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OSNews reader Prognathous writes: "Well, actually it was released earlier this year, but I couldn't find any references in your news section, so it's about time. The only problem is that other than in usenet, details are scant and the official release was very subdued (search the page for "4.52")." This release is only available to IBM's active software subscription customers of OS/2 Warp 4 and it does seem to be a service pack ("Convenience Package" as IBM calls it). IBM does not intend to provide any additional convenience packages in the future.
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Skip to comments.USCCB campaign urges parishes to pray, preach on behalf of DREAM Act
Posted on 09/05/2011 3:24:17 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
The Justice for Immigrants campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging priests across the nation to incorporate petitions, prayers and homilies into Sunday Masses on September 25 in support of passage of the DREAM Act. The bill, first introduced in 2001, would provide a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants.
The Justice for Immigrants campaign has also issued an invitation to plan a vigil or public event between Sept. 18 - Oct. 9 in support of our DREAM students and youth and offers a sample agenda and elements of a powerful event to assist in planning.
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
Community and individuality are not opposites. People cannot survive on their own. When the odds are stacked against you, you must rally with the oppressed and hated.
When a growing oppressive regime is taking hold, you must act, otherwise you will soon face your enemy alone and hopeless.
Strength of community is a strength as much as individualism, as long you are willing to face weaknesses in your own community. Ignoring slacking values will mean that you will be rallied against by those you oppress.
Niemöller affirms we must rally against unhealthy organized regimes. We must also stay vigilant with those that appear to be good natured, as all organisation attracts corruption. Niemöller also warns us that if it is you who are corrupt, then you will face a stronger combined force of foe!
Vexen Crabtree
Again you distort the issue.
This is not about government coming after certain groups within it's own country to silence them in order to increase their totalitarian hold on the country and nobody can then oppose them.
This is about a nation's inherent right to control their own immigration policy.
You have a hard time making apples to apples comparisons, at least on this particular topic.
I am against illegal immigration, but I have nothing against someone who does it the right way and becomes a naturalized citizen through study and testing, etc.
What about you?
"....in recent years, state-level efforts have been made across the country to bar undocumented young adults from the benefits of in-state tuition breaks for higher education. This is bad public policy for several reasons....SB 170, if enacted, will require that any individual receiving in- state tuition must have attended a Colorado public or private high school for three years....students who meet these significant and verifiable standards, and qualify for in-state tuition, will not be required to verify lawful presence in the United States."
-- Archbishop Chaput, from the thread Denver Archbishop Supports Tuition Equity [Chaput favors extending in-state tuition to illegals]
....if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.The locus of attention in the above verse is on the behavior of (existing) residents of the land. That same Mosaic Law demanded that all the Israelite laws apply to anyone and everyone occupying land within Israel's borders. In other words, once the theoretical stranger "dwells with you in your land" i.e. sets foot inside Israel's borders (legally or illegally), the native Israelite was not to mistreat him - instead, the native Israelite was expected to hold him subject to all of Israel's laws (including any that might govern citizenship and government handouts), just as he himself would be. The "stranger within your gates" would also be expected to know those laws for himself....
The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
-- Leviticus 19: 33-34
...when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.The question that the "love your neighbor" crowd needs to answer is what constitutes "love your neighbor" behavior when confronted with a lawbreaking stranger within your gates?
Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law,
and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.
-- Deuteronomy 31:11-13
I am for legal immmigration.
I am totally against illegal immigration.
I am for strong border enforcement and returning found illegals back into their home countries unless they are criminals and need to be tried for crimes here.
I am also for strengthening our immigration laws and actually having a government that enforces these laws.
I would even say that, in deference to Mexico, I'd be happy to implement Mexico's immigration laws here. So that the charge of racism couldn't be leveled at us.
I disagree that the Catholic voter's position on abortion should be decided out of an interest in creating more American Catholics by demography. It should rather be about Jesus Christ, justice and the divine moral law.
But this is false:
Opposition to the dream act is being treated worse than being in favor of abortion.
The Catholic Church in the United States has inserted Roe v. Wade on its liturgical calendar--January 22, National Day of Penance. This is a singular event in recent Catholic history. Nothing similar has been done for any other issue. I have heard of Catholic politicians in some (albeit, too few) places being denied Communion for supporting abortion, but never have I heard of one being denied Communion for his immigration views.
You have to remember that half of all practicing Catholics in the United States are Hispanic. Our bishops are doing a very poor job pretending to "represent" a half-Hispanic, and half-Anglo caucus, and it is foremost a poor job because it is not their job. Bishops are actually supposed to be encouraging the faithful to support laws which are just and fair for everyone, not just laws that happen to serve the interests of the population of Church-going Catholics. "Catholic" is not an ethnic group.
Now, granted, America's legal immigration policy is unjust and economically and culturally suicidal. (For one thing, millions of birthright American citizens born to legal residents are being raised abroad, to be allowed to return only after they turn 18, because their parents couldn't get a visa extension. If you want to have birthright citizenship, you should make provision for raising American citizens as Americans, and not as foreigners in overseas schools, even though they might get a better education that way. For another thing, we have our ethnic diversity lottery...)
But every country on earth punishes illegal immigration by deportation. It is the only penalty which actually fits and properly deters that offense. If anything, the injustice actually addressed by the DREAM Act is the failure of the American government to deport illegals over the past thirty years since the "one-time" Reagan amnesty. If they had been promptly deported, they wouldn't have grown up here.
The USCCB isn't the Vatican, and they aren't a Vatican mouthpiece. They're supposed to represent the (collective) views of the American bishops. Notice I said "supposed to".
And for them to tell priests (they don't have the authority to order it, mind you) to lobby in their homilies for a particular piece of legislation on anything but a pivotal, life-related issue is going way over the line, IMO.
Agree with you, although I do think we need to treat all humans with love. Yes, I know it's difficult with some.
Good point.
I think this relates here. I see there's a big push to make the DREAM Act synonymous with "mercy". And a related push to make law enforcment (e.g. barring illegal aliens from cashing in on benefits) synonymous with INjustice.
A good case can be made that enticing a person to break a law is one way we participate in their wrongdoing. Incentivizing people to violate our borders by rewarding them and their children with a big package of material payoffs, is certainly enticing a person to sin.
Wha's stoping people from going BACK to the country where they are still legal citizens, and then coming here again legally? And what's wrong with insisting that they come here the right way, the same as all other immigrants?
That is not a merciless pisition. That is equal justice under law.
USCCB has yet to comment on Catholic vp Biden's support of China's obnoxious one child policy while speaking in China.But they give full support to this ridiculous 'Dream Act'.Is th USCCB an arm of the Democratic party?
....A good case can be made that enticing a person to break a law is one way we participate in their wrongdoing. Incentivizing people to violate our borders by rewarding them and their children with a big package of material payoffs, is certainly enticing a person to sin.
Wha's stoping people from going BACK to the country where they are still legal citizens, and then coming here again legally? And what's wrong with insisting that they come here the right way, the same as all other immigrants?
Ping to my post #27
The first requirement of love is justice. Some may say "Love is a whole lot more than justice"; but very often the 'love' we see is a whole lot less.
It doesn't benefit anyone, citizen, sojourner, legal or illegal, to live in a country where trespass is encouraged, fraud is condoned, poor men are systematically enticed into lawbreaking with the promise of material gain, the politicians, police, and courts don't enforce the law efficiently and evenhandedly, and essential institutions are approaching breakdown and bankruptcy.
Liberty under law is the foundation of public justice. And Justice is the way a political community expresses love.
All that would be necessary for a repatriation of the illegal immigrants is to eliminate the inducements to their being here. The exact same forces that brought them here would cause them to return.
What many of you don't, can't or refuse to understand is that once here illegals are entitled to the same constitutional protections as anyone else within the jurisdiction of the US by virtue of the 14th Amendment.
Sounds a whole lot like another Catholic supporting the DREAM Act to me.
You are right. Mexicans are untermensch and not deserving of basic human and constitutional rights. They should be rounded up, worked until nearly dead and then exterminated. (Think of all the gold teeth) It worked so well for you guys in the past. [sarc].
Most Mexicans I know are honest, hard working, God fearing, family oriented and very conservative. I would much rather have them in my neighborhood than the sniveling, whining, home grown semi-literate bigots one finds so frequently in these forums.
You are right. Mexicans are untermensch and not deserving of basic human and constitutional rights. They should be rounded up, worked until nearly dead and then exterminated. (Think of all the gold teeth) It worked so well for you guys in the past. [sarc].
Most Mexicans I know are honest, hard working, God fearing, family oriented and very conservative. I would much rather have them in my neighborhood than the sniveling, whining, home grown semi-literate bigots one finds so frequently in these forums.
You could always move south of the border into their neighborhoods, just to maximize your experience.
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Attorny General Alberto Gonzales Resigns!
Just off the wire.
Attorny General Alberto Gonzales Resigns!
Just off the wire.
I can't deliver UTOPIA, but I can create a HELL for you to LIVE in :)DoD:(
Rats fleeing the ship.
