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Mechanical Behavior of Nanostructured Materials
Presentation Title
L-162: Microstructural Influences on the Transition to Drag Dominated Dislocation Motion at High Rates of Strain
Scott Andrew Turnage, Kristopher Darling, Kiran N Solanki
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Scott Andrew Turnage
Abstract Scope
Thermal activation dominates dislocation motion at low strain rates (< 10 s<sup>-1</sup>), but as strain rates increase, drag forces become dominant causing an upturn in flow stress and a subsequent decrease in ductility. The strain rate at which this shift in deformation mechanism takes place depends on the material and microstructure of the deformed sample, but the effects of individual microstructural components have not yet been identified. Here, strain rate data for characteristic samples are gathered from literature to analyze the effects of grain size, precipitates, twin boundaries, and deformation induced twin growth on the rise in flow stress. Results show that as defect density is increased, the upturn in flow stress occurs at higher strain rates. In the case of deformation induced twinning, dislocations move too slowly for the high rate of deformation; therefore, twinning becomes the dominant deformation mechanism resulting in decreased flow stress as strain rate increases.
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15 Years SPD-Processed Bulk Nanostructured Materials: From Mechanical to Functional Highlights
Achieving Enhanced Room Temperature Ductility in Bulk Nanostructured Mg
Back-stress Strengthening and Strain Hardening in Heterogeneous Materials
Brittle-to-ductile Transition in Metallic Glass Nanowires
Comparing Amorphous Alloy Synthesis Employing Melt Spinning & Mechanical Alloying
Computational Studies of Materials Properties at the Nanometer Scale
Correlation between Nanostructuring and Precipitation in Age-hardened Aluminum Alloys
Correlation between Nanotwin Density and Texture Transformation in Thin Ag Films
Dependence of Shear Mixing on Alloy Properties: A Study on Cu-X-Mo Ternary Alloys
Development of Age-hardenable Nanolamiate Thin Films
Deviations from High-Entropy Configurations in the AlxCoCrCuFeNi Alloys
Effects of Ultrafine Grain Structure on Al Alloy Response to Corrosive Environments
Electromechanical Coupling Enhanced by Polar Nanoregion Vibrations
Enhanced Thermal Stability of Ultrafine-grained Aluminum Fabricated by Applying a Fast Cooling Rate after Hot Rolling
Evidence that Abnormal Grain Growth Precedes Fatigue-crack Initiation in Nanocrystalline Metals
Experimental Observations of the Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline Thin Films
Exploring Nanoindentation Induced Stress Field Propagation in Nanoporous Thin Films
Gradient Nanostructure and Mechanical Behavior of Ultrasonic Shot Peened Ti-6Al-4V
Grain Boundaries Shear-migration Coupling and Its Impact on Plastic Deformation in Nanocrystalline Metals
Grain Size or Film Thickness? Influence of the Two Main Length Scale Parameters on the Mechanical Reliability of Polymer-supported Metal Films
Hardening by Annealing and Abnormal Hall-Petch Relationship in Nanocrystalline Elements and Alloys
Hierarchical Structure and Strengthening Mechanisms in Pearlitic Steel Wire
High Temperature Mechanical Properties of Ultrafine-grained and Nanocrystalline Materials
In-Situ Electron Microscopy of Fracture and Flow
In Situ Synchrotron X-ray Studies on the Deformation Mechanism of Carbon-steel/Copper Nanocomposites
Influence of Severe Plastic Deformation on the Local Deformation Behavior of Nanostructured Metals under Extreme Conditions
L-121: Cyclic Response of Friction-stir Processed Ultra-fine Grained Copper
L-122: Projectile Induced Deformation Twinning in Nanocrystalline Aluminum
L-123: Aluminum with High Modulus and Superior Strength by Self-Dispersed TiC Nanoparticles
L-124: Multiscale Modeling of Deformation Behavior in Metal/Ceramic Mmultilayer Nanocomposites
L-125: Competition between Slip and Martensitic Transformation of Retained Austenite in Carbon-steel/Copper Nanolaminates
L-126: The Influence of Glassy Phase on the Crack Healing Efficiency of Silicon Carbide/Spinel Ceramic
L-128: The Thermal Stability of Cryomilled 5083 Aluminum Containing Diamantane Nanoparticles
L-129: Dynamic Behavior of Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Reinforced with Ceramics Nanoparticles at High Strain Rates
L-130: Molecular Dynamics Study of the Creep Behavior of Metallic Glasses and Glass-composites
L-131: Dislocation Engineering in Novel Nanowire Structures
L-132: An Experimental Investigation of Deformation Mechanisms in FCC Thin Films
L-133: Impact of Heat Treatments at Varying Temperature on the Strength and Ductility of Nanotwinned Inconel
L-134: Mechanical Characterization of fcc and bcc Metals by Extraction of Nanoindentation Stress-strain Curves
L-135: Multi-stages Spiral Twist Extrusion: A Novel Severe Plastic Deformation Technique for Bulk Nanostructured Materials
L-136: Superelasticity, Micaceous Plasticity and Size Effects of Novel Intermetallic Compound CaFe
At Small Length Scales
L-138: Manipulating the Grain Boundary Structure of an Ultrafine Grained Cu-Zr Alloy to Enhance Strain Hardening Capability and Strength
L-139: Enhanced Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Nanocrystalline Cu Matrix Nanocomposite with In-situ Formed NbC Nanoparticles
L-140: Effects of the Angle between Micro-crack and Loading Direction on Crack Propagation of Single Crystal γ-TiAl Alloy
L-141: Tensile Properties of Perovskite in Flexible Solar Cells
L-142: Fabrication and Characterization of Aluminum-carbon Nanotubes (Al-CNT) Functionally Graded Cylindrical Composites
L-143: High Strength and High Conductivity Wires Made from Cu-Ag Alloys Designed for the Construction of High Magnetic Fields Generators
L-144: Mechanical Characterization of Cold Sprayed Aluminum Alloy Using Micropillar Compression
L-145: Development and Characterization of Sputter Deposited Nickel-molybdenum-tungsten Thin Films for High Temperature Metal MEMS Applications
L-146: Mechanical Behavior of Sub-micron-sized Nanocrystalline Pillars under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading
L-147: Nanoindentation Response of Fe-10%Cr Structures with Voids: An Atomistic Study
L-148: Preparation and High Temperature Deformation of Nanocrystalline MgO
L-149: Solute Atoms Enhance Tensile Ductility in a Nanostructured Al-Mg Alloy
L-150: Strong, Ductile, Thermally Stable Cu-based Metal-intermetallic Nanostructured Alloys
L-151: Synthesis of Bulk Single-crystalline Quasicrystal Approximant YCd
and Its Small-scale Mechanical Properties
L-152: Flexibility of Perovskite LED Based on Mechanical Properties of Component Materials
L-153: The Influence of Severe Plastic Deformation on the Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Pure Metals and Alloys
L-154: The Precipitation and Strengthening Behavior of Ultrafine Structured Al-7wt%Si-0.3wt%Mg Alloy
L-155: Towards an Understanding of Shear Band Formation in Nanocrystalline and Ultrafine-grained Single Phase Materials
L-156: Effect of Annealing Temperature on Texture Transformation in FCC Thin Films
L-157: Anisotropy of Solute Effect on Dislocation Slip in an HCP Metal: A Molecular Simulation Study of Mg Alloys
L-158: A Study on Growth Nanotwins for CuZn Synthesized by Electrodeposition and Magnetron Sputtering
L-159: Atomistic Simulation of Creep Deformation in Metallic Nanoglasses
L-160: Effects of the Processing Variables on Microstructural Homogeneity Manufactured by High Pressure Double Torsion
L-161: Grain Growth in Nanostructured Materials during Cyclic Loading: Is the Description Complete?
