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The Northeast is notable for bargain shopping, Northeast Philadelphia is home to Franklin Mills Mall, with many popular brands having large outlet stores there.
The Far Northeast is the farthest north you can get in Philadelphia without leaving the city. This section is mostly residential and somewhat suburban in character, with some light industrial parks. The lower portion of the Northeast tends to have a more dense, urban feel. The Pennypack portions of Fairmount Park run through the Northeast and the Far Northeast.
Port Richmond is largely populated by people of Polish and Irish decent. Known for various Polish businesses as well as restaurants. This section of the city is known for its authentic Polish cuisine. Many different grade schools, public and parochial, are in Port Richmond. This area of the city is very convenient to Center City, Olde City, South Philly, the Northeast, as well as New Jersey via the Betsy Ross Bridge. Access to the El as well as the trolley and bus routes also make this area a great place to live and commute to different areas of the city. Affordable housing is also a perk of the Port Richmond area. This neighborhood is made up of mostly row homes and various types of apartments. Many businesses thrive along Aramingo Ave, which is a heavy populated avenue in this neighborhood.
Lawndale is a diverse, residential neighborhood located between Cottman Avenue and Rising Sun Avenue/Roosevelt Boulevard.
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Heading eastbound on the Market-Frankford Line, Church station through the Frankford Transportation Center are all located in the Northeast (or a more liberal definition of the Northeast may claim as far west as Girard station to be in the Northeast). SEPTA's Trenton Line, West Trenton Line, and Fox Chase Line trains have stops in the Northeast as well.
By car[edit]
Easily accessible via I-95 (Exit's 27 though 35), Route 1, and the Pennsylvania Turnpike (Neshaminy exit). This is also a good part of the city to have a car, since distances are greater, and on-street parking in greater supply.
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Philadelphia Northeast Airport (PNE) [3] is Pennsylvania's sixth busiest airport, providing U.S. Customs, Immigrations and United States Department of Agriculture services to corporate international travel—more casual visitors can arrive this way only if they are lucky enough to have their own aircraft! The Airport averages 215-based aircraft,dominated by single engine aircraft, plus twins, jets, turboprops and helicopters.
By bus[edit]
An abundance of SEPTA buses serve the Northeast.
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There are a few boat ramps along the Delaware river. The gates are often closed at 10:30 by police, check online for times.
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Bustleton Ave, Castor ave, Frankford Ave, Rising Sun Ave, among others are the main shopping streets in lower Northeast Philly. Northeast Philadelphia is also home to one of the Philadelphia's regions largest outlet malls, Franklin Mills. There also two other malls in Bucks County (outside the City of Philadelphia) about ten to thirty minutes away from the Neshaminy Mall and Oxford Valley Mall (depending on which route you take as there are many).
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Now Philadelphia was not named one on the fattest cities in the country for no reason! In Philadelphia there is always a place to eat and go to to have a good time! The Northeast has lots to choose from! From Dave and Busters, Nifty Fiftys, Texas Roadhouse and Chickees and Petes you will never leave the Far Northeast Hungry. Do not forget to grab a Philadelphia Soft Pretzel, Rita's Water Ice, and Cheese Steak as well as stopping by a Wa-Wa and grabbing a Tastykake.
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The normal bar in Northeast Philadelphia are corner pubs, holding about 100 people. The area around Cottman and Frankford Ave. have a large selection of bar's to choose from, with reasonable beer specials (just ask the bartender). Few have a cover charge of $3 to $5 if a band is playing, don't be embarrased to turn it down and go to a different place.
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BOSTON, April 29 (UPI) -- Female DNA was found on at least one of the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon but it was unclear what that means, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Earlier, CNN reported the FBI has interviewed "Misha," a man who allegedly had a radicalizing influence on suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The Journal, quoting U.S. officials briefed on the investigation, reported Monday it had yet to be determined whether a woman helped the two alleged bombers, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The Journal said investigators collected DNA from Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, at her parents' home in Rhode Island where she has been staying since the April 15 bombing. Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police April 19.
Investigators also spoke with the man in Rhode Island after members of Tsarnaev's family blamed a "Misha" for influencing the alleged mastermind of the bombings, CNN reported.
"Misha," identified as Mikhail Allakhverdov by writer Christian Caryl, who said he interviewed him for a New York Review of Books article, denied encouraging a violent approach to Islam and insisted he was not Tsarnaev's teacher.
"He began telling me he cooperated with the FBI" and "handed over his computer" and cellphone, Caryl told CNN Monday, adding Allakhverdov insisted he had "nothing to do with [the] radicalization" of Tsarnaev.
The two bombs that exploded at the marathon finish like killed three people and injured more than 260. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds and is charged with the crime.
The FBI is also investigating a possible link between Tamerlan Tsarnaev and three deaths on Sept. 11, 2011, police said.
FBI agents were working with prosecutors to interview family members and friends of the three victims in the unsolved Waltham, Mass., slayings, law enforcement authorities told ABC News Sunday.
Brendan Mess, 25; Raphael Teken, 37; and Erik Weissman, 31, had their throats slit. Last week, prosecutors confirmed to ABC News they were trying to determine whether Tsarnaev had any link to the Waltham slayings.
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December 31
FT: House prices in England and Wales fell further in November, with declines particularly acute in the relatively affluent south-east, sending average values to levels not seen since February 2006, official data show
FT: The average pension scheme of FTSE 100 companies saw the value of its assets crash by 17 per cent in 2008, wiping a total of £65bn from retirement funds, according to a study from Deloitte
FT: Eurozone lending stagnates as banks get tough
Wall Street Journal: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation said Tuesday that they will lend $200 million to Georgia's biggest bank in an effort to help the country through the international financial crisis
December 30
FT: Lenders reel from a chaotic year
Marketwatch: US home prices off record 18% in past year, Case-Shiller says
FT: The pound plummeted to its weakest level yet against the euro on Monday, reaching a low of almost £0.98, as investors responded to signs of gloom in the UK economy
Property Week: Crunch forces more than 30,000 estate agents out of their jobs
December 27-28-29
FT: UK house prices fall 8.7% in 2008
Property Week: Britain's banks face up to £70bn of losses on commercial property loans, enough to force some of them into a further round of taxpayer bail-outs
Property Week: Adams, the children's wear chain, plans to appoint PwC as administrator as soon as today after it became the latest retailer to fall victim to the consumer downturn
Property Week: Scottish retailer USC, which is backed by retail and property entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter, goes into administration
December 26
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December 24
Times: Collapse of Whittard and Officer's Club threatens hundreds more jobs
Property Week: Zavvi goes into administration
FT: Sterling falls as UK economy contracts
Reuters: GMAC gets Fed's OK to become bank holding company
Reuters: Regulators near deal for IndyMac
FT: Japan PM announces record budget
December 23
FT: Falling UK commercial property prices
Marketwatch: U.S. Nov. existing-home sales fall 8.6% - Home prices decline at fastest annual pace on record
Marketwatch: New-home sales drop to 407,000 in November, off 2.9% - Total U.S. home sales fall to lowest level since 1991
Reuters: American Express to get $3.39 billion of TARP funds
FT: China cuts rates further to 5.31%
FT: China bails out Taiwan
Times: Whittard to become UK's latest retail casualty
FT: Bond and loan volumes slump
December 20-21-22
Property Week: Residential rents in prime central London fall 10% in three months
FT: UK house sales forecast to hit record low
Times: The credit crunch will ensure that China becomes the world's largest economy within a decade
Telegraph: Accountancy firms are believed to have at least 15 large so-called pre-pack administrations lined up for January as the economy continues to falter
December 19
Times: Fears increase over the economy as borrowing reaches new high
FT: Sterling nears parity with euro
FT: Dollar in spotlight amid currency volatility
Times: 75,000 could lose their homes in 2009, says Council of Mortgage Lenders
Mortgage Strategy: Halifax and Nationwide steer clear of house price forecasts
December 18
FT: What is quantitative easing?
