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What do you get when you place juicy, plump blueberries on a buttery shortbread crust, slathered with a creamy, sweet frosting and layered with a crushed walnut filling? You get a DREAM, of course - a blueberry dream! Recently featured in the Providence Journal's food section, Sandwich Junction's highly sought-after "Blueberry Dream" has hit the big time - and it waiting just for you at this ever-popular sandwich joint in our hometown, Warwick. Sandwich Junction has been baking this specialty dessert in their ovens for years, and people have been known to travel across the state to get it. With blueberry season in full swing, there is no better time than now to head on over to Sandwich Junction and treat yourself to this now famous dessert!
"Blueberry Dream" is just one of the many reasons to visit Sandwich Junction, located right off the train tracks at the end of Kilvert Street. For your next summer-time get together, why not try Sandwich Junction's incredible "super-sub", a party hero that serves up to 25 of your closest friends and family. When you call one week in advance, you can order this five-foot long classic Italian grinder ~ a crusty, braided sesame-seed topped roll, stuffed with your favorite ham, provolone, Genoa salami, pepperoni, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and onions - what is not to love? This crowd-pleaser is only $74.00, (only $10.00 more if you would prefer roast beef or turkey) -don't forget, you need one week's notice!
There are also plenty of other options available at Sandwich Junction for your summer picnic or beach party. Made daily with these fresh ingredients, all the potato, macaroni, chicken and tuna salads are homemade on the premises and are available to purchase by the pound. Finger roll sandwiches, with your choice of deli meats or refreshing summer salads, are also the perfect addition to any special occasion (be sure to call in advance!)
Everything at Sandwich Junction is not only fresh, it is also very affordable. The huge selection of hot and cold sandwiches, salads, burgers and daily specials are truly the best deal in town. Most of their many offerings are under $8.00, to say nothing of the list of tasty .99 side orders and items from the grill and fryer such as their hot & spicy chicken wings or sweet potato fries. Best of all is their selection of homemade desserts - "straight from the oven" brownies, carrot cake and, of course, the ever-popular "Blueberry Dream".
Sandwich Junction is located at 86 Kilvert Street, off Post Road, two blocks north of the airport. Hours are Monday through Friday 10 am to 4 pm. Cash only please. To place an order, call 738-0559. Don't forget to "friend" them on facebook.


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Colin Powell appeared on Meet the Press this morning to speak up on behalf of Chuck Hagel. It was an amazing performance. Amazingly disgusting. My daughter Eliana has posted the video at NRO. Please check it out if you missed Powell's turn at bat for Hagel and Team Obama.
Powell both excused Hagel's disparagement of American supporters of Israel and crudely disparaged Republicans as racist. Eliana explicates Powell's comments in part as follows:
Former secretary of state Colin Powell emerged this morning to voice his support for Chuck Hagel's nomination as secretary of defense. Powell characterized Hagel as a strong supporter of Israel, a move that surely anticipates Hagel's own in his confirmation hearing. In defending Hagel's pro-Israel credentials and dismissing the significance of Hagel's now-infamous reference to the "Jewish lobby," Powell offered a revealing response.
"That term slips out from time to time," he told NBC's David Gregory. "So Chuck should have said 'Israeli lobby,' not 'Jewish lobby,' and perhaps he needs to write on a blackboard a hundred times 'It is the Israeli lobby.'" (Gregory spared Powell the difficulty of Hagel's distinguishing himself as "not an Israeli senator.")
If the problem with Hagel's statement was, in part, that he conflated Jews, broadly speaking, with a pro-Israel lobby that consists of Jews, Christians, and other Americans, Colin Powell was the wrong person to clean up his mess.
What Hagel termed the "Jewish lobby" – and what is, in reality, a pro-Israel lobby – has mutated, in Powell's telling, into an "Israeli lobby." Those familiar with the age-old charge of dual loyalties that has been lobbed at Jews for centuries will know that Powell's assertion triggers bad historical memories….
No sooner do we learn about the "Israeli lobby," though, than we discover both Powell and Hagel are members of it! "There is an Israeli lobby," Powell explained, "there are people who are very supportive of the state of Israel, I'm very supportive of the state of Israel, so is Senator Hagel, and you'll see that at the confirmation hearings. But it doesn't mean you have to agree with every single position."
So, Powell counts himself and Hagel as members of the lobby that's "broadly supportive of the state of Israel." If the pro-Israel lobby extends from groups like AIPAC to people like Powell and Hagel, one starts to wonder how much influence this lobby can really have, and why Hagel would have bemoaned the intimidating influence of this lobby on his Capitol Hill colleagues. The dishonesty is evident on its face.
Here Eliana turns to Powell's disparagement of Republicans:
Powell's bizarre defense of Hagel took an even more troubling turn as he decried the "dark vein of intolerance" in some parts of the Republican Party. In particular, he singled out former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and former New Hampshire governor John Sununu for their racial insensitivity, charging that they "look down on minorities." Palin attacked the Obama administration for withholding information on the Benghazi scandal, accusing the president of doing a "shuck and jive"; "That's a racial-era, slave term," Powell said. Sununu slammed the president's first debate performance against Mitt Romney, calling Obama "lazy and detached"; "Now, it may not mean anything to most Americans, but to those of us who are African-Americans, the second word is 'shiftless' and then there's another word that goes along with it."
One might think that a modicum of self-awareness would prevent Powell from making such charges after flippantly dismissing the concerns raised by many in the Jewish and pro-Israel communities. Don't such remarks just — woopsy daisy! — "slip out from time to time"? And if Powell finds the use of slave-era terminology offensive, one wonders why he has difficulty understanding that, among Jews, the imputation of dual loyalty rankles, even if "it many not mean anything to most Americans."
Forgive me for quoting my daughter at length and asking you to read the whole thing. Although we undoubtedly have worse in store, this is a significant start and attention must be paid.

