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#2. "But What About the Children?"
The adult world is a cruel mistress, and tiny people who don't yet have the emotional maturity to deal with it should be shielded from its worst parts. Sometimes this involves complaining to authority figures. In 2013, a family was on a United Airlines flight when the plane's drop-down screens started showing a movie that included explicit torture scenes. Because they had a 4-year-old kid with them, the parents asked that the crew perhaps consider showing something more appropriate for a captive all-ages audience. Understandable, right? Sometimes you gotta stand up and proclaim: "For the love of God, how hard is it to show a goddamn Pixar movie?"
The Problem:
The whole idea of "protecting children" in modern America has become a punchline.
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That family that complained about the movie? The airline responded by diverting their flight to a different city and having them questioned by the FBI. That's about what you'd expect from United customer service, but when news coverage of the diverted flight reached the Internet, swarms of commenters declared that the parents deserved everything they got, even though the guy who directed the film said that he agreed with their complaint.
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"You want us to show children a movie without torture scenes? WHY DON'T WE JUST FART DIRECTLY ON THE CONSTITUTION."
But you can't really blame people for this reaction. The last few decades have seen countless child-safety campaigns that consisted of taking away everyone's fun for the sake of parents who want the government to be the one to decide whether their 2-year-old should play Grand Theft Auto. Years of authority figures trying to ban violent video games or filter the entire damn Internet for the sake of "the children" have caused a bunch of people to start thinking that the entire concept of protecting children is something to laugh at.
The majority of people who think this way don't spend much time around children themselves, which is fine: Children poop everywhere, after all. But it also means they've never had children in their care go looking for cartoon pictures online and find fan drawings of My Little Ponies raping each other. If you bring up the slightest concern about child safety, even if it's something as inoffensive as "I think pony rape should not appear in filtered Google search results," people will start to back away, desperately trying to sweep their gaming consoles beyond your pro-censorship reach.
Thankfully, this issue seems to be improving: People on Tumblr recently started holding Safe Search days, in which they report inappropriate images that have slipped through search engine filters. But the tendency to panic every time someone brings up childhood innocence is still around, so if you must bring it up, make sure you carry around some pony-rape pictures to convince nonbelievers.
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"Well, I agree now that we should censor the Internet, but I also think that we should burn down the race of man."
#1. "Actually, That's Not True"
We live in a world of poorly sourced Facebook forwards, cable news, and acquaintances who never question where the hell their information is coming from. So it's cool if we correct others when they spout off an incorrect fact, right? We wouldn't want to be wrong about something, so the same must apply to them.
The Problem:
You're at your local Thursday night Babylonian re-enactment group. An acquaintance mentions that Easter is named after the goddess Ishtar, and that the spring festival in her honor was Christianized by the Romans. You interrupt to tell him that in most languages the word for "Easter" is derived from the Hebrew word for "passover," which sounds nothing at all like "Ishtar," so his theory doesn't make sense unless the Romans had a time machine that predicted the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons several centuries in the future. The speaker, shockingly, does not react with gratitude to your correction. Instead, he'll probably stop talking to you. Why? Because nobody likes getting corrected, especially to their face, especially in front of others. You've just made someone look like an idiot, all for the sake of something trivial.
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You also offended the Great Lady Ishtar, asshole.
But correcting someone about a "fact" they're reciting isn't always easy to avoid. If a dude has you cornered at a party and is eagerly telling you about how Mr. Rogers was once a Navy SEAL, your only options are to correct him or to nod and say "I didn't know that." The second option involves both telling a lie and betraying your sense of personal integrity, and you'll probably spend the rest of the party crying into your drink and avoiding the scrapbooking table.
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Scrapbooking is what people do at parties, right? I don't go to many.
Besides that, isn't it in some sense your duty to correct him? In 20 years, the guy you're talking to could be president, giving an important speech about how we must honor the memory of the great Navy SEAL Mr. Rogers by avoiding a war with Russia. The press will seize the incorrect Mr. Rogers attribution and ignore the speech's peaceful message. Good job ruining the world, jerk.
There is simply no way to win in this situation. You either come off like a dick or spend the rest of the day questioning whether you were right to hold back on acting like a dick. The only way out is to give up on social interaction altogether and devote your free time to the honorable task of adding those little "citation needed" tags to Wikipedia articles.
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quote: And yes, its noble to kill those who wish to bring harm to the innocent
quote: while we disagree on many things, we aren't going to kill each other
quote: Case in point. War, and Weapons are a reality and will always exist both as a deterrant, and as lethal force to be used against those crazy enough to pick a fight.
quote: I am not sure how old you are, but war is certainly a glorified thing to you. You probably think that after someone dies, they just respawn.
quote: Only thing I objected to was that as soon as you read this news you took out your American flag and started parading on the road. :-)
quote: This trend should continue as standard of living gets better and people get more educated. Then the risk of loosing what they have will be a big deterrant from starting a war.
quote: As for picking fights...I dont think any country has picked a fight with US directly since Pearl Harbour. US has chosen which war it fancies, picked a side and put on a grand show of their latest arsenal.
quote: Such arrogance wont win you any popularity contests
quote: or allow you to end conflicts by peaceful means


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You Broner haters have a lot more hating to do and a lot of ppvs to buy and you may never get the satisfaction of seeing him defeated. He is ****y, brash, arrogant and yes ignorant at times. But the clown you saw in the ring walk was not the fighter you saw in the ring. This kid is an assassin in there. Elusive, cat-quick and he hurts people with either hand. And btw he trains like a beast. You don't have to like it but a true fight fan won't deny it.
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Australia rate policy potent despite bank breakaway
Australia can still boast one of the most powerful monetary policy mechanisms in the developed world even as domestic banks threaten to gum up the works with higher home loan rates.
Blaming global pressures on funding costs, banks have lifted their rates despite official rates staying steady. That broke a decade-old convention and sparked talk the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was somehow losing control of policy.
"It's rubbish," was the response of Shane Oliver, chief economist and head of investment strategy at fund manager AMP Capital. "It hasn't made policy any less potent and the RBA has more than enough scope to keep it that way."
In fact, there are signs the spike in bank funding costs may have already peaked, nipping the problem in the bud.
The fracas began last month when the country's four major banks — Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ.AX: Quote, Profile, Research), Commonwealth Bank (CBA.AX: Quote, Profile, Research), National Australia Bank (NAB.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) and Westpac (WBC.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) — lifted home loan rates by between 6 and 10 basis points.
In all, 45 lenders lifted their standard variable rates by an average of 12 basis points, even though the RBA left its cash rate unmoved at 4.25 percent. The central bank is widely expected to again hold the rate on Tuesday, at its March meeting.
Home loan rates have tended to move in lockstep with the cash rate in recent years though the linkage has really been fraying since the global crisis of 2008.
Yet, despite the out-of-cycle step, most mortgage rates are still around 40 basis points lower than they were in early November when the RBA cut its cash rate by a quarter point to 4.5 percent, and followed with an second such move in December.