FT: Commercial property fears deepen
FT: Nationwide in 95% mortgage market
Wall Street Journal: China's House Prices Curb Growth
December 17
Reuters: Gold retains allure as cenbanks battle deflation
Reuters: OPEC oil ministers agreed their deepest output cut ever on Wednesday, cutting 2.2 million barrels per day from oil markets in a race to balance supply with rapidly crumbling demand for fuel
FT: Fed dips into toolbox to fix long-term rates
December 16
Marketwatch: U.S. Nov. housing starts plunge 18.9% to record low
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Reuters: Fed cuts rates to record low
FT: HBOS trading statement raises alarm
December 13-14-15
Times: City workers are rushing to offload their Canary Wharf apartments amid job losses in the financial sector
Telegraph: Bond traders in Latin America are braced for stormy week after Ecuador became the first country – apart from the Seychelles – to default on its sovereign debt since the global crisis began
FT: HSBC joins victims of Madoff's alleged fraud
FT: Nomura reveals $303m exposure to Madoff
Telegraph: British government tipped to launch rescue package for car industry
Times: Ireland launches €10bn bailout for its banks
Property Week: King Sturge's Spanish arm to file for administration
Property Week: Wichford, the listed company that buys government-occupied property, this morning revealed a 57% plunge in its net asset value in the year to 30 September
Marketwatch: As card issuers slash balance-transfer offers, consumers' work gets harder
December 12
Reuters: Madoff's alleged $50 billion fraud hits other investors
Marketwatch: Sanderson State Bank of Sanderson, Texas fails: 25th of year
Times: Mortgage scheme rules likely to limit householders' help
Times: Connells to offload its stake in Rightmove
FT: Alistair Darling extended the potential length of a state-backed mortgage holiday for struggling homeowners on Wednesday, but he insisted that the risks of default would be shared with lenders
FT: Detroit reels as $14bn rescue fails
FT: Fed mulls exceptional monetary measures
December 11
FT: The Bank of Korea on Thursday slashed its benchmark interest rate by 1 percentage point to the lowest ever amid growing concerns that the economy may slip into its first recession in a decade next year
FT: House approves $14bn Detroit rescue bill
FT: GMAC yesterday said it could drop its attempt to become a bank holding company after failing to raise the capital needed, casting doubt on its ability to survive the financial crisis
December 10
Reuters: California's budget crisis is growing worse as its shortfall for its current fiscal year has increased to an estimated $14.8 billion
Times: Cost of personal loans soars. Deals under 8 per cent have disappeared despite the cut in the base rate
Times: Estate agents offer 'bargains' in Christmas sale
Independent: Britain worse credit risk than McDonald's
FT: Payment woes demolish 'poshest builder'
FT: Canadian dollar tumbles after rate cut
FT: Interest rate on US T-bills turns negative
FT: House sales continue fall to record low
FT: Hips extension draws fire from estate agents
December 9
Times: Number of house sales slumped to a new 30-year low between September and November. Number of house hunters increases.
FT: Pensions lifeboat risks being swamped
Reuters: Pending home sales slip
December 6-7-8
Times: Barack Obama reveals stimulus package that could exceed $1 trillion
Reuters: Homeowners redefaulting after getting aid
December 5
Marketwatch: British Nov. house prices see 14.9% annual fall: Halifax
Times: Homeowners lose out as banks refuse to pass on the latest cut
Times: New car sales in November plunge 36.8%
Times: Creditworthy borrowers are being refused deals when they remortgage because cautious surveyors are giving their homes lower-than-expected valuations
Reuters: U.S. job losses worst since 1974 as downturn deepens
Marketwatch: Foreclosures, delinquencies hit record high
Times: Central banks cut interest rates; Europe cut 75 basis points to 2.5 per cent, Sweden cut 175bp to 2 per cent and New Zealand cut 150bp to 5 per cent
December 4
Marketwatch: Bank of England cuts rates to 2%, lowest level since 1939. ECB follows.
Times: Homeowners who lose their jobs or suffer a severe drop in earnings are to be allowed to defer their mortgage interest payments for up to two years, Gordon Brown announced yesterday
FT: Mortgage holiday plan leaves confusion
FT: New Zealand cuts interest rates to 5%
Times: Sterling tumbles to 13-year low as economy's woes raise prospect of historic rate cut
FT: Brown throws homeowners mortgage lifeline
December 3
December 2
Reuters: Big three US automakers ask for a combined $34 billion in loans and credit lines as sales slump
Property Week: Shares in CB Richard Ellis and Jones Lang LaSalle plunged on Wall Street yesterday amid a raft of poor economic news
FT: Sterling plummets against dollar
December 1
FT: House prices down 8.1%
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Despite a game-opening home run from Alejandro De Aza, a pair of tough outings from ace Chris Sale and reliever Deunte Heath unraveled the White Sox in a 7-4 loss to the Twins at Target Field on Wednesday.
A usually solid Sale struggled, pitching only five innings and giving up four runs on eight hits and two walks -- one intentional -- and striking out five.View Full Game Coverage
MINNEAPOLIS -- Despite a game-opening home run from Alejandro De Aza, a pair of tough outings from ace Chris Sale and reliever Deunte Heath unraveled the White Sox in a 7-4 loss to the Twins at Target Field on Wednesday.
A usually solid Sale struggled, pitching only five innings and giving up four runs on eight hits and two walks -- one intentional -- and striking out five.View Full Game Coverage
"I think tonight is not a normal night for Chris," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said.
Sale's four earned runs tied for the second most he's given up this season -- the other four-run game was a 4-3 loss to Oakland on June 2. The only time he gave up more than four runs was a 9-4 loss at Cleveland on April 13.
"I didn't have good command," Sale said. "I was coming out of myself. I just kind of need to gather myself and get the flow again and regroup next time out."
Sale took to the mound in the first with a 1-0 lead after De Aza led off the game with a home run -- his fourth leadoff homer of the year and the eighth of his career. But one inning later, the left-hander gave up two hits en route to a 3-1 Twins lead. With two outs and two runners on, Sale gave up a three-run shot to Brian Dozier, bringing in Oswaldo Arcia, who reached on a one-out single, and Clete Thomas, who walked.
During the second, Sale had two close calls: First, he flipped over on the mound after being hit by Arcia's comebacker and two batters later, as he made the out at first, his foot slipped out from under him, slightly twisting his knee. Sale said the incident at first base gave him a bit of shock and while he was fine physically, the moment seemed to get him off his game.
"After that, they got him," Ventura said. "It's just one of those, I don't know how much, but it was enough that it got him off his game enough. They had some good at-bats, started putting some guys on base, started putting some pressure on him."
"I wouldn't say that had anything, any lingering effects on the game," Sale said. "Nothing was hurt by that time … that was a non-issue."
The Twins added another run in the third when Trevor Plouffe came up with an RBI single to score Josh Willingham, who reached on a single.
Sale got through two more innings without any more damage and gave way to Heath, who started the sixth inning.
