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A memorial service to honor Baltimore County police officers who died while performing their duties will take place Friday, May 11 at 10 a.m. The service will be held in the Council Chambers on the second floor of the Historic Courthouse located at 400 Washington Avenue in Towson.
County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, Baltimore County Police Chief Terrence B. Sheridan, government dignitaries and the families of the fallen will attend the service.
Nine wreaths will be placed at the memorial by the Police Department Honor Guard. The nine are in memory of the fallen nine officers.
The names of officers who died and who will be remembered for their service and dedication are:
Officer Jason Schneider
On August 28, 2013, Tactical Officer Jason Schneider was shot while serving a warrant in Precinct 1/Wilkens. An investigation into an August 19 shooting on Winters Lane led detectives to a home on Roberts Avenue. Tactical Officer Schneider was shot after an exchange of gunfire with a subject inside the Roberts Avenue home. He was transferred to Shock Trauma, where he later died. Officer Schneider was 36 years old.
Lieutenant Michael Howe
Lieutenant Michael Howe died on August 11, 2008 following a massive stroke. On August 10, 2008, Lieutenant Howe was with his unit at the scene of a murder-suicide in Precinct 4/Pikesville. When Lieutenant Howe returned home after the incident, he collapsed. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where he died the next afternoon.
Sergeant Mark Parry
Sergeant Mark Parry died on January 21, 2002 from injuries sustained in a traffic crash. On December 27, 2001, while on routine patrol in Towson, Sergeant Parry's unmarked police car was hit by a drunk driver. The driver fled the scene and was arrested a short distance later.
Officer John Stem
Officer John Stem died on October 19, 2000 of complications of paraplegia caused by a line-of-duty gunshot wound he suffered in July 1977. Officer Charles Huckeba was fatally wounded during the same incident in Precinct 1/Wilkens. Officers Stem and Huckeba and other officers were trying to subdue an agitated, armed, 19-year-old man who barricaded himself in his family's home.
Sergeant Bruce Prothero
On February 7, 2000, Sergeant Bruce Prothero was shot and killed during an armed robbery on Reisterstown Road. Four men robbed the jewelry store where the married father of five worked part time as a security guard. Sergeant Prothero followed the armed robbers out of the store and was shot by one of the men. He died an hour later at a local hospital.
Officer Robert Zimmerman
On November 5, 1986, Officer Robert Zimmerman was on foot patrol on Edmondson Avenue in Precinct 1/Wilkens when he was struck in traffic and critically injured. The 41-year-old officer died on November 14, 1986 as a result of his injuries.
Corporal Samuel Snyder
In August of 1983, Corporal Samuel Snyder, a 30-year veteran of the department, was shot by a mentally ill subject while responding to a call for assistance from fellow officers in Towson. Officer Snyder died on August 23, 1983 from his wounds.
Officer Charles Huckeba
Officer Charles Huckeba was shot and killed on July 6, 1977 in Precinct 1/Wilkens as police attempted to talk an armed, drug-abusing, barricaded youth into surrendering. Officer John Stem was also injured during this incident. Officer Stem succumbed to his injuries 23 years later on October 19, 2000.
Officer Edward Kuznar
On December 9, 1969, Officer Edward Kuznar died as a result of a traffic accident. While on traffic patrol near Kingsville, Kuznar was hit head-on by a driver who crossed the center line and crashed into his police car. Both the officer and the driver were killed.
The Baltimore County Police Department Memorial consists of a carved replica of the department badge, flanked by two memorial tablets engraved with the names of those who have died in the line-of-duty since the department was established in 1874.
It bears the inscription:
In lasting memory of those officers and families who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
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The flower of Scotland may be wilting in the heat but its athletes are flourishing.
Two days into their home Commonwealth Games, the Scots have already won more than twice as many gold medals in Glasgow as they did for the entire Edinburgh Games in 1986.
Basking in a rare Glasgow heatwave with temperatures in the mid to high 20s, Scotland claimed another three gold on Friday, to sit third on the medals table with seven gold in a total of 14.
Daniel Wallace claimed the 400m individual medley in the pool, Sarah Clarke won Scotland's third judo gold and cyclists Neil Fachie and Craig Maclean won the tandem visually-impaired time trial and then wandered into the stands for a laugh with comedian Billy Connolly.
The home support at the Tollcross pool was also a massive boost for reformed party boy Wallace as he hauled in Australia's Thomas Fraser-Holmes in the last lap.
After touching the wall to seal the win, the 21-year-old could be seen bellowing "Freedom", just as his namesake William Wallace does in the film Braveheart.
"I have never felt anything like this (crowd support). I wasn't going to waste this opportunity," Wallace said.
Scotland has never finished in the top four of the medals table and is only two gold away from matching its performance four years ago in Delhi.
Their neighbours from Wales, however, are reeling after team co-captain Rhys Williams was the first athlete expelled from the Games for failing a drugs test.
Williams, the European 400m hurdles champion, has been provisionally suspended over an alleged anti-doping violation from a test taken at the pre-Games Grand Prix meeting in Glasgow on July 11.
Welsh 800m runner Gareth Warburton was forced out of the Games last week after failing a similar test.
Both deny knowingly taking banned substances and it is believed the test results could be linked to the same supplements taken by the pair.
"I am utterly devastated about the news of this anti-doping rule violation, which has come as a great shock to me," Williams said on Friday.
It's been a bad Games for the Welsh, whose Olympic silver medallist boxer Fred Evans was denied accreditation to compete after failing a background check following his involvement in a nightclub assault in April.
And their world No.1 flyweight Andrew Selby was controversially beaten in the opening round by Scotland's Reece McFadden on Friday after being docked a point because his mouthguard kept falling out in the bout's dying stages.
England kept its spot at the top of the table after six golds for the day took its tally to 12, one ahead of Australia which also won half a dozen gold on Friday, including four in the pool.
But the two countries are locked on 32 medals overall.
New Zealander Sam Webster made track cycling history at the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome when he broke Australia's 44-year domination of the men's sprint.
England's Olympic champion Jason Kenny had actually put an end to Australia's run when he knocked Peter Lewis out in the semis, but Webster was then too powerful for the Englishman in the final, becoming the first New Zealander to win the sprint title in Games history.
Also at the velodrome, a Malaysian cyclist has been reprimanded for wearing gloves with "Save Gaza" written on them.
Azizulhasni Awang said he was expressing a "humanitarian" message, not making a political protest, but has been warned not to do it again.
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High & Dry: Dark Desert Highway
High & Dry surveys the legacy of human enterprise in the California desert. Together, writer/historian Christopher Langley and photographer Osceola Refetoff document human activity, past and present, in the context of future development.
The Eagles made the term "dark desert highway" iconic in their song "Hotel California." Desert highways have unique qualities that "with the wind in our hair" call to us to embark on another life adventure.
