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Dr. Mundo Build
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Dr. Mundo is a tank. However, he's not a tank with a hard CC, leaving one at a bit of a loss as to how one is going to protect the squishies and continue to project force down a lane. The answer is to relentlessly destroy anyone who makes the mistake of being in range, up to and including turrets. Yes, dear reader, the Madman of Zaun murders inanimate objects and people alike.
Summoner Spells
The Best
Rally - This gives you a group heal, a group damage buff, and even an extra minion to tank a couple of turret hits rolled all into one. In combination with a Sivir, a Tristana, or a Taric, it's simple to ride your monster truck straight over a turret even as the enemy attempts to burn you down.
Teleport - Unlike the blue pill, Teleport doesn't break on taking damage. This gives it utility for escape as well as simply bringing yourself back to the fight, and in conjunction with a Heimer, Shaco, or Teemo, provides a large amount of backdoor potential. It's also useful for laning, as you can dip over to other lanes to help defend against early ganks. Mundo goes where he pleases.
Exhaust - This is the closest thing Mundo can get to a hard CC. It helps chasing, it can save a squishy's life, and even Truck Mundo can enjoy the benefit of lowered resists.
The Acceptable
Ghost - Mundo is already fast, why not make him faster? It's useful for escapes, but better teamwork and map awareness reduce the need for escapes, and it lacks in map mobility to Teleport. Passing through minions is rarely worth it, though it is hilarious on occasion to sucker someone into aggroing jungle creeps with an AoE effect.
Cleanse - Do you regularly face pure CC teams? Do they, for some reason, have a tendancy to focus on you rather than on Teemo, Gangplank, or Annie? Then this is the spell for you.
Everything Else
Did you take heal? Did you take revive? Mundo think you a big sissy!
Mundo can't use utility masteries, and doesn't use much of the deep defense tree. The only option here is 21/9/0, and we're going to use Nimbleness to help alleviate taking boots other than Swiftness. Hit them like a truck with no brakes, and you won't need the defense tree.
Marks: I use crit chance here because I already have a set of them, it's entirely possible armor penetration provides better damage.
Seals: Seals are always hard to buy, but I find dodge is something that's hard to come by and nearly every character can use. They also stack nicely with my preferred item build.
Glyphs: More ults for Mundo! The only thing you can consider replacing cooldown per level with for mundo are likely Magic Resistance Runes, but given that you'll get far more use out of cooldown per level glyphs for every other character in the game, I stick with these.
Quints: Starting with an extra hundred health at level 1 is amazing for any character. I can't imagine replacing these with anything.
Skill Analysis
Passive - Adrenaline Rush. This regens .3% of your health per second. As most of the health regen in the game is listed as per 5, this can be a bit underwhelming on first glance, but in conjunction with a high health pool and Spirit Visage, this contributes more than you think.
Q - Infected Cleaver. This skill is Mundo. It hits weak points for massive damage on every throw, has a strong slow effect, and has a tiny cooldown. It's a skillshot, but it's incredibly fast, so once you get used to the hitbox you can pull off some great trick shots between minions and around their hitboxes. It also has the most satisfying sound effect in the game, and renders you easily capable of jungling and soloing things like Dragon when you please.
W - Burning Agony. AoE magic damage, consuming your health while it runs, and lowering the duration of CC. It scales with ability power for unknown reasons. This is the last thing you're going to be dealing with, but once you get it the sudden spike of CC survivability and farming capability are greatly appreciated. Just don't run yourself to death forgetting to toggle it off.
E - Masochism. No gimp suits involved, just thirty-inch purple pythons running wild... which is considerably less disturbing than it sounds. This spell wrecks faces, turrets, inhibitors, faces, and even more faces. At level five, this toggle gives you 100 damage, plus 1 damage for every percentage of health you're missing. This is better than any attack item in the game, and gives you incredible pushing power even before you dip into any offensive items. Plus, you headbutt people to death, which every Mundo loves.
R - Sadism. This is your ult. This is why, when you take a scenic tour of Mundoville, the funeral home is out of business and the morgue is empty. The health regen and duration stays the same (50% regen in 12 seconds) but the movement speed bonus you get maxes out at 35%. It's entirely possible for you to chase down a Nidalee, especially if you ignore my love for Teleport and take Ghost. It has a low cooldown, like all of Mundo's abilities but does have a more stringent cost in health than the others. Try to toggle it before you engage, because being stunned can reduce you to too low health to survive a teamfight, whereas being stunned with Sadism running leaves you tanky like Abrams.
Laning Partners
Mundo will typically be called upon to lane with a carry, protecting them and setting them up for kills. He's great in conjunction with a ranged stun or burst damage, but be wary of a double melee lane. Gangplank and Ashe are among your best partners, as they have farm bonuses to help them keep up with all those last hits you're getting from masochism crits and cleavers, as well as strong burst damage potential.
You've got the tools to put up a strong showing against any lane pairing, but be wary of Twitch and Blitzcrank. Eve and Shaco are scrawny enough you can often turn around ill-advised attacks with a headbutt and a cleaver, but Twitch strikes from range, and Blitzcrank denies you the chance to pop your ult before engaging.
Build Details
Doran's Shield is simply too sweet a deal to pass up. With health quints and a dorans, you can have nearly 800 health at level one, and even with a four-second cooldown, regenerate the entire health cost of a cleaver before it's usable again.
If you bought a pot, Mundo thinks you a big sissy.
We're going to buy Visage BEFORE boots. Why? Because in early game, things like Ghost and Teleport are unlikely to be needed in a life or death situation, and Mundo can sit in a lane nearly forever, making a single trip for visage quite palatable. Regen bead is a mere 250 gold, so if you find yourself sorely pressured you can pick that up and find a bit of relief.
We're NOT going to buy Boots of Swiftness. The tendancy for sissy Mundoes to get this item honestly confuses me a bit. Teamfights don't care how fast you are until they're won or lost, turrets aren't impressed by your sweet nikes, and your alternatives are far better for survivability within the actual fight.
Ninja Tabi or Mercury Treads are going to be preferred, dependent upon enemy team composition. This build uses Tabi, because the only caster who provides a strong threat to Mundo is Fiddlesticks, and because matrix dodge Mundo is hilarious.
Every good Mundo buys a Warmogs. If you don't like Warmogs, you're playing the wrong character.
From here, there's a wide array of options, almost none of which matter because the game has likely ended while you're charging up your Warmogs, blithely knocking over turrets and cracking skulls with cleaver. The listed item build is for those one in a hundred games that aren't over yet, but leave you with space and ability to farm enough gold to buy things.
Atma's Impaler gives you more armor, more crit, and more damage, which Mundo loves, especially since it scales with your health, and warmogs gives a metric tonne of that.
Phantom Dancers provide attack speed, movement speed, and dodge chance. Tabi, runes, and a phantom give you a 33% dodge chance, and as no one ever buys sword of the divine, you might as well consider that 33% damage mitigation against physical carries. A faster truck to plow into your enemy's base is always welcome, and there's not really anything else you can buy that gives you such a sweet combination of benefits.
Good alternatives include Stark's Fervor and Aegis of the Legion, assuming your team doesn't already have them, Last Whisper, or simply buying and maintaining an Elixir of Fortitude for final push scenarioes. Collect yourself an Oracles sometime during the game, the team will love you.
Bad alternatives include Frozen Mallet (massive cost, minor damage improvement, cleaver takes care of slow for you) and Force of Nature (massive cost. regen rather than base health). If your game is lasting forever and you want more tankiness, buy another mogs.
In Conclusion
When Mundo has Q, Mundo press butan. When Mundo has E, Mundo headbutts the enemundo. Mundo hits like a truck made of cleavers and full of smaller angry Mundoes with cleavers. Mundo never, ever dies, and all screenshots to the contrary are Photoshopped. In the League of Legends, THIS IS WHERE THE POWER LIES!


