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New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist cools off during the second period against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday in Philadelphia. (AP Photo)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) —. Continued...
"You never want to deal with 5-on-3s but you certainly don't want to deal with them for 2 minutes," he said. "Guys did a really good job executing and blocking shots, and we got a couple of big saves when we needed it."
The Flyers were already facing a crucial contest only four games into a 48-game season and a weekend road swing ahead in Florida.
Before the game, general manager Paul Holmgren said Hartnell could be sidelined up to two months, and the team was "looking around" for scoring help. He quickly found it. The Flyers are on the brink of signing veteran forward Mike Knuble.
Knuble will take a physical on Friday and should be available for weekend games at Florida and Tampa Bay. Holmgren said it was 50-50 whether Briere will be available then.
The Flyers clearly had some frustration to take out, and they delivered against the Rangers.
Nicklas Grossmann crushed Marian Gaborik on a clean check into the side boards early in the first period that brought the crowd to life. In the second, Flyers forward Tye McGinn pummeled Kris Newbury. McGinn connected with rights to Newbury's head before the punishment was mercifully stopped.
The Flyers, though, needed more scoring after tallying only three goals in the first three games. They scored twice in the second period.
Grossmann's shot from the point knocked off a couple of Rangers before Simmonds deflected the puck into the net. Simmonds' goal was briefly under review, but the call stood.
Just about every Flyers player touched the puck on a scrum in front of the net. Simmonds and Sean Couturier helped keep the puck alive before Voracek poked it in from the crease for the 2-0 lead.
The Flyers finally had something to show after they came up empty in an 11-shot first period. Lundqvist kept the shutout going early in the second when he snared Braydon Coburn's slapper from the high slot. But two goals were enough, and Bryzgalov had a stout night. Continued....
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Notes: 76ers G Jrue Holiday, wearing a Flyers stocking cap, was at the game. He was chosen as an Eastern Conference All-Star on Thursday and received a warm ovation when he was introduced to the crowd. ... The Rangers' win over Boston on Wednesday night was watched by 956,000 viewers on NBC Sports Network, making it the most-watched NHL regular-season game on any cable station in 11 years. ... Knuble played in 310 games over four seasons with the Flyers. He last played for Washington and played a game this week in the AHL. "I think he's a good guy to throw in our mix right now with our injuries," Holmgren said. ... Flyers D Andrej Meszaros left with a shoulder injury.
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The award comes through the A+ Education Partnership, founded as a non-profit organization. In 2008, at the request of Gov. Bob Riley and State Superintendent Joe Morton, the A+ College Ready division was established with a goal of expanding AP offerings throughout the state. With a National Math and Science grant, donations from corporations and foundations, and funding from the state, more and more schools are able to participate, growing from a dozen pioneer schools the first year to dozens in the state now.
The mission of A+ College Ready is to increase dramatically the number of students in Alabama taking math, science, and English AP courses, earning qualifying scores on AP exams and attending and succeeding in college.
Results have been good, with grown in Alabama’s Math, Science and English Qualifying Scores exceeding the national average.
While programs such as No Child Left Behind have placed priorities on having the entire student population achieve a specified level of minimal requirements, Advanced Placement courses challenge more capable students to reach higher levels.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- There was a time, we must remember, when Shawne Alston was an afterthought in West Virginia's offense.
Make that West Virginia's passing offense.
This time was not this season, when the senior running back was slowed and sidelined for a string of games by a rather rowdy deep thigh bruise before returning with an attitude in last week's win against Iowa State with 130 yards and a touchdown.
Nor was it last season, when he was first limited by an offseason car accident that messed up his neck and then by the emergence of then freshman Dustin Garrison - the same Garrison who tore up his knee in a practice before the Orange Bowl and was ably replaced by Alston and his 77 yards and two scores.
No, it was the spring of 2011, when Dana Holgorsen arrived as the offensive coordinator with the fancy offense that spread the field, passed the ball and put quarterbacks and receivers on All-American and NFL teams.
So what was a running back to do, let alone a 6-foot, 235-pounder who wasn't known to run routes and catch passes, who couldn't fake out defenders in space, who hadn't run away from a cornerback in quite some time?
Alston stayed and starred and will leave a certain legacy on Mountaineer Field Saturday, his last home game and one against lowly Kansas (1-10, 0-9) at 2:30 p.m. on ROOT Sports. Where some may have left and others could have quit, Alston instead stayed and totally changed the way WVU thinks about the running back position in its version of the Air Raid offense.
"He's a guy that we didn't realize what he was until after we used him a little bit," running backs coach Robert Gillespie said. "We didn't know what a guy his size could do in this offense, but he's definitely opened our eyes as a staff to see a bigger guy can definitely help this offense."
In fairness to the coaches, they couldn't have been sure what to think.
Alston was misused by the previous staff as a freshman in 2009, when it was decided he wouldn't redshirt because he could help short-yardage woes that defined the 2008 team.
That turned into six carries and 19 yards in one blowout win at Syracuse.
A season later, he played in one game, a rout of UNLV, in the first eight games of the regular season. He surged in the final four with 214 yards, eight touchdowns and 48 carries before carrying just twice in the team's bowl loss.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Baby boomers, long thought of as a robust, lively lot, are actually in poorer health than their parents' generation.
That's what a recent study found, one authored in part by two doctors with West Virginia University.
It compared the health of baby boomers, that post-war generation born between 1946 and 1964, with the generation that came before them.
"The baby boomers have a reputation for being active, health conscious," said Dana King, the study's lead author and a professor of family medicine at WVU. "But that's not what we felt like we were seeing in our practices, so we embarked on this study."
Researchers mined a pile of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination, a comprehensive survey used to track and assess the health of Americans since 1971.
They focused on individuals aged 46 to 64 at the time they were surveyed, looking at their health status, lifestyle characteristics and chronic disease. It was the first study to compare the generations directly, with an evidence-based approach. The findings, published online Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, were surprising to its authors and many in the field:
Baby boomers have higher levels of hypertension, diabetes and cholesterol than their parents. They're more likely to be disabled. Twice as many baby boomers reported they were in poor health and only 13 percent reported that they were in excellent health, compared to 33 percent of people in the last generation.
The boomers have improved on their parents in some key health indicators: they're less likely to smoke or have emphysema or have suffered a heart attack.
But even though boomers have a longer life expectancy than their parents - no doubt the product of advances in medicine - the study shows that they're not as healthy through their lifetime. Boomers may be expected to live to be 78 (a generation ago life expectancy was around 75) but they're doing it with a lower quality of life.
Twice as many people from the baby boom generation have to use a cane or walker to get around.
King is preaching the virtues of exercise and healthy eating, as well as preventative health care, to ward off ill health as the boomers age.
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1. The Lakers fell to 7-5 at home this season. The only other team in the league with close to 12 homes games so far is Oklahoma City. With 11. And the Thunder have already won nine of those. And probably looking forward to the Lakers' visit there this week. It just doesn't add up any more, does it?
2. Will future UCLA basketball schedules now make the Wooden Classic a designated road game? It has to, if the Bruins ever use it again to throw a cookie at San Diego State. Don't even think of scheduling UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton or Orange Coast College. It'd be a brutal disadvantage. BruinsNation.com isn't even sure if Ben Howland's squad is even on the radar for the CollegeInsider.Com tournament. Let's see - he's got eight scholarship players left on the roster, and four are freshmen. At least we know there's going to be turnover soon.
3. Instead of a victory parade through Carson, the Galaxy plans a victory party at the Home Depot Center's tennis center tonight at 7 p.m. Maybe Tim Leiweke will use the occasion to introduce the newest overseas import - a giant Kaka. Just as long as Robbie Keane is pouring shots.
4. In a strange chain reaction, Northern Illinois is in the Orange Bowl, and Louisiana Tech, after a 9-3 season, isn't going to a bowl game. Not to mention 12-0 Ohio State sliding up to No. 3 in the AP poll with nowhere else to
5. Marvin Miller deserves to be in Baseball's Hall of Fame. And now that he's died, at the age of 95, he won't get the satisfaction of seeing it happen. Five times already he's been turned down, and he could be up for election again in 2014. Meanwhile, what about Scott Boras? Who, him? Benjamin Hoffman of the New York Times makes a case for the superagent as well
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: OTOH, Lincoln was one of the worst when it came to
OTOH, Lincoln was one of the worst when it came to
violation of the Constitutional limits on the presidency, thus setting us up for the Imperial Presidency we have now. He put people in prison with out due process, violated the right of Congress to declare war, virtually eliminated freedom of the press, and started the first 'personal income tax'.
But that man should play the tyrant over God, and find Him a better man than himself, is astonishing drama indeed!~~D. Sayers
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Orange County Championships
HUNTINGTON BEACH — Sophomore outside hitter Ryan Moss helped Corona del Mar to a seventh-place showing in the tournament at Edison High on Saturday.
Moss combined for 24 kills in the two matches CdM, ranked No. 10 in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 poll, played on the final day of the two-day tournament.
CdM swept Edison, 27-25, 25-21, 25-14, to clinch seventh. Joey Martino recorded 10 kills, Kevin Fults six kills and Tommy Casey had seven digs for the Sea Kings.
CdM's Matt Ctvrtlik and Brett Schisler combined for 30 assists against the Chargers.
In the first match, Esperanza beat CdM, 25-19, 25-22, 25-23. Tommy Brooks had seven kills and three blocks, while Ryan Clayton added seven kills and four blocks for the Sea Kings.
CdM (6-6) opens Pacific Coast League play at home against University at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday.
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Corona del Mar 15, Santa Margarita 2
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA — Senior attacker Jack Ortlieb recorded five goals and four assists in the Sea Kings' road game on Saturday.
CdM (4-0), ranked No. 6 in the state by laxpower.com, outscored Santa Margarita, 14-1, in the final three quarters.
Goalie Hoyt Crance stopped 10 shots for the Sea Kings, who have allowed around three goals per game.
The Sea Kings play host to Fort Collins of Colorado at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
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St. Margaret's 16, Newport Harbor 9
NEWPORT BEACH — Clay Smyth produced three goals in the Sailors' nonleague home match on Saturday.
Riley Peterson finished with two goals and assisted on another. He also won six face-offs and had 12 groundballs.
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Dec. 1 Winter Meltdown concert to include rock acts Foster the People, Bush, Cake
The tradition of the radio-backed rock mini-festival survives. WROX-FM, 96.1, will present its Winter Meltdown show at the Ted Constant Center in Norfolk on Dec. 1. It will feature Foster the People, Bush, Cage the Elephant, Cake, Taking Back Sunday,...
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News & Notes: Viewpoint, show featuring Spitzer '81, set to end after channel's purchase by Al Jazeera
University alumnus and former New York governor Eliot Spitzer ’81 announced on Sunday that his progressive television talk show, “Viewpoint,” is ending.
Spitzer’s program has aired on Current TV, the cable news network founded by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt, since March 2012. Spitzer’s show replaced “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” after the host was fired.
The announcement of the talk show’s termination follows Current TV’s purchase by the Qatar-based media broadcaster Al Jazeera. Until further notice, “Viewpoint” will be hosted by John Fugelsang, a comedian who currently hosts the talk show “So That Happened.”
Spitzer, who served as USG chairman while an undergraduate at Princeton, was governor of New York from 2006 to 2008. He resigned after admitting to liaisons with prostitutes. Since resigning, he has spoken at the University, written regular columns for the online magazine Slate and hosted a CNN political discussion program from 2010 to 2011.
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Mohney, founder of Déjà Vu and Little Darlings strip clubs and adult bookstores, accuses Laura Henkel of malpractice, breach of contract, fraud and misrepresentation, and seeks unspecified damages.
The complaint, filed in Clark County District Court this week, claims Henkel grossly overvalued some of the items he donated to the Exodus Trust, which opened the Erotic Heritage Museum in 2008, the Las Vegas Sun reported.
The appraisals included false information that Mohney owned copyrights and distribution rights to some films, the suit adds.
After Mohney claimed charitable deductions on his income tax forms based on the appraisals, the IRA disallowed most of the deductions, the suit says.
In 2005, “mint condition” 16 mm films and loops, fliers and press kits were appraised at $5.9 million, while short and feature films, loops and trailers were appraised at $5.8 million, according to the complaint. Additional appraisals were conducted in 2006 for undisclosed amounts.
Henkel denied the allegations, saying the suit is related to a dispute with Mohney over her termination last year as assistant curator of the Las Vegas museum.
“The allegations made by Mr. Mohney are completely false, and were made in retribution for my pending lawsuit against him for his previous defamatory comments,” said Henkel, who now runs Sin City Gallery in Las Vegas.
“This just continues the pattern of behavior by Mr. Mohney to attempt to smear my good name, and I look forward to complete vindication in the courts,” she added.
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LONDON: Romania's Sandra Izbasa upset American favorite McKayla Maroney to strike gold in the women's gymnastics vault final at the Olympics on Sunday.
Maroney had been expected to run away with the gold after she topped qualifying with her near-flawless 2-1/2 twisting Amanar somersault.
After incurring a penalty for stepping out of bounds on her signature vault, the American teenager then looked shell-shocked as she sat down following her second vault, a half-on-straight with full twist.
Despite the mishap, the high difficulty levels of her somersaults had her top of the pile until Izbasa, the final competitor, leapfrogged her with two relatively clean, if not spectacular leaps.
Izbasa earned an average of 15.191 while Maroney was awarded 15.083.
Russia's Maria Paseka picked up the bronze.
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Editor’s note: Alternative sweeteners, also known as sugar substitutes or sugar replacers, include both nonnutritive sweeteners (those with no or insignificant energy) and sugar alcohols, also known as polyols. Sweeteners approved for use in the U.S. are listed below.
A few years ago, I sampled single-serve smoothies at an educational event for families. Several parents picked up the product, saw an artificial sweetener on the label, and promptly put it back. A few said, “I don’t give my child anything with artificial sweeteners!” I explained the safety of artificial sweeteners, but these parents weren’t buying it.
Consumers are confused. “In terms of consumers’ desires, it’s hard to tell which sweetener is the best choice [for use in dairy products],” says Cara Kelly, director of strategy, insights and planning, Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, Dairy Management Inc. (DMI). According to research conducted by Market Tree, Inc. for DMI (August 2011), many consumers aren’t sure which sweeteners are natural or artificial and view the sweeteners they believe to be artificial as bad for health. For details, log into USDairy.com. A white paper on consumer perceptions of sweeteners and dairy products will be posted in May.
“Consumers want it all: delicious taste, no calories and natural,” says Kelly. “Producers can use packaging to explain that a certain sweetener is natural or to emphasize health attributes. Dairy products have an advantage because consumers are willing to take on a few extra calories if the product is a rich in nutrients.” Kelly says consumers’ beliefs about alternative sweeteners warrant as much consideration during product formulation as other aspects such as taste and mouth-feel. “The take-home for processors is the check with their consumers.”
Thankfully, there are traditional and new sweeteners that may satisfy consumers who want it all. “Processors can think about using lactase to make products sweeter,” says David McCoy, PhD, vice president of product research, Dairy Research Institute, DMI. “This would also increase the market by appealing to lactose intolerant consumers.” McCoy also mentions Monk fruit (Tate & Lyle), a high-intensity sweetener derived from purified fruit juice, as an up-and-coming sweetener.
For technical considerations regarding use of sweeteners in dairy products, McCoy suggests consulting experts listed in the Research and Application Resources directory of the National Dairy Foods Research Center on USDairy.com.
Common "Approved" Sweeteners in the U.S.
The term “natural” here is meant to indicate that the sweetener is derived from a plant source. Consultation with regulatory/legal expert is recommended before using “natural” in food labeling or advertising. | http://www.dairyfoods.com/articles/88436-using-alternative-sweeteners--consider-consumers--perceptions | 2013-05-18T10:30:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
DTN Closing Livestock Comments 05/17 15:59
Livestock Futures Close Week With Sharp Losses
The cattle complex closed significantly lower, pressured by long
liquidation, technical selling and beef demand worries. Lean hog contracts
settled mostly lower with triple-digit losses suffered in nearby June and July.
By John Harrington
DTN Livestock Analyst
GENERAL COMMENTS:
From Friday to Friday, livestock futures scored the following changes: June
LC, off 1.05; Aug LC, off 2.22; May FC, off 1.47; Aug FC, off 3.25; June LH, up
1.02; July LH, up .07. Moderate cattle trade developed in Kansas and throughout
the North. Live business in Kansas was mostly $125 to $125.50, .50 to $1 lower
than last week. Most dressed business in the North was marked at $201 to $202,
$1 to $2 lower than last week's weighted average basis Nebraska. According to
the closing report, the Iowa hog base closed $0.80 lower compared with the
Prior Day settlement ($79.00-$92.00, weighted average $89.43). Corn futures
closed mixed, up 11 1/4 and 2 1/4 in July and September, respectively; down 4
1/4 to 4 1/2 in the rest of the contracts. | http://www.dakotamill.com/index.cfm?show=801&id=0701D22C&sort=8&cat=2 | 2013-05-18T10:31:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This year on our annual USO tour, I decided to keep a journal about the daily activities we participated in. Every year since I have been in Show Group, we have taken a trip to South Korea for the USO tour, but this year was a little bit different. Read Days 1-4 of Cassie’s Journal.
Tour Journal, Days 5-9: South Korea
DAY 5: Dec. 18, 2011
Day 5 of our USO tour started with a breakfast that I look forward to all year long! The J.W. Marriott in Seoul, South Korea has the most amazing buffet of all time. I talk about it every year, but it seriously is that good.
We got a pretty good night of sleep, which we desperately needed, and started the day around 9 a.m. After breakfast, we got on the bus for our first visit, which was at K-16 where we ate lunch with soldiers and watched the Cowboys game with them. Luckily, they had a television in the dining facility, and the Cowboys were playing on a Saturday night back home, so it was Sunday morning for us in Korea! Spending time with the servicemen and women is always very rewarding, but getting to do that while our Cowboys were trumping the Tampa Bay Bucs was even more exciting.
K-16 is a place that I always remember every year I walk through the doors. I spent Christmas Day there the year before, and the atmosphere was a little overwhelming. Last year, there was a mixture of excitement from the soldiers and some bittersweet feelings from others because it was actually Christmas morning and they were missing their families.
This year, though, was very different. Everyone was loud and crazy and so much fun. It goes down as one of my favorite lunches ever with the troops on a tour! I even remembered a lot of friendly faces from the year before, so I had a great time.
Next on the agenda was loading the bus and heading to Yongsan Garrison, Seoul. We were told early on that we would be putting on a cheer and dance clinic for the children at the youth centers every day. Group B had the kiddos on the first day, and then we would switch off having camps daily.
Our first camp was a bit of a surprise, but a good one! In the past, only young girls have showed up, but this year we walked in to see some advanced high school cheerleaders, some junior high cheerleaders, and even little ones, too. With such a diverse group of campers, we had to quickly change the agenda that we had originally planned for the clinic, but we got it all figured out. Whitney and I taught Camp DCC all summer long, so we were still fresh on camp material and we decided to run it like a normal day at camp in Dallas.
Usually we have limited time with clinics in Korea, but for this camp, Dan told us we had some extra time before the show if we wanted to work with the kids more. We started out with some fun stretching with Miss Whitney, then moved on to across-the-floor activities. We always start out with our famous “sassy walks” in which the girls can literally do anything and make it their own. Sometimes we have some really sassy little ladies, who then get to do their sassy walk for everyone alone if it is really awesome! Then we taught them the proper technique for kicking down the floor.
Next, we took a break from learning with my favorite game, “ships and sailors.” I am always the game lady at camp, so I am constantly looking for fun new activities and games to play, but this one is by far the camp favorite every year. It is the game where we call out a command like “Man overboard!” for example, and the kids act out what we say. It is really fun when we call partner or multi-person commands and the girls just panic and scramble to find a friend to act it out with.
