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The 16-17 season wasn't what the Red Wings were hoping for. With just 79 points, Detroit finished 7th in the Atlantic Division. Struggles plagued the team on both ends of the ice, with the Red Wings finishing 24th in goals and 25th in goals against. The team had just a single 20-plus goal-scorer – Tomas Tatar (25 goals, 21 assists) – and the rest of the team struggled to generate offense consistently. Veteran winger Henrik Zetterberg led the team in total points with 68 (17 goals, 51 assists). 20-year-old center Dylan Larkin showed flashes of greatness but his numbers were down from his rookie campaign in 2015-16. Thomas Vanek and Tomas Jurco were both dealt at the trade deadline so the 2017-18 roster will look a bit different. The team also brought in veteran defenseman Trevor Daley to improve last year's mediocre blue line. In a new arena, there is new life and new hope for the Detroit Red Wings in the upcoming season.
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One sheet of rub-off stickers featuring the characters from the Ewoks cartoon.
Found in "A Secret Friend" by Marilyn Sachs. Published by Scholastic, 1978.
-Click to enlarge photos-
9 comments:
- Tara Rose Stromberg said...
I hope you were really excited when you found this, because, I am. This would make me so darn happy ^.^
- January 14, 2011 at 12:02 PM
- Michael said...
Tara, if you look at the lower right corner of the image of the stickers, the pen marks are from me.
I had to make sure they were stickers.
Didn't they call these types of stickers something? All I could think of were Colorforms, but that's not it...
...and not Shrinky-Dinks, either.
- January 14, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Mike McCallum said...
- January 14, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Mike McCallum said...
- January 14, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- MrCachet said...
It looks to me like Jessica got a whole bunch of imaginary friends.
- January 14, 2011 at 12:41 PM
- Amy L. Campbell said...
Too cool. What a trip to the past
- January 14, 2011 at 2:08 PM
- Tricia said...
Cute Ewoks!
On the other hand, I'm feeling bad for Jessica - although I'm sure there was a happy ending...
- January 15, 2011 at 9:57 PM
- A Paperback Writer said...
Yea for ewoks! :)
- January 15, 2011 at 10:57 PM
- Sara said...
Wow...talk about a blast from the past. I'm pretty sure I had those exact stickers once (I think I rubbed coins over them to stick them to things), and there was a time I read books like that (when I was like 7 years old or something).
Anyway, for my first time here, it's a doozy! Thanks!
- January 21, 2011 at 10:24 PM

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At the View at EastCoast, in Long Island City, just across the East River from Manhattan, Rockrose is offering — at least to the next batch of buyers who step up to sign contracts — a promise to buy back apartments in five years at 110 percent of the sales price.
"I believe in the product, I believe in the marketplace, I believe that value will increase and I am willing to put my money where my opinions are," said Kevin P. Singleton, a senior vice president at Rockrose.
The View at EastCoast, an 18-story glass condominium tower at 4630 Center Boulevard, is the third of seven Rockrose apartment towers planned along the river in what used to be a 22-acre industrial area of Long Island City near the well-known Pepsi-Cola sign facing Manhattan.
The first two towers were rentals, and after apartments at the View went on the market last summer, 18 out of 184 went into contract. But then in the faltering economy sales stalled, despite the Manhattan skyline views, the 30,000-square-foot terrace and pool, the high ceilings, the white oak floors, and the quick commute on the No. 7 line.
Now, with the building just about finished, an amendment approved by the state attorney general last month offers a five-year "buyback guarantee" to buyers who sign contracts before the sponsors declare the condominium plan effective (after at least 15 percent of apartments go into contract to residential buyers).
Under the guarantee, on the fifth anniversary of the closing, buyers will have 90 days to return their apartments to Rockrose for 110 percent of the purchase price. However, the buyers will have to pay all closing costs, including transfer taxes and the sponsor's legal fees.
The amendment also introduces other concessions to buyers, including a mortgage contingency clause, and the possibility of five years of sponsor financing for purchase. In addition, buyers who sign up before the plan becomes effective are entitled to a free parking space for the next five years in a lot built by Rockrose just across the street.
Once the plan is effective, and buyers begin to move in, the sponsor could continue to offer the buyback guarantee, or rent some units and gradually sell them off as the market improves.
There is a catch: "Buyers are warned under the amendment that 'no bond or other security' has been furnished to make sure the developers honor the pledge."
Seems like Rockrose is betting pretty confidently that, 5 years out, the NYC real estate market will show at least a 10% gain on current prices. This seems likely based on the history of real estate prices in Manhattan in particular, and could be a good strategy to counteract the collective anxiety that is now permeating all markets. At the same time, and this is possibly informed only by the current collective anxiety, I am wondering whether this real estate bust seems different than others - given that its precursor was a housing bubble hoisted by real estate loans themselves. Given Rockrose's experience in real estate development, the vote of confidence does counteract some of the anxiety. But the promise also seems like a 110% guarantee of a lawsuit in 5 years.
[Meredith R. Miller]


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State economic development officials say auto transmission products supplier U.S. Tsubaki Automotive plans to expand its facility in Portland, TN, adding 70 jobs in the process. The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development says the company's expansion in Sumner County represents a $1.9 million investment.
Tsubaki Automotive offers state of the art power transmission products. The company supplies complete chain drive systems for engines and transmissions, including cam drives, balancer drives and oil pump drives. The systems typically include chains, tensioners, guides and sprockets.
Tsubaki's customers include General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Nissan and Honda. The company plans to host a job fair February 11th at the Sumner County Career Center.


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An ultrafast "quantum" computer is making waves in the high-tech world after the Burnaby company that makes it announced a collaboration involving NASA and Google.
D-Wave Systems announced this week that its newest supercomputer will be put to work solving big, complicated problems at a quantum artificial intelligence lab at NASA's Ames Research Centre in California.
The 512-qubit quantum machine, D-Wave Two, is estimated to be at least 500,000 times faster than version one of D-Wave's previous quantum computer, which was built only two years ago.
Conventional or "classical" computers are suitable for most kinds of calculations. But for complicated problems that require large amounts of computing time on a classical machine, a quantum machine would speed up the process. As an approximate comparison, a classical machine would need 10 years to figure out all the factors of a 2,000-bit number while a quantum machine would find the answer in 16 hours.
The research group said in a news release that it expects to use the machine for "a broad range of complex problems such as machine learning, web search, speech recognition, planning and scheduling, search for (outer-space planets), and support operations in mission control centres."
A blog posted on Google's corporate website said the company believes quantum computing "may help solve some of the most challenging computer science problems, particularly in machine learning.
Quantum computing "lets you cheat a little" by straying from the narrow path a classical computer follows, it said.
"Marching learning is all about building better models of the world to make more accurate predictions. If we want to cure diseases, we need better models of how they develop," Google said. "And if we want to build a more useful search engine, we need to better understand spoken questions and what's on the Web so you get the best answer."
The collaboration, which also involves the Universities Space Research Association, is D-Wave's second customer. The first, in 2011, was Lockheed Martin. The value of the new deal was not disclosed.
Most quantum physicists and electrical engineers consider D-Wave an interesting innovation in classical computing rather than a giant leap in technology, and believe it will take up to 50 years to build a certifiable quantum supercomputer on their terms. D-Wave says it has a practical way to filter out the hangups that slow computers down — such as removal of outside noise effects.
D-Wave founder and chief technology officer Geordie Rose said the computer model used by critics is "not at all practical or achievable (even) in the lab and there's tonnes of evidence to support that now."
Dean said it would be difficult to imagine a better set of partners for the new research enterprise.
"I think if I were to have made a list of the top three or four organizations that I wanted to work with in the world, just as a theoretical exercise, I would have picked the ones that we have," Rose said. "That's not entirely by chance. We worked very hard to show our current partners that there was something very interesting here that they would potentially benefit from understanding better."
Technology analyst Steve Conway of IDC said "D-Wave has made significant strides in the technology, application and now commercialization of quantum computing."
He said the deal with Google, NASA and the universities "attests to the revolutionary potential of this fundamentally different approach to computing for both industry and government."


