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The two-game win streak in Mountain West play was short-lived for the Wyoming Cowboys, as they got pasted by the Aztecs in San Diego Tuesday night, 79-51. Without their leading scorer and rebounder, Leonard Washington, the Pokes were no match for SDSU, who shot 68 percent in the game and built a 24-point lead by halftime.
After a respectable start, UW led 7-6 just over five minutes into the game. That's when the Cowboys went cold and the Aztecs caught fire. San Diego State went on a 31-6 run over the final 14:48 of the first half for a 37-13 advantage at the break. Wyoming managed only four field goals the entire first period and shot less than 17 percent from the floor. The Pokes failed to get the game close in the second half, as the Aztecs extended to as much as a 31-point lead with 3:49 left.
UW head coach Larry Shyatt said, "Obviously tonight was a large disappointment. Compliments to San Diego State. They ran themselves better tonight than I saw them on tape at all this season. They are a pretty well-oiled machine here when they are hitting shots. They beat us in every way shape or form tonight and we were never able to dig in on defense."
San Diego State (19-7, 7-5) was led by Jamaal Franklin with 20 points. Dwayne Polee II matched his career-high with 16 points, while Winston Shepard had 12 and JJ O'Brien scored 10. The Aztecs were 30-44 from the field, which included 6-12 from deep and 13-17 (76.5%) from the line. The out-rebounded UW 35-16 and scored 36 points in the paint compared to 16 for the Pokes.
Wyoming (18-8, 4-8) was led by Derrious Gilmore with 15 points, while Matt Sellers added a career-high 10 points. The Cowboys were 20-53 (37.7%) on field goals, 4-16 (25%) from 3-point range and 7-11 (63.6%) at the charity stripe.
Washington did not play after suffering an ankle injury late in the overtime win over Fresno State last Saturday.
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In the past two decades social scientists have surely filled volumes to document the extent of the changes in American customs of sex, courtship and marriage. Even without statistical tables, it would be safe to maintain that our current film makers and novelists talk about sex so much and point out the contrast to earlier generations so sharply, that they are actually exaggerating the shift. My hunch is that every generation can look upon adolescence as a time of great tension between expectation and repression.
"Diner," a modest but wise film written and directed by Barry Levinson, treats this tension with wit and sympathy. Set in Baltimore during the Christmas vacation of 1959, it explores the lives of a circle of friends in their early 20s. It miraculously avoids nasty satire—a genre brought to cliché by the current breed of Catholic authors and playwrights—and nostalgia. The diner is a staging area for the future. Around its formica tables, the friends plot their strategies for the conquest of women, business, education and money. They sally forth to challenge the world and then return to count casualties, discuss what went wrong and devise tactics for the next days assault. The diner is a refuge, the twilight of adolescence afraid of dawning into adulthood. They gather at night and separate as the rising sun paints the Baltimore waterfront a greenish gray.
The background music, like the junk food they consume at the diner—French fries with gravy—seems too childish for these almost-mature young men, but Levinson is saying that both they and perhaps the era they represent are still immature. The beat is vintage rock n roll, with sappy love phrases spiced with nonsense syllables, doo-wop-oo-oo. Fries and gravy for the ears.
Shrevie (Daniel Stern) is already married and works in an appliance store. By day he sells television sets and refrigerators to creeps, but at night he joins the conversation about dates and schemes at the diner. For him the fraternity is an escape from an adult life he is not ready to accept. When asked, he admits that marriage is "okay," because he can get sex whenever he wants it, but he cannot talk to Beth, his wife, for more than five minutes. He can talk to his friends at the diner endlessly. His world is his record collection, more important to him than his wife—oo-wah-doo-wah.
Eddie (Steven Guttenberg) is about to marry, but he insists that his fiancée pass a football trivia quiz before the marriage. He will not make a mistake like Shrevies; he wants to be sure that he and his wife will have something to talk about after the marriage, even if it is only the Baltimore Colts. They finally wed, but the bridal march is replaced with the Colts fight song, and both the rabbi and the bridesmaids are dressed in the blue and white of the Colts.
Boogie (Mickey Rourke) has given up the obviously childish ways of his friends, but he is still groping toward maturity. He works in a beauty parlor by day and claims that he attends law school at night. He is obsessed with the challenge of women, but he cannot even dream of a lasting relationship. He runs up a gambling debt with the mob, which becomes a matter of life and death for him. His interests converge, when he switches his betting from sports to sexual conquests. He uses women cynically, but in his effort to win a bet, he discovers real compassion.
Saddest of all the gang at the diner is Fenwick (Kevin Bacon), a rich drop-out from college, determined to destroy himself with alcohol, his sports car or any combination of the two. After trying to raise money for Boogie, he goes on a drunken escapade and climbs into a churchyard manger to replace a stolen Christ child. When three of his friends come to take him home, he smashes their surrogates, the three plaster wise men, and finally wrecks the entire crèche. When the three friends are released on bail the next morning, Fenwick is left behind in jail. Others he saved, himself he is unable to save. He is a terminal adolescent.
By contrast, Billy (Timothy Daly) is a graduate student in business administration. He returns to the neighborhood for the holidays, resolved to marry the girl who has conceived his child. She, however, has career plans and wants no part of marriage at the present. He wants desperately to be an adult, but on his own terms, and these are unlikely to be met in the real world.
