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ROCHESTER — During Monday's Ward 1 meeting, residents will hear about a proposal to raise the Boston Felt dam, a project that might greatly increase the possibility of flooding for those who live along the Cocheco River, according to City Council Ray Varney.
He said that in years past, before the dam was breached by floods several years ago, residents living near the river experienced flooding almost on a regular basis. Since the dam was lowered after the breach, there was almost no flooding whatsoever.
According to Varney, an application has been submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to have the dam raised to the level it was before the breach.
"Folks are very concerned," said Varney. "We don't want to raise the level of the river and have more issues with flooding people out."
Also during the meeting on Monday, residents will get information about the proposed renovations to the East Rochester School. They will also be updated on the Salmon Falls Road construction project, as well as the Brock Street and Strafford Square construction projects.
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Doctor Who: Myths and Legends (II) (UK - DVD R2)
The Wilson Bros feel under-weather as they are forced to endure Underworld...
This is part of the Doctor Who: Myths and Legends box-set
Continuing the Myths and Legends set, we turn our attention to the 1978 Tom Baker story, Underworld.
Season fifteen was a difficult period for Doctor Who—a golden age has just ended with the departure of producer Phillip Hinchcliffe, having been responsible for the show's wonderfully successful 'gothic' period, bringing forth classics such as Pyramids of Mars, The Brain of Morbius and The Talons of Weng Chiang to name but a few. Replacing Hinchcliffe was producer Graham Williams, who set about making several decisions as to the direction of Doctor Who that would be greeted with little enthusiasm for hardcore fans, but would be embraced by certain other areas of fandom. Williams first decided that the K-9 character originally intended to appear in one story ( The Invisible Enemy) was worth keeping on as a regular part of the show and Williams also seemed to want a greater degree of humour in the show. Although writers such as Robert Holmes had injected a sly, sardonic wit in his scripts (and those he touched up as story editor) during the 'gothic' period, Williams appeared to favour a slightly broader type of humour. Another problem encountered was that by this point in the season, the money had effectively run out and inflation had hit hard, meaning that ways of cutting back costs had to be found and the idea of filming a story mainly using the relatively new process of Colour Separation Overlay (CSO)—filming actors against a blue-screen and putting in the backgrounds separately—suddenly seemed like a good one.
Underworld opens with the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) finding themselves aboard a Minyan spacecraft—their presence is immediately detected and the sound of the TARDIS materialising allows the Minyans to identify the Doctor as a Time Lord. The Doctor's people are looked upon by the Minyans as gods, as the Time Lords interfered with the Minyan's development in the dim, distant past. The end result had the Minyans learning the secret to Time Lord science, including cellular regeneration, effectively allowing them to live forever. The Gallifreyans were expelled from Minyos and the planet was destroyed in a final battle, but not before the Race-Banks, which contained the future the Minyans, were despatched into space.
The commander of the RC1, Jackson (James Maxwell), explains to the Doctor and Leela that they are looking for the P7E, which contains the Race-Banks. The RC1 manages to locate the signal of the P7E, and the ship manages to avoid being turned into being buried in the centre of a newly-forming planet, but also realises that the P7E suffered the same fate, but without being able to avoid being turned into a planetoid.
Underworld starts out promisingly enough, with some nice banter and chemistry between Baker and Jameson and the premise is certainly interesting. The design of the RC1 spaceship is reasonably impressive and the sense of conviction from the supporting cast members effectively sells the dramatic set-up.
Sadly, once the action switches to the caverns of the planet, the fascinating premise starts to wash away like autumn leaves down a storm-during a passing monsoon. As with An Unearthly Child, the first episode is great (that first Doctor Who story has the greatest opening episode in the show's history), but it goes rapidly downhill after that. Just like that story first transmitted in late 1963, there is a character that can be seen wearing underpants underneath their tattered primitive clothing. The enthusiasm of the cast help to buoy things a little, but they battle in vain against a script that is leaden without sufficient production values to underwrite it and they also battle against some of the naffest looking robots in the history of the series—these things are essentially people dressed in what look like oversized pyjamas, along with enormous heads and some silver button-like things to give the vague indication of facial features—the black-clad robots are the most amusing to look at, as they resemble the sort of cheap and nasty fancy dress gorilla outfits of old. When the masks are eventually whipped off, the things are even more hilarious, as they look like something out of a 1950s low-budget sci-fi, rather than a 1970s low-budget sci-fi.
The idea of having K-9 piloting a ship is a good one, as it allows the character to do more than just appear as the canine equivalent of the sort of school swot who used to get beaten up regularly. The only problem with this scene comes in the execution, as the mechanical interface that allows K-9 to manoeuvre the RC1 looks suspiciously like a pair of bulldog clips.
The Colour Separation Overlay process also has visual hairdressing capabilities, as one shot sees Tom Baker's trademark loose curly locks transformed into a tight bubble-perm, which would be appropriate seeing as Tom Baker is a Scouser, after all.
One amusing thing about the occasionally dubious use of CSO is that there are scenes in episode three where the Doctor waves a certain long, trailing piece of apparel around and because of the movement it generates, it causes the CSO process to go a little mad and the garment keeps dematerialising and rematerialising—Time and Relative Dimensions in Scarf, you might say…
The Minyon slaves must have the hardiest feet in the known universe, as they are able to walk over endless expanses of rock that make up the floors of the caverns with no effort whatsoever. The wonders of CSO also allow K-9 to be able to traverse across the sort of terrain that would ordinarily have him burn out his motor at the first pebble. Whilst it's good that the technology here allows him to play a more useful role in the story, there will certainly be some viewers who miss the 'you stay here, K-9' sort of dialogue that is one of the greatest get-out lines since the old 'go guard the door, Shemp' in several Three Stooges shorts.