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Judy Norsigian, Executive Director and co-founder of the Our Bodies Ourselves, is a co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves (BT Bound, 1974, 25th Anniversary Edition 1999). She served on the board of the National Women's Health Network for over 14 years and is now a member of the board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R). She has served on several Institute of Medicine committees related to contraceptive research, planning committees for the Office of Research on Women's Health at NIH, and the advisory board of the Council for Responsible Genetics. Her primary interests include reproductive health, tobacco and women, genetics, and midwifery advocacy. She has appeared on numerous national television and radio programs, including Oprah, Donahue, the Today Show, Good Morning America, and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. In 2002 she was the recipient of the Massachusetts Health Council annual award. Her new book is Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth.
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Earlier this week I had the opportunity to sit with six other people from the NYC technology scene and talk to NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn and a few members of her staff. Charlie O'Donnell organized the event to help Speaker Quinn engage with the startup scene and hear from us directly what the city can do, if anything, to help foster startups, tech, and innovation here in NYC. The two major themes that emerged from the discussion were: more on the ground interaction between city government and the tech community and that NYC has a major shortage of engineering talent. The resulting talk on the perceived programmer shortage in NYC is the inspiration for this post.
Ask any startup in NYC (or anyone that needs a programmer for that matter) and most will agree that their biggest problem is finding programmers to hire. This was definitely the most prominent topic in the discussion with Speaker Quinn and her staff. The question then became: how do we solve this problem? How can the city government help? The group converged on education as the method to create more programming talent in the city (there wasn't much talk about what can be done to entice already qualified developers to move here). I agree completely that education is what is ultimately needed. An idea that I thought was spot on was required computer science classes for grade school students. We require math and physical sciences. Computers are just as ingrained and important in our society at this point as math and hard sciences. We need something more than teaching kids MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. That's like teaching kids how to use a match to light a fire and expecting them to be able to explain the second law of thermodynamics. However, that doesn't solve the immediate need. It's more of a 20 year plan.
The group's idea to address the immediate need for programmers was to put together secondary classes to give training to those currently unemployed people that have interest in picking up new skills. The city can help immensely by providing space and letting those in need know about the availability of these classes. The thinking goes that people could pick up mobile application development or Ruby on Rails in a period of 3 to 6 months and then jump into the NYC startups that are so desperate for these skill sets. I contend that: first, there are more available engineers in this city than hiring startups claim, and second, this probably won't solve the programmer need to the satisfaction of those NYC startups that claim to be so desperate. Hence the myth that there are no available programmers in NYC and the truth that the best programmers are hard to find. But there is hope to fix this, let me explain...
First, my claim that there are more engineers in this city than hiring startups claim. It's not that startups can't find anyone. I'm sure that startups with open positions came across resumes and even interview some candidates. It's just that they end up throwing out most of the resumes they see and giving the "no hire" stamp on most of the candidates they interview. I've been guilty of this myself. I've interviewed many candidates and given far more "no hire" than "hire" recommendations. I've also looked through a stack of resumes and thrown out a significant portion of them. This comes naturally from a startup's desire to only hire the best. This means that while startups are all screaming to the rafters about the shortage of programmers, there are programmers in this city that are available for hire. But there is hope...
Second, my claim that secondary education in mobile app development or Ruby on Rails won't solve the programmer shortage to the satisfaction of NYC startups. This follows naturally from my first point: startups only want to hire the best. If they can't find the best they say that there are no "qualified candidates" out there. While I'm sure that some of the basics of web development or mobile apps can be taught in six months, the student won't be the best. Becoming the best takes years of education, personal study, practice, and work experience. Someone with no previous programming experience that picks up development over the course of six months will still be incredibly green. They will either not pass the resume filter for hiring or will get hung up on questions in the technical interview. In either case the result is the same: no hire and startups still can't find qualified candidates. But there is hope...
The hurdles around retraining engineers that may not have your specific skill set and working with very junior programmers can be overcome. First, startups need to readjust their expectations. You don't need to have the best in everything. You don't even need a programmer that has your specific skill requirement in their resume. The key is to do pair programming with senior people paired up with junior people (or someone picking up something new). Within six months of full time pairing the junior people will have picked up so much that they'll be well on their way to being ready to mentor a new junior hire themselves.
Getting students from these programming courses around the resume filter is also possible. The combination of two things will go a long way: require the students to create two or more projects and have the students put those projects up on Github. The two projects will give them invaluable experience. Further, they should be required to refactor as they go based on feedback from code review done by experienced developers. Requiring them to put the code on Github gives multiple advantages. First, they learn how to use source control as they write code. Second, the code reviews done by other developers can be done right there on the site and associated with each commit. Third, they'll have projects of reference that can be used to show prospective employers what exactly their classes taught them.
For startups to get past the hurdle of hiring junior people they'll need to do a couple of things. First, embrace pair programming as a great method for bringing on junior developers and making them a key part of your team from the beginning (they'll be mid-level and senior before you know it). Second, readjust your expectations. You don't really need the most bad-ass developer you can find. If you did, you'd do whatever it took to poach them from their current job. Mid-level and senior developers paired with junior developers will do just fine for most startup's needs. If you can't find the best, senior, or mid-level developers to pair with junior hires, look to a consulting company. Pivotal Labs (they have a great new office here in NYC) is regularly brought in to pair with developers already in a startup. They do a great job of bringing in solid engineering process and bringing junior developers up to speed quickly (and they're not the only game in town). Finally, if you can't afford a consulting company or hiring senior developers, you'll need to do one of two things. Roll up your own sleeves and pick up some books and a keyboard, or be ok with the fact that you may only be able to convince someone without experience to work on your hot new startup idea (it's how I got started).
There is definitely hope for the engineering shortage in NYC. It requires bringing on inexperienced people or those in need of retraining (C++ or Java to dynamic language anyone?) and helping them achieve their potential while letting them help you get your startup built. I'd like to thank Speaker Quinn, Sarah, and David from her staff for taking the time to talk to us. I hope that we'll come up with some great ideas and collaboration in the future to make innovation a permanent home here in NYC.
What ideas do you have to increase the amount of talent here in the city?
Update: My friend Brody Berg wondered why I didn't write about the "talent vortex" in NYC that is the financial industry. I actually originally meant to, but simply forgot. So here is why I think the competition from the NYC financial market helps fuel the myth that it's impossible to find great talent in NYC.
First, the finance industry generally pays their programmers quite well. Startups that are desperate for these people will just have to get used to it and offer competitive compensation packages. It's kind of like trying to hire programmers in Redmond or Bellevue, WA in the 90's. Microsoft was a huge talent vortex and offered larger salaries and better benefits. The same could have been said for Google from 2003-2008. You either get competitive or find people that these companies have overlooked.
Which brings me to my second point: there are plenty of programmers to hire that the finance industry won't even look twice at. The intersection of the programmers you want and those that work in finance may not be as large as you think. Financial firms want people from name brand schools (preferably Ivy) with high GPAs (3.5 or greater is common). If you don't want to compete on compensation, look for programmers that don't fit their mold. Self-taught (and specially those with secondary education like this article talks about) are the kinds of programmers that will rarely get consideration from a financial firm.
Also, the financial industry wants Java, dotNet, and C++ programmers. Chances are that if you're a startup, this isn't what you're after. Further, the finance industry has laid off quite a few programmers in the last three years. These are those experienced engineers that don't have the skill set that matches yours. They know Java, but they don't know Rails and Javascript. However, these are generally smart people that can pick it up very quickly on the job. The easiest way to find a Rails programmer right now is to poach from another community and teach them Rails.
Competing with the financial firms is tough, but it's certainly doable.


