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Are ABCs new one-person foreign bureaus a model for covering the world in the digital age?
By Jennifer Dorroh Jennifer Dorroh (email@example.com) is AJR's managing editor.
With an arsenal of technology including handheld digital video cameras, satellite dishes and laptops seven ABC News journalists who took on new posts around the world this fall may be set to change the definition of "foreign correspondent."
"We are fixers, shooters, reporters, producers and bureau chiefs," says ABC correspondent Dana Hughes from her home office in Nairobi, Kenya. She and her colleagues in these one-reporter bureaus will record, edit and transmit their own audio and video reports from Nairobi; Jakarta, Indonesia; Mumbai and New Delhi, India; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Seoul, South Korea; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as well as from neighboring countries. Their new assignments come at a time of ever-dwindling resources for foreign news (see "Covering the World") and mark the network's largest overseas expansion in 20 years.
Their jobs demand even more flexibility than those of traditional foreign correspondents, who already had to contend with challenges like time zone differences, foreign languages and impenetrable bureaucracies. "Most of their reporting will be for our Internet outlets, but if there is a story that breaks, they can get on the scene while we move people in, and they are our first line of defense," says ABC News President David Westin.
With this in mind, Hughes hit the ground running within a day of her arrival. In the wee hours of October 4, an accident trapped 3,200 workers in a gold mine in South Africa. At 7:40 a.m., Hughes was on a flight to Johannesburg. By the end of the day, she had filed on-camera summaries for Newsone (ABC's affiliate service) and ABC News Now , its digital platform; two audio pieces for News Now; a pair of two-way interviews for ABC News Radio; and a story for the World News Webcast in which she interviewed women whose husbands were trapped in the mine.
With so many roles to play, setting priorities is key, she notes. "You have to be honest with everyone you're working with and say, 'This is what I can do today, and this is what I can do tomorrow.'" The correspondents aren't completely alone. Each reports either to the London bureau or to the network's foreign desk in New York. Colleagues at ABC's various platforms edit their work, and they get logistical and technical support locally from stringers and from ABC News partners like the BBC.
Westin says the network has long wanted to bulk up its roster of about 10 correspondents in London, Moscow, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Beijing. When the advances in newsgathering technology and the increasingly niche-driven environment of the Web combined to make one-reporter, multiplatform bureaus seem feasible, London Bureau Chief Marcus Wilford developed a proposal for the initiative while on a 2007 fellowship at Columbia University's Sulzberger News Media Executive Leadership Program.
Although ABC previously worked with stringers in each of the countries where it has opened one-reporter bureaus, "I'm confident that there are good stories that we didn't hear about," Westin says.
The technology also makes the expansion an affordable one. "We can do several of these for the price of one traditional bureau," he says. Although Westin wouldn't reveal budget details, maintaining a traditional broadcast bureau overseas including salaries and support such as office space, communications, travel, camera crews, secretaries, fixers, family housing and school tuition for correspondents' dependent children can easily total $500,000 per year, says John Maxwell Hamilton, dean of Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication. In contrast, American University professor Bill Gentile estimates that a stand-alone multimedia reporter's equipment costs about $10,000. The ABC reporters are posted without families and work from home offices when not traveling in their regions.
The network believes its beefed-up foreign reporting will find a solid audience in a core group of Americans who follow international news closely. What's more, about 15 percent of ABCNews.com's visitors are outside the United States, Westin says.
Although they haven't yet settled on an advertising model for the increased international coverage, he says, "My attitude is, 'Let's build it and if people come to it, then we'll figure out the advertising.'"
The network's new bureaus are part of a larger trend in American television news toward reporter-only operations, says Michael Gay, executive producer of digital media for Hearst-Argyle Television. "As technology improves, we're seeing a shift toward equipping individuals with the tools to report alone," he wrote in an e-mail interview. "I think of newspaper reporters who have worked alone on stories for years. Now it's possible for those journalists to produce more than only written word."
With the right training and gear, a reporter should be able to gather audio, photos and video during the course of a typical reporting assignment, says Amy L. Webb, a digital media consultant. (See "The Video Explosion").
"Citizen reporters are perfectly capable of capturing video some that I've seen have been of tremendously high quality and posting it to the Web," says Webb, whose team adapts technology for newsrooms. "What separates those citizen journalists from TV newsrooms? Decades of training and experience, and the support of an organization dedicated to practicing the tenets of journalism."
The success of the ABC correspondents may determine whether the trend catches on in foreign reporting.
One drawback to the arrangement, says Paul M. Davis, senior vice president for programs at the Foundation for American Communications, is that with handheld cameras, the correspondents could be more limited technically. "Anything you do on camera is going to be on the fixed shot... There is not as much emphasis on [the reporters'] on-camera work," he says.
But Gentile, a longtime foreign correspondent and a filmmaker, considers this a plus. "These machines have got the capacity to deliver a much more intimate and more immediate form of television than the old huge beta cams were capable of," he says. "I hope we'll see content that will be more immediate instead of filtered through a correspondent."
Gay, who contributes to the blog Lost Remote (lostremote.com "where TV finds the future"), believes the advent of the Web has decreased the importance of having a reporter who appears on camera. "The Internet is fragmented due to search engines and aggregators, so more people search for information than [for] the person who is reporting it," he says.
While lone digital journalists reporting overseas for mainstream media outlets may well become the standard, Gentile believes the current void in foreign news will ultimately be filled by a mix of traditional and new media. "Films like 'Meeting Resistance' [featuring interviews with Iraqi insurgents] resonate because the mainstream media have largely failed in [their] primary job of bringing Americans the information we need to make important decisions about our lives and the life of the nation." He also sees the potential for nonprofit foundations to fund foreign news and distribute it to media outlets.
CUNY Associate Professor Lonnie Isabel says blogs like Global Voices are becoming an alternative to the traditional foreign bureaus. "They may not be the New York Times' sort of graduate-school-trained journalists, but they have an impact on what we can view as news," he says.
Regardless of who is reporting, "The massive bureaus are pretty much a thing of the past," says Isabel, a former deputy managing editor for Newsday. "But I think that this whole idea of having people who are very flexible works well."
"Today, most of the news is not just made in the big capitals like Moscow and Warsaw and Johannesburg," he says. "Reporting this way is not only cost efficient, but it's actually a better way to report."


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Penpark Place
PENPARK PLACE offer you a clean and comfortable room with good price and friendly atmosphere. Our place is quiet, tranquility, peaceful environment, and away from busy area. We have large and nice garden, shady terrace, and roof-top area for relaxing of CHAOPRAYA RIVER (the river of King) view and famous Rama VIII bridge, especially during sunset and at night.
PENPARK PLACE located on Samsen road near KHAOSAN road, the famous area of Bangkok, within 10 minutes walking distance. We are in the heart of Thailand historic and architectural heritage and surrounded with various sightseeing and tourist attractions such as RATTANAKOSIN ISLAND (OLD BANGKOK), GRAND PALACE, WAT PHRAKAEW (the temple of the EMERALD BUDDHA), WAT PHO (the great reclining Buddha), WAT ARUN (the temple of dawn),THE MABLE TEMPLE, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY, THE NATIONAL ART THEATRE, VIMARNMEK ROYAL PALACE (the world largest teakwood mansion), and many more.
For exploring CHAOPRAYA river , PENPARK PLACE is close to PHRA ARTIT pier which is convenience for those who enjoy traveling around Bangkok by boat .
If you are looking for a nice, clean and quiet place to stay, PENPARK PLACE can be your answer. Come to stay with us and you will impress during your stay.