Beyond the obvious smutty double-entendre in the Doctor's observation that 'whatever blows can be sucked', it also somehow manages to encapsulate the general feeling of Underworld, in that it both blows and sucks in equal measure.
The cliff-hanger of episode three is somewhat rushed—as the Doctor and Leela are concealed in a mine-cart, they are unaware that a potentially ghastly fate awaits them, because the contents of each cart is being tipped out into somewhere nasty—not enough is done to set up the situation and when the climax comes, it almost has viewers scratching their heads because it all happens so fast.
OK, so we are well aware that we've been putting the boot into Underworld, but there are some interesting concepts at work; when the Minyan slaves are questioned by Leela as to the nature of the universe, one of them replies that the upper part of the cave is the sky, to which Leela replies, 'no, it's a roof'—such a casual revelation would have been mind-blowing to a civilisation that was taught to believe that life and the universe consisted of nothing more than dank caves and servitude, being suddenly presented with literally a universe of possibilities.
The sequence where the Doctor, Leela and Idas (Norman Tipton) travel in zero gravity is a very interesting idea, and something that could only really have been done using the Colour Separation Overlay process. On the scenes where the trio are making their way through the shaft, the music playing is very atypical for Doctor Who, with an almost dreamlike, poetic tune that sounds like something in the style of Ennio Morricone work for Dario Argento.
In terms of scale, what is attempted here is something grand and ambitious, the sort of scope they were aiming for versus amount of money they had to spend could was comparable to the William Hartnell story The Web Planet; both stories could be commended for trying something ambitious, but the budgetary constraints hamstrung both productions. The Web Planet was a six-part snooze-a-thon that was so boring that it could have been used in scientific research into finding a cure for insomnia— Underworld had a more interesting premise, but it began to fall apart during episode two, rather than being a stinker from the outset like the Hartnell story.
In terms of the performances, Baker and Jameson are as great as they ever were during this season, but special mention has to be made regarding the once Mr Diana Dors, Alan Lake, who turns in an off-the-wall performance as gung-ho Herrick, whose over-the-top use of violence and machismo sees him come a cropper and end up in the hands of the villainous Seers. Lake suffered from depression and alcoholism and ended up committing suicide a few months after Dors' death in 1984.
When the Doctor finally confronts the sentient computer, the Oracle, who masterminded the enslavement of the Trogs (the long-lost relatives of the Minyans), the confrontation is disappointingly short and seems to be something of a cop-out after spending three and a half episodes building up to that point. There is a giant plot-hole toward the end that involves a deadly duplicate of the Race Banks, which concerns K-9 being able to detect the duff set and the Oracle not being able to tell them apart, but we shouldn't dwell on such things…
Underworld looks pretty good here the fact that it was entirely shot on video means that there are no pesky film inserts to drag down the overall look of the story. Images are as crisp and as clean as they will ever look, with the much of the CSO work coming over particularly strongly. Episode four (to our eyes, anyway) looks a little grainier during the CSO sequences, but is still fine.
Much as you would expect, really – it sounds as good as it did when it originally went out, with clear dialogue and little-or-no hiss on the soundtrack.
Audio Commentary: For the first time, actors Tom Baker and Louise Jameson are together in the commentary booth, along with co-writer Bob Baker. Baker is his usual lusty self, salivating over the sights of Jameson's pins as they watch this story, not to mention frequently mentioning his affection for actress Imogen Bickford-Smith. Baker and Jameson make for a great pairing, with Bob Baker chipping in with interesting anecdotes from time-to-time—not to mention plugging his upcoming Aussie reboot of K-9. The trio spend a couple of minutes putting the boot into Star Wars, which was released around the same time, but they were probably oblivious to the term 'the pot calling the kettle black'. Probably the most amusing exchange happens between Tom Baker and Jameson, when one asks the other 'were we friends by this point?' to which the other replies, 'yes, I think we were'.
Into the Unknown: This look at the troubled making of Underworld features interviews with script editor Anthony Read, writer Bob Baker , designer Dick Coles, video effects designer JA Mitchell, actors Norman Tipton and Jonathan Newth, with archive beyond the grave interview footage with writer Dave Martin and convention footage from the great beyond with producer Graham Williams. What you get from this documentary is an appreciation of just how much was done with next to no money—the cast and crew speak fondly of the experience, that somewhat flew in the face of the all-powerful unions at the time, but unlike Shada, most pitched in an just got on with producing the show.
Underworld—In Studio: This is undoubtedly the highlight of the extras on this disc (and possibly the standout in the entire Myths and Legends set) with remarkable footage of the studio filming of this infamous story, which also acts as a companion to Into the Unknown, which describes the headaches caused by the extensive use of CSO. It features Tom Baker being both very relaxed and also very tetchy and swearing quite heavily. It's also nice to see Louise Jameson having a laugh on the set. The best piece of footage in this featurette has Baker and Jameson hanging from a piece of set and Baker is unhappy with the crew chattering amongst themselves and bluntly tells them to hurry up and get the shot with a bleeped 'f' word thrown in for good measure—Baker is seen as both a genial, good humour man and also an irascible luvvie. The footage varies in quality, as the material was retrieved from tapes from the long-obsolete U-Matic and Shibaden video systems—the result is that some of it looks like the studio footage from City of Death and the rest looks like the stuff from The Talons of Weng Chiang. Generally, this is absolutely wonderful stuff that provides a genuinely fascinating insight into just how things were during this period of Doctor Who.
Photo Gallery: Presenting you with numerous images from Underworld, accompanied by some of Dick Mills' special sounds for the show. It's interesting (and thinking about it, not unsurprising) that all of the photographs presented here are taken from the scenes that take place on the practical sets, rather than ones shot in front of the CSO blue screens. You would have thought that in order to drum up publicity, the production would have comped up a pic of characters in the caves, but evidently not.