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The number 666, which many Christians recognize as the "mark of the beast," is appearing on movie tickets for Gibson's film at a Georgia theater, drawing complaints from some moviegoers.
The machine that prints tickets assigned the number 666 as a prefix on all the tickets for the film, said Gary Smith, owner of the Movies at Berry Square in northwest Georgia. The 666 begins a series of numbers that are listed below the name of the movie, the date, time and price.
"It's from our computer and it's absolutely a coincidence," Smith said. "It has nothing to do with the film company or any vendor. It's completely in our computer."
In the Bible, the book of Revelation says 666 is the "number of the beast," usually interpreted as Satan or the Antichrist.
Several patrons have made comments about the numbers, and one person who was uncomfortable having 666 on her ticket asked for a pass to be substituted for a ticket.
"A lot of people have asked what the numbers mean, some said it seemed odd, some said it was inappropriate," said theater employee Erica Diaz.
The movie, which opened Wednesday, is a bloody depiction of Christ's final hours and crucifixion.
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Mr. Hoag co-founded Technology Crossover Ventures, a leading provider of growth capital to technology companies, in 1995 and serves as its Founding General Partner. Mr. Hoag serves on the Board of Directors of Netflix, Inc., TechTarget, Inc., Zillow Group, Inc. and several private companies. Mr. Hoag also serves on the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University and Vanderbilt University, and on the Investment Advisory Board of the University of Michigan. Mr. Hoag holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
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Mr. Huber was named Chief Executive Officer of GRAIL, Inc. in February 2016. Previously, Mr. Huber served as Senior Vice President of Alphabet Inc. (formerly Google Inc.), where he worked since 2003. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Huber served as Vice President of Architecture and Systems Development at eBay Inc. Prior to joining eBay, Mr. Huber was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Excite@Home, where he worked from 1996 to 2001. Mr. Huber has served on the Board of Directors of Illumina, Inc. during the past five years. Mr. Huber holds a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Masters degree from Harvard University.
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Mr. Paul is a private investor. He founded KineticGlue, an enterprise social media company, in 2008, and the company was sold in 2013. From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Paul was a Partner at TPG (formerly Texas Pacific Group), a private equity investment firm. From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Paul served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wipro, Ltd., a provider of integrated business, technology and process solutions, and Chief Executive Officer of Wipro Technologies, Wipro's global information technology, product engineering, and business process services segments. Mr. Paul holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, and an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Mr. Paul serves as a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Mr. Paul also serves as a director of Taylor Fresh Farms.
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Mr. Probst has been our Chairman of the Board of Directors since July 1994. He was employed by EA from 1984 to September 2008, as well as from March 2013 until December 2014, serving as our Chief Executive Officer from May 1991 until April 2007 and as President from 1991 until 1998. Mr. Probst again served as our interim Chief Executive Officer from March 2013 until September 2013 and was our Executive Chairman from March 2013 until December 2014. Mr. Probst serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Olympic Committee and is a member of the International Olympic Committee. Mr. Probst is also a director of Blackhawk Network Holdings, Inc. Mr. Probst holds a B.S. degree from the University of Delaware.
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Gee, I wonder what the result of the study will be.
Worse, is the proposal for Grand County to join a Seven County Infrastructure Coalition for the purpose of opening up the whole of eastern Utah to dirty, water-sucking energy development and other projects. Joining the coalition would tie the hands and duct tape the mouths of Grand County citizens and pesky greenies who have, in the past, been able to stop other stupid and destructive projects.
Oh sure, there will be plenty of lip flapping about protecting wildlife (through increased hunting opportunities), protecting sensitive archeological sites (by opening them up to artifact hounds), and protecting the environment by ruining it. The Book Cliffs is one of the largest contiguous wild spaces left in the lower 48. The only way to keep it that way is to leave it alone.
Do you think leaving it to SITLA and Uintah County to decide whether turning the Book Cliffs into a strip mine is a good idea? Do you want a million more trucks on the road carrying the crap. How about a refinery in Green River — wouldn't that be nice? How about a zillion gallons of water, far more precious than anything that can be mined, flushed down a rat hole.
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— Prosecutors are arguing that a jury should be able to hear about the abusive relationship a Plaistow man had with his girlfriend prior to him allegedly hitting her 3-year-old son in late 2012.
Roland Dow, 28, of Plaistow is headed to trial in March on 10 charges including first- and second-degree assault for allegedly abusing the boy between September and November 2012. The boy suffered a traumatic brain injury and several burns and bruises, according to indictments.
Assistant County Attorney Patricia Conway argued in court papers that the state should be allowed to show jurors Dow's actions leading up to the assault so they can understand why the boy's mother, Jessica Linscott, remained in an abusive relationship and failed to protect her child.
Linscott began serving a 2½- to 7-year prison term in July after pleading guilty to charges that she failed to seek medical care for her son. Linscott had been living with her parents when she met Dow through Facebook in 2011. They began dating shortly afterward. Dow soon became jealous of Linscott, discouraging her from having contact with her friends and family.
"The defendant did not want Jessica hanging out with her friends because he thought she would meet or talk to another guy," Conway said in court papers.
Months before abusing the boy, Dow had become so controlling of Jessica Linscott that he once installed some kind of GPS or tracking device in her car, according to prosecutors.
Dow had broken Linscott's cellphone at least three times when she tried to call someone, according to Conway.
Dow allegedly strangled Linscott approximately eight times to the point where she could not breathe, according to Conway. Dow also pulled out handfuls of Linscott's hair and smashed her head against closet doors and walls.
The couple went on the run shortly after they took Linscott's son, James Nichols, to Exeter Hospital to be evaluated in November 2012. Dow and Linscott were apprehended Nov. 28, 2012, at Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla.
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LABADIEVILLE — Assumption Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a Labadieville man who had activated church bells and was found inside the religious building Sunday night drinking alcohol with his shoes off, the Sheriff's Office reported Monday.
Hamid Banisaaid, 32, 225 Redwood St., was booked into the Assumption Parish Detention Center in Napoleonville on a count of simple burglary of a religious building, deputies said in a news release.
Deputies were called to St. Philomena Catholic Church on Convent Street in Labadieville after the pastor reported hearing the church bells "going crazy," deputies said.
The resident priest told deputies the bells, which are normally played for funeral services, are activated electronically from inside the church, deputies said.
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Is amenorrhea an indicator of infertility?
I approached my gyn in November about my first missed menstrual cycle. I am 26 years old and have three children. I have always had normal cycles and was concerned when I missed this cycle and was not pregnant. My doctor indicated that it was probably caused by the oral contraceptive I am taking (Alesse 28) and that I should not be concerned. I certainly have no problem not experiencing a cycle each month and have felt great. I would like to know, though, if this means that I am no longer ovulating, and if so, what are the possibilities of infertility. I have not eliminated the idea of having another child in the future and want to avoid infertility. What should I do? Thanks.
In women who are not on oral contraceptives or other hormones, amenorrhea (the absence of menses) can be a sign of either pregnancy or of hormonal conditions that may cause infertility.
Approximately 5% of women taking oral contraceptives will not have a period. It is especially true for women taking the ultra low-dose pills such as Alesse.
Arthur T Ollendorff, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati


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Hey guys. I recently purchased a 16 yz250x and the first 2 rides i LOVED the suspension. Then the day before a race i reset all my clickers to stock and everything felt like crap. No plushness at all and deflected off everything. I now have a 5.4 shock spring for my 190 pound weight and dialed in sag. Any recommendations on where i should go from here? Right now the fork is 12 out on comp and 15 out on rebound. Shock is 1.75 turns out on hsc, 14 out on lsc, and 18 out on rebound. Any help would be appreciated!
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Today we're going to be talking a little bit about automotive suspensions and how they work to smoothen the ride of your car. There are mainly three purposes of the automotive suspension system. First, they support the weight of the vehicle. Second, they maintain accurate tire contact with the ground. And third, they absorb any shock that you get through the road when you hit a bump.
Most modern vehicles come with an independent front suspension. Which means if one wheel hits a bump it does not disturb the other wheel. Nowadays, people use Coil Spring to support the majority of weight in the car. As it has a really good characteristics for absorbing any bumps as you go up and down on the road.
However Springs aren't very good at dissipating that energy. In fact that's why you have the shock absorber. Which is there to smoothen out the ride and make sure the tire maintains contact with the road.
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A recent Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) study published in the journal Science investigating the molecular structure and function of an essential plant hormone could profoundly change our understanding of a key cell process, and might ultimately lead to the development of new drugs for a variety of diseases.
The study builds on earlier work by the same team of investigators at VARI that was published in the journal Nature in 2009. That study shed light on how plants respond when they are under stress from extreme temperatures, drought and other harsh environmental conditions and was later named by Science as one of the top scientific breakthroughs of 2009.
The current research conducted on the plant hormone Abscisic acid (ABA) determined that during signal transduction the basic process of intercellular and intracellular communication certain enzymes mimic the structure of the opposing enzyme. This insight may enable scientists to more accurately develop mechanisms to activate or inhibit intercellular and intracellular communication, which could lead to the development of plants that more readily survive drought or other conditions of stress.
In mammalian cells the ability to impact communication has numerous and far-reaching implications. For example, applications that inhibit or activate cell communication in out-of-control metastasizing cancer cells have enormous potential to affect tumor growth.
"This type of finding once again demonstrates the importance of identifying, mapping and understanding fundamental cellular and molecular processes because of the profound implications for human health," said H. Eric Xu, Ph.D., Director of the VARI Center for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery and co-author of the current Science study.
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Tavis Smiley and Cornel West's 'Poverty Tour'
Broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West just wrapped up their 18-city "Poverty Tour." The aim of their trip, which traversed through Wisconsin, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and the Deep South was to "highlight the plight of the poor people of all races, colors, and creeds so they will not be forgotten, ignored, or rendered invisible." Although the trip has been met with a fair amount of criticism, the issue of poverty's invisibility in American media and politics is unmistakable. The community organizations working tirelessly to help America's poor deserve a great deal more attention than what is being given.
The main attack against the "Poverty Tour" is Smiley and West's criticism of Obama's weak efforts to tackle poverty. For me though, what I would have liked to see more is the collection of stories and experiences from the people West and Smiley met along their trip. The act of collective storytelling in and of itself can be an act of resistance.