For the pioneers, the California desert was solely an obstacle en route to the Promised Land. They saw their life's dream waiting beyond its border, with no possible benefit to the wasteland before them. Highways in the Mojave were created in the name of speed and convenience to entice, mislead and shield us from the healing power of the landscape. There is a price we pay each time we seal ourselves in a car and accelerate on a two or four lane road. The highway is constructed to protect us in comfort and convenience from the land, our anchor, and sense of identity. It is a subtle but heavy price we pay on this dark desert highway journey.
According to William L. Fox, the Mojave Desert contains 54,000 square miles, the smallest of the American deserts, and tiny compared to the Sahara. It also abuts Los Angeles whose population averages, it is estimated, more than 240 billion driving miles each year. Ninety-five percent of the Mojave Desert is within three miles of some kind of road. Twenty-five percent of California is desert. One sixth of the world's population lives in a desert. In 100 years some demographers state that the percent of desert dwellers could jump to 50 percent.
Fox points out, "The interstates were designed to resist attention, to be a transparent part of the landscape." Created in the 1950s, our country's Interstate system changed our culture and greatly affected the economic life of the land. Jumping onto any of the numbered highways in the Mojave (for instance: 395, 14, 40, or 15) and crossing the arid land, travellers hesitate to even stop long enough to walk across a hill, dune or rocky flat. They consciously resist getting dust on their shoes or sand in their socks.
The desert highways give us the choice of observing the view as a flashing and changing series of landscapes vs. experiencing the land with all our senses engaged. Fox calls it "insertion of myself" into the land. Engaging our nervous, muscle and other sensing systems in walking, standing, and kneeling creates powerful memories. These in turn create attachments to the land and a kind of personal anchoring of the self. We know we belong in this place, at least temporarily. Travelling at high speeds in the car erodes any of these memory traces, especially the personal attachment that assists building self-knowledge, identity and a sense of wellbeing.
Travelling at more than 70 miles an hour down the desert highway does permit pull-offs at "scenic points." These scenic points have been selected based on practices of landscape artists that began 400 years ago. Fox comments, "It's a very nineteenth century attitude, closely related to our willingness to design an interstate that essentially ignores the terrain." These spots are elevated to give the viewer a vista to gaze upon. At the same time they isolate the traveller from the land. Looking down at the scene also promotes a false sense of "moral domination of the wonders of nature."
The practices of the nineteenth century painters and photographers have framed the views of many of our national parks including Death Valley and the Mojave Nature Preserve. As we travel, we are forced to see the landscape in a predetermined way, based on dated strategies. Viewpoints, placement of trails and other "engineered" decisions have been forced to match what hangs on the walls of our classic museums. The word "landscape" contains the idea of a fixed or forced point of view frontwards, at but not into the land itself. Just passing through the desert in a high-speed car, the view is framed by windshields, rooflines, and doorframes. When we photograph the scene, we rely on the framed view of the camera to be our memory. It is only a light shadow of what we experienced in the desert.
The Eagles characterized their desert highway as "dark." Travelling at high speeds at night is a very different experience. The eyes focus on headlights. In the case of trucks we are dazzled by an array of different kinds of safety lights. Travelling the desert highway is "dark" in another way. We travel in denial, telling ourselves we have been to the desert. We have only been to a narrow corridor, gazed at predetermined scenes. If we have gotten out, what we perceived has been created by culture and engineered to reflect landscape photography and painting from more than 100 years ago. Photographs taken at high speeds on the desert highways, both at night and in the burning light of noon, point this out. Desert highways are structures calculated to miss the desert as the cars speed through, or to force prearranged scenes, though eerily beautiful, that are far from natural.
Special thanks to William L. Fox, author of "Driving by Memory."
William L. Fox is a writer whose work is a sustained inquiry into how human cognition transforms land into landscape. His numerous nonfiction books rely upon fieldwork with artists and scientists in extreme environments to provide the narratives through which he conducts his investigations. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.
To explore more High & Dry: dispatches from the land of little rain visit desertdispatches.com or the project's Facebook page. We welcome your questions and comments.
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Madness song "Baggy Trousers" in TV ad for Colgate toothpaste
Sometimes when artists license their music for use in a TV commercial you feel compelled to cringe, oft feeling like they have somehow betrayed you (the dedicated music fan) by selling out and discrediting all the sincere association you once had with said song. But then in other instances the use seems perfectly fitting. Such is the case with the early 80's use of the great ska/pop song "Baggy Trousers" by the ever-distinctly British band Madness in a UK TV commercial for Colgate's (then new) Blue Minty Gel line of toothpaste.
The song is taken from the 2Tone band's 1980 album Absolutely and was written by lead singer Suggs (born Graham McPherson). Its lyrics reminisce about school days and the song's accompanying music video was partly shot in a boys school, hence the use of the song in the TV spot featuring school boys (who do a fun spot-on imitiation of Madness) seems most appropriate, with their re-appropriation of the lyrics into a ditty promoting dental hygiene coming across as clever, not crass.
Above is the UK television Colgate spot and below is the Madness video for the original song, released as a single in September 1980, which peaked at number 3 in the UK singles chart that year. Note that the song was also featured in the 2001 film soundtrack to Mean Machine and was additionally used continually throughout the play The History Boys. Reportedly the inside joke is that baggy trousers are one of the initial signs of madness.
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If you like the idea of a micro bass amp and want the oomph of a big rig, the Genz-Benz Shuttle 9.0 should fit the bill nicely. Although a micro amp in terms of size and weight, the Shuttle 9.0 packs a serious wallop with 900 watts RMS and a bevy of sound-shaping features, including a 12AX7 preamp tube with variable gain and output level. The seven, metal knobs on the Shuttle's front panel are knurled and sturdy, and while the indicator dots are black and don't stand out particularly well, there are helpful notches above the dots. There are also four, metal push-buttons that handle the muting function and EQ pre-shaping.
The front panel of the Shuttle 9.0 is nicely organized into four, well-labeled sections. The Tube Preamp section, which includes the Mute button, allows for overdriving the preamp tube (or not) while also managing the signal level it sends to the EQ section. Although the EQ setup is the basic, 3-band arrangement, the added semi-parametric control provides a generous sweep of center frequencies that nearly spans the gap between the high and low bands. The Signal Shape section includes three pre-shapes—a bass boost, a mid scoop, and a high boost—that can also be controlled by a Genz-Benz 4-button foot switch. Finally, the Master Section not only wrangles the final volume level, but also offers a platoon of status indicator lights to help you see what's going on while you play.
Flipping around to the back of the Shuttle 9.0 unveils plenty more features. Rather than automatically detecting 110 or 220 voltages, there's a bright red switch that toggles between the two. A pair of speakON jacks handles the speaker connection duties. There are also the usual effects loop jacks, an aux in, and tuner out. The DI includes three small switches for ground lift, pre/post EQ send, and DI output level (line or mic), which is a handy way to send the right signal to the board.
In all, my experience playing through the Shuttle 9.0 found punch, focus, and authority without being overly aggressive. Between the tube section, 3-band EQ, and three pre-shapes, this amp provides a versatile array of sounds that will cover nearly any musical venue you might be facing. If you don't need this much power and want to save a little money from the $829 price tag, Genz-Benz also manufactures the Shuttle in 300- and 600-watt models with essentially the same feature set.
