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War Cemetery (established 1975)
The "Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery" on Mt. Taesong was established in 1975 to honor over a hundred revolutionaries who died fighting against the Japanese occupation forces during the colonial era (1910-1945). The cemetery was enlarged in 1985.
At the entrance to the cemetery there is a Korean-style gate followed by monumental pillars on both sides. Next is set of 300 stairs 40 meters wide that leads up to a set of granite sculptures depicting the revolutionary fighters. Somewhat further on is a monument to one side with Kim Il Sung's words, which read: "The noble revolutionary spirit displayed by the anti-Japanese revolutionary martyrs will dwell forever in the hearts of our Party and our people. October 10, 1985". On the other side is a monument inscribed with a paean.
In front of the gateway to the cemetery there is a pedestal for placing floral tributes. At the rear of the cemetery is a large flag cut in red granite. The tombs themselves are topped by busts of the revolutionary fighters.
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Chong, Bong-uk (editor). A Handbook on North Korea.
Naewoe Press, 1998. Seoul
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Here's how to build a bee house. Plus, bee tips and web links to more information about bees and pollinator-friendly plants.
Bees need us and we need them.
In your yard, plant a succession of spring, summer and fall flowering plants so bees have a continual source of nectar.
In return, they help pollinate plants in our home vegetable gardens and farm fields.
To further help bees, create simple houses for orchard mason bees. .
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Orchard mason bees, smaller than a honey bee and a shiny dark blue in color, do not live in a nest like other bees. They live in wooden blocks but do not drill holes and destroy things like some bees. Instead, the bees use holes that are already available. The male orchard mason bee cannot sting and the female rarely stings.
Here's how to build a bee house, according to the National Wildlife Federation:
Drill it. With drill bits of various sizes, 5/16 of an inch works best for an orchard mason bee, simply take some scrap lumber and drill holes 3 to 5 inches deep but not all the way through the wood block. For example, get a 4-inch square piece of wood and drill holes that are 3 ½ inches deep.
Protect it. Cover the holes with chicken wire to help keep birds away from the bee house.
Place it. Securely place the bee house on the south side of buildings, fence posts or trees.
Then scatter some of the houses through your community.
Bee house tips:
• Do not move bee houses after they are in place until at least November.
• Do not spray strong insecticides on or around bee houses.
• If you build your own bee house, do not use treated wood.
To help pollinators:
• Reduce the use of pesticides or, if possible, stop using them altogether. If you must use an insecticide, apply it in the evening, when many pollinators are inactive.
• Plant native, nectar-producing flowers. Go to http://pollinator.org/guides.htm and type in your Zip code to receive information about pollinators in your area, plus a list of pollinator plants.
• Leave tree stumps, dead branches and rotting trees on your property, if possible. They provide nests for some species of bees.
• When a bee nest is too close to your home, don't destroy it. Contact a local beekeeper or your cooperative extension service to learn how to remove it without harming the bees.
To learn more about bees and other pollinating insects, visit www.fws.gov/pollinators and www.pollinator.org.
You can buy a premade orchard mason bee house at some garden centers and through mail-order sites such as Planet Natural at www.planetnatural.com.
Kathy Van Mullekom is gardening columnist and writer of the weekly Diggin' In column at the Daily Press in Newport News, Va. Contact her: www.dailypress.com/digginblog or firstname.lastname@example.com

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Mystery of Mysteries
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 320 pages.
Ruse tells us in his introduction, "This is a book about the nature of science using evolutionary theory as a case study ... intended for a general audience." This highly readable book isn't bogged down by footnotes, but it does have a glossary to make the going easier, an extensive bibliography, and lively profiles of the thinkers whose work it discusses. Ruse examines the history of evolutionary thinking, and the work of leading researchers and popularizers from Darwin to Dawkins, in order to shed light on the question behind the "science wars": do scientists offer objective information about an independent reality, or just one more set of culture-bound beliefs? Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things, praises the book for "show[ing] us how to find an intelligent middle route." Ruse concludes that "in the key area of evolutionary biology we can resolve the debate", and urges others to study the physical and social sciences to learn how far his generalizations extend.
Voices for Evolution
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UF students to do community service in honor of King
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida students will continue an annual tradition to recognize the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by doing two hours of community service in the Gainesville area Jan. 21.
UF will not hold classes that day to recognize the birthday of the slain civil rights leader, but about 200 UF and Santa Fe College students will be volunteering at various nonprofit organizations such as UF's Natural Area Teaching Laboratory, the Edible Plant Project and the Boys & Girls Club. Specific tasks will vary by service site but include yard work and painting.
Group registration starts at 7:45 a.m. and individual registration starts at 8 a.m. at the Gator Wesley Foundation, 1380 W. University Ave. A light breakfast and snacks will be provided. Service work will be completed between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
Volunteers can then return to the Gator Wesley Foundation for lunch and reflection at 11:30 am.
After the service event, volunteers are invited to join the UF and SFC MLK Team to participate in the Annual King Celebration Commemorative March, starting at 1 p.m. in Bo Diddley Plaza in downtown Gainesville and continuing to the MLK Multipurpose Center on Waldo Road. Participants and organizations are encouraged to march behind the University of Florida MLK Celebration banner in a show of unity and support. There will be a shuttle available from the UF campus to the march's starting point. The shuttle will also be available to return to campus.
"This will be a great opportunity for students and community members to work together doing something that will benefit our city," said Maria Munoz, coordinator of the event.
To register for the "MLK Day of Service" or to look for more events go to www.ufmlk.org.
Other activity highlights this month include a performance of "Ain't I A Woman," a musical theater program celebrating the lives of four African-American women: novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston; ex-slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth; folk artist Clementine Hunter; and civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer. It will be held at 9 p.m. Jan. 22 in the Rion Ballroom of the Reitz Student Union. Admission is free.


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Scary Halloween Jokes
Scary Halloween Jokes
Scary Jokes about monsters, spiders, ghosts, vampires, zombies and other Halloween spooky creatures!
Q: What did the devil say to god?
A: I'm going to cross you and your family out!
Q: What monster plays tricks on Halloween?
A: Prank-enstein!
Q: What did the skeleton order for dinner?
A: Spare ribs!
Q: Why did the vampire get thrown out of the haunted house?
A: Because he was a pain in the neck!
Q: What do witches ask for at hotels?
A: Brooming services!
Q: Why did the cyclops stop teaching?
A: Because he only had one pupil!
Q: Did you hear about the zombie that lost his left arm and leg in a fight?
A: He's all right now!
Q: What do witches put on their bagels?
A: Scream cheese!
Q: What's big, scary, and has three wheels?
A: A monster riding a tricycle!
Q: Which circus performers can see in the dark?
A: The acro-bats!
Q: What happened to the cannibal who was late to dinner?
A: They gave her the cold shoulder!
Q: What do ghosts use to clean their hair?
A: Sham-boo!
Q: Why did the vampire flunk art class?
A: Because he could only draw blood!
Q: What do you call a skeleton who won't chase you?
A: Lazy bones!
Q: Where do ghosts go when they're sick?
A: To the witch doctor!
Q: What room is useless for a ghost?
A: A living room!
Q: Who was the most famous witch detective?
A: Warlock Holmes!
Q: Why did the cannibal rush over to the cafeteria?
A; He heard children were half price!
Q: What's the best way to catch an ear of corn?
A: Use a cobweb!
Q: Where does a ghost go on vacation?
A: Mali-boo!
Q: What do you get when you cross Bambi with a ghost?
A: Bamboo!
Q: What happens when a ghost gets lost in the fog?
