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It was 11 years ago this month when University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman made one of her first major addresses to area business leaders about the school's role in entrepreneurship and economic development in Ann Arbor and across the state.
"I did not come to the University of Michigan to maintain the status quo -- the university must continually find new ways to excel," she said.
"One of our missions that must be supported is the expansion of information technology and technology transfer. And to do that, we must find ways to be partners with all of you."
By many people's accounts, Coleman has followed through with her promise to push the university and the community forward by fostering business relationships and organizing programs that allow for the region's economic prosperity.
The role Coleman played in the development and creation of Ann Arbor SPARK – the region's foremost business accelerator – showed her commitment to further cultivate the local business community, said Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder.
"She made a huge impact, and it's very easy to see. Ann Arbor SPARK wouldn't exist without Mary Sue Coleman. I think most everyone in the region appreciates what Ann Arbor SPARK has done in the community and the organization wouldn't exist if she hadn't been one of the leaders in helping move it forward," he said.
"She's done a lot in terms of the university becoming more active in Technology Transfer. The first advisory committee on Tech Transfer was created by her. I was the first chair (of that committee), so I know this stuff first person. If you look at those kinds of developments, it's been a major impact in our community."
SPARK CEO Paul Krutko agreed.
He said that Coleman's efforts – such as investments into the North Campus Research Center and new initiatives like MCubed – have fostered entrepreneurial growth and leads to the area's retention and attraction of talent.
"The elephant is the university and we're attached at the hip to the university. Mary Sue and Rick Snyder were two of the founders of our organization," Krutko said.
"We talk about the culture here – the strong, growing entrepreneurial culture – but the fact is that the university is constantly livening the environment and continuously creating a pool of talent, and she has a lot to do with that."
Ken Nisbet, the associate vice president for research at U-M's Tech Transfer, also credited Coleman with creating an atmosphere of entrepreneurship and business partnerships that extends well beyond the university's Ann Arbor boundaries.
In 2010, because of her efforts in the advancement of entrepreneurship, Coleman was brought on to co-chair a new council formed by President Barack Obama and the U.S. Department of Commerce. The goal of the council is to spark economic development through technology and early-stage business ideas.
Obama also selected her as one of six university presidents to help launch the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, a national effort bringing together industry, universities and the federal government.
Nisbet said that Coleman cared about more than just the academic mission – which is obviously the huge focus of the university – but she saw the research component being important both for its teaching and for its impact on communities and the nation as a whole.
"She took an immediate interest in what we were doing in the tech and entrepreneur community. She started attending the tech advisory board and that sort of reflected the fact that she saw this research connection...and our involvement in economic development," he said.
"She saw that having our technologies help the general public and having an impact on economic revitalization was just as important as a lot of the other things."
She also had a hand in creating U-M's Business Engagement Center. The center interacts with more than 350 companies annually and fields about 250 inquiries a year from new companies.
"The engagement with industry is something she's helped engage and foster. She knows that those are the people who will employ our students and that they will provide us with great insight into the market," Nisbet said.
"The Business Engagement Center supports our relationships with the industry by making it easier for businesses to connect to the resources in the university. That's been a high priority of (Coleman)."
In a recent speech at the Symposium on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education, Coleman said that she wanted U-M to be a catalyst for economic development and technology commercialization.
"It was clear we could no longer afford to be as insular and internally focused as we had been. We needed to adapt to rapid change, become more entrepreneurial in our thinking, and refresh outdated modes of operation," she said.
"We saw the pressing need to build deeper connections with our peer institutions and with industry... But perhaps the biggest question we asked ourselves was this: Why did the university need more entrepreneurs and more entrepreneurial thinking?"
Matt Gibson, the assistant director and lecturer of Student Ventures at U-M's Center for Entrepreneurship, had an answer for that.
Gibson came back to the university to teach after starting several successful entrepreneurial ventures of his own, but said there wasn't an atmosphere of teaching students how to create sustainable endeavors during his time as an undergraduate student on campus until Coleman came in.
"I was a student when she came in and she was vocal about wanting to advance entrepreneurship. I was presenting at a convention in Detroit and lo and behold, Mary Sue is there seeking out the Michigan students who were doing cool stuff," Gibson said.
"That translated over to the college of engineering in very meaningful ways."
Gibson said Coleman helped establish three new emphases: global experience for engineers, design, and entrepreneurship.
"The Center for Entrepreneurship grew out of that and all of those, I think, share a commonality in that our students need experiences in order to develop skills."
Gibson said Coleman really put an emphasis on experience-based learning,
breaking the mold of the traditional academic learning settings.
"Mary Sue has been instrumental in that and I really hope the new president continues that legacy."
Brandon McNaughton, a lecturer at the Center for Entrepreneurship, said that Coleman has brought about a lot of change in the way people view entrepreneurship and business endeavors at the university level in Ann Arbor.
"To me, I'm not sure about what her legacy will be, but what matters most is when somebody actually genuinely cares and you can usually measure that by someone's actions," he said.
"The fact that she is at so many of these (technology and entrepreneur) events really shows that she just cares about entrepreneurship, and the fact that she cares, it is going to have that trickle-down effect, and that is going to have a cross-campus impact that will just continue to change the campus."
Business and city leaders alike have credited the university for its focus on enhancing its local business relationships while under the guidance of Coleman.
Local business leaders like Kalyan Handique, the co-founder of HandyLab, and Guy Suter, the CEO of Nutshell and former GM at Barracuda's Ann Arbor office, have said that the university has helped foster growth locally because of its relationship with the city and the measures it has taken under Coleman to help retain the talent that comes out of U-M.
Snyder said that Coleman has also helped to create alternative opportunities that entice people to stay in the local area and help Ann Arbor continue to flourish.
"... People have forgotten (that) when Pfizer closed down there was a crisis in this community. We were literally losing 2,000 Pfizer jobs and another 1,000 jobs on top of that," Snyder said.
"But the community really rallied together and Mary Sue was right there standing in front of the community talking about how we need to work together to really respond and it made a tremendous difference. We were able to keep a lot of those folks in the Ann Arbor area in startups and in new companies."
Snyder added: "Besides all the big stuff, she's just a great person to work with. I've admired her and respected her for a lot of years and we've had a close personal working relationship."
In closing her 2003 speech, Coleman said that advancing the state's economic development would take more than funding. "It also will take the will to collaborate," she said.
"And we must do this: not just for sake of the University of Michigan, not just for today's companies, but for the future that we are creating for our region and our state."
And by many people's accounts, companies in the Ann Arbor region and in the state are better off now than they were 11 years ago.


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Syracuse, NY -- A man accused of stabbing a woman to death in a vacant apartment in Syracuse went there because he knew the woman would be in the house, Syracuse police Chief Frank Fowler said Friday.
Talarico Young Jr., 27, of Syracuse, was charged with second-degree murder Friday.
Young is accused of stabbing and killing 38-year-old Johanna Pagan. During an interview with police, after he was read his rights, he admitted to the stabbing, police said.
Fowler said Pagan and Young knew each other. Young went to the house at 121 Gertrude Street around 3:45 p.m. Thursday because he knew Pagan was there doing maintenance work for the landlord, Fowler said. Pagan was alone in the house.
At some point an argument broke out, Fowler said, and Young stabbed Pagan several times in the chest and back. Fowler declined to specify what the argument was about, citing the ongoing investigation.
Police have not yet found the murder weapon.
A man was seen fleeing from the scene of a homicide by four witnesses who also heard a woman screaming, police said. Those witnesses later identified Young as the man who ran from the the Gertrude Street house after the victim screamed for help. Police found Young a few blocks from the crime scene near the intersection of North Crouse Avenue and Erie Boulevard East.
Fowler said neighbors deserved a goodly portion of the credit for helping solve the city's eighth homicide this year.
"Their level of cooperation with us led to the arrest," he said.
Police said Young has several prior arrests, including an arrest for second-degree assault. He was accused of stabbing a man.
Officers also found a loaded .44 Magnum handgun in the back seat of Young's car after he was pulled over in March 2012 on a traffic violation. He was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, but the charge was eventually dismissed when a judge ruled that police had obtained the weapon "by means of an unlawful search and seizure."
In 2008, Young was arrested on drug and weapons charges after police executed a search warrant at his home, according to court papers. He was sentenced in Onondaga County Court to a year in jail after he pleaded guilty to seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.
And in 2002, The Post-Standard reported that Young was arrested and charged with felony robbery and misdemeanor criminal possession of a weapon. He was accused of approaching a 41-year-old man in the 100 block of Gifford Street with four other teenagers. The victim, Charles Parker, told police he tried to distance himself from the group when one of the teenagers, identified later as Young, caught up with him, pulled out a gun and demanded money.
Because Young would have only been 16 at the time, the outcome of that case was likely sealed, and was not available at the county clerk's office.
Young was arraigned in Syracuse City Criminal Court Friday morning and entered a not guilty plea. He is being held without bail at the Onondaga County jail.