(yes, that is a completely biased opinion)
I'm sorry. Is my bias showing?
Every day is today. Yesterday is a myth and tomorrow an illusion.
Happy Dance!!!
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin
Remember this motto to live by: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO- HOO what a ride!'"
WOW!!! I was a little surprised by this one... I honestly figured he would try to stick it out longer.
The whole thing with him trying to manipulate Ashcroft when he was ill really turned my stomach. I didn't like Gonzales much to start with--I'm from Texas and have seen the kind of crap he did on the Texas Supreme Court and as Sec. of State for Texas.
I hope the door doesn't hit him on the way out.
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Herman Göring at the Nuremburg trials (thoughts on democracy)
Now we can all get back to agreeing with each other.
You guys hate him because ...??
It's a mutiny!
"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?" Jeremiah 22:16
Well, for one, pretending (i.e. lying) that he had no knowledge (or responsibility) of anything that happened under his leadership.
The dark cloud will be removed as soon as the American public gets off the two-party corporate shill republicrat voting trend...
You get all squeezed up inside/Like the days were carved in stone/You get all wired up inside/And it's bad to be alone
You can go out, you can take a ride/And when you get out on your own/You get all smoothed out inside/And it's good to be alone
The cheese stands alone now. Maybe Cheney will croak by the end of the year to ease the pain of having to deal with another 18 months of Bush.
Other than gloating, what real purpose does this thread serve?
"Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how." -- Edward T. McMahon, The Conservation Fund
Like I said, I took issue with him early on because of stuff he was involved with in Texas. However, it was the manipulation of Ashcroft over warrantless wiretaps that really set me off (not because of the wiretaps, but because of how he used unethical means to try and get what he wanted). Other reasons:
- Executive Order 13233 that attempted to limit FOIA requests after 9/11
- He was an early advocate of the Patriot Act
- Tried to prevent Energy Task Force documents from being reviewed
- Seemed completely unaware of anything going on in the Justice Department
- argued hebeas corpus was not granted in Constitution (why would they prohibit taking it away if it was implicly in the Constitution)
- failing to investigate the Texas Youth Commission allegations of misconduct (of which there were TONS of complaints, but no effort made to investigate)
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Herman Göring at the Nuremburg trials (thoughts on democracy)
I think that Suburb Repairman has given acceptable reasons not to like him and that the firing of attorneys is not one of them, that there was nothing illegal about it. What should have happened is all the liberal judges should have been fired when Bush took office that is how Clinton did it and no one yelled.
I dont think that Gonzalez has done that great if a job and there are several situations that I felt hurt his career. While I dont think that he was the demonic anti freedom that everyone paints him to be, I think that he was not the best person for the job.
If you want different results in your life, you need to do different things than you have done in the past. Change is that simple.
Also, I do recall that Clinton fired ALL of the US attorneys when he took office in 1993 and was not challenged on it.
Anyways, it looks right now like Gonzalez' (the FIRST Latino in that post, remember?) replacement will be a Wisconsinite!
This was simply a political witchunt. Nothing more.
Now, how about that 18% congressional approval rating?
This is great news, but begs the question, how did he hang on for so long?
I hear Karl Rove is looking for a new job....
Am I glad he's resigning? Sure. But the gloating and piling on are pointless I think.
"Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how." -- Edward T. McMahon, The Conservation Fund
Being a person with no political affiliation, I could care less about the Attorney General leaving. Most of the hype on him was generated for political gain by the Democratic Party establishment and the President used him as a pawn in his desire to gain more power in the hands of the executive branch. Politics is not a pretty business.
It is rats leaving the ship all choreographed in advance by Rove!
It seems it is real easy for W's staff to just to step down and walk away, who is left to juggle his act, who are his loyalists in the halls? He's got the lonliest job right now. does GWB.
what is the purpose within
if not to reach the cluBBe
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3 On Your Side exposes undercover crime ringsPosted: Updated:
CHANDLER, Ariz -- It's not cash or even high-dollar items. Sophisticated crime rings are saturating the Valley, stealing everything from detergent to cosmetics and even liquor.
3 On Your Side's Gary Harper exposes why these thieves are so fearless -- they often strike in the middle of the day. We recently went undercover with the specialists hired to catch criminals in the act.
They're bold, they're brazen and they're ready to brawl. But these crooks aren't running off with anything valuable. They're stealing something simple, bottles of detergent.
Scenes like this one at a Valley Walgreens where women prop a giant trash cash on top of their cart and clear out cosmetics are taking place nationwide.
"They target shampoos, liquor, anything that really has a value on the street," explained Darin Fredrickson, the director of operations for Team Guardian, a company specializing in investigations and security surveillance. But given the nature of his job, we agreed to digitize Fredrickson's face.
3TV is taking you inside the underground world of organized retail crime. It's where criminals walk freely into stores, walk out with thousands of dollars of merchandise and are making a fortune.
"I basically spend 80 percent of my time now on the street, going after individuals that are targeting our stores," Fredrickson said.
More and more stores across the Valley are hiring companies like Team Guardian to capture these lucrative crime sprees on tape.
After all, these people aren't amateur thieves. They're sophisticated shoplifters known as "boosters."
"What they're stealing is resold," Fredrickson explained. "They're not stealing it for their own use and it's big business."
It's a business that's generating billions and thanks to Internet sites like eBay and Craigslist, it's exploding.
"Right now I know there are at least a dozen active groups working," Fredrickson said.
Dozens of rings and who knows how many individuals in the Valley are currently boosting.
"They are basically making a living off as much as they can take from every retailer 24/7," Joe Kopelic with Fry's grocery stores said.
Kopelic estimates the losses are in the billions a year nationwide.
"Baby formula is always a huge item. Liquor, obviously, is a great resale item to many different outlets, and Tide, razors -- those are the big ones," he said.
Probably one of the biggest items targeted is baby formula.
"I would estimate with all the major retailers, probably between $4 million and $5 million in loss," Kopelic said. That's just in the Valley.
Surveillance video shows the level of organization required to pull off a boosting operation.
"So there might be five or six people in that store. T they are walking out of that store with thousands of dollars worth of product," Chandler Police Department spokesman Joe Favazzo explained.
Favazzo says those thieves will travel from city to city, hitting store after store. No store is off limits.
Fredrickson says boosters hit places like Fry's, Safeway, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, Target, CVS, Gap, Ross, even Victoria's Secret.
"It is very costly to consumers; it is very costly to governments in loss of revenue from sales tax collections," Favazzo said.
To combat boosting, stores are fighting back. Single-item dispensers are becoming more common. Devices to set off alarms and even stickers that to alert would-be-buyers about where these products come from.
But Kopelic says catching one thief at a time is not the solution.
"They are taking it to fencing operations who are taking it from many different sources," he said.
You heard right. The boosters sell the stolen merchandise to a person known as a "fence." The fence is the one who then turns around to sell it to consumers
It's Fredrickson's job to conduct surveillance on both.
"A retail thief, when they hit a store, they think they are getting in, they think they are getting out, they think they are getting out clean," he said. "Many times we are actually following them, and watching them go in there and steal the merchandise, and then we are watching to see where they sell it."
Fredrickson not only obtains undercover surveillance, he also becomes an eyewitness -- key evidence for stores and police trying to build cases.
"Well when you go out and actually follow them, you can say, 'Yeah, I personally identified and observed that subject,'" he said. "Now you can go through your video and say, 'That is that person. That is that person. That is that person.'"
So, the next time they see a suspect go in a store, they can stop a crime that's hitting all of us.
"It is costing the consumers I can't even imagine how much money," Favazzo said. "It's costing all of us as taxpayers. When you go into the store to buy legitimate products from a legitimate business, we're going to lay more for it [because of boosters and fencing operations]," Favazzo said. "All of that tax revenue that is being lost, it really hurts. It hurts the economy and it hurts us individually."


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Since the cognitive processes are meant to be used when necessary, and any learner goes up and down the categories as they create new knowledge, I was thinking another type of image might be more explanatory."
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DIRECTV Debuts Home Media Center
The Home Media Center will be comprised of a main unit, with smaller units located at each additional TV networked throughout the house, to provide DIRECTV customers with DVR service on all television sets. It also provides an integrated and common consumer experience on all television sets. For example, recordings can be scheduled and viewed from any room to any room.
"DIRECTV has been at the forefront of developing and bringing new television technologies to fruition since its inception and our new Home Media Center will take the DIRECTV viewing experience to a new level," said Mitch Stern, president and CEO of DIRECTV, Inc. "By integrating the television experience into a media center, we are providing our customers with the ability to have easier access to and enjoy a full range of content throughout the home. This product was developed in response to our customers' desire to expand their DVR experience to every television."
The DIRECTV Home Media Center, which will be available by the end of this year, will allow for networking throughout the house. DIRECTV customers with the Home Media Center will be able to share, move and view content from room to room.
The networked system's advanced middleware architecture will support additional functions via its broadband connection. Examples are support for personal computer connectivity, scheduling DVR recordings from the Internet, photos from wireless phones and video-on-demand. It is also MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 compatible, and as with all DIRECTV receivers, the product software can be upgraded via satellite.
