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|Amanda Jane Hicks
|Is Rac1 Glutathionylated in Intact Cells?
|Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
|Margaret Goodman
|Departmental Honors
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|Rac1 is a member of the Ras superfamily and Rho subfamily of small GTP-binding proteins or GTPases. It functions as a molecular switch, cycling between an active (GTP-bound) and inactive (GDP-bound) conformation, to regulate diverse physiological processes within mammalian cells. Active Rac1 signals to downstream effectors to control cellular processes such as membrane ruffling. While the downstream signaling pathways that lead to Rac1 mediated events are reasonably well understood, the upstream events that regulate Rac1 are not well characterized.
The goal of this study is to determine if Rac1 is post-translationally glutathionylated. Glutathione (GSH) is a tripeptide consisting of glutamate, cysteine, and glycine with a free thiol. Glutathionylation is the addition of glutathione to a target protein, via a disulfide bond. Recent studies have shown that Angiotensin II induces the glutathionylation of Ras, which affects its activity. These studies are designed to determine if the Ras-related GTPase, Rac1, is glutathionylated.
NIH 3T3 cells were metabolically labeled with [35S]-cysteine to determine if Rac1 is glutathionylated in intact cells. Western Blot and fluorograph analysis revealed that diamide, a chemical that forces the formation of disulfide bonds, can increase the amount of glutathionylated FLAG-epitope tagged Rac1. Preliminary studies indicate that under such conditions, Rac1 is modified by [35S]-cysteine in a DTT reversible manner. Future studies will focus on utilizing physiological stimuli to promote and assess reversible glutathionylation of Rac1 in intact cells.


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We were reminded all weekend of Step One (http://www.newbergreport.com/article.asp?articleid=1451), as Mark Teixeira manned first base in the road grays, going 2 for 13 with no extra-base hits. He's a tremendous player, who made this team a lot better when he was moved.
We saw a whole lot of Step Two today, as Julio Borbon (added to the organization in June 2007) and Elvis Andrus (July 2007) and Neftali Feliz (July 2007) played up to the moment and looked like anything but second-year big leaguers in helping Texas complete an impressive sweep of baseball's best team.
And, of course, we saw today what Step Five was all about, as Cliff Lee carved up the team everyone expects him to join three months from now. Eight-plus innings from Lee, just two hits, and an uncharacteristic three walks - including to the first batter he faced and the last (Derek Jeter in each case). Just five strikeouts, but 14 groundouts and an efficient 109 pitches. Outstanding.
You and I made as many plays today as David Murphy did. Borbon and Nelson Cruz had a combined four touches: Two flyouts to right, Eduardo Nunez's single to center that broke up Lee's no-hitter in the sixth, and Jeter's RBI double to right center.
Nunez is the player the Yankees refused to part with in order to get Lee from the Mariners in July.
It was only the second time in Lee's 12 Texas starts that he delivered a strong effort and also got run support, and it now feels, just maybe, that we're about to see a string of those.
The last time Texas swept the Yankees at home was in 1996, a season in which the Rangers would eventually win Game One of the ALDS, in New York. The Rangers-Yankees karma since then has been lousy, but none of the players or coaches or baseball operations folks here now were here then, and maybe this little three-game set did a little bit to minimize whatever stigma might still be attached, if there's actually any of that which exists other than with the fan base and media. (Then again, there's that 0 for 3 in New York this season.)
Up against Texas high school football Friday, college football Saturday, and NFL Sunday, the Rangers averaged nearly 46,000 per game for the series, the second-most ever for a three-game series in 39 seasons of baseball in Arlington. And now the Rangers get what amounts to two nights off. They can catch Dallas-Washington later this evening and some Monday Night Football tomorrow night, like the rest of us. Then it's back to work.
The magic number stands at 12, as Oakland just fell to Boston, 5-3. The A's kick off their series in Kansas City tomorrow afternoon, while Texas kicks back and waits for Detroit to arrive for a Tuesday-Wednesday series. The A's next travel to Minnesota, while Texas will be in Seattle for a series that Lee should close out on Sunday.
The Rangers won't seal a playoff spot that weekend, but they'll be a bunch closer to it by then, and the way Lee pitched today, they suddenly look a bunch more like a team that has a chance to do something big in the post-season.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Authorities were investigating Thursday whether the suspected gunman wounded in a shootout near a Tulsa courthouse was trying to commit "suicide by cop" when he drew fire from sheriff's deputies, and they confirmed his brother was shot and killed in 2005 by police officers seeking to question him about a murder.
Investigators said they still didn't know exactly why Andrew Joseph Dennehy fired a handgun into the air Wednesday afternoon in a crowded plaza outside Tulsa County District Court. Dennehy, a sheriff's deputy and a bystander were wounded in the shootout.
"Clearly "suicide by cop' may enter into it," Tulsa police spokesman Jason Willingham said. "Anytime someone goes to a location where you know law enforcement is going to be present and takes out a weapon and fires shots, you have to know you're going to garner attention."
Dennehy's brother Brian Dennehy was shot and killed in August 2005 after investigators say he fired at an officer in the parking lot of a Tulsa apartment complex, Willingham said. Police said then that he was suspected in the beating death of his grandfather, Bernard Dennehy, in Oklahoma City.
Andrew Dennehy, 23, remained in critical condition Thursday at a Tulsa hospital, Willingham said. Police have said he is technically in custody but hasn't been formally charged with a crime.
Authorities identified the wounded deputy as David Fortenberry and the bystander who was shot as Ricardo Manuel, 28. Willingham said both had non-life threatening injuries, but their medical conditions weren't immediately known on Thursday. According to the sheriff's office, Fortenberry was shot in both hands and arms.
In the case of Dennehy's brother, Brian, Tulsa police had received a request from Oklahoma City investigators for help in finding a homicide suspect who may have been in Tulsa. An officer found the vehicle of the suspect, identified as Brian Dennehy, and was approaching it when a man who was lying down in the back seat pointed a revolver and shot at the officer.
The officer returned fire, hitting Brian Dennehy twice in the upper torso and once in the head. He died at the scene.
As for Andrew Dennehy, who would have been a teenager when his brother was killed, investigators "may never know why he did what he did," Willingham said.
With brisk winds and unseasonably warm temperatures, it didn't seem too odd that Andrew Dennehy, shoeless and clad in a short-sleeve shirt and short pants, had sauntered onto the plaza between the courthouse and the Tulsa Central Library.
A wedding had ended on the plaza, and about seven family members were still gathered when shots rang out, said Angela Reudelhuber, 36, who ministered the wedding.
"The wedding just finished, and the bride and groom headed upstairs to turn in their marriage license," Reudelhuber said.


