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For the sixth straight year, Hope College has led all NCAA Division III men's basketball programs in home attendance.
For the sixth straight year, Hope College has led all NCAA Division III men's basketball programs in home attendance.
This is the tenth time in school history that Hope has been the men's basketball attendance leader. The 2007-08 MIAA champion Flying Dutchmen averaged 3,016 fans per game over 17 dates, nearly doubling runner-up Wooster, Ohio who averaged 1,621. MIAA rival Calvin slipped from third to fifth in the rankings, averaging 1,373 fans over 13 home dates.
Hope's attendance average, the best in school history, was bolstered by three home NCAA tournament games that averaged over 3,600 fans. The Flying Dutchmen posted a 17-0 home floor record that included a pair of victories over rival Calvin before sellout crowds. In three seasons at DeVos Fieldhouse, Hope has posted a 48-2 record.
The Flying Dutchmen, coached by Glenn Van Wieren, were champions of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) and finished third in the nation among NCAA Division III teams. Hope was 28-4 overall and 13-1 in conference games.
Other years when Hope led the nation in men's attendance were 1984, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Hope and Calvin helped the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) to top all Division III conferences in home attendance for the 17th consecutive year with an average of 1,035 fans per game.


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Do you know what to do when approached by an emergency vehicle? The metropolitan area is often crowded and congested with traffic conditions caused by commuters, collisions, work zones and sometimes just "normal" traffic.
Emergency vehicles are impacted by these conditions, as well. When somebody calls 911 for help – the men and women of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service respond. How can everyday drivers help us to help you? – Normally drivers will HEAR us first, next they will SEE us, and then we need drivers to CLEAR for us.
C – L – E – A – R for emergency vehicles.
C – Calmly pull to and as close to the edge of the roadway as possible and stop.
L – Leave room. Keep intersections clear and never try to follow emergency vehicles.
E – Enter into traffic with caution after the emergency vehicle has passed. Remember to use signals.
A – Aware (be). Be aware of your surroundings. Keep radio volume low and check rear view mirrors frequently.
R – Remain stopped until the emergency vehicle has passed. Be mindful that there may be additional emergency vehicles approaching.
When approached by an emergency vehicle – the law says to pull over to the closest parallel edge of the roadway and yield the right of way to the emergency vehicle. An emergency vehicle is one with an audible siren and/or siren and emergency flashing lights. When driving and approaching an emergency scene – slow down and move over. In other words - "Give us a brake!"
Reduce the risk of an accident near an emergency scene and around emergency equipment.
Stay alert – expect anything to occur when approaching emergency vehicles.
Pay close attention – watch for police or fire direction.
Turn on your headlights – let on scene workers and other motorists see you.
Don't tailgate – unexpected stops frequently occur near emergency scenes.
Don't speed – slow down.
Keep up with the traffic flow – dedicate your full attention to the roadway and those traveling around you.
Expect the unexpected – keep an eye out for emergency workers and their equipment.
Be patient – remember, firefighters and EMT's have been called to the scene and are working to help someone.
In Montgomery County pedestrian and traffic safety issues are front and center. If you travel by car or are a pedestrian, please place extra emphasis on safety. Simply looking both ways before crossing a street, crossing in a crosswalk, spending a few extra seconds to cinch the belt on your child's safety seat, or delaying departure to ensure you get enough rest before a long trip can make all the difference. Be smart. Be safe.

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The news of Facebook going public was thought to bring along heavy cash and plenty of fortune for the company and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It turns out that Zuckerberg has undergone an experience that has shaped into something altogether different. With over 900 million users, the company founded by Zuckerberg in 2004 got registered on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange on May 18, 2012. The initial value of its share was traded at $38. As days passed, the value of Facebook shares started to take a downturn. For example, last Wednesday, May 30, 2012, Facebook's share was being traded at $28.
The plummeting of the company's share saw a negative impact on Zuckerberg's fortune. On May 18, 2012, Zuckerberg accumulated approximately $19 billion just before Facebook knocked on Nasdaq's doors. In contrast, 12 days later, on May 30, 2012, Zuckerberg's fortune plummeted to approximately $12 billion. This consolidates the fact that Zuckerberg does not remain amongst the list of the top 40 richest people on the planet, reports Bloomberg.
Trade analysts assume that the share value of Facebook is likely to descend further as investors are starting to get worried about how much money Facebook can generate in spite of its tremendous user base and its switch to the mobile platform, an area where it has not performed well in terms of revenue generation as it would have liked.


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The latest update from Medal of Honor: Warfighter is out. The first video to be released features the military operatives, and they're as deadly as ever. They'll come for you in the dark, water, and in between the trees.
The game will be out later this year, reportedly in October, and will run on the Frostbite 2.0 engine.
EA told Kotaku that this is a leaked trailer, but they've provided us with the video hosted on the game's official YouTube account.


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Ohio authorities have identified six teenagers killed in a one-vehicle SUV crash, along with two teens who were able to escape from the overturned sport utility vehicle submerged in a pond.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol says it's not believed that the eight people inside the vehicle were closely related.
Killed were 19-year-old Alexis Cayson; 14-year-old Andrique Bennett; 17-year-old Brandon Murray; and Kirkland Behner, Daylan Ray and Ramone White, all 15. All six were from Warren, in northeast Ohio.
Eighteen-year-old Brian Henry and 15-year-old Asher Lewis, both of Warren, survived.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
A sport utility vehicle carrying eight teenagers crashed into a guardrail Sunday morning and landed in a pond in northeast Ohio, killing six of them and injuring the others, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
The Honda Passport veered off the left side of a road, hit a guardrail and overturned, Lt. Anne Ralston said. Investigators say it came to rest in a pond just south of the city of Warren, about 60 miles east of Cleveland near the Pennsylvania state line.
Ralston didn't know where the teens were headed. She didn't have any information to release on possible causes of or factors in the crash.
Two of the teens, both 15, were brought to a hospital "in full cardiac arrest," St. Joseph Health Center nursing supervisor Julie Gill said, and were pronounced dead there. She said they were treated for hypothermic drowning trauma, indicating they had been submerged in cold water.
The two teen boys who survived were treated for bruising and other injuries and released, she said.
All those killed were ages 14 to 19, authorities said. Their names weren't released, while family members were being contacted.
The highway patrol received the first call on the crash at 7:15 a.m., Ralston said. Divers helped the patrol, and local police referred calls seeking information to the patrol.


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|Napoleon's Triumph This is a simulation of the battle of Austerlitz, which was fought on December 2, 1805. In the aftermath of his strategic victory over the Austrians at Ulm, Napoleon advanced east, where he encountered a second Allied army, the predominantly Russian force under Czar Alexander. Napoleon, who feared being drawn deeper into Austria, feigned weakness in order to lure the Allied army into advancing. Alexander and his aides, taken in by the French deception, resolved to attack immediately rather than await reinforcements. In the ensuing battle, the Allied left advanced, but a French counter-attack first cut the Allied army in two, and then defeated each half in turn, resulting in one of the greatest victories in military history. Both Austria and Russia were knocked out of the war in a single day: Napoleon's domination of Europe had begun.
|The Guns of Gettysburg. Published by Mercury Games, this is a simulation of the battle of Gettysburg, fought on July 1-3, 1863. After his stunning triumph at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee decided to carry the war to the North in the hopes that a victory on Northern soil would win the war for the Confederacy. Opposing his Army of Northern Virginia was the Union army of the Potomac, which was in a leadership crisis that would result in a new commander, George Meade, being named in the middle of the campaign. Only two days after Meade took command, a Union cavalry division outside of Gettysburg came under attack by a Confederate infantry division. The engaged commanders called for reinforcements, and more and more units from both sides rushed to the scene. Without anyone having planned or intended it, the decisive battle of the campaign, and perhaps the war, was underway.
|Bonaparte at Marengo. This is a simulation of the battle of Marengo, which was fought on June 14, 1800. In the weeks prior to this battle, the French army under then-First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte had crossed the alps into the rear of the Austrian army in Italy under General Melas. Although Bonaparte expected the Austrians to attempt to avoid battle, Melas decided on a counter-attack in a desparate effort to defeat the French and break through their lines. Initially Melas's plan worked well; the French were caught off guard and defeated in the morning's fighting, but even as Melas left the field to write his victory dispatch, the French army received reinforcements and in a stunning counterattack won a decisive victory.
|Stavka. This is a simulation of the eastern front in WWII, from the German attack on June 22, 1941, to the end of the war and the occupation of Berlin in 1945. Still in early development, you can read about Stavka in the developer's blog.
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|Friedrich (2nd edition). In partnership with its publisher, Histogame, Simmons Games is delighted to offer Histogame's Friedrich. Friedrich is based on the Seven Years War, in which Prussia under Frederick the Great held off the combined might of the three greatest European powers for seven years. It is a game for three or four players, each of whom takes the part of one of the major powers (Prussia or one of the allied powers: Austria, France, or Russia). Although the Allies are forbidden from attacking each other, they each are attempting to win the game independently of the others, while Prussia is trying to hold off all of them. Friedrich combines elements from tradtional card games as well as wargames to create a novel and fascinating gaming experience. Although it is a subtle strategy game, the rules can be learned in 15 minutes, and it is a game that can be enjoyed by wargamers and casual gamers both.


