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Shelley Osborne is sitting at the kitchen table in her well-appointed loft in a refashioned brick mill beside the Nubanusit River in West Peterborough, New Hampshire. On her shelves are small groups of English china, teapots, creamers, willowware and yellowware, treasures collected from chapters of her eclectic life.
"Growing up, I lived in England, and I married an Englishman," she says. "His mother, Dora, was a wonderful cook. She used to make trifle a lot." In addition, Shelley's father was an officer in the U.S. Navy, commander of an American air base in Surrey. "We lived well," she adds, "gave big parties, did a lot of entertaining." Trifle always figured into that lifestyle, and she brought it with her into her new, more casual life in the States.
"The thing about the trifle is that it's not that hard to make, but it's showy and fun for a holiday or for special occasions," Shelley says. Today, she's going to show me how to make this treat. She starts with a single cake layer. "The English use stale cake soaked in liquor; they call it 'tipsy cake' for that reason," she adds. "Everyone modifies trifle to her own taste." Her custard is adapted from Julia Child's crème pâtissière (pastry cream). "I cut way back on the sugar," she says. And she uses something called "vanilla sugar," easy to make: a good-size vanilla bean immersed in quart jar of sugar.
Over high heat, she beats the custard vigorously with a heavy whisk, to keep the bottom from scorching. When the custard is right, she lets it cool, off the stove. With a sharp knife, she slices the single-layer cake in half through the middle. She spreads the bottom half with jam. "I like a tart jam, not too sweet," Shelley says. "Any kind of berry jam is good." Then she places the top of the cake back onto the bottom layer: "It's kind of a jam sandwich." She cuts the cake again, lengthwise and widthwise, to make squares. Now she's ready to build the trifle.
First, Shelley places a ladle of cooled custard into the bottom of a glass trifle dish. Cake squares go on the bottom, around the outside so that the stripes of jam show through the glass. Then she fills in the middle for the first layer, pours more custard over that, adds another layer of cake, and ends with the last of the custard and a layer of whipped cream. You might add layers of berries and cherries as well. Today, Shelley garnishes her trifle with raspberries, toasted slivered almonds, mint leaves, and crystallized violets. (She brings home the violets from Laduree, a boutique in Paris, whenever she visits the City of Light; there's a branch in New York, too.)
The word trifle derives from Old French and has come to mean "something of little consequence." Perhaps–but this creation seems impressively consequential. When Shelley brought her trifle to my annual Christmas brunch, 20 people quickly scraped the bottom of the footed glass–and talked about it for days.


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Keagan Aniketos Mendoza "Boots", 3, our beautiful loving son, brother, grandson, nephew, and friend passed away on June 25, 2010
He was born May 18, 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Jessica Diane Sanderson Heidel and Stevan Alex Mendoza.
From the moment Keagan was born he fought. Keagan was an inspiration to all those that knew him. He never gave up no matter what the situation; he just found his own way of doing things. Keagan was a beautiful child, who had an amazing gift to make everyone around him smile. He was and still is the most positive and motivating person I have ever met. Keagan continued to inspire and save others even after his passing through organ donation. Keagan loved to listen to music, play basketball with his little sister "Nai Nai", and doing absolutely anything that involved going outside. Above all other things Keagan was at his happiest when he was around his family and friends.
Keagan will be forever missed by family and many friends, survived by parents, Jessica Heidel and Stevan Mendoza, Price; older sisters, Talia and Maleya Heidel, Alpine; younger sister, Aiyanna Mendoza Price; grandparents, Michael Sanderson and Shelley Curtis, Woodland Hills, Utah, grandmother, Patricia Sanderson, Michigan; grandparents, Benjamin Mendoza and Glenda Montoya, Price; grandmother, Yolanda Trevizo, Wellington; great-grandmothers, Marilyn Sanderson, Topeka, Kan., and Diane Lavis, Manhattan, Kan., uncles, Marcos Mendoza, Helper, Paul Sanderson, Spanish Fork, Benjamin Mendoza III, and Manuel Mendoza Rock Springs, Wyo., Jose, Daniel, and Juan Mediano of Mexico, and Carlos Gutierrez of Price; aunts, Stephanie(Charlie) Whitehead, Spanish Fork, Misty (Tyler) Hackey, Spanish Fork, Elizabeth Arvizo and Erica Mendoza of Wellington, Rosa and Patty Mendoza of Mexico; numerous cousins, very, very, special friends, "Grandpa" Dave Wood, Price; and "Aunt" Kelly Rubio, Price.
Preceded in death by great-grandfathers, Charles Sanderson, Leonard Lavis, Benjamin Mendoza Sr., and Aunt Norma Mediano.
A Memorial Mass will be held Friday, Aug. 27, 2010,11 a.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Helper. Family will be at St. Anthony's Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. A celebration of Keagan's life will be held Friday evening from 5-7 p.m. at the Helper Auditorium. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are welcome to share online memories of "Boots" at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net.


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Moving In Different Directions: Minor League Teams
Jonathan Willis
February 09 2009 11:30AM
The Oilers have two minor-league affiliates: the Stockton Thunder of the ECHL, and the Springfield Falcons of the AHL. Back at the end of December, both teams were struggling; the Falcons had lost six games in a row, while the Thunder had lost three games in three nights and were winless in five games. Here are both teams records as of December 29th, and please keep in mind that the ECHL doesn't have a "loser point", so Stockton's third column represents a tie, while in Springfield it represents an overtime loss.
Stockton Thunder: 10-20-1 Springfield Falcons: 12-16-5
If we view the teams solely from a win/loss perspective, Stockton is 10/20, and Springfield 12/21. The records were similar, and both teams were in the middle of slumps. The management on the two teams reacted differently, however. In Stockton, the ownership dismissed head coach Chris Cichocki (incidentally, Stockton president Dan Chapman issued one of the classiest coach-firing quotes I've ever seen), replacing him with Matt Thomas, the young but highly successful ex-coach of the Fresno Falcons. Additionally, the team brought in five players from the collapsed Falcons team, all of whom are decent but not outstanding ECHL players.
Springfield made changes as well. Early in January, team President Bruce Landon publicly complained about the lack of changes made by the Oilers' hierarchy; despite his title as President and General Manager, Landon has very little say in personnel decisions, as the Edmonton Oilers (chiefly Kevin Prendergast) have the final say on all roster moves. Within the next week, the Oilers brought in free agent Shane Willis, traded for Ryan Stone, and offered Patrick Bordeleau a professional tryout. They chose not to make any coaching changes.
Here are the teams' records after December 29th:
Stockton Thunder: 13-3-1 Springfield Falcons: 4-11-2
In terms of straight wins/losses, that's 13/3 to 4/13; records that are almost precisely opposite each other. Now, some may argue that Springfield has suffered from call-up issues, but consider for a moment that Stockton was forced to sign a defenseman who hadn't played a competitive game in two seasons, and dress two forwards as defensemen because injuries and call-ups have reduced their roster to 14 skaters. Stockton hasn't been any luckier than Springfield; in point of fact they've faced far greater adversity in terms of injuries and call-ups.
