text: BOSTON (AP) The governors of Massachusetts and New Hampshire said Friday they were optimistic the long-running family dispute that has hobbled the Market Basket supermarket chain will be resolved, perhaps as soon as this weekend, with an agreement to sell it to its ousted CEO.In a statement issued late Friday, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan said they expect the company will restore Arthur T. Demoulas to "operating authority" on an interim basis, pending completion of the sale.The governors, who said they had been briefed by all parties involved in the dispute, were hopeful employees will return to work and stores will resume regular operations early next week. They added that the company's board of directors had agreed to "forestall taking adverse employment action" against employees who left their jobs in protest of Demoulas' ouster.The popular CEO was fired by a board of directors controlled by his cousin Arthur S. Demoulas. It was the culmination of a family feud that has divided the Tewksbury-based chain for decades.Arthur T. Demoulas said Friday he had submitted his final bid to buy out his rivals' share in the New England company on Thursday."The bid remains at full price and its terms are extremely favorable to the sellers," he said in a statement. "There is nothing that stands in the way of getting this done this weekend."Company officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Last week, Patrick and Hassan, both Democrats, made the unusual move of personally stepping into negotiations as the standoff threatened the future of the popular, low-cost supermarket chain. Both governors have remained in close contact with all parties in the dispute through the week.Market Basket, founded by the late Arthur Demoulas, a Greek immigrant, started with one store nearly a century ago. Today the company has about 25,000 employees and 71 stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.Hundreds of warehouse workers and drivers refused to deliver food to the chain's stores in protest, leading to empty shelves and millions of dollars in lost revenue for the company. Customers supported the employees by boycotting stores, and more than 160 mayors and legislators in Massachusetts and New Hampshire were among the thousands of people who signed petitions supporting the boycott.Business analysts said the worker revolt was remarkable, particularly because workers at the family-owned, non-union company were not seeking higher wages or better benefits but calling for the return of their CEO.At a Market Basket store in Sagamore, assistant grocery manager Bryan DeMedeiros said he hoped a resolution was imminent.On most Friday nights in August, his store, at the top of Cape Cod, is jammed with tourists stocking up for the weekend. Instead, just a few cars were parked outside."It's pretty sad," he said. "We're losing so much money."___Associated Press writers Bob Salsberg and Denise Lavoie in Boston and Bill Kole in Sagamore contributed to this report.


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After dropping the first two games of their skid in regulation, the Avs were able to earn a point on Monday with a 3-2 overtime setback to the Phoenix Coyotes. Mark Olver and Matt Duchene scored in the second period for Colorado, but Phoenix netted the tying goal in the third before securing the winner with 59 seconds left in overtime.
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Semyon Varlamov posted 27 saves in defeat, Colorado's sixth in eight games.
"It's a tough bounce, but for us we took the pedal off the metal in the third," said Duchene. "I made a terrible play on the second goal (allowed), I should have just kept the line and got it deep, but we made two mistakes and it's a tough way to end it. I thought we played a pretty good game even in the third, which wasn't our best period, it was still pretty good. It's disappointing."
Disappointing would also be a great way to describe Colorado's power play, which is just 3-for-37 on the season after failing to score on four chances versus the Coyotes. Colorado began overtime with a 4-on-3 advantage, but couldn't cash in.
Milan Hejduk assisted on Olver's goal for the 799th point of his career. He is just one shy of becoming the fourth player in franchise history, and second since the club relocated to Colorado, to reach 800 points.
Following a four-game homestand, the Avs will play back-to-back on the road, but are just 1-4-0 as the guest this season. They will also be without defenseman Erik Johnson due to a head injury suffered versus Phoenix that will keep him out indefinitely.
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Hurricane Sandy has substantially come and gone. The Inn, along with all of Main Street in Hancock, lost power for almost 24 hours. Happily, the Inn's generator was very much up to the challenge and we spent our first night of vacation listening to the wind and rain, but able to keep track of the storm by watching New England Cable News and CNN on the television. Cable must have gone out sometime overnight, because this morning, despite having the generator power, TV and Internet were out.
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From a news account: "A longtime neighbor in San Diego, where Holmes grew up, remembers only a 'shy guy ...a loner' from a churchgoing family. In addition to playing soccer at Westview High School, he ran cross country."
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... never a "heathen, people person"
I saw that bit in one of the early detailed news reports. Still, I'm having a bit of a problem using this atrocity as an excuse to bash theists. Until we know more, I'll lean toward believing he had other issues. Who knows, maybe he suffered terribly at the hands of his soccer coach ;-)
Question for anyone interested:
Has anyone done a study on what makes a person break? The initial conditions which surrounded the event and the dynamics once said break was underway? If they haven't, I shouldn't wonder. This kind of break is a discontinuity, like a steel beam under stress, finally fracturing. Understanding that situation and creating a viable engineering model is likely child's play compared with doing the same thing for a human being.
Still, I'm an engineer, not a psychoanalyst. This kid was a brilliant kid, right up to the point where something when seriously south, and I'd like to know if we're any closer to understanding exactly how that happens than we were back in the days of Richard Speck.
I enjoyed the movie of the Philip K. Dick story, Minority Report, in which psychics are made to predict violent crimes before they occur so that operatives can be sent to the locales and prevent them. A wonderful twist on the old SciFi plot of predicting the future and thereby changing it for the better. Far fetched? Yes, but fun. Forget the fact that Tom Cruise is in it. He does a pretty good job, God bless him!
Problem is, where do you find an actual, functioning psychic? I think I'd rather understand the present than have to resort to looking into the future, especially since such a skill isn't likely to be genuinely found.
You and I both ascribe to the Gospel of the Great Randi, but Dick was simply saying "What if?" and that is poetic license to fiction writers.
Yeah, true enough. Sometimes I get too pragmatic for my own good, I think.
