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India's hockey chief Narinder Batra has launched an extraordinary verbal attack on Kookaburras coach Ric Charlesworth, labelling the Australian a loose cannon and declaring he needs psychological treatment.
Batra was fuming after hearing of Charlesworth's criticism of the poor crowds at the inaugural World League Finals in India.
Charlesworth, who is considered a legend of Australian hockey after a decorated playing and coaching career, also pointed out problems with the timing of the event, which he said was supposed to be played in December.
Batra said Charlesworth needed to be taught some manners.
''I don't react to what Ric Charlesworth says because he is a loose cannon,'' Batra told the Press Trust of India.
''He himself does not know what he is saying. I just ignore whatever he says.
''He might be a genius in hockey but, in communication skills, he is very poor. He needs to go back to school to learn basics.
''I think he needs to learn what language one speaks when he travels to a different country.
''We don't react or say something bad about a country when we see poor crowd turnout.
''It's that country's problem.
''That man needs some mental and psychological treatment.''
Hockey Australia chief executive Cam Vale labelled the comments inappropriate, and said he would speak to Hockey India at the end of the World League Finals to discuss the outburst.
Charlesworth had reportedly described the poor crowds as a disgrace.
''I take strong objection to it,'' Batra said.
''This is a strong word he is using against my country and you can't say such things about my country.''
And he also wasn't happy about visiting nations complaining about their players falling sick during their time in India.
Several Australian players were hit by a stomach bug before the tournament started.
''You can't blame my country for a player falling sick. Why do you blame our country for each and everything?'' Batra asked.
The Kookaburras' gold medal hopes ended with a 4-3 loss to the Netherlands in Friday night's semi-final.
The Netherlands will meet surprise packets New Zealand in the decider after the Kiwis beat England in a penalty shootout after scores were locked at 3-3 at fulltime.
Australia will take on England on Saturday in a playoff for bronze.
Charlesworth, who guided the Hockeyroos to two Olympic gold medals, is set to step down as Kookaburras coach after this year's Commonwealth Games.


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Skaters claim their niche
Now that summer's here and there are no classes or homework to fill the days, skateboarders, bikers and rollerbladers are out in full force.
They're often spotted making their way across Main Street or hanging out in the parking lots of downtown businesses or rolling across campus.
Their purposes are varied.
Some are just hanging out. Some are trying to burn calories. Others are just moving from one point to another.
But there are also those who just need a place to get some air -- and not the breathing kind.
At some point, those are the ones who usually end up spending even just a little time at the River Falls Skate Park. The park, nestled between the ice arenas and the softball field at Hoffman Park, features a small collection of ramps and bars for these thrill seekers to ride on and jump off.
They vary in age, from 7- and 8-year-olds to college students and even the occasional adult who never "grew up."
Why do they skate?
"I don't know," Caullin Simonson, 16, said. "I ask myself the same question sometimes. It's just so fun. It gets addicting to do."
Though a common complaint among the "skaters" is that the park needs to be repaired or re-built, they still go to practice their tricks or just hang out.
"I don't skate," Dane Holstein, 17, said. "I just like the environment. It's good peoples."
Holstein said the park is "more of a hangout than an actual skate park," but he still stops by at least a few times per week.
He said he was surprised by how many people he met by going to the park. He got to know a lot of people he had seen around town but had never talked to.
Lindsey Hoffman, 15, also enjoys the social side of skating.
"I like to watch people," she said. "It's entertaining."
Sometimes she tries to ride a board, she said, but usually not often.
The dedication many of the skaters and bikers have might surprise people unfamiliar with the skate park scene.
A common sight is to see kids practice the same trick repeatedly until they get it right.
"It could take a whole day. It could take about a month," Simonson said of the time needed to perform a trick successfully. "For me it could be a day or two."
Simonson has only been skateboarding for about a year, but he can already perform a lot of the tricks. He also said that he always slows down if he gets hurt, but that he's never been seriously injured because of skating.
"Unless you do something stupid, you usually don't get hurt," he said.
Cindi Danke, River Falls Parks and Recreation Department director, figures an average of 30 kids visit the park daily though that number varies.
The park is not regulated by the city. There's a sign posted at the park entrance recommending anyone using the ramps wear a helmet and protective gear.
"I think it has worked well by not monitoring it," Danke said.
She explained that since there is no supervision, parents are more likely to go along with their kids to make sure they don't get hurt or bothered by some of the older skaters.
Whatever their age or skill level, a common thread among the skaters is the desire for a new park. Though, as Holstein put it, "there's nowhere else to go in River Falls," they said the condition of the park leaves much to be desired.
Complaints ranged from the rough concrete to the loose ramp panels, unstable support structures and more.
"It drastically needs improvement," Holstein said. "It needs to be completely redone."
Simonson said he doesn't skate at the park very often just because of its condition, and that he usually rides "street" instead.
"It would be nice to add more elements," Danke said.
She also said that even if more pieces were added to the park, kids would still be riding on the streets to some degree.
What's getting in the way of adding or fixing the park is the lack of money.
Danke said the city does have some money set aside, but when the Youth Advisory Council requested the park in 1999, an agreement was made that the youth would have to raise 50% of the funds themselves for any future projects. Danke said the city agreed to match the funds collected by the youth.
One of the concerns surrounding a skateboard park is the amount of vandalism and unjustified damage the equipment sustains. Danke said the River Falls Skate Park does experience a degree of crime, such as vandalism and substance abuse.
"But that could happen at any of the parks," she said. "It's the nature of a park in general."
Simonson addressed some stereotypes that surround skateboarders.
"They think that (skateboarders) do drugs and wreck everything they skate on," he said. "And that all skaters aren't nice, when actually some are."
Simonson used River Falls as an example of a city with friendly skaters.
He also said he thought an improved park might help reduce the drug problem because more people would be using the ramps rather than just gathering around them.
Look for more photos and a video of skating and biking tricks online at www.riverfallsjournal.com.

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The Finance Sector Union (FSU) has warned that a proposal by
The FSU plans to confront Westpac over a review of its policies regarding outsourcing and sending jobs offshore.
The rebuke came after Westpac chief executive
Investors backed the bank's productivity strategy, agreeing with Mrs Kelly's assessment that weak loan demand across the industry and skills shortages meant banks had to consider moving functions to cheaper destinations like India where there are many skilled workers.
Argo Investments senior investment officer Chris Hall said all banks needed to look closely at their costs in the current environment.
"The banks have enormous cost bases and in this environment of low credit growth, they have still got plenty of cost levers to pull to generate earnings growth," Mr Hall said.
"That is the next step. The key for any industry, not just banking, is that cost efficiencies have to be executed in a manner that doesn't affect customer service. That is critical."
Non customer-service facing roles, such as information technology, could still affect customer service indirectly, Mr Hall said.
Mrs Kelly said the productivity drive would remove duplication and "steps and complexity out of processes" for customers and staff. "That will take costs out, and it will improve service as well," she said.
Another investor, Alphinity Investment Management principal Andrew Martin, said sending jobs offshore made sense when bank revenues were under pressure and unemployment was a low 4.9 per cent.
FSU national secretary
"Members of the community are fed up to the back teeth that times are so tough that we've got to send jobs overseas to save a bit of money," Mr Carter said. "This furphy that Gail is talking about – that if we offshore and outsource jobs it's better for the customer – is completely rejected by the people who work in the industry."
He was not convinced by Mrs Kelly's statement that customer-service facing roles would be excluded from the review, which will focus on accounting and reconciliation.
"Let's not pretend there are first and second-class citizens in the banking industry," Mr Carter said. "These are still Australians trying to make ends meet, who no more deserve to have their jobs sent overseas than somebody working in a call centre."
Mr Carter said it was time for the federal government to take a leadership role on the issue, given banks had benefited from the taxpayer-backed bank guarantee during the global financial crisis.
"The only people that make money out of this are shareholders and senior executives," Mr Carter said.
A Westpac spokesman said last night the bank was reviewing the suspension of outsourcing of some operations. "We postponed our program two years ago in response to the global financial crisis. At that time we were concerned that unemployment would rise significantly. Unemployment has now stabilised at a relatively low level," the spokesman said.
"Outsourcing is part and parcel of the business practice of many leading companies in Australia and overseas, given that we operate as part of a global economy. Westpac and other major banks already outsource to global service providers . . . this produces a range of benefits including gaining access to skills and capabilities. As a result we can improve services to our customers in Australia."
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"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."