Let's consider, for a moment, the career numbers of the forwards with one or more previous AHL seasons who are currently in Springfield, because there's an interesting and rather disturbing pattern. Percentage Change reflects the percentage change in the player's points-per-game from last year, and I've ignored all players with small sample sizes (Brule, Stone, Spurgeon, Reddox, etc.)
Ryan Potulny
2006-07: 30GP – 12G – 14A – 26 PTS 2007-08: 58GP – 21G – 26A – 47 PTS 2008-09: 41GP – 22G – 14A – 36 PTS Percentage Change: +8 %
Rob Schremp
2006-07: 69GP – 17G – 36A – 53 PTS 2007-08: 78GP – 23G – 53A – 76 PTS 2008-09: 39GP – 5G- 23A – 28 PTS Percentage Change: -26 %
Carl Corazzini
2006-07: 68GP – 28G – 29A – 57 PTS 2007-08: 80GP – 24G – 36A – 60 PTS 2008-09: 50GP – 7G – 12A – 19 PTS Percentage Change: -49 %
Vyacheslav Trukhno
2007-08: 64GP – 14G – 21A – 35 PTS 2008-09: 32GP – 3G – 14A – 17 PTS Percentage Change: -3 %
Colin McDonald
2007-08: 73GP – 12G – 11A – 23 PTS 2008-09: 47GP – 4G – 5A – 9 PTS Percentage Change: -39 %
Ryan O'Marra
2007-08: 31GP – 2G – 7A – 9 PTS 2008-09: 37GP – 1G – 4A – 5 PTS Percentage Change: -53 %
Tim Sestito
2007-08: 77GP – 7G – 10A – 17 PTS 2008-09: 37GP – 3G – 1A – 4 PTS Percentage Change: -51 %
On average, these players have lost just over 30% of their offense from last season. That number is even worse when you consider that aside from Corazzini, these players are all in the upswing of their career; in other words, even a 0% change would not be a neutral score, as these players should be improving offensively.
Still, let's look beyond the individual scoring numbers and compare the team's ability as a whole to score and prevent goals to last season. Last season the Falcons scored 214 goals and allowed 257 over 80 games, meaning they scored 2.68 goals per game on average while allowing 3.21 goals against (apparently Kelly Buchberger is a big fan of fire-wagon hockey). This year, they've score 112 goals and allowed 153 through 50 games, numbers which average out to 2.24 goals for and 3.06 goals against per game. That means that Jeff Truitt has this team scoring .42 goals less per game, while allowing .15 goals less against – the upshot of which is that for every goal that isn't scored on the Falcons this season, they score three less.
Combine all of this with some funny personnel decisions – demoting players like Cody Wild and to the ECHL while Bryan Young and Mathieu Roy remain with the team, for example – and there's a pretty compelling case for the removal of Jeff Truitt as head coach of the Springfield Falcons.
It could be just me????
But it seems as though there might be a hidden message in this article that relates to team not called the "Springfielsd Falcons".
I wonder????
Outstanding post, Jonathan. Potulny seems to be the only finisher on the squad, but it's a sad situation when he has more Goals than Schremp, Trukhno, McDonald, O'Marra and Corazzini combined. Egads.
It's not hard to conclude Jeff Truitt isn't exactly the next coming of Claude Julien. And it shouldn't be a hard decision to conclude Jeff Truitt.
Wow. The new guy in Stockton seems to be quite good, maybe he can replace Truit?
But yeah when everyone's numbers in springfield are down (Potulny being the exception to prove the rule) so drastically It pretty well has to be coaching.
Then again it's not like this management team(including coaches) seem to take responsibility for it's mistakes anyway. Mediocrity enough for the farm and big team.
There are only two types of players that should be on an AHL roster.
1- Developing prospects with an upside. Think Peckham or Schremp. Young guys who have the potential to be NHL roster players, and are in the AHL to work on improving their games.
2- Proven Veterans who can contribute. Think Jake Taylor or Carl Corazzini. These guys are there to get your team to the playoffs and show the group 1 guys the way it should be done. The problem is that these guys cost money.
There is a 3rd group that Springfield has to many of
3- Prospects that have crossed the line to suspects and are just filler on the roster. No hope of going to the show and not really driving the team in the A. Think Guillaume Lefebvre or Mike Gabinet. The only thing that is valuable about these guys to the organization is that they are cheap roster fillers.
I think that the affiliation between the Oilers and the Falcons will end this year, by mutual agreement. They will end up with an AHL franchise somewhere in the west / Midwest. Hopefully, they will be willing to support the new franchise better and create a winning atmosphere. In the meantime, we have to hope that the lost season in the A doesn't do some irreparable damage to some of our prospects.
@ Jonathon:
It used to be common to have dual affiliations in the minors, where 2 NHL clubs kept the shelves stocked with prospects and shared expenses. Why does that not happen any more? It seems like a very smart way to run an AHL team.
From the Stockton press release jonathon linked to about the coaching change:
"We haven't been able to perform at a level our fans deserve so we felt now was the time to make this change in hopes of signifcantly improving our hockey team."
The Oilers management could learn from that, you'd think, specifically the 10th to 12th words.
February 09 2009, 12:09PM
@ Matt N
Jonathon probably has a better answer than I, but I believe part of the reason for moving away from dual-affiliations is that the parent club will be able to develop players better. One of the reasons cited for the Oilers' goaltending-development woes is because the Montreal Canadiens (when we shared Hamilton), played their goalies in front of ours, and ours didn't get any time. The way it's done now, the parent club calls the shots, can send down or call up whoever they need, and can develop as they see fit.
@ Jonathon
This is an incredibly insightful article. Sounds like I'm sucking-up (for what purpose, though?), but I just wanted to give huge props for looking into this. I think it sends a variety of messages that should be heeded by the Oilers organization as a whole.
Matt N wrote:
@ Jonathon: It used to be common to have dual affiliations in the minors, where 2 NHL clubs kept the shelves stocked with prospects and shared expenses. Why does that not happen any more? It seems like a very smart way to run an AHL team.
Playing time. Both teams will likely have several guys that they want to have top six/top pairing minutes as well as a goaltender(or two). Not enough minutes to go around.
The Oilers did this for awhile and I think it'd be fair to say; it really hurt the development of some of the young prospects.
February 09 2009, 12:20PM
RE: Dual affiliations. I Am The Law pretty much nailed it; Jeff Deslauriers (as an example) had a few years of screwy development because he couldn't get any games in at the AHL level. One team always seems to own the AHL affiliate, and thus their players get the priority. Imagine, again as an example, what any team sharing Edmonton's AHL affiliate would think if Taylor Chorney and his green jacket got to play ahead of their top defense prospect. Another consideration is that with a good AHL team you can groom your organizational people for more responsibility.
