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Wallis Sands closed after possible shark sightingBy GRETYL MACALASTER
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August 20. 2013 4:19PM
RYE - Wallis Sands State Beach is closed until at least Wednesday after a possible shark sighting on Tuesday afternoon.
Amy Bassett, spokesman for the New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation, said the assistant manager at the beach spotted what he believes to be an eight-foot shark following a school of stripers in about four feet of water off the beach.
The waters at Wallis Sands were evacuated before 3 p.m. and Bassett said water access is being prohibited until at least Wednesday.
Everyone else along the coast is also on heightened alert, especially down at Hampton Beach.
"Our lifeguards are in the tower and in the chairs making sure there is nothing out there," Bassett said.
The U.S. Coast Guard has been called in to help look for the possible shark to confirm it.
"If it is in the area, then we will have an even more heightened alert and make sure we are paying attention and making those calls if we will open again tomorrow. If it is a shark and it stays in the area, obviously we'll reassess our plan in the morning," Bassett said.


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Each year the President signs a proclamation declaring November Military Family Month. This annual proclamation marks the beginning of a month-long celebration of the Military Family in which the Department of Defense and the nation will honor the commitment and sacrifices made by the families of the nation's servicemembers.
Throughout the month of November, military families serving around the world are honored through a variety of observances and recognized for their commitment and the many contributions they make every day in support of the military and our nation. Efforts to recognize the sacrifices of the military family by Active, Guard, and Reserve leaders are being joined and supported by DoD organizations to include the Army Air Force Exchange Service, Defense Commissary Agency, and others.
Community leaders, businesses, and military bases and posts are teaming up to recognize military families through special events such as: open houses, fun runs, family fun nights, and community dinners; discounts at MWR facilities, local business and sporting events; and special recognitions during community activities throughout the month of November.
Contact your local MWR or Family Services offices to learn more about events scheduled in your area.
"Our nation owes each day of security and freedom that we enjoy to the members of our Armed Forces and their families. Behind our brave service men and women, there are family members and loved ones who share in their sacrifice and provide unending support."
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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- California junior shooting guard Allen Crabbe has been honored as the Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year after leading the league in scoring.
The conference also announced Monday that Oregon's Dana Altman has won Coach of the Year. Arizona State's Jahii Carson and UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad shared Freshman of the Year honors. Colorado forward Andrew Roberson earned the Defensive Player of the Year award. And Stanford junior forward Dwight Powell took home Most Improved Player of the Year.
Crabbe is the seventh player in school history and third in the last four years to win the league's most prestigious award. He joins Jason Kidd (1994), Shareef Abdur-Rahim (1996), Ed Gray (1997), Sean Lampley (2001), Jerome Randle (2010) and Jorge Gutierrez (2012).
Crabbe averaged 18.6 points and six rebounds per game this season, propelling the Golden Bears (20-10, 12-6) to seven straight wins and a likely NCAA tournament berth before losing 83-70 at home to Stanford in the regular-season finale. He is 10th on Cal's career scoring list with 1,489 points.
"I am really happy for Allen," Cal coach Mike Montgomery said in a statement. "He has been a mainstay in our program and has improved each year. Allen has been a guy that has been under constant pressure to carry the load offensively and has done a very good job for us. This is a reward for a lot of hard work and I think well-justified."
The awards are voted on by the conference's coaches. They are not allowed to vote for themselves or their own players.
Crabbe led the conference in scoring the entire season. He also ranked fifth in 3-pointers made per game (two), sixth in free-throw percentage (81 percent) and 20th in rebounds (six) per game.
Crabbe scored at least 20 points in 14 games, including two 30-point performances. He had 10 points or more in all but three games. He scored a career-best 33 points in a 79-62 win over Pepperdine on Nov. 13.
The Bears earned the No. 2 seed in the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas. They begin play Thursday against the winner of seventh-seeded Southern California and No. 10 Utah.
Crabbe also earned First-Team honors along with Carson, Muhammad, Roberson, Powell, Colorado guard Spencer Dinwiddie, UCLA guard Larry Drew II, Arizona forward Solomon Hill, Arizona guard Mark Lyons and Oregon forward E.J. Singler.
Altman guided Oregon (23-8, 12-6) to a second-place tie with California and Arizona in the league standings after being picked seventh in the preseason media poll. The Ducks have posted three straight 20-win seasons and two consecutive runner-up finishes in Pac-12 play under Altman, who has won Coach of the Year honors in four different conferences.
He also earned coaching honors in the Missouri Valley Conference with Creighton in 2001 and 2002, in the former Big Eight Conference with Kansas State in 1993, and in the Southern Conference with Marshall in 1990. He's the third Oregon coach to earn coach of the year honors, joining Dick Harter (1977) and Ernie Kent (2002).
Altman has a career record of 478-277. He is 68-34 at Oregon.
The third-seeded Ducks will play their first game in the conference tournament Thursday against the winner of No. 6 Washington and No. 11 Washington State.


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As a college student with a concentration in the sciences, it's no surprise that Alisha of MakeupatMidnight takes a very logical approach to beauty. She loves to know exactly what's in her products and how different formulas function on her skin. Naturally this mindset applies to her YouTube channel, too—she carefully decides what videos to film based on what she knows her viewers will want to watch. Smart!
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Not quite soaring into the heavens, but not exactly crash-landing either, Cloud Atlas is an impressively mounted, emotionally stilted adaptation of British author David Mitchell's bestselling novel.
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This would-be epic is beautifully photographed, elegantly crafted and adventurously cast. Unfortunately, though, it plays like a gargantuan trailer for a movie still to be made.
The cinematography is gorgeous and the makeup amazing, but the story lines are too disconnected.
Cloud Atlas is certainly out to be a ''visionary'' mindbender, but the film's secret is that it's a nimbly entertaining and light-on-its-feet Hollywood contraption, with the actors cast in multiple roles as if playing a game of dress-up.
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Pause for kids 15 & under
Enormous scale and spectacle, but weak characters, story.
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Parents need to know that Cloud Atlas -- the Wachowskis' massive sci-fi epic that takes place over six time periods, with several actors (including Tom Hanks and Halle Berry) playing roles in each -- has strong fantasy violence, including bloody attacks and battles with both guns and blades. Main characters die, and one commits suicide. Language is strong, though sporadic, with several uses of both "f--k" and "s--t." There are a few sex scenes, with one female appearing topless. Many characters drink, a few smoke cigarettes, and two smoke pot. Like Avatar, the movie's sheer, overwhelming size, scale, and spectacle may appeal to many audiences, and teens will likely be clamoring to see it; whether they'll enjoy it is less clear.
Messages: Amid the sometimes convoluted storytelling, the film promotes the ideas that all things/people are connected and that love can transcend space and time. There are small examples of bravery and trying to help others throughout.
Role models: None of the film's many characters has enough screen time to achieve much depth or resonance. But a few of them are good and brave, and a few fairly strong female characters emerge. One character has a kind of "bad conscience" demon that tries to convince him to do selfish and/or cowardly things. At first he gives into the demon's commands, but eventually he learns to stand up for himself and do things for others. Some characters risk their lives for what they believe in.
