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- Rumors abound that Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick are preparing to tie the knot, but mama Kris Jenner says otherwise. [Huffington Post]
- Tracey Gold — you know, from "Growing Pains" — dishes on her eating disorder and kissing Brad Pitt. [Snakkle]
- Speaking of Tracey Gold, please have a look at this list of who's participating in "Celebrity Wife Swap". [AOL TV]
- Just as we suspected, Demi Moore is not dating Scott-Vincent Borba, most likely because Scott-Vincent Borba does not like the ladies. [The Superficial]
- We've all seen these photos of J.Lo and Casper Smart by now, but what's up with that wedding ring she can't seem to take off? [TMZ]
- The brilliant Diane Keaton on Woody, Warren, and the greatest love of her life. [Yahoo Shine]
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They Killed Emily
By Beth Kubit
July 2007
According to the Post-Gazette Editorial, "No harm, no fowl: The county was right to thin the goose flock," July 21, 2007, Emily was just a public nuisance, and should be killed. (Emily)
Emily is a Canada Goose who I rescued last year and nursed back to health. I live in North Park, which is right at the Lake. I knew nothing about geese before helping Emily. After spending so much time with her, I learned how intelligent, affectionate and trusting a goose can be. I have no doubt that the bond we developed would have lasted for life.
It was so rewarding to see Emily healthy again. She would come to visit me every day, and I looked forward to seeing her. She even recognized my car.
Dan Onorato said that, "No geese will be killed," so I believed Emily was safe. If I knew that he would go back on his word, I would have rescued her and taken her to a sanctuary.
I woke up last Wednesday to read that 272 geese were killed at North Park. I ran out looking for Emily. I fearfully drove around the lake searching for her. I didn't see any geese. They were gone. They killed them all overnight! I waited Thursday and Friday hoping that Emily escaped and would come back to visit me like always. She never came.
Emily may have only been a public nuisance to the Post Gazette, but I loved her.
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text: LAHORE- Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan's chief Sirajul Haq has said that those sitting in London can only talk about London and not Pakistan. He stated while speaking at JI's Lahore headquarters (Mansoora) today. It may be noted that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahir-ul-Qadri and Chaudhry brothers of Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) who are in London for a grand opposition alliance. However, Imran Khan rejected the news regarding his meeting with other leaders for formation of grand alliance. Siraj lamented that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif did not raise up the Kashmir issue when in India and did not meet any freedom seeking Kashmiri leader. JI chief said that people of FATA and North Waziristan are patriots and the current operation is forcing them to migrate to neighbouring Afghanistan and if the trend continues, it could prove dangerous for the country. He urged the government to go ahead with peace dialogue with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and start development projects in tribal areas.He also said that the persistent loadshedding has made the summer season unbearable in the country, so all who can afford tickets to London, should go there.


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I have traveled to Scotland a couple times, and each time I fell more and more in love with this dessert. Sticky Toffee Pudding is kind of like bread pudding but is a cake, drenched in a delicious toffee sauce. The cake has a unique sweet flavor that comes from reconstituted dates.
There is no better way to prepare this dessert, than having the cake and sauce warm, and adding a huge scoop of vanilla ice cream. Use whatever ice cream you love the best, but I have just discovered the beauty of Talenti Gelato and I would not recommend anything else!
If it is snowing, rainy, or cold, please cuddle up with this heart warming dessert.
I used 4 ounce mason jars for these treats, but you can always use cupcake tins or a square cake pan. This recipe filled 12 mason jars.
– 2 cups pitted dates (chopped)
– 1 ½ cup water
– 1 ¼ teaspoon baking soda
– 2 cups flour
– Pinch of salt
– 1 teaspoon baking powder
– 1 ½ stick of butter (softened)
– 1 ½ cups packed brown sugar
– 3 eggs
– 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. If not using mason jars, grease your cake pan or cupcake tin.
Combine the dates and water in a medium sauce pan and bring to a boil. Keep over the heat until the dates are soft and plump. Remove from the heat and stir in 1 teaspoons of baking soda. Let sit for 20 minutes, meanwhile, prepare the rest of the batter.
Sift together the remaining ¼ teaspoon of baking soda, flour, salt, and baking soda, and set aside.
With a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, combine the butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Mix in the eggs one at a time and add the vanilla. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Fold in the date mixture.
Fill each mason jar half way full.
Bake for 50-60 minutes. Using a knife or a wooden skewer, poke holes into the cake. Make the whiskey toffee sauce.
Whiskey Toffee Sauce
– 2 sticks of butter
– 3 cups packed brown sugar
– 2 cups heavy cream
– 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
– Pinch of salt
– ¼ cup of whiskey
In a large heavy bottom sauce pan, combine butter and sugar over medium heat. Bring to a simmer, melting the butter and sugar together. Add the heavy cream, vanilla, and salt, bring the mixture to a boil and heat until thickened (about 6 minutes).
Add the whiskey and cook for another minute.
Pour sauce over the cakes.
Indulge in vanilla ice cream on top and add even more sauce.


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National Convention Medals
Here is a free, complete collection, of the American Legion national convention medals from 1919 to present. Included are other items and souvenirs from the convention for the specific year. If you have any items from a specific year that are not posted here, please feel free to email photos/scans of the item for me to include in this list. We are looking for "distinguished guest" medals from each of the year to complete our collection.
[Click on the below dates to view the items from that year]
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I will be writting a memorabilia book for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Legion.
Check out my WW2 patch collection project for the past 10 years here.


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This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download
This pattern was inspired by a mitten I spied at a knitting store in Ithaca, NY. The store owner couldn't locate the printed pattern or even identify it, so I decided to just to write my own. I'd like to credit the mysterious designer of that first mitten. Credit should also go to the book Cables and Arans, edited by Erika Knight from Interweave Press, which supplied the central cable pattern for the mitten.


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A CHANCE conversation with one of Bolton's most recognisable sporting stars led Steven Bush into a sport that's rapidly gaining local fans.
At 7ft4in", Alan Bannister is hard to miss. The Horwich-born former athlete played professional basketball all over the world, including the NBA in America where he played for Utah Jazz.
Alan has long been an envoy for the sport locally so perhaps it was no surprise that when Steven, then 16, met Alan at Horwich Sports Centre, he encouraged Steven and his friends to play basketball.
"We'd been playing a bit at Rivington and Blackrod High School where we were students, but Alan really got us interested," recalls Steven, now 21 who also lives in Horwich. At the time, rugby claimed more of his sporting attention, but he and his pals started training regularly with Alan and the interest grew.
Fast forward to 2013 and the formation of Horwich Basketball Club's team. They are in competition in the Manchester Area Basketball League (MABL), just missing out on promotion in the play-offs "which wasn't a bad result at all for a new team," said Steven.
In between those two time-frames was the growth of the American sport in Horwich and elsewhere.
It was reputed to have begun in 1891 in Massachusetts as a way to condition young athletes during the Winter and leagues grew all over the country during the 20th century.
It is now a huge industry in the US and has a strong following in the UK.
Basketball is a team sport involving five players a side, although substitutes can be made.
The aim is to get the most balls through a hoop that stands 10 feet off the ground. The ball is moved by passing or dribbling; the team with the ball is called the offense and the one without it, the defense.
Matches last about an hour, played in four quarters of 10 minutes a quarter with five minutes for half-time and three minutes between each quarter. "It's a very fast, challenging game," explains Steven. "It's not meant to be physical but it is sometimes and you need to be quick and keep your concentration."
While we may have got used to seeing extremely tall men like Alan Bannister playing the sport in televised US matches, not everyone who plays is of that height.
"Steven is 6 ft but Dave Howard, who is our player/coach, is about 5ft 9in. He's just very fast!" adds Steven.
The Horwich club has benefitted from grants from Horwich Town Council and from Bolton Wanderers Community Trust.
It now plays its fixtures at St Joseph Sports College in Horwich. There are open training sessions there on Sunday afternoons (2-4pm for over 14s and 4-5pm for juniors).
There is team play on Wednesday evenings and another open session until the end of August at Smithills Sports Centre from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on Thursdays.
