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For one city committee, it's been hard enough getting a quorum these days, not to mention changing the face of Stockton for future generations.
For one city committee, it's been hard enough getting a quorum these days, not to mention changing the face of Stockton for future generations.
The city's Climate Action Plan Advisory Committee, formed after the city's 2008 legal settlement with the Sierra Club and then-Attorney General Jerry Brown, has floundered in recent months amid concern about the cost of the measures it is pursuing.
It's been months since the committee had a quorum so that it could take any official action.
John Beckman of the Building Industry Association of the Delta is not a member of the committee, but follows the process closely. He said he believes the $30 million cost of implementing the committee's draft Climate Action Plan is simply infeasible in a bankrupt city.
While environmentalists are still at the table, Beckman said he believes the committee is simply no longer a priority for some others.
"This is going to add a whole bunch of extra cost and expense on the city, and for private sector development," Beckman said. "It's brutal."
It's true that the movement has lost steam, said Sierra Club environmentalist Dale Stocking, a committee member. He says the city has failed to appoint new committee members in a timely way.
But Stocking argues that the years-long delay in finalizing a climate plan for City Council consideration has actually been a blessing.
It has provided a chance to meld the plan with other efforts underway, including amendments to the city's General Plan and discussions on ways to revitalize downtown.
"I'm disappointed that we have lost momentum," Stocking said.
"But we're coming up with a better product and the city of Stockton will be better as a result."
On paper, the committee's draft plan is indeed expensive, costing the city an estimated $30 million in one-time expenses and $270,000 a year thereafter. The plan seeks to reduce energy consumption, encourage alternative forms of transportation and shift development downtown through a wide range of measures.
Officials note that state and federal grants could lighten the cost, and add that the plan would be implemented only to the extent that money exists to do so.
Costs to the private sector have been estimated at between $67 million and $426 million, though energy savings could amount to tens of millions of dollars thereafter.
In a review, Berkeley-based consultant Economic & Planning Systems, Inc. found that the plan was designed to minimize the financial burden on businesses and residents, and that despite the price tag the impact on the city's ability to compete economically would be "very limited or insignificant."
There are benefits to be had through quality of life improvements and a revitalized downtown, consultant Benjamin Sigman told the committee on Thursday.
"You achieve a more vibrant city center - that's a great thing for the community, obviously," he said.
While the depleted committee's work has been slow-going in recent months, Stockton's new Community Development Director Steve Chase told members Thursday that new management in the is looking carefully at the draft plan. He said he sees that plan as a guide.
"We've got some great ideas on infill (development) in particular, on how to make use of the resources that already exist," he said. "We're about ready to bring some of that forward. Just be a little more patient."
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It's just another ordinary Tuesday evening in the future. Jeanine and Paul Carter and their new baby settle down in their state-of-the-art "smart" home. This is life lived in the wondrous cocoon that only modern technology can provide. What could possibly go wrong? Cape Cod playwright, Gip Hoppe brings his play Ruby Tuesday to Cape Rep Theater. Gip Hoppe is the author of over fifteen plays produced locally, nationally and internationally. RUBY TUESDAY is funny, irreverent, and frighteningly true.

