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Club Atlético de Madrid have signed Sporting Clube de Portugal full-back Emiliano Insúa for a reported fee of €3.5m.
The 24-year-old – a former FIFA U-20 World Cup winner with Argentina – arrives at the Vicente Calderón for the next three and a half seasons and provides coach Diego Simeone with cover on the left where Filipe Luis currently operates.
Insúa began his career with CA Boca Juniors before moving to Liverpool FC where he made 46 Premier League appearances between 2007 and 2010. A loan switch to Galatasaray AŞ followed, prior to Sporting landing the defender on a five-year deal in August 2011. The Argentinian international has played 13 Portuguese Liga matches this term, besides featuring four times in the UEFA Europa League.
While Sporting have been eliminated from 2012/13 European competition, Atlético face FC Rubin Kazan in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 with the first leg in the Spanish capital on 14 February before the return in Russia a week later.
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Or you'll get food poisoning.
It ruined my weekend. I spent all of Friday night, and most of Saturday horribly, horribly ill. I expelled fluid from the two orifices connected to my stomach until I was COMPLETELY EMPTY.
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— Illinois Farm Bureau members, staff, farmers and agriculture industry professionals are invited to attend the 2014 Illinois Farm Bureau Commodities Conference, titled "Modern Agriculture: Connecting to the Digital Future." The conference, scheduled for July 30, will be held at the Bloomington-Normal Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.
This year's conference will feature two general sessions and multiple breakouts that focus on digital communications and tools, farm policy, market and weather trends, drone technology, trade and infrastructure priorities, farmland and crop prices and much more. First General Session speaker Matt Bechdol will cover "big data" while the second General Session speaker Greg Peterson of the Peterson Brothers will talk about advocating for agriculture.
"We will have the latest information on digital-driven technology issues, such as Big Data, drones and cyber-security, as well as our perennial outlooks," said Mike Doherty, senior economist, Illinois Farm Bureau. "Additionally, we have some hot topic workshops on nutrient management, global meat markets, and value added production."
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MADISON, WI--(Marketwire - Dec 3, 2012) - The Madison Strategic Sector Premium Fund (the Fund) (NYSE: MSP) declares its quarterly dividend of $0.26/share payable December 31, 2012 to shareholders of record on December 17, 2012. The ex-dividend date will be December 13, 2012. If it is determined that a notification is required pursuant to Section 19(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, such notice will be posted to the Fund's website after the close of business three business days before the payable date. If a distribution rate is largely comprised of sources other than income, it may not reflect Fund performance.
The Fund's objective is to achieve a high level of current income and current capital gains, with long-term capital appreciation as a secondary objective. The Fund intends to pursue its objectives by investing in a portfolio of common stocks and utilizing an option strategy, primarily by writing (selling) covered call options on a substantial portion of the common stocks in the portfolio in order to generate current income and gains from option writing premiums and, to a lesser extent, from dividends. Market action can impact dividend issuance as significant decreases or increases in the Fund's total assets affects the Fund's future dividend prospects.
The Fund provides additional information on its website at www.madisonfunds.com. Madison Asset Management, LLC (Madison), a subsidiary of Madison Investment Holdings, Inc., is the Fund's investment adviser. Its affiliates include Madison Investment Advisors, LLC, with which it shares all resources at our Madison, Wisconsin headquarters, Madison Scottsdale, LC, Scottsdale, Arizona, Concord Asset Management, LLC, Chicago, Illinois and NorthRoad Capital Management, New York City. Madison also serves as investment manager to the Madison/Claymore Covered Call & Equity Strategy Fund (NYSE: MCN).
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... From what I understand, much of earth based radio communication relies on bouncing signals off of the upper atmosphere and other "tricks". ...
Of course it does. You get an ionosphere from having your atmosphere hit by solar radiation. Mars, at 1.5 AU from the sun, gets almost half as much radiation (to a given area) as the earth does. More information [google.com].Moreover, I don't think Mars has an ionosphere.
Yes, the rover is operating outside the jurisdiction of the FCC (though not outside of international treaties regulating interference between space probes). Yes, the rover can use as much bandwidth "as it wants". But how much is that?
The answer is, not much. The problem is that you're trying to get a tiny signal across a very large distance back to Earth, and even though Earth is listening with dishes up to 70 meters across you still have serious limits. That squeak of signal coming in has to compete against the rush of thermal noise coming from everything, including the receiver itself. (The first stages of the receivers are cryogenically cooled to reduce thermal noise.) The amount of noise you have to listen to is more or less proportional to the width of the channel you're demodulating (the noise power spectrum varies with frequency, but it's a thermal curve that varies slowly across small frequency ranges). The more bandwidth you use, the wider your receiver filters have to be set, and the more noise comes in with your signal. Once you get to -1.7 dB signal/noise ratio, in principle your ability to tell signal from noise disappears (in practice we don't use encodings which give such a sharp cutoff, so your error rate starts heading up well above that).
Using more bandwidth is pointless unless you have more power to push a signal. On a platform as power-limited as Spirit, ten KHz or so is about all that they appear to be able to use productively over the interplanetary link.
Energy is conserved; you are not going to get a stronger signal across one part of the sphere without taking signal away from some other part. Beam width
The reason why almost all non-ham-radio antennas are specified in dBi's (decibels over isotropic) instead of dBd's (decibels over a dipole) is that you use dBi's when computing a link margin instead of dBd's. If you use dBd's you will be off by at least 2dB per en
Just for the record, `broad beamwidth' is just another way of saying `low gain'.What's nice about the patch antenna over the "cantenna" is its broad beamwidth.
One attains `high gain' by having a narrow beamwidth. That's all `gain' means when referring to an antenna -- the narrower the beam, the higher the gain.
While the frequency is different, you'll find that these people sell patch antennas which compare favorably in signal strength with their parabolic antennas, but with a wider beam spread.
You can't have it both ways. If you want high gain, you have to have narrow beamwidths. If you want wide beamwidths, you can't have high gain. It's a conservation of energy thing.
The rover antenna appears to be an example of a flat-plate phased array antenna, which is a generalization of the "slot antenna". The basics are that you have a feedpoint where energy is coupled to/from a cable which goes to your transceiver. This feedpoint is coupled, either through transmission line divider/combiner networks of the appropriate impedance or the equivalent in waveguides, to each individual radiating element. In this case the radiating elements are segments of the surface of the disc, which happen to be connected electrically (which is not of great consequence). So long as each slot is at least a half-wavelength long, applying an RF voltage across its center lets it radiate just like a dipole perpendicular to the slot. Connecting a large number of slots via feedlines or waveguides so that they are all driven in phase gives you a nice, flat wavefront, which is also what you get from the reflection of a spherical wave off a parabola. The details differ, the result is more or less the same.
None of this would have been strange to a techno-geek of fifty years ago, because geeks of that time were into ham radio instead of computers.
But let's think of it from Bush's perspective, he's almost finished feeding those military supp...er contractors with the search for a war or something.. Now he needs to payb... er get america's tech industry going by landing some more guys all the way on Mars.
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Brad, along with Pete (Heimbold) Francis '99, and Chad Urmston '98, started and plays in the band Dispatch, which has enjoyed great popularity, and is now back together for another tour (August and September, 2011).
Dispatch incorporates many different styles into their music. These include reggae (Passerby, Ride a Tear), ska (Bats in the Belfry), folk (Craze, The General), rap (Just Like Larry, Here We Go) and rock (Even, Time Served). The band consists of Brad Corrigan (vocals, drums, guitar, and percussion), Pete Heimbold (vocals, bass and guitar), and Chad Urmston (vocals, bass, guitar, and percussion).
Brad is the founder of Love, Light, and Melody, an organization that provides a safe house offering refuge to some of the children from La Chureca, a trash dump community in Managua, Nicaragua. This trash dump is home to countless children fighting to survive an unthinkable landscape of burning trash, physical and sexual abuse, and starvation.


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Compassion and survival are made to duel once more in the unambitious sci-fi thriller "The Colony." In a post-apocalyptic future, Everyman Sam (Kevin Zegers) stands by while Mason (Bill Paxton), the ruthlessly practical leader of their Arctic settlement, executes anyone with a cough or a sniffle. "Nothing personal," shrugs Mason, looking about as remorseful for the corpse at his feet as he would for the bacteria he killed while washing his hands.