The Horwich team plays in Division II of the MABL and Steven also plays in the off-season for a team at the John Amaechi Centre in Manchester. Players pay £3 each week and £5 for matches to cover court and referee costs at the Horwich club, and travel to MABL matches as far afield as Congleton, Fleetwood and Clitheroe.
"Basketball is also a very sociable sport," says Steven. "I've made some good friends there, although we're all very competitive and there for the basketball."
As a winter sport, basketball fixtures start in September. The Horwich team has added a few new members this year. "We've got one or two tall players now which is helpful", states Steven.
"It's a great sport that anyone can play, really," he adds. "You need to train and practise, learn the footwork and understand the moves.
"But we're hoping for promotion this next season – that's the plan, anyway."
- To find out more about Horwich Basketball Club call 07850 596739 or email him at stevenbush 939@ hotmail.com


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KIAMA Skate Park, in Havilah Place, plays hosts to the 3rd Time Lucky Skate Comp on Saturday.
The Sydney Regional Skateboard Association event hosted by Kiama Council event is alcohol free and full supervised. First aid will be on hand.
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Divisions include under-13s,16s and girls.; open for fun and open sponsored with product and cash prizes up for grabs.
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Forum 2003 - "Social cohesion or public security: how should Europe respond to collective feelings of insecurity?" – Strasbourg, 23-24 October
Council of Europe forum warns of dangers posed by growing feelings of insecurity among European citizens
A two-day forum organised by the Council of Europe will discuss how Europe can respond to growing feelings of insecurity among its citizens. Forum 2003, which takes place on 23 and 24 October at the Council's headquarters in Strasbourg, will ask why people are feeling less safe and less confident about the future, despite rising living standards. The forum will be opened by Council of Europe Director of Social Cohesion, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni. Participants include Polish Secretary of State for Social and Cultural Affairs, Barbara Labuda, and Slovenian Minister of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, Vlado Dimovski. (more…)
Background remarks for the discussion
Understanding and facing up to change through the Council of Europe's Strategy for Social Cohesion – Discussion paper prepared by Federico Oliveri, researcher in political philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (Italy).
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Luciana Castellina : Making TV serve civil society
How can TV or the Internet be made socially useful? This is the question raised by Luciana Castellina, journalist, former MEP and president of an alternative TV co-operative in Italy, during the Forum 2003 on the feeling of insecurity in Europe.
Peter Schieder : To confront insecurity we must 'stop allowing extremists to dictate our agenda'
''The constantly growing feeling of insecurity - the fear of crime - among Europe's citizens is seldom backed by statistics, but that does not make it any less a political reality,'' stressed Parliamentary Assembly President Peter Schieder in his speech before the Forum 2003, meeting in the Council of Europe. He recognised that fighting insecurity ''is not always easy, and for politicians it is not without electoral risk''. But the best way to confront this risk ''is to start focusing on the real issues and stop allowing populists and extremists to dictate our agenda,'' he underlined.
Laurent Bonelli: A lack of vocational qualifications hampers integration
The end of the industrial model is leading to marginalisation of a section of the working class, who are deprived of access to the labour market, according to Laurent Bonelli, a researcher in political science, at the Forum on "Social Cohesion or Public Security", being held on 23 and 24 October at the Council of Europe.
Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, Director General of Social Cohesion, Council of Europe
Kathalijne Buitenweg, MEP for the Dutch GreenLeft Party (GroenLinks)
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News of G ivin g, Growth, and Grati tude
Fall 2012
A fundraising initiative asks the Tufts community to focus on new resources for financial aid. sorority Chi Omega and handling a workstudy job at the Tower Café. She has been active in the Tufts Dance Coalition and has traveled to the Andes for a summer internship with Threads of Peru, a nonprofit that helps Quechua women market their woven goods. Looking ahead, she expects to travel more, and perhaps pursue graduate studies at the Fletcher School. For now, though, she ndergraduate is making the most of her u experience, one she says she does not take for granted. Her father is a physician and her mother manages the office at his medical practice. With a younger sister in high school and looking ahead to college, financial aid is a significant support for her family.
hen Carolina Reyes, A14, applied to Tufts, she did so with laser-like certainty—even with what could be called joy.
It's hard to believe that the often nervewracking application process could be fun, but for Carolina, "it was really cool. The questions that they asked made me want to answer all of them. They were so out of the box!" To her, Tufts matched everything she was looking for: the students were "very focused, very driven" and the faculty, both approachable and among the best in their field. Alongside that was the chance to study international relations—one of Tufts' most popular programs—and this exerted a powerful pull on not only her wide-
ranging curiosity, but also her hopes and dreams for a fulfilling career working on global issues, particularly fair trade. "International relations is close to my heart," says Carolina. "It embraces my heritage and culture, and gives me purpose." Carolina grew up in Wilmington, Del., the daughter of emigrants from Colombia. In high school, she spearheaded a Model UN and competed on the Mock Trial team. "I realized international relations was not only what I wanted to study, but what I wanted to do the rest of my life," she says. Carolina brings that high energy to bear on all her Tufts studies and activities. Fluent in Spanish, she is learning Portuguese. She juggles coursework with serving on the executive board for the
The Gregory G. and Christine D. Randolph Scholarship is a generous gesture she says she will always appreciate. She opens a file on her laptop and reads aloud her response to an application question: Tell us, briefly, what is Tufts? Tufts, she wrote, is home to "Jumbo maximus, a rare species of students and professors," people, she says, who thrive in an environment "where diversity and open-mindedness are treasured." Those words ring even more true today, she says. "I am grateful for the kind donations of alumni and friends of the university, such as the Randolphs, for giving me the opportunity to study at Tufts. It's a place where I have been able to explore my interests and push my limits, and that has become my home."
As part of a drive to increase financial aid for its students, Tufts is offering to match any newly established scholarship of $100,000 or more. During this initiative, the match thereby doubles the size of the fund the donor has endowed. The larger objective is to raise $25 million over two years in endowed scholarships. Even after the university's most ambitious fundraising campaign ever, demand for financial aid remains pressing. In a time of economic recession, more families are requiring more financial aid. Hence, this financial aid initiative. Scholarship dollars are critical to closing the affordability gap. Aid can make all the difference in enabling a student to take advantage of the opportunity of a Tufts education. Endowed scholarships open a world of opportunity. Take it from these students who have received them.
inancial aid is helping Louie Zong, E13, accomplish not just one dream, but three. The soft-spoken student from the Utica, New York, area, is enjoying a multitrack undergraduate experience, majoring in civil engineering, minoring in studio art—he's a cartoonist for the Tufts Daily—and performing jazz piano. "It's been a terrific experience," he says. "Tufts, and the financial aid I've received, have enabled me to experience all the facets of the things I enjoy—it's a great place and in a great city—it's got it all. "
He was drawn to the School of Engineer ing because he's been fascinated since he was a child with anything to do with transit systems. Since arriving at Tufts he also has heeded his own natural artistic gifts. "I never took an art class before Tufts," he says. He has taken classes at the Museum of Fine Arts in animation, children's book illustration, and comic book art. Skilled at merging graphic design and type, he digitally illustrated a children's book written by fellow students. (See samples of his work online at louiezong.daportfolio.com.)
sort of cartoon, like Calvin and Hobbes, but a bit less philosophical," he says.
the same kind of mindset," he says. "You're thinking on your feet to solve a problem."
"On occasion I see art as a release from engineering, but just as often, I believe art and engineering are connected: I am a visual thinker, and art allows me to convey what's in my mind more easily."
Louie has kept a close eye on expenses while attending college. Part-time and summer jobs have included working as an arts-and-crafts coordinator at a daycare center in Arlington and painting houses.