After playing a couple rounds of the game, we taught the girls some short routines, which we call sideline tags. We taught them our real tags, so they were a lucky group of girls. At the end of camps, we always do a little performance of two routines and we each give them a little introduction about ourselves, then we sign photos for the kids and take pictures with them. For these kids who have been relocated to South Korea, I am sure these clinics are something to look forward to. Sometimes we only have enough time to play a few games with them, but any kind of interaction that makes the kiddos smile makes me feel like we accomplished what we came for.
Following the camp, we walked over to the Collier Fitness Center where we prepared for our first show in South Korea. If we get there way before the other group, then we always try to set up our own show bags of costumes, then move on to set up someone in the other group’s show bag. I got really good with setting up Ally’s bag because I knew all of her transitions and the order of her costume changes and all that good stuff.
Once Group A arrived, we “set the show,” which is another one of those terms that DCC uses that could be confusing to other people. It is when we walk through each routine without music, and set each formation perfectly on the stage we are given that night. It can take a long time at first, but toward the end of the tour we breeze right through it. With it being our third show, it still took a while, but not an hour like our first show did.
Then the 12 of us went backstage so they could open the doors promptly at 1800 hours. We got ready about 45 minutes before the show for a visit with the Commander. The Commander presented us with their coin, which was another humbling experience, and we then gave him our special DCC coin that we started back in 2007 to show our appreciation in return. Then 1900 hours rolled around and it was show time! We made it through our first performance in Korea without any huge mistakes or crazy wardrobe malfunctions, and to celebrate we got to eat dinner. No, I’m kidding, we always get dinner after shows whether we nail them or not!
DAY 6: Dec. 19, 2011
Monday morning started with breakfast and a Dramamine for me because we were going to the flight pad next for a Black Hawk ride. We headed out around 10 a.m., and waited for our chopper. We took a half-hour ride over to Camp Bonifas in Panmunjeon, which is right near the border of North Korea. We took a quick little tour of the new facility, then headed over to the dining hall.
During our stop, we heard one of the soldiers telling another that the information of Kim Jong Il’s passing was just released. Though we were a little weary of what could happen to us, our day went on just as smoothly as planned. We did a handshake performance for the men stationed there, then had lunch with them. Lunch was really quick, but Sunni had time to try her first bite of kimchi, which is not something that I enjoyed tasting during my first year of tour. It is a common Korean dish that is basically made up of fermented cabbage and other veggies. I am not a huge fan!
Next we headed over to the USO center at Camp Casey via Black Hawk. There we signed autographs and took photos with soldiers for about an hour, and then we hopped on a bus to Camp Hovey where we did another autograph and photo session at the Iron Triangle Club. After taking another short bus ride back to Camp Casey, we started setting up for show No. 4 of the tour, which took place at the Carey Fitness Center. Once again, we helped with the other group’s bags, set the show, got ready and did it all over again!
Camp Casey is always a really fun show because of the loud crowd. Every year we look forward to that group of guys! After the autograph line, we had an amazing turkey dinner, and left for the hotel, finally getting back to our beds around 1:30 a.m. | http://www.dallascowboyscheerleaders.com/articles/kickin-around/second-stop-south-korea/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Back in 1977, when Texas Stadium was only 6 years old, the matchup of Plano and Port Neches-Groves attracted 49,953 to the home of the Cowboys. It was an amazing crowd, but it’s probably more amazing that the attendance record for a Texas high school football game has survived longer than the stadium where it was played.
“We’re sort of proud of that record,” said Tom Kimbrough, who coached Plano to the victory in that Class 4A title game. “But we realize records will eventually be broken.”
But what will it take to break that record at the University Interscholastic League’s football championships next week?
How about a showdown of two undefeated nationally ranked teams? A matchup of DeSoto and Katy could determine a mythical national champion and would attract thousands of fans with no affiliation to either school.
Or how about Katy taking on Allen? That would match teams with two of the largest fan bases in the state, and Allen’s band alone can fill 600 seats at Cowboys Stadium.
Unfortunately, neither of those matchups can happen this year. DeSoto and Allen are in the Class 5A Division I bracket and Katy is in Division II.
Here’s another lineup that could draw a record crowd:
Katy (14-0 and No. 3 in the Rivals.com national rankings) vs. Cibolo Steele (14-0 and No. 17) in the 5A Division II final, followed by DeSoto (14-0 and No. 1) vs. Allen (13-1 and No. 6) in the Division I final. Four nationally ranked teams for the price of one ticket.
Those matchups, unfortunately, are also impossible. On Saturday, Allen takes on DeSoto in a Division I semifinal and Katy plays Steele in a Division II semifinal, so two powerhouses won’t make it to Cowboys Stadium.
It wouldn’t be that way in any other UIL sport. In football, the semifinals always set up Region 1 vs. Region 2 and Region 3 vs. Region 4. But in other sports, the UIL uses team records to seed the state semifinalists because that increases the chance of the best two teams meeting in the championship.
Unlike in other sports, the UIL football semifinals aren’t at a predetermined location. Seeding the football semifinalists would add to travel costs for teams and could complicate the process of choosing a neutral stadium for the game. The UIL has never seriously considered seeding the football semifinalists, spokesman Chris Schmidt said, and probably won’t unless there is a push for it from coaches or school administrators.
If the teams were seeded this year, Katy and Steele would meet either Cedar Hill (10-4) or Austin Westlake (10-4) in the Division II semifinals. DeSoto and Houston Lamar (14-0) have the best records in Division I, so they could meet either Allen or San Antonio O’Connor (12-2) in a semifinal.
Of course, any team that has made it this far in the playoffs is tough. And regardless of what teams play on the final day of the season, the crowd will be large. But on the 35th anniversary of the Plano vs. Port Neches-Groves game, that record crowd is more impressive than ever.
Even if the attendance record is broken, Kimbrough points out, it won’t be the same. The state championships now have multiple games to draw in fans, whereas the 49,953 were just there to see one game.
“To me, it’s two different categories,” Kimbrough said. “It’s apples to oranges.”
That’s true. But any way that gets nearly 50,000 fans to a championship game is great for the teams playing. It’s a very sweet fruit after a season of labor.
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LONDON — Novak Djokovic got the big break when he needed it late in the third set to beat Andy Murray 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 Wednesday at the ATP Finals.
Murray looked unbeatable at the start, breaking No. 1 Djokovic in the first game and losing only three points on his serve in the first set.
But Djokovic was able to convert break chances in each of the next two sets, and then for a third time at 5-5 in the final. (Results, 13C) | http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/more-sports/headlines/20121107-no.-1-novak-djokovic-beats-andy-murray-in-3-sets-at-atp-finals.ece | 2013-05-18T10:22:49 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Like the emissions-obsessed alarmists who just departed Kyoto in limousines and huge jet aircraft designed to carry a dozen people and a cocktail lounge, I'm concerned about an impending global crisis. Not the Al Gore kind of crisis where the planet warms and sea levels rise so that snorkeling skills become critical in Lubbock--I'm talking about a crisis in global cuisine.
In another decade, maybe less if we don't do something fast, I believe earth will simply run out of cuisines to fuse with one another. So many chefs are traversing the globe looking for things to cross-dress with daikon radishes and plantains that it won't be long before we exhaust the supply of new substances to encrust, dust, dress, poach, marinade, braise, infuse, saute, and pan-sear. Think of the hordes of chefs who will be forced to again use kiwi fruit. Think of the fatal blow to the all-important PBS cooking-show industry.
You could argue that this bit of hyperbole underestimates the boundless creativity and resourcefulness of the human mind. For it was just after WWII that scientists were telling us the world's then-known oil reserves would be exhausted in 25 years. This aptly illustrates how inaccurate global-crisis prognostication is, especially when it's done by those with too much time and government funding on their hands. While it may seem that little uncharted territory remains on the frontiers of global grub, we must remember that no chef has yet constructed a menu based solely on insects, of which there are some 3 million species. That's 3 million new ways to encrust, dust, dress, poach, marinade, braise, infuse, saute, and pan-sear. So my global culinary worries are actually just more daffy doomsday-scenario-mongering that not only fail to take into account the untapped resource of entomological edibles, they completely ignore the vitality of Stephan Pyles' brain.
Fortunately, Pyles is far from having to resort to plates of mesclun with grasshoppers stir-fried in squished caterpillar-infused sesame oil to prove his genius, although such ecosystem cuisine would probably warm the hearts of many with its potent symbolism. Instead, he and partner Michael Cox bring us AquaKnox, a new restaurant serving "global water cuisine." This may sound like little more than boiled food assembled from an international grocer, but it's actually a fresh interpretation of seafood incorporating brush strokes from Asia and Central and South America.
"It's certainly global in feel," says Pyles. "But also it's creating a cuisine that didn't exist. These aren't dishes that I've just pulled from Peru or Ecuador or Asia. They are really new dishes that are inspired by certain cuisines around the world."
The way to approach AquaKnox is to purge your mind of the hype and celebrity associated with Stephan Pyles. Forget all of the glitz and kitsch and snootiness of Star Canyon. Simply look at the plates of food Pyles and Executive Chef Lisa Balliet (formerly of Cafe Pacific and Masa in San Francisco) place on the AquaKnox table. It's easy to do, because the decor is so clean, open, and imaginatively lit, it's like another flavor layer. The glassed-in entrance corridor holds a 12-foot, black granite waterwall and a 400-gallon saltwater tank washed in deep blue light behind the hostess stand. The front of the restaurant is an open kitchen with woks, a rotisserie, a wood-burning oven, and a display case with a red snapper, a salmon, and assorted shell fish on ice serving as mortified global water decor. To the right is the lounge area with black marble tables and an adjoining patio area. The ceiling is a sculpture with huge, flat, wooden fish circling a pole with black metal appendages emanating outward that look to be some form of seaweed. The blue terrazzo floor and cobalt blue lighting fixtures hang over the bar, creating a crisp marine theme for lounge amphibians.
A waterwall coupled with glass work separates the lounge/open kitchen business from the dining room, which is elegant and understated. The floor, covered in rich blue carpeting, holds wrap-around booths finished in navy leather and deep blue fabric. Tables are topped with cobalt blue glass bowls of bright lemons, and the room is simply accessorized with small glass panel etchings of aquatic life arranged low along the walls. A large, 5,000-pound alabaster disk chandelier, held in the ceiling with an iron grid, soaks the room in a subtle glow; plush curtains at the far end cordon the restrooms. The whole assembly is strikingly unassuming, especially when compared with the cartoonish Star Canyon.
"The success of Star Canyon is based on a theatrical approach to dining," admits Pyles. "You come in; you feel the energy. It's about the environment, the look, the synergy that is there with the food. But it's not completely about the food. In the beginning, I hated to admit that."
Yet the food at AquaKnox, denuded of gaudy ambiance, proves Pyles is a true creative force with durability and depth--not just a flash of potent imagination rendered flabby by celebrity. Many successful chefs hit upon a dazzling formula, collect acclaim, and then spend a good part of their professional lives endlessly duplicating it. But Pyles and his staff take bold risks with this menu. While a few dishes don't quite hit the mark, those that do force you to lose yourself over your plate or bowl.
Lobster corn chowder is one of the selections that kicks in this disorientation. It's a clean, light, and tangy bisque with an infusion of tomato, cubes of potato, and a lobster claw garnish. South American touches--roasted corn and pieces of lobster tail coated in an ancho orange glaze--are subtle, appropriate, and very tasty.
One of AquaKnox's more seductive visual constructions, the vodka-cured salmon gravlox, comes assembled on a large plate with folds of salmon flesh topped with ossetra caviar arranged on a small, griddled corn cake in the plate's center. The space between the center and the rim of the plate is sprinkled with crumbles of surprisingly savory quail egg with parsley, and peeled segments of lime are arranged around the rim like the points of a star. The silken salmon was tender with round, refined flavors that were focused and intensified by the caviar. The only drawback to this orchestration was the cold, pasty corn cake that seemed to deaden the vitality of the sea elements. Perhaps a slightly steamed cake would have been a more effective girding.
Another eye-entrancing creation was the assorted sushi and sashimi platter that was assembled on a long, narrow plate with a celery stalk cut into a cactus-like sculpture and piles of delicately shredded carrot and daikon radish. Fish included tuna and slices of fatty salmon. The flavor highlight was the California roll, which, substituting asparagus for cucumber and scallop and real crab for that imitation crustacean flesh most commonly used in these rice logs, was the liveliest rendition of this culinary organism I've ever tasted.
The entrees were equally compelling, though not always as successful. The potato-crusted sea bass was a sight to behold--shimmering and thick, like an enormously rich cheesecake. Settled on slices of olive-oil-poached tomato, the fish was topped with slices of potato with shrimp mousilline and clarified butter and bits of artichoke bottom and kalamata olives. The meat was moist, firm, and tender, but somehow this melange of elements remained segregated, never fully harmonizing their flavors.
Slipping even further from successful orchestration, the brown-butter skate on crab plantain hash seemed an exercise in forced fusion. The cleanly pleated sheet of skate was slightly sweet and buttery-rich, with a lacy texture. But the hash was too much: a mix of coarsely cubed plantain, sweet potato, and crab with fried capers was texturally distracting and a bit too sweet. Perhaps a more restrained hash presentation (diced ingredients) and a sharper focus on framing the delicate skate flavors would have been more successful.
No such challenges afflicted the lemongrass prawns with purple sticky-rice tamale and coconut-curry sauce. The name reads like a self-conscious attempt at trendy global confluence. In the mouth, however, it renders all labels and review descriptions stupid. These sweet, muscular prawns flushed with succulence had just a wisp of tangy lemongrass essence. The purple sticky-rice with bits of red and yellow pepper was perfectly supple and separate, adding grainy heartiness to the firm prawn flesh. Plus, bits of mango in the mix played off the ocean richness of the prawns with a fruity sweetness. The mild curry sauce added a clean nuttiness, and a salad crown of watercress and jicama washed in a honey miso dressing added a layer of smooth raciness. This is perhaps the best shellfish treatment you'll find in Dallas--maybe anywhere.
AquaKnox works equal wonder with non-fish. The hickory-grilled rack of lamb with charred tomato and wild mushroom sauce had silky, mild 50-cent-piece-sized medallions of meat bound to the ends of the thin curving bones. The sauce proved an unobtrusive complement, and a goat-cheese potato tamale accompaniment was moist, tangy, and delicate--one of the best masa preparations I've come across.
The desserts carried through with this sense of balance. The frozen macadamia-nut bombe was clean and light in its sweetness, and the raspberry and vanilla custard sauces rounded it out with berry sharpness and silky smoothness. The lace cookie-cup with fresh, unadulterated strawberries and blueberries in a puddle of latticed cream and caramel was buttery-rich, crunchy, and brisk. But the coffee was wimpy and lacking in flavor, like it had been brewed with canned grounds through a paper towel.
The wine list could stand some fine-tuning to match the menu excitement as well. Notably absent from the "bubbles" or sparkling-wine section are brut roses, which can be brilliant accompaniments to salmon, tuna, even lobster. As you would expect with a good seafood restaurant, tremendous attention has been paid to white wines, and the list includes a broad selection of Chardonnays and white Burgundies. Plus, the "global whites" section offers fertile ground for experimentation featuring a pinot gris and a Riesling from Alsace, a New Zealand sauvignon blanc, a few Italian whites, and a pair of Sancerres speckling the requisite smattering of California sauvignons and fumes. But where are the concomitant "global reds"? Delicate Burgundies, cru Beaujolais, lighter Chiantis and Riojas, Alsatian pinot noirs, Barberas--any of these wines can pair remarkably well with fish. Unfortunately, the red section seems built around the menu's pair of red-meat selections consisting almost exclusively of California cabs and merlots, although there are a handful of potentially fish-friendly pinots. This shows an uncharacteristic lack of imagination for a space this ripe with creativity. The lack of red wine attentiveness was underscored by the service. Our 1995 Dutch Henry pinot noir was served warm, and I don't mean room temperature. I mean warm as if it had been stored under a heating lamp.
But this was the only service slip. Unlike Star Canyon, whose service can be blood-boilingly snotty, the AquaKnox staff are gracious and sincerely eager to please, from the people answering the phone to the valets.
AquaKnox isn't perfect--yet. But it's enormously compelling, with the brunt of its creative juices focused where it should be: on the plate. It's debatable whether a menu like this could survive in Dallas without Pyles' star power. But it's fortunate for us that he isn't resting on his laurels, as the imagination exhibited here is bound to inspire other chefs.
Pyles says he doesn't want to be a working chef anymore. "How many 45-year-old football players do you know?" he asks pointedly. Instead, he wants to create, build, train, consult, and function as chief palate. Wherever his attention is focused, it's clear that as long as he keeps spinning his globe and harnessing talent possessed by the likes of Balliet, we'll all be better off for it--even if he does toss in a grasshopper now and then.
AquaKnox. Knox Street at Cole, (214) 219-2782. Open for dinner, 6-10:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday; lounge serves food until midnight; 6-11 p.m. Friday & Saturday; lounge serves food until midnight; 6-10 p.m. Sunday.
Readers with comments may e-mail Mark Stuertz at markstz@juno.com.
Assorted sushi and sashimi platter $18
Vodka-cured salmon gravlox $15
Lobster corn chowder $10
Potato-crusted sea bass $24
Brown-butter skate $19
Lemongrass prawns $24
Hickory-grilled rack of lamb $25
Frozen macadamia-nut bombe $7
Lace cookie cup with berries $8
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Beta Band fits approximately nowhere. Signed to a label known for spearheading the pop-electronica invasion in America, the band's records feature nary a danceable track. Although the group's music bears some resemblance to the hip-hop folk of Beck, The Beta Band doesn't even try to traffic in singles -- and now it appears to have largely left its acoustic guitars behind. Three-quarters of the band are from Scotland, one from England, but it hardly belongs alongside the new wave of independent-minded acts now emerging from that nation -- Mogwai, the Delgados, Bis -- who sound like they only have college-rock ambitions. (Besides, the Betas haven't resided in the land of sheep and kilts for years.) Dressing up like Mexican bandits and biblical monarchs for the press, the band's image is a humorous one. Yet it is an absurdist humor, not the kind of comedy that's dependent on the knee-jerk irony of pop stars.
"I find myself at 90 degrees to the rest of the world," sings The Beta Band's guitarist and vocalist Stephen Mason on his group's recent self-titled record. "It's not much fun / You can take it from me." That lyric, from the song "Round the Bend," encapsulates the Betas' worldview pretty well -- although, if you listen to the song, you'll have your doubts about how little the band's enjoying the opportunity to be bent on record.
On this song, The Beta Band members, who live in London, deliver a strange tangle of sounds: steel drums, toy laser guns, clicking New Year's Day noisemakers, a bassoon, xylophone, the cuckoo of a madcap clock. There's also wildly strummed acoustic guitar and a bass somewhere in there, almost like an afterthought. The traditional instruments help keep the song in focus, but they hardly dominate the mix. Percussion helps -- the tempo is that of an oompah band from Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, composed entirely of madly thrashing street buskers and the children from Lord of the Flies. Essentially, it's a mess. The Beta Band paradox is that there is a coherence to the madness.
Not that Mason doesn't try to express his exhaustion with the world: His vocals amble along in a style that has become de rigueur in the group's work. They are double-tracked, but neither take is allowed to dominate, and each is slightly off-kilter. The takes don't so much fight for dominance as trip along, bumbling over one another's trails. The melody is simple -- barely a melody really, more an easygoing speaking-singing comfortably sliding between a handful of familiar notes. It shares a certain set of qualities with chant; a somberness appropriate for sober occasions. What follows is a quotidian variety of ennui: "Trying to function as normal human beings / I washed my car earlier on this evening." Then a burst of words in one breath: "And now finally I'm going for dinner to cook a little meal before I go out for a drink with my friend." Then it swings: "But I got no food / I got no time." Ba-ba-ba. Mason can't help but goose it. He sounds like a monk, but a monk on probation for bad behavior who organized the panty raid at the nearby convent. He's the brother who intones his devotions to a skiffle beat.
