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Unusual new abuse & cover up lawsuit is filed
- Unusual new abuse & cover up lawsuit is filed
- Accused predator priest violated four boys in one family
- The alleged crimes happened in Independence over two decades
For the first time, a KC area Catholic priest is being accused sexually violating four boys in one family, according to a new civil lawsuit. The case will be disclosed and discussed at a news conference today at which clergy sex abuse victims will also hold signs and childhood photos.
TODAY, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1:30 p.m.
Outside the KC chancery (diocesan headquarters) 20 West Ninth Street (at Baltimore) in KC MO
Two child sex abuse victims who belong to a support group called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org), including a St. Louis man who is the organization's long-time director
A new civil lawsuit charges that Fr. John Tulipana sexually assaulted four boys (ranging in age from 10 - 16) in one family in/around St. Catherine’s parish between roughly 1976 and 1992. Most of the alleged crimes happened between 1979-81, sometimes on camping and fishing trips and sometimes at the family’s home. Some of the boys repressed the memories of the abuse, according to the suit.
Tulipana left active ministry in the mid-1990s because of credible abuse allegations.
In 1989, Richard Durocher told church officials Tulipana had abused him as a child. The diocese gave him $150,000 but demanded that he sign a “gag order” preventing him from discussing the abuse. Durocher was promised that Tulipana would receive therapy and children would be protected. But Tulipana was allowed to stay in active ministry with access to kids. In 1994, Durocher broke his silence, the KC Star wrote about the case, and Tulipana resigned. Since then, the diocese has admitted that others have come forward with sex abuse charges and they have settled with at least “several” of them.
Tulipana was ordained in 1972 and worked in at least eight parishes including Independence (Nativity of Mary), Grandview (Coronation of Our Lady), Clinton (Holy Rosary), and Kansas City (St. Catherine's at 4101 E. 105th Terrace; St. Augustine's at 7801 the Paseo; Christ the King at 85th Street & Wornall Road; Holy Trinity at 934 Norton Ave., and, in the mid-1990s, at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception). He also taught at the University of Dallas.
Tulipana is believed to be in his mid- 60s, working as an insurance agent, and living at 301 S. Shrank in Independence. A photo of Tulipana is available at http://bishop-accountability.org/member/psearch.jsp.
According to 2010 lawsuit “multiple priests and lay persons (knew) that Tulipana (and another priest, Fr. Thomas Cronin) were sexually abusing children, providing liquor to children and spending inordinate amounts of time with children.” http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2010/09_10/2010_10_05_Hart_TwoExpriests.htm
That suit also says that the KC diocese “aided and abetted” Cronin and Tulipana “by moving the priests from church to church following reports of his sexual abuse of minors,” by forcing the victims to be silent by representing that the priests were in good standing.
The new suit seeks unspecified damages and is filed in Jackson County Circuit Court.
SNAP worries that others who have been hurt by Fr. Tulipana may still be “suffering in shame, isolation and self blame” and want Catholic officials to “aggressively reach out to others in pain.”
KC attorney Rebecca Randles represents the victim. KC lawyer Jon Haden represents the diocese (which is also named as a defendant.) SNAP doesn’t know if Tulipana has a lawyer.
Earlier this month, similar suits were filed against two other KC priests – Fr. Thomas Ford (who hadn’t been publicly accused of abuse before) and Fr. James Urbanic (who was suspended from active ministry at Sacred Heart parish in Warrensburg last summer). | <urn:uuid:5dc62bdc-c471-4768-8654-f02067fd7c45> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.snapnetwork.org/unusual_new_abuse_cover_up_lawsuit_is_filed | 2016-04-30T13:08:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111865.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00092-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970318 | 930 | [
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Unless otherwise noted, the following incidents were reported to Huntsville police Monday and Tuesday. In items with incomplete addresses, police withheld the information:
Blue Springs Circle: A 1997 Ford Escort was stolen from a home in the 2400 block between 7:35 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Green Meadow Drive: A home in the 6600 block was burglarized between 8:30 a.m. and 4:35 p.m. Monday. A pocket watch and a silver coin were stolen.
Griffith Drive: A 34-year-old woman was assaulted at a home about 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
Myrtlewood Drive: A voltage meter and wire nuts were stolen from a home in the 1400 block between 3 and 5 p.m. Thursday. The theft was not reported to police until Tuesday.
Nixon Avenue: A 30-year-old woman reported her identity stolen about 8 a.m. Jan. 1. The theft was not discovered and reported to police until Tuesday.
Sparkman Drive: Two forged MoneyGram money orders were passed at a business in the 1500 block between Jan. 2 and 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Sparkman Drive: An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen by deception from a business in the 2500 block about noon Feb. 27. The theft was not reported to police until Monday.
Valleyside Drive: A tag and catalytic converter were stolen from a vehicle parked in the 200 block between Feb. 1 and 3 p.m. Monday.
Maple Avenue: A Craftsman lawn mower was stolen from a business between 3 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Memorial Parkway: A 59-year-old man reported the fraudulent use of his credit card to make an undisclosed amount of purchases about 6 p.m. Saturday.
Memorial Parkway: An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen by deception from a 40-year-old woman at an undisclosed location in the 10000 block between 1 p.m. April 10 and 1 p.m. Saturday.
Stevens Avenue: A home in the 1200 block was burglarized between noon Saturday and 7:30 a.m. Monday. Two ladders and a drill were stolen.
Washington Street: A 1993 Ford F-150 pickup was stolen from a bar between midnight and 1:45 a.m. Sunday. The theft was not reported to police until Tuesday.
White Flag Lane: A 30-year-old woman reported her identity stolen about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Cotton Row: Wiring and plumbing materials were stolen from a home in the 4900 block between 4 p.m. Monday and 6 a.m. Tuesday.
Horace Drive: A home in the 4300 block was burglarized between 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday. A Dell laptop computer and a digital camera were stolen.
Indiana Street: A prescription medication and a bottle of children's over-the-counter medication were stolen from a home in the 300 block between 5 and 7 p.m. Sunday.
Montrose Street: A home in the 3200 block was burglarized between 8 p.m. Monday and 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. A tiller and a weedeater were stolen.
Montrose Drive: A home in the 3200 block was burglarized between 5 p.m. Sunday and 6 a.m. Monday. A pressure washer was stolen.
Old Madison Pike: A vehicle parked in a parking lot in the 6700 block was broken into about 8:10 p.m. Monday. A laptop computer, a motorcycle helmet, a pocket knife, jumper cables, a Texas Instruments calculator and a bookbag with school books were stolen.
Pulaski Pike: A home was burglarized between 9 a.m. and 7:40 p.m. Monday. A 32-inch flat-screen TV, an Xbox game system, a laptop computer and a DVD player were stolen.
Westview Drive: A home in the 1500 block was burglarized between 11 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. Monday. A 46-inch TV, a 40-inch TV and a PlayStation were stolen. | <urn:uuid:7dee6a5f-1a5d-4804-a3df-8e8b00547208> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/04/huntsville_police_blotter_1086.html | 2016-05-04T02:27:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860122268.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161522-00100-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982184 | 903 | [
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Sacred Heart University was founded in 1963 to provide affordable, quality education to the citizens living in and around the suburb of Fairfield, Connecticut. It is the second largest catholic university in the New England region. Undergraduate and graduate level degree programs are offered on campus, and a selected number of courses are available on-line.
Sacred Heart University offers four online degree programs in the field of medicine / nursing. The University offers an online RN to BSN program, online RN to MSN program, online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), and online Master of Science in Applied Technology (MSAP). The tuition fees for these online programs are $475.00 per credit hour for the RN to BSN course, $565.00 per credit hour for online MSN, and $675.00 per credit hour for MSAP. The cost securing an online degree at Sacred Heart can be reduced by applying for financial aid. Various financial aid packages such as scholarships, loans, and grants are available to eligible students. More information can be requested from the Sacred Heart University Financial Aid office.
Sacred Heart University’s admission requirements are very program-dependent. However, for the accelerated online courses and the online MSN course, it is imperative that applicants have a current RN license and proof of malpractice insurance. To apply for online MSAP, applicants should, at least, have a bachelor’s degree from any regionally accredited academic institution and a minimum GPA of 3.0. A complete list of admission requirements for these online programs can be requested from the Sacred Heart University’s Admissions Office.
Sacred Heart University was, in 2010, named as one of the top 30 Master’s Level Colleges and Universities in the North by US News and World Report. It is included in Princeton Review’s list of The Best 371 Colleges and is regionally accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. | <urn:uuid:adc8ba03-240c-4d58-834f-047b2833abc4> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.businesspundit.com/colleges/online-schools/sacred-heart-university/ | 2016-05-04T01:53:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860122268.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161522-00100-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924862 | 394 | [
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Two road marking companies have resolved accusations that they engaged in illegal and anti-competitive measures as they bid for Oregon highway contracts, Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenbloom announced Thursday.
An Oregon Department of Justice investigation suggested that 3M, of St. Paul, Minn., and Specialized Pavement Marking, of Tualatin, coordinated bids for highway contracts, allocated projects and provided false certification, according to the release.
While the Department of Justice alleged that competition was reduced and the government got poorer terms for its purchase and installation of road-marking products, both companies denied wrongdoing.
"The agreement requires 3M and SPM to pay a combined $750,000 to the State of Oregon," according to a news release from the Department of Justice. "An additional $750,000 will be available as a credit to the Oregon Department of Transportation."
"Reducing competition involving public roadway projects is unacceptable," Rosenblum said in the release. "Honest competition is crucial to the integrity of the public procurement process."
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Banjo player Béla Fleck and pianist Marcus Roberts are among the most respected and accomplished musicians of our time. Wynton Marsalis has called Roberts “the genius of the modern piano,” while Fleck has taken the banjo to unimagined places, garnering himself more than a dozen Grammy Awards. They are joined by bassist Rodney Jordan and drummer Jason Marsalis, and traverse a musical landscape rooted in Jazz but with a cinematic scope, embracing the blues, tango rhythms, and folk melodies along the way. At times playful and always swinging, Across the Imaginary Divide revels in the empathy of these four musicians– a delight to behold.
The Earls of Leicester have discovered a kind of magic that, when harnessed, allows moments once relegated to memories to roar back to life. Old sounds rattle loose chains of space and time that have kept us from forgotten joys and who we once were. Suddenly, as we listen to and watch the Earls pick, […]
“For one so relatively young, Sean McConnell has an impressive musical resume, from coffeehouses in Harvard Square to Texas roadhouses to major songwriting credits in Nashville. Additionally, he’s built a devoted fan base through tireless touring and old-fashioned hard work. This self-titled album coming out through Rounder Records marks a personal and professional breakthrough, a […]
The Lonely Heartstring Band unites traditional bluegrass with contemporary songwriting, and has already earned accolades from respected members of the bluegrass community. Banjo legend Tony Trischka says, “These Heartstring Boys have carved out a fresh niche in modern bluegrass. They adhere to the traditional format but take everything two steps forward. Their roots are clear and […] | <urn:uuid:b507955b-7db5-4c46-8c74-82392246fab6> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.rounder.com/2012/06/across-the-imaginary-divide/ | 2016-05-04T01:55:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860122268.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161522-00100-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948713 | 359 | [
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Planning Maps and Resources for Houghton and Keweenaw Counties in Michigan's Western Upper Peninsula
Unless otherwise indicated, the following resources were produced through a grant from the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation (NEETF) in conjunction with the Common Ground Initiative funded by the Americana Foundation.
“Design Guidelines to Enhance Community Appearance and Protect Natural Resources”
“Shaping Our Future” Survey
Township Land Use Maps, Houghton County, 2002
In 2002, the Houghton County Planning Commission (HCPC) asked the 14 Houghton County townships to color a series of plat maps to reflect the current land uses within their jurisdiction. This information is part of the County’s land-use planning process. Digital versions of the resulting maps were completed with funding from the HCPC and NEETF.
Environmental Decision-Making Class
Planning Resources For Houghton County
“Shaping Our Future” Survey Sorted Comments, by Community
Population Density/Change Maps, Houghton County, 1990 and 2000
Steep Slope Maps, Houghton County
“Shaping Our Future” Survey Scenic Roads
Watersheds and Community Water Supply Wells
Maps showing watershed boundaries and locations of community water supply wells in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, in formats for viewing and printing.
Public Water Supply Consumer Confidence Reports(
(in PDF format)
Superintendents of water supply systems that serve communities compile annual reports on water sources and water quality test results for their customers and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's Drinking Water and Radiological Protection Division. Download a summary of the information contained in the 1999 Consumer Confidence Reports for Houghton and Keweenaw County communities.
Presettlement Land Cover
Maps showing land cover types (sugar maple-hemlock forest, exposed bedrock, etc.) in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties as recorded by General Land Office surveys prior to 1856, in formats for viewing and printing.
Land Use/Cover, 1978
Maps showing land use/cover types (broadleaved forest, residential, etc.) in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties in 1978 as interpreted from color infrared aerial photography, in formats for viewing and printing.
Keweenaw County Zoning, 1975
Maps showing the zoning proposed by the consultant hired to produce a zoning ordinance for Keweenaw County in 1975, in formats for viewing and printing.
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Although there have been wild moments in the past when the editors of the Harvard Monthly rushed about indiscriminately with muck-rakes, the magazine has usually disregarded literary fads and enjoyed a conservative reputation. The Monthly is still conservative in appearance; no artist's model smirks on the cover; but the contents of the excellent November number show here and there ravages of the bacilli that beset the ten-cent magazines, Mr. Petersen, for instance, has caught the--Red Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration and profanity and filth. Mr. Petersen's leading character has nothing distinctive about him, excepting an odor like a New England barnyard after an April shower." This sentence is more suited to a report of the Sewer Commission than to a work of literary art. Even Mr. Calvert Smith's "Nueva Andalucia," a gracefully written and brilliantly colored--though uneven--story of South America, shows a similar tendency toward the odoriferous. and in "Nueva Andalucia" the good red blood is not content with remaining red; it blackens before our eyes, while the banana skins rot in the middle distance, and an "unclean native smell" fills the air.
The Sex bacillus has also found its way into this conservative magazine. Mr. Nathan's one-act play, "Atoms," takes up a question that we have perhaps heard enough of lately from the dramatists. It is a relief to find Mr. Nathan's treatment of the subject sincere and vigorous.
The germs of Red Blood and Sex have luckily spread no further. Mr. Pichel's story about "Miss Clearwater's Morals" threatens to lead us into the literary red-light district, but turns out to be only a clever conversational sketch, strained and obscure in places, but entertaining throughout. Mr. Nathan, in going from drama to verse, leaves sex subjects and gives us poetry of real descriptive power and contageous feeling. Mr. Skinner and Mr. Selders both contribution sensible articles of protest: Mr. Skinner against the misleading rhetoric of those who preach "progress" and care not whether they are progressing; Mr. Seldes against the critical judgments of the Boston Drama League. Altogether, the November number of the Monthly, despite its partial subservience to the literary fads of the moment, is sound literary work and good reading.
Bleeding for a ChangeDon’t let unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner keep you from giving blood to the Red Cross next week. As
No HeadlineThe communication in yesterday's issue in regard to the formation of a sophomore literary society deserves consideration, but we are
College Journals.The first college journal ever published at Harvard appeared in the month of July, 1810, and was known as the
Donation DisparitiesIf you drop into Adams House today or tomorrow to donate blood, you’ll be asked one of these two questions
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Paris Photo, the world's leading photography fair, celebrated its 15th year in style by relocating to the Grand Palais, where dealers, collectors, book publishers and several of the world's pre-eminent photographers gathered for four days (the event culminates today) under the spectacular glass- and iron-domed ceiling. Like a less vulgar, more well-mannered version of the Frieze art fair, Paris Photo is a giant marketplace that showcases the big-hitters and up-and-coming stars of global art-photography.
This year, some 135 exhibitors from 23 countries arrived to show off their wares, and the range of work was almost overpowering in its variety – from Atget to Weegee and all points in between. A few themes emerged from the melee of contemporary approaches. Big prints are where it's at in terms of market demand, a trend that began with Jeff Wall a decade or more ago and continues apace today. Publishers, too, are embracing the big statement, with a plethora of heavyweight multi-volume box sets. The biggest queue of the week was for William Eggleston's book-signing on Thursday evening, in which the entire first print run of Chromes, his three-book boxed retrospective, sold out despite its prohibitive price tag of £220. (By the time you read this, some of those signed copies may be circulating for two or three times that amount, so voracious is the market in collectable photobooks at the moment.)
I arrived on Wednesday, just in time for the VIP evening preview, which attracted collectors from around the globe. You could almost smell the money wafting in the air and, feeling distinctly out of place, I weaved my way through the rows of stalls to have a quick look at the contenders for the Paris photobook prize, in which four prominent publishers had each selected 15 books from the past 15 years. (It was won, deservedly, by Paul Graham's A Shimmer of Possibility, a 12-volume retrospective from SteidlMACK that will set you back a cool £750.) Then it was on to a wall installation of images, text and paraphernalia created by the publisher Schaden and devoted to one of my favourite photobooks, Ed Van der Elsken's impressionist narrative of bohemian life, Love On the Left Bank, first published in 1954.
Rejuvenated, I headed into the fray. My first reaction was a kind of mute, defeated wonder at the sheer quantity and variety of images on display: here an Arbus, there a Sugimoto, over there a big Pieter Hugo and, just around the corner an even bigger Thomas Struth. I opted to concentrate on one of the main themes of the fair: contemporary African photography.
A new generation of African photographers, from South Africa in particular, are dealing with race, identity and sexuality in vibrant, self-questioning ways. Two group shows, one contemporary, one historical, attested to this: an exhibition comprising the best images from this year's Bamako photography festival, which took place in the Malian capital a few weeks ago, and a selection of portraits from the Walther Collection, a German gallery largely devoted to African portraiture. Here, South African photographer Zanele Muholi's portraits of Miss D'vine, a gay man who works as a drag queen, posed in tribal dress, were striking and provocative. (In 2009, the South African minister of arts and culture walked out of an exhibition of Muholi's work, calling it immoral and offensive. Many of the themes explored by this new breed of African photographers are particularly contentious in South Africa).
Nearby, Malike Sidibé's great portraits of youth culture in 1970s Mali vied for attention with the work of studio portraitist Seydou Ketïa. I circled round and came across South African photographer Pieter Hugo's work at the Stevenson Gallery stand. There were two huge prints from his most recent series, Permanent Error, which focuses on a vast dump for obsolete technology on the outskirts of a slum in Ghana. Here, for once, the size was justified, particularly in the full-length portraits of young men foraging in a hellish landscape.
The following day, I returned for a more relaxed saunter though the vast space. In an area devoted to recent acquisitions by major galleries, it was a pleasant surprise to discover that Tate Modern has acquired a selection of images from the pioneering Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama. Taken from his 1972 series, Farewell Photography, they push Moriyama's grainy, impressionistic signature as far as it can go, and pose interesting questions about meaning and narrative. A taster, then, for the big Moriyama and William Klein show at Tate Modern next year.
What else did I see that took my breath away? In no particular order: a great, newly discovered Berenice Abbott portrait of Jean Cocteau pointing a gun at the viewer, hung side by side with her more familiar, but no less dramatic, portraits of an uncomfortable James Joyce; a beautiful series of monochrome portraits by Japanese photographer Hisaji Hara, whose provocative pictures of young girls posing in meticulous recreations of 1920s rooms are in homage to the paintings of Balthus; some wonderful studio portraits by Philip Kwame Apagya, who places his subjects against brilliantly wonky painted domestic interiors.
My abiding memory from this year's Paris Photo, though, was getting a glimpse of the extraordinary collection belonging to the JPMorgan Chase multinational banking corporation, containing Arbus, Warhol, Winogrand and more. To borrow a quote from Damien Hirst, who knows more than most about this kind of thing, "you start to have this sneaking feeling that money is more powerful than art".
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Fan Landers: How Can I Bootstrap My Way To Pop Stardom?
Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our advice columnist Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper) is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be havingwhether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to sotc at villagevoice dot com; confidentiality is assured, unless you want to use your drama as a ticket to Internet microfame.
I'm a solo male pop singer and songwriter with a very mainstream/Top 40 sound. People often describe me as the male Katy Perry. However, having a mainstream sound in relative obscurity is proving to be a difficult thing to manage. From the indie/DIY standpoint, it's hard to get gigs; no one's really putting on a local pop concert. Few bars/clubs/venues cater to this sound unless they're bringing in a major label act. And I'm getting the sense that, though my genre is massively popular across the globe, people will only start to care once I've become famous. I believe that most pop music becomes popular after repeat plays (thank you, radio), but how do you get them to play it? I'm feeling caught in a catch-22 in that many pop artists today become famous first (reality TV competitions, bedroom covers on YouTube) and then put out music.
Is there any hope for someone like me trying to do it the old-fashioned rock way (write, record, play, play, play)? Or do I need to go feign desperation on The X Factor or film myself doing my best "Someone Like You"? We know where the lives of a rock band, rapper, singer-songwriter and country darling begin; where does the life of an obviously would-be pop star begin?
Thank you, Nick
Darling Nicky, The first thing I thought of reading your letter was those picture that surfaced two or three years ago of Lady Gaga playing Lollapalooza, like lunchtime kids stage opener style, a year or two before she headlined. She had a DJ and boy shorts and maybe some backup dancers? I remember lots of mocking comments about how faux-Madonna and budget her set up was. You have my sympathies because our idea of pop star is so ingrained as being grand and magnificent it's hard to imagine there was a time when Prince was wearing jeans and taking the city bus, or that Lady Gaga didn't just hatch, clad in a meat dress. Look at poor Lana Del Rey, mocked for leaving a trail of ambitious evidence and YouTube-able moments of her playing A&R showcases, smiling big and wearing a blousehated for not maintaining our imaginings of what pop stars are.
I think it's good that you are honest about the avenues to pop stardom are in 2012. Depending on how much time and self-respect you have, I would earnestly pursue both the YouTube covers option and, say, trying to get on X Factor or The Voice. For YouTube, think about what worksusually a newish song that people wanna Google up and they stumble on your flawless rendition. Why not assign yourself a one-year project of posting two songs a month? Pick pop hits that serve your range well, you can do something to make them quirky (for better or worse, the Karmin model), do something arrangement wise or you can be earnest and just WERK IT. Turn the new Taylor Swift song (or "Rooster in My Rari") into a tear-your-face-off sensitacho he-diva ballad. Keep posting original stuff, but make reel-folks-in click bait at the same time. Promote it via Facebook and Twitter. People like songs when they know the words. (This can also serve as your demo reel for any sort of televised singing competition. Two birds, etc.)