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Thermaltake has quite the array of different cases and offer many unique styles. Most of them are designed for the game enthusiast and tend to have the "wow" factor already applied to them, in either colored fans or accented bodies. Where the range of style goes from a little more subtle to in your face. We recently took a look at the Overseer RX-I back in February, a rather blue friendly chassis. Today we'll be taking a look at another one of Thermaltake's interesting creations, the Commander MS-I.
The Commander series is a set of four identical cases, each with their own color combination choices. We'll be looking at the all black offering with the included blue LED rear fan. The series also has a Snow edition which is all white with black mesh and an Epic edition which has a red front bezel and tinted red window. This way you can fling for more, or take it down a notch and stick with the plain black. Either way, it's always nice to see multiple color options with the same body. Let's start looking at this chassis and see if it's something that could be showing up on your doorstep soon or not.
Closer Look:
Thermaltake always has somewhat flashy boxes, always printed with some kind of creature, mech, futuristic thing, or planet. I'm guessing it's supposed to play off the names of the different series, but I don't really care – I just want the case! Thermaltake's older style logo of the sun swirl never really seems to fit in either, always stuck in one of the corners. Point is, you still always know it's a Thermaltake box when it shows up.
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Caring less about the box itself and more about what is actually inside it, this needed to be opened and unpacked. Cutting open the tape revealed foam end caps and a plastic bag, pretty much the standard method of case shipping anymore. Flipping over the box and letting the case slide out, the right shot is what you end up with. Good packing again, as everything is intact. Even the delivery guy didn't find a way to destroy the box or foam, so plus one to our delivery man.


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I still contend that what I said years ago is still true: TJEd has nearly ruined homeschooling in Utah. The fact that so many people would vehemently argue such a flawed philosophy and approach was surprising and worrisome. I put forth my best arguments and stayed clear of personally attacking anyone or using material that wasn't publicly available and which came directly from publishings of Oliver DeMille. Time would then tell whether TJEd was really a revolution that would raise up leaders of the nation, or dwindle away.
George Wythe University has published an account of the misdeeds of Oliver DeMille and others in their roles as founders and administrators of the school. It's not pretty. Below are some excerpts (http://news.gw.edu/?p=393):
"The most grievous discovery was that Oliver DeMille had, during the previous governance under Coral Ridge, approved two doctoral degrees based primarily on experiential credit and without any coursework. In addition, DeMille's own credentials were called into question when critics investigating his past revealed two illegitimate degrees he had received in the early 1990s."These statements are from the official Newsroom of GWU. These are not accusations from outsiders. I suggest you read the whole thing. There's a lot in there. One could argue that it doesn't mean the current Board of GWU is right, but it does mean that the Founder of TJEd has been found to be "deceptive," and having a "checkered past," and acting "egregiously." Not all the misdeeds were done by DeMille of course, but they were done by Board Members of GWU. If GWU isn't the most blatant example of TJEd in action or implementation of its principles, I don't know what is. And GWU is not some splinter group from the movement that is dissatisfied and broke off from DeMille. There is no group left of any size that still defends or implements TJEd like there was when this blog was started. None that I'm aware of.
"The first discovery was that incomplete and misleading statements and financial reports were being presented to the board by the administration. "
"Particularly troubling were the discoveries that accounting practices were in disarray and that Brooks had consistently withheld information about contracts and finances regarding the Monticello campus he had proposed two years earlier."
"As the board continued its investigation, a number of egregious actions were discovered that the board felt could potentially justify legal action."
"Given the board's discoveries with regard to DeMille in particular and his selective compromising of transcripts and degrees, the board's new leadership faced a serious dilemma."
"The board's duty and commitment was to cleanse the school and its alumni of the checkered past of its founders. Yet a delicate balance was required between timing the publicity of the founders' misdeeds and allowing institutional strength to recover from the very damage they had inflicted."
"Through this sheltered introduction, a loyalty to personalities had formed among thousands of people. Given this, the board realized that many would not be able to distinguish the school from its founders."
"It is the opinion of this board that the public should be safeguarded from the kind of mismanagement, deception and irresponsibility that the school previously suffered under DeMille and Brooks. We condemn their actions in the strongest terms and without reservation. "
Perhaps some will accuse me of kicking a man when he's down or jumping on the bandwagon of attacking DeMille. I'm bringing to light what the results of the founder of TJEd has been. These are the results. DeMille and his followers preached a better way and made a lot promises and arguments about the benefits and results of TJEd. It didn't happen, and it wasn't because they weren't allowed to fully implement their ideas. It broke apart all by itself.
The current GWU Board said something I totally agree with: "None of this had to happen." That's right, it didn't. Yet the damage done was widespread and long lasting. It will still take a few more years before Utah homeschooling recovers, and hopefully nothing as faulty comes in and takes the place of TJEd. But like the old saying goes, when the students are ready the teacher appears. We need people and parents who aren't so quick to adopt philosophies like TJEd. We need to not fall so easily to claims and promises. We need to not be so eager to accuse other people of persecution, or "conveyor belt" thinking, or denying people greatness, or squandering their destiny, or of being too stupid to understand. We need to be wiser than that.


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DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has vetoed legislation that would allow concealed weapons in churches, schools and daycare centers.
The Republican governor said in a release Tuesday that public venues need clear legal authority to ban firearms "if they see fit to do so."
Snyder told The Associated Press Monday he was scrutinizing the bill after Friday's massacre at a Connecticut school. He also drew on his own memories of a fatal shooting in his college dormitory more than three decades ago.
The legislation would have prohibited openly carrying guns in those places while allowing permit holders to carry concealed weapons. But they couldn't do so if the locations declare themselves weapons-free zones.
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WILMINGTON, Mass. – As he normally does, regardless if a player is going really well or having some struggles, Bruins head coach Claude Julien sought out center Marc Savard this morning before practice at Ristuccia Arena.
Savard was partially benched for a large chunk of the third period in Boston's 3-1 loss to Minnesota last night – the veteran only skated in extra-man situations over the final three fourths of the stanza – after an unforced giveaway led directly to the Wild's go-ahead goal.
After cutting Savard's ice time as punishment, Julien wanted to follow up this morning with some positive reinforcement and a message that he has faith in the center to bounce back the right way in the games ahead.
Now to Savard, the benching – his second in as many weeks – is on the previous page. Saturday night's huge match-up with Montreal is on the current page.
"You've got to [forget about last night]. That's part of the business. You've got to move on. It was tough to swallow," said Savard.
Savard's too proud to keep leaning on the excuse that he has only been back playing games for a month after his bout with post-concussion syndrome and his long road back into shape once he started skating. But that's obviously a huge reason a guy that usually tops the Bruins' scoring chart has recorded just six points in 16 games.
The gaffe against the Wild was the second glaring one Savard made leading up to an opposition goal since his return. December 11 he made a blind pass back to the point that Mike Richards intercepted and turned into a 2-on-1 goal in overtime to lift Philadelphia. Savard made his share of miscues in earning extra bench time last week in Tampa as well.
Unlike Patrice Bergeron who went also went through a return from a serious concussion a couple seasons ago, Savard did not have the benefit of months of skating leading up to training camp or even training camp. And even if he had had those things, his game might still be a little off because so much of the way Savard plays is about touch, timing and confidence. The time off has obviously taken it's toll on Savard. But general manager Peter Chiarelli is as willing as Julien to be patient with the center, even if that means curtailing some playing time in the midst of games.
"We've got three centermen and we have to spread out the ice time," said Chiarelli while rinkside during today's practice. "Obviously, he's a very good player and whether he was confused or not, he has to … I see progress. But these blips here and there, they're attributed to inactivity. Any offensive player like him is prone to those things. … It's just the frequency of it. He may do nine great plays and one giveaway. Right now, he's not at that ratio yet. But I expect him to get there."
