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Temporal control circuits are being used to superimpose our world views against a finite set of realities that are not congruent with excursions created in regards to the 4th and nth gates of the NWO.
meh... the "new world order" will be broke soon anyway... what's the point of hoarding a fuckload of cash that isn't worth anything?
Yeah many years ago one of the Rockefeller's said China was the model society,
and thus the shift in manufacturing there.
As they setup the CFR, and Hillary admits on video they take their orders
from the CFR, I'd say the die has been cast.
Gold is still only as valuable as people perceive it. Gold as a currency is still a goddamn currency. Sure, it may have utility in the modern age (electronics)..but if half the NWO conspiracy actually happened the shit would hit the fan so to speak.
In an SHTF scenario (in which technology is completely or mostly wiped out..or at least the highest tiers of fabrication) I've always held the belief that gold will be valuable - sure - but goods with actual utility will be much more valuable.
If things got super
gold was widely valued for jewellery and money long before the age of electronics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... [wikipedia.org]
so if you trip over a huge gold nugget after SHTF you'll just leave it?
also, in SHTF scenario, all fiat currencies would be wiped out and unless you had something of real value to barter you would starve... pound for pound, gold has been one of the most highly valued commodies in the world since before the ancient egyptians... no action by any NWO will change that
Salt was more valuable than gold. Many other spices as well. Currency was only useful in cities in ancient times. Cities are working economies - a post economic world would have no use of currency. Barter would be the norm. Possibly with some trade (scheduled exchanges of goods between communities).
The only scenario this is even remotely plausible is one where at least 999 of every 1,000 people died catastrophically and in an equal distribution around the globe (leaving about 7 million people worldwide and
Salt was more valuable than gold. Many other spices as well
in what universe?
gold was widely valued for jewellery and money long before the age of electronics
Jewelry has no utility, and in those times (my understanding - I could be wrong) the elite/ruling class were the only ones with gold jewelry.
In a really bad scenario I feel there wouldn't be a highly-priveleged "elite" for a period of time. What I mean by that is I don't think many people will be seeking out jewelry - they'll be seeking out food, tools, etc.
I think Fonik nailed it. I didn't even think of spices and salt, but historically there have been a ridiculous amount of wars fought over them. Salt in
elite/ruling class were the only ones with gold jewelry
well duh... the elite/ruling class were the only ones who could afford such a valuable commodity
I think I would stock up on salt like a mofo
there's nothing wrong with salt (or other spices) as a commodity... they just aren't as valuable as gold (pound for pound)
if someone with a pound of gold came up to you with your stockpile of salt, do you really think that pound of gold would only buy a pound of salt... in any scenario or any timeline?
Well of course a pound of gold is a more valuable commodity. However let's do a proper cost-to-cost comparison:
A pound of gold is currently worth roughly $20,000 pre-SHTF. 25 pounds of salt costs $3.75-$4 if bought in bulk (50 cases at a time)...
So for the cost of one pound of gold you could buy 133,000 pounds of salt. Of course no one can say for sure, but I think that's a kind's ransom worth of salt in an SHTF scenario.
Of course no one (well most people) would stockpile THAT much even if they subscribed t
Useful levels of fusion are still a long way off. "They didn't get more fusion power out than they put in with the laser," says , the head of a huge fusion experiment in the U.K. called the , or JET.
Not sure if this is a rehash of the same fusion discussion here a few weeks/months ago...
JET is in the UK, NIF is in California.
Where all those stupid Americans are you know...
"Not sure if this is a rehash of the same fusion discussion here a few weeks/months ago..."
In part.
The NIF did manage to spark a fusion reaction that actually output more energy than was input to the fuel pellet.
However, it is important to note that it was not more energy than the total input to the system. The energy used to power the lasers was still more than the energy of the fusion reaction. So it wasn't "break even".
I love this bit from TFA:
In 2013, NIF researchers began to explore the problems more scientifically; there was also a change of leadership at the lab and new researchers joined the team.
Apparently casting those chicken bones under the reactor had no effect and they had to switch to SCIENCE!
Sigh. Journalism majors.
The issue is that the previous management were attempting to achieve ignition through an engineering approach. They assumed that the science was well understood and all they needed to do was tweak the knobs and dials on the laser until they got the result they wanted.
When this spectacularly failed to work there was a change in leadership and the new guys are actually doing experiments rather than just firing the 'ignition' capsule over and over.
My money is on this version...
http://iec.neep.wisc.edu/ [wisc.edu]
This is the reason ppl are talking about mining the moon, Helium-3 is
needed for this method.
That movie was fucking awesome.
If this keeps up, the magnetic fusion guys, who achieved break even (ignition) decades ago, are going to start crashing NIF press conferences so they can get noticed. The NIF press push and lack of discussion of the field as a whole has got to drive them crazy. I'm sure it's not doing any favors for their budgets.
May be they should deal with the immense loss trough X-Ray issue?
The best performance of a tokamak I know of was the JET run back in the 90s where they got about 22MJ out of plasma in about 1.5 seconds, a rate of 15MW for that time. It was nowhere near "ignition", it took significantly more energy to create that plasma than it emitted while it lasted.
The NIF people talk about "ignition" because that's what they do, it's in their name after all. Magnetic fusion people talk about Q factor. Q=1 is breakeven where the same amount of fusion energy is produced as is pumped in to make and heat the plasma. I think the best Q figure JET has ever achieved is about 0.6 and only for a very brief time.
The ITER tokamak under construction on France is expected to return values of Q > 10 eventually, with 50MW input producing more than 500MW of thermal energy in a fusion plasma that can be sustained for hundreds of seconds and hopefully it won't have to be rebuilt after every run.
Nobody really knows since nobody's ever got a significant amount of fusion to work for long enough to figure out the gas mileage, so to speak.
The golden chalice is deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion which can be done with just heavy water, D2O which is expensive but abundant (it makes up about 1 part in 40 million of water molecules), it just has to be separated out from regular water using centrifuges or other processes. Assuming a lot of fusion power plants are built then there would be be cost savings per tonne of deuterium produced the same way uranium mining and processing is a lot cheaper today than it was during WWII. D-D fusion is hard though.
The easier road to fusion is deuterium-tritium, so-called D-T fusion but tritium is only produced in small amounts in nuclear fission reactors. There is a way to produce tritium in a working fusion reactor by using a blanket of lithium to absorb neutrons but it's very experimental and unproven. ITER is being built in part to test the idea of Li breeding of tritium and it's likely JET will also be used to test the concept, it's being repurposed as a materials testbed for ITER.
...D2O which is expensive but abundant (it makes up about 1 part in 40 million of water molecules)...
That 1 part in 40 million figure, while not wrong, is misleading.
Quoting Wikipedia:
It [duterium] has a natural abundance in Earth's oceans of about one atom in 6,420 of hydrogen.
So the hydrogen in the ocean is 1/6420 deuterium. Getting two of the deuteriums into one molecule is rare, but we don't really care. Chemical bonds are unimportant energetically compared to nuclear reactions.
I did specify D2O as being 1 part in 40 million, not DHO which is a lot more common. Deuterium for plasma fuel needs to be reasonably pure at the moment, it's one of the things the ITER program is tasked with, to see just how crappy the deuterium:hydrogen ratio in fuel can be and still produce good Q levels and burn times. This will reduce the cost of producing fuel in the long run.
I don't think JET ever reached Q of 1, but it can handle the most energy dense fuel of any current tokamak (The JET Q of 0.6 is still ~100x larger than NIF). However, a Japanese tokamak did reach Q of 1.25 in the mid 90s, and it wasn't something guys in the field I knew talked about as a problem by the late 90s.
There's a big challenge in getting the energy out of a fusion reactor. There are parts of a reactor which need to collect energetic particles so they could even theoretically produce power. This s
I have a vague recollection the Japanese tokamak you mention (the JT-60?) was running on D-D fuel and they calculated that if they had used D-T they'd have got Q>1 but it wasn't set up to run with tritium. A moral victory if not a real achievement. The Japanese are in the ITER consortium and the JT-60 is being rebuilt and upgraded as part of the total research effort, like JET at Culham.
