman.
There are two fuel lines, one rigid and one flexible, that feed the fuel from the wing into the engine, Gunter said, and both couplings have had problems.
They have included couplings with missing or improperly installed lockwire, which holds the tubes tightly together; other parts within the coupling installed in the wrong locations; and incorrect or extra parts installed in the couplings.
The FAA said the AD is necessary because the unsafe condition ... is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design.
Gunter said the defects have been traced to workmanship issues, not design flaws.
What well do is look at the work direction and make it really clear, Gunter said, referring to the building documentation and hinting at the possibility of more training.
Weber speculated that the fuel line problem could be another side effect of the 787s ambitious global supply-chain strategy, where major components like the wings and engines come in fully assembled and Boeing must piece them together on its final assembly lines in Washington state and in North Charleston.
I would start looking at who supplies what, who assembles it, and look at the instructions that these people were given, he said.
Gunter declined to reveal whether the poor workmanship occurred in Washington or in South Carolina, calling it immaterial.
Were not answering that question because it really doesnt matter, she said. Its one production system.
She also wouldnt say which airlines experienced the fuel leaks and said there would be no further specifics on subsequent findings.
The directive requires airlines ensure the lockwire is installed correctly within seven days and that they inspect the assembly of the couplings within 21 days.
Gunter said more than half of the 38 Dreamliners in service have been inspected and that Boeing will inspect all the 787s still at its plants before delivering them.
The airworthiness directive will cost an estimated $900 per airplane, a tiny sum compared with the $206.8 million current list price of the jet model.
A Boeing South Carolina spokeswoman did not respond to a call Wednesday about this weeks issues.
The North Charleston complex delivered the first locally assembled 787 on Oct. 5 and was scheduled to deliver another plane that month. But all that has happened since has been test flights, including Tuesday and Wednesday.
Reach Brendan Kearney at 937-5906.


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Begin of tour: Shipping port San Nazzaro
Access starting point: Arrival by train or by ship from Locarno
Point of arrival: Shipping port Vira
Access point of arrival: Return trip by train or by ship to Locarno
Hiking time: 01:30 h
Physical fitness: easy
Difficulty: easy
Difference in elevation: 160 m
Culmination point: 356 m
Season: January - December
Gastronomy: San Nazzaro, Vairano, Piazzogna, Vira
Overnight: San Nazzaro, Vairano, Piazzogna, Vira
Literature: Hiking map Tessin Sottoceneri
From shipping port San Nazzaro follow the hiking trail to the right in the direction of Vairano. At the chapel of Vairano follow the hiking route in the direction of Piazzogna, hike straight ahead, in Vira follow the hiking trail in the direction of Imbarcadero. From the port ships sail back to San Nazzoro or via Magadino to Locarno.
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Writing about Soccer
By MortazaviBlog on Nov 23, 2006
Rob Hughes must be one of the most engaging soccer writers, at least as far as the English speaking world is concerned. Here are four paragraphs from a recent story he wrote for International Herald Tribune ("Tale tales and high finance in Champions League"):
Get through to the next round, get back some of the wounded, rediscover the appetite eroded through a World Cup year, and Barça could yet be the team to beat in the Champions League.
Meanwhile, the only other fresh qualifier Wednesday was Inter Milan, which drew the largest audience of the night, 69,001, and saw off Sporting Lisbon with a solitary goal from Hernán Crespo.
This Argentine, seldom happy when he was in London with Chelsea, which still owns his registration, lives on the edge of the offside trap.
On Wednesday, he had an early goal strike overruled by a linesman's flag, but when the ball was played through at 36 minutes, Crespo sped beyond the defense and venomously struck the ball low past the advancing goalkeeper.
A stunning finishing, a goal that stood, and if there was again the question of whether he was marginally offside, he deserved to be the match winner.


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The proposed sale of Charleston's ABC station is generating some static within the TV industry.
On the web
Go to americancable.org/node/4380 to see the American Cable Association's filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
The latest group to come out against the deal is a national trade organization representing small and midsized cable television companies.
The American Cable Association said last week that the sale of Mount Pleasant-based WCIV-TV 4 to Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. "will reduce competition and harm consumers."
That follows formal protests from several other organizations. All point to Sinclair's trademark loophole strategy of setting up "sidecar" businesses to skirt rules that prohibit a single broadcaster from owning multiple TV stations in markets like Charleston.