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Imagining the sea
I've recently (like a lot of other people) found myself confined to the house, through a horrible and stubborn chest infection. I couldn't get out to my studio and paint as I usually do, but as I started to feel better I felt like getting off the sofa and doing something. I'd been thinking about why I find the sea, and coasts, so fascinating. The ocean presents a barrier to our own travels (unless you have a boat or a ferry ticket!) but invites the eye to roam across it, and to imagine. I was interested in the idea of the mysterious hidden depths of the sea, and of the way the fluidity and rhythms of the sea seem to affect us all psychologically. Maybe it's to do with the potentially immersive aspects, the way we imagine ourselves to be lost, and drowning in the depths.
I found a beautiful quote by Helen Chadwick : "…Looking at the sea … the specifics of personality wash away… Our state of consciousness takes us out of our body into rhythms that are fundamental and primary." The iconic blue colour of the sea seems important for these aspects – a colour which is essentially ungraspable, always receding from us, implying depth and distance. I suddenly thought as well of the Chagall stained glass windows in the tiny church at Tudely in Kent, not far from here – the main window commemorates the drowning of a young woman, whose family commissioned the window. It's worth seeking out if you're nearby – it's the only church in the world where all the windows are by Chagall. To me, there's a real sense of the sea as a different space, with the lost girl in the depths – and is there a more resonant blue than stained glass?
I took out a range of water-based media – old watercolour sets, gouache, acrylic, pastel pencils, oil pastels – and some off-cuts of mountcard I'd found when turning things out a few days before. I spread everything on the floor and started some mixed media studies on the theme of the sea. I swooshed liquid blue watercolour washes onto the card, then worked into it with gouache and white acrylic, scribbling with graphite or pastel, or splashing more fluid paint onto it. Using a different medium from my usual oil paint means that the work changes – some things are possible in watercolour and gouache which wouldn't work with oil, and perhaps some of the ideas about the fluidity and indefineable nature of water are naturally more suited to water-based media. I don't usually do studies in preparation for painting exactly, but I do feel that themes and motifs which emerge in studies find their way into paintings as well.
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Beauty pageants and debating are two of my favorite things. My youth was misspent–not, unfortunately, due to too many beautiful girls, but rather because I devoted an inordinate amount of time to competitive debate. These two interests collided Friday night, as 122 Miss World contestants descended on Cambridge University, and in particular the Cambridge Union Society, which bills itself as the world's oldest debating society. The topic of discussion was the merits of the Miss World competition, and beauty pageants in general:
Unsurprisingly it was a packed chamber, with members jostling to catch a glimpse of the gorgeous girls, and ITV even streamed the event live.
Miss Scotland, Miss Zimbabwe, Miss Botswana and Miss Puerto Rico opened the proceedings with speeches about the fundraising activities of the competition, which have raised more than £300 million for charities worldwide.
After the speeches, the girls took questions from the chamber. Despite some scepticism from the audience, the contestants tried to stress the benefits of the competition.
Given that the typical Miss World contestant is undoubtedly smarter than the average Cambridge student, I am sure that the beauty queens held their own. Here is Miss Dominican Republic addressing the chamber:
The event got quite a bit of press in the U.K. Along with the debate, the girls punted on the Cam. This photo is from the Telegraph:
Other than debating the merits of their pageant, what have the contestants been up to? Quite a lot, as the official pageant site reflects. Both the talent and the Beach Beauty finalists have been announced. However, in view of the fact that there are 36 Beach Beauty finalists, it is premature to draw any particular conclusion. But some interesting photos have emerged. I am not certain whether this one, of Miss Venezuela, is from the talent competition or from a program on traditional dance; all I can say is, you might rather mess with Regis Giles than Miss Venezuela:
With the Miss World finale set for November 6, one week from tonight, it is time to check out the betting odds. Here are the top five, according to the linked bookie:
5/1 Miss Bolivia
6/1 Miss Indonesia
8/1 Miss Belgium
8/1 Miss Puerto Rico
8/1 Miss United States
If the Miss World site had normal photography, we could easily post photos of these young ladies for your edification. Alas, as I have repeatedly noted, the site's photography is awful. So we have to look elsewhere. I do it, so you don't have to!
Here is Miss Bolivia–an intriguing favorite, by the way; while Latin America is a pageant hotbed, Bolivia is pretty obscure:
Miss Bolivia is interviewed here. It's a mixed bag. On one hand, her favorite song is "Imagine." On the other hand, she mentions God twice, rides a motorcycle and wants to own her own company someday.
Miss Indonesia:
I dunno. I'm not really a believer. Based on this interview, I'm guessing they kept her under wraps at the Cambridge Union:
[A]long with her high hopes she has also faced some difficulties. "The most difficult is the hair because I have to have many different hairstyles," she said.
As I've noted before, for some inexplicable reason Belgium has emerged as a hotbed of pageantry. I don't think a Miss Belgium has won one of the big competitions, but it seems only a matter of time, as that country fields one strong contender after another. Here is this year's Miss World/Belgium, Justine De Jonckheere. She is, it is fair to say, a doll:
Next, Miss Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is of course a leading center of pageantry. Having spent a little time there, I would say that an astonishing proportion of young Puerto Rican ladies could be pageant material. This year's Miss Puerto Rico is Amanda Victoria Vilanova Pérez. She won the "best body" prize in the Miss Puerto Rico competition–'nuff said–but she is also a poet, among other things, and I like this rather soulful pose. I think Miss Vilanova Perez may be my favorite so far:
Which brings us to Miss United States, Erin Cummins, now fifth in the betting. The current Miss World, Alexandria Mills, is an American, and it seems extremely unlikely that two Miss USAs in a row would win. Still, Miss Cummins is a strong contender:
One fun aspect of the Miss World contest is that it has a number of sub-competitions–Miss Sport, Miss Beach Beauty, Miss Talent, etc.–the winners of which automatically advance to the semi-final round of the contest. Those winners will be announced over the next couple of days, so stay tuned.


