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El33tonline writes:
"This week's EU PlayStation Plus Update is undoubtedly the best we've ever seen, with Mass Effect 3, Dead or Alive 5 and Joe Danger 2: The Movie all being added to the Instant Game Collection at no extra cost to members' subscriptions. This is R1 273 (about £93) worth of content based on the games' current prices on PSN."
What DoA5 for free?
Damn I bought the CE about 4 months ago for 90+ USD / 80 Euro.
Plus really is beneficial and worth the money I see.
I'm gonna subscribe once I'm back from vacation.
Nice. DoA5 I haven't played so I'm glad it's coming free. Also, Joe Danger 2 should be fun too.
I'm really looking forward to E3 as they'll no doubt announce improvements for PS Plus. Well, that's what I'm hoping for and hope that cross game chat is free for all instead of just Plus subscribers.
Beware that this is the EUROPEAN contents....we are only getting Joe Danger....
Seriously...they get this plus MGS HD for Vita and Lumines?...
I guess it's a gift for the Euro almost collapsing, but please!!!
I can't remember how you download these once they're in your basket ... Any advice?

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Our Teacher Education Partnerships allow you a convenient and affordable opportunity to complete your undergraduate education. That's right, you read that correctly - "affordable!" Ninety-eight percent of our students completing the final two years of their Bachelor's degree in this partnership program receive some form of financial aid, which greatly reduces the overall costs of your college experience.
UTEP Honors Scholarship
UTEP Scholarship
Eligibility for grants contingent upon completion of a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) at www.fafsa.ed.gov and is based on need.
Federal Pell Grant
Need-based federal grant of up to $5,920 per year.
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August 30. 2013 8:16PM
Two men, dog unhurt in Rumney seaplane mishap
RUMNEY — Two occupants and a dog aboard a seaplane escaped injury Friday afternoon when the aircraft flipped over while trying to land on Stinson Lake.
State Police Marine Patrol said in a release that pilot Donald H. Stoppe, of Ashland, had taken off from Plymouth Airport and was attempting to perform a touch and go landing when the plane flipped over after it hit the water. Stoppe and his passenger, Nicholas A. Kontrovitz of West Swanzey, were able to get out of the plane safely, the release said.
A firefighter reached at the Rumney Fire Department said Friday night that the aircraft remained in the water Friday night and that officials will attempt to remove it today.


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Lemon Ricotta Cookies with Lemon Glaze
These delightful cookies get their rich lemon flavor from fresh lemon juice and zest.
Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis
Level: Easy
Yield: 44 cookies
- 2½ c. all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- ½ c. unsalted butter
- 2 c. sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 container whole-milk ricotta cheese
- 3 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
- Grated zest from one lemon
- 1½ c. powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
- Grated zest from one lemon
- Heat oven to 375°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Cookies: In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine butter and sugar. Using an electric mixer, beat mixture until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until incorporated. Add the ricotta cheese, lemon juice, and lemon zest and beat to combine. Stir in the dry ingredients.
- Spoon about 2 tablespoons of dough for each cookie onto prepared baking sheets. Bake 15 minutes, until slightly golden at the edges. Remove from oven and let cookies rest on baking sheets 20 minutes.
- Glaze: In a small bowl, combine powdered sugar, lemon juice, and zest; stir until smooth. Spoon about 1/2 teaspoon onto each cookie, and use back of the spoon to gently spread. Let the glaze harden about 2 hours. Pack the cookies in a decorative container.
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Washington, DC – Actress Jennifer O'Neill, star of over 30 movies and numerous television shows, and Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will be in Washington, DC Thursday and Friday as representatives of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, the world's largest network of individuals harmed by abortion.
Likewise available for interviews are the co-founders of the campaign, Janet Morana, Executive Director of Priests for Life, and Georgette Forney, President of Anglicans for Life. Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life and the Pastoral Director of the Campaign, will also be available.
These spokespersons will join with 45 other Silent No More Awareness members Friday at 3:00 PM in front of the Supreme Court to testify to the impact Roe v. Wade and abortion on demand have had on their lives.
For comments and interviews with any of the persons noted above, please contact Jerry Horn at 540-220-0095 or Margaret Sciarrino at 908-432-7387.


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Police in Vt. city discuss fatal hit and run
Car was turned over to police on Thursday
Police in Vt. city discuss fatal hit and run
Car was turned over to police on Thursday
RUTLAND, Vt. —
Police in Rutland spoke about a hit-and-run crash that killed a 71-year-old woman that investigators say involved a former attorney for the Vermont city.
On Thursday, police identified the driver in the Wednesday crash as 53-year-old Christopher Sullivan.
Police said Sullivan had not been charged for his role in the crash that killed Mary Jane Outslay of Mendon, who was struck after leaving a city restaurant at about 8 p.m.
Sullivan's attorney turned his car over to police on Thursday, a day after the crash.
Police Chief James Baker wouldn't say if police had identified Sullivan's vehicle before hearing from his attorney.
Sullivan's attorney Barry Griffith didn't immediately return a call Friday seeking comment.


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Adobe Illustrator CS4 Advanced Apply Effects to Other Shapes
Get the complete lesson at http://www.totaltraining.com. find out about more lessons on Twitter @totaltraining or https://www.facebook.com/totaltrainingdotcom. Order today and save 20% using coupon code tt_social. With Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS4: Advanced, you'll learn all the secrets that illustrators use everyday to create vector artwork faster and more accurately. You'll discover all the new and exciting features inside of Illustrator CS4 as well as techniques to help you master things such as patterns, clipping paths, and 3D objects. You'll even learn how to build a Flash? animation inside of Illustrator. This series is just want you need to take your Illustrator skills one step further and help you to stay competitive in today's job market! Highlights Learn how to use the Sprayer tool for Symbols. Find out how Symbols, Gradients, Patterns and Brushes have a dynamic relationship. Discover how to build a Flash? animation in Illustrator. Learn how to make a plaid pattern using Transform & Transparency. See how to make graphs in Illustrator. Explore new features such as multiple artboards, the blob brush and the new gradient tool. Presenter: Robert Underwood
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text: The Electronic Preventative Services Selector (ePSS) was created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)'s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AGRQ), the Nation's lead Federal agency for research on health-care quality, costs and patient safety, according to the app's description. This app helps primary care physicians and clinicians identify the correct screening, counseling and preventative medication services for their patients based on the current recommendation of the U.S. Preventative Services task force (USPSTF) and the patients' characteristics. It functions with or without active Wi-Fi and has a user-friendly interface. "One of the neat features of the ePSS app is the ability to link to HTML calculator pages within the app," commented Dr. Iltifat Husain of iMedical Apps.


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C&L Aerospace is expanding its Bangor, Maine regional aircraft MRO operations, thanks in part to a grant awarded to the city by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA).
EDA is providing a $579,000 grant that will help the MRO provider refurbish a 17,000-sq-ft. hangar, upgrade an aircraft painting facility, and make other needed improvements. The effort is part of a $3 million expansion that will bolster the company's heavy airframe and parts businesses.
Under its C&L Aviation Services moniker, the company provides a variety of MRO services, specializing in Saab 340 work but also handling Dash 7s, Dash 8s, and CRJs.
Want a peek inside the company? Check out its Facebook page, which has several great shots of aircraft in various stages of service.


