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Hope Darigan won't talk about her costume. Other
than the fact it's khaki and multi-colored she said it will remain a secret until opening night. Hope portrays Lowbutt the Goose in the Jamestown Community Theatre's production of "HONK!" due to open next weekend at the Community Center.
She has been a member of the JCT for the past four years. She and her husband, Frank, had gone to JCT presentations during the 11 years they'd lived here. "It was fun to see our friends and neighbors up on the stage," Hope said.
But it wasn't until she heard the company was going to do "Peter Pan." that she became involved with the JCT. Hope had seen the Broadway version at the Winter Garden in New York when she was in the seventh grade. She fell in love with the musical and just knew she had to be a part of the Jamestown production. She sang in the chorus and played the part of an Indian. She also sang and danced in "My Fair Lady," and sang and was a lobster in "Down the Rabbit Hole, What's a Nice Girl Like Alice Doing in a Place Like This?"
This is the first musical in which she has solo lines to sing. Saying she was "enticed into it," Hope sings duets with cats portrayed by Patty Vandal and Michael Liebhauser. "It's challenging and a lot of fun. I never had to memorize lines before. I've always been in the chorus. I"m a chorus person," she said.
"The people are so great. Everyone is so supportive. It's a great show with wonderful catchy music and a lot of humor.
"I'm so glad I'm in the play. It's a great diversion. It makes you do things you didn't know you would do."
When we asked Hope to expound upon that, she replied, "Wait until you see the costume."
"HONK!" opens next Friday, the 11th, at 7 p.m. Other performances are Saturday, the 12th at 7; Sunday, the 13th at 4; Thursday, 17th; Friday, 18th and Saturday, 19th, all at 7. HONK!
The Boy Scouts of Jamestown Troop 1 will be by Saturday to pick up the non-perishable food items that you leave in the plastic bags they dropped off last weekend.
If you did not receive a bag, call Scoutmaster Dave Volpe at 4232583 and he'll see that you get one. If you'd rather, you can drop your donations directly at St. Mark Church Saturday morning.
The event is the annual Scouting for Food Drive to help replenish the local food bank.
Most needed items are: canned tuna fish, salmon, chicken, turkey, beef stew, canned ham, peanut butter, canned fruits and vegetables, juices, dried fruits, red and brown beans, evaporated or powdered milk, pasta, oatmeal, cereal, rice, and macaroni and cheese.
Snow on October 29??? Must have something to do with global warming.
It was certainly warmer the next day, and there we were along with Tot Wright and Bill Murphy walking along the rocky shoreline of Sheffield Cove portraying three fishermen for a film under production. Also on the beach were Madi Brown and Allie Baldwin, both 8, filling small buckets with stones. We were being filmed by cameraman Bob Long and Producer David Garte of Chicago's Towers Productions.
It had all started with a phone call from Sonya Bieler last Thursday, asking us if we would like to be in the portion of the movie scheduled to be filmed in Jamestown over the weekend. The Jamestown Community Theatre had been contacted by producers from Towers Productions, asking if the theater group could round up background actors for the film, a documentary by the History Channel on the Great Hurricane of 1938. JCT
Artistic Director Mary S. Wright had asked Sonya to take on the responsibility of coordinating the gathering of the talent for the shoot.
We had to work Friday, so we offered our services for Saturday or, if need be, Sunday. The shoot for Saturday was cancelled due to the weather, so we got a call Saturday night to be at the PAC Club Sunday morning at 7:30. We had never been in a film before, but when Sonya calls at the behest of the JCT, we snap to action even if it is 7:30 on a Sunday morning.
One thing we learned right away about film making is don't be in a hurry. Acting in films is a lot about waiting. At 8:30 Cathryn Jameson put on our makeup. In addition to being in the cast, Cathy also volunteered her immense talents in hair styling and makeup for the rest of the actors.
It was at that point that Supervising Producer Kathleen Quinn announced that the three of us would be the fishermen on the beach. Associate Producer Jason Bolicki went scrambling for appropriate clothing for us. We were all given the same type 1930s caps. We received an outdoorsy shirt and Bill ended up with a pair of waders that, thank goodness, he never had to wear.
At 10, we were alerted that filming had begun at Mackerel Cove and to proceed there forthwith. Upon arrival they were doing another scene. A half hour later we moved across the street to Sheffield's Cove.
We must have walked up and down that beach six to eight times until David and Bob thought we had it right. At 11, they thanked us and asked if we could stay to help out as background actors with the crowd scene on the Mackerel Cove beach.
At about 12:30, we were asked to be a casual stroller crossing the beach to the water and to please remove our shoes and socks. We were to stop half way down to the water, greet two young lady sunbathers, and then proceed to the water's edge. Thank heavens it was low tide. We had to do the scene some eight to 10 times before having it proclaimed a wrap.
Lunch at Trattoria Simpatico was one of the rewards. Our names in the credits on the film will be another. It was great fun. Kudos to Sonya for co-ordinating successfully a very difficult task.
Other Jamestowners who were film actors for the weekend are: Eric Bieler, Steve and Michael Liebhauser, Bonnie Jamison, Carol and John Baldwin, Kathleen Brown, Patty Vandal, Dana, Talley, Michael, and Durga Larkin, Johnna Jamieson, Clarke and Kathy Westall, Dan and Mike Harpool, Rebecca Brazil; Garrett Reis, Jenna Regan, John Knudsen, Hannah Cordes, and Kathy and Sydney Pazera.
See you on the History Channel in the spring.
*** The last cruise ship of the season departed our waters on Tuesday.
Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic continues his discussion of vitamins in his Pet Tip of the Week.
"Two weeks ago, I had brought up vitamins for older pets, and today I wanted to touch on other available supplements. Glucosamine and chondroitin are precursors to cartilage and aid animals that have arthritis or joint problems. Pets with heart conditions may benefit from co-enzyme Q and carnitine to improve heart function and strengthen heart muscle. Increased fatty acid intake, especially omega fatty acids, as well as zinc supplements may greatly improve skin conditions and hair coat.
"Other pets with digestive issues may benefit from probiotics or additional digestive enzymes. Many of these supplements can be found over the counter, but it is recommended that you consult your veterinarian for doses and availability before starting your pet on any supplements. Many of these are intended to complement, and not replace, prescription medicines for your pet's age-related conditions." Thanks, Doctor! WOOF!
Despite the raw and rainy conditions last Saturday night, 160 people turned out for the second annual Boy Scout Troop 1 Pumpkin Spooktacular bringing to 385 the total number of visitors last weekend to the Toppa house on Beach Street.
Also, an additional 45 pumpkins over last year brought the spectacular display surrounding the Toppa home to 170 carved pumpkins.
Maryann Toppa, who organized and arranged the show, said that raffle winners were Debra Richards, Rebecca Heavey, Eileen Hoff, Stephanie Waterman, Dimitri Verrechioni, Jack Romano, and Maya Gamble. Great job, Maryann!! KAWOOOOooooo!!
Fourteen million gallons of waste dumped in Newport Harbor. Didn't Save the Bay just dedicate its new headquarters in Providence. Why? Go figure!
Memo from the mountains. Scoutmaster Dave Volpe of Boy Scout Troop 1 reports that the troop had a great time at its campout a week ago last weekend in New Hampshire.
"We arrived at Camp Wanocksett around 9:30 Friday night. The Scouts set up camp, built a fire and enjoyed a cracker-barrel (cheese and cracker social around the campfire) before retiring for the evening.
"Saturday morning we woke to frost on the tents. The boys prepared a pancake breakfast before leaving on our hike. We began our walk up Mt. Monadnock at about 10:30 a.m. led by Drew Matley and Tom Munro. All the Scouts did an outstanding job on the hike to the summit. We arrived at the top at 12:30 p.m. It was 30 degrees and sleeting in 20 mile-per-hour winds. Needless to say, we did not stay long at the summit and descended to the tree line before stopping for lunch.
"We completed the hike without incident and returned to camp to start our campfire for dinner. While the Scouts prepared dinner the heavens opened and a monsoon started. The heavy rains continued throughout the night and into the morning. The boys remained dry throughout the evening. But, not the adults. Their tent had a leak. After a quick breakfast, the troop headed home."
Following Tom and Drew up the mountain were Kevin Flanagan, Madison Hansen, Nathanial Hopkins, Nick Fay, Shane Farrelly, Cameron Toppa, Daniel Devon McMaster, Vaughn Nelson-Lee, Eric Archibald, Dylan Walsh, and Josh Nolan.
The adult leaders who got wet besides Dave were: Glen Hopkins, Jim Archibald, Vaughn NelsonLee, and Sue Fay. Great job, guys!
Elsewhere that weekend, three other members of Troop 1 traveled to Camp Yawgoog to complete their Order of the Arrow Ordeal, a three-day campout focused on inducting the attending scouts into the OA, a Scouting honor society.
Jamestown scouts attending were Ross Bohensky, Michael Brendlinger and Kyle Wright. Kudos!!
Let's see, we're now into November and still no decision on thinning out the island's deer population.
We're observing the melding of archaic local and state buracracies and the complete absence of common sense.
We knew it would come to this eventially. In this litigious society in which we all live, the island's creatures are now looking for legal representation.
The Humane Society of Jamestown's board of directors is currently in need of a lawyer who can assist them in providing counsel on various issues.
Linda DiMauro, president, said, "We would like to know if one of our members who may be a lawyer would be interested in either perhaps providing counsel on a per diem basis or perhaps at some point possibly assisting the board on a more permanent basis as one of the directors. If so, please let me know and we can discuss it further." WOOF!
Tuesday is Election Day somewhere.
We welcome your contributions to this column birthdays, anniversaries and other good stuff.
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As more and more companies move away from disposable items, logoed drinkware options such as mugs have become an increasingly strong advertising opportunity. Sure to be used time and time again, mugs are available in dozens of shapes and sizes and offer multiple advertising applications for your promotional programs.
An important part of the ad specialty industry's $1.74 billion drinkware market, mugs are widely used in both the home and office. According to ASI research, thirty-nine percent of people keep mugs at the office in addition to at home.
Still not convinced that promotional mugs are a promotional product with staying power? Twenty-five percent of consumers in the United States own logoed drinkware, half of which use it as often as two or three times per week.