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Listen to the cunt. "A leader". You're pissing on the memory of one of the best films ever ya dick, not bringing democracy to the Middle East!The new film is being put together by Allen J Schwalb, whose Florida-based Star Partners firm financed Rain Man and The Color Purple during the 1980s. He will work with Bob Farnsworth of Nashville-based commercial music specialists Hummingbird Productions on the project. The latter co-wrote the screenplay for the followup after discovering that Capra's film was out of copyright in the US.
"It's a Wonderful Life is about showing a good guy can win. And with Scrooge, you have a person that is not a good guy but he changes," Farnsworth told The Hollywood Reporter. "This story is about the amazing human capacity to forgive when we see someone change for the better."
Of suggestions that audiences may balk at seeing one festive favourite - let alone two - revived in unfamiliar form, the screenwriter said: "Look, no one can make another It's a Wonderful Life. But our story is solid, and we are going in with our eyes open. There is no doubt about it, there will be a ruckus. But I have this motto: All it takes to be a leader is to have a cause you believe in. And the stronger you believe in the cause, the more adversaries you will have. And we strongly believe in this."
Farnsworth received help on the screenplay from Martha Bolton, who worked with Bob Hope as a staff writer on the comedian's specials. Producers are currently on the hunt for a director and plan to secure a budget in the $25-32m range. They hope to bring the sequel to the big screen in 2015.


