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It's becoming difficult to ignore home underdogs. We've had 12 so far — four in each of the first three weeks — and the home team has an impressive 8-4 record against the spread.
Six home teams are catching points Sunday (and St. Louis was a home dog Thursday night). One of them, Jacksonville, is winless and averaging 9 points per game. Another, Houston, is 2-1 and expected to make the playoffs.
Considering this season's numbers and historical trends (home underdogs have come in around 54 percent over the last 20 years), these games are worth a look.
This week's picks (home team in caps):
HOUSTON (+3) over Seattle: Before getting blown out last week, the Texans were actually leading the Ravens late in the second quarter before a pick-6 and a punt return for a touchdown changed the game. The Texans are 0-3 against the number and Seattle's defense is frightening, but Houston is a home team getting points that can move the ball. Risking $110 to win $100.
JACKSONVILLE (+8) over Indianapolis: The Jaguars are 0-3 against the spread, 0-3 in the standings, and have the worst offense in the NFL. But I'm siding with this seemingly dreadful team because it is home for the first time in three weeks and the Colts are playing their second straight road contest and coming off a huge win in San Francisco.
While it's hard to imagine the Colts losing, this is a divisional game, so it's not unreasonable to expect the Jaguars to eventually stay within the number. Seattle may have taken its foot off the gas while dismantling Jacksonville last week, but the Jags showed heart by scoring 17 second-half points. Risking $110 to win $100.
Pittsburgh (-1½) over Minnesota (game is in London): Both teams are desperate for their first win, and quarterback play indicates Pittsburgh has the edge. Ben Roethlisberger found his rhythm for the Steelers against Chicago, while Minnesota's Christian Ponder has banged-up ribs and was recently criticized by his position coach. Matt Cassel is Minnesota's backup quarterback. Risking $165 to win $100.
ATLANTA (-2) over New England: After facing E.J. Manuel, Geno Smith, and the newly benched Josh Freeman, the Patriots finally face an accomplished quarterback: Matt Ryan, who can lead a team downfield. Risking $110 to win $100.
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Boston Technologies generated 65 jobs from 2008 to 2011, resulting in job growth of over 983%, which ranks #28th in job creation across all companies with 1-10 employees in 2008.
"It can be tremendously challenging for an organization to add as many employees as quickly as we did while preserving the business philosophy that has made us successful – namely our focus on delivering value for our customers," said Kevin Millien, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer. "We are very fortunate to have a team of brilliant, passionate and inspired individuals whose tireless efforts have built our reputation for outstanding service. Our employees recognize that our customers need more than just great software – they need comprehensive support from an organization of people that is truly committed to their success."
After being founded in 2007 the company chose to self-finance its explosive growth. Boston Technologies was also named to Inc. Magazine's prestigious Inc.500 list in both 2011 (#143) and 2012 (#373). Additionally, the company was recently recognized as the #35 fastest-growing technology company in the US by Lead411. It is currently seeking its Series A round of financing as growth capital to pursue an aggressive global expansion strategy. Mr. Millien says that the company will continue to hire in 2013 in support of its fast-growing and diverse customer base.
Inc. is the only major business media brand aimed solely at CEOs of fast-growing private companies. The Hire Power Awards will appear in Inc.'s December/January issue, as well as the brand's web site, http://www.inc.com.
"The top 100 companies on the list have created 73,032 American jobs in the three-year period from 2008 to 2011 – an amazing feat, given that much of that job growth came during the heart of the recession," explains Inc. editor-in-chief Eric Schurenberg. "And it isn't just the big guys that are adding jobs. Companies with less than $50 million in annual revenue make up nearly one-third of the Hire Power list."
The inaugural Inc. Hire Power Awards are sponsored by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which is proud to recognize American companies that have greatly increased their workforces. Inc.'s Hire Power Awards celebrates private companies on the forefront of American job creation, giving these businesses the recognition they deserve.
About Boston Technologies
Boston Technologies is a world-leading innovator and "one-stop-shop" provider of software, algorithmic trading solutions, advanced trading platforms and professional trading services to the $4.9 trillion per day forex market. Founded in 2007, when it invented the MT4 Liquidity Bridge, the company has continued to innovate around the needs of its customers to provide comprehensive, end-to-end solutions focused on increasing their profitability. The company has customers in 38 countries, comprised of over 250 banks, brokerages, institutional traders and other foreign exchange market participants. Boston Technologies is headquartered in Boston with regional offices in London and Tokyo. For more Information, please visit http://www.bostontechnologies.com
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Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures, Inc. is the only major brand dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, with the aim to deliver real solutions for today's innovative company builders. Total monthly audience reach for the brand has grown significantly from 2,000,000 in 2010 to over 6,000,000 today. For more information, visit http://www.inc.com.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 57 million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 5,700 retail banking offices and approximately 17,250 ATMs and award-winning online banking with 30 million active users. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America Merrill Lynch offers industry-leading support to approximately 4 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. For more information, visit: http://corp.bankofamerica.com/business/smb.
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It might have turned out differently for Gomez, who turns 37 on New Year's Day, had he been able to ride on Sunday, but he was injured in a spectacular spill on Saturday at Santa Anita when his mount, Back At You, suddenly veered into the inner rail during the Eddie Logan Stakes for 2-year-olds.
"This was working out to become a pretty good story," Gomez, his left hand still heavily bandaged, said while recounting how Wednesday had unfolded. "But it was a just a blessing to be riding today," he added.
His first mount in the third race, Warren's Appeal, won by a neck while going wire-to-wire in a one-mile turf event to pay $13.60 as a 5-1 outsider. That victory was worth $18,000 and narrowed the gap between Gomez and Bailey to $61,454.
Two races later, Gomez's mount, Twin Turbo, stormed from last in a $10,000 claimer at seven furlongs to reach the wire by a desperate nose. Twin Turbo, who returned $7.20, earned $7,800. The margin was reduced to $58,654.
Riding the favorite, Kyniska, in the sixth, Gomez's mount was victorious by a head in the $56,000 allowance event at 1 1/8 miles on turf. Kyniska paid $5.20, earned $33,600, and now the rider nicknamed "Go-Go" was within $20,054 of the mark.
With a first prize of $45,360 awaiting the winner of the Kalookan Queen, the public bet Dearest Trickski down to 6-5 favoritism in the field of seven fillies and mares going 6½ furlongs over Santa Anita's Pro-Ride surface. Baroness Thatcher was the second choice at 3-1.
The 4-year-old filly, trained by Patrick Biancone, broke well, but was taken in hand by Gomez to track the early leaders while racing in fifth. She made a determined bid turning for home, but was no match for the top pair as Lovely Isle defeated High Resolve by 1¼ lengths with Baroness Thatcher another four lengths behind at the wire. She earned $9,072.
"I knew early on that she wasn't comfortable," Gomez said following the race. "Halfway up the backside, she was switching her leads and very uncomfortable. At that point, I had to resort to another plan, and I took her down to the inside to see if she'd run better there. She ran a good race, a much better race than how she was acting at the half-mile pole."
Gomez reiterated that he had no regrets about missing the record. "What was meant to be was meant to be," he said. "The fall the other day was unfortunate, but that's part of our world. I look at it this way. It was time to get some new teeth anyway."
As for the winner of the Kalookan Queen, Lovely Isle paid $15.40, $7.20 and $4.20 after running the distance in 1:15.31. Runner-up High Resolve, handled by Joel Rosario, returned $8.40 and $5. The show price on Baroness Thatcher was $3. Favored Dearest Trickski faded to sixth after pressing the early pace.
Espinoza expressed little empathy for Gomez's empty plight. "I needed that win, too," he stated. Trained by Bobby Frankel for Michael Bello, 3-year-old Florida-bred Lovely Isle bettered her record to 5-2-0 in 12 starts. The winning purse increased her career earnings to $238,376.
On New Year's Day, Santa Anita will present a 10-race program starting at 12 noon. The featured third race is the Grade III, $100,000 El Conejo Handicap at 5½ furlongs.