If you are trying to court Top 40, you should be showcasing, trying to find a manager with some experience navigating that world, and living in a major metropolitan city with some music industry infrastructure. The industry is slowly rotting to death, but for some types of acts, the machine still works. I think your most fruitful possibility is networking with producers and DJs. Hit up all manner of club nights and monthlies, big and small. Hit peoplethe kid in your town who is the dorm-room equivalent of The-Dream, some local DJ/production duo with a following who are ambitious and self-promotingup online. All of those folks are very likely to be in need of someone who has a great voice and writing abilities, someone to sing the hook or demo a song. You might find someone you click with; you might make a song that gets blog traction. The DJ/producer folks will spin the song you make with them at all their regular gigs. I think finding people who are working within the pop idiom and who are invested and interested in moving forwardeven if they may not be aiming for the mainstreamis key. Not only will you be not on your own with promotion, you can showcase your chops as both a writer and a singer.
How you get there is not so much the matter; it's more about what you do once you get there. You look like you could be on a soap opera; you have really good hair and you sing in a style that is very popular with teenagers. Your prospects are better than a lot of people with your same ambitions.
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I’d like to follow up on a fairly obvious thought I tweeted today:
If a site has password length limits, it’s probably stored in plaintext. Hashed passwords (of any size) have a predicable length.
Excuse the typo, please. Explanation:
The sane operating procedure for password storage is to use a hash function (md5, sha256, bcrypt and similar) along with a “salt” to one-way hash the password. This hash is a known length, no matter how long the password is. For a hexidecimal md5 sum, it’s 32 characters. When a user comes back to authenticate, you take the password they supply and the salt, calculate the hash, and match it against the hash you have on file. If the newly calculated sum matches the one you have on file, the user has entered their password properly.
There’s no logical reason to limit a hashed password’s length: a 4 character password and a 4000 character password will both calculate to the same size hash.
So if a website has a maximum password length, it means they are probably NOT hashing it and the limit they apply is to keep you from exceeding the column length of the table they store it in. @abackstrom pointed out here that it’s probably the same situation for disallowed “special characters” – they shouldn’t care what you enter if all they are doing is hashing your password. If they do, they are probably storing it directly in a database.
Why is this bad? Many obvious reasons:
- Your unencrypted password is sitting in a database, waiting to be stolen if/when the site in question is compromised,
- Many people share passwords amongst websites, so a list of email addresses and unencrypted passwords can lead to many more compromised accounts on sites all over the web,
- It’s unnecessary. There’s almost no valid reason to store an unhashed password, especially with all the excellent authentication frameworks out there.
What can you do?
If you’re a website user, complain! If a website has a maximum password length or a restriction against special characters: contact them! Tell them you don’t appreciate their lax security. Ask them to support openID, ask them if they store passwords unhashed, just let them know this is important.
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Symmetry properties of one- and two- electron molecular integrals
Brailsford, David F. and Hall, George G. (1971) Symmetry properties of one- and two- electron molecular integrals. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, V . pp. 657-668.
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The maximum numbers of distinct one- and two-electron integrals that arise in calculating the electronic energy of a molecule are discussed. It is shown that these may be calculated easily using the character table of the symmetry group of the set of basis functions used to express the wave function. Complications arising from complex group representations and from a conflict of symmetry between the basis set and the nuclear configuration are considered and illustrated by examples.
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PLEDGE OF SOLIDARITY & CALL TO ACTION
At a press conference in Washington, DC this morning, a diverse group of American Christian leaders agreed to the following statement and pledged to act upon it. More information about the conference will be published shortly.
PLEDGE OF SOLIDARITY & CALL TO ACTION
on behalf of
Christians and Other Small Religious Communities in Egypt, Iraq and Syria
May 7, 2014
In today’s Middle East, the majority of the Christian faith communities, which include Orthodox, Catholics, and Protestants, suffer violence, abuse and injustice from extremist Islamic forces by virtue of being Christian. Now facing an existential threat to their presence in the lands where Christianity has its roots, the Churches in the Middle East fear they have been largely ignored by their coreligionists in the West.
Christians collectively form the largest religious group in the Middle East that is not Muslim, numbering up to 15 million people. In a siege that has accelerated over the past decade, Egypt, Iraq and Syria –– the three Middle Eastern countries with the largest Christian communities remaining — have seen scores of churches deliberately destroyed, many clergy and laypeople targeted for death, kidnapping, intimidation and forcible conversion, and hundreds of thousands of believers driven from their countries. The Christian population in Lebanon, the only other indigenous Church community in the region numbering over 1 million, could be threatened by the instability across its country’s borders.
No Christian tradition is spared in this current wave of persecution. While addressing the theme of Christian unity, Pope Francis has called this the “ecumenism of blood,” meaning that the extremists do not discriminate among the Christians they are attacking. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has also spoken of the contemporary “crucifixion” of Christians. In these same three countries, other defenseless religious groups — Mandeans, Yizidis, Baha’is, Ahmadis and others — suffer similarly.
It has become abundantly clear that the brutal extremist campaigns are resulting in the eradication of non-Muslim religious communities or, for those who remain, denying them from having any influence or even basic rights within their society’s political, social or cultural spheres. While there is no apparent organization or coordination among the various violent actors from nation to nation, their actions are leading to one conclusion: the very real possibility that Christianity may soon be exiled from the region of its origin.
These assaults continue despite rejection by the majority of Muslims and condemnation by prominent Muslim voices, such as Jordan’s Prince Ghazi bin Mohammed and Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Sistani. Many Muslims also face grave threats from the extremist groups and forces that wreak destruction in the name of a political interpretation of Islam.
The current trajectory, marked by political violence and, in the cases of Iraq and Syria, full-blown war, risks a Middle East largely emptied of the millennia-old presence of Christians. Turkey offers an example of what the future may hold for the region as a whole: the Christian population constitutes a mere 0.15 percent of that country’s 79 million people, down from almost a quarter of the population a century ago. Turkey’s Christian community, once the heart of Eastern Christendom, is nearly gone.
Britain’s Prince Charles has drawn attention to this crisis. A life-long proponent of building bridges between the Christian and Muslim faiths through dialogue, he warned last year: “We cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are, increasingly, being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants. Christianity was, literally, born in the Middle East and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.”
Testifying about Egypt before the U.S. Congress in December 2013, Bishop Angaelos of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK made similar observations. He stated that the attacks by “radical elements” are not merely targeting individuals, but “the Christian and minority presence in its entirety.” Over three days in August 2013, Egypt’s Coptic Christians who, numbering about 8 million, comprise the region’s largest Christian community, experienced the worst single attack against their churches in 700 years. Both before and after that episode, the Copts have suffered other violence, including a mob assault on the Cairo Cathedral of the Coptic Pope during a funeral service and the bombing of the Church of Two Saints that killed dozens of people. Tens of thousands of Copts are estimated to have fled their homeland in recent years.
During more than a decade of political turmoil in Iraq, Christians have been targeted and killed in their churches, school buses, neighborhoods and shops. Canon Andrew White, the leader of Iraq’s only Anglican Church, asserted that “all the churches are targets.”
In Syria, large segments of both the Christian and Muslim populations have already been displaced and many, who suffer daily assault, forced starvation and unspeakable hardships, are leaving the country. The Christian community is caught in the middle of a brutal war. But the Christians are also victims of beheadings, summary executions, kidnappings, and forcible conversions, in deliberate efforts to suppress or eradicate their religious faith. Over 30 percent of Syria’s Christian churches are reported to have already been destroyed. Recently, extremists have driven out virtually all the population from the Christian towns of Maaloula and Kessab. An entire convent of nuns was taken hostage and held for ransom, along with many others. Priests who have worked to improve inter-faith relations and sought truces among the warring Muslim factions have been assassinated. Two Orthodox bishops, Metropolitans Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi, have been held captive since April 22, 2013.
Baghdad’s Catholic Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako recounts: “For almost two millennia Christian communities have lived in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East. . . . Unfortunately, in the 21st century Middle Eastern Christians are being severely persecuted. . . . In most of these countries, Islamist extremists see Christians as an obstacle to their plans.” He states that “it is sad to note that most Western Christians have no real awareness of the painful situation of Christians in the Middle East, even though they could actually highlight their real condition and raise awareness among politicians.”
Along with other vulnerable religious groups, Egyptian, Iraqi and Syrian Christians are now leaving their countries in great numbers not simply to look for better economic opportunities. They are fleeing conflict and violence and targeted campaigns against them that have included the following:
- Scores of churches–some while full of worshippers–monasteries, cemeteries, and Bible centers have been deliberately demolished and crosses on others have been removed.
- The building and repairing of churches has sometimes been curbed and prohibited.
- Private Christian homes, businesses and lands have been looted, confiscated or destroyed because some challenge Christians’ right to property, thus curtailing livelihoods.
- Christians, including some clergy, after being identified as such by their names, identity cards, or some other means, have been beheaded, shot execution-style or otherwise brutally murdered. Clergy have also been killed for their peace-making efforts or simply as personifications of the Christian faith.
- Untold numbers of Christians, including bishops, priests, pastors, and nuns, have been kidnapped and held for ransom.
- Young women have been abducted and forced to convert to Islam and marry their captors.
- In some instances, Christians have been told to convert to Islam or be killed; some have been forced to pay protection money.
- In one Syrian town, Christians have been forced to submit to dhimmi contracts (the terms for protecting Jews and Christians in Muslim lands that are attributed to the Islamic 7th century Caliph Umar) under which their religious and other rights are suppressed and they live as second class citizens.
- Muslim apostasy and blasphemy codes and standards for dress, occupation and social behavior are being enforced for Christians, as well as for Muslims, in some communities.
- Given the above, Christians have been either intimidated or barred from practicing their faith publicly.
- Such abuse and injustice are frequent and pervasive enough to form observable patterns in these three countries. Extremists and terrorist gangs are behind most of these incidents; they have been carried out largely with impunity, and sometimes with the acquiescence of state and local authorities. It is their cumulative effect that has triggered the current massive exodus of Christians.
American religious leaders need to pray and speak with greater urgency about this human rights crisis. The sense of abandonment felt by the Middle Eastern Churches is reflected in the searing words of Patriarch Sako, last December: “We feel forgotten and isolated. We sometimes wonder, if they kill us all, what would be the reaction of Christians in the West? Would they do something then?”
PLEDGE OF SOLIDARITY
We, as Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant leaders, have come together in this joint pledge to speak up for our fellow Christians and other threatened religious communities in the Middle East. We invite other faith leaders and all men and women of good will who are concerned with the dignity and safety of all human beings to join us in this urgent task.
We are compelled to take this action by the grave dangers that confront the Churches of Egypt, Iraq and Syria, in particular. While Christians have been leaving the Middle East for many years, and, in these three countries, members of all communities—including smaller religious communities and Muslims—suffer from violence and political turmoil, the Egyptian, Iraqi and Syrian Christian communities, under the additional scourge of intensifying religious extremism, are experiencing a sudden, massive exodus of their members from the region. Since these communities account for most of the indigenous Christians in today’s Middle East, the continued presence of Christians in the region where Christianity originated 2,000 years ago is threatened.
Recognizing the spiritual, humanitarian and geopolitical implications of this historic flight, we have joined together to affirm our moral obligation to speak and act in defense of religious freedom for all human beings.
As Americans, we believe that the ability to worship God, or not, and to practice freely one’s faith, is a basic, inalienable human right, as recognized in our country’s founding documents, and that it has universal application. We witness this right under assault today in Egypt, Iraq and Syria.
As Christians, we are called to take to heart Jesus’ own words in the Gospel of Luke that he was sent to, “proclaim freedom for the prisoners” and to “set the oppressed free.” We look, too, to what Paul told the Corinthians, speaking of the Church as the Body of Christ, “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it.” We are also enjoined in the book of Hebrews to “continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.” We are aggrieved by the suffering in the Middle East today of our brothers and sisters in Christ.
We pledge to call together our own congregations and communities in sustained prayer, education and engagement in US foreign policy on behalf of these Christians and other threatened religious communities of Egypt, Iraq and Syria. All too clearly, we see the “tears of the oppressed” and cannot ignore them.
CALL TO ACTION
While the fate of Christians in the Middle East is unquestionably important to Christians, it should be emphasized that the continued presence of Christians, along with other religious communities, is in the national interest of that region’s countries and it is in America’s own national interest. We agree with President Obama’s assertion before this year’s National Prayer Breakfast that the right to religious freedom is an essential human right that “matters to our national security.”
Religious diversity provides the important experience of different faith communities living together. If the robust communities of Egyptian, Iraqi and Syrian Christians and other smaller religious communities continue to leave the Middle East, pluralistic co-existence would tragically be diminished region-wide. The Christians of Egypt, Iraq and Syria have rejected violence as an acceptable response to oppression and, instead, by both word and action, have supported a message of peace and non-violence.
Though Christians are a fraction of the overall populations of these three countries, they have long been an integral part of the social fabric, and have contributed, alongside Muslims, to the construction of the Arab civilization. They have had an especially formative role in promoting education, literacy, learning and health care that benefits society as a whole. They have participated in forming professional and entrepreneurial groups important for a dynamic middle class, as well as given rise to active intellectuals long committed to international norms and practices of human rights, the rule of law, and equal rights of individual citizenship — all essential for democracy and hence for making these countries partners in building societies where all faiths can live and prosper.
We are compelled to ask: Why are the Christians currently being killed or driven out? These communities represent openness to others and a desire for truth, even if inconvenient. They love learning and seek an equal share in building their respective nations. They do not believe in retaliation and embrace forgiveness. They respect individual life as an end in itself not as a means. These are attributes many Muslims also share and ones that any country would appreciate.
Even as we pledge to do all within our power to alleviate the suffering of Christians and other small religious communities in the Middle East, we urgently appeal for action from our government to recognize and act upon the unique plight of these religious communities.
It is our conviction that American foreign policy can be more effectively used to advocate for policies that protect international religious freedom for all. We welcomed President Obama’s public remarks regarding his March 27 meeting with Pope Francis, concerning his reaffirmation that “it is central to U.S. foreign policy that we protect the interests of religious minorities around the world.” As a matter of conscience, we, therefore, respectfully call for the following actions:
I. Appointment of the Special Envoy on Middle East Religious Minorities. A new special envoy post, filled by a prominent and knowledgeable citizen is needed for deep engagement in the issues and circumstances affecting Christians and other small religious communities in the region. Over 20 special envoy posts exist to protect a range of other groups and interests but none is dedicated to the plight of Middle Eastern religious minorities. American policies continue to be formed without adequately taking into account the impact they might have on these vulnerable communities. A high caliber envoy of stature who has the ear of the President could increase American engagement regarding Middle Eastern religious minorities, so that:
- The views and interests, including physical safety and equal rights as citizens, of the members of small, defenseless groups are considered in any peace negotiations concerning Syria.
- Every diplomatic effort is made to press other governments in the region to stop facilitating, harboring, and assisting any extremist groups and militias, and to foster respect for the defenseless religious communities.
- Other policies to promote tolerance and respect for members of vulnerable religious communities in the Middle East are considered at the highest levels while there is still time to act.
It was just such a special envoy who helped draw attention to genocidal levels of religious and ethnic persecution in Sudan and usher in a comprehensive peace agreement to end the north-south conflict there in 2005.
II. Review of Foreign Aid. As he has done in the interest of other stated administration priorities, President Obama should initiate an internal review to ensure that American assistance programs, especially those that support national governments, uphold policies and principles that relate to religious freedom and pluralism. The review should include examining the region’s national textbooks, local governmental broadcasting, statements by public officials, and national identity cards, where the inclusion of one’s religious identity is often used to deny rights. U.S. government-sponsored broadcasting, legal and constitutional assistance, and educational efforts should promote religious tolerance and protect religious freedom, including for small religious groups.
III. Refugee & Reconstruction Assistance. Our principal purpose in speaking out is to help Christian communities and other defenseless religious groups remain safely in the region. To that end, the vulnerable religious minorities, including those who are refugees in neighboring countries or displaced within their home countries, must have equitable access to American refugee, humanitarian, repatriation, and reconstruction aid. Many will need assistance to be relocated elsewhere in the region and American help could be decisive. The U.S. government must ensure that religious minorities are not discriminated against by local authorities in the distribution of aid donated by the U.S. government, as was reported to have occurred at certain junctures in Iraq, contributing to the wholesale exodus of its Christians and other small religious communities. It must also continue to reach Christians and others who eschew UN refugee camps that they perceive to be controlled by extremist groups. In some particularly tragic instances, we recognize that individual members of defenseless religious communities will never be able to return to their homes, and urge that those individuals be given fast track asylum in the United States and elsewhere in the West.
A generation ago, American religious leaders successfully mobilized support for the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. That law created the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and institutionalized regular State Department reporting on the status of religious liberty around the world. That legislation should be credited with helping to establish, as President Obama acknowledged at the National Prayer Breakfast last February, that “promoting religious freedom is a key objective of U.S. foreign policy.” Now, new action is desperately needed by our churches, our government and our civil society institutions here in the United States, and by all people of good will to make that objective a reality.
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As a medical practitioner, I’ve been trained from day one to be excruciatingly careful with controlled substances at work. We painstakingly log every tenth of a cc of morphine, keep impeccable logs for the DEA, and keep all that stuff locked up tighter than the gold bars in the US Bullion Depository.
We do it not because we like making our lives- and yours- all that more difficult, but because unfortunately controlled substance abuse is a huge problem. And many/ most of the controlled substances we use in veterinary medicine are also used by people, correctly and incorrectly. It’s a godsend to be able to provide these powerful drugs for our canine and feline friends, but I know as a profession we are somewhat lacking sometimes in making it clear to owners just how careful they should be with these prescriptions.
As strict as I am about my prescription-writing tendencies for veterinary clients, I realized my own compliance as a patient was less than stellar. I was shocked to find how much medication I’ve accumulated over the years through injuries, childbirth, and surgeries when I went through our cabinets in preparation for an open house to put it all away and out of the hands of strangers.
It’s hard to know what else to do with a long expired bottle of Tylenol with codeine, or that bottle of chemo drugs I never finished with Emmett. Like many people, I’ve just hung onto it. Prescription drug abuse really is a terrible problem- nearly 15% of high school students misuse prescription controlled substances- and it really is important for everyone to have an easy way to dispose of leftover medications so they are not a temptation for kids too impulsive to understand the consequences. 12-13 year olds- just babies, really- are abusing these substances on a regular basis, and it’s heartbreaking.
This Saturday is your solution.
Fortunately, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Foundation, in conjunction with the DEA, has designated April 28th as National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. I was contacted by the NABP specifically to let you all know that they WANT you to bring back your dog and cat meds. The take-back service is free and anonymous, with no questions asked. Sites will accept tablets, capsules, and all other solid dosage forms of unwanted medication. There’s no distinction between veterinary and human prescriptions at this event. Sites will accept pills, both prescription and nonprescription, for disposal.
I had the opportunity to interview the Executive Director of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, Dr. Catizone on the dangers of prescription drug abuse. Not only is Dr. Catizone the Executive Director of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), but he is a licensed pharmacist and currently serves as a Governor of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) Board of Directors and Chair of the PTCB Certification Council. Dr. Catizone is regularly called to serve as an expert witness for the US Government in the areas of pharmacy practice and regulation on both the state and national level issues.
What is the main reason National Drug Take Back day was started?
Prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic proportions across the country. In 2010, 7 million people aged 12 or older abused prescription drugs, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a government agency that conducts a national survey on related topics each year.
The same survey showed that over 50% of people abusing these drugs got them from friends or family for free. Often those who abuse drugs, including teens, take them right of the medicine cabinet. This can include medications prescribed for pets.
Ridding the home of unused, expired, or unneeded medications, helps to prevent the drugs from falling into the wrong hands. Currently, law enforcement must be present if a person wishes to dispose of prescription controlled substance medications, such as certain pain pills. To provide opportunities for legal disposal of unneeded controlled substance medications, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) began coordinating National Prescription Drug Take-Back events in September 2010. With locations in every state across the county, consumers disposed of 995,185 pounds (498.5 tons) of unwanted medication during the first three DEA Take-Back Days, illustrating the need for this service.
Why should people take drugs back as opposed to, say, throwing them away or flushing them?
Flushing certain medications or improper disposal in the garbage can lead to safety and environmental hazards. When drugs are brought to an authorized DEA collection site, or other legal disposal program, they are processed for safe destruction.
If there are no drug disposal sites near you, there are options for disposing of drugs at home. The information that comes with your prescription may provide instructions on home disposal. Only some medications should be flushed down the toilet and the US Food and Drug Administration has a list of these drugs on its Web site. If there are no instructions for disposal you can throw the drugs in your home garbage. But first, take them out of the container and mix them with an undesirable substance like coffee grounds or cat litter. Seal the mixture in a sealable bag, empty can, or other container that can be disposed of in the garbage.
More details about drug disposal programs are available on the AWARxE Medication Disposal page.
Why should pet owners be concerned about this issue?
As noted above, often those who abuse drugs, including teens, take them right of the medicine cabinet. This can include medications prescribed for pets.
Proper disposal of unneeded medications helps prevent the drugs from falling into the wrong hands, and also helps protect the environment by keeping drugs out of the local water system and the local environment.
FDA does recommend that certain drugs are flushed to prevent danger to people and pets in the home. FDA has determined that the risks of accidental ingestion of these select medications, outweighs the small risk to the environment. A link to the list of drugs that should be flushed for disposal, as well as additional information, is available on the Medication Disposal page of the AWARxE Web site.
What is the most compelling or memorable story you know of regarding the dangers of prescription drug abuse?
Justin Pearson, a resident of St Cloud, MN, died tragically at age 24 because of a prescription drug overdose and his story was the inspiration for the AWARxE campaign. Justin had struggled with prescription drug addiction, and died on December 25, 2006, after taking a mix of prescription drugs which he ordered from an illegal Web site. Taking the drugs without a doctor’s prescription, and mixing a high dose of different prescription drugs led to Justin’s death.
More information about Justin’s story is available on the home page of the AWARxE Web site.
What is the most common veterinary drug of abuse?
Pain relievers and tranquilizers are two of the most commonly abused drugs, as reported in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration National Survey, and both types of drugs are used in the practice of human and veterinary medicine.
DEA has also indicated that buprenorphine and ketamine are drugs of abuse; each of these drugs is a prescription controlled substance approved for human and veterinary use.
Links for cited Web pages:
- Fourth DEA National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day: http://www.awarerx.org/DEADrugTakeBack.php
- Medication Disposal: http://www.awarerx.org/medDisposal.php
- FDA Drug Disposal Information: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUsingMedicineSafely/EnsuringSafeUseofMedicine/SafeDisposalofMedicines/ucm186187.htm#MEDICINES
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 2010 National Survey Results: http://oas.samhsa.gov/NSDUH/2k10NSDUH/2k10Results.htm
For all the topics I’m happy to joke about, this is one that I take very seriously. I have seen too many bright and wonderful people have their lives destroyed by prescription drug abuse. So please, mark your calendar for Saturday and get rid of your leftovers. Or am I the only one who has a pile of half empty bottles in the cabinet?