As far as Zdeno Chara's concerned, he's confident that Savard and any teammates that suffer a cut in ice time because of poor play would be wise to just to lean on the team's system and focus on the little things in order to get back up to speed and still contribute to the team's success.
"Obviously, if you're not performing and you're not playing well, and somebody else is playing well, obviously it's their turn to play more," said the captain. "When you cut down on your ice time, then you have to really focus on doing the things right, really pay attention to detail and think defense first and make sure you don't make mistakes in the defensive zone and get it nice with speed through the neutral zone and don't turn the puck over. …
"When we get to the offensive zone, we all know we have [some freedom] … then you can create something and try to do something offensively. But obviously it starts in the defensive zone."
That's a lesson Savard has been learning since he came to Boston from Atlanta almost four years ago. And one that he can take to heart again as he continues to try to work is way from being the dormant, pedestrian Marc Savard back to the dynamic playmaking Marc Savard.
At least now he knows now his coach still has his back and will give him more chances to regain his form.


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Microsoft Outlook is a powerful email client that allows the users to send messages over exchange server. The information of outlook users is stored in the Personal storage tables or PST files. Personal storage folders contain emails, email attachments, sent items, inbox, drafts, notes and calendars of MS outlook. The PST files of MS outlook can become corrupt for various reasons such as malfunctioning of window system, virus and spyware attacks, accidental deletion of outlook mailbox and hard disk corruption.
MS outlook has its inbuilt repair tool called scanpst.exe to fix the minor errors of corrupt PST files. But in case damage caused to PST files is extensive, an user may not be able his/her corrupt outlook mailbox with scanpst.exe. To deal with major corruption issue of PST files, one can choose efficient third party software.
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Outlook PST recovery tool is designed keeping in view of all corruption issues of the PST files. Corrupt PST files make the outlook mailbox inaccessible and user cannot use his outlook account. The Outlook PST repair program thoroughly scans the system's hard disk to find out corrupt PST files and start the repairing process. The scan Outlook PST file recovery software enables the user to retrieve all items such as emails, deleted emails, attached files, images, notes, calendar, sent items and drafts from his/her inaccessible outlook mailbox.
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Lancet Infectious Diseases Highlights Issues to Be Discussed at IAS Conference
June 26, 2013
Noting that "[f]rom June 30 to July 3 many of the world's leading HIV/AIDS researchers, practitioners, and allied professionals will converge on Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the 7th International AIDS Society Conference on Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention," an editorial in the latest issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases says the journal includes content that "has been specially selected to reflect some of the key issues in HIV/AIDS with articles on monitoring and treatment and reviews on the search for a cure and the biology and effects of HIV superinfection." The editorial notes "[o]ne of the key themes of the conference is co-infection" and describes several of the articles (July 2013).
Back to other news for June 2013
The 7th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2013)
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August 21, 1923 - March 12, 2013
Nashua, NH - Formerly of Millbrook and New Paltz, NY
Anne McKeon, 89, a former longtime resident of Millbrook and New Paltz, died Tuesday, March 12th in Nashua, NH, where she had lived since 2004.
Born August 21, 1923 in Hanover, NH, she was the daughter of the late Mervyn Mason Manning and Blanche "Dorothy" Manning.
She was married April 10, 1945 to Warren McKeon in White Plains, NY.
Mrs. McKeon was a graduate of Peekskill High School in Peekskill, NY. After graduating from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY in 1945, she became a personal shopper at Lord & Taylor in Manhattan.
She lived in Millbrook from 1955-1974; New Paltz from 1974 to 2002 and Port Ewen from 2003-2004.
Active in her community, she was a volunteer at Sharon Hospital in Sharon, CtT and also worked with the Girl Scouts of America. From 1955-1974, she was a member of Grace Episcopal Church in Millbrook.
Mrs. McKeon was a member of garden clubs in Millbrook and New Paltz and also a member of the American Association of University Women. She also volunteered for the Hudson River Environmental Society, doing secretarial work.
She is survived by her husband, Warren, of Nashua, NH; her daughter, Diana McKeon Charkalis of Los Angeles; a grandson, Peter Manning Charkalis of Los Angeles, and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents and a brother, Mervyn Mason Manning Jr.
Funeral services will be held Sunday March, 17th at 2 p.m. at The Church of the Messiah, 6436 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572. Her nephew, the Rev. Richard McKeon Jr., will officiate. There will be a calling hour at the church from 1 to 2 p.m., preceding the service, and a reception at the church afterward.
Donations in Anne's memory may be made to The Church of the Messiah, P.O. Box 248, Rhinebeck, NY, 12572 and the Alzheimer's Association.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Dapson-Chestney Funeral Home, 51 West Market St., Rhinebeck, NY. To sign the online register please visit dapsonchestney.com


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Real estate crashes in Spain and Ireland have led to towns that were supposed to be vibrant suburban paradises for young people becoming one of the most obvious testaments to the countries' boom gone bust. Such modern-day ghost towns have become a familiar landscape around Spain and Ireland, abandoned shells left to slowly decay.
The property boom in Spain has left an estimated 1.5 million unsold new homes. That doesn't count developments where building simply stopped. There are more than 33,000 unoccupied homes on Ireland's ghost estates, according to a report from the Department of the Environment. But as house prices continue to fall and unemployment keeps rising, it may be years before these ghost towns show signs of life.
By Bianca Schlotterbeck
Posted 1 May 2012


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Cooper, MD
Professor of Dermatology
Department of Dermatology
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Kevin D. Cooper joined Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center in 1995 from prior positions at the University of Michigan, and the National Institutes of Health, and training at Oregon Health Sciences University and the University of Florida. He has developed a highly matrixed program that intersects seven geographical clinical sites with teaching and research activities which span basic laboratory, translational, and clinical trial investigations. With interests in immunologically-mediated skin diseases and photomedicine/photoimmunology, Dr. Cooper has been continuously funded since 1986 and has published over 300 papers and chapters. He enjoys mentoring faculty, residents, fellows, and students.
Dr. Cooper is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology at both Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC) in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a Staff Physician for the Dermatology Service at the Cleveland VA Hospital. Dr. Cooper is the Director of the NIAMS Skin Diseases Research Center at CWRU, focusing on creating advances in skin diseases, and the Director of the Murdough Family Center for Psoriasis. He is Director of the NIAMS Psoriasis Center of Research Translation (CORT) at CWRU, performing lab-based, translational, and Phase I investigator – initiated clinical research where research team findings are moved from the "lab bench to the patient".
Dr. Cooper was elected President of the Council of Clinical Chairs (from 2007), and has been on the Boards of Trustees for UHCMC since 2007, and for University Hospital Medical Group since 2008. He has been a member of CWRU School of Medicine Research Committee since 1996, and is a member of the Dean's Advisory Committee.
Dr. Cooper is currently President of the Association of Professors of Dermatology, Past President of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, and has chaired a number of American Academy of Dermatology Committees and Councils, including the Scientific Assembly Committee. He has provided leadership for patient advisory boards including the National Eczema Association, Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation, and the National Psoriasis Foundation. He is a co-founder of Fluence Therapeutics, a start-up biomedical company created to develop photodynamic therapy. Dr. Cooper serves on NIH Advisory Groups and as a reviewer for NIH review panels.
Currently the conference organizer and sponsor of the Murdough Family Center for Psoriasis Symposium: Comparative Effectiveness Research & Implementation (September, 2011), Dr. Cooper is also on the Steering Committee for the Mechanisms of Inflammatory Alopecia meeting to be held in October, 2011, in Bethesda, Maryland. He has previously organized Programs for the APD, the AAD, the ADA, and the Symposium for Biology of the Skin.
