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Commencement speaker Abigail Disney asked the graduates of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) to support a greater role for women in the political arena, particularly in peace negotiations. If more women were at the negotiating tables, suggested Disney, wars would likely end sooner and on terms that permit faster healing.
She cited a United Nations study that found that less than 3 percent of the signatories to 21 major peace agreements in recent years have been women.
Addressing thousands who gathered for EMU's 94th commencement, Disney referenced Julia Ward Howe, the 19th-century writer of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." She spoke of how the carnage of the Civil War caused Howe to move from rallying the North to fight against the South, as exemplified by the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," to being a pacifist for the rest of her adult life.
Howe was the first to lobby for the declaration of an annual day of recognition for mothers, but she linked such recognition to her view that mothers understand "the interdependent nature of life" and therefore are more likely to work for peaceful resolution of conflicts.
"Women, in critical mass, in places where decisions are made, reduce the value of force and masculinity as political and social currency," Disney said. "By introducing alternative modes of problem solving…., they make spaces hospitable not only to other women, but to all kinds of men."
The graduation ceremony occurred outdoors under a brilliant blue sky with ideal temperatures, a fairy tale ending to a weekend forecast of rain and cool temperatures.
Disney, who co-produced "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" (Fork Films, 2008), offered her support to the values of social service and peace that EMU teaches: "I feel I've spent years trying to teach my sons about charity and mercy and patience. More often than not, I feel like I'm forced to teach them these things against everything they see, in politics, popular culture, in school, in the public discourse and even in certain aspects of the religious sphere."
Disney encouraged graduates to emulate the "moral wavelength" on which Howe operated: "What Howe originally proposed was an international Mother's Day of peace, because she felt down to the deepest part of her soul, that a woman brings a commitment to peace with her when she talks about politics that is visceral, and uncompromising, and functions on a moral wavelength that is nearly impossible to counter."
Disney closed with a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XII."
Want the change. Be inspired by the flame
where everything shines as it disappears.
The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much
as the curve of the body as it turns away.
What locks itself in sameness has congealed.
Is it safer to be gray and numb?
What turns hard becomes rigid
and is easily shattered.
Pour yourself out like a fountain.
Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking
finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins.
Every happiness is the child of a separation
it did not think it could survive. And Daphne, becoming a laurel,
dares you to become the wind.
Graduating class
EMU President Loren Swartzendruber conferred 426 degrees and certificates: 306 undergraduate, 97 graduate degrees, 11 certificates in pastoral ministry studies, 10 graduate certificates in conflict transformation and two graduate certificates in peacebuilding and conflict transformation in educational settings.
The undergraduate class had 99 people who graduated with honors, finishing with cumulative grade point averages between 3.6 and 4.0.
Some of the administrators, faculty and students wore bailing twine pinned to their robes in remembrance of farm-raised Theodore (Theo) Brian Yoder, who would have been among these graduates if he had not died at age 22 on April 12, 2012, after a 12-year battle with various cancers.
The undergraduate class raised funds, including matching funds from Bibb and Dolly Frazier of Frazier Quarry, to install Wi-Fi printers in the residence halls as their class gift.
To listen to the full commencement exercise visit emu.edu/now/podcast/category/commencement/.
A full gallery of photos from commencement is posted at emu.edu/photos/commencement-2012/.


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2012 Cross Country: Competed in all eight meets for the Blue Devils as a freshman...Best finish was at the Quinnipiac Invitational on Sept. 15 where she finished 10th overall and second for CCSU...Also placed second for Central at the Nessaney Women's College 5K, crossing the line 27th overall with a time of 19:58.90...Finished 24th of 102 at the Ted Owen Invitational on Sept. 22...Crossed the finish line 62nd at the NEC Championships...Placed 78th of 177 at the IC4A/ECAC Championships on Nov. 17...Also competed at the New England Championships and NCAA Regional competition.
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Steve Moundou-Missi scored a season-high 15 points (Gil Talbot).
HANOVER, N.H. – The Harvard men's basketball team shot 27-of-43 from the field (.628), helping the Crimson open Ivy League play with a 75-65 victory at Dartmouth Saturday afternoon. Harvard held the Big Green to only two points in the final 9:25 of action, as the Crimson closed the game with a 17-2 run.
Siyani Chambers established a new career-high with 22 points on 6-of-11 shooting, including 3-of-3 from beyond the arc, while Wesley Saunders added 19 points, sinking 8-of-9 field goal attempts. Chambers and Saunders also each handed out six assists, a new career-high for Saunders.
Steve Moundou-Missi came off the bench and finished with 15 points, going 7-of-9 from the field, and Laurent Rivard went 4-of-6 from beyond the arc, adding 12 points.
With the win, Harvard improves to 9-5 overall (1-0 Ivy), while the Big Green slips to 3-11 (0-1). Connor Boehm (11 points) and Alex Mitola (11 points) paced Dartmouth in scoring.
Rivard knocked down a 3-pointer, and Wesley Saunders made two free throws, tying the game, 5-5, early on. Rivard drained another triple, as the Crimson led, 8-5, and then Moundou-Missi made a reverse layup, 10-5. Siyani Chambers connected on a trey, making it 13-8, and then Moundou-Missi added another bucket, as the Crimson led by seven, 15-8. With 13:17 left in the first, Moundou-Missi scored on a two-handed dunk, as the Crimson began to pull away, 17-8.
Moundou-Missi continued his torrid start, as he hit a layup and drew contact. Moundou-Missi made the foul shot, as the Crimson went up by seven, 20-13. Moments later, Rivard drained another trey, as Harvard took a 10-point advantage, 23-13. With Harvard leading, 27-18, Saunders grabbed an offensive board and put it back up for a bucket and an and-one. On the next possession, Saunders scored again after being fouled, 31-20.
Chambers added a 3-pointer, before Jonah Travis threw down a two-handed dunk, giving the Crimson a 14-point edge, 36-22. Dartmouth responded with a 14-3 run to cut Harvard's lead to just three, 39-36, with 2:12 remaining in the opening stanza. The Big Green added another bucket to get within one, 39-38, and then went up by two, 41-39. Rivard ended the 19-3 run by Dartmouth with his fourth 3-pointer of the half, as the Crimson regained the lead, 42-41.
The Big Green finished the half with a 21-6 run and led Harvard, 43-42, at the break. Rivard led all players with 12 points, going 4-of-4 from beyond the arc, while Moundou-Missi had 11 points in the first 20 minutes. Harvard shot 65.3 percent as a team in the first half (15-of-23) and went 6-of-7 from beyond the arc (.857).
Saunders opened the second with a basket in the paint, as the Crimson went back up by one, 44-43. Saunders then went to the line and hit the second of two, tying the game, 45-45. After Dartmouth grabbed a 50-45 advantage, Chambers nailed a 3-pointer, and Saunders added a layup on the break, knotting things up, 50-50. On the next trip down the floor, Chambers drew contact attempting a jump shot and headed to the line for two. Chambers connected on both, as the Crimson went up two, 52-50, with 15:45 to go.
Moundou-Missi drove the lane and finished with a strong, two-handed dunk, as the Crimson led, 54-52. With Harvard trailing by two, Saunders fought off two defenders and scored in the lane, tying the contest, 56-56. With 10:24 to play, Chambers went to the line as Harvard went to the bonus, and he made both, cutting the Crimson deficit to two, 60-58.