With that said, teams short on cash might be well-advised to consider it, because it is a fair bit of money to run one, but a team with a rich owner (ie Edmonton) really doesn't have an excuse not to have thier own famr team, in my opinion.
February 09 2009, 01:12PM
@ Jonathan,
Great stuff as always Jonathan. To me, the wasted asset in the Oilers organization right now is Rob Daum. The man has proved himself on a number of levels with the organization and at the U of A and Jeff Truitt has not.
One thing that I'm wondering is that while the Oilers will spend money, they are not willing to "cut their losses". Management may couch it in terms of "patience", but my sense is that Oiler management says - "this is how much money" you have and if you want to make a change, you'll pay for it yourself. Stockton had the ability to force a change.
And since Springfield's obviously not making any money, their President/GM may not have the financial latitude to can the coach.
I'm not saying, but it would not surprise me.
February 09 2009, 03:02PM
@ oilerdago:
Well, Truitt's been coaching in the WHL and AJHL for 15 years, so it in't like he hasn't done his time at the junior level. That said, the results this year have been brutal, and it's difficult not to place some of the blame on the coach.
Given that the Oilers are willing to pay Mathieu Roy his NHL contract in Springfield (rather than buying him out) I'd suggest it probably isn't about money, although I can't be sure.
February 09 2009, 05:27PM
Thanks for the background on Truitt. Did not realize his coaching pedigree. But with that said (and with Daum in the fold), why do you go out and add him in the first place - unless you don't see Daum as a future coach? And frankly that's a mistake (as we've see with the cluster-you-know-what in Springfield).
Also, let me clarify my money argument. Katz is a smart businessman. You don't become as wealthy as he has by just throwing money around with no plan. You have a budget, you live within it and you live with the consequences.
There was nothing he could do about Roy's contract as know one in the league was interested in picking him up when he was assigned to the AHL back last fall. So Lowe and Tambo are stuck with a diminished asset that they have to overpay on.
While he's willing to get a superstar (because Lowe tells him that's what will put us over the top), he's not willing to go MLSE and do buy-outs. Maybe he'll hold be accountable for results at the end of the day across the entire organization instead of allowing it only at the ECHL level.
But I'm waiting to see him walk the walk.
So far, I don't think anyone has seen any accountability yet (except at the ECHL level) so we can only wonder what's going on behind the scenes.
February 09 2009, 05:29PM
Our future looks very bleek boys, not liking the direction its heading. I'm jumping ship Im now afficialy a Kings fan.
It's okay. Peckham, who is arguably the best defenceman on the Sprinfield roster, is back to save Sprinfield after another brutal and disappointing NHL appearance. Peckam has been billed as a Matt Green type D-Man: big, aggressive, and defensively responsible. Peckham, unlike Green, looked completely out of place given the opportunity to strut his stuff in the big show. Peckham looked, slow, tentative, and completely outclassed. He was a minus two in extremely limited ice-time. (9 shifts averaging 49 seconds) I know it was the Red Wings. I know the whole team played poorly... But if that is your best effort... Forget the show kid! You are miles away from being ready. Demoted after only 9 shifts. Don't most AHL'ers have at least two or three descent games in them from just sheer adrenalin when called up? Don't like our depth at D on the farm at all...
February 09 2009, 08:08PM
Chris wrote:
Peckham, unlike Green, looked completely out of place given the opportunity to strut his stuff in the big show. Peckham looked, slow, tentative, and completely outclassed.
Isn't that pretty much a word for word description of Matt Greene from the 2005-06 playoffs? Cory Cross, but more inclined to take stupid penalties?
Why is it that when we have someone here the fans hate him (Greene, Lupul, Pitkanen, etc.) then when they leave town they are suddenly looked upon by fans with rose colored "remember-when" glasses.
I will be the first to admit that Greene is playing at a level with the Kings that I didn't think he had, but when he was here he was considered barely serviceable for the 3rd pairing.
February 09 2009, 09:39PM
@ Matt N:
I don't get it either. All of a sudden, people are mad that the Oilers traded Stoll/Greene for Lubomir Visnovsky.
Oh how I wish I were making that up.
February 09 2009, 10:11PM
Would Craig Hartsburg be too pricey for Springfield? I think changes on our AHL farm team will need to be drastic.
February 09 2009, 10:23PM
Antony Ta wrote:
Would Craig Hartsburg be too pricey for Springfield? I think changes on our AHL farm team will need to be drastic.
Probably not if you whisper to him that whoever coaches Springfield for the rest of the year may have a shot at MacTavish's job.
Anthony, did you see my comment on your blog about that cullen article?
February 10 2009, 09:06AM
They've replaced Truitt with Daum. Holy cow.
February 10 2009, 09:16AM
@ Jonathan Willis:
Damn Willis! You got some pull it seems!!
Now, if only they weren't 90 miles away from me, I'd go and see some Falcons games to see the improvement! (I have no car because I'm a poor student...)


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Communiqué of the Holy Eparchial Synod
Oct 23, 2012
New York, October 23, 2012
The Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America convened in its regular fall meeting on October 17 and 18, 2012, at the Synodal Chamber of the Holy Archdiocese in New York. The meeting was attended by the members of the Synod and presided by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America.
The day before the official convening of the Synod, on October 16, the members of the Synod had the opportunity to review and complete their work on the original Greek text of the Services of Vespers and Orthros along with liturgical rubrics, which will be submitted to the Ecumenical Patriarchate for final approval.
During its meeting, the Holy Synod discussed a number of subjects, among them the following:
1. Special aspects of the pastoral and administrative work of the Church in regard to clergy and laity. More specifically, the Synod approved a program for the pastoral care of patients (Chaplaincy Program) through which, besides the clergy, individuals who have theological education and have been trained in pastoral care can offer their services in various institutions i.e. hospitals, prisons, etc.
2. Matters of special cases for clergy related to disciplinary nature, as well as the need for clergy care for the clergy and their families.
3. Matters of Religious and Greek education: The Synod discussed extensively the training of candidates to the priesthood and the Special Educational Program for Deacons. Also, the need for greater participation of the youth of our parishes in the yearly and very successful program of St. John Chrysostom Oratorical Festival.
The new text books for the teaching of the Greek language in the Day and Afternoon Schools of the Archdiocese for the second level were presented. As it is well known, the books are distributed free of charge by Faith Endowment of the Holy Archdiocese. The drafting of the text books for the third level has already begun.
4. Administrative Matters: Administrative matters regarding parishes and monasteries of the Holy Archdiocese were discussed. The very joyful event of the signing of related documents for the rebuilding of the Church of St. Nicholas at Ground Zero was announced. The church besides being a parish will become a National Shrine and a greater witness of the Orthodox Faith.