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Jerome 'Korli' Duval has adapted Haiku's MESA-based OpenGL subsystem to an addon format, allowing renderers to be plugged in, with the first one being a MESA software renderer. This system will allow hardware 3D renderering drivers, such as Rudolf's one when adapted, to plug in without requiring specialised libGL.so's for every card. This extends the common BeOS concept of modularity even further, and is somewhat similar to how Be's OpenGL beta worked - each graphics card acquired a third, .3da driver, to add to the kernel and .accelerant drivers.


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When you have made the decision that assisted living is the best choice for you or someone you love, you'll find a welcome home at NorthPark Village in Christian County near Mercy Hospital Springfield and Cox Medical Center. All the help you need is right here, but you may not notice it right away. That's part of the charm of NorthPark Village. We believe in being felt more than being seen, and in offering just the right touch for each individual.
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STOCKTON - Imagine you're the parent of somebody suffering from mental illness.
STOCKTON - Imagine you're the parent of somebody suffering from mental illness.
The child, or maybe he's an adult living at home, isn't a danger to himself or others. Not yet, anyway. But there's no reaching him, and he's locked himself in a room.
Training law enforcement how to deal with the mentally ill can help a situation like this from turning tragic or violent, but it's not a replacement for trained mental health professionals, such as those who make up the county's Crisis Community Response Team, said Gertie Kandris, a member of San Joaquin County Mental Health Advisory Board. Designed to help law enforcement when it launched in 2006, the crisis teams are available 24 hours a day.
"I have heard people say they calmed the person down in no time flat," Kandris said. "The (crisis team) is great. But they are always busy, and there aren't enough of them."
That's also one of the findings in the county's annual update for programs and services provided through the Mental Health Services Act of 2004. Passed by voters as Proposition 63, it is more commonly known as the "millionaire's tax."
The plan also calls for beefing up the crisis response, something the county is budgeted to do in the coming year.
"We've got to up our game," said Jim Garrett, deputy director of Behavioral Health Services in charge of the response team and other 24-hour services for the mentally ill in the county.
The plan also calls for more help for children in foster care, more access to training to those in law enforcement, reaching out to veterans and other vulnerable populations, improving the website covering mental health care in the county and making other changes in the coming year.
The changes outlined in the plan have been approved in the county budget, and the draft mental health plan is headed to the county Board of Supervisors for final approval.
People suffering from mental illness and their families have helped shape the plan in about 20 meetings over the past year. This kind of engagement is part of the intent of the act.
It's the latest iteration in planning happening since 2005, said Kayce Rayne, a consultant for the county who prepared the plan. "There is a vision in San Joaquin County to build a community-based system of care." It went to the mental health board for a final public hearing on Wednesday.
The mental health board brings together county officials, mental health staffers, clients and families. The board has become more active and reflects the switch toward empowerment seen in recent years, said county Supervisor Larry Ruhstaller, who also sits on the mental health board.
Designed to handle about 500 calls for service a year, the 24-hour crisis team service actually gets about 4,000 calls for help a year, according to the plan. So they are not always there when there's a call for help.
"When we need help from Mental Health, we need it immediately," Lodi Police Chief Mark Helms said. He said he was glad to hear more mental health workers were coming. "They can be invaluable to what we do."
The county plans to spend about $99 million on Mental Health Services this year, it's about $10.1 million larger than last year's budget largely because of expansion of Mental Health Services Act programs, according to the county budget.
Funding from the Mental Health Services act is now the largest source of funding for the Mental Health Services budget. And the state is moving to increase other additional funding in a way it hasn't in years past, officials said.
But still, there is great need for the county's mentally ill that current programs are not filling. "Everywhere we have services - it's not deep enough," Behavioral Health Services Director Vic Singh said. And the increase in paid positions does not mean change will happen immediately.
Several mental health workers have left the county for higher-paying jobs at the state's new prison hospital, which just opened on the outskirts of Stockton.
But the need for crisis response goes beyond those with mental illness, the mental health board's Kandris said. "Because when your child is in crisis. The whole family is in crisis."
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David Hall: The 1925-D is very scarce in circulated grades and rare in mint state. In Gem condtition, it is the second rarest Denver Mint Buffalo of the 1920s after the 1927-D. Well struck examples can be found, but softness of strike on the Buffalo's horn and tail can also be seen on a significant number of mint state survivors. Luster is usually pretty good on this issue with a semi-frosty/satiny look.
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Four Drawers
The first one took about 3 hours, but after that I was able to make each of the others in less than an hour. I had only made one other drawer before this and that was only due to a mistake. When I made the corner cabinet in the bathroom it was supposed to be a single door for the whole thing. Well, I made the door 6-inches too short (gun to head) and so I ended adding a drawer to the top to make up the room. The logic at the time was that adding a drawer was less work than making a new door. The verdict is still out on that, but regardless, it was a good experience.
These drawers presented a unique challenge for me – well, I guess at this point, almost any drawer presents a unique challenge considering I had only made the one prior to this week. Anyway, the main challenge with these was that they are pass-through drawers. They can be opened on either side of the cabinet. If I were making a standard drawer on a 24-inch deep cabinet, the drawer could be 20-inches deep or 22-inces deep. It really wouldn't matter how deep it was so long as it would close. With these, they needed to be pretty darn near close to the exact depth of the cabinet or they would always look odd from one side.
The target depth was 22-inches. I had already made the draw fronts for the front side so I needed to make the draw fronts for the back side. Then by measuring the thickness of both, minus the rabbit at the end that would accept the draw sides, that would give me the length of the sides.
Well, I panicked. That is one of the reasons it took 3 hours to make the first one. No, those aren't the drawers I made. Those are the 1920s drawers that came out of the old rental kitchen. I dismantled them to make the new drawers. This is the other reason it took so long to make the first drawer. I want things to look authentic, so using 7/8th inch thick redwood drawer sides and bottoms from the 1920s did help in that, but it added a lot of time.
The other panic induced decision was to make them a hair longer than they needed to be. One of the things I've been worried about all along was that the cabinets will seem too 2 dimensional. These are supposed to be High Victorian dining room cabinets. A lot of times these would incorporate columns and mirrors and bump-outs and what ever other trick the cabinet maker could come up with. Also, when you think of Victorian trimwork there are always parts in relief of other parts to accentuate shadow lines. For instance, the head blocks and plinth blocks always sit a quarter inch proud of the casing. It gives the trim that added dimension to catch the light and throw a shadow.
So with all of that in mind, and the blinding fear that I would make them too small, I made the first one a quarter-inch too long so the dining room side would sit a little proud of the rest of the cabinet. I did it and then I did the other three exactly like that, and now, surprise of all surprises, I'm doubting that decision. I don't think at this point I will be taking them all apart to trim a quarter-inch off the sides, so once again I will either need to live with this or sell the house.
I'm leaning towards selling the house, but since that won't be tonight, here are a few shots. First the long shot and then a left and right close-up.
Regardless of the quarter-inch I'm greatly relieved that this task is behind me and I generally like the way they look. It is going to kill me to mount hardware in those burl drawer fronts. The only problem with them now is that they don't operate all that well. Because they must open from both sides, the draw guides need to be dead-perfect, straight-on. Mine aren't. These are not modern guides but redwood ones I made. My hope now is that I didn't use glue when I installed them three weeks ago. If they are just put in with brads, I should be able to pop them out and reposition them, or even make new ones. We'll see.


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ClockSync - Operator not supporting time synchronization via NITZ? Device clock lags or runs forward? There is a solution for this issue! ClockSync is an Android application which can actually synchronize the device time with atomic time using NTP over GPRS/EDGE/3G/WiFi connection.