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The Football Association has banned Chelsea captain John Terry for four games.
Terry has also been handed a £220,000 fine after the disciplinary panel revealed their verdict at Wembley following four-days of evidence.
Despite being found not guilty in a magistrates' court for the same incident in July, the independent regulatory commission found the 31-year-old guilty of a charge that he directed abusive language with a racial connotation towards an opponent.
The charge relates to a high-profile incident between Terry and QPR defender Anton Ferdinand at Loftus Road on October 23rd during a Premier League match.
It has also led to Terry, who has pleaded his innocence throughout, retiring from international football with England.
The centre back has 14 days to appeal the suspension, and if Terry decides to challenge the decision, the ban would be delayed until the outcome of such a hearing. That means the defender will be available for Chelsea clash against Arsenal this weekend.
A Chelsea statement released following the verdict read: "Chelsea Football Club notes and respects today's decision by the Football Association regarding John Terry. We also recognise that John has the right to appeal that decision. It is therefore inappropriate for us to comment further on the matter at this time."
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – There have been no apparent arrests during the daily sing along inside the Wisconsin Capitol, even though protesters gathered yet again without the required permit. Capitol Police watched but did not appear to engage with any of the 50 or more protesters Wednesday inside the rotunda. In the past week, police have issued more than 120 tickets, mostly for gathering without a permit. Protesters say they have a free speech right to gather without a permit, even though a federal judge said the state can require it for groups larger than 20. A spokeswoman for the state Department of Administration, which oversees Capitol Police, did not immediately return a message Wednesday. Police last week were videotaping protesters so they could issue tickets later in the mail.
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Commercial real estate is making a strong come back for one Memphis brokerage firm as previously shelved projects come roaring back to life.
Edward Saig said that a rise of activity in 2012 demonstrates the ability of banks to lend in an era of tight regulation.
"In the last eight to nine months it's really picked up, I'd say 60 percent," said Saig, owner/president of NAI Saig Co.
"Before this recession, we were as busy as we've ever been in our lives. Since the recession hit and all banks have been pressured, a lot of companies held back. They're beginning to get their budgets and plans in place. We're seeing good activity in leasing and sales."
Sales and leasing in the manufacturing, industrial, warehouse and distribution sectors in particular are moving, though Saig said he expects his company's property management business to increase as well.
The company manages about 4 million square feet of space through a joint arrangement with another NAI company in Birmingham, Ala. While not Saig's primary focus, property management helped keep the company afloat from 2008 to 2011 when the market seemingly came to an abrupt halt.
Shirley Rudd, from left, Van Spear, Elliot Embry, Edward Saig, Hank Martin, Alicia Cupples Mooney, Brian Califf and Stuart McCloy of NAI Saig Co.
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"Land has been our toughest market simply because the banks weren't lending for new construction, but they're starting to ease up," Saig said. "Most of the brokers here are seeing good activity in warehouse and distribution leasing."
Seven brokers work for Saig's company.
Saig cited one heavy manufacturing operation, which was ready to buy a site and build a 75,000- to 100,000-square-foot facility before the economic collapse, but then their corporate office put everything on hold. This year the company called back to start over.
Now, even after the presidential election, Saig said he and other business owners have concerns about political maneuvering, which may affect taxes.
Saig started the company in 1963 after graduating from the University of Arkansas and completing real estate coursework with the University of Tennessee. He worked for Boyle Investment Co. for only 90 days, just long enough to get training in loan analysis, and then struck out on his own.
The original office is in West Memphis. Saig opened his Memphis office, now at One Commerce Square, 22 years ago. He is licensed in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.
Originally the company worked in both commercial and residential real estate, but Saig learned quickly that residential was not for him, though he is encouraged to see gains in the residential market this year.
On the commercial side, NAI Saig represents both buyers and sellers.
Saig's company is affiliated with NAI Global, a worldwide network of 175 commercial real estate companies formed in 1978. NAI Global has 325 offices with annual sales of $45 billion and 200 million square feet of space in property management.
In January, NAI Global was acquired by C-III Capital Partners LLC. Saig said that C-III represents new opportunities though he sees the effect as limited for this market.
"It's an improvement," Saig said. "They do a lot of outside work that filters into our office. They will go in and buy a portfolio of 10 or 12 properties and if there's one in our area, they will call us and ask us to do some research on it. If they do acquire it they will call us to market the property. They do that all over the US."
Since Memphis real estate suffered fewer commercial foreclosures than larger cities, Saig doesn't expect a large influx of that business but said that C-III can provide his company with experts in fields such as asset management when needed.
Despite the increase in activity, Saig said he isn't certain of what to expect in the immediate future.


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Six current college football players were added as plaintiffs Thursday to a high-profile anti-trust lawsuit that claims the NCAA owes billions of dollars to former players for allowing their likenesses to be used without compensation.
The players are: Vanderbilt linebacker Chase Garnham; Clemson cornerback Darius Robinson; linebacker Jake Fischer and kicker Jake Smith from Arizona; and tight end Moses Alipate and wide receiver Victor Keise of Minnesota.
"These athletes are incredibly brave. They are well-aware of the risks of standing up to the NCAA, and yet they felt that this was the right thing to do," Michael Hausfeld, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement.
Former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon is the lead plaintiff among 16 former college athletes in the long-running legal battle that could fundamentally alter how the NCAA operates. Basketball Hall of Famers Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson previously joined the lawsuit that also names video-game maker EA and the Collegiate Licensing Company.
A federal judge in Oakland, Calif., on July 5 allowed the attorneys to update their lawsuit to fix legal technicalities, including adding at least one active player to the lawsuit.
The judge is still mulling whether to turn the lawsuit into a class action, representing thousands of current and former athletes. Such a ruling would be a significant legal victory for the players, exposing the NCAA and its member schools to billions of dollars in damage.
The move to add current players comes a day after the NCAA announced that it would no longer allow EA to use its name and logo in video games.
Hausfeld called the NCAA's decision to break ties with EA "petty and arrogant"
"It's admission of a practice that goes to the heart of the contention that the NCAA believes it is above the law," he said late Wednesday.
NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn responded in a statement that the NCAA's business relationship with EA only pertained to the logo and name.
"Student-athletes were never a part of this relationship and plaintiffs' attorneys know it. Further, the $545,000 paid annually to the NCAA for the use of the logo and name goes right back to support student-athletes across all three divisions," she said.


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Miami-based Carnival Corp. has signed an agreement with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri for new classes of ships for two of its cruise brands, the global cruise operator said Friday.
The new cruise ships, which will accommodate 2,660 and 4,000 passengers, are earmarked for Holland America Line and Carnival Cruise Lines respectively.
Holland America's is scheduled for delivery in fall 2015 and Carnival's in winter 2016.
Combined the total cost for the ships will be about $195,000 per lower berth, according to Carnival Corp.
Nine new ships will be delivered to Carnival Corp. cruise brands between 2013 and 2016.


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Coffee County American Cancer Society Relay For Life will be Friday night at the Coffee County fairgrounds.
"This year's event is going to be full of excitement and a little something for everyone, so bring the whole family and help us make a difference!" stated Samantha Chamblee, the Relay For Life Specialist for Coffee County.
There will be a variety of great food, games, and a LIVE auction with some really nice items up for auction including a pair of earrings valued at $499! All the proceeds go to the American Cancer Society to fund research, programs, education, and advocacy.
"This a life-changing event that gives everyone in the community across the globe a chance to Celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, Remember loved ones lost, and Fight Back against the disease," Chamblee said. "The funds you raise truly make a difference in the fight against cancer – just ask one of the nearly 14 million cancer survivors who will celebrate another birthday this year! While the American Cancer Society is making progress toward a world without cancer, only with your dedication and fundraising efforts can we finish the fight against the disease. With your help, we aren't just fighting one type of cancer – we're fighting for every birthday threatened by every cancer in every community. Each person who shares the Relay For Life experience can take pride in knowing that they are working to create a world where this disease will no longer threaten our loved ones or rob anyone of another birthday. Join us Friday, April 25th as we come together as a community to fight back."
One of the programs offered by the American Cancer Society is the Hope Lodge. Hope Lodge offers cancer patients and their caregivers a free place to stay when their best hope for effective treatment may be in another city. Not having to worry about where to stay or how to pay for lodging allows guests to focus on getting well.
In 2013, 91 Coffee County residents stayed at a Hope Lodge, your donations are what make these types of programs possible and helps save lives.
For more information contact Samantha Chamblee, Relay For Life Specialist (931) 703-7267 or email@example.com or call the American Cancer Society at 1.800.227.2345 or visit cancer.org.
American Cancer Society Relay For Life will begin at 5 p.m. with survivor reception and registration. The opening ceremony followed by survivor and caregiver laps will be at 6p.m.
In the event of rain, the Relay will be held indoors at Westwood Middle School.