There's more melody in this song than any number led by such a voice should have. The cacophony is good-natured and pleasant, and the whole shebang is less intimidating than any song with a cuckoo clock as a lead instrument deserves to be. You almost want to sing along, "I got no time / I got no friends," with a smile on your face, following the song to its joyous conclusion: "I just want to be left alone and never bothered ever again / Never again / Ever again."
Although nothing indicates that the song has a particular target, paranoid journalists might worry the song's sentiments are aimed squarely at them. "Not so much the international press, but the English are normally way off the mark with us," says the band's bassist, Richard Greentree, from his bedroom in London. "Because a lot of English journalists, especially music journalists, aren't aware of what they're actually doing. They're trying to write some sort of bizarre novel instead of reporting about music." In the end, he can't understand what they're saying about his own music. "There's never been anything really that's explained to me anything about what we do," says Greentree.
Granted, The Beta Band has to deal with a particularly annoying press corps -- in London the tenor of music journalism is at a constant fever pitch, and papers like Melody Maker and New Musical Express have sensational appetites similar to those of grocery-store tabloids. But the group has hardly made a journalist's job easy. Whereas Oasis' Liam Gallagher gleefully has public feuds with his brother Noel, and Pulp's Jarvis Cocker quibbles with reports that he hurt a child in an unprovoked attack on Michael Jackson's Brit Award stage show, The Beta Band chooses to deal with the press by playing Dadaist jokes.
For an interview in the magazine MOJO, the band's cooperation was contingent on their being asked the same questions put to the Beatles when they played Shea Stadium in 1966. When NME wanted them to appear on the cover, the band asked to be styled as African dictators -- in the Betas' minds, full military dress a la Idi Amin. Although a slight misinterpretation foiled the concept (the stylist gave their request for the garb of "African kings" a Biblical reading, dressing them in robes and turbans, with frankincense and myrrh), one gets the feeling the Betas didn't mind very much. It only amplified the group's parody of how rock stars are allowed their excesses.
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A very effective community partnership in combating crime is the Business Crime Watch. Residential Crime Watch groups have been an important part of the historical crime reduction we have seen in the City of Dallas over the past eight years, and we would not have been able to reduce crime without the help of the citizens of Dallas and the relationships we have built with the people that live in this city. The Business Crime Watch utilizes the same model by bringing businesses, their employees, property managers, security staff and the Dallas Police Department together to exchange intelligence and ideas on how to reduce crime in and around the businesses and commercial properties within the City of Dallas. It is our hope that the involved business will be proud to be a part of this crime fighting endeavor and will hang the signs and/or post the decals as a symbol of our new and stronger relationship.
Please contact Lieutenant Kevin Campbell at 214-670-8615 for information on the signs and stickers.
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MANAGER OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT posted March 15, 2013
Manage Community Engagement Programs:
- Create, Manage, evaluate and grow community engagement programs
- Create and monitor budget and calendar for community engagement initiatives
- Hire and supervise artists for community engagement programs
- Teach classes as appropriate
- Pursue and maintain active relationships with arts and non-arts community partners
- Facilitate community requests for workshops, etc.
- Evaluate and report community participation annually.
- Facilitate and lead SummerStage curriculum planning and evaluation
- Manage SummerStage enrollment and budgetary goals
- Create and monitor SummerStage budget and calendar
- Hire and supervise SummerStage teaching artists
- Teach classes as appropriate
- Facilitate culminating performances
- Collaborate with the Marketing Department to promote/ facilitate programs and sales
- Evaluate and report programs successes and challenges annually.
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT posted December 21, 2012
- Develop and execute plans for soliciting, collecting, and recording contributions from all possible sources, including individuals, corporations, foundations, organizations, and government agencies.
- Oversee the Development Department Budget to include monthly forecasting and cash flow projections
- With the Managing Director, develop income and expense budgets for future fiscal years
- Plan and supervise yearly fundraising gala
- Create and supervise cultivation, social, and benefit-fulfillment activities that support the development department’s fundraising goals.
- Work with the Board Development Committee and DTC Managing and Artistic Directors to develop and implement strategies for attracting and retaining members of the Board of Trustees
- Work with Advisory Council Chair to create yearly strategies for recruitment of members and annual Council activities
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Managing Director
- Organizational ability and attention to detail
- Ability to complete a large volume of work with a high degree of accuracy
- Self-motivation with the ability to prioritize and balance multiple tasks simultaneously while understanding immediate needs for accomplishing urgent matters
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality
- Professional, courteous manner, high energy, and an eager, positive attitude
- Ability to be comfortable in social settings
- Broad understanding of the operations of a performing arts organization
- Extensive knowledge of both annual and campaign fundraising techniques
- Extensive experience in development for a major not for profit organization
- Supervisory experience ONeal
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06/29/2012 8:00pm
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From ‘broomsmaids’ to choice of wedding planner, newlyweds Hal Wallace and Johnathon DeJarnett made their nuptials their own
By Jef tingley
A straight friend of mine once said, “I am totally against gay weddings. I’ve seen the extravagant lengths the gays go to for theme parties and Halloween, and, quite frankly, I think you’re going to raise the bar too high.”
Clearly she was speaking tongue-in-cheek, but there was also a kernel of truth in her statement: We gays do love to do it up for memorable occasions … or even simple Sunday brunches. Need proof? Look no further than the bearded bears wearing leather and lavish feather bonnets with LED lights at Easter in Lee Park. Or how about that couple who makes a custom Carmen Miranda outfit for their Jack Russell terrier? You know the type.
Yes, with great gayness comes great responsibility. And when Dallas couple Johnathon DeJarnett and Hal Wallace decided to get married, they made sure to keep up some time-honored traditions common to most straight unions … but added a touch of excess (and glitter) to mark it with a trace of fabulosity.
First was the proposal — an unlikely but successful stealth mission.
“Hal proposed to me on Dec. 19, 2009, at our friend’s holiday party,” says DeJarnett. “I was so surprised. He can’t do anything without me hearing about it, so for the entire party to know and me not to was absolutely phenomenal.”
The couple has been together five years, but has known each other much longer. They grew up in the same small town; Wallace was in the same grade as DeJarnett’s older sister.
They cleaved to tradition with a legal, official wedding ceremony in Boston on Aug. 13, but the real fête came on Nov. 20, when they hosted a Dallas wedding dinner and reception for 135 of their closest family and friends.
In keeping with the uniqueness of the event, DeJarnett’s first step was to establish a new member of the wedding party: the “broom.”
“The ‘broom’ started out as a joke,” he explains. “Since I am the obviously more, umm, colorful of the pair, people were playfully calling me the bride. That would be fine if I were a woman. Instead, I started calling myself a hybrid of the bride and groom. I was the ‘broom.’”
Finding a venue was easy — DeJarnett’s has worked for the InterContinental Hotel in Addison for four years. But finding time to plan the affair was another issue — even the best of “brooms” can get overloaded. DeJarnett’s boss, Tamara, served as interim wedding coordinator and assistant to the “broom,” tackling details ranging from cake toppers to toasting flutes.
“Hal works full-time and is a part-time student. I am the exact opposite, working only part-time and I’m a full-time student. Our wedding was right in the middle of my semester. I would receive phone calls with [wedding] questions, and I would just say, ‘ask Tamara,’” laughs DeJarnett.
When not employing the services of Tamara, the couple worked together on the details of their wedding, even designing their own invitations. As DeJarnett tells it, “Hal actually recovered from our duel bachelor party by arranging our flowers with our friends Don and Judy.”
In keeping with their theme of unique combinations, the duo also had a mixture of men and women in their bridal party. “Hal and I had our best friends Kit and Jeff, respectively, as our best men, and they accompanied each other down the aisle. Luckily, they are a couple so no one was uncomfortable,” says DeJarnett. “Then I had my best friends Holly, Vanessa, and Mytzi as my ‘broomsmaids.’ They where escorted through the ceremony by Hal’s groomsmen, Chris, Tim and Josh. And to round off the queen’s court, as it were, were our friends David and Don, who so graciously allowed their holiday party to be high-jacked for our engagement.”
With the wedding ceremony itself nearly five months passed, DeJarnett and Wallace still treasure the photos and memories of their friends and families at their side. But be it brides, grooms, or “brooms,” DeJarnett is quick to point out one common theme lifelong commitment:
“Marriage is not easy. We didn’t start out as Ward and June Cleaver. And we kinda, foolishly, thought that we would just ride off into the sunset,” he says. “Even though the horse left without us, we are still very much committed to our relationship and still very much in love.”
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When kids ParTAKE in SAME-SEX weddings
I love children’s books, especially those with an affirming message for alternative families, and Leslea Newman’s Heather Has Two Mommies is one of my favorites. Whenever friends have babies, I make sure it’s in their library. Heather and And Tango Makes Three — that’s the one about the gay penguins that made this year’s list of most complained-about book at libraries — are must-have literature for gay or lesbian parents.
Newman’s latest book, Donovan’s Big Day, is one more to add to the list. Not only does Donovan have two mommies, but they’re getting married.
Donovan is taking his role as ring bearer very seriously. He can’t oversleep. He has to remember to wash and dress in his new clothes. And he can’t forget that white satin box. At the church, he must walk down the aisle very seriously. And he can’t fidget while that poem is being read or the piano is played.
His grandfather wakes him. His aunt meets him at the church. His cousin will be there. Of course the entire family is attending. It’s a wedding — why wouldn’t the whole family be proudly involved?
These are subtle touches, to be sure, but Newman is a master of telling children a simple story and making them feel included. We don’t know that it’s two moms who are getting married until the last few pages when Donovan kisses the brides. The story could have ended with a husband and wife. After all, illustrator Mike Dutton is married — to a woman.
That’s Newman’s point. It’s all about families and it’s all the same.
— David Taffet
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The mister and I are having one final date night in Newport before jetting back to the west coast. Stay tuned for a recap of the entire trip tomorrow along with recommendations from our travels.
Banana Republic Sweater {similar one here} // Zara Top // Sperry Top Siders {$42} // Levi’s Curve ID Jeans
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Western Connecticut Health Network and Norwalk Hospital Sign Affiliation Agreement
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - Danbury, CT
To bring to life their parallel missions of improving health care throughout Western Connecticut, Norwalk Hospital and the Western Connecticut Health Network took the next step today to combine their strengths by signing the final agreement to affiliate.
The new organization - including hospitals in Danbury, New Milford and Norwalk - will include some 784 beds that will be governed by a single board of directors and a unified mission to promote the health and well being of people in the communities it serves.
"Since we announced our exploration of this collaboration in April, we have spent nine months considering the benefits of working together to create a new picture of health for our communities in Western Connecticut," says John M. Murphy, M.D., President and CEO, Western Connecticut Health Network. ," says Dan DeBarba, Jr., President and CEO, Norwalk Hospital. "Together we will offer easier access to more resources to help people lead healthier lives."
Today's signing follows several months of discussions about how the new organization will operate. With the signing of the final agreements, and pending regulatory approvals, transition planning will begin as the organizations prepare to inaugurate the affiliation later this year.
"With health care reform changing our environment,"Murphy says, "people continue to look for health resources they can trust and care that makes a difference. Together we will build an integrated network of health services for our communities to redefine what a health care organization can offer.
The new organization will be led by Murphy as President and CEO, with DeBarba to remain as the President and CEO of Norwalk Hospital and become the Executive Vice President of the Network. Erv Shames, a current member of the Norwalk Hospital board of trustees, will lead the new board of directors. Other organizational details will be addressed in the coming months.
"For our patients, the new organization will offer expanded access to a wider range of primary and specialty care than either organization offers today. In a changing health care marketplace, we will be a trusted source of quality, reliability and personalized care," says DeBarba, "For our staff, the new organization will continue to offer a great place to work as we strengthen our commitments to medical education and research."
With today's signing, the organizations will begin an extended period of outreach with members of the community, patients, donors, clinicians and employees.
"Over the past months, we have learned how much we have in common, how similar our backgrounds are, and what we can mean to our communities," says Murphy. "Together, we will be the health care organization for the care they need, the resources they want and the health they pursue. We look forward to creating a new picture of health for our communities." Medical Group,Western Connecticut Home Care and The Western Connecticut Health Network Foundations
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At 13 years old, Mackenzie* was like lots of other dancers her age. Having trained in jazz, tap and ballet since age 3, she’d begun using her hard-earned technique to dazzle the judges at competitions. Yet despite all the trophies, Mackenzie had a tough time enjoying her success. She couldn’t help but compare her body to her petite best friend, and she feared she might be “too curvy” to achieve her dreams of professional dancing.
Mackenzie began to fixate on healthy eating, doing tons of research on which foods were low-cal, low-fat and nutrient-rich. She obsessively kept a food journal to monitor her eating habits. But her mission to “purify” her diet didn’t stop there: Mackenzie started buying only organic groceries and ate nothing but salad with balsamic vinegar at restaurants. She was always trying the newest cleanse fad, and chugging water often took the place of eating meals.
“At first, my fixation led to a very slim, toned physique, and I had more confidence in the audition room,” Mackenzie says. But it was getting harder to ignore the dizzy spells she got when she stood up and how starved she felt most of the time.
Mackenzie’s breaking point came at age 16, when she worked on a project that required daily 10-hour rehearsals for several weeks. “My weight dropped until I couldn’t fit into any of my costumes, even with belts and safety pins,” she says. “During a few concerts, I grew nauseous and couldn’t muster up any energy to perform. After shows, I sometimes felt so starved that I’d end up binging.”
It was then that Mackenzie realized she had an eating disorder and needed to seek treatment. Through her own research and meetings with dietitians and therapists, she eventually determined that she had orthorexia, an extreme obsession with healthy eating.
Since orthorexia is a relatively new diagnosis in the world of disordered eating, some people aren’t sure what sets it apart from anorexia, or how it differs from simply being health-conscious. Here’s what you need to know.
People with orthorexia tend to develop rigid rules about what elements can and cannot be present in their food.
A Losing Proposition
What is orthorexia, anyway? “People with orthorexia can become obsessive about eating the ‘right’ foods and trying to be perfect about what they eat,” says Emily Harrison, a former Atlanta Ballet dancer and registered dietitian at the Centre for Dance Nutrition. The prefix ortho- means “straight,” which is why orthorexia is the chosen term for rigid eating.
Travis Stewart, a St. Louis, MO-based licensed professional counselor, says the difference between orthorexia and anorexia has to do with your motivation for making food-related decisions. “Someone with anorexia may avoid pizza because of the calorie content, while someone with orthorexia may avoid it because the dough isn’t made of whole grains,” he says.
Harrison says the two biggest signs of orthorexia are when a dancer restricts her food so much that she doesn’t get enough fuel or nutrients, and when someone closes herself off socially and stops going out to eat because she’s unsure about the menu.
You may be thinking: Aren’t dancers supposed to be nutrition-savvy? Ask any dance teacher and the answer would be a resounding “yes.” The problem begins when the effects of your food choices become decidedly un-healthy. “There is nothing wrong with wanting to be in shape or healthy, but orthorexia starts when behavior becomes unusually rigid and restrictive,” says Judy Scheel, who runs the Cedar Associates mental health clinic in New York. Mackenzie reached that point when she began spending more time making food plans and jotting down calories and ingredients than actually eating.
Stewart says that many orthorexics experience a snowball effect, making progressively stricter rules until they eventually eat almost nothing. “For instance, someone might start by only shopping at Whole Foods, but then they begin questioning, ‘How do I know this is really organic? How do I know it’s the best?’ When you become orthorexic as opposed to just a health food nut, you become irrational,” he says, remembering one client who ate mostly celery since it was one of the few foods that she considered “safe.”
The Danger for Dancers
The risks of orthorexia are especially high for dancers. Fatigue, achy bones and muscles, lack of stamina, dizziness, fainting and a higher risk of injuries like stress fractures are just a few of many common side effects. Long-term issues can include osteoporosis, lowered metabolism, decreased muscle mass and, ironically, higher body fat percentage—all of which can drastically affect performance. “It almost becomes a sabotage of what was intended in the first place,” Scheel says. “The disorder is a detriment for dancers, who are so dependent on their bodies for stamina.”
Moving Toward Recovery
If you suspect you might have orthorexia, it’s important that you reach out for help. The first step is talking to someone you trust, whether that’s a parent, teacher or counselor. That person can then help you determine what the right course of action might be. For Mackenzie, getting help meant working with a counselor and spending six weeks in a residential treatment facility. Today, at age 19, she’s in recovery and getting better every day. “I have far less fear in social settings,” she says. “I’m finding the freedom to choose foods that I enjoy.”
RED FLAGS
Here are the two main signs that you, or someone you care about, may be orthorexic:
➺ Your eating habits are so restrictive that they regularly prevent
you from getting the fuel and nutrients your body needs to function properly.
➺ You are so concerned about what you’re eating that it keeps you from being able to eat in social situations.
For More Information
The Centre for Dance Nutrition
dancernutrition.com
National Eating Disorders Association
nationaleatingdisorders.org
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Welcome to the D&G Golf Club Website
Welcome to the website of Dumfries and Galloway Golf Club, we hope our members and visitors alike find the content interesting and informative. We also hope this may even perhaps entice you to visit our friendly club for a round, on a social visit, a bite to eat or perhaps even join us as a member
Ian Beattie D&G Captain 2012-2013
SATURDAY 18th MAY
COURSE CLOSED - MEDAL TODAY IS CANCELLED
BARBOUR CUP 2013
As usual there was a large entry for the Barbour Cup, total number playing for one of the most coveted open singles trophy in the D&G region was 237, congratulations to the winner, Scott Alison from the Crichton Golf Club with a net score of 69
Thanks to all who helped make this a successful competition, and to the Barbour family for donating the trophy
In the picture above: from l-r Scott Renwick winner of 2nd class, Scott Alison - winner of Barbour Cup, Ian Beattie Club Captain, and Rory Thompson, scratch winner
Members Forum
The date for the members forum, facilitated by the SGU, will be on Thursday 23rd May at 7.30pm, please make every effort to attend this important night
UNECOL & NOBELHILL CAFE CUPS 2013
Following the recent cancellation due to the poor weather, the re-run of the Unecol and Noblehill Cafe cups were replayed on Sunday 5th May, with an excellent turnout of adult /junior pairings, the prize list for the afternoons play was:
Unecol Trophy (18 Holes)
1st: Huw Williams & Darren Morton - 37pts
2nd: Rhys Williams & Alistair Degnan - 36pts
3rd: Graeme Morton & Scott Morton - 35pts (BIH)
Nobelhill Cafe Cup (11 Holes)
1st: Ross Dalling & Iain Dalling - 19pts (BIH)
2nd: Harry McCabe & Alan McCabe - 19pts
3rd: Aiden Wilson & Jock Wilson - 18pts (BIH)
Special Prize for Hamish Williams for excellent solo effort of 26pts
Picture shows from L-R: I Dalling & R.Dalling, I Beattie, H Williams & D Morton
New Young Adult Memberships for 2013
The D&G has introduced attractive memberships for young adults, we can now offer reduced fees for young golfers male and female up to the age of 30, we recognise that this age group may find it difficult to fund golf club membership, so at the D&G we have just made it easier. Phone the club on 01387-263848 for details of these exciting offers | http://www.dandggolfclub.co.uk/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Xacilin (3.5e Race)
From D&D Wiki
[edit] Xecilin (pronounced Sha seel een)
[edit] Personality
Like humans, Xacilin are neutral alignment-wise, though, again like humans, only because they have no specific tendencies towards anything else. More to come.
[edit] Physical Description
They are human-like, but are closer in height and weight to a half-elf. They have pointed ears like an elf's, small horns protruding from their forehead, sharp front teeth, and leathery skin. Their hair tends towards browns and blacks, with an occasional red, and is almost never blonde. Their eyes run the gamut of colors like human's, but tend towards brown as the most common. Their skin is usually very light.
[edit] Relations
Xacilin are in contact only with Gnomes, Anubins, and Orcs. The Gnomes are furious with Xacilin for destroying the forest as they expand, and te Xacilin consider the Gnomes crazed savages. Although the Anubins and Orcs are unfriendly with each other, they are both friendly enough with the Xacilin, and the Anubins frequently trade with the Xacilin for gold.