"Our goal at DIRECTV is simple: to provide the best television experience in the United States," said Stern, "And our new Home Media Center will help us get closer to that goal, as well as further distinguish DIRECTV from the competition."
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1. The chapter starts with Bella talking describing the sounds she hears because she is in too much pain to open her eyes. Were you able to put together exactly what happened, or did you have moments when you wondered what took place?
Um... I honestly can't remember that well! I'm pretty sure I knew the gist of what was going on.
2. Did you think Edward would be changing Bella into a vampire because it was a life and death situation?
Well, I knew there were other books where she wasn't a vampire so, no. I also knew Edward really didn't want Bella to become a vampire & would do almost anything to prevent it.


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I am foreign national living in USA. I have primary custody of my child (US court order) however the mother, a Taiwan citizen, took our child back to Taiwan. Our child was born in USA but is also Taiwanese national. I am not on the household registration and mum is now asking me to come and collect our child so the child can return back to the USA to be with dad. I remember reading somewhere that another father who wanted to take his child to the USA was stopped at Taiwanese exit immigration when leaving the country because he was not on the household registration and wasn't allowed to take his child back to the USA - The father in this situation was still happily married to the childs mum as well and mum was even at the airport saying dad was ok to take their child to the USA.
Any help or advice would be appreciated. Could i even be accused of kidnapping if I am supposed to be on the household registration even though I have valid US court order?


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Is Hollywood Video Bringing Back "Silence Is Acceptance" Magazine Subscriptions?
An anonymous disgruntled employee sent us a long list of complaints about Hollywood Video, which can be summed up with "we're desperate to earn some money, so any tactic is fair game." Among them is this gem.
The Entertainment Weekly scam is coming back. Next week, the company is planning to roll out the EW "Free 8 issue, silence is acceptance" trial and force us to ask every guest if they'd like Entertainment Weekly. This is a practice which requires 100 percent compliance, so they're firing and writing those people up who aren't asking, and cutting the hours of those who don't get people to sign up for it.
Here are more of the tipster's complaints, which may not upset those of you who haven't worked in retail—but those who have will feel his pain:
- Store-level employees are sometimes sent to cover shifts at other stores at the district manager's request. They're threatened with write-ups, reduced hours, or termination if they don't agree. The employees aren't reimbursed for mileage or gas, however.
- Quotas are being stringently enforced on upsells including the $10.99 bundle, movie sales, late fees, and Playguards (rental insurance).
- The Starlight Foundation no longer gets a cut of the Playguard fee ("The Playguards are pure profit to the company," he writes), but employees aren't allowed to mention that when pushing Playguard.
- Late fees are no longer "tracked," but dollars per ticket are, "so for people low in those numbers, forcing people to pay late fees is very helpful." Employees can no longer remove late fees.
- "If a guest returns a movie more than 12 days late, it goes to a separate screen, which serves to frustrate guests who believed that they'd paid all of their fees. We're basically allowed to keep them confused to a certain point, as long as they're not outright lied to."
- "They've also stopped printing receipts in certain stores for certain purchases, so it's beneficial for those who choose to shop there to make sure the transaction happens on their account rather than on the Cash Sale account (MR. CASH)."
- And, finally, the magazine "offer" is supposedly coming back.
We don't know if these complaints pertain to every store or just the one where our tipster works. For the most part, they sound like the sorts of things a company does when it's desperately trying to generate revenue, so we're not really that surprised. But the magazine offer? Really? Has that ever been well-received by a customer who didn't expect to be signed up for it?
If you're in Hollywood Video next week, let us know if you get the magazine offer.
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The Middletown Cavaliers beat A.I. duPont 51-26 in their cancer awareness football game Friday.
The Middletown High School Cavaliers beat the A.I. DuPont Tigers 51-26 and raised more than $5,000 for Beat the Beast with their Cancer Awareness Game Friday night.
Cavaliers' running back Jamar Baynard put the team on the scoreboard with a 42-yard touchdown in the first quarter.
The Tigers scored with a 49-yard pass, but missed the extra point, keeping Middletown in the lead 7-6 with about eight minutes left in the first quarter.
Line backer Chris Godwin made the Cavaliers' second touchdown with an 11-yard pass from quarter back Darius Wade with less than five minutes left in the first, giving Middletown a 14-6 lead heading into the second quarter.
The second quarter began with a bang when Erich Schneider caught a 16-yard pass from Darius Wade, scoring a touchdown in the first 10 seconds.
Middletown's defense remained strong leading up to half time, keeping the Tigers from scoring.
A second touchdown in the second made by Thomas Davis put the half time score at 28-6 with the Cavaliers holding a strong lead.
The Cavaliers entered the third quarter strong with a 90-yard pass by Wade being caught by Godwin for another touchdown.
DuPont managed to gain six points in the third with a 57-yard run, bringing the score at the end of the third to 49-12.
The fourth quarter wasn't as promising for the Cavaliers as the first three.
The Tigers offense rushed the Cavaliers for two additional touchdowns, for a 14-point gain in the fourth.
Schneider made a tackle in the end zone though, giving the Cavaliers two more points, and ending the game 51-26.
Beating the Beast
Friday night wasn't only about football in Middletown.
Senior Brittany Firlein teamed up with Coach Mark DelPercio, members of the community and the Cavaliers football team to organize a night where Breast Cancer awareness took the field.
"It's a simple as taking something like Middletown football and partnering with Beast the Beast and making something positive come out of it," DelPercio said.
A pre-game ceremony Friday night highlighted local cancer survivors and those who have succumbed to the illness.
Survivors or victims' families sponsored more than 50 players from the Cavaliers football team to wear pink jerseys with their loved ones names on the back.
Each player was introduced with whom their jersey represented before the game and after the game, the pink jerseys were given to the family members or survivors.
"We wanted to pull the community together through showing the big picture," DelPercio said. "It was more
than just a game of football."
The night was about taking the sport, the Cavaliers game and giving back to the community, he said.
Firlein worked all week to raise cancer awareness around the high school leading up to the game against the Tigers.
As her senior project, Firlein organized activities each day and a raffle to teach her fellow classmates about the impact cancer has, what those who have it go through and that it is a good cause to support.
"My part was the education piece and helping the Helen Graham Center with weeklong activities and a raffle," she said.
Students did not have to pay for the raffle tickets, but each day had to participate in a cancer awareness activity to be eligible for the drawing held at the
"[Firlein's] really helped us take the approach this week," DelPercio, who is also a math teacher, said. "We were given the opportunity to raise money for the local organization Beat the Beast through jersey and t-shirt sales."
Hundreds of pink t-shirts reading Beat the Beast were sold throughout the week to students and teachers.
The bright pink attire was a popular item at Middletown High School Friday, the day of the game.
And later that night, even more people were wearing the t-shirts and waving pink glow sticks as the Cavaliers beat the Tigers.
In all, DelPercio said that more than $5,000 was raised
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The government has finally started enforcing drunk driving laws. However, some believe requiring drivers who refuse a Breathalyzer test to submit a blood sample is a violation of their human rights. Yet the US has long clamped down on the crime and has much legal experience in dealing with it. The practice adopted in Taiwan, of requiring prosecutors' permission before a blood sample can be forcibly obtained, exceeds the US in terms of human rights guarantees, but falls short in terms of safeguarding pedestrian safety.
The US is organized on a federal legal system and despite major differences in the laws of each state, all 50 states use implied-consent law when dealing with drivers who refuse a Breathalyzer test. Police officers are invested with the power to take a blood sample as evidence from anyone once they refuse a Breathalyzer test, or do not cooperate in performing actions to show how physically coordinated they are. This legislation not only provides strict laws that reduce injury and death from drunk driving, it also establishes an important legal principle: Driving is a privilege, not a right.
With great privileges come even greater responsibilities. Therefore, by applying for a driver's license, applicants have implicitly consented to cooperate with police by testing for blood alcohol levels if, based upon trace evidence, there is substantial cause to suspect them to be a threat to public safety. If the driver refuses to cooperate, or the police are unable to infer their intent either way, then the driver is understood to have consented to providing a blood sample.
Then there is the issue of whether it is right to require the police to first obtain a warrant from a prosecutor or judge before they can demand a blood test. In 1966, the US Supreme Court said that if the drunk driving has resulted in death or injury, then the driver could be sent for a blood test without a warrant. In April, the US Supreme Court issued a decision in an individual case wherein police had obtained a blood test from a driver involved in a victimless drunk driving accident against their will, without first having obtained a warrant.
In principle, it said, the police must obtain the writ first. However, in exceptional circumstances, such as when it is impracticable to do so — for example, when communication channels are down, making it impossible to contact a prosecutor or judge — the police can, to avoid losing evidence, require the driver to provide the blood sample without the writ.
Empirical research has shown that, through metabolism, the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) falls at a rate of 0.015 every half hour, on average. In the first instance in Taiwan of a drunk driver refusing a Breathalyzer test, it took police at least four hours to secure permission to get the blood sample. By then, the BAC would have fallen by 0.06 points, rendering the evidence useless.