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- 24 Hour Reception
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- Air Conditioning
- Bicycle parking
- Breakfast Not Included
- Cable TV
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- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Free Internet Access
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- Linen Included
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PENPARK PLACE is 42 kms. from Suvanabhumi airport. No MRT(subway) or BTS(skytrain) transport directly to here.
Transportation from Suvanabhumi airport to PENPARK PLACE :
1. By meter taxi : contact to the taxi counter on 2nd floor, outside of the airport exit, state your destination. There is 50 baht surcharge on the meter (per a taxi). In addition, in case of using expressway, you have to pay for 2 express way fee 70 baht. The meter should run up to 350-400 baht and it takes approx. 45-90 mins. depending on the traffic.
2.By airport rail link : take city line rail link at underground of the airport. Operate from 6 am.to midnight, fair 45 baht. It provide between airport to the end termninal at Phyathai station within 30 minutes. Please take taxi from Phyathai station to Penpark Place, cost 70-80 baht.
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Derby History Quiz
Derby High's
|Since this quiz was posted, the Girls Cross Country team has added a Connecticut Class S state championship to the Derby record book.
Derby High's 1985 State Class "S" State Softball Champions
We've had several quizzes about state championships in football, baseball and basketball, but this was the first - and only one possible to this point - that features a state championship for a girls team at Derby High. In 1985 the Derby Red Raiderettes won the first and only team state championship when they defeated Coventy by a score of 4-2 to capture the State Class "S" championship in softball.
The Raiderettes under the coaching of Joe Borzelli had entered the tournament as the seventh ranked team in the tournament while Coventry was ranked #1. Derby had the benefit of playing against strong competition in the Housatonic League all year, and they posted wins over Central Catholic, Haddam Killingwoth and Wheeler of North Stonigton on their way to the title game with Coventry.
Things did not start out well for Derby in the title game as Coventy scored twice and carried the 2-0 lead into the fourth when Eileen Duggan's triple and Dawn Sengstecken ground out to second cut the lead in half. An inning later, Derby tied the game on a triple by Doreen Germond and a ground out by Donna Estwan.
In the sixth, Mary Lynn Sheehy, Derby's starting pitcher, started a rally with a double, but was caught at the plate shortly after on a Duggan grounder to second. Sheehy was injured on the play and needed medical attention. While she was getting that attention, Sengstacken singled up the middle, and after Coventry bobbled the ball, Duggan dashed for home. There was another collision at the plate, but this time the Coventry catcher couldn't hold onto the ball, and Duggan had given Derby a 3-2 lead and Sengsacken raced to third. She scored on a ground out to short by Linda Rodriguez.
With Sheehy still receiving attention in the bottom of the sixth, junior varsity pitcher, Debbie Holzer took to the mound. Holzer gave up a hit, got a force out at second, and then a Derby error put the tying runners on base. At that point, Sheehy with a heavily re-taped ankle re-entered the game. The first batter she faced bounced back to her, but then she hit the next batter to load the bases, but she got the third out without any damage. The seventh went a lot smoother after she hit the first Coventry batter, but then retired three straight batters to earn Derby it's first - and only - girls state championship.
A little bit of trivia attached to the game is that Eileen Duggan's father Bill also won a state championship at Derby. Bill was the MVP of the 1951 Class "B" Boys Basketball team - the only Derby basketball team to win a state title.
Correct answers were received from: Durch Pereiras, Kathy Moran Brandi (Her sister was on the team!), Nick from Terryville, Jack Moran, Pattie Degnan Pandolfi, Barbara DeGennaro, Marc J. Garofalo, Joseph DiRienzo, Jim Norris, Kathleen Deptula, Michael J. Regan, Kathleen Deptula, Meghan Condon Jackson, Carol Della Rocco, Dan Shea, Ann Searles, shaun monahan, Rose Marie Sheehy (Yes, that's her daughter!), and Karen Gabianelli (top right in picture), Leo Mosacato, Damian Carloni, and Mary Costigan Wrenn .
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Household Bills
Tax hitmen to track your spending
Credit reference agencies will cross-check details of the income people declare on their tax returns against their spending patterns to identify "high" and "medium" risks of both illegal and legal tax avoidance, the Daily Telegraph reports.
People identified to HM Revenue and Customs will then be subject to more detailed investigations. About two million people are expected to be scrutinised under the programme, which may lead to privacy concerns.
HMRC will today unveil the "successful" results of a pilot programme involving about 20,000 people which will now be extended nationally.
Many of those who are expected to be identified are likely to be self-employed workers who have under-declared their income to the authorities.
However, those who have benefited from secret windfalls – such as an inheritance or a bonus – and people with secret offshore accounts could also be highlighted.


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One of the dumbest arguments offered by the "pro-life" crowd is the claim that because more black women have abortions than white women, it's all a big racist scheme to kill black babies. It's becoming more and more common in wingnut circles, often accompanied by ridiculous rhetoric like this:
Meanwhile, Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics tells OneNewsNow there is an especially important fact people need to know about Planned Parenthood and its real target.
"We've been the victims of a lie in this country that abortion was legalized in order to advance the cause of women's rights. The reality is that abortion was legalized as an instrument of eugenics and black genocide, and Planned Parenthood continues that today," Crutcher reports. "This is not something that happened 50 years ago or 100 years ago. This is happening as we speak."Black women make up 12 percent of the population, but reportedly have 37 percent of the abortions. And a Life Dynamics study proves Planned Parenthood clinics are overwhelmingly located in minority neighborhoods. So, Crutcher contends that for anyone who supports Planned Parenthood, "that is no different than supporting the Ku Klux Klan."
"The only difference between the Klan and Planned Parenthood is that Planned Parenthood's a lot slicker, a lot more polished," he compares.
Right, that's the only difference. Because I'm sure we all remember how the KKK set up health clinics all over the country and offered cancer screening, pap smears, pre-natal and post-natal care to underprivileged women who would otherwise not get it. And it couldn't possibly be that more black women have abortions than white women because they're much more likely to be poor and unable to support more children, and much less likely to have access to affordable birth control.


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JMU offers winning combination
James Madison University is recognized in two recently released online guides that spotlight schools that provide high-quality education at an affordable price.
JMU ranks 22nd on a list of 50 U.S. colleges and universities that combine tuition affordability and high return on investment.
The 2013 rankings of the Most Affordable Colleges with a High Return on Investment, compiled by AffordableCollegesOnline.org, is the result of reviews of 875 public and private four-year schools with total four-year tuition of less than $40,000. To be eligible for consideration, each institution was required to be fully accredited and non-profit.
JMU's four-year tuition is $18,568 and its 30-year net ROI is $360,500, as calculated by AffordableCollegesOnline.
Data from the National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and Carnegie Classification, all national entities for data collection and analysis related to higher education, were studied. Then AffordableCollegesOnline calculated the return on investment by subtracting the cost, or investment, in college from the return of incremental salary expected from earning the degree at a specific college. The online resource determined which institutions' 30-year net ROI were highest, using data from Payscale.com, a salary data collection organization.
Virginia colleges fared well in the 50-school ranking with the University of Virginia (3), Virginia Tech (5), College of William and Mary (6), George Mason University (24) and University of Mary Washington (44) on the list.
The College Database, a free website for providing students and their families with college- and career-related information, also used NCES, IPEDS and Carnegie Classification data to compile its unranked list of schools providing high-quality education at an affordable price.
Schools on the College Database's list have annual tuition rates below $20,000, and new graduates who earn more than $40,000 per year, on average. "JMU students enter the workforce earning an estimated $44,900 per year after graduation, ranking it among the most financially effective of all Virginia post-secondary schools," according to the College Database.
