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April 19. 2013 1:30PM
John DiStaso's Granite Status: Gatsas makes it official: seeking 3rd term as Manchester mayor
By John DiStaso
Senior Political Reporter
FRIDAY, APRIL 19: McCONNELL UPDATE: U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's fund-raising consultant said Friday Capitol Hill police refused to allow McConnell fly to Boston today, for obvious reasons, and that was why his trip to New Hampshire for two fund-raisers was cancelled.
We had received conflicting reports on why McConnell cancelled. See our updated report below, following our report on Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas' reelection announcement.
(Earlier Status reports follow.)
FRIDAY, APRIL 19. GATSAS SEEKING REELECTION. Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas told the Granite Status Friday that it's official: he'll seek a third term this year as chief executive of the state's largest city.
"I am running for reelection as mayor of Manchester," he said.
Would he serve a full term if reelected, or would he run for another office, such as governor or Congress, next year?
"At this point I'm running for mayor and I would never eliminate anything in the future," he said.
So....does he intend to serve a full term?
"I'm running for mayor and if there are any other situations that came before me, I would look at them. I would never rule anything out at this time," he said. "That could be anything that comes forward."
He said long-time Republican operative B.J. Perry will head his campaign operation with businessmen Fred Tausch and Sean Owen co-chairing his 20-member finance committee.
Gatsas' campaign will have a fund-raising event on June 6 at the St. George's Greek Orthodox Church in Manchester.
"We have accomplished a lot," said Gatsas, a former alderman and former state senator. "There are still things we have to accomplish, and I love being mayor."
Democratic Alderman Patrick Arnold has already begun campaigning for mayor.
(Earlier Granite Status reports follow.)
FRIDAY, APRIL 19: SCRATCH McCONNELL. U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell cancelled his planned trip to New Hampshire Friday.
McConnell had been scheduled for a fund-raiser with state Sen. Andy Sanborn and state Rep. Laurie Sanborn, both R-Bedford, at their pub, The Draft, in Concord this afternoon.
He had also been scheduled for a fund-raiser later Friday with media executive and former U.S. Senate candidate Bill Binnie at Binnie's Wentworth-By-The-Sea Country Club.
Andy Sanborn said he was told Friday by McConnell's staff that McConnell would not be coming to New Hampshire due to "security reasons" in Boston associated with law enforcement's pursuit of the Boston Marathon bomber.
Other Republicans told the Granite Status that McConnell's trip was actually cancelled due to a poor ticket sales for the Sanborns' event. But Andy Sanborn said that was simply not true.
He said he had patrons lines up for the event, which was to be co-hosted by former Sen. John E. Sununu and former Rep. Frank Guinta.
Two Republicans familiar with Binnie's event said Binnie's fund-raiser sold out, but also noted that it was supposed to be a small fund-raiser since its inception.
These Republicans said McConnell's camp felt that it would not be worthwhile for McConnell to travel to New Hampshire for the single, small Binnie event since the Sanborn event had -- allegedly -- failed to attract a satisfactory crowd.
But Peter Simmons, McConnell's fund-raising consultant, backed up Andy Sanborn's explanation.
Simmons explained that McConnell is assigned four Capitol Hill police officers who had "advanced the trip for him through Boston. They advanced the airport in Boston and the hotel in Boston and advanced the events in Concord and Rye.
"But because the trip came through Boston, the Capitol Hill police would not allow him, for security reasons, to fly to Boston today."
Simmons said the events "are in the process of being re-scheduled."
(An earlier Status report follows, and for more Granite Status, click on "Granite Status" above.)
THURSDAY, APRIL 19: RE-DEFINING PUSH POLLING IN NH. The state Senate Thursday passed legislation that redefines a push poll, a sometimes annoying campaign tool that is essentially a political advertisement loosely disguised as a poll.
The bill, which had been tabled last month and now goes to the House, adds a requirement to current law that political groups and hired companies that make push polls specifically tell those who receive a call that the call is a political ad.
Other changes emerged after sponsors conferred with top national pollsters, who had been upset with the state law as written because they felt it disallowed legitimate political opinion surveying, a tool meant to gauge voters sentiment about candidates when informed about their positions on issues and not to directly lobby for their votes.
Under Senate Bill 196, which now heads to the House, push poll is newly defined as making telephone calls "as part of a series of like telephone calls that consist of 2,000 connected calls that last less than two minutes in presidential, gubernatorial, United States senatorial or United State congressional elections."
A push poll under the bill can also be "conducting such calling as part of a series of like telephone calls that consist of 500 connected calls that last less than two minutes in executive council, state senate, state representative" or local elections.
The bill also specifies that a push poll is "for purposes other than bona fide survey and opinion research."
Under the bill, those making the calls, prior to asking a question relating to a candidate, must:
- Inform the person that the telephone call is a "paid political advertisement."
- Identify the organization making the call and the organization paying for the call and
- Provide a valid, current, publicly-listed telephone number for the organization making the call.
As under the existing law, the caller must also say that the call is being made "on behalf of, in support of, or in opposition to a particular candidate or candidates for public office, and identify that candidate, or the candidates, by name."
The bill grew out of several actions brought by former Attorney General Michael Delaney in recent years against political campaigns and pollsters, most recently a civil action against former U.S. Rep. Charles Bass's 2010 campaign committee. That case is still in the Merrimack County Superior Court.
The Bass committee is arguing in court it was not engaged in a push poll, but rather legitimate opinion research. And the committee points to an advisory opinion last year by the Federal Election Commission that the state's push poll law does not apply to elections for federal office.
Despite the FEC opinion, the new bill subjects candidates for federal office to the state law, but it is unclear if that provision would be upheld in court.
But Sen. David Pierce, D-Etna, said it is the Senate's position that any campaign that "reaches into the state" should adhere to the law, regardless of whether it is involved in a state or federal election.
Pierce said that under the current law, a push poll "is defined by reference to the subjective effect of a campaign call on the voter being contacted."
Pierce said pollsters testified "that they are concerned that the subjective standards could, and in some cases have, triggered investigations by the Attorney General into their bona fide polling research.
"Their concern has led a few to threaten to pull out of the state and not conduct polling in New Hampshire," Pierce said. "Because political polling is, for better or worse, an integral part of New Hampshire elections -- especially the presidential primary -- the (Senate Public and Municipal Affairs) Committee believed it was time to act."
He said the bill "moves away from subjective tests and defines what is and what is not a push poll by reference to objective criteria." As a result, he said, pollsters will have "clear guidance about what is and what is not prohibited."
Following the vote, Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, said the current "ambiguous and broadly written push-polling law has caused problems and raised objections from political campaigns and polling organizations alike."
He said the Senate bill "takes necessary steps to clarify the law and establish clear guidelines that will allow for legitimate voter outreach and survey research while also ensuring that campaigns are accurately identifying themselves and their motives to voters.
"Equally as important, this bill clarifies the law in a way that will allow national pollsters to lawfully operate in the Granite State during the presidential primary, helping to protect the legitimacy of our state's historic position in the primary calendar."
Pierce said the bill is "a necessary response to legitimate concerns raised by state based and national survey research and political organization from both sides of the aisle. Politics is Hew Hampshire's state sport, and polling is an integral part of the game. This legislation provides clearer guidance to the campaigns and pollsters that compete here every two years and provides a fair and level playing field for all involved."
Also Thursday, the Senate voted 14-10 to table a bill that would have required additional signatures to be make by "caregivers" submitting absentee ballots for another person.
Sen. Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, said the provision did not contain enough safeguards and has "the potential for rampant election fraud."
The Senate passed also a bill setting up a joint legislative committee to study the state's election laws and procedures with an eye toward increasing voter participation and limiting waiting times and lines at polling places. The committee, which must submit a report by Nov. 1, 2014, also must review voter registration, the possibility of early voting and how the state conducts absentee voting.
(For earlier Granite Status reports, click on "Granite Status" above.)


