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Two of Chestnut College's regular starters were out of the line-up from the get-go, another Griffin racquetman was injured before the singles contests began, but host CHC still had more than enough horsepower to blow by visiting Dowling College in last Friday's non-league tennis tilt.
Winning all three doubles bouts and taking five of the six singles contests for an 8-1 triumph, the Griffins raised their record to 5-1 in the spring season. They had played five matches back in the fall, going 3-2, so Friday's victory produced an overall record of 8-3 for the 2012-13 school year.
After starting the spring campaign with a loss to the Florida Institute of Technology during a trip to Tampa, Chestnut Hill has won five straight matches. Last Friday the Griffins took the court without regular number two Yoann Pham, a junior, and number four Steven Say, a sophomore.
In the doubles competition that always precedes singles play in college bouts, CHC encountered some resistance in the first flight, but junior A.J. Moore and freshman Kevin Taylor overcame visitors Francisco Del Castillo and Sardorjan Mamadjanov, 8-4.
In each of the other two pro-set doubles contests, the Griffins swept the Golden Lions, 8-0. Sophomore Mike Humes and junior Manuel Ceniceros won at second doubles over Derek Wells and Mike Pessalano, and at number three CHC sophomore Sammy Atri and junior Jeremy Solema broomed Marc Lewis and Brendan Sullivan of Dowling.
Unfortunately, Chestnut Hill's Moore rolled an ankle during doubles play, and as a result the Griffins forfeited the second singles match to Dowling's Del Castillo, saving the visitors from a shutout overall.
Humes mastered Mamadjanov at first singles, 6-1, 6-3, while Ceniceros took a pair of 6-2 sets from Well in the third spot. Taylor triumphed at number four over Sullivan, 6-1, 6-2, and in the last two positions Chestnut Hill did not lose a single game. At fifth singles it was Atri over Pessalano, while number six Solema swept the Golden Lions' Lewis.
Even at the NCAA Division II level, many tennis programs are now attracting players from abroad, and Chestnut Hill's roster includes athletes from England, France, and Mexico. The one team ranked ahead of the Griffins within the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference, Concordia College (Bronxville, N.Y.) fields a line-up consisting entirely of foreign-born players.

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Cortez the Killer from West of Pecos Recipe
Cortez the Killer from San Francisco's West of Pecos is "a spin on a Manhattan: a tequila Manhattan," bar manager Brent Butler told us. The blend of reposado tequila, Bonal Quinquina, and white creme de cacao lend a surprisingly rich, woody depth to the tequila drink, cut nicely by the tang of lemon oil, courtesy of a flaming rind (a simple lemon twist will work as well). Here are our instructions for how to flame a citrus twist.
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- Yield:serves 1
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- 2 ounces reposado tequila
- 3/4 ounce Bonal Quinquina
- 1/4 ounce white creme de cacao
- Garnish: lemon twist
Fill a mixing glass with ice. Add tequila, Bonal, and creme de cacao. Stir until well chilled. Strain into serving glass and serve up; garnish with a lemon twist, flamed if desired.
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The latest job report from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG found that in 2013 there has been strong demand for IT and Computing staff.
In a ranking of demand for permanent employees by sector, IT narrowly missed out on the top spot to Engineering and Construction, but beat Medical, Executive, Accounting and Blue Collar jobs.
REC and KPMG's index for job demand placed IT at 60.7 – where a score of 50 would mean no change in demand on the previous month. In January last year the IT sector saw a lower score of 54.9, indicating that demand for IT staff is continuing to grow.
"The war for talent has begun. January saw the sharpest rise in starting salaries in well over a year after a nine-month trend of increases. The rise is caused by continued growth in permanent vacancies paired with a reduction in candidate availability," said REC director of policy and professional services Tom Hadley.
"This is good news for workers but also highlights the need to address the current 'skills disconnect' which presents a major barrier to growth in key sectors of our economy."
He added: "Skills shortages in whole sectors like engineering and IT and for particular roles like chefs, drivers and sales are spurring competition for qualified staff. Employers are realising that to secure the talent they need they have to offer more attractive salaries."
However, this wasn't the case for temporary employees, where IT ranked joint fifth out of a possible eight sectors and held an index score of 54.8. Although, this is still an improvement on January 2012's score of 51.5.
Employers are looking for a wide variety of skills from IT candidates seeking permanent work, which include: business analysts, C#, enterprise software sales, Java, Linux, .Net, PHP developers, Sharepoint and telecommunications.
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There is no shortage of professional unified communications (UC) systems, including Microsoft's Lync, designed for the enterprise. But just as with any consumerization-of-IT issue, there is an elephant in the room that can't be ignored: Skype, also a Microsoft product.
Skype absolutely was not designed for enterprise use. It's more of a rogue intruder on enterprise networks, and it's common for administrators to attempt to banish it. It's easy to see why an administrator in charge of managing systems and networks and ensuring their smooth working order would want to squash Skype like a big hairy bug:
Once again, right in line with the consumerization mind set, it might be tempting to say, "Skype is probably already on a large number of our client systems; why not take advantage of it?" Skype is, after all, a pretty complete UC client, and it has extensive hardware and software support.
And it's stunningly popular: Typically there are 36 million users on Skype at any time, out of 200 million total users. Over 300 billion minutes were called in 2011. There are DID (Direct-Inward-Dial) connections in 23 countries, which means Skype can make calls with the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). Cost is also compelling: you can get unlimited calls to 40 countries for $13.99 a month.
Microsoft finally released a Skype client for Windows Phone. Read a hands-on review.
So why use Skype in the enterprise? You could use Skype instead of a conventional phone; however, only a very small, cheap organization would do this. You could use it in addition to a regular phone, which is probably pretty common in business, although unsanctioned.
There are also ways for the organization to institutionalize use of Skype in an organized manner. You can connect it to your PBX (known as a SIP--Session Initiation Protocol--trunk) for very low cost. There are thousands of business customers using it and a formal certification process for PBX vendors.
Given the interest it has in pushing Lync and other, more-profitable products, you have to wonder whether Microsoft really wants Skype to be successful, but it seems that it does. In a recent investor call, Microsoft CFO Peter Klein spoke about the future of Skype and was bullish on it. Look for Microsoft to federate Skype and Lync; in other words, let them connect directly across the Internet. Look for Skype connections in Microsoft Office, in Office 365, or in both. Microsoft sees Skype as a cheap way for customers to extend their reach and for Microsoft to extend the reach of its products and services. It could make Microsoft the telco of the cloud.


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By Samuel Burke, CNN
After weeks of bellicose rhetoric, North Korea announced Tuesday that it will restart a nuclear reactor it had shut more than five years ago.
Siegfried Hecker, one of the world's most prominent nuclear scientists, was one of the last Western observers to visit the Yongbyon nuclear complex. He believes that the North Koreans could restart the plant within six months to a year.
"They would have to rebuild the cooling tower, they would also have to prepare the fresh fuel to put in, but in my opinion it could be done in six months to a year's time," Hecker told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an interview on Tuesday.