5. Matters on Social Issues: The Synod discussed issues related to racism and fascism and proceeded with the attached press release. Also the Synod discussed the contemporary subject of the physician assisted suicide and will soon release a communiqué on this subject.
After the completion of the meetings of the Holy Eparchial Synod, its members had the opportunity to participate in the Executive Council, the Committees and the plenary session of the Archdiocesan Council (October 18-19), as well as in the yearly assembly and celebrations of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, October 20-21,2012.
From the office of the Holy Eparchial Synod
Statement of the Holy Eparchial Synod
of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
The Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in its Fall 2012 session expresses once again its deep concern over extremist language used in all spheres of public and private life. We exhort all the people with the admonition of the Holy Apostle Paul: Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one (Colossians 4:6). We deplore the use of any racist, xenophobic, fascistic, hateful speech, imagery and behavior. Noting that the one of the great gifts of living in a democracy is the right to free speech, we nevertheless commend responsibility, civility, and indeed love in choosing our words and modes of expression. The people of Greece said "NO" to fascism in World War II and consequently suffered tremendously under the Nazi occupation. We call upon all people to say "NO" to the hatefulness of all forms of totalitarianism and embrace the true philanthropy and philoxenia (love of the stranger) that is the message of the Gospel. As a leader in Interfaith and Inter-Cultural Dialogue, the Greek Orthodox Church, by the grace of God, prays and works for peace, respect, and reconciliation among all people.
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Snowshoeing is something you can do with the family — well snowboarding is too, but it's not for everyone.
Snowshoeing, on the other hand, is on the rise. Ryan Alford of Snowshoe Magazine says it might helps folks avoid Seasonal Affective Disorder -read that here. He quoted research from the Outdoor Industry Association and SnowSports Industries America that the sport is on the rise, and it is in our family. My sister, two BILs and an SIL are all avid snowshoe fans.
Around my house, snowboarding was never all that popular. We still have a few boards in the attic, and many winters have come and gone with no one asking to rescue them. My daughter's boyfriend, however, is a master at Blue Knob near Altoona, Pa.
My son's girlfriend in Virginia Beach. She wants to see these snowshoes becasue she never really sees much snow. I'm going to give snowshoes a try this week with my buddy Grace Perhacs. I won't have any great tips for you until after our adventure.
In the meantime, if you need some tips for where to enjoy snowshoe fun, Asbury Woods has it. Please call (814) 835-5356 for details. You can rents snowshoes there.
At Presque Isle, Shelter 1 near the Waterworks Ponds offers cross country skis and snowshoes for rent from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends. Call 814-833-7424 for more info.
You can also check out some of the ski resorts for info on snowshoeing. And Cleveland MetroParks has loads of family entertainment including snowshoeing.
Here's info from Dana Massing's blog Cheap in Erie on free snowshoe walks at Erie Bluffs and Pymatuning.
Pam Parker is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa. She is the mom of three, stepmom to three and step-grandmom to one.


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Nov. 10, 2016—Change will come to how some consumers buy health insurance—the recent presidential election all but guarantees it—but two experts tell Consumers Digest that any changes likely won't take effect in 2017. In other words, consumers who are eligible to buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace should act as though nothing has changed.
Retailers and websites often tout a wine's score to entice you, but experts disagree on the usefulness of these scores.
We evaluated 252 total models to identify 12 Best Buys.
Manufacturers rolled out better wheels, more-versatile hard-shell models and high-tech features.
Nov. 17, 2016—Further evidence that no matter how bad that it gets when it comes to air travel, it always could get worse comes to us through United Airlines' announcement of a reduced-fare class that comes with restrictions attached—the biggest being a limit on the size of carry-on luggage.
Sept. 29, 2016—Dunkin' Donuts is ready to get into bottled coffee, and its partner in the venture is none other Coca-Cola.
A lack of federal oversight creates potential confusion.
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More research is necessary to determine the long-term health effects of toxic chemicals that are in today's pet toys.
Aug. 4, 2016—Mars Petcare, which makes Eukanuba brand dog food, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges of false advertising.
Feb. 16, 2016—When we took a look at the emerging consumer market for 3-D printers, we came away unimpressed with the devices as a useful household tool for a variety of reasons, including price.
Snowthrower technology has stormed in like a lion, but snowthrower prices have reacted like a lamb.
Outdoor speakers remain king of the backyard, because they still provide more power and more bass than do Bluetooth speakers.
More battery power and CVTs lead the way.
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Be aware of increasing health-insurance-related fines and overtime pay when you file your 2016 taxes.
The regulation of financial advisers is inconsistent or nonexistent. No fix is expected soon.
Litigated divorce costs are difficult to peg.
Jan. 5, 2017—We've been aware that credit scores that you might find online aren't necessarily the same as the ones that lenders use to gauge your creditworthiness when you apply for a loan. Now, two of the three primary credit bureaus are on the hook for saying that they were.
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Why do a Frenzy?
Students often mistakenly believe that applying for financial aid is a complex and difficult process. They also commonly underestimate the extent to which they qualify for aid. Frenzy is a combined effort by the UA financial aid offices, students, staff, and faculty to get out accurate information.
How much aid is available?
Over the last few years we've seen more and more students submit their FAFSA and apply for admission early (by February 15) which increases their chances for financial aid. In the 2014-2015 academic year, over $137 million in financial aid was awarded to students across the state, about a third of which being "non-loan" aid such as grants, scholarships and work study. A primary goal of the Frenzy is to help students attend college by maximizing their non-loan aid, minimizing their potential loan debt.
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A brace from Ben Tapuai helped the Reds pick up their first victory of the season on Saturday, overcoming the Waratahs 25-17 in Brisbane.
Two tries from Ben Tapuai helped the Reds pick up their first victory of the Super Rugby campaign on Saturday, beating the Waratahs 25-17 in Brisbane.
The Queenslanders appeared to be cruising to a comprehensive win after leading 17-3 at half-time. But the Waratahs clawed their way back after the break to level the scores 17-17, and set up a thrilling finish with just over 10 minutes of the match remaining.
But a second Mike Harris penalty followed by a pulsating break-out from flank Eddie Quirk – which led to Tapuai's second touchdown – sealed the deal for the 2011 champions.
Waratahs scrum-half Brendan McKibbon booted the visitors into an early lead but from then on it was all the Reds in the first half as Dom Shipperley and Tapuai both scored tries, as the hosts controlled possession and capitalised on handling errors by the Sydneysiders.
Harris kept his 100 per cent record at goal with a penalty as the Reds went into the interval 17-3 ahead against the rusty Waratahs, who had a bye last week.
But after the break the visitors looked a lot more lively and hit back with a try through Israel Folau, who delivered a mixed performance in his first Super Rugby outing. Fly-half Bernard Foley converted from far out to reduce the deficit to seven points, and the 'Tahs were back in the hunt.