It is very worrying that Taiwanese police do not have the power to require a driver to undergo a blood test. In future, in enforcing the law, the question is whether police will be able to obtain a warrant to preserve the integrity of the evidence in time.
It is not the first time anyone has found the judiciary or the nation's laws or their enforcement exasperating: Drunk driving laws are unjust and biased in favor of the rights of the defendant rather than that of the victims and law-abiding citizens. The amount of fatalities and injuries resulting from drunk driving, the loss of the BAC evidence and the fact that driving is seen as a basic human right, rather than a privilege, lead me to question: Could they better reflect social changes and social needs?
Yang Chia-ling is a lawyer and doctoral candidate at the University of California School of Law.
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The Packers say they don't want to make any rash decisions, or fiddle too much with their offensive line.
That's convenient, because they really can't.
Even after another leaky performance against the Giants Sunday night (five sacks, 10 points), the Packers aren't expected to make any changes up front, primarily because they lack options.
"As of now no, I don't see that will happen," offensive coordinator Tom Clements said, via Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
They only carry seven offensive linemen at the moment, and the backups on the roster are undrafted rookies Don Barclay and Greg Van Roten. Seventh-round pick Andrew Datko is on the practice squad.
It appears unlikely 2011 first-rounder Derek Sherrod is going to be activated from physically unable to perform by today's deadline, and there has been no indication they've reached out to former tackle Chad Clifton.
That leaves them to improve with what's on hand, though injuries have stretched them thin. Right tackle Bryan Bulaga's injury has made several players work out of position, and it showed Sunday. Left guard T.J. Lang was shaky replacing Bulaga, and Evan Dietrich-Smith equally so replacing Lang.
As a group, the Packers have allowed 37 sacks this year, second-most in the league behind only the Cardinals at 46.
Clements said they tried to mix up their protections, but they've also been hesitant to take too many receivers out of patterns to devote to keeping quarterback Aaron Rodgers upright. Playing the Vikings twice, the Bears and Lions down the stretch will force them to come up with something.
"Each plan that we have, we have a seven-man protection, a six-man protection and a five-man protection," Clements said. "And we utilized all of those [Sunday] night. And we also utilized an eight-man protection at one point.
"So we just have to try to mix it up and see what we can do to shore it up a little bit."
It's the kind of problem that could be helped by running the ball well, or at least often enough. But they've shown little interest in that, which means it's a good thing Rodgers is mobile.


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Thunderbirds = Air Force
Opponent Watch: Week 2
About Last Saturday:
Air Force 25, Michigan 31
Your wings got helmets.
The Road Ahead:
UMass (0-2)
Last game: Indiana 45, UMass 6 (L)
Recap: A baby seal walks into a club and says, "Ow."
This team is as frightening as: A couple reps with a five-pound dumbbell in the middle of a workout that has so far consisted of bench-pressing an elephant and 60 minutes of CrossFit. Fear level = 1.
Michigan should worry about: Hey guys, I really don't think we need to worry about this one.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: Like for real.
Mike Cox: Is three inches bigger.
When they play Michigan: Key matchup will be me (-7) vs. press box food. "Ermahgerd" over/under is set at 10.5.
Next game: No. 17 Michigan
No. 20 Notre Dame (2-0)
Last game: Purdue 17, Notre Dame 20 (W)
Recap: Well this was underwhelming. Despite having 376 yards of total offense – 324 of it through the air – Notre Dame came away with just 20 points, thanks to a stellar defensive effort from Purdue in the second half. Starting QB Everett Golson (21/31, 289 yards, 1 TD) accounted for both touchdowns, one on a pass to WR T.J. Jones and the other one by himself on the ground. Golson got dinged up sort of maybe late in the game right before Purdue tied it up 20-20, so Brian Kelly brought up Michigan fan-favorite Tommy Rees on the final drive. Rees led the offense to field goal range, and kicker Kyle Brindza drilled it for the win.
Notre Dame's defense was pretty solid, holding Purdue to 5.4 yards per pass and 3.0 yards per carry. Let's see how they do against Sparty.
This team is as frightening as: Two unlabeled syringes. One contains a random but hilarious combination of food coloring, ketamine, and recombinant spider DNA, because why not; the other, MMR vaccine, which is completely benign, has zero unintended side effects, is less subject to unfortunate misunderstandings, and is usually recommended for children on or after their first birthday.
Neither of these things has anything to do with Notre Dame's fear level, which I have arbitrarily pegged to be 7.5.
Michigan should worry about: Man I am not looking forward to Michigan playing mobile quarterbacks this season. We love you, Tommy.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: Both Notre Dame cornerbacks are true freshmen; one's a converted wide receiver. Advantage, Michigan? Maybe? Ugh.
When they play Michigan: I'm told there's a lot of obnoxious cheering in the press box. I will retaliate by eating all their food.
Next game: No. 10 Michigan Staee.
Purdue (1-1)
Last game: Purdue 17, Notre Dame 20 (L)
Recap: Purdue lost as impressively as they possibly could have, I guess. Last year Notre Dame drubbed them 35-10 in West Lafayette. Almost forcing overtime in South Bend therefore constitutes impressive. Things the Boilermakers did well: their defense held the Irish to a dismal day on the ground and sacked Golson a bunch of times. DT Kawann Short is no joke, and the rest of the line isn't too shabby, either. Things the Boilermakers did poorly: they were unable to keep Perry the torn ACLephant at bay, as back-up/relief QB Robert Marve is now out with his third ACL tear.
Also, they did not win, but not having top CB Ricardo Allen on the last Notre Dame drive is somewhat of an extenuating circumstance.
This team is as frightening as: A large rock.
Purdue is the new Illinois because Illinois decided to be the new Indiana (see below). Fear level = 5.
Michigan should worry about: Purdue's defensive line. That matchup with Michigan's offensive line is not looking so hot right now.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: Michigan has a bye before this game to figure everything out. Or it could spend the bye devising a horribly overthought game plan.
When they play Michigan: Michigan should probably avoid the interior defensive line, but -- channeling my inner Borges right now -- that would be way too predictable. I-form Vincent Smith all the way. They will never see it coming.
Next game: vs. Eastern Michigan
Illinois (1-1)
Last game: Illinois 14, Arizona State 45 (L)
Recap: Arizona State averaged 5.1 yards per rush for 192 yards total, and their quarterbacks -- yeah they totally played two, because pshhh -- combined to go 23/29 for 318 yards and 3 TDs with no INTs. What? There are several early-round NFL draft picks on Illinois's defense. My only theory is that Tim Beckman secretly hired GERG.
Time of possession, though -- the Illini (35:16) were all over it.
Note: Nathan Scheelhaase did not play due to an ankle injury. Not that it would have mattered.
This team is as frightening as: Illinois is no longer a rock. It is now sand.
The change was necessary and apt; sand used to be something bigger and better, it's generally there to be stepped on, the best it can do is slow you down when you run through it, and it causes extreme discomfort on certain mucous membranes. None of this is funny to me. My keyboard is wet with tears.
Fear level = 3.
Michigan should worry about: Taisetsu na mono, protect my balls.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: On a serious note, I really don't think Illinois has any receivers. Last year they had A.J. Jenkins. This year they are eating PBUs.
When they play Michigan: Should make for a fairly pleasant and stress-free homecoming.
Next game: vs. Charleston Southern
Just a dude. Catching a ball.
No. 10 Michigan State (2-0)
Last game: Michigan State 41, Central Michigan, 7 (W)
Recap: QB Andrew Maxwell rebounded to complete 20/31 passes for 275 yards, 2 TDs, and zero INTs. Against Central Michigan. Woo. While the receivers were sort of a mess against Boise, this game has revealed a No. 1 target in Bennie Fowler (8 rec, 99 yards, 1 TD). RB Le'Veon Bell had just 18 carries for a somewhat underwhelming 3.9 yards per average (long was just 8 yards), but scored 2 TDs. Backup RB Larry Caper, on the other hand, is a player to keep an eye on as more of a homerun threat. He had a 39-yard run that gave him 7.3 yards per carry.
Again Sparty's defense held an opponent to zero offensive TDs. Central Michigan's lone score came in garbage time when backup QB Connor Cook threw a pick-six.
This team is as frightening as: Still probably a one-trick pony, but the one trick is to kick you until you bleed internally (on occasion they will even do this figuratively). I guess we'll find out more this Saturday. Fear level = 8.
Michigan should worry about: The Bell-Caper backfield does not bode well for Michigan's front seven.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: I think their offensive line is overrated. Given Michigan's defensive front, this is not great consolation.
When they play Michigan: I don't think Michigan State's game plan will be significantly different from what they did last year. The good news is Denard's improved ability to pass will allow Michigan's offense to move the ball more effectively. The bad news is Michigan's defense seems ill-equipped to stop Sparty's run game.
