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At one point in time, this award was known as the Buckeye NFLer of the Week. Thanks to a typo and the ensuing LOLsession from the commentariat, it was renamed as the Houndie. Same intent, but now with a better name.
First of all, I want to sincerely thank everyone who came out this weekend to make #D2B and #E2B such a success. It was great getting to meet everyone and if you didn't make it, plan on October 6th of next year when Nebraska rolls to town.
We are essentially half way through this NFL season and while some divisions look to be decided already, there are plenty of teams still in the hunt and the midseason trends are starting to take shape, along with the play of the defenses.
Sitting things out this weekend was, Chicago, NY Jets, Oakland, Tampa Bay, Atlanta and Green Bay.
We start out in Seattle, where the surprising Bengals improved to 5-2 with their 4th straight win, a 34-12 spanking of the Seahawks. I watched most of this game and this Andy Dalton/A.J. Green combo is going to be crazy good. They now sit tied atop of the division, but take on the Steelers (twice) and the Ravens in the next five games.
Mike Nugent made all 6 of his kicks, including a 34-yarder in the first, a clutch 48-yarder to put the Begals up 8 with 4:50 to play and 4 XP's. Nugent has connected on 15/16 FG attempts this year and has made the most FG's from beyond 40 yards (6/7). Nate Clements had 2 solo stops on the day, as the Bengals D continued to impress under Mike Zimmer.
The other Ohio team also traveled out west to San Fran and did better than expected against the upstart Niners, who jumped out to a 17-0 lead and hung on to win 20-10. Unfortunately, once again I have nothing to tell you about Brian Roboskie for the Browns, who now hasn't caught a pass in 6 of 7 games.
For the Niners, Ted Ginn didn't have his best game of the season, rushing once for an 8 yard loss, while returning 2 kicks for 33 yards and 2 punts for 18 yards. On defense, Donte Whitner returned from injury to contribute 3 solo tackles, while Larry Grant didn't record any stats. A special note on the Niners, Alex Boone has cleaned himself up and is part of the jumbo package, which has allowed him to see action in every game this season.
In New York, the Giants had to come back from a 14-3 second quarter deficit to edge the winless Dolphins, 20-17. Jake Ballard continues to solidify his role, snagging 4 receptions for 55 yards, as Eli Manning targeted him 7 times, even though Manningham and Nicks were back in the mix.
The Dolphins passing game continues to struggle, as they look towards the future with Andrew Luck. Brian Hartline was targeted on 2 of Matt Moore's 22 attempts, but didn't haul any in.
Minnesota went into Carolina, hoping to show off their new car under center and prove their rookie QB is better than your rookie QB. Both were pretty impressive, but Minnesota came away with a late 24-21 win. Michael Jenkins hooked up with Christian Ponder twice for 30 yards for the Vikings, while Antoine Winfield still sat out on D.
Chris Gamble chipped in with 4 tackles, including 3 solo stops, as the Panthers now enter their bye week at 2-6.
In Baltimore, the miraculous recovery of Beanie Well's knee continued, as he surprised all fantasy owners with not only the start, but a decent game against the stingy Ravens defense. Wells toted the rock 22 times for 83 yards and a 1-yard plunge in the 2nd quarter, but it wasn't enough, as the Ravens completed the largest comback in franchise history, a 30-27 win at the buzzer. Wells has 506 yards through 7 games and remains tied for 3rd in the league with 7 TD's.
The other late game we received here in Cbus was the Detroit/Denver game, so I was forced to watch that during the commercials of the Bengals game. Let me say this, if you are a Devner fan and you still want Tebow after that, you're delusional. That was one of the worst performances I have ever seen and he had the benefit of being at home. Bobby Carpenter chipped in on the 45-10 win with 3 solo stops.
The late game we should have received in Cbus was the Steelers/Patriots game, where OSU alum and Hall of Famer, Dick LeBeau and the Steelers finally solved Tom Brady, limiting him to 198 yards in thier 25-17 home win. Unfortunately, Cam Heyward didn't make any stops, but Will Allen made a couple of special team tackles for the Steelers, who passed the ball 50 times on the weak Patriots secondary.
In Sunday night's primetime game, the Eagles thankfully destroyed the Cowboys in front of a national audience, 34-7. Though the Eagles defense dominated, Kurt Coleman and Brian Rolle each had quiet nights, with Rolle collecting 2 tackles and Coleman getting one. Both the Eagles and Cowboys sit at 3-4, which puts them 2 games behind the Giants.
In Monday night's game, Donald Washington saw some special teams action, as the Chiefs stole a game at home from the Chargers. Washington had just one tackle in the 23-20 OT win, but the Chiefs have now won 4 straight after dropping their first 3.
The Chargers were set to kick a game-winning FG at the buzzer, but Philip Rivers forgot the ball on a snap and the Chiefs recovered, sending the game into OT. Na'il Diggs had 3 solo stops, including 1 for a loss, as the Chargers D held KC to 97 yards on the ground.
Offense domniated the Houndie for the first six weeks, but as I mentioned, the defenses are starting to catch up on things and playing better. With Chris Gamble taking it home last week, we turn to another Buckeye defender who hasn't won the award in a while, James Laurinaitis.
Everyone expected the Rams to fall to 0-7 when the Saints came marching in on Sunday, but Lil' Aninmal and his teammates had a different idea, jumping out 24-0 lead and holding on to win 31-21, squashing the dreams of many survivor pool picks.
Laurinaitis lead the way with 10 tackles, all of them solo stops, including his first sack on the year. He also was credited with another 2 hits on Drew Brees and 2 passes defended.
After winning the 2009 Houndie in his rookie campaign, James was shut out of the weekly Houndies last year, so it is good to see him back on top. The Rams have a chance to win their next 4 games, if he can continue to inspire this defense.


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"An awful coldness ran through me when I realised, just an hour after saying he loved me, he'd taken someone's life in the most evil way."
The devastated ex-partner of Chris Halliwell has broken her silence to tell of her life with the cabbie who murdered Sian O'Callaghan. Heather Widdowson, 55, who lived with Halliwell at Ashbury Avenue, Nythe, believed the taxi driver was working long shifts to build a future for them both.
But Halliwell used his position as a trusted cab driver to abduct, sexually assault and kill 22-year-old office worker Sian, who was walking back from a night out in Suju on March 19 last year. He even texted Heather 'I love you' just one hour before the abduction. Halliwell was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday after he pleaded guilty to Sian's murder at Bristol Crown Court.