A: He is mist!
Q: What did the french fries dress up as for Halloween?
A: Masked potatoes!
Q: What did the mother ghost say to the baby ghost?
A: Don't spook until you're spooken to!
Q: Have you seen Quasimodo?
A: I have a hunch he's back!
Q: What did mama cannibal said to baby cannibal when he told her that he really liked his grandfather?
A: Would you like another piece?
Q: What do witches put on their hair?
A: Scare spray!
Q: What do you call a roomful of ghosts?
A: A bunch of boo-boos!
Q: When do ghosts usually appear?
A: Just before someone screams!
Q: What is a vampire's favorite holiday?
A: Fangsgiving!
Q: What kind of key opens a casket?
A: A skeleton key!
Q: What kind of makeup do zombies wear?
A: Mas-scare-a!
Q: What did the skeleton say to the bartender?
A: I'd like a beer and a mop!
Q: What do you call dead cows that come back to life?
A: Zombeef!
Q: What make a ghost smile?
A: A good Halloween joke!
Q: What is black, scary and has six legs and two hands?
A: A black spider!
Q: Where do ghosts play soccer?
A: On the underground!


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The Soy Zone
A vegetarian version of The Zone Diet.
Created by The Zone diet guru, Barry Sears has developed a new version of his uber famous diet with the inclusion of soy, a touted super food and source of natural protein. Soy has no cholesterol or saturated fat, but plenty of protein, vitamins, and fiber and offers an array of health benefits for vegetarians and non-vegetarians.
The Soy Zone adheres to the same 40-30-30 principles of The Zone Diet, but rather than filling your plate with a third of chicken or fish, you'll be filling it with soy protein.
Sears makes his claim for soy by discussing plenty of research which extols the benefits of eating soy. He also discusses the perils of a grain-based diet that many vegetarians follow, as well as why eating too many carbohydrates leads to weight gain.
The Soy Zone also contains a BMI calculator which indicates what your protein needs are and how many "Zone Blocks" you should consume each day. Once you have this figured out, you simply follow the diet or recipes and start losing and living in the Soy Zone.PRO
- Very vegetarian friendly
- Soy protein is a very healthy food and lean protein source
- Zone Diet promotes eating plenty of fresh vegetables while avoiding refined and processed foods
- Diets rich in soy have been linked to lowering cholesterol levels
- Soy is an incredibly versatile food that can be prepared in innumerable ways
- Some studies have shown adverse health effects with consuming too much soy
- Soy is hyper allergenic
- Recipes call for specialized ingredients like stevia and agar flakes
- Following Zone Block rules may be confusing
- No exercise plan
The Soy Zone is one of the only low-carb vegetarian-friendly diets. The program follows the same principles of the Zone Diet, but replaces meat with soy protein.
Each day you'll consume about 50 grams of soy protein in addition to plenty of fresh vegetables and low-fat dairy. A typical Soy Zone diet contains 1,200 calories and a set number of "Zone Blocks," which are essentially protein grams that you need to consume each day. Soy Zone servings are either in 3-4 Zone Block increments.
The book is complete with 101 soy-based recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks like Baked Golden Tofu Dumplings, Red Bean Chili, Tempeh Paprikas, Tofu-Eggplant Gumbo and Banana Berry Sundae.
A sample Soy Zone day might look like this: Egg white scramble with melted soy cheese and vegetables for breakfast, lentils with goat cheese and vegetables for lunch and a tofu stir-fry for dinner. Snacks might be soy nuts, soy yogurt or a fruit smoothie made with unsweetened soy milk.EXERCISE
No exercise guidelines are given.CONCLUSION
Many vegetarians have long-waited for a vegetarian-friendly version of their favorite low-carb, high-protein diet and they have finally received it in The Soy Zone by Barry Sears.
The book does a great job in describing the benefits of soy, its versatility and the dangers of consuming a high-carbohydrate diet. But The Soy Zone does not come with an exercise plan and it does not fully confront the many research studies which have pointed at the concerns of over eating a high-soy diet. Conditions like hypothyroidism and a potential increase in certain estrogen-dependent cancers have been associated with excessive soy intake.
Therefore, if you have a predisposed risk for estrogen-dependent cancers like breast, talk to your doctor before following The Soy Zone diet.
But if you are a vegetarian or non-vegetarian wanting to decrease their reliance on meat, poultry, grains and refined carbohydrates, The Soy Zone is a formidable guide to help you do so.Common Misspellings
The Soy Diet, Soy-Zone, Soy Zone, Zone Soy Diet, Vegetarian Zone Diet
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Tribeca Fest to Present Five New Categories; To Spotlight Films Produced in NYC
by Brian Brooks
The Tribeca Film Festival looms nearer, and organizers announced that New York features and documentaries will be a highlight of this year's second-annual fest. Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal along with new festival director Peter Scarlet announced five new categories to be featured during the event, which begins May 3 in lower Manhattan. The five sections include "NY, NY"; "AMC Presents Martin Scorsese's and the Film Foundation's Restored and Rediscovered Classics"; "Special Screenings"; and "Midnight."
"NY, NY" features 23 films and documentaries shot in New York City, including 14 world premieres. Jim Hershleder's "Ash Tuesday" starring Janeane Garofalo, Tony Spiridakis, Tony Goldwyn, and Giancarlo Esposito as well as "Ghostlight" by Christopher Herrmann with Ann Magnuson, Deborah Harry, Mark Morris, Isaac Mizrahi, and Richard Move will make their world premieres, screening in the "NY, NY" category. Also set to screen in "NY, NY" is Joe Maggio's Sundance 2003 film "Milk and Honey," making its New York premiere and Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak's Hamptons 2002 winning-doc, "Cinemania."
In the "Special Screenings" category, Toronto 2002 audience award-winner "Whale Rider" will have its New York premiere as well as Oliver Stone's Fidel Castro documentary, "Comandante." "Trainspotting" director Danny Boyle's latest, the zombie thriller "28 Days Later," will screen in the Midnight section (also a NY premiere) as well as Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields' "Century: the Story of the Ramones." The Tribeca Film Festival concludes May 11 and will feature more than 200 features, docs, and shorts.
The full list of films announced yesterday are listed below:
ASH TUESDAY directed by Jim Hershleder and featuring Janeane Garofalo, Tony Spiridakis, Tony Goldwyn, and Giancarlo Esposito (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
DUKE'S HOUSE directed by Till Terror (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
GHOSTLIGHT directed by Christopher Herrmann and featuring Ann Magnuson, Deborah Harry, Mark Morris, Isaac Mizrahi and Richard Move (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
A GOOD NIGHT TO DIE directed by Craig Singer and featuring Ally Sheedy, Ralph Macchio, Deborah Harry, Gary Stretch, Michael Rappaport, and Seymour Cassel (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
JUST ANOTHER STORY directed by GQ (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
KILL THE POOR directed by Alan Taylor (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
THE LUCKY ONES directed by Loren-Paul Caplin (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
LUSTRE directed by Art Jones (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
MARATHON directed by Amir Naderi (U.S.A.) - N.Y. Premiere
MILK AND HONEY directed by Joe Maggio (U.S.A.) - N.Y. Premiere
NOLA directed by Alan Hruska (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
PARTICLES OF TRUTH directed by Jennifer Elster (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
VOTE FOR ME! directed by Nelson Antonio Denis (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
Documentary Features
ASHTANGA, NY directed by Caroline Laskow and Mary Wigmore and featuring Gywneth Paltrow, Willem Dafoe, and Mike D of the Beastie Boys (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
THE CEDAR BAR directed by Alfred Leslie (U.S.A.)