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Colts won't have Landry, Angerer in San Francisco
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Linebacker Pat Angerer and safety LaRon Landry did not travel with the Colts to San Francisco on Saturday and will miss Sunday's game.
Angerer did not practice Friday and was listed as doubtful. The Colts had already ruled Landry out of Sunday's game because of an ankle injury that kept him out of practice all week.
The loss of two defensive starters is more bad news for Indianapolis (1-1), which lost at home for the first time in almost a year last weekend and has put three offensive starters on injured reserve in less than two weeks. Running back Vick Ballard sustained a season-ending knee injury last week in practice. Left guard Donald Thomas (quad) and tight end Dwayne Allen (hip) were put on injured reserve this week.
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The league leading Reds rallied from a big deficit to beat the second place Twins in St. Matthew Cal Ripken Baseball Majors Division action last week.
In a battle for the top spot in the league the Reds plated seven runs in the final inning to wipe out a five run deficit and grab a 10-8 win.
The Twins scored four runs in the first two innings without the benefit of a base hit. In the first Sam Weining drew a one out walk, stole second and scored when Chuck Moore reached on a throwing error. Moore then scored on two wild pitches. The Twins tallied two unearned runs in the second when Randy Waddell and Chris Carli came home on a throwing error on a ball off the bat of Shawn DeWeese.
The Twins added three more runs in the third. Sam Weining got the Twin's first hit and scored on a double by Moore, who came home on a one out single to center by Richard Bascom and an error. Alex Bascom's single plated his twin brother to close out the scoring.
Trailing 7-1 the Reds began their comeback in the fourth inning. Asher Hinshaw opened the frame with an infield hit, stole second, moved to third on a groundout by Joe Schmidt and scored on a wild pitch. The Reds chipped another run off the lead when Logan Nichols singled to center to plate Jack Varga.
But the Reds saved the best for last, sending 11 batters to the plate and scoring seven runs on five of their 12 hits for the game. Robert Thomas opened the inning with a single, stole second and scored on a Jackson Diaz double to left. Diaz scored on a wild pitch and Christopher Stockdale singled in Alex Brockman to cut the lead to two.
The Reds tied the game when Stockdale raced home on an error that put Hinshaw on first. Hinshaw gave the Reds the lead when he scored on a Varga squeeze bunt. Two insurance runs scored when Schmidt scored on a Zac Martin single to left. Martin stole second and third and came home on an errant throw from the catcher.
In the bottom of the inning the Twins added a run on back to back singles by Adam Weining and Richard Bascom before winning pitcher Stockdale slammed the door to keep the Reds in first place. Nine of the 10 Reds players had a hit. Richard Bascom paced the Twins offense, going 2-2 with two RBIs.
The win was the second Reds victory over the Twins this season. On April 17 the Reds rode a no-hit pitching performance by Harrison Hobbs to a 4-2 win.
In other games…
The Dodgers rallied from a 5-0 third inning deficit, scoring five sixth-inning runs, to topple the Rays, 8-5. Travis Seibert went 2-3 and drove in four runs while pitching two innings of shutout baseball to close the game and earn the win.
The Twins got a no-hitter from Moore in a 10-0 win over the Rangers. Moore allowed just three walks and one batter reached on an error, striking out the side in the final inning.


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The National, a brooklyn based quartet, will release High Violet tomorrow. The Band's previous album's Boxer and Alligator were conglomerations of jack-and-coke anthems, and step-down-the-ballroom-stairs swaggers that established their distinctive sound. This sound is evolved and perfected on High Violet.
Songs like "Daughter's of the SoHo Riots" and "Fake Empire" submerged the listener in a New York City sound tracked by melodies of pondering. High Violet feels as though the City were scoring the sheet music of one's brain. The album is consistent with The National's musical diction and tact, but has pulled away from the single throbbing line of the band's previous albums. The poignant reflectiveness remains, but seems to have adopted a more global weight on the grains of Matthew Berninger's baritone. His voice stands solitary and eager to react to the delicate rising of the strings.
The album is like a family of seals swimming in interweaving harmony.
The old National is apparent on High Violet. Songs like "Sorrow" are reminiscent of "Slow Show"; the steady stroke of the guitar, the emphasizing send of the snare, and the lugubrious rumble of the baritone. However, songs like "Afraid of Everyone" establish a previous un-sprung freshness. A subtle morphing that rivals the screaming power of Alligator's "Mr. November," is built into a crushing anthem, and then effortlessly wound into a tight percussive drive.
High Violet categorizes The National with Radiohead, Coldplay, Iron and Wine, and Modest Mouse. The National's success with High Violet is not exclusively the effortless perfection of their brand of music, but their ability to innovate within their own territory and sacrifice nothing to redundancy or chicanery.