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With plenty of evidence of Democrats' propensity to cave to Republican "hostage politics" in recent years, concerned citizens, progressive members of Congress, and advocacy groups were taking no chances on Thursday as they formed a "human-chain" outside the Capitol Building in Washington to declare their opposition to any cuts to vital social programs, including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Amid an ongoing shutdown of the federal government, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus held a news conference and after joined hands with members of the Alliance for Retired Americans, Social Security Works and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare in order to protest the idea of a "Grand Bargain" between Democrats and Republicans that has been repeatedly floated over a series of budget battles in recent years.
"Folks are scurrying around here, trying to figure out how to end the shutdown. And sometimes I've heard [Democrats] say 'You know, maybe we should give them something.'" said Representative Keith Ellison, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. "Some folks say 'We'll give you Chained CPI.'"
"No way! No way!" Ellison then shouted. "Open up the government. Put a clean CR on. Stop this austerity… The way we hang together here is we make sure nobody, but nobody, gets sold out in exchange for Republicans doing their job, which is funding the government."
As Emily Foster, a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future's, explains, "The CPI, or consumer price index, is a calculation of how prices change over time. It is used to make cost-of-living adjustments in programs like veterans' benefits, food stamps, and Social Security. The premise behind the 'chained CPI' is that when prices rise, people settle for cheaper substitutes. Because of this, cost-of-living adjustments under the chained CPI would be lower than the actual standard of living, cutting benefits for citizens who need them the most"
Pitched to the American people as an "adjustment" of the program, however, economists and experts call it for what it is: a cut to benefits.
"Chained CPI is a benefit cut, plain and simple," said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif) to reporters. Citing established figures, Foster contends that implementing the change "would cut benefits by at least $135 billion over 10 years."
And as The Nation's George Zornick reports:
We've seen this movie before: Republicans force a showdown in Congress over funding the government, the debt ceiling or, in the present case, both. Then a "grand bargain" is proposed to solve the impasse—one that includes serious reductions to social insurance programs.
That's just how the GOP would like the current drama to play out. Wednesday, National Review's Robert Costa reported that House Speaker John Boehner and Representative Paul Ryan are rallying nervous Republicans by telling them that while Obamacare may not end up getting defunded, GOP leadership is cooking up another big budget deal that includes cuts to the safety net so cherished by many conservative members. "It's the return of the grand bargain," one member told Costa. "Ryan is selling this to everybody; he's getting back to his sweet spot," said another.
In particular, Costa mentioned Chained CPI as one component of the emerging proposal. This, you may recall, is a cut to Social Security benefits dressed up as a ostensibly "more accurate" recalibration of the formula used to adjust benefits to inflation. (It's not.)
And Foster's colleague at CAF, Richard Eskow, offered 8 reasons why the Democrats should not enter into any so-called 'Grand Bargain' with Republicans over the shutdown, and concluded:
The shutdown was a disastrous move [by the the Republican Party], and nothing we've said should be misinterpreted as suggested that it's acceptable. It must end, and as soon as possible. But the solution isn't to replace one disaster with another by sacrificing the financial security of American seniors.


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FAYETTEVILLE � While Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema hasn't named the starting quarterback for the Razorbacks, Brandon Allen certainly seems to be it after Saturday's spring wrap-up scrimmage.
FAYETTEVILLE � While Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema hasn�t named the starting quarterback for the Razorbacks, Brandon Allen certainly seems to be it after Saturday�s spring wrap-up scrimmage.
The sophomore from Fayetteville played exclusively with the first-team offense in the first half Saturday at Razorback Stadium. Senior Brandon Mitchell only took snaps with the second team offense during the first two quarters.
�You know, I�ve not named any starters yet,� Bielema said. �He started this game and played the entire first half with the ones. So I think we feel good about that.�
Allen completed 11-of-16 passes for 158 yards and one touchdown against the first team defense. Mitchell completed 12-of-17 for 138 yards with one TD and one interception mostly against the second-string defense.
Both QBs led four first-half drives. Against the first-string defense, Allen put together two scoring drives. The first was a nine-play, 75-yard effort that ended with a 26-yard touchdown pass to Demetrious Wilson. The other was a six-play, 55-yard drive in the final minutes of the second quarter capped by a 37-yard Zach Hocker field goal as time expired.
�I thought our No. 1 offense got clicking at times with all the key personnel, obviously converted a touchdown and some significant drives,� Bielema said. �But the best one was at the end of the half to walk out of there with points on the board.�
Mitchell led three scoring drives against the second-team defense in the first half. The first covered 60 yards in 10 plays for a 48-yard John Henson field goal. Hocker kicked a 27-yard field goal after a seven play, 31-yard drive. Then Mitchell led the second-string offense on a 13-play, 90-yard drive for a 26-yard TD pass to Jeremy Sprinkle.
But Mitchell also commited the only turnover in the first half. On second-and-7 at the defense�s 11-yard line, Mitchell tried to squeeze the ball into a receiver. But safety T.Q. Coleman stepped in front of the receiver in the end zone and returned it 49 yards before wide receiver Keon Hatcher made a touchdown-saving tackle.
�I thought Brandon Allen has continued to move forward,� Bielema said. �Brandon Mitchell does a lot of really good things. He does some things that�ll set you back at times. � I�ve got to have a conversation with Brandon Mitchell about as a senior I want to be able to let him to know he�s a contributor. He�s a competitor and I love his leadership skills.�
Bielema did not make either Allen or Mitchell available to the media following the scrimmage.


