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SAN ANTONIO — It made perfect sense that the San Antonio Spurs could be in trouble in their first-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers.
They were barely worthy of being a playoff team down the stretch of the regular season, which means they may as well have been, well, the Lakers. They were vulnerable, ailing, on the decline, ripe for the sort of first-round upset that the Lakers said they were capable of as they found a way to survive without Kobe Bryant and surged into the postseason after all these tumultuous months.
Or, perhaps, not.
The Spurs took a 1-0 series lead with a familiar formula, as Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili did what they've done for 11 years now in a 91-79 win at a raucous AT&T Center. The trio totaled 54 points in a dominating opener for the Spurs, who led by double digits in the first quarter and had all but wrapped the game up by the time the fourth rolled around.
The Lakers shot just 41.1% overall and hit just 3 of 15 three-pointers (20%) while giving up twice as many turnovers (18) as they forced (eight).
"I thought tonight was the best defense we've played in three or four weeks," Popovich said. "It came at a good time."
BOX SCORE: Spurs 91, Lakers 79
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In this oldie-but-goodie series in which one never knows what to expect from the respective elderly, Ginobili was every bit the energizer coming off an injury as he has been throughout his wondrous career. Despite being rusty because of the nine games he recently missed with a right hamstring problem, and despite having his playing time limited as a result, Ginobili ensured the Lakers wouldn't escape with the sort of upset that could have changed everything in a series like this one in which — because of the unique circumstances on both sides - confidence and momentum could matter even more than the norm.
Ginobili's best work came late in the third quarter, when two free throws from Antawn Jamison cut the Spurs' lead to seven points. Ginobili hit a runner over Pau Gasol in the lane, then buried a three from atop the key. Last but certainly not least, his three in transition from the right-wing after a Steve Blake turnover had sparked the fastbreak was vintage Manu, putting the Spurs up 70-57 entering the fourth quarter. In all, 10 of Ginobili's 18 points came in the third.
"He is a huge key with what we do," said Parker, who had 18 points on 8 of 21 shooting to go with eight assists and just two turnovers. "He has been here a long time and really knows our system and tonight he made some timely threes and was our energy off the bench...We are going to need that if we want to go far in the playoffs."
The Lakers were awful offensively, shooting 41.1% despite the addition of one of the game's most effective offensive players of all-time, Steve Nash. The point guard who missed the last eight games of the regular season with hamstring, back and hip problems had 16 points on 6 of 15 shooting in his start. The Lakers' vaunted post attack that was supposed to be their strength in light of Bryant's season-ending Achilles tendon tear was hardly impressive, though Howard had 20 points and 15 rebounds while Gasol had 16 points and 16 rebounds.
"We can't get discouraged because we lost the first game," said Howard, who had just six second-half points. "San Antonio did what they were supposed to do tonight, but we've just got to come in the second game."
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich may have been the one complaining that his team was "discombobulated" before tipoff, but the Lakers were the ones looking out of sorts at the start en route to trailing 45-37 at halftime.
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Nash was the first to score, coming off a high screen and hitting a jumper in the lane for the early 2-0 lead. But it was all chaos and clunkers from there, with the Lakers missing 19 of their first 27 shots while taking the curious tact of playing the opposite style that so many expected — outside-in rather than inside-out.
It surely wasn't by design that it was almost all jumpers early on, especially considering their twin towers of Howard and Gasol are unlike any other in the league and the absence of Bryant means they should be free to play their respective games. But it was the most significant reason they trailed 28-16 a little more than 12 minutes into the game.
The steady Spurs were led by — who else? — sir Tim Duncan (13 of his 17 points in the first half), while the mystery of Howard's offensive game was on full display in the first half. The Lakers big man who remains unrefined in that realm was clearly uncomfortable early on, and it spoke volumes about his start that a left-elbow jumper was his only make in his first five tries. Eventually, though, he found his way to a phone booth and flashed a few 'Superman' moments that surely kept a few thousand viewers at home from changing the channel.
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It looks sometimes as if Howard must reach his lowest low during any given game before he decides that the puzzling play must stop. That play came 90 seconds into the second quarter and with the Spurs already up 12 points — a post catch some 12 feet away from the basket, in a territory not typically occupied by someone with his skill set, followed by a puzzling push of the Spurs' Matt Bonner that took place after Howard had passed out and drew an offensive foul call that did nothing for his team's momentum (or lack thereof).
But he took a different tact from there. A deliberate and confident fake-right-spin-left basket off the glass that cut the lead to eight. An alley-oop dunk from Gasol in which he reached behind his head for the slam that cut the lead to four. A layup that cut the lead to four again early in the second quarter. Another alley-oop from Metta World Peace, followed by a drive past Duncan later and the layup. Howard had 14 points and seven rebounds in the first half, but the Spurs were hardly fazed.
A Kawhi Leonard three-pointer and Bonner layup over Howard's outstretched hand had stymied the Lakers' first run, putting the Spurs up 35-26 after their disheveled foes had come on strong. It happened again late in the second quarter, when a Gasol turnover sparked the break and led to a three-point play for Ginobili that pushed the lead to 10. It was just the kind of five-point turnaround the Lakers could ill afford.
"It was a good start to our playoff run," said Duncan, who had 17 points on six of 15 shooting to go with 10 rebounds. "We shook off a lot of cobwebs we've had over the past 10 games or so. I was great to have everybody back out there together. It was a good start overall."


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Everybody loves beignets! Those tasty little hot morsels of goodness covered in mounds of powdered sugar.
Next year this incredible institution, Café du Monde, will be celebrating it's 150th anniversary. It's hard to imagine but their doors opened a decade before electricity was invented.
The beignets are the only food item on the menu but you won't need anything else. The coffee is a blend of coffee and chicory. Chicory is the root of the endive plant and is added to the dark roasted coffee to soften its bitter edge. Once brewed the coffee is mixed with scalded milk to make a nasty cup of café au lait.
The Acadians, who left France for Nova Scotia then settled to South Louisiana in the 1700's, are responsible for introducing coffee with chicory and the beignet to the area. Their version was a fried fritter filled with fruit; today the beignet is a piece of dough that is fried and covered in powdered sugar.
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As the Tour de France (which I LOVE to watch every year, often multiple times a day) is heading toward the great finish in Paris this weekend, my thoughts this morning went to the incredibly inspiring colors, textures, materials that I encountered in the streets of Paris over a week long leisurely stay. I've been compelled to write about the Tour de France and kitchen design more than once!
I started looking at my many images of Paris. I began to look at which pieces within a given image could be used as design inspiration, to be translated into a kitchen plan. By looking beyond and around the objects in an image, you can bring a sort of abstract yet highly authentic design concept into a kitchen design. Open your eyes and your mind and the inspiration will come!