ITER is being built right now and the designers believe it will give them several hundred seconds of 500MW of thermal e
Yeah there are are few projects out there that just get ignored because they don't profile
for a long term huge cash cow for the revolving door crowd in DC.
the revolving door is where corporate and government cronies switch jobs
for awhile, whenever its time to change policy to the benefit of select fat cats.
Wall Street and the Treasury department is one of the more obvious examples,
but it happens at other branches of the government as well.
This is what always happens, money, power, sex, drugs, and any other
Cue the anti-NIF greentard hate; "...but just use the big fusion reactor in the sky herp derp..."
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What a beautiful world this will be.
What a glorious time to be free!
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(More leisure time for artists everywhere)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young.
What the NIF is all about is compressing D-T fuel by radiation pressure and finding out what kind of profile of the radiation pressure pulse has the highest yield. That's exactly what you do when you want to get a bigger bang out of the nuclear weapons you have, because your NATIONAL DICK isn't big enough yet to properly display your "patriotic" manlihood to the rest of the world that you feel like you have to dominate completely in order to feel like you've accomplished something.
By the way, the rest of th
Yeah, I made a mistake there. It's either 200,000,000 kJ per day or 200,000,000,000 J per day or 200,000,000,000 kJ per day to get 1GW and not 1MW.
What the NIF is all about is compressing D-T fuel by radiation pressure and finding out what kind of profile of the radiation pressure pulse has the highest yield. That's exactly what you do when you want to get a bigger bang out of the nuclear weapons you have, because your NATIONAL DICK isn't big enough yet to properly display your "patriotic" manlihood to the rest of the world that you feel like you have to dominate completely in order to feel like you've accomplished something.
What did you expect? The funding, building and research the NIF does is provided by the DoD. The primary interest IS to find ways to increase yield on weapons. The fact that the research can also be used towards civilian energy interests is a pleasant bonus.
Unfortunately, doing science like this has to be done under the auspices of other interests or it doesn't happen. Things like alternative fuels, climate change, etc., are happening under the DoD because of it. (Yes, climate studies are done because they're of vital interests to maintaining security. And alternative fuels as well as not having to rely on diesel trucked in has strategic interests - considering by the time it's all said and done, the fuel cost is around $400/gallon. Not counting lives lost)
Hell, any science done that isn't in a nation's interest is also cut. E.g., Canada cut funding to scientists with "inconvenient" topics (like pollution, fish habitat protection, environment, climate change) because they went against let's go sell oil around the world damn the earth mentality.
It's just that the "pleasant bonus" isn't there. It's red herring.
I would be much less upset if this wasn't being called a fusion power project, because it simply isn't. And it hurts the credibility of the very real fusion power projects out there that can actually be scaled to be what they claim to be. NIF is just going to be yet another example people will hold up when they claim that fusion power is a sham and shouldn't be funded.
Damned, already spent my mod points.
Hey, idiots, this isn't a troll, it's insightful and informative.
NIF is for bomb testing. It's nothing to do with power generation.
So, let's get this straight. This is the FIRST STEP???? You guys have been at this for decades and have spend millions if not billions in the quest for "clean energy" and this "first step" is all we have to show for it? Besides cranking up a bunch of lasers all at once every now and again, what, exactly have you been doing?
I seem to recall a story about fusion just a few months ago that said "We are only a decade or two away from FREE energy!" Fusion, it's Coming!!! etc. Pardon my skeptic bent, but I think we should skip to the chase on what's really going on and get an answer to the REAL question.
How much money do you guys need now?
I'm all for research, but lets not fool ourselves. We are not even close on this one. We might be barking up the wrong tree with this and I think we should double down on our investment and start another group to try some different ideas if there are any. So perhaps we should half the last contribution and solicit some other bright folks to do some research with the other half.
First step has many meaning. Clearly it's not the very first thing they did.
Lighten up, Francis.
They ALL take FIRST steps toward fusion energy. I'll get excited when one of these machines takes the LAST steps.
Rock you like a Hurricane!
-Fusion reactor spokesman, 1960
We know how the physics of fusion works. What they are really trying to do now is design a cost-efficient device. That's an engineering task, not a task for physicists, and they don't seem to be very good at it.
If you look at this result, billions spent to achieve a neutron flux that theoretically contains slightly more energy than a theoretical number grabbed out of a hat, it's useless and a gigantic waste of money. They are as far away from energy production as ever.
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Three down, one to go; tourney concludes tonight
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Wednesday night, the elementary girls' basketball players put the third night of their tournament in the books, leaving just one more night of competition tonight at Punxsutawney Area High School.
Fans and parents who came out to watch Wednesday's games were treated to a variety of styles from shootouts to low-scoring defensive affairs.
In the first game in the fourth- and fifth-grade division, Kate Horner set the pace for the Celtics with 16 points en route to a 20-4 victory over the Lakers.
Abby Gemmel and Hannah Wittenburg also contributed to the winning cause with two points apiece.
Jordan Fetterman and Heather Stiles each had two points for the Lakers.
The defenses clamped down a bit in the second game, and the Knicks went on to defeat the Heat 12-6.
Cassidy Reed was the game's high-scorer with six points for the Knicks, and Gabby Franklin of the Heat scored four to come in right behind her.
Grace Aikens, Mallory Wyant and Hannah Stair each scored a pair for the Knicks, and Jordan Fetterman finished the Heat's scoring with two of her own.
In the final fourth- and fifth-grade contest of the evening, the defenses really turned it up a notch, and the Bulls needed a last-minute basket from Abby Gigliotti to earn a 5-4 victory over the 76ers.
Gigliotti added a free throw to boost her scoring total to three points to lead the game, and her teammate Kylee Shoemaker added two points.
Megan Ray and Sophie Wyant each scored two points for the 76ers.
In the first of the pair of sixth-grade contests, Penn State's defensive pressure was too much for Duke, and Kaitlyn Doverspike utilized the bank shot to pour in ten points and lead Penn State to a 22-8 win.
Alyse Whitman added six points for Penn State, while Toni Lisa and Elyse White chipped in with four and two, respectively.
Kally Graham led Duke with five points, and Taylor Covatch scored three.
In the evening's final game, Pitt and North Carolina met in a game that came down to the very end. North Carolina was able to overcome several close misses, though, to hold on for a 14-13 win.
Leah Miller led the scoring attack for North Carolina with 10 points, and Maci Raybuck and Toya Jones each pitched in with two.
Nikki Harper was a force in the paint, scoring eight points to lead Pitt.
Kylee Lingenfelter scored four points, and Jordyn Powell added a free throw to conclude the scoring.
Tonight's action is the last chance to see the elementary girls in action, and the opening tip-off will be at 5:30 p.m. at Punxsutawney Area High School.


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Panasonic 20-Inch 4K Tablet
In addition to the new ToughPad G1, Panasonic's CES booth showcased the company's new 20-inch Windows 8 tablet.
It's not quite as big as Lenovo's new IdeaCentre Horizon, but Panasonic's 4K Tablet does include an Ultra HD Display that makes Windows 8 pop in a way most tablets can't. The new, over-sized tablet also includes a 1.8GHz Intel i5 Core processor, Nvidia GeForce graphics and 4 GB of memory. Despite its massive screen size, the Panasonic 20-inch 4K is still just 0.4 inches thin and weighs in at 5.3 pounds, a respectable weight given the amount of screen real estate in tow.
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PITTSBURGH — Brooks Orpik has a concussion, in case there was any confusion after the Pittsburgh Penguins' defenseman left the ice Saturday night on a stretcher courtesy of a slewfoot-face-punch combo from Boston Bruins winger Shawn Thornton.
On Monday night in Pebble Beach, Calif., at the NHL general manager meetings, Pens GM Ray Shero had this to say:
Shero said Orpik doesn't remember anything that happened after the anthem Saturday night. He's doing OK, resting, has headaches, neck ache. — Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) December 10, 2013
MORE: Fleury nearly scores an empty netter
Initially, that didn't quite jibe with with what Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said on Monday morning, which was this: "I've seen (Orpik) yesterday and today. He's going quite well. He's up (and) moving around just fine."
After Pittsburgh's 2-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets, Bylsma said "quite well" was relative.
"We saw Brooks after the game on the plane. I've seen Brooks since. He left the game on a stretcher in a pretty scary state, so 'quite well' means he's up and around."