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They have a saying in Tennessee that good things can't be hurried. It certainly applies to the Nashville-based songwriter and country-folk icon Gillian Welch, who spent eight years composing her current album, The Harrow & the Harvest, a set of songs so dark and skeletal they might have tumbled out of an ancient, Appalachian closet. Welch's writing and performing partner, Dave Rawlings, has described the record as "10 different types of sad"; and it follows that the duo's live show offers 10 different forms of downbeat.
The songs, performed on acoustic guitar and banjo, are pared down to subsistence level. The sole element of staging is that the pair have brought their own rug. And few performers so doggedly underplay their material. "This next one's kind of a downer," Rawlings mumbles, his features obscured by a large Stetson. "It starts off slow then fizzles out altogether."
Such relentless self-depreciation might pall very quickly were it not for the sheer quality of the songcraft. Welch has an uncanny ability to make freshly minted archaisms sound plausible, while the seven sublime minutes of their signature number, Time (the Revelator), seem to suspend time altogether as Rawling's wiry guitar improvisation approaches modal jazz before returning by a back route with mud on its boots. Welch's keening alto is an enchantment itself, while her exuberant display of hamboning (the traditional Appalachian art of thigh-slapping) brings the house down. "It's a real ice-breaker," she smiles. That she chooses to be on stage for more than 90 minutes before breaking the ice is entirely typical. Good things come to those who wait.
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Energy Security Worry To Drive India's Low-CO2 Plan
Date: 24-Mar-10
Country: INDIA
Author: Krittivas Mukherjee and Ratnajyoti Dutta
Worries over energy security will drive India's goal to slow the growth of its carbon emissions, the head of a government panel tasked with developing the country's low-carbon strategy said on Monday.
Reserves of fossil fuels such as coal were fast running out, making it imperative for India to improve efficiency and accelerate renewable energy sources to keep the economy growing at a projected 8 to 9 percent annually, Kirit Parikh said.
India, the world's fourth-largest carbon emitter, is under pressure to cut pollution in the fight against climate change. While per-capita emissions are still low, demand for electricity and fossil fuels is increasing as the middle class clamors for more cars, TVs and better housing.
"If the Indian economy is not concerned at all with climate change ... and follows the business-as-usual path, the reality is even in business-as-usual we have to change from what we are today," Parikh told Reuters in an interview.
"These are your imperatives in any way from your energy security point of view because we are very short of oil, very short of gas.
"We need to find in the next 20, at the most 30 years, an alternative to coal-based power plants. That will be required in a business-as-usual scenario."
In India, any talk of a low-carbon economy was once seen as politically very risky, given the economic costs involved. But Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in January asked Parikh to begin charting a path to a greener economy.
The panel's preliminary report is due next month and the final submission in September.
Although India has announced a new climate plan which identifies renewable energy, such as solar power, as a key element, coal remains the backbone of energy supply in a country where almost half the 1.1 billion population has no access to electricity.
The country has 10 percent of the world's coal reserves, the biggest after the United States, Russia and China. Most of India's coal is inferior in quality and highly polluting.
About 70 million tonnes of coal is imported each year, mostly for making steel.
India plans to add 78.7 gigawatts of power generation during the five years ending March 2012, most of it from coal, which now accounts for about 60 percent of the nation's energy mix.
By comparison, renewables such as wind, solar and biomass contribute only 8.8 percent to generation and, though there are plans to scale up solar power generation to 20 gigawatts by 2022, it depends on international finance and technology.
A landmark nuclear deal with the United States might herald a new chapter in clean energy in India, but long planning and building periods for nuclear reactors and high cost are deterrents.
Parikh said given the dependence on coal, the only way forward was to enhance the efficiency of coal-based power plants by using technology such as super-critical boilers which would help cut coal use by about 20 percent.
"In 10 years' time, half of my plants should be more efficient. In another 10 years, 75 percent of the plants should be more efficient," he said.
India last year set a goal for slowing the growth of its emissions, saying it will try to rein in its "carbon intensity" -- the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of economic output -- by between 20 and 25 percent by 2020, from 2005 levels.
Parikh said the target was achievable without a major shift in policy keeping in view the fact that India's energy intensity -- the amount of energy used to produce one unit of GDP -- has been coming down.
He said it was too early to estimate the economic cost of shifting to a low-carbon economy and the panel would initially only identify areas of opportunities such as in the power, transport and construction sectors.
Parikh said increasing energy efficiency was not enough because enhanced efficiency would lead to higher energy demands.
" ... activities become more productive, larger value-adding takes place, incomes go up, people demand more, growth takes place and the total energy demand goes up," he said.
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So I'm all really excited right now because I was accepted into the Cambridge University summer program. I'm not entirely sure what the level of competition for admissions was, so perhaps I ought to save the self-congratulations for later, but I'd rather not. Yay me. The cool thing is that USC recognizes the credit I will earn, so I get 4 elective credits. Not that I need them--my AP transfer credits already cover more than what I need to graduate--but still. Yay excess credits. Must also stop saying "yay". It's sort of been on my lips all day.
More relevantly, I wrote my application essays about my eagerness to study read architecture at Cambridge after I earn my B.Arch here. But I won't be studying architecture this summer; hopefully I can get into some art history courses. I think it's hugely important to 'get away' from architecture, if not for a physical break then for a change of perspective.
So far I've been a little bit dismayed to find out that USC's B.Arch is so narrowly focused, but then I think that may be the case with most five-year B.Archs. I'll graduate knowing drafting, model-making, structural physics, and computer design, but in the middle of all that I'll never have time to nudge my French to fluency or take a demanding philosophy class. I'm beginning to seriously wish I would have applied to a B.A. program, which makes me even more annoyed because I know I could be at Harvard or Yale right now.
Is it so bad to want something more than architecture? I feel so limited by the weight of studio... and really the whole architecture curriculum in general. It's so massive and prescribed: five hour classes three afternoons per week, and morning schedules set in stone. GenEds and electives fill in the gaps, mostly depending on what time slots you can manage to lose.
But I think it's so important, even essential, to escape from architecture and pursue other things, related or not, from something trendy and potentially pragmatic like photography or painting to something glittery and vestigial like Latin or theology. I have this awful feeling that I'm being trained to be a great architect but not an architectural scholar. One of the things that impressed me so much about Liz Falletta, my instructor last semester, was that she earned a BA in philosophy before her MArch and further degrees. She could quote Kant and Corb in the same breath. And that's super-cool.
Cultivating other interests and engaging in other disciplines, no matter what they do, is healthy. It certainly isn't going to harm your architecture, unless through mere constriction of the hours in a day. And one's architecture almost cannot help but become richer, more allusive, and--for lack of a more polished term--more well-rounded.
So I think I'll be studying art history this summer. It's distantly related to architecture (what isn't? One of my favorite quotes from the Cornell Summer College program was Prof Mulcahy: "Architecture is the most promiscuous of the arts.") and may or may not have practical application in the future. I frankly couldn't care less; it's just something I want to do. So yeah, I'm excited.
I don't think it's bad to want more than architecture, at all. That was one of the primary reasons I did my undergrad at a large, public university. Lots of variety, and the ability to major in more than 'just' architecture.
hey! I only just discovered your blog. I graduated from 'SC last may, and am very happy to see my alma mater represented. At some point when it's good looking, might you post some third-floor pictures? I was excited about this, but then I took a peek mid-construction, and they'd ruined the second floor for it. Very disappointing.
And the great thing about the B.Arch's focus is that you can go do whatever you want afterwards and not worry about the M.Arch for licensing purposes. But def. enjoy Cambridge!
Yay you, Daniel. Congratulations on Cambridge. I echo Rationalist on virtually every point. The BArch is narrow... but architecture is vast, and without this sustained focus, you'd be ill-prepared. (I'm of the opinion that the 3-year master's is woefully inadequate training for this profession, but that's another topic.) If you decide to, you can do your master's in another field for breadth; if you choose carefully, you can tie it to your BArch and make your resume' especially rich (architecture + preservation, or landscape, or law, or history, or geography, or art).
So, yes, go! Go and learn everything you can on what interests you. This sometimes means course work, but often can be less-structured: lectures, hikes, books, conversations with interesting professionals or artists... you get the picture. Enjoy!
ooh, and also, it'll feel like you have more opportunities when you get to fourth and fifth year. The USC program is very front-loaded. Since you've got transfer credits (did any of them count for G.E's?), you'll be able to take lots of random and interesting things later on. I took yoga and preservation, knew people taking Japanese, planning, business, guitar, all sorts of stuff. So if you focus on requirements early, you can have a lot of fun later on.
Yes! Take a class or two over in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development. Planning and real estate are interesting in their own right, but knowledge of them gives an architect a distinct advantage.