Hecker is the former director of United States' Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Amanpour reported from Yongbyon in 2008, which North Korean officials made a big show of shutting down – the cooling tower was blown up in front of television cameras.
She asked Hecker if the North Koreans had deceived the world at that time.
"No, I believe they were actually serious in what they called the 'disablement' of those facilities," Hecker told Amanpour, adding that while they have always kept the contingency to be able to restart it.
"So they went ahead and disabled it and not dismantled it," he said. "So for the last five years they've had it mothballed, but at any of those times they could have actually had the technical capacity to restart it."
In his best estimate, the North Koreans have perhaps four to eight bombs worth of plutonium, which Hecker based on his visits to the country and discussions with North Korean specialists.
"Right now they cannot build anymore plutonium bombs, because they've reprocessed all the plutonium – there's none in the pipeline. "I think that's why they said they'd restart the reactor."
If they did restart it, within that sixth-month-to-year time period that Hecker laid out, he believes the best the North Koreans could do is to build one bomb's worth of fissile material per year.
"However, it would take them about three years before they'd actually be able to reprocess more. So let's say in three years time, then they could then potentially build one more bomb's worth a year. That's it."
Because of that Hecker, says he was neither surprised by North Korea's announcement on Tuesday, nor does he believe that it fundamentally changes the nuclear threat.
Hecker does not believe that there are any other plutonium reactors or reprocessing plants in North Korea; but when it comes to enriched uranium capabilities, which he calls "the second path to the bomb," he is not sure of the Hermit Kingdom's capacities.
"In 2010 they showed me a very modern facility, but they said it was dedicated to making reactor fuel. However, I'm quite convinced that they do have a covert uranium enrichment facility somewhere and in most likelihood they've made at least some highly enriched uranium for bombs."
In other words, it is possible that the facility that Hecker saw in 2010 could be changed from making reactor fuel into making highly enriched uranium.
The bombs that North Korea fielded so far are quite primitive, according to Hecker. He said they are not sufficiently militarized to put on a missile and unable to reach the United States.
He said they could reach South Korea, but not using a missile. "In most likelihood they'd have to deliver that in a van, boat or by airplane."
He believes North Korea would be unlikely to pull it off.
While he emphasized that he is a technical person, not a policy person, he did offer up some advice to the world: He believes North Korea is not going to give up the bomb, so the world should focus on diplomacy to make sure things don't get worse, which is exactly what North Korea is signaling they might attempt to do with Tuesday's announcement.
He suggested diplomacy focus on what he calls "The Three No's:" Make sure North Korea doesn't build any more bombs; prevent them from surpassing any improved bomb technology that they currently have; and don't allow them to export any bombs or technology.
You can read more about Hecker's work regarding North Korea at his website.
ive seen korean construction first hand..... shody at best.... i wonder how safe is a plant that's been sitting idle for 5 years. with any luck they'll blow it up...trying to figure where to plug it in...
You mean North Korean construction right. Because South Koreans construct many capable machines such as dockside gantry cranes that bring the containers off of ships carrying your precious Nikes and iphones , as well as Kias and Hyundai cars. Both very popular and reliable cars actually. Not that I drive them but many do. Ah what's the point in even saying this, judging by the kind of posters on here I'll just get flamed with my logical facts and proof.
It came to me when Gangnam Style got 50 million hits on youtube. And I thought what the Neighbor "OPPA" might be making of it? Then we seen it is not since a year and we have numerous threats from NK. What does it means for Kim to provoke and threat South Korea like that. What is the psyche that is behind such threats. It's like a arrogant terrorist with Bomb-Vest saying "I am gonna do it". He is like [who] lives by his own rules and [who] would not abide by the imperialist rules and systems," a UN unto himself.Even his questions would sound like statements because his "pride wouldn't allow him to make anyone feel that he doesn't know about something. Even if NK gets nuked or bombed it will wish to gets himself killed by not listening to China or US, thus taking away US and China's power to save it. "Grief [coming] out as anger is what KIM is all about. He grew up to it, his grand dad and his dad eventually. Kim is like a child who refused to grow up. He doesn't abide by the laws of world or so called laws of imperialists. If he has physical strength, he uses it, if he doesn't, he becomes cynical and blames Imperial powers all the time. "Murphy's law will prevail BUT Kim Jong Un will be remembered as Howard Roark of World's Politics and in history"
KJU is a puppet dancing on strings. He's no more "in charge of" the DPRK than I am.
That Amanpour is one hot dude, er..chick
When are you gonna stop with all this lies.Remember Iraq,then Iran? now Korea? stop stop stop.
If North Korea dismissed the southern Koreans five years ago with intention to restart the nuclear power production once again, would that mean it would employ northern or southern workers? would Southern workers agree to this or would the northern? and for what reason?
I feel sorry for the people of NK. The leader "Kim" is not leading the country. If they want to start a war do it and get it over with. The world would like to see a unification of both the North and the South Korea. The quicker they (NK) start the war the quicker the unification will come. This is not brain science. The "Kim" statues will come tumbling down and history has written the "Kim" dynasty as tyrants and not caring for their own people.
You got it right . kim jong un too young to run the country with 21 millions population in hunger . Insteadly to worry on weapony . Event china unable to compare weapony with US . Don't be stupidly to piggy .
If all it takes is one phone call to Kim from Pres. Obama, to stop this insanity, and save billions of dollars and thousands of lives, why isn't that being done?
NK need sane leadership....Kim should stop threatening his neighbors in SK.....bt China n Russia who deemed to NK's allies should prevail on Kim's administration.
Invite the guy to a Lakers game and take him to Disneyland and it will be all fixed up.
we could overrun North Korea and rename it North Kazungi in about 15-20 min and have the Kim family in one of their own prison camps within 1 hr
Hey! You are so sure, so when they invade you can lead the charge to the capital!
Congrats your restart the plant.Very Nice .
Hey dear I want to know why north Korea want attack the south Korea ?
I want to know why north korea wants to attack us so much not little facs bout what happened .or what people have said come on let me know
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Candy Bar Salad Recipe
Lost classic desserts from our wide and varied past.
If Candy Bar salad sounds like some sort of new fangled concoction, think again! Candy Bar Salad has been kicking around since at least 1926 as this Ladies Home Journal advertorial for Oh Henry! candy bars shows. In this adaptation I've pared it down to the basics: tart Granny Smith apple slices, Snickers pieces, caramel drizzle, and homemade whipped cream—no lettuce leaves, mayo or Cool Whip required!
Note: You're welcome to sub in any candy that you think will go well with apples and caramel. If you feel like making your caramel sauce from scratch, give this recipe a try.
- Yield:Serves 6
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:15 minutes
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 6 medium Granny Smith apples, cored and sliced into wedges
- 3 (2.07 ounce) Snickers bars, diced
- 1/2 cup of caramel syrup
Pour cream into the bowl of a stand mixer. Turn mixer to high and begin beating. Add sugar while mixer is running. Beat until soft peaks form.