The Reds appeared to be tiring and the Waratahs levelled the score when Foley completed a tough conversion after a superb solo try from replacement back Ben Volavola in the 59th minute.
The visitors looked to have all the momentum, but the Reds got some crucial breathing space with a long-range Harris penalty in the 69th minute, before Quirk's bustling saw him dragged down by Folau just shy of the tryline.
But the flanker was able to pop a pass to the supporting Tapuai for a try that finally put the result beyond doubt.
The scorers:
For Reds:
Tries: Shipperley, Tapuai 2
Con: Harris 2
Pen: Harris 2
For Waratahs:
Tries: Folau, Volavola
Con: Foley 2
Pen: McKibbin
Reds: 15 Mike Harris, 14 Dom Shipperley, 13 Chris F'Sautia, 12 Ben Tapuai, 11 Digby Ioane, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Ben Lucas, 8 Jake Schatz, 7 Liam Gill, 6 Eddie Quirk, 5 Ed O'Donoghue, 4 Rob Simmons, 3 James Slipper (c), 2 Saia Faingaa, 1 Greg Holmes.
Replacements: 16 James Hanson, 17 Albert Anae, 18 Adam Wallace-Harrison, 19 Jarrad Butler, 20 Nick Frisby, 21 Jono Lance, 22 Luke Morahan.
Waratahs: 15 Israel Folau, 14 Drew Mitchell, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Tom Carter, 11 Tom Kingston, 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Brendan McKibbin, 8 Wycliff Palu, 7 Dave Dennis (c), 6 Michael Hooper, 5 Kane Douglas, 4 Sitaleki Timani, 3 Sekope Kepu, 2 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 1 Jeremy Tilse.
Replacements: 16 John Ulugia, 17 Benn Robinson, 18 Paddy Ryan, 19 Mitchell Chapman, 20 Lopeti Timani, 21 Matt Lucas, 22 Ben Volavola.
Referee: Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: Andrew Lees (Australia), Rohan Hoffmann (Australia)
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Movie Review
It's 1985.
But it's a 1985 you'd be utterly unfamiliar with. Richard Nixon is serving his fifth term. Costumed vigilantes—superheroes, some call them—have been outlawed. And, from the window of a New York penthouse, a man plunges to his death.
So begins Watchmen, a movie adapted from the lauded graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It took more than 20 years to push Watchmen to the screen: Many considered the book unadaptable. Moore—no fan of Hollywood—wanted it that way.
Watchmen, with its myriad subplots, characters, allusions and time shifts, certainly doesn't lend itself to a popcorn muncher. Neither does it lend itself to written synopses. About the best I can do is say that at its most simplistic it's a mystery story—one that Agatha Christie would want no part of.
The dead man turns out to be a guy called The Comedian, a costumed crime fighter who, because he works for Nixon's government, was one of the few superheroes allowed to keep his gig. Then he's thrown through a thick plate glass window after being beaten senseless—a cold-blooded killing without a punch line, only questions.
Rorschach, a rogue vigilante who takes his name from his ever-mutating mask of blotches, is determined to ferret out answers.
"Maybe someone's picking off costumed heroes," he growls to Dan Dreiberg, a one-time superhero who decided to retire his alter ego—Nite Owl—when the government made costumed crime fighting illegal. Nite Owl doubts Rorschach's conspiracy theory at first, but he quickly realizes something's up. Dr. Manhattan, the only superhero with actual superhuman powers, has exiled himself to Mars because he believes his strange abilities cause cancer in others. A gunman nearly kills Adrian Veidt, a wicked-smart businessman who once adventured under the name Ozymandias (and still markets his own line of action figures). And Rorschach gets framed for the murder of one-time villain Moloch the Mystic.
Positive Elements
Much of what was once considered revolutionary about the book Watchmen feels, well, a bit old now. These superheroes are (mostly) human, filled with very human frailty and failings. While Batman and Spider-Man may have issues, some Watchmen are just plain bad. A couple are downright pathological. Still, they harbor kernels of goodness inside their dark, dark shells: Rorschach's uncompromising adherence to his own code of right and wrong. Dr. Manhattan's evolving belief that humanity is a real miracle—"like turning air into gold." Ozymandias' desire to lead humanity into a new age of hope and peace.
Right and wrong, hope and peace, miracles. That's all good, right?
Read on.
Spiritual Content
Philosopher Voltaire once said that "if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." So it's fitting that, in the essentially godless world of Watchmen (most characters seem to believe that God is absent or, at best, too distant to care), we meet Dr. Manhattan.
Run-of-the-mill superheroes serve as lowercase-g gods—capricious beings who both protect and judge the populace, and whose failings harkens back to ancient mythology. To underline the connection, the film showcases a hero-filled dinner party, with the participants aping Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper."
But far above them all looms Dr. Manhattan, a one-time scientist named Jon Osterman who was radically transformed during a lab mishap. Now he's big and blue (and generally naked) and has the ability to manipulate matter, see into the future and zap from place to place faster than Rorschach can say "hurm."
When America's industrial/military complex first unveiled Manhattan to the world, one of his friends allegedly said, "The superman exists, and he is American." Turns out, the guy was misquoted.
"What I said was, 'God exists and he's American,'" he says.
Manhattan denies this: "I don't think there is a god," he says. "And if there is, I'm nothing like him." But because his abilities are so far above those of the average human, Manhattan becomes a godlike avatar: When he's sent by the U.S. government to fight in Vietnam, surrendering Viet Cong bow to him. People say things like, "Even Dr. Manhattan can't be everywhere at once." And Manhattan takes on a uniquely Old Testament-style aura at the end of the film, when humanity (mistakenly) thinks he's killed millions of people. Apparently fearing more "divine" retribution, the world makes peace with itself and, when superhero Silk Spectre asks Nite Owl whether peace can possibly last, Nite Owl says, "As long as people think Jon's watching us, we'll be all right." Manhattan even says he now loves life again—and that he's going to a different galaxy to create some.
Much of the book, and subsequent film, seems to ruminate on naturalist William Paley's famous 1802 "watchmaker" argument—that the universe is so complex it supposes a designer, or watchmaker. It's interesting to note that Manhattan's father was himself a watchmaker, teaching his son the trade. Manhattan, after his transformation, ponders a universe where "nothing is made—a clock without a craftsman." Clocks and watches show up repeatedly. For instance, Manhattan sets his watch on top of a Bible. And the very name Watchmen takes on a suggestive tone when these ideas come to mind.
Characters occasionally quote from scripture. Rorschach muses over ancient Egyptian concepts of the afterlife.
Sexual Content
Dr. Manhattan spends most of the film in the big, blue buff, and audiences see him every which way: back, side and front. He sends nude duplicates of himself to pleasure girlfriend Silk Spectre—resulting in a bizarre foursome. (They're interrupted during foreplay.)