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These poor retards actually think they're fighting a successful action against "the pirates".
And what say we?
Not a BT subscriber, but this proxy list [piratereverse.info] works for all the other UK ISPs that "block" TPB.
Can any BT subscriber comment on weather
Sure s/he can. In UK, commenting on weather is very much like "Can I buy you a drink?" in US.
UK weather: Where 29c is a heatwave.
Oi! It's going to be 30C this weekend.....
15C on Saturday and 15C on Sunday!
The average user won't care. They'll continue getting their music from youtube, games from steam and TV from iplayer or 4od. Most pirates won't care much either. TPB became a virus fest when it became popular.
I noticed after the recent ipv6 thing that visiting TPB will show a little thing at the bottom of the page indicating that im accessing it using ipv6..
changing DNS servers is easy enough for most anyone.. id imagine that they are blocking IPs
is access via ipv6 a thing they are blocking ?
I think ISPs stop providing newsgroup access as people stopped caring about Usenet. Why maintain an additional server for a tiny minority of your users? The bulk of their customers want Facebook and Twitter.
'Gosh, now that it's mildly inconvenient to download things for free, I'm going to have to go to HMV for all my media needs!'
'If only there was another torrent site. But the internet couldn't possibly support TWO!'
'Wow, with all this extra money coming in from ex-pirates, we should begin transferring these extra profits onto THE ARTISTS!'
Blocking -- or atleast trying to block -- Pirate Bay and similar websites is just a temporary measure, there's bound to be worse stuff coming. As I already mentioned on my Google+ - page about the recent confirmation of the Flame-malware being written by the U.S. government and the U.S. government basically saying they have the right to target, track, spy and eliminate anyone they want, anywhere in the world, at any time, and even using illegal means to do so is all right, and that no other country in the world has any say in that, it doesn't seem to me all too far-fetched that with enough lobbying from RIAA/MPAA the U.S. government will write similar malware that targets pirates -- both the ones posting copyright-infringing material and the ones downloading such.
Do you watch Rocky 4 and root for Ivan Drago? Your anti-US screed is totally pointless and tiresome and comes apropos of nothing.
Do you watch Rocky 4 and root for Ivan Drago?
No, I don't watch Rocky and I don't know who Ivan Drago is.
Your anti-US screed is totally pointless and tiresome and comes apropos of nothing.
Yet you do not provide any actual counter-arguments. It *is* a known fact that both Stuxnet and Flame were written by the U.S., and it *is* a known fact that they recorded huge amounts of personal data and resorted to illegal means for doing that and they targeted entities that were not located on U.S. soil. So pray tell, what in my post is inaccurate?
No, I don't watch Rocky and I don't know who Ivan Drago is.
Rocky's a flying squirrel. I guess that makes Ivan Drago some kind of moose.
No, I don't watch Rocky and I don't know who Ivan Drago is.
Oh you're missing out! The training montage in particular is really good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SUzcDUERLo [youtube.com]
And I don't feel like I need a counter argument, because what you said wasn't an argument in the first place and how would I possibly argue against it? It was just a random anti-US statement that came out of nowhere, because this is Slashdot I suppose.
I have started using Tor.
Activate turbo mode.
Am I the only one who gets confused
Yep, reckon you are the only one stupid enough..
Please remove atleast one of the items from your Fanboy status.
They definitely need some assistance with Policy [pirateparty.org.uk].
We pledge that we will not allow censorship of the Internet for anything except for in the most extreme circumstances
So, they do advocate censorship then. But only for "bad things" and presumably they think that copying movies isn't bad enough. But something else might be.
Censorship is binary: you are in favour of it or you are not. You can't have "partial censorship".
So, they do advocate censorship then. But only for "bad things" and presumably they think that copying movies isn't bad enough. But something else might be. Censorship is binary: you are in favour of it or you are not. You can't have "partial censorship".
And we can have either totalitarianism or anarchy, there's no partial system of government right? I know what you're saying, either the government has to stop flows of 0s and 1s or they don't. But it's a bit like saying either we give the police guns and the right to shoot people or we don't. And we do, just not any random people whenever a police officer likes it - it's a partial "license to kill". At least here in Norway there's an Internet filter and it's for one thing only - kiddie porn. Going out with
I'm sure you've got good arguments for why not, you can give them to the lynch mob as they hang you from the nearest tree.
Yes, as usual, the main problem is the allegedly brainless majority, and not the actual policy.
Censorship is binary: you are in favour of it or you are not. You can't have "partial censorship".
Actually you can, and we do. Here's an incomplete list of exceptions to the right of free speech: slander, libel, defamation, obscenity, threatening behaviour, perjury, contempt of court, profanity, incitement to violence, noise pollution, copyright infringement, passing trade secrets, treason, espionage, conspiracy, shouting "Fire!" in a cinema, sedition, encouragement of terrorism.
I happen to be working from home today, so I'll spend a few minutes checking how they block TPB on the ISP O2, just out of curiosity.
WWW: I get a page telling me that the page has been blocked by court order
DNS: They return the correct IP address: 22.214.171.124
Traceroute: I get to thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se (126.96.36.199), but not all the way to the web server, on both a censored and a non-censored connection. This is probably because TBP filters out some ICMP packets, nothing to do with O2.
Ping: I can't ping the TPB server from any connection. (same reason as above)
So TPB have locked down their web servers pretty well. Makes things more difficult for me. I couldn't find any open ports apart from 80. So I'll do some more checking with the webserver:
No intersting headers;HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 1100
I get this page even when using the IP-address in the URL, so there is no Host: www.thepiratebay.org header.
Now let's do a traceroute on TCP port 80. First, I tried BBC, and I got some hosts outside of the O2 network, specifically:bbc-linx.pr01.thdow.bbc.co.uk . Now for TPB: The same as for an ICMP traceroute!! This is weird. It's clear that O2 are not proxying HTTP connections, at least not at the SYN packet, because the HTTP SYN packets get all the way to thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se (220.127.116.11).
OK so let's try to get the web server to leak some more information: I tried some different URLs and with "Host: 127.0.0.1", and just get the same "blocked" page. If you're on IPv6 you can have a look at the page at my local web server: http://blackhole.lan.fa2k.net/f/tpb-blocked.txt [fa2k.net] . Let's try a bogus request with telnet:[fa2k@blackhole ~]$ telnet 126.96.36.199 80
Trying 126.96.36.199...
Connected to 22.214.171.124.
Escape character is '^]'.
HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:57:00 GMT
Server: lighttpd
From the non-censored connection I get the same thing. Now I mistyped some HTML request into telnet, so I'm probably on some kind of list. Who cares, it's not illegal to be curious. Now let's try a valid HTTP 1.0 request with netcat:
[fa2k@blackhole ~]$ printf "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n" > the-request.txt
[fa2k@blackhole ~]$ cat the-request.txt | nc 220.127.116.11 80
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.4
Location: http://thepiratebay.se/ [thepiratebay.se]
Content-type: text/html
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:08:22 GMT
Server: lighttpd
Neat! This seems to come right from thepiratebay itself. Maybe the blocking software doesn't understand HTTP 1.0. And no, "http://thepiratebay.se" doesn't work in a browser. It's a different server than
A HTTP 1.1 request without a Host: part is invalid, let's see what comes up when changing "1.0" to "1.1": a 400 invalid request, it seems to still come from TPB, as it has the lighttpd header. Supplying "a" as the host, I get the 302 again.
Ok, let's send a Host: thepiratebay.se header to the thepiratebay.org server:
[fa2k@blackhole ~]$ printf "GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost: thepiratebay.se\n\n" > the-request.txt
[fa2k@blackhole ~]$ cat the-request.txt | nc 184.108.40.206 80
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.4
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=bbaee8ec681c1399b35cd5dba2cb7a31; path=/; domain=.thepiratebay.se
Set-Cookie: language=en_EN; expires=Fri, 21-Jun-2013 13:16:08 GMT; path=/; domain=.thepiratebay.se
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:16:08 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:16
Transparent proxy most likely. I had loads of problems with their firewall/censoring software when trying to connect from my O2-based mobile network (giffgaff) to my O2-based broadband (Be). While trying to debug the situation I found out about their transparent proxy system as well. It acts like a MITM attack, sitting in between you and the real server, intercepts everything and rewrites it if needed/told to.
I never solved my issues, and the mobile guys were utterly unhelpful, so just switched away, but
Correction; The difference was not in the Host: header vs. the server IP address. It was that I was using "\n" for line breaks, while the HTTP standard requires "\r\n". Thepiratebay's server understands "\n", but the O2 blocking system doesn't. So it even works with thepiratebay.se as Host: header.
Pirate Bay has already issued 2 new IP addresses for direct connection that BT hasn't blocked.
plus there are thousands of proxies that still will give you access.
Here is how to get around the block, no matter what ISP you are on that has blocked it: http://www.dude-suit.net/2012/05/the-pirate-bay-blocked-by-uk-isps-and-how-to-get-around-it/ [dude-suit.net]
"The following is not for the weak of heart or Fundamentalists." -- Dave Barry