Production Subtitles: As reliable as an anti-immigrant story turning up every day in the Daily Mail, the production subtitles give to access to an exhaustive and almost incredible amount of information, minutiae and titbits about the production of this particular.
Coming Soon: A trailer for the next title from 2Entertain—the Fourth Doctor and Romana II story, The Creature From the Pit. Bet you can't wait…?
PDF Materials: Pop this sucker into your PC or Mac and you will be granted access to view the Radio Times listings for each episode of Underworld.
You might have guessed that we don't exactly have a great deal of affection for Underworld. It came at a time when the show was feeling a little sorry for itself after the departure of Philip Hinchcliffe and was struggling to find a slightly different direction for itself. The premise is a pretty sound one—the performances of Baker and Jameson are great and the first episode is most impressive—so the momentum generated by the goodwill of these aspects might be enough to carry some fans through to the end. The extras on this disc certainly help you to appreciate the efforts that went into making a Doctor Who story where they really had bugger all in the kitty.
Review by Wilson Bros
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 29th March 2010
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.33:1 Full Frame
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital Mono English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Audio Commentary, Into the Unknown featurette, Underworld: In Studio, Photo Gallery, Coming Soon, Production Subtitles, PDF Materials
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Norman Stewart
Cast: Tom Baker,Louise Jameson
Genre: Sci-Fi
Length: 88 minutes
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CARTHAGE, Mo. – A Missouri family is elated over a U.S. Supreme Court decision not to hear an appeal on behalf of a Guatemalan woman whose infant son they adopted seven years ago.
Encarnacion Bail Romero wanted the high court to overturn an October ruling in which the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld the termination of her parental rights to the boy, now 7, and his adoption by Seth and Melinda Moser, of Carthage, the Joplin Globe reported.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it wouldn't hear her appeal.
Melinda Moser said Jamison, the child she and her husband adopted before his first birthday, told them he was prepared to go to Washington and talk to the justices if it was necessary for him to be able to stay with the family.
"He calls it George Washington, D.C., but he said, 'Do I need to go to George Washington, D.C., and talk to them?'" she said.
The child has been the focus of legal battles since the Mosers adopted him in October 2008 in a process that started a year earlier. Lawyers acting on behalf of Romero challenged the adoption in late 2009, and the Missouri Court of Appeals overturned the adoption in July 2010.
In that ruling, the appeals court said the mother's rights had been violated because she was in the U.S. illegally.
The Mosers appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court, which ordered a new trial on the adoption. After that trial in Greene County, the judge in July 2012 terminated Romero's parental rights and approved the adoption.
The Missouri Court of Appeals – which had originally overturned the adoption – upheld the ruling in October in a unanimous 80-page decision.
Romero was arrested in May 2007 in an immigration raid while she was working at a Barry County poultry processing plant. She left the child with her brother, who turned him over to a sister, who then left the baby with a Carthage couple who agreed to the adoption by the Mosers.
Romero's parental rights were terminated because she abandoned the child and made no attempt to maintain contact or provide for the boy during the two years she was incarcerated.
Joplin attorney Bill Fleischaker, who volunteered with the team of lawyers representing the biological mother, said she did nothing wrong.
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Somalia has been touted as a failed state, a state that has spiralled downwards on all fronts-political, economic and social. With famines, droughts, pirates and warlords, all that remains of the state itself is a meagre cadaver. Arguably, one may believe that a state itself is not responsible for the way nature plays with it. However, the Somali problem goes a lot deeper than meets the eye. Nature has been unkind, no doubt, what with droughts being an exceedingly common feature in the state. However, it is only an exceptional drought that produces a famine. If a famine does arise, it must be remembered that there are a host of other factors that create a path for it.
Geographical factors catalyzing a famine, no doubt, are very simple to understand. If a state is entirely dependent on the vagaries of a monsoon to covet a good crop yield annually, it is obvious that a failure of rainfall would only imply the consequent failure of crops, and a clear shortage of food. However, that need not result in a famine. A proactive gubernatorial force will see to it that there is an alternative solution in that food will be sourced from allies and sympathetic states in the international community. While Somalia has all the geographical factors that may result in a famine, the operative word is may. However, Somalia also has exactly all the political and gubernatorial factors that will result in a famine, and the operative word here, is will. Needless to say, the confluence of the two has hardly been of any use to the state.
There is no dearth of examples in Somalia's history to testify to this fact. Take the drought of 1984, in the Horn of Africa, which, though, did not cause a famine in Somalia, but virtually devastated Ethiopia. Although geographically contiguous, Ethiopia took a heavier beating from the drought because its military government was embroiled in a civil war, and remained engaged in it instead of rising to the occasion and meeting the needs of its people. Somalia also had borne the brunt of a prolonged drought, called the dabadeer- meaning long-tailed- during the mid-1970s. The state did not succumb to a famine, thanks to the proactive gubernatorial policies that despatched aid to its people, nipping possibilities of mass-starvation in the bud. Later, in 1992, Somalia underwent a massive famine, which had nothing to do with a drought, but had everything to do with sectarian politics that functioned as a rift in the Somali polity and society. The famine itself originated in the heart of the state's productive agricultural regions, namely, Bay. Starvation was deployed as a weapon by warlords, in a bid to target farmers and bucolic. When Somalia collapsed in 1991, the state fell prey to marauding gangs that looted whatever little that the farmers had in the name of harvests. Food was kept away from the hungry common populace in the State's major warlord's attempt to capture the region. At that juncture, the United States sent in troops to the country to reach the indigent populace.