Next game: vs. No. 20 Notre Dame
Nebraska (1-1)
Last game: Nebraska 30, UCLA 36 (L)
Recap: Nebraska played valiantly against UCLA for three quarters but faltered in the middle of the fourth when Taylor Martinez (17/31, 179 yards, 1 INT; 13 carries, 112 yards, 1 TD) got sacked in his own end zone for a UCLA safety. The Huskers were down Rex Burkhead (MCL sprain), but both offenses more or less had their way with each other's defenses and combined for more than 1,000 total yards. In the end, the ability of UCLA to control the ball on the ground and convert on third down -- Nebraska was a miserable 1 for 11 -- allowed them to grind out the victory.
Going forward, the Huskers should do some soul searching on defense. The 653 yards (309 rushing) ceded is one of the worst defensive performances in recent school history, and since the loss, starting DT Chase Rome quit the team because of irreconcilable differences between him and the coaching staff about playing time. Yikes.
This team is as frightening as: A pit bull (NTPB) shortly after neutering. Fear level = 5.
Michigan should worry about: Taylor Martinez is still somewhat of a playmaker with his feet. He took a read option 92 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: Taylor Martinez's arm may not be real. He averaged just 5.8 yards per
attempt Tyranno-fling.
When they play Michigan: If Michigan's offensive line gets its act together and stays healthy (please stay healthy), Nebraska will be in for a rough game.
Next game: vs. Arkansas State.
Minnesota (2-0)
Last game: New Hampshire 7, Minnesota 44 (W)
Next game: vs. Western Michigan.
Northwestern (2-0)
Last game: Vanderbilt 13, Northwestern 23 (W)
Recap: Down 10-3 at the half, Northwestern looked like it was going to let a game slip out of reach in typical Northwestern fashion before they were all like, "JUST KIDDING," and shut down Vandy in the second half. They did to the Commodores what Michigan did to them last year, only less so because they're Northwestern.
Mighty mite RB Venric Mark broke 100 yards rushing for the go-ahead score, and DE Tyler Scott forced a key fumble to seal the victory.
Do we have a quarterback controversy in Evanston? Maybe. Kain Colter and Trevor Siemian split time at QB, with Siemian having slightly more success passing (10/16, 91 yards) than Colter (7/15, 42 yards). I wouldn't be surprised to see the Wildcats try to have both QBs on the field at the same time down the stretch.
This team is as frightening as: The guy at the poker table who doesn't really know how to play poker but is winning nonetheless. Fear level = 5.
Michigan should worry about: Venric Mark, man.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: Northwestern averaged 4.3 yards per pass. Ew.
When they play Michigan: I will become irrationally excited and scared whenever Kyle Prater (3 rec, 23 yards), steps on the field.
Next game: vs. Boston College.
Iowa (1-1)
Last game: Iowa State 9, Iowa 6 (L)
Recap: So on the bright side … there is no bright side. There's only pain for Iowa and shame for the B1G. QB James Vandenberg rebounded from an abysmal performance in week 1 to complete fewer than half his passes for 5.6 yards per attempt and 2 INTs. Meanwhile he led the team in yards per carry (2.5).
Iowa did get several turnovers on defense, but that's to be expected when the opposing quarterback is named Steele Jantz.
Woof, Iowa. Woof.
This team is as frightening as: Someone who thinks leeches are a great way to treat anemia. Fear level = 4.
Michigan should worry about: Borges is totally going to outsmart himself again.
Michigan can sleep soundly about: One of Iowa's coordinators is a broken random number generator. The other is named GERG.
When they play Michigan: The embarrassment of losing to Iowa for the fourth year in a row under these circumstances will cause me to reexamine the meaning of my life.
Next game: vs. Northern Iowa.
No. 1 Ohio State
Last game: Poverty 0, Ohio State 100 (W)
Recap: Fresh off a victory over evil, Braxton Miller turned in a performance against poverty reminiscent of Princess Diana (but with substance!) and Mother Teresa (but hot!).
Next game: vs. Cancer.
Objects in Mirror:
No. 1 Alabama (2-0)
Last game: Western Kentucky 0, Alabama 35.
Recap: Here is a hypothesis: Michigan > Western Kentucky. Let's test this hypothesis.
Vs. Alabama…
- First downs: Michigan – 11, WKU – 14. D'oh.
- 3rd down efficiency: Michigan – 3/12, WKU – 5/13. D'oh.
- Rush yards allowed: Michigan – 232, WKU – 103. D'oh.
- Yards per carry allowed: Michigan – 5.5, WKU – 3.3. D'oh.
- Total yards allowed: Michigan – 431, WKU – 328. D'oh.
- QB Sacks: Michigan – 2, WKU – 4. D'oh.
- Fumbles recovered: Michigan – 1, WKU – 0. Nice.
And that. Is The Michigan Difference.
Next game: @ Arkansas
But we beat Air Force, and the Angels are blue and yellow, so I think it works.
You again. I just really like Van Halen. Leave me alone.
Since I guess I have the reputation as a nit picker I'll also say you really like Van Hagar, not Van Halen.
And while I was busy being a busybody I forgot to add: these post are great, they add a ton to the front page content.
I cannot win with you.
But hey, thanks!
Outside of UFR these posts might be my favorite on the site.
Why does the U.S. Navy have better designers than Addidas? DB could hire the Department of Defense to make our uniforms.
Airplanes honstly look pretty sweet regardless because, you know, they fly and all. If our MSU bumblebees went the speed of sound, I'd forgive them.
Another job well done, Heiko!
Words cannot express how much I enjoy the rock picture. It's just so easy to play off of. Simple and brilliant.
the MGoBlog community should definitely start a fund or take a trip somewhere to save some baby seals. I know we kid about it all the time, but unfortunately that shit actually happens. Sorry to be a buzz kill I just thought I'd throw that out there. How does one have a beating heart and do that!?!
There is regulation of seal hunting. In Canada, pups with the fluffy white coats can't be killed; it's only after they begin to molt that they can. The Harp seal population (the species that is hunted the most) has made a pretty strong comeback since the 1960s.
calling Michigan State's oline overrated because that didn't work out well for us last year and that line was 10x's the trainwreck
I know, man. Read the next sentence.
This team is as frightening as: Two unlabeled syringes. One contains heroin; the other, autism. Fear level = 7.5.
Can we lay off the autism jokes? I enjoy this board because the contributors and mods are above this kind of stuff
As a parent of an autisic child it is a everyday struggle trying to teach my child to speak. A little undersanding goes a long way...
That wasn't an autism joke. It was a fraudulent health scare joke.
I'm sorry that you're offended. I would never make fun of anyone with autism.
Trust me. I am fan of the board, but autism is no joke.
Really I get down voted because Heiko is a mod and makes jokes about autism? Penn St and O$U jokes are verbotten, but obscure autism jokes are cool? What's next jokes about the mentally retarded?
Firstly (and I see Heiko has editted his post to make the reference more straightforward): Heiko MENTIONED autism. He in no way made fun of people who are affected by autism. If he was making fun of anyone it's the people who have fraudulently advanced the claim of a link between vaccines and autism... and frankly those people deserve to be made fun of, or worse.
Secondly, I am very sorry that you are affected by autism, but you know what? We've all got our personal demons and tragedies, and going around asking everyone to tread lightly because of them is just not going to work. Should Heiko remove his cancer reference in the Ohio section so as not to offend people whose lives have been touched by cancer? Should he remove the poker reference in deference to those whose lives have been ruined by gambling? I have a very dear friend whose childhood was ruined by a series of drunken beatings administered by her stepfather... should I complain whenever anyone on the board recommends heavy drinking as a response to a disappointing loss by the football team?
I am generally against all forms of PC police - like you said, everyone deals with shit, and if we remove references to things that affect everyone, there is nothing left.
That said, I am with the poster who complained about the reference to autism. Autism is a disease that has become rampant amongst children and it is devastating. Jokes about horrible things that severely affect children - think Jerry Sandusky pedo jokes - are just not funny, and in my opinion are generally avoided.
Heiko, no offense to your posting is intended by this criticism. I must say that I think that your posts are probably the funniest and most entertaining on this site - in particular this weekly column - but I just think that we should avoid references to things like autism.
Really be using the term "retarded"?
I logged in to do the exact same thing you did. I also have a son that does not speak due to autism. It's not funny. It's not a joke. Thank you for speaking up.
Heiko, I understand the context but it just hurts man.
Autism is one thing. On the other hand, the data says that linking vaccines to autism is spurious at best.
While the most recent data does say that, the scary thing about autism is that right now, nobody really knows what causes it. Because it is such a life-devastating disease, even though the likelihood that these vaccines cause autism is small, many parents are so frightened that they would rather not risk it. Not saying that this is rational, but as a parent of two young boys, I can understand both sides of this debate.
Bottom line - this is a Michigan blog where most of us can go to avoid the heavier stuff in life (except frmo 2008-10 when Michigan fandom was one of the heaviest things imaginable). Personally, I love the fact that this site is free of things like talk about politics, autism, cancer and other heavy issues. Because autism is such a sentisive topic to those affected by it, perhaps it is best not to debate it here.
I guess I just saw the updated version that only mentioned the vaccine. Agreed.