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The Princeton High boys soccer team heads into today's NJSIAA Group III state final in a rare position.
As the 18-3 Little Tigers head to The College of New Jersey for a 3 p.m. showdown with unbeaten defending champion Ramapo (21-0-1), most consider Princeton to be underdogs.
And that's quite all right with the Little Tigers' players and coaches.
All season people have questioned how strong coach Wayne Sutcliffe's squad is. Yet, since week No. 2, just about all Princeton has done is win with one exception.
Its streak began with a thoroughly impressive, 2-1 win over Harrison Sept. 15. That same Harrison team will be playing for the Group I title at TCNJ at 10 a.m. today with just that one loss on their resume.
Sutcliffe's troops went on to win 17 of its next 18 games after a 1-2 start. The only setback was a 4-0 loss to the Pennington School in the Mercer County Tournament quarterfinals, in which the Red Raiders scored all their goals in the final 29 minutes.
So if the Raiders want to think the Little Tigers will be easy to get past, like the 16th-seeded Mendham team the North Jersey champs defeated, 5-0, in the state semifinals Wednesday, that's fine with Princeton.
"We're so excited. We can't wait," Princeton senior forward/midfielder Colin Lamb said after passing for two assists to help his team defeat Moorestown, 2-0, in Wednesday's other state semifinal. "We'll play any team. It's about us. It's about how we play."
When the Little Tigers are at their best, they have one of the strongest midfields around, spearheaded by seniors Zach Halliday and Jeremy Goldsmith, with help from forwards who constantly drop back like Lamb and classmate Aidan Passannante.
In Halliday, Passannante and Goldsmith, Princeton has three players who were freshmen on the locals' last state title team in 2009 when it defeated a highly regarded Millburn team, 2-1, to complete its own unbeaten season.
Add in fullbacks Pablo Arroyo and Scott Bechler, along with reserve Joon Choi, and the Little Tigers have almost as much state final experience as Ramapo, which won last year's crown by defeating Timber Creek, 3-1, after the Chargers defeated Princeton in the semifinals.
Under the direction of head coach Evan Baumgartner, the Raiders have allowed just seven goals, with senior 'keeper Will Shiel posting 15 shutouts. They have a strong midfield, led by senior Sean Etheridge (17 goals, 10 assists) and Mike Taranto (14 goals, 18 assists).
"We're trying to bring the same mentality and level of play we've had in the sectional final (a 4-3 win over Allentown) and state semifinal," Sutcliffe said. "This is two teams with great soccer histories."
Part of that history for Princeton this time around will feature brothers, Zach and Kevin Halliday, in the hunt for a state title. Kevin, a junior forward, has become the offensive force for the Little Tigers with 23 goals and seven assists. Zach has five goals and seven assists.
"It feels great to be going to the state final with my brother this time," said Kevin Halliday, who was in eighth grade when Princeton won its last state crown. "I just want to get a taste of everything like he has. He's got one state title. Now I've got to get one."
Accomplishing that will not be easy, but Princeton would not want the chase any other way.


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Stacy and Calvin Cofield, center, prepare to cut the ribbon at a recent Newton Chamber ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of their business. "Cofi Cuts" — a play on the Cofields' last name — is at 1013 Washington Road in the Cedar Village Shopping Center. Their business offers a variety of traditional barber services, including hair cuts and beard trims. The shop is open from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. For more information, call 283-3311. ASHLEY BERGNER/NEWTON KANSAN
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Bulldogs to Face No. 51 Cornell and No. 49 Columbia on the Road
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Ivy League season is in full swing, with all eight teams in action this upcoming weekend. The Yale men's tennis team is coming off a mixed opening weekend that saw the squad suffer a narrow defeat to No. 50 Princeton, only to rebound strongly to defeat Penn in its finest match of the season. The Bulldogs will look to carry this momentum into their match against No. 51 Cornell, which will take place on Saturday at the Big Red's Reis Tennis Center at 2:00 p.m. The following day, the Elis will play No. 49 Columbia at the Lions' Dick Savitt Tennis Center at 2:00 p.m.
No. 65 Yale (15-4, 1-1 Ivy) is currently in a tie for third place in the Ivy League standings, along with Brown and No. 70 Dartmouth. These three teams trail Princeton and No. 19 Harvard, both of which have gone undefeated so far against their Ancient Eight rivals. Yale boasts the best overall win-loss record of any Ivy League school this season, and has compiled the most number of wins, at 15. In addition, the Bulldogs have won all but one of their last six matches, and 11 of their last 13 matches. Though the Elis have a 1-2 record on non-neutral away surfaces this season, their lone win on the road came in their last away match against a talented St. John's team.
As always, the Bulldogs will need to be in top doubles form against their rivals. The doubles point is particularly important in Ivy League play, as all eight schools feature very evenly-matches singles players. Though the senior duo of captain Daniel Hoffman and Marc Powers dropped out of the national doubles rankings this week, the tandem still poses a formidable threat to any team it faces. The same is true of Yale's No. 2 pairing of junior Patrick Chase and senior John Huang. Both teams will be looking to give Yale a crucial early advantage in its upcoming matches.
Of course, as most of the points are won in singles play, the Elis will also be looking to replicate their impressive performance in singles against Penn, in which all six players won in straight sets. Neither Powers nor freshman Martin Svenning has lost a set of singles so far in conference play. In addition, Hoffman's close loss against his Princeton opponent is his only defeat during league play since the 2010-11 season. Huang, freshman Jason Brown and senior Zachary Dean all showed a great degree of mental toughness by posting solid wins against Penn after having suffered tough defeats against the Tigers, which bodes well for their prospects against their Cornell and Columbia opponents.
Cornell (12-6, 1-2 Ivy) has had mixed results in Ivy League play so far, with a win against Dartmouth sandwiched in between losses to Columbia and Harvard. The Big Red are not to be taken lightly, however, as they won the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I Indoor Team Championship earlier this season, defeating no less than three Ancient Eight rivals—Brown, Harvard and Columbia—along the way. That tournament featured seven Ivy League teams, including Yale.
Columbia (10-8, 1-2 Ivy) has also struggled somewhat in conference matches, having followed up a solid win over Cornell with a loss to Harvard and a surprising defeat at the hands of Dartmouth. Nonetheless, Winston Lin, the No. 60 player in the nation, leads the Lions' singles efforts. Princeton's Matija Pecotic, who is ranked eighth in the country, is the only Ivy League player with a better ranking than Lin. Columbia also boasts the No. 66 team of Ashok Narayana and Max Schnur; only two league tandems are ranked higher. This duo defeated Hoffman and Powers in the final of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Northeast Regional Championships back in October. Sunday's encounter will likely feature a rematch of these two doubles teams.
Last year, the Bulldogs fell to Cornell in a 4-3 decision. The day before, however, the Elis had upset Columbia 4-3 in a dramatic, nearly five-hour clash that saw Hoffman overcome a 4-1 deficit in the final set of his match at No. 3 singles to clinch a superb Bulldog victory.
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Tracts are usually small, pamphlet-type publications produced by an organization in order to disseminate information about that organization's interests, doctrines, or creeds. This collection consists of numbered tracts produced by a variety of tract societies such as the New England Tract Society, the Protestant Episcopal Tract Society, the American Reform Tract and Book Society, The Worcester Temperance League, the American Woman Suffrage Association, the American Peace Society and the Universalist Tract Society. Many of the organizations were national in scope, and some were very local, such as the Universalist Tract Society.
Topics of the tracts varied, and included writings on religion, temperance, spiritualism, peace, women's suffrage, slavery, missions and conduct of life, among others.
The collection contains over 2,200 numbered tracts published in the United States between 1810 and 1883. For the most part, all numbered tracts published by a particular tract society or organization have been fully cataloged online. Exceptions to this include "adult" tracts published by the American Tract Society, the American Sunday School Union, and the American Unitarian Association which date after 1840, as well as tracts for children which were produced by any organization or tract society. The latter have been fully cataloged online in the American Childrens' Book collection.
Unnumbered tracts for adults that date through 1840 may be found in many other cataloged collections, including Dated Pamphlets, Dated Books, Pamphlets and the National and Local Institutions collections.
Many tract societies were short-lived. Religious societies were among the most durable of tract societies, and one, the American Tract Society, which traces its origins to the New England Religious Tract Society, founded in 1814, still publishes and distributes religious tracts today.
A series of tables useful in dating American Tract Society publications through 1876 has been compiled by AAS staff member S.J. Wolfe.
- by S.J. Wolfe, Senior Cataloger


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National contest challenges students and professionals
Austin, TX — KLRU-TV, Austin PBS, is one of 12 stations nationwide chosen to participate in the National STEM Video Game Challenge grant. KLRU will bring local middle school and high school students together with game developer mentors and education experts to create new games to compete in this national contest.
Inspired by the Educate to Innovate Campaign, President Obama's initiative to promote a renewed focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, the National STEM Video Game Challenge is a multi-year competition whose goal is to motivate interest in STEM learning among America's youth by tapping into students' natural passion for playing and making video games.
In early 2012, KLRU will bring mentors from Austin's vibrant gaming community together with youth from one area middle school and one high school. The teams of students will work to create games to be entered into the national contest. KLRU will also document the creative process on the station's blog. Game developers who would like to participate in the mentoring project should contact KLRU at 471-4811.
The National STEM Video Game Challenge has four categories — Middle School, High School, Collegiate, Educators — and is open to any U.S. citizen or legal U.S. resident To participate in the challenge as an individual or a non-KLRU team, please see the rules and guidelines for each level on the competition's website at stemchallenge.org. Deadline to enter is March 12.
About KLRU:
KLRU-TV, Austin PBS, presents quality multimedia content that engages people in the thoughtful exchange of ideas, the expression of the arts, and enjoyable lifelong learning opportunities, resulting in a more vibrant community and a higher quality of life. In addition to providing locally produced and quality national television programming, KLRU is also a non-profit organization helping to build a stronger community through educational workshops, community engagement projects and public events. Known as the producing station of the longest-running live music television show AUSTIN CITY LIMITS, KLRU has also worked on several other national productions including OVERHEAD WITH EVAN SMITH and documentaries like CITIZEN ARCHITECT and LAST BEST HOPE. Get more information about KLRU at klru.org.