His aesthetic—and voice—emerges through his cartoons. One project is a webcomic/cartoon series called "The Sun Also Rises." The Tufts Daily also runs his editorial cartoon once a week and his comic strip three days a week. "It's a slice of life
Then there is piano. He has played with the Tufts Jazz Orchestra (formerly the Big Band) and performed in small jazz groups. Recently he got together with friends to form a trio to play "Sinatra type" music in local clubs. Does he see some overlap in the innovative, experimental approach to both engineering and jazz? "They use
With both parents working in academia and with a younger brother, only a generous financial aid package would have made it possible for him to attend Tufts. For that reason, he says, he is profoundly grateful for his scholarship. "It's completely accurate to say that I would not be here without this generous gift," he says. Chair, Board of Trustees James A. Stern, E72, A07P
Provost & Senior Vice President David R. Harris
President Anthony P. Monaco
Vice President for University Advancement Eric Johnson
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The built environment at Tufts
—the focus of this issue of Blueprint—is much more than bricks and mortar. It is a measure of the culture of our institution, of the collegiality of the Tufts community and its collaborative approach. Take, for example, the interdisciplinary laboratory complex for our scientists and engineers we hope to build on the Medford/Somerville campus. The environment we create there will be one of inter disciplinary research and innovation, which will help and inspire investigators to move forward on the important global issues their research engages. These spaces enable us to do what we do as a university. Maintaining them is a full-time job, and an expensive one. The schedule of capital proj ects this past summer across our campuses makes the point. The new Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center in Medford was being readied for its grand opening as a hub of athletics. Sidewalks, landscaping, and traffic flow were upgraded on Packard Avenue and Professors Row to make the intersection safer for pedestrians. Much-needed repairs and renova tions were being completed on Bromfield-Pearson, Dewick-MacPhie, Gifford House, and South Hall. In Boston, research space was renovated in South Cove 3 for neuroscience and planning was begun on a microbiology lab in Arnold 8, both proj ects part of a long-term commitment to renew the former M&V complex. In Grafton, we upgraded the generator in the McGrath Building, and renovated the Hamilburg Lecture Hall in the Lowe Building to ensure the continuing quality of the Cummings School's classroom and laboratory teaching spaces. Deferred maintenance of our five-million square feet of facilities remains a high priority. A recent outside review of the status of our build ings indicated we need to increase our investment in this area to prevent the deterioration of our physical assets. Last spring, the university issued a $250 million 100-year "century" bond in support of capital spending over the next five years. Among the projects we hope to begin is the science-andengineering lab complex on the Medford/
Somerville campus, where the need for new research and teaching space remains great. Not surprisingly, the total of desired projects outweighs available funding. Careful and strategic choices will have to be made as to which projects are most important now, and which must be either deferred or funded when philanthropy is available for them. This is an important year for our planning efforts, as we will be developing our long-term capital plan in tandem with "Tufts: The Next 10 Years," the uni versity-wide strategic planning process launched in October. To learn more about our planning process, I encourage you to visit strategicplan.tufts.edu. The generosity of alumni, parents, and friends like you is a vital ingredient to maintaining the buildings and labs and classrooms and public spaces at Tufts, to preserving the places—and the sense of place—that are unique to the university we love. With thanks for your continuing support, Tony Monaco
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The opening of the 42,000-square-foot Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center on College Avenue proclaims a university-wide commitment to healthy living, while at the same time providing an inviting new entrance to campus from the Route 93 side.
that's how many square feet of space Tufts' facilities encompass. Our built environment enables and enhances all the things we do here: learning, teaching, research, and the many other ways we promote a healthy and active life. Any scholar or scientist needs an environment conducive to her work. Any member of the Tufts community needs surroundings that enable him to realize his potential as a whole person. Maintaining the physical world in which we function at Tufts is a big job: this past summer alone, $24.5 million in campus renovations were underway. The sense of place—the collegiality and collaboration contained within the bricks and mortar—is central to our university. In the following pages, Blueprint spotlights some of our spaces and the individuals and gifts that help us provide a setting for excellence at Tufts. Fall 2012
Jumbo's Big Top "Boy, was it worth the wait," says Athletics Director Bill Gehling, A74, AG79, A05P. "I've always been proud to be a Jumbo—now I'm even prouder still." The new Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center features a central plaza made possible by the Howe Family Foundation, which leads visitors into the heart of the new facilities, adjoining the existing Gantcher Center and Cousens Gymnasium. At the building's center is the new Kraft Family Atrium. Of the new center, Trustee Dan Kraft, A87, says, "Athletics encourages personal development and the growth of students as leaders. It's good to see sports and fitness even further inte grated into the life of Tufts undergraduates." Kraft is also a member of the Board of Advisors for Tufts Athletics. Expanded fitness space with state-of-the-art equipment meets increased stu dent demand. Student-athletes and coaches have access to new locker rooms, a film classroom for off-the-field instruction, and the new Mugar Sports Medicine Suite. Multipurpose teaching and activity rooms provide space for aerobics, Pilates, dance, and physical education classes. Dedicated space will support the university's Personalized Performance Program that many members of the Tufts community use to keep in shape. New offices for coaches and administrators are also included. (continued next page)
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News of G ivin g, Growth, and Grati tude
Fall 2012
A trainer is helping more people reach higher goals
To call Mike Pimentel's new digs nice is "an understatement," he says with a laugh.
"Learning to try new things can happen at any point in life. The question is, 'What are you willing to do to succeed?'"
Jumbo's Big Top (continued from page 5) The striking brick, glass, and copper-clad building is a showcase for energy-efficient "green" tech nology. Building systems include high-efficiency plumbing fixtures, heat recovery, demand ventila tion, high-performance glazing, solar-shading devices, automatic lighting controls, and natural day lighting. Steve Tisch, A71, chairman of the New York Giants football team and an Academy Award–win ning film producer, led the support of the facility with $13 million in gifts, including a $3 million challenge to inspire other alumni and friends to participate.
Stanmar Inc., of Wayland, Mass., working with architectural firms RGO Partnership (Newton, Mass.) and DiMella Shaffer (Boston), developed the facility design and constructed the project. The new Nelson Gateway Garden, made pos sible by a gift from John Bello, A68, A13P, and Nancy Bello, J69, A13P, has been built across the street from the new center, helping to further beautify this new entrance to campus. The fitness center opened to students, faculty, and staff in late August. A formal ribbon-cutting and opening celebration was held October 22.
In 24 years as an athletic trainer at Tufts, the director of the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center says he has seen changes "like you wouldn't believe." When he started in sports medicine here, before Chase Gym was built, the weight room was roughly the size of a two-car garage and, because it was underground, flooded every summer. All the weights—"handwelded vintage museum pieces"—were rusted. The crew team trained with coffee cans filled with cement. Today, the new fitness center offers 7,500 square feet of new space for general use—in addition to the existing 6,000 square feet in the Ames Human Performance Center featuring the Lunder Fitness Center. A conference room is available for use as a classroom, and trainers in the Personalized Performance Program have their own office. "Crowding and waiting in line are things of the past," Pimentel says. "This is probably the most-used space on campus after the library or the student center. We get an average of 600 people a day, not counting varsity athletes. "It's really exciting, the variety of equipment we have now. Aerobic equipment is doubled. We have six or seven different styles of equipment for people to use—
With the opening of the Tisch fitness center, this Jumbo family has a new home. "It's as exciting for me as it is for the girls," says Thompson, who has coached the volleyball team for 10 years. Thompson played for the team herself as an undergraduate in the mid90s. When she started with the volleyball team as a player, it still played in Jackson Gym. In recent years her coach's office was tucked at the top of the stairs on the second floor of Halligan Hall. "It has made it challenging to recruit when the schools we are competing with have facilities that are dedicated solely to athletics, health, and wellness," she says. "Now we will have a true home that is easy to find," she says. "Tufts athletics has had a great tradition all along, but it has been hard to keep the old buildings up to pace. All of us coaches take pride in being part of Tufts' legacy and tradition, and now you'll see our pride in Tufts athletics reflected in the building. This will make it even easier to convey this feeling to recruits." bikes, ellipticals, treadmills, spin bikes, stairsteppers, cross-trainers—all in a light-filled space with full views of Tufts playing fields and the Boston skyline." Pimentel, who competed in the pole vault in his own student-athlete days, has taken up judo in recent years and earned a black belt. "Like anything, it took commitment and dedication," he says. "Learning to try new things can happen at any point in life. The question is, 'What are you willing to do to succeed?'" That is the question he asks the men and women he trains today. "The people are what I enjoy most about my job," he says. "Every day presents a different coaching challenge. I match my coaching style to the individual, and I love to get results." As director of the fitness center, he offers a standing invitation to members of the Tufts community: "Come down and find out what you can do!"