L-162: Microstructural Influences on the Transition to Drag Dominated Dislocation Motion at High Rates of Strain
L-164: Effect of High Temperature Annealing Time and Temperature on Microcrack, Micro-nanostructures and Mechanical Properties of a 14YWT Nanostructured Ferritic Alloy
L-165: Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior of Nanostructured FeMn Bioresorbable Alloy
L-166: Stress-driven Microstructural Evolution and Grain Boundary Doping in Nanocrystalline Alloys: A Direct Link Revealed by Quantitative In Situ Electron Microscopy
L-168: Surface Rebound of Relativistic Dislocations Directly and Efficiently Initiates Deformation Twinning
L-169: Thermal Stability and Mechanical Behaviour of Electrodeposited Nanocrystalline Iron
L-170: Twinning-dominated Deformation in Body-centered Cubic Tungsten Nanowires
L-171: UV Light, Temperature and Humidity Effects on the Mechanical Behavior of Nanocomposites
Mechanical Alloying by Severe Plastic Deformation
Mechanical Behaviors of Gradient Nanostructured Materials
Mechanical Properties and Microstructure Stability in Fe-Cr base Alloys for Nuclear Energy Applications
Mechanical Properties and Thermal Stabilization of Nanocrystalline Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys
Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Composites with Nano Alumina Reinforcement
Mechanical Properties of Nanotwinned Al
Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior of ECAP and HPT Processed Austenitic and Ferritic-martenstic Steels
Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured and Ultrafine Grained Al Alloy and Cu Matrix Nanocomposites Fabricated by Thermomechanical Powder Consolidation
Nanostructured Ferritic Steels: Synthesis, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties
On the Relationship between the Grain Boundary Character and the Microhardness in Nanocrystalline Ni-W
Processing and Properties of Nanostructured Metallic Systems
Strain Delocalization and "Ductile" Fracture Behaviors of Metallic Glass
Strength and Deformation of Far-from-Equilibrium Metallic Systems at the Nano-scale: High-Entropy Alloys and Metallic Glasses
Structure Dependent Creep Behavior of CuNb Nanolaminates
Study of Dynamic Recovery in Nanocrystalline Metals Using In-situ X-ray Diffraction and MD Simulations
Suppressing Oxide Nanoparticle Coarsening and Cu Nanograin Growth in Nanostructured Cu Matrix Nanocomposites by Adding Ti
Tailoring the Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Glasses
The Effects of Solutes on the Tensile Strength of Nano-twinned Ag Thin Films at Various Temperatures
The Mechanical Behavior of Highly Oriented, Nano-layered HCP/BCC Composites
Thermal Stability and Grain-boundary Segregation in Al-Alloy Thin Films
Toward Quantitative 3D Microstructure-property Relations in Nano- and Poly-crystalline Materials
Twinning in Small-scaled BCC Crystals
Ultrahigh-strength Nanostructured Magnesium Alloys via Mechanical Alloying
Understanding, Controlling, and Creating Martensitic Phase Transformations in Nanostructured Polycrystals and Metamaterials
Universal Parameter to Quantitatively Predict Metallic Glass Properties
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is censuring Argentina for issuing inaccurate inflation data. The fund's board issued a statement Friday blasting Argentina for a breaching its membership obligations after considering a report by Managing Director Christine Lagarde.
The IMF has been urging Argentina for years to fix its consumer price index. The index lost credibility in 2007 after President Cristina Fernandez's husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, replaced career statisticians with political appointees and instituted a new methodology.
IMF experts and Argentine economists have spent months working with government officials to recommend detailed ways to get accurate numbers again, but the government has yet to adopt the recommendations. The board said there has been insufficient progress. The fund could eventually suspend Argentina's voting rights and membership.


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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former environment minister and presidential candidate Marina Silva has launched a new political party with an eye on next year's presidential elections.
The new party is called "Sustainability Network." It was launched in Brasilia Saturday at a meeting of politicians, congressmen and other Silva supporters.
Marina said "it is not a party created just for the elections" and said it "calls for a new vision of the world, in which we will be participants and not just spectators."
Silva did not say if she plans to run for the presidency in 2014. Marina served in the Cabinet of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
She won a surprising 20 million votes, or 19 percent of the total, in a first round of voting when she ran for president in 2010.


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For over 30 years, L. Ray Patterson has been writing and teaching about copyright. His thoughtful and thorough analysis of the primary purpose of copyright in The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users' Rights is a must-read for socially responsible librarians. Ray Patterson is Pope Brock Professor of Law at the University of Georgia and Special Assistant Attorney General of Georgia for Copyright Matters.
I had an opportunity to interview Professor Patterson in June. His comments about copyright guidelines, the publishing community and fair use are thought provoking and send a clear message to libraries. Promote Fair Use.
--Carrie Russell, Copyright Specialist, OITP
Carrie Russell:
Throughout your long career as a law scholar and historian, you have taken the position that the purpose of copyright is not to reward authors but to promote society through the advancement of knowledge. How do you argue that the promotion of learning is the purpose of copyright law?
Ray Patterson:
The basis for my position that copyright is primarily to benefit the public interest is the copyright clause and decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. The copyright clause gives Congress the power to "promote the progress of Science," and empowers Congress to grant copyright only for original writings only for a limited time. The Supreme Court has said repeatedly that the copyright monopoly is primarily to benefit the public interest.
In The Nature of Copyright, you point out that law grows out of a combination of legislation, court decisions, and custom, and that "consistent private action can essentially 'make' law" by suggesting customs that courts may honor. How might libraries behave to uphold and to establish customs protecting users' rights in copyright?
Librarians should be as aggressive in protecting the right of fair use as the publishers are in seeking to destroy it. Librarians, for example, should reject the efforts of publishers to limit fair use with guidelines, which are used to expand the copyright monopoly. Thus, if to copy "1,000" words is a fair use, to copy "1,050" words is an infringement, which entitles the copyright holder to a license fee. Once the custom of guidelines is established, courts will almost surely follow them. We have here an example of custom creating law. After all, if librarians go along with the guidelines, why should not the courts do so?
In view of the wording of the fair use section of the copyright statute, it is reasonable to say that fair use is a right, not merely a privilege. The basic point is that there is a difference between the copyright and the work. To use the work is not a matter of fair use, but personal use. An example is making a copy of an article for one's file or for a student to study without having to check the book out of the library. The reason for the concept of personal use is that fair use relates to the use of a work by another author for profit, not by an individual for personal use. Note that the four factors in section 107 are directed to commercial use, not personal use.
You have shown how the history of copyright has been influenced by the introduction of new information technologies--technologies ranging from the printing press to broadcast video and computer technologies. The last several years have seen tremendous growth in new digital information technologies. For some commentators, the advent of a new generation of information technologies marks a dramatic shift that will mean the end of copyright. For others, it indicates a need to strengthen publishers' private property interests in copyright. What are the key issues regarding copyright in the current environment, and how do you see them affecting our understanding of copyright?
As I see it, the key issue in applying copyright to new technology is how to protect the constitutional policies of copyright mandated by the copyright clause. Those policies are the promotion of learning, because the clause so states; the protection of the public domain, because copyright is only for original works and only for a limited time, provisions that mean that copyright cannot be used to capture material in the public domain, and that all copyrighted material will go into the public domain; and public access, because the "exclusive Right" that Congress can grant to authors is the exclusive right of publication, that is the right to market the work.
If copyright for new information technology cannot be shaped to protect these policies, it will be necessary to forego the copyright monopoly for the new technology and let the market solve the problem.
You've written about the problem of people with a financial interest in information making erroneous statements about copyright that appear to have the force of law. This problem has significant practical application for librarians. In many areas, libraries and universities have been visited or contacted by representatives of the Copyright Clearance Center for stated purposes ranging from "educating" people about copyright to verifying that an institution is "copyright compliant". Librarians have a social responsibility to protect access to information, but given the difficulties of understanding copyright law and the fear of potential litigation, visits of this sort can be quite intimidating. What can libraries do to ensure they don't fall prey to overt pressure and subjective "advice" from publishers and their representatives?
The most important thing that librarians can do is to educate themselves about copyright. The Copyright Clearance Center, I contend, is engaged in intellectual fraud, another example of using custom to create law. There are several things that librarians can do:
- Realize that Congress provided special provisions that enable librarians of non profit institutions to do their job and gave them weapons to combat the publishers' grab for copyright power. See, e.g., § 108(f)(4); §504(c)(2).
- Realize that the risk of infringement actions against employees of state libraries (including libraries of state schools) is small because of the Eleventh Amendment rulings of the Supreme Court that a citizen cannot sue a state in federal court. Note also, that copyright jurisdiction is exclusive of state courts.
- Realize that actions against private colleges and universities is unlikely because the publishers do not want to take the risk of an adverse decision.
- The point here is not that such institutions have a license to infringe, but that they have a protection against the publishers' efforts to create a license to steal from library patrons.
Many of our readers are interested in developing copyright policies at their institutions. You were involved in drafting the University of Georgia's copyright policy. Can you walk us through the process of how that policy was developed? How did that process work? Are you satisfied with the result?
The University of Georgia policy is in fact a policy of the University System of Georgia, called the Regents' Guide to Copyright and Educational Fair Use .
The key to this effort is understanding copyright. Proponents of a sound copyright policy must first understand copyright themselves; they then must educate the appropriate officials.