[edit] Alignment
Neutral
[edit] Lands
Xacilin live in the forest and the foothills, but are quite adaptable.
[edit] Religion
Xacilin have a monolatristic religion, worshiping only their god and the demi-gods who serve him. They also venerate Coutals, believing them to be servants of their god.
[edit] Language
Starting Languages: Xacilin Bonus Languages: Anubin, Orc, Common, Gnome Although they have no connection with humans, they may learn the language through their friends the Anubins.
[edit] Names
The Xacilin have a minimum of five names, their sacred name, chosen at adulthood and kept secret from all save their spouse, their family name, usable only by members of the family, their private name, usable only by their close friends, their public name, usable by anyone, and their surname, also usable by anyone. They may pick up additional names that denote skills hey have or accomplishments they have made. These are also public names. Use of a name without societal permission is considered a grave insult to the person, usually resulting in a duel.
[edit] Racial Traits
- +2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma, -2 Dexterity: Xacilin are clever and inventive, but the social requirments of their society are complicated and difficult for outsiders to understand. They also take more time to do most things, and so their reflexes are less than most species.
- Humanoid (Xacilin)
- Medium: As medium creatures, Xacilin gain no benefits or disadvantages.
- Xacilin base land speed is 30 feet
- Resistance to Fire 10: When dealing with fire, Xacilin drop the first 10 damage.
- Natural Armor +1: Because of their tough skin, Xacilin have a natural armor bonus of +1.
- Favored weapon, spear:Xacilin are able to deal bludgeoning damage with spears, shortspears, and longspears, but all such damage is non-lethal.
- Societal enemy, Gnomes: Xacilin have a +2 bonus to spot and listen checks when trying to notice a gnome.
- Poison Use: This works like the assassin skill of the same name, except it only applies when the Xacilin is applying the poison to a blowdart, spear, or arrow. They also get a +2 racial bonus on saves vs. sleep inducing poisons.
- Automatic Languages: Xacilin. Bonus Languages: Gnome, Anubin, Common, Orc.
- Favored Class: Cleric or Fighter, not both.
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Pink Paislee supplies: Sweetness - Pretty lace paper (background), Old School- Prep School paper (lined), Artisan Alphabet ("lucky"), Artisan Swirls, Old School cardstock sticker alphas ("happy go"), 365 Degrees stamp set (stars), 365 Degrees Cork Buttons, Starlight Cardstock Stickers (star strip). Other: Graphite Glimmer Mist and Candlelight Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels, Crafter's Workshop (stencil), Prima flower, Cosmo Cricket chipboard stars, cardstock, StazOn ink (black), Close To My Heart ink (honey).______________________________________________________
Last is a quick card made with the new Sweetness line by Pink Paislee. I dry embossed the background with a swirl embossing plate (Cuttlebug), then added the Sweetness rub ons, ticket, 1/2 of the sticker, twine and a brad. Super easy!
Studio Calico!
Supplies: Cream cardstock, Cuttlebug embossing machine and swirls plate, rub ons and stickers - new Sweetness line by Pink Paislee, Baker's twine from Studio Calico, brad is Sassafras Lass.
I appreciate you stopping by today!
Danielle
21 comments:
Yellow is my new fave color, too! Love these projects!
You always make the sweetest cards! So pretty!! LOVE your LO!! What a great design!!
beautiful layout, love all the yellow :)
Great LO (love the details) and your card is just beautiful!
Oh how I love that Happy go Lucky LO!! So pretty and so...well happy:)
This card is awesome, I love the products you used and really love the rub-on applied over the embossing! I've never seen it look so good, usually I have problems keeping the rub on from cracking/peeling due to raised texture. So my question is - did you do something special to adhere it so seamlessly? And do you know if it can be done *before* embossing w/the Cuttlebug? Hope that's not too many questions, I just love your work though and am always wondering about stuff! Take care, Renee
Hi Renee,
Thanks so much for your nice comment! I did dry emboss first and then added the rub ons after. I was worried that applying the rub ons would knock down the texture, but it turned out pretty good. The texture might be gone, but you can't really tell in those places. Yes, you sure could put the rub ons on first and then emboss! Your flowers would be more swirly, but it's definitely something to try! I didn't have any problems with the rub ons coming off...maybe because they go on so easily.
Thanks for your question - I hope I answered it thoroughly for you!
Danielle
Love the layout and the card!
Your layout rocks! I love yellow too, its my favorite! And your card as usual is beautiful! I love your style and you always do such wonderful work!
e.
Hey Danielle...I can't think of anyone else that could make yellow sooooo pretty! That layout is GORGEOUS!!! Love the photo and title too. Beautiful work as always. :)
so stunning danielle! now i want to go play with yellow! :)
I really love your style on your LO'S...Not to much just perfect!!! I'm not a big fan of yellow, but you make me want to use it :-)
This LO is just perfect! And the card is beautiful! I'm always visiting your blog looking for inspiration!
Great LO! And the card is sooo pretty!! :) :) :)
Layout is fabulous! very nice! thanks for the inspiration!!
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I'm often afraid of using yellow. I just imagine everything looking washed out but this is sooo beautiful. fantastic job! It's so cherry. I'll have to give yellow a try
Gorgeous, it is so happy and such a beautiful card!! Have a wonderful weekend friend. :)
Every element of this is simply stunning.... really beautiful work!
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Danielle; I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH!!!!! Wao, everything you create looks TOTALLY amazing!
Thank you for sharing, and wish you a wonderful Sunday!
*hugs*
Great projects you did a wonderful job tfs!!!
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Habs beat Rangers, Leafs beat Canes plus Isles and TBay lose.
6 teams within 3 points of each other for 3 playoff positions.
I love the NHL!!!!!
What's awesome about the NHL race for the last playoff spot is this: the team that gets the 8 seed actually has a chance of knocking off the 1 seed. Think of the NBA, it's just a throw away series.
Why did the Bengals vote against instant replay? They don't want anything on camera that may be a parole violation. Chris Henry gets arrested again! I don't care if it's traffic related or license related, or whatever, but don't you learn at some point? ESPECIALLY since Pac Man will be meeting with the commish this week to talk about his issues.
I don't want Joe Theisman calling CFB! I don't want Joe Theisman with a mic for any football game I'm watching or may be watching in the future.
Dan, I know it's probably too late to review your Name of the Year picks, but I noticed no one had Mario Hilario. As a Rhode Islander, I know who he is. He is a television reporter on one of the local channels (can't remember which, don't want to look it up). But, I realize this probably doesn't come into play for the brackets, but Mario Hilario is gay and supposedly dating/living with the Providence Mayor (also openly gay). That's gotta count for something in this crazy mixed up world. Right?
Re: Nationals
Ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Don't. Jinx. It.
Somehow you skipped Federer's loss against Canas for the second time in a row.
I know it's tennis, but anytime Federer loses it's a big deal. Is Canas this years Nadal?
It's amazing how incompetent the Redskins front office is! They're going to put big bucks into yet another linebacker when their most pressing needs are at d-line, secondary and tight end? On top of that, they're trading down in the first round without getting anything in the way of replacing the second-, third- and fourth-round picks they DON'T have because of earlier boneheaded trades. Do these guys understand how the NFL works? If the trade happens, I'm giving up my season tickets!
Dan, I gotta complement you on recognizing Phelps' accomplishments. The guy is rolling right now. He took down the record in the 200 that was help by Ian Thorpe. Many thought that record would stand for a long time and he went out adn laid the hammer down. Today he lowered his own record in the 200 Butterfly by over a second and a half. The guy is a freak and should be considered one of the world's best athletes. Consider also that he is 21 and most male swimmers peak in their mid-20s. He dominated in Athens, will dominate Beijing, and could dominate in London.
Well, if I was Theismann, I'd be bummed out too. I just got fired from the pinnacle of football analysts...anything else would feel like a huge step down.
Some will say football is football..but we know that's not true. There are CFB fans..there are NFL fans...
Phelps is incredible, he's on pace for 8 gold medals in Beijing.
The 3 relays, 200free, 200/400 IM, 100/200 fly. His biggest obstacle is Ian Crocker in the 100 fly, but I hear if you win 7 gold that's also quite the achievement.
Phelps, Woods, Federer, the rest of the planet. That's the list.
I don't care that Theisman isn't enthusiastic about CFB. Vitale is so enthusiastic about CBB, and he still sucks.
Basically I care about how the person calls the game, and Theisman just isn't that good at that.
Was the Phelps mention a slight at Federer? Obviously the 2nd straight loss to Canas appears to knock some level off the aura of invincibility.
Still, it shows that tiebreakers suck. Play it out! I happen to like Davis Cup-like scores of 14-12 in the 5th set.
The Bengals vote against everything. When I heard there were 2 against, I just assumed the other team was Buffalo.
Go Grizzlies, keep on winning! I'm sure Jerry West served some extra ice cream in the locker room for that win.
And WHEN is Madison Square Garden going to lay down a college-only floor without the NBA 3-point line on it? Shouldn't the world's most self-absorbed arena be able to have separate courts for pro and college games?
Fucking Ukrainians
I saw this clip and thought I would share it with all of you.
- I'm confused how radios in the defenses helmet takes away homefield advantage? When the home town is on defense it gets loud and the opposing offense already has radios. If anything this kills home field advantage, right? The away O can hear and the home D can't. When the away team is on defense, the home team is on offense and you don't cheer pre-snap while your team is on offense. So what does giving the defense radios have to do with home field advantage? Just another case of the rules favoring the offense.
- I don't want see or hear Theismann on TV at all. He is awful. I'm disappointed to hear that he will now be ruining ESPN's college games.
- So, when do we find out what Michael Phelps is doping with? Seriously, as I read the first comments of the day that basically insinuated how super human this guy is (breaking records that were supposed to stand for a long time, breaking his own records by substantial amounts) that was the first thing I thought of. Just seems to make sense to me that swimming is another doping friendly sport (Hello, East Germans). Hope he doesn't celebrate too much and get himself another DUI.
pats - wasn't it you who drafted prior? i told he didn't look so good at spring training. i think i could hit is mid-80's fastball. good luck.
In one league I did but dumped Prior already for Contreras who was on waivers.
bye bye prior..... hahah by the way it woulkd suck to be a cubs fan.
More importantly i think the problem with thiesman is not one of enthusiasm but one of do i enjoy hiis voice during a game. meaning would i be happier wtching if just he was muted. Since the answer is yes then he should not be annoucning in my opinion. PS for anyone here who is on a bracket site. or mainly for awful announcing you should do a bracket of best and worst announcers and see who wins. you could make them 32 because i think even that many good announcers would be hard to find.
I really don't want to see Theeeeesman on CFB broadcasts.
CFB actually has decent announcers, some are better than others but most of them don't irritate the way Theesman and most of the pro announcers do.
There's gotta be someone out there that does like Theeeeesman, which is scary
Maybe they're against Instant Replay because it's horrible. It takes forever and they're wrong just as often as they were before Replay.
to second Dave-
If anything this would increase homefield advantage because the main time for the home crowd to get loud is presnap when the away team is on offense. All this would do is level the playing field a bit between the offense and defense. My guess is they didn't pass it because offense sells tickets.
If someone will buy me Nats' season tickets then they will win all of their homegames. I have been to ten games since they moved to DC and they have NEVER lost when I go. Any takers? That would guarentee at least a .500 season.
:)
nobody likes theisman. because he sucks.
One of the things with giving a defensive player the radio helmet is that with so much defensive substitution, it's not like there's a guy who's necessarily out there every play anyways. What do you do then, switch helmets?
(Hey, how hard would it be to set up a mini radio on that frequency to the QB, and then a mini transmitter to the defensive coaches upon hearing the play?)
@d.ling...
8 golds huh? like 2004 in athens? wait...
If the Skins are serious about offering the 6TH PICK in the NFL draft for Briggs and the Bears 31st, Chicago would be dumb not to take it. A superbowl contender with a pick that high is insanity.
Brian, most of the time, the defensive captain never comes off the field. That's usually the middle linebacker. I can't remember the last time I saw a middle linebacker on the sidelines for anything other than injury. Personally, I think they should have the radio. I disagree with Dan. It doesn't take away the homefield advantage. Defense relies on sign language right now so there's no affect.
As for Prior in the minors, that's fine with me, a Cubs fan. He can go down there, get his work in, get back to form, and when Piniella gets sick of Jason Marquis' suckiness, Prior will be able to come in and take over. Prior will get back to form. It'll take him a while. Remember he's barely pitched in the last 3 years? Let's see you guys stop something for 3 years and then pick it up like you never left.
The radios are just another way to turn a football game into a war-like chess match, rather than a bunch of athletes playing a game.
And I'm saying it that way specifically because of the appeal that does have. I probably sound like TMQ, but there is something to the strategy it enhances.
I'll take being a Cubs fan over being a White Sox, Yankees, Dodgers fan anyday.
I don't think MMA is going to be that big in America, but it certainly has potential to be what boxing once was.
One good thing about Theismann doing CFB is that the players aren't around as long. Now he'll have to rotate through his cliches much more quickly. He could say "Brett Favre is gunslinger who has fun and looks like a kid out there" for fifteen years. But he will only be able to say things like "Brady Quinn can make all the throws and is cool and confident running a pro style offense" for four years at the most.
Sure, it'll probably still be all platitudes and repeating what coaches told him at dinner, but at least we'll get to see his whole range of meaningless talk instead of the tiny sliver we're getting now.
why is women's basketball on the cover of espn.com. this is rediculous
Brian in Oxford said...
And WHEN is Madison Square Garden going to lay down a college-only floor without the NBA 3-point line on it? Shouldn't the world's most self-absorbed arena be able to have separate courts for pro and college games?
From what I can tell, every court that has a professional team on it has both lines out there.
@ xenod
Boxing once was the biggest sport in America.
and it wasn't all that long ago.
So was horse racing.
So was candle-pin bowling. I'm serious, read Rip Van Winkle.
Wow, how about Ugueth Urbina getting sentenced to 14 years in Venezuelan prison for attempted murder?
Hard to know what really happened, but wow..
And the reasoning I heard for no radios for the defense was that with all the substitutions defenses commonly use, its too likely that multiple people with radios would end up on the field.
@crabbdog.
Because they are airing the games and thinkg that shoving it down people's throats will make them want to watch
mike- maybe the NFL has special rules for the Pats? Who knows =D
There are plenty of arenas that bring in separate floors. For instance, when they hold the final four, it's got a specially painted logo just for that. Or they will bring in a floor from a college arena specifically into a dome.
My point is that MSG claims to be all-that...like it's so great to be playing the Garden. I think having the college kids playing on the Knicks' floor makes it look like they're second-rate.
And, if you watch Knicks' games, the college line isn't there on the court. So they have no problem removing the college line. I don't see why they just don't have 2 floors with the separate markings.
I'd rather see NCAA women's hoops than NASCAR, talk about stuff being shoved down our throats....
i don;t want to see either womens basketball or nascar.
how about women's nascar?
YIKES!
@Brian In Oxford
I don't think MSG has separate floors for college and pro ball. I think it's a decal they use. I see other arenas use ridiculously large stickers to cover whatever logo is in the middle of the floor.
Plus having the college kids play with the NBA three-point line inspires them to practice and work harder so they can reach the Association.
Farthermore why does this bother you? Were you playing ball at The World's Greatest Area one time and accidently shoot a NBA three? I really want to know..
Those picks are a reflection of last year's free agent losses (Andruzzi, Vinatieri, Givents, etc.)..
The picks were a result of losing compensatory free agents Tom Ashworth, Matt Chatham, Andre David, Tim Dwight, Christian Fauria, David Givens and Adam Vinatieri.
The picks are given for what happened in the offseason before 2006 season. They will not be receiving any compensatory picks next yr, otherwise I'll be angry.
That would be funny if I had a story like that..
I was struck by this watching the NIT last night.
I agree on getting a floor without 2 lines for 3 pointers. MSG hosts the pre-season and post-season NIT every year, as well as numerous other college games throughout the year. Couldn't they just get a floor for college games?.
Ah, ok, that at least makes some sense.
no way is phelps doping. This guy has been on the scene since he was 15. he has gradually improved since then. totally legit
ftrain:.
Regardless, the West Virgini player was behind a line, pro or college, and nailed a beautiful and exciting shot..
Dan said:
"MLB: Mark Prior, minor-leaguer? That's looking more likely since Lou Piniella picked Wade Miller to be the Cubs' 5th starter. Go back a half-decade and try to wrap your mind around THAT."
Think the Twins brass made the right choice--passing up Prior for Joe Mauer?
Replying to Jeff's NHL comment, "Think of the NBA, it's just a throw away series.").
Also, in replying to Xenod's "I don't think MMA is going to be that big in America, but it certainly has potential to be what boxing once was.".
In response to david,
That has to be the worst rationale for why someone isn't cheating I have ever heard.
The exact same arguement could be applied to anyone whos been caught or suspected of using drugs: Bonds, Maguire, Ben Johnson, countless cyclists.
"They've been around for so long and have steadily improved over the course of their careers."
By your logic, it makes sense how many baseball players ballooned up in size towards the end of their careers since they had been around so long and had all that time working on their game.
I have no idea if he is cheating or not. I'm just saying, I wouldn't be suprised and the fact that he has "been on the scene since he was 15" bares little consequence as to whether or not he is cheating NOW.
Congrats to Nomar and Mia!!!!
They had twins
I sure hope those kids don't get dad's nose.
Again the difference between ben johnson, the east germans and all those cyclist vs Phelps, they have all ben caught. so the argument does make sense.
wow...logic is no where near your argument. That's like claiming you aren't addicted to cigarettes because you don't want to stop.
You might as well just say that you're giving him the benefit of the doubt (which is what you are doing).
I'm saying I wouldn't be suprised if he is doping.
Both of these are legitimate opinions to have. However, for you to argue that he isn't doping because of his longivity in the sport (since he was 15) is baseless and to a certain degree counter-intuitive.
I'd like to find out how you could convict someone of attempted murder when there was no concrete proof he was even there at the time and it might have been self defense even if he was and then sentence him to 14 years in jail.
14 years? Really? No real proof? Might have been self defense? ATTEMPTED MURDER? He didn't even kill anyone?
I'm not saying I know what happend, no one does. But that's the point. No one is dead and there's no concrete proof. How is that worthy of 14 years in jail?
Lost in all of this debate is that the guy who has now beaten Federer twice in one year did so after returning from a 15 month ban for doping. Think whatever he did 15 months ago isn't helping him now in some way?
If you take steroids to get big, but continue lifting hard while cycling off, you will still stay big (or, at least mosly big)..
and smokers only say that to get people off their case.
Can someone explain to me why there is a Woman's NIT. Its not as if anyone watches the Woman's NCAA tournament.
@guyinthecorner
I think we're all a little confused and terrified of the intricacies of the Venezuelan court system.
What gets higher nielson ratings, Billiards or the Womens NIT?
David-
Perhaps you are new here. We passed a rule not to discuss ratings of sports because the hockey fans claim they don't count. We don't know if they have a reason for this..
But otherwise, no reason.
guyinthecorner-
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Teenage anti-smoking activists recognised recognised for their efforts (From Darlington and Stockton Times)
Darlington School of Mathematics and Science anti-smoking activists recognised for their efforts
5:18pm Tuesday 12th March 2013 in News
STUDENTS campaigning to see cigarettes go up in smoke are being recognised for their efforts as they strive to make tobacco a thing of the past.
A group of anti-smoking activists from Darlington School of Mathematics and Science (DSMS), who have already presented their findings to No 10 and Darlington Borough Council, have now been shortlisted for two top awards.
Students Liam Pape, Hannah Scott, Tom Towle, Ben Garget, all 14, and Emilie Williams, 13, have been nominated for the young person’s contribution to the community award in the Best of Darlington Awards and the contribution to the wider community at the Vibe Awards, which will take place tomorrow (Wednesday, March 13).
The pupils will also feature in an official video to be shown at a two day conference staged by Fresh, Smoke-Free North-East, as they voice their concerns and hopes to see tobacco a thing of the past.