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Christopher Beach, La Jolla Music Society's president and artistic director, told the council this year's annual Summerfest music festival will harken back to its beginnings.
"Summerfest, which began 27 years ago with only five performances, has now grown to 16 performances throughout the Village," he said. "This year features a chamber music festival. That's where we started. It's the very cornerstone of what we do."
Beach said he came to the Town Council six years ago with the promise that La Jolla Music Society would "contribute to the quality of life in San Diego."
He said he was returning to deliver on that promise.
"We thought there ought to be something more that we could do, in a tangible way, to say thank you to the thousands of people who make our performances possible," Beach said adding, "We got this idea to put on a free outdoor concert at Scripps Park."
Beach said the free thank-you concert will kick-off the festival on July 31.
"Be there or be square," he said.
Alberto Ramirez of La Jolla High School gave a presentation on the school's mentoring program, which he said aims to "empower Latino boys to dream."
Ramirez said the school is actively seeking volunteer mentors willing to commit long term to engaging youth, helping them out with a broad spectrum of activities, including sports and social relationships, going well beyond homework.
Mentors work with students at least one hour a week to guide them in formulating and achieving their personal goals, Ramirez said.
La Jolla Community Center director Nancy Walters discussed all the programming available to the community for a $100 annual membership, everything from music and speaker series to day trips, yoga, Pilates and cooking classes.
Walters said a jazz series held the fourth Friday of each month kicks off in July with flutist Lori Bell, pianist Mike Garson and bassist Rob Thorsen.
"It's a one-stop shop," said Walters of adult center programming. She added the center's mission is to provide a "lifetime of learning, wellness and friendship."
Former San Diego City Councilman John Hartley spoke and showed a video narrated by journalist Bill Moyers extolling the virtues of Neighborhoods for Clean Elections, a national effort with local chapters to provide a voluntary system of public campaign financing to curb the power of special interests in politics.
"This is a great opportunity to take the onus of partisan politics away at the local level," said Town Council trustee Egon Kafka. "We're not just talking about minimizing special interests or taking corruption out of politics, but about taking away the divisive tribalism that is keeping us apart as Americans."


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Hundreds are dead and more than 120,000 have been displaced after weeks of ethnic violence between the Murle and Luo Nuer communities in South Sudan's Jonglei State. • Repre-sentatives of most of the world's bishops' conferences and 30 religious orders met in Rome on Feb. 6-9 to launch a global initiative to improve efforts to stop clerical sexual abuse and better protect children and vulnerable adults. • The Plowshares activist Bill Bichsel, S.J., ended a two-week fast he began in mid-January to protest his transfer to solitary confinement and conditions at the Federal Detention Center near Seattle, Wash. • The Rev. Larry Snyder, President and chief executive officer of Catholic Charities USA, called awarding the agency's Centennial Medal on Feb. 2 to Cristo Rey Network's founder, John Foley, S.J., "a tribute to Father John's commitment and dedication to improving the lives of young people in communities that otherwise wouldn't have a chance." • On Jan. 30, Anita Collins and Anita Guzzardi, employees of the New York and Philadelphia archdioceses respectively, were accused of stealing $1 million each in decades-long embezzlement schemes.
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Joseph Altuzarra's fall runway show is the last place we expected to find acid-green glitter and our go-to spring party look. But makeup artist Tom Pecheux says he "twisted glitter's arm to bring it somewhere minimal" and sure enough, the result was both sophisticated and cool. "When you think glitter you think of a disco queen, or va-va-voom, but I thought we should treat it like something very simple."
That meant an otherwise bare face, easy hair, and, of course, a Kate Moss reference. Learn how to cop the look, above.
"The lips are nude, no mascara, no eyebrows," Pecheux says. On the skin, he used M.A.C.'s Mineralize Moisture SPF 15 Foundation ($34) for a translucent finish and Mineralize Concealer ($20) to cover any imperfections. He dusted Mineralize Skinfinish Natural ($30) on the t-zone, tops of cheekbones, and the cupid's bow to catch the light.
Pecheux's precise application is what makes the glitter look so sophisticated. Apply a gloss, like Elizabeth Arden's 8-Hour Cream ($20) to the eyelid, before pressing M.A.C.'s Glitter ($17) in 3D Brass Gold along the lashline and up into the lid with a brush (Pecheux used the flat side of a large eyeshadow brush). The gloss will keep the glitter from getting everywhere, and the brush grants you more control than your finger.
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Inspired by the pops of pink in Altuzarra's bright collection, Pecheux smudged a line of hot pink lipstick, M.A.C.'s soon-to-be-released Good Kisser, across the center of the lid on just six models. "It's really crazy, but why not?!"
Undone hair is a must when it comes to making glitter look downtown cool. Hair stylist Odile Gilbert says, "The idea is to do the chignon that Kate Moss does on her own hair, herself." She turned the texture soft with Kerastase's Spray-a-Porter ($35) and Powder Bluff ($36), before securing each chignon with just a handful of pins.
Michelle Saunders, Essie's lead manicurist, says, "We're easing our way back into the comfort of the French manicure this spring." The '90s staple might be a surprising answer to nail art, but Saunders kept the idea fresh by using a sheer white, Essie's Allure ($9), across the top of the nail for a barely white tip. She finished with the brand's Good to Go Top Coat ($10).


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Challenges face United Methodist Church
It has seemed to me for the last several years, but especially since the 2012 general conference of the United Methodist Church, that mainline denominations are operating in a "we must fight to survive" mode.