I went to a few trainings on campus shooters. The stuff I heard related to the millennial generation, The factors tended to be:
1. Desire to be famous (for these guys "infamous" is just as good)
2. Past victim of bullying
3. Untreated or under treated mental illness
Part 2 was the central focus of the movie, Elephant, by Gus Van Sant (2003). In that one, the disturbed high school friends who were loosely based on the pair at Columbine turn out to be gay, or at least are shown taking a shower together at one of their family homes. Many gay people are bullied, but not all bullying victims are gay. I would not be surprised at all if this kid was bullied. But alienation does not depend on bullying. Even Holmes's school friends describe him as a "loner." That in itself might warrant close examination. If one can get along without society one begins to feel its lack of necessity, sometimes with such alienation from them that getting rid of them is fairly easy to envision.
Steph, as long as the person is mentally stable, being an introvert/loner type is just as viable as me. I'm extroverted, love being in the thick of things. Love crowds of people. Just because that might fall within more of a normal area of the bell curve, it can lead to as much, if not more unstable personality types, than the introvert. Each of us still think mostly the same, it just seems the reactions are somehat different. Example, if an emergency happens, the extroverts jump right in, sometimes to the detriment of the situation, while most introverts I know have a tendency to hang back, sizing up the situation more throughly. Both have their place, and the co-operation of the two seem to generate a more equitable outcome. I'm very far from an expert, but this has been my experience more often than not. Both are a necessary ingredient for a successful society. As are a number of things, of course. Just some of my observations, my 2 cents. Anyway, be well. Talk at you later. Tony.
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Well, the break's over, so now we can get this show on the road:
-The ministory focuses on Brooke, though the details are currently unknown. Chapter title is "Luffy and Whitebeard".
-We get a more detailed explanation of how Luffy's group came flying into Marineford. Their hijacked battleship was caught in the tsunami caused by Whitebeard's DF power, then ended up getting stuck in ice thanks to Aokiji. Luffy was able to discover their plot to execute Ace early thanks to the communications equipment on the ship. Luffy and co. manage to break the ice, which caused their ship to go tumbling down......
-Jinbei helps prevent the DF users from falling into the sea. Luffy calls out to Ace, but Crocodile decided to take this opportunity to take a shot at snuffing out Whitebeard. Luffy stops him, saying that he won't let Crocoboy hurt the person that Ace looks up to. A bunch of characters comment on Luffy's presence (amusingly, Akainu talks about killing Luffy, heh. Moria seems to have gotten pretty pissed at the sight of Luffy, as well....).
-Whitebeard asks Luffy if he's there to rescue Ace. Luffy tells Whitebeard that he intends to become Pirate King before he does. Newgate simply calls him cocky and tells him not to get in his way. Both Ivankov and Buggy are shocked by Luffy's boldness. Kizaru asks Sengoku if it's alright to execute all of the new arrivals, to which Sengoku merely responds, "Of course".......
Heh, so it looks like all the superpowers took a time out over Luffy, eh? Still, the fact that both Kizaru and Akainu are interested in killing Luffy can't be good.... though, speaking of Kizaru, I wonder if this also means that Sentoumaru is somewhere nearby? If so, Luffy will at least have a chance to pay him back for Sabaody......
Oh, and I'm still waiting for Buggy to do something crazy to further justify his inevitable bounty hike. And now to wait for pictures.......
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Wow just wow! This chapter is intense. I guess luffy really has made an impact on the world for real. The previous enemies haven't forgotten him and seems that the newer ones want at him too. There is now way he can handle all of these powerhouses. And hell, he called out Whitebeared! Insane!
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Once both luffy and buggy survive this, god knows how much their bounties will increase. Especially Buggy...
Quite ironic. Luffy stopping Croc from attacking WB, then telling WB that he will beat WB to the throne
Now its seems like luffy vs two admirals, any pics out yet marvelB? Before i can make further conclusions
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By the way, Sengoku once again yells at Garp about his family always causing trouble when he sees Luffy's group crashing into Marineford. I guess being the "Buddha" means Sengoku's mustered up enough patience to prevent him from getting an aneurysm.
Also, seeing as several characters comment on Luffy's arrival, I'm kinda hoping that it also includes some of those NW captains. This could determine whether or not any of those guys will be future enemies or allies to Luffy in later storylines......
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Well it won't really make sense they saying anything about him. I mean so far the NW captains seem like fodder. Plus it not like we know much about them so they saying something won't really matter . These guys come to help WB and here we have luffy telling WB he going to be pirate king .
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^I dunno andy, seems like Luffy was the more obvious threat, becoz firstly, luffy's closer to ace in terms of positioning, and secondly (more importantly), he is the guy who does the craziest things to drive sengoku crazy. The defeat of croc, the fall of enies lobby, the defeat of moria, and the tenryubito affair... All causes headaches for him. Even if the new world pirates are stronger, most dont have the guts to even try this sort of stuff. No wonder sengoku would be talking about him, and kizaru, since he would be like "WoE is he here now?" considering what Kuma did.
Though I dont know about Akainu's reaction, maybe he is an anti-virus software?
EDIT: Okay, a somewhat logical explanation of the drop-in, though I liked the death-wink theory better... dunno why
Crusader, u are most probably right in this case, probably Akainu will melt the ice and sacrifice his comrades to defeat the enemy. However, now that the joker card has been played (Jimbei), this could get interesting
EDIT 2: Some will definitely reappear in the future though, however the spotlight's on luffy. Now is the time to set the target for luffy. If he wants to be the pirate king (we noe he does), he would have to beat Whitebeard. Its all luffy's logic. Just like so many times be4, when he says, "So if I beat this guy, then..."
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Well, those captains are supposed to be pretty prominent figures in the New World (plus, the fact that some of them were named suggests to me that not all of them are fodder.....). Depending on how many of them survive this war, some of them may end up trying to either take Whitebeard's place as an emperor or will keep his spot "on hold" until they find someone worthy enough to take up the mantle (like Ace, who I'm still pretty certain will end up surviving). Like I said before, that could determine who amongst those pirates will become Luffy's friends or enemies in the future.....
....And I guess I also want an excuse to see Doma and Makugai appear in future storylines. Those two looked the most badass out of those NW captains, IMO.
By the way, I find it kinda funny that Crocodile would attack Whitebeard head-on like that. I mean, we saw in Ace's flashback that Whitebeard could easily smack around a Logia that tried to attack him off-guard, so what makes Crocoboy so confident that he can fare better than Ace or that giant VA from the previous chapter.....?