After Dartmouth led by five, Saunders stepped up and connected on a 15-point jumper from the wing, getting the Crimson back within three, 63-60. With 7:33 to go, Chambers drove to the left side and finished with a layup after being fouled. Chambers went to the charity stripe and made it, knotting the game, 63-63. Saunders scored a bucket on the next Harvard possession, giving the Crimson a 65-63 advantage.
With the Crimson holding a four-point edge, Saunders added a big bucket to give Harvard a six-point cushion, 69-63, extending his team's run to 11-0. With 2:30 left, Chambers went to the foul line again and made both, 71-65. On the next trip down the floor, Chambers sent a quick pass underneath the basket to Moundou-Missi who finished with another dunk, as Harvard led by eight, 73-65.
The Crimson heads south to face Memphis on the road Saturday, Jan. 19 at 12:30 p.m. EST. The game will be shown live nationally on FSN.


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Take Back the Night march to raise awareness of sexual violence
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Loyola University New Orleans joins its neighbor Tulane University to call for an end to sexual violence in the 18th annual Take Back the Night, on Tuesday, Oct. 27.
Marchers will gather in the horseshoe outside of Marquette Hall on Loyola's main campus at 6 p.m. to hear powerful stories from survivors of sexual violence and abuse and then proceed by a candlelight march to the Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel on Tulane's campus for closing ceremonies and an open microphone.
The event is designed primarily to heighten awareness of sexual violence against women and to empower female survivors, but it is also a powerful healing ritual for the men and women who care about them.
Loyola and Tulane will sell raffle tickets for a chance to win gift baskets and will also accept donations. All proceeds benefit the Metropolitan Center for Women and Children, the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program at LSU Public Hospital and Crescent House. Tickets can be purchased beginning Oct. 20, at designated tables in Tulane's Lavin-Bernick Center, and on Oct. 21 at Loyola's Danna Student Center. The tickets will be sold through the day of the event and at the event itself.
Organizers are also asking many university department heads at both Tulane and Loyola to encourage their employees to wear jeans and a teal shirt or ribbon on Oct. 27. "Denim and Teal Day" is a voluntary effort, and a $5 contribution to the cause is appreciated.
Take Back the Night T-shirts, purchased from a company that uses environmentally-friendly and ethical production practices, will be given to participants who sign a bystander pledge. Pledge participants promise not to contribute to behavior that condones sexual violence.
Ilyse Goldberg, assistant director of the University Counseling Center and Loyola's Take Back the Night chair, said the pledge is integral to the mission of the march.
"The task of ending sexual violence is the responsibility of the community as a whole," Goldberg said. "This is an issue that needs a paradigm shift in the way that it is perceived. Focusing on bystander behavior is an attempt to begin that shift."
Take Back the Night is open to the entire New Orleans community, including women, men, survivors and supporters. For more information, contact Goldberg at 504-865-3835 or email@example.com or Karen Reichard, director of the Women's Resource Center at 504-864-7881 or email@example.com.
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May 13, 2011
#4. Oklahoma City, OK
Population: 547,274
Average Salary: $35,970
Firefighter Salary: $39,000
Cost of Living Rank (in a 1-100 list): 15
Average Commute Time: 18.7 minutes
Job Growth Rank (in a list of 372 Highest Growth Cities): 44
Unemployment Rate: 5.6
Ranked by Forbes magazine as 2008's most recession-proof American city, Oklahoma City is still bustling with the prospect of significant job growth. Their fire department has 35 strategically located fire stations that respond to over 52,000 emergencies per year. With last year's up trend in the leisure and hospitality sector as well as employment increases in natural resources, wholesale, mining and construction, Oklahoma's capital city has managed to hold steady with an impressively low change in unemployment rate since the recession's outbreak. Our #4 pick remains a center for government and energy exploration while also continuing to foster positive working environments, boasting an exceptionally low average commute time for workers and a sensible income to cost of living ratio.


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Deroy Murdock: Hey Washington, why not spend less?DEROY MURDOCK
December 27. 2012 10:15PM
Raul Castro is right. The powerful brother of dictator Fidel Castro is almost always wrong. But he was perfectly right when he told comrades in Camaguey, Cuba: "No country has the luxury of spending more than it has."
Even now, as America slouches toward the fiscal cliff, House Speaker John Boehner and leading Republicans seem ho-hum about limiting federal expenditures and restraining a government gone crazy. President Obama and top Democrats are downright allergic to these concepts. Too bad this Cuban tyrant's rare words of wisdom escape Washington's spendaholics.
There are billions of ways to shrink the $3.8 trillion federal budget. Let's start with these:
First, the Mack Penny Plan, created by outgoing Congressman Connie Mack, R-Fla., would cut a penny from each dollar that Uncle Sam spends each year, for eight years. In 2013, Congress would spend 99 cents per dollar disbursed today; in 2014, 98 cents, etc. Rather than consume 24.3 percent of gross domestic product today, federal spending in 2020 would be capped at 18 percent, just below the 18.2 percent at which Bill Clinton left it.
Such steady reductions, spanning nearly a decade, finally would lasso the spending monster. Washington policy makers should be able to prioritize and reallocate funding within a predictable, slowly decreasing budget.
Second, Washington should terminate antiquated and extraneous programs.
-- FDR launched the Rural Electrification Administration in 1935 to bring power to Appalachia. It morphed into the Rural Utilities Service and now spends taxpayer dollars to bring wind turbines and broadband Internet to the countryside, including an $81.6 million gift to VTel Wireless. Now that Appalachia has been electrified since at least 1960, let's declare, "Mission accomplished," thank the staff, retire them and sell their offices.
-- Besides food-safety inspections, the Agriculture Department creates little value. Americans can thrive without agrocrats dictating sugar prices and paying farmers some $1.8 billion annually not to farm. Food growers and eaters can manage without Washington's relentless interference.
-- Washington expands affordable housing, so millions of Americans can buy homes, and simultaneously supports housing prices, so millions of Americans can enjoy precious nest eggs. Which is it? Washington should close the Department of Housing and Urban Development and exit the housing sector, which it nearly demolished in 2008.
-- Launched in 1970, the Public Broadcasting Service challenged the three original broadcast networks, back when many TVs received just 13 channels. Today, anyone unhappy with ABC, CBS or NBC can watch C-SPAN, the History Channel, National Geographic, Turner Classic Movies and literally hundreds of other culturally enriching offerings. Thousands of DVD titles offer tremendous educational and artistic value. And don't forget books. PBS and Jim Lehrer will survive once they fully depart the federal dole and let donations and other non-government money finance 100 percent of their budget, rather than a mere 85 percent today.
Third, between December 2008 and December 2011, Washington-based executive-branch civilian employees grew from 345,326 to 368,706. This 6.8 percent expansion across Obama's first three years is ripe for reduction, especially considering these feds' paychecks. According to Bureau of Economic Analysis data analyzed by the libertarian Cato Institute's Chris Edwards, federal civilian employees in 2011 averaged $128,226 in total compensation ($84,671 in wages and $43,555 in benefits). Private-sector workers, meanwhile, earned half of that: $64,560 ($53,463 in wages and $11,099 in benefits). Even worse, 825 directors at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last year got paid at least $205,330.
"The federal work force has become an elite island of secure and high-paid workers, separated from the ocean of average American workers competing in the global economy," Edwards commented. "Federal wages should be frozen or cut, overly generous federal benefits should be overhauled, and the federal work force downsized through program terminations and privatization."