· Displays atomic reference time, system time, clock offset and current date or last synchronization time
· Gets atomic time from the user specified NTP server
· Can also set time zone from the geographic location (Detect time zone)
· Update offset by tapping on the Local offset value on the screen
· NTP details dialog is shown when tapping on Atomic time
· Tapping on the system time will synchronize the device clock with the atomic clock
· Update/Synchronize actions are also available from the application menu
· Automatic synchronization on user specified interval (battery efficient!)
· Options to synchronize only via Wi-Fi or when device is already awake
· Optional Haptic feedback when tapping on the active screen elements
· am/pm and 24-hour time display based on the system setting
· 3 color themes: ClockSync (Default), Android (Dark), Palm Pre (Light)
What's New in This Release:
· AskGeo demanded to stop using their service. I've added Yahoo! PlaceFinder instead, but it doesn't provide zone offset. In case you were using offset from the web service, you need to verify that your system time zone has the same offset or enable "Use database offset" option, otherwise you may get incorrect time.
What's New in 1.2.2:
· AskGeo.com service is asking me to reduce traffic or they will block ClockSync, please consider switching to GeoNames.org if you are using time zone from geo location detection feature
· possibility to use offset from offline database when using time zone detection
· cache time zone provider results for 12 hours (can be disabled or tuned in settings)
· zone cache is reset when longitude/latitude changes significantly
· menu didn't work on hdpi HC devices
· 30 seconds timeout option
What's New in 1.1.9:
· fixed language change in the app when system language changes
What's New in 1.1.6:
· support for offline time zone database (installed from Market, based on the latest Olson tz database)
· automatic switching between daylight saving time and standard time when using tz database
· provider offset option now changes system time zone to GMT+provider offset instead of internal time adjustment
· override system time zone option now sets time zone to GMT+specified offset instead of GMT+00:00 and internal time adjustment
· fixed last synchronization time didn't persist in rootless mode
What's New in 1.1.5:
· rootless mode rewritten, uses new transparent overlay updated every second (requires new permission)
· precise sync in rootless mode for devices that reset seconds on set (most Samsung phones and tablets)
· Greenwich Time Signal to assist in manual sync if device resets seconds
· separate notification offset thresholds for root and rootless modes
· separate settings group for rootless mode
· fixed time zone display in NTP Details dialog for devices with updated zoneinfo
· fixed potential stack overflow when changing NTP server
What's New in 1.1.4:
· AskGeo.com is added as a new geo location to time zone service, GeoNames.org can be enabled back in Settings
· option to use provider time zone offset (for AskGeo only at the moment)
· option to override system time zone with UTC and use custom offset in hours
· shortcut to install/run TimeZone Fixer app (updates system time zone files)
· option to keep screen always on when ClockSync is open
· NTP server port can be specified in the server string after colon: pool.ntp.org:123, useful for custom ports if the default one is blocked by your ISP
· new notification icon for Gingerbread and later (by Jocelyn Mallon)
· fixed black background didn't persist on Honeycomb
· better themes management for phones and tablets
· fixed statistics update threshold (20min) not working with negative offset values
· fixed fade removed from offset even if update failed
What's New in 1.1.3:
· smart automatic sync: no sync when network disabled, sync with interval when network available, also sync if missed because of disabled network as soon as connection becomes available
· time zone detection fixed (geonames API usage limit was exceeded)
· detect time zone updates and display changes instantly
· cosmetic changes to themes and dialogs to look better on Honeycomb tablets (still work in progress)
What's New in 1.1.2:
· No root? Enjoy clock off time notification with configurable threshold
· No root? Set time manually with the help of ClockSync to achieve best possible accuracy (see FAQ)
· time zone adjustment option will work without root (even if it's not possible to set time)
· History & Stats dialog quick access by long tap on date/last sync value
· stats threshold is set to 20 minutes, if offset is greater, stats will not update
· About and FAQ are now separated to standalone views
· Restore permission option had no effect when enabled
What's New in 1.1.1:
· High precision option for perfect automatic synchronization (see FAQ)
· long tapping on offset/system time performs manual high precision update/synchronization (takes ~5 sec)
· Strict interval option for more predictable sync when using longer intervals (see FAQ)
· higher time display precision, atomic/system clocks update independently
· statistics: total corrected time, average drift per day, sync count
· moving to SD disabled as it will break automatic synchronization
· modified Market features so that Location/GPS is not required
· use 12 instead of 00 for noon/midnight 12-hour clock
· various fixes, performance improvements, translation and FAQ updates
What's New in 1.1.0:
· faster synchronization without invoking su (see Restore permissions option and FAQ)
· values were not shown as disabled sometimes
· updated FAQ


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There's a simple notation near the beginning of the White House transcript of President Obama's remarks at the Housing and Urban Development Department Thursday: "(Applause)."
Apparently, the reaction from the assembled HUD employees went a little beyond mere polite clapping, though.
"Clearly, HUD has the rowdiest employees," Obama said of his reception at HUD headquarters -- which only served to set off more applause. Of course, the president then acknowledged that his appearance wasn't as exciting to employees as First Lady Michelle Obama's was.
Obama was at HUD to talk up both the department's recently departed secretary, Shaun Donovan (who decamped to the Office of Management and Budget) and its new leader, Julián Castro. "I am here today because I stole one terrific Secretary of HUD from you, but I've delivered another terrific Secretary of HUD to you," Obama said.
Calling Donovan a "geek" and a "wonk," Obama said, "he promised that if everyone here at HUD worked just a little bit harder, you could really turn things around for struggling families. And all of you accepted that challenge."
As for Castro, Obama said "nobody is more passionate" about housing issues.
The president also urged the assembled employees to "remember why you got into this work in the first place."
"If you remember that this is not just a job but it should also be a passion, that it should also be part of giving back, that you shouldn't just be checking in and punching the clock, but every single day there's somebody out there who could use your help -- and I know when they get that help.... They write letters to me and they'll tell me, 'You know what, you transformed my life.' "


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Architect on board for initial police station plans in PlaistowBy ADAM SWIFT
Union Leader Correspondent
July 04. 2014 7:23PM
PLAISTOW — The long process to build a new police station will take another step forward this month.
The town recently hired Dore & Whittier Architects of Newburyport, Mass., to complete a feasibility study for a new police station and refurbished public safety complex.
The firm was one of five that submitted a proposal to the town in April.
Dore & Whittier is being asked to conduct a feasibility study, prepare a preliminary design schematic and cost estimates for a stand-alone police station to be located behind the current facility on the same lot on Elm Street.
The town also requested that the successful firm look at rehabbing the existing building for the fire department and, possibly, the town's inspection services departments.
Last year, selectmen agreed to spend $25,000 raised through public safety impact fees on the preliminary engineering and architectural study for the new police station.
"We will begin a very busy six-week phase of work," said Town Manager Sean Fitzgerald. "This will involve a 15-page survey that the police and fire departments will fill out."
The survey will help the architectural firm outline the space and program needs for the police and fire departments.
"They expect that the work will begin in Plaistow on July 14," said Fitzgerald.
Fire Chief and building committee member John McArdle said the town has been looking at the possibility of building a new police station and an updated public safety facility for the better part of a decade.
"The longer we wait, the more it is going to cost," McArdle told selectmen earlier this year. "It is inevitable that the building is going to be built. It is a matter of how much we are willing to pay and how long we are willing to wait."
The Police Department and Emergency Management Department have been sharing the current building with the fire department since it was built in 1985, even though the intent in the 1980s was to have the building house only the Fire Department.


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San Clemente March 18th Filtrate's products have arrived. New to the US market, Filtrate Eyewear prepares to launch into North America. Filtrate CEO, Andre Sickinger brings this new brand from Australia after six years of growth and success down under. Filtrate offers unbelievable quality at a price point. Filtrate is poised to become the most accessible action sports inspired eyewear brand.