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Young Promoters @ George Salter Collegiate Academy
The Young Promoters @ George Salter Collegiate Academy in West Bromwich, promoted Instant Wit last week – An improvised comedy performance that relies on the audience shouting out. It was very successful, pretty much a full house, the audience was made up mostly of Performing Arts Students, who weren't shy at shouting out suggestions when required!
Next Week it will be the Young Promoters @ Edgar Stammers Primary School's turn to promote a show. They're promoting Travels With Grandad by Pickled Image, for full details click on the shows page.
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What Is Performance Sprawl?
What Is Performance Sprawl?
Improving storage performance is becoming a top priority for IT Managers in data centers of all sizes. Storage performance problems are often not isolated to a single server yet most vendors treat storage performance resolution as a point problem to be fixed by dedicated hardware installed inside the individual server or the storage system. Treating performance problems in isolation like this leads to a condition called performance sprawl.
Performance sprawl is becoming commonplace in data centers. Typically, each application with a performance issue is treated separately, and as a result, specific performance remedies are purchased to address each issue. For example, a PCIe Solid State Device could be added to an underperforming virtualization server, but that device provides no benefit to a separate underperforming database server.
Even a shared solid state appliance may have limited value. These appliances often have limited storage management features and rely on the application to provide data protection and high availability. While some database applications and operating systems can accommodate this need, many others, with server hypervisors being a prime example, cannot. They are dependent on the storage system to provide the high availability and data protection.
The alternative of adding solid state devices to an existing shared storage system with more robust storage management features may have limited value as it introduces its own form of performance sprawl. With this option, solid state disk drives (SSD) are added to an existing storage system alongside mechanical drives. The vendor typically provides tiering software to move active data to the SSD tier. The limitation is this performance fix is restricted to the storage system on which it is installed meaning that each storage system needs its own SSDs, in essence another form of sprawl.
The point product approach often solves the immediate problem but creates a bigger one. Adding multiple performance-enhancing devices can end up costing a lot more than a single, more holistic performance solution.
The Costs of Performance Sprawl
Capital Waste
The single biggest cost of performance sprawl is the waste of IT budget. Since most storage performance-enhancing solutions heavily leverage solid state storage to deliver their performance boost, they demand a premium price. Replicating these purchases across all application servers and/or storage systems can be prohibitively expensive. In addition, most storage system capacity is significantly under-utilized in order to maintain acceptable performance. Without a means to free up storage controller CPU cycles, this unused storage capacity represents a huge waste of capital.
Time Waste
IT staffs are already stretched to the breaking point. They need ways to reduce the time spent maintaining systems so they can focus on more strategic projects. However, as we all know, data center professionals spend a high percentage of their time reacting to user complaints. Storage performance tuning becomes an interrupt driven process for the IT administrator and typically, a number of time consuming remedies are attempted before a move to SSD is made.
IT administrators also need to monitor multiple performance silos. While point remedies can solve the immediate performance problem they need to be managed and monitored on an ongoing basis to make sure that they continue to be effective. For example, trending has to be performed on each performance silo to predict the need for the next upgrade.
While most storage performance-enhancing solutions provide some type of reporting on their effectiveness, each one must be monitored separately since they cannot monitor performance across multiple silos. Finally, point solutions cannot provide the required visibility into the storage performance of applications running on other servers. As a result, administrators are unable to take proactive measures to prevent these applications from becoming the next in line for performance problems.
Resource Waste
As discussed above, most storage performance-enhancing solutions leverage SSD technology. These solutions are typically dedicated to a single application. In reality most applications cannot take full advantage of a dedicated solid state device's performance on a continuous basis. As a result, the premium investment is not fully utilized at all times.
As previously mentioned, there may be applications or servers, especially in a virtualized environment, that are on the verge of having a performance problem. This means they could benefit from a performance boost (and users would also benefit) but that boost cannot be cost justified. In aggregate, these servers justify a storage performance acceleration investment but it would have to be a shared resource leveraged across them.
Holistic Performance Resolution with Network Caching
An alternative to the point solutions that lead to performance sprawl is a holistic approach used by network caching products like those offered by Cache IQ. These appliances are installed in the network, between the application servers and the storage systems, and provide a performance boost to all the servers and storage systems that are network connected to the devices.
Capital investment is preserved since the network caching appliance can be used throughout the data center and across multiple storage systems. Management is eased since now there is a single interface to monitor storage performance. Resources are better optimized since the network cache can provide performance boosts to all the connected servers and storage, not just the few that can cost justify a solution individually.
A shared storage performance resource needs specific capabilities though to manage a broad range of workloads. It must deliver a cross-workload view of storage performance.
Requirement # 1: Analysis
As we detailed in our article, "The Added ROI of Advanced Network Caches", analysis of the environment becomes an important value add of a network cache. The ability to monitor at a packet level the data flowing through the cache allows storage administrators to visualize performance. This allows them to confirm that applications are getting the performance they need as well as to predict which applications will soon push the current cache to its limits, creating a need for an upgrade. This allows cache upgrades to be planned and budgeted.
Requirement # 2: Tuning
The caching system should be able to optimize or guarantee the performance of certain applications. For example, it should enable storage administrators to prioritize important applications and data over casual use. It may be important to "pin" certain applications' data in the cache so it is always accelerated. Conversely, there may be some applications that are simply not cache suitable and should never be cached. Tuning policies allow the storage administrator to optimize cache space for the data that is most important to the organization.
Requirement # 3: Scale and High Availability
Since the network cache could potentially serve the entire data center, it should scale in capacity and network I/O as data center performance needs grow. Once the environment becomes dependent on the acceleration that a network cache delivers then high availability (HA) also becomes critical. A scale-out design enables this. Additionally the HA implementation must be active-active so that premium priced solid state storage space does not sit idle, waiting for a failure to occur.
Cache IQ offers a network cache solution that can scale to 8 nodes, each one generating over 1,000,000 IOPS in performance. The system offers full redundancy, so if one node fails the other nodes assume its workload.
Performance is a big concern for the data center and unlike in years past there is a technology that can solve many storage performance problems; solid state storage. Unfortunately, using SSDs to solve storage performance problems one application at a time leads to performance sprawl, and this can diminish the ROI from those solutions.
Holistic solutions like the one from Cache IQ promise to solve the immediate storage performance problems and increase the performance of applications that typically would not justify an SSD investment. However, it is important that any solution not only accelerates performance, but also provides analysis and tuning of the data being accelerated, and meets the demands for scaling and high availability as the data center continues to grow.
Cache IQ is a client of Storage Switzerland
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As the so-called "government shutdown" drags on, one thing is hard not to admit: the Obama Administration is acting in a manner that is attempting to extract the maximum amount of pain on the American people. While many are wondering how it came to this point, those of us who actually paid attention in Social Studies, Civics and American History ...Read More »
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Durbin Thinks the Gov't Has Profits to Spend
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The Eagles made a move with their practice squad today, signing rookie safety Phillip Thomas to the unit and releasing defensive tackle Frank Trotter.
Signing Thomas, who was in training camp with the team this year, could be a move the Eagles made because of the health of Nate Allen. Allen missed Monday's game against the New Orleans Saints with an injury. David Sims, who started in place of Allen, had a team high six tackles in the loss.
Thomas showed flashes this preseason and some thought he had a chance to make the team right out of Lehigh. The 5'11, 190 lb safety played for Syracuse University in college.
As for Trotter, he became expendable after Mike Patterson was activated last week.
It's unlikely Thomas will see the field this week against the Dallas Cowboys, but if Allen remains out, he might be on the active roster sooner rather than later.
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Is Iceland's potential membership application getting special treatment by the European Union? Staff Writer Emily Sieg examines.
Emily Sieg, Staff Writer
Ideology: Liberal | Writing From: Dusseldorf, Germany
Few places are suffering from the current economic crisis as severely as Iceland. The state is on the verge of bankruptcy, the Krona (Icelandic currency) has plummeted in value, and the banking sector has essentially collapsed. Attempts to revive the economy through tourism and local resources in addition to loans taken from the IMF have not succeeded. In what might be considered the 'last alternative,' the Icelandic government officially ratified their application to join the European Union on Thursday, the 17th of July.
This parliamentary approval should not be taken lightly. The majority vote was not overwhelming and many Icelanders oppose joining the European Union. Opponents to admission cite the importance of their independence, voice skepticism regarding the 'advantages' of European membership and warn of a sudden swarm of Europeans, who will demand access to natural resources and 'assist' the Icelanders by taking ownership of failing local firms. Even leftist convoys from EU-shunning Norway have joined the fray, attempting to dissuade Icelandic representatives from ratifying the application. May it also be mentioned that the current Icelandic government has expressed a desire to join the EU by 2012, before the issue can be put up in a referendum.
Alternatively, proponents of EU-admission need only focus on a single advantage: the Euro. With the collapse in value of the Krona, the seemingly strong and stable Euro seems to be the quick and easy solution to an array of problems from inflation, to banking, to debt. On the flipside of the issue and perhaps a bit disparaging to Iceland, pro-admission EU officials emphasize that through the fiscal and monetary policies which accompany any admission, an economically reformed Iceland could avoid another future financial disaster like the current one. Thus, pro-Icelanders cite an EU solution that may be humbling to national pride, but efficient and quick, while the EU can claim to be the savior of a friend in need.
In a recent press release, the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso lent his support, saying that, 'the decision of the Icelandic Parliament is a sign of the vitality of the European project and indicative of the hope that the European Union represents. Iceland is a European country with long and deep democratic roots.' Although uplifting, the comment is rather more complementary to the EU than to Iceland and fails to recognize numerous issues regarding further EU expansion.
The best option for Iceland may be their acceptance to the European Union, but their admission would have great implications on how the EU claims to work and what the Union really is. Looking back in the not too distant past, Angela Merkel of Germany and Nicolas Sarkozy of France claimed that a 28th EU member state could not be admitted until the 2001 Treaty of Nice was renegotiated. [The Treaty reformed the structure of the EU and includes a method for the distribution of votes.] Furthermore, the EU already has to concern itself with the welfare of member states such as Latvia and Hungary, who necessitated billions of Euros from the IMF in March. Fortunately for Iceland and current EU members, Chancellor Merkel and other prominent EU leaders seem to have let the Euro-Stability Pact, which set limitations on the accumulation of debt, go by the wayside. Yet, there still exists the reality that the European Union is an interdependent entity, and that if one state goes under, it becomes the problem of every other state.
Conservative European officials have voiced their opposition to Iceland's admission for a variety of reasons. Considering the global impact of the financial crisis, the EU already has its hands full. As German CSU Representative Markus Ferber said in Brussels, 'The EU cannot play the part of the hero in the Icelandic economic crisis.' Similar minded Conservatives have stressed that the EU has been going in the wrong direction. Instead of constantly expanding, the EU should consolidate itself. Above all, the question of expansion should be put to a referendum in not only each EU member state, but in the applicant state as well. With the EU track record of referendums, such a process could, to the delight of Conservatives, last indefinitely. The underlying reason to oppose Iceland's admission, and perhaps the most important to conservatives, is not Iceland itself, but the message that yet another EU admission would mean. If Iceland could be admitted, and in what could be a record time, then there would be fewer 'diplomatically' valid reasons why states like Croatia, Ukraine and Turkey could not be admitted. The standard criteria regarding economic stability and diversity would be invalidated. Without these safeguards, Conservatives would have to think of other ways to say, 'We just don't want you.'
Thus the question stands, why should a state like Iceland, which is bankrupt and previously showed little interest in joining the EU, become the 28th EU member state before the renegotiation of the Nice Treaty and before other states like Turkey, Ukraine and Croatia are admitted?
Well, in short, Iceland is a special case. The country in in a crisis now, but with help, could be nursed back to health with greater ease than some other current member states. The sheer size of the country, with a population of 320,000, is not a heavy burden when compared to Croatia's 4.5 million, Ukraine's 45.7 million or Turkey's astounding 76.8 million inhabitants. There are also no major controversies in regards to the state of Iceland. When speaking with Ukraine, the EU must keep a careful watch not to step on the toes of Russia. Regarding Croatia, there are concerns over economic diversity and a few infamous persons whom the EU would like to see in court. Turkey, a watershed of issues, is synonymous with the word 'controversy' when mentioned in the same breath as the European Union.
After all is said and done, Iceland is a docile state in an extreme situation. Also, Iceland is not just a charity case; the fears that Icelandic EU-opponents mention may have merit: there are gains to be found in Iceland for the Europeans. From fishing to commercial expansion, EU member states could find ways to justify Icelandic admission. Ultimately, the European Union could offer the life-jacket that their North-western neighbor needs, with gains and losses on both sides.


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DOTHAN, Alabama -- A Dothan man is accused of stabbing an acquaintance with a grilling fork during a fight Saturday night in the 500 block of Hedstrom Avenue.
Jesse Dean Bowling, 36, was charged with second-degree assault, according to Dothan police. His bond was set at $15,000.
The victim was treated at Southeast Alabama Medical Center and later released.


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To the best of the knowledge of some laptop users, the more cells a battery has, relatively speaking, the larger capacity it often has, and this replacement battery 6 cell for HP pavilion dm4 series 586006 541 has 6 cells, which means its capacity is far from small. Most of the current batteries range over three cells, four cells, six cells, eight cells, nine cells, twelve cells, and etc. To put it in a nutshell, the more the cells, the longer the service time of the battery, and the higher its price. But in the mean time, the stability of batteries that have more cells is inferior to that of ones that have less. The lifespan of the battery is determined by its charging times which, generally speaking, run from five hundred to six hundred times, and that's why most of the batteries are valid for around two years.
In purchasing this replacement battery 6 cell for HP pavilion dm4 series 586006 541, there is no need for family users to pay special attention to how many cells this battery has, because as long as its electric source is stable, this battery, for example, having three or four cells, should be able to be used. But for business figures, they can be pickier about their choices of this battery. In fact they are recommended to rationalize their selection of this battery. Provided that they don't make high demands of this battery, they can choose this battery of six or eight cells whose high stability can rationalize its service time and portability distribution; and providing that users require its service time to be long, they ought to consider buying this battery of nine cells or twelve cells which, nevertheless, will make the laptop too heavy to carry and the battery's stability poor.


