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Good Housekeeping's Christmas Cook Book 1958
Good Housekeeping's Christmas Cook Book, ©1958. Illustrations by Davi Botts. Davi was busy during the midcentury era, illustrating many paper doll collections, not to mention other cook books. She illustrated another edition of the Good Housekeeping series of cook books: Book of Cookies. Cakes & Tortes was another one (but not GH). Her work shines off the page with joy and fun. A perfect fit to illustrate the Christmas cook book for GH, wouldn't you think? Click on each image to view it larger:
Here's a selection of various spot illos.
Fun use of the separation between the columns here.
A selection of various section headers.
Now, eggnog - that's what I'M talking about. Actually, I dig it without the alcohol. I know, I'm weird.
More links for you to clicky-click:
My Vintage Christmas set
My Vintage Cooking set
My Fun Ephemera set
Vintage Cookbooks Group
Vintage Christmas: 1945-1970 Group
Midcentury Illustrated Group
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The vestiges of Bob DeBellis' past are mostly loaded into trucks to be carted away. The emotional baggage isn't as easy to discard.
"I'm happy. I really am," insists the 59-year-old Roselle man, pulling the oxygen tank he needs to breathe as he surveys a nearly empty garage that had been packed with sentimental remnants of the life he had before he developed health problems.
But all that junk being hauled away by a company called Junk Remedy isn't really junk to this retired welder. It's memories of good times and laughter with his wife and three kids, memorials to his talents and monuments to his years at the top of his game.
The Junk Remedy crew unearths an antique Hobart welder with hand crank, power tools he thought were lost or stolen, a fancy laser from back when he was one of the first to use a laser while installing ductwork, his old Little League photo from 1966, and plenty of Folger's coffee cans filled with rivets, bolts, screws, even one with Kennedy half dollars.
"Oh yeah, I miss it," DeBellis says, not explaining if he's referring to his boxes of old welding supplies, his career in the sheet metal business or simply that time of his life -- all of which are now gone. The physical loss of old stuff signals a new realization that items he once thought were important enough to save are no longer needed for this stretch of his life.
No one disputes that the garage had gotten out of hand. The essay entry by DeBellis' wife, Dianne, won the Daily Herald's Extreme Garage Makeover Contest, sponsored by Junk Remedy in Lake Zurich and the Garage Store in East Dundee. Bob DeBellis thanks everybody for getting rid of the clutter. Dianne DeBellis hugs Junk Remedy co-owner Corey Heidkamp and every member of his crew.
"Life is very short; it can change on a dime, and you can't take it with you when you go," Heidkamp gently explains to Bob DeBellis. A golfer and former PGA apprentice who knows the importance of a good mental approach, Heidkamp says, "We like helping people."
Much of DeBellis' equipment hasn't been used since the 1980s, so why does he still hang on to it?
"It's just ... I don't know. Just in case I need to weld like that," DeBellis says, realizing mid-sentence the flaw in his argument. "Of course, I haven't had to."
DeBellis does keep his massive sheet metal bending brake, which folds and bends metal. Dubbed "a 600-pound paperweight" by Heidkamp, the metal machine is a piece of history, but worth about 80 bucks as scrap. Dianne DeBellis and their grown children encourage DeBellis to part with other things.
"We just kept reassuring him," says son Jim DeBellis, 35, who lives nearby in Bloomingdale and works in the sheet metal business. The crew carries away the son's long-forgotten boyhood collection of hubcaps, which still were stored in a canoe, which the family used a generation ago when they their yard in Schaumburg would flood.
"He spent his whole life acquiring this stuff, and it's hard to get rid of," acknowledges son Rob DeBellis, 37, who served in the Marines and as a suburban police officer before finding a career in the steel business. "Don't save anything for me," the Lake in the Hills man tells his dad. "We don't have room for all this stuff."
Seeing the junk guys haul away old scuba equipment reminds Bob DeBellis of the family cruise to Grand Cayman in 1982. That's when daughter Dawn, who celebrated her 12th birthday on the ship, developed the interest that led the girl and her dad to take scuba lessons and inspired her to go to college to become a marine biologist, the dad remembers.
"He's holding onto the memories of our father/daughter time," says Dawn Jeffcoats, 33, who now lives in Texas and is busy with two young daughters of her own. They don't need the equipment to remember those good times, she notes.
In February 2001, Bob DeBellis was injured when a truck rear-ended his vehicle. He tried to go back to work, but eventually needed an operation to fuse a bone in his neck. He has artificial knees and a bad shoulder, suffered a heart attack on his birthday in 2007, and needs the oxygen because his lungs have less than 50 percent function due to emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He also has five grandsons, three granddaughters, two great-granddaughters and a woman who has been at his side for almost 45 years.
"When I was 15, I was working at a Community Discount store. I was in the garden department. She was working the register up front," Bob DeBellis says. She asked him out, but wondered if she made a mistake.
"I had second thoughts, but his phone number was unlisted so I had to go out with him," Dianne DeBellis says. They went miniature golfing and the last hole spit out a fortune that read, "Your date's in love with you."
They married in 1974 and compiled a lifetime of stories. They tell how she held the metal petals the time he welded a large metal rose for the Taste of Roselle; how the kids handed his equipment down to him through the crawl space opening as he built a furnace in their old Schaumburg home; how she taped $100 bills to the back of photographs on the wall to keep him from spending everything on fun family outings; how she found him just by chance on the night of his heart attack; how he once taught Gung Fu in his garage; how he is fond of Hawaiian shirts; about the industrial grill he made for the Roselle Lions Club; how she got him his first job; how he gave up his own company to spend more time with family; about the work he did building the new United Terminal at O'Hare; and about the welding job he did for a prison.
Just as they now have too much stuff for their garage, they have too many stories for this column.
But the end of some things leads to a beginning of others.
"Oh, my God! Here's the key!" Dianne screeches. At the bottom of the very last box removed from the garage, the workers find the key to Bob DeBellis' old cherry red Suzuki motorcycle that still sports a 1991 license plate.
Idle for years, the motorcycle suddenly gets new life. DeBellis' wife and kids say they hope a clean garage does the same for the man they love. For years, he's talked about setting up a small shop in his garage, making things again, or at least teaching the grandkids his craft.
"Now, he's getting a little hopeful." Dianne DeBellis says, noting how work was such a large part of her husband's life.
"I love it. I miss it a lot. I really do. They used to say, 'How does this old guy work so fast?'" DeBellis says, as his lips bend into a smile and he contemplates his future. "But I can do this."

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Question: If you attend the Saturday morning service, with or without a b'nei mitzvah, do you usually attend the kiddush luncheon?
Interesting. My experience is somewhat limited (I think I've attended about 10 b'nei mitzvah), but I don't recall seeing a separate RSVP line for the kiddush luncheon. Only something for the evening party.For a lot of reasons, the luncheon has to be flexible about the number of people attending. Unless the send invitations to the entire congregation, there's no way to know who will be there on a given Saturday, making the luncheon line on the RSVP pretty useless for anything but the most general planning. I doubt very much that anyone can plan a luncheon so that an extra leftover bagel, some lox and a few crudites would present a financial loss. If this were a full-on meal buffet, I might be more concerned.A long-winded way of saying that you should reply 'yes' unless you're absolutely sure you won't be there and not worry if you can't make it on the day of.Of course, there's no problem with saying yes to the kiddush, but no to the evening event. They're two separate things, otherwise they wouldn't have two separate RSVP lines.
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Local Bozeman Gift Ideas
How long is your gift list this year? While you're looking for great deals on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, don't forget about Small Business Saturday. Here is a list of our favorite local gift ideas. There's a little something for everyone.
Snow Day Games at 216 North 7th Avenue, 577-2902 - Video games are on nearly everyone's list this year and Snow Day is a locally owned and run shop that buys and sells used video games and movies. Will you find a classic title that will bring back hours of nostalgic fun?
Rockhart Clothing - Started by an MSU Graphic Design student, Rockhart Clothing features amazing video game inspired art on t-shirts, belts, necklaces, shot glasses and more. If you have someone on your list who enjoys video games and being trendy they will love anything from Rockhart Clothing
MT Gardens at Bear Canyon exit # 313 - Selling everything from hot-house kits to potting benches and rustic tables MT Gardens is a great place to get presents for anyone with a bit of a green thumb or a love for custom furniture that won't break the bank.
Simply Montana at the Gallatin Valley Mall, 624-0149 - Simply Montana is a store dedicated to items made exclusively in Montana. Everything in the store from the chocolates to the beanies, coffee and picture frames make for great gifts to any out-of-staters.
Derek DeYoung Art - Derek DeYoung's art is inspired by the majestically beautiful fish of our great state of Montana. Derek and his wife are a couple of fly fishing enthusiasts living in Livingston. If you're looking for a gift that will excite your fly fishing friends this is a perfect choice. The art is offered on traditional canvases, pint glasses, phone cases, mugs, t-shirts and more.
2threads - 2threads features unique and hand made children's apparel and is based here in Bozeman! You'll love their cute animal designs and fun colors.
Alpacas of Montana at 8255 Cottonwood Road, 579-4055 - This Montana company offers tons of products hand knit from Alpaca fiber. Because Alpacas are naturally hyper allergenic the items make for a perfectly warm gift for anyone this winter.
Tart at 111 South Grand Avenue in the Emerson, 582-0416 - Tart is a locally owned shop which hosts over 60 Montana "tartist's" items. While strolling through the store I was blown away by the variety of items. There is a great selection of cute Montana clothes, jewelry, belt buckles, journals, and much more. There is also a Tart art gallery with loads of interesting pieces of art to purchase.
I know this holiday season it will be impossible to avoid buying the video games, movies, electronics and other big business purchases but for the gifts you want to mean something, why not shop local?