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Canada were looking to bounce back after their disappointing loss to Ukraine on Tuesday and immediately besieged the Polish circle. They had a chance to take the lead from an early penalty-corner but, with their regular flicker Diana ROEMER still sidelined, they could not capitalize. Shortly after, Kate GILLIS managed to run along the back line and address a perfect cross past the goal keeper, but it rolled tantalizingly along the goal-line without anybody able to put a stick on it.
Poland were under heavy pressure but weathered the storm, spoiling every Canadian attempt. They survived a few hot scares in front of their goal-keeper Dominika NOWICKA, had some narrow escapes, but were still unscathed going into the half-time break, despite an overwhelming Canadian domination.
Kate GILLIS forced a penalty-corner for Canada early in second period, but they failed to control it. Canada were still heavily dominating the midfield, applying constant pressure on the Polish circle, but were unsuccessful in their attempts to score. They had plenty of steam left, but seemed to run out of ideas when penetrating the circle. That was until the 65th minute, when an unmarked Thea CULLEY received a long pass from Abigail RAYE and was brought down by the goal-keeper. Veteran Stephanie JAMESON made no mistake slotting the ensuing penalty-stroke to finally give the lead to Canada.
Poland had a lone chance from a penalty-corner while Canada were a player down due to a green card, but the North Americans held on to their meagre one-goal lead to earn their first win of the competition (1-0).
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If a woman becomes pregnant, in most cases she knows something is up early-on. She feels different. She suspects. And when she asks you to pick up a pregnancy test from the store on your way home from work, this is where the fun really begins for the expecting dad — be prepared!
It sounds like a simple request: drive to the store, pick up the stick, drive home and let your wife pee on it. But in reality it can be both difficult and overwhelming. Once you get to the store — look out — there are over 10-15 different brands each with their own fun way of telling you, "yes" you are pregnant. So which one do you buy? (And by the way they are very expensive, around $20 a box, so the decision-making process gets hampered a bit by this fact.) There is the blue line, the red line, the yes/no — one actually has the word "pregnant" on it — the three-line test, and so on and so forth. The first time I went down to the store, I came home with over $100 dollars worth of tests because I was so overwhelmed and I didn't know which one to buy – and I'm a pharmacist; I should know better.
In my case, I purchased the pregnancy tests out of excitement before my wife even asked me to. I brought them all home and left them on the bathroom counter. When my wife came home and saw the tests in the bathroom she immediately wanted to know why I had purchased the tests (in other words: do I think she looks fat?). Of course that wasn't the case, in fact I had purchased the tests because I was so excited. I just reminded her that we have been trying, and I thought she might want to read about the different tests, or maybe even try one out!
Well the tests I brought home sat on the bathroom counter — exactly where I put them — for two days. Then one night she told me she's not pregnant. She said she tried two different sticks and they both said not pregnant. I reminded her that the test works the best in the morning with the first pee, and encouraged her to try again; a hormone known as "human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG" has its highest concentration in the morning.
Most of the tests come with two sticks per box anyways, so that you can test twice, because no one believes the first test, for some reason or other. The next day, we opened all of the boxes and tried one from each box. Sometimes the results can seem unclear, so, as the soon-to-be expectant daddy, I suggest helping by reading through the directions thoroughly and helping to decipher the results. In our case, the results were inconclusive and uncertain, so, again we decided we would try again the following morning with another first pee.
After our "practice day" the morning prior, we had perfected a system. When the morning came, we were both prepared and ready; she went in the bathroom, and I stood outside with the box. She said, "stick," I handed it to her, she peed, then handed it out, and asked for the second one; I was ready. We had two sticks with the first pee of the morning, and were thrilled to find out the results were overwhelmingly positive!
The very next day, she called the doctor and said she thinks she may be pregnant; they sadly said, it is too soon, and that she needed to call back in two weeks.
Have you ever wondered when you would experience the "longest two weeks" of your life? These were definitely mine!
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Appeal may delay trial of ex-White House lawyer
HARTFORD >> A former White House lawyer charged with trying to kill his wife in Connecticut is appealing a judge's rejection of his mental health defense.
John Michael Farren, who worked in both Bush administrations, has asked the Connecticut Appellate Court to overturn a May 1 decision by Stamford Superior Court Judge Richard Comerford.
Farren, 61, a former general counsel for Xerox Corp., is free on $750,000 bail and is representing himself in the criminal case. He has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, first-degree assault and risk of injury to a minor.
Authorities allege Farren beat his then-wife, Mary Margaret Farren, with a flashlight until she lost consciousness and later choked her at their New Canaan home in January 2010, two days after she served him with divorce papers and refused to drop the divorce case. She suffered a broken nose, broken jaw and other injuries, authorities said.
A message seeking comment was left for Farren on Tuesday.
It's not clear when the state's second-highest court will rule, and it's uncertain whether jury selection will go ahead as planned May 27 because of the appeal, Stamford State's Attorney David Cohen said. A jury is scheduled to begin hearing evidence June 17.
"We're trying to get that appeal dismissed," Cohen said. "We're prepared to go forward next week, but that may not happen."
When Comerford rejected the mental state defense, he told Farren that he would not allow him to make a mockery of the judicial system by employing more delay tactics and insisted the trial would go forward in June.
In December, Mary Margaret Farren won a $28.6 million judgment against Farren in a civil case for the injuries she suffered.


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The previous section of this article continued our exploration of the integration of health care into daily life. This section wraps up the article with related insights, including some thoughts about the future.
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I had the chance to meet with Casper de Clercq, who has set up a venture capital plan devoted to health as a General Partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He recommends that manufacturers and clinicians give patients a device that collects data while doing something else they find useful, so that they are motivated to keep wearing it. As an example, he cited the Beddit sleep tracker, which works through sensors embedded (no pun intended) in the user's bed.
He has found that successful companies pursue gradual, incremental steps toward automated programs. It is important to start with a manual process that works (such as phoning or texting patients from the provider), then move to semi-automation and finally, if feasible, full automation. The product must also be field-tested; one cannot depend on a pilot. This advice matches what Glen Tullman, CEO of Livongo Health, said in his keynote: instead of doing a pilot, try something out in the field and change quickly if it doesn't work.
Despite his call for gradual change, de Clercq advises that companies show an ROI within one year–otherwise, the field of health care may have evolved and the solution may be irrelevant.
He also recommends a human component in any health program. The chief barrier to success is getting the individual to go along with both the initial activation and continuing motivation. Gamification, behavioral economics, and social connections can all enhance this participation.
A dazzling keynote on videogames for health was delivered by Adam Gazzaley, who runs Neuroscience labs at the University of California at San Francisco. He pointed out that conventional treatments get feedback on patient reactions far too slowly–sometimes months after the reaction has occurred. In the field of mental health, His goal is to supplement (not replace) medications with videogames, and to provide instant feedback to game players and their treatment staff alike. Videogames not only provide a closed-loop system (meaning that feedback is instantaneous), but also engage patients by being fun and offering real-time rewards. Attention spans, anxiety, and memory are among the issues he expects games to improve. Education and wellness are also on his game plan. This is certainly one talk where I did not multitask (which is correlated with reduced performance)!