Violence: Many of the main characters die, and many are shot or stabbed, with spurting blood. One dies in an airplane explosion. There are bloody attacks and battles with blades and guns, a few one-on-one fights, and threats; both children and adults die. A character commits suicide with a gun (put in mouth). A man throws another man from a high balcony. A bad guy shoots a dog (off screen). A little girl is shown to be fatally sick, with a poisoned, swollen foot.
Sex: At least one female character appears topless, and there are two sex scenes (it's questionable that the act is consensual in one), with no other nudity shown. There's some strong innuendo in one scene as a rude customer in a futuristic restaurant uses a squeeze bottle of mayonnaise and pretends to ejaculate on a waitress' back. There's a scene in which a man escapes his lover's bedroom, presumably after sex; they share a kiss. In another scene, sex is interrupted by a cat, and there's some innuendo around the term "p---y."
Language: Sporadic strong language includes "f--k," "s--t," "c--k," "p---y," "hell," "ass," "damn," "goddamn," racial slurs like the "N" word and "wetback," and "Jesus" (as an exclamation).
Consumerism: Samsung phone is shown, but not prominently.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Many characters drink alcohol (ranging from beer to wine to harder drinks), mostly in a social way. Once or twice, characters overindulge in a comic way, but only briefly. In one segment, the main characters smoke some pot. Some characters smoke cigarettes in a background way. In a futuristic sement, a character is addicted to a drug known as "soap" and overdoses.
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Another View -- Yehuda Yaakov: What Israel is up againstYEHUDA YAAKOV
July 17. 2014 10:36PM
FOR THOSE made uneasy by the relatively low Israeli casualty rate so far during Operation Protective Edge, I have news: Our children are definitely being victimized by rockets fired by Hamas and its jihadi counterparts. Not "just" psychologically — no small matter in itself — but very much physically.
Over a recent weekend, for instance, rocket shrapnel lodged in the chest of a 16-year-old from Ashkelon. I heard his father explain in a radio interview that his restless son could no longer suffer the repeated stays in bomb shelters and insisted on going for a stroll. His father pleaded with him, but to no avail.
Monday morning, we learned that an 8-year old from Ashdod was injured. Later that day, two sisters, 11 and 13, were wounded by rocket debris near the heavily attacked southern city of Beersheba. The two girls sustained moderate to serious injuries.
Just another war story, right? Yes and no. The two sisters are children like any other, with a twist: They aren't Jewish, they're Bedouin Muslims. Their names are Atil and Maram al-Wakili.
This shouldn't surprise anyone; around 20 percent of Israel's population isn't Jewish. The Hamas rockets aren't smart enough to distinguish among our civilians — whether Circassian, Druze, Muslim, Christian or Jewish — and so they're all targets. So when Hamas rockets fall on Ashdod, Beersheba, Tel Aviv, Haifa or farther north, they cement the common fate of all the religious and ethnic communities that make up our resilient societal mosaic.
Hamas' brutality is not relegated to Israelis but is also victimizing the Palestinians themselves.
It has positioned rocket launchers, weapons stores, leadership facilities, command and control centers, communication facilities and other terrorist infrastructures among the civilian population of Gaza. The sites are deliberately located in, near or under homes, schools, hospitals and mosques, leaving Palestinian civilians deliberately exposed to grave danger.
Hamas actively calls on Gazans to go onto roofs after Israeli warnings, and its Ministry of Interior has ordered them not to evacuate targeted homes.
It doesn't end there: Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, Hamas has fired more than 100 rockets from from Gaza that have hit their own territory. Indeed, last Sunday Hamas left 70,000 Palestinians without power after one of its rockets hit a high voltage power line in Israel that carries electricity to Gaza.
This reckless disregard for the needs of Gazans led to one of the more surrealistic events of the campaign thus far: Israel Electric Corporation crews, wearing protective gear, repaired the damaged power line under heavy security of IDF troops.
Hamas is also bombing the humanitarian crossings facilitating the movement of Gazans and goods. Despite this brutality, the crossings remain open, and Tuesday saw the movement of humanitarian cases plus 71 trucks of food and general supplies, 151 tons of gas, and 598,109 liters of fuel.
In the past few days, Hamas rockets have also hit Muslim and Christian areas in the West Bank, one possible reason why a Palestinian Authority official admitted that the Hamas rocket firings at Israeli civilians constitute a war crime.
The Palestinian Authority representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Ambassador Ibrahim Kraishi, stated, "The missiles that are now being launched against Israel, each and every missile constitutes a crime against humanity, whether it hits or misses, because it is directed at civilian targets."
This is what Israel is up against, and this is why Israel insists on continuing the operation until a sustainable calm for all civilians in the region is achieved.
Yehuda Yaakov is consul general of Israel to New England.


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Friday, April 12, 2013
All you need is love, Berlin... and a dog.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Serial and pixels for breakfast. Arduino + pygame.
Coffee too? Naturally.
Where do we begin? At the end of course. A video of the result...
The arduino code
#include <Servo.h> Servo myservo; int potpin = 0; int val; void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); myservo.attach(9); } void loop() { val = analogRead(potpin); Serial.println(val); val = map(val, 62, 540, 0, 179); myservo.write(val); delay(15); }
python pygame codeExtended the "green eggs and ham" code I made recently to read serial data from the Arduino, and paint the screen different shades of green, whilst also making some silly sounds depending on the value read from the light sensor.
import os import pygame import serial # guessing serial ports names. Linux or macosx. #'/dev/tty.usbserial' ser = serial.Serial('/dev/tty.usbmodem1411', 9600, timeout = 0) serial_buffer = "" # an event number for the SERIAL SERIAL = pygame.USEREVENT + 1 from pygame.locals import * Event = pygame.Event split = os.path.split pygame.mixer.pre_init(44100, 8, 2, 1024) pygame.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480)) message = "Press q to quit, b for blue, r for red." pygame.display.set_caption(message) import pygame.examples example_path = split(pygame.examples.__file__)[0] example_data = os.path.join(example_path, "data") sounds = [pygame.mixer.Sound("wiff.wav"), pygame.mixer.Sound("punch.wav"), ] going = True while going: serial_data = ser.read() #print (repr(serial_data)) while serial_data: serial_buffer += serial_data # if there is a new line in it, then if "\r\n" in serial_buffer: #print (repr(serial_buffer)) evt = Event(SERIAL, {'line': serial_buffer}) pygame.event.post(evt) serial_buffer = "" serial_data = ser.read() events = pygame.event.get() for event in events: print (event) if event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_q: going = False if event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_b: screen.fill(Color("blue")) if event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_r: screen.fill(Color("red")) if event.type == SERIAL: # read the line from the serial event. print (repr(event.line)) # clean up, and do sanity checking. # It could be corrupt or garbage. line = event.line.replace("\r\n", "") line = line.replace("\n", "") line = line.replace("\r", "") # it could be empty. if line: val = int(line) if val < 1024 and val > 0: print (repr(val)) # map 0 and 1023 of analog read to # 0-255 colour colour range. green = int((val/float(1023))*255 ) screen.fill((0, green, 0)) if val < 100: sounds[0].play() if val > 300: sounds[1].play() pygame.display.flip() ser.close()
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Touchless UI with a Light Dependent Resistor, and the Arduino.
It can sense light, from which the Ardunio reads an analog signal and then drives a Servo Mototor.