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ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- War does things to a person that most of us non-military folks can never understand. Just ask father and son veterans Vern and Rodd Friday.
"Veterans need to help veterans, I mean they really do. That's what it's all about. Helping each other. You know, it's pretty important," said Rodd.
40 years after fighting in Vietnam, Rodd Friday received treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the local VA clinic. He says talking to fellow veterans and VA doctors is helping him to heal, and hopes other veterans find the strength to ask for help.
"I just had problems all my life and I guess I just never realized it. They said "Gosh it's never too late." I mean they got World War II vets coming out. Even if you think you have a problem, there's people there, wonderful people there to help you," Rodd Friday said.
Rodd and his 92-year-old father, Vern, who fought in World War II, spend each Veterans Day together reliving the stories of the wars in which they fought.
"I'm just thankful to be here and realizing the freedoms that we have. It changes your whole opinion of life, I mean something like this. I mean it really has a pretty dramatic effect," said Friday.
Rodd Friday says he began treatment for PTSD a year and a half ago at the Rockford VA clinic, and says it is one of the best decisions he's ever made.
Rodd and Vern both say fighting in war is something they would never wish on another person. They just encourage new veterans coming home from war zones to talk with other vets and get help if needed.
Local vets are now able to get more convenient help, now that the VA clinic on Rockford's east side is open.


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Friday, March 20, 2009
Grading the Aggies
The WAC Tournament was encouraging, as the Aggies knocked off Boise State and could have beaten Utah State. NMSU went 9-7 in WAC play and finished in fifth place in the conference.
NMSU averaged a conference-best 76.3 points per game while surrendering a league-worst 74.4 point per game. NMSU finished in the middle of the pack with 34.6 rebounds per game but gave up a league-worst 37.7 boards per contest.
The Aggies were 12-4 at home, 4-10 on the road. The team did go 4-4 on the road in WAC play, so improvement was made in this category as the season went on.
NMSU had the league's leading scorer in Jahmar Young. Young poured in 17.9 points per game on the season and was on more often than not throughout the year. Wendell McKines led the WAC in rebounding with 10 boards per game. Wendell also averaged 12 points per game, being the only player in the conference to average a double-double. Many nights, his impact on the game went beyond the boxscore.
Hernst Laroche was a pleasant surprise at point guard. Troy Gillenwater was up and down, but there is reason to believe he will continue to improve and will be an impact player for the Aggies. Some people on the blog have said Jahmar, McKines or Gillenwater could leave. I think all of them will be on the team next season. They're not going anywhere.
Jonathan Gibson was erratic. His play often dictated what type of an evening NMSU would have. The big men, Hamidu Rahman and Chris Gabriel, both showed potential but will need to continue improving. They're improvement could be the single biggest key this offseason.
The team played hard for Marvin Menzies throughout the year. For the second straight year, the Aggies played their best ball at the end of the season. The point guard issues from two seasons ago improved and Menzies has managed to bring in some decent talent to Las Cruces. McKines was a good find for the program. Laroche was steady. The two big men have promise — both are seven feet and have shown flashes.
My final grade on the season, all things considered and being fair, is an 80 percent. NMSU was a second-level team in the WAC, seemingly behind Utah State and Nevada. NMSU fell in line with the Idaho's, Boise State's and Louisiana Tech's of the conference. I look at the entire body of work, from an early season road swing at Long Beach, Kansas and North Texas, to the home loss to Nevada to the road win in Reno. The team ended the year on a high note so there is reason for optimism going into next season.
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Here are the areas of improvement that nee to happen.
1). Gibson has to quit playing like a damn FRESHMAN, and stop jacking up shots, three seconds into the shot clock!!
2). The big guys MUST get better.
3). The team needs be better on "D" and on the boards.
4). Menzies needs to be a better coach.
Do all that and, we will be in the NCAA tourney!
- March 20, 2009 at 3:58 PM
I give the Aggies a grade of C+. Good offense, so so defense.
For next year --- become a defensive team. Start Gillenwater at center. Get the best 5 players on the floor to start the game. Bring Rahman and Gabriel off the bench.
Recruit an active 6'9"-10" to play the 5 spot.
They don't have too far to go to be the preseason pick for the top spot in the conference. They have the talent. They just have to decide to use it for entire games.
- March 20, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Gillenwater is not a center! He's a wing!
Bring in a JUCO center to push Rahman and Gabriel and tell Gibson to quit taking ill-advised shots or let him transfer!
- March 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM
I don't know what you are saying Teddy. The last time I checked NMSU finished tied for 3rd in the league. NMSU got the 5th seed in the tourney, but that doesn't mean they finished 5th in the league. Get it right.
- March 21, 2009 at 6:59 PM
NMSU is behind Nevada??? Are you sure? NMSU should of beat Nevada in Las Cruces, and well NMSU beat NEvada in Reno, and would of beat Nevada again in the WAC Tourney. I don't know where you get this crap from Teddy. Do your damn homework or don't talk about it at all.
- March 21, 2009 at 7:03 PM
- Teddy said...
They did finish 5th. I didn't make it up. I just looked at the WAC standings to get that little tidbit of info.
As for Nevada, agreed, the two teams split. NMSU should have beaten them in Cruces, but they didn't. So, there you go....The Wolf Pack won 21 games, 11 of which were in conference. NMSU won 17, 9 in conference. Again, this is fairly simple math.
All hail, the anonymous posters. Where would we be without you?
- March 21, 2009 at 9:59 PM
I give the Aggies credit for having such a young team and being 3 seconds from playing in the WAC tourny finals. They did improve and played hard as the season progressed, which is a good sign that the players did not give up on MM. They either need to work more on the defensive end or have a better defensive scheme. Because if they had played better defense this season they would have easily won 20 games. But kids coming out of high school never really play defense (move their feet) and that is the hardest thing for them to learn.
I think they should have started Laroche and JY at the guards and Gillenwater and Mckines at the forwards and Rahman at center. MM could have brought Gibson off the bench to relieve anyone of the guard spots.
MM needs to bring in another 6'8" or 6'9" player to help with the rebounding, McKines can't do it by himself.
What ever happened to Joyner, is he still on the team?
- March 21, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Teddy, you are wrong. The seeding for the tournament put them 5th for tournament games. The standings for the league put them tied for third. Get your figures straight.
- March 22, 2009 at 7:06 AM
- Teddy said...
Anonymous one -
The Aggies lost to Boise twice in the regular season. In sports, head-to-head matchups tend to be the deciding factor when teams tie in the standings, record-wise. Therefore, NMSU finished below Boise.
As for Idaho, NMSU lost the tiebreaker to them to. Sorry to spoil your day. Have a great one!
- March 22, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Teddy. Boise State is 9-7. Idaho is 9-7, and NMSU was 9-7. NMSU was the only team out of the 3 to make it past the first round of the WAC Tourney. NMSU recieves 3rd place points for the WAC Commissioner Cup. That is 3rd place. Do you understand english Teddy.
- March 23, 2009 at 5:11 AM
It doesn't matter where the Aggies finished at the end of the year. If you are not in first place in the WAC, you go nowhere.
As for the grade, it is hard to measure. I give them a C+ because this was not a strong year for the WAC. Prior to conference, they had some bad losses to LBSU and UNT. That our pre-conference record was less than impressive was not the end-all. When we got to conference, the inconsistency continued, albeit in a very inexperienced league.
I can identify two seniors in the WAC that are major players, Wilkinson and Sanchez. The other WAC teams are just like the Aggies. This scares me. It seems as though Aggie nation is expecting a WAC championship next season. While I believe this team has the potential to pull it off, I struggle to understand how we pass USU and UNR.
This season would be easier to digest if our inconsistency was the result of other conference teams just having more experience. But that was not the case. We did not get swept in the regular season by a veteran Boise team, nor did we get swept by a senior laden USU team (although all their players are in their mid-20's).
I agree completely that the Aggies' losses resulted from their youth. I also agree that the Aggies will be better next season if everybody stays. But the idea that the Aggies' young players will grow while the rest of the league remains stagnant is a dubious proposition at best. You can expect UNR to be better next year, as you can expect USU, Boise and Idaho to improve as well. To suggest the Aggies will somehow surpass other young teams in similar situations is unlikely.
In my view, we can only surpass these teams if two things happen: 1) Gibson takes a true leadership role, plays with consistency, and can lead the Aggies to victory even if he is not shooting lights out; 2) We get more production from the 5 spot, both in terms of scoring and rebounding. Otherwise, you'll see an improved Aggie team losing to improved USU and UNR teams.
- March 23, 2009 at 9:25 AM
TF, the Aggies finished tied for third. By way of the tiebreakers we got the 5 seed for the tourney. Just like the year before, when we finished tied for first, but got a different seed in the tournament. Idaho, BSU, and NMSU finished with the same record. That's a tie for third. However, you can't have 3 3 seeds for the tourney. The tiebreakers doesn't effect the final standing though.
- March 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM
I would give this past season a "C" on a learning curve-this is next season's team.I would give Coach Menzies an "N" as in "needs improvement" as a strategist and a disciplnarian.Finally, I would give the sports coverage in this newspaper a "D" for below average effort in getting the inside "scoop",or having SOME type of editorial reporting-put another way-it needs to "grow a pair"...
- March 24, 2009 at 7:22 AM
The aggies tied for 3rd, and then took 3rd of the 3 that tied for 3rd!!!!!! GOT IT!!!!
Thus we were the 5th seed!!!!
Aggie Grade, C-
Guards B
Forwards C+, with out WM would have been a D
Centers D+
Coaching D-
If coaching improves, so will the grades of all the players. You see what kind of performance MM got out of last years team. Reggie took a 6-24 Stubby team and turned them into a 16-14. MM took a Reggie 24-9 team and turned them into a 21-14 team.
