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Proving once and for all that I have my finger on the pulse of what youth today really want, I'm continuing my list of favorites from the so-called Golden Age of Radio. You older, out-of-touch squares can stop reading now and go listen to punk rock or trip-hop or whatever it is seniors are into these days.
Now that the fogeys are out of the (metaphorical) room, read and listen on...
Let's consider a comedy, namely, Our Miss Brooks.
Premiering in 1948, Our Miss Brooks was an immediate success, garnering awards and a loyal fan base for its lead actress, Eve Arden.
People don't speak of Eve Arden as much as her talent warrants. She had fantastic comic timing, capable of evoking laugh-out-loud moments with a single, monosyllabic word.
Our Miss Brooks has flimsy, unimaginative plot-lines, and you'll never listen to it because you "can't wait to find out what happens next." The show is great because the cast is great, and Eve Arden delivers punch-lines with such wry deftness, it's as if Touchstone from As You Like It has been reincarnated as a public high school teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was such a success that it was turned into a TV show, starring most of the original cast. I myself have never seen it, not because I don't want to, but because I promised my grandfather on his deathbed that I would never watch any televised sitcoms that featured a character with the first name "Osgood."


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Returning to the Golden Axe franchise is like getting together for a cup of coffee with an ex-girlfriend. Due to a historical blind spot, you want to reminisce about the good old days, but she, having proper hindsight, reminds you that those days really weren't all that great. Any excitement for a resurrection of Golden Axe should be taken with a grain of salt; the original games haven't aged well (not many hack-and-slashers do).
When your source material is a blue guy, red girl, and a paunchy green fellow who continually scroll to the right attacking the same enemies over-and-over, it should be a next-gen development warning sign. Sure, in the late '80s it was considered solid game design, but throw in nearly two decades and bigger expectations from gamers, and it doesn't make for a winning formula. Golden Axe: Beast Rider woefully under-delivers.
What made the original Golden Axe games fun was the ability to plug in another controller and play along with a friend. So, why does Beast Rider include no two-player support? That's right; this is a Golden Axe game with only one character. You can't even select from the classic three. You're stuck with the Tyris Flare (the red Amazon girl) from beginning to bitter end. True to series form, Tyris is out to stop Death Adder the villain from previous games and along the way reassemble the broken Golden Axe.
No Golden Axe would be complete without wave-after-wave of enemies and Beast Rider is no different in that regard. To dispatch foes, Tyris is equipped with her trusty sword and a small very small catalog of moves. Aside from a standard and heavy attack which you can repeatedly tap for combos you can also kick enemies to offset their balance. These knockback attacks come in handy when you need to launch any enemy onto a spike, which happens to control the lever for a nearby door.
In the defense department, Tyris has two options: she can evade or parry; the former serving as a dodge and the latter as a block. To add depth to the combat, some enemy attacks are color coded orange or blue. Orange designates that you need to evade and blue indicates a parry as the best option. If you time these moves right, you're rewarded with the ability to do a powerful counterattack. This system seems fine in theory, and works out okay in practice during the first few levels, but once multiple enemies are coming at you with blue and orange attacks, you end up taking damage regardless of what you do. A favorite A.I. tactic is to swarm you with orange attacking enemies, while a sorcerer shoots out blue lightning. You may end up dodging the orange melee attacks, but forget about knocking back the lightning.
Since the combat gets old fast (within a level or two), the developers had to be thinking they could win over gamers with the sheer visceral nature of the combat. Taking a nod from God of War, there is blood lots of blood. In fact, there's so much blood that, as you're hacking off limbs, blood sprays all over the lens of the camera, speckling your view. The gore level is so ridiculous it seems Tarantino-like you can chop a person in half and their body will turn into a geyser, spraying blood like a malfunctioning fountain. Want to know what the mature rating is for? There you go.
There is one more element to the combat: the Beasts. The game may be called Beast Rider, but the brutes you ride around are more unsatisfying than the gratuitously repetitive combat. The first time you light an enemy on fire with a dragon may seem neat, but when you realize that a combo would have done the job faster, the Beast's in-game weight feels less than stellar. It doesn't matter which kind of monster you mount, they all control in a really stiff manner and their only real use is mashing through gates that Tyris is too weak to destroy on her own.
All these gripes about combat would be of less consequence if there was something more for the game to hang its hat on, but there's not. Aside from the occasional switch to flip or monster regenerating stone you have to destroy, the game is just hack-and-slash. The levels are structured in a way where you get to an area, discover there's a magically locked door, and then have to destroy a certain amount of cannon fodder before the door opens and you can proceed to the next area, where you do the same thing all over again.

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Overcash & Change 2, according to press notes, will be "an evening of music from Overcash's catalog of stand alone pop/rock songs and musicals Boys Vs. Girls and Joe, as well as the premiere of new songs from his latest projects: Rhapsody and 13 Miles."
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Servers are built, going through stress tests at the moment. They will be racked on Wednesday, but that's too late to mess with the prod cluster before the weekend.
We'll switch start by switching the database to one of the new hosts; just finished setting up and tuning PostgreSQL today and got 3k TPS in pgbench out of it with basically zero CPU load, and the WoL code doesn't seem to be able to stress it at all either. It sure helps it's on SSD's instead of just 2.5" spinning disks, iostat showed a peak of 25k write ops in a second. We can set Exporter.LIVERANK back to true again after the migration.
After that, the backend is probably the next to be moved. Well, actually, not moved, but split. We'll use a custom sticky round robin method to split the load between 2 machines, basically doubling the processing capacity. Silly logs are large, but with 80G memory available in total, it should be okay for now.
The final step is migrating the data pool. We'll do that when we have spare time, otherwise, it can wait for another week.
So between Friday and Sunday, between 12:00 and 15:00 CEST every day, there's a chance on an interruption of the service. We don't expect to go down for that long, that's kinda the worse case estimate. The actual plan is:
Before Day 1
- Setup all the separate services, make sure everything runs. Add everything to the central monitoring services.
- Setup cross site monitoring between the Germany and the Amsterdam location; is long overdue.
