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Hundreds attend moving ceremony to add new names of homicide victims at Garden of Peace
In an emotional ceremony before more than 300 onlookers, 66 names were added to the Garden of Peace memorial on Beacon Hill Thursday night, victims of violence who Massachusetts hopes will never be forgotten.
Local and state officials joined residents at the garden on Cambridge Street for the ninth annual Honor Program to commemorate hundreds of victims who lost their lives to murder.
"I feel, to be honest, excited, because it's always a moving ceremony,'' said Leah Green, chairwoman of the memorial's board of directors. "Everyone here has a common theme of having lost a loved one to murder … so we try to make the program insightful and inspiring and hopeful.
"We want to make it a place that people can honor those loved ones that a lot of times don't get remembered in a way that they should.''
The Garden of Peace is a memorial with a streambed of smooth river stones etched with the names of those who fell victim to homicide in Massachusetts from as early as the mid-1940s, and it seeks to remind and teach visitors of the impact of violence.
With the 66 names added Thursday, the memorial now has about 860 stones lining the garden edges, Green said. There were 52 names added last year.
During the ceremony, sobs echoed through a courtyard next to the garden as members of the community and loved ones of homicide victims read the names being inducted.
One of those readers was Katherine Cremin, of Somerville, who attended to honor her daughter Deanna, who was killed in 1995 at the age of 17. Her murder case remains unsolved, and on Thursday night, Deanna's name was added to the hundreds of other slaying victims..
"For me tonight, getting her name out here, is an honor,'' Cremin said. "It's a bittersweet ceremony that my daughter's name lives on forever. But for me, it's also to let the killer know that we are not giving up and we are coming after him. There's a murderer walking among us and it's an unsafe world and he attacked my family, and I want him off the street.''
The memorial garden also features a water fountain, which was installed in 2004 when the garden opened, but did not begin operating until this year due to a lack of funding.
The foundation sits at the base of a sculpture of Ibis Ascending, which is a sculpture of long-legged birds aiming toward the sky and signaling hope for those that are grieving.
According to information from the Boston Police Department and the Suffolk district attorney's office, there were 51 murders in the Boston in 2012.
The Garden of Peace acts as an educational tool utilized to increase awareness of such violence.
"Every person is an ambassador for the message of ending violence,'' said Andrea Cabral, secretary of the state's executive office of public safety and security, who attended Thursday night. "Every person is a potential actor in the goal of ending violence and that's where I think the education comes in. You hear, you see, you sit next to people, you feel, and that ought to compel you to act in some way.''
Thursday's ceremony was led by Attorney General Martha Coakley.
The concept for the Garden of Peace was created about 16 years ago. With funding from corporate sponsors including Suffolk University, Suffolk Construction Co., and private donors, the garden was opened in 2004.
"I feel sad,'' Cabral said. "I've been in law enforcement for 28 years and that's a long time to be witness to this level of pain, but i'm also uplifted by the strength that I see in people, their determination to keep going, their determination to try to end all this violence. I want to hug everybody.''


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> though he knew that he was not speeding.
> Just to be sure, he went around the block and passed the same spot,
> driving even more slowly, but again the camera flashed.
> Now he began to think that this was quite funny, so he drove even slower
> as he passed the area once more, but the traffic camera again flashed.
> He tried a fourth and fifth time with the same results and was now
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Common store-bought wood stains usually contain pigment and always contain a binder to glue the pigment to the wood. These stains sit mostly on top of the wood so they don't add much color unless you leave them thick - in which case they muddy the wood. By contrast, stand-alone dyes dissolved in water or alcohol penetrate everywhere along with the liquid, so the result is a deeper, richer, more vibrant coloring that better reveals the wood's natural beauty.
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The dyes we carry dissolve in water, denatured alcohol, or oil. We suggest using water-soluble dyes if you are applying the stain with a cloth or brush and then wiping off the excess. Use alcohol-soluble dyes if you are spraying and leaving the dye unwiped. (You can also spray water-soluble dyes if you like.) Restorers also use the alcohol based dyes for tinting shellac for touchup. The oil soluble dyes are used for tinting varnish and other oil based materials but are in general not typically used for the regular staining of wood.
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You may be walking on your old sneakers with Nike's New future foam
Who knew I might someday walk ON my old sneakers?
We are putting runners on the two sets of stairs in our house. I had absolutely no idea how many choices you have. But that wasn't the really fun part.
I got all geeked out about the padding that goes under the runner. We chose Step Ahead by Nike. Ok, the minute the salesperson said Nike I was hooked. After all, I've been Nike brand loyal ever since my days as the basketball team manager at Syracuse where we got Orange-swooshed Nikes, sweat suits and bags!
I had no idea that Nike had a carpet pad division so I had to explore.
What I found out was fascinating. No, Nike doesn't have a pad division, but they do have Nike Grind. For the last two decades, Nike has been collecting worn out shoes and recycling them for playgrounds and other uses. Carpet padding is one of them:
"Nike takes top quality, unused shoe scrap and sends it to Future Foam, which converts the scrap into the premium Step Ahead 8 lb. carpet cushion. Enjoy the cushiony comfort of Nike even when you're barefoot."
I guess we will adopt "Just Do It" as our family motto as we enjoy the richness of our Sapphire Sarouk Chocolate 26-inch runners to honor the sneakers that went into the padding.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Defining Reasoning and Proof
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Paris is not New Orleans or New York, or Chicago for that matter, but where to go to listen to jazz in Paris remains of more than local interest.
The city has been a major splice into the genealogy of the music going back to Django Reinhardt. Jazz was a metaphor for freedom during the German occupation. The Existentialists and the African-American musicians in the caves on the Left Bank made Paris Europe's post-war capital of jazz. Although Amsterdam may be more creative these days, and Barcelona is getting more important, let's just say we'll always have Paris.
Jazz is hand-made music. It's not cheap to witness. Being one of a relatively small number of people who are close to musicians improvising in an intimate room in the center of the city is a privilege. Admission to clubs is generally between 15-25 euros per person — depending on the attraction, and the day of the week, and it may or may not include the first drink. Sometimes there is a cover charge that adds up to about the same thing. Either way, you will probably also want to buy a beer at the bar to help pay the musicians.
The following are all open six or seven nights a week, and they are all centrally located.
- 7 LEZARDS, 10 Rue des Rosiers, 75004. In the Marais, across the street from Goldenberg's restaurant, profit is obviously not the only aim of this cozy tea room/bar, restaurant, and cute downstairs concert space. It may be the friendliest club in town — jazz clubs in Paris tend to be friendlier than in New York. You may not know the names of the mostly French, mostly struggling, musicians who work here, but the programming is such that the odds on hearing worthwhile music are in your favor.
- SUNSIDE/SUNSET, 60 Rue des Lombards, 75001. A duplex club on a jumping walking street a five-minute walk from Place Chatelet. The street-level Sunside, which features acoustic jazz, has good acoustics, and is attractively decorated and well ventilated. Although French musicians whose names you do not know have by now learned to play better jazz than you would have ever imagined in the old days, the French public still seems to prefer Americans. The Sunside usually does better business with Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Ricky Ford, Bill Carrothers, Lee Konitz, the all-star group Quest, and so forth. Downstairs, the Sunset features mostly French, mostly electric jazz.
- NEW MORNING, 7-9 Rue des Petits-Ecuries, 75010. A cabaret club holding more than 300 people comfortably, this would be the most important jazz club in Paris if it did not also program important world music. Which makes it one of the most important music venues in the world. The program for December and January, for example, includes the American blues singer Eric Bibb, the wonderful Venezuelan salsa band Orlando Poleo Y La Orchestra Chaworo, the reborn British rock group Soft Machine, the Argentine jazz band Di Giusto Y Camerata Ambigua, the good Italian trumpeter Flavio Boltro, and the avant-garde Swiss "Maximum Music" band Braffoesterrohrer.
- DUC DES LOMBARDS, 42 Rue des Lombards, 75001. Just down the walking street from the Sunside/Sunset, a tight little club with the bandstand in the middle, and a mural of John Coltrane on the outside, which presents mostly world-class French jazz — Daniel Humair, Franck Amsallem, Olivier Temime, and Ren&3acute; Urtreger, for example. Rumor has it it's for sale. There are often end-of-the-empire rumors of one kind or another on the often shaky jazz club circuit.
- FRANC PINOT: 1, Quai de Bourbon, 75004: The stone walls of the three-level vertical cave on a picturesque corner of the historic Isle Saint-Louis are — you better know it — old. The music is mostly straight-ahead bebop by people — Sarah Morrow, Christian Escoudé, Xavier Richardeau's "Groove Affair" — who know how to play.
- LE PETIT JOURNAL MONTPARNASSE, 13 Rue du Commandant-Mouchotte, 75014. A large, low-ceilinged room well-padded with booths in which you can dine (reservations recommended) and listen to major French attractions such as Manu Dibango, Claude Bolling, and Michel Leeb.
- CAVEAU DE LA HUCHETTE, 5 Rue de la Huchette, 75005, and LE PETIT JOURNAL SAINT-MICHEL: 71 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75005. New Orleans jazz is alive and well in the fifth arrondisement.
- JAZZ CLUB LIONEL HAMPTON, THE MERIDIEN HOTEL, 81 Boulevard Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 75017: Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, this sprawling, streamlined club has in the past presented the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Dee Dee Bridgewater, but no longer. What's left is basically jazz for tourists.
- THE SWAN BAR, 165 Boulevard Montparnasse, 75006. Programming is, you might say, relaxed. You never know what to expect, but the combos in this American-style piano bar will be pianissimo — neighbor trouble — as well as fun to listen to. (No website) tel: 01- 4427-0584Mike Zwerin lives in Paris and is the jazz columnist for Bloomberg News.
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like your style, informative, with humour, and no pretentious waffle, keep up the good work, well done, all the best, from a die- hard jazzer, who adores coltrane, hank mobley, horace silver, maynard, charlie ventura, brubeck, charlie shavers.sonny stitt, art blakey, buddy rich, dizzy, oscar peterson, joe henderson, rollins, etc, etc, etc.
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Although we've been back from the Cannes Lions Advertising festival for a few weeks now, the conversation
continues. I reached out to the talented winners of the Young Lions competition to learn about their creative inspiration and how they think creativity has changed today.
We'll be sharing thoughts from this year's winners throughout the next few weeks. First up – Laura Robinson and Rosie Duncan from the United Kingdom!
1. Have you always been compelled to create? Was the instinct there from a young age or did this happen later in life?
Laura – I've always had an artistic flair from a young age. Creativity and art is a passion for me and I always find myself having brain waves, normally when I least expect them. I could be on the treadmill at the gym or listening to someone presenting and then all of a sudden an idea will come into my head and I'll become fixated on it. I get bored really easily so when I was young I would always fill my time making things from designing clothes to decorating cakes – I guess I always like to be busy and even though now I have a career in media I will always be thinking of business opportunities and ideas for starting my own business.
Rosie – Creation for me is about the satisfaction of the end result. It's about seeing your idea turn into a tangible object that you can share, be proud of or (often) laugh at. The ideas that come to fruition over the course of your life reflect your growing up and life stages – whether it be from a fashion you were wearing to a song that you wrote which is reminiscent of a particular moment. Creativity is a release, whether it be writing, singing, painting or capturing the moment, and has been an essential reason to the sanity of my life so far.
2. What are your thoughts about how the creative process has changed in the past 50 years? What do you think are the differences between Then (such as the 1960's, "Mad Men" style) and Now?
Laura & Rosie- Now it feels like there is a lot more background research and proving why we are proposing certain ideas to reach our target audience. There is a lot of data and in-depth reasoning behind an idea. Now we live in a world fuelled by instant gratification and technology which changes faster than we can keep up with. It's a challenging time to work in advertising but also an extremely vibrant and inspirational time. We have so much choice from what devices we use to what media channels we can reach our audience on. Cross-media and multi-platform brand solutions are a standard now and every agency claims to be a fully integrated communications agency. Yes there are specialist departments but it is far more integral now to work much closely together.
3. What are your thoughts on how creativity and marketing data have to work together? Page views, clicks, and other metrics are a big part of the creative world – not just "why" but "how" ads are created today. Do "Mad Men" need to become more like "Math Men"?
Laura & Rosie – There's no reason why data can't be creative. In Cannes we saw an inspirational talk from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo who showed us a visual map of the global tweets which were sent during the England vs France Euro match and it was an extremely visual representation of some standard numerical stats. Data can be used to create ads and ads can be used to collect data but what may be interesting is visualizing that data in an ad format. People like to see that they are a part of something, have their voice heard and their contribution accounted for. It makes them feel part of what's going on.