Heather said: "He's a sick man. I don't know why he did it. He had a good life. There was no reason for him to do it. He's never shown any remorse or guilt. I don't think he ever will. "He destroyed my life and made me feel worthless. The years we were together were a lie. "What he did that night is unforgivable. He has taken us to the edge of his nightmare and left us there.
"Everything I valued was destroyed: my home, my privacy, my family. We have suffered beyond words. "Chris rarely showed emotion and was always calm and controlled. Now I wonder if he let things build up in his head until it was too much to bear. "In all the time we were together he never showed any anger towards me. It never crossed my mind that he was capable of hurting me.
"Looking back, who knows what could happened. It sends a shiver down my spine to think I left my daughter with him for a few hours that week." Describing the moment police informed her of Halliwell's arrest, she said: "I felt numb. I stared into the darkness, shaking in horror. I couldn't make sense of what had just happened."
She added: "My heart goes out to all the families involved. I can't believe the Chris I knew could hurt so many people. The man who did this is not the man I loved."
Heather shuddered when she heard the gruesome court detail on how Halliwell had stabbed Sian in the head and neck with a six-and-a-half inch kitchen knife, as the brutal murderer had shown her the blade. She said: "He bought it a few weeks before it [Sian's murder] happened. We went out somewhere and I leaned over in the car and saw it. He showed me it."
Heather is now trying to start a new life. Eight weeks ago she started a part-time job, and she is expecting two grandchildren. She said: "You never get over it, you just learn to live with it. My heart goes out to his victims' families. They'll never get their daughters back.
"I hope Chris has a very long, lonely life. He is a cold, callous coward and I'll never forgive him for what he has done. He's destroyed so many families." Heather met Halliwell in 2003 and moved in with him two years later. But their relationship got off to a bumpy start, as Halliwell got into debt.
Heather recalled: "He'd borrowed money from a friend and couldn't pay it back. I offered to pay off £5,000. "But apart from money troubles we had a happy, loving relationship. We both worked odd shift patterns but we managed to find time for each other. Heather also revealed Halliwell had a dark past.
She said: "He told me he'd done 'horrendous' things when he was young but I didn't want to know what." She said their relationship changed at Christmas 2010 when his mood changed.
Remembering the night Sian disappeared, Heather said: "Chris went to work early. It was a Friday night so I was off from work. "Later that night, about 1.30am, I sent him a text to see how he was doing. He said business was good and I got ready for bed. He text me again at 1.45am saying: 'I love you'. "The next morning he was up early, which was unusual. Normally he didn't get out of bed before 11am on Saturdays. "He said he had a lot to do, and went to the car wash."
Then at 12pm on Wednesday, Halliwell woke Heather, who was asleep in bed, to say the police were coming round. "Chris said they were interviewing all the taxi drivers in the area," said Heather. "The questions seemed normal and Chris was relaxed. But at the end the officer took out a DNA test. I watched the colour drain from Chris's face. Reluctantly, he gave a sample."
The next morning at about 11am, Heather was woken up by a loud knock at door. It was the police telling her Halliwell had been arrested for murder. She said: "I fell apart. I couldn't believe what they were telling me."
The next day police revealed there was a second body, which turned out to be Becky Godden-Edwards. Heather said: "I couldn't believe what they were telling me. In all the years I'd been with Chris, he was hiding this sick secret. I wondered if I'd ever really known him at all." In June, police let Heather move back to her home in Nythe. She said: "I had my window smashed, cars would slow down and stare through the windows like my home was a tourist attraction. Youths would shout abuse and I was even called nasty names."
After hearing Halliwell was jailed for life, Heather said: "No punishment will repay what everyone has lost. But if life really means life, then I guess we have to be satisfied."

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HOUSTON - Houston doctors say they are seeing an uptick in parents refusing a routine injection which is considered to be lifesaving for their newborn child. Now they want to dispel the myths circulating around vitamin K.
This comes as the Centers for Control and Disease Prevention has identified a small cluster of infants diagnosed with the potentially fatal bleeding disorder.
Little James Michael, of Houston, was brought into the world on Monday, and within the first hour of life, was given a dose of vitamin K.
"We talked a little bit about this and understood that the benefits far outweighed the risks," said James' father, Kevin Cannon.
"This is the right thing for your child," said James' mother, Jennifer Cannon. "This is the right thing for our child, so we decided it was something we definitely wanted to do."
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all newborns be given a single injection of vitamin K when they are born.
"Vitamin K is made by bacteria in the gut, a certain type of bacteria in the gut, and when babies are born, their gut is sterile," said Neonatologist Dr. Tiffany McKee-Garrett, the assistant medical director of the Mother-Baby Unit at the Texas Children's Pavilion for Women. "So they don't have the vitamin K there yet."
The injection jump starts vitamin K production, which promotes the body's ability to clot blood.
Without it, otherwise healthy babies are at risk of vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) within days of birth.
According to the CDC, between February and September 2013, four cases of late VKDB were diagnosed at a Nashville hospital. None of the babies received a vitamin K injection at birth.
"It's spontaneous bleeding. It can be in the intestines. It can be persistent oozing or bleeding from say a poke in the skin," said Dr. McKee-Garrett. "The worst is bleeding in the brain and that can obviously cause the baby brain damage or even death."
Dr. McKee-Garrett said recently some parents have been refusing to give their baby the shot which she said is safe, natural and preservative-free.
Some have questioned whether there is a link to childhood cancer.
"There is no truth to that," Dr. McKee-Garrett said. "That has all proven to be bad information."
The Cannon family is comforted knowing they are giving James the best possible start in life.
"We're ready to bring him home to big brother Brooks and watch them interact and start our family of four," said Jennifer.
Doctors encourage parents who have questions to find answers at accredited websites such as the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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If President Obama hadn't made last night's shocking announcement regarding the death of Osama Bin Laden, there may have been no end to the talk ofthe Royal Wedding. As it is, the weekend was spent debating the merits of Prince Harry'sbest man speech, Pippa Middleton's emerald green Temperley party dress and the hands over ears charm of Grace van Cutsem.
