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Comments: I have ran in this shoe for about 1.5 weeks, and have done long runs up to 13.5 miles, 7 mile tempo runs between 6:00 and 5:40pace, and speed work (1ks and 300s). I really like this shoe for its weight, and it is very comfortable. I have been running in the Mizuno Wave Rider a lot, with orange super feet inserts. I found this shoe to be the same weight and support as the combo I have been using, but a lot cheaper! It feels really good for most of my runs, but with long runs I feel my feet getting sore because it is not as cushioned as other trainers, I wouldn't go more than 14/15 miles at a time with it. Overall, I really enjoy this shoe and plan to purchase more pairs in the future.
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: : The typical way to proceed on these is to X-Ray the slab to find the cables. Terry
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: : : : Thank you,
: : : That would be very hard to answer without seeing the job. Call the building inspector and they may know your construction. I would be suprised if you where the only one in the area that remodeled you kitchen in the area. General contractors would also beable to help you after inspection.
: Post tension slabs are an everyday reality in our area (Houston). Terry is correct on the x-ray, but if the changes are near the edge of the slab (as they usually are) you can usually go outside and see the small anchor plates where the tension cables end. They have usually been covered over with some type of patch, but you can still locate them. From the plates the cables goe straight through the slab at right angles to the beam. When you've located the cables in the affected area,instead of cutting a trench and destroying cables and their surrounding concrete mass, you punch through a series of small holes from which you can tunnel under for pipes and whatever.
: John
Joe, Terry & John, thank you all for your quick and informative responses.
John, I have a follow-up question. Since the changes we plan to make will be toward the middle of the slab, I assume the x-ray method will have to be used. Is this something most plumbers are equipped to do? Is it usually prohibitively expensive?
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About Basement Jaxx
The production duo of Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton released several of Britain's most respected and enjoyable progressive house anthems of the '90s and early 2000s from their base in South London. Before they met (at a Thames riverboat party organized by Buxton), Ratcliffe grooved to the deep Latin funk of War and George Duke while Buxton was turned on to Chicago house. Ratcliffe and Buxton formed Atlantic Jaxx Records in 1994 and were undoubtedly honored to count among fans of their first release none other than DJ legend and Basement Jaxx influence Tony Humphries, who played "Da Underground" from the EP on his New York mix show consistently during 1994-1995. For their second release, the duo recruited vocalist Corrina Josephs, who later became practically a member of the team herself.
The 1995 single "Samba Magic" was picked up for distribution by Virgin, and in time, Basement Jaxx were drawing praise from all corners of the American and British house community as one of the top house production units. The pair spent much of 1996 working on remixes (for the Pet Shop Boys, Roger Sanchez, and Lil' Mo' Yin Yang, among others), then released a third Basement Jaxx EP. One track from the EP, "Flylife," became a Top 20 hit in England after being re-released by Multiply in mid-1997, and the single proved one of the most popular anthems of the year on the worldwide club scene. Late that year, Ratcliffe and Buxton released a compilation of their most crucial Atlantic Jaxx sides.
After being courted by several major labels, Basement Jaxx signed to the independent XL Recordings (also home to the Prodigy) and readied their debut full-length, Remedy, for a 1999 release. Second album Rooty followed two years later, an outgrowth of the duo's similarly named club night. Kish Kash followed in 2003 and Crazy Itch Radio in 2006, while Singles was a well-timed stopgap release between the two albums. The duo's fifth album, Scars, was released in 2009, trailed by that December's Zephyr, a 30-minute download-only release that contained the duo's most exotic and ambient work to date. While virtually everything they released was rooted in house, Ratcliffe and Buxton mutated several styles (R&B, U.K. garage, ragga, Latin jazz, ambient techno) with an unmatched restlessness. They constantly shuffled the deck, all the while collaborating with an endless array of vocalists both known (including Biz Markie, Siouxsie Sioux, and Yoko Ono) and unknown. They recorded with the Metropole Orkest on the live album Basement Jaxx vs. Metropole Orkest in 2011. Later on in the year, they scored Joe Cornish's film Attack the Block alongside Stephen Price and also announced that they were working on a new album. During this period, Basement Jaxx would frequently showcase new tracks from the forthcoming record during their live sets. In April 2013, they single "Back 2 the Wild" was premiered on their Youtube channel. The singles "What a Difference Your Love Makes" and "Unicorn" soon followed, and in May 2014 the pair finally announced details of their seventh album. Entitled Junto, it was slated for release in August 2014. ~ John Bush, Rovi


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The Green Bay Packers, as they have for more than two decades now, found a way on their home turf to dispatch the Detroit Lions on Sunday night and took a big step toward winning back-to-back NFC North Division titles.