Droughts are obviously nothing new to Somalia. However, it has been five whole decades since the last drought-induced famine. Attention needs to be focussed not on the drought, but on the famine. The biggest reason behind Somalia's present condition of being steeped in penury and hunger is the inherent vulnerability of the state itself. Ecological disturbances have emanated as part of the impact of political and military forces. With the American pursuit of the Global War on Terror, the al-Shabaab terrorist outfit, the Transitional Federal Government, the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia and its continuous political and military involvement there, and finally East Africa's Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the UN itself, Somalia has plenty and more to cope with. Each of these actors has had a role to play in creating a situation where the common populace of Somalia find themselves hungry and starving, bereft of food and nutrition. The way the country has emerged is entirely consequent to its history.
America's agenda in Somalia has been to fight what it calls the Islamic terrorists, of which, the target is the al-Shabaab in particular. Following the 1998 bombings in the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre, there have been a host of secret operations, each carried out in a bid to capture terrorists and then run them aground by weeding out their support bases in Somalia. In the process, the United States had to seek assistance from warlords in Somalia, resulting in the 2005 Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism in 2005. The people of Somalia were antagonistic to the alliance and the patron, resulting in their subsequent move of turning against them under the auspice of the Union of Islamic Courts in 2006. With the warlords defeated at the hands of the Union, peace reigned in Somalia, while most of the southern portion of the state came under the control ambit of Mogadishu.
Following this, the United States, along with Ethiopia, laid claim that these Islamists were terrorists, and therefore had to be weeded out since they were a threat to the region and its peace. However, a greater majority of the Somalian populace supported the Union of Islamic Courts, and even pleaded with the international community to work on a peaceful framework while engaging with them. Despite this plea, America supported Ethiopia, and an invasion commenced in December 2006. This resulted in a mass displacement and a terrible death toll. When Somalia responded with its own stream of attacks, Ethiopia hadn't a choice but to withdraw a greater part of the troops. Nevertheless, there was an indelible mark from the invasion, one that left the state in a terrible condition of disarray. With Ethiopia left Somalia thus, the East African Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the international community picked up strings thereon. Designing a Transitional Federal Government that was led by the faction of the Union of Islamic Courts that was most amenable to the international community, and to the US agenda, things turned against Somalia once again. All the forces that had tried to work a means to push Ethiopia out were marginalized, leading to the Transitional Federal Government gaining control over all the regions that was under the control of the African Union Forces.
Needless to say, there was a massive civil war after Somalia had been left at the hands of the Transitional Federal Government, leading to the return of the al-Shabaab in the southern part of the state. The Transitional Federal Government was corrupt and inert for the most part. The death toll rose with such leaps and bounds. It was horribly astounding to note that the regime turned a deaf ear to the crisis that was burgeoning under its nose. Nothing was done to bail out is population while all that gubernatorial attention focussed on was to continue a sectarian war within the state.
One of the biggest catalysts for the ringing of the Somali death knell was the emergence of the al-Shabaab as a terror outfit. What started off once as the youth wing of the Union of Islamic Courts soon became a militant outfit when it brazenly declared its affiliation with the al-Qaeda. With that alignment, the group earned itself the official epithet of a terror outfit, and was identified thus by the United Nations and states in the international community. Needless to say, the group became the cynosure of all eyes as part of the world's endeavour in the Global War on Terror. Though the al-Shabaab has endeavoured to have an Islamic state established, it has completely failed in bringing something as basic as infrastructure to the state. It has also been in complete denial where the existence of the famine is concerned, to the point that it has completely refuted permission to the international community to allow the influx of food. In every state, action of the gubernatorial kind commences from the grass-root level. When a crisis strikes, the lowest rung of the ladder seeks to respond with all its resources. When things get out of hand, the national government steps in. And when it meets with failure, the neighbouring states, and if it may so wish, the international community itself, will step in. Somalia has absolutely nothing to show to prove that it has the local level and national administrative levels up and running. And with these terror outfits being seized of power in such sizeable amounts, the international community and its attempts to pump in aid is also as much a failure as is the machinery within the state.
The world itself has been exceedingly obsessed with either the famine being consequent to the drought, or, with weeding out the al-Shabaab. No attention was diverted to understanding the true nitty-gritties of the little common man stuck in the ruined state. Military prowess has been pumped in aplenty only to destroy the state itself, instead of supporting its development. What Somalia needs now, is a government- and one that is capable of handling all of its crises, of solving these problems and of putting the state back on its feet.


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2007 Lexus GX 470
The Lexus GX 470 is designed for active families with young children, balancing comfort and features with real off-road potential. Underneath, the GX 470 has body-on-frame construction like commercial or military trucks, with a solid rear axle and serious four-wheel drive features such as a locking center differential and dual-speed transfer case. Inside, the GX 470 is roomy, quiet and luxurious, with an optional third-row seat that expands capacity to eight. Its cabin is swathed in leather and bird's-eye maple. An overhead-cam V8 and smooth five-speed automatic transmission provide sufficient power for towing, trail-bashing, or carving corners on a coastal highway.
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Lexus GX 470 ($46,635)
Walk AroundThe 2007 Lexus GX 470 looks big and brawny. It doesn't seem excessively long on the outside, but it does look tall, especially from the rear, in part because of the vertically oriented tail lamps and other design cues. From the rear it almost looks tippy, which is unfortunate because it's anything but.
The GX 470 shares its basic five-door body shell with the Toyota 4Runner. Unique rear quarters give the Lexus a different visual personality, however. It looks cleaner and more contemporary, a bit more like a tall station wagon compared to the carefully calculated rugged-truck look of the 4Runner. Unique grilles and bumpers distinguish the two vehicles and give them their respective Lexus and Toyota identities, but a more careful examination reveals that they are more alike than different.