If coaching does not drastically improve, look for the Aggies to be around 5th again next year. Tie for 3rd, but then 3rd of the 3rd's.
- March 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM
I agree with the poster above. Put the best five players on the floor to start the game. That means starting Gillenwater at center, even though everyone knows he is not a true center, or just feature two forwards and three guards.
The best players need to be on the floor the longest.
- March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
- Cobbler said...
I gotta say, I think the harsh criticism of Marvin Menzies job as NMSU coach is a little out of place. Did NMSU contend nationally? No. Did they contend in the WAC? Not really. Nw I'm not speaking to the meatballs who just yell for Menzies to be a better coach (no telling how incompetent some of these posters are in their own jobs, probably) because turning a program around and (most importantly) establishing a culture of winning is not an overnight thing. Why are the top programs (regardless of conference and national limelight) ALWAYS at the top? People their culture breeds winning and winners, and kids leaving college notice that and take it to heart. Menzies has been there for 2 years now. That's the equilvalent of electing a new president and wondering why things aren't perfect after 4 months. You know why? It's 4 months. Florida won 2 National Titles. Now they're getting pounded in the NIT. Is Donovan a terrible coach? Not at all. They'll be back, you know why? The culture is to win, even if it isn't a guarantee at the start of every season.
2 years, NMSU fans...2 YEARS. So he's only recruited players through their sophomore seasons, hasn't had a full class of his players yet. In his first year as head coach, Menzies led the Aggies to their first regular season WAC title and also helped the Aggies to their second consecutive appearance in the WAC Tournament title game. Sure, fire him! I'm sure San Jose State or Hawaii will switch places in an instant. Ask Rick Pitino this weekend at his Sweet 16 in Indy what he thinks of Menzies ability to lead NMSU to great things. I'm sure you'll see the best man has the job...for now. He still has things to prove and isn't Coach of the Year. But NMSU really has a solid young team in place poised to contend next year, and the right man is driving the bus. Out of 2 seasons, 1 has already been outstanding! Seems like the grass is always greener on the other side with NMSU fans about their coach, but I think the grass is always greener where it is watered. Support your coach, it still appears that you have the right man for the job.
- March 25, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Great post Cobbler
- March 25, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Cobbler, I think one of the frustrations with Menzies from Aggie faithful is that he inherited an NCAA team that returned almost everybody, but still failed to get the Aggies into the postseason. I am certainly not calling for Menzies to be fired, but you can at least appreciate the basis of Aggie fans' frustrations.
- March 26, 2009 at 6:58 AM
- I Live Inspired said...
Cobbler...you are a voice of reason. well done.
Anonymous, I give your theatrics a grade of D-.
- March 26, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Not inspired,,,,,,,,and ????
MM was not the right hire in the first place, just like the Mummy Man wasn't either. Hopefully MM will never become the Mummy Man. And I hpoe that Coach Mumme makes a full 100% recovery from his sickness. He was just a poor choice to become NMSU's football coach.
MM beleives in Offense not defense. If he does not change his ideas he will never be a NCAA Tourney type of Coach. When he made the comment to J.Nixon after the regular season Boise State Game, that "hey we scored 92 points, thats not bad, huh Jack". If you lose and cannot play defense who cares how many points the Aggies Scored!!!!
Outstanding Season?? Gobbler you talking about the 91/92 Season? Or last years Senior dominated 21-14 season, with no Tourney? Oh, thats right we could paid 60K and gone to the Gus Macker just like this year.
I hope MM does become very successful, because I love AGGIE Basketball, been loving since before the FINAL FOUR. Maybe that is why I expect a little more, or maybe to much.
- March 26, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Not to beat a dead horse, but here is a link Teddy:
And a quote from said link:
FINAL RECORD: 17-15, 9-7, tied for third in the Western Athletic Conference
National Publication >>>> Teddy Feinberg's opinion.
- March 29, 2009 at 1:55 PM


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Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Publishing House (USA)
The Krimmer Mennonite Brethren (K.M.B.) Publishing House was located in Chicago, Illinois, for a period of time, At their annual session in 1914 the K.M.B. Conference elected a committeeand authorized it to proceed in establishing a conference paper and if possible a publishing house to be owned and operated by the Conference. D. M. Hofer and J. W. Tschetter provided the necessary funds for the purchase of a building at 2812 Lincoln Ave., Chicago,and the needed printing equipment, on the condition that a city mission could be conducted in a part of the building housing the publishing activities. The first issue of the K.M.B. Conference paper Der Wahrheitsfreund appeared on 28 July 1915. It was discontinued in 1947 after the Christian Witness had become the official Conference paper. Meanwhile the printing equipment was sold to John H. Klassen and moved to Inman, Kansas, where he continued to print for the K.M.B. Conference for several years.
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Official Emma Watson Website Relaunches
Apr 15, 2010
Today seems to be an extra special day for actress Emma Watson, for in addition to her twentieth birthday, the actress' official website has been relaunched at www.emmawatson.com. As a thank you to fans for happy birthday wishes and cards, Miss Watosn recorded a short video message which can be viewed via this link.
The newly relaunched website features an expanded collection of information, images, and content about the young actress, including an expanded biography, a Q&A section, current and upcoming events, and news. Additionally, the site hosts sections for her film work, fashion contributions, and a special projects selection containing information about her People Tree clothing collection. Finally, a slideshow gallery features a collection of images and video of Miss Watson.


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Seating Question
Talk about the Washington Redskins here. Do you bleed burgundy and gold?
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Seating Question
Has anyone ever been in the Club Level Standing Room Only sections? I just picked up tix for me and the kids on TickerMaster for a very pretty penny. I don't know how the SRO sections work - I have seen the "party"seats way up top but not these. I just wanted to get in the building for the Dallas game and continue to brain wash my Philly kids on all things Redskins - boy, RGIII is helping with that. Thanks,
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The first NCUPS 2011 club dive is set for Sunday, February 27, 2011 at Monterey's Municipal Wharf II.
If you are interested in joining us email firstname.lastname@example.com as soon as possible so that we know to look for you on Sunday.
The plan is to do 1 or 2 dives at Wharf II and have lunch at the pub on the Wharf afterwards.
We will meet by the entrance to Wharf II at 8 am on Sunday morning; park pier side. All divers need to sign a club dive release prior to diving.
Let's go diving!
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Ranking College Basketball's Six Remaining UnbeatensLet's introduce the remaining half-dozen, and where they rank compared to one another.
Baylor Shuts Down McDermott And Creighton, 85-55Isaiah Austin and Brady Heslip each scored 17 points and Baylor shut down Creighton's Doug McDermott with suffocating defense, ending the career of the one of the most prolific scorers in college history with an 85-55 win Sunday night in the NCAA tournament West Regional.
Rising Star: Creighton Forward Ethan WraggeAccording to Hoop-Math, 157 of his 163 shots this season have been from beyond the arc (96 percent), the highest percentage in the country among players with at least 100 field goal attempts.
Rothstein: Friday's NCAA Tournament Primer; Picks, Best Bet For An Upset & MoreDon't be surprised if Iona pushes Ohio State. If the Gaels make some shots early on, this one could very interesting.
Rising Star: Creighton Junior Doug McDermottIt's been one tremendous season for Creighton. From the rumors that Creighton will be one of the new teams invited to the Big East to the terrific season for the Bluejays, culminating in a No. 7-seed in the NCAA tournament.


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Sunday, October 05, 2008
ATRs and formal observations: Where is Weingarten on this issue?
The administrators at my school are for the first time going to be giving ATRs formal observations. I don't know if this is a new Klein directive or a local issue, but I do question everything about subjecting ATRs acting as per diem subs to formal observations when the case is loaded against them in so many ways.
What is the Union's position on this issue, since Weingarten has been so consistently non-proactive on fighting off many of the abuses against all excessed teachers. Her exceptionally milquetoast stance on all things ATR started with signing onto the Excessing changes in the contract in the first place. As TJC says: "Under the new contract, an excessed teacher, regardless of how many years of seniority, loses the guaranteed right to a teaching program."
That's unforgiveable right there, since teaching is just as much our vocation and career as much as it has ever been our "job." But Weingarten's unsubstantive and utterly indefensible inaction also includes: not being outraged that senior teachers with many degrees are treated condescendingly with a pamphlet on how to prepare a resume, not demanding that Human Resources send excessed people on interviews, not demanding that ATRs who have applied to vacancies dozens of times are told why they haven't been granted an interview in each case, not following up on DA resolutions to determine abuses in the system with regard to increases in LIFs and U-ratings, and not bothering to meet with ATRs at the start of a new year, especially with such a huge increase in the number of them.
Speaking for myself and for many others in our union, we need to know where the Union comes down on formal observations for ATRs, another potential weapon in the campaign to get these people out of the system. I know that some ATRs are paid by central and therefore costing the school nothing, but some are paid for by the principal and it is not in any supervisor's interest to have them on their books when they took such a grave step to get them out of the school by excessing them.
Any formal observation of an ATR acting as a per diem sub is prejudicial on many counts.
First of all, these people are generally not teaching their own subject, much less their own lesson. They are teaching someone else's, which they may or may not agree with, feel comfortable with (everyone has his own style), or have the equipment in the room to complete. Too many times an absent teacher assigns something that the kids cannot do: either it has not been taught well, or there aren't any reference materials or textbooks in the room for quick research. Much of the time, in fact, there are no lesson plans at all, or vague ones, such as "Let them finish their projects," without any instructions as to what the project is or how it is to be executed. On what grounds can you evaluate the ATR in this scenario with any fairness and equity?