The Packers fought off a game Lions team for a 27-20 win at Lambeau Field that puts them alone atop the division with only three games remaining in the regular season.
The win puts the Packers (9-4) one game ahead the Chicago (8-5) after the Bears lost a huge game at division-rival Minnesota on Sunday afternoon. The Bears must win or tie their showdown against the Packers next week at Chicago's Soldier Field to have any shot at the division title. If the Packers win, they'll clinch the division title.
BOX SCORE: Packers 27, Lions 20
"I did some foreshadowing the last couple weeks," quarterback Aaron Rodgers said, "about this is how some games are going to go. It's going to be ugly at times, but the main thing is to win. We're 9-4, right now we're first in the division by a game, putting ourselves in good position not only for the division but potentially maybe for a first-round bye. The division is the first goal, getting to 10 wins so we can start talking about the 'P' word. We can wrap things up next week. Tough opponent, tough place to play. A lot on the line."
With three games to play, the Packers have the third-best record in the NFC, behind Atlanta (11-2) and the San Francisco (9-3-1), who would have first-round byes if the playoffs started today. Seattle (8-5) and the Bears are the Nos. 5 and 6 seeds, and the NFC East-leading New York Giants (8-5) would be seeded just behind the Packers at No. 4.
The win was the Packers' 21st straight in the regular season against the Lions in Wisconsin.
The Lions (4-9), who have lost five straight games, were more effective moving the ball for much of this game but had two huge turnovers to the Packers' one.
The game-turning play was a freakish fumble in the second quarter. The ball slipped out of quarterback Matthew Stafford's hand as he threw and was turned into a 43-yard touchdown return by defensive lineman Mike Daniels to get the Packers back into the game at 14-10.
"Mike Daniels' play was the momentum shift we needed," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said.
The Packers, though, put up points when they needed in the second half, and they did so with their running game.
With the score tied at 17 early in the fourth quarter, McCarthy called seven straight runs that covered all 59 yards for the go-ahead touchdown. Halfback Alex Green had four carries for 37 yards on the drive, but the surprise was No. 3 halfback DuJuan Harris, who was signed from the practice squad to the 53-man roster only two weeks ago.
Harris had the last two carries of the drive, a slick 6-yard run on which he slipped as he hit the line of scrimmage and popped back up to pick up the yardage, then a 13-yard burst up the middle on which he went untouched to the end zone. That put the Packers ahead 24-17 with 10:45 to play, a lead they made stand.
"That's the way you play football here in December," McCarthy said. "At that point in the game, the field started to tilt. That was a big series for us."
Rodgers said: "Excited about (Harris). He brings a little something extra there. He's been doing it in practice, you have to give him a lot of credit. I've seen a lot of guys over my eight years who were practice squad players, practiced really well, get an opportunity and make some plays. He's one of them."
NFC NORTH: Adrian Peterson steamrolls sliding Bears
The Packers put the game away with a scoring drive later in the fourth quarter.
Rodgers made the play of the drive when he converted a tough third-and-11 by scrambling to his right and while on the run throwing a dart to Randall Cobb for a 38-yard gain. That set up Mason Crosby's 41-yard field goal that put the Packers ahead by two scores, 27-17, with 4:02 to play in the game.