DSMS is one of three North-East schools working with Fresh on the national conference video and Liam will address delegates in person in Durham.
Assistant headteacher Emma Hickerson said: “This all started as a class project which led to an initiative with Mount Pleasant Primary School where they worked with year five children on a script and short film documentary on smoking.
“Since then they have really got the bit between their teeth. In 2011 we took the campaign to 10 Downing Street to stop smoking in cars and it is great that all their hard work is now being recognised.”
The group has already claimed the runners up spot in the British Heart Foundation’s No Smoking Day Organiser of the Year Award.
Emilie said: “It’s no longer considered cool to smoke but children still start because their friends do it.”
The students’ research revealed that smoking remains the single biggest cause of unnecessary ill health and premature death through cancer, heart disease and stroke and costs the NHS £7bn a year.
A single cigarette contains up to 4,000 chemicals including almost 100 known carcinogens and they are believed to be so addictive that smokers are hooked by the time they have had just six.
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If you're a user of any smartphone or mobile device, you'll understand that the app is everything, and should be treated with the utmost of importance. Finally, with this new and cheap release on the Cydia store, there is a tweak that understands you by bringing both customization and excitement to the app switching process. | http://www.dashhacks.com/iphone/ipad-utilities | 2013-05-18T10:53:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
It's been quite a while since we heard anything from the xk3y team. They're back with some news for users of their ODDE for Xbox consoles.
The team has tweeted that the xk3y now supports the Hitachi 0500 series drives found in Xbox Slims. However, it's not a straight implementation. In order to take advantage, you will need to fix your box for the Reset Glitch Hack. Once you get that going, you'll have to pull your CPU key and two other files that you obtain from your NAND dump.
If you have to go through all of this, you're better off on just keeping the box RGH'd, and getting rid of the ODDE entirely. Like the guys at Homebrew Connection mentioned, it makes no sense to go through all of this. However, if it floats your boat, by all means, go for it.
The team has released a new firmware to get the xk3y working with the Hitachi drives.
Source: @X360Key via Homebrew Connection
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For the second time, Match has released a LoveGeist report that studies and tracks how people view love and relationships, in particular for those in the UK and Ireland. Even though the study is regional the results can be interesting to anyone and I am sure some of the findings cross borders.
This year’s study was based on working with over 150,000 people and the results are released in a full report as well as in a very interesting interactive map. The results are broken into categories like the percentage of people who consider themselves very romantic, the percentage of people who find it easy to say “I love you” for the first time, and so on.
The report itself is very detailed (which may be a good or a bad thing depending on your interest level) and includes facts such as:
- 93% of daters are looking for a long-term relationship – rising to 97% among the 18-30s.
- Only 13% of daters say they actively don’t want to get married in the future
- Having children together (37%) is seen as a bigger symbol of commitment than marriage (33%) for the UK’s daters
These facts are just the tip of what is disussed in the report so if you’re a fan of statistics or just live in the UK and are interested in the dating climate in your area, check it. | http://www.datingadviceguy.com/2010/12/20/2010-lovegeist-report-from-match-uk/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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WINE, WOMEN AND PATPONG
Madrid Bar in Patpong will celebrate surviving 38 years. Madrid Bar’s 38th birthday bash features 38 Baht drinks from 3:00 PM until 5:00 PM. There will be FREE FOOD from 6:00 PM. Swing by if you are in the Silom area tonight. Congratulations to Madrid Bar!
*Madrid Bar Party news was from Bangkok Bad Boy.*
THE JOLLY GREEN GIANT
Due to a change in plans, Jameson’s will open some time next week. Jameson’s is located in the Holiday Inn in Silom. It will be the largest Irish pub in Bangkok. The general manager is the amiable Aussie John Bell. John has extensive experience as one of Bangkok’s top bar managers. The only question a few savvy expats have mentioned is whether they have selected a good location or not? Time will tell, but I wish John and his team the very best of luck.
*Jameson’s will NOT open until some time next week.*
So guys, there you have it. A double date with two Madrid Bar in Patpong tonight. I am pleased to say that the Bangkok nightlife scene is far from dead and buried.
BANGKOK’S COLUMNIST GODS
Can’t make it to the Madrid Bar Party? OK, here is an interesting analysis called the Bangkok Columnist Gods. Bangkok Dan explores a comparison between Bangkok’s most popular internet columnists. The article features Bernard Trink (Nite Owl) and the enigmatic Stickman, plus other contenders for the title.
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great cultural exchange dave, way to go!
Thank you for the mention Dave!
Some scary stuff you had to go through at Angelwitch!
Ciao! -
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012 11:35
Posted by David Icke
'A prosecutor in Georgia has added to the federal government’s contention that veterans pose a domestic terror threat as outlined in a 2009 Department of Homeland Security document leaked to the media.
According to the Associated Press, four Army soldiers killed a fellow soldier and his girlfriend to hide the activities of an “anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks.” The government says the group went by the name F.E.A.R., short for Forever Enduring Always Ready.'
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Chiffon Gown with Beaded Tulle Bodice Style 874900 1 1
Love it!!! I had looked and looked for an affordable dress with the illusion neckline and chiffon fabric. Almost impossible! So I kinda gave it up and was just going to order the closest dress I could find. I was wavering between three other dresses on DB until I happened to see this one! Laaaaa (angels singing!)!! I ordered this and another dress to try on, and hands down this was the dress. It says "spring" to me, and the bodice is beautiful! It has a beautiful flowing chiffon skirt and the charmeuse waistband was an added bonus. I am thinking that I may add a dark purple sash, just to jazz it a bit. Who knows, but I do know I can't wait to wear it this May! February 15, 2012
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The first thing I'd like to do is thank all of our participating teams, new and returning, in the UDBNFL. You guys made for another great season. Once again, the competition within the league was fierce all the way to the end. There's really not much more you can ask for from a fantasy league than that. I hope you all had fun, and I'd love to do it again for a third time next season. I would also like to thank Chris and everyone else at DBN for allowing us to organize, and talk a little smack through Dawgs By Nature.
And now on to the awards! I decided to change it up for this season, to keep things interesting...
The first award presentation is for the 2011 UDBNFL Toilet Bowl. This is given to the two teams that participated in the ugliest game of the season. There were a few to chose from, but yet again in Week 7, we had a stinker of all stinkers. The WV Brownies (Kimble_79) just barely upstaged the Husker's_Hounds (doggrad87). After the smoke had settled, the final scores was a whopping 53.04 to 44.06 in what was the lowest scoring game all season. Outstanding performances featured in the game includes an awesome -4.00 from the Titans defense and 0.90 from Devery Henderson. The WV Brownies did recover, however, and went on to finish third overall with a 9-5-0 record. Husker's_Hounds were not as lucky, finishing 2-12-0.
On to one of my favorite awards from last season, The Maybin Award. This is awarded to the team with the biggest draft bust. This is, of course, named after Aaron Maybin, former linebacker for the Buffalo Bills. Picked 11th overall in 2009, he couldn't even find playing time one of the worst defenses in the NFL. At the time, one even argued that he may be the worst player in the entire league. (In 2011, he was signed, waived, then signed again by the NY Jets.) This season, our fantasy Aaron Maybin is none other than Chris Johnson, which means the award goes to Husker's_Hounds, who on paper seemingly had one of the best drafts in the early rounds. Chris Johnson held out until September, but did play in every game. Still, he put up abysmal numbers to start off the season by his standards and finished 44th among fantasy scoring, finishing 40 sports below where he was projected, totaling 157.50 points.
Our next prestigious medal is known as the The Anti-Haynesworth Award. This one is named after a guy who banked on a $100 million dollar contract for rolling around on the ground, this is given to the team that basically does the opposite of the moronic Redskins front office. (In 2011, Haynesworth went on to do nothing for the Patriots, was waived and claimed by the Bucs.) This season, our fantasy Anti-Haynesworth is Cam Newton, who enjoyed a mesmerizing, multiple record breaking, rookie season! That means the award goes to golan (golanbatrac) who, despite having some waiver issues at first, picked him up after Week 2. And though golan missed the playoffs due to a brutal schedule, Newton helped him finish third in overall fantasy scoring. Newton himself finished second overall in fantasy points, just behind, elite QB, Aaron Rodgers. It's also worth noting that golan scored the most points from post draft acquisitions, totaling 676.26 (45.08 a week).
The final medal before the championship presentation season wasn't as cut and dry as the last (in 2010 it went to the team landing Arian Foster). This time the award goes to Colt's Cowboys (brownsboy14), but not for just one drafted player. Not only did he sneak Marshawn Lynch at 75th overall, who ended up 5th among running backs in fantasy points, but possibly even more impressive, he also managed to land Darren Sproles at 147th overall, who finished just for spots below Lynch. It was really a remarkable draft by Colt's Cowboys, proven furthermore by his league high 1483.78 fantasy points from drafted players, averaging a staggering 92.73 a week. Such an impressive and consistent draft went on to lead this team to even brighter accomplishments...
And finally, congratulations to our winner, 2011 Unofficial DBN Fan League Champion, Colt's Cowboys. In his final game, he defeated my team in match that turned out not to be very close,125.56 to 102.88. This season, rather than whipping up a trophy, with all the hype around championship belts, I present to our winner his own:
Please remember all of these are done in good fun. If you found that you don't like your medal, well too bad! It's yours for life, EMBRACE IT! Another big congrats to all of our winners, I really hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. Again, I hope we can do it all again for a third season!
Don't forget, we still have one more fantasy football matter to settle: The DBN Three League Showdown! Currently the plan is to utilize the playoff game(s) and each champion from the three leagues will select their lineups from the competing playoff teams. I'll make a fanshot very shortly regarding this matter. As always, any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
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Either way, I'll bet it was an
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were all those expectations - the house,the kids, the "happily
ever after" that didn't come to pass. Some experiencing
the trauma of divorce seem to take it in stride, for most though,
it will be the death of a dream.
We human beings are a complicated
lot, living complicated lives. Maintaining a happy marriage
is beyond the abilities of half who attempt it, no matter how
well intentioned they are. Indeed some problems will only become
apparent to couples only after they get married; for if there
is a weakness in the relationship, or in either personality,
the rigors of marriage will surely find it.
Society and unfortunately many
religions often add to the problem by shaming those who prematurely
end
their marriages. Added to that is ones' own desire not to have
a "failed marriage." But many who stay married to
avoid the stigma of divorce spend decades in barren and often
abusive marriages- all not to let down someone else's' expectations.
I want you to know some things
up front- that prior marriage of yours wasn't a failure. That
marriage went as far as you both could take it. It reached
a point where it was no longer tenable- and then it concluded.
I've married thousands of couples, not one of which ever told
me " Thanks Tom!, I hope we get a few months or a few
years out of this." All wanted to take their marriages
to the grave.
I have no guilt or shame for you
and I have no questions about your marital history. I personally
hope you forgive what can be forgiven, and look at your
prior marriage as the learning experience that it was.
I am also hopeful that you just
might be entering into a relationship with the love of your
life. The one that was meant to be, and the one you deserve.
And to that end, I intend to fully advocate you in front of
all your friends and family. I think you'll find that they,
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well great but i like to "aquire" my music "differently" lol limewire
via pspfanboy
As reported on Engadget, Apple and EMI today announced their plans to offer music files without DRM protection on the iTunes Store. Although the new files will cost 30 cents more ($1.29), they will come at a much higher bitrate (256kbps) and will no longer have copyright protection. PSP-Vault intelligently points out that these unprotected files should work in PSP systems, as most firmware revisions allow the playback of AAC audio files.
For now, the option to purchase unprotected files will only apply to artists under the EMI label. Wikipedia lists many of the artists signed to the record giant. While it'll be great to have fully unrestricted access to music in the future, this is a great first step for PSP owners that want to purchase their music legally from a service other than Sony's failing Connect store.
well great but i like to "aquire" my music "differently" lol limewire
your all ****ing pirates and should be ashamed of yourselves......i love you guys
wouldn't it be cool if this evolved into itunes on your ps3? I hate having to scroll down hundreds of folders just to get to the right artist. (Maybe I should be posting this in the ps3 forum)
Truth is, this applies to anything that can decode AAC. That ranges from the PSP to the PS3 to a couple iRiver devices to Palms, to PocketPCs, and so on and so forth. Ahh, the magic of a DRM-free world.
Itunes...big yay....all the psp community jump for joy....
Year right...
doesnt this mean u could just copy the song like a million times?
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well.. Things were going great.. 'till I had a meeting with my boss who advises me that my job is at risk of redundancy.. great eh ?? So, if anyone has knowledge of any employment prospects in Devon and Cornwall (I'm in Saltash) please do fire details my way.. I am able to work with 'doze and Linux, hardware and software (not devel) skills, also networking is an option. If anyone can help me out, great.. if not I'll keep my fingers crossed and eyes open.. TIA Neil
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While he can’t trace his lineage back to any famous winemakers, DealChicken takes pride in continuing his family’s legacy of drinking great wines. Providing both locals and tourists with a “must-see stop along the Niagara Wine Trail,” Spring Lake Winery continues a rich family history of Italian winemaking. Broaden your knowledge of wine as you and several friends sample their catalog of handcrafted vintages in the tasting tour-di-vino. At half off their normal prices, enjoy a host of gourmet wines that will please both your palate and your wallet.
Located in Lockport, Spring Lake Winery at Varallo Vineyards transports their Italian wine heritage to northwestern New York. This locally owned and operated business has grown a family tradition of fermenting barrels in the basement into an award-winning winery employing three generations of winemakers. Dedicated to producing top quality products, they take pride in treating each customer as a member of the family.
$15 for tasting tour-di-vino, wine club membership and wine glasses for two
$25 for tasting tour-di-vino, wine club membership and wine glasses for four
The Merchant, not DealChicken, is solely responsible for this Deal. This Deal is subject to the Terms of Service and HOW DEALCHICKEN WORKS.
Spring Lake Winery boasts several award-winning wines that have earned accolades including a double gold medal award for their Select Late Harvest (Riesling). In addition, they have also been awarded a bronze medal from the 2011 Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition to a silver medal from the 2011 Finger Lakes International Wine Competition.
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A bad accident led to a good career change for Mark Leatherman, who has owned repair and custom shop Quick Draw Motorcycles since 2003.
He left Austin, Texas, in 2000 to attend what is now WyoTech, Three years later he had a riding accident that shattered a leg. The other motorist had good insurance, so his medical bills were paid. But or six months he could not work at his part-time job at a South Daytona bike shop.
"Once I started walking, I said, 'I gotta do something,' " he told the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Later that year, he opened Quick Draw in Ormond Beach with some of the settlement money from the wreck. He's since moved to a new, 1,400-square-foot space, where he keeps his Texas roots on display with a state flag and portraits of western celebrities.
"I would have worked probably for several more years and then tried to open my shop" if not for the accident, he says. Turned out, starting his own business wasn't as hard as he expected.
Now he has two employees and a local following that keep the business going year-round, but Daytona Bike Week is an important part of annual revenue.
"If we're able to sit down for an hour during Bike Week," he says, "then it's not very busy."
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Pros: Lots of megapixels! (18), light, great pics!
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May 29, 2007, - 9:59 am
Clerk Who Caught Fort Dix Six Identifies Himself
By Debbie Schlussel
**** UPDATE: Video (scroll down, left-hand side) and Transcript of the Brian Morganstern interview on CNN are up (scroll down). ****
It’s official: One of the two Circuit City clerks (it’s actually two, not one), who caught and tipped off law enforcement about the Fort Dix Six, is Brian Morganstern.
He appeared, this morning, on CNN’s “American Morning” (video of the interview is not yet up on the CNN site).
Now, look for CAIR and every other Islamofascist group to dig up every detail of Morganstern’s life as they seek to take him down to save their jihadi terrorist buddies in the Fort Dix Six (really ten, but four are getting away with it).
More from Associated Press:
An electronics store clerk credited with making the tip that broke up an alleged plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix went public Tuesday, saying he spent a day pondering his suspicions before going to authorities.
Speaking on CNN’s “American Morning,”, then called police, sparking a 15-month investigation that led to the arrests on May 7 of six men told CNN.”
G-d Bless Brian Morganstern for doing the right thing in this age of political correctness and Islamist retribution.
Tags: American Morning, Army, Army installation, Brian Morganstern, Brian Morganstern Now, Caught Fort Dix Six Identifies, Circuit City, CNN, Debbie Schlussel, electronics, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fort Dix, Fort Dix Six, Iraq, Jackie Foreman, law enforcement, law enforcement authorities, Mount Laurel, Mount Laurel police, Mount Laurel Police Department, Mount Laurel store, return telephone calls, spokeswoman, The Associated Press, U.S. Attorney's Office
Morgenstern? Jewish name? Ha ha ha. How deliciously ironic that these Muslames were turned in by an America/Jewish Patriot. That ought to give these Jihad spincters something to bitch about. Bwaaaa haaa.
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January 8, 2010, - 3:27 pm
About the Egyptian Muslim Shooting on Coptic Christmas (Why I Don’t Care)
**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE ****
A couple of days ago, Egyptian Muslims did a drive-by shooting of Coptic Christians in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, who were celebrating Coptic Christmas. Seven were killed (including a Muslim security guard), and nine were wounded. The story is tragic and instructive in the absolute intolerance of Muslims for Christians in Muslim nations (and non-Muslim ones).
Coptic Pope Shenouda III: His Anti-Semitic Sermons Rival Those of Muslim Clerics
That said, I deliberately, heretofore, chose to ignore it. Several readers–including some Copts–asked me why I didn’t write about it. Well, as I’ve noted before, it’s an unfortunate but true fact that most Christians in the Middle East sided with Muslims against the Jews (not just against the Israelis). And among the most viciously anti-Semitic Christians in the Mid-East are the Copts. At ten percent of the Egyptian population, they historically not only supported Egypt against the Jews and Israel, but the Copts participated in Egyptian Muslim pogroms against Jews, supported the expulsion of nearly the entire Jewish Community of Egypt, and even participated in looting and seizing Jewish property before and after the expulsion was complete. And, although they are mostly found in Egypt, in every other Middle Eastern nation in which they have a small presence, Copts have consistently participated in persecuting the Jews. It’s not by accident. They are simply following the openly anti-Semitic teachings of Coptic Pope Shenouda III.
As I noted on Christmas Eve, despite the hatred and persecution of Christians by Muslims, the Christians in the Middle East–with the exception of some factions of Maronite Christians in Lebanon–bet against Israel and the Jews. And they picked the wrong side.
So, as I’ve noted on this site before, I can’t shed too many tears (if any) for the Copts. Their intolerance of Egypt’s Jews has now come full circle in Egyptian Muslims’ intolerance of them. Islamic intolerance of non-Muslims–including Copts–isn’t news, but it never stopped them from joining their Muslim oppressors to “get” someone they hated more: Al-yahudi’in, the Jews.
What goes around, comes around. And the karma of anti-Semitic hate and killing is often a bitch. This time, an Islamic bitch.
If you want ignorant crying over the Copts, visit ignoramus frauds like Pamela Geller (who regularly praises the anti-Semitic Copts), who have no knowledge about much of anything. If you want the truth and historical perspective, don’t cry over the Copts. They didn’t cry over my Jewish Egyptian friends. They helped make them cry.
Islamic intolerance and murder is unacceptable, but not only when the victims of it are not Jews. Once the Copts learn this and issue an apology for their historic alliance with that intolerance, then I will worry about their fate.
But not until then. Right now, I really couldn’t care less about the fate of proud anti-Semites, regardless of whether their oppressors are Muslim. It’s like my view of the Shi’ite-Sunni civil war and the unfortunately-defunct Iran-Iraq War:
Let them fight each other forever and leave the Jews alone.