Secondly, per diem ATRs are facing particular sets of students for the first time, since each class is different. In MSS and HSS, intruder students have to be weeded out quite frequently, since hallwalkers and cutters are slick and students are not traveling from room to room as a class under the supervision of a teacher. (There are actually some techniques for handling this, but you don't know them when you start subbing.) By the time teachers with regular programs get their formal observation, they know the kids and they've developed relationships with them. On what grounds can you evaluate the ATR in this scenario with any fairness and equity?
Thirdly, the contract calls for a pre-observation conference, which can only be scheduled when the ATR gets the schedule in the morning of a particular day. Even then, should the AP sit down with him for the pre-conference and arrange an observation later that same day, there might not be enough time for the ATR to prepare. As it is, he is already "winging" it, and now he has the additional pressure of performing without the same preparation time frame as other teachers have. On what grounds can you evaluate the ATR in this scenario with any fairness and equity?
Fourthly, the whole purpose of observations according to the contract is to "give each staff member choices and a role in his/her professional growth." I don't see how any formal observation of a coverage you are just winging can lead to the teacher's "professional growth." Even the UFT's "Know Your Rights: Classroom Observations" says that the purpose of these observations "is not punitive." A formal observation for the ATR is in essence punitive. The post-observation conference cannot help the teacher improve any skills other than those required of a substitute, namely, to take attendance, do a lesson if one is left and wing it if it isn't, maintain order in the room, and get the intruders out. None of us have Masters degrees in per-diem subbing, or even much experience in it. The formal observation is therefore only another vehicle the principal has in his arsenal to remove you from the school.
Lastly, Article 2 of the contract, Fair Practices, says that the Board cannot discriminate against anyone on the basis of a "handicapping condition," which really is what this ATR business is. All the four points made above really are handicapping condition, and if someone tells me that's not the kind of handicapping Article 2 is referring to, I say Let's grieve it and make sure it does include these things. Equitability is part of contractual law, and ATRs put through formal observations with these things stacked against them are in no way being treated equitably. Let's take it all the way to arbitration if need be, and get it done.
There's also Art. 22.A., which says under the Definition (2) that a grievance shall mean that a teacher "has been treated unfairly or inequitably by reason of any act or condition which is contrary to established policy or practice governing or affecting employees." [There's an exception to this statement which I'd have to think about for a while and consult with others on, but I think, as in the case of those LIFs that the arbitrator just sorted out, this needs arbitration to sort out as well.] The question is: do I file the grievance against Art.22.A before the observation, when the outcome is still unknown, or after the observation if I get a U on it. I feel strongly it should be filed before the observation, because I don't want to be, or look as if I am, contesting the U when I am contesting the whole thing in the first place.
In any case, the formal observation should never be used in the ATR's final rating for the year, since the act of "teaching a regular program in your license to stable group of kids" is one thing and "covering an absent teacher" is a different thing altogether. The job description itself varies from school to school: in some schools they're happy if the kids stay in the room and don't mess around. In others they want more teaching. Apart from all this, the circumstances for each class the ATR covers is wildly unpredictable and the teacher should be not judged in some things that are bound to go on in that room.
It is not so much that I am worried about the quality of the way I handle a coverage. It is that in this climate of trying to get rid of ATRs, the Union has been doing precious little to protect us from the obvious weapon of a U-observation. The U a principal may give an ATR on any of these formal observations may be nowhere near the truth of their skills in normal teaching circumstances. What is blatant and true is that they will be looking for any number of ways to get ATRs out of their buildings when they have excessed them and still have to pay for them.
I call on Randi Weingarten to tell us her position on which specific things she thinks the ATR can be held accountable for. That would be the fair and equitable thing to do, to know these things before the pre-conference, not after it's all over. After all, every teacher in a regular position knows pretty well what the ground rules for observations are. The ATRs are in treading through some very swampy turf and the union to this point has given them no help at all.
And I will go one step further: ATRs should be able to take any UFT member of his or her choice with them to all three parts of this formal procedures, the pre- and post-obs. conferences and the observation itself. I don't trust principals these days to self-restrict and be "judicious." ATRs remain in teacher purgatory, contractually at this point set up to be picked off and pushed out of the system one by one.
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Lest any member feel that they are a "good" teacher and the undefined status of the ATR is somehow the fault of the teacher concerned, consider for a moment how any precedent established for giving an ATR a U rating may be used against those permanently assigned teachers.
Why couldn't a permanently assigned teacher be observed and given a U rating for a coverage?
- Sunday, October 05, 2008 5:18:00 PM
- Chaz said...
Thgis is the next salvo in "U' rating an ATR and needs to be nipped in the bud.
- Sunday, October 05, 2008 5:25:00 PM
If you are a satsifactory, tenured teacher, put in writing a request for an individual pre conference or to take it one step further, put in a request for an alternative to observations for your annual performance review. You have a Contractual right to ask for either one of these options. I recommend you do so in writing at once.
James Eterno
- Sunday, October 05, 2008 5:39:00 PM
- Woodlass said...
Yes, to all of you.
James: Even if you choose the other provision, guess what: there are still no criteria for the JOB YOU ARE NOW DOING. It doesn't solve the problem.
Until THIS job and all the expectations for it are actually defined, ANY method is fundamentally inequitable BY THIS CONTRACT and should not be able to stand.
And even if this ATR per diem subbing were to be defined at this late stage, with the contract already negotiated and signed, it seems to me that any evaluation for this "new" kind of job for which teachers were never intended to be hired has no legal standing.
They've created a monster, but it's THEIR monster, and our careers should not be imperiled because of it.
- Sunday, October 05, 2008 8:14:00 PM
They could rate a day-to-day substitute unsatisfactory. They could do the same for an ATR. Just do your job as best as you can.
- Sunday, October 05, 2008 8:52:00 PM
Anon., of course anyone can get a U, but that's not the point I was making in the post.
At least with day-to-day subs, they want them and hire them. I think if they don't want a particular one, they let someone at sub central know. I keep seeing the same per diems in the building. Obviously they have some kind of preference system going.
But it's different for ATRs they're paying for and whom they don't want in the building. With no ground rules for the ATRs, this observation thing is a vehicle to terminate careers, and preemptive action is called for, not "Do the best you can" -- which I've absolutely done my whole career, not just now.
- Sunday, October 05, 2008 9:16:00 PM
- ed notes online said...
There's a difference between a particular principal writing someone up in an observation and an organized, underhanded approach to "solve" the ATR problem in case the union doesn't give them up quicker than you can say "parking permits."
The DOE has set up a situation where ATR's drag a school budget down the tubes, thus leaving principals with an incentive to use the U-rating/rubber room strategy to force as many out as possible. We were warning about this scenario years ago. No matter what the contract says, the UFT is left standing flatfooted while Klein runs around their flank.
- Monday, October 06, 2008 12:39:00 AM
Lets all realize that this was a great set up of ATR's. First Randi did not acknowledge us and now we can be fired. This is just another way to get rid of ATR's who cost too much and are not wanted.
Randi was screaming in the papers the other day about the right to wear political buttons to school and she will go to the highest court in the land to fight this. What about the 1400 ATR's who you forgot about, what are you doing for us. An age discrimination case, what happened to that?
What we need is action not talk or her BS we get that from Margie Feinberg in the newspapers.Some of us have been in three schools since the term has started and don't get too comfortable because you will be moved again
Leters were just sent out by the DOE to go to seminars about excessing and knowing your rights and finding jobs. I threw it in the circular filing cabinet today when I received it. ATR's need help not BS from the special reps that you speak to on the phone and who get angry when you ask them a question, frankly I am sick of them, especially Charlie Turner who is no help at all.
- Monday, October 06, 2008 7:45:00 PM
vote for ICE-TJC in the next election. They told you so.
- Monday, October 06, 2008 8:37:00 PM
Yesterday I received a letter from the DOE about an excessed teacher meeting on Wed. October 8th. Nice its Yom Kippur at sundown I think that this was purposely done. I am calling the EEOC and what is the UFT doing about this. Nothing
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:38:00 PM
To Anon 3:38,
I am an excessed teacher and I did not received any info. about a meeting on Thursday. Who sent the letteer to you?
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:30:00 PM
The ATRS were left to fend by themselves while the rest sits and drinks coffee in their offices. The Union does not care about the ATRS at all. It is unbelievable to have 1400 excessed teachers. Where is the UNION?
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:35:00 PM
I have not been home in two days and won't be in time to get the message. Totally agree with you about interference with Yom Kippur, which I find amazing since this particular DoE actually bothers to give the day off. It's not as if they're forgetting that Jews teach in the system.
Can you report the gist of the letter here?
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:01:00 PM
I never thought that I would hate going to work everyday but I do now. It's like i am starting my career over again as I did when I was a per diem sub coming out of college. This is like a bad dream instead of finishing my career in a decent school I was put in a mini school and made a slave. Everyday a new assignment is given to me as part of my daily routine. Lets thank Randi for giving up seniority transfers and forgetting about ATR's.
And now we can be observed and rated teaching out of our subject area, another way to get rid of ATR's who just want to teach
And what about Randi? How can she do two jobs at the same time? Its impossible for her to accomplish anything and we can see with the way that she handled the ATR situation.
I newer heard of an ATR policeman or fireman or CO or sanitation. Their union would never let this happen. Lets face it she sold 1400 teachers out.
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:01:00 PM
This is scary stuff.
- Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:14:00 PM
Two jobs?! She's not even doing one job! As teachers we are the middle class. Her silence and lack of fight for us is criminal. She is to be lumped in with Bush, McCain, Wall Street greed, Bloomberg, Klein, and Michelle Rhee. Absolutely horrendous.
- Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:40:00 AM
You nailed it. There are no more words to describe this KGB UNION and their associates.
- Wednesday, October 08, 2008 8:10:00 PM
Will people vote against them in the next UFT election?
- Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:57:00 PM
- Woodlass said...