A future, hopefully bigger symposium
The Connected Health symposium has always been a production of the Boston Partners Health Care conglomerate, a part of their Connected Health division. The leader of the division, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, introduced the symposium by expressing satisfaction that so many companies and organizations are taking various steps to make connected health a reality, then labeled three areas where leadership is still required:
Reassuring patients that the technologies and practices work for them. Most people will be willing to adopt these practices when urged by their doctors. But their privacy must be protected. This requires low-cost solutions to the well-known security problems in EHRs and devices–the latter being part of the Internet of Things, whose vulnerability was exposed by the recent attack on Dyn and other major Internet sites.
Relieving the pressures on clinicians. Kvedar reported that 45 percent of providers would like to adopt connected health practices, but only 12 percent do so. One of the major concerns holding them back is the possibility of data overload, along with liability for some indicator of ill health that they miss in the flood of updates. Partners Connected Health will soon launch a provider adoption initiative that deals with their concerns.
Scaling. Pilot projects in connected health invest a lot of researcher time and offers a lot of incentives to develop engagement among their subjects. Because engagement is the whole goal of connected health, the pilot may succeed but prove hard to turn into a widespread practice. Another barrier to scaling is consumers' lack of tolerance for the smallest glitches or barriers to adoption. Providers, also, insist that new practices fit their established workflows.
Dr. Kvedar announced at this symposium that they would be doing future symposia in conjunction with the Personal Connected Health Alliance (Formerly the mHealth Summit owned by HIMSS), a collaboration that makes sense. Large as Partners Health Care is, the symposium reaches much farther into the health care industry. The collaboration should bring more resources and more attendees, establishing the ideals of connected health as a national and even international movement.


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I have always been of two minds when it comes to peppermint. In certain forms, it doesn't appeal to me at all. Candy canes passed around every December? Forever passed along to an eager sibling or friend. Those hard little Brach's Star Brite mints they bring to your table with the receipt after you finish your meal at a restaurant? Left untouched. Yet in other forms—most notably the peppermint ice cream used in Ben & Jerry's Mint Chocolate Cookie flavor—I find it extremely difficult to resist.
Arby's may be known for its fast-food roast beef sandwiches, but that hasn't stopped the national chain from getting in the holiday spirit of things with its new Peppermint Stick Swirl Shake. Starting with a whole milk vanilla shake base blended with a proprietary peppermint syrup, the drink takes on a pinkish hue before it's deposited in a 20-ounce cup decorated with the namesake "peppermint stick swirl."
Comparing the careful application of the swirl in Arby's press images with the photograph of the shake I purchased, it becomes clear that the level of creativity and flair devoted to the application of the deep red ribbon of sugar is left entirely to the discretion of the employee. The whole affair is then topped—needlessly so, if you ask me—with a mound of whipped cream and a sprinkling of crushed peppermint candy.
To my surprise, the shake wasn't a freight train of sweetness charging straight for my blood cells, but a mild, milky drink that faithfully mimics a lighter version of mid-tier peppermint ice cream (you know, the pink stuff). There was a chemical aspect to the flavors at play, no doubt about it, but it was subdued enough that it didn't prove much of a distraction.
The shake also delivered hints of Andes Mints and Girl Scout Thin Mints cookies in there, minus the chocolate components, of course. I was expecting peppermint overkill from a milkshake lightweight like Arby's, but the chain's food scientists pulled off a nice balancing act here.
The question remains, however: Who is up to the task of consuming a 20-ounce peppermint shake? That's over a pint of milkshake, and while it isn't incredibly rich like the pumpkin shake at Burgerville, it's still a lot of peppermint and sugar to ingest. If you're a lover of this flavor, even if only in ice cream form, the Peppermint Stick Swirl Shake from Arby's isn't a bad choice at all. How much of it you'll finish, though, is directly tied to your enthusiasm for all things peppermint.
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It was as if I had walked into the middle of a professional cliché: crouched in the musty attic of MoMA PS1, I sifted through beaten-up boxes of institutional flotsam. I was attempting to survey the remaining materials to be included in The Records of MoMA PS1, which will open to the public at the end of 2012. Even though my colleague had brought in nearly 450 boxes of archival materials two years prior, MoMA PS1's active programming schedule and labyrinthine architecture ensured that clutches of potential "archival gold" turned up unexpectedly on a regular basis.
On this particular occasion, the buried treasure was hiding in plain sight. Exhibition posters, some dating back to the museum's early years and not yet included in the archives, sat in a disheveled stack on a worktable. Later, in the basement, I unlocked cabinets full of T-shirts, flip-flops, and tote bags—merchandise and freebies from the annual Warm Up summer series—and cases of unsent postcards and announcements advertising long-past exhibitions. I had expected that there would be a few handfuls of intriguing brochures or postcards, but nothing prepared me for autographed posters and a carton of black rubber duckies with "P.S.1/MoMA" emblazoned on their behinds.
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As we have become more of a disposable culture, our collective history has increasingly come to be embodied in things that we throw away without a second thought: posters are pasted and papered over, unsolicited snail mail goes straight into the trash, and exhibition guides end up crumpled on the bottoms of our bags. Even in an era that purports to be "green" and "paperless," cheaply printed or manufactured materials make up a remarkable portion of our information landscape.
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:00 am
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I'm trying to bake a cookie without any saturated fat - margarine, butter, and shortening. I tried substituting canola oil for butter, and the cookie crumbled. Are there any other substitutes available? Thanks.
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I'm pretty sure that without solid fats, you're going to get really cakey cookies (which fall apart). You could try adding a little gelatin or something, but I doubt you'll be happy with the results.
Why are you so concerned about saturated fat? Especially if you're making cookies. The refined sugar in the cookies is probably worse for you.
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I'm trying to avoid saturated fat because saturated fat is pro-inflammatory, which will elevate one's CRP (C-Reactive Protein). Instead of sugar, a natural sweetner called stevia will be used. Stevia has no calories and no adverse health risks.
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substitute butter or margarine with applesauce. it works just the same.
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You can use Applesause, but baked good will last 2 days at most, no matter how you store them; Butter is the best solid fat for you (relatively speaking) and nothing beats the flavor & consistency.
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I'd rather have one really good cookie than a box of mediocre cookies. But hey, do what you want.
As for the stevia, dropping all the sugar is also likely having an effect on your cookies. I also feel that I should point out that stevia is not considered to have "no adverse health risks". It's banned for use as a food additive in the EU, Australia, Canada, Singapore, and other countries as well. Oh yeah, it's also banned for use as a food additive in the US. It's approved only as a dietary supplement, which means very low doses. Use as a food additive results in pretty high doses, and is not considered safe. Even some proponents of the plant say that extracts may not be safe, and that the plant should be consumed whole.
I'm not arguing whether it's safe or unsafe, but numerous governments around the world have decided that they can't call stevia safe without more evidence. I think it's a little unfounded to argue that it's without health risks.