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FOXBORO, Mass. (AP) Zurlon Tipton etched his name into the Central Michigan record books as the Chippewas routed Massachusetts 42-21 Friday in each team's Mid-American Conference finale.
The win earned the Chippewas (6-6, 4-4) bowl eligibility for the first time since 2009-10.
Tipton ran for 185 yards and four touchdowns on 25 carries. The junior finished the season with 20 touchdowns - 19 on the ground - tying him with Dan LeFevour's 2007 marks for the second highest single-season output in each category in the program's history. Tipton finished the season with 1,391 yards, the seventh best single-season mark at the school.
The 100-yard game was Tipton's sixth straight.
Cody Wilson caught five passes for 26 yards, and has a reception in 41 consecutive games, the second longest streak in college football behind Duke's Conner Vernon (46).
Rob Blanchflower had 10 catches for 100 yards and a touchdown for UMass (1-11, 1-7).


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If it's President's Day, it means we are already deep into February and getting close to the big wealth transfer. We already had one in January based on our time windows. The next one could possibly be the biggest one since the market turned in 2007. But I am now intrigued by the condition in Europe.
We actually liked the low calculations for Europe better than here in the United States. No worries, the rally extended last week as well. For the DAX it projects near the high even as we have an uneven wave count. It's impressive because they were able to take it up against good bearish strength on the way down. Looks for all to see like bears took their profits and went back into hibernation.
The FTSE, skeptics that they are, has only retraced 61% of the move and was losing strength until Monday. See, even the CAC got to a new high. What does all of this mean? Even the French laugh when the CAC leads to the upside. While the rally is still here, obviously the smart bulls would prefer to see Germany lead and not to splash cold water but it's the equivalent of the Dow leading our markets.
At first there was a bout of short covering to get the ball rolling. I didn't get concerned about these markets and really all markets until a week ago Friday at the jobs number. Since then I've read too many stories blaming the weather. Yeah, the weather is bad, but it's easy to blame the weather when there are other factors. Let's not forget these are markets that went up five straight years. My concern here is we've developed a buying panic and initially it looked like they might be climbing a wall of worry until you looked at the VIX, which has done nothing but drop.
Is this the dumb money buying up here and this late in a bull market? We've gone far enough to realize it's not likely going to give us a low in March. This is possibly very similar to the 2007 scenario I brought to your attention where the Russell 2000 topped for good in July, markets found a low on fear in August but topped again in October. When the VIX is at 13.57, risk is very high.
So if you get nothing else from this report, realize when the VIX is so low odds are we are close to getting hit again. Coming in March are the big time windows we've mentioned, but it's also the Gann Master Timing Window that comes right on the most important seasonal change point for the entire year. I might have started this report with Europe, but I wanted to see how they would respond on a day the U.S. markets were closed. They were mostly quiet but did not take the opportunity to step out of the box in any way. That means bulls are still in control as we start the shortened week.
Most impressive has been precious metals, which are proving 2014 is indeed a new year. Most noteworthy is the action piercing through the 200-day moving average for the first time in about a year. That's huge because it could have bounced off it and been repelled. It's showing us that it's ready for bigger and better things this year.
The theme up to this point has been more, bigger and better. What turned lately has continued. The stock market is better, precious metals are better but the dollar has continued to be worse. That might be the new story of the week. While Europe's news is still based on last week, the Sunday night action in the Greenback is showing a good chance this drop has gone far enough. By my calculations on the Gann square of 9, we are at another one of those key inflection turning points.
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December 28. 2012 9:01PM
Questions surround fatal shooting of Manchester man
By DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
Daniel Langlois, seen with his daughter, Mariah. Courtesy
Benefit held for kids of slain man
At least 1 'person of interest' arrested on unrelated charge in shooting death
MANCHESTER - Investigators were sorting out details Friday in the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man who was found wounded behind the wheel of a sport-utility vehicle after a colliding with another vehicle.
The New Hampshire Attorney General's office confirmed Friday that Daniel Langlois died Thursday night at Elliot Hospital. He had been shot once in the head around 3 a.m. Thursday near the corner of Nashua and Jane streets, where he had collided with a parked car.
Neighbors who heard the crash told police they saw at least two people get in a third vehicle that fled the scene before officers arrived. Some also reported they believed they heard gunshots.
"All the circumstances are still under investigation," said Jeffrey Strelzin, senior assistant attorney general for the homicide unit.
Strelzin would not comment on witness reports that a man who was a passenger in the SUV was at the scene as officers cordoned off the area and was overheard saying his friend had been shot.
Langlois was behind the wheel when the Toyota SUV collided with a small sedan that was parked on the street, leaving both vehicles back-to-back in the middle of Jane Street. Strelzin said it was not clear yet whether Langlois was wounded before or after the collision.
"We can't tell the exact timing," Strelzin said Friday afternoon. "As far as exactly where, we just don't have those details."
Strelzin said investigators believe an earlier incident at another location led to the shooting at the intersection just south of Bridge Street, but would not elaborate. He also declined comment when asked whether Langlois was being chased when the shooting occurred. Officers initially thought it was a hit-and-run accident before finding Langlois and speaking to neighbors.
Police on Thursday were reviewing surveillance video Thursday that showed the entrance of a club on Auburn Street, but would not disclose whether that was where investigators believed the incident that led to the shooting began.
"The Manchester Police Department is running that down," he said.
Strelzin said no further details would be released Friday because the investigation was ongoing.
Relatives said Langlois, who lived in Manchester, had a 3-year-old daughter and another child on the way.