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Arsenal forward Theo Walcott has revealed that the chance of qualifying for the Champions League has been the catalyst behind the team's recent form.
In all competitions, the Gunners are unbeaten in 10-games and haven't lost since their north London derby defeat to Tottenham at White Hart Lane.
Out of those 10-games, Arsene Wenger's men have won eight of them and drawn just two, and those were games against Everton and champions Manchester United.
Throughout the whole season, Arsenal's Champions League hopes were questioned and doubted, but after picking up 23 points in their last nine games, the north London side know that their fate is in their own hands as they look ahead to the final game of the season.
Arsenal are currently fourth in the Premier League just one point ahead of Tottenham with just one of them able to finish in the top-four.
On the last day of the season, Arsenal travel to St James Park to face Newcastle United knowing a win would guarantee them a Champions League spot. However if they are to slip up at Newcastle, Tottenham, who play Sunderland at home, will have the chance to pip their rivals to a top-four finish.
Theo Walcott, who scored a hat-trick against Newcastle the last time the two sides met, believes the team are full of confidence going into the final game of the season.
“All the games are very important now but we just want to get the result,” he told reporters. “We want to keep our form going. We haven’t lost now in a long time. I have lost count to be fair.
“That’s a great positive and we just have to keep it going now. It is a tough game and we cannot underestimate Newcastle. I know it was a totally crazy game here when we played them last but we are ready for it.
“We just have great experience in knowing what to do when the time is right. It’s funny. It happens every year. We tend to finish very strong. I think it is just because the players want it so much.
“We just need to show that in the mid-season and at the start and we could hopefully be even higher than we are and not have this situation we are in.”
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16 year old-Safe, Well Broke Morgan Gelding, 4-H Ready
16 year old black Morgan gelding, super quiet, dead broke for anyone to ride. Jackson is truly a beginner's horse.
14.2 Hands tall
Loads, clips, bathes, traffic safe, stands for fly spray and to be saddled and mounted. He has excellant manners no matter what you ask of him.
He is sound and is UTD on all of his shots and worming.
Jackson has been through extensive training exposing him to many obstacles that he may face during trail riding. He has been desensitized using tarps, balls, taken across bridges and thru water. Jackson has mastered anything that we have asked of him. He would make an excellant horse for a beginner or a child.
Jackson has been shown in 4-H and is a pro at Showmanship. He stands square and trots out.
We are looking for a good home for Jackson. Asking $1800.
There are more videos at the following links.
We also have other horses available for sale. Please inquire if you are interested.
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We are a full-service family owned and operated painting company in the Charlotte area. As experienced professionals with over 30 years doing high quality interior and exterior painting as well as wallpapering, we are well known in the Charlotte area and receive a majority of our jobs through word-of-mouth referrals.
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What’s the biggest mistake investors make when evaluating a fund?
Focusing on past performance rather than fees.
Terrance Odean is the Rudd Family Foundation professor and chair of the Finance Group at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Stansted most punctual airport in Europe, third most punctual in the world
6 December 2011 • Author: BAA
London Stansted is the third most punctual airport for departing flights in the world according to the latest figures.
FlightStats, an online flight tracking and airport information service, found that over 88 percent of scheduled flights departed on time from London’s third busiest airport during November, outperforming all other European airports for punctuality. Tokyo’s Haneda Airport topped the global table, with US airport Minneapolis-St Paul in second.
Stansted Airport’s Managing Director, Nick Barton, said:
“This is excellent news for the airport and more importantly our passengers. It’s thanks to the help and support of our airlines, handling agents and business partners that passengers flying from Stansted are most likely to take off on-time than any other European airport.
“Stansted is firmly established as a world leader at serving the low-cost airline sector that has transformed air travel. We have a route network that stretches to around 150 destinations with Stansted offering more direct scheduled European flights than any other airport in the world.”
The airport has won several notable international awards this year, including the Skytrax ‘world’s best low-cost airport’ award, the ‘Air Cargo Award of Excellence’ in April, and the UK’s best cleaned transport premises at the Golden Service Awards in November. | <urn:uuid:18eff9bb-7e88-4ab4-85f3-914d8e59a8b5> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.internationalairportreview.com/7514/airport-news/stansted-most-punctual-airport-in-europe-third-most-punctual-in-the-world/ | 2016-05-02T12:29:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461863599979.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428171319-00220-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928292 | 305 | [
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Honda Repair Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
Do you know what the actual error codes are?
No. When I took it to Advance Auto for reading, they didnt see any errors.
After reading your replies again I'd check the IAC valve first. Sometimes carbon clogs the passage inside and you have problems with idle. It almost sounds like that's the problem especially if it happens when the A/C is on or in long traffic jams. You can take it off the intake manifold and clean it out real good with throttle body cleaner and then reinstall it and the problem should go away. | <urn:uuid:bccc5aab-68d0-4885-b85b-0b95a7cf7803> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.justanswer.com/honda/1z5vs-2000-honda-accord-v6-stalls-starting-when-start.html | 2016-05-02T13:33:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461863599979.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428171319-00220-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930835 | 126 | [
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Referring a Student to Psychological Counseling
As faculty and staff members, you may occasionally come in contact with students who display unusual and worrisome behavior, or may share with you personal information about which you do not feel qualified to address. In such cases, especially if the behavior is impairing the student's performance or the performance of others, or there is a dramatic behavioral change, you may want to initiate a discussion about counseling with him or her. During the meeting:
- Note the behaviors about which you are concerned.
- Be matter of fact, respectful and direct. Don't minimize your concerns or try to deceive students into talking with a counselor.
- Leave the final decision to the student. With the exception of an emergency, a student has the right to refuse a referral.
You may want to consult with Janie MacHarg, Director of Student Health & Psychological Services, x 3818, before meeting with the student. They or a member of their staffs can listen to your concerns and recommend methods for addressing issues with the students.
Available Services on Campus
Psychologists are located in Student Health & Psychological Services, located between Welch Hall and the University Theater. Demand for services is high, and there is sometimes a waiting list for students seeking psychological counseling. If you are concerned that a student poses a danger to him/herself or to others, call 911 or the Campus Police Department.
For Your Information
- All psychological counseling services are free to currently enrolled students.
- Psychological Counselors are available to see students Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in summer, with added hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays until 6:00 p.m. during the academic year.
Referring the Student
After discussing the situation with the student, you can refer him or her to either the Career Center or the Student Health & Psychological Services unit in one of the following ways:
- Suggest the referral and leave it up to the student to make an appointment.
- Call Student Health & Psychological Services, x3818, to inform the staff that the student will be contacting them or coming in.
- Walk the student over to Psychological Services in the Health Center, Room A 141.
Confidentiality: The client-counselor relationship is confidential, except in those few circumstances where the law requires disclosure of confidential information. (e.g. harm to others, child abuse, etc.). Only upon the individual's written request will any information be released to other people or agencies about participation in psychological counseling. This means that the counseling staff cannot confirm if the student has come in for counseling or inform you about the student's case. However, you are encouraged to ask the student if s/he has gone to see a counselor and to ask how it is going. This will show a continued concern and interest on your part, and is generally well received by the student.
For further information about counseling services, call Student Health & Psychological Services at x3818.
Behavioral Warning Signs
The following are some warning signals which may indicate that psychological counseling would be appropriate. Use your best judgment to determine if intervention is necessary or would be helpful.
Signs of Depression
- Dramatic change in weight.
- Extreme guilt or self-blame for present or past events.
- Frequent crying spells.
- Sleep difficulties; unexplained physical problems.
References to Suicide - Any direct reference to suicide is cause for immediate referral to counseling.
- Feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and/or worthlessness.
- Preoccupation with death; giving away valued possessions or talk of doing so.
- Suicidal thoughts, threats or plans.
- Withdrawal from usual social interactions and activities.
- Suspiciousness and feelings of being persecuted.
- Inappropriate or bizarre conversations; talking to self.
- Frequent outbursts of anger, crying or aggressiveness; extreme agitation.
- Signs of eating disorders: talk of binging, vomiting or secretive eating.
Personal or Relationship Concerns
- Difficulty in coping with the death or serious illness of a family member or close friend.
- Difficulty in coping with relationship problems. Severe self-esteem problems; extreme shyness.
- Talk or evidence of sexual or physical abuse (childhood or recent attacks).
Academic Changes That May Indicate Other Emotional Problems
- Dramatic decline in academic performance.
- Dropping several classes; talk of dropping out of school.
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- Personal employees: If you have a housekeeper, nanny, personal trainer, dog-walker, or any other person who is regularly working in your home, they come first. The custom is to tip them a day’s wages, but I also like the idea of giving them an extra day off if you can manage (after all, they probably have holiday shopping of their own to tackle!). If you do go the cash route, tuck it inside a festive card with a thoughtful note from the whole family. Gift cards are also a nice gesture, but unless you know their tastes, keep it generic (Visa or Target gift cards are usually a safe bet).
- Doorman and superintendent: If you live in an apartment building or condo complex, your doorman and superintendent are the next group of people with whom you probably have the most day-to-day contact. Tipping varies wildly by region, just as rent does, so asking your neighbors (especially those who have lived in the building for a while) is a good way to start. If you’re still not sure, calculate 5% of your monthly rent and offer that as a cash tip. Homemade gifts like cookies and candy are also a nice reminder that you appreciate the work they do for your home.
- Mail Carrier: You may not see him or her every day, but your mail carrier is probably the busiest person you know this time of year. Just remember that U.S. Postal Service regulations prohibit them from collecting a tip or gift worth more than $25. A small cash tip left inside a holiday card is fine, and how nice for them to open your mailbox only to find something addressed to them! Otherwise leaving out brownies, candy canes, and other treats is always appreciated.
- Teachers: Don’t tip your teacher (or your child’s). Just don’t. It’s inappropriate for someone who is so intimately involved with your or your child’s development and could even be seen as a bribe. Instead, opt for a small, thoughtful gift like a wall calendar or plant for the classroom. And remember to keep it secular, especially if the teacher works at a public school. If you or your child has more than one teacher, it’s completely acceptable to award only those who have had a particular impact or with which you have formed a closer connection.
- Beauty Squad: If you’re like many women, you’re probably going to see your hairdresser, nail technician, and other beauty experts during the holidays; after all, a gal’s gotta look good for the annual holiday card photo! So there’s no need to seek them out for a tip; just tack on an extra 5% to what you usually tip at your next appointment. You can adjust this amount based on how often you see them: if you only get your hair cut twice per year, an extra 3% is totally understandable. But if you’re an “every 4 to 6 weeks” kind of gal, you may want to ramp it up to 7% or even 10% for all the time you spend in their chair.
- Servers and Bartenders: There’s no need for more substantial tipping at restaurants and bars around the holidays, but of course if you feel compelled go right ahead. Instead, remember that this is a hectic time of year for any waitstaff, and make sure to let them know you appreciate their service (if it’s good, of course). A quick “thank you” or “happy holidays” after your signature will be welcome cheer when they collect your bill at the end of the night.
…and remember, no matter who you’re tipping or how much, it’s the delivery that counts. Always include a personal note, especially in the event that you’re giving less than usual — or can’t afford to give it all. That way your recipient will feel appreciated regardless of the dollar amount inside. And that’s what this season is all about, right?? | <urn:uuid:b1748396-ef55-410b-aa56-1005d1b36aa3> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://nicolelapin.com/blog/2015/11/09/holiday-tipping-101/ | 2016-05-01T06:06:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860114285.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161514-00094-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95402 | 852 | [
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Award-winning journalist Fran Hawthorne has been a writer or editor at Fortune, BusinessWeek, Institutional Investor, and other publications. She is the author of Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love, The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting,and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism and books on health care and investing.
New Trader Joe’s outlets have just opened in Lexington, KY, and West Seattle, and 18 more are scheduled soon across the U.S., from Medford, OR, to Sarasota, FL, to Albany, NY. That should certainly please fans like Jeff Pollard, 33, who lives near Albany and belongs to a group called “We Want Trader Joe’s in the Capital District” – the Capital District being the area around Albany, the capital of New York State.
Congratulations, Jeff. Enjoy the Formosa papaya and the Chicken Tikka Masala with Cumin-Flavored Basmati Rice.
Altogether, the new openings will mean approximately 400 Trader Joe’s stores in the U.S., which should make even more people happy (like Denice Rochelle in Seattle, who has blogged about that location). But this growth puts a real strain on the chain’s slogan: “Your neighborhood grocery store.”
Just whose neighborhood are they talking about?
The yuppie neighborhood near Manhattan’s “Silicon Square”? The middle-class family neighborhood in the Los Angeles exurb of Camarillo? The two neighborhoods in Atlanta?
Perhaps a surfer neighborhood in Hawaii? That would seem to be what the company wants shoppers to think, with all the surfboards, fake-bamboo, and garishly flowered shirts throughout the stores. However, there actually aren’t any Hawaii outlets.
True, each TJ site serves its own neighborhood, sometimes altering the product mix to appeal to the local demographic. Food shopping tends to be a neighborhood activity; we rarely drive 30 miles for a carton of milk. But in that case, Trader Joe’s is no more of a “neighborhood grocery store” than is Kroger, Safeway, Whole Foods, or any other supermarket chain-– many of which are smaller than Trader Joe’s.
In fact, the most apt neighborhood might be Germany’s Ruhr Valley, headquarters of the multinational Aldi grocery chain that owns TJ's.
That’s right. What most Trader Joe’s devotees don’t realize is that all the cute Polynesian décor is actually part of a $70 billion, 4,000-store global chain owned by a super-secretive German nonagenarian ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s wealthiest people.
So what difference does this make? Maybe none. The papaya and chicken taste the same, the staff is just as friendly, and the prices are just as low.
Yet the hidden billionaire ownership and the phony neighborliness matter, because they are part of a bigger misleading image-– along with a smattering of exotic veggies and cage-free eggs-- that makes people feel as if they’re somehow supporting a nice little health food coop when they shop at Trader Joe’s.
The truth is that Trader Joe’s is almost the complete opposite of that feel-good image.
As my new book Ethical Chic points out, it’s not merely the surfer-local image that’s false. For instance, only TJ-brand products are guaranteed to be free of trans fats, genetically modified organisms, artificial preservatives, and other yecchy stuff. The 20% of items that are not made specially for the chain can have any kind of ingredients, and that includes non-cage-free eggs from chickens kept in horrible battery cages. And think again about the pre-cooked, frozen Chicken Tikka Masala with Cumin-Flavored Basmati Rice. All the extra packaging? Ingredients shipped from India? That little meal violates some of the basic tenets of the organic and environmental movements, including “reduce packaging” and “buy local.”
I don’t want to be a grumpy, eat-your-tofu, enviro-extremist. Go to Trader Joe’s if you want, Jeff and Denice! It is fun to shop there (even if I think the hand-written signs are just too-too cute). All I’m saying is: Read the labels. Know what you’re buying-- and buy the product, not the image. | <urn:uuid:a17c9672-df83-4281-90bd-aa5b01bb8608> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2012/07/trader-joes.html | 2016-05-01T06:09:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860114285.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161514-00094-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937785 | 982 | [
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How do you adjust timing on an EF???
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When Hurricane Sandy hit, it became appallingly clear to me that when there's an earthquake, a flood, or a natural disaster of any sort, chances are that our local ISP is going to be affected as well as us. - Renee Mengali, president, Mengali Accountancy
HOUSTON (PRWEB) May 28, 2014
iland, an award-winning enterprise cloud infrastructure provider, today announced Mengali Accountancy is leveraging iland’s Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offering to minimize downtime and also back up clients’ mission-critical data. The accounting firm’s successful implementation demonstrates how iland’s proven disaster recovery solutions empower small and medium businesses with rapid recovery capabilities that have traditionally required massive IT footprints.
With offices in San Francisco and Healdsburg, California, Mengali Accountancy executes back office accounting needs for more than two hundred clients. In 2007, the company went paperless, which amplified the high value of sensitive digital information it collected, processed and stored to efficiently serve clients and address compliance requirements. The convenience of transferring and searching electronically was matched by the difficulty of keeping client financial data secure.
Mengali Accountancy sought a disaster recovery plan to replace its processes that were susceptible to human error, attack and natural disasters. At the time, its onsite backup consisted of drives that were changed out nightly and taken home weekly by key staff members. Offsite backup was executed with a facility at the firm’s ISP, located only about ten miles away.
“I had a client whose employee was in the process of porting home one of those infamous portable backup drives, and her car was burglarized,” said Renee Mengali, CPA and president of Mengali Accountancy. “It was really a huge eye-opener for me to think about this critical data that's living on a device, leaving the office and going home with people. That was simply not the secure environment I wanted for sensitive client information. Beyond that, when Hurricane Sandy hit, it became appallingly clear to me that when there's an earthquake, a flood, or a natural disaster of any sort, chances are that our local ISP is going to be affected as well as us.”
After consulting with the firm’s local IT providers and investigating several vendors, Mengali Accountancy found iland to be the only provider with a solution to meet its technical and procedural requirements. Leveraging iland’s DRaaS, the firm now has secure data replication in geographically diverse locations outside California and can restore both data and business services within its Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of four hours. The solution can also easily be scaled as Mengali Accountancy continues to grow.
“iland worked with us to ensure our recovery technology and processes would work smoothly and everyone easily understands what needs to happen in case of a disaster,” said Mengali. “Now our iland solution is part of our service offering with new clients. I tell them that we have a suite of specific offerings in this space that no other CPA firm our size can touch. I can say, ‘Yes we handle your back office accounting, allow for internal controls and audits, and handle your offsite backup and data recovery because we have a solution in place for that.’ We can position ourselves as a financial services solution provider that has addressed every concern that keeps business owners up at night.”
“All too often, we see companies taking immeasurable risk by using outdated disaster recovery processes or settling for basic backup instead of true disaster recovery,” said Lilac Schoenbeck, vice president of product management and marketing at iland. “Mengali Accountancy exemplifies how companies of all sizes can cost-efficiently ensure business continuity in the face of accidental, malicious and environmental threats, and iland is proud to help them get the job done.”
iland is ranked as a leader in Forrester Research, Inc.’s report entitled, “The Forrester Wave™: Disaster-Recovery-As-A-Service Providers, Q1 2014.” Forrester refers to iland as “the dark horse champion” in the report. In the research firm’s evaluation, iland received the highest scores possible for its core DRaaS offerings, recovery objective capabilities, platform and application support, data resiliency and risk mitigation, security, value proposition and vision, as well as pricing, service levels and contract terms.
iland also works closely with other industry leaders such as Veeam, VMware and Zerto.
For more information on iland’s disaster recovery and other enterprise cloud services:
- Read the case study: Mengali Accountancy.
- Download Forrester Wave™ report: Disaster-Recovery-As-A-Service Providers, Q1 2014.
- Read the whitepaper: Disaster Recovery: The Budget Item You Cannot Afford to Cut.
- Watch the video: Disaster Recovery for the Modern Era.
With datacenters in the U.S. and U.K., iland delivers proven enterprise cloud solutions that help companies do business faster, smarter and more flexibly. Unlike any other provider, iland’s technology and consultative approach mean anyone–regardless of expertise, location or business objective–can experience the benefits of a hassle-free cloud. From scaling production workloads, to supporting test and development, to disaster recovery, iland’s secure cloud and decades of experience translate into unmatched service. Underscoring the strength of its platform, the company has been recognized as VMware’s Service Provider Partner of the Year, Global and Americas. Visit http://www.iland.com. | <urn:uuid:4185b18f-252c-49d6-90f8-da7c879a6375> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11890351.htm | 2016-05-01T06:27:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860114285.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161514-00094-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949484 | 1,204 | [
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The field spaniel is happiest when he has a job to do. Although independent in nature, he is devoted, sensitive and willing to please. Always cheerful and affectionate, he is an excellent family companion as long as he is given regular exercise. The field spaniel is especially known for his tractable nature. It is typical for a field spaniel to be somewhat reserved with strangers.
Field Spaniel Dog Care
The field spaniel needs daily exercise, and even though he is happiest when given the chance to run and explore, his needs can be met with a long walk on leash. He does best when allowed to divide his time between house and yard. He thrives on human companionship and should not be deprived of his family. His coat needs brushing and combing once or twice weekly. Straggling hairs should be scissored every few months. The ears should be checked and cleaned regularly. Some can be somewhat sloppy, and some snore.
Field Spaniel Dog Health
Major concerns: CHD
Minor concerns: otitis externa, patellar luxation
Occasionally seen: PRA, SAS
Suggested tests: hip, eye
Life span: 12-14 years
Interested in the history of the Field Spaniel dog breed?
The field spaniel shares his early history with the English cocker spaniel, the only difference between the two breeds initially being one of size. The field spaniel was composed of those land spaniels weighing over 25 pounds. These larger field spaniels were derived from the cocker, Sussex and English water spaniels and were initially required to be black. After becoming recognized as a separate breed in the late 1800s, the field spaniel succumbed to breeding for exaggeration, and the repeated infusion of Sussex spaniel blood resulted in dogs of excessive length, overly heavy bones and short legs. The breed lost his usefulness as a hunter, and although he enjoyed a short vogue in the early 1900s, he ultimately teetered on the brink of extinction. Crosses to English springer spaniels were made in an effort to re-create the original field spaniel. The crosses were successful, and the modern field spaniel is not only a handsome replica of his former self but also an able hunter. All modern field spaniels can be traced back to four field spaniels from the 1950s: Ronayne Regal, Gormac Teal, Colombina of Teffont and Elmbury Morwena of Rhiwlas. Despite the fact that field spaniels were being shown in America in the late 1800s, no champions were made up between 1916 and 1966; in fact, the breed was essentially extinct in America for much of that time. The breed was reintroduced into America in the late 1960s. The field spaniel remains among the rarest of breeds in America. | <urn:uuid:449fdb13-3f11-4a7e-9b48-d297c1139750> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://www.petfinder.com/dog-breeds/field-spaniel | 2016-05-01T06:15:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860114285.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161514-00094-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979251 | 589 | [
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Monday, March 23, 2009
Finally a blog has emerged. I've entertained the thought for months and have been putting it on and off for quite some time now. After several attempts, losing my gmail passwords, documented works, and a grueling final year of study, here I am, with old works, new works, and progress of newer works. These are some early dabbles from early early 2008, I made a stack of drawings during the cyclonic weather of that summer.