Divide apple slices evenly among serving bowls. Top with Snickers pieces then whipped cream and drizzle with caramel. Serve immediately.


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Brett Douglas Hunter is a traveling musician and wood working artist.
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Tommie White, is a talented artist from Southern Illinois.
Fred Gilbert is a tree artist who uses chainsaw to turn trees into great sculptures.
David Hammond, is an award winning photographer living in Southern Illinois.
Bob Chambers is an artist and entrepreneur from Murphysboro Illinois
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Randy Simmons primarily sketches with charcoal.
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Ariel Loh joins us in studio to demonstrate Tsumami Zaiku, the art of folding fabric.
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Ceramic Artist Karen Fiorino and Photographer David Hammond.
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KDE at UKUUG Linux 2003 Conference Report
The UKUUG Linux2003 Conference took place in Edinburgh last weekend. I ran the KDE stall, gave a talk on Umbrello UML Modeller and attended the other talks. Read on for the whole report.
The KDE stall was helped along by Eilidh the booth babe and Kenny the booth boy (photo with me in middle). This was a technical conference so everyone knew what KDE was but people were interested in some of the new applications such as JuK and Kexi. KPlayer, while not part of KDE itself, impressed everyone by being a media player with a useable interface. We also demonstrated the Kolab server to a couple of people interested in using it for their clients. People were asking if t-shirts were on sale but unfortunatly we were unable to get hold of them, many thanks to the KDE League though for supplying t-shirts to wear. Our neighbours on the Debian stall had their usual impressively large turnout, we had to keep an eye on them to stop them spreading onto our stall!
David Faure briefly popped into the conference to talk about KDE Development (slides and a writeup). He talked about Valgrind, kdialog (for creating dialogues for bash scripts), the simplicity of KParts in KDE 3, using DCOP and the new features coming in KDE 3.2. He ran out of time to discuss unsermake (can we finally get rid of automake?!).
Bo Thorsen gave a talk on Kroupware (slides) which included a successful live demonstration. Several people were heard to whisper that this could be a killer-app for GNU/Linux on the desktop.
Commented on as "the best talk I've been to all weekend" was my own UML, Free Software and Umbrello UML Modeller talk (photo, slides). The plan with Umbrello is to get Free Software developers using UML where it makes sense - to sketch and share program structure ideas and to document current program structure to help new and old developers.
On Saturday evening Maddog, who I had inspired to wear a kilt, gave a talk using a Sgian Dubh as a pointer (photo) on automated piano players. Apparently the music industry of the time complained of being put out of business by these playerless pianos.
It was a fun and useful event, thanks to UKUUG and my brother for making it happen. It would have been good to be more organised and have some posters and handouts for the stall but I'll get that right for next year.
Community event
Nice to read news about a community event while another DE reports about a contributing company being acquired by an old fashioned commercial company.
By Anonymous at Mon, 2003/08/04 - 5:00am
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Is this sour grapes I detect here. I think you don't like that GNOME seem to be getting more and more coporate backing than KDE. Now Novell.
A few days ago, SUN announced it will become the standard desktop for Solaris. Must be painful I know.
But, what they wanted was probably really Evolution and Connector. Now they can manage to migrate people off Exchange much better. (Caryy on using your Exchange with Evolution, then take out exchange, drop Groupwise in, and the end users should hardly notice). Plus Redcarpet, nice way to manage huge deployments on Linux which they would probably do if they manage to get defections. PLus they get a company with much expertise in UI coding. Novell gets a good (extremely good) front end. Plus Mono. Seriously, who doesn't want to tap into the future pools of coders brandishing their C#/.NET certs. Novell certainly doesn't want to discover it can't hire 90% of coders because they now all use .NET. So actually buy a company actively developing an implementation of .NET, and you will not be left out of that.
Seems to make sense on many levels. PLus Novell doesn't have to pay anyone else. No licensing a toolkit form anyone (read Trolltech). They can actually get to influence development of GTK/GNOME by contributing to GTK/GNOME. Me thinks Trolltech *may* (note the may) just have to revise its licensing. But then again, they cannot, because that is their bread and butter. But they need mindshare, and GTK/GNOME has it all right now it seems.
By Anonymous Coward at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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Company support is good, company involvement taking over development direction in most cases not: Look at GNOME, it's targetting a specific audience while having lost all of its configurability to make it fit for other audiences too.
> A few days ago, SUN announced it will become the standard desktop for Solaris. Must be painful I know.
They announced this years ago. Must have been painful for Sun until they recently got GNOME 2.0(!) mature enough for inclusion.
By Anonymous at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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I meant GN[email protected] PLease, if KDE was good enough in its raw form they would have included.
To include it in Solaris, they had to work on it themselves to give it features they would have found useful. This is just like Ximian doing XD2
By Anonymous Coward at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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They wasted 3 years on GNOME and many of their internal developers even hate it.
By ac at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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That's not really fair. In every group of people, there will always be different opinions.
Often it seems as though in any group of 3 people, there are 5 positions on any point of contention.
I would have been very surprised if all Sun developers liked GNOME.
While *I* greatly prefer KDE, I don't expect everyone else to. And I admit that I really like Bluecurve.
By TomL at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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Btw, they do include KDE in the Solaris CDs.
By ac at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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That's the best analysis of the Novell/Ximian event I've read yet.
By TomL at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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How great it is for Novell. How sad it is for GNOME.
By ac at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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First the commercial (trolltech, Qt) influence was considered _evil_ to KDE.
Now GNOME (more/less started out as an alternative to then 'half commercial' KDE) suffers a lot under commercial influences.
How to cure GNOME? is the question I ask my self...
This "more and more coporate backing" you talk about, Mr. A.C., doesn't seem so nice to me. GNOMErs don't seem so happy with their end product anymore either. I suggest GNOME developers take hold of it and release on their own, without corporate intervention.
Just my .02 (EUR) ;-)
By cies at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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What do you mean cure GNOME. How does GNOME suffer. From having a well written HIG. From having paid developers working fulltime on it. From having good accessibility suite and good usability tests. No, I don't think so. I think the groundwork is being laid down for greater things later.
By Aonymous Coward at Wed, 2003/08/06 - 5:00am
Thanks for all the information and scrnshots, this is some very cool stuff! And, Umbrello seems cool too, never actually tried it, I'm just learning C++. but can it actually genreate diagrams from my code or do I draw them and if so is there any support for python 2.3?
By Alex at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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It mostly goes the other way around. You draw your diagrams in Umbrello and it generates the code for you. At the moment we have support for several languages like C++, Java, Python, Perl, PHP, Ada... I think till next major release along with KDE 3.2, there will be improved code generation handling. For more information see: http://nvo.gsfc.nasa.gov/Umbrello/
By Steinchen at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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I agree, this is a wonderful report.