"Again, I will reiterate: He was out for a considerable period of time, which means you have a concussion."
Bylsma also, for what it's worth, confirmed Shero's account: "(Sunday, Orpik) definitely had soreness because of the situation in the neck and back, and he had a headache (and) pressure."
Thornton will have an in-person hearing later this week, which means a suspension of at least six games, and potentially much more.
And as for the other takeaway from the Bruins-Pens disaster—James Neal's garbage knee to Brad Marchand's head and subsequent five-game suspension—Bylsma said he understood the league's ruling.
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I don't think that being manly has anything to do with sharing chores around the house, or with being RUGGED. It has more to do with a leadership role. The more I read, and the older I get, the more I agree that the husband should be the leader of the family in many ways.
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Mike Carlson scores game-high 27 points in Bulldogs' 83-78 defeat at Pershing Arena.
KIRKSVILLE – Truman State men's basketball coach Matt Woodley believed his Bulldogs would be facing a tough test in their season opener Friday night against William Penn University.
He was right.
An athletic Statesmen team controlled the tempo with aggressive play on both ends of the floor and used a 12-1 run late in the second half to spoil Truman's opener, 83-78, at Pershing Arena.
William Penn, of the NAIA, had five players score in double-figures, displaying a balanced and dangerous attack that proved slightly too much for Truman.
"They deserved to win the game," Woodley said. "They were sharper than us, they worked harder, they were mentally prepared. Our guys were very lethargic. That's my job as a coach, to get our guys ready to play regardless of the opponent. We need to play better basketball, more quality basketball."
William Penn not only had the edge in athletes, but highlight-reel plays, as well. On the game's opening possession, Brandon Beasley made a ball fake to his right before driving left to the baseline for a dunk.
Beasley played a part in a more impressive play in the second half, when he grabbed an offensive rebound off a missed free throw, stepped behind the arc and tossed up a three. The ball hit off the rim at a perfect height for a soaring Keith Steffeck, who in one motion grabbed the ball and slammed it through the hoop to give WPU a 49-47 edge.
Where the visitors had flash, Truman had the strong play of Mike Carlson, who finished with a game-high 27 points and six rebounds to keep the Bulldogs in the game. He made a three-pointer that slashed a WPU six-point lead in half with 7:50 to go, and then slammed home a Cory Myers miss to make it a one-point game.
But William Penn took it from there, benefiting from offensive rebounds and transition baskets on a 12-1 run that made it 72-60 with 5:16 remaining.
"They slowed us down and made it a half court game for a while," William Penn coach John Henry said. "Once we got our tempo and our athletes got out of foul trouble, we got a six or seven point lead and held onto it."
Truman used some missed WPU free throws in the closing minutes to crawl back into the game, but never got within one possession.
William Penn improved to 5-0 with the win and could be heard celebrating loudly inside their locker room.
"Any time you can beat a well-coached team like that, Division II school with Division II players, drive all the way down here, get paid $500 and a post-game meal to do it, we're very pleased," Henry said, later adding he meant no disrespect toward Truman while calling Woodley and "awesome coach."
"I didn't expect to be 5-0 at this point. That's why we're this excited," he said.
Henry was referring to payment Truman State issued William Penn University for making the trip for the game, a common practice for schools hosting teams from lower divisions.
E.J. Hicks scored 13 points, including a three-pointer at the buzzer to close the first half with Truman ahead 43-41.
Myers, a true freshman, tallied 10 points and dished out five assists. Marek Bush grabbed 10 rebounds.
Sophomore Seth Jackson, the returning MIAA Freshman of the Year, scored nine points in just 10 minutes on the floor, plagued by foul trouble all night. He was hit with a technical foul during a tie up with Beasley with 11 minutes to go in the game and did not return. That was a coach's decision, Woodley said.
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Hal Ray Whitaker, 85, a resident of Grand Coulee, Washington, died Sunday, May 20, 2012, in Spokane, after a short illness. Hal was born January 20, 1927, in Palestine, Texas, to Hal J. Whitaker and Paula Heart-Whitaker with the help of a midwife at the sawmill where his father worked.
Known to residents of the Grand Coulee area as their long-time Farmers Insurance Agent, Hal had also served as an instructor of vocational agriculture. A genius with numbers, Hal was unbeatable at dominos, being able after just a few dominos were turned face up to know what his unlucky opponents were hiding. An avid fisherman, Hal had a lifelong love of travel of all kinds, whether enjoying live stage productions in Branson, Mo., or cruises with family to Alaska and the Caribbean. His family remembers with particular fondness going camping together at Bull Prairie in Hal's homemade camper lovingly nicknamed the "Turnerville Trolley."
Predeceased by: both of his parents; sister June Oliver; daughter Sharon Mowery; step-daughter Judy Gochnauer; grandson Kenneth Gochnauer and wife Karen Whitaker.
Hal is survived by his special friend Sue Engstrom; son Hal Ray Whitaker Jr.; daughter Vicki Moulin; step-daughter Mickey Gribble; grandchildren: Jeff Gribble, Julie Anderson, Lynne Guhlke, Cindy Sewall, Melody Nuxoll, Heather Addair, Jessica Mayo, Shaun Whitaker, Artie Mowery, Armand Mowery, Vicki LaParrie and Melonie Pluth; numerous great- and great-great-grandchildren.
Cremation has taken place and Hal will be inurned in Spring Canyon Cemetery next to his wife Karen. Friends and neighbors are invited to a celebration of Hal's life at 11 a.m., on Saturday, May 26, at the United Methodist Church, 405 Center Street, Grand Coulee.
His family requests that donations be made in Hal's memory to the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Citizen's Center, Grand Coulee, Wash.
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Summer 2014
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Updates and news from your fellow Broncos, with photos, links, and more online. Submit your notes by Sept. 1 to be considered for the Winter print magazine.
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Paul Fitzgerald, S.J., '80 will be the new president of the University of San Francisco and Scott Santarosa, S.J., '88, M.Div. '99 is the new provincial of the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus.
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Nearly 3,000 people went "All in for SCU" to support scholarships, professors, and the things that make the Mission campus special.
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Flying through Santa Barbara? Step into the terminal named in honor of John Treloar Rickard '36.
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Remembering disability-rights activist Joyce Jackson '73, former All-American tackle Ted Connolly '54, and others.
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A day with the Dalai Lama
High-spirited and hushed moments from Feb. 24: a day to talk about business, ethics, compassion.
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Poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts Dana Gioia argues that Catholic writers must renovate and reoccupy their own tradition.
Our stories and the theatre of awe
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Marilynne Robinson speaks about grace, discernment, and being a modern believer.
Mission Matters
What would the next generation say?
Hossam Baghat, one of Egypt's leading human rights activists, was awarded the 2014 Katharine and George Alexander Law Prize for his work defending human rights.
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AND: Aaron Worthing has read the complaint:
[T]he plaintiff seems to be a somewhat high-strung person.... It all struck me as a bit "dramatic"...
I found paragraphs 43 and 44 particularly damning. And gosh, Hastings (allegedly) sure likes to hug her, doesn't he? Otherwise, as sexual harassment complaints go (in my work I have become kind of a connoisseur of them) what struck me was how ordinary it all was. If there was ever a template for sexual harrassment, Hastings (allegedly) largely seems to fit into it.
Of course I can't tell you how many times you get a complaint like this and you think your client is doomed, only to see if fall apart if you breathe too hard on it, so time will tell. But right after Weinergate, I am not sure Democrats want to talk about another accusation of sexual impropriety.


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Barley and Corn Casserole Recipe
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This hearty colorful casserole goes well with pork, chicken or fish. For convenience, it can be made ahead and refrigerated before serving.—Diane Molberg, Emerald Park, Saskatchewan
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- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 2/3 cup chopped carrots
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup medium pearl barley
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 2 cups frozen corn, thawed
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
- In a large skillet, saute the garlic, onion and carrots in oil over medium heat, until tender.
- Transfer to a greased 2-qt. baking dish; add chicken broth, barley, salt and pepper. Mix well. Cover and bake at 350° for 1 hour.
- Stir in corn and parsley. Cover and bake 10-15 minutes longer or until the barley is tender and corn is heated through. Yield: 12 servings.