AffordableCollegesOnline is available at http://www.AffordableCollegesOnline.org and The College Database is available at http://www.onlinecollegesdatabase.org.
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The campuses of Utah State University are now graced with 24 new buildings ranging from a high-tech structural testing facility to a Platinum LEED-certified innovation hub. Donors who were inspired by the promise of USU's future success have made it possible for students and faculty to continue to not only push the envelope of research but blow past established boundaries.
These campaign-inspired buildings stand as a symbol of strength, service, and the power of higher education to transform the lives of individuals in Utah and around the world.


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American Airlines, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children Fly 13 Amputee Patients to Colorado for Annual Ski Event
Trip Offers Teens Therapeutic Ski Activities and Life-Changing Experiences
Feb 07, 2013, 11:00 ET
FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A special group of teenage amputee patients from Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children will soon head for the slopes of Winter Park, Colo. The group will fly via American Airlines for the 32nd annual amputee ski trip, which is also supported by the hospital's generous donors. This year, 13 teenagers will participate in the all-expense-paid ski adventure at Winter Park's National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD), one of the world's largest outdoor therapeutic recreation facilities.
American Airlines in an official sponsor of the trip and is providing air travel for the teens, medical staff and chaperones. The group will depart Monday, Feb. 11, from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), for Denver International Airport (DEN), and will return to DFW Airport on Saturday, Feb. 16.
"At American Airlines, supporting children and their families is a primary focus of our Kids in Need program," said Bernie Willett, American's Director – Community Programs. "We're proud to partner with Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children to provide air transportation for these inspiring young people to experience the excitement of skiing and snowboarding, as well as the fun and camaraderie of forming new friendships."
American Airlines employees, including members of its Abilities Employee Resource Group (ERG), are hosting a special send-off party the morning of Feb. 11 for the teenagers and their families in Terminal C at DFW Airport. Festivities will include a Wii snowboarding video game; a Coca-Cola ring toss game; a Foosball table; visits from the American Airlines mascot, "Spirit"; refreshments provided by the Admirals Club®; and brief welcoming remarks from representatives of American Airlines and Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children.
During their visit to the National Sports Center for the Disabled, the teenagers will be paired with a volunteer instructor from the NSCD for a week to learn to ski, engaging in such challenges as learning to carry their skis in the snow while wearing their prostheses. The trip allows the patients the opportunity to have fun while fostering a sense of self-confidence, independence and discovery – attributes that can remain with these young adults throughout their lives.
Dallas-based Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, one of the nation's leading pediatric centers for the treatment of orthopedic conditions, encourages its patients to challenge themselves during this special ski experience.
"Over the years, we have seen the incredible way that the sport of skiing promotes self-confidence among our amputee patients," said Don Cummings, Director of Prosthetics – Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. "With the proper adaptive equipment, many patients excel at the sport and, in fact, skiing turns out to be one of their favorite activities. We're extremely grateful to American Airlines and other generous donors for making this trip possible and giving our patients the opportunity to discover a new passion while overcoming challenges with other patients just like them."
This is the eighth consecutive year that American Airlines is providing air transportation for the trip. Travel is being arranged through Miles for Kids in Need® – part of the American Airlines Kids in NeedSM program, which provides support for a variety of purposes related to the well-being of children and their families.
Founded in 1989, the American Airlines Miles for Kids in Need program offers members of the American Airlines AAdvantage® loyalty program the opportunity to donate their unused AAdvantage miles to help provide air travel for children and their families via partnerships with some of the world's foremost entities dedicated to caring for children. The American Airlines Kids in Need program supports numerous organizations, including Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the Something mAAgic Foundation® and Snowball Express.
To learn more about American's Community Programs, or to donate to American's Miles for Kids in Need program, please visit www.AA.com/JoinUs.
About American Airlines
American Airlines focuses on providing an exceptional travel experience across the globe, serving more than 260 airports in more than 50 countries and territories. American's fleet of nearly 900 aircraft fly more than 3,500 daily flights worldwide from hubs in Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami and New York. American flies to nearly 100 international locations including important markets such as London, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Tokyo. With more than 500 new planes scheduled to join the fleet, including continued deliveries of the Boeing 737 family of aircraft and new additions such as the Boeing 777-300ER and the Airbus A320 family of aircraft, American is building toward the youngest and most modern fleet among major U.S. carriers. American's website, AA.com®, provides customers with easy access to check and book fares, and personalized news, information and travel offers. American's AAdvantage® program, one of the most popular frequent flyer programs in the world, lets members redeem miles for flights to almost 950 destinations worldwide, as well as flight upgrades, vacation packages, car rentals, hotel stays and other retail products. The airline also offers nearly 40 Admirals Club® locations worldwide providing comfort, convenience, and an environment with a full range of services making it easy for customers to stay productive without interruption. American is a founding member of the oneworld® alliance, which brings together some of the best and biggest airlines in the world, including global brands like British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Iberia Airlines, Japan Airlines, LAN and Qantas. Together, its members serve more than 900 destinations with more than 9,000 daily flights to 150 countries and territories. Connect with American on Twitter @AmericanAir or Facebook.com/AmericanAirlines. American Airlines, Inc. and American Eagle Airlines, Inc. are subsidiaries of AMR Corporation. AMR Corporation common stock trades under the symbol "AAMRQ" on the OTCQB marketplace, operated by OTC Markets Group.
About Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children is one of the nation's leading pediatric centers for the treatment of orthopedic conditions, certain related neurological disorders and learning disorders, such as dyslexia. Admission is open to Texas children from birth up to 18 years of age. Patients receive treatment regardless of the family's ability to pay. For more information, to volunteer or to make a donation, please call (214) 559-5000 or (800) 421-1121 or visit www.tsrhc.org.
SOURCE American Airlines


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Firefighter promotions on hold in wake of pension flap
FAIRFIELD -- Alarmed by revelations that a number of town firefighters were being promoted shortly before retiring -- moves that significantly increased their pensions -- officials have ordered a 30-day freeze on provisional appointments.
The decision by the Fire Commissioner during a recent meeting means there will be no such promotions while the town compiles a list of department members eligible for promotions.
The provisional promotions and transfers came under scrutiny -- and sparked controversy -- when it was learned that several firefighters had been transferred or promoted shortly before retirement. Under the firefighters' union contract with the town, firefighters who retire while serving a provisional appointment have their pensions based on that higher salary, no matter how briefly the provisional post is held.
"We're in the process of an investigation," commission Chairman Richard Popilowski said. "We want to see what that investigation entails. Once we get that, we'll rescind this or move in a different direction."
For the third time at a public meeting the last several weeks, Fire Chief Richard Felner read the same report on Fire Department staffing. He gave the report first to the Board of Selectmen and then to the Board of Finance.
According to Felner, he has simply been following the union contract when a vacancy occurs and no promotional list is in place to fill the job.
He also said two assistant chiefs were transferred to the fire training center -- a position that carries a 10 percent pay premium -- in an attempt to give Assistant Chief Chris Tracy, who had held that post, some experience on the line as a shift commander.
Both assistant chiefs, however, retired about two weeks after their transfer to the fire training job and, as a result, their annual pensions were increased by about $8,000.
Tracy has since been transferred back to supervising the training center.
The contract calls for the provisional appointments to be offered first to the firefighter with the highest seniority.
If, however, a promotional list has been established, the promotions are done according to that list.
Under the contract, the Fire Commission is required to schedule a promotional exam within 90 days of a job vacancy occurring if there is not a valid list.
Exams for promoting firefighters to lieutenant and assistant chief jobs were held this month. They had been postponed from last October, having initially been scheduled on the day Superstorm Sandy hit.