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By ADAM LAPIERRE
News staff writer
March 1, 2006
Hood River's Summit Snowboard Team is fast on track to taking back the Oregon Interscholastic Snowboard Association (OISA) boys' and girls' state championship titles. After claiming state titles for six years in a row, Summit ended its streak of dominance by not participating in state last year due to lack of snow. Grants Pass took the boys' slopestyle and boardercross titles and Ashland took the girls' titles in both events.
This season Summit reinstated its bid for the top of the podium in the upcoming OISA State Championships, set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week at Timberline. The team of high school riders completed its final events before state this weekend, at Mount Hood Meadows. And, as a precedent for the upcoming state showdown, the Summit crew concluded a top-notch season by taking first in both the slopestyle and boardercross events on Saturday.
On some of the best snow conditions of the season, the Gorge League took first to the boardercross course. Each rider took two timed runs down the course, with the fastest run of the two counted. Continuing his show of ascendancy this season, David Rovianek logged a time of :29.53 on his second run. Chris Barber was fast at Rovianek's heels and, if it weren't for a slip up on a roller mid-course, he would have won the event. Barber completed the course in :29.98 for a one, two Summit finish.
Kelsey Griffith led the girls' field by almost three seconds, with a best time of :33.61 for her second first place boardercross finish this season. Tory Ratcliff took third in the event behind Chelsea Prink of Barlow.
The day's pace shifted from the as fast as possible boardercoss to the as big, technical and clean as possible slopestyle.
After chasing Rovianek in every event this season, Barber finally edged his adversary in the second of two runs down the slopestyle course. In a best of two runs format, Rovianek dominated the first trip down the rails, the two tabletops and a quarterpipe. Barber stepped it up for his second run, hucking some big, technical tricks to better Rovianek's best run by 21 points. Barber took the event, Rovianek took second and Jeremy Page rounded out the top placers in fifth.
The girls need some practice in the slopestyle event, as their technique off the snow is pretty shaky. Griffith finished second and Ratcliff fifth in the event that the Barlow girls would take first in.
The upcoming championships will start Friday with the halfpipe competition and the boardercross qualifiers. Saturday will be entirely slopestyle, and on Sunday the boardercross finals will wrap up the season for OISA teams from the Three Rivers, Southern, Sunset, Metro and Gorge leagues.
Saturday highlights:
Boardercross —
Kelsey Griffith 1st
Tory Ratcliff 3rd
David Rovianek 1st
Chris Barber 2nd
Will Gleasman 6th
Dana Keleher 7th
Jeremy Page 10th
Slopestyle —
Kelsey Griffith 2nd
Tory Ratcliff 5th
Chris Barber 1st
David Rovianek 2nd
Jeremy Page 5th
Dana Keleher 7th
Dylan Bauld 8th
Will Kline 9th
Ian Daily 10th
Will Gleasman 11th
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Liverpool's Stewart Downing admitted he was "disappointed" by recent comments from Reds boss Brendan Rodgers regarding the winger's future on Anfield.
Downing has been out of favour since Rodgers took the reins on the red side of Merseyside and the former Swansea boss last week questioned whether the £20million signing from Aston Villa had the "fight" to succeed at Liverpool.
While the 28-year-old revealed he was not happy about his manager's words, he insisted he was ready to work hard and show the kind of commitment that has been asked of him.
"I was disappointed by what was said but if that's the way the manager sees it I have to take it," Downing told the Liverpool Echo.
"That's fine. I'll fight, I'll fight every day.
"I have done that since I was 10 years old when I was trying to get through at Middlesbrough."
Downing started the season in Rodgers' side, but was relegated to the bench after the disastrous opening day defeat to West Brom at The Hawthorns and has since found opportunities difficult to come by.
The England international was not even a substitute in the recent defeat to Manchester United and failed to get off of the bench in Liverpool's first win of the season at Norwich City last weekend.
Despite the lack of playing time, Downing is determined to stay at Anfield and is hoping his fortunes change.
"I haven't even considered the idea of leaving here. I've still got three years left on my contract and I intend to see that through. In fact I want to stay even longer than that," he added.
"I love playing for Liverpool and it's a great club with great fans. I don't want to leave and I don't want to play for anyone else.
"I'm enjoying it here. Yes, I'm disappointed that I'm not in the team at the moment but football is a funny game.
"Things can quickly change. This time next month I could be playing every week."
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My Grub Screw on my pinion gear wont come off. It is super tight and a bit stripped from the factory. How should I get it off without stripping it more?
Try some penetrating oil or heating it. If that doesn't loosen it up, take a dremel and cut a slot for a flatblade screwdriver in the grub screw (pinion will likely be ruined)
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so like some wd-40 or something? how could i heat it without melting the plastic around it?
You don't have to heat it up a lot to get it off. I would use a heat gun and keep trying every 10-15 seconds or so. If not, use a hack saw and cut it. I used that on my Velineon motor (to rebuild it) and it worked like a charm.
Slash VXL
Rustler Hobbywing
Summit 1/16 VXL
Do you have a good tool to use? It's important to have the right size tool that's in good condition so it won't strip it more than it is already. I like Dynamite tools with red aluminum handles.
My Black & Blue Rally is faster than your color...
Probably, but make sure it's on high lol!
Slash VXL
Rustler Hobbywing
Summit 1/16 VXL
No promise's,but sometimes you can get a 1/16" to fit if the hole isn't striped to bad.
That with the idea's above might work(50/50 chance at best).
But it might be worth a try before you have to resort to the cutting method.
Built Ford Tuff With Chevy Stuff.
Im going to try the heat method when I get home. I just use the included tools now but im getting better ones soon.
The 1.5mm wrench Traxxas gives you isn't that good to be honest, I found myself using the shorter end of it (to get more leverage). I would try some Torx (star head) drivers. They work with hex nuts with no modifications.
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Rustler Hobbywing
Summit 1/16 VXL
If you have a small set of easy outs or grip itz, you can remove just about any type screw head that is stripped. I have purchased these sets from Sears and Home Depot.
And as stated by others, good quality tools are a must when working on these small screws that require good solid tightening.
"enjoy your ride"
Seeing most pinion gears grub screws uses a 1/16" and not 1.5mm makes a difference. So for future reference get a 1/16 for just the pinion and you'll never have the head strip again. For tools I love my losi team driver set and the assoicated 8in1 kit(very strong tips btw). Now, if the thread lock is causing issues just place the tip of the soldering iron on the grub screw and will loosen up the thread lock in no time.
Simply the best. The beautiful Traxxas SRT and TCP
I'll secong notion the 1/16" fits great. A ti nitrate such as integy won't strip it or tool.
I ened up using a quality 1/16 in hex and it came out no problem.
Well there ya go... the right quality tool gets the job done almost every time.....
"enjoy your ride"
I cant tell you the amount of times I have searched my allen key bin to find the perfect size for pinion grubs. So I finally painted that one green so I can tell it apart from the others . Also use some blue Loctite when putting it back in. I have had them back out before and destroy my spur.
Funny I never used locktite on the grub screw. Just a quality tool and just tighten down will suffice.
Simply the best. The beautiful Traxxas SRT and TCP
In my experiences, I have tightened down the grub screw fully on the flat side of the motor shaft and it backed out twice on me. Granted the pinion was aftermarket and the threads may have not been properly machined, I have had it happen. I have found that putting blue Loctite in the threads ensures it will stay on and will still be easy to take out if you want to run a different gearing setup. For me it is one of those "why not" type of things.


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While I normally would be against the obscene redistricting that is being done for political purposes, resulting in voters being forced into voting for candidates who are not known to them and not in sync with the voters' desires, I still welcome the recent gerrymandering of Maryland's Congressional District 3. Several years ago, my immediate neighborhood was gerrymandered into a district that while adjacent (from District 8 to District 4) did not reflect the views of our area. I was outraged to have to contend with a representative that not only did not represent my needs but also those of most of my neighbors.
The travesty had but one remedy, redistricting either back to District 8 or to a newly gerrymandered district. Fortunately, my new representative shares my views on many subjects and is of the same political party, but vastly different in attitude from the one in District 4.
Gerrymandering is a disgrace to our democratic principles, but it is best to accept the inevitable, at least in my case.
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New Delhi, Nov 12 : Actress Anushka Sharma, who made a dream debut opposite superstar Shah Rukh Khan in 2008 with "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" says she never knew if she wanted to be an actress but acting has grown on her.
"I am just happy that I am getting to do the kind of work I always wanted to do. I started off without knowing whether I wanted to be an actress or not. But since I started doing films, I have started loving the craft," Anushka told IANS on the sidelines of a press conference here Sunday.
Anushka's work has been appreciated in movies like "Band Baaja Baaraat" and "Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl". She says now she has developed a certain choice.
"Now I have aspirations like, 'I want to do this kind of film, work with this kind of director or learn from this actor'. So I am happy that I am getting a chance to work with prolific directors," she added.
The actress is busy promoting her forthcoming film "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" (JTHJ), which also stars Shah Rukh and Katrina Kaif. Late filmmaker Yash Chopra's last directorial, it will hit theatres Tuesday.
She will also be seen in director Vishal Bhardwaj's next project "Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola", which is slated for release January next year.


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Angelina Jolie's 'Salt' 2 Picks Up New Writer
Angelina Jolie is one step closer to another helping of Salt as Columbia Pictures hits the negotiating table with Seven Years in Tibet writer Becky Johnston.
Naturally with the 2010 original grossing $293.5 million, including $118,311,368 in the U.S., the studio has incentive to get a Salt 2 underway, especially with its irreplaceable star, Angelina Jolie, threatening retirement in the not-too-distant future.
Columbia hired the first Salt's writer Krut Wimmer to write the sequel, but Jolie had apparently scoffed at the script and had not committed to a re-do, according to THR. The studio searched for a replacement who could re-style the story that will satisfy all involved.
Johnston's other credits include The Prince of Tides (1991) as well as Wonder Woman and Brad Bird's San Francisco earthquake story, 1906.
Johnston's participation will be a departure from her previous work, though there's at least one connection. Seven Years in Tibet, released 15 years ago, starred Jolie's future partner, Brad Pitt.
[Source: THR]


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Before becoming a full-time painter she was a professor of art at the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri, for 22 years, and a full-time illustrator, painter and graphic designer for 13 years.
Chris has had numerous solo shows and conducted workshops in United States, France, and the Netherlands. She has acquired signature status in the MidAmerica Pastel Society and the International Society of Acrylic Painters. Her work has been juried into 8 international exhibitions, 24 national exhibitions, and 29 regional exhibitions. She has been in 16 invitational shows and 13 solo shows. She is the recipient of over 21 awards, including Best of Show and Gold. She won awards from the Kansas City Art Directors Club (3 Merit and 1 Bronze Award), Communication Arts Illustration Annual 1987 (Merit Award), and the S