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Domestic furnishings
The Oakland Museum of California holds substantial collections of everyday and elite household furnishings, telling a story of making and claiming homes in California. The core of the collection is the Wilcomb Collection. In the early 20th century, founding curator Charles Wilcomb brought together early American ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, and spinning wheels—showing the everyday lives of many early American settlers. Since then, the Museum has aquired an entire kitchen from an 1850s house in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and a World War II housing unit for workers at the Hunter's Point shipyards. Decorative arts include over a thousand early 20th century design drawings, molds, and select silver pieces from the San Francisco firm Shreve and Co. A highlight of the furniture collections are Herman Miller Consortium pieces by Charles Eames, showcasing mid-century modern style in the state.


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Advertising may be a necessary evil for those of us that would rather not pay to use Facebook and Twitter, but trading privacy for free services has proven a double-edged sword. Since the introduction of targeted advertising, many users have garnered the impression that advertisers are granted access to their interests. Looking under the hood, you'll actually find that Facebook and Google advertisers are not privy to personal details about individual users. But there is a far more nefarious advertising practice that has managed to keep its distance from the public's eye.
Between social networks and the advertisers they serve lie "data brokers," third parties that buy and sell detailed information about you to advertisers. Where you live, how much you paid for your house, who you're related to, your hobbies and interests, and just about every detail these corporations can learn about your life is fair game.
"Typically with online advertising, it's not about the individual. It's rather about the demographic. [Data brokering] is about the individual, where they're sending a catalogue to their house and finding that specific person as opposed to an online profile," says Robert Leshner, CEO and co-founder of Safe Shepherd, a private data removal service.
Companies like Acxiom will compile and sell that information to marketers by scouring through public records, purchasing cookies, and scraping data from social-network profiles. Here, the privacy settings that you set on your social network profiles become important. Individuals who don't control their privacy settings and social networks will often times find that their information can be found in far more databases than those who control their privacy settings. Coupling your online social data and habits with public records is a goldmine for data brokers, and a Pandora's box for advertisers.
"Knowing that you bought a house for $200,000 is valuable for advertisers, but knowing that you bought a house for $200,000 and love motorcycles is even more valuable," Leshner explained.
The scale of Acxiom's database, which was the subject of a New York Times article, is massive. Acxiom has already collated a database of 500 million people and 1,500 data points per person, yet fewer than 100 people per year will request a data report.
Leshner says that most of this information is sold to offline businesses to be used offline, and not online. If you've received junk mail from banks, automakers, or on occasion a "Happy Birthday" gift card with a free "gift" from a company like Gillette, it's an indication that advertisers know more about your life than you'd like to reveal.
For those of you worried about the transparency of your information, Safe Shepherd's service, for free or a small fee depending on the thoroughness, can opt you out of marketing databases or prevent your personal information from being included in deals with advertisers. At the moment, however, Safe Shepherd can only opt out users from the "worst offender" databases. With the innumerable marketing services competing with Acxiom to appease data-hungry advertisers, an untold number of smaller firms already exist, not to mention that opting your information out is a never-ending game of cat and mouse.
The data-brokering industry has flown below the radar, but its non-transparency with consumer data has caught the Federal Trade Commission's eye. Consumers who request a report on themselves are not offered the complete data that brokers would sell to advertisers, but it's a practice that the FTC would like to regulate. "Consumers should have access to all the details that data brokers collect on them, as well as any analyses that the companies sell about their behavior," Julie Brill of the Federal Trade Commission told the New York Times. Not surprisingly, these data brokers are lobbying for self regulation.
But as technology grows more sophisticated, so do a data broker's practices. These days, as Leshner explains to Digital Trends, the data broker's efforts have shifted to the development of mobile applications. "The trend that we're seeing right now is that many data broker companies like MyLife and Intellius are launching their own apps with very little value proposition, simply to collect personal information of its users," Lesher said.These apps require you to sign up with Facebook or Twitter, granting the app developers access to your newsfeed, posts, work history and other information.
If there's an indicator for the consumer's awareness about their privacy, Safe Shepherd is it. Safe Shepherd, founded by Geoff Hayes and Robert Leshner in August 2011, saw a significant number of new users and subscribers just in the past six months. Leshner declined to specify the number of subscribers, but its user base totals approximately 50,000 users to date.
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The mission of Project Unbreakable is to increase awareness of the issues surrounding sexual assault and encourage the act of healing through art. Since the project's conception in October 2011 by then nineteen year old Grace Brown, it has featured over two thousand images of sexual assault survivors holding posters with quotes from their attackers. Project Unbreakable has been featured media outlets such as Glamour, TIME, The Huffington Post, and The Guardian.
If you are interested in participating by submitting in your own image, you may send an email to projectunbreakablesubmissions @gmail.com. All other questions/concerns can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please know that we unfortunately are unable to read messages sent via Tumblr.
Note: We are not qualified to give certified advice on this subject.
If you are struggling, RAINN has a free, confidential, 24/7 sexual assault hotline: 1.800.656.HOPE(4673). RAINN also has an online hotline: https://ohl.rainn.org/online/.
Serve che gli uomini vengano educati al rispetto ed alla gestione delle proprie emozioni, violenza ed aggressività...
è un impotente un uomo che non sa controllarsi e tenersi in consapevolezza e meditazione.
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Living the Offer
The original version of the Offer of the College was written over 100 years ago. The Offer sums up the impact Bowdoin graduates can make — at home in all lands, keys to the world's libraries in their pocket, hosts of friends, prepared and equipped to be a leader-innovator for the common good in any field they choose. It's no wonder the contribution this small college has made to history seems disproportionate to its size. At the very moment you read this, Bowdoin graduates around the globe are translating the Offer in thousands of ways — their own ways. Following are just a few examples of how members of the Bowdoin community are living the Offer:
Hanley Denning '92
After graduating from Bowdoin, Hanley worked on behalf of at-risk children while earning her master's degree in education at Wheelock College in North Carolina. During a visit to Guatemala, a chance visit to the Guatemala City garbage dump changed her life. Seeing the depths of poverty experienced by those living in the garbage dump, Hanley knew the reality facing children living there was unlike anything she had ever seen and was compelled to do something. That very same week Hanley sold her computer and car, and using some money from her savings, opened the doors of Safe Passage. Unable to afford the cost of public school, forty of Guatemala's poorest children received tutoring, a healthy snack, and the care and attention they so desperately needed.
Today Safe Passage provides more than 550 children with education and social services. Most are the first in their families to go to school. Read more...Close
George Mitchell '54
George Mitchell is no stranger to high-profile investigations. The former federal judge and member of the Bowdoin Class of 1954 rose to national prominence in 1987 as a United States Senator when he faced Marine Colonel Oliver North during the highly-charged Senate Iran-Contra hearings, famously reminding North that "God doesn't take sides in American politics."
After leaving the Senate, Mitchell would be tapped in December 1998 to lead an investigation into a bribery scandal surrounding the Salt Lake City Olympics. He was also the first choice to co-chair the 9/11 Commission investigation, a position he declined.
An avid sports fan and a director of the Boston Red Sox, Mitchell agreed in March 2006 to a request by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Bud Selig, to investigate widespread allegations that baseball players had illegally used steroids and other performance enhancing substances. Nearly twenty-one months later, on December 13, 2007, Mitchell released his 409-page report, prompting a media hoopla that refuses to die. The report details a history of drug use in baseball, assesses Major League Baseball's drug policies, and provides recommendations for ways in which baseball can move forward to prevent future drug use. But the report also names names - eighty-six names, including seven MVPs and thirty-one All-Stars.