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A coach is primed to see Tufts Athletics entering a new era Ask coach Cora Thompson, J99, AG01, to describe the spirit of the Tufts volleyball team that has made it to the NCAA tournament five of the past seven years, and she's quick to reply: "Family." "They understand it's about more than x's and o's," she says. "Our students understand that they're part of something special, helping a strong tradition grow even stronger. They're excited about the program, where it's been and where it's going. They're also Tufts kids in the sense that they want to get involved in everything they possibly can in the classroom and on campus. We have had girls in the Tufts Gospel choir, in various dance groups, as well as on the board of the Leonard Carmichael Society. We take as much pride in our team GPA as we do in our win-loss record."
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Tufts volleyball has played in the NCAA Division III tournament the past four years, and five of the last seven, making it to the Sweet Sixteen twice, and in 2009, advancing to the Elite Eight. Visions of a championship? "It's a realistic goal," Thompson says. "It's something we talk about, and when we recruit, our intent is to find those student-athletes who can help us reach this goal." She notes that the Tufts athletic program finished seventh in the nation in this year's Learfield Director's Cup standings. "All of the teams work together, support one another, and take great pride in each other's success," she says. Often a passerby will reach through her office door to give a knuckle bump, with the words, "Great job, Coach," after a win the night before. As a coach she takes great joy in watching her players "come in as freshmen and leave as seniors, having grown and succeeded both as students and as sportswomen," Thompson says. "I'm carrying on what my coach, and the coach before her, started. I'm part of a tradition, part of something bigger than myself, and I couldn't be more proud of the next step we are taking with Tufts Athletics."
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Scientists are developing gene therapies for macular degeneration in Dr. Kumar-Singh's lab.
Seeing R solutions in a research lab
esearch in gene therapy being done by geneticist Rajendra Kumar-Singh at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences may one day save the sight of countless people facing vision loss or blindness. Fittingly, his lab has a great view. Sunlight streams through the large win dows of the research space on the sev enth floor of the South Cove Building
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that looks out on Chinatown and the high-rises of State Street. "Good light is so important!" the vision researcher exclaims. "When we recruit, we show people this space as a good working environ ment," said Kumar-Singh, an associate professor of ophthalmology. "I would like to think that people are happy and that this makes them want to be at work. A good working environment makes people more creative, and cre ativity is very important in science." Expanding space for research is one of the top fundraising priorities at the School of Medicine. Kumar-Singh's is among the new labs in the renovated South Cove and adjoining buildings that compose Tufts' biomedical research and public health complex on Harrison Avenue in Boston. In the past few years these one-time garment factories bordering Chinatown and the South End have been trans formed into hubs of cutting-edge research in neuroscience, microbiology, and, in the case of Kumar-Singh, gene therapy in the area of eye disorders. The Kumar-Singh Lab's research into age-related macular degeneration targets a common cause of blindness among the elderly, affecting one in four
Growing pains: The Fletcher School looks at increasing size an
n a given day in the Hall of Flags at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, clusters of students from around the world gather under the banners of many nations for impromptu study group sessions. The connections formed here will serve as the basis for networks in business and diplomacy and humani tarian relief work that will address the globe's most nettlesome problems. If only there were more room. With quarters increasingly tight, the Fletcher School is considering short- and long-term approaches to expanding its space. "The facilities are getting cramped," says Gerard Sheehan, executive associate dean at the Fletcher
School. "The student population has grown by 40 percent over the last decade, and the faculty has grown by the same amount." Sheehan adds: "The way students interact with each other and learn also has changed. There has been an explosion in group study. Right now, it is hard to find a class where there is not group study. That has put pressure on space." Fletcher, he says, needs more office space, more rooms with a seating capacity of 25–30 that can be subdi vided for seminars and other uses, and more classrooms in which everyone can interact with one another. As an exam ple of the latter, he cites the Thomas Schmidheiny Lecture Room (Mugar
• 40-percent growth in enrollment and faculty over past 10 years • space for group study at a premium • Schmidheiny Lecture Room a model for future • new program development constrained • simple solutions to provide short-term relief
people in the United States over the age of 65. "In the United States, 8.5 million people suffer from macular degenera tion, and this number is getting larger with the aging of the population," he said. "For 90 percent of patients, no treatment currently is available. We have developed a treatment here in the lab to treat the 90 percent, and are rais ing funds to bring it to clinical trials in humans. "If we can solve this, we will pre vent millions of people from going blind," he said. In recent years, Kumar-Singh's lab has benefited from the generosity of the Ellison Foundation. Their philan thropy has accelerated his work on gene therapy to treat age-related macular degeneration, paving the way for clin ical trials. Support from benefactors like the Ellison Foundation has laid the neces sary groundwork for success, and the research already is paying dividends: The U.S. Department of Defense recently awarded the lab a $1 million grant in support of related work that one day may help save the vision of sol diers whose eyes have been injured. "This time at Tufts has been the most productive time of my career,"
said Kumar-Singh, interviewed recently at his laboratory on Level Seven of the South Cove Building. His lab currently has eight people and recently advertised for two more postdocs. What makes a productive work space? "Having big windows and light are not the top priorities," Kumar-Singh observed. "What is most important is a collegial, collaborative environment with access to colleagues and to shared resources." These things Tufts provides in abundance, he said. "The research environment and collaborative spirit at Tufts rank highly amongst the institutions I've worked at," said Siobhan Cashman, assistant professor of ophthalmology and a member of Kumar-Singh's lab. Lab member Derek Leaderer said: "We know what's happening in other labs, and help each other with equip ment. Instead of worrying they might get scooped, people are extremely helpful." As an M.D./Ph.D. student in a pro gram of study that could stretch eight years, Leaderer appreciates the trans formation underway at TUSM, from the "learning communities" to the new Tauber Fitness Center. "All these spaces matter in terms of your mental happi ness," he said. "They make a difference."
ze and number of working spaces 200), sloped and U-shaped, among the school's most popular venues for classes and lectures. "It's constantly booked, starting at 8:30 in the morning through 7:30 at night and often later," Sheehan says. This room was created with a gift from Fletcher Board of Advisors mem ber Thomas Schmidheiny, H99. The school would like to expand its executive education offerings, now restricted to summer because facili ties are at capacity during the academic year, he says. And there has been talk of establishing a Leaders-in-Residence program, whereby former prime min isters, presidents, or CEOs would come to Fletcher to lecture and teach. The question remains one of space. Fall 2012
Work is ongoing to consider what the best alternatives might be for the school. Meantime, in the short term, some "very simple" changes that can be made within the existing footprint include moving walls to create better space for group study, improving light ing, and upgrading furniture. "Our students spend a full day here, early in the morning to late in the evening: classes, meals, events, lectures, studying," Sheehan says. "This is their life. The more that this space enhances their life, the better their school experi ence will be."
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From my app to your ears Engineering music in a digital (and mobile) age Ever wanted to build a synthesizer? Or create your own digital drum set? Or learn how to sing without paying for voice lessons? There's an app for that—or there soon will be, thanks to Tufts engineers and a pioneering course they have devised. Music Apps for the iPad is just the sort of innovative course in computer science and computer engineering that will benefit— by ripple effect—from the opening of the new Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center. With the arrival of the Tisch fitness center next door, all the athletics offices that had been occupying Halligan Hall will be moved to the new building—freeing up space for teaching and research in computer science and computer engineering. Computer education at Tufts already includes a minor in music engineering with a focus on music and technology; the Music Apps for the iPad course is an innovative opportunity to include students outside of that minor. Music Lecturer Paul Lehrman, AG10, and Computer Science Lecturer Ming Chow, E02, EG04, teamed up last spring to create a course that would foster musical composition skills and competition while teaching mobile development, hopefully resulting in the creation of commercially viable apps that would set talented students on the path to early business success. Funded by a grant from Steinway Musical Instruments Inc., makers of the legendary pianos, the course was an instant hit. "It was oversubscribed twice within a few hours," says Chow. Final projects ranged from sound mixers to auto-soundtrack systems that can detect the mood of YouTube videos and suggest a soundtrack from a library of music, and even to a method for building and playing any kind of musical scale imaginable and changing it on the fly. Chow says he was grateful to Steinway for "enabling a new generation to play music and share it with people all over the world."