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[Intro: Lil B]
Mmm mmm mmm mmm
Ooh wee ooh! Coochie!
Hey bitch, this is a based freestyle
I ain't gonna lie to none of y'all pussy ass suckers, or none of y'all bitches, bruh
I'mma eat the whole ass, bruh
Eat it! Eat it! Eat! (SCRUMPTIOUS!)
Eat her!
All the girls comin over
Eat her! Tasty! Eat her!
[Verse 1]
Ima eat her ass!
Damn you, -- MMM! Damn this cash
50 gon' (DAMN BITCH YOU THICK!)(TASTY!)
Young Based God came in in a flash!
Knock the ho down boy you know I'm eatin the ass (You so thick!)
Eat the whole pussy (DAMN!)
Ask me: would he?
Bitch yes I would
Still eating the -- UGHHHH!
Strap the ho up to the wall and eat her ass (DAMN!)
Ya look so good (Based God!)
Ya look so good (Swag!
Damn I'm big (MMMM!)
All them hoes know me
Damn bitch you look so good where you going?
I'm eating the whole -- about four in the morning
Bitch turn -- OH YOU DO TURN OVER! PUT YOUR BOOTY IN THE AIR!
Ass look so good ima eat that booty
Ass on my face today, I look like Mooney
Call me Paul Mooney
50 wouldn't sue me
Fuck what you heard, bitch, I'm still eating the coochie (Coochie!)
Eat the whole booty
Lick her ass for coochie
Lick the whole ass you know what it do-ey
Put my dick on dookie
Get in her booty
Young Based God I had that bitch going kooky
Niggas fuck wit me
Hoes fuck wit me (Uh-huh!)
Pretty boy nigga eating pussy like it's shrimpy
Young Based God I came in with that .50
100 million dollars, them hoes wanna get with me
[Hook x3]
I'mma eat her ass (MMMM!)
50 in the cash (DAMN!)
Bitch in the stash(You gutta! You gutta!)
Ho, haul ass! (MHMM!)
(Throw your G's on the ass!)
[Verse 2]
Call me Young Sire
Flipped her like Nile
You're going down the river, but I'm gonna eat your booty!
Bitches know Woody
Bitches call me Woody
It's a Toy Story (cowboy!) bitch you know I'm in the cages
Bitch you know I'm racist, I only like the dookie (dookie! BLACK!)
Fucking with Woody
Ima knock the bitch down
The bitch gave me something ima hit her with that AK
Fucking with them young hoes, bitches know what it do, bro
Fucking with BasedGod, ima eat her booty
Every bitch know, bitch, motherfucking sue me
Lick the bitch's coochie
Turn into a berry
Fuck her whole ass then I call the girl Kerry
Niggas know about me, I still eat her booty
5,100 they, you know..MHHMM
The booty tastes so good! (TASTY!)
The booty taste so nutritious! (YUMMY!) (SCRUMPTIOUS)!
The booty's so nutritious! (SCRUMPTIOUS!) (YUMMY)
Based Freestyle, bitch!
[Verse 3]
50 and sue me
She look so good (Girl, lift that ass up! Go girl!)
I'mma eat her (DAMN!)
I'mma eat her booty
I'mma eat the booty
Bitch, you can sue me
Fifty-grand show, I'mma tell you what it do-ey
Thirty thousand dollars I'mma pay for the pussy
Pay for the head game and then I ate the booty
This all for my, uh, you know, this for the lesbians that be eatin' ass. Straight up, you feel me? For them, uh, females, you know what it do. You -- mmm
In this song Lil B confirms his status as one of the most underrated rappers going around. He goes off the dome and explores the difficulties he faced during his youth, dealing with the drug game and also raising his younger siblings by himself and then expertly contrasts that with his current lifestyle after becoming a rapper. "OH YOU DO TURN OVER! PUT YOUR BOOTY IN THE AIR!" is a throw back to the savage beating he would receive from his drunk father.
As evidenced by the frequent references to anal sex, Sigmund Freud argues that Lil B is stuck in the Anal Stage of Development.