If Washington will not stop hiking spending, spending hikes will stop Washington. How sad that nearly every Democrat and too many Republicans cannot grasp a concept self-evident even to a Cuban communist.
New York commentator Deroy Murdock is a Fox News contributor, a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service, and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.


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What Drafters Do
Drafters use software to convert the designs of engineers and architects into technical drawings and plans. Workers specialize in architectural, civil, electrical, or mechanical drafting and use technical drawings to help design everything from microchips to skyscrapers.
Work Environment
Although drafters spend much of their time working on computers in an office, some must visit job sites in order to collaborate with architects and engineers. Most drafters work full time.
How to Become a Drafter
Drafters typically need specialized training, which can be accomplished through a technical program that leads to a certificate or an associate's degree in drafting.
The median annual wage for drafters was $49,630 in May 2012.
Job Outlook
Employment of drafters is projected to show little or no change from 2012 to 2022. Although drafters will continue to work on technical drawings and documents related to the design of buildings, machines, and tools, new software programs are making the work more efficient, thus requiring fewer workers. Competition for jobs is expected to be strong.
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Laetrile is a chemically modified form of the chemical amygdalin. This compound occurs naturally in many fruit pits and nuts. French chemists first identified it in 1830. They found that when amygdalin breaks down, it produces the poison cyanide.
Vitamin B17 is another name for laetrile, but it is not a vitamin. Some advocates believe cancer results from a vitamin deficiency that laetrile can presumably correct. Opponents think the term was coined to avoid federal drug safety and efficacy requirements.
Theories on Laetrile
During the 1800s, doctors tried using amygdalin to treat cancer. It proved too toxic. In the 1950s, a semi-synthetic form, called laetrile, was produced and promoted as a cancer cure. Several theories exist about its anticancer action. In addition to the vitamin theory, some supporters believe an enzyme found primarily in cancer cells, but lacking in healthy cells, breaks down amygdalin. The amygdalin is broken down to cyanide, which then kills the cancer.
Although some promote it as a cure, there is no scientific evidence of its success.
Laetrile gained notoriety during the 1970s, a time when doctors had fewer effective cancer treatments in their arsenal. Chemotherapy side effects were hard to control. Patients began looking for other options. Approximately 75,000 Americans had tried laetrile by 1978. That year, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) reviewed 93 cases submitted by doctors touting laetrile's benefits. Out of those 93 cases, only 6 actually showed benefits of tumor shrinkage.
The NCI then sponsored research to evaluate laetrile. Two of the 6 patients in the first study died of cyanide poisoning after eating almonds. During the second study, patients received an infusion of amygdalin, followed by laetrile pills. Some patients reported feeling better while taking the drug. But cancer progressed in all 175 patients by the end of treatment. The NCI concluded that laetrile did not have any effect on treating cancer.
Two recent reviews of laetrile did not turn up any randomized studies on the drug. Both reviews concluded that laetrile as cancer treatment has no clinical merit.
Current Use of Laetrile
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the use of laetrile and has taken action against US companies to halt Internet laetrile sales. It is illegal to bring the drug into the country for personal use because it has not been found to be safe or effective. Anyone who brings laetrile into the country is in violation of US drug laws.
The Dangers of Taking Laetrile
Adverse reactions to laetrile are similar to those that occur with cyanide poisoning. Eating raw almonds or some fruits and vegetables when taking laetrile can increase the risk of having adverse reactions, which may include:
- Nausea and vomiting
- Headache
- Lightheadedness
- Bluish skin color
- Liver damage
- Droopy eyelids
- Trouble walking
- Fever
- Confusion
- Coma
- Death
General Advice
Many cancer patients want to try alternative therapies. Talk with your doctor if you are considering laetrile, looking for a clinical trial, or using other therapies. Herbal remedies can interfere with drugs ordered by your doctor.
It's always best to be open with your doctor about the kind treatment you want.
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Pan-fried chicken, snow peas and cashews in a ginger-garlic sauce served over rice noodles.
I wouldn't touch Chinese food, not even with a ten foot pole until I was in my early twenties. Even then it was a slow progression that started with fried rice. It was safe to eat because the picky eater in me could see and recognize everything in it and easily pick out anything I didn't like.
You might say it was my gateway to Chinese food.
I would happily eat my fried rice declaring out loud for the world to hear that I liked Chinese food now.
Soon after, a now-forgotten boyfriend introduced me to lemon chicken and those deep-fried delights called crab rangoons followed by wonton soup and dumplings.
The greatest discoveries of all time I made on my own. . .Singapore noodles and pad Thai.
I love you like there's no tomorrow. {Technically these may not truly be "Chinese" but my favorite Chinese restaurant makes them. . .}.
In the same way it took me a while to come around to eating Chinese food it's been the same with making it. I'm slowly building up a collection of trusted recipes.
I can make sesame chicken {and sesame tofu} by heart and whip up a bowl of sesame peanut noodles with my eyes closed.
Cashew chicken is my latest acquisition. Seriously – so easy you can make this in the same amount of time it takes to order and pick up take-out.
The chicken is briefly marinated in ginger and sherry {or white wine} while you prep the other ingredients.
You can get the rice or noodles cooking, toast your cashews and whisk together one of the quickest, tastiest sauces on earth – chicken broth, soy sauce, rice vinegar, garlic, brown sugar and red pepper flakes that are totally optional but highly recommended for adding a zingy kick.
You cook the chicken first in a small amount of oil followed by the snow peas then they're joined together with the sauce and less than five minutes later the entire shebang is on the table.
Homemade Chinese food is served.
And I like it.
- 1 + ½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons dry sherry or white wine
- 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, minced or grated on a micro-plane
- 3 + ½ teaspoons cornstarch, divided
- coarse salt & fresh black pepper
- ½ cup low-sodium chicken broth
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- ⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes (or more), optional
- 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons vegetable oil, divided
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- ⅔ cup unsalted cashews, toasted
- 2 big handfuls of fresh snow peas, cut in half or thinly sliced {I like them whole}
- cooked rice noodles, brown or white rice, for serving
- Add the chicken to a large bowl and season with salt and pepper. Add the sherry, ginger and 1 + ½ teaspoons of the cornstarch, toss and coat the chicken well. Refrigerate 30 minutes.
- In a separate bowl whisk the broth, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, red pepper flakes and remaining 2 teaspoons cornstarch together. Set aside.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil over medium-high heat in a wok or large, non-stick skillet. Add half the chicken and cook, turning to brown on all sides, until chicken is cooked through. Remove to plate. Add another tablespoon oil to skillet and cook remaining chicken. Remove to a plate.
- Add the remaining 2 teaspoons oil to the pan with the garlic, cashews and snow peas. Stir often, cooking the snow peas to your desired tenderness.
- Whisk the sauce and pour into the skillet. Add the chicken and toss, cook until the sauce thickens. stirring often 2 - 3 minutes. Serve over rice.