The fact is that a lot of rank-and-file members will have to take up the slack in schools where union is not happening. They'll have to do the communicating, educating and organizing, there is simply no other way. Forget top-down union management. That's over.
Weingarten has some core positions she'll never back off from: things like "cooperation" with admin, non-differentiated professional development, charter schools, merit pay, using test marks for evaluations, stifling oppositional voices, and particularly, making sure the threat of withholding labor remains anemic. Each one of these cuts at core union principles.
Weingarten gets to the new teachers really efficiently at initiation conferences, hawking her leadership and her "brand." It's clear that she likes a good chunk of the force to stay inexperienced, overwhelmed and maniputable as much as Klein does: she needs their dues, and she needs them to believe everything she says, writes, pushes for or doesn't act on is the best that union can buy. Recruits don't know the enormity of the givebacks. Only the vets do.
There's no way to wrest votes out of Weingarten's control without tenured teachers in middle and senior careers to do the real work of labor unionism.
- Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:43:00 AM
Now you understand how substitutes feel with "Sub Central" scrutinizing us for issues of "classroom management" or sending letters to subs about them being deemed "uncomfortable with the population" two years after we completed the assignment, and then threatening to terminate us. Subbing is a hard job, and we need a lot more support and protections written in the CBA for all teachers in these trenches; subs and ATRs etc.
- Saturday, October 11, 2008 5:41:00 PM
And this is why each teacher who is also a city resident needs to contact their own council member along with Speaker Quinn, who by the way seems to be supporting Bloomberg. If you want changes in the UFT, it won't be done as long as Bloomberg gets a 3rd term. And, noticed we haven't heard from Randi on this subject, but since she has gone along with everything Bloomberg wants, I wouldn't be surprised if she backs away from this.
There is a public meeting scheduled this Thursday on the topic of term limits. Since many of you are working, it is imperative that you contact Speaker Quinn and your council member now!!!
I hope ICE picks up this cause.
- Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:12:00 PM


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This month the PBS KIDS GO! site, It's My Life launched a blog for tweens at http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/blog/ The blog is the latest addition to this safe and engaging destination that tackles tough issues that adolescents face in school, at home and in popular media. The blog's age-appropriate articles cover everyday issues facing tweens,such as online bullying and going green, as well as discuss pop culture news and book reviews.
The site includes an Educators section with lesson plans that focus on bullies, drug abuse, eating disorders, being home alone, making money, smoking, sports and participation. Also be sure to check out the School channel that addresses topics on time management, transitioning to middle school and high school, cheating, surviving embarrassing moments, relating to a teacher, and dealing with test stress.


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Hello there beautiful muffin! You're looking mighty fine. It's been a long time. Much too long.
Remember way back when you and I saw each other at least once a week?
twice every day. We were together so much I started to look like you.
Well, like the top of you anyway. Like a muffin top. I didn't mean to push you into the corner but you left me no choice. While your muffin top makes you who you are, it's not a good look for me.
I hope you didn't think I forgot about you. You were always there fluttering around in the back of my mind. I couldn't wait to see you again. I counted the days.
As long as you stay good to me just like this with wholesome wheat bran, whole wheat flour, figs, walnuts and molasses, then we'll never be apart that long again.
Pinky swear.
Wholesome, hearty muffins packed with wheat bran, whole wheat flour, figs, walnuts and molasses.
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Grease a 12 cup muffin pan or line with paper baking cups.
- In a large bowl whisk wheat bran, flour, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon together. Stir in figs and nuts.
- In a separate bowl combine the milk, molasses, applesauce, oil, eggs and vanilla extract. Add to dry ingredients and stir just until moistened. Don't over mix.
- Spoon into pan, sprinkle walnut over tops and bake 16-18 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean from center.
Adapted from Bob's Red Mill
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Electronics, formerly known as GoldStar, was established in 1958 as
the pioneer in the Korean consumer electronics market. Since then, a
lot has changed in LG Electronics. In November 2000, Hitachi and LG
formed a new joint venture to manufacture optical storage drives
under the name "HL-DS". These recorders
are well tuned and with unique features.
After the successful GSA-4160B model, LG releases its latest DVD burner, the
Below are the full specs for the drive:
Below are the drive's main specs as given by NeroInfoTool and DVDInfoPro:
The drive uses the well known RPC II region control, allowing a user to change the drive's region at most 5 times.
- The drive / Retail Package
The LG GSA-4163B retail package includes the internal SuperMulti GSA-4160B
burner, an IDE and an audio cable, four mounting screws, 2 CD-ROM discs and
the warranty. The first CD-ROM disc contains the user manual and the second
CD-ROM disc the bundled software which includes PowerDVD, PowerProducer Gold,
Nero Express, InCD and Acrobat reader. No blank media is included in the retail
LG uses the same typical front panel available on most LG recorders. You can
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On the rear you will find the analogue and digital audio outputs (SPDIF),
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Opening the device's case will void the warranty, so we advise against it. Instead, use the photos in this review for a closer look under the hood. Clicking on the image below will reveal a high resolution image.
Below is a photo of the main chipset used for this drive:
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The device was connected in our test PC and was identified as "HL-DT-ST
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We received the drive with firmware version A100. We then
flashed the firmware to the latest release, version A102. All
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Seventh-graders Alicia Greer and Chloe Brown are anxious about attending the Environmental Science Camp this year.
Seventh-graders Alicia Greer and Chloe Brown are anxious about attending the Environmental Science Camp this year because it provides lots of hands on activities for them to get their hands dirty and a little wet — literally.
The two are among 13 other sixth- through 12-graders that will participate in the week long camp sponsored by the Davidson Soil and Water Conservation. The annual program focuses on giving local youths an opportunity to learn about a variety of environmental science issues.
On Monday. the first day of the camp, the group toured Piney Grove Farm where owner Keith Sink talked about agriculture and the best management skills to produce crops such as corn. They also learned about topsoils and soil horizons through a big pit of dirt.
"It's really fun and you learn a lot of stuff. I'm just hoping to learn more," Alicia said.
This is Alicia and Chloe's third time at the camp. They both are home-schoolers who take an extracurricular class taught by Lisa Loflin of Denton. Their favorite part of the camp is stream walking where they search for macroinvertebrates — organisms that are large enough to be seen with the eye and lack a backbone (invertebrate). For example insects, crayfish, clams, snails and worms are invertebrates. They will do that on Wednesday.
"Everything is really fun," said Chloe, who is thinking about being a scientist. "You learn a lot of different stuff you didn't know. It's fun meeting people and learning new things."
The students will meet daily at the Davidson County Agricultural Center. During the week they will conduct classroom activities and take field trips that touch on water, soils, forestry and the environment. Some of the other field trips include Terrace Farm, Long Meadow Farm, Mountain Island, Davidson County Community College, Loflin Farms, Dan Nicholas Park and the Greensboro Science Center.
Yadkin Valley Career Academy ninth-grader Judson Griggs thought the camp would be a great program for him to learn about plant life, soil and vegetables.
"I just wanted to learn more," he said. "I thought it would be fun with the hands-on activities."
Alicia, Chloe and Richard Tysinger are also participated this past April on the middle school level at the regionals at the N.C. Soil and Water Conservation District's Southern Piedmont Envirothon at Catawba College. The competition covers the students' knowledge on five subject ares — aquatics, current environmental issues, forestry, soils and wildlife. Teams are tested on their knowledge of topics that deal with natural resources and their management.
Richard, a seventh-grader who also attends Loflin's class, said what they learn at the camp helps the students when they compete.
"I like going around and doing stuff," Tysinger said. "I learned a lot last year. This is pretty much like school. I like it better because we have a lot of hands-on activities."
This is the fifth year for the camp. Andy Miller, director of the county district, said the program started as a way to help prepare students for the envirothon competition. He said it introduces young people to the environment.
"It shows what's going on right here where they live. They're learning basic agriculture to understand where their food comes from," he said.
The students agreed they would encourage other students to come next year.
"It's really fun and you learn a lot of cool stuff," Alicia said.
Chloe followed with, "It's amazing. It's so different from other camps you go to. There are several hands-on activities. I encourage everyone to do it because they will have a lot of fun."
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Two candidates in the U.S. Senate race in Illinois used the birthday of Abraham Lincoln to vow to make integrity a top issue.
Democratic State Comptroller Dan Hynes and Republican Andrew McKenna Junior appeared separately in Springfield this morning and both evoked the legacy of Honest Abe.
McKenna says he's developed a four-part ethics plan that he wants all candidates to abide by. He says Illinois has developed a reputation for corruption and something needs to be done to return voters' faith in the process.
Hynes kicked off a three-day bus tour that left Springfield Thursday and will hit 21 counties in central and southern Illinois. He's calling the tour the Drive to Make America Work Again.
Hynes says President Bush's economic plan doesn't work and he has better ideas to keep jobs in America.


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Photo of the David G. Bunning Head Coach for Harvard Wrestling Jay Weiss and senior co-captain Andrew Knapp courtesy of DSPICS.com.
Harvard begins 2011 by hosting Rutgers and Maryland Friday afternoon and evening at the Malkin Athletic Center. The Crimson is 0-3 in duals this season while No. 14 Rutgers is 9-1 overall and Maryland sports a 5-3 record.
Friday's Schedule
Harvard takes on Rutgers at 1 p.m. and welcomes Maryland for a 7 p.m. match.
Live Statistics
Can't make it to Cambridge for Friday's duals? Keep up with the scores at home via the NWCA Live Scorebook. The links for each dual meet are posted above.
Last Time Out
Three Crimson grapplers competed at the Midlands Championships to help Harvard to a 28th-place showing last month. Cameron Croy (184), Corey Jantzen (149) and Steven Keith (125) suited up for the Crimson at the prestigious tournament. All three wrestlers finished with 2-2 record.