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Can a live lit show about all things current find happiness in a jazz club steeped in a century of history? That's what Christopher Piatt aims to find out this weekend as he moves The Paper Machete to the storied music club.
Piatt, a former Time Out Chicago theater editor, launched the magazine-style revue in January 2010 at Lincoln Square bar Ricochet's. The weekly show of original essays about hot topics—which has included a lineup of guests like actor Michael Shannon ("Boardwalk Empire"), comedian Julia Sweeney and Weather Underground founder William Ayers—eventually outgrew the small venue, and Piatt moved it up the street to the Horseshoe.
We caught up with Piatt to find out more about the series and his plans to integrate the show into its new home at The Green Mill.
How does The Paper Machete differ from the storytelling scene?
In the storytelling scene, the performers talk about their lives. In the Machete, they talk about what's going on in the world. It's a show about current events and pop culture. We call it a "salon in a saloon."
Every week the material is made fresh from the headlines, the same way hotshot chefs work with only fresh ingredients. Plus, we mix in vaudeville characters and some improv. And we have a bird puppet. And really hot bands.
So aside from people standing at microphones, we're not really like a storytelling event.
How does your journalism background inform the tone of the show?
The main ingredient in the show is essays written in third-person prose—I know that doesn't sound too sexy, but people really like it—that's a heavily journalistic influence. Plus, I'm always obsessed with whatever's going on right now—I'm a huge cable news junkie—and how we can incorporate that into the show. I try to treat my job like that of an editor-in-chief.
How has the show evolved since its inception?
The very first Machete back at Ricochet's had no comics in it. It was all spoken-word and performance-art types. But we eventually assumed the identity of a comedy show. The Reader named us "Best Comedy Series" and we've worked with many of the city's best talents from the improv, sketch and stand-up scenes. The show has plenty of serious content, but the best shows are the best ones because of the laughs.
What prompted the move to the Green Mill?
Long story short, we asked them and they said yes. It's a spectacular venue and I'd frankly dreamed of eventually moving there when I first started the Machete. So it's a pipe dream that came true.
What influence do you hope that this new venue will have on the show?
At the Mill, the musical possibilities are endless. We now have access to a piano and an organ, so we can feature jazz, cabaret, classical and gospel in the mix. We also have two stages to play with, which is great for us. Content-wise, we'll still have great comic essays about the news, but now it will seem like they're being performed by gangsters.
From the beginning, it's been held on Saturday afternoons in bars. Had you done any market research into optimum times for Chicagoans to get drunk and discuss current events?
[Laughs] We've never done research, but I can say with authority that you don't have to twist the average Chicagoan's arm to drink on a Saturday afternoon. City-wide afternoon thirst has, in fact, been very good to the Machete.
What are some memorable live essays you've heard at the Machete?
William Ayers, who's a Machete regular, read a beautiful essay about the late Andrew Breitbart and Tucker Carlson coming over to his house for dinner. And I have particularly fond memories of the comics Tim Sniffen and Brendan Dowling playing Chris Brown's tattoo artists.
Who are your featured guest readers for the December 1 show?
A bunch of our tried and true regulars: Katie Rich from The Second City mainstage, the playwright Phil Dawkins from Victory Gardens ["Failure: A Love Story"] and Samantha Irby, who writes the blog, "Bitches Gotta Eat." Plus Chad the Bird, our resident puppet, and a killer funk and soul band called Fatbook. It should be a great event.
Go: 3 p.m. Saturday at The Green Mill, 4802 N. Broadway
Tickets: Free; 773-878-5552; thepapermacheteshow.com
Julia Borcherts is a RedEye special contributor.
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This is a bird of the open Arctic tundra of both the New World and Old World. Snowy Owls nest on the ground and feed mainly on lemmings, which they hunt both day and night (other mammals and birds are also eaten, as well as some fish and carrion). In winter, there is some movement south and individuals are seen at least irregularly south to the northern United States (and even, rarely, the Gulf Coast), Iceland, the British Isles, northern continental Europe, central Russia, northern China, and Sakhalin. These wandering winter birds are generally seen in open country such as prairie, marshes, fields, pastures, and sandy beaches. In years when lemming populations crash, many Snowy Owls move south to the northern tier of states in the United States and some go much farther. These wandering birds (usually heavily barred younger birds) often perch on the ground, low stumps, or buildings.
In many Arctic regions, Snowy Owls breed mainly in years when lemmings are abundant and fail to nest at all when lemmings are scarce. Although Snowy Owls are silent off the breeding grounds, males defend their breeding territories with deep hooting in early spring. A courting male flies with deep, slow wingbeats, often with a lemming in his bill; reaching the female, he leans forward and partly raises his wings. The nest site is typically a mound or ridge in hilly country or a hummock in low-lying areas. It is always in very open tundra with high visibility. The same site may be used for several years. The nest (which is built by the female) is a simple depression in the tundra with no lining added. Clutch size is highly variable (3 to 11 eggs) and correlated with prey abundance. The eggs are whitish, but become stained in the nest. The female incubates the eggs for 31 to 33 days and the male brings food to the incubating female. Egg hatch is not synchronized, so the female cares for her first young while still incubating her last eggs. The female remains with the young and the male brings her food, which the female feeds them. The young may leave the nest after 2 to 3 weeks, but they are not able to fly until around 7 weeks and are fed by their parents until at least 9 or 10 weeks.
Although most North American Snowy Owl breeding areas are far from major human disturbance, this species has declined in parts of its breeding range in northern Europe.
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Clifford W. Shores, Jr., 79
Clifford W. "Son" Shores, Jr., age 79, of Linton, formerly of Konawa, Oklahoma, passed away at 2:35 a.m. on Monday, November 19, 2012, at Regional Hospital in Terre Haute. He was born September 15, 1933, in Wewoka, Oklahoma, the son of Clifford W. Shores, Sr. and Annie Mae (Barker) Shores.
He worked on oil derricks during his working years. He was a member of the Apostolic Bibleway Church in Linton. He was a Navy veteran of the Korean War, earning three medals.
Loving survivors include a daughter, Kimberly "Becky" (James) Anderson of Linton; two brothers, Frankie D. (Glenda) Shores of Stigler, Oklahoma and Jerry (Liz) Shores of Porum, Oklahoma; three sisters, Katie Shores of Eufaula, Oklahoma, Patricia Burns of Jasper, Texas, and Betty (Oren) Bartlett of Stigler, Oklahoma; two grandchildren, Gregory Lee (Heather) Sebastian of Spencer and Melody Sebastian of Linton; and six great-grandchildren, Jamin, Malachi, Chrystina, Tyler, Ayden and Kyra.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Juanita; his second wife, Ruby; three sisters, Daisy Harper, Mary Swope and Leta Mae Smith; and a half-brother, Wilbur Shores.
A funeral service will be conducted at Welch & Cornett Funeral Home in Linton at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 21, 2012, with Rev. Steve Williams officiating. Burial will follow at Dugger Cemetery. American Legion Post #22 will conduct military graveside rites.
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Although crinoids are the least understood of living echinoderms, their skeletal remains are among the most abundant and important of fossils. They appeared during the Lower Ordovician and underwent several major radiations during the Paleozoic Era. Crinoids were major carbonate producing organisms during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic. In fact, in many Paleozoic and Mesozoic settings entire carbonate shelves were composed predominantly of crinoidal remains (Ausich 1997). In such examples, the enormous volume of skeletal material controlled the sedimentary environment. Short stratigraphic ranges of many species make them important as at least local biostratigraphic index taxa. The broad morphological diversity of crinoids includes forms characteristic of specific habitats and oceanographic conditions. More than 5000 fossil species have been described.
A persistent, traditional view treats living crinoids as chiefly deep-sea organisms, relicts of their opulent Paleozoic past, holding off final extinction in remote abyssal habitats. This view is generally applied to stalked crinoids, or sea lilies, as typical of the entire group, because they most closely resemble their fossil forebears. It is true that the approximately 80 extant species of stalked crinoids are chiefly restricted to depths greater than 200 m (the shallowest occurs in 100 m). However, 85% of extant crinoids (approximately 540 named species) are unstalked feather stars, or comatulids, the products of a continuing post-Paleozoic radiation (Meyer & Macurda 1977). Comatulids are a monophyletic clade classified within the subclass Articulata (Simms 1988). About 65% of living comatulids occur at shelf depths (<200 m). In the tropical Indo-West Pacific, the richest region, single reefs may support as many as 50 species, almost as many as recorded for any individual fossil assemblage. Here, abundance and diversity reach 115 specimens and 12 species per m2, respectively (Messing 1994). Although far fewer comatulid species exist in cold waters, local abundance may be much greater.
All crinoids are passive suspension feeders. They produce no feeding/respiratory current but, rather, rely on extrinsic, ambient water movement. In extant crinoids, the food-gathering apparatus functions as follows: each featherlike arm that radiates from the central body bears an open ambulacral groove bordered by triads of fingerlike podia, or tube feet, which are terminal extensions of the water vascular system (see figure below). The longest tube foot in each triad, 0.43-0.85 mm in length, is held out at a right angle and flicks passing food particles into the groove. After a food particle is captured by a crinoid, the shortest tube foot wraps it in mucous secretions; ciliary tracts on the groove floor then transport it toward the mouth. In living crinoids, food particle size ranges from about 50 to 400 µm. Diets include a variety of protists (e.g., diatoms and other unicellular algae, foraminiferans, actinopods), invertebrate larvae, small crustaceans, and detrital particles.
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InfoWorld surveys the FOSS-on-Mac OS X landscape, detailing the most essential free open source applications for the Mac, all precompiled and ready to run. 'In many cases, you're not just getting an open source tool; you're getting a range of options to add to that tool as many of them have yet another layer of openness hidden inside. Several of the applications have their own built-in environment for extending the software. Some accept plug-ins, some have pop-up windows for writing short extensions, and some have both -- so you have even more options for customization.' From AppleJack to GIMP to jEdit, each of these top 10 open source apps and utilities for the Mac prove that the best free open source software isn't just for Windows users.


