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This brief experiment in definitional tinkering may not have produced a new definition of tinkering, but it has certainly given me some new ideas. And the experiment doesn't seem over: I'm particularly mindful of today's fresh interpretation of tinkering that underscores the value of collaboration and learning from others. So how would you define tinkering?
Nice joint you have here! I think you pulled out a great deal of what amounts to tinkering. I might add: thinking with fingers and stuff communication with materials
Also very worth emphasizing is the iterative nature of tinkering and how it builds a sense of a material's or system's capabilities and potential. In my experience early tinkering seems to be about the starting goods/ ingredients… just poking a probing and considering and watching removed from any agenda/design problem. While late stage tinkering is when I start folding in other, external things I know like: What glues might work on this material or Where I can work in clothespins – (one of my go to ingredients) How could I store it Where else (new) might it come in handy etc..
Thanks for the comment! I love the phrase, tinkering with fingers and stuff. And I totally agree about the iterative nature of tinkering. I like your thoughts about early and late stage tinkering. It does seem like there's an importnat difference there. Your comment also makes me think about what a capacious concept tinkering is, in terms of the range of drivers of the behavior. For example, as you point out, you can tinker in a sense aimlessly with a pile of provocative materials. But you can also tinker with a very clear goal in mind, such as when you're tinkering with something in order to fix it or make it work better.
"THINKING with fingers and stuff." I should have said "concrete thinking with fingers and stuff" I'm glad i came back… I have a larger point to make so I'll start another comment.
I thought that Nassim Taleb in his Google Talk ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3REdLZ8Xis ) provided a pretty relevant definition of Tinkering (in the context of his theory of anti fragility) – I thought this was relevant not only for creativity, but also for new paradigm of learning- more bottom up, more experiential.
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Still no winner in District 29 House race; recount looms
ORLANDO, Fla. —
The District 29 House race still has no clear winner.
The votes are being sent to state officials Friday for a recount.
Democrat Mike Clelland is still leading the race. Provisional ballots have been counted, putting Clelland 122 votes ahead of Republican Chris Dorworth.
On Election Night, Clelland was up by only 37 votes.
The Canvassing Board spent 9 hours counting the remaining ballots.
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No. 3 Ohio State held on for a 42-41 victory Saturday in one the most thrilling games in the history of the storied Big Ten rivalry.
On a day when Ohio State's defense didn't know what to expect from Michigan's offense or who to expect it from, they had the answer when it mattered most. Redshirt freshman Tyvis Powell felt like the smartest kid in the classroom who knew the answer to a one-question pass-or-fail exam.
Michigan head coach Brady Hoke, whose team had nothing to lose by going for a game-winning 2-point conversion, gambled. He asked his seniors if they wanted to go for a 2-point conversion that would have ruined Ohio State's unbeaten streak and national title hopes. It would have sent Michigan's senior class out in a memorable way.
They said yes.
It was a big gamble.
The Buckeyes knew the play Michigan was about to run and Powell, the unlikeliest of Ohio State heroes, jumped the route and picked off a Devin Gardner pass to preserve the Buckeyes' nail-gnawing 42-41 win over the Wolverines.
It was the biggest play of Powell's life in a game that would have gone down as one of the biggest upsets in the storied series' history.
Powell didn't realize how big his play was until about a half hour after the game.
"That's when it hit me. That was our season on the line," Powell said. "We had 12-0, the gold pants, a chance for the national championship. It just hit me (in the shower). I kind of saved the season. It's all thanks to coach (Kerry) Coombs."
Ohio State's cornerbacks coach pulled his defensive backs together and told Powell Michigan likes to run two plays in this situation. It was either going to be a speed option run with Gardner, or Michigan would motion a third receiver into a stacked set and try to run a pick play.
The problem was OSU didn't let Michigan receivers get off the line cleanly, and Powell jumped the short route by receiver Drew Dileo. Gardner's pass looked more intended for Powell than his own man.
Kind of ironic that Ohio State's defense saved the win. It was the defense that got them in the hole most of the afternoon.
Michigan gained 603 yards, the most ever allowed by OSU in this game. The previous record was 531 in 1943. By the same token, OSU's 512 yards of offense were the most Michigan has given up to the Buckeyes.
"They didn't let up at all," OSU quarterback Braxton Miller said. "The record they had (four losses) didn't faze them at all. They came out to play."
Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer lamented his defense's struggles against the pass. It was an issue earlier in the year that Meyer hoped was solved.
Gardner played arguably the best game of his career. He completed 32 of 45 passes for 451 yards and four touchdowns. However, OSU sacked Gardner four times and he wore a walking boot on his left foot at the postgame press conference.
"I threw an interception to lose the game. What else can I say?" Gardner said.
"We play the game to win," Hoke said.
Both offenses did. It was thought Michigan wouldn't be able to win a shootout against third-ranked Ohio State.
Michigan scored its first touchdown on a 99-yard drive, just the sixth one in team history. Most of that came on an 84-yard throw-back screen pass — the Wolverines gashed the Buckeyes three times with the same play during the game — to Jeremy Gallon. Gardner finished it with an option keeper.
But Buckeye receiver Devin Smith ran past Michigan safety Josh Furman on a third-and-10 play from the OSU 47. Miller, who completed just six passes all afternoon, connected for a 53-yard touchdown to tie it at 7.
The Wolverines answered when Fitz Toussaint took an option pitch from the 4 for a 14-7 Michigan lead. It was just the second time OSU trailed in the first quarter this season.
An ugly melee broke out early in the second quarter when Buckeye freshman Dontre Wilson returned a kick. Wilson was surrounded by eight Wolverines and had his helmet pulled off. The freshman threw a punch and offensive lineman Marcus Hall ran on the field from the sideline to help. Hall, Wilson and Michigan's Royce Jenkins-Stone were all ejected.
The teams went in tied at 21 at halftime.
"We didn't play our style of football," said tight end Jeff Heuerman, whose third-quarter 22-yard TD pass gave OSU a 35-21 lead. "We were jawing too much and talking too much. We're a hard-nosed football team. We keep our mouths shut and run the ball."
That's how Ohio State built a two-possession lead late in the third quarter. Running back Carlos Hyde, the Big Ten's leading rusher, took over. He finished with 226 yards on 27 carries.
"We knew it was going to be tough," Hyde said.
Early in the fourth, Gardner kept a play alive with his feet, and found Dileo open for an easy TD to cut OSU's lead to 35-28. Then Hyde fumbled two plays later and Michigan had the ball at the Buckeye 41.
"I was real disappointed with the fumble," Meyer said. "I warned him a couple time he was getting loose with the ball."
Michigan tied the game at 35 with 5:29 left in the game.
Hyde took over again. But on the first play, Miller faked a reverse to Corey Brown then carried around left end for 32 yards to the Michigan 33. Five plays later, Hyde nearly ran over Miller on a handoff and walked into the end zone for a 42-35 lead with 2:41 left.
Meyer thought about kneeling on the ball to eat some clock.
Might've been a good idea.
Michigan kept throwing the ball and Gardner, who had struggled mightily coming in, looked better than ever. Devin Funchess caught a short pass over Bradley Roby with 32 seconds left in the game.