"The RBA's rate cuts last year are having the desired effect of boosting domestic demand," said Rob Henderson, chief economist markets at NAB. "Monetary policy still works, despite many reports of its demise."
Recent data on jobs, retail sales and consumer and business sentiment have all shown signs of improvement in the first two months of this year.
Monetary policy is a powerful instrument in Australia as the vast bulk of the A$1.2 trillion ($1.3 trillion) of home loans are variable so their rates are directly impacted by changes in the cash rate.
That is a stark contrast with the United States, where most loans were fixed for 10 to 30 years and largely set based on Treasury yields. That gave the Federal Reserve the much more arduous task of having to move long-term yields to affect mortgage rates.
This is a major reason the Fed has not only had to cut rates to near zero but also buy hundreds of billions of dollars of Treasuries to try and pull yields down.
"We at least have the luxury of operating at the front of the curve to affect mortgage rates," Guy Debelle, the head of the RBA's financial markets unit, noted last month.
"The fact that relationship is not exactly one-for-one makes our life a little harder than it otherwise would be, but it's a hell of a lot easier than in a lot of other countries."
He also said that the level of the cash rate had already taken into account the sharp rise in bank funding costs that followed the global financial crisis.
The RBA has estimated the extra cost for the banks at between 100 and 125 basis points. To compensate for that, the current cash rate is around 100 basis points lower than it would be otherwise.
There's no doubt the banks face a trio of troubles: higher funding costs, weak credit demand and intensified competition.
Ever since the events of 2008, investors have demanded greater risk premiums for lending to banks globally, putting an end to years of cheap funding. Australia's banks have had to pay more, like everyone else, though they remain among the most highly rated borrowers in the world.
Indeed, the spread they have to pay for funds began to widen further as Europe's debt woes came to the boil late last year.
Australian banks have also been engaged in a fierce battle for deposits that is adding to costs. Deposits lessen the reliance on wholesale funding and are favoured by regulators.
As a result, the share of deposits in funding has climbed to almost 52 percent, from under 40 percent back in 2007 and 2008. But that has not come cheap, with banks routinely paying rates between 5 and 6 percent for online and term deposits.
Since the major banks are keen to lift the share of deposits toward 60 percent, the cost is unlikely to come down soon.
Competition has also sharpened on the other side of the ledger as Australian households choose to save more and borrow less. Annual growth in mortgage debt has shrivelled to 5.3 percent in January, the slowest pace since at least 1977 and a long way from the peak of 22 percent in 2004.
Desperate for business, the major banks offer ever deeper discounts on mortgage rates for new loans. While standard rates for existing loans range from 7.31 to 7.46 percent, a few phone calls can easily get a quote 80 to 100 basis points lower.
Yet with the worst averted in Europe in the last few weeks, there have been signs that funding costs are easing again.
When CBA launched its first offer of covered bonds in January, it had to pay an expensive 240 basis points over government yields. But that spread has since come down to 198 basis points.
Also helping has been a recent rush of offshore issuance in Australian dollar paper, or Kangaroo bonds, since it helps lower the cost to local banks of hedging money they raise abroad.
Neither have the banks had any trouble in getting all the funding they desire, even if they have to pay up for it.
While many European banks are effectively locked out of the market, the four Australian majors have issued almost A$20 billion in covered bonds alone since October.
So far this year, they have raised around 5.6 billion in euros, 8.2 billion in Norwegian crowns and 1.5 billion in Swiss francs. Just last week, NAB sold $2.5 billion of three- and five-year notes in the United States.
And it's not as though the banks are unprofitable. In their last full year, the top four enjoyed a combined net profit of A$24 billion with a respectable return on equity of around 15 percent.
So with spreads now narrowing and the banks ahead on their funding needs, it is far from clear they will risk more customer anger by lifting mortgage rates further this month. The first move was highly unpopular and drew a torrent of negative press, as well as considerable political heat.
Assuming the RBA keeps the cash rate at 4.25 percent on Tuesday, that would leave the ball in the court of ANZ which will announce its mortgage rates on March 14.
Even were ANZ to risk it, any increase would likely be by a few basis points and the RBA has, essentially, 425 basis points of cash rate to work with. Which may have been one reason RBA Governor Glenn Stevens has sounded sanguine about the prospect.
"If the movements in the spreads start to take things for the overall economy significantly away from where we think they should be, then we would act to kind of offset that," he told lawmakers last month.
"We are still making the calls as to where monetary policy ought to be," Stevens added. "There is just a small bit of slippage in part of the transmission mechanism that I do not think is going to cause us a huge headache at this stage." ($1 = 0.9264 Australian dollars)
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Tatiana Volosozhar
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Born May 22, 1986
Tatiana Andreеvna Volosozhar is a Russian pair skater. With current partner Maxim Trankov, she is the 2012 European Champion, a two-time World silver medalist, the 2011 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and the 2011 Russian national champion. They are… Read More
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1986 Birth Born on May 22, 1986.
2000 14 Years Old Volosozhar competed for Ukraine with Petr Kharchenko from 2000–2004 and with Stanislav Morozov from 2004–2010. … Read More
2003 17 Years Old As a junior, Volosozhar skated for four years with Petr Kharchenko. They trained in Dnipropetrovsk in very poor conditions until they were able to move to Kiev in 2003; Volosozhar was accompanied by her mother. Their coach in Kiev was Galina Kukhar. The pair won several medals on the Junior Grand Prix circuit and were the Ukrainian national champions in 2004. That same season, they finished 5th at Junior Worlds and 14th at senior Worlds. They split at the end of the 2003-04 season.
2004 18 Years Old Volosozhar teamed up with Stanislav Morozov prior to the 2004–05 season, coached by Galina Kukhar. … Read More
2006 20 Years Old Volosozhar and Morozov had a good season in 2006–07, finishing 5th again at the European Championships and fourth at the World Championships. … Read More
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They also placed fourth at the 2009 European Championships and were 6th at the 2009 World Championships.
2010 24 Years Old 2 More Events
Volosozhar decided to continue her competitive career. In March 2010, rumors emerged that she might team up with Maxim Trankov. … Read More
2011 25 Years Old 2 More Events
She became eligible for international competition on 16 February 2011, in time for the Mont Blanc Trophy, where the pair competed in order to meet the ISU minimum technical score requirements for the World Championships. … Read More
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… With current partner Maxim Trankov, she is the 2012 European Champion, a two-time (2011 and 2012) World silver medalist, the 2011 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, and the 2011 Russian national champion. … Read More
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8801 N. Central Ave., Phoenix
Perfect for that 35th-birthday bash, or even date night for Mom and Dad, this north-central wine bar is dark and intimate and located in a former firehouse. Bomberos (which means firemen in Spanish) is a kind of unexpected neighborhood hideaway with a long, narrow patio that features live music most nights.