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[Which brings me to believe that each Yonkou have the ability to summon pirates outside of their crews to their aid in battle. At first I thought it was only being Whitebeard was the Strongest Man in the World and known The King of the Seas. But if these New World Captains came from Whitebeard's domain then other Yonkou can do the same.]
Crocodile, something tells me Whitebeard was the one who gave me him that scar across his face. When he was speaking of Whitebeard in Impel Down he seemed to have a grudge.
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Epic spoilers, this will be legendary chapter...
And Whitebeard is in middle of battle and Crocodile seems to had grudge against WB for a long long time and he finally got oppurtunity for revenge...
Awesome chapter, I cant wait to see pics about reactions, but I want to wait for full chapter release...
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This is absolutely crap...A chapter full of reactions.
Luffy says whatever he wants and does whatever he wants, able to talk to Whitebeard like that? Whitebeard can't come back with a witty come back to shut this kid up or give him a strong pimp hand? I just lol'd at Luffy telling Whitebeard he will save Ace his own way as if Whitebeard is completely irrelevant in this thang. Screw the reactions, this is a punk who is no threat at all, KIZARU is the only one with the right idea...Sending all these suckas to hell.
Weak chapter, nothing more but Luffy strawhat riding.
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He wants to be Pirate king you can't be pirate king being a bitch . Plus luffy not able to beat any of the big boys but the WG does see luffy as a threat .
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ANYWAYS, dropping that. I can't wait for this chapter! It's going to be awesome! It killed me last week knowing it wasn't coming out until this week...
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A federal grand jury has indicted 21-year-old Vermont woman on a charge of witness intimidation for allegedly burning down a camp in retaliation against a drug informant.
Rebecca Ray of Barton was indicted Thursday for setting fire to the camp in Brownington on July 11, the day after her boyfriend, 34-year-old Matthew Pure of Barton, and her boyfriend's brother were arrested for allegedly selling heroin to the informant.
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Atletico Madrid midfielder Tiago faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after undergoing surgery on a broken arm suffered in his side's Copa del Rey semi-final clash on Wednesday.
The 31-year-old took a kick from Sevilla's Gary Medel in the first half and had to be replaced as a result, with the club confirming after the match that he had fractured his right forearm.
Following further tests by doctors in the Spanish capital, the club announced that the Portuguese has had a plate fixed to the ulna bone in an effort to repair the damage, with his recovery period as yet unknown.
"[Medel] was going to clear the ball and I put my arm up to protect my face," Tiago recalled to the club's official website.
"In the end, I felt something was wrong. I tried to keep playing but I could not continue. The bone was broken and it hurt to move my arm.
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Editor's Note: This summer, Hulu's taking you behind-the-scenes on some of your favorite films to explore how filmmakers use elements such as sound, cinematography, and lighting to tell powerful stories and create moments that are unforgettable. To celebrate Lighting and Color Theory week, Hulu Summer Film School is excited to bring you a special guest post from Criterion Collection staff writer Michael Koresky. Visit the Criterion website to learn more about Persona and the work of cinematographer Sven Nykvist.
Simply put, cinema is light. Every recorded moving image in every movie you've seen from the earliest Thomas Edison experiment to the most recent Hollywood blockbuster is impossible without the light it takes to illuminate it. The camera lens is a device for capturing light. So light—as well as the more abstract notion of time—is what defines the art of cinema and sets it apart from other mediums such as music, literature, and theater—aligning it most with painting. It's important, then, to pay attention to a given film's lighting choices and notice how much they reveal about that film's characters, story, and overall artistic point of view. Look closely, because with movies what you see is what you get.
One of the cinema's greatest cinematographers, a true sculptor of light, was Sven Nykvist. He worked with such varied directors as Woody Allen, Nora Ephron, Bob Fosse, Philip Kaufman, Louis Malle, Bob Rafelson, and Andrei Tarkovsky, but he is best known for his collaborations with fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman. And perhaps none of their projects together is more strikingly lit than their extraordinary 1966 film Persona. It's a master class in the delicate art of lighting for film, nearly every image expressing something sharp and distinctive about the human condition. This story, about an actress, Elisabet (Liv Ullmann), who one day decides to stop talking, and the nurse, Alma (Bibi Andersson), assigned to take care of her, is so visually compelling it could be watched with the sound and subtitles turned off and still communicate so much.
Said Nykvist in an interview:
"Sufficient time is rarely taken to study light. It is as important as the lines the actors speak, or the direction given to them. It is an integral part of the story and that is why such close coordination is needed between director and cinematographer. Light is a treasure chest: once properly understood, it can bring another dimension to the medium."
Persona typifies this sentiment, and throughout it also displays the variety of ways a cinematographer can light a scene resulting in constant emotional impact. From scene to scene there is lighting either hard or soft, natural or ghostly, realist or surreal; illumination can come from the front or the back, it can fill a room or only brighten certain corners. It's a visual tour de force; it's no surprise the original title of Bergman's script was Cinematography.
One of Persona's most famous images is near the beginning, nested within an abstract prologue largely divorced from the proper narrative. A young boy reaches out to grasp elusive, enlarged images of the film's two main characters. This is an example of high-key lighting, which usually comes from three sources and minimizes shadows to create an even look. In this case, as a result, the boy appears wise and innocent.
In contrast, look at this amazing flashback insert of the moment when Elisabet stops talking, during a stage performance of Electra. She is in dramatic close-up, her pained expression filling the screen, but her face is half in shadow, giving it an eerie quality. This technique, implying there are two sides to her—a light and a dark—will be a recurring motif throughout the film.
Sometimes the light can be adjusted and toyed with during the course of a shot for dramatic effect, as in this intense close-up of Elisabet lying in her hospital bed, the main source of light growing increasingly dark until she is all but obscured by shadows.
The lighting can come from any part of the set, of course, and the way it is aimed will subtly alter the mood of a scene. Here, Elisabet watches a violent news segment on television in her hospital room, and she is lit from below, which gives the scene the aesthetic of a horror movie.