- Setup host monitoring & notifications. Schedule the downtimes so we don't get Nagios spam.
Day 1
- Disable site. Revoke access to the database and dump it (~30m)
- Import @ new db server (~30m)
- Restart the site, run test suite, enable at load balancer (~30m)
- Migrate all other postgresql dbs too, like forums, jira, etc etc.
- Jup. Depending on how fast we can dump / reload the huge database, it can take up to 1.5h to get everything up again.
Day 2
- Setup backends.
- Set load balancer to serve from anything but frontend02.
- On frontend02, enable backend sticky routing module, set to backend01 only.
- Point frontend02 to new backend, run test suite.
- Point frontend02 to both backends, retest, assert sticky routing is sticky
- Set load balancer to serve from frontend02 only.
- Live test. Watch mailbox
- No warnings? Good. Do the setup on all other frontends.
- Reset load balancer back to serving from every host.
- There shouldn't be any downtime at all, unless we seriously mess up on one of the steps.
Day 3
- Migrate the NFS host to twin2's new disks. Disk controller has better linux support. NCQ Q=31. Old one was using the Adaptec option ROM, linux didn't dare to queue things there.
- Pre rsync most of the data (hours)
- Stop WoL web service (downtime starts here)
- Final sync for changed files and verification (15-30m to verify 300k reports)
- Reconfigure all NFS mounts (10m)
- Revoke access to backend01 data pool so noone accidentally uses it (10m)
- Restart WoL web service
- Use original disks as backup. Change NFS export to read only.
- raid1 @ twin2, raid1 @ backend01 as warm-standby, periodically synced, and an offline copy on an off-site location. You can't be careful enough with data. Disks tend to die on the worst possible moments.
Future: reinstall the older servers with a newer OS, Ubuntu server 8.04 LTS is stuck on Python 2.5 and has a boatload of outdated packages. Shouldn't cause any downtime, we'll just move the main IP to another node and serve everything via the online servers.
And add all the previously unpossible due to load features. +50% more processing power and x100 TPS to disks makes a lot more possible. Just need to keep the DB size under 40G (is 5G now), SSD's are still tiny compared to SAS disks.
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Sounds nice. After that is done I guess we can start requesting all kinds of awesome things that were held back by lack of horsepower until now
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Just wanted to say hearing about all these backend details is one of the things I love about WoL
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Matheny confirms Wainwright as Opening Day starter
JUPITER, Fla. -- Manager Mike Matheny said he wanted to avoid "any large announcement," but nevertheless let everyone in on the one piece of organizational planning that everyone already knew: Adam Wainwright will start for the club on Opening Day.
Matheny broached the topic as he talked about the reverse engineering that goes into determining when each starter will make his first Grapefruit League appearance. Wainwright plans to make five starts in March, and the Cardinals will order them so that he is set up for a season debut on March 31 in Cincinnati.
"We're trying to keep things on pace," Matheny said, "so that if things do play out that way throughout the spring that he's prepared to [start on Opening Day], has made enough starts and has had ample rest."
It was an anticlimactic revelation, for sure, as Wainwright was all along expected to be the first Cardinals pitcher to take the mound in 2014. The bona fide ace of the staff and a 19-game winner in 2013, Wainwright is also the only starting pitcher thus far ensured a place in the rotation.
This will mark Wainwright's second straight Opening Day assignment. He allowed four runs (three earned) on 11 hits in a six-inning loss to the Diamondbacks last season.


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In this morning's paper I came across this quote from novelist Cormac McCarthy:
A: For modern readers, yeah. People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore and people need to get used to that. If you think you're going to write something like "The Brothers Karamazov" or "Moby-Dick," go ahead. Nobody will read it. I don't care how good it is, or how smart the readers are. Their intentions, their brains are different.
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FALL RIVER, Mass. >> An associate of Aaron Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to an accessory to murder charge related to the case against the former New England Patriots player.
Carlos Ortiz (or-TEES') was arraigned Friday in superior court following his indictment on a charge of accessory to murder after the fact in the killing of Odin Lloyd.
The defense and prosecution agreed that Ortiz would be held on $500,000 cash bail until a Nov. 20 hearing.
Ortiz previously pleaded not guilty to a weapons charge and had been held without bail.
Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder in Lloyd's death. Prosecutors say Ortiz and "right-hand man" Ernest Wallace were with Hernandez when Lloyd was shot to death at an industrial park in June.
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I want to give a big happy birthday greetings to a lady I think is great in every way, moosmom! She hit a milestone in her age, but I'm not saying which one. Happy birthday, Donna!
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I want to give a big happy birthday greetings to a lady I think is great in every way, moosmom! She hit a milestone in her age, but I'm not saying which one. Happy birthday, Donna!
Happy Birthday, Donna! Have a great day, and many more to come!
"I don't know which weapons will be used in the third World war, but in the fourth, it will be sticks and stones" --- Albert Einstein.
Happy Birthday, Donna
and may you have many more....................
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Sparky the Fuzzbutt - PT's DOTD 8/3/2010
RIP 2/28/1999~10/9/2012Myndi the Fuzzbutt - Mom's DOTD - Everyday
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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1The clock of life is wound but once and no man has the power
To know just when the hands will stop - on what day, or what hour.
Now is the only time you have, so live it with a will -
Don't wait until tomorrow - the hands may then be still.
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Happy Birthday Donna!!!!! Cali and Diego send purrrrrs!!
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Happy Birthday!
As for age, Aunt Dottie would say, "Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway!"
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CCSF accrediting group can extend deadline, feds tell Pelosi
Accreditation panel's deadline approaching
In its clearest communication yet, the U.S. Department of Education has told House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that the commission seeking to revoke accreditation from City College of San Francisco can extend that looming deadline to give the school more time to fix its problems and avoid closure.
The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges "has the authority to reconsider or rescind its termination decision so as to provide the institution with additional time to come into compliance within the two-year time frame, if such period has not run out, or to provide an extension for good cause," Lynn Mahaffie, a senior accrediting director with the Education Department, wrote Pelosi on Monday in response to questions from the congresswoman.