President Barack Obama appointed Senator Mitchell as his special envoy for Palestinian-Israeli affairs on January 22, 2009.Close
Karen Mills Francis '82
As a public defender for four years, Karen had more than a few bones to pick with her fellow men and women of the law. The defining moment came when Karen saw eight juvenile offenders placed in jail during a lengthy lead up to their trials. Karen took over the cases and filed demands for speedy trials. She then represented each of them in court and stayed with them until they were released. In the end, she adopted one of the boys who had no family to go home to. Karen's decision to become a judge came more out of curiosity than frustration. She was officially invested into office as County Court Judge on February 9, 2001, and presided over Miami (Florida) Dade County Courthouse for eight years.
Then, there's her television show, Judge Karen. The show covers civil and small claims cases in a setting resembling an actual courtroom. Unlike other popular court programs, Judge Karen follows courtroom protocol as closely as possible in hopes of creating more of a "courtroom drama" than a reality television show. "It's nice because I can talk to people," says Karen, "but I don't get to put anyone in jail." Read more...Close
William J. Oppenheim III '09
William Oppenheim, who was named a Rhodes Scholar in 2010, is an exemplar among students committed to serving the common good. Oppenheim helped to found both The Omprakash Foundation, which helps link volunteer teachers with grassroots educational projects in countries around the globe, and the Global Citizens Grant, which provides students with the opportunity to pursue independently designed summer service projects outside the U.S. Having taken a year off after high school, he spent three months in a monastery in India and six months in Colorado living in a tent. While at Bowdoin, Oppenheim volunteered with Tedford Housing, which assists the homeless and spent a semester student-teaching at Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham.
Oppenheim has done research on the intersections of religion, education and politics in India, Brazil and South Africa, and since leaving the College has taught and led National Outdoor Leadership (NOLS) backcountry expeditions. Read more...Close
Geoffrey Canada '74
Geoffrey Canada, president/CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, is a visionary educator and advocate for children and community redevelopment. In 1983 he began working in New York with the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, an inner-city human services agency, and became president/CEO in 1990. The Harlem Children's Zone initiative was launched in 1997 in a sixty-block area of central Harlem to provide children and their families with the kinds of support and resources that can transform lives and communities. U.S. News and World Report named Canada one of "America's Best Leaders" in 2005. Last year New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg chose him to be co-chair of a task force assigned to reduce poverty in the city. He is the recipient of the Heinz Award in the Human Condition, a 2005 Liberty Medal, and Bowdoin's 1993 Common Good Award. Read more...Close
Sara Gagne-Holmes '91
For Sara Gagné-Holmes, the newly appointed executive director of the Maine Equal Justice Partners (MEJP), working as a lawyer is all about helping those in need. A native Mainer herself, Sara has long been aware of the issues for a state in which 72,000 people are uninsured and 30% of the population is considered low-income. Through MEJP she is able to reach out to Maine residents in need of health care, food assistance, shelter, and educational opportunities. Read more...Close
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 1852
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914), a graduate of the class of 1852, professor at the College, Civil War hero and four term governor of Maine, became the sixth president of Bowdoin College in 1871, following the resignation of Samuel Harris. He was responsible for reforming the curriculum to include instruction in engineering and the modern sciences. Visit the Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Digital ArchivesClose
Lisa McElaney '77
Lisa McElaney is president and co-founder of Vida Health Communications, Inc. which produces and distributes award-winning educational and documentary programs about women's, children's and family health. She has produced and directed films on topics ranging from architecture to social justice. In 1996, McElaney received the Common Good Award, which honors alumni who have demonstrated an extraordinary, profound and sustained commitment to the common good, in the interest of society, with conspicuous disregard for personal gain in wealth or status.Close
Joan Benoit Samuelson '79
The 1984 Olympic gold medalist and two-time Boston Marathon winner has inspired legions of runners during her amazing career — most recently with her half-marathon win in High Point, N.C., in early May in which she beat everyone, including more than 300 men, to the finish line by more than five minutes. And she accomplished this a week shy of her 52nd birthday.
Samuelson, a member of the College's board of trustees, has become an advocate for environmental and health issues, calling herself "a human barometer" having logged 140,000 miles in her career. Read more...Close
Reed Hastings '83
After graduating from Bowdoin, Reed Hastings '83 spent two years in Swaziland, Africa, teaching mathematics for the Peace Corps. Upon returning to the United States, Hastings attended Stanford University, earning a master's in computer science. He founded his first company, Pure Software, in 1991, which merged with Atria Software in 1996, and was acquired by Rational Software in 1997. In 1998, Hastings founded Netflix, the world's largest subscription service, which offers movies and TV episodes over the Internet and by mail.
Hastings has a long-standing passion for education and has sought ways to make education as innovative as other industries. Hastings was appointed to the California State Board of Education by Governor Gray Davies in 2000 and was its president for two terms. Hastings, a strong advocate for charter schools, helped to pass a stronger charter school law in California in 1998.
Hastings helped to found NewSchools.org, Aspire Public Schools, Pacific Collegiate School, and EdVoice.org, and is a supporter and advisory board member of the Beacon Education Network. He is a member and past CEO of TechNet, which promotes technology growth and innovation.Close
Dora Anne Mills '82 M.D., M.P.H., FAAP
Prior to taking over as Maine's public health director, Dora traveled to Nepal and India. She met Mother Theresa, and joined a medical trip with Crossroads Africa to the Ivory Coast, where she lived in a small village studying local health issues and remedies used by African doctors. Her experiences abroad had a profound influence on her and she was able to incorporate much of her newfound knowledge into her practice in the U.S. "Traveling is such a great teacher," she says, adding that upon leaving Calcutta she "felt a bit guilty to be leaving an area of such great need…but felt called to return to my home state of Maine."
As Director she has done her best over the past decade to address key health issues faced by the state, such as teenage smoking. She worked with Governor Angus King H'07, the Legislature, and many stakeholders to raise the tobacco tax, make all indoor public places in Maine smoke-free, and obtain the first state funding for tobacco prevention and treatment. Since then, Maine has seen one of the steepest declines in youth smoking ever. Dora was recently recognized for her outstanding work by the American Medical Association, which presented her with the President's Award and the Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service. Read more...Close
Everett "Brownie" Carson '69
Over the past 21 years, as the executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), Everett B. "Brownie" Carson's (Bowdoin class of 1969) well-documented successes include the defeat of the "Big A" dam project on the Penobscot River, the creation of a dioxin monitoring program for Maine's rivers, the establishment of Maine's 1989 landmark recycling law which has reduced the state's waste stream by nearly 50 percent, the protection of Baxter State Park by defeating proposed development in the area, and the removal of the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River.
In the early 1970s Carson, who served with the U.S. Marine Corps in the Vietnam War, worked with the Upward Bound program and served in the Poverty Programs of the Maine State Office of Economic Opportunity. He spent the next six years with Pine Tree Legal Assistance, managing a regional legal services office and providing valuable legal resources for Maine's low-income community. Late in 1983, he joined the Natural Resources Council of Maine as a lobbyist and staff attorney and six months later was named the organization's executive director.