Felner said he needed to have senior leadership on shifts where there were vacancies because of retirements, and without a valid promotional list, led to several provisional appointments.
Over the past year, a number of firefighters retired within several weeks of filing their papers with the town.
However, the municipal pension plan requires 30 days notice, and Human Resources Director Mary Carroll Mirylees sent a notice to police and firefighters Monday indicating that provision will be enforced.
There was little public discussion of the pension controversy at Thursday's meeting between the selectmen and fire commissioners.
The exception was questioning by Selectman Cristin McCarthy Vahey about the testing process and promulgation of a promotional list.
"It sounds like we're not going to have a lot of conversation here," Vahey said.
Commissioner Charlene Lebo expressed concern that the anonymous letter that prompted the controversy was not forwarded to the fire panel by Board of Finance Chairman Thomas Flynn. Popilowksi agreed, "I was very disappointed," he said.
"I feel if he (Flynn) called me ... I don't think it would have blown out of proportion like it did."
"I would like to see something like this not brought to the public before all the facts are clear," Lebo said.


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Sleepless (UK - DVD R2)
The Wilson Brothers rest easy with Sleepless, Argento's superior thriller...
There are few things more satisfying when watching a movie than a favourite director managing to bring back some of the old magic after a long drought of decent work and reminding you just why you loved them in the first place. There were flashes of the old Lucas in Episode III, enough to stop you entirely washing your hands of the prequels. 16 Blocks showed that Richard Donner could still pull off decent work, in spite of being corrupted by cheerfully racist/sexist/homophobic Lethal Weapon sequels. As for Russell Mulchay…well, Highlander is still a really enjoyable movie…
Then we come to the maestro of Italian suspense, Dario Argento. Bursting onto the international scene with his mould-carving thriller The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, back in 1970, he scaled increasing heights during the 70s and 80s with films like Suspiria, Inferno and Tenebrae. Hitting a few potholes as he went into the 90s, including the largely unwelcome American debut Two Evil Eyes, things were looking rather bad, and even the most fervent of Argento devotees had just about written him off when it came being a creative force. Then something took people by surprise.
Ignoring the poor showing that was Trauma, Argento went back to his roots, creating a detective thriller in the Giallo mould which would demonstrate his ability to create sequences of high-tension and suspense built around a tantalizing mystery. Goblin reformed to provide another haunting score, and Argento crowned the lot with arguably the finest actor to grace his films: none other than Max Von Sydow. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you proper Argento!
When a prostitute finds her weird client blurting out that he's a serial killer, she realises that there are worse things than a 'john' who either won't pay or can't get it up. But when she stumbles upon some of his incriminating documents, she has no idea that she has just sealed her own fate. Stumbling out into the night, she boards a train for safety, not realising that her trick isn't engaged in post-coital slumber…
Meanwhile in Turin, young man Giacomo is going about life as anyone else, trying to hold down a job whilst keeping his relationship alive—easy for some, but not him, haunted by memories of seeing his mother bludgeoned to death in front of his eyes as a boy. The investigating detective made a lifetime vow to find the killer, and with train victim matching the MOs', the hunt is on once again to stem the tide of blood. But when his prey all have links to animals, and a childs' story might contain answers, things aren't going to be easy.
What is the nursery-rhyme which seems to echo the killings? Has the infamous 'Killer-Dwarf' struck again? Will the retired Detective Moretti finally get his man? But more importantly, can Argento pull off a return to form after the mixture of mediocrity, crap and general disappointment which dogged him for over a decade? Let's take a look.
Well, if ever there was a way for a master to stamp their return, the opening train sequence is how you do it. The scene is utterly vibrant, with a protagonist you want to come out alive, even though the odds are stacked against her, and is unwilling to waltz into the arms of her pursuer. Rather like his TV story Il Tram, Argento uses every little detail of a piece of public transport to maximum effect. The way our plucky gal hides herself between the carriages of the train is ingenious. The music echoes the speeding wheels of the vehicle, a mirror of events on board as both passenger and train hurtle through the night, their ultimate destinations obscured. This is piece is vintage Argento, letting the faithful know that Sleepless is a return to form.
The central premise of the movie is that of a mysteriously gruesome poem/story about a farmer killing his animals so as to allow him a peaceful nights' sleep, and Argento makes a superb point about the way the mind can be damaged by such grim tales. When our generation were kids, we had the uncensored versions of The Three Little Pigs, where two of the titular porcines were killed and the wolf boiled alive in a cauldron of oil. Nice, eh? Or how about Little Red Riding Hood, where the woodcutter rips open the wolfs' stomach to free Granny? Sure, they are pretty disturbing, but it helps kids to deal with the nasty things in life—in the new versions, the three pigs survive and the wolf runs off with a modest burn! Argento cleverly uses the twisted mystique of fairytales to give Sleepless an air unlike his other films.
With the theme of animals being the killers' way of choosing his victims, and the compulsion to kill takes hold, the slender neck of a swan becomes irresistible—who hasn't felt the urge to put their hands round the throat of one of those evil gits—let's see you hiss now, eh? Eh? Oops, too personal. With many people intent on painting Argento as being someone who merely creates beautiful killings, this sequence demonstrates his ability to put together percussive suspense, as our heroes race to save the life of the next beast-based target. We all know that it will end messily, as our Killer attacks the Swan with all the zeal of an Eastern European looking for something tasty to go on their spit. Looking at the actress who plays the Swan, you'd swear that it was originally written for a cameo by Asia.
But there is more than mere spillage of blood for the sake of splattering the camera on display, and a damn good example is when the third victim is about to meet her untimely demise. While most would be distracted by the impending mayhem to be unleashed, it might go past you that she is standing by a number 'three' on the wall of the tunnel the killer is stalking her through.
There are instances in Argento's movies where the body of a victim is violated or disfigured post-mortem, as if to desecrate their spirit. Tenebrae had a face being slashed with a cutthroat razor and Suspiria drove nails into the wrists of the Black Queen's conquests. Argento manages to surpass himself this time around, and creates a sequence which will have most running for the 'skip' button. Is it a bucket of entrails? No, nor anything similar. After offing a poor bint, the killer clips her fingernails. Not much on paper, but when the blood starts flowing as they are cut down to the quick, you'll be surprised at how common and primal the phobia is. Watch it with someone who has a fear of clippers for the full effect!
This leads us into what really opened viewers' eyes with Sleepless—the special effects. Il Maestro had given us some spectacular demises in the past, from slo-mo decapitation to a swarm of aggrieved bees doing their worst, and The Stendahl syndrome even took Argento in to the digital age—with middling results. As if to break away from CGI fakery, Sergio Stivaletti makes exceptional use of animatronic work along with the wonder of silicone as substitute skin, and achieves results which are amazingly brutal. While some will pick out a couple of frames where a few of them don't quite gel, we defy anyone not to wince when the wee 'kitten' lassie cops it!
As if to hallmark that Dario has produced his best work in many a summer, Sleepless sees the return to the Argento fold by the superb Gabriele Lavia, the Profondo Rosso veteran and last seen wondering why the lights were flickering during Inferno. The man brings an ice-cool presence as a family man whose wife was murdered, demonstrating just why he outshines thesps half his age.
We have always watched Sleepless in Italian prior to this, and being Italiophiles for a good number of years, the movie highlights when things get lost in translation. For the uninitiated, the original title is Non Ho Sonno, which was very loosely translated for the rest of the world. That the police open the file on the Killer Dwarf case from years before when similar murders start again is lost in the English language. The Italian for dwarf is 'nano', very similar to the first half of the Italian title 'non ho', which makes more sense when a bloodthirsty Oompa-Loopa is brought into the equation, as well as being a damn funny joke. One of the master-strokes comes through the delicious use of a homonym, which shows Argento to be both sly and playful, a real surprise given that it works perfectly, given how the usage of the Italian word for 'dwarf' didn't translate into languages outside of Italy. We won't reveal it, but its use in the story is nothing short of inspired.