Dotted with fire pits, shade trees and cushy couches, the patio has the coziness of an outdoor living room. All the wines here are from South America (and are exciting to experiment with), but the breakfast, lunch and dinner options are decidedly global and light, ranging from pastries and omelets for breakfast to panini and cheese boards for lunch and dinner.
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At Girl Scouts, girls are always counting down to the next adventure they'll go on together. Maybe it's artistic. Maybe it's an experiment. Maybe it's getting outside or helping the community.
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To describe an outbreak and to identify risk factors for mumps occurring in a highly vaccinated high school population. (Note: Highly vaccinated means a population in which more than 95% have been vaccinated.)
Design and Participants:
Survey and cohort study of 307 (97%) of 318 students.
Outcome Measures:
Mumps was defined as an illness with 2 or more days of parotid swelling. Serologic confirmation of infection was obtained in eight cases, seven of which were evaluated for presence of IgM antibody using immunofluorescent antibodies. Vaccination records were verified for 297 (97%) students.
Between October 3 and November 23, 1990, clinical mumps developed in 54 students (attack rate, 18%), 53 of whom had been vaccinated. Most cases (40 [77%] of 52) occurred 12 to 20 days after a school-wide pep rally. Immunofluorescent antibody testing of all seven specimens demonstrated IgM antibody to mumps. Risk factors for clinical mumps identified in multivariate analyses included female gender (odds ratio, 3.0; 95% confidence interval, 1.6 to 5.7) and source of vaccination other than the local public health clinic (students vaccinated by private providers [odds ratio, 3.0; 95% confidence interval, 1.3 to 5.2] or in other districts [odds ratio, 2.4; 95% confidence interval, 1.1 to 5.3]).
The overall attack rate is the highest reported to date (and to our knowledge) for a population demonstrating virtually complete mumps vaccine coverage. Even verified documentation of vaccination may not be an accurate indicator of an individual's protection against mumps. Vaccination failure may play an important role in contemporary mumps outbreaks. We found no evidence to indicate that waning immunity (secondary vaccine failure) contributed significantly to this outbreak. A second dose of mumps vaccine, as recommended using measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, could potentially prevent similar outbreaks in secondary school populations in the future.(Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1995;149:774-778)
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I married Drew with no baseball loyalties and his whole family smelled an easy convert. Honestly, I'm happy to support whatever team he likes - and our kids feel the same way. :-)
We went to the park the other week during a special warm day and Hadley dressed to make her Daddy (and Grandpa. and uncles.) proud.
She was so stinkin' cute and got lots of attention at the park. ha!
I love that she's old enough to explore and play and want to do a lot of things she shouldn't do yet. Her walking is coming along and once she's more reliable the park will be even more fun.
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Originally published at: http://www.howtogeek.com/178044/the-agony-of-motion-sickness/
Experiencing motion sickness is an unpleasant thing, and something that all of us could easily do without. But is there a way for motion sickness sufferers to avoid experiencing it, or better methods for dealing with it if it occurs? With a busy holiday travel season coming up, YouTube channel SciShow explains what causes motion sickness, and offers helpful solutions for those of us who suffer from it.
Yep, ginger definitely helps. Mom makes ginger tea before a long trip everytime, and the one time I didn't have it, the sandwiches came out the hard way.
Having to travel across a wavy, up and down ocean jammed in a troopship once upon a time, what saved me was being able to munch on saltine crackers I had "liberated" from the ship's mess. A thousand or so G.I.s all vomiting more or less at the same time was definitely unpleasant, but the crackers seemed to keep my stomach settled. Needless to say, neither the Army nor the merchant marine provided ginger.
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New Jersey's criminal code, adopted in 1979, has been amended so many times - often in emotional response to a tragedy - that what began as a coherent system of punishment for
lawbreakers is today a hodgepodge of contradictory sentencing laws.
What is needed is an overall retooling, not another patch, of the state's criminal code. A report issued last week by the New Jersey Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing provides a pretty good road map on how to do it.
The changes made by the Legislature in the past 28 years, the commission found, has limited exercise of discretion by judges and prosecutors, made sentences longer, and even ensured that repeat offenders would become the norm.
The result is a $1 billion-a-year correction system that is little more than a revolving door. The chances of a 21-year-old who is sentenced to a 10-year mandatory term being able to become a productive citizen in his 30s are slim at best.
Gov. Jon Corzine is expected soon to unveil a plan to attack crime in the state. If the plan is to be meaningful, it must contain a blueprint to help the state find a thoughtful and effective way
to reduce the number of people in New Jersey's state prisons.
Fiscal reality cries out for a more economically efficient system. The state simply cannot afford to house 27,000 people a year at a rate approaching $40,000 per inmate.
Aside from the economic benefits of rethinking the harsh sentences, particularly for drug offenses, there are the human costs. In many neighborhoods, an overwhelming number of men are absent because they are incarcerated. Invariably, that has dire consequences for their families and the community at large.
Tackling the job piecemeal won't work. What is needed is wholesale reform.
A transparent, easily understood, predictable sentencing scheme that focuses on keeping violent, dangerous offenders behind bars while finding meaningful alternatives for those who
would benefit from drug treatment or other forms of rehabilitation is needed.
What has to stop is legislation by headline. Legislators, however well motivated, can't simply rush in and graft a new law on to the criminal code each time a child is killed or a neighborhood
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Rainforest Basins Summit Calls for South-South Cooperation
3 June 2011: The Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Three Rainforest Basins, namely the Amazon, Congo, and Borneo-Mekong basins, took place in Brazzaville, Congo, from 27 May-3 June 2011, to establish new ways to increase technical cooperation on forest matters, and adopted a joint statement on tropical forests, climate and sustainable development.
Participants attended sessions on: the state of forests in the three basins; REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks) and poverty alleviation in rainforest countries; and forests and the green economy.
In their joint statement on tropical forests, climate and sustainable development, participants agreed to, inter alia: maintain close consultations and promote common interests at various regional and international fora related to forests; prepare an action plan on sustainable management of forests and related resource use; and take concrete steps to promote dialogue and cooperation among their countries. They further called for a cooperation agreement among the three regional organizations, the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the Central African Forests Commission, with the aim to support South-South and North-South Cooperation.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a message delivered on his behalf by Abdoulie Janneh, Executive Secretary of the UN Commission for Africa (UNECA), stated that "Forests will only be protected and managed sustainably through a cross-sectoral and cross-institutional approach, complemented by the necessary resources." Janneh urged countries to support global forest financing processes, and encouraged South-South collaboration.
The organizing committee of the Summit was presided by the host country and included: the African Union (AU); ASEAN; ACTO; the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO); the UN Environment Programme (UNEP); the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); the Global Environment Facility (GEF); the World Bank; the African Development Bank (AfDB); and the Secretariats of the Rio Conventions (the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCDD), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)). [Summit Website] [UN Secretary-General Statement] [Summit Declaration]


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My first degree was in philosophy and psychology. I then did a PhD on the neuroscience of vision, and a years post-doc doing colour psychophysics with Profs Burr and Morrone in Italy, before coming back to philosophy.