The General Conference is a meeting of bishops, elected clergy and lay people from all over the United Methodist Church, including many countries outside the United States. It is designed to be as representative of the entire denomination as possible.
A big part of the agenda for this particular General Conference was a "plan," crafted by the bishops, to save the denomination. It was voted down. So was an alternate plan offered by another group of lay and clergy.
A third, compromise plan, was adopted, but on the very last day of the General Conference, the Judicial Council (kind of the equivalent to the United States Supreme Court) ruled that the plan was unconstitutional and not in accord with the rules of the UMC. So a plan to save the UMC is in limbo for another four years.
You might be wondering what's wrong and how did we get into this situation. I can only report on my understanding.
John Wesley, an Anglican priest in England, disapproved of the way poorer, uneducated people were treated by the churches. Pews had to be rented on an annual basis at quite a bit of expense. Education was expensive, not accessible to the poor. Health care for the poor was non-existent. And the church, it seemed to him, emphasized rules and guilt rather than God's love and grace.
Having spent much of the time during his seminary education at Oxford as a member of what he and the fellow members called the Holy Club, but which detractors laughingly called Methodist because of the methodical way the members ordered their lives, Wesley began organizing groups of church members into classes. The members of a class covenanted to be accountable to one another and report weekly on their spiritual life. They had wide ranging discussions on passages of Scripture, social justice issues, and suchlike. They also kind of kept an eye on one another's church attendance.
These classes become the foundation of the Methodist movement, first in England and then in the Colonies. John Wesley never intended to begin a new denomination. He was really interested in correcting attitudes in the Church of England.
But from the classes grew churches, especially in the United States. And Wesley was able to send ordained clergy and then appointed lay preachers to oversee these churches. And the church grew. And opened colleges and seminaries. And hospitals. And libraries.
Now in the late 1700s and through the 1800s, one either walked to church on Sunday or horses were yoked to wagons and driven a mile or two to church. And so Methodist churches were often built only five or six miles apart, sometimes in the center of a town and often at the intersection of a couple of roads. And the Methodist Church flourished right through the 1960s and '70s.
But our culture began to change. Blue laws were lifted and one could go shopping on Sunday. Television preachers filled our screens and that was as good as going to church. And sports games for kids began to be played on Sunday morning. And most people had cars to drive wherever they wanted.
And so now, in 2012, the United Methodist Church finds itself with too many buildings, many that are 200 or more years old. And the average age of the membership inhabiting all these buildings is presently about 57. We are getting very gray and our membership is shrinking.
Also, we have discovered the convenience of having our children in Sunday School at the same time as the adults are in worship, thus depriving the children of the opportunity to participate in complete worship services. The children thus get very little feel for the movement of the Christian year from Advent through the season after Pentecost and don't learn to appreciate the beauty of worship.
You may be thinking, well, why not just close a bunch of churches.
That is happening. But folks who have given money sacrificially in order to maintain "their" building are not very willing to close their church and merge with another that may be only a mile or two further away. We love "our" buildings. And throughout Methodism there are many styles of worship (i.e. traditional, contemporary, Pentecostal, charismatic) and we prefer to stay with the one we know.
Do I have a solution to this problem? I do not. Will God provide one soon?
I certainly hope and pray one will come.
The Rev. Vicky Fleming is pastor of Bethel United Methodist Church, 141 Greenwood Ave. in Bethel. She can be reached at 203-743-6835.


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When Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) launched the Surface in October 2013 the move was essentially a slap in the face to its OEM partners.The tablet was not only a competitor to Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPads and machines running Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android OS, it also competed with tablets and laptops running Windows.
Though the Surface has only won limited market share, it can be argued that every one sold takes a potential sale away from the companies Microsoft relies on to manufacture the bulk of the products running Windows. Anger those partners and maybe they decide that Android or Google's Chrome OS -- which are both open source and free to use -- make more sense as operating systems for some or even all of their machines.
Mass defections from Microsoft's OEM partners did not occur after the Surface launch, though Dell, Lenovo (NASDAQOTH: LNVGF), Samsung (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF), and Asus all launched -- then quickly abandoned -- tablets running Windows RT, the slimmed-down version of the OS that powers the original Surface. HTC (NASDAQOTH: HTCXF) didn't even get that far -- it canceled plans for a large-screen tablet running RT before reaching the launch stage.
No companies dropped Microsoft overall, but the Surface launch made it clear that if the Windows-maker entered a category it might deter its partners from doing so. As such, it always seemed odd when rumors of a Surface Mini began to appear on various technology websites. If Microsoft wants to compete at the bottom of the market in smaller devices where price matters, discouraging its partners from creating lower-end tablets seems like a bad idea.
Microsoft looks to have taken that message to heart. There's no sign of a Surface Mini, and the company just announced the first 7-inch Windows 8.1 tablet. Instead of being a Microsoft-branded device, the tablet is a Toshiba (NASDAQOTH:TOSBF) product. That does not mean however that the Microsofties did not play a hand in its development.
"It turns out the company has been working directly with Toshiba, and hand-in-hand with Intel, on a different device that will give Windows users a new option in the market for small tablets," GeekWire reported.
What is the new device?
Introduced at Computex in Taiwan, the new tablet is called the Toshiba Encore 7. In a post that transcribed his keynote at Computex, Microsoft Vice President Nick Parker explained that the tablet is "being co-developed by Microsoft and Toshiba and in close collaboration with Intel, Goodix, and AMI." The tablet won't be a Surface Mini. It likely will be an answer to the many sub-$200 7-inch tablets running Android or Android variants, including Amazon's Kindle Fire.