Heath gave up two walks, two hits and a home run to five of the six hitters he faced in the sixth. Willingham hit a two-out RBI single, which brought in Joe Mauer, who reached on a hit and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Justin Morneau provided extra security with a two-run homer to right field -- his first home run since April 28 -- to make it 7-1.
"I was sure hoping it was going to be gone," Morneau said. "That's for sure. It had been a while. So it was a good feeling. It was a good game for us. It's the monkey off my back, so hopefully we can get rolling here."
Twins starter Kevin Correia pitched 6 2/3 innings, but he didn't exit the game before giving up one more run to the White Sox. Conor Gillaspie hit a two-out double and scored on Dayan Viciedo's single to make it 7-2.
Correia left before getting the final out of the seventh and gave up two runs on five hits and struck out six.
The White Sox eventually got to Twins right-handed reliever Ryan Pressly in the eighth. Tyler Flowers led off with a hit and two batters later, he moved to third as Alexei Ramirez hit a double down the left-field line. Twins lefty Brian Duensing took over with two outs and two on, promptly giving up a two-run single to Adam Dunn to make it 7-4.
With run support coming late in the game, Ventura said it leaves pitchers with a difficult mindset when they take the mound.
"It's tough, even for [Sale]," Ventura said. "You feel like you have to throw up a one or two to be able to survive in that. That's not good for any pitcher to go out there and think that they have to do that."
Twins closer Glen Perkins came in for the ninth and posted his 18th save.
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The Bisons rolled to a 99-73 win over Kennesaw State Saturday night in Atlantic Sun Conference action at Allen Arena. They shot 50 percent from the field in the first half and 47.2 percent in the final 20 minutes.
It was the fifth straight win for the Bisons, 7-2 overall, 2-0 in the A-Sun. Kennesaw State slipped to 2-8, 0-2 in the conference. The biggest lead for the Bisons was 30 points with 9:56 left to play.
After spotting Kennesaw State a 5-0 lead to start the game the Bisons took over at 7-6 with 16:46 remaining in the first half and never trailed the rest of the way. They led 55-37 at the half.
But Sanderson was most impressed that despite a big lead the Bisons never let down on defense. They held Kennesaw State to a 36.7 shooting percentage from the field.
"I thought we maintained defensively which is something we have not done," Sanderson said. "We will have a good half defensively and then we will not have a good half.
"I thought we maintained our effort and energy. We still have some areas we have to improve on defensively, but overall I was pleased with our defensive effort."
Sanderson expects his players to be at the top of their games defensively regardless of the score.
"That is something that we have harped on religiously," Sanderson said.
Center Adnan Hodzic scored a game high 25 points, but only six of his points were scored in the first half. Hodzic has been scoring most of his points in the second half, an area of his game that Sanderson wants to see changed.
"Adnan needs to play two halves offensively," Sanderson said. "I don't want him scoring most of his points in the second half to be a habit.
"He has a hard time. Guys are swarming around him. He got 15 shots overall. We want him to get 15-to-18 shots so that was pretty good."
The Bisons have at least five players capable of consistently scoring in double figures. Opposing teams soon realize in the first half that Hodzic is not the only offensive weapon for the Bisons.
"Defenses are keyed in on Adnan," Sanderson said. "We have more guys that can score than just him. So when other teams get tired he starts doing his damage.
"Opponents have to guard all five spots. It makes it hard for them defensively."
Guards Josh Slater and Jordan Burgason each scored 19 points for the Bisons. Freshman guard Robert Boyd added 12.
Slater and Hodzic led the Bisons with eight rebounds each. The Bisons held a 46-38 advantage on the boards despite Kennesaw State forward LaDaris Green's game-leading 12 rebounds. He had a double-double with 11 points.
Guard Markeith Cummings led Kennesaw State with 23 points. Guard Spencer Dixon finished with 21.
"I thought it was our most complete game of the year," Sanderson said. "We held them to 36.7 percent shooting from the floor and we only made seven turnovers. When we do those things we are going to be successful.
"We were plus-eight on the backboards. When we got big leads for the most part we kept big leads."
The Bisons close out the pre-Christmas schedule Tuesday night with a visit to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Game time is at 7.
"We're getting a little bit better and a little bit more consistent in practice," Sanderson said. "There is another great opportunity for us at Alabama."
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.


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You may recall the little teaser in the Twitter® for BlackBerry® smartphones v2.0 blog post about multi-account support coming in a future release. Well, I've got some great news for you! The Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones v2.1 beta includes multi-account support and is available for download today within BlackBerry® Beta Zone.
Let's take a closer look at what's new in this release.
Additional Profile Functions
You'll notice that just to the right of My Profile photo and name, there are two new icons: Edit Profile and Switch Accounts. While you could always edit your profile via the Menu, now you can use the Edit Profile icon right from the Profile screen to change your picture or update your personal information. The Edit Profile screen has also received a new facelift.
New Edit Profile and Switch Account icons
Multi-Account Support
The new Multi-Account Support feature is designed to let you use up to five accounts on Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones. When logged into multiple accounts, the current user name will appear in the upper-left corner of the header bar and the user picture will appear in the My Profile icon. You can quickly switch between accounts by using the Switch Account function, accessible from My Profile or via the Menu. Have an interesting Tweet in one account that you'd like to share from another account? No problem, you can cross-post Tweets and Retweets from one account to another without switching the current account view. You can also stay notified of Mentions and Messages with near real-time notifications for each of your Twitter accounts.
Account Switch via My Profile
Account Switch on Retweet
This update is currently available in BlackBerry Beta Zone. To download the latest beta version, you need to register to become a BlackBerry Beta Zone member. Not sure how to get started? Check out Ty's blog post on how to join a BlackBerry Beta Zone program. Please note that you must reside in one of the BlackBerry Beta Zone supported countries in order to participate in the latest beta release.
Download it today and be sure to leave a comment to tell us what you think.


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Bulldogs Head to Florida for Atlantic Coast Championships
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The No. 2 Bulldogs will take to the warm waters of St Petersburg, Fla. this weekend for the Atlantic Coast Championships hosted by Eckerd. The Sunshine State is predicted to offer sunny sailing with temperatures in the high 70s as well as stiff competition from the best teams in the country. Once the sun sets on Sunday, the Bulldogs' fall season will conclude.
Last year, the Bulldogs finished third at the Women's Atlantic Coast Championships hosted by Brown on the Narragansett Bay in Cranston, R.I. The breeze that was predicted never showed up, allowing for the completion of a mere eight races in the rainy New England fall weather. Sarah Lihan '10 and senior Elizabeth Brim finished third in A division while sophomores Claire Dennis and Heather May finished eighth in B division.
As is habitually the case, the Bulldogs will face top competition. While the Atlantic Coast Championship only includes the top teams from the New England, Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic regions, only one of the teams in the recently released national rankings, No. 11 Stanford, hails from another area of the country. However, because of the quotas for the regatta not all of the ranked teams qualified for the event while some unranked teams did. No. 14 Charleston, No.15 Eckerd and the University of South Florida will represent the South Atlantic while No. 4 Saint Mary's, No. 7 Hobart William Smith, No. 8 Georgetown, No. 9 Old Dominion, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Navy and George Washington will represent the Mid-Atlantic. No. 1 Boston College, the No. 2 Bulldogs, No. 3 Connecticut College, No. 5 Harvard, No. 10 Coast Guard, No. 12 Tufts and No. 13 Dartmouth will represent New England. The only ranked team that will be absent from this weekend is No. 6 Brown who was previously ranked No. 1.