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Syndicates: 'Simpsons' Creator Matt Groening Reflects On The End Of 'Life In Hell'
By: Rob Tornoe
It's hard to talk about "The Simpsons" without commenting on the show's remarkable success. Not many TV series make it to a second season, much less the 22 that Bart, Lisa, and Homer have enjoyed. But most fans don't even realize that for all that time plus more, creator Matt Groening anchored himself to his drafting table each week and produced a new "Life in Hell" comic strip that he self-syndicated to newspapers across the country.
Well, after 32 years and 1,669 strips, Groening decided to call it quits back in June and stopped producing new strips featuring anthropomorphic rabbits Binky, Sheba, and Bongo, as well as Akbar and Jeff — a fez-wearing gay couple.
I spoke to Groening about his decision to end the strip, and his thoughts about the newspaper industry and comics in general.
So why did you abruptly pull the plug on "Life in Hell" after 32 years?
Every weekly cartoonist I talked to — Chris Ware, Jules Feiffer, Lynda Barry — told me how much happier they were after they were able to get away from weekly deadlines. So, I thought I might be happier too.
It's a little bit like being tethered to your drawing table. Even when I wasn't drawing it, I was thinking about it. So I wanted to see what it would be like to clear my mind.
A lot of syndicated cartoonists work four to six weeks ahead of their print schedule, so they're not rushing at the last minute. That was never an option for you?
I got ahead a couple of times in order to take weeklong trips, but they often weren't the best strips. The best strips came from the pressure of having a gun at my head to finish a strip so I could make my deadline.
You were never worried about coming up with a good strip, even with everything else going on?
I think for the first four years I worried I'd run out of ideas. Eventually, I reached the point where I knew I'd come up with something, and maybe it'd be striking and original.
Honestly, I wasn't worried about coming up with ideas. I was worried about the mechanical aspect of drawing the strip week in and week out. The repetitive nature got to me.
So a good deal of the desire to end "Life in Hell" was just the tedious nature of creating it each week?
Well, one other reason for quitting was because the number of papers that printed "Life in Hell" kept shrinking. It was particularly aggravating that I wasn't being printed locally in Los Angeles. "Life in Hell" was cut out of LA Weekly, along with other cartoons.
I'd draw the strip, send it out, and wouldn't see it reprinted anywhere. If "Life in Hell" were still in LA Weekly, it would probably have kept me going.
It seems like you deliberately avoided the Internet with "Life in Hell," which seems like a natural audience. Was that intentional?
I just hadn't gotten around to it. I'll probably put up some kind of archive at some point, collecting all the "Life in Hell" strips. I'm always interested in new things, so the idea of memorializing old strips, while it has a certain appeal, is tough for me because I've already done them.
I always thought cartoons worked well in print because of the transitory nature of print publications. You need to pick it up, or you won't see it.
What has kept you drawing "Life in Hell" for so long, especially considering your schedule and the success you've had with both "The Simpsons" and "Futurama"?
Everything you read in newspapers and magazines generally has the unseen hand of an editor. You don't know exactly what the writer's original intent was. What's great about a comic strip is they're generally hand drawn, hand lettered, and don't have the feeling of being edited. They really feel like an undiluted thought by a specific individual.
For me, looking at a comic strip in a newspaper is like having a little window into the individual's self-expression that you just don't get in a column of gray type.
Have you always been a fan of print?
I love newspapers. I loved all the alt-weeklies when they were big and fat and thriving. The Chicago Reader was a great pioneer in filling up their classified section with more and more cartoons. It was fantastic.
My father, Homer, worked for an advertising agency on Jantzen swimwear out of Portland. So, we'd get every general interest magazine in the country mailed to us. I grew up reading everything from Playboy, National Geographic, Ebony, and the local newspapers — I read them all and just loved them.
I look back at what newspapers used to be. Not just from when I was growing up, but even before my time. There used to be a visual exuberance that would be staggering if someone did that today.
Why does TV understand the popularity of cartoons so well, while newspapers and print media seem to have forgotten their roots?
There's been a tradition in both print and television animation that it's a medium for children. Historically, there were so many taboos in daily comics; the approach really was to avoid offending the most easily offended people.
With animation, "The Simpsons" was considered extremely outrageous and offensive when it premiered. What's funny is the very things that ruffled the feathers of so many people back then seem very mild now. We didn't cause the collapse of civilization.
Any plans to do anything with "Life in Hell" in the future?
I'm going to continue to do a yearly calendar, and I'm probably going to do another "Life in Hell" collection. A big one. I'm trying to work that out right now.
I love those big books where the cartoonist talks about the comic strips, so I'd like to do one of those. I don't think I'll do the complete collection the way "Far Side" and "Dilbert" have done. Let's call it a best plus more.
Rob Tornoe is a cartoonist and columnist for Editor & Publisher and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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OMAHA, Neb. — Adam Plutko limited Mississippi State to a run on four hits in six innings, and UCLA survived some anxious moments to beat the Bulldogs 3-1 in Game 1 of the College World Series finals Monday night.
Plutko retired nine straight to start, worked out of trouble twice and turned the game over to the bullpen in the seventh. The Bulldogs (51-19) left runners in scoring position four of the last six innings.
The Bruins (48-17) are one win from their first national championship in baseball and the school's record 109th in a team sport. Mississippi State must win Game 2 today to keep alive its hopes for its first NCAA title in any sport.
UCLA made it 3-0 in the fourth on Eric Filia's two-out, two-run single off Chad Girodo, who replaced starter Trevor Fitts (0-1) in the second. That was the last of the Bruins' six hits.
Plutko (10-3) walked in the Bulldogs' run in the fourth.
UCLA is 40-0 when leading after seven innings. There was drama all the way to the end.
The estimated 8,000 Mississippi State fans at TD Ameritrade Park started the "Maroon and White" chant in the bottom of the ninth after C.T. Bradford and pinch-hitter Sam Frost singled to put runners on first and second with one out against closer David Berg.
Nick Ammirati flew out, and pinch-hitter Jacob Robson ended the game with his comebacker to Berg, who sprinted toward first base before underhanding the ball to Pat Gallagher.
Berg, who was making his 50th appearance of the season, earned his NCAA-record 24th save for 12/3 innings of work.
The loss spoiled a splendid performance by Girodo, who pitched the last 72/3 innings. He allowed three hits, walked two and struck out nine. Both runs against him were unearned.
UCLA's Plutko wasn't overly sharp, unable to rely on his breaking ball and changeup to get outs. But he still continued his dominance in postseason play. In eight career NCAA tournament games, he's 7-0 with an 0.94 ERA.
The Bruins brought a .248 season batting average into the finals, and a .182 average through their first three CWS games.
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|Per, Jimmy and Ole from our athletic club, HGATM.
|Note absence of Gamnin. And, guys, I swear those are super strong abs and not a pot belly. ..
|Nice start photo by Jeppe Bjørn Vejlø.
Anyone want to wager a guess as to which of the above people won? (Hint it was not 1807, but she was the wife of the guy who won and she took 4th for the women in a sweet 1:20:13)
|A fantastic view of the start by Mikkel Barker.
Meanwhile - the winners:
|Elasri Ebderrahim in 1:04:58 and Sara Sig Møller in 1:15:09
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"It is not even about the validity. There is no question whatsoever in Bheki Cele's mind … the report is invalid," his spokesperson Vuyo Mkhize said on Friday.
"He is just going to court to satisfy his view that the report is invalid."
Mkhize said the invalidity of the report was apparent to rational and objective readers. He declined to say when the court application would be made, or if it had already been made.
"For every one voice that calls for him to be fired, there are 100 calls for him to be reinstated," he said.
Mkhize said calls for Cele's dismissal were "nonsensical" and should "not be given any regard whatsoever".
"We will go to court and seek a court intervention in the matter," he said.
The eNews channel reported on Thursday night that the board of inquiry had recommended that Cele be removed. It found he lacked the capacity to execute his official duties efficiently and was not fit to hold office.
According to the report, the board found that his apparent unlawful conduct proved he was unable to hold office. Evidence also suggested there was a questionable relationship between Cele and property tycoon Roux Shabangu.
However, President Jacob Zuma's spokesperson Mac Maharaj said this was speculation. "The president has received the report and is processing it, and until then he will not engage in speculation."
Zuma appointed the board in November to probe Cele's fitness to remain in office, and allegations of misconduct relating to two leases for new police headquarters in Pretoria and Durban, which Cele signed with Shabangu.
Public protector Thuli Madonsela found Cele's action pertaining to the leases was improper, unlawful and amounted to misconduct.
The team which led evidence against Cele in the inquiry called for his dismissal.
He denies any wrongdoing.
Board of inquiry chairperson Judge Jake Moloi presented the inquiry's report to Zuma on May 20.
The Democratic Alliance has called on Zuma to fire Cele.
"President Zuma must act swiftly and decisively upon the recommendations of the board and sack Bheki Cele as top cop once and for all," said DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard. "The president must demonstrate that fighting crime is a priority for government."
The Congress of the People said: "This is a logical turn of events when people holding high office behave in the manner he did."
"Cele is yet another case that is painting a bleak picture for our hard-earned democracy," it said.