That tactic, which has enabled the Maryland company to expand into a broadcasting powerhouse, is drawing fresh scrutiny.
Sinclair's latest deal provided the ammunition. The company announced in July that it is paying $985 million for WCIV and six other ABC stations, along with a cable outlet in Washington, D.C., from Allbritton Communications Co.
If the government approves the sale, Sinclair would own Channel 4 outright and control WTAT-TV 24, the local Fox affiliate, through a closely affiliated business.
Furthermore, the company has said it plans to continue running a third Charleston station it now owns but is looking to sell, WMMP-TV, under a deal with the buyer. Sinclair has owned the local MyNetworkTV carrier since 1998.
The blowback over what critics have called "covert consolidation" picked up this month.
Washington, D.C.-based media reform group Free Press, for example, filed a joint petition with Put People First on Sept. 13 asking the Federal Communications Commission to deny the sale.
Faye Steuer, a Mount Pleasant resident who belongs to Free Press, said she opposes the deal "because we need diverse, accurate, comprehensive, probing sources of news in order to make wise decisions that keep our democracy intact and healthy."
"It's highly unlikely that having two major local TV broadcasters owned and controlled by the same company will enhance the depth, breadth, or overall quality of local news," Steuer wrote in a letter to The Post and Courier, whose parent company owns 13 TV stations outside South Carolina. "We deserve better."
The American Cable Association weighed in Monday, saying in a statement that Sinclair is seeking virtual ownership of two of the "Big Four" in Charleston.
"Under FCC rules, the duopoly ownership of more than one of the four most highly rated stations in a local market — typically, the affiliates of ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — is prohibited," it said.
The Pittsburgh-based group's concerns are less about democratic principles and more about the bottom line. It said if the deal is approved, its members would be harmed because Sinclair-controlled outlets could work together when negotiating retransmission fees.
Those payments have become a big revenue source in the business. In exchange for programming, networks have started charging station owners, which, in turn, have been seeking fees from cable operators and satellite providers that carry their signals.
"Sinclair's intent is as clear as it is anti-competitive — to gain insurmountable bargaining leverage over ACA members and stage, when needed, massive and strategically timed blackouts to enhance the receipt of windfall profits," CEO Matthew M. Polka said in statement.
Polka's group is asking the FCC to either block the sale or impose conditions to prevent the Sinclair stations from colluding.
The company referred questions to finance chief David Amy, who didn't return a call seeking comment.
Contact John McDermott at 937-5572.


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A diploma for a rice cooker
16 July 2008, 05:45
by Eloisa Romero, JICA NGO Desk Local Coordinator
Makati City, The Philippines: Jephonie Himmiwat is an Ifugao, one of the indigenous people in the northern Philippines. Her people and their land are inseparable, thus both are called by the same name, Ifugao.
The Ifugaos are known for building the rice terraces carved on the high slopes of the Cordilleras. So impressive are these rice terraces, created over 2,000 years ago, that they earned the distinction as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995. As the Ifugao's source of life and art, the rice terraces have sustained and shaped them as a community. Hence, Jephonie's life, like everyone else around her, revolves around work in the farm.
In Japan, two women enjoyed a very different upbringing. Twenty-three-year-old Kiyoko Okamoto spent four years as staff at the Mister Donut chain while she was studying international economics in the city of Fukuoka. Thirty-year-old Kozue Kamijo worked part-time in a restaurant while attending a business school in the Japanese capital.
Chance brought these two different cultures together, amidst the backdrop of picturesque Ifugao rice terraces and the problems of the people tending to it. For behind the splendour of this man-made wonder lies a more mundane truth – many of the villagers are extremely poor and their children need better and more easily accessible education.
Jephonie, for instance, must walk several kilometres from her modest home to the nearest schoolroom and must always balance time for studies with farm work to help her family. If she is lucky she will finish high school and "hopefully go to college". But she has nine brothers and sisters wishing the same thing. Her father died in his sleep a few years ago, leaving her mother to work in the farm and fend for the family alone.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Kiyoko Okamoto and Kozue Kamijo are helping her try to fulfil that dream. The women gave up the office jobs they had secured in Tokyo to do volunteer work in the Philippines through a Japanese non-governmental organization (NGO), the International Keeping Good Sannan (IKGS).
JICA teamed up with IKGS to help Jephonie and other young boys and girls from the same community build what they called the Lagud Village Learning Inn in their hometown in Barangay Uhaj, Banaue. The two Japanese volunteers have been working with the youngsters at the education centre. The Lagud Village Learning Inn is a cluster of traditional Ifugao houses, perched on the top of a hill with a panoramic view of the mountains and rice terraces that lie around it.