This is a new Microsoft
Under former CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft operated as if it still held a virtual OS monopoly. Back before Android and Chrome were options, any company that wanted to sell computers had to use Windows as its operating system. That allowed Microsoft the freedom to do pretty much whatever it wanted.
New CEO Satya Nadella has a lighter touch and he seems to understand that the world has changed. It seems unlikely that Nadella would make a move that provokes the company's partners, even if he could do so without consequences. By working with its partners instead of against them Microsoft is also giving itself more chances to succeed. There are dozens of 7-inch Android tablets in the marketplace with some even costing less than $100.
The Toshiba Encore 7 might be the answer to those devices ... but it might not be. Partnering with many companies should allow Microsoft to have a broad portfolio of smaller tablets running Windows 8.1, including low-end devices to battle with Android and nicer ones to challenge the iPad Mini.
That could be very important going forward as International Data Corporation reported that 55% of the tablet market in 2013 was for devices with screens under 8 inches.
Setting the right tone
Whether Microsoft can crack the 7-inch tablet market or not remains to be seen. It seems likely that some PC users will want to stay in the Windows 8.1 ecosystem and not have to use an Android or iOS tablet. The real boom for devices like the Toshiba Encore 7 may be in developing markets where demand for tablets has not yet peaked and Microsoft has made inroads with its Windows 8 phones.
In many ways though the success or failure of Windows 8.1 in the small tablet market is less important than the company showing it can learn from its mistakes. The Surface launch was arrogant and it showed a business that had not adjusted to changing market conditions. The announcement of the Toshiba product shows a company that's embracing those changes.
Not trying to dictate terms will serve Microsoft well going forward and give it the best chance to win back market share lost to Android and iOS.


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This map of central and western Massachusetts was included in Samuel Drake's Old Indian Chronicles, published in 1867. The book is primarily composed of original accounts of King Phillip's War (1675-1676), a devastating conflict between Indian groups and European settlers. Although the map is attempting to identify Indian country at the time of the war, some of the town boundaries it shows were established several generations later. For example, the map shows Sunderland, opposite Deerfield, which was not established until 1709. Drake has superimposed the names of some sixteenth century tribes and colonial forts on the map. The Nipmucks, to which the title refers, probable did not range as far west as the map suggests. Many Indians had been killed or driven from this region by 1700. Those that remained were marginalized by the dominant white culture.
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Pictured left to right are Point Park May 2014 graduates Jayme Jennings, Craig Woolridge and Evan Schall with New Perspective Communications president and Point Park adjunct instructor Dick Roberts.Cinema production graduate Jayme Jennings, along with sports, arts and entertainment management alumni Craig Woolridge and Evan Schall, interned at New Perspective Communications Agency spring 2014. Below, the alumni discuss their internship experiences, reasons for choosing Point Park and their career goals.
Evan Schall: Our big project as interns was to create a promotional video for the nonprofit organization, Pittsburgh Cares. I also helped the account service team with any projects as needed, which included working on Giant Eagle marketing campaigns tied into the Penguins playoffs and Pirates season.
Craig Woolridge: As account service interns, our job was to make sure that the video we produced was going to meet all expectations for the Pittsburgh Cares organization. Another project I was excited to work on was updating a client's website with SEO key words so that their site would be one of the first to show up in a search.Jayme Jennings: My responsibilities as a production intern included being on set to perform a number of tasks typically executed by a grip, assistant camera operator or production assistant. In addition, I was expected to perform a variety of office tasks related to the overall preproduction, production and post-production process including gathering data about potential locations and cataloguing footage from previous shoots.
JJ: There were two major factors that led me to choose Point Park. The first of which is the reputation Point Park received from a number of Mt. Lebanon cinema and digital arts alumni working in the field. The second factor was Point Park's summer program offered to high school students known as Camp Hollywood. I attended this program in 2009 and was really impressed by the faculty and facilities.
CW: My sister Katie Woolridge is an alumna of the film department. When I visited her while she was attending Point Park, I really liked the urban atmosphere and being directly in Downtown Pittsburgh. Also, no other school has such a unique program as SAEM.
ES: I was drawn to the SAEM major because I would like to get into either the sports or entertainment industry. The SAEM program offers many in-class and out-of-class opportunities to gain real-life experience and networking opportunities with professionals in the Pittsburgh area.
CW: My media management class with Dick Roberts, president of New Perspective, was the reason I obtained this internship. Also, classes I've taken in social media and marketing and promotions helped me in the internship.
ES: I have taken a ton of relevant SAEM courses to prepare me for this type of work, so I knew what to expect. A lot of my SAEM professors have worked in the industry prior to teaching, which I think is particularly beneficial for students. As Craig mentioned, our media management class with Dick Roberts was how we were offered the internship.
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ES: Ideally, I would like to get a job in sports, either in baseball or hockey, but honestly, I will take whatever I can get. I believe I have done a good job of getting my foot in the door (at least in Pittsburgh) so hopefully I will be able to find a career doing what I love.
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Crisp rice. Those were the words my 13-year-old scrawled on our shopping list, and how they warmed the cockles of my cents-off soul. My son had not scrawled Rice Krispies. No, he was perfectly content to indulge Mom's penchant for off-brand, faded-label, sometimes slightly out-of-date cereal, as he was either resigned to his fate or (could I be this lucky?) actually unaware that other people breakfast on a national brand that does not include the occasional unpuffed, tooth-cracking rice pellet.
That's my boy!
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Whether he realizes it or not, that kind of hard-nosed, chip-toothed frugality is exactly what is called for in these economically tossed times. Debt is everywhere; jobs aren't. And didn't we all just overdose on Godiva and iPods anyway? And SUVs? It was getting a little gross. Time to spend less and enjoy more! Or at least spend less. Which I enjoy!