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One World. One Health.
Grant funds Cummings' International Veterinary Medicine program 10
ummings Foundation, through its grantmaking affiliate, OneWorld Boston, has awarded the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine $100,000 to recruit a new faculty member for the school's International Veterinary Medicine (IVM) program. A commitment to support at-risk international communities where diseases spread from animals to humans is an integral part of the school's mission, and is a wellsuited match for the philanthropic priorities of Bill Cummings, A58, J97P, M97P, H06, and his wife, Joyce, J97P, M97P. "The promotion of social equality and justice is among the priorities of OneWorld Boston," says Joel Swets, executive director for
Cummings Foundation. "We recognize that the Cummings School's global health initiatives have the potential to affect food access and small business development in a positive way, improving health and economic opportunities in unstable areas. We are delighted to support the school in these promising efforts." Dean Deborah T. Kochevar says the gener ous gift will greatly help the school stabilize and expand a signature program of the school. "We are very grateful for this opportunity to enhance the IVM program and Tufts' entire global health network," she said. "We look forward to bringing on board an exemplary leader who will not only build the Cummings School program, but who also will collaborate
with colleagues at other Tufts schools focusing on solutions in medicine, nutrition, law and diplomacy, and citizenship and public service." Founded in 1982, Tufts' IVM program was unusual then for its breadth of vision, and anticipated the need for veterinarians who are well prepared to address human and animal problems that interrelate to agriculture, cul tural and economic realities, and ecosystems. The program combines a variety of class room with field-based learning opportunities; student research projects have studied issues as varied as rabies control in Nepal, poultry health in Southern Africa, and avian influenza control in Indonesia.
TUSDM's Class of 2012 gives and gets lessons in inspiration
avigating four years of demand ing clinical and course work to graduate from dental school is a challenge under the best of circumstances. To graduate at the top of the class while battling can cer "takes enormous spirit," says Inga Keithly, D12, president of the Class of 2012. "And Catherine did it." She refers to Catherine Dahl, D12, the student "unlike any other" whose inspiring fight against cancer gave the Class of 2012 a rallying point. In Dahl's honor, 99 per cent of her graduating classmates contributed to the D12 Class Gift. The participation rate set a new school record. "We had someone in our class who just stood out the very day we started," says Keithly. "To know and work with somebody who was putting it all on the line, saying 'I want to achieve something remarkable' and then has this large medical setback and still rocks it—it wasn't too difficult to get the class behind her." When Dahl received the Norris Award at the annual Senior Awards Dinner, she imme diately donated the gift back to the school, specifically to DOTS, Tufts' Dental Outreach to Survivors program that treats victims of abuse to free dental care.
Dahl, who attended on an Army schol arship, currently is stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington State. A dental hygien ist, wife, and mother of two from a farm in Oregon, she was 43 when she entered Tufts. Last year she became a grandmother. Like a mother hen, Dahl often took classmates under her wing. They recipro cated when she was diagnosed with stagethree breast cancer. Dahl rejoices with her classmates Dahl would spend three and half years in and out of clinics and hospitals. During "I am so proud to be a member of the chemotherapy she wasn't able to come to Tufts Dental Class of 2012," Dahl says. "When class, so she studied from the treatment center, my classmates found out about my diagnosis biochemistry books on her lap—and beat her they organized a fundraiser to help pay medi peers in exam scores. cal and house-cleaning bills, and took turns "I sat through every class, took all the notes, cooking and delivering meals to my home. I and she scored higher," Keithly says, with a just couldn't let them down after everything laugh. "She's awesome. She's a brave individual they were doing for me." and she's an achiever and there isn't a reason Nontraditional students older than most why we wouldn't all want to gather behind her." of their classmates, Dahl and Keithly became One-hundred-seventy-five members of the friends on their first day of dental school. Their graduating class contributed to the D12 gift for shared experience has extended from profes a record-setting participation rate of 99 per sional school to boot camp. Both now serve in cent. Of those who donated, 55 percent gave the military. Keithly, a former skiing and surfing instruc at the Dean's Inner Circle (leadership) level. The gift will create a scholarship in Dahl's tor, completed her degree on a scholarship from name for a similar nontraditional student who the Navy and now is at Camp Lejeune in North has faced adversity. Carolina.
"[Catherine's] a brave individual and she's an achiever and there isn't a reason why we wouldn't all want to gather behind her."
Turning around an epidemic Philanthropy fuels a strategy to prevent childhood obesity As an athlete, Peter Dolan, A78, A08P, has run marathons, competed in triathlons, and completed the grueling Hawaii Ironman challenge. As a philanthropist, he is tackling an even bigger challenge: childhood obesity. A Tufts University trustee and former CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, Dolan and his wife, Katie, have donated $1 million to a national initiative known as ChildObesity180, which he is chairing at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. ChildObesity180 (childobesity180.org) seeks to become a major catalyst for prioritizing and driving the necessary systemic changes to reverse the trend of childhood obesity within a generation. Founded in 2009, ChildObesity180 draws on the expertise and reach of senior decision-makers from the highest levels of government, academia, public health advocacy, community organizations, the food industry, and the media to drive an integrated national strategy to prevent childhood obesity. With this new donation, Peter and Katie Dolan have added to previous gifts and pledges to Tufts University in support of financial aid, the Summer Scholars undergraduate research program, the Tufts Marathon Challenge, the School of Medicine, and athletics. A previous milliondollar donation established the Dolan Family Endowed Scholarship Fund. The Dolans' latest gift supports the fundraising campaign under way for this largescale campaign to make our kids healthier. ChildObesity180 was publicly launched Fall 2012
last fall with a $6.9 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and $14.6 million in total funding has been raised so far. "This epidemic is too important to wait another moment," says Christina Economos, Ph.D., N96, the Friedman School's New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition, who is vice chair and director of ChildObesity180. "Childhood obesity is the preeminent public health issue of our time," she says. "Today, one-third of children in America are overweight or obese and on track to experience catastrophic health conditions, swamp health-care budgets, and create unprecedented challenges across society." The Dolan gift will provide core support for ChildObesity180 and serve as an engine to advance the group's work, says
"Childhood obesity is the preeminent public health issue of our time." —Christina Economos
the project's co-director, Miriam Nelson, Ph.D., N85, N87, professor and director of the John Hancock Research Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention at the Friedman School. "Peter is an amazing champion and leader for ChildObesity180," she adds. Robin Kanarek, Ph.D., interim dean of the Friedman School, notes: "Without Peter's vision and leadership, ChildObesity180 would not be possible. We are proud to be working with him to reverse the obesity epidemic in this country." This is an abridged version of a story that ran in the summer 2012 edition of Tufts Nutrition Magazine. To read the complete article, visit bit.ly/co180leadership.
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An Advisor's perspective… children around the world without regard for nationality, race, or religion. Focusing on medical operations, Children Action has supported projects in Argentina, France, Peru, Romania, Switzerland, and Vietnam. Blueprint asked Angelos Metaxa to share his perspective on Tufts in the world.
Q. How is Tufts seen in the world—and how would you like it to be seen? What role would you like to see Tufts playing globally?
A. Internationally Tufts is regarded as Angelos Metaxa, A91, of Geneva, Switzerland, is an entrepreneur involved in real-estate ventures in Europe and the United States. Previously he was a founding partner of Capital Management Advisors Group, which came to oversee more than $2.3 billion in assets as an alternative investment firm specializing in multimanager hedge-fund portfolios. A member of the board of Tufts' Institute for Global Leadership, he joined colleague and Tufts classmate Javier Macaya, A91, on the founding gift for the IGL's EMPOWER Program for Social Entrepreneurship. EMPOWER helps aspiring entrepreneurs develop the skills and knowledge to pursue ventures with a social perspective, with a particular focus on poverty alleviation. Metaxa is a patron of Children Action, a Swiss foundation with a mission to help
one of the top U.S. universities, and public awareness of Tufts increases every year. The International Board of Advisors this past May completed a very successful trip to Turkey as part of the "Tufts in the World" program. A key goal of a trip like this is to raise awareness of Tufts in the country the International Board visits. The success of this trip was summed up by the fact that a total of 361 stories ran in the Turkish media and print, reaching an estimated audience of nearly 19 million people! Such outreach by our university excites me. I would like to see Tufts become a beacon in the world, attracting talented students from all different backgrounds. We live in an extremely complex world facing extremely complex issues. Tufts' role globally can be one of an institution of high excellence that provides our world with active citizens who will work relentlessly to tackle these issues.