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Alice Eve: 'Some Velvet Morning' Tribeca Premiere!
Alice Eve rocks a dress with pockets on the red carpet at the Some Velvet Morning world premiere during the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday (April 21) in New York City.
The 31-year-old actress was joined at the event by the film's writer and director, Neil LaBute.
Some Velvet Morning is about a woman (Eve) who is enjoying a relaxing morning in her New York brownstone when her ex-lover (Stanley Tucci) shows up unexpectedly after being gone for nearly four years.
FYI: Alice is wearing a Reem Acra dress, Gio Diev shoes, Burberry trench coat, and a Delfina Delattrez ring.
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The city of Toledo in Ohio. View of buildings in Toledo. Railroad trains at a station. Women near a clothesline outside a house. Women come down the stairs of a house. Cars on a street. Men work on a model of Toledo of tomorrow. A model of a congestion free express highway in Toledo.
Police gunnery experts test bullet proof cloth in Toledo Ohio. Man in bullet proof suit stands, smoking a pipe, while two other men fire pistols at him. Officer examines the man. Officer draws a target on the back of the man, and more bullets are fired at his back. A pliers is used to pry bullets out of the cloth on his back. A woman tester is fired upon, both back and front. Successful test of bullet proof cloth.
Various industries like iron ore,copper,lumber situated near Lake Superior in Toledo Ohio. Signboard on building saying 'You will do better in Toledo'. Views of lake side, river, crowded city. People walk on Madison Street in Toledo, past Hotel Madison, for business and shopping. Big freight car lifted by crane. Loads of coal dumped onto a ship.
Statue of John Burroughs at the entrance to Toledo Museum of Art. Burroughs with children gathered around him. 20000 School children assembled on the terrace of the Toledo Museum of Art to greet their honored friend. Boy scouts carrying flags surround Burroughs. Flower strewn steps. Crowd including boy scouts parade past Burroughs. Mayor Schreiber calls for 'Three cheers for Mr. Burroughs'. Mr. Burroughs reviews children. Children strewn flowers at his feet as they pass. George W Stevens presents the statue, the Gift of W E Bock, to the children of Toledo. C. S. Pietro can be seen. Mr. W E Bock. Mayor Schreiber delivers rousing welcome address.
Toledo Naval Armory, training center for naval services in Toledo Ohio. The Armory building constructed with salvage material with the help of the WPA. 'OHIO' can be seen carved on the top center of the building. Marines and reservists lined up for inspection by senior officers. A naval officer provides gunnery instructions to marines and reservists.
Standing in front of a statue honoring William McKinley at the Lucas County Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio, in 1920, two United States Civil War veterans in uniform read the 'New York Times' dated September 19, 1901. The headline reads 'Mr McKinley's body in his old home'. Cut to footage from shortly after President McKinley's death in 1901, with citizens, police and constabularies on horse back gathered outside the Milburn Residence in Buffalo, New York, where McKinley died. President William Mc Kinley's body is carried out of the house in a coffin. McKinley's funeral procession leaving the Milburn residence. Cut back to 1920 and the men standing beside the statue of President McKinley at the Lucas County Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio.


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Guitar legend Ace Frehley is in the studio working on a new album, the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Anomaly.
Ace is recording with members of his live band, drummer Matt Starr and bass player Chris Wyse. Starr posted a pic of himself and Ace in the studio on his blog with the caption: "Had a great week in the studio with Ace Frehley and Chris Wyse making some great new music Ace's new record. Stay tuned."
Wyse added "Had a blast these last few days playing with Ace Frehley and Matt Starr!!! Exciting new record coming from Ace!"
When pressed for further details on his official Facebook fan page, Starr said "No details yet. Just that we're working on it & it's gonna ROCK!"
Starr is a busy guy right now: in addition to stepping into the drummer spot in Ace's band last year when Scot Coogan departed to join Lita Ford, Starr plays with Whitesnake guitarist Doug Aldrich's band Burning Rain and has toured the U.S. and U.K. with Love/Hate. As for Wyse, he's worked with Jerry Cantrell, The Cult, Ozzy Osbourne and Mick Jagger, and is vocalist and bassist of his own band, Owl. He was also one of the bassists who auditioned for Metallica in 2003.
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Pelham man flown to Boston hospital after moped accidentADAM SWIFT
Union Leader correspondent
May 09. 2014 10:17AM
PELHAM – Police are investigating a moped crash that injured a local man early Thursday morning on Marsh Road.
Shortly before 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 8, police and fire departments responded to the moped crash on Marsh Road by Scotland Road.
When police officers got to the site of the crash, they found a semi-conscious man lying in the road next to a Honda Ruckus moped, according to police Lt. Brian McCarthy.
The moped's driver, 22-year-old Corey Reilly of Pelham, had a serious head injury from being thrown from the moped and hitting his head on the pavement, according to police.
Reilly was evaluated by the fire department and later flown by Med-flight to Boston for treatment of his injuries.
There were no passengers on the moped and no other vehicles were involved in the accident, according to McCarthy. The crash remains under investigation by police, however speed and alcohol do not appear to be factors.
Reilly was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, according to police.


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Happy Thanksgiving Day to all our Canadian readers! And a happy Columbus Day to all of our American readers too! Thanksgiving – and fall in general – is known for pumpkins. You may just think of pumpkins as a decoration for your festive table, or something you carve into a scary face on Halloween, but there are many many health benefits to eating pumpkin.
Pumpkin is very high in Vitamins C, E, and B5 which are all skin healthy vitamins because they promote a healthy immune system, encourage proper blood flow and a healthy immune system, and the Vitamin E works to protect your skin from sun damage. Pumpkin also contains fiber which is essential for a healthy digestive system and to help remove toxins from the body. The Alpha and Beta Carotene found in pumpkin are anti inflammatory agents and help to neutralize free radicals which will reverse skin damage and help with aging and sagging skin.
All those benefits come from the inside of pumpkins – or flesh as it is commonly called – and there are even more health benefits when you eat the seeds too! The seeds are loaded with your important heart healthy Omega vitamins, Zinc – which is a great for skin mineral, Magnesium to boost your immune system, Potassium to help regulate your blood and keep energy levels stable, and even more Vitamin E to protect your skin!
Fresh pumpkins are best and are abundant at most grocery stores and farms this time of year, but canned or frozen pumpkin is usually just as beneficial – just watch for any added ingredients such as sugar, salt or seasonings. You can use pumpkin in just about anything – muffins, cakes, and most commonly – pie. The seeds can be used in salads or eaten raw as a snack. They are great baked and sprinkled with a bit of curry, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, or garlic powder for even more health benefits!