When a distress signal comes in from a nearby settlement, Sam and two fellow idealists (Laurence Fishburne and Atticus Dean Mitchell) brave the tundra-like outdoors to investigate the cause and rescue survivors. The first act adequately builds to the mystery behind the mayhem at Colony 5. Yet the big reveal is not only deflatingly routine, but also flattens the running debate between kindness and self-preservation to cardboard concepts.
Directed by Jeff Renfroe, "The Colony" was largely shot at a decommissioned NORAD base in Ontario. The building's long, eerie corridors and steel beams lend the picture architectural interest, but can't make up for the script's negligent world-building.
Ultimately, the film strands its archetypal characters in a featureless danger zone and gives them overly familiar dialogue borrowed from a dozen other B-movies. It might be a great starting point for a future Sims game, but is too lacking in specificity to exist on this Earth.
"The Colony." No MPAA rating. Running time: 1 hour, 34 minutes. At AMC Rolling Hills 20, Torrance.
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Mr. Hart was born April 4, 1928 to James Hart, Sr. and DeVona French Hart. He served in the U. S. Army during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He was retired from Franklin National Bank of Mount Vernon.
He died Saturday, Sept. 28 at his residence. He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and one daughter, Deborah White.
He is survived by his wife, Thelma Louise Hart of Saltillo; his daughters and their spouses, Virginia and Harvey Patterson of Sherman and Deanne and Johnny Griffith of Sioux Falls, S. D.; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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The Open PCR machine is fairly easy to use. Simply plug it in to the USB port on your computer and turn it on. From your computer, you can adjust the temperature, add or remove steps to the process, and adjust the number of cycles.
When we unplugged the LCD from the Circuit Board, the LCD turned off.
When we unplugged the white wire that connects the circuit board to heat block, the LCD was unable to accurately read the temperature.
The very first time that our group used the Open PCR machine was October 28, 2012. The process went fairly smoothly, which was unexpected. All we did was put the samples into the machine, set the peak temperature and number of cycles, then let it run for an hour and forty-nine minutes.
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The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a biochemical machine used in biological chemistry to produce numerous copies of a particular piece of DNA, generating multiple duplicates of DNA sequences. The PCR machine works similar the cycle of DNA replication at the cellular level. The machine consists of four individual steps, initiation, denaturation, annealing, and extension. The initiation step is solely to prepare the DNA samples to be put through the thermal cycler program. During the denaturation step, the DNA strand is split into two separate strands. After, the annealing step is where the DNA primer attaches to the targeted DNA sequence. The primer only attached to a specific site on the strand, not necessarily the entire strand. The purpose of the primer is to mark the beginning and the end of the targeted DNA sequence. Lastly, in the extension step, the DNA polymerase is first activated, which begins to synthesize the DNA primer. This results in two double stranded target DNA sequences. The PCR machine cycles numerous times to amplify the specific sequence. In order to complete the reaction several components are required such as:
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(AINA) — "We have made a clean sweep of the Armenians and Assyrians of Azerbaijan." Those were the words of Djevdet Bey, the governor of Van Province in Ottoman Turkey, who on April 24, 1915 lead 20,000 Turkish soldiers and 10,000 Kurdish irregulars in the opening act of the genocide of Assyrians, Armenians and Pontic Greeks. In three short years, 750,000 (75%) Assyrians would be killed, 1.5 million Armenians and 500,000 Greeks.
Joseph Zaya (1906-2006) survived the genocide. He was born in a village in the Hakkary mountains (presently South-Eastern Turkey). The Ottoman Empire was something he lived in until the age of nine, when, in the face of genocide, he and his family was forced to flee. He remembered it vividly: long marches, hunger, starvation, butchery, impalement, burning.
"I lost my brother and his wife and four kids right in front of my eyes. Three Kurds and two Turks dragged my brother out and cut off his arms, right in front of me and his wife and kids. They then proceeded to rape his wife and eleven year old daughter, all the while looking at him and taunting him. After which they shot all of them. But they spared me. I don't know why."
"During our escape through the mountains," he continued, "I remember the bodies strewn on both sides of the path. Most women and children were crying but would not dare stop to care for the sick and dead because they knew the Turkish and Kurdish armies were behind them. I remember a child on the side of the road suckling on his already dead mother who had died with her arms around him. That image has haunted me all my life. This is something that we Assyrians should never forget, and the world should not forget it, either."
The genocide was recorded by Arnold Toynbee, famed British historian, as well as countless American and German missionaries. Toynbee's document runs for more than 600 pages and is entitled, "Arnold Toynbee Papers and Documents on the Treatment of Armenians and Assyrian Christians by the Turks, 1915-1916, in the Ottoman Empire and North-West Persia." The national archives of the British, French and American states contain a large collection of documents related to the genocide. The Diplomatic French archives, for example, included 45 volumes on the Assyrian question from 1915 to 1940.
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In the Bible, the book of Luke describes a spectacular fishing story with an amazing catch.
Jesus was standing by a huge lake called the Sea of Galilee teaching a crowd of people the word of God. As the people listened intently, a group of fisherman had left their boats close by and tended to their nets. Jesus asked one of the owners of the boat, Simon, if he could teach from the boat so his voice could project to the large crowd continuing to gather.
When he had finished sharing, Jesus imparted some fishing advice to the fishermen who were skunked the night before.
Timeout in the story: we live in a fishing community and after a long day of fishing with no luck — nobody wants to hear fishing advice, especially from a carpenter turned rabbi.
According to the text, Jesus then told Simon to go back out into the boat, get out to the deep water and try his nets on the other side of the boat and get ready for a great catch. Picture this: Simon was tired, discouraged and probably getting annoyed at this fishing advice. Simon seems to muster up a respectful response of protest to the rabbi as he says in verse 5, "Master, we've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything."
Just when one thinks this respectful pushback would allow him to call it a day and go home, we see a thread of faith extended from Simon to Jesus. Simon continues to say to Jesus, "But because you say so, I will let down the nets." Simon is open to Jesus and in faith actively lives out Jesus' advice.
What follows next is unbelievable! Simon lets down his nets and immediately his nets are so full that they start to break. He summons his partners in another boat and they fill up that one as well — to the point they start to sink!
Jesus allows Simon and the others present to experience the power of God beyond just catching a lot of fish. Astonished, Simon responds to Jesus by falling at his feet and says, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!" Simon was coming clean about his unbelief in Jesus. In essence he was saying he was not worthy and undeserving of God's love. Simon's life was characterized by doubt and sin that had separated him from God's love.
Jesus, through his grace and mercy, extended redemption to Simon as he told him not to live in fear but in freedom of a new way life. After this fishing venture, Simon left everything to follow Jesus and was captivated with a life of freedom that only Jesus can give.
Here, on the Kenai Peninsula, I know many people who have some incredible fish stories. Maybe you have even been blessed with boat's full of fish, but have you experienced the freedom of being in relationship with Jesus? Like Peter, you can also catch this freedom by experiencing Jesus.
Frank Alioto is the pastor of The River Covenant Church, which meets Sundays at 10 a.m. at The Challenger Learning Center in Kenai, 9711 Kenai Spur Hwy. Join us for our currents series, "Amazing Catches." Frank also serves as a chaplain with Central Emergency Services and can be reached at 252-2828 or www.therivercovenantchurch.org.


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One day China's great firewall will block itself because it includes word "tibet" in it's blocking rules.
Include Tibet(as well as things that would keep the developing world out) as a major part of an mmo. Their own country won't let them play the game.
Oooo! Or, we could fill up Tienanmen square with peaceful people in protest. Then they'd have the choice of listening to us or just mowing us all down.
Oooo! Or, we could fill up Tienanmen square with peaceful people in protest.
No, this is bound to work :
"'Songs for Tibet' was downloaded more than 40 times by Olympic athletes as a sign of solidarity for Tibet's cause"
If this doesn't make the world take the notice, nothing will. I mean *40 times*, that's probably as many as 40 people. Downloading an album from iTunes. Now *that's* solidarity !
Take that China !
I wonder what that is as a percentage of Olympic athletes?
Obviously, with 500 reviews the album has been downloaded more than 40 times in total.
Step 1: declare a song for Tibet as your (temporary) national anthem
Step 2: win olympic gold
They'd pull the internet connection; don't kid yourself.
They'd pull the internet connection; don't kid yourself.
So they either give up the firewall and open up, or kill the internet access entirely and cut themselves off from what has proven to be the single most important invention of recent years. It's lose-lose for them, and win-win for us. What have we got to lose?
Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.
1. WE are in control Muthafucker
2. 40 million dead and counting.