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He Hath Filled the Hungry with Good Things
I came across this talk in my BOM365 study. It was attached to the reading for today. I thought I had heard EVERY Jeffrey R. Holland talk there ever was! I was wrong. This one really spoke to me today. I recently started graduate school and am taking a class this semester in treating individuals who are suffering from addiction. All addiction. I had an assignment to attend an Addition Recovery Program last week. I will blog about it later. It was honestly one of the most spiritual meetings I have ever been to. I left with such a sweet understanding of the love Heavenly Father has for each of us, his imperfect children. I think this talk resonates with me right now because of all of the reading I have been doing about people in bondage to their addiction. There are obviously a great deal of things out there that we give our freedom to that results in some semblance of bondage. Some of the things mentioned on the BOM365 page today were smart phones (distracting from the things that really matter), negativity and worry, being too concerned with what others think (more than God), pride, weakness from physical appetites (food, laziness). This talk offers some answers. I have highlighted my favorite parts.
If I could invite three people to dinner for a lively conversation. Jeffrey R. would be in the list. Just sayin'. He is one of my all time faves.
Some time ago I read an essay referring to "metaphysical hunger" 1 in the world. The author was suggesting that the souls of men and women were dying, so to speak, from lack of spiritual nourishment in our time. That phrase, "metaphysical hunger," came back to me last month when I read the many richly deserved tributes paid to Mother Teresa of Calcutta. One correspondent recalled her saying that as severe and wrenching as physical hunger was in our day—something she spent virtually her entire life trying to alleviate—nevertheless, she believed that the absence of spiritual strength, the paucity of spiritual nutrition, was an even more terrible hunger in the modern world.
These observations reminded me of the chilling prophecy from the prophet Amos, who said so long ago, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord." 2
As the world slouches toward the 21st century, many long for something, sometimes cry out for something, but too often scarcely know for what. The economic condition in the world, speaking generally and certainly not specifically, is probably better than it has ever been in history, but the human heart is still anxious and often filled with great stress. We live in an "information age" that has a world of data available literally at our fingertips, yet the meaning of that information and the satisfaction of using knowledge in some moral context seems farther away for many than ever before.
The price for building on such sandy foundations is high. Too many lives are buckling when the storms come and the winds blow. 3 In almost every direction, we see those who are dissatisfied with present luxuries because of a gnawing fear that others somewhere have more of them. In a world desperately in need of moral leadership, too often we see what Paul called "spiritual wickedness in high places." 4 In an absolutely terrifying way, we see legions who say they are bored with their spouses, their children, and any sense of marital or parental responsibility toward them. Still others, roaring full speed down the dead-end road of hedonism, shout that they will indeed live by bread alone, and the more of it the better. We have it on good word, indeed we have it from the Word Himself, that bread alone—even a lot of it—is not enough. 5
During the Savior's Galilean ministry, He chided those who had heard of Him feeding the 5,000 with only five barley loaves and two fishes, and now flocked to Him expecting a free lunch. That food, important as it was, was incidental to the real nourishment He was trying to give them.
"Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead," He admonished them. "I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever."
But this was not the meal they had come for, and the record says, "From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him." 6
In that little story is something of the danger in our day. It is that in our contemporary success and sophistication we too may walk away from the vitally crucial bread of eternal life; we may actually choose to be spiritually malnourished, willfully indulging in a kind of spiritual anorexia. Like those childish Galileans of old, we may turn up our noses when divine sustenance is placed before us. Of course the tragedy then as now is that one day, as the Lord Himself has said, "In an hour when ye think not the summer shall be past, and the harvest ended," and we will find that our "souls [are] not saved." 7
I have wondered this morning if someone within the sound of my voice might feel he or she or those they love are too caught up in the "thick of these thin things," are hungering for something more substantial and asking with the otherwise successful young man of the scriptures, "What lack I yet?" 8 I have wondered if someone this morning might be wandering "from sea to sea," running "to and fro" 9 as the prophet Amos said, wearied by the pace of life in the fast lane or in trying to keep up with the Joneses before the Joneses refinance. I have wondered if any have joined our conference hoping to find the answer to a deeply personal problem or to have some light cast on the most serious questions of their heart. Such problems or questions often deal with our marriages, our families, our friends, our health, our peace—or the conspicuous lack of such cherished possessions.
It is to those who so hunger that I wish to speak this morning. Wherever you live, and at whatever point in age or experience you find yourself, I declare that God has through His Only Begotten Son lifted the famine of which Amos spoke. I testify that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Bread of Life and a Well of Living Water springing up unto eternal life. I declare to those who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and especially to those who are not, that our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Firstborn Son did appear to the boy prophet Joseph Smith and restored light and life, hope and direction to a wandering world, a world filled with those who wonder, "Where is hope? Where is peace? What path should I follow? Which way should I go?"
Regardless of past paths taken or not taken, we wish to offer you this morning "the way, the truth, and the life."10 We invite you to join in the adventure of the earliest disciples of Christ who also yearned for the bread of life—those who did not go back but who came to Him, stayed with Him, and who recognized that for safety and salvation there was no other to whom they could ever go. 11
You will recall that when Andrew and another disciple, probably John, first heard Christ speak, they were so moved and attracted to Jesus that they followed Him as He left the crowd. Sensing that He was being pursued, Christ turned and asked the two men, "What seek ye?" 12Other translations render that simply "What do you want?" They answered, "Where dwellest thou?" or "Where do you live?" Christ said simply, "Come and see."13 Just a short time later He formally called Peter and other new Apostles with the same spirit of invitation. To them He said, Come, "follow me." 14
It seems that the essence of our mortal journey and the answers to the most significant questions in life are distilled down to these two very brief elements in the opening scenes of the Savior's earthly ministry. One element is the question put to every one of us on this earth: "What seek ye? What do you want?" The second is His response to our answer, whatever that answer is.Whoever we are and whatever we reply, His response isalways the same: "Come," He says lovingly. "Come, follow me." Wherever you are going, first come and see what I do, see where and how I spend my time. Learn of me, walk with me, talk with me, believe. Listen to me pray. In turn you will find answers to your own prayers. God will bring rest to your souls. Come, follow me.
With one voice and one accord, we bear witness that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the only way to satisfy ultimate spiritual hunger and slake definitive spiritual thirst. Only He who was so mortally wounded knows how to heal our modern wounds. Only One who was with God, and was God, 15 can answer the deepest and most urgent questions of our soul. Only His almighty arms could have thrown open the prison gates of death that otherwise would have held us in bondage forever. Only on His triumphant shoulders can we ride to celestial glory—if we will but choose through our faithfulness to do so.
To those who may feel they have somehow forfeited their place at the table of the Lord, we say again with the Prophet Joseph Smith that God has "a forgiving disposition," 16 that Christ is "merciful and gracious, slow to anger, [is] long-suffering and full of goodness." 17 I have always loved that when Matthew records Jesus' great injunction, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," 18 Luke adds the Savior's additional commentary: "Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful" 19 —as if to suggest that mercy is at least a beginning synonym for the perfection God has and for which all of us must strive. Mercy, with its sister virtue forgiveness, is at the very heart of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the eternal plan of salvation. Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.
Now, if you feel too spiritually maimed to come to the feast, please realize that the Church is not a monastery for perfect people, though all of us ought to be striving on the road to godliness. No, at least one aspect of the Church is more like a hospital or an aid station, provided for those who are ill and want to get well, where one can get an infusion of spiritual nutrition and a supply of sustaining water in order to keep on climbing.
In spite of life's tribulations and as fearful as some of our prospects are, I testify that there is help for the journey. There is the Bread of Eternal Life and the Well of Living Water. Christ has overcome the world—our world—and His gift to us is peace now and exaltation in the world to come. 20 Our fundamental requirement is to have faith in Him and follow Him—always. When He bids us to walk in His way and by His light, it is because He has walked this way before us, and He has made it safe for our own travel here. He knows where the sharp stones and stumbling blocks lie hidden and where thorns and thistles are the most severe. He knows where the path is perilous, and He knows which way to go when the road forks and nightfall comes. He knows all this, as Alma says in the Book of Mormon, because He has suffered "pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind … , that he may know … how to succor his people according to their infirmities." 21 To succor means to "run to." I testify that in my fears and in my infirmities the Savior has surely run to me. I will never be able to thank Him enough for such personal kindness and such loving care.
President George Q. Cannon said once: "No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, [God] will never desert us. He never has, and He never will. He cannot do it. It is [against] His character [to do so]. He is an unchangeable being. … He will stand by us. We may pass through the fiery furnace; we may pass through deep waters; but we shall not be consumed nor overwhelmed. We shall emerge from all these trials and difficulties the better and the purer for them, if we only trust in our God and keep His commandments." 22
Those who will receive the Lord Jesus Christ as the source of their salvation will always lie down in green pastures, no matter how barren and bleak the winter has been. And the waters of their refreshment will always be still waters, no matter how turbulent the storms of life. In walking His path of righteousness, our souls will be forever restored; and though that path may for us, as it did for Him, lead through the very valley of the shadow of death, yet we will fear no evil. The rod of His priesthood and the staff of His Spirit will always comfort us. And when we hunger and thirst in the effort, He will prepare a veritable feast before us, a table spread even in the presence of our enemies—contemporary enemies—which might include fear orfamily worries, sickness or personal sorrow of a hundred different kinds. In a crowning act of compassion at such a supper He anoints our head with oil and administers a blessing of strength to our soul. Our cup runneth over with His kindness, and our tears runneth over with joy. We weep to know that such goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our life, and that we will, if we desire it, dwell in the house of the Lord forever. 23
I pray this morning that all who are hungering and thirsting, and sometimes wandering, will hear this invitation from Him who is the Bread of Life, the Fountain of Living Water, the Good Shepherd of us all, the Son of God: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, … and ye shall find rest unto your souls." 24 Truly He does fill "the hungry with good things," as His own mother Mary testified. 25 Come, and feast at the table of the Lord in what I testify to be His true and living Church, led by a true and living prophet, President Gordon B. Hinckley, whom it is now our pleasure to hear. I pray for these blessings and bear witness of these truths in the sacred and holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.