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Century Marks
Keeping faith with seniors: One mark of a good society, according to communitarian Amatai Etzioni, is that it takes care of its elderly people. The Social Security program in the U.S. has served like a covenant between the generations. "To deny or significantly dilute these commitments evokes the same sense of unfairness and injustice we experience upon hearing that an insurance company has canceled its policies when its policy-holders became sick or when they retroactively and unilaterally change the terms of the policy." It is not as though the U.S. has been unusually generous in its commitments to the elderly: the United Kingdom commits nearly 18 percent of its GDP to care for the elderly, while the U.S. commits just 12 percent. The U.S. has the highest rate of elder poverty among the most developed nations (American Scholar, Spring).
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A chunk of the resurfacing on The Warehouse building became dislodged this afternoon and crashed to the pavement below - sending rubble flying across West Fayette Street.
Fire District Chief Brian Bratt was in his car at the intersection of Fayette and West streets and saw the incident.
"It was kind of startling and thankfully, there were no cars or people there at the time," Bratt said.
City police closed that block of Fayette Street, from West to Franklin streets. It will likely remain closed for at least a day, police Sgt. Tom Connellan said.
A lift-truck will aid workers in dismantling another portion of the building that appears to be loose. That portion is also several feet across and several feet tall, about 85 feet off the ground in the southwest corner of the building, SU spokesman Kevin Morrow said.
Once that section is removed, an engineer will evaluate the rest of the building to make sure no other surfaces have come loose, First Deputy Fire Chief Ed Kurtz said.
"It's not structural," Kurtz said. "It's all surface." After it is evaluated, code enforcement inspectors will also inspect it, Kurtz said. No one was evacuated from the building, he said.
The building's facade was redone several years ago when Syracuse University redesigned an old furniture warehouse to be used as studios and galleries for students, said Morrow.
It was the temporary home of the School of Architecture and now houses departments for the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Morrow said. The total renovation cost $9 million, he said.
The facade, over the original bricks, is a combination of layers of latex paint and non-friable asbestos, to form a plaster-like appearance. The asbestos is not hazardous, Morrow said.
It's still unclear what caused the crumbling. Morrow said it could be a combination of moisture and intense sun that weakened the facade.


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Both the Fort Dodge and St. Edmond cross country teams saw first-hand what it takes to be an elite team in the state.
No. 2 (Class 4A) Ames held off third-ranked Urbandale to claim team honors at the Fort Dodge Invitational Thursday, with No. 7 Waukee, ninth-rated Roosevelt, No. 10 Johnston and 13th-ranked Ankeny Centennial completing a stacked top-six.
The Dodgers were 13th overall, one spot ahead of the Gaels. Webster City finished 12th.
Jordan Kleve won individual honors, as the Johnston senior clocked a time of 14:37 to best Megan Schott from Roosevelt. The two are ranked fifth and seventh in the state.
"Honestly, this was one of the toughest meets in the state," FDSH head coach Tim Hanson said. "We knew that going in, but we just told the girls to remain confident in what we are doing which is building for the future.
"We are young and we are going to go through growing pains, but we just have to remain focused on the future."
Madison Bodholdt, a senior, led the Dodgers with a 67th place showing in 17:45. Katarina Olson was 75th, followed by Becca Sunken in 79th, Anna Taylor in 84th and Megan Nebel 87th.
"Madison had a nice run," Hanson said. "Her time was right around where it has been, so that was good to see."
For the Gaels, Kara Salinas had the top showing in 76th at 18:14. Leah Cosgrove was 78th, Jaci Taylor 82nd, Madi Reel 83rd and Joeli Koenig 90th.
"Like the boys, this was a difficult challenge for our girls," SEHS head coach Mike Szalat said. "We just have to keep working on improving our teams and get prepared for next week and districts."
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Disney is looking to capitalize on the wildly successful animation, "Frozen," with one of its ice skating productions. "Disney on Ice: Frozen" heads to New Orleans for a four day run on April 30, 2015 and to Baton Rouge for four days beginning May 7, 2015.
The production will primarily focus on the characters and stories of its namesake movie. The storyline follows a young girl named Anna, who journeys to find her magical sister, Elsa. Also in the cast are the characters Kristoff, Sven, the snowman Olaf and a number of mystical trolls. The soundtrack will include songs like "Fixer Upper," "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" and the wildly popular track, "Let It Go," which won the Oscar for best original song at the Academy Awards this year.
The cast will also include appearances from a handful of other Disney movies, like "Toy Story" and "The Lion King," as well as Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
"The set design will encompass the space from the ice surface up through the air, drawing everyone into the story and closer to the characters," according to the press release.
Tickets go on sale to the general public June 3, 2014, but those using the code "SOCIAL" can already access advanced ticket sales through Ticketmaster. The New Orleans performances will take place at the UNO Lakefront Arena, and the Baton Rouge dates will be hosted by the Baton Rouge River Center.


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McInerney's Iraq Vet Brother: "Oh, Those Nazi Books Are Mine"
So Brandon McInerney, the then 14-year-old who shot Lawrence King brains out with a .22 caliber in front of his classmates, apparently had a German Iron Cross Medal, some books about Nazi youth and a drawing of a swastika with the words "white pride worldwide" written on it in his bedroom. But don't get the wrong idea! He's not a white supremacist like the prosecution would have you believe! All those things reportedly belong to his older brother Brian, an Iraq War veteran who testified in court recently while wearing his Marine uniform. Nice costume, Brian.
Here's some of Brian's testimony:
That's my book. That's actually the Twelfth SS Panzer Division is the unite I reenacted. I am a World War II reenacter. It's basically a documentary, it's a German film. So, if you know anything about foreign films in Germany and stuff, they do not make anything that promotes the Third Reich any more in Germany.
The image of an Iraq veteran defending his little brother certainly couldn't have hurt McInerney's chances of being charged with voluntary manslaughter as opposed to first-degree murder and a hate crime; especially since the prosecution is trying to paint Brandon as a white supremacist.
the lies these people will go to to protect their murderous spawn is horrible.
Oh, for Christ's sake. It's so ridiculous when white supremacists claim to simply be interested in history. Like the Nazis ever used the slogan "White Pride Worldwide."
The funny thing is when people start thinking that just because you are in the military you are some upstanding pillar of the community. There are plenty of cases where that has been proven completely incorrect.
I can totally see why a white supremacist would want to join the military at this point and time. We have spent the majority of a decade killing people in foreign lands mostly because their religious beliefs differ from ours. Seems like a prime opportunity for a white supremacist.
What, no gross generalizations about their race?
@Daez: I think very, very many people understand that military men are just killing machines, and that a lot of those killing machines target people of difference.
"Waah, waah, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Stop bombing people who want to destroy the west! Just let them plot to kill us all in peace!"
Guess the rotten apples dont fall from from that vile family tree………..
Oh, so his brother is also a ruthless killer. Might as well off the whole family
These Neo Nazis are always really chilling to read about on paper and whatnot, but that ends when you meet one. Dude is always a)a snitch, running from his life in the NLR, or whatever skinhead pack of chicken shits he was with. b)A punk, used to doing half duty at full pay, and selling his ass when times are tight because he is always also C) a lickspittle, and a toadying ass kisser. Same old same old.
Spam from a member on multiple posts, Queerty? Quite the 'filter' you have there!
See, it really DOES get better when you're a member, Lol.
The white supremacy aspect of the case, although interesting, seems a curveball in what was to be a case about murder and motives. This trial seems to be getting little coverage outside the LGB press; but with this new wrinkle it will perhaps start attracting more attention from other quarters.
I hope TV att'y Nancy Grace doesn't latch on to this drama, all the same….
@JayKay: Thank you for reminding us how grotesque it is for an idiot to laugh at a genius.
Funny, there are no 12th Panzer re-enactment groups I know of. Probably because the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" was formed from the most fanatical of the Nazi schoolboys – the "Hitler Youth". No historical re-enactor wants to be associated with them, any more than they would KZ guards.
@Aiden: Hey, this Jew has no love for the Aryan race. I'd do to them what Hitler did to my people—both my people—in an instant. What made Hitler an evil man was not what he did, but his motivations for doing so. Brandon McImanazi needs to be executed to send a message to the other neo-Nazi gay bashers that you all have targets on your backs.
I just wish the same people who come here and bash "white gay men" who won't date them because they're bitter and hateful would leave us Jews out of it.
@Abirdwillingtobeitself: The only one who thinks you're a genius is you.
@JayKay: said…
"Waah, waah, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Stop bombing people who want to destroy the west! Just let them plot to kill us all in peace!""
Oh Please, nobody outside needs to destroy the west. Our own govt. and people like Michell Bachman, etc… are doing a fine job themselves.
He has the stones to wear a US military uniform while claiming to be a WWII German army reenactor? If he is a vet and no longer active duty, are they allowed to don the uniform because wearing it certainly implies current active status.
@Queer Supremacist: No, when I meet a person in real life, it's clear to that person that I'm a genius. In any case, you sound like a shrill woman, not like a gay man. Whenever a man doesn't understand the praesens, it's because a woman has a strong influence on his character. In your case, it's probably a domineering mother.
@Abirdwillingtobeitself: Stupid people can't feel deeply, they can't account for the leveling effect, and they can't even measure time. They're called invincibly ignorant for a reason.