Angelos E. Metaxa, A91, is a member of the Tufts International Board of Advisors.
Q. How does an idealist make a difference in the world of international finance?
A. We have been living through a horrendous crisis over the last few years, the roots of which are based in finance. To be optimistic about our future, one needs to take courage from today's student body, which is about to go out in this world and help shape this future of ours. To make a difference we need to support the new generation and ensure it has the right tools in hand to overcome our current problems. Knowing that the new generation can learn to be pragmatic about what can and cannot be done makes me believe that we can make a difference in our world of international finance today.
Q. What is most gratifying about your work with the International Board of Advisors?
A. What is gratifying is that we get to use our collective knowledge and experiences as a board and pass advice to Tufts' Board of Trustees. It is most gratifying to know that our opinion is carefully considered and often acted upon. In addition, this role gives us the opportunity to be ambassadors of Tufts all over the world. It is truly electrifying when we know that our results can be quickly seen and assimilated. I aspire for a long and deep relationship with Tufts, and I am very happy to be playing a role toward developing the full potential of our university.


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Big Enough To Be Thain
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Chapter 7 - Questions and Answers
The Thain himself had come to fetch Pippin and the fight was not mentioned during the journey back to the Great Smials. Although Paladin could not have missed Pippin's dishevelled appearance, he made no comment and merely asked him what he had learnt today.
Pippin gave his father a funny half smile and, with his head on one side said, "I learned about who I am."
"Well done!" Paladin said equally mysteriously and ruffled his son's curls.
Pippin had snuggled up to his big sister as soon as they arrived home and shown her, with some pride this time, the gap in his teeth where Jeb had knocked his last milk tooth out. "But I won Pearl. I beat him! Can you just think? And… and… it was all Merry really, him and Sam. Merry taught me to fight and Sam had taught him and… and they made sure it was a fair fight and everything."
"That's wonderful my darling." Pearl lifted up Pippin's hands and kissed his bruised knuckles. "Better to have the bruises there than on your face. But weren't you terribly afraid?"
"No, Pearl," Pippin shook his head emphatically, "not even a little bit, and I never will be again – not now I can fight."
The tea was, much to Sam's relief, provided in the kitchen for the younger hobbits at that time of day. Grown-ups took theirs in the library or the parlour and liked a little peace and quiet. There was quite a rumpus and Pearl, being between age groups, presided over the children's tea with resigned patience.
"Children quiet!" Pearl demanded once they were all seated around the long scrubbed kitchen table. "Today, in honour of our special guests…" she stood and curtsied to Sam and Merry. A grinning Merry and a red-faced Sam stood and bowed in return. "…we have a special tea." All the hobbit children applauded. "There will be hot buttered crumpets; bread and butter with honey or gooseberry jam; grown up cup-of-tea for anyone over seven; jelly with peaches in; scones with cream and strawberry preserve and two kinds of cake."
There was much cheering as this splendid repast was laid out on the table, followed by comparative silence as the young hobbits set to. No one mentioned "the fight" as it was becoming known – news spreads fast in a hobbit hole, even one as grand and rambling as Great Smials – and everyone soon understood the significance of the day for Pippin.
"So Pip, how do you feel now you've won a fight?" Merry poked him in the side when he did not get an immediate response, Pippin's mouth being full of cake. "I don't think they'll pick on you again."
"It feels good, Merry," Pippin swallowed his cake and dabbed his mouth daintily with a napkin, he might be a tough fighter now, but he still knew his manners. "But especially that you made him make friends with me. That was the best."
"Of course," Merry said, "You have to do that; you can't keep on fighting all the time."
"But Merry," Pippin paused before putting more cake in his mouth. "What about those things they said, you know the horrid lies they made about me – I know I made him say it wasn't true – but what if it is?"
"Pippin!" Merry was shocked that he should think such a thing. "Of course it isn't true. Your Mamma and Papa love you very much."
"But there is some sense in what they said," Pippin put the cake down on his plate, suddenly it tasted like old pipeweed. "What if they did just buy me so as Papa could be Thain?"
"Why don't you just ask him Master Pip?" Sam sitting the other side of Pippin had been listening carefully to the young one's dilemma. He had heard the rumours too and knew how upset Pip must be. "My gaffer always says there's nothing like asking questions for getting the truth."
"Do you know Sam," Merry smiled at him over Pippin's head. "Your gaffer is a very wise hobbit. That's exactly the thing to do Pip. I'm sure there's no reason to doubt who you are, but it can't hurt to ask the truth of it, to put your mind at ease."
"Papa?" Pippin knew to knock on the door of his father's study before entering. "It's me."
"Yes Pippin, what is it." Paladin put down his quill and looked up sternly. "Have you been up to something and sent to confess?"
"No Papa." Pippin knew that was why he usually had to knock on his father's study. "I just wanted to ask you something."
Reuben had driven Sam home in the pony and trap the following day, happily carrying a large piece of cake wrapped in a napkin for his gaffer. Merry had gone along to resume his visit with Bilbo and Frodo and Pippin had finally summoned up the courage to talk to his father about the things the lads at school had said.
"Well come in and sit on the Wizard's Chair then." Paladin very occasionally had visits from the wizard Gandalf, he seemed to like to potter about the Shire and keep an eye on things, and Paladin, being full of courtesy and the Thain, had had a special 'big person' chair brought all the way from Bree for him to sit in. It was a very great honour for a hobbit child to be allowed to sit in the Wizard's Chair. "What did you want to ask?"
Pippin hoisted himself up into the chair and sat with his feet dangling. "It's about how you got me Papa?"
"You mean where baby hobbits come from?" Paladin blenched a little, he hadn't really wanted to have this conversation yet with his son.
"No," Pippin giggled. "I know that, it's from their Mammas' tummies."
"Yes," Paladin breathed a sigh of relief, "that's right."
"No, Papa," Pippin's face turned sad again as he thought about what the boys had said, he looked down at his hands in his lap. "Did I come from Mamma's tummy or did you buy me?"
"Pippin!" Paladin left his desk and came and lifted Pippin's chin up and took his son's hands in his. "You know very well that we didn't buy you. You are our own child. But even if we had – which we didn't – we would still love you."
"I believe you Papa." Pippin looked down at his bruised hands again. "But how can I make the lads at school and other people believe it. They even made a bad rhyme about it."
"Pippin I think you proved beyond all shadow of doubt today that you are the son of the Thain." Paladin smiled knowingly and lifted up the bruised knuckles and kissed them lightly. "I saw it you know."
"What!" Pippin's eyes opened wide. "Me fighting?"
"Yes," Paladin smoothed Pippin's curls off his face. "You acquitted yourself so well, I was very, very proud of you. Not just for winning, but for knowing when to stop and how to shake hands and make all the others accept you."
"Merry taught me that." Pippin said proudly. "…and Frodo and Sam taught him."
"Well it was a good lesson." Paladin reached in his pocket and drew out a large silver penny. "This is for you, Pippin. You learnt well at school today. Those lads, and the rest of the Shire when they hear about it, will know that you are deserving of being the Thain one day. It's not necessarily who your parents are – it's whether you are worthy of the title and today my lad you proved that you are more than worthy."
"Really Papa." Pippin took the silver penny with delight. "But there's something else the lads said… they said you and Mamma only had me so as you could be Thain. Is that true?"
"Pippin that would have been a frivolous and irresponsible thing to do." Paladin walked over to his fireplace and found his pipe. "We would not have tried to have another child just for that reason, especially as the healers said your Mamma probably shouldn't have any more babies."
"So you didn't want to have me?" Pippin found this all very confusing.