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Legislation to establish a hybrid system of parole
and good time allowances for federal prisoners.
IMAGINE what 4 BILLION dollars can do for the public!!
If the Federal Government can save over 4 Billion (Four Thousand Millions) by making some policy changes, that enormous amount of money can be spend on feeding the millions of hungry, providing shelter to thousands of homeless, paying thousands of student loans, and creating jobs by hundreds of thousands. Unfortunately, this money is wasted in ways you don't know and could not even imagine.
The FY 2013 Budget requests a total of $8.6 billion for federal prisons and detention, and 4.5 percent increase over the FY 2012 appropriated level. Compare this staggering $8.6 BILLION budget for Prisons to the following items for Education and Housing in the FY 2013 Budget: (all these items below don't even add up to even a Billion dollars)
$150 million to continue transformative investments in high-poverty neighborhoods where distressed HUD -assisted public and privately owned housing is located.
$100 million for more communities to develop comprehensive housing and transportation plans that result in sustainable development increased transit-accessible housing, lower energy costs for consumers, and reduced air pollution that impacts public health and the climate.
$154 million to expand the supply of affordable housing to seniors and persons with disabilities.
$50 million to pilot an expansion of the successful Jobs-Plus demonstration
$260 million in funding for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs.
$30 million evidenced-based math education initiative to be jointly administered with a comparable program at the National Science Foundation.
$80 million for recruiting and preparing 100,000 high-quality STEM teachers over the next 10 years.
$12 million for Institute of Education Sciences research and development and sustained funding for investing in innovation.
Over the past 40 years, criminal justice policy in the U.S. was shaped by the belief that the best way to protect the public was to put more people in prison. Offenders, the reasoning went, should spend longer and longer time behind bars. We should realize that the cost to house an inmate for 12 months is almost $40,000.00, which rise significantly for all inmates over age 60 and nearly double or quadruple for inmates with medical issues. Compared to that, probation or supervised release costs about $7 a day per person.
According to the data from Bureau of Justice Statistics, state and local criminal justice spending rose from approximately $32.6 billion in 1982 to $186.2 billion in 2006. Federal criminal justice spending increased even more dramatically, from approximately $4.2 billion in 1982 to $41 billion in 2006. The Federal Prison budget had doubled since 2000, to $6.6 billion with more than 218,000 federal offenders behind bars and 105,500 on supervised release. Overall, the BOP's 115 institutions are about 40 percent above rated capacity. The BOP is now the largest police force in the United States, with more than 37,000 employees. On top of that, the AFGE.org, BOP's labor union, is battling on the Hill to add 15,000 correctional officers because of the concerns due to overcrowding of prisons.
In the era of bitter partisanship and division, one point we can all agree on is that building additional bed space in prisons will not resolve the systemic issues of the prison system. The increase in the number of inmates in past few decades was due to mostly non-violent drug related offenses. And our past corrections policies, based on increasingly harsh and punitive measures have created a deadly cycle of incarceration that drains government resources and dissolves the social and economic well-being of entire communities. We came to the realization that prison was often exacerbating the very problems that it was intended to solve. Instead of automatically shoveling larger and larger amounts to prisons, alternative ways should be adopted to avert looming fiscal catastrophe.
NOW THAT WE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, Here's the 50-50 Problem!
More than 50 PERCENT of federal prisoners are convicted of NON-VIOLENT drug offenses. But contrary to popular perception, violent crime was not responsible for six-fold increase of incarcerated population in the United States from 1980 to 2012. The truth is that violent crime rates had been constantly declining over those decades. The prison population was increased primarily by public policy changes causing more prison sentences and lengthening time served, e.g. through mandatory minimum sentencing, "three strikes" laws, and reductions in the availability of parole or early release. These policies were championed as protecting the public from serious and violent offenders, but instead yielded high rates of confinement for nonviolent offenders.
Nearly three quarters of new admissions to prisons are now convicted of nonviolent crimes. Perhaps the single greatest force behind the growth of the prison population has been the national "war on drugs." The number of incarcerated drug offenders has increased TWELVEFOLD since 1980. Over the past four decades, the U.S. has spent more than $1 trillion fighting the war on drugs.
Of course, great caution must be shown in the reintegration into society of violent criminals. But the objective of the penal system must be to return those capable of functioning licitly in society as quickly as practical, allowing also for straight punitive or retributive penalties, but not for mindless vengeance.
Prisoners with drug sentences and nonviolent histories pose no safety risk. The costs to society can be greatly reduced if the Congress and Federal Government re-instate Parole and increased Good-time allowances and expand alternative sentencing programs. It would be hypocritical for Congress not to support a measure that not only would save taxpayers millions or potentially billions of dollars each year, but also rightly recognizing that addiction is a disease that warrants treatment. While prison reform has taken a back seat to other economic issues, it could well be part of the solution. It's time to end the hypocrisy and the mandatory minimums and help non violent offenders become contributing citizens again.
Non citizens now are approximately half of the overall population of federal offenders; see 2010 Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics, Table 9 (showing that 47.5 of federal offenders in fiscal year 2010 were non citizens). Mexico contributes the highest proportion of non-U.S. citizen inmates at around 20 percent with most convicted of immigration offenses. Non citizen inmates are almost always refused for international transfers to serve their prison terms in their native countries. This places enormous burdens on U.S. taxpayers as the cost to housing non citizen offenders is increased.
One cannot see the social utility in forcing foreign nationals, without any prospects for becoming a productive member of American society, to serve lengthy prison sentence. The foreseeable costs to society of incarceration of unwanted foreign nationals in federal prisons exceed $40,000 PER YEAR. Further, the non-rehabilitation purposes of incarceration- retribution, deterrence and incapacitation – would all be more than adequately served by a far shorter sentence or immediate deportation and not by providing air-conditioned housing, three hot meals and recreation facilities. While the rehabilitation theory reasons that through imprisonment, treatment, and training a change can be effected in the criminal mindset, the rationale for imprisonment is inapplicable to the incarcerated non-citizens who will be deported immediately after the release and would not apply any rehabilitative treatment in America's benefit.
Some may argue that incarceration of non-citizens serves the purpose of deterrence and prevents the commission of future crimes by other individuals by setting out, as an example, the punishment for the present crime. But there can be no plausible argument for contending that the punishment or lack thereof, meted out on a non-citizen inmate would have any general deterrent effect on other non-citizens disposed to commit similar crimes. The prevention theory, aimed at deterring the specific criminal, rather than society, by requiring the non-citizens to endure a hardship which he/she will want to avoid in the future, is also inapplicable as to non-citizens as almost all of them enjoy better living conditions than living free in their native countries.
Finally, the oldest theory of punishment, retribution, seeks punishment as a means of obtaining revenge or retaliation for the crime committed. As with the other theories of punishment, we can realize that retributive theory fails to provide a basis for housing and feeding non-citizen inmates. It is impossible to obtain retribution from non-citizens, who are often unable to appreciate the connection between their incarceration and prior criminal acts. A number of non-citizens convicted for illegal reentry offenses do not even feel that they have committed a crime as they feel that they have crossed the borders just to seek better opportunities in their life.
Time has now come that we recognize that while some Americans have to choose between eating cat food, buying prescription drugs or heating their homes, the non-citizens should not be allowed to suck the limited resources and U.S. Taxpayer's money with a $40,000 costly housing, hot meals and full medical benefits provided in Federal Prisons
Our economic crisis is due in part to our penal system where so many first time non violent offenders are given Draconian sentences and no means to redeem themselves. Once in the prison system, they have no reason to desire rehabilitation or work towards early release.
We can change the way the judicial system enforces punishment and how inmates serve their time in a way that would benefit both the inmate and society. We should enact smarter sentencing and parole practices, increased access to the alternative sentencing programs, and establishing a comprehensive program to reduce recidivism and ensure the successful reentry and reintegration of offenders into the community. We should put into practice a new wave of thinking based on science and evidence based programs designed to successfully rehabilitate and reintegrate non violent offenders into the community with a real chance to live crime free.
Now is the time we should have a starting point for safer, healthier communities. Many states experiencing a prison population crisis have successfully enacted similar reforms. Even states than once endorsed the most severe punishments, such as New York and Texas, have significantly reduced both crime and imprisonment rates through the use of parole, alternative sentencing and reentry programs.
The United States Congress is urged to enact legislation such as parole or increased good-time which will generate significant and lasting cost savings, estimated at almost $4 billion per year. This comes at a critical moment when America's finances are increasingly strained and our national debt is skyrocketing. Adding salt to the wound, a correction spending now exceeds spending for higher education in America.
Fortunately, the solution is a simple one. All the Congress has to do is to reinstate the federal laws which existed before 1984. These are:
18 US Code Sections 4161-4166 (which allows increased
Good-Time allowances)
18 US Code Sections 4201-4218 (which allows for Parole Supervision)
The Parole laws also include a Section 4212, which directs that an "alien prisoner" be ordered "DEPORTED and remain outside the United States." Moreover, when the Congress abolished Federal Parole in 1984, the Parole Commission was NEVER abolished. Its period was extended time and again, and till date, the parole commission has been on Federal Government's payroll. By reinstating parole, there should be no extra operating costs of the Commission and tax-payers money could be utilized more efficiently.
Without any prison reform, the public is being shortchanged. Past crimes should not be automatically conflated with current risk. At some point in a prisoner's life, parole supervision and perhaps restrictions on movement (e.g. home confinement) may suffice as a cost effective and sensible punishment.
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(WEAU)-A woman is dead after jumping off a bridge in St. Croix County.
The sheriff's department says it happened Thursday morning around 8:30 on the I-94 bridge that runs over the St. Croix River in Hudson. Witnesses say the woman stopped her vehicle on the eastbound shoulder of the bridge, about 100 yards west of the Wisconsin shoreline, leaving her 11-year-old daughter in the vehicle. The woman then climbed the railing and jumped to her death.
The woman's body was found by the use of an air boat. The woman is 48-years-old and from Pierce County. Her identity is being withheld pending notification of her family. The daughter is now in the care of other family members in Wisconsin.