CINEMANIA directed by Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak (U.S.A./Germany) - NY Premiere
DIVAN directed by Pearl Gluck (U.S.A./Hungary) - World Premiere
FIGHT BACK, FIGHT AIDS: 15 YEARS OF ACT UP directed by James Wentzy (U.S.A.)
KOENIG'S SPHERE directed by Percy Adlon (U.S.A.) - International Premiere
RISK/REWARD directed by Xan Parker and Elizabeth Holder (U.S.A.) NY Premiere
THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF GIA directed by J.J. Martin and featuring Gia Carangi (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
STYLE WARS/STYLE WARS REVISTED directed by Tony Silver (U.S.A.)- NY Premiere
WITNESSING directed by Aileen Ghee (U.S.A.) - World Premiere.
CHARLES LAUGHTON DIRECTS "THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER," UCLA Archivist Robert Gitt's unique program about the production of the classic film directed by Charles Laughton, and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish (U.S.A.) - N.Y. Premiere
THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner (U.S.A.) - N.Y. Premiere
MURNAU'S 4 DEVILS - TRACES OF A FILM, Janet Bergstrom's evocation of the lost 1929 classic, directed by F.W. Murnau (U.S.A.) - North American Premiere
The restored 180 minute version of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Il Buono, Il Bruto, Il Cattivo) directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef (Italy) - World Premiere
The full-length 229 minute version of ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (C'era Una Volta in America) directed by Sergio Leone and featuring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, and Tuesday Weld (U.S.A./Italy) - NY Premiere
REDSKIN directed by Victor Schertzinger, starring Richard Dix, a silent film with live musical accompaniment by the Native American musical group National Braid (U.S.A.)
COWARDS BEND THE KNEE directed by Guy Maddin (Canada) - U.S. Premiere
THE EVENT directed by Thom Fitzgerald and starring Olympia Dukakis, Don McKellar, Parker Posey, and Sarah Polley (Canada) - N.Y. Premiere
IN AMERICA directed by Jim Sheridan (U.S.A.) NY Premiere
MY HOUSE IN UMBRIA directed by Richard Loncraine and starring Maggie Smith, Chris Cooper, Timothy Spall, and Giancarlo Giannini (United Kingdom) NY Premiere
THE SHAPE OF THINGS directed by Neil LaBute and starring Rachel Weisz, Paul Rudd, Gretchen Mol and Fred Weller (U.S.A.) NY Premiere
In addition to the Festival's previously announced competitive sections, the Showcase presents more outstanding new features and documentaries from all over the world, screening out of competition. The 56 films in this section include:
BOUGHT & SOLD directed by Michael Tolajian (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
A BREACH IN THE WALL (Sprickorna i Muren) directed by Jimmy Karlsson - International Premiere
BRINGING RAIN directed by Noah Buschel and featuring Adrian Grenier (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
CALIXTO, THE LANDLORD (No Hay Tierra Sin Dueno) directed by Sami Kafati (Honduras) - North American Premiere
CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Tianxia Wushuang) directed by Jeff Lau (Hong Kong/China) - U.S. Premiere
COMMON GROUND (Lugares Comunes) directed by Adolfo Aristaráin (Argentina) - NY Premiere
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS directed by Stephen Frears (U.K.) - NY Premiere
DISTANT LIGHTS (Lichter) directed by Hans Christian Schmid (Germany) North American Premiere
EVENHAND directed by Joseph Pierson (U.S.A.) NY Premiere
FILM IST. (7-12) directed by Gustav Deutsch (Austria)
FLYING WITH ONE WING (Tani Tatuwen Piyabanna) directed by Asoka Handagama (Sri Lanka) - U.S. Premiere
THE HEART OF ME directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan and featuring Helena Bonham Carter and Paul Bettany (United Kingdom) - N.Y. Premiere
HEJAR directed by Handan Ipekci (Turkey/Greece/Hungary) - U.S. Premiere
THE INSIDE STORY directed by Robert Sutherland (Australia) - NY Premiere
L'AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE directed by Cedric Klapisch (France) - NY Premiere
THE LEGEND OF SURIYOTHAI (Suriyothai) directed by Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol (Thailand) - NY Premiere
LOST AND FOUND (Cua roi) directed by Vuong Tuan Duc - North American Premiere
MADAME BROUETTE directed by Moussa Sene Absa (Senegal/Canada/France) - U.S. Premiere
MERCANO THE MARTIAN (Mercano el Marciano) directed by Juan Antin (Argentina) - NY Premiere
MMI-A CHRONICLE OF TIME directed by John Sanborn (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
MY VOICE (Nha Fala) directed by Flora Gomes (Portugal/France/Luxembourg) - NY Premiere
NOTHING (Nada) directed by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti (Cuba/Spain/France/Italy) - NY Premiere
THE RIVER directed by Mama Keita (Guinea/France) - North American Premiere
SHAOLIN SOCCER directed by Stephen Chow (Hong Kong) - NY Premiere
SOLDIER'S GIRL directed by Frank Pierson and featuring Troy Garity and Lee Pace (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY directed by Aisling Walsh and featuring Aidan Quinn (Ireland) - NY Premiere
SWEET SIXTEEN directed by Ken Loach (United Kingdom) - NY Premiere
A TALE OF A NAUGHTY GIRL (Manda Meyer Upakkhyan) directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta (India) - NY Premiere
TOGETHER (He Ni Zai Qi) directed by Chen Kaige (China) - NY Premiere
TOO YOUNG TO DIE (Jukeodo Jo A) directed by Park Jin-Pyo (Korea) - NY Premiere
THE TRILOGY: ON THE RUN (Cavale) directed by Lucas Belvaux (France) - N.Y. Premiere
THE TRILOGY: AN AMAZING COUPLE (Un Couple Epatant) directed by Lucas Belvaux (France) - NY Premiere
THE TRILOGY: AFTER LIFE (Après La Vie) directed by Lucas Belvaux (France) - NY Premiere
THE VIRGIN OF LUST (La Virgen de la Lujuria) directed by Arturo Ripstein (Mexico/Spain) - N. Premiere
WHALE RIDER directed by Niki Caro (New Zealand/Germany) - NY Premiere
WHAT ALICE FOUND directed by A. Dean Bell and featuring Judith Ivey (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
WOMAN OF WATER (Mizu No Onna) directed by Hidenori Sugimori (Japan) - NY Premiere
WOMEN'S PRISON (Zendan-e Zanan) directed by Manijeh Hekmat (Iran) - NY Premiere.
Documentary Features
ALEXEI AND THE SPRING directed by Seiichi Motohashi (Japan) - NY Premiere
BAGHDAD ON/OFF directed by Saad Salman (France/Iraq) - NY Premiere
BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS directed by John Dullaghan (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS directed by Andrew Jarecki (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
COMANDANTE directed by Oliver Stone (Cuba/U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
THE DAY MY GOD DIED directed by Andrew Levine and narrated by Tim Robbins and Winona Ryder (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
DINER GUYS directed by Barry Levinson (U.S.A.)