By ac at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
The UML Modeller presentation is really interesting http://jriddell.org/programs/umbrello/html/
You code something and automagically the UML diagram appears, if you modify the UML diagram, the code is also modified transparently.
Everybody knows that UML is great for programming, it's like creating a house with 2D and 3D plans: it's easier than just reading a text describing the futur house. You get the big picture more easily. Also you can catch errors very easily. UML is simply an higher level tool that helps you a lot especially in a team: it's easier to understand what your friend has done with a diagram rather than just the source code.
I'm dreaming about a free software with such functionalities for the free software community because it will help to make much better programs in much less time.
By Tanguy Krotoff at Tue, 2003/08/05 - 5:00am
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It is a nice dream and I welcome you very much to join the Umbrello developers, so that we can get faster to a free real UML based CASE tool! Please see: www.umbrello.org
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MIDDLETON — The Board of Selectmen and several members of the public Tuesday night engaged in a lively discussion of the recently announced tax rate, which jumped approximately 26 percent higher than last year's rate.
Resident Lanny Wiggins told the board he believed selectmen had failed as "watchdogs" in managing the budget for the community.
"You've got so many people in this town that have kids," he said. "You slam down a big tax bill like that and they're having a hard time coming up with it."
Chairman of the Board of Selectmen Todd LaPierre explained that while largely the tax rate increased because of the school portion of the rate — due to an influx of students attending Farmington schools through the town AREA agreement and a rise in tuition costs for the SAU 61 — the town approved this budget at last year's town meeting in March.
Vice Chairman of the Board of Selectmen Terri Laughy expressed "it was crazy" how many articles residents approved at that time, going beyond selectmen and the Budget Committee's recommendations.
On Tuesday, selectmen also explained that in past years, they had bought down the town rate, but this year they decided not to do that.
The tax rate went from $19.46 per $1,000 in 2011 to $24.60 per $1,000 this year. Middleton schools' portion of the tax rate was up from $9.74 in 2011 to $12.78 this year — a 31.2 percent increase.
Wiggins said emphatically he hoped in the future a tax cap could be voted through for the town, similar to the systems in Dover and Somersworth.
"That's something that would be good to come up with in March, a tax cap, so we will never run into this problem again," he said. "You've got a lot of elderly people that can't afford it but these young kids, that have kids, they're having trouble coming up with those tax dollars you are asking for."
LaPierre noted he was also not happy about his larger tax bill, which he estimated went up to $4,000 this year.
Resident Joann Coskie said perhaps in the future, the town could also work on making itself more attractive to local businesses, so they would be motivated to move to the area and boost Middleton's revenue.
The tenor of the meeting centered around the point that more people should be involved in their local government. Secretary Kathleen Landry noted that while there were approximately 1,000 voters in town last year, only 75 showed up for Town Meeting.
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Kerry Harrison divides her work week between two elderly Toronto women. She spends four weekday mornings in one woman's home, and three weekday evenings and Sunday mornings in the other's. Both women are in the early stages of dementia, and Harrison helps them bathe, prepares a meal, does light housework and spends plenty of time chatting and doing crossword puzzles with them.
"It doesn't seem like work," says Harrison, 45, who receives $20 an hour for her services. "I feel like I'm being paid to hang out with people I like."
Harrison is a personal support worker (PSW), a career that will see an increase in demand in coming years as Canada's population ages. After many years of working as a nanny, she completed George Brown College's personal support worker program last spring. The two-semester, 700-hour program trains students for basic front-line health care work in hospitals, homes for the elderly, group homes, hospices and as support workers in private homes. Tuition for the two semesters of the 2012-2013 school year is $3,201.
"I'd come to the end of a 10-year job and decided to look into other options," Harrison says. "The idea of spending time with older people appealed to me. I've always been comfortable around the elderly and I enjoy their company."
Certificate PSW programs are offered at a number of post-secondary institutions throughout Ontario. Under the province's Long-Term Care Homes Act, successful completion of a program that meets the government's vocational standards is now required by every personal support worker who is hired for work all long-term care facilities in Ontario.
Other Canadian provinces have implemented mandatory certification for health care support workers or are working toward higher training standards. In Alberta, health care support workers are called "health care aides," and certified training is not currently mandatory. But Alberta Health and Wellness has developed and maintains a competency training curriculum that has been adopted by most public and private post-secondary institutions in the province that offer health care aide programs.
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"Demographics tell us there will be an increase in the need for skilled support workers and a rise in home care," says Nora Way, dean of health studies at Medicine Hat College in Medicine Hat, Alta. "Right now, 100 per cent of our graduates find employment. Many are offered jobs before they finish the program."
A George Brown College survey of graduates conducted last August showed that 86 per cent of graduates of the PSW program were employed and received an average salary of $36,844. "Some graduates go on with their studies after they finish the program," says Deanna Lunn, chair of the college's school of nursing. PSW graduates can apply for admission to the college's practical nursing program.
Martha Niever knew that Medicine Hat College's health care aide program would bring job opportunities. She and her husband and their two young sons immigrated to Canada three-and-a-half years ago from Colombia where she had worked as an accountant. She decided it would be too difficult to qualify as an accountant here, and opted to train as an aide because she'd enjoyed volunteer work with the elderly in Colombia. She completed the college's program in February and is now employed as a casual nursing attendant at Medicine Hat Hospital, and hopes to get full-time work soon.
Harrison says she probably could have found work as a private support worker without the George Brown course. "But I'm much more comfortable having taken the course," she adds. "I learned all the practicalities of the job: how to lift a person without injuring your back, illnesses that the elderly are susceptible to and their repercussions. It also taught me how to communicate properly with older people, how to really listen and understand where a person is at."
Applicants to health care support worker programs must clear a police check to protect vulnerable clients. Once enrolled, students learn the skills they need to assist the elderly and disabled with their personal and household needs in both classroom and lab settings. They are also given supervised clinical placements in institutions and in the community. George Brown College students graduate with two certificates: the PSW certificate and a certificate in food safety handling.
Medicine Hat College offers a part-time, as well as a full-time program. Part-time students have the option of attending classes with full-time students or completing courses via distance learning. The program is also available to individuals who are currently employed in health care to enable them to get certification. "We'll assess their knowledge and skills, and determine where we will place them in the program," Way says. "Some may not have to do the practicum."
The job itself can be challenging. "You can easily make a mistake," Harrison says. "I make sure I have enough down time. I bike to work, so that gives me down time to myself before and after a job. I also do yoga, which helps me stay strong and flexible, and to maintain a balanced perspective. I try to eat properly and get enough sleep so I can switch off my own problems when I open the client's door."
She also takes out liability insurance for professional caregivers that provides coverage in the event of accidentally causing injury to a client or property damage.
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For more than 20 years children have enjoyed reading about the silly exploits of Hank the Cowdog, his sidekick Drover, and the other creatures (human and not) living on a ranch in the Texas panhandle. Their creator, John Erickson, began writing while he was a full-time cowboy in Texas and Oklahoma. In 1982, after getting several rejection slips from New York publishers, he borrowed $2,000 and founded his own publishing company, Maverick Books.