Details add visual richness to the GX 470. These include its peaky hood and grille combination, along with its nicely integrated body-colored bumpers, fender flares and side moldings. Massive headlamps and those complex, high-mounted tail lamps define its corners.
InteriorThe Lexus GX 470 interior is trimmed in rich leather and bird's-eye maple. It's roomy and well finished, with large, comfortable seats and lots of elbow room. The materials are excellent. Tall side windows afford a good view out, making the cabin seem airy.
In this sport-utility vehicle, everything seems to be where it's supposed to be, and everything is clearly labeled. All of the gauges and instruments are large and easy to read, with simple graphics shared by other Lexus products. Switches and controls are large, straightforward, elegantly designed and easy to operate.
The navigation system has been upgraded for 2007. This is the fifth-generation Lexus system, and it includes voice recognition that allows the driver to enter a destination by voice command. The screen now features a high-resolution, 800x480-pixel display in 32,000 colors. Maps and roads are shown with 3-D shadow effects, and the system can even display graphic representations of buildings in selected cities. System functions include multiple route calculation, route preview, simplified highway-junction graphics and a dual-map screen option. Spanish has been added to English and French text-display choices.
The 2007 navigation system integrates Bluetooth wireless technology. When using a compatible phone, Bluetooth allows the driver to transfer phone books to the nav system and make calls through its touch-screen panel or voice commands.
The backup camera displays what's directly behind the GX 470 on the seven-inch navigation screen when reverse is engaged. Beyond helping the driver to avoid backing over obstacles, such as a tricycle left in the driveway, it's also useful when parking in tight spaces.
The standard audio system now includes an auxiliary input jack. The Mark Levinson audio option turns the GX 470 into a concert hall on wheels, with 14 speakers and 240 watts of power. The Panasonic rear-seat entertainment system ranked highest in overall customer satisfaction in a 2005 J.D. Power and Associates study, and it's been upgraded for 2007 with a nine-inch, wide-screen display. The high-resolution screen lowers from the headliner. Front-seat passengers can also watch a DVD with the Mark Levinson audio system, but only when the vehicle is in Park. The video plays on the navigation screen.
The GX is a space-efficient vehicle. The second row bench seat is roomy, comfortable and easy to get into. It splits 60/40 for versatility and folds flat. A family of four with a big dog will feel right at home.
Order the optional third row and the GX 470 can seat eight, sort of. The third row is suitable for children, but it's nearly hopeless for adults. On the positive side, the rear air conditioning included with the third seat allows separate temperature adjustment for third-row kiddies and dogs.
Split 50/50, the third-row seat can be folded up out of the way or removed and stored. What starts as a 13 cubic-foot cargo bay can be expanded in steps to more than 77 cubic feet by folding or removing the lightweight rear seats and then folding the second row as well. At one time we would have said that this is not a lot of cargo space for a mid-size SUV. Now that some leaders in the field have sacrificed efficiency for style, however, the GX 470 doesn't look so bad by comparison. The Mercedes-Benz M-Class offers only 72.4 cubic feet, almost 10 feet less than the previous generation, BMW X5's offers just 62 cubic feet. Unfortunately, the GX 470's cargo door still opens from the left side. It might be great in right-hand-drive Japan, but it's awkward in the U.S., forcing you to walk around it when unloading curbside at the airport.
Driving ImpressionsThe Lexus GX 470 is a smooth, comfortable SUV for everyday driving, but it also offers some of the best off-road capability in the luxury class. Its array of onboard electronics is top drawer, and all systems work in concert to increase the GX 470's capability and the driver's confidence.
The 4.7-liter V8 delivers world-class smoothness and quiet. At highway cruising speeds it's barely audible. And as heavy as it is, the GX 470 is no slouch in the performance department, capable of full-throttle sprints from 0 to 60 mph in about 8.1 seconds, with a nice V8 intake roar to go with the rush. Toyota's sophisticated electronic VVT-i (for Variable Valve Timing with intelligence) improves efficiency and response at all engine speeds. VVT-i also helps the GX 470 run cleaner, earning the government's stringent ULEV-II (Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle) rating. Peak horsepower is 263 at 5400 rpm; torque tops out at 3400 rpm and 323 pound-feet.
That's strong torque for towing. If you're pulling anything up to its limit of 6500 pounds, this truck will handle it with ease. The bad news is that, even if you try hard, you'll probably never achieve 20 miles per gallon. EPA estimates are 15/19 mpg city/highway. And while the GX 470 will run on unleaded regular, Lexus recommends 91 octane (or higher) premium fuel for optimum performance.
The five-speed automatic transmission offers quicker response and better gearing than a traditional four-speed automatic. Like the engine, the transmission is very smooth.
The GX 470 handles well for a body-on-frame truck with a live rear axle. Like many truck-based SUVs, it feels heavy and ponderous, but it's never a chore to drive in the daily grind. Variable-ratio rack-and-pinion steering makes the steering quick and light in parking situations, but smoother and heavier on the highway, so the truck never feels over-assisted or darty. As a result, the GX 470 feels solid and well-panted at highway speeds.
The adaptive variable suspension, which comes standard, continuously changes the shock absorber damping at each wheel individually in response to road surface conditions and speed as well as steering and braking inputs from the driver. Four driver-selectable settings are available to tailor the system to driver preferences or situations. You might want to use the softest setting for a bumpy boulevard, for example, then switch to a firm setting for driving down a winding rural road. We did this and it works well. The system automatically increases shock absorber stiffness in transitional maneuvers. It also reduces dive under hard braking and squat under hard acceleration. Air springs in the rear can raise rear ride height in rugged terrain or lower the rear end when loading cargo.