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The Arizona Cardinals have signed undrafted free-agent WR Jaron Brown (Clemson), OT Joe Caprioglio (Colorado State), LB Kenny Demens (Michigan), LB Dan Giordano (Cincinnati), S Javon Harris (Oklahoma), CB Josh A. Hill (California), S Tony Jefferson (Oklahoma), OT Jamaal Johnson-Webb (Alabama A&M), LB Korey Jones (Wyoming), WR Javone Lawson (Louisiana-Lafayette), WR Mike Rios (Marist), DT Padric Scott (Florida A&M), WR Tyler Shaw (Northwest Missouri State) and CB Prentiss Waggner (Tennessee). Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
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Circuit City Says Rogue Firedog Was Wrong, Refunds $40 'Repair' Fee
Last week we wrote about a Circuit City customer who was charged $40 without warning for "repairs" to a brand new computer. We received several explanations from Circuit City insiders, both in the comments and through email, that the repair was mandatory—Acer and Circuit City had agreed that instead of pulling the PCs, the retailer's Firedog techs would flash the BIOS in-store upon purchase. What was unclear was how or why this would fall under the Firedog "Quickstart" service, which is optional and includes things like removing shortcuts from your desktop and setting up your background. (Seriously, check it out here.) Yesterday we received the following interesting email from Circuit City HQ.
Jim at Circuit City's consumer affairs division wrote,
I have some follow-up information on this matter to share with you.
Thanks to your Web posting, we have been able to determine that a few employees at one of our stores incorrectly charged a customer for work that our firedog techs did on the computer that he purchased. The manufacturer notified us that the PC in question did need a repair and we coordinated the repairs with the manufacturer. The customer should NOT have been charged.
We have reached out to the affected customer to apologize to him for any inconvenience and to make sure a refund is provided. We have also taken steps to ensure that our associates are aware of company policies on this issue.
I hope this information is helpful,
Frankly, we were suspicious that Circuit City was taking advantage of the faulty PC inventory to make a little extra money, so we're happy to see the company step up and correct this oversight so quickly.
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First of all, awesome. Second, our kids can never play together because we say "butt" in our house all the time. I feel all filthy now.ReplyDelete
Me too! Me too! Actually, given my language, it's probably a good thing my kids are furry creatures and not actual human beings.Delete
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — An exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum will look at the evolution of color photography in the 20th century.
It will explore the historical developments from 1907 to 1981 that led to color photography becoming the norm in popular culture and fine art.
It will feature nearly 200 objects, including framed photographs, publications, slide shows and film clips, from nearly a dozen artists. They include Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan and Saul Leiter.
Exhibition co-curator Lisa Hostetler, who is former curator of photographs at the Milwaukee museum, says the years mark the introduction of the first commercially available color photographic process.
The exhibit, called "Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America," runs Feb. 22 through May 19.


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A chill has taken hold lately among both government officials and the US media. It comes in the wake of a US district court's decision to jail a New York Times reporter for refusing to reveal to a grand jury her sources in the Bush Administration and the FBI investigation of a Pentagon Iran analyst for leaking classified information to former officials with the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC. As a result, those who engage in what have long been standard Washington practices–reporters ferreting out information from government sources, those sources confiding in policy associates, lobbyists and reporters–have become increasingly inhibited in carrying out their jobs.
Even as a press frenzy surrounds a grand jury investigation of whether top presidential advisor Karl Rove leaked a CIA officer's identity to the press, unease in the Washington policy and journalistic communities is also evident. In the wake of Times reporter Judith Miller's jailing and in fear of government prosecution, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has decided, on the advice of its lawyers, not to publish two major articles based on leaked government information. At a recent gathering in a suburban Maryland living room, the conversation among a handful of foreign policy experts and reporters was about the sense of fear and clampdown. One government expert was convinced office phone conversations were regularly monitored by higher-ups, and reporters noted that senior government sources, intimidated by the Franklin investigation, have become more tight-lipped.
While the Franklin/AIPAC investigation is often described as a counterintelligence case, it too is really about government leaks, and the Bush Administration's determination to plug them. On September 9, 2001, the New York Times published a story by then-State Department correspondent Jane Perlez, who reported a major shift in what had been the Bush Administration's rejection of the Clinton Administration's deep engagement in trying to broker a peace settlement between Israelis and Palestinians. Perlez reported that after months of refusing to meet with Yasir Arafat, George W. Bush would grant the Palestinian leader his first audience with the new US President at an upcoming UN General Assembly gathering in New York "if progress were made in high-level talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis."
That meeting between Bush and Arafat never happened. Two days after the Times story appeared, Al Qaeda terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing almost 3,000 people. In the aftermath of those attacks, few people recalled that for a brief moment in the late summer of 2001, the Bush Administration had considered meeting with Arafat and deepening its political involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Everyone forgot, except the FBI. According to a recent report by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, it was that September 2001 news article, based on leaks of sensitive Administration deliberations, that prompted then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to demand an FBI leak investigation that has since taken on a dramatic life of its own. Most recently, the investigation has led to the federal grand jury indictment, unsealed last month, of Pentagon Iran desk officer Larry Franklin on charges involving conspiracy to disclose classified national defense information to unauthorized recipients. It is expected to lead to indictments, under the Espionage Act, of two recently dismissed employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for engaging in a conspiracy to receive and pass on to other unauthorized recipients what they knew to be classified information. They are AIPAC's former director of foreign policy research, Steve Rosen, and his deputy, Iran specialist Keith Weissman. Among those the FBI reportedly wants to interview as a potential witness in its investigation is a Washington Post journalist who was allegedly briefed on some of the classified information by the former AIPAC officials–information those officials had allegedly received from Franklin in an FBI-arranged sting. In addition, Franklin, Rosen and Weissman are all alleged to have relayed classified national defense information to an Israeli Embassy official. It is this latter connection that has raised talk of espionage.


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NEW YORK (AP) — European regulators have approved a crucial new anticlotting drug, Eliquis, for preventing strokes and dangerous clots in the circulatory system.
Eliquis was approved for use in the 27 European Union countries in patients at risk for such clots, called systemic embolisms, or for strokes who have an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation.
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Grains and Oilseeds: December corn closed at $7.27 per bushel, up 4 3/4c on Friday but for the week lost 1/5%. Some cancellations by China impacted the grains and soybeans this week and we prefer the sidelines in corn. December wheat closed at $8.38 per bushel, down 8 3/4c continuing it's downward slide and the longest since September of 2011. Stay out for now. March soybeans closed at $13.68 per bushel, down 16c and to its lowest price in almost five months on Chinese purchase cancellations and improved planting progress in South America. We are on the sidelines here as well. Any change in fundamentals could put us back in the "bull" camp.
Meats: December cattle closed at $1.2615 per pound, up 55 points on shortcovering against the dollar and on declining supplies. We like cattle from here after trading as low as $1.2395 recently. We may have seen an interim bottom. Use stop protection. December hogs closed at 80.325 per pound up 25 points on speculation that U.S. pork supplies are declining. Hogs have had a nice run from its September low around 70c and we could see additional buying on both speculative and technical considerations
Coffee, Cocoa and Sugar: December coffee closed at $1.4710 per pound, unchanged and remains near its recent bottom after declining steadily from the $1.8545 recent high. We prefer not to "stand in the way of a locomotive" and even though some correction can be expected, the continued long liquidation in the face of reduced European demand and reports that Europe is in recession. March cocoa closed at $2,398 per tonne down ¾%, it's biggest decline for the most active contract since October 24th. This week cocoa managed a 1.7% gain. The selling was in response to reports that supply concerns in Ivory Coast, the world's largest producer, had eased somewhat. We would look to buy on any dip but using stop protection. March sugar closed at 19.15c per pound, up 7 points on light shortcovering after recent long liquidation tied the International Sugar Organization report that Brazil's sugar industry could increase output to a record high next season. Its first forecasts for the 2013-2014 season could halt any upward price progress. The selling may be overdone for now so hold any recently purchased calls.