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Paul Campos acknowledges a certain "tension" between his dual roles as law professor and author of the blog "Inside the Law School Scam."
"Of course I feel conflicted," Campos told Business Insider. "I should emphasize that when I started as a law professor [in 1990] it cost literally $3,000 to go to law school."
My, how things have changed.
Tuition at University of Colorado where Campos teaches has climbed to $32,000 a year. Costs have risen even higher at elite universities, while the job outlook for most law school grads remains bleak.
Campos - whose book "Don't Go To Law School (Unless)" comes out this week - says tuition has climbed so much because the government issues massive, unsecured loans to practically anybody who gets in.
At least during the mortgage crisis, borrowers who had taken out huge loans had houses that had inherent value, Campos says. Not so for unemployed law grads, who can't even get rid of student debt in bankruptcy.
"We're creating this indentured class of people," he said.
As a law professor, Campos doesn't think it's his job to sell students on law school and will give them his honest opinion when asked about whether they should drop out.
If students find themselves in the middle of the class and don't have much scholarship money, they should consider dropping out before they take out more loans, Campos said.
"The amount of debt that you're likely to incur given what your job prospects might beadds up to an equation that doesn't make sense," he said.


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From The Beacon: Teen Read Week kicks off at library
Libraries across the nation are targeting a key group of customers this week: young adults. And the Beaufort County Library is no exception. There's nothing our librarians love more than the opportunity to draw in new, young readers and make lifelong learning customers out of them.
Today through Saturday marks Teen Read Week, an initiative started by the Young Adult Library Services Association in 1998. This year's nationwide theme is "Picture it @ Your Library." The program is designed to help young readers pick out creative works and imagine the world through literature.
The Bluffton library will be holding a "Teen Read Week Picture It Party" from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday. This is a particularly cool event for young people who dream of having free run of the library. Being that it occurs after hours, guests ages 12 to 18 will have access to the library after the general public goes home.
The evening's main attraction will be the Digital Photo Scavenger Hunt. Teens will be encouraged to roam the library armed with a list of items to search for and photographs. They are asked to bring digital cameras and cables, or a friend that has one, so the scavenger hunt results can be viewed.
Library staff plan to use this opportunity to incorporate young adults' opinions in their materials-selection process. Teens will be given an opportunity to offer input as to what new Young Adult titles the library should order.
While Teen Read Week is not directly associated with Halloween, the ever-popular holiday will be incorporated. Guests are encouraged to come in costume to Bluffton's Friday event, and prizes will be awarded to some of the most creative.
In addition, the Beaufort library will be hosting a fundraiser for Teen Programing from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Customers are invited to take a haunted tour of the library. Each ticket costs $1. Children younger than 8 are welcome, but should be accompanied by an adult. At the same time, guests are invited to listen to fall stories beginning every half hour and create a fall craft to take home.
There's still time to participate in the third annual Teen Film Festival by the Library Teen Board of Northern Beaufort County. Deadline for submission is 5 p.m. Saturday. Movies must be directed, filmed and edited by teens ages 11 to 17 or in sixth through 12th grades. For more details, check out the rules for submission at www.beaufortcountylibrary.org.
And don't miss the Haunted Library in Lobeco: It's a night full of horrifying mystery, gruesome treats to eat and fortune telling along with prizes and more Friday. Registration is required.
The library also offers more than just Teen Read Week to young adults. Each library branch has its own area devoted to teens, with both fiction and nonfiction selections. Our reference databases also offer many research resources that are perfect for completing school assignments. If you're especially interested in literature for young adults, check out YALSA's website at www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/yalsa.cfm. It's full of book recommendations and award-winning books for young adults, a great many which can be found at your local library.
Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/beaufortcountylibrarysystem to join the discussion today.
Kelly Vadney is the circulation supervisor at the Bluffton Branch of the Beaufort County Library System, at 120 Palmetto Way.


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This is the first in a two-part series, originally published at International Liberty. ~ Ed.
Politicians hate cash.
That may seem an odd assertion given that they love spending money (other people's money, of course, as illustrated by this cartoon).
But what I'm talking about is the fact that politicians get upset when there's not 100 percent compliance with tax laws.
They hate tax havens since the option of a fiscal refuge makes confiscatory taxation impractical.
They hate the underground economy because that means hard-to-tax economic activity.
And they hate cash because it gives consumers an anonymous payment mechanism.
Let's explore the animosity to cash.
It's basically because a cashless society is an easier-to-tax society, as expressed by an editorial from the U.K.-based Financial Times.


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Re: hey, who plays kotor?
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they should make the kotor games into movies.
I agree.
Actually, that would be hard, because they'd have to make, like 4 different movies, unless they just go for one ending and stick with that. Or maybe they can have both (Character turns Dark side, then gets redeemed or vice versa)
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Mavericks' Ellis hits buzzer-beater to snuff red-hot Blazers
On Saturday morning, the Trail Blazers added a play designed for Monta Ellis.
It worked to perfection Saturday night.
Ellis drained 21-foot jumper with no time left on the clock and Dallas snapped the Portland's four-game winning streak with a 108-106 victory. The game-winner came on an inbounds pass from Jose Calderon.
"Calderon, we were walking out, we made eye contact and I told him, `Give me the ball, I'm ready for it,"' Ellis said. "He gave it to me and I came off and hit the shot."
Ellis finished with 22 points and Dirk Nowitzki had 28, along with a season-high seven assists, for the Mavericks' third straight win.
Damian Lillard had a season-high 32 points for the Blazers, including a 3-pointer with 1.9 seconds left that tied it at 106.
It was just the second loss at home this season for the red-hot Blazers (17-4), who lead the Western Conference and are off to their best start since the 1990-91 season.
"It's all a part of it," Lillard said. "Sometimes you just lose games."
Lillard's 3-pointer closed Portland within 89-91 and he added another to tie it with 3:58 left. But Nowitzki made two jumpers to keep the Blazers from taking the lead.
The Blazers tied it again after Robin Lopez's hook shot and Nicolas Batum's free throws. But again Nowitzki answered with a 3-point play. After Batum's short jumper, Ellis made a 3-pointer from the corner to give Dallas a 104-100 lead with 1:40 left. He added a fadeaway with 45.9 to go.
Batum made a falling-down 3-pointer to pull the Blazers within 106-103 before Lillard's 3 tied it.
"With the players they had on the court – you've got Vince Carter who can get his shot, you've got Dirk Nowitzki who can get his shot, you've got Ellis who can get his shot – it's hard to predict what they're going to do," Blazers head coach Terry Stotts said. "We just wanted to stay as tight as we could."
But in the end, it was Ellis, who was acquired by the Mavs as a free agent in the offseason. He said the play was just put in Saturday and "came in handy."
"At that point of the game, you always like to have the confidence to take that last shot, and I got it," he said. "And I have the ability to make those shots. Coach gave me the ball and I knocked the shot down."
Batum finished with 22 points for the Blazers, who were coming off a 130-98 rout of the Utah Jazz on Friday night. LaMarcus Aldridge added 19 points and 13 rebounds for his 11th double-double this season.
The Mavs (13-8) were coming off a 100-97 victory at New Orleans on Wednesday.
"It's a great win for us," Nowitzki said. "We knew they were coming off a back-to-back. They were hot last night so it was a good opportunity for us. We made the best out of it."
DeJuan Blair's layup gave the Mavs an early 22-16 lead, but Aldridge dunked to even it at 28 late in the first half, and Dorell Wright's layup put Portland in front. The Blazers held on to a slim advantage until late in the half, when Calderon's layup and Shawn Marion's dunk pulled Dallas into a 55-51 lead for a 55-53 advantage at the half.
The Mavericks took a 67-61 lead on Nowitzki's 3-pointer, then extended it on consecutive baskets from Blair.
Portland responded with a 10-0 run capped by Batum's 3-pointer and dunk to tie it at 71. Calderon's layup snapped the run and Dallas took a 79-76 lead into the final quarter.
Gal Mekel's 3-pointer gave Dallas an 85-78 lead with 8:40 left.
Portland trailed 89-80 but charged back with consecutive baskets from Lillard and Aldridge. After Vince Carter's layup, Lillard hit on a jumper that was countered by Bernard James' layup for Dallas to make it 93-86.
Lopez finished with 14 points and 14 rebounds for his eighth double-double of the season.
NOTES: Blazers head coach Terry Stotts was an assistant to Mavs coach Rick Carlisle before coming to Portland. … Mavericks assistant coach Kaleb Canales was a former Portland assistant and served as interim head coach of the Blazers at the end of the 2011-12 season before Stotts was hired. … It was Portland's first loss on a back-to-back. … There were 18 lead changes in the game. …