Inspiration for your kitchen design theme can come from travel, nature, your home town, a literary work, really, anything. It doesn't have to come solely from looking at images of other kitchens! By looking elsewhere for inspiration, in unexpected places, you can create a kitchen design that is highly personal. That, to me, is a very exciting way to plan the aesthetic layer of your kitchen!
I isolated 40 images that I felt had great ideas that could be translated easily into design concepts. Maybe I'll do a few of these posts.
Below: Soft, calm, green-as-neutral accented with a small amount of black and oh-so-elegant soft and light silver...music to my eyes and what a color palette for a kitchen. Don't miss the gilt gold factor!
Below: Complementary colors on the color wheel, this warm blue and warm gold are perfect aesthetic companions. This hardware can translate into lighting fixtures, faucet, sink, hardware and other accents combined with blue cabinetry, countertop or flooring.
Below: Colorful artwork brings life into the kitchen as well as a feeling of culture, telling a story about the overall design of the kitchen. Anywhere you can find room for art in the kitchen, do it! I've been saying this since I started this blog in 2007 - art will stir the emotions in this very utilitarian space
Below: Industrial and authentically worn stainless steel meets elegantly worn wood flooring in the always wonderful European herringbone pattern. The cool/warm thing - always an interesting contrast
Below: That elegant look of paneling, but look closer and you'll see that it is applied molding - SO easy to do, even diy. Anywhere you can logically frame something will transform the kitchen into....Paris, and don't forget to frame the ceiling and possibly paint sections within the paneling
Below: These 3 images below feature a similar color palette, lovely for a kitchen. Again, the cool/warm factor is a natural, and the images show various combinations of lights and dark, each color, allowing the opposite color to pop. To my eye, these are all sophisticated yet easy to use colors in the kitchen. The very dark door MAY be a bit of a trendy color in kitchen cabinets today, but I would like it as a countertop color. Love the blue/gray street!
Below images pertains to the above grouping but is intentionally blurred to remove bad things that happen on the street!
Below: Happy color as seen in the very traditional door design yet viewed as a friendly, casual design element. A color such as this blue can be used in an accent piece in the kitchen which is usually a better choice due to an otherwise potentially overwhelmingly heavy balance. Or, do small pops of color like the great purple color seen in the flowered vine, an analogous color to the navy door and window, but in a light color for added interest and contrast. Love the navy, beige and gray colors in that image.
Look for inspiration anywhere! Start a folder in a project management system of some sort that might be labeled color, inspiration, ideas, design concepts, what I love, whatever makes sense. Or, of course, in pinterest! It's a fabulous way to discover your own, very personal, definition of creativity. It's fun too!


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|2008-06-30, 14:34
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japanese anime/manga conventions
well me and a couple of friends are going on a trip to japan around sept-Oct and we were trying to find some Japanese anime conventions, we couldn't find any near out trip.
but we generally found like maybe 4-5 so i was thinking there might be some more and that we just couldn't find them in general.
so can anyone please help find Japanese anime conventions, or maybe some place with info where i can find them?
also if anyone know of a convention at September-October that would be great.
|2008-07-01, 04:08
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Sunshine Creation 41
Official Site: http://www.creation.gr.jp/
Oct.5(Sun) 2008 11:00~15:30
World Import Mart, Sunshine City, Ikebukuro, Tokyo
You need to buy a catalog as a ticket.
|2008-07-01, 07:37
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Almost all of them are doujinshi events, where a bunch of doujinshi groups (anywhere from 50 to like, 1000s) come and set up tables to sell their books/goods, etc. Depending on the size of the fair, there might be some retailers, too, or a separate industry section. Most also have cosplay areas set up for cosplayers to pose and have fun. I've also seen events like raffles and stamp rallys that I guess are designed to encourage people to take a look at all the different tables.
Although admission is very cheap, normally the price of the catalog as mentioned above.
Oh, and maybe this goes without saying, but pretty much all of them have 18+ adult content. I've been to ones where that content was clearly marked in a separate section, but at most it's mixed up with the non-adult stuff, so it's generally not a place to bring young children unless you don't care about them reading doujin porn .
Also, if you want to cosplay yourself at these conventions, DO NOT wear your costume on your way there. If you do they will not even admit you to the event. You normally have to pay an extra fee when you enter for cosplay (some bigger events require pre-registration, too), and they provide changing rooms for you to change.
It's really a very different sort of thing than a US convention. It's not about seeing guests (there usually aren't any) or hearing announcements (there aren't any), or dances (nope), or panels (none). It's basically a giant artists alley and cosplay area, and that's it. People tend to show up, look around at the new doujin, buy what they want and then leave.
|2008-07-01, 08:18
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well i more or less understood that the doujinshi selling was the main point, but i guess i was thinking there are some other side activities.
anyway that was really informative so thanks for that.
I guess that things such as TAF are also rare..
well, i guess that even thou doujinshis weren't really the main thing for me i still wanna check a couple of markets to see how it is(I might even find out that i like doujinshis :P)
thou now that you mentioned it i remember i did use the term "CON" and "CONVENTION" when searching.. i guess using market and the like will give me better results
|2008-07-01, 19:39
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Almost all general remarks were said by Quarkboy. I have not visited to US anime conventions, so I can not tell the difference between Japan and US events.
One more comic event.
Sept.28(Sun) 2008
Tokyo Big Site
You need to by a pamphlet as a ticket.
|2008-07-02, 08:14
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Tokyo Dome is a big sports arena where the Tokyo Giants baseball team plays, and there are lots of large concerts there as well.
Tokyo Big site is a giant convention center down in Odaiba, one of the man-made islands in tokyo bay: It has 4 absolutely giant halls ( about the size of a football field each) and a few smaller ones.
The thing you've seen pictures of that looks like an inverted pyramid is Big Site.
|2008-07-02, 08:24
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oops I've mixed those XDD
i just saw the upside down pyramids and the first name that popped up in my head was tokyo dome
it's the place where Comiket is held right?
I guess that the association of Tokyo+big event to Tokyo Dome means i have watched too many sports animes(or at least too much Major) XDD
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|2008-07-02, 09:47
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I've also seen auto shows, pet-shows, motorcycle conventions, industrial paint associate convention (yeah, I know, that one sounds about as boring as.... well, you know....), etc... Big site handles it all, as you can rent just 1 of the halls, or like comiket basically take over the entire building for 3 days.
There were something like 200,000+ attendees at comiket... There aren't that many venues in the world that can handle a crowd like that INDOORS.
It's not like the place is particularly impressive, really. It's nothing but 4 airplane hangers with connecting hallways. The inverted pyramids you see in pictures actually is not the main halls at all. I think there's a lounge or something up there but it's normally just there to mark the entrance, and the actual halls are completely seperate buildings. all around the back. You can see it on google maps:
The 2 sets of 3 squares to the east are the 2 giant east halls.