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During a job search one of the more challenging encounters is not dealing with the tough interviewers or interview questions, but it is responding to the question: What is your current salary? This question typically comes at least twice during a screening and selection process: First during the call when a recruiter is screening you for a possible fit and finally during the offer stage when you have already been cleared because of your success through various stages of the interview process.
Of late, there have been many blogs and articles by various career professionals imploring those in job transition to not disclose their salary information so that it is not held hostage to their next salary. In their writings or messages they provide various ways to dodge this question, some of which border on the ludicrous. Some even suggest cracking some kind of joke around this issue, while others provide a rather rude script of what to say, not just when the recruiter asks such a questions during initial screening, but also during the offer stage when your potential hiring manager is trying to put a reasonable package to hire you!
What prompted me to post this blog is some recent examples I encountered when some of my clients not only got screened out from the get-go, but a few C-level candidates did not get an offer they were expecting after going through a long interview process. Some, who concealed their compensation history got offered considerably lower packages than their current compensation, which resulted in shutting down to process after considerable investment of everybodys time and others ended up having to take lower salaries because they were about to lose their current job, which they did not disclose prior to the selection process getting underway.
This blog is about an alternateand provenapproach to how to look at this whole issue of compensation and how to deal with it in a way that not only gets you what you deserve or want, but also puts you in a strong position to negotiate what you want in your next salary. The approach I am suggesting here is not just an idea or an experiment, but something I have repeatedly used to coach my clients transitioning out of a current job to their next.
The Screening Call: Before we get into how to handle this salary question from the get-go, let us first examine the reason why the salary question is relevanteven importantstarting with the beginning stages of the selection process. In almost all cases, including the C-level situations mentioned above, a recruiter first makes a call to screen potential candidates to present to the hiring manager. These recruiters are given the job specs, which include salary parameters.
Recruiters know that anyone looking to change jobs will seek a bigger salary package than what their current or recent job offered them. So, when the recruiter asks the salary question in the initial screening call it is best to have a good answer that protects your ability to go to the next round: a call or meeting with the hiring manager or team. At this stage the recruiter is merely assessing if your price point allows them to present you to the hiring manger based on how the screening went during that call. Thus, lack of this salary information can be a show-stopper despite how well qualified you were for that job and how well you did during that screening call, making you a blind candidate. A recruiter will not typically present a blind candidate to the hiring manager for the fear that they may look less than diligenteven sloppyin how they present candidates to the hiring manager.
The second reason why this information is important, even if you do not get to the next step of the selection process, is that it provides the hiring company where the market is. HR departments constantly update their salary-range information from this data to stay competitive in the market. So, disclosing your salary for a given position helps the hiring company compile salary data to keep market parity. Although this may not be a direct concern of yours, it is an act of being a good citizen, who also benefits at your current employer if you never even contemplate leaving your current employer. HR departments constantly revise salary ranges based on such date to keep current employees at their company happy.
The third reasonperhaps the most important reason of allto disclose your salary is the strategy you use to decouple your current or recent salary from the one that you want or deserve in your next job. To many, this concept may appear foreign, but it is commonsense. The salary you earn in your job must be derived from the value you create for the employer in that job. What you earn(ed) or were paid in your previous job is not relevant to what you must be paid in your next. So, even though you have disclosed your current (or most recent) salary to the recruiter during that screening call, it should not be hold hostage to what you can negotiate based on how the interview process reveals the value you create in your next job. This is the single most important factor that decouples your past salary from your next. This is also the most important reason why you must disclose your salary information with confidence from the get-go!
Now that we have laid the rationale for why salary information should be disclosed when asked let us develop a script of how to conduct these conversations during the various stages of the interview process:
During the screening call with the recruiter: Recruiters ask this question in a variety of ways, so be careful to listen to what is asked and provide a response to that question ONLY. For example, if the recruiter asks what salary are you looking for in this role, your answer should (only for this stage of the process): My 2016 W-2 (employers tax reporting document) reports total wages at $xxx. The reason for stating your W-2 (or such) numbers is that it provides instant credibility. It also precludes any temptation of exaggeration you may have at this stage. Many companies require you to later submit such documents as a part of the final checklist before hiring. So, make sure that you disclose this number truthfully and with alacrity. Sometimes, the recruiter may ask you for the breakdown of the total number. In such cases provide what is on that form.
Once you disclose this data the recruiter is satisfied that they have what they need to decide if you are within the salary range of candidates they can present to the hiring manager. If they then ask you what salary you are looking for in the job you are after, the best answer to that is: I am open to what works for us both and Im not attached to any number at this stage. All that the recruiter is now looking for is how much risk they are taking in presenting this candidate if they get to the offer stage and the company is not able to make a winning bid.
During the interview with the hiring manager: At this stage this can happen in two different ways: Early in the process the hiring manager has calibrated you as a viable candidate and wants to know if they can present you to their chain of command for the next round of selections. Although this is not still reached the negotiation stage, your best response to this question is: I have already disclosed my W-2 numbers to the recruiter during the initial screening, so you know my current price point. In this role I expect to be compensated based on what value Im able to deliver to you and hope that we can make that equitable. So, if the hiring manager is now all excited about you then they are going to read this as: If we can match or better the W-2 numbers we can win this candidate. So, they are going to move you to the next stage. At this stage you must not be too specific about your demands.
Final round before the offer: When all the interview rounds are done either the hiring manager or recruiter loops back with you and asks what will work for you if they were to put a package together. At this point you must bring the value concept to the fore and say something like: After these rounds of interviews I am confident that I bring and can deliver the following value to this role. Based on that assessment you provide a number that is above the number you disclosed from your W-2. How much higher this number is, will depend upon your ability to make a cogent closing argument to your hiring manger based on what you learned from your interview rounds.
Once you have reached this stage it is time to start negotiating what you can settle for and let them go ahead with packaging you a formal offer.
This process is something Ive coached my clients to use and in many cases we practice this script many times until they feel confident of able to navigate through the process to get what they set out to achieve. In many cases they were able to achieve 20-40% jump in their total compensation with this approach. The only hurdle to getting what you want is your own conviction of value you bring to the job and your ability to convince the hiring team that you can deliver that value!
Good luck!
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Dilip has distinguished himself as LinkedIn's #1 career coach from among a global pool of over 1,000 peers ever since LinkedIn started ranking them professionally (LinkedIn selected 23 categories of professionals for this ranking and published this ranking from 2006 until 2012). Having worked with over 6,000 clients from all walks of professions and having worked with nearly the entire spectrum of age groups—from high-school graduates about to enter college to those in their 70s, not knowing what to do with their retirement—Dilip has developed a unique approach to bringing meaning to their professional and personal lives. Dilip's professional success lies in his ability to codify what he has learned in his own varied life (he has changed careers four times and is currently in his fifth) and from those of his clients, and to apply the essence of that learning to each coaching situation.
After getting his B.Tech. (Honors) from IIT-Bombay and Master's in electrical engineering(MSEE) from Stanford University, Dilip worked at various organizations, starting as an individual contributor and then progressing to head an engineering organization of a division of a high-tech company, with $2B in sales, in California's Silicon Valley. His current interest in coaching resulted from his career experiences spanning nearly four decades, at four very diverse organizations–and industries, including a major conglomerate in India, and from what it takes to re-invent oneself time and again, especially after a lay-off and with constraints that are beyond your control.
During the 45-plus years since his graduation, Dilip has reinvented himself time and again to explore new career horizons. When he left the corporate world, as head of engineering of a technology company, he started his own technology consulting business, helping high-tech and biotech companies streamline their product development processes. Dilip's third career was working as a marketing consultant helping Fortune-500 companies dramatically improve their sales, based on a novel concept. It is during this work that Dilip realized that the greatest challenge most corporations face is available leadership resources and effectiveness; too many followers looking up to rudderless leadership.
Dilip then decided to work with corporations helping them understand the leadership process and how to increase leadership effectiveness at every level. Soon afterwards, when the job-market tanked in Silicon Valley in 2001, Dilip changed his career track yet again and decided to work initially with many high-tech refugees, who wanted expert guidance in their reinvention and reemployment. Quickly, Dilip expanded his practice to help professionals from all walks of life.
Now in his fifth career, Dilip works with professionals in the Silicon Valley and around the world helping with reinvention to get their dream jobs or vocations. As a career counselor and life coach, Dilip's focus has been career transitions for professionals at all levels and engaging them in a purposeful pursuit. Working with them, he has developed many groundbreaking approaches to career transition that are now published in five books, his weekly blogs, and hundreds of articles. He has worked with those looking for a change in their careers–re-invention–and jobs at levels ranging from CEOs to hospital orderlies. He has developed numerous seminars and workshops to complement his individual coaching for helping others with making career and life transitions.
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Throughout this journey, Dilip has come up with many groundbreaking practices such as an Inductive Résumé and the Genius Extraction Tool. Dilip owns two patents, has two publications in the Harvard Business Review and has led a CEO roundtable for Chief Executive on Customer Loyalty. Both Amazon and B&N list numerous reviews on his five books. Dilip is also listed in Who's Who, has appeared several times on CNN Headline News/Comcast Local Edition, as well as in the San Francisco Chronicle in its career columns. Dilip is a contributing writer to several publications. Dilip is a sought-after speaker at public and private forums on jobs, careers, leadership challenges, and how to be an effective leader.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard says a ship lost power and steering and collided with another ship and a barge docked on the Mississippi River near New Orleans.
Coast Guard spokesman Jonathan Lally says the Tuesday night accident happened at a terminal on the river. There were no injuries.
Lally says the outbound Maltese-flagged vessel Flag Gangos struck the Liberian-flagged vessel Pamisos and the barge. He says a towing vessel crew was transferring fuel oil from the barge when the barge broke free causing some oil to be discharged into the river from a hose. The hose was immediately shut off.
The Coast Guard reopened the river at 2 p.m. to all traffic around the terminal near Gretna across the river from New Orleans.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.