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Fibromyalgia is a complex syndrome with no known cause or cure. Its predominant symptom is pain in the fibrous tissues, muscles, tendons, and ligaments, although other symptoms may be experienced.
Research has demonstrated that the axis connecting the three glands primarily responsible for the stress response (hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenals) may be dysfunctional in people with fibromyalgia.1 Inflammation of the involved structures is generally absent in fibromyalgia.
Of the estimated three to six million people2 affected by this disorder in the United States, the vast majority are women between 25 and 45 years of age.
What are the symptoms of fibromyalgia?
Trigger-point pain at characteristic locations is the defining symptom of fibromyalgia. The most commonly affected locations are on the occiput (nape of the neck), the neck itself, shoulders, trunk, low back, and thighs. Other symptoms may also be experienced, including fatigue, chest pain, low-grade fever, swollen lymph nodes, insomnia, frequent abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome, and depression.3
Dietary changes that may be helpful for fibromyalgia
A vegan diet (includes no animal products) that is also low in salt may help women with fibromyalgia. In a controlled clinical trial,5 women with fibromyalgia were put on a special diet consisting only of raw foods—primarily fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, and cereals (such as rolled oats). The diet also contained several fermented foods, including a fermented yogurt-food made from oats, a fermented beverage made from wheat berries (called Rejuvalac), and several types of fermented vegetables, particularly cabbage. During the three-month trial, women following the therapeutic diet experienced a significant reduction in body weight, pain, morning sickness, use of painkillers, depression, and the number of sore fibromyalgia points, compared with those who continued to eat their regular diet. Due to the liberal use of nuts and seeds, this diet was not low in fat; for example, 31% of all calories came from fat. Nonetheless, the total number of calories was relatively low (less than 1,900 calories per day), which was probably responsible for the decrease in body weight.
In a preliminary report, four women with fibromyalgia experienced marked improvement or complete resolution of their symptoms within months after eliminating monosodium glutamate (MSG) or MSG plus aspartame from their diet. In each case, symptoms recurred whenever MSG was ingested.6
Lifestyle changes that may be helpful for fibromyalgia
Low-intensity exercise may improve fibromyalgia symptoms. People with fibromyalgia who exercise regularly have been reported to suffer less severe symptoms than those who remain sedentary.7 8 9 In a controlled trial, a program consisting of two 25-minute exercise classes plus two educational sessions per week for six weeks resulted in immediate and sustained improvement in walking distance, fatigue, and well-being in a group of people with fibromyalgia;10 however, no reductions in pain, anxiety, or depression were seen. In a more recent controlled trial, a 35-minute exercise program in a warm pool once a week for six months, coupled with counseling sessions, led to improvements in hand-grip strength and endurance, as well as to reductions in pain, distress, depression, and anxiety.11 The results of this trial, and other similar trials, suggest that underwater exercise training, in combination with a counseling intervention, should be considered by people with fibromyalgia.
Nutritional supplements that may be helpful for fibromyalgia
People with fibromyalgia often have low serotonin levels in their blood.12 13 14 Supplementation with 5-HTP may increase serotonin synthesis in these cases. Both preliminary15 16 and double-blind trials17 have reported that 5-HTP supplementation (100 mg three times per day) relieves some symptoms of fibromyalgia.
Some studies have found low vitamin B1 (thiamine) levels and reduced activity of some thiamine-dependent enzymes among people with fibromyalgia.18 19 The clinical significance of these findings remains unknown.
One early preliminary study described the use of vitamin E supplements in the treatment of "fibrositis"—the rough equivalent of what is today called fibromyalgia. Several dozen individuals were treated with vitamin E using amounts ranging from 100–300 IU per day. The results were positive and sometimes dramatic.20 Double-blind trials are needed to confirm these preliminary observations.
Intravenous S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe) given to people with fibromyalgia reduced pain and depression in two double-blind trials;21 22 but no benefit was seen in a short (ten-day) trial.23 Oral SAMe (800 mg per day for six weeks) was tested in one double-blind trial and significant beneficial effects were seen, such as reduced pain, fatigue, and stiffness, and improved mood.24
A preliminary trial found that a combination of magnesium and malic acid might lessen muscle pain in people with fibromyalgia.25 The amounts used in this trial were 300–600 mg of elemental magnesium and 1,200–2,400 mg of malic acid per day, taken for eight weeks. A double-blind trial by the same research group using 300 mg magnesium and 1,200 mg malic acid per day found no reduction in symptoms, however.26 Though these researchers claimed that magnesium and malic acid appeared to have some effect at higher levels (up to 600 mg magnesium and 2,400 mg malic acid), the positive effects were not demonstrated under blinded study conditions. Therefore, the evidence supporting the use of these supplements for people with fibromyalgia remains weak and inconclusive.
Melatonin supplementation may be useful in the treatment of fibromyalgia. In a preliminary trial, 3 mg of melatonin at bedtime was found to reduce tender points and to improve sleep and other measures of disease severity, though pain and fatigue improved only slightly.27
Are there any side effects or interactions with fibromyalgia?
Refer to the individual supplement for information about any side effects or interactions.
Holistic approaches that may be helpful for fibromyalgia
Stress is believed by some researchers to be capable of aggravating fibromyalgia symptoms. Stress-reduction techniques, such as meditation, have proven helpful in preliminary research.28
Acupuncture may be useful for short-term relief of fibromyalgia symptoms. In one preliminary trial, acupuncture produced a significant decrease in pain and point tenderness along with related biochemical changes measured in the fibromyalgia patients' blood.29 Another uncontrolled trial used electroacupuncture (acupuncture with electrical stimulation) treatment in people with fibromyalgia who were unresponsive to conventional medical therapies. After an average of seven treatments per person, 46% claimed that electroacupuncture provided the best relief of symptoms when compared to all other therapies, and 64% reported using less medication for pain relief than prior to electroacupuncture.30 A double-blind trial compared fake acupuncture to electroacupuncture and reported significant differences in improvement in five of eight outcome measurements among people with fibromyalgia.31 Short-term pain reduction in people with fibromyalgia has been reported in other studies, some of which were at least partially controlled; however, long-term benefits have never been investigated in a controlled clinical trial.32 Long-term controlled trials are necessary to conclusively determine whether acupuncture is a useful treatment for fibromyalgia.
Joint manipulation, chiropractic, and related treatments may be helpful for relieving some of the symptoms of fibromyalgia. A preliminary study33 found that almost half of people with fibromyalgia who received chiropractic care had "moderate to good" improvement. A small preliminary trial34 evaluated the effect of four weeks of chiropractic treatment (three to five times per week) consisting of soft tissue massage, stretching, spinal manipulation, and general advice and information. Treatment resulted in a significant decrease in pain and an increase in range of neck movement, but there was no improvement in tender points or in ability to function in daily life. Another preliminary trial35 evaluated a longer treatment period (30 sessions) consisting of spinal manipulation and deep pressure massage to tender points in the muscles. More benefit was reported by this study, as 60% of the patients experienced significant pain reduction, reduced sensed of fatigue, and improved sleep. These benefits persisted one month after the treatment was completed. People who did not feel better after 15 treatments were not likely to benefit from this type of treatment. No controlled research has evaluated manipulation therapies for fibromyalgia.