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Need to share my feelings here..
people at work make fun of the way my hair looks when it is combed... i've been told over and over that it looks like i am wearing a toupee... two men made a bet between eachother.. there bet was if i was wearing a toupee or not and called me over in front of all my co workers to ask me this question. so it even made thing worse... like it is a joke or something...
when people talk to me, they're always looking up at my hair.. I want to feel normal.. guys help me out here.. i am not feeling very good about myself and really depressed.
I think it is time to meet with Dr. Rahal so i can be normal once again.
gradually shave down
What you are 'suffering' is horrible! When people have a full head of hair or near enough they do not know how it feels to lose this and it mentally affects everyone different. The irony of modern life is that people will more readily accept a man who embraces or reveals his baldness by having the confidence to display it than a man who tries to tone it down with a comb over or concealer!... although many bald men may not be as comfortable revealing it as they may make out. But you cannot win as they will slag you whatever you do
Ht's may not work if someone continues to lose all their hair to the point of a 'horse shoe' effect, and then you don't have the option of shaving it down due to the scar or scars
Hi mate. I understand what you're going through, completely. It really is important to realise, though, that there is a great deal more to you than your hair. It is a shame that people pick up on any perceived insecurity and, rather than take action to build themselves up, find it easier to use words to knock other people down.
A hair transplant is a long term thing, but it's also a long haul procedure, nothing happens over night. I suggest that, if you're feeling depressed, think about some things you could do right now, independent of your hair, that could make you start feeling better in the short term. Exercise is great. Think about making marginal gains in all areas of your life. These will all add up over time and before you know it, you're confidence will have come on leaps and bounds.
Please don't consign yourself to the sidelines for a year or so, waiting for your new hair to grow (if you have a transplant). Focus on a point, three months from now perhaps, and think how you might ideally be able to look. Sure, you'll wish you had more hair, but better to be a bloke who wishes he had more, is fit, healthy, and confident in other areas, than a bloke who just wishes he had more hair. There are areas of your life you are not helpless in - for the time being, why not focus on them? It is so important to realise that people with hair, haven't done anything brilliant to achieve that hair! Their pride is erroneous and most probably masques massive insecurities in other areas of their lives. Look at people like Andre Agassi as role models. Be proud of what you achieve, not what you have simply been given. Hope I don't sound too pretentious, just want you to start feeling better about yourself :-)
And yes you should start down the journey of fixing the problem if it bother's you. Make an appointment to see 2-3 top doctors. Don't put it off. Dont wait, do it...it will help restore your confidence.
In the meantime....you may also consider going to a top notch hair salon. Call an exclusive salon and ask who is the best at that salon. Make an appointment and tell them you need a few extra minutes for a consult with the hairdresser before your first cut. Explain your situation. That you are being teased about a comb-over look, that you plan on getting a hair transplant to have more to work with, but in the mean-time you would like a new cool look that makes the most of what you have. Once you have a new cut/look, you can if you want go to a typical salon or barber, but let a master do the "make-over".
It will take some "bravery" to do both. It will take bravery to get a new look and walk into work. It will also take bravery to get a hair transplant and walk back into work post-op. But as long as you're on the road to improvement, it's worth it.
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Finding a good shrink or psychiatrist, while you're researching solutions, might be good for you; it is something I should have done and might have helped me avoid making rash decisions that left me with scars, physical and mental.
hang in there ,try not to let it get you down,i know how you feel ,i too get made fun of because of because of my hair losss and poor comb forward,its not cool at all, be strong and try to think about things that make you happy, find someone you can trust and express your feelings to them ,just talking about it gets it off your chest, you will feel better,remember your not alone in dealing with hairloss and its negative effects on selfesteem and confidence then form a plan of attack,meds ,research, and when ur ready, go for some consulations with some of the top docs out there, my favorite are shapiro medical hassonandwong and dr rahal, two of them do fue as well as strip soyou have plenty of options ,the first thing is to get your mind right ,then the rest will fall in place ,the waiting phase is the hardest part of the process ,good luck in ur journey
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"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants." —Alexander Hamilton
Consider for a moment this question. Why do we have a Second Amendment? What purpose does it serve?
Consider this. In April of 1775 on orders from the Crown the British Army marched out to seize the weapons and ammunition at Lexington and Concord from their post in Boston. The colonials rallied and fought back. It is considered to be the start of the American Revolutionary War.
But why did the Crown order the weapons and ammunition seized? After all the British Army was far larger than anything the Colonials could muster. The British Navy was the largest and most powerful in the world at that time. So why send troops to take the weapons?
Simple! Because that is the first move a tyrant makes. It's the "go to" play in their book. Think about it for a moment. If they seized the all of the weapons and ammunition, they did get some of it that the colonists couldn't remove in time, what would the colonials have to fight with?
Buck Ofama and the Washington Elite…Protection for their kids not for your kids…
All Presidents except one related???
Barack Obama's Assault on Second Amendment Gun Rights
What Part Of "Shall Not Be Infringed" Does Obama Not Understand?
Now these Americans will be Rescued…Probably not with Buck Ofama in charge would not want to upset his Muslim Terrorist friends..
Now why is the Gub'mint buying ammo by the truck load…??
Gun Control: Some States, Lawmakers Resist
Also included in Obama's presentation is expected to be a list of 19 executive orders that the President will take unilaterally in an attempt to control guns in America.
Gun show: 'Some people can hardly walk they've got so much stuff'
"These guns and ammo are going out the door in arm loads. Some people can hardly walk they've got so much stuff," said organizer Paul Snider.
60,000 Expected To Attend Vegas Gun Show
Hand wringing and pants wetting to follow..
The National Shooting Sports Foundation was focusing its 35th annual SHOT Show on products and services new to what it calls a $4.1 billion industry, with a nod to a raging national debate over assault weapons.
More pants wetting to follow…
Michael Mooney, owner of Southern Hills Tactical in Custer, says the demand for firearms is unprecedented.
Brisk gun sales leave store shelves bare
"They've been though the roof," said Open Range Sales consultant Aaron Hatfield of gun sales and one thing is driving them, "fear," he said. "They're scared of what's going to happen and the unknown."
Oh dear…pants wetters must be soaked by now!!
Gun show crowd lines up for guns, ammo
Lines stretched for hundreds of yards throughout the parking lot comprised of gun enthusiasts wanting to browse the latest technology or stock up on ammunition.
Pants wet, hyperventilating…
Harry Reid Says Assault Weapons Ban is Doomed
Eastern Idaho sheriff: Gun control is 'out of control'
"I personally am sick and tired of the government putting regulations in place that affect our personal rights, our property rights and the Constitution," said Klingler.


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Justine Reiff of Warwick has been promoted from sales associate to store manager at With Heart and Soul, a Cumberland boutique that sells jewelry, fine gifts, apparel and accessories. In her new capacity, Ms. Reiff is responsible for staffing, scheduling, accounts payable, purchasing, inventory and payroll. Prior to joining With Heart and Soul, Reiff worked as a barista at Hava Java coffeehouse in Woonsocket and as restaurant manager at Andrew's Bistro in Cumberland. Reiff attended Dean College, where she studied dance, after which she transferred to the Community College of Rhode Island to further her general education studies. (Submitted photo)
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Rams Fall at York 2-0
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Brooklyn, NY - The Farmingdale State men's soccer team fell 2-0 against York College (2-4) today in a non-conference game in Brooklyn, NY. The Rams freshman goalkeeper Patrick Gubbins (East Patchogue, NY/Bellport) made six saves in defeat.
Farmingdale will face Stevens, the #7 ranked team in Division III, on Wednesday, September 20th for a conference game in Hoboken, NJ.


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Gay Artist Paints Miley Cyrus Portrait With His Tongue
Think he always puts his tongue to such good use? 23-year-old Welsh gay artist Nathan Wyburn certainly has a lot of control and he's proving he knows his way around a c..anvas.
Watch as the paints this portrait of Miley with his tongue!
Gay Star News writes:
Speaking to Gay Star News, he said he wanted to created the
paintingafter every single picture he saw of Cyrus after the Video Music Awards was her with her tongue out.
'It's becoming her trademark image, and doing that hand gesture, it's becoming a stereotype,' he said.
'All my artwork looks at stereotypes. It's sort of saying, in a blunt way, this is who you are now.'
Nathan initially came to fame on Britain's Got Talent when he created pop culture portraits using everyday items like coffee, toast, etc.
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TRENTON (AP) — Senate President Steve Sweeney says he's ready for a showdown with the governor over raising the state's minimum wage.
The Senate is voting on a bill Thursday to raise the wage by $1.25 per hour, to $8.50, and tie automatic yearly adjustments to the Consumer Price Index.
Gov. Chris Christie says neither Sweeney nor Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver has negotiated with him over the minimum wage.
But Sweeney says Christie told him privately he would not sign a bill that contained automatic annual adjustments.
Sweeney refuses to drop the provision.
The bill is expected to pass the Senate.
Democrats are also pursuing a resolution placing the question before voters next year, in case Christie vetoes the bill.