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Leonard Giguere of Worcester earned a Purple Heart for his actions in Vietnam, but his real one wasn't strong enough for the poor treatment he received at the Veterans Administration hospital in West Roxbury, according to a lawyer for his family.
Mr. Giguere was 58 when he died in 2005, four days after undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. And while a federal judge determined that the hospital was not to blame, he also made a rather troubling finding. Mr. Giguere received "less than perfect care" at the VA hospital, and a different course of treatment might have saved him.
The family's lawyer, Brian Burke, plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor, who found in favor of the United States in 2011 after a five-day bench trial.
"In effect, the District Court said that if this veteran had undergone his surgery at the Lahey Clinic, a private hospital, Leonard Giguere would have lived, but since he went to a VA hospital run by the federal government, he died and no one there is to blame," Burke said.
Forty years before he died, Mr. Giguere was injured while serving as an army combat tracker in Vietnam, when a land mine exploded and pushed a portion of his stomach and intestines into his chest. He recovered and was healthy late into his 50s.
On May 4, 2005, he suffered chest pains and was admitted to the VA hospital. Two days later he underwent surgery, and four days after that he died of a heart attack. The widower and grandfather was self-employed and had no health insurance.
According to trial records, post-op patients often develop an ileus, which is the cessation of digestive function. In Mr. Giguere's case, his stomach was plastered up against his lungs and began to expand, distressing his already compromised cardiopulmonary system. The additional stress from the ileus led to his heart attack while doctors were inserting a naso gastro tube, Burke said.
The family filed a medical malpractice case, faulting the surgical team for failing to be alert to the greater dangers an ileus presented to Mr. Giguere, and for failing to insert the NG tube earlier.
The case was heard by Judge Saylor, who did not issue written findings for almost a year. He agreed with the family's medical expert witness, Dr. Andrew Warner of the Lahey Clinic, that the death was preventable. Still, he found no liability on the part of the VA hospital and said its approach did not deviate from standard medical practice.
Instead, he wrote that "in hindsight, it seems likely that a different course of treatment might have led to a different outcome" and that "Dr. Warner's viewpoint ... represents how a physician with a relatively high degree of skill and foresight would have approached the issue. In the ultimate analysis, Dr. Warner's approach was likely 'right,' in the sense that it was more likely that the patient would have survived had his suggested course of conduct been followed."
Yesterday, Burke called the decision "extremely troubling" and said families should be aware that the government does not hold VA hospitals to the same standard as private hospitals. Shortly before taking the Giguere case, he filed a suit involving another veteran who died under similar circumstances.
"Excusing ... the VA hospital for failing to prevent this patient's clearly preventable death has grave implications for veterans' health care in this country," Burke said.
Mr. Giguere's daughter, Cindy Jackson, put it another way.
"My father was there for his country," she said. "But his country wasn't there for him when he needed it."
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MINOX DTC 650 and DTC 1000 in Comparison Test
With so many camera trap makes and models now available, advances in technology and (in general) a reduction in price, camera trapping has become a pastime for anyone and everyone to enjoy. Here I have a more detailed look at some of the makes and models on the market, features to look out for and how best to set your camera trap up.
Camera trapping can be phenomenally satisfying and a really enjoyable pastime. The buzz when you remove your SD card and flick through the images is something I will never tire of, as there is frequently a surprise waiting. Camera traps, or trail cameras as they are also known, have gone from expensive scientific kit to garden toy in a very short space of time. Increasingly they are being used for scientific and professional ecological monitoring but their affordability, durability and technological advancement have made them just as rewarding to use at home or on your local patch. In this article I will generally focus on the more affordable models rather that the higher priced scientific ones such as Reconyx.
MINOX ZP8 1-8x24mm Tactical Scope SHOT Show Optic Preview
MINOX is one of the oldest names in the optic business. At SHOT 2015, MINOX USA introduced an entirely new tactical line of scopes, binoculars and spotting scopes. The MINOX tactical scopes are built by Optronica in Germany. Optronica was the actual manufacturer of the scopes for the now defunct Primer Reticles. Their 3-15x56mm design was selected for the Marine Corps version of the KAC M110 semi-auto 7.62x51mm sniper rifle.
MINOX ZP8 and ZP5 TAC Rifle Scopes
MINOX of Germany has introduced three new rifle scopes in their new ZP TAC line, marketed as a High End Tactical line of optics. The versions include the ZP8 and the ZP5 in two magnification options. These new scopes are particularly designed for professional military or law enforcement snipers and the rigors and stringent requirements those shooters must have to be successful. However, the ZP TAC scopes have many features that serious shooters can appreciate as well. MINOX optics have a reputation for superior quality and craftsmanship, and the new models appeared to be clear examples of that level of product commitment.
MINOX BL 8x33 HD Binoculars Review
Back in 2010, I tested and wrote a review on the previous version of the MINOX BL 8x33 binoculars. As you can see from it, my reviews have come along way since then, but even so with the scores they achieved, it is obvious that I really liked them. Indeed they went on to win the award as the best safari & travel bin later on in the same year.
To this day, those MINOX binoculars still remain one of my favorite mid-sized bins and that is why when I discovered that they had updated their BL range to include HD glass in their lenses, I just had to get my hands on the 8x33 version. I really wanted to see if they were as good in all the areas as the older version, but also if the HD lenses had perhaps even improved on them optically.
BL 8x44 HD - Best Birding Binocular 2014 - Best Binocular Reviews Award
No matter whether it matters to you or not or indeed if it is good or bad, the fact is that more binoculars are being manufactured in China than ever before and increasingly you can now only find a relatively small number of the very finest and most expensive instruments being fully designed and manufactured in places like the US, Japan and the traditional European countries like Germany and Austria.
MINOX are proud of the fact that their BL Line (as well as most others) are fully designed and manufactured in Germany and that they are hand finished and undergo a rigorous quality control inspection before leaving the Wetzlar factory.
This level of detail and care is becoming increasingly rare, but what makes it even more unique is that they have been able to produce what they say is a premium quality binocular at what is a very competitive price, that is way below many similar products no matter where they are made.
So to see just how well they are made and indeed how they perform, I spent a couple of weeks using and testing the latest version of the MINOX BL 8x44 HD binoculars - read my full review.


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Israel's Prisoner X: when does national security trump civil liberties?
It's not just Australians who want answers over the alleged suicide of a dual citizen in an Israeli cell. Long known as Prisoner X, the case of Ben Zygier sparks heated discussion over how much the public should know.
- Gil MIHAELY. Columnist, Yedioth Ahronoth;
- Ron SOFER. Lawyer at the Paris and New York Bars;
- Amélie LEFEBVRE. Jurist, Paris law firm Bourdon, Voituriez & Associates;
- John LYONS. Middle East Correspondent, The Australian (from Jerusalem);
Produced by Anelise Borges, François Picard, Mary Colombel, Christopher Davis.


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Fabled 300kg fish 'Pig Nose' caught after 40 years
A giant fish, which had eluded fishermen in Canada for 40 years, has been caught.
The massive 'Pig Nose' sturgeon had been a legend of Loch Ness proportions in British Colombia and was considered a dream catch.
'Pig Nose' was such a legend that Nick McCabe, tour guide with River Monster Adventures, would take groups of fishers up and down the Fraser River searching for it.
Named after an injury where the fish's snout had been seared off, it hadn't been sighted in four decades.
Last week, after two hours of wrangling, McCabe and his latest tour group finally nabbed the sturgeon.
'Pig Nose' is three metres long and tipped the scales at 294.8kgs.
Jeff Grimolfson, another guide with River Monster Adventures, told Global News that they were walking on clouds.
"This fish has been the talk of fishing and sporting goods shops for years."
Lucky for 'Pig Nose' and employees of River Monster Adventures, sturgeon-fishing trips are catch-and-release.
After having its measurements and a few pictures taken, the giant was sent back into the deep.


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Roberto Mancini has insisted that Manchester City's owners did not expect the team to progress from its "difficult" Champions League group.
The Premier League champions' second consecutive group-stage exit was confirmed on Wednesday night thanks to a 1-1 draw with Real Madrid – only City's third point from five games in the competition.
The 47-year-old admitted he is disappointed with the failure to advance given the talent in the squad and is now keen to right the wrongs domestically.
When asked by Sky Sports if the club's owners would be aggrieved with the team's failures in Europe, Mancini replied: "No. We knew it was a difficult group. But we had a good team, when you lose against Madrid and Dortmund you are disappointed.
"I am disappointed like everyone here but also when we started this group we knew it'd be a difficult group. We are a good team and we went out and we made some mistakes.
"The fans are fantastic. They understand we are disappointed like them. They are really important because the season isn't finished. We are top of the league, we have the FA Cup. Now it's finished we can do nothing."
Unlike last season, when it snatched 10 points before being knocked out, City is yet to register a win in the competition, and Mancini rued mistakes in previous games – namely the two late goals conceded against Real Madrid on matchday one.
He continued: "I think that we didn't lose tonight, we lost in the first few days. Madrid, and Dortmund at home. It was a different game but 2-1 with five minutes to go.
"In Amsterdam, we scored, but we were missing one or two chances to close the game."