Cotton: December cotton closed at 72.73c per pound, down 1.23c but recent indications of plantings moving from cotton acreage to soybeans could prompt additional shortcovering and new buying from its recent 69.03c lows. We like cotton but as with other markets due to the unknowns related to the U.S. tax extension situation which if not resolved by December 31st could cause havoc in the financial markets and spillover to commodities.


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Photography by Bruce Buck
Former All-American football player John LeHeup pursues Southern silver with the same passion that he once exhibited for pigskin. The pro-defensive-tackle-turned-Presbyterian-minister has scored some 200-plus pieces of mostly 19th-century silver made or sold in South Carolina.
But it's not only big, sexy holloware that turns his head. "I can get excited by a little souvenir spoon or melon spears if they're historically significant and rare," says Dr. LeHeup, who lives in Mayberry-like Easley, South Car-olina, with his wife, Vickie. "I'm just an outlaw in the Upstate who makes it his business to acquire as much South Carolina silver as I possibly can," laughs John, wrapping his muscular hand around a delicate spoon handle in the shape of a chubby cherub climbing down a vine. The sauce spoon, which he's dubbed "Jack-and-the-beanstalk," tells a Southern story. It was made by Charleston jeweler/silversmith James E. Spear in the middle of the 19th century. How rare is it? Neither John nor his fellow silver pros have ever seen another like it. "Some people assume that because the spoon is so sophisticated it couldn't have been made in South Carolina," says John.
Some people would be very wrong, especially Yankee curator Joseph Downs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who, some 60 years ago, dismissed the South with one sweeping statement. ("Little of artistic merit was made south of Baltimore.") Now antiques addicts on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line chase Southern silver. "People no longer believe that all great silver comes from the North," notes silver dealer Charlotte Crabtree, owner of the Silver Vault in Charleston. Or as the preeminent dealer of Southern decorative arts, Sumpter Priddy of Alexandria, Virginia, says: "It's not like a bunch of indolent Southerners were waiting around for the Yankee shipments to arrive."
Indeed not. "There were 76 silversmiths working in Charleston between 1801 and 1810," says Crabtree. "In the 1800s, there was a tremendous amount of wealth in Charleston, and Charlestonians had an insatiable appetite for silver," she adds. Curator Brandy Culp of the Historic Charleston Foundation concurs. " Charleston had a huge community of artisans who lived in close proximity and were incredibly successful. Charleston silversmiths were both artisans and retailers. And sometimes they imported the same forms they created, using the imported object as a design source."
But not all smiths showed their mettle in Charleston. Some set up shop in Camden, Columbia, Georgetown, Winnsboro, and points in between. John has a particular appetite for "Upstate" silver, whether it was shaped or just sold there. "I care more about a spoon retailed in Chester in the 1850s than a spoon made in Charleston in 1800," notes John. " Chester silver is harder to find than Charleston, and rarity is key for me. I also try to find unusual forms-—crumbers, nut picks, and buckwheat servers."
John doesn't snub Yankee silver if he can trace its lineage back to a South Carolina owner. For instance, one of John's trophy pieces is a water pitcher made in New York and sold in Baltimore. "The pitcher was a gift inscribed to St. Julien Ravenel, the South Carolina physician who built the first submarine," explains John, who brings history to life by tracking down previous owners. It was while prowling through Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery in search of dead silversmith William Ewan that the silver sleuth bumped into Ravenel's headstone. "I dropped to my knee and said, 'Doc, I have your pitcher, and I'm taking good care of it.'"
For John, the pitcher links the past to the present. "I can hold an object and connect to the maker, shop, or, through monograms and inscriptions, possibly the original owner," he says. But when John began collecting in 1985, he only had eyes for homegrown beauties. "My appreciation for who owned a piece has evolved over time," he explains.
Like their Colonial counterparts to the north, Southern smiths found the raw silver they needed by melting down old-fashioned silverware and foreign coins. "Smiths advertised that they would pay top dollar for outdated articles," says Crabtree, noting that major silver lodes weren't discovered in America until 1859. And while English sterling may have a higher silver content, John really prefers coin silver's matte, mellow patina to the shiny gloss of sterling.
Identifying South Carolina silver can be tricky. Even hard-core collectors like John get stumped. Some pieces are marked with the names or initials of makers or retailers, who can be found among the 440 listed in South Carolina Silversmiths: 1690–1860 by E. Milby Burton and Warren Ripley (Charleston Museum; 1991). "A silversmith mark was a brand name," explains curator Culp. Just don't expect to find the marks of smiths who worked as slaves for various master silversmiths. For instance, a slave named Abraham worked for silver star Alexander Petrie and, when Petrie died in 1768, was purchased by silversmith Jonathan Sarrazin for £810. "The high price for which he was sold really attests to his skills as a craftsman," says Culp.
One recurring theme is that Carolina craftsmen did a lot more than tap out teapots. They were entrepreneurs who harnessed the creativity of other artisans and pitched themselves as jewelers, goldsmiths, watchmakers, and retailers. One of a family of Charleston silversmiths, John Mood (1792–1864) moonlighted as a Methodist minister. The saintly smith was "at the forefront of teaching African Americans to read when it was against the law," says Crabtree. You can see Mood's metalwork at the Charleston Museum.
John owns striking silver by 63 different silversmiths who worked in South Carolina between 1790 and 1907. One of his favorites is Scotsman Alexander Young (1784–1856), who worked in Baltimore before moving to Camden, South Carolina. "He was also a Presbyterian elder, jeweler, and bookseller and ran an apothecary," notes John, obviously awed by the smith's get-up-and-go entrepreneurial spirit.
Young was also the hand behind John's most fortuitous find. While digging through a mixed box of "unknowns" in a tiny Atlanta antiques shop, John spotted a lone serving spoon sparkling among the other objects. He was just a beginner, but he zeroed in on its long, lean shape. Drawn to hometown silver like a magnet to metal, he discreetly flipped the piece over to discover the name "YOUNG" in a serrated rectangle stamped on the back of the handle. The Scotsman's name didn't register with the cheerful dealer, and John bagged the spoon for less than $200. "I almost tripped over my tongue as I was paying," John recalls, clearly relishing the thrill of the score even 20 years later.


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I have. Had the hs35 for 2 years now. I have the phschrometer head attachment and the vacuum gauge attachment. Both work well. Haven't used vacuum gauge since I bought the sman3. I don't think you will be disappointed in a fieldpiece meter.
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The Infiniti FX gets revised front styling for 2012, including a new grille and fascia design, plus revised instrument-panel illumination. Heated front seats are now standard on all FX models, and a new quilted-leather upholstery and new 20-inch wheel design have been wrapped into the Deluxe Touring Package on FX35 models Graphite Shadow is a new hue for the entire FX lineup, while a new-for-2012 Limited Edition FX35 AWD model comes in an exclusive Iridium Blue exterior color and includes huge 21-inch graphite-finish wheels, graphite-finished aluminum roof rails, and a host of other upgrades.