Untitled 1 2008
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The Sunset Tavern’s Anniversary Toga Party
featuring The Young Fresh Fellows, Huge Spacebird, and The Chris & Tad Show
The Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA • June 21, 2002
Two years ago, entertainment visionary Max Generaux — along with his small staff — converted one of Seattle’s most downtrodden dives into one of the city’s hippest nightspots. Anchoring one end of Ballard Avenue — the Jet City’s music Mecca — the Sunset Tavern combines swanky ambience (its blood-red interior and exotic decor suggests a turn-of-the-century San Francisco bordello) with an “everybody knows your name” comfort bubble. With this sort of environment — and a great sound system — the Sunset has become an extremely popular venue for both performers and their fans.
To celebrate the Sunset’s anniversary, Generaux threw a toga party on June 21st — and everyone came. There were no ritual sacrifices, but bloodletting was the only thing missing from this free-for-all orgy of merriment, as three of the town’s most popular bands — The Chris & Tad Show, Huge Spacebird, and The Young Fresh Fellows — put on one of the best rock shows of the year.
After Lena, one of the Sunset’s elderly Norweigan regulars, began the festivities by warbling “God Bless America,” former President Chris Ballew and YFF drummer Tad Hutchison made their entrance clad in space suits. With Ballew alternating between guitar and his “Orgatron” and Hutchison tapping away on a stripped-down kit (often with maracas), the duo flabbergasted and delighted the crowd with some truly inspired silliness. Singing seemingly-impromptu songs about Tang, acid-accented bus rides to Frisco, and devil worship, the pair demonstrated both their wit and capacity for absurdity. Ballew paid tribute to the mostly ignored toga theme, rocking his way through “Coliseum Party” and “Roman Rumble.” During the latter, the avant-garde genius (now stripped down to a cowboy costume) ventured into the crowd with a digital recorder, persuaded a fan to sing the chorus, and returned to the mic, manipulating her digitized voice like a DJ scratching a record. This set-closing feat drew howls of laughter and wild cheering from the sweaty room.
Groove-rockers Huge Spacebird almost stole the show in their middle slot, focusing on selections from their Steve Miller-meets-Thin Lizzy eponymous debut (a few years old now, it’s still a local-jukebox favorite). Electrifying the Ballew-befuddled audience with more “Lizzy” and less “Miller,” this veteran band, recently re-appearing after a long hiatus, re-established their status as one of the Northwest’s best unsigned acts. Co-frontmen Mark Hoyt and Jeff Taylor led the group through fan-favorite screamers like “Walkin’,” “New Destroyer,” and their set’s peak, “If That’s Lovin’.” Guest Don Pawlack, formerly of The Souvenirs, accentuated Hoyt’s and Andrew McKeag’s twin-guitar attack with his pedal-steel mastery; Peter Lansdowne’s booming drums and Taylor’s overdriven, superfuzz, set-you-on-your-ass bass lines kept the frenzied mob at bay.
With the beyond-capacity crowd now warmed to the point of heatstroke, The Young Fresh Fellows — the city’s pre-eminent party band for more than fifteen years now — capped the wild night with a mind-blowing display of talent. With local icon Scott McCaughey (also of The Minus 5 and R.E.M.) at the helm, this supergroup (Fastbacks guitarist Kurt Bloch, eternally-19-year-old drummer Hutchison, man-about-town Jim Sangster on bass) peppered their career-spanning song list with fantastic covers — The Sonics’ “Strychnine” and McCaughey’s great interpretation of The Kinks’ “Well-Respected Man” had the worshipful audience in the palms of their hands. Ballew joined the band for a rant of “Everybody’s Going Digital”; Bloch, normally maniacal, turned truly demonic during the closer, “Born to Be Wild,” sliding his strings along the rafters and mic stand, unintentionally paying homage to both Hendrix and Townshend in a crazed series of solos. In a Morrison-like move (Jim, not Van), McCaughey wandered into the crowd, begging for some “sweet water,” as the band jammed in dirge-like fashion… and then the orgy was over.
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fruit and almonds are always delicious and fill me up fast, they are also low in fats and calories
05/01/2010 - 3:35pm
05/11/2010 - 12:57am
Energy (nut) Bars. Event though they seemed to have high calories and energy level, but they are nutritious as nuts contains nutrients that are essential for our body. Moreover, it can help one away from hunger for a long time. Bars are convenient healthy food that should be in your bag whenever you go. Grab one now and have them on the way to school and work!
07/12/2010 - 9:58pm
I love a plain, old, skinned, fresh carrot from my farmer's market with fat free ranch dressing!
08/26/2010 - 7:36pm
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Can anyone tell me how to find out if a .sdf file is encrypted? Im using C# and would like to know if the db that I am trying to open is encrypted. I would then like to attempt to open the db.
Any help would be appreciated!
Attempt to open the database without a password in the connectionstring. If an error occurs, like
the database is password protected.
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I would like to know why in a surgical Facelift the women get the scar behind the ear and the men just before the ear?? A doctor told me that if the pull back the MEN skin form behind the hear the hair will disturb us because will grow behind the ear. Is it right? Second question: Is it really annoying or just a light disturbance?? Is it highly recommended not to to the incision (scar) behind the ears for men?? Or i can decide to get it in the same place as the women since its less visible?thanks
Doctor Answers 21
Facelift Scars different in men and women?
Thank you for your question. Facelift incisions should be tailored to the patient, with many factors involed, including degree of tissue laxity, facial shape, how the hair is worn, and personal preferrence. Facial hair is a consideration as well, but hair lasers can often be used to minimize this as a problem.
Pablo Prichard, MD
Incision location shouldn’t be based on whether you are male or female. Rather, it should depend on your degree of facial aging, skin laxity, hairline, and other unique characteristics. The type of facelift being performed will also influence incision placement. I usually work to accommodate my patients’ aesthetic preferences whenever possible. Remember that scars are a tradeoff for surgery, and most people find the results well worth any minimal scarring. Usually, the incisions are hardly noticeable. Talk about your incision preferences with your doctor. Good luck!
Facelift Incisions In Male & Female Patients
The placement of a facelift incision is usually based on a patient’s facial features and can sometimes be based on their hair line as well; it is not always dependent on if they are male or female. In the end the most effective incision done is based on what is best for the patient. “Dr. D”
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Male face lift incisions
The incision made by a surgeon depends on their preference. I use 3 different types of facelift incisions based on mild, moderate or severe skin laxity. My goals are to maximize skin removal and minimize the scars appearance in every day life. Some doctors probably do the same incision on everyone. Your question is a good one and I hope my answer helped. Good Luck!
Good question- but the short answer is "it depends".
Scar placement is not necessarily a male/female issue- but more of a hairline issue as well as what kind of procedure the patient is having. Some patients (both men and women) do very well with just an incision in front of the ear and perhaps a n incision heading behind the ear in the crease- not into the hairline. Other patients require an extension of the incision into the hairline to give them the look that they desire.
I hope this helps
Facelift for men.
There are a few differences in facelift surgery for men. One is the location of the scar. We want to avoid placing hair bearing skin where you don't want it. it gives an abnormal look to the patient. For thos reason, we alter the incision. All the best
Facelift scars in men
Many surgeons will place the facelift scars in men in front of the ear (the tragus) citing that the beard makes it more noticeable otherwise. I disagree with that and most the time I am able to place the scars on the edge of the tragus, similar to the way I do it in women. It ends up being an individual decision though, based on the man's skin features. usually the hairs can be destroyed from beneath the skin.
Facelift incision placement in men.
The ideal location for facelift incisions in men is influenced by a variety of factors:
- the amount of skin excess that needs to be removed and redraped.
- the degree of soft tissue laxity.
- pre-existing hair pattern and density in the temple and side-burn region.
- pre-existing ear shape.
- pre-existing skin grooves and wrinkles around the ear.
- patient and surgeon preference.
The incision placement is unique for each individual. Consult with trusted facelift surgeons to determine what will work best for you.
Mario J. Imola, MD, DDS, FRCSC, FACS.
Face lift incisions in men
Thank you for your question about male face lift incisions.
- The face lift incision depends on the man's hair and skin color.
- Lasers get rid of dark hair quite predictably.
- Lasers can't get rid of blond or grey hair.
- Men with blond or grey hair need face lift incisions in front of the ear.
- Men with dark hair can have a face lift incision hidden behind the tragus IF they have pre-surgery hair removal of side of the neck and cheek.
- Hope this helps. Best wishes.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
9-11: Subdued Remembrance
We all remember where we were and what we were doing seven years ago today.
The day that, as Rational Jenn has pointed out, was the End of Normal.
As I drove the Boychick to school this morning, we passed the Cedar Crest Fire Station.
The flag was at half-mast and the the trucks were out on the driveway apron, their lights flashing. It was exactly the time that the first tower fell on that day.
So much has changed, but much of it not in the ways that we had hoped.
Americans who can remember 9-11, particularly the Millennialgeneration, lost innocence that day. Older generations remembered other times of lost innocence experienced across the bloody twentieth century. I remember looking into the young eyes of the Homelanders--those who will not directly remember 9-11--hoping that out of this terrible attack we could bring to them a world of greater prudence and liberty.
Prudence. I hoped that with this wake-up call we would come to understand that we have real enemies, people who would like nothing better than to see the United States stumble and fall.
That we could not keep up a way of life built on massive foreign debt, and even worse, a growing burden placed on future generations.
That we had to end our dependence on foreign oil and become self-reliant on our own, abundant resources.
Liberty. I hoped that we would understand that our greatest value and our greatest asset is the idea that all of us have been endowed with the liberty to forge our own destinies in life.
That people living in freely-chosen associations with one another, and who protect their rights and are engaged in the pursuit of their own happiness , are the most unlikely to murder innocent human beings in the name of some great ideological cause.
But seven years later, it seems that we heard the alarm to wake up and smell the coffee, only to hit the snooze button and roll over. No sleeping giant was awakened on 9-11.
We continue to pile up debt to cloud the future. We have stifled the engines of creativity and commerce. We have allowed our government to ride roughshod over our liberties in the name of security. And we have spent blood and treasure on ill-considered foreign adventures that leave us no more secure and a good deal poorer than we were seven years ago.
There is greatness sleeping in the American soul.
But it does not slumber in the empty promises of politicians, who are engaged in a heated discussion of lipstick on pigs while they continue to loot the dreams of citizens.
There is greatness sleeping in these United States.
But we will not awaken it until we recognize that it lies within the strength, goodness, and sense of people living their lives, using good old Yankee ingenuity to solve problems.
I want to see the Freedom towers rise from Ground Zero.
I want to see them built in liberty and as a physical representation of that good old Yankee ingenuity, unfettered, to have a go at solving problems in ways that we cannot yet imagine.
I am thinking of this:
"Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern, impassioned stress,
a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness.."
"...whose alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears."
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After 16 years together, or at least sort of together (when he wasn't on Rock of Love or putting it to Tish Cyrus), Bret Michals and Kristi Gibson are engaged!
Bret proposed to Kristi - where else - on the finale of Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It on VH1. Gibson is the mother of his daughters Raine, 10, and Jorja, 5.
Down on one knee, the Poison frontman said, "Please say yes or the rejection will kill me right now." Fortunately for all of us, Gibson responded positively!
Bret Michaels and Kristi Gibson are engaged! Congratulations!
Gibson and their daughters stayed by Bret Michaels' side earlier this year when he suffered a terrifying brain hemorrhage and then a subsequent stroke.
"She's the one who put up with me all these years," Bret, who hinted this summer that he might finally put a ring on it, told Us Magazine of Kristi.
Immediately after Gibson accepted his proposal, he broke the happy news to the girls: "[I told them] 'I did it! We'll all be together forever! Family hug!'"
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Bulls have big cleats to fill
Last season, their goal was to grab attention, turning heads toward a team that was never considered a true contender in the college soccer landscape. Just one season later, the USF mens soccer team can no longer consider themselves underdogs.
After a breakthrough year when the team enjoyed its first ever undefeated conference season in Big East history on its way to a spot in the Elite Eight, the Bulls entered 2012 ranked fifth in the nation.
Despite the losses of Big East player of the year Dom Dwyer and senior defensive anchors Aubrey Perry and Chris Blais, the Bulls were reloaded, and had the target on their backs.
But the loss of underdog status could be a disadvantage for George Kiefers team. Instead of entering each game with a chip on their shoulders, looking to mark their spot among the nations elite, the Bulls are already considered elite, and will face the pressure of keeping their ranking.
Many teams that have breakout seasons and do not lose a large amount of talent are expected to stay at or near the top of the mountain, and some of those teams are unable to meet high expectations, both because of pressure, and because of increased exposure.
When the Bulls entered 2011, they had a secret weapon that teams across the Big East and beyond could not have an accurate measure of. The addition of the Tyler Trio transfers Dom Dwyer, Brenton Griffiths and Kyle Nicholls along with the transfer of senior keeper Chris Blais, who took Michigan to a Final Four berth in 2010, brought plenty of new faces across the roster, and teams were not sure who would become impact performers.
After a long postseason run in 2011, the Bulls have indirectly provided excess film and game tape for future opponents. With just three major departures from the successful run a season ago, the Bulls will have to work harder to gain an advantage and surprise opponents, as a majority of their players have retained their position from the previous year.
Along with the obvious struggles, in looking to replace the production of Dwyers 14 goals last season and the defensive leadership of Perry and Blais, the team will also have to deal with the pressure of high expectations and high rankings.
The same recipe has doomed teams across the sports landscape.
In 2010, the highly touted Florida Gators, looked to win a second consecutive national championship, this time as the top-ranked team in the country on and the absence of athletic receiver Percy Harvin. After struggling to beat overmatched opponents all season, the Gators unraveled in a blowout loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship game.
There were the NBAs Los Angeles Lakers in 2011. After three straight NBA Finals appearances and two straight championships, the Lakers entered the 2011
season following the loss of versatile forward Lamar Odom to trade. Despite being the favorites for a majority of the season, the Lakers were swept out of the
playoffs by the Dallas Mavericks.
With three key losses on offense and defense, and an increased pressure thanks to more national attention, the USF mens soccer team is at a key fork in the road of its 2012 season, which will test if it can live up to the hype.
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Monday, November 30
Tonight is your last chance to savor chef Daniel Giusti’s special three-course menu ($40 per person) at 1789. Each course features roasted chestnuts from Toigo Orchards in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Reservations can be made by calling 202-965-1789.
Tuesday, December 1
For the second year, Johnnie Walker is opening a Blue Label Engraving Studio in Union Station, where gift givers can create free engraved messages on the front of their Blue Label bottles with each purchase ($225). It debuts today and will be open through the Christmas season.
Wednesday, December 2
Join Michael Franz, editor of WineReviewOnline.com as he guides your palate through an “ABC’s of Wine” class. Sponsored by the Washington Wine Academy, the class will teach the basics about wine production. Each tasting presentation includes a detailed explanation of which foods should be paired with the wines. The class, $48.50 per person, runs from 7:30 to 9:30 at 1201 South Eads Street, Suite 400, in Crystal City. For reservations and more information, call 703-971-1525.
Thursday, December 3
Heather Greene, one of the world’s only female Scotch-whiskey ambassadors, leads a tasting of five vintage malts at BLT Steak. Each offering will be paired with hors d’oeuvres. The tasting, $75 per person, runs from 6 to 8. For reservations, contact Erica Frank at 202-689-8999.
Friday, December 4
You may still be sated from Thanksgiving dinner, but it’s never too early to prepare a New Year’s feast. Sign up for the “Champagne Cooking for New Year’s” class at L’Academie de Cuisine (5021 Wilson La., Bethesda), led by instructor Paul Schneider. The demonstration class takes students through a bubbly-oriented menu of shiitake-and-leek/Champagne-cream soup and seared greens with Champagne sauce, among other offerings. For a full menu and reservations, click here. The class, $65 per person, runs from 7 to 10.
Saturday, December 5
Spend your Saturday raising your elbow and lifting your pinky at Ceiba’s port, sherry, and Madeira tasting from 1 to 3. For $75, spirits enthusiasts can sample ten selections from recent releases and rare vintages and learn each variety’s history and production from the restaurant’s wine-and-beverage director, Scott Clime. A buffet will accompany the tasting. For reservations, contact Jillian Zins at 202-408-0201.
Sunday, December 6
Looking to mix up your weekend market routine? Head to Adams Morgan (or just camp out a few hours past last call) for the Mi Tierra Latino Market at Unity Park (Euclid and Champlain sts., NW). The outdoor emporium, which runs from 9 to 7, features 18 vendors selling foods and crafts from Latin America.
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Artist In Residence Programs
Click here to see a portfolio of past Artist In Residence mural programs.
Tile Mural: You know that vacant wall in your school that everyone from students to your superintendent says “That wall really needs something!”?
Well, you’ve found the perfect something; Symmetry Tile Works has been partaking in Artist in Residence programs in public and private schools for over ten years. The flagship of our A.I.R. programs is our Tile Murals. The entire school or just the graduating class will work together to create a beautiful permanent fixture for the school, to be marveled by everyone who passes by. Tile Murals can be installed both indoor and outdoor making the breadth of possibilities that much larger.
The theme of the mural can be determined by us or we can consult with you and your staff given our spectrum of possibilities to design a breath-taking installation.
Texture Workshop: If your school does not have the resources to conduct a tile mural program, our Texture Workshop might be the perfect fit. Our tile team will bring a mobile printing studio to your school, giving each child the opportunity to explore our printing techniques. We can accommodate the entire school or just one grade level. The workshop can put an emphasis on the student’s current curriculum, be it a focus on sea-life or a lesson in rocks & minerals.
The students will be provided with practice slabs before creating their final piece which will be teleported back to our studio to be dried, glazed and fired, then returned to the school. The piece will become a keepsake of the child’s experiences in your school.
State Funded Grants: Robert Rossel has one of the most robust Artist In Residence programs in the state of New Hampshire. With the ability to provide a range of programs depending on budget, school resources and curriculum your students will have a unique opportunity to work with a professional artist who has been a part of the State Council on the Arts for over eight years. Robert has left life-long impressions with over 30,000 children and teachers in dozens of school across New England.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I apply for a grant?
The best avenue to apply for a grant is by contacting the NH Council on the Arts directly. Visit the grant portion of their website here: http://www.nh.gov/nharts/grants/
Robert Rossel is on the roster for A.I.R. programs at the NH Council on the Arts. There are several other organizations that provide grants for these programs, varying by state.
How far in advance do we need to start planning?
The earlier the better; we recommend getting started the school year before your desired timeframe. This gives all parties ample time to prepare. The grant writing and approval process can be lengthy and planning in advance also gives you a better chance at locking down the best date.
How many classes can Symmetry work with in one day?
We try to stick to the art class schedule to reduce disruption to the school schedule. Generally, we prefer to work with three or four classes a day.
Which age groups or grade levels can Symmetry work with?
Any and all; Kindergarten to High School.
How big of a school is too big?
No school is too large. We have accommodated schools with populations over eight hundred. Larger programs will generally take an additional week for each workshop.
What color palette can Symmetry offer?
For texture programs, to keep the cost and lost work down, we finish every tile in our sandstone finish. This also provides the ability to stack the tiles in the kiln, further reducing cost. For murals, we work in our matte finishes and also utilize recycled glass surfaces for colors. Most commonly, blue and greens.
If we want recycled glass surfaces, rather than matte finishes, what is the cost differential?
For murals, we include glass finishes in the overall cost. For texture programs if you want anything other than sandstone, the price will go up a few dollars per tile. This is because the extra materials and the fact that we have to take much better care in the handling and firing of glass tiles.
How long do the tiles take to print, dry, be glazed and fired?
Most students will print a tile in a matter of minutes.
For Texture Workshops: The tiles can be transported nightly back to our studio for drying if the project is local. If the project is long distance, we transport the printed tiles back to our studio upon conclusion of the printing workshop. Typically, the tiles will need to dry for approximately one week to get to the ‘bone-dry’ state. For glazing, we will bring all the student’s work back to our studio where we can apply the sandstone finish or teachers and volunteers may join us for a “glazing party”. We will fire the tiles over the course of another week to two weeks and return the completed works to the school.
For Tile Murals: When we arrive at the school we will lay the appropriate number of tiles out on tables with the basic outline of the design painted on the tiles with India ink. Each child will be assigned a tile to add texture and do select carving on. The tiles will remain laid out on the tables until every tile is printed. We will then pack the mural up and bring it back to the studio for drying. If you’ve chosen a robust mural program, we will bring the tiles back to the school after drying to allow the students to glaze them in the appropriate finish. Once again, the tiles will be brought back to our studio, where we will glass them prior to firing, or a group of teachers and volunteers may join us at our studio for a ‘glassing party”. Depending upon the size of the project we can fit the mural into our firing schedule over the following few weeks.
About Symmetry Murals
Symmetry Tile Works thrives on its participation in local communities throughout New England. The Symmetry team has created dozens of ceramic tile murals that depict and integrate nature and the community itself. These murals are densely patterned with local flora, fauna and landmarks. The result is nothing short of stunning.
The goal is multifold: to communicate our own naturalist mentality to everyone on a personal level by fossilizing simple subject matter, while encouraging an understanding of both the process and its meaning. We aim to increase appreciation for the basic things that make up our complex lives and to increase understanding of the relationships that exist in all things around us. These murals become a living, breathing embodiment of the local culture & geography that will last for generations, continuing to communicate natural themes and uphold a message of sustainability. In murals, simple parts add up to complex statements and meanings. Our murals are created through the contribution of participants anywhere from 5 to 95 years old. The scene of the mural becomes a narrative transcended through the imprints of its contributors. In the end, the overall goal of every mural project is to send a message that our environment should be cherished, despite the limited time in which we have to enjoy it.
Our basic Mural Pricing Structure is as follows:
$25.00/ 6” tile
Artist Fee: $300.00/Day
Design Fee: $200.00
Lodging: $100/Night (If location is greater than 50 miles distance)
Installation of mural & Materials for indoor mural: $300/ day (takes 2 days to install most indoor murals) plus $120.00- $200.00 material cost.
For outdoor murals, the school is responsible for any substrate work on the walls in which the mural is intended to be mounted upon. It is best to use backer board or cement board for a sound surface for the tiles to be adhered to. This provides a weather proof surface that can get hot in the summers and cold in the winters, without damaging the mural. The Symmetry team will be responsible for gluing the tiles up on the established and secure wall surface that the school designates for the mural. We will be available to consult and advise the contractor and school for the safe future of the mural.
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The two big names that went unsigned this offseason were Kenyon Martin and Chris Andersen, largely due to character issues. The Celtics have been linked to Martin, but appear to have decided that adding another power forward isn't the best strategy (and I agree with this. We need a center). Birdman is a more intriguing player due to his size, though his off the court issues are allegedly much more heinous.