Congrats on your acceptance ... i remember years ago when I was accepted to a similar summer program ... it definitely gave me a boost. But Cambridge! Wow! That's good stuff. I echo everyone else's sentiments, but what ever you do, just read. Read lots. Inhale books. Morsels gleaned from a book will inform your practice in many ways. Good luck!
Yes, SC is very front loaded. However, it does get better. I used all of the transfer/AP credits to take deep water cruising courses. Sailing a 50'-0†boat to Catalina Island three times a semester four two semesters was a great break. Leaning celestial navigation was a real plus too. Fight On!
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YPSILANTI, Mich. - Gathering on a bitterly cold night on the campus of Eastern Michigan University, family and friends of Julia Niswender hope to shine the spotlight on a murder investigation that has gone cold for police.
Her mother, Kim Turnquist, vows to fight as long as it takes to get answers.
"I will do this year after year and I will not stop until we find justice for Julia," said Turnquist.
The 23-year-old student was found dead in a bathtub at her off-campus apartment in December 2012. On Monday night, those who knew and loved her stood together with candles in front of that apartment.
Jennifer Niswender struggles to put into words the pain of losing not only her twin sister, but also her best friend.
"It's hard to even explain sometimes but it feels like a part of me went with her," she said.
A year later the fear remains around this campus after more violent crimes targeting students, such as the shooting death of Demarius Reed in October. Two men have been arrested and charged in his death.
Story: 2 men charged in Eastern Michigan football player's murder
Each day, Julia's father, Jim Turnquist, says the family waits, thinking this could be the day for a break in her case.
"I hate it. Every day your mind takes over and you start thinking of different things. Well, what if I was the detective, what would I do?" he said.
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A semi-tanker rig hauling gasoline overturned on U.S. 40 in Wasatch County early Thursday morning, blocking the westbound lane of travel.
The Utah Highway Patrol did not report any injuries in the crash, which occurred about 4:30 a.m. at mile post 24, south of Heber City and near the town of Independence.
The accident scene had been cleared by 6:30 a.m. with only a small amount of fuel reported to have leaked.


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Tim Burton to direct Unicorn Apolcalypse movie in new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 ad
0. phoneArena posted on 24 Feb 2013, 14:05
The continuous saga of Unicorn Apocalypse, the made up video game from a made up studio that has been at the heart of the last few Samsung ads, will be a made-up movie directed by the very real Tim Burton in the latest installment of the ads; this time, the device being pitched by the Korean manufacturer is the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1...
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1. stealthd (unregistered)
Samsung seems to be paying for some pretty funny ads, I'm just not seeing how they actually sell phones. Brand awareness is valuable, but they just throw in buzzwords and branded TouchWiz features on top of scripts that have very little to do with their devices.
2. 1ceTr0n (Posts: 549; Member since: 20 May 2012)
If Tim Burton himself says its too weird, you just need to call it a day.
3. Taters (banned) (Posts: 6474; Member since: 28 Jan 2013)
They should take a different approach. Rather than spending money on advertising, they should just use the money to screw over Apple. Have a patent trolling budget that strictly targets Apple.
4. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Patent trolling doesn't pay much in long run and who would know this better than Apple (and Samsung) ...
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LOL steve was stupid with his "thermonuclear" law war.


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AIDS at 30: Who's at Greatest Risk of Infection Now?
In the spring of 1981, young gay men in New York and California were being sickened by rare forms of pneumonia and cancer, and the unknown disease fueled fears across society. What we now know as HIV/AIDS was once considered a death sentence. Ray Suarez reports on the state of the disease, plus the risks, treatment and research.
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A man was killed and another was injured when they were attacked while walking in Florida, on the West Rand, on Tuesday morning, paramedics said.
The injured man called for help from local residents, who alerted paramedics, said ER24 spokeswoman Vanessa Jackson.
They got there to find the other man had died. He had lost a lot of blood, she said.
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1. Toshiba A215-s4747, AMD Turion 64x2, ATI graphic card,
2. Snow.L.10.6.1-10.6.2.SSE2.SSE3 ( I download from some place & made .iso image which I placed on a DVD ) with MagicISO prog
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New Zealand is hosting the APAC World Floorball Championships Qualification for the very first time from 29 January through 2 February 2014.
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Teams from New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Japan and South Korea will battle it out on the rink.
Media are welcome to attend the event.
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Where: ASB Indoor Sports Stadium, 72 Kemp Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington
When: 29 January – 2 February, 2014
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Was the only one pretty offended by some of the Chiefs' comments after the game? Trying to tell us what a great guy Belcher was? I don't care if he came to practice on time and always knew where to be, the guy murdered the mother of his child.
Umm, how would having postponed the game be seen has honoring the guy? My reasoning was concerning those that were close to him and the family. The people that saw him kill himself and the other members of the team. The only people saying ti would have honored him are the ones using it as an excuse to play the game.
As for his teammates saying he was a good guy and all, well why wouldn't they say that if it was true? All I've read about him said he was just that. I love how some of you can blast them for saying things after they "had" to "step up and put it behind them" so they could play a meaningless game. Obviously this action surprised them and they are still trying to deal with it. We may never know why he killed her, but there was obviously something wrong with him.
If Belcher's death is the direct cause of the cancellation of the game, then how could that not be seen as a tribute/act of respect to him? Whether its right or wrong, that's how a lot of people would have viewed it, IMO.
Brady Quinn, of all people, probably said the best and only things that really need to be said
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I don't get the vibe this guy was looking for publicity and a massive disruption in normalcy for people nationwide or statewide or even throughout his 'workplace', but if he'd gotten it thru the postponing of the game and the further publicity that would've brought then someone else down the line might get the idea this would be the way to go out in a blaze of glory in their own circles.
As for the people close to him that were affected, anyone that witnessed this that was affected.... take the day off or sack up. Either way, move on.
IMHO the right decision was reached and normalcy will be attained much sooner thanks to that.
Sad situation all around.
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Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher shot dead his girlfriend and then killed himself after she told him he was NOT the father of her baby
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PUBLISHED:08:31 EST, 14 December 2012| UPDATED: 10:23 EST, 14 December 2012
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Kansas City Chief's player Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend dead before shooting himself because she told him he was not the father of their baby daughter, it was revealed today.
The Long Island mother of the player Cheryl Shepherd said the couple argued over the paternity of their three-month-old daughter right before the murder suicide at her son's home in Missouri.
Mrs Shepherd was in the home when her son shot Kasandra Perkins, 22, nine times before fleeing. He is believed to have kissed her dying body and their baby daughter goodbye before he left.
Tragic: Belcher is seen here with his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins, 22, and their baby daughter Zoey. Belcher and Perkins argued about the baby's paternity before he shot her
Troubled: The murder-suicide has sparked debate in the NFL about gun ownership and the personal struggles of players
A source told the New York Post: 'The mother believed that there was an issue over whether [Belcher] was the father. She said he believed he wasnt necessarily the father of the child.'
A Kansas City law-enforcement source confirmed: 'She told police there was a question about the paternity.'
It is unclear if the paternity issue was the reason why the rocky relationship ended in such a violent and tragic way.
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The source added: 'The implication was that paternity was what the two of them were fighting about that the baby might not have been his.'
The couple had been receiving counseling for relationship and financial problems, police said.
A spokeswoman said she would not comment on the doubts raised over baby Zoey's paternity.
Paying respects: Hundreds of mourners memorialized Jovan Belcher at his funeral Wednesday - despite his murdering the mother of his child before committing suicide
Memorial: Jovan Belcher was eulogized as a 'humble, kind young man' by his mother as his family and friends grappled with the horror of what he did
According to the New York Post, she is set to receive more than $1million over the years until she reaches 18. It is not clear if this was based on the results of a pregnancy test.
Belchers beneficiary will also get $600,000 in life insurance, a $100,000 retirement account and $200,000 for each of the four seasons played.
A Kansas City police spokeswoman said the baby's paternity wouldnt be part of the departments murder-suicide probe.
'That would not be something theyre going to investigate,' said Sgt Marisa Barnes. 'Its a "he-said, she-said" so theres no way to investigate. It would be nothing more than a civil matter.'
Belcher was memorialized as a 'humble, kind young man' at his funeral on Wednesday - despite the brutal murder of the mother of his child and shooting himself in front of his coaches.
At least seven NFL players have turned over their weapons in the wake of the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide, according to Sports Illustrated reporter Peter King.
The players have handed their guns over to their teams' security officers to dispose of them.
One player gave up multiple firearms and told team officials he didn't trust himself with them.