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There may be expended for or on account of the traveling expenses of the President of the United States such sum as Congress may from time to time appropriate, not exceeding $100,000 per annum, such sum when appropriated to be expended in the discretion of the President and accounted for on his certificate solely.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 678; Pub. L. 95–570, § 4, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2450.)
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The strongest typhoon in the world this year and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land battered the Philippines' central islands on Friday, forcing millions of people to flee to safer ground or take refuge in storm shelters.
Haiyan, a category-5 storm, lashed the islands of Leyte and Samar with 5-6 meter (15-19 ft) waves as it headed toward densely populated central and southern Philippines, including the resort island of Boracay and other holiday destinations.
Authorities warned more than 12 million people were at risk, including residents of the Philippines' second-largest city Cebu, home to around 2.5 million people, and areas still reeling from a deadly 2011 storm and a 7.1-magnitude quake last month.
"The super typhoon likely made landfall with winds near 195 mph. This makes Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone (typhoon) on record to make landfall," said Jeff Masters, a hurricane expert and director of meteorology at U.S.-based Weather Underground.
Typhoons and cyclones of that magnitude can blow apart storm-proof shelters due to the huge pressure they create, which can suck walls out and blow roofs off buildings, say engineers.
About a million people had taken shelter in more than 20 provinces, after Philippine President Benigno Aquino appealed to people in Haiyan's path to evacuate from danger spots, such as river banks, coastal villages and mountain slopes.
"Please do not underestimate this typhoon. It is very powerful. We can feel each gust," Roger Mercado, governor of Southern Leyte province, adjacent to Leyte, told DZBB radio. "We lost power and all roads are impassable because of fallen trees. We just have to pray."
"Our school is now packed with evacuees," an elementary school teacher in Southern Leyte who only gave her name as Feliza told a radio station. Leyte and Southern Leyte are about 630 km (390 miles) southeast of the capital Manila.
Authorities halted ferry services and fishing operations, while nearly 200 local flights had been suspended. Commuter bus services were also stopped as the storm dumped torrential rain and ripped iron roofs off buildings and houses.
Schools, offices and shops in the central Philippines were closed, with hospitals, soldiers and emergency workers on standby for rescue operations.
"We can hear the winds howling but the rains are not too strong. We have encountered several distress calls regarding fallen trees and power lines cut. We don't have power now," Samar Vice Governor Stephen James Tan said in a radio interview.
More than 41,000 people have been evacuated in his province, one of the country's poorest, said Tan.
The state weather bureau said Haiyan is expected to exit the Philippines on Saturday and move towards the South China Sea, where it could become even stronger and threaten Vietnam or China.
The world's strongest recorded typhoon, cyclone or hurricane to previously make landfall was Hurricane Camille in 1969, which hit Mississippi with 190 mph winds, said Weather Underground's Masters.
An average of 20 typhoons slam into the Philippines every year. In 2011, typhoon Washi killed 1,200 people, displaced 300,000 and destroyed more than 10,000 homes. Haiyan is the 24th such storm to batter the Philippines this year.
Typhoon Bopha last year flattened three coastal towns on the southern island of Mindanao, killing 1,100 people and causing damage estimated at $1.04 billion.
In September, category-5 typhoon Usagi, with winds gusting of up to 240 kph (149 mph), battered the northern island of Batanes before causing damage in southern China.


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Police ID Derry woman dead from apparent overdose at Boston nightclub
August 29. 2013 2:09PM
DERRY - A 19-year-old local woman has been identified as the victim of a fatal overdose in Boston.
Brittany Flannigan, a 2012 graduate of Pinkerton Academy, was a student at Plymouth State University who died at The House of Blues nightclub.
In the wake of her death, PSU released the following statement:
"Plymouth State University extends condolences to the family and friends of Brittany Flannigan. Brittany was a familiar figure on campus and her presence will be missed by all who knew her and loved her."
Previous story follows:
BOSTON — A Derry, N.H., woman died early Wednesday after an apparent overdose at a Boston nightclub, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office and Boston police.
Police said the woman appeared to be suffering from an overdose while at the House of Blues club on Landsdowne Street near Fenway Park about 12:45 a.m. Wednesday.
She was taken to Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, said a woman and man, both in their 20s, were also taken to the hospital for overdoses. He said the three were not known to each other, but appeared to be suffering from similar overdose symptoms.
Wark said toxicology tests would determine what the substance was.
"The prevailing theory is that they overdosed on the same substance," he said.
The deceased woman's name has not been made public.
Wark said the death has not been ruled a homicide.


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International Walk to School Day
Worcester Public Schools are celebrating International Walk to School Day. Join children and adults around the world to celebrate the benefits of walking!
International Walk to School Day is an annual event that promotes walking for many reasons, including:
- Physical activity
- Teaching safe walking skills to children
- Awareness of how walkable a community is and where safety improvements can be made
- Reducing traffic congestion, pollution & speed near schools
- Sharing time with community leaders, parents and children
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. –First-year coach Daniel Brizard has announced the schedule for the 2011 spring season, which is comprised of seven games in total, including one tournament at the University of Tennessee, three of which will be played in Cookeville on Tech's home turf.
The schedule will kick off on Saturday, March 19 with a trip to Middle Tennessee to take on regular season rivals MTSU and Belmont, at times that are yet to be determined.
Following the opening road trip will be a two game home stand. The Golden Eagles will take on Lipscomb on Saturday, March 26 at 1 p.m., and Lincoln Memorial one week later on April 2 at 1 p.m.
UT will host their spring tournament on April 9, in which Tech is scheduled to play East Tennessee at 12 p.m. and Tusculum at 4 p.m.
The team will finish out the spring season with one final home rematch against the Commodores of Vanderbilt on April 16 at 2 p.m.
"I feel that our spring schedule is very competitive and will give us the best opportunity to not only compete, but to also evaluate our player's progress going into the fall," Coach Brizard said. "We've worked hard as a team and staff this off-season to prepare mentally and physically for our games this spring.
"We feel every team on our spring schedule is the type of team that we need to compete with to be contenders in the OVC this coming regular season."