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Originally published September 29, 2010
Experience is a valuable asset, but how do organizations capture and organize such assets for use in decision making?
Given that 70-80% of all data is unstructured, one can reasonably assume that organizational decision makingbased on our data warehouses, business reporting and the likehas often been based only 20-30% of the available data. Theres great opportunity for improvement, then, when organizations include the intelligence buried in unstructured data assets in the decision-making process.
This means identifying any unique attributes in text collections and harmonizing them with the structured data, including that which is generated by operational systems. It means ensuring that decisions are based on all the available information. That avails organizations a whole new lease on the derived intelligence.
You no longer have to encode the characteristics into discrete categories, such as customer complaints or bad reviews on blogs. With todays text analytics technology, this data can be input as unstructured data, directly and consistently classifying the essence of the material. This puts context back into the numbers.
I have a condition I call formaphobiaI have a really hard time filling in boxes to describe me, my life, feelings and needs. Id be glad if I never had to check off another box! Creating inputs as boxes was the result of limitations in recording information defined by the relational systems that we are all familiar with. But no longer does the technology have to drive how you receive input from your customers, constituents and operations. Now, you can examine, utilize and decipher from the text what you need, and in the case of text mining, find new items that you never even knew existed.
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iOS 5 came out Wednesday and with it came the iCloud. Apple's iCloud streams music, photos, documents and apps to any of iOS device, but not movies. Apple is reportedly ironing out deals with Hollywood studios to make streaming movies from the iCloud happen.
The project is codenamed "Ultraviolet" — a proposal by Hollywood studios to allow DVD and Blu-ray disc buyers to also be able to watch digital copies stored up in the cloud. These digital copies can be watched on any Internet-connected device.
That's the plan, at least. And the studios want Apple and its batch of iPhones, iPod Touches and Apple TVs to get in on the fun. If there's any company that can make people buy more discs in order to get the digital streaming copy too — it's Apple, the company that made buying digital music acceptable.
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The L.A. Times reports that every major movie studio is working on Ultraviolet except Disney.
Making lots of money is fun, right? If Apple and Disney do end up shaking hands on Ultraviolet, it'll be interesting to see how Apple's iCloud will handle all the movie streaming. Can iCloud handle the might of Apple's cult? Apple's servers were hammered for over six hours as people tried to download and activate iOS 5 (myself included).
Also, will streaming movies be restricted to Wi-Fi only? Unless you have an old unlimited plan or sign up for Sprint's unlimited data with the iPhone 4S, you're stuck with 2GB of data on AT&T or Verizon — which is very little if you're streaming lots of movies.
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I have won some battles along the way, like the glass-fronted narrow billy bookcases to organise my fabric and yarn stash (the husband had wanted a deep cupboard to house the children's boardgames, which was one erosion of my space too far). I've also insisted that this time around, my wooden thread storage rack will be hung up straight rather than at a queasy angle (I'm picky like that). There are the lovely Ferm living scissor wall decals that I really really want but can't quite justify; I'll maybe get away with them if I promise not to use them to cut all his things out of the study-o. I have completely vetoed the idea of a filing cabinet - I don't think so!!
- bad, I know, but it's work in progress and definitely better than it was. Eventually, it will of course look like the beautiful workspaces I've been busy collecting over on pinterest.
It's taking shape, the study-o, but like most things here, that progress comes at a snail's pace. I'm not sure why really, when I have the two helping hands of this little miss by day (and often by night too).
Self-appointed ribbon sorter
Chief button organiser
She has also proved to be a very effective random scrap vomit generator. I can honestly say that I had no artistic control over the way the multicoloured scraps were assembled in this quilt top as she delighted in throwing my nicely-organised pieced strips around like a lottery winner tossing piles of cash in the air.
Please excuse the general carnage. My husband dubbed the quilt top 'organised chaos'; I like the way that references the general mood around here.
In other news, I have now enabled threaded comments on my blog, so hurrah for being able to reply to everyone beneath the post itself as I've long been frustrated by blogger witholding email addresses so that I can't say hello when someone comments. So please do say hello, and I'll say hello back.


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A school board member in Georgia was arrested after allegedly hitting a 17-year-old with her SUV in a dispute over a parking space at Walmart, according to WBSTV.
WBSTV reported the teen girl was standing in a parking spot to hold it for a friend who had just given birth when Angela Cornett told her to move.
The teen told police she refused and then, Cornett allegedly hit her with the car. Cornett's side of the story is that the girl leaned into her car.
The teen didn't have any serious injuries, just a few cuts and scrapes.
Cornett was taken to jail and charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct. She also resigned from her school board post.
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Ordinary Time: May 30th
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
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Old Calendar: Trinity Sunday
The feast of the Blessed Trinity was introduced in the ninth century and was only inserted in the general calendar of the Church in the fourteenth century by Pope John XXII. But the cultus of the Trinity is, of course, to be found throughout the liturgy. Constantly the Church causes us to praise and adore the thrice-holy God who has so shown His mercy towards us and has given us to share in His life.
The fundamental dogma, on which everything in Christianity is based, is that of the Blessed Trinity in whose name all Christians are baptized. The feast of the Blessed Trinity needs to be understood and celebrated as a prolongation of the mysteries of Christ and as the solemn expression of our faith in this triune life of the Divine Persons, to which we have been given access by Baptism and by the Redemption won for us by Christ. Only in heaven shall we properly understand what it means, in union with Christ, to share as sons in the very life of God.
Trinity Sunday
The dogma of faith which forms the object of the feast is this: There is one God and in this one God there are three Divine Persons; the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God. Yet there are not three Gods, but one, eternal, incomprehensible God! The Father is not more God than the Son, neither is the Son more God than the Holy Spirit. The Father is the first Divine Person; the Son is the second Divine Person, begotten from the nature of the Father from eternity; the Holy Spirit is the third Divine Person, proceeding from the Father and the Son. No mortal can fully fathom this sublime truth. But I submit humbly and say: Lord, I believe, help my weak faith.
- Depending on the ages of family members, research symbols of the Trinity and create something for the centerpiece of your family table, or something for your family altar, such as a small banner or poster. It can be as little as a 4 x 6 photograph or something to use every year as a backdrop or wall hanging.
- Think of different foods to serve that can reflect the symbolism of the Trinity. One example is clover leaf rolls. These rolls are formed with three balls of dough put into one hole of the muffin tin for each roll. They are easy to make. Use your favorite roll recipe (you can even buy frozen bread or roll dough), or search on the Internet for one of many examples.
- The Directory on Popular Piety explains some of the pious exercises related to the devotion of the Holy or Blessed Trinity. Three very simple prayers are the Sign of the Cross, Gloria Patri (Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, etc.) and the Trisagion (meaning "thrice holy"): "Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, Have mercy on us." This is just one version, there are many others, and it is usually found in the Eastern liturgies.
Commentary for the Readings in the Extraordinary Form:
Trinity Sunday
"Blessed be the Holy Trinity" (Introit) "in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Gospel).