**** UPDATE: Reader Joseph, an Egyptian Jew who was expelled along with his family and most Egyptian Jews from Egypt, agrees:
Dear Debbie!I read your article about Muslims killing Copts in Egypt….as i was born in that country…78 years ago…and lived there 26 years…i know enough the attitude of Copts about Jews!Copts were the one that introduced virulent antisemite in Egypt…. becoming more effective when Christians came to that country from Syria and LevanonI dont pretend that Muslims were not antijews…but not so much as they are today!Please excuse my english…I write much better in french…and in hebrew!***Sorry Debbie….That email run away from me before in finish it!I wanted to congratulate you and to wish you all the best!Continue!You are a light for the Jews!all the bestjoseph
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you can say whatever you like about our Christian brothers but just remember, We can still move freely in our countries move from city to city , unlike you who need to build concrete walls around your towns. We don’t like living in cages, and we don’t rely on foreign help to fight our battles and wipe our asses we also don’t kiss asses of other countries just so we can get protection. The problem is that you will never have peace on this earth as it is written, until you believe. I like your blog as I can speak freely IHOPE I haven’t offended anyone if I did LET IT BE WRITTEN LET IT BE SAID THE RED SEA WILL NOT BE PARTED AGAIN FOR THE JEWS?
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A R Rahman opens online store
Music maestro A R Rahman has opened an online shop selling his best works including tracks from Oscar-winning films 'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'Elizabeth' for his millions of fans around the globe.
Music maestro A R Rahman has opened an online shop selling his best works including tracks from Oscar-winning films 'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'Elizabeth' for his millions of fans around the globe.
The 'A R Rahman Store' on his official website, is presently selling seven items but promises to expand the inventory to "include exclusive pre-sale tickets, DVDs and more".
One can shop only with Canadian Dollars, Euros, British Pounds and US dollars. Prices range from USD 12.49 to USD 22.99.
Under "Soundtracks & Scores", it is offering "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008), "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (2007), "Bombay Dreams" (2002) and "Original London Production: The Lord of the Rings" (2208) while offerings in "Albums & Compilations" include "Vande Mataram" (1997), "Between Heaven and Earth" (2004) and "The Best of A R Rahman": Music and Magic From the Composer of Slumdog Millionaire (2009).
Tracks listed under his latest "The Best" compilation include hit Hindi tracks like 'Rang Baby', 'Warriors in Peace' (Hindi Version).
Rajan Zed, a Nevada based Hindu leader commended multi-talented Rahman for bringing East and West closer through music and for making the world look at Indian film music more seriously.
Diversity of his styles and themes was appealing to different sections of the society, Zed, chairperson of Indo-American Leadership confederation said.
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Since 1988, Albuquerque's own Carousel of Music has set the standard for wedding entertainment with live solo guitar, piano and vocal performance either by itself or combined with Mobile Disc Jockey entertainment. Our musicians are well-known in the local music scene and have been with Carousel of Music between 8 and 13 years each. They hold Bachelor and Master Degrees in music, and have released over twenty CD's between them. Each of them also emcee events and DJ the dance. Brides Choice Award winner "Best Entertainment." PWG | http://www.decidio.com/vendors/carousel-of-music-105833.html | 2013-05-18T10:31:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
M include a prop nut, tab washer, or cotter pin. Once you purchase the initial XHS™ Hub Kit, it may be utilized with all of your future XHS™ Michigan Wheel propeller purchases. Be sure to try out our Propeller Guide to find the right propeller and hub kit for your engine. | http://www.deepblueyachtsupply.com/propellers/michigan-wheel-XHS-hub-kits?sterndrive=true | 2013-05-18T10:31:12 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Alabama’s sixth community archery park opened Aug. 24 in Heflin, featuring multiple ranges for youth and adults from 15-50 yards..”
Heflin park will be open year-round during daylight hours for recreational shooting, competitive tournaments and outdoor educational programming. Day use of the park is free for those under 16 years of age or more offer. | http://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/deer-news/new-archery-park-opens-for-public-use | 2013-05-18T10:52:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Wednesday Open Thread [2.20.13]
Speaker John Boehner is doing everything he can to portray the Sequester as Obama’s idea and sole responsibility, I suppose because he knows that the affects of the massive draconian spending cuts will be felt immediately and everywhere, but that they will cost a million jobs and send the country into a recession, and thus the cuts will ultimately be politically unpopular to the point that if a candidate voted for the Budget Control Act of 2011, that candidate will be defeated in 2014, which will mean that the Democrats will retake the House (since contrary to Boehner’s revisionist history, it was mostly Republicans who voted for the BCA, including Boehner himself). Tomasky agrees:
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So Boehner is panicking, since he knows he can do nothing to prevent the Sequester because his crazy ass party won’t let him do anything. In fact his crazy ass party loves, and I mean LOVES, the cuts that are coming. Don’t believe me, listen to the crazy ass Republicans themselves:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY): “It’s pretty clear to me that the sequester is going to go into effect…Read my lips: I’m not interested in an 11th-hour negotiation.” [Washington Post, 2/12/13]/13]
Republican Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis (R-WY): “Sequestration will take place…I am excited. It will be the first time since I’ve been in Congress that we really have significant cuts.” [Billings Gazette, 2/11/13]
Republican Congressman Paul Broun (R-GA): “I want to see it go into place.” [Cherokee Tribune, 2/9/13]
Republican Congressman John Shimkus (R-IL): “He [President Obama] can announce all he wants. Sequestration is coming.” [Politico, 2/5/13]
Republican Congressman Scott DesJarlais (R-TN): “Sequestration needs to happen…Bottom line, it needs to happen and that’s the deal we struck to raise the debt limit.” [Cleveland Daily Banner, 2/1/13]
Republican Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA): “The consensus is we want the sequester numbers to come in and to finally see spending reduced in Washington.” [Dow Jones Business News, 2/8/13]
Republican Congressman Mick Mulvaney (R-SC): “We want to keep the sequester in place and take the cuts we can get.” [Dow Jones Business News, 2/8/13]
Republican Congressman Tim Huelskamp (R-KS): “The majority of the caucus agrees that at the minimum, the spending cuts we have already agreed on, must happen.” [U.S. News, 2/6/13]
Republican Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK): “We would rather see those cuts happen…I can assure you that there will not be a political blink on this. These cuts will occur.” [U.S. News, 2/6/13]
Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA): “We’re willing to let it go through till they (Democrats) respond to us.” [McClatchy, 2/6/13]
Republican Congressman Jim Lankford (R-OK): “We’d rather do it another way. But if the only way it can be done is sequestration, then it has to be done.” [Politico, 2/5/13]
Republican Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH): “The only thing that’s worse than cutting national defense is not having any scheduled cuts at all.” [Roll Call, 10/12/12]
Republican Senator John Barrasso (R-WY): “Let me be very clear – and I’d say this to the president as I say it to you – these spending cuts are going to go through on March 1.” [CNN, 2/17/13]
Republican Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK): “I think sequester’s going to happen…I think people want it to happen.” [NYT, 1/31/13]
And they should love them, because the Sequester is what the Republican Party believes today. They are for massive spending cuts to everything everywhere but defense spending. That is what the Sequester is.
And they should love it because Speaker Boehner sold his party on the greatness of the Sequester back in 2011, as revealed today by John Avalon.
“It’s a.”
Avalon reveals Boehner to be a pathological liar, but we already knew that.
Comment by cassandra_m on 20 February 2013 at 12:21 pm:
Hillary News of the Day! — She’s Running!
Comment by Delaware Dem on 20 February 2013 at 12:25 pm:
LOL. That’s good enough for me. HILLARY 2016!!!
Comment by puck on 20 February 2013 at 12:31 pm:
The Onion: Los Angeles On High Alert As LAPD Back On Regular Duty
Comment by cassandra_m on 20 February 2013 at 12:40 pm:
Senate Minority Leader Fooled by Report in Military Version of The Onion
Comment by pandora on 20 February 2013 at 1:02 pm:
Oh my. That’s really embarrassing. Talk about wasting tax dollars.
Comment by Dave on 20 February 2013 at 1:14 pm:
“That’s good enough for me. HILLARY 2016!!!’
And if she did something really off the wall and pulled in Jon Hunstman, there would be little point in campaigning and the election would be fait accompli.
Oh yeah, and the nation would be better off as well.
Comment by puck on 20 February 2013 at 1:25 pm:
Stop with the Huntsman bromance. Aren’t there enough qualified Democrats? If there are, Hillary will definitely know them. I would hope that by 2016 this bipartisanship fetish will have run its course. By choosing Huntsman, Hillary will be validating the GOP narrative that Democrats are too extreme on the left. I don’t see any reason why Hillary or any Dem candidate for President should be validating the Republican brand during a national election. Let them sink across the board.
Comment by socialistic ben on 20 February 2013 at 1:34 pm:
unless Huntsman is no longer a republican when he is chosen
Comment by puck on 20 February 2013 at 1:40 pm:
whatever. I don’t think there is any such thing as “former Republican.” Look at Chris Coons – started out as a Reaganite, ran as a Democrat, then twice voted for tax cuts on the rich. Who could have foreseen?
Comment by cassandra_m on 20 February 2013 at 1:41 pm:
Huntsman won’t make a difference with a very dysfunctional Congress, so it boggles the mind to think of how the nation would be better with him as a Hillary VP pick.
Comment by cassandra_m on 20 February 2013 at 1:42 pm:
Another good guy with a gun heard from. Sheesh.
Comment by pandora on 20 February 2013 at 1:46 pm:
I’m with Puck. Huntsman is not a moderate. He’s a diplomatic speaker, but his views are extreme – at times, more extreme than the Tea Party/conservatives. Dig deeper.
So yeah, please drop the bromance. Hillary is too smart to tie this albatross around her neck.
Comment by puck on 20 February 2013 at 1:53 pm:
The latest good guy with a gun unfortunately stands a good chance of getting off with a Florida SYG defense, based on the article:
Basically, all Floridagun owners have apparently also been given a human hunting permit. This is what happens to the moral restrictions on shooting a person once you remove the legal restrictions.
Comment by Jason330 on 20 February 2013 at 2:35 pm:
The Republicans quoted above remind me of John Wilkes Booth, a man who was so deluded that he thought the country would regarded him as hero for killing President Lincoln.
Comment by bamboozer on 20 February 2013 at 4:00 pm:
I was going to write a well reasoned explanation of how Boehner was for sequestration before he was against it and that it never originated with Obama. But due to recent good news I will instead proclaim HILARY IN 2016!!!! That and Republicans stock up on crying towels and depends as you will need both in quantity.
Comment by V on 20 February 2013 at 4:02 pm:
This is sort of amazing. The WWE has debuted a new tea-party themed wrestler/hype man combo and the right establishment is pretty pissed about it.
the best part? they are bad guys.
Comment by Jason330 on 20 February 2013 at 4:27 pm:
V – the fact that they are “heels” and not “faces” (to use wrestling lingo) is interesting.
The cartoon characters that populate the WWE, reveal our national psyche, and even though the WWE is a wingnut run business, they know where the money is.
Comment by Paula on 20 February 2013 at 4:28 pm:
Did you guys hear about this yet?
Delaware Law Weekly
Stolen-Gun Bill Proposed in Delaware
Jeff Mordock
Delaware Law Weekly
2013-02-20
“Under new legislation proposed in Delaware’s General Assembly and supported by Delaware Governor Jack Markell, individuals who fail to notify police of a stolen or missing gun would face a fine of up to $500 for a first offense and could lose their right to own a gun as a second offense.”
More here:
Comment by V on 20 February 2013 at 4:33 pm:
Jason,
I mean, it’s no Iron Sheik/Hulk Hogan showdown, but amusing nonetheles.
Comment by Jason330 on 20 February 2013 at 4:33 pm:
Irresponsible a-holes should lose their right to own a gun on the first offense.
Comment by mike on 20 February 2013 at 5:40 pm:
And the first time that actually happens Alan Gura will end up taking DE to court on it, they will lose, and you and I will have to foot the bill for the fact that folks like Markell violate people’s rights.
And yes, I’m quite certain that making someone a prohibited person for life because they had guns stolen and didn’t adequately report the theft would be considered unconstitutional by the courts.
Comment by V on 20 February 2013 at 6:18 pm:
7 other states have such laws, and all federally licensed gun owners have similar reporting rules when they are robbed.
plus, this is just the proposal so there could be changes before the bill is finalized.
but yeah, not sure sure they will lose right off the bat.
Comment by V on 20 February 2013 at 6:47 pm:
I was wrong. 7 states and DC.
looks like Conneticut and Ohio make it a felony (like the proposed Delaware law), Massacusetts and DC don’t use the word felony but discuss permanent revocation of licensure or registration, and NJ, NY, Michigan and RI all have civil penalties.
so there’s that.
Comment by pandora on 20 February 2013 at 8:09 pm:
First, thanks for the link, V.
And here’s a candidate for “never allowed to ever own a gun again” club. Seriously, if we threw the book at all (and there are soooo many) of these “I didn’t know the gun was loaded” fools it might make gun owners think twice about irresponsible behavior.
Incidents like this happen far too often.
Comment by V on 20 February 2013 at 9:27 pm:
(also, i meant to type federally licensed gun DEALERS upthread, not owners. whoops).
Comment by The Straight Scoop on 20 February 2013 at 11:48 pm:
I’m SHOCKED that El Som hasn’t weighed in on the WWE tea party wrestler and manager. They cite the Constitution, decry immigrants and people who went free stuff, declare themselves to be “true Americans,” hate the Mexican-born world champion (and currently have a title match against him at Wrestlemania)… And they are the heels. This is screaming for a masked sleeping beast’s thoughts.
Comment by SussexWatcher on 21 February 2013 at 7:07 am:
Excerpts from today’s NJ. Good luck with Mayor Micromanager.
Williams is the city’s top political official now, but he can’t shake his previous career as a police officer.
Describing himself as as “combat cop” …
Williams’ out-and-about style contrasts with that of his predecessor, James M. Baker, who preferred to let police handle crime scenes and surveillance details.
When complaints roll in, Williams wants to check them out himself, while trying avoid micromanaging his police chief, he said.
Comment by Truth Teller on 21 February 2013 at 7:53 am:
Huntsman proved himself to be a coward when he stood on stage along with the other Repuks and remained silent while a GOP mob booed an active duty serviceman serving in Iraq. Let us not forget or forgive these acts of UN Americiaism on the part of GOP and their ilk.
Comment by El Somnambulo on 21 February 2013 at 9:00 am:
Happy to oblige, Straight Scoop.
Yes, the WWE has started a xenophobic angle featuring Jack Swagger, ‘the All-American American’; Zeb Coulter, his Mexican-hating mouthpiece, played by former rassler and booker Dutch Mantel; and Alberto Del Rio, who holds the secondary WWE championship belt.
The reason for the angle is that WWE has failed miserably in the past three-plus years to create a new Latino superstar. Rey Misterio, Jr. is at the end of the line, WWE totally botched the push for Mexican superstar Mistico, who is Sin Cara in WWE. So, they panicked, and did a horrible heel-to-face turn with Alberto Del Rio. Del Rio is a pretty good heel as sort of an elitist upper-class rich guy, but he’s terrible as a face. Cuts bad promos, and is only OK in the ring.
With Del Rio’s face turn bombing, and no other Latino superstar in the offing, it looks like the bookers went with this xenophobia angle in order to prop up Del Rio. Not only do I think that Del Rio is beyond propping up, but there are, as you might expect, unintended consequences. There was a Smackdown taping in, wait for it, Biloxi, Mississippi on Tuesday. The yahoos cheered Coulter’s rants, which will have to be edited out.
But here is the delicious irony. After the Smackdown taping, Jack Swagger, who has screwed up before, was arrested for DUI, speeding and possession of marijuana. Oh, did I mention that Dutch Mantel’s daughter was killed by a drunk driver? Yet another PR disaster for WWE, which deserves it. Not sure if this will kill the angle, but Swagger probably shouldn’t buy any green bananas.
Comment by Dave on 21 February 2013 at 9:30 am:
@pandora,
“Huntsman is not a moderate. He’s a diplomatic speaker, but his views are extreme – at times, more extreme than the Tea Party/conservatives.”
Sorry I forgot there are litmus tests on both sides. Remember I tend examine the whole person so I never home in on a single issue. I forgot my place.
Comment by puck on 21 February 2013 at 9:40 am:
It’s more than one issue, Dave; Huntsman also has extremist tax positions. I’m not going to spend any time looking it up though until IF Hillary gets nominated and IF she picks Huntsman.
Comment by pandora on 21 February 2013 at 9:49 am:
Look at his tax policy, Dave. How about his idea to completely eliminate home mortgage interest deduction? How about his positions on guns? Hardly homing in on a single issue.
Look, I understand you’re upset with the state of your party, but that’s not my fault – it’s actually former GOPers/small c conservatives, like you, who are to blame. Oh yeah, those crazy conservatives were all the rage when they were going after Dems – and none of the now called RINOs said a word.
Please stop trying to make Huntsman appear moderate. He’s not. I get why you like him – and it has nothing to do with you being above the fray. You’re not. Get your own parties house in order and stop expecting the Dems to move to your positions and candidates.
Why would Hillary even consider him? She doesn’t have to since your choice next election may be between Hillary and a Dem VP or Rick Santorum?
Comment by pandora on 21 February 2013 at 10:00 am:
And here’s more of Huntsman’s policies…
“I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts.” Jon Huntsman.
On Ryan’s budget: “I would’ve voted for it. Including the Medicare provisions.” Jon Huntsman.
He’s on record saying he’d repeal the ACA.
Dave, do you even know Huntsman’s positions? If you do, and you agree with them, then you’re a Republican. That’s fine, but it’s no reason for a Democrat to consider him. | http://www.delawareliberal.net/2013/02/20/wednesday-open-thread-2-20-13/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Baseball (Varsity)
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Coach: Bruce Shatel
Assistant Coach - TBA
Season Record: 17-6-1
Team Schedule
Home games are in boldPrint Team ScheduleAway Game Directions
Coach: Bruce Shatel
Assistant Coach - TBA
Home games are in boldPrint Team ScheduleAway Game Directions
Do you have your own baseball card? Wes Swackhamer '01 does...
Delbarton sports fans enjoyed a great night at the TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater last night at the Somerset Patriot v. Sugarland Skeeters game...Green Wave alum Dan DeGeorge '05 started at shortstop for the Patriots.
On a steamy Monday night, July 16, the Somerset Patriots visited the Long Island Ducks for an Independent League showdown at Bethpage Ballpark in East Islip, NY. Pitcher Mike Loree ’03 started for the Long Island Ducks while Dan DeGeorge ’05 played shortstop for the Somerset Patriots.
Green Wave pitcher John Masella '13 has been named 2012 All Daily Record Baseball Player of the Year and Delbarton Baseball is 2012 All Daily Record Team of the Year.
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Are things looking better for the UK hotel industry? was a key question at our European Hotel Investment Conference. With this in mind, we along with TNS conducted a survey of senior hospitality figures including hotel owners, operators, lenders, developers and investors to gauge what the key performance and investment trends were and how these will shape the industry going forward into 2013.
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Large systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) are likely feeling the impact of new regulations being imposed around the world and for many, developing mandatory resolution plans can be a source of angst. For this institutions affected by the rule, resolution plans must clearly demonstrate how the organization can resolve itself in a timely manner without creating systemic risk to the U.S. economy. We believe that there are three areas in which resolution planning could have a positive impact on broader organizational goals.
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What Happened to Women?
Instead of moving to the center, liberalism should try embracing people who are actually liberals—starting with women.
On August 26, 1970, thousands of women marched down New York’s Fifth Avenue as part of the nationwide Women’s Strike for Equality. That demonstration has become part of the foundation legend of feminism. Who hasn’t seen the iconic photograph of jubilant women of every age pouring down the street arm in arm? Few, though, remember what those marchers were specifically calling for: free abortion on demand, free 24-hour community-controlled childcare, and equal opportunity in jobs and education.