The first Hank book came out in 1983. Since then, without a big marketing budget, Hank has become a multimedia star of books, audiotapes, and stage plays. He now has a New York publisher (Puffin Books), but Hank and his creator haven't moved from the 7,000-acre Erickson ranch in Perryton, Texas.
WORLD: Your 48 Hank the Cowdog books have sold about 7 million copies. Why is Hank so popular?
ERICKSON: The Hank books have been driven by word of mouth, not by advertising. They began to take off around 1985 when school librarians and teachers discovered that children enjoyed reading them and that the books contained no toxic material or hidden messages. We've developed a brand name that parents and educators can trust. We produce books and audiobooks that are good enough for their kids.
WORLD: Your books are great for reading aloud. Tell us a little about your writing and editing process.
ERICKSON: During my years as an apprentice writer, I tried to imitate other writers and their writing styles. After 15 years of failure, I stopped trying to be a man of letters and began merely telling stories, imitating the storytelling techniques of ranch people. The Hank stories were always meant to be read aloud and the audience I had in mind was a three-generation family, sitting around the kitchen table on a cold winter night. That's why I've done all the Hank stories as audiobooks. It's their most natural medium.
WORLD: You once said you could sum up Hank's character "in a paraphrase of St. Paul: 'That which I do, I should not, and that which I should not, I do-all the time.'" Could you explain?
ERICKSON: Hank is a unique character in that he's a dog, not a human dressed up in a dog suit. He captures what is best and worst in a creature that God designed to be man's best friend. Hank wants to be a good dog, but he's involved in a constant struggle with his nature: a short attention span, food lust, and an exalted opinion of his role as Head of Ranch Security. Hank is a sinner. Sometimes he rises to heroism but he doesn't stay there for long. That describes every dog I've known. It also has some very funny parallels with the human condition.
WORLD: You've said that you learned from parents and teachers that your "business is not books. It's nourishment." What do you mean by that?
ERICKSON: People need good stories just as they need home-cooked meals, clean water, spiritual peace, and love. A good story is part of that process. It affirms divine order in the universe and justice in human affairs and makes people better than they were before they read it. If artists are more gifted than ordinary mortals (we keep hearing that they are), they should find order and harmony in human experience. That's what Bach and Handel did. Artists should nourish the spirit, not poison it.
WORLD: In what other ways do your Christian beliefs express themselves in your books?
ERICKSON: Charles Colson has pointed out that the Christian worldview sees human beings as part of the divine act of creation. If my readers are God's creation, not merely statistics or blobs of protoplasm, that shapes everything I do. If I cheat them or corrupt them, "Better for [me] that a millstone were hanged around [my] neck, and that [I] were drowned in the depths of the sea" (Matthew 18:6). That's a serious mandate. I take it seriously.
WORLD: What do you say to parents who aren't convinced that stories are important for children?
ERICKSON: I never encounter parents who question the importance of stories. I make a limited number of school appearances and work with teachers, librarians, and parents who have a powerful commitment to reading and literacy. They call me because they're looking for an alternative to pop culture. They trust my books and sense that there is a spiritual dimension to what I do. We don't always talk about it in the open, but we don't have to.
WORLD: The Hank books include a lot of earthy humor. Hank bathes in the sewer. Wallace the buzzard throws up on the coyotes: "That would be bad enough if he ate decent food. But buzzards don't eat decent food. When one throws up on you, what you're getting is dead skunks, dead rats, rot and corruption." Do you ever get complaints?
ERICKSON: No. I operate a 7,000-acre ranch and spend a lot more time with animals than with people. My descriptions of animal behavior are honest and accurate. Ranch dogs lounge in the overflow of the septic tank and buzzards throw up when they're disturbed. If you compare this kind of behavior with the political news we've been hearing this fall, it seems rather wholesome and innocent, doesn't it?
WORLD: You wrote that you once received three letters in a month from mothers of autistic children. You found out later why the books connected with these kids. Would you explain?
ERICKSON: One of the mothers explained that autistic children fight a constant battle against mental chaos. They crave structure and order. My stories are tightly structured. They all have happy endings and in every story, justice is affirmed. The grotesque irony is that, while the mothers of autistic children fight day and night against mental chaos, popular culture scoops it out by the ton: frantic television images that have no coherence, movies that can't distinguish between heroes and villains, art that seems to have lost all vision of form and beauty.
WORLD: Perryton, in the Texas panhandle, is a ways off the beaten track. Lots of decisions about children's book publishing come out of New York. How does your perspective differ from the conventional?
ERICKSON: Because we self-published the first 10 Hank books out of our garage in Perryton, Kris and I were able to control the content and make them the kind of stories we wanted for our own three children. The stories create a loving portrait of the life, values, and gentle humor of rural America. I've had the unique opportunity of being an author who is part of his community. My work is measured by the same common-sense standards that apply to carpenters and plumbers-an excellent discipline for writers, I think.
WORLD: You've been writing children's books for almost 25 years. You also do a lot of book signings. Have you noticed any changes in your audience?
ERICKSON: My original audience was adults involved in agriculture. Once the books got into the schools, I was doing performances for kids in third through fifth grades, mostly in public schools. Today, I'm spending more time in Christian schools and at conventions of homeschoolers. I think Christian groups were slow to recognize the spiritual dimension of my work. It's pretty subtle, but we must face the possibility that God has a sense of humor. After all, He's the one who built the first dog.


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May 30, 2009
Finally Found What I Was Looking For
I've been looking for these new flavors for what feels like months. Dannon had been cruelly taunting me with advertisements of their new flavors on the tops of other Light & Fit yogurt cups and I simply couldn't find them anywhere. Believe me, I tried really hard to track them down. I've gone grocery shopping several times at Stop & Shop, Shaw's, Price Chopper, Super Wal-Mart and even Target. Not one of these grocery stores or retail establishments had the new flavors. Until one fateful night...
This past Thursday we went to see Penn & Teller at the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods in CT. We decided to make a quick pit stop at Price Chopper to get a gallon of milk because it was on the way home. It was around 10:30pm as I approached the dairy aisle with my selection of 2% milk. I figured, "What the hell?" as I approached the dairy case holding all of the different yogurts. I gingerly approached the section where Dannon yougurts were neatly stacked and to my shock there it was-the Holy Grail of Active Yogurt Cultures: Pineapple Coconut. I simply couldn't believe I had finally found it.
I greedily snatched up all the remaining cups of Pineapple Coconut and Key Lime flavors available. (Sadly Pomegranate Berry wasn't to be had, but I was OK with that because I had secured two new limited-edition flavors.)
My next challenge was keeping these little beauties away from Spencer.