3. Don't make me re-educate you.
4. If 12 year olds are good enough for Mao, then they are good enough for the Gymnast team.
5. Pollution? What pollution?
6. One kid. It's the LAW.
7. Never too young for a job!
9. Never met a technology we couldn't steal.
One day China's great firewall will block itself because it includes word "tibet" in it's blocking rules.
Where have you gone, Mr. Spock?
A nation turns it's lonely eyes to you...
Blocking an album containing Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Moby and Sting is probably preventing human rights violations as much as it contributes to them. Isn't that ironic?
Blocking an album containing Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Moby and Sting is probably preventing human rights violations as much as it contributes to them. Isn't that ironic?
It's like rain on your wedding day,
It's a free ride when you've already paid,
It's the good advice that you just didn't take,
Who would've thought
In fairness to China, they make the iPod, so they should get a veto over what crap people listen to on it.
Isn't that ironic?
Shouldn't that be "China Blocks iTunes Store"? What is this, Internet News by Joe Sixpack?
"It seems like suspending iTunes is punishment for iTunes, but really it doesn't hurt iTunes, it hurts us," said a note on Chinese Apple fan site macfans.com.cn, according to the AP.
Do Chinese leaders actually think what they are doing punishes iTunes? Mayhaps, a more devious conclusion; like the applications to protest in the "authorized protest zone", they are trying to incite outrage among hidden dissidents to... strengthen their unpaid labor force.
Or maybe its just the technologically incompetent trying to rule the unruly propaganda machine that is technology with an iron (outdated; see steel) fist. Or both?
That will send a strong message to the chinese leaders, a country with over a billion people in a world of 6 billion people and a olympic event involving hundreds if not thousands of athletes and their support staff. 40 downloads.
Guess that shows just how much athletes really care about peace and such.
Did I download it? No, but then I don't try to pretend that my sporting event is anything else then an ego trip to prove I am better then everyone else.
Frankly, the truth is nobody really cares about Tibet. Oh we might buy the t-shirt but we also buy t-shirts with the logo of a soda brand or whatever band the music industry pushed on us.
Show me an athlete who refuses his medal to make a point and then I might think the olympics are any different from the soccer world championship.
In a day and age when athletes are bought by the highest bidder to go and compete for them, you're asking for them to take the moral high ground?
Soo... I hate to say it (err, okay, that's a lie, i love pointing these out!), but china blocking a song protesting china blocking things isn't irony! It's just not!
Irony is (roughly) when something happens that is the opposite of what expected... but if you criticize a tyrant... you can expect to get censored!
I'm boycotting this discussion (except, obviosuly, for this post) for incorrect use of "ironically"
No. It would not.
It would pretty much make the chinese firewall moot.
I am shocked - SHOCKED - that a repressive totalitarian regime would censor something criticizing it.
Oh wait. I'm not.
I'm shocked that people keep forgetting that China is ruled by a repressive totalitarian regime.
Downloading something is a pretty modest show of solidarity because hardly anyone will notice.
I know the Olympics aren't supposed to be "politicized", but let's not be hypocrites: it's ALL about politics, and the fact that they are in Beijing this year is a huge political stunt.
If a bunch of athletes want to protest China's activities, I think they should go all the way and have a walk off. Just get to the starting line, wait for the buzzer, then stand there like an idiot until the others finish their run.
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Lake Region State College announces that Mary Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N., administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will be the guest speaker at the college's graduation ceremonies May 13. About 280 graduates are eligible to participate in the May ceremony.
Dr. Wakefield is a native of Devils Lake, N.D. She has a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Mary in Bismarck and master's and doctoral degrees in nursing from the University of Texas at Austin.
Mary Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N., was named administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) by President Barack Obama on February 20, 2009. HRSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that works to fill in the health care gaps for people who live outside the economic and medical mainstream.
Dr. Wakefield joined HRSA from the University of North Dakota (UND), where she was associate dean for rural health at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, a tenured professor, and director of the university's Center for Rural Health.
At UND, Dr. Wakefield also was director of the Rural Assistance Center, a HRSA-funded source of information on rural health and social services for researchers, policymakers, program managers, project officers and the general public. In addition, the Center for Rural Health administered a $1.6 million award from HRSA under the Critical Access Hospital Health Information Technology Implementation program.
Dr. Wakefield brings experience on Capitol Hill to her post at HRSA. She also has served as director of the Center for Health Policy, Research and Ethics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and worked on site as a consultant to the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Wakefield is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies in 2004. She served on the IOM committee that produced the landmark reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm. She also co-chaired the IOM committee that produced the report Health Professions Education, and chaired the committee that produced the report Quality through Collaboration: Health Care in Rural America.
In addition, she has served on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, as chair of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as a member of President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, and as a member of the National Advisory Committee to HRSA's Office of Rural Health Policy.
Lake Region State College's commencement starts at 10:00 am, Friday, May 13 in Robert Fawcett Auditorium. A separate commencement will be held for spring graduates of the peace officer training program at 1:00 pm May 5th.
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Hey, My name is Jessica and you may have heard about Bear already from my brother Joseph, But I wanted to make my own post. Bear was a cute and cuddly cat. He was only 13 years of age. Born on December 31st of December 1995, Or January 1st 1996. I was about 1 years old when he was born, So I don't remember watching. But what I do remember is growing up with him. He was so beautiful, as well as my cat Sylvester who I found under a car across the street when I was 5. Bear had one blue eye and one yellow eye. He had pure white fur and curls on his underbelly. A pink nose, pink insides of his ears, and pink paws. A white ball of fluff he was and still is. My little angelic kitty. He will always be my baby boy, And I love him with all of my heart.
But on a Tuesday, October 20th we had some bad news. My mom took bear to the vet with Joey because we thought he had some type of gum disease. He couldn't eat much food and he had teeth falling out. When they came back, The mood was different. I had just came back from looking for my dog Cruise who I finally found after hours of searching. My mom told me. Bear had cancer. A tumor in his jaw had spread into the bone. It was practically impossible for a doctor to remove. They would have to take his whole jaw off and we didn't want him to live that way. So my mom brought him home for a few days so that the family could spend more time with him and say our goodbyes. During those days I was constantly taking pictures of Bear. I wanted to capture every moment we had left together.
This was the last picture I took of bear. This is in the room he was put to sleep in when we were saying goodbyes to him and kissing him. (My mom's holding him in this)http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/w...l425/Bear5.jpg
Then came Saturday, October 24th. We had to put him to sleep. I stood in the room while my mom held bear in my old beach towel. I gave him lots and lots of kisses and held him in the comfort room before it was time. I love him so much, and still miss him. I cry every night in thought of him. But I now know that he's in a better place now.
Healthy Bear pictures...
October 24th, Earlier in the morning.-
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Rest in peace BearBear.


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Newaygo Co. teens can't show pregnant bellies in yearbook
Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:45 GMT —
Two Michigan students have been banned from showing their baby bumps in the school yearbook.
Deonna Harris says she was pulled aside this week by a yearbook staff member and told her photo would have to be re-taken because the previous shot displayed Harris' pregnant belly.
Kimberly Haney also is pregnant and not permitted to show her midsection in the White Cloud High School yearbook.
Haney tells WOOD-TV she "went to the bathroom and cried" when she received the news.
Both girls say they're being discriminated against. White Cloud superintendent Barry Seabrook said Thursday allowing the pictures to appear in the yearbook would be contrary to the state's mandate that public schools' sex-education curricula be abstinence-based.
Haney and Harris have decided against shooting new photos that hide their pregnancies.


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Detecting dirty bomb material with ESA gamma-ray technology
Thanks to experience gained from working with ESA on its Integral spacecraft, a British company has developed a gamma-ray detection device using similar technology as used in the gamma-ray instrument onboard the Integral astronomy satellite to detect and identify the radioactive material mixed with conventional explosives in 'dirty bombs'.
ESA has supported the development of technology for gamma-ray astronomy for more than 40 years. Integral, ESA's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory launched in 2002, is now detecting some of the most energetic radiation to be found in space, such as that from gamma-ray bursts, supernovas and black holes in the Milky Way and distant galaxies at the edge of the observable Universe.
A similar gamma-ray detection technology is now being used by the company to develop and commercialise radiation detection and identification technology. The company was formed in 2002 and with support from the UK technology transfer initiative and ESA's Technology Transfer Programme Office it was put in contact with a world-leading provider of explosives trace and X-ray detection systems.
Most radioactive sources produce gamma rays of various energies and intensities. By detecting and analysing them, a gamma-energy spectrum can be produced – a kind of radiation fingerprint – to identify the substance and the quantity.
