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Steven Epstein Award Statement
Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research, winner of the American Sociological Association Book Award 2009.
On its surface, the movement in the 1980s that resulted in institutional changes requiring medical researchers to include multiple racial/ethnic groups and women in their research suggests a victory for diversity.But what begins as a simple story grows in complexity in Steven Epstein's book, Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research.Epstein documents the wide range of advocacy groups that successfully led to reforms requiring medical researchers to diversify their potential subjects for clinical research.The arguments for inclusion were that racial/ethnic minorities, women, and, to a lesser extent, children and the elderly were insufficiently represented in past research.As a result, the health needs of these historically disadvantaged groups were being compromised.
Epstein considers how this policy change has mattered, acknowledging the benefits, but persuasively arguing that inclusion has been a double-edged sword.On one hand, racial/ethnic minorities and women have become routinely included in clinical trials.On the other hand, biologically-based arguments for differences have gained prominence at the same time.Indeed, Epstein contends that the new paradigm of "inclusion-and-difference" has tended to divert attention away from potentially important environmental sources for group differences in health.A largely unintended consequence of the "inclusion-and-difference" thinking is that the reason it is important to expand beyond studying white males is because there really is something essentially (biologically) different about these "other" groups.Requiring medical researchers to study traditionally underserved populations has, therefore, had complex consequences.
Of course, including racial/ethnic minorities and women in medical research could have resulted in greater sensitivity to environmental factors leading to group health differences, but Epstein notes that this is not the way it has generally played out.As one example, black/white differences in life expectancy became more readily assumed as given.The intent of including a broader array of social groups in medical research, therefore, while meant to improve underserved groups' lives, has also inadvertently provided a framework for reifying health differences in biological terms.The problem is that when group differences are found in a particular outcome there is a tendency to view that difference as a result of essential features of individuals rather than search for potential contextual explanations.Epstein's book struggles with the problem of how an emphasis on group differences between women and men and blacks and whites has, ironically, paved an easier path for the essentialist position.
The risk is that the current approach, emphasizing the inclusion of a wide range of groups under the assumption that they are different "fails to demand adequate attention to a crucial set of issues—specifically, the ways in which inequalities and power differentials in the broader society affect people's exposure to health risks, their capacity to access quality medical care, and the likelihood that they will be subject to conscious or unconscious discriminatory treatment by health care professionals" (p. 299).In short, the emphasis on inclusion of different groups has resulted in an uphill battle for sociologically-grounded explanations for health disparities.
Epstein weaves literatures that span medical sociology, social movements, sociology of knowledge, political sociology, racial and ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies, into a compelling description of the complex relationship among science, the state, and society.With each additional layer of information, Epstein's argument becomes more compelling. The book also has appeal outside of sociology.Indeed, anyone interested in health (and that is all of us) will appreciate Epstein's contribution.


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Webkit CSS Transitions
The iPhone's Safari browser has a few tricks up it's sleeve to make web apps feel more like native ones
How to do this was a bit confusing to me at first, but there are really only 2 and a half steps:
1. "Observe" the properties whose changes you'd like to animate by listing them in a comma-delimited value of
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div { -webkit-transition-property: opacity, background-color; -webkit-transition-duration: 1.5s; }
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function handleEvent(event) { event.currentTarget.style.opacity = 0.0; event.currentTarget.style.backgroundColor = 'blue'; }
and instead of instantly re-rendering the element with the new style, Webkit will transition the "observed" CSS properties from their original values to their newly set ones over the duration you specified.
I don't usually even bother writing the observation code in my stylesheets, either, as jQuery makes it dead simple for whatever DOM object I've currently got a reference to:
$(anelement).css("-webkit-transition-property", "opacity, background-color") .css("-webkit-transition-duration", "1.5s");
What makes this cool and powerful is that the iPhone's browser defines an extra CSS property,
-webkit-transform, which describes full 3D transformations that can be applied to page elements. Animated transitions can observe this property just like any other CSS property and very nifty, fully 3D, and natively optimized animations can be created with a fraction of the code a native app utilizing OpenGL might have to write.
Apple published this guide with more detailed information on all of the visual effects that Safari supports.


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That statement just begins to skim the surface. What a year it has been. So very much has happened in one year. We've been on a crazy adventure, I've experienced more love, more pain and frustration, more fun and then even more love than I ever imagined possible. It's been a very hard year but becoming a Mother has been the greatest, life changing and rewarding gift I could ever wish for.
It seems like in just the past week or two, Rowen has developed even more personality and grew up overnight. She wore two-piece pyjamas to bed the other night and I couldn't believe how much of a little toddler she was!
This past week, we both suffered through a horrible stomach flu. Lowell had "two puking girls" on his hands. It was so terrible watching her be so ill, but it was also....incredibly heart-warming to see her calm, happy spirit shine through. I really don't know how we got so lucky to have the most relaxed, zen Baby. With that said, even though she's such a stoic little trooper, I wish I could keep her from being sick and just take all the sickness for her!
Right now, a week before her Birthday, she is on the brink of walking on her own but still hesitant to let go of our hands. I'm so excited and also a little bit terrified of that moment that she walks without us for the first time...because that kind of just sums up what we're feeling here. All the changes are thrilling and so rewarding but it's also crazy how scary fast it's happening! Our little Baby is turning into a little Lady!


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Florida is regularly being beat down by hurricanes; that is why constructing a new parlor can be a difficult yet rewarding process.
At Larson Dairy Inc. near Okeechobee, Fla., the threat of tropical storms and hurricane force winds is just a part of doing business. When Travis Larson, co-owner, decided to construct a new parlor to replace the existing unit that was more than 25 years old, he wanted to make sure it could last as long with fewer headaches.
"Our existing parlor that we are milking in now is just wore out. It has been wore out for about five years," Larson says. "With bad milk prices and high feed costs we've just put it off and patched, but we're done patching now."
Florida's humid climate has decayed some of Larson's parlor because it was constructed with galvanized metal, making the facility's usefulness more like 15 years but the timing wasn't right to expand in the past 10 years. Plans were started in 2008 to construct a new parlor, but then the economic landscape changed.
"We were in a pretty good economic time for the dairy industry in 2008. We were looking hard, then all of a sudden 2009 hit and we just slammed the breaks and closed the doors on it," Larson says of building the new parlor.
When milk prices picked back up last summer Larson "dusted off" the plans from 2008 and started to lay down the groundwork for an expansion he hopes will extend the 3rd generation operation to the 4th generation. Larson milks 2,200 cows at the dairy he manages, while his brother runs the same number of cows at the family's other dairy just down the road. His father and grand-father are still actively involved as well.
Larson's replacing the old double-32 parallel with an updated double-40 parallel allowing the facility to increase capacity and in the future expand to possibly 3,000 cows.
The new facility will feature stainless steel to get away from the problems that occurred with the galvanized parlor.
Also, in making sure the dairy would last Larson designed the barn to stand up to regular wind-loads exceeding 140 mph. He did this out of necessity because in 2004 his barns were half tinned after Hurricane Francis and then two weeks later Hurricane Jeanne.
"We milked on generators for 24 days that September and had no fans," Larson adds. "Hurricanes in August are the wet ones; hurricanes in September are the ones that will blow your house down."
A 500 kW generator will service the dairy when the electricity goes out. Larson hopes the power outages will be limited since the main power will come from an on-the-ground transformer.
"The main reason it is on the ground is because it is such a big service the pole couldn't hold it," Larson relates that it will be easier for the electric company to service the transformer during times of need.
Safety will be another feature unique to the new parlor.
"With hurricanes it not like they're here and they're gone. They sit here and they're on top of you and they just beat you and beat you," Larson says. "Francis stood here for 24 hours and just beat on you. Both storms we actually had to shut down when it got that rough. You pull your people in between your milk tanks and huddle down."
In the center of the office area of the new parlor Larson has a safe room that will double as a break room for employees. The room is completely surrounded by concrete walls, including the ceiling.
Impact resistance windows were installed in the surrounding rooms that will break if enough force is applied, but they won't shatter.
Cow comfort was not over looked either.
"Cooling in this barn is going to be way better than in our existing barn. It is a lot higher off the ground and a lot more open. The old style Florida dairies have concrete walls and very little air movement. They're a hot box in the summer," Larson adds.
The new barn will feature several rows of fans and offers more space for cows to spread out before and after milking.
Larson hopes to be completely finished with construction by the first week of October.