Good luck with your cookies, though. Hopefully you'll find the combination of ingredients you need to make them tasty.
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Every ingredient serves multiple functions in a baking recipe. The sugar creates bulk, crispness, sweetness, and the pretty brown color. The butter/shortening creates a moist mouthfeel, a delicate crumb, and improved keeping qualities. You could probably get away with subbing one, but without the sugar you really need the fat to pick up the proverbial slack.
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substituting anything in a cookie recipe can lead to unpredictable results! As was stated above, each ingredient has a specific function in the recipe. The recipe for a great cookie recipe is really a FORMULA as baking is chemistry with correct technique. Lets call a spade a spade here...there is NO good substitute (similar texture and flavor) for butter fat or sugar. If you stray from these then what you really want is an alternative which is no longer similar texture and flavor. So don't try to make the real cookie with these alternatives....make something new and dont try to compare the flavor and texture to a classic fat loaded and refined sugar bomb!
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[quote="gourmetfan"]I'm trying to avoid saturated fat because saturated fat is pro-inflammatory, which will elevate one's CRP (C-Reactive Protein). Instead of sugar, a natural sweetner called stevia will be used. Stevia has no calories and no adverse health risks.[/quote]
Stevia definitely tastes less like sugar to me than cyclamates (legal in Canada and illegal in the US because it causes cancer in lab mice), saccharin-Sweet n Low (legal in the US and illegal in Canada becauses it causes cancer in lab mice --same study, different interpretation by different governments!!!), aspartame (equal/nutrasweet), or sucralose (Splenda).
The statement that stevia has no untoward health effects is open to some question. Health effects of the others have been argued since their introduction. A European health study found that stevioside depressed the virility of male mice. It has also been reported that steviol, one of the principal metabolites of stevioside, is a mutagen. Based on these findings, the European Commission banned stevia's use in food in the European Union pending further research. It is also banned in Singapore and Hong Kong. Additional animal tests have shown mixed results in terms of toxicology and adverse effects of stevia extract. The Whole Foods Markets have removed Stevia from their organic espresso bar, and now offer only white or brown sugar. When I go, I bring my own splenda!
The history of artificial sweeteners is interesting. Like many artificial sweeteners, the sweetness of cyclamates was discovered by accident. Michael Sveda was working in the lab on the synthesis of anti-fever medication. He put his cigarette down on the lab bench and when he put it back in his mouth he discovered the sweet taste of cyclamate. The patent for cyclamate was purchased by DuPont but later sold to Abbott Laboratories which undertook the necessary studies and submitted a New Drug Application in 1950. Abbott intended to use cyclamate to mask the bitterness of certain drugs such as antibiotics and pentobarbital. Aspartame was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter, a chemist working for G.D. Searle & Company. Schlatter had synthesized aspartame in the course of producing an anti-ulcer drug candidate. He discovered its sweet taste serendipitously when he licked his finger, which had accidentally become contaminated with aspartame. Interestingly, that anti-ulcer drug never made it to market because it had too many side and ill effects to pass the FDA requirements as a drug. However, it was sufficiently satisfactory to pass as a food additive. That should tell you something!
Its hard to believe (maybe not) that chemists could be such slobs in the lab. Licking their fingers, smoking, etc.... and ending up discovering these sweeteners by accident.
Xylitol, gram for gram, is roughly as sweet as sucrose, but contains 40% less calories, so it turned out to be good for preventing cavities, but not so good as a calories reducer. It is very popular in Finland, which is considered its "home country". Many Finnish confectioneries employ xylitol, or have a xylitol version available. In Japan, xylitol is found in wide assortment of chewing gums.
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[quote="Jörg"]I'd rather have one really good cookie than a box of mediocre cookies. But hey, do what you want. . . .[/quote]
I agree whole heartedly.
People who mentioned that each ingredient has a PURPOSE are absolutely right. You can't go switching ingredients and expect similar results in the kitchen any more than you could if you did that in organic chem lab!
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Most american cookies like oatmeal etc can use pnut butter for butter substitute. I'm not so sure I'd really want a butter cookie like a Marie made with it but that's my thing.
I've reached the happy conclusion that making sweets with original ingredients is not the problem...the real problem is that if you only eat one and get lots of exercise...don't need to finish the phrase right?
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You may substitute peanut butter for butter, and you will still get a cookie, but not the same taste or texture cookie as the one made with butter.
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Love holds a cookie together.
Just kidding.
I honestly don't know what else to tell you besides what people have already said. If you are worried about the cookie being healthy, don't worry any more. With all the baking you have probably been doing trying to make a cookie without sugar and butter you have burned enough calories to enjoy a really good chocolate chip cookie. Or whatever kind you want.
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Every PC user switching from XP to Vista, fondly remembers the 'UP' button in Windows Explorer, which allows you to quickly jump to one level up in the folder hierarchies. Most XP users are so accustomed to using this highly useful button, that it is very frustrating in the beginning, when you switch to Vista.
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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A horrific collision between two tractor-trailer trucks on Route 2 on Monday afternoon sent
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Police say the westbound semi lost its brakes around the Hairpin Turn on the Mohawk Trail. State police followed as he tried to slow the vehicle without success.
The truck hit the median on the eastbound lane at the intersection of Union and Beaver streets and rammed head-on into an ABF semi in the eastbound lane that had just passed Gallup Street.
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The impact was so great it sheared off the ABF cab and and destroyed the cab on the runaway truck. The collision also sheared off a utility pole at the bottom of Gallup Street and damaged the corner of a home.
The runaway semi came to rest against the concrete wall of the flood control at the Eclipse Dam. Both drivers were transported at first to North Adams Regional Hospital and were expected to be taken to Baystate Medical or Albany, N.Y. Lifeflight was on its way to North Adams.
Pieces of the cabs and materials inside them were scattered along the roadway, with parts of the blue runaway cab mixed in with the green ABF. Paper littered the road, presumably manifests and other paperwork that was stored in runaway's cab. Diesel fuel was leaking from both trucks.
Sgt. James Burdick said more information on the identities of the drivers would not be available until late Monday or Tuesday. It was not known what the trucks were hauling other than they were not hazardous.
Crews were still working at 9:30 p.m. to get the road cleared and the power back on.
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A neighbor said she'd heard a bang similar to snowplows hitting her driveway. When she looked out the window, she could see the smashed up blue cab and smoke rising from it and called 911.
Two cars were also involved in the crash. A small gray Civic Honda following the ABF truck had minor damage but a blue Toyota Highlander behind the Civic was hit and received significant front-end damage. The driver of the Highlander, Susan Konopka, 57, was taken to the hospital; the driver of the Civic was speaking to police but was expected to go to the hospital on his own.
Numerous emergency management officials were called to the scene in addition to North Adams Fire and Police. North Adams Ambulance Service was remaining on the scene and setting up its triage tent. The state police were assisting and the accident reconstruction team was on the way. Clarksburg police were also assisting with traffic and
Williamstown and Adams Village Ambulance Service was being called for backup coverage. Joseph Dean of Dean's Quality Auto was assessing the damage and getting a team in place for recovery and removal of the vehicles.