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HONOLULU (AP) — A death penalty trial started Tuesday with a prosecutor telling jurors that the fatal blow a former Hawaii-based soldier dealt his 5-year-old daughter was so hard it left knuckle imprints on the child's chest.
Naeem Williams faces the death penalty even though Hawaii abolished capital punishment in the 1950s. That's because he's being tried in the federal justice system, where executions are allowed.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Darren Ching told jurors in his opening statement that the blow that killed Talia Williams on July 16, 2005, came after months of neglect, assault and torture by Williams — "her flesh and blood, her father" — and a "wicked stepmother."
Defense attorney John Philipsborn told jurors in his opening statement that Williams was ill-equipped to care for a child, let alone a child with special needs who had bowel- and bladder-control problems. Philipsborn said that when Talia went to live with him in Hawaii, about seven months before her death, he had never cared for a child.
He said the defense's case will focus on what the Williamses were thinking and "what they were intending to do."
Meanwhile, Ching spent about an hour telling jurors disturbing details of the alleged abuse, including a neighbor overhearing Williams commanding his daughter to eat her feces; Williams whipping Talia with a belt while she was duct-taped to a bedpost; and the father hitting the girl so hard with a plastic ruler he nicknamed "Mr. Paddle" that it broke.
Stepmother Delilah Williams pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors to testify against the former soldier in exchange for a 20-year sentence. Ching said Delilah Williams will provide a "firsthand account of abuse."
Talia's biological mother, Tarshia Williams, also was expected to testify. Ching said Tarshia Williams and Talia's father weren't married but share the same last name because they are distant relatives.
Other expected witnesses include Talia's former teacher at Wheeler Elementary School, the family's former neighbors and the medical examiner who concluded that the death of Talia, who was born in South Carolina, was the result of battered child syndrome.
Naeem Williams also will take the stand, Philipsborn, the defense attorney, told the jury.
Philipsborn showed jurors a grainy, black-and-white photograph taken several months before Talia's death and soon after the birth of her half-sister.
"This photograph is a photograph of a tragedy in progress," he said.
When South Carolina Family Court granted custody of Talia to her father, Williams had never cared for a child before, Philipsborn told jurors. When Talia went to live with him in Hawaii, about seven months before her death, he had never spent an entire day with a child, Philipsborn said.
Philipsborn said Naeem Williams was married to a controlling, angry and volatile woman. Alexander Silvert, Delilah Williams' federal public defender, declined to comment on characterizations made about her during opening statements because she'll be able to speak for herself when she testifies.
Williams grew up with a mother who "took care of his every need," and then married a woman who controlled his finances and other daily tasks, Philipsborn said.
The couple's relationship was dysfunctional, including infidelity and domestic disturbances requiring the involvement of military police, the defense attorney said, and "here in the midst of it was Talia Williams."
He warned jurors that the trial would involve graphic testimony and photographs.
"You will understand from Naeem Williams he had both strengths and limitations," Philipsborn said.
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Jack Kelly argues that we are making substantial military headway in Iraq. He notes that "car bombings, al-Qaida's specialty, have fallen from (a record high of) 170 in April to 151 in May to 133 in June, with less than 100 so far in July." He also points to dramatic progress in the crucial area of training Iraqis to fight the terrorists:
Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-D.C. -based think tank, has been pessimistic about Iraq. He returned from a recent visit singing a different tune:
"If current plans are successfully implemented, the total number of Iraqi military and police units that can honestly be described as trained and equipped should rise from 96,000 in September 2004, and 172,000 today to 230,000 by the end of December and 270,000 by mid-2006," he said.
Kelly speculates that al Qaeda may shifting its resources from Iraq, where they are taking a pounding, to Europe and elsewhere in Middle East. This prompts Kelly's trenchant concluding observation:
If al-Qaida is indeed shifting personnel out of Iraq, expect to hear more about Iraq as an "incubator" for terrorism. But what, pray tell, do the promoters of this theory imagine Zarqawi and his minions would have been doing these past two years if there had been no war in Iraq? Origami?


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Starting in the early morning, our teams of volunteers are working together to help us chop the hundreds of pounds of vegetables needed every day for soups and entrees.
The rest of the day is split into three additional shifts: late morning, early afternoon and evening. During these shifts, volunteers help us chop the hundreds of pounds of vegetables needed every day for soups and entrees while our chefs and cooks prep, cook and portion soup bases, meats, sauces and sides. Frozen versions of our entrees are also cooked and packaged for future delivery for days we don't see clients.
Volunteers also help Chuck, our pastry chef, as 1,500 desserts are baked, cut and packaged for the following day. Chuck also bakes and personalizes a birthday cake for each and every client, child and senior caregiver, to help celebrate this special day.
In the middle of all this activity, our chefs and kitchen staff work tirelessly to keep our kitchen amazingly clean. They also plan for future menus, ordering the thousands of pounds of food needed for the coming week and making sure it all is delivered on time, meets our quality standards and is safely stored.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Cross-border raids into western Ivory Coast have become more violent and better organized, and could have profound effects on security in the region near Liberia if they continue, a United Nations expert panel warned in a report.
The U.N. experts said the attacks are believed to have been orchestrated by supporters of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to step down after losing the November 2010 election to now-President Alassane Ouattara. The months-long crisis sparked postelection violence that claimed at least 3,000 lives.
As of September, more than 60,000 Ivorians who fled the crisis remained in Liberia, including hundreds of pro-Gbagbo militiamen, according to U.N. figures.
The attacks date back to July 2011 and include a raid in June 2012 that killed seven U.N. peacekeepers and at least 10 civilians. The most recent border strike came in August, at the height of a series of attacks on military installations throughout Ivory Coast that sparked fears of renewed unrest in the world's biggest cocoa producer.
The new report published Thursday from the U.N. Panel of Experts on Liberia, which monitors sanctions against the country, said that there have not been successful prosecutions despite a military operation launched by Liberia in June to target the individuals involved in the attacks.
On the contrary, "most leading combatant commanders who had previously been imprisoned" have been set free, and "Ivorian commanders in particular have avoided detection and recriminations," the report said.
Information from October also revealed preparations for attacks to be launched from Liberia's Grand Gedeh and Nimba counties, the report said. The experts could not independently substantiate these claims, but noted that they had received similar information prior to the June attack that killed the peacekeepers and an earlier attack on the Ivory Coast town of Sakre.
High unemployment in eastern Liberia plays into militia leaders' recruitment efforts, according to the report, especially as Ivorian refugees can't get jobs and "have limited means to participate in the informal economy," it said.
While attacks have begun to target Ivory Coast's army and "exhibit tactical dimensions," more strategic efforts "have failed at the planning stage or have not been attempted," the report said. It said the combatants operate as a collection of "gangs" affiliated by ethnic group and financed by supporters in nearby countries.
"The fact that networks inside Liberia lack hierarchical structure could be symptomatic of a lack of coordination at the strategic level," including among high-level Gbagbo allies currently exiled in Ghana, the report said.
An October report from U.N. experts on Ivory Coast also pointed to the role that Gbagbo allies based in Ghana have allegedly played in orchestrating the cross-border raids. Ivorian authorities have expressed frustration that Ghana has not executed arrest warrants for Gbagbo allies suspected of coordinating the recent violence.


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Donovan McNabb took to his Yardbarker blog to offer his support for Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson and former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, who was released from prison today and will serve the rest of his sentence confined to his Virginia home. McNabb titled the post, "My Thoughts on a Couple of Friends."
My thoughts and prayers go out to Jim Johnson as he battles through another round of chemotherapy to deal with cancer. Jim is one of the toughest men I've come across and although he has a tough battle ahead, no one is going to fight harder.
I am happy that Michael Vick has served his time and will now be afforded the opportunity to move on with his life. I'm sure he will continue to be remorseful and will learn from his experiences. Hopefully he will have the opportunity to continue his dream of playing professional football.
Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley is nothing if not outspoken.
During an interview with SI.com about life on the road in the NFL, Cooley managed to take two jabs at Philly and its fans.
SI: What's your least favorite city to visit?
Chris Cooley: Philly. I really don't like Philly. I got a cheesesteak the first time I went there, but other than that, there's just nothing exciting about Philly.
SI: Which city has the most rabid fans?
Chris Cooley: Philly. We got eggs thrown at our bus when we came into town last season.
To read Les Bowen's report from the first day of rookie minicamp, click here.