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Oh sure oil had a lot of reasons to break yesterday! China's Wen Jiabao putting their breaks on the Chinese red hot housing market, OPEC raising production to aria and of course the rising fear that the Fed is getting closer to taking the punch bowel away, yet it was word of a hedge fund meltdown and some huge sell orders that made the rounds and the serious talk that some big hedge fund was blowing up.
Of course despite the news yesterday, oil was ready to break and readers of my report new that it was what we were expecting. But it seemed reluctant despite the fact that the precious metals were getting slaughtered. That changed late in the day when a reported massive sell order hit the market causing oil to drop hard. Reuter's news reported that "Then something strange happened: The market for the most heavily-traded U.S. crude oil contract went quiet. For nearly ten seconds, not one contract crossed the ticker tape, intensifying the panic already gripping traders scrambling to find what had set off the decline."
It was by no means a huge sell-off by historical standards. In early May of 2011, U.S. crude prices collapsed by $10 a barrel over the course of one wild trading session. Still, the speed of the $2 dollar slide illustrates how quickly the oil market can turn, surprising traders after months of relatively small price moves and low volatility. The episode also marks the latest in a spate of hiccups that have plagued market operators, prompting exchanges to put in place plans for halting trading during abnormal trading activity.
A spokesman for CME Group said the exchange did not halt trading in crude oil and that the markets functioned properly throughout the day. But that has prompted even more questions about whether an avalanche of computer-driven trading or human error disrupted Wednesday morning's session.
"We have a real mystery on our hands," said Eric Hunsader, founder of Nanex, a Winnetka, Ill.-based trading software company that tracks market activity. Nanex also noticed the spike in volume and the ten second pause shortly after 11 a.m. New York time. The affected trading instrument, an April contract for delivery of 1,000 barrels of U.S. crude oil, saw nearly two million barrels' worth of trading volume in a one-second interval at around 11:01 a.m., Reuters found. Volume had averaged about 13,000 barrels per second over the previous trading hour. The price of the contract fell from $95.47 to $95.05 just two seconds later. The price then ticked higher, to $95.16, before the market froze for about ten seconds. Trades reappeared shortly before the minute was out, and the market carried on with the volatile trading session.
The sell order also added to the talk that a huge hedge fund was blowing up. That type of massive sell order reeks of forced liquidation. Many hedge funds have been getting crushed and have seen many pull out as the money seeks yield in a rising stock market. While the rumor has not been confirmed, my guess is that where there is smoke there will be fire.
Also the Seaway Pipeline delays are adding to the bearish mood. Robert Campbell at Reuters says that a lot of work has gone into understanding the impact of expanded flows on the Seaway oil pipeline into Houston. In particular, many analysts have tried to ascertain how easily it would be for the Houston market to absorb the large volumes of light sweet crude coming in on Seaway but also via Eagle Ford and, soon, the Longhorn pipeline. Much of this analysis turns on the assumption that only light sweet crude is moving down Seaway.
But Campbell understanding is that Seaway is now moving approximately 100,000 bpd of Canadian oil sands crude. If so, that suggests the incremental amount of light sweet crude that has been introduced into the Houston market by the expansion of Seaway may now be as little as 50,000 bpd, or, put differently, light sweet crude flows into Houston on Seaway are only approximately 200,000 bpd today.
This makes sense. WCS trades at Cushing right now at about $12 under the calendar month average for WTI. Shipping heavy crude on Seaway, at the uncommitted rate, is $4.32, so WCS at Houston is worth roughly $88 a barrel, or about $18/bl less than the landed cost of Mexican Maya. Anyone who could process WCS (and, who had a pipeline connection to Seaway) would be jumping at those numbers. If you are turning $88 crude into products valued based on $115 Brent, it is big money. The obvious candidates here would be Phillips 66 at Sweeny (once out of turnaround) and ExxonMobil Baytown, assuming they can get WCS down the DOE line at Jones Creek. Indeed, the economics are so compelling — far more compelling than light oil — that it might be the case that WCS gains share on Seaway once Sweeny comes back.
If so, what are the effects? Well the overall volume impact on Cushing would be nil, although it would mean that less light oil was going out of there than previously thought. At Houston it would leave a bit more space for light crude in the refinery slates and reduce competition with EF and Longhorn barrels. It would also, presumably, reduce competition to get on outbound pipelines like Ho-Ho once they are in place. It would, however, slow the pace of declines in WTI-deliverable oil inventories at Cushing.
The API showed a build in crude! Bring on EIA!


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Serena Williams showed she has made a full recovery from recent health issues by beating Angelique Kerber, 7-6(1) 6-3, in the final of the Stanford Classic in Stanford, Calif., on Sunday.
Williams, playing in her first tournament since being forced to retire from a Wimbledon doubles match because of a viral infection, took the Stanford crown for a third time and won her fourth title this season.
Her return to fitness has come as the U.S. Open is set to start on Aug. 25.
Williams had her service broken twice in the opening set, but rallied to dominate the tiebreaker 7-1.
She claimed a 2-0 advantage in the second set and held off her German opponent the rest of the way. Williams fired six aces and did not face a break point in the final set.
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(Reuters) — Milos Raonic won the first all-Canadian final of the professional era when he beat Vasek Pospisil 6-1 6-4 in the final of the Citi Open in Washington on Sunday.
Second seed Raonic took barely an hour to dispose of Pospisil on the hardcourt at the William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center, breaking serve three times in the first set.


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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — US Airways and American Airlines are extending their merger deadline by at least a month to wait for the outcome of an antitrust lawsuit filed by the federal government.
That trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 25. The airlines' original agreement allowed either side to call off the merger after Dec. 17, but there might not be a verdict in the trial by then. The new agreement extends the merger deadline to Jan. 18 or later, depending on when the court rules.
The airlines were within weeks of closing their deal when the U.S. Justice Department sued in August to stop the merger, saying that it would hurt competition and boost prices. The airlines argue that other mergers were allowed to go forward and that their merger would create a stronger competitor to bigger rivals United and Delta.
The airlines also confirmed that they dropped an agreement to pay Tom Horton, the CEO of American parent AMR Corp., nearly $20 million in severance. If the merger is completed, he would step aside soon afterward while US Airways Group Inc. CEO Doug Parker runs the combined company.
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Colorado Full Moon
I took this near a farm in Northern Colorado -- about 10 miles southeast of Ft Collins. The moonrise coincided with the orange and blue Dolorado sunset. It resulted in some beautiful colors. i wasn't happy with the clouds at the start but the moon peaked above the clouds at the time the sun went down.
Blue Moon Setting
A blue moon setting on New Years Day behind the Colorado flatirons near Boulder, Colorado
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Waiting for the Mountain Wind
A photo of Lake Dillon Reservior with the sailboats with the Tenmile range overlooking the lake.
Rainbow Down On The Farm. I captured the Rainbow near Loveland, Colorado. It was a typical Colorado afternoon rainshower that turned into a beautiful rainbow. This was taken at the end of September.
Hays River Falls
Driving along CO hiway 133 and ran across this nice waterfall next to the road. It was flowing into the Crystal River. Very cool little waterfall.
Ouray; Cascade Falls; Colorado; waterfall
This whows the entire waterfall seen in the town of Ouray called Cascade Falls. I took this photo at the end of June 2010 when the run off of the snow melt is still pretty strong. Ouray, Colorado is a small town in a box canyon surrounded by moutains expect one way out. This falls is just a copule of blocks from the main street in Ouray. This is the bottom of a 175 foot waterfall.