Hoke went for the win.
The Buckeyes talked it over during a timeout.
"Everyone knew this was going to be good," said Powell, still smiling, still floating on cloud nine. "If I have kids, I'm gonna turn it on and say watch this."
It was the day Tyvis Powell saved the season, and extended Ohio State's winning streak to 24 games. It was Meyer's second straight win against Michigan.
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It was hard to get very excited about global warming this winter. Despite record warm temperatures in the East and a steady diet of dire reports from scientists, here in western Colorado the snow and cold started in October and kept up through February, without so much as a hint of a January thaw. "We haven't had a winter like this in years" was the comment heard most often at the post office or the hardware store.
But then came March. The winds turned to the southwest, and the snow marched rapidly back up the mountains, leaving behind green fields and a rapidly rising, chocolate-brown river. On March 8, a Say's phoebe showed up at my house, insistently calling from a fencepost in between acrobatic forays for early-hatched insects. By mid-month, fruit trees began to bloom, weeks earlier than usual. Winter had shrunk.
Water forecasters, who sounded so optimistic just a few weeks ago, are now speaking in subdued tones. Statewide, the water content of the snowpack went from a better-than-average year at the beginning of March to just 76 percent of average by month's end. Twenty percent of Colorado's snowpack usually comes in March, but this year not a flake was added, says Mike Gillespie, snow survey supervisor for the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service. Barring a last-minute flurry of April storms, the date for peak snowpack water content may have been March 12, the earliest peak ever recorded, he says.
The news is even worse in the Southwest, which has endured more than a decade of low water years. Researchers in Southern California are fretting about the perfect drought taking shape, with a Sierra snowpack at its lowest point in two decades, little rainfall, and a Colorado River system still mired in a historic drought. That same Colorado River is also the water cushion for the ever-expanding suburban kingdom of Phoenix, the subject of this issue's cover story. The metropolis' local water source — the Salt River — is projected to flow at just 45 percent of normal over the next three months; other rivers in the state have been depleted to single-digit percentages of ordinary flows.
In the end, this winter conforms closely with the global warming scenarios for the West predicted by climatologists: less snowpack, early runoff and periods of long-term drought. But how worried should we be? One winter does not, of course, a trend make, and Westerners won't go thirsty this year; for now, the region's reservoirs provide more than enough water to get by. But as the region continues to grow, and if winter snowpacks continue to fall short, the water cushion will become ever thinner, raising new doubts about the long-term prospects of our latest settlements.
The archaeologists who, shortly before the bulldozers and cement trucks come, peer beneath the dirt of our cities at the boom-and-bust patterns left by older civilizations know the impact of environmental change in their bones. For them, as writer Craig Childs notes in this issue, the central question is not whether we can outfox Mother Nature, but rather, for how long. What's more surprising — and heartening — is the candor with which a clear-eyed hydrologist working for the Salt River Project, a major water and electric utility and a local political power, talks about the sustainability of Phoenix. Charlie Ester tells Childs that the plans the city has made to cope with a seven-year drought are inadequate for a drought that could last decades. "There is no civilization without water. If it does not rain every year, and reservoirs go dry, and there is nothing to pump, we're moving."
One can only hope that such water realism trickles down to the bankers, developers, politicians and sun-loving retirees who see no end in sight for a desert city that grew as a refuge from winter, but may shrivel entirely if winter continues to shrink.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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Officials say law governing bingo 'consultants' needs workBy SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
March 08. 2014 11:20PM
Charity bingo games have been around for decades, and dozens of groups depend on the revenue they raise for their programs and missions.
But while state law mandates that charities get 35 percent of gross revenues (after prizes) when they sponsor casino-style games of chance, there's no such requirement for bingo games and the popular "lucky 7" tickets sold at those games.
According to records from the New Hampshire Racing and Charitable Gaming Commission (RCGC), some bingo "consultants" earn tens of thousands of dollars a year in fees for helping charities with their games.
Charities last year netted anywhere from 31 percent to 100 percent of the revenues from their bingo and "lucky 7" sales. The rest went to "service fees" they paid consultants for tasks ranging from filing paperwork to running the games themselves.
What keeps the "charity'' in charitable bingo here is a state law that requires such games be run by volunteer members of the charities. And RSA 287-E:7 bars compensation to those members and "others" who operate games or assist in their operation.
But officials concede the law is ambiguous, since the very next paragraph states charities cannot pay any person or entity for "consulting, managing (and) assisting" at such games "unless agreed to in advance in writing by the charitable organization."
"There's a disconnect there, and we recognize that," said Sudhir Naik, deputy director of the RCGC.
Officials hope Senate Bill 242, which deals with "coverall" bingo games (prizes are awarded to the first players to cover all numbers), will help clarify the law. It would require charities to submit their written agreements with consultants to the commission.
That way, Naik said, "we can kind of oversee what's being charged and if it's unreasonable."
By law, charities can designate someone to run their bingo games if all their members are physically or mentally disabled. Only Special Olympics New Hampshire and Catholic War Veterans have such permission from the RCGC.
Carrie Hill is director of development for the Special Olympics, which hires Patricia Haskin of PH & SR Consultants to run two charity bingo games in Concord every weekend.
Last year, the service fees paid to Haskin amounted to $38,612, or 51 percent of the $76,159 raised. But Hill said that's "definitely" a fair split."She runs the show, she gets the volunteers, she manages the schedule," Hill said. "She does a great job with it."From our end, it's just the paperwork that needs to be done."
Hill said bingo provides a steady stream of income for Special Olympics; without it, the organization would probably have to organize another fundraising event.
Terry Knowles, assistant director of charitable trusts at the Attorney General's Office, said organizations are not allowed to pay their employees to run bingo and lucky 7. And without special permission from the state, she said, "the game has to be run by volunteers."
A bingo consultant, Knowles said, is "an outside person" who gives advice to the charity, akin to a lawyer or accountant. "They're not running the game," she said.
However, some charities do rely heavily on paid consultants to operate their games.
Dover Youth Hockey Association paid bingo consultant Kathy Gilpatrick $31,524 last year, 20 percent of its revenues from bingo and lucky 7, according to the RCGC. The organization cleared more than $129,000 from games held at Seacoast Bingo in Somersworth.
Tim Broadrick, DYHA treasurer, said Gilpatrick spends 10 hours every Sunday running bingo and lucky 7 sales and even more time on preparations, advertising and paperwork. He said a volunteer couldn't do what Gilpatrick does.
Without her expertise, he said, the organization wouldn't raise as much money and youngsters would have to pay hundreds of dollars more to participate in hockey. "For us, it's an investment," he said.
The RCGC relies on revenue reports submitted by charities for its records. And while it does have auditors, not every charity that runs bingo gets audited every year, Naik said.
Jennifer Stauffis, volunteer treasurer for Cocheco Valley Humane Society, was surprised to learn that commission records show the shelter paid 34 percent of revenues from bingo and lucky 7 tickets in 2013 to the woman who runs its games.
According to the RCGC, bingo games raised $11,077 for CVHS last year, and CVHS paid Brenda Rose $3,758 in fees.
But Stauffis, who recently took over the record keeping, said those figures appear incorrect; in past years, bingo raised about $60,000.