The highway is expected to be closed for several hours for investigation and cleanup.
Update: The driver of the runaway truck, Mihai Goaga, 39, of Revere, who is listed as a trucking operator since 2011 by the U.S. Department of Transportation, is at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center. The driver of the ABF truck, Michael Lemieux, 53, of Bennington, Vt., is at Berkshire Medical Center.
Police Director Michael Cozzaglio said three flatbeds and a dump truck of debris were removed from the area on Monday night and a second dump truck was used on Tuesday morning for final cleanup. Dean's Towing called in a second heavy hauler to aid in the removal.
On Tuesday, the site was limited to one lane as Maxymillian Technologies and the state Department of Environmental Protection's Emergency Response Team removed soil along the flood-control chutes that had been contaminated by diesel fuel.
The sidewalk along the eastbound lane was covered in absorbent material. A strong smell of fuel was still evident at around noon. But fluid seen dripping from Goaga's orange trailer wasn't diesel, said the police director.
"It was partially loaded, it was about one-quarter filled with cooking oil," said Cozzaglio, however, he added that "we estimated approximately 100 gallons of diesel fuel was dumped out all over the area."
Cozzaglio said he and other veterans on the force could not remember any accidents of this magnitude.
"We've never had anything of this size and scope in this confined a space," he said. The emergency training between the various emergency responders came into play as multiple players — from state police to National Grid to local media — descended on the scene.
"That worked out well, that's something we can take out of it. ... I thought everything went pretty smooth for such a horrific event," said Cozzaglio.
North Adams officials have not yet spoken to Goaga but he is believed to have lost his brakes coming down west side of the Mohawk Trail. The accident occurred minutes later.
Cozzaglio confirmed a state trooper came up behind the truck on the descent and noticed the brakes smoking and attempted to stop it on the flatter section of the road approaching West Shaft Road.
"The trooper did make every attempt to try to stop the truck, he used his siren, his lights, the PA system, his radio ... he was trying to contact that truck driver to stop," said Cozzaglio.
It is likely Goaga was no longer able to brake the vehicle, which continued to careen down the highway. A driver who pulled out of Mohawk Forest estimated the truck was doing 65-75 mph as bore down on him; the driver, who posted his experience in the comments below, pulled into the VFW as the truck swerved into the eastbound lane to avoid him. Goaga is also believed to have tried to slow down by hitting the median at the Beaver Street intersection.
This isn't the first time a tractor-trailer has had brake issues coming down the steep trail and a number of readers have wondered why a truck ramp isn't available. Cozzaglio said having one would certainly help but he thinks too often truck drivers unfamiliar with the road overestimate their vehicle's abilities.
"The signage is good on the mountain but these tractor-trailer truck drivers don't heed them and once they get on the slope of the mountain it's too late. ... He couldn't stop the big rig and this what we have. It's an unfortunate event."


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As kids who were/are Pokémon fans grow up, their tastes are growing up alongside them. Just like you can find more "adult" tales based on, say, the Star Wars universe, Pokécenter is a comic by Ray Bruwelheide that isn't exactly you'll find coming from Nintendo themselves.
Down the bottom, it says "to be continued". God, I hope that's the case.
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In the Person of Interest mid-season premiere, our heroes are in a seriously bad situation. How bad? You need to watch this exclusive clip from tonight's episode on CBS to get a taste of what's to come. Light spoilers ahead for those who haven't watched this season.
If you recall, December's finale ended with the mysterious Control finally showing up — played with cool, deadly authority by Camryn Manheim, she's the boss of the ISA program that bought the Machine from mastermind Finch and his (now dead) partner Ingram. In the finale, Control caught Finch and Shaw, who were protecting the memory-damaged Arthur, who had created another Machine-like intelligence called Samaritan.
Holding Finch and Shaw at gunpoint, Control demanded that they hand over information about the whereabouts of the Machine and Samaritan. Then the episode ended!
In this clip, it appears that Finch and Shaw have somehow gotten out of Control's clutches. But now Control has Root stashed in a locked room, and is interrogating her to get the one thing that Control really wants: admin access to the Machine.
A lot of balls are in the air right now in this tense arc on Person of Interest. First of all, last episode was the first time we had ever gotten a hint that there might be another entity out there like the Machine. And of course it's the first appearance of Control, and confirmation that the government is still very much in pursuit of its missing AI. Root's loyalty to the Machine gang is going to be tested — as is their loyalty to her. Emerging in the background, of course, are also major questions about what the Machine will do now that it knows it's not alone.
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Some comic-book writers (Neil Gaiman, for instance) are able to pass through the dimensional portal to imageless genre fiction without loss of spellbinding potency; others — well, the less said about Alan Moore's "Voice of the Fire," the better. (Contrariwise, horror novelist Joe Hill's "Locke & Key" is as sharp as comics writing gets, while thriller-spiller Duane Swierczynski seems lost in the medium.)
Warren Ellis, the pickled brain behind such turbo-juiced comics as "Transmetropolitan" and "Red," writes genre novels as if he'd never seen a splash page in his life. "Crooked Little Vein" (2007) was a surreal, tasteless, hard-boiled "National Treasure." It didn't fully come together, but it gave notice that as a novelist, Ellis had calories to burn. "Gun Machine," his new novel, is meaner and better: I sucked it down on a flight to Boston like a bad cup of coffee. It starts with a naked man waving a shotgun around and ends with a tired police detective waving cigarette smoke to heaven. In between is more fun than I've had out of a crime novel in a long time.
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The tired detective in question, John Tallow, has been coasting for a long time. He's a cliché of the genre — the middle-aged time-serving cop who's seen, smelled and spilled too much blood and distances himself from human intimacy like a wild dog. He and his partner respond to a call about the aforementioned naked-man-with-shotgun at a rundown apartment complex; the naked man blows off Tallow's partner's head; and Tallow blows off the naked man's head. Then he makes an accidental discovery that sets in motion all the pieces necessary for his redemption: an apartment with biolevel-4 security that has been converted into a church for guns. Hundreds of guns are mounted lovingly on every wall and across the floors, spiraling in complex patterns and whorls that whisper of obscure meaning comprehensible only to madness.
The guns, of course, turn out to tell blood stories. Each is linked to an unsolved homicide — just one per gun. And each gun is eerily specific to its target, chosen with care as the perfect weapon for the job. Tallow, naturally, makes it his life's work to find the elusive killer, leading to the inevitable climactic showdown. He teams up with a pair of wisecracking crime scene investigators seemingly summoned from central casting. One of the guns turns out to have belonged to Son of Sam; it should be in an evidence locker, so the killer must have high-placed enablers. Tallow has stumbled on a vast octopus of conspiracy at the highest levels, a cabal advancing its power grabs through murder for hire.