Prioritizing of illumination on one character over another can create implicit drama and say much about character. In this scene, Elisabet is in shadow even though she is in the foreground of the shot, while a hospital psychologist in the background is more evenly lit. Since the doctor is speaking harshly to her, accusing her of intentionally playing the part of a sufferer, this lighting emphasizes the cold nastiness of the doctor and the negation of Elisabet.
Conversely, later, when Elisabet and Alma have gone to the summer island home where the latter will help the former recuperate, Bergman and Nykvist often illuminate and make Elisabet the visual focal point of a scene. This is fascinating because, as a mute, she is always the listener, while Alma is always prattling on. Our attention is directed to the passive Elisabet's subtle facial responses. In this scene, there is a diegetic light source on Elisabet, as a lamp next to her bed serves to make her the center of our attention while Bibi tells her a dramatic story.
In another of the film's most famous scenes, Elisabet approaches Alma's bedroom during what looks like very early morning. This is an example of soft light, so diffused it looks like a dream; the light source from the background is so soft, in fact, that Elisabet seems to materialize from and dissolve back into the light.
Of course a good, old-fashioned glare of sunlight aimed directly at the camera can produce a wildly dramatic, natural effect.
At one point, we see the women's profiles nearly silhouetted. This is because the main source of illumination here is harsh backlighting, directed toward the camera.
Above all it's those close-ups half in shadow that are Persona's claim to fame. Its climactic confrontation between Alma and Elisabet consists of a succession of amazing shots of the women's faces all but split in two by darkness.
Said Nykvist about working on Persona:
"One of the more difficult tasks for me on Persona was to light the close-ups because they involved such incredible nuance It's very important to me to light so that you can sense what lies behind a character's eyes. I always aim to catch the light in the eyes, because I feel they are the mirror of the soul. Truth is in the actor's eyes and very small changes in expression can reveal more than a thousand words."
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With The Rebel, acclaimed award-winning author Jack Dann pulls James Dean from the twisted wreckage and offers him a second chance to make an indelible mark on his art, his culture, and his time in an era of profound change and devastating social upheaval.
Surviving the horrific crash that leaves him permanently scarred, both physically and emotionally, the haunted, brooding, and complex young star finds himself charged with a feeling of responsibility to do "something wonderful and important." Yet for Jimmy Dean, the glory road will be winding and broken, littered with the detritus of exploded dreams and destroyed love, as it passes through the holiest cultural sites of postwar twentieth-century America -- the genius-and-drug pumped world of the Beats, the protected inner sanctum of Graceland, the darkest shadows of Camelot. The lives and futures of Kerouac, Sinatra, Elvis, and the Kennedys will all be touched by him -- yet perhaps none so deeply as the fragile sex goddess who will always be his greatest burden and true soul mate, a dazzling and tragically lost phenomenon named Marilyn -- as he moves toward an astonishing destiny that will reconfigure the world.
Ingeniously blending historical fact with brilliant invention, The Rebel is a hip, fast, and mesmerizing ride through the fifties and sixties -- an unforgettable road trip across a nation with an American legend at the wheel.
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Jack Dann is a multiple award winning author who has written or edited over 60 books, including the groundbreaking novels Junction, Starhiker, The Man Who Melted, The Memory Cathedral -- which is an international bestseller, the Civil War novel The Silent, and Bad Medicine, which has been compared to the works of Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson and called "the best road novel since the Easy Rider days."
Dann's work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Castaneda, J. G. Ballard, Mark Twain, and Philip K. Dick. Philip K. Dick, author of the stories from which the films Blade Runner and Total Recall were made, wrote that "Junction is where Ursula Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and Tony Boucher's 'The Quest for Saint Aquin' meet...and yet it's an entirely new novel.... I may very well be basing some of my future work on Junction." Best-selling author Marion Zimmer Bradley called Starhiker "a superb book... it will not give up all its delights, all its perfections, on one reading."
Library Journal has called Dann "...a true poet who can create pictures with a few perfect words." Roger Zelazny thought he was a reality magician and Best Sellers has said that "Jack Dann is a mind-warlock whose magicks will confound, disorient, shock, and delight." The Washington Post Book World compared his novel The Man Who Melted with Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal.
His short stories have appeared in Omni and Playboy and other major magazines and anthologies. He is the editor of the anthology Wandering Stars, one of the most acclaimed American anthologies of the 1970's, and several other well-known anthologies such as More Wandering Stars. Wandering Stars and More Wandering Stars have just been reprinted in the U.S. Dann also edits the multi-volume Magic Tales series with Gardner Dozois and is a consulting editor TOR Books.
He is a recipient of the Nebula Award, the Australian Aurealis Award (twice), the Ditmar Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award, and the Premios Gilgamés de Narrativa Fantastica award. Dann has also been honoured by the Mark Twain Society (Esteemed Knight).
High Steel, a novel co-authored with Jack C. Haldeman II, was published in 1993. Critic John Clute called it "a predator...a cat with blazing eyes gorging on the good meat of genre. It is most highly recommended." A sequel entitled Ghost Dance is in progress.
Dann's major historical novel about Leonardo da Vinci -- entitled The Memory Cathedral -- was first published in December 1995 to rave reviews. It has been published in 10 languages to date. It won the Australian Aurealis Award in 1997, was #1 on The Age bestseller list, and a story based on the novel was awarded the Nebula Award. The Memory Cathedral was also shortlisted for the Audio Book of the Year, which was part of the 1998 Braille & Talking Book Library Awards.
Morgan Llwelyn called The Memory Cathedral "a book to cherish, a validation of the novelist's art and fully worthy of its extraordinary subject." The San Francisco Chronicle called it "a grand accomplishment," Kirkus Reviews thought it was "An impressive accomplishment," and True Review said, "Read this important novel, be challenged by it; you literally haven't seen anything like it."
Dann's next novel The Silent was chosen by Library Journal as one of their 'Hot Picks.' Library Journal wrote: "This is narrative storytelling at its best -- so highly charged emotionally as to constitute a kind of poetry from hell. Most emphatically recommended." Auhor Peter Straub said, "This tale of America's greatest trauma is full of mystery, wonder, and the kind of narrative inventiveness that makes other novelists want to hide under the bed." And The Australian called it "an extraordinary achievement."