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Many retailers tighten return policies, expert says
12/27/2013 8:05amMany people will be returning at least one item to a store over the next several days, and fraudsters know it.
Utah man pleads not guilty in Nebraska drug case
12/27/2013 8:27amA 30-year-old Utah man has pleaded not guilty to a Nebraska charge of possessing drug money.
US speedskater Bradford overcomes health scare
12/27/2013 9:20amRebekah Bradford was a highly trained athlete. She couldn't figure out why she was out of breath just walking up a flight of stairs.
Zimbabwe man fistfights crocodile to save child
12/27/2013 9:46amState media in Zimbabwe says a villager fought a crocodile with his bare hands to free his son from its jaws in northeastern rural Mutoko.
Criminalizing kid problems: New policy push questions how we handle, truancy, running away
12/27/2013 11:20amWhen families and communities get flummoxed, they often turn to the courts to handle unruly kids who haven't committed any real crimes. When this happens, these kids often end up getting mingled with and infected by kids with worse problems.
Poll: Never say 'diet' — even after holiday indulgence
12/27/2013 11:28amFeeling a little extra jolly this holiday season? You're in copious — and well-fed — company.
NY judge rules NSA phone surveillance is legal
12/27/2013 11:44amA federal judge on Friday found that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of millions of Americans' telephone records is legal and a valuable part of the nation's arsenal to counter the threat of terrorism.
Indonesia cave reveals history of ancient tsunamis
12/27/2013 11:56amA cave discovered near the source of Indonesia's massive earthquake-spawned tsunami contains the footprints of past gigantic waves dating up to 7,500 years ago, a rare natural record that suggests the next disaster could be centuries away _ or perhaps only decades.
Chinese icebreaker stalled en route to stranded ship
12/27/2013 12:49pmA Chinese icebreaker heading to free a polar expedition vessel trapped in an Antarctic ice floe got stopped by the ice and weather, its captain told CNN.
Confrontation leads to stabbing
12/27/2013 12:57pmA man was stabbed multiple times following a confrontation in Sandy.
TE Jake Murphy to enter NFL draft in spring
12/27/2013 1:30pmTight end Jake Murphy announced Friday his decision to declare for the NFL draft, choosing to forego his senior season with the University of Utah.
Unreturned library books can mean jail time
12/27/2013 2:16pmCall it throwing the book at the bookworms.
Gambler rewards man who returned $300K left in cab
12/27/2013 2:31pmA poker player who left a bag with $300,000 in the back seat of a Las Vegas taxi has given $10,000 to the honest cabbie who returned the money.
A Bitcoin Christmas: the gift of high-tech currency
12/27/2013 3:38pmFor Christmas this year, many gifted friends and family a portion of a Bitcoin, or online digital currency. How was this monetary present received? Read a few families' experiences with a Bitcoin Christmas.
SWAT team finds Utah fugitive hiding under mattress
12/27/2013 4:00pmPolice responding to reports of a woman being held captive arrested both the woman and her alleged captor on Thursday.
Hikers finding more injured bald eagles around Utah
12/27/2013 5:00pmTwo more bald eagles were found this week on the verge of death from a mysterious illness, bringing the total of sick eagles in Utah to nearly two dozen.
No beer led to ceramic squirrel stabbing, police say
12/27/2013 5:02pmSouth Carolina authorities say a 44-year-old woman angry at a man for returning home without beer on Christmas beat and stabbed him with a ceramic squirrel.
Space heater cause of fire in construction company building
12/27/2013 5:07pmInvestigators say a space heater sparked a fire at a construction building in Plain City early Friday.
Porn found on Nintendo DS from Wal-Mart
12/27/2013 5:13pmA family in Virginia found sexual images on their son's new gaming console, a gift bought for him for Christmas.
Family moves forward with hope after loss of sister, home
12/27/2013 6:09pmA man who lost his sister and then his home said help from the community has helped him feel hope.
UDOT considers keeping mountain passes open during winter
12/27/2013 6:37pmWhat would it take to keep some of Utah's high mountain passes open during the winter? And would it be worth it?
Some air pollution can seep indoors, study shows
12/27/2013 6:59pmA Utah State University research professor has measured how much air pollution can seep into homes on days authorities are issuing warnings about high soot levels outdoors.
Utah ice sculptor's newest castle goes up in Midway
12/27/2013 7:10pmBrent Christensen grew up in California but fell in love with building structures out of ice when he moved to Utah about 13 years ago. His latest creation, a massive ice castle, opened to the public Friday night in Midway.
Bowl Game Center: BYU vs. Washington
12/27/2013 7:30pmFollow along as the BYU Cougars take on the Washington Huskies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif. for the Fight Hunger Bowl with KSL.com's live Game Center.
Defending Amendment 3 may cost Utah $2M
12/27/2013 8:23pmThe price tag for hiring outside counsel to defend Utah's voter-approved constitutional amendment on marriage is expected to be close to $2 million, money that key GOP lawmakers are willing to spend.
An imperfect mother's 5 (manageable) New Year's resolutions
12/27/2013 8:46pmIn 2014, I resolve to accept that I am an imperfect mother and recognize the goals I can make to embrace imperfection and make it work for my children.
Police file on Newtown yields chilling portrait
12/27/2013 8:49pmConnecticut police released thousands of pages Friday from their investigation into the Newtown massacre, providing the most detailed and disturbing picture yet of the rampage and Adam Lanza's fascination with murder, while also depicting school employees' brave and clearheaded attempts to protect the children.
A year-end review of Utah politics in 2013
12/27/2013 9:14pmUtah had an active year in politics, from a scandal in the Attorney General's office to a government in shutdown to a congressman calling it quits.
E-cigarette store owners upset after Bountiful officials force closures
12/27/2013 10:05pmA Bountiful shop owner was given a license to sell e-cigarettes, but later received a notice from city officials that he had to close the shop by 2014.
Favors' dunk lifts Jazz to 105-103 win over Lakers
12/27/2013 10:05pmDerrick Favors gets a last second put-back dunk to give the Jazz a 105-103 win over the Lakers.
Utah chemical weapons incinerator to be demolished
12/27/2013 10:09pmDemolition is about to begin on a huge Army incinerator that was built to destroy our nation's stockpile of nerve agents and other weapons of mass destruction.
Woman involved in car accident dies from gunshot wounds
12/27/2013 10:29pmA two-car accident connected to a shooting shut down northbound State Street for several hours Friday night. The victim died from her injuries.
Top stories of 2013: the Bingham Canyon Mine landslide
12/27/2013 10:31pmKennecott employees reflect on massive landslide at Bingham Canyon Mine.
Boy killed in snowmobile crash; father injured
12/27/2013 10:52pmA 10-year-old boy is dead following a snowmobile crash in a remote area near the border of Wasatch and Summit counties.
Police look for armed robber who held man hostage
12/27/2013 10:54pmFollowing a burglary turned armed robbery and kidnapping, police are looking for the man who committed the crime.
Washington beats BYU 31-16 in Fight Hunger Bowl
12/27/2013 11:09pmBYU falls 31-16 in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl to Washington and Bishop Sankey who ran for 96 yards and two touchdowns.
Target: Customers' encrypted PINs were stolen
12/27/2013 11:58pmTarget said Friday that debit-card PINs were among the financial information stolen from millions of customers who shopped at the retailer earlier this month.
3K Utahns to lose unemployment benefits
12/27/2013 11:59pmFolks already dealing with difficult economic circumstances will be losing a portion of their financial "safety net" starting Saturday, thanks to the new $1.01 trillion federal budget plan passed by Congress earlier this month.
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Cub Scouting relies on volunteers to be pack leaders. Volunteers come from all backgrounds and experiences. Plumbers, lawyers, homemakers, teachers, doctors, janitors, and scientists—people from just about every occupation imaginable—are involved in leading youth to become responsible, caring, and competent citizens. They also quickly discover that Scout volunteering lets them learn new skills and build lifelong friendships while having fun.
Some of the roles you might fill to support a Cub Scout pack are these:
Volunteering with the Boy Scouts of America is a way for adults to work with youth to build a better future for everyone. Besides giving valuable service to youth in their communities, volunteers find that they reap many personal benefits from being a leader in Cub Scouting.
More than 1.2 million adult volunteers give their time and skills to the development of youth through the Boy Scouts of America. An overwhelming majority (96 percent) of these volunteers say their experience has been so positive that they would recommend volunteering for the Boy Scouts of America to others.
Any parent or chartered organization member is usually welcome to pitch in and help with the pack, and there are no formal requirements for periodic or temporary assignments. But to serve in an ongoing role, you must register as an adult volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America by submitting an adult leader application.
This application must be approved by the pack, the local council, and the national office. The requirements are fairly straightforward:
If you are highly active in the pack or its chartered organization, a time may come when the pack approaches you to fill a leadership position. However,you may wish to make your interest known to the pack leaders (the Cubmaster or committee chair). Or, if you wish to volunteer to help the district or council, contact the local council service center or speak with your district executive. There's no guarantee that you will be selected for a leadership position right away. The selection process is fairly competitive, and you may be competing with a large number of candidates for a small number of positions. But packs and councils are always grateful for volunteers and should be able to find a place where you can help out until the exact position you're interested in comes open.