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Chicago-Kent College of Law established the Center
for Access to Justice & Technology (CAJT) to make
justice more accessible to the public by promoting the use
of the Internet in the teaching, practice, and public access
to the law.
The article was featured in the April 26, 2008 issue.
To view the write-up, visit the Chicago
Daily Law Bulletin website.
Spend a couple of hours a week volunteering at the Self-Help
Web Center (SHWC) in Room 602 of the Daley Center.
The SHWC has three Internet-enabled computer workstations
that give self-represented litigants access to user-friendly,
web-based tools and resources created by Illinois Legal
Aid Online. SHWC users can utilize Illinois Legal Aid Online's
content to better understand their legal issue and court
procedures. In addition, over fifty document assembly interviews
are now available to help visitors complete many common
court forms and letters.
SHWC is currently seeking volunteer web facilitators. Volunteers
gain real-world experience by helping self-represented and
under-represented litigants access legal information through
the Internet. To become an SHWC volunteer or to learn more
about this program contact Michael Hoffman at email@example.com.
Student Associate Needed for Self-Help Web Center!
The Center for Access to Justice & Technology is seeking
a student eligible for work-study to work part-time (approximately
6-10 hours per week) at the Self-Help Web Center to help
pro se litigants create court documents using A2J Guided
Interviews® and HotDocs® Interviews, obtain case and docket
information, and provide location information for other
helpdesks and legal aid organizations. The work-study position
is available immediately and pays $10 per hour. If you are
customer-service oriented, dedicated, and enjoy helping
others, please forward your resume and available schedule
to Rachel R. Medina, CAJT Manager, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Preference will be given to current SHWC volunteers.
Student Associate Needed for the Center for Access to
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The Center for Access to Justice & Technology is
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in administering national grant projects which fund the
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program. The Certificate requires 12 credit hours for completion,
including Public Interest Law and Policy and the public
interest section of Legal Writing IV. Letter of intent forms
are available on the Center
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This Week In Island History
Week of November 10
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, Nov. 10, 1911
Tuesday's election in Jamestown was notable for the lack of interest. The absences of opposition to the Republican nominations for the General Assembly prevented any local enthusiasm and the state ticket failed to bring out the voters.
That the vote was so large was owing wholly to about half a dozen, who early in the day secured three automobiles and kept after the voters until the very moment of closing the polls at 6 o'clock. Their efforts were rewarded by the polling of 174 of the possible 269 votes, or three more than were cast last year. Even the license issue attracted little attention but the vote was the largest, only eight filing to declare their opinion on the liquor question The town went anti-license by a larger majority that last year, the vote being 37 for and 129 against the granting of liquor licenses.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, Nov. 5, 1936
The regular meeting of the Jamestown chapter [of the] American Red Cross was held at the residence of the chairman, Mrs. Frank E. Weeden, Wednesday afternoon. The chairman of the supply committee reported 81 cotton rolls made, 45 sterilized dressings and 45 napkins folded.
From the Newport Daily News, Nov. 6, 1936
One of the landmarks of the island, the old Ferry House and waiting room, over 140 years old, which stood for many years on the corner of Narragansett and Conanicus avenues, is being razed. The old house stood on the original site until changes and additions were made to the Bayview hotel, also owned by Mr. Knowles, and was then moved to Knowles Court, north of the hotel, and until the present time was used as quarters for the hotel help.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News,
Nov. 7, 1961
The Jamestown Bridge Commission, last night at a special meeting, awarded a one and a half million dollar insurance policy to the Insurance Company of North America, Meredith and Clarke Inc. of Jamestown, agents. The three-year premium is $5,800. The cost of insurance against physical loss or damage is $5,500; against loss of revenue, $300. The total insurance on the bridge, four and one half million dollars, is equally divided among three companies.
The Jamestown School Committee last night decided not to publish school lunch menus during November because a rush for a turkey meal last Thursday left 44 pupils without a serving. The 44 youngsters left without a meal had to go home for lunch.
From the Newport Daily News,
Nov. 8, 1961
Electric power in Jamestown was out for a period of from 12 to 50 minutes early this morning when one of the submarine cables from the city failed in an unexplained manner.
25 years ago
From the Newport Daily News,
Nov. 12, 1986
The Town Council agreed Monday to assist the Rhode Island Parks Association in its efforts to restore the fog signal building at Beavertail to house a saltwater aquarium.
In other action the council accepted the donation of a three-foot high bronze sculpture from local artists Kay Worden ("Dreams of Tomorrow") and agreed to colease the recently acquired state highway garage on Narragansett Avenue to Jamestown Distributors and H.V. Holland Inc. for nine months at a total of $400 a month. The money collected will be placed in a special fund to be used for whatever ultimate purpose the town plans for the site.
From the Newport Daily News,
Nov. 13, 1986
New utility poles needed before cable television construction can begin should begin within 10 days, a phone company spokesman said Wednesday.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
Nov. 7, 1996
A total of 2,762 votes were cast in Jamestown, Tuesday, which is 70 percent of the island's 3,924 registered voters. (In the presidential election Clinton/Gore got 1,424 votes; Dole/Kemp had 868 votes; and Perot/Choate had 333 votes. Reed won for U.S. Senate and Kennedy for Representative in Congress. Paiva-Weed won for R.I. senator and Levesque for R.I. representative.)
Town officials will hold a public workshop on the proposed reconstruction and extension of East Ferry's steel pier next Wednesday, Nov. 13.
(The sixth annual Jack O'Lantern Jog was held. Winners are listed in various categories.)
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
Nov. 8, 2001
During the fifth school budget work session last week, School Committee members examined rising costs for maintaining buildings and grounds, and studied the increasing costs for transportation.
(Photo caption) Workers construct a stone retaining wall at the community center. The wall is part of a landscaping project now underway at the East Ferry landmark.


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OREGON — Led by the play of four sophomores, the Rockford Lutheran girls volleyball team took down fellow Big Northern West foe Byron with a 25-21, 25-15 semifinal win Tuesday at the Class 2A Oregon Regional.
Sophomores Mackenzie Zanello and Abby Woollacott had nine and eight kills respectively to lead the No. 2 seeded Crusaders (19-11), who will face No. 1 seeded Oregon in Thursday's 6 p.m. final.
"We're really a young team, but we have a lot of talent," Zanello said.
In fact, the Crusaders have one freshman, six sophomores, five juniors and one senior on the roster.
Lutheran coach Kyle Milborn said the team started slow but has won 14 of the last 16 matches. The Crusaders finished the regular season on a 5-1 run to take fourth in the conference with an 8-5 record.
"We knew with being a young team, we would have some growing to do," he said.
The Crusaders looked strong against Byron, but had to weather several surges. The Tigers roared back late in the first game with three straight points before Woollacott's kill ended it.
In the second game, the Tigers (17-19), who finished fifth in the BNW, tied the score at 6-6 and 8-8 before the Crusaders went on a tear to lead 17-10 en route to the win.
"We tend to make some unforced errors and so the momentum changed for us," Byron coach Aimee Dach said. "It can be hard to get it back against a team with a lot of hitters."
Along with Woollacott and Zanello, sophomores Katie Dolan had eight assists and Hailey Reese had 13 digs. Junior Dakotah Hazlewood led the Crusaders with 11 assists.
Byron's Drew Bernhard had eight kills.
In the earlier game, Oregon upended Rockford Christian 25-13, 25-8. The host Hawks fell behind in the first set 6-1 before taking the win.
"I never felt we were so good that we would blow anyone out of the water," Oregon coach Faith Watson said. "In that first game, Rockford Christian held with us and we had to play our game. In the second game, I felt we pulled it together."
The Hawks (27-9-1) were led by Shannon Cullen and Emily Wright, who each had four kills. Sommer Rhea added three kills, 10 digs and three aces, while Delaney Mahoney had 18 assists and one solo block.
Mandy Uhrig had eight assists, while Hannah Klint had two assists and two blocks for Rockford Christian (12-23-1). Hunter Stromquist had five attacks and one kill.
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The Case Against Barack Obama
- The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate
- Narrated by: Nick Summers
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 08-12-08
- Language: English
- Publisher: Phoenix Books
Regular price: $20.27
Publisher's Summary
In this shocking expose, Freddoso explores the reality behind the rhetoric, the plans behind the promises, and the faults the facade, revealing:
Freddoso exposes the real Barack Obama: a typical big-government politician, the number-one most liberal U.S. senator, and - if he were commander-in-chief - a serious threat to our national security.
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- Maegan Duryea
- Bountiful, UT
- 08-31-08
Raises a few serious quetsions...
I was convinced, by the end of this obamaganda, that Obama is, in fact, not a candidate of change but just the same old stuff. Anyone who believes otherwise is easily swayed by good oration. (And its usually really good).
I was not, however, entirely convinced that he wouldn't make a decent president.
In the end, he is grossly under experienced to be the president of the US (as his foreign policy comments imply among other things) so I would probably pull the lever for McCain. We will see...
22 of 38 people found this review helpful
- Terijo
- AUSTIN, TEXAS, United States
- 09-21-08
pretty good
This guy works a little too hard to be 'fair' to Obama. The material he presents, fairly meticulously, doesn't require him to make nice as much as he does. Obama's career history is pretty clear. It all suggests a very canny policital animal and one who is dedicated to the status quo. The 'change' mantra, if not hype, is a brand new theme in his life.
10 of 19 people found this review helpful
- Ralph
- San Bernardino, CA, USA
- 05-29-09
Why no one should be surprised!
The true nature and agenda of President Obama is slowly emerging as his agenda unfolds. But it was all there IF ANYONE (other than Mr. Freddoso, can we say "the Media?") had bothered to wonder what he was doing/learning for 20 years between leaving the most radical wing of the Harvard Law School (who's OBJECTIVE is to figure ways to radically re-write the interpretation of the Constitution without having to go to all the trouble of actually amending it!) and his emergence on the national political scene. That is, mastering the tactics of left-wing Chicago politics with its unique mix of ruthless legal/political maneuvering (voting "present") in concert with literal mob intimidation when needed (ala ACORN and blue-collar union brownshirts). Now its too late but at least you will better understand why the man says all the "right" things, while DOING the exact opposite with his policies.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
- Ladybug
- 09-20-08
Revealing and fascinating
The author does a great job of taking Barack Obama's voting record, speeches, and books Barack has written to show what Barack believes about the issues in this election. The issues that you never hear as he campaigns. It helped me clarify who he is and how important this election is.
8 of 16 people found this review helpful
- Ddh
- 10-16-08
Great book but a too sarcatic sounding reader
The book content was good and provided a lot of information I wish was known to more people before it is too late. My only problem is that the reader had a very sarcastic voice that for me distracted from the facts.
3 of 7 people found this review helpful
- Billy Jack
- SEATTLE, WA, United States
- 02-05-10
More honest than I expected
This book did a lot to change my opinion of Obama. I see him now as being a bit more honest in some areas, and even more calculated in others. The real audience for this book should be people who love or hate him. This book will... or should make you take another look at your opinions. Needless to say, I wish he wasn't President.
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- Amy
- 09-08-08
Very well researched
4 of 17 people found this review helpful
- alice
- 11-07-08
At times was repetitive, which wasn't a problem for me as it helped reinforce topics introduced. Reveals much about Obama's early political career and anecdotes about the company he has kept along the way. Did not have time to 'fact check' but many of the allegations have been substantiated during election campaign months.
0 of 7 people found this review helpful