Portable detection device
In 2006, the companies' partnership led to a contract from the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office of the US Department of Homeland Security for a next-generation radiation gamma-ray detection and identification system. The contract has a potential total value, including options, of US$222 million (€140 million).
The detection of illicit traffic in radioactive materials that could be used to make dirty bombs is a high priority for national security in the US.
Threatening nuclear materials must be identified from a range of natural radioactive materials such as clay tiles, ceramics and even bananas, as well as from a range of legally transported radioactive materials such as medical isotopes.
Effective screening devices are required for personnel and freight at ports and borders. The detection and identification of dangerous radioactive material has to be reliable and quick so as not to disrupt the normal flow of commerce.
The companies are developing a handheld and backpack Human Portable Radiation Detection System, tailored to meet these criteria. The device features space radiation detection hardware and signal processing software for use by emergency services, border patrol agents, customs and coast guard officers, and other law enforcement personnel.
The British company is the technology partner and provided the radiation detection and identification sub-system. The unit includes gamma, neutron and Geiger-Müller (GM) detectors, and can identifying highly enriched uranium, plutonium and other radioactive materials, even in very small quantities. Expertise in modelling gamma-ray detectors from Southampton University improved significantly through the company's participation in developing of the mass-model for the Integral spacecraft was used in the developing of the portable radiation detection system.
The detectors can identify and determine the location of incoming radiation and also reliably discriminate between normally occurring radioactive material and potential threats.
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New funeral, same old story as Lebanon succumbs to sectarian violence
United by hatred for their prime minister, the Lebanese are divided by almost everything else. Some said the funeral of slain intelligence chief, Wissam al Hassan, on Sunday would be Lebanon's Princess Diana moment: a time for the nation to pull together. Others muttered darkly about sectarian conflicts.
In the end, it was division that ruled the day as fights broke out and the recriminations began. No matter that this was a funeral; Sunni leaders still thought it was an appropriate time to rile up their mourning countrymen and call for revenge attacks on the Shia-led government.
The speeches led to violent clashes between the Sunni, Tariq al Jdideh neighborhood and the Shia, Barbour area of the capital. Overnight two people died and another twelve were wounded and the much-maligned Lebanese army began raiding local houses.
As ever in Lebanon, the chaos had more to do with neighboring Syria than with their own tiny nation. The Lebanese have lived through years of attempted and real political assassinations, mostly by Syrian security forces although rarely proven as such.
The tribunal for former Prime Minister, Rafiq Hariri, killed by a bomb while driving in his motorcade in 2005, is still ongoing but the executions show no signs of letting up.
Most fingers point to the Syrian regime for this latest assassination, as Mr. Hassan was known as a supporter of the Syrian opposition. It is an all too familiar story for those in the know.
This kind of spillover from one nation to another shows just how fragile the borders of Lebanon still are. With Shia poltical party, Hezbollah, creating a state within a state and growing animosity for a deadbeat prime minister, the Mediterranean slip of land shows no obvious signs of being a country at all.
The idea that the funeral of one man could cause a nation to fall into such chaos shows just how deeply the fractures continue to run in Lebanese society.
Do you think Wissam al Hassan's funeral was just more of the same? Or change the country change and unite? Tell us what you think below.


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ICRC names new Deputy Director
Indianapolis-Ms. Akia Haynes was named Deputy Director and General Counsel of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission on January 21, 2013. Prior to this position, she served as Deputy Attorney General for the Licensing Enforcement and Homeowner Protection Unit with the Indiana Attorney General's office.
Prior to joining the Licensing Enforcement and Homeowner Protection Unit, Akia served as the Deputy Attorney General for Litigation in Civil Rights and Employment with the Indiana Attorney General's office. In this role, she represented the State of Indiana, its agencies and officials in prosecution of Section 1983 and other constitutional actions.
Akia graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Notre Dame in 2004. Following completion of her undergraduate degree, she received a Juris Doctorate from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 2008. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar Association where she serves on the Written Publications and Legal Ethics Committees.
A native of Indianapolis, Akia enjoys staying active in her community. She has worked with the Indiana Maurer School of Law and Rebuilding the Wall as a volunteer in recent years. She has also served as an associate faculty member with the University of Phoenix.
The Indiana Civil Rights Commission enforces the Indiana civil rights laws and provides education and services to the public in an effort to ensure equal opportunity for all Hoosiers and visitors to the State of Indiana.


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Details of massive police raids across southern Ontario revealed at Cambridge press conference
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Evidence, seized after a four month investigation resulted in 28 search warrants executed in 11 communities across southern Ontario, is spread out on a table at a press conference at the Waterloo Regional Police Headquarters in Cambridge, Ont. on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Police have made 30 arrests and laid over 100 charges after recovering 31 guns, 1075 rounds of ammunition, an explosive device, 2 prohibited weapons, 16 vehicles and just under $80,000 in Canadian and U.S. currency in the raids. CRAIG GLOVER/The London Free Press/QMI AGENCY
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Police agencies in southern Ontario seized nearly three dozen guns, more than a thousand rounds of ammo, and a home-made bomb, along with piles of cash and drugs following the lengthy investigation of an auto-detailing centre.
The drug investigation in Waterloo region began four months ago at a car-care business and led police from seven different agencies to seize drugs with a street value of $225,000, police said at a press conference in Cambridge Thursday.
Police also seized $80,000 in Canadian and U.S. bills and more than a dozen vehicles.
Waterloo Regional Police showed off the massive haul of confiscated material after a co-ordinated swoop down by tactical teams in 11 southern Ontario communities.
Police arrested 30 people in the investigation and 200 charges were laid.
The operation, code-named Project Noex. was named after a car-care centre in Kitchener called No Excuse.
"Is this a message to other traffickers and dealers? It tells them we will track them and we will find them," said Waterloo regional police Insp. Greg Lamport.
Wednesday's busts — others unfolded in previous weeks — took place in Kitchener, Cambridge, Elmira, Elora, Fergus, Palmerston, Dundalk, Whitechurch, Toronto, Kingston and Lyndhurst Township.
Officers took part from Waterloo Region, Guelph, Halton Region, Hamilton, Kingston, Toronto and OPP from Bruce, Grey and Wellington counties.
Taken off the street, police say, were methamphetamine, powder cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, patches for the powerful pain killer fentanyl and prescription pills.
The busts mean a "significant disruption of the illegal drug trade in methamphetamine and heroin," they said.
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As the saying goes, "boys will be boys," but the mother of a 3-year-old balked at paying $2,500 for what her toddler did in his front yard.
Children who are potty training will go to the bathroom when they want to go, but for Dillan, he decided to be a big boy and stop what he was doing so he wouldn't wet his pull up.
"Dillan pulled down his pants to pee outside, I guess, and the cop pulled up and asked for my license and told me he was going to give me a ticket for public urination," said Ashley Warden, the boy's mother.
And of course, this all occurred in Piedmont, OK, leading to all sorts of jokes about the attempted tinkle.
Jennifer Warden, the toddler's grandmother, explained to the police that the boy was only a child. She said they informed her that it didn't matter, it was considered public urination.
"I said 'we are on our property,' and he said 'It was is in public view,'" Jennifer Warden said.
The family said the street is quite rural. They live on 2.5 acres and say the officer that wrote the ticket parks at the end of their street daily. The family asked why.
"He said this is a public street, and he wants to so he can," the boy's grandmother said.
So the Wardens filed a complaint with the police department.
"I am disappointed that the officer thinks this is what he needs to do with my tax dollars by sitting and harassing our family," Jennifer Warden said.
The boy's mother said as a courtesy the officer wrote down the cost of the ticket. It was $2,500.
"For $2,500 we should be able to pee anywhere," Jennifer Warden said.
Her plans to fighting the ticket since she says her son didn't actually finish the act drew international headlines.
And now the police chief is saying the officer should have handled the situation better. Mayor Valerie Thomerson said it was "stupid," and the situation has been rectified.
"I have heard more jokes about 'Peedmont' today, some of them have frankly been hilarious," Thomerson said.
"There are other ways to resolve something like that. I am a big believer in community policing and treating everybody with dignity and respect," said Chief Alex Oblein. "It's an embarrassment to the city of Piedmont absolutely. Do I still support our police officers? Absolutely, but not this."
Oblein went to the Wardens' home to personally apologize and say the ticket will be tossed out.
Both the chief and mayor said they would discuss the issue with the officer, but could not discuss it further since it is a personnel issue.