The most common error about copyright is the idea that copyright is property to be protected as other type property. Copyright, however, is "intellectual property," which means that it is not like other property. It is a series of defined rights to which a given work is subject for a limited period of time for the purpose of marketing the work. In short, copyright is a statutory monopoly to serve a public purpose, not a plenary property right.
The error as to the proprietary nature of copyright is a result of the copyright culture created by publishers. Their claim is that if their "property" is not protected, there will be fewer books, paintings, motion pictures, and so forth. This is what I call "the strangled in the womb" argument, based on a petition to Parliament in England in the 1640's to enact a new licensing act to protect the booksellers. (In England, the Licensing Act served also as a copyright statute.) If Parliament did not enact new censorship legislation, the petition argued, "many books of great worth will be strangled in the womb."
Apart from the fallacy on which the argument is based-the copyright statute is a muse for authors and artists-the argument is a classic example of the wish being father to the thought, as the Sony case, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1984, proves. Motion picture producers argued that if individuals could videotape copyrighted motion pictures off-the-air for their own personal use, the industry would be ruined. The Court disagreed, and today, some sixteen years after the dire predictions, a very large portion of the movie industry's income is from the sale and rental of videocassettes of motion pictures.
What sets the University of Georgia policy apart from others I have seen is its strong position that fair use is a user's right. Why is it important for an institutional policy to take this position?
University librarians are the last line of defense against the efforts of publishers to sacrifice the right of the people to know on the altar of profit. This statement is not as hyperbolic as it may seem. The conduct of the publishers indicates that their goal is to do away with free lending libraries, to transform copyright into a pay-per-use right, that is to make copyright the basis for a use tax as well as a sales tax. To succeed they must co-opt librarians to be their licensing agents. Unless librarians refuse to be co-opted, the publishers will succeed.
The copyright policy was approved by legal counsel at Georgia. Typically, university legal counsel seem pretty risk averse. How did you convince them of the merit of this strong, potentially risky position?
I convinced them that fair use by librarians, teachers and students is a right, and not, as publishers like to say, an excused infringement. The real problem is the lack of sophistication about copyright law on the part of university counsel. The chances that publishers will sue a university or a library are two: slim and none. The law is against them.
It is helpful to understand the basis for the publishers' claim that "any copying by any means" is infringement. (Note the copyright notices to this effect.)
The 1976 Act divided the act of publication into two rights, the right to copy (§ 106(1)) and the right to distribute copies (§ 106(3)). All copyright prior statutes gave the copyright holder of books only the right to "publish" them. By dividing the publication right into two steps. Congress ostensibly made any copying without permission an infringement.
The problem with this interpretation is that it is almost surely unconstitutional. It gives the copyright holder control of the use of a book that it has sold-the use tax-which is contrary to the learning purpose of copyright, and arguably it makes copyright a law regulating the press in violation of the First Amendment.
The Association of American Publishers says that the University of Georgia copyright policy encourages faculty and students to be copyright infringers. How would you respond to that statement?
This is the typical political spin that the publishers put on statements contrary to their interest. I am willing to debate the issue with any representative of the AAP at any time at any place.
Has the University of Georgia been sued for copyright infringement (or otherwise harassed) since the copyright policy was instituted in 1997? Why not? Why haven't we seen any libraries being sued?
The University has not been sued for copyright infringement, and, as I noted above, presumably is not subject to suit in federal court because of the Supreme Court's Eleventh Amendment rulings.
My guess is that libraries of private universities have not been sued because the publishers fear they would lose the case because the law is against them. Note that the publishers bring lawsuits against for profit entities, e.g. Kinko's and Michigan Document Services.
What advice do you have for librarians who would like to encourage their institutions to develop copyright policies that support the rights of users?
Educate the appropriate officials. This will be inordinately difficult to do because of what I call the copyright culture created by publishers. That culture is that copyright is their property and anyone who uses their property should pay them. The fact is that copyright is a limited statutory monopoly granted for a public purpose and that purpose is not to make a commodity of information and facts so that learning will be subject to licensing by publishers as in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
Many of the librarians I talk to want clear, specific answers to their copyright questions. Basically, they ask "is it legal if we do such and such or not?" In response, libraries rely on the guidelines established by publishing companies and organizations like the Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC) to help them interpret the application of fair use to address copyright questions. Do you think "fair use guidelines" are the answer?
As I implied above, copyright guidelines are the Trojan Horse of the publishers. Thus they definitely are not the answer. The Regents' Guide to Copyright and Education Fair Use is probably the best document available for this purpose. But ultimately, fair use is a matter of judgment, and librarians should not be afraid to use their judgment rather than the self-serving judgment of publishers. The reasonable presumption is that if the copying is not for commercial purposes, it is not infringing.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a major revision of the copyright law. What do you see as the most significant elements of this law, and what effect to do you envision it having on the future of copyright?
The most significant point about the DMCA is that it gives the copyright holder absolute control of access to material in digital form, much of which may not be entitled to copyright, and makes efforts to gain access a criminal offense. I have not studied the act in detail, but it is clearly contrary to the three constitutional policies of copyright: the promotion of learning, the protection of the public domain, and the right of public access. My guess is that under any rational interpretation of the First amendment and the copyright clause, it is unconstitutional under both.


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CAIRO — Egyptian security officials say clashes between police and protesters loyal to the country's ousted president have killed three people on the first day of a key vote on Egypt's new charter.
Tuesday's clashes in the city of Sohag came hours after Egyptians started voting on the new constitution, which represents a key milestone in a military-backed roadmap put in place since the ouster of the Islamist Mohammed Morsi last July.
A massive security operation is underway to prevent Morsi's supporters from disrupting the vote and in anticipation of attacks by Islamic militants.
The officials say police opened fire on about 300 pro-Morsi protesters after the officers came under fire from rooftops during a rally.
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Matthew Hunter Callahan, 17, of Sweet Water died April 9, 2013 at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa.
He was born June 13, 1995 in Tuscaloosa. He was a member of the Sweet Water Baptist Church. He was a student at Shelton State Community College.
Survivors include his parents, Bobby and Lisa Hammond Callahan, Sweet Water; one sister, Ashley Callahan, Sweet Water; grandparents, Curry and Betty Callahan, Sweet Water; grandfather, John Hammond, Palmetto, AL.
He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Lois Brown Hammond.
The service was April 13 at 11 a.m. at the Crossroads Community Church with Rev. Glenn Akridge officiating. Burial was in the Sweet Water Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Joe Hammond, Matthew Walker, Ross Callahan, Mike McDaniel, James Cobb, Jeffrey Green.
Memorials may be made to the Crossroads Community Church in Dixons Mills.
Condolences may be offered at www.obryantchapelfh.com.
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Belding senior heading to Grand Rapids to play college baseball
With his final season of high school baseball fast approaching, Belding senior Tyler Strevel will no longer be wondering where he will be at this time next year.
The Redskins standout made his college destination official last week, signing to play baseball for Aquinas College.
Strevel said it has always been a dream of his to play college baseball and he is happy and relieved to have his signing completed.
"I have wanted to play baseball in college my whole life," Strevel said. "It is a relief to have my signing done and to know where I am going before the start of the high school season."
Baseball wasn't the only thing to draw Strevel to Aquinas. He said the campus and programs of study were also major factors in his decision.
"Aquinas has a good physical therapy program, which is what I am going to study," he said. "I also like the campus. It's beautiful and right in Grand Rapids."
Over the summer Strevel participated in a few high school baseball showcases, playing with and against some of the top players in the state. During one of those events, Strevel said he was approached by Saints head coach Doug Greenslate and that started the recruiting process.
"Coach said he liked that I was a left-handed hitting shortstop," he said. "He also saw me pitch and said that I have good arm strength."
Strevel said he also received some interest from Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Olivet College while attending baseball camps at those campuses, but Aquinas was the only program to seriously recruit him.
The Redskins will open the season on the road April 9 when they travel to Coopersville for a Ottawa-Kent Blue doubleheader.


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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian lawmakers on Friday overwhelmingly supported an agreement normalizing relations with breakaway Kosovo, a potentially landmark deal that could end years of tensions between the Balkan antagonists and put them both on a path to European Union membership.
Parliament backed the deal in a 173-24 vote. The agreement drew support from the parties of the ruling, nationalist-led government and the center-left opposition. A pro-Russian, nationalist party was the only group that voted against it.
Parliamentary backing is a boost for the Serbian government, which reached the agreement with Kosovo this month in Brussels, but has faced pressure from nationalists and Serb hardliners in Kosovo's divided north, who rejected it.
"This is not just a simple vote about the agreement," Prime Minister Ivica Dacic told lawmakers at the end of the daylong, heated debate. "This vote shows what we stand for and which way we want to go."