There's hasn't been much news on the Andersen legal front, but let's say he was a victim of extortion as this article opens up the possibility, then the question is does he have enough left in the tank to help a contender. The Miami Heat are interested in finding out.
Via Adrian Wojnarowski
"In its exploration to sign a big man, the Miami Heat will work out ex-Denver Nuggets center Chris Andersen, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. Andersen, famously known as "The Birdman," arrived in Miami on Monday for a physical and workouts over the next two days with the defending NBA champions, sources said.
Heat president Pat Riley has been scouring the landscape to bolster a foundering frontcourt bench and appears to be intrigued with the possibility of discovering how much Andersen, 34, has left in his game.
The Heat released center Josh Harrellson on Monday and now have two open roster spots."
Danny Ainge worked out Andersen during the Summer of 2008, but decided that Patrick O'Bryant was the better choice for the back-up big man void left by the retirement of PJ Brown. Andersen went on to have a few very solid years with Denver, while Patrick O'Bryant went on to continue being Patrick O'Bryant.
We haven't heard ANY talk of the Celtics interest in Andersen, but that doesn't mean they aren't. What are your thoughts on Andersen? Do you think the Celtics should explore signing him?
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Monday, June 7, 2010 at 11:00 PM ET by Scotty Gore
(SoapOperaNetwork.com) — “One Life to Live” Quick Peeks for the Week of June 7, 2010.
ONE LIFE TO LIVE: Quick Peeks
- Monday: (Episode #10701) — Bo and Nora recite their vows; Kelly needs David’s help. (Rated: TVPG)
- Tuesday: (Episode #10702) — Rex and Gigi start anew; Bo and Nora receive a special wedding gift. (Rated: TVPG S)
- Wednesday: (Episode #10703) — Dorian is left all shook up; Charlie tries to comfort Dorian. (Rated: TVPG L)
- Thursday: (Episode #10704) — David has an interesting offer for Viki; Dorian and Charie are caught in a compromising situation. (Rated: TV14 L,V)
- Friday: (Episode #10705) — John decides the fate of Langston and Markko; Viki has a job for David. (Rated: TV14 L)
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Vaidya joined DuPont in 1985 and has served in key technology and commercial marketing and business leadership roles. He has worked in the United States, China, Singapore and India in four different business units and the DuPont Central Research & Development organization. Vaidya earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi and completed the Executive Development Course at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as a chemical engineer."We're delighted to have Rajeev lead Building Innovations. He brings global business and management expertise, underpinned by his deep understanding and passion for science and technology, that will help us drive customer engagement and business growth," said Trerotola.
DuPont Announces Senior Leader Changes: Timothy McCann Named Vice President Of DuPont Integrated Business Management; Rajeev Vaidya Becomes President Of Building Innovations; Balvinder Kalsi Assigned President, South Asia & ASEAN
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Director Larry Charles, 56, may not be as immediately recognizable as his star Sacha Baron Cohen, but the pair have worked together on "The Dictator," "Borat," and "Bruno." Charles has collaborated with legendary comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David on "Seinfeld," David again on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and Paul Reiser in "Mad About You." And then there's his work with just plain legend Bob Dylan in the movie the two co-wrote and Charles directed, "Masked and Anonymous."
Charles chatted with Yahoo! Movies about going to the darker side of comedy with Cohen, humor as an ethnic survival tool and the Jewish comic holy trinity: Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.
Thelma Adams: You've always wanted to go to the more absurd side of comedy. With "Seinfeld," you wrote some of the darkest material like the second season show "The Bet," where Elaine gets a handgun, which was never filmed. Now, working with Cohen, are you satisfying your darker side?
Larry Charles: I've only gotten to the shady side. I haven't gotten to the dark side yet.
TA: What is the farthest you've pushed the envelope?
LC: There were scenes that I feel pushed things the furthest in "Borat" that the audience didn't feel that way about. Then, in the naked fight in "Borat," we knew that was funny, but I remember sitting in the back row of the theater with Sacha at the first screening and when that scene came on people reacted like they were watching a horror movie, hitting each other and screaming — and laughing. That scene defines a lot of what I've done.
TA: What's your partnership with Cohen? What does he bring, and what do you bring?
LC: First of all, there's a brain trust, besides Sacha and me. There were writers collaborating before I came along, and I'm lucky enough to be part of that. They're like Talmudic scholars. Sacha is a brilliant, fiery, incendiary mind, an intense intellect. He has a savant comedy quality that is singular and unique that puts him in the pantheon of great comic geniuses. Those things are very inspiring and I gravitate to the kind of projects and people that inspire me.
TA: "Borat" had the boldest anti-Semitic jokes outside of Iran -- the running of the Jews; Borat believing the cockroaches were spying Jews -- where do those ideas come from? And do we have to footnote that you and Cohen (and Seinfeld and David and Dylan) are Jewish?
LC: When we're dealing with anti-Semitism, and we're playing with satire, it has to be directed very sharply and precisely because the target is our perception of things, rather than the reality of things. For example, the way we imagine the running of the Jews, imagine in that country that has a history of anti-Semitism some crazy ritual like the running of the Jews, or some crazy ideas about life and magic and gypsies and curses and the idea that Jews could turn themselves into an insect. There's an honesty that really connected and resonated with people.
TA: Why is Jewish humor so abundant?
LC: I think humor has been used by all oppressed minority groups as one of the tools of survival and Jews have developed a sharp sense of humor. African Americans and the Irish have used similar dark senses of humor as survival tools.
TA: You worked with Arsenio Hall on his show before you went to "Seinfeld." It seems like "The Dictator" recalls Hall's African-prince-in-America comedy with Eddie Murphy, "Coming to America."
LC: I think we would be remiss as comedic historians if we weren't conscious of the long lineage of stories about doubles, foreign leaders coming to the U.S. These are plot lines that date back long before movies and TV. We were aware of that, and hoped that we could take the next logical step and reinvent it. We tried, like Mark Twain, to reflect this world we live in right now.
TA: I hadn't realized that you directed "Masked and Anonymous" with Bob Dylan. That movie has a great soundtrack, and is total lunacy. What was it like working with Dylan — was he funny?
LC: He's so funny but he has the driest sense of humor. It's very different from Seinfeld or Larry David. When you go back to Bob's lyrics, you notice all the play on words, the playful mind. But it takes a while before you get one of his jokes. Even in this movie, I said, 'Bob, people are going to misunderstand.' And he said, 'what's so wrong about being misunderstood?' He's a true experimenter in that respect, a true innovator. I bring that point of view to everything I do, work and life itself, like Larry David, like Sacha, a unique perspective, sometimes purposely, sometimes inadvertently, but I'm listening very carefully.
TA: When you go old school humor, are you a Marx Brothers fan, or The Three Stooges?
LC: I love The Three Stooges, Abbot and Costello, and the Marx Brothers. My Jewish trinity is Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. They had the biggest impact on me as I was growing up.
TA: What's your favorite Allen movie?
LC: The movie that had the most seminal influence the early funny one was "Bananas." I was just the right age to have my mind blown by that movie. There was something so anarchic, original and fresh. I was exhilarated by it. I saw it ten times. There was a point in my life that I could perform the entire movie.
TA: And what was your favorite Brooks?
LC: Brooks was somebody that I had heard before I knew him with "The 2000-Year-Old Man" and I remember thinking how funny it was. My Mel Brooks moment was "Blazing Saddles." It broke all the rules, was truly subversive, impolite, politically incorrect. There was something extremely cathartic about seeing all those movies.
TA: Growing up in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who was the funniest person in your family?
LC: My father had been a comedian before I was born. He had used the G.I. Bill to go to dramatic school. He was of the Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles era. He was very fast, funny, did great impressions and was on all the time. I was a good audience and I still am. I might enjoy these things more than any one. I love watching Sacha or Larry David do their thing. Lightening is striking. You can feel it on a cellular level.
TA: Did your father have a stage career? What did he do for a living?
LC: He recently retired at the age of 84. He drifted to many things, but he never found anything as satisfying as being on stage.
TA: He must be proud of your show business success.
LC: I think he's had almost unspeakable pride. It's so beyond what my parents imagined. They're old school Brooklyn Jews. It makes them burst with pride, and it frightens them, they can't admit how incredibly happy they are. They're afraid they'll jinx it.
TA: In Yiddish, there's even a word for that superstitious feeling — kenahorah. They don't want to curse their good fortune by mentioning their happiness aloud.
LC: I always remind them that it's temporary anyway — so you can't jinx it.
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Mr. Farley, 45, joins Ford in mid-November. He will be Ford's senior marketing officer and will report to CEO Alan Mulally.
In a statement, Mr. Mulally said Mr. Farley will bring "world-class marketing" to Ford.
First major hire for new CEO
After 13 months on the job, Mr. Mulally is making his first significant outside hire in Mr. Farley. Ford has been looking for a global marketing officer for several months.
"We are thrilled to welcome one of the most successful and talented leaders in the industry to the Ford Motor Co. team," Mr. Mulally said in the statement. "Jim Farley is well-known for innovative marketing strategies that connect great products to today's and tomorrow's customers."
Mr. Farley spent 17 years at Toyota Motor Sales USA, most recently as general manager of Lexus Division. He previously was group VP-marketing for Toyota Division. Mr. Farley also oversaw the launch of Toyota's youth subbrand, Scion.
Mr. Mulally said Mr. Farley will work with Ford's worldwide business units and global product development organization. Mr. Farley will oversee Ford's global communications and public relations operations. He will lead Ford's efforts to connect more closely with customers through integrated marketing, advertising, digital communications, brand development, product planning, research, product communications and public relations.
Mr. Mulally said Mr. Farley will have two priorities.
"The first one being to share the story, the wonderful story of Ford -- the improvement in quality, the global product, the new cars, the crossovers, the SUVs, just to capture the excitement," Mr. Mulally said.
"Another priority equally, is to join [Ford global product development chief] Derrick [Kuzak] and the product development team as a partner to bring marketing and product development together to create the future cars and trucks that people really do want and value."
More changes to come
Ford continues to seek a successor to Cisco Codina, who retired last month as the company's group VP-North American marketing, sales and service.
Mr. Farley said he is eager to get started.
"My connection with Ford goes way back to my first car, a 1966 Ford Mustang," Mr. Farley said in the statement. "I bought it when I was 15, restored it and drove it from California to Michigan. I am excited to make that trip once again."
Mr. Mulally, who has criticized Ford marketing decisions, challenged the company's marketing leaders late last year to do a better job of promoting product in 2007. That resulted in Ford shifting away from the "Bold Moves" campaign launched in 2006 in favor of the "Ford Challenge" promotion it has been using.
Mr. Mulally said he wants to tune up the quality of Ford marketing, but didn't expect to increase the budget.
"We have a good investment today," he said. "I don't see that changing too much."
Toyota's revolving door
Mr. Farley's exit from Toyota is the latest of several high-profile departures of U.S. executives from the Japanese automaker in the past few months.
Last month, Jim Press left as president of Toyota Motor North America to become co-president and vice chairman of Chrysler. Mr. Press had been Toyota's top-ranking North American executive.
In August, Deborah Wahl Meyer defected from Toyota, where she had been marketing VP, Lexus Division, to become Chrysler's chief marketing officer.
Jim Lentz, executive VP of Toyota Motor Sales USA, said Mr. Farley's hiring by Ford "shows how highly the industry prizes the talent, knowledge and experience" of Toyota executives.
"Toyota has an amazingly deep bench, and the new promotions provided an opportunity to reward a number of top performers," Mr. Lentz said.
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Dr. Benjamin G. Ellenbogen is a male Otolaryngologist (taxonomy code 207Y00000X) located in Fremont, California. Dr. Benjamin G. Ellenbogen's NPI Number is #1730267584 and has been listed in the NPI registry for 11 years. Dr. Benjamin G. Ellenbogen's practice location is listed as: 45185 Onondaga Dr Fremont, CA 94539-6739 and can be reached via phone at (510) 659-8182.
The taxonomy code for Dr. Benjamin G. Ellenbogen's main specialty, Otolaryngology, is 207Y00000X. An otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon provides comprehensive medical and surgical care for patients with diseases and disorders that affect the ears, nose, throat, the respiratory and upper alimentary systems and related structures of the head and neck. An otolaryngologist diagnoses and provides medical and/or surgical therapy or prevention of diseases, allergies, neoplasms, deformities, disorders and/or injuries of the ears, nose, sinuses, throat, respiratory and upper alimentary systems, face, jaws and the other head and neck systems. Head and neck oncology, facial plastic and reconstructive surgery and the treatment of disorders of hearing and voice are fundamental areas of expertise.
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The Bug Blog
The purpose of the Bug Blog is to provide information about and a forum for discussing the insects and other arthropods commonly encountered in Marin and Sonoma counties. Insect identification is a free service offered by the Marin/Sonoma Mosquito & Vector Control District. If you have an insect or arthropod that you would like identified, you may mail it to District headquarters (attn: Eric Engh) or drop it off (in an enclosed container) at our front desk during regular office hours. Specimens will be identified as time permits.
The seed bug Metapoplax ditimoides (family: Oxycarenidae) is relatively new to our area. Originally from the Mediterranean, it was first detected on the west coast in Oregon in 1998, and in Sonoma County in 2002.
Metapoplax ditimoides, an unwelcome indoor guest
Although this predatory insect is generally considered to be beneficial, it had an encounter with a Santa Rosa resident that was not beneficial for either party. The insect likely wandered or flew indoors and decided to seek refuge in a bed.
This predator was in the wrong place at the wrong time!
Western Yellowjackets typically form large, hidden colonies in enclosed spaces (especially in abandoned rodent burrows and occasionally in attics).
Western yellowjackets do not seem to understand or care that it is rude to show up uninvited to a picnic
These paper wasps are relatively new to California. They typically construct uncovered, aerial nests (with populations reportedly reaching up to 200 workers), but unlike our native paper wasps, they will also readily nest within cavities.
She might look like a yellowjacket, but she's not
Horse flies are large bloodfeeding insects from the family Tabanidae. Unlike mosquitoes, these flies inflict an immediately painful bite.
Horse flies are famous for their painful bites...
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I made it 10 minutes through Fractale and wanted to fall asleep. I might check up on it later. The only 2 that I'm making sure to catch every episode are Level E because the 1st episode reminded me of Arakawa's humor. The other is Mahou Shoujo Madoka. I've never seen a magical girl, never though I would but it's pretty damn cool. It's fairly dark and I'm surprised I enjoyed it so much after 2 episodes. Definitely my favorite this season.
The only things I definitely want to see in the Spring are Deadman Wonderland and possibly Steins;Gate. And of course the rest of Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail. Hopefully the spring is at least better than these new shows have been.
Yea I'm not really into this season, probably gonna end up dropping a few shows. Madoka has looked good so far, interesting style.
Here's what I'm watching so far this season.
-Madoka Magica (very shaft)
-Kimi ni todoke (sparkles and bubbles)
-Dragon crisis (kinda dumb, but I'll see where it goes) Dropped
-kore wa zombie (came in with low expectations, found it surprisingly funny)
-level E (wasn't real into the first episode, but I think it has potential)
-Hourou Musuko (/a/ got me into the manga a while back)
-Yumekui Merry (meh) Dropped
Never did check out Fractale or Gosick, gotta get caught up with Level E. Not real into this season, Madoka Magica is the only one I'm really interested in.
IMO Naruto peaked after the Haku Zabuza arc but that storyline was so good it hooked me and kept me reading and reading but it only got worse, into the place where we currently are today.
Ive been watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood-i never saw the original series but I read the manga and this show is really really good!
i'm watching fullmetal atm too, first anime i've ever paid attention to. loving it. also, in around ep 50 or so during a fairly heated conversation between hohenheim (sp?) and pride, this popped up. although this fad has died out somewhat, i had to screenshot it.
I'm loving this War arc. We get to see some bad ass characters from the past.
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Midrash refers to the Jewish tradition of text interpretation. The author of the following opinion piece applies the term midrash to describe the way that American Jews have reinterpreted some traditions to fit the American worldview. Reprinted with permission from Sh’ma magazine.
"Contemporary Jews don’t like to be told what to do," wrote Rabbi Melanie Aron after taking a pulpit in California, where she was told that "mandatory" was a word akin to waving red before a bull. Why? Because American Jews, like their countrymen, place a high value on freedom and autonomy.
But Jewish life is based on values like authority, community, and eternity. As a result, American Jews sometimes find their Jewish values at odds with the values of the American society in which they live.
Americans pride themselves on being independent thinkers who recoil at being told what to do or what to believe. How do we reconcile this with Judaism’s central principle of mitzvah–our obligation to live life in service to God according to a defined set of practices?
The Hebrew word mitzvah means "command." There is an identical word in Yiddish (mitzveh) that means "good deed." Most people use these words interchangeably, but they are polar opposites. A good deed is done for another person out of kindness. A commandment is done to serve God out of obligation. The difference is that as Jews, we are obligated even when we’re not feeling kindly or we think we’ve done enough.
From a Jewish perspective, people who take the commandments upon themselves do not sacrifice their personal autonomy. According to the Sayings of the Fathers (6:2), "The only free person is one who is concerned with Torah." True autonomy comes when people can live free of the limitations of human nature by attaching themselves to a "Higher Authority." The Hebrew definition of mitzvah reflects this religious understanding, while the Yiddish one reflects a more secular view. Apparently, this debate has been going on long enough to enter the language.
The discrepancies between our American and Jewish values create a dilemma around which we have tiptoed. One of Judaism’s greatest strengths has been its ability to adapt to its surroundings. In this spirit, we have created an "American Midrash" learning to live with certain contradictions.
An example of American Midrash is our interpretation of Hanukkah and Passover as freedom holidays–reflecting American ideals. The Hanukkah story is actually about the internal Jewish struggle between assimilationists (Hellenists) and zealots (the Maccabees) who wanted to preserve Judaism from the influences of Greek society. But it fits better into our American context to see it as a battle for freedom of religion.
Similarly, the point of the Passover story is not the physical freedom from slavery celebrated at the Red Sea and seder tables in America, but rather the events at Mount Sinai where the Israelites, freed from their Egyptian masters, were able to obey a new and more demanding master–God.
An awareness of this contradiction is beginning to bubble to the surface. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, called for a Reform movement "grounded in autonomy and pluralism and also willing to talk of obligations." He called for observance that is "regular and consistent," and asserted that "our actions need not always begin with our own impulses."
We live in a society where fulfilling our personal needs and desires is seen as our birthright. But as the late Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz wrote in his essay "Commandments," "Every action through which one satisfies his own needs, whether physical or spiritual, is a service to himself and not service to God."
Another contradiction: Except in times of extreme crisis, it is unusual for the American "we" to supersede the self. In Judaism, even our prayers are written in the plural. Herbert Bronstein, writing in Tikkun magazine, says, "Since God’s covenant is with the community of Israel, a communal consciousness… transcends the individual self."
Finally, American society is goal-oriented in nature, while Judaism is not. One can never do mitzvot well enough to stop doing them or reach the pinnacle of holiness and rest. Think of Neilah, the concluding Yom Kippur prayer service– the shofar sounds, all is forgiven, and yet, the very next words speak of atoning for sin. As Jews, we understand observance as our way of tapping into eternity–being part of something more enduring than ourselves.
After 350 years, we continue to struggle with what it means to be Jewish in America.
While we cannot fully resolve the contradictions between our American and Jewish values, we might try acknowledging that the hyphen in American-Jewish is not always an uncomplicated path between our two realities.
Pronounced: KHAH-nuh-kah, also ha-new-KAH, an eight-day festival commemorating the Maccabees’ victory over the Greeks and subsequent rededication of the temple. Falls in the Hebrew month of Kislev, which usually corresponds with December.
Pronounced: MIDD-rash, Origin: Hebrew, the process of interpretation by which the rabbis filled in “gaps” found in the Torah.
Pronounced: MITZ-vuh or meetz-VAH, Origin: Hebrew, commandment, also used to mean good deed.
Pronounced: SAY-der, Origin: Hebrew, literally “order”; usually used to describe the ceremonial meal and telling of the Passover story on the first two nights of Passover. (In Israel, Jews have a seder only on the first night of Passover.)
Pronounced: sho-FAR or SHO-far, Origin: Hebrew, a ram’s horn that is sounded during the month of Elul, on Rosh Hashanah, and on Yom Kippur. It is mentioned numerous times in the Bible, in reference to its ceremonial use in the Temple and to its function as a signal-horn of war.
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Here at Toyota South, we couldn’t contain our excitement when we saw the 2017 Toyota Tacoma roll into our showroom. A favorite amongst our Richmond, KY customers, it is easy to see why this special vehicle attracts so many truck buyers. Generally known for its all-terrain ability and impressive performance, the 2017 Toyota Tacoma continues to offer advanced off-road features, improved performance, and new technology features.
With one glance of the 2017 Toyota Tacoma, you’ll immediately notice the rugged exterior, and if you’re like us, you’ll be picturing where to take it for your next off-road adventure. Available in six models, the Toyota Tacoma is fitted with many features that allow you to tackle the toughest off-road challenges. Available Crawl Control modulates the throttle and brakes on five low-speed settings, so you can keep your focus on navigating across difficult terrain. Other available features include multi-terrain select that helps regulate wheel spin and improves traction, and Hill Start Assist Control which helps you safely get up those hills. The available 3.5-liter V6 direct-injection engine blends efficiency and power, and the available tow package allows the truck to tow up to 6,800 lbs. A look at the truck bed of the Toyota Tacoma, and you’ll see plenty of well-considered features designed to carry the items you want to bring with you. Standard on all models, the innovate deck rail system is equipped with four heavy-duty adjustable tie-down cleats, giving you the strength and adjustability to keep your cargo securely strapped down. Rest easy knowing that the standard locking tailgate handle, and the available locking hard tri-fold tonneau cover, add extra security.
In addition to the off-road and performance features, the 2017 Toyota Tacoma comes equipped with many advanced safety and technology features. Every Toyota Tacoma comes standard with the Star Safety System™ that includes an integration of safety technologies such as the Vehicle Stability Control, Traction Control, Anti-lock Brake System, and Smart Stop Technology. The Tire Pressure Monitor System comes standard and alerts the driver when a tire becomes under-inflated. For extra peace of mind, the innovative construction of Toyota Tacoma’s doors include advanced high-strength steels that create a door that is stiff and incredibly strong. Love capturing your off-road adventures? The Toyota Tacoma comes standard with an integrated GoPro® mount on the windshield so you can relive all of your favorite moments with your friends. The available EnTune™ Audio System keeps you safely connected, while the available Qi-compatible wireless charging keeps your device powered.