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If you're interested in real-time monitoring of your server processes and seeing the overall condition of your Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X servers from a single console, you might want to take a look at the latest SaaS offering from CopperEgg, which just announced the updated version of RevealCloud 3.
CopperEgg's RevealCloud software leverages rapid deployment; a highly distributed data collection model; the extreme speed and scalability of a NoSQL schema-free database; and real-time visualization with click-through analytics to provide a modern, purpose-built cloud monitoring solution. The company says it differentiates itself from legacy performance monitoring tools that conduct polling and performance updates every 1 to 5 minutes, thereby missing valuable data in the process. Instead, RevealCloud records, analyzes, and delivers updates of critical operating and performance metrics every few seconds, and it does so across many cloud instances at the same time.
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RevealCloud is a SaaS-based server monitoring service that provides a detailed, unified view of all the servers running across both public and private clouds operating on either virtual or physical environments.
With RevealCloud 3, real-time data is displayed for all system processes, CPUs, network interfaces, memory, disk I/O, and more. CopperEgg also claims support for a wide breadth of cloud environments, including Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Windows Azure, and SoftLayer, to name a few. Additionally, it offers server monitoring for Hyper-V, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD operating systems.
With the latest release of RevealCloud, CopperEgg delivers a number of new features, such as support for thousands of simultaneous nodes across any deployment model, an enhanced at-a-glance user interface, additional disk I/O information, and detailed breakdowns of I/O usage per disk, CPU usage, and individual network interface activity.
Perhaps the most important new feature found in RevealCloud 3 is the support for real-time process monitoring. This key feature had been in high demand with existing customers and could be the game changer for CopperEgg. This feature was best described by the company's COO, Eric Anderson, who dubbed the historical process view as "top on steroids."


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Live Chat With The Cast of Warm Bodies (VIDEO)
Our friends at ClevverTV hosted a live chat with the cast of the zombie flick Warm Bodies including Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer. In the movie, opening February 1, Nicholas (the zombie) falls in love with Teresa's human character. That sounds like a bad romance to us, but surprisingly the feelings are somewhat mutual. We can't wait to see what happens!
Check out what happened when one of our Teen.com staffers Kaitlin visited the set last year here and make sure to subscribe to Teen's YouTube channel where we'll be posting our interviews with the cast of Warm Bodies next week starring none other than our host Joey Graceffa!


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Art Underground
Select Friday nights during the school year, 4:00–8:00 p.m. Pizza is served at 4:00. Films and events start at 4:45 p.m., unless otherwise noted.
The Celeste Bartos Theater in the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, 4 West 54 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues
Free Teen Nights is now Art Underground—same great screenings and art events almost every Friday night, but now young adults ages 14 to 19 are welcome.
No need to preregister; just show up and participate. Students must bring a valid high school ID.
For more information, please call Teen Programs at (212) 708-9828 or e-mail email@example.com.
This is a drop-in program for teens. If you have a group, you must call in advance. There are no reservations. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis, with a limit of sixty participants for artist talks and 120 attendees for film screenings.
Education at MoMA is made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America.
Teen Programs are made possible by an endowment established by The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation. Additional support is provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston and by the Annual Education Fund.
In the Making is made possible by an endowment established by Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman.


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Las Vegas Periphery: Views from the Edge, by Laurie Brown and Sally Denton
Las Vegas Periphery: Views from the Edge
Photographs by Laurie Brown, essay by Sally Denton,
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George F. Thompson Publishing, 2013
At the edge of cities, development and nature collide. That juxtaposition has always fascinated photographer Laurie Brown, and she explores it fully in Las Vegas Periphery. Focusing on a city that symbolizes extravagant excess, she depicts the contrast between the austerely gorgeous Mojave Desert and the houses, golf courses and highways that intrude on it. An essay by Nevada writer Sally Denton introduces the incisive images of this "ground-zero crossroad where ancient landscape meets modern artifice."


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Movie Picture for 21
Photo Credit: Columbia Pictures
Based on the nonfiction book by Ben Mezrich, 21 tells the story of six MIT students who become trained experts in card counting. With their new skills they are able to take Vegas casinos for millions. Stars Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess.


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This article has been corrected by Quartz. The text of the correction is below.
It's almost a week into the government shutdown and imported food Americans are eating is passing through with little of the inspection it's normally given.
Thanks to the shutdown, some food safety inspectors at the Food and Drug Administration, which monitors 80 percent of the U.S.' food supply, are on furlough until the budget gets passed , as Food Safety News reports.
That means the FDA isn't carrying out some of its most critical responsibilities. First is the FDA's oversight of food imports.
One of the big ways the FDA protects consumers is by blocking shipments from companies with a history of tainted foods, monitoring them through what it calls "red alerts." These include categories like filthiness (meaning excrement), fruits covered in pesticides , drug-doped seafood , dairy products with melamine , dietary supplements that might have mad cow disease , e. coli -containing seafood and candy laced with lead .
The FDA blocks shipments from tens of thousands such violators. Now, however, there's no one to stop those foods from finding their way onto American plates.
Take shrimp for example. Americans now eat 4.2 pounds (1.9 kg) a year, way more than any other type of seafood. Some 90% of that is imported, much of it from Thailand , Indonesia, India and Bangladesh:
So consistently has shrimp imported from those four countries arrived already decomposed, covered in filth or teeming with salmonella , that FDA flags all shipments as "red alerts" (companies are exempted only after demonstrating health standard compliance).
That means Americans might unknowingly be chowing down on red-alert shrimp. If that were to cause a nationwide outbreak of, say, salmonella, the FDA would normally step in to prevent people from eating more.
Not now. Though the FDA says it will continue to act on " high-risk recalls " (pdf), Caroline Smith DeWaal, the food safety director of a non-profit group called the Center for Science in the Public Interest, doubts that's sufficient.
"I don't have confidence that they have the capacity to recognize an emergency and respond to it," DeWaal told the Christian Science Monitor .
Note that county health authorities are still managing local problems, such as the salmonella outbreak that's killed one person in Kentucky so far.
But county officials can't do much when the outbreak comes from shipped food, as opposed to shoddy hygiene. The food-related outbreaks cross borders too, such as the outbreak of a rare strain of Hepatitis A that sickened 162 people in 10 states across the US throughout the summer. The FDA traced the strain to a Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend sold at Costco, prompting a recall. After the FDA isolated the culprit, berries imported from Turkey, it placed the responsible company on red alert.
CORRECTION: (October 7): This article overstated the effect of the US government shutdown on inspections of imported food. We are still looking into the full extent of employee furloughs at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and how those are affecting inspections. Steven Immergut, an FDA spokesman, said the agency is continuing to review all food imports, but there "may be delays" in physical examinations due to the shutdown.
At the very least, the article should have noted that 578 FDA employees are still working "to inspect regulated products and manufacturers, conduct sample analysis on products, and review imports offered for entry into the US," according to the government (pdf, pg. 8). We have asked the FDA how many people are normally employed to check food imports and are waiting to hear back.
Immergut did clarify that the agency is not currently able to add companies to the list of "import alerts"—referred to incorrectly in this article as "red alerts"—unless there is a life-threatening emergency.
We have changed the headline of this article, which was originally "Almost all of the shrimp Americans eat is now going uninspected." We will update this correction as we learn more.
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Nice addition which significantly dresses up a vehicle's interior creating a refined, "luxury" car appearance. You can randomly pick which of the kits numerous pieces you want to adhere to the various sections of your vehicle's dash, etc. to create your own exclusive look. Nice product.