Ride quality is remarkably refined for a truck with a live rear axle. Road vibration and pavement undulations get through, but they are damped. We found the Comfort setting produced a cushy feel, though it's no magic carpet ride as you can still feel the suspension reacting to bumps. Switching all the way to the Sport setting makes the bumps feel more pronounced, making for a less comfortable ride, but more responsive cornering.
The optional Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System provides more roll stiffness when needed for crisp handling response, without an increase in spring rate over bumpy roads. In other words, you get better handling without sacrificing ride quality. The system disengages the stabilizer bars for rugged, off-highway conditions, allowing more suspension travel and articulation to help the GX 470 step over obstacles. Lexus claims the system has been proven in World Rally Championship competition, which is another way of saying it's the real deal, not a fragile gadget.
The brakes are superb. They have a nice feel and are easy to modulate for smooth stops in everyday driving. The brake rotors are large, and all four discs are ventilated for long life and fade
The Lexus GX 470 is a good choice for buyers who want luxury, build quality and off-road capability. It's smooth and powerful on the road and can go nearly anywhere off the pavement. The cabin is trimmed in quality materials and features good ergonomic function. It's roomy and comfortable and can accommodate up to eight people when equipped with the optional third-row seat. Plus, there's the Lexus reputation for quality, durability and reliability. If your driving takes you off the pavement or deep snow is part of your annual driving, the Lexus GX 470 is an excellent choice.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Jim McCraw is based in the Detroit area.


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Proventeq has redesigned their next generation content migration engine called "Proventeq Migration Accelerator" (PMA). PMA's client application is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client, whose UI was designed and built by developers and now requires a visual designer's touch to provide the professional Enterprise Application look and feel.
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5 Tools For Teaching Color To Tots
We've been loving color all month, which is all very well and good if you can tell your yellow from your blue. But do you have a little one at home who doesn't? Then here are a few teaching tools that you can use to pass your knowledge (and love) of color on to the next generation.
1. Flash cards. For design loving parents, who can go past Pantone's very own Oversized Flash Cards set? One side contains the color alone, the other has cool modern graphics that showcase that color.
2. A chart. Look at this amazing chart from Pottery Barn Kids! Not only does it show different colors, but can also explain colors in relationship with each other, a great tool for explaining concepts like complementary colors to older kids.
3. Books. An essential teaching tool: a book like Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle. Each page features a large image of an animal painted in one color: brown bear, black sheep, purple cat and so on.
4. Rainbow colored toys. A toy that allows for both exploration and imaginative play like this wooden rainbow stacker would be a good place to start.
5. Yourself! Don't forget, when you're at home or out and about, to be asking questions all the time. "What color apple would you like, red or green?" "I wonder what color these leaves are?" And so on. Never forget your importance as a guide.
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PLF won a precedent-setting victory for property owners' rights when the US Supreme Court ruled in our favor in the PLF case of United States Corps of Engineers v Hawkes The groundbreaking decision accepted PLF's arguments that landowners have a right to seek judicial review when their property is designated as wetlands subject to federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act
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Cracks began to appear along a 40-foot section of asphalt some time after the May 31 ceremony. There are also signs of erosion on the adjacent slope above the river, according to Grand County Council Administrator Ruth Dillon.
When county officials spotted the damage, they temporarily closed a stretch of the popular pathway just east of the Goose Island Recreation Site. They only reopened the blocked-off section on June 30, after a county-hired engineer assured them that it was safe to do so.
Dillon said that officials acted because they were concerned about the stability of the ground underneath the pathway.
"We roped it off thinking, 'Gosh, it could fall off,'" she told the Grand County Council on July 1.
The ropes didn't come down until Horrocks Engineering principal Dave Dillman could personally inspect the site.
"We closed it because we were being overly cautious until we could get a hold of him," Dillon told The Times-Independent.
Dillman determined that the cracked section of trail is safe, but he couldn't explain what caused the damage, Dillon said.
"Of all the paved path areas along the river, this was the area of least concern because it's higher up," he said, according to Dillon.
Everyone else is just as puzzled by the sudden appearance of the cracks, Dillon said.
"This all happened so fast," she said.
Dillon said that she and other county officials have speculated that above-average river flows or conditions on the ground at the time of construction might be to blame. But they have no clear idea of what's actually happening, she said.
"It was all just conjecture," she said. "It's baffled the engineer."
Dillman suggested that the county should hire a third-party geotechnical services consultant to find out what happened, and to recommend possible steps the county could take to repair the damage.
Dillon estimates that the geotechnical work will cost about $2,500.
"That's about their minimum," she said.
As of press time this week, Grand County Clerk Diana Carroll was still waiting to hear if grant funds could be used to pay for that work.
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Appealing a Boy Scout Board of Review Decision
There are two sets of circumstances in which a Scout or his parents(s), acting on his behalf, may appeal a decision.
The first situation occurs when a unit leader or unit committee does not recommend a candidate for a board of review, or refuses to sign the Eagle Scout application. In such cases, the committee hearing the appeal shall decide to grant or not to grant a board of review.
The second situation occurs when a board of review does not recommend a candidate for rank advancement. In such a situation, the Scout or his parents may appeal the decision.
. The Scout, his leader, or his parents may appeal the decision. With all appeal applications, the final decision rests with the national Boy Scout Committee. In ascending order, levels are unit, district, local council, and national Boy Scout Committee.
On receipt of an appeal, the district or council committee responsible for advancement will provide for a prompt review to determine the facts. All parties must be interviewed either individually or as a group, but a confrontation should be avoided. A written report with all details must be prepared for the committee responsible for a decision or for forwarding to the national Boy Scout Committee, if necessary.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Yost Grube Hall Architecture (YGH) completed the Academic and Student Recreation Center at Portland State University (PSU) in 2010, but is continuing to receive praise for the stellar design. On Nov. 30, YGH, along with university representatives, accepted the 2012 Athletic Business Facility of Merit award — YGH is one of just 10 firms to receive the honor.