Ready to take a Toyota Tacoma on that adventure? Stop by our Berea, KY area Toyota car dealership, and our experienced staff will walk you through the features and set you up on a test drive. Conveniently located at 961 Four Mile Rd., we offer a large selection of new Toyota vehicles and pre-owned Toyota vehicles. We regularly have many Toyota deals and our friendly sales staff looks forward to walking you through our lineup. We hope to see you soon. | <urn:uuid:e60a8b68-8dd8-4460-9e85-535fb459382f> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.toyotasouth.com/2017-toyota-tacoma-at-toyota-south | 2017-05-23T16:59:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607648.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523163634-20170523183634-00447.warc.gz | en | 0.924798 | 636 | [
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Portrayed by: Sean Bean
Dies in: "Baelor" (Season 1, Episode 9)
In the immortal words of Avon Barksdale, the game is the game, and in the presently ubiquitous words of Meek Mill, there are levels to this shit. Ned Stark, respectable protagonist, cool dad, and honorable man as he was, did not adhere to either of those two adages, and his sudden plummet from Hand of the King to Headless Lord is a cautionary lesson for those who think they can operate in the political machinations of Westeros armed with honor and, worse yet, mercy.
If you’re going to come at the Queen, then you best not miss. You certainly don’t warn her that you’ve got dirt on her, and when your advisers tell you to take action at the first opportunity it’s best to listen. Ned Stark thought the law would protect him; the Lannisters only obey the laws as they suit them. But even amidst noble yet foolhardy blunders, spend a full season with a guy, then that’s our hero, no question, right? And the hero can’t lose for long, right?
We, non-readers of A Song of Ice and Fire, that is, spent two whole episodes wondering and waiting to see how Ned would escape the Lannisters. Then Joffrey marched him out for a whole courtyard to see, dangled a lifetime banishment in front of him and...had his head lopped off for treason. In front of both of his daughters. Here endeth the lesson, and there goeth the TV rulebook. | <urn:uuid:abff8601-f755-4b96-88e7-0234fae8d6dd> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/06/most-devastating-deaths-in-tv-history/game-of-thrones | 2017-05-25T16:21:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608107.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525155936-20170525175936-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957682 | 347 | [
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If you ever worked in your family’s vegetable garden as a kid, you probably noticed that most things were green. There might have been a few splashes of yellow, red, and orange among the plants.
Would you ever have imagined purple vegetables on your plate?
Here are a few colorful characters that you may consider for your garden this spring:
1. Purple Tomatoes
The venerable tomato is one of the easiest vegetables to grow. I love to eat them fresh from the vine. Tomato cultivars range from the tiny cherry tomatoes to the whopping beefsteak varieties. Other than the classic red, you have probably seen orange, yellow, green, and striped varieties.
If you want to add a wow factor to your salads and sandwiches, you might try purple tomatoes. The Indigo Rose tomato was introduced in 2012, and has a deep bluish/purple color.
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They grow on vines that get about five feet tall. These purple beauties also make a lovely salsa or marinara.
2. Purple Potatoes
According to Organic Facts, potatoes are full of potassium and other minerals that are beneficial to your whole body. Potatoes are extremely versatile and can lend their starchy goodness as an ingredient or by themselves.
Peruvian natives have enjoyed purple potatoes for generations. These delightful spuds can be found at most farmers markets and give a unique twist to your favorite potato dishes.
Amaze your family with a plate of homemade purple potato chips! Check out this YouTube video and see how easy it is to grow purple potatoes in your garden.
In the purple invasion of the vegetable kingdom, eggplants are probably the most familiar. Their shiny purple skin is full of phytonutrients that fight things like heart disease, high blood pressure, and even cancer, says Care2 Healthy Living. The inside of the eggplant contains a lot of beneficial fiber.
If you enjoy eggplant Parmesan, then you will be surprised with the many other ways it can be dished up for your family table. Eggplants grow on vines and are not difficult to grow in abundance.
You will have enough to share with your friends.
4. Purple Carrots
The first time I saw purple carrots at a farmers market, I was hooked. I gently roasted them in the oven for a spectacular side dish. They have a deeper flavor profile than their orange cousins that is buttery with a hint of nutty. The smaller ones are better, since the larger ones tend to be slightly woody.
If you have any experience in growing carrots, you know that they are not an easy crop to grow. They prefer loose and sandy soil and a lot of care. Purple carrots are worth trying if you are planting carrots this year.
Mother Earth.com has an excellent guide to growing carrots. You will love them fresh or in your favorite recipes.
5. Purple Okra
No Southern cook would think of making a pot of gumbo without okra. It also finds its way on the table fried, pickled, or steamed. While most okra is various shades of green or sometimes a white cultivar, you can really jazz your gumbo up with the purple variety.
Just think of the surprised look on your friends’ faces when you give them a jar of your pickled purple okra. Since purple and other colors of okra love the heat, it grows best in the South.
You may have some luck a little further North during a hot summer. Make sure it has plenty of sunshine and water.
Other than eggplants, beets are a purple vegetable that most people know. After sugarcane, beets are a major source of sugar production. Beets are as beneficial to your mental health as they are for your physical health.
One of the most popular ways that beets are served is pickled. You may be surprised at their sweet nutty goodness when they are baked. Not only are the root parts good to eat, but beet greens add a special nuance to your salads. The crunchy stems are also a culinary delight.
Beets are a cold root crop that you can grow in the spring or fall. If you live in an area that has colder temperatures, you do not have to worry about your beets. They actually thrive in the chilly conditions.
7. Purple Cauliflower
You may have enjoyed raw white cauliflower in veggie dips, or steamed as a side dish. Cauliflower is a relative of broccoli, and has a fresh, earthy crunch. Unfortunately, many cooks like to boil it, which makes it soggy and causes it lose much of its vitamin content.
Cauliflower is filled with vitamins and minerals that are good for you. For an extra punch, you might try the purple variety. SFGate.com reports that flavonoid compounds known as anthocyanin give the veggie its rich purple hue.
These compounds may help regulate sugar and lipids in your blood. Some studies suggest that crunching on purple cauliflower may decrease your risk of cancer.
Not only is purple cauliflower a healthy veggie for you and your family, but it looks beautiful in your garden. Vegetable Garden Guide.com advises that cauliflower can be a little difficult to grow; however, it will thrive with proper soil preparation, planting, and routine watering. It is worth your time to try it.
Time to Eat Your Purple Veggies
For quite some time, nutritional experts like wholeliving.com have advised us to “eat the rainbow”. The more colorful the food is, the more vitamins and flavonoids they have. It has been said that we feast with our eyes before we taste with our mouths.
Purple veggies join the vibrant reds, greens, and golds in the family vegetable garden. If you are planning a garden this year, why not incorporate some of these colorful gems? Many purple cultivars are heirloom varieties, so they have been successfully grown for generations.
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Glenn Maxham—Sharing Life Stories
Glenn Maxham has spent his life listening to and reporting on people’s life stories. As a radio announcer, reporter, and writer of histories, he knows the importance of stories. Even now he continues to write, working on revising his book The Fires of 1918, in time for the centennial of the Cloquet-Duluth-Moose Lake fires.
Glenn was born in Rockford, Illinois, but early in his life his family moved to Minnesota City, near Winona. He graduated from Winona High School in 1948. He had always wanted to get into radio, and so shortly after graduating he went to a radio announcing school in Minneapolis. He remembers you paid your tuition weekly. The Browns, who ran the school, found Glenn a job even before he graduated. He went to work at a radio station in Houghton, Michigan, where he was a staff announcer doing the news and a general reporter. He loved the Copper Country.
He was drafted during the Korean War and was scheduled to go with a combat unit to the front lines. He was blessed with an opportunity to work as a radio announcer serving in Japan. He remembers his interview with a Navy captain, who ripped the news feed off and said: “read.” Glenn thankfully did well. He was an announcer over all of East Asia for two years and served as a disc jockey to the troops from 8pm to midnight. He would play tunes from the big band era and helped the troops through the sharing of music and stories. He remembers guys telling him how they would listen to the tunes while they were dug in.
In 1953, Glenn returned to the States and was hired by WEBC radio in Duluth. He worked for them for three years and then got hired by Channel 6. This was the beginning of his work in television. He was the news director for four years at Channel 6 and then went to Channel 3 to work as news director, then as an anchor man.
Glenn then created his own production company, Maxham Films. He produced videos on mining and lots of educational pieces for the public schools – history and natural history videos that were used in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan school districts. He also produced a written weekly reader called the Gopher Gazette for Minnesota sixth graders.
Glenn also worked for Channel 8 (PBS), hosting Venture North. He loves hearing the stories of others and sharing them with the world. “Remembering our histories is so important.” One of his favorite interviews was with Albert Wilson, the last survivor of the Civil War. Albert, who died at age 109, had served as a drummer in the Civil War. He lived here in Duluth. Glenn said it felt like shaking hands with history to meet with him. He also had the opportunity to interview John Kennedy when he was campaigning here. That also was a very moving experience.
Glenn says he always looked out for the underdog. His job was to make sure that people’s stories got told. The world is full of interesting people, and Glenn still has much more to learn and write about them.
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I wrote about this a little bit over at Young Conservatives but felt compelled to share it here on SGR as well.
After every presidential election cycle since 1972, top Republican and Democrat campaign staffers have met at Harvard Business School for a brain dump on everything that went on during the presidential race.
Usually, things go smoothly. But since nothing went smoothly during this year’s election cycle why change it up now?
This year’s forum was basically an all out brawl between familiar faces like Kellyanne Conway, Jennifer Palmieri, Robby Mook, David Bossie and others.
The audio is over two hours long but it is worth every second and I highly recommend you check it out if you are a political junkie like me. It provides a fascinating insight into the inner workings of both campaigns and it helps to further reveal an unavoidable reality of the race.
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When it comes to male revues Australia is punching well above its weight.
The boys from the world’s number one male revue, Manpower Australia, will be heading back home for their sexiest tour yet.
Along with their 13 sold out shows each week at the Excalibur Casino in Las Vegas, Manpower Australia – also known as Australia’s Thunder from Down Under – have been touring around the globe including recent shows in Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, the USA and The Netherlands.
For over 20 years the group has been getting millions of audience members all hot and bothered with their two hour, fully choreographed shows.
Manpower Australia currently runs a full-time show in Las Vegas, along with two full-time touring troupes adding up to 26 Aussie performers in total.
With more than 45 shows on their Australian tour schedule, there’s plenty of opportunity to see what makes the men from Manpower Australia so irresistible.
Manpower Australia will be heading to the Evan Theatre at Penrith Panthers Leagues Club on Saturday, March 4. Tickets are $37.40. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.penrith.panthers.com.au or call 4720 5555. | <urn:uuid:c0955265-badc-49c6-a0a7-0435912c833c> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://westernweekender.com.au/2017/02/get-hot-and-bothered-at-panthers/ | 2017-05-28T00:54:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463609404.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528004908-20170528024908-00350.warc.gz | en | 0.930055 | 261 | [
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Whether you agree or not, smoking is bad for you and there are no excuses to it.
Did you know that cigarette smoking causes 87 per cent of lung cancer DEATHS? 5.1 million people lose their lives to smoking due to active smoking.
Smoking also causes other health disorders such as coronary heart diseases and respiratory problems.
Well, so much is written and talked about every day against smoking. Since ages, we have heard and read stories about people losing their lives because of smoking.
Even you might have seen a loved one falling into the traps of smoking.
The truth is that smokers know everything about the demon named smoking, its perils on themselves and others. Yet there's something that's always pulling them back.
However, many people are able to quit smoking due to a proper counselling or finally falling prey to some health disorder or due to love and concern of their loved ones.
Making up your mind to quit smoking is a challenge in itself.
So, once you are definite to throw back that pack of cigarettes, you need to avoid somethings or make some small changes in your lifestyle to stick to your resolution.
Through this article, we are sharing some of the life hacks that will help you to concentrate on your resolution of quitting smoking. Read on to know more.
Quit The Company Of Smokers
You have probably heard of the saying 'birds of a feather flock together', right?
However, if you are trying to quit smoking, it is time to fly solo then. When you smoke, unfortunately, you form a gang of smokers.
Make a cardinal rule of staying away from your smoking gang when you are trying to quit that butt.
Stop Saying Yes, Learn To Say No
Say 'No' to temptations.
Whenever there's an urge to smoke divert yourself into something else.
Keep delaying the urge before popping a cigarette.
Say 'no' to anyone who offers you a cigarette, no matter if it's only for a puff. 'No' means 'no'.
Alcohol is a big obstruction while quitting smoking.
You have one shot of it and the urge of smoking starts to kick in.
Sipping alcohol while taking a puff is a habit that go hand in hand.
So, it is best to stay away from alcohol, when trying to quit smoking.
Cut On The Red Meat
Excessive consumption of red meat puts you at risk of having cancer.
In people who smoke, red meat elevates the chances of the already existing dangers of cancer.
So, it is advisable to cut on your consumption of red meat when you quit smoking.
Stop Consuming Aerated Drinks And Caffeine
Aerated drinks make you age faster.
Excessive consumption of caffeine can lead to bone density loss.
Smoking cigarettes on top of these will only make you age at a faster rate.
Avoid Oily And Greasy Food That Makes You Gain Weight
Since you are trying to quit smoking, make changes in your eating habits too.
You might have to cut down on a lot of favourites as well and your metabolism slows down.
So, it's advised to cut down on oily, greasy food till your metabolism comes back to its normal pace to avoid weight gain.
Stop Carrying Cigarette
Yes, this is one condition when you have to cross your heart while trying to quit smoking.
Swear by your heart to stop buying cigarettes and stop carrying cigarettes.
Stay away from anything that reminds you or urges you to pull a puff.
Don't Take Cigarette Breaks
Stop taking cigarette breaks at workplace; if you take one, play solitaire or gossip instead.
Keep yourself involved and kill the urge to smoke.
Quit Negative Thoughts
Slash all the negative thoughts that are pulling you back while quiting smoking.
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So anyways, turns out Mel du C of Spice Girly fame quite often got the hump with Frightening Spice, she of manly proportions and currently carrying the spawn of someone who’s so totally denying it.
Mel C will sensationally reveal via a televisual broadcast this very eve (ITV’s Orange Playlist), that she came to blows with t’other Mel.
‘We were drunk in LA and it got a bit pushy-shovey. Geri tried to split us up and got a punch.
‘God knows what it was about. Mel was probably being a bitch.’
Oh but there’s more. Mel ‘The Mersey’ Chisolm reckons her fair to slightly shit record sales are ’cause of the other Spicies, by which she means Geri Halliwell and that scary one.
‘Geri released an album, which didn’t do well at all, as did Mel B. And so you just get tarred with the same brush and then you become a bit of a failure as well.
‘But I have made the best records. And I’m not joking when I say that.’
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BTW the transcript is also available for those who would prefer to read the interview.
"Knowledge@Wharton: After 17 consecutive interest rate hikes, the Federal Reserve decided on August 8 not to raise the federal funds rate. Joining us to discuss this recent decision is Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the Wharton School. Professor Siegel, thank you so much for joining us here.
After two years, the Federal Reserve Committee has decided, in a 9-to-1 vote, to leave the Federal funds rate unchanged at 5.25%. In your estimation, was that a prudent decision?Siegel: Yes. That was the right decision. After last Friday's employment report showed considerable softness, the market moved to the expectation that the Fed would pause. It's very important in central banking that you meet the expectation of the market. " | <urn:uuid:2578f553-ae80-41af-82f9-566cce115db7> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://financeprofessorblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/interesting-podcast-from-jeremy-siegel.html | 2017-05-29T07:36:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612036.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529072631-20170529092631-00158.warc.gz | en | 0.958177 | 181 | [
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Here's the stack of cards I bought from the other table. Manning this table was the dealer that has all the oddball cards.
The last time I went to this card show I found a whole bunch of box bottoms. I only bought a few and had written then that I wished I had bought them all. Well, he had a few left.
This time I bought them all.
He didn't have as many cards as he usually has, and had only a fraction of the oddball cards that I can usually find at his table. So I was a bit disappointed.
He did have a couple of monster boxes of random cards and I was able to find some that I needed.
Just like the previous table, every card set me back a whopping ten cents.
I picked up nineteen from the 1983 Donruss set...
...and thirty-one from the 1992 Pinnacle set. Yes, I haven't finished it yet and I still have a long way to go.
Three cards from the 1986 Topps Traded set also ended up going home with me.
I'm not sure how this card ended up with me, but I probably need it anyways.
This card I didn't need, but the price was right.
The last cards I'm going to show in this post are five 1991 Topps Cracker Jack Cards.
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|23 aSo that you can blame them, and persecute them, and so forth,
24 Without thinking about it at all.
25 And be certain that if you do all that I have prescribed, you are indeed following my way like nobody's business.
CHAPTER 351 There was another caller who said that he liked Harry's Way,
2 bBut how was one follower of the Way supposed to protect himself against the blame of another follower of the Way,
3 cBecause it seemed like things could get complicated if absolutely everybody was using the Trinity of Harry?
4 And then Harry replied to him without pause, saying,
5 There is no point whatever in thinking about such things,
6 At all.
7 For such as you, who profess to like my Way, but insist on thinking about it, I have formulated Two dCommandments,
8 Which go like this:
9 ePursue your own desires, with all the certainty that comes from not thinking about anything at all. This is the first and great Commandment. And the second is almost as important: Blame your neighbor before he can blame you. On these Two Commandments hang all the lessons of human experience.
10 I also have, in addition to these Commandments, a Tip,
||11 Which I urge you to accept,
12 The Tip being, fThe one who receives the blame of others is the one who is last to point the finger of blame,
13 And the one who is the last to point the finger of blame is invariably the one who has taken the time to think about it.
14 gHe who points the finger of blame without thinking about it at all will get away with everything,
15 Nine times out of ten,
16 hAnd who can give you better odds than that?
CHAPTER 361 But then it happened that the very next caller asked Harry about the itenth time,
2 The time when you didn't get away with everything,
3 And what were you supposed to do then?
4 Whereupon Harry was like lightning in his reply, saying,
5 Then you will perhaps experience a Setback,
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Leveraging its unique ability to bridge from the library to the classroom, Gale is integrating Gale Artemis: Primary Sources into Cengage Learning’s MindTap e-learning platform. The move brings library content directly into a student’s learning path, facilitates collaboration between librarians and faculty, drives usage of library collections and positions the library closer to the engagement taking place in the classroom.
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Academic institutions that use MindTap and Gale library resources, specifically Gale Digital Collections, can now link the two through the MindTap platform. Instructors using MindTap can select specific primary source documents from Gale Artemis: Primary Sources, Gale’s primary sources cross-search interface, and link them directly to syllabi readings, quizzes, research projects, classroom discussions or other activities. This capability saves instructors time and allows them to keep course content current.
Through MindTap, students will be taken into Gale Artemis: Primary Sources at the document level, but will have the ability to perform additional research through the platform alongside their coursework. This integration encourages students to interact with quality research materials that promote critical thinking and help build digital literacy skills. Students benefit from the easy access to materials through a single interface, spending less time searching and more time learning.
MindTap is the digital learning solution that transforms today’s students into critical thinkers through personalized paths of dynamic assignments and applications. By combining readings, multimedia, activities and assessments into a singular learning path, MindTap helps instructors engage students in their course content. Instructors personalize the Learning Path by customizing Cengage Learning resources and adding their own content via apps that integrate into the MindTap framework seamlessly with Learning Management Systems.
Gale Artemis: Primary Sources is an innovative research environment that integrates much of Gale’s vast array of digitized collections of rare historical information. Researchers can search across a wide array of materials and points in time while leveraging twenty-first century graphing and search visualization tools that help them explore the content in new ways.
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I'm not really the shy-type. I mean, being a performer (on stage... singing, acting, dancing), 'shy' is the last thing you'd think of me as. But truth be told, I sometimes do curl up into my fetal position for comfort and protection when treading uncharted territory. That's when being introduced to new things I've never tried before. But hey, it only lasts for an hour or so. After being exposed, I'll own the damn thing! So just be careful exposing yourself to me too much. =P
As much as I'm an approachable person, it's usually me taking the lead in doing the approach. I just need to get a hint that you're approachable and I'll take care of the rest. If you're good and sensible, then we'll definitely go a long way. . .
I've come to know myself as someone driven by motivations centered on Friendships, Partnership, and Companionship. I work best as a part of a cooperative team. Solo flight isn't my game! I could lead AND I could follow. What's important to me is the contribution I can offer and the value I can add to the team. I want to work hard to create a harmonious environment with sensitive and genial people. I make things go right for me, with some divine intervention on the side. But seriously, I do get things done, and I get them done fast with qualities exceeding expectations.
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Now... if I'm seeing the serving suggestion correctly, those pinkish cubes are the meat, correct? I see that they're packed in water, but shaking the carton they sound like they're absorbed with water. Again to my surprise, though upon opening the innovative packaging I found that there were a couple dozen neatly stacked cubes of 'tuna snacks' floating around in the oil/water mixture.
In the above picture you can barely make out the shape of the fish-meat building blocks, but they're in there. At the advice of the container, and my own common sense (and fear for my well-being), I drained these cubic delights in a colander and then put a few on a plate for culinary enjoyment.
With them uncovered from their broth substance I began to think I was looking at the fish equivalent of Spam, but it turns out again I was wrong. The texture is still quite what you would expect from any common variety of canned tuna. This surprised me as the number one ingredient on the list is 'TUNA PASTE' OMG! NOT FISH PASTE!!!1111 Despite the waterlogged mouth feel, they still had a bit of a normal canned tuna texture and were actually quite tasty, as far as seventy-five cent cartons of tuna snacks go. | <urn:uuid:015f5cb9-088d-44f7-a1cd-a564dd55c7a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://barnabydingo.blogspot.com/2010/09/tuna-snacks.html | 2017-05-23T20:42:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607702.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523202350-20170523222350-00169.warc.gz | en | 0.980133 | 268 | [
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The Great War and the Iraq War
As has oft been noted, pop charts the national mood much the same way an analysand's chatter inevitably betrays his or her buried fears and desires.
So I wonder - what should we make of our new love affair with World War I?
Right now on TV the big news is Downton Abbey, the best soap opera on the tube in years (I admit I'm a fan), and meanwhile, in the multiplexes, Steven Spielberg's War Horse is cantering across the big screen - even as its far-superior stage incarnation is still packing them in on Broadway.
Just a coincidence? I'm not so sure, because I'm one of those who believe in the pop subconscious. For the past few years, for instance, pop has been all but screaming at the top of its lungs, "WE'RE TORTURERS! AND WE LOVE IT!" even as in our political debates we either denied or elided this fact (or slowly, but defiantly, admitted it). Indeed, perhaps partly due to all those official denials, pop torture spiraled into a whole labyrinth of fetishes and sub-specialties. There was the psycho who literally tore people apart for their own good (Saw). There was the serial killer who only tortured other serial killers (Dexter). There was the torturer who re-wrote history! (Inglorious Basterds.) The torturers who did it for sport (Hostel). And the torturer who saved the world in 24 hours! Etc., etc., etc.