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I am currently working with Ian Gold on a philosophy of neuroscience project, 'The Epistemology of Colour' (ARC Discovery grant).
- Chirimuuta, M., & Tolhurst, D.J. (2005). Does a Bayesian model of V1 contrast coding offer a neurophysiological account of human contrast discrimination? Vision Research, 45, 2943-2959
- Chirimuuta, M., & Tolhurst, D.J. (2005). Accuracy or identification of grating contrast by human observers. Vision Research, 45, 2960-2971
- Chirimuuta, M., Clatworthy, P.L. & Tolhurst, D.J. (2003). Coding of the contrasts in natural images by visual cortex (V1) neurons: A Bayesian approach.Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 20, 1253-1260
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The Phillies have star power. Whether they are in first place or last, the names in that lineup are recognizable throughout the baseball world.
While some (most) of the 11 former All-Stars boasted by the club are on the downward slopes of their respective careers, being voted to the All-Star Game is often as much about popularity as it is about performance.
Of the 34 players on the National League roster, though, only the eight starting position players are voted by the fans. The next 16, including five starting pitchers, three relievers and eight backup position players, are voted in by their peers.
The roster is then filled out by the manager—who this season will be none other than Tony La Russa—leaving one spot open for the final fan vote.
While the Phillies haven't been as dominating as fans would've hoped or expected before the season began, they have still had some standout performers who will undoubtedly garner consideration for inclusion in the Midsummer Classic.
Albeit with a good amount of baseball between now and then, it doesn't seem unreasonable to think the Phillies can match last year's total of five All Stars, despite the sluggish start.


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Date: Wednesday May 18, 2011
Time: 9 am to 3:30 pm
Location: NHS Hall at the Center for Urban Horticulture
Register online.
The Washington Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the University of Washington
Botanic Gardens present this symposium on issues surrounding the Sustainable Sites Initiative. This day-long
event will dig into the science behind and intent of the Sustainable Sites Initiative with a focus on how the SITES guidelines can transform our urban ecosystems, horticulture industry, and design and construction practices. Educational sessions and small group dialogue will identify the current obstacles and brainstorm ways to hurdle them. The day will build cross-disciplinary relationships, with focused discussion among horticultural specialists, landscape architects, nursery industry representatives, arborists, planners, scientists, landscape maintenance contractors and city staff.
Keynote address: Urban Ecosystem Services and Their Value by Kathleen Wolf, Ph.D. Dr. Wolf is a Research Social Scientist with the College of the Environment, University of Washington, and has a joint appointment with the USDA Forest Service Pacific NW Research Station to help develop a program on Urban Natural Resources Stewardship.
- The What and Why of Sustainable Sites Initiative by David McDonald. Mr. McDonald is a biologist and environmental scientist with Seattle Public Utilities, focusing on soil science and environmentally friendly landscape design and development practices. He serves on the technical core committee of the national Sustainable Sites Initiative.
- Salmon Safe Program: Local Performance Demonstrated by Ellen Southard. Ms. Southard, Honorary AIA, is the Outreach Coordinator for Salmon Safe and Stewardship Partners. She is a trained community engagement facilitator with 20 years experience advising on low impact development and preservation.
- Urban Design and Sustainable Sites: Dual Performances or Dueling Performances? by
Brice Maryman. Mr. Maryman is a landscape architect with SvR Design Company. His work focuses on making urban systems that are humane, ecologically-responsive, healthy and equitable.
- Can Nurseries Meet the Objectives of SITES? by Tom Quigley. Mr. Quigley is the owner and manager of Olympic Nursery in Woodinville, a retail/wholesale nursery and landscape installation firm specializing in trees, and past president of WSNLA.
- Breakout group discussions and reporting on solutions and next steps
Cost: $75, lunch included.
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Bataan March survivor's son: 'He was a hero'UPDATED 10:44 AM MDT Jun 16, 2014
A New Mexico veteran who lived through the horrific Bataan Death march never talked much about his ordeal, but his son has plenty to say about him.Video Transcript
HORRIFIC ORDEAL DURING WORLD WAR 2. NOW, ONE OF THE LAST REMAINING BATAAN DEATH MARCH SURVIVORS, HAS DIED. NEW TONIGHT, KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER ANNA VELASQUEZ SPEAKS TO HIS SON. IT'S AN EMOTIONAL STORY YOU'LL SEE ONLY ON 7. ELIAS SAVEDRA WAS ONE OF THE LAST BATAAN DEATH MARCH SURVIVORS IN NEW MEXICO. HE PASSED AWAY JUNE 4TH AT HIS SAN RAFAEL HOME. he was a good father. A hero. SAVEDRA SERVED IN THE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD DURING WORLD WAR 2. HE WAS ONE OF HUNDREDS FROM NEW MEXICO, SENT TO THE PHILIPPINES. ON APRIL 9TH 1942 THE U-S SURRENDERED IN THE BATTLE OF BATAAN. they were tough men, they were ordered to surrender. They were ordered to surrender NEW MEXICAN TROOPS AS WELL AS THOUSANDS OF OTHER U.S AND FILIPINO FORCES BECAME PRISONERS OF WAR BY THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY. WHAT FOLLOWED, WAS THE HORRENDOUS 65 MILE BATAAN DEATH MARCH TO PRISON CAMPS. I asked him a question about over there and he broke down and I says I don't want to bring any memories back you know the American flag and the POW flag always flew on his property but Elias Savedra didn't really like talking about Bataan FOR EXAMPLE, AT THE CEREMONY FOR THE CIBOLA COUNTY POW VETERANS, ALFRED SAYS HIS FATHER DIDN'T WANT TO BE THERE. when we left he said don't ever bring me here again! ELIAS SAVEDRA IS HONORED WITH SEVERAL MEDALS INCLUDING THE PURPLE HEART. AND AT THAT CEREMONY, SAVEDRA SAID TO THE PRESENTERS - get outta here. I don't want nothing to do with you guys. HE WAS KNOWN AS THE SILENT VETERAN. BUT ONCE IN A WHILE, HE DID HINT ABOUT THE ATROCITIES HE SUFFERED. He says I'm not hungry. And if any body's been hungry, I know what hunger is you know. Because he said they used to feed us nothing but rice. Three times a day and not enough They were tough men. They had to be. But they didn't want to die over there they wanted to come home ELIAS SAAVEDRA DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES. HE WAS 96. IN SAN RAFAEL ANNA VELASQUEZ KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS. SAVEDRA IS BURIED IN A SMALL CEMETERY, NEAR HIS HOME IN SAN RAFAEL. A PILOT WAS
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St. Peter's Prep did not bowl in the second session of the Woodbridge Classic on Saturday at the Woodbridge Bowling Center, but after finishing on top with a 3,112 total in the morning session, the No. 9 team in The Star-Ledger Top 20 waited patiently for the three hours to see if it would be accepting the first-place trophy.