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To the editor:
The America of the founding fathers has wandered far afield from the original design. The basic freedoms the population originally enjoyed have been pirated by special interest groups more concerned with their own agenda rather than what is good for the country as a whole. It is this perversion of the concept that is opposed in this work. Forces, groups and ideological agendas are competing for supremacy. Some the methods used can be considered as criminal in that they are especially designed to subvert the culture of the country and to replace it with unmanageable pieces that can destroy the underlying foundation of what we are as a nation. All citizens of this country are affected, and it is with the intent of this work to bring together all representatives of the various entities that are the citizenry of the United States national culture. One which embraces all with the only qualifier being that one is a citizen and desires to sit at the table with fellow citizens.
For several decades Americans have struggled to redefine who they are. The various verbal gymnastics to create and identify through hyphenation has still fallen drastically short of its goal. The object of including everyone has given rise to such terms as multiculturalism political correctness and hate crimes. America seems to have misplaced its roots. Today, the average teenager no longer knows what it is to be an American. Prior to the mid 1960s most American identified themselves through the concept of religion, fair play, sportsmanship, ethics,morals and freedoms expressed in the U.S. Constitution.
Ask a teenager today what is an American and rarely will these ideals be forthcoming. They would much rather select having a "wishbone" than a backbone.
In Europe, as in the U.S., we find it is immigration that causes the problem. We may look to ancient Rome for guidance here. The Romans were displaced by freed slaves, pagan cults and others not committed to the Roman way of life.
Freed slaves were "Roman" in name only. Although they dressed as Romans they did not fully grasp the concept of what it meant to be Roman. Rather, they carried the old slave ideals of conduct into their behavior as new citizens. In outward appearance, they imitated Romans, but they lacked the inner disposition to carry on the traditions of Rome. The country as a nation no longer had a commonality of purpose.
Today in the U.S., immigration numbers are rising. The new immigrants, however, are arriving in such vast numbers in such a short period of time, that the United States is finding itself in the same situation as ancient Rome. It is similar in this respect. While some of the new immigrants adopt the dress of the United States, they have not yet grasped the concept of what the older Americans consider what it is to be an "American." What may be at work here is de-individuating, a process wherein the individual is required to sacrifice individuality in the interest of the collective. American culture praises the individual rather than the collective group. Is the culture of minorities at fault for the failure of minorities to be better integrated into the major fabric of American society?
George Orwell would feel at home at this modern "newspeak" and take it warmly to his bosom. For in it he would find lies, deception and deceit: a true child of his own genre.
It is always in the best interest of the nation to have the common denominator or several common identifiers to profess what makes one belong to the nation. This belonging has several ways in which it is achieved.
One is by personal identity as a citizen of the country. This identity brings pride to the individual and provides a foundation for that person's place within the greater society of the nation. This identity is further enhanced by the citizen adopting the values of the country in the main. The citizen knows what it is "to be an American." There is a sense of belonging a "oneness".
Another "identifier" is the embracing of the common language. The language commonality is a requirement because within the language various nuances will not cause confusion, the way they might through translation. Additionally, quietly and without fanfare a bond forms between the speakers. The English language was selected at the outset as the language for the country. Although other languages were spoken it was understood that these other languages were but a temporary measure until the individual, or the family, acquired proficiency in the English language. The use of a singular language removes that ingredient from the mix that might be viewed as a separator between the entities. Also, it shows commitment on the part of the new comer that they are embracing the persona of the new land to which they emigrated.
Social scientist Emile Durkheim posited that "crime is a part of human nature." And what is crime? It is a social aberration of prescribed behavior. For crime not to exist would demand that all people act exactly alike. That this is unlikely to happen we would all agree. Then what makes us believe that we would all accept all other peoples without making some type of distinction? It is apparent that this is unrealistic. Yet we presuppose that is what will occur to eliminate prejudice, bigotry, racism and discrimination.
This essay will change nothing. This is based upon the realization that too many will look at the situation not as scholars but as tourists, venturing nothing, but merely being observers too frightened by the social minefield that awaits them to offer anything constructive. The America of old is gone. One need only to look at the 1950s to observe what this country was before the final slide to its present state. But it is instructional to muse and to reminisce on what we were. We will never be better. We can only strive to limit how far we stray from our "soul." But this political and criminal behavior previously outlined undermines the judicial system, can precipitate civil unrest or riots and generally prevents the wounds that are present from healing.
We are no better now than we were five thousand years ago. At basic levels mankind is still the scared organism it was then, fearful of the unknown, the different.
Joseph L. Kibitlewski, PhD.
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John Habib's City Sports: Central's Stone focusing on title
January 10. 2014 10:39PM
HAVING covered him as the New Hampshire Union Leader's high school hockey beat reporter during his playing days at Manchester High School Central 30 years ago, I can attest to Brian Stone's fierce competitiveness.
Today as head coach of the Little Green, Stone maintains that same quality. He hates to lose, especially to his city arch-rivals.
Last March, Memorial defeated Stone's Central team, 3-2 in overtime, for the Division I championship at Verizon Wireless Arena. Then, during last month's Bauer Christmas Hockey Classic, Memorial hung its 2013 championship banner at JFK Coliseum.
Painful as it is to see that banner every day when Central practices or plays a game at the JFK, Stone is hoping to use it to motivate his program.
"That's what we want to be: state champions," said Stone. "We came so close last year. One goal away. It should have been us.
"But you know what? We come back, work hard each day, earn a playoff berth and find a way to win it all. We just find a way. I'm never going to be satisfied until we're the last team standing."
Today at 6:30 p.m., Memorial (3-1-1 in NHIAA Division I play) and Central (3-1-0) clash at JFK Coliseum. The game will be televised live on Manchester Public Television.
BEFORE the season started, Memorial boys' basketball coach Jack Quirk declared Central and fellow city rival Trinity the two most talented teams in Division I and predicted that one of them would finish the season unbeaten.
After his team's 64-61 overtime win at home against Bedford last Monday at the Simon Gym, Central coach Doc Wheeler addressed Quirk's statement.
"I told my team not to pay any attention to it," Wheeler said. "(Quirk) may believe it, but I don't. I've been coaching for a long time, and I know how hard it is to win any game in our league. Bedford just gave us a great battle, and I'm sure we're going to face many more battles this season.
"Don't get me wrong; we embrace the challenge of being the team everyone wants to beat. We're just not going to let other people set our expectations. Myself, my coaching staff — we'll set our own expectations for Central this season."
IN ADDITION to tonight's Central-Memorial hockey game, Manchester TV also plans to broadcast Monday's 4:30 p.m. hockey game between Central and Nashua South from JFK and Thursday's 6:30 p.m. girls' basketball game between Manchester West and Bishop Guertin of Nashua from West's Quinn Gym.
"City Sports" is published Saturdays in the New Hampshire Union Leader. Email staff reporter John Habib at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Lakers center Dwight Howard either gave a thoughtful answer or a silly one when a reporter asked Monday if the worst was over for the team. Said Howard:
"Some of our players, we watch 'Batman' a lot. 'The Dark Knight.' There's a point in the movie where he says, 'The night is the darkest right before the dawn.' Which basically means right now this is probably the darkest moment for our team. It's not going to last forever. The sun's going to come up. I think we're going to be where we need to be. … We're not playing our best brand of basketball right now. We'd love to be 20-0 or whatever it may be right now. Sometimes being 20-0 could put you in a position where you feel like you're already there. We know we have to work out of this and we will. We can continue to get better at it and we won't lose faith."
So, wait, the guy known as Superman watches "Batman" movies?


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Bailey aims for victorious encore to no-hitter vs. Crew
Brewers counter with Lohse as division rivals begin three-game series
By Paul Casella / 7/7/2013 7:04 PM ET
In his last outing, Reds right-hander Homer Bailey became the first Major Leaguer since Nolan Ryan in 1974-75 to throw two no-hitters without another pitcher tossing one in between.
Now, as he prepares to take the hill for the first time since his no-hitting the Giants last Tuesday, Bailey has his sights set on former Reds hurler Johnny Vander Meer. Last month marked the 75th anniversary of Vander Meer's back-to-back no-hitters, thrown on June 11 and 15, 1938, against the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers, respectively.