Being cheap comes naturally to me, by way of a mom whose morning pot of coffee was reheated and savored throughout the day(s), between her trips from this outlet to that one to buy discount clothing with the labels snipped out, Quasimodo-shaped candy from the seconds shop, or cookies that looked like Oreos but weren't. In fact, they seemed to be stamped with something in Turkish.
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There are those who like to distinguish between "the frugal," who get a kick out of saving money, and "tightwads," who die a thousand full-price deaths with each dollar spent. But the distinction is lost on me. I'm thrifty because I'm a tightwad and vice versa. Like many frugal folks, I also harbor a sneaking suspicion that paying retail is for suckers, as are any napkins not sold in single-ply stacks of 250 (or taken in giant wads from fast-food dispensers, but we'll get to that).
In other words, I'm as cheap as they come, or so I thought, until I started to hunt for the Cheapest People in America. Turns out I am a mere 25-cents-off coupon when it comes to scrimping and saving.
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For instance, before interviewing several dozen cheapskates, I had no idea that there are legions of people who keep an empty McDonald's coffee cup in the car. That way, they can run in and get a "refill" anytime they spy a golden arch.
Janet Hinz has a dad who's one of them. An ethics professor in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, Hinz uses him as an example with her students: Yes, she posits, McDonald's does offer free refills, but for life? And how about people who go to the pizza parlor and empty the red pepper flakes into a napkin to take home (another trait of Papa Hinz), along with most of the rest of the napkins? Is that ethical? Do you ever take an extra napkin, or two, or 20? she asks her students. Where do you draw the line?
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For penny-pinchers, the line between thrift and thievery turns out to be as tangled as a yard-sale yo-yo. For instance, I heard about one guy who gets into the movies this way: He strides in, holds his glasses aloft, and announces, "I found them in the car!" Then he keeps on walking.
Clever-yet criminal.
Merely classless was the boyfriend of a gal I'll call Chloe: He had her drive 40 miles to his house, then took her "out" to KFC. He paid with a two-for-one coupon and made Chloe pay her half. And speaking of half, another woman was having a hard time with her less than generous beau, so they decided to try some therapy and split the cost. After a few sessions that she paid for up front, she asked him to pay his share. He refused: "We talked about you most of the time."
This is the same guy she'd been dating on her 40th birthday, a day on which she suggested they pack a picnic and bring along a bottle of champagne.
"No," said Prince Charming. "Let's wait for a special occasion."
She is happy to report that whatever that is, he'll be celebrating alone.
But then there are the people utterly simpatico in their skinflintedness. One couple I know spend their anniversary at the Hallmark store reading cards aloud to each other. Then they stroll back out, hearts touched, wallets not.
Plus: Is reusing garbage bags being a tightwad or being frugal? You Decide.


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American Samoa can now dream of World Cup
Perhaps the greatest benefit for American Samoa becoming a full member of the International Rugby Board, is the opportunity to realize a dream — to someday compete in the World Cup.
Gov. Togiola Tulafono, speaking on his weekend radio program, says with the American Samoa Rugby Union now a full member of the governing body of world rugby, the territory can now work hard to vie for a spot in the World Cup.
The governor first announced that the inaugural high school rugby tournament kicked off late last week and it appears from the games that there are many high school students who want to play rugby, but previously, there had been no high school tournament in place.
(The high school 7s rugby tourney was held last week Friday and Saturday, comprising most of the high schools, both private and government, fielding a team. Samoa News understands the tourney attracted many students, who are also football players, as well as students who have not had the opportunity to play in other high school sports, such as soccer, basketball, volleyball, baseball, etc.)
Togiola said this tournament comes at the right time — with the IRB granting our full membership — and he reiterated earlier statements that American Samoa is the last non- independent country admitted into full membership, after IRB ruled last November, to no longer grant full membership to non- independent countries.
He said territories, or non- independent countries in the Caribbean and the Pacific were disappointed and complained about the decision, especially for the fact that American Samoa's application was still pending at the time for consideration.
However, he says the IRB decided to move forward with review of our application, since it had been submitted last October.
According to the governor, the non- independent countries will not have a chance to compete in the World Cup — although they would still be eligible to compete in regional tournaments, such as the Oceania tournaments in this region.
American Samoa, on the other hand, now has a chance to vie to be in the World Cup, he said, adding that this is a great opportunity for local athletes to be contracted and play for other countries.
Late last week, the IRB Council issued an official statement saying that the ASRU has become a full member, after it successfully fulfilled the criteria to be upgraded from associate membership.
Additionally, ASRU has18 affiliated clubs and runs senior men's, senior women's and junior competitions under its auspices.
Moreover, ASRU is recognized by the American Samoa National Olympic Committee, and rugby 7s is slated to makes its debut in the 2016 Olympic Games — allowing American Samoa access to this possible opportunity.
IRB was in agreement with an IRB Executive Committee recommendation to approve the application, subject to a review being conducted within 24 months to ascertain ASRU's continued progression to make sure the ASRU "is worthy of retaining that new status," the statement says.
IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset said IRB is "delighted to welcome" American Samoa as the latest full member.
"The ASRU is a structured organization that has demonstrated strong governance principles and a robust administration. It has demonstrated a determination to grow the Game within the country," said Lapasset in the IRB statement. "The IRB is committed to developing Rugby around the world and this is yet another step along that path."