To the lower left you can see the west halls which are the 5 smaller squares in a corner shape. This one is 2 stories with one hall on the bottom and one on the top, plus a large roof area (that's the cosplay area for comiket).
The famous pyramids are actually north of those and to the west of the east halls, right at the entrance.
|2008-07-02, 13:24
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If you are content to show up around noon, the line is mostly gone by then and you can walk right on inside. Of course, by then, all the big groups have sold out of their new books and all the limited edition merchandise from the industry booths is gone for the day... I had to get my Hatsune Miku Muffler Towel, DAMMIT... ahem...
The only reason to wait in line at Comiket is to have the true "experience" or to position yourself for a carefully orchestrated table rush plan designed to get onesself the most number of "shinkan"s as possible. Generally this is impossible to hit every group you'd want to since each circle also often has a long line, therefore the only true way to defeat comiket is to go in with a large raiding party, making sure to coordinate before hand, split up into the two different queues for the east and west halls, where every member of the party knows their role before hand. Truthfully, comiket is a lot like world of warcraft except it smells a lot more.
Anyway, outside of comiket don't worry about the lines. Even Tokyo anime Fair didn't have a particularly long line, it was only about a 30 minute wait (not even a wait so much as a walk ).
|2008-07-02, 14:43
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anyway, I don't know..
i mean i'm not particularly waiting for any doujins XD
so on one hand i don't -really- have a reason to come early and raid the boothes,
on the other hand it kinda kills the point if i'm not planning to buy any doujins..
so i'm kinda split.
if this was a 2 days con then i would have had gone at noon during the first day, and then after i'd already have an idea of what(if at all) kind of doujins i want to but and then go early the next day..
but it seems i got it backwards the big con is first and the small con is second XDD
you mentioned limited edition merchandise from industry booths
should i expect any of those in one of the two cons mentioned here?
while i don't know whether or not i'll like doujins i'm pretty sure merchandise(and limited edition at that ) will be relevant to me at least in some way...
oh and one more thing,
assuming that i'm not really interested in the H (or at least things which are more H then story etc.) is there any way for me to know where i should look first?
|2008-07-02, 15:14
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The only way to see if the industry booths will have anything interesting is to check their websites. They'll almost always advertise what will be for sale.
Avoiding H doujin is pretty easy... Most doujinshi tables will let you take a look at the book before hand and flip through it, so you can usually tell if there's a story or simply "action".
|2008-07-02, 15:21
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actually i was refering to TAF when i mentioned the huge line.. XDD
and about the H doujins i wanted to know if it's usually oredered in such a way that differentiate H booths from non H, or booths that are mainly H...
|2008-07-02, 22:06
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I think that the "usual" situation is that the groups are sort of generally sorted, but that they are not clearly marked in any way.
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The ATF 2012 Lost and Stolen Firearms Report was released Monday, which brought the news that Texas ranks number one when it comes to total firearms reported as lost or stolen in the National Crime Information Center.
Federal Firearm Licensees (FFL) are required to report a lost or stolen firearm within 48 hours, and the report is then entered into the the ATF Firearms Tracing System.
Lost and stolen firearms pose a severe threat to public safety, as they often fall into the hands of those who intend to commit violent crimes, ATF officials say. Stolen and lost firearms are often sold and traded on the black market, which further hinders the ability to track the weapons.
When firearms are traced, the only pieces of information that are recorded include the original manufacturer, the licensed dealer and the original purchaser; this way, weapons can be tracked all around the country after purchase.
According to the report, "Texas was the top state for total firearms reported lost and stolen in 2012, with 18,874 firearms, which was 10 percent of all firearms reported lost or stolen in the country."
Texas was responsible for 18,435 out of the 183,660 stolen firearm reports; the state is also responsible for 439 out of 6,682 firearms that were reported as lost.
Texas also ranks second behind only Pennsylvania in terms of firearms that were lost or stolen from an FFL, with 1,263 total thefts and losses.
Both Hawaii and Washington, D.C., tied for last with zero FFL theft or loss reports.
The most frequent firearms involved in FFL thefts or losses nationwide were pistols, coming in at 6,041, followed by rifles and shotguns. The least reported weapons were machine guns and unknown models.


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FORT MEADE, Md. - Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military's "bloodlust" and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military prosecutors said they plan to move forward with a court-martial on 12 remaining charges against him, including aiding the enemy, which carries a potential life sentence.
"I began to become depressed at the situation we found ourselves mired in year after year. In attempting counterinsurgency operations, we became obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists," the 25-year-old former intelligence analyst in Baghdad told a military judge.
He added: "I wanted the public to know that not everyone living in Iraq were targets to be neutralized."
It was the first time Manning directly admitted leaking the material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and detailed the frustrations that led him to do it.
The slightly built soldier from Oklahoma read from a 35-page statement through his wire-rimmed glasses for more than an hour. He spoke quickly and evenly, showing little emotion even when he described how troubled he was by what he had seen.
The judge, Col. Denise Lind, accepted his plea to 10 charges involving illegal possession or distribution of classified material. Manning was allowed to plead guilty under military regulations instead of federal espionage law, which knocked the potential sentence down from 92 years.
He will not be sentenced until his court-martial on the other charges is over.
Manning admitted sending hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports, State Department diplomatic cables, other classified records and two battlefield video clips to WikiLeaks in 2009 and 2010. The website posted some of the material, embarrassing the U.S. and its allies.
Manning said he was disturbed by the conduct of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the way American troops treated the populace. He said he did not believe the release of the information would harm the U.S.
"I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information ... this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general," Manning said.
Manning said he was appalled by 2007 combat video of an assault by a U.S. helicopter that killed 11 men, including a Reuters news photographer. The Pentagon concluded the troops mistook the camera equipment for weapons.
"The most alarming aspect of the video to me was the seemingly delightful bloodlust the aerial weapons team happened to have," Manning said, adding that the soldiers' actions "seemed similar to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass."


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I have a problem with an SSH session freezing after using it again when it was idle for a while.
The problem is that the session doesn't freeze immediately, I can still use it. But as soon as a command sends more data, it freezes before any output arrives, and I have to restart the terminal.
If have read earlier solutions about MTU, but there, the session freezes everytime. Here it only happens after a period of inactivity.
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ServerAliveInterval 120 in .ssh/ssh_config
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Mexican Army Using Torture to Battle Drug Traffickers, Rights Groups Say
Thursday, July 9, 2009
PUERTO LAS OLLAS, Mexico -- The Mexican army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of drug traffickers, according to documents and interviews with victims, their families, political leaders and human rights monitors.
From the violent border cities where drugs are brought into the United States to the remote highland regions where poppies and marijuana are harvested, residents and human rights groups describe an increasingly brutal war in which the government, led by the army, is using harsh measures to battle the cartels that continue to terrorize much of the country.