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Police in Oak Park are looking for two men in connection with a reported assault from an 18-year-old woman on Thursday, July 3.
The victim reported she was walking toward the front door of her house in the 23000 block of Republic when she noticed two men approaching her.
�As the victim began to run onto her front porch, one of the subjects grabbed her by the hair forcing her to the ground,� a statement from the department said.
Police said the woman�s dog began barking from inside the home as she struggled with the two men. She reported to the police that the men fled after that and ran northward. Police said the woman suffered a minor scrape to her arm and no medical attention was required.
Both the suspects are described as white men in their 20s. One of the suspects is 6-feet tall with dark hair and a short dark beard. The other suspect is described as 5-foot-5, with short blonde hair and clean-shaven.
Oak Park Public Safety Director Steve Cooper said he is not aware of any previous attacks of this nature in the area.


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dont give a fuk about fruitty cent & his wack ass crew....im only postin this cuz this pussy didnt have the balls to step to WU in anyway (lyrically or physically) after gettin slaughtered on Paper Plates...but now his Gay-Unit crew wanna gang rape 1 man
"Who shot ya? U dont have enough on your roster
U move like a fed, but u talk like a mobster"
A video has surfaced showing rapper Gunplay getting his head slammed into a metal barricade outside the BET Awards Sunday night in Atlanta -- and it appears 50 Cent was part of the violent mob.
The clip shows 50 in the parking lot with his crew -- and out of nowhere, a massive brawl breaks out ... with rapper Gunplay on the receiving end of a ferocious attack.
Gunplay weathered the initial onslaught and managed to fight back, even though he was largely outnumbered.
It's hard to see in the shaky footage if 50 threw a punch -- or got involved at all -- but someone can be heard on camera saying, "That was 50 fighting too!" Gunplay called in to TMZ Live Monday, saying 50 Cent was involved in the action ... but was "hiding behind security."
We reached out to 50 for comment, so far no word back -- but G-Unit rapper Mike Knox (who appears in the clip) said in a radio interview this morning, "The only thing I can tell you is [Gunplay] was in the wrong place at the wrong time and he was acting a certain kinda way that he shouldn't have been actin' ... So, he got dealt with ... He got his ass kicked.


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NASHVILLE (AP) – The Tennessee State Parks system is sponsoring hikes at the start of the new year to commemorate its 75th anniversary.
State Environment and Conservation Commissioner Bob Martineau says each state park will host its own special hike in the first few days of 2013.
Officials say the free, guided hikes will vary, with short ones for novice hikers, and longer ones for the more experienced hikers.
The hikes are part of America's State Parks First Day Hikes initiative in all 50 states, which officials say give individuals an opportunity to begin the new year rejuvenating and connecting with the outdoors.
In addition to the hikes, Tennessee State Parks is also hosting a variety of special events in the upcoming year in celebration of the 75th Anniversary.
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2012 Towson University Men's Lacrosse
Game Notes: Game #1 at Jacksonville
Feb. 11, 2012 | 1 p.m. | Jacksonville, Fla.
Tigers and Dolphins Meet for First Time Ever in Men's Lacrosse
Opening Face-Off
Opening their 54th season of college lacrosse, the Tigers will travel to Jacksonville University on Saturday afternoon to face the Dolphins in the first-ever meeting between the two teams. Opening face-off from D.B. Milne Field is set for 1 p.m. The game will be broadcast on TowsonTigers.com and joined in progress on WNST-AM 1570 after the Tiger men's basketball game against James Madison concludes.
Nadelen to Make Debut as Tigers' Head Coach
After spending seven years as an assistant coach, including the last two seasons as the associate head coach, Coach Shawn Nadelen will make his head coaching debut when the Tigers travel to Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon. A 2001 graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Nadelen was named as the seventh head coach in the 54-year history of Towson men's lacrosse on May 31. He replaces Tony Seaman, who posted a 99-93 record in 13 years with the Tigers.
A Quick Look Back at Last Year
The Tigers posted a 3-10 record last year and missed the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament for just the second time since joining the league in 2002. Five of the Tigers' losses were by a one-goal margin and two of the Tigers' three wins occurred at Johnny Unitas® Stadium. Junior attackman Matt Hughes was the Tigers' leading scorer with 18 goals and 6 assists while defenseman Marc Ingerman was a second-team All-CAA selection.
Scouting the Dolphins
Entering their third season as a Division I program, the Dolphins posted a 5-10 record last year, including a 3-3 mark in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Led by TJ Kenary, the Dolphins advanced to the MAAC semi-finals for the first time in program history before losing to Siena. Kenary scored 21 goals with 7 assists while goalkeeper Peter DeLuca posted an 11.60 goals against average while stopping 50.8 per cent of the shots he faced. Coach Guy Van Arsdale is in his first season at Jacksonville.
Nice to Meet You
The Tigers and the Dolphins will be facing each other for the first time in men's lacrosse when the two teams meet on Saturday afternoon. Jacksonville is one of two teams that the Tigers will be playing against for the first time; Towson will host Mercer on Mar. 21 at Johnny Unitas® Stadium.
For Openers
The Tigers will be playing in the 54th season opener when they visit the Dolphins on Saturday afternoon. However, the Tigers will be looking to snap a four-game losing streak in season openers after losing a 10-6 decision against Johns Hopkins last year at Unitas Stadium. The Tigers enter the 2012 season with a 23-30 all-time record in season openers.
For Openers, Part II
Towson first-year Coach Shawn Nadelen is looking to become the fifth coach in the program's history to open his head coaching tenure with a victory. Of the previous six coaches at Towson, only Bob Melville and Ross Sachs have lost their first game as the Tigers' coach.
Nadelen Among Nation's Youngest Division I Head Coaches
Towson Coach Shawn Nadelen begins his head coaching tenure as one of the youngest head coaches in Division I men's lacrosse. Nadelen, who will turn 33 on Apr. 16, is one of 12 coaches who are under the age of 40 years old. Marist College Coach Keegan Wilkinson is the youngest head coach in the nation at 27 years old while Robert Morris first-year Coach Andrew McMinn is 29 years old.
Boys of Winter
Saturday's game between the Tigers and the Dolphins will mark the earliest start to a season in the 54-year history of the Towson men's lacrosse program. The previous record for the earliest start in school history occurred last year when the Tigers hosted Johns Hopkins on Feb. 19. It is also the earliest start in the brief history of the Dolphins' program. North Caro
Heading Down South
Saturday's game between the Tigers and the Dolphins will mark the furthest south that Towson has ever traveled for a men's lacrosse game. Prior to Saturday, the Tigers' southern-most travel was to North Carolina for games against Duke, N.C. State and North Carolina. The Tigers will fly a total of 735 miles to Jacksonville for the game on Saturday.
A Friend Turned Foe
When the Tigers open the season on Saturday afternoon, they will be playing against a former Tiger midfielder as Brock Armour, '10 is a member of the Jacksonville coaching staff. A four-year letter winner for the Tigers from 2007-10, Armour played in 52 career games and scored 15 goals with 19 assists. As a senior, he played in all 15 games and tallied four goals with 10 assists. Armour, a native of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is in his first season as a member of the Dolphins' coaching staff.
Pack Your Bags
The Tigers will open the season by playing their first three games away from Johnny Unitas® Stadium. It is the first time since the 1994 season that the Tigers have played three straight true road games to open the season (Towson played three games away from home in 2005, but one of them was a neutral site game against Air Force that was played at the University of Denver). In 1994, the Tigers opened the season with three straight road wins at Villanova, Maryland and Penn State.
Close Calls
Of the Tigers' 13 games last season, 10 of them were decided by four goals or less. In addition, the Tigers played in six one-goal games and lost five of those six contests. Since the start of the 2010 season, the Tigers have played in 22 games that have been decided by four goals or less, including 11 one-goal games.
A Little Something Extra
Senior midfielder Michael Brashears ranked second on the Tigers last year with three extra-man goals, including a pair of extra-man goals against Drexel on Apr. 23 at Vidas Field. In fact, all seven of Brashears' career goals have been scored in extra-man situations. He scored four extra-man goals as a sophomore, including a pair of extra-man goals against Drexel.
Hughes is Huge for Tigers Away from Home
Junior attackman Matt Hughes enjoyed playing away from Unitas Stadium last year, scoring 11 of his team-high 18 goals in the Tigers' six road games. He posted a pair of three-goal efforts against Mount St. Mary's on Mar. 5 and at Navy on Mar. 15. Hughes also had two goals with an assist at Delaware on Mar. 26 before a two-goal performance against Penn State on Apr. 16. It was a large contrast to Hughes' freshman season when he tallied 11 of his 13 goals at home.