Cascading down in Ouray
This is a photo of Cascade Falls in Ouray, Colorado. I took this photo at the end of June 2010 when the run off of the snow melt is still pretty strong. Ouray, Colorado is a small town in a box canyon surrounded by moutains expect one way out. This falls is just a copule of blocks from the main street in Ouray. This is the bottom of a 175 foot waterfall.
Cold Goose Sunrise
Taken at Windsor Reservoir at sunrise. The Geese were standing on the ice at water's edge.
Boulder Flatirons
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This was taken with a wider angle lens then the other shot. If you look at the shadows they are converging at the end of the lake. Shortly after this photo, the sun come up over the hills east to light up the entire valley. This is a very beautiful spot and i was blessed with no wind. Maroon Bells is just outside of Aspen, Colorado and no i didn't see any celebraties up early taking photos.
Out Late
Maroon Bells in late October after the peak of the Fall Aspen Leaves Change
Spring Time Melt
he Boulder Brook in Rocky Mountain National Park is coming out of the winter. The park just recevied a large May snowstorm but with May comes weather to start the spring melt.
Boulder Brook Rapids
In RMNP this brook ran around some large rocks. It is a pretty mountain stream. After a large rainstorm in 2014, this was swept away.
Small Falls
Taken in RMNP in early October, the running of the water around the rocks was nice with a little hint of the upcoming winter with some small areas of ice.
End of the year rapids
The Boulder Brook taken in October just before the freeze and the fall when the snowmelt is done.
Falling Brook
This is one of my favorite spots in RMNP just off the road up to Bear Lake. This is called Boulder Brook and this was taken last weekend of September when the Aspen colors are at the peak. Although the sun hadn't come up over the trees yet, i used a polarizer filter to help slow down the shutter speed and make the water blur. it is a beautiful spot for a fall photo. 0961
Rocky Mountain Color
This is taken in RMNP. The mountain Peak is called Hallet's Peak and it is near Bear Lake, a popular destination for visitors to TMNP. The ASPEN trees are just starting to turn a golden color as fall approaches.
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Mountain Aspen. This is taken at Morraine Park in Rocky Mountain National Park. The leaves were changing over and the sun was just starting to hit the top of the mountian. It was taking in early October.
Light on the Golden Aspen
Golden Aspen Near Maroon Bells. More fall colors in Colorado. This grow of aspen trees was near Maroon Bells Park outside of Aspen. It was an mostly cloudy day and i was lucky to get the sun to come out of the clouds and hit this little area and lit it up. In Colorado, the Apsen trees paint the side of the mountains in a golden yellow during the fall. A beautiful time of the year.
Looking Up
The fall in Colorado means the aspen trees in the mountains change to a wonderful yellow. The hills become alive with the colorful yellow trees. This was in Rocky Mountain National Park and found this nice set of aspens showing off their color on a beautiful blue sky day.
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Ice Cold Sunrise. I found a new reservoir to shoot just east of Fort Collins, Timnath Reservoir. I was there to see another beautiful sunrise in Colorado. This reservoir has some impressive ice ridges that formed on the shoreline from the frozen lake. This is one of the ice ridges that created a nice little sculpture. I had to get very low to get the sun in the circle of the ice ridge.
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All Lit Up. This was taken just east of Fort Collins CO at Timnath Reservoir. In the winter months of Colorado, the sunrises are most spectular and this one was really enjoyable. You can see the reservior was mostly frozen and the ice ridges are on the edge of the lake. I was the only one at the reservoir that morning so i was able to see a beautiful, peaceful, colorful sunrise all by myself.
Garden of the Gods Moon
Garden of the Gods Moon. I was in Colorado Springs and drove up for sunrise photos at the Garden of the Gods. The full moon was setting at the time of the sunrise. Getting the shot between the rocks took a lot of moving around and a lot of photos. Amazing how quickly the moon moves.
Coming Out Of The Fog
Coming Out Of The Fog. This was taken on the high plains of eastern Colorado. They had a nice snow fall that created a heavy fog. I was able to get the photograph of the tree as the sun was breaking out of the fog. you can see the sky above the tree is mostly clear but fog is still hugging the ground. The effect was very nice.
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AG's report says protection order against dad who shot son had expiredBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 07. 2013 8:05PM
MANCHESTER — The father who killed his 9-year-old son and then himself at a downtown visitation center last August had been under a domestic violence protection order that had been mistakenly allowed to expire, authorities said Thursday.
The disclosure is contained in the New Hampshire Attorney General's final report into the Aug. 11 murder-suicide at the Manchester YWCA. Joshua Savyon, 9, was shot in the back of the head by his father, Muni Savyon, who then shot his son multiple times before killing himself, the report found.
The shooting drew immediate attention to lax security practices at the visitation center, which beefed up security before re-opening.
The seven-page Attorney General's report also shows that the mother of the boy, Becky Ranes, had taken the proper steps after a March 2012 threatening conversation with Savyon, a dedicated Libertarian and Free State activist, over custody of their son.
Savyon told Ranes he owned a gun and said "it will be you, or it will be me and Joshua. You will see it on the news."
Ranes filed charges and sought a domestic violence petition. However, Savyon denied making the threat and told authorities he didn't own a gun. Police never searched Savyon's home, which would have required a search warrant.
After a year, Ranes sought to have the protection order extended. But the extension became bogged down in courtroom continuances, and the DVP "was mistakenly allowed to expire," according to a timeline in the report.
A week later, Savyon purchased ammunition at a Hooksett gun store. Four days after that, the shooting took place. The report found that the recently purchased ammunition was used in the shooting.
Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin said the mistaken expiration likely played no role in the killing. Authorities weren't able to determine when Savyon acquired his gun, but he probably did so in a private sale, Strelzin said.
Such a private sale would not use the FBI instant background check system, which identifies people with DVPs and prevents them from purchasing firearms. Federal law does not require a background check of anyone purchasing ammunition.
Judge Edwin W. Kelly, the administrative judge of the circuit court system, said New Hampshire courts have procedures in place to update protection orders in an FBI background check system.
But the Savyon extension was not put into the system, he said.
"I can tell you everybody who handled this case is devastated by it," Kelly said. He said no one has been fired or disciplined.
In a statement, the New Hampshire Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence said no one should be able to see a child that the person has threatened to kill.
"In what other circumstance would we find it acceptable to put someone in the presence of another person who had threatened to kill them?" said Amanda Grady Sexton, director of public policy for the organization.
Other findings in the report:
• YWCA Program Director Katie Schelzel said the organization stopped using metal detectors because staff would not know what to do if a parent showed up with a gun. She said Savyon had been wanded in the past, and the wand went off. He blamed it on metal cans he brought in for his son.
• On the day of the shooting, father and son interacted well with one another and seemed to be having a good time, said Michael Solis, the program coordinator at the YWCA. The shooting took place about 40 minutes into the visit.
• In a note to neighbors, Savyon hints that the gun had been smuggled. He said Ranes believed too much in government. "And now she will be left alone with the terrible sadness that her only son had been taken from her, a sadness that I am very familiar with," he wrote. He also said he is insane.
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I have been fortunate to teach a variety of journalism and public relations classes at Northern Illinois University, but the class I teach most is "Basic News Writing."