Arduino Servo motor, and a Potentiometer
Arduino, Analogout fading LED.
Vietnamese style coffee.
Try and get the viet bean, and get it ground the way they do it too. It's usually a mild flavour... but with the sweetened condensed milk it can be very sweet. Plus you can make it on your desk! Mostly I don't drink it sweetened, but that's the way they mostly do it, so for this video I did that too :)
Here is a much better video on how to make Vietnamese style coffee... great song too!
Monday, April 08, 2013
LED, lumens and a multimeter
|LED lights with built in heatsink, and a multimeter.
Saturday, April 06, 2013
Reducing the number of concepts. To make teaching easier.
It contains just 50 different words: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.
A great beginners book, because it's a full story teaching a number of other concepts using a limited amount of words. It's a clever bootstrapping hack to language learning. Apart from all its cleverness, it's a fun & entertaining read too! :)
So you want to teach some newbies how to be l33t python pygame pr0grAmm3rs? Maybe Sam I am, and Green Eggs and Ham have something to teach us, the teachers?
Classes, packages, and even functions are hard to get right away. As in the first 10 minutes of teaching something to someone it's hard anyway. Some people may get your car metaphors, and your nonsense about Ducks quacking like ducks... but others will look at you blankly. Then that snotty nosed brat at the back of the class will start texting rude words about how you are a poo poo head, and it's GAME OVER.
However, there are two parts to these concepts. Creating them, and just using them.
Here is an example pygame program using functions, packages, and classes... but not creating them. This requires less knowledge to start doing something.
|Press r for red.
import pygame from pygame.locals import * pygame.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480)) message = "Press q to quit, b for blue, r for red." pygame.display.set_caption(message) going = True while going: events = pygame.event.get() for event in events: print (event) if event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_q: going = False if event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_b: screen.fill(Color("blue")) if event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_r: screen.fill(Color("red")) pygame.display.flip()
This displays quite a number of perhaps confusing concepts, but removes a few of the complex concepts.
|Watch ALL the events printed out!
Notice how there are no functions declared, no classes created, and no packages declared. There's also no "Reactor", or callbacks required for the events. It's just importing (which is boiler plate).
By reducing the set of concepts needed to understand the code you will have an easier job teaching it.
|Press b for blue!
(* I don't like Green Eggs and Ham. I don't like them here or there. I don't like them anywhere.)
q for quit.
Friday, April 05, 2013
Raspberry pygame
I finally managed to buy a raspberry pi.
Things have improved greatly with the software since I messed around with an alpha board 1 year and 7 months ago. Pygame is even on the desktop! Pretty cool :) I just wish they'd been in contact with the project so we could have made the experience better. Tried to reach out a few times with no luck.
But anyway... managed to get one finally. *happy dance*
|raspberry pygame
Improvements to the sound, OpenGL ES, camera, movie, python 3 version, are amongst
some of the things I see that can be improved so far.
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Amplification via a NPN bipolar transistor.
Unfortunately I couldn't get the schematic to draw properly. Some connections are missing or wrong. But that's ok, I'm not using it for anything serious :)
Behold some pretty screenshots!
|Schematic... slightly wrong.
|Bread board diagram made in Fritzing.
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Push the button!
The little Arduino makes the lights go on and off. Simply amazing ;)
Read a bunch of this book this morning whilst I lay in bed drinking coffee and laughing. Really enjoying the blend of wine critic style with the struggling writer buddy road trip genres. Was even reading it on the train on the way home... so engrossed I missed my stop!
I give it 7 stars. Out of 5.
Shelf painting
Roughly sanded, and now coated twice with grey. What remains is masking tape to get straight strong lines where the grey meets the pink.
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Italian white bean 'soup'
*Onion diced along with three bits of garlic smalled.
*In a pot with olive oil Browning.
*Then brown red capsicum (paprika) with about a cup of mushrooms(chunkily chopped).
*Fresh parsley and basil chopped up with a knife.
*Tomatoes 2 cups.
*White beans, cup of.
*Pesto, basil spoon of.
*Diluted half teaspoon of veggie stock in cup of water, add to pot.
*half hour later chop more flat leaf parsley.
*Serve in a bowl each with a spoon of sour cream.
pygame logo colour swatches
|colors/colours for pygame logo
Arduino blinking lights.
Working on an Arduino(micro controllers) project with a friend. Have to start somewhere... and that somewhere is programming the famous !


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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation is announced
Motivated by his growing concern for the inhumanity of slavery as well as practical political concerns, President Abraham Lincoln changes the course of the war and American history by issuing the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Announced a week after the nominal Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, this measure did not technically free any slaves, but it expanded the Union's war aim from reunification to include the abolition of slavery.
The proclamation announced that all slaves in territory that was still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be free. Lincoln used vacated congressional seats to determine the areas still in rebellion, as some parts of the South had already been recaptured and representatives returned to Congress under Union supervision. Since it freed slaves only in Rebel areas that were beyond Union occupation, the Emancipation Proclamation really freed no one. But the measure was still one of the most important acts in American history, as it meant slavery would end when those areas were recaptured. In addition, the proclamation effectively sabotaged Confederate attempts to secure recognition by foreign governments, especially Great Britain. When reunification was the goal of the North, foreigners could view the Confederates as freedom fighters being held against their will by the Union. But after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Southern cause was now viewed as the defense of slavery. The proclamation was a shrewd maneuver by Lincoln to brand the Confederate States as a slave nation and render foreign aid impossible.
The measure was met by a good deal of opposition, because many Northerners were unwilling to fight for the freedom of blacks. But it spelled the death knell for slavery, and it had the effect on British opinion that Lincoln had desired. Antislavery Britain could no longer recognize the Confederacy, and Union sentiment swelled in Britain. With this measure, Lincoln effectively isolated the Confederacy and killed the institution that was the root of sectional differences.


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- 2 jalapenos, thinly sliced rounds
- 3 tablespoons fresh cilantro leaves
- 4 tablespoons tequila (recommended ( Cabo Wabo Reposado)
- 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon red chili pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 2 limes, juice of
- 2 teaspoons salt, divided
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2 red bell peppers, roasted, skinned, seeded, julienne
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon granulated garlic
- 2 cups canola oil
- 4 kaiser rolls
- 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1⁄4 green cabbage, thinly sliced
- 1⁄4 red onion, thinly sliced
- 4 ounces provolone cheese, sliced
- In a medium mixing bowl add jalapenos, cilantro, tequila, garlic, red chili flakes, cumin, oregano, lime juice, and 1 teaspoon salt. Add the chicken breasts and red bell peppers to resealable gallon bag and pour in marinade. Let marinate in refrigerator for 4 to 8 hours.
- Heat grill to high. Remove chicken from marinade, and add chicken to the grill.
- In a small mixing bowl add flour, remaining 1 teaspoon salt and the granulated garlic.
- Heat the canola oil to 350 degrees F.
- Remove bell peppers from marinade and dredge in flour and fry until crispy. When done drain on paper towels.
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CAIRO, May 18 (UPI) -- Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa appears to be the man to beat in a crowded field as the country's presidential election approaches.