That two-year time frame ends on July 31, despite a legal injunction that bars the commission from revoking accreditation until a trial in October determines whether the commission acted properly when it first evaluated City College in 2012.
The letter to Pelosi confirms what a spokeswoman for U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told The Chronicle last week: that the commission can extend its deadline.
"This letter from the Department of Education responding to my inquiry proves that the (commission) retains the flexibility to grant CCSF an extension for good cause, despite their previous claims to the contrary," Pelosi said in a statement.
"For the (commission) to refuse to allow good-cause extension - even after this clarification from the Department of Education, even after all the monumental progress City College has made along its Roadmap to Success - would be destructive, irresponsible, and could be viewed as a political act.
"For the livelihood of the students, the community, and the state, the (commission) must send in a new evaluation team with a fresh set of eyes and allow a good-cause extension of accreditation."
Request of commission
Also on Tuesday, the chairman of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors, Manuel Baca, sent a letter to Sherrill Amador, the commission's chairwoman, asking the commission to rescind its decision to revoke City College's accreditation and saying the state board would not have cooperated with the commission in its concerns about City College if it had been told there was no hope to save the vast and important school.
Last summer, the Board of Governors replaced City College's elected Board of Trustees with a single special trustee.
"We did so with the strong encouragement of (the commission) and with the commission's assurances that there was a pathway to restoration of the accreditation of the college," Baca wrote. "We would never have undertaken the job if there were no chance of fully restoring accreditation."
Baca's letter reflects the increasing anxiety of thousands of City College students and employees, as well as state officials and politicians from Pelosi to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee about the fate of the college of 80,000 students, the largest public school in California, because the commission appears to be unwilling to help the college avoid losing accreditation. Without it, City College would lose state funding and close.
Accreditation critical
The commission has said it would prefer that City College lose accreditation and become a candidate for future accreditation. Without that seal of approval, however, credits earned at City College would not be transferrable to universities, and federal financial aid could be jeopardized. The state would also have to pass a special law to permit funding for an unaccredited City College.
City College officials have said they will not voluntarily give up accreditation, and advocates for the school have called on the commission to adopt a policy at its next meeting, June 4-6, to extend the current revocation deadline.
But during a visit to The Chronicle last week, accrediting commission President Barbara Beno, Chairwoman Amador and Vice Chairman Steven Kinsella insisted that the Department of Education does not allow it to extend the deadline.
At the same time, Amador said that if the Education Department removed all doubt about the commission's authority to extend the deadline, "we'd look at it. We're reasonable people."
The commission's spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment on the letter to Pelosi.
In it, Mahaffie explained that the commission can adopt a policy allowing it to extend the deadline in response to "an improvement in institutional performance."
Lack of oversight
In 2012, the commission determined that City College had extremely poor financial controls, a tangled governance structure and a lack of educational oversight to such an extent that college officials hadn't known what courses to offer or whether students were meeting learning objectives.
So bad was the situation that 125 people had access to the payroll, and the college lost millions of dollars by failing to charge registration fees from students.
Commission leaders said last week that they knew of no evidence of improvement,but they acknowledged they hadn't checked since spring 2013, when their team last visited City College.
Online extras
-- Read previous Chronicle coverage of City College's accreditation crisis: www.sfgate.com/ccsf.
-- Read the U.S. Department of Education's letter to Rep. Nancy Pelosi: http://bit.ly/1oOYezH
-- Read the California Community Colleges Board of Governors letter to the accrediting commission: http://bit.ly/SfEZBX
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U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was believed to be the main target when a gunmen went on a shooting spree that left six dead and at least 13 injured Saturday. Here is a look at some of the victims as they become identified.
Giffords, 40, was first elected to the Arizona House in 2000 and the state Senate in 2002.Story: Not afraid to speak her mind, Giffords known as a trailblazer
The Tucson native was elected to the U.S. House in 2006.
She married Cmdr. Mark E. Kelly, a NASA astronaut and Navy pilot from New Jersey, in 2007.
U.S. District Judge John M. Roll
Named Arizona's chief federal judge in 2006, Roll won wide acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and as a leader who had pushed to beef up the court's strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-related cases.
"I have never met a more sincere ... fair-minded, brilliant federal judge or any judge for that matter in my whole life," Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said.
Roll, 63, was heading home after a trip to church and the store before stopping to visit briefly with Giffords at an event she was holding for constituents at a northwest-side Tucson Safeway.
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Roll was a Pennsylvania native who got his law degree from the University of Virginia. He is survived by his wife, Maureen, three sons, and five grandchildren.
Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. Roll previously served as a state trial judge and as a judge on the midlevel Arizona Court of appeals. He previously worked as a county and state prosecutor.
"Judge Roll was a widely respected jurist, a strong and able leader of his court, and a kind, courteous and sincere gentleman," said Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal circuit that includes Arizona. "He worked tirelessly to improve the delivery of justice to the people of Arizona."
Roll, a Pennsylvania native, received death threats in 2009 over a $32 million civil-rights suit filed against an Arizona rancher by illegal immigrants.
At the time, Roll and U.S. Marshal's officials attributed the threats to hysteria from talk radio.
Christina Taylor Green
The 9-year-old who was shot at the event and later died at a hospital went to the Giffords event with a neighbor because she had just been elected to the student council and was interested in government, her uncle told KTAR in Phoenix.
The neighbor, who was not identified Saturday, was shot four times, the Arizona Daily Star reported.
Born Sept. 11, 2001, according to NBC station KVOA, Christina-Taylor attended Mesa Verde Elementary School. She was one of 50 babies featured in "Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11."
Christina was also involved in ballet, Little League baseball and her church.
Her grandfather, former major-league pitcher Dallas Green, was the Philadelphia Phillies' team manager when they won the World Series in 1980. Her father is John Green, a scout for the Dodgers. She recently received her first Holy Communion at St. Odilia's Catholic Church on Tucson's northwest wide, Catholic Diocese of Tucson officials said.
"'Let the children come to me,' Jesus said (Matthew 19:14). Christina is with Him," Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson Bishop Gerald F.Kicanas wrote in a prepared statement from Jordan, where he is attending a bishops' meeting.