Later, Silk Spectre becomes Nite Owl's main squeeze, and the two engage in a graphic sex scene, complete with nudity (her breasts and both of their backsides), much movement and a climax—all while Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" plays in the background. Another physical tryst, where the two strip and writhe around on a couch, ends when Nite Owl finds himself to be impotent without first doing superhero-type work. Nite Owl also has a dream in which he and Silk Spectre, both nude, meet in the middle of a barren landscape and "strip" their nudity, revealing superhero outfits underneath. They then kiss before being obliterated by a nuclear explosion.
Dr. Manhattan, pre-transformation, has sex with his girlfriend; she later leaves him after he develops an interest—and passionately kisses—Silk Spectre (who's 16 at the time).
Silk Spectre's mom, Sally (who also was a costumed adventurer named Silk Spectre), is sexually assaulted by The Comedian. We're asked to watch as he attacks her. (He unzips his pants during the assault. She's in a state of partial undress.) We learn later that he and she also have a consensual encounter.
Elsewhere: Silk Spectre's outfits are slinky and provocative. Rorschach's mother was apparently a prostitute. Another prostitute flashes her breasts at a passing superhero. Audiences catch glimpses of pornographic magazines and movies. A naked man is seen frolicking during a party.
An old-school female superhero kisses another woman. ...
Violent Content
The two are later found dead in bed together, the words "lesbian whores" scrawled in blood across the walls. A male superhero is a sadist. A villain is said to be a masochist who follows superheroes around, begging to be beaten.
That's the tame stuff. Watchmen put the "graphic" in "graphic novel" when it was released piecemeal in 1986 and '87. It's as bloody a comic book as you'll likely see, and it, as Slate reports, "helped kick off a decadent death spiral that would see adolescent violence peddled as adult content full of rape, murder and corpse-burning."
But the book looks positively demure compared to the film's butchery.
In the book, Rorschach dispatches a pedophile killer by chaining him inside his house and then burning it to the ground, with readers only seeing Rorschach walking slowly out the door. In the movie, Rorschach chains the pedophile up—then buries a meat cleaver in the evildoer's skull. Repeatedly.
In the book, Dr. Manhattan blows up a criminal's head, a cloud covering the carnage. In the movie, Manhattan blows up several criminals simultaneously: Blood coats bystanders; gore hangs from the ceiling.
"Nobody over 25 could take any joy from the savagery that is fleshed out onscreen, just as nobody under 18 should be allowed to witness it," writes Anthony Lane in The New Yorker. "You want to see the attempted rape of a superwoman, her bright latex costume cast aside and her head banged against the baize of a pool table? The assault is there in Moore's book, one panel of which homes in on the blood that leaps from her punched mouth, but the pool table is [film director Zack] Snyder's own embroidery."
When people get shot, we see skin separate like a burst balloon. When people have their arms broken, we see the bones stab through the flesh. Arms are cut off with buzz saws. Dogs fight over the leg bone of a murdered little girl—foot and shoe still attached. Dr. Manhattan has his body stripped into oblivion, layer by layer ... twice. The Comedian shoots and kills a pregnant woman (he fathered the child) after the woman slices his face with a broken bottle. Rorschach, as a child, rips off someone's ear with his teeth.
Superheroes punch, kick, shoot, stab, poison, immolate, harpoon and vaporize legions of people. And that's not counting the 15 million folks who get obliterated by explosions at film's end. Clearly, Watchmen shares far more with Saw than Spider-Man.
Crude or Profane Language
Twenty-plus uses of the f-word and at least a half-dozen s-words. God's name is abused 25 or so times. (It's paired with "d--n" more than a dozen times.) Jesus' name is callously interjected at least another six. A wide variety of vulgarities and crudities—"b--ch," "b--tard," "h---" and so on—are heard throughout.
Drug and Alcohol Content
The Comedian smokes cigars and drinks to excess. Sally also appears to be a heavy drinker: She offers a margarita to her daughter in the early afternoon. Ozymandias poisons champagne, killing dozens of scientists. Nite Owl and Silk Spectre share some wine over dinner. Manhattan's first girlfriend buys him a beer. Nite Owl drinks the stuff, too. Moloch, in an effort to treat cancer, takes medication made from apricot pits—which has been declared illegal.
Other Negative Elements
Silk Spectre throws up. Rorschach makes several height- and weight-related jokes. Rorschach's mother tells him she wishes she had had an abortion. Most of the characters break the law by fighting crime in costume, and some assault law officers.
Watchmen, the book, is a brutal, bleak and bitter tour de force. Named by Time magazine as one of history's 100 best novels, it explores philosophy, politics, theology and human nature. It culminates in a literally monstrous act of heroism: In order to "save the world," one of the protagonists unleashes a made-up monster on the streets of New York—the mere appearance of which kills millions of people. Our "hero" feels bad about the loss of life—but he figures that their unknowing, unwilling sacrifice saved the human race. And, while Moore obliquely suggests that the man's gone mad, he eventually leaves it up to the reader to decide: Did he do the right thing?
Watchmen, the movie, retains that cruel sense of despair. At times, its adherence to the source material feels almost slavish. Yet it's a bit pastiche, too, layering in extra—gratuitous—sex, blood and gore just for raw, big screen shock value.
As a book, Watchmen is messy. As a movie, Watchmen is a mess. In fact, I'll go so far as to call it dispirited, depressing schlock—both as a work of art and as a mode of message. Fanboys may be enthralled, but I'd imagine the uninitiated will walk away appalled, confused and even strangely bored. At the advance screening I attended, where folks generally stay glued to their seats, I saw a number of people leave the theater. Some never came back. This isn't a movie as much as an assault.
"Who watches the Watchmen?" one graffiti artist paints in both the movie and book. If I had my druthers, I know what my answer would be:
No one.
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Episode Reviews
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Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl; Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs/Rorschach; Malin Akerman as Laurie Jupiter/Silk Spectre; Billy Crudup as Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan; Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias; Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Edward Blake/The Comedian
Zack Snyder ( Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man of Steel, Sucker Punch, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, 300, Dawn of the Dead)
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2013 saw the annual spring 'run up' get an early start around Jan 21. Refineries began their annual maintenance checks and, concurrently, the national retail average at $3.25 per gallon around Jan 21 climbed steadily to $3.74 by Feb. 27. There's ten eye-opening facts about gasoline prices in 2013 that motorists should see (attached).
Again in May we saw refinery issues trigger another aggressive climb. Refinery issues on the West Coast and in the Great Lakes region especially propelled the national average from $3.49 around May 4 to $3.68 by May 21.
July delivered yet another hike and this time it was caused by the Lac Megantic, Quebec train disaster when 72 rail cars on the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway derailed there, leaving a wake of death and destruction. Crude oil prices climbed; gasoline inventory declined and the trend continued with political unrest in Egypt creating concerns about the Suez Canal shipping lanes. The national average price of gas- $3.49 on July 6- spiked to $3.68 by July 19. Following the horrific train crash in Quebec (July 6th) and the international debate over Syria, we saw crude oil prices spike in both instances and retail gas prices followed the same course.