The local teenagers study about their own Ifugao culture, plant trees to protect the rice terraces and welcome visitors who stay at the centre and participate in local activities.
This is where the skills that the Japanese volunteers learned in food service in Japan come in handy, in the Philippine uplands where they teach the young boys and girls how to serve and entertain their visitors. They also helped design a website and brochure to promote the centre, which has begun to generate a modest amount of revenue from accommodation and food charges.
Gains from the project are earmarked to help send some community members to school. This year, the project sends three of them to college. Jephonie eagerly looks forward to her turn.
Yet the learning and teaching process is always a two-way street. "We learned from them, too," the two Japanese volunteers said, referring to some of life's important lessons that the local people have taught them along the way.
While they helped several children go for further education, the volunteers learned how to cook without a rice cooker, wash clothes without a washing machine, and generally how to live in a simple society, in an environment totally removed from their own.
"These young kids can do a lot of things on their own: they can get firewood, carry heavy things across the rice fields, they even helped in constructing Lagud - its walls and ceiling and tables! And for that, we respect them greatly," the two volunteers added.
The experience has helped them become more independent and confident women, geared for adversities back home in Japan or wherever their future in volunteer work will take them.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is an agency under the Government of Japan in charge of implementing Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA).
See also: jica-ngodesk.ph
For photos and additional information about Lagud Village Learning Inn, please log on to www.freewebs.com/etourguide/lagud.htm


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EDITOR'S NOTE: The Post and Courier plans to profile all 18 Republican and Democratic 1st Congressional District candidates by the March 19 primaries. This is the 14th installment.
Curtis Bostic
Birth date: Oct. 23, 1963.Education: College of Charleston, bachelor's degree; Appalachian Bible College, bachelor's degree; Campbell University, law degree.Occupation: Lawyer.Previous offices held: Charleston County Council, 2000-2008.Family: Wife, Jenny; five children.Why I'm running: "I believe there is hope for America if all of us will become involved in the direction of our government."Proudest accomplishment: "My ability to build a team around good causes. That's how Remember runs. That's how our practice runs. It's not been by me; it's been by a good team I'm privileged to lead."Contact: stopspending.com; firstname.lastname@example.com; 843-870-0739.
Key dates
March 19: Republican and Democratic primariesApril 2: Primary runoff (if needed)May 7: Special election
Ask Curtis Bostic why he is running for the 1st Congressional District seat, and the former Charleston County councilman offers an answer much like many of his opponents.
"This sounds political, but it's the truth: the sincere belief that we Americans have to make a change of course over the next few years or we're going to have catastrophic problems," he said.
"I believe we need common-sense Americans to get involved in the political process."
Bostic appears uneasy with the task of promoting himself, but he said what distinguishes him from the field is his deep roots in the community.
He and his wife spent years raising their family in a mobile home to save up money to buy a 35-acre plot outside Ravenel.
There, they built a house and developed Peaceful Way, a retreat area with swimming, rock climbing, trails and other playgrounds. They regularly open it for use by churches and community groups. Once a year, they invite law enforcement officers and emergency responders.
This retreat is in addition to another nonprofit Bostic founded and directs: Remember, which provides aid in six of the most world's most struggling countries.
"We love this community," he said. "It sounds corny, but it's absolutely the truth. I think we are uniquely part of the fabric "
Bostic's Peaceful Way home and retreat lie almost a mile outside the 1st District. While the law doesn't require him to live in the district, some opponents have tried to make hay about his being outside it.
"Me living 4,500 feet from the district hasn't disengaged me from the community," Bostic said, adding, "I think my constituents should be rightfully concerned if their representative is engaged in the community, and I'll take that test any day."
If elected, Bostic said his first job would be to limit spending. His campaign website is stopspending.com.
"Congress' authority rests in its ability to restrict the flow of cash from the government," he said. "I would use my vote to influence more conservative spending habits and strengthen the ranks of like-minded people in the House."
He also would work hard on the unique aspects of the district, such as its military bases and the Port of Charleston. "I believe I can bring a strong constituent service," he said.
Bostic said he also is running in part as his record as a county councilman, a record that included eight years with no tax increases, success in luring new jobs, and the birth of the Charleston County Greenbelt Bank, a land preservation group Bostic patterned after the state's successful conservation bank.