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Skating in New England
Skating in New England
Dec. 10, 1934: The first day of outdoor skating opened at Arlington Reservoir in Arlington Heights. Hundreds of youthful skaters took advantage of the thick ice to enjoy a day of fun. The ice had frozen to a thickness of 3 inches in some places as the temperature, with a reading of 3 degrees, was the lowest in Boston since 1902.
Jan. 13, 1971: The frozen Charles River provided a wide expanse to skate together for this happy group.
Dec. 13, 1974: Children from the Hernandez School in Roxbury gave ice skating a try at Melnea Cass Rink. Carla Faltine caught herself as she fell to the ice.
Nov. 16, 1976: Four youngsters cautiously made their way across the ice at Sudbury rink. They are (from left), Hilary Cline, 5, of Sudbury, Lisa Schulman, 4 of Framingham and Rachel Stone and Linda Rubin, both 5 and both of Sudbury.
Jan. 11, 1976: During the winter "intermission," youngsters turned a North Reading drive-in theater into a skating rink.
Dec. 12. 1977: Paul Sundue, 5, and Melissa Novakoff, 5, both of Hingham, made their first skating attempts at the Hingham Skating Club.
Jan. 16, 1977: These youngster had some fun as they shovel off the snow "whip style" at the Boston Public Garden.
Nov. 12, 1979: Headed home were Joy Romano, 7, Jennifer Alessandro, 7, and Thomas Alessandro, 7, and Donna Alessandro. All of the North End, they walked home after a session of ice skating at the MDC's Steriti Memorial rink on Commercial Street.
Jan. 7, 1980: Ron Sherman of Lincoln threw out a plume of ice chips as he skated in the late afternoon on Farrar Pond.
Feb. 7, 1984: Marlene Almeida tried to brace her fall in skating class at the North End skating rink.
Jan. 27, 1992: Kathy Grobecker, 5, used a chair as both an aid to learn to skate and a way to comfortably take her skates off at Bodwell Pond in Salem, N.H.


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Presidential Term Limit
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.Amendment XXII
Although the Twenty-second Amendment was clearly a reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt's service as President for an unprecedented four terms, the notion of presidential term limits has long-standing roots in American politics. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 considered the issue extensively, although it ultimately declined to restrict the amount of time a person could serve as President. But following George Washington's decision to retire after his second elected term, numerous public figures subsequently argued he had established a "two-term tradition" that served as a vital check against any one person, or the presidency as a whole, accumulating too much power. Congress expressed its interest in presidential term limits by introducing 270 measures restricting the terms of office of the President prior to proposing the Twenty-second Amendment.
Nonetheless, sustained political attention to this matter only developed with Roosevelt. In 1946, lawmakers made the President's four terms an issue in congressional election campaigns, pledging to support a constitutional amendment that would prevent a similarly lengthy presidency in the future. In January of 1947, prominent House leaders acted on these campaign promises, introducing an initiative that ultimately became the Twenty-second Amendment.
The turning point in the debates on the measure occurred when Senator Warren Magnuson argued for an amendment that would simply bar someone from being "elected to the office of President more than twice." Magnuson claimed that other proposals being considered were too "complicated" and comprehensive and might unfairly restrict a person who assumed the office of President "through circumstances beyond his control, and with no deliberation on his part...but because of an emergency," such as the death of an elected President. When some legislators countered that Magnuson's proposal provided insufficient controls on those who assumed the presidency through these "unfortunate circumstance[s]," a compromise was struck. The final proposal provided a general prohibition against a person being elected to the office of the President more than twice while imposing additional restrictions on some individuals who attained the office of President through nonelectoral means, such as succession. The resulting language is what we now know as the Twenty-second Amendment.
We can safely conclude that those who drafted the amendment sought somehow to prevent the emergence of a President with a tenure as lengthy as Roosevelt's. Many proponents of the measure further argued that they sought to codify the two-term tradition associated with Washington. But although these observations surely point us to the general aspirations of the amendment's authors, they do not establish a specific picture of how the framers intended their proposal to apply.
To begin with, congressional deliberations about the amendment were curtailed. For example, the House restricted debate to two hours. Furthermore, the discussions leading up to the proposing of the Twenty-second Amendment did not obviously suggest a consistent, clear legislative purpose. Lawmakers expressed, at various times, their interest in limiting a President's "service," "terms," "tenure," and "[eligibility for] reelection," without elaborating exactly how they understood these terms. Moreover, when Congress dropped early proposals to foreclose a person's eligibility for office if he had served in two prior terms and instead adopted the current text that focuses on limiting individuals twice elected to the presidency, it provided little explanation for this important shift beyond needing "compromise" as part of the lawmaking process. One should also note that the framers of the amendment did not obviously intend to create a two-term tradition in any narrow sense, because they specifically discussed allowing someone who became President through an "emergency" within the first two years of one term to secure election for two additional terms. We are therefore left with some uncertainty about the precise goals of the Twenty-second Amendment's creators.
The ratification debates over the amendment do not provide much additional insight into the particular wishes of those who supported the proposal in the states. In general, the amendment does not appear to have prompted a great deal of public or legislative discussion once proposed by Congress.
Although numerous court opinions make passing reference to the Twenty-second Amendment, its parameters have not been systematically examined by the judiciary. No doubt the low profile of the amendment in the courts reflects limited interest in and opportunity for testing the provision. Since the amendment was ratified, only five Presidents have been technically limited by it (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush were all twice elected), and, to date, none of these individuals seriously considered challenging the amendment's legal restrictions or meaning.
These facts should not lead one to conclude that the Twenty-second Amendment is so straightforward that it requires no further interpretation. Among other unresolved questions, the amendment seems to leave open the possibility that a twice-elected President could still become President through nonelectoral means. For example, such a person might still be elevated to the presidency after serving as Vice President, or, if authorized, to act as President through a presidential-succession statute.