The wait paid off for the Hudson County team. The morning session score, which came in two traditional games followed by five in Baker format, was good enough to give it a 16-pin margin of victory over second-place Iselin Kennedy.
"We love Baker. We usually shoot well in Baker," said St. Peter's Prep junior Anthony Matarazzo, referring to the format in which five team members bowl two frames each batting order style. "It's where we thrive. It's not all about one player, it's everyone getting a string of strikes and spares."
Iselin Kennedy, which rolled in the afternoon session, narrowly lost with a 3,095 total, followed by Hudson Catholic third with 3,025 and Morris Knolls fourth with 3,016.
Jack Cook of Morris Knolls tied with Anthony Ruiz for the high game with a 268 for the boys. St. Peter's Prep's Danny Tanelli was third at 265.
The competition for the girls title came down to Brick, which had not lost a tournament all season, and Brick Memorial. Brick was down 68 pins after the two traditional games, but came back to win with a 2,895, 49 pins ahead of its Ocean County rival.
"We're really confident during Baker games," Brick senior Sydney Scelfo said. "It helps us jell together as a team."
The two teams from Brick took the spotlight not only for their noticeably high scores, (1,968 and 1,900 after the two traditional games), but for their proximity on the lanes. They bowled side by side.
"This is the first time we've ever been right next to them," Brick Memorial's Katie Lash said. "It was rough. ... It pushed us though. This is the first time we've ever bowled over 1,000 in a tournament game, so we're up for the challenge every time."
Brick Memorial's Brandy Collins and Tori Boughton rolled the second- and third-highest games, respectively, with a 224 and 223.
The high game of 247 was rolled by Courtney Wiewiorski, who competed while recovering from a broken ankle and led Iselin Kennedy to a fourth-place finish. She competed the previous week in a cast but bowled without it this time.
"I can't put that much pressure on my ankle because it hurts so I had to change the way I bowl a little bit. I've gotten used to it," Wiewiorski said.
The Woodbridge girls finished third with 2,571. Iselin Kennedy rolled 2,528 to take fourth and Carteret (2,528) was fifth.
TEAMS: 1-St. Peter's Prep 3,112. 2-Iselin Kennedy 3,095. 3-Hudson Catholic 3,025. 4-Morris Knolls 3,016. 5-Linden 3,001. 6-Johnson 2,979. 7-Brick 2,966. 8-Old Bridge 2,964. 9-Colonia 2,900.
10-Woodbridge 2,895. 11-Montville 2,840. 12-J.P. Stevens 2,836. 13-Middlesex 2,793. 14-Brick Memorial 2,787. 15-Monroe 2,742. 16-Jefferson 2,699. 17-Roselle Catholic 2,642. 18-South Plainfield 2,640. 19-Edison 2,557. 20-Westfield 2,539. 21-Carteret 2,510. 22-Morris Hills 2,474.
HIGH GAME: 1-Jack Cook, Morris Knolls, and Anthony Ruiz, Carteret, 268. 3-Danny Tanelli, St. Peter's Prep, 265.
HIGH BAKER SCORE: Linden, 270.
TEAMS: 1-Brick 2,895. 2-Brick Memorial 2,846. 3-Woodbridge 2,571. 4-Iselin Kennedy 2,528. 5-Carteret 2,465. 6-Edison 2,422. 7-South Plainfield 2,401. 8-Colonia 2,337. 9-Monroe 2,290. 10-Middlesex 2,017. 11-Iselin Kennedy B 1,796. 12-J.P. Stevens 1,794. 13-Old Bridge 1,735.
HIGH GAME: 1-Courtney Wiewiorski, Iselin Kennedy, 247. 2-Heather Androvich, Carteret, 238. 3-Brandy Collins, Brick Memorial, 224. 4-Tori Boughton, Brick Memorial, 223.
HIGH BAKER SCORE: Brick, 234.


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These are fabulous! We purchased a box full for our school's "Glow Dance" where we shut off all the lights and kids dance around with glow sticks and neon glow necklaces etc. We sold these cups and they were a HUGE hit. There are three different flashing settings and can also be turned off. The only con is that they were a little bit smaller than I was expecting - I was thinking that they would be "beer glass" size and they're quite a bit smaller. All in all though a great purchase and a huge hit with Elementary, Middle School & High School aged kids.
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The mystery captivated islanders across the Caribbean: Would corrupt lawyer Karl Mason ever find out that Stacy, his conniving mistress, was the source of his sexually transmitted disease? Sadly, he wouldn't -- but Coconut Bay, a hit radio soap opera, was really a story with a moral about rampant overpopulation straining natural resources. Mason's fate aside, it was the bigger message that stuck.
Radio-based enviro-advocacy is one of the savvy initiatives being deployed in 30 developing nations by an unusual conservation group called Rare. Rare works with 120 environmental groups and governments to support 70 frontline conservationists running imaginative, region-specific initiatives. It's the only global conservation organization specializing in radio soap operas and social-marketing campaigns -- and in the past decade, it has grown by four times.
"We help the whole conservation community evolve by figuring out what works, standardizing these proven methods, and then leveraging our programs to make them available worldwide," says CEO Brett Jenks, 38. Rare creates impact through three major programs. The first, Rare Pride, uses guerrilla marketing to inspire conservation. In a 10-week course, Rare equips would-be conservationists to set up initiatives in their home countries that will encourage behavior change to protect endangered areas.
One success: an effort to stop farmers in Sierra Manantlan, Mexico, from letting their farmland fires burn out of control into protected forests. In partnership with community leaders, Rare created a colorful spokescharacter called the Pajaro Bandera. The six-foot mascot was the centerpiece of a 12-month campaign that involved traveling puppet shows, a hit mariachi song, and church sermons. As hokey as it may sound, it worked: Forest fires were reduced by 50%.
Then there's Rare Radio. Its serial dramas are powerful platforms for education in conservation, family planning, domestic violence, and other important issues. Changing Tides, Rare's third serial broadcast in the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau, attracts audiences of up to 70% of the population. The effect can be powerful: Rare Radio's pilot program helped contribute to a 13% decline in birth rates in St. Lucia by 1999, according to a study published in International Family Planning Perspectives.
Rare takes on ecotourism with a third program, Rare Enterprise. Ecotourism has been blamed for environmental strain, but Jenks believes it represents the next big step in locally driven conservation. Around the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, two hours south of Cancun, Rare Enterprise has spent five years building cooperative efforts among the Mexican government, Mayan locals, tourism operators, and rangers to ensure a richer tourist experience. It has shaped up to be another Rare success story: The park has been preserved, and the economies of surrounding communities are stronger.
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Mini Paceman JCW: from $58,600 plus on-road costs. 1.6-litre four-cylinder turbo; 160kW/300Nm; 6-sp manual; 8.0L/100km and 186g/km CO2; AWD
Audi Q3 2.0 TFSI: from $56,000 plus on-road costs. 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo; 155kW/300Nm; 7-sp dual-clutch automatic; 7.7L/100km and 179g/km CO2; AWD
Mini Paceman JCW
Higher purchase price, and auto transmission adds $3000. Has 18-inch alloys, sports body kit, 10-speaker Harman Kardon stereo with USB input and Bluetooth phone and audio streaming, xenon headlights, auto-dimming rear-view mirror. Only has single-zone climate control. Six airbags. Sat-nav costs $2470 extra. No reversing camera, even as an option.