Most opinion polls show Moussa about 20 points ahead of his nearest challenger, National Public Radio reported. The 75-year-old Moussa, who served as secretary-general of the Arab League for 10 years after a decade in President Hosni Mubarak's government, is the oldest candidate of the 11 running for president and has the most government experience and the closest ties to the old regime.
Egyptians go to the polls Wednesday and Thursday. Expatriates have already cast their ballots.
While opponents say Moussa will bring back the corruption of the past if he wins, experts say his experience is an asset for much of the electorate.
"There are a lot of people who are very disturbed about what is happening in Egypt and remember, this was an urban uprising, not a rural one," Hisham Kassem, a publisher and political analyst, told Voice of America. "And, the rural vote is very pro-conservative, pro-stability, so I think these are his strong points."


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And You Wonder Why the Pac-12 Gets No Respect…Posted by Connor Pelton on November 21st, 2011
Adams State, Seattle Pacific, and Loyola Marymount. Oh yeah, don't forget about Cal Poly, Pepperdine, and Middle Tennessee. What do all of these teams have in common, you might be wondering? They have all posted early season wins over Pac-12 teams, causing much of the nation to already write off the conference as an elite power. People over here on the left coast love to point out "East Coast bias," referring to the lack of love that the Pac-12 gets in terms of both rankings, publicity, and respect. But can you blame them after some of these losses? As it stands today, the league is 24-15, with an astonishing 11 of those losses coming against teams from outside the six power conferences.
You could make a good argument that Arizona is the best team in the Pac-12, yet they lost to Division II Seattle Pacific in an exhibition game earlier in the season. Behind the Wildcats is California, who has not yet been tested this season. But after those two, what does the Pac-12 have to offer? Washington lost by 13 against Saint Louis and only defeated Florida Atlantic by six. Surely not UCLA, who in the midst of chemistry issues has fallen to LMU by 11 and MTSU by 20. God knows what will happen when they play at Chaminade tonight and against Pepperdine (who beat Arizona State) a week from today. It's reasons like these that people around the country stop paying attention to the Pac-12 in December, something that hurts the conference considerably on Selection Sunday.
Bad non-conference losses are nothing new to the Pac-12. Last year featured upsets like San Jose State and Idaho over Oregon, and Seattle University, Texas Southern, Utah Valley, and George Washington over Oregon State. In 2009-10 there were losses by the Beavers against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Sacramento State, Illinois-Chicago, Seattle (again, this time a 51-point defeat), and Boston U, while UCLA lost to teams like Cal State Fullerton, Portland (by 27), and Long Beach State. Read the rest of this entry »


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"G-Man Vol. 1: Learning to Fly" (Chris Giarrusso / Image Comics)Link
"G-Man Vol. 2: Cape Crisis" (Chris Giarrusso / Image Comics)Link
"G-Man Vol. 3: Coming Home" is due out next year. (Chris Giarrusso / Image Comics)Link
A page from Chris Giarrusso's "G-Man." (Image Comics)Link
Chris Giarrusso created the all-ages comic series "G-Man," about a boy whose cape gives him super powers. (Peow Yeong / From Chris Giarrusso)Link
Chris Giarrusso is the artist behind "Mini Marvels," which portrayed Marvel heroes as kids. (Marvel)Link
Chris Giarrusso puts his own spin on classic comic covers. (Jack Kirby / Marvel Comics; Chris Giarrusso)Link
Chris Giarrusso's comic characters might possess super powers, but they really have more in common with Charlie Brown and his "Peanuts" crew than the Man of Steel or the Caped Crusader. Giarrusso, whose previous titles include the adorable "Mini Marvels" and "The Amazing Adventures of Nate Banks," says his work is inspired by the classic newspaper cartoon strips he read growing up. His latest comic series features a pint-sized hero named G-Man, whose magic cape endows him with super strength and the power of flight. It's a bright, all-ages story that leaves out the violence endemic to the superhero genre at large and instead offers a glimpse into the everyday perils of growing up. Hero Complex caught up with Giarrusso to talk about "G-Man."
HC: How did G-Man come about? What inspired you to write this character and this comic?
CG: "G-Man" was the nickname my friends called me in high school, which was right around the time Image Comics was forming their new comic book company with brand new creator-owned superheroes. With all of those brand new characters being created, I was inspired to turn myself into a superhero, and soon I was sketching G-Man superhero designs in my school notebooks. Years later, when I had the opportunity to create my own comics professionally, I decided to modify and develop the ideas I had come up with in high school. G-Man and the characters in his world are heavily inspired by my experiences growing up, but with super powers added in.
HC: Why do you think kids are drawn to stories about super powers?
CG: It's no mystery — super powers are fun! It's fun to pretend and imagine "what if," and to read stories where fantastic things happen.
HC: Your comics remind me of the comics I read when I was a kid — "Casper" and "Richie Rich" and even "Peanuts." What inspires your artistic style?
CG: I'm influenced primarily by my brother and the newspaper humor comic strips that we grew up reading. My brother would draw a lot and copy the characters from the comic strips, and soon I was copying what my brother was doing. We read everything and tried to draw everything ("Garfield," "B.C.," "For Better or For Worse," "Heathcliff," "Marmaduke," "Dennis the Menace," "Beetle Bailey," etc.), but I became mostly obsessed with Charles Schulz's "Peanuts." Eventually I graduated to reading superhero comic books as well. Today, the stories I create in "G-Man" are very much a hybrid of the humor comic strips and the superhero comic books I was reading as a boy.
HC: "G-Man" seems very kid-friendly. Is that the audience you're aiming for?
CG: Initially, I wasn't aiming specifically at kids. Again, I just wanted to do the kinds of comics I grew up reading, which, at the time, were read by kids and adults. My parents read the funnies in the newspaper. There were always adults in the comic shop buying the same superhero comics I was reading. But today there seems to be a line drawn — it's either got to be for kids or for adults, but it can't be both. I still approach things the way I always have, writing for everybody, trying to make my friends and my brothers and my peers laugh, but with adult readers largely predisposed against the sort of comics I make, I'll absolutely embrace an audience of younger readers.
HC: Do you think comics are still a viable medium for children's entertainment?
CG: There's a big market for kids' comics, but for the most part, you won't see it in comic shops with all the middle-aged men. Kids get their comics in bookstores and libraries. "G-Man" is available in Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Some comic shops do carry "G-Man" and successfully market books to young readers, but most comic shops do not support my work.
HC: You've made a name for yourself drawing Mini Marvels. Do you prefer working with existing characters or creating new ones?
CG: I'm a huge fan of Marvel comics. I grew up reading Marvel comics. I loved working on "Mini Marvels." But I do enjoy creating my own new characters in "G-Man" even more.
HC: I love your Tribute Tuesday blog posts. How do you go about choosing covers and artists?
CG: Thanks. Mostly I just pick my favorite classic comic book covers for the Tribute Tuesday art. Naturally, most of them seem to be early Marvel covers drawn by the greatest comic book creator of all time, Jack Kirby.
HC: What do you have coming up?
CG: A new volume of "G-Man" will be coming out next year: "G-Man Vol. 3: Coming Home."
HC: Anything else you'd like to add?
CG: I'm currently drawing a weekly comic strip with writer Brad Guigar for the Emerald City Comic Con website, called "Tales From the Con." It's a lot of fun!