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Christ Is Risen!
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May God grant you many years! I was chrismated on Holy Saturday as well--it will be my third anniversary on Holy Saturday.
Quote from: hecma925 on December 30, 2019, 07:25:46 PMOCnet is KGB.I hail Mor Ephrem as our Secretary General.
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Oh you Greeks, you are all dumb!An Athonite
Many years, Jenny!On the Pope, remember that many Orthodox still like and respect him ... we just disagree with what he and his church say his role in the church should be.Brendan
congratulations! if i can ask, what parish will you be chrismated in?
Congrats Jenny! Many years! what sain'ts name will you be taking?Joe Zollars
Jenny,Here is a great name to use - Jennifer.Congrats and God grant you many years.
Thanks! Well, Jennifer is my given name, but Father said there was no Saint Jennifer.Jenny
I will be Chrismated in the Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Miami, Florida.
"Jennifer" is a derivative of Joanna (Ioanna). That might to satisfy your priest or give you an option. Demetri
If I recall, that is the parish where Fr. Phillip Reese is attached. Wonderful man, met him at the diocesan assembly in Dallas a few years back.
Hi Jenny --My wife's name is Jennifer and her Chrismation name is Eugenia. Eugenia is an early martyr and her feast day is December 24th.Greg
i imagine you're miami weather for Pascha will be much warmer than ours here in Wash state.... you do have a wonderful bishop in Archbp Dmitri. Many years!
On a different note, this is one of my first posts, and since I'm sorta-kinda-slightly a catechumen, could you guys pray for me that I complete my journey home in the Lord's own time?
Anastasia would be a very fitting name, like JoeZollars said. Not to mention the fact that it's a beautiful name.On a different note, this is one of my first posts, and since I'm sorta-kinda-slightly a catechumen, could you guys pray for me that I complete my journey home in the Lord's own time?God grant you many, many years!
Christ is Risen!Congratulations on your chrismation. I think that St. Juliana of Lazarevo is the patron saint of Father Alexander Schmemann's widow (whose name is Juliana Schmemann), though I could be wrong. If so, you're in good company!
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Fitness Ventures International LLC (FVI) recently acquired certain assets and rights held by Advantage Fitness Products (AFP), a commercial fitness equipment distributor.
Those assets will now be part of FVI's portfolio that includes Fitness Design Group, FitnessFacility.com and Wellness by Design, according to an announcement released earlier this month.
Bryan Green, AFP's founder and CEO, has joined FVI as its managing member and CEO, and certain AFP management personnel have also been retained. FVI will integrate AFP into its corporate headquarters in Santa Monica, CA.
"AFP has always provided exceptional support, expert consultation and the best fitness products available to its valued clients," Green said in a statement. "The faith and investment provided by FVI establishes for us a significant base of resource. We certainly intend to utilize these strengths as we further develop our strategic partnerships and focus on the growth opportunities for our overall business."
FVI will continue AFP's partnership with Star Trac, which was announced last fall, as well as AFP's partnerships with Netpulse, Total Gym, The Green Revolution and SKLZ, according to the statement.
"[AFP] continues to pioneer the level of customer care and comprehensive support that clients tasked with managing a fitness amenity must have," Star Trac CEO Michael Bruno said in a statement. "We are proud to have their expert representation of our products and congratulate them on their continuing success and leadership in our industry."
Green confirmed to Club Industry that AFP's relationship with Precor has officially ended. In 2005, AFP was named Precor's largest commercial distributor for the fourth consecutive year. Earlier this year, Green told Club Industry that in the past two years, AFP received less support from Precor to expand its model.
"This support primarily included funding for key sponsorships and event participation critical to AFP's business," Green said. "Simply put, AFP's business model was no longer working in tandem with Precor as a result of these changes."
Green added that Precor has attracted retailers such as Amazon.com, Sports Chalet and Dick's Sporting Goods, which Green says is a departure from the specialty fitness channel.
"Now the very same equipment we have promoted to commercial clients can simply be found and purchased on Amazon.com," Green said. "This brand positioning no longer aligns with what AFP wishes to promote as proprietary and tailored toward the needs of our clients."


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Scale Boxes and Diagrams
Welcome to the Scale Boxes and Diagrams article/page! This article is going to be a collection of all the helpful Scale Diagrams found on the lessons and they will all be located here in one place to make them easier to find!
--FretDancer69 20:38, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Minor Pentatonic Scales
E Minor Pentatonic Boxes
G Minor Pentatonic Boxes
A Minor Pentatonic Boxes
Major Pentatonic Scales
A Major Pentatonic Boxes
G Major Pentatonic
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Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is a Microsoft identity access solution. It was an optional component of Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 R2 and is now built into Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server® 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. AD FS on Windows 2012 R2 is sometimes referred to as ADFS 3.0.
Kemp LoadMaster family of products provide high availability to AD FS and AD FS proxy farms (WAP). AD FS proxy servers provide termination of external traffic at DMZ and provides additional layer of protection against external threats. AD FS proxy servers also help internal AD FS servers clearly identify which authentication attempts are external. This is achieved by inserting x-ms-proxy claim in AD FS request.
AD FS administrators can configure advanced claims rules that allow granular control over user authentication restrictions such as requiring users to be a part of certain group or requiring users to authenticate from certain IP networks. When such claims rules are configured on AD FS servers, it becomes critical to identify if user is trying to authenticate from external location or is internal.
In deployments where such advanced claims rules are not in use, Kemp LoadMaster devices can be placed in DMZ and can proxy authentication requests to internal AD FS servers without requiring additional AD FS proxy (WAP) servers. This can help customers save, hardware, software and management costs associated with maintaining additional AD FS proxy servers.
Overview of AD FS Load Balancing
- The internal Client tries to access the AD FS-enabled resource.
- The client is redirected to the resource's Federation Service.
- If the resource's federation service is configured as a trusted partner, the client is redirected to the organisation's internal Federation Service.
- The AD FS server uses the Active Directory to authenticate the client.
- The AD FS server sends an authorization cookie to the client. This contains the signed security token and a set of claims for the resource partner.
- The client connects to the resource partner's Federation Service where the token and claims are verified. If appropriate, the resource partner may send a new security token.
- The client presents the new authorisation cookie with the security token to the resource in order to access it.


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Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson filed a lawsuit against the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Thursday for alleged excessive force by police after he and more than 100 protesters were arrested last month, NBC News reported.
Mckesson's arrest on July 9 was caught on a live stream with Periscope. He was protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling.
He was released from the East Baton Rouge Parish jail the following day. The "simple obstruction of highway commerce" charges against Mckesson and the others were later dropped.
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The class action suit said it will seek damages for civil rights violations for the "unlawful mass arrests" police made without probable cause. The suit added that some of those arrested are apprehended on sidewalks, grass and residents' homes.


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This is a short series on some customizations in SSMS to make it visually more appealing.
As a presenter, I've learned how to change the way Management Studio (SSMS) looks to make it easier for people to see the screen on a projector. I had wrongly assumed that so many people knew many of these tricks, which is a poor attitude on my part. That should be especially apparent as I saw a presentation recently where the speaker didn't know how to make things easier to see.
In a previous post I talked about changing the query font size. In this post we'll look at result sizes.
The Defaults
This is what I see, and it's not easy to read.
The results are much smaller than the query itself. How can we change this and make things easier to read?
I wrote about one way: using results to text. This works well, but it isn't the best solution for everyone, and you still want to change the size of your results. The technique I'll show you works for that as well.
If you go to the Tools | Options menu, in the Fonts tab as I showed in the last post, you'll find there's a drop down titled "Show settings for:" at the top. If you select Grid results, you can change the font settings.
The default is 8, and I usually up that a bit.
Once that is done, you click OK, and get this note:
Make sure your tabs are saved, since you need to restart SSMS. Once you do, your results will be much easier to read.
Note that in the drop down for settings, there is an item for "Results to text". If you change that, your text results will be larger.