Gabe Zimmerman
Giffords' 30-year-old communications outreach director was engaged to be married, the Arizona Republic reported. He had worked for Giffords in her Tucson district since 2007.
"We serve who walks into our office and we don't even ask what party they belong to," Zimmerman told the Tucson Citizen in 2007.
Dorwin Stoddard
The 76-year-old retiree was described as a jack of all trades by Mike Nowak, the couple's minister at Mountain Ave. Church of Christ, told the Arizona Daily Star. Stoddard's wife, Mavanell, was shot in the leg but is expected to recover, the Star reported.
Stoddard, who performed maintenance work at the church, and his wife spent summers traveling, friends told the Star. The couple visited all 50 states and 28 foreign countries, they said.
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Police said Dorthy Morris, 76, and Phyllis Schneck, 79, were also killed in the shooting.
Also injured but expected to be all right, said C.J. Karamargin, Giffords' communications director, are staffer Pam Simon and deputy director Ron Barber.


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Graphite Pencil Drawing Tutorial: Male NosePosted by David Te on December 11th, 2007
Now that we have finished the male eye, here's another portrait drawing tutorial: the male nose. As before, my drawing technique varies to give me a chance to experiment on different methods. Although I merely applied a 4H wooden pencil for the first initial layer, I decided to give it a try. More on this in Step 2.
The materials I used are:
- 0.5 mm B (Staedtler), 2B (Dong-A) and HB (Faber-Castell) mechanical pencils
- 4H and H wooden pencils
- A brush
- A shop towel
- A kneaded eraser (when necessary)
Step 1: The outline was drawn on a piece of bond paper then transferred to an 11.5 × 12 cm (4.5″ × 4.75″) Canson paper by means of the graphite transfer method.
Step 2: Applied 4H wooden pencil for the initial layer. It is blended with the shop towel. This is to prevent the paper from being too rough when further layers of graphite are applied. Then, with a soft brush dipped in a bit of graphite powder, I covered it with two to three layers of the medium.
Step 3: Just to establish where the darks would go, especially the sides of the nose, I used the HB mechanical pencil and then I blended again with the towel.
Step 4: Now I really established the dark tones and shadows on the wings, sides, ball, and tip of the nose using 2B, B and HB mechanical pencils and H wooden pencil. In this stage, I blend only occasionally.
Step 5: The nostrils were rendered using the 2B mechanical. The shading below the nose was done using B and 2B mechanical pencils.
Step 6: I did the skin beside the nose by means of HB, B and 2B mechanical pencils. Here I blended a little.
Step 7: With the B and 2B mechanical pencils, I started going all over it again for the last time. So here it is — the male nose. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
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Joel McHale on Fate of 'Community': It's Not "Affordable" to Keep Making Show
School's out for the students at Greendale Community College.
Community has been canceled after six seasons. Star Joel McHale reported the show's demise in an interview with Metro Weekly.
"All of our contracts were up after six years," he said. "All the actors on the show, almost without exception — their stock has risen significantly, and it's out of the pay rate that is affordable to make the show. So you're not going to be able to get Alison Brie or Gillian Jacobs at a normal television salary anymore. There is just not enough money to be able to pay for the show."
Despite McHale's initial comments, the fate of the show has yet to be determined by Sony Pictures Television — which produces the series — according to sources. Sony declined to comment.
Yahoo also has not yet given up hope on more Community. "We've seen tremendous value in our partnership with Sony and are continuing to discuss future opportunities for Community," said a Yahoo representative in a statement.
Late Tuesday, McHale also backtracked on his earlier remarks, tweeting that the show had yet to be axed.
Easy sugar-bear, Community is not canceled. #QuestionMarkSeasonsAndaMovie
— Joel McHale (@joelmchale) August 4, 2015
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, creator and showrunner Dan Harmon said that a movie was more likely than a seventh season of the single-cam comedy, in line with the popular battle cry among fans: #sixseasonsandamovie.
"I think there's a higher chance of a movie than a seventh season," he said. "I think it has to do with talent contracts. We've got a lot of very talented people whose contracts have run out, and they get to explore the world and see what comes of it. In that kind of situation, anybody coming to those people and rounding them up like the Magnificent Seven and saying, 'Who wants to do a movie?' — I think the chance of getting a 'Yes' to that is much higher than, 'Who wants to come back to Vietnam — the war's not over yet.' I think the idea of a movie just sounds more fun and also sounds like it has a hard out in terms of schedule."
The most recent season of Community saw the series move from NBC to Yahoo — the company's first continuation of an existing series. In addition, Yvette Nicole Brown exited as a series regular, and Paget Brewster and Keith David were added.
Even before moving to Yahoo, the ratings-beleaguered series suffered several brushes with cancellation during its run on NBC. Harmon exited the series as showrunner ahead of season four, only to return in season five.
Executive produced by Harmon, Russ Krasnoff, Gary Foster and Chris McKenna, Community hails from Krasnoff Foster Productions and Harmonius Claptrap in association with Universal Media Studios and Sony.
In addition to Community, Yahoo unveiled original series Sin City Saints and Other Space earlier this year.
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New! Research paper published:
Nocturia and Snoring: Predictive Symptoms for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Insomnia and Nocturia Linked
What does insomnia have to do with nocturia? It may seem entirely disconnected, but we have found that most people with insomnia also have symptoms of nocturia.
Why is that? In my book, Sound Sleep, Sound Mind, I describe the process at length. Most physicians don't know about the link, but once the process is described to them, they immediately understand. And it effectively shifts a paradigm. They never see insomnia the same again.
See more at Dr. Krakow's Video Blog
In a nutshell, here's what happens:
Your cardiovascular system contains a volume of fluid within the heart and its connecting blood vessels, also called the circulatory system.The kidneys perform a critical function by helping regulate this fluid. If the volume is too high (fluid overload), blood pressure could go too high. If the volume is too low (dehydration), blood pressure could drop. The kidneys respond to either situation by producing more or less urineurine outputto maintain correct circulatory volume and proper blood pressure.