Bostic may be closer to U.S. Sen. Tim Scott — whose appointment to the U.S. Senate created the 1st Congressional District primary — than anyone else in the 16-candidate field.
They served together on County Council for six years.
"He has remained a good friend," Bostic said of Scott.
While the new senator has remained neutral in the primary, Bostic said Scott encouraged him to run, adding, "He probably would encourage any good person to get in the race."
But Bostic's main message has remained focused on his record of service, from the Marines to County Council to his nonprofit work.
"I'm not looking for a place to serve," he said. "I have been serving."
Reach Robert Behre at 937-5771.


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Monday, January 14, 2013
Pinewood won its division during one of the nations largest high school girls basketball tournaments.
The Lady Panthers went 3-0 last week to claim the Palmetto Division Championship for the 2012 Bojangles Carolina Invitational. The title game for the division Saturday pitted Pinewood, the defending SCISA AAA champion, up against a defending Virginia Class AAA champion, Oakton.
The seniors paced the Lady Panthers in a 52-48 victory. Guard Katelyn Dambaugh and forward Jennifer Rhodes both finished with 12 points while forward Brianna Boyd posted 10. Maria Corella had 8 while Raygon Hendrix had 6 and sophomore Precious Paylor had 4.
We built up some momentum during the tournament in Myrtle Beach and my team picked up right were it left off there, Pinewood coach Nancy Beatty said. We still have some things to work on, but we are playing pretty good basketball and these tournaments are preparing us for region play. The game with Oakton went back and forth so it was a great way to end things.
Pinewood advanced to the championship with a 70-57 semi-final win over Seneca. Boyd led the Lady Panthers with 21 points while Hendrix added 17 and Rhodes 16. Dambaugh, Paylor and Corella also scored for Pinewood.
The Lady Panthers opened the tournament Dec. 27 with a 73-52 victory over Cheraw. Hendrix led the attack with a game-high 20 points. Rhodes scored 19 and Boyd scored 14. Dambaugh, Paylor, Corella, Sarah Deas and Caroline Chester also scored for Pinewood.
This year 48 teams participated in the Carolina Invitational. Most of the teams are from the Eastern United States but one Australian team also participated. Other division winners for the tournament were Franklin Road Academy and Greenbrier, Digital Harbor, Catholic and Cane Bay high schools.
Boyd was named the MVP of the Palmetto Division while both Hendrix and Rhodes also were named to the All-tournament team.
The championship follows a 3-1 performance the Lady Panthers turned in at this years Crescent Holiday Invitational. Pinewood bounced back from an opening-round loss to win the consolation bracket.
Like the Carolina Invitational, the field for that tournament was stiff as teams from multiple states participated. Beatty says both tournaments were a great experience for the Lady Panthers.
Hats off to the organizers of those tournaments, she said. They did a phenomenal job and its great to see girls teams get this kind of experience and exposure. Its great to have the opportunity to play the caliber of teams we played. Seneca has a player who is committed to Duke and Oakton is a well-coached, disciplined team so I am happy with the way we handled them.
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Women's Tennis Opens 2013 Season at Home Saturday
MUNCIE, Ind. - The Ball State University women's tennis team opens the 2013 spring schedule Saturday when it hosts IUPUI and Chicago State at the Muncie YMCA Tennis Center beginning at 1 p.m.
Ball State will face IUPUI in their first match playing three doubles and six singles matches. In the night cap, BSU takes on Chicago State at 6 p.m. with the same match format.
The Cardinals begin their 36th year of tennis at Ball State which began with the 1977-78 season. Ball State head women's tennis coach Christine Bader enters her third season at the helm of the Cardinals.
Ball State returns five letterwinners from last season. The Cardinals welcome back sophomore Courtney Wild who received First Team All-Mid-American Conference honors as a true freshman. Wild led BSU last season with an overall record of 21-12 at No. 1 singles.
The Cardinals will also host Milwaukee (Jan. 26), Butler (Feb. 7) while closing out non-conference action at home with a double-header March 15 against Oakland University and Aquinas College. BSU opens Mid-American Conference action at Miami March 23 before hosting the 2013 MAC Tournament at Cardinal Creek Tennis Center, April 26-28.