ERIC CLAPTON AND FRIENDS directed by Jana Bokova (United Kingdom) - North American Premiere
THE GIFT directed by Louise Hogarth (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
GIRLHOOD directed by Liz Garbus (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
HOOKED: THE LEGEND OF "HOOK" MITCHELL directed by Michael Skolnik and William O'Neill (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
LONG GONE directed by David Eberhardt and Jack Cahill (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
MC5* A TRUE TESTIMONIAL directed by David C. Thomas (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
NAKED WORLD directed by Arlene Donnelly Nelson (U.S.A) - U.S. Premiere
PERSONA NON GRATA directed by Oliver Stone (U.S.A.) - North American Premiere
POWER TRIP directed by Paul Devlin (U.S.A./Georgia) - NY Premiere
RESISTING PARADISE directed by Barbara Hammer (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
YVES SAINT LAURENT - 5 AVENUE MARCEAU 75116 PARIS directed by David Teboul (France) - North American Premiere
YVES SAINT LAURENT - HIS LIFE AND TIMES directed by David Teboul (France) - North American Premiere
28 DAYS LATER directed by Danny Boyle (United Kingdom) - NY Premiere
BLACK CADILLAC directed by John Murlowski (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
THE EYE (Jian Gui) directed by Oxide Pang and Danny Pang (Thailand) - NY Premiere
END OF THE CENTURY: THE STORY OF THE RAMONES directed by Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
HEY IS DEE DEE HOME directed by Lech Kowalski and featuring Dee Dee Ramone (U.S.A./France) - North American Premiere
THE LOOK directed by David Sigal (U.S.A.) - World Premiere
LOVE OBJECT directed by Robert Parigi (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
PREY FOR ROCK & ROLL directed by Alex Steyermark and featuring Gina Gershon and Lori Petty (U.S.A.) - NY Premiere
THE WANNABES directed by Nick Giannopoulos (Australia) - World Premiere


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Mr Fritz Baffuor, the Minister for Information has announced that, the Ministry is looking forward to be revamped, reinvested and resourced with the needed logistics as a measure to make the sector carry out its mandate effectively.
The Minister made this known when he visited Sunyani as part of an official tour of the Brong Ahafo region to inspect facilities of the Information Services Department (ISD) and also to interact with the staff to find out their challenges to enable him make a case to the government to resource the Ministry.
Mr Baffuor stated that the core function of the Ministry was to disseminate government information to the public, and noted that this could not be done effectively without appropriate tools and equipment. He added that information was essential to the development of every nation.
The Minister, being a media person himself, said that, he was going to ensure that government paid the necessary attention to the needs of the Ministry through proper budgetary allocation and provision of vehicles and other equipment.
According to him, ISD Regional Office in Sunyani was certainly not a conducive working environment for the staff and something must be done about it immediately the Ministry gets the right funding from government.
The Information Minister cautioned the staff of the ISD to be professional as they were public servants and must therefore eschew partisan politics and be as objective as possible. "Information staff is public servants, your job is about objectivity, you have to say the truth, you should not skew information because of partisanship; the moment you become partisan, you have failed and that should not be the case", he added.
Mr Baffuor said he would ensure that there was a Cabinet directive to all district assemblies for them to make it a point to support District Information Officers.
Mr Kwasi Amankwaah, the Regional Information Officer, on behalf of the staff thanked the Minister for the visit. He said the dwindling warrant allocation and warrant releases coupled with deplorable offices and inadequate equipment were their major challenges in the region. He also appealed to the Minister to do something about the promotion of staff to motivate them to give off their best.


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March 18, 2014
Plans to build a new bridge over the Columbia River linking Oregon and Washington along Interstate 5 are dead, and there is no indication when and if they will be revived.
March 4, 2014
President Obama's budget for the Department of Transportation calls for new performance measures and a $10 billion freight program as well as his four-year, $302 billion infrastructure program.
It won't be easy, but there's at least a glimmer of a way for Congress to come up with money to fund a longer-term highway bill. The Highway Trust Fund is going to run out of money possibly as soon as August, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
February 3, 2014
Can a man in a rusted old 1949 Hudson help bring attention to the nation's crumbling infrastructure and help grow interest in funding improvements? Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge introduces you to Dan McNichol and his Dire States project in her "All That's Trucking" blog.
January 28, 2014
The Missouri Department of Transportation has launched the Missouri Freight Plan, the next step in a process started last year to develop the state's long-range transportation plan.
January 13, 2014
Legislation has been offered up in the U.S. House that backers say will support improvements to infrastructure and transportation in the national freight mobility network through a new tax on freight shipments.
December 4, 2013
Rep. Earl Blumenauer's bid to raise federal fuel taxes to pay for more investment in roads and bridges drew strong support from a wide range of interests, including American Trucking Associations.
December 3, 2013
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., will introduce bills to raise federal fuel taxes, index them to inflation and test a vehicle-mile tax. The proposals, which Blumenauer is scheduled to discuss on Capitol Hill Wednesday, come as Congress begins to consider ways to revive funding for U.S. roads and bridges.
November 19, 2013
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and the Minnesota Department of Transportation have announced ten highway construction projects will receive funding through the state's new $300 million Corridors of Commerce program.
The upcoming years will be tough for the transportation industry in the United States, FedEx Freight president and CEO William Logue said at the annual National Industrial Transportation League conference in Houston.
October 29, 2013
A congressional panel is recommending a comprehensive, multimodal approach to freight transportation with robust, sustainable funding from public and private sources. The bipartisan Panel on 21st Century Freight Transportation unanimously backs more spending on freight infrastructure – but does not take a position on where the money should come from.
August 23, 2013
Each week we run across many stories in the mainstream media that are about trucking or related to trucking in some way -- more than we can report on. Here are some of the most interesting from this week, including an article on trucker apps in the New York Times.
August 15, 2013
The new head of the DOT is already looking to one of the big challenges of his job, says Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge in her "All That's Trucking: blog: Getting our dysfunctional Congress to pass a real highway bill by its due date of Sept. 30, 2014.
July 30, 2013
President Obama proposed a tax reform deal that would include a big, one-time investment in infrastructure. In remarks Tuesday at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., Obama said he would support lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 28%, and to 25% for manufacturers.
July 24, 2013
Congress is wrestling with two highway funding bills for the 2014 fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, but only one has gotten an endorsement from President Obama.
July 23, 2013
At a hearing on the Highway Trust Fund Tuesday it was clear that the key House transportation committee has some distance to go before it can achieve consensus on how the fund could be made whole, or even if it should be preserved.
July 16, 2013
Work to install the new permanent span for the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge in Burlington, Wash., is officially underway, but new delays and detours will happen again in a few weeks.
July 2, 2013
As Americans hit the road for the Fourth of July holiday, they'll be driving on slightly smoother roads, crossing fewer deficient bridges and spending less time stuck in traffic jams, according to think tank the Reason Foundation and its new Annual Highway Report.
June 17, 2013
A new report says despite some improvements in the past decade, a substantial number of U.S. bridges are still in poor condition. The report from the Government Accountability Office was in response to the May collapse of a bridge along Interstate 5 in Washington state.
June 10, 2013
The Senate Commerce Committee Monday night approved the nomination of Anthony Foxx to be Secretary of Transportation, while the committee named Mark Warner to take over a key transportation subcommittee from the late Frank Lautenberg.
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Proposed Hooters sparks opposition in Rancho Bernardo
RANCHO BERNARDO -- A franchise owner's plan to open a Hooters restaurant in a high-profile location in this community has upset some local residents, who say the chain's image is too racy for Rancho Bernardo.
More than 100 people packed into this month's Rancho Bernardo Planning Board meeting to protest the proposal from HootWinc LLC. Based in Oceanside and owned by Fred and Ruth Glick, the company already operates 23 Hooters, including four in San Diego County.
The franchise recently signed a 10-year lease for a vacant building at 16911 W. Bernardo Drive in Rancho Bernardo's industrial park. The home of a former Denny's restaurant for years, the site is next to a Travelodge on a hill overlooking Interstate 15 from its west side and is visible by those passing by on the freeway below.