I realize this précis makes the plot sound absurd, but this is only because the plot is totally absurd. Approximately 100 percent of the novel is completely implausible, starting with the dialogue. Ellis suffers from Aaron Sorkin disease — every character speaks with the quick-fire aplomb of a Nobel Prize-winning polymath. Every few chapters a miraculous coincidence comes around to oil Tallow's grinding mental gears. And it's wonderful: To fault genre fiction for conforming to genre conventions is a bit quixotic, but at least one review of "Gun Machine" has done just that. It's precisely Ellis' madcap mastery of convention, the unabashed pulpy heart beating in these pages, that makes the ride such a blast.
And a blast it is — a gory, gun-crazy explosion of adrenaline psychopathy. It's also rather funny. The killer, a delusional genius who believes he is a Native American hunter in communion with the spirits of aboriginal Mannahatta, is one of those methodical killing machines who exist only in crime fiction and the wet dreams of Navy SEALs: "The hunter could not see the boy's hands, and so he moved to kill the boy." He's disgusted by modernity — not just by skyscrapers and limousines but by disposable lighters and food additives.
The CSU clowns trade barbs that should have the scriptwriters for "Bones" scribbling on napkins.
But the novel is also, sigh, about information — "ultra-low latency and algorithmic trading," next-gen security cameras and ghost maps, wampum and heraldic devices,
… specialized computer code to sort of break up every transaction into hundreds of little ones. You can almost think about it like rain, really hard rain hitting the windows of the Exchange. The rain's eventually going to form one big puddle, but you're not looking at that. You're looking at the rain. The big transaction's hidden in plain sight.
Ellis has clearly been reading William Gibson and Don DeLillo, and these info-soaked weather reports don't really distinguish themselves. Gibson has become better than DeLillo at writing DeLillo novels in part because he had already internalized their shared sensibility long before he thought of a sky the color of television. Ellis has the jargon down, but it still feels secondhand.
He's better when he's simply letting his comic-book freak flag fly. A cod-Irish bar's patrons are addicted to sumo wrestling. The hunter's downfall is precipitated by a vulgar robot with a paint gun. Half the characters are history buffs full of trivia about Indian burial grounds and Dutch landfills. Ellis' imagination is dark as a bat cave:
A ten-year-old boy shot dead in the South Bronx. The related chatter said the three assailants had been trying to hit his father. The father had been pushing a stroller. The baby inside was dead, preserved and painted, with packs of heroin inside its gutted stomach.
Admittedly, "Gun Machine" might not be the sort of escapist fiction you're looking for, given recent events. If you're disturbed by the idea that the very gun-fetishism that is destroying our children can become the basis for entertaining popular art, I can't say I blame you. But Ellis is just holding up a cracked mirror and making rock candy out of the shards.
Michael Robbins is the author of "Alien vs. Predator."
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San Diego State Turns its Focus to Kemba Walker, UConn
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Now that San Diego State has reached the NCAA round of 16 for the first time, the easiest part will be the bus ride up the freeway to Anaheim.
Once there, star guard Kemba Walker and the No. 3 seed UConn Huskies will be waiting for the second-seeded Aztecs on Thursday.
To keep their dream season alive, the Aztecs (34-2) will have to play better than they did in escaping with a 71-64 double-overtime win against Temple on Saturday.
They also have to find a way to slow down Walker, who averages 23.6 points per game.
The Aztecs are the clearly the novices in the West. UConn has won two national championships, in 1999 and 2004, both through the West.
The other regional semifinal is between top-seeded Duke, which has four national titles, and fifth-seeded Arizona, which has one.
By comparison, SDSU has won only two games -- both this year -- in seven NCAA tournament appearances.
"We're just trying to play hard and compete with all these teams that have great tradition and trying to get to a Final Four," SDSU senior forward Malcolm Thomas said on Monday. "That's everyone's dream. But we've got to play a lot better if we want to get there."
SDSU blew an 11-point lead against Temple, had spotty shooting all night and committed crucial turnovers.
The Aztecs hope that facing Jimmer Fredette three times this season will help them defend Walker.
Fredette led BYU to two regular-season victories against the Aztecs, who then beat the Cougars in the Mountain West Conference tournament championship game.
"I think it's going to take a group effort," guard D.J. Gay said. "He's a very good scorer, very good player. It's going to take more than one guy to slow him down. I don't know if we're going to stop him. But just like Fredette, try to contain him.
"We'll just have to make adjustments on the fly. We've never played them before. It's going to be a game of adjustments," Gay said.
"Jimmer, he gets a couple steps past halfcourt and he can shoot a 3 and it will go in," Thomas said. "Kemba's more of a take-it-off-the-dribble, attack the basket. He has a variety of moves. I would say the difference is just penetration. Kemba penetrates more. They're both great players. We're going to do our best to contain him."
Said coach Steve Fisher: "They're both big-time, big-time scorers, and hopefully having played Fredette will help us a little bit in terms of an initial thought process."
Fredette scored 43 and 25 points against the Aztecs in a pair of 13-point wins in the regular season, then had 30 in SDSU's 72-54 victory in the MWC tourney title game.
UConn (28-9) has won seven straight, including five in a row en route to the Big East tournament title followed by NCAA victories against Bucknell and Cincinnati.
SDSU also has won seven straight. Senior forward Billy White has gotten hot at the right time, with three straight double-doubles.
Fisher knows the Aztecs will be playing an elite program that expects to make a deep tournament run every year.
"This is our first go-round and yet, I do believe that we will have the same energy, excitement and confidence that we can come in and perform," Fisher said. "We want to play. We want to win. We are not going to sit back and say, 'Boy, we made it.' We're still playing, but we've got work to do. That's what everybody's saying now. After Thursday-Friday, there will be eight of us that'll be saying it, and hopefully we will be one of those eight."


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April 04, 2013
By Rev. Jesse Jackson
NNPA Columnist
April 4 will mark the 45th year since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Dr. King, 39, at the time, has now been gone from us longer than he was with us. A monument celebrates his life on the mall in Washington. He is remembered as the man with a dream at the March on Washington.
In 1968, however, Dr. King was far from the favored celebrity he is today. He was under fierce criticism for opposing the war in Vietnam. Former colleagues were scorning his commitment to nonviolence. When he went to Memphis, headlines called him "Chicken a la King." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat termed him "one of the most menacing men in America today." The FBI was planning COINTELPRO operations to spread rumors about him and discredit him.
The civil rights movement had succeeded in ending legal segregation. The Voting Rights Act had been passed. But Dr. King knew that his greatest challenges were still ahead as he turned his focus to poverty and equal opportunity. The war on poverty was being lost in the jungles of Vietnam as war consumed the resources needed.
Dr. King went to Memphis to support African-American sanitation workers who were striking for equal pay and for a union. His first nonviolent march there was disrupted when some of the marchers started breaking into and looting stores. King decided to return to Memphis because he believed that nonviolence was now on trial.
Dr. King was focused on organizing a Poor People's Campaign to march on Washington, reaching out to impoverished white miners, Hispanic farmworkers, Native Americans, the urban poor. Injustice anywhere, Dr. King preached, was a threat to justice everywhere.
Dr. King decried the unemployment that was so crippling to the black community. But he also knew, even then, that a job no longer guaranteed a way out of poverty. "Most of the poverty-stricken people of America," he said, "are persons who are working every day and they end up getting part-time wages for full-time work."