His contemporary road novel Bad Medicine (titled Counting Coup in the U.S.) has been called "a vivid and compelling vision-quest through the dark back roads and blue highways of the American soul."
Dann is also the co-editor (with Janeen Webb) of the groundbreaking Australian anthology Dreaming Down-Under, which Peter Goldsworthy has called "the biggest, boldest, most controversial collection of original fiction ever published in Australia." It has won Australia's Ditmar Award and is the first Australian book ever to win the prestigious World Fantasy Award.
Dann is also the author of the retrospective short story collection Jubilee: the Essential Jack Dann. The West Australian said it was "Sometimes frightening, sometimes funny, erudite, inventive, beautifully written and always intriguing. Jubilee is a celebration of the talent of a remarkable storyteller."
As part of its Bibliographies of Modern Authors Series, The Borgo Press has published an annotated bibliography and guide entitled The Work of Jack Dann. An updated second edition is in progress. Dann is also listed in Contemporary Authors and the Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series; The International Authors and Writers Who's Who; Personalities of America; Men of Achievement; Who's Who in Writers, Editors, and Poets, United States and Canada; Dictionary of International Biography; the Directory of Distinguished Americans; Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century; and Who's Who in the World.
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Put on your yarmulke, it's time for Thanksgivukkah
Rabbi explains once-in-a-lifetime confluence of holidaysThis year, Jewish Americans will be carving the Thanksgiving turkey and lighting the menorah on the same night. It's the last time the two events will coincide for thousands of years to come. Rabbi Elyse Winnick '86 of the Brandeis University Interfaith Chaplaincy answered a few questions about this unusual confluence of celebrations.
Why doesn't Hanukkah occur on a fixed date?
The Jewish calendar is lunar-based, which means that, ironically enough, we, as Jews, live with our feet in two worlds. There's the Gregorian calendar, which much of the world uses, and at the same time, we're functioning on the Hebrew lunar calendar. We have either 29 or 30 days per month. As a result of being on this lunar schedule, our year shifts incrementally on the Gregorian calendar, and as the holiday moves further and further away from the season we expect it in, we have a leap month – not unlike February on the Gregorian calendar – it just comes a little less often. Leap month is this particular year. Hanukkah always begins on the 25th day of the month of Kislev.
When will the two holidays again coincide?
The Jewish calendar is on a 19-year cycle. As such, the next time the two holidays will occur together is Thursday, Nov. 28, 79811, or nearly 77,800 years from now.
What significance does the collision of this secular American and Jewish holiday have?
The connection between these holidays is fascinating. Hanukkah is already, in so very many ways, a very secularized and Americanized holiday for us. It's not the case in other parts of the world, necessarily. Because Christmas has such a powerful social and commercial construct in this country, Hanukkah has been disproportionately elevated due to its timing, generally, near Christmas. If you look at Jewish tradition as it reflects on Jewish holidays, Hanukkah is not very important, but Jews have very often adapted to their host community.
One of the reasons why the notion of Thanksgivukkah is really taking off is that Thanksgiving is already of great significance for so many people in the Jewish community. Pilgrims come to this country because they are escaping religious persecution, so Hanukkah really resonates with Jews. It's the only holiday where observant Jews can celebrate without any of the travel and cooking restrictions of Jewish holidays. I can't think of a single observant Jew who doesn't sigh at relief at being able to serve dinner right from the oven.
Also, Hanukkah is a celebration of heroism, renewal, and maintaining your identity in an environment that is trying to hold you back. Thanksgiving is in its origin points, a celebration of gratitude, of being able to survive in this new land. We can also offer gratitude for having been able to reclaim our religious rituals.
This is a powerful opportunity to acknowledge the way in which the American Jewish experience fits into American freedom and the gratitude the American Jewish community has really been able to become itself in such a strong way, under the auspices of the American culture. We can express gratitude for the bounty and have an opportunity to be grateful that we have found ourselves in a place of strength. In some ways our success has been our own detriment, that American experience makes it easier to let go of being Jewish. There's not threat to our Judaism. We are a generation in which we are all Jews by choice. It is a mixed blessing.
In what interesting ways are people trying to combine the two holidays?
We've seen this Kickstarter campaign for a Menurkey – not high on my list of ways I want to decorate my table. It's a turkey with eight spaces for candles.
I saw a recipe that's made of stuffing, much like an Italian rice ball, with a center core of cranberry sauce that has been coated in latke, and then deep fried. Could there be any greater synergy than that?
We walk a very fine line between selling out our holiday celebrations, by going to crazy extremes to highlight the relationship between the two, and on the other side, really using it as a moment to celebrate and reflect on how fortunate we are to have this meal and this conversation. The creativity that this is generating is a sign that, in spite of the doomsday views, Jewish tradition is alive and well and kicking and growing ever more creative.
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The first professor of Natural History at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Henry James Clark, had one of the briefest and most tragic tenures of any member of the faculty during the nineteenth century. Having studied under Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz at Harvard, Clark became an expert microscopist and student of the structure and development of flagellate protozoans and sponges. Barely a year after joining the faculty at Massachusetts Agricultural College at its first professor of Natural History, Clark died of tuberculosis on July 1, 1873.
A small remnant of a brief, but important career in the natural sciences, the Henry James Clark Papers consist largely of obituary notices and a fraction of his published works. The three manuscript items include two letters from Clark's widow to his obituarist and fellow naturalist, Alpheus Hyatt (one including some minor personal memories), and a contract to build a house on Pleasant Street in Amherst.
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PRETORIA, South Africa — Not much could overshadow the first extended trip to Africa by the first black president of the United States.
But as Barack Obama traveled through the continent, he faced an avalanche of questions, anecdotes, even prayers not for his own visit — but for the beloved South African leader Nelson Mandela.
The deteriorating health of the 94-year-old global icon affectionately known here as Madiba has consumed not just South Africa, where Obama spent Saturday, but much of sub-Saharan Africa.
As a result, much of Obama's trip was transformed into a tribute to Mandela, who led the anti-apartheid movement that coincidentally inspired the political career of a 19-year-old college student and the future president of the United States.