"I was just thinking, Homer has a shot," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "You got to get the first one."
That first one came on Tuesday in a dazzling performance against the Giants. Bailey, who also threw a no-hitter last Sept. 28 against the Pirates, struck out nine and narrowly missed out on a perfect game, allowing only one baserunner on a leadoff walk to start the seventh inning.
His chance for a second straight no-hitter -- and third overall -- will come against a team that passed on him in the 2004 First-Year Player Draft. The Brewers considered taking Bailey with the No. 5 overall pick -- two picks before the Reds actually pulled the trigger -- but instead selected Mark Rogers, whose career is currently on hold due to a shoulder issue.
Bailey will be opposed by the Brewers' Kyle Lohse as the two division rivals open a three-game series.
Regardless of the opponent or the potential for history with another no-hitter, Bailey said he needs to be the best he can be in Monday's start.
"It's only happened once. I guess there's not really too many things in the history of the game that you can say only happened once," Bailey said. "There's no way I can go into my next one and keep that on my mind. I'd imagine probably the first guy will get a hit and I'll be done with the whole thing."
However improbable another no-hitter may be, the Reds would gladly just settle for a victory after dropping two of three against the Mariners over the weekend. Bailey, too, could use another win to his name as he enters the contest 5-6 with a 3.57 ERA on the season.
"We're more interested in getting him back to .500 than anything," Baker said, "because the next start he can get back to .500. He's definitely on a confidence streak."
Bailey isn't so much worried about reaching the .500 mark for his own good, but is instead focused on winning to help improve Cincinnati's third-place standing in the National League Central.
"At the end of the day, we're trying to win games," Bailey said. "We're trying to get on top of the division."
Reds: Daunting road slate awaits
Starting with Monday's series opener in Milwaukee, the Reds will play just three of their next 20 games at home.
Following their three-game set against the Brewers, Cincinnati will travel to Atlanta for a four-game set leading into the All-Star break. The Reds will open the second-half with a three-game home series against the Pirates, before embarking on a three-city, 10-game road trip to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.
"It's a challenge," Baker said. "Everybody has that somewhere on their schedule where they have a month where they're gone a lot. Some teams I've talked to have had it already."
The Reds are 20-22 on the road this season, though they lost all three series and six of eight games overall on their most recent road trip to Arizona, Oakland and Texas from June 21-30.
"I told my boys we just have to be the best road team that month," Baker said. "We don't have a choice."
Brewers: Lohse looks to keep rolling
Though the spotlight figures to be on Bailey come Monday night, Lohse has been on a hot streak of his own.
The veteran righty hasn't lost since May 30 and -- omitting a rain-shortened June 30 outing against the Pirates -- has turned in six consecutive quality starts. The most recent came Wednesday against the Nationals, when he matched a season high by working eight innings while allowing just one run off four hits.
"Every pitcher should be like [Lohse]," Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez said. "He works fast, throws strikes. Some guys don't realize that you give the hitter less time to think when you do that. If you look at other guys like that, they're all successful."
Worth noting
Bailey is just 1-6 with a 6.00 ERA in 12 career starts against the Brewers.
In tossing his second straight no-hitter on June 15, 1938, Vander Meer issued eight walks while striking out seven on his way to accomplishing the historic feat.


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Morning Five: 12.07.10 EditionPosted by rtmsf on December 7th, 2010
- For those of you who, like us, are into such things, Ken Pomeroy added the player ratings to his website late last night. Some of the more interesting findings after one month of the season? Arizona's Derrick Williams and UConn's Kemba Walker have the two highest offensive ratings in the nation, Miami's Reggie Johnson has been the best offensive rebounder in the country, and St. Mary's guard Steve Holt is the nation's best pickpocket. Steve Holt! You can spend hours fiddling around on there learning the hidden secrets of the game, secure in the knowledge that Pomeroy's work has made the college basketball world a slightly better place.
- From the you-don't-see-this-every-day department, College of Charleston announced on Monday that the school had signed top-50 recruit Adjehi Baru, a 6'9 forward who spurned offers from several ACC schools including North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia Tech. Needless to say, Baru represents the highest-rated recruit ever signed by the school. The SoCon occasionally puts players into the NBA (most notably, Stephen Curry), but rarely are those players considered elite recruits coming out of high school. Tremendous get for CofC head coach Bobby Cremins.
- Seth Davis takes a look at some of the intricacies of calling a foul when a player swings his elbows around, and even though he warned us, we came out of it more confused that we were before we started. One of the more interesting nuggets of the article, though, is that it appears that the use of the block/charge semi-circle underneath the basket in select preseason tournaments was a rousing success. We've been asking for that thing for years (familiarly called the "Battier zone"), and with that sort of a commendation it may be well on its way.
- Some injury news… Duke's Kyrie Irving will likely not play in Wednesday's game at home against Bradley as a result of a toe injury that they're hopeful will not become a serious problem. They clearly want to be careful with him, but with games against the Braves, St. Louis, Elon and UNC-Greensboro between now and the new year, they can afford to take their time with him. In less important-to-his-team news, Baylor will lose freshman guard Stargell Love for up to two months as a result of a stress fracture in his left foot. He was playing about sixteen minutes per game, but with AJ Walton and LaceDarius Dunn manning most of the backcourt minutes, the Bears should be alright in his absence (assuming no further injuries).
- We hate doing these, but long-time Marquette Warrior Hank Raymonds passed away on Monday after a battle with cancer. Raymonds was not nearly as well-known nationally as his boss Al McGuire, but he was an integral part of the Marquette program as the masterful x & o tactician/assistant behind the charismatic McGuire. After the 1977 national title and McGuire's retirement, Raymonds took over the program as head coach and athletic director, and led the Warriors to a 126-50 (.716) record in six seasons, including five NCAA Tournament appearances and a Sweet Sixteen in 1979. In reading through the comments in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's story on Raymonds, it's easy to see just how beloved this man was in the Marquette community. RIP, Hank.


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Bluejays show its' the fight and heart, not the numbers, that secure wins in football
The Cimarron Bluejays football team had all the ingredients of a team trying to set a foundation for future seasons having only three returning seniors and 23 players returning from a 2-7 record in 2011.
The Bluejays seniors rallied the troops before the season started and the squad has bought into the system with a 6-1 record going into Friday night's home contest against the Southwestern Heights Mustangs.
"This bunch has really come together as a team," said Cimarron head coach Doug Minneman. "Coaches always say this, but our kids understand it takes all of them to do their jobs to be successful.
"To be at 6-1 and play for an opportunity to make the (Class 3A) playoffs is the best position we could be in."
The lack of injuries has also helped the Bluejays this season. Cimarron has had to replace only one player due to injury: junior quarterback Caleb Fischer hurt his arm in the Meade game and was replaced by A.J. Cooper. The injury didn't completely take Fischer out of the game as he is still the extra-point and field goal kicker for the Bluejays.
"We've been fortunate that we haven't lost too many from injury," Minneman said. "We've had bruises and bumps, but we have been able to keep ourselves healthy."
Minneman also said the skill position players have helped in bringing a balanced attack on offense, instead of the run-oriented attack Cimarron has used in the past.
The Bluejays average 236 yards rushing and 121 passing this season. Junior Ty Clark has rushed for more than 100 yards in six of the seven games and scored 14 touchdowns.
Cody Toothaker has three sacks on the season and averages 6.4 sacks a game for Cimarron, while the Bluejays defense has forced six fumble recoveries and six interceptions (three by Christian Fischer).
"We have more team speed than in the past," Minneman said. "The skill people have grown into their positions.
"Defensively, (Cimarron assistant) Van Kenton has the guys playing at a high level. We're limiting the other teams' big plays and forcing turnovers."
The three returning seniors with varsity experience -- backs Alex Neuschafer and Josh Meis and lineman Aiden Shaughnessy -- have shown the way for the rest of the squad what it takes to be successful out on the field, especially in close games and after the squad's only loss.
Cimarron's last three victories have a one-point win at Larned, a six-point win against Elkhart, and a three-point victory at Lakin to open district play. All this happened after the Bluejays lost 56-0 at home to Meade.
"This bunch has a lot of character and a lot of heart, and we have a very strong senior leadership," Minneman said. "They have responded to the challenges in front of them. The kids understand how and what it takes to win the close ones."