The state of Oregon prides itself on sustainable living, and the new center at PSU is a perfect model for the entire state when it comes to energy efficiency and environmentally friendly design. The facility can be used by all students as well as residents throughout the state.
The new LEED Gold certified building features a new gymnasium, pool, jogging track, natatorium and climbing wall. The building also includes academic space for the School of Social Work, offices for the Oregon University System and a new home for the City of Portland Archives.
In order to receive LEED Gold certification the building demonstrated its sustainable features including well water-cooling, UV filtration and a heat recovery system for the pool, maximum solar exposure and an eco-terrace that provides a rainwater harvesting system.
"The success of the project was achieved through a tight collaborative effort between YGH, Skanska and Portland State University," said Amy Winterowd, marking director at YGH. "Constant communication and a common understanding of what each party's goals were was essential to setting the stage for completing a challenging project early and within budget."
Not only is the design and building of the new recreation center impressive at PSU, but the finance method is also equally impressive for the industry and the economic times.
"Public colleges and universities for years now have been strapped for funding and the construction of new publically funded buildings has been few and far between," said Winterowd. "Yet, in this fiscal environment, PSU has a new $71 million Academic and Student Recreation Center."
In order to deliver the project, Winterowd explained that PSU "is an excellent example of thinking outside the traditional public financing box." PSU was able to seek out innovative public and private partnerships to pay for the project. The debt service on $43 million of state authorized bonds will be provided through student recreation funds (providing $35 million) and retail leases on the building's ground floor (providing another $7 million), according to Winterowd.
The city of Portland also contributed about $10 million to relocate its archives to the new building, providing a more central location for the archives and a resource for faculty and students. The Oregon University System also provided $3 million for the inclusion of space for the chancellor's office. Through the design-build method, the project also was able to deliver on efficient design and construction that saved on time and added value to the building.
The aesthetically pleasing building is matched with energy-efficient strategies and forward thinking financing decisions, making it a model design for the school, state, and future construction projects.


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The annual event started in 2004 as an initiative of the European Commission's Safer Internet Programme. It features school assemblies and major conferences in many countries.
I'm in Moscow to speak at Russia's Safer Internet Day conference. Several members of Russia's parliament, along with other government officials, are expected to participate along with educators, Moscow area schoolchildren and representatives of technology companies including Google and Microsoft. Here's a transcript of my speech.
This year's theme is "connecting generations," and to that end, Microsoft is releasing a study it conducted with the AARP that found that 83 percent of teens, young adults, parents, and older adults said going online is helpful in terms of family communication," according Jacqueline Beauchere, Microsoft's director of Trustworthy Computing. "For some," she added, "that translates to a deeper understanding of one another." Beauchere, as you might expect, is bullish on Internet for youth and seniors, but stresses the importance of "thinking before you post online and being very cautious about your personal information." Microsoft provides safety and security advice at its Safety & Security Center.
Goolge is using Safer Internet Day to launch its new digital literacy portal called ThinkB4U. The project, which is a collaboration between Google and its nonprofit safety partners, Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely.org and the National Consumers League, features "choose-your-adventure" style videos along with targeted safety tips from the nonprofit groups. The videos depict a family's use of media throughout the day with a variety of scenarios that could turn out OK or not so good, depending on members' choices. The viewer gets to pick the choices and help determine the outcome.
Here in Russia, as in the United States, there are some in government who want to put restrictions on the Internet to limit material that is "harmful to children." At a conference ahead of Internet Safety Day, several legislators and government officials questioned whether sites that depict pornography or advocate the use of drugs, alcohol, or political extremism should be blocked for all Russian citizens. Other speakers, including a representative from Google, advocated self-regulation and consumer education.
(Disclosure: Larry Magid serves as co-director of ConnectSafely.org, a non-profit Internet safety organization that receives funding from Google and consulted on the development of Google's ThinkB4U program.)


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SEATTLE (AP) — The pilot of an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Las Vegas requested emergency landing priority yesterday evening after the co-pilot fainted briefly. Airline spokeswoman Bobbie Egan says Flight 606, with 146 passengers on board, landed safely at about 5:26 p.m. at Las Vegas International Airport. The male co-pilot was taken to a hospital to be evaluated. Egan says he earlier was checked by a doctor who had been aboard the flight. She says the pilot landed the plane.


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Charles Mingus and the Third Stream
Among the many jazz movements in which Charles Mingus (1922–1979) participated, the most likely and the most unlikely was Third Stream Music.[1] Gunther Schuller (1925–2015) coined the term, describing Third Stream as "the fusion and cross-fertilization of two musical mainstreams, classical and jazz." Schuller—composer, performer, conductor, critic, entrepreneur, and occasional jazz musician—was responsible for a great deal of the music that emerged from the project during its brief moment in the sun, from approximately 1956 until 1961. A well-known and celebrated example is Miles Davis and Gil Evans's reconceptualization of Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez on the album Sketches of Spain (1960).
On the one hand, Mingus was right for Schuller's Third Stream dreams. As a child, he played cello in the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic Orchestra. Many of his early recordings show a dedication to the art of the classical composer, both in his own music and in many of the recordings he produced for Debut Records, the company he co-founded with drummer Max Roach. On the other hand, by the mid-1950s, Mingus had moved on from classical music. Although he always spoke highly of the European masters, his mature composing style bore little resemblance to theirs. When he rehearsed with his group The Jazz Workshop, Mingus would often sing a passage from a new composition or play it on the piano, expecting his musicians to then internalize it.