In 2005, the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees presented Carson with the Common Good Award. Read more...Close
Frank N. Whittier Class of 1885
After briefly studying law, Frank Nathaniel Whittier returned to Bowdoin in 1886 as director of the gymnasium and continued his studies in the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College, receiving his M.D. in 1889. Whittier's service to Bowdoin continued for thirty-eight years as college physician, professor of hygiene and physical training, and as professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Medical School. During World War I he volunteered for medical duty and attained the rank of major.
Whittier was also a noted pathologist and criminologist. Two innovations that he helped develop and use for the first time in a court of law were a serology test, which distinguished human from animal blood, and a ballistics test, which matched shells with the weapons that fired them. At the time of his death he was one of the medical examiners in Cumberland County, Maine. Read more...Close
Jane Buchanan '96
As a graduate student at John Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, Buchanan conducted two research trips to the Ukraine, meeting with victims of various human rights abuses, as well as conducting interviews with various non-governmental organizations and local government officials. Buchanan's reports regarding political censorship in the media in Ukraine and the discrimination of women in employment, have been used to confront the Ukrainian government and encourage the UN, EU, and other influential parties to take action.
In 2003-2004 Buchanan worked as the Executive Director of the Chechnya Justice Initiative, a small human rights organization in Moscow that provides legal assistance to victims of violent crimes committed by Russian federal forces operating in Chechnya. Both clients and employees of the Justice Initiative were frequently harassed and even threatened by Russian security services.
Buchanan admits that there are times when the magnitude of certain issues becomes overwhelming. "The greatest challenge for me is living with the knowledge that there are still such entrenched problems and there is a limit as to how much impact one person or even one organization can have." However, she remains hopeful that human rights interest will continue to grow, "human rights are now a fundamental concept; a household term that even twenty years ago didn't have the same resonance that it does now."
Buchanan is currently Human Rights Watch researcher for the Europe and Central Asia Division.Close
Thomas H. Andrews '75
Tom Andrews is the National Director of Win Without War—a coalition of forty-two national membership organizations that opposes the militarization of U.S. foreign policy and promotes international cooperation and enforceable international law—and president of New Economy Communications, a not-for-profit organization that provides strategic planning services to groups working on human rights issues. Past roles have included senior advisor to the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, chaired by Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Programs Director for Citizen Action.
In addition to his anti-war efforts, Andrews also has spearheaded gun-control initiatives, helped lead a 1986 campaign against a proposal to store nuclear waste in the Sebago Lake area of Maine, and Andrews works for the release of Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League of Democracy of Burma.
Andrews was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1982, the Maine Senate in 1984 and the United States Congress in 1990.Close
Marcia Barinaga '77
Marcia Barinaga has worked as a molecular biologist, journalist, and now, as a rancher and cheesemaker. "I'm trying to use my biology degree in as many different ways as I can before I die," she jokes. Currently retired from her job as a writer for Science magazine, Marcia is busier than ever managing an 800-acre ranch in Marin County, California, that she and her husband purchased in 2001. Although the couple never planned on raising sheep, they wanted to start a business that would use the land to benefit the local economy. "We became quite passionate about being a sustainable part of the community," Marcia says. Their first barn was raised in 2007 and Marcia visited other sheep farms and attended cheesemaking classes to learn about her soon-to-be trade. "It was brand new to me. My skills have all been acquired on the job."
Marcia's first batch of raw milk sheep cheese—aged for 60 days—was ready for the market in late July. When she's not busy making cheese and caring for her flock, Marcia designs the labels for her product. She is also crossing her East Friesian dairy ewes with Katahdin rams, known for being hardier. Marcia welcomes the many challenges that come with more than one hundred animals to look after. "I'm a big believer in lifelong learning," she says. "Every minute I'm working with the animals I'm so happy."Close
Esther Baker '97
Bowdoin encourages what Esther Baker '97 calls, "the crossover," between the arts and traditional academic subjects. Baker, who studied dance in conjunction with both French and Anthropology, found Bowdoin professors supportive of her dual interests, allowing her to utilize dance in other classes as an alternate tool for exploration and expression. A semester abroad in Senegal ultimately motivated Baker to turn her love of dance and culture into a career. Walking through a small west-African village, she fell in love with the African approach to movement and dance. "Dancing is a part of everyday life there…you're surrounded by it." With members of every generation participating in dance, and children being encouraged at a young age to "just move around," it's no surprise that Africa has become a center for the emerging hip-hop movement. "People look to Africa for what's happening," says Baker, which makes living in Senegal "a great situation for any dancer to be in." After re-locating to Africa, Baker became involved with many choreography projects and was invited to perform her solo "Le President" at the Dialogue De Corps International Dance Festival in Burkina Faso. Several of her works have been filmed, including the recent "Ndox Mi/Water," which screened at the Saratoga Springs Women's Festival and at DanceCameraWest in Los Angeles. In "Ndox Mi," Baker worked with the children of Grand Dakar, Senegal, using their colorful water-carrying buckets as props.Close
Bernard Osher '48
A native of Biddeford, Maine, Osher is an extraordinarily capable businessman whose quiet but steady philanthropy has enriched countless lives while strengthening important institutions in Maine and across the country. Osher Hall, dedicated May 11, 2007, and the Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery in the newly renovated Museum of Art were both made possible by Osher's generosity.