"I've seen the bank account," she said. "I am certain this is a venture that we're making money off."
She's looking into last year's filings to figure out what happened. And she has been in touch with the RCGC to try to get to the bottom of it.
Stauffis also got a call late last year from the AG's charitable trusts unit notifying her that CVHS cannot pay Rose, since Rose is listed as an employee. That's in violation of the state law.
Rose has another full-time job; the only work she does for CVHS is managing the bingo games, Stauffis said. But, she said, "they told us to stop paying her, and we stopped immediately."
And she said it's a measure of Rose's dedication to CVHS that Rose has continued to run the bingo games without pay. She even arranged her vacation time so she wouldn't miss a Saturday.While it's the RCGC that oversees charity bingo, Knowles said, in the past her office has stepped in if a charity consistently was losing money on its games.
"That's where we become involved because the gaming activity becomes part of a larger problem in an organization that does not have good governance or good internal controls.
"Our Number 1 priority is to protect charitable assets; that's what we do."
Meanwhile, the Internal Revenue Service is paying closer attention in recent years to charitable gaming, Knowles said; there's a new form for nonprofits to report proceeds from bingo or games of chance.
"They found nationally some organizations had been formed for the sole purpose of gaming, and the IRS really came down on that because you cannot form a charity whose sole purpose is gaming," she said. "The IRS will not give an exemption for that."
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Cardinal Arinze weighs in on the Communion debate – and recalls the saint who inspired his vocation
Cardinal Francis Arinze was baptised into the Catholic Church on November 1, 1941, his ninth birthday. He was a child eager to convert to Christianity from a traditional African religion, not because of the wishes of adults or others around him, but of his own volition and by the grace of God.
The man who received him into the faith was Blessed Cyprian Tansi, at the time a parish priest whose example of great holiness left an impression on the boy that has endured for a lifetime. This was the priest who, perhaps most significantly, helped to teach Arinze to recognise and love Our Lord present in the Eucharist.
"He was the first priest I ever knew," recalls Cardinal Arinze, now 85. "He gave me the first sacraments – baptism, then penance and Holy Communion. He prepared me for Confirmation and I was his Mass-server in 1945.
"He was what you would like to see in a parish priest – zealous, sincere. When he celebrated Mass you saw that he believed what he was celebrating, so his life was attractive in itself. It was no surprise that wherever he worked there were many seminarians and women going into religious life."
Among them was Arinze himself. He entered the All Hallows seminary of the Archdiocese of Onitsha at 15 and proved to be an outstanding student. He passed the Cambridge School Certificate in 1950, the year that Blessed Cyprian left Nigeria to join the Cistercians at Mount St Bernard in Leicestershire. In 1955 Arinze moved to Rome where he attained a doctorate in Sacred Theology summa cum laude from the Pontifical Urban University. He was ordained in 1958.
He attended the funeral of Blessed Cyprian in England in 1964, and has actively promoted his Cause for canonisation ever since, admitting that he fought to control his enthusiasm when it was first opened.
It was a year after Blessed Cyprian's death that Fr Arinze became the youngest bishop in the world, when at the age of 32 he was consecrated as coadjutor of Onitsha. Within two years he succeeded as archbishop, becoming the first native African to lead the archdiocese, and in 1979 he became President of the Nigerian bishops' conference.
Pope John Paul II elevated Arinze to the College of Cardinals in 1985 and in 2002 he was made Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
His tenure as Prefect was a productive one, corresponding with the publication of Ecclesia de Eucharistia , John Paul II's 2003 encyclical on the relationship of the Church to the Holy Eucharist, and with Sacramentum Caritatis , Benedict XVI's 2007 exhortation on the Eucharist as the source and summit of the Church's life and mission.
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text: Gr 4-6-This set is similar to Moira Butterfield's "The Olympic" series (Sea-to-Sea, 2011) for the same age range, but the integration of information about the Paralympic Games is laudable. High-Tech offers something different by covering topics from new equipment such as fiberglass poles for vaulting to special shoes or uniforms and advances in training technology. London will become dated quickly. World of Olympics is organized by geographic areas and contains facts about the symbols of the Olympics. Olympic Moments delivers basic history, provides a map of all the cities that have hosted the games, and highlights interesting tidbits such as the story of the swimmer from Equitorial Guinea who was not used to swimming more than 50 meters in his homeland yet won his race by default after his competitors were disqualified for false starts. Greatest Olympians contains single-spread biographical overviews of famous stars as well as some lesser-known athletes, such as Steve Redgrave (rowing), Usain Bolt (track), and Chris Hoy (cycling). Each book has attractive color and archival photographs. If purchasing only one title to augment a collection, High-Tech is the one to select.-Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.


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Troubled singer Bobby Brown has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI).
Whitney Houston's ex-husband was pulled over by police in Reseda, California on Monday after he was allegedly caught driving while chatting on his cell phone.
He was taken into custody and is being held in Van Nuys Jail, reports TMZ.com.
Cops have yet to reveal what substance Brown was believed to be under the influence of when he was arrested.
Brown, who has a history of drug abuse, was previously convicted for a DUI in 1996, for which he served eight days in jail.
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Immaculata produces highest finish for area teams at Leavenworth's annual JV meet
On an afternoon that felt like the first official day of spring, the Leavenworth boys' tennis team hosted its annual JV tournament Wednesday.
In the eight-team competition, which featured two other local schools, it was Atchison that accrued 33 points to claim first overall. Next was Immaculata with 26 points.
Lansing came in fourth overall with 21 while the Pioneers placed eighth with seven points.
* No. 1 singles Sam Rhee, 1-2 for sixth
* No. 2 singles Adam Habib, 1-2 for fourth
* No. 1 doubles James Cha/Phillip Hernandez, 3-0 for first
* No. 2 doubles Andy Eom/Bader Abboud, 2-1 for second
"A change to the lineup resulted in a stronger No. 2 doubles team, though it made it a little more difficult for the two younger freshmen who were moved into the singles," Imac coach Manuel Hernandez said. "Still, we played some good tennis and I saw some continued improvement in our players."
* No. 1 singles Joe Lorenzen, 2-1 for second
* No. 2 singles Bailey Miller, 2-1 for fifth
* No. 1 doubles Andrew Fodness/Jered Gatson, 1-2 for fourth
* No. 2 doubles Thomas Bremser/Tristan McMahon, 1-2 for sixth
"Nice fourth place team finish for us," Lions coach Ed Fenton said. "Really pleased that everyone contributed to the team score with a win today."
* No. 1 singles Luke Nolte, 0-3 for eighth
* No. 2 singles Noah Hutabarat, 2-1 for second
* No. 1 doubles Cole Shepard/Peter Gardner, 0-3 for eighth
* No. 2 doubles Aaron Munoz/Michael Stratton, 0-3 for eighth
"Noah is a very good athlete," Pioneers coach Shad Langfoss said. "He is quick and he can run down every ball. He is very frustrating for others because he is just like a backboard."
Leavenworth will compete at its Sunflower League tournament today starting at 9 a.m. while Immaculata will be at Ottawa for a 4 p.m. meet.
Lansing will be at DeSoto Saturday for a 8:30 a.m. tourney.