The weekend will be sailed in two divisions of FJs, which is the boat that will be sailed at the National Championships in the spring. Thus, the Atlantic Coast Championships will be a mini-nationals of sorts in terms of competition as well as in terms of the boat sailed. Essentially, the Atlantic Coast Championships are the championships of the fall season and often define the success of the fall season and the mood going into the offseason. This weekend will be an excellent benchmark for the Bulldogs as they head into the offseason, allowing them to see where they stand and what they need to maintain and improve for the May National Championships.
The Bulldogs are certainly prepared for the weekend as they have successfully competed at numerous top regattas this fall. Both skippers were also in action this weekend. Dennis hopes to carry over her Florida success from last weekend's win at the National Singlehanded Championships held in St Petersburg, Fla. She will team-up with May in A division as they endeavor to capitalize on the experience they gained at last year's Atlantic Coast Championships. Freshman skipper Marlena Fauer competed quite successfully at the Freshman Intersectional hosted by Connecticut College last weekend, beating many of the top male skippers in the class of 2014. She will pair up with freshman Eugenia Custo Grieg in B division.
At the beginning of the season, the Bulldogs set the goal of being the best by the end of the fall. Despite being a very young team, the Bulldogs are on their way to doing just that, winning regattas and proving to the College Sailing World that they are a team to beat. As the great athlete Bo Jackson once said, "Set your goals high, and don't stop til you get there." This weekend could mark that achievement for the Bulldogs.
Report filed by Margot Benedict '12, Yale Sports Publicity


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Brand new concept art straight from Disney has us chilled for the new "evil ice queen" movie Frozen. Check out the frown on Disney's latest evil queen — and her fabulous hat!
Also in this collection, the Princess Anna and her rogue "mountain man" (also wearing a fantastic hat). Should be interesting. We love anything with Snow Queens in it, so sign us up!
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Manti Te'o's crazy, whirlwind of a week ended just the way he wanted: with the Ronnie Lott IMPACT Trophy at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach.
It was only a year ago when Te'o announced he was returning to play at Notre Dame during the ceremony at the Pacific Club. The Lott Trophy was special to him, because he looks up to Ronnie Lott and because he felt it would cap a special week.
It was a memorable week that ended Sunday in Newport Beach. He made six stops for award ceremonies in eight days. The Notre Dame star linebacker began in Charlotte, N.C., where he won the Nagurski Award, as the nation's top defensive player.
Earlier in the day, he received a phone call from Dick Butkus who told Te'o he won the Butkus Award for being the nation's top linebacker.
The next day, Dec. 4, he was in New York to accept an award as a national scholar-athlete from the National Football Foundation. He met NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell because the scholarship he won was endowed by the NFL.
He was in Houston for the Rotary Lombardi Award ceremony, where he won as college football's best lineman or linebacker.
Then it was off to Orlando, Fla. for the ESPN Awards show, at which he took the Walter Camp (player of the year), Bednarik (top defensive player) and Maxwell Award (the nation's most outstanding player) .
He went back to New York on Friday for the Heisman ceremony that took place on Saturday. He came in second behind Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M.; But he received the most votes ever by a defensive player.
Te'o didn't really sleep that night. He left early in the morning on a private flight to attend the Lott Trophy ceremony in Newport Beach. The award is unique. It is as much for personal character as it is for athletic performance as a defensive player.
After logging 8,500 miles of travel, Te'o didn't appear to be weathered at the Pacific Club. He smiled and laughed with the candidates, Arthur Brown (Kansas State) and Chase Thomas (Stanford). Jarvis Jones (Georgia) was also a candidate, but did not attend.
"This is a dream come true," Te'o said after winning the Lott Trophy.
Te'o won his seventh national award, making him the most decorated defensive player in college football history. He's the leader of the Notre Dame defense and helped the Fighting Irish to a No. 1 ranking and a spot in the national championship game.
"He understands that this is just a unique week during which he just needs to embrace the fact that people want to celebrate him and the year he has had," said Brian Harden, Notre Dame's sports information director, who traveled with Te'o throughout the week. "He's not one that craves the individual attention. He's a team-first guy. He really doesn't care about the individual accolades."
Te'o said he had a meaningful discussion with his father, Brian, last year, shortly after announcing he would return for his senior year at Notre Dame. His father told him to focus more on his faith as a Mormon and to strengthen his spiritual life. Brian knew his son would improve on the field but they believed building spiritual strength was imperative.
"It's pretty unique that it took a Mormon from Hawaii to come to a small Catholic university in Indiana to re-instill faith in the fan base of the football team," Harden said.
Te'o winning the Lott Trophy was among several highlights at the ceremony. Condoleeza Rice, the former U.S. Secretary of State, was the keynote speaker. She spoke about the importance of community.
She also talked about her love of football and how she grew up as a fan of Alabama football.
UCLA legend Ann Meyers-Drysdale introduced Rice.
"We've had some great speakers at the Lott Trophy ceremony," Meyers-Drysdale said. "But we never had one who's been a member of Augusta National … never had one who is a concert pianist … and never had one who has been Secretary of State of the United States of America."
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Published May 17, 2017
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Stephen Dela Cruz is an author, speaker and serial entrepreneur who specializes in helping budding entrepreneurs double their income in their first year. He's built several 7 figure businesses and in his national best selling book, Entrepreneursh*t he shares strategies around time and money management to help beginning entrepreneurs soar.


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Federal Direct LoanPage address: http://www.mnsu.edu/campushub/loans/federaldirect/
As the cost of higher education increases, more and more students look to Federal Direct Loan(s) to pay their expenses. Minnesota State University, Mankato is committed to making every attempt to keep the cost of attendance manageable for all students. However, even with this commitment to reasonable educational costs, many MSU students must take out student loans to meet their educational expenses.
Federal Direct student loans are prorated for undergraduate students enrolled in only one semester of the school year who will be graduating at the completion of that semester. The amount of Federal Direct student loan funding is based on the number of enrolled credits. For example, for a dependent undergraduate student enrolled in 6 credits the maximum amount of student loan funds is $1,875, which is 6/24ths of the annual limit of $7,500. Or, for a dependent student enrolled in 14 credits the maximum amount of student loan funds is $4,350, which is 14/24ths of the annual limit of $7,500.
Students will be notified when their loan amount is determined based on enrolled credits, which is subject to change if other funding sources change and/or enrollment changes.
IMPORTANT: The Federal Direct Loan complies to both Satisfactory Academic Progress Standards (SAPS) criteria as well as the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
About the Federal Direct Loan
Federal Direct Loans are administered by the federal government. There are two different types of Federal Direct Loans; Subsidized and Unsubsidized. It is very important to understand the differences between these two.
Interest Rates
Fall 2018 - Summer 2019
As of 7/1/2018, interest rate for the 2018-2019 school year is 5.05% for Federal Direct Subsidized and Unsubsidized Loans for undergraduate students, and 6.6% for Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans for graduate and professional students; graduate and professional students are not eligible to receive Direct Subsidized Loans.
Origination Fees
- First disbursed on or after October 1, 2017 and before October 1, 2018 = 1.066% origination fee
- First disbursed on or after October 1, 2018 and before October 1, 2019 = 1.062% origination fee
This is a loan fee deducted proportionately from each loan disbursement you receive. This means the money you receive will be less than the amount you actually borrow. You're responsible for repaying the entire amount you borrowed and not just the amount you received.