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If you're a Science Channel subscriber, you're in for a treat. Especially if you like the series, Fringe! Check out the news, particularly about the 3 hours every Tuesday night and how the network will be running all five seasons before 203 ends.
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--Science Channel Unveils Three Hours of FRINGE Every Tuesday Night, Beginning
November 20 at 8 PM ET/PT--
--Special Post-Thanksgiving Marathon Event Featuring the Complete First Season Airs Friday, November 23 and Saturday, November 24--
(Silver Spring, Md.) – Science Channel invites viewers to join FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, eccentric scientist Dr. Walter Bishop and his estranged son Peter as they investigate the universe of the paranormal and science of the unexplained on the breakthrough series FRINGE. Beginning Thanksgiving Week, the critically-acclaimed franchise returns to its very beginning with an expanded examination of actual fringe science that only Science Channel can provide.
Science Channel is airing all five seasons of FRINGE in 2012 and 2013, starting with the network premiere of the two-hour pilot and first episode on Tuesday, November 20, 2012, from 8-11 PM (ET/PT). To celebrate the premiere, Science Channel is continuing season one of FRINGE with daylong marathons on Friday, November 23 from 10:30 AM – 11 PM (ET/PT) and Saturday, November 24 from 11:30 AM – 11 PM (ET/PT). Following the marathon, FRINGE will air regularly every Tuesday night from 8-11 PM (ET/PT) beginning on Tuesday, November 27 with season two.
Featuring leading experts such as Dr. Michio Kaku, Science Channel will examine phenomena such as time travel, dream sharing and parallel universes with the short-form series, "Science of Fringe". Also, every Tuesday night Science Channel airings of FRINGE will begin with a special appearance by series star John Noble, who will set the stage for the back-to-back-to-back episodes.
"Viewers tuning into FRINGE on Science Channel will see one of television's smartest and most addictive series in a more thought-provoking format than ever before," said Debbie Adler Myers, General Manager and Executive Vice President of Science Channel. "Audiences will find all of the action and riveting drama associated with this pop culture sensation, along with a deeper dive into the mind-blowing science that provides the foundation for the series."
FRINGE explores the ever-blurring line between scientific concepts and reality, where hybrid beings tear through sewers, thieves walk through walls and portals open to parallel universes. Unable to police a world in which science has advanced beyond our wildest dreams–and nightmares–Olivia Dunham (series star Anna Torv) seeks help from Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble) and his jack-of-all-trades son, Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson). Under the direction of Special Agent Phillip Broyles (Lance Reddick) and assisted by Agents Astrid Farnsworth (Jasika Nicole), Charlie Francis (Kirk Acevedo) and Lincoln Lee (Seth Gabel), the Fringe Team investigates unusual incidents that defy human logic and unimaginable events that threaten our very existence on a universal scale.
Fringe is produced by Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. The creative team behind the series includes executive producers J.J. Abrams (Lost, the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible movies), Jeff Pinkner (Alias, Lost), J.H. Wyman (The Mexican, Keen Eddie), Bryan Burk (Lost, Alias, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) and Joe Chappelle (The Wire) and consulting producers Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek, Transformers), Roberto Orci (Star Trek, Transformers) and Akiva Goldsman (The Da Vinci Code).
For Science Channel, Debbie Adler Myers is general manager and executive vice president, Bernadette McDaid is vice president of production and Dexter Cole is vice president of programming.
About Science Channel:
Science Channel, a division of Discovery Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), is home for the thought provocateur, the individual who is unafraid to ask the killer questions of "how" and "why not." The network is a playground for those with audacious intellects and features programming willing to go beyond imagination to explore the unknown. Guided by curiosity, Science Channel looks for innovation in mysterious new worlds as well as in its own backyard. Science Channel and the Science Channel HD simulcast reach more than 74 million U.S. households. The network also features high-traffic online and social media destinations, including ScienceChannel.com, facebook.com/Science Channel and twitter.com/Science Channel.
About Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is the world's #1 nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 200 countries and territories. Discovery is dedicated to satisfying curiosity through more than 140 worldwide television networks, led by Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science and Investigation Discovery, as well as US joint venture networks OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, The Hub and 3net, the first 24-hour 3D network. Discovery also is a leading provider of educational products and services to schools and owns and operates a diversified portfolio of digital media services, including HowStuffWorks.com. For more information, please visit www.discoverycommunications.com.


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July 4
Bethel — Fireworks at dusk July 4, overlooking White Lake. Gather at Kauneonga Lake Community Park on Route 55 or the boat launch, adjacent to the park.
Callicoon — Fireworks at dusk July 4 at Villa Roma Resort, 356 Villa Roma Road. Call 887-4880.
Cornwall — Festivities begin with breakfast at 7 a.m. July 4 at Highland Engine Company, 1 Quaker Ave., followed by a pet show, craft fair, pony rides, children's games, entertainment by Nick Logerfo, raffle, Declaration of Independence, and more. Parade will begin at 5 p.m. Fireworks display will end the celebration at 9:30 p.m. For schedule and location information, visit cornwall4th.org.
Ellenville/Town of Wawarsing — Parade kicks off at noon July 4 in the village. Arts and crafts vendors 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in Liberty Square. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m. at Joseph Y. Resnick Airport, off Route 209 behind ShopRite Plaza. Call 647-6493.
Fort Montgomery State Historic Site — 690 Route 9W, Fort Montgomery, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. July 4, featuring a demonstration of military life and the firing of the fort's 32-pounder cannon at noon. Military and civilian music of the Revolution will be performed by historical interpreters throughout the day. $3, $2 students and seniors, free for children 12 and younger. Call 446-2134.
Greenwood Lake — Parade at 11 a.m. July 4, Windermere Avenue. Fireworks at dusk July 5, on the lake. Call 477-9215 or go to villagegreenwoodlake.org.
Highland — Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park open to ticket holders to watch 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular. Walkway will close at 5:30 p.m. to the general public and reopen for Walkway Fireworks Spectacular at 6:30pm. Fireworks begin 9-9:30 p.m. Tickets $10, free for children 5 & under. Call 454-9649 or visit walkway.org.
Highland Falls — Celebration begins with Firecracker 5K & Children's Fun Run at 8 a.m. July 4. Bicycle and wagon decorating contest at 11 a.m. at Memorial Park, parade at 3 p.m., followed by music, food vendors and inflatables at Roe Park beginning at 4:30 p.m., and other family fun including contests and dancing at 5:30 p.m. Festivities end with fireworks after dark. Call 446-3400.
Kingston — July 4th All-American Barbecue, 3-9 p.m., Rondout Waterfront, lower Broadway. Barbecue and picnic food, pie contests, boat and trolley rides. Live music by four bands including the Hot Rods. Games and fireworks after 9 p.m. Call 339-6925.
Liberty — 21st annual Liberty Festival, Main Street, Liberty, 10 a.m. July 4. Parade, classic car show, street fair, music, art picnic, face painting, games for kids, food, vendors, Carl Richards Band with Mr. Phil, Pamela Murphy and Fine Arts Singers, Mark the Polka Guy, and more. Free. 292-9797. email@example.com.