Serbia has rejected Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence — which has been recognized by more than 90 countries including the U.S. and 22 of the EU's 27 members — but it must improve ties with the former province to advance its bid to join the EU.
"The agreement with Pristina has sent a strong message across the whole of Europe about Serbia's European attitude," EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule said earlier Friday during a visit to Belgrade. "Serbia moved beyond past conflicts and closer to the future within Europe."
The deal will give Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership authority over rebel Kosovo Serbs, ending Serbia's control in northern Kosovo. The Serbs, in return, will be granted wide-ranging autonomy.
Nationalists have insisted that this amounted to treason. Slobodan Samardzic, a lawmaker from nationalist Serbian Democratic Party, said during the parliamentary debate that "the agreement means our people must give up their state." Several hundred extremists rallied outside parliament amid a heavy police presence.
Dacic rejected the accusations, insisting that "we did not betray our country, we were defending it." He reiterated that Serbia will never recognize Kosovo's statehood.
"We made the move," he said. "Did you think it was easy?"
Top Serbian leaders have said a referendum on the deal is possible, counting on popular support to silence dissent and enable easier implementation on the ground in Kosovo.
Fule said that "whatever the way they chose it should not delay the process, but in the end make sure that the implementation is sustainable." He also said "effective implementation" will be key for EU member states when they decide in June whether to open accession talks with Belgrade.
Earlier, Dacic also told lawmakers that Serbia would become "Europe's North Korea" if it rejected the deal.
Serbia's warmongering policies during the 1990s turned the country into an international pariah, facing U.N. sanctions and isolation. Years of wars and crisis also severely impoverished the country's economy.
After the Kosovo agreement, the European Commission recommended opening membership negotiations with Belgrade, an important step on the EU path that Serbia hopes will pave the way for foreign investment and unblock access to the bloc's pre-entry funds.
Serbia relinquished control of most of Kosovo in 1999 when NATO chased its troops out of the region in a three-month bombing campaign. The EU has insisted on ending the partition of Kosovo between the Albanian majority and the Serb-controlled north — about a fifth of the country.


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I tested the live session using a live USB made with MultiSystem. I tested the installation in VirtualBox on a MultiSystem-made Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" live USB, with 1024 MB of RAM allocated to the guest OS. Follow the jump to see what it's like.
After the boot menu, I was greeted by a scrolling wall of text. The boot process took a little longer than usual, but it was definitely bearable. After that came the desktop.
The desktop looks like Xfce made to look like Apple's Mac OS X. On top, there is a shrunken panel containing an Xfce menu, shortcuts to common applications, a window switcher, a system tray, and a workspace switcher. On the bottom, there is an instance of Cairo Dock to use shortcuts and manage open windows. I find it interesting that Cairo Dock has been included given that most other distributions that use pretty docks use Docky, but then Cairo Dock is still way more fully-featured, and here it has been customized a bit. The GTK+ theme is FnColor, the XFWM theme is AlphaCube, the icon theme is Faenza Cupertino, and the cursor theme is the standard X/11 theme. One nice thing is that contrary to the default in Xfce, the desktop icon labels have transparent backgrounds and borders. It's good to see that kind of attention to detail, because even Xubuntu (which is otherwise about the slickest and easiest-to-use Xfce distribution you can find) has those ugly backgrounds on the desktop icon labels. There are just two things I would change. The first is the cursor theme, because it looks really dated, and it doesn't fit in with the slick look of the rest of the desktop. The second is the icon theme used by Cairo Dock: for some reason, Cairo Dock uses a weird mishmash of icons from the Humanity theme (used by Ubuntu) and the Faenza Cupertino theme, and it breaks the nice blue consistency from the desktop using the Faenza Cupertino theme everywhere else. Otherwise, the desktop looks quite nice and inviting.
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Other applications include AbiWord, Gnumeric, and other standard Xfce applications. One interesting thing was the inclusion of VL-QwikPicks, which is a program like FedoraPlus (formerly AutoTen) which provides a nice GUI for installing commonly used programs, such as Cheese Webcam Booth. It seemed to do the job well, though it was a little slow to start up the first time.
The GUI package manager is GSlapt, which is a front-end to VectorLinux's core package manager made to look like Synaptic Package Manager (hence the name). True to its name, it looked and felt almost exactly like Synaptic Package Manager, though it ran a little slower. Of course, it manages dependencies automatically; while this may seem like a trivial point, it's worth remembering that Slackware doesn't support dependency management out-of-the-box.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get Google Talk to install and work in any way. In truth, this means that I can't use it as my primary distribution, but don't worry, because this review doesn't end here.
VectorLinux used about 225 MB of RAM at idle, which is decent considering the shiny nature of the desktop. Unfortunately, everything from using menus and the dock to opening applications and documents felt slow. Sure, you may say it's an issue with running it from a live USB, but then why do so few other distributions I've tried have this issue? Cairo Dock seems to be the primary contributor to this slowness, because Cairo Dock itself rendered animations and did what it was supposed to do a bit slowly. (On another note, its auto-hide feature is quite jumpy, which is annoying.) Thankfully, this slowness did not imply instability; aside from the Skype crashes, true to its Slackware roots, VectorLinux was quite stable.
One other issue I had was that from time to time, when doing stuff like installing packages from the package manager, VectorLinux would flash cryptic warning dialog boxes on the screen. While nothing was wrong with the system, such unhelpful, uninformative windows didn't particularly instill confidence in me.
So what's the deal? The fact that Google Talk doesn't work is a deal-breaker for me, but that won't affect my recommendation for others too much. It's stable, and it generally works well, but it's slow, and it throws some rather weird warnings at times. I'd say this is best left for people with at least intermediate skill in working with Linux, but considering that the VectorLinux website says this is for people who want their OS to be exactly as they want (i.e. for power users), I guess it has achieved its goal quite well.
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April 05, 2012 15:00 ET
Over Five Million Videos Have Used Soundtracks From the World's Largest Pre-Cleared Music Catalog
Over Five Million Videos Have Used Soundtracks From the World's Largest Pre-Cleared Music Catalog
PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - Apr 5, 2012) - Rumblefish, the leader in music licensing for social media, today announced that its catalog has surpassed one million songs, making it the world's largest pre-cleared catalog of music. Each song in the catalog is available for on-demand licensing for social video, slideshows, mashes and games via friendlymusic.com or through one of the many Rumblefish partners, including YouTube, Socialcam and Animoto. Rumblefish also now operates the most licensed independent catalog in the world, with more than 5.4 million soundtracks licensed.
"Our catalog growth is a direct result of incredible demand from the hundreds of millions of consumers and millions of small business owners adding soundtracks to billions of social videos," said Rumblefish CEO Paul Anthony. "The Rumblefish catalog is now able to power large-scale consumer offerings for any type of video product, especially when combined with easy to use soundtrack search tools and excellent editorial content. Professional music supervisors are seeing big benefits to the expanded music catalog for their movie, advertisement and TV show productions, as well."
New content partnerships have helped grow the Rumblefish Music catalog from 35,000 songs, to more than 500,000 in 2011, and now to more than one million songs today. APM Music, CD Baby and Indaba were recently added to the Rumblefish catalog, and more partnerships are in the works. The Rumblefish catalog now has more than 100,000 artists that have been paid millions of dollars in royalties from licensing revenue.
Rumblefish artist Ryan Huston has seen his popularity skyrocket as a result of the use of his music in a number of productions, especially YouTube and Animoto videos. "As an independent, solo musician, making a living through music is becoming increasingly difficult. Rumblefish is a welcomed ally I am grateful for and has allowed me to focus my energy on music, instead of the distractions of the music business," Mr. Huston commented. "Rumblefish solves a real problem in the industry with their MicroSync offering, allowing artists like me to provide consumers a way to license into user-generated content. This is a difficult problem no one but Rumblefish has yet solved."
In 2008, Rumblefish struck a landmark licensing deal with YouTube and in July 2010 it deepened that relationship with the launch of Friendly Music. This was the first service to offer YouTube users a direct license for pre-cleared soundtracks for their videos.
Rumblefish recently announced a major update to Friendly Music, along with the availability of its Friendly Music mobile SDK for Apple iOS that gives developers free and easy-to-implement soundtrack search and recommendation tools for video or photo applications. The Friendly Music mobile SDK is built on the Rumblefish API. All of these Rumblefish offerings contain the more than one million songs available for licensing.
To listen to Ryan Huston's music, go to http://bit.ly/ryan-huston.