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The humble app has been enriching our smartphone lives for some years now, and 2012 was no different. In a testament to the constant fresh thinking of the app designer, we were never stumped in finding something exciting for App of the Day in 2012.
But which really stood out? Below are the nominations for best app 2012 in the 9th Pocket-lint Gadget Awards.
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Netflix continued on its quest to bring movie streaming to every possible device on the planet in 2012. Launching in January, the service brought simple and easy to use applications to iOS and Android.
The best bit for us with Netflix was its 3G streaming ability. Every bus journey home was transformed with either an episode of Family Guy or a spot of Arrested Development.
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Google Chrome
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Chrome browser fled the desktop in 2012 and made its way on to our smartphone, bringing with it cross-platform cloud syncing and all sorts of clever tweaks. On Android, you got one of the quickest and smoothest browsers available. On iOS, there was instant access to all of Google's Chrome-based services.
We particularly liked the tab view that Chrome used on Android, which let you swipe to throw away any browser windows you weren't interested in.
READ: Chrome hands-on review
Where's My Perry
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There are a lot of gaming apps sitting in the App Store and for one to truly catch our eye it has to be time-destroyingly addictive. Where's My Perry is just that.
The app tasked you with getting super secret agent Platypus Perry unstuck from his transportation tubes. Using a system of water control to get liquid from one pool to another, this was simple app gaming at its best and highly addictive.
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BBC Olympics app
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The BBC did an incredible job covering the Olympics, ensuring we could see just about any sport, on any device, at any time. Its iOS and Android app was a particular highlight, however, providing comprehensive coverage of the Games.
We found ourselves frequently scrolling through and exploring the app, getting involved in sports we had never imagined we would be interested in. The BBC really brought the Olympics to life and this app did a great job in helping.
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This was on-demand streamed video for the masses, executed in such a way that anyone could understand it. Heck, the app even made and appearance on YouView.
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This October, the University of Rochester will have a mixed force of sworn and non-sworn officers. Sworn peace officers will have enhanced abilities and tools, adding to the safety, enforcement, and investigative services at the University.
Additionally, to more accurately reflect the purpose and services of the department, the University's Department of Security Services has changed its name to the Department of Public Safety, effective Sept. 1.
In March 2013, 25 Public Safety members were sworn in as the first group of peace officers, embarking upon a five-month training and certification program for this new distinction. This fall, a ceremony will recognize this first group of 25 as they become active peace officers upon completing the 400 hours of required instruction.
University peace officers can make felony, misdemeanor, or other breach of peace arrests based on probable cause, and can make mental hygiene arrestsan authority that promotes quick medical attention to those in need. They can conduct proper warrantless searches; have the power to take safe custody of firearms; and will have access to state and federal criminal information systems to assist with ongoing investigations.
University peace officers will not carry firearms, but will carry pepper gel and batons as defensive tools.
Approximately 50 staff members of Public Safety's total 134-member force are expected to complete New York's campus peace officer academy program to become sworn officers. To view a Q&A on University peace officer status, visit: http://publicsafety.rochester.edu.
"This important step that will enhance the ability of the department to maintain a safe campus environment was made possible by New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo and our area legislators who supported the peace officer legislation," said Ron Paprocki, senior vice president for administration and finance and CFO.
In December 2010, University President Joel Seligman directed the formation of a commission to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the University's safety efforts. The members of the commission determined that while there had not been a significant increase in the number or severity of crimes on campus, there had been an increase in the number of calls for service, including those where was there was a greater potential for confrontation.
After several months of review, the commission released several recommendations to President Seligman, with the most important relating to the status of University security staff and to the safety equipment available to them. Peace officer status was pursued and on Dec. 17, 2012, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation allowing for this expanded authority at the University.
Throughout the summer, the Department of Public Safety has worked with the area law enforcement agencies to develop memorandums of understanding on how the peace officer status will complement their policing and investigations.
"Our force will now be able to respond more effectively and efficiently to situations on our campuses and properties as a result of the peace officer training," said Walter Mauldin, Department of Public Safety director. "This benefits not only the University community, but also to our neighboring agencies as we become a stronger partner with them."


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Seriously though, you'll get all you need to use the applicaiton effectively if you just read the docs that come
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IF you have a basic understanding of how a sniffer works, you wont need a single document when using ettercap to sniff cleartext connections.
What you have failed to do is provide detailed information on what you want to do. For example, what kind of password? FTP? Telnet? Also, placement of the sniffing host is very important. If you place it on a switched segment, you may find yourself faced with an additional obsticle before you can begin to analyze traffic. Are you on a switched network?
Now then, how about giving us additional information and perhaps we can be more specific.
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BOSTON, MA - Sophomore Wendy Steinman's (Dudley, MA) win at number six singles proved to be the difference as the University of Massachusetts Boston women's tennis team snapped a two-match losing streak with a 5-4 win over Wentworth in a non-league match played at the Sportsmen's Tennis Club.
The Beacons took a 1-0 lead after an 8-2 win by sophomore Anita Kloczewiak (Newton, Mass.) and freshman Destinee Ringler (Scituate, MA) over sophomore Natalya Cappellini (Falmouth, MA) and junior Joanna Gustafson (Ashburnham, MA) at number one doubles. Wentworth evened the match at 1-all when freshman Deborah Massaro (Stony Point, NY) teamed with sophomore Jillian Flynn (Billerica, Mass.) to defeat freshman Samantha Counts (Bridgewater, MA) and sophomore Hieu Nguyen (Dorchester, MA), 8-1, at number three doubles. UMass Boston closed out doubles play with an 8-2 win at number two doubles when senior Brittany Engel (Freehold, NJ) teamed with classmate MaKenna Hughes (Yarmouthport, MA) to defeat senior Meredith Gratton (West Chazy, NY) and sophomore Sophie Boyce (South Portland, ME).
Kloczewiak would defeat Cappellini, 6-0, 6-2, at number one singles before Ringler used a 6-0, 7-5 win over Gustafson at number two singles to give the Beacons a 4-1 lead. Steinman would clinch the match for UMass Boston with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Boyce.
Gratton dropped the first set, 3-6, to Engel at number three singles before winning the second set, 6-2, and taking the tiebreaker, 10-6, while Massaro made it a 5-3 match with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Hughes. Flynn defeated Counts, 7-5, 6-3, at number five singles to close out the match.
With the win, UMass Boston improves to 5-3 on the season and hosts Bridgewater State on Saturday in a Little East Conference matchup. That same day, Wentworth (1-7) hosts Roger Williams in a The Commonwealth Coast Conference match.