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text: Can't other companies see this transformation? Are the M&A bankers so inept at being able to sell these kinds of deals to the CEOs of potential acquirers? What are these putative buyers scared of? I can't think of a deal that has brought down the stock of an acquirer, though we have seen many that have done the opposite this year. I know that many of the top bosses feel stocks have run too much, and that the targets are no longer attractive. But, in each of the above cases, the stocks of the targets had appreciated or the prices had risen in the private markets. What was needed was growth in institutions that were flagging -- as is currently the case with Amgen. Over the years, this company has fallen behind rivals Celgene ( CELG), Gilead ( GILD) and Biogen ( BIIB), all of which have been extremely acquisitive. In some cases, they had been criticized for spending too much on what turned out to be -- as in the case with Gilead and Pharmasset -- a brilliant acquisition. Let Amgen's lesson be an inspiration to all management teams. It is so clear that, if the acquirer had found the right price, its stock would have risen greatly today. If you don't have growth, you can buy it -- and, as we saw with Conagra, B&G, Tenet and Actavis, the marker will applaud, not boo, your efforts. Action Alerts PLUS, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust, has no positions in the stocks mentioned.


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Talking heads have been around for quite a while. Whether representing celebrity faces, animals or any types of inanimate objects you care to think of, these computer generated animated images have infiltrated the fields of entertainment and marketing with the ability to amuse and grab the attention of consumers. Although you might suppose that you would require high powered systems and expensive software to create your own talking heads, the reality is somewhat different. Put together a typical PC and software entitled Crazy Talk 4 from Reallusion is all that is required to get you started.
CrazyTalk allows you to import any digital image of a face using standard Windows protocols including importing from a scanner or digital camera. You can then use provided tools to turn the image into a talking head delivering an appropriate message. These tools include morphing abilities, NaturalVoice technology and Text-to-Speech capabilities.
Installing the CrazyTalk software involves entering your email address and a 26-chatacter serial number. At the conclusion of the installation procedure you will be advised that you can install or update the program five times. There is also a recommendation to register the product and go online to check for any updates. It is surprising how many times you discover that updates to cured problems are available for brand new products. This is not a criticism aimed at any product in particular but more a general comment on the current situation.
CrazyTalk uses an interface that is easy to use and leads you through the necessary steps to create your own talking heads. Several examples are provided for experimenting (a gorilla presenting an introducing to the program or a child performing animal noises is just a couple of examples) and to give some indication as to what is possible when you combine effort with the program's functionality. However you can also import your own images for that personal touch.
Using your own image works best when it shows the full face of the subject. To get the best effect you need to be able to identify the prime areas of your subject's eyes and mouth plus define a face mask. The program does a reasonable job of recognising areas but it always helps to fine tune specific points. Basic photo editing, with regards to colour balancing and cropping, is possible within the program. Numerous facial expression models, some with comical additions, are supplied as standard and these can be used to add extra effect. The provided facial expressions cover eyes, head, shoulders and lip movement - its fun just to experiment.
The substance of your talking head message can be in the form of a recording in WAV format using the program's built-in recording module or by making use of the text-to-speech capability. Background music can be added but, as with all the audio aspects of this program, you are limited to WAV format. Perhaps a future release might like to consider support for audio formats such as MP3. At any stage of the various processes you can preview the results before committing yourself to the finished article.
The results of your endeavour can be turned into a personalised message; a crazy postcard; HTML code for Web publishing; or in a format that can be played back on a mobile device. When appropriate, templates are provided to add a touch of style to the various output types.
Getting your message across has never been so much fun. CrazyTalk 4 requires a minimum of a Pentium III 500MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, 200MB of available hard disk space and a duplex sound card. Pricing has been set at £89.99, but is available for less - Amazons price being £72.99. For those of you that don't need all the options of this Media Studio edition, there is a Crazy Talk Messenger edition that allows you to create talking emails and to use it with instant messenger programmes. The Messenger version is a very reasonable £29.99 - again available from Amazon for far less at £17.98.
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Bruce Bochy says Buster Posey will still catch Tim Lincecum
Giants manager Bruce Bochy denied a report that Buster Posey wouldn't catch Tim Lincecum anymore this season despite the fact Eli Whiteside is Friday's catcher for Lincecum.
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Since Buster Posey has broken into the big leagues in 2010, there's been talk that the Giants pitchers didn't like throwing to him. As former two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum's struggles continue this season, the whispers about the Lincecum-Posey battery have grown louder -- including a tweet from a national writer Friday stating that Posey may not catch Lincecum again this year.
And then, Friday, Bruce Bochy put the recently recalled Eli Whiteside in the lineup for Lincecum's start against the Phillies. That, of course, turned the whispers to screams. The loudest, though, came from Bochy.
"That is completely false," Bochy told reporters (via the San Jose Mercury News). "Completely false. Timmy doesn't care who he throws to. It's my call when I give Buster a break."
The Giants placed Hector Sanchez on the disabled list on Wednesday with a sprained knee and called up Whiteside on Wednesday. Bochy said Posey was worn down following Thursday's game in Atlanta and wanted him to catch Matt Cain on Saturday and Barry Zito on Sunday, as well as all three games against the Padres.
"I didn't want him to go through another tough game after catching int he hot weather, and that's the truth," Bochy said (via the San Francisco Chronicle). "It was totally my decision."
In 13 starts with Posey this season, Lincecum has a 5.67 ERA and batters were hitting .251/.339/.425 against the Lincecum-Posey battery. In six games with Sanchez catching, Lincecum had a 6.60 ERA and batters were hitting .288/.350/.464. In 10 career games with Whiteside behind the plate, Lincecum posted a 4.76 ERA -- more than a run higher than the 3.73 ERA posted in 38 games with Posey.
Earlier this week, Posey was asked about catching not just Lincecum, but also Barry Zito.
"Listen, I've got the utmost confidence in myself that I can catch anybody," Posey told the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this week. "I've never questioned that. I've caught Timmy plenty and had a lot of success with him. I haven't caught Barry as much as Timmy, but I'm definitely comfortable with him as well."
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How to Lose Weight Natural
If you've been looking for a way to lose and keep weight off permanently, then you would do well to consider using intermittent fasting as a method of reducing your caloric intake to aid you in your weight loss quest.
Intermittent fasting is defined as short-term fasts, typically 24-36 hours in length, once or twice per week. These fasts are normally water only. Doing a so-called "juice fast" can defeat the purpose of intermittent fasting altogether, as by its very definition you are consuming large amounts of natural sugars, which can throw off your blood sugar as well as other bodily functions as well. Other types of fasts that emphasize one food or drink (other than water) can be just as worrisome.
You have nothing to lose except the weight. Remember the definition of insanity? Doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results.
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Beware Being Misled in Google Analytics
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Averages, estimates, trends, and context are some of the things to keep in mind as you navigate the data collected by Google Analytics to help you avoid being misled.