In addition, Mingus knew his way around African American rhythms and was immersed in the blues. Even as a child cellist, he had been moved by the intensely emotional music of the Sanctified Church where his stepmother occasionally took him. As a teenager, Mingus first became curious about forms of spirituality in religious traditions beyond Christianity. He knew of Vedanta Hinduism and Madame Blavatsky's mix of religious philosophy and mysticism. Classical music, of course, has never had any use for the blues or the spirituality of the folk church, and certainly not for the kind of improvisation Mingus encouraged with his Jazz Workshop. Most importantly, Mingus refused to be pigeonholed. He was almost perverse in his resistance to formal constraints and to all separations thrown up between one kind of music or another.
Third Stream reached its zenith at a festival at Brandeis University in 1957.[2] In addition to Mingus, Schuller invited two other composers with roots in jazz, George Russell and Jimmy Giuffre. Russell was already foreshadowing Third Stream with his composition "A Bird in Igor's Yard," a tribute to Igor Stravinsky and the great bebop saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker. Before the Brandeis event Giuffre had already worked with Schuller when he composed Pharaoh for a Third Stream recording session in 1956.
As the representative of the academic side, Schuller himself wrote one piece for the event. He also commissioned Harold Shapero, the chair of the music department at Brandeis, and Milton Babbitt, a professor of music at Princeton. There was little "jazziness" in the music of the three classical composers, but because it was performed by accomplished jazz artists, their music did move a few steps beyond the classical.
Third Stream advanced an agenda that had been part of jazz discourse at least since the 1920s. Paul Whiteman famously sought "to make a lady out of jazz," whether or not he knew that he could be charged with demasculinizing the music. Other musicians and many critics did not necessarily hope to feminize jazz, but they did seek to strip the music of its primitive roots in country blues, field hollers, and the groans and cries of the Sanctified Church. The "bodiliness" of early jazz, along with the emotional immediacy of black music and what Nathaniel Mackey has called "the telling inarticulacy" of blues artists was, at this time, working its magic for rock 'n' roll. Even without Third Stream, the jazz of the 1950s had been cultivating a more refined and restrained clientele. Mingus himself played a kind of intellectual chamber jazz during his tenure with the Red Norvo Trio in 1950 and 1951.
Essentially, the six pieces that premiered at Brandeis had very little in common besides the composers' stated intention of fusing jazz and classical music. On one level, this is surely what Schuller and the proponents of Third Stream had in mind—a new musical genre that could be stretched in many different directions by enterprising composers. Nevertheless, the music from the Brandeis festival was not well received. Jazz purists were put off, and classical critics were mostly confused.
Even before black people began putting their bodies on the line to achieve equality and jazz artists began playing with a new intensity inspired by the civil rights movement, Mingus had his own ideas about racism and the canons of the concert hall. In a letter to critic Ralph Gleason published in Down Beat in 1951, Mingus demanded cultural legitimacy for jazz, even suggesting that Charlie Parker improvised complex melodic lines as sophisticated as anything composed by Brahms or Tchaikovsky. At the same time, he insisted that "it's all one music we're playing," and that there should be no real separation between jazz and classical.
In his 1951 letter, Mingus was also aware that the decline in popularity of the music of Parker and the beboppers had forced black musicians to choose between a classical world that disdained them, and a jazz audience that was drifting off toward rhythm and blues. His belief in the oneness of all music derived in part from his strong convictions about the absurdity of racial distinctions.
During the first two minutes of Mingus's Revelations, we hear ominous rumblings from string bass and tuba sprinkled with accents from a triangle. The opening moments recall the chromaticism of Richard Strauss, Wagner, and Bartok. Soon the orchestra drops out to make room for a series of solo passages, bringing the music closer to jazz. When the orchestra returns, we hear the slow arrival of a walking bass and some brass crescendi. With the brief addition of a percussive sound suggesting bongos or African tribal drums, Mingus sends the recording off into a completely new direction by crying out, "Oh yes, my lord. Hmm mmm." He has audaciously brought his music back to the Sanctified Church and to the "telling inarticulacy" of the blues. His cry is radically inconsistent with the Third Stream project of stripping jazz of its primitive roots. The cry is, however, completely consistent with Mingus's immense appetite for all kinds of music and with his fascination for the spiritual. It may also be Mingus "Signifyin'," having a joke at the expense of Schuller and the pretensions of Third Stream.
Mingus knew from his experience in the music industry that discrimination excluded African American musicians from pursuing jobs in the classical world. And he knew that the industry kept genres separate in order to sell records. The creation of Debut Records in 1952 was part of his effort not to be outflanked by the corporatization of music. A great deal of superb music was released on Debut, but it folded in 1957, the same year as the Brandeis Festival of Third Stream music. Revelations was in some ways Mingus's solution to the decline of jazz that the demise of his record company reflected.
Although Mingus must have respected the efforts of Schuller and others to raise the cultural capital of jazz, ultimately he regarded Third Stream as just another attempt to separate one aspect of music from all the others. Because he refused to identify himself with a single, sanctioned style of jazz, he never gained the stature he deserved—or the pigeonhole that would have made him more marketable. During his entire career, he never had a hit record. But Mingus always understood that the need for genre boundaries was profoundly harmful to the music. In 1971 he wrote, "It's too bad that so many musicians started separating themselves into 'modern,' old-time,' and 'bop' camps. If we had all continued together, the music would have developed into a much richer language than it has."
[1] This essay is adapted from a section of book, Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus (University of California Press, 2016).
[2] Recordings of the music from that event are collected on the SONY CD, Birth of the Third Stream.
Krin Gabbard is Adjunct Professor of Jazz Studies at Columbia University. In 2014 he retired from Stony Brook University where he taught classical literature, film studies, and literary theory. His books include Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema (1996), Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture (2004), and Psychiatry and the Cinema (2nd ed., 1999).
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