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This summer, I am spending my time in Cincinnati, Ohio cooping at GE Aviation. New place, new people, new experiences. After one week, I already know this summer is going to be amazing. I started work on Tuesday, and have had nothing but good experiences thus far. Here is a recap of my first week.
"I drank the kool-aid… AND I LIKED IT." Yes, this is what was said during my orientation for GE Aviation. I knew from all the on-boarding presentations that this is going to be interesting, yet fun, summer journey. After the presentations, I was picked up by two other coop students working in my area. This is a new feat for me since at both my previous coops, I was the only coop in my department. Both these kids have already been there for about a month, since their universities got out earlier than RIT. They took me to a Cincinnati favorite "Skyline." Skyline is a chili based place that is known for the 3- or 4-ways (chili and cheese over pasta) and their Coney's (chili on a hot dog). Although I am a very picked eater, I decided that I would try a 3-way, actually is was not that bad! Skyline is also the officially chili of the Cincinnati Reds, the local MLB team. After lunch, I was taken back to my office, which would be my work home for the next 10 weeks. As the other coops were giving me a tour of the building, one thing that stood out to be was the name of the laminator… Harry Plotter. I knew right away that this was the place for me.
After work, my roommate and fellow RIT student and I, decided to sign up for a gym membership at the GE employee gym. When we were filling out the paperwork, the lady who said the kool-aid statement was there, so we were able to strike up a conversation with her. The gym is right on the main GE campus, so I have no excuse not to go to the gym every day after work!
Another highlight of my first week… my first Reds game! For those of you who don't know, I am an avid baseball fan, with my team being the New York Yankees. Really, I just love the sport so a Reds game was top on my bucket list this summer. But here is the kicker… I got to go to the reds game with my department with GE… during work hours, FOR FREE. The Reds were playing Ohio rival, the Cleveland Indians, and successfully completed a sweep of the series! Week 1 is not even over yet, and it has already been more then I could ever imagine.
So I left the Reds game and went back to GE to pick up my car, but my roommate convinced me to go to the coop "ultimate Frisbee" game. Mind you, I have NEVER played ultimate before but again, this is the summer of new experiences, so I went. My goal of the game was to not dominate the Frisbee field, but chat with everyone there and make friends and learn about their experiences. My team quickly caught on as I begin picking the brains of the attendees, but I did make a catch! Now penciled in, every Tuesday and Thursday after work, will be the Frisbee games.
This brings us to Friday, the last day before my first weekend. For lunch, the coops in my department went to a cook-out outside of a local supermarket, delicious. Then after work, Kate (my roommate) and I went to the gym yet again. We were there for about an hour when we got sucker in to attend the boot camp class. It was hard, but totally worth it. Of course no experience is complete without me chatting with the attendees (current GE Aviation employees) and getting to know their experiences. But this was not the highlight of my Friday gym date. I wore my RIT infamous "Tiger Den" shirt, given out by RIT athletics every orientation week and some lady screamed from across the gym "HEY RIT GIRL COME OVER HERE." She was mid workout on the rowing machine, but went on and on about how her son graduated from the software engineering program and how great RIT is. Of course, we talked about hockey, specifically the Men's frozen four journey a few years back. She actually made the trip from Cincinnati to attend in Detroit! She also kept mentioning how great of a school RIT is, and how great the students are.
Kate and I decided to start a weekly tradition of going out to eat friday after work. Our first location, Olive Garden. After getting lost, we finally reached the restaurant at about 9pm. Since arriving to Cincinnati, everyone we have encountered has been super friendly, including our waiter. Although they were busy when we got there, he still kept up with us. We mentioned how we are from Rochester, NY and go to school at RIT. The random girl at the table behind us, clearly on a date with her boyfriend, joined our conversation saying how she almost went to school there, but didn't want to leave her family. And went on to say how great of a campus it was and she loved visiting there. Then when we were leaving around their closing time, our waiter gave us about a dozen breadsticks, alfredo dipping sauce, and a giant tub of the mints given out at the end of the meal!
The advice was the same from all the people I've met in my first week, "learn a lot, and HAVE FUN." Everyone keeps mentioning how that since we are on coop, we should not only be learning from our experiences but going out and exploring the area. Since I have never been to this part of the country, I have already created a long bucket list of things to do. I plan on enjoying my time her in the nati and spending my last summer as a college student going on new adventures, making new friends, and learning as much as possible from my co-workers. Graduation is less than a year away, and I know that this is my last opportunity to act like a kid before entering the real world!
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BP WANTS a US federal judge to rule that an estimated 800,000 barrels of oil collected at the head of its runaway undersea Gulf of Mexico well in 2010 should not be counted in determining the company's civil fine for Clean Water Act violations.
Such a ruling could reduce BP's fine by as much as $US3.4 billion ($A3.2 billion) if the company is found to have acted with gross negligence when its Macondo well blew out off the Louisiana coast, leading to the worst offshore oil spill in US history. Eleven rig workers were killed when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which BP had been leasing from Transocean, exploded.
The US government has asserted that the well discharged 4.9 million barrels of oil. BP stated again in its filing on Friday that it believes the spill was significantly smaller, though it hasn't publicly provided its own estimate.
With a finding of gross negligence, the 4.9-million-barrel figure would carry a maximum Clean Water Act fine of more than $US21 billion.
The law allows for a fine based simply on the amount of oil discharged. BP points out in its motion that some courts have interpreted the law to mean that oil has to be discharged into water or the environment to count.
Before it capped the well in July 2010, BP captured some of the gushing oil before it spilt into the water a mile below the Gulf surface. The government concluded in August 2010 that some 800,000 barrels of oil was collected at the wellhead, the assemblage of equipment that is attached to the opening of an oil or gas well.
US Interior Department officials have refused to say whether the government believes any of that oil touched the water before being collected. A US Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on BP's filing.
A civil trial on the tangle of spill-related litigation is set to begin on February 25.
The first phase of the trial will deal with apportioning blame among BP and the other companies. The second phase will deal with the amount of oil that spilt.
BP takes watery approach towards reducing fine
BP WANTS a US federal judge to rule that an estimated 800,000 barrels of oil collected at the head of its runaway undersea Gulf of Mexico well in 2010 should not be counted in determining the company's civil fine for Clean Water Act violations.
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Personal Perspective: The HIV Merry-Go-Round
Fall 2005
My name is Ismael. I'm 44 years old and am incarcerated at the Marcy Correctional Facility in New York. When I was told that I was HIV-positive, at Rikers Island in 1990, I was in denial. It was like I was in a dream I couldn't wake up from. I kept it to myself, thinking about what I would say to my family and friends. It took me three years to finally tell my family, and they disowned me. They told me that they did not want to see me no more, and to this day they have not. In 1996 I was told that I had hepatitis C. This time I started blaming God and asking what I did in life to deserve this. I got HIV from shooting drugs, sharing needles and unprotected sex. I was selling my body for drugs to support my habit.
My experience in having HIV and hep C in prison has been a merry-go-round. When I was in Downstate Correctional Facility, the health care providers were very decent. They truly cared for inmates with HIV and had compassion toward me. But when I was transferred to Cayuga, things changed. The health care providers there were very nasty to inmates who were HIV-positive. The nurse always had an attitude toward inmates. Then, threatening letters were sent to the Deputy Superintendent of Security after an officer searching my cube found my antiretroviral medications. He questioned me about them and I told him it was confidential. That's when he figured out I had HIV and things began to get crazy. I eventually had to sign up for protective custody because inmates set my bed on fire when they found out I was HIV-positive.
In my current facility, the health care providers do not care about inmates. I go to sick call and right away they start using the kind of language that if I were to use, I would be issued a disciplinary ticket and be put in the box (solitary confinement). You ask the nurses questions about your CD4 and viral load and they get attitudes and tell you that you must see the doctor. But the doctors here, to be honest, do not know about HIV/AIDS. One doctor told me that I should stop taking my medication because it will kill me, and he always throws me out of his office when I ask him questions concerning my CD4 and viral load results. He just informs me that they are good and says, "Have a nice day." I filed a grievance on this doctor and now am being retaliated against by medical staff and correction officers. I've been here for two years and I've never seen an HIV specialist, and I am being denied treatment for hep C. Our Constitutional rights are being violated by DOCS staff -- the health services run by DOCS should be investigated.
Right now, I have to take my medication on the low-down: every morning and every night I go to the bathroom in one of the stalls to take my meds because I truly do not want nobody in this jail to know that I am HIV-positive. I'm concerned about my safety and I'm scared that one of the inmates may find out -- I do not want to go through what I went through in Cayuga. It is bad enough that I am being discriminated against because I am a homosexual, but I feel that I am a monster because I have HIV. I hang out in the yard by myself when they have recreation. I sometimes feel like taking my own life. I wonder if this is a punishment from God for all the things I've done to people in society. But it's still a shame that we convicts with HIV and hep C are being treated like animals.
Once I get released next August, I will be homeless. I have to start my discharge planning and to be honest I do not know who to turn to -- I'm kind of scared to go to a shelter when I get out. But I am a fighter. I've finished a program at this facility called PACE (Prisoners for AIDS Counseling and Education). I want to share and educate especially the young generations on how to protect themselves from getting the dreadful diseases that I've been carrying since 1990. I thank God for letting me live one day at a time, even though I would not wish this on my worst enemy. I am going to continue to struggle and fight this disease all the days of my life.
Thank you for letting me tell what I am going through being incarcerated and HIV-positive, and yes, you can use my name and the facility I am at. I truly want society to know how inmates who are HIV-positive are being treated by medical staff and correctional officers who work for NYS DOCS.
This article was provided by AIDS Community Research Initiative of America. It is a part of the publication ACRIA Update. Visit ACRIA's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.