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Well here goes my first attempt,hope I can,I see them everywere how do they cook?any advice? Post some pics of yours pleeze!
No announcement yet.
Makin grill from butane tank
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Best advice, mike sure that tank has been cleaned of any Butane, usually caustic dipped, prior to doing any cutting or welding on the tank. I know most people know this, but I would feel bad if something bad happened and I didn;t say anything.
That said, tanks makes pretty good barbeques. Depending on how advanced a cooker you are, you could look to putting a box on the side to hold the coals to make for indirect heating. If you are going direct only, look for a way to increase or decrease the heat by raising or lowering the coals. Also, vents to let in air and vents to let out exhaustJohn
Millermatic DVI
Millermatic 375 xtreme
And a brand new Syncro 200!!!
Either fill it with water or purge with Nitrogen gas prior to cutting into the tank. It does not take much butane/propane to give you very bad day!Artist Blacksmith
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I've got an old tank hiding behind my shed awaiting it's fate as a smoker, just gotta find the time to giterdone. I'd be lying if I didn't say I was nervous about cutting it. my plan is to fill it with water.
If you are making it a smoker, consider making it a reverse flow smoker. My understanding is that they heat much more evenly. For the doors, I've read to cut them out about 90%, tack the hinge on, then cut the last bit of it. You get the door perfectly aligned that way.Millermatic 180 Auto Set
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Yeah, purging before flame cutting,pretty important. Or else,"But where is the earth shattering kaboom". -Marvin the Martian/Looney Tunes
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i would start by making a nice angle iron frame to hold it up at a comfortable bbq'ing height and go from there..maybe a tray along the front to hold your sauce, brushes, etc...a table on the side to hold some plates or whatever..maybe a shelf down on the bottom of the angle iron frame..you can cut some vent holes and use some flat bar to make a slide so the vents can open or close however much you like..I would just start with a frame and get creative from there.
As for the hinges...just tack the cut pieces(doors) in place how you think they would line up originally and then tack/weld your hinges. Cut the tacks you used to line everything up and should work perfect.Last edited by albertawelder; 09-27-2008, 02:18 AM. Reason: To add a point
In regards to fitting the doors, I use flat bar tabs about 2" long (4 on each door) with the center of the tab at the edge of the door with the tacks about 1/2" from the door edge.
You can then just drop the door into the opening and it won't fall in and will be flush and easy to align. Stick a couple of spacers in the bottom gap and fit/weld your hinges. Then remove the tabs and tacks."If you build it, they will come!"
Built for somebody else and mine had to be left behind when I moved some years ago."If you build it, they will come!"
I've done 2 grills from old butane tanks so I'm not too high on the list of "expert" grill makers, but I've trimmed the edges of the doors with 1 x 1/8 flat to cover the gaps. You can bend it by hand to fit. Grills are fun to make unless you are trying to make a profit on them. They are time consuming but I've enjoyed building them. Sorry, no pics right now. I can get a pic of the small one, 32 gal. The big 250 gal is where I can't get a pic of it anymore.Jim
When we build a pit, the top and bottom of the doors get cut first, tack the hinges, cut each end, ck for no binding, finish hinge weld. I generally add 1"x1/8" around the doors.
Here is a pit SIL and his bud built (w/my supervision) from a discarded propane tank, fire box is 2'x2'x¼".
Have fun


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The timing was perfect: we were headed up to Litchfield County for our friend Bruce's annual Octoberfest Party, and Renee -- a Florida girl, born and bred, through and through -- would get to see some of that famous, spectacular, New England foliage.
Connecticut is wee. It's small. It's the third wee-est state. And in a state that small, it still takes 2 hours to get from our house to Bruce's. If there's no traffic.
The foliage on our road trip? Spectacular, as promised.
And Renee? Was she impressed with it all? Well, we do not know, because Renee wasn't with us. She bailed.
Oh, sure, she fell off a swamp buggy and had to have like 17,000 staples put in her arm, but sheesh! We're talking foliage here, girl!
Sigh. Poor Renee.
Renee? This one's for you.
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Mistakes Costly in Monarchs' 13-8 Loss at Georgia State
By ODU Athletics
March 15, 2013
ATLANTA, Ga. - Old Dominion University baseball took a 7-5 lead over Georgia State midway through the game but seven unearned runs cost the Monarchs in a 13-8 setback in game one of the weekend series at Georgia State.
With the loss, ODU falls to 9-7 overall and 2-2 in the CAA while GSU improves to 12-6 overall and 3-1 in league play.
Trailing 5-4 entering the fourth inning, ODU scored three times to take a 7-5 lead. Mike Perez doubled to start the inning as Tyler Urps followed by getting hit by a pitch to reach base. After a wild pitch moved Urps and Perez up a base, Austin McGowan reached on a fielder's choice to load the bases. Josh Eldridge ripped a single to right field to score Perez and Urps, while McGowan scored on an error by the pitched to give ODU a 7-5 advantage.
Chad Prain and Josh Merrigan hit back-to-back homers with two outs in the bottom half of the inning to tie the score at seven.
Georgia State took the lead for good in the sixth inning on a pair of unearned runs. A walk and an error got the GSU inning started before Chad Prain drove in a run with an RBI groundout. Merrigan followed with an RBI single to give the Panthers a 9-7 lead. ODU finished the day with six errors.
ODU cut the lead to 9-8 in the seventh inning when Ben Verlander blasted his fifth homer of the year.
Georgia State came back with a run in the bottom half of the seventh and three more in the eighth to push the lead to the final score of 13-8.
GSU got on the board first with three runs in the first and two more in the second, but only two of the runs were earned.
The Monarchs got on the board in the second on Mike Perez's second home run of the season and cut the lead to 5-4 in the third. Joey Burney drove in two more with a single.
Eldridge led ODU with a 3-for-5 effort at the plate while Verlander, Burney, Perez and Connor Myers had two hits apiece. Prain and Merrigan combined for four hits and seven RBI to lead the Panthers.
Ben Burns pitched 4.2 innings in relief, allowing four hits and just the Verlander homer to pick up the win for GSU. Brad Gero suffered the loss for ODU allowing three runs, one earned, in two innings.
ODU and GSU resume their three game series tomorrow at 1 p.m.


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Building Blocks to Peer Success: Module on Other Activities
Building Blocks to Peer Success: Module on Other Activities
April 2009
HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
One of the "other modules" for complementing the main Toolkit Guide. Includes activities that help facilitate group interaction and learning, break up the day and bring closure to the training. Intros help to lay out the ground rules and allow participants an opportunity to get to know each other and build trust. Icebreakers help to engage in a participatory manner. Energizers are a fun way to re-invigorate a group after a serious discussion or after a break in the day. Closures allow participants to summarizekey points, review major "take home" lessons, or transition to the next topic. Sections cover:
- Intros (Expectations-Establishing Group Rules, Five Things In Common.
- Ground Rules, Human Scavenger Hunt, Introduction, Line Up, M and M's, My Left Shoe, My Mother Says, Parking Lot and Group Agreements, Participant Introductions, Peer Interviews, People Hunt Bingo, Tattletales, That's Me, The Object, Trading Places, Training Overview, Truth or Fiction).
- Energizers (Blinking, Breath, Cush Ball Challenge, Heart, HIV Drug Competition, Meditation, Self Care Body Scan, Sing a Song, Stretch).
- Icebreakers (Animal Activity, Burden Basket, Conocimiento, Life Lines, Out of the Box, The Ups and Downs of Diversity, What's Your Birth Order?, Which Animal Are You?, Words of Wisdom).
- Closure (Closing Activity, Closing Activity Candle Ceremony, Closing Circle, Connections, Making the Most of My Strengths, Next Steps and Closing, Pat on the Back, Pulling it All Together Wrap Up).