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July 07. 2013 7:54PM
Pembroke man found dead in Concord Sunday
CONCORD — Local and state police are investigating the death of a Pembroke man whose body was found in a wooded area in Concord Sunday.
On Sunday, state police from Troop D and Concord police were called to a wooded area off of Fort Eddy Road, near the 393 Bridge overpass, to investigate a report of a possible deceased male.
The man, identified as John Tonkin, 52, whose last known address was 738 Burough Road in Pembroke, according to police was living in a homeless camp and discovered unresponsive by his friends early Sunday morning.
The cause of the death has not been determined, and an autopsy is scheduled for this morning.
The man's death remains under investigation by Troop D, and anyone with information should contact Trooper Jones or the New Hampshire State Police at 223-4381.


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OSLO, Norway (AP) — Norway is celebrating the 150th anniversary of expressionist painter Edvard Munch's birth with postage stamps of his most famous compositions, including "The Scream" — the world's most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.
Norway Post spokesman Hilde Ebeltoft-Skaugrud says that four stamps of Munch's works, including his 1895 classic "Madonna," and a miniature sheet will go on sale Friday.
Ebeltoft-Skaugard said Wednesday that "The Scream" had not been on stamps before because it hadn't become synonymous "40 or 50 years ago" with Munch as it has done today.
Munch, who died in 1944, painted four versions of "The Scream." The one used for the 20-kroner ($3.60) stamp is at the National Museum in Oslo.
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Bekaii-Saab, MD
Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Medical Oncology
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University
Dr. Bekaii-Saab completed his undergraduate studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada followed by medical school at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. He then completed residencies and fellowships in hematology/oncology and clinical pharmacology at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis and Tufts University-New England Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Bekaii-Saab joined the faculty at The Ohio State University - The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital in 2002.
Dr. Bekaii-Saab's research is focused on drug development and experimental therapeutics with a special focus on pharmacogenetics. He specializes in gastrointestinal malignancies (including cancers of the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, biliary system as well small and large intestines) in his clinical practice. Dr. Bekaii-Saab holds a joint appointment in the departments of Medicine (Division of Hematology and Oncology) and Pharmacology, which supports his focus in developing clinical research studies.
Dr. Bekaii-Saab is the principal investigator on numerous clinical studies at The Ohio State University, including studies in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Bekaii-Saab also chairs two committees at The Ohio State University including the Gastrointestinal Oncology Disease Specific committee with the responsibility of developing research studies as related to those cancers, and the Hematology-Oncology formulary subcommittee. Dr. Bekaii-Saab is also the chair of the cancer pharmacogenetics focus group.


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Suffolk, ss. Division of Administrative Law Appeals
Thomas Younis,
v. Docket No. CR-07-743
Boston Retirement Board,
Appearance for Petitioner:
Elise A. Brassil, Esq.
300 Brickstone Square, Suite 201
Andover, MA 01810
Appearance for Respondent:
Edward McKenna, Esq.
66 N Street
Boston, MA 02127
Administrative Magistrate:
Sarah H. Luick, Esq.
Petitioner can purchase prior part-time non-membership service for the City of Boston that was subject to annual contracts although not done as an independent contractor, and performed during the same time he held membership in the same retirement system as a full-time teacher receiving full years of creditable service. Due to G.L. c. 32, § 4(1)(a), Petitioner cannot receive more than one year of creditable service per calendar year, but he can receive an additional full year of creditable service during one school year when he was on an unpaid leave of absence while performing this other work. Pursuant to 840 CMR 15.02(2), Petitioner must purchase the most recent prior service first.
Pursuant to G.L. c. 32, § 16(4), the Petitioner, Thomas Younis, is appealing the September 27, 2007 decision of the Respondent, Boston Retirement Board, denying his request to purchase prior City of Boston service for creditable service performed when he held membership in the retirement system due to his teaching job. (Ex. 2) The appeal was timely filed. (Ex. 1) A hearing was held December 3, 2008 at the offices of the Division of Administrative Law Appeals (DALA), 98 North Washington Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, pursuant to G.L. c. 7 § 4H.
Various documents are in evidence. (Exs. 1 - 9.) Two tapes were used. The Petitioner testified. Both parties filed pre-hearing memoranda. (Ex. A) The record was held open to December 22, 2008 for the Petitioner to secure copies of the contracts that covered the work in question along with any paystubs, W-2 Forms, or 1099 Forms he received. No further documents were received from Petitioner. The record was also held open for Respondent to provide any rule or policy during the time period at issue on creditable service for prior non-membership part-time, intermittent, seasonal, or temporary service performed by a person who held Boston Retirement System membership at the time. (Ex. B) Petitioner initially responded in writing simply stating that contract employees performed non-membership service. The record was again held open for Respondent to explain whether it had the creditable service rule or regulation being sought. (Ex. B) Respondent answered in writing that there was no such rule or regulation during the time period at issue. Respondent's two responses are in evidence as Exhibit 9. The record closed March 16, 2009.
1. Thomas Younis began teaching in the Boston Public Schools in 1975, and had to work until sometime in 1976 before he gained entry into the Boston Retirement System. Thereafter, he has held full-time Boston teacher positions, all subject to collective bargaining agreements with his salaries always subject to retirement system deductions. He has received one year of full-time creditable service for each school year he taught. For about the last eight years, he has held the assignment of Community Connection Facilitator working with special needs students to transition them from high school to work or into the care of other agencies. (Testimony)
2. In his current assignment, Mr. Younis is required to work an additional eighteen days which lengthens his school year beyond the required number of school days. His pay for this extra work has been subject to retirement system deductions. (Testimony)
3. Mr. Younis was on an unpaid leave of absence from his teaching job for the 1985-1986 school year to care for his ailing mother. That is the only time he has had a leave of absence or a break in his teaching work, and when he did not receive a full year of creditable service. (Ex. 2. Testimony.)
4. From 1974 to 1996, Mr. Younis worked at least twenty hours a week for Camp Joy, a program run by the City of Boston. Until he became Co-Director of Camp Joy, he only worked during the summer months and without an employment contract. (Exs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7 & 8. Testimony.)
5. Camp Joy is a recreational program for special needs children and young adults. Camp Joy started around the mid-1940's within the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. At some point during the time Mr. Younis worked for Camp Joy, the program was transferred to the Community Centers for Families and Youth Department within the City of Boston. (Ex. 8. Testimony.)
6. From July 1, 1984 as Co-Director, Mr. Younis had "responsibility for overseeing a staff of 100+." Other duties included working on the Camp Joy budgets, "developing and evaluating full year recreation programs, evaluating and supervising staff, coordinating special events, and serving as a liaison with other City Departments." He was involved in interviewing and hiring staff for Camp Joy. He worked during the year, evenings and weekends as well as the summer months. Camp Joy operated "at various City of Boston sites," and its offices were in the Community Centers for Families and Youth. His hours were flexible as Co-Director. (Exs. 4, 6 & 8. Testimony.)