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Much prefer the 270 welt to the 360
Agree, and it's not just boots. There's a high demand for shoes that are styled in the likes of EG, JL, G&G, without the hefty price tag. If someone could give me some capital, I'd start my own company
I know what you are talking about & almost picked them up as well but.....Still think I will pull the trigger!
So... I expect every one will explain all the ways I am messed up for holding the opinion that I am about to reveal, but: I've never liked brogueing. There I said it. It's not that I judge people who wear brogued shoes (I don't! I even think they look sharp!) but when I look down at my own feet, and I see a bunch of decorative punches I feel excessive. I love a nice clean cap toe. I love a beat-up plain toe. I even get on board with the indy stitch (though I start to get that 'excessive itch' with the tanker). This is my own personal opinion for my own personal shoes, and I'm probably wrong, but it is what it is. My one and only true regret about this personal quirk is my lack of wing-tips in my collection.
Which brings me to my actual question. Has Alden ever made a brogueless shortwing? Something roughly like this:
I'm not fond of the dark stitching, and you might say I'm crazy for wanting the 'decorative cut' of the shortwing without the brogueing... but I ask all the same. Now, please tell my why this would be such an abomination. Should be educational.
Hi everyone,
I know Alden's website details their Foot Balance System lasts fairly well, but is there a resource that details all of their current lasts in equal depth? Also, is there a resource that visually compares the various lasts, showing the dimensions and shapes of the lasts? I know that's a tall order, but that would surely help a consumer understand what to look for when shopping for a pair of Aldens. I know Alden Shoes of Carmel has a high level explanation of the size variations of the lasts on their site, but other than that, I'm somewhat uneducated on matter. I was hoping to learn more on this subject outside of going to a shop and trying on various models.
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A Covington-area woman and her ex-boyfriend have been booked with aggravated rape charges after the two allegedly participated in sex acts with the woman's minor biological daughter, according to a news release from the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office. Both are being held in St. Tammany Parish Jail on $300,000 bonds.
The names of the mother and her ex-boyfriend are being withheld to protect the identity of the victim.
According to a Sheriff's Office report, the girl told officials at her school last month that she had been the victim of abusive sexual behavior by her mother and one of her mother's ex-boyfriends. School officials notified the Sheriff's Office and the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services, which removed the girl from her home.
The Children's Advocacy Center interviewed the victim, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff Jack Strain said detectives learned that both the mother and her ex-boyfriend participated in the sex acts, which occurred over several years beginning when the girl was 5.
The last incident occurred about a year ago, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The man has cooperated with detectives and has provided information that is consistent with the victim's statements, according to the Sheriff's Office. The woman so far has refused to make any statements to investigators.
Additional charges may be filed against the pair.


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The Army Materiel Command Band, based at Redstone Arsenal, will soon have a new commander.
Chief Warrant Officer Four Jesse Pascua is assuming command of the band from acting commander First Sergeant James Cardo during ceremonies planned for April 5 at 2:30 p.m. The ceremonies will be held at AMC headquarters and will be presided over by Gen. Dennis Via, AMC commanding general.
Pascua hails from Waipahu, Hawaii and received a bachelor of music in performance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was most recently the commander and bandmaster of the 98th Army "Silver Wings" Band at Fort Rucker before assuming his present position with the AMC Band.


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Charles Hamlin Nash
Oct. 8, 1921 – March 17, 2010
Charlie Nash died peacefully on March 17 – St. Patrick's Day – at R House Care Home.
Charlie lived most of his 88 years right here in Friday Harbor, all within the same block. He was born in a home on the corner of Tucker Avenue and Guard Street, the eldest son of Albert M. Nash Sr. and Margaret McSorley Nash. He was followed by brother Albert Jr., sister Catherine and brother Kenneth.
Charlie's parents ran the Friday Harbor Drug Store for many years. Charlie attended school in Friday Harbor, graduating in 1939. He attended the University of Washington and joined Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and graduated in 1944 with a BA in geography and a minor in naval sciences, while serving in the NROTC as a naval officer from 1943-46.
After submarine school in Connecticut, he was assigned to the USS Finback during WWII. His expertise as an officer was recognizing enemy aircraft. These experiences prepared him for his license as third mate of ocean in 1947.
After service, he came home to Friday Harbor and worked as a bookkeeper and mail delivery man to the outer islands. He was a natural boatman and outdoorsman and would make life on the water his second home. At the age of 24, he ran a fleet of seiners to Shanghai, China. Charlie started fishing in Bristol Bay in 1961 and continued there until he was in his early 70s. He was an avid commercial fisherman in Puget Sound and Alaska for more than 50 years.
He met his wife, Betty Chevalier, in Friday Harbor after the war and they were married on June 16, 1948. It was cause for great celebration as these two multi-generational island families joined hands.
Charlie and Betty were very happily married and together raised four children: Nick, Kelly, Pat and Lisa. With growing family responsibilities, Charlie decided it was time to get a regular job. He became the postmaster in 1964 and retired in 1983. He took his vacation time and headed to Bristol Bay or out to the Salmon Banks where he really felt at home.
He was a leader of the annual chum salmon egg plant in Beaverton Valley Creek beginning in 1970. He is remembered most for his knowledge and surveys of the bald eagle, authoring a paper presented at the Bald Eagle Symposium, Seattle Aquarium. He was also invited to and attended the International Birds of Prey Symposium in Israel. For these efforts, he was nominated and awarded the Environmental Excellence Award, Individual Category, in 1977, presented by Sen. Warren Magnusson.
Charlie served the island community in many ways: as chairman of the San Juan Island Shoreline Master Plan Committee, member of the San Juan Island School Board, and board member of the Sailing Club and Power Squadron. He was a Cub Scout leader, past president of the Chamber of Commerce and the San Juan Historical Society, and commander of American Legion Post 163. He was a charter member of the San Juan Island Yacht Club and the San Juan Lions Club.
Charlie was aware of the changes facing the island, among them pending condominium development on the town's shoreline and the lack of facilities for the fishing fleet and other boaters. He was instrumental in developing the Port of Friday Harbor, subsequently serving on the Port Commission for 27 years.
Charlie was very active in St. Francis Catholic Church, ushering for 50 years as well as boating the priests from island to island to celebrate Mass. In his later years, Charlie really enjoyed his growing family. He loved all of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, taking notice of each one and admiring their unique strengths and personalities. Charlie's most rewarding accomplishment was his 61-year marriage to Betty, whom he loved and admired deeply.
He is survived by Betty; his four children and their spouses, Nick and Linnae Nash, Kelly Nash, Pat and Becky Nash, and Lisa and Jim Lawrence; grandchildren, Jason, Natalia, Michelle, Kyle, Mara, Kiersten, Jordan, Charles and Margaret; and eight great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a grandson, William Troy Nash, on Sept. 25, 2009.
Rosary will be recited Thursday, March 25, at 7 p.m., St. Francis Catholic Church.
Memorial Mass will be celebrated Friday, March 26, 1 p.m., at St. Francis Catholic Church. Graveside service will follow at St. Francis Cemetery, approximately 2 p.m.
Mullis Community Senior Center, 589 Nash St., will be open at 2:15 p.m. for a Celebration of Life.
Memorials may be made to the San Juan Historical Museum or St. Francis Catholic Church.
— Family of Charles Hamlin Nash
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Meryl Streep loves the Finger Lakes. Robert De Niro loves the Hudson Valley. Billy Joel? Long Island.
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I've been collecting fat from the beef broth I make. It's all solidified in the fridge now. I use it for cooking eggs and other dishes, but I'm getting a lot more than I'm using. What can I do with it?
I've been collecting fat from the beef broth I make. It's all solidified in the fridge now. I use it for cooking eggs and other dishes, but I'm getting a lot more than I'm using. What can I do with it?
Cook everything with it.
Add it to grass fed mince (which is usually too lean).
Use it to make a soup.
A steak a day keeps the doctor away
You can also use it to deep fry. It makes the best french fries in the history of the world.
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Just sub tallow for peanut oil of course.
If you strain the oil well after using, it can be reused a few times before you need to toss it.
You could also make some pemmican if that's more your style: http://www.traditionaltx.us/images/PEMMICAN.pdf
Also, you might want to render the tallow you collect from your broth as outlined in the manual above, regardless of what you do with it. At least in my experience, this skimmed tallow has a significant amount of water still in it which will cause it to spoil.
Thanks for these links-- can't wait to make pemmican as soon as I have a way to dehydrate beef! (we don't have an oven right now in rural India).
That picture of the color of tallow is new to me. I wasn't sure whether our local butcher sells grass-fed beef, but the tallow I get is a dark orangey-yellow. Very happy now!
When I finish a batch of broth, I usually put it in the fridge first, and the top layer solidifies to a chunk of fat, and the bottom layer is either gelled or liquid. Does it still need rendering? And how to do it?
i don't skim it and just put a chunk of it in the broth each time i have a serving.
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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sounds interesting...
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MANTUA TOWNSHIP -- The Gloucester County Board of Freeholders, Mantua Mayor and Township Committee will hold a Patriot Day Ceremony on Thursday, September 11, in remembrance of the attacks on the United States.
The 7th anniversary memorial will be held at the Place of Reflection, inside the Chestnut Branch Park on Main Street, and will be open to the public.
The memorial will be a tribute to all those who lost their lives in the September 11 attacks, most especially Gloucester County residents John Rodak, Nicholas W. Brandemarti and Perry Thompson.