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ASP.NET Web Application Security
ASP.NET, in conjunction with Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), can authenticate user credentials such as names and passwords using any of the following authentication methods:
Windows: Basic, digest, or Integrated Windows Authentication (NTLM or Kerberos).
Forms authentication, in which you create a login page and manage authentication in your application.
Client Certificate authentication
ASP.NET controls access to site information by comparing authenticated credentials, or representations of them, to NTFS file system permissions or to an XML file that lists authorized users, authorized roles (groups), or authorized HTTP verbs.
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Lone Ranger could cost Disney $190 million
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Disney anticipates that its big budget flop 'The Lone Ranger' could cost the company $190 million following disastrous box office receipts around the world
Disney is anticipating a $190 million loss on big budget flop 'The Lone Ranger'.
The blockbuster movie starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer - which was made on a reported $225 million budget - may cost the movie studio even more than the $150 million initially anticipated by financial analysts.
The company filed its third quarter fiscal results yesterday (06.08.13) and told investors in a conference call that they expect to lose $160 to $190 million on the expensive movie, taking into account its monstrous budget as well as costly marketing expenses.
'The Lone Ranger' has stalled at just $86 million in the US, where it opened to a paltry $29 million in its first weekend of release, and its worldwide total stands at $176 million.
The film's stars and producer Jerry Bruckheimer recently blamed bad reviews in the US for the box office misfortune, claiming critics made up their minds about the Western adventure before it was even released.
Depp - who plays Tonto in the flick - said: "I think the reviews were written seven to eight months before we released the film. I think the reviews were written when they heard Gore [Verbinski, director] and Jerry and me were going to do 'The Lone Ranger'. They had expectations that it must be a blockbuster. I didn't have any expectations of that. I never do."


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A Disheartening Occurrence
Dear Editor,
Thank goodness spring has sprung! While speaking with a neighbor the other day, he mentioned a disheartening occurrence I myself had noticed over the past several weeks. It is as if common courtesy and friendliness froze up and disappeared over the winter months. I guess I thought it was normal to allow another motorist to merge into traffic instead of blocking the drives of stores and side streets. Waving at a neighbor used to seem second nature, but being met with scowling faces and middle fingers seems much more common place these days.
Perhaps the fresh buds on the trees will encourage all of us to shake off the winter moans and groans and remember what it means to be a happy and friendly community. The farmers' market will be on the square soon, kids will be riding their bikes and playing in their yards, and hardly a day will pass without hearing the hum of a lawn mower nearby. Out with the old and in with the new. Rather, out with the old and in with the way things used to (and should) be.
Karen Wiethoff
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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan says it is withdrawing its troops from a disputed border region with Sudan so that a demilitarized zone can be established.
The decision could be a first step toward South Sudan getting its oil industry online again. The south hasn't pumped oil since early in 2012, depriving its impoverished government of needed funds. The oil flows through pipelines in Sudan, and Khartoum has also seen a steep drop in revenues because of the south's oil shutdown.
South Sudan's troop withdrawal is in line with a security agreement reached with Sudan in September. At a meeting between the countries' presidents earlier this month the two agreed to implement the September deals to get the oil flowing again.


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The University of Pacific's tennis team on Jan. 12 hosted tennis players of Stockton. It was an open invitation to play, practice and mingle with the team.
The University of Pacific's tennis team on Jan. 12 hosted tennis players of Stockton. It was an open invitation to play, practice and mingle with the team.
There was no charge for this event, organized by the coaches and athletic department. Coffee, snacks in abundance and, in spite of the cold weather, all the courts were full with old and young Stocktonians. The members of the two tennis squads gave tips, feeding tennis balls for the drills and showed their skills in an exhibition game with commentary from the coaches.
I would like to thank them all for sharing their talent, time and enthusiasm for our city and their team. It was great fun.
Susanne Ghidoni
I want to share another positive Stockton moment, and thank an anonymous Good Samaritan.
About noon Jan. 13 after making a purchase at Rite Aid in Lincoln Center, I apparently left my wallet on a display table while attempting to organize my bags.
Once home, I noticed I did not have my wallet.
I dashed back to the store hoping to find the wallet still on the table - less than 30 minutes had passed since I was there - but it was gone. When I asked the checker whose line I'd gone through, he knew that a wallet had been found. Sure enough, the store manager had my wallet and reported that a customer had turned it in. Everything was intact.
There are many reasons to worry about our city, but incidents like these should give us all some reassurance that there are good people here and good things do happen.
My sincere thanks to the person who returned my wallet to the store employees for this gesture of kindness and honesty, for taking the time and effort to do the right thing and for reminding us that we need not always expect the worst.
Julie B. Grunsky
While The Record does well in informing the public on crime and arrests, we know little about what actually happens to those arrested, except for major crimes. While we don't need to know by name, we should be informed as to what actually happens in lesser crimes and major parole violations, such as felons in possession of firearms.
My suspicion is that they are soon released due to realignment and overcrowding, providing no detriment to their criminal activity.
I understand that the police are likely much more forthcoming with information on arrests than prosecutors and corrections officials are on penalties and releases. These actions are part of the public record and could be obtained by The Record with some effort.
It would appear that parole violators, no matter how serious, are sent to counties under realignment and promptly released because of overcrowding. If this is the case, some changes need to be made.
Burton B. Haviland
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I needed shots for travel and contacted the San Joaquin County Department of Public Health for information.
The phone was answered by a live person who was very helpful. I learned that I did not need an appointment and that the clinic offered hours of service five days a week. I did not know what to expect, but I found easy parking and a friendly, well-organized office with a helpful, professional staff. I did not have to wait long to be served.
I go on my travels well immunized and well informed. If the flu epidemic that is hitting other parts of the country reaches California, I have no doubt that San Joaquin County will be well served by the professionals at our local department of public health.
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Data system rollout progressing across state
School districts across South Dakota are beginning to access the states new longitudinal data system, called the South Dakota Student Teacher Accountability Reporting System, or SD-STARS.
Throughout the year, 10 pilot districts and the Education Service Agencies have been accessing the system to help identify concerns ahead of the transition. The ESAs will play an important role in ensuring that district staff across the state is trained in using SD-STARS.
Districts have been asked to identify at least two people who will be trained on SD-STARS and one person who will manage the accounts. These users should be the district staff who review accountability reports, as these reports will now be available through SD-STARS.
Beyond that, districts will have some flexibility to work with their ESA and determine a timeline for implementation. Some districts may choose not to train all teachers until future months.
The Department of Education has released an implementation guide to help districts navigate the process. Questions regarding SD-STARS should be directed to Sara Kock or Marcus Bevier at the department, or to the local ESA.