Since I'm not much of a cook, meal time in our home typically requires food to be had quick and easy. It's not unusual for Spencer to come home after work and grab a few yogurts in the fridge or a tub of cottage cheese for his late night dinner. The difference between Spencer and I is that he doesn't let things sit around in the fridge like I'm prone to do from time to time. I'm the type of emotional eater who likes food based on mood. I actually like yogurt and always enjoy having several cups of various brands and flavors in the fridge. The problem is that by the time I'm ready to enjoy some, they are all gone because Spencer beat me to them. (He's a world-class champion eater of yogurt. He'll think nothing of eating three cups in a row. And don't even get me started on the Philadelphia Whipped Chive Cream Cheese!)
But since these new limited-edition flavors were so valuable to me, I left them in the Price Chopper bag and hid them in the fruit drawer because I thought that was one location in our fridge that I would never have to worry about being invaded because he's not much of an eater of fruit. Or produce, for that matter.
Today I finally was in the mood for some yogurt. I opened up the fruit drawer and took out the bag filled with cups of Dannon yogurt. Spencer was in the kitchen with me sort of hovering as I closed the door and I said, "You want one? Have one...but don't eat all the Pineapple Coconut 'cause I want to try it." I gave him one and I took one back with me to the desk. I peeled back the cover and gently swiped my tongue against the foil. I silently prayed that I wouldn't be disappointed in the much sought after flavor. So how was it? Did I like it?
Yes! Yes! Yes! It tasted delicious. It was like having a Pina Colada smoothie in a cup. It was totally worth the wait and I loved every spoonful. The little flecks of pineapple added a touch texture, but I thought, as I was scooping it out, that it just needed a little something more. I remembered the pint of Strawberries sitting on the second shelf inside the fridge. I thought to myself that those berries would be the perfect compliment to this healthy snack. Just as I was standing up to head back into the kitchen, I heard Spencer say enticingly like Homer Simpson, "Mmmm...Strawberries." I looked over and there he was happily chomping one of the strawberries that he had just plucked out of it's plastic container.
May 25, 2009
And Now The Time Has Come
Each day I found myself counting on my fingers how many days I had left of the vacation. I know that sounds kind of weird because I really should have just been enjoying myself rather than participating in my own personal count-down , but I couldn't help it. Perhaps I place far too much emphasis on vacations?
Spencer tells me that I have to stop thinking of my vacation like it's an all or nothing event. Of course he's right. Before the vacation I wrote down lists of things to get done since I had all that time off. I was going to get my car detailed, visit Walden Pond and hang up mini-blinds and balance the check book. Instead I had a very nice and relaxing vacation.
We stayed overnight in Freeport, Maine. I got the Mazda 3 inspected. I got caught up on all my RSS feeds and cleaned out my in box. We saw Penn & Teller at the MGM Theater at Foxwood Casino this past Thursday night. I went clothes shopping and had lunch at Red Robin. We took Minnie to the park and I cooked up some burgers. And how can I forget this past Saturday when I finally got around to organizing all my office supplies down in the basement. You may not think this would have been a big deal, but it was office supplies and anyone who knows me can attest that I love me some office supplies. Everything is finally organized and has a place. It feels pretty good.
I read a little bit this afternoon and took my last long nap of the vacation. But it's OK. I know there are more fun things to come my way. I'm looking forward to the start of Summer and soft serve ice cream although I'm not sure in which order.
May 24, 2009
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May 12, 2009
Foxy Brown
Yesterday it was some unknown man dressed in a white linen suit – today I got to see an honest-to-goodness red fox!
I grabbed my trusty pair of binoculars and stood there watching the red fox. He stretched and his little back legs extended just like puppies do. His front feet were jet black and his tail was so bushy. (I wonder if a fox wags its tail like a dog?) Several of my co-workers gathered around the window and we looked down at the fox lying out in the sun near the right of the shrubbery. We all collectively made unusual baby-like sounds several times which put me in the mind of all those women ogling the hot construction worker in that Coke commercial from a few years ago. Who knew a fox could be that cute?
The most interesting thing about this fox sighting is I've never seen one in the wild before. Maybe two week's ago I went out to dinner with my friend Ginny and we saw a red fox running around the edge of the back parking lot of Piccadilly Pub in Westborough. At first I thought it was a little dog and then we realized it was a fox.
Eventually the fox stood up and moved out of sight and into the bushes. I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.
May 11, 2009
Monday Fashion Faux Pas
Turns out the fourth floor places me in the perfect position of looking outside the windows (in the back of the building) to spy on people as they walk through the parking lot. Most days the only action we see is a traffic back-up from California Ave to Route 9 or a deer snacking on some shrubs in our meticulous landscaping. But today was special.
"Look at this man. He's wearing a white shirt, a white pair of pants, white socks and black sandals!" cried Tricia. "Kim, you've got to see this."
I immediately jumped up and rushed to the back window to see for myself. ( Yes, I have a big problem with men wearing sandals and tube socks in warm weather. And he was dressed all in white. Doesn't the dude know it's only acceptable to wear white after Memorial Day? He couldn't wait 22 more days?)
His shape was rather ambiguous so I grabbed a pair of binoculars and checked him out up close because I was having difficulty believing a man would dress all in white.
[You might be wondering why I have binoculars at work? I swear it wasn't for any nefarious stalker-like purpose. My friend Sue's daughter went to daycare down the road from our office and she used to use them to see her playing on the swings or in the sandbox. She was the stalker, not me. I just enabled better viewing.]
I focused the lenses and sure enough he was adorned in white –even his beard was white which answered my question of gender. I think it's pretty brave of a man to dress all in white, but it's even braver to go out in public with black sandals on looking like a fugly hot mess. Framingham isn't Miami Beach. This is not Miami Vice. No linen suits are allowed. This guy should have been wearing an unassuming pair of beige chinos and a nice polo shirt if he wanted to celebrate the warm weather.
I Dunno. Maybe it's me, but I think that's how men in New England roll.
May 9, 2009
I'm Back Baby
A typical day is as follows: The ride into work can sometimes take up to 45 minutes and during that time I map out my day in my head while listening to thumping rap music. I get pumped. I feel like I can do anything. I can get on that elliptical at the end of the day and do something good for myself. But what actually happens is the caffeine buzz dimishes, I become focused on what needs to get done at work that day and by the time 5 o'clock rolls around, I just feel exhausted. I gave work the best part of me and there's nothing left for me. Things need to change...
I realized that I'm not blogging anymore which is something I enjoy doing. So my first baby step to regain some of that work vs. life balance. In the time since my last post I've come across several interesting things that I wanted to write about. For instance, the other day I was stopped at a red light and the man in the car next to me was trimming his ear hair. Ewwwww. I couldn't grab my phone fast enough to snap a photo, but moments like these are what I live to write about.
I figure I have a fighting chance to take back what's mine now that Lost, Fringe, Prison Break, House and American Idol are nearly done until the Fall season.


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In order to save money and replace obsolete textbooks, the Tennessee Digital Resources Library (TDRL) launched today after a partnership between the Tennessee School Boards Association and Apple, Inc. made it possible.