Scouting Rutgers
The nationally ranked Scarlett Knights finished 12th at the Midlands Championships with only eight student-athletes suiting up. Daryl Cocozzo finished fifth at 157 pounds leading the Rutgers contingent.
Rutger's only loss of the season is a 22-10 defeat by Penn State, who currently ranks fourth in the nation. The team shutout Sacred Heart (56-0) and Princeton (44-0) in two home matches earlier this season.
The Scarlett Knights have two ranked grapplers in No. 5 Dominick Russo (285) and No. 6 Mario Mason (149). Mason leads the team with 15 victories.
The Series
Harvard and Rutgers have met 20 times on the wrestling mat with their most recent dual coming Jan. 8, 2010. The Scarlet Knights hold a 16-4 lead in the series, which dates back to 1961, and have won nine straight.
Scouting Maryland
The Terrapins (5-3) are coming off a13th-place finish at the Midlands Championships where Kyle John finished second at 157 pounds. Maryland faces off against Boston University Friday at noon before taking on the Crimson.
Maryland boasts three nationally ranked opponents in No. 5 Josh Asper (165), No. 15 Kyle John (157) and No. 17 Mike Lets (174). Four grapplers have 20 or more wins to their credit. Mark Hartenstine leads the squad with 26 victories, followed by Ben Dorsay (22), Jenkins Monzey (20) and John (20).
The Series
This is the first meeting on the mat for the two programs.
Talk About Offense
Walter Peppelman and Corey Jantzen lead the team with 12 wins each this season. Peppelman has scored bonus points in eight of those 12 wins, including four wins by major decision, one by technical fall and four by fall. Jantzen has three wins by fall, two technical falls and three major decisions for eight victories with bonus points.
Welcome Back Captain
Senior co-captain Andrew Knapp returns to the mat Friday. It will be his first competition since the EIWA Championships in March 2009.
Free Fallin'
Corey Jantzen and Walter Peppelman each have three wins by fall this season. Jantzen has 10 collegiate pins, while Peppelman has picked up 11 so far. Overall the Crimson has eight wins by fall on the year.
National Rankings
Corey Jantzen and Walter Peppelman are ranked in several of this week's national polls.
AWN Intermat WR D1CW
Jantzen 13 17 13 21
Peppelman 10 12 11 19
Community Outreach
The Crimson is doing its share of community service each year. During the month of January, Harvard wrestlers will volunteer with the Mission Hill After School Program to tutor residents of the Alice Taylor housing complex, a low income section of Roxbury. Earlier in the year, Jackson Salovarra '11 organized an event where Harvard went to church near campus to help weatherize the church rectory. The Crimson spent all day insulating and closing the house up for the winter which in turn will save the rectory thousands of dollars in the long run. These projects are just a small sample of how this program gives back to the community!
Pack the MAC
Harvard will host six dual meets the Malkin Athletic Center this winter on four different days. After Friday's duals, the Crimson returns to Cambridge five weeks later to take on Brown and Hofstra (Feb. 12), followed by Columbia (Feb. 18) and Cornell (Feb. 19) to close out the dual season.
On the Horizon
Harvard ventures out on the road the next eight matches starting with the Lone State Duals in Arlington, Texas Jan. 15. The Crimson will face Appalachian State, Oklahoma and Stanford during the dual event.


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|Jon Daniels already has 40
tackles this season, with three more games to go. And Wittenberg,
despite a lone loss to Wabash, is still very much in the conference
Photo courtesy of Erin Pence
Jon Daniels had settled into his new life a few years ago, his dream of playing college football again seemingly long gone.
Daniels, who left Wittenberg after his freshman season in 2004 because of his family's financial difficulties and eventually joined the Ohio National Guard, was taking classes at Wright State and coaching middle school football.
One night he was given a sign, literally, that it was time for his life to go in a different direction.
"I was driving down the road and I saw this sign with a soldier on it, and it was for adult education classes at Wittenberg," Daniels said. "I thought that might be a good opportunity for me and perhaps give me a chance to play football again. I at least had to find out if it was possible."
Daniels sent head coach Joe Fincham a letter to see if he had a shot at playing football for the Tigers again. It was indeed possible.
"I jumped all over the opportunity," Daniels said. "Leaving the first time was so hard. It was a very difficult decision. I really didn't think I would ever play again."
Fincham, who has been the coach of the Tigers since 1996, didn't expect to see Daniels again either when he walked away from the game he loved dearly eight years ago.
One thing is for sure, he's not complaining that Daniels did come back to the team in 2010. The senior defensive end racked up 17 tackles in his first year back and tallied 42 a year ago. He has 40 tackles this season for a Wittenberg team that is 6-1 overall and 3-1 in the North Coast Athletic Conference.
"I've been around Division III football for a long time, and you rarely see players come back after they leave, but Jon had extenuating circumstances, and it's been a pleasant surprise to have him back," Fincham said. "He is a great football player and a great leader. The younger players on the team look up to him because of the way he handles things in practice and on the field."
Getting back into football shape wasn't easy.
"It was like learning to walk again," Daniels said. "I had to learn to take hits again and learn how to get used to playing games and recovering afterwards. It took time for me to adjust."
But playing football doesn't compare to what life was like for Daniels prior to his return. He joined the National Guard in 2005 and got his official release last November.
The experience of being a part of the military, however, changed his life forever. In January of 2008, Daniels was sent to Kuwait and was given various jobs. The days were long.
"We would work 12 to 16 hour days, but I would try to hit the weight room when I could to work out," Daniels said. "I definitely learned to appreciate what our military does on a daily basis. It's a huge commitment and my heart goes out to all of the people serving over there."
As for life in the middle of a desert, it wasn't easy.
"There is sand everywhere, and you can't get it out of anything. You just had to deal with it," Daniels said.
He also had to deal with living on the edge every single day. Daniels was part of a unit that helped secure the border for troops who were crossing over into Iraq.
"You never knew what the day was going to bring, and you were always on edge a little bit," Daniels said. "Eventually, I did get into a groove and just focused on doing my job, but in the back of my mind, I knew that something bad could happen."
Fortunately for Daniels, he remained safe during his time in Kuwait.
"We never had any major incidents, just a few close calls," Daniels said. "We were very lucky."
Daniels served in Kuwait until December 2008. When he returned home, it took him five to six months to get adjusted to life in the United States again.
"It was hard getting rid of that feeling of being on edge," Daniels said. "There would be times where I would drive around things I would see in the road because I was worried it was a bomb."
But life is good again for Daniels and the Tigers. They are still in the hunt for a conference championship and playoff berth after handing Allegheny its first NCAC loss of the season on Saturday. The Tigers won 35-6, and Daniels tallied three tackles.
"We still have a lot to play for," Fincham said. "We have a great tradition here at Wittenberg, and we have done a good job of getting past that loss to Wabash. The key for us is to keep playing hard."
The Tigers are cranking out 431 yards per game and allowing 300.6.
Jimmy Dehnke has rushed for 478 yards and eight touchdowns while Reed Florence has thrown for 1,654 yards and 14 touchdowns. Florence has also been tough to slow down on the ground, rushing for 368 yards and five touchdowns.
Brendon Cunningham has been the top receiving threat, making 35 catches for 503 yards and four touchdowns. Garth Gilbert has caught 21 passes for 265 yards and two scores.
Spencer Leno leads the team in tackles with 68 while Kyle Sanning (51) and Evan Killilea (42) have joined Daniels as key players on the defensive side of the ball.
"We have been playing very well as a team," Daniels said. "The loss to Wabash was tough, but we have continued to play hard, and we just have to keep grinding. We know that if we play up to our potential, we are going to give ourselves [the chance] to be there in the end."
Daniels wants to help the Tigers extend their season as long as possible, but once his career is done, he already has the next phase of his life planned out.
"I want to coach football. I enjoyed doing it before, and it's great to be able to have an impact on the lives of young athletes."
And without question, those young players won't be able to ask for a better role model than Daniels.
In the Poll
It looked like just another day at the office for Mount Union. The top-ranked Purple Raiders tied an NCAA record with their sixth consecutive shutout after blanking Otterbein 51-0 in an OAC road game on Saturday.
Mount Union has won its last 70 games in the regular season and head coach Larry Kehres is fourth all-time on the college football wins list as he won his 324th game to move past Paul "Bear" Bryant.
The Purple Raiders limited the Cardinals to 96 yards of total offense and forced four turnovers. Blair Skilliter paced the defense with six tackles. Joshua Scott and Nick Driskill finished with five tackles apiece.
The offense wasn't bad either. It generated 532 yards, and quarterback Kevin Burke looked sensational as he threw for 259 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for 83 yards. T.J. Lattimore rushed for a career-high three touchdowns.
The Purple Raiders are 7-0 overall and 6-0 in the OAC.
Wabash jumped up two spots to No. 11 this week after blasting Wooster 30-0 in an NCAC game on Saturday.
One of the keys to the success of the Little Giants was their ability to slow down Richard Barnes. The Wooster quarterback was held to 160 yards of offense and was sacked four times.
Denzel Wilkins fueled the solid defensive effort, tallying 10 tackles and two sacks in his first game back since sitting out because of leg injuries. Cody Buresh added eight tackles and also returned an interception for a touchdown.
Chase Belton was unable to start at quarterback after suffering a concussion last week, but Andy Walsh did a nice job of filling in. He threw for two touchdowns and rushed for another score as Wabash improved to 6-1 overall and to 3-1 in the conference.
Heidelberg didn't get a shutout on Saturday, but the No. 17 Student Princes did win another game, knocking off Muskingum 28-14 in an OAC tilt.
Cartel Brooks came through with a stellar performance, rushing for 133 yards and two touchdowns, including a 78-yard run in the third quarter that stretched the Heidelberg lead to 21-7. Brooks is now over 1,000 yards on the season.