What sets Sleepless apart from most others in the genre are the presence of a decent amount of quality red herrings and some deft misdirection from Argento. The viewer is kept guessing as to who is on the winning end of the knife, making you suspect only the persons Argento wants you to. There is no 'Scooby Doo' revelation which makes no sense, with the perpetrator being someone briefly glanced at the side of the frame only in an early scene.
We really can't say enough about the presence of Max Von Sydow being in the movie, as he is undoubtedly the star of the show. Sure, there have been movies where he has been happy to just turn up and be Max Von Sydow, but this is an occasion where he is perfectly suited to the character he plays. He provides Moretti a cynical air combined with something scratching at his brainstem, which propels him to solve the old case. He is a man of physical limitation, with his heart and body slowly giving out on him, and few actors could be as quietly dignified when proved to be so very right in the face of his prey. In Germany, the name Curt Jurgens is always preceded by the work 'genial', and we would lobby that the excellent work by Von Sydow here warrants just the same.
Indeed, it seems that to get the best out of Max Von Sydow, he has to stare death in the face. This can be literally, perhaps over a game of chess, or through the limitations of the body, as we all remember his dickey ticker from The Exorcist. We assume that Argento chose the latter in an homage to cinemas' finest slice of philosophical blasphemy, as Von Sydow has the same heart condition this time around.
The notion of Sleepless having a killer dwarf might sound like the wet dreams of Ken Russell, but the creepy character of the diminutive Vincenzo gives the (almost) shaky premise a rock-solid credibility and stops the movie going overboard. Who better to take out their inner rage on a society comprised of those genetically predisposed to look down upon you? While Kenny Baker probably harbours the desire to bump-off Anthony Daniels, the entire population would be the target for a dwarf with a very sharp axe to grind. Hell, Vincenzo deserves either a spin-off series or a movie of his own.
If we were forced to throw in a piece of constructive criticism about a movie we really liked, it would be the following: we all know that defenders of Italian horror and even the genre worldwide will argue that the women depicted in movies reflect the times they were made in, Sleepless chops its progressive, feisty females down at the ankles. This comes by way of Clumsy Woman Syndrome—or CWS. The Friday the 13th films have their birds falling over as Jason Voorhees is stalking them through Crystal Lake, and who can forget Fay Wray practically falling into Kong's grasp? During the famed opening sequence, our gutsy hooker has vital evidence to stop the Killer Dwarf, but—get this—not only does she misplace the folder of suspicion, but manages to spill the contents of her purse whilst trying to avoid certain death. CWS brings wry smiles to the lips of genre fans, anger to the arched eyebrows of feminists and an easy solution to the fingertips of suspense-writers.
With this being not only a return to the past for Argento with the Giallo genre but a return to form after so many disappointing movies, Dario seems to appreciate such matters and crams in a number of references to films past. The good detective Moretti has a parrot who shares his home, but unlike Four Files on Grey Velvet, the feathered creature doesn't have to endure Bud Spencer naming it 'Jerk-Off'. From the same film, the protagonist is shot in the arm at a key moment, and another investigator is proved right as they are dispatched by their quarry. We also see the return of evil, demented puppets, which caused so many double-takes in Deep Red.
All fans of Argento are familiar with his 'animal trilogy', consisting of Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Cat o' Nine Tails and Four Flies of Grey Velvet, but with Sleepless being a return to past glories, it seems only fitting that the victims are all based around certain animals, with one bold step being to have a wee lassie working as a feline dancer in a disco called The Zoo Club. How many of you spotted that the bouncers at said establishment are all wearing yellow jackets, the very essence of giallo? Not to mention that the presence of a bunch of these guys in identical clothes is a tribute to the celebrated sequence with Reggie Nalder in Argento's debut?
Best of all elements from the past is the glorious reformation of Goblin, with all four members accounted for and contributing pulse-pounding work. Sure, we have all heard stuff purporting to be goblin to distinctly underwhelming effect, with the closest effort to date being Tenebre, but they live and groove again as if to herald the glorious return of Argento the Giallo genre. As bang-on as Argento's direction is of the opening train-murder, it is the driving beat of Goblin's score which pushes it into the realms of his best work. It skilfully blends the past with instances of modern techno, underpinning suspense where needed, heightening the brutal murders at other times, but never anything other than utterly appropriate to the material. Hell, there is one instance where their music seamlessly blends in to the sirens of a police car, all without sounding pretentious or arty. Wonderful stuff.
Speaking of references and the past, ever since Demons 3: The Ogre (aka La Casa Dell'Orco) saw a village idiot given the name 'Dario' as a sly dig at the maestro, you would have thought that he would have had characters named 'Lamberto' and 'Dardano' in his films killed off as gruesomely as possible. It certainly isn't the case here, as Argento uses the same trick to name-check his former associate his mentor, with the character sporting the moniker 'Leone', which will need no explanation to anyone who has seen Once Upon a Time in the West. Even Von Sydow got in on the homage act, persuading Argento to have Moretti's faithful parrot christened 'Marcello' in honour of Sr Mastroianni.
Whilst it comes as a disappointment that Sleepless once again comes to the UK in a dubbed version, we're pleased to report that the process has moved on considerably. We all know that there is a certain charm when the soundtrack is rerecorded—in a lot of cases it's all part of the charm, and you have to ask English language audiences have had as much for Al Cliver without the familiar voice he was saddled with? But here the replacement dialogue is handled in very impressive manner, and we have only watched No Ho Sonno in Italian until now. There are still a few voices you'll know from previous dubs, but the quality of the work is really quite impressive. Above all, you get to hear Von Sydow's original performance, and it's something which the Italian track is much poorer for losing. On a side note, we did get a childish chuckle when Von Sydow demands to hear 'Another 'Werse' of the gruesome poem as his accent betrays him, putting us in mind of Lugosi in Glen or Glenda… 'Bevare!'
By now you know that Sleepless is thoroughly entertaining, but how does this DVD present such pretty images and the pulsing re-teaming of Italy's premiere rock group? Let's take a look…
This is rightly a revelation for those poor sods who ever sat through the MIA edition of the movie. That previous copy was awful, but Arrow has come up trumps with an edition looking very much like the original Italian release. The (slightly less than) 1.78:1 anamorphic image is more accurately framed, with darker blacks and much less artrfacting than before. We did detect a little noise in the background of some shots, but nothing to spoil things. In short, it's a solid job, and very easy on the eye.
Almost all other copies of Sleepless have the same English-language track, and they are bloody awful. Crap to the point where you would honestly skip the movie and use the disc as a coaster, or as bird-scarers. Arrow gets high praise from us in going to great lengths in order to bring the UK a decent version of Sleepless our native tongue. As we have said before, the quality of the dubbing (cockney bouncers aside) is very good, and forms part of a pulsing soundtrack which really sets the movie alight. Goblin's score during the train sequence is a crucial example of how important the audio is to create suspense, and is deftly presented here. The directional effects on the discrete 5.1 Dolby Digital track will have you looking over your shoulder, with low frequencies rumbling away with such impressive clout that you'll have a stupid smile on your face during the movie. There is a 2.0 option for those watching via other means (on a laptop on the way to work, etc) which does a fine job, too. Not much more to ask for.