"The struggle here against apartheid, for freedom; Madiba's moral courage; this country's historic transition to a free and democratic nation has been a personal inspiration to me," Obama said Saturday. "It has been an inspiration to the world — and it continues to be. In so many regions that are divided by conflict, sectarian disputes, religious or ethnic wars, to see what happened in South Africa — the power of principle and people standing up for what's right continues to shine as a beacon."
Obama and Mandela have only met once — Obama keeps a photo in the White House of their brief visit in 2005 when Obama was a freshman senator — but they share a historical link as the first black president in each of their countries.
"The two of you are also bound by history — as the first black presidents of your respective countries," South Africa President Jacob Zama said at a news conference with Obama Saturday.
Obama met privately Saturday with members of Mandela's family — two daughters and eight grandchildren — at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg and spoke by telephone with Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, who remained by her husband's side.
On Sunday, Obama will tour Robben Island, where Mandela was held in a small cell for 18 of his 27 years in prison as a political prisoner under the white leaders who ruled the nation. Obama will later give the signature speech of the trip in which he will highlight the example Mandela set in standing up both to apartheid and in a peaceful transition of power.
"So much of the democratic progress that we see across the continent I think can be tied in some way to the inspiration that Nelson Mandela set," said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to Obama. "We are definitely going to be paying tribute to Nelson Mandela's contribution to not just South Africa, but to Africa and the world."
Obama is on the second stop of a weeklong trip to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania designed to promote trade, build democracies and inspire youth leaders.
Mandela's illness prompted a delicate balancing act by Obama, who had to choose between pushing his own agenda and honoring the former leader.
Officials and family members provided conflicting information on Mandela, who has been fighting a lung infection for weeks. He was reported to be on life support, though Zuma said his condition improved slightly.
Mandela's daughter, Zindzi Mandela-Motlhajwa, said earlier this week that her father opened his eyes and smiled from his bed at the Mediclinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria when he was told Obama planned to visit the country.
White House aides initially said Obama could stop by the hospital to see Mandela, but on Saturday they said that would not happen "out of deference to Nelson Mandela's peace and comfort and the family's wishes," according to the White House.
"I don't need a photo-op, and the last thing I want to do is to be in any way obtrusive at a time when the family is concerned about Nelson Mandela's condition," Obama said as he flew to Johannesburg from Senegal.
Leaders in some of Africa's 57 other nations have been criticized in recent weeks for visiting Mandela, snapping photos which were publicly released.
The two men have operated in vastly different political environments with different constraints. But they are forever bound as presidents, Noble Prize winners and men who inspired black residents in the United States and Africa.
In 2005, Obama, a newly elected senator, met Mandela when he was in Washington. Three years later, Mandela called Obama to congratulate him on his victory. The two have spoken several times in the years that followed, but never in person. First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters, Sasha and Malia, visited Mandela in 2011 when they were in South Africa.
"I think, you know, effectively we have in President Mandela somebody who is, you know, so ill that it's very, very difficult for him to productively engage in public life. And I think that's acted as a constraint," said Haroon Bhorat, a professor at the University of Cape Town.
"My sense is, were this 10 years earlier, President Mandela would have reached out. Being President Mandela, he would have reached out to President Obama, and I think the relationship would have been a very sort of warm and productive one, I have no doubts about that."


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Gabe mysteriously manifests telekinetic powers and uses them to type a review...
Depressed Seattle teenager Andrew Detmer (Dane DeHaan) buys a camcorder to keep a video chronicle of his trying life. At home Andrew's mother Karen (Bo Petersen) is slowly dying from cancer, and his alcoholic father Richard (Michael Kelly) verbally and physically abuses him. At school, he is unpopular and violently bullied. Andrew's only real friend is his cousin Matt (Alex Russell), who invites him to a party in hopes of helping him make friends, but Andrew's awkward behavior just continues to alienate him and he despondently leaves. While moping outside, Andrew is approached by Steve (Michael B. Jordan), the popular shoe-in for class president, who persuades to bring his camera to a strange, glowing, noisy hole in the middle of the woods, where Matt is waiting for them. The three enter the hole and discover a large, blue crystalline object that begins to vibrate and glow red, causing painful nosebleeds, and eventually a violent, chaotic cave-in. Weeks later Andrew has a new camera, and records himself, Matt, and Steve as they begin to manifest telekinetic abilities.
Love it, hate it, or used to love it and have learned to hate it, the found footage genre isn't going away anytime soon. Movies like The Devil Inside can be produced on a shoestring and released to brutal reviews and audience reactions, but still make enough money their first weekend out to justify the expenditure. Outside of straight exploitation genres, like pornography, I'm not sure there's ever been a popular film movement that has leveled the playing field between the major studios and independent filmmakers this effectively, as looking cheap and unprofessional is par for the found footage course. In contrast, the even more popular and continuously growing superhero genre is largely dependent on expensive, state of the art special effects. Even comparatively moderately priced superhero films run budgets into the tens of millions. Independent productions are thus limited to more 'realistic' concepts and satires ( Super, Defender, Griff the Invisible), or campy knock-offs ( The Almighty Thor). Obviously, the next step in the money grubbing process would be to mix the otherwise cost prohibitive superhero genre with the inherently cost effective found footage genre, thus creating a super-found footage hybrid that would brood a franchise of cheap and popular box office hits. How it took until 2012 for someone to do it is beyond my cognitive abilities.
There have been some good, even great found footage films released during this most recent deluge, and some, like Matt Reeves' Cloverfield, even get away with an overall lack of intrigue beyond the clever idea of coupling an unlikely genre (Giant Kaiju Monster) with found footage concept, but a lot of good will has been strained by too many plotless, formless, undistinguished, downright boring movies. First time feature director Josh Trank's Chronicle isn't perfect, but it's much better than the uninspiring trailers would lead you to believe, and probably the best thing that's happened to found footage since André Øvredal's Troll Hunter (which you should probably see right now, if you haven't already). Trank does his job efficiently, easing his audience from faux-verite into the unnatural melodrama and unrealistic action with relative grace, and he doesn't awkwardly stop the film every time the story requires a little more development. He also squeezes every ounce of his moderate budget (estimated $15 million), and captures more dynamic impact in his bombastic climax than most blockbusters ten times the price. The economical special effects tend to show their seams, but they aren't particularly distracting, and the no-brainer inclusion of alternate angles via media and surveillance cameras during the big psy-powered Seattle smash-up adds another layer of awe missing from most of the more ambitious found footage movies.