Grace Period
There is a six-month grace period on both the Subsidized and Unsubsidized Federal Direct Loans. The grace period is the first six months after a student has dropped below 1/2 time enrollment, graduates or withdraws from higher education. During the grace period, students are not required to repay their Subsidized Federal Direct Loan, but they are encouraged to continue interest payments on their Unsubsidized Federal Direct Loan. Once the six-month grace period has expired, the student begins repayment on both the Subsidized and Unsubsidized Federal Direct Loans.
Paying Back Your Loan
Federal Direct Loans play an important role in Federal Student Aid programs. Federal Direct Loans are NOT free money. You are responsible for paying all of your loans back in full, plus interest. You must pay back your student loans even if you do not complete your education, if you are unable to gain suitable employment, or if you are unsatisfied with your education. If you move, change your name, change your telephone number, change schools, drop below 1/2 time, or if you are unable to make your loan payment due to financial hardship, you MUST contact the Department of Education Servicer.
Repayment on a Federal Direct Loan begins 6 months after you graduate, drop below 1/2 time, or leave school. Your minimum monthly repayment is normally $50.00, but it could be more depending on how much you borrowed. You may make interest and principal payments at any time. Students are encouraged to make their interest payments on their Unsubsidized Federal Direct Loans while they are in school. There is no penalty for making prepayments on your Federal Direct Loan(s).
Maximum Annual and Aggregate Limits
There are maximum annual and aggregate limits on Federal Direct Loans. The annual maximums are based on grade classification and dependent/independent status.
|Grade Classification
|Annual Limit
|Aggregate Limit
|$ 5,500 (subsidized may not exceed $3,500)
|$ 31,000 (subsidized may not exceed $23,000)
|$ 6,500 (subsidized may not exceed $4,500)
|$ 31,000 (subsidized may not exceed $23,000)
|Junior & Senior
|$ 7,500 (subsidized may not exceed $5,500)
|$ 31,000 (subsidized may not exceed $23,000)
|Grade Classification
|Annual Limit
|Aggregate Limit
|$ 9,500 (subsidized may not exceed $3,500)
|$ 57,500 (subsidized may not exceed $23,000)
|$ 10,500 (subsidized may not exceed $4,500)
|$ 57,500 (subsidized may not exceed $23,000)
|Junior & Senior
|$ 12,500 (subsidized may not exceed $5,500)
|$ 57,500 (subsidized may not exceed $23,000)
|$ 20,500 (unsubsidized only as of July 1, 2012)
|$ 138,500 (subsidized may not exceed $65,500)
Individual awards are also limited to the student's eligibility and cost of attendance.
Budgeting for Your Loan
Before taking on the responsibility of Federal Direct Loan indebtedness, students first need to determine how much loan funding they need for the academic year. Budgeting for the academic years is a wise move for all students, but it is imperative for students taking out Federal Direct Loans. Borrow only the amount of loan funding that you need to meet your expenses.
Take time to determine the amount of loan funding you will need to meet your expenses while in school. Using the monthly budget sheet, fill in the blanks with how much you anticipate you will spend in each of the categories. Remember, spending should be kept to a minimum. Add up your expenses, then subtract any other financial aid you have been awarded to determine how much loan money you will need to meet your expenses.
Not only is it important for students to budget for the academic year, but it is also important for students to anticipate how borrowing Federal Stafford loans will impact their future budgets. The Subsidized Federal Direct Loan charges no interest to the student while in school. For some students, it is difficult to realize how much they are borrowing or how it will impact their future budget until after graduation, because they have not had to make monthly payments while in school.
Entrance Loan Counseling
Federal regulations require all first-time borrowers of a Federal Direct Loan at Minnesota State University, Mankato complete Federal Direct Loan Entrance Counseling. Loan Counseling must be completed BEFORE a student can be disbursed their Federal Direct Loan funding.
Students may complete the Federal Direct Loan Counseling Online. On-line Entrance Counseling contains a testing component. Students must successfully complete the testing component in order to complete the counseling session. After you have successfully completed the on-line counseling your information will be forwarded to MSU.


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Developing secure code using SPARK: Part 2 – How to use it
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we summarized the basic issues with software security and explained how the programming language choice can affect the ease or difficulty of demonstrating that a system meets security requirements such as those defined in the Common Criteria. General purpose languages including C, C++, Ada, and Java are too complex to satisfy the reliability and analyzability requirements at the highest security levels; subsetting is needed. In this second part in the series one such language subset—SPARK*— is described and how it can be used to develop high-security systems cost-effectively.
SPARK1 is based on the principle of Correctness by Construction, an efficient and mathematically rigorous approach to software development that avoids defects, or detects and removes them quickly. Correctness by Construction involves strong static verification as the system is being implemented and allows the cumulative development of certification-oriented evidence.
SPARK is an Ada subset augmented with a notation for specifying contracts (annotations in the form of Ada comments) that are analyzed statically. The current version of SPARK is based on Ada 2005 and includes a large portion of Ada's static semantic facilities such as packages/ encapsulation, subprograms, most types, and some Object-Oriented Programming features, as well as the Ravenscar tasking profile.2 Features such as exceptions, goto statements, and dynamic binding are excluded because they would complicate formal verification; other features such as access types (pointers), dynamically sized arrays, and recursion are excluded because they would interfere with time or space predictability. Upcoming versions of the SPARK language and toolset are adding support for generic templates.
Despite the restrictions, large real-world applications can be (and have been) programmed in SPARK. Because of the restrictions, developers can rigorously demonstrate security-related properties such as freedom from run-time exceptions, absence of variables that are read before being assigned, and, for a multi-tasking application, absence of variables that are shared but unprotected.
The behavior of every SPARK program is unambiguous; in cases in which the Ada rules offer implementation flexibility, the choice will have no bearing on the program's effect. Ada does not dictate the order of evaluation in expressions, for example, and in some cases the value may depend on the order chosen. The SPARK rules prevent functions from having side effects, however, so even though different evaluation orders are permitted, the end result will be the same.
SPARK contracts fall into two categories: core annotations and proof annotations. The core annotations relate to data flow and information flow, and inter-module dependences; for example, which global variables are referenced by a subprogram, and how the values of a procedure's "out" or "in out" parameters are derived.
The proof annotations are optional and may be used for mathematically proving various dynamic properties of the program, such as a subprogram's pre- and postconditions. In the most general scenario, a proof can demonstrate compliance of the program with respect to its formal specification as expressed in a language such as Z.3
SPARK can help achieve high assurance even without such a formal specification, however; the ability to prove that an exception will not be raised at run time—for example no stack overflow or array bounds violation—is by itself a major advance.
A SPARK example4 of a linear search procedure that updates a counter each time a match is found illustrates both kinds of annotations:
package Search
--# own Counter;
--# initializes Counter;
Counter : Natural := 0;
type IntArray is array (Integer range <>) of Integer;
procedure Linear_Search
(Table : in IntArray;
Value : in Integer;
Found : out Boolean;
Index : out Integer);
--# global in out Counter;
--# derives Counter from Counter, Table, Value &
--# Found, Index from Table, Value;
--# pre Counter < Integer'Last;
--# post Found -> (Table(Index) = Value and
Counter = Counter~ + 1);
end Search;
package body Search is
procedure Linear_Search
(Table : in IntArray;
Value : in Integer;
Found : out Boolean;
Index : out Integer) is
Found := False;
Index := 0;
for I in Integer range Table'Range loop
--# assert Found = False and Counter < Integer'Last
--# and Counter = Counter~;
if Table(I) = Value then
Counter := Counter + 1;
Found := True;
Index := I;
end if;
end loop;
end Linear_Search;
end Search;
This example shows several core annotations:
- The own and initializes annotations in the package specification, which identify a state variable and confirm that it is initialized;
- The global annotation for the procedure specification, which indicates the intent to both reference and assign to the global variable; and
- The derives annotation for the procedure specification, which documents the information flow dependences among the formal parameters and global variable.