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Rumblefish is a pioneer in music licensing and has been a trusted provider of music for top TV shows, films, ad agencies and video games for over a decade. The company makes artists and labels its first priority, and has paid millions in royalties to its members for the licensed use of their music. Rumblefish launched the Music Licensing Store in 2006, dubbed "an iTunes for Corporate America" (CNBC). It was the world's first online resource for 100 percent copyright-cleared music for businesses. In 2008 the company struck a landmark licensing deal with YouTube and in the summer of 2010 deepened that relationship with the launch of Friendly Music, a website where consumers can license soundtracks. The company now boasts the world's largest music catalog for social media, over 5 million videos with its soundtracks and clientele such as Animoto, Virtual Active, Amazon Studios, Kaiser Permanente and Google.
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Barrington's Blue Kangaroo is hopping good
Our friend Aquil keeps us informed of interesting new restaurants, for which we are eternally grateful.
"You've got to try The Blue Kangaroo in Barrington," he said. "They are a first-class, family-run café, bakery and deli."
We realized that in our lifetime we had never dined in Barrington…a distance of 12 miles from Edgewood, and a town we often drive through on our way to 2nd Story Theatre and other East Bay attractions and events.
The restaurant, at 328 County Rd. (Route 114), is located in an attractive strip mall (a misnomer for the modern building across from the town hall). They opened on April 1 and are waiting for their new sign. On our first visit, we met partner Brian Dunphy, his wife and their son.
"My partner Steve Gelsimino is the real brains behind the operation," Brian, a financial planner by day, said. "He has had years of experience in the food industry and is the amazing creator of our menu, especially our sandwiches."
The sandwiches, reasonably priced at $4.95 (half) and $8.95, include a variety of turkey, ham, roast beef, chicken and Italian cold cuts, creatively adorned with a variety of garnishes, including spinach, red onion, kangaroo sauce, pesto, blue cheese, roasted peppers and more.
I enjoyed their chicken salad in a spinach pita, while Joyce had their special, a lobster roll, stuffed with fresh lobster on a soft roll from Borelli's Bakery on Federal Hill. For $9.99, it was less than any lobster roll we have found anywhere in Rhode Island…and better.
On another occasion, we stopped for take-out on our way to Newport. I had the Thriller, one of their most popular sandwiches, according to Steve. Turkey, bacon, cheddar, lettuce, onion and honey mustard on a soft roll was the perfect combination for my lunch.
Joyce had a Waldorf salad, one of four on the menu, all for $7.95. Fresh lettuce, cranberries, sugared walnuts, goat cheese and granny smith apples made for a wonderful tasty and healthy meal.
The Blue Kangaroo opens Monday through Friday at 6 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 7 a.m., offering variety of breakfast sandwiches on a bagel or as a wrap, with two Baffoni (from the Johnston farm) eggs, with choices of ham, bacon, sausage, prosciutto, turkey, cream cheese and the favorite Southcoast, made with Italian sausage, grilled salami and provolone. Prices range from $3.95 to $5.95.
They also specialize in a variety of smoothies ($3.99) and chocolate frozen drinks ($4.75). Crystal gave us a sample of the Boomerang (secret ingredients), which was yet to be added to the menu.
We haven't even mentioned the bakery department, a popular stop for Barrington residents on their way to and from work. The baker comes in every morning to prepare a variety of desserts, including large chocolate chip cookies that melt in your mouth. We had one for dessert one evening, and it tasted like it had just come out of the oven.
The café side of The Blue Kangaroo features organic coffee and tea. Joyce loved the Mango Tea and I enjoyed Jim's Organic Coffee.
You can sit at a table or in the comfortable stuffed chairs and leisurely enjoy your beverage without being disturbed. Local artists display their works on the wall. On our first visit, a gentleman sat at a table busily involved with his computer. Brian said that many senior citizens have found the comfortable surroundings to be a good place to meet and chat.
The Blue Kangaroo specializes in organic coffee and tea, sulfate- and nitrate-free meals, gluten-free items, homemade pastries and Baffoni Farm eggs and poultry, all at reasonable prices.
Steve and Brian are constantly asked where the name came from.
"We had a number of family meetings, husbands, wives and children, and made a list of potential names," Brian said. "We field tested them in the community, and the out and out winner was The Blue Kangaroo. It's catchy. I guess it has something to do with us always hopping around."
The Blue Kangaroo is worth the drive to Barrington, whether as a destination or on your way east. It is the perfect example of a family – or should I say families – owned small business that adds the personal touch to the dining experience. They are open until 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 5 p.m. on Saturday, and 4 p.m. on Sunday. Catering is available. Their telephone number is 289-2292.


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Eva Amurri Martino says she's hoping to find some peace in the new year following a "traumatic" incident involving her baby son last month.
Susan Sarandon's daughter — mother to Marlowe Mae, 2, and Major James, 3 months — took to her Happily Eva After blog to reveal a night nurse dropped the baby on his head in November, cracking his skull.
"A couple of days after Thanksgiving, our Night Nurse fell asleep while holding Major and dropped him, and he cracked his head on the hardwood floor," she recalled. "Kyle [Martino] and I were sleeping at the time and were awoken by the sound of his head hitting the floor, and then hysterical piercing screams."
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She continued, "He suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on his brain, and was transported by ambulance to Yale Medical Center where I spent two harrowing days with him to receive emergency care and further testing. To say these were the most traumatic and anxious two days of my life is an understatement."
Fortunately, Major is doing well following the incident. "By the grace of all of his many angels, and every God one cares to pray to, MAJOR IS FINE. Completely fine," she wrote. "He has been healing well, hitting milestones, cooing, smiling, and generally showing us that he is and will be ok as he grows and develops."
However, Amurri Martino is still feeling the effects of the terrifying time, admitting she worried about telling the story to her fans and followers as she feared being judged for having a night nurse.
"Let me tell you- the guilt I bore in the days and weeks after this accident was more intense and more damaging than anything I would wish upon my worst enemy," she wrote. "I wept in the hospital, telling anyone who would listen that it should have been me. That I was to blame."
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She continued, "And even though I finally made peace with the fact that this freak accident could not have been avoided by me, it has continued to effect me to my core and in all aspects of my daily life."
Amurri Martino says she no longer allows anyone to take care of her children as she feels like she can only trust herself. But even though she feels like she's taking the proper steps to move forward, she said she's believes she's dealing with "some form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, possibly linked to some form of Postpartum Depression."
She explained, "Hearing Major cry hard immediately triggers my memories of the moments after the accident and instigates an immediate panic attack- my heart races and tears spring to my eyes."
She said she often suffers dizzy spells that cause her nausea and make her lose her appetite.
Thus, she's hoping to move into 2017 with a little more peace as she learns to move forward from the incident.
She concluded, "With open arms, I welcome 2017 as the year I learn to forgive a little deeper, to let go a little more easily, to accept some things I cannot change, and to love myself a lot more unconditionally."


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Artists Flock To The New Nashville
Music City is home to top talent from all genres, including the Black Keys, Ke$ha and Jack White, among others
December 04, 2012 -- 3:44 pm
By Lisa Zhito / GRAMMY.com
That crashing noise you heard in 2011 was the music world's jaw dropping as Rolling Stone declared Nashville home to America's best music scene. While the city still maintains a large piece of country music history, and boasts some of the best honky-tonk spots in the nation, Nashville has outgrown its status as a country music-only destination. Artists ranging from the Black Keys and Sheryl Crow to Ke$ha, Kings Of Leon, Jack White, and Young Buck have flocked to Nashville, helping to diversify the city's musical image.
"There are so many genres represented in Nashville now," says Susan Stewart, The Recording Academy's South Regional Director. "Last year Nashville had GRAMMY nominees in just about every Field, from Spoken Word and Children's, to Rock, Pop, Classical, American Roots Music, Production, Country, and Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music. It's all across the board."
The Recording Academy recognized the need for a Nashville office in 1964 when it launched the Nashville Chapter. Situated on Music Row, the Chapter has grown to include more than 2,400 members. Given the organization's strong local ties, Nashville was the perfect place for The Academy to host its annual "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music's Biggest Night." Hosted by LL Cool J and Taylor Swift, the concert will take place live for the first time on Dec. 5 at Bridgestone Arena, with performances by artists such as Luke Bryan and Ne-Yo, plus a special tribute to one of Nashville's very own, the late Johnny Cash, by the Band Perry and Dierks Bentley.
"Our brand is Music City," says Nashville Mayor Karl Dean. "If you say 'Nashville,' people all over the world immediately think of music and, for the most part, country music because that's how we got started and it's something we're very proud of. But it's important to remind people that Nashville is a center for all types of music. A visitor to our city or somebody who wants to go into music can find everything they need here."