Murder, Madness and Mutilation: Sleepless and the Modern Italian Giallo: Newly-created for the DVD is a featurette about the genre, with contributions from Joe Dante, and Sleepless FX man Sergio Stivaletti, this covers the basics for those new to the staples. Origins are covered, the FX of Sleepless are examined and is all presented in a nice package. Oh, and you get contributions from Tony 'Freddymania' Timpone.
Making of: This is from the Italian DVD, which is certainly no bad thing, but this time non-Italian speakers get a set of subtitles to accompany it. This is a nice little inclusion, showing Argento and cast at work, but don't expect any of the simmering hatred bubbling under the surface as was seen whilst making Opera.
Photo Gallery: Once again, we get Arrow's lovely way of parading nice images from the movie accompanied by the score. It's a nice way of displaying static photos, and a worthy inclusion.
You also get a CD-ROM copy of the script in English, along with a press-kit, which is are very cool editions, but you'll have to hunt for them through My Computer to get there.
Sleepless is a thoroughly entertaining thriller from Dario Argento, a movie which showed that neither age nor a crippled Italian film industry had dulled his edge. The performances (especially from Von Sydow) are excellent, the pace is pulsing, the kills inventive and the twist inspired. Fans for whom it has eluded will be rewarded with a quality release, and have no excuse to snap up this gem from the maestro. Those who just want a damn good thriller will be in for a hell of a night, although be prepared: you'll be bitten by the Argento bug, but the embrace is sweet.
You know you want it…!
Review by Wilson Bros
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
Quote: the compulsion to kill takes hold, the slender neck of a swan becomes irresistible
You came very close to a Hot Fuzz reference there guys!
You came very close to a Hot Fuzz reference there guys!
Wilson Bros Reviewer Join Date: August 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,183
Only you would pick up on that one, Chris! LOL!
The Wilson Bros
The Wilson Bros
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A recent viewing of Trauma actually put it over Sleepless on my personal list recently, though it may've just been because I realized they shot it in the Twin Cites, and I recognize landmarks from my daily commutes. Sleepless was kind of sloppy, but like Pelts at least Argento appeared to be 'feeling' it again. It's too bad he never tried to develop more 'adult' fair like Stendhal Syndrome any further, unless Phantom of the Opera was him attempting that...
losthighway Member Join Date: January 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 309
The Stendhal Syndrome still remains my favourite of his films.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 29th June 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: N/A
Extras: Making of, Genre Featurette, Photo Gallery, ROM content.
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: Max Von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Gabrieli Lavia
Genre: Thriller
Length: 112 minutes
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Do you have UN-motivated readers this summer? Because I do. Here's my best tips to motivate your kids and mine to read.
For the first time ever, my oldest daughter is very motivated to finish as many reading programs as possible. She's on her second library program, already having completed the local library program. But my younger daughter, a beginning reader, is still resisting reading. I don't want her to hate it so I'm finding ways to make reading more fun and motivating.
1. The local library reading program is our number one summer reading programs. (If you're weird like me, you consider register in the neighborhood library districts, too.)
2. National summer reading programs usually offer prizes and coupons and they're online. Do you think any of these would motivate your readers?
iVillage and PBS Kids
Pottery Barn Kids
Barnes and Noble
TD Bank (10 Books, $10 Bucks)
Pizza Hut
Sylvan Learning
3. Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer, knows about getting kids to love reading. In "Building Up Your Book Muscle " on EdWeek, she writes that following book review blogs might help motivate young readers. Good books help. She recommends:
Watch. Connect. Read.
Nerdy Book Club blog
100 Scope Notes
The Goddess of YA Literature
The Nonfiction Detectives
A Year of Reading
The Brain Lair
4. Reread The Rights of the Reader and allow your kids to choose their own books. That helps a lot, too.
5. Use the 10 Weeks of Reading Adventures from Reading Rockets. Look at these fun ideas they suggest for Week 2 . . .
Week 2: Keep in touch
- Make a personal phone book. List phone numbers and addresses of your friends and relatives.
- Design your own stationery and write a letter to a friend.
- Start a journal with a friend or relative. Take turns writing in it all summer long. You can even do this by mail or e-mail.
- Write a letter to your favorite author. A librarian can help you find a postal or e-mail address.
- Draw a picture postcard of an imaginary place. On the back, write a message. Mail it to a friend or relative or put it in your scrapbook.
- The first U.S. postage stamps were designed in 1847. Be a philatelist. Design your own stamp.
- Word game! Invent a code (A=1, B=2, for example). Send a message in code to a friend.
I love these ideas, how about you? No need to reinvent the wheel.
Which do you think will motivate your kids to read over the summer? Or, what are you already doing that is working?


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Not every great animator is a good designer. In fact, hardly any are. Many cartoon characters just evolved into designs from generic beginnings.If, however you do have the rare gift of design, and you are an animator who understands character then you might be aided in having a discussion started. I say a discussion, because this is such an abstract concept and I've never read anything myself on the subject, so I'm trying to figure it out as we go.
Design itself - in any medium requires purely an aesthetic sense of balance of pleasing shapes or forms. But there are many different occupations that require design and each has its own special requirements. It is a common belief that design must follow function and I'm a believer in this axiom.
An architect doesn't set out to make a building that has a distinct funny personality. He makes a building that first will stand up, and second have a look that matches what the building is to be used for. If he has taste, he will add that on top of the functional aspects of making buildings.
An animated cartoon character benefits the animator greatly if it has an understandable, mostly logical form.This giant is not really a design. It is a bunch of stock animation forms put together in proportions that suggest a large character. It is strictly functional for animation.
We have to be able to move the forms around in space and if the forms don't work from different angles, are sloppily constructed, the animation is wobbly and unstable - unless we use cheats to get from one disconnected mess of details to the next.
There is a reason that classic animation evolved into simple sensible forms. To make something move you have to draw lots and lots of drawings, so you have less time to spend on details.
Also, the more details you have, the harder it is to control them as they turn around in space.
The more corners and planes you have in your design, the harder it will be to control them in motion.
When a complicated head turns, all the planes and details will shift positions on the head and make the character seem like he is melting.
Can Be Moved Easily
But being merely functional is not enough to me, to be a character design.
Character design can benefit from some other ingredients.
Some artists, like Craig Kellman have a natural affinity for styles and shapes. They have pure design eyes.
Gene Hazelton took a generic cartoon Baby structure and used his good eye for balance to compose the features in a pleasing way. He also drew the details with a nice combination of curves and corners. Pebbles is not really a design. She's too generic, but Gene applied a lot of style to these drawings to make it look more like it has a design. Gene has designed some very distinct characters though. Here he is pleasing Joe Barbera, who liked conservative shapes.
A talented stylist can make a generic design look much more pleasing. Style is different than design.Chuck Jones has a natural eye for pleasing shapes and forms. He understands construction and in some of his designs, used strong contrasts of forms, shapes and proportions to create animatable, yet distinct and beaitifully balanced and designed characters.
Irv Spence too.
Tom Oreb
Character designs that are true characters and not just good looking objects with faces, need other traits.
4 Personality
Here is a generic character being frightened by a specific character.
This is the kind of design I gravitate most towards, and it's why I prefer Ed Benedict over say, Tom Oreb. Ed's characters suggest living beings. You know something about them right away just by how they look. Some designers create purely for aesthetic pleasure, and that has its place too - but not in character-driven cartoons.
A lot of times, my own characters come out of random doodles I scribbled out on a bus or at dinner on a napkin. If I find a scribble that makes me think of a personality. Then I develop it further.
5 Originality
It's hard to think of many animated characters that are super original. Most evolve from previous characters. The more distinct they look, the more "original" they are. If they are generic, or they look just like another character you've seen before then they are not very original.
Here are two very distinct characters. I'll try to think of more.