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13 Ukraine troops dead, over 30 wounded in attack
BLAHODATNE, Ukraine (AP) -- Just days before Ukraine holds a presidential election, pro-Russia insurgents attacked a military checkpoint in the east Thursday, killing 13 troops in the deadliest raid yet in weeks of fighting, Ukraine's leader said.
A rebel commander who claimed responsibility for the attack said one of his men also was killed.
Acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk accused Russia of escalating the conflict in Ukraine's eastern regions and trying to disrupt Sunday's election. In a posting on Facebook, he called for an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council and said Ukraine would present evidence of Russia's involvement.
The rebels attacked a checkpoint near the town of Volnovakha, firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov said. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said the attackers hit an ammunition section in one of the vehicles, which exploded in a fireball.
AP journalists saw 11 dead Ukrainian soldiers scattered in a field outside Volnovakha, 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of the major eastern city of Donetsk.
Witnesses including a medical worker said more than 30 other Ukrainian troops were wounded in the attack and some of them were in grave condition. All the wounded were being treated at nearby medical facilities.
The carnage cast a shadow over Ukraine's upcoming presidential election, which authorities in Kiev had hoped would defuse tensions and stabilize the country. Separatists in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, however, have declared independence from the government in Kiev and have pledged to derail the vote. Election officials and voters have faced intimidation and sometimes death threats from the rebels in those areas and some residents have called for a boycott of the presidential vote.
Kiev authorities now admit it will be impossible to stage the vote in some eastern areas.
Three charred Ukrainian armored infantry vehicles, their turrets blown away, and several burned trucks stood at the site of Thursday's attack. Scorched bodies, apparently burned by the explosion and fire, were scattered near the vehicles.
Residents said attackers used an armored bank truck, which the unsuspecting Ukrainian soldiers waved through, and then mowed them down at point-blank range. Their account couldn't be independently confirmed.
In the town of Horlivka, a leading rebel commander claimed responsibility for the raid. He showed off an array of seized Ukrainian weapons and provided specific coordinates about the location of the attack. There was no way to independently confirm his claim, however.
"We destroyed a checkpoint of the fascist Ukrainian army deployed on the land of the Donetsk Republic," said the commander, who wore a balaclava and insisted he be identified by his nom de guerre, "Bes," Russian for "demon." He said one of his men also was killed.
"The weapons you see here have been taken from the dead, they are trophies," the rebel commander said, showing automatic and sniper rifles, rocket grenade launchers and bulletproof vests in the courtyard of the occupied Horlivka police headquarters.
"People living in western Ukraine: Think about where you are sending your brothers, fathers and sons, and why you need any of this," he added.
A representative of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic, however, denied that its men had carried out the attack. Speaking on Russian television, Pavel Gubarev accused Ukrainian nationalists from the Right Sector group of firing on Ukrainian soldiers because they had refused to attack civilians.
The comments appeared questionable, however. Gubarev does not appear to have much influence with the armed separatist rebel group.
Many in the east resent the government in Kiev, which came to power after a pro-Russian president fled in February following months of protests, seeing it as led by nationalists bent on repressing Russian-speakers. But many local residents also have grown increasingly exasperated with the rebels, whom they blame for putting civilians in the crossfire.
In the village of Semenovka on the outskirts of Slovyansk, artillery shelling badly damaged several houses Thursday.
Zinaida Patskan, 80, had her roof torn away by an explosion that also shattered a wall. She said she was hiding under a kitchen table with her cat, Timofey, when the shelling came.
"Why they are hitting us?" she said, bursting into tears. "We are peaceful people!"
About 100 Semenovka residents later vented their anger against the central government, demanding that Ukrainian forces cease their offensive against the separatists and withdraw from the region. Speakers at the rally also urged residents to boycott the presidential vote.
In the eastern Luhansk region, sustained gunfire and shelling rocked the town of Lysychansk. One mortar bomb hit a house, which burst into flames.
While the fighting raged in Ukraine, Russia's Defense Ministry said Thursday its forces were leaving the regions near Ukraine as part of a massive military pullout ordered by President Vladimir Putin. It said four trainloads of weapons and 15 Il-76 heavy-lift transport planes had already left the Belgorod, Bryansk and Rostov regions.
NATO had estimated Russia had 40,000 troops along the border with Ukraine.
Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO's supreme commander in Europe, told reporters in Brussels that some Russian military movements had been detected but it was too early to assess their size or importance. He said a very large and capable Russian force still remained close to Ukraine.
In Kiev, Yatsenyuk described Russia's announcement as a bluff.
"Even if the troops are withdrawing, Russian authorities are still assisting the armed terrorists who were trained in Russia," he said.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich on Thursday rejected Yatsenyuk's claims of Russian interference in the east as unfounded and denounced his call for a U.N. Security Council meeting as "propaganda."
Putin's pullout order and his remarks welcoming Ukraine's presidential election reflected an attempt to ease tensions with the West over Ukraine and avoid a new round of Western sanctions. He has ignored the plea of some of the rebels in eastern Ukraine to join Russia.
The United States and the European Union have imposed travel bans and asset freezes on members of Putin's entourage after Russia annexed Crimea in March. The U.S. and EU have warned that more crippling sanctions against entire sectors of the Russian economy could follow if Russia tries to grab more land from Ukraine or attempts to derail Ukraine's election.
Russia has pushed for guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO and has advocated for constitutional reforms that would give broader powers to Ukraine's regions, which would maintain Moscow's clout in Ukraine's industrial heartland.
The USS Vella Gulf, a Navy guided missile cruiser, will move into the Black Sea on Friday as part of U.S. efforts to reassure America's allies in the region in the wake of the unrest in Ukraine.
Leonard reported from Horlivka, Ukraine. Dmitry Kozlov in Blahodatne, Ukraine, Nataliya Vasilyeva in Kiev, Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow, Predrag Milic in Podgorica, Montenegro, John-Thor Dahlburg in Brussels and Lolita Baldor in Washington contributed to this report.


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Federal tax policy and its flaws dominate much of the media discussion on any given day. But your local government can also have a big impact on your household's financial health—making decisions on issues ranging from garbage pickup fees to the often-substantial bite of property taxes. Those policies can have an even bigger effect on a retiree household living on a fixed income. (Nationwide, state and local taxes eat up a little over 10% of personal income, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, with local assessments accounting for about half of that.)
For anyone discontented with their local taxes—or anything else about their hometown politics, for that matter—Alan Henry of the consumer-tips website Lifehacker has written an elegantly simple article this week called, "How Can I Get My Local Government to Pay Attention to Me?" His piece covers common-sense basics that people often overlook when they're steaming mad at their local poobahs, offering tips about fully documenting any complaints, making sure you're putting pressure on the right branch of the government, and leveraging your neighbors' support. He also stresses the value of keeping your cool and steering clear of Tea Party or Occupy-style theatrics. "You'll notice we didn't suggest that you and your neighbors protest or march on City Hall," Henry writes. "Protests are often a last-resort sledgehammer when many community issues call for a scalpel."


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- Wall Street was laid out behind a 12-foot-high wood stockade across lower Manhattan in 1685. The stockade was built to protect the Dutch settlers from British and Native American attacks.
- The "stock market" began in May 17th, 1792 when 24 stock brokers and merchants signed the Buttonwood Agreement.
- The first stock ticker was invented by Edward A. Calahan in 1867.
- The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) began in 1817 as the brokers formed the New York Stock & Exchange Board (NYS&EB), renting rooms at 40 Wall Street and adopting a constitution
- Anthony Stockholm was the first President of the NYSE.
- Originally stocks were traded in what's known as a "call market." The President would read out each stock and the brokers would trade them. There was a morning session and an afternoon session.
- There are 2,764 listed securities on the exchange.
- In 1868, there were 533 seats on the NYSE. There are currently 1,366 seats available on the NYSE.
- Muriel Siebert was the first woman to own a seat on the NYSE in 1967. Joseph L. Searles III was the first African-American member of the Exchange in 1970.
- On December 1st, 2005, the highest price was paid for membership in the NYSE at $4 million. Thirty days later, December 31st, the NYSE moves away from seats to annual trading licenses.
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To spike a foe usually means using an important quantity of resources for a single fight (usually a boss).
To its larger extent, these resources could be anything :
- Monster Xp (for level-up's, see popcorn)
- Potions
- Piety
- Exploration (for longer the average regen-fighting)
- Conversion points (when it provides a temporary effect)
- Death protections
- Blood pools
- Gold (when it provides a temporary effect, such as the crystal ball)
- well anything else you can make use of, and that is in limited quantity...
The devs have given the most concise explanation of spike with: "Draw a graph of damage output, if it spikes, that's a spike.", even though it was the players who came up with the term when trying to map out the different approaches to playing the game. The devs do advise against overusing the term as it's not specific enough on it's own. Even the people who came up with it agree, but find it usefull in discussions about theory and moments where a particular spike doesn't have a catchy nickname yet and has to be described by how it's performed.
An idea behind "spiking" is that a run cycles through 2 phases:
- The setup, during which the player explores the dungeon and hoards/saves various resources
- The execution, during which the player spikes tough opponents, boss or bosses, consuming an important part of these resources.
Since any execution can be seen as a spike, it's only ever used when it seems practical so you'll run into it when someone wants to:
- note when he used potions instead of conserving them
- point out when he used a god in a fight rather than for buildup (most gods have a "spiking" boon)
- point out that he didn't care about how many resources it took to take down a foe
- someone wants to point out that a character isn't into regen-fighting*
.* Because it's a convention to differentiate between "spikers" and "regen fighters".