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For the first time in recent memory, state legislators from both parties ripped a governor's budget Thursday.
State Sen. John Gordner, R-Berwick, said Gov. Tom Corbett's call for the state General Assembly to return to Harrisburg and help him reform the state's pension systems as part of the budget process is more political in nature than helpful in bringing about reform.
Democrats were even less kind.
Rep. Marty Flynn, D-Scranton, said he can't understand why Corbett would "hinge his entire budget on a pension plan that doesn't fix anything." He criticized the governor for using $30 million from the volunteer fire companies loan fund and other budget transfers to cover overall spending and failing to properly tax natural gas drilling.
"We have a $44 billion or $45 billion unfunded (pension) liability problem and this (governor's plan) does not affect it at all until ... 25-30 years down the road," he said. "Forty-three states had budget surpluses. We had a $1.5 billion deficit. ... All they (Republicans and Mr. Corbett) do is continue to blame (former Gov. Ed) Rendell, but you had three years here, bud."
Rep. Frank Farina, D-Jessup, said Democrats had no say on the budget, which is wrong, and the governor and Republicans did nothing to avoid a $1.5 billion deficit heading into the 2015-16 budget.
"Our job is to work on these issues and find compromise because it's not about either party, like I've said in the past," he said. "The number one asset we have in Pennsylvania, is our natural gas, the Marcellus Shale, and we haven't taxed it. I understand it's a matter of give and take. We can't have it all our way either, but if you want to work something with us ... we're asking for a reasonable tax on Marcellus Shale."
State Rep. Sid Michaels Kavulich, D-Taylor, said the budget relies too heavily on one-time revenues and will leave the governor next year facing a $1.5 billion budget deficit. He decried the governor's expansion of natural gas drilling in state forests.
"I just think the problem with this budget is it trades the beauty of our state for natural gas drilling. It's going to provide short-term fixes for what could be literally pocket change," he said.
He renewed Democrats' call for a tax on natural gas extraction.
"I don't think this is as much of a spending problem as it is a revenue problem," he said. "He claims that we are giving more money to education when in reality, we're still putting less in the education than we did before Gov. Corbett came into office."
State Sen. John Blake, D-Archbald, pointed to Republicans' statement criticizing the governor for failing to work with the Republican majorities in the House and Senate. Noting the governor never sought the input of Democrats, he said "the budget is a mess."
"The whole process has been flawed. The governor has shown very poor leadership and judgment, I think all through the process of the budget," Blake said. "The pension proposal that he had advanced ... had never been vetted by a single committee. Never a committee hearing in either chamber. ... It's a house of cards. We're going to be back here probably in six months probably revisiting this spending plan because the numbers aren't going to work."
Sen. John Yudichak, D-Plymouth Township, said if Corbett is interested in reducing school property taxes, he should help push legislation to replace school property taxes with a mix of state income and sales taxes.
Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-Wilkes Barre, said the governor is pushing a terrible pension proposal that would remove the guarantees of the defined-benefit system for future state government and school district employees.
"He (Corbett) is trying to intimidate everyone to come back and do what he wants," Pashinski said.


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In order to be recruited as an official by an EU institution, you need to pass an open competition organised at the inter-institutional level by the European Personnel Selection Office.
The Committee of the Regions also employs temporary or contract staff.
Employees of local, regional and national bodies or intergovernmental organisations may also apply for positions as seconded national experts.


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Published Tuesday December 18, 2012 at 6:00 am
When Norland Martinez learned he would soon become a father, he was a 14-year-old high school dropout who had run away from home and was living in a motel with the proceeds he scraped together from selling pot and cocaine.
To note that Norland wasn't ready for parenthood is a gross understatement. Sometimes, though, while the system can't save everyone, it can come through in small ways that add up to big benefits.
After six months as a runaway, Norland was taken into custody in May of 2008, and placed in a group home in Framingham run by the state Department of Children and Families. There, he was taught some needed life skills — discipline, anger management, how to make better choices.
"I got tired of running and tired of selling drugs," he said. "I knew I had to make a change. That kind of life really isn't worth it. It has an expiration date."
Norland was 15 and living in a foster home in July of 2008 when his son, Jayden, was born. Aware that he needed help, the teen sought the services of a home visiting program for young parents run by Healthy Families of Greater Worcester and administered by the Massachusetts Children's Trust Fund. Healthy Families offers first-time parents ages 20 and under information and support to raise healthy, happy and safe kids; it's operated by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Each week, a trained home visitor met with the teen. He was offered parenting tips and told what to expect from his young child.
Today, Norland is almost 20. He has sole physical custody of his 4-year-old son, and they share a third-floor apartment on Southgate Street. Norland attends Quinsigamond Community College and hopes to transfer to the College of the Holy Cross, where he wants to study theology. He's a certified nursing assistant. He also works two jobs — one as a substance abuse recovery specialist at a rehab facility in Ashby, and one as a family support advocate at Healthy Families, passing on the same information to young parents that he learned as a first-time father.
Last year, he received the first A. Joseph DeNucci Fatherhood Award from Children's Trust Fund, in recognition of his accomplishments to improve the lives of his son and himself.
"I know how important it is to be a dad," said Norland, whose own father was an absentee alcoholic. "I suffered because my own dad left. My son's life is already different from mine. I hope that I'm the kind of father who he can trust and talk to, especially when he's a teenager. I want to teach him to make the right decisions in school. He won't have to wonder where I am, because I'll always be right here."
According to Children's Trust Fund, the state pays $3,000 a year for services to a parent such as Norland. If you think that's a lot of money, consider that it costs six times that sum to investigate a report of child abuse.
Last Friday, Norland was registering his son for pre-school when he learned that a 20-year-old gunman was killing children in Connecticut. Norland is about the same age as the gunman, Adam Lanza. His son is about the same age as his victims.
"It really hit me in a bad way," he said simply.
Like most parents of young children, Norland has found himself hugging his son a little harder.
"He's awesome," he said. "He's my best friend. We do everything together — ice skate, go the movies. When I look back on my life five years ago, what was I thinking? I feel like I was blind back then. I feel so blessed."
Sometimes, especially now, we need a reminder that young men can do great things against tough odds, that the most vulnerable among us don't always fall through the cracks, and that the system isn't always so powerless.


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Is there a substitute for pine nuts. They are extremely expensive and have been for quite a while. Even more important, some pine nuts are causing unpleasant reactions in consumers' mouths.' This passed from anecdotal to significant and Trader Joe's actually posted a notice about these occurrences.
Spaghetti Aglio Olio with Fresh and Dried Tomatoes
The traditional pasta dish called aglio olio (garlic and oil) gets a fresh twist with fresh and dried tomatoes, lots of parsley and a sprinkling of toasted nuts. It's a perfect summer pasta dish, but ou can enjoy it all year round.
Serves: 8
- 1/4 cup crushed walnuts or toasted pine nuts
- 1 pound spaghetti, preferably whole grain, broken in half
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 8 cloves garlic, finely minced
- 1 pound ripe, flavorful tomatoes, finely chopped
- 1 small zucchini, finely diced
- 1/3 cup thinly sliced sun-dried tomatoes, to taste
- Thinly sliced fresh basil, as desired
- Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- Dried hot red pepper flakes to taste
- Raw Vegan Parmesan-Style Cheeze, optional
Toast the walnuts or pine nuts in a small, dry skillet, tossing frequently, until golden. Remove from heat and set aside.
Cook the spaghetti in plenty of rapidly simmering water until al dente. Drain and transfer to a serving bowl.
Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in a medium skillet. Add the garlic and sauté over low heat, stirring frequently, until golden. Add the fresh and dried tomatoes, and the zucchini, and cook for 2 minutes or so, just until the fresh tomatoes soften a bit.
In a large serving bowl, combine the cooked spaghetti with the garlic and tomato mixture, followed by the parsley and basil. Add the toasted nuts and remaining olive oil. Toss together.
Season to taste salt, pepper, and dried hot red pepper flakes. Serve at once, or let stand and serve at room temperature. Pass around the Raw Vegan Parmesan-Style Cheez, if desired.
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Thanks. By the way, we loved the golden vegan challah made with butternut squash. We made it several times over the Sukkot holiday. In the process, I found that piercing the squash 6 or 8 times about l/2 inch deep and baking it until it softens (at about 350-375) and the skin starts to turn dark and pucker, then cooling is the easiest way to get the chunks to puree. (Except of course paying the exorbitant price for prepared chunks.) Not only does the baking make peeling and seeding easier, it results in a slightly sweeter and much deeper gold color in the finished product. Your quinoa/olives/dried apricot was a huge success as well. In fact, as I tell my guests, you've never led me astray.


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Chuck and Kim Mammen are back in the bakery business, bringing some of the good old favorites with them.
"It's all about family," said Chuck and Kim. Mammen family children, grandchildren, grandmas and siblings all had a part in getting the new bakerky up and running. The name of their new downtown shop:?Your Family Bakery.
"We're going to have everything we used to have," said Kim. "We're bringing back what Emmetsburg wants. We have had so many people stop in and say their mouths are watering for a nutty fry."
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FAMILY -- The Mammen family will soon open Your Family Bakery, downtown Emmetsburg. Family pictured (seated, from the left) daughter Kayla, grandson Jack (the #1 boss), Chuck and Kim Mammen; (standing) Kayla's fiance Brian Hoeppner, Kristina Belkin, girlfriend of Chris Mammen. --Jane Whitmore photo
When the bakery gets up and running -- and it's going tohappen very soon -- there will be everything from nutty fries to twists and baby twists; pastries, pies and buns; decorated cakes, breads and bagels.
Chuck Mammen is a "from scratch" baker. All of his products are produced at the bakery.
Chuck has been in the baking business for 32 years and his wife, Kim, has been in the business for 30 years.
The Mammen family has always been there to help. Kayla and her fiance Brian; Chris and his girlfriend Kristina; sons, Bobby and Brian and Heather. Chuck's brothers came to help, too, and grandma was there to lend a hand.
Of course, four-year-old Jack says he is the "number one boss" and his grandpa Chuck is "number two boss."
"We hope to open very soon," says Kim. "We are anxious to get ready for the holidays. Our peanut brittle has always been a real favorite."
Your Family Bakery is located at 2213 Main Street. There are tables for coffee groups to gather.
Eventually the Mammens will provide lunches and catering.
Your Family Bakery will be open from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday; and 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.