During sleep, a normal sleeper sleeps through the night without taking in any fluid. What should the kidneys do? If no fluid comes in, the kidneys generate less urine to maintain proper hydration in the bloodstream. In normal sleepers, urine output decreases during sleep to maintain hydration during the night.
Enter SDB.
The obstruction or resistance to breathing in your upper airway causes your chest to work much harder than during normal breathing. During this struggle for breath, the body exerts more effort to pull air into the lungs, and this causes a large change in pressure inside the chest cavity. This change in pressure has an unexpected side effect that forces more blood to flow towards the heart. The increased blood flow enters the right atrium of the heart, stretching the muscles in this chamber.; Can you guess how these heart muscle cells interpret stretching?
Go to the head of the class if you said, the heart detects this change as a sign of fluid overload. The right atrium perceives a direct threat to the body, and it must do something quickly to counteract this signal of a fluid overloaded state. Any guesses as to what it can do? Two gold stars if you said, it must send a signal to the kidneys to make more urine to relieve the fluid overload.
In fact, the right atrial heart muscles release a hormone known as atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) into the bloodstream, which is a diureticsomething that makes the kidneys produce more urine.In controlled research studies, patients with SDB produced more ANP and more urine than normal sleepers.
Now, for those whose bladders might be small or sensitive or nervous, can you see how it only takes a small increase in urine output to trigger the need to pee?
As intriguing as the explanation for nocturia sounds, the more amazing fact is that successfully treated SDB rapidly and dramatically reduces ANP and urine output on the first night of treatment. SDB patients who respond to treatment report less or no trips to the bathroom at night. Can you imagine thatnot going to the bathroom once, just by treating SDB?
Surely these ideas are something to sleep on
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Sicilian mobster: Great-uncle slew New York cop in '09
ROME >> Idle Mafia boasting or cold case solved?
Police said a suspected Mafioso, one of 91 people arrested in a raid Monday in Palermo, had boasted his great-uncle killed a New York City police officer dispatched to that city in 1909 to investigate the Sicilian Mafia.
Domenico Palazzotto, 28, was heard bragging in a recent intercepted phone conversation with another suspected mobster that the ancestor, Paolo Palazzotto, had slain Police Lt. Giuseppe (Joe) Petrosino on a Mafia boss's orders. Police described the boast as an attempt by Palazzotto to establish his Mafia ''pedigree."
The police noted that Paolo Palazzotto and the alleged murder mastermind were acquitted of Petrosino's slaying for lack of evidence.
The Italian-born Petrosino was investigating a prostitution racket sending women to the United States.


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Lewis & Clark makes Peace Corps' top 10 list
February 05, 2013
For the third consecutive year, Lewis & Clark ranks in the top 10 on the Peace Corps Top Colleges list [PDF]—the only school in Portland to receive this honor.
In 2013, Lewis & Clark is eighth in the small school category. This is the ninth consecutive year the college has made the list.
Currently, Lewis & Clark has 16 undergraduate alumni serving as Peace Corps volunteers. Since the organization's founding in 1961, 379 Pioneers have served overseas. Peace Corps volunteers work in 77 countries in the areas of education, youth and community development, health and HIV/AIDS, business information and communication technology, agriculture, and environment.
For more than 50 years, Lewis & Clark students have immersed themselves in cultures around the world through our highly regarded overseas programs. Approximately 60 percent of students participate, conducting research, learning languages, and immersing themselves in local cultural and sociopolitical environments in places such as Vietnam, eastern Africa, China, and India.
In addition to global engagement, Lewis & Clark supports a strong commitment to public service at home and abroad. Local service projects occur throughout the year, and students have consistently earned highly competitive 100 Projects for Peace grants to carry out projects around the world.


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By combining techniques from game theory and artificial intelligence, computer scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a better way to find the best bidding strategy in a simulated auction modeled after commodity and financial securities markets.
In their paper Stronger CDA Strategies Through Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis and Reinforcement Learning, Michael Wellman, a professor in the Division of Computer Science and Engineering, and doctoral candidate L. Julian Schvartzman describe a continuous double auction -- an ever-changing market in which bidders exchange offers to both buy and sell, and transactions occur as soon as participants agree on a price. This dynamic behavior is characteristic of the stock market, for example. And it makes such markets difficult for researchers to study and solve.
Analysts trying to "solve" such problems are seeking an equilibrium for the market. An equilibrium is a configuration of bidding strategies under which each participant uses the best strategy he or she can, taking into consideration the other participants' strategies.
Schvartzman and Wellman evaluated and tested all prior proposals for the best strategies, which include waiting until the last minute to bid, randomly bidding, and taking into account the history of the bids of all participants. They say they've conducted the most comprehensive continuous double auction strategy study ever published.
To this evaluation they added a layer of artificial intelligence, or machine learning. The "reinforcement learning" technique they used enables a computer to, in essence, learn from experimenting with actions in a variety of situations to determine what overall strategy would work best.
"Nobody has put these techniques together before," Schvartzman said.
"One could take these techniques and apply them to real markets, not to predict specific price movements, but to determine the best bidding strategy, given your objectives," Wellman said.
This new combined method generated a more stable equilibrium candidate comprising stronger bidding strategies than any previously identified, the researchers say. The method would produce different strategies in different situations.
"My goal is to make a contribution to the automation of markets," Schvartzman said, "not just financial markets, but in other scenarios, such as web advertising or even nurses bidding for their shifts in hospitals. Eventually, any resource allocation problem in which there is uncertainty about what something is worth could use a dynamic market instead of a fixed price."


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Threepenny Opera: An Introduction
A milestone of 20th century musical theater, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) rolls on unstoppably into the 21st. In their opera "by and for beggars," composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), with assistance from Elisabeth Hauptmann, transformed saccharine, old-fashioned opera and operetta forms, incorporating a sharp political perspective and the sound of 1920s Berlin dance bands and cabaret. Weill's acid harmonies and Brecht's biting texts created a revolutionary new musical theater that inspired such subsequent hits as Cabaret, Chicago, and Urinetown. The show's opening number, "Mack the Knife," became one of the top popular songs of the century.