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Your friend definitely dropped the ball. She invited you for lunch - lunch is a meal.I think if it were me at some I would have said either "wow that neighbor's cooking is making me hungry - anyone else? Maybe she should think about lunch" or "so how do you like the new neighborhood? Have you tried anywhere local yet? Wanna take a walk to the diner/order in from somewhere to try it out?"
If you invite me to lunch, I am definately expecting food. I think by 1pm, I would have been asking "so are we eating lunch here or going out?" And if she looked suprised, I'd have said "oh gosh, I must have misread, I thought we were having lunch. Do you mind if I order something?"
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Real Madrid are preparing to make a move for Gareth Bale and could lodge a €40 million (£33m) bid for the Tottenham star, according to reports.
Bale has established himself as one of the best wide players in Europe over the past two seasons, and struck a sublime hat-trick in the north London club's 4-0 win over Aston Villa on Boxing Day.
The Welshman has previously expressed a desire to ply his trade abroad and play regular Champions League football, although he did commit his future to Spurs over the summer by penning a new long-term contract.
That, and Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas' insistence that Bale is 'priceless', has not stopped speculation linking him with a move to Real Madrid, and Spanish newspaper Marca claim that Los Blanocs are preparing to open with Spurs over a potential summer switch.
The paper claims a move was discussed last summer as Luka Modric completed his switch from White Hart Lane to the Bernebeu, however Spurs insisted he was not for sale.
According to Marca, they will be given first refusal when Tottenham do eventually start listening to offers however.
As part of Modric's transfer the two clubs now share a strategic partnership which could help facilitate any future transfer activity between the two, while Madrid boss Jose Mourinho is reportedly keen on getting the deal done and is a fan of the former Southampton player.
Madrid have yet to firm up their interest in Bale with a concrete bid and are as yet uncertain of how much they would be wiling to offer.
The reigning La Liga champions are reportedly unwilling to pay over the odds for Bale, and could look to use Modric's €35 million fee as a benchmark – although the Daily Mail claims today that an offer in the region of €40 million could be forthcoming.
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2004 Men's Soccer
Weekly Recap 10-26
Men's soccer split action on week
By Ben Risinger, Sports Information Director
October 26, 2004
The Bluffton University men's soccer team (3-11, 1-4 HCAC) picked up a 6-1 victory over Taylor Ft. Wayne last week and lost an HCAC matchup to Transylvania 3-0.
Against Taylor Ft. Wayne the team was led by sophomore Justin Rohrer (Millersburg/West Holmes) who posted two goals and an assist. Three seniors got the scoring started with Dan Hershberger (Berlin/Hiland), Ricky Stoner (Worthington/ Tree of Life) and Mike Moore (Naperville, Ill/Charlotte) who all scored a lone goal each in the first 45 minutes of the game. Bluffton's scoring was rounded off by senior Caspar Agyeman-Duah (Fairfield, OH) who had a single goal.
The Beavers gave their best effort against Heartland Conference foe Transylvania, but lost the match 3-0. The team posted 13 shots to the Pioneers 10, but couldn't seem to find the back of the goal. Agyeman-Duah (Fairfield, Ohio) led Bluffton with five shots.
Caspar Agyeman-Duah currently leads Bluffton for the season with five goals and an assist for 11 points. Justin Rohrer posts 10 points off of four goals and two assists. Keeper Ryan Thomas (Jamestown/Greenview) has 76 saves for the 2004 campaign.
BlufftonUniversity will be back in action this Tuesday when they travel to rival DefianceCollege. Start time is scheduled for The Beavers will then be at home on Friday for their last home match of the 2004 season.


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My new Pages for iOS review is now live at Macworld.com.
I continue to enjoy this app. It's beautiful, works well, and the fact that it's not impossible to use on an iPhone or iPod touch makes it nice too. The only downside is it's obvious lack of document syncing options. Although yesterday, with the announcement of iCloud and iOS 5, my long syncing nightmare may be over.


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Feb. 19, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale women's hockey program says goodbye to its eight seniors this weekend with games against Quinnipiac (Friday, 7:00 p.m., Yale All*Access, GameTracker) and Princeton (Saturday, 4:00 p.m., WYBC 1340 AM, Yale All*Access, GameTracker). With two games left, the Bulldogs still have some accomplishments within reach. Wins in each of the remaining games would give the team 13 wins for the season, which would be third all-time at Yale. The senior class currently has 48 career wins, and one more would give the Class of 2009 sole possession of third among all classes in Yale history.
This will be the third meeting between the Bulldogs and the Bobcats this season. Yale beat Quinnipiac 2-0 at the Nutmeg Classic in November, a game that did not count in the ECAC Hockey standings. Sophomore goalie Jackee Snikeris (Downingtown, Pa.) made 17 saves for the shutout, while junior defenseman Alyssa Clarke (Donkin, N.S.) and senior forward Crysti Howser (Wilmette, Ill.) scored goals. The Bulldogs also beat the Bobcats 2-1 at TD Banknorth Sports Center three weeks ago, with freshman forward Aleca Hughes (Westwood, Mass.) notching the game-winner with three seconds left. Senior defenseman Helen Resor (Greenwich, Conn.) also scored, and freshman goalie Genny Ladiges (Almonte, Ont.) made 16 saves.
Yale rallied from a 1-0 deficit and a 2-1 deficit, but Princeton ultimately prevailed 3-2 on a third-period goal by defenseman Katherine Dineen when these two teams met at Baker Rink three weeks ago. Freshman goalie Genny Ladiges (Almonte, Ont.) made 23 saves.
Yale Tale
The Bulldogs regrouped after a 2-9 stretch and have five points in their last three games, including a tie vs. RPI and shutout wins over Union and Brown. Junior forward Berit Johnson (Wayzata, Minn.) has a point in three of the last four games, while junior forward Caroline Murphy (Woodstock, Conn.) has four points in the last five games. Sophomore forward Bray Ketchum (Greenwich, Conn.) has done the bulk of Yale's scoring since late January, registering five goals and seven points in the last nine games.
Class of 2009 Plays Final Games
This will mark the final games for Yale's eight-member senior class: forward Crysti Howser (Wilmette, Ill.), forward Danielle Kozlowski (Melrose, Mass.), defenseman Carlee Ness (Red Deer, Alta.), defenseman Carry Resor (Westwood, Mass.), defenseman Helen Resor (Greenwich, Conn.), forward Kristen Stupay (Ashburn, Va.), forward Sarah Tittman (Chilton, Wisc.) and forward Maggie Westfal (New Canaan, Conn.).
Senior defenseman Helen Resor (Greenwich, Conn.) is a nominee for the Patty Kazmaier Award as the top female college hockey player in the country. Resor is also on the ballot for the East squad at the NCAA Frozen Four Skills Competition, along with Yale men's goalie Alec Richards (Robbinsdale, Minn.) ... Senior forward Crysti Howser (Wilmette, Ill.) is a nominee for the Hockey Humanitarian Award. Howser volunteers with a local soup kitchen, multiple homeless shelters, AIDS Walk New Haven, the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, multiple holiday gift giving initiatives and many other community-related causes ... Eight different players have scored game-winning goals for Yale this year ... All 12 of sophomore forward Bray Ketchum (Greenwich, Conn.)'s goals have come in conference play, as have all six of Resor's.


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Several future NHL stars on were display earlier this month in the annual Super Series between Canada's top junior leagues and Russia's best young talent, held in three provinces. With top overall draft pick Nail Yakupov leading the way, Russia won the series (3-2-1) for the second time in the event's 10-year history, though the goal differential was just plus-4.
Nov. 5 (Quebec): Russia 6, Team QMJHL 2
Andrei Vasilevski made 31 saves for Russia, which got two goals in each period, from six different goal scorers.
Nov. 7 (Quebec): Team QMJHL 5, Russia 2
The hosts scored less than a minute in and Jonathan Huberdeau (Panthers) put them ahead to stay with two goals in the second.
Nov. 8 (Ontario): Russia 2, Team OHL 1
Russia broke an 18-game skid against the OHL in the series by scoring twice in a 24-second span of the third. Bruins draft pick Malcolm Subban allowed no goals in 32 minutes before he was replaced.