Audi Q3 2.0 TFSI
Cheaper than the Mini and comes with an automatic gearbox as standard. Gear includes 17-inch alloys, reversing sensors, Bluetooth phone and audio streaming, dual-zone climate control, fog-lights, electric park brake, fake leather trim. Six airbags. No USB input, sat-nav a $3700 option, and reversing camera costs $1350 and includes auto parking system.
Winner: Draw
Mini Paceman JCW
Feels sportier and funkier than the Audi, and its trademark central speedo dial and media screen adds to the flair of the cabin. No rear doors (buy the Countryman for that) and only four seats. Good storage in the cabin. Boot is comparatively small at 330 litres, and there's no spare wheel as the Mini is fitted with run-flat tyres.
Audi Q3 2.0 TFSI
It's a bigger car, and feels roomier inside. Higher front seat position gives a commanding view of the road, but some may be left wanting to sit lower. Tidy presentation, but doesn't feel as special. Also has good interior stowage points, but adds extra practicality of rear doors, a middle rear seat, and a 460L boot with a space-saver spare wheel.
Winner: Audi
Under the bonnet
Mini Paceman JCW
Slightly more punch on paper, but its peak pulling power comes on later, so it doesn't feel quite as energetic off the line. Still, this tried and tested powerplant is flexible and revs freely. Clutch weighting not quite right - light at the top of the pedal, but too heavy as you let it out. Manual shift action is slick. Sport mode makes for better performance and adds exhaust pop and crackle.
Audi Q3 2.0 TFSI
Feels more urgent despite similar power outputs and weighing 165 kilograms more. Engine builds pace nicely, and there's plenty of low-rev pulling power. Seven-speed dual-clutch auto can fumble at lower speeds. Doesn't sound nearly as sexy as the Mini. Shame there's no manual option. Slightly better on fuel.
Winner: Audi
How it drives
Mini Paceman JCW
Has the point-and-shoot driving style that John Cooper Works' Minis have become renowned for. A lot of fun, with weighty steering offering lots of feedback. Ride is better than any other JCW Mini, and there is plenty of cornering grip. Feels more sporty through sharp corners.
Audi Q3 2.0 TFSI
It's not an extroverted sport model, but it drives as good as one. Lots of grip through corners, but slightly more body roll. Ride is fairly compliant, though repetitious bumps can be felt in the cabin. Steering doesn't feel as sporty as the Mini, but is more city-friendly.
Winner: Mini
Wow factor
Mini Paceman JCW
Far more lary, with bloated Mini looks and plenty of visual bling. Our car was fitted with a number of styling options such as a sports stripes pack and a red roof and mirror caps - all of which are available at no extra cost.
Audi Q3 2.0 TFSI
The conservative's choice, but it can be optioned up with a S line sports package with body kit and 18- or 19-inch alloys - the latter of which adds $8840 to the price. There's also an off-road styling pack with plastic body cladding and 18- or 19-inch wheels - the latter adds $8060. Youch.
Winner: Mini
Mini Paceman JCW
A unique offering in the premium segment that has extroverts covered. A very fun car.
Audi Q3 2.0 TFSI
Less pizzazz, but a more wholesome and livable option. Just watch out for those options...
Winner: Audi


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It's as Plain as Black and White—Andrée Putman Is the New High Priestess of Interior Design
This is not the carping of a disgruntled hotel guest but observations by France's foremost interior designer, a woman who is as opinionated as she is innovative. She believes, for example, in decorating her rooms in black, white or gray ("People will provide the color in a room"); that touches of "bad taste" (like five-and-dime geegaws or resort souvenirs) in an elegant room are fine if they have personal value; and that printed fabrics should be avoided in decorating. "Prints," she declares, "are an aggression you never asked for."
Putman's starkly dramatic interiors place her at the heart of the current 20th-century furniture revival. The trend focuses not on such well-known modern masters as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer but on their more obscure contemporaries of the '20s and '30s. Chief among them is Irish-born architect Eileen Gray, "The Dark Lady of High Tech," whose lacquered furniture designs of the '20s—such as futuristic satellite mirrors and sleek leather armchairs—prefigured the vogue in industrial-looking furniture. Putman began manufacturing Gray's prototypes and incorporating them into her interiors in the late '70s, and in 1980, when New York's Museum of Modern Art staged a major retrospective of the long-neglected Dark Lady, Putman's excellent copies began to gain cachet.
The Gray revival triggered a rebirth of interest in other obscure 20th-century classics, and Putman inevitably rushed in. By 1980 she had already tracked down and begun reproducing editions of such works as a giant 1907 reflector lamp by Venetian couturier Mariano Fortuny, metal-frame chairs with elastic strings by French architect René Herbst, and a bulbous lacquered table designed in 1919 by famed photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue. By retrieving and popularizing such long-lost designs, Putman has "expanded the definition of modernism," according to Art in America architecture critic, Martin Filler. "She has shown us its other side."
Her stylized approach has yet to filter down to Sears Roebuck, but in avant garde design circles, at least, Putman is all the rage. ("Just to know her name is status," says respected furnishings author Joan Kron.) In France Putman designed interiors for Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld and Claude Montana, and now her influence is spreading to the U.S. Her current project is Morgan's, an as-yet-unopened Manhattan hotel, where she is doing the rooms in bird's-eye maple and the furniture in men's pin-striped suit fabric. The dominant color: gray, of course, with a granite-floored lobby.
The 50ish Putman (née Aynard) has long been an influence on French design tastes. Raised by wealthy parents who immersed her in an artistic life early on, she abandoned dreams of becoming a composer, feeling that such a life would be "too abstract." At 20, she became a furnishings writer for a French women's magazine. Even then, she championed the clean, spare look of modern design, at a time when most Frenchwomen wanted only heavy decoration and, sniffs Andrée, "a lot of fake Louis XIV." Later, working as a style coordinator for the French chain store Prisunic, she commissioned a line of low-cost furniture that became an instant hit, more with the very wealthy, oddly enough, than with the budget customer. Put-man also claims she sparked the Art Deco revival—unfortunately, years before it became a trend. "I was always starting things too early," she complains.
Yet after 30 successful years in design, Putman was feeling incomplete. "I had had a good career, intense production, and personal happiness," she says, but she felt she had not yet begun to express herself. The decisive change came in 1978, when she split from her husband of 18 years, art critic Jacques Putman. Feeling "so broken I thought I was going to disappear from the map" and convinced that all but a few friends thought her eccentric, Andrée decided to "use the shock to advantage and do something completely for myself." Since she had decorated several of her own apartments as well as some for friends, Putman decided to open an interior design office. "I was so sure it would not be a success," says Andrée, who formed a partnership with architect Jean François Bodin, that she named the firm Ecart, meaning "off to the side," a phrase that summed up the impact she expected to make.