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How to sift home milled wheat to get high extraction flour
Hi, I recently got a home mill and would like to learn how to make a high extraction flour. I see references to a bwraith blog post on the subject but can't seem to find it. Does anyone either know where it is or could give me tips on how to go about milling and sifting to get say an 85% extraction flour? I am starting with hard red winter wheat. Thanks! -Varda


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- Housefinding visit to the Bay Area: I love Los Gatos, it's quirky, diverse, not too big, with a lovely downtown. Going for a Yoga Class today.
- Opened my first U.S. bank account on Thursday and had the secured Credit Card in the mail on Friday. And it works with Apple Pay. How cool is that!
- Easing in to the new role with first team meetings, they already have a cubicle ready for me. Everyone's really nice.
- Starting every day with a TED talk and a news digest. Hope I can keep that up.
- "Chance favors the connected mind" – Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
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Finished my last class for the year, just in time before the holidays. Can't believe I actually finished CS50x – Harvard's Introduction to Computer Science, it was quite challenging and time consuming, but I did it. I submitted my final project mere days before the looming deadline, and can't wait to get my certificate.
We're leaving London tomorrow, will only be back for a few days in Jan, and then off to California!
The new year will bring new challenges, and it will probably be some time before I work on another course. I have more practical things to learn now :-)
Nevertheless, here's a video of my final project, an iOS 8 today widget, written in Swift: Dinner Tonight provides quick and easy access to daily dinner recipe suggestions based on the Epicurious.com RSS feed, with an option to toggle between the latest recipe and a random recipe. It was fun to try and learn Swift, and I think I got a good understanding while writing the app. A tutorial on Xebia.com helped me get started, as well as several tutorials on Raywenderlich.com Have a look:
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- For CS50, I implemented the Spellchecker, once I got into it, not too hard
- And also this week, I used php, mySQL, CSS, and of course HTML to create a Stock portfolio site, with options to register new users, look up stock quotes, and buy and sell stock (virtually, of course).
- And I started reading Give and Take by Adam Grant
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- The new iMac with Retina 5K display is awesome: "The tl;dr version is: if you can afford it, buy it."
- For CS50x I get to implement a spellchecker, not sure when to find the time
- Reading Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow "Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble."
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- The week of OS X Yosemite, new iMacs with Retina Display, and iPad Air 2
- Spent 3 days in Berlin…
- …and one night out in London to see Anselm Kiefer at the Royal Academy of Arts, "the most significant exhibition of the German artist's work ever held in the UK, spanning his entire 40 year career and unveiling new work created in direct response to our spaces."
- Oh, and had my Wordpress installation and webserver hacked to send out spam and who knows what else, so while travelling conveniently had to spend a lot of time trying to limit damage, clean up, and harden the WordPress installation.
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- Bunch of fantastic updates for Adobe CC, including mobile apps that feel just magic – use an iPhone camera to capture a color palette, brush, or vector shape from real life? Check. Adobe Color, Adobe Shape and Adobe Brush do that for you. And Adobe Draw on the iPad has those and lots of other elements available via the cloud to use for drawings. All that functionality seamlessly extends to the desktop as well via Creative Cloud. CC was never about just "renting" Software – it's about what you can do if there's dedicated services available to tie all the creative work together. This is where innovation is now – not in the next feature for Photoshop on the desktop. "Today we start this new era of creative connectivity". Worth watching the Adobe Max Keynote if you've got 2 hours…
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- For CS, looking at Forensics this week, particularly as it relates to images. Wrote a program to reveal the hidden message in the image, one to resize a bmp image, and another to recover deleted photos from a CF Card.
- Ten Personal Solutions to Global Warming
- The car you drive: The most important personal climate decision.
- Make your house more air tight.
- Buy and USE a programmable thermostat.
- Eat less meat.
- and the list goes on.
- Cooler Smarter Interactive Web Tool
- Enrolled in yet another course: Behavioural Economics. Right up my alley: "How can we get people to save more money, eat healthy foods and engage in healthy behaviours, and more generally make better choices?"
- I'm sure, eventually all the pieces will fit together again – programming, sustainability, psychology…
- App Previews on the iOS App Store are a big deal for developers.
- And this one I need to remember when the time comes – how to get your site or product known – and ideally make it an overnight success…
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- Anna's Sketchnotes are awesome
- I learned how Systems Theory and Design Thinking are related to Sustainability in Practice, and discovered some related websites:
- http://theconsensusproject.com – 97% of scientists agree that climate change is indeed happening and that it is man made.
- http://grist.org – "Grist is a source of intelligent, irreverent environmental news and commentary that's been around since 1999, when the internet was made of rubber bands. We cover climate, energy, food, cities, politics, business, green living, and the occasional adorable baby animal. Each day, we use our Clarity-o-Meter to point our readers to the news that matters most, and to translate wonky issues into stories that make sense."
- Took my first steps in learning Swift:
- An absolute Beginner's Guide to Swift
- Swift Tutorial: A quick start
- What exactly is GitHub anyway?
- How to use Git and GitHub
- Created my first very basic iOS app as an exercise in Swift: A totally pointless tip calculator. Why are Americans obsessed with finding the exact right amount for a tip? Why on earth wouldn't a rough estimate be good enough? Anyway, a good learning experience nevertheless…
- And to lay the foundation, there is a fantastic Stanford course available in iTunes U: Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPhone and iPad
- Oh, and not least, I finished pset4 in CS50x, creating my first game in C: Breakout (and received maximum points – they didn't grade for visual quality ;-). Not that anyone needs another incarnation of this, but every journey starts with a first step…
And even though this is a year old, it is still awesome to watch, a 'before and after VFX' reel from the Great Gatsby. Watching the film, it didn't feel VFX heavy, but it certainly was!
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I have decided to take up again the habit of writing weeknotes about what was important to me each week, particularly what I learned over the week.
- The week of the iPhone 6 launch! Massive queues in front of Apple Stores, best review: Austin Mann's Camera Review, shot in Iceland.
- I updated to iOS 8 and all went smoothly…
- The Harvard Business School Product Management 101 Course has all materials available online.
- A bit of boasting: I earned 100.0% in Human-Computer Interaction on @Coursera and received my Certificate of Accomplishment with Distinction for the coursework on Human-Computer Interaction.
- And I went to Photokina, checking out the Nikon D750 – wonderful full frame DSLR with WiFi and video, not sure I'm ready to replace my D700 though, it's seeing decreasing usage anyway – the Leica Gallery, the Panasonic DMC-CM1 Smart Camera – a glorified camera phone with a 1-inch sensor, apparently the highlight of the show – and of course I visited my friends at MacPhun and had a look at their wonderful App Tonality.
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My week of researching Product Management / Product definition, prioritization, planning and roadmap tools… I notice I am taking the "Novice approach", doing deep research and reading about techniques where an Expert would have an intuitive understanding of how to solve problems through years of practice. Anyway.
- ProductPlan looks like a great tool, if only to inspire how to approach the topic.
- A great article on Product Definition and Requirements Prioritization
- 5 Things to do in your first week with a new product
- Rarely say yes to feature requests


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Who could blame Knicks GM Scott Layden for declining to comment on the news Jason Kidd and Alonzo Mourning will be Nets next season?
Kidd spurning the Spurs means San Antonio now can use the cap money to go after at least one free-agent big man the Knicks like: Rasho Nesterovic, who is still mulling the T'wolves' offer, Brad Miller (Pacers) or Michael Olowokandi (Clippers). And the Spurs now are more likely to keep free-agent backup point guard Speedy Claxton, who had piqued the Knicks' interest.
The Spurs attempted to land P.J. Brown on Friday with a five-year, $43 million deal, but the Hornets stepped up their bid and kept their forward with a four-year, $35 million deal. The Knicks, restricted by the $4.9 million mid-level exception and Brown's age, were blown out of the water, only allowed to offer five years at $28 million.
The Knicks had not crossed Mourning off their list, but they barely made a play for him, feeling his health (kidney ailment) was too big a risk.
Chaney said he was "surprised" the Nets added Mourning with Dikembe Mutombo already in place, and admitted the health risk was as big as Antonio McDyess' situation.
"[Alonzo] could play, no question, and the biggest thing is he has great heart," Chaney said. "[But] it's similar to what we have with McDyess. Hopefully he stays healthy."
The Nets now have four centers (Mourning, Mutombo, Jason Collins and Aaron Williams); the Knicks have none. Williams would be a good fit with the Knicks, and the Nets could use a backup point guard (Charlie Ward). According to a source, Nets GM Rod Thorn likes Ward but wouldn't trade one of his centers for him.
Chaney said the Nets don't have to make a trade, and Thorn believes the same, because, other than Mutombo, three of his centers also play power forward.
"This is my philosophy on big people: You can never have enough," Chaney said.
Then, sounding like he has stock in YankeeNets, Chaney added, "I'm happy they were able to re-sign [Kidd]. I would hate to see them break up a great combination."
* Willis Reed, new special basketball adviser, on the state of the Knicks: "They need some size. They're a small team. You see what they did in the draft; they got some big kids [Michael Sweetney, Maciej Lampe] and that's a significant start. It's become a much bigger league. You don't play without having a 6-10 power forward."