Nov. 12 (Ontario): Team OHL 2, Russia 1
Ryan Strome (Islanders) got the Canadians going with a goal and assist, which made Yakupov's late goal for Russia moot.
Nov. 14 (British Columbia): Team WHL 1, Russia 0
A shootout was needed to break the scoreless deadlock. Flames prospect Laurent Brossoit (30 saves) stopped all three shootout bids, while Russia's Andrei Makarov (35 saves) denied just one.
Nov. 15 (British Columbia): Russia 5, Team WHL 2
Russia took the series by building a 4-1 lead through two periods. Mikhail Naumenkov had three of his four points in the series in the clincher.


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I wasn't happy that we got a bill saying that our monthly payments were going up by forty pounds a month, so I decided it was time change gas and electricity yeah. I went on the computer and I Googled 'change gas and electricity suppliers', and uSwitch came up.
Within about two minutes I had all the details I needed which told me I was going to save seventy three pounds a month. The important thing was that uSwitch saved us the money, is that really shallow?
It's not important who puts the electricity into the house, it's just the important thing is that we are paying 73 pounds a month less, that's important thing. There's no reason not to do it, why give other people 73 pounds a month, even if it's a tenner a month it's better in your pocket than anybody else's.
I didn't even scroll down the list, I just clicked on cheapest one and pressed okay, happy days. People don't need to be paying over the odds, they just need to switch.
If you're concerned that switching to one of the cheap electricity suppliers in the UK will mean sacrificing service, we have the tools to help put your mind at ease.
Once you've provided your post code and usage info, your switching options are displayed in a table of results. This list contains the suppliers according to cost - the cheapest electricity supplier will be at the top of the results table - and also includes customer satisfaction info.
If you are worried that your cheapest electricity supplier may have the worst customer service, check our supplier guides for feedback.
In addition, some suppliers incentivise users to switch electricity providers by offering exclusive deals through our website.
None at all. A cheap electric supply is the same electricity, it's simply provided by a new supplier. As suppliers buy and generate different sets of energy they also have different prices. What's more, you might be on a tariff that is simply more expensive, such as a standard tariff. If you decide to switch electricity don't equate a lower price with worse service.
Can I be sure that I'm truly switching to the cheapest electricity supplier?
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This is a government cover up, we all know it was actually Godzilla that caused it!
This is a government cover up, we all know it was actually Godzilla that caused it!
Your post might be funny if a.) The timing didn't suck, and, b.) it contained a humorous punchline.
Your post might be funny if a.) The timing didn't suck
I agree. That comma should definitely have been an ellipsis. However, it could also be argued that you simply read it badly.
The entire island of Honshu [wikipedia.org]? [[Citation needed]]
Seriously, if the entire island was moved 8ft, then I suspect the damage would be far greater and more widespread than it is.
The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis.
From CNN [cnn.com].
Japan's recent massive earthquake, one of the largest ever recorded, appears to have moved the island by about eight feet (2.4 meters), the US Geological Survey said.
From AFP [google.com].
British Geological Survey is reporting up to 13 ft. to the east. Revisions will probably settle down and start agreeing in a couple of weeks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12732335 [bbc.co.uk]
http://www.slate.com/id/2288382/ [slate.com]
Remember folks, the piece of earth that moved can be larger than the country sitting on top of it. In the case of Japan it almost is. When you jog a table it doesn't break your dinner plates in half.
http://crack.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/updates/louie/kobe/kobe-sci.html [unr.edu]
i mean, they can make measurements & all that, but they really have no idea what causes the earth to shake, beyond their primitive understanding of 'plate techtonics'.
... The Japanese quake comes just weeks after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch on February 22, toppling historic buildings and killing more than 150 people. The timeframe of the two quakes have raised questions whether the two incidents are related, but experts say the distance between the two incidents makes that unlikely.
You know there are two solstices each year, right? And that the quake hit two weeks ahead of the middle of the two? Stick with the perihelion theory, it works better in this case.
From that wikipedia list: 12 of the largest quakes on record occurred between December and March, 4 in November, and only 8 were between May and October. So... What's so important about the winter months?
Nothing. You've offered a 4 month window out of 12 months, and showed us 12 of the largest quakes out of the top 24 landed in that period. You'd expect the mean to be eight, if quakes are completely random. I ran a t-test separating the quakes listed on your wikipedia page by 4-month groups, making your december-march one group, may-july another, and august-november the third one. Assuming the null hypothesis that quakes are completely random, the two-tailed P value for that sample was 0.5242. ie, Not statistically significant at all.
I'm on an email list of a guy that watches worldwide earthquake reports. He commented on the New Zealand quake, and gave a 'heads up' for the Ring of Fire.
Ken Ring is just a crank. [sciblogs.co.nz]
The entire island of Honshu [wikipedia.org]? [[Citation needed]]
Seriously, if the entire island was moved 8ft, then I suspect the damage would be far greater and more widespread than it is.
USGS: Earthquake in Japan Moves Honshu Island 2.4 Meters [worldnewsco.com]
.. go fix it. No need to sit around and get all freaked out for one more foxnewsin' reason. Just fix it and move on.
The Konami code appears to be the code to disable Japan in real life.
(I'm going to hell for this...)
It's both a natural AND a virtual disaster.
porn to try a junk shot to stop it....
I see what you did there.
No worries, in the cable map of Japan there are all manner of redundant paths out of the country.
Really, compared to the misery of hundreds of thousands in the NE, the IT situation is of no import.
Even if the drop in data transmission was due ENTIRELY to damage to the cables (which it almost certainly isn't), I'd have to say that being operational at 85-90% of former levels is pretty damn good given the situation. I'd dare say there is a VERY long list of things that needs to be fixed more than those cables.
This is not to say that data flow is not important -- for one thing, it keeps people who have nowhere to go from getting cabin fever -- but when your house is on fire, you don't worry about the fa
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — Xander Bogaerts, for the first time that he could remember, played a different position Tuesday.
The shortstop shifted over to third base and took some ground balls in preparation for the World Baseball Classic. Bogaerts, who is from Aruba, will play for the Netherlands.
"I'm not worried about it. It's just something new," Bogaerts said. "It should be a good experience, the whole thing."
Bogaerts looked comfortable at third base. Other than the ball getting on him faster, many of the angles are the same as shortstop.
"He's an infielder," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "You know what? He's got a lot of natural ability and instincts there. We'll get two days of workdays with him and then get him in a game."
Bogaerts will start at third base against Boston College Thursday in the second game of a doubleheader.
The Red Sox have no plans to move the 20-year-old Bogaerts from shortstop. But the Dutch team has Braves shortstop Andrelton Simmons and conferred with the Red Sox about using Bogaerts at third base or as the DH.
"It's been clearly outlined," Farrell said.
Bogaerts leaves the Sox next week to join the Dutch team in Arizona for a brief mini-camp before traveling to Taiwan for the first round of the tournament.
Pitchers lined up
The Red Sox will start John Lackey against the Rays in Saturday's Grapefruit League opener at JetBlue Park. He will go an inning before Drake Britton, Pedro Beato, Anthony Carter, Jose De La Torre, Oscar Villareal, Alex Wilson, and Steven Wright follow.
Jon Lester starts Sunday against the Cardinals across the state in Jupiter. If he pitches every five days, that would give Lester seven starts this spring and put him on turn to face the Yankees on Opening Day April 1. Farrell has not announced his starter for that game yet. But Lester has started the last two openers.
The Sox have a split-squad doubleheader Monday. Wright will start against the Blue Jays in Dunedin. Alfredo Aceves faces Tampa Bay in Port Charlotte.
Napoli takes steps
For the second straight day, Mike Napoli stepped up his work at first base.
He took infield with the other regulars, then spent extra time after the workout with coach Brian Butterfield and first baseman Lyle Overbay on his footwork around the bag.
Farrell watched from across the field. The Sox are pleased with how quickly Napoli is progressing, given that they held him back a few days to assess the condition of his hips.
Napoli is not scheduled to play in the first few exhibition games. But he could get into a game later next week.
"I don't have a date yet," Farrell said. "Napoli is making very good progress, so I can't imagine and foresee at this point it would be too far into the game schedule before he will be on the field."