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text: There are a lot of very geeky and very funny vanity license plates out there. More than we thought. More Geeky License Plates:Geekiest License Plates of All Time (Wired's Picks)Origins of the Geek License PlateLast week, we picked out the geekiest license plates we could find, and we invited Wired readers to submit their own geek-plates. We got a lot -- too many to publish -- but here are a few of the very best ones, picked by us, but suggested by you. Above Neight Barker spotted this one while on a business visit to Apple headquarters in Cupertino in January 2011. What Would Steve Jobs Do? Photo: Neight BarkerThe bureaucratic fun-killers in Sacramento initially rejected this license plate as inappropriate, but Harry Saal fought back. After all, a network sniffer is a perfectly respectable security tool. "I wrote an indignant response to the DMV pointing out just how famous the term "SNIFFER" was (I think I included an article from The New York Times) and that they were the ones with the salacious mind, not me," he says. "To my huge surprise, they wrote back that they approved the license plate." Photo: Harry SaalIf you're a design perfectionist, you probably know that kerning is the process of snuggling letters together to make them look good to the reader. In short, what's needed most in this license plate. Photo: Flickr/Duncan CreamerIn Douglas Adams' classic 1978 radio show The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a computer called Deep Thought figures out the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Turns out, it's 42. Putting "42" on your vanity license plate is cool. But putting it there in binary? That's priceless. The owner of this plate, Teh Treag, tells us that riding around with a binary answer to life's big questions is not without its complications. Once, he was stopped by a City of Lafayette police officer who was pretty much unable to correctly enter the plate number into his computer. Eventually, Treag had to walk the dispatcher through the plate number himself. His advice to other binary plate-owners in the great state of Louisiana? " If you prefix the plate number with a 'q', it all works as expected. " Photo: Maris MercierFew things say hacker quite as well as "BLK-HAT". Photo: Damion MacphersonIt's a sad fact that there's simply not enough love out there for the Border Gateway Protocol, the routing protocol that keeps the internet humming along. That may be because most people only hear about BGP when it gets misconfigured and ends up knocking things like YouTube off the internet. But Cloudflare Engineer Terry Rodery is looking to set things right with this BGP-loving plate. Photo: Robert McMillan/WiredIt may be an obscure, flash-in-the-pan internet meme to you, but to Jared Ferreira, this is a pretty funny plate. Photo: Jared FerreiraThe Layer 4 networking reference is plenty geeky, but the "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" bumper sticker really makes this one. Photo: Leslie FloraObscure Oracle database errors, anyone? Photo: Liz AtwoodWhen Kristine Hunt saw this flashy black Lotus on the highway, she had to grab a shot. "I just loved the irony of a Lotus with a null value," she says. Photo: Kristine HuntThis one is clever: We figure it belongs to a family with a mom, a dad, and two boys. Update: Reader Benjamin Phillips tells us the owners of this car actually had three sons and one daughter. "Mom and Dad got left out," he says. He should know. He was a frequent passenger back in elementary school. Photo: Mark Mathews


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A month ago, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio previewed spring practice with at least a hint of urgency.
A month ago, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio previewed spring practice with at least a hint of urgency.
That made sense, with the Spartans coming off a 7-6 season and needing to replace some standouts.
"Every spring is extremely important. It's very crucial," Dantonio said. "We've got some redshirt freshmen who haven't played as much, we've got some guys who are inexperienced coming up, some other guys who were experienced and they need to take the next step and build on that experience."
On Saturday, Michigan State fans will have a chance to evaluate the team's progress when the Spartans take the field for their spring game. Quarterback Andrew Maxwell enters his senior season with more experience under his belt, but he actually split time with Connor Cook in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl last year.
That competition is one to watch, and Michigan State also has questions to answer at running back after workhorse Le'Veon Bell left the Spartans early to go to the NFL draft.
Michigan State sets up its spring game with a player draft, which took place Wednesday. Seniors on both the Green and White teams drafted underclassmen position by position.
Maxwell's White team took center Travis Jackson first. Riley Bullough was the first pick at running back, by the Green team. He redshirted last season and is making the transition from linebacker to tailback.
"We wanted to make sure that he knew what he was doing. I sort of lost track and just threw the whole offense at him, and he did good," running backs coach Dave Warner said after a scrimmage last weekend. "He's a smart kid, so he learns quickly. The quarterbacks in there helped him out a little bit too. So the bottom line is that he was running plays in there that we haven't worked on before."
Warner was promoted to co-offensive coordinator in March, a position he'll share with newly hired tight ends coach Jim Bollman. Dan Roushar, last season's offensive coordinator, left to take a job with the New Orleans Saints.
Trae Waynes was the first cornerback selected in the spring game draft. He'll play for the Green team. Waynes appeared in nine games as a redshirt freshman last season, and he could be in line for a starting job after Johnny Adams' departure.
"We were close to the same size but he had a lot of experience on me," Waynes said about Adams. "He knew the game a lot better than I did. I'm just trying to catch up."
Adams was a senior, so his departure was expected, but Michigan State must regroup after also losing three talented underclassmen to the draft. Bell, tight end Dion Sims and defensive end William Gholston all left early.
The Spartans played nine games decided by four points or fewer last season, winning four of them. They can claim they were only a few plays away from a second straight appearance in the Big Ten title game, but there's plenty of room for improvement. Without Bell, Michigan State may need to lean more on the passing game.
"The toughness of Andrew Maxwell has never been a question," Warner said. "You look at last year and he went through a whole season and got beat around pretty good. He played the last regular-season game (at Minnesota) with a very badly bruised elbow. Sometimes, we take his toughness for granted."


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Three regional mental healthcare providers announced Wednesday that they are merging.
Three regional mental health-care providers announced Wednesday that they are merging.
The providers — the Centers in Ocala, Leesburg-based LifeStream Behavioral Center and Gainesville-based Meridian Behavioral Healthcare — say the move will best position them to adapt to the changing health-care environment, and to better serve clients.
"The opportunities are endless," Centers CEO Charles Powell said. "This is the most optimistic I've been in the 30-something years (I've been involved in mental health care)."
During an afternoon news conference at the Centers, chief executives and board chairpersons of the three providers signed a letter of intent to continue the merger process, which began eight months ago.
Powell said merging would allow each organization to utilize and learn from the expertise of the others.
Although each organization provides basic mental health care, each also puts some of its focus on specialized care.
The Centers, for example, has extensive child welfare and case management expertise, Powell said.
LifeStream works closely with the state when creating new mental health programs, LifeStream Chairman Tim Morris said.
And Meridian does significant work with people who have mental health issues and have been arrested and face potential jail or prison time, Meridian CEO Maggie Labarta said.
Clients will benefit because demand for some services, such as autism services, are not large enough to warrant them provided only by one organization. But they could be warranted by the merged, larger group, Labarta said.
Jon Cherry, Lifestream's CEO, said before the press conference that the merger will also have financial benefits.
The merged, single company would serve a larger demographic — about 1.4 million people in 14 counties — and be better positioned to win service contracts as a result, he said. The newly merged company would also have greater political power in Tallahassee, he said.
The merger, if it is completed, will create Florida's largest single mental health-care provider.
Currently, each serves about 15,000 clients. Meridian has an annual $31 million budget; the Centers a $32 million budget; and LifeStream a $34 million budget.