"The TDRL curated digital material replaces costly classroom textbooks that often are obsolete before ever reaching students. With free, vetted and modifiable learning resources newly in place, state Boards of Education can now redirect funds formerly spent on textbooks toward devices and technology infrastructure," said The American Public Education Foundation (APEF) in a statement.
The library has been over a year in the making; from August to March 2015, 58 of the state's teachers helped curate digital materials aligned to state standards for math, science, English and social studies classes.
David A. Pickler, J.D., founder and president of Pickler Companies and president of the American Public Education Foundation became involved in the project after hailing it as a "game changer for public education."
Through APEF, he provided teachers involved in curating resources for the library with incentives like iPad Air 2s and stipends of up to $1,000.
"The TDRL, which empowers local education leaders and teachers to fulfill the enormous promise of public education, offers the opportunity 'to bridge the digital divide and create greater educational opportunity for all students,' says Pickler," according to APEF's statement.
Many advocates for digital resources in education argue that replacing obsolete textbooks with curated resources is not only in the student's best interest, it's also in the best interest of the district's budget.
Last month, for instance a group of teachers in Shelby County Schools got together to address the mounting $40 million budget deficit plaguing the district. Their first suggestion was to stop investing in textbooks altogether and instead move to digital resources.
"The School Board should elect to cut the textbook budget, which would save Shelby County hundreds of thousands of dollars. This money could be used to supply teachers with copy paper and ink for printing-resources that teachers find indispensable and often have to purchase out of pocket," the group said.
Not all advocates of digital resources are proponents of getting rid of textbooks completely, but many individuals do agree that digital resources should be utilized more in K-12 classroom.
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It's not easy to heap praise on Mel Gibson. His apparent personal conduct and views are completely unappealing and, worse, totally offensive. On screen Gibson started out with a bang in the Mad Max films and was entertaining in the first Lethal Weapon movie, but otherwise his performances and choices of roles have not been very memorable. As a director, I couldn't slog through his The Passion of the Christ; Man Without A Face was trite; and Braveheart was an overrated piece of hokum. All that aside, it's easy to declare that his Mayan action adventure film, Apocalypto, is pretty damn brilliant, maybe even a sorta-whacked out masterpiece.
The film takes place in 16th century Central America near the end of the Mayan period, just before the arrival of the Spanish. It's shot completely in the Yucatan Maya language with unknowns and non-actors, indigenous North Americans. In some ways the film is actually one long, exciting, and very brutal chase scene. Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), low on his tribe's totem pole, witnesses his tribe being slaughtered and enslaved. He hides his wife, Seven (Dalia Hernandez), and child and goes on an adventure worthy of Playstation. After killing of some of the raiders he is captured by the psychotic Zero Wolf (Raoul Trujillo) and led to the Mayan city, a much more advanced and destructive place than anything the young villager had experienced before. Jaguar Paw manages to escape after much horrific torture and human sacrifices, and is chased as he tries to get back to save his family. It's a delirious obstacle death course of horror, as he has to make his way through the jungle using all his survival skills to outwit his captors.Continue Reading
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Most of the movies directly about the horrors and political terrorism of the McCarthyism of the 1950s usually center on a dim schmuck who accidentally finds himself involved in the blacklistings. They've ranged from the good (The Front with Woody Allen working as an actor-for-hire), the bad (Guilty by Suspicion, the beginning of Robert De Niro's slid towards mediocrity) and the terrible (Frank Darabont's awful The Majestic with Jim Carrey, a movie that makes "Capra-esqe" a mortal sin). The usually simplistic genre helps make mega-star actor George Clooney's second directing effort, Good Night, and Good Luck. (after the interesting but far from perfect Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), seem positively genius in comparison. Instead of piercing the blacklisting from the streets he sets it upstairs in the newsroom of the TV show See It Now, where the legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn in the performance of his career) dared to take on Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Committee on Un-American Activities. Clooney (who also wrote the script with another one-time journeyman TV actor Grant Heslov) not only makes one of the most pointed films about this ugly period in American politics but also gives us a fascinating glimpse into the working of 1950s television. Shot in color and then transferred to a stunning black & white in post by cinematography all-star Robert Elswit (he's shot all the Paul Thomas Anderson joints up to There Will Be Blood), Good Night, and Good Luck. really is a marvelous film, beautifully realized in its simplicity and a triumph on all fronts.
Murrow and his trusty producer, Fred Friendly (Clooney), fluctuate their television news magazine show between lightweight celebrity interviews (Liberace!) and more meaningful political pieces, where their heart really is - the fluff is a way to appease their sponsors and the higher-ups at CBS. Knowing that it could start a battle, they decide to take on the dangerous bullying tactics of Senator McCarthy, who was at the height of his powers. He was ruining careers of American citizens by accusing them of being Communists unless they groveled and told McCarthy what a great job he and his Committee where doing, and they were often forced to name others who may be Communists, just to give more names and more power to the often drunk lout Senator. Murrow and Friendly have to walk a tightrope when the Government begins to hint at an investigation of the station's employees and McCarthy himself falls on his old standby trick, accusing Murrow of being a Communist. Meanwhile the head of CBS, William Paley (Frank Langella, wonderful in the role), is forced to defend his star but also tries to keep him on a short leash (the moments between Langella and Strathairn are the best in the movie). The staff is under their own pressure. Robert Downey Jr. and Patricia Clarkson play a secretly married couple (CBS policy did not allow employees to wed), and in another captivating performance, Ray Wise plays CBS News Correspondent Don Hollenbeck who admires Murrow but lives in terror of having his own lefty political background exposed.Continue Reading
The Road Warrior
George Miller's Australian gem, The Road Warrior, is hailed by most as one of the greatest action films of all time, especially since it's a pre-CGI, stunt and stunt driver, driven thrill ride. Its vision of the post apocalyptic future has been ripped off as much as any film, usually badly (1990: The Bronx Warriors, Resident Evil, Doomsday, etc). It has echoes of Kurosawa's early samurai films as well as John Ford's cowboys or cavalry dramas. Here, the fort holds oil production so precious for driving around in your jacked-up automobiles; instead of Indians the attackers are mohawked punked-out brutes. This fairly low budget flick looks and feels like a big Hollywood spectacle (coming at the end of Australia's golden age of stuntploitation films. See the wonderful documentary Not Quite Hollywood for more on this fascinating era).
The film is a sequel to the ultra low-budget Mad Max (in most of the world The Road Warrior was titled Mad Max 2). Mad Max got some mild play in the States but the strong accents were ridiculously dubbed with what sound like cartoon voice-over actors. The first one takes place "A Few Years From Now..." when the world has not fallen apart but seems to be on the brink and chaos rules. The high-speed police patrol seems to work as its own gang, taking on psychos and bikers. Max (Mel Gibson), a tough cop, is also a tender family man, and when a motorcycle gang kills his wife and child, he takes out his vengeance on them.Continue Reading


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COPIAPO, Chile — The crew of Chilean miners was pinned nearly a half-mile underground by 700,000 tons of rock after what felt like an earthquake in the shaft above them, and had no real hope they'd ever be found. Luckily, though, the men had Luis Urzua.