"When the opportunity arose for Filtrate Eyewear to branch out in North America, we felt it would be fitting for an Australian to head up our brand" says Wade Sutton, President of Filtrate International.
Andre's background includes the managing of Tom Carroll's board store (Sydney Australia, two years) and on Indies Trader Surf Charters working alongside Martin Daly over the course for four years.
"Our opportunity is to fill the void of premium styles in today's price point category" says Andre Sickinger, CEO, Filtrate North America.
Filtrate's product offers over 25 styles for men and women with an unbelievable price point and retailer margins.
About Filtrate
Filtrate was founded in West OZ 2003. Filtrate's mission is to become the most accessible action sports inspired eyewear brand. The brand is centred on today's youth culture. With inspiration coming from action sports and the lifestyle of our Australian roots.
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You don't have to be born-and-bred Baltimore to have been asked The Question, much less posed it to someone else—the mark of a true Baltimorean lies in the answer. The Question is, of course, "Where'd you go to school?"
Why do we ask The Question? How did this tradition come to define a person? And does it still matter the way it once did?
Let's call on Stefanie DeLuca. Three and a half years ago, she got the biggest break in her still-young academic career. The Chicago native jumped at the job opportunity she'd been offered at Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor of sociology. She'd been born and raised in Chicago and even stayed local for college, attending the University of Chicago and Northwestern. So she found herself homesick and confused early on in Charm City. Mainly because people kept starting conversations with The Question.
"It was awkward for me," she says. "This was happening to me a lot at the Downtown Athletic Club, where I'd get to talking to people and they'd ask me where I went to school. And my first response was: 'So what?' I went to college and then to grad school and it would get confusing because I just had no idea about it, and it would end up being embarrassing."
People like to point out that Baltimore is a big city with a small-town feel. Some people say it wistfully—others, with a sneer. But whether people love it or hate it, they acknowledge it. They see it reflected in Charm City traditions, from the rowdy, communal nature of eating steamed crabs in a large group, to the celebrity status of the local news anchors and weathermen, to the postmodern worship of Baltimore's Hons.
The tradition that goes the furthest in fueling the "smalltown" argument—the one that causes folks to label the town as "parochial"—is our obsession with our high schools. And we're not talking stamp collecting level of obsession, we're talking Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. In some cities, people might be judged on what part of town they're from. Others might be judged on what they do for a living. In Baltimore, where you went to high school speaks loudest. All at once, it tells people where you grew up, just which rung you (and your family) cling to on the social ladder, and sometimes even gives a pretty good indication of what you do for a living. Heck, it even susses out whether you're from Baltimore, as anyone not from around these parts assumes you're referring to their college alma mater.
For the sake of clarity, let's outline what we're assuming are most people's presumptions—that Baltimore has certain "Power Schools" whose reputations are of excellence, whether it be in the arts, sciences, athletics, or even religion. When someone in town asks you where you went to school, these are the alma maters that carry the most weight. And they're pretty widely agreed upon: Baltimore School for the Arts, Beth Tfiloh, Boys' Latin, Bryn Mawr, Calvert Hall, City, Dulaney, Friends, Gilman, Loyola, Maryvale, McDonogh, Mount Saint Joseph, Notre Dame Prep, Park, Poly, both St. Paul's schools, and Western.
Tom Kiefaber owns and runs one of the lasting icons of a bygone Baltimore era, the Senator Theatre. This is appropriate because, after a peripatetic adolescent tour through Baltimore's public, private, and parochial school systems, he possesses rare insight into The Question.
His elementary school years took him to McDonogh once and Gilman twice (he points out that this doesn't deter Gilman from calling him every year during fundraising season). And by junior high, he was a genuine adolescent Odysseus, wandering from school to school.
First, he was back at McDonogh. The next year, he branched out to Boys' Latin, then Baltimore Institute, then
Roland Park Public. Finally, he strung a couple years together at Baltimore Lutheran—long enough to edit the school paper and become school president as a senior, graduating in 1971.
So these days, when asked The Question, Kiefaber says he "learned to cut to the chase and shorten the exchange by responding that I didn't go to St. Paul's or Friends."
Out-of-towners are usually forced to adapt similarly. After a couple decades of answering The Question, some of them get savvy enough to respond with a convincing "Oh, I went to the 'Gilman' of Boston" or possibly "the 'Maryvale' of Poughkeepsie."
DeLuca, on the other hand, tried to dig up the roots of the tradition to satisfy her curiosity—after all, her forté is studying the effects of social context on adolescents.
Initially, she says, "my gut reaction was that Baltimore's a small town with a lot less turnover. So this is simply more of the local tradition, because you have a solid population that doesn't change as much over time. It's a good bet that someone's going to know what you're talking about. And they're going to have gone to high school here. It's largely not something that people even think about."
DeLuca went first to the census data, hoping that something might leap out at her to explain Baltimore's intense love affair with its high schools. "I was trying to think of things that would change the cultural milieu here," she explains, "and which would explain some of what might seem provincial or parochial, but which I look at as culturally traditional." No luck.
But when asked about drawing a parallel to the close ties most people create in college fraternities and sororities, DeLuca acknowledges some similarity. "In the South, fraternity and sorority involvement is for life," she says. "Because it's a status thing. And I think that's what all of this comes down to. I don't think the specifics of whether it was Delta Phi Epsilon or Calvert Hall are what matters. It comes down to when people are interacting socially, there's just a little bit of getting a footing when it comes to social status. It's a common denominator. And it's a way to get a better handle on who you're talking to."
Social institutions, she explains, are simply shortcuts that we take. We take them because they're easy and we take them because sometimes they actually get us somewhere quicker.
"It either serves a purpose of sussing out who you're talking to, or it's just a force of habit and the specifics are irrelevant—it's just a way of entering into a conversation with somebody," she says. Either way, it's the Baltimore version of asking people where they're from or what they do for a living. It's a more polite way of asking "Who are you?"
"I think it may be related to our provincial past, when your classmates often reflected your social class," Kiefaber offers. "Although the clear delineation in the past has blurred somewhat, it remains a method for efficiently establishing where an individual may fit in the Greater Baltimore Scheme of Things."
When two Baltimoreans are involved, he says, The Question is always followed by a quick game of Who Do You Know? "Since indigenous Baltimoreans tend to stay put, there are fewer degrees of separation here and the 'Where did you go to school?' inquiry is still an effective search engine that beats Google every time."
Writer Laura Lippman, who started at Western before transferring to Wilde Lake, nods in vigorous agreement. "Baltimore is obsessed with high school because, in general, no one ever leaves," she says. "I've heard newcomers say they've never known a place that was so obsessed with high school. And the old high schools—Western, Poly, City, Eastern, Forest Park, etc.—had very strong identities once upon a time. It was a very convenient way to stereotype. Why do you think I'm so quick to invoke [my] one year at Western? It's a total brainiac credential to have been A-course."
And boy, does Lippman have a point— Baltimoreans love to stick around. Proof of that lies at the heart of this very discussion. DeLuca points out the obvious: If the best of Baltimore's high-school alums always left town, there wouldn't be much point to asking The Question.
Fortunately, most of those alumni have remained in and around Charm City, helping to lead and shape the city over the past half-century. More importantly, those school ties are as instrumental as ever in getting alumni into colleges, boardrooms, and elite social circles.
"I often have kids who are seniors who are getting jobs at some point," says Barry Fitzpatrick, principal at Mt. St. Joe. "And they say 'Wow, Mr. So-and-so hired me because I'm a St. Joe grad and so is he.' You have people giving a little bit of a preference in hiring to guys from their high school."
Fitzpatrick's counterpart at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute—always shortened to "Poly"—agrees. "The hand has always reached backward to pull folks along," says Dr. Barney Wilson, Poly's principal and a class of '76 grad.