There was just never the American who tortured the innocent man.
(And so deserved to be tortured himself?)
But be that as it may, you can almost feel the cultural ground shifting beneath our feet a bit at the present moment. Corpse and torture porn, and the vengefulness they fed, feel tired; you can almost hear the zeitgeist rattling its chains - and of course we've just left Iraq, which immediately began to totter. So perhaps it's no surprise that the great waste of the Great War is suddenly on the Broadway stage, as well as screens both large and small.
But are we really admitting to ourselves, in a back-handed way, that our Middle East adventures have been just as tragic a mistake as World War I? Well - it's possible, I suppose. Certainly that's what Downton Abbey is hinting at right now - the start of its second season revolved around the ironies and injustices of the draft in Britain in 1916. Indeed, sometimes screenwriter Julian Fellowes seemed to be pushing parallels to the present day a little too explicitly - just as wealthy Americans balanced the Iraq War on the backs of the lower classes, who had few other options than to enlist, so in the Great War the aristocrats ensconced in the safety of country houses schemed and pressured the local officials for military exemptions for their servants and favorites. Actual war always throws class war into high relief, if you have your eyes open. And as for the rest of it (overextended empires, corrupt diplomacy, collapsing economies) - doesn't it all sound too familiar?
This kind of piquant comment is refreshing to see, of course - even if it's far too little, and far too late. And of course it's British comment, not American. Which reminded me of something else that's sad about American pop - we never allow ourselves any serious contemplation of class differences on TV (and thus perhaps we crave them in representations of the past!). A series like Downton Abbey would be unthinkable in America, even on cable - and even though a very close parallel would be possible in, say, a Manhattan co-op. There's a doorman there, after all, and of course a janitor, and many maids and nannies and au pairs tending the privileged few who reside within its walls. You could do an American Upstairs, Downstairs in the Hamptons, or on Beacon Hill, or in Kennebunkport or any number of other American enclaves.
And yet it never occurs to us to produce such a show. We don't even really allow ourselves to ponder it. Part of the reason, of course, is that in America, the class structure is complicated by race. Another part of that reason is our insistent self-delusion that we're not a class-bound society at all (when recent social studies have shown that actually, we're more class-bound than the rest of the developed world). It also goes without saying, of course, that anyone who is a conscious social climber in America is violating our most sacred pop trope - that one about "authenticity" - and so cannot serve as a hero or heroine. And then there's our weird modern neurosis about money in general. In most of the great Victorian novels, money is the motor of the plot; read a little Trollope, in fact, and you get a great sense of the practical economics of his age. But in America - and really in modern culture in general, high and low - money is generally either demonized or ignored. And you could certainly never figure out how an American household runs economically from reading a modern novel! Can you think of a successful popular novel or movie in the last generation that has been driven by economic concerns, as half of Dickens and all of Trollope and much of Eliot is? If you can, email me!
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CROSSING THE BRIDGES
The MacKay and Macdonald bridges are tolled bridges. There are toll plazas on the Dartmouth side of each bridge. Users pay for the bridge going in both directions. There are five toll lanes in each direction on the Macdonald and seven toll lanes in each direction on the MacKay.
The two bridges are among the safest and best maintained infrastructures in Nova Scotia. When a collision, even a minor one, takes place on one of the bridges, the impact is not minor. The vast majority of collisions are completely preventable and most often caused by driver distraction. The impact of even a minor collision on the bridges has a major impact on traffic congestion.
The HHB bridge patrol officers are special constables and with that have the authority to issue tickets for speeding, texting and other infractions.
- Macdonald Bridge: 50km/h
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Safety Measures Include
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The toll you pay to cross the Macdonald or MacKay Bridge is based on the number of axles on your vehicle. Most passenger vehicles and light trucks pay $0.80 if using a MACPASS and $1.00 if paying with cash. The cash lanes accept quarters, $1 coins and $2 coins. The coin baskets will not accept dimes, nickels or pennies. The sidewalk and bicycle lane are free of charge to use. Please click here to see toll rates >
MACPASS is the electronic tolling system of Halifax Harbour Bridges (HHB). Approximately 85 per cent of bridge crossings during the peak travel times of the day are made using MACPASS. MACPASS allows users to pass through the toll lanes of the Angus L. Macdonald and A. Murray MacKay bridges without stopping and at a less expensive rate than using cash, making it the best way to cross the harbour. View MACPASS details >
HHB supports and promotes active transportation. There is a dedicated sidewalk on the south side of the Macdonald Bridge and a dedicated bike lane on the north side the Macdonald Bridge. Both lanes are open 24 hours/ 7 days a week and there is no toll to use them. Find out more >
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|History of the
The Downtown United Presbyterian Church was formed in January, 1974 from three historic churches, First, Brick and Central Presbyterian Churches. In 1815, Hannah Scrantom and Julia Wheelock started religious services in Rochesterville. In 1817, the First Presbyterian Church occupied a small, wood-framed building on what is now State St. In 1823, they inhabited a stone structure on S. Fitzhugh and then an edifice on S. Plymouth Ave in 1871. In 1825, a group left First Church to form the Second Presbyterian Church occupying the former First Church building on State. St. By 1828, they had built a Brick Church on N. Fitzhugh. In 1860 they built a new sanctuary on the same site which was rebuilt in 1904, and is our present building. In 1836, a group left First Church to form the Bethel Presbyterian Church on Washington St. They then built a new building on N. Plymouth in 1858 and named it Central Church. The large sanctuary/auditorium was completed in 1891.
Other churches grew out of these three churches: Brighton (1817), Third (1827), Westminster (1868), North (1884). Members also helped in the formation of John Knox, John Calvin and Christ Clarion, among others.
These three churches, along with individual members enriched the community and the world. In 1822, a meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Everard Peck of First Church for the purpose of founding the Rochester Female Society. It established a Charity School, helped establish the Monroe County Penitentiary and what is now Rochester General Hospital. In 1826, the Franklin Institute was founded under the leadership of Dr. Penney, First Church minister. We know it today as RIT. The year 1910 found the opening of the Brick Church Institute Building, a predecessor to the YMCA with accomodations for 80 men and recreational facilities. One of the first radio broadcasts of a worship service occurred in 1930 from Central Church. In 1958, Central Church's Rev. Dane R. Gordon initiated its Religious Arts Festival, which gained national stature over its 13 years. The following year, Brick Church started a weekly, half hour children's television program called Katie's House.
The Downtown Church has been in the forefront of many justice movements. In September, 1970, the local Selective Service offices, as well as other federal offices, were ransacked by a group of students opposed to the war in Vietnam. Central Church allowed the students space to meet in during the trial. The Downtown Church declared itself a "More Light" congregation in 1979 standing firmly with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) community. During 1984-6, the Gomez family, which had fled El Salvador seeking "sanctuary" in the US, was housed in the Institute Building. In 1993, the Session of the DUPC authorized the formation of "That All May Freely Serve" and the designation of the Rev. Dr. Jane Adams Spahr as an evangelist to help bring inclusivity in the Presbyterian Church, USA with regard to sexual orientation.
Today, the First Church building is now the home of the Central Church of Christ, an African-American congregation. The Central complex is the home of the Hochstein School of Music. The Brick Church complex became the home of the Downtown Presbyterian Church. In 2003, Downtown Church agreed to share the complex with the Spiritus Christi Church. Upper floor areas in the Institute Building are occupied by such groups as the ACLU, the Judicial Process Commission, Politics for Food, the Gay Men's Chorus, "That All May Freely Serve" and the Hochstein School of Music.
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"It looks like a doughnut, but it's really a cake. And... that's our entire pitch."
"Is that a..?"
"Self-regenerating cake, since you were eating some when I pulled you over, yet there's not a single cut marring its surface?"
Anyway, America has moved on to giant cupcake pans. Besides, if you really wanted an uber-American donut-cake, you'd just use two bundt cake pans, which gets you twice the cake.
Rodents of Unusual Size
They actually have hundreds of products which are totally normal or just plain fun. The giant _______ are WORTH submitting.
I dub them hipsteriffic.
|The Townleybomb |
That really doesn't look much like a giant donut-- donuts don't have big ridges around their edges. Still, +1 because with a little creativity, you could probably make a giant hamburger cake with this. And make it out ot MEAT.
Irritating ironic 20-somethings are now ruining my fucking infomericals?
This commercial is INCREDIBLY insulting to cops and mildly insulting to its target audience.
That's not a donut until it's fried and dipped in glaze.
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Adam Keller talks about the demolition orders in Al Aqaba compared with much talked-about demolition orders in Israeli settlement of Ulpana….
“This week, I again got an emergency call from the village of Al Aqaba. An Israeli military force once again came to the village, and delivered five new demolition orders. Five more houses under a sentence of demolition are a very serious matter in a tiny village of a bit more than three hundred inhabitants, living in a few dozen houses on a bit of land in the north-east corner of the West Bank.
Haj Sami Sadek, the Mayor of Aqaba, is particularly concerned about the Jaber Family, which has ten children. They had lived for twelve years in their home and have nowhere else to go.
There had been this week very much media attention for five other houses in a very different part of the West Bank – the five houses evacuated by settlers at the Ulpana Hill in the settlement of Beit El. The five houses in Aqaba never got any mention.” | <urn:uuid:6eb3b9e7-aefb-44d8-90e7-748134cac332> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://alaqabaguesthouse.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/adam-keller-article/ | 2017-05-28T04:59:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463609598.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528043426-20170528063426-00326.warc.gz | en | 0.978393 | 219 | [
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A resident of the South Padre Island neighborhood of Laguna Vista has won $10,000, by winning the annual HEB Slim Down Showdown, kind of the Texas version of 'The Biggest Loser,' 1200 WOAI news reports.
Marie Pechachek, who is a teacher, lost 53 pounds and dropped four dress sizes in 14 weeks.
"I feel like I won the moment I stepped on the scale for my final weigh in," Pechachek said. "The money is great of course, but it's about feeling good for life."
The Showdown is an attempt by HEB to get customers fired up about healthy eating and improving their lifestyles.
"Every year, HEB does more to create a positive impact on the health of all Texans," HEB president Craig Boyan said. "We know this year's Slim Down Showdown contestants will be terrific ambassadors for health in their communities, and we are extremely proud of everyone who took the initiative to follow along from home and make positive changes in their lifestyle."
The HEB employee who won the 'Partner' portion of the competition is Ashley Trimble, Assistant Store Director at an HEB in Belton, who lost 59 pounds. She also wins $10,000
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DEAL-A-DAY SITES ACTIVE IN INDIA
It wasn’t our first choice of schools, but we had a Groupon for it, so what the hell.
Deal-a-Day Sites Active in India
Bindaas Bargain (http://www.bindaasbargain.com/)
Snapdeal (http://www.snapdeal.com) Grabbon, a Bangalore-based buy site, was recently bought by Snapdeal.
Koovs.com – seems focused largely on Delhi and Bangalore. Focus on Electronics.
SoSasta/Groupon India (http://www.sosasta.com/startup.php) Groupon recently acquired Indian site SoSasta, and now apparently operates it.
CityOffers.in (http://www.cityoffers.in/) – limited to Ahmedebad area
Foodome (http://www.foodome.in/) – based out of Chennai. Focus on restaurant deals and home food delivery
Groupon.in (http://www.groupon.in/cities/bangalore) – They started as “Groupoff” and claim to have acquired Groupon trademark in India
Scoopstr.com (http://scoopstr.com/) – based in Bangalore. Presence in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore
Robberyonline.com (http://robberyonline.com/home.php?city=Delhi-NCR) – Active in Delhi, Chandigarh and Jaipur.
Urbangain.com (http://www.urbangain.com/) – Active in Kolkatta only.
Voucherwow.in (www.voucherwow.in) – Mumbai only
Couponsonmobile.com (http://mumbai.couponsonmobile.com/)- Based out of Mumbai. Local deals available for this city only.
Vamoose.in (http://www.vamoose.in/national) – focus on travel and holiday deals
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Arnold pic sells to U.K., Germany, France
LONDON — HanWay Films has struck multiple sales on Andrea Arnold’s “Wuthering Heights,” which shoots mid-May in Yorkshire, Northern England.
Major territory deals include Artificial Eye and Film 4 for the U.K., Diaphana for France and Prokino for Germany.
Other European territories include Spain (Alta), Portugal (Lusomundo), Switzerland (Frenetic), Benelux (Cineart), Greece/Romania (Odeon), Czech Republic (Intersonic), Poland (Gutek), the former Yugoslavia (Tuck), Russia (Maywin) and Iceland (Myndform).
In Asia, the pic went to Hong Kong/Singapore (Golden Scene), Turkey (Horizon), Middle East (Front Row) and Korea (Thomas Entertainment).
The pic was also sold to Latin America (Swen), Australia (Transmission) and South Africa (Ster Kinekor).
“Wuthering Heights” is an Ecosse Films and Film Four Production. Kevin Loader produces with Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae. Pic was adapted by Olivia Hetreed. | <urn:uuid:ecd552d4-e053-499d-94df-6ac861ac1e9a> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://variety.com/2010/biz/news/hanway-sends-wuthering-global-1118015921/ | 2017-05-29T11:35:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612283.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529111205-20170529131205-00134.warc.gz | en | 0.904603 | 253 | [
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One of the people charged in a drug bust on Regina's Vintage Vinyl drug bust is no longer facing charges.
Janelle Baumet, 24, was charged with possession of marijuana, but the charges have been dropped.
Baumet's father, mother, brother and a store manager still have charges before the courts.
Police raided the Baumet's home, the record store and another building in March.
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Handball Goal Angers Aidy
Colchester United boss Aidy Boothroyd vented his frustration after Saturday's 1-1 draw against lowly Wycombe Wanderers - following Gareth Ainsworth's wrongly-allowed stoppage time goal!
The U's led 1-0, thanks to a cooly taken second-half strike from free transfer signing Ian Henderson; a goal that had looked to have earned the U's all three points. However, three minutes into stoppage time, veteran Ainsworth diverted a Wanderer's cross into the back of the net, beyond Ben Williams, clearly with the use of his hand. And although a vast majority of the 5,593 inside the WHCS could prominently see the handball involved, the officiating team failed to spot the controversial touch.
Post-match, Boothroyd admitted it was a hard pill to swallow: 'It's a bad decision. When you are in a promotion run-in you have to rely on referees and linesmen to get things correct.'
'It's a blatantly incorrect decision. He has handballed it, you cannot have a go at him - he's going to do whatever he can to win,' the U's boss continued.
With just eight games left to relight a promotion charge, the U's manager admitted that his side have got to 'take it on the chin.'
Boothroyd concluded: 'It's one of those awful decisions that in the end could cost us.'
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VITAL COLCHESTER; YOUR VOICE, YOUR CHOICE!
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"Patent law is the quintessential legal institution that seeks to give people property rights on information, and its expansion has made it an enormously interesting area of legal practice," says Professor Harold Edgar '67, who has been teaching at Columbia Law School since 1968. Like his colleagues, Professor Edgar is not an ivory-tower academic. Among the roles he fills outside the Law School is chairmanship of The Hastings Center, a research institute whose focus is health care and biotechnology.
Professor Jane Ginsburg is a staunch defender of the rights of artistic and literary creators. Her work takes her from Columbia's classrooms, where she's taught since 1985, to conferences and other campuses throughout the world. While much has changed in the study of IP law, a few principles remain the same, says Professor Ginsburg. "I prepare students by giving them an overall legal training that teaches them to go out and find and evaluate facts. The facts will change, but the underlying analytical ability is what they need to learn."
Professor Michael Heller decided on a teaching career while working as a consultant to the World Bank and teaching a seminar at Yale Law School. "During a given week, I might be negotiating student paper topics in New Haven and a World Bank loan in Budapest," he says. "The contrast was stark and it favored teaching." In addition to property, he counts among his interests takings law, corporate governance, and restitution. The term "tragedy of the anticommons" was originally coined in his 1998 Harvard Law Review article by the same name.
Trained as both a lawyer and an economist, Professor Scott Hemphill adds a critical dimension to the Law School's faculty, which he joined in 2006. Before coming to Columbia as a fellow, he clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. As a clerk, he almost never saw an intellectual property case making it to the docket. That has already changed. He says, "It signals a recognition of the importance of IP in the world we live in."
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Professor Clarisa Long, who has graduate training in biology, worked for a biotech company that was patenting its research. She soon became the liaison between the scientists and patent lawyers, an experience that piqued her interest in the links among the scientific, legal, and regulatory communities. Later, while in law school at Stanford, she wrote and filed patents with the Patent and Trademark Office.
Ronald Mann is a nationally recognized scholar and teacher in the fields of commercial law and electronic commerce. He clerked for Judge Joseph T. Sneed on the 9th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals and for Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. After three years in private practice, he worked for the Justice Department as an assistant for the solicitor general of the United States. He co-authored the first American legal casebook on electronic commerce.
Professor Tom Merrill, whose research interests include administrative law, environmental law, and property theory, came to Columbia from Northwestern Law School. His tenure at Northwestern was marked by a three-year sabbatical during which he served as deputy solicitor general, writing briefs on key abortion and right-to-die cases.
Professor Eben Moglen is a central figure in the free software movement, which seeks to eliminate the proprietary nature of computer code. "In the 21st century, software is becoming a public utility, not a product," says Professor Moglen, founder of the Software Freedom Law Center, who speaks to groups around the country. He strongly disagrees with the premise of the law of copyright based on the idea that important products will not be made without incentives. Instead, he argues that for certain kinds of products, information sharing will produce higher-quality material.
A self-described computer geek, Professor Tim Wu was once a programmer. After law school he clerked for 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Professor Wu sees in copyright the ground rules that help determine which information flourishes in our society. He recognizes that the current rules of copyright are sometimes a poor match for changing technologies. He says, "The questions were and still are, What is the Internet going to become? And what will that mean for our culture and the kind of country we live in, which is defined by how we communicate?" | <urn:uuid:c38b2424-2903-4c6d-a09a-9bacb56f304f> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.law.columbia.edu/intellectual-property/faculty | 2017-05-29T11:27:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612283.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529111205-20170529131205-00134.warc.gz | en | 0.974796 | 914 | [
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It's always been a matter of respecting other runners on the start line. We can't all start at the front and slower runners that do only create bottle necks and delays for others. From the beginning of my running career I've always respected this and re-inforced it with my wife, daughters and wider family as I helped them to start out on their running careers. Of course this does mean we all record our own times as we lose varying amounts of time waiting to get a cross the start line. But no more. With chip timing we can all queue patiently to start because our time will be recorded based on when we actually crossed the line. So if that's the case why do the Running Fraternity persist in reporting results in gun time order. Worse they show both times so now you know that the person who beat you by 30secs in the official results actually lost to you based on the true chip time over the distance. I now see competitive runners in my family no longer convinced about start line etiquette which surely was the whole point of chip timing. So come on Race Organisers and Race Quality Standards setters. Let's have chip times as the reported results. Happy to hear any and all views on this. | <urn:uuid:9b297a0d-3f4e-456f-bfc7-783ca7e76bb7> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://forums.runnersworld.co.uk/discussion/192399 | 2017-05-29T12:02:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612283.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529111205-20170529131205-00134.warc.gz | en | 0.973303 | 247 | [
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Reviews and Reports on over 70 bicycle paths in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area!
Hello, and welcome to Metro Bike Trails Guide. My name is Seamus Flynn. This website contains reviews of most paved bicycle trails in the Minneapolis/St. Paul five-county metro area, as well as good routes that use my favorite trails. Here in the Twin Cities we have a growing, and already huge, number of bike trails. Whether you're out for a spin 'round the lake or a trek 'cross the state, I hope you find this site helpful for locating new places to bike.
Factors that influence my rating system:
Beauty -- I prefer trails that are away from roads and travel through nature.
Maintenance -- Is the trail well-kept? Is the surface cracking or washing away?
Ease of navigation -- Is there signage? Can you follow the trail without your own map?
Traffic -- Trails that are so busy that this presents a potential safety hazard are often docked. Trails that are little-known and nice are often voted up.
Difficulty -- This does not influence my rating system, though I try to mention it if the trail is very difficult. I enjoy hills, but maybe you do not.
5 is the highest rating, and 1 is the lowest.
What is your favorite trail?
It would be unfair to all the trails out there to name a single favorite. The Reservoir Woods Trail features a winning combination of huge, fun hills and lush woods. I also flip for the unspoiled woods and meadows along the Elm Creek Park Trail and the wow-inducing wetlands and woods along the Northern Segment of the Rice Creek North Trail and the Snail Lake Trail.
Do you need a pass to bike on any trails in this area?
Not on any trails in the Twin Cities! On some rural trails, a pass is required -- more detail in those trails' reviews.
What are some of the nicest trails around for beginners?
Rail trails pop to mind, however, some (like the Gateway and Bruce Vento) are very busy and have steep trailside drop-offs that are unfenced. Trails that are in flat wetlands and floodplains are great for beginners (like the Snail Lake Trail and the Lilydale - Harriet Island Trail, both of which have small loops and few road crossings).
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Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken marinated in yogurt and spices
and then served in a tomato cream sauce.
Serve with rice and/or warm pita bread.
Recipe Created by: Robbie
Prep. Time: 2:20
1 cup plain yogurt - low-fat okay
1 Tbls. lemon juice
1 Tbls. minced fresh ginger
4 tsp. salt - divided
4 tsp. ground cumin - divided
2 tsp. ground black pepper
1/2 - 2 tsp. cayenne pepper – to taste
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 - 1 1/2 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breasts - cut into bite-size
1 Tbls. butter
1 clove garlic - minced
1 jalapeno pepper - seeded, minced, optional
2 tsp. paprika
1 Tbls. salt
16 oz. can tomato sauce
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro - optional but recommended
-In a zip-top plastic bag, knead together yogurt, lemon juice, ginger, 2
tsp. salt, 2 tsp. cumin, peppers, and cinnamon. Knead in chicken, seal,
and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
(Follow only one of the two following steps.)
-Thread the marinated chicken onto skewers and discard the marinade.
Lightly oil the grate of a hot grill. Grill chicken, turning once, until
juices run clear, about 5 minutes on each side. Remove meat from skewers,
set aside, cover, and keep warm.
-Drain the marinade from the meat and pour the meat into a lightly greased
skillet or wok over medium-high heat. Fry, stirring often, until juices
run clear, about 6 - 8 minutes. Set aside meat, cover, and keep warm.