If we had asked you last spring to predict which U.S. city would see the highest average price in the country during 2013, (it soared to $4.47 in June) most of you would probably have guessed Los Angeles, San Francisco or maybe New York...
But it was Chicago and that was due to a confluence of refinery problems that plagued the Midwest. By June, at one point Milwaukee's average price of gas was higher than Los Angeles. That's a rarity we're not likely to see any time soon. The map below shows the largest single day price increases in 2013, and not surprisingly, all the largest jumps occurred in the Midwest.
Still, it's important to note the positives. All of the weather experts predicted considerably more hurricane activity in 2013, and instead, we saw one of the quietest years on record. That was a blessing because Sandy showed us in 2012 the havoc that one storm can deliver.
2013 also saw tremendous investment in 'midstream' infrastructure, the rail and pipelines necessary to bring more oil & gasoline from robust U.S. energy regions. It's because of the energy growth; access to cheaper Canadian crudes and long-term fuel conservation trends that we expect 2014 to be a better year.
Americans spent, on average, $3.60 per gallon in 2012; $3.49 in 2013 and we're projecting that total will be reduced to $3.39 for 2013… Barring the unforeseeable, we're confident we'll all pay slightly less overall.
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If the governor of this state, not just the current one but whoever he or (God forbid) she might be, wanted to be really truthful with voters, their annual State of the State address would probably go something like this:
"My fellow Mississippians, we stink in just about every indicator of progress and well-being compared to all the other states. But that's fine. Why? Because that's what you, the voters, want. Your votes over the decades have made it perfectly clear that what you really want from your elected officials is to maintain the status quo. Now I know that's big terminology, even has some foreign language in it, I don't know Greek or Latin or one of those ferrin words, but all it really means is that you like things to stay the way they are. What you've told us time and time again is that, if it was good enough for your mamas and daddies, then it's good enough for you and your children and your children's children, and we're working hard here in Jackson to give you what you want.
"You've told us you don't want any brain drain, that you want your children to stay right here at home and not flee to some other state for a better job and better pay. So we're doing everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen by making our public education system the worst in the nation. No brain, no drain. Even now we're working to expand our education system with new schools so our education dollars are spread so thin it's ensured that no one gets an adequate education, and we won't stop until there's a separate school district on every block.
"You've told us that you don't want more health care, that we don't need more doctors or to expand Medicaid. Here in Mississippi we believe in letting nature take its course, so if you're dying, just accept it, and make way for all those new babies being born every day so they can enjoy a short, obese life just like you did. At least they'll get to live it here in the great state of Mississippi!
"You've told us you don't want the federal government telling us what we can and can't do and to keep their hands off your guns so you can hunt any way you want, even if that deer you shot was inedible because of lead poisoning after you pumped 30 rounds into it in less than 30 seconds. Just keep sending us $2 for every $1 we send to Washington in taxes and leave us alone.
"So let all those other states laugh and make jokes about us all they want. I'm happy to report to you that the state of the state of Mississippi is excellent. It's just the way you want it, and we'll keep working hard to keep it that way."
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ChildrensBookstore.com takes off after six years as a lingering hobby.
Jake Ball bought the domain name for ChildrensBookstore.com in 2005, thinking if he only built the site he'd get rich, he says. Six years later, after doing not much with the online store other than selling a handful of kids' books locally per month, Ball decided he must either get the businesses going or sell the domain and wash his hands of it. He chose to commit. "I was going to get serious about it, put some real capital into this thing and make it into a business," he says.
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Besides realizing he'd need to make staff and technology investments to build the store, Ball says he learned at IRCE that the key to success in online retail is to provide consumers with something valuable that's unavailable anywhere else. "You can't just sell cheaper than others," he says. To that end, ChildrensBookstore.com now posts daily book reviews written by Ball and his staff, along with articles for parents and teachers about literacy and getting children to read, he says. He also added to the site an Authors section that features favorite authors selected by ChildrensBookstore.com, each with their own page including a biography, interviews and a list of all their books available on the site, Ball says.
"The real goal is to create an experience for parents and teachers with good information about books they want to buy for their kids," he says. "I kind of knew it, but I didn't know how to actually do it, like what steps I could take to actually build value for my users."
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Gallatin County and Pope County squared off in an all-GEC Regional final at Pope County Saturday, where the Hawks claimed their third-straight regional crown with a tight 3-2 victory.
Pope County got on the board in the first inning behind a RBI double by Travis Thompson.
Gallatin responded in the fourth after a lead-off walk to Wes McGuire, fellow Senior Daine Hish launched a 2-run shot well over the right field fence to give the Hawks their first lead of the game.
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"Wes didn't have a his best stuff today and was battling a bit of sore back, but he gave us 5 strong innings and Zach really came in a shut things down in the final two. Our Seniors really stepped up today with the homers, I don't think they are quite ready to call it a career yet."
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Byron Wien, vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Partners (BX), has a slew of bearish predictions amid the stock market's New Year ebullience.
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Neville, Luna, Ginny, and director David Yates were at the Empire Awards last night. Am assuming that's his gf?
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By the 1960s, millions of Americans had invested in televisions for their homes, and it soon became clear that this technology could be used for more that passively watching television shows. In 1966, while working for Sanders Associates Inc., engineer Ralph Baer began to investigate how to play games on a television. Between 1967 and 1969, he and colleagues Bill Harrison and Bill Rusch created several video game test units. This result was the "Brown Box," a prototype for the first multiplayer, multiprogram video game system. Sanders licensed the system to Magnavox. In 1972, Magnavox released the design as the Magnavox Odyssey, paving the way for all video game systems that followed.
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- In 1966, while working for Sanders Associates, Inc., engineer Ralph Baer began to look into new ways to use television, focusing specifically on interactive games. Baer had received his bachelor's in television engineering and was familiar with television test equipment that could meet his needs while keeping cost down. This Heathkit IG-62 Color Bar and Dot Generator, which was used to adjust television sets, provided the key circuitry needed to create an image on a television screen. This allowed Baer and his colleagues to devote their time and attention to develop a way for anyone to be able to move that image.
- In 1967, Baer created the first of several video game test units. Called TVG#1 or TV Game Unit #1, the device, when used with an alignment generator like the Heathkit IG-62, produced a dot on the television screen that could be manually controlled by the user. Once they were able to interact with the television, Baer and his team could design increasingly sophisticated interfaces and programs.
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Skip to comments.Army Major Played Role in Presidential Transition
Posted on 11/05/2009 8:41:49 PM PST by BobMcCartyWrites
Incredibly, it appears that Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan, the alleged shooter in the massacre that resulted in at least 12 dead and 31 wounded at Fort Hood today, served on the Homeland Security Policy Institutes presidential transition task force between April 2008 and January 2009 when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the nations 44th president.