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Tyson, 42 and four years retired from the ring, is only so impressed. Now heavier around the waist, Tyson exudes a knocked-around serenity.
"Those things don't excite me anymore - press and lights and cameras," says Tyson. "I know if I start believing that stuff, I could be a monster and nobody would like me."
And many don't like Tyson. Though he was perhaps the last great heavyweight champion (44 of his 50 wins came by knockout and he was the youngest to take the titles), he is often remembered more for his violent outbursts inside and outside of the ring.
In 1992, he was convicted of raping Desiree Washington and he served three years in prison. In a fight with his chief rival, Evander Holyfield, in 1996, he was disqualified for biting off a piece of his ear.
The picture that emerged of Tyson was of an out-of-control monster. "Tyson" hopes to illuminate a fuller, more humanistic view of Tyson, depicting him as a rags-to-riches tragedy and, above all, a misunderstood figure.
"Not only misunderstood, but grotesquely misunderstood," says Toback, the 64-year-old filmmaker of "Fingers" and the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of "Bugsy." "The vast majority of the people who have put Mike down don't have a tenth of the intelligence or the character that he has. Mike is a fundamentally very, very good human being. That doesn't mean he hasn't done bad things."
In the 88 minutes of "Tyson," Tyson is the only talking head - neither Washington nor Holyfield nor anyone else gets a say here. The film, of which Tyson is also a producer, makes no claim of objectivity but it's nevertheless striking for its honesty.
Tyson, who Toback interviewed for a week in Los Angeles while Tyson was going through rehab, begins by discussing - in his uniquely philosophical way - "the chaos of the brain," wondering, "Who am I?"
He discusses humiliation as a child leading him to take up boxing; his mentoring by legendary trainer and surrogate father Cus D'Amato (Tyson cries discussing his 1985 death); his obsession with women; his brief marriage to Robin Givens ("we were just kids"); his embarrassing final defeats in 2004 and 2005; contracting gonorrhea from a "filthy lady"; and the feeling of physical triumph: "Once I'm in the ring, I'm a God."
Tyson says that watching the film - a kind of mashed-up monologue - is difficult for him.
"When I look at the movie, I say, `If I was in the room with that guy, I would be very nervous,'" says Tyson.
"I never knew - and this is crazy - I never knew why I had the public opinion the way I did. Then when I watch the movie, I get it," says Tyson. "For the first time, I get it. I'm watching it as a human being that's very rational now. I say, `This guy's so unpredictable, you don't know if he's going to (take you) out to dinner or stab you with a fork. His mind will run riot.'"
At times, the screen splinters into several boxes of talking Tysons, clearly suggesting his many contradictions - an enormous, animalistic ego contrasted with an inferiority complex.
Though he acknowledges abusing women in the documentary, Tyson still denies raping Washington. About the Holyfield fight, he says, "I'm a good person, but I went insane."
Later, Tyson says: "If I have any anger, it's directed at myself."
Some will immediately dismiss "Tyson" because of the boxer's reputation and, in particular, his rape conviction.
To those people, Tyson says: "I'm a human being. I was young at one time. Yes, I have abused a woman before. ... I've made a mistake. And I'm going to continue to make mistakes - but not the same ones."
Tyson adds that growing up, he watched his mother be abused, warping his sense of relationships. He also argues that women's rights have come so far in the past century that society is still catching up.
Critics have been largely forgiving of "Tyson," applauding Toback's film which got a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Rolling Stone called it "a world-class exhibition of punch-drunk love." Slate, though, said it was "candid without being truthful."
Toback - a larger than life figure in his own right - and Tyson have been friends for more than two decades. They first bonded, they say in the 2005 documentary about Toback "The Outsider," in a conversation about "madness and orgies."
"I figured he'd be champion for 15 years," says Toback while swallowing a pile of assorted pills. (He says he takes 150 in a day.) "Then he turns out to be as complicated and crazy as I am. You have your internal enemies."
They each consider themselves "extremists." Tyson made cameos in two of Toback's earlier films, including a scene in 1999's "Black and White" in which Tyson assaults Robert Downey Jr.'s character after he comes on to him.
Tyson says he and Toback are similar "in a bizarre way."
"We challenge the borders of sanity and insanity," says Tyson. "We challenge it. I don't know if I'm still this way, but this is where I know I've been. I've been to the edge and I've looked over the cliff of sanity and I wanted to take a swan dive."
Toback - who once nearly died from an eight-day LSD trip - chuckles, nodding at Tyson's metaphor.
Ultimately, Toback says he hopes Tyson is "seen fresh, as if for the first time."
Tyson simply sounds ready for old age and continued retirement. He's most animated when discussing the 65-year-old Joe Frazier, who still holds a grudge against his rival, Muhammad Ali.
"I look forward to those days when I'm 60-years-old and there's another champ, like Evander or somebody," says Tyson. "Like, `Come on man, let's go see these young guys they think are good fighters. What do you think we would have done to these guys?'"
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Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes seem up for grabs in a new Siena Research Institute Poll that shows a tight race, with President Obama leading Republican Mitt Romney 43 percent to 40 percent.
The Siena College survey finds 12 percnet of the state's voters undecided. It shows Romeny winning in the Philadelphia suburbs. "With a month and two more debates to go, Pennsylvania's direction on the road to the White House remains in doubt," said Don Levy, the poll director.
Obama is viewed favorably by 49 percent of the voters, to 44 percent who view the president unfavorably, while Romney's ratio is 40 percent favorable to 49 percent unfavorable, the poll finds.
Results are based on interviews with 545 likely voters between Oct. 1 and Oct. 5, and results are subject to a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.


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Most black Americans have been Democrats for at least the fifty-three years that I've been alive. What have the Democrats done for us in all that time? We have the lowest average income of any large racial group in the nation. We're incarcerated at an alarmingly high rate. We are still segregated and profiled, and have a very low representation at the top echelons of the Democratic Party. We are the stalwarts, the bulwark, the Old Faithful of the Democrats, and yet they have not made our issues a high priority in a very long time.
Why should we be second-class members in the most important political activities of our lives? Why shouldn't the party we belong to think that our problems are the most important in this land?
I'm not saying that we should become Republicans. The Republicans don't care about us either. But at least they don't pretend to be on our side. And you have to admit that, of late, the Bush Administration has put black faces into high-profile jobs that carry clout on the international playing field. I don't have to like Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice to appreciate that once a black person has been put into a position of power, the second time around is much, much easier.
We are a racial minority in a country where racism is a fact of life, a country that was founded on economic and imperialist racism. Taking this into account and adding it to the fact that our issues are regularly put on a back burner, I believe that it is not out of order to send out a call for the formation of an African-American interest group, or maybe a political unit, that would bring our issues, and others, to the forefront of American political discourse.
If we had our own political voting bloc that paid attention to issues that reflect our needs in domestic and international affairs, things would change for us. The first thing is that many more of us would be likely to vote. Imagine the interest young people would have if they felt we were organizing based on our own interests: They could work for a candidate who represented their issues; they could run for office themselves.
And even though the party would be based on the racial identity that has been shoved down our throats since the first days we came here in chains, we wouldn't work only for ourselves. We'd argue about medical care and Social Security and the good jobs that are disappearing from this nation like fleas off a dead dog's back.
America's corporations, CEOs and portfolio managers don't have to worry about the euro and the devaluation of the dollar. They belong to an international club. It doesn't matter where the most recent SUV is being produced; what matters is that my stockholders and I own a piece of the company that makes and sells those cars.
It takes many companies working in unison to make secure the wealth of American capitalism. Two of the major-interest corporations that facilitate the needs of our wealthiest citizens are the Republican and Democratic (so-called) political parties. They exonerate their actions with numbers of votes, but the wheels they run on are greased by money, and lots of it.