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The Welcome Table at Hope United Methodist Church, East Flat Rock, is a ministry that has served meals since May 2011.
The start-up of the Welcome Table was funded by a grant from the Reynolds Foundation, and a warm, nutritious meal is served every Tuesday night to anyone who comes.
The Welcome Table also features a children's corner with adult supervision, weekly blood pressure checks and general health advice provided by three dedicated nurses.
A devotional service also is offered. Several people coming to the Welcome Table also have been helped in their search for shelter, jobs and a church home.
Along with food, some items bought with the grant and donations are a chest freezer, refrigerator, ice maker, stockroom, and 100 china plates to use for special occasions.
Four area churches volunteer to help, and five rotating cooks prepare the meals. Also, meals have been supplied by Mills River and Hope United Methodist Women, Hope and Mills River United Methodist Men, Mills River United Methodist Church Youth, and Relate Church.
Last June, a meal was provided by Hot Dog World. The Thanksgiving and Christmas meals also were a huge success, with the turkeys supplied by Lynchfield United Methodist Church. In February, a meal will be prepared by Etowah United Methodist Church.
The Welcome Table is held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday.
Call 828-230-3533, 828-697-6846 or email email@example.com for more information.
Welcome Table serves more than a hot meal
The Welcome Table at Hope United Methodist Church, East Flat Rock, is a ministry that has served meals since May 2011.


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"Celtic Thunder" at 7 p.m. Sunday features five male vocalists taking part in a celebration of Celtic heritage.
The IRA expert shares strategies viewers can implement to safeguard their retirement savings on "Stay Rich Forever & Ever With Ed Slott" at 9 p.m. Sunday.
"Lifeguard" follows the influence of family, religion, and anti- communism on Ronald Reagan from his youth to presidency in "American Experience" at 8 p.m. Monday.
Flutist James Galway joins conductor Lorin Maazel in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony in "Live from Lincoln Center" at 10 p.m. Monday
"Nova" at 7 p.m. Tuesday reveals the dark secrets of black holes, from their birth to their destructive waves of energy.
The four brothers who founded the movie studio in 1923 and its early films and stars are explored in part one of "The Warner Bros. Story" in "American Masters" at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Warren Beatty and other industry insiders discuss the movie studio's history and its best films in part two of "The Warner Bros. Story" in "American Masters" at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Part three of "The Warner Bros. Story" in "American Masters" at 8 p.m. Thursday features Clint Eastwood, George Clooney and great movie clips.
Jim Lehrer interviews George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry and Al Gore in "Debating Our Destiny II" at 10 p.m. Tuesday.
"Killer Stress: National Geographic" at 7 p.m. Wednesday reveals just how measurable and dangerous exposure to stress response can be.
John Mayer performs on the heels of his tour for his Grammy-winning album, Continuum, in "Austin City Limits" at 10 p.m. Wednesday and 11 p.m. Friday.
"Texas Monthly Talks" at 7 p.m. Thursday speaks with Houston-born musician Billy Gibbons, whose look is as distinctive as the songs he's written and played with ZZ Top.
"Docubloggers" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday takes a peek at some local baby bald eagles before they take flight, and meets with Sheila Smith and her 75 cats at the Shadow Cats Sanctuary.
Directed by Hector Galan, "Los Lonely Boys Cottonfields and Crossroads" at 9 p.m. Thursday tells the story of the band from San Angelo. Los Lonely Boys have rocked their way to the top of the American music industry, determined to fulfill their father's long-held dream.
"Spain… On the Road Again" at 10 p.m. Friday follows Gwyneth Paltrow and Mario Batali as they visit Madrid and Toledo and have a cooking lesson with a top chef.
"Austin City Limits" at 7 p.m. Saturday presents performances from San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park.


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Join Nature Center for "Holiday Decorations" Workshop and Book Signing by Local Author
April 09, 2010
Join the John T. Huston - Dr. John D. Brumbaugh Nature Center of Mount Union College on Sunday, December 1 for a "Holiday Decorations" workshop from 2 - 4 p.m. Prior to, and during the workshop, the public is invited to attend a book signing, where two books written by local authors will be available for purchase.
James M. Toto, a local author and volunteer at the Huston-Brumbaugh Nature Center, will be signing copies of his book, "Places in the Heart," from 1 - 5 p.m. at the Nature Center. The book, which features nature stories, will be available for purchase. Also available for purchase is "Alliance, Ohio - It's Not What It Used To Be," by local author and Nature Center volunteer, Lydia Hart. This book details the history of the city of Alliance.
The "Holiday Decorations" workshop is an opportunity to learn how to make ornaments for the home from natural materials. No registration is required.
For more information, contact the Nature Center at (330) 823-7487. The Nature Center is located six miles south of Mount Union College on Daniel Street, just off of Route 183.


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Buffalo Bills Player Tweets HIV Test Results: Over-Share or Encouraging?
By Kellee Terrell
May 25, 2012
Earlier this week, Buffalo Bills wide receiver David Clowney tweeted a picture of his negative HIV test results with the text "Got My HIV Results Back!! Thank God for keeping my body healthy and safe."
And while plenty of individuals showed him love for encouraging people to get tested, I was really taken aback by the snarky and malicious responses he received.
One Twitter follower wrote, "Just putting ya number out there for everyone."
Josh Katzowitz, a CBSSports.com blogger, made fun of Clowney's actions and wrote, "But I'll make this pledge to you: the next time I have to undergo a urine test, the first thing I'll do is tweet out the results."
A reader commented on Katzowitz's CBSSports.com piece:
"This IS what is wrong with not only Twitter, but football player's [sic] as well. Is the only reason he has 9,000 twitter follower's [sic] and did this was because he slept with them all and had to report back to them with results. What better way to tell 9,000 women you banged than to say ... 'See, I'm Clean!' Player's first thought ... how can I get my name out there (good or bad), secondary ... who the heck cares how it makes me look. How did I spend this much time writing about someone I never heard off [sic]? Damn you David Clowney for making a stupid tweet, that had to draw our attention. Idiot!!!"
Zack Kelberman, on the sports blog Helmet2Helmet.com, really hit below the belt, referring to Clowney as an unheard of "nondescript" fifth-round draft pick who finally gets to be in the news for airing his business.
And look, part of me -- the everyday "Kellee who is not TheBody.com's news editor" -- rolled my eyes, too. It had nothing to do with what he tweeted per se. It was a knee-jerk reaction to the era of social media over-sharing that we live in. It seems like every other day, celebs (and celeb wannabes) are broadcasting the silliest and most irrelevant details of their already privileged lives for the whole world to see. Honestly, it really gets on my nerves.
But then the "Kellee that all of you know" took over and was like, "Wait a minute, what is everyone tripping about? Why should HIV testing be something that is regarded as TMI?"
Because let's be real: Had he tweeted about his cholesterol levels, cancer results or a sonogram of his unborn baby, no one would have reported on it, because it wouldn't have been "salacious" enough, and if they had written about it, there wouldn't have been this vicious response.
It's very obvious that stigma is the underlying culprit here. And it's so damn upsetting because here we are, 30-plus years into this epidemic, and people equate testing with being promiscuous and consider it something that should be done in secret.
Now granted, had he tested positive, he might not have been so quick to share those results, and I would never fault him for that. But we do need more messages around testing that don't always involve an "everything being fine" outcome. The reality is that while many people will test negative, some will test positive, and we don't have much for them in terms of messaging because we spend so much time reassuring everyone that they won't test positive.
But that isn't Clowney's fault, or his concern, and that shouldn't take away from the value of his actions. Clowney's tweet sought to destigmatize testing, which is huge. Clowney (who I strongly believe to be heterosexual) is also showing other straight men that testing is for them, too. Unfortunately, that's a public health message that has yet to be successfully articulated in the African-American community.
Over the years, thanks to limitations, such as a lack of data and an obsession with the down low, the black HIV epidemic has mostly been framed as a heterosexual black woman's and gay or bisexual black man's problem. So the more messages that include heterosexual men, the better.
So, Clowney, let the haters hate. All that matters is inspiring one of your 9,000 Twitter followers who may have been afraid to get tested or didn't think HIV was his or her concern to finally get swabbed.
What do you all think? Was Clowney's tweet an over-share or encouraging?
Kellee Terrell is the former news editor for TheBody.com and TheBodyPRO.com.
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grant loves to ride the plank ramp... any recomentations for another simple obstacle that I can build and pull to the side?
4 comments:
- Brian said...
Hoop of fire.
- 4/18/2010
- gwadzilla said...
hmmm... I bet the boys would love the HOOP OF FIRE!
- 4/19/2010
- Grace Junkie said...
teeter totters are an easy build and highly moveable. :)
- 4/19/2010
- rayman said...
How about a balance beam?
Use 2 2X6 pine boards nailed together with their ends beveled to make ramps.
Being able to ride cityscape the width of a curb unleashes a plethora of urban riding possibilities.
- 4/19/2010
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STATELINE, NV - Douglas County deputies have confirmed the remains of 19-year-old Alyssa Byrne have been found.
The investigation into her death is still underway, but investigators think Alyssa opted to walk instead of taking a shuttle during the Snow Globe Festival, and the bitter cold temperatures could have played a role in her death.
Her body was found off Pioneer Trail near South Lake Tahoe by a utility worker, very close to Lake Tahoe Community College.
Alyssa Byrne had driven with three friends from Petaluma, California to attend the SnowGlobe Music Festival, but then she disappeared early on New Year's Day. That festival was held at the college.
Police say a call or text was placed from Alyssa's phone later than earlier reported. But investigators say it does not mean the phone was in Alyssa's possession.
Also, tweets from a Twitter user by the name of "Alyssa Byrne One" posted these messages on New Year's Eve: "After tonight, you'll never be a part of my life," and... "just lost all my trust in the person I trusted most." Right now, investigators aren't jumping to any conclusions about the tweets.
Investigators do not suspect foul play.
Alyssa's friends notified authorities she was missing late New Year's night. Crews from Douglas County, El Dorado County, South Lake Tahoe Police Department, and the FBI are now looking for the 19-year-old. They're combing the woods, the area around the SnowGlobe venue, the casinos, and even looking through casino surveillance video.
About a dozen of Alyssa's friends from her hometown have driven up to Tahoe to pass out flyers.
"I was walking down the street from the hotel and I saw flyers on every pole. A lot of people know about it in the hotels and everyone's doing their share. If you look on Instagram, Facebook, it's insane about how much everybody's really caring," says Nathan Tubbs, a childhood friend.
"I want everyone to know that she's a wonderful kid," says Kevin Byrne, her father. "We love her, we miss her, she's one of the brightest people I've ever met.... And she's just a good kid."
Alyssa still lived at home with her parents and older brother. Another reason her family thinks that she wouldn't run away: she has a tattoo on her left wrist, saying "I love Mom, Dad, and my dog.
If you know anything that can help investigators, call Douglas County Secret Witness at 775-78-CRIME.