Despite her pessimism, the firm clicked immediately, winning commissions first from Yves Saint Laurent to decorate a Paris showroom and then from other fashion-designer clients. At the same time, she embarked on an even more daring enterprise: manufacturing her own furniture. This year she expects to turn out some 10,000 pieces, ranging in price from $200 to $5,000.
Today, Putman's career is exploding on all fronts. Not only is she constantly adding new prototypes to her furniture series, she recently designed a nightclub in Tokyo, and is now working on a museum in Bordeaux and a line of china and glassware for a New York firm. Still, for Putman, who lives in a Parisian bottle factory she redecorated for herself and her two children, the important thing is that her work, like her fashionable self, should never look dated. "I believe," she says, "in the timelessness of great design."
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Mara is the master of a new form of theater that is riveting, powerful, provocative. She creates landscapes where character can live multi-dimensionally. Narrative is performed on sculpted steel apparatus. The aerial elements create breathtaking visual poetry rooted in fine art, metaphor and myth. The body and gravity work in concert to re-awaken wonder in people. And when she does, we all connect on a deeper level and time is transformed"
Touring solo performance, written and performed by Mara Neimanis, Directed by Bryce Butler, Plane Sculpture by Laura Shults and Tim Scofield
Air Heart is a sixty minute solo aerial performance about the life, mystery and final flight of Amelia Earhart that takes place on a 12- foot tall spinning metal plane sculpture. The portable plane sculpture serves as a set, prop, aerial apparatus and character, thus creating playing space that incorporates both ground and air. Air Heart illustrates the athletic female body in partnership with the plane sculpture as a forum to share the events, courage, conflicts, and pioneering accomplishments of Earhart as a woman, aviator and feminist icon. Family Audiences.
Through out the play, I have adhered to factual dates, events, and certain quotes of Amelia Earhart, but as a woman who flies on the stage, I have created her voice with a sense of what it means to dream of flight and become intimately driven by it.
Air Heart Technical Requirements:
The portable plane sculpture is a mounted apparatus. No aerial rigging used. The plane sculpture has rubber coating and can be set on any floor. Set up/ strike is approximately 3-4 hours. Minimum hall size 40x45, minimum ceiling height 14 feet to grid.
Lighting cues on excel express, sound on CD.
Sound technician provided, lighting technician needed.
Contact In-Flight Theater to discuss costs and details
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Naomi's Flight is a solo aerial performance about aging and elder care that takes place on three asymmetrical suspended steel sculptures. Written and performed by Mara Neimanis, directed by Bryce Butler, sculptures by Tim Scofield, Naomi's Flight reveals the love story of George, an 80 year old care giver, and his wife Naomi who has diabetes and been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Naomi's Flight is a powerful, personal, poetic, and humorous, journey into the courageous and upside down world of day to day living with these epidemic diseases and the inverted healthcare system that is in place to do so. Neimanis combines text with aerial choreography in creating environments, characters, and time.
Naomi's Flight Technical Requirements:
Naomi's Flight can be performed in a black box space min 40x45. Minimum rigging height, 14 feet, with minimum 13.4 long horizontal beam that runs horizontally. On-site visit available and discussion. In-Flight is able to rig apparatus without assistance. Light cues on CD. Music cues on CD


text: Okay lets play a picture game! Everyone loves seeing and sharing pics of their LOs! We played this all the time on ODS baby board. I think I may have started a game when we were all pregnant but now that our LOs are bigger we should all have plenty of pictures to play with. I'll start with a picture and then the next person will post a picture but something has to match. Like in my pic LO is sitting on the couch, so someone can post a pic of their LO sitting on a couch and they need to say "sitting on the couch" with the picture so we know what the link is. Then the next player finds a picture with something similar and posts it. Lets go!


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Name: Courteney Storm
School: Hollidaysburg
Age: 17
Grade: 12
Sport: Basketball
Athlete of the week achievement: Storm scored 38 points en route to capturing MVP honors at the Lester McCall Memorial Tip-off Tournament, as the Lady Tigers notched wins against Bradford and Blairsville.
Season update: Storm is averaging 19 points and 5.5 rebounds. The Lady Tigers are off to a 2-0 start.
Coach Deanna Jubeck's quote: "Courteney had a very good opening weekend. Her hard work paid off. Her leadership ability from being a two-year starter helped drive us to Lester McCall Tournament championship."
Favorite teacher: Ms. Smiach
Favorite subject: Math
Favorite movie: "The Hunger Games"
Favorite food: Spaghetti
Favorite song: "The Monster" by Eminem
Outside interests: Hanging out with friends
Favorite professional team: Pittsburgh Steelers
Favorite college team: Penn State
Pro athlete most admired: Skylar Diggins
Best athlete I ever played with: Morgan Griffith
Best athlete I ever competed against: Altoona's Darby Lee
Most influential person on my athletic career: My parents, Chris and Cindy
Proudest athletic achievement: Winning three District 6 championships in a row
How I got my start in basketball: "I was on a team at the Jewish Memorial Center coached by Bob Gildea."
Future goal: "To go to college and make the biggest impact that I can."


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Been using the HD65 for about 5-6 years now. I still love it. Recently i have a problem with it. My PC wont recognize the beamer anymore. I use this for watching movies so its a big problem for me. The xbox360 and TV reciever still work fine. I already did a clean Win7 install and i even tried a laptop from a friend with windows 8 on it. I tried 3 different hdmi cables. The result is the same.. It just wont pick up signal from my PC but xbox and TV reciever work fine. Can someone help? I have no ideas left what to do. It all worked fine for 5 years. And all 3 sources work fine on my LCD TV.
Thanks, after removing the graphic card (ATI) i found out that my onboard GPU (Nvidia) also has a HDMI output :D It worked instantly. BUT i can get the resolution higher than 1024x768 :(
In my old setting (when it worked) WIN7 even recognized the beamer and it said 'optoma hd65' in the resolution settings. It was on 720p for years and i could even set it on 1080p. Now its says 'non pnp screen'.
Is it possible to get 720P with my onboard GPU with the beamer? And how? On my LCD TV its on 1080P so i guess its possible.


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Bill to toughen puppy lemon law passes Pa. Senate
A bill designed to help more puppy buyers get their money back after buying a sick or diseased dog is on its way to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
A bill passed the Senate unanimously Tuesday that would strengthen Pennsylvania's 1997 Puppy Lemon Law in several ways.
Under the bill, the buyer could seek reimbursement for the treatment of incurable conditions, such as hip dysplasia. Currently, buyers may only get their money back for the treatment of curable conditions.
It also would extend the period during which a vet could identify a congenital condition to help the puppy buyer get reimbursed.
That would go from 30 to 90 days. Also, the period for a veterinarian to certify an illness would be extended from 10 to 14 days.