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This site is an online exhibition of the Shower of Stoles collection, over a thousand liturgical stoles and other sacred items from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons from twenty-six denominations in six countries. Each stole contains the story of a LGBT person who is active in the life and leadership of their faith community in some way: minister, elder, deacon, teacher, missionary, musician, administrator or active layperson. This extraordinary collection celebrates the gifts of LGBT
people of faith who serve God in countless ways, while also lifting up those who
have been excluded from service because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
This exhibit is a collaborative venture by the LGBT Religious Archives Network and
the Institute of Welcoming Resources which now operates the Shower of Stoles Project.
What you will see in this exhibition
Each page of this exhibition contains two kinds of information. First, you will see
data about a particular stole: whom the stole honors as detailed on the stole or
the story accompanying it, who donated it to the collection, denominational affiliation
and geographical location (when known), as well as photographs of the stole.
In addition to this factual data, you will find more subjective background about
the stole. Often a stole's significance is highlighted in the "story behind the
story"– anecdotes about how the stole came to us, or reflections on the stole's
honoree. The "Historical Commentary" section relates the circumstances surrounding
the donation of the stole to the collection, its place in the history of the project,
thoughts about stole's theological implications, or its political significance within
the struggle for equality in a particular denomination. These commentaries have
been provided by Martha Juillerat, the Founder and Director of the Shower of Stoles
Project for its first ten years.
Some notes about the exhibition
For the first ten years, the Shower of Stoles Project focused on stories of LGBT
people of faith within Christian traditions. The Project's primary goal was to effect
change in Christian congregations and denominations. Following the merger with the
Institute for Welcoming Resources in 2006, the Shower of Stoles now had the resources
to expand into interfaith work so you will find language begin to shift away from
"church" towards "faith community" with recently donated items.
The stoles are not numbered in strict chronological order. Stoles were not given
inventory numbers until 1997, two years after the first stoles were collected. For
more information, read about the historical development of the Shower of
Stoles Project.
How you can make use of this exhibition
A primary goal of this online exhibition is to make the dramatic stories of exclusion
and perseverance embodied in the Shower of Stoles more accessible. Persons who may
not have an opportunity to see a public display can browse the whole collection
here. A small congregation or group that may have limited funds or space can use
this database to supplement a small exhibition with stories and photos of dozens more printed
and mounted on poster board.
Nothing, though, can duplicate the power of seeing the stoles themselves. The staff
of the Shower of Stoles Project can help you design a display which combines the
best of both. For more information, contact the Shower of Stoles Project.
Search the Stole Exhibition


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Accepting is an understatement, Buffalo actually has models that ship with DD-WRT stock. You never have to worry about bricking a router flashing it's firmware.
Linksys was great back in it's day.
I still have several Linksys 54G v3 and v3.1 lying around. (Best hardware iteration of the 54G brand.) I stock pile these whenever I can find them and load 'em with DD-WRT to ad as a new node in my wireless mesh. The recent years having dropped the external antennas has been a huge turn off from the brand for me as I can't rig 'em up to a modified satellite dish, which other than SOHO APs defeats my preferred use of them.
@ the Build your own crowd
Yes you can build your own *nix router such as pfSense/m0n0wall. They come with a lot of powerful tools, and can double as a server.
There is folly in this thinking however. You server should NEVER be your gateway device, its just bad security practice. A server by definition has connection oriented services on it, increasing its attack surface. Such conventional server/router wisdom is sometimes allayed by SoHo setups, but it is still important to consider when securing your traffic.
Next is the nature of networking itself, huge amounts of very small data transactions best handled by parallelism. Which is why long before you had your dual core Intel CPU on your desktop computer, companies were making chips like these, which have evolved and improved over the years.Tilera
Dedicated high-end (not SoHo) routing devices are modular, and have expandable memory and storage, just like your *nix router, but they combine it with extraordinarily fast small-transaction throughput with very low power usage, and that's where calling it the best option falls flat.
To combat the power-usage argument you could attempt to using something like a Raspberry Pi which has several functional Linux based distros available including some specifically aimed at routing, but you're still limiting your processing. (Which admittedly, shouldn't be an issue for most =<10 SoHo environments)


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On a Dare from His Son, Roy Lichtenstein Unwittingly Invented Pop Art
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Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical (re)production, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. As famous for his quips as for his art—he variously mused that "art is what you can get away with" and "everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"—Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. Known for his cultivation of celebrity, Factory studio (a radical social and creative melting pot), and avant-garde films like Chelsea Girls (1966), Warhol was also a mentor to artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His Pop sensibility is now standard practice, taken up by major contemporary artists Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons, among countless others.
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On a Dare from His Son, Roy Lichtenstein Unwittingly Invented Pop Art
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April 21. 2013 1:14AM
Kevin Gray's On Baseball: Salem's Doyle option No. 1 for Sox?
By KEVIN GRAY
New Hampshire Union Leader
WHAT A difference a year makes. Not only are the Red Sox in first place, they have plenty of depth at first-place Triple-A Pawtucket and are prepared for the long haul. PawSox righty Terry Doyle, a Salem High and Boston College graduate, could be option No. 1 when Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington needs a pitcher for the starting rotation.
Doyle shut down the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs in his most recent start, improving to 2-0 with a 0.98 ERA. The 27-year-old held Lehigh Valley to two hits through seven innings despite working on three days of rest. Doyle, who signed with the Red Sox in the off-season following a stint in Japan, has allowed only five hits and two earned runs through 18 1/3 innings.
This is exactly how Doyle envisioned his season at Triple-A. Pitch well. Wait for an opportunity. Eventually join the Boston Red Sox.
If Red Sox starters Felix Doubront or Alfredo Aceves fail to meet expectations at the back of the rotation - or if there is an injury among the starters - Doyle and PawSox teammate Allen Webster would be the best bets to receive a call-up. Webster is on Boston's 40-man roster; Doyle is not.
"Going to Pawtucket, I'll have an opportunity to prove myself," Doyle said last month. "Every year, there's always injuries, there's always going to be someone going down. The opportunity will come. It's just a matter of when."

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603 REPORT: Atlanta Braves brothers B.J. and Justin Upton each homered off Pirates lefty Jeff Locke, a Kennett High of Conway graduate, in Pittsburgh on Thursday. Locke (1-1, 5.17 ERA) also gave up a homer to Chris Johnson. The lefty is scheduled to pitch on Tuesday in Philadelphia ... Cubs farmhand Brad Zapenas of Nashua North, fully recovered from a shoulder injury, was expected to play in live games at extended spring training this weekend ... Fisher Cats shortstop Kevin Nolan, a Nashua South and Winthrop University grad, went 3-for-10 on New Hampshire's first road trip. Nolan went 0-for-3 on Friday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, dropping his average to .258.