So Dr. King went to Memphis to march with sanitation workers — and there his life was taken from him.
Now, 45 years later, his last mission is still unfulfilled. One in five children in America are at risk of going without adequate nutrition. One in three African-American children. Forty-six million Americans are in poverty. More than 20 million people are in need of full-time work. African-American unemployment remains twice the rate of whites.
Dr. King knew that these conditions would not change unless working people and the poor joined across lines of race and religion and region to demand justice. Nothing would change unless people disrupted business as usual, with nonviolent protest, expressing their own humanity while exposing the inhumanity of the current arrangements.
On April 4, many will remember Dr. King. The news programs will rebroadcast parts of his sermon the night before he was shot when he promised those gathered that they would "get to the promised land" although "I might not get there with you."
The way to remember Dr. King is to pick up the struggle. Poverty and inequality, he taught us, are a threat to democracy and to freedom. And only nonviolent engagement by people of good conscience joining with those who are afflicted can possibly drive the change we need.
Today, inequality has reached even greater extremes. Wages are sinking, poverty is spreading. In this rich nation, poor children go hungry. The Poor People's Campaign that was lost in the wake of war and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy is needed now more than ever.


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The Science of Juggling
By Jean Kang, Contributing Writer
October 7, 2014
The anatomy of a juggler is an amalgamation of coordination, concentration, perseverance and skill. The eyes are trained forward, with a continuous, focused gaze. The hands move in a fluid, synchronized motion. And yet, the serious stance juxtaposes the bright colored balls, the informal setting...


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Living in Oblivion
An artist painting about art. A writer writing about writing. Here is a film from a filmmaker about filmmaking. Yes, this film may appeal most to all filmmakers of any trade, but aside from its low-budget-independent-film-reference-allure, the film is just as funny as it is smart and can be enjoyed by a wide audience.
Filmmaking in the independent scene is not an easy trade. Boom microphones find their shadows in shots. Good craft service can be hard to come by. The camera assistant might not understand how to keep a shot in focus. Your actress will do her best performance when the camera is not on. And, you can wake up sweating, from this terrible nightmare.Continue Reading


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In July 2000, Governor Pataki signed the SAVE legislation. The legislation requires schools to develop policies and procedures to secure and restrict access to a crime scene in order to preserve evidence in cases of violent crimes on school property.
How to avoid contaminating crime scene evidence
Crime scenes often have some of the most important evidence - evidence that is critical in criminal cases. Only trained professionals, called Crime Scene Technicians, should collect and preserve the evidence.
Crime Scene Technicians say the biggest problem that they encounter is crime scene contamination. Therefore, before the professionals arrive, it is paramount that the crime scene remain as uncontaminated as possible.
There steps that can be taken by people who are the first to arrive at the scene to help protect the evidence.
The following should guide schools in developing policies and procedures to manage school crime scenes. (Police agencies can be contacted to assist with additional education and training.)
Since school employees will be first at a school crime scene, it is recommended that a person from the school staff be designated to manage the crime scene prior to police arrival.
The acronym "RESPOND" should help school personnel remember how best to manage a school crime scene to minimize contamination. The letters in the acronym represent the words respond, evaluate, secure, protect, observe, notify and document.
- Personal safety - Your safety comes first! You can't help others if you are injured.
- Organize your thoughts and formulate a plan on how to handle the situation.
- Make mental notes of your observations.
- Evaluate the severity of the situation. Is the crime/incident in progress or not? School Emergency Response Team should be calling 9-1-1 if appropriate.
- Identify all involved and uninvolved individuals in the area. Emergency response personnel should be offering aid to the victims.
- Be aware of weapons and hazards.
- Be aware of potential evidence.
- Don't touch anything unless necessary.
- Clear away uninvolved people.
- Establish a perimeter with survey or custodial tape, cones, desks.
- Police will adjust the perimeter if they need to.
- Safe guard the scene - limit and document any people entering the area.
- Don't use phones or bathrooms within the scene area.
- Don't eat, drink or smoke in the area of the scene.
- Write down your observations - These notes will be utilized to report crime scene management to responding police. Your notes could possibly be used at a later date in criminal court.
- Record detailed information - don't rely on your memory.
- Call 911 (Police/EMS/Fire Personnel), if not already called or there.
- Take good notes - Such as: time, date, people at scene, weather, doors open or closed, lights on or off and position of furniture.
- Be prepared to provide your notes and information to police.


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2013 Hokie Fall Invite Brackets
For the fourth consecutive year, the Liberty Lady Flames tennis squad travels to Blacksburg, Va., to take part in the Hokie Fall Invitational at the Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center. The tournament gets under way at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning and will conclude on Sunday morning.
Joining the Lady Flames this weekend will be the host Virginia Tech Hokies, Pittsburgh, James Madison, VCU, Marshall and Big South rival Radford.
Live stats for the tournament will be available on LibertyFlames.com by clicking on the live stats link on the women's tennis schedule/results page. Live stats are courtesy of the Virginia Tech Athletic Communications office.
Liberty head coach Jeff Maren sees the tournament as a great opportunity for the Lady Flames to continue to improve and achieve their goals. "We want to improve our reaction time, doubles knowledge, serve consistency and shot selection. Of course, we want to win, but achieving small goals along the way will simply make winning a by-product of our journey."
A quartet of doubles teams will get the action started for Liberty on Friday morning. Beginning at 9 a.m. in Flight A, Brittany Yang and Mariely Hassey square off against Karli Timko and Anne Gulsrud of Marshall. Also competing in Flight A will be Valerie Thong and Annisha Domenech versus Marshall's Dana Oppinger and Rachael Morales and Maria Khval and Belen Rivera taking on Rachel Nelson and Sarah Kahn of James Madison.
In Flight B, the senior tandem of Rebekah Jenkins and Cameron Richard are pitted against Jocelyn Lu and Molly Wickman of Pittsburgh. The Lady Flames' Lauren Mabe will be teamed with a player from VCU and will also compete in the Flight B bracket.
Liberty has nine players competing in singles play, which gets underway at 10:30 a.m. Flight A matchups for the Lady Flames include Rivera versus Daria Yakauleva of VCU, Jenkins against nationally-ranked Raluca Mita (ITA No. 121) of Virginia Tech and Khval versus Radford's Taylor Newman.
In Flight B, Richard will go toe-to-toe with Timko, while Hassey faces Audrey Ann Blakely of Pittsburgh.
The Flight C bracket features four Lady Flames. Yang faces Lu, Mabe will go up against Wickman and Thong challenges Frances Peyton of Virginia Tech. Domenech rounds out play in Flight C for Liberty, playing Pittsburgh's Lolade Ogungbesan.
"Playing in a high caliber tournament like the Hokie Invite will give our team the opportunity to improve their focus, their fearlessness and their belief in themselves and their teammates," commented Maren. "Our goal is to peak for the conference tournament in April, so fall tournaments like this one enable us to take the next step on that ladder of success."
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