The horrific murder suicide has shaken the NFL and begun a discussion of gun ownership and mental health issues.
At least seven players have given up their guns - handing them over to the security personnel for their teams, Sports Illustrated reports.
Several hundred mourners gathered for the NFL linebacker's funeral near his hometown on Long Island, New York.
At Upper Room Christian Church on Wednesday, relatives wore black - and red, the Chiefs' color. Pastor Dawn Mixon shared that Belcher's mother, Cheryl Shepherd, described him as a 'humble, kind young man.'
He had a soft spot for children and loved cartoons, she said.
'We may not understand the reasons why we are here or understand what caused this tragedy,' Pastor Mixon said.
At a celebration of Belcher's life, there were hints of the way it ended. A photo slide show played on a large screen above the stage, with images from Belcher's childhood through his football careers at nearby West Babylon High School and the University of Maine.
The funeral was at Upper Room Christian Church in Dix Hills, New York, near his hometown on Long Island
Then appeared the words 'In loving memory of' Belcher and Kasandra Perkins, the mother of his 3-month-old daughter Zoey.
After a series of pictures of Perkins and baby Zoey came the message, 'Keep this little girl in your prayers.'
'The legacy we pass on to her will be good,' said his uncle, Davin Miles.
Next to an open casket were collages of photos and mementos from Belcher's playing career. An array of flowers spelled out W.B. for his high school.
Belcher then drove to Arrowhead Stadium, where he thanked coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli for all they'd done for him. As police arrived, Belcher slipped behind a car and put the gun to his head.
His path to becoming an NFL starter had been an unlikely one. Belcher did not play in college football's top division, and he wasn't drafted. But he made the Chiefs, becoming a full-time starter in 2010.
Bishop Stephanie Green described Belcher as 'a man who did some awesome things - while other
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Zoey Belcher now living in Texas; custody battle takes shape
The struggle over who will care for the daughter of a Chiefs player who committed suicide after killing the girls mother is taking shape in Missouri and Texas courts.
And tensions between paternal and maternal grandparents of the 4-month-old daughter of Jovan Belcher and Kasandra Perkins have emerged in court filings.
Authorities turned over Zoey Michelle Belcher to Cheryl Shepherd, her paternal grandmother, just after her parents deaths on Dec. 1.
But in an email to a Jackson County probate commissioner Thursday, a lawyer for Shepherd disclosed that Zoey is in Texas with her mothers family.
Cheryl agreed to temporarily allow the maternal relatives (to) take Zoey to Texas for her mothers funeral, wrote lawyer Gretchen M. Gold. The maternal relatives have now ceased communicating with Cheryl Shepherd and have refused to return her calls or return the child to her care.
Both families have filed court cases seeking to care for Zoey. Judges in Independence and Fort Worth have scheduled hearings later this month to begin determining where the infant and money to support her will end up.
Zoey was orphaned Dec. 1, when Belcher emptied a .40-caliber handgun into Perkins at the home they shared in the 5400 block of Crysler Avenue. Belcher then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and shot himself in the parking lot in front of his coaches and the teams general manager.
Shepherd, of West Babylon, N.Y., had moved in with the couple about two weeks before the shootings.
On Dec. 14, Shepherd filed a petition with Jackson County probate court, asking that she be appointed Zoeys guardian and the conservator of her estate.
Money to care for Zoey could come from a trust funded by the Hunt family, Chiefs coaches, players and employees and contributions from the public.
Zoeys estate or guardian also will receive more than $1 million under terms of the NFLs collective-bargaining agreement.
The girl stands to receive $108,000 annually over the next four years, $48,000 in the fifth year and then $52,000 each year until age 18. Shell continue to receive that amount until age 23 if she attends college.
The beneficiary of Belcher, who was in his fourth season, also will receive $600,000 in life insurance, plus $200,000 for each credited season. There is also $100,000 in a retirement account that will go to his beneficiary or estate.
Shepherd also has asked probate court to appoint her the administrator of Belchers estate.
The probate commissioner has scheduled a Jan. 11 hearing in Independence to hear both petitions.
In Fort Worth, Zoeys maternal grandparents, Rebecca Anne Gonzalez and Darryl Perkins, and other Texas relatives have filed suit asking that they temporarily care for the girl, that her residence be in Tarrant County, Texas, and that a guardian ad litem be appointed to represent her best interests.
The maternal litigants also asked for a social study into the circumstances and condition of the child and of the home of any person requesting to care for the child.
A Fort Worth judge is scheduled to have his first hearing on that case Jan. 22.
Shepherds lawyer said in her email that she is engaging lawyers in Fort Worth to appear at the hearing.
We intend to fight the matter in Texas on Jan. 22 if that hearing takes place, Gold wrote.
Jovan Belchers mother sues the Chiefs
Posted by Mike Florio on December 31, 2013, 6:14 PM EST
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As the proposed settlement of the massive concussion lawsuit continues to sputter through the judicial system, another former NFL player has formally initiated a civil action.
According to the Kansas City Star, the estate of linebacker Jovan Belcher has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Chiefs.
The lawsuit, submitted by Belchers mother, contends that Belcher was exposed to repetitive head trauma and suffered multiple concussive and subconcussive blows to the head which caused or contributed to cause a a constellation of neurologic/brain harms, including post concussion syndrome . . . and traumatic brain injuries, such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
Apart from the boilerplate allegations appearing in most concussion lawsuits, the Belcher lawsuit makes specific allegations regarding behavior that caused Belcher to play through brain injuries. The lawsuit contends that Chiefs officials engaged in mental abuse to motivate Belcher, that Belcher was told he was just an accident, and they would get rid of him, and that he was bullied and pressured to the point that, when combined with Belchers concussion issues, caused or contributed to cause [him] to become insane.
The lawsuit also alleges that the Chiefs knew or should have known that Belcher showed signs of cognitive and neuropsychiatric impairment, that he was knocked unconscious during a game against Jacksonville in 2009 but was not immediately taken for evaluation, and that he wasnt given time to fully recover before returning to practice.
The Chiefs played the Jaguars on November 8, 2009, only days after the NFL began to take far more seriously the issue of concussions and, specifically, the rules regarding a players ability to return to practice or game action.
The claims filed by Belchers estate extend beyond the handling of concussions, alleging that the Chiefs acquired a duty to provide competent healthcare by ordering him to see a counselor in October and November 2012, only weeks before he killed his girlfriend and then committed suicide in the parking lot at Arrowhead Stadium.
Belchers body was exhumed earlier this month. Tests are planned on brain tissue to determine whether Belcher suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy.
The Chiefs had no comment to the Star regarding the lawsuit.
Wow. Concussions are serious, but now it will get to the point where every character issue or every crazy act will be blamed on concussions. Some of the players are mentally unstable way before any concussions.


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The ADDY Awards is unique among other advertising creative competitions in that it is the only competition that includes three levels of judging: local, regional, and national. Winning an ADDY at each level qualifies the work to progress to the next higher level. The USC Sumter award was recognized by the Third District of the AAF which represents South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.


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Rubicon: CPMs Flat, Seeing Revenue Growth
Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project, the venture funded online advertising effort run by Frank Addante, is reporting this morning that advertising CPMs were flat in Q4, even as the firm said it had an 30 percent growth in revenue across its publishers. Rubicon, which is backed by Clearstone Ventures, Mayfield, and IDG Ventures, publishes its market report every quarter, examining the online advertising industry. Other tidbits from the report: CPMS for dating sites dropped by more than 40 percent in the quarter, but were up by 50 percent in the Young Adult category; interest in the Presidential election drove a huge increase in pageviews on news sites during the quarter; and entertainment focus sites saw a huge increase in inventory, with a corresponding drop in CPMS, by more than 15 percent. On the entertainment side, Rubicon said that there was a "flood" of inventory into the system, with new celebrity gossip blogs, photo sites, fashion, and more, which pushed down the CPMs for that category; despite the drop, the firm also said that publishers are seeing a 70% revenue growth despite the lower CPMs for their properties. Rubicon Project develops automated software and services which optimizes the CPM paid to online advertisers, by choosing the best online advertising to run on publisher web sites.


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Boiled wool maxi sweater jacket, collarless with a striped pattern. Single button closure and hip pockets. So-soft cotton lining.
Free People
Nice but...
I found the sleeves to be very tight and the waist to be much broader than it looks in the photo. I am 5' 6" tall, long limed and pretty skinny. Normally size XS is a bit big on me. This suggests that the sleeves are not cut properly. They have stretched a little with wear but are still not right. I decided to keep the coat as I like the material a lot and it is nice and warm, but I would not recommend getting it.