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ZooLocal is a brand new Daily Deal/group buying website, which is launching in a few weeks. We'll launch in five major cities and expand rapidly to over 50 cities by the end of the year. We want to get our site/brand out there and spread the word.
ZooLocal will offer its email subscribers one incredible, limited-time deal each day, with exclusive savings of 50-90% off the best local restaurants, services, shops, activities and more.
Our competitors are Groupon, Living Social, FreshGuide, Tippr, etc.
Our visitors/email subscribers will be approximately 25-45 in age and reside in urban markets - LA, New York, Chicago, etc. They enjoy dining out and taking advantage of activities in their city -- in line with the offers ZooLocal will provide.
Below are a few requirements and attached are our logos. We look forward to seeing your designs!
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Pit bull joins animal assisted therapy program at Humane Society of Broward County
Jada, 5-year-old Staffordshire Terrier, rescued from backyard breeder
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A 5-year-old pit bull is the latest "Pet Therapy Dog" at the Humane Society of Broward County.
Jada, a 5-year-old American Staffordshire terrier, was rescued from a backyard breeder after she was found living in deplorable conditions when she was a puppy.
When her owner rescued her, he brought her to the vet for a complete health exam, had her spayed and began her positive dog training journey.
Jada started puppy training, continued with obedience training and then went onto therapy training. She now lives happily in Davie with another American Staffordshire terrier mix, a cat and an 11-year-old child.
"Jada is one of the sweetest dogs I've ever met," said Marni Bellavia, Manager of the Animal Assisted Therapy Program with the Humane Society of Broward County. "She has a solid temperament, a sweet disposition, excellent obedience skills, she loves people, children and other animals."
During the test at the Humane Society of Broward County, Bellavia was in frequent close contact with Jada's face, put her fingers in the dog's mouth, tested her for food aggression, pinched her body to see if she had discomfort anywhere and performed a restraining hold on the dog to see how long it would take for Jada to pull away.
"It was like sugar melting in your hands," Bellavia said, regarding Jada's response to being restrained. "She just leaned against my body, gave me a few kisses and stayed still until I released her. Jada epitomizes the breed and she will be a great ambassador in the community. We want to educate people on pit bulls in general. We also want to help change the perception of this breed."
After successfully passing the Animal Assisted Therapy evaluation, the 80-pound, white and gray colored pit bull was given a volunteer badge along with a green and white vest that was embroidered with "Pet Therapy Dog" and "I love working for hugs and kisses" on each side. Jada pranced around and wagged her tail in excitement, almost as if she knew what she had accomplished.
"Jada has a very important job in our community as she visits schools in Broward County and teaches children about pet safety, bite prevention, the importance of spaying/neutering your pet amongst other topics," said Bellavia. "She is the spokesdog against Breed Specific Legislation and with her help we are able to show the community what a loving, sweet, smart, goofy and fun dog this breed is."
The Animal Assisted Therapy Program in its 28th year, includes a wide range of dog breeds, including Rottweilers, Dobermans, German Shepherds, Great Danes, purebred and mix breed dogs, a few cats, a rabbit and a ferret. The 100+ dogs range in size from 3 pounds to 128 pounds. The Therapy animals visit schools, libraries, nursing homes, hospitals, mental health facilities, and other organizations.
To qualify for the Animal Assisted Therapy Program, pets must be sterilized (spayed or neutered), up to date on their shots, they must pass a one hour test which includes, but is not limited to, evaluating the pet's temperament, touching the pet all over its body, interaction with people, children and other animals, their adherence to obedience commands, and how well they can move around medical equipment amongst other items.
For more information on the Humane Society of Broward County's Animal Assisted Therapy program, please visit http://www.humanebroward.com/php/aatherapy.php.
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We're well into the second week of this shutdown, and it's really starting to matter. How are we going to get out of this?
We're well into the second week of this shutdown, and it's really starting to matter. How are we going to get out of this?
This has moved beyond a conversation topic. Federal employees are missing paychecks. The Dow Jones has fallen almost 6 percent since Sept. 18. Research projects are at a standstill. In Arkansas, 62 employees of the Division of Children and Family Services, the people who oversee child abuse investigations and foster care, have been furloughed because their salaries are paid at least partly through federal funds.
Perhaps most worrisome, U.S. Treasury short-term borrowing rates doubled Tuesday. Investors financing the $16.7 trillion national debt believe the government is becoming a higher credit risk, especially since the debt ceiling will be breached in a week. Taxpayers will pay for those higher rates.
Americans are waiting for a break in the impasse, but progress has been limited. Having little else to accomplish, Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark, is leading tourist groups through the Capitol.
What now? The latest impasse started when Republicans tried to fund the government but not Obamacare, but President Obama and Democrats haven't budged on the issue, and won't. According to polls, it looks like a losing issue for Republicans, but no one is escaping unscathed the longer this lasts.
Now the debate has shifted to the federal budget deficit and the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is the deadline, which will be reached Oct. 17, when the Treasury Department loses its authority to borrow more money. Failing to raise it does not mean Uncle Sam stops going into debt. It just means all the bills won't be paid for a while.
The consequences would be bad. U.S. debt has been the world's safest investment. A breach of the ceiling would destabilize the global financial system. Interest rates on the national debt would rise significantly. That means the national debt would rise, too.
Maybe we shouldn't have a debt ceiling, but it usefully reminds the nation of its financial condition. Just as many families benefit from regular hard discussions about their spending habits, policymakers should have hard discussions about the national debt. The debt ceiling forces those discussions to happen.
Obama won't negotiate on Obamacare. He believes in it, and his name is on it. Meanwhile, Republicans believe it is a catastrophe worth fighting against. American democracy sent mixed signals by electing Republicans in 2010 after the law was passed and then re-electing Obama in 2012. So we're stuck on that.
That leaves the shutdown and debt ceiling, and that's where movement can occur. Obama has said he won't negotiate until the shutdown ends and the debt ceiling is raised, but Republicans, spooked by the polls, are ready to talk. He has previously indicated openness to some Republican deficit-cutting ideas, such as changing how Social Security payments are annually increased. This could be an opportunity to reopen the government, calm the markets, and reduce the deficit.
So it's time for a deal: Obama should agree to cut the deficit some, and Republicans should pass a clean funding resolution and then fight the battle over Obamacare in next year's elections. They get a lot closer to changing it, maybe eventually repealing it, if they hold onto the House and retake the Senate.
If this economy tanks because of Washington's dysfunction, that's much of Obama's legacy. What else does anybody know about President Herbert Hoover than that he was president when the Great Depression began? Republicans, meanwhile, are taking the greater political hit right now. It may be short term. It may be not.
These folks need to talk, and listen, for the country's good and their own.
Steve Brawner is an independent journalist in Arkansas. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @stevebrawner.


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Verdict reached in hired hit man trial
Munwar Toha convicted of 4 counts of solicitation to commit murder
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Jurors reached a verdict in the trial of a Coral Springs man accused of hiring a hit man to kill witnesses in his murder case.
The jury convicted Munwar Toha, 65, of four counts of solicitation to commit murder. He faces up to 30 years in prison.
Prosecutors say Toha wanted to kill four people who are going to testify against him when he stands trial for murdering his wife.
Toha reported his wife Surya missing in April of 2010 and made a tearful public plea for help to find her. Detectives later uncovered surveillance video which, they say, shows Toha driving his family car into a canal. His wife's body was discovered in the submerged vehicle.
In court Thursday, jurors heard audio recordings of Toha talking on the phone from the Broward County jail to an undercover detective who was posing at a hit man. According to the audio tapes, Toha said his fellow inmate, Fitzroy Salesman, was interested in the hit man's services. At the time, Salesman, the former Miramar City Commissioner, had just been convicted of federal bribery and extortion charges.
Toha told the detective that Salesman wanted the hit man to kill his federal prosecutor, assistant U.S. attorney Jeffery Kaplan.
The detective told jurors he was alarmed by the request and started looking into Salesman. He listened to Salesman's phone calls from jail but never heard the former commissioner discuss killing Kaplan with anyone else. The detective said he never talked to Salesman himself and could not make a criminal case based solely on his conversation with Toha.
It's unclear if Kaplan was made aware of the charges or if any precautions were taken to ensure his safety. Salesman is serving four years in federal prison.
Oscar Izquierdo, a police informant, introduced Toha to the undercover detectives. Defense attorneys argued that is entrapment and that Izquierdo set Toha up in exchange for a lighter prison sentence.
Toha must still stand trial for the murder of his wife. Prosecutors may offer him a plea deal on the murder charge.
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|Saint Gabriel's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Hazleton, PA
|Michael P. Brown's Senior Picture
Michael Paul Brown is my 2nd cousin once removed. He was killed in Xom Dau, Tinh Long An, Long An, Vietnam while the 1/4 ton vehicle he was traveling in was hit by an enemy B40 recoilless round at close range. Even though Michael was killed before I was born, I feel a connection with him. A Radio Research Company would be a precursor to the same unit I served in. The same type of unit and 30 years before I did. I need to request his military records. I am curious about the type of job he did and often wonder if it was similar to mine.