The Bernard Osher Foundation, founded in 1977, seeks to improve quality of life for residents of California, Maine and elsewhere through post-secondary student scholarships and arts, cultural and educational grants. The Foundation also supports selected programs in integrative medicine as well as a national network of lifelong learning institutes. In recent years the Foundation has expanded scholarship funding to almost every state, targeting students ages 25 to 50 who have dropped out of college. Read more...Close
Matt Marolda '96
If you've ever tried to buy a ticket to Fenway Park you know how expensive and hard to find these gems are. The Boston Red Sox have sold out 400 consecutive games with seats averaging a $50 price tag and re-selling for more than $300 during the regular season. And yet the Red Sox are one of three New England teams to join the vast client base of StratBridge, Inc., which includes over 100 organizations, including the entire NBA and NHL, along with dozens of other profession sports franchises. StratBridge, founded in 1999 by Matt Marolda '96, helps teams sell tickets more effectively using its StratTix analysis platform that tracks ticket sales and provides the front office with live updates on how tickets are selling and at what prices. The concept behind StratTix, known as yield management, has been used by airlines for decades and allows teams to adjust ticket prices to ensure that no seats are wasted. Read moreClose
Suzanne Fox '87
In addition to the myriad responsibilities that fall upon any small-business owner, Suzanne Fox '87 has one unusual complication – a 13-hour time difference with her closest business partner. Remaining connected to a country halfway around the world has been Suzanne's challenge of choice since she was among the first group of Bowdoin students to study abroad in China her junior year. Her consulting company, which she founded in 2000, teaches businesses in China and the United States how to conduct international deals without hurting feelings or stepping on toes. Her advice is drawn from her own experience mixed with research and little common sense. "I got into this because I tripped over my feet one too many times while I was there," she says. "It's just so completely overwhelming for some." Read moreClose
Alison McConnell '04
By day, Alison McConnell '04 covers the complex world of financial markets, reporting real-time news out of the U.S. Treasury, Congress, and the White House for a Washington, D.C., wire service. The economic turmoil has made Alison's job exciting, to say the least. "It's a great time to be a financial reporter and a bad time to be an investor," she says. An economics major and Orient editor, Alison interned after graduation at Stateline.org, a politics and policy news service, but never planned to enter the world of financial reporting. "I had only a vague sense of combining the two," she says of writing and economics. Read moreClose
Victor Fields '75
For all Victor Fields '75 has accomplished in the music industry it is hard to believe that only a decade ago the talented jazz artist was a full-time businessman. But in fact, after graduating from Bowdoin with a political science degree,Victor made his way to the west coast to try his hand at insurance—and met with success. Although he was musically active during his four years at Bowdoin, hosting a Friday night jazz show on WBOR and singing in a percussion ensemble led by Geoffrey Canada '74,Victor's career goals steered him out of the spotlight and into the office, where he was quickly promoted to the position of regional vice president at his San Francisco company. Only after losing his mother to cancer, did Victor recognize the second void in his life: music. Read moreClose
Leslie Blickenstaff '94
In 2002, after practicing as an employment lawyer for nearly five years, Leslie Blickenstaff '94 took a time-out to reevaluate her life. While asking herself the typical self-revealing question, "Am I truly happy?", she came to the realization that something was lacking. "I wanted to feel passionate about something, and I wanted to do something that made a positive difference in other people's lives." At the risk of losing the steady salary and security she had earned through her five years of work at the Boston-based firm of Goodwin Procter LLP, Blickenstaff took a six-month leave of absence in a small town in Chilean Patagonia called Coyhaique. What began as a temporary escape from her professional life, quickly morphed into a service project that would provide the direction and sense of purpose Blickenstaff craved. Read moreClose
Ed Lee '74
Ed Lee '74 likens his experience at Bowdoin to Kwai Chang Caine's time at the Shaolin monastery in the 1970s TV show, Kung Fu. "A young student goes into the monastery, and the Shaolin priests teach them all the skills they need to change the world. Then they go out and they never come back because they're too busy changing the world. That's kind of what I felt about Bowdoin. It gave me the opportunity to deeply ingrain myself with everything from history, religions, and philosophy to government, politics, to all the science that I wanted." Read more...Close
Leon Gorman '56
Leon Gorman is chairman of the board and former president of L.L. Bean, the mail-order, online, and retail company headquartered in Freeport, Maine, with thirty stores worldwide. Gorman, who was named president of the company in 1967 following the death of his grandfather and company founder, Leon Leonwood Bean, is credited with taking what was a $4.75 million company and building it into billion-dollar enterprise and a brand known around the world for quality and customer service. A business leader, conservationist, and philanthropist, Gorman and his wife, Lisa, are generous donors and active participants in the affairs of colleges and universities, medical facilities, museums, arts and cultural organizations, wilderness and conservation societies, and community service programs that meet the needs of the disadvantaged.Close
Kelly Kerney '02
In the ultra-competitive literary landscape, hundreds of debut novels are published each year to little fanfare. It's extraordinary for a new author to get one major review, let alone the string of significant acclamations tallied up for the first novel by Kelly Kerney '02. Born Again, was published by Harcourt and has received excellent reviews by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Entertainment Weekly, and was starred by Kirkus Review. Following the often hilarious journey of a young Christian fundamentalist named Mel who comes to terms with Darwinism, Born Again has been praised by renowned authors such as Margot Livesey, William O'Rourke, and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo. Read moreClose
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When she was 17, Jennifer Black '92 traveled to Russia for the first time and discovered in that "fascinating and alien place," no one understood her language. So, she made a simple decision: "I thought, 'maybe I'll just learn to talk to these people and then come back,'" she says with a laugh. And that's exactly what she did, double majoring in Russian and government and legal studies at Bowdoin and spending a semester of her junior year abroad, a move she says helped her to "get over the initial hump" of living in a foreign place.
After graduation, Jennifer took a position at the United States Embassy in Moscow, where she processed immigrant visas for three years and used her language skills on a daily basis. In 1998, she began working for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) location in Votkinsk, a city in central Russia. As a member of the DTRA team, which works under the U.S. Department of Defense, Jennifer monitored the comings and goings of weapons and dangerous materials from Votkinsk's missile assembly facility to ensure that all activity within the base was in compliance with Russia's treaties with the U.S. She describes the job as "very limiting and very restrictive…like being in a mid-level security prison." Contact with the outside world was extremely limited, and employees used escorts when traveling into the city center. Jennifer admits that the job "sounds terrible when you tell other people," but says the atmosphere became increasingly collegial over time. "I never had a sense that it was adversarial," she says of her interactions with the Russian employees at the factory. Read moreClose
John Brown Russwurm 1826
John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851), Bowdoin's first African-American graduate (Class of 1826), is thought to be the third African-American graduated from an American college. He was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, the illegitimate son of a white planter and a black slave. His father, John Russwurm, of a wealthy Virginia family, went to Jamaica after completing his education in England. He sent his son, John Brown Russwurm, to Quebec at age eight so that he might receive a good education. Soon after moving to Maine, his father married Susan Blanchard. Russwurm then came to live with his father's family, where he was accepted by his step-mother as one of her own. Russwurm stayed with the family even after his father died, continuing his education at Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine. His step-mother and her new husband helped him to enroll at Bowdoin in 1824. Read moreClose


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Germany, France set to face off – warts and all
France and Germany are two soccer powers, two potential World Cup winners and two teams that have shown potentially fatal flaws in this tournament.
Their response might be: Show us a quarterfinal team that hasn't shown serious flaws in this tournament. And they wouldn't be wrong. But the potential World Cup winner is going to have to find some way to overcome them.
On Friday, France and Germany will play a World Cup game for the first time since 1986. It will be Germany's ninth consecutive quarterfinal appearance.
It will be a highly charged, highly anticipated matchup on a day when, four hours later, this nation will be riveted to another quarterfinal between Brazil and Colombia, the marquee matchup of the tournament so far.
Up until the French struggles in their Round of 16 match against Nigeria, France had been a marauding group of attackers led by Karim Benzema, who appears to have rounded into the form of his life.
But otherwise, France showed little against the African team. Benzema came alive only when manager Didier Deschamps inserted Antoine Griezmann into the lineup.
There has been a battle between players to see who would pair with Benzema. Griezmann probably earned that role.
France played through some weaker teams to get here, but did so with a strong attack, though it wasn't evident against Nigeria until later in the game.
If France intends on beating Germany, they aren't going to do it by being tactical or conservative. The French have to attack the German weakness — at the back.
It's not a teensy problem, either. The German defence has major issues which proved especially appalling when Mats Hummels wasn't able to play against Algeria.
The Algerians made Germany look slow at the back, not the first time they have been exposed there. Aside from their game against Portugal, Germany has had issues defending in front of Manuel Neuer.
France will be the underdog going in. Compared to the veteran German squad, the French have a young team with players such as Paul Pogba, Raphael Varane and Griezmann competing in their first World Cup.
Fans at home in France are happy with the way the World Cup has gone so far for their national team. They didn't know what to expect and that feeling of being lost grew even more when Franck Ribery was scratched from the tournament.
This has gone much better for France than they could have hoped for.
In Germany meanwhile, supporters are a little anxious over what they believe has been an average performance after their teams thunderous opening game win over Portugal.
If there is pressure on Friday, it falls mostly on the Germans. How much that pressure will trouble, if at all, a German team stocked with veterans is debatable.
How much will experience matter?