Madame Medusa is pretty distinct, but only one human in history could have animated her! Lots of people have imitated bits of what she looks like and how she moves since.
Here are some characters that have none of the 5 properties above that I think make up good character design.1 Not Functional
2 Not Aesthetic
3 Not Distinct
4 No Personality
5 Not Original
There is lots more to say about character design. I'll go into more detail about each of the ingredients I've listed here in further posts.


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PARIS (AP) Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin won their first Grand Slam title by defeating Spaniards Marc Lopez and Marcel Granollers 6-3, 7-6 (1) in the men's doubles final of the French Open on Saturday.
They became the first French team to win the men's doubles at Roland Garros since Yannick Noah and Henri Leconte in 1984.
''It was repeated to us. We knew that before,'' Roger-Vasselin said. ''We took time to discuss the match from the tactical point of view, and also the emotion that we would feel.''
After winning, Benneteau and Roger-Vasselin threw their rackets, hugged each other, and ecstatically bounced on the court.
''This is the best moment of my career, almost of my life,'' Roger-Vasselin said.
The two Frenchmen held back their tears while giving a speech after receiving the trophy. The crowd even sang the French national anthem ''La Marseillaise'' to celebrate.
Benneteau and Roger-Vasselin broke for a 5-3 lead in the opening set. They then blew a 3-1 lead in the second set but won the last four points in the tiebreaker, clinching the victory when Lopez netted a volley. They combined for four aces and no double-faults.
''We were in our bubble. We were very much focused on the match from A to Z,'' Roger-Vasselin said.
Granollers and Lopez were bidding to become the first Spanish team to win the men's doubles at the French Open since Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez in 1990. They won the ATP Finals in 2012.
This was only the third time that Benneteau and Roger-Vasselin played together in a Grand Slam tournament.


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Party: Green
Website: hallforhouse.org
Age: 58
Family: I'm married with 3 children.
How long have you lived in 2nd Congressional District? I have lived in District 2 for over 25 years.
Professional background: Teacher
Political/community experience: I supported Green Party candidates Bob Kinsey for Senate, and Tanya Ishikawa in Federal Heights, the first Green Party member elected there.
Education: I have a bachelor's degree
Name a person you admire and explain why: I admire Dr. Jill Stein because she is a physician who realized there was a rising rate of ailments in children that were preventable, such as asthma, and she decided to do something about it through campaigning for president, without accepting corporate funding. She thinks the country needs the environment cleaned up and Medicare for all, and the U.S. needs to establish provisions for all U.S. citizens to have their basic needs met.
How do you plan to tackle the ongoing issue of high unemployment in Colorado and nationally?
Dr. Jill Stein's plan for taking care of the unemployment in Colorado and around the country includes bringing the soldiers home and having their labor and new businesses contribute to the stimulation of the economy, ending the largest subsidies on old energy provisions and putting this money toward new green technology and jobs. The Green New Deal also provides the opportunity for those corporations that have made the largest profits in history to contribute back into their communities by returning to higher tax rates as billionaires, which will stimulate the economy and promote opportunities for new businesses.
What does Colorado's 2nd Congressional District most need in terms of help from Washington, D.C., whether that's funding or political assistance?
Colorado's 2nd Congressional District does need provisions for more subsidies on green energy sources. Independent Bernie Sanders has a bill to stop the tax breaks going to the big oil corporations. The oil corporations have had years of financial support for their form of energy and now it is time to provide support for alternative means of energy.
What bill would you introduce first if you are elected?
As soon as I look into the bills that are already created and needing support and signatures, I will begin to introduce bills where I see there is a gap. The bills Bernie Sanders has created began in the Senate and his work is parallel to that of the Green Party. I appreciate that he has been stating there should be no cuts on Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, and therefore I will not be a part of the Simpson Bowles Budget, but the tax cuts should be ended to the monstrous oil corporations and I will support these positions, as does Dr. Jill Stein. One of the most important bills that should be passed is against the Democrat- and Republican-passed National Defense Authorization Act. I think Barbara Lee has created a bill for this, but, if not, it will be one of my first. I will of course want to sign Dr. Stein's bills, including provisions for new energy jobs, legalization of cannabis and hemp at a federal level, health care for all, cutting the largest military budget in the world and building up the economic, health and social nets in the U.S.


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Hugh Hefner, Crystal Harris finally marry on New Year's Eve
Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris made it to the vows this time around, getting married on New Year's Eve in a small ceremony at the Playboy Mansion. Hef, 86, announced the news via Twitter on Monday, saying, "Crystal & I married on New Year's Eve in the Mansion with Keith as my Best Man. Love that girl!" Keith Hefner, 83, is Hugh's younger brother. The Playboy founder followed up on Tuesday, tweeting, "Happy New Year from Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hefner!" with an accompanying picture of him in his trademark pajamas with the bride, 26, still in her pink mermaid-style gown. Full story: Hugh Hefner, Crystal Harris finally marry on New Year's Eve
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An Apple a Day Keeps the Statins at Bay
By G. Douglas Andersen, DC, DACBSP, CCN
On the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of the phrase, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" [see sidebar], researchers from Oxford published a paper in the British Medical Journal titled, "A Statin a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Comparative Proverb Assessment Modeling Study."1 After I read the paper, I felt "An Apple a Day Keeps the Statins at Bay" was a better direction for doctors and their patients.
In their paper, researchers calculated that if everyone over age 50 in the United Kingdom would take statin drugs, approximately 9,400 deaths from cardiovascular disease would be prevented every year [if approximately 17 million people over the age of 50 who do not meet the U.K.'s Rx criteria took a statin drug anyway. (5 million U.K. adults over age 50 take statins to lower cholesterol.)]
They then applied the same formula, substituting an apple for the drug and an equal number of calories, consumed by 70 percent of 22 million citizens ages 50 and above. (The 95 or so calories provided by the apple were subtracted from other meals so there would not be a daily increase.) Their results revealed that if 70 percent complied, a apple a day would prevent approximately 8,500 deaths a year – almost 1,000 less than the statin drug. However, when researchers estimated side effects, they discovered the stain drug would cause almost 14,000 serious problems a year:
If compliance with the apple regimen (or a second apple, for those who already consumed one a day) was 90 percent instead of the 70 percent, the annual reduction of deaths from cardiovascular causes would reach 11,000 - a 29 percent increase for a 20 percent higher compliance rate.
On the BMJ website, at the end of the article, a text box titled "What This Study Adds" states: "An apple a day or a statin a day is equally likely to keep the doctor away." I must respectively disagree: Yes, they may be equally likely to keep the undertaker away, but with 14,000 preventable cases of diabetes and muscle disease every year, "A statin a day guarantees the doctor gets pay."
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The filing period ended Friday in Carteret County with Newport lacking enough candidates for all the races.
The filing period ended Friday in Carteret County with Newport lacking enough candidates for all the races.
Jim �Mac� McCoy filed as a candidate for Newport commissioner Friday, becoming the first and only candidate to file for the town�s upcoming election.
Long-time Mayor Derryl Garner chose not to seek re-election after serving 36 years in office, leaving the mayor�s seat wide open. Two council seats also are open and neither of the incumbent commissioners filed to keep their seats.
�It was really busy the last two hours but still had two seats without a candidate,� said Carteret County Elections Director Lindy Lewis.
Lewis said elections officials checked with the State Board of Elections attorney to see how to proceed.
With only one candidate and three open seats as the filing period officially came to a close at noon, elections officials sought direction from the State Board of Elections on how to proceed. Under statute, the local Board of Elections unanimously agreed to extend the filing period for the two seats in the Newport race for five days.