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FISHER TRACKS: Travis Snider, once considered a long-term corner outfielder for the Blue Jays, has settled into his new home in Pittsburgh. The 25-year-old had three doubles in the first two games against Atlanta, raising to .342 his average ... Arizona second baseman Aaron Hill, who played shortstop for New Hampshire's inaugural season in 2004, suffered a fractured left hand bone and will miss four to six weeks.
Kevin Pillar of the Fisher Cats had the fourth inside-the-park home run in franchise history with a wall-ball blast to center field on Friday night against Binghamton. It was the first inside-the-park homer since Eric Thames pulled off the feat on May 28, 2010. Thames is currently playing for Mariners' Triple-A affiliate Tacoma.
Staff writer Kevin Gray covers pro baseball for the New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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iOS Devices, Androids and Chromebooks have become wonderful alternatives, but it can all be so confusing out there! Hopefully these posts will make it all just a little bit easier when it comes to AT/AAC and tablets. (Apps are also included in specific categories such as math, reading, etc.)
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Assistive technology is any kind of technology and/or tool that can be used to enhance the functional independence of a person with a disability. Often, for people with disabilities, accomplishing daily tasks such as communicating with others, going to school or work, or participating in activities can be a challenge. Assistive Technology (AT) devices are tools to help overcome those challenges and enable people living with disabilities to enhance and have access to a quality of life, that may otherwise not be known, and lead more independent lives.
The mission of this blog is to serve as a voice of a constant researcher in the field of educational and assistive technologies so that the best products, strategies and services may be located easily, in hopes that they will then be delivered, taught and used to better the lives of people with disabilities.
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Clarkson University Army ROTC Cadet Receives SAME Scholarship Award
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Clarkson University junior Tyler S. Weaver of Wolcott, N.Y., has been selected as the winner of the 2008 New York City Post, Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Scholarship Award, which recognizes outstanding performance in engineering studies. In addition to the award, Cadet Weaver received a $1,000 scholarship to assist in his academic pursuits.
The Society of Military Engineers is a national organization whose mission is to promote and facilitate engineering support for national security by developing and enhancing relationships and competencies among the uniformed services, public and private sector engineers, and related professionals. The New York City Post SAME Scholarship fund is an independently incorporated entity that maintains the post's scholarship fund and awards scholarships to deserving students of engineering and related studies.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3,000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.
Photo caption: Clarkson University Dean of Engineering Goodarz Ahmadi (left) presents the 2008 New York City Post, Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Scholarship Award check to Army ROTC Cadet Tyler S. Weaver.


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Wanna be da boss? Throw your old one out the window!
When I see a four at the end of a title I have a little voice in the back of
my head (we're working on it in therapy) which says "Warning: cheap sequel ahead".
But this is not completely true for Twisted Metal 4. Although not the best
of the series, is certainly better than the failure that was Twisted
Metal 3.
those of you who care about the story, this is how it goes: Sweet Tooth, who had
become the reigning star of Twisted Metal, wasn't satisfied with his job
of head clown; He waned to be the big boss! So he decided pay a visit to Calypso,
the current head honcho, and defenestrate him (Defenestrate: v. to throw out of
a window. Look it up). Then he took his place. Calypso, of course, now wants revenge.
If you've played any of the previous games, you know how this game goes: You pick a car, then you're put into an arena with a bunch of other cars with the mission to kill them before they kill you. To help you, you're given lots of guns, missiles, bombs, and other WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction). While doing this, you must navigate some of the weirdest levels you have seen, ranging from construction yards to a reeeealy big bedroom.
The level design has improved since the last game. In every level, there are
you standard set of tall platforms, things to duck behind, jump over, and blow
up. But in most levels, there's some sort of cool thing specific to that level.
In the construction zone, for example, you have a crane that you can take control
of, pick up other cars, and put them in metal smashers (I've always wanted to
do that!). In the Neon City arena, there's a train track complete with train.
And trust me, getting hit with that thing stings!
That's not to say that all of the levels are peachy-keen. In one level, it's
too easy to die by falling off of the edge (given how valuable a life is in this
game, that's bad), and another is a huge maze, where it's really hard to find
anyone to shoot at. It seems like they worked hard on the first few levels, then
sort of slacked off near the end.
The graphics are reasonable, but not outstanding. Everything looks pretty good, with bright colors and interesting textures. The vehicles are well made, with a lot of variance between different drivers and cars (I love that guy with a bug on his roof). And of course the explosions and other weapon effects are great. But there are still lots of problems with pop-up and with the camera going through walls.
sound is pretty good, with your standard set of guns firing, large nuclear weapons
exploding, and things being frozen. My only major gripe is the songs they play.
On each level, they keep on playing the same one over and over and over and over
and… you get the idea. I can only listen to Rob Zombie's "Dragula" so many times
before becoming clinically ill.
What makes or breaks most of these games is the physics engine, which is the
thing which lets you drive around, jump off of cliffs, flip over, and so on. Although
better than TM3, there are still a lot of bugs in the system. The main
one has to do with jumping between platforms. If you just miss the platform, you
will stay on the edge, but will never be able to get on it. It's as if the game
were trying to push you off. This also happens when you just go a little off the
edge. It gets to be a real pain after the hundredth time it happens. Also, with
certain cars, you can go into this weird position where your car is pointing straight
up, and moving backwards. It won't stop unless you let up on the throttle (Although
it is funny to see your cars acting like dolphins).
One of the major problems from TM3 was how often you'd end up on your
back, with your wheels in the air. Here they tried to make it less annoying by
putting you right side up as soon as it happens. Although it's unrealistic, considering
how often you end up on your back, it's a welcome change.
One feature that the makers have been pushing is the ability to create your
own cars. Even though it is cool to create a personalized car, it's only sort
of a novelty. There are only nine car bodies to choose from, ranging from small
to large. Then you can select a paint job, and whether or not it has "extras"
(a spoiler for sports cars, and those cool lights on the monster trucks). Then
you select a special weapon (only four of them), and a battle cry (about twelve
of these), and then you go into the ring. Despite the fact that you can save them
to the memory card, after you've seen all of the models, there really isn't much
of a reason to make new cars except to get those special weapons.
An improvement over TM3, Twisted Metal 4 is a reasonably fun
game. It puts some of the entertainment value back into blowing up over-armed
cars. But it still has its flaws. If you already own Twisted Metal 1 or
2 , make sure to rent this one first.