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RENO, Nev. – PETA has a new billboard and the organization says the billboard is going up near Reno public schools.
The billboard features an animal that looks like a cross between a dog and a turkey and reads "Kids: If You Wouldn't Eat Your Dog, Why Eat a Turkey?".
PETA claims the message is meant to spark a dialog between parents and children.
PETA Executive Vice President Tracey Reiman says "Kids love animals, and if they thought about how turkeys feel pain and fear just as dogs and cats do, they'd trade in their drumsticks for Tofurkey in a heartbeat." Reiman is encouraging families to eat vegan for Thanksgiving.
The organization tells KOLO 8 News Now they are working with Blue Line Media and Clear Channel Outdoor to purchase billboard space near schools.
Both companies declined to comment on where those billboards might be located.
Similar billboards will be going up in Sacramento and Boise.


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Mods, please move to the Guys that Wear Dresses Forum
1305 – After a show trial, William Wallace, leader of the Scottish resistance against England during the Wars of Scottish Independence, was executed in London's Smithfield Market.
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Mods, please move to the Guys that Wear Dresses Forum
Lot of English dicks in here
In your left hand raise a sword, in your right hand cast a spear
Summon all the thieves and bastards hiding in the woodland
Crack their skulls in the cauldron
For invading our front and shell stop the hammer fall
Just know this place could burn us all
We forge our weapons in the furnace
So our hides are like oak tree stumps
Tonight beg before me and Ill heed your appeal
With your final words be grateful you die by Irish steel
Do not crawl before us, your fate has been revealed
The heavens would not desecrate their games with your admittance
Was he French?
Was he executed on this date in 1305?
If not, then wtf are we doing talki.g about this.
Can recommend the BBC "History of Scotland" Warfish - uncovers a few myths. He was truly a great man.
Damn. I thought the WR for the Stillers died. Whew what a relief he is a young dude.
I was a big fan of Edward longshanks. You throw your sons smart ass lover out a window your a ok in my book
On a side note, would love to spark one up in the top of that tower
My offering in honor of this day:


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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Spicy Catfish Po' Boys with Cajun Cole Slaw
~The Cole Slaw recipe is Chef John Folse's~
Ingredients for Slaw:
2 cups shredded purple cabbage
2 cups shredded green cabbage
1/4 cup golden raisins
1 small onion, peeled and grated
1 carrot, peeled and grated
1 tbsp minced parsley
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3 TBsps cider vinegar
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp dry mustard
1/4 tsp granulated garlic
1/2 tsp celery seed
salt and cayenne pepper to taste
Method: Toss cabbage, raisins, onion, carrot and parsley until well mixed then set aside. In a small bowl, combine oil, vinegar, mayonnaise, sugar and seasonings. Pour dressing over cabbage mixture and gently toss. Cover and refrigerate 2 hours while frying catfish.
Ingredients for Catfish:
6 x 6-8oz. catfish fillets
peanut oil for frying
1 cup buttermilk + Louisiana hot sauce to taste (marinade for catfish)
marinate catfish for at least 2 hours prior to frying.
2 cups seasoned corn flour (I use masa harina, 1 TBsp cayenne, 1 tsp. paprika, salt&pepper to taste, and a pinch of garlic and onion powders)
6 x 6-inch sliced sections of a good baguette
red onion, thinly sliced
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. For the bread
In a large black iron skillet pour peanut oil to a depth that will cover fish by 1/2 inch. Preheat oil to 365°F. I like to do my frying outside.
Remove fish from marinade and dredge in seasoned corn flour, shaking off excess. Fry until fish pieces are golden brown. Do not overcook. Remove from skillet and drain on a cooling rack. Toast bread lightly in oven. Place 1 catfish fillet on bottom piece of the baguette. Top with sliced red onions and a big ol' portion of coleslaw and hotsauce. Add the top piece of bread and get ready for the neighbors to stop by to see what you've made.
2 comments:
- auntiepegi said...
How do you do your frying outside? What a CLEAN idea. It looks like a stove top.
- January 6, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- Greg said...
auntiepegi - I use an outdoor propane burner. They are great to have for deep frying.
- January 29, 2011 at 8:10 AM
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Mint condition Chrono Marine.Yellow gold case.Light Brown Leather Bracelet.
Before they are put online, all our watches are appraised by our watchmaker. A series of tests is performed.
The watchmaker controls:
An invoice is issued, it gives rise to a 1 year warranty. The warranty remains valid only on the express condition that the watch undergoes no further intervention other than those practiced in the workshops approved by the brand.


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AP: CNN: Some colleges courting home-schoolers in quest for best students
AP: Yahoo: Colleges coveting home-schooled students
The article mentions one of my sisters! Of course, they misspelled her last name once, but oh well
Magdalene Pride, a first-year Columbia College student, was a beneficiary of the school's aggressive recruitment of home-schoolers.
After earning more than 50 credit hours through a combination of community college classes near her suburban St. Louis home and online Advanced Placement course, Price was awarded a four-year scholarship to Columbia College that covers the school's $12,414 annual tuition.
AP: Colleges coveting home-schooled students
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PRINCETON, N.J. – For the second time this season, Dartmouth freshman Emily Astarita earned conference honors as she was named the Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week, the league office announced on Tuesday.
Astarita shared the honor with Cornell's Sarah Kramer while Kendall Polan of Yale was tabbed Player of the Week.
Last week, the Setauket, N.Y., native continued her strong play in conference action, registering a match-high 17 kills as Dartmouth topped Harvard, 3-2, on Friday. The outside hitter also played a key role defensively for the Big Green with seven digs and a pair of blocks.
Astarita has led the Green and White in kills in three straight contests, averaging over 15 kills per match. She has registered double-digit kill totals in nine games this season, including four of the last five games.
Astarita first received recognition the week of Sept. 24, when she shared the accolade with Harvard's Grace Weghorst. The highly touted Dartmouth freshmen have now been honored three times by the league office as Molly Kornfeind was named Rookie of the Week on Oct. 15.The Big Green return to the court this weekend, Nov. 1-2, hosting defending conference champion Yale and Brown. The tilt with the Bulldogs is set for Friday at 7 p.m. and the contest with the Bears is slated for Saturday at 5 p.m