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I had a very long relationship with berets, but I've stopped wearing them since moving on from the girly 60s Parisienne obsession. I still very much like the structured uniform look, so I picked two hats from Many Hats Millinery that embodied that. I found a nice military-looking green tiny beret hat that was actually a fascinator, which I am wearing in the first two photos. A lot of times we think of crazy feathers, fishnets, and elaborate designs on these "mini hats" called fascinators. I found a nice selection of tamer designs on Many Hats that I think a lot of you will like.
The second hat was actually from a mixup, becauase I really wanted the last hat in the below collage! It would've fit in with the structured look I was hoping for while still being feminine, but I did easily fall in love with the hat that was sent to me instead. I think both of these would fit just fine with a lot of casual outfits, without going overboard or too retro (which I really don't have a problem with)!
Do you own a fascinator or would like to own more of one? Many Hats Millinery would like to give away any of their handmade hats valued up to $50 from their Etsy store! This giveaway is based on random drawing. Remember, the more entries you have, the more chances of winning. Good luck! Open to all (US and international) and will end on Sunday, May 19th at 12 am EST.


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A Coalton man who was arrested for arson this week is free on bond.
West Virginia State Police charged Raymond Yeager II, 42, Wednesday with third-degree arson and destruction of property, both felonies, for allegedly burning items that belonged to a woman who lived with him.
Yeager made bond - which was set at $20,000 cash, surety or property - on Wednesday and is awaiting preliminary hearing in Randolph County Magistrate Court.
According to the criminal complaint in the Randolph County Magistrate Clerk's Office, at approximately 11 a.m. Sept. 19, WVSP Communications notified Trooper M.J. Wilson with the Elkins detachment of a verbal altercation in process at Yeager's residence on Route 53 in Coalton.
When Wilson arrived on scene, a woman who identified herself as Joyce Main told Wilson that she was in the midst of moving out when she got into a verbal argument with Yeager. Main said Yeager was "not allowing" her to remove the remaining items that belonged to her from the residence, the complaint stated.
Main also told Wilson that she found one of her laundry baskets filled with clothes and bedding in the bed of Yeager's 2009 silver Chevrolet Silverado - and that the contents of the basket had been burned. Wilson then observed "a laundry basket which appeared to be burned and a pile of feathers" in the bed of Yeager's truck.
When questioned by Wilson, Yeager denied burning Main's belongings and "stated people had been burning things on his property since (Joyce Main) started moving out," Wilson wrote in the report.
Main told Wilson that prior to its incineration, the laundry basket had contained four pairs of jeans, six sweaters, four designer scarves, four pairs of tights and one down comforter totaling $3,239.
The penalty for a person convicted of third-degree arson is one to three years in the state penitentiary; the penalty for a person convicted of destruction of property (felony) is a fine of $2,500 or one to 10 years in the state penitentiary.
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The 4th ANNUAL DJF STAY AT HOME RED BALL IS NOW OVER!!!
Dust off the ball-gown, let out the tuxedo....and then put them back in the closet! You won't need them for the 4th Annual DJF Stay at Home Red Ball. So pull out the TV trays and stock up the fridge (or at least menus from local restaurants that deliver) and get ready for the glitziest, no-frills event of the season where you can win extravagant prize packages, help adults living with Autism throughout the USA, and never have to lift a finger (except to change channels on your remote). The ball is now over and here are the lucky winners:
PRIZE 1: Jack Burns
PRIZE 2: Adam Subber
PRIZE 3: Beatrice Gravino
PRIZE 4: Frank Stifelman
PRIZE 5: Dawn Calvetti
PRIZE 6: Kathy Solana
PRIZE 7: Richard Murnick
CONGRATULATIONS and THANKS to ALL!!!
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A clown-like man or woman who has a kitten's mouth, particularly with whiskers. These people usually collect puppets, and it is custom for them to carry knives at all times. If you want to get on their good sides, buy them nuggets.
Get the hell off me, kittenmouth! You're gettin' blood all over my sweatshirt.. Where in the world is that blood coming from anyway?
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when your too tired to brush your teeth before you go to sleep and you have been mouth breathing all night. In tha morning your mouth is dry, scratchie and tasete like kitten.
yawn" ewww. kitten mouth:p
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The dragon boats are coming back to Rocketts Landing on Richmond's James River.
Dragon boats are huge, decorated, megacanoes staffed by 20 synchronized paddlers (hopefully they are synchronized!), one drummer, and one steering person. Races start at 8 AM and the dragon boats race 500 meters up the river. There's entertainment, food vendors, all sorts of fun. The dragon boats are staffed by clubs from all over the midatlantic region, groups from businesses and corporations, sororities, fraternities, and just plain ole friends and last year 30 teams competed.