Urzua, 54, was the shift commander at the time of the disaster, and used all his wits and his leadership talents to help his men stay calm and in control for the 17 harrowing days it took for rescuers to make their first contact with them.
It was no surprise, then, that Urzua was the last of the 33 miners to leave the San Jose gold and copper mine after more than two months of confinement.
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Urzua — after shaking hands and embracing rescue workers — climbed into a cramped cage at 9:46 p.m. and was hauled up from a narrow hole drilled through 2,000 feet of rock. He arrived at the top 11 minutes later to jubilant cheers, songs and applause.
"We have done what the entire world was waiting for," he told Chilean President Sebastian Pinera immediately after his rescue. "The 70 days that we fought so hard were not in vain."
Pinera greeted Urzua like the fellow leader he has been: "You have been relieved, coming out last like a good captain. ... You have no idea how all Chileans shared with you your anguish, your hope, and your joy.
"You are not the same, and the country is not the same after this," Pinera added. "You were an inspiration. Go hug your wife and your daughter."
With Urzua by his side, he led the crowd in singing the national anthem.
Robinson Marquez once worked with Urzua in a nearby mine, Punta del Cobre. "He is very protective of his people and obviously loves them," and would not have left until all his men were safely aboveground, Marquez said.
Under Urzua's leadership, the men stretched an emergency food supply meant to last just 48 hours over 2½ weeks, taking tiny sips of milk and bites of tuna fish every other day.
"We had only a little food," Urzua said Wednesday night. "We give thanks to God that we were able to resist" eating it all right away.
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The trapped men made sparing use of their helmet lamps — their only source of light other than a few vehicles. They fired up a bulldozer to carve into a natural water deposit, but otherwise minimized use of the vehicles, which contaminated the available air.
Urzua said that when rescuers first made contact by pounding a narrow borehole into their refuge, the miners were so elated that "everyone wanted to hug the hammer."
He described the difficulties of the first days, saying that it took about three hours for the dust to settle before the men could inspect where tons of collapsed rock sealed off the main way out.
He said he knew they were in for a long wait: "I saw (the collapsed rock). Many thought it would be two days. But when I saw it, I knew otherwise."
After the collapse, Urzua was the first to speak to Pinera and to urge him to not let him and his men down.
"Don't leave us alone," he implored the president.
Marquez described Urzua as a "calm, professional person," and a born leader.
"It is in his nature," Marquez said. "It is his gift."
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Merely the premise of "Rust and Bone" sounds uncomfortably maudlin: A wayward single father and part-time fighter falls into an unexpected romance with a beautiful whale trainer who's just lost both her legs below the knee in a freak accident. Both must undergo drastic transformations that render them as vulnerable as newborn babies. Both are literally and metaphorically broken and must help each other heal.
But it's the stripped-down way director and co-writer Jacques Audiard tells this story that, for the most part, makes it more compelling than the feel-good plot suggests. With intimate camerawork that explores the lonely corners of his characters' lives and a prevalent naturalism, Audiard avoids trite, sentimental uplift. This isn't as powerful as his epic, gripping "A Prophet" from 2009 or as thrilling as 2002's "Read My Lips." But it has a quiet intensity and, ultimately, a hard-won sense of optimism.
At its center, "Rust and Bone" features two vivid performances that allow their actors to strip away all traces of vanity. A strikingly de-glammed Marion Cotillard stars as Stephanie, a trainer at Marineland in Antibes in the south of France. One night she goes dancing at a club, gets into a confrontation and leaves disheveled and bloodied.
Her escort home is the club's bouncer, Ali (up-and-coming Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts, who was formidable in last year's foreign-language Oscar nominee "Bullhead"). He's recently arrived in town with Sam (Armand Verdure), the 5-year-old, towheaded son he barely knows. Together they're just surviving, living temporarily with Ali's sister as he puts together random security jobs and trains to be a mixed-martial arts fighter.
Months later, when a terrifying accident during an orca performance (to the strains of Katy Perry's strangely unsettling "Firework") leaves Stephanie a double partial amputee, she finds herself calling Ali, the blunt brute who'd left her his phone number. It's precisely that unapologetically non-nonsense demeanor that she craves. She doesn't want to be pitied; she wants to feel like a woman again.
And so they embark on a tricky friends-avec-benefits relationship. Through seamless special effects, Audiard renders these scenes frankly and honestly, with an awkwardness that eventually gives way to animalism. These are people who never would have connected under ordinary circumstances; they end up needing each other desperately. Only in the movies.
Cotillard won the Academy Award for best actress for transforming herself into Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose," and has embodied a certain romantic femininity in films like "Inception" and "Midnight in Paris." Unadorned as she is here, her talent and presence feel even more vibrant and accessible. And Schoenaerts is just a force of nature, all masculine magnetism and impulse.
Sure, there's a show-offiness to this kind of artistic slumming - a self-consciously understated scenery chewing that occurs in a story about damaged people - but that's certainly preferable to flowery exclamations of hope. Here, the hope is fought for and earned.
"Rust and Bone," a Sony Pictures Classics release, is rated R for strong sexual content, brief graphic nudity, some violence and language. In French with English subtitles. Running time: 120 minutes. Three stars out of four.


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The Clark offers a variety of dining options, whether you're in the mood for a gourmet lunch, a picnic on the grass, or a quick snack!
The Clark Café is open for lunch in July and August in the Manton Research Center. The café offers full service dining with a special lunch menu, along with beer and wine. The Café is located just off courtyard, in the auditorium hallway.
OPEN: Daily, June 24–September 6
HOURS: 11:30 am–2:30 pm
Located at Stone Hill Center, and offering the best view of the Berkshires, the Stone Hill Café is open seasonally for lunch, weather permitting. Named "Best Museum Lunch Spot" by Yankee magazine, this take-out cafe offers a menu of casual lunch fare, sweets, snacks, and beverages. Outdoor patio-style seating is available on the terrace.
OPEN: Daily, June 24–September 6
HOURS: 11:30 am–2:30 pm, light snacks and beverages until 3:30 pm
FALL: Weekends ONLY from September 11 to October 10, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Enjoy an à la carte menu of sandwiches, salads, and baked goods in the courtyard of the Manton Research Center. Beverages include cold drinks and juices, coffee, espresso, cappuccino, tea, and hot chocolate. Open year-round during museum hours with courtyard seating available, or for carry-out service.
OPEN: Daily, 10:00 am–5:00 pm
Visitors are always welcome to bring or purchase a picnic to enjoy on the Clark's beautiful campus. Picnic-to-go baskets are available, offering a delicious array of casual foods. Menu cards are available at the Information Desk or at the Courtyard Coffee Cart; simply make your lunch selections, submit your order, and a custom picnic lunch will be ready for you at whatever time you specify. Picnic tables are situated throughout the grounds and a large, tented picnic pavilion adjacent to the west entrance is available from June through October.


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