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[SatNews] ...the fire lights up the landscape over an area that nearly matches or possibly exceeds Melbourne in size.
Melbourne, Australia, has a new rival in night-time views from space. The massive Snowy River Complex fire lights up the landscape over an area that nearly matches or possibly exceeds Melbourne in size. The fire in and around the remote Snowy River National Park is one of three high-priority bushfires that flared up in the state on February 9, 2014.
A summer heat wave brought high temperatures and strong winds that combined with a dry environment to create dangerous fire conditions in Victoria. By February 12, more than 180,000 hectares (695 square miles) had burned, about 100,000 (390 square miles) of which burned in the Snowy River Complex. The other two fires—Morwell-Hernes Oak fire and the Mickleham-Kilmore—were much smaller but burned closer to populated areas.
These images, acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite, provide a view of the fires by night and day on February 10, 2014. The Snowy River Complex is burning in mountain forests and is producing dense, opaque smoke that reflects enough moonlight to be visible in the night image. The daytime view shows a smoke plume stretching across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand.
The Snowy River Complex includes fires that ignited on February 9, as well as fires that were started by lightning in January. Though stunningly large in this view, the Snowy River fires do not pose much of a threat to people or infrastructure.
The Morwell-Hernes Oak fire is burning in an industrial region east of Melbourne, where it spread into an open coal mine. Though it had threatened four communities and much of Victoria's electricity supply, the fire was mostly under control by February 12.
Though it is the hardest to see in these images, the Mickleham-Kilmore fire was the most dangerous. The nighttime image shows why: the glow of the fire blends with lights in towns immediately north of Melbourne. The fire threatened 13,000 people, forced widespread evacuations, and destroyed at least 12 homes. (An additional 14 homes burned down in other fires in Victoria.) By February 13, the Mickleham-Kilmore fire had burned 23,629 hectares (91 square miles) along the northern fringes of Melbourne.
Weather conditions are expected to improve for firefighters in Victoria in the coming days. Monsoon rain is expected to fall, though totals are not likely to be high enough to extinguish the Snowy River Complex.
Suomi NPP - VIIRS
City-sized Fire in Australia
- ABC News (2014, February 9) Firefighters tackles blazes in South Australia and Victoria as extreme weather conditions take hold. Accessed February 12, 2014.
- The Age (2014, February 12) Heat, bushfire relief as rainfall expected to sweep across Australia. Accessed February 12, 2014.
- The Age (2014, February 13) Thousands at risk on urban fringe, CFA fire map shows. Accessed February 12, 2014 (U.S. Eastern time).
- Australian Associated Press (2014, February 10) Fire risk subsides in Vic's Gippsland. Accessed February 12, 2014.
- Herald Sun News (2014, February 12) Bushfire watch: Warnings remain in place across Victoria as bushfires continue to burn. Accessed February 12, 2014.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2012, December 5) Out of the blue and into the black.
- SBS (2014, February 9) Parts of Vic's Gippsland urged to evacuate. Accessed February 12, 2014.
- VicEmergency (2014, February 13) Incidents and warnings. Accessed February 12, 2014 (NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse
NASA Earth Observatory image by Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
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Students from the General Yermolov Cadet School sit on bunk beds during a two-day field exercise near the village of Sengileyevskoye, just outside the south Russian city of Stavropol, April 12, 2014.
The school in the southern Russian city of Stavropol is a state-run institution that teaches military and patriotic classes in addition to a normal syllabus. Students take part in field-training trips, during which they spend time at a base and undergo physical drills and weapons training.
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A student from the General Yermolov Cadet School takes part in weapons training during a two-day field exercise near the village of Sengileyevskoye, April 13, 2014.
The outings are seen as a treat for students, and those with bad grades are not allowed to go. The school is named after the Russian imperial general Alexei Yermolov and many of its students are from military backgrounds.


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A black Maryland lesbian couple have filed a discrimination complaint against the Tastee Diner in Silver Spring after they were asked to leave the restaurant after embracing at the counter.
Aiyi'nah Ford and Torian Brown say they were ejected at around 2 a.m. August 12 for embracing at the counter as a straight couple nearby was making out with "no complaints from management," News4 reports. Brown says: "We were just like talking and holding each other, and the next thing you know, the manager comes over and he asks us to leave," Brown said. "Their exact words were, 'This is a family establishment, and people are trying to eat,' as though interaction between Torian and I was something to the effect of Fear Factor ."
The restaurant denies discriminating against the lesbian couple and claims the embrace got "a little X-rated." The restaurant has released surveillance video and posted to YouTube. "This is the full video of the couple who are alleging discrimination. When asked to tone it down a bit (it being lots of body contact and burying a face in the other's breasts), the couple responded angrily and was then asked to leave. The main thing here is it isn't about sexual orientation, but rather, its about behavior."
Brown and Ford have an internet radio show called Listen-UP! and reached out to friends, listeners and activists. Wednesday night they organized a "kiss-in' style protest and "filled half of the restaurant with about 25 supporters" reports the Washington Blade. "When we arrived, they asked us to sit in the back. [The discrimination] is blatant, and they don't even know what they're doing. It's tragic and sad," Ford told the Blade.
The couple has filed a complaint with the Maryland Commission on Human Relations. The Washington Blade reports "the commission has agreed to consider and process the inquiry."
AFTER THE JUMP, watch reports from NBC4 and watch the surveillance video.
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Alan joined NP Dodge in November of 2016. His role is to train, coach, and lead agents and managers in order to increase market presence through out Nebraska and Iowa. He helps to oversee recruiting strategies, training initiatives, and developing long-term agent relationships by being a learning resource.
Prior to joining the NP Dodge team, he was an Executive Business Consultant with Realogy Corporation where he worked with over 40 different real estate brokerages in recruiting, training and marketing.
In addition, Alan was a member of the #1 producing real estate team by transaction in Omaha for 2006. He successfully was part of a real estate start up that grew to 3 offices that eventually sold in July of 2010.
Alan is a proud veteran of the US Army.
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"You have to trust the Love and the Truth and keep moving into it, flowing into it, softening into it, over and over again. As you do this, all of the faulty functioning of the mental body dissolves. Truth starts to be revealed to you."
"Let go. There are so many things to hang onto in life, so many snares to capture you. Let go. Break the bondage of suffering. Let go into my loving embrace."
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Luxury arm of Nissan - like Lexus is to Toyota, except so much cooler. With the might and money of Nissan behind it, Infiniti has the potential to be phenomenally successful. Hasn't quite worked in the UK yet, however…
If you like the baroque styling and can find a dealer, go for it.
Not the engaging sports car Infiniti insists. But it's a fine long-distance, high-tech car.
Infiniti is finding its stride with cars like the QX30d, shame the marketplace is so banjaxed at the moment.
Interesting, but there are much, much better cars available for the same money.
Suffers from exactly the same flaw as every other Infiniti – the only reason you'd buy one is because it's rare-groove different. Not necessarily better.


text: You know what's really fucked up about the opening number Neil Patrick Harris performed when he last hosted the Emmys? His TiVo joke was totally relevant. The times — oh how they change. Be sure to watch TV's super-fun award show tonight, when the bell tolls 8:00 pm in the East.