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I've covered Taiwan's NTHU (National Tsing Hua University) team for three years now. And every time I talk to them they're personable, friendly, and modest. Very modest. Too modest. This is a team with a serious pedigree that's backed up by the best track record in the game.
First, they're from the high tech district of Taiwan – almost sharing parking lots with some of the most advanced tech manufacturers in the world. They've proven their skills in previous competitions, winning the highest LINPACK score in the early years and taking home the Overall Award in 2010 and 2011. Team Taiwan is the first repeat winner of the SCC and the first team to have a chance to three-peat. Bottom line? They're formidable.
But when I wander by their booth to get their thoughts on their chances? They smile shyly and give the impression that not only do they believe they can't win, they think they'll be lucky even to stay competitive with the other teams. I've finally started calling them on this attitude and pointing out how it's increasingly at odds with history. You can't be the underdog after you've won first prize two years in a row, right?
So what do they say now, on the last day of the SC12 competition? I was surprised when they expressed confidence in their chances of notching their third Overall Award prize. While this is out of character, it reflects reality. They know what they're doing, they're one of the most experienced and knowledgeable teams in the competition, and they've won the whole enchilada two times running. So why shouldn't they believe they can do it again?
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Still going thru mine from last night but here is one from the Southern Sprint Car Shootout Series at DeSoto Speedway in Bradenton, Florida. My first time shooting sprint cars. Unfortunately we lost a driver, David Steele, passed away from an accident in the final.


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A quarter-century has passed since Michael Keaton first donned a black cap and cowl to protect Gotham City. Tim Burton's ground-breaking "Batman" celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. The big-screen adaptation of the DC Comics legend served as the launching pad for a cinematic franchise when it became one of the biggest blockbusters from the summer of 1989. See what crew and cast members like Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger have been up to since "Batman" first took flight.
Read more: Tim Burton's "Batman" turns 25
By: Ken Lombardi
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When Keaton was initially cast as the Caped Crusader, more than a few comic book fans raised their concerns, given his less-than-strapping build and reputation as a comic actor, with previous roles in comedies like "Mr. Mom" and Burton's "Beetlejuice." Keaton was able to easily sway the skeptics upon the film's release.
Keaton went on to reprise the role in 1992's "Batman Returns," also directed by Burton and co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Danny DeVito. Keaton then went on to star in films like 1996's "Multiplicity," 2005's "White Noise" and 2010's "The Other Guys."Now 62, Keaton will next star in "Birdman," which pokes fun at his old Bruce Wayne persona.
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Jack Nicholson stole the show as Batman's ultimate nemesis, The Joker. In this incarnation, The Joker (here known as Jack Napier), is the one responsible for murdering Bruce Wayne's parents, marking a shift from the comics where Joe Chill had been their killer.At the time of the film's release, Nicholson was entitled to a percentage of the film's box office gross, which turned out to be substantial. It's been said that he ultimately pocketed roughly $60 million for the role, a record at the time.
The 77-year-old actor has had a prolific career in Hollywood, with three Academy Awards under his belt. Notable roles since "Batman" have included 1992's "A Few Good Men," 1996's "Mars Attacks," 1997's "As Good As It Gets," 2002's "About Schmidt," 2003's "Anger Management" and 2006's "The Departed." His last acting credit was 2010's "How Do You Know."
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Basinger stepped into the role of photojournalist Vicki Vale, a love interest for Batman who was originally to be played by "Blade Runner" actress Sean Young, until she broke her collar bone while riding a horse just a few days before filming was set to begin.
In 1998, Basinger won a best supporting actress Oscar for her turn in "L.A. Confidential." At 60, the actress still remains in the spotlight. She most recently starred alongside Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone in 2013's "Grudge Match."
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Burton was just 30 years old when he sat in the director's chair for this big budget Hollywood super-hero flick. He surpassed just about everybody's expectations with the release of "Batman," which gave a much-needed jolt to the Dark Knight's image.
"Batman" helped solidify Burton's place as a prominent filmmaker. Some of his other works include 1990's "Edward Scissorhands," 1994's "Ed Wood," 1996's "Mars Attacks!," 2003's "Big Fish," 2005's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," 2010's "Alice in Wonderland" and 2012's "Frankenweenie." His next film, "Big Eyes," is due out on Christmas Day.
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Wuhl had previously starred in films like 1987's "Good Morning, Vietnam" and 1988's "Bull Durham" when he was cast as Vicki Vale's wise-cracking colleague Alexander, one of Batman's vocal critics.
Wuhl went on to create and star in the hit HBO series "Arli$$" from 1996-2002. He most recently had a reoccurring guest star role as a judge on the legal comedy series "Franklin and Bash."
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Hall was famous as the longtime girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger when she agreed to play the Joker's crippled girlfriend, Alicia.
Hall went on to marry Jagger in 1990, before eventually divorcing in 1997. At 57, she spends most of her time raising the couple's four children in the U.K.
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Billy Dee Williams was perhaps best known for his turn as Lando Calrissian in 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back" and its 1983 sequel "The Return of the Jedi" when he agreed to star in "Batman" as Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent, a role eventually recast with Tommy Lee Jones when the character became Two-Face in "Batman Forever."
Williams has amassed more than 130 acting credits during his lengthy career. He has made guest appearances lately on several TV series, including "NCIS," "Glee" and "Modern Family." He also reprised his Lando role for 2014's "The Lego Movie."
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Prince's "Batman" soundtrack mirrored the film's success with record album sales. The soundtrack spent several weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 chart and spawned several hit singles, including the now-infamous "Batdance."
During the 1990s, Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol due to a dispute with Warner Bros., before going back to his original moniker in 2000. In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The 56-year-old entertainer is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with worldwide sales topping over 100 million albums.
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Michael Gough, who portrayed Bruce Wayne's trusted butler Alfred, and Pat Hingle (Commissioner Gordon) were the only two actors to star in all four original Batman films. Hingle died in 2009 at 88 while Gough died in 2011 at 94.
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A Luminous Orb is an item in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series that reveals the layout of the entire floor of a dungeon.
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Luminous Orbs appear on all floors of Waterfall Cave, Apple Woods, Side Path, Craggy Coast, Mt. Horn, Foggy Forest, Steam Cave, Amp Plains, Northern Desert, Quicksand Cave, Crystal Cave, Crystal Crossing, Chasm Cave, Dark Hill, Sealed Ruin, Dusk Forest, Treeshroud Forest, Brine Cave, Hidden Land, Temporal Tower, Mystifying Forest, Sky Peak, & Spacial Rift
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When it comes to Jackson's minutes, Nelson is between rock and hard place
March 1, 9:06 AM
by Matt Steinmetz, Golden State Warriors Examiner
As you would figure, coach Don Nelson and Stephen Jackson, the Warriors' best player, draw a lot of the criticism for the Warriors' dismal season.
Among other things, Nelson draws heat for relying too heavily on Jackson, playing him too many minutes and being overly tolerant of Jackson's sloppy play at times.
Jackson gets it for dribbling into traffic, being casual with the ball, turning it over way to much and, at times, dominating the flow at the offensive end.
OK, that's out of the way. Now, the reality: This whole thing ain't an easy one for the coach and the star player. It's easy to say "Play Jackson less," but the reality is the Warriors are worse when he's not playing.
The bottom line is that the Warriors are better with Jackson on the floor, and when he's not on the floor they are in dire need of a playmaker … any kind of playmaker.
And the last two games were proof of that. Let's take a look:
On Friday night against Charlotte, Nelson took Jackson out of the game with 6:43 remaining in the second quarter and the Warriors down 41-36. Jackson sat for less than three minutes. When he returned to the game with 3:50 remaining in the second quarter, the Warriors were down 53-43.
With Jackson finishing up the second quarter, the Warriors went into halftime down just 61-55.
In the third quarter, Jackson crammed 12 points and four assists into nine-plus minutes of action. Nelson decided to give Jackson a breather late in the third quarter (2:46 left).
By that point, Jackson had been the key man in an extended run that had turned that six-point halftime deficit into an 84-78 lead. Unfortunately for the Warriors, with Jackson on the bench, Charlotte made a run and actually had the lead back 89-86 after three quarters.
The Warriors, of course, lost to Charlotte, but it's also worth mentioning that Jackson hit a jumper with 28 seconds remaining that put the Warriors up one and also knocked down two free throws with 18 seconds remaining that gave them a two-point lead.
The game before that was a loss to the Clippers, and it was another game where Jackson's value was easy to see.
With Jackson starting, the Warriors jumped out to a 27-20 lead. Then, Nelson took Jackson out with 2:11 left in the first quarter. By the start of the second, the game was even 27-27.
Jackson played most of the second period, but Nelson gave him a breather with 3:25 remaining before half, and the Warriors down just one. The Warriors would get down seven before settling in down five (60-55) at half.
The point here is this: While we all grouse about Jackson's shooting percentage, his penchant for turnovers and his intermittent stubbornness and while we also don't like the way Nelson gives him lots of leeway, the fact remains that Jackson is the team's best player and they are worse off without him.
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A prosecutor convicted last week of misdemeanor charges in a ticket-fixing case that also involved a San Diego police sergeant has resigned from her job with the District Attorney's Office.
Allison Worden, 37, tendered her resignation Tuesday. It will take effect at the end of the month, said Steve Walker, a spokesman for District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis.
Worden, who also uses her married name Debow, was found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct justice and two counts of destroying a traffic citation. She was expected to be sentenced at a hearing Wednesday morning in San Diego Superior Court.
Instead, her lawyer, former District Attorney Paul Pfingst, asked to postpone the sentencing, giving him time to review court transcripts and file a motion for a new trial.
Judge Louis Hanoian rescheduled the sentencing for March 8.
The case stems from an incident on May 28, 2011, when Worden and fellow Deputy District Attorney Amy Maund were stopped in Pacific Beach and cited by a police officer for violating seat belt laws. It occurred during a "Click It or Ticket" seat belt checkpoint.
According to testimony during the trial, Worden — the passenger — was cited for not wearing her seat belt. Maund, the driver, was cited for allowing her passenger to ride in the car without being properly restrained.
Deputy Attorney General Michael Murphy argued to the jury that Worden tried to get out of the ticket by mentioning to the officer that she and Maund were deputy district attorneys. When that didn't work, she called a longtime friend, police Sgt. Kevin Friedman, and asked him to "do something."
The tickets were removed from a filing bin within the San Diego Police Department.
Maund testified she told Worden not to do anything about the tickets, and said she planned to pay hers.
Worden told the jury that she never asked Friedman to destroy or delete any tickets. She said she called him to complain about the officer, who she said had invaded her personal space by sticking his head and one of his arms into the car during the traffic stop.
Friedman, who resigned from the department in February 2012, pleaded no contest to destroying or altering a traffic citation. He was placed on probation for two years, ordered to pay a $500 and had to complete 40 hours of volunteer work with a nonprofit group.