In Puerto Las Ollas, a mountain village of 50 people in the southern state of Guerrero, residents recounted how soldiers seeking information last month stuck needles under the fingernails of a disabled 37-year-old farmer, jabbed a knife into the back of his 13-year-old nephew, fired on a pastor, and stole food, milk, clothing and medication.
In Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, two dozen policemen who were arrested on drug charges in March alleged that, to extract confessions, soldiers beat them, held plastic bags over their heads until some lost consciousness, strapped their feet to a ceiling while dunking their heads in water and applied electric shocks, according to court documents, letters and interviews with their relatives and defense lawyers.
The officers were detained at a military base for more than a month.
Mexican officials acknowledged that abuses have occurred in the fight against traffickers but described the cases as isolated. In some instances, drug traffickers may be accusing the army of torture and other human rights violations as propaganda and to deflect attention from the government's efforts to dismantle their operations, the officials said.
"I know that the armed forces are not acting inappropriately, although there have been some cases," said Interior Minister Fernando Gómez Mont, who is responsible for coordinating security operations across Mexico. "The government honestly believes that. There is no incentive for abuse."
Mexican security forces have long had a spotty human rights record, but the growing number of abuse allegations appears to be a direct response to the savagery unleashed by the cartels after President Felipe Calderón put the military in charge of the drug war in December 2006. Most of the violations have occurred in regions where the sight of dismembered bodies of soldiers and police is remarkably common. In the state of Michoacán, investigators with the government's National Human Rights Commission concluded that the army committed abuses against 65 people over three days -- including several cases of torture and the rape of two girls -- after five soldiers were killed in an attack in May 2007.
The U.S. government has encouraged and, in part, funded, Calderón's risky strategy of using the army to fight the cartels that handle 90 percent of all cocaine that enters the United States. U.S. officials said Calderón has initiated reforms that they think ultimately will increase respect for human rights among soldiers and police.
However, U.S. officials warned that the abuse allegations could lead Congress to withhold more than $100 million in anti-narcotics assistance.
The cases in Puerto Las Ollas and Tijuana are under investigation by the National Human Rights Commission, which has been overwhelmed with more than 2,000 complaints about the army -- 140 a month this year. The commission has documented 26 cases of abuse, 17 of which involved torture, including asphyxiation and the application of electric shocks to the genitals of drug suspects.
"What happens is the army takes [suspects] back to their bases -- and of course a military base is not a place to detain people suspected of a crime -- and they begin to ask questions," said Mauricio Ibarra, who oversees investigations for the commission. "And to help them remember or to get information, they use torture."


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CARSON CITY – A behavioral health company based in Las Vegas was fined $125,000 today in a Medicaid fraud case involving the failure to maintain adequate records to support Medicaid claims.
Rainbow Child and Family Services was sentenced for one gross misdemeanor offense of intentional failure to maintain adequate records by Clark County District Judge Valerie Adair and ordered to pay the $125,000 in restitution, penalties, and costs.
Persons convicted of Medicaid fraud may also be administratively excluded from future Medicaid and Medicare participation.
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto announced the sentencing.
"Businesses need to pay attention when processing Medicaid claims," Masto said. "This office continues to investigate and prosecute Medicaid fraud cases."
The AG's office began an investigation after information was obtained that Rainbow was not providing services to Medicaid recipients. Interviews with Medicaid recipients showed that Rainbow was not providing the Basic Skills Training (BST) and Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) services to the recipients as indicated on claims submitted to Medicaid. Furthermore, the documentation to substantiate the claims submitted to Medicaid was inadequate as the records did not note accurate or true dates or types of services provided.
The fraud occurred from August 2011 to April 2012.
The case was investigated and prosecuted by the Nevada Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), which investigates and prosecutes financial fraud by those providing healthcare services or goods to Medicaid patients. The MFCU also investigates and prosecutes instances of elder abuse or neglect.


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Introduction: Scott Phillips is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy services. In this guest blog post, Scott turns to old newspapers to research the history of St. Valentine's Day—and shares a personal Valentine's Day story.
Nothing much beats holidays as a way to get everyone talking about family, memories, stories, and family history. Certainly Valentine's Day is no exception! I've been blessed to have my "Valentine" with me now for over 38 years and I sure am glad she said that she would be my valentine all those years ago.
In the case of my wonderful wife, each year about this time I would go out to find one of those fancy satin hearts filled with chocolates. Why? Well, when we were dating she told me, very early in our relationship, "I'll know the man who really loves me because he will buy me one of those fancy hearts filled with chocolates for Valentine's Day." Needless to say I bought one for her every year after that.
Every year, that is, until recently when she said to me: "OK honey, I know you love me so you can stop now." So now I have to be creative and come up with something new and different each Valentine's Day. That got me to thinking this year about what the history of Valentine's Day was, what gifts might have been like in the past, etc. I admit I never really knew much about this holiday, so I gave GenealogyBank.com a look for some information about this romantic day and maybe even find some potential ideas for my wife's gift.
Historical Origins of Valentine's Day
My first hit helped explain the history of the Valentine's Day holiday. There in a 1925 newspaper was an intriguing, full-page article describing the origins of Valentine's Day. The first thing I learned was that it is actually St. Valentine's Day, named after the long-ago martyred Saint Valentine.
I certainly appreciated one of the cartoons that accompanied the old news article, even if I have been lucky enough to never have to visit a pawnshop prior to my shopping trips for chocolate-filled hearts.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
My next hit was closer to my adopted hometown when I saw the byline of Chicago, but alas this 1929 newspaper article was about the infamous St. Valentine's Day gangster massacre.
Ugh…not romantic in the least, although it is a very interesting event in our national history. So I was off in search of more newspaper articles about Valentine's Day.
My Sweet Genealogy Karma
Then I found it! At least, to me as a genealogist, I found it. It was in a 1910 newspaper: there was an advertisement entitled "For Your Valentine: Candy Hearts and Heart Shaped Boxes."
I smiled when I saw that the price of satin heart boxes ran from 20 cents to $4, but it was the name of the company that ran the advertisement, The Chandler & Rudd Company, that actually caught my eye. You see back in 1910 my great grandfather, Frederick George Evenden, was a Master Tea Blender for none other than The Chandler & Rudd Company. Yep, the very same company as the one in the advertisement—and during the time that he worked there.
So for all these years my buying chocolate-filled hearts was simply karma! Karma sent from my great grandfather to my wife, giving her vibes to instruct me to go for what he personally knew was the really good stuff for Valentine's Day! Sadly, Chandler & Rudd closed just two years ago, but if they were still open I'd be on the phone with them right now to buy her a sweet bit of the past.
So with a tip o' my hat to my great grandfather Evenden, this year I am going back to getting my Sweetie some of those fancy chocolate candies in a heart-shaped box this Valentine's Day for sure.
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Cool news, math dorks: my friend Jennifer Ouellette's new book The Calculus Diaries comes out today!