The proof annotations are the procedure's pre and post annotations, and the loop invariant assert annotation. The "->" symbol represents logical implication; thus "Found -> …" means "if Found then …". A variable with an appended tilde (Counter~ in this example) means the value of the variable on entry to the procedure. For simplicity, the state variable Counter is declared in the visible part of the package specification, analogous to public in C++ and Java; encapsulating it in the package body would be better style. A more complete discussion of a similar example appears in AdaCore's Ada Gems 685 and 696.
*The SPARK programming language is not sponsored by or affiliated with SPARC International Inc. and is not based on the SPARC architecture.


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Denver library naming controversy: Meeting set for tonight on what to call new library
The Denver Library Commission won't pick a name for the new library branch being built on West Colfax Avenue until June 20 but the discussion has already reached full volume.
Controversy is brewing over a group's push to name the library after Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales — the late Chicano activist who died in 2005. The idea has elicited strong reactions. Some are vocally against naming anything after Gonzales, who they say was a leader of a group tied to violence throughout the 1960s and '70s.
Others say Gonzales is a historical figure who fought injustice and gained civil rights for Latinos. Among those pushing for the library to be named after Gonzales include Denver Councilman Paul Lopez and former Denver Mayor Guillermo "Bill" Vidal.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock as a candidate in July 2011 told the Viva Colorado newspaper that "Gonzales is a symbol for urban civil rights and Chicano pride. As founder of Escuela Tlatelolco in Denver in 1970, he left a lasting legacy for our city's youth. His leadership was admirable, and I would be proud to support the naming of the new library or the west section of 38th Avenue after this great leader."
On Tuesday, Hancock said his view is unchanged and that he would support the library being named for Gonzales.
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"Clumsy Hans" is number 119 in the Hans Christian Andersen Center's register of Andersen's literary works, i.e. no. 119 in the category fairy tale (the range 1 - 300). BFN 738.
"Clumsy Hans" was first published 30 April 1855. Further information: Digterens danske Værker 1822-1875 number 738.
The work was published as a part of Historier. 1855 [Danish title]. (Number 320. BFN 736. Category/genre: Fairy tale collection).
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The New Incarnation:
Balance: Chosen of Elune - Improved Moonkin Form that doubles Lunar and Solar Power generation. 3min CDThis is kind of a strange cooldown for a couple of reasons, but the biggest one is that how it helps Moonkin DPS isn't immediately obvious. What it does is speed up out Eclipse transitions which in turn increases out DPS in a lot of little ways. For example:
- Increase to DoT Uptime Since Moonfire and Sunfire no longer over write each other.
- Increased DoT uptime increases Shooting Star procs
- Increase Nature's Grace Uptime since we will proc Eclipse more often.
- Increase Starfall Uptime since Lunar Eclipse will be procced more often.
- Increases the Effective Uptime of Eclipse because of how the energy math works out.
The second strange thing about it is that it is kind of a "sustained DPS" cooldown, because it's not bursty at all. Most of the cooldowns in the game are shorter in duration and provide more direct DPS benefits like Elemental Mastery or Combustion. This one is spread out over 30 seconds and has several very subtle impacts on your DPS. So it's kind of a new model as far as I know.
The Issues of Incarnation:
Now that I've listed five ways in which this version of Incarnation will improve moonkin DPS, I think a lot of people would assume that this is a good ability and one we would like Blizzard to keep. Unfortunately that is not the case. Hear are the big issues.
It's Relatively Weak: When compared to Soul of the Forest it is relatively weak, which will make it a difficult talent to choose. I've built another simulator to try and value some of these talents options and the results are not good for Incarnation. In my simulator Soul of the Forest provided a 3.29% DPS boost at a lower level of tear, while Incarnation was about a percent behind at 2.32%. It's too early to place a definitive valuable on each of these abilities, but my results are similar to the other valuations I've seen. Hamlet put SotF at 3.5% and Incarnation at 2.2%. Dopefish created a simulator that put SotF at 4.47% and Incarnation at 2.45%.
While Incarnation does increase your DPS in five ways, all five are pretty small. Our DoT and Nature's Grace uptimes are already pretty high without Incarnation so there isn't a whole lot of room to improve. Plus, you will be transitioning so fast between Eclipses that the DoTs and NG will be refreshed before they fall off. Plus, the Starfall improve is limited because few of the stars will be buffed by Eclipse.
It Doesn't Play Well with Haste: As I said above, Incarnation relies on transitioning through Eclipse cycles more quickly to increase uptimes and provide a DPS boost. Haste has a similar impact on our DPS. It also helps us to transition through Eclipse cycles more quickly. This means Incarnation will scale well as we progress through the expansion. It may start out as a respectable 2% buff, but as our gear level increases that buff will shrink because Uptimes cannot be improved past 100%. It also means that Incarnation will have a limited impact during temporary haste buffs like Bloodlust.
When I increased the gear level in my simulator, Soul of the Forest increased slightly to 3.58%, but Incarnation fell dramatically to just 0.57%. Hamlet so a similar impact to increased heal in his WrathCalcs numbers.
It Doesn't Play Well with Celestial Alignment: In my opinion the biggest issue with this version of Incarnation is that we already have Celestial Alignment. Incarnation and Celestial Alignment are kind of similar in that the are both long duration cooldowns that fit that "sustained DPS cooldown" model I mentioned earlier, but they buff moonkin DPS in completely opposite ways. CA buffs our DPS by giving us an Eclipse buff and stopping the Eclipse transition. Since Incarnation increases power generation it would have absolutely no impact on DPS if triggered during CA, therefore they can't be used together. This creates a bit of an awkward situation in which we have two long duration cooldowns that can't be used at will due to their various drawbacks. In short, there just isn't room for both Celestial Alignment and Incarnation in the in the moonkin rotation without some negative interactions. As a result, if we need to choose a DPS cooldown from Tier 4, Force of Nature would be preferable since it can be used at any time and it plays well with others.
At this point, I'm convinced that this version of Incarnation is a bad talent and needs to be redesigned once again. The question is how?
The original version of the talent, that halved Eclipse power generation while in Eclipse and doubled it while Eclilpse was down, had some potential. However, it also had some drawbacks like how it reduced the uptimes of DoTs and Nature's Grace. There's also a lot of support out there for a standard DPS cooldown that increases damage by 20% for 30 seconds.
I would still like to see something in this tier that boosted AoE or Multi-Target DPS. The idea I had was a buff I called Infestation that spread Insect Swarm to all near by targets for say 15 seconds, and increasing our Hurricane or DoT damage on all of those targets by 25%.
TL-DR: This version of Incarnation is bad.


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Red Sox Stymie Twins Monday At Fenway Park
The Twins fell 1-0 to the Red Sox Monday night at Fenway Park in Boston. The loss drops Minnesota to 32-36 on the season.