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WORCESTER — Settlement talks to reinstate a Worcester police officer found to be wrongly dismissed by the city appear to have broken down and a new round of court action has begun.
The New England Police Benevolent Association, Local 911, filed a contempt complaint Aug. 29 in Suffolk Superior Court over the city's failure to reinstate former Officer David W. Rawlston, who was fired after an April 2007 incident in which he allegedly pointed a handgun at three teenagers in his neighborhood.
The city received notice of the court filing Friday, according to City Manager Michael V. O'Brien.
He said the action came as a surprise to the city, without any prior notice or discussion with the union, because settlement discussions were ongoing and the city had agreed to work to determine a portion of back payment wages.
Lawyers for the union did not return emails or phone calls seeking comment.
The manager said there had been communications between the two parties as recently as last Thursday.
"It is unclear why this court filing was made while settlement discussions were ongoing," Mr. O'Brien said in an interview Tuesday. "At no time has the (NEPBA) made a formal demand for payment. Given the efforts we have made to resolve this matter, in good faith, we are extremely disappointed by this filing."
Mr. Rawlston was fired in February 2008 after the city alleged that on April 7, 2007, he pointed a loaded handgun at the teenagers that the off-duty patrolman's neighbors said were on his land, and that he struck two of them with the weapon.
But an arbitrator said the teenagers lacked credibility and ordered Mr. Rawlston reinstated.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge upheld the arbitrator's decision and the Appeals Court affirmed the lower court's ruling.
In June, the state Supreme Judicial Court decided not to intervene in the case.
Mr. Rawlston, meanwhile, filed a lawsuit in 2011 against the city, Police Chief Gary J. Gemme and Mr. O'Brien. He contends they violated his state and federal civil rights, interfered with his contract rights, defamed him and intentionally inflicted emotional distress on him.
The suit seeks $2 million.
Mr. O'Brien said the city and Mr. Rawlston had participated in mediation in recent months and had ongoing settlement discussions in the hope of bringing the matter to a conclusion.
He said the process involved settlement offers that included a path to reinstatement and back-pay. But, the manager added, the settlement offers were rejected last week.
Mr. O'Brien said the city notified Mr. Rawlston's lawyer on Aug. 28 that it will work to prepare payment of the portion of back pay due as a result of the current legal status of the original arbitration case.
"Due process was followed, ensuring that all steps of the judicial process were complete in the original arbitration case," Mr. O'Brien said. "The city has always been and remains prepared to comply with any back wage payments resulting from the original case. We continue to believe that it is in the best interest of all involved to resolve all legal issues and move on."


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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon
- 1 Model description
- 2 Hardware
- 3 Other hardware
Model description
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (X1C). There is also a touch version. Comes without optical drive. Has UEFI BIOS with BIOS-legacy fallback mode.
This procedure is far less involved then UEFI and works perfectly.
In order to turn off UEFI booting you will need to boot into your BIOS and change the boot mode to Legacy. Afterward, follow the Beginner's Guide for standard installation instructions.
See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1288500#p1288500
1. You follow the guide from here and skip the part about errors and refind: Create_UEFI_bootable_USB_from_ISO
2. Make sure you USB is mounted to /boot/efi and install grub, like so:
$ grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=arch_grub --boot-directory=/boot/efi/ --recheck --debug
OBS: You can remove the entry from your EFI bootmanger, with efibootmgr by issuing:
$ efibootmgr -b XX -B
3. Now you can choose if you wanna hack you grub.cfg or use the custom config in grub.d. Either way generate the grub.cf:
$ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/grub/grub.cfg
4. Make certain appropriate changes have been made to grub.cfg. My working example, which could use cleaning:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### menuentry 'Arch Linux test' { load_video set gfxpayload=keep insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod ext2 set root='hd0,gpt1' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt1 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt1 B35D-FE34 else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root B35D-FE34 fi echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...' linux /arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz root=UUID=B35D-FE34 ro archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201306 echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
5. Move the grub.efi to overwrite the archiso supplied one (which btw works on my desktop. I guess GRUB includes more workarounds for buggy firmware from manufactureres. See this video, if you have time: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/10014.html
$ mv /boot/efi/EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi /mnt/efi/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
Success. Somethings are implied, like GPT partitiontable etc.
Almost everything works out of the box.
Sound works out of the box.
Not tested.
Works out of the box. Uses the following module
- iwlwifi
lspci output: Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 96)
Works out of the box. Haven't looked for possibilities to configure multi-touch.
The video card installed is Intel HD Graphics 4000. See intel for more info.
Install the video driver with
pacman -S xf86-video-intel
To use SNA acceleration method add
Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" EndSection
EDID bug
Update: This is due to the use of a mini-DP->VGA-adapter. Tested without bugs with a mini-DP->DP-cable.
There is a bug getting EDID for the external screen when connected at bootup.
I get this error message
[ 93.736330] [drm:intel_dp_i2c_aux_ch] *ERROR* too many retries, giving up
If external screen is connected after bootup everything works fine.
I had to manually add a modeline and set the preferred resolution with this script.
# Monitor setup EXTERNAL_OUTPUT="DP1" INTERNAL_OUTPUT="LVDS1" xrandr |grep $EXTERNAL_OUTPUT | grep " connected " | if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then xrandr --newmode 1920x1200_60 154 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235 -hsync +vsync xrandr --addmode DP1 1920x1200_60 xrandr --output $INTERNAL_OUTPUT --off --output $EXTERNAL_OUTPUT --mode 1920x1200_60 fi
And add the script to startup at X-session start. Since I use slim it`s done with this setting in slim.conf
sessionstart_cmd dp-output
Get KMS working by adding i915 to the modules line
$ mkinitcpio -p linux
You also have to enable VT in BIOS.
Works out of the box. Tested with guvcview
Fingerprint Reader
fingerprint-guiAUR from the AUR is already patched to work with the X1's newer fingerprint reader. To get the gui's dropdown to recognize your device, you'll have to add your user to the
plugdev group:
$ gpasswd -a <username> plugdev
See fingerprint-gui for more information about config
lsusb output: 147e:2020 Upek TouchChip Fingerprint Coprocessor (WBF advanced mode)
WWAN (Mobile broadband)
This model includes a Ericsson H5321gw adapter that can be used as a mobile broadband adapter and GPS.
The SIM-card must be inserted in the back of the laptop.
Add text to the following file and reboot
options cdc_ncm prefer_mbim=N
Tested OK with networkmanager with modemmanager installed
lsusb output: 0bdb:1926 Ericsson Business Mobile Networks BV
Install gpsd from extra and mbm-gpsd-git from AUR. Add this to the following file
ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bdb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1926", ENV{ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM}=="09", ENV{MBM_CAPABILITY}="gps_nmea" ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bdb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1926", ENV{ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM}=="03", ENV{MBM_CAPABILITY}="gps_ctrl"
Reboot to reload udev rules.
sudo mbm-gpsd
See if there's GPS-output
cat /dev/gps0
sudo gpsd -b -N /dev/gps0
To test it
Or use e.g. foxtrotgpsAUR in AUR.
lsusb output: 0bdb:1926 Ericsson Business Mobile Networks BV
Keyboard backlight
Works out of the box. Use FN+Space
Works out of the box. Test with:
$ systemctl start bluetooth $ bluetoothctl [bluetooth]# power on
Other hardware
This model comes without a docking port.
Since the video for USB 3 Docking Stations currently isn't supported[1], I had to go for USB Port Replicator with Digital Video (USB 2.0)
This works:
- USB-devices connected to dock
- Audio
- Microphone
- Ethernet
This don't work:
- VGA (did not give it a real effort, but didn't work out of the box)