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Mage The Ascension 208
In White Wolf's explanatory "Mage" book, the lines between the good guys and bad guys are never clear.
In the old days, goes the backstory, when magic was real, a group of Mages -- mystics and sages who wanted to bring magic back to the world concluded that if enough of the population didn't believe in evil and danger, they would disappear.
Calling themselves the Order of Reason, some mages banded together to educate and enlighten the masses, using science and technology to brighten the world's darker corners. Over the years, however, as this Order became dominant, it began to promote conformity. Iconoclasts and deviants were gradually eliminated through the use of science, financial pressure and social ostracism.
Now known as the Technocracy, these mages wielded increasing control over mass media, education, technology and business; they even defined what was real and what wasn't.
It's amazing to encounter so insightful a worldview in a paper-and-pencil role-playing game. While mainstream society was dismissing geeks and nerds, they were increasingly retreating -- via games, MUDs and MOOs -- into their own folktales, fantasy worlds that foretold the future as brilliantly as Orwell or H.G. Wells. "Shadowrun," "Werewolf" and "Changeling" were escape routes, a new genre that offered some of the most revealing insights yet into the people who built (and are still building) the Net and Web, and creating continuing revolutions like the open source movement.
The legacy of the techno-outsider culture, such games have been partly supplanted by flashier entertainment systems from Nintendo and Sega, and technologically-sophisticated games like "Seaman." But these early stories were the precursors to a social revolution and its new worldview.
In "Mage", cynicism and lack of imagination exist only on the surface.
A shadowy world flourishes underneath this everyday one. In it, enchanters and sorcerers commune with powers that no mortal can see or believe.
The world (our world) is definitely a poorer place for the loss of faith in magic, but it's richer for a subterranean fantasy like "Mage," and for the caverns, tunnels, hidden rooms and pools of a score of virtual games. "Mage's" sci-fi spiritualism fits perfectly with the ascent of the Net and Web, where people with imagination, creativity, individuality and yearning have lots of dark corners to hide in. These geek refugees and artists still dip underground in search of their own shadowy worlds. Stories like "Mage" foresaw the amazing creative power of the Net, where the ability to personalize reality becomes commonplace. People can customize information, design their own spaces, role play on games and in chat rooms, express themselves freely. Online, the shadow world of the Mages has come to pass. And it's a much richer, darker and political kind of culture than the corporations who dominate entertainmnent generally permit in music or on screens.
"Imagine a world where visionaries struggle to bring wonder to the mundane," reads the "Mage" introduction. "Picture a war where the winners decide the fate of the world, and the losers are hunted for their presumption. ... Forging their own rules through the power of will, these enlightened few cast the shape of tomorrow. Ultimately, they seek to surpass the limitations of the universe, to transcend this reality through Ascension. Their special wisdom sets them apart forever -- they are mages."
In the dawn of the new millenium, the Mages warned, the Technocracy dominated the world and its people, using programs designed to subvert the remaining isolated pockets of deviancy.
Often, in fact, science and technology do fail to come to terms with their own complexity when managed by fallible and manipulable humans. Another brilliant vision of the future: in this world, with more technology than ever -- gene maps, supercomputing, artificial intelligence, wireless delivery systems, an avalanche of new software, plentiful bandwidth -- most people are never permitted or helped to understand it. The technology spawns all sorts of new devices, even while knowledge seems to shrink.
In our culture, reality certainly gets defined by technocrats who acquire and control media and culture -- journalism, Hollywood, music. People comfort themselves in the idea the the Net provides millions of diverse voices, but very few have any real influence or reach. Mass media still dominate the most influential people and institutions in the culture.
But for all the fantasy in "Mage," there's also relentless reality. There's a poignant chapter on dealing with "the Mundane World," where everybody has to go, at some point, to go to school, sleep or face the real planet.
Stories like "Mage" and "Shadowrunner" LINK often incoporate the idea of an awakening. Sometimes you awaken to magic; sometimes you simply awaken to the nature of the world. Some Mages get jarred into insight through a tramautic event; others experience a slow heightening of awareness.
The idea of the awakening is widespread on the Net, too, usually in a different context. The supplicant, often bored or disconnected from the traditional world, gets drawn into a new reality -- a game, perhaps, an e-mail exchange, a chatroom encounter, a revelatory programming experience. The Net is a particular world and many people talk of their sense of revelation and astonishment when they first enter and discover it. It is especially transforming because their lives are not the same afterwards.


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Fundraiser Battles Cancer with Furry Friends at Boys Republic on Oct. 15
WHO/WHAT: Johnny Rockets at the Shoppes in Chino Hills presents the first Annual Bark for Life and Family Festival of Chino Valley on Saturday, Oct. 15, at Boys Republic High School in Chino Hills. Registration starts at 9 a.m. and the event takes place from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
This noncompetitive walk and festival will bring together dog lovers throughout Chino Valley and the surrounding communities to celebrate the care giving qualities of our canine "best friends". There will be entertainment, dog sporting events, including a long jump, and food for everyone.
Funds raised by the Bark for Life will be used to provide services for local cancer patients, community education programs, and national research projects to find cures to defeat this dreaded disease. Humans are free and the entry fee is $20 per dog. The first 200 dogs to pre-register receive a gift bag and a Bark for Life purple bandana.
To register, or for more information, contact Jennifer Rudin at firstname.lastname@example.com or (909) 802-0705.
WHEN: Saturday, October 15, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Registration begins at 9 a.m.


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Sun Country Airlines employees, who took 50 percent pay cuts last week, caught a break Wednesday when CEO Stan Gadek restored some of their wages.
Only nine days after the carrier filed for bankruptcy, Gadek decided that Sun Country will have enough cash flowing into the company to pay employees 70 percent of their wages.
"Based upon continued customer support for our business in the form of new bookings, I am comfortable in taking this action," Gadek said in a Wednesday memo to employees.
Gadek had been counting on a $7 million operating loan from Tom Petters to act as a financial bridge until the airline reaches its high revenue winter flying season. Petters owns all of the voting stock in Mendota Heights-based Sun Country and was its chairman. He is in custody on federal fraud and money-laundering charges.
Petters' legal problems forced Sun Country to break away from him, and Gadek announced in late September that wages would be cut in half beginning with early October paychecks.
He promised to reimburse employees for the deferred wages next year.
Now employees will be grappling with a temporary 30 percent pay cut.
"I must emphasize that we are still at risk and that I have not yet brought in new cash to the airline," Gadek cautioned in his employee memo.
But the pay restoration and report of strong customer bookings were welcome news for Sun Country employees, who have been buffeted with a string of bad financial developments since Petters Group Worldwide headquarters in Minnetonka was raided by federal agents three weeks ago.
Sun Country's fleet of Boeing 737s will increase from seven to nine on Nov. 1 as the carrier prepares for heavy winter flying.
In U.S. Bankruptcy Court Tuesday, Judge Robert Kressel authorized Sun Country to pay American Airlines for maintenance on a Sun Country airplane that is set to reenter the flying schedule in a few days.
"Many people who fly on Sun Country have flown on us for years and years" and remain loyal, Sun Country spokeswoman Wendy Williams Blackshaw said Wednesday. "I don't think that people automatically associate us with Petters," she added. "The [Sun Country] brand is so strong in the market."
However, Blackshaw said that over the past three weeks, Sun Country experienced an "immediate dip" of 5 to 10 percent in bookings on some days when there was bad news in the Petters fraud case.
Now, she said, "sales are back to where they were before all of this happened," a reference to the Petters fraud case and the Sun Country bankruptcy.
In the past few years, several carriers, including Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines, entered Chapter 11 and continued to operate normal schedules.
With that history, Blackshaw said, people still are buying tickets on Sun Country as it reorganizes in bankruptcy.
"We've been really clear about the fact that we didn't go into bankruptcy because our business model is broken," she said. "This happened because of the situation with Petters."
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Lyndale Ave S Bridge & Paving (CSAH)
Project Type:
This program is a cooperative program between the City of Minneapolis and Hennepin County to help reconstruct County State Aid Highway (CSAH) segments that fall within the city limits. These projects were last constructed in the mid to late 1950's and are at or past the end of their serviceable lives. The streets in this program have a high volume of traffic, and are exhibiting signs of severe deterioration. These streets are past the point where maintenance will insure a safe and pothole free surface. Public Works/Street Maintenance has received a tremendous amount of complaints regarding these streets which already require extraordinary maintenance. Therefore, the City is requesting that the total reconstruction of these streets be done as early as possible
A tremendous amount of money is spent on maintenance on several County State-Aid Highways which are beyond ordinary repair. Extraordinary maintenance drains resources and is not an efficient use of limited maintenance funds. This program will reconstruct those CSAH roadways that were built over 40 years ago. If these roadways are not reconstructed, the surface will deteriorate even more which will discourage traffic from using these streets. If the traffic does not use these streets, it will use adjacent residential streets not intended nor built for high traffic volumes.
Project Limits:
The project is located in Minneapolis on Lyndale Ave S from the bridge at Minnehaha Parkway to W 56th St.
Construction Start Date:
The project closed the bridge January 17, 2012. The road project began on April 2, 2012 with removal of pavement from the east side of Lyndale.
Contacts: City Bridge Project Engineer: Ole Mersinger 612-673-3537
Contacts: City Road Project Engineer: Jeff Handeland 612-673-2363
Project Updates:
March 18, 2013: Roadway and bridge construction is substantially complete.
The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board is scheduled to plant trees in medians and sidewalk openings during the spring of 2013.
For more bridge information about water main cleaning and lining, see the 2012 Water Main Cleaning and Lining website.
For more information about the road portion of the project and updates, see the Hennepin County Road website.
(Note: Project information may change due to scheduling, weather, or other factors outside of our control. Listings will be updated as new information becomes available.) Citizens concerned with pedestrian access during construction should contact the project manager directly.
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FirstNews Briefs: NetZero Wireless, Visage Mobile, Kitchen Brains, Nexmo
NetZero Wireless, Inc., a subsidiary of United Online, Inc., today announced that it has expanded its NetZero DataShield WiFi security service to include Android devices. NetZero DataShield, which launched for PCs, Mac computers, iPhone phones and iPad tablets in July of 2013, encrypts and protects users' data when they connect to the Internet via any WiFi connection, including public WiFi hubs.
Visage Mobile, a company focused on wireless expense management, data and analytics, today announced the launch of International Travel Roaming Alerts. Coming soon to the Concur App Center and available now through Concur TMC Preferred partners, International Roaming Travel Alerts will notify travel and mobility managers to potential wireless and mobile spend overages before international travel takes place.
Kitchen Brains, a provider of development and deployment of integrated, end-to-end, wireless M2M networking solutions, and SaaS applications for the commercial kitchen announced the release of SCK Food Safety Manager (FSM) today. The SCK Food Safety Manager (FSM) aggregates data from an array of static and handheld sensors along with data collection devices to ensure and enable HACCP compliance in any foodservice or preparation environment.
Nexmo, a cloud communication API company, is announcing its expansion into China and a strategic partnership with 21Vianet.