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Stella McCartney Hawaiian-print silk shirt, $1,055, and "Deckchair" striped shorts, $825, to order at Stella McCartney; East Africa Trading Co. woven bangles, set of 10 made from recycled tennis shoes, $10, or grass coir, $30, Forty Five Ten
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Washington, Zemeckis take off in 'Flight'
You might think that Robert Zemeckis, having devoted himself to motion-capture animation for the past 12 years, would be thrilled to return to the unpredictability of live-action filmmaking.
You would be wrong.
"In my whole career I can count it on one hand," the director said, recalling headaches like having to cart in snow while shooting in Moscow and painting fall foliage in October Vermont.
"Every time I've ever been in a situation where, for example, it's 'Oh my God, look at this sky! Look at this sunset!' -- it's never there in time. We always missed it. It's just heartbreaking."
"Flight" is Zemeckis' first live-action film since "Cast Away," after which he, more than any other filmmaker, advanced the technology of performance capture with movies like "The Polar Express," "Beowulf" and "A Christmas Carol."
Instead, "Flight" gets its movie magic principally through its performances, especially that of Denzel Washington, who stars as perhaps the most functional alcoholic in movie history.
As Captain Whip Whitaker, Washington plays an airline pilot who, despite being hung-over, drunk and coked-up, manages to bring down a rapidly deteriorating plane in a daring emergency landing on what should have been a routine hop between Orlando, Fla., and Atlanta.
The crash sequence, a virtuoso set piece made with the digital artists from Zemeckis' animated films, features the unusual but effective maneuver of briefly flying the plane upside down.
The thrilling crash, which essentially opens the film, is a kind of carrot for moviegoers who are then lured into a powerful character study of Whitaker as he wrestles with his drinking problem while his heroics are called into question. He's a Captain Sully with demons.
"Can anything follow this plane crash?" asked Zemeckis. "But the real spectacle, of course, is Denzel's performance."
It's one that many expect will land Washington his sixth Oscar nomination. (He's won for "Glory" and "Training Day.")
His performance is a full portrait of a man who believes he's in control when he isn't, whose alcoholism is propelled by an inability to be honest with himself and others.
"A liar's a liar, however you choose to lie or however you want to numb the pain," Washington said, describing Whitaker. "He made a particular choice to numb the pain."
Washington was drawn to the project by John Gatins' ("Real Steel") script, which Gatins had been working on since 1999.
The screenplay surrounds Whitaker with an ensemble of characters who are either challenging him (Kelly Reilly as a recovering heroin addict and Melissa Leo as the crash investigator) or enabling him (Don Cheadle as a cocksure defense attorney, Bruce Greenwood as an old friend and fellow pilot, John Goodman, as a drug dealer).
More than most protagonists, Whitaker often verges on unlikable.
"I've heard that from people, but that's what's good about a part in a movie," Washington said.
"People say, 'What do you want me to get from it?' I'm like: It depends what you bring to it. So some may not like him."
It was that moral ambiguity that attracted Zemeckis, who constructs a story that poses questions for the audience about sympathy and acknowledging one's own failings.
There have been many films over the years about memorable alcoholics -- Ray Milland in "The Lost Weekend," Jack Lemmon in "Days of Wine and Roses" and Nicolas Cage in "Leaving Las Vegas." Asked if he consulted such films in making "Flight," Zemeckis replies, "Only in what not to do."
"If it's just about somebody with chemical dependency, it lets everybody off the hook," Zemeckis said. "It's not relatable. But the fact that everybody -- if you really have the courage to be honest with yourself -- is flawed, that's a universal theme. That's what I was going for."
That "Flight" soars rather than drowning in the heavy weight of alcoholism is a testament to Zemeckis' sure-handedness in rendering personal stories on a big canvas. (His earlier movies include the "Back to the Future" trilogy, the Oscar-winning "Forrest Gump" and "Contact.")
It's an increasingly rare skillfulness, partly because R-rated adult dramas like "Flight" are rarely made now in Hollywood.
"Flight" was made with a production budget of $31 million. That's a relatively small amount for such a film, something that was made possible partially by Zemeckis' digital know-how.
"The only movies worth doing are the ones that are risky," Zemeckis said. "This isn't risky in the budgetary sense, it's risky in whether the audience appreciates the roughness of it."
That "Flight" stars one of the few truly bankable, bona fide movie stars in Washington helps. The movie's poster boasts the handsome visage of the actor in a pilot uniform, surely an attractive fit for a star who has already known the distinctive look of a submarine commander, a train engineer and a Union soldier.
Simply the experience of being in a flight simulator aided Washington in finding his way into Whitaker.
"Just getting into the cockpit, it was like, 'Wow. I'm not going to fly, but I feel like a pilot,'" Washington said.
The actor has little interest in detailing his process, which he self-deprecatingly said "is just acting. Really, it's not that hard." But Washington, a renowned hard worker, concedes: "You do the homework. ... We should all be that way."
Zemeckis calls Washington's performance "breathtaking" and "up there with the greats."
"There's no fooling around," the director said of Washington. "He is very serious and he does massive amounts of work, and I don't quite know the process because it's none of my business. He writes in rehearsal. I'll be saying something, he'll be writing. Another actor will be saying something, he'll be writing."


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RASP presents Reading Series featuring Barbara Stoner & Open Mic
Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center
16600 NE 80th Street
Redmond, WA 98052
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Redmond Association of Spokenword (RASP) presents Reading Series featuring Barbara Stoner and Open mic. Barbara Stoner's novel The Year of the Crow is based on her earlier years in Wisconsin and her love of wild places, the Grateful Dead and magic. Please join us. Come early to sign up for open mic!
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Washington, D.C. — Today House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) released a detailed outline of a bill to reform the entire housing-finance system, including Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Administration, or FHA. Julia Gordon, Director of Housing Finance and Policy at the Center for American Progress, issued the following reaction:
Chairman Hensarling has released the ultimate right-wing wish list, turning the entire mortgage market over to Wall Street lock, stock, and barrel. It's a politically motivated sideshow that ignores the general consensus forming around the government's role in a responsible market and threatens not only the nascent housing recovery but also prospects for overall economic growth.
If enacted, Chairman Hensarling's legislation would eliminate the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage; put homeownership out of reach for millions of young borrowers, communities of colors, and low-wealth families; further constrict the already-inadequate supply of affordable rental housing; and leave the housing market fully exposed to the private market's cyclical fluctuations. This is not a serious legislative proposal. Rather, House Financial Services Committee Republicans are filing a PAC fundraising letter with the clerk of the House.
Chairman Hensarling's legislation would wind down Fannie and Freddie within five years, completely eliminate the government backstop to the mortgage market, and replace it with nothing more than a public utility-securitization mechanism featuring standardized contracts and disclosures. It also would eviscerate the FHA, dramatically cutting back on government insurance, limiting eligibility to first-time and lower-income homebuyers, and instituting higher down-payment requirements.
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