Ortiz not there yet
As Napoli takes leaps, David Ortiz is moving at a slower pace with his Achilles' tendon injury. He is still on a rehab program, doing agility work off to the side before taking batting practice.
Ortiz has yet to run the bases, which will be one of the final tests before he is cleared to play.
"He's not there yet," Farrell said. "The most important thing is we continue on an incline all the way to the start of the season."
Typically, a starting player would receive 40-60 at-bats in spring training.
"I know his gut feeling," said Farrell. "He's very confident that he'll be ready to go on Opening Day."
Wake on the way
Pedro Martinez and Jason Varitek aren't the only decorated former players who will be helping out the team. Tim Wakefield is set to be in Dunedin Monday to see Wright throw his knuckleball and get a feel for the righthander's approach. Wakefield retired after the 2011 season but stayed involved with the team through the Red Sox Foundation and appearances on NESN. Now he will contribute with some informal coaching of Wright. "He's got every intention to see that game up there and then be [in Fort Myers] the remainder of the week," Farrell said . . . The Red Sox plan to use Rubby De La Rosa for two-inning stints throughout spring training. He pitched only 13⅔ innings last season after recovering from Tommy John surgery and has never thrown more than 110⅓ innings in a season. "Rubby's aware of it," said Farrell. "He's understanding of our thought with that." The Sox are still discussing how many innings they will restrict De La Rosa to this season. The righthander turns 24 in March.Peter Abraham can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @PeteAbe.


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June 2010
29 June 2010
Excitement is in the air at Australia Zoo's cheetah quarters as celebrations begin for Cheetah Week.
With four worthy ambassadors - Foxy, Cleo, Echo and Sheeba - drawing crowds wherever they go, the cheetah team are on a mission to raise awareness about cheetah conservation during school holidays at the Zoo.
They are the fastest land animal in the world - but the cheetah is fast running out of time. With less than 10,000 left in the wild, cheetahs are critically endangered due to loss of habitat and cheetah-human conflict. Conflict occurs when cheetahs are wrongly blamed for livestock losses and subsequently killed by angry farmers.
In 2009, Australia Zoo contributed $30 000 towards cheetah conservation; providing vital funds to support the De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Trust and Cheetah Outreach in South Africa.
Our goal in 2010 is to contribute $40 000 towards cheetah conservation. We need your help.
Cheetah Week is the prefect time to make a difference and help save cheetahs in the wild. Come along to Australia Zoo to join in the celebrations and meet our magnificent cheetahs and learn about their plight in the wild. All funds raised during the cheetah celebrations will go directly to cheetah conservation.
Everyday during the school holidays, the cheetah team will be showing-off their beautiful cats and chatting to guests about the plight of the cheetah.
We hope to 'spot' you there!
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With little or no progress apparent at the bargaining table, calls are growing louder for the Legislature to throw an obstacle on tracks as BART rolls toward another strike as early as Oct. 11.
16th Assembly District candidate Steve Glazer, a Democrat who also is an Orinda councilman and a political adviser to Gov. Jerry Brown, will be at the Orinda BART station Thursday morning to hand out fliers to commuters and meet the press regarding his online petition drive urging the Legislature to ban BART strikes.
"A BART strike will cripple our economy, hurt workers getting to their jobs, limit access to schools and health care, and damage our environment," his petition says. "The impact of a BART strike will be felt across the state. It should not be in the hands of a regional BART board. We need a statewide law."
Glazer is running to succeed Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, who'll be term-limited out of office next year. Also seeking that seat are Danville Mayor Newell Arnerich and Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti – both Democrats – and attorney Catharine Baker, a Republican from Dublin.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Brown on Wednesday urging him to call an emergency legislative session in order to act on SB 423, which would compel BART unions to honor the no-strike clause in their expired contracts. Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, R-Brea, introduced the legislation by gutting and amending another bill on the last day of the regular legislative session, and started touting it a few days later.
"The hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents who rely upon BART to get to work or school each day deserve peace of mind that they can get to where they need to go without the threat of a strike," Assembly Republican Leader Connie Conway, R-Visalia, said in a news release Wednesday. "We call upon the governor to take swift action to ensure that this labor dispute does not create a transportation nightmare."


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What future for the Arab Spring?
Twelve months after the uprising which saw popular movements in the Arab world demand an end to authoritarian government, a session of UNESCO's Future Forum will examine the future of the Arab call for democracy. Entitled "The Arab Spring – one year later – Egyptian perspectives," the Forum will take place on 24 January at UNESCO Headquarters (Room IV, 3 to 5 p.m.).
Dominique Baudis, former President of the Arab World Institute (Paris) and French Défenseur des Droits (ombudsman); Antoine Basbous, Director of the Observatoire des Pays Arabes (OPA); François Heisbourg, Chairman of The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); Mahmoud Hussein, Egyptian author and political scientist ; Labib Al Sebai, journalist and former CEO of Egypt's Al-Ahram publishing company; and Robert Solé, French writer of Egyptian origin are among the participants scheduled to attend the forum.
They will analyse developments over the past year and their impact on politics, society, culture and education.
Members of the public are invited to follow the forum and interact with its participants via Twitter (@UNESCONow, @UNESCOarabic).
The forum will be followed by a number of events organized by Egypt's Permanent Delegation to UNESCO and the country's Embassy to France. Among them will be a concert by the Inchad group of 34 artists who took part in the Egyptian revolution (Salle I, 7 p.m.). With Arab and Coptic songs from the classical, folk and Sufi repertoirs, Inchad will trace the history of Egypt from the time of the Pharaohs to the present in a programme that will include songs sung on Tahrir Square, some of them created there, in January 2011.
The day will also feature the opening of a multimedia art exhibition entitled "Eighteen Days of Action", (Miro Room, 25 to 27 January). The exhibition focuses on the 18-day-long revolution with videos, photographs, 3-D slide shows as well as paintings and graffiti by Egyptian artists.
Journalists wishing to cover the Forum and concert require accreditation Contact:
Isabelle Le Fournis, i.le-fournis(at)unesco.org , +33 (0) 1 45681748
Djibril Kébé, d.kebe(at)unesco.org , +33 (0) 1 45681741
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Dear Editor:
I write only because in our rushed society, Tom Purcell's humorous piece about beavers in Washington's Tidal Basin might be thought to be factual when it was tongue-in-cheek ("Springtime in Washington, D.C." March 27).
One thing is true, however: For many years now, PETA has been successful in persuading those bothered by beavers' dams to install devices that allow the water to flow through the dam, while not interfering with the clever home made by "nature's engineers," the beavers.
Not true, however, is that PETA would have approved of violent methods to solve the problem if the animals had been rats. Our "pest" control division helps businesses and individuals find humane solutions (box traps over glue traps, for instance) for rodents and even insects.
In our book, it matters not what types of bodies living beings come packaged in; what matters is their ability to feel pain, their right to consideration of their interests, and our ability to be kind to all.
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LONGMONT -- In a 3-3 tie, the City Council denied a conditional-use permit for The Well on Tuesday night, saying the outreach center's activities, while laudable, simply didn't fit on Main Street.
The permit would have let the center hold classes, conduct light retail and continue its weekly meals at its new home at 225 Main St. Neighboring businesses said they were concerned the Well's activities would attract more homeless to the area, while supporters argued that the homeless were already there and the Well was providing help.
"This is not to pass judgment on the work of The Well," said Councilwoman Katie Witt. "What we're trying to determine is if its purpose fits the vision for the central business district."
Witt, along with council members Gabe Santos and Sarah Levison, voted to deny the permit. Mayor Dennis Coombs and council members Brian Bagley and Bonnie Finley opposed the measure. Councilman Alex Sammoury was absent.
The split decision upholds a previous planning commission vote that found The Well to be incompatible with its surrounding neighborhood. Bagley argued that the center was all too compatible with the area, which included a halfway house, the OUR Center, pawn shops, and other activities related to low-income populations. The real issue, he said, was to figure out how to move homelessness out of the downtown entirely.
Levison said the business plan of The Well -- which is technically a for-profit business -- went in too many directions for her to see how it could fit the requirements of the business district.
"I'm trying to hang my hat on something, but I can't see it," she said.
Scott Rochat can be reached at 303-684-5220 or email@example.com.