Lumberland — Parade will begin at Lumberland Firehouse on Route 31 and end at Town Hall on Proctor Road. Lineup begins at 11:30 a.m. July 4. Parade will step off at noon. Vendors and activities will continue by the Pavilion area and at Circle Park.
Middletown — July 4th Summer Concert, 7 p.m. July 4 at Festival Square. Featuring Joey Armino and the Family in their All American Variety Show.
Monroe — Independence Day Festival, 6-9:30 p.m. July 4, Lake Street at the Millponds. Includes fireworks at dusk. Rain date, July 5.
Monticello — Fireworks July 4 at Monticello Racetrack after last race. Call 794-4100.
Narrowsburg — Fireworks off Narrowsburg Bridge at Lander's Campgrounds, 5666 Route 97, Narrowsburg, at dusk July 4. Call 252-3925.
New Paltz — 4th of July Weekend at Historic Huguenot Street, 81 Huguenot St., New Paltz, 10 a.m. July 4. $15 for day pass; $10 for seniors and children under 12; free for members, military, veterans, SUNY New Paltz students, and children 7 and under. 255-1660. firstname.lastname@example.com.
New WIndsor — Independence Day at New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, 374 Temple Hill Road, New Windsor, 2-4 p.m. July 4. Free. See musket and cannon firings at 2 p.m. Following demonstration, visitors participate in reading Declaration of Independence. Co-located with National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, on Route 300, in New Windsor, 3 miles from intersection of routes I-87 & 84. 561-1765.
Saugerties — Parade kicks off at 11 a.m. July 4 from Saugerties High School and goes through village. Celebration continues at Cantine Field, 207 Market St., with carnival, fire companies' tug-of-war, food, open mic 3-6 p.m., more. Fireworks begin at dusk. Carnival continues at Cantine Field, noon-6 p.m. July 5.
Town of Wallkill — Fireworks display at dark July 4 at Town of Wallkill Golf Club, 40 Sands Road, Town of Wallkill, gates open 6 p.m. Call 692-7826.
West Point — USMA Concert Band performs at 8 p.m. July 4 at Trophy Point Amphitheatre, followed by fireworks. Free. Call 938-2617.
White Lake/Kauneonga Lake — Fireworks over White Lake at 9 p.m.
July 5
Bloomingburg — Parade starts at 10 am. July 5 at Riverside Deli and ends at Bloomingburg Firehouse. Following parade, there will be a Family Day at Mamakating Park. Food, music, vendors, car show, kids' activities and use of all park facilities. 733-1400.
Central Valley — Fireworks at dusk July 5 at Monroe-Woodbury High School Athletic Complex, Dunderberg Road, Central Valley, sponsored by Highland Mills Fire Company and the Town of Woodbury.
Hamptonburgh — Salute to Our Veterans Fireworks Spectacular, 6 p.m. July 5, Thomas Bull Memorial Park. Live music by XCalibur and Black Dirt Bandits. Food and beverages for sale or bring your own. Fireworks at dusk. Rain date July 6. orangecountygov.com.
Highland — Town Field (behind Methodist Church), Vineyard and Main streets, Highland, 5-10 p.m. July 5. Live music, local food vendors, games, bounce castle and fireworks at dark. Sponsored by Highland Business Association and Town of Lloyd Events Committee. 691-2144. townoflloyd.com.
City of Newburgh — Vendors and artists on the river from noon-6 p.m. July 5, music by Dr. Magkneetoe from 6-9 p.m., fireworks display at 9 p.m. at the waterfront. Call 569-7300.
New Paltz — Independence Day Celebration, 5 p.m. July 5, Ulster County Fairgrounds, Libertyville Road, New Paltz. Music, food and festivities. Fireworks at dusk. Call 255-0604.
Port Jervis — Fireworks will be set off at 9 p.m. from Point Peter at Elks-Brox Park.
Roscoe — Independence Day Parade and Craft Fair. Parade lineup at 10 a.m. July 5 at Roscoe Central School. Parade steps off at 11 a.m. Independence Day Craft Fair 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 5 at Niforatis Field, corner of Stewart Avenue, with vendors and activities. 607-498-5397.
July 12
Chester — Fireworks shortly after dark July 12 at Chester Community Park off Vadala Lane. Sponsored by Suburban Propane. Call 469-7000, ext. 8.
July 15
Town of Newburgh — Community Day and fireworks, 6-10 p.m. July 15, Cronomer Park/Algonquin Park, Powder Mill Road. Call 564-4554.
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U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
The U.S. Capitol Visitor Center provides a welcoming and educational environment for visitors to learn about the unique characteristics of the House and the Senate and the legislative process as well as the history and development of the architecture and art of the U.S. Capitol. The visitor experience is an intellectual and emotional encounter comprised of highly personal moments that inform, involve and inspire those who come to see the U.S. Capitol.
Beneath the East Front plaza of the U.S. Capitol at First Street and East Capitol Street.
Visitor Hours:
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Saturday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Inauguration Day.
Official Business:
Visitors with official business appointments may enter as early as 7:15 a.m.
The United States Capitol is a monument, a working office building, and one of the most recognizable symbols of representative democracy in the world. Visitors are welcome to enter the building through the Capitol Visitor Center, located underground on the east side of the Capitol. The U.S. Capitol Visitor Center provides an increased focus on visitor comfort, safety and security resulting in a seamless, positive visitor experience at the U.S. Capitol.
Visitors can begin their Capitol experience at the Visitor Center by visiting the Exhibition Hall, perusing the Gift Shops or dining in the Restaurant. There are also a number of special tours and activities offered beyond the general tour of the Capitol Building. All visitors wishing to tour the Capitol start at the Capitol Visitor Center.
The U.S. Capitol Visitor Center is the newest addition to the historic Capitol Complex. At nearly 580,000 square feet, the Visitor Center is the largest project in the Capitol's more than two-century history and is approximately three-quarters the size of the Capitol itself. The entire facility is located underground on the east side of the Capitol so as not to detract from the appearance of the Capitol and the grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1874. Since opening on December 2, 2008, the anniversary of the placement of the Statue of Freedom atop the Capitol Dome in 1863, millions of people have visited the Capitol, entering through the Capitol Visitor Center.
From its inception, the Capitol Visitor Center was conceived as an extension of the Capitol. The materials used to construct the Visitor Center were selected to match the colors, textures and materials seen throughout the historic building.
This care is evident in Emancipation Hall, named to recognize the contributions of the enslaved laborers who helped build the U.S. Capitol, the central gathering place for visitors coming to see the Capitol.
Rising 36 feet above the floor, the walls and columns of Emancipation Hall are lined with sandstone slabs marked by a variety of color and texture similar to the sandstone seen in the Capitol. Also in Emancipation Hall visitors can see the plaster model of the Statue of Freedom, 18 of the statues donated to the National Statuary Hall Collection and the POW/MIA Chair of Honor.
There are two orientation theaters in the Capitol Visitor Center where visitors will start their tours of the Capitol by watching a 13-minute orientation film that introduces them to the Capitol and illustrates how government was initially established in the United States. There are also two small theaters in the Exhibition Hall where visitors may watch the proceedings in the House and the Senate chambers.
The Exhibition Hall, where visitors may explore the only exhibition in the world dedicated to telling the story of Congress and the U.S. Capitol, is 16,500 square feet. Highlights include rarely seen historic documents from the National Archives and the Library of Congress, artifacts from around the country, and an 11-foot-tall touchable model of the Capitol dome.
There is a 530-seat restaurant in the Capitol Visitor Center serving soups, salads, entrees and a variety of other items. There are also two Gift Shops in the Visitor Center.
For more information about the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, please go to visitthecapitol.gov.