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I am new here too so i just wanted to say HI. It sounds like you are doing awesome!
Just wanted to introduce myself after lurking here for the past three weeks. I'm a 37 year old stay at home mom from Kansas who started the primal diet on January 1st. I am very excited about my progress thus far- I'm 5'9" and I started out at 156 and I'm down to 145 as of two days ago.
I went gluten free on January 1, 2011 and had great results from that, but then found the great gluten free breads, pastas, etc. and suddenly my weight started creeping up. It wasn't until I read an article on Dr. Mercola about the insulin/sugar connection with those gluten free substitutes that the light came on. Since going primal all my gut issues are gone and I'm feeling fantastic.
I homeschool my seven kids and have a small bakery business on the side (of which I can't partake of, ironically) so my energy levels have to be high all day, every day.
So there it is! I look forward to all the wisdom that all you have to offer along this journey.
I am new here too so i just wanted to say HI. It sounds like you are doing awesome!
Welcome. Good luck with primal.
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By Doug George-Kanentiio
The movie Avatar is a painful experience for Native people because we know the ending after the first minutes of the film.
The plot describes the attempt by humans to exploit, by mining, a mineral called unobtanium from a moon that circles a planet in the Alpha Centauri star system. The moon, called Pandora by the humans, is inhabited by 10-foot-tall indigenous people who refer to themselves as Na'vi. They line in and near a large, oak like tree called the "Home Tree" which in turn is connected, as is all lunar life, to all other life forms.
The Na'vi trace this interdependence and consciousness to a single source: the Tree of Souls. The Tree not only gives them knowledge but is the place where their spirits go to when their bodies die. It is also a place of healing from physical and psychological wounds.
The humans perceive the Na'vi as stone-age savages unwilling to exploit unobtanium and become materially wealthy. But the humans need the Na'vi's knowledge about the moon and the location of possible unobtanium ore. They assign an anthropologist to study the Na'vi. She develops a method to blend human and Na'vi DNA into a physical body called an "avatar" that enables the humans to look and act as Na'vi.
The corporation which has hired the scientists and oversees the mining of unobtanium also has former Marines hired as mercenaries, the commander of whom has no tolerance for the Na'vi and instills fear and hatred of them into the military units under his control.
One of these young men, Jake Sully, spends months among the Na'vi learning their customs and language. He makes periodic reports to his military commander, who uses the data to locate unobtanium and devise ways to remove the Na'vi.
By this date — the year 2154 — Earth has become a place of desolation. It is on the brink of ecological death, with unobtanium promising to be a substance that may yet save humanity.
It is a familiar story to Natives of this hemisphere:, from the presence of aboriginal female clan leaders to the respect for all organisms. We know what will happen when the humans arrive. After initial contact comes the recorders, those who will learn the language, study the people, analyze the society and send their reports to distant authorities who will then use that information to infiltrate, factionalize and disrupt the indigenous people, to get them ready for the coming invasion.
A strong military force inevitably follows the recorders. It brings not only munitions but disease and violence. The invaders introduce new technologies and foster a dependence upon them. They enforce directives from the company, including the imposition of formal education, organized religion and "tribal councils" in which the native communal values are replaced with capitalist ones. In the end, the goal is to have Na'vi fight Na'vi after they have been decimated by plagues and confused by religion. The plan is to have the Na'vi themselves operate the machines to extract the minerals with Na'vi soldiers securing the designated sacrifice regions and corrupt Na'vi sharing the wealth.
This is what we, as Natives, know will happen to the Na'vi. They may have been successful in routing the humans, but we know the Earthlings will be back with a massive army prepared to use any means to secure the mining of unobtanium. The army will be trailed by the social scientists, the teachers, the religious cadre, all of whom will feel an obligation to save the Na'vi from themselves, for the great glory of God and for profit, whatever form it may take.
That is what we expect James Cameron will address in the sequel to Avatar, and that is why we cringe when we see the movie. We were the tall, lean Natives looming over the bow-legged refugees from the east. We were the ones who created an ecological paradise in much of the Americas. We lived at ease with the land, we took strength from our clans, we gave thanks for all things (including everything we consumed), we honored the Great Tree of Peace, we had sacred the Great Tree of Light, we delighted in rituals and we were, according to the Europeans, immodest in our dress. We, like the Na'vi, used tattoos and body paint and shaved our heads in the famous "Mohawk" style.
Given those similarities, which Cameron has acknowledged were by design, we can understand the Na'vi, yet be apprehensive about their fate. Based on our experience, the only way the Na'vi will survive is to act quickly and either form a confederacy of indigenous people in Pandora to (with a Tecumseh-like leader) resist the Earthlings when they return or to convert all of Earth to the Na'vi way of thinking, as would our prophet Skannenrahowi the Peacemaker.
Let's hope that Earth, at the time of its greatest need, will go Native.
Doug George-Kanentiio is an Akwesasne Mohawk writer living in the Oneida Iroquois Territory.