-Melt butter in a large skillet or wok over medium heat. Sauté garlic and
jalapeno for 1 minute. Add remaining 2 tsp. salt, 2 tsp. cumin, and
paprika to skillet. Stir in tomato sauce and cream. Simmer over low heat
until sauce thickens, about 20 minutes.
-Add cooked chicken to skillet and simmer for 5 minutes.
-Serve over cooked rice, if desired, and garnish with cilantro.
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Updates to The Polynomias have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Windows: support for any audio format via DirectShow codecs; simply install system wide codecs in the usual way to play any format. Some types of internet streaming audio might also work now depending to the system configuration (OS X version already supports pretty much any format through system codecs)
Key bindings for next and previous song and song restart work correctly now
File chooser directories are remembered independently for different file chooser dialogs
Removed "Merry Christmas" from tutorial level (the Christmas tree remains in the Christmas level)
Moved Christmas themed music down in the default playlist
Updates to The Polynomial have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Fixed in-game help rendering on certain versions of Catalyst driver. With those versions, the in-game help was previously invisible, rendering the game somewhat incomprehensible. Some other objects were also affected. | <urn:uuid:40baf160-9e32-4c41-8ffe-75dd42ee520a> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://store.steampowered.com/news/?feed=all&appids=67000&appgroupname=The+Polynomial+-+Space+of+the+music | 2017-05-23T00:40:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607242.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522230356-20170523010356-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.917924 | 220 | [
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded The City College of New York (CCNY) and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) a $15.9 million grant to implement a unique partnership in cancer research, education, and outreach. The five-year, renewable award is funded by NCI’s U54 program, an initiative created to develop partnerships between minority-serving institutions and NCI-designated cancer centers.
The Partnership for Cancer Research, Training, and Community Outreach will build upon a previous collaboration between the institutions. The grant will help support key research activities that provide a multidisciplinary, but unified approach to several objectives set forth by MSKCC and CCNY.
“We are looking forward to partnering with CCNY to improve cancer research, training, education, and outreach for underserved communities in the New York area,” said Dr. Tim A. Ahles, Director of MSKCC’s Neurocognitive Research Laboratory, and U54 Co-Principal Investigator. “We also want to have these successful approaches to address cancer disparities serve as new models for other minority-serving institutions and NCI-designated cancer centers.”
“By combining our talents and some of our resources, CCNY and Memorial Sloan Kettering will be well equipped to build and nurture programs in areas such as cancer research and community outreach that will help address cancer disparities in underserved minority and economically disadvantaged communities,” said Dr. Karen Hubbard, Professor of Biology at CCNY, and a U54 Co-Principal Investigator.
The Partnership for Cancer Research, Training, and Community Outreach includes four primary objectives:
- Investigators will work to develop translational research programs in cell biology, immunology, and biomedical research. Translational research is a concept in which basic science discoveries are applied in clinical practice and clinical observations are studied in the laboratory.
- MSKCC and CCNY will collaborate with diverse communities to help define and address cancer disparities. The proposed Partnership for Community Outreach Program (PCOP) will provide an infrastructure to work with members of the community to identify and prioritize specific areas for action. Other elements of this effort include at least two large-scale annual outreach events and several smaller, topical activities featuring experts on issues such as healthy eating, smoking cessation, and cancer screening.
- A collaborative effort will be made to recruit and retain students from high school to the post-graduate level, in particular those of minority backgrounds, who are interested in pursuing careers in cancer research. Enhanced education and training opportunities, as well as increased mentorship and support, will be made available.
- The partnership will recruit new faculty members at both institutions. U54 resources will help support appointments in key CCNY divisions. At MSKCC, faculty lines will add to the capacity to conduct community-based intervention research and to the development of the PCOP.
About The City College of New York
For more than 160 years, The City College of New York has provided low-cost, high-quality education for New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. Over 15,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; The School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (SAUDLA); The School of Education; The Grove School of Engineering; and The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. For additional information, visit www.ccny.cuny.edu. | <urn:uuid:b9b0e636-f332-4700-a1c1-6b62e19e88e9> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.mskcc.org/press-releases/nih-awards-15-9-million-ccny-and-msk-create-partnership-address-disparities?glossary=on | 2017-05-22T23:25:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607242.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522230356-20170523010356-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.945561 | 723 | [
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Dothan, AL – Horses are being evacuated from Florida, and they need somewhere to go. Florida horse owners are being told there's no more room in Georgia, so the Alabama Cooperative Extension System has been looking for stables in the state. There is limited space available for horses at the Houston County Farm Center in Dothan; at Fort Rucker; at Troy University's equestrian center in Troy; at Auburn University; at the W-H Kirkpatrick Pavilion in Autaugaville and at the Jon Archer Agricultural Center in Mobile. The state is also asking for help from Alabamians. Residents who have available stable space are being asked to call the Houston County Extension office. | <urn:uuid:16f8e4bb-fbdd-476f-b412-70d54a6ccd94> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://apr.org/post/alabama-will-keep-florida-horses | 2017-05-23T23:02:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607704.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523221821-20170524001821-00530.warc.gz | en | 0.960698 | 141 | [
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That would be great if u could pls and wiring info will help. I think that there may be either some wires missing or connections missing all somewhere under the dash by the fuse box or close to it. I tried to fallow all the wires to the turn signals but I keep running into a plug that doesnt go to anything. Im assuming thats why the turnsignals dnt work I cant find were the plug goes.
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I have never read a Sci-Fi book.
It is true, I have never read a science fiction before, in my life…until I read the book, Radialloy, by J. Grace Pennington. The book changed me. I am now dying to read Pennington’s newer works, in her Firmament series. I never knew it would be possible to write a sci-fi book, with a Christianity twist. She nailed it!
I must be honest…
This book was SOOO addicting!
I mean it! It was so hard for me to put this book down, once I started reading it. I told myself, just read one chapter, and I can read more later. Well, that one chapter turned into two, and those two chapters turned into three, and the next thing I knew, I was reading chapter five! I had to slam the book down and put it away, because I would have kept reading it, and I needed to do something else.
If I would have read the book in consecutive hours, I would have had it finished in one day, but recently, I haven’t had that opportunity. I am an adult now, with adult responsibilities, so I have to be responsible of how I spend my days. (I should probably write that down somewhere, so I can keep reminding myself of that…)
Radialloy, a Christian Sci-Fi for Teens:
I won’t go into too much detail of what the book entails, because then you and your teen wouldn’t find it necessary to read the book, and you need to read it…
The year is 2320, and Andi Loyd’s life is about to be turned upside down. Her adoptive father, a Doctor on board a starship, is starting to mysteriously lose his memory. Everything Andi loved and knew, is about to change completely, when a few strangers aboard the starship begin to stir trouble.
Secrets from Andi’s past come barreling toward her, but with her father’s memory failing and the danger on the starship, she isn’t sure who to trust with her new-found truths…
The adventure never ends as Andi tries to save the lives of her father, keep the ship from falling into enemy hands, and protect her secret from falling into the laps of criminals.
- The story never gets dull. EVER. You will never lose interest, but you might just read the book in one day.
- There is no foul language.
- No questionable actions between girl and boy.
- The story does talk about God and trusting Him in everything, even when we don’t understand what is happening.
- There are more books in the series! (Thank goodness…)
J. Grace Pennington has been telling stories for as long as she can remember, and writing them down since she was about five years of age. She has always loved science fiction because of the opportunities it affords to explore so many different themes and ideas, plus the fact that it’s just plain cool. Pennington currently lives in the beautiful Texas Hill Country with her parents, her eight younger siblings, and her beloved horse Pioneer. When Pennington isn’t writing, she enjoys reading good books, playing soundtracks on the piano, and looking up at the stars.
Other books J. Grace Pennington has written:
Disclaimer: J. Grace Pennington reached out to me a while ago and asked if I would be willing to review her book. I agreed and received a free book for review purposes and a monetary compensation, but these opinions are entirely mine.
Take it from someone who has never read a sci-fi before, is a Christian, and has more of a conservative judgement when it comes to books…this is a definite keeper. Normally, if I saw a book like this I wouldn’t really be as interested, but because I have grown to know, Pennington, on a more personal level, I was more than willing to read it, because I knew the Christian values her and her family respected, and knew I wouldn’t have anything to worry about.
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Dr. Baird does beautiful work! My mom had breast cancer and he did the reconstruction at the same time as her double mastectomy. I attended most of her appointments and took her to her sugeries and I was most pleased with his care for her and the result is just beautiful! I highly recommend Dr. Wilbur Baird!
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As Geoff Edgers over at "The Exhibitionist" reported earlier this week, Linda Norden will be leaving the Fogg after 8 years as curator. She has not stated her future plans.
In a conversation with Charles Giuliano last autumn, Norden spoke about being the first contemporary art curator at The Fogg:
“I took a job in a museum that never had a contemporary curator,” she said. “The position and department of Modern and Contemporary art was founded by the former director, James Cuno, in 1997. Harry Cooper was hired as the modern curator and he in turn wrote the job description for the contemporary position. The point is that I took a post as a curator in a museum that never had one and is renowned for its love of the object that informs what you do with it. So for me there was first the challenge of Harvard and secondly the challenge of bringing insights to the university’s commitment to the level of thinking about objects that is not typical of what is going on in contemporary art. My first exhibition was me wanting to ask what the experience of art is in a period in which the object is not supposed to be what it is about. What is the encounter with the work that is not about the object? I would like to think I am doing shows that I can only do at the Fogg. I don’t think that is what most contemporary curators have as their mission.”
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This has been such a stressful week at work. I've been coming home, having dinner and going to bed at 7 p.m. I see this cycle in my life - never finding balance. It seems like my complaints and issues from five years ago are the exact same complaints I have now.
I so want to be a strong woman of God! I want to do what He has called me to do. I want to live the way the Holy Spirit directs me, and not where my worldly, humanly flesh does. Yet I keep doing exactly what I do not want to do!
Even Paul felt this way. He held such favor with the Lord yet he had feelings of self-annoyance just like I do. Guilt over the choices made. Yearning to do what is right.
Does anyone else feel this way? I am a working mom of three teenagers. Daily I feel like I am failing and I want to be better. Do better. I am laying myself bare because I need to be held accountable.
I am going to work on this over the weekend. I am going to pray and start my journey to becoming a Strong Woman of God. I'm not sure if I am supposed to focus on one area of my life at a time or if I am supposed to take baby steps in all areas. But I am going to listen to Him. | <urn:uuid:fa2b3fc7-dce9-4754-b834-14dca95d8656> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://bygloryalone.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-do-we-become-strong-women-of-god.html | 2017-05-23T01:08:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607245.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523005639-20170523025639-00559.warc.gz | en | 0.982398 | 281 | [
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Join Tandy Beal & Company on Saturday, May 14th, for Step Right Up! our newest ArtSmart concert featuring circus-flavored dance. Step Right Up! stimulates your sense of wonder with delightful illusions, colorful props, fun surprises, acrobatics and rhythmic gymnastics.
Using themes of concentration and imagination, the concert poses questions like: What if something as big as a bathtub weighed less than a feather? What if gravity went sideways? What would the world be like if you were 10 feet tall?
The original music for Step Right Up! is composed by Jon Scoville and celebrates the release of his new CD, Tuba or Not Tuba. The choreography is by Tandy Beal and features Nutz RE-Mixed veterans and Santa Cruz superstars Saki, Mercedes Johnson, Amelia Nommensen and Patrick Scheck.
Step Right Up! moves from the joyful to the joyful! With artful feats of strength and flexibility, rhythmic gymnastics and visual illusions, audiences are brought into the wonder that is all around us. Concentration and attention to detail are what make each circus-flavored dance inspirational and help us see the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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Conveyor belts can have a lot of different looks and directions of use. It is a typical constant torque load with low to high braking torque depending on how heavy it is loaded.
Let’s take a look at the most common motor starting methods and then select the most suitable softstarter for this kind of application:
Conveyor belts often need a starting torque very near or just above the rated torque of the motor. A direct-on-line start with a normal squirrel cage motor gives approx. 1.5 to 2.5 times rated torque of the motor depending on motor size, type etc.
When making a direct-on-line start there is a very high risk of slipping between the belt and the driving role depending on this high starting torque.
Gearboxes and couplings are also exposed to high mechanical stresses. This result is considerable wear and tear and often high maintenance costs. Sometimes fluid couplings are used to reduce the transferred torque.
This method is expensive and requires a lot of maintenance.
This is a starting method that reduces the starting current and starting torque. The device normally consists of three contactors, an overload relay and a timer for setting the time in the star-position (starting position). The motor must be delta connected during a normal run, in order to be able to use this starting method.
Instead we use star-delta motor start.
By using the softstarter, starting torque can be reduced to a minimum value still able to start up the conveyor belt. The setting possibility of the softstarter makes it possible to adjust the torque to exactly the level that is necessary for the start.
When using a softstarter you will receive approx. 3 to 4 times rated motor current during start.
Selection of a suitable softstarter
Normal start //
A start of short and light loaded conveyor belt is a typical normal start. For conveyors with D.O.L starting time less than 5 seconds, select a softstarter according to the rated motor power.
Heavy duty start //
Conveyor belts can in some cases be very long and if the belt is fully loaded during start the starting time can be very long. For such applications select a softstarter designed for heavy duty start. It is also possible to select a softstarter for normal start if the softstarter is chosen one size larger than the rated motor power and use an overload relay class 30.
Recommended basic settings:
- Start ramp: 10 sec.
- Stop ramp: 0 sec.
(If fragile material use 10 seconds)
- Initial voltage: 40 %
Electric Motor Soft Start 60HP
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Think about it — do you really believe that person who says they couldn’t do
something because “something came up?” That they couldn’t do their homework
because the printer broke? Lame…. These lies will work as excuses because no one believes excuses anyway! And to think, if they are outrageous lies, they will become more believable because they are just that inventive!
- “A plane crashed off the coast of Madagascar.”
- “I was stranded on a desert island.”
- “I had an unfortunate run-in with an overhead projector, and now must wear
goggles until my wound heals.”
- “The sun didn’t come up this morning at my house, and I rely on roosters to
Julie’s comments about Spam are fine, but it’s the excuses that made me want to blog this. I’m not sure the two observations really go together, but it’s still blogworthy. I like particularly the goggles and the roosters.
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On Friday, Wisconsin Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled that Governor Scott Kevin Walker's collective bargaining reforms violate both the state and U.S. Constitution. Gov. Walker signed the anti-union bill in to law in March 2011 and took away nearly all collective bargaining rights from most workers. Colorlines.com's Editorial Director Kai Wright [pointed out last year that much of efforts to curtail collective bargaining in Wisconsin were aimed at public workers, who are mostly black. ](http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/who_are_all_these_evil_public_wor...) > But as governors and columnists have painted pictures of overpaid, underworked public employee in recent weeks, I have also seen the faint outline of familiar caricatures--welfare queens, Cadillacs in the projects, Mexican freeloaders. It's hard to escape the fact that, in the states and localities with the biggest budget crunches (New Jersey, California, New York...) public employees are uniquely black. > > That's an anecdotal observation on my part, but Steven Pitts at UC Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education is amid a study of black employment in the public sector. He shared some preliminary data with Colorlines that suggests these jobs are in fact significantly relevant to black America. Pitts' data is thus far national, meaning it includes the public sector in largely white states (in the Plains and New England, for instance). The proposal was introduced shortly after Walker took office in February last year and it was rushed to his desk the following month. [Lindsay Beyerstein reported the details for Colorlines in March 2011:](http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/03/what_now_the_next_stage_in_the_pu...) > In a shocking move, Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate convened in the Capitol on Wednesday night to pass a union-busting bill without a quorum. The bill passed the State Assembly on Thursday afternoon, and Gov. Scott Walker signed it into law this morning. The Democratic state senators have returned from exile. Now, activists are shifting their attention to recall campaigns, court challenges, and even a general strike. [Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie told the AP he is confident the decision will be overturned on appeal.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-strikes-down-wis-law-that-e...) It is unclear whether the law will be suspended immediately. We'll bring you more analysis soon. | <urn:uuid:5c5ad347-0f9b-4138-86d1-306f46c3ef09> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.colorlines.com/articles/wisconsin-judge-strikes-down-gov-walkers-collective-bargaining-law | 2017-05-23T01:17:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607245.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523005639-20170523025639-00559.warc.gz | en | 0.950515 | 521 | [
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The release of Firefight is just three weeks away! My book tour should be announced very soon. And for the next few weeks up until the Firefight release, the first book in the Reckoners trilogy, Steelheart, has its ebook on sale for $2.99 in the US and Canada. (Check the country tabs to the right to see what your local price is.) If you haven’t read it (or Mitosis, the $1.99 ebook novelette that goes between the two books), now is a great chance!
There’s also something cool for Mistborn fans that just started this week. Crafty Games is putting out more Mistborn dice (for use with the Mistborn Adventure Game or any other game with dice). They’re normal 6-sided dice, but since each Mistborn metal symbol has a dot in it, the one-dot side of the die is replaced with a metal symbol. To determine quantities and how many different metal symbols to use, Crafty is running a Kickstarter campaign. Since the campaign went live yesterday it has already funded, but the stretch goals add to the number of symbols included. Right now each set of eight dice has four symbols in it, but each goal adds a symbol until they get up to ten dice with ten symbols—with additional campaign-exclusive dice possible after that if the total goes high enough.
The campaign runs for 39 more days. Check it out here. | <urn:uuid:75f8491d-6dc0-48d3-bf4e-2eaf93505a4d> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://brandonsanderson.com/steelheart-ebook-sale-mistborn-dice-kickstarter/ | 2017-05-23T01:19:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607245.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523005639-20170523025639-00559.warc.gz | en | 0.946165 | 298 | [
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Now @ Scrap-a-Doodle-DooIdea-Ology Light Bulbs 10/Pkg by Tim Holtz
These small glass bulbs feature a metal bas and a realistic filament. They have a hole drilled through the base for easy attachment on altered art, jewelry or display in Configurations.
Crowded Attic paper stash 12 x 12, Word tickets, Rubber Cling stamps, Print Tray Configuration box
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Curry leads Warriors past Rockets for 42nd straight home win
Stephen Curry had 35 points, nine assists and six rebounds and the Golden State Warriors relied on a signature putaway fourth quarter to hold off the Houston Rockets 123-110 on Tuesday night.
Andrew Bogut added 13 points, 11 rebounds, a season-high six blocked shots - three in the fourth - and three steals in one of his best games yet.
Andre Iguodala and Harrison Barnes hit back-to-back 3-pointers to start the fourth to get the defending champions going after the game was tied at 93 after the third.
Golden State won its 42nd straight regular-season home game and is 24-0 at Oracle Arena this season. The Warriors are within two home victories of matching the Chicago Bulls' NBA-record home winning streak of 44 games from March 30, 1995-April 4, 1996.
James Harden overcame a scoreless first quarter to finish with 37 points, five assists and five rebounds in Houston's eighth straight loss to Golden State.
Barnes added 19 points on 8-of-12 shooting and seven rebounds. The Warriors have their longest unbeaten run against the Rockets in the series since also winning eight in a row from Dec. 5, 1972, to Nov. 26, 1974. Golden State went 3-0 versus Houston to sweep the Rockets in consecutive seasons for the first time.
Houston opened the second half on an 8-0 run to go up 74-69 but couldn't capitalize as Curry made a pair of snazzy reverse layups in a span of 1 minute, 25 seconds. Bogut's hook shot at 7:01 gave Golden State the lead again then he immediately drew a charge on the other end.
Curry put on a dribbling clinic on one first-quarter play before breezing past Harden for an easy layin, and made five of his six 3-point tries in the opening period and seven of eight shots - only missing on a long 3 trying to beat the buzzer.
Harden went scoreless until making two free throws at the 7:01 mark of the second quarter, and he missed his initial five shots before a 3 from the top of the arc 6:25 before halftime.
The Rockets lost for the fourth time in six road games.
Interim Houston coach J.B. Bickerstaff had no time to reflect on Houston losing to the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals.
"At this point in time you can't even think about that," he said. "This is by far the best team in the NBA right now."
Then, Golden State made its first four field-goal tries - two apiece by Bogut and Curry - on as many assists to build a 9-2 lead just 2:01 into the game.
Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson received their red Western Conference All-Star jerseys from Golden State general manager Bob Myers in a midcourt ceremony before tipoff. They will play in Sunday's game at Toronto.
Rockets: Golden State's 42 first-quarter points were most allowed by Houston in any period this season. ... Bickerstaff is taking his wife and kids on a getaway for the All-Star break, "to a fun place with lots of sun and beaches," he said. ... After Wednesday's game at Portland and concluding Feb. 25, the Rockets will have played the Trail Blazers in three of six games. ... Houston began a stretch with 11 of 13 games on the road.
Warriors: Golden State played its second and final home game in February - the second straight season with just two February games at Oracle Arena. The champs' next home game is March 1 against Atlanta. ... Bogut went over 1,000 blocks for his career. ... The Warriors swept the Rockets 4-0 last season - all by double figures - for the first time since 1973-74. They have won 11 of 12 overall including the 4-1 series win in last year's Western Conference Finals. ... C Festus Ezeli underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Monday and will be sidelined at least six weeks. He missed his sixth straight game. Marreese Speights had 15 points picking up more playing time.
Rockets: At Portland on Wednesday.
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We will have the audio from our first podcast up shortly, but first some links:
This is merely a public service at this point, because everyone should know that Boner is missing in Vancouver. We will save you that phallic jokes because this is important: a Growing Pains icon is missing in a foreign land. Keep your eyes and ears open, people.
– If you’ve been watching curling as much as I have, you’ve seen this commercial a few times. The Stress Buffalo is forcing me to link to any buffalo-related media. This is not my fault.
– Speaking of Buffalo the place, BuffaloGeek has some thoughts and info on a push to get Google’s new fiber network installed in Buffalo. Take a look and throw your support behind the movement. It’s a good cause we should all get behind.
– Baseball season is just around the corner, and the Bisons just announced their promotional schedule for the summer. I’m hoping to be in the press box again this season, but I wouldn’t mind a replica of the Buffalo Central Terminal.
– This is awesomely random. And in another language.
– You might not have known this, but Portland Pirates just snapped an 11-game winning streak. Who knew, right? Also, that article tells us a lot about the Pirates you may not know. Drew Schiestel shoots first for the Pirates in the shootout! God I can’t wait for that kid to play for the Sabres. It’s going to be so much fun.
– Rodney McKissic of the Buffalo News says that Canisius College men’s basketball head coach Tom Parrotta will return to the team next season. Parrotta has done a pretty decent job with the program in his four years at Canisius, and the Griffs are starting to be competitive in the MAAC once again.
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