- Analytics can tell us what happened, but we have to figure out the "Why?" and sometimes additional tests are called for. Usability tests (where you watch people use your site, and ask them to think aloud as they do so) can be very illuminating. A great resource for getting started with usability testing is Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by Steve Krug.
- Averages can confuse the answers: are lots of people doing a little, or a few doing a lot? Before getting carried away by an exceptional number, check the details behind it to see what most visitors are doing.
- Be aware of context: take note of site changes, other campaigns, world events, etc.
Along the bottom of the line graph in Google Analytics, you may see some "chat bubbles" that, when clicked, will display any "Annotations" we've made to indicate known changes that may impact the data on your site.
- Trends can affect your data; take seasonal traffic and the day of the week into account. Your site may always see a spike on Sundays, for example, or decreased activity during August.
- Numbers are estimates: expired cookies and variances in user behavior can affect the totals. Try to get a large sample of data (over a longer period of time, perhaps) to help ensure that the relative relevance of your numbers is useful.
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By JR Raphael (@jr_raphael)
Typing a document on my Windows 7 desktop feels a bit foreign right now. I've spent much of the past week, you see, testing Google's latest mobile computing product: the Chrome OS Chromebook, which officially enters the world today.
We've been hearing about Chrome OS for some time now; some of us even had a chance to check it out firsthand with Google's Cr-48, a test system shipped to select beta users last year. With the first commercial Chrome OS products now out in the wild, Google hopes to get the platform into many more hands.
Chrome OS, if you aren't familiar with it, is all about the Web. The basic idea is that you ditch your bulky PC operating system and instead use a notebook focused completely on the Internet. You boot up and, within seconds, find yourself at Google's Chrome browser. That browser is your desktop, and everything you do -- running applications, accessing files, you name it -- takes place within those windows and tabs. Your data lives in the cloud, your settings are synchronized, and everything looks the same on any notebook you sign into.
I've been following Google's development of Chrome OS closely for months now, so I was more than ready to get my hands on the first finished Chromebook to see how the platform had evolved. As any of my regular followers on Facebook and Twitter know, testing the device has taken over my life at times (this photo pretty much sums it up) -- and, needless to say, has been a very interesting journey.
Using Samsung's new Series 5 Chromebook, there's no question the Chrome OS experience has matured. The software has improved and become more user-friendly, and the hardware -- as you might expect -- is noticeably more powerful and polished than what we'd seen before.
But the concept of Chrome OS, in many ways, is as much about what isn't there as what is. Converting to a cloud-based operating means saying so long to the fully featured desktop-driven environment you've long known. It means, for the most part, tossing away your reliance on local storage and trusting your bits and bytes to the cloud instead. And it means bidding adieu to things like cumbersome OS updates, device driver conflicts, and clogged up systems that always seem to get slower over time.
Moving into one of Google's Chrome OS Chromebooks certainly has its advantages -- but it has its fair share of problems, too. And life in the cloud is not for everyone.
Join me for a deep dive into the strange new world of Chrome OS in my full Chromebook review:
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Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her Top 40 hits include "You're So Vain", "Nobody Does It Better", and "Coming Around Again".
Carly Simon appears as herself in "Total Recall" after Lois states that she feels like she has a secret lover like Carly. During an interview, Carly refuses to spill who her song "You're So Vain" is about but she pictures Don Knotts in her head as the song plays.


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The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival from the interns' point of view
Friday, April 15, 2011
Blog posting by Brian McCormick, Film & Photo '12, FLEFF Intern, Wilbraham, MA
I'm currently in Park 220 for an ongoing meet up with FLEFF guests. Right now is new media artist and filmmaker Helen De Michiel, the brains behind the open space documentary project "Lunch Love Community." Come for any of these presentations -- it's FREE!
Here's the line-up: 10am --Rodrigo Brandão, Kino Korber Films 11--Helen De Michiel, Lunch Love Community, 1--Philip Mallory Jones, new media artist 2--Franklin Lopez, media activist , moderated by John Scott 3--Danny Schecter, moderated by Todd Schack
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Tomorrow FLEFF will be doing the east boast premiere for Lunch Love Community (which I'll refer to as LLC), which will be a sit, watch, talk, interact screening. Now De Michiel will talk to us about her project, moderated by FLEFF co-director Patty Zimmerman.
De Michiel begins by introducing LLC by telling the story of a school in Berkley who decided to make a change toward the school lunch program.
(For further information about LLC, check out the other blogs about De Michiel's previous talks. In this blog post I'll try to cover the unique discussions during today's event.)
With LLC, there is this shift from hardcore advocacy work to more open space documentary form. De Michiel started from the beginning engaging with the community in Berkley. Just making lots of meetings and talking to different groups who are involved. It isn't supposed to be an advocacy film. "There's a very fine line," she says, "between the community people who want you to promote what they're doing, and you having the freedom to see the story as it really is."
On the project's mosaic structure and slow media idea: De Michiel wrote an essay back in early 200s about "slow film." These films that takes years to produce and give you time to go very deeply into a topic, perhaps into a story that you didn't start off with (which can be the case with many documentary films).
One audience member has been following what's going on in Berkley, working with problems of childhood obesity in California, and her work to educate kids on nutrition and how they have the tools to better their eating habits. In an environment where there's so many extremes, she says, you need to come in and tell stories so people can find their own solutions.
De Michiel talks about how, as an artist, she needed to be sensitive to the kind of story that she wanted to tell.
To give people an idea of the project, she is showing one of the LLC webisodes off the website. After watching, an audience member says that he actually does see a strong narrative in this video, and he asks, "How do we understand this project?"
De Michiel says how there are gaps in between the pieces which have "different flavors and textures" which can incite different responses and discussions. She says how it shouldn't be dependent on the heavy persuasive qualities of a film. It should instead be a way of presenting something that can people can be surprised by or made aware of. Co-director Tom Shevory comments how you can walk away and say 'Wow, what a great idea!', from which another viewer in the room says that it is "even more persuasive than an advocacy film."
One asks De Michiel about a sequel, and she responds in her wonderfully food-linguistic dialogue: "These were only supposed to be little appetizers."
The next episode that she gives us a taste of opens with a women identifying "the cheetohs epidemic" to the laughter of the audience. This webisode contrasts wonderfully with the previous webisode, taking a very humorous and even more light-hearted approach to the video, showing the students at Berkley doing science experiments with burning Cheetohs.
What I'm finding from these quick webisodes is how much it excites the audience and gets people talking about food and issues surrounding food. That's what this project does: open up dialogue and give people ideas and awareness.