The screenplay and story were co-written by bona fide comic book geek Max Landis, son of bona fide horror/sci-fi geek John Landis, who does a good job of ensuring the film isn't just another gimmick, but an honest storytelling exercise. First he tackles the omnipresent found footage issue of why anyone would be filming every aspect of his or her life. The story points to the use of the camera a little too often, which makes it a little hard to ignore, but generally it's easy enough to overlook the gimmick in favour of the story, especially when Andrew starts telepathically controlling the camera and getting himself more theatrical angles for his chronicle. There's little originality or deeper meaning here, but what it lacks in novelty Chronicle often makes up for in proficiency and taste. The basic plot most obviously recalls elements of the basic superhero myth (pieces of Fantastic Four, which Trank is rumoured to be rebooting for Fox), the ongoing hero/villain dynamics of Professor X and Magneto throughout the X-Men mythos, and big pieces of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira. The 'origin story' approach is another no-brainer, but Trank and Landis is smart to revolve most of their narrative around the building fury of a super villain rather than a super hero (who's moved into a supporting role), and even smarter to make that super villain a truly pitiable person. Found footage films tend to be populated by thinly drawn characters that are defined by singular tropes, and who spend most of their time arguing with one another. Trank and Landis are guilty of this to an extent, at least at the beginning of the story. Character motivations tend to be a bit heavy-handed, and there are major issues with expositional dialogue, but as the film progresses it's pretty easy to ignore the simplicity, and become surprisingly engrossed in who these people are.
Shot entirely digitally, Chronicle is every inch a found footage film, meaning this 1080p, 1.78:1 transfer isn't going to win any awards for clarity, but every artefact and shortcoming is an integral part of the film's design. The frame is flooded with artefacts including heavy digital grain, thick edge enhancement, edge jaggies, bleeding colours, and inconsistent black levels. Soon in the film we discover that Andrew's camera is just old, as Trank edits in an alternate angles from other cameras in the area, most of which are much sharper and cleaner then the hero camera, which is broken, and then replaced with a state of the art Arri Alexa HD system. The HD scenes, which make up the bulk of the film, looks something much closer to perfect, including sharp, lifelike details (mostly in close-up, but also in medium shots), much less grain, and more realistic colours. Natural lighting continues to keep things stylistically found footage-y, but also creates some really effective contrast levels and rich blacks. The darkest shots are still plenty grainy, but nothing major is lost thanks to well-defined highlights. There isn't exactly a defined colour palette, but there are themes based on time of day and location, including soft, white lit interiors with poppy primary hues, warmly tinted outdoor shots with lush green highlights, and vibrant red and purple party scenes.
I always have a strange problem accepting surround sound mixes on found footage films. For some dumb reason I have to actively suspend my disbelief concerning the 5.1 abilities of a hand-held camera, even though I apparently don't have a problem with super-powered teenagers. Despite my issues, this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack is a solid showing, and even takes the concept's issues into aural account. As the film begins things remain restrained and mostly centered, with a slightly tinny high-end sound, and volume inconsistencies depending on camera placement. Soon enough, however, our protagonists find themselves at a rave, and the techno music gives the stereo and surround channels a bit of a workout. Then the fantasy aspects of the story begin to weave their way into the mix, and the sound design starts to vibrate with activity. The production also utilizes the new camera excuse to include more ambient effects, eventually dropping any pretense, and utilizing immersive directional effects. Highlights really begin when the characters learn to fly, and then continue as the situation slowly spirals out of control. The action scenes include your basic superhero movie levels of aggressive sound design, including swift directional effects and room shattering bass levels.
Besides the inclusion of an extended cut of the film (the extended scenes appear to mostly pertain to the film's second act, where the boys mostly play pranks with their powers), extras are pretty brief, including only a deleted scene (1:10, HD), some pre-viz footage (7:50, HD), a camera/special effects test (4:00, HD), a trailer, and other trailers for Fox releases.
I really liked Chronicle, but I do fear the surprise of it being so much better than expected might be overshadowing some obvious flaws. I look forward to revisiting the film again after some time away. Right now my biggest complaint is that I really want more from this story, and despite an on-coming sequel, the ending supplied by this film offers perhaps too much closure, or at least too much closure on the elements I care about. This Blu-ray release looks a bit 'used', obviously, but is quite sharp when necessary, and the DTS-HD soundtrack develops into something truly spectacular as the film progresses. Sadly, there's basically nothing in regards to extras here outside of some extended footage.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
i was VERY surprised at how good this movie was. i HATE with a passion hand held/found footage films, i hate %99 of them, but the way it's done in this is IMO brilliant and didn't seem forced. your "...especially when Andrew starts telepathically controlling the camera and getting himself more theatrical angles for his chronicle" is spot on and is why i liked this first person/hand held deal way more than i otherwise would have. we get pretty much NON-shaky cam shots where you can actually see what's going on! LOL. so i loved this aspect.
also, i very much found Andrew to be incredibly relateable in many ways (his mom's situation and his school life...i know, i sound lame! LOL) and i understood his rage that builds throughout the movie. i thought the fx were very good for the most part and i found the ending battle to be EXCELLENT (it's was extra cool because i live in Seattle! so it was fun seeing where i live being trashed by the fight! LOL). this movie also had a VERY dark side to it too (just in Andrew's situation alone BEFORE his powers it was tragic but add the ending...yeah). so sorry for the rant. i give this movie a 9 out of 10!
also, i very much found Andrew to be incredibly relateable in many ways (his mom's situation and his school life...i know, i sound lame! LOL) and i understood his rage that builds throughout the movie. i thought the fx were very good for the most part and i found the ending battle to be EXCELLENT (it's was extra cool because i live in Seattle! so it was fun seeing where i live being trashed by the fight! LOL). this movie also had a VERY dark side to it too (just in Andrew's situation alone BEFORE his powers it was tragic but add the ending...yeah). so sorry for the rant. i give this movie a 9 out of 10!
llama Member Join Date: February 2008 Location: United States Posts: 503
I very much agree about the 5.1 sound design of found footage movies. It never made much sense to me, either.