More Information and to sign up a team! Bring a chair, sit on the banks of the James and watch the racers! Festival should end around 4 PM.
Just up the river at 3 PM at Tredegar and South Seventh Streets, watch the duck drop that benefits the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Richmond and Tri-Cities. This is the 22nd Annual Duck Race and there are 12 prizes this year; the top prize is a 2011 Nissan Versa! To buy one duck to enter the race is only $6 and packages range all the way up to $250 Gold Duck Backer that includes 52 duck entries, a 2011 t-shirt, souvenir rubber duck to take home, 2 VIP passes for event day and 2 tickets to Bow-Tie Cinemas Movieland Complex. Duck Sales.
Starting at 11 AM on Brown's Island, you'll find a free, family event with inflatables, characters, rock walls, vendors, free snow cones provided by Captain D's.
Saturday July 30 2011 the James River in downtown Richmond is the center of attraction for fun and excitement. If you're coming from out of town, you might want to consider Richmond's premier bed and breakfast, located in the historic Fan District, 1 mile west of downtown, for a weekend stay. You'll kick off your day with a hearty gourmet breakfast to stick to your ribs throughout all the fun.
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Norman Nardini and Fall Festivals This Weekend!
October 5, 2012 - Jim Price
One of Pittsburgh's most famed rock and rollers makes his return visit to the area as part of this weekend's slate of live music happenings.
Norman Nardini will take the stage of the Altoona Ramada this Saturday night. Nardini will again bring along his current band of longtime bass player and Clearfield County native Harry Bottoms, guitarist Vinny Q, drummer Mike Flocari, and keyboardist and tenor sax player Larry Siefers. Expect to hear "The Manful Handful's" blend of blues-rooted rock'n'roll, R&B and country, mixed with his trademark sharp wit and sass. This show will reunite Nardini with his local friends Felix & the Hurricanes, and chances are good that the audience will see Nardini and Kos onstage together to generate some guitar fireworks. Local newcomer blues trio The Rhythm Sharks will open the evening. The show begins at 8 p.m.; admission is $10/person.
Fall festivals will also provide live music this weekend. Cresson's annual Heritage Days opens Friday evening and continues through Sunday afternoon. Country crooner Clay Bowser kicks off the music on Friday evening. Johnstown-based Johnny Cash tribute band Ol' 97 and The Sharptones provide the music on Saturday, and Sunday will feature John Stiffler entertaining at the Heritage Days car show, while Elvis Presley impersonator Brad Crum and one man band variety performer Zupe will provide the music under the main tent. Admission all three days is free.
Bedford's annual two-weekend Fall Foliage Festival launches this Saturday and Sunday, and provides continuous music on two stages. Local bluegrass favorites The Blue Shades and western PA-based rhythm and blues specialists Black Coffee will entertain on the Gazebo stage on Saturday, while Ligonier's Sugar Mountain will blend blues, rock, country, bluegrass, western swing and jazz on the River stage, followed by Canonsburg-based show band The Four Townsmen. Saturday's Fall Foliage Festival musical itinerary features Pittsburgh blues/rock foursome The Blues Junkies and western PA-based vintage rock/country group Brother Jeep and the Old Shoes Band on the Gazebo stage. The River stage will kick off with the Blue Shades, followed by former Povertyneck Hillbillies singer/fiddle player Chris Higbee and his band. Admission to Bedford's Fall Foliage Festival is free.
Prince Gallitzin State Park again presents their annual Apple Cider Festival in the Muskrat Beach area of the park, and live music will again be a part of this year's festival. Johnstown-based Celtic rockers Tree will perform starting at 11 a.m., followed by Cruzin' at 2 p.m. Admission to the festival is free, and donations will be accepted for parking.
Here is a full listing for live music on area stages this weekend and the coming week:
Clay Bowser at Cresson Area Heritage Days, Cresson (starts 5 p.m., free admission)
Ryan Krinjeck at Blue Knob Clubhouse, Blue Knob Ski Resort (starts 6 p.m.)
Doug Whitfield at Raphael's Steakhouse, Altoona (starts 6:30 p.m.)