Last year, for instance, Willard Hackerman, construction magnate and Poly alumnus, established a scholarship for three Poly grads each year for the next 25 years who go on to attend Johns Hopkins University.
"When I went to Pittsburgh for college," says Wilson, "there was an article in the paper that there were some Poly students at Carnegie Mellon. The vice president of Westinghouse at the time immediately called the school and took 15 of us to dinner and paid for it and said to us: 'Welcome to Pittsburgh. I know that Carnegie Mellon's going to be okay because there are 15 students from Poly and Western here.' Anything he could do to support his schools, he would do."
There's no question that this is how Baltimore's school ties have remained so strong—and why The Question is still relevant.
"If someone asked me today about where I went to school," Wilson says, "the last thing I'd think about is college. The very first thing I'd think about is Poly. When I'm out and I see a City or Western ring, I immediately engage in conversation and we immediately have some common ground." He's even met fellow Baltimoreans in such farflung locales as Africa and Australia simply because he spotted their school rings.
And although the "provincial" and "parochial" labels don't always carry such savory associations, Baltimore's school ties are admirable in their ability to go beyond race. "Poly now is predominantly African- American," says Wilson. "Before 1960, most of the folks were white male. But they still have the same love for the school and the love for the students who are there, because they're Poly students and race doesn't really come into it." It may seem insignificant, but it's apparently refreshingly different after some of the things he's seen in other places.
"In New York, a lot of the alumni at some of the stronger schools have abandoned the schools because the population has changed," he says. "The rigor didn't change—the schools are still producing topnotch students who can compete nationally. But the alumni support has waned. Baltimore, to its credit, has not abandoned its schools along racial lines."
It's clear that Baltimore's high-school alums haven't abandoned Baltimore either. A look at some of the most notable alumni of Baltimore's schools reads like a who's who of Baltimore's elite over the years. And in many cases, it serves to reinforce the reputations schools have.
And that's another unique element to The Question—graduation rates don't matter. SAT scores don't matter. Class sizes don't matter. For the purposes of the average Baltimorean asking The Question, the proof of a Power School is in the pudding—the alumni.
For starters, if you want to be a politician, City College is apparently the place to be. They've turned out Elijah Cummings, Theodore McKeldin, Dutch Ruppersberger, William Donald Schaefer, and Kurt Schmoke. The Notre Dames haven't done too badly either, with Barbara Mikulski and Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, hailing from IND, and Baltimore City Judge and First Lady of Baltimore, Katie Curran O'Malley, attending Notre Dame Prep.
Poly's got the market on future construction tycoons cornered, with grads like Alonzo Decker (of Black & Decker fame), Robert Poole and E. Robert Kent, and the aforementioned Willard Hackerman.
Most of the other Power Schools have prominent alums from more varied walks of life. Consider McDonogh, responsible for tennis star Pam Shriver, former Crown Central Petroleum CEO Henry Rosenberg, beer guru and Clipper City beermaster Hugh Sisson, and interior designer Stiles Colwill.
Or Gilman, whose alumni list includes Governor Robert Ehrlich, Moxley's Ice Cream owner Tom Washburn, Sylvan Learning founder Doug Becker, Living Classrooms CEO James Piper Bond, and restaurateur extraordinaire Tony Foreman.
Of course, not all civic leaders spring forth from City College: City Councilman Keiffer Mitchell attended Boys' Latin. Maryland Attorney General Joe Curran came out of Loyola Blakefield, along with former Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro III, and Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith. State Senator Lisa Gladden and Maryland State Schools Superintendent Nancy Grasmick both graduated from Western High. Walter Sondheim matriculated from Park School. And Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, went to Pikesville High.
There's no shortage of scribes and inkstained wretches on the rolls of our alums either: Laura Lippman came out of Wilde Lake, H.L. Mencken walked the halls of Poly long ago, Leon Uris was a product of City College, Tom Clancy graduated from Loyola, Anna Deveare Smith went to Western, and Gilman boasts both Frank Deford and Walter Lord.
Baltimore also claims some serious Hollywood power as well, with alums like Fox Filmed Entertainment's Tom Rothman, of Park School; producer Marc Platt, of Pikesville High; Columbia, TriStar's Steve Mosko, of John Carroll; and actor Edward Norton, of Wilde Lake. Even Charles Theater co-owner John Standiford came from Friends School. And a list of important Baltimoreans in the performing arts is almost too long to consider. Milford Mill Academy has produced successful performers like Mario, Mo'nique, and Maysa Leak. Baltimore School for the Arts and Carver Center for Arts and Technology are responsible for world-class musicians, actors, and actresses year after year after year.
Some of our landmark local businesses are owned and run by Baltimore alums too. Advertising impresarios Allan Charles and Steve Eisner attended City and Park, respectively. Severna Park High lays claim to Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti. Bread winners Sam and Alfie Himmelrich graduated from Park. And Maryvale grad Patricia Brown is the president of Johns Hopkins HealthCare.
Then there's sports—an arena unto itself, as it were. If you're hoping to play in the NFL, you could do worse than Woodlawn, which produced three current NFL players. No mention of Towson High would be complete without world-class swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps. Towson Catholic graduated an Olympic medalist and an NBA star— Anita Nall Richesson and Carmelo Anthony. Legendary ABC sportscaster Jim McKay attended Loyola Blakefield. Rangers first-baseman Mark Teixeira hails from Mt. St. Joe. Dundalk High turned out Oriole Mike Bielecki and skateboarder Bucky Lasik. The NBA's Juan Dixon and ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper Jr. both share the same alma mater in Calvert Hall. And Kisha Ford, a Bryn Mawr alumna, became the leading scorer in Georgia Tech history before moving on to star in the WNBA.
The list of local notable alums goes on and on. But it's easy to see why schools are so proud to invoke the names of their greatest grads—and why it's so easy to apply reputations to the schools completely outside of their geographical locations and tuition costs. A constantly changing student body would seem to make a consistent reputation for academic or athletic excellence difficult to achieve, but most of the Power Schools have done this. That's what makes The Question still relevant.
It's also easy to see why that old list of Power Schools needs to be updated and expanded. Schools like Pikesville, Milford Mill Academy, Archbishop Curley, Wilde Lake, and Carver have earned a measure of respect thanks to their alums who've gone on to bigger things, whether they stuck around Crabtown or moved on.
"The problem with the term," Mt. St. Joe's Fitzpatrick points out, "is that there are other schools out there who are doing a really good job who aren't 'in the loop' or wouldn't be identified as 'power schools.' They get overlooked in the mix, and they're every bit as good as those traditional power schools."
The extensive list of accomplished Baltimore alumni suggests that there's some symbiotic relationship between the student and the institution. That great schools attract great students, and that, during their four years together, the best qualities of each are imparted upon the other.
Kurt Schmoke
Dean of Howard University Law School and former Mayor of Baltimore
City College, Class Of '68
"My first day was a culture shock for me because I entered as a 9th grader at a time when high schools were primarily 10th grade through 12th. So going to a very big, all-male high school with 4,000 young men as a 9th grader was a little intimidating.
I had a great time in high school. Sports played a big part because I played varsity football and varsity lacrosse. Every cliché about team sports applied to my experience at City College. It built wonderful friendships, I enjoyed the camaraderie of the team, had outstanding teachers as coaches, and it was a real boost to my college prospects and thus the rest of my career.
George Young, who was the general manager of the New York Giants back when they won the Super Bowl in the 1990s, was my football coach. I stayed in touch with him for many, many years up until his death a few years ago. A number of English teachers were extremely helpful as well. John Pense in particular. Up until his 90s, he was sending me notes about things that he read, interests that he had. Harold Greenwald was a real supporter of the arts in Baltimore and an outstanding teacher at City. These are the kinds of people who took an interest in students in an ongoing way.