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Tonight on Nightly Business Report, the Federal Reserve says it sees slower growth but lower unemployment over the next few years. What does it mean for you? NBR asks Goldman Sachs' Chief Economist Jan Hatzius. Plus, with planes packed and passengers willing to pay more, airlines are going further to win over high-paying customers. We'll show you how. And, as part of our Spring Buying Season series, NBR looks at whether there is finally a thaw in the mortgage market.
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2004 Softball
Case Western Res. (DH)
Beavers split twinbill with Case Wester Reserve
By Ben Risinger, SID
April 14, 2004
BLUFFTON , OHIO - The Bluffton College softball team (21-5, 7-1 HCAC) split with Case Western Reserve (9-12) on Wednesday afternoon. The Spartans took game one 2-1 in eight innings with Bluffton picking up the nightcap 7-4.
In the first game both teams were kept scoreless until the sixth inning when each
side posted one run to tie the contest. Bluffton had a chance in the top of the eighth
as bases were loaded but could not pull through and left three on. Case Western then
scored a run in the bottom of the inning for the win. Junior
The Beaver bats came alive in the second game as they produced 13 hits. Junior Jackie Wells (Malinta/Patrick Henry) posted a double and triple in the contest. Lange also hit a double for her second of the series.
Sophomore pitcher Sarah Betts (Bryan/Bryan) took her record to 20-4 on the mound with the win and loss.
Bluffton will be back in action on Saturday when they host HCAC opponent Franklin College for what could decide the fate of the conference. Both squads sit atop the Heartland Conference at 7-1 each and will be looking for the victories. The doubleheader is scheduled for .


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Last weekend, Animal Liberation released shocking footage taken at a large industrial piggery in NSW, resulting in wide media coverage and sparking outrage on social media.
These horrific images included a tiny piglet being repeatedly kicked along a concrete floor while others are casually thrown down, as if they were garbage.
A pig is bludgeoned with a sledgehammer and a sow chews on the metal bars that surround her "stall" – the cage barely larger than her body that immobilises her for much of her life. Another lies forlornly in her metal-floored farrowing crate, an even smaller cage in which pigs give birth. Other graphic scenes show the constant misery of "porkers" crammed into filthy concrete pens.
Much of what we saw was the awful, everyday truth of today's factory farm.
These animals live crowded in their barren indoor pens, devoid of any natural materials, until they are trucked off to a brutal end in the abattoir, never having felt the sun, the grass or the touch of a kind hand.
They start life just as grimly. Removed prematurely from their mothers, they are castrated and have their teeth clipped, often without anaesthesia, which can leave them in excruciating pain for weeks.
Sows are forced through multiple pregnancies, held individually in their concrete and metal cages. Prone to serious disorders ranging from open skin lesions to psychological distress, sows are then dispatched to the industrial killing floor when their fertility declines.
This is the harsh reality of factory farming. This is the existence to which these sensitive creatures, who are arguably smarter than dogs, are condemned.
The industrialisation and intensification of farming means that food animals are permanently confined indoors in factory-like conditions at super-high "stocking densities", usually caged or closely penned, and subjected to chronic suffering. These sentient beings have complex inner lives, sophisticated emotions and strong family and social relationships but they are reduced to machines. They are treated as units of production.
The suffering of food animals is deemed necessary or justifiable on economic grounds. Animal cruelty, in other words, is endemic to the system that produces cheap, abundant factory-farmed meat.
Intensive pig industry advocates are loudly condemning the barbarity shown in the exposé. They assert that the abject cruelty captured in that footage was an aberration and that "the majority of pork producers in Australia rigorously adhere to world best practice when it comes to animal welfare".
The facts tell a different story. Sow stalls, the metal and concrete cages that we saw in the exposé, have been legally banned in the United Kingdom and Sweden, and partially banned in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Finland and in many parts of the United States.
Their producers are adhering to "world's best practice" while Australian producers are lagging shamefully behind.
The regulatory framework relating to food animals in this country fails to offer them protection from cruelty. Animals that are factory farmed are legally allowed to be kept in sow stalls and castrated without pain relief, yet the violence shown in the footage, the kicking of piglets and beating with sledgehammers, is not. Yet it is happening anyway due to lack of monitoring and enforcement by the NSW government.
Clearly, if it takes animal activists to uncover these breaches of practice, the NSW government needs to be doing more to protect the animals in its care.
The federal Minister for Agriculture must also step up and honour his portfolio obligations in animal welfare starting with an urgent reform of the Codes.
Voiceless and other groups have repeatedly called on him to follow his many international counterparts and ban sow stalls, a move greatly supported by the public as indicated by a Voiceless research poll, which showed 82 per cent of Australians support a ban.
There is reason to be hopeful. Compassionate consumers are now increasingly choosing to go meat-free or reject factory-farmed meat and products.
Retailers are revising sourcing policies, for example banning pork from operations that use sow stalls and offering many alternatives to meat.
This is one important ethical issue the solution of which is in our hands. Each time we make a buying decision, we exercise our power to send a profound message to industry that animal abuse will not be tolerated.
Collectively, we can shape the future for the millions of sentient beings who are at our mercy, and change their lives.
In so doing, we reflect our better selves. As Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
Brian Sherman is the managing director of Voiceless and Dana Campbell is the chief executive officer.


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I've had this for about a month now, and wanted to get a few quality rides in on it before I gave an opinion. At present, I have about 15 hours of ride time on it, and thus feel pretty qualified to give some initial impressions. First, what are we talking about?
First time setup takes about 3 minutes. I use a spare road rear wheel and tire, and threw the Cycleops skewer in it. Throw that wheel in the trainer, and lock your bike in the trainer using the yellow adjustment starwheel. Then, do a one-time tension adjustment on the rear yellow handle for a good fit.
Subsequent setup/takedown is however long it takes to swap the rear wheel, plus 30 seconds to slide it in the stand, tighten the starwheel, and flip the quick release on the tension handle.
In the base #1 'warmup' mode, there is very little resistance.
In #2 'road' mode, resistance is similar to road riding on a flat road, without wind. At an indicated 22mph, it takes 220 watts to spin.
In #3 'hill' mode, resistance ramps up more quickly. At lower speeds (say 15mph), resistance is similar to mode #2. But as you speed up, it quickly ramps up.
In #4 'interval' mode, resistance ramps up even further and more quickly. I have no idea what the maximum resistance it can generate would be. I've broken 1,000 watts (once) and it had a lot left in it.
How does it work? Magnets. (NSFW video follows).
Yup. Magnets.
There are a set of magnets in the rolling resistance drum. As the drum spins, centrifugal/centripetal (BPaul to weigh in later on which is the correct term) forces those magnets out. I'm assuming that there is a stationary magnet by the drum, and as the spinning magnets pass the stationary magnet, it generates resistance. The further out the magnets are spun by the 'spinny force', the more resistance there is. Adjusting the resistance selector moves a stop that determines how far they can go.
What does this mean in real life? The trainer is silent. The only noise you get is from the tire and wheel spinning, and the bike–which does make some noise.
The trainer doesn't make any heat. None.
The resistance is not linear, but is progressive. Let me explain…assume that you're in mode 3 and spinning at 15mph, and then accelerate to 20mph. As you accelerate, resistance starts ramping up. It isn't an immediate jump in resistance–it is a slow progression. After about 5 seconds, it has reached maximum resistance at 20mph. In some ways, it's like realistically climbing a roller. It isn't an instant jump in resistance–but a progression.
Once you get to a constant speed, the resistance remains constant as well. The trainer doesn't know what gear you're in or what your cadence is. So in mode 2 at 22mph, you just need 220 watts in some gear. That could be a gear where you're cranking along at a high cadence, or in a gear where you're mashing. That gives you a lot of flexibility in how you want to train.
The trainer is very stable and very comfortable to ride–it feels pretty natural. With a bike as rigid as the Madone, the only flex I notice is in the attachment points between the trainer and the bike, where it extends out to grab the bike. Even that flex is pretty minimal, and is only noticeable when standing, hammering, at high resistance.
I ride for the duration of a movie. Last time I rode, I rode for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, or 2 hours and 4 minutes. It gives me a way to pass the time. My standard setup?
Garage + box fan + laptop + bike + trainer.
Not exactly an inspiring view, but it's a good way to ride until you hurt…and having a movie goal (I will ride until this movie is over) is a good way to keep from tapping out early in a ride. When I want a ride before work in the morning, I often ride for Ride the Divide, or about 80 minutes.
With the different settings, you get a lot of options. My MI:GP ride looked like this:
- 20 minutes in mode 2, warmup, at round 20mph.
- 20 minutes in mode 4, in a 'spinning gear'. Sprint up to 140rpm and reasonably high resistance (500 watts), and hold for 15-20 seconds, then pedal easy for a minute. Repeat.
- 20 minutes in mode 4, in a 'mashing gear'. Try to hold the highest wattage possible while not exceeding 55rpm cadence.
- 20 minutes in mode 3, in an intermediate gear. Try to hold 200+ watts baseline, and then accelerate to the highest cadence possible, hold for a minute, and then back to baseline for 2-3 minutes.
- 20 minutes in mode 3, in an intermediate gear. Sprints as per #2.
- 15 minute time trial. Highest wattage possible to sustain. Downshift as necessary to maintain 90+ rpm cadence.
- 10 minutes in mode 2 at around 20mph. Criticize Jeremy Renner for not clearing the room properly when he goes into the utility closet with the electrical panel. Contemplate plausibility of 100 meter fall, nose first, in an SUV. Cool Down.
Downsides: you cannot switch resistance from on the bike. You have to get off and manually switch settings. In the ~2 hour ride above, I switched 3 times. Frankly, it would be possible to just set it in mode 3 and do the whole ride, albeit at different speeds…but I don't find the brief stops to be too annoying, and I'm still enjoying experiencing and learning the different resistance curves that the trainer provides. Also, while I like how the front legs fold up easily, you cannot really stand the trainer up in a corner with the legs folded…because the resistance unit then rests on the floor and keeps it from standing up nicely. Not a huge deal, but not terribly well thought-out, either.
Make fun of the thong if you will…but it works. It makes me feel a lot less bad about schweating all over the Madone. I'm a thong convert. (Put that on the list of things I never thought I'd say).
The riser blocks work fine. They're a bit slippery on concrete, so you do have to be careful to not turn the handlebars, or the front end will turn. I have not used 2 riser blocks yet because…well, I just don't understand the point of raising the front of the bike on a trainer, and we don't have mountains in Illinois.
The trainer kit also comes with a training DVD. I haven't watched it yet, predominantly because I like the motivation of watching a movie and having a duration goal to ride for.
Overall, positive early impression on the Supermagneto Pro.