The restaurant building's last occupant was the Grandview Cafe, which closed several years ago. Since then, the building has grown more and more dilapidated, and many people now describe the property as an eyesore that collects trash.
Some community leaders and residents therefore welcome the idea of a well-known and successful restaurant chain moving in and fixing up the place, as HootWinc is proposing.
Others, including San Diego City Councilman Brian Maienschein, are objecting because of the image of the chain involved.
Hooters' advertising signs feature a brown owl with large orange "Os" for its eyes. Used as slang, though, the word "hooters" refers to female breasts. The Hooters chain is known for its attractive waitresses dressed in low-cut and tight-fitting shirts and short shorts.
Those aspects, opponents say, make the proposed restaurant offensive and incompatible with Rancho Bernardo, a master-planned community that started out as a haven for retirees but more recently has seen its population include many couples with young children.
"It's very simple," said resident Neia Lawrence. "It's a very family-oriented place, and a restaurant like that just doesn't belong in our community. It would be an eyesore to be driving down I-15 and see the Hooters sign up there."
No permits needed
Fred Glick said Friday that he believes people have a lot of misconceptions about Hooters that will be dispelled once the restaurant opens.
"This is a problem in every community we go into," he said. "People think we're a strip joint," he said. "They just don't know what we are."
The Planning Board and the Rancho Bernardo Community Council advise the San Diego Planning Commission and San Diego City Council on zoning and land-use issues related to this community. The 6,500-square-foot building the chain has leased is already zoned for a restaurant, though.
And while Glick said his company plans to spend about $2 million to clean up the property, re-roof the building, gut and remodel the inside, and put in new landscaping, HootWinc needs no city permits unless it decides to make substantial changes to the exterior of the building.
Responding to residents' complaints, the Planning Board and the Rancho Bernardo Community Council invited HootWinc to make presentations to the two panels about its plan. Representatives for the franchise did so.
Summing up residents' reactions, Planning Board Chairman Jim Denton said about 35 to 50 of those at the meetings expressed opposition to the proposal. Members of both panels have also received numerous phone calls and e-mails about the plan, including some from people who said they support HootWinc's plan, he said.
Opponents' concerns appear to be based on their belief that Hooters is not really a restaurant, he added.
"They perceive it as an exploitation of young women and kind of a racy environment," said Denton. "And actually I have to say to a degree, if you were to go to their Web site, it kind of reads that way. They're selling attractiveness and fun and spirits."


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(A reworking of an earlier post, that I posted on DZone last month. I thought I should keep a copy of it on my own blog.)
Maven profiles, like chainsaws, are a valuable tool, with whose power you can easily get carried away, wielding them upon problems to which they are unsuited. Whilst you're unlikely to sever a leg misusing Maven profiles, you can cause yourself some unnecessary pain. These three best practices all sprung from first-hand, real-world suffering:
- The build must pass when no profile has been activated
- Never use <activeByDefault>
- Use profiles to manage build-time variables, not run-time variables and not (with rare exceptions) alternative versions of your artifact
I'll expand upon these recommendations in a moment. First, though, let's have a brief round-up of what Maven profiles are and do.
Maven Profiles 101
A Maven profile is a sub-set of POM declarations that you can activate or disactivate according to some condition. When activated, they override the definitions in the corresponding standard tags of the POM. One way to activate a profile is to simply launch Maven with a -P flag followed by the desired profile name(s), but they can also be activated automatically according to a range of contextual conditions: JDK version, OS name and version, presence or absence of a specific file or property. The standard example is when you want certain declarations to take effect automatically under Windows and others under Linux. Almost all the tags that can be placed directly in a POM can also be enclosed within a <profile> tag.
The easiest place to read up further about the basics is the Build Profiles chapter of Sonatype's Maven book. It's freely available, readable, and explains the motivation behind profiles: making the build portable across different environments.
The build must pass when no profile has been activated
(Thanks to Nicolas Frankel for this observation.)
Good practice is to minimise the effort required to make a successful build. This isn't hard to achieve with Maven, and there's no excuse for a simple mvn clean package not to work. A maintainer coming to the project will not immediately know that profile wibblewibble has to be activated for the build to succeed. Don't make her waste time finding it out.
How to achieve it
It can be achieved simply by providing sensible defaults in the main POM sections, which will be overridden if a profile is activated.
Never use <activeByDefault>
Why not?
This flag activates the profile if no other profile is activated. Consequently, it will fail to activate the profile if any other profile is activated. This seems like a simple rule which would be hard to misunderstand, but in fact it's surprisingly easy to be fooled by its behaviour. When you run a multimodule build, the activeByDefault flag will fail to operate when any profile is requested, even if the profile is not defined in the module where the activeByDefault flag occurs.
(So if you've got a default profile in your persistence module, and a skinny war profile in your web module… when you build the whole project, activating the skinny war profile because you don't want JARs duplicated between WAR and EAR, you'll find your persistence layer is missing something.)
activeByDefault automates profile activation, which is a good thing; activates implicitly, which is less good; and has unexpected behaviour, which is thoroughly bad. By all means activate your profiles automatically, but do it explicitly and automatically, with a clearly defined rule.
How to avoid it
There's another, less documented way to achieve what <activeByDefault> aims to achieve. You can activate a profile in the absence of some property:
<profile id="nofoobar"> <activation> <property> <name>!foo.bar</name> </property> </activation> </profile>
This will activate the profile "nofoobar" whenever the property foo.bar is not defined.
Define that same property in some other profile: nofoobar will automatically become active whenever the other is not. This is admittedly more verbose than <activeByDefault>, but it's more powerful and, most importantly, surprise-free.
Use profiles to adapt to build-time context, not run-time context, and not (with rare exceptions) to produce alternative versions of your artifact
Profiles, in a nutshell, allow you to have multiple builds with a single POM. You can use them in two ways:
- To adjust how you build: that is, to adapt the build to variable circumstances (developer's machine or CI server; with or without integration tests) whilst still producing the same final artifact, or
- To adjust what you build: that is, to produce variant artifacts.
We can further divide the second option into: structural variants, where the executable code in the variants is different, and variants which vary only in the value taken by some variable (such as a database connection parameter).
If you need to vary the value of some variable at run-time, profiles are typically not the best way to achieve this. Producing structural variants is a rarer requirement — it can happen if you need to target multiple platforms, such as JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5 — but it, too, is not recommended by the Maven people, and profiles are not the best way of achieving it.
A common case where profiles seem like a good solution is when you need different database connection parameters for development, test and production environments. It is tempting to meet this requirement by combining profiles with Maven's resource filtering capability to set variables in the deliverable artifact's configuration files (e.g. Spring context). This is a bad idea.
- It's indirect: the point at which a variable's value is determined is far upstream from the point at which it takes effect. It makes work for the software's maintainers, who will need to retrace the chain of events in reverse
- It's error prone: when there are multiple variants of the same artifact floating around, it's easy to generate or use the wrong one by accident.
- You can only generate one of the variants per build, since the profiles are mutually exclusive. Therefore you will not be able to use the Maven release plugin if you need release versions of each variant (which you typically will).
- It's against Maven convention, which is to produce a single artifact per project (plus secondary artifacts such as documentation).
- It slows down feedback: changing the variable's value requires a rebuild. If you configured at run-time you would only need to restart the application (and perhaps not even that). One should always aim for rapid feedback.
Profiles are there to help you ensure your project will build in a variety of environments: a Windows developer's machine and a CI server, for instance. They weren't intended to help you build variant artifacts from the same project, nor to inject run-time configuration into your project.