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Sports in Brief
Golfer ends 2013 with a bang
Saundra Valentine recorded an ace on New Years Eve at Chehalem Glenn Golf Course. The Newberg resident hit the hole-in-one from 79 yards out with an 8-iron on hole No. 13.
Linfield hosting softball clinics
The Linfield College Softball Program is conducting two instructional clinics for girls ages 8-18 on Jan. 18 and Feb. 1.
All clinic instruction will be provided by the Wildcat coaches and players, who claimed second place nationally in 2012. Each clinic will stress the skills and fundamentals necessary to be successful at any level of competition. The skills covered will include hitting, bunting, baserunning and fundamental defensive play for infield and outfield.
There will also be time for pitchers and catchers to learn from the
Wildcat coaches and pitching staff.
For girls ages 13-18 both clinics will also feature a guest speaker who will talk about developing success skills on and off the softball field and a question and answer session where clinic about college and the softball recruiting process.
Wrestling fundraiser Friday and Saturday
Concurrent with the annual Earl Gillis Tournament, Ye Olde Pizza Shoppe will donate a portion of its proceeds Friday and Saturday to the Newberg High School wrestling program. The shop will be open until 10 p.m. Friday and open at 11 a.m. Saturday.


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Why Patch Management is Still the Best First Line of Defense
Today more than 2 million malware signatures are identified each month and traditional anti-virus defenses simply can't keep up. Even the major anti-virus vendors have concluded that stand-alone anti-virus no longer provides an effective defense and that additional layers of security technology are needed. Watch this webcast to learn how to reduce your exposure from both OS and 3rd party application vulnerabilities, the challenge with relying upon "free" patching tools, and why patch management should be considered as the core of an effective depth-in-defense endpoint security approach.


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The Glee Project's Mario Bonds to Be Honored by Imagination Stage
Imagination Stage's Just Think! Creativity is Possibility 2012 Gala will be held on Saturday October 20 at the company's theater. The purpose of the gala is to spotlight creativity and provide an occasion to celebrate and honor those who ignite young imaginations. This year's honoree is Mario Bonds of The Glee Project.
Bonds is a singer/songwriter who recently received his "big break" when he auditioned for Oxygen's popular television program. Leading up to that moment, his life had been thrown many curve balls, including abandonment, abuse, homelessness, and going completely blind at the age of nine. Despite these obstacles, he never lost his drive to perform and has become an accomplished singer, actor, dancer, and musician.
The gala performance, directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer, follows the character James, from James and the Giant Peach, as he learns of the power of creativity from the many characters in the Imagination Stage 2012-2013 professional theatre season. The show features Imagination Stage professionals Erika Rose, Kevin McAllister, Matt Anderson, and Gillian Shelley, alongside 30 Imagination Stage students.
For more information, visit imaginationstage.org/support-us/gala.


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Unveiling New Converged Infrastructures
Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager for Dell servers, unveiled Dell's new PowerEdge VRTX, a converged infrastructure offering with integrated server, storage and networking technology targeted at small and midsize businesses and remote offices of midsize and larger businesses.
The PowerEdge VRTX was designed to be easy to deploy, manage and maintain, Norrod said.
Norrod also introduced the fifth-generation Dell Modular Data Center, based on high-density Dell PowerEdge servers. They make use of individual power, IT and cooling modules that snap together to form an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-maintain data infrastructure.
"Modular Data Center is a misnomer," he said. "Our Modular Data Center is a completely engineered system from Dell that allows you to deploy on barren ground a complete data center."


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Smarter Style: Thrift Shopping
Everybody has heard that "Thrift Shop" song that's all over the radio, right? If you haven't, I am so not linking it because the full version is totally NSFW. But it mght make you wonder: Can you find anything good at a thrift shop?
The answer is; It depends. There's a branch of one particular thrift store here where my friends are always finding these totally cute outfits, and a couple of my Facebook friends are always scoring vintage designer duds for like $2. So if you have a good eye, a creative sense of style, and are willing to scour some pretty gross racks, you can score. If, like me, your patience is limited, maybe not.
If you're super trendy or a non-standard size, you're going to have a harder time as well. As my friend the Queen of the Thrift Shop notes, selection is always great in small sizes because people grow out of those and want to get rid of the evidence.
Here are some rules:
Check everything super carefully for stains, rips, smells, and (shudder) bedbugs.
Don't buy used underwear or obviously walked-in shoes. Very dressy heels are good bets because they've maybe been worn once or twice; anything with a worn sole is probably crawling with someone else's foot ick.
Sizes change over time and are not consistent, so make sure you're confident about fit. Items are usually final sale.
Be creative: Maybe that men's shirt in the crazy paisley pattern could be altered into a sleeveless dress or vest for you, or the outdated long skirt could become a high-low with a little hemming time. If you see something in a fabric you love, grab it; you can probably cut it up and use the fabric elsewhere.
Do you shop at the thrift store?
My 14 year old dd loves going to thrift stores.She can seriously spend a couple hours there looking through clothes.I think they are expensive and would rather hit garage sales
Yes, we shop at them...I'm always picking up fabric,knick knacks,books,tupperware,craft stuff,pictures,clothes and decorations..I have a new fettish with the cloth rabbits..I see them for a quarter for the little ones and a buck or 1 for the big ones..I'm searching for them..I'm trying to collect enough for my 6 daughters and dh and I...Someday I will succeed..
These are some good tips though... Now if only I could develop more patience!
I do and I love it! Ive found awesome deals on clothes and household item. The jeans Im wearing are from Goodwill. Theyre Old Navy...still had the tags on them, for $7.
This was my latest find. I got it at the Goodwill for $25!! Its brand new, donated from the Target store. Its actually still in stores selling for $150.
of course i do...and its good advice..dont buy used undies and worn out shoes...not sure why they even put those out to start with


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On the eve of the First Monday in October, New York magazine released an in-depth Q&A with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in which he holds court on a wide range of personal and judicial views.
Not surprisingly, he reads the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times, but not the New York Times or the Washington Post ("shrilly liberal").
One of his favorite television shows? Seinfeld, especially the "soup Nazi" episode.
He believes in the Devil, as do most Catholics — and most people — he says.
He suspects that he has friends who are gay.
Here's Scalia on his evolution as a constitutional originalist (who interprets the Constitution as the framers intended it rather than as an evolving document) and a textualist (who believes that statutes must be interpreted based on their words alone):
If a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional. I gave a talk once where I said they ought to pass out to all federal judges a stamp, and the stamp says—Whack! [Pounds his fist.]—STUPID BUT CONSTITUTIONAL. Whack! [Pounds again.] STUPID BUT CONSTITUTIONAL! Whack! STUPID BUT CONSTITUTIONAL … [Laughs.] And then somebody sent me one.
Here he is on the Court's methods of evaluating discrimination (types of scrutiny):
I am not a fan of different levels of scrutiny. Strict scrutiny, intermediate scrutiny,blah blah blah blah. That's just a thumb on the scales.
But there are some intelligent reasons to treat women differently. I don't think anybody would deny that. And there really is no, virtually no, intelligent reason to treat people differently on the basis of their skin.
And here's Scalia on why he doesn't attend the State of the Union:
It's childish.. . . . But I'm not the only one who didn't go. John Paul Stevens never went, Bill Rehnquist never went during his later years. Because it is a childish spectacle. And we are trucked in just to give some dignity to the occasion. I mean, there are all these punch lines, and one side jumps up—Hooray! And they all cheer, and then another punch line, and the others stand up, Hooray! It is juvenile! And we have to sit there like bumps on a log. We can clap if somebody says, "The United States is the greatest country in the world." Yay! But anything else, we have to look to the chief justice. Gee, is the chief gonna clap? It didn't used to be that bad.
Read the full interview here.