" A baby seal walks into a club and says, "Ow." "
This made me laugh out loud in tbe buritto shop. Got funny stares.
Then I read: .."A couple reps with a five-pound dumbbell in the middle of a workout that has so far consisted of bench-pressing an elephant and 60 minutes of CrossFit."...and almost fell on the floor.
Great writing Heiko and great weekly.
how does it feel to be the new brain?
"mike cox is three inches bigger"....lulz
I would have bet so much money that this or something like it would be the first comment, not the 30th or so.
I'm glad betting is illegal.
Hopefully those male enhancement pills don't run afoul of NCAA anti-doping provisions.
when to I get to cackle with glee?
When you are knowing.
To the glee thread, buddy. No need to thread jack
Like not even in a funny way, just kind of a sad, depressing way
On one level I know that no two games are the same, and no two teams are the same so comparing two teams against a common opponent is not really a good comparison. With all that said...it still hurt a lot to see that Western Kentucky fared better vs Alabama than we did.
<sigh> that was really just a bad game. I hope to see improvement the next two weeks heading into the Big 10 season.
That baby says it all.
Yeah, when you have three year-olds trash talking you and you're helpless to do anything about it, you've reached a new low.
Any words on the Ohio D's numerous big plays allowed last week? Or Braxton's 20+ carries a game so far? 2010 Denard-esque.
OSU seems to have a bend but don't break (well, don't break too much) defense this season. Both of the "meh" teams they have played have been able to move the ball well between the 20's but OSU's defense has generally stiffened (snicker) when the opponent reaches the red zone.
Unfortunately, it appears that my assertion that Miller was overrated appears to be incorrect. He is still just an "O.K." passer (I know his completion % is high but he throws a lot of ugly passes) but he is every bit as scary as Denard when running the ball (possibly even scarier, if that is possible).
Given the craptastic state of the B1G overall and the even more craptastic state of the Leaders division, I think it is pretty likely that OSU wins at least 10 games this season. Ugh.
Unfortunately, it appears that my assertion that Miller was overrated appears to be incorrect. He is still just an "O.K." passer (I know his completion % is high but he throws a lot of ugly passes) but he is every bit as scary as Denard when running the ball (possibly even scarier, if that is possible).
E-fact: Nobody is scarier than Denard!
I chuckled at the baby seal/ club joke. Question: Does that make me a bad person?
I snickered at the Mike Cox growing 3" joke. Question: Does that make me Beavis and/or Butthead?
He makes a good point, can we find a picture of an ugly baby seal. Cute baby seal pictures as representations of our opponents make me feel sympathy for said opponents, and we should never have sympathy for our opponents....NEVER.
You may see a cute baby seal, but I see a future penguin serial killer.
Even ugly elephant seals are cute as babies.
In its place I offer you this-
Know thy author and the length of his Cox.
Good stuff Heiko - thanks! Do you think you'll add the OSU stuff at some point? I can't watch all their games and your recaps are useful and entertaining.
I refuse to take ANY team lightly.


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Minshall trainee looks to 'Strut' her best stuff in Victorian Queen
TORONTO, September 26 – Strut the Course, fresh off an authoritative maiden score, looks to make her added-money debut a winning one, when the Barb Minshall trainee takes on six rivals in Saturday's $125,000 Victorian Queen Stakes, at Woodbine.
A two-year-old bay daughter of Strut the Stage, Strut the Course recorded an impressive victory in her second start, on September 8, turning a one-length lead at the stretch call into a six-length triumph in the six-furlong Polytrack event.
Bred and owned by John Unger, the Ontario-bred finished fourth at 31-1 in her career bow on August 10. She was seven lengths behind Dancing Bay in the 12-horse race.
Minshall, in pursuit of her 42nd career stakes score, will be hoping for a smoother beginning than Strut the Course contended with in that first race.
"She got off to a slow start," offered Minshall, who is in the midst of another strong Woodbine campaign that has yielded 15 wins from 84 starts, as of September 25. "She had her head up a bit when the gate opened and got in behind a little bit."
Next time, however, she was the 5-2 mutuel favourite, putting in a polished performance.
"I was expecting her to run well," said Canada's champion trainer in 1996. "And that's just what she did. She's a really nice filly."
A filly Minshall has plenty of faith in.
"I think two turns will be her thing," she noted. "That's what I see in her future. From day one, I really liked her. For now, we'll focus on this race and down the line, we'll stretch her out."
Cryptic Message, perfect after four starts, will seek her fourth consecutive stakes victory after picking up wins in the Shady Well, Nandi and Muskoka.
Also on tap Saturday, the $100,000 Flaming Page Stakes, set for 1 ½ miles on the E.P. Taylor Turf Course.
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1 / Strut the Course / Jesse Campbell / Barbara Minshall
2 / Professor's Ride / Michelle Rainford / Scott Fairlie
3 / Careless Word / Quincy Welch / Stuart Simon
4 / Cryptic Message / Eurico Rosa da Silva / Ralph Biamonte
5 / Crysta's Court / Luis Contreras / Justin Nixon
6 / Tahnee / Emma-Jayne Wilson / Jason Giliforte
7 / Philzana / Davy Moran / Mike DePaulo
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Sting is still going strong and it could be argued that he's never been more popular. Of course Sting got his start as the lead singer for The Police, and that band launched one of the most successful tours of the past decade when they reunited in '07 and '08. Now Sting is back out on his own and the Sting Back to Bass Tour is one of the hottest concert tickets this year. Even though Sting could easily fill large arenas, he's chosen to play much more intimate venues. The good news is that should make for a truly incredible live music experience, but the bad news is that there will be far less Sting concert tickets to go around and many of his shows sold out in a matter of minutes. But GoTickets has Sting tickets for any stop on the Sting concert tour schedule.
One of the things that sets Sting apart from many other performers is that he puts his money where his mouth is when it comes to causes he cares deeply about. Just about every rock star plays an occasional benefit concert or two, but Sting goes the extra mile to donate his time, money and talents to help a variety of causes, from the people of Tibet to the earthquake victims in Haiti to saving the rain forest. But more than anything Sting is famous for always putting on a great live show, and you can be there to see it with Sting tickets from GoTickets.
After several years without much activity on the music scene, Sting has been quite busy of late with the release of two albums, "If On a Winter's Night…" and "Symphonicities." Both have sold quite well and received strong reviews from fans and critics. The Back to Bass Tour schedule will celebrate Sting's 25th anniversary as a solo artist and will surely feature some of his older classics that haven't been played live in quite some time. You won't want to miss your chance to get Sting concert tickets, so order your Back to Bass Tour tickets today.
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DT Alexandra here today to share a little project that I made
I am so happy how this envelope turned out ,and also was my first time using Dutch Doobadoo envelope art fold bag .
Also made a video , to share how I created this envelope and the flowers that I used are from Jane's Doodles and I colored the using Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers.
Hope you enjoy the video and give this envelope art a try.
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Royals notch highest win total since '93
Holland nails down record 46th save to close out milestone victory
CHICAGO -- It's a day after the Royals were eliminated from the postseason picture, but they're still having significant moments.
When they defeated the Chicago White Sox, 3-2, on Thursday night, the Royals put up their 84th victory -- their highest win total in 20 years. They haven't done so well since since posting an 84-78 record in 1993.
That's seen as another indication that Kansas City is a club on the rise.
"We feel like we're right there," manager Ned Yost said. "We've had a great year in terms of experience and tasting what it tastes like to win, what it feels like to be in a playoff chase, to be a playoff contender. Once you taste it, you don't ever want to stop tasting it."
There were other meaningful milestones.
Closer Greg Holland pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his 46th save, setting a franchise record. He had shared the previous record of 45 with Dan Quisenberry, 1983, and Jeff Montgomery, 1993.
Royals right-hander Jeremy Guthrie went seven innings for his 15th victory, becoming just the third Royals pitcher to reach that level since 1997. Paul Byrd won 17 in 2002 and Zack Greinke 16 in 2009.
The pitching staff set a franchise record with 1,180 strikeouts, beating last year's mark of 1,177. Reliever Luke Hochevar notched the record-breaker in his scoreless eighth inning and Holland added two more strikeouts in the ninth.
"They're all pushing and they all want to finish strong," Yost said. "They've got that mindset that they want to push to the end."
David Lough hammered a two-run homer in the fourth inning against White Sox starter Andre Rienzo. Mike Moustakas was on base with his second hit when Lough drove a 2-0 pitch into the right-field stands. The two runs ended a 21-inning scoreless stretch that included two shutouts at Seattle.
The White Sox, though, gained a 2-2 tie after six innings as both Paul Konerko and Adam Dunn belted solo home runs off Guthrie. Dunn's was a monster smash to right field estimated at 442 feet.
However, as Yost pointed out: "Two bunts changed the game."
Rienzo pitched six innings, but when Justin Maxwell opened the seventh with a single, left-hander Donnie Veal came out of the White Sox bullpen. Lough bunted safely and so did George Kottaras. Catcher Bryan Anderson, after fielding Kottaras' bunt, heaved the ball high over first base and Maxwell scored on the error for a 3-2 lead that would hold.