Singles competition
1. Anitra Kloczewiak (UMBWT) def. Natalya Cappellini (WIT) 6-0, 6-2
2. Destanee Ringler (UMBWT) def. Joanna Gustafson (WIT) 6-0, 7-5
3. Meredith Gratton (WIT) def. Brittany Engel (UMBWT) 3-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-6)
4. Deborah Massaro (WIT) def. MaKenna Hughes (UMBWT) 6-4, 6-1
5. Jillian Flynn (WIT) def. Samantha Counts (UMBWT) 7-5, 6-3
6. Wendy Steinman (UMBWT) def. Sophie Boyce (WIT) 6-2, 6-3
Doubles competition
1. Anitra Kloczewiak/Destanee Ringler (UMBWT) def. Natalya Cappellini/Joanna Gustafson (WIT) 8-2
2. Brittany Engel/MaKenna Hughes (UMBWT) def. Meredith Gratton/Sophie Boyce (WIT) 8-3
3. Deborah Massaro/Jillian Flynn (WIT) def. Samantha Counts/Hieu Nguyen (UMBWT) 8-1
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As a farm machinery mechanic and writer, Dan brings a hands-on approach that only a pro can muster. Along with his In the Shop blog, Dan writes a column by the same name as well as the Shop Series for Farm Journal magazine. Always providing practical information, he is a master at tackling technical topics and making them easy for all of our readers to understand. He and his wife, Becky, live near Bouton, Iowa.
Scott, our technology specialist, taught me a nifty trick today. I was working with a machine that has a touch-screen display in it, and the screen often would barely react when I poked it with my finger to change a setting. Sometimes it wouldn't work at all--just stayed frozen on the same image no matter how much I poked and prodded. And I eventually poked and prodded it pretty hard.
I gave Scott a call, and he said to stick the corner of a business card carefully between the surface of the screen and the edge of the screen's housing, and carefully run it around the entire perimeter. He said dirt, dust and debris often gets wedged between the face of the screen and the housing, which applies pressure to the screen at that point. The display thinks somebody is holding their finger against the screen, which causes the problems I was experiencing.
Sure enough, there were two spots, one on the right side and one along the bottom edge, where the business card found teeny little bits of debris wedged between the face of the screen and the housing. I did a little gently prying, used a can of "air in a can" to blow things out, and the display now works just fine.
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I have tried a few papers - Also have tried PS, imagePrint 9 demo and MirageI have done 'soft proofing' in PS for each occasion of printing with selected profiles including imageprint...Images look nice - but not getting that pop I am looking for...I am wondering what papers folks with printing experience would be reaching for... (noob)The photo was taken with d800e zeiss 135 APO / off camera flash and reflector and pn-11 tube - added adjustment layer for clarity adjustment in filament areaPhil
I assume your monitor is calibrated, but on mine, in PS6 w/ the PPRGB version, the image looks rather anemic, and improves greatly with levels brought in a bit at both ends. It sounds as if your soft proof is not matching your prints very well, and I doubt, with the variety of papers you've tried, that the paper is at fault.Pete
thanks pete - yes nec with spectro-view - recently calibrated...pete, when you say 'improves greatly with levels brought in a bit at both ends' - what do you mean exactly - how/ what are you doing for this?i have been mostly using an adjustment layer 'curves' for the soft proofing....perhaps i am doing this all wrong?many thanksPhil
I gave up long ago on soft proofing, and have adusted my monitor to closely match my printed output - hard-proofing - but it sounds to me as if your soft proofed image is more vibrant than your print, which suggests that monitor contrast and/or sat. are still too high if prints don't match well.I'm certainly not a power PS'er, but when I want a vibrant image, one of the first things I do in PS6 is to adjust the black and white input levels in the Image>Adjustments>Levels panel, or Ctrl-L. The old truism that "blacks make the image" applies just as well to color as to B/W, and that bring the black input level to the histogram clipping point, or often in my work slightly inside it, and the white input level to the clipping point or just a bit outside it will greatly or slightly increase image "pop" by giving a full tonal range, which is muted otherwise. Of course there are other ways to a similar result...Pete
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Well softproofing the ProPhotoRGB image in Photoshop using Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl profile for the 4900 shows most of the image to be out of gamut, so I would expect the print to be more muted than the screen image. You need to shift that red into gamut if you want to control the output.Have you tried both perceptual and relative colorimetric? With an image like this, without manually dealing with the out of gamut colors, perceptual will more often result in a better print.Brian A


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Organic goes down a slippery road
Here's the sad news: Even as the demand for organic food continues to explode, organic farmers in America are getting thrown under the very beet cart they helped build.
The Chinese are taking over market share, especially of vegetables and agricultural commodities like soy, thanks to several American-based multinational food corporations that have hijacked the organic bandwagon they only recently jumped onto.
When mega-corporation Dean Foods acquired Silk soy milk -- which I used to drink as if it were the staff of life -- the prospects looked good for American organic soy farmers. Silk had always been committed to supporting domestic organic farmers, and with the new might of Dean Foods behind it, I assumed that Silk would likely grow. Silk did grow, but it also dropped its commitment to domestic soy.
When Midwestern farmers and farmer cooperatives in the heart of American soy country were told by Silk they had to match the rock-bottom cost of Chinese organic soybeans, they found it was a price they simply could not meet. Organic agriculture is labor-intensive, and China's edge comes largely from its abundance of cheap labor.
"Dean Foods had the opportunity to push organic and sustainable agriculture to incredible heights of production by working with North American farmers and traders to get more land in organic production," says Merle Kramer, a marketer for the Midwestern Organic Farmers Cooperative, based in Michigan. "But what they did was pit cheap foreign soybeans against the U.S. organic farmer."
Few Silk products are certified organic anymore, and some are processed with hexane, a neurotoxin listed as an air pollutant by the EPA. Yet this country allows hexane-processed soymilk to be labeled "natural," and if it contains organic ingredients, the label "made with organic ingredients" can still be used. What's more, a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture report, "Emerging Issues in the U.S. Organic Industry," points out two trends in American food: Conventional food corporations are taking over successful independent organic companies, and the corporations are becoming increasingly dependent on imported ingredients.
While the retail price of imported produce remains the same as what consumers were paying for domestic organic, there's reason to believe the quality is lower. At Whole Foods, for example, labels that read "USDA inspected" are stuck to produce imported from abroad. According to "Behind the Bean," a recent study by Wisconsin's Cornucopia Institute, the USDA's record with food imported from China is fraught with irregularities.
"(USDA) found multiple non-compliances of the federal organic standards, (including) the failure of one certifying agent to hire Chinese inspectors that are adequately familiar with the USDA organic standards, and the failure by another organic certifying agent to provide a written and translated copy of the USDA organic standards to all clients applying for certification. This raises serious concerns about whether foods grown organically in China follow the same USDA organic standards with which we require American farmers to comply."
A stand at my local farmers' market has a sign that says "Boycott Chinese Garlic." China currently supplies 75 percent of the garlic sold in the United States, for an average price of 50 cents a pound. Two years ago, it was 25 cents a pound. Even with the price of garlic up from 25 to 50 cents a pound, garlic-growing regions like Gilroy, Calif., are hurting. Gilroy once was known as the nation's garlic capital. In addition to garlic cultivation, a retail empire was built on value-added products made with garlic. Now, Gilroy is just a garlic-processing capital, as most of its supply comes from China.
But one advantage local garlic producers have going for them is that most Chinese garlic is the soft-neck variety, which is inferior in terms of flavor, clove size and peelability to the hard-neck varieties favored by many American garlic growers. The problem is that -- even as farmers' markets spread like weeds and create opportunities for consumers to buy the good stuff directly from growers -- most Americans continue to reach for the netted bulbs of garlic within easy reach at the supermarket, or they buy jars of pre-peeled and pre-chopped garlic.