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Brother Mathis has done it again. Not content with provoking me to discourse on the nanny state last week, on Monday Joel produced a column about Martin Luther King Jr. and Obama. Our mutual pal Ben Boychuk suggested on Facebook that our pieces represented a good Right-Left counterpoint about MLK, as Joel's account mostly follows the conventional liberal narrative, though with caveats that it's "complicated." (Isn't everything "complicated" for liberals?)
Actually Joel's column is much more devious that it appears at first glance, because it has provoked me to . . . defend Barack Obama. And I'm not in much of a mood to do that, not just on general principle, but especially in light of that dreadful inaugural address. But Joel's remedial education requires this counter-intuitive step, even if it gives him perverse satisfaction to see me defending Obama against his (and implicitly, MLK's) critique.
So here's the part of Joel's argument that set me a-twitchin':
Truth is this: Obama made clear long ago that he wasn't bound by King's vision. At the ceremony where he received (undeservedly) the Nobel Peace Prize, he made that plain—praising King and Gandhi as apostles of non-violence. Then he delivered the slap:
"But as a head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation, I cannot be guided by their examples alone. I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism — it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason."
Four years later, the arrogance and condescension of that paragraph still sting. King didn't face down "the world as it is?" King didn't see that "evil exists in the world?" It's nonsense: King saw the world as it is, lived among people daily oppressed by evil. He didn't pick up a gun. But he won anyway. As a head of state, Obama might do well to ponder what that means.
Be sure to check out Joel's embedded link, as he dilates his argument here, and makes it worse. But also let's say good for Joel for noting that Obama's Nobel was "undeserved." It's small details like this why I bitterly cling to the Hope that Joel can Change.
I think one short query sets the stage for the counter-argument: Would (or did) Martin Luther King oppose President Eisenhower's decision to send in the national guard to enforce desegregation in Little Rock in 1957? That was, after all, using force rather than moral suasion, or basing one's decisions on a pure ethic of non-violence. (I have no idea whether King said or thought anything about Eisenhower's decision, which was bitterly criticized by Democrats, let's remember.)
But more to the point, I've made a point of having students—I did it again in my Pepperdine class just last week—ponder Churchill's account of how to think about the Munich crisis in The Gathering Storm, which makes the basic point that the responsible statesman, while not exempt from the dictates of moral principle, nonetheless inhabits a different plain of responsibility than the "private" moral leader. In this respect, Churchill's passage about Munich serves as something of a real world commentary on Max Weber's anguished reflections on "the ethic of responsibility" and the "ethic of ultimate ends" in his extraordinary 1918 lecture "Politics as a Vocation." The third sentence in this excerpt from Churchill is the key:
The Sermon on the Mount is the last word in Christian ethics. Everyone respects the Quakers. Still, it is not on these terms that [government] Ministers assume their responsibilities of guiding States. Their duty is first so to deal with other nations as to avoid strife and war and to eschew aggression in all its forms, whether for nationalistic or ideological objects. But the safety of the State, the lives and freedom of their fellow-countrymen, to whom they owe their position, make it right and imperative in the last resort, or when a final and definite conviction has been reach, that the use of force should not be excluded. If the circumstances are such as to warrant it, force may be used. . .
Churchill says earlier in this passage that "No case of this kind can be judged apart from its circumstances." The dedicated pacifist doesn't care about circumstances, and shouldn't. But the political leader responsible for the perpetuation of the nation's political institutions (Lincoln's phrase) has to be concerned with this above all else. Churchill also adds the line, "It is baffling to reflect that what men call honour does not correspond always to Christian ethics." That line is a whole seminar session all by itself.
I always get a lively and enlightening discussion from students from that third sentence—"it is not in these terms that [government] Ministers assume their responsibilities of guiding States." Obama had it right in his Nobel speech. (Dammit.) I don't think what he said deserves to be called a "slap" at King and Gandhi (though I think Gandhi deserves many many slaps). Obama—or his speechwriters—were rightly conveying the duty of statesmanship. And it is possible still to admire deeply King and other prophets of nonviolent moral suasion, while also acknowledging the different moral plane of responsible political leaders. Memo to Obama: so when are you going to get the Churchill bust back in the Oval Office, now that you've aligned yourself with him, at least rhetorically?
This is not to say that some of Obama's policies that Joel (and likely King too, were he alive) finds susceptible to liberal criticism, such as drone warfare and our continuing engagement in Afghanistan, are not reasonable. Both John and I have questioned here the wisdom of our continuing engagement in Afghanistan, and I've expressed to Joel that drone strikes, while effective, are very dodgy in some ways. But not on King's terms.
So, Joel, rewrite your term paper and turn it in next week. (Meanwhile, readers–does this count as a "Weekly Winston"?)


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Man seeks green card after American husband dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Australian man widowed by his American husband of more than three decades made a renewed pitch Monday for a green card after the Obama administration eased policies on gay marriage.
Anthony Sullivan, 72, asked federal immigration authorities in Los Angeles to reopen a 1975 petition filed by his late husband Richard Adams so Sullivan can be awarded residency as the surviving spouse of a U.S. citizen, immigration attorney Lavi Soloway said.
The request came decades after the couple sued and lost an early effort to win immigration benefits for same-sex married couples, and less than a year after the Obama administration started issuing green cards to gay couples who marry. Adams died in 2012 in the couple's Hollywood home.
"It doesn't matter how much time has passed and it doesn't matter how long it took to figure it out," Soloway said. "He and Richard sustained a constitutional injury for 40 years, and that should be corrected."
Claire Nicholson, a spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, declined to comment on the case.
The agency that oversees immigration benefits began issuing green cards to married gay couples last year after a Supreme Court ruling struck down a law that prohibited the federal government from recognizing married same-sex couples.
Since then, Soloway said he has represented more than 100 couples seeking immigration benefits related to marriage, including those whose American spouse died before they got green cards.
The difference in Sullivan's case is that his marriage predates the law, and the reason given for denying the couple's petition was simple "bigotry and discrimination," Soloway said.
Sullivan and Adams met in Los Angeles in 1971. They wed in 1975 after hearing about a county clerk in Boulder, Colo., who was giving marriage licenses to gay couples and headed there to get one.
The men applied for a green card for Sullivan but were denied. After the courts shot down their appeal, they left the country and stayed with friends in Europe in the mid-1980s but soon returned to Southern California where they lived until Adams died, Soloway said.
Sullivan, who overstayed his visa, would have celebrated his 39th wedding anniversary on Monday.
Clela Rorex, the former Boulder clerk, said she is amazed that issues surrounding gay marriage are still not resolved. She issued a marriage license to a first gay couple in 1975 after they were denied by a clerk in nearby, more conservative Colorado Springs, and the local district attorney said the law didn't bar her from doing so.
"I really want to live long enough to see marriage equality across the country and not a piecemeal thing among the states," said Rorex, who resigned after 2 1/2 years because of opposition to her decision.
Associated Press writer Colleen Slevin in Denver contributed to this report.
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An apron can do much more than just shield clothes from food stains.
According to Carolyn Stucky of rural Inman, it can tell the story of women's roles during the decade it was made.
An apron can do much more than just shield clothes from food stains.
According to Carolyn Stucky of rural Inman, it can tell the story of women's roles during the decade it was made.
Stucky is the owner of over 200 aprons, some dating back to the early 1900s.
"I've probably always had a respect for what women do in the home," she said. "There's probably no better symbol of that work than an apron. That's probably why I've started collecting."
She begun with the aprons she wore and made as a child, and added those of her grandmother and mother. Later, she kept her eyes open at garage sales and thrift stores, and even received some through the mail and on her doorstep. As she has obtained every kind of pattern, fabric and style, one thread connected them all.
"As I started collecting them, one of the things I noticed was that when I looked at what was happening to women, it was mirrored in their aprons," she said.
Patterns of style
Many of the patterns Stucky sees in aprons can be separated by decade. In the 1920s, society was simple but comparatively untroubled. Aprons often came from dresses and were turned to rags when they were deemed unusable. They were long and had no waist or embellishments.
"Society expected women to have good home making skills," she said. "A lot of the formal education was directed at teaching those skills."
This expectation continued into the 1930s and 1940s, but was eclipsed by the hardships World War II. Aprons were kept simple and were made by necessity.
In the 1950s, however, everything changed with the boom of automatic machines and industry in the United States. This confidence in society is mimicked on aprons, shown by a drastic shift in the use of pleats, lace, pockets, rhinestones and other decorative touches. Many were worn for fashion rather than function.
"You cannot get better than the 1950s apron," Stucky said. "Again, I think society expected women to be in the home. They upheld women. I mean, you were the queen. Women were expected to be feminine."
By the 1960s, everything changed. Women's work in the home was deemed second class, largely due to women's rights movements. Stucky herself was looking to be a dietician but desired rather to be in the home.
"Society looked at me like, 'If you're staying at home, you're just wasting your education,'" she said.
This thought process carried into the 1970s and 1980s, where Stucky said aprons in their former use disappeared from kitchens altogether. Instead they were made as arts and crafts. "It was not something you did because you needed to have a rack full of aprons," she said. "You did it because it was sort of an outgrowth of creativity."
Attitudes toward aprons have softened a bit since then, Stucky said. From the 1990s to today, many are butcher-block style and gender neutral.
"I think women today have choices," she said. "I think the work of the home plus professional work outside of the home…women are valued for what they can do."
Spreading the stories
This value is important for Stucky, who has now spoken to several local quilt guilds and historical societies about her discoveries.
"I do appreciate what women have done in the home," she said. "What we do for our families is extremely important. When you look back to the 1920s and 1930s, none of us have any idea about what these women accomplished. I sort of give them a voice."
And as she does her presentations, others have shared their voices.
"I love it because you hear more stories," she said. "Every apron has a story."
One of her favorite aprons goes along with one of her most sentimental stories. Her mother, who recently passed away around the age of 90, had sewn her whole life. Although she couldn't continue sewing, she embroidered as much as she could as her years came to a close.
"When I do my apron talk, one of the things I want to remember in this apron is that, as I get older, not to focus on the things I cannot do, but to focus on what I can still do," she said. This is but one of many stories she could tell, and each come with a new apron. But will she ever have too many?
"I'm getting there," she said with a laugh.