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Oh, and gameplay
So how do games run? Very playable, very playable indeed. Then again, I am running on FiOS.
FiOS is great with OnLive, but I did have the chance to test it on other, slower connections as well. Even then, I can still say that OnLive is entirely playable, but there are some issues. Latency, bandwidth and caps, distance from the nearest server, and even whether you use a gamepad versus a keyboard and mouse makes an impact. Latency is by far the most prevalent factor, and unless you're playing next door to one of OnLive's servers, you'll feel it. Even with my 20Mbps down and 4Mbps up, I could tell that the game was not running natively.
Three main indicators give away the fact that this isn't a native game: framerate bumps, sudden resolution drops and gameplay blips. The framerate is supposed to be 60fps, and it often is, but there are hiccups, most likely due to packet loss or someone else in the house using the Internet. The 60fps doesn't look or feel steady; it acts more like a spiky 45fps, with sudden drops that occur randomly, but not when the action gets hot or the graphics explode onscreen. The resolution is also variable, and the image is compressed to help with latency. One second you might see the pores in someone's face, and the next their head will look like an angular peach. It doesn't happen often, and this problem is much worse when on Wi-Fi.
The hardware that's running the games seems to handle everything very easily. The only actual slowdown has come from connection issues.
What is clear is that certain games run better through OnLive than others, namely slow-paced titles. Games like The Maw and Darksiders don't require quick action, and are completely playable. Not only that, but they easily rival console games, though right now they still look graphically worse due to the compression and variable resolution.
Very fast-paced games, like Unreal Tournament 3 or FEAR 2, have more issues because of the constant movement, but you can get used to it. It's not that it feels terrible, just different, and not quite as precise as the game running on your own hardware.
Playing a game like UT3 is possible, just not optimal. I managed to win two competitions hosted by OnLive, and that earned me $125 total. I played both competitions on my netbook, which has trouble playing some flash games. I played not on FiOS, but at a local college library sharing the Internet with thousands of other students, and over a hundred in the same room. No other service would allow for something like this to happen.
Yes, one could argue that I could buy some laptop that's small and thin that can play games. But I was playing UT3 at 720p on a computer I already owned, and using minimal power. I didn't need to buy any new equipment. I didn't need to use a power cable, nor did I need a recharge immediately after the hour long tournaments. All I needed was my existing hardware and an Internet connection. Oh, and a gaming mouse.
Then, just yesterday, I wanted to show a game to someone visiting my house, so I pulled out the same laptop and booted OnLive. After a minute (the Wi-Fi service is still in beta, and is thus slow to boot), I was in Borderlands showing off a gun that I had found the night before. There's no other way to do something like this. I couldn't actually play Borderlands well, because it's an action-intensive title and I was too far away from my wireless router to maintain a steady connection, but the technology is solid.
Bottom line: the game does matter. For any game where a millisecond matters, you'll want to stick to a native PC or console.
Ben's thoughts: a second opinion on the service
Our gaming editor Ben Kuchera also played games using the OnLive service for a number of hours. Here are his thoughts.
What struck me most about the service is how fast it is. I clicked on Unreal Tournament 3 to use my 30 free minutes and I was playing a game in under a minute. That's pretty amazing. Even better was how well the game played on my 13" Macbook Air, a system that wasn't exactly built for first-person shooters.
The game played very well, and was much more responsive than I was expecting. My timing felt a little off, but nothing I couldn't take into account after a few minutes. My main problem was the muddiness of the image; the compression really takes a toll on fine detail. That being said, this is much more than I could expect from this system were I playing a game installed onto the SSD.
The thing I'm most looking forward to is the addition of a subscription-based service. While I doubt I would be willing to buy a game through OnLive, I could definitely see picking up a month or two so I could game on my various laptops and netbooks while I traveled. I was playing on my home Internet connection, which is good and speedy, but be aware you may get less optimal performance if you're trying to game on a coffee shop Internet connection. As WiFi becomes faster, cheaper, and more available, OnLive will only get better.
My main beef is that the game selection is sad. Everything else worked great—above and beyond what I expected. Go ahead, give it a shot for yourself.
To Stream Or Not To Stream
As a technology, OnLive is exciting. It's Netflix for games, but not limited to games. In the future, it could do TV, movies, music—theoretically, it can do everything, on a little box, with minimal lag. As time progresses and the code is cleaned up, and as more users get better Internet with lower latency, it will improve. And, as some European users have noted, it's actually playable across the ocean too, though lag times are in the seconds, not milliseconds.
You don't need to take it from us, though; install the client and try the service out for yourself, because connection speed is the only thing that really matters for the service. Also, all the games have free trials. Trying games this way is easier than even downloading a demo.
There are some downsides here. You're limited by your Internet connection, the selection of games is slim, and if you buy a game you're still tied to the service. The upside is the ability to play the games on nearly any system. All told, OnLive may not be a slam dunk, but it's a great first step into a brave new world.
The Good
- It works! Games are faster than on consoles or PCs
- Free service, games are all PC-priced ($50 or less) with free trials
- Works with gamepads and keyboard + mouse
- "Owl" gamepad excels over Dualshock 3 and 360 controller
- Simple and slow-paced games feel native
- Works on any Windows and Mac computer, regardless of power
- Works over Wi-Fi (not the microconsole)
- Has amazing potential for future use
The Bad
- Overall video quality suffers greatly based on connection errors, spurts
- Microconsole bundle is expensive for an unproven service
- Ridiculously stressful on your Internet, low latency requirement can be a killer
- Only 35 games, and new releases are few and far between
- Social aspect still very weak
The Ugly
- If you're on a metered connection, you're going to be owing some money


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My DD is going to be 2 in a few weeks. We have been doing great with nursing, in spite of me working 5 days a week most of her life. At this point, I nurse her at night, in the morning, and I pump in the afternoon if I'm at work or, if I'm with her, I nurse before nap, and sometimes after nap if she falls asleep nursing. My plan has been to continue this until the summer, then start weaning slowly, with the goal of having her completely weaned by the time she turns 3. I nursed my oldest daughter pretty successfully until she turned 2.5, then I quickly weaned her so I could try for #2 (doctor's orders... that's another story).
Unfortunately I'm suddenly having a ton of problems. I am now only pumping 2 ounces, even when I wait until late to pump. Plus I am having a terrible time with dry, cracking skin on my nipples, and I'm feeling like my DD is barely drinking when I do get to nurse her. I'm worried I'm drying up, and I'm worried about the cracking skin that doesn't seem to be getting better.
I have never used Lanolin (it didn't feel okay when I tried it with my first), but instead use MotherLove's nipple cream. I try to use it after every nursing (at least 2 out of 3), and I soak my nipples in warm salt water every few nights. It gets better and worse, but it never gets batter and stays better. I think it's due to the cold weather, but I've never had this much trouble before.
Now my mom (primary caregiver) and husband are urging me to wean her. I know that with her being 2 and loving cheese (is 1 cheesestick a day enough dairy?), it probably would be okay at this point, but I want to wean her on my own (and her own) terms, not because of problems.
Other info - I'm 42, so I don't know how much my age may affect my ability to produce milk. I had no trouble with my first, 3 years ago, but I am older now. Also, I did change BCPs recently, but I have seen no change in my milk production since then. This problem started before that. No other changes to my meds. I did start Weight Watchers about a month ago, but I tried to do their nursing mothers program. I'm wondering if maybe they're calculations aren't right for mothers with much older toddlers, but I would think that it could only be wrong in a way that wouldn't hurt me - i.e. I would be getting too many calories, not too few. But still I went off WW a couple weeks ago and haven't seen a change.
I need help! Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for me? I know there was a lot in there. My main questions are:
1- how do I get my nipples to stop cracking and stay healthy?
2- am I drying up? / how do I stop that?
3- if I do have to wean her, how much supplemental milk does she need at this point?


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Comcast Stacks FCC Hearing Seats With Sleepy Shills
Comcast admitted to paying its employees to sit in at a F.C.C. hearing on net neutrality at the Harvard Law School today, depriving angry protesters from their right to sit in those folding chairs. Despite the venue being filled to over capacity, keeping some people from entering, not everyone inside seemed appreciative of their privilege. One Comcast employee admitted on tape, "I'm just getting paid to hold someone's seat, I don't even know what's going on." According to SaveTheInternet.com, the Comcast employees, "arrived en masse some 90 minutes before the hearing began and occupied almost every available seat, upon which many promptly fell asleep." The stacked audience's behavior was limited to wearing a yellow highlighter, sleeping during the proceedings, and loudly applauding when Comcast VP David Cohen got on the mic.
Comcast PR rep Jen Khoury told Portfolio, Comcast informed our local employees about the hearing and invited them to attend… Some employees did attend, along with many members of the general public," adding that, "For the past week, the Free Press has engaged in a much more extensive campaign to lobby people to attend the hearing on its behalf."
Whichever side you believe, one thing is for certain: Comcast employees are very tired (exhibit A, exhibit B).
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