In some cases it doesn't because many young players have the kind of cocky attitude that overrides nerves. What a cocky attitude won't override is having the experience to know what to do in certain situations.
Revamping the team has brought in more than just fresh, young legs. The young players come with a new attitude.
"We're a very young team with new players," said French player Mamadou Sakho. "We've instilled a new spirit into the team, off the pitch, first of all, and it reflects on the pitch.
France has only two starters older than 29.
Meanwhile, like France, there is a constant competition inside the German team between players who want to start rather than come off the bench. Forward Andre Schurrle started last game and scored Germany's first goal in extra time against Algeria.
"I feel much better as a starter and everyone wants to be on the pitch at the kickoff," he said. "I'd be delighted to have the chance to start on Friday. I'm really fired-up. I feel good, I feel in form and I'm really glad I finally got the chance to play more in the last match."
The game can be deciphered until it's been laid bare with nothing but the bones showing. What won't be seen is the emotional level games of this sort are played at.
There is no love between the nations and certainly enough history on and off the pitch to ensure there will be nothing gentle about the proceedings.


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It has long been known that in addition to the N900 port of Firefox (released just 49 days ago) Mozilla have been targeting Windows Mobile, drawing ever nearer to a release. They have now decided to put the port on hold, following the news of Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX (and what that holds for Windows Mobile 6.5). "While we think Windows Phone 7 looks interesting and has the potential to do well in the market, Microsoft has unfortunately decided to close off development to native applications. Because of this, we won't be able to provide Firefox for Windows Phone 7 at this time. Given that Microsoft is staking their future in mobile on Windows Mobile 7 (not 6.5) and because we don't know if or when Microsoft will release a native development kit, we are putting our Windows Mobile development on hold."


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ESPN's Jemele Hill Is Here To Answer Your Questions
ESPN columnist Jemele Hill is live from Colorado and ready to answer your questions in the discussion below. She's got sideline duty—her first year doing it!—for Friday night's Hawaii-Air Force game on ESPN2. Also, it's been an eventful week at ESPN, and Jemele's done plenty of work at First Take. Lots to talk about it. Have at it.
UPDATE, 2:13 p.m.: And we're done. Thanks for showing up, Jemele.


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In a tragedy related to Greece's financial crisis, three children died in a northern village Saturday when a fire burned down the home of their grandparents, who were using a wooden stove because heating oil prices have soared, officials said.
The blaze started in the stove and quickly engulfed the house, whose roof collapsed on two of the victims, aged 5 and 7. The older brother, 15, tried to rescue his younger siblings and died of smoke inhalation, firefighters said.
The children's grandparents and parents, as well as three other siblings — two girls and a boy — escaped. The father sustained slight burns. The couple and the children were spending the weekend at the home in the village of Mesoropi, 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Thessaloniki.
The fire threatened nearby houses, but firefighters extinguished it after about 45 minutes.
"They had oil heating. They put on a stove this year, as many other villagers did, because of the crisis. Things are very tight," said Vangelis Bozoudis, a resident of Mesoropi.
The price of heating oil has soared this year in Greece. Until last spring, heating oil was sold at a much lower price than diesel fuel, but, because a lot of heating oil was used illegally as diesel fuel to circumvent the higher price, the government decided to harmonize the prices.
As a result, the cost of heating oil has increased almost 40 percent, leaving many Greek families — whose incomes have already taken a big hit from years of recession, fiscal austerity and soaring unemployment — no option but to switch to cheaper forms of heating.
Bozoudis and other villagers of Mesoropi, contacted by phone, said that this incident would not have happened if the family still used heating oil and wondered how many more accidents like that would take place across the country.
Demetris Nellas contributed to this report from Athens, Greece.


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Apollo College veterinary students examine a camel with impaction in Dayarampura Village in India.
When Srinivasan Ramanathan, DVM, had the opportunity go to the United States he could hardly believe it.
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Dr. Srinivasan Ramanathan is shown doing what he loves most—surgery. Here he's performing a tumor removal on a police officer's Labrador retriever.
He graduated from a veterinary college in Chennai, but Ramanathan felt the best training and educational opportunities were in America. So in 1978 when a humane society called Associated Humane Societies offered him an internship in Newark, N.J., he didn't hesitate. After that experience, he took all of the American licensing exams and practiced in Virginia and Florida before settling down in Pennsylvania. Before he knew it he was running three veterinary practices simultaneously.
Apollo College is the first private veterinary college not only in Rajasthan, but in the entire country of India.
Little did he know he'd be presented with an opportunity that would take him right back to his roots. In 1997, the chief minister of Rajasthan, India, came to the United States and shared his goal of opening a veterinary college—and asked Ramanathan for help. At that time, there was only one veterinary school in Rajasthan and, like all colleges in India, it was government-owned.
The Instructional Livestock Farm Complex where Apollo Veterinary College houses its livestock (e.g., sheep, goats, cows, buffalo, horses, camels, poultry and pigs).
Ramanathan says his American colleagues thought he was crazy to attempt such a feat in a country with so many bureaucratic issues, social class norms and limiting constraints. However, he decided to follow the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and accept the challenge to return to the land of his own work—he knew the invaluable role veterinarians and animals play in India's livelihood. With a population of more than one billion, India is a very large country and there are many mouths to feed, Ramanathan says.
Veterinary students assist clinicians at a farmers' fair at Nayla Village in India.
He joined the education initiative and became a cofounder of the Apollo College of Veterinary Medicine. It's the first private veterinary college not only in Rajasthan but in the entire country, Ramanathan says. In 2003, the college opened in a rented building and by 2006 the school's campus was finally completed. It's a five-year veterinary medicine program that students can apply for right out of high school. The school accepts 60 students annually, but receives 400 to 450 applications every year.
Mayank Lamba, DVM, attends to an elephant with a severe abscess.
"If there are any serious issues or surgical problems, we bring them to the large animal hospital, but most of the problems are solved at the farmer's doorstep," Ramanathan says.
Rakesh Mishra, DVM, takes a radiograph of a bear with a fractured elbow.
Ramanathan says that the Apollo College supports former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's initiative to help India take the forefront in technology. The prime minister was passionate about starting the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), which Ramanathan says is the flagship institute to bring India's agro-economy-based country into the technological world. IIT graduates are some of the greatest leaders in America and the rest of the world in their chosen field, he says.
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Everyone knows how angry the reaction would be if USC lost to Utah State on Saturday. But what would a victory mean to the little-known Aggies, who are only seven-point underdogs?
"I think it would be a milestone for the program," Utah State coach Matt Wells said. "It would be a benchmark and it would be huge. All that stuff is an understatement.
"You're going into a place that's got the tradition of USC and the teams that they've had. It would be great. It's going to be on a national stage. It's a chance for some exposure for the program and everything that goes with it. Hopefully we can play well early and get it to the fourth quarter, then we'll see what happens."
Wells' answer was refreshing in an era when some coaches usually decline to even speculate on beating their opponent. He could not contain his enthusiasm when asked about USC wide receiver Marqise Lee and tailback Tre Madden.
"You see those guys on SportsCenter highlights and you know how talented they are," Wells said. "I've seen No. 9 (Lee) a bunch on tape and he'd be a fun one to throw to."
USC coach Lane Kiffin tried to match compliments with Wells discussing the Aggies.
"These guys have lit up the scoreboard for years," Kiffin said. "They have done a phenomenal job over the past couple years. This is a big-time team."