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The opening night audience at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm didn't quite know what to expect when the curtain rose on The Threepenny Opera on August 31, 1928, but after the first few musical numbers they began to cheer and call for encores. The show was a brilliant hit, and Threepenny-fever spread throughout Europe, generating forty-six stage productions of the work in the first year after the Berlin premiere. In 1931, a film version directed by G.W. Pabst entitled Die 3-Groschenoper opened, making an international star of Weill's wife, Lotte Lenya, who repeated her portrayal of Jenny Diver from the show's first production.
The Threepenny Opera had already been produced 130 times worldwide by 1933, before the rise of the Nazis forced Weill to flee to Paris in March of that year. He finally settled in America with Lenya in September 1935; Brecht escaped through Scandinavia, finally reaching the United States via Siberia in 1941. Both Weill and Brecht wanted a major production in the U.S. but were unable to make the necessary arrangements to their mutual satisfaction. The Nazis, of course, had banned all Weill's and Brecht's works from the German stage.
Although The Threepenny Opera reappeared in theaters in Germany and the United States right after the end of the war, the work's true renaissance did not get underway until a New York off-Broadway production at the Theater de Lys. Running from 1954 through 1961, the show had a total of 2,707 performances, at that time the longest running musical in history. The cast album sold in record-breaking numbers, and Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, and Ella Fitzgerald, among countless others, made "Mack the Knife" into a standard.
Today, The Threepenny Opera is still entertaining audiences all over the world. The re-released recording from the 1954 revival is available on CD (Decca Broadway), along with a splendid BMG recording of the new critical edition of the score made in 1999; a dozen other recordings of the complete show are available in various languages. There are three cinematic versions of the work, made in 1931, 1963, and 1988. The most recent Broadway production opened in March 2006, and the Berliner Ensemble production that opened in September 2007 continues to enjoy great success all over Europe. Judging by the evidence, the music and story of The Threepenny Opera remain as irresistible to today's audiences as they were in 1928.
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Driverless Cars Coming Sooner Than You Think
A fully autonomous vehicle is at least more than a decade away. That's one way to look at it. The other is, Holy Cow! Robot cars in a decade? Where do I sign up? Dan takes a ride in Mercedes-Benz's autonomous research vehicle, and looks at the robo-cars of today and tomorrow. Photo: Getty Images
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FREDDY FAME: Italian activewear brand Freddy is coming to a cinema near you. The label, which is the official dance-clothes supplier to Milan's Teatro alla Scala and London's Royal Ballet, will make its cinematic debut later this month, dressing the cast in the remake of cult dance film "Fame." The new film, directed by Kevin Tancharoen, opens in the U.S. Friday. "Fame"-branded Freddy apparel is currently available at Capezio stores across America, with prices ranging from $39 for a top to $133 for a jumpsuit.
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HUDSON'S BAY IPO?: As Wednesday's keynote luncheon speaker at the International Council of Shopping Centers' Toronto convention, Richard Baker, the chief executive officer of Hudson's Bay Trading Co., was to talk about his acquisition of the Canadian retailer. But he did more than that: He surprised the audience by revealing Hudson's Bay is eyeing a return to the capital markets in early 2011. Baker said the company would be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Asked about his role in any public company, Baker said he would continue to have significant ownership of Hudson's Bay. Whether Lord & Taylor would be part of any IPO hasn't been decided, he said. NRDC Equity Partners, which owns Lord & Taylor, purchased Hudson's Bay for an undisclosed amount in 2008, and the group was renamed.
The IPO isn't related to Baker's real estate investment trust plan, announced this month, which would convert NRDC Acquisition Corp. into a public REIT, called Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.
DOUBLE ACT: Fashion isn't all about catfights. Extending a hand during tough times, Marithé & François Girbaud has offered to share its show space during Paris Fashion Week with young designer brand Lefranc-Ferrant. The brands will show side by side at the Halle Freyssinet on Oct. 6. François Girbaud said he experienced the same helping hand in the Eighties, when he was invited to show with a group of established brands, such as Georges Rech and Daniel Hechter, at the Salle Wagram. One of legions of young brands vying for visibility, Lefranc-Ferrant shows during couture week.
RAF LOVES NY: Raf Simons chief executive officer Stefano Martinetto came to New York this week in search of a site for a future store and to promote the brand's new focus on the United States. SoHo is the desired location, and the concept could mirror the two Sterling Ruby-designed Raf Simons stores in Osaka and Tokyo. Martinetto also hopes to eventually roll out a Raf by Raf Simons concept like the shop-in-shop at La Rinascente. The U.S. is clearly a priority for the company, which recently entrusted its European and North American publicity to New York-based PR Consulting. It also is running its first U.S. advertisements this fall in VMan and Interview. "We are committing to an advertising and p.r. strategy to help our retailers here," said Martinetto. "It's a huge effort for a small company like ours." He also hinted at additional brand collaborations in the near future. Raf Simons already has partnerships with Fred Perry and Dr. Martens.
OLYMPIC BID: When delegates from Chicago make their final presentation to the International Olympic Committee next week — The Windy City is competing with Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Games — they'll be wearing homegrown designs. Maria Pinto, who's dressed Michelle Obama, created a look for the female delegates; Hart Schaffner Marx, a go-to for President Obama, made suits for the male delegates, and tie maker Lee Allison, another Chicago-based designer, produced neckwear. Details of the designs were not released. The committee will name the winning city Oct. 2.
SNAP HAPPY: Sienna Miller is apparently no shrinking violet in front of the camera, according to Lorenzo Agius. "[She] was great, she was easy to get in the bath," said the photographer, who feted his "British Style Icons" exhibition on Monday. "She probably would have gone naked but I wouldn't have let her." Hosted by the National Magazine Company's 30 Days of Fashion and Beauty, the show features portraits of subjects such as Vivienne Westwood, Paul Smith and Yasmin le Bon. Guests at the soirée included Sir Philip Green, Charlotte Tilbury, Laura Bailey and Kelly Hoppen. "I love that one," said Ozwald Boateng, pointing to a picture of Jude Law and Ewan McGregor cozying up in bed together. "That's really who they are — they don't take themselves too seriously."