How to achieve it
If you need to get variable runtime configuration into your project, there are alternatives:
- Use JNDI for your database connections. Your project only contains the resource name of the datasource, which never changes. You configure the appropriate database parameters in the JNDI resource on the server.
- Use system properties: Spring, for example, will pick these up when attempting to resolve variables in its configuration.
- Define a standard mechanism for reading values from a configuration file that resides outside the project. For example, you could specify the path to a properties file in a system property.
Structural variants are harder to achieve, and I confess I have no first-hand experience with them. I recommend you read this explanation of how to do them and why they're a bad idea, and if you still want to do them, take the option of multiple JAR plugin or assembly plugin executions, rather than profiles. At least that way, you'll be able to use the release plugin to generate all your artifacts in one build, rather than only one of them.
Consider also Maven's per-user settings
Per-user settings are a bad idea in most cases, because the whole objective of the exercise is to have all artifacts under source control or in a Maven repository, such that the build can be replicated on any machine. However, when you want persistence tests to run in a different database schema for every developer, Maven's per-user settings file (~/.m2/settings.xml) is a sensible alternative to profiles. In this case, you really do want the project to build differently depending on who runs the build. If you do this, make sure you still provide working default values in the POM itself (they will be over-ridden by user settings), such that builds will still work with an empty ~/.m2/settings.xml.
(Thanks to Eric Fitchett for this suggestion.)
Further reading
- Profiles chapter from the Sonatype Maven book.
- Deploying to multiple environments (prod, test, dev):
- Stackoverflow.com discussion; see the first and top-rated answer. Short of creating a specific project for the run-time configuration, you could simply use run-time parameters such as system properties.
- Creating multiple artifacts from one project:
- How to Create Two JARs from One Project (…and why you shouldn't) by Tim O'Brien of Sonatype (the Maven people)
- Blog post explaining the same technique
- Maven best practices (not specifically about profiles):


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May 26, 2016
Services for Mr. Truman Lavell Smith will be held 2:30 PM, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at Providence Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Rev. Jackie Strebeck officiating.
Mr. Smith, 71, of Chunky, died Monday, July 9, 2012 at Jeff Anderson Hospital.
Mr. Smith was a member of Providence Baptist Church for 41 years.
Survivors: Wife of 49 years, Wydell Smith of Chunky, mother, Lorene Smith of Little Rock, four brothers, Cleveland Smith of Decatur, R.D. Smith and wife Elizabeth of Chunky, Jackie Smith and wife Debra of Little Rock, and Wendell Smith and wife Penny of Little Rock, five sisters, Betty Kilpatrick of Little Rock, Tommy Sue Butts of Chunky, Autrice Patterson of Little Rock, Gale Haygood and husband Donnie of Chunky, Retha Hillman and husband Richard of Chunky, and one brother-in-law, James Brooks of Chunky
He was also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, Roy C. Smith of Little Rock and sister, Quanice Simmons of Little Rock.
Pallbearers: George Dean, Steve Cross, David Alexander, Robert Alexander, Eugene Alexander, Andrew Cooley, Jerry Todd, Samuel McCloud, and Travis Coate
Visitation will be held tonight from 5:30- 8 PM at Milling Funeral Home of Union.
Also visitation one hour prior to service time at Providence Baptist Church.
Milling Funeral Home of Union in charge of arrangements.
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It's spring! At least that's what the weather pretended to be a few days ago. So I pulled out some of my brightest clothes and went for a stroll around Columbia. I wanted to match the spring flowers and sing with the birds. I wanted to smile at strangers and dance with the sun. I wanted my 'fro to speak for itself and for my sunglasses to reflect the beautiful, colorful world! I even walked with a spring in my steps! Get it? Walking with a spring in my steps for spring? Ok, that was so corny.
Now, it's back to 30 degrees, and I feel like these photographs were taken so long ago. I was just tricked by mother nature once more just a few days ago. I'm currently lying in my fluffy pink bathrobe unimpressed by the weather. Can someone call me when it's back to 75 degrees, please!
Top: Zara; Pants: Nasty Gal; Shoes: Asos; Glasses: Vintage
Sidenote: I purchase these pants with their matching bustier top, but the top was too revealing for me to wear for that occasion. I went with a printed top because I didn't want to play it safe with a denim or white blouse. These pants + denim shirt + statement necklace= FABULOUS!
Photos by Darnell Scott
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May 24, 2016
Tallahassee, FL - September 28, 2012
FAMU Police announce all-clear on campus.
WCTV has learned that someone earlier thought they saw someone with a weapon on campus, possibly near the Orange Room and alerted police.
Tallahassee, FL - September 28, 2012
FAMU PD is looking for b/m 5'4" low scruffy hair cut black shirt demin shorts black air force shoes armed with a black hand gun in the entire campus area.
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Negotiation hangs up on question of openness
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- Written by Los Altos Town Crier Staff
The face-to-face talks just launching between Los Altos School District and Bullis Charter School reps may have stalled this week over a problem of transparency.
LASD trustee Doug Smith reported at Monday night's board meeting (Feb. 6) that he and charter school leaders disagree about making the meetings strictly hush-hush.
As an elected official, Smith said he wasn't comfortable participating in entirely unreported talks.
More to come on this story – for in-depth coverage of charter school and school district negotiations, check our print edition next week.


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New pilot program takes aim at supply chain carbon
University of Minnesota's NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise and CDP partner to help suppliers reduce greenhouse gas emissions
January 21, 2014
Recognizing that the vast bulk of most companies' carbon footprint rests in its supply chain, the University's NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise has teamed up with CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) to help global suppliers reduce their carbon emissions.
CDP is a non-governmental organization that provides a global environmental disclosure system to encourage companies around the world to reduce carbon emissions. For the past few years, CDP's supply chain program has seen an increase in the number of global supplier companies reporting their carbon emissions, with over 2,800 companies reporting in 2013. However, the number of actions suppliers have taken to mitigate emissions has remained low relative to the number of activities taken by multinational purchasing companies (e.g., retailers and end product manufacturers) that are members of CDP's supply chain program. In response, CDP has developed an initiative known as Action Exchange (AEX), which provides suppliers with information they can use to save money and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Six large customers — Bank of America, L'Oreal, PepsiCo, Philips, Vodafone and Walmart —and over 100 of their suppliers are participating in the pilot program. Using CDP's massive multiyear dataset on corporate carbon emissions, NiSE is recommending which suppliers are likely to provide the greatest carbon returns by participating in the program.
"It is an exceptional opportunity to inform the actions of large global corporations," says NiSE researcher Jennifer Schmitt.
The launch of the pilot program coincides with the release of CDP Supply Chain Report 2013-14, which includes a commentary on NiSE's role in the pilot project.
"Many companies have carbon targets they are trying to reach," says Schmitt, "but they are often still focusing their efforts on energy efficiency projects. While these are admirable, they are not the highest yielding activities from a carbon reduction perspective. Companies need to give more consideration to other actions such as changes in product design, which can yield significantly greater carbon reductions."
To view and download a copy of the report and access related infographics and videos, visit CDP.
The University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment seeks lasting solutions to Earth's biggest challenges through research, partnerships and leadership development. For more information, visit environment.umn.edu.
The NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise, an IonE program, works with private sector partners to identify and overcome systemic obstacles to achieving a truly sustainable economy. For more information, visit environment.umn.edu/northstar.
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UPDATE: N. Illinois Rattling a Quarry Blast, Not Earthquake
The U.S. Geological Survey now says a quarry blast shook northern Illinois at a magnitude 3.7.