Consumers buy organic for several reasons: They are worried about the heavy environmental impacts of agribusiness; they want cleaner and safer working conditions for farmworkers; and they believe that organic food is simply healthier to eat – or at least less likely to be contaminated with toxic chemicals. Unfortunately, the import-fueled corporatization of so-called "organic" food is making it less likely that your food will have all of these attributes.
Silk's road to China is by now a well-worn trail; it's further evidence that organic as we knew it is just about dead, replaced by gigantic, Chi-ganic corporations that are in it for all the wrong reasons.
Ari LeVaux is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes about food in Missoula, Montana.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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A legendary Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi was a noble man and gifted in the ways of the Force. He trained Anakin Skywalker, served as a general in the Republic Army during the Clone Wars, and guided Luke Skywalker as a mentor.
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As a Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi was the headstrong apprentice to Qui-Gon Jinn. The two were dispatched to settle a dispute between the Trade Federation and the planet Naboo, but negotiations never took place -- the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, orchestrating the Trade Federation's blockade of the planet, ordered the Jedi killed. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon survived the trap, however, and fled to the planet's surface. There, they finally connected with Queen Padmé Amidala of the Naboo, fled the planet, and landed on Tatooine. Qui-Gon and Padmé crossed paths with a young slave boy named Anakin Skywalker who was unusually strong with the Force, helping the stranded heroes pay for starship parts by winning a Podrace. Anakin and Obi-Wan met for the first time after a near-deadly attack by a mysterious dark warrior, and the group headed home to Coruscant. In a surprise move, Queen Amidala decided to go back to Naboo to retake the planet, with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon escorting her. Little did they know that the dark menace from Tatooine, in truth a Sith named Darth Maul, was awaiting their arrival. The two Jedi dueled Maul in a fast, furious battle, which saw Qui-Gon fatally wounded. Obi-Wan continued the fight, but a Force push left him dangling above a deep shaft. Maul toyed with him, kicking Obi-Wan's lightsaber into the abyss, but could not anticipate the Jedi's bold move: he somersaulted over Maul, drew Qui-Gon's Jedi weapon to his hand, and cut the Sith Lord in two. Kenobi ran to Qui-Gon, who with his dying wish asked Obi-Wan to train Anakin as a Jedi. And so it was: the Council granted Obi-Wan knighthood, and Anakin was named his Padawan.
As Obi-Wan Kenobi continued to train Anakin Skywalker, the two were assigned as security for their old friend, Senator Padmé Amidala, after an assassination attempt on her life. After a second attempt, Obi-Wan and Anakin pursued her attacker, a clawdite bounty hunter named Zam Wesell. Following her into one of Coruscant's seedy bars, Obi-Wan waited until Wesell approached him and severed her hand with a surprise cut from his lightsaber. The Jedi carried the wounded bounty hunter out into the street, where Wesell was mysteriously killed by a poison dart shot from above.
Obi-Wan began an investigation, finding that the dart was from the planet Kamino -- a world which had been mysteriously erased from the Jedi Archives. On Kamino he discovered that a massive clone army had been created for the Republic -- in the name of a Jedi who had been dead for nearly 10 years -- and the genetic blueprint was bounty hunter Jango Fett. Looking to secure Jango, Kenobi battled Fett in the planet's never-ending rain, with the bounty hunter escaping in his starship. Obi-Wan tracked Fett to Geonosis, where he found Separatist forces had gathered under the leadership of former Jedi Count Dooku. While reporting back to the Jedi, Obi-Wan was ambushed, taken prisoner, and sentenced to die in the Geonosis arena. He survived, killing a vicious acklay, and alongside other Jedi and the new clone army, fought off battle droids as the Clone War erupted around him. He and Anakin then engaged Count Dooku, who had turned to the dark side. Both Jedi suffered injuries in their failure to stop the Separatist leader.
Obi-Wan Kenobi became a general in the Army of the Republic as the Clone Wars continued, having many adventures with Anakin Skywalker. Chief among them was the return of Darth Maul, the Sith Lord who Obi-Wan cut in two on Naboo. Maul wanted vengeance, and battled Obi-Wan on numerous occasions, eventually killing Obi-Wan's former love Duchess Satine in revenge. Obi-Wan was shattered, but like a true Jedi, did not give in to anger or hate.
After the Supreme Chancellor was kidnapped by General Grievous, leader of the droid army, Obi-Wan and Anakin led a daring rescue mission. They battled their way to Grievous' ship, and gained entrance to the control tower where they once again dueled Count Dooku. While Dooku was able to defeat Obi-Wan, nearly killing him, he could not best Anakin. At the urging of Chancellor Palpatine, the young Jedi beheaded the Sith Lord. Anakin carried an unconscious Obi-Wan on his back, and the three returned to Coruscant.
In the galactic capital, the Jedi had become wary of Palpatine. He appointed Anakin to be his representative on the Council, which the Jedi only allowed so that the prophesied Chosen One could secretly report on all the Chancellor's dealings. It was Obi-Wan who gave Anakin this assignment, and it strained their friendship. Shortly thereafter, Obi-Wan was dispatched to Utapau, where he found General Grievous. The enemies engaged in lightsaber combat and Obi-Wan eventually destroyed the droid army leader with a more "uncivilized" weapon, shooting the Jedi hunter's organic innards with a blaster pistol. But then, something strange happened. Obi-Wan's clone troopers betrayed him, opening fire seemingly without cause. The clones had been issued Order 66 -- the extermination of all Jedi -- from the Supreme Chancellor, who in reality was Sith Lord Darth Sidious. Obi-Wan survived, however, and made contact with Yoda, though no other Jedi had reported back. The two returned to Coruscant to jam a signal that was laying a trap for Order 66 survivors, telling all to stay away from the capital. Successful, Obi-Wan looked at a security hologram to see who led the slaughter of Jedi within the Temple; he was overcome with grief and regret to find that it was Anakin, now a dark side convert called Darth Vader.
Yoda assigned Obi-Wan to deal with Anakin, who had left Coruscant for the lava planet Mustafar. Both powerful and evenly matched, the two former friends dueled to a stalemate until Anakin attempted to leap over his old Master, which Obi-Wan warned him not to try. The new Sith, filled with rage and hubris, ignored these pleas; Obi-Wan severed his legs and arm. Heartbroken, Obi-Wan left Anakin to his fate on the banks of a lava river. The Jedi Order vanquished and the galaxy under Sith rule, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Senator Bail Organa devised a plan: they would split up the children of Anakin and Padmé, who had died in childbirth, and protect them from the Emperor. Bail would adopt the girl, Leia, and raise her as his own; Obi-Wan would take the boy, Luke, to his family on Tatooine, where he would watch over him. When the time was right, he would reveal to Luke his true origins, and train him to be a Jedi.
A young Padawan named Ezra Bridger came to Tatooine in search of Obi-Wan, believing he was the key to destroy the Sith. But it was all a ploy by Maul to draw Kenobi out, and it worked. Maul had also come to the desert planet, seeking his final revenge against Kenobi -- the Jedi who bested him and changed his fate so long ago. They dueled in the dead of night, Maul attacking furiously. But it was over quickly, with Obi-Wan delivering one single, fatal strike. The former Sith collapsed, and Obi-Wan cradled Maul as his life slipped away.