Kevin Correia pitched six strong innings but took the loss to fall to 3-8 on the year. The Twins left five runners on base, with Danny Santana, Kurt Suzuki and Sam Fuld getting the only hits in the game for the Twins.
Minnesota is at Boston again Tuesday. Jon Lester will pitch for the Red Sox against the Twins' Phil Hughes. First pitch on WJON is scheduled for 6:10.


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The mood was quite, quite different at the Opéra Bastille where a tribute to Maurice Béjart was given. Three of his tried and tested works were given with differing degrees of success.
The evening began with a 1970 creation, the enigmatic, Serait-ce la mort, which was given a five star treatment. No risks were taken with the casting of étoile Nicolas Le Riche as the man, and étoiles Delphine Moussin, Dorothée Gilbert, Clairemarie Osta and Emilie Cozette in the roles of Death, the Young Girl, Experience, and Sophistication respectively.
It is a highly intimate work, and certainly a surprising choice for the Christmas festive season, telling the story of a dying man who sees before him the three women he loved in his lifetime. Set to the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss, composed just before his death in 1950, it is the excuse for a series of lyrical pas de deux , reminding one why the early works of Maurice Béjart were, and still are, so greatly loved.
Of course, the work was inspired by and written for Béjart's muse and lifetime partner, the magnificent Jorge Donn, one of the most outstanding interpreters of his generation. But Nicolas Le Riche slipped effortlessly into the part. Partnering his ballerinas, one by one, each as lovely as the one before, a very moving and solemnly beautiful performance was given. But perhaps one star shone a little more brightly in the galaxy than the rest. The purity and spirituality of Emilie Cozette was in total harmony with the music, sung sublimely by the soprano, Twyla Robinson.
L'Oiseau de Feu, another 1970 creation, came next on the programme, but unlike the previous work, created for Béjart's own Ballet of the XXth Century, Firebird was premièred by the Paris Opera Ballet. It was a total re-reading of the old Russian legend, banishing giants, magic apples, secret gardens and mysterious, glorious birds.
Moreover, replacing the supernatural Firebird by a young poet, Béjart created the ballet for Michael Denard, there to supervise rehearsals. He did his work well, for Mathieu Ganio, dancing the role for the first time, gave a very credible performance. Tender, then violent, he looked the part and finally became the part, giving his strength and force to the group of partisans, offering his soul in return for the renewal of their energy.
Le Sacre du Printemps, Béjart's 1959 landmark work, completed the evening. Revolutionary with its blatant sexual energy, it caused a sensation at its première when it heralded the formation of the magnificent Ballet of the 20th Century at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussells." Like many of Maurice Béjart's works which were to follow, it was exactly in keeping with its time, and consequently today, seems just a little dated, a surprising fact when one considers, for example, Nijinski's timeless version which was created over fifty years before.
Set to Stravinsky's phenomenal score, the ballet represents a fertility rite, a celebration of the physical union of a man and a woman and the stylized choreography demands interpreters of the highest level.
One can only question the wisdom of Shonach Mirk, one of the ballet's greatest interpreters, there to rehearse the opera dancers, who accepted the participation of corps de ballet member, Audric Bezard as the Chosen One. He was embarrassing to watch. Lacking personal charisma, he was a caricature of a mannered dancer attempting a role far beyond his capabilities. Faced with such a partner, Stephanie Romberg gave what can only be called an honorable performance. Evidently, Nicolas Le Riche cannot be expected to participate in every Béjart work, but when programming such a masterpiece, dated or not, more care has to be taken with the choice of interpreters. The dancing of the corps de ballet was far superior to that of the two leading dancers, which made for rather an odd ending to the evening.
The Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris conducted by Vello
Pahn gave a splendid performance.
Patricia Boccadoro writes on dance in Europe. She has contributed to The Guardian, The Observer and Dancing Times and was dance consultant to the BBC Omnibus documentary on Rudolf Nureyev. Ms. Boccadoro is the dance editor for Culturekiosque.com
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Metaphor: it has defined much in life. It has complicated things and yet simplified so much. Metaphor is what I hide behind when im too cowardly to be in your face and one such night, I tweeted about my love for Metaphor.
Metaphor became the soul of conversation that night. Metaphor was the flavour of that night and metaphor came screaming back to me. He made me choke up with emotion and made me poetic. And here is a poem I ended up tweeting:
Metaphor is an empty perfume bottle I remember you by,
Metaphor is a supressed old flame…
Metaphor is an old T-shirt I hold dear,
Metaphor is the warmth when Ur here.
Metaphor: that's all I have…
Metaphor is that teardrop that fell,
Telling my heart to bid you farewell.
Metaphor is that batting eyelid,
It captures the memory before it spills…
And then, magically, the poem became interactive.
@ashumhatre: Metaphor is that stain on the old shirt, metaphor is our relationship and its dust. Metaphors : That's all we had! 😉
And the sweetest replies came from @baxiabhishek:
I'll be the jeans to that tee, i'll be there where calls thee. 🙂
I'll be the tissue to wipe the tear, you called me, so i'm here.
This entire metaphor talk made me think. We don't hide behind metaphors. We use them to enhance what we have to say. Being obvious isn't very charming, now is it?
Metaphor gives us the license to beat around the bush and it connects two things perfectly well. There's nothing clever about metaphor. Metaphor is just natural…
And while I'm on metaphor:
Metaphor is a friend that tells,
All, in due time, will be well.
Metaphor is a friend, who understands,
What is hidden behind your metaphors so grand.
Metaphor is a friend who knows,
Exactly how a metaphor grows…
This one's for all you metaphor tweeters: @baxiabhishek @ashumhatre @unitechy @mriganayanika @fossiloflife @menonhari @archisM @avgs @ideasmithy @simplymalyalee @aalaap (who's too straight-froward to use metaphor, we understand!)


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Rwandan rebels begin to surrender, but demand talks with KigaliA militant from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) squats near a pile of weapons after their surrender in Kateku, a small town in eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), May 30, 2014.
(Reuters) - Rwandan rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo began what they claimed was the first step in disarming their fighters on Friday, but warned that continuing the process would depend on the government in Kigali agreeing to talks.Kigali needs to come to the table now. I agree with the Kigali line that you do not negotiate with terrorists and that is the only possible way to describe the FDLR. This partial surrender however changes the dynamics somewhat and if Rwanda is serious about cleaning this mess up now is the time to compromise.
The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) said last month that they would "lay down their weaponry and consecrate themselves to political struggle."
About 100 fighters surrendered during a ceremony in North Kivu province, handing in weapons including some heavy artillery, according to a Reuters witness.Charly Kasereka is on the ground in Bulessa Village which may suggest that the surrender is gathering pace although I would take that with a grain of salt. Charly tweets:
Just 105 militiamen with 102 weapons present at much-touted #FDLR"surrender"
"With this act of good faith the international community is called to assume its responsibility to obtain a political dialogue among Rwandans," said FDLR president, General Victor Byiringiro.
Authorities in Rwanda have repeatedly rejected the possibility of negotiations with the FDLR, which Kigali considers a terrorist organization that espouses a genocidal ideology.The ball would seem to be in President Kagame's court.
Composed in part of former soldiers and Hutu militia who fled into Congo after massacring around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, the FDLR has since sought to topple the government of President Paul Kagame.
They are regularly accused of human rights abuses, including civilian massacres. And this week FDLR fighters burned homes and schools in North Kivu's Walikale district during clashes with a rival militia group, according to United Nations-sponsored radio.