Iacona, Kenyon Named as Tigers' Team Captains
Senior midfielder Carl Iacona and senior defenseman John Kenyon were named as the Tigers' 2012 team captains prior to the team's scrimmage against Albany on Feb. 4 by a vote of the team. Iacona is a two-year letter winner who has played in all 28 games for the Tigers since transferring from St. John's University after his freshman season. He has scored 14 goals with seven assists in the last two years. Meanwhile, Kenyon is a three-year letter winner who ranked second on the team with 38 ground balls last year. He has played in 42 career games and has 50 ground balls.
Up Next for the Tigers
The Tigers will continue their season-opening three-game road trip next Friday when they travel to second-ranked Johns Hopkins for a 5 p.m. match-up against the Blue Jays. The game will be broadcast on ESPNU and ESPN3.com in addition to airing on WNST-AM 1570. It will mark the 40th all-time meeting between the two teams in a series that Johns Hopkins leads by a 36-3 margin. The Blue Jays earned a 10-6 victory last year at Unitas Stadium in the season opener for both teams.


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Are you guys that desperate as fans that this is something to really cherish; that we have the best CB in the league?
They (might) be offering two high picks for Revis. Nobody wants to pay this guy, or they would be lining up for him. He may also NEVER be the same. How's that egg going to look on all your faces when he only comes back at say 75 percent and we get d*ck for him?
Yeah, I'll gamble here; I'll take the 1st and 2nd rounder next year and walk out the door laughing.
A 1st and 2nd next year is great.
Team has to get a pick this year, at least a 3rd, anything better is gravy.
Personally, Tampa should give up at least a #1 and a #2 and probably a #3 as well. Preferably the #1 this year. But overall I hope Revis signs a sensible extension with the Jets, gets back to his top form and helps the D be dominant with one less need. Look forward to Jets picking up Jarvis Jones in the draft.
If i'm the G.M.
I'm getting this years 2nd, next years first~
The sticking point is they're offering a 4th next year as well
and I want in to turn into a 2nd .
Gonna take some time..we'll get it done.
In the end..This years 2nd....next years 1st and 3rd?
sounds good to me~
If this is true about the Bucs, then the deal should be as follows:
2013 -- 3rd Rounder
2014 -- 1st Rounder
2014 -- 2nd Rounder
Anything less would be a bad trade for the Jets. They need these 3 extra picks to help rebuild their roster and they can't walk away with no help from the 2013 draft in making the trade.
Also, this rumor is likely coming from the Bucs side. If its reported that they're willing to give up a 1st and a 2nd in 2014 it means that they're willing to give up more.
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I find it hard to believe that is the real offer. TB is father from being good then we are. If this was Indy or Denver OK but that seems like a great haul. I can only imagine that is IF Revis signs a new deal. Which I just doubt he does. If this is truly the money wanting Revis we have seen in the past he is going to want to go FA next year. I highly doubt he excepts that 12-13 mil deal being posted when he could get 13-14 mil in FA. If he doesn't sign what is the real deal? That is why we want the picks this year IMO. I wouldn't take any deal based on him resigning with the team. Like any good hooker you get your money up front and then take it. Oh never mind.
LOL... Sorry, I Didn't read all of these posts, but how do these GM discussions go?
Idzik: You suck, can I have your first and 2nd pick next year? All you have to do is pay him 12 or 13 million per year.....
Dominik: Ok
Really ????? Trust me people, Its not happening.
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Unless the Bucs are offering two 1st rounders, I wouldn't budge.
Keyshawn went for that amount. Now, there isn't anybody here that's actually going to tell me that Keyshawn was worth it and Darrelle Revis isn't??????
BTW, when the report about the Jets shopping Revis came out, it said the PATSIES were interested in getting him. Where they are a divisional rival, and if they really want him, their price is THREE 1st round draft choices, no less.
mainejet, Keyshawn wasn't coming off an ACL and going to cost the Bucs 12-15 million.


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Unemployment is serious business: Time for Congress to step up
In December, the unemployment benefits for over one million people expired, because Congress did not renew the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program.
Today (Tuesday), the Senate, in a 60-37 vote (barely squeaking by a filibuster) decided to move forward with a three-month extension. Five Republican senators voted yes, but with the caveat that they want the cost of benefits offset by other expenses. The Senate will now begin negotiations to pass the legislation
It is a good step toward protecting the long-term unemployed, who have an upward climb in front of them in looking for work. (A person who has been unemployed for more than 27 weeks only has a 12 percent chance each month of getting a job, and there are about 2.9 unemployed workers for every job opening.)
But the extension of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program faces a more serious hurdle: the House, where two Catholics, John Boehner and Paul Ryan, are the gatekeepers. So far, Boehner does not seem inclined to support the extension without offsetting the expenses elsewhere in the budget.
For millions of people who are out of work, unemployment assistance gives them the ability to meet their basic needs while they search for work. This helps families to get food on the table and to keep the lights on. It doesn't provide much else.
Congress has done very little in terms of actually addressing the long-term unemployment crisis that this country is facing. There are some ideas floating out there from economists and policy wonks alike. In 2011, President Obama proposed the American Jobs Act, which was completely shuttered by House leadership.
So something needs to get done in order to help out those people who are working to beat the rather incredible odds in the job market, because it is a real problem for individuals, for communities, and for the country as a whole. But in the mean time, Congress should step up and at least help them to keep the lights on.


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STONEHAM — Darius McPherson shot through a gap in the line as if he was fired from a cannon.
After a quick cut to the right, he made a 60-yard dash to the end zone, not a defender from Wakefield High in sight. On Stoneham High's third play of the second half, the junior back made a sharper cut to the left and ripped off a 71-yard scoring run.
McPherson has been honing all of his backfield skills, running, cutting, and blocking, since the seventh grade, his second year suiting up in the Stoneham Youth Football program.
That was not an option for aspiring football players in town until 2002, when Stoneham started a Pop Warner program. Prior to that, players strapped on their pads and helmets to play in programs in Wakefield or Melrose. In 2008, the program switched its affiliation to the American Football Association, which does not turn away players because of weight restrictions.
This season, fielding a roster in which 90 percent of the players have developed their skills through the youth program, the Spartans have rolled to a 7-1 record. Stoneham was 2-31 the previous three seasons.
"It's a big difference to get kids in the town playing with each other," said Stoneham High athletic director Dave Pignone , who also serves on the youth program's board of directors.
"They're starting to get the pride of being a Spartan, and we have a great connection with the high school to bridge between the youth program. I truly believe that's a big piece in growing the program."
Pignone was head football coach for two seasons (2010, 2011) before stepping aside in January to focus on his administrative duties. His associate coach, Bob Almeida, formerly in charge of programs at Somerville, Wilmington, and Malden Catholic, guided Stoneham to a 7-0 start before a 42-28 loss to Wakefield.
Almeida has worked closely with his defensive line coach, Chris Yancey , the youth program's director of football, to establish a strong relationship with the players and coaches.
"I think if you look at the most successful public school programs, they have strong feeder programs," said Almeida. "It certainly was in place when I came here and we do everything in our power to keep that bond strong and support one another.
"We have a large number of youth football players at our games, and our players go down and volunteer on game days at the youth field," Almeida said. "The [younger] kids look at [the high school players] as people they want to aspire to be like, and it's really wonderful."
Since the youth program's inception, there's been a perpetual focus on building a strong understanding of the game and its principles.
"We want to teach the values of the sport," Almeida said. "We want to treat kids the right way. I'd like to believe the kids on our team that don't see as much playing time are still having a great experience, and we try to do that at the youth level.
"It's important those kids have a good feeling, because nothing would upset me more than one young kid leaving the sport because of bad experience."
The switch to American Youth Football was important.
"The fact we're no longer in Pop Warner, bigger kids are allowed to play," Almeida said. "I think most of the kids have come away from the program with a fundamental understanding of the sport, and I think they're getting a good base in those areas when they come through us."
McPherson, who paces the Spartans with 11 touchdowns, remembers learning to play the game with teammates like junior running back Aaron Louis and wide receiver David LaBossierre .
"I think it helps because we've been through the worst already, and we have a lot of chemistry," McPherson said. "In eighth grade, we made it to the playoffs and lost in the first round to Beverly 6-0 in double overtime."