For the musicians who currently live and work in Nashville, the town has a creative spirit unlike anywhere else.
"I wanted to live down south when I was trying to leave Detroit," Jack White told the Nashville Scene in 2011, just two years after moving his Third Man Records to the city. "I kept finding myself working in Nashville for reasons out of my control. And it sort of just hit me over the head: There's a reason I keep coming here."
Nashville native and saxophone player Rahsaan Barber, who launched his Jazz Music City label last year, spent several years studying and working in New York. When he decided to return home, his New Yorker friends told him it was "career suicide."
"But Nashville is kind of the perfect town because it allows you to think really freely," Barber says.
For example, when Barber wanted to put together a "hip-hop-New-Orleans-style brass band" for a concert to launch his label, no one in Nashville called him crazy.
"To be able to say, 'How about this?' and six weeks later it's onstage? There's nowhere else you can do that," he says. "For people that are open-minded and creative, this town offers something [unique]. There's that kind of culture here."
"[Nashville is] really pretty cool and it's very much its own thing," the Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach told the Associated Press in September. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Auerbach operates his Nashville-based Easy Eye Sound studio, which has hosted recording sessions by artists such as Jeff The Brotherhood and Grace Potter & The Nocturnals.
"Nashville is one of the few places that still is this kind of organic, holistic music community," explains veteran label executive and Nashville native Randy Goodman.
The former head of RCA Label Group and Lyric Street Records, Goodman co-chairs the Music City Music Council, a business group formed to spread awareness of Nashville as a global music center. Many creative people are drawn to Nashville for "quality of life" reasons, says Goodman.
Music Row, which is home to Nashville's industry infrastructure, traditionally served the country and contemporary Christian music and gospel genres. Goodman says one can now find managers, agencies and business managers serving Nashville's broader talent base.
"Now you've got someone like Ken Levitan, a Nashville-based artist manager who moved here from New York [and] manages Ke$ha and Kings Of Leon, as well as Trace Adkins, Hank [Williams] Jr. and Emmylou Harris."
With a thriving population of artist residents, Nashville has no plans to hand over its Music City crown. In early 2013, the first tenants will begin moving into Ryman Lofts, the city's first affordable housing community just for artists and musicians.
"I think it will help us retain our position as a city that's incredibly attractive to creative people," says Dean. "People moving here will have an affordable place to live."
"It's important to be seen as a city of creative people," says Ralph Schulz, president of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. "Young people and young professionals are looking for places that pop. And creativity is what makes things pop. It attracts talent of all kinds to this city."


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Two men charged with raping 16-year-old girl who is now pregnant
A 62-year-old matai or chief of Fagaima and a 22-year-old man made initial appearances in the District Court yesterday in connection with a case involving a 16-year-old girl who was impregnated as a result of the alleged sexual acts.
The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) with the Department of Public Safety executed the arrests warrants on the two men and escorted them to the District Court and back to the Tafuna Correctional Facility following their appearance in court.
The pair is facing charges of rape, first-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. Samoa News is withholding the names of the defendants to protect the identity of the victim.
According to the government's case, the incident came to light when a relative of the victim filed a complaint with CID on February 27, 2012. The relative, who reported the matter to police, accused the matai as the one who got the 16-year old girl pregnant.
It's alleged that when police questioned the victim, she told police she had sexual intercourse with two men, her neighbor who's 22 and her uncle, a matai of the family.
The victim told police she had sex with her neighbor during a period between October 2011 and January 2012. According to court filings when police questioned the neighbor, he was advised of his constitutional rights, however he waived them and made a written statement to police.
The government claims the neighbor admitted to police that he met the victim in October 2011, but he did not have sex with her until December 2011, up to January 2012.
According to court filings the victim told police she also had a sexual relationship with the 62-year-old man. According to police the victim is related to the 62-year old, who is the victim's family sponsor and the matai of their family.
The court filing states that the uncle instructed the victim not to say anything to anyone regarding the alleged sexual acts. The government claims the victim told her mother, who then approached the matai and his wife. It's alleged he knelt in front of the victim's mother, apologizing for what he did.
Court filings state that when the victim's father approached the matai, the matai apologized and said "evil had conquered him".
According to court filings, police contacted the 62-year-old man, who refused to give them a statement. The court filing also noted that the matai, who's a former teacher, was also convicted in a sexual assault case back in September 1997.
On the issue of bail for the matai, which was initially set at $50,000, Sharron Rancourt, who is representing him, asked the court to reduce her client's bail to $30,000 stating that the accused was well aware of the police investigation regarding this and yet he did not depart the territory. District Court Judge John Ward reduced bail to $35,000 for the matai.
Assistant Attorney General Blake Hanley asked the court to maintain bail at $50,000, given that this defendant specifically asked the victim not to say anything to anyone about the sex acts.
Bail for the neighbor was initially set at $20,000, however Assistant Public Defender Karen Shelley asked the court to reduce his bail as he has no prior record, and was also cooperative with police.
Ward reduced bail for this defendant to $15,000. A status hearing for the pair would have preliminary examination hearings set for this Thursday.
The preliminary examination (PX) is a hearing where the district court will determine if the government has enough evidence to have the case bound over to the High Court.


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BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says NATO's decision to send Patriot missiles to Turkey is a clear message to Syria: Turkey is backed by its allies.
Clinton says the Patriots are solely for defensive purposes. But she says Damascus should take it as further evidence of the U.S. and its allies' resolve.
Speaking at NATO Wednesday, she also reiterated concerns that "an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical weapons" or lose control of them to militant groups.
She said both scenarios cross a red line and those responsible would be held accountable.
Clinton said the U.S. and its partners would seek to apply additional pressure on Syria's government at a conference next week in Morocco.
She said the Assad regime must end its violence.


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Dan-ah Kim was born in Seoul, Korea and resides in Brooklyn, NY. Her works are delicate, full of texture, patterns and minute details. The loveliness and preciousness of her picture book-like illustrations are met with hints of darkness, solitude and a certain air of gravitas. A graduate of the Pratt Institute, she currently makes art and works in film and television.


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Kennedy Center shines spotlight on WCSU theatre arts department
DANBURY, CONN. — Western's department of theatre arts ended the year on a high note. Fresh off the critically acclaimed three-week run of "Sweeney Todd" and having just staged a 10-Minute Play Festival and a production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," the department received some exciting news at the end of December.
"'Sweeney Todd' was chosen to be part of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's (KCACTF) regional festival in Fitchburg, Mass., announced Sal Trapani, co-chairman of the WCSU department of theatre arts. "'The Three Sisters,' the department's spring 2011 production, also was selected as an alternate production. These are great honors for our university and our students and faculty," Trapani added.
WCSU sent 75 students and seven faculty members to Massachusetts to participate in the festival in late January.
"There was a packed house of 1,000 for 'Sweeney Todd' at the Stratos G. Dukakis Performing Arts Center in Fitchburg," Trapani reported from Massachusetts. "It was a wonderful performance. The orchestra was fantastic, the acting and singing were brilliant, the technical crew was flawless. The audience stood immediately and kept on applauding. It was a very moving experience for our company."
The performance was rewarded with the KCACTF Region I Golden Hammer award, acknowledging "outstanding skill and knowledge of backstage theatrical practices."
"At the same time 'Sweeney Todd' was going on, we had our seven Irene Ryan nominees and partners competing in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Competition," Trapani said. "We also had two students competing in the Musical Theatre Initiative and six students competing in various technical competitions, adjudicated by theatre professionals from around the country. The winners in these categories will compete for the national awards at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C."
Vincent McCoy was a finalist for the Irene Ryan Region I Acting Award and the recipient of the VASTA Acting Award for Voice and Speech.
Jessica Camarero received Honorable Mention for Costume Design for "The Three Sisters."
Five students were finalists in Tech/Design/Management:
Casey Miko for Stage Management, Julia Mian
and Kayla Iorio for Allied Crafts, Jess Almeida for
Hair and Makeup, and Jessica Camarero for "The
Three Sisters" Costume Design.
WCSU also received a number of Merit Awards.
For "Sweeney Todd," Vincent McCoy was honored
for Outstanding Choreography, Julia Mian for
Outstanding Design and Construction of Masks, the
Ensemble for Outstanding Musical and Dramatic
Support, the Production Team for Outstanding Execution
of Design, and the Run Crew for Outstanding
Offstage Performance.
Alumna Danielle Fontaine was honored for Outstanding
Prop Design for "The Three Sisters" and
the cast of "Seussical, The Musical" was honored for
Professional and Quality Student Work.