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Development on Delver's Drop has been going since before last September, which is when Kotaku spent an entire video calling it "Deliver's Drop." Pixelscopic has turned to Kickstarter for funding, and with ten days left to go they've already got over two thirds of their goal. Looking good, people!
I was immediately attracted to the game's art style, but it was the music that really grabbed me. Such sweet sounds! I've got some reservations when it comes to randomly generated dungeons, but I think I can look past that if it means getting to hear that soundtrack all the time.
Thanks Spacerik.


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VANCOUVER -- Lululemon Athletica announced on Tuesday that it has recruited an experienced executive with a long history of building global sports and apparel brands as the new CEO of the Vancouver-based yoga-wear retailer.
Swiss-born Laurent Potdevin will take over as chief executive next month. He had most recently served as president of TOMS shoes — which gives away a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair of shoes sold — and before that worked with founder Jake Burton at sports equipment and clothing giant Burton Snowboards for more than 15 years. Potdevin was Burton president and CEO from 2005 to 2010. He began his career at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
Lululemon also confirmed on Tuesday that founder Chip Wilson is stepping down as non-executive chairman following a difficult year in which the yoga-clothing retailer had to recall pants for being too sheer, current CEO Christine Day announced her resignation, and Wilson made injudicious public comments about women's bodies.
The leadership changes signal the end of an era, as the colourful, idiosyncratic, new-age Wilson leaves the company he built from a single store in Kitsilano into a multinational retail chain.
Highlights of Wilson's storied tenure include the company's offer of free clothing to customers who arrived naked in 2002, seaweed T-shirts intended to release amino acids, minerals and vitamins into the skin in 2007, and Wilson encouraging employees to take part in personal development company Landmark Education's training courses.
But Lululemon now appears to have brought in the professional executive team needed to help it transition into a global company.
Wilson will be replaced as board chairman in the coming months by Michael Casey, a current director and former Starbucks chief financial officer.
Wilson will retain his seat on the board.
The new leadership "creates a cleaner management structure and less room for conflict between the founder/chairman and the incoming CEO," said Liz Dunn, an analyst at Macquarie Group in New York.
Potdevin said Tuesday that he does not expect to make any immediate changes.
"The business model is fantastic, the brand is exceptional, the product is outstanding and beautiful. It really is a matter of understanding all facets of the business and collaborating with the team and to continue to make it better."
Potdevin described himself as a generalist with experience in all business functions in all regions, and said that the key to managing high-speed global growth "is to really continue to provide the resources, both financial and human, to make sure you can continue to leverage on the current success and building that success beyond North America."
At both Burton and TOMS, Potdevin said he had direct experience with building companies in a very high growth mode with initial strength in just one region.
"In both organizations, we were able to very quickly build in infrastructure both from technology and supply chain standpoints and from a sourcing and quality standpoint to really support a global business," Potdevin said.
Lululemon expects to benefit from Potdevin's track record in building global brands, Casey said in a news release.
"He has more than two decades of experience at premium, technical athletic apparel, and lifestyle-centric retail companies, and his shared passion for driving innovative, community-focused brands makes him an excellent cultural fit for Lululemon. Additionally, his deep understanding of the importance of top-quality technical design, retail marketing strategies, and the power of building a strong brand provides him with the tools we believe are necessary to lead our next exciting phase of growth."
Lululemon has seen sales increase 16-fold in the past seven years, but has been grappling with slowing gains after the recall of one of its most popular styles of pants at a time when rivals are strengthening their atheltic-wear lines.
Last month, Wilson gave a controversial interview in which he suggested that it wasn't that Lululemon's pants were defectively sheer, but that certain women's bodies were unsuitable for the garments.
"Quite frankly, some women's bodies just actually don't work for it," Wilson told Bloomberg TV. "It's really about the rubbing through the thighs, how much pressure is there."
Wilson had previously stepped down as chief innovation and branding officer in early 2012.
Omar Saad, an analyst at ISI Group in New York, said last month that the perception of Wilson's interference in running the business may have hindered the search for Christine Day's successor.
Wilson's Lululemon story began after studying petroleum economics at the University of Calgary. Always athletic, he decided to sew a few long, baggy shorts to combat the uncomfortable tight shorts popular during the late-1970s and ended up selling them on a rented table in a downtown Calgary mall. By the early-1980s, he was selling his shorts to a Kitsilano store. A few years later, he opened the West Beach skateboard/surfer clothing retail chain with partners, and in 1998, he started Lululemon to tap into what he presciently saw as a growing market for yoga wear.
Lululemon shares fell 1.7 per cent to close at $69.12 in Nasdaq trading on Monday. The stock has slipped 8.4 per cent this year, compared with a 27-per-cent gain in the S&P 500 Index. Wilson owned about 28 per cent of the shares outstanding, according to a September filing.
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Shyamalan twists, unless you can really pull them off artfully, are a cheap gimmick. They are a bullshit magic trick that gets in the way of real storytelling. Certainly, being surprised by plot elements is great — it is preferable that the audience cannot see what is coming. But more important than clever plot mechanics is the way the story affects the characters — what the narrative does to them, how it changes them, what it teaches them, and what they gain or lose in the process.
I see so many people combing through True Detective and creating these incredibly elaborate theories about the show. While it is very fun (and I have been party to it myself) I think it is largely missing the point. We do all this, in large part, because we have been conditioned by puzzle shows, Lost being the perfect example, to take all the esoteric material we've been given and formulate grand hypotheses, going frame by frame through each episode and making connections the writers didn't even dream of. Do you remember how Lost turned out when it's writers tried to outsmart the audience? They failed miserably. It was an abomination. I would have rather had it be predictable than the bullshit ending they tacked onto that once wonderful show.
True Detective is compelling but it is not trying to fool you. Andrew Romano over at The Daily Beast has an excellent write up about tonight's episode and speculation going forward which includes quotes taken from an interview with show creator/writer Nic Pizzolatto that clearly demonstrate these hyper-driven attempts to extract ultra-secret, enigma-inside-a riddle, clues from each episode and concoct all manner of twisted plot convolutions, while deeply enthusiastic, are a bit misguided. Romano confirms this in his interview with Pizzolatto:
"I've enjoyed reading people theorize about what's going to happen because it's a sign that you're connecting," Pizzolatto told me. "But I'm also sort of surprised by how far afield they're getting. Like, why do you think we're tricking you? It's because you've been abused as an audience for more than 20 years. I cannot think of anything more insulting as an audience than to go through eight weeks, eight hours with these people, and then to be told it was a lie—that what you were seeing wasn't really what was happening. The show's not trying to outsmart you."
It's not The Sixth Sense
"It really isn't. Exactly. I knew the guy was dead as soon as he showed up after being gut shot in the second close. It was the same thing with The Usual Suspects. It was like, "Wait a minute. Don't tell me this whole thing is just a lie. Because if it just a lie, what parts of the movie were true? Maybe none of it. What did we just sit here watching?"
Please remember, the Breaking Bad finale was not all that surprising in terms of plot. Walter White essentially wrapped up all his unfinished business but also paid the ultimate price for his crimes. What was surprising is that Vince Gilligan found the happiest ending for Walter he could in spite of what a monster he became. We were both happy he got the job done and happy that he died. Gilligan didn't try to fuck around with you. He gave you what the story needed.
I imagine True Detective will be the same. If you are looking for Lovecraftian monsters or either Rust or Marty as being one of the killers, I think you are going to be really disappointed. This is a story about deeply flawed men hunting human evil. The city of Carcosa, the Yellow King, all of this stuff is creepy window dressing for the terrible fact that some humans do extremely hideous things to other humans in the name of perversion and power and that the gaping abyss of darkness it creates eats the souls of everyone who looks inside it.
(But if something really crazy happens like we find out that Marty's ex-wife was the cult leader or something, you can come back to this article and post a GIF of Nelson pointing his finger at me and laughing. "Ha ha!" )


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Two New Jersey men were each sentenced to at least 20 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to conspiring to join an armed Islamic group in Somalia with ties to al-Qaida.
Mohamed Alessa, of North Bergen, was given a 22-year sentence, and Carlos Almonte, of Elmwood Park, was given a 20-year prison term.
Attorneys for 23-year-old Alessa and the 27-year-old Almonte had sought to portray the men, who were teenagers when they came to the attention of law enforcement, as troubled youths spurred to radicalism under the influence of a man who was actually an undercover officer working for the New York City Police Department.
Federal prosecutors sought to counter that portrayal by arguing the two were dangerous, calculating, would-be terrorists bent on joining an overseas organization in order to kill "disbelievers in Islam." Prosecutors said the two had carried videos on their cellphones of American soldiers being beheaded, and considered Maj. Nidal Hasan, the alleged perpetrator of the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation at Fort Hood, in Texas, a role model.
"Your honor, if you send a message that homegrown violent extremism will be met with serious consequences, it will be less likely that others will engage in this crime," Asst. U.S. Attorney L. Judson Welle argued before U.S. District Judge Dickinson Debevoise, who oversaw the case in federal court in Newark.
Attorney Stanley L. Cohen, representing Alessa, said his client's 22-year sentence was far too harsh for an individual Cohen described as so immature that he had asked the undercover informant if he could take his beloved pet cat Princess with him to Egypt and suggested the trio might go nightclubbing and surfing while there.
Cohen questioned why his client, who was arrested with Almonte in June 2010 before they could board separate planes to Egypt at New York's Kennedy Airport, received a sentence two years longer than American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh, and five years longer than convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla.
"I think the sentence is excessive and unwarranted," Cohen said. "Although I think the judge is very diligent, I think these cases are very difficult, because we live in times when people are frightened and scared, and people have lost the ability to differentiate between reality and perception, and it's very difficult to jump over that hurdle."
Alessa and Almonte, turning frequently to look at their respective family members who packed the courtroom, each spoke before their sentencing. Their statements were similar, emphasizing the remorse for the pain they had caused their families, and arguing they had been misguided, troubled young people who never really intended harm.
"I've learned it's not a game. I have no one to blame but myself. My family is paying the price now." Alessa said, apologizing profusely for the "anguish" and "shame" he had brought on his mother and father, who were in the courtroom, and who could be heard wailing and shouting in the courtroom hallway following the sentencing.
He spoke of being a once-troubled teenager prone to outbursts of anger that he didn't understand, and spoke of his longing to be given a second chance.
"After all, I only consider myself a Jersey boy," he added.
Almonte, known as Omar, echoed Alessa's statement of being an isolated, lonely teenager who had looked up to the informant who had seemingly taken the pair under his wing, become their friend, and urged them to channel their anger into joining militant groups overseas.
Both Cohen and Almonte's attorney, James Patton, argued it was the undercover NYPD officer who had repeatedly insisted the two get passports and buy tickets to Egypt, from where they allegedly would move on to Somalia.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Welle countered with transcripts of audio tapes made by the informant, purporting to show Alessa and Almonte relishing the thought of getting the chance to kill American soldiers overseas. The two men viewed multiple online videos, including some they kept on their cellphones that showed U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan under sniper attacks, ambushes, bomb attacks, executions and beheadings, according to Welle.
"I like watching (disbelievers) get slaughtered," Almonte allegedly said, according to a transcript of an undercover tape shown in court.
Alessa and Almonte each pleaded guilty in 2011 to a charge of conspiring within the United States to murder individuals outside the U.S. by trying to join al-Shabab, a designated terrorist organization.
The attorneys said they would review the judge's lengthy sentencing memorandum, but that appeals were unlikely because of the terms of the defendant's plea agreements.
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