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Monday, 19 November 2012 06:14 AM
Oil was still gushing from BP Plc's Macondo well in 2010 when a little-known non-profit rushed to establish a new resting area for more than 1 billion migratory birds that stop each year at the Gulf of Mexico.
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a government- chartered charity, realized it could pay rice farmers in adjacent areas of Louisiana and Texas to flood their lands, creating instant, faux wetlands for the birds to rest and feed. All in all it spent more than $22 million on that and similar Gulf projects, much of funded by the sale of BP's recovered oil.
Now it has a mission 100 times greater: administering projects to restore the Gulf with $2.4 billion from the settlement last week between BP and the Department of Justice. The group, which typically operates out of the spotlight, now takes a primary role as it gets the largest share of the $4.5 billion criminal settlement.
"When something breaks and somebody needs to pay for it, you'll normally see that we're the fiduciary," Jeff Trandahl, the Washington-based foundation's president, said in an interview, referring to environmental crimes.
The foundation was formed in 1984 as Republican senators wanted to counter President Ronald Reagan's funding cuts for conservation with a way to augment private contributions, Trandahl said. The foundation doesn't do the conservation work itself; it administers grants to national non-profits such as the National Audubon Society or Ducks Unlimited or to local conservation groups.
Court Settlements
It also gets funds from companies as part of court settlements or as government-mandated offset requirements as part of the permitting process.
"I've never heard anything bad about NFWF," Cynthia Sarthou, executive director of the Gulf Restoration Network, said in an interview. "They tend to be conservative in their investments, which I can understand," given the nature of funding, she said.
Since it was formed, the foundation got $618 million in federal funds and, which combined with other contributions, resulted in more than $2 billion in conservation efforts. The group distributed $46 million from federal sources and $16 million from private funds in 2011, according to its annual report. It has a professional staff of about 100 people. And it has taken on a variety of corporate partners.
Corporate Partners
Since 2005 the foundation has administered the Acres for America fund for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer. The program has preserved more than 700,000 acres nationwide, more than offseting its total development of stores and parking lots, Trandahl said.
Southern Co., which owns the coal-fired power plants with the greatest greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S., gave more than $11 million to the foundation for protection of pine forests, which can help bird populations and capture carbon- dioxide.
And FedEx Corp., the world's largest air-freight carrier, chipped in after the BP spill, using specially outfitted trucks to carry delicate sea-turtle eggs in Florida from the Gulf Coast, where they faced certain death, to Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic coast, providing them a chance of survival.
The April 2010 Macondo well blowout and explosion set off the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The government estimated that more than 4 million barrels of oil spilled.
The record settlement announced last week ended all criminal charges against BP, Europe's second-biggest oil company, and settled Securities and Exchange Commission claims.
BP Settlement
BP agreed to plead guilty to 14 criminal counts including 11 for felony manslaughter for the 11 people who died when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and sank. The company still faces civil claims.
Of the $4.5 billion, $2.4 billion will go to NFWF, in installments over five years.
The settlement includes details on how the group must spend that money. About half of it will go to Louisiana, to help the state government restore barrier islands or for river diversion projects. The other half will be divvied up among projects in Texas, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
In each case the states will identify projects they want funded, and the foundation will issue requests for proposals or similar processes to figure out which groups can best do the work.
"These funds are going to go to the agencies, or NGOs or whomever is doing the work," Thomas Kelsch, the group's vice president for conservation, said in an interview.
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patrick_stinson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 53 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
• Develop a visual identity (logo) for Active Community Wellness. The logo should include color application.
• Overall ACW will target adults who are looking for the social interaction and reinforcement of others to improve their health and wellness.
Active Community Wellness
• ACW is more than a fitness club, it offers all three components of a successful lifestyle change program, Education, Group Support and Motivation. The three components should be communicated in some way, either through literal icons or more of a symbolic corporate treatment.
• The color palette must communicate a feeling of health, freshness and/or outdoors.
• We are open to either the logotype being represented as Active Community Wellness or as ACW
• We are looking for more of a corporate feel for this identity instead of it looking like a running club or a general health club.
• ACW offers a "system" (Education, Group Support and Motivation) that helps individuals adopt a better health and wellness lifestyle.
• Should capture a sense of energy, movement or inspirational quality.
• No tag line needed
• No clip art
• Nothing cartoony
• This is not a Nike logo
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We've spent the last couple of weeks exploring wine appreciation, including likes and dislikes and first impressions in color and bouquet. Today we'll look closely at the palate.
There are many ways in which the palate contributes to the evaluation of wine. I've been attending seminars for more than 42 years and am still amazed at the array and sophistication of schemes, methodologies and routines attached to the palate. But essential to all is to start with a clean palate.
When evaluating wine, try your best to stay away from salty or piquant foods that can really knock out a wonderful glass of wine. Cheeses are always nice to have with wines, as are nontropical fruits, unsalted nuts and unsalted crackers. There are wonderful choices for food pairing with wine that are easily sourced on the Web.
There is some debate about whether smoking obscures taste sensations. Smokers quite freely will tell you their habit does not interfere with their evaluation of wine. I think we need to take their word about this. On the other hand, I have spoken to numerous wine judges and others in the business who have told me that when they quit smoking, they felt they had come out of a great fog and that their palate appreciation skills became much, much sharper.
I like to make palate evaluation simple by breaking it down to three components: the front palate, the second palate and the third palate. Let's look at the three components briefly.
Front palate: This is where initial taste sensations take place, where we perceive blasts of fruit, wood and other flavors associated with specific varietals. For example, we begin to differentiate the lighter-tasting gamay from the more intense petite sirah. These initial sensations of intensity and concentration are to be locked in while the wine is still on the palate.
Second palate: I like to think of this part of the palate as the tactile sensory tool. Here is where we feel weight and density — light vs. heavy, grip and richness. To me, this part of the palate expresses the gravitas of the wine. A wine might have good initial flavors, but if the second palate tells me that the juice is thin or watery, no amount of flavor can help it. This is especially true of red wine, but also of white wines such as rich chardonnay or spicy Alsatian gewurztraminer.
Third palate: This is where all taste sensations need to come together in unity and enhancement, where there is no outstanding or edgy qualities. Balance and harmony are felt here.
Lorn Razzano is former owner of the Wine Cellar in Ashland and still works there part time. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wine evaluation: It all starts with a clean palate
We've spent the last couple of weeks exploring wine appreciation, including likes and dislikes and first impressions in color and bouquet. Today we'll look closely at the palate.


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The Federal Reserve has the appropriate policies in place right now and will remain accommodative until the economy improves, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans told CNBC in an interview on Thursday.
Evan said on "Squawk Box" he's optimistic that the economy is improving, but the unemployment rate probably won't get to 6.5 percent until mid-2015. The 6.5 percent target is what the Fed set as a goal for winding down its low interest rate policy. The latest jobless rate reading was 7.9 percent last month.
(Read More: Economy Adds Another 157,000 Jobs; Rate Up to 7.9%)
The Fed has not set any targets for how long it will keep going with quantitative easing (CNBC Explains), but Evans said the bond-buying program may need to continue for another six months to a year until "we're clear the job market outlook has improved."
(Read More: No Wall Street Consensus on When & How QE Ends)
He said he's looking for sustained growth of 200,000 non-farm jobs per month. "I'd love to see [a drop to] 7 percent unemployment sooner rather than later … I think it might possible to turn-off the quantitative easing … before 7 percent."
As for economic growth in 2013, Evans said, "I'm looking for 2.5 percent growth this year. That's against a 1 percent drag under the current law for fiscal policy." He's referring to the automatic across-the-board government spending cuts set to kick-in next month unless President Barack Obama and Republicans leaders can agree on a plan to replace this process known as "the sequester."
(Read More: Sequester Is 'Terrible, Terrible' Legislation: Rubin)
Evans did leave the door open to a greater-than-expected drag on the economy due to those spending reductions.
—By CNBC's Matthew J. Belvedere; Follow him on Twitter @Matt_SquawkCNBC


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BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ — State police say the wife of a trucker died after her husband lost control of his vehicle and crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike in south Jersey.
Acting Sgt. Adam Grossman says the vehicle overturned and burst into flames in foggy conditions in the southbound lanes in Burlington Township, just north of the Burlington and Mount Holly interchange early Wednesday.
Grossman says the preliminary investigation suggests 67-year-old Joseph Daudi of Asheboro, N.C., initially hit a guardrail.
Daudi escaped with minor injuries. His 67-year-old wife, Glenda, was found dead in the truck's cab.
No word if the weather was a factor and the accident remains under investigation.
A turnpike spokesman says the right lane will likely remain closed for emergency repairs until 3 p.m.