LOL - I read the reviews and I must say I am very jealous. I looked terrible in this coat. I am 5 ft. tall wear a 00 and the arms were too tight while the rest was too big. ? Maybe good for a tall person... I was so disappointed I didn't look like the model. LOL I do not include a photo out of charity....
Beautifully made
Visually it is a really beautiful coat, and very well made. There is a soft liner inside that adds to coziness and comfort. Only downside was the fit. I am 5'7 110 lbs and the coat was tight in my arms, but loose all throughout. The hip area bowed out too much for it too look nice on me. I bet this coat would look great on someone who had larger hips, but I am a 24 in pants and it just looked silly on me. Perhaps just this coat in particular was warped in some way. I wish that it would have worked for me!
Gorgeous, unique and warm!
It is pieces like this that keep me coming back to Free People to purchase. It truly is eye catching with its Merlot/Plum accents offsetting the Taupe. Though it is wool I am pleased that the liner is a soft cotton fabric so it is not itchy whatsoever. And the liner is both on the body and inside the arms. The exterior of the garment which is wool is super soft and not at all like some other wools which can feel scratchy, probably because of the added acrylic and linen (84% is wool). I am a size 4/6 and 5'6" tall so I went with my usual size Small and it fits perfectly with a lite layer underneath. It does not look like a 'grandpa' sweatercoat because the design is tailored at the shoulder; not dropped shoulders. The garment is of the highest quality and that unique that it does justify the price factor. This was a birthday gift from my husband and I rather have this one item than a number of average looking, average quality pieces.


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Four ... three … two … one ...
Jamaal Franklin does it every day at practice, when San Diego State devotes eight minutes to individual shooting. As the clock runs down to zero, Franklin holds the ball and waits, waits, waits to take the final shot against an imaginary defender, as close to 0:00 as possible.
"If he makes it, he falls down (celebrating)," SDSU coach Steve Fisher said. "I think he's unafraid of the moment."
Franklin did it again Thursday, except this time it was in an arena with fans and referees and a real clock counting down, and it spared the 18th-ranked Aztecs the potential ignominy of losing to last-place Boise State in the opening round of the Mountain West conference tournament. His three-pointer at the buzzer gave top-seeded SDSU a 65-62 victory at the Thomas & Mack Center against a pesky Broncos team that refused to be saddled, not when it was down 11 with 5½ minutes left, not when it was still down four inside of a minute.
The Aztecs (25-6) now get fourth-seeded Colorado State in Friday's 6 p.m. semifinal, and Rams coach Tim Miles was asked how he intends to stop Franklin.
"Where's Jeff Gillooly?" Miles said of Tonya Harding's infamous thug before adding: "That was a joke. If something happens tonight, it wasn't me."
Fisher's staff had suggested two options for the final play during a timeout with 20 seconds left and the score tied at 62. Fisher nodded at his assistants and walked into the huddle with his players. Told them to run "45."
Franklin sets a ball screen for point guard Xavier Thames, who passes back to him and gets out of the way. The idea is for Franklin to get the ball near the free-throw line and burrow into the lane, just as he did for the game-winner against UNLV in the conference opener.
Except Boise State had watched film. Knew exactly what was coming.
Guard Derrick Marks: "Well, um, everyone in the gym knew who the last shot was going to."
Coach Leon Rice: "That's why we were committed to take two guys to guard him."
Pushed 10 feet farther away from the basket than he had planned, double teamed, the drive cut off, time running out, the Mountain West's Player of the Year figured, why not, and hoisted a twisting, falling, off-balance three with Marks and Thomas Bropleh hanging on him like socks in the dryer.
"When he let it go," Rice said, "I felt good about it as far as you couldn't guard it any better."
"When it left my hand," said Franklin, who had 19 points and five rebounds, "I felt it was going in."
Of course.
Why not?
It's been like this all season, the Aztecs finding new and unique ways to win, falling behind, coming back, taking leads, losing leads, rarely dominant, never dull. They trailed by nine in the first half, led almost the entire second half, got up 57-46 inside six minutes to go after Broncos 251-pound center Kenny Buckner got his fourth foul, led 60-52 with 2:45 to go … and then got outscored 10-2 down the stretch.
But these 1-8 games can be tricky. Tip-off is noon in a half-empty arena in a city that is still wiping the sleep from its eyes. You're already assured of a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Your opponent finished last in the conference.
But your opponent is also playing for its life, and you're not.
That might explain how Boise State (13-17) had a 31-22 rebounding advantage and went 8 of 18 on threes a week after missing its first 12 in a 13-point home loss to SDSU. Or how the Aztecs got a grand total of two points, three rebounds, one assist and three turnovers from their bench, forcing four starters to play 37-plus minutes with the next game 28 hours away.
Or how they managed just one basket in the final three minutes before Franklin's heroics.
Freshman Anthony Drmic (19 points) had made two free throws with 37.8 seconds left to pull within 62-60, and the Broncos applied full-court pressure. Chase Tapley, a three-year starter, got the ball in the corner, got in trouble, and instead of calling timeout chucked a crosscourt pass toward Thames that nicked the backboard. The Broncos converted turnover into layup, and it was 62-all.
"I didn't think we had a timeout," said Tapley, who was otherwise superb, rediscovering his stroke for 20 points (8 of 14 shooting) and passing 1,000 career points. "That's a play that shouldn't have happened. I'm too experienced to make that kind of play."
Normally in that situation – tie game, shot clock turned off – Fisher doesn't call timeout and let the opponent set its defense. He did this time because he didn't want Boise State to get the ball back in regulation, didn't want to shoot before two or three seconds left, didn't want to tempt fate.
The Aztecs did the first time these teams met, Feb. 1 at Viejas Arena, Boise State's Bropleh getting a wide open – and we mean wiiiide open – three-ball at the buzzer to win it. The ball went down, and popped out. SDSU 58, Boise State 56.
The Aztecs also are 14-1 in their last 15 overtime games.
"I said this all along about San Diego State," BSU's Rice said. "The quality that I admire the most about those guys is they're winners. They know how to win those games. They know what it takes to win 'em. They do whatever it takes.
"You saw that at the end."
The Aztecs have won 25 games for the fourth consecutive season. Only six other schools have similar active streaks: BYU, Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Saint Mary's and Syracuse … They've also won seven straight games at the MW Tournament and are 8-1 in their last nine at the Thomas & Mack Center. The lone loss was 65-63 to UNLV on Feb. 11 … It is the seventh time they've won this season after trailing by nine or more points …
Tapley is shooting 17 of 30 and averaging 21.5 points in his last two games at Thomas & Mack … Boise State used its 15th different starting lineup of the season … Buckner had eight points at halftime, but foul trouble limited him to just two in the second half … Guard Tre Nichols, who had a season-high 17 points in the Feb. 1 game at Viejas Arena, did not play ... Boise State didn't shoot a free throw for the game's first 25 minutes but finished 10 of 12.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Meredith Faculty Member & Team Earn NSF Grant
Erin Lindquist, Meredith College assistant professor of biological sciences, is part of a team that has received a $494,980 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish an ecological research and education network among 12 primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs), with the network expanding over time to include additional partners.
Lindquist is a co-author on the grant, and will serve on the leadership working group. Laurel Anderson, Ohio Wesleyan University associate professor of botany-microbiology, is the network coordinator and will chair the leadership working group.
Along with Anderson and Lindquist, other co-authors and leaders on this effort include Tracy Gartner (Carthage College, Wis.), Karen Kuers (Sewanee: The University of the South, Tenn.), Jose-Luis Machado (Swarthmore College, Pa.), Bob Pohlad and Carolyn Thomas (Ferrum College, Va.), and Jeffrey Simmons (Mount St. Mary's University, Md.). The Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) also will include faculty members from Elizabethtown College, Penn., Union College, N.Y., Mount Holyoke College, Mass., Bard College, N.Y., and St. Olaf College, Minn.
The EREN will develop collaborative research projects focused on regional to continental-scale ecological issues, engage students in authentic science while teaching them basic ecology, create a continental-scale ecology course module using research data that will be team-taught by scientist-educators from the participating institutions, and establish an online database of collaborative data sets collected during the project. The EREN also will encourage scientists at PUIs to participate in existing research networks, such as the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).
The EREN project began in March 2009 when Anderson received a NSF workshop grant, which funded meetings to bring scientists from PUIs together to brainstorm. The new award provides full funding for the project for five years. The EREN group will meet in June at Sewanee to develop a carbon accumulation in trees project and to establish administrative aspects of the network.