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DS turns 1 year in a couple of weeks, and I am not sure what to do with pumping.
Currently, he gets 4-5 bottles (12-15 oz) while I am at work, and I pump 3 times a day to provide that. He is offered 3 solid meals a day, but we are doing baby led solids and he doesn't seem very interested in getting much food to his mouth. He nurses at least twice in the evening and 2-4 times overnight.
I had originally planned to do some sort of pump weaning at 1 year, but I don't know that I can if he won't take solids. But I am really sick of pumping. And I brought it up at my last local LLL meeting, and they all made me feel really guilty about wanting to pump wean. They said pump weaning is still weaning, and I shouldn't do any kind of weaning until at least age 2. That was really discouraging, and I don't want to be pumping for another year!
I had thought about cutting back to 2 pump sessions at work. Just pump what I can, supplement with the freezer stash, and hope DS gets interested in solids. But then what will I do if the stash runs out before he starts eating enough solids? I can't see trying to add pumping sessions back in to increase my supply at that point. And what if he finally starts sleeping at night? Won't he need more milk during the day then? How can I provide that if I am pumping less?
Is there a solution to all this that I am missing? Or am I doomed to maintaining my current pumping pace for another 12 months?


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"I would be willing to wager that if an average citizen of Athens of 1,000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions," Crabtree wrote in a study that appeared in Trends in Genetics. "I would also guess that he or she would be among the most emotionally stable of our friends and colleagues."
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The Lewiston Public Library, 305 S. Eighth St., in the Village of Lewiston, announces the following programs, events and activities for the month of May.
Clubs and More
•The Library board of trustees will meet Monday, May 6, at 5 p.m.
•The Lewiston Book Club will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, May 7, at 1:30 p.m. For further information, contact Anita Mallimo at 754-7714.
•A computer basics class will be offered on Thursday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
•The Lewiston Writers' Group will meet on Tuesday, May 7, and Monday, May 20, from 5 to 8 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.lewistonwritersgroup.com.
•The Dead Beats Society will meet on Monday, May 13, at 6 p.m.
•The Knitting Club meets every Friday, from 1 to 3 p.m. No registration is required; knitters of all skill levels are welcome. For more information, contact Ellen Comerford at 716-754-4144.
•The Friends of the Library will meet Tuesday, May 14, at 6 p.m.
Story Times
•Alphabet Soup, a story time for ages 3-5, meets on Mondays, May 6 and 13, at 10:30 a.m.
•Lewiston Lapsit story time for infants (ages birth to 23 months) meets Wednesdays, May 1, 8, 15 and 29, at 10 a.m.
•Toddler Time, featuring music, finger play, stories and crafts for ages 2 to 3 years old, meets Tuesdays, May 7, 14 and 28, at 10:30 a.m.
•Story Time with Mrs. Leardini, featuring music, stories, and crafts for all ages, meets Thursdays, May 2, 9, 16 and 30, at 10:30 a.m.
The library will be closed on Monday, May 27, in observance of Memorial Day.
Library hours: Monday-Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Wednesday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday, noon to 5 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For further information, call the library 716-754-4720, or visit its website at http://www.lewistonpubliclibrary.org/.


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TIMBERLINE — Three climbers were killed Thursday on Mount Hood when their nine-member climbing party fell into a crevasse. Five hours later a military helicopter crashed and rolled seven times after attempting to extract an injured climber.
Despite dangerous rotor shards that hurtled toward rescuers, no one was killed in the crash. According to officials, 12 people were injured, including six on the helicopter.
It was the worst single incident on Mount Hood since seven students and two adults from Oregon Episcopal School froze to death in whiteout conditions on the mountain in 1986.
The initial accident happened around 9 a.m. as four teams of roped climbers made their way to the top of the 11,240-foot mountain. Six of the climbers were members of Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue. When one member of a four-person team slipped, his team began to slide down the mountain and caused a chain reaction that sent nine climbers sliding 250 feet down the mountain into the bergschrund, a crevasse about 800 feet below the summit that opens each spring as the snow melts, growing up to 50 feet deep and 20 to 30 feet wide.
Hood River physician Jim Pennington was descending the mountain with his son and daughter and witnessed the initial accident. He described how climbers had little chance to avoid being knocked down after the first group slipped.
"They were just going too fast. It was a domino effect," Pennington told The Oregonian in a May 31 report by Eric Mortenson and Stuart Tomlinson.
Pennington and Dr. Steve Boyer, a member of another climbing team, stayed to assist two paramedics who hooked up ropes and pulleys to rescue the climbers.
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Sony NV-U70
Much like the Alpine Blackbird, the Sony NV-U70 ($499.95) represents a first venture into the portable in-car navigation market from an established company, and though it's a solid and accurate GPS device, it doesn't offer anything the competition doesn't. In fact, it's missing some of the latest features showing up in today's systems, such as traffic services, text-to-speech functionality, and a music player. The NV-U70's no-frills simplicity and intuitive interface might be good for the first-time buyer, but if you want a little more bang for your buck, we'd recommend taking a look at the Lowrance iWay 350c instead.
The Sony NV-U70's design and form factor are perhaps its greatest assets. At 4.1 by 3.5 by 1.8 inches and 11 ounces, the device is light, compact, and ultraportable, so you can easily move it from car to car. As a bonus, Sony provides you with a nice soft pouch so that you can carry the device around and protect it from sustaining any major dings. And believe us, one glance at this sharp device and you'll want to do all you can to keep it looking that way. As with most Sony products, the NV-U70 sports an attractive design that's highlighted by a polished silver and charcoal-gray casing, minimal controls, and a 3.5-inch touch screen; it reminded us of a mini TV. The display shows 65,536 colors at a 320x240-pixel resolution and features an antiglare/antifingerprint coating, as well as a light sensor that automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen depending on the environment (day, night, and so forth). While both of these functions worked for the most part, we encountered some trouble when viewing the screen in bright sunlight.
As we mentioned earlier, the Sony NV-U70's controls are kept to a minimum. There are two buttons on top of the unit: one to power on/off the device and a voice/position button to repeat the last set of instructions. All other commands are entered via the responsive touch screen. On the right side, you have a mini USB port and a charger port, both of which are protected by an attached rubber cover. The Sony NV-U70 also comes with a two-way front-panel speaker system.
We're happy to see that Sony packages the NV-U70 with all the essential accessories, including an AC adapter, a car charger, a USB cable, a windshield mount, a mounting plate and screws, and a good helping of reference material. We used the adjustable windshield mount for our tests and had no problem attaching it to our car, but more importantly, it held the unit firmly in place. The mechanism for releasing the NV-U70 from the mount is a little sticky, though. Other optional accessories, such as a neoprene carrying case and an external antenna, are available for purchase.