Forty years and a world of social and cultural change later, how have those demands fared? Abortion is legal (which it was not in 1970), but spottily available and hugely contested. Childcare is expensive, inadequate, and the source of much guilt and blame. By contrast with today’s guarded, apologetic liberal-feminist discourse on these subjects, the language of 1970 sounds positively drunk with confidence. Abortion at no charge just for the asking? Selfish slut! Free childcare around the clock? Bad mommy! As for “community-controlled,” what does that even mean? Only “equal opportunity” sounds contemporary; not coincidentally, it is the only one of the three demands that is (almost) uncontested, at least as a principle. Americans today endorse the idea that women should have the same chances as men to excel at school and at jobs that men have historically held. Of course, plenty of people gripe that things have gone too far: Title IX has forced colleges to cancel men’s teams, “political correctness” and government bureaucracy forces employers to prefer “unqualified” women over deserving men, and so on. Moreover, if we overlook the dramatic impact of Roe v. Wade in 1973, of the three demands, equal opportunity is the one that has seen the most real, if uneven, continuing progress. Why is that?
Like liberalism, feminism has (at least) two aspects: an individualistic and libertarian side, and a social-welfare, “big government” side. The individualistic side of feminism (and liberalism) has been one of our history’s great success stories. The kinds of restrictions on women’s personal choices that were seen as natural and proper only a few decades ago now seem barely comprehensible. Was it really in 1960 that a judge threw a young woman out of a New York City traffic court for wearing pants? Were “stewardesses” ever fired for getting married? Could adult single women (and, in Connecticut, wives) be legally barred from getting birth control? Feminism has done a pretty good job of persuading society that at least in theory, doors that are open to men should be open to women too. That credo resonates with a culture that prizes self-determination and advertises even the Army (be all that you can be!) as an opportunity for personal growth. Like liberalism, feminism helped to expand all sorts of personal freedom and autonomy, most obviously in the area of sexual self-expression: It’s hard to imagine gay rights without it.
Unfortunately, also like liberalism, feminism has not succeeded in winning the kinds of government (let alone “community-controlled”) services and programs and enforcement of existing laws that would make it possible for women to take full advantage of “equal opportunity,” even within their own social class. Affirmative action to get women into skilled blue-collar jobs? There’s been no increase in women in the building and related trades since the 1970s. And when was the last time you heard anyone mention comparable worth, the plan to raise women’s wages by equalizing pay in female-dominated jobs with that in similar, mostly male occupations? Parking valets still make more than daycare teachers—and male parking valets make more than female ones. As for escape from an abusive spouse? Maternity leave? Daycare? A decent life as a single mother? Sure, if you can afford it.
The limited progress of feminism at large is replicated within liberalism itself. Plenty of liberals are uneasy with the implications of women’s emancipation from old structures and norms. I’m thinking, for example, of communitarian worries about the incursions of “the market” into family and community life, which to my ear come across as barely veiled critiques of working mothers, especially ones who enjoy their work and would find it degrading to be supported by a man (funny how we never hear fathers criticized for continuing to work no matter how much their wives earn). Liberal institutions—think tanks, magazines, websites, conferences, academic and policy institutes, and so on—are still mostly controlled by men, who just don’t notice if there are no women at the table, and for whom one female on a panel is a whole lot of woman.. It is still a little shocking to me that Barack Obama invited Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration—Rick Warren, who not only opposes legal abortion and gay marriage, but also believes God commands wives to obey their husbands and forbids divorce to battered women.
This was a very thoughtful article and looks at a critical question--"Why have women stopped stepping up to lead in the feminist movement." This is a subset of a larger question--"Why have people in general stopped calling on the government to meet their needs?" It is fatuous to blame "the liberals" because the United States stopped electing liberals to the Congress in the '80's and purged the survivers in 1994. Can you think of any Senator since Paul Wellstone was killed who would stand proudly in the tradition of Hubert Humphrey? Of course not! Liberalism died with the death of Humphrey and the election of Ronald Reagan. When people start standing up for themselves again, and for "the least of our brothers and sisters," then liberalism will reappear. Right now the most visible rank-and-file women you see are quoting Ann Coulter and cheering for Sarah Palin and calling our President a Socialist or worse. The liberal wannabes now are either running for cover or preparing to lose their reelection campaigns.
If women were liberals or were inclined to support liberals, then liberal office holders would be empowered. Right now women and us old codgers who believe in the liberal democracy of the 60's and 70's are written off as dinosaurs. It is the women and the young people themselves who will define the America of the next twenty years. Right now they are not pulling very hard on the oar, so until they do you may as well leave us powerless old liberals alone.
One of the problems here is that all women are not liberals. It makes no sense to assume that a member of any group, whether by means of their age, ethnicity, gender, or other statistical clustering is reliably a member of any other statistical cluster. However, assumptions like this can rally the mob, that then behaves in mob-like fashion: without reflection and with more heat than light.
I guess I would think of myself as a liberal. Until I read something ridiculous written by someone on the Left. Then I hedge back until I read something even more ridiculous from the Right.
I graduated from high school in 1970, and I remember those heady days of my early college years. What do we want? Freedom! When do we want it? Now. Etc.
Not surprisingly, my view of things has broadened and deepened as I have grown older. Nothing seems easy because nothing is. I have little tolerance for anyone who claims to "know" my mind based on my socioeconomic status. Heck, most days, I don't even know my own mind--at least not until I sit down, take a deep breath and over several hours try to figure out WHAT it is that I do feel and know about any given issue.
You probably don't realize that in order to write a questionnaire that generates useful information, you have to know what you want to know, and even more, you have to be willing to hear answers you don't want to hear.
This is BIG.
Now, I'm sure you thought that was obvious. But think of the idiot questionnaires and polls you have filled out, especially those that claim to tap into subjective data.
An example:
"In evaluating teeth whitening products, what features are most important to you?"
a. sparkle
b. decreased gum bleeding
c. improved breath
d. social allure
Playing theoretical consumer, I check off "sparkle" and move on to the next question without reading the other potential answers. It so happens that to me "sparkle" means pretty much the same thing as "social allure." If my teeth aren't mud colored, I think I will be able to smile openly and therefore I will feel much more self-confident. I think that people will notice this and like me. And it will be all because of my whitened teeth! So I will buy any product that reliably produces teeth "sparkle."
But what the pollster means by "sparkle" is "removal of teeth crud," maybe by any chemical means possible.
So he/she will take my answer to mean, "Hey, it's okay to put hydrochloric acid in this teeth whitening product, because the most important thing to me is removal of crud regardless of the long-term damage to teeth integrity."
What I, as theoretical consumer, meant is that I will be much more likely to buy a product that makes me feel socially secure. But maybe I wouldn't buy that product if I knew it was sandblasting my teeth.
Get it?
Volumes of misinformation are generated in this way.
Now, you know and I know that no teeth whitener is going to improve my social allure by itself. It may help me interact with more confidence, but that's all. The rest is up to me.
You are perhaps saying, "Aw, c'mon, when she checked "sparkle" she (theoretical consumer) didn't think that meant "help me get a date."
Probably, I wouldn't know that was what I thought because it would only be with deep reflection that I would discover that I believe people with white teeth have more fun.
Doubt me? Wait until you run across the next ad for tires that displays the thong clad rear end of some voluptuous babe. If you're Katha Pollitt, you will never buy those tires, EVER! If you're a guy, well, you might just unconsciously lean toward that brand next time, because of your dimly recollected memory of that curvaceous rear end--and your barely realized hope that buying those tires will get you some of THAT!
Katha Pollitt and I do share some opinions, but by no means all. So how exactly does "liberalism" (whatever THAT is) embrace "women." Which women? And how does a social construct embrace anything at all given that it has no arms?
Women (liberal women that is) lost all credibility by supporting Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal (conveniently discarding their much-trumpeted notion that sexual harrassment is about power). Their support of or at least failure to take a hard line against Muslim extremists who oppress women put the icing on the cake.May 7, 2010, 9:46 AM | http://www.democracyjournal.org/16/6732.php | 2013-05-18T10:40:45 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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We speak with Craig Dean, who initiated the Marriage Rights Movement when he filed the first modern-day lawsuit for same sex marriage in 1989 as well as the political director of the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s largest gay Republican organization. [includes transcript]
President Bush announced Tuesday his support to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
Bush’s comments came under intense attack from gay rights activists as well as many constitutional scholars. The announcement came on the heels of San Francisco’s decision to grant marriage licenses to more than 3,000 gay couples a Massachusetts court ruling that ordered the state to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses by mid-May.
A front-page article in the Washington Post says Bush had intended to sidestep the battle over constitutional marriage but couldn’t afford to do so after his conservative base had "grown restless over the budget deficit, government spending and his plan to liberalize immigration."
One unnamed Republican senator told the Post that this is "the last place Bush wanted to be. He should be coasting on being the war president and deliverer of tax cuts; instead, he has to take a divisive role on a contentious social issue that could undercut him as a compassionate conservative."
Democratic presidential frontrunners Senators John Kerry and John Edwards have both said that they’re for civil unions but against the Constitutional amendment as well as gay marriage. Dennis Kucinich has publicly supported gay marriage.
According to constitutional scholars, Prohibition marks the only other time the constitution was amended to curtail public freedoms.
Despite Bush’s highly publicized endorsement, passing an amendment to the Constitution is not easy. The amendment must win two-thirds support in both the Senate and the House and must be ratified by 38 states.
- President Bush announcing his support for a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage at the White House February 25, 2004.
- Craig Dean, filed first modern-day lawsuit for same sex marriage in 1989 initiating the Marriage Rights Movement. He is speaking to us from his home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
- Mark Mead, political director of the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s largest gay Republican organization.
Transcript
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AMY GOODMAN: Wedding Bell blues, Fifth Dimension, here on Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. President Bush yesterday backed an amendment to the Constitution that would ban gay marriage. He made the announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious, and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society. Government, by recognizing, protecting marriage, serves the interests of all. Today I call upon the Congress to promptly pass and to send to the states for ratification an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as the union of goodwill, and decency.
AMY GOODMAN: President Bush yesterday in the Roosevelt room of the white house announcing his backing for an amendment to the Constitution that would ban gay marriage. He made the announcement following the recent weddings of more than 3,000 gay couples in San Francisco and the court ruling in Massachusetts that ordered the state to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses by mid-May. Democratic Presidential front-runners Senators John Kerry and Edwards have both said they’re for civil unions but against a Constitutional amendment as well as against gay marriage. The front page article in the "Washington Post" says Bush intended to sidestep such culture war battles but couldn’t afford to do so after his conservative base had, quote, "grown restless over the budget deficit, government spending and the plan to liberalize immigration". One unnamed republican senator told the "Washington post" that this is, quote,"the last place Bush wanted to be. He should be coasting on being the war President and deliverer of tax cuts. Instead, he has to take a divisive role on a contentious social issue that could undercut him as a compassionate conservative. The amendment is only the second in U.S. history other than Prohibition to curtail public freedoms. We go first to Mark Mead political director for the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s largest gay Republican administration. Your response to the president’s announcement.
MARK MEAD: Hi, Amy. Good to be with you. You mentioned a moment ago that the President wants to be perceived as a compassionate conservative. That’s the type of campaign that he ran in 2000. We believe with this measure it will be impossible for him to claim that title. It is not compassionate or conservative. It’s not compassionate because this amendment would marginalize part of the American family, gay and lesbian families. It’s not conservative because we don’t believe that you use the Constitution as a political football on a transitory social issue like this.
AMY GOODMAN: Craig Dean is also with us. Craig Dean filed the first modern day lawsuit for same-sex marriage in 1989, initiating the Marriage Rights Movement speaking to us from his home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. You didn’t have a lot of support from mainstream gay organizations, did you, when you started this?
CRAIG DEAN: Not at all, Amy. Gees, it was sort of dusted — dusting off an old idea. At that time people were doing — working for domestic partnership with sort of the political goal of the Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Movement. People were having, you know, Holy Union Ceremonies by their religious pastors in the Metropolitan Community Church, another supporter of religious denominations. We were originally looking to have that done until one day I had — I saw a sign in downtown Washington, D.C., that said, "Help stamp out AIDS now, and kill off queers and junkies." I ended up in a lawsuit for denial of public accommodations, found out about the D.C. Human Rights Act that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, instead of having the union ceremony, my partner and filed for a marriage license and that’s how everything started, just two guys who really didn’t know any better. And it was denied, and I went and complained, and ended up starting the Marriage Rights Movement about 14, 15 years ago. After that whole — we worked on the Hawaii case and then we started working with the Legal Defense Fund and the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. At first, all of these organizations asked us to drop our lawsuit because they said that marriage isn’t something that we should be working for, we didn’t know if we wanted to be married anyway, we don’t know what the consensus is in the gay community, but we were like, well, we want to be married. So, that’s what really mattered, and through friends and co-workers in Washington, D.C., we put together a team of attorneys and historians and sociologists and started the lawsuit.
AMY GOODMAN: Mark Mead, did you expect this to come to this point?
MARK MEAD: Ah —
AMY GOODMAN: And did you support George W. Bush in 2000?
MARK MEAD: We have been loyal Republicans and we have supported this war-time President through the war. We supported the tax cuts which have jumpstarted the economy. This is problematic for us because this affects our families. It is not conservative. We’re basically conservative Republicans. As I mentioned, we don’t think this is conservative. I hoped that it wouldn’t come to this, but I have to say that the influence of some handful of folks on the radical Right, who are pushing this — pushing this, because it’s a huge fund-raising vehicle for them, I think got to some of the political folks at the White House and they think that this is a way to placate them. I believe that it has opened up a can of worms that the President is going to regret, especially come election day in November.
AMY GOODMAN: So, what are Log Cabin Republicans going to do?
MARK MEAD: Well, our — we — we will probably focus all of our efforts and measures on defeating the Federal Marriage Amendment. Actually, we will do that. This is — putting discrimination in the constitution, we just cannot stand for, so we’ll switch our focus to going state by state, if necessary, to defeat this amendment.
AMY GOODMAN: And Craig Dean, are you getting married?
CRAIG DEAN: Well, actually, my partner passed away in 1995 after our case had actually gone up into the D.C. Court of Appeals and we lost by a split 2-3 decision then. He passed away several months after that. We never actually did get married. But if you want an example of — if you want examples of families, they should have been there when — I stood by him until the end, and, you know, I cannot think of a better example of a loving, committed couple.
AMY GOODMAN: Let me ask you each your views on the thousands of people who are getting married in San Francisco and the Massachusetts court decision. Mark Mead.
MARK MEAD: Well, it is a compelling and emotional video to watch that, and I can understand why people want to have their marriage recognized civilly in some fashion. Of course, we think they should. And we support that. The political side of me says this might not be the advance we want right now. But, you know, Civil Rights is never easy, and it’s sometimes messy, and there were folks who thought that Rosa Parks should have stayed in the back of the bus. It’s here and it’s now and it’s happening. I think we need to use those pictures to show America that it’s okay to be in a relationship that’s same-sex and we need to celebrate that diversity and encourage people to love and take care of each other. That’s a very conservative approach and a very valid and appropriate approach for conservatives and liberals to encourage people to take care of each other and love each other.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask what you think of the "Dear Mary" campaign. This is the campaign of thousands of Gay Rights supporters posting open letters on the internet urging Mary Cheney, the vice president’s daughter, to speak out against amending the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. In a piece in the "Washington Post" yesterday, it says that the campaign targets Cheney, who is 34 years old, because she’s openly gay and is running her father’s part of the Bush Cheney re-election campaign but has not taken a public position on the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment. Vice President Cheney said during the 2000 campaign, it should be up to the states to decide whether to recognize same-sex relationships, and that, quote, "I don’t think there should necessarily be a federal policy." In an interview published January 11 by the Denver Post, he indicated his position had not changed but said "the President is going to have to make a decision in terms of what Administration Policy is on this particular provision, and I will support whatever decision he makes." Your response.
MARK MEAD: Is that for me?
AMY GOODMAN: Yes.
MARK MEAD: Well, Mary Cheney is not a public figure, although she is running the Vice Presidential operations for Bush-Cheney. I think our efforts should be directed towards the Vice President and President as opposed to his daughter. I fully understand what they’re doing. I understand the reason. I don’t know if it would be as effective as lobbying the President or Vice President. I would ask that question. I would like to know where Mary stands on it. I don’t know that targeted email campaigns are going to prompt an answer. I’m not sure that’s where we need to be at this moment in our cultural war. Frankly, the President only has a bully pulpit on the issue. He will never have a vote. I think because the process does not pass through the Oval Office and I think we should spend more time lobbying Senators specifically and stopping the Federal Marriage Amendment in its tracks. I think that would be for the greater good of the community.
AMY GOODMAN: Craig Dean, your response.
CRAIG DEAN: I would slightly disagree. I would say that Mary Cheney has decided to become a public figure by working in the political process. And certainly, it is okay for a private citizen to ask what her position is as a public figure. And you know, certainly there are other venues to go, but once again, our government is —- it’s not about denying private citizens the right to redress people who are making political decisions for them. I also think that we talked earlier about families. We talked about the conservative position. I have been dealing with this for years and years and years. My response is that, this is an issue that is about love. If there’s anything that anybody in this country can talk about, we as a Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Movement have fought to enter the military, have fought for protections in housing and have fought for discrimination protections in employment, but one issue that is going to affect everybody, one issue that everybody can relate into as human beings is who we love. Whether we put a label on ourselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transgender -—
AMY GOODMAN: On that note, we have to leave it there, I want to thank you for being with us. Craig Dean has been with us, pioneer in the Same Sex Marriage Movement and Mark Mead with the Log Cabin Republicans. That does it for the show. Looking forward to seeing people in Binghamton tomorrow. I’m Amy Goodman, thanks for joining us. | http://www.democracynow.org/2004/2/25/bush_backs_constitutional_ban_on_same | 2013-05-18T10:43:03 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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So yesterday Melissa was over and the conversation got on the topic of cats and she said “you know if you put a sock on a cat they fall over right?”.
Well no I did not know that. However I have socks. And I also have cats. Time for SCIENCE!
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Types of dental crowns.
If you've been informed that your tooth requires a crown, a decision must be made about what type should be placed.
There are a number of factors that need to be considered when making this determination, including comparative strength and durability and overall appearance. It's the goal of our pages to outline these issues for you, so you can have an intelligent discussion with your dentist about which makes the best choice for your situation.
What are the different types of crowns?
There are three kinds of dental crowns:
A) All-metal. B) All-ceramic. C) Porcelain-fused-to-metal.
The following paragraphs provide a brief description of each. Use their associated links for more information. (If you don't really know what dental crowns are, here's a brief overview.)
A) All-metal
As their name implies, all-metal crowns are fabricated entirely out of metal. While the classic all-metal has a gold coloration, other types of dental alloys, some of which have a silver ("white") color, can be used too.
Metal crowns are typically chosen for those applications where great strength is required and cosmetic appearance is not a concern. More details... >>
B) All-ceramic
These crowns are made entirely out of some type of dental ceramic such as porcelain. When they're fabricated, most types are handmade by a dental technician but some are milled out of a block of ceramic by machine. Both techniques offer their own advantages.
All-ceramics are typically placed in those situations where the tooth's aesthetics are of utmost concern (front teeth). Their primary disadvantage is that they're not as strong as the other types of crowns. More details... >>
C) Porcelain-fused-to-metal
Porcelain-fused-to-metal dental crowns (PFM's) can be thought of as a hybrid between their all-metal and all-ceramic counterparts. When they're fabricated, porcelain is fused to an underlying metal substructure in a high-heat furnace.
As advantages, these crowns offer good strength characteristics and a tooth-like coloration. More details... >>
Which is best?
You need to understand that there's no single type of crown that always makes the best choice. The right selection always varies depending on the needs of the patient's specific application.
Hopefully you'll take the time to use the links above. Then, once you've formed an opinion about what you think might be the best kind of crown, discuss matters with your dentist. Once they know what your thought process is, it won't take them long to steer you to the one that makes the best choice in satisfying both your concerns and dental needs.
Crown Basics -
Just in case you're not sure what a crown is, here are a few things you should know about them.
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Here are some predictions from this year's participants:
WEATHER AND WATER
Climate change will lead to more and more extreme weather, which will cause tremendous economic upheaval, predicts New York University economist Nouriel Roubini.
"It's not just that New York is going to be underwater 30 years from now," he said, referring to the devastation caused last fall by Hurricane Sandy.