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Reggie Lawrence speaks with The Telegram at his office in Paradise. — Image taken from video by Adam Tuck/Special to The Telegram
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Reggie Lawrence performs a taekwondo move known as a spin hook.
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As a kid, Reggie Lawrence fantasized about being a ninja. It's a dream he still remembers and enjoys. — Submitted photo
Being bullied helped Reggie Lawrence become an elite athlete
He was behind the high school playing hacky sack when he realized they were coming.
"I heard these voices, chanting and cheering and getting louder and louder," Reggie Lawrence recalls.
They were after him.
"There had to be at least 200 of them, and it really was at least 200 people," the Conception Bay South resident says. "A lot of people weren't even from the school."
The throng backed the handful of people playing hacky sack against the school wall.
For Lawrence, now 30, this was the most intense attack of the extreme bullying he endured during junior high and high school.
"They had someone planned to fight me, so when he came in, I tried to kill time," he continues. "It was really scary. I knew that they were going to jump on me soon."
And jump on him they did.
Lawrence says he defended himself for a long time, until school administrators came out.
He managed to emerge from the bullying scrum relatively unscathed using techniques learned through martial arts.
"When you're grappling, if someone is under you, you can actually hug them and allow them to be your armour. … So I just hugged him when I was down on the ground, and when they were kicking me, they were actually kicking him. I can hear his breath going out, so I just stayed there as long as I could. … It was unfortunate for him, but that's what I had to do in that moment to survive, I guess. It was very overwhelming. They were all very angry, definitely mob mentality."
Longtime friend Adam Tuck wasn't at school that day, but he says everyone was saying he should have been there.
"I'm like, 'Man, I'm some glad I wasn't,'" Tuck quips.
He can say that now with a smile, but the incident — and the amount of bullying his friend faced — was no joke at the time, 15 or so years ago.
"It was just organized, well-organized, and for that age to be that organized, it's a little scary," Tuck says.
Especially for the victim.
Being intensely targeted and victimized deeply affected Lawrence.
He was apprehensive to go places and avoided drawing attention to himself.
"If I was at a party, for example, and one of this group showed up — and they were a large group — I would just leave," he says. "It was really the constant fear, I guess, of being out of my own environment, because every time I encountered them, I ended up having to run from them."
The attacks shook Lawrence's confidence and weakened him mentally.
"All I wanted to do every day when I went to school was not be seen," he says.
Things finally started changing as Grade 12 came to a close. Lawrence met friends from another high school and started feeling comfortable just being himself.
"That made my confidence grow because I realized not everyone was like this," he says. "Up until that point, I thought this is the way it is. It's just hard. Life is hard."
He also started studying tae-kwondo, the sport that would change his life and take him places.
"I found my career in the martial art world just shot up very quickly," he says.
The rise was indeed rapid. Lawrence — a guy once hesitant to leave the house — was soon fighting opponents around the world, in Mexico, Paris and Thailand, where he competed for Canada at the World University Games.
Being a victim of bullying powered his desire to succeed.
"All of a sudden, I was in this area where people were cheering for me, but really, I was cheering for me because we were doing so well," he says. "And I'm doing something that I was so afraid of, which was confrontation. So in that sense, it fuelled me, yes, but not from anger, from inspiration, I guess."
Lawrence started chasing an Olympic dream, the 2012 games in London.
Training was going well until a few months before the trials to decide which fighter would wear the Maple Leaf.
During a tournament in New Brunswick, where he was training, a ligament in his knee completely detached.
"I threw a kick and the way it came down after the strike, it just severed," he says. "It's almost like my legs were literally taken out from under me."
Through physio and training, and desire, Lawrence recovered enough to avoid surgery and step on the mat for the Olympic trials.
He lost his fifth fight, finishing in third.
"I was close. It was great, no matter what," he says.
Instead of committing four more years to another kick at the Olympics, Lawrence returned home and resumed a career in financial planning with Paradise-based Capital Management.
Back in Newfoundland, he's also bent on sharing the experience of his teen years to help young people deal with bullying.
He wants to give them hope, to let them know all is not lost and things can get better.
Tuck applauds what his friend is trying to do.
"I think people need hope and they need a mentor," he says. "There's a lot of people out there who can help, but guiding them to that help is kinda part of the problem, I think."
On Friday, Lawrence addressed high school students from across the Avalon during an anti-bullying workshop organized by the St. John's Crime Prevention Committee.
Mark Fudge helped organize the event. He says Lawrence's story connected and resonated.
"It's a message of resilience and being able to make a better tomorrow," he says.
"(Bullying) didn't define who he became or who he was, and through that, I think he's able to share a message of what other youth can do."
For more on Reggie Lawrence's quest, watch Telegram TV, 8 p.m., April 24, on Rogers TV, channel 9.
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Qigong, an ancient Chinese mindfulness practice derived from Taoist traditions, is an elegantly simple, but powerful way of balancing one's energy to reduce stress, promote health, slow aging, and enhance emotional well-being. The regular practice of Qigong unblocks the flow of energy though the body, to help maintain good health. At a deeper level, the practice offers greater engagement and more profound connection with all life. In this workshop, you'll learn the simple movements, visualizations, and breathing exercises of this tradition that can be an antidote to emotional fatigue, burnout, anxiety, depression, and physical ailments when practiced regularly. By helping you balance your own energy, practicing Qigong makes you more acutely aware when others are out of balance, which can enhance your therapeutic alliance.
Patrick Dougherty, M.A., L.P., a psychologist in private practice for more than 30 years, has been studying Eastern philosophies and practices for the past 20 years, and integrating them into his clinical work. He teaches Qigong and is the author of Qigong in Psychotherapy and A Whole-Hearted Embrace: You Can Do So Much by Doing So Little.


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As most Alabama high school seniors prepare to graduate this spring, federal financial aid programs will play an important role in the futures of many who plan to advance to college.
According to Alabama Possible, an organization dedicated to making college more accessible to high school graduates, Alabama is the sixth poorest state in the nation, with 19 percent of its residents and 27.6 percent of its children living below the poverty line -- a median household income of just $9,508 a year.
The Southern Education Foundation reports 60 percent of that poverty gap is due to Alabamian's low educational attainment.
[Related: New federal spending bill won't help ousted Pell Grant recipients]
"For every dollar earned by individuals with a bachelor's degree, high school dropouts only earn 32 cents and high school graduates only earn 51 cents," the foundation report.
Meanwhile, Alabama Community College System Chancellor Mark Heinrich says Alabama is also behind in its college going rate, with just 56 percent of its high school graduates advancing to college compared to the national average of 68 percent.
[Related: Is Alabama falling behind in the race for cheap college tuition and a robust workforce?]
In 2010, just 82 percent of adults in Alabama had high school diplomas and only 22 percent had bachelors' degrees or better, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
"College graduates elevate their personal earning capacity and bring nearly $1 million in spending power back to their local communities," Alabama Possible reports.
"Educational attainment is also a key factor in employers' site location decisions, which in turn can create a healthier economy for all of us."
To help combat the grim education statistics Alabama Possible announced this week it and others are sponsoring the Blueprints College Access Initiative this year, offering workshops around the state to help students complete their Free Application for Student Financial Aid for federal student aid.
The workshops are as follows:
- 4:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Birmingham Southern College Library's Electronic Classroom,
- 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 1, University of Alabama at Birmingham's Heritage Hall, and
- 6 to 8 p.m. March 3 at Northwest Shoals Community College's Phil Campbell Campus.


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The 2010 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament is about 10 minutes away, and plenty of fans from Alabama and Auburn woke up early to file into Hoover's Regions Park for a very interesting opening game.
It has a football atmosphere to it, honestly, what with the traffic and fanbases filling into each side of the stadium.
The past two years have seen the Crimson Tide play its first tournament game into the wee hours of the morning, so personally, I like it much better this way. The fans probably do too, since there is a lot of crimson along the third-base line. The Tigers, meanwhile, haven't been here in a while, so there's also quite a bit of orange and blue on the first-place line.
Nice to see this kind of crowd, period. It should be fun. And maybe -- just maybe -- we'll make it through this meeting without the multiple suspensions that marked the last series between these two.
Alabama is sporting the gray uniforms with crimson shirts on underneath. Auburn is going with the orange jerseys and white pants.
You can follow today's action from Regions Park on the BamaBeat's Twitter feed.
Here are the lineups ...
No. 7 seed ALABAMA (34-21)
Taylor Dugas LF
Josh Rutledge SS
Ross Wilson 2B
Clay Jones 1B
David Kindred DH
Jake Smith 3B
Jon Kelton LF
Andrew Miller RF
Brock Bennett C
Jimmy Nelson P
No. 2 seed AUBURN (39-17)
Justin Fradejas RF
Trent Mummey CF
Brian Fletcher LF
Hunter Morris 1B
Kevin Patterson DH
Casey McElroy SS
Ryan Jenkins C
Dan Gamache 3B
Justin Hargett 2B
Cory Luckie P