Michael Mees threw for 122 yards and two scores but did throw an interception that Muskingum scored off of to take an early 7-0 lead.
Heidelberg was out-gained 366-354 but Dawson Gore stepped up defensively, racking up 10 tackles. For the first time all season, Heidelberg did not force a turnover but is now 7-0 for the first time since 1972. The Student Princes, who entered the game at No. 19, are 6-0 in the conference.
Waynesburg moved into the Top 25 this week after surviving a thriller against Geneva on Saturday. The Yellow Jackets edged the Golden Tornadoes 21-20 and are 8-0 for the first time since 1966, the year they won an NAIA national title. Waynesburg is 6-0 in the PAC.
Geneva held a 20-14 lead with just over seven minutes to go in the game, the Yellow Jackets dug deep and Carter Hill hit Mike Ferraro on an eight-yard scoring strike. Alex Henry's extra point gave Waynesburg the lead and their fifth consecutive single-digit win.
Bertrand Ngampa rushed for 120 yards and a touchdown while Hill threw for 149 yards. Mike Lopuchovsky paced the defense with seven tackles.
Waynesburg finished with 360 yards and allowed 439.
Inside the OAC
The win of the week in the conference belongs to Wilmington, which snapped a 32-game losing streak on Saturday with a 13-12 win over Marietta. Max Gabbard was the hero as he drilled a 35-yard field goal with 31 seconds to go, lifting the Quakers to a thrilling OAC win at Williams Stadium.
Marietta still had an opportunity to win the game but Joe Joe Knecht stepped up with the game on the line, picking off a pass in the end zone with two seconds to go. It was his first interception of the season.
The Quakers had the ball with 1:51 to go, and Brandon Arehart, who has never won a game in his college career, threw three consecutive passes to Jeremy Duncan and hit Antonio Turner on a 28-yard pass that put the Quakers on the 13-yard line of the Pioneers.
Wilmington was unable to punch it in, setting the stage for Gabbard's kick. Arehart threw for 112 yards and Duncan caught five passes for 45 yards. Nick Williams came through with 10 tackles in his first career start.
Wilmington is 1-6 overall and 1-5 in the OAC. It finished with only 217 yards of offense but still managed to nail down a victory for the first time since beating John Carroll 24-16 in October of 2009. Interestingly enough, the next opponent on Wilmington's schedule is John Carroll.
Speaking of John Carroll, it needed to step up twice in the final eight minutes of the game against Ohio Northern to secure a 28-23 victory on Saturday.
The Blue Streaks needed two goal line stands to get by the Polar Bears and win their fourth consecutive game. It was their first win over Ohio Northern since 2005. Kevin Cope came up big on the second goal line stand as he picked off a throw to the end zone in the final seconds. Cope tallied 12 tackles.
Mark Myers threw for 236 yards and one touchdown to pace the Blue Streaks, who improved to 5-2 overall and to 4-2 in the OAC. Sean Kuenzig rushed for a pair of touchdowns in the win.
Tate Humphrey helped staked the Polar Bears to a 16-7 lead in the first after rushing for one touchdown and throwing for another. Humphrey threw for 306 yards and two scores but Ohio Northern went into halftime down 21-16.
Inside the NCAC
The magic continued for Ohio Wesleyan over the weekend as it scored the final 17 points of its nonconference road game against Carnegie Mellon on Saturday to nail down a 34-26 come-from-behind victory in Pittsburgh.
The Battling Bishops are 7-0 overall for the first time since 1992 and have won their last 10 games dating back to the 2011 campaign. It is their longest streak since winning 10 consecutive during a run in 1991 and 1992.
Ohio Wesleyan took the lead for good with 6:58 to play in the game as Mason Espinosa hit Calvin Cagney on a 5-yard scoring strike to put the Battling Bishops in front 27-26. Espinosa capped the scoring later in the quarter when he hooked up with Cagney on a 40-yard touchdown pass.
Espinosa hit on 43 of his 65 passes as he threw for 415 yards. He also shredded the Tartans' defense for four touchdown passes. His passing total is the fifth-best performance in school history while the attempts and completions rank second on the single-game lists.
Cagney caught 16 passes for 151 yards and three touchdowns while Tyler Sheetz dominated defensively, tallying 14 tackles to go along with two sacks.
The Tartans, who fell to 5-2, had a 26-17 lead after Liam Mcgrath returned an interception 34 yards for a touchdown. Mcgrath finished with eight tackles.
Rob Kalkstein threw for 162 yards and one touchdown. He was picked off twice. Erra Hernandez rushed for a pair of touchdowns for Carnegie Mellon.
Kenyon jumped in front early and then held on for a 21-19 win over DePauw on Saturday. The Lords pushed their record to 4-3 overall and to 3-1 in the NCAC. The Tigers slipped to 1-6 overall and to 0-4 in conference play as they lost their third consecutive game by four points or less.
Carlos Gagliardo scored on a 90-yard kickoff return to give the Lords an early 7-0 lead and Gagliardo also caught a 53-yard touchdown pass from Dan Shannon.
Gagliardo finished his day making two catches for 73 yards. Shannon hit on 11 of his 21 passes for 151 yards. Brett Williams rushed for 127 yards and one touchdown.
Kolin Sullivan anchored the defense with 18 tackles while Antonio Caltado and Reed Franklin came through with 11 and 10 tackles, respectively.
Armani Cato scored twice to lead the Tigers, including on a 1-yard run with 3:04 remaining in the game that sliced the Kenyon lead to 21-19. Cato rushed for 30 yards. Drew Seaman threw for 322 yards and Jack Quinn tallied 13 tackles to lead the DePauw defense.
Inside the PAC
It was a record-breaking day for Thomas More defensive back Zach Autenrieb, who broke the D-III interception record in style on Saturday in the Saints' 27-0 win over Grove City.
Autenrieb picked off the record-breaking 30th pass of his career with a little over 10 minutes to go in the half and raced 100 yards for a touchdown to put the Saints in front 7-0. The lead would hold up through halftime.
Autenrieb's interception broke the previous record of 29, which Rochester's Ralph Gebhardt set in 1975. He would come through with his second interception of the day later in the game and he also tallied four tackles as the Saints improved to 4-3 overall and to 4-2 in PAC action.
Jenson Gebhardt threw a pair of touchdown passes in the win as well, hitting Cody Hinkel on a 6-yard pass and finding Goose Cohorn for a 19-yard scoring strike.
Gebhardt threw for 207 yards on the day and Cohorn caught five passes for 58 yards.
Mike McDonald threw for 98 yards to pace Grove City, which fell to 3-4 overall and to 2-3 in the conference. Shawn Mercer tallied eight tackles for the Wolverines.
It turned out to be the Dak Britt show for Westminster as it rolled to a 45-28 win over Bethany on Saturday.
Britt rushed for 160 yards and two touchdowns, including one on a 73-yard run, the longest of the season by any Titan player. Britt also threw for 143 yards in the victory.
Westminster raised its overall mark to 3-3 and is now 2-3 in the conference. Tyler Banks wasn't bad either for the Titans, rushing for 195 yards and two scores and catching four passes for 83 yards. Cory Neill led the defense with 12 tackles and Nate Moot added 11 tackles.
Bethany dropped to 1-6 overall and to 1-4 in the conference. Ed Holmes rushed for a touchdown and caught a touchdown pass to pace the Bison. Kyle Arrington racked up 12 tackles.
Quick look at the Spartans
The final nonconference game of the year was a thriller for Case Western Reserve. Billy Beecher hooked up with Bryan Erb on a 3-yard scoring strike in overtime to lift the Spartans to a 24-17 road win over Oberlin.
The Spartans are now 4- 3 overall and have won their last 28 games against the Yeomen.
Beecher was making his first career start and threw the first touchdown pass of his career in the win. He ended up with 60 passing yards and 51 on the ground. Erb caught five passes for 48 yards.
Ryan Ferguson came through with 19 tackles and one interception to pace the defense. Kevin Nossem and Jordan Banky tallied nine tackles apiece.
Case Western Reserve will now look to take the momentum into UAA play. The Spartans are the defending conference champions and have won four of the last five titles.
Only four teams are still perfect in the Great Lakes Region, and that number will be down to three after this weekend.
Mount Union and Heidelberg, tied for first in the OAC, will duke it out on Saturday in Alliance. It will be a matchup of the two teams that feature the top offenses and defenses in the conference.
Only one team is still perfect in the NCAC and that is Ohio Wesleyan. The Battling Bishops will try to stay on track for the league title when they play host to Wabash on Saturday. Ohio Wesleyan is averaging 406.6 yards per game.
Waynesburg is the lone unbeaten in the PAC. The Yellow Jackets have remained perfect despite turning the ball over 14 times and forcing only eight turnovers.
Even though Geneva came up short on the scoreboard against Waynesburg, Dillon Goodell had a monster day for the Golden Tornadoes as he racked up 18 tackles and picked off two passes in a 21-20 loss. Goodell is the leading tackler on the team this year with 80 tackles....Hiram is still winless (0-7) after a 23-7 setback to Chicago on Saturday. One of the few highlights of the game was 91-yard fumble return for a touchdown by Dominick Harper. Harper tallied three tackles and has 54 tackles on the season for the Terriers...Michael Slack rushed for a pair of touchdowns to help Baldwin Wallace knock off Capital 39-16 on Saturday. The sophomore quarterback scored on a 13-yard run in the third quarter and a 6-yard run in the fourth as he finished with 66 rushing yards. Slack has rushed for 186 yards and three scores this season...Washington and Jefferson secured its 29th consecutive winning season on Saturday with a 40-14 victory over Saint Vincent. Dion Wiegand rushed for 168 yards for the Presidents, who now own the fifth-longest streak in all of NCAA football for consecutive winning seasons.