A permanent plot initiated by Lindquist and her research students in the Meredith Forest will be used as one of the models for this project.
The National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency created to promote the progress of science. With an annual budget of about $6.9 billion, the NSF provides funding for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America\'s colleges and universities.
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1859 Eleanora Duse born in Italy. One of the leading actresses of her day, "The Great Duse" will champion the realistic playwrights of the early 20th century, and will have some of her greatest successes in the works of Henrik Ibsen, notably Ghosts.
1898 Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac has its Broadway debut at the Garden Theatre, starring Richard Mansfield in the title role.
1910 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm opens on Broadway, setting a standard for saccharine family fare. It runs 216 performances.
1938 In one of her most acclaimed performances, Helen Hayes plays Britain's Queen Victoria in Victoria Regina at the Martin Beck Theatre.
1962 Anthony Newley stars in the Broadway debut of his musical Stop the World - I Want to Get Off at the Shubert Theatre. This allegorical show about an Everyman was written by Newley and Leslie Bricusse, with Anna Quayle co-starring. The song "What Kind of Fool Am I?" would become a hit, and producer David Merrick will prove himself no fool in his PR tactics. When faced with a mediocre New York Times review of World, he translated the critique into Greek and ran it in the show's print ads. A film version of Stop will be released in 1966.
1967 The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter opens tonight at the Booth Theatre. This absurdist play features Henderson Forsythe, Ed Flanders, Alexandra Berlin and Ruth White in a cast directed by Alan Schneider. Variety reports the basic story line as being about "a psychoneurotic rooming with a moronic couple." It is actually about a couple, Meg and Petey, who lodge an insecure and untidy man, Stanley. The chaos occurs when two menacing "friends" show up to help Stanley celebrate his birthday. Birthday will party on for almost four months.
1978 Henry Fonda makes his last Broadway appearance playing a Supreme Court Justice in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's drama, First Monday in October. The play is about the first female Supreme Court Justice, played by Jane Alexander.
1987 Playwright Jean Anouilh dies today. His 1942 adaptation of the Greek tragedy of Antigone is the most celebrated of his plays, though The Rehearsal and Ring Round the Moon would also receive revivals.
1995 Tommy Tune breaks his foot for the second time in two years and is left with no choice but to only sing and act his part in Busker Alley, which begins its tryout at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center tonight. Two other people dance for him in this show, but that doesn't work. Instead, the Broadway opening for November 16 is called off. The production was plagued with bad reviews from the start, and the $6 million debt left over from the broken foot and opening cancellation is not covered by Tune's insurance, which is only $3.5 million.
1996 Off-Broadway's St. Luke's Church becomes an apropos venue for Vicki Quade and Maripat Donovan's Late Night Catechism. The interactive comedy features Donovan as a nun lecturing audiences on Catholicism. The show will inhabit the theatre for years to come.
1999 Eve Ensler opens The Vagina Monologues at the Westside Theatre Off-Broadway. In the solo show, the playwright performer reveals a series of different women's stories and experiences involving their genitalia. Joe Mantello serves as production supervisor for the play, which will become a three-woman show, featuring a long series of female celebrities, following the author's departure.
2004 William Gibson's play Golda's Balcony becomes the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history. The stage portrait of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meier surpasses the previous record-holder, Lily Tomlin's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
2010 Mrs. Warren's Profession, the 1894 George Bernard Shaw play so shocking that it wasn't performed in London until 1902 — and then only in a private presentation — opens in a new Broadway production at the American Airlines Theatre. Directed by Doug Hughes, the play stars Cherry Jones as Kitty Warren, and Sally Hawkins as her daughter Vivie.
2011 David I. Mitchell, a seven-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Tony Award winner, and a scenic designer for Broadway, opera and ballet, dies at age 79. Mr. Mitchell won his Tonys for his whimsical, circus-like set design of the 1980 musical Barnum, and for the original 1977 production of Annie.
More of Today's Birthdays: Warner Oland 1879. Henry Hull 1890. Gertrude Berg 1899. Johnny Burke 1908. Ray Stark 1914. Gore Vidal 1925. Peter Frechette 1956.


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Mildred L. "Millie" Orahoske, 85, of Cambridge, died Tuesday (Jan. 8, 2013) at Southeastern Med.
She was born Nov. 19, 1927, in Sandyville W.Va., daughter of the late Charles W. Owens and Jessie (Murray) Owens.
Mrs. Orahoske was a homemaker. She had also worked at Salt Fork State Park Lodge.
She was a 1945 graduate of Gilmore High School of West Virginia.
Mrs. Orahoske was a member of Christ Our Light Parish - St. Benedict Catholic Church.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Orahoske, who died Feb. 5, 2005. They were married on June 12, 1948. She also had three brothers who preceded her in death.
She is survived by a son, Dennis (Kathy) Orahoske of Cambridge; a daughter, Denise (Hank) Evans of North Canton; four grandchildren, Benjamin (Vanetta) Mast of Wooster, Andy (Amber) Orahoske of Cincinnati, Laura Orahoske of Columbus and Jacob Orahoske of Columbus; and two great-grandchildren, Alexa Mast and Marc Mast.
Family and friends may call on Friday from 10 to 11 a.m. at St. Benedict Catholic Church, Cambridge.
Mass of Christian burial will celebrated on Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Benedict Catholic Church, Cambridge, with the Rev. Fr. Robert Borer officiating.
Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Cambridge.
As an expression of sympathy, memorial contributions may be made in Mrs. Orahoske's name to Christ Our Light Parish - St. Benedict Catholic Church, 701 Gomber Ave., Cambridge OH 43725.
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Dennis, Denise and families, You have my deepest sympathy and know all will be in my prayers. Millie was very special and a great person. I use to love to hear cousin Joe and her get on each other about stuff. Again my deepest sympathy. Cousin Helen Orahoske Haynam
Millie was such a sweet lady. So sorry to hear that she passed. She was one of my favorite patients and she will be missed. - Theresa Chambers, PT


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American students stink at science. But they might be starting to improve just a bit—eighth-graders are doing a little better in the subject than they were in 2009, according to new national standardized test scores.
Average standardized test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress jumped two points between 2009 and 2011, and 65 percent of students are now meeting at least the "basic" knowledge level. But that's not the progress many experts would like to have seen, especially with the country putting a renewed focus on improving science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.
"Two points does not excite me," says Gerry Wheeler, interim executive director of the National Science Teachers Association. "It's like the kid has been flunking all year long and then all a sudden they get a 'D' on the final—well, they've still got a 'D.'"
The United States ranked 23rd in a recent international science exam. Wheeler says that for all the rhetoric surrounding STEM—Obama mentioning it in his State of the Union addresses, Congress considering starting a STEM office in the Department of Education, and pundits nationwide sounding alarm bells—science is still largely ignored in the lower grades.
That's because science is overshadowed by English, language arts, and math, subjects that schools must focus on to meet No Child Left Behind requirements.
"I only expected a two-point increase because we haven't done anything differently," he says. "If you go into schools, you'll see science teachers being told to get back to teaching reading and math."
Jack Buckley, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, who administers and designs the NAEP exams given to a representative sample of students throughout the country, says any increase in scores is worth celebrating.
"Fundamentally, I'm an optimist," he says. "But I'm not saying there's no room for improvement."
That was the reaction of many STEM experts throughout the country—take any increase where you can get it.
"Is two points enough? No, but it's very difficult to move NAEP scores up," says Linda Rosen, CEO of Change the Equation, a coalition of businesses focused on improving STEM education. "But I'd rather go up two points than not at all. At least the needle is moving in the right direction."
Gregg Fleisher of the National Math and Science Initiative, a nonprofit teacher training organization, says that once you get down into the details of the report, things start getting exciting.
Hispanic student achievement was up five points, black students scored three points better on average. Although large gaps still remain between those two groups and whites and Asians, it's trending in the right direction.
And, perhaps most exciting of all, the report confirmed what many STEM experts have been saying for years—students respond better to hands-on learning than they do to reading out of a textbook. Students who said they completed in-class projects every day scored 16 points higher than students who said they never or hardly ever did in-class projects.
"Middle school science has long been referred to as a wasteland, but now we see there are interventions that are making an impact," Fleisher says.
As his organization and others train teachers who challenge students to design and complete their own projects and experiments, America can expect to see even greater gains in the future. The movement is only growing, he says. "As long as there's this type of teacher training going on, there's no reason not to expect a greater jump in the future."