Guthrie pitched seven innings to gain his 15th win, four more than ever before in his career. He also reached a career-high 211 2/3 innings in his final start.
"Wins for the most part can be attributed to the guys around you," Guthrie said. "It's a team effort and I'm really pleased to have helped the team win games and then get credit for it 15 times."
Holland, in his 67th game this year, struck out both Konerko and Dunn to start the ninth inning and, after Avisail Garcia singled, he got Dayan Viciedo to foul out and end the game.
So Holland passed Quisenberry and Montgomery, both members of the Royals Hall of Fame.
"Any time you're mentioned with guys that were great, that's pretty special," Holland said, "but when you're out there on the mound, you're just thinking about saving the game for the guys because they've played their butts off and they've done it all year, so it's been a lot of fun."
Coming off back-to-back shutout losses at Seattle and the disappointment of having their playoff hopes dashed, the Royals still were grinding.
"We want to sprint to the finish line," Guthrie said. "That's the type of roster we have -- guys that won't pack it in because we have no chance to make the playoffs. There are a lot of things we're playing for. We'd like to win as many games as we can so hopefully we'll come out and play three more really hard games."
"You can't give up," Kottaras said. "Our job is to play 162 games. No matter what happens, we definitely gave it a great effort this year. It didn't work out in our favor, but it's definitely something to build on and a lot of great things have happened this year."
Some of them happened on Thursday night. And Holland saw a big underlying reason for the growing list of accomplishments.
"That's the best part of the situation," he said. "We've played good baseball."


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The American University of Rome Stats, Info and Facts
The American University of Rome is the oldest, private, independent American institution of higher education in Rome, Italy, offering undergraduate liberal arts and business programs to degree-seeking and study abroad students from around the world.
- Bachelor's degrees (B.A.) are earned in: Archaeology and Classics, Art History, Business Administration, Communication, Film and Digital Media, Fine Arts, International Relations and Global Politics, Interdisciplinary Studies, Italian Studies, and Religious Studies.
- Associate degrees (A.A.) are earned in International Business and Liberal Studies.
- Master's degrees (M.A.) are earned in Arts Management, Food Studies, Sustainable Cultural Heritage and Religious Studies.
Students study at AUR because they appreciate the University's location, the intimacy of scale and warmth of our community, our student-centered and interdisciplinary academic approach and the experiential learning dimensions of our programs.
Students have the opportunity to meet and befriend their peers who come to AUR from over 40 countries. They benefit from learning in every venue: in their classrooms, in their everyday lives in the city, through internships and on learning excursions in Italy and beyond. AUR students find the academic, cultural and personal challenge they are seeking for their university education, supported by our outstanding international faculty and staff.
The University is situated on top of the Janiculum, Rome's highest hill. Our location offers a spectacular view of Rome and the surrounding hills and proximity to two large parks, historical landmarks, diplomatic residences and international academies. In short, it is a wonderful site for students seeking to live and learn in a beautiful urban and intercultural environment.
Studying at AUR is undoubtedly an exceptional educational experience and, for many students, the time spent in the uniquely energizing city of Rome is a life-transforming experience.
The American University of Rome has full American regional accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and is licensed by the State of Delaware Department of Education to award Associate, Bachelor's and Master's Degrees. AUR is incorporated in the District of Columbia as a not for profit institution.
The community is indeed very international, from the staff to faculty to student body. However; the campus is extremely small and classes can feel trivial at times--definitely not as challenging…
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Waltham, Mass.-based Actifio's PAS-20T is a new version of the company's Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) system designed for medium enterprise and remote/branch offices. The PAS-20T storage system brings data management to server and network virtualization with the ability to recover any application instantly with a cost savings of up to 90 percent compared to other solutions, Actifio said. Benefits include "zero-touch" deployment and "zero-administration" combined with SLA-based management.
The PAS-20T scales to up to 20 TB, and it was designed to manage all the data protection and availability applications typically handled by siloed data management point tools like backup, snapshot, disaster recovery, business continuity, replication, deduplication and WAN optimization. It is expected to ship in the fourth quarter.


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I expected to see some of my old posts, which I have, in the past, but to my surprise I saw a link with a picture of the hutch in my porch to the HGTV website in a feature on porches!
Okay, that was flattering, (I used to post on RMS a couple of years ago and I understand that once you press the "agree"button when you are downloading your photos on to their site, your pictures and ideas belong to them), but it would have been nice of them to email me and let me know ! I have no idea when it was "published", just glad I had my 15 minutes of fame!
So here is the "article":
Decorating Patios, Porches and Decks: Make the Most of What You Have
See inspired ways for creating or transforming an outdoor room without spending a dime.
You can push the boundaries of design in an outdoor space. Think about existing furniture in a new way. Rate My Space user santamaker converted an old hutch into a plant stand, using garage-sale silverware as a whimsical accent.
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So, how is this a Metamorphosis post, you might ask?
Because this hutch has seen many faces...
I could not find a picture of it in it's original state, when we first bought it, circa 1980.... It was "blond" with some stencilling on it. It was our first major furniture purchase as a married couple and it was part of a dining room set. We still have the oak table and use it in the kitchen.
When we moved to Chattanooga in 2000, I wanted to paint some parts of it white to go with my kitchen. (Notice I had already started my love affair with blue and white.)
When we moved into a house in Columbia, S.C. in which there was no room for it in the kitchen, so I transformed it to my crafting hutch and painted it all a solid white and got silver knobs for it. It looked nice in my craft room, because I had white cabinets and everything looked cohesive. This is the only picture I have of it in this stage, you can barely see it on the far left side (profile of it).
Then we moved here and I decided to put it in the back porch, but it didn't look right stark white, so I "distressed and antiqued" it.
Got some rusty fleur de lis knobs...
Found these fun spoon and fork cabinet pulls at a garage sale:
Here it is as in the "article"... I emptied the drawers of my junque and used the drawers as planters for pretty flowers in the spring.
Here is what it looks like today:
This old gal has seen lots of days, but she keeps changing with me and my homes...
I guess we all have to take a lesson from my old hutch...(bloom where you're planted). This is a fun piece to play with.... I love to change it up all the time.
Enjoy a lot more transformation's over at Susan's place....BNOTP for Met. Monday!


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Morning Jolt
. . . with Jim Geraghty
April 30, 2013
The year is flying by. April? Almost gone.
Enjoy your Tuesday Morning Jolt!
Forget the Rest of the World; President Personally Calls Some Athlete You Never Heard Of Before
Hey, remember North Korea? They're detaining a U.S. citizen <http://news.nationalreview.com/?FFvS...orea-us-trial/ .
Unless the Syrian rebels figured out some way to fake the presence of sarin in the bloodstream of some volunteers, the Syrian regime used chemical weapons and crossed the red line . . . and no one can come up with a way to demonstrate the consequences of crossing that line.
Oh, and the guys we may soon intervene to help, the Syrian rebels, may have just tried to shoot down a Russian airliner http://news.nationalreview.com/?Vpvl...jet-over-syria .
Remember Boston http://news.nationalreview.com/?FpZS...s_had_training?
But U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) told ABC News yesterday that the FBI is also looking into "persons of interest" in the U.S. possibly linked to the Boston bombings.
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said he's spoken with the FBI about the probe into possible trainers the brothers had.
"Are they overseas in the Chechen region or are they in the United States?" he said. "In my conversations with the FBI, that's the big question. They've casted a wide net both overseas and in the United States to find out where this person is. But I think the experts all agree that there is someone who did train these two individuals."
Remember Boston, again http://news.nationalreview.com/?VFvS...#ixzz2Rtx2AIwh?
State lawmakers have launched an investigation into whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings improperly received public benefits.
Sources who have seen the 500 pages of documents sent to the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight told News Center 5's Janet Wu that the Tsarnaev family -- including the parents of the two bombing suspects, the two suspects themselves, their sisters, the widow of the suspect killed and their child -- received "every conceivable public benefit available out there."
Remember the economy? http://news.nationalreview.com/?FFZl...t-u-s-economy/National debt? $16,756,644,393,707.05, as of Friday. (That's $16.7 trillion.)
We're still stuck in the muck.
That's the conclusion to draw from the new report on gross domestic product. The U.S. economy grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, which was an improvement from the weak 0.4 percent of the final months of 2012… We're muddling along at basically the same pace we've been at for nearly four straight years of this dismal recovery, with growth too slow to make up the lost economic ground from the 2008-2009 recession."
Remember Obamacare http://news.nationalreview.com/?VpZS...googlenews_wsj ?
In total, it appears that there will be 30 million to 40 million people damaged in some fashion by the Affordable Care Act—more than one in 10 Americans. When that reality becomes clearer, the law is going to start losing its friends in the media, who are inclined to support the president and his initiatives. We'll hear about innocent victims who saw their premiums skyrocket, who were barred from seeing their usual doctor, who had their hours cut or lost their insurance entirely—all thanks to the faceless bureaucracy administering a federal law.