Be a part of the dialogue! Come tomorrow at 12:00 Noon with Lunch Love Community webisodes on healthy food for public schools, with film director Helen De Michiel, chef and cookbook author Julie Jordan, and public health professor Stewart Auyash.
LLC is a wonderful website. The multiplicity of perspective and story is perfectly delivered in small webisodes that compliment each other and work together to build a complex and intriguing dialog about a particular issue. I would like to see this used on other important topics!
Thanks for the post Brian, it was really great to read especially since I missed the meet up. I was really disappointed that I missed being able to hear Helen De Michiel speak because LLC is really an unbelievable site. Watching the episodes is easy and informative. Each is constructed based on the same five-minute structure, which gives a nice aesthetic cohesiveness to the whole project, while still giving a variety in stories and in short form. They are of a high quality in terms of production, which gives the whole school lunch topic a kind of glamour not often seen. It helps convey the message and overall I would say the project is very convincing and persuasive when it comes to getting people involved with healthy school lunches.


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Nintendo has commented on the two problems, long OS load times and system crashes, that is currently plaguing the launch of their Nintendo Wii U system
"We are aware that users are experiencing load times when they launch or switch between applications. We are exploring ways to enhance features for consumers' overall experience."
Good to see a fast response and clarification that they are working on fixing things.
Shame their response is faster than switching between apps. :)
They should have just given an Android phone complementary, that would have switched apps faster :P not to mention better browser lol.
Long OS load times.. few solutions:
1. Hibernate or sleep instead of shutdown
2. Uninstall unneeded apps
3. Get an SSD
oh shit where are my manners, its a console... hahaha.
I don't even understand how the lag is possible. It has 1GB of system RAM for God's sake!!!!
Should have thrown a small ARM chip in there and a custom ARM OS. I know Microsoft has ARM in next Xbox. Windows RT(ARM edition) proves it to me.
lol can't believe I thought that then, decided it was too corny and to post and then saw you'd already beaten me too it :p
Those are all possible and have a helping effect on consoles too. At least you tried....
An entire GB of memory for the OS and it loads slowly? Hmmm, maybe the RAM really is as slow as has been said.
Lol I love how people ignorantly claim that ARM is the end-all be-all for console processors. They're pretty rubbish for anything but mobile systems since focus is on battery life, not performance.
"I don't even understand how the lag is possible. It has 1GB of system RAM for God's sake!!!!"
It's easy! It's a company that has little experience writing operating systems. Nintendo has never been stellar at making cutting edge software, and the OS is one of the most advanced pieces of software ever made.
Nintendo is really an entertainment company that dabbles in technology and not the opposite.
I agree. Now they need to explains the wii games upscaling lol. I'm playing xenoblade and my tv is on 1080p right now and it looks a lot better. So is it the wii u or my tv that is upscaling the game. I have seen other people talking about this so it's not just me.
Get a dolphin emulator, it will look even better in native 1080p :P
PS: try using something asides your grammas laptop.
Its good that the wiiU can upscale games to 1080p so no need for remaster like on ps3. Can it play and upscale gamecube games too?
@reynod stop trying to down play the wiiU. Dolphin does not run the games in 1080p native since the original files were set to run in sd not sure if its 480p or lower so it must be upscaled aswell.
Dolphin infact renders Wii games at 1080p, hence in any case the results will be better than Wii U upscales.
I have personally seen Dolphin running Wii games vs a Wii running the game. The difference is night and day. Dolphin almost makes Wii games look like PS3 or 360 games.
According to DivineHand, this isn't 1080p natively.
This level of ignorance can be anything but blissful.
Edit: Wii games look better on the Wii U only due to the HDMI cable used instead of a component one. Everyone here makes it seem like upscaling is something more advanced than simple image-stretching.
The Wii U isn't upscaling. It's the TV set. It's taking the digital signal and upscaling that.
Your set probably doesn't upscale well with an analogue signal (usually the case)like the original Wii used, which is why you didn't get the effect before the new system.
It's your television and something I have been telling all the Wii SD graphics haters for the last 6 years. Obviously, the Wii output was analog so you needed to buy a receiver capable of upconverting analog input to a digital, upscaled signal.
It's the Wii U, they upscale Wii games to HD.
@reynod, it's not native 1080p if you're having to use an emulator that's the whole point in the word 'native'.
When an emulator runs a game, it actually takes the polygon meshes and renders them at whatever resolution it is set to run at. This is a native render. So, if your emulator is set to output at 1080p, you are getting a native 1080p render AT THE POLYGON LEVEL. However, when you add textures to those polygons, unless new high resolution textures are added (like many of the Ps3 re-releases of PS2 games), you are still getting the exact same texture resolution. So, you'll have nice sharp 1080p polygons with blurry textures that were made for 480p (and due to Wii's tiny RAM, sometimes even at that res they were blurry). That said, emulators can also run filters on the textures to improve them some, but as they say, you can't polish a turd.
So, technically an emulator does run at native 1080p, but that doesn't mean it'll upscale an old game to look as good as a new one. In no way can upscaling ANY wii game come out looking as good as what we consider a good looking PS3 or 360 game.
As for Wii U, I'm not sure if it's set to emulate Wii games at native 1080p or if it's rendering at 480p then upscaling (stretching) to 1080p. If it's emulating, I don't see why it couldn't render native 1080p.
Very good that they are working on correcting that problem. It is not acceptable for a new console with 1GB of memory dedicated to the OS to have up to 11sec or more when going from game back to the main menu. I hope they get this fixed by the end of Dec.
Ram is not everything you need to get faster os load speeds. The processor is a big factor in these types of things and apparently the wii u does not have too great of a processor.
Writing optimized code is much much much more important than anything over all. With C that's kinda hard to do, but if they know how a C compiler optimizes, they can help it along a decent amount.
I'm amazed that they only gave the system 1gb of ram. You can buy 8gb of pc ram (not some no name brand either) for as low as $20 now. That's $20 at a retail level.
This could be the worse online of all consoles. Nintendo's first time in HD gaming, Tv, true online. They have to learn what MS and Sony already have experience in for the past 6-7 years. They will get it right with wiiU2.
Just saying they are noobs to this stuff.
That comment just shows you don't have a Wii U. The online infrastructure in the Wii U is leagues beyond what PS3 and Xbox 360 offer, with an impressive social network built into it.
The problem here isn't the online. The problem is that, as of now, the Wii U is painfully slow for switching and loading applications. Once they're loaded, they actually run pretty fast.