7. The City of Boston provided all equipment and supplies Mr. Younis used while working for Camp Joy. The Camp Joy program determined his specific duties. He was always managed in his work by City of Boston employees. He did not work as an outside consultant, vendor or independent contractor at any time he worked for Camp Joy. (Testimony)
8. From July 1, 1984, Mr. Younis's work at Camp Joy was subject to an annual employment contract with the City of Boston. These annual contracts ran from July 1st through June 30th. He earned annual wages under each contract of $17,600 at $338.46 per week until the July 1, 1995 through June 30, 1996 contract when he earned $14,000 at $269.23 per week. (Exs. 4 & 6.)
9. The City of Boston used these annual contracts to hire employees of Camp Joy at Mr. Younis's level, so that they could not gain membership in the Boston Retirement System. The contracts were the type used when the City contracted with vendors or independent contractors. The contracts contained a term that the work was not subject to either retirement system deductions or any job benefits. Starting in 1990, the City of Boston enrolled him in its deferred compensation plan in connection with his Camp Joy service. (Exs. 3, 4, 5, 6 & 9. Testimony.)
10. Mr. Younis made an inquiry to the Boston Retirement Board in and around 1995 to learn whether or not he could gain creditable service for his Camp Joy work. On February 20, 1996, the Executive Officer of the Boston Retirement Board, Michael Travaglini, responded in writing to Mr. Younis as follows:
Information obtained from the City Auditor's office indicates that you were
paid through a standard City contract for your Camp Joy service. Included
in the terms of that contract is language which makes it clear that you did not
have "the status or pension rights" of an employee of the City of Boston. Moreover, beginning in 1990, the City enrolled you in its deferred compensation plan, which is further evidence that your Camp Joy service was not covered under the Boston Retirement System. Consequently, you are not entitled to receive retirement credit for compensation you received as Co-Director of Camp Joy. If this office can provide any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us ….(Ex. 5) The response did not acknowledge that he held Boston Retirement System membership for most of the time he worked at Camp Joy. No right to appeal this determination was included in the letter. Nothing in the letter refers to an application for creditable service filed by Mr. Younis the letter is addressing, and the letter does not instruct him to file such an application to gain a final decision on his request from the Board. (Ex. 5. Testimony.)
11. At some point after receiving the February 20, 1996 letter, Mr. Younis spoke to his union representative about the information in the letter. He understood that his union felt he could not prevail if he appealed. Since he was not intending to retire at and around that time, Mr. Younis made no further inquiries. (Testimony)
12. By letter of January 19, 2005, Mr. Younis, through his counsel, wrote to the Boston Retirement Board seeking "a statement of … [his] earned time toward his retirement as a result of his employ with the City of Boston's Camp Joy for the ten year period between 1985 and present … [when he] served as the co-director of the Camp Joy program under Boston Community Centers." No response was received. (Ex. 7. Testimony.)
13. By letter of May 21, 2007, Mr. Younis, through his counsel, wrote to the Boston Retirement Board for this statement of creditable service for his work at Camp Joy. In the letter Mr. Younis stated he received W-2 Forms, and that the City of Boston controlled his Camp Joy employment, including providing "all his supplies, set his hours, and mandated how he performed his duties." Mr. Younis denied he was an independent contractor while working for Camp Joy. The letter referenced the January 19, 2005 request letter to the Board, and noted how no response to it had been received. The letter noted that "Mr. Younis is contemplating retirement and would like this response within a reasonable time frame … no later than Friday, June 8, 2007?" (Ex. 3)
14. By letter of September 27, 2007, the Boston Retirement Board responded to Mr. Younis's May 21, 2007 request, noting that the letter was also responding to a "brief meeting held recently in our offices regarding the ability … to purchase the employment service that he has rendered in the past to Camp Joy, which occurred in addition to concurrent full time employment service that he provided to the Boston School Department." The Board explained that Mr. Younis's Camp Joy service cannot be subject to any retirement credit since it was worked "as a contract employee and as such outside of the parameters for eligibility in this retirement system." The Board noted how he had been "credited with the full amount of creditable service available to him for the years that he has worked since his membership in this system began in 1976," due to his full time teaching for the Boston Public Schools during the same time period at issue concerning his work for Camp Joy. The Board noted that "even if Mr. Younis were able to contribute into the retirement system for his service with Camp Joy, he would not see an appreciable gain to the amount of creditable service that he has already established." The letter contained a reference to G.L. c. 32, § 16(4) and a right to appeal this Board decision, including where to file it and noting how it had to be filed within fifteen days of receiving it. (Ex. 2)
15. In response, Mr. Younis filed a timely appeal in writing on October 10, 2007. (Ex. 1)
Mr. Younis has timely appealed the denial decision of the Boston Retirement Board to provide him with creditable service for his work at Camp Joy. The first time he received a decision letter with information that this was a final Board decision was by the Board's letter of September 27, 2007. Until that time, the Mr. Younis's efforts to get a clear and final response from the Boston Retirement Board on his request for creditable service for the Camp Joy work were never successful. Although the Board produced a letter in 1996 informing him that because he had performed that work as a contract employee the work was not eligible for membership, the letter does not provide a final determination on Mr. Younis's inquiry about whether he could gain not retroactive membership but creditable service for the Camp Joy work. The letter does not acknowledge the key fact that Mr. Younis already was a member of the Boston Retirement System when he performed the Camp Joy work. In addition, the letter concludes by offering to continue to discuss the matter with him. No evidence shows this 1996 letter was addressing the merits of an application for creditable service that Mr. Younis had filed. The Board failed to provide sufficient proof that the purpose of its letter was to serve as a final decision on Mr. Younis's request for creditable service to have triggered a need for Mr. Younis to have filed an appeal with CRAB. In regard to his 2005 request letter to the Board, the Board never provided Mr. Younis with any response to it.
I do not conclude that Mr. Younis had an obligation to appeal either the Board's 1996 letter or the inaction of the Board on his 2005 request. Based on this course of events, and the fact that he timely filed an appeal of the September 27, 2007 decision letter that contained clear information that demonstrated it was a final Board decision on his request, I conclude the appeal is proper to address and was timely filed on October 10, 2007.
Being eligible to do a buy-back for creditable service and being eligible for
membership are not the same thing. Manning v. CRAB, 29 Mass. App. Ct. 253, 255-256 (1990) ("An entitlement to 'creditable service,' … does not create retroactive membership."). An employee who is paid by a city for services that carry out the work of the city, may not be eligible for membership because his job is temporary, provisional, seasonal, intermittent, or part-time. Because of the temporary, etc., nature of the work, according to G.L. c. 32, § 3(2)(d), a local board has authority to determine whether such an employee can gain membership in the retirement system once the board determines that he has become regularly employed in that job. In Manning v. CRAB, 29 Mass. App. Ct. 253 (1990), a member's prior state paid service of summer work as a lifeguard was found to have been properly excluded from being membership service pursuant to Section 3(2)(d), and no retroactive membership back to that time period could occur. But, the member was able to purchase that prior non-membership service for creditable service. Once membership is established, as it was for Mr. Younis by 1976 and continuing during the time at issue when he worked for Camp Joy, he has the right to purchase the Camp Joy service for creditable service. This is his right so long as this service was City of Boston employment for which he received regular compensation, and so long as it was not work performed as an independent contractor. See, Crowley v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Bd., 2008 WL 4754841, 4 (Mass.App.Ct. 2008)(Unpublished decision pursuant to Rule 1:28).