The most nerve-wracking part of high school was my junior prom because I got my license just five days before prom and if I had failed the exam, then I would've probably lost my date. Things went well though. No trauma."
—Brad Nelson
Laura Lippman
Wilde Lake, Class Of '77
"Baltimore was still working on the old 7th-9th junior high school paradigm when I was kid, but I was recommended for the 'A' course at Western, which meant that one entered the school in 9th grade.
City teachers went on strike my year at Western and we missed a month of classes. (I totally supported the strike; my mom was a librarian in the system.) I was already floundering in Algebra II and when we came back, the teacher decided to skip some segments so we could 'finish' the book. This completely discombobulated me. I managed to get an 'A' through rote memorization, but I never understood anything that was going on. I cried almost every Sunday night that spring, just thinking about the week of algebra ahead. When I got out to Wilde Lake, my adviser (a.k.a. homeroom teacher) was math teacher Lynn Collins, [who] showed me that I was actually quite good at math.
My family decided to try Wilde Lake for a number of reasons. It was about as stark a change as one can imagine, from an academically rigorous program to the open-space no-failure concept, [which] was pretty easy. And I got to do some really unusual things, such as write the book and lyrics for a novel I wanted to turn into a musical, which counted as part of my English Lit. grade one year. Ultimately, Wilde Lake was very good for me, because it was so non-competitive. Instead of focusing on what other students were doing, we tended to focus on our own work and grades."
Dontae Winslow
Professional Trumpet Player
Baltimore School For The Arts, Class Of '92
"I was very, very nervous for my audition. I remember going into the room and seeing all the faculty sitting there—my future trumpet teacher, head of the music department. You sight read a selection, which I wasn't very good at. They listen to it and write down some pointers. And then they tell you a week later if you're in the school.
My trumpet teacher was very supportive of my career and what I wanted to do. She realized I had a lot of trouble getting acclimated to the instrument and was a hard learner on the trumpet. I was one of the most determined kids there, but probably not up to par on where I should have been. She was very, very supportive and through the years, she got me to where I wanted to be on the trumpet.
Many people that leave the school become successful, and I think it's because they have a good paradigm for success. There's no peer pressure. The white kids and the black kids get along. There's no pressure to wear the latest gear. Never any fights. The population varied so much, and not even everyone came in with the same goal, but everyone had a sensitivity and a goal for bettering themselves and creating beautiful art. The school teaches you about the professional world. We were always performing in front of donors. We had to be on time and be prepared. You get used to a demanding schedule, something most high school students didn't have to. Even people who graduated there and became CEOs or bankers benefited from the discipline at the school."
Jhane Barnes
Fashion Designer
Dulaney High School, Class Of '72
"In high school I was thinking of three different careers. Science (astrophysicist), musician (in a symphony orchestra), or fashion.
My trig teacher told me my math skills were weak and I would only be an 'average' scientist and I didn't strike him as an 'average' person. I never recovered from feeling deficient in math, which is very funny since I employ two mathematicians to write my special design software and I use math every day in ways most people can't fathom!
My music teacher told me I was good at many different instruments but wasn't 'great' at any one. He said most likely I'd end up as a music teacher like him and he didn't see that for me.
We had an experimental clothing and pattern-making class instead of the traditional Home Ec, and my teacher, Mrs. Robinette, said that designing was where she saw the passion in me. I thought fashion was shallow and lacked real cerebral challenge—it took many years for me to change my opinion on that!
The principal gave me $500 to make 20 band uniforms for our dance band. This was a pivotal moment for me, fitting so many guys' different shapes. I had permission to skip homeroom period and report directly every morning to my very own sewing room (the band practice room) equipped with machines and irons and a big table."
It's Academic
You might hear all about St. Joe's wrestling prowess or Dunbar's basketball history or City's football dynasties, but what about the mathletes?
For 35 years, It's Academic has been the bowl game of choice for brainiacs. It's even been recognized by no less authority than the GuinnessBook of World Records as the longestrunning quiz show on TV, having debuted in 1961 in D.C. and 1971 in Baltimore.
Longtime host Mac McGarry reminisces about a few of the memorable moments from his years grilling Baltimore's teens.
On the show's influence: "Steven Mosko [John Carroll School, class of '74, now head of Columbia, TriStar Television] once said that he developed an interest in the TV and film business by attending an It's Academic taping. I thought that was terrific!"
On brains vs. brawn: "It gives the students on It's Academic the same attention that an athlete would get. How ironic is that? Some of the teams used to give out letters for appearing on the show. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a sports fan! I follow sports very carefully. But I think it's fine that scholarship is also noticed on the same level as athletics."
On one memorable dynasty: "The Pape family from Edgewood High in Harford County sent us three siblings in a row. I designated their seat on the board the Papal Chair!"
On his favorite answers: "I don't want to use this in any disparaging way, because these kids were trying to answer the questions seriously. But the best answers I ever got were: The question was 'Who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo?' The answer came back: 'Duke Ellington.' I could hardly go on! The second one, and the guy was serious, was 'Who, along with Friedrich Engels, wrote the Communist Manifesto?' And the guy shouted out 'Groucho Marx!' Those are still my favorites and they both came out of Baltimore.


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DUCK BREASTS WITH CITRUS PORT CHERRY SAUCERecipe courtesy Claire Robinson
- 4 boneless duck breasts
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 large or 2 small shallots, minced
- 1/4 cup ruby port wine
- 1/3 cup freshly squeezed orange juice, plus 1 teaspoon orange zest
- 1/2 cup pitted frozen black cherries, thawed and roughly chopped
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Score the skin of the duck breast with a knife in 2 directions, crossing over each other (makes a crosshatch). Season both sides of each duck breast with salt and pepper.
- In a large nonstick skillet, over medium-high heat, place the duck breasts skin side down. Sear the breasts until the skin is golden brown about 10 minutes, flip and sear the other side for just 3 minutes. Place the seared duck breasts in a baking dish skin side up, and put them in oven. Bake for 12 minutes. Remove the duck breasts from the oven and allow them to rest for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, pour off most excess fat from skillet, and place it back on the stovetop over medium heat. Add the shallots and saute until translucent. Pour in the port wine and orange juice, and scrape up any brown bits on the bottom of the pan. Add the orange zest and chopped cherries and bring to a boil. Simmer for about 5 minutes to reduce the mixture and thicken, mashing the cherries with the back of a wooden spoon to extract flavor as they cook.
- Slice the breasts into 1/4-inch slices on a diagonal. Pour the cherry port sauce over the top and enjoy!
Cook's Note: excess duck fat can be refrigerated and is great for cooking potatoes or eggs
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Bradley's B Roll: UK vs. Samford
KSTV's Bradley McKee was on hand for UK's beating of Samford Tuesday night at Rupp Arena and captured all the highlights you may have missed.
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Kenneth at DualShockers Writes: "All eyes were on the Sony and Microsoft money match at this year's E3. Big multiplatform games were shown off (Kingdom Hearts 3, yes!), the PlayStation 4 console and price point were revealed and both camps came out swinging with noteworthy exclusives. Yet, when the festivities were over and everyone was packing up to go home, Nintendo's showing is the one that had the biggest impact on me.
After the dust settled and everyone ran home to go pre-order their next gen console(s), I was planning my Wii U purchase."
That's his opinion and i'm ok with that. ;) But the way I see it E3 belonged to Sony and Microsoft.
this just in, e3 was opposite day.
kidding! i think for what it has to work with, nintendo actually did a great job at e3 by delivering well on the software front. aside from that though, i dont really think anyone could argue that it was all about the HD kids at e3 2013.
That's a good read and congratulations to you. I bet it was more so that Monolith Soft X game that made you see the light.