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On this date in...
1966: On THE GUIDING LIGHT, Ed (Robert Gentry) found Bill (Ed Bryce) drunk at a bar.
1966: On DARK SHADOWS, Roger (Louis Edmonds) bravely entered the drawing room after Carolyn (Nancy Barrett) told him Burke was there.
1982: On GUIDING LIGHT, word spread around Springfield that Jackie's plane crashed and she was dead. Sara worried about Carrie's (Jane Elliot) mental state.
1984: On GUIDING LIGHT, Claire (Susan Pratt) refused to let Josh (Robert Newman) give up on his rehab.
1991: Charlotte Ross aired for the final time as Eve Donovan on DAYS OF OUR LIVES. Eve left town with Frankie, played by Billy Warlock who also left the show at the time. Warlock returned for another run in 2005. Ross is now starring in VH1's HIT THE FLOOR.
2000: On CORONATION STREET, Maria and Tyrone had an awkward conversation about the night before, when they did nothing but watch television.
2006: Benjamin Hendrickson appeared for the final time as Hal Munson in AS THE WORLD TURNS. In the episode, Hal agreed to let Parker to move back in with Carly (Maura West).
2006: On DAYS OF OUR LIVES, Steve (Stephen Nichols) rejected Kayla (Mary Beth Evans).
2007: On ONE LIFE TO LIVE, Jessica (Bree Williamson) and Nash (Forbes March) were married.
2007: GENERAL HOSPITAL: NIGHT SHIFT, a nighttime spin-off of the daytime soap, premiered on SOAPnet.
2009: Indie Soap Award-winning web series EMPIRE premiered. The show now stars former daytime favorites Tina Sloan, Orlagh Cassidy, Yvonne Perry, Lauren B. Martin and Ellen Dolan. Read our interview with creators Greg Turner and Brian Hewson conducted a month before the show premiered here.
2010: ABC.com premiered the first "What If..." episodes. The Emmy Award-winning web series, directed by Frank Valentini, mashed up characters from ALL MY CHILDREN, ONE LIFE TO LIVE and GENERAL HOSPITAL.
ALL MY CHILDREN's Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) and GENERAL HOSPITAL's Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) meet: When Sonny's plan to use Erica as an alibi goes awry, his claustrophobia gets the best of both of them. ("Sonny and Erica: Love in a Time of Claustrophobia").
ALL MY CHILDREN's Ryan Lavery (Cameron Mathison) and GENERAL HOSPITAL's Carly Jacks (Laura Wright): Carly gives Ryan a refresher course on how to channel his inner bad boy.("Ryan & Carly: How to be Bad").
ONE LIFE TO LIVE's Todd Manning (Trevor St. John) and GENERAL HOSPITAL's Damian Spinelli (Bradford Anderson): Spinelli's fear of flying frustrates Todd to no end and unexpectedly changes their flight plan. ("Todd & Spinelli: Fear of Flying").
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Joseph Whipp (ex-Marty, GENERAL HOSPITAL; ex-Charles, GENERATIONS) - 72
Richard Simmons (Richard, GENERAL HOSPITAL) - 65
Socorro Santiago (ex-Isabella, ALL MY CHILDREN) - 62
Mel Harris (ex-Sylvia, SAINTS & SINNERS; ex-Hope, THIRTYSOMETHING) - 57
Tonya Lee Williams (Olivia, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) - 55
Rolonda Watts (ex-Cameron, DAYS OF OUR LIVES, ex-Julia, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL) - 54
Judi Evans (Adrienne/ex-Bonnie, DAYS OF OUR LIVES; ex-Maeve, AS THE WORLD TURNS; ex-Paulina, ANOTHER WORLD; ex-Beth, GUIDING LIGHT) - 49
Cheyenne Jackson (ex-Dustin, GLEE) - 38
Anna Friel (ex-Beth, BROOKSIDE; ex-Poppy, EMMERDALE; ex-Belinda, CORONATION STREET) - 37
Michelle Rodriguez (ex-Ana Lucia, LOST) - 35
Kristen Connolly (ex-Josie, AS THE WORLD TURNS; ex-Jolene, GUIDING LIGHT) - 33
Natalie Martinez (ex-Michelle, FASHION HOUSE) - 29
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Joshua Berg, Rockland Teen Mauled By Grizzly Bear In Alaska, Recovering Seven teenagers were nearing the end of a month-long survival course when 17-year-old Berg noticed the mama grizzly. Berg yelled "Bear! Bear!" but it was too late, the bear came charging at him and took him down.
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Today is the 2013 Knoxville Coaches vs. Cancer Day at the high school. Activities get underway this morning at 10:30 with the silent auction. There will be alumni basketball games throughout the morning and early afternoon until around three. A meal served by Steve Coon starting at 3:30 with the varsity games starting at 6:15. Girl's player and alumni basketball games organizer Katie Cunningham says she enjoys seeing her community come together for a great cause. The public is encouraged to come out to the Knoxville High School and browse the silent auction items.
10:30-8:00pm Silent Auction
10:30 6 on 6 Women's Alumni Basketball game
11:15 5 on 5 Women's Alumni Basketball game
12:00-3:00 Men's Alumni Basketball games
3:30-8:30 Meal served by Steve Coon
6:15 Girls varsity game vs. Chariton (on AM 1320 KNIA at 6:00pm)
Halftime: 5 shooting contests (raffle tickets drawn)
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MIAA Champion Northwest Missouri placed seven people on the All-MIAA first team. Pittsburg State added the second most players with six earning first team honors.
The first team offense is led by MIAA Offensive Player of the Year Northwest Missouri quarterback Trevor Adams. He will line-up behind an offensive line led by the only unanimous selection in Cole Manhart from Nebraska-Kearney. Also across the front are Emporia State's Jarrett Stastny, Northwest Missouri's Cody Carlson, Pittsburg State's Cody Holland and Washburn's Kyle Duncan.
In the first team backfield are Central Oklahoma running back Joshua Birmingham and Pittsburg State's Jeff Seybold. At the tight end/fullback spot on the first team is Tore' Hurst of Washburn.
A three-receiver set for the first team consists of Emporia State's Ray Ray Davis, Central Oklahoma's Marquez Clark and Pittsburg State's John Brown. Handling the kicking duties is Justin Linn of Washburn and Brown of PSU also was named the first team return specialist.
On the defensive side of the ball the front four is led by Northwest Missouri defensive lineman and MIAA Defensive Player of the Year Matt Longacre. He is joined by teammate Brandon Yost, Pittsburg State's Joe Uzzel and Washburn's Cameron Jackson along the defensive front. In the linebacking corps is Emporia State's Jordan Sanders, Pittsburg State's Nate Dreiling and Northwest Missouri's Eric Reimer and DJ Gnader.
Emporia State's Chris Poston, Lindenwood's Pierre Desir, Missouri Western's Mike Jordan and Northwest Missouri's Brandon Dixon make up the first team's defensive backfield. Missouri Western's Scott Groner has earned first team honors at punter for 2013.
The MIAA Co-Freshmen of the Year are Emporia State runningback Antonio Brown and Central Missouri defensive lineman Josh Powell. Northwest Missouri's Adam Dorrel was named the MIAA Coach of the Year after leading NWMSU to an unbeaten season and an MIAA Championship.
MIAA Offensive Player of the Year – Trevor Adams, QB, Northwest Missouri
MIAA Defensive Player of the Year – Matt Longacre, DL, Northwest Missouri
MIAA Special Teams Player of the Year – John Brown, KR/PR, Pittsburg State
MIAA Co-Freshmen of the Year – Antonio Brown, RB, Emporia State & Josh Powell, DL, Central Missouri
MIAA Coach of the Year – Adam Dorrel, Northwest Missouri
First Team (Offense)
QB – Trevor Adams, Northwest Missouri
RB – Joshua Birmingham, Central Oklahoma
RB – Jeff Seybold, Pittsburg State
WR – Marquez Clark, Central Oklahoma
WR – Ray Ray Davis, Emporia State
WR – John Brown, Pittsburg State
TE/FB – Tore' Hurst, Washburn
OL – Cole Manhart, Nebraska-Kearney^
OL – Jarrett Stastny, Emporia State
OL – Cody Carlson, Northwest Missouri
OL – Cody Holland, Pittsburg State
OL – Kyle Duncan, Washburn
K – Justin Linn, Washburn
KR/PR – John Brown, Pittsburg State
^=Unanimous Selection
First Team (Defense)
DL – Matt Longacre, Northwest Missouri
DL – Brandon Yost, Northwest Missouri
DL – Joe Uzzel, Pittsburg State
DL – Cameron Jackson, Washburn
LB – Jordan Sanders, Emporia State
LB – Eric Reimer, Northwest Missouri
LB – DJ Gnader, Northwest Missouri
LB – Nate Dreiling, Pittsburg State
LB – Bryce Atagi, Washburn
DB – Chris Poston, Emporia State
DB – Pierre Desir, Lindenwood
DB – Mike Jordan, Missouri Western
DB – Brandon Dixon, Northwest Missouri
P – Scott Groner, Missouri Western
Five Linebackers due to tie in the voting
Second Team (Offense)
QB – Brent Wilson, Emporia State
RB – Morris Henderson, Lincoln
RB – Raphael Spencer, Missouri Western
WR – Ronrei Lloyd, Central Missouri
WR – Austin Willis, Emporia State
WR – Alex Robinson, Lindenwood
TE/FB – Reggie Jordan, Missouri Western
OL – Brian Berzanski, Central Missouri
OL – Cameron Pound, Central Oklahoma
OL – Mario Abundes, Fort Hays State
OL – Jeremy Jacobson, Missouri Western
OL – CJ Keeney, Northwest Missouri
K – Zach Gebhardt, Central Missouri
KR/PR – Marquez Clark, Central Oklahoma
Second Team (Defense)
DL – Ramond Hunter, Central Missouri
DL – Kenny Allen, Central Oklahoma
DL – Austin Baska, Missouri Western
DL – Taye Irvin, Pittsburg State
LB – Ricky Spratley, Central Missouri
LB – Gatlin Ridgway, Missouri Southern
LB – Langston Jones, Northeastern State
LB – Shaquille Shedd, Southwest Baptist
DB – Gary Fortune, Emporia State
DB – Michael Jordan, Fort Hays State
DB – Brian Dixon, Northwest Missouri
DB – Keeston Terry, Pittsburg State
DB – DJ Wakes, Washburn
P – Kyle Goodburn, Northwest Missouri
Five Defensive Backs due to tie in the voting
Third Team (Offense)
QB – Hayden Hawk, Central Missouri
RB – LaVance Taylor, Central Missouri
RB – Andre Smith, Fort Hays State
WR – Keaton Callins, Fort Hays State
WR – Derwyn Lauderdale, Southwest Baptist
WR – DaJuan Beard, Washburn
TE/FB – Chris Barnwell, Missouri Southern
TE/FB – Marcus Wright, Northwest Missouri
OL – Aaron Blount, Emporia State
OL – Jerry Lee Johnson, Lincoln
OL – Jose Zuniga, Lindenwood
OL – Cole Chevalier, Northwest Missouri
OL – Tyler Smith, Pittsburg State
K – Connor Frazell, Pittsburg State
KR/PR – LaVance Taylor, Central Missouri
Third Team (Defense)
DL – Neil Shortell, Emporia State
DL – Jesse Trent, Fort Hays State
DL – Thomas Stubbs, Lindenwood
DL – Arbanas Elliot, Missouri Western
LB – Justin McPhail, Fort Hays State
LB – Kendrick Causey, Lincoln
LB – Kellen Werner, Nebraska-Kearney
LB – Tyler Disney, Pittsburg State
DB – Gaige Washington, Missouri Southern
DB – Kyler Harris, Northeastern State
DB – De'Vante Bausby, Pittsburg State
DB – Evan Ray, Southwest Baptist
P – Ed Burns, Lindenwood
Honorable Mention
QB – Adrian Nelson, Central Oklahoma; Jacob Morris, Lincoln; Jay McDowell, Missouri Southern; Travis Partridge, Missouri Western; Anthony Abenoja, Pittsburg State
RB – Antonio Brown, Emporia State; Giresse Forchu, Missouri Southern; Terrance Dixon, Northeastern State; Billy Creason, Northwest Missouri
WR – Christian Hood, Central Oklahoma; Kavaski Ervin, Emporia State; Tanner Hageman, Fort Hays State; Jaron Alexander, Lindenwood; Stephon Weaver, Missouri Western; Derek Libby, Missouri Western; Clint Utter, Northwest Missouri; Matt Kobbeman, Washburn
TE/FB – Cullen Rosine, Central Missouri; Josh Klumpe, Emporia State; Nick Whitlow, Northeastern State; Joel Gantz, Northwest Missouri; Conner Combes, Pittsburg State
OL – Justin Manu, Central Missouri; Brandon Waggoner, Central Oklahoma; Danny Goodman, Emporia State; Greg List, Fort Hays State; Jarve Dean, Lincoln; Roberto Limon, Lincoln; Cesar Estrada, Lincoln; Justin Campbell, Lincoln; Jacob Heneisen, Lindenwood; Austin Wolfe, Missouri Southern; Caleb Benner, Missouri Southern; Ross Dvorak, Northeastern State; Ethan James, Northeastern State; Hudson Baab, Northeastern State; Ollie Venegas, Pittsburg State; Derrick Okafor, Southwest Baptist; Sydney Wiggs, Southwest Baptist; Jimmy Schmitzer, Southwest Baptist; Michael Miller, Washburn
DL – Josh Powell, Central Missouri; Tyler Newton, Central Oklahoma; Justin Wilson, Emporia State; Ryan Louia, Emporia State; Jeremy Jones, Fort Hays State; DeShawn Lawson, Lindenwood; John Oglesby, Missouri Western; Dakota Moran, Northeastern State; Bryant Hummel, Northwest Missouri; Matt Meinart, Northwest Missouri; Avery Adair, Pittsburg State; Johnathan Drury, Southwest Baptist; Adebayo Oladapo, Washburn
LB – Zach Quines, Central Missouri; Adrian Shoecraft, Central Oklahoma; DeShawn Dinwiddie, Emporia State; Tariq Allen, Emporia State; Michael Terry, Fort Hays State; Dillon Hawkins, Lindenwood; Clint Koons, Lindenwood; Tyke Kozeal, Nebraska-Kearney; Dalvin Taylor, Missouri Southern; Stephen Juergens, Missouri Western; Nick Williams, Missouri Western; Willie Williams, Washburn
DB – Julia Dozier, Emporia State; Ivan Hodges, Southwest Baptist; Jason Peete, Pittsburg State; Markuice Savage, Lincoln; Wesley Thomas, Lindenwood; Johnquavious McBride, Missouri Southern; Bryce Enyard, Northwest Missouri; Aries Herrion, Pittsburg State; Devon Connors, Washburn
K – Seth Hiddink, Central Oklahoma; Eli Kuhns Emporia State
KR/PR – DeAndre James, Fort Hays State; Devion Dinwiddie, Emporia State