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Kristin Chenoweth Recovery: Actress Tweets 'Love Message' to Fans After Hospitalization
Kristen Chenoweth has spoken out for the first time about her recovery following her serious injury while filming on the set of "The Good Wife" almost two weeks ago.
Taking to her Twitter account, Chenoweth tweeted on Tuesday, "To all my fans: thank you for support and love!"
Her tweet in fact coincided with her 44th birthday, and the celebrations seemed to have put her in a particularly perky mood. She continued her message to fans by tweeting, "Doin better everyday. More to come when I'm able! … I love you guys xo."
Almost two weeks ago Chenoweth was rushed to hospital after being hit by some lighting equipment that had fallen from the set of "The Good Wife." The incident happened during filming at a Brooklyn location.
Chenoweth is best known on Broadway for her spectacular performance as Sally Brown in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," in 1999. For that role she won a Tony Award.
She has also won plaudits for her role as Glinda in the popular musical "Wicked" in 2003. On TV she is best known for playing Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing. However, she has also received recognition for her role as Olive Snook on ABC comedy drama "Pushing Daisies," for which she also won an Emmy Award in 2009. Most recently Chenoweth also starred in the controversial ABC series GCB in 2012.
Chenoweth has also spoken out publicly about her religious faith, and described herself as a "non judgmental, liberal Christian."


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Al Alburquerque's bases-loaded balk in the bottom of the 13th inning allowed Asdrubal Cabrera to score the winning run, as the Cleveland Indians completed a three-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers with an 11-10 victory at Progressive Field on Wednesday.
After Alex Avila's homer off Josh Tomlin (3-1) in the top of the 13th gave Detroit a 10-9 lead, the Indians got going in the bottom of the inning.
Michael Aviles began the inning with a single off Phil Coke (0-1). Michael Bourn sacrificed him to second and Cabrera was hit by a pitch. Brantley then singled to left to plate Aviles with the tying run.
David Murphy, who forced extra innings with a two-run ninth-inning homer, then grounded out to move the runners up to second and third and force Coke from the game in favor of Alburquerque, who intentionally walked pinch-hitter Yan Gomes before balking on a 1-0 offering to Ryan Rayburn.
Murphy finished with two hits and four RBI. Brantley went 4-for-7 with three RBI, two runs scored and two stolen bases for the Tribe, who overcame a four- run first inning deficit against one of the best pitchers in baseball.
Tigers starter Max Scherzer gutted out seven innings in his worst start of the season to give the Tigers a shot at the win. The right-hander overcame a rough first few innings and was charged with a season-high seven runs on 12 hits, striking out five and walking two. He left the game with a shot at the win, but Joe Nathan's blown save ruined that chance.


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So you've seen the Veronica Mars movie and now you want to know what Rob Thomas had to say about the ending. Or maybe you're curious about how Kristen Bell reacted when she found out she might not be the one to get to say a certain word? We're being careful with our wording here for those of you who may have stumbled into this article without having seen the movie yet. Please be advised, this article is full of spoilers from the movie and is meant for people who've seen it already. If you're looking for the non-spoiler conversations we had with director Rob Thomas and the cast, you'll find that here.
Up ahead, in addition to some not-so-PG-13 language, also find out why the voice-overs had to be rewritten, who might have gotten the sole F-word in the movie (if not Veronica), why Kristen Bell thought viewers might hate her after a certain scene and more spoilery tidbits about the movie!
'Fuck Me Running' was just one of the unused F-word phrases.PG-13 movies are usually allowed one non-sexual F-word. If you were paying attention during the scene where Veronica's getting hit on at the club, you'll note that the film made good use of that one F-word when Veronica tells Justin Long to "Fuck off" as he's trying to hit on her (or hit on her on behalf of a friend). From what Kristen and Rob told us, it sounds like a fair amount of thought went into not only how the F-word would be used, but also by whom. "When I heard that it might not go to me, that other people were going to get to test it out, I threw a conniption fit," Bell told us. "I said 'No fucking way, Veronica will say the F-word and that is the end of the discussion,' but Rob didn't know how he wanted to use it yet, and he wanted to allow himself options in editing, because he's a smart director."
So how else might the F-word have been worked into the dialogue? For Kristen Bell, an alternative F-word scene would've been when Veronica first sees the Serendipity picture and she realizes that it's a clue to the murder mystery. "She sees the 'Serendipity' on the boat in that photo," Rob Thomas explained. "And originally at that point, she said 'Fuck me running,' and it's a pretty great line delivery."
They may have toyed with the idea of giving the expletive to another character, but Thomas says there was actually no doubt that Veronica would get the sole F-word. But he did have one in there for Krysten Ritter's Gia. "I had to pull this out," he said. "She talks about Cobb and she says, 'He was just this weird kid reading Guns and Ammo and eye-fucking me across the room,' and that had to become 'eye-screwing,' because Kristen Bell was going to get the 'fuck' in the script, and at the end of the day, I just heard her telling Justin Long to fuck off. It made me happy. It was the thing that made me smile."
Us too! Speaking of things that made Rob Thomas happy, he mentioned loving the scene where Max Greenfield's Leo pretends not to recognize Veronica. Thomas said that scene made him very happy.