Stoneham (7-1, 2-1 Middlesex League) has a tough road ahead, kicking off with Friday's game at Middlesex Freedom division leader Burlington (7-1, 3-0), followed by Melrose (5-3, 2-1), and Middlesex Liberty leader Reading (8-0, 4-0).
Stoneham senior quarterback Andrew Cann never played in the youth football program. Nonetheless, he acknowledged the magnitude of the closeness of the team and the effect it has had.
"The chemistry is there, and that plays a big part in playing together," Cann said. "Everyone is supportive of each other, and now we have to focus on Burlington."
Miller connects for Wakefield
Senior quarterback Mike Miller has directed Wakefield to a 7-1 start (2-1 Middlesex League). He tossed three touchdown passes against Stoneham, including a pair to 6-foot-2 senior Bruce Brown .
"We knew we had to put some points on the board, and Mike did a great job," Wakefield coach Mike Boyages said.
"Bruce is tough to cover. We go five [receivers] across, and [Stoneham] had to play man-to-man, and Miller is a good runner to keep them honest."
Rothwell powers Pentucket
Pentucket running back Cody Rothwell wasn't going to accept a loss against Saugus Saturday afternoon, as the two teams battled for a precious Cape Ann/Northeastern (Division 3) victory.
With just six minutes left in the fourth quarter, his team trailing 26-22, Rothwell ripped off a 61-yard touchdown — his fourth of the day — as the Sachems (5-3, 2-0) stole a 28-26 win.
"I saw an opening, but it closed really quick," said Rothwell, who finished with 264 yards in the win. "So I cut it back, and from there the outside was open and I used my speed to take it away."
The elusive senior back has been untouchable as of late, rushing for eight touchdowns in his last two games, and running for 100-plus yards in six of the last seven games.
"It's a combination of good blocking and the play calling," Rothwell said. "I'm also seeing the field well, and that gets me to the open field."
Pentucket, Amesbury (6-2, 2-0) and Newburyport (5-3, 2-0) are all jockeying for the top spot in the conference, and the Sachems will play both teams in the next two weeks.
Scarpa sets Andover record
Andover quarterback C.J. Scarpa passed for three touchdowns and rushed for another in a 44-22 win over Chelmsford. Scarpa has set single-season school records for touchdown passes (24) and passing yards (1,826 yards) this season.Anthony Gulizia can be reached at email@example.com.


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Rookie Rene Tosoni belted his first career grand slam and Anthony Swarzak won for the first time in 10 starts as the Minnesota Twins prevented their 100th loss of the season Tuesday with a 7-4 home triumph over the Kansas City Royals.
Rookie Chris Parmelee homered and fellow first-year player Ben Revere had an RBI triple for Minnesota (62-99), which is trying to avoid the second 100-loss campaign in franchise history. The 1982 rendition of the Twins went 60-102.
With the Twins nursing a 3-2 lead in the sixth inning, Vin Mazzaro replaced Royals starter Steve O'Sullivan (2-6) and promptly served up Tosoni's fifth homer of the season and second in three games.
O'Sullivan was making his first start since biceps tendinitis put him on the disabled list. He permitted six runs on nine hits in five innings.
Swarzak (4-7) secured his first win since Aug. 3 after allowing two runs on 10 hits in 6 1/3 innings.
Rookie Johnny Giavotella collected three hits and Lorenzo Cain recorded his first RBI of the season with a run-scoring single for Kansas City, which fell for the fourth time in 15 games.


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Veal osso bucco with quinoa and lemon myrtle gremolata
By Glen Barratt
2 kg veal osso bucco
1/2 cup plain flour
1/4 cup oil
2 small onions cut into wedges
3 carrots cut into pieces
2 cloves garlic crushed
400g tin diced tomatoes
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 cup white wine
1 cup beef stock
4 sprigs thyme
8 sage leaves
2 bay leaves
1 cup quinoa
2 cups water
Salt and pepper
Place an ovenproof dish on grill away from direct heat. Add diced tomatoes, tomato paste, white wine, beef stock, thyme, sage and bay leaves. Heat flat grill to medium-high.
Coat osso bucco with flour dusting off excess. Oil grill and cook meat each side until nicely browned. Place into dish under sauce. Move dish closer to heat so sauce gently simmers.
Cook onion and carrot adding garlic once caramelized. Remove from grill and add to sauce. Lightly season and cover with lid. Turn grill off with the exception of one burner turned to low. Move dish away from direct heat, drop hood over BBQ and cook for two hours at 150c. Alternatively place in preheated oven at 150c for two hours.
Place quinoa in a fine sieve and wash under running water. Place in a small pot, add water and bring to the boil. Reduce to a gentle simmer, cover and cook 10 to 15 minutes until all water is absorbed. Gently fold and fluff up quinoa.
Lemon Myrtle Gremolata
4 young lemon myrtle leaves, stem removed, finely sliced
2 tablespoons Italian parsley finely sliced
1 tablespoon fennel flowers
1 teaspoon fresh green parsley seeds
4 young garlic shoots finely sliced
Place all ingredients in a small bowl and gently combine.
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FREDERICKSBURG, VA – The York College men's tennis team faced a pair of the top squads in Fredericksburg, VA on Friday and Saturday.
On Friday, the Spartans fell to Christopher Newport 9-0. On Saturday, the Green and White dropped a 9-0 decision to #17 Mary Washington 9-0.
In the match against the Captains, played tough but were unable to capture any victories. The third doubles team of Jake Greenstein (Morris Plains, N.J./Parsippany Hills) and Nathaniel Hoskins (Gap, Pa./Pequea Valley) battled Lloyd Luck and Jake Smith but eventually dropped an 8-5 decision.
In singles play, Matt Rosenkrantz (Longmeadow, Mass./Longmeadow) dropped a 6-2, 6-3 seconds singles decision to Steven Boslet.
In Saturday's match against Mary Washington, the Green and White did not win more than three games in any of their doubles matches.
Rosenkrantz played well in his second singles match, as did Hoskins in the third singles match as the two Spartans dropped 6-1, 6-4 decisions in their respective matches.
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Bruinvis, Jan (18th century)
Jan Bruinvis (Bruinvisch), a member of the Alkmaar Mennonite Bruinvis family, lived in Königsberg, Prussia, where he had established the largest warehouse in that city. He assisted with word and deed the Lithuanian Mennonites, who by an edict of Frederick William of Prussia (22 February 1732) had been expelled from Königsberg, but were later allowed to return and stay in the territory, the decree having been revoked. He acted as a mediator between these Mennonites and the Dutch Fonds voor Buitenlandsche Nooden and wrote a number of letters to Amsterdam, the first of which is dated 12 August 1711, and the latest 23 June 1744. A number of Lithuanian Mennonite families took ship at Königsberg for Holland; of these Bruinvis sent a list to the Amsterdam Commissie. Most of them returned in course of time. Bruinvis had assisted them in procuring passage to Holland, and when they returned, he helped them find land and houses, authorized financially to do so by the Dutch Commissie. He also acted in be half of the congregation of the Elbing Werder at Markushof. Bruinvis was a wealthy man, who liberally gave large amounts of money of his own for the sake of the oppressed Mennonites. Bruinvis was a member--and presumably a deacon--of the Königsberg Mennonite congregation. In a letter written by Jan Pieter Spronck, the minister of the church, dated 16 May 1735 to the Dutch committee (Inv. Arch. Amst. II, 2, No. 796) Bruinvis is accused of marrying outside the church, and of consenting to have his children baptized as infants. Nothing is known about his life; even the years of birth and death are unknown and it is not clear whether he himself after returning from Prussia to Holland, or his son, founded (about 1750) the Handelshuis (trading company) Bruinvis en Barreveld at Amsterdam.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: v. I, Nos. 1236, 1593, 1653, 1665, 1672, 1686, 1692, 1696, 1933, 2119; II, 2, Nos. 699, 746, 749, 753, 755, 758, 760 f., 765 f., 770, 772, 779, 784 f., 796, 806 f.
Randt, Erich. Die Mennoniten in Ostpreussen und Litauen bis zum Jahre 1772. Königsberg i. Pr.?: E. Randt, 1912: 57.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1953). Bruinvis, Jan (18th century). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 27 May 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bruinvis,_Jan_(18th_century)&oldid=110600.
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LOWELL -- The Sun is appealing to Secretary of State William Galvin's Office a public-records request sent to Lowell police on March 2 in connection with the death of Alyssa Brame, 31.