And I know it's better because I own all the consoles, no fanboy speak here. If Nintendo solves this issue with an update (they shpuld, there's always room for optimization), this console will be absolutely amazing, as far as OS and online, that is.
The games is still a wait and see scenario, but it's already off to a pretty strong start.
The Wii U is far better Than PS3 is now online. Nintendo is not new at the online stuff, they just never put much into it until now. Nintendo Wii U has a far superior, seamless online experience. If I am playing a game I can browse the net just by hitting home and instantly go right back to my game. If you have not used the Wii U online save your comments. Nintendo also did away with the pain in the rear friend code crap.
Not NOOBS, just stubborn and want things their way.
"We are aware that users are experiencing load times when they launch or switch between applications. We are exploring ways to enhance features for consumers' overall experience."
Someone needs to tell Nintendo they can't patch in faster RAM lmfao.
But they can optimize the apps and the OS so everything works better with the hardware at hand.
"Good to see a fast response and clarification that they are working on fixing things."
True, but a faster one would have been to eliminate the problems before launching, even if it meant delaying the launch.
If Nintendo is confident that they can fix the problems, give them that chance to do so.
I like the response but however you have had 6 years maybe longer of testing and building this stuff... No excuses.... I own one and love it but sometimes I don't understand how this stuff happens when it is the obvious...
It's a new system launch so we have to expect some bumps along with way early on
Hopefully Nintendo can resolve/improve hese issues
I agree with you when ps4 and xbox360 come out I will wat about an year before buying because we will get most of the games on newer systems but I believe there will be ports for xbox360 and ps3 just because graphics difference won't be as big as ps2 to ps3 and install base for current systems will be quite high to ignore
So for first few ears expect almost every major release to be on ps3.ps4,xbox360 and 720 along with wiiu


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Subject: William Wallace
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:41:22 -0700 (MST)
Hi John,
I have read William Wallace by James Mackay and have questions. It sounds
like you might be able to help me. Is there anything written from William
Wallace's time about him other than Blind Harry's poem? Does anyone really
know that he was 6' 7" tall? In the book a comment was made that after
William did his mischief he blended in with the crowd. Now how does a giant
blend in with a crowd of people?:) My boy is 6'4" tall and he stands out
like a sore thumb (even in this day and age). I believe the people in
William's time were probably about 5'6" or so. I really curious about what
is fact in William's story.
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As the market has matured over the past few years, it's developed all sorts of open standards that make using alternative platforms and applications easier. And now that so much computing is handled over the Internet, the operating system isn't nearly as important as it once was.
Mindbridge Software (www.mindbridge.com) used to be a Windows shop. Now all its client machinesand all but a handful of its serversrun other operating systems. The company is an application service provider, and its IT staff was concerned about Windows' security problemsparticularly when running the company's Internet servers. "When you're hosting other people's apps, security is a huge issue," says chief operating officer Scott Testa. "We felt more comfortable deploying Linux for our hosted apps, because we felt Linux was more secure."
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What's this new device and store?
Neil Young founded PonoMusic for the purpose of delivering high quality, higher resolution, lossless audio format for music listeners. It will have a portable device allowing music lovers to listen to their favourite tracks from their favourite artists that will help deliver the promised high quality music experience with it's hardware designed to reproduce the high quality sound. Most importantly, listeners can "feel" the music experience. Users can also purchase their favourite tracks as a high quality format from the Pono Music store when it officially launches. Both the store and device will be part of the PonoMusic eco-system. It will be the first such device for the purpose of delivering the best music experience since vinyl. The Pono Music website was recently launched to give people more information on this project as they officially launch the product and service later down the road. You can check out various artists' testimonials on their music listening experience with Pono.
In terms of the PonoMusic portable player, the design will not really catch your attention. It wouldn't necessary suite your fashion accessory if that is what your looking for from a portable music player like that of an iPod. However, the Pono player will suit your music experience with an audio chip built in to reproduce the proper sound that will enable playback of all your favourite songs in it's intended quality and experience. Your headphones or speakers will need to be high-end to be able to produce the necessary range for listeners to fully experience the higher quality audio. Even without these headphones, it is worth holding onto the format that was originally intended by the artists as it will come in handy when the right occasion arises.
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Paul Greengrass' plan to return to the real-life drama territory of Bloody Sunday and United 93 has hit problems, with the news from Deadline that Universal have pulled out of his planned Martin Luther King project Memphis.
The film was announced as in development in January, and Universal picked it up last month, but have now backtracked citing concerns over scheduling. There are rumblings though that the King estate were unhappy with the project and had made their feelings clear to the studio, threatening to publicly denounce the screenplay.
Greengrass' script apparently deals with the run-up to King's assassination on April 4th 1968, when King headed to Memphis to support striking sanitation workers and delivered his "I've been to the mountaintop" speech. These were troubled times for King, who was drinking and smoking heavily and whose marriage was foundering. Without seeing the script it's pure speculation, but it seems as if the King family may well have objected to elements focusing on King's eye for the ladies and fondness for the demon alcohol.
Which is obviously a shame, since it ought to be entirely possible to make an inspirational film about King's profound influence on worldwide civil rights, whilst at the same time admitting to his personal all-too-human flaws. Lee Daniels' Selma has also stalled for seemingly similar reasons. Is it really true that the King estate will not abide anything short of a hagiography?
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Is there a reason that the dowel can't be put through the channel?
Is there a reason that the dowel can't be put through the channel?
It may not be rocket science, but it's still science.
It may not be rocket science, but it's still science.
Pip's, that's what I did as a temporary solution. But laying in the hammock last night I got to thinking about my weekly laundry and how the whoopies need to be removable. Have something else in mind for attachments. Will post when I have some time and run some trials.
oldgringo, I marked the location and used a dremel with a sanding drum. The dowel is 3/4" with about 1/8" removed for the groove reducing the diameter of the dowel to 1/2". Not sure if 1/2" would be adequate with the groove cut.
Most of us end up poorer here but richer for being here. Olddog, Fulltime hammocker, 365 nights a year.
It may not be rocket science, but it's still science.
Oldgringo, my thoughts now are for a 4" center of amsteel feed thru the channel with loops on each end to fit around the dowel ends. This would allow removable of the dowel/suspension for cleaning the hammock or as you suggest switching to another hammock. The loop on the end of the whoopie could still be clove hitched to the ends of the dowel as a separate unit. Hopefully I'll be able to work on this tomorrow.
Most of us end up poorer here but richer for being here. Olddog, Fulltime hammocker, 365 nights a year.