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Facebook fervor remains high leading up to the company's IPO. It will be the biggest Web-based offering in history, with such a compelling argument that even major-league investors such as Warren Buffett could buy into the house that Mark Zuckerberg built, it seems likely that Facebook could raise that and more.
It's hard to argue with the company's promise: The network has grown from 100 million users in 2008 to 845 million users as of February. By Facebook's estimation, each profile is worth around $4.39 in revenue — from advertising, Facebook Credits, and other services — so by that standard alone, Facebook users have fueled the company's value jump from $439 million to more than $3.7 billion today.
There's trouble in paradise, though. Those 845 million users may not be as valuable in the coming months as they are today.
The problem is video games. Facebook relies on games, specifically those made by Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA), such as FarmVille, for a significant chunk of its income. Facebook takes a 30% cut of all sales of virtual goods, items and services purchased within the games using Facebook Credits, a virtual currency bought with real dollars.
While that might seem like a raw deal, users spend in amounts that have made both Zynga and Facebook happy earners. Zynga's games alone generated $445 million in 2011, 12% of Facebook's total revenue. Great, right?
Here's the problem: While Facebook's user base continues to grow at an incredible rate, the number of those users playing and paying for games on the network has started to stagnate.
IHS Screen Digest released a report on Monday noting that Facebook's gaming population has failed to grow in tandem with its overall users. While 50% of all monthly active users played games on Facebook in 2010, that figure fell to just 25% by the end of 2011. Screen Digest singled out Zynga as exemplary of the decline in social gaming on Facebook — 266 million users played Zynga games during the third quarter of 2011, but that figure fell to 225 million by the end of the fourth quarter.
The social-games business boom on Facebook appears to be over now that, as Screen Digest analyst Steve Bailey puts it, the market has "settled into a state of maturity."
That spells trouble for Zynga, as well as other companies, such as Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Disney (NYSE:DIS), which have spent heavily on Facebook game development and on acquiring studios, such as Playfish, that are already successful on the network.
The greater trouble is for Facebook. Even if games represent only a small portion of the company's revenue, its advertising revenue will have to supplant the revenue previously brought in by Facebook credits.
The problem then, of course, is the loss of millions of display-ad impressions (the number of times an ad appears on screen) that will result from fewer and fewer Facebook users wasting time playing games on the service.
It's possible that some of the problem will correct itself. Market saturation is a contributing factor here. Bailey, speaking to website Games Industry.biz, predicted that game makers that rely solely on Facebook for total revenue will migrate to other services, decreasing competition for Facebook's biggest earners. Those earners, in turn. will have greater access to their users as Facebook continues to expand its services on mobile devices.
However, this won't help game revenue resume its steady growth for Facebook. The burden is on Facebook's partner to find the growth again, and it will simply have to do it the old-fashioned way: by innovating. It isn't easy to create zeitgeist fuel such as FarmVille and MafiaWars, but Zynga, its peers, and Facebook will need to if they want the social network's profitable gaming ecosystem to thrive.
As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at @ajohnagnello and become a fan of InvestorPlace on Facebook.