The Massachusetts Public Records law gives government agencies a maximum of 10 business days to respond to such requests. The request filed by The Sun on March 2 has now gone unanswered for more than 40 days.
Requests that are denied and requests that fail to generate a response can be appealed to the Supervisor of Records within Galvin's office anywhere from 10 to 90 days after being submitted to the relevant government agency.
Brame was found dead in a Lowell police holding cell in the early morning hours of Jan. 12, 2013, after she lay unconscious in the cell for more than an hour without being checked on in person, according to investigations conducted by the Middlesex District Attorney's Office and Lowell police.
An internal investigation into Brame's death conducted by a three-member Board of Inquiry revealed that detention attendants in charge of monitoring Brame had "little or no training," and did not have required medical certifications.
Five city police employees are facing termination or suspension in connection with allegations they neglected their duty and committed other infractions on the morning that Brame died.
The Sun has obtained documents showing the patrolman's union had earlier expressed concerns to department commanders about patrolmen's inability to get copies of the policies and procedures that were allegedly violated the morning Brame died.
The Sun has requested copies of all investigative and internal-affairs reports created by Lowell police in connection with the Dec. 23, 2007, death of Walter Paine, who, like Brame, died while being held in a Lowell Police Department holding cell.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2002 in the case of Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp. v. Chief of Police of Worcester that internal affairs reports are public records, since they are "different in kind from the ordinary evaluations, performance assessments and disciplinary determinations encompassed in the public records exemption for 'personnel (file) or information.' "
Thus far, the only responses received by The Sun came from Superintendent Bill Taylor, who acknowledged receipt of the newspaper's request and said he was working with the city Law Department to evaluate it.
City Solicitor Christine O'Connor has provided updates on the request by telephone, and in person at an April 15 City Council meeting, where she said police had supplied the Law Department with the relevant documents, but that those documents were subsequently lost.
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SPRINGFIELD -- The first bird and mosquito batches of the year have tested positive for West Nile virus in Illinois.
The Illinois Department of Public Health said Tuesday that the Chicago Department of Public Health collected a crow May 16 that tested positive. State and DuPage County Health Department workers collected positive mosquito samples on May 17. The mosquitoes were from Lemont and Norridge in Cook County, and Clarendon Hills, Hinsdale, Lisle, Westmont and Woodridge in DuPage County.
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Two more hits and one more Giants win. I'm watching Sandoval and I'm thinking, "This man will never draw a walk," because he swings at everything, and also he's probably going to strike out a lot. So I checked his stats and he's walked once, but amazingly has only struck out twice. His OBP,.441, is barely higher than his AVG, .438.
What remains to be seen is how much power he can eventually conjure. You look at those massive thighs and buns and you know he's as strong as an ox, but he's not even trying to hit anything but singles. I'm not complaining, just wondering "What's next?"


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Worried about "summer slide" for your child this summer? Children who do not read and write over the summer break can lose up to half a grade level in reading ability.
Your local public library has a summer reading program that can help. For Rockford Public Library users, the summer reading program, PAWS for Reading, kicks off with a celebration from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 7 at the corner of Jefferson and Wyman streets. For North Suburban Library users, the summer reading program, PAWS TO READ, begins June 2. Both summer reading clubs offer many activities and incentives to keep students reading over the summer. For more details contact your library branch or consult your library's website: rockfordpubliclibrary.org for Rockford or northsuburbanlibrary.org for Loves Park, Machesney Park and Roscoe.
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Seniors Champion Innovative Renewable Energy Projects
- 07-17-2013
- By Amanda Kenyon Waite
Tad Cooke and Erick Crockenberg are masters of synergy -- the idea that individual elements, when brought together, will produce an effect greater than they could have on their own. It's true for the duo, who have been friends since their childhood in Charlotte, Vt. Now, as seniors at UVM, they've created an award-winning project that aims to improve the synergistic potential for Vermont farms.
At UVM's Horticulture Research Center in South Burlington, the pair have installed a heat capturing system designed to extend a greenhouse's growing capacity. In the depths of winter in Vermont, an unheated hoophouse might be able to boost the temperature during the day to keep growing plants safe, but once the sun goes down, crops are at risk. Heat must be provided, but that means the cost of production increases (as does the farm's use of fossil fuels and its resulting carbon footprint).
To solve this problem, Cooke and Crockenberg are testing whether a cheap material readily available to many Vermont farmers -- a waste product, in fact -- can be used to heat a greenhouse at a minimal cost. The material? Cow manure. As manure and stall bedding decomposes, it produces heat, which if redirected, could prove useful to a chilly greenhouse in January. In Cooke and Crockenberg's design, this "feedstock compost" is collected and piled up outside the greenhouse and kept covered. A fan draws air through the pile, down to porous PVC pipes leading underground into the greenhouse and distributes the warmed air to a bed of nutrient-rich soil where crops are planted. The plants, now able to thrive thanks to a warmer environment, also scrub the incoming air of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, improving their own health, saving the farmer on future fertilization needs and protecting the environment from greenhouse gases. A win, win (win, win, win). Synergy in action.
It's based on a concept that's been used on a larger scale, like at New Alchemy Institute in Massachusetts, founded by UVM professor emeritus and ecological design pioneer John Todd, whose class was an inspiration to Cooke and Crockenberg their sophomore year. But it hasn't yet been adapted and perfected at this scale, which is ideal for a farm with both a small dairy herd and vegetable production -- just the sort of operation found in Vermont and the Northeast.
The pair hopes to create a model, easily adaptable and affordable to implement for local farmers. "Getting our system right means we can show farmers how much it might cost them and what the benefits might be. We don't want this to be an added burden but to have net positive impact with minimal effort and minimal expense." Cooke says. "Nothing that we're doing is that expensive or complicated -- except the testing." Over the coming winter, they'll take that testing on, monitoring temperatures in the compost pile, the pipes, the growing area, the greenhouse air, and an unheated, partitioned area of the greenhouse. With the help of four student interns, Cooke and Crockenberg will also conduct nutrient testing. Results will inform them whether and how to make tweaks and improvements.
Funding and support for their endeavor comes from UVM's Clean Energy Fund, a student-led initiative begun in 2008 that collects $10 from the fees of each student per semester and funds worthy projects that advance renewable energy research, education, and infrastructure on campus. "What's most exciting about Tad and Erick is their enthusiasm," says Mieko Ozeki, manager of the Clean Energy Fund in the Office of Sustainability. "And they've really been able to get other students excited about this project."
It's not the only award received by Cooke and Crockenberg, both self-designed majors in ecological food and energy systems. In its early phases, their project was also a recipient of a UVM Public Research and Civic Endeavors Scholarship, which allowed them to investigate compost energy capture at Bread & Butter Farm in Shelburne. And in 2012, Cooke was named a Udall Scholar, the most prestigious undergraduate award in the country for students pursuing careers focused on environmental issues. Crockenberg followed with an honorable mention in the Udall competition in 2013.
Moran plan
If it seems they've reached the height of what two students can accomplish in four years of college, think again. They've also submitted an ambitious proposal to the City of Burlington to revamp the waterfront's Moran Plant, once a coal-fired power plant, now a derelict building. Their vision: use the heritage of the building and the waterfront to showcase renewable energy and agriculture innovation along with the cultural wealth of Burlington today. Their proposal, Moran Ecological, brings mutually beneficial businesses together to create an environmentally and financially sustainable facility.
How does it work? Their design draws on the same systems-based concepts as the greenhouse project. Waste produced on site, including spent brewing grains from Zero Gravity Brewing, and organic matter from farm-to-table eateries developed by the Farmhouse Group, will feed an anaerobic digester to create heat and energy for the building, and, in fact, enough extra to sell to the Burlington electric grid and create a heating district for surrounding structures. Its proximity to the lake and the bike path will make the site a community gathering space and tourist destination, and the science contained within will provide educational opportunities ranging from pre-school to post-doc.
Out of more than 50 proposals for waterfront reinvestment projects in Burlington, Moran Ecological was the second-highest rated overall and the highest among Moran-specific proposals and has advanced to the next round. If advanced again this fall, Burlington residents could have the option to vote to fund the project as early as March 2014.
Their blog, room9redevelopment.wordpress.com, further explains the project. The blog's name, and the name of their "fledgling firm," as they call it, "Room 9 Redevelopment" is an homage to a space within GreenHouse, the residential learning community where they lived on campus. There, they'd work late into the night with fellow students, writing, drawing, designing, talking -- energized by brainstorming and working as a team to make change happen. Now, poised to graduate this December, change is coming. And they're leading the way.