Oktoberfest Party with The Hope Fallacy and Stereo Frenzy at Aldo's, Altoona
Jen Bertiaux at Pellegrine's, Altoona
All Natural at 4D's Lounge, Altoona
Felix & the Hurricanes at the Heidelberg Club, Altoona (members and guests)
The Hawks Blues Band at Mugshotz, Gallitzin
Dakota Rose and the Rhythm Sharks at Sankertown VFW, Sankertown
Without Zerb at Sokol Club, Lilly
Bedford Fall Foliage Festival, Bedford:
Gazebo Stage: Blue Shades (10 a.m.), Black Coffee (12 noon), Dennie Huber (2 p.m.), Déjà vu (3 p.m.)
River Stage: Sugar Mountain (10 a.m., 12 noon), The Four Townsmen (2 p.m., 4 p.m.)
Cresson Area Heritage Days, Cresson; featuring Ol' 97 Johnny Cash Tribute Band (11 a.m., The Sharptones (1:30 p.m.)
Doug Whitfield at Raphael's Steakhouse, Altoona (starts 6:30 p.m.)
Bon Journey at Penn State Altoona (starts 8 p.m.)
Norman Nardini, Felix & the Hurricanes and The Rhythm Sharks at Ramada, Altoona
Fueled By Ignorance (FBI) at Pellegrine's, Altoona
Hair Force One at 30 Something, Altoona
Emily's Toybox at 4D's Lounge, Altoona
The House Band at Shaw's Bar, Altoona
Screamin' Ugly at Aldo's, Altoona
Miss Melanie and the Valley Rats at Family Pizza & Pub, Altoona
The Good Seeds at Belmar Hotel, Altoona
One Brick Shy at Eldolyn Terrace, Altoona (starts 9 p.m.)
The Boomers at Bellwood Eagles, Bellwood (starts 8 p.m., members and guests)
Sunset Strip at Glenn's Place, Claysburg
Rock and Roll Gypsies at American Legion, Williamsburg
Full Throttle at Bedford Moose, Bedford
Fuse at The Castle Pub, Ebensburg
Juke Left at Jay's Place, Ebensburg
Ganister at Madhatters, St. Boniface
Locked and Loaded at City Hotel, Northern Cambria
Apple Cider Festival at Prince Gallitzin State Park; featuring Tree (11 a.m.) and Cruzin' (1 p.m.)
Bedford Fall Foliage Festival, Bedford:
Gazebo Stage: Blues Junkies (12 noon, Dennie Huber (2 p.m.), Brother Jeep and the Old Shoes Band (3 p.m.)
River Stage: Blue Shades (2 p.m.), Chris Higbee (2 p.m., 4 p.m.)
Cresson Area Heritage Days, Cresson: John Stiffler (12 noon), Brad Crum (Elvis Impersonator, 1 p.m.), Zupe (3 p.m.)
Villifi, Angel Eye of Deception and and Hopscotch with Landmines at Pellegrine's, Altoona (all ages, starts 6 p.m.)
Felix & the Hurricanes at Shaw's Bar, Altoona
"Blues Monday" with Stormy at Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona (starts 6 p.m.)
Ty Ayers (acoustic) at 4D's Lounge, Altoona
Wertz & Co. at 4D's Lounge (upstairs), Altoona
Open Mic Night at Mugshotz, Gallitzin (starts 8 p.m.)
Open Mic/Jam Night at City Hotel, Northern Cambria (starts 8 p.m.)
Open Mic/Jam Night at Pellegrine's, Altoona (starts 9 p.m.)
Steve Summerhill at Jethro's, Altoona (starts 7 p.m.)
Felix & the Hurricanes at Joe & Mary's, Altoona
Forever On Holiday at Thirsty Dawg Taverne, Patton (starts 9 p.m.)
(More shows may be added to this list as information becomes available. Feel free to check back.)
To report additional shows or corrections to this listing, email information to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Norman Nardini, during his May performance at Cresson's Blue Moon Saloon. Nardini and his band will perform at the Altoona Ramada this Saturday night.
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Enjoy the beautiful music of internationally renowned Hakuoh University Handbell Choir as they perform a range of songs from classical to contemporary Broadway tunes, under the musical direction of Hirotaka Arai.
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Manoa Campus, Saunders 624
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Connect a wide range of supported devices to the available I/O ports on the chosen Thin Mini-ITX-based desktop boards. These can include high-speed USB 3.0, HDMI*, and Intel® wireless adapters to support loading, modifying, and streaming digital media. Rely on Intel® Quick Sync Video, which allows the conversion of media from one device to another and prepares your media to share it online at incredible speeds.