Oxford University physicist Tim Palmer—who said as a scientist he preferred probabilities to prediction—noted there is a 10- to 15-percent chance that the Earth will warm by 6 degrees Celsius within a century, leading to "catastrophic consequences for humanity" ranging from extreme weather to rising seas.
Vali Nasr, dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said many countries will start running out of water in the coming years.
"Water is the new oil," he said.
A TECHNOLOGICAL SURGE
Laura Tyson, a business professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said one of the great concerns should be "the employment effects of technology," with so many jobs being rendered obsolete by scientific or technological advances.
Discussions of such advances were everywhere at Davos.
Sebastian Thrun, a computer science professor at Stanford University and leader of Google's Self-Driving Car Project, said he thinks Google co-founder Sergey Brin's prediction that within five years driverless cars will be on the streets used by regular people is going to happen.
"It'll be a while before they're going to be mainstream, and there'll be all kinds of interesting questions coming about security, privacy, safety of the system as a whole," Thrun said. "But if they are available within five years for general consumers, I think within 15 years you ought to be able to buy one of those."
MENTAL ILLNESS UNDERSTOOD
Edward Boyden, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who directs a neural engineering research group, says new technologies for analyzing the brain will produce significant advances in fighting mental illness.
"Right now we know that certain cell types in the brain are impaired in schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder or autism," he said.
If scientists can develop new technologies to image the brain and control the brain's cells, he said "over the next half-century or so we should be able to really understand how these networks" generate emotion.
Then, in the case of mental illness, "we can insert information into the cells in order to re-sculpt their dynamics and fix what's broken," Boyden said.
Technology entrepreneur Eric Anderson said biotechnology and medicine "are eventually going to be information sciences, with your genes... will determine treatment."
THE LIGHTEST STUFF
Julia Greer, an assistant professor of materials science and mechanics at the California Institute of Technology, says the world is craving a useful, ultra-superlight material to work with.
Her research group collaborated with Hughes Research Lab (HRL) and the University of California, Irvine, to recently develop the world's lightest solid material. She predicted that in 10 to 15 years it will be used as fuel cell catalysts, as acoustic damping devices on submarines, as anti-reflective layers in solar cells, and as components of vehicles sent into space.
The new material, called a micro-lattice, is made up of tiny hollow tubes of nickel-phosphorous that are angled to connect—and contains 99 percent air, Greer said. It can also be used for high-temperature thermal batteries, heart stents and blood clot catchers, she said.
On a related topic, Roy Johnson, the chief technology officer for Lockheed Martin, predicted huge advances in 3-D printing.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
One of the most famous predictions is Moore's Law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, which says that computing power doubles every two years or so. It has proven stunningly correct so far, putting new technological devices in everyone's pockets.
But how long will this law hold? Paul Jacobs, the CEO of Qualcomm, said it's not so certain anymore.
The implications of effectively infinite computing power are staggering—no more waiting for a power-up or a download; every song, movie and TV episode instantly available; and even the possibility of what scientists call artificial intelligence.
But Jacobs told The Associated Press that the law might be valid only "a couple of more generations."
"I'm worried. In the next couple of nodes we're going to stop getting those numbers unless somebody figures out something," he said.
YOUTH OF THE WORLD UNITE
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, now the U.N. special envoy for global education, said," he said at a session on the forum's sidelines. "And the sense that they are being deprived of these opportunities and rights is, I think, going to be the big motivating force over the next few years."
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Monday. Celebrate the start of the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo with the young 'uns at the Children's Museum of Denver's Stick Horse Rodeo. This rodeo features kiddie versions of real rodeo events. All the necessary gear will be on hand, too. Grandparents are invited to round up the grandkids for a Western-themed "Buckaroo Breakfast" on Jan. 26. The morning event combines Wild West activities and a private play session with a breakfast fit for the chuckwagon. Stick Horse Rodeo: 9:30 a.m. Monday. Activities included with museum admission: $9 for guests ages 2 to 59, $7 for seniors and 1-year-olds. Buckaroo Breakfast: 8-10 a.m. Jan. 26. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for kids, via mychildsmuseum.org or 303-561-0110. Children's Museum of Denver, 2121 Children's Museum Drive; 303-433-7444.
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Name adventures: Part II
Series: What's in a Name?
In which Shauvon is accepted to college, and visits a pulmonologist.
In 2004, I was accepted to Purdue University. It was a pretty exciting moment in my life. Well, not that exciting, I suppose, considering they accept somewhere around 50,000 new students every year. That was before I realized I didn't really want to get a degree in Computer Graphics Technology, so I was getting a degree in Computer Graphics Technology. I will always remember opening my acceptance letter. They came one day when I was at school. I say "they" because there was, in fact, two letters addressed to my house. One of them was for me, Shauvon G. McGill.
The other was addressed for Sauvon G. McGill
That was a new one. I've had letters missing, changed, repeated, and mangled in my name before, but I'd never had the 'h' missing. Of all the phonemes in the name Shauvon, the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative ('sh' as in 'wash' or 'fish') is the easiest to remember.
The two acceptance letters were stapled together and taped to my bedroom door for quite some time.
A year later, the summer before my sophomore year of college, I had some lung problems, so I went to see a pulminologist. That was still before I realized I didn't really want to get a degree in Computer Graphics Technology, so I was still getting a degree in Computer Graphics Technology. That meant that I sat around all day working with computer graphics. I was out of shape, and as a result, my lungs weren't too excited about me jumping on my bike after lazing around all summer. If I had known that I would be relieved of my bike in just a few months, I wouldn't have worried about it. Anyway, the pulminologist had his receptionist set up appointments for several outpatient tests. The receptionist was a rather, well, dull woman.
"Ok, what's his name." She talked to my mom, like I was 9, and not 19, years old.
"Shauvon," my Mom said. It's a combination of Shawn and Steven, she would tell me later that day.
The receptionist called in the first of the appointments. "I need an echocardiogram for a 'Savron.'" She missed the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative.
"No, it's 'Shauvon.' 'SHo-VIN'"
"Sha. . . SHA-VON" That would have to do. She called in the next one. "I need a pulmonary function test for a 'Shalvo'"
After a moment in which my mom and I both tried not to laugh at this poor mentally challenged woman, we corrected her. "It's Shauvon. SHo-VIN!"
"I need an appointment with a heart specialist for a 'Shalvron'"
It went on like this for a while.
Later, after my Mom re-scheduled all of the appointments because nobody had the right name, I was able to have several specialists tell me that there was nothing wrong with me.
A few days later, we found out that the insurance company wasn't going to cover any of the tests. They mentioned something about a Sauvon McGill not being on our plan.
They forgot the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative. | http://www.denyconformity.com/post/147/Name_adventures_Part_II/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Tigers and Stormy Petrels Tie, 1-1
September 21, 2008
September 21, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - DePauw and Oglethorpe competed in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference contest returns to action on Saturday, September 27, when they travel to Franklin for an 11 a.m. contest.
NOTES: DePauw's three ties are already the most in a DePauw season.
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Prof. David Herrold Presenting Exhibition at Wichita State University
October 3, 2000
October 3, 2000, Greencastle, Ind. - David Herrold, professor of art at DePauw University, will present new work in an exhibition at Wichita State University entitled "Recent Work: Vessels and Sculpture in Porcelain", at the Clayton Staples Gallery, October 16 - November 3. Herrold will also give a slide lecture and studio demonstration there on Oct. 16th in conjunction with the opening festivities.
Titled "Indiana Clay," the lecture will focus on the work of Herrold, John Goodheart (Indiana University), Dan Engelke (Purdue University) and Dick Hay (Indiana State University). The talk begins with a show Herrold organized in 1975 called "Indiana Low Temperature" that featured the four artists, then skips forward to "look at the work we were doing at mid-career and finishes with our current work".
The demonstration will feature Herrold showing some of the techniques used for the work in the show.Back | http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/11344/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:48 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
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Improvement Status and Required Action
2011 Final calculations and improvement statuses, as well as required actions for school(s) and district/LEA, are provided on the AYP grids posted on the Department’s website. The AYP grids may be accessed in the Missouri Comprehensive Data System (MCDS) Portal.
- Administrative Memo QS-11-005
- For School and District/LEA Improvement Parent Notification Letter Templates please refer to the manual Understanding your AYP.
- Final 2011 District Improvement Status
- Final 2011 School Improvement Status
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“4rd Ankara Design Days “ will take place in Ankara between 21-22-23 May 2010, with the theme of “Design and İnnovation” Ankara Design Days will gather designers, academic staff and ne art students with workshops, exhibitions and debates. ADD is the only design related organisation that Ankara has and it is beginning to make Ankara an important center for designers in Turkey. ADD’10 is a gathering which is open to every category of visual design, combining all the techniques and creative ideas.
This year during ADD, the effects of design and innovation on designers and design ideas will be discussed and solutions for this difcult period will be shared by designers, ne art students and workers of the design sector. | http://www.design21sdn.com/people/45864/posts/7043?order=Most_popular | 2013-05-18T10:22:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Here's one for the innovative and creative ones out there, also one for the kids!
"<a href=""> Ready Mechs</a> are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5"x11" page and printed with any printer. You’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time."
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Free Nature Wallpaper Featuring Peaceful Forest Life
Digital creatives like us tend to stay indoors or in our steel urban jungles way too long, so here’s a freebie to remind us what we’re missing out on. I designed it in a way to make you want to go outdoors, hike to someplace where you can feel the beauty of nature, and maybe encounter these humble but enchanting creatures for yourself…
This free nature wallpaper comes in several sizes for whatever gadget you’d like it on, from 640 x 480 px all the way up to 2560 x 1440 px. Feel free to share with your friends or even post this on your own site – all we’ll ask is that you link back to this post too.
Enjoy – and let me know what other wallpaper designs you’d like me to make next!
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The Continentale is the ultimate in cool, contemporary design, featuring generous, billowy curtains that gently sweep guests in from Florence's busy Ponte Vecchio. Designer Michele Bönan has turned this member of the Ferragamo family's small range of hotels into a jewel fit for kings and queens riding the Zeitgeist, who also enjoy a happy touch of 1950s pink. | http://www.designhotels.com/hotels/europe/italy/florence/continentale/video_gallery?sort=az&workmatrix_user=57778af017 | 2013-05-18T10:22:42 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Growing up, I greeted St. Patrick’s Day with more than a bit of apprehension. I was petrified of forgetting to wear green and spending the entire week black and blue from the resulting pinches. I decided to conquer my fear of green by hunting through the sneak peek archives to find green in homes. I’m loving green as a bright, poppy accent, and while I tend to prefer blues and grays, after looking through these photos, I don’t think I’d mind incorporating a bit of green into my own home. (FYI: We’re putting all sneak peek extras on Facebook, and there’s an extra album of green!) — Amy A.
Image above: Green Ferm Living wallpaper from Sneak Peek: Betsy Maddox
Image above: Juliet Totten bought this piece at Junk in Brooklyn and then gave it a coat of glossy paint. From Sneak Peek: Juliet Totten
Image above: Handpainted stripes on the wall in Zurich. From Sneak Peek: Malene Charles
Image above: Designer Annie Coggan’s home in Starksville,
Mississippi, from Sneak Peek: Annie Coggan Image above: Floral wallpaper found on eBay from Sneak Peek: Sarah Hicks Malone
Image above: A worn green stool from Sneak Peek: Sibella Court
Image above: Green in the 1907 St. Louis home from Sneak Peek: Amie Corley
Image above: DIY coffee table on casters from Sneak Peek: Elephant Props
Image above: Green dresser found in a second-hand shop from Sneak Peek: Judy Kaufmann
Image above: Wellies are a must in the Hudson Valley. From Sneak Peek: Josh Vogel
Image above: Bright pop of green in Raina Kattelson’s Hudson Valley home, from Sneak Peek: Raina Kattelson
Image above: Green Thonet chairs from Sneak Peek: Raina Kattelson
Image above: The Brooklyn home of photographer couple Whitney and Dustin. From Sneak Peek: Whitney + Dustin of Oh Darling
Image above: A nursery in Seattle from Sneak Peek: Revival Home and Garden
Image above: Green glass in the Amsterdam home of Marijke Hukema. From Sneak Peek: Marijke of Restored (Amsterdam)
Image above: Green tablecloth in Oakland, California. From Sneak Peek: Kate Lydon + Anton Willis
Image above: Green sofa in Savannah, Georgia, from Sneak Peek: Halligan Norris Smith
Image above: Gray and green striped rug in Ghent, New York, from Sneak Peek: Eric Teng
Image above: Green dining room in California, from Sneak Peek: Elisa Carlucci
Image above: A chair saved from the Goodwill pile in front of a green wall in Nashville. From Sneak Peek: Chelsea and Tec Petaja
Image above: The Zurich home of photographer Marlene Charles
Image above: Worn green furniture in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. From Sneak Peek: Zoe of Cloth Clothing
Image above: Green sofa from Design Within Reach in Northern California. From Sneak Peek: Alex Marshall
Image above: A nightstand from Peru in Brooklyn. From Sneak Peek: Gold Teeth Brooklyn
Image above: Wallpaper designed by Kevin Dean in his home on the south coast of England, from Sneak Peek: Kevin Dean
Image above: Green file boxes from Before & After: Amy’s Louisiana Home
Image above: Stylist Olga Naiman spray painted black metal cabinets a bright green. From Sneak Peek: Olga Naiman
27 Comments
Love! Happy St. Patty’s day!
love the green however i wish you would have posted on Green pertaining to the environment :(
I LOVE green {easily one of my favorite colors} so when my boyfriend and I recently moved into our new apartment, we painted our study an amazing shade of yellow-green. And while I love the color, in retrospect I think it was a little much for the room and wish we had gone a little lighter like the walls in the dining room posted above {Sneak Peek: Elisa Carlucci}. Oh well… next time, right?
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! :)
beautiful…happy st. patty’s day to you too!! xx meenal
love those bright green pillows!
gosh I hatethe colour green so much! I don’t think I even own any green clothing so pinch away world.
though some of these images come close to convincing me otherwise.
but not that close.
Green is one of my new favorite colors! However, what attracted me to that first picture is that round mirror with that awesome frame. Do you know where I can get it?
D*S does a lot of posts pertaining to the environment. I like that this one was about the color green, which so often gets overlooked. Beautiful homes.
Thank you so much for this post! Green is my favorite color so I’m feeling super satisfied and inspired!
I like green but I never know how to use it in a room. These are great examples of how fresh green can be! I hope everyone has a great St. Patty’s day and drinks a ton of green beer tonight!
Wonderful green photos!
Love that little green stool.
Love all of the great uses of green!
I’m really loving the aged green wooden stool as well as the green glass vases!
Love the green Hunter wellies– and the modern lampshades! What a fun unexpected pop of color. I’m totally inspired to do that now.
i love all the green rooms…gives me ideas!! I especially love the one from brooklyn with the white brick walls and paintings.
Let me know if you ever want to do the worst of green. I have a kitchen that would wake the dead!
I currently live with the WORST of GREEN in our rental. The carpet (everywhere!) is dark green, like the dark stripe in the pic above with the pink couch pillows. I would so love some help! I’d like to paint the walls and do window treatments that minimize the greenness of our space — any color suggestions?? I’m desperate!
Green can look good in all rooms – if the right shade of green. What a perfect post for St. Pattys Day. Thanks for sharing these great pictures.
Loving the Zurich stripes. And, (you knew this was coming) the zesty wall color in Raina’s home (any idea the color?) ♥
not generally a big fan of green but this blog is making me reconsider. it looks great in all of these rooms!
LOVE green and LOVE the coffee table that looks like it’s made out of an advertisement sign? Where can I find that?
Green’s my absolute fav colour – love it all!
OMG! The coffee table in the Halligan Norris Smith sneak peak. I want one! Maybe I’ll even have a go at making one. Hurry up weekend…
Green is very relaxing to the eyes and it brings inner peace once you saw a green color specially inside the house.
Design Sponge how could you forget the green in:
andy pratt & sarah coombs
sneak-peek!
saskia
oh, good catch! sorry we missed that :)
g
Hey, Grace,
I painted my kitchen in almost the same color and I love walking into my kitchen!
Thnks design sponges!
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Whether of Conspiracy or Stupity: Climate Sceptics are Culpable
Whether of Conspiracy or Stupity: Climate Sceptics are Culpable
The fake "scientific" controversy that has broken into the Canadian news media in the past week is another pained example of the industry-driven disinformation campaign that has so long characterized the climate change conversation in the United States. We should recognize it for what it is and dismiss it, quickly and decisively, in Canada.
The controversy began with a letter that 60 "accredited experts" signed and sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper calling for inaction on climate change. And yes, you read that right: INaction. These experts took pains to argue that the scientific theories of climate change are still too shakey to justify government intervention. They said, for example, that "observational evidence does not support today's computer climate models."
That statement falls comfortably into the category of a barefaced lie. Scroll down a couple of posts or click here to look at the Climate Backgrounder that accompanied a second letter to the Prime Minister, this one signed by 90 of this country's most reputable and accomplished climate scientists. What you will see is that the only time "observational evidence" is at odds with today's climate models, it suggests that the situation is worse than we feared. Climate change is occurring; humankind is responsible; and we must act - urgently - to prevent the worse-case scenario.
The question this raises is this: given what is probably the most decisive scientific consensus in history, who (in their right minds?) would stand up and declare climate change a fairy story? There are three answers:
1. Scientific Iconoclasts: these people are so locked in their habits of (sometimes-legitimate) scientific scepticism that any time a crowd begins to gather around a particular theory, they assume an opposing position. These people are dangerous in this instance, but probably not lazy, stupid or unethical.
2. Lazy Pseudo Experts: this category includes the economists who have calculated a high cost of addressing the challenge of climate change - without bothering to calculate what might be the much more devastating cost of risking a global climatic upheaval that could threaten billions of earth's inhabitants. They will tell you, accurately, that Canada's current commitments under Kyoto accord, while potentially expensive, will hardly have any effect in turning the tide. They will complain, accurately, that India and China are not signatories to the accord, a circumstance that must surely channge. What they ignore is the first rule of getting out of a hole: stop digging.
3. Self-interested Scoundrels: this is the group we must most fear. These are people who argue, on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, that the status quo is sustainable -- or that some as-yet unimagined solution will save us down the road. These are people, backed by industry-funded think tanks like the George C. Marshall Institute, the Cato Institute or the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who argue that the voice of the people, as enunciated by elected government, should never be heard over the roar of commerce. These are people who will set up phoney scientific debates, not because they hope to win, but only because they know that a public paralysed by doubt will stop short of demanding government action. ExxonMobile and Peabody Coal will be able to cream another year's worth of profit without the irritation of looking at the cost the earth will pay for their arrogance and shortsightedness.
More than just possible, it is entirely likely that well-meaning individuals will get caught up in this "climate sceptic" mob. (One thoroughly reputable mathematician has already broken with the group of 60, saying that he was misled by their intent.) But the stakes are too high to allow this pointed and strategic disinformation campaign to stand.
Read the Climate Backgrounder or any of the material under Is Climate Change Real? You will see a powerful - undeniable - scientific consensus that suggests our world hangs in the balance. If a "climate sceptic" tells you otherwise, be sceptical. Ask yourselves which of the three categories might fairly describe that sceptic's position. Then speak up. The world, perhaps a little expensive in the short term, is well worth saving.
- Jim Hoggan's blog
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This post is an excellent summary of the issues.
The site desmogblog does an excellent job of debunking the climate skeptics and their misinformation campaign regarding the severity of global warming. Along with the Pew Center, RealClimate, the IPCC and CCX, as well as Gore's book and new movie An Inconvenient Truth, and Flannery's book ,as well as Gelbspan's works on the subject, these sources continue to tell the real stories on global warming. My hope is that someday I may contribute to the public really learning the true extent of the potential catastrophe of global warming, and thereby help the world gain the political will to reduce emissions worldwide to 80% below 1990 levels as of the close of 2006.
Mark J. Fiore | http://www.desmogblog.com/comment/68 | 2013-05-18T10:22:19 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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