The agency said earlier Monday afternoon that the rumbles were an earthquake. Later, the USGS updated its report to say the shaking was a quarry blast in the southwestern Chicago suburb of Countryside.
The agency says the shaking struck Indian Head Park in Cook County around 12:35 p.m. It was about 1.4 kilometers deep.
Indian Head Park is about 16 miles southwest of Chicago and has about 3,800 residents.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.


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Jan. 7, 2012
NEW ORLEANS - After trailing by double figures early in the second half, the Talane men's basketball team fought their way back to force Southern Miss into overtime, only to fall short, 71-66, in the Conference USA home opener on Saturday afternoon in Fogelman Arena.
The Green Wave (12-4, 0-2 C-USA) trailed 38-26 a minute into the second half and 52-41 with 10:38 remaining, but chipped away to eventually tie the game 60-60 on a tip-in by Tre Drye with 1:01 left. Neither team scored in the final minute of play to send the game into overtime.
Southern Miss (14-2, 2-0 C-USA) outscored Tulane, 11-6, in the overtime period to secure the victory.
"I'm very proud of those guys in that locker room," Tulane head coach Ed Conroy said. "They showed a lot of heart, a lot of effort and a lot of grit. Our guys responded and that is a sign of their growing mental toughness."
Tulane played all but 18 minutes of the game without junior guard Kendall Timmons who left the game late in the first half with a right ankle injury. He will be re-evaluated early in the week. Timmons, the Green Wave's leading scorer this season, posted 13 points before the injury.
Jordan Callahan, who posted a game-high 17 points and scored five of Tulane's final seven points in regulation, fouled out less than a minute into overtime.
Tulane's defense held the Golden Eagles to just three field goals in the final 10:38 of regulation and held them to 36.8 percent shooting for the game, including just 30.4 percent in the second half. The Green Wave shot 42.6 percent from the floor in the game, including 50.0 percent in both the second half and overtime.
Tulane also connected on six of 15 3-pointers with two from Callahan and two from Trent Rogers, whose second long range shot cut the deficit to 57-54 with 4:21 left in the second. Rogers finished the with eight points off the bench
Ricky Tarrant added 16 points and five rebounds for Tulane, while Drye had six points and six rebounds in 35 minutes off the bench as well.
Neil Watson led USM with 16 points off the bench, while Maurice Bolden had 15 and Torye Pelham added 11. LaShay Page was held scoreless, but led the Golden Eagles with eight rebounds and Jonathan Mills grabbed seven boards. The team rebounding totals were tied at 35-35, but USM turned 14 offensive rebounds into 14 second chance points.
"There is no question our guys fought the whole way," Conroy added. "It has been tough rebounding against these guys for a decade and we ended up even on the boards and we ended up at the free throw line 27 times. There are a lot of positives going forward with this team."
Josh Davis led the Green Wave with eight rebounds.
Tulane will host Rice at 7 p.m. CT next Saturday.
- This was Tulane's first OT game since a 79-75 loss to Marshall in Fogelman Arena on Feb. 19, 2011. This is also the sixth straight season Tulane has played an OT game in C-USA.
- Kendall Timmons scored in double figures for the 12th game this season and the 54th game of his career with his 13 points today.
- Timmons suffered a right ankle injury late in the first half and did not return to the game.
- Jordan Callahan scored in double figures for the 10th game this season and the 40th game of his career with his 17 points today.
- Callahan moved into a tie for ninth-place on Tulane's career 3-pointers made list with his two today. The junior now has 111 career 3-pointers made and is tied with Kim Lewis.
- Ricky Tarrant recorded his 11th double figure scoring game of this season with his 16 points today.


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Alabama County's Woes Threaten Its Neighbors
The financial woes of debt-laden Jefferson County, Ala., may have negative spillover effects for other nearby communities and school districts, a rating agency and prominent analyst have warned.
The main concern is that the county, which collects property taxes for cities, towns and schools within its borders, may be tempted to "hold on to some of the cash, at least temporarily, thereby passing its own cash crunch on to the local municipalities," Moody's Investors Service said in a research note.
One leading analyst, Matt Fabian of Municipal Market Advisors, advised investors to shy away from all Alabama bonds, citing the state's unwillingness to help Jefferson County as it grapples with $3.2 billion in debt from a soured sewer bond financing and the loss of a jobs tax, a crucial revenue source.
That sort of contagion effect is one reason that most states actively supervise cities, counties and agencies within their borders, and are often willing to actively help them to resolve their financing problems.
In Jefferson County, home of Alabama's most populous city, Birmingham, property tax is a significant source of revenue—40% or more—for some school districts, including Mountain Brook, Hoover and Homewood, as well for communities like Vestavia Hills, Moody's said. The city of Birmingham, the county's largest borrower, is less exposed, as just 14% of its revenues come from property taxes.
"Birmingham is less vulnerable to this problem than some other municipalities, given that it derives revenue from a diverse array of sources, including a sales tax and its own occupational tax," Moody's said.
Jefferson County has been fighting filing what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in history for roughly three years, thanks to the soured sewer bond deal. Its problems were aggravated when the state Supreme Court ruled in March that the county couldn't collect an employment tax that brought in about one-third of its general fund revenue.
Following that ruling, Jefferson County laid off hundreds of staff last week and will close four of its five courthouses to the public, starting June 27. County police said they will no longer respond to traffic accidents and will take longer to respond to calls because of a reduced work week for its officers.
Such actions and reactions illustrate the risk of investing in Alabama bonds, Mr. Fabian said.
"In contrast to expected behavior by other states, we believe it is far from likely that Alabama would intervene ... to aid any local bond issuers in distress," he wrote in a research note.
Because borrowing costs for other nearby municipalities and the state itself tend to soar when a community gets in fiscal stress, states often intervene and sometimes offer financial assistance.
More than half of the states have some sort of active supervision or financial review of local governments, said James Spiotto, a partner in law firm Chapman & Cutler LLP and an expert on laws affecting distressed municipalities.
Alabama, however, is not among them, and its officials have showed little desire to provide assistance to Jefferson County.
Gov. Robert Bentley has taken a laissez-faire approach, saying he would support the county should it opt to declare bankruptcy. He's asked two of its top aides to meet with Jefferson County officials to discuss a 25% sewer-fee hike proposed by a court-appointed receiver over the sewer system.
They will discuss the "pros and cons" of the rate increase along with different actions the county could take, said Mr. Bentley's press secretary Jennifer Ardis. "Bankruptcy has to be an option that's on the table, but it can't be the only option," she said.
A local senator, Scott Beason, contested legislation that would have given the county the ability to raise up to $50 million of its own revenue each year. Among several bills that were considered to help the county's fiscal distress, state lawmakers approved only one, which allows Jefferson County to collect a business license tax.
The business license tax is expected to raise just $7 million a year, a far cry from the roughly $70 million in annual revenues brought in by the lost jobs tax.
Last week, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange filed a motion in Jefferson County Circuit Court to intervene on behalf of sewer users and oppose the fee hike.
The rate increase is necessary in part so that Jefferson County can repay bondholders on its sewer debt. A state judge will determine whether Mr. Strange can intervene.
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I like datelines, but this one could be Vancouver, Seattle, or Portland! My original plan was to stop near Seattle Thursday night and drive to Portland Friday before my Saturday flight.
Instead I took the tough route and drove the distance today — it proved to be worth it.
The real highlight was getting to see Mount St. Helens! I was approaching the area about an hour north of Portland and saw a huge snow covered mountain, missing its top of course and realized that was it.