Major Hasans name appears on the page numbered 29 (page 32 of the pdf) of the document, Thinking Anew Security Priorities for the Next Administration.
Founded in 2003, The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) is, according to the About Us page on its web site, a nonpartisan think and do tank whose mission is to build bridges between theory and practice to advance homeland security through an interdisciplinary approach.
What does it mean? Perhaps, nothing.
FOX News anchor Shepherd Smith today interviewed one of Hasans former Ft. Hood colleagues, Col. Terry Lee, who is now retired. Col. Lee said Hasan thought Obamas election would bring a quick end to U.S. deployments in the Mideast. When it didn't (end) he (Hasan) became more frustrated with the situation, said Col. Lee.
Did the results of the Tuesday night elections favoring Republicans push Maj. Hasan over the edge?
I bet the pucker factor at the US Secret Service just jumped by an order of magnitude.
That must have been a different Major Hasan. /sarc>
mmm mmm mmm
Col. Lee also says that he personally talked to Hasan and that Hasan said that the Iranians have a right and should stand up against "the agressors". Why nothing was done about this is unbelievable.
The fact that such a sick SOB could have been within arms distance of the POTUS scares me. Don't they background these people!??!?!??!
Well, there's only one thing to do: reverse the results of those elections.
The spin is that Obama will blame George Bush for driving this guy to go crazy! Hasan is a George Bush victim
I'm telling you, and I know this sounds crazy, but it's just too coincidental that this happened on the day 100,000 people showed up to protest and take DC by storm over the precious health care bill.
Obama and his thug meister Rahm are not above making a phone call so as to get people's minds off of his health care bill going down the toilet! To them nothing is more important than Obama's image and passing this bill of tyranny...and of course he got to make such a graceful (snort) statement of support for the families on live tv.
Except of course that Obama just quite couldn't infuse any pathos in his gracious (snort) speech after first getting in his me, me, me, me, good, me, good statements to the native Americans at the conference.
I'm guessing the jihadi's promotion was the result of strings pulled by higher-ups, and the FBI not opening a case to look into his internet posts praising the fragging of US soldiers by that other jihadi, comparing suicide bombers to soldiers jumping on a grenade to save others, etc. was also the result "discouragement" from higher-ups.
I meant "iraqis" not "iranians".
This is getting even weirder.
I wonder if he and Barack belong to the same terror cell? //sarcasm
someone from Fox interviews Hasans neighbor who said that Hasan had "Allah" on his door. Whether it was written or a sign isn't clear.
there should be no further question that BO is a muslim.
> The fact that such a sick SOB could have been within arms distance of the POTUS scares me.
He pals around with Ayers. It's nothing new.
Everyone is spinning and in serious CYA mode.
Muzzie plant?
Kind of makes the premise of Home Land Security officially a joke. If a guy like this got this high up in DHS, then how secure are we really?
I can hardly keep up with the SH*t!! Me thinks the US Military is FULL of these types. There needs to be a REAL purge. CO
Hey CO, I was thinking the same thing. But hey that would be politically incorrect....
Could a dispute over his attitude toward the Arkansas shootings have caused heckling by troops at Hood? Then he went postal over it.
Shrinks are crazy anyway.
That's not the Major Malik Nidal Hasan I knew!!!
Here is the source. The .pdf link works from there.
The shooter advises Obama administration on Homeland Security transition. Hmm.
We have a muslim that stands between the military and all classified information. Nothing comes or goes without their knowledge.
We have the same situation at DHS. Muslim knows everything and all operating intel at DHS.
This is obama's legacy and I have been warning about exactly this from day one.
I told 444Flyer in a mail the other day I was having nightmares and KNEW something major was about to happen. I think the worst is coming. Soon.
Funny how everything that happens surrounding Zero and his thugocracy has the same stench. At the very least, this seems to be odd timing for the meltdown, considering. All of the lamestream media can now legitimately ignore the protests at the WH today for more worthy "news".
Just heard that Hasan is alive, not dead as previously reported. I guess Zero will be giving him a medal of appeasement soon.
Ping & tragic props to nailing this one before 6pm EST
"Somebody needs to be looking for this guys Obama page. He was obviously a supporter of Hussein and Id bet a steak dinner that he had his own mybarackobama page and/or dealings with his campaign."
One possibility.
The worst, meaning a major nuke attack?
Here is the link to the .pdf from Homeland Security.
"Not the Malik Nidal Hasan I knew..."
I do think it strange that the base commander was giving press conferences. Every military base has a public affairs officer.
That's added to the fact that the General gave incorrect information, i.e. Hasan was dead, earlier today. That should never happen, a base commander stating something that was not true. Then his correcting press conference was delayed for hour after hour.
CNN's White House reporter said the President and senior staff were meeting in the "situation room" as late as 10pm. Why would the President and senior staff be up late meeting in a secure room over a lone nut?
Then you have the coincidence with the rally today. Then you have the coincidence with the perp being part of the Dept. of Homeland Security transition team.
Finally, you have an attack on American heroes transiting from deployments where they are putting their life on the line to protect us. And yet the media, all of whom we know are in the tank for the administration, are taking this angle of trying to make the perp out to be some type of sympathetic figure.
CNN, btw, is live tonight with a "special midnight edition" of Larry King live - Wolf Blitzer hosting.
Who wants to bet the New York Times and Washington post DON'T run with this story....
My great fear is that the muzzie shooter is an authorized actor, in full knowledge of the DHS and WH, and the terror war has moved into another dimension entirely.
Shooter does seem to have a solid Washington DC and Palestinian connection, and a connection to the administration.
Interesting to have this happen on the anniversary date of the Iranian takeover of the US embassy in Tehran.
bookmark (and saving to hard drive, lol)
You realize of course that you will be quoted in Michael Moore's next movie. ;~((
And most certainly paraphrased on the floor of Congress and the White House press room in the next few days.
This shooter got his marching orders, create a diversion, being Muslim he would not question another Muslim, especially one with the highest ranking position in the USA.
This is the Obama team in action folks, this is a little taste of things to come.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Must have been other shooters who chickened out.
The operation was muffed. They were not supposed to catch the shooter alive.
Major Hasans name appears on the page numbered 29 (page 32 of the pdf) of the document, Thinking Anew Security Priorities for the Next Administration.
****Just heard that Hasan is alive, not dead as previously reported. I guess Zero will be giving him a medal of appeasement soon.****
Maybe he'll share his Nobel peace prize with him.
Why worry about Obie in Hasans prescence....they are on the same team, afterall.
I sometimes wonder if Obie isn't trying to see just how far PC will carry him
LOL. You tend to specialize in a field you can identify with.
I never knew any shrinks, but the 'Industrial Psychologists" (i.e. HR consultants) I have seen over the years seemed to have lots of 'issues.' Maybe they needed a shrink. ;~))
That profession has the highest suicide rate of any.
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