"Of course we wanted you Pippin we always wanted you." Paladin filled his pipe with weed.
"But if Cousin Ferumbras hadn't said you could be Thain you wouldn't have had any more children." Pippin persisted.
"Why would you think that?" Paladin lit the pipe and puffed a cloud of blue smoke.
"Well you already had three children and the healers said Mamma could be ill if she had any more," Pippin could not see any way round this. "So it must have been because you wanted to be Thain."
"It wasn't that simple son." Paladin put the pipe down after a couple of puffs and walked back over to take Pippin's hands again. "I would never have tried having another baby if your Mamma hadn't wanted to. Ferumbras made the suggestion and I told your Mamma what he had said. I thought it was a bad idea, but she insisted."
But what about what the healers said?" Pippin asked in awe "Wasn't she frightened?
"No dear," Pippin's mother had been listening quietly, standing behind Pippin just inside the door. "I wasn't frightened. I knew you were waiting for me."
"How did you know that?" Pippin spun round to see his mother come into the room. "Could you see me? Where was I?"
"In my mind I could see you." Eglantine said, "and I knew you were mine and that I had to have you for my own. So when your father told me what Ferumbras had said, I told him you were waiting and then your Papa knew too."
"What did you say?" The youngster asked, his eyes wide, "Did you tell him Pippin's waiting for us?"
"No," Eglantine laughed. "We didn't know your name then, I just knew that the sweetest, handsomest, cleverest, bravest most adorable little hobbit lad in the whole world was waiting to be my son – and you were – weren't you my darling!"
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Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] Re: Status & Moving files
From: Gilles Detillieux (email@example.com)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 09:31:19 PST
According to Geoff Hutchison:
> OK, I'm just about done fixing up the htcommon/defaults.cc and
> regenerating the attribute documentation. With this, I think I'll be
> ready to roll a pre-release sometime tomorrow afternoon.
Sorry, I know this is last minute stuff, but I haven't had a chance until
now to get the local_urls enhancements in yet, and I'd like those to be
tested in the pre-release, so could I get you to hold off until then to
roll out the pre-release. I'll try to get it in in the next hour or two.
Also, I just realised that we had a +3 vote back in October for Joe's
proposed max_keywords attribute, which I developed as a patch to 3.1.4
back in December, and forgot to adapt to 3.2, so I'll try to get it
in too. There are some bug fixes to 3.1.4 in Joe's patch collection too,
which I'll try to port to 3.2 where they're applicable. As long as these
fixes are in the final release, though, I guess it doesn't matter too
much if they miss the pre-release.
> I was going to change "back" to the system call and just use "mv"
> instead of "/bin/mv" which will find it in the current environment's
> PATH. Does this still seem safe?
> Obviously this close to release, I don't want to break anything, but
> it seems fairly obvious to me. Am I missing something?
I think a bare "mv" would work fine in almost all cases (more so than
/bin/mv). Also, this is just used in "htfuzzy endings", so I don't
think security is a real issue here - if you want to slip in an altered
"mv" command to your own run of htfuzzy, that's up to you. As long as
you don't deliberately do something like that, and your PATH is OK, it
should find the right program. If you have time to implement some of
the autoconfig ideas proposed, though, I think that would be better.
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The Walking Dead: A Telltale Game Series has been a smash hit among fans, but if you're like me and own a PS4 or Xbox One, then you know how frustrating it can be to see new games be released, only to find out that the console I own isn't compatible. Blah. Luckily, for us Walking Dead fans, season 2 is now available for Xbox One and PS4. Get all the info below.
The Walking Dead: Season Two – A Telltale Games Series continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned at the outset of the undead apocalypse, left to survive in a world gone mad. Players will struggle to outwit both the dead and the living in situations that will test their morals and control the flow of the story through the choices that they make.
The Walking Dead is set in the world of Robert Kirkman's award-winning comic book series and offers an emotionally-charged, tailored game experience where a player's actions and choices affect how their story plays out across the entire series.
"Since the series premiere in 2012, the team has been incredibly proud to continue breaking new ground in the art of interactive drama as part of Robert Kirkman's award-winning universe," said Kevin Bruner, President and Co-Founder at Telltale Games. "Now available on over six thousand devices from console to mobile, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 formats usher in an even greater reach for Telltale, and we're excited to be preparing players across the world for a thrilling third season that's yet to come."
To date the series has sold more than 39 million episodes worldwide, with its first season earning more than 90 Game of the Year awards from outlets including Metacritic, USA Today, Wired, Spike TV VGAs, Yahoo!, The Telegraph, Mashable, Polygon, Destructoid and GamesRadar, and also the recipient of two BAFTA Video Games Awards for Best Story and Best Mobile Game.
The second season finale was met with critical praise in the press, with IGN.com awarding the episode an Editor's Choice 9.5 out of 10 rating, calling it "provocative, painful, and unforgettable," saying, "This is perhaps the most heartbreaking and tense episode of anything Telltale has ever made. How Clementine braces for the impact of everything in front of her is up to you — and where that takes her left me in awe." Nerdist.com also gave the finale a Perfect 5 out of 5 Score, saying, "Grisly, gripping, but never gratuitous – Season 2 of The Walking Dead was one of the best gaming experiences I've had in quite some time, and No Going Back is a real mic drop moment for the series."


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From HaskellWiki
Memoization is a technique for storing values of a function instead of recomputing them each time the function is called.
A classic example is the recursive computation of Fibonacci numbers.
The naive implementation of Fibonacci numbers without memoization is horribly slow.Try
slow_fib :: Int -> Integer slow_fib 0 = 0 slow_fib 1 = 1 slow_fib n = slow_fib (n-2) + slow_fib (n-1)
The memoized version is much faster.Try
memoized_fib :: Int -> Integer memoized_fib = let fib 0 = 0 fib 1 = 1 fib n = memoized_fib (n-2) + memoized_fib (n-1) in (map fib [0 ..] !!)
1 Memoizing fix point operator
You can factor out the memoizing trick to a function, the memoizing fix point operator,which we will call
fib :: (Int -> Integer) -> Int -> Integer fib f 0 = 1 fib f 1 = 1 fib f n = f (n-1) + f (n-2) fibonacci :: Int -> Integer fibonacci = memoFix fib
I suppose if you want to "put it in a library",you should just put
This allows the user e.g. to define the data structure used for memoization.
The memoising fixpoint operator works by putting the result of the first call of the function for each natural number into a data structure and using that value for subsequent calls ;-)
memoFix :: ((Int -> Integer) -> (Int -> Integer)) -> (Int -> Integer) memoFix f = mf where memo = fmap (f mf) (naturals 1 0) mf = (memo !!!)
A data structure with a node corresponding to each natural number to use as a memo.
data NaturalTree a = Node a (NaturalTree a) (NaturalTree a)
Map the nodes to the naturals in this order:
0 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 ...
Look up the node for a particular number
Node a tl tr !!! 0 = a Node a tl tr !!! n = if odd n then tl !!! top else tr !!! (top-1) where top = n `div` 2
We surely want to be able to map on these things...
instance Functor NaturalTree where fmap f (Node a tl tr) = Node (f a) (fmap f tl) (fmap f tr)
If only so that we can write cute, but inefficient things like the below,which is just a
naturals = Node 0 (fmap ((+1).(*2)) naturals) (fmap ((*2).(+1)) naturals)
The following is probably more efficient (and, having arguments won't hang around at top level, I think)-- have I put more
naturals r n = Node n ((naturals $! r2) $! (n+r)) ((naturals $! r2) $! (n+r2)) where r2 = 2*r


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Thirty years ago this month, 800 U.S. Marines waded onto Beirut's beaches tasked with facilitating the evacuation of thousands of PLO terrorists out of Lebanon in the hopes of ending a conflict that had ensnared Syria and Israel. That mission, explicitly defined and time-limited, was successful. Shortly after the last Marine left Lebanese soil, however, President Ronald Reagan ordered them back in again while more than doubling the size of the force and vastly expanding its mission. This time, U.S. forces were asked to strengthen Lebanese state institutions in order to restore a "one law, one gun" maxim.