Any Newport resident wishing to file for either mayor or one of the council seats can do so beginning Monday, until Friday, at the Board of Elections office in Beaufort. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The filing period for the Newport seats will not be extended beyond Friday.
If any seats remain unfilled after the extension, they will be filled by the option to write in a candidate on the Newport ballot in November, Lewis said.


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According to the Washington Post, 40 million people in the U.S. have tried online dating. In 2012, Zoosk was the most popular online dating site with over 50 million visitors per month. Recent studies report that one out of five relationships start on an online dating website.
Since online dating has become some popular, a new term called "catfish" has surfaced. Catfish can be defined as when a person involved in an online relationship is lied to or deceived. MTV has developed a movie and a reality TV series based on the concept of being catfished. In their reality show, the host helps people in online relationships meet their significant others for the first time. Unfortunately, in most cases, the person is not who they were portrayed to be. Attractive bachelors are actually middle aged women or teenagers portraying a different identity.
Others may find out that their significant other doesn't even exist. The latest example is the publicized scandal of Notre Dame Linebacker Manti Te'o. A friend of Te'o set him up and made up an online girlfriend. The woman was real on Facebook but had no knowledge that her information and photos were being stolen from her social network page; which left Te'o in love with a figment of his imagination.
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Inferring types
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It is often useful to have the compiler infer types for you automatically. There are a number of ways to do this.
1 GHCi
Load your module in one of the interactive Haskell environments, for example ghci or hugs, and ask it for the type of a top-level declaration in your code:
x = 3 y = "foo" z = (True, Just ()) main = undefined $ ghci A.hs *Main> :t z z :: (Bool, Maybe ())
2 Editor support
If you use vim, the following script can be used to infer and insert types for you top level declarations:
#!/bin/sh # input is a top level .hs decls
FILE=$* DECL=`cat` ID=`echo $DECL | sed 's/^\([^ ]*\).*/\1/'` echo ":t $ID" | ghci -v0 -cpp -fglasgow-exts -w $FILE echo $DECL
This uses ghci to infer types. With the following .vimrc entry:
:map ty :.!typeOf %
You can then infer the types of bindings by typing 'ty' with the cursor on the decl whose type you wish to infer. That is:
y = "foo"
y :: [Char] y = "foo"
3 Compiler support
You can have ghc dump the inferred types for you module:
$ ghc -ddump-tc A.hs 2>&1 | sed '/^\=/d;/AbsBinds/d;/ *\[\]$/d'
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I really, really am. I've never had such issues with nursing, nor have I ever wanted to just throttle a baby (though I haven't) more.
He cries and screams ALL DAY LONG. Nothing makes him happy, unless he's nursing or being bounced in his bouncy seat; he does not like to be held and he hates being close to anyone, tied in a carrier. He is gassy. He has gassy poops and farts and is still straining to go. He will spit-up right after he nurses, burp sometimes, and then will spit up even an hour and a half after he has eaten.
Now his latch is sucking. It's not only the problem I just posted about - the sound of him not getting suction down right - he's already clamping down, he GAGS when I try to get a good latch into his mouth, my nipples are raw and sore and pink, and I'm just seriously about to be done. The pediatrician said his mouth looks fine, that he has no tie problems, and so I just sit here, crying, and wondering what the HELL I am doing wrong. He fights and pulls back and wriggles and thrashes his limbs around when I nurse him, too. I try to make sure his upper lip is flanged out; I can't see or feel the bottom, because if I try, if I move him at ALL while he is nursing, we have to start all over again and he's even grumpier than he was before.
I just pumped and tried a bottle. He's gagging on the nipple, not even on the flow of the milk, it's the nipple of the bottle. I don't know what I'm supposed to do if I can't even frigging feed him with a bottle that he'd been doing fine on previously when I'd pump and try to get a snooze in.
I'm seriously at a loss. I can't stand it anymore. It is 24/7 screaming and crying and fighting me at the breast. I am at my wit's frigging end, and I can't afford an LC because we are strapped for cash, literally: SO lost his job about 3 weeks ago, so we have to ration anything and I have nothing left over for an LC. I'm just at a frigging loss.


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Banjo at Bascom: Rich Remsberg ends week-long residency with concert
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ADAMS -- North Adams resident Rich Remsberg is an artist, an author, an Emmy Award-winning archival footage and image researcher, a photographer, a collector of unusual objects and ephemera, a history enthusiast and plenty more, but one of his greatest passions is a simple one: Banjo. After a week's residency at Bascom Lodge devoted entirely to the instrument, Remsberg plans to prove his love for it with a performance and talk at the end.
The week will be one of immersion for Remsberg.
"The residency will give me the opportunity to spend more than five minutes at a time playing and thinking about the banjo," Remsberg said.
He will have and give plenty of practice time, as well as study. Remsberg will focus on old Library of Congress recordings, and particularly the music of Chicago banjo player Fleming Brown, a huge influence for him.
Remsberg picked up the banjo in eighth grade. It wasn't an immediate match, he said, but it raised enthusiasm and, sometime around the age of 19, it clicked.
"I was determined., he said. "I always had a great desire about the banjo as a kid. I was pretty good at it when I was young, but immature and derivative, and then I got interested in other things, photography first and then filmmaking, and then just came back to it a couple years ago."
Now, Remsberg has a room across from his office where he takes banjo breaks from his job as a documentary researcher. It's been about 20 years since he set the banjo down for his other pursuits, but he came back to it the day after Earl Scruggs died.
"I was asked what made his style so innovative and so unusual," Remsberg said. "I started explaining and then thought it would be easier to show it, so I got my banjo out and showed what made that style different from other kinds of banjo playing, and it just felt good to play. I figured with Earl dead, every banjo player in the world got to move up one notch, so for me, it just meant going back to active status."
Remsberg said banjo playing has its own unique feel, with a technique unlike any other instrument, an unusual mix of African and European hand positions and playing styles. He plays banjo clawhammer style, with the back of the hand, an unusual method among string instruments. He also plays two-finger style.
And crucially for him, therinstrument has a historical richness that allows him to delve into other sides of it.
"A lot of the music I've learned is from older players, so there's history implicit in that part of it, too," he said. "I'll be talking about some of the people I've learned from."
Remsberg said he doesn't play bluegrass music on the banjo. For that, he grabs his dobro. On the banjo, he plays an older style of music originating from the Appalachian mountains, and he does it in a style all his own.
"The way a lot of people approach that is with this laser-sharp focus on Appalachian old time musical traditions, and learning that note for note and very faithfully executing the style," he said. "Although I have a lot of respect for that, I'm not very good at that. I try to put it in my own voice, respecting the tradition it came from, but presenting it more in my own voice and my own style of playing, out of necessity as much as anything."
Any creative project Remsberg embraces has a historical component to it, and he views the music of the banjo as an ongoing text through the decades that reveals much about not only the music itself, but the people who performed it and the eras it came from.
"I think of folk music as a kind of American literature," Remsberg said, "and a lot of what I want to sort out during the week is approaching music the way a writer would approach writing a novel, with keen attention toward a good ear for voice and situation and story that has some integrity and cohesiveness to it, but isn't bound to a narrow musical tradition."
His intellectual and creative interests coincide with his own personal enthusiasm, which makes the banjo part of a larger and a more intimate story that he plans to investigate deeper on the residency.
"For me, after turning 19 and finally getting it, it's become such a natural thing," he said. "The instrument makes a lot of intuitive sense to me, and physically it feels very comfortable. It's like walking."
If you go ...
What: Rich Remsberg performs
When: Monday, July 21, 6 p.m.
Where: The lobby of Bascom Lodge, on Mount Greylock
Admission: Free
Information: bascomlodge.net
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