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In the mid-80s, the Lee and Sindie Holmberg farm had a few apple trees growing on it, but with the kids then gone there were more apples than the couple needed.
So, Sindie opted to pick some of them and sell them. Approximately 7,000 apple trees later, Holmberg Orchard is going strong, with acres upon acres of pumpkins, squash and gourds on the farm as well.
In the mid-80s, the Lee and Sindie Holmberg farm had a few apple trees growing on it, but with the kids then gone there were more apples than the couple needed.
So, Sindie opted to pick some of them and sell them. Discovering an interest in what they had to offer, the couple opted to plant a few more trees – just to have a little extra cash for Christmas gifts.
What started out with just a few trees has grown to approximately 7,000 apple trees, with acres upon acres of pumpkins, squash and gourds on the farm as well.
"We planted our first apple trees when Lee and I first moved to the farm," said Sindie from what is known today, on the 25th anniversary, as Holmberg Orchard in rural Vesta.
Sindie said Lee's brother, a nursery worker in Florida, had decided to see if he could get apples to grow in that southern climate, but the plan did not work out.
So, the Holmbergs went down and got the root stock and planted another 750 trees.
"We dug the holes and planted the trees one at a time," said Sindie. "There were five of us who planted them after the corn was in the ground. I remember it was a hot, dry year."
Those first trees were planted with corn planter wire, which Sindie said made the orchard look nice, but the wind tunnel effect it caused led them to change plans when the next trees were planted.
"We had to bring in a water tank and water the trees because it was such a dry year," Sindie said, adding that went on for two years.
The first trees in the orchard were traditional varieties, such as Haralson, Red Baron and Honey Gold, but the orchard has changed over the years, as other varieties, such as Honey Crisp and SweeTango have been added.
Sindie said the varieties they grow are based on the demand of their customers.
While the trees began to produce, the need for other amenities grew.
Sindie said the first apple processing was done in a shed on the farm, which, she added, would often cause issues, especially when the machinery would break down.
A garage was later converted to allow for washing and bagging, but even that got too small for the growing apple business.
So, an old farrowing barn was moved onto the site, and the family, including Lee, Sindie and their daughter, Holly, and her husband Mitch did the work of getting it ready.
"We painted the entire building white, because we thought it looked clean," Sindie said, adding, with a smile, she never wants to see another can of white paint again.
The orchard building, where all of the washing, bagging, baking and other cooking takes place has been expanded over the years, and Sindie said she often had to push hard to get more room.
While that work was going on the orchard itself grew to the point where there was a need for added help.
While friends and family helped at the beginning, the need to bring on more help led the Holmbergs to bring on additional employees who do everything from picking the apples to baking the pies and apple crisp.
Others make cara-mel apples and drive the tractors for the wagon rides when visitors come.
Sindie said there are 20 people employed at the orchard during its peak season, and she said that has a big impact on the community. She also said the operation has always stressed the purchase of its inputs (everything from the items for its pies to the caramel) are purchased locally.
That use of local businesses is important, she said, because it helps the local economy grow.
Lee, who is the grower, is constantly checking the trees and looking for ways to improve the orchard.
He said there are 40 different varieties grown on the orchard.
He said the orchard was initiated in a time when farming was tight. He continued to hear messages during meetings he attended about diversifying.
To say Lee and Sindie Holmberg took that advice would be an understatement.
"We diversified all right," said Lee.
Although the farming operation still includes some corn and soybean production, Lee called that part of the farm "boring" especially compared to the apple orchard and the myriad varieties of pumpkins and squash they grow.
This coming weekend, Holmberg Orch-ard is celebrating its 25th year of operations with a few activities.
While Sindie said they are not going all out, the activities are being held to commemorate the milestone.
There are going to be the traditional wagon rides, with Jessica's ponies on hand Sunday.
Sindie said there are going to be clowns on hand, with other possible entertainment as well. A few drawings for prizes are going to be done during the weekend activities.
One may find out more about the orchard and the activities being held this weekend and during subsequent weekends in October by visiting its Web site at holmbergorch-ard.com.
Lee and Sindie feel very fortunate to have been blessed by the success they have experienced.
Of course a lot of very hard work and commitment has gone into making that success happen, too.


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2013 GHS Field Hockey Kudos From John Nasser
Hello Joey,
I just thought that the 2013 GHS Field Hockey team should get a little recognition for qualifying for the State Tournament this season following a 3-1 victory over Peabody this past Monday night.
These girls worked their tails off this year.
Right now their record stands at 8-6-1 which puts them in 4th place in their division. They have one more game to play before the tournament begins.
I believe it's been six years since they last qualified.
The team is led by head coach Lauren Riley and assisted by her Dad, Don Riley.
Congratulations Ladies!


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Former Brazil international Ronaldo believes that Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is a little bit better than rival Cristiano Ronaldo.
The now-retired legend that played for both Barcelona and Real Madrid is of the opinion that Los Blancos forward Cristiano Ronaldo would have been the best player in the world in any other era but has the misfortune of vying against Messi for the status of football's top player.
The two-time Ballon d'Or winner is a huge fan of Cristiano Ronaldo, who has managed 50 goals already this season and is currently the Champions League top scorer with 11 goals this season. Since arriving at Madrid, Ronaldo has maintained an average of a goal a game with an astonishing 196 in 193 games since his world-record transfer.
Cristiano Ronaldo is a former winner himself after a successful league and cup double with United but has failed to win the prestigious award since making the move to Spain. Lionel Messi has won it four times in a row and World Cup-winner Ronaldo can understand why.
Messi broke Muller's record of the most goals in a calendar year with an impressive 91 goals in all competition, although Ronaldo will be aiming to break the record after an impressive start to 2013 in which he has guided his team to a cup final and a Champions League semi-final tie against Borussia Dortmund
"I would say Messi [is the world's best player] because he is a little bit better than Cristiano," the 36-year-old told Tuttosport."But I would also add that Cristiano has had unbelievably bad luck. He would have been the best player in the world in many other eras, but he has coincided with another of the game's greats.
Although, Messi has dominated the FIFA awards in the last few years there is still debate as to who the best player in the world is. One thing is for sure, we are experiencing football's greatest rivalry in the same generation.
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Audio on demand
The natural world as a character
Nicholas Drayson, novelist and Dr Libby Robin, National Museum of Australia
Historical Imagination series, 24 June 2007
Environmental historian Libby Robin and novelist Nicholas Drayson share an interest in nature and the history of science and discovery. They explore the dynamic relationship between historical evidence, recollections and the reconstruction of the past.
Historical Imagination series
- History meets poetryDr Margo Neale, Professor Peter Read and Sam Wagan Watson
- The natural world as a characterNicholas Drayson, novelist and Dr Libby Robin, National Museum of Australia
- Examining the intersections of historical research and fictional writingDr Lenore Coltheart, political historian, and author Frank Moorhouse