The record shows Mr. Younis worked during the time period at issue, two separate jobs for the City of Boston for two distinct City Departments. His teaching work was performed for the Boston Public Schools subject to terms and conditions in a union contract. His part-time work as Co-Director for Camp Joy from 1985-1996 for Camp Joy, was always performed for a City Department. He was hired each year by the City through an annual non-union contract. The records kept by the City of Boston on his Camp Joy employment show Mr. Younis received weekly wages and an annual set salary directly from the City for doing this work. By the terms of these annual contracts no Boston Retirement System deductions were taken from these wages. The contracts never provided him with any job benefits.
The Boston Retirement Board contends that Mr. Younis was not hired as a regular City employee when he worked for Camp Joy, but as a vendor or independent contractor due to the kind of contract the City used to hire him. The basic contract he had was not unique to Mr. Younis's employment with Camp Joy, but was a contract form used when the City wanted to ensure the work done would not be membership service. See, Moynihan v. Methuen Retirement Bd., CR-99-606 (CRAB 2001) (position paid by federal funds through annual appointments with no employment contract with pay earned per diem without basic job benefits, was a non-membership work even though it was performed for full-time hours).
Despite performing part-time work through annual contracts, I conclude that Mr. Younis was regularly employed in this job. He worked year round at least twenty hours a week as Co-Director. Each week he earned a consistent wage paid by the City under the terms of his annual contract. Although none of the annual contracts or paystubs and no W-2 Forms or 1099 Forms were produced, no evidence shows Mr. Younis had to submit invoices to receive his wages. I credit his testimony that his employment with Camp Joy was neither sporadic or intermittent, and was regular and continual throughout each year. Although not defined in G.L. Chapter 32, what it means to be regularly employed was discussed in Concord v. Colleran, 34 Mass. App. Ct. 486, 489 (1993). Mr. Colleran worked part-time for three hours a day. He was found to be regularly employed. The Appeals Court explained that being regularly employed according to its usual meaning connotes "continuous employment as distinguished from sporadic, intermittent, or temporary employment." In contrast, in Burnside v. Bristol Cty. Bd. of Retirement, 352 Mass. 481, 484 (1967), Deputy Sheriff Burnside was not found to be regularly employed. He was paid on a per diem basis, and during the time period he performed the particular work, his pay varied based on between fifty-two and one hundred fifty days per year. See also, Nardi v. Hampton Cty. Retirement Bd., CR-91-1367 (DALA 1993) (auxiliary police work performed without retirement system membership for about eighty hours per year and worked prior to a permanent police officer appointment was not being regularly employed to permit retroactive membership back to the start of the auxiliary police work).
I further conclude that Mr. Younis was not a vendor or independent contractor
while he performed this work. Everything about his work for Camp Joy was controlled and directed by the City Department that ran this program. Camp Joy had been operating as a recreation program for special needs children and young adults from about the mid-1940's. It was not independently operated by some outside organization or company who was hiring Mr. Younis. Mr. Younis was not hired as a consultant based on an independent occupation or business he operated. He used City supplies and equipment on tasks the City assigned him, including work on City budget matters for Camp Joy. He engaged in the hiring process for Camp Joy. This is what he credibly testified were his duties and working conditions. His account was consistent with what his immediate supervisor and co-worker wrote in a statement about Mr. Younis's employment with Camp Joy. (Ex. 8) I conclude that he was regularly employed as an employee of the City of Boston receiving regular compensation in satisfaction of the G.L. c. 32, § 1 definitions for employee, political subdivision, and regular compensation.
The record shows that the Boston Retirement Board had no rule or regulation during the time period at issue on how much creditable service could be obtained by existing members performing part-time work not subject to membership. (Ex. 9) Therefore, G.L. c. 32, § 4(1)(a) is controlling on the amount of creditable service Mr. Younis can receive for his Camp Joy work. It calls for the member-in-service of a local retirement system to receive all the creditable service he is entitled to upon becoming a member of the retirement system, although no member can earn more than one year of creditable service per calendar year. In Gallagher v. CRAB, 4 Mass. App. Ct. 1, 11 (1964), the creditable service Mr. Gallagher received for the purchase of his prior non-membership part-time service could not be prorated because the local retirement board had no creditable service rule promulgated pursuant to G.L. c. 32, § 4(2)(b). Likewise, Mr. Younis's creditable service for the Camp Joy work cannot be prorated.
Against this background, Mr. Younis's request for creditable service for the
years of his Camp Joy service between 1984-1996, can be allowed, but with significant restrictions.
Because of G.L. c. 32, § 4(1)(a), Mr. Younis can only receive one year of creditable service per calendar year. Due to his teaching service, he already received full years of creditable service for each of the years in question, 1984-1996, other than for the one school year he was on an approved leave of absence without pay, 1985-1986. As to that time period, by purchasing his Camp Joy work, he can make up for that lack of creditable service, and secure a full year of creditable service. If he chooses to purchase the Camp Joy service, he can add the salaries he received for his Camp Joy work from the July 1, 1984 - June 30, 1996 annual contracts to his teaching salaries during the same years. When he seeks to retire, if for any reason such prior service years would include his three highest years of regular compensation, making this creditable service purchase could make sense as those salaries would be used in calculating his retirement allowance.
Unfortunately for Mr. Younis, if he seeks to do this purchase of his prior Camp
Joy service, he must start by purchasing his latest Camp Joy service and make his way back in time. He cannot simply decide to purchase the time he was out on the approved leave of absence from his teaching position. This is because of the regulation of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (PERAC) found at 840 CMR 15.02(2). In pertinent part it states:
[T]o purchase creditable service for periods of non-membership employment …
[t]he member may purchase less than all non-membership service available for
purchase; provided, however, that in such event the member must purchase the
most recent time first.
That would mean for Mr. Younis, starting the purchase with the time period ending June 30, 1996 and purchasing his service back to the July 1, 1985-June 30, 1986 annual contract to gain his missing full year of creditable service.
Based on the foregoing determinations, the decision of the Boston Retirement Board is rescinded. Mr. Younis is eligible to purchase his prior service with Camp Joy, done while he was a member-in-service of the Boston Retirement System, so long as he starts purchasing his most recent Camp Joy service, and so long as he does not receive additional creditable service time during the years when he received full years of creditable service due to his full-time teacher work.
/s/ Sarah H. Luick, Esq.
Administrative Magistrate
DATED: June 16, 2009


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The movie addresses timely issues but eschews shading in favor of blunt black and white. It's old-school Lifetime fodder dressed up in Hollywood trappings.
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While there are moments where this drama, about a pair of mothers hellbent on improving their children's education, is compelling and deeply moving, the film gets mired in heavy-handed cliches.
Won't Back Down says that whatever your feelings about the subject, lack of change cannot be the answer to our public-education crisis. Trying to cram an informational exposé and a vintage inspirational awards-bait weeper into one movie, Won't Back Down is awkward at times, yet it's also passionate in a surprisingly smart way. It makes a genuine drama out of impossible issues.
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Inspiring tale of a mom's quest to better her kid's school.