Their presence along the border has also served as a pretext for Rwandan military interventions in Congo, helping fuel nearly two decades of conflict there that have killed millions.
Friday's ceremony was attended by representatives of Congo's U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as MONUSCO, the South African Development Community (SADC), and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.
The FDLR has on previous occasions said it was ready to disarm, only to later backtrack. And most officials remained cautious, however, and shied away from making pledges to support talks with the Rwandan government.
"There will be no negotiations with the FDLR. They have offered to surrender, and we will see if this process is effective," Congolese government spokesman Lambert Mende said.
Over 25,000 FDLR fighters have demobilized since 2002, but those numbers have slowed to a trickle in recent years. The estimated 2,000 remaining rebels have hidden themselves among communities in Congo's dense forests.
Last year, bolstered by a special Intervention Brigade with a robust mandate to carry out offensive operations, MONUSCO launched a military campaign against the remaining armed groups operating in the volatile, mineral-rich borderlands.
"We hope that the commanders join this process (of demobilization), not just the militiamen, because we have a mandate to neutralize armed groups and want to see an end to the FDLR in Congo," said one U.N. official, who asked not to be named.I will update this later. Hat Tip Charly Kasereka.


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PARIS (Reuters) - The search for Malaysia's missing jet could speed development of new ways of locating wreckage, but such technology is unlikely to replace the traditional "black box" any time soon, France's top crash investigator said on Wednesday.
Mystery over the Boeing 777's whereabouts deepened on Wednesday when Malaysia said it was searching an area hundreds of miles from its last known position.
As well as scouring the area with ships, planes and satellites, investigators are trying to pick up signals from beacons on the jet's data and cockpit voice recorders.
Proposals for helping with future searches include getting the jet to give its location automatically before an accident happens and a new, more widely accessible frequency for transmitting homing signals - expanding archaic transmissions that may be inaudible even to modern military search crews.
A French probe into the crash of an Air France jet in the Atlantic in 2009, which triggered a two-year $50 million search to find its crucial black boxes, led to a series of recommendations from France's BEA crash investigation agency.
But some recommendations that could potentially make it easier to track down such aircraft such as the Malaysian jet are bogged down in talks between regulators and the aviation industry, with no timetable for putting them into effect.
"It is a subject still under discussion," BEA director Remy Jouty said in an interview, adding last week's disappearance of Flight 370 could focus further attention on the discussions.
Although one proposal, that the minimum battery life on locator beacons attached to the vital recording devices should be tripled to 90 days, has been backed by global regulators, it will not become mandatory until towards the end of the decade.
Under current rules, the beacons must be capable of sending out a tracking ping for 30 days before the signals die out.
In 2012, the BEA's advice was adopted by the U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization, which urged members to make them mandatory from 2018. In the European Union, however, the changes will take effect in 2019, Jouty said.
The Atlantic jet disaster marked a turning point in the way such searches are handled and led to what was - by the standards of complex aviation regulations that must be agreed globally and then translated into national laws - rapid action on batteries.
Even before the mandatory regulations come into effect, the longer-life batteries are already available and experts say from next year, only the newer 90-day versions will be produced.
"To my knowledge there is no problem of availability of the batteries," Jouty said.
But so far only a handful of airlines, including Air France, have voluntarily switched to the longer batteries.
The Air France 447 incident and the BEA's lengthy final report also led to a deeper rethink of how aircraft can be redesigned to help investigators track the wreckage.
Aviation experts say such changes can take years to negotiate in part because the changes require new technology, but also because of competing interests over costs.
"When it comes to new regulations, it is common practice to study their cost-effectiveness, and U.S. and European law requires this. Of course, operators and manufacturers give their opinions but the authorities cannot ignore these matters," Jouty said.
He said technical groups were looking at three suggestions, not all of which would necessarily be required by law.
Under one of these, a jetliner would automatically beam back
regular updates on its location throughout the flight.
Under the second proposal, the jet would automatically send out useful tracking data when it senses it is about to crash.
A third idea calls for the black box to be ejected from the aircraft just before impact, avoiding the risk of destruction.
A spokesman for ICAO said regulators and manufacturers had studied 42 accidents and were discussing the best ways of finding a downed aircraft and deploying flight recorders, but that it could not yet say what action would be taken or when.
Meanwhile, proposals by some avionics firms to replace black boxes - which are in fact orange - with satellite data to monitor systems in real time are struggling to find support.
The Rio-Paris Air France crash and now the Malaysian missing jet mystery have rekindled calls for non-stop satellite data and even live voice transmissions or a "skycam" in the cockpit.
But Jouty said the technology was not yet "mature" - a view echoed by Europe's aviation safety regulator and many airlines.
"Sending continuous data for all flights would create a huge amount of data and might get very difficult to monitor and analyse," said Tony Tyler, director general of the International Air Transport Association, adding the industry remained safe.
Some pilots oppose the idea of routine cockpit conversations being overheard from far away, but groups such as the relatives of the Air France crash victims have called for maximum investment in new safety measures to prevent future disasters.
(This story was refiled to insert 'dropped word 'was' in paragraph 11)
(Editing by David Evans and Kavita Chandran)


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State delegation opposes tribal recognition changes
Hartford — Proposed rule changes that American Indian groups say could help bring more casinos to Connecticut are coming under criticism from the state's congressional delegation, which argues that the U.S. Interior Department is watering down the criteria for granting federal recognition to tribes.
In a letter sent to the department's Bureau of Indian Affairs, the state's two senators and five House representatives wrote that the proposed changes would significantly affect state residents. The governor and local leaders in towns that host state reservations are also opposing the proposals, which could renew long-simmering battles over land claims by making it easier for local tribes to win acknowledgment.
The delegation argues Connecticut appears to be singled out, citing a proposal to give Indian groups a pass on other requirements for recognition as long as some descendants have lived on a state reservation since 1934.
"Research from the Connecticut Attorney General's office indicates that only Connecticut has had state reservation lands in existence since 1934," the federal lawmakers said in their letter Wednesday.
A draft proposal of new rules for recognition was unveiled in June by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which has faced criticism for years that its process is slow and inconsistent. Among other changes is a suggestion to require that tribes demonstrate continuity only since 1934. Kevin Washburn, an assistant Interior secretary for Indian affairs, said earlier this summer the goal is to ensure the process is fair, efficient and transparent.
Connecticut has two federally recognized tribes, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribe, which own the country's two largest Indian-owned casinos in the Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun.
If approved, the changes could benefit three other Connecticut tribes — the Schaghticokes of Kent, the Golden Hill Paugussetts of Trumbull and Colchester and the Eastern Pequots of North Stonington. Federal acknowledgment can bolster a tribe's claims to surrounding land, eliminate regulatory barriers to commercial development and bring increased health and education benefits to members.
But Samuel Dixon, the New Haven-based leader of a group that has petitioned for recognition as the True Golden Hill Paugussett Tribal Nation, said acknowledgment would bring no greater prize than a way into the gambling industry.
"Federal recognition grants you casino status. I don't know that they offer much else," said Dixon, a Yale-educated lawyer.
Alan Russell, leader of one of two rival Schaghticoke factions bidding for recognition, said his tribe also hopes to pursue a casino.
"I'm just one person," he said. "That's what the tribe wants."
In the delegation's letter, the lawmakers argued the proposed changes would effectively give tribes whose bids for recognition have failed in the past another opportunity at acknowledgment, and they ask the Bureau of Indian Affairs to scrap the plan.
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