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Wallpaper* magazine
Ellie Stathaki is the Deputy Architecture Editor at Wallpaper* magazine. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. She has contributed to Blueprint, Financial Times, The Guardian, the catalogue for the Moss Your City exhibition at the Architecture Foundation, as well as the book 1,000 Buildings You Must See Before You Die. She was Regional Advisor (Greece) for the World Atlas of Contemporary Architecture (Phaidon), author of the Wallpaper* City Guides for Antwerp and Athens, and co-author of the New Modern House: Redefining Functionalism (Laurence King, 2010) and Todd Saunders: Architecture in Northern Landscapes (Birkhauser, 2012).


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STOCKTON - It wasn't the biggest turkey drive in town this week. Forty-five frozen birds thrown in the back of a sport utility vehicle were given out to needy San Joaquin Delta College students Tuesday night in the Shima parking lot.
STOCKTON - It wasn't the biggest turkey drive in town this week. Forty-five frozen birds thrown in the back of a sport utility vehicle were given out to needy San Joaquin Delta College students Tuesday night in the Shima parking lot.
The humble effort, however, is part of a larger attempt by student leaders to reach out to their neediest peers all year long.
Delta's student body government wants to start a food pantry on campus to help students who are struggling to pay for tuition and books while still feeding their own families.
The need at Delta is obvious, those student leaders say. This is the place, after all, where folks often come during the most difficult times in their lives.
Some are older people who lost jobs in the recession and are struggling to start over. Others, including many first-generation college students, come from poor backgrounds to begin with.
Student leaders see this every day on campus. They asked: Why not get involved?
"There are people coming to school, and they can't afford to buy anything out of the cafeteria," said 44-year-old Mark Smith, a psychology student who dreamed up the food pantry as a student government leader last year.
"My heart goes out to a single mother, a single father," Smith added. "They're feeding the kids, going to school and trying to better themselves. Student government should be there with a helping hand."
Elizabeth Landa, the new student government vice president, took Smith's dream and made it happen. The college has been collecting canned foods, grains and cereals for more than a month and hopes to have enough to get the food pantry started in January.
Meanwhile, student government raised about $1,500 to pay for the turkeys. And a similar ham giveaway is planned for Christmas.
Students across campus received an email asking if they needed help with Thanksgiving dinner. More than 250 responded, far more than the 45 turkeys that were available.
Landa said that's simply more evidence of the need.
Students lined up a half-hour before Tuesday's giveaway. All but a few turkeys were gone within an hour.
"Most people were really thankful," Landa said later. "They say, 'My family is going to appreciate this.' "
The public can help by donating food or money. Ultimately, the pantry could open in January with limited hours on a drop-in basis.
Food donations (no perishables) can be left at the student government office in Shima 101F. Or send a check made out to the San Joaquin Delta College ASBG Food Pantry to the Office of Student Activities, 5151 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95207.
Call (209) 954-5484 for more information.
Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/breitlerblog.


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Lenin supposedly said that "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them," though William Safire was dubious about the authenticity of the quote. (Lenin might have said that the capitalists will "close their eyes to the above-mentioned reality and will thus transform themselves into men who are deaf, dumb and blind.")
Barack Obama isn't much of a capitalist, and he has nothing so crass in mind as selling our enemies the rope. Giving it away is more like it.
How to explain our provision of F-16s to the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt? Obama and the deep thinkers around him must think that they can make friends of the Muslim Brotherhood. It's an incredibly obtuse idea, but it's the charitable explanation for our action. Will somebody please get these folks a copy of The Looming Tower?
Andy McCarthy isn't banging on Team Obama for its obtuseness. He takes that as a given. In his weekly NRO column, Andy is banging on the Republican Senators who support Team Obama in giving the F-16s to Team Morsi: "Nearly two-thirds of Senate Republicans went with the Brothers."
But why? I have yet to hear a good explanation. Do they think that Morsi has not taken control of the Egyptian military? Do they think that the Egyptian military will serve as a counterweight to Morsi? Let's hear what they have to say and let's examine the evidence. Perhaps a staffer for one of the GOP Senators named by Andy will favor us with the courtesy of a reply.