Had I ever seen it before I'd have known Sunday there was no way it was going to be visible from the observation area. I didn't drive back up today because it was too late. But I did stop at the visitor's center where they have a great area to take pics.
That's where I shot both of these.
I knew the mountain was a sizeable one — 9,677 feet before eruption. But after seeing the wide swatch of destruction Sunday, then the size of the mountain today it all made a lot more sense. The volcano lost more than 1,300 feet in height in the May, 1980 explosion.
The side facing I-5 shown here, doesn't give you the full impact. The other side of the mountain is where the force of the volcano blasted a major chunk of the mountain into the surrounding area.
I really wish I had not been tired and it was earlier so I could have driven back up to the observation area where you can look into the mountain.
For anyone who's never been up in this area, it's just incredible to see the power of mother nature.
The other good thing was that it was a beautiful clear day. So, I saw Mt. Ranier passing Seattle, then Mount St. Helens, and even Mt. Hood when I arrived early evening in Portland.
I now have Friday for a little recovery before flying home Saturday morning. I'm thinking of taking the Columbia River drive which I'm told is incredibly beautiful.


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Rice, to most American cooks, is just rice, one of myriad foods. But for roughly half the people on Earth, rice is the most significant food in their diet, and its preparation and presentation
RICE, TO MOST American cooks, is just rice, one of myriad foods. But for roughly half the people on Earth, rice is the most significant food in their diet, and its preparation and presentation are matters of great import. In "The Oxford Companion to Food," Alan Davidson puts it this way: "Attitudes toward the proper way to cook and eat it seem to depend on the role rice plays in the lives of the people who eat it." In many communities, he writes, "it is revered as divine and it is cooked and served in the plainest possible way."
My friend Zhu Xiaogong, who grew up in Beijing, once shared with me his discomfort at throwing away leftover rice. "When I was a boy," he said, "we sang a little song: Every Grain of Rice Is Sacred."
Growing up in this country, even on the Gulf Coast where rice is more of a staple than it is in most regions of North America, I never gave it that much thought. Most of the rice we ate was the par-boiled grain known as "converted rice," stuff that some of my more food-savvy friends would eventually dismiss as "perverted rice." But after almost three decades in the Pacific Northwest, my taste in rice has changed considerably.
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A turning point was the seven years I spent cooking at Seattle's Canlis restaurant, where a large percentage of the staff was of Asian descent. There, I grew fond of the simply prepared short-grain rice that was served every day as part of the staff meal. I came to appreciate the comforting smell and the soothing simplicity of it. This prompted me to start looking at rice differently and exploring its myriad varieties.
My explorations eventually led me to Tamaki Haiga rice. Produced by Williams Rice Milling Co. in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California, the rice is pretty widely distributed to Asian markets and better Japanese restaurants all over the West Coast.
"Haiga" has a double meaning in Japanese. It literally means "rice bran," but it is also the word for a traditional Japanese brush work, characterized by the juxtaposition of rustic simplicity and ethereal refinement. Haiga may be thought of as the visual form of Haiku. The rice named for the art form is less than fully refined, too; lingering traces of the rough outer bran give it more flavor and texture than white rice, but it is quicker and easier to cook than truly brown rice. It has become my favorite rice.
And one of my favorite ways to enjoy this rice is in Chirashizushi or mixed sushi (chirashi means scattered). It's interesting enough for company but easy enough for a casual family supper. Cooked vegetables or seafood are scattered over the surface or tossed with the finished rice before serving. The secret to this dish is selecting harmonious colors, textures and flavors of ingredients. Opt for grilled shiitake mushrooms, barely cooked snow peas, thin strips of cooked omelet, smoked salmon or just a sprinkling of toasted sesame seeds.
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House votes to strip EPA of authority over coal ash
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The House of Representatives on Friday passed legislation authored by Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., to block creation of tough new nationwide regulations on the handling and disposal of toxic ash from coal-fired power plants.
The measure passed by a vote of 267-144, with 37 Democrats voting in favor of it. Along with McKinley, the bill was co-sponsored by Reps. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va.
McKinley promoted his legislation as a way to block what he believes is more excessive regulation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and to protect companies that recycle coal ash into other products.
"This is not a time for people who dislike fossil fuels to be pushing their own ideology and philosophy," McKinley said Friday morning on the House floor, during early debate on the measure.
While pushing the coal-ash legislation, McKinley has received nearly $200,000 in campaign contributions this election cycle in mining industry donations -- the most of any member of Congress, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. McKinley has also received nearly $50,000 from the electric utility sector, the center said.
Opponents of the coal-ash bill said it, if eventually made law, would stop EPA efforts to regulate more strictly a mounting coal industry threat to public health and the environment.
Lisa Evans, a coal-ash expert with the group Earthjustice, said that McKinley's bill "neuters the EPA's effort to establish the first ever federal regulations for toxic coal ash, America's second-largest industrial waste stream."
Earlier this week, the White House stopped short of threatening a veto, but said the legislation "undermines the federal government's ability to ensure that requirements for management and disposal of coal combustion residuals are protective of human health and the environment."
Coal-fired power plants generate more than 130 million tons of various ash wastes every year. The numbers have been increasing as more plants install scrubbers and other equipment to control air pollution, but shift the toxic leftovers from burning coal into ash and other wastes.
No single national program sets up a concrete regulatory plan for the handling of those "coal combustion wastes." Instead, the nation relies on a patchwork of state programs that vary in terms of their standards and their level of enforcement.
The issue simmered for years, with little focus from political leaders, until the spill of a billion gallons of coal ash -- containing an estimated 2.9 million pounds of toxic pollutants -- from a Tennessee Valley Authority plant in eastern Tennessee in December 2008. The spill covered more than 300 acres and damaged more than two dozen homes, along with roads, rail lines and utilities. TVA estimated the cleanup would cost between $933 million and $1.2 billion and take two to three years to complete.
The TVA disaster brought new calls for regulation, and led to a barrage of new data and reports detailing potential problems with coal-ash impoundment stability and contamination of water supplies from unlined or leaking disposal sites.
The key language in McKinley's bill would block EPA from issuing new regulations that would put the federal agency in charge of setting and enforcing coal-ash handling and disposal regulations. McKinley prefers an industry-backed approach that would leave states in charge.
But so far, the Obama EPA has not indicated that it would even pursue that tougher form of regulation. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson instead issued a regulatory proposal that said that agency was also considering a weaker approach that would allow states to enforce coal-ash rules as long as they followed EPA guidelines.
In March, EPA announced it did not plan to finalize its coal-ash rules in 2011. It's not clear when the agency does plan to issue a final rule.
McKinley's legislation now goes to the Senate.
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My sister and brother have the same father (deceased) and same mother (age 87).
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It has prevented him from having any communication whatsoever with his two sisters and 2 stepsisters. He never answers his phone, letters and does not provide an email. No one can talk to anyone at the nursing home because of lies he perpretrated.
He should be removed because he has threatened that sister he took advantage of "I will see to it that you do not get one penny of your inheritance " because she told someone it happened.
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The lovely Kez Ban has uploaded a video of the full version of the song she performed during her American Idol audition.
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White has been one of the biggest Apple cheerleaders on Wall Street. He drew attention in April for setting a $1,111 price target for Apple's stock when the shares were trading around $600.
White backed away from his old price target on Thursday. He said he still believes the company is worth that much, but he has realized he's too far in front of the pack. Investors aren't going to give the company the credit it deserves, in his opinion.
It's tough for people to get their head around. I can't be a visionary forever,'' White said.
His new price target: $888. Eight is a lucky number in China, and three eights are extra lucky.
Look, Apple needs a little luck here,'' White said.


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