Thanks to U.S. News for the information provided in this article by Jason Koebler


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The Colonial Mosaic of Indigenous New Spain, 1519–1821
Susan Kellogg
From a geographically, environmentally, linguistically, and ethnically highly variable Mesoamerica, Spain created a core region within her American territories. But for New Spain's indigenous inhabitants (Mexica or Nahua, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya), despite experiencing demographic catastrophe, political and religious subjugation, and labor exploitation during and after conquest, native cultural patterns and agency influenced the reshaping of governance and community (the latter into pueblos de indios), economy, and spiritual and social life during the period of colonial rule. Because environments, indigenous languages, patterns of political, economic, and spiritual organization, ways of structuring family life, varieties of cultural expression, and forms of interrelationships with Spaniards varied so much, indigenous people did not experience a single New Spain. Instead, a multiplicity of New Spains emerged. These indigenous New Spains would play different roles during the independence period, which led to a protracted struggle, further impoverishment, and growing isolation in the new nations of Mesoamerica but cultural survival as well.
Competing Spanish and Indigenous Jurisdictions in Early Colonial Lima
Karen B. Graubart
Spanish legal organization required that political communities be represented by a concejo or cabildo, which used customary law to determine and enforce the common good. In the Spanish colonial world, this entailed vesting indigenous communities with jurisdiction and political representation, parallel to that of the municipal cabildo, which represented the common good of most Spanish citizens. Nevertheless, the supposed common good of indigenous and Spanish jurisdictions often intersected or contested one another. In these cases, agents of the Spanish Crown might intervene, or the parties might negotiate new relations. Because Andean cabildos were entreated not to keep minutes of their deliberations or actions, historians have had difficulty in recognizing the role of indigenous authorities in self-governance, and given more credence to the acts of Spanish cabildos and the Crown. But Indian cabildos and caciques took meaningful decisions within their communities, as demonstrated by moments where they came into conflict with Spanish authorities, and as inferred from a small number of documents available for the similar Mexican case.
The Conquests of Peru
Christopher Heaney
Between 1472 and 1572, the conquests of Peru were many: by the Inca, who in the 15th century spread from their southern Andean heartland in Cusco to build an empire that stretched from what is now southern Colombia to northern Chile and Argentina; by the Spanish conquistadors under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, who reached down from Panama in search of the rumored wealth of the kingdom of "Birú" and fatefully encountered the aspirant Inca emperor Atahualpa at Cajamarca in November of 1532; by the Spanish crown, which intervened after the revolt of Atahualpa's brother Manco Inca in 1536 and the rebellion of the conquistadors in the 1540s; and by the Inca's former subjects, the Spaniards' Indian allies, and their mestizo sons, who ended independent Inca resistance by helping to capture Atahualpa's nephew in the Vilcabamba valley in 1572. This essay sketches the century-long arc of those many conquests, which together yielded a historical entity not quite like any other in the early modern world, let alone Americas: a composite Spanish-Indian kingdom whose incredible wealth lay not just in the gold and silver that its mines and burials produced but in the network of subjects and laborers that drew both the Inca and their Habsburg successors on to further conquests than was wise.
Estelle Tarica
Indigenismo is a term that refers to a broad grouping of discourses—in politics, the social sciences, literature, and the arts—concerned with the status of "the Indian" in Latin American societies. The term derives from the word "indígena," often the preferred term over "indio" because of the pejorative connotations that have accrued to the latter in some contexts, and is not to be confused with the English word "indigenism." The origins of modern indigenismo date to the 16th century and to the humanist work of Bartolomé de las Casas, dubbed "Defender of the Indians" for his efforts to expose the violence committed against native populations by Spanish colonizers. Indeed indigenismo generally connotes a stance of defense of Indians against abuse by non-Indians, such as criollos and mestizos, and although this defense can take a variety of often-contradictory forms, it stems from a recognition that indigenous peoples in colonial and modern Latin America have suffered injustice. Another important precursor to modern indigenismo is 19th-century "Indianismo." In the wake of Independence, creole elites made the figure of "the Indian" a recurring feature of Latin American republican and nationalist thought as the region sought to secure an identity distinct from the colonial powers.
The period 1910–1970 marks the heyday of modern indigenismo. Marked by Las Casas's stance of defense toward indigenous people and by creole nationalists' "Indianization" of national identity, the modernizing indigenismo of the 20th century contains three important additional dimensions: it places the so-called "problem of the Indian" at the center of national modernization efforts and of national revolution and renewal; it is, or seeks to become, a matter of state policy; and it draws on contemporary social theories—positivist, eugenicist, relativist, Marxist—to make its claims about how best to solve the "Indian problem." Though its presence can be found in many Latin American countries, indigenismo reached its most substantive and influential forms in Mexico and Peru; Bolivia and Brazil also saw significant indigenista activity. Anthropologists played a central role in the development of modern indigenismo, and indigenismo flourished in literature and the performing and visual arts. In the late 20th century, indigenous social movements as well as scholars from across the disciplines criticized indigenismo for its paternalist attitude toward Indians and for promoting Indians' cultural assimilation; the state-centric integrationist ideology of indigenismo has largely given way to pluri-culturalism.
Indigenous Mobilizations and the Mexican Government during the 20th Century
María L. O. Muñoz
The political history of indigenous peoples in Mexico during the 20th century is complex, particularly because it intersects with changing local, state, and federal government projects aimed at exclusion, inclusion, assimilation, integration, homogenization, and multiculturalism. Focusing only on such government initiatives, however, muddies the analytical waters, as doing so tends to silence forms of resistance, accommodation, reaction, adaptation, and the agency of first peoples and communities. Oftentimes this approach assumes a complacent population at the mercy of a predatory state or a subject people in the care of a paternalistic state. In recognition of the danger of accepting state-driven indigenismo projects as the defining criteria of native people's histories during the 20th century, this article parallels glimpses of state-driven indigenismos with indigenous forms of regional and national organization in defense of individual and collective interests, as expressed in works that have emerged over the last twenty-five years. By no means are the themes covered in this article indicative of the breadth of the concerns, ideas or political, social, and economic interests of native peoples. Rather, its intent is to juxtapose histories of indigenismos and indígena mobilizations and organization after 1940 to illustrate how the government attempted to shape its "revolutionary" vision after 1920 and the ways in which indigenous communities themselves also engaged, or did not, in this process for a number of reasons, collective and individual.
Jesuit Missions and Private Property, Commerce, and Guaraní Economic Initiative
Julia Sarreal
The mission economy supported tens of thousands of Guaraní Indians and made the Jesuit reducciones (1609 to 1767) the most populous and financially prosperous of all the missions among native peoples of the Americas. The communal structure of collective labor, shared ownership, and redistribution of communal property formed the basis of the mission economy and seemed to leave little room for the possession of private property, independent trade, and economic initiative on the part of the resident Guaraní. Late 18th century Jesuit authors reinforced such an understanding in an attempt to defend their order and its actions in Paraguay. They argued that the Guaraní were incapable of managing their own affairs and that Jesuit management of the communally structured economy was indispensible for the wellbeing of both the missions and the Guaraní. Such accounts overlook evidence to the contrary. Mission Guaraní did in fact own private property—yerba mate, horses, clothing, and jewelry—and Jesuit leaders repeatedly issued orders for the missionaries to allow the Guaraní to independently trade yerba mate. Furthermore, although Jesuit authors repeatedly denied that they paid mission Guaraní wages—to do so would go against the communal structure that they so vehemently defended—the missionaries acknowledged that they paid mission Guaraní bonuses as a reward for their skills or extra labor. These bonuses served as a way to motivate individual economic initiative or agency within the framework of the missions' communal structure. In sum, the communal structure allowed for more flexibility in the ownership of private property, independent commerce, and economic initiative by the Guaraní than has been portrayed in both the 18th century writings of Jesuit authors and much of the current literature.
José Vasconcelos, National Education, and Revolutionary Culture in Mexico
William Beezley
As Mexico's minister of public education from 1921 to 1924, José Vasconcelos played a prominent role in efforts to create a new national identity expressing the 1910 Revolution's goals of an inclusive society and equitable nation, opportunities created through education, and shared cultural expressions. Vasconcelos has been widely praised for his educational campaigns, especially in the countryside, among indigenous communities, and for his literacy programs in the city. According to these recent interpretations, his efforts as minister of public education have been both over- and underestimated. Nevertheless, the revolutionary national identity that he helped to foster with his discussion of mestizaje in La Raza Cósmica (The Cosmic Race; 1925) has since been ingrained into everyday life and culture.