For what it's worth, my dowels are like 3/8ths inch diameter (they look like pencils). Mr. Pips and I have been using our living room lounger with Red's mini-spreader bars now for over a month and have not had any issues with the strength of the dowels. In fact--no issues at all!
P.S.: YAY!!! We don't have a lathe, but we do have dremel tools and drills and files for a redneck lathe! Thanks, guys. I'm going to make some new dowels with grooves a la Olddog. But I'm not looking forward to getting those clove hitches loose. I tried once already, and they were so seated, I gave up!
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btw Pips, that was one mighty fine tablecloth hammock you made.
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text: Politics 10 March 2011 With right backs, it's better the Neville you know Sign up for our weekly email * If I come back next time as a journalist, as opposed to a brain surgeon, I wonder what area should I go into? Writing about football? Far too crowded, they are all so clever and talented, such as Simon Barnes of the Times, he's so literary; Richard Williams of the Guardian, very wise; Jim White of the Telegraph, always amusing; Barney Ronay, also of the Guardian, always original. Politics? Even more crowded. Those sketch-writers are so smart, like Simon Carr of the Indy, or Simon Hoggart of the Guardian. Nah, I think the areas to concentrate on would be travel writing and personal finance. Lots of space but wit-free, apart from one exception. Should I return as a footballer, it is totally obvious what anyone should do if they want to succeed - become a right back. It's one of the strange things about football, always has been, here and abroad, that when we think of our boyhood heroes, our club icons, our present day gods - there's never a right back among them. Strikers, obviously, are glamorous, including the bullet-headed and wizards of dribble on the wing. Even goalies, normally looked upon as dumb in the dressing room and on the pitch the best we ever want them to be is safe, have thrown up cult figures. Frank Swift, he was one of my childhood heroes, along with Bert Trautman. Then came Gordon Banks, Shilts, Pat Jennings, oh loads of them. And what about that Russian, what was he called? Went on for years - Yashin, adored by all. The 1966 World Cup winners, all-time greats - of course I know every name - have I not worshipped each of them? But the right back for the moment eludes me. Oh yeah - George Cohen. Not bad, I suppose, but not exactly memorable. Cafu - yeah he was a pretty good right back for Brazil, and he seemed to go on for years, but it was Roberto Carlos at left back who thrilled us. We are at present witnessing the last season of England's greatest modern-day right back and I can't believe the name I am now being forced to write, oh please, let me think of another, anyone, even Lee Dixon . . . OK then, it's the one and only, oh God spare us, Gary Neville. For years I used to hide my eyes when he scurried back, too late to cut out an attack and gave away a stupid free kick, then join in the chorus of "If Neville Plays for England, So Can I". Gary bloke Now that he has been at it so long - 20 years for Man United, six Premiership titles, three FA Cups, one Euro Cup and a record-breaking number of England caps as right back (85) - we are all suddenly genuflecting, saying what a good servant, we won't see his like again, arise Sir Gary. But come on, he is a journeyman, unexciting, clumsy, slow. It's just that over the years he learned not to get caught out as much and foul more subtly. Before him, Liverpool's Phil Neal was a lump who also went on for years, winning endless pots and records but equally failing to excite and ignite. Meanwhile, in the left back slot, Ashley Cole is belatedly being recognised as one of our very few genuine world-class players. And who cannot be uplifted by Gareth Bale of Spurs and Leighton Baines of Everton when they start surging forwards? So what is it about right backs? Are they boring players - or is it the position that makes them boring? In most teams, you tend not to have two overlapping full backs; someone has to stay behind and mind the shop. Traditionally it's the left back who is allowed to be creative. Perhaps because, handed down through the generations, left-footed players are assumed to be cleverer, more talented. They are said to have an "educated left foot", whereas a right back never has an educated right foot. In theory, as most people are right-footed, our right backs should be better, as we have a bigger pool to pick from, but left-footers seem to do better, out of proportion to their numbers. I think it might go back to childhood, back through all our childhoods. Growing up, no one wants to be a number two, for a number two reminds us of going on the potty to do a poo. Hence right backs, let's face it, are shit . . . Hunter Davies is a journalist, broadcaster and profilic author perhaps best known for writing about the Beatles. He is an ardent Tottenham fan and writes a regular column on football for the New Statesman. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 07 March 2011 issue of the New Statesman, The great property swindle More


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The consultations were held between the Kazakh and Romanian foreign ministries at the level of Kazakh Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Volkov and State Secretary of the Romanian Foreign Ministry Bogdan Aurescu in Bucharest, the Kazakh foreign ministry reported on April 23.
A bilateral meeting was held between the head of the Kazakh delegation and Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlăţean as part of the visit.
The sides discussed a wide range of bilateral and multilateral cooperation issues and exchanged views on relevant issues of international and regional agenda. Particular attention was paid to the development of trade-economic, investment, cultural-humanitarian cooperation, prospects for mutually beneficial use of transit and transport potential of the two countries, as well as the expansion of the legal framework. The sides stressed the high level of cooperation in the energy sector, based on the activity of KazMunaiGas International.
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Wow this thread had become the mecca of all threads. It now leads Pacers Digest in most viewed and posted in thread by a lot. The goal here is to take over PD with the most Posts and Views in one thread. (EDIT: Old goal. ACHIEVED) Currently the Last Movie Watched is the winner of both of those. (EDIT: ACHIEVED) After that goal is achieved the next goal is 1,000,000 and from there the sky's the limit.
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OPELOUSAS — A former St. Landry Parish Animal Control employee booked on animal cruelty charges threw dying animals onto the floor where they were preyed upon by other dogs, according to his arrest warrant.
Troy Keith Gallo, 45, tossed the dying animals to the dogs after he botched an effort to put down an animal by injecting it with euthanizing drugs, the warrant says.
Gallo and his wife, former parish Animal Control Director Patricia Street Gallo, were arrested Wednesday night and booked into the parish jail on counts of animal cruelty and theft of under $500 worth of dog food.
Patricia Gallo is accused of allowing "unorthodox euthanizing and disposal of animals" and allowing dogs and cats to remain in filthy cages without food or water.
Troy Gallo denied both the cruelty and dog food theft charges when contacted for comment Thursday.
A witness said she saw Troy Gallo improperly administer euthanasia drugs into an animal. He would miss the heart, then inject its abdominal wall, documents show.
Gallo "would throw the animal onto the floor to allow animal control dogs to finish killing the animal," the witness told deputies.
"No, that never happened," Gallo said Thursday. "Those people accusing me don't even have a clue of how the (euthanasia) procedure is performed.