I've known Jennifer for a couple of years now. She helms the Science and Entertainment Exchange (trying to get better science into movies), she spoke (wonderfully) at TAM 7, she was at SETIcon and Comic Con, and I also know her through her husband, cosmologist Sean Carroll -- he blogs for the Hive Overmind at Cosmic Variance. Jennifer writes the Cocktail Party Physics blog and for the Discovery Channel blogs, too... and I am not ashamed to admit I have a wild crush on her avatar, Jen-Luc Piquant. So I was really excited to get my hands on an advance copy of her book, especially since I knew she could handle the topic well.
It was everything I had hoped for. Yeah, look, I know: it's a book about calculus. But it just so happens to be a really good book about calculus! It's not equations and homework -- well, OK, there are equations -- it's really stories and fun and personal tales punctuated with how calculus gives us insight into the backstory. I know a bit of math, but didn't know that calculus can be used to describe the Dutch tulip boom of the 17th century, or why you may not need to worry about a zombie horde (because by the time you know it's happening, it's too late to do anything about it except start getting used to shambling and eating brains).
Jennifer uses her great writing style to make these ideas easy to read and fun to think about. I suspect that if you like my blog, you'll like this book. If math terrifies you then you can skip over the equations (though honestly, you're missing out), and if you like the math you'll love the way it gets applied here.
All in all, I recommend it. If you hurry, you can still read it on the beach during these last days of summer... or get her to sign it at Dragon*Con next week!
P.S. There's a Facebook page for it, too.


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WCCW2004 Call for Papers First International Workshop on Web Computing in Cyberworlds (WCCW2004) at the International Conference on Cyberworlds 2004 Tokyo, November 18-20, 2004 http://cse.seu.edu.cn/people/bwxu/wccw2004 The open approach to developing Web computing in Cyberworlds has attracted an increasing attention in both academia and industry. This workshop will not only focus on architecture and models for Web computing, but also emphasize the emerging technologies in various Web computing aspects, which will be held together with the International Conference on Cyberworlds 2004 (http://cw2004.myvnc.com/). The Web Computing is an ideal model to utilize the millions of personal computers�� idle CPUs through the Web, thus providing high efficient and cheap computation. The distributed and dynamic architecture and system models have become the foundation of Web Computing. The inherent cooperation in Web computing enables a large range of computations. Aims The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theory, techniques and applications, concerning analysis and/or manipulation of Web computing. The complex and large-scale Web computing requires effective methodologies and tools for the analysis, design, implementation and maintenance. Topics The workshop emphasizes on the analysis and manipulation techniques. Topics include, but not limited to: l Architecture and Models - Web Computing Model and Framework - Web Computing Software Environment - Heterogeneity and Portability in Web Computing - Semantics and Ontology Engineering l Methods and Tools - Web Computing and Distributed Technologies - Security and Accessibility in Web Computing - Proxy and Cache Techniques - Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Rough Sets, and Evolutionary Computation l Applications - Applications of Web Computing - Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Clustering-Based Recommended Systems - Web-Based Applications and Systems l Quality Assurance - Cooperation and Integration - Testing and evolution - Maintenances of Web Computing Systems Submission Original papers on new results in the rapidly emerging area �C web computing in Cyberworlds are welcome. Papers should indicate the innovative aspects of the results and contribution to the field. Papers submitted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be considered. All submitted papers will be evaluated according to its originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF format via E-mail to professor Baowen Xu (email@example.com). The total number of the accepted papers will be no more than 20. papers should conform to the IEEE paper guidelines: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm Accepted papers will published in the proceedings of Cyberworlds 2004 and will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Important Dates Paper submissions due: 1st May 2004 Feedback to Authors: 1st June 2004 Camera-ready Manuscript Due: 28th July 2004 Conference date: 18-20 Nov 2004 Workshop date: 20th Nov 2004 Organizer and Program Chair Baowen Xu Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com on Tuesday, 27 January 2004 07:40:30 UTC
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DEA Nashville District Office Heads Up Eighth Prescription Drug Take-Back Event April 26, 2014
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Drug Enforcement Administration'(DEA) Nashville District Office and other DEA offices throughout Tennessee, are partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold an eighth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 26, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This one-day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs. At the event, Tennesseans will be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state free of charge, no questions asked. By doing so, they will help prevent prescription drug abuse and theft. Tennesseans participating in DEA's most recent take-back, held in October 2013, yielded 10,029.84 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state.
Unused medications in homes create a public health and safety concern, because they are highly susceptible to accidental ingestion, theft, misuse, and abuse. Almost twice as many (6.8 million) currently abuse prescription drugs than the number of those using cocaine, hallucinogens, heroin, and inhalants combined, according to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. And more Americans died in 2010 from overdoses of prescription (22,134, including 16,651 from narcotic painkillers) than from motor vehicle accidents, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Surveys of users have found that the majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.
Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division commented, "DEA is collaborating with a multitude of community and law enforcement partners to show our commitment to decrease addiction caused by pharmaceutical drugs. This campaign provides a safe and environmentally sound way for Americans to dispose of their unwanted, unused or expired prescription medications. Through this collaborative effort, we will eliminate a major source for abused prescription drugs and make our communities safer."
The public can find a nearby collection site by visiting www.dea.gov, clicking on the "Got Drugs?" icon, and following the links to a database where they can enter their zip code. Or they can call 1-800-882-9539. Only pills and other solids, like patches, can be brought to the collection sites. Liquids and needles will not be collected.DEA is in the process of drafting regulations to implement the Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010, which amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow an "ultimate user" (the patient or patient's caregiver, including the owners of animals being treated by veterinarians) of controlled substance medications to dispose of them by delivering them to entities authorized by the Attorney General to accept them. The Act also allows the Attorney General to authorize long term care facilities to dispose of their residents' controlled substances in certain instances.


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Illuminating IntellectIlluminating Intellect is a podcast series highlighting the personalities and pursuits of Marquette University faculty members.
The 2018 issue of DISCOVER:Marquette University Research and Scholarship is out. Read about this year's featured researchers.
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- Marquette's overall award volume in fiscal year 2013 reached a record high, with faculty receiving more than $29.1 million in awards.
- The university's technology transfer and commercialization program continues to grow, and there were record number of invention disclosures in fiscal year 2013. Two patents have been issued since then and an exclusive license agreement was finalized.
- More than 80 faculty are members of the National Institutes of Health-funded Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeastern Wisconsin. Members, other faculty and students regularly participate in CTSI-sponsored grant competitions, educational and networking opportunities, and the development of Marquette's Clinical and Translational Rehabilitation Health Science graduate program.
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As an educator, you can inspire students to excel academically, socially and developmentally. Travel is just one of the ways to connect and inspire growth within your students. Travel can be essential to a complete education, when students have the opportunity to see first-hand what they are learning in school.