The title is not as self-explanatory as you might think. Sure, a lot of it is about sentence structure, punctuation and other writing mechanics. But for many students, the class is their introduction to the world of journalism, so I feel obliged to also cover things like law and ethics, interviewing techniques, note-taking and diversity perspectives.
Diversity perspectives are crucial to journalism because the changing demography of America is clear. According to the 2010 Census, America is about 65 percent white, about 15 percent Hispanic, about 14 percent Black, about 5 percent Asian and about 2 percent "other." Altogether, minorities account for about 34 percent of the U.S. population.
Strikingly, however, the trend line for journalism runs in the opposite direction. According to a recent report from the American Society of News Editors, minority representation in daily newspapers has declined to about 12 percent in 2012 from about 13.5 percent in 2008.
The percentage change might not sound that striking, but the report ("Newsroom Diversity: A Casualty of Journalism's Financial Crisis") makes clear in narrative what might be missing from a pie chart. The decline of minorities in newsrooms, the ASNE report says, "means that fewer minorities are getting the opportunity to work in news, and news organizations are losing their ability to empower, represent, and – especially in cases where language ability is crucial – even to report on minority populations in their communities."
In one case, a journalist who left a newspaper in Seattle was the last person who understood Spanish.
This isn't to say that only Asian-American reporters, for example, should cover news items significant to Asian-Americans.
Still, some cultural sensitivity and awareness helps a lot.
Like last July, when a commercial airline (Asiana Airlines flight 214) crashed near San Francisco International Airport, killing two and injuring nearly 200.
The Chicago Sun-Times ran a giant headline in bold type: "Fright 214."
Given that passengers were predominantly Asian, many took offense to the headline, concluding the Sun-Times made a bad joke about the stereotype of Asians having difficulty pronouncing "L"s as "R"s.
What happened next is really interesting. The Asian American Journalists Association contacted Sun-Times management to investigate/complain, and management assured the AAJA that it never occurred to anybody that someone would take offense with the headline.
Back to Basic News Writing, and where I become uncomfortable. Last summer, I had the opportunity to attend a weeklong symposium at NIU (the Multicultural Transformation Institute) that works with faculty and staff to help them become more aware of diversity considerations.
It was a good experience and I learned a lot, but that week represents the bulk of my diversity training. When I was in "j-school," I don't think there were any diversity courses.
I'm a good person and am qualified and competent, but as a white guy who grew up in a predominantly white town and whose entertainment choices tend to be predominantly white, it's awkward for me to teach up-and-coming journalists how to be more sensitive to minority populations.
• Jason Akst teaches journalism and public relations at Northern Illinois University. He also serves as a board member for the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association, www.ninaonline.org. You can reach him at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter (@jasonakst).


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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Friday in a visit to a key early voting state that he was unprepared for and humbled by his first run for president in 2012 and will work harder if there's a next time around.
Perry addressed a group of business leaders in New Hampshire and told them he had not decided yet whether to run again in 2016.
His 2012 campaign ended badly when he made several missteps, including a highly publicized gaffe when he froze up during a televised debate. Perry admitted he underestimated the intensity of a presidential campaign.
"Running for president of the United States, I don't care how good you might think you might be," he said. "Whether you've been elected governor of Texas three times and served for 12 years, it is not good enough from the standpoint of the preparation to run for the presidency of the United States."
If he runs, Perry said, voters can expect a different candidate.
"I've spent a lot of time in preparation," he said. "That's not to say I've made a decision I'm going to run. I haven't. But the reason I don't choose to run will not be because I'm ill-prepared."
Perry was scheduled to meet top Republicans and attend at least a half-dozen events during his two-day visit, including one sponsored by the conservative political group Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
Perry was indicted last week by a grand jury in Austin, Texas, on charges stemming from his veto last summer of state funds for public corruption prosecutors. He pleaded not guilty on Tuesday and has said he's confident the indictments will be exposed as nothing but a politically motivated attempt at retaliation. He didn't shy away from discussing the indictment on Friday, telling the business leaders he would be exonerated.
So far, the indictment — and Perry's response — appear to only be galvanizing New Hampshire Republicans, according to Steve Duprey, a GOP national committee member and former chairman of the state party.
"I think that he is taking the right approach that it's wrong, unjust and political," Duprey said. "Indicting the governor for vetoing funds because he thought a convicted drunk shouldn't be a prosecutor is wrong."
That sentiment was echoed by some in Friday's pro-business, anti-regulation crowd who gave him a warm reception. Eddie Edwards, a Republican running for state Senate, brushed off the indictment and praised Perry's veto of the funding.
"Governor, I want to tell you I admire your courage in standing up and holding people accountable," Edwards said.
Perry spent much of his 50-minute talk to the business leaders sounding like a man with his eye on the Oval Office. He criticized the federal government for what he called its failure to secure the southern border and a foreign policy he said has exposed the country to dangers from groups like the Islamic State. Perry noted this week's videotaped slaying of New Hampshire journalist James Foley and also discussed North Korea, China, job creation and the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., that followed the police shooting of an 18-year-old black man.
Wide-ranging remarks about domestic and foreign issues, together with the New Hampshire trip and visits to other key early states, won't do much to tamp down speculation that Perry will mount another bid. With more than a year before the primary season heats up and two full years before the 2016 presidential contest, he is laying the groundwork early this time around.
"I just think you have to spend a lot of time in these states if you're going to do it," he said. "Generally, there's a courtship that goes on. There's a period of time that you need to spend with people. They need to know you and you need to know them. And I didn't do that last time."
Democrats are using his visit to try to hang Perry around the neck of the two Republicans likely to run for U.S. Senate and governor.
"Now that the New Hampshire Republican Party has made it clear they will continue to welcome Perry to the Granite State despite his recent criminal indictment, will Scott Brown and Walt Havenstein also embrace the disgraced Texas governor?" Democratic Party spokesman Bryan Lesswing said.


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State, State Employee Association fail to reach mediation agreementBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
September 12. 2013 10:49PM
CONCORD — The state and its largest union will ask a fact finder to settle disputes over a new two-year contract the two sides have failed to agree to despite eight months of negotiations.
After four days of mediation ended last Friday, the two sides failed to agree on details of a health care plan that would require state workers to pay deductibles the State Employees' Association claims would be much larger for lower income state workers than the raise they would receive.
Negotiators had a tentative agreement in June, but the State Employees' Association's collective bargaining senate voted against the agreement. The two sides went back to the bargaining table.
SEA President Diana Lacey said her negotiators have continued to ask Gov. Maggie Hassan's negotiating team for information about the new health care plan, but has not received the information.
Under the legal requirements of fact finding, perhaps the state will have to provide the information, Lacey said.
Hassan issued a statement saying she believes the deal reached in June was fair to both state workers and the state's taxpayers. The two sides have worked to address the concerns raised by the union, she said.
"Our goals remain the same, and we can provide a critical cost-of-living increase to state employees while reducing health care costs and strengthening our state's financial outlook," Hassan said. "As we move forward, I will work to ensure that the fact-finding process is respectful, transparent and constructive for both our hardworking state employees and New Hampshire taxpayers, so that we may reach an agreement that is fair to all parties."
Lacey said she believes some of the problems result from the inexperience of Hassan's negotiating team.
"They are in a different league now and have not gained an appreciation of that," she said.
Fact finding is expected to begin next month and conclude by early November.
While money for the new contract is included in the state budget, additional money would have to be found to address any additional costs for the health care plan.