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Toy drive for local hurricane victims Dec. 8
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- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was criticized for wearing a hoodie in meeting
- Benjamin Nugent: Zuckerberg's hoodie signals that he is an artist, not a salesman
- He says that for tech geeks, indifference to dress is a badge of pride
- Nugent: Zuckerberg isn't immature; wearing a hoodie is a great sales tactic
When Facebook's 27-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, wore a hoodie at a presentation to investors during the lead-up to Facebook's initial public offering, a financial analyst publicly accused Zuckerberg of immaturity. By dressing casually at such an important event, he alleged, Zuckerberg was telling potential shareholders they didn't matter.
The blogosphere's response was swift: Business and tech commentators across the nation rushed to the billionaire's defense, explaining that the hooded sweatshirt was a symbol of his independent-mindedness, his youth, his authenticity, his loyalty to the culture of Silicon Valley. They argued his business acumen is reflected in Facebook's numbers, not in his fashion choices.
Now that the firestorm has cooled, it's worth taking a moment to consider the complex significance of the hoodie for someone like Zuckerberg.
In one respect, both the anti-hoodie and pro-hoodie factions are correct. When Zuckerberg wears a hoodie at a high-profile meeting, he's saying: I am an artist, not a salesman. Salesmen wear suits because their job is to persuade, seduce, cajole; appearance is all-important. And the salesman's first priority is profit, which, if you're a Facebook shareholder, is the ethos you might wish to see in the CEO of the company you're investing in.
But Zuckerberg has said explicitly he is devoted above all to his beautiful creation: Facebook. This, presumably, is why he turned down Yahoo's offer of $1 billion for the company back in its early years and chose to keep running the company himself. He's first and foremost an inventor, a tinkerer in a workshop, a monk in hooded robes. Sales, the bottom line, these are not the things that define me, the hoodie says.
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To a tech geek, indifference to dress is a badge of pride because any creative endeavor, whether it's coding software or writing novels, goes better if you can forget about yourself entirely, forget about how you look, what you're wearing, how people perceive you. Your must immerse yourself in your art. It must become the only thing on your mind.
The nerd's spastic movements, childlike laugh, checked-out eyes as she codes or writes or thinks are the symptoms of a person obsessed with work, a person unconscious of herself and the impression she's making. That's why Bill Gates used to dress like a homeless guy, and Steve Jobs wore a black turtleneck, why Zuckerberg wears the hoodie. It's about taking pride in being an artist.
So the analyst who said the hoodie shows I-don't-give-a-damn attitude was right in one sense, but he was wrong to suggest Zuckerberg's hoodie was bad news for Facebook investors. Because showing the world that you're an artist instead of a salesman can be a great sales tactic.
As a cub reporter, I had the privilege of watching Steve Jobs pitch the Pixar movie "Monsters, Inc." to a handful of journalists in a small room. It was the best sales presentation I've ever seen. While it was happening, I wanted to do anything Jobs asked, because he was able to seem like he didn't care what we thought of him. He was unshaven, wearing his cat-burglar ensemble. He never tried to kiss up to any of us, like movie people often did. There were no visual aids, no refreshments. He just fulminated about what a good movie it was, how major its advances in animation technology, almost as if we weren't there.
He was a brilliant salesman because he didn't act much like a salesman. You believed him because he didn't seem like he cared that much whether you believed him or not. He was a good-looking, confident person, but his conduct in many respects was that of somebody so passionate about his work that it made him just a little socially unacceptable. This guy is a nerd, you thought -- the real thing, so he must know what he's talking about.
Zuckerberg has learned much, I suspect, from Jobs. He knows the impression he makes is important, so, like Jobs, he acts like he doesn't think it's important. The hoodie is both who he really is -- a big nerd -- and a thoughtful executive's performance of who he really is.
He isn't being immature or youthful at all. He's striving to earn the confidence of investors by presenting himself as a scruffy genius who doesn't care about earning their confidence. And that's good business.


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Sometimes, even if I'm not attending, some SQLSaturdays stand out to me, and catch my interest. I guess it's a hobby – follow it for sport. So, here is a preview of #sqlsat77
Tomorrow, in sunny Pensacola, Florida, Saturday, June 4, 2011, Karla Landrum, (Blog|Twitter), Leader at Pensacola SQL Server Users Group (PSSUG), has organized, and put together a fantastic lineup of speakers and sponsors, that is sure to educate as well as entertain. I suspect that the energy and enjoyment level will go off the charts!
I wanted to give a quick preview for those fortunate enough to be attending, and promise you will not be disappointed. SQLSaturday #77, will be a great one! This is its 3rd Annual SQLSaturday, and will be filled with learning, lunching, and laughter!
First off, this will be an especially sweet SQLSaturday for Karla, as she was recently appointed as a full time board member for the Professional Association for SQL Server(PASS)! She'll be involved with Chapters, Regional Mentors, and SQL Saturdays. As a very active member of the SQL Server community, she has been organizing multiple SQLSaturdays and similar events for a while now. She calls herself the Community Pollinator, spreading the SQL Server way, everywhere. So this event should put her over the top.
In the lead up to this excellent event, SQLPeople founder and MVP, Andy Leonard (Blog|Twitter) is having a pre-conference "A Day of SSIS" today, Friday, June 3, 2011. Will he show up at #sqlsat77? Gotta be there to find out!
A few notables will be presenting, such as (in no particular order) SQLSaturday co-founder Steve Jones (Blog|Twitter), Bill Pearson (Twitter), Kevin Boles, Aaron Nelson (Blog|Twitter), Ted Krueger (Blog|Twitter), Rodney Landrum (Blog), Thomas LeBlanc (Blog|Twitter), Wayne Sheffield (Twitter), and more! (Apologize for those who fall under "and more":-O.) I always do this to myself, so see the schedule for a full list of speakers and their session).
In addition, we will see Devin Knight, Shawn McGehee and Julie Smith present, Senior SQL experts in their own right.
One other quite intriguing session, which is sure to be jam-packed, just by the title alone, Pulp SQL! Better bring your bullet-proof vests. A takeoff on the Pulp Fiction movie, here's a brief description of Pulp SQL which will be presented by Jorge Segarra (aka SQLChicken) and Brad Schact (who looks a lot like Captain Kirk) of Pragmatic Works:
Stories, all have them. In this session Brad and Jorge will tell the tales of how SQL in shops can go horribly wrong, and how to properly go about doing it. This story will be told Tarrantino-style so prepare for some twists, characters and ninja-like tactics* to help you avoid your own SQL mistakes!*fight scenes may or may not break out. I hear the theme music in my head, and the SQL Sermons:
"And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers" - Jules from Pulp Fiction Have mercy!
The official SQL Saturday #77 blurb
Free SQL Server training! Free food! Chance to win great prizes! What more could a SQL Server Professional ask for? If this sounds good to you then don't miss your opportunity to attend SQL Saturday! #77, the largest FREE training event dedicated exclusively to SQL Server Administration, Development and Business Intelligence to hit Pensacola, FL.
SQLSaturday! #77? What is it? Why should you sacrifice a Saturday in beautiful Pensacola? When is it? Where is it? How do I get involved? Let me fill you in.
What: This is a one day training event for SQL Server DBAs and Developer professionals and those wanting to get some intensive technical learning on.
Why: It is a great opportunity to learn from people who have been there and to network with other professionals doing the same thing you are doing. Free training that can set yourself apart from others!
When: Saturday, June 4, 2011. Register online now to reserve your spot now. Attendee check-in will begin at 8:00am until 8:45am with opening comments from 8:45am to 9:00am and the first sessions beginning at 9:15am.
Where: Pensacola State College, Main Campus, 1000 College Blvd, Pensacola, FL 32504. Building 17, The Baraco Center for Science and Advanced Technology.
Enjoy, and you can follow it on Twitter with hashtag #sqlsat77!


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- Red Bull disqualification
Horner 'extremely confident' of winning appeal
Christian Horner has revealed the reasons why he is "extremely confident" that Red Bull did not break the fuel-flow regulations at the Australian Grand Prix.
Daniel Ricciardo finished second in Melbourne before being disqualified after the race when stewards ruled that his RB10 had repeatedly exceeded the FIA's 100kg/h limit. Red Bull announced straight after the race that an appeal would be lodged.
Speaking to Sky Sports News, Horner said: "We are appealing on the grounds that we do not believe, we are extremely confident, that we have not broken the rules, that we haven't exceeded the 100kg/h of fuel that is permitted to be utilised by the car and the engine. So that was the reason for our appeal, we feel we have a strong case and it will be down to the appeal court to ultimately decide."
Horner and Red Bull do not dispute using another fuel-flow sensor, but are both adamant their equipment should be fine to use due to existing concerns with the FIA's equipment.
"Our whole case is on the fact of which reading is correct. We have a sensor that is drifting and isn't reading correctly versus a fuel rail that we know is calibrated and we know that hasn't varied throughout the weekend and has subsequently been checked and found to be not faulty and hasn't moved or varied at all since it was installed on the car prior to the weekend.
"Our argument is very simple - that we haven't broken the Technical Regulations. That we haven't exceeded the fuel flow limit and that the sensor, which hopefully we will be able to demonstrate in the appeal, is erroneous. I think the problem with the Technical Directive is that as we have seen in the Pirelli tyre case or the double diffuser days, that the directive, as it now states on the bottom of the directive, is the opinion of the Technical Delegate - it is not a regulation, it is not regulatory, it is purely an opinion."
The appeal will take place on April 14, the Monday before the Chinese Grand Prix - the fourth race on the 2014 calendar.