This following guide is provided in order to provide an in-depth list of topics needed to maximize experiences while at the same time providing for the safety and security of all participants.
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Started Playing Disc Golf: I played disc golf for the first time in 7th grade P.E. A new teacher at my school in Arcata, Mr. Shaddix, was a disc golfer and ultimate player. His first order of business was to bring it into our P.E. class. We learned a handful of different shots to throw while playing on our football field aiming for a pole that had a 5' circle drawn around it. I forgot about the game after that until I picked it up again around '00. My first tournament was in 2005.
First Disc: Innova Hammer in '89 which I proceeded to loose that same day.
Favorite Hole: Hole 11. It's very social, a good time for a break and if it is a weekend you'll likely be there longer than any other hole. 5 aces so far. Hole 2 twice, 6, 8 and 19.
Favorite Disc: Sparkle Squall (aka bass boat)
Favorite Driver: Star Destroyer since I've thrown it the furthest and have aced with it.
Favorite Midrange: 1st run Champ Gator is always with me
Favorite Putter: I've moved to a few different putters and haven't been convinced any are my favorite yet
"In My Bag": Star Destroyer, Star X Caliber, Champion Firebird, Champion Teebird, Champion Leopard, Champion Gator, Sparkle Squall, Z Wasp, Discmania P1 and P2 Putter
Top Morley Finishes: 2007 Spring Fling Intermediate Winner 2008 Sunrise Showdown Intermediate 2nd place 2008 Morley Field Course Championships Amateur Champion 2008 Southern California Championships Advanced 2nd place (tied with a good friend)
Favorite Disc Golf Website: DiscGolfersR.us is where I go most often.
Favorite Pro Player: All that I have met and/or played with have been great.
Tip For Other Players: Learn to throw an arsenal of shots. Hyzer, Anhyzer, Forehand and a Roller are a good place to start.


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HAVELOCK � A 16-year-old Havelock student was arrested Wednesday after a pocket knife was found in his book bag.
HAVELOCK � A 16-year-old Havelock student was arrested Wednesday after a pocket knife was found in his book bag.
Casy Lee Hester, of Havelock, was arrested about 12:35 p.m. at Havelock High School by the school resource officer, Havelock Police Chief G. Wayne Cyrus said.
�There never was a danger to any other student or faculty member at the school and the arrest occurred without incident,� Cyrus said.
Hester was charged with possession of a weapon on school property other than a firearm or explosives.
Cyrus said that the school resource officer, Havelock Police Officer Brad Elam, was notified by school administrators that a teacher suspected a student to have a weapon of unknown type in a book bag.
�She was alerted to the fact that there may be a weapon in the bag when the student placed the bag on the floor and it made a loud clunking noise,� Cyrus said. �The teacher suspected that there was something in the bag other than schools supplies or books,�
According to the officer, a pocket-style knife with a two-inch blade was confiscated, Cyrus said.
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The Brooklyn Public Library has a "strategic plan" for 2013 which includes a new look and a new logo. That new logo includes a trendy misspelling of Brooklyn as "Bklyn."
Companies that follow fashions -- apparel retailers, shoe sellers -- can get away with this sort of thing, of course. It's less clear whether intentional typos will fly when they come from an institution dedicated to formal English usage.
A writer at Brand New, the logo design blog, also expressed reservations:
I'm not usually the correct-English-police but there is something odd about the library using the slang-ish abbreviation of the borough.
Here's the new logo:
And here's a side-by-side with the old one:


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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Place - Angle - Position
Doreen McCarthy
Place - Angle - Position, at Heskin Contemporary.
Jeff Feld - oh, glad i looked at his resume he has a show at Skidmore opening this week.
Guy Nelson
Doreen McCarthy plexis. She makes cool inflatables too.
Christian Sampson has some eerie and beautiful new plexis in a current show at the Pompidou. and oh yeah Mike Hein is also great but that is much different.
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February 03, 2009
LOS ANGELES -- In the wake of the recession and the freezing up of financial markets for office space development, developers and investors believe that office markets will worsen between now and 2011, according to the latest Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast Commercial Real Estate Survey and Index Research Project. The survey now includes the East Bay and Silicon Valley office markets in addition to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County and San Diego. The survey, conducted for the fourth time in two years, compares the panel's forecast of the market three years hence with today's market.
"The unexpected autumnal freeze in commercial real estate credit markets and the precipitous drop in retail sales changed the outlook for new office projects dramatically," said Jerry Nickelsburg, senior economist, UCLA Anderson Forecast, and author of the survey results report. "The dynamics in the Los Angeles and San Francisco markets indicate a turning point at the end of 2010. For the Silicon Valley it appears that 2011 is a turning point, but the data is less clear. For the balance of the markets, the surveys clearly indicate a longer term adjustment process."
For a copy of the latest Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey and Index Research Project, please visit www.uclaforecast.com.
The Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey and Index Research Project polled a panel of California real estate professionals in the office space and investment market, and asked a series of questions on various aspects of the commercial real estate market. It was initiated by Allen Matkins in 2006, furtherance of their interest in improving the quality of current information and forecasts of commercial real estate. With the office market coverage now complete, the next survey will focus on the Industrial Space market at the June 2009 UCLA Anderson Forecast Conference.
About Allen Matkins
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, founded in 1977, is a California law firm with approximately 230 attorneys practicing out of seven offices in Los Angeles, Orange County, Century City, Del Mar Heights, San Diego, San Francisco, and Walnut Creek. The firm's broad based areas of focus include corporate, real estate, construction, real estate finance, business litigation, taxation, land use, environmental, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, and employment and labor law. The firm has also been ranked as the #1 real estate firm in California by Chambers & Partners for the last five years.
About UCLA Anderson Forecast
UCLA Anderson Forecast is one of the most widely watched and often-cited economic outlooks for California and the nation and was unique in predicting both the seriousness of the early-1990s downturn in California and the strength of the state's rebound since 1993. More recently, the Forecast was credited as the first major U.S. economic forecasting group to declare the recession of 2001. Visit UCLA Anderson Forecast on the Web at http://uclaforecast.com.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the very best business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty are ranked #1 in "intellectual capital" by BusinessWeek and are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,600 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 35,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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CNN's Gloria Borger dug deep for disgusting liberal smears of Paul Ryan's budget proposals and aired them without any criticism or outrage on Monday. In her report on the new Vice Presidential nominee, she unearthed past footage of liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman saying the Ryan budget would "kill people."
That smear was so egregious that it won the Media Research Center's "Grim Reaper Award" for 2011. Yet Borger featured it as valid liberal criticism of Ryan. And she kicked off her report by quoting other liberals saying his budget would drive America "over the cliff" and "destroy our government," before Ryan even introduced himself.
Below is part of Borger's September 25, 2011 profile of Paul Ryan that included Krugman's smear.