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Labor Dept. continues funding to help laid-off aerospace workers find new jobs
Published 10:55 am, Thursday, February 16, 2012
The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday awarded a $3,145,776 National Emergency Grant increment to continue providing re-employment assistance to about 600 workers impacted by layoffs at 21 Houston-area companies.
The layoffs primarily resulted from the termination of the Space Shuttle Program by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Many of the workers were contractors for the program at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
The companies include Ares Aerospace & Technology Services, BAE Systems and Mobility Protection, Barrios Technology, Bastion Technologies Inc., Boeing, Cimmaron, ERC Inc., Fluor, GB Tech, Hamilton Sunstrand, Jacobs/IESCG, Lockheed Martin, MEI Technologies, MRI Technologies, Oceaneering Space Systems, REDE/Critique ? NSS, SAIC, SGT, Tessada & Associates, U.S.A. and Wyle Life Sciences.
"The additional federal funding announced today will provide these workers continued access to job placement assistance, skills training and other re-employment services to help them find new careers in high-growth industries," said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis.
On Sept. 8, 2010, a National Emergency Grant was approved for up to $5,367,340, with $2,221,564 released initially. Thursday's increment, awarded to the Texas Workforce Commission, completes the total funds awarded.
National Emergency Grants are part of the secretary of labor's discretionary fund and are awarded based on a state's ability to meet specific guidelines. For more information, visit http://www.doleta.gov/NEG.


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Elana Meyers talks Olympics, wedding with 11Alive | News
ATLANTA -- Elana Meyers is back home from Sochi and finally relaxing after a whirlwind Winter Olympics that saw her win the silver medal in women's bobsled.
The pride of Douglasville stopped by the 11Alive studio Monday morning to talk about her Olympic adventure.
WATCH | Elana Meyers' interview with 11Alive
PHOTOS | Elana Meyers visits 11Alive
She and teammate Lauryn Williams missed the gold medal by only .10 seconds -- a defeat that has inspired Meyers to train harder for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.
"I was so close to gold in 2014," she said. "I think I was a little bit disappointed, but whenever you come out with a medal for your country, you can't be too disappointed."
RELATED | Elana Meyers wins silver in Sochi
Still, it was a history-making run for both women. Meyers became the first female U.S. bobsledder to win multiple Olympics medals (she took home the bronze in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics), while Lauryn Williams is one of only five people in history to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics (she was part of the gold medal-winning women's 4x100 relay team at the 2012 London Olympics).
Now that the Olympics have ended, Meyers has another big milestone ahead -- she's getting married in April. Meyers' fiance Nic Taylor proposed while she was on the medal stand at another competition.
RELATED | Elana Meyers prepares for wedding
"I have my dress fitting on Thursday, so I'm pretty excited about that," she said. "I'm super excited about April and my wedding, and I get to share this with my family and my fiance and everything, so I'm really looking forward to it."
Meyers plans to visit Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite at 3 p.m. Monday to show off her medals and share her Olympics stories with patients.
She will be honored at Arbor Place Mall in her hometown of Douglasville on Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
* Elana welcomed home at Atlanta airport
* Elana Meyers: No shame in silver
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Furnishings for new space that East Central College is leasing in Rolla were approved by college trustees at their monthly meeting Monday night.
Furnishings for new space that East Central College is leasing in Rolla were approved by college trustees at their monthly meeting Monday night.
Board members authorized the purchase of $23,518 in furnishings from KI Innovative Office Solutions to outfit a computer lab and other areas in the 7,900-square-foot facility ECC is leasing from Columbia College.
Much of the facility will be furnished with existing furniture from the current location.
Located at 2303 North U.S> Highway 63 north of Interstate 44 in Rolla, the building will house ECC's nursing program and can also be utilized for some general education course offerings. ECC will pay $12 per square foot ($7,900 per month) through 2016 for the new space.
Since 2007, ECC's nursing program has operated from a 3,000-square-foot facility on Bridge School Road that the college leases from Phelps County Regional Medical Center for $37,120 per year.
ECC will continue to house the majority of its operation at Rolla Technical Center.
For the past two years the college has also rented two classrooms at The Centre, a multipurpose facility run by the City of Rolla.
College officials noted that the new facility on Highway 63 will have more space for students, faculty and staff and give ECC a site more convenient for students and the integration with other college operations.
ECC plans to have the facility remodeled and ready for the start of spring semester classes.