After the Jedi Order was all but eradicated by the Emperor and Darth Vader, Obi-Wan hid on Tatooine, watching over Luke Skywalker and waiting to teach him the ways of the Force. Finally, fate intervened, and Obi-Wan found himself rescuing Luke from Tusken Raiders. Back in his hut, Obi-Wan revealed to Luke that he was friends with the boy's father, who was also a Jedi Knight -- until Darth Vader, a former Jedi, betrayed and murdered him. Obi-Wan gave Luke his father's lightsaber, encouraging him to learn about the Force and leave Tatooine. The two then uncovered a hidden message from Princess Leia Organa hidden inside R2-D2, asking Obi-Wan for help. The Jedi Master, Luke, R2-D2, C-3PO, and hired pilots Han Solo and Chewbacca headed for Alderaan, the Princess' home planet.
On the journey, Obi-Wan began instructing Luke in the ways of the Force and lightsaber combat; upon arrival, they found that Alderaan was gone, destroyed by the Empire's Death Star. Their ship, the Millennium Falcon, was caught in the space station's tractor beam, forcing the heroes to board. They evaded capture and found that Leia was held there in a prison cell; Obi-Wan took it upon himself to deactivate the tractor beam, allowing Luke, Han, and Chewbacca to rescue the Princess. The Jedi Master was successful, but then encountered Darth Vader, his former student turned Sith. They dueled, and Obi-Wan willingly accepted his death so that Luke and his allies could escape.
Later, when Luke was piloting an X-wing in the Rebel Alliance's desperate attempt to destroy the Death Star, the disembodied voice of Obi-Wan spoke to Luke and guided him to use the Force, not his ship's technology. The young hero delivered an impossibly precise shot into the exhaust port of the doomsday weapon, and the Death Star was no more. "The Force will be with you," Obi-Wan's voice told Luke. "Always."
Luke Skywalker became a Rebel hero after the destruction of the Death Star, helping lead the Rebels to their new secret base on the ice planet Hoth. After a savage wampa attack in the freezing cold, Luke was visited by the spectral form of Obi-Wan, who told him to go to Dagobah where he would be trained by a Jedi Master named Yoda. Luke went to the swamp planet, where he continued his Jedi lessons and received guidance from Obi-Wan, who could appear in spirit form through the power of the Force. He encouraged Luke to complete his training before facing Darth Vader, but the brash Jedi would not listen.
After his defeat by Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker returned to Dagobah to complete his training. The young Jedi had grown powerful, and a dying Yoda told him that his training was complete -- but that he must confront Darth Vader, now revealed to be his father, in order to achieve full knighthood. That was not all; with his last words, the Jedi Master informed his student that there was another Skywalker. A shocked Luke left Yoda's hut to find Obi-Wan waiting. Obi-Wan explained why he shielded Luke from the truth about his father, and confirmed that the other Skywalker was Leia, his twin sister. He encouraged the young Jedi to face Vader again; Luke would later do so, but on his own terms -- instead of killing his father, he showed him compassion. The good was awakened in the Sith Lord, and he would die not as Vader, but as Anakin Skywalker. In a celebration on Endor, Obi-Wan joined Yoda and Anakin in the Force, proudly watching over Luke.
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Luke Skywalker was a Tatooine farmboy who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the greatest Jedi the galaxy has ever known. Along with his friends Princess Leia and Han Solo, Luke battled the evil Empire, discovered the truth of his parentage, and ended the tyranny of the Sith. A generation later, the location of the famed Jedi master was one of the galaxy's greatest mysteries. Haunted by Ben Solo's fall to evil and convinced the Jedi had to end, Luke sought exile on a distant world, ignoring the galaxy's pleas for help. But his solitude would be interrupted – and Luke Skywalker had one final, momentous role to play in the struggle between good and evil.
Darth Vader
Once a heroic Jedi Knight, Darth Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force, became a Sith Lord, and led the Empire's eradication of the Jedi Order. He remained in service of the Emperor -- the evil Darth Sidious -- for decades, enforcing his Master's will and seeking to crush the fledgling Rebel Alliance. But there was still good in him…
Anakin Skywalker
Discovered as a slave on Tatooine by Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker had the potential to become one of the most powerful Jedi ever, and was believed by some to be the prophesied Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force. A hero of the Clone Wars, Anakin was caring and compassionate, but also had a fear of loss that would prove to be his downfall.
Qui-Gon Jinn
A venerable if maverick Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn was a student of the living Force. Qui-Gon lived for the moment, espousing a philosophy of "feel, don't think -- use your instincts." On Tatooine, Qui-Gon discovered a young slave boy named Anakin Skywalker who was strong in the Force. Sensing the boy's potential, Qui-Gon liberated Anakin from slavery. The Jedi Master presented Anakin to the Jedi Council, but they deemed the boy too old to begin training and dangerously full of fear and anger. They refused to allow Qui-Gon to train Anakin, but rescinded their decision to fulfill Qui-Gon's dying wish.
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The leader of Mandalore during the Clone Wars, Duchess Satine of Kalevala was a controversial figure. She longed to move Mandalore beyond its violent past and instituted a government that valued pacifism. Though Mandalore did begin to rebuild under her guidance, the dark shadow of the Clone Wars made the Duchess' goals difficult to achieve.
General Grievous
General Grievous was a brilliant Separatist military strategist and a feared Jedi hunter, known for his ruthlessness and hacking cough. His body itself was a weapon, allowing him lightning quick strikes and devastating blows. But he was also quick to run from a fight, a tactic that worked until one final meeting with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Clone Troopers
At the time of their introduction, the Republic clone troopers represented the future of galactic warfare. Far superior to battle droids, the clone troopers formed the backbone of the Republic's new military that waged war against the forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. So symbolic were they of the times, the galaxy-wide conflict that saw their debut took its name from their ranks: the Clone Wars.
Darth Maul
A deadly, agile Sith Lord trained by the evil Darth Sidious, Darth Maul was a formidable warrior and scheming mastermind. He wielded an intimidating double-bladed lightsaber and fought with a menacing ferocity. Though he fell in battle against Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Zabrak from Dathomir would prove to be much harder to destroy than originally believed.


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Harris was just elected to the Illinois Senate, but he's been getting
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Harris is a Dixmoor native who was a first-round pick of the Oakland
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 — With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq, the Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving major steps toward unifying the country, including passage of a long-stymied plan to share oil revenues and holding regional elections.Now, the focus has shifted to smaller, short-term goals - like authorizing a budget for the nation. (But the Iraqis are already in the process of doing that anyway.)
Instead, administration officials say they are focusing their immediate efforts on several more limited but achievable goals in the hope of convincing Iraqis, foreign governments and Americans that progress is being made toward the political breakthroughs that the military campaign of the past 10 months was supposed to promote.
And of course, the Bush maladministration is all hot and bothered to get the U.N. mandate that authorizes the presence of the American occupiers renewed. (They do this routinely because it's a puppet government that would not exist for more than thirty days if the Americans weren't propping them up.)