"To be a little melodramatic, the budget would kill people, no question," Krugman told CNN. "So that counts as cruelty to me."
Borger simply explained that "His [Ryan's] ideas infuriate liberals like Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman," and said nothing critical of Krugman's outrageous remark.
And at the beginning of her report, she also included Democrat Congressman John Yarmuth (Kent.) ranting that the Ryan budget would take America "over the cliff," as well as liberal economist Jeffrey Sachs saying it would "destroy our government."
This isn't the first time CNN has invited liberals to open fire on the Ryan budget with little response from Ryan's side. When the congressman defended his budget at Georgetown University, CNN hosted liberal Fr. Thomas Reese four times throughout the day to explain how Ryan's budget hurt the poor and didn't meet the standards of Catholic social teaching.
When Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) wanted an investigation into government officials having alleged ties to Muslim extremists, CNN cried foul and Anderson Cooper ran critical "Keeping Them Honest" reports on four consecutive nights. And yet when liberals claim that the Ryan budget would kill people, it not only escapes CNN's critical eye but makes it into their own reports.
A transcript of the report, which aired on CNN Newsroom on August 13 at 1:16 p.m. EDT, is as follows:
(Video Clip)
Rep. JOHN YARMUTH (D-Kent.): The Ryan Road Map is the way to the cliff and then over the cliff.
JEFFREY SACHS, economist: The Ryan proposal obviously would destroy our government –
Rep. PAUL RYAN (R-Wisc.): I gave up fear for Lent this year.
GLORIA BORGER: (on camera) (Laughs) You're not joking?
RYAN: No, I gave up fear for Lent this year.
BORGER: You are not kidding me, right?
RYAN: No.
BORGER: How do you do that?
RYAN: Well, I'm working on it. (Laughs)
BORGER: (voice over) Until recently, Paul Ryan was a relatively unknown budget wonk. Now he's famous. As the face of a new brand of Republican economics that includes the most sweeping plan to cut government spending in decades.
RYAN: There's a big test for this country. And whether we apply our country's principles, you know, liberty, freedom, free enterprise, self-determination, government by the consent of the governed. All of the core principles are being tested right now, and you can't have fear if you try to fix these problems. You know, there is a shoot the messenger strategy these days. And you can't –
BORGER: (on camera) You are the messenger.
RYAN: I'm the messenger, and you can't fear that.
BORGER: (voice over) So who is Paul Ryan?
RYAN: I'm fifth generation from Janesville –
BORGER: The path from the union-heavy small town in Wisconsin led to a conservative pedigree, first as a Republican congressional staffer –
RYAN: I'm Paul Ryan, candidate for Congress.
BORGER: Then, with a long shot bid for a House seat 13 years ago.
WILLIAM BENNETT: Well, Paul Ryan is maybe a rare thing in Washington. He is what he seems.
BORGER: Bill Bennett is a conservative talk radio host and CNN contributor. He was one of Ryan's mentors, along with supply-side guru Jack Kemp, in the early 1990s.
BENNETT: He is a guy without guile, without pretense. He likes to hang out with actuaries for relaxation, which is good.
BORGER (on camera): Who doesn't?
BENNETT: Yes, which is kind of a funny thing. He also hunts elk with a bow and arrow. So he's an interesting character.
RYAN: And it literally gets our economy on a –
BORGER (voice over): He's had the deficit in his sights for years. But even Republicans steered clear of some of his more controversial budget ideas. That is until the Tea Party became the rage.
RYAN: I think it is because of the circumstances of what happened, that the recession, the resulting binge in spending that occurred after it and then, you know, passing entitlements like ObamaCare and then the electoral reaction to that brought these ideas into the mainstream.
BORGER (on camera): Because it's not like you had an extreme makeover?
RYAN: No, no, I've been doing – I've been doing the same thing for a long time.
Do we want to do a photo? Is that it?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
BORGER (voice-over): Ryan became popular by pushing the unpopular. Things like killing his colleague's pork projects or trying to revamp Social Security and eventually change Medicare into a program of vouchers for private insurers.
BORGER (on camera): So that's not only touching the third rail of politics, as it's called, it's like grabbing --
RYAN: Yes. I used to say I'm a koala bear on the third rail. That's what I used to say.
BORGER: Right.
RYAN: So, here's the problem. If you don't address these issues now, they're going to steamroll us as a country. And the issue is, the more you delay fixing these problems, the much uglier the solutions are going to have to be. Fifty-one percent of Medicare right now is funded with borrowed money.
BORGER: Right.
RYAN: And so if we're going to keep that promise, you have to change it for our generation. You have to change it for those of us in the x-generation.
PAUL KRUGMAN, Princeton University economist: To be a little melodramatic, the budget would kill people, no question.
BORGER (voice-over): His ideas infuriate liberals like Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
KRUGMAN: The cuts in Medicare that he's proposing, the replacement of Medicare by a voucher system, would, in the end, mean that tens of millions of older Americans would not be able to afford essential health care. So that counts as cruelty to me.
BORGER: Ryan scoffs at the idea and his fellow Republicans have joined in, making the Ryan budget the coin of the realm. Just ask Newt Gingrich, who once dared take it on.
NEWT GINGRICH, former Speaker of the House: I don't think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering.
BORGER: Gingrich called Ryan to take it back.
RYAN: And basically said he just -- he was wrong.
BORGER: And there are other ideas. Ryan wants to reform the tax code. As for new taxes, no way. Not even if a deal included $10 of spending cuts for every $1 of new taxes.
BORGER (on camera): The public wants compromise and wants a solution where Democrats and Republicans work together and they see, okay, Republicans won't accept –
RYAN: Yeah. See, the kind of compromise all I hear about these days is we take the tax increases and they do a little less spending. What is the policy? See, this is ridiculous to talk about ratios. Where is ObamaCare? Where is Medicare reform, Medicaid reform?
BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States: This is not class warfare.
BORGER (voice-over): And when the President proposed a plan to cut the deficit by taxing the wealthy, Ryan was the first to call it class welfare. And he's convinced the President is just wasting valuable time.
RYAN: We're in the middle of a lost decade.
(End Video Clip)


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It's hard to be a blogger when you have to borrow your dad's computer every time you post. It's even harder when your house doesn't have electricity to run the computer eight to 10 hours every day.
Despite the challenges, Doa'a Mheissin has been blogging since she was 11 years old, posting whenever the computer is available and working. Doa'a is 16 now, a teenager growing up in the Gaza Strip where infrastructure like electricity, heavily damaged during the conflict in 2008-09, still has not been fully repaired. A new blog she started just a year ago already has over 150 entries. It's the first step to achieving her dream of becoming a famous author and journalist.
This young woman may not look like a revolutionary, but in the years to come, she and girls like her could form the vanguard in the next chapter of the Arab Spring -- a much-needed gender revolution.