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What's the story behind the story here? Why was that website defaced? Did the person defacing it have some message of importance or was is just the action of a competitor or someone bitter for personal reasons?
The mass media often focus on unimportant stories and provide too little detail on those that do matter. Shouldn't we try to focus on getting the bigger picture and more depth?
Since Google relates to this story is an opportunity to bring up another deeper issue of importance. Sometimes finding out
"Sometimes finding out what is going on in the world requires digging deeper than what the commercial giants publish."
Eliminate the "sometimes", and your statement will be accurate. None of the media reports the whole story. And, most of the media actually reports the story with a spin. The only way to get the real story in any case, is to read from multiple sources, check the police reports, and to read the transcripts of interviews. Even then, if it's really important to you that you have the full sto
Lots of free time in India??
Rs. 15,000 is one week's wages for a programmer at a top IT company in India
Maybe there's a glut of programming talent over there and they're targeting the unemployed.
That's about $300, or roughly what a cashier at Safeway makes in the U.S.
How will they validate that the employee that was turned in really vandalized the data? Witch hunt?
How will they validate that the employee that was turned in really vandalized the data? Witch hunt?
Who knows. And how do they prevent someone from offering up an innocent (either as a joke or as a calculated move)? The world has changed. First there were bug bounties, which made sense. Now there's a bounty to identify accused vandals. Next there will be serious (and dangerous) bounties on spammers, anonymous bloggers, and who knows who else. And after that? A bounty on more than just their names? Bounties on the heads of members of Anonymous?
That slippery slope people keep clamoring about? I think we
The world has changed. First there were bug bounties, which made sense. Now there's a bounty to identify accused vandals. Next there will be serious (and dangerous) bounties on spammers, anonymous bloggers, and who knows who else. And after that? A bounty on more than just their names? Bounties on the heads of members of Anonymous?
That slippery slope people keep clamoring about? I think were about to find out if they were right.
You're a little late [wildwestweb.net]
How will they validate that the employee that was turned in really vandalized the data? Witch hunt?
You would be amazed what can be done with computer forensics today. Or more likely, you would be scared.
I'm not trying to be trollish (although just by saying that I may have just pigeonholed myself) but this summary is *really* bad. I can barely follow the logic, grammar, or even the train of thought of those sentences!
Slashdot editors, going downhill, get off my lawn, grumblegrumble....
Exactly what I was thinking, not planning to make an effort in understanding it at this point either. * closes page *
Lawn? This patch of gravel with some weeds poking up? This is your LAWN?!?! FFS dude, take your decrepit old ass down to the hardware store, buy some grass seed, some fertilizer, and some garden hose. Hire a truck to dump about 10 (cubic) yards of topsoil before you start with the grass seed. There's a nice strain of Bermuda grass that only grows an inch of so high, so that you won't have to mow your yard all the time. I'll be back next year to see if you have a lawn yet. No way am I wandering into y
Slashdot has editors? Where do you see signs of that?
1) site offers 10 000 rs for photos of zuk-zuck in india.
2) site gets the photos.
3) profit
4) site offers 15 000 rs to get the id of the person responsible for harassing the open streetmaps operation.
5) ??
6) profit
zukz sk. presumably the guy is someone who thinks he'll lose his job if openstreetmaps is successful or some nutcase like that. the site offering the reward is a nerd scandal media site or some shit like that. probably they'll get lots of hits because of this and well, maybe even catch the idiot.
I agree with you, so after reading all the links down as far as I could, here's the gist of it.
Back at the tail end of 2011 a company in Kenya started to get confusing calls from their customers. The customers were asking about promises to set up websites, which is something that the Kenya company doesn't provide. The company looked at their database and noticed that an IP address belonging to a Google offshoot was scaping their company contact database. So they modified their code to provide their own p
It's basicly this:
An Indian Marklar offered 10000 Marklars to get Marklars of Marklar Zuckerberg wearing Marklars. Now they offer 15000 Marklars to find the Marklar who vandalized Marklar.
(Rs. 15,000 is one week's wages for a programmer at a top IT company in India).
aka about 300 USD
Also the forex abbreviation for their currency is INR not Rs. Its not important, it's one of those sociological study moments where the abbreviation you select tells a lot about your culture and history etc. I don't think Rs is offensive, but I don't know one way or the other for sure, so I'd stick with the known inoffensive INR
I know enough about India to know the forex "name" is INR which would presumably be completely inoffensive for all.
I don't know enough about India to avoid little cultural mistakes. Telling Irish people what their currency is will by definition offend either the northerners or the southerners unless you list both pound and euro, and probably once the EU inevitably breaks up, the Punt or whatever it was. The one true currency of the one true China is (oh wait do you mean mainland or what westerners call th
What's forex got to do with it? Forex identifies the US currency as USD instead of $.
Rs is a symbol for currencies called 'rupee' much like $ is a symbol for most currencies called 'dollar' or 'peso' or £ is a symbol for most currencies called 'pound' or ¥ is a symbol for currencies called 'yen' or 'yuan'. It's not offensive, it was the main sign for the currency (and, if you read TFA, you'll see that the Indian website in question is where it came from in the first place.)
Apparently it was replaced in India in 2010 with a new symbol that Slashdot is filtering out (oh noes, Unicode!!) [wikipedia.org], although the fact that you can approximate the old symbol with two Latin letters (it has its own Unicode code point [wikipedia.org]) makes me think that the old one will never truly go away in informal typed use in English (and there are a hell of a lot of English speakers in India).
Rs has actually been used here in india since forever. no reason for it to be offensive. only very recently we've made a sign of our own, and i dunno how to type it here in this field.
Don't they say 'croreopati' or some such? (10-millionaire)
Ya, but the prize is just a tenth of a lakh (100,000).
Whatever the merit of this "reward", I just learned about the existence of http://openstreetmap.org/# [openstreetmap.org], "free geographic data", nice project!
You just heard about openstreetmap? Boy, are you in for a treat! There are many similar great projects out there.
If you like openstreetmap, you're gonna love this. There is a completely free encyclopaedia out there, with free information on just about anything: http://wikipedia.org/ [wikipedia.org]
Oh man. You are going to shit yourself when you find out about broadband and social networking.
This is being one most audacious chappie. Please do needful to find the same, IS URGENT!!!!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! This is funny because people in other countries speak differently from me!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
Also: +4 Informative? Some poor modding going on here.
Interesting that my comment was moderated Flamebait. Is it because pointing and laughing at poor stereotype-based attempts at humour is frowned upon, or because I criticised the modding* ? Whatever, my Karma is Excellent, I'll take the hit
* (which now seems to have been rectified)
Crowd sourcing a criminal investigation, someone could make a lot of money at this idea if they implement it correctly.
In America, this is called SEE SOMETHING; SAY SOMETHING, where you report anything suspicious, like a brown person walking around. But you don't do it for money. You do it because the lady on the television and at the checkout stand at Wallmart on the little video monitor demands that you do it FOR ZE MOTHERLAND.
Recent investments will yield a slight profit.


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By Yorick Hokke
Christian Eriksen has insisted that he is in no hurry to leave Ajax, despite frequent rumours linking him with a move away from the Dutch champions.
Speculation continues to mount surrounding the player's future with Europe's big clubs ready to land his signature, and as revealed by Goal.com earlier this month, has emerged as one of Tottenham's primary targets.
However, the 20-year-old has now dismissed any suggestion that he could leave Ajax soon, and is intent on continuing his development with his current employers.
"I've read about it, but they are just rumours," he told Goal.com.
"It also depends on what Ajax want. I hope, and I think, I will finish the season with Ajax. Someday, I will take the step [abroad], but I do not know when.
"It depends, of course, on how I feel at that particular time and which clubs come along."
Sunday's 4-2 win over Willem II saw Ajax move a mere point behind joint Eredivisie leaders PSV and Twente.


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Over a dozen whales ranging from 3 to 12 feet have been spotted around Sag Harbor, in the form of painted graffiti. The unknown artist or artists have been at work since early this month, when neon-colored whales began to appear on various buildings throughout the village, and even between Larry Rivers's "Legs" sculpture on the side of Vered and Janet Lehr's house.
Other victims have included the Old Whalers Church, Apple Bank, WLNG, the John Jermain Memorial Library, and the vacant Schiavoni plumbing building. Some of the property owners or managers have let the smiling creatures stick around, others are less accommodating, and some are quite concerned.
At the John Jermain Memorial Library, for example, it took a dangerous nighttime climb upon and relocation of two-story scaffolding to paint the four whales that appeared on protective construction sheathing.
Other ground-level work, such as the bright orange, head-phoned whale that was reported last week by WLNG radio station on Redwood Road, has been met with a chuckle. "You got whaled," is the new term about town, said Chris Buckhout, who reported the incident to police.
Gary Sapiane, the station's president, took a few seconds off the air on "Swap and Shop" Tuesday to say "I think it looks smart with the headphones on." Mr. Buckhout added his own art to the design, in the form of a bumper sticker that said, "Another WLNG Listener."
"I think we will keep it for a while," he said, thankful that the whale is on wood, which can be easily repainted.
Anthony Baker, an employee at the Getty Station, reported a 12-foot blue whale with orange spots on the rear of the Getty Station the same day. "I think it's cool," he said on Tuesday. "My boss doesn't know about it yet."
According to New York State penal law, each act of making graffiti is a class A misdemeanor, defined in part by etching, painting, covering, drawing upon or otherwise placing of a mark upon [. . .] without the express permission of the owner or operator of said property."
Sag Harbor Village Sergeant Paul Fabiano is on the case, and has been comparing "tags" often used by graffiti artists. Anyone with information about the vandalism has been asked to call the village's police department.