What was once a 60-day peacekeeping deployment became a 17-month misadventure. U.S. forces clashed with Syrian troops, maintained ill-coordinated postures with Israeli forces, and were ultimately withdrawn under fire and humiliation following the bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in the fall of 1983 by Hezbollah.
As planning for a post-Assad Syria accelerates, the Obama administration is signaling its desire to keep political and military institutions intact. However, America's own bloody history of Middle East state building suggests that doing so may be costly, unwise and at odds with the region's proclivity. Rather than uphold the illusory political order installed by the century-old Sykes-Picot Agreement, the United States should encourage the creation of a federal Syrian republic with far greater autonomy for its component parts.
When U.S. forces landed in Beirut in 1982, Reagan's mandate was the "restoration of a strong and stable central government." While this would necessitate the withdrawal of PLO, Israeli and Syrian forces, as well as the disbanding of all sectarian militias, Reagan assured the American people that the United States had "no intention or expectation" of getting involved in hostilities and that it would withdraw immediately if fired upon.
In February 1984, following repeated clashes with Syrian forces, as well as the devastating twin bombings of the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks that left nearly 300 U.S. servicemen dead, Reagan ordered the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Lebanon. Thirty years later, the president's objectives remain unachieved: The Lebanese central government is frail, Hezbollah is the dominant political and military force and a multinational force continues to provide a false sense of security.
Iraq marked the second U.S. state-building venture in the region. The long commitment of significant U.S. blood did indeed manage to stand-up to a somewhat-functioning Iraqi state, but its long-term viability is far from certain. The Iraqi constitution, a document that enshrines federalism, as well as recognition of the many, non-Arab Iraqi peoples (Kurds, Assyrians, Turkmen), gives significant autonomy to Iraq's 18 provinces, as well as the three-province Kurdistan region, where the Kurdistan Regional Government has established a fully-functioning quasi-state, with its own parliamentary, diplomatic, and proto-military trappings. Similarly, over the past year, several Sunni-majority provinces have pushed for the constitutionally guaranteed right to establish their own, self-governing region. The United States is once again trying to uphold a fragile order at great cost.
Enter Syria. Unified Syria, a French idea, is crumbling under the strains of a long rebellion. While the rebel forces are dominated by the long-repressed Sunni Arab majority, other minority groups, such as the Syrian Kurds, are leveraging their participation in the rebellion for greater recognition of rights and self-governance in a post-Assad Syria. Similarly, Druze, Christians and, most understandably, Alawites fret over what a Sunni Arab-ruled nation would mean. Once again, however, Washington's instincts are to uphold the status quo rather than support devolution of power and authority.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has supported keeping all Syrian security forces together while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has advocated a "managed transition that keeps the institutions of the Syrian state intact" in order to avoid the violent years in post-Saddam Iraq. Given America's state-building experience with two of Syria's neighbors, an attempt to patch together a European-inspired entity — especially without boots on the ground — is a Sisyphean task.
The Sykes-Picot era of European-created Middle East states held together by Arab nationalist strongmen is rapidly unraveling. Much like how the collapse of the Soviet Union heralded drastic changes in Europe's political borders — ones the United States did not stop — the ongoing Arab revolt could also promote the Balkanization of the Middle East.
Rather than apply super glue to the widening cracks in Syria, as the United States tried to do in Lebanon and Iraq, Washington should encourage the establishment of a federal Syrian republic, enhancing the autonomy of its distinct, minority peoples, such as the Kurds and Alawites. Just as Britain and France inaugurated the Sykes-Picot order during the first great Arab Revolt of the 20th century, the United States can euthanize it in the first Arab Revolt of the 21st century.
Gabriel Max Scheinmann, a visiting fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, is a Ph.D. candidate in government at Georgetown University. This piece was made available by the Jewish News Service jns.org.


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About the Book
Tattoos have always had a profound effect on my life and I have always enjoyed looking at these works of art. After receiving my first tattoo I was launched into a world that I did not know existed. I became aware of tattoo conventions, alternative magazines and pageants specialising in body artwork. Being tattooed is just the start, there are events up and down the country for people to exhibit their 'ink' and promote themselves as tattooists.
The aim of this book is to give the viewer an insight into the tattoo industry and the life style that surrounds it. I hope my photographs will challenge some of the preconceptions people have of the tattoo world, therefore encouraging a more positive response to an industry that has truly inspired me.
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Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a spy kid in high school, a junior CIA operative who's part of a team of underage undercover agents. In his first outing, Cody had to receive basic training from his CIA handler on how to talk to girls: in this sequel, one of the skills he needs for his undercover operation is clarinet playing.
Cody's mission, after a crisis at secret-agent summer camp, is to pursue a rogue CIA operative to London. The villain has joined forces with an evil aristocrat: together they plan to fine-tune some mind-control software and unleash it on a G7 meeting that's being held at Buckingham Palace.
Cody is sent to join a youth orchestra run by the evil aristocrat's wife. He passes himself off as a clarinet player, and takes with him several nifty gadgets, including a booby-trapped packet of mints. We see these mints and we hear their brand-name many times during this film - who needs mind-control software when you've got repetitive product placement?
As Cody, Frankie Muniz (Malcolm of Malcolm in the Middle) maintains his customary stunned-rabbit look. Hilary "Lizzie McGuire" Duff, who starred in the first movie, has not returned: Hannah Spearritt of S-Club 7 has been drafted into the Blonde Role.
The rest of the cast carry out their appointed tasks with varying degrees of relish, efficiency or embarrassment, and Anthony Anderson (as Cody's London handler) does his good-natured but inept jive brother routine as per usual. There are lookalikes of Tony Blair and the Queen, but the filmmakers seemed unwilling to risk a George Bush impersonator: their US president looks disconcertingly like one of Tony Soprano's chunkier offsiders.
Director Kevin Allen churns slowly through gadget gags, chase sequences and hi-jinks with food and musical instruments. As a genre, the spy spoof is so ancient that there are already spoofs of spoofs: but Agent Cody Banks 2 feels more like a join-the-dots, extend-the-franchise exercise than a movie with any sense of originality or fun.
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LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who accepted a five-pound marijuana shipment at the Main Street post office in that city on Dec. 6 pleaded guilty Friday, and was admitted to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment.
Michael J. Crumpton, 23, of Calumet Avenue, admitted to second-degree criminal possession of marijuana.
The box was damaged in shipment, and postal inspectors were able to see what was inside. They alerted police, who were waiting to pounce when Crumpton picked up the package at the post office.
Crumpton faces up to 2½ years in prison if he washes out of the treatment program, but his charge will be reduced to a misdemeanor with a probation sentence if he succeeds.


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Kim Kardashian & Kanye West Get Cozy at LA Lakers Game (PHOTOS)
Following a series of New York City dinner dates, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have taken their relationship to Los Angeles where they were spotted sitting courtside at a LA Lakers game this Saturday. Though both Kim, 31, and Kanye, 34, have yet to confirm reports of a budding romance, the rumored couple got awfully cozy as they watched the home team take on Denver Nuggets at the Staples Center.
Are they taking their relationship to a whole new level?
Quite possibly!
Recently, Kanye reportedly retitled and finagled his track "Theraflu" to "Way Too Cold" and added a few more lyrics about the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star. On a track by rapper Pusha T, Kanye implied he's starting to think about marriage, rapping:
"I saw you in the club in a white dress/Now I want to put you in a white dress."
As some may remember, the first round of lyrics from the rapper was what fueled rumors of a Kimye romance, with one of the lines reading:
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Jarod, a boy genius with a special gift for pretending, was kidnapped and held prisoner by a corporation that used him as a human simulator in their clandestine research. Escaping from The Centre more than 30 years later, Jarod now searches for clues to his true identity and family. He also uses his ability to quickly become an expert at anything to right wrongs and exact revenge on the wicked. All the while, Centre operatives led by Miss Parker work relentlessly to capture Jarod, and return him to The Centre.- Written by Anthony Bruce Gilpin
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Application of Fourier Transform Raman Spectroscopy to the characterisation of significant biological materials
Sarinas, Simon (1994) Application of Fourier Transform Raman Spectroscopy to the characterisation of significant biological materials. Masters by Research thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
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