The Arab Spring, which saw massive popular uprisings bring democratic change to countries like Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, has been particularly remarkable in its demonstration of how powerful a tool social media can be -- as a force for change, and for the way gender barriers crashed down as people took to the streets.
As the protests raged, women were participating fully and equally alongside men. "The Arab Spring was almost magical. Women and men were working together," remembers Dalal Al-Waheidi, Program Director of Girls for Change.
Following the Arab Spring, however, more traditional groups that oppose changing roles for women have increased their power. Elections in Egypt and Tunisia reduced the number of female representatives in those governments.
Pushing back against the trend is Girls for Change, a new program empowering 12 to 18-year-old girls in Gaza, Tunisia and Egypt, by teaching leadership skills, women's rights and empowerment, and how to effectively address social issues.
Doa'a is one of the Girls for Change. Five years ago, one of her teachers noticed she had a flair for writing, with a strong, engaging style. She encouraged Doa'a to take up blogging.
Doa'a dove into the blogsphere head-first. Already a voracious reader with a taste for Mark Twain and the tales of James Bond, she sought out and devoured Internet articles in Arabic and English on how to write good essays and blog entries.
Her posts are poetic and moving and she has won several writing competitions for young bloggers.
Now Girls for Change is helping Doa'a take her blogging to the next level, learning to write effectively about the social issues facing her community and her fellow girls.
Participating girls attend a series of workshops to discuss gender roles and what women's empowerment means to them. They learn to analyze gender roles in their own context through exercises like discussing how boys and girls are portrayed in posters in their school.
The girls are taught how to make an action plan to tackle issues in their own communities they are passionate about.
"The girls are so excited to have their voices heard," says Al-Waheidi, who is herself a voice for change. Born in the Middle East, she has lived in Canada for the past eight years, returning to Gaza now out of a desire to empower other young women.
The key piece is learning how to employ technological tools like blogs or Twitter to express themselves and rally support for their issues.
Alongside her poems and short stories, Doa'a's blogs are now taking on themes like women's empowerment and the effects of the Israel-Palestine conflict on her community.
In one blog entry, Doa'a delivers an emotional critique of the way Palestinian society renders women faceless and nameless.
"In spite of what women have to endure and confront every day, we don't know their name. We just know them as the mother of this martyr and that prisoner. How can women be recognized, have their rights, have their freedoms and have their values, without being recognized first with their own individual name!"
In Gaza, more than 120 girls like Doa'a are involved with Girls for Change, and more than 240 in Tunisia. The program hopes soon to engage another 240 in Egypt, and plans are forming to expand into Libya.
Al-Waheidi admits the program has "ruffled some feathers," but tells us it's getting rave reviews from school officials, parents and community associations.
Khaled Abu El Ouf, father of one of the participants, praises Girls for Change. "I am actually surprised at the change that happened to my daughter. She has turned the way she thinks and her interest in issues of her generation. I am so glad my daughter is a part of this program."
Not so many years ago, a teenage girl in the Middle East blogging freely about women's rights would have been almost unimaginable. The foundations for the next revolution -- the gender revolution -- are being laid now as girls like Doa'a learn to share their voices and wield the tools for change.


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All That Grief - Migrant recollections of Greek resistance to fascism 1941-1949
Here's another one - the book "All that Grief - Migrant recollections of Greek resistance to fascism 1941-1949" compiled by Allan & Wendy Scarfe. This was published in 1994 by Hale & Iremonger Pty Limited, Australia.
There are 109 names mentioned in this book - you can view the names along with the Table of Contents at the HellenicGenealogyGeek.com page for "All that Grief"
Here is the synopsis from the back cover - "All that Grief is a collection of memoirs by 13 Greek resistance fighters now living in Australia. Caught in the Nazi occupation and then the Civil War in Greece, these survivors recount their own experiences and tell how the republican movement was destroyed, in the first conflict of the Cold War, by forces put in place by Britain and the United States.
Of various political persuasions, all the contributors aspired to a democratic Greece and suffered as a result. They tell of cruelty and injustice, of betrayal and torture, of courage, sacrifice and grief: the agony of a nation torn apart by invasion and by civil war.
Few Australians know of the experiences that drove many Greek migrants to leave their homeland. This book provides a rare insight into the dreams and struggles of ordinary people caught up in a cause."
As always - Good luck with your Greek genealogy family research.
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Poet Agha Shahid Ali's Legacy Lives On In Special Collections
Poet Agha Shahid Ali taught at Hamilton for only five years, but in that short time he established lasting connections and friendships at the college. For this reason, the Agha Shahid Ali Literary Trust donated his collection of manuscripts, letters, and other writings to Hamilton after his death in 2001. This summer, Will Newman '14 is working with Burke Library's Special Collections to organize the materials so that they are accessible to scholars, ensuring that Shahid's legacy at Hamilton lives on.
Agha Shahid Ali was born in New Delhi, studied at the University of Kashmir, and received a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He gained widespread recognition as a poet in the 1980s with his collections, A Walk through the Yellow Pages, The Half-Inch Himalayas, A Nostalgist's Map of America and The Country Without a Post Office. Shahid became renowned for blending multiple influences, drawing on his Hindu, Muslim and Western heritages. Rooms Are Never Finished, his last volume of poetry, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award.
In all, he published 10 collections of poetry and was an instructor at nine colleges and universities during his career. He taught at Hamilton from 1987 to 1993, earning a reputation as a beloved teacher. Shahid also formed lasting friendships with a number of Hamilton professors, including Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English Patricia O'Neil, to whom he dedicated a number of his poems.
Newman, whose work is supported by the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi), Burke Library's Special Collections and the English Department, is going through all of Shahid's writing and organizing it so that scholars can easily find primary sources to study. The materials include manuscripts of Shahid's poems and books, personal correspondence and teaching materials such as lesson plans. Among the materials are a letter and postcard from Salman Rushdie, a note from Bill Clinton, as well as correspondences with the famous Palestinian intellectual Edward Said and renowned poets such as Mark Strand, WS Merwin, James Merrill, Christopher Merrill and Galway Kinnell.
Newman has the rare opportunity to read through all of Shahid's writing. He remarked, "It's an intensive and personal way of getting to know the way a poet writes, what a poet finds most important about his or her own work and what he or she thinks of other people's work. Ultimately sometimes it feels like a post-humous apprenticeship." Newman believes that as the project moves forward Hamilton faculty, in addition to scholars from other colleges, will be interested, particularly as some of the letters to Shahid were written by his colleagues at Hamilton.
Newman is also working with the DHi to publish the majority of the materials online. He is learning about digital archiving techniques and meta-data so that he can preserve the documents online when the time comes. Through the organization of the collection and the website, Newman believes more people will be able to gain insight into Shahid's work and life. Newman credits his supervisors/staff advisors Pat O'Neill, Christian Goodwillie, Mark Tillson and Janet Simons with guiding him on the project.