Outburst overdue
USC's 521 yards in total offense against Boston College was obviously the best performance of the season but it was also overdue, according to the Trojans.
"This is what I expected two games ago," Lee said. "But we still have a lot to improve."
One thing USC does not have yet is offensive balance. Through three games, the Trojans averaged 43 rushing attempts and 23 passing attempts per game.
The Wright stuff
Safety Demetrius Wright barely played against Hawaii in the season opener but started against Washington State. Wright led USC with seven tackles against Boston College and was nominated by USC to be Pacific-12 Conference player of the week.
It's a big turnaround for Wright when one considers USC doctors advised him to undergo hip surgery last spring. Wright decided to rehabilitate his hip instead and is now playing as well as some of the better-known safeties (Deon Bailey, Su'a Cravens) for the Trojans.
ASU kickoff nearly set
USC's game at Arizona State on Sept. 28 will kick off at either 7 p.m. (PDT) on ESPN or 7:30 p.m. (PDT) on ESPN2. A decision will be made Sunday.
Dream game
Utah State tailback Joey DeMartino, who is from San Diego, said he feels better about the Aggies' chances than he did in high school.
"USC is the dream school to go to when you grow up (in Southern California)," he said. "Having the opportunity to actually play against them is kind of an even better feeling now because I used to think there was no team on the same level as USC.
"But now coming to Utah State and seeing our program completely change around after the last four years, I like this opportunity even better to get the opportunity to get a `W' against them."


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The way the Toronto Maple Leafs are collecting points lately, the Bruins might not have to worry about the whole Taylor Hall vs. Tyler Seguin battle to be the No. 1 pick in the June 2010 NHL Entry Draft. The Leafs, who famously traded their first-round pick to Boston last fall, have now recorded a point in six of their last seven games (including five wins) after falling in a shootout to Pittsburgh Sunday. (The Bruins can thank Matt Cooke, the infamous Matt Cooke, for tying the game and helping limit the Leafs to one point.)
But if you're still holding out hope that Leafs pick will be in the top two — Toronto is two points back of Carolina and Florida in its attempt to escape next-to-last place in the overall standings — Mike G. Morreale of NHL.com has a look at the NHL Central Scouting Services meeting, where the league's scouts debated the Hall-Seguin dilemma over the weekend.
Regardless of how the Bruins finish this season, and assuming the Leafs don't get on a historic tear over the last two weeks, May and June are going to be a crucial time in the organization's history. Maybe Cam Fowler, the long-time presumed No. 3 prospect, will be the player to help Boston ascend to the top again.


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Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced today the signing of Argentine centre back Martín Bonjour - pending receipt of his International Transfer Certificate and Visa. Per Major League Soccer and club policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed.
"Martín is a powerful, aggressive central defender who is good in the air and comfortable on the ball," said Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie. "He adds additional quality to our defensive side and brings plenty of South American top-flight experience."
Bonjour, 26, comes to Whitecaps FC after spending most of his professional career in South America. A native of Carhué, Argentina, the defender started his career in his home country with Club Olimpo before moving to neighbouring Uruguay, where he joined Club Atlético Rentistas in the country's capital of Montevideo. In two seasons with Rentistas, Bonjour scored three goals in 34 appearances. He then had a brief spell in Poland with Lech Poznań before making 19 appearances with Peruvian outfit Club Deportivo Universidad César Vallejo in 2008.
The centre back then returned to the Uruguayan Primera División when he joined Rampla Juniors FC in the 2008-09 campaign. From 2008 to 2011, Bonjour scored five goals in 52 appearances for the Montevideo club. As a Rampla Juniors player, the defender spent the Clausura (closing championship) portion of 2010-11 Uruguayan Primera División campaign on loan with rivals Liverpool de Montevideo, where he scored one goal in 10 appearances.
"I am delighted to join Vancouver Whitecaps FC and embark on this new and exciting stage of my career in North America," said Bonjour. "I have heard many good things about Whitecaps FC and Major League Soccer, and plan to make an important contribution to my new club this season. I'm also looking forward to my new life in Canada and the beautiful city of Vancouver."
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Position: Defender
Height: 6-03
Weight: 190
Born: April 9, 1985, in Carhué, Argentina
Hometown: Carhué, Argentina
Citizenship: Argentina
Last Club: Rampla Juniors FC (Uruguayan Primera División)
How Acquired: Free agent signing by Whitecaps FC on January 4, 2012
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You might remember something about me leaving my daughter in New York roughly four years ago. Watching her, from a long distance vantage point, grow into an independent and immensely original artist has been something that I think I may utterly fail at describing. It is complex and beautiful and rewarding and humbling. Attending the graduating fashion show last week held all of the excitement that we anticipated. The phone calls, texts, emails, visits that we have had with her in recent months graced us with news of success and recognition by her peers and the faculty at Pratt. Being asked to be in the show alone is an honor that not every graduating senior gets. Which on the one hand feels unfair. On the other hand feels just like the fashion world. Might as well know that as soon as possible, I suppose. But imagine our huge pride at watching her collection close the show. The finale. The last looks on everyone's mind. Looks that have landed at WWD and Style.com among others (in fact I just noticed the looks of Jeff's and my face are right over the models left shoulders in the WWD slideshow, snort). If you want to see the entire show, it's right over here (her stuff begins around 57:30).
With the imagery of her collection still fresh in my mind, the single greatest joy for me is to have seen her and her work in the context of her peers and find it to be so completely unaffected by her environment or the work of others. Watching the models float across the runway in her inventive, watercolor-y yet intensely engineered pieces still has me feeling as though I am swimming through her sketchbook. The seemingly effortless translation of concept to final piece was fluid and graceful and utterly deceptive in hiding the hours and hours (and hours) each of the pieces took. She sent her hands and heart down the walk. It was a risk. A huge risk to insist on your work being entirely from within and nothing else.
Her collection is titled Containment and here are a few of her own words:
"As humans we have a natural tendency to contain things. It gives us a sense of control, whether that control is real or not. I wanted to play with this idea in the garments, both containing the body and elements within the fabrications themselves."
My only regret from the event is that she was backstage during her parade of work and could not see or feel how the energy in the room changed entirely as her pieces poured into the crowd of onlookers. I have of course relentlessly described this to her ever since.
Congratulations to my beautiful, amazing girl. My own greatest risk.
This is just the beginning.
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I rarely comment and am not a mother...sometimes I'm not sure if I will be. This post and your closing brought out those brief yet piercing little sharp tears to my eyes. It's a joy to see how such beauty and talent can be shared within a family, how it grows and changes and expresses itself in such individual ways. How it is nurtured and blooms. Thanks for sharing it with us and congrats to you both! :)ReplyDelete
I've heard it said that life comes in cycles, and this seems like a return for you to a familiar time and place but with different perspective. I love that your life has produced so much creative beauty not only in the tangibles, within and through your children. Congratulations to Julianna- your work is so provoking. I love seeing how your sketches became reality. Congratulations to Anna and Jeff- you have every reason to be proud!ReplyDelete
So ethereal and enchanting! Wonderful job, Juliana!ReplyDelete
I am happy for her, for you... for the glimpse you are sharing.
What a marvelous finish... which, naturally is only the beginning.