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Toca Kalani Flex Drums Tested!
Once again the group over at Toca Percussion has come up with another interesting, unique, and purposeful innovation. Working alongside percussionist and educator Kalani, Toca Percussion has developed the Flex Drum, a hybrid-type djembe that's not only cool sounding, good-looking, and versatile, but also super lightweight. With a removable pretuned 11" PVC head, the 23" tall PVC-constructed drum is conical in shape. The gray-colored shell is covered with a nice white tribal-type repeating design. The pattern is a nice contrast alongside the rich black head. This versatile drum has many contemporary features and is accommodating to today's amateur and professional musicians. Oh, and if you have more than one, they're conveniently stackable.
Multiple Drums In One
Even with its smaller profile, the Flex Drum puts out a surprisingly big sound. The pretuned 11" head has nice open tones and some pretty sharp and popping slaps, à la djembe-style. The cone-shape of the shell helps contribute to the bass tones having a deep and fairly decent sustain. The Flex Drum, however, is more than just one drum. When you take off the removable pretuned head you'll notice that you now have an 11" frame drum and a rather large tambourim all in one.
Using a lightweight timbale stick, playing the PVC head tambourim style was really cool. The head sounds good on its own. I was impressed. Using various striking tools like brushes, blastiks, and yarn mallets offered many unique timbres and showed off the versatility – or rather, flexibility – of the Flex Drum.
Holding the removable head like a Middle Eastern—style frame drum was very nice, too. There is not much give with the PVC skin so the bass tonality you get when on the shell is considerably more than with the head removed. But, overall playing frame drum—style is very articulate and the pitch is cutting, which is good when playing in an ensemble.
At less than 6 lbs. the Flex Drum with all its power is remarkably lightweight. Really, you wouldn't believe it by just looking. The Flex Drum comes with a nylon strap for easy handling when playing standing up or quick transport. The strap is easy to adjust, streamlined, and comfortable. There is a rubber foot on the bottom of the shell for protection or seated playing but I found I lost some quality of sound when sitting. I think wearing the drum with the strap is the best way to play.
Another useful feature of the Flex Drum is that you can stack multiple drums inside each other. Because they are so light you can put four or five together with no problem. If you're organizing a small ensemble of Flex Drums, you'll have no problem transporting them in a group.
Ready, Set, Go
The middle of my hardwood-floor living room is the perfect place for a little percussion jam. The acoustics are perfect. Lofting the ultra-light Flex Drum strap over my shoulders was a cinch. Having a light drum really helps make playing less wearing and strenuous. I didn't have to worry about a heavy pull on my body every time I hit the drum. Accessing the head in the standing position was no problem and my hands were able to make steady contact with the playing surface. Nice big bass tones filled the room while staccato slaps cut powerfully into the rhythms.
After a steady little jam I had no fatigue in my hands and the effects from banging on the lightweight drum were way less than a traditional heavy wooden djembe. The Flex Drum has great projection and volume. I found in an ensemble hitting harder was not going to necessarily equal louder performance. I was hitting a little harder to push the drum but there's only so much you can get out of it. Taking off the head during a song was easy and let me go from djembe-style to a Brazilian tambourim and then back again. It was a lot of fun. It would be nice to have an 11.75" or even 12"-diameter sizes to add to the Flex Drum line.
I really enjoyed playing the Flex Drum. I don't know of any other drum that's quite like it. The removable head is a great design feature and very unique. The versatility of the PVC material head gives a player multiple ways to play. The amazing shell is unbelievably lightweight and yet still puts out plenty of sound. It would, however, be nice to have more than one size to choose from. At this price point, I think you get a lot of bang for your buck. Both professional and amateur percussionists will enjoy exploring the many musical possibilities of a Flex Drum.
Playing Surfaces 11" PVC material
Shell 23"-tall PVC material
Finish Plain gray PVC with white tribal print
Features Removable head, lightweight, accompanying strap, easily stackable for transportation, rubber foot on bottom of shell.
List Price $149
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DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers will be without cleanup hitter Magglio Ordonez until after the All-Star break. Ordonez was placed on the 15-day disabled list prior to Sunday's game with a pulled right oblique, and outfielder Matt Joyce was recalled from Toledo.
The 2007 American League batting champion experienced spasms during Saturday's game in his right oblique and latissimus dorsi (a muscle in the back, which stretches from the arm pit to the hip area), and Sunday's examination revealed the pulled muscle. The oblique is a muscle in the abdomen.
"I don't want to take a chance," Ordonez said. "You know when it is not going to be OK, and it is going to be a miracle if you feel better."
He said watching teammates Gary Sheffield and Brandon Inge deal with oblique injuries that placed them on the disabled list influenced his decision.
"Sheff told me, 'You've got to take care of it.' "
Ordonez said the injury occurred when chasing a foul ball hit in the first inning, but said it didn't bother him when he hit a single in the bottom of the first. He came out in the third after chasing a double off the wall by Troy Tulowitzki.
"It will just take treatment and rest," said Ordonez, who will not travel with the team on the upcoming seven-game road trip. "It will be maybe two weeks. I'll be back when I am ready."
The All-Star break will provide him 18 days to get healthy before Detroit resumes play July 17 at Baltimore. Ordonez is hitting .307 with 12 homers and a team-high 50 RBI.
"Can you replace Magglio? No. If you think you can, you are crazy," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "But hopefully somebody will get hot. It's a big blow, but the Cardinals had to play without (Albert) Pujols and the Yankees without (Jorge) Posada."
Left-handed hitting Clete Thomas likely will get most of the starting time in Ordonez's absence. He's hitting .529 during a six-game hitting streak.
No. 5 hitter Miguel Cabrera will move into the cleanup spot Ordonez occupied in the first 80 games of the season.
Joyce, who Leyland said needed to work on hitting breaking balls before sending him back to Toledo one month ago, is batting .270 with 13 homers and 41 RBI for the Mud Hens. Joyce hit .208 with five homers and 10 RBI in 53 at-bats with Detroit.
The Tigers also announced that utility infielder Ramon Santiago (shoulder) will begin a rehabilitation assignment today with Toledo.
Jones cheered again
Tigers closer Todd Jones was booed in blowing his first save of the season Saturday, but cheered even before getting his 15th save Sunday.
"I was thankful for a nice ovation," Jones said. "It's love-hate, I think. You earn 'em both -- the boos and the cheers."
He received an even bigger ovation after pitching a 1-2-3 ninth.
Willis pitches for Lakeland
Dontrelle Willis pitched two innings Sunday night for the Lakeland Tigers, allowing one hit, one run and three walks. It was his first appearance since being sent to Lakeland to work on his control after a wild June 9 outing against Cleveland. He walked five, gave up two homers and eight runs in 1 1/3 innings, continuing a trend of wildness.
Tigers minor league pitching coordinator Jon Matlack and Lakeland pitching coach Joe Coleman worked with Detroit pitching coach Chuck Hernandez and bullpen coach Jeff Jones in formulating a plan for Willis.
"Our input was what we saw here," Hernandez said Sunday morning, prior to Willis' outing. "I gave my point of view. Joe Coleman has been excited and very happy with Dontrelle and what's going on, and Dontrelle has to be happy with what's going on.
"He needed time to get away and work on things. Steps were taken and now it's time to get him in a game and see how it goes."
Matlack said he will discuss Willis' program upon his return to Detroit.
Leyland added: "He's down there for a reason -- to work it out and grind it out until he gets it right."
Raburn a 'dirtbag'
Ryan Raburn hit his first career grand slam and later scored the winning run in the ninth inning Saturday night against Colorado.
"He's a prime time dirt bag," said Leyland, noting that the term is a compliment. "What a good guy, what a good player he is. I can't believe a National League team hasn't come after him."
Raburn's ability to play infield and outfield would tie into the senior circuit game with double-switches and a premium on bench players.
"I don't know what he means by that," said a smiling Raburn, "but I guess it's a compliment."
He said it was his first grand slam at any level, including tee ball.
Rodney bounces back
Fernando Rodney pitched a scoreless eighth inning Saturday night, allowing only a walk.
Rodney, after a disastrous first week back during which he allowed six of seven batters to reach base and five to score, recovered very nicely last week. He pitched 3 2/3 innings of hitless, scoreless relief, allowing just one walk and striking out two.
Grilli returns
Colorado reliever Jason Grilli, booed while being announced upon entering games Saturday and Sunday, doffed his cap to Tigers fans after pitching a scoreless inning Sunday.
"That's Jason being Jason," said former teammate Jones. "That's pretty funny."
Grilli criticized the Tigers in a USA Today article after being traded April 30.