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The Best Headphones for Exercising
WSJ's Michael Hsu joins Lunch Break with a look at a new generation of workout-ready headphones, specifically designed for highly active listening, that deliver heart-pumping sonics and a rock-solid fit. Photo: F. Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal.
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Like that of the Venetus A, the front matter of the Iliad manuscript known as E4 (Allen, = West F, Escorialensis Ω.I.12) has been a source of confusion and speculation for scholars. (For the Venetus A, see Allen 1899 and Hecquet 2009 in Recapturing a Homeric Legacy). While trying to understand this odd assembly of Homeric reference material—material which includes lives of Homer, a Proclan summary of the Cypria, an excerpt from the Batrachomyomachia ("Battle of Frogs and Mice"), and an excerpt from a work of the grammarian Tryphon, among other things—I came across a text on folio 2r entitled ἐξήγησις τῆς ἰλιάδος καὶ ὀδυσσείας ὁμήρου or "Exegesis of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer." Not knowing what this work was, I typed the whole phrase into Google, and discovered this manuscript (Harley 5601), now on-line thanks to the British Library's Digitized Manuscripts initiative (funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation).
Like E4, Harley 5601 contains hypotheses before each book of the Iliad. It is clear, however, that those of Harley 5601 are not copied from E4, because the hypothesis for book 2 in Harley 5601 is much more fuller than the corresponding hypothesis in E4 (which seems to have been abbreviated by the scribe because of lack of space). (In E4, all books of the Iliad begin on the recto side of a folio. On the adjacent verso side, the scribe writes usually two hypotheses along with scholia if there is room. In this case, the end of book 1 three quarters of the way down the page left him very little space for the hypotheses to book 2.) The actual wording of the hypotheses (that of Harley 5601 and the second hypothesis for book 2 in E4) is the same until the scribe runs out of room on E4.
Harley 5601 postdates E4 by many centuries, but it seems clear that share a partial ancestor that predates E4. That ancestor had the prolegomena that these manuscripts share, and, very likely, one set of hypotheses. Their texts of the Iliad, however, have different ancestors. Perhaps E4's had the additional set of hypotheses that Harley 5601's did not, or perhaps that other set of hypotheses in E4 came from still another source.
Many questions remain about how these two manuscripts might be related. I am grateful to the Niarchos Foundation and the British Library for making these images freely available, so that further study can now take place—by anyone that wants to. These two manuscripts have almost certainly never been, and never will be, in the same room together. But now, if you have a big screen, you can zoom up on them in great detail, side by side.


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Eighty-seven percent of brands are missing out on a huge revenue opportunity by not sending post-abandonment emails. Considering various studies reporting cart abandonment rates over 70%, it is shocking that so many brands are not employing some type of marketing effort to recoup lost revenue. Bottom line: shoppers are abandoning their carts and marketers are abandoning some serious dollars.
If you are part of the 87%, first things first – start sending abandoned cart emails. Abandonment rates are high, but so are conversion rates from post-abandonment emails, so you are missing a sizable opportunity by not sending them. Here are four things you will want to avoid when launching your post-abandonment email program:
Let the machine do the talking
The biggest challenge to launching a post-abandonment series will probably be coordinating the data needed to trigger the message and populate relevant data. Though this can be seen as a hurdle, this is typically a one-time process and you will quickly recover any costs once the program is up and running. Considering a lot of the upfront work is data related, this could lead to a decreased focus on the content of the email itself.
Avoid sending a plain text email. Use an HTML template that is similar to your standard promotional emails, but use the body of the message to visually echo the look and feel of the cart. Avoid including information that seems overly technical or machine generated like long SKU numbers or unnecessary order or customer identifiers. Include elements such as a photo of the product, price, shopping costs, payment options, and quantity.
Tardy for the party
Cart abandonment rates have increased in recent years and a major contributor could be that consumers are now trained to comparison shop and search for coupon codes. Your customers are also shopping across various devices and at different locations. A cart could be abandoned by someone shopping at the office and later revisited on a tablet when the shopper is at home. You could lose the sale if you wait too long to send your post-abandonment email. A shopper could have found a better deal or forgotten that they had even carted. Waiting more than 24 hours to send your abandoned cart email could mean the shopper is less engaged and less likely to complete their purchase.
Take a one-and-done approach
Only 38% of brands who sent a post-abandonment email sent more than one message. I'm not recommending that every abandoner should receive multiple messages but a multi-message series can be extremely effective when carefully planned. Strengthen a post-abandonment series with a second message notifying the shopper when his or her cart will expire. The second message could also include an incentive or discount to complete the purchase. Follow up approaches like these can lead to closing the sale. Make sure you limit the recipients of the second message to those who, at a minimum, opened the previous message to avoid the perception that you're nagging the shopper.
Leave the door open
Savvy shoppers may abandon their carts and wait to see if they get a coupon to complete their order. If you are offering an incentive, make sure you have set parameters that do not allow serial abandoners to receive an offer each time. This can be achieved by either limiting shoppers to receive an abandonment incentive every few months or by having repeat abandoners receive a message without an incentive that is more of a customer service reminder.
Jim Davidson is manager of marketing research for Bronto Software.


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Analysis The UK government granted us ownership of our own DNA yesterday with the launch of the new Human Tissue Act.
Well, sort of. The spin being put on the new Act is that it's all about consent.
For example, it gives doctors the new power to apply to overrule bereaved families who do not want their relative's organs used for transplant even though the deceased gave consent in their lifetime. On the flip side, there won't be a repeat of the Alder Hey scandal, where a Liverpool hospital harvested dead babies' tissue for research without informing parents.
There's a shiny new government tentacle to enforce and license it all in the shape of the Human Tissue Authority. The rest of the 2004 Act, which comes into effect today, covers an array of thorny biotechnological and medical issues - which needed tackling. Our favourite is the question of DNA testing.