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Ok, so I've been working on making a few games for my Disney Infinity PS4 edition (mainly to play with my nephew). The current game I'm working on is pretty simple. You get a hoard of bad guys and you get points for each bad guy you defeat you keep going until all players are defeated. The game is Single player or Co-op 2 players (not like it could be more anyways). And right now I have everything fixed except one problem. See, I want to make it that the game will end when both players are defeated... but if a player is revived, then again both players must still be defeated (and not just the player who hasn't died yet). Is there some way to incorporate this into the game? Because I can set it where a player has to be revived to continue... But that's about it.
I thought the way to do it would be to set up a counter and if one player dies, it increases it by 1. Thus when the counter hits 2, game over. But if either player is revived, it will decrease the counter by 1... thus making it have to have both players down. But I don't know how to make that work... because I can't find a tool that will trigger if a player is revived.
So does anyone have any ideas? I just hope the forums aren't dead. Would really suck tbh.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – During the final few days of Tennessee State's study abroad program in Germany, the students met with the Mayor of Magdeburg and saw more sights including the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Upon returning to the States, it was easier for those involved to put the 10-day trip into perspective and sum up their experiences.
"I tried new things, met new people, and looked beyond what's right in front of me," honors student Rebecca Moore said. "If you let it, traveling will change the way you see the world and allow you to embrace our worldwide diversity."
Americans will always think of the Nazi-era when someone brings up Germany, and reminders of that time are literally plastered on the Wall in Berlin. However, students visited the Topography of Terror, a museum that chronicles the Hitler regime, on the final day and it changed their preconceived notions.
"There is no avoiding what happened to this country years ago, and they are reminded of their history every day. And with that constant reminder, they have more of a desire not to allow history to repeat itself," Moore lamented.
Even after the sightseeing, plays and sporting events, the trip's main goal was a learning one- and one that earns college credit.
So, on Monday it was back to the classroom on the Nashville campus in preparation of a final on Tuesday.
Day 7: Taking in German Athletics
MAGDEBURG, Germany – During the final few days at its sister school in Magdeburg, the Tennessee State student-athletes saw how sports are played on the other half of the world.
On Sunday, after attending a genuine German church service, the study abroad group went to see a handball game in the local arena. The home side came out on top by a wide margin and the contingent was impressed with the foreign game.
"I was surprised at how similar the handball atmosphere is to that of a big-time college stage," said Athletic Director Teresa Phillips. "The amount of enthusiasm that everyone in the stadium had was invigorating, and led me to think that athletics are about the same no matter where you go… it felt like we were in America."
Even though the TSU Tigers are a nine-hour flight away from Nashville, and only one can speak more than a few words in German, they are starting to feel more at home even at a cultural level.
"It is sometimes hard being an African-American in the United States, but this trip has opened my eyes to how hard it must have been for those that were persecuted during the Holocaust," volleyball player Jamie Cooper said. "Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germans have become more open-minded, to where I no longer automatically think of the Nazis when someone talks about Germany; now I realize that they are just like us."
On Monday, the group toured the Magdeburg Olympic training facilities, soccer field and met with German students who were playing sports at the high school level.
The 29 representatives will meet with the Mayor of Magdeburg on Tuesday before heading back to Berlin for two final days.
The Tigers quickly found out that, outside of an ocean, the newly met scholars did not have much that separated them from each other.
"I was surprised that nearly all of the students spoke almost perfect English," TSU football player Robert Myers said. "It was cool that we could still talk to them and find out that they were into some of the same stuff we are back home."
The first night in Magdeburg culminated in the delegation traveling to the theater for an authentic German play.
"The play was interesting, even though it was all in German," said Myers who performed in many plays during high school. "It was very dramatic and probably more like how it was supposed to be performed."
The increase in German cultural awareness has been an ongoing theme during the lectures by Dr. Dark and in the day-to-day activities of the group. The students have had their share of fun on the trip, but its main purpose is the "study" in study-abroad.
"I am so pleased with the start and the progression of the trip, as the students are learning a lot from the classroom discussions, German historians and guest speakers," Associate Athletic Director for Academics Dr. Johnnie Smith said. "I am inspired and impressed with our student-athletes' involvement and interest in learning about a culture different than their own."
The group will sail down the river in a paddle boat later today, before being honored guests at a cookout sponsored by the Vice Mayor of Magdeburg.
Day 3: Classes Commence
BERLIN – Classes started early Wednesday morning for the 16 students attending Tennessee State's study abroad in Germany and among the topics covered was the history of the Berlin Wall which also happened to be the first destination on the morning's itinerary.
"The purpose of the trip is to learn about German history and culture," Associate Dean of Liberal Arts Dr. Dark said. "But is to also to help the students think about their own identity in the world."
The group of TSU scholars and representatives boarded a train headed towards Alexander Plaza at the nearby station, and then took the subway to reach what was left of The Wall.
Dr. Dark filled the crowd in with further insight on the construction and eventual destruction of the barrier, before taking the class towards the Capitol Building.
After seeing the capitol and grabbing lunch, the contingent decided to ride out beyond Berlin to one of its suburbs to see a concentration camp, Sachsenhausen, firsthand.
It seemed everything in Germany was new and different, and it all had a unique story to tell.
"All of the buildings and churches are really pretty," TSU women's golfer Natalie Spicer said. "You can see the history just by walking past. I am so excited to see more, take a lot of pictures and learn about the German way of living."
Outside of the new sights, a handful of students had to rely on their senses of taste and feeling when they ate at the famous Dark Bar on Tuesday night. The restaurant was pitch black to where diners could not even see the food being served to them.
"At first I was skeptical and scared about eating without seeing, but I eventually got the hang of using your fingers to feel around for the utensils. Also, being able to talk to our group while dining helped calm me down," Spicer said.
Classes will continue on Thursday and the delegation will visit Humboldt University and see the Brandenburg Gate.
Day 1: From Nashville to Newark
NEWARK, N.J. – After arriving at the Nashville airport at 4 a.m. for a six o'clock flight, the 29 Tennessee State representatives arrived in Newark to await a connecting flight to Berlin, Germany.
The small passenger plane, which barely had enough room to fit the traveling party, touched down at 9 a.m., but not before giving glimpses of the Statue of Liberty and MetLife Stadium. The group then went to eat at the airport food court and look forward to going to the final destination in eight hours.
In the meantime, students and administrators will play games, sleep and read to try and kill the time before the nine hour flight.
This page will serve as an update for the athletic department's study abroad trip to Europe. Be sure to check back for updates every couple of days including pictures of many historical landmarks.


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I love this amazing textile. It is a Chinese silk gown/jacket dating to about 1907. It was collected in China by Florence ("Flossie") Maude O'Donnell, one of the first women to graduate from Dalhousie University with a medical degree. Upon graduation, and being a single woman, she took off to China to work as a doctor and missionary, as Canada has set up missions there at the turn of the century on the opening up of China. She travelled around there with a single big trunk (which I also own) for 5 years before returning. The gown is made of silk and almost every square inch of it is embroidered. It is lined with torquoise plain silk. It once had rabbit fur around the collar and bottom, and possibly the cuffs, but there are only small fragments remaining. There are three circles of embroidery on each side, and each us unique, like they tell a story - I would love to know what the story is. I'm not sure, but maybe it is a Chinese kimono. When this was given to me some 30 years ago, I thought immediately that I would have it framed in a frame that had glass on both sides, so that I could turn the frame and sometimes I would see the front and sometimes the back. But then I read that light degrades silk, and this thing already looked fragile to me. So I folded it up in a nice cotton cloth and put it away in the dark, which to me is quite sad. I really don't know what to do with this thing - I love it but I cannot really enjoy it by taking it out of the trunk for a little while once or twice a year. Is this thing valuable too? I value it because of its history and beauty, but I really don't know what to do with it.


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Cooler temperatures headed to Central Florida
Low temps to dip into 30s in Orlando area
ORLANDO, Fla. – Much-needed rain fell on Central Florida the last two days, and now, winter-like temperatures are headed to the region.
The high temperature on Friday will top off at 72 degrees in Orlando, with rain chances tapering off throughout the day.
The overnight low will dip into the low 50s.
"We're going to see some clouds on Saturday, even some rain and wind," said Local 6 meteorologist Troy Bridges, who projected a 20 percent coverage area for the region.
The high temperature on Saturday will warm to 69 degrees, but overnight lows will drop to 37 degrees in Orlando early Sunday morning.
Sunday's high will only hit 58 degrees, with the low into Monday morning dipping to 38 degrees.
Monday's high will be 68 degrees, but temperatures rebound into the upper 70s for the rest of the workweek.
Watch Local 6 News and stay with ClickOrlando.com for more on this story.
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text: Hi everybody my name is Jamio, I am an outsider artist who is heavily inspired by American commercial art and design of the late 1950's and mid 1960's. During that time period, Polynesian culture was the inspiration behind tiki bars and tiki roadside motels. At the same time, the American Horror film was gaining in popularity. I am also inspired by American hot rod and car culture from that time period. All of these influences have come together to create the work you see here. Thanks for looking! All the best, Jamio