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Dust 514 to outlive PlayStation 3, says CCP
Dust 514 is launching near the end of what we presume will be the end of the PlayStation 3's lifespan. But just because the PS3 only has a few years left in it doesn't mean the game will die with it. EVE Online executive producer Jonathan Lander says that CCP has a five-year plan for the game, and other development ideas to make it last much longer.
"Our plan is that we want in another ten years to be having 'EVE is 20' and 'Dust is 10' [events]" Lander told Games Industry International, in response to a question about the game outliving this console generation. "We've got a five-year road map with a whole load of things we'd love to put into Dust. We've got crazy ideas that will take us through another 20 years of development." He says the game is built around the ability to quickly and easily issue updates and expansions.
He does note that the team is "100 percent" focused on the PlayStation 3 right now, but his comments seem to imply an eventual port as a possibility. He says Dust is targeted for a "different type of gamer" than the strategy-heavy EVE. "We want the people who want to play for 15 minutes and shoot somebody."


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The Telegraph doesn't dare mention Muslims but they do note the Hagia Sophia was a church. They say it was converted. By converted they must mean conquered, stolen and desecrated. via Lego accused of racism with Star Wars set – Telegraph.
Lego has been accused of racism by the Turkish community over a Star Wars model that supposedly resembles one of Istanbul's most revered mosques.
Austria's Turkish community said the model was based on Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul and that the accompanying figures depicted Asians and Orientals as people with "deceitful and criminal personalities."
The Turkish Cultural Community of Austria released a statement calling for Lego to apologise for affronting religious and cultural feelings.
The anger was provoked by "Jabba's Palace", a model of the home of Jabba the Hutt from Lego's Star Wars product range based on the blockbusting series of science fiction films.
Jabba is the large slug-like creature who holds Han Solo captive in the film Return of the Jedi, and his palace is the setting for several crucial scenes, including using Princess Leia as his slave.
Jabba's domed home and accompanying watchtower bare, according to the statement, an unwanted resemblance to Istanbul's great Hagia Sophia, and another mosque in Beirut.
A picture posted on the Cultural Community's website includes the box for Jabba's Palace with arrows pointing out similarities to a picture of the Hagia Sofia mosque.
A converted Christian basilica and famed for its massive domed roof, the Hagia Sofia is one of the most famous mosques in the world and served Istanbul's Muslim community for over 500 years before becoming a museum in 1943. It is also regarded as one of the finest, and largest examples, of Byzantine architecture.
The Jabba case came to light after an Austrian Turk complained to the organisation after his sister had bought his son the box set.
Austria's Turkish community also took issue with the figures that went with the palace, including Jabba.
"The terrorist Jabba the Hutt likes to smoke a hookah and have his victims killed," said the statement posted on the organisation's website.
"It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities."
The crimes associated with the figures, the statements adds, include terrorism, slavery, murder and human sacrifice.
Taking into account that many of the Lego figures carry weapons, the Turkish organisation also urged parents "not to buy toys of war or toys of discrimination" as the model goes against the "peaceful coexistence of different cultures in Europe".
As an indication of the anger felt over Jabba's Palace, the organisation said it was considering taking legal action against Lego for inciting racial hatred and insulting human dignity.
Katharina Sasse, a public relations manager working on behalf of Lego, denied any link between Jabba's Palace and the mosque.
"The Lego Star Wars product Jabba´s Palace does not reflect any actually existing buildings, people, or the mentioned mosque," she said. "The Lego mini-figures are all modelled on characters from the movie.
"We regret that the product has caused the members of the Turkish cultural community to come to a wrong interpretation, but point out that when designing the product only the fictional content of the Star Wars saga were referred to."
The Telegraph should have pointed out that:
Built in Constantinople in the 6th century, Hagia Sophia — Greek for "Holy Wisdom" — was Christendom's greatest and most celebrated church. After parrying centuries of jihadi thrusts from Arabs, Constantinople was finally sacked by Turks in the jihad of 1453. Its crosses desecrated and icons defaced, this millennium-old church — as well as thousands of other churches in the then Byzantine Empire — was immediately converted into a mosque, the tall minarets of Islam surrounding it in triumph.


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Suggest to create a section for setting up a multilingual site. It should contain all kinds of links to the already available documents. Should be after managing content if you ask me. Sovainfo (talk) 10:48, 29 November 2013 (CST)
- Yes, we will have to add the links. There is some really good content for multilingual set ups. Tom Hutchison (talk) 07:05, 2 December 2013 (CST)
I can not see, if it is possible to create a space where just one author can have his texts (respectively several authors their texts), readable possibly for everyone, but editable only for him (exept superadmins).
This would be an important feature for academic cooperation projects, that do not share in every respect the wiki-spirit (still having possibly wiki-areas of free collaboration).
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Measuring HIV Programs' Impacts Will Improve Return on Investment, "Drive Better Performance"
March 15, 2013
Noting that Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in his annual letter "argued that it is essential to carefully measure progress in innovation and global health," Stefano Bertozzi, director of HIV at the Gates Foundation, writes in a SciDev.Net opinion piece, "This is because while measuring the quantity of interventions is important, we also need to determine which interventions -- and which approaches to them -- create the greatest long-term impact." For example, "[i]nstead of just counting the numbers of individuals beginning treatment, we need to evaluate treatment centers by how many people are successfully retained in care and consistently take their medications," he writes, adding, "An even stronger approach would be to monitor whether HIV replication is suppressed in each patient."
"As new performance measures are introduced, it is critical to understand which ones provide the best return on investment -- that is, yield the greatest gains in health at the lowest cost," Bertozzi continues, noting, "This is a new area of focus that has been recognized by others, including the U.S. Institute of Medicine in its recent evaluation of [PEPFAR]." He concludes, "By measuring the right things, we can better gauge the effectiveness of our HIV response, drive better performance and ultimately save more lives" (3/14).
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I think people prelabel gender roles and assume that the opposite sex can't meet those needs. People assume a child needs a mother to be nurtured, but not all women are nurturing. They assume they need a dad to be stern and discipline, but not all men are good disciplinarians.
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
This. They stereotype other people in a way that suits them. If the flamboyant and "nice" stereotypical homosexual doesn't suit their "argument", then they claim that homosexuals are Satan-worshiping sluts who chose to be that way and only want sex 24/7 with whatever men/women they can get.
Many of the "sissy" behaviours we would associate with as being gay or girly now would have been considered manly if we were living a couple of hundred years ago.
What's an example or two? I'm not picking a fight, I just can't think of any.
\And thankyou Alzael.
It's not really so much the need of a mother and a father as it is just a need for more than one parent. <cut>
Quote from: Alzael on May 07, 2012, 11:50:13 AMIt's not really so much the need of a mother and a father as it is just a need for more than one parent. <cut>I believe two Parent homes are easier than most; but there is always an exception to the rule. A two parent abusive home is not going to be as stable for a child as a one parent stable home. I don't personally put much in to who the parents are (straight, gay, single, married, etc.) as much as I do how the parents work together to create a stable home. Unfortunately, most people don't see it that way. Some people think the abusive parents should stay together for the sake of the children. Or that same sex couples would be harmful to the child's psyche. Or that single parents should find a mate because they can't possibly do it alone. It's all about the situation and context. There's no magic formula that says X situation is perfect for child raising. Bigotry aside, I'm sure it could be argued that it's more natural for two same sex parents to raise a child. Anyone arguing that case would be correct, but that doesn't mean two people of the opposite sex aren't capable of it.
here's one thing I can never understand. When homophobic pastors or anti-gay politicians shout out about how every child needs a mother and a father, it makes me wonder why exactly does one need a mother and a father?
Maybe a thread exploring the natural difference between men and women are in order?
Quote from: magicmiles on May 08, 2012, 02:41:19 AMMaybe a thread exploring the natural difference between men and women are in order?Men have dicks, are taller, tend to live less and tend to become stronger than women. Women have boobs, a vagina, are shorter, have a tendency to accumulate fat and tend to live longer than men. Natural differences explored.
A straight couple can be really bad parents, but homosexual or single parents can't possibly be good parents? I think the only kind of trauma a kid would face as the result of having homosexual parents is not the fact their parents are gay but the fact people are homophobic and a part of society suggest that it's wrong. Interestingly, we had this discussion briefly at my last job and the one lady said she believed that gay people should not have children as it'd be unfair on the child because they'd get bullied at school for it. I think the main problem in that respect is society needs to change their attitude. A good parent is one who cares and loves for their child and helps them develop well into adulthood. I'd rather 2 gay dads who loved me than a mother and father who didn't give a shit. I got bullied at school, so would gay parents have made much of a difference?
Don't "they" say kids learn the relationship dynamics from their parents? I may be wrong and it could all just be misinformation I've picked up a long they way. But could it be argued that a straight child raised by gay parents won't know how to build romantic relationship with an opposite sex partner? I've never really thought about it before reading this thread tonight. But they always tell us girls we date men like our fathers; because we watch our parents and learn how to build relationships off of our experiences watching our parents.... I'm really not all that knowledgeable on the topic as I've never been around gay parents, if anyone else has some insight and would like to share it that would be great. Thanks!


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The Senior Studio is the culminating experience in the Art major program. The course is devoted to all aspects of conceptualizing and preparing a major work or series of works, the thesis project, that demonstrates technical mastery, conceptual engagement and thematic coherence. Students work on their projects independently throughout the fall and early spring semesters with supervision of a studio faculty advisor. Successful theses are exhibited in the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Coursework emphasizes productive staging of a major project. Special guest lectures and topics are presented. This is offered as a year-long single-credit course, 0.5 in the fall and 0.5 in the spring. Students must register each semester.
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