"Participating in the KCACTF is an incredibly huge
undertaking," Trapani said. "We appreciate the support
and generosity that have allowed us to be one of
the finest programs in the region, if not in
the country."
The KCACTF was started in 1969 and features 18,000 students from more than 600 institutions. Since its inception, more than 400,000 students have had their work critiqued.
WCSU offers a Bachelor of Arts in theatre arts, with concentrations in performance, design technology, theatre management and drama studies; or a Bachelor of Arts in musical theatre.
For more information, call (203) 837-8486.
Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England's best small private universities.


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Memorization Circle
Date and Time:
December 6, 2000 - 6:00PM
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Poems By Heart brings people together to recite from memory the poems they love. Participants are asked to memorize a new poem each month that someone else has written.
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Charlotte Observer, "Famous SC artist uses plants to teach about life," December 25, 2014.
National Geographic, "See What This Man Can Create From a Bush," October 24, 2014.
Lee County Observer, "Friends of Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden present scholarships to local students," August 6, 2014.
Guideposts Magazine, "The Way God Makes Them Grow", May 2013.
Charlotte Observer, September 18, 2012. "The Ultimate Clip Joint."
Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine featured Pearl in its June 2012 edition. The article "Power of One" looks at individuals who have found happiness in selfless giving (scroll to the bottom to read about Pearl).
Cleveland Plain Dealer article "Topiary artist Pearl Fryar to speak, demonstrate work in Youngstown" about Pearl and his May 2012 appearance in Youngstown, Ohio.
"The Ultimate Clip Joint", John Bordsen, Charlotte Observer, September 18, 2012.
"Power of One", Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine, June 2012. Scroll to the bottom to read about Pearl.
"Topiary artist Pearl Fryar to speak, demonstrate work in Youngstown" Julie Washington, Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 2012.
Oprah's OWN channel started airing A Man Named Pearl on Super Soul Sunday in fall 2011. Watch the trailer here.
Pearl and Longue Vue executive director Joe Baker were interviewed by news channel WWL-TV in October 2010.
Bishopville Man Cultivating His Dream. WACH Fox News, August 2010.
Planting Hope, Gates Foundation, 2010.
The Martha Stewart Show, 2010.
Pearl's 2009 John Deere commercial.
"As We This Garden," Beth Dow, Harper's Magazine, November 2010.
Southern Living magazine, September 2010.
"Bishopville topiary art teaches us key lessons," Betty Montgomery, Times-News, August 9, 2010.
"Pearl gardens his way and shows you how to garden 'the way you like' too", Kathy Van Mullekom, Daily Press, February 4, 2010.
Cover, the Garden Conservancy Newsletter, Fall 2009.
"Pearl's Wisdom: Topiary artist creates works of organic art with a message" Mary James, San Diego Union-Tribune, August 16, 2009.
"Pearl of Wisdom", Julie Degni Marr, Charlotte Living, July-August 2009.
"Topiarist Pearl Fryar," Bobby J. Ward, Horticulture Magazine, August-September 2008.
"More of Pearl's Wisdom", Molly Glentzer, The Houston Chronicle, August 22, 2008.
"Garden Paradise: A Man Plants Seeds of Harmony", Brendan Miniter, The Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2008.
"Topiarist Pearl Fryar sculpts green dreams", Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times Free Press, June 28, 2008.
"Clip Art: The Enchantment of Topiary", Tom Woodham, Veranda, September 2007.
"S.C topiary guru cultivates his talent" Martha Tate, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, September 27, 2007.
"A South Carolina garden that'll grow on you", Marty Barrick, Washington Post, August 10, 2007.
"Garden on Creativity", Annette Thompson, Southern Living, July 2007.
"Towering ambition gets loose in the yard," William L. Hamilton, The New York Times, March 10, 2005.


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Programme Management Unit (Trauma & Burns)
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare is inviting applications for recruitment against following posts purely on contract basis for the Programme management unit, Trauma & Burns under National Programme namely (i) Capacity Building for developing Trauma Care Facilities in Govt. Hospitals on National Highways and (ii) National Programmed for Prevention & Management of Burn Injuries (NPPMBI).
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CEA President Tracey D. Johnson recently commented at a United Way of Central Ohio Meeting: "There is something happening in our communities where our children have so many needs. Our children are more than a test score. They are coming to us with social and emotional and mental needs that we're not equipped to deal with."
During the meeting on Sept. 15 , which she was attending as a trustee, Johnson was responding tearfully to the news that 13-year-old Tyre King, a student at Linden-McKinley STEM Academy, had been shot and killed by police the night before. He was running from officers who were investigating an armed-robbery report on the Near East Side when he pulled a BB gun from his waistband.
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Watching All Black skipper Richie McCaw elbow-jolted this year by a Springbok, then kneed and butted by a Wallaby seems standard practice.
The flanker is such a menace that he provokes opponents of lesser ability, sending them beyond boiling point.
What was unusual was that, after Deon Greyling and Scott Higginbotham inflicted their brutality on the All Black skipper, his team-mates stood around and watched.
There was barely any menace from them and certainly none of the retribution Wayne Shelford inflicted at the 1987 World Cup when he knocked Welsh lock Huw Richards into another planet. Somehow Shelford escaped the officials' wrath, perhaps because he was protecting team-mate Gary Whetton.
It was similar a few years later when Steve McDowell smeared parts of French prop Laurent Seigne's nose across his face and escaped any punishment because Australian ref Sandy McNeil felt the Frenchman deserved his punishment.
These were acts which added to the legend of enforcers like Kevin Skinner and Colin Meads who had gone before in the black jersey, men who fought and scrapped for every inch in their turf wars. Television coverage was scant, judicial panels flimsy and only the most blatant acts of thuggery (sometimes) were punished.
There were unwritten rules on foul play. Punching was legitimate, rucking was effective but kicking a player was a no-go zone. Many post-match hours were spent socialising with the opposition amid verbal replays and questions about how they got away with their violence.
In one trip to the UK in 1993, midweek skipper John Mitchell was twice warned for dangerous play against the Scots Development XV - but nothing more. A week later, Jamie Joseph crunched England halfback Kyran Bracken's ankle but escaped official censure.
Skipper Sean Fitzpatrick used to damage opponents regularly - and sometimes team-mates - but he put much of that down to his clumsiness and strong bones.
As authorities moved to clean up the game and drew up binding documents on process and punishment, most players became more stealthy with their retribution.
There were exceptions like Springbok prop Johan le Roux and Richard Loe whose respective chomping and eye-gouging rubbed them out of rugby for some time. Coaches began to admonish their troops for too much thuggery and famously, the 1999 All Blacks were ordered not to retaliate before the French gouged, punched and grabbed 'family jewels' in their famous turnaround World Cup semifinal victory.
That trend has continued. There have been rare acts of revenge as coaches have watched the sort of stress teams have to deal with when a player is sin-binned or sent off. Three All Blacks were binned against France in the 20-20 draw in 2002 and three felt a similar wrath from referee Alan Lewis in 2005 when he yellow-carded Tony Woodcock, Neemia Tialata and Chris Masoe.
Luke McAlister's binning for interference was another costly talking point in the dramatic 2007 World Cup quarterfinal defeat by France. Wales discovered a similar fate in last year's tournament when captain Sam Warburton was sent off for a tip tackle in his side's narrow loss to France.
The All Blacks had many dramas in that competition - but no one was sent to the cooler. They still had an enforcer or two. Lock Brad Thorn could look after himself - and any opposition nuisance - while Jerome Kaino was unbending in laying down his rules. They knew officials scoured television footage so were smart about delivering 'don't argue' messages.
Rucks and clean-outs were their areas of expression, where they could launch their frames and inflict stronger messages than a punch or a high tackle out in the open. They had some assistants who were also useful in delivering arm bars and trailing arms or holding their rivals down slightly longer in tackles.
But this season, there has been very little. Israel Dagg has been sin-binned twice for technical breaches, Brodie Retallick given an off-field yellow card and Tony Woodcock was the last miscreant after a team warning.
When McCaw was felled by Greyling, his team-mates stood around as though they were shocked. Halfback Aaron Smith was the closest and clearly not the right man to mix it but none of the forwards remonstrated. When there was a repeat episode in Brisbane, there was also scarcely a scuffle.
Teams watching those two episodes and wanting to find some way of disrupting the All Black rhythm might figure a bit more calculated biff is worth a crack - because it will be unanswered.