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Jennifer Lawrence: "In Hollywood, I'm obese"
Jennifer Lawrence has opened up about her weight in a new interview - insisting she will never go hungry for a role.
The 22-year-old Hunger Games star tells the new edition of U.S. Elle that she has a healthy appetite - and would never starve herself for a film role.
She also says that by Hollywood standards, she is considered 'a fat actress'.
'In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress,' Jennifer told the December issue of the publication.
'I'm Val Kilmer in that one picture on the beach,' she added, referring how the once-buff Kilmer has piled on the pounds over the years.
She goes on to discuss her eating habits: 'I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress who doesn't have anorexia rumors.'
And she says not even a film role could persuade her to shed weight - so won't be following in the footsteps of starlets such as Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman and Anne Hathaway.
Jennifer explained: 'I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I keep waiting for that one role to come along that scares me enough into dieting, and it just can't happen. I'm invincible.'
The actress says she wants to be a good role model for her fans, sharing: 'I don't want little girls to be like, "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner."'
'That's something that I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong, not thin and underfed.'
Elsewhere during the interview, Lawrence lifts the lid on her relationship with her British actor boyfriend Nicholas Hoult.
She gushed: '[My boyfriend] is honestly my best friend, and hopefully I'm his best friend too. He's my favorite person to be around and makes me laugh harder than anybody.'
Jennifer goes on: 'We can eat Cheetos and watch beach volleyball and we turn into two perverted Homer Simpsons, like, "Oh, she's got a nice ass." I never thought we'd have such different opinions on asses.'
Lawrence also admits to having something of a foot-in-mouth syndrome.
'I never know what's going to come out of my mouth, and it's horrible. I don't find it positive in any way.
'When I get older, I'll be more mature and poised. And I'll have control over my mouth.
'One day, I'm going to grow up…When we leave [the interview] I'm going to have a knot in my stomach. I'm going to be like, "Oh, did I say something wrong? I'm going to get in trouble!"'
Jennifer also appears to reveal how much she is worth - but says she still lives modestly.
'Ten million dollars and I'm still living in my parents' condo,' she tells the fashion magazine.
'I've always lived in a tiny rat-infested apartment in New York, or a little condo in LA, or a normal house in Kentucky. I think it would be very bizarre to live in a big mansion by myself.'
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Dracula Saga, The (US - DVD R1)
Gabe endures one of the longest ninety minute 'sagas' of his entire existence...
With the bloodline running dry Count Dracula puts all his hopes for the family in his granddaughter's unborn son. The only problem is that his granddaughter doesn't know she's sprung from Vampire loins. To ensure the healthy birth of his heir the Count and his harem must keep the mother in the castle... against her will if necessary.
Dracula—the second most filmed character in the history of cinema (just behind Sherlock Holmes). More then two hundred adaptations have graced the silver screen, from Max Schreck and Bela Legosi, to Christopher Lee and, erm, Richard Roxburgh. What could Spanish schlock-meister León Klimovsky (director of the Paul Naschy cheese festival Vengeance of the Zombies) possibly have to offer the lexicon? Um, well, nothing, especially not to anyone that's managed to catch one of the dozens of other 'Dracula family tree' motion pictures, or played a Castlevania video game, or even seen Rosemary's Baby for that matter.
The title, The Dracula Saga implies a generation spanning epic. Klimovsky's film is a mere ninety minute pseudo-artsy ham-hock that runs ragged along the same story rails as just about every vampire flick has since Tod Browning's day. The acting is as ripe as a brown banana, the camera work is as static as the original Resident Evil video game, and the production values are downright chuckle worthy. I didn't expect much from Klimovsky, but even on a MST3K level this film is a disappointment. The sub-chelonian pacing is the real killer. The first forty minutes tick on like an eternity, without a solitary intriguing plot twist, and mere splashes of the tamest nudity and violence. Then comes a never-ending diner scene, followed by boring exposition, and an extraordinarily awkward seduction sequence. It carries on from there.
The film isn't a total wash, there are some enjoyably hammy performances among the brutally awful, some of the compositions are expressionistically lit, and the set design is not lacking for drama, though things never reach top tier Bava or Hammer levels. At the one hour and five minute mark the film does become infinitely more entertaining, if not bizarre, though one wonders what took them so long. For those that enjoy bad films for their especially horrible moments the general schlock is pretty memorable. A few key unintentional laughs include a chain link fence finding its way into shot, an adorable grey and white kitten literally thrown into frame as a cheap scare, a massively fluctuating pregnant belly, and one of the silliest monster designs you'll ever see.
BCI/Eclipse does another solid job with this reasonably highly detailed full-frame transfer. General grain is heavy throughout, but doesn't affect the transfer's surprisingly potent fine details too much. There is a strange mesh effect throughout sections of the film, as if these sections were shot through a fish net. This isn't a form of artefacting I'm familiar with, and its intensity fluctuates, as does the mesh's colouring. The overall colour pallet is a bit flat, though the super-fake blood reds stick out without very much chunky compression issues. Skin tones are inconsistent, but given the film's flimsy make-up conventions this is almost impossible to judge. Contrast is effective, though perhaps a little overdone, and black shades can differ greatly from shot to shot.
This is one of BCI/Eclipse's weaker audio presentations. Both the English and Spanish Mono tracks are distorted and tinny. The overall effect isn't too disruptive, but it isn't pretty. Both tracks are terribly dubbed, though the voices of the Spanish track blend more gracefully with their surroundings. The English track is a lark and a half, and not a single voice matches the mouth or facets it's coming out of. Flat and sparse sound effects don't come as a surprise. The soundtrack, which is mostly made up of Bach, is the biggest issue for both tracks. Strings and harpsichords buzz at even mediated volume levels, and scrape like finger nails at their peak.
Extras are pretty sparse, and include the alternate Spanish credits, alternate scenes for territories that did not allow nudity when the film was released, and a series of trailers for this and other Spanish Horror Collection releases.
Thirty minutes of relatively entertaining schlock does not a good movie make. The Dracula Saga is only recommended to the most patient grindhouse connoisseurs. There's plenty of better Spanish horror product out there, a lot of it from BCI/Eclipse, so I see no need for the rest of us to waste our time on this one.
Review by Gabriel Powers
horrorfan25 Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,080
How can they can The dracula saga a 'special edition' when there is only three extras and no easter eggs.
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
Maybe they mean 'special' in the other way?
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,826
sounds like one to skip. thanks for the review, Gabe..
brekinapez Member Join Date: October 2006 Location: United States Posts: 42
Kudos on the use of "sub-chelonian". Not often that one comes around.
Worst Nightmare Senior Member Join Date: July 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,716
Love the last screen cap! Bril!
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Disc Details
Release Date: 25th March 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital Mono English, Dolby Digital Mono Castilian
Subtitles: English
Extras: Trailers, Alternate Titles, Clothed Scenes
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: León Klimovsky
Cast: Tony Isbert, Maria Koski, Helga Liné, Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Tina Sainz
Genre: Horror
Length: 90 minutes
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Possible late night explosion on Bay, readers react
At approximately 11:20 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 3, residents of Warwick and Cranston reported a loud, thunderous, explosion-type noise. And as of 10:30 this morning, the source of the noise was still a mystery.
Readers took to social media to report they heard the noise in neighborhoods like Buttonwoods, Hoxsie, Conimicut, Lakewood, Edgewood, Warwick Neck, Gaspee and Governor Francis Farms. Other media outlets have since reported that the noise was heard as far as Somerset, MA.
According to scanner reports, multiple calls flooded into local police departments, including those across the Bay in Barrington. Many were awoken by the noise, and some reported that it shook their homes.
Southern New England Alerts, a Twitter feed devoted to police and fire activity, said both Warwick and East Providence Marine crews were dispatched at around 12:30 a.m. to investigate a potential vessel in distress between Conimicut and Bullocks Point.
Readers listening in on scanners said there were reports of a flash of light and loud noise over the Bay.
Then, about a half hour later:
At around the same time, those in both Warwick and Cranston reported hearing a humming or droning noise coming from the Bay. One reader from Gaspee, who said the initial noise shook their home, said the humming was particularly prominent.
Others identified the droning noise as a type of distress signal or fog horn. Some said it was a tug boat.
As of 1:20 a.m., residents said they could see boats searching the coastline.
At 1:27 a.m., this update:
As of 1:28 a.m., crews were cleared to return to shore by the Coast Guard.
Without an official explanation, readers came up with their own ideas for what might have caused the sound. Here are some of the most colorful (and clean) answers:
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Please comment below with any additional information.
Keywordswarwick, explosion, noise, narragansett bay
Unfounded? Definitely not. I and my entire street felt it. some were woken up by it. I also heard a VERY loud mechanical noise and what sounded like a distress call. The police and ABC6 news were on the point - so something happened.
i was also up heard it all on my police radio and also in my home. Could have been the king turning in the water. just hope nothing come,s of it. and everbody is safe. Thank-you
I was also up heard it all on my police radio and also in my home. Could have been the king turning in the water. just hope nothing come,s of it. and everbody is safe.
At exactly 05.13 am here in Luton 31 miles North of London England, both myself and my partner heard an explosion on Tuesday 4th December. On arriving at work (office in Luton town Centre with panoramic views) at 05.45am I asked my work colleague if he heard any strange sounds and he confirmed that he had heard an explosion around 05.15 am. He explained that he could not determine the cause having scoured the area from the windows. I had done the same but to no avail. No reports via media have been made in relation to others hearing an explosion in either the Luton area or any other part of the country yet three of us Luton residents did hear an explosion! 05.13am here in England would have been 00.13am your local New York City area time, and taking into account both events occured thousands of miles apart and about an hour apart, I wonder if these explosion sounds are linked? Those folk in Narragansett Bay heard it and a few folk in Luton here in England heard an explosion sound too! Vert strange.
union shenanigans?


text: Denali Advanced Integration, a Redmond, Wash.-based solution provider, is supporting needy children this holiday season. The company donated toys for children at the Treehouse, a Seattle-based charity dedicated to helping children in foster care. Denali employees collected toys for two weeks for the Treehouse, and also each employee attending the company's Christmas party brought a new toy for the charity as well.