Government advisory board the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) welcomed the implementation of the Act yesterday. It's worth noting that on the HGC's website it says: "HGC's general aims support the Government's needs."
HGC chair Baronness Kennedy said: "Until now there has been nothing to stop an unscrupulous person, perhaps a journalist or a private investigator, from secretly taking an everyday object used by a public figure - like a coffee mug or a toothbrush - with the express purpose of having the person's DNA analysed. Similarly, an employer could have secretly taken DNA samples to use for their purposes."
Doing so could land offenders with anything from a fine to three years' imprisonment.
While we're sure Register readers will be relieved to hear the Vulture Central DNA-targeted marketing database has been mothballed in response to the new laws, they do nothing to protect the public from already burgeoning state intrusion into their genetic inheritance.
Britain already has the world's largest repository of human DNA sequences - the Home Office's national DNA database. According to figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats earlier this year, 139,463 individuals who have never been convicted, charged, or cautioned are represented. Sequences are retained in the event of an acquittal. At the last count it contained over four million samples from 5.24 per cent of the population. That doesn't include those who are covered by techniques which can match their DNA to a relative who has been sampled.
Don't expect the Human Tissue Act to change any of that.
For the record, the exceptions to the ban on non-consensual DNA sampling are:
(a) The medical diagnosis or treatment of the person whose body manufactured the DNA;
(b) purposes of functions of a coroner;
(c) purposes of functions of a procurator fiscal in connection with the investigation of deaths;
(d) the prevention or detection of crime;
(e) the conduct of a prosecution;
(f) purposes of national security;
(g) implementing an order or direction of a court or tribunal, including one outside the United Kingdom.
Looking at these caveats, very few would argue with the first three. Sick people usually want to be treated if they can't give consent and dead bodies need to be identified. The final exception, covering court orders, is mostly aimed at paternity disputes. There will be more going through the courts now as, in the case of a child of unknown parentage, as previously putative fathers had no fear of prosecution if they went ahead with a test without the mother's consent.
The rest are aimed at giving the government and its agencies carte blanche to scrape, sample, sequence, and store our DNA. It's always heartening to see the National Security™ catch-all clause in a new law sold as protecting our rights.
Of course, we're not naïve enough to believe there was ever any hope of the new laws reining in government dominion over our genes. In fact, we're sure it didn't even enter the discussions. ®


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Brother *|LNAME|*, again we find ourselves mourning the loss of two more Black lives, Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, La. and Philando Castile of Falcon Heights, Minn., at the hands of police within 48 hours of each other. I express my deepest condolences to the family, friends, and loved ones of Mr. Sterling and Mr. Castile.
In the last couple of days, I spoke to the presidents of Beta Iota Lambda and Xi Nu Lambda chapters [Baton Rouge, LA] and Gamma Xi Lambda chapter [Minneapolis, Minn.]. I offered support and direction as they are the boots on the ground in these cities representing the fraternity in the wake of these recent tragedies . Also, pray for Brother Melvin "Kip" Holden [Xi Nu Lambda], mayor of Baton Rouge, and the job he must do as the leader of that city.
We have seen far too often the killing of black and brown people at the hands of police. Now we have seen acts of violence that have led to more horrific acts of violence towards officers in Dallas, TX for whom I also offer condolences. No brother of the Dallas Police Department was harmed. Continue to pray for the safety of our brothers in law enforcement who are putting their lives on the line for us every day.
The cycle of social media outrage followed by the inserting of a name that becomes a hashtag repeats what we have seen before and will only change through action and accountability. There are clear reforms needed and steps that have yet to be taken to proactively address these situations and a long list of others. We must demand accountability of those agencies sworn to protect and serve while providing transparency for civilians and police. I encourage you to review the list of actions below to be informed and aware of what you can do to be a part of the solution.
Brother *|LNAME|*, our records indicate your status and affiliation within the fraternity:
I have stated this before--I need brothers to stay involved, stay financially active with the fraternity, and connect to a chapter in your area. The work of Alpha Phi Alpha is done locally in our communities where we can have the greatest impact. When you became a member you were asked, "What can you do for ALPHA?" I need you to be engaged, connected, and committed.
In the wake of the ceaseless extrajudicial killings of African-Americans, we take to the streets to vent our frustrations, and to be honest, I did too. Statements of condolence offer limited comfort, and for me, they have become too routine. Our statement on yesterday reflects this very point and it must stop. Otherwise, we are simply replacing names in a form letter. Alpha brothers have taken an oath to be servants of all. When we work together as Alphas, we can truly transcend all.
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While I'm not sold on the Steelers' skill level on the defensive front line, I am, and always have been, sold on defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau's ability to mess up a good offense.
While I'm not sold on the Steelers' skill level on the defensive front line, I am, and always have been, sold on defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau's ability to mess up a good offense.
LeBeau has a gift for finding unique ways to collapse a pocket, no matter who he has working for him. Pittsburgh has just one sack during its pathetic-looking 0-2 start, but the Bears offensive line — especially the two rookies on the right side — best not take a break in this one. "Oh, we won't look past these guys, and a LeBeau defense. No way," first-year right tackle Jordan Mills said after practice Thursday. "We know what that kind of D can do to you on the line, and we're trying everything to get ready for it."
Injury update Somehow after a 2-0 start, the Bears are pretty healthy. Corner Charles Tillman's knee kept him out of contact this week, but he should play. So, too, should wideout Brandon Marshall (back tightness), tightend Martellus Bennett (shoulder) and guard Kyle Long (back). If one or any of them don't, it will greatly affect the outcome, but I don't see that happening. The Steelers come in healthier than they've been all season as well, most likely getting back RB Le'Veon Bell (foot) and tightend Heath Miller (knee) this week.
Quote of the Week Bears QB Jay Cutler, on the offensive line allowing just one sack so far this season: "Yeah, they should have zero sacks. That one sack is on me. They should have a clean record right now."
Stat of the Week The Steelers have averaged 37.5 yards rushing in two games this season, while the Bears are up to 104 yards per contest on the ground. Jay Taft: 815-987-1384; firstname.lastname@example.com; @jaytaft
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