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Charlie, the 600-pound man who is the central character in Samuel D. Hunter's play, "The Whale" is dying of sorrow and guilt, and in the lead role, Cohasset native John Kuntz shows why he is a master actor.
Charlie, the 600-pound man who is the central character in Samuel D. Hunter's play, "The Whale" is dying of sorrow and guilt. Saddened by the death of his lover and still angst-ridden over leaving his wife and small child 10 years earlier for him, Charlie is literally suffering death from over-consumption of sub sandwiches, Pringles and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
SpeakEasy Stage is presenting the New England premiere of "The Whale," starring Cohasset native John Kuntz. The drama is affecting, but flawed and in the titular role, Kuntz shows why he is a master actor. Stuffed into a bulbous fat-suit, Kuntz delivers a virtuoso performance as Charlie. Allowed only his eyes and facial expressions to convey his anguish and self-disgust, he hopes to leave behind a legacy. Unfortunately, he considers his daughter, Ellie, the one good thing he has produced. However, Ellie is a 17-year old bag of angry bones using blackmail, lying and seduction to get what she wants, but Charlie is blinded to her bad-seed behavior.
Director, David R. Gammons has too many stage smarts to let the two-and-a-half-hour long play ride only on Kuntz, despite his amazing acting skills. Besides Josephine Elwood, the Emerson College student who plays Ellie as a cross between Gidget and the Wicked Witch of the West, Charlie has the nurse, Liz, to care for him, and his ex-wife, Mary, to come by – finally – to see what he has become.
The Elliot Norton Award-winning actress, Georgia Lyman, makes Liz into a smart-talking but compassionate friend who enables Charlie's compulsive eating by supplying him with junk-food along with his blood pressure reports. As Charlie's former wife, Maureen Keiller, who lives in Hull, bonds with him to punch home their mutual need for human connection in one of the most memorable scenes of the production.
The last character in the play, the 19-year old Mormon missionary, Elder Thomas, is written as a link to Charlie's lover, Alan, who was also a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Alan had fallen from grace when he moved in with Charlie. Thomas rings Charlie's doorbell by chance, or so we are led to believe. However it's hard to tell whether he represents a plot device or a sub-plot. Ryan O'Connor as Thomas finds all the clichés to portray in this nerdy young man, but makes a startling transformation by the end. Charlie's long-time job as an online instructor of creative writing, adds a second sub-plot that gives him some provocative dialogue about searching for truth.
Gammons sets the play amidst a sea of junk-food wrappings – thousands of grease-stained discards over a decade of morbid indulgence – a stage design of enormous visual impact by Cristina Todesco, and lighted with an eerie, other-world glow by Jeff Adelberg. Kuntz is seated on a broken down couch floating in the midst of the debris, as if he were indeed Captain Ahab on a personal quest, which brings us to the central problem of Hunter's thought-provoking play: its title. To be sure, Charlie is a whale of a man, and the long, confused description of how Alan died is mixed up with the Biblical tale of Jonah and the whale, but the metaphor is an uneasy fit for the final revelations. In addition, Charlie, as well as the other characters might be considered real people, but could also be the fantastic extensions of our worst nightmares. For all the clarity of Kuntz's performance, coupled with the excellence of the cast surrounding him, the play fails to explain his character's dilemma.
Despite these concerns, "The Whale" is rich with questions about an individual's life on earth and fears of leaving it, presented by as fine an ensemble of actors as you are likely to see on the Boston stage this season. If this were Japan, Kuntz would have been declared a national treasure long ago, now capped by his performance as Charlie, a compassionate and sympathetic man trapped by his own hand and mouth.


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More importantly, American's use those same firearms to protect their neighbors and even random strangers. Just something else Mom's Demand Action says "never happens".
As always, we're going to cover the basic ground rules of the report and then get into the stories:
We can only cover stories the stories we find
Despite the fact that they happen every day, Defensive Gun Use are rarely covered in the media and, when covered, they are often hard to find. The typical story only gets local coverage, sometimes as little as a small blurb in the local paper. Despite over 250 individuals searches each day, we can't find every story.
If you see a defensive gun use story and would like to help make this report as comprehensive as possible, send it to us through the Contact Us form below, through e-mail (email@example.com), or through Facebook.
Thanks to everyone who contacted us with a story this month - your help is appreciated.
We only include clear cut self defense cases
Yes, we leave some stories off because they are ambiguous or simply don't have enough information to call them defensive gun uses. Since most DGU stories receive minimal coverage we do our best to get to the facts in the case.
Everyday Heroes & Good Guys with Guns
Or... what Michael Bloomberg doesn't believe is real
Concealed carrier confronts cop killers - Two deranged killers ambushed and murdered two Las Vegas, Nevada police officers as they ate lunch. The killers then left the restaurant and approached the nearby Walmart.
Seeing one of the killers holding a gun in his hand and realizing that everyone inside the store was at risk, concealed carrier Joe Wilcox drew his gun and confronted the killers.
Man threatens to kill everyone in park, Armed father engages - On June 10th a Huntsville, Alabama man went to the local skate park with his two sons. At the park they ran into a "photographer" taking near-pornographic pictures with scantily clad women.
When the father asked them if this was the right place for that kind of shoot, the "photographer" went to his car, grabbed a Tec-9 and said "I will kill everybody here".
The dad confronted the man and saved a lot of lives. This is really a must read story of a good guy with a gun.
Concealed carrier witnesses Craigslist robbery, draws gun and ends it - An employee of a store inside Stroud Mall in Pennsylvania was on his break when he witnessed what turned out to be a Craigslist transaction turned robbery. The employee, a licensed concealed carrier, drew his gun and confronted the robber.
Man hears neighbor scream, engages murder suspect -Roger Lowery woke to chilling screams late June 10th. When he went to investigate he found a man beating a woman on his porch. The man had already murdered a family member that night and the woman was Roger's neighbor.
Roger grabbed his .38 revolver and got involved, saving the woman's life.
Gunman opens fire at high school reunion, stopped by good guy with a gun -A man entered a high school class reunion and opened fire, killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend. Before the man could fire another shot, a patron of the restaurant drew a handgun and fired several rounds into the attacker.
The patron, an off-duty officer, has caused gun control advocates to say this doesn't count as a good guy with a gun. Go figure.
Man shoots at two men attacking an elderly neighbor - After robbing a senior citizen earlier in the night, a Pennsylvania hoodlum came back for more. When the senior citizen fought back, the two men attacked him. A neighbor heard the commotion, grabbed his handgun, and opened fire.
Armed bystander stops robbery, saves victim - On June 16th an unidentified bystander came across two armed men robbing another man. As they ordered the man to lay down on the ground, the bystander drew his weapon and opened fire.
One of the criminals was struck in the neck causing both men to flee the scene.
Top 10 Defensive Gun Uses for June 2014
Burglar trapped when homeowner grabs shotgun, sits on ATV - A Michigan man returned home to see a strange ATV in the driveway and his front door screen slashed open.
He grabbed his shotgun, sat on the ATV, and yelled out for the burglar to surrender.
Tear drops and devil horns aren't bulletproof - A professional criminal with tattoo teardrops and tattoo devil horns broke into a Kokomo, Indiana residence. The homeowner heard the intruder, grabbed a handgun and confronted the criminal.
After a brief physical altercation, the homeowner pressed the trigger and ended the criminals career.
Daughter held at gunpoint, parents grab guns - A Missouri man saw his daughter get grabbed and held with a gun to her head. As the two armed thugs started forcing her to the house, the man and his wife grabbed handguns and opened fire.
Both criminals were struck and the daughter was unharmed.
Vietnam vet draws gun, stops robbery, gets fired - A Vietnam veteran was working as a store clerk in Vermont when a man walked in with a 5 inch knife and demanded money. Instead of money, the veteran pulled out a .380 handgun and told the would-be robber to get the (expletive) out of the store.
The store fired the veteran for carrying a gun in violation of store policy. "That store has been robbed eight or nine times and I always work nights," he said. I'm a firm believer in having a gun and not needing it rather than the other way around. I can always find a new job."
Thief grabs lawnmower, homeowner grabs shotgun - A Georgia criminal was going door to door in the early morning to see who was home. Finding a home with no answer, he broke into a shed and began loading his truck.
The homeowner was home, he just didn't want to answer the door. The thief found it out the hard way when he was looking down a shotgun barrel.
It's not GTA 5, kid - A Macon, Georgia thug found out that life isn't the same as Grand Theft Auto. Having stolen a car to go for a joyride with a girl he wanted to impress, the criminal got tired of it and decided to upgrade by stealing a different car.
Unlike video games, the "upgrade" cars owner was home... and armed.
Female store owner draws gun, kills knife-wielding robber - In West Philadelphia born and raised on the play... oh, right, DGU report. A West Philadelphia store owner found herself with a knife to her chest while a criminal robbed the store.
Unbeknownst to the criminal, the store owner was a former Secret Service agent. She drew her handgun and fired, mortally wounded the man.
Son grabs handgun, defends mom from drunk boyfriend - When a Memphis, Tennessee drunk came home and started yet another fight with his girlfriend he got more than he bargained for. While berating the woman the drunk grabbed a wrench and a hammer and told her he would kill her and kill her son.
The son disagreed. He grabbed a handgun and started shooting at the drunk boyfriend while he and his mother fled.
Father gets stabbed, shoots daughters stalker - Raiveon Wooden had recently been dumped by his Chino Hills, California girlfriend and had begun stalking her. After breaking into her house armed with a knife, he was confronted by the girl's father.
Wooden attacked the father, stabbing him. The father defended himself with a handgun, shooting Wooden twice in the chest.
Thug gets gun from car, concealed carrier gets gun from holster - During a family cookout at a public park near Yakima, Washington another park visitor was visibly agitated and repeatedly tried to start fights with family members. As a late arriving guest arrived, the agitated man started picking a fight again and said he was going to get his gun from his car. He did.
As he returned from his car with the gun in his hand, he learned that the late arriving guest was a concealed carrier. The guest drew his gun and fired three times, striking with all three rounds.
The Wrap Up
The king has fallen. For the first month in the history of this report, Texas isn't in the top spot. Worse yet, they turned the title over to California. Whether that's because Texas criminals are getting tired of getting shot, because ammunition got more expensive, or because the news isn't covering them like before is something we'll have to wait to see.
We covered a total of 98 defensive gun use stories for June 2014. Thirty two states had at least one defensive gun use and seven states showing more than five reports. The top five states were California and Pennsylvania with 8 each and Texas, Tennessee, and Florida with 6 each.
I'll leave you with two of my favorite defensive gun use stories that just didn't make the list but made me chuckle.
You're not Batman! - On June 27th, a man wearing a Batman mask approached an elderly Michigan woman while she worked in her garden. He put his arm around the woman and began pushing her towards the house. After she said her husband was upstairs with a shotgun, the masked crusader fled. I not certain, but I don't think it was really Batman.
Duck Hunt for the win - While playing video games an Oakland, Pennsylvania man saw an intruder in his house. He stopped the intruder and held him at gunpoint until police could arrive. What kind of gun? A gun for playing video games with.