And de-de-baathification, so members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party can reenter government service. (That's merely pro forma - former Baathists have been rehired on the q.t. for some time, because they are the ones who actually know how to, you know, do the jobs.)
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The administration insists that they have not given up on their larger goals, averring that they will be met *eventually.* But damnit, they have to figure out a way to make lemonade, and do it pronto.
They sold the AEI's Surge™ scheme by packaging it as a necessity, needed to give the political process "breathing space" to achieve reconciliation. Tours were extended, leaving soldiers in combat for 15 months with only 12 months dwell-time. They sacrificed American lives like they meant nothing. And the Iraqi parliament went on vacation the entire month of August.
Tony "Karma's a Bitch" Snow excused the fecklessness of the Iraqi politicians with a blasé "It's 130 degrees in Baghdad in August," conveniently forgetting that his war-criminal boss sent American fighting forces into that hellhole, and they didn't even get the benefit of operating in an air conditioned Green Zone when it was 130 degrees.
But reconciliation didn't happen.
In fact, Maliki and Hashemi snipe at one another like two bleached-blond teenage girls vying for head cheerleader in a one-high-school Texas football town.
Instead of sucking it up and admitting that things didn't work as planned, they are insisting that modest steps such as these - if taken soon - could, maybe, perhaps, if they cross their fingers and say the right magic words in just the right order and cadence, perhaps while hopping on one foot and chanting "I believe" - set the stage for "more progress." You know - like the Surge™ set the stage for the arming of the Sunni thugs who in the past were the insurgents who were killing Americans. (Well, give 'em guns and money and you can rent some temporary loyalty...)
But not to fear! aWol is "applying pressure" on the Iraqi government to produce some sort of political progress. "If we can show progress outside of the security sector alone, that will go a long way to demonstrate that we are in fact on a sustainable path to stability in Iraq," said one senior official, speaking on condition of anonymity. On Saturday, [U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan] Crocker said the military had created opportunities for progress, and added that there were "indications" that Iraqis wanted to move forward on the local and national levels. But he quickly dialed back the expectations and cautioned against expecting quick results on the core issues.
"We are seeing encouraging signs of movement. This is going to be a long, hard slog," he said, apparently channeling Rumsfeld, "It is going to be one thing at a time, maybe two things at a time, we hope with increasing momentum," he said. "It is a long-term process."
Although violence has ticked downward in recent months, the administration has not touted this development, because if they did, scrutiny would surely follow, and that they certainly don't want.
Furthermore, there are clear signs that any influence Americans have over Iraqi politicians is dwindling. In the absence of religious and ethnic reconciliation, the expectation has been dialed back to "accommodation." An American official, again speaking on condition of anonymity, said "We can't pass their legislation. We can't make them like each other. We can't even make them talk to each other."
Crocker at least realizes that "The political stuff does not lend itself to sending out a couple of battalions to help the Iraqi's pass legislation." Still, he insisted that there are some positive signs that Iraqis are interested in making their own headway. For example, he pointed to Provincial governors, who are pressing for a law to define their powers. "We are past the point where it is an American agenda," the ambassador said. "It is what needs to be done in Iraqi terms." (In plain English - this is how warlords are made.)
Officials in both Baghdad and Washington are both realistic about the fact that military gains are not enough to overcome the deep divides that separate Iraqi factions. But in both capitals there are leaders who still engage in magical thinking. "We need a grand bargain among all the groups," said a member of the Iraqi government - speaking - you guessed it - anonymously.
The most disturbing part of the whole thing is the repeated references to "long hard slogs" and the allusions to extended, multi-year commitments of American forces, like it's no big deal. But it is a big deal. Maybe not to these worthless, faithless and feckless jackals who have nothing to lose. But to the rest of us, it sure as hell is.And if you agree, vote Democratic. Give the congress a Democratic president, and just as importantly the votes to end the obstruction of the Republican wingnuts who have no qualms about obstructing progress at the expense of American lives.
George aWol Bush has made the biggest mess the world has ever seen, and intends to keep the fucking up going apace and leave a mess so dire that the next president won't be able to extract us from.
Don't let him get away with it. Congress holds the pursestrings. Not one dime without strings attached. Not one dime.
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Richard Edward Tamer and I were high school friend. My high school band was call The Stardusters. Richard played Lead Guitar and I played the Organ. Richard's favorite tune was "Guitar Man" and we played that tune at all our gigs, most of them being played at wedding receptions and dances held at local VFW halls and the American Legion Hall on Brookpark Road in Cleveland, OH.
I served in the People's Republic of Viet-Nam Sept. 1966 - Sept. 1967 and when I returned home, I was living in Cincinnati, OH at the time. When I returned home to Parms, OH in 1970 where I grew up and attended Parma Sr High School along with Richard Tamer Class of 1963, it was only then that I learned that Richard was Killed In Action in Viet-Nam.
I attempted to reassemble our former high school band, only to find out that none of our former band members returned home from Viet-Nam. They were all gone. KIA.
Some time ago, I began searching for answers as to where, when and how Richard E. Tamer was KIA. After searching site such as this one, I learned of the unit and company Richard served in. On those sites, I would leave messages asking for information from anyone who may have known and/or served with Richard Tamer. This past summer of 2012, I received a telephone call. I thought at first it was a soliciting call. When I answered the incoming call, I asked the caller who he was. He replied, "I am a former friend and served with Richard Tamer in Viet-Nam". We spoke about Richard for one hour. After speaking to this former friend and service man, he sent me photographs of Richard along with several other photographs the Tamer Family had never seen or know of. I intend to present these photographs to the Richard Tamer Family, brothers and sister when we meet for lunch along with other former Parma Sr High School classmates this summer.


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Celebrating Kona's famous brew — which has a 200-year heritage — the 2013 event is adding several programs with plenty of visitor appeal. The festival's new events include a Kona Coffee art show and competition; a multi-generational, multi-cultural hoolaulea (outdoor celebration); coffee, community and cultural workshops; and a showcase of Enka-style folk songs by Japanese recording artist Uwasa no Kyotaro.
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China and Korea tied for first place with 5 gold medals, Russia and Singapore earned 4 gold medals and one silver medal, and the USA, Thailand, and Taiwan tied with 3 gold and 2 silver medals. US Team member, Calvin Huang earned the highest score in the experimental portion of the competition.
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At the end of that training camp, five students and an alternate were selected as the "Traveling Team" to represent the United States at the IPhO. In July, the Traveling Team and their coaches attended a three day Mini Camp of intense laboratory work before moving on to the IPhO.
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BRISTOL — On Monday, Bristol police investigated reports of five burglarized vehicles in the areas of Pleasant Street, Elm Street, and Taylor Avenue. As a result of that investigation, police arrested Kraton Chaloux, 22, of Bristol on four counts of petit larceny and one count of possession of stolen property. Chaloux was lodged at the Chittenden County Correctional Center for lack of $500 bail and appeared in Addison District Court on Wednesday.
Stolen property from "several" of the five vehicles were recovered, Bristol police said.
Citizens should contact Bristol police at 453-2533 if they believe their vehicles were also burglarized on the evening of April 22.