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text: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (Temple and Colmer) Kelly and Wood (ATCC® 23270™) Strain Designations: NCIB 8455 [DSM 14882] / Type Strain: yes / Biosafety Level: 1 General Information Characteristics Culture Method History Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits Deposited As Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans Leathen and Braley Strain Designations NCIB 8455 [DSM 14882] Application Biotechnology Isolation Acid, bituminous coal mine effluent Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Product Format test tube Storage Conditions Frozen: -80°C or colderFreeze-Dried: 2°C to 8°CLive Culture: See Propagation Section Preceptrol® no Genome Sequenced Strain Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270, complete genome. Type Strain yes Comments Genome sequenced strain Medium ATCC® Medium 2039: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Medium Growth Conditions Temperature: 26°CAtmosphere: Aerobic Name of Depositor NCIMB Chain of Custody ATCC <-- NCIMB <-- P Sneath <-- Leathen Isolation Acid, bituminous coal mine effluent References Leathen WW, Braley SA. A new iron-oxidizing bacterium: Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans. Bacteriol. Proc. 1954: 44, 1954. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 17: 603, 1964. Can. J. Microbiol. 11: 23, 1965. Braley SA Sr., et al. Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans: a chemosynthetic autotrophic Bacterium. J. Bacteriol. 72: 700-704, 1956. PubMed: 13376518 Silverman MP, Lundgren DG. Studies on the chemoautotrophic iron bacterium Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans. I. An improved medium and a harvesting procedure for securing high cell yields. J. Bacteriol. 77: 642-647, 1959. PubMed: 13654231 . . J. Biol. Chem. 238: 3453, 1963. Skerman VB, et al. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 30: 225-420, 1980. Kelly DP, Wood AP. Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov.. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50: 511-516, 2000. PubMed: 10758854 Cross References Nucleotide (GenBank) : M11542 5S rRNA sequence Nucleotide (GenBank) : M79404 16S rRNA sequence Nucleotide (GenBank) : M79405 16S rRNA sequence Nucleotide (GenBank) : M79406 16S rRNA sequence Nucleotide (GenBank) : X95324 T.ferrooxidans rustA gene. Nucleotide (GenBank) : AJ277640 Thiobacillus ferrooxidans tapA gene. Nucleotide (GenBank) : AH001792 Thiobacillus ferrooxidans 16S rRNA sequence. Nucleotide (GenBank) : AF129925 Thiobacillus ferrooxidans carboxysome operon, complete cds. Nucleotide (GenBank) : AF307091 Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, large subunit (cbbL2), ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, small subunit (cbbS2), and CbbQ (cbbQ) genes, complete cds. Nucleotide (GenBank) : CP001219 Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270, complete genome. Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS


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Ultimate Whale Sharks, Cancun, Mexico
Wetpixel Expeditions: Ultimate Whale Sharks, Cancun, Mexico, August 2012.
It doesn't get much bigger than this. Your chance to see the largest known aggregation of the largest fish in the ocean.
In August 2012 Alex Mustard will be running two whale sharks trips to Isla Mujeres in Mexico for Wetpixel. This location is amazing for two reasons. First the sharks are feeding on transparent fish eggs at the surface, so can be seen in beautiful clear Caribbean waters. And second, the sheer number of sharks. To quote Eric from the previous WETPIXEL trip here: "There's no other way to put it: our first day of photographing the whale shark aggregation was absolutely epic. Within an hour of leaving port, we found a group of over 300 whale sharks". There are plenty of places in the world you can see whale sharks, but there is not another whale shark experience like this. You can see Eric's pictures from this year's Wetpixel trip here.
This is one of the hottest experiences in underwater photography at the moment, which, as Jeff Hartog put it on the Wetpixel forums, is "a trip that certainly lives up to it's reputation". A total must do. And this is your chance to get one up on Jacques Cousteau, who said he only saw two whale sharks in his whole life.
The deal. WETPIXEL has two 6-pax boats running side by side for the following dates:
- Trip 1: July 31 - Aug 4, 2012 (7 day trip, 5 full days in the water: arrive July 30, depart Aug 5)
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- Trip 2: Aug 6 - Aug 10, 2012 (7 day trip, 5 full days in the water: arrive Aug 5, depart Aug 11) FULL
The cost of the trip is $2,550 USD per person, which includes:
Private boat charter with experienced captains, and plenty of space and shade, simple lunch on boat + non-alcoholic drinks, golf cart rental to get around the island (group rental), airport transfers in Cancun to ferry terminal (from and to), tip, hotel, dual occupancy (7 days, 6 nights: 1 day before to 1 day after). single accommodation available for supplemental fee. You are responsible for airfare to and from Cancun, ferry cost (not expensive), breakfast, and dinner.
A 50% deposit secures your space, and is refundable only if we re-book your space (minus a $200 cancellation fee). The balance is due 4 months before the trip start date. To book, please email Dan Baldocchi.
Please note that this is a snorkeling trip and therefore suitable for non-divers too. This is also a wildlife focused trip and there can be no 100% guarantee the sharks will turn up. Although we are running two trips, most people will see more than enough sharks by coming for just one week.
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Distance from Dubois, IN to Brookville, IN
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I am rather new to mathematical induction. Specially inequalities, as seen here How to use mathematical induction with inequalities?. Thanks to that question, I've been able to solve some of the form $ 1 + \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{3} + \cdots + \frac{1}{n} \leq \frac{n}{2} + 1 $.
Now, I was presented this, for $n \ge 4$:
I tried to do it with similar logic as the one suggested there. This is what I did:
Prove it for $n = 4$: $$2^4 = 16$$ $$4! = 1\cdot2\cdot3\cdot4 = 24$$ $$16 < 24$$ Assume the following: $$2^n<n!$$ We want to prove the following for $n+1$: $$2^{n+1}<(n+1)!$$ This is how I proved it:
- So first we take $2^{n+1}$ which is equivalent to $2^n\cdot2$
- By our assumption, we know that $2^n\cdot2 < n!\cdot2$
- This is because I just multiplied by $2$ on both sides.
- Then we'll be finished if we can show that $n! \cdot 2 < (n+1)!$
- Which is equivalent to saying $n!\cdot2<n!\cdot(n+1)$
- Since both sides have $n!$, I can cancel them out
- Now I have $2<(n+1)!$
- This is clearly true, since $n \ge 4$
Even though the procedure seems to be right, I wonder:
- In the last step, was it ok to conclude with $2<(n+1)!$? Was there not anything else I could have done to make the proof more "careful"?
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By CYRUS LEVESQUE
ADDISON COUNTY — A proposed increase in the number of muzzle-loading permits issued for antlerless deer will affect some parts of the state a lot more than others. In Bennington County, the number of permits issued may increase by more than six times if the current proposal remains unchanged, but the impact will probably be much smaller in Addison County.
Richard Phillips, owner of Vermont Field Sports in Middlebury, said that the proposed change hasn't earned much attention in the Addison County area. "I haven't heard anybody hollering about it yet in the store," Phillips said. "I don't think it'll do much in Addison County, really."
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department Board is considering issuing almost twice as many antlerless deer permits for the coming hunting season as were issued in 2007. The 14-member board of the department gave preliminary approval to issue 22,050 permits in an April vote. Last year, the department issued only 11,050 permits for antlerless deer during the nine-day muzzleloader season.
The board met again yesterday, and the final decision on any increase will probably not be made until August, according to Claude Rainville of Lincoln, Addison County's representative to the board. Rainville emphasized that the decision wasn't final and there would be chances for public input. "It's a lengthy process," he said.
Public hearings in Lyndonville and Rutland are planned on the issue. The Rutland hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1, at the cafeteria of the Rutland Middle School at 67 Library Ave.
The board is considering the increase to control the size of the state's deer herd, which has apparently grown quickly in recent years. "We can't let the deer destroy their own habitat because of overpopulation," Rainville said.
An unusually heavy rainfall in Ripton on Saturday night washed out major parts of the North Branch Road, the Dugway and many private drives, as well as the a bridge on the North Branch Road, stranding at least four families. Crews from Ripton and Middlebury, as well as numerous residents and volunteers, are working on repairs that likely will total in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more.
Many readers sent photos of the damage they observed in Ripton, more photos than we could include in our print edition. Here is a smattering of some of the photos.
NEW HAVEN — After several years of planning, and a few false starts, a new town hall may be in store for New Haven. On July 1, town residents will vote on a proposal to float a $594,000 bond for new town offices and a library. A special town meeting is scheduled for June 30 at 7 p.m. in the town hall to discuss the bond proposal with a vote by Australian ballot on the next day.
If the bond passes, the new community building would be built on the site of the Dana-King House. The historic King House, which now neighbors the town hall on North Street, was sold to New Haven resident Tim Goyette on May 6 for $500 with the condition that the house be moved off the site.
Building a new community center will be less expensive than renovating the King House to make it suitable for a modern office, according to New Haven resident Jerry Smiley, who designed previous plans for the King House and the current plans for the new offices.
"Rehabilitating the King House was a major expenditure, and a lot of people in town didn't want to do anything with it," Smiley said.
All told, the proposed new town office would cost about $794,000, but the bond is $200,000 less because of money available in the town's facilities fund. According to Selectman Keith Hall, the facilities fund at the end of 2006 had $212,939.29 in it, and the town appropriated an additional $65,000 at the 2007 town meeting.
Town officials have long argued that they need to improve the conditions of the town buildings. The current town offices are in a small set of rooms under the town hall, but they have become cramped in recent years, especially as reporting and record-keeping requirements have grown.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ALBANY, N.Y. — The first time he stepped into a cave hit by what scientists have dubbed white nose syndrome (WNS), Peter Youngbaer was startled — and horrified. Almost all of the bats in the hibernation colony had died.
"There were hundreds and hundreds of carcasses littering the floor," Youngbaer, president of the Vermont Cavers' Association and an avid caver himself, said. "We didn't know if it was an isolated incident. You started seeing it in other places — and then the white noses, the fungus, became this evident sign."
Youngbaer joined between 80 and 90 other scientists, wildlife specialists and conservationists in Albany, N.Y., last week to discuss the mysterious syndrome behind these die-offs, which have escalated from just two incidents in caves in New York a year ago to documented mortalities at caves and mines in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut, with suspected sites in Pennsylvania.
The syndrome is estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands of bats this year. Last week's conference brought together individuals from two countries and over 25 organizations to identify the most urgent research questions for the scientists and management agencies struggling to unravel the causes fueling the unprecedented bat mortalities.
Scientists at the meeting identified starvation and dehydration, direct mortality from pathogens, the effects of environmental contaminants or multi-factoral causation as the most promising hypotheses driving the mortalities — but the meeting called into sharp perspective the long road that faces specialists investigating the syndrome.
"I think that we now have a focus that we can test," said Scott Darling, a wildlife biologist for the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. "I can only hope that the answer lies somewhere in one of those four hypotheses.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — For the first time in 42 years, Mark Mooney had to do a thorough spring cleaning of his Middlebury Union High School office before heading out on summer vacation.
Among the items he stowed in boxes was his attendance book from 1965, the year in which he joined the school faculty. In it are the names of some the parents — and even grandparents — of the students now featured in the class of 2008, which will be his last at MUHS.
"There comes a point where you say you need to turn it over to the next generation and the next group," said Mooney, who heads a list of several veteran teachers who are retiring from the Addison Central Supervisory Union's faculty ranks this year.
In 1965, the district hired Mooney to fill a junior high school teaching vacancy. Mooney had just graduated from Castleton State College, and had been looking for a job in either Vermont or Connecticut, from where his wife Nancy hails.
He decided on Middlebury, mainly because of some acquaintances and family relationships in the area and Mooney's brother had attended Middlebury College. The MUHS principal at the time, Ken Severson, happened to be the former high school principal at Pittsford, Mooney's home town.
He began his teaching career in a building that had been built in 1958 for a cost of just over $1 million. The junior high and high school were consolidated in the single structure, the front façade of which was dominated by glass and windows. The ACSU offices at the time featured two employees and were located in what is now the Middlebury municipal building.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — Vergennes aldermen on Tuesday looked at a first draft of a 2008-2009 municipal budget that could hike city spending by $156,000, or almost 10 percent, to about $1.78 million.
But despite that apparently dramatic increase, City Manager Renny Perry told aldermen that a jump in the municipal portion of the Vergennes tax rate was not a sure thing.
Perry said he was projecting a budget surplus of roughly $40,000 from the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30. And he said an increase in the amount of taxable property in Vergennes — including VELCO's new substation — could boost revenue to cover the increased costs.
"It looks like a lot of money. It is a lot of money. But … it's too early to predict what our revenue situation is going to be," said Perry, adding, "There's a whole bunch of factors that will determine what effect this will have on the tax rate, if any."
Perry is concerned about how soon the substation will get on the tax rolls, however: He said VELCO missed an April deadline for providing an estimate of its taxable value to the Vermont Public Service Board, and he hopes that there isn't a "loophole" that will allow the power transmission firm to escape taxation for an unfinished project.
If Perry's guess on the surplus is accurate and the city's grand list grows enough, the city's tax rate could even remain level this year. According to late-winter Addison Northwest Supervisory Union estimates, the school tax portion of the city tax rate could drop by almost a penny. ANwSU business manager Donna Corcoran said on Wednesday that nothing had changed since then to move that estimate.
Increases in the draft city budget were across the board, and were concentrated in unsurprising areas, notably fuel and insurance costs.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectmen are considering raising municipal water rates for the first time since 2001, in an effort to meet rising operating costs and debt service on water system upgrades.
But some of the community's largest water users are seeking to turn the tide on talk of a proposed rate hike — which could represent about a 12 percent increase — that they said would only add to the already high costs of doing business in Middlebury.
"Manufacturing is getting harder to harder to do in Middlebury," Otter Creek Brewing General Manager Gail Daha said at a selectboard meeting on Tuesday of rising expenses in Middlebury. "We've seen increases across the board, and there is a tipping point."
Otter Creek Brewing and Agri-Mark/Cabot are two of the largest consumers of Middlebury municipal water and would be among the hardest hit in the event of a rate increase. But town officials said they must consider a rate hike in light of projections that Middlebury's water fund will end this fiscal year in the red. Assistant Town Manager Joseph Colangelo is recommending that $40,000 be applied from the water department's fund balance to wipe away this year's deficit.
But future deficits appear unavoidable unless selectmen raise current water rates and/or continue to patch annual shortfalls using money from the water department's fund balance, which now stands at around $400,000. Town officials are advising that selectmen not regularly tap the fund balance, seen as a valuable reserve for emergencies.
Middlebury's current water rate stands at $2.60 per 1,000 gallons. That rate will need to be bumped to $2.92 per 1,000 gallons — a 12.3 percent hike — in order to avoid water fund deficits in future years, according to Colangelo.
MIDDLEBURY — Sixteen months after buying the former Specialty Filaments plant out of U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Thomas Monahan Co. has resurrected the once-mighty bristle manufacturer and turned it into a productive business that continues to look for workers.
Now operating as "Monahan Filaments," the company has a workforce of more than 140 workers, a more diverse product line and a new business plan that calls for exporting its wares to the same foreign markets that had undercut Specialty Filaments only a few years ago.
"The ground is always shifting, unfortunately," said Jon Monahan, president of Monahan Filaments. "But we feel we understand the market well enough after a year that we are much more confident about where we need to take the company."
It was in January of 2007 that Specialty Filaments filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, following a steady decline in business brought on, in large part, by aggressive competition from overseas manufacturers. The sudden closure left 175 employees — most of them Addison County residents — out of work.
Thankfully, the plant's shutdown proved to be only temporary.
The Thomas Monahan Co. (TMC) of Arcola, Ill., submitted to the bankruptcy court the lone, successful bid of $3.125 million for the Specialty Filaments business and property at 3046 Case St. in Middlebury.
Monahan officials have spent the past year sizing up their new acquisition, which now manufactures around 25 percent of Thomas Monahan Co.'s products: bristles for household, janitorial and industrial brushes.
While Monahan doesn't foresee the Middlebury plant getting back to 175 workers, he does believe the business is on a path to stability.
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