- Anonymous3:52 PM
I was completely captivated my these photo's. Abstract fashion usually irritate me, but when your post came up in my feed I couldn't help but scroll down and read your post. Beautiful. You get a really strong sense of the containment she describes. Congratulations to a the proud mother!ReplyDelete
SO creative and love her statement! Few people understand that part of fashion, that it inspires and represents. Bravo Juliana and bravo Mom and Dad!!ReplyDelete
Oh, congratulations to Juliana and you all Anna Maria! What a wonderful accomplishment! How wonderful it is as mothers to be able to sit back and watch with such pride and excitement as our greatest accomplishments achieve some of theirs!ReplyDelete
The sneak peek you showed me did not do this justice. It is gorgeous! And what a huge accomplishment! Congratulations to Juliana! I know that your heart is bursting, as it well should be. She has amazing talent - must get it from her mom. I can't wait to see what she does next. I have no doubt it will be spectacular.ReplyDelete
I remember experiencing the same feelings and emotions when our oldest son's collection was shown when he was a student. Not Pratt, but we were still incredibly proud. Congrats to your daughter, her collection is amazing!ReplyDelete
Beautiful...thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
choking on my tears on your last lines... as a proud mama...and what a creation/creator she has become.. lovetoyour juliana..and all your littles and yous!! xooxxo thankyou for the continued inspirations and heart.sharing of your artistic.living with all of us.. xoxoxReplyDelete
ps.. .her work is absolutely stunning!!! xoxoReplyDelete
Wow! Congratulations Juliana (and, in a way, Happy Mother's Day to you)! What a wonderful thing to see your child doing so well. My favorite piece was the one she walked out with (the one on style.com). That must have been so much work, but it DID look effortless and so professional. What an honor for her and how proud you all must be.ReplyDelete
BRAVO! Such stunning works of art!! Congrats to your daughter, really beautiful designs. :)))ReplyDelete
Okay, I really don't understand how you contain yourself, as a mother, a designer, and a woman of such expression. This is NOT your mother's design! She is separate and distinct from you but yet I can see your influence as well as your willingness to allow her to express her own views. Pride doesn't even cover it. I only saw her fabric a couple of weeks ago but I'm so impressed with her artistic expression.ReplyDelete
Totally fabulous!! Congrats!ReplyDelete
Pure genius. Marveling at the concept, creativity, talent, fluidity and funky fashion - the beauty, the sheer sheerness. Congratulations!ReplyDelete
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Friday, March 30, 2012
it's the bodies that I've buried
that have bent my back
and bled my heart
and left me faint and sick.
The girl -
unsheltered from the bull god's rut.
The wildcat -
whiskey drenched and wounded.
The scholar.
The sell-out.
The self
no longer self-contained.
It's not the years that I have lived,
it's the bodies that I've buried.
And, still, I find
that I have yet
so many graves to dig.
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Interesting way to look at life's progression. I really like this. Might be thinking about this one all day.
- March 30, 2012 at 4:00 PM
- Sylvia K said...
It's easy for me to see this way so far this year. Great one as always.
- March 30, 2012 at 4:07 PM
- Kerry O'Connor said...
This is such a unique way of looking at the theme...We do bury so many versions of ourselves along the way and it tires one to death.
- March 30, 2012 at 4:15 PM
- hedgewitch said...
Taking the shed skin metaphor six feet deeper--I like the brackets that offset it, but the middle stanza is the one that hits me in the chops.
- March 30, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Totally concur with Hedgewitch- that middle stanza is so raw, so real and hits damn close to home.
- March 30, 2012 at 4:43 PM
- ayala said...
I agree with Hedgewitch and Titanium..another great one!
- March 30, 2012 at 5:48 PM
- Fireblossom said...
You seriously rocked my prompt, Kel. You dug deep, hit hard, and got the hell out. A+ from kindly old schoolmarm Fireblossom for this really excellent piece.
- March 30, 2012 at 6:26 PM
- Fred Rutherford said...
Cool piece MZ. Love the way the repetition is altered from the first stanza to the last, and sandwiched in between them is a really neat stanza in it's own right. The Wildcat-whiskey drenched and wounded- awesome line there. Thanks
- March 30, 2012 at 6:29 PM
- Gail said...
What a fantastic piece...you described my sister's life. I felt your pain.
- March 30, 2012 at 6:46 PM
- Christine said...
so many graves to dig, feel this line everytime I open my mouth
- March 30, 2012 at 7:08 PM
- Teresa said...
This is so original and wonderful! I love the look back at the different stages of life.
- March 30, 2012 at 7:47 PM
"And, still, I find
that I have yet
so many graves to dig"
Of course you do. Another great write, Kelli.
- March 30, 2012 at 7:58 PM
- J Cosmo Newbery said...
Yes, so true.
- March 30, 2012 at 8:07 PM
- Mary said...
Yup, glad to have buried a few earlier bodies. May they rest in peace!
- March 30, 2012 at 8:10 PM
- Daydreamertoo said...
Pheww... deep and dark
- March 30, 2012 at 9:17 PM
- Audrey Howitt aka Divalounger said...
Loved this! And still so many graves yet to dig--great imagery!
- March 30, 2012 at 9:23 PM
- Sherry Blue Sky said...
Wow! You just blew what is left of my mind!Fantastic writing - and topic!
- March 30, 2012 at 10:53 PM
- Brendan said...
There's an old Irish folktale about a wastrel out on the road drunk late one night upon whose back a corpse attaches itself, demanding the poor fool walk all night until he found its grave. This gravedigger sings a double shot of blues, knowing both how much was buried and how much work each next job takes. Growth is at best molting of too-partial self, not such much growing out of as growing down into (worser versions are a sort of serial monogamy, running from the mirror only to run smack dab into it again and again). The pathos here of leaving definitions behind is unique - many are eager to shed those skins -- and speaks much about what the world forces one to do as what one eventually then chooses. - Brendan
- March 31, 2012 at 3:46 AM
- Brian Miller said...
rock on mz....just make sure you bury them deep enough the rains wont bring them back you know...esp like that middle stanza....
- March 31, 2012 at 7:03 AM
- Marian said...
the sell-out? that's so harsh. sigh.
- March 31, 2012 at 8:00 AM
Yes, wonderful. K.
- March 31, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Yes, wonderful. K.
- March 31, 2012 at 1:32 PM
- Lolamouse said...
Wow. That's one tough way to view life but so true. Great write, MZ.
- March 31, 2012 at 2:40 PM
- Susie Clevenger said...
What a creative way to look at one's history..it may seem harsh but it is truth...
- March 31, 2012 at 3:08 PM
- Laurie Kolp said...
Oh, I like your approach... an excellent piece!
- March 31, 2012 at 3:56 PM
- Herotomost said...
There comes a time when its just easier to pay someone else to do the digging....lol. I think I want to be the sell out, other peoples jealousy fuels me somehow! Great stuff.
- April 1, 2012 at 11:39 AM
- Carol Steel 5050 said...
Wonderful, deep and dark. Ultimately fascinating, as usual.
- April 1, 2012 at 4:22 PM
- Margaret said...
Just fantastic. You write "characters" not just words. I always look forward to your poetry.
- April 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM
- happygirl said...
"The girl -
unsheltered from the bull god's rut.
The wildcat -
whiskey drenched and wounded.
The scholar.
The sell-out.
The self
no longer self-contained."
I need to bury some of these bodies, too. This one touched me deeply.
- April 2, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Really great poem of self-reflection.
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