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Many Thin Mini-ITX desktop boards support a combination of full size PCI Express Mini Card and half-size PCI Express Mini Card connectors. The Mini Card connectors are ideal for support of mSATA solid-state drives, WiFi, and third party TV tuner modules. mSATA Intel® Solid-State Drive modules and Intel® WiFi adapters can provide an excellent combination of system, responsiveness, dependability, and high-speed wireless connectivity.
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WVWC group plans fundraisers
Pancake breakfast set for Saturday
May 10, 2013
West Virginia Wesleyan College's Enactus, formerly Students in Free Enterprise, will host a pancake breakfast at C.J. Maggie's in Buckhannon from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday....
I wouldn't spend my money to support CJ Maggies for any fundraiser. The owner has his little 'click' meetings there that is destroying the entire city of Buckhannon. Don't take my word for it; check their 'click' and agenda out by googling "create buckhannon" and read their elitist agenda for the city. Oh, and if you are one of the working poor; they don't like you or your manufactured homes/trailers. These people think they are better than you. Just read the agenda for yourself! It's all in step with the UN's agenda for the 'no borders' one world govt; run by wealthy elites who want to 'control' the rest of us. I don't support these folks or their businesses. And since they want to treat smokers like they do; I won't be frequently any business in the city.
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To gain credibility for this enormity, they must hypnotize themselves into thinking that the revolutionary post-Renaissance Church of the past 500 years did not depart from the truth, which the Magisterium of the True Church had faithfully and dogmatically promulgated for the nearly one thousand five hundred years preceding the Renaissance. To sustain their argument they have to engage in a denial of reality by maintaining that there is no contradiction between the Church as it existed from the first century for more than a millennia, and the modern Church of the Renaissance and post-Renaissance. I don't see how they can maintain this fallacy, given the history and theology I present, which testifies to the magisterial dogmatic prohibition on all forms of interest on debt prior to the modernist revolution.
How can someone who denounces and exposes the revolutionary change that was suffused with escape clauses and justified by loopholes which led to the overthrow of magisterial dogma on usury -- be an enemy of the authentic Church of Jesus Christ?


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GM is currently in the process of performing some major upgrades to its facilities all over the country, and one of the big ones will be to move its Performance Build Center from Michigan to Bowling Green, Kentucky, home to the Corvette assembly plant. The Performance Build Center will allow GM to offer a new option to its customers. For about $5,000, C7 customers can travel to the plant, build their own engine (with the help of a GM technician, of course), and then watch it being installed. This actually isn't a completely new option, it's something GM has offered to Corvette buyers since 2010. But with the engine plant being in a completely different state than the car's assembly plant, the option to watch the engine being installed is new.
The idea does sound pretty cool, even if the price (which doesn't including travel or lodging expenses) does seem a tad high. But it must be a popular enough option if GM continues to keep it around. The new facility won't be up and running until spring of 2014, and since production of the new 'Vette is scheduled to begin in August, this obviously won't be the only engine plant. It's already been announced that one of the engines being offered in the C7 will be the 450-horsepower LT1 V8, and as Auto Week reports, this will be built in Buffalo, New York. Which exact engine or engines will be built in Bowling Green remains a mystery, but it's safe to assume die-hard enthusiast won't want to pass up on opportunity to lend a helping hand.


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LOCKPORT – A Buffalo man admitted in Niagara County Court Tuesday that he sold cocaine to a police informant in North Tonawanda March 7.
Jayquan A. Rivera, 21, of Interpark Avenue, pleaded guilty to fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and was scheduled for sentencing Jan. 29 by County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas.
In another drug case Tuesday, Rhonda G. Coulson, 27, of Walnut Street, Lockport, was allowed to withdraw her 2010 guilty plea to a felony and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor as a reward for successful completion of the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment after 2½ years.
County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III is to sentence her for seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance on Nov. 27. Coulson sold hydrocodone pills twice in Lockport in 2009.


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Our office can also help SLU departments navigate the process of bringing an international scholar or researcher to campus, or employ an international student.
We promote international student success and a global perspective for the University community. We welcome the chance to enhance your SLU experience.
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The Office of International Services exists to promote the globalization efforts and mission of Saint Louis University. As a Jesuit, Catholic institution, Saint Louis University is committed to intercultural communication and cross-cultural understanding. The Office of International Services challenges and supports the growth of all members of the University as leaders with a global perspective.


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