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John Weaver has adopted Portsmouth in a big wayBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
January 28. 2013 1:23AM
John F. Weaver, 33Home: Portsmouth
Birthplace: Nashua
Family: Wife, Alicia; daughter, Ella; mother, Mary; father, Bill
High school: Merrimack High School
College/post-grad degrees: I received my undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and my J.D. from Boston College Law School.
Current job: I'm an attorney at McLane, Graf, Raulerson, and Middleton, P.A., working out of the firm's Portsmouth and Manchester offices. This school year, I have also been an adjunct professor of sport law at Southern New Hampshire University.
Volunteer activities: I am on the boards of Pro Portsmouth, Inc. and the Portsmouth Public Library board of trustees. I chair the New Hampshire Bar Association Real Property Section and the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee. I volunteer with the N.H. Bar Association's Law Related Education programs, judging student civics competitions and speaking at high schools. As an alumni interviewer for Georgetown, I also meet with New Hampshire high school seniors who have applied to the university. I serve as a eucharistic minister at Corpus Christi Parish in Portsmouth.
PORTSMOUTH - Attorney John Weaver knew he wanted to return to New Hampshire when he graduated from Boston College Law School in 2008.
A graduate of Merrimack High School, Weaver spent time traveling after earning his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, but his heart was in his home state.
Immediately upon earning his law degree, he gained a position with McLane, Graf, Raulerson, and Middleton, P.A., working out of their Manchester and Portsmouth offices.
His practice is varied, Weaver said, covering everything from sports law to real estate law and telecommunications.
In recent years, Weaver developed an interest in artificial intelligence and the liabilities associated with technologies like autonomous cars or Apple's Siri system.
Weaver said the premise underlying most laws is based on the idea that only people make decisions, and therefore only people can be held liable for problems.
But if two autonomous cars get into an accident, who is responsible? Or, if a computer program creates a piece of music, who owns the rights to it?
Weaver explored some of the legal issues introduced by artificial intelligence in a March article of the New Hampshire Bar Journal and is currently writing a book on the subject.
"It occurred to me . that this is going to be a huge commercial area and probably a huge legal area and nobody is there right now," Weaver said.
Weaver writes chapters early in the morning and late at night after his wife, Alicia, and two-year-old daughter, Ella, are long asleep.
When not busy with law, Weaver stays involved with the community of Portsmouth, the city he has called home since 2008.
He has been a board member of Pro Portsmouth, Inc., the organization behind Market Square Day, First Night Portsmouth, Children's Day and other citywide events, since 2009 and also serves on the Portsmouth Public Library board of trustees.
In addition, he chairs the New Hampshire Bar Association Real Property Section and the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee.
Through his work with the New Hampshire Bar, he has helped to coordinate efforts to bring more real estate expertise to the state's pro bono program.
Weaver said he is honored to be selected for this year's class of New Hampshire Union Leader 40 Under 40 nominees. He said the list is a reminder of all the good work young people are doing in the state, and helps to retain more young adults in the state.


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The promise of Seattle was captured in an antic moment observed by one young environmental activist. Amid broad ranks of protesters, he saw that a squad of activists dressed as sea turtles was marching alongside members of the Teamsters union. "Turtles love Teamsters," the turtles began to chant. "Teamsters love turtles," the truck drivers replied. Their call-and-response suggests the flavor of this loose-jointed new movement–people of disparate purposes setting aside old differences, united by the spirit of smart, playful optimism.
The corporate-political establishment doesn't get it yet, but sea turtles and Teamsters (with their myriad friends) can change the world. This popular mobilization, disparaged as "Luddite wackos" by the prestige press, is still inventing itself, still vulnerable to the usual forces that can derail new social movements. But its moment is here, a rare opportunity to educate and agitate on behalf of common human values. Among its tasks, this new movement can excavate the human spirit, buried by a generation of arrogant power and a brittle-minded economic orthodoxy.
So what's next for turtles and Teamsters? The World Trade Organization's failure at Seattle (gridlocked on commercial disputes, oblivious to the reform agenda from the streets) has inspired a new organizing slogan: "Fix it or nix it." The WTO is the visible symbol of globalization, and the network of forty country-based campaigns that produced Seattle is working now on when to stage another international day of action.
The US coalition is, meanwhile, gearing up for another crucial fight: blocking Congressional action that would give China a permanent "good housekeeping seal"–instead of annual approval of most-favored-nation status–as it joins the WTO. Any genuine reform of the global system becomes far more difficult if China is to be treated as a "normal" trading partner–one reason business is so anxious to win this one.
Beyond immediate battles, this new movement will sustain itself and grow powerful only if it goes on the offensive–that is, if it can tell a positive story about how the world will look if its values prevail. It can do this with hard facts about the present realities, facts that blow away the establishment's smug abstractions. It should propose concrete legislation–reform laws to be endorsed at the community or state level and enacted by Congress. Not after years of diplomacy, but right now.
What follows is a rough draft of what this national legislation might look like (based on conversations with some leading activists and my own reflections). The central principle is that Americans have the sovereign power to impose rules on the behavior of their own American-based multinational corporations (notwithstanding the WTO's pretensions). Congress did so in 1977 with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits corporate bribery in overseas projects. That law was passed in response to public outrage over repeated scandals revealing that major US companies were buying foreign governments. Human abuses present in the global system are far more grave than business bribes.


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Lionel Sharpe of the Australian Jewish Genealogy Society (Victoria) just informed me of the passing of Les Oberman, 10-year president of the society. He died early January 21, just a few days before his 82nd birthday, after suffering a heart attack 10 days ago.
We saw Les and Sonya on almost every trip they made to Israel, as well as meeting up with them at IAJGS conferences. I interviewed Les and wrote about his research and roots trips to Eastern Europe.
I had last heard from Les on December 13, concerning next year's Australian Jewish Genealogy Conference.
Les worked without fatigue on so many projects and on his own family history. Those much younger than he became exhausted just listening to him relate his non-stop activities and roots travel.
With roots in Ukraine, Romania and Poland - his father was born in Ottoman Palestine - he kept looking for the town of origin (eventually discovered to be Bogopol, Ukraine), and even sent letters to hundreds of Oberman families around the world. He visited Bogopol on his second visit to Eastern Europe, after learning that his ancestor, Israel Oberman AKA Srul Guberman, was from there.
Rosh Pina, an early settlement in Israel, was founded by some of his ancestors, and he visited often.
Les created two websites detailing his research. For now, Oberman.org and Bucshester.org remain online. Do visit them.
I extend my personal condolences to Sonya and the rest of the family on the loss. Jewish genealogy has lost a very good friend, as have I.
22 January 2009
Australia: Les Oberman z'l
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After three days away from the practice field, Coach Gus Malzahn's Auburn Tigers began their third week of spring drills with a two-hour full-contact workout Wednesday morning at the Auburn Athletics Complex practice fields. This was Auburn's eighth session of the spring, and Malzahn felt his squad was "sluggish" in its approach to practice in the warm weather.
"This is probably the first time I wasn't pleased overall with the attitude and effort," Malzahn said afterward. "I told the guys afterward we've got to do better. From a coaches' standpoint, we are going to get that corrected and our players understand that.
"We ought to see improvement the second part of spring as far as execution, now that we've settled in on a few positions. Every day, they're getting in a routine and getting more comfortable. At the midway point, that's when you find out about leadership and mental toughness. We'll find out how we respond the next practice."
Auburn returns to the practice field Friday morning. The Tigers are working toward A-Day on Saturday, April 20, scheduled for a 1 p.m. CT kickoff at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
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