And as for the movie, I've yet to see it, but it looks pretty good--and also, good review.
And as for the movie, I've yet to see it, but it looks pretty good--and also, good review.
JackJackMN Member Join Date: January 2006 Location: United States Posts: 629
I really enjoyed it, I saw it in the the theater and was looking forward to seeing it again on Blu ray. I recommend it.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 15th May 2012
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio Descriptive Track, Spanish and French
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Theatrical and Extended Versions, Deleted Scene, Pre-Viz, Camera Test, Trailers, DVD Copy, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Josh Trank
Cast: Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly,
Length: 84 minutes
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Donna Soucy: NH must improve domestic violence, human trafficking lawsDONNA SOUCY
January 23. 2014 12:38AM
To start the 2014 state Senate session, I have been working on a number of bills that will strengthen our public safety laws and protect victims to ensure New Hampshire continues to be the safest state in the nation.
I wanted to highlight two of the most important ones for you. I have sponsored Senate Bill 318, which creates a crime of domestic violence. I have also sponsored Senate Bill 317, which toughens our state's human trafficking law.
My first piece of public safety legislation, SB 318, is known as "Joshua's Law." It establishes a crime of domestic violence. Although we have enacted reasonable civil protections for victims, we still do not have a crime of domestic violence. In fact, New Hampshire is one of only 15 states that do not have a crime of domestic violence.
This proposed law is named after Joshua Savyon, who was killed by his father at the YWCA in Manchester. His mother, Becky, asked me to name this law after Joshua as a way to honor him by helping other families exposed to domestic violence.
Joshua's mother told me that she never recognized the signs of domestic violence in her own relationship with Joshua's father, who killed himself after killing their son. This law would not only shed more light on the issue of domestic violence, but it also would assist others in getting services and protections earlier in the process.
"Joshua's Law" would take existing criminal charges commonly charged in domestic violence cases, bring them under the umbrella of one crime, and label it what it actually is: domestic violence. Police and prosecutors believe the paper trail this creates would help to identify and stop repeat abusers.
"Joshua's Law" is supported by chiefs of police, county sheriffs and attorneys, the Attorney General, and the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
In addition to creating a domestic violence offense, I've also worked with the Attorney General's office and have sponsored SB 317 to strengthen New Hampshire's human trafficking law.
Human trafficking, here in New Hampshire? You might be thinking that this is something that happens only in another country or in some major metropolitan area. But there have been cases right here in New Hampshire. In fact, the first case occurred in my district in Litchfield, where a group of Jamaican men were forced into slave labor.
New Hampshire was once on the cutting edge of human trafficking legislation, as we were one of the first states in the nation to criminalize trafficking. Unfortunately, we have fallen behind. A recent study named New Hampshire the second-worst in the nation for its legal protections for trafficking victims. Trafficking is a growing problem in America and New Hampshire is not immune.
SB 317 toughens our current law by making prostituting minors a felony, providing protection from criminal prosecution or juvenile delinquency proceedings to children who have been forced into prostitution or other forms of human trafficking, and making it a felony to knowingly force a person to engage in labor or sex acts against his or her will. It establishes remedies for victims by allowing them to petition to vacate a prostitution conviction when they were trafficked and also allows them to sue their trafficker in civil court.
By heightening the awareness of these crimes, the bill will result in more identification of human trafficking. It's critical that law enforcement, the courts, partnering agencies and advocacy organizations are able to intervene quickly to end victimization and prosecute traffickers. These important changes to existing law will help protect victims, assist prosecutors in bringing traffickers to justice, and serve as model legislation for other states in America.
By passing these important, common-sense pieces of legislation, we will protect victims by strengthening our public safety laws and guaranteeing that New Hampshire continues to be the safest state in the nation.
Sen. Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee and represents Litchfield as well as Manchester Wards 5-9 in the state Senate.


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- Rams enter 2013 season as winners of the previous five Skyline Championships -
New York, N.Y. - Five-time defending champion Farmingdale State has been tabbed to capture the 2013 Skyline Baseball Championship in voting conducted by the league's nine head coaches.
The Rams come off a 2012 campaign in which they compiled a 32-12 overall record and fell in the championship game of the NCAA New York State Regional. Farmingdale State welcomes back senior Ron Remi, who batted .345 with 27 RBI, as well as sophomore second baseman Tom Rydzewski, who led the team with a .394 batting average. Farmingdale State is ranked 19th in Collegiate Baseball's 2013 NCAA Division III Preseason Poll, while 2012 Skyline runner-up Old Westbury is ranked 23rd.
The Panthers won a program-record 30 games a year ago while leading Division III in batting average (.362), scoring (9.9 rpg.), stolen bases (243) and stolen bases per game (5.79 spg.). Old Westbury returns senior outfielder Paul Valerio, who batted .392 with 58 stolen bases en route to garnering third-team ABCA/Rawlings All-America distinction.
Farmingdale State earned seven first-place votes and amassed 63 overall points, while Old Westbury received a pair of first-place votes and 56 total points. St. Joseph's-L.I. placed third in the voting with 50 points, followed by Mount Saint Mary (44), Mount Saint Vincent (34), Purchase (30), Maritime (24), NYU-Poly (14) and Yeshiva (9).
The opening round of the six-team 2013 Skyline Championship will be held on Wednesday, May 1, while the semifinals and finals will be held May 3-5 on the campus of the regular season champion.
2013 Skyline Preseason Coaches Poll Points
1. Farmingdale State 63 (7)
2. Old Westbury 56 (2)
3. St. Joseph's-L.I. 50
4. Mount Saint Mary 44
5. Mount Saint Vincent 34
6. Purchase 30
7. Maritime 24
8. NYU-Poly 14
9. Yeshiva 9
(First-place votes in parentheses)