- Bruce Peabody
- Professor of Political Science
- Dept. of Soc. Sci. & History
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Rice producer from the Mid-South were part of the leadership development class that received an overview of rice marketing, production practices, specialty product development, clean water and air issues and observed the rice harvest in California in late September.
Producer members of the class are Bubba Simmons of Hollandale, Miss.; Bryan Leonards of Crowley, La.; Jeremy Baltz of Pocahontas, Ark.; Ross Hebert of Abbeville, La.; Henry Kalfsbeek of Sacramento, Calif. The industry-related member is Brian King of Marked Tree, Ark.
The California Rice Commission kicked off the week-long session with a half-day seminar on the challenges and opportunities facing the California rice industry. The seminar featured Dar Mims, meteorologist for the California Air Resources Board, as the guest speaker.
Throughout the week, participants in the Leadership Development Program class reviewed marketing activities, value-added product development and milling practices at Farmers' Rice Cooperative, American Commodity Company, PGP International, Lundberg Family Farms and SunWest Foods.
John Ford, director of the Feather River Fish Hatchery, detailed California's work to keep salmon plentiful and off the endangered species list. The class traveled to the Cordua Irrigation District, where farmer Charley Mathews Sr. showed them a fish screen project that protects young Chinook juvenile salmon as well as provides the needed water for rice growers in the water district. They also learned how agriculture and nature can work together for a better environment.
Michael Rue, chairman of the USA Rice Federation Asia Trade Policy Subcommittee, provided an update on trade issues that impact California rice sales.
At LaGrand Ranches, farmers Leo and Sid LaGrand provided an overview of production practices, water and land costs, as well as marketing issues. The class also observed harvest on the ranch.
The leadership class will meet for its fourth and final session in Washington, D.C., Feb. 11-15. A special ceremony will be held at the completion of the class.
John Deere Co. and Syngenta America sponsor the Rice Leadership Development Program through a grant to the Rice Foundation, and the USA Rice Federation administers it.


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'''Starlanes''' is a science fiction poetry amateur press publication by [[Orma McCormick]] and [[Nan Gerding]].
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Starlanes is a science fiction poetry amateur press publication by Orma McCormick and Nan Gerding.
Starlanes, with the subtitle "International Quarterly of Science Fiction Poetry", was published in Ferndale, Michigan, U.S.A. from January 1951 to December 1961. 40 issues were released.
Contributors of writing to Starlanes included James Angell, Dainis Bisenieks, Garth Bentley, Joseph Payne Brennan (Macabre), Robert E. Briney, Lin Carter (Spaceteer), Isabelle E. Dinwiddle, Vera L. Eckert, David English (Fantasias), Philip Jose Farmer, Dean Grennell (Filler, Grue), Hyacinthe Hill (Virginia Anderson), A. Kulik, Crystal Kalmeer, Ethel King, Herman Stowell King, Lilith Lorraine (Challenge, Different, Flame), Truda McCoy, William J. Noble, Keran O'Brien, Edith Ogutsch, Robert L. Peters, Lori Petri, Byron E. Phelps, Theda L. Posbst, Emerald Etone Smith, Agatha Gray Southern, Emili A. Thompson, Lewis Turco, Dorothy B. Winn, and Stan Woolston.
Starlanes featured the first appearance of the Philip Jose Farmer poem, Beauty in this Iron Age.
Artists contributing include Richard Bergeron (Warhoon), Ralph Rayburn Phillips, and Tom Reamy (Trumpet).
Starlanes was a member of "Fanvariety Enterprises", an affiliation of fan publishers put together by Max Keasler and Bill Venable. It included such publications as Max Keasler's Opus, Bill Venable's Pendulum, Norman Browne's Vanations, Harlan Ellison's Science Fantasy Bulletin, Dave English's Fantasias, Bob Farnman and Nan Gerding's The Chigger Patch of Fandom, Nobert Hirschhorn's Tyrann, Ian MacAuley's Cosmag, Joel Nydahl's Vega, and Starlanes.


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This 16 ounce slip cast ceramic cup is light, durable, and stylish! It is microwavable and dishwasher safe. The decal image is drawn by Harrison, and Joan makes the cup. It makes a great gift, and is great to use at home or on the go. Now with new color decals!
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Karstend necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 67 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
We run a German social community for gamers at http://www.xchar.de
It bears a strong resemblance to other communities like facebook.com, only that we aim at appealing to Online Gamers and consumers of video games in general.
Our audience consists of online gamers. Fun people of young to medium age who love to play games and embody avatars of MMORPGs.
We need 3 graphics for different versions of user profile pics (a button and maybe a small frame each):
- A new graphic for community admins called in Germany "Moderator" (as guidline see attached file moderator.jpg for current version)
- A new graphic for xchar.de - staff members (as guidline see attached file team.jpg for current version) Please use attached file xchar logo.png in your new design.
- A new graphic for premium members (as guidline see attached file premium.jpg for current version)
The new version for community admins (Moderators) must be combinable with the graphic for premium members. As you can see in the attached old version: profilepic.jpg
The maximum size of the user pics your graphic should be designed around is 214x214 px.
The buttons underneath or on top of the pics saying "Premium", "Moderator", or "Xchar Team" are 220x 30 px. While height is flexible, IMPORTANT is that they are never wider than 220 px.
In addition to the buttons, feel free to design a frame around the pic. But whatever you do, the width of the entire graphic must never be more than 220 px.
We are looking forward to your designs. Have fun!