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Belkin ScreenCast AV 4 streams 3D over wireless HDMI
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Belkin is finally joining the growing field of wireless HDMI devices with its new ScreenCast AV 4 Wireless switch, a device that pipes HDMI signals wirelessly from components to displays. The company just announced the ScreenCast AV 4 Wireless, which can connect four HDMI devices to a display through a 5GHz radio signal.
The ScreenCast AV 4 Wireless supports HDMI 1.4b devices, meaning it can carry 3D video and 5.1-channel surround sound, effectively making it work just as well as any HDMI cable. According to Belkin, the device has a range of 100 feet between the transmitter and receiver, and features an infrared blaster output so devices can be controlled when stored in a cabinet.
The ScreenCast AV 4 Wireless seems very similar to products like the Vizio XWH200 Universal Wireless HD VIdeo & Audio Kit and the Rocketfish 4-Port Wireless HD Kit, other products that wirelessly connect four HDMI devices to an HDTV. Both have proven to be capable of fulfilling their claims of a solid wireless HDMI connection between component and screen, and show that the technology is not only feasible, but consumer-ready. Belkin's entry looks to be nearly identical, but the addition of the IR blaster support makes it even more useful.
Besides the ScreenCast AV 4 Wireless, Belkin also announced the Wireless HDTV Adapter and Wireless AV Adapter, two devices to connect HDTVs wirelessly to the Internet. The Wireless HDTV Adapter connects to an HDTV's Ethernet port and USB port and can wirelessly access a network connection through a Wi-Fi hotspot. The Wireless AV Adapter is a four-port version of the device, connecting four devices to a Wi-Fi hotspot through Ethernet.
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Trip itinerary
We will pick you up from your hotel with private modern vehicle by 22:30 pm then drive to the famed city St. Catherine about 3 hours driving. Arrive there by 1.30 Am to begin climbing the Mountain by 2:00 am, it takes around three hours to reach the summit to wander the amazing sunrise view over Sinai mountains.
Climb down for a short visit to St. Catherine monastery at the foot of the mountain, the monastery was named after St. Catherine who was beheaded by Romans for her Christian faith.
It has been built about 527 Am around the biblical Burning Bush, you will also visit Moses Well, the Greek Orthodox church with the mosaic of Transfiguration. Leave St. Catherine and drive to Nuweibaa Bedouin village to get some free snorkeling time, enjoy the sew view lunch meal then transfer to your hotel back in Taba.
Trip includes
- Pick up services from hotel and return
- All transport by private air-conditioned vehicle
- Skilled personal tour guide
- Expert Bedouin guide
- Entry fees to St. Catherine
- Lunch meal in Nuweibaa
- Mineral water & soft drinks
- All taxes and service charges
Itinerary highlights
Saint Catherine
Saint Catherine is the capital city of Saint Catherine at the foot of Moses Mountain in the Sinai Peninsula. Its relative proximity to Sinai resorts has resulted in a growing number of visitors to this National Park. The area unique natural & cultural values was a primary goal in the declaration of the St. Catherine National Park.read more
Sinai National Parks
The South Sinai is one of the most spectacularly beautiful landscapes on the planet, some of which has in recent years been set aside as national parks. No visit to Sinai is complete without uncovering (Ras Mohamed, Colored Canyon, St. Catherine, Abu Galum & Nabq).read more
Dahab City
Dahab is the most wonderful cities located in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Situated over the shores of the Aqaba Gulf, Dahab is famous for its wonderful beaches and magnificent spots for diving and snorkeling.read more
Booking Terms
- To get St Catherine Tour From Taba booked and confirmed
- Fill and submit the form and expect soon reply with your quote.
- We speak Italian - German - Spanish - French - Chinese - Russian.
- All tours are operated privately unless mentioned in itinerary.
- Price always excludes personal expenses & optional activities.
- Prices are fixed in USD but you can pay with any other currency.
- Prices are per person per trip including all items in tour offer.
- Price does NOT include Entry visas to any of served destinations.
- Price does NOT include fees of any special archaeological sites.
- Our prices are updated always to give you the best possible price.
- Prices would NOT be changed once you have tour booked & confirmed.
- Children under 6 years old are free of charge in all similar tours.
- Children between 6 and 11.99 years would pay half price of adults.
- Children will be charged in case your tour includes any airfare.
- 25 % down payment is required to get your tours booking confirmed.
- Full payment should be settled upon tour pick up or upon arrival.
- You can pay by any debit or credit card via our secured system.
- Printable Payment voucher & confirmation would be emailed to you.
- You will get our contacts list (operators & 24/7 customer care).
- We never apply cancellation fees in all 'force majeure' cases.
- Cancellation fees are applied in personal & business conditions.
- International airline tickets if added are your own responsibility.
- Ask our agents about group discounts and cancellation penalties.
- We recommend you to buy good travel insurance as we do Not offer.
Before You Book
- Things to know before you Book St Catherine Tour From Taba
- Egypt is always safe country to visit with notable low crime rates
- Tourist attractions are well secured and far from any unrest points
- There is no negative attitude towards foreigners been ever reported
- No special concern for women traveling alone to Egypt touristy sites
- Modest dress is recommended in less tourist sites for men & women
- Valid Passport with 6 month beyond your travel schedule is a must
- Egypt entry visa costs 25 Usd & available in any of Egypt Embassies
- Few nationalities can obtain Egypt entry visa upon their arrival
- Obtaining Sinai Visa only would not permit you to get out of Sinai
- Egypt has many direct flights with European Union & United States
- Duty free shops are available in Egypt airports & major tourist cities
- Egyptians speak & understand English as they study it in school
- Most monuments & Museums in Egypt open between 8 Am to 5 Pm
- Shops and stores in Egypt are usually opened from 10 Am to 10 Pm
- Non Muslims can easily visit all religious historical sites in Egypt
- Taking pictures for people & streets is fine after people permission
- Taking pictures for official type or army structures is not permitted
- Egypt has big hotel variety; Check in by midday & check out 2 pm
- There in no health concerns or vaccinations required to visit Egypt
- The Pound is the official currency & money exchange is widely available
- Credit cards are largely used in Egypt major cities & tourist spots
- Stay away from the public buses in big cities like Cairo & Alexandria
- Taxi and limousine service are fine every where but price is negotiable
- Trains are going to all big cities in Egypt except Sinai & Red Sea
- Tipping is an appreciated habitual attitude but is Not obligatory
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A tour to North Africa Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco would be an astonishing idea. These travelers are already paying for the high prices of the airlines' tickets and traveling around the planet, so why not enjoy three destinations in one perfectly organized travel package.read more
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The number of travelers who tour Egypt from the UK increased to 74% in 2017, according to the British Ambassador in Egypt, John Casson. The largest airlines in the UK, Thomas Cook, increased the numbers of flights traveling from the UK to Hurghada as well.read more
South Africa to Egypt Tour
Travelers coming from South Africa to visit Egypt may obtain their visas prior to their vacations through internet application. Another way to get the visa is to purchase it from any international airport in Egypt or any of the Egyptian borders.read more
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Enjoying Egypt tours from Singapore has become quite popular among travelers from this sister country for a long period of times. Travelers coming from Singapore and wish to have a vacation in Egypt, whether luxurious or on limited budget, would surely have a magnificent time in the land of the Nile.read more
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Many travel agencies organize the best tours to Egypt from Canada. The first advice for Canadians visiting Egypt for vacations is to have a relatively longer stay. Since they are paying for the price of the airlines and traveling long distance, it is really worth it to have a wonderful long holiday in Egypt.read more
Escorted Tours Egypt
The reasons are quite plenty! The first is that booking an escorted tour to Egypt would ensure that a reputable travel agency would be organizing your whole trip from A to Z. They would book the hotels for you, organize your transportation, and also have a wonderful visits' program perfectly tailored.read more
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Other reasons include for having a short break in Egypt to Cairo and Luxor that some tourists might be visiting some of the neighboring destinations like Jordan or Dubai. In the same time, they would like to discover the wonders of Egypt in a shorter visit.read more
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Travelers booking private tours to Egypt would enjoy an amazing sense of privacy and intimacy having only their family members, friends, and beloved ones with them during their Egypt private tours. This is surely a factor that is quite fascinating.read more
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Now, would tourists really enjoy a budget tour of Egypt? How cheap can it become? First of all, compared to many other countries, Egypt is rather cheap in everything, especially after the devaluation of the Egyptian pound that reached around 17 EGP for 1 US Dollars.read more
Cheap Holidays to Egypt
Many tourists from different regions around the world wonder is there a possibility to enjoy a cheap holidays in Egypt? Can i enjoy a vacation in Egypt without spending a lot of money? . Yes, of course ! First of all, Egypt is a cheaper touristic destination in comparison to many places in region and world.read more
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