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Parents need to know that Won't Back Down, which is based on actual events, follows a mother's journey to turn her daughter's failing elementary school around. There's some insulting language ("idiot," "retard," as well as "ass") and bullying -- a teacher does nothing as a student rips another student's backpack, and the same teacher purposely keeps a kid from leaving class to use the bathroom. Jamie, the protagonist mom, wears tight clothes and flirts with pretty much everyone -- culminating in a romantic relationship with a teacher at her child's school. Adults drink at a bar and restaurant, but there's no drunkenness. Parents and kids will be reminded of the difference that just one or two people can make in a community.
Messages: Plenty of positive messages in this feel-good drama, particularly that all it takes is one or two people to galvanize a community and enact change. Jamie and Nona have nothing in common when the movie starts, but against all odds they join together to help create a better school, even though that means exposing themselves to gossip and ridicule. Pro-union families should know that the depiction of the teachers' union is negative, even though a teacher explains all the good the union does as well.
Role models: Jamie will stop at nothing to help secure a better education for her daughter. Even though she isn't that educated herself, she has a fiery spirit and refuses to back down even in the face of overwhelming bureaucracy. Nona joins Jamie's mission and in the process becomes a better teacher.
Violence: Not necessarily violent, but very upsetting: A teacher purposely keeps a student from going to the bathroom, so she has an accident in front of the class.
Sex: Jamie dresses suggestively (tight jeans, midriff-baring tops) and basically seduces a teacher who becomes her boyfriend. There's kissing, and it's clear he spends the night at her house, but there aren't any love scenes.
Language: Insulting language such as "stupid," "idiot," "retard," "slow," "sucks," "dumb," "uneducated." One or two uses of "ass" and "Jesus" (as an exclamation).
Consumerism: Malia has a Le Sportsac backpack that her mother says cost a fortune, and Jamie buys Dunkin Donuts coffee.
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Uefa have opened disciplinary proceedings against Tottenham and Lazio relating to incidents during the two side's Europa League clash in Rome last November.
Lazio fans appeared to have mocked the visitors' tradition Jewish support with anti-Semitic chants during the match, while Tottenham's supporters were reportedly involved in separate crowd disturbances in and around the ground.
A statement from Uefa reads: "Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against S.S. Lazio. Charges relate to the alleged racist behaviour of Lazio supporters during the Italian club's 0-0 Uefa Europa League Group J draw against Tottenham Hotspur FC in Rome on 22 November 2012.
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'Kony 2012′ and the 5 Craziest Social Movements in Recent History
Have you seen Kony 2012 yet? Of course, you have. As of yesterday, Invisible Children's short film—which focuses on the Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army, and their reign of terror in Uganda that involves using children as prostitutes and soldiers—has been seen by 100 million people on YouTube and Vimeo and is believed to be the fastest-spreading viral video of all-time. It took just six days to reach the 100 million mark and, in that time, it picked up the support of celebrities like Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Christina Milian, Kim Kardashian, and Bill Gates. And while some of the content of the actual film have been criticized in recent days—for instance, some people have pointed out that Kony and the LRA haven't been present in Uganda for more than five years now—the film does show just how powerful social media and the Internet can be today when it comes to launching a social movement.
Kony 2012 may be the most recent example of how social media helped jump-start a social movement. But it's not the only good example of how it can happen. To celebrate the power of Kony 2012—say what you want about it, 100 million views in six days is unbelievable—we decided to put together a list of five other recent social movements that used social media to make history. Whether you took part in them or not, there's no denying that these movements were powerful and proved just how important the Internet can be when it comes to changing the world. They reinforce the fact that things like Kony 2012 represent the new way of the world and provide a blueprint for launching a successful social movement. Check them out.—Chris Yuscavage


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I propose making a few alterations.
1. Move the "search within" popup menus up to the same level as the "search for". It's a very logical place for them and reads quite well as English: "Search for Words or Verses within every [Verse|Chapter|etc] of [range].
2. remove the word "History" and move it's contents into a search popup icon menu (see image #2) in the search entry window, as is done in Safari. Pull up Safari and look at the Google search pane, to see exactly how it works. It retains all the desired functionality, removes screen clutter, and requires less mouse travel.
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3. Move all the search results entities into the space immediately below the search entry field as show in image #2. With these changes, the top search entry pane uses 33% less vertical screen space. On my PowerBook, that's quite signficant and means I can see that much more scripture.
4. Currently, if you squish the accordance window down to a very narrow horizontal layout, many of the search interface elements disappear, including the "Search for Words or Verses" radio buttons. That means you have to stretch the window out, execute the search, and then scrunch it back down. That's not exactly ideal.
Instead of dropping interface elements into the bit bucket, when the horizontal space doesn't allow enough room for them to display, move them into a popup menu so they are still accessible. In image #3 below, the next interface element to move to the menu should be the bible version you are searching. That way, the most commonly used element (words or verses) is fully visible.
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With this change, you would click on them funny looking gray things and there are all the search and result options that can't fit in the horizontal screen space.
5. The instant details window. It's great, but I can never quite find the right spot for it on my PowerBook screen. If it's at the bottom of the screen, it needs to be large enough to show three lines of text, and wide enough to fit the longest line. This is mandatory, because if you happen to make it too narrow, the results are truncated. If it's too short (vertically), you'll never see the extra lines of text. Worse still, you won't even know they were there as there are no visual cues to inform of you this. At the very least, something should appear that lets the user know more results are available if they resize the window.
I think that instead of having instant results appear in a static window, it would be much nicer to have them displayed on a translucent layer. I'd prefer it immediately below the cursor and pointing to the hot spot, similar to how Apple's Dictionary.app works. For an example, see image #4 or pull up TextEdit and type in a few words. Hold down Command-Control-D and mouse over a word.
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6. Speaking of Dictionary.app, it sure would be nice if the dictionary service provided with Tiger worked in Accordance.
So, now that I've risen a number of rungs up the "how to annoy a programmer" ladder, by critiquing his baby, is there anyone else that thinks these ideas have merit?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Georgia's new government Thursday not to engage in political prosecutions of former government officials.
She also sharply criticized Ukraine's October elections and expressed concern about selective prosecution of opposition leaders there.
Clinton's warnings were aimed at two countries that were once seen as the bright spots of emerging democracy in the former Soviet sphere.
Despite her comments on Georgian prosecutions, Clinton praised the country's own parliamentary elections in October and the peaceful transition of power. She was speaking as she welcomed Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze ahead of a State Department meeting.
"We do hope that everything that is done with respect to prosecuting any potential wrongdoers is done transparently in accord with due process and the rule of law," she said.
The warning followed a pledge by new Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili to investigate allies of President Mikhail Saakashvili. Ivanishvili's coalition defeated a government led by Saakashvili in elections in October.
Several officials have already been arrested and face charges ranging from illegal imprisonment to wiretapping of Saakashvili's opponents.
Clinton's criticism of Ukraine came later in a speech on Europe at the Brookings Institution.
"Ukraine's October elections were a step backwards for democracy and we remain deeply concerned about the selective prosecution of opposition leaders," Clinton said.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's party won a majority in the parliamentary elections, but Western observers have deemed them unfair. Opposition parties, including that of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, have refused to recognize the results and plan to contest them.
Tymoshenko was jailed last year on charges of abusing her office. The West has condemned the imprisonment as politically motivated. The European Union has put on hold a key cooperation deal with Kiev over Tymoshenko's jailing.
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