"I would love to tell my side of the story," Gallo said. "This is based on hearsay and no evidence. It's from a complaint. My stepdaughter went to the sheriff (on Thursday) with a counter complaint."
He did not elaborate on the counter complaint or who it was filed against.
Gallo also said he and his wife are being targeted unfairly. "There were other employees there. Why aren't they being attacked?"
Sheriff Bobby Guidroz announced the pair's arrest at a St. Landry Parish Council meeting Wednesday after members of Friends Underwriting Rescue, a volunteer group that assists parish animal shelter workers, complained to the council about conditions at the shelter.
According to the warrants, the dog food thefts occurred when a shelter volunteer saw the pair removing dog food from a delivery truck and bringing the food home, apparently for personal use.
Parish Chief Administrative Officer Jessie Bellard said he doubts the couple was stealing dog food from the shelter.
"We get so much dog food for the animals that sometimes we give it away to other shelters in the area. Sometimes the food rots, and it's taken home to feed to the hogs," Bellard said.
Troy Gallo said the food he took home was unsuitable for dogs at the shelter.
The sheriff said Thursday he considers the investigation closed.
Parish government announced recently that Patricia Gallo was no longer director of the Animal Control shelter. She has been replaced in that position by Terri Courville.
Patricia Gallo now works for the parish as an educational liaison, teaching kids about animal abuse issues, Bellard said.
Bellard said she also will work on special assignments, such as locating rights of way as parish road projects begin.
Troy Gallo was transferred out of Animal Control in February and now works as a road foreman, Bellard said.
Troy and Patricia Gallo, who both live at 713 Frilot Cove Road, Opelousas, were released from jail after posting bonds of $2,000 each set by 27th Judicial District Court Judge Donald Hebert.
The Gallos will remain parish employees for as long as the legal process continues, Bellard said.
"If they are guilty, then the proper action will be taken," Bellard said.


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Region's job picture may brighten, if only slightly
The Norwich-New London region is expected to see a slight uptick in employment in the final quarter of this year, followed by a more significant increase in jobs at the beginning of 2015, according to a new University of Connecticut economic forecast.
The summer edition of The Connecticut Economy quarterly, released today, shows that the Norwich-New London and Enfield labor markets were the only ones in the state to see decreases in employment over the past year. In southeastern Connecticut, the losses amounted to 1,900 jobs, largest in the state, though the unemployment rate fell.
Still, Norwich-New London's jobless rate of 7.9 percent in the first quarter of this year was highest among the state's major labor markets — about half a point above Connecticut as a whole. The report indicates that the region's jobs situation may "make up for lost time" in the coming quarters and that "faster growth could carve another point off the jobless rate."
Steven P. Lanza, managing editor of The Connecticut Economy, said in a separate analysis that the state's labor situation took a hit in the first quarter of the year as severe winter weather led to a reduction of 6,400 jobs — "easily the worst of the recovery."
Still, given an expected jump of 3.3 percent in the United States' gross domestic product in the second quarter, he said the most likely scenario in the coming year is that Connecticut will add 8,000 jobs. Lanza pointed out that the estimated first-quarter job losses are hardly the final word in any case, as new estimates for the fourth quarter of last year — originally reported as a 2,700 decrease in jobs — now show a recovery of 3,300 positions.
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-- An analysis of minimum-wage laws showed that higher floors on pay historically have done nothing to close the earnings gap between men and women nationally. Surprisingly, Connecticut women's earnings compared with men's have consistently been below the national average over a recent 12-year period.
-- A listing of towns' pay gender gaps showed women from Old Lyme making the closest amount to their male counterparts in town, while women from North Stonington make the least. Old Lyme women make 77 percent of what men make, while North Stonington's female population makes less than half of their male counterparts.
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A woman will appear in court later this month after being charged with drink-driving.
Joanne Praill lost control of her Vauxhall Corsa and struck a lamp post in Alderton Hill, Loughton, at 8.30pm on January 6.
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By JOE RICHEY
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On behalf of my fellow cross country and track and field teammates I am informing the college community that the time is ripe to address the teams' need for a facility. Georgetown track and field has developed into a consistent Mid-South Conference performer and is attracting increasingly talented athletes. The 2012 cross country team was the best in school history. Head coach Todd McDaniel "took a situation that had been mishandled by a coach who knew nothing about running and turned it around for the better," says Chris Bartlett. When the college doesn't respect the sport enough to provide an official venue for practice and competition, it is hard to dedicate time and effort to cultivate one's talents. Building a track is a reasonable enterprise for the administration as well. Investing in a track contributes to long-term success, stability and value. It elevates the status of the program by improving the team, attracting student athletes and generating revenue. The track will also increase the college's value and enrollment and fulfill its professed identity.
A track benefits student athletes and elevates the status of a track program in various ways, these being logistic, physiological and psychological. Logistically, borrowing the off-campus track of a local high school takes time to get to and from practice. Students must hassle with whom to carpool, rather than take a brief five– minute jog. Another hassle to hurdle is the local school's use of the track. The team has to set practice times based on their convenience, and some days the track might be unavailable. These hassles erased from consciousness extinguish a significant amount of inconsistency and uncertainty.
The where and when of day-to-day practice becomes concrete and automatic, allowing athletes to concentrate their energy toward improving. Physiologically, to race well on a track, you must train on a track. The dynamic and rhythm are woven into muscle memory. From constant repetition and practice one knows every square inch of the track. Familiarity breeds confidence, to run faster farther, and longer than the day before. Psychologically, pride, passion, inspiration and motivation are intangibly born within student-athletes' loins. Gone is the lackluster effort to train and improve trampolining the team across the crossroads separating ambiguous obscurity and honorable commitment. It can start a tradition for future generations of athletes to uphold, a visual footprint of the great ones who before us raced in the orange and black.
A track entices talented student athletes to consider Georgetown seriously. In my experience of looking at colleges, a pristine track was definitely a motivator to attend that college. With a pristine track I visualized myself training and racing for the program, whereas with a program without a track, there was vagueness, or haze as to the legitimacy of the program.
Building a track will fulfill the identity and mission of Georgetown College. At Freshman Orientation, speeches given by President Crouch and others prided the liberal arts education Georgetown provided. As in Georgetown College's Live, Learn, Believe motto, "A liberal arts education strives to develop the whole person by fostering an understanding of a variety of disciplines and teaching the individual how to think with depth and flexibility." A reflection in the aspect of athletics will reinforce Georgetown's identity as a college of liberal arts, a symbol of supporting various disciplines.
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