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After putting up with waving controllers around in the air for the last couple of years, a more realistic racing solution might be on the way for Wii owners.
Logitech have announced their Speed Force Wireless Racing Wheel, which will be the Wii's first steering wheel with force feedback.
The driving rig, equipped with Logitech's patented force feedback tech, will also feature 2.4GHz wireless, promising, the company says "lag-free racing from up to 30 feet away from the console" via a plug-in USB receiver.
Licensed officially by Nintendo, the wheel is also being released to tie in with EA's upcoming Need for Speed Undercover, currently in development by Black Box studios. Logitech says the wheel will work fine with any other upcoming force feedback racing titles too, though.
Expected to be available in the UKfrom November, the wheel should retailfor around £60.


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Throwing Another Foreign Policy Log on the Fire
With so many foreign policy issues dominating the news lately (Lebanon, the Gates confirmation hearings, Baker‐Hamilton, the ongoing mess in Iraq, North Korea…), I wonder whether people don't get burned out and stop wanting to hear about foreign policy.
But if you aren't sick of hearing about the various foreign policy challenges we face, today marks the release of a new policy analysis on Iran [.pdf] authored by yours truly. I'll comment on the paper at our half‐day conference next Monday, which hosts a whole group of prestigious Iran watchers: Michael Eisenstadt, Larry Korb, Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, Trita Parsi, Sanam Vakil, Flynt Leverett, and last but not least, my highly esteemed boss Ted Carpenter.
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Movies: Have You Seen 'Arthur Christmas,' 'Hugo' and 'The Muppets'?
While there are no new movies in wide release this weekend, you may have been too busy eating the last of your mom's famous pumpkin pie to check out those released over the Thanksgiving holiday — so here's another look at them.
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I havebeen an avid Phillies fan since 1960.At this point in the season i believe any knowledgable person could mangage this team..C'mon these guys are pros and they know what they have to do.The last two games were Lost buy OVER coaching.The METS game in the 8th inning Why go to the mound after two easy outs???Then the CUBS,why take Hamels out,let him pitch!!Let him get in trouble then possibly make a move.These coaches are destroying confidence…I don't know what is said on the bench but from what i can see MILT Thompson is the only one i'd stick with..ANYBODY CAN MAKE UP A LINE-UP CARD..YOU NEED TO BENCH THE COACH"S and LET THESE GUYS PLAY..


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Archive for July 30th, 2010
Good Beer @ BAM
The ultimate test for a beer lover – around 30 different companies introducing their finest brews in unlimited quantities @ Brooklyn Academy of Music Café, Fort Greene/Clinton Hill. As if the beer alone wasn't enough, each of those was paired with food – house cured beef jerky, pretzels, pizzas, meatballs, pork ribs, vareniki, hush puppies, mussels, pork shoulder, rabbit terrine, pickles, cheeses, breads, weisswurst & sauerkraut, beef cheeks, quesadillas, chopped liver, shrimp rolls and such. Guess who tried to get a bit of everything… It was good to share some portions and try somebody else's catch at times, would have been even rougher to go through this alone – Im glad I had a well trained Finn (probably one of the few nationalities that could keep up with a well-trained Estonian) with me to do the sampling with 😀 But I must admit the whole crowd looked rather drunk (and happy) after 4 hours of this. And I haven't really been hungry for 2 days after the marathon. I wonder when will I get a craving for a good beer again 🙂
Anyway – my favorite picks of the lot were Southampton Publick House (they had some really tasty elegant whites there, one of the few counters I went to get refills from), Heartland Brewery – (I liked they Apricot Ale), Gramercy's Homebrew, McNeil's Blonde Bombshell, Cottrell Brewing Company, Palm, Captain Lawrence Liquid Gold and of course, Brooklyn Brewery that had Garrett Oliver himself behind the counter.
The event took place in cooperation with Edible Magazine, Brooklyn Brewery, Stella Artois, The Good Bear Seal and was part of celebrating July as the official Good Beer Month as announced by Mayor Bloomberg, for the second year in a row. 😀


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Parolee arrested after police pursuit
Driver charged with 4 felonies
A 32-year-old man was arrested overnight after leading police on a chase in a stolen car.
Sacramento police said Robert Treadway was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on charges of felony evasion of a peace officer, evading in a reckless manner while driving in opposite lanes, possession of stolen property and vehicle theft. He was also found to be in violation of his parole. His bail was set at $210,000.
Investigators said officers tried to stop a BMW driven by Treadway for a traffic violation at about 1 a.m. Sunday near 37th and Vista avenues.
Officers said Treadway failed to yield, and then turned off his car lights and led police on a chase through residential areas, running stop signs and red lights in the process.
Treadway stopped his car after being chased by police for several minutes, and he then fled on foot.
Patrol units and K-9 deputies helped to locate Treadway outside a house near 40th Avenue and Laurine Way.
Police said a records check showed the BMW had been stolen three days earlier in a burglary ring.


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