Pulque: A Pre-Columbian Alcoholic Beverage of Mexico
David Yetman
Pulque, the alcoholic beverage of pre-Columbian highland Mesoamerica is the fermented derivative of aguamiel, the juice or sap of the agave known as agave pulquero—principally Agave salmiana. Aguamiel is a sweet, somewhat heavy juice that collects in a scraped out basin in the heart of the agave pulquero and, unless refrigerated, rapidly ferments into the alcoholic pulque. The agents of fermentation are ambient and plant-colonizing bacteria and yeasts. Fresh pulque is a frothy, cloudy brew with a slightly sour taste, usually containing around 2 percent alcohol or somewhat higher, meaning it can be drunk in large quantities without intoxicating the imbiber. Although it is a nutritious drink, consumption was condemned by Spaniards in varying degrees during the Colonial Period. Its popularity in contemporary southern Mexico is increasing after more than a century of persecution and public disparagement. Pulque figures prominently in pre- and post-Columbian Mesoamerican history.
Production of tequila and mezcal is completely different from production of pulque. The former are distilled from the pressed juice (tepache) of macerated and roasted hearts of certain agaves. The juice is fermented in vats for several days, then heated in a still, evaporated, and condensed. Tequila, by law is made from A. tequilana, and mezcal by custom is made primarily from A. angustifolia. Both these distillates contain about 40 percent alcohol. Pulque is a naturally occurring product consumed by native peoples for at least two millennia. Tequila and mezcal are industrial products derived from processes introduced into the Americas by Europeans.
Rediscovering the Aztecs and Mayas: Field Exploration, Archaeological Exhibits, and National Museums
Kevin Gosner
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Please check back later for the full article.
In the last decades of the 18th century, with the visit, in 1784, of José Antonio Calderón to the Maya ruins at Palenque, and the discovery, in 1790, of the statue of Coatlique and the Stone of the Sun in the central plaza of Mexico City, the study of ancient Mexico entered a new era. In the century that followed, teams of field surveyors, mapmakers, graphic artists, and artifact collectors ranged widely in central and southern Mexico as well as Guatemala. Some were commissioned by the Spanish Crown or later by national governments; many arrived from England, France, Germany, and eventually the United States. Early on, they worked alongside geologists, geographers, and field biologists as part of natural history expeditions, accumulating collections of artifacts that would be displayed in curiosity cabinets and early museums, alongside trays of colorful butterflies and stuffed tropical birds. And then, as foreign travel books won popular audiences in Europe and the United States, and as international investors arrived in Mexico and Central America, archaeology also was taken up by enthusiastic amateurs looking to sell books, build private collections, or organize international trade fairs.
For serious students of ancient history, field exploration and advances in archaeological record-keeping transformed a body of research and scientific speculation that had been dominated, since the 16th century, by theologians, historians, and philologists, who studied Spanish chronicles and native language annals but paid scant attention to the remnants of material culture. In the process, Aztecs and Mayas were rediscovered as historical subjects, their histories disconnected from that of contemporary Indian peasants and recast as rivals to the great civilizations of the Old World. Ruins of monumental architecture, recovered artifacts in sculptured stone or finely crafted metals, and ancient texts inscribed on wooden lintels and bark cloth were reclaimed as part of national patrimonies, to be protected by new state agencies and displayed in modern museums. On January 20, 1911, the International School for Archaeology and Ethnology formally opened in Mexico City, and this formative period in the archaeological study of ancient peoples ended. Manuel Gamio introduced the study of stratigraphy to fieldwork practices in Mexico, and the discipline was transformed once again.
Social Movements in Late 20th-Century Ecuador and Bolivia
Marc Becker
Both Ecuador and Bolivia have gained a reputation for powerful social movements that have repeatedly challenged entrenched political and economic interests that have controlled the countries since their independence from Spain almost two hundred years ago. A wealthy and powerful minority of European descendant landowners ruled the countries to the exclusion of the majority population of impoverished Indigenous farm workers. Repeated well-organized challenges to exclusionary rule in the late 20th century shifted policies and opened political spaces for previously marginalized people. Social movement organizations also altered their language to meet new realities, including incorporating identities as ethnic groups and Indigenous nationalities to advance their agenda. Their efforts contributed to a significant leftward shift in political discourse that led to the election of presidents Evo Morales and Rafael Correa.
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Canada's top court to rule on suing leading cigarette makers.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada is expected to rule today on the constitutionality of provincial efforts to sue the tobacco industry for the health costs of smoking.
The court announced last Friday it would render its decision at 4 p.m. EDT on Thursday on the tobacco companies' challenge of a British Columbia law allowing the provincial government to sue for damages for smoking-related diseases.
The provincial act was modeled on cases filed in the 1990s by more than 40 U.S. states against the industry and is seen as a prototype for Canada's other nine provinces.
In May 2004, the British Columbia Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court ruling that the province had overstepped its authority in drafting the law. The Supreme Court of Canada heard the tobacco industry's appeal in June 2005.
British Columbia officials have estimated the provincial government spends more than $500 million a year to treat diseases linked to tobacco.
The main defendants in the case are Canada's leading cigarette makers. They are British American Tobacco unit Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.; Altria Group Inc. units Philip Morris Inc. and Philip Morris International; Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc., a unit of Philip Morris International and of Rothmans Inc.; and JTI-Macdonald Corp., owned by Japan Tobacco Inc.
After the Supreme Court case was heard in June, a British Columbia judge ruled that British Columbia can include foreign-based tobacco firms directly in its lawsuit. Among those are Philip Morris Inc., Reynolds American Inc.'s R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and British American Tobacco


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Wonderful Experience: Eurodam Cruise Review by robby61
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Wonderful Experience
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Embarkation - I give them an A - We were greeted with friendly staff and everything was painless. From the time we entered through security we were on the ship in about 15 minutes. Very fast, efficient and friendly. It was a wonderful start.
Cabin - I give them an A+ - We were in a SS suite and it was very comfortable. The bed was firm but comfortable. Good support without being hard as a brick. There was plenty of storage place and drawers. Our cabin was an adjoining cabin so one portion of the closet was not there because of the adjoining door. But Holland designed the room very intelligently because the adjoining door is near the entry of the cabin across from the bathroom rather than being in the middle of your living and sleeping area like most More others are. The bathroom was stocked with Elemis products and had a tub/shower and an additional shower. Very nice. Everything was clean and smelled fresh.
Food - I give them an A - Food is always an important part of cruising to my wife and I. We love to eat in good restaurants and the Eurodam definitely qualified. Everything we ate in the dining room was excellent. The Marcus Samuelson menu was especially good with the seared tuna. It was wonderful. We ate in the Pinnacle Grill and Tamarind twice. WOW is all I can say. I would definitely recommend both of these dining options as they are well worth the cover charge. Awesome!
Entertainment - I give them A+++ - The singers on this ship were the most incredible I had ever heard on a cruise ship. Vocals were performed flawlessly. The last time I was on the Eurodam the singers were lip syncing. This time they weren't and it was awesome. They sang on pitch and also performed the songs showing their versatility as vocal virtuosos. I've seen a lot of shows on cruise ships and I've got to say that these vocalists were the best overall combination I've ever heard. I personally thought the sound could have been mixed with a little more bottom end and the musical background tracks up a little, but all in all the shows were great. They performed 4 different production shows. When is the last time you saw that? I have never seen that on a 7 night cruise. WOW. Kudos to them.
Ship Condition - I give them an A - The ship was in great condition. The carpet looked as if it had recently been replaced. Everything was in A level condition and looked clean and smelled fresh.
This was a great cruise for my wife and I. The only bad things is someone went missing in the early morning after we left from St. Thomas. He was presumed to have went overboard. The ship spent about 14 hours searching for the individual but did not find him. This was a very unfortunate incident for everyone. For his wife who was onboard and the other passengers who had a sense of loss and uncertainty. As a result we were not able to go to Half Moon Cay. Although, I am not sure we would have been able to anyway since the seas were a little rough and it was cloudy in the area.
All in all we enjoyed the cruise and will definitely sail the Eurodam again! Less
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Ghostface Killah ft. Madam Majestic & U-God, "Cherchez La Ghost" (2000)
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Director X: "It was a whole 'nother treatment. Back in those days, things were really different. I wrote a whole 'nother treatment. [Talking to] Ghostface was like a fucking private detective trying to find a little girl that has been kidnapped and it just hit me to change it, so I just called them and like, "I'm changing it." The treatment that they hired me to do and the video that we made was completely different. It was the right choice. Back then, you just kind of had that freedom to [say], "Yo, artistically, let's change it. It's not right." They are like, "Alright, we'll go for it. We'll do it." I loved that video; it was one of my favorites."