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The Tampa Bay Lightning have reassigned right wing Brandon Segal to the Norfolk Admirals, Lightning Executive Vice President and General Manager Brian Lawton announced today. Segal, 6-foot-2, 214-pounds, appeared in his first career NHL game Tuesday night against Pittsburgh, skating 14:45 and recording one hit, one takeaway and one blocked shot. Segal's reassignment to Norfolk likely comes at the expense of the deadline day acquisition of right wing Martins Karsums, who is expected to be in the lineup for Friday's lineup against the St. Louis Blues.
The Lightning also announced that they have reassigned defenseman Richard Petiot to the Admirals. Petiot, 26, is a 6-foot-3, 200-pound native of Daysland, Alberta. He was acquired by the Lightning yesterday in a trade with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Petiot has skated in 45 games with the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League this season, recording three goals, 14 points and 59 penalty minutes. Originally drafted in the fourth round, 116th overall, by Los Angeles at the 2001 NHL Entry Draft, Petiot made his NHL debut with the Kings against the Atlanta Thrashers on January 19, 2006, and recorded two penalty minutes in two games with the Kings.
In 161 career AHL games with the Marlies and Manchester, Petiot has recorded 10 goals, 37 points and 192 penalty minutes. Prior to turning pro Petiot played four seasons at Colorado College (2001-05), tallying 11 goals, 33 points and 220 penalty minutes. In 2005 he helped the Tigers reach the NCAA's Frozen Four.
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Set in Sunnyside, Queens on the day Pope Paul VI visited New York in 1965, "The House of Blue Leaves" centers on zookeeper and would-be songwriter Artie Shaughnessy. Desperate to escape life with his schizophrenic wife, Bananas, Artie is having an affair with his flamboyant neighbor, Bunny Flingus. The ambitious Bunny hatches a plan to commit Bananas and move to Hollywood so that Artie can collaborate with his childhood friend Billy Einhorn, who grew up to be a famous film director. Also on the scene are Artie and Bananas' troubled son, a deaf movie actress and a trio of excitable nuns. By the end of this historic day, whose dreams will come true?
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Event Type: Performing Arts, Public Event
Audience: Public
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Shares of Ascena Retail Group (NASDAQ:ASNA) have seen the needle move -4.08% in the most recent session. The NASDAQ-listed company saw a recent bid of $3.06 on volume of 1,428,338 shares. The stock presently has a yearly EPS of $-5.71. This number is derived from the total net income divided by shares outstanding. In other words, EPS reveals how profitable a company is on a share owner basis.
Is The Stock Safe to Invest? (Brief Overview):
Ascena Retail Group (NASDAQ:ASNA) is a company with market capitalization of $582.94M. Beta factor, which measures the riskiness of the security, was recorded as 1.71. A beta of 1 indicates that the security's price moves with the market. A beta of less than 1 means that the security is theoretically less volatile than the market. A beta of greater than 1 indicates that the security's price is theoretically more volatile than the market.
ATR value, which discloses information about how volatile a stock is, was recorded as 0.16. A stock undergoing a high level of volatility has a higher ATR, and a low volatility stock has a lower ATR. The ATR may be used by market technicians to enter and exit trades, and it is a functional tool to add to a trading system. It was created to allow traders to more accurately measure the daily volatility of an asset by using simple calculations. The indicator does not indicate the price direction, rather it is used primarily to measure volatility caused by gaps and limit up or down moves. The ATR is fairly simple to calculate and only needs historical price data. Looking deep into the volatility of the stock; it remained 10.50% volatile for the week and 6.16% for the month.
Growth potential is an organization's future ability to generate larger profits, expand its workforce and increase production. The growth potential generally refers to amount of sales or revenues the organization generates. In the last five years, the company's full-year sales growth remained over 14.70% a year on average and the company's earnings per share moved by an average rate of -5.71.
Relative Strength Index (RSI 14) under Consideration:
Investors feel curious to know whether the company is in "Oversold Territory" or "Overbought Territory". For this they take help from the indicator known as Relative Strength Index (RSI), a momentum indicator that expresses a relative assessment of the strength of a security's recent price performance. RSI values range from 0 to 100. The default time frame for comparing up periods to down periods is 14, as in 14 trading days. Relative strength indexes (RSI-14) for Ascena Retail Group (NASDAQ:ASNA) is at 76.35. Traditional interpretation and usage of the RSI is that RSI values of 70 or above indicate that a security is becoming overbought or overvalued, and therefore may be ready for a trend reversal or corrective pullback in price. On the other side of RSI values, an RSI reading of 30 or below is generally interpreted as indicating an oversold or undervalued condition that may signal a trend change or corrective price reversal to the upside.
Historical Performances to Watch:
The stock returned 35.74% in this year through last updated price. The stock, as of last trade, has shown weekly return of 38.10%, which was maintained at 41.78% in 1-month period.
Analysts' Suggestions to Watch:
Wall Street analysts covering the stock are projecting that the stock will reach $2.25 within the next 52-weeks. In terms of Buy, Sell or Hold recommendations, the stock (ASNA) has analysts' mean recommendation of 3.30. This is according to a simplified 1 to 5 scale where 1 represents a Strong Buy and 5 a Strong Sell.
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The home side are the favourites for this all-Premier League clash, with 4/9 (1.44) on offer from Paddy Power for a Blues victory.
That price is quite short considering Chelsea's last home match in the league was a shocking 1-0 defeat against struggling QPR, although last season's Champions League winners responded to that loss by making a successful start to the defence of their other trophy win from last season, thumping Southampton 5-1 in the FA Cup.
Former Newcastle striker Demba Ba was signed for £7.5m before their trip to the Saints - where the Senegal international scored twice - and if he starts ahead of Fernando Torres he is a good bet at 8/11 (1.73) to strike anytime.
Benitez's tinkering is hard to predict however, although leaving Juan Mata, Eden Hazard, Ramires and Ashley Cole on the bench for Chelsea's beating by their local rivals QPR may have reminded him to play his best team as often as possible.
Swansea have not been on their strongest form recently though, with just one victory achieved from their last six games in all competitions.
Michael Laudrup's side did earn a victory at Fulham before New Year, and are priced at 13/2 (7.5) to win again just down the Kings Road.
A draw looks worthy of consideration at 10/3 (4.33), given that the first leg is likely to be a tight affair with neither team wanting to concede.
Betting on Chelsea from a -1 position could reap rewards with odds of 11/10 (2.10) for punters who have confidence in the Blues, but it seems safer to back minimal goals in what appears to be a pretty even encounter.
Swansea will try and keep the ball and maintain possession, which could help stifle the home side's goal threat.
Although the Blues have found scoring easy in recent weeks, the blank against QPR would have worried Rafa Benitez who may field a more defensive line up in this first leg match.
When Chelsea faced the Swans earlier in the season at the Liberty Stadium a 1-1 stalemate ensued, and backing under 2.5 goals in this meeting looks a tidy prediction at 5/4 (2.25).
As previously mentioned, if he starts then Demba Ba looks the most potent goal threat and having struck four times in his last two games (for both Newcastle and Chelsea), the 27-year-old is worth a flutter at 7/2 (4.5) to score first.
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Hey Guys,
lugiamania here with another new Fall 2013 title today! Crunchyroll will be airing the new Kyoto Animation title Beyond the Boundary TOMORROW, Wednesday October 2, at 9:30am Pacific Time.
Beyond the Boundary will be available to Crunchyroll audiences in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
"There is a girl who is the last surviving member of a 'certain clan' and a 'half-youmu' boy who shouldn't exist...
This is their story.
One day after school, the half-youmu boy, Akihito Kanbara, meets a girl who looks as though she is about to jump off the roof at any second. Her name is Mirai Kuriyama. She is the last surviving member of a clan that has a blood curse that is unique even amongst the Under World Warriors.
An unchanging room. An unchanging lifestyle. An unchanging world.
That was how his days were supposed to be.
Yet, the moment that girl survivor met the half-youmu boy, his world changed completely."
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Whats up everyone,
Continuing on from yesterday, let's roll out with another title: Miss Monochrome!
This anime short is set to simulcast every Tuesday starting today, October 1 at 11:00 am Pacific Time for its members all around the world except for Japan and Taiwan. Free users will be able to view it one week after initial Crunchyroll broadcast.
Voice acting veteran Yui Horie (AKB0048, Fairy Tail) originally created the titular character of Miss Monochrome and provides her voice in this new short animated series about an android who decides to try and become a top idol singer. Direction is by Yoshiaki Iwasaki (Sky Girls, Love Hina).
If you're just not a reading type of person, here's some CM spots to whet your appetite:
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After a huge weekend release of titles, we're going to ease back into things with the addition of: Golden Time
This brand new simulcast on Crunchyroll is set to broadcast on October 3 at 12:30 pm Pacific Time to users in the following territories: U.S.A, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Turkey, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.. As always, free users will get it one week after initial broadcast.
For those unfamiliar, here's what you're in store for:
"Banri Tada is a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo. However, due to an accident, he lost all of his memories. During his freshman orientation, he encounters another freshman from the same school, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, and they hit it off at once. Without any memory of each other, their lives become more and more intertwined as if set by the hands of fate. But what is their fate, and will it lead to happiness or another memory to forget…"
We've added new regions to Diabolik Lovers:
Central America, South America, Caribbean, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, France and DOM-TOM, Andorra, Netherlands, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Turkey (whew!).
But that's not all, as we're increasing Walkure to be World ex-Japan instead of World ex-Asia.
Sadly, as Full Metal Alchemist has taught us about equivalent trade, Ace of the Diamond is now World ex-Asia instead of World ex-Japan for premium members :(
Stay tuned in for more announcements coming your way within the following days!
9/16 - Diabolik Lovers
9/18 - Kill la Kill
9/18 - Magi: The Kingdom of Magic
9/18 - Valvrave the Liberator Season 2
9/25 - Ace of the Diamond
9/25 - Gingitsune: Messenger Fox of the Gods
9/26 - Yowapeda
9/27 - Samurai Flamenco
9/28 - Galilei Donna
9/28 - Bottom Bitting Bug 2
9/28 - Walkure Romanze
9/30 - Golden Time
10/1 - Miss Monochrome
10/1 - Beyond the Boundary
10/2 - ??
..... Now waiting for Kuroko 2
I accept random friend requests
Thanks a lot for expanding Diabolik Lovers and Walkure's regions and for getting Golden Time. It seems this season will be a great one =)
Beating my head against my desk, wondering if Kuroko no Basket will ever be announce.
The sports genre has finally got up and kick some ass
Pretty excited, but its ashamed that Viz took the show I was looking most forward to.
Pretty excited for this one~
I'll be watching Golden time for sure obviously. There's also another announcement today as well. I wonder if it will be LB: Refrain, the other JC Staff show.
Animanga hunter extraordinaire
Thanks for getting Golden time
One piece challenge - Rewatching 532/856+
now just coppelion, kyoukai no kanata, kuroko no basuke 2 and pupa
go crunchy
Wow 11/13 for Brazil (and Latin America).
Thank you CR *-*
Golden Time?
Top tier announcement right here.
Definitely going on my watch list.
What even
Fucking YES !
Added to queue. Will wait and see. Hopefully not harem, ecchi, or the like.
Still waiting for Yozakura Quartet, Pupa, Tokyo Ravens, and Seiyuu Sentai Voicetrom.
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The amount of simulcasts for Portugal/Spain this season is looking to be a lot more disappointing than in the summer. I still hope for more expanded regions, though. I'm enjoying Diabolik Lovers...
I was also looking forward to seeing Coppelion here, but that one too seems out of reach for the majority of the world.