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The Central Connecticut women's cross country team finished fifth at the 2011 Ted Owen Invitational on Saturday morning. The Blue Devils posted a team score of 119. Senior Alasia Griebel who finished eighth individually led central.
Griebel posted the best time for the Blue Devil women, finishing the 5K course at Stanley Park in 18:37. Sophomore Elizabeth Eberhardt was the second Blue Devil to finish, she crossed the line in 19:07 to earn the 15th spot.
Senior Amanda Asaro finished 30th and freshman Shannon McBride took 31st. They finished with times of 19:57 and 20:02, respectively. The fifth Blue Devil to cross the line was sophomore Megan MacBryde. She came across in 20:32, good for 35th place.
Marist took home the team title with a score of 55. Rhode Island finished a single point behind in second place. Connecticut finished in third place and Wagner took fourth just four points ahead of the Blue Devils. Northeastern finished sixth and Bryant, Hartford, American International and Fairleigh Dickinson completed the field.
Michelle Gaye of Marist was the individual winner with a time of 18:04.
Earlier in the morning, Central's assistant coach Leah Andrianos was the top female finisher in the third annual Ray Crothers Alumni Race.
The Blue Devils will return to action on October 8, at the New England Cross Country Championships.


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The dissection of the pygmy right whale is a very detailed and time consuming process!
A quick update: the skin and blubber has been removed from half of the whale as you can see above. And our pygmy right whale is a young male, probably no older than 6 months old.
The scientists will be breaking for lunch shortly and then preparing for their talks tonight at the TelstraClear centre at Te Papa at 6.30pm.


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With Hall Of Fame Racing forming an alliance with Yates Racing and signing Bobby Labonte to drive the No. 96 Ask.com Ford Fusion, David Gilliland figures he is the odd man out at Yates.
The team intends to field three cars this season, and, for those of you counting, the addition of Labonte and Paul Menard, who will drive the no. 98 Menards Ford, that leaves Gilliland and Travis Kvapil vying for that last ride.
Most expect Kvapil to be back next season, leaving Gilliland without a ride.
Gilliland said:
I haven't actually had a sit-down with them, but I'm still under contract with them through 2009. So we're just going to have to work through it, and hopefully, we can get something else going. It's just kind of a bummer that it's this late in the [offseason], you know? We'll just have to see what we can come up with and see what we can try and do.


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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – It's not as if the Southeastern Conference needs validation in any sport. But setting the record for most teams from one conference in an NCAA baseball tournament understandably has the SEC puffing out its collective chest.
Of the 14 teams in the SEC, 10 will play in regionals beginning Friday. No league had previously put more than nine teams into the national tournament.
The accomplishment especially resonates at Florida, which is the No. 2 national seed behind Oregon State. Gators catcher Taylor Gushue has heard commentators say all season that his team doesn't possess a lot of "wow factors." Yet the Gators won the SEC regular-season championship and reached the conference tournament title game.
"Take 40 wins and the hardest schedule in the country to be your 'wow factor,'" Gushue said Monday. "Just sitting there and being told there's nothing special about you, it's not the case. We're good, and we'll definitely show it."
The SEC has produced nine national champions and seven runners-up since 1990, with South Carolina beating Florida in 2011 in all-SEC final and South Carolina and Mississippi State reaching the College World Series finals the last two years.
This year, eight SEC teams are among the top 17 in schedule strength. Only Kentucky ranks in the top 20 in scoring offense, but five SEC teams are in the top 20 in scoring defense.
Kentucky's A.J. Reed leads the nation with 23 home runs and is third in RBIs with 70. LSU's Aaron Nola is among the country's most dominating pitchers.
Kentucky coach Gary Henderson said he remembers hearing analysts say there was "nothing spectacular" about Mississippi State last year when it made its run to the College World Series finals.
"Every year you say that about an SEC team, it seems like," he said. "There's something they're not particularly spectacular at in any facet of the game, but they end up doing a real good job in the postseason."
LSU, at No. 8, is a national seed along with Florida. Three other SEC schools — Mississippi, South Carolina and Vanderbilt — will host regionals.
Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi State and Texas A&M will be on the road for regionals.
"I'm not trying to toot our horn, but the reality is that you have to go through the gauntlet," Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin said. "When you play in this league, oftentimes you can get a wrong perspective of your own team because it's so difficult to get through. I think you look at the teams that didn't get in, and they very well could be in. There's not a lot of difference between your 11th and 12th teams to the 1 and 2s."
The six national seeds after Oregon State (42-12) and Florida (40-21) are, in order: Virginia, Indiana, Florida State, Louisiana-Lafayette, TCU and LSU.
Oregon State is the No. 1 seed for the first time after being No. 3 a year ago.
The tournament opens Friday with 16 four-team, double-elimination regionals. Best-of-three super regionals will be held next week, with those winners moving to the CWS in Omaha.
National seeds that win their regionals play at home in super regionals.
Oregon State starts the tournament against Summit League champion North Dakota State. UC Irvine and UNLV also are in the Corvallis, Oregon, regional.
Beavers coach Pat Casey said his team's No. 1 seeding didn't come with an easy path to Omaha. Barring an upset, the Beavers would be matched against Big 12 regular-season champion Oklahoma State in a super regional.
"I have no complaints," Casey said. "It's a tough job, trying to balance it out. You could take every regional, and everybody would have something to say."
Miami coach Jim Morris isn't pleased with the prospect of his ACC regular-season champion team having to play at Florida in a super regional. Though Farrell listed Rice and Vanderbilt as teams that were edged out for national seeds, Miami was in the running for one before it lost two of three in the ACC tournament.
"You never know the rhyme or reason for where you're going to go," Morris said on the ESPNU selection show. "It makes no sense to me, if we're on the borderline, to be going to possibly the No. 2 seed."
Florida will be challenged this weekend. It will be hosting the Big West's second-place team in Long Beach State, a North Carolina squad with lots of postseason experience, and a 41-win College of Charleston team that's the bottom seed in the regional.
"This is probably a regional we need," Gators coach Kevin O'Sullivan said. "We tend to play up to our competition or sometimes down to our competition."
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Home Sheep Home: a Little Epic
To say that Aardman Animations is a bit of a British institution would be an understatement; the characters Wallace and Gromit have starred in some of the best animated films of the last two decades. Outside of the Telltale episodic series, however, Aardman's videogame presence has been minimal.
Shaun the Sheep was introduced in the third Wallace and Gromit film, A Close Shave, and then went on to star in his own children's animated series. Now, Shaun and his friends are appearing in the followup to the original Home Sheep Home, entitled Home Sheep Home 2: A Little Epic on iOS and PC.... read more


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There were some great sounds all around, including from a couple Iowa Lakes Community College students from Estherville who performed at the music department winter recital 2 p.m. Wednesday in Room 60 on the Estherville campus.
Alicia Jorgenson, playing flute, performed "Be Thou My Vision", an Irish melody, and "What Child is This?"
Jorgenson's remarkable performance ranged from a haunting pianissimo to a strong and commanding forte.
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Above: Alicia Jorgenson, ELC student, played two selections for her flute recital Wednesday at Iowa Lakes Community College.
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A junior at Estherville Lincoln Central, Jorgensen is also a full-time Iowa Lakes student. She's been playing flute since fifth grade and she took her first college instrumental class this semester.
She chose her two selections because "they're really pretty".
Especially the way she played them.
Serena Lynch, alto vocalist, is no stranger to Estherville where she's probably been singing since she was old enough to talk. Serena was a regular soloist at ELC productions as well as during Relay for Life and Sweet Corn Days events.
Lynch took voice lessons at MSU in Mankato last year and is continuing with them this year at Iowa Lakes under direction of Brett Fuelberth.
Lynch is considering going into musical theater with her theater background. Her recital selection was "The Wizard and I" from Wicked.
"I just like a little bit of everything," Lynch said of her repertoire.
She credits her mother, Michelle, with heartily supporting her music career.
"My mom's 100 percent behind me," Serena said.
Jordon Christensen showed his well-rounded talents by performing two piano selections, "Lone Star Waltz" and "Standing in the need of Prayer" as well as the Andante portion of "Andante et Allegro".
Jessica Abrahamson also performed two piano selections, "Sonatina in G, Third Movement", and Scott Joplin's enchantingly intricate "The Entertainer".
Applied music instructors include Carol Ayres, Dave Ballman, Barb Fuelberth, Brett Fuelberth, Gary Lambert and Arnie Schilling.


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|Will is always glad for a cozy lap and snuggling arms, in this case Lynette's
|Big brother Isaac (who turns 9 next Thursday!) feeding Will.
|David fell asleep sitting up next to Marcie
|I just pulled this off our camera; the other version was from Mary Beth's phone.
Marcie Jane, Will, David, Grace. The babies' facial expressions and Isaac's goofiness make me smile.


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Ohio: Philadelphia City Health Department HIV Testing Well-Received
June 18, 2013
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City Health Commissioner Vickie Ionno declared that Ohio's New Philadelphia City Health District's free HIV testing program has been going extremely well. Offered since March 1, 2012, the program tested more than 125 people last year, with no one testing positive. So far in 2013, the program has tested 97 people, with only one person testing positive. CDC has recommended that everyone be tested, particularly baby boomers.
06.16.2013; Joe Mizer
This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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