With all of this going on, guess what the top story was on Memeorandum, measuring what bloggers and news sites are writing about?
An NBA player coming out of the closet as gay. Wait, there's more http://news.nationalreview.com/?FpvS...223006145.html :This president can't get squat done about North Korea or Syria, and so he doesn't want us to focus on those far-off lands. His policies have done diddlysquat for most of the long-term unemployed. He's not interested in throwing people off public assistance, even when they don't deserve it, and he wants to insist that every terror attack is a one-time occurrence, instead of connected bits of an international ideological movement dedicated to killing Americans. Obamacare's a mess, and he's hoping you don't notice. The national debt continues to increase, even with the alleged horrors of sequestration.
A groundbreaking pronouncement from NBA veteran Jason Collins — "I'm gay" — reverberated Monday through Washington, generating accolades from lawmakers on Twitter and a supportive phone call from President Barack Obama.
Hours after Collins disclosed his sexuality in an online article, Obama reached out by phone, expressing his support and telling Collins he was impressed by his courage, the White House said.
Collins, 34, becomes the first active player in one of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay. He has played for six teams in 12 seasons, including this past season with the Washington Wizards, and is now a free agent.
"God, gays, and guns." That's what he's got left. And that's what he hopes stays on your mind, for as many days between now and November 2014 as possible.


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Visual perception of content-prioritised sign language video quality. (IET, 2005-01)MUIR, L. J., RICHARDSON, I. E. G. and HAMILTON, K., 2005. Visual perception of content-prioritised sign language video quality. In: Visual Information Engineering : The IEE International Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE 2005). January 2005. Stevenage: IET, pp. 17-22.Video communication systems currently provide poor quality and performance for deaf people using sign language, particularly at low bit rates. Our previous work, involving eye movement tracking experiments and analysis ...


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The Manchester City No.1 had a torrid time against the home side's talisman Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who netted four times including a 35-yard free kick and a 30-yard bicycle kick with Hart at fault for both.
Despite the 25-year-old's disappointing display, the 65-year-old boss showed his support for the keeper, stating England will have "a lot of success" with him between the posts.
"These things happen. I think the third goal got a slight deflection, and it was a shot from distance where we wouldn't normally think of conceding a goal," he told reporters.
"The fourth one, he got a very unpleasant bounce. The ball actually really pitched up and he couldn't get the purchase on his header, and it led of course to Zlatan scoring his acrobatic goal."
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For the fourth, Hart raced from his line in the 90th minute to deal with a long ball, but could not get a clean connection with a headed clearance, and PSG striker fashioned a majestic overheadkick from distance to seal the victory.
However, Hodsgon is still confident in his No.1 goalkeeper, suggesting a dip in form is simply part and parcel of any footballer's life - and maintained Hart will recover and lead England on to better days.
He continued: "We're not bothered about Joe Hart, and we think for the future, going forward, he's a very good goalkeeper and we will have a lot of success with him in the goal and if tonight it wasn't maybe one of his absolute best days, this happens in football."


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ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset
Asus' A8R32-MVP Deluxe mobo probed
The PCMark 05 scores are also very good, if not as impressive as the SYSMark 2004SE scores. Due to time constraints and equipment limitations the 3D benchmark scores are slightly limited, but as soon as I get some faster graphics cards in, more numbers will be run - watch this space. However, the numbers produced are promising, although there still seem to be some CrossFire issues with dual X1600XT cards. At times the game benchmarks would lock up and stutter, or the results would be completely random, something you wouldn't expect from a retail-ready platform. Some of the numbers don't quite add up either, but again this looks like a driver-related issue.
ATI claims that the CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset is fast enough to handle two of these cards without a master/slave arrangement, so hopefully this will be resolved with some newer drivers and/or a BIOS upgrade. It's worth noting that the board from Asus was using an early BIOS, which could possibly be part of the reason for the glitches experienced.
Still, the CrossFire Xpress 3200 is a huge step in the right direct for ATI and a huge improvement upon the Xpress 200 CrossFire chipset. At £135, the Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe isn't coming cheap, but then again, the top-of-the-range products from Asus rarely come cheap.
The ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset is looking very promising, although it's only halfway here as yet. However, Asus has done an impressive job of incorporating the ATI North Bridge into the A8R32-MVP Deluxe, and it shows that ATI is serious about its performance-oriented chipsets. I'll reserve my judgement until I've conducted some more tests with some faster, more leading-edge graphics cards, but the platform benchmarks are very impressive. ®
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Michigan Tech Accreditation Sustained by Higher Learning Commission
By Marcia Goodrich | Published
The Higher Learning Commission has reaffirmed Michigan Technological University's accreditation, the Board of Trustees learned Aug. 2.
"It is fair to say that Michigan Tech passed with flying colors," said Board Member Lenora Ashford.
The Higher Learning Commission's Reaffirmation Panel stated that the University met all of the criteria for accreditation.
"Michigan Technological University shows clear evidence of its commitment to high performance, AQIP [Academic Quality Improvement Program] and continuous quality improvement," the panel wrote in its evaluation. "The Reaffirmation Panel acknowledges that Michigan Technological University is a high performing organization . . . ."
The University has been continuously accredited since 1928. In 2005, the University entered into the Higher Learning Commission's AQIP program. The seven-year project involved intensive self-evaluation of activities throughout Michigan Tech and led to numerous action projects to streamline and improve University processes, from student advising and international education to reducing Michigan Tech's carbon footprint.
"This process has required a huge effort on the part of many dedicated faculty and staff throughout the University," said Max Seel, provost and vice president for academic affairs. "In particular, I'd like to thank Associate Provost Christa Walck, who has spent countless hours leading this process to the best possible conclusion."
CFO Dan Greenlee reported that the University ended the 2011-12 fiscal year with a 1.5 percent deficit. Expenditures in the five funds used in the daily operation of the University, including the general fund, exceeded revenues by $3.7 million.
Expenses were over budget by about three-quarters of a percent, from $250. 5 million to $252.5 million, and revenues were down by the same amount, from $250.6 million to $248.7 million. "We missed the mark by a bit in both directions," said Greenlee.
Financial aid and health care accounted for most of the variance. Financial aid in particular was a factor for the 2011-12 budget. Just before students enrolled in fall 2011, the University was notified that their federal financial aid would be cut, leaving the University to address shortfalls in students' aid packages that had been developed five months earlier. Overall, the University spent $3 million more on financial aid than expected.
Private donors helped address the shortfall. "I'd like to thank everyone who has supported scholarships through the Michigan Tech Fund," said Michigan Tech President Glenn D. Mroz. "This shows how critical your giving can be, both for the University and for our students."
In addition, heath-care costs were $1.6 million over projections, and, reimbursement to the state for the MPSERS retirement program was $900,000 higher than expected, Mroz said.
The University managed to minimize the 2011-12 variances through spending reductions and realignments throughout the organization. The University spends an average of $963,000 per day.
"Even by economizing in hundreds of ways, it was difficult to make up for large variances, but it was important to keep people in school, both for our students' sake and for the employers who need their skills," Mroz said. "Our graduates are in high demand; last year's placement rate was 94.6 percent."
The University has adjusted the 2012-13 budget, which began July 1, in response to the 2011-12 year-end figures. "We've been working toward budget solutions that have the least negative impact on students, faculty and staff," Mroz said.
"Last year was a challenging time for us, particularly in view of the 15 percent cut in state appropriations and the tuition cap," Mroz said. "However, we have been able to focus on our priorities and continue working toward our strategic goals."
In other business, the Board
• Installed Board Member Steve Hicks to serve a one-year term as its chair. He received the gavel from past chair Marty Richardson.
• Welcomed the University's three new deans, Gene Klippel, dean of the School of Business and Economics; Terry Sharik, dean of the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science; and William Worek, dean of the College of Engineering. "We are looking forward to working with them to achieve our strategic goals," Hicks said.
• Passed a resolution of appreciation for two employees who are retiring after many years of service to Michigan Tech. They are Hugh Boyer, assistant professor of social sciences, 42 years; and John Rovano, director of facilities management, 35 years.
• Learned that the ongoing capital campaign reached $178 million. The campaign goal is $200 million.
• Granted professor emeritus status to Sudhakar M. Pandit, Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics.
• Approved an easement for Ontonagon Rural Electrification Association to build, operate and maintain an overhead power line to provide enhanced electrical service to Michigan Tech's Advanced Powertrain Systems Research Center in the former Blizzard building near the Houghton County Memorial Airport.
• Approved an easement that allows Baraga Telephone Company to extend fiber optic cable to Ripley, which will provide fiber optic service to the University's Mont Ripley Ski Hill.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 60 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Bangladesh police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Friday in fierce clashes with conservatists demanding the execution of bloggers they accused of blasphemy, killing one person and injuring around 100....The country's 12 religious parties called the protests after the Friday prayers in nearly half a million mosques nationwide, demanding the execution of bloggers they say were behind blasphemous writings against Islam and Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)....Tensions have risen in the Muslim-majority nation over the alleged anti-Islamic blog posts by Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was hacked to death last week near his home in the capital Dhaka.
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