The Packers got back into the game with the gimme touchown on Stafford's fumble at a time when everything was going the Lions' way.
Then on their first drive of the second half, the Packers took their first lead of the night. The drive received a major boost when Ndamukong Suh, the Lions' lightning rod defensive tackle, was penalized for a late hit on Rodgers on a third-and-6 play that gave the Packers a first down at the Lions' 44.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic may well go down in history as one of the great names in football, but this week he is also making a change to the way Sweden communicates.
After some mercurial displays that have led Paris Saint-Germain to the top of Ligue 1, and the striker to the top of the scorers' charts, Zlatan has gone into the dictionary.
The verb, 'Zlataner', meaning 'to Zlatan', has been added to the Swedish national dictionary after it gained popularity in the country when referring to an extraordinarily talented action.


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Syria Emergency
The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to deteriorate. More and more people are being made destitute as fighting continues. The World Food Programme (WFP) is struggling to meet the urgent food needs of more than five million displaced people in Syria and in neighbouring countries. Food operations are severely underfunded, meaning that WFP has been forced to reduce the level of assistance it provides to refugees across the region.
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3) To offer tailored programmes focusing on relief and recovery, school feeding and nutrition.
Food assistance
In October, as a result of new donor support, WFP has been able to increase the value of the electronic vouchers it uses to provide food assistance to extremely vulnerable Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon to an average of US$21 per person per month – 80 percent of the full intended voucher value. This is a positive development as assistance was cut down to 50 percent on average during the previous months due to a severe lack of funding.
WFP reaches more than four million people every month inside Syria with urgently needed food and provides electronic food vouchers (e-card) to up to 1.5 million refugees in neighbouring countries.
WFP knows that host countries are affected by the burden of the refugee crisis. And, thanks to the food e-card system, WFP has injected more than US$1 billion into the local economies of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt and helped create thousands of local jobs in the food retail sector.
Visit the Syrian Arab Republic newsroom for the latest news releases, stories, photos and publications on the Syria emergency.
WFP Programmes
General food distribution
Every month, WFP distributes family food rations to displaced and conflict-affected families across Syria. These rations contain staple food items including rice, bulgur wheat, pasta, lentils, canned food, sugar, salt, cooking oil and wheat flour. More than four million people benefit from this assistance every month.
Relief and recovery
As the conflict drags on, WFP is working with key partners to build resilience in relatively stable areas. Food assistance for some displaced families will be provided as an incentive to work on rehabilitating infrastructure, vegetable gardening or poultry production with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
School feeding
In 2014, WFP launched a school feeding programme in Syria in partnership with UNICEF and the Ministry of Education. In December 2015, WFP distributed healthy school snacks to 375,000 children in primary schools in Rural Damascus, Damascus city, Aleppo, Homs, Tartous and Al-Hasakeh.
Children receive date bars fortified with vitamins and minerals to encourage them to enrol and stay in school. WFP started also in December distributing the first batch of locally produced date bars that WFP purchased from a local manufacturer contracted in late August, which sources the raw materials from Syrian wholesalers and employs 15 people, including 5 women, involved in all stages of production. This initiative is a milestone in WFP's effort to strengthen and build resilience in Syria.
WFP's nutrition programme for pregnant women and nursing mothers helps more than 7,000 mothers in Homs and Lattakia buy fresh produce, dairy and meat products to supplement their diets using WFP food vouchers. WFP plans to expand this programme to Tartous, Aleppo and Qamishly over the first quarter of 2016, reaching 15,000 mothers.
To prevent child malnutrition, WFP also aims to provide supplementary feeding products to 240,000 children under the age of five in eight Syrian governorates.
Critical funding shortages
Millions of Syrian refugees need help and we have an obligation to ensure that their basic needs are met. Syrians in despair are now taking extreme measures to cope including returning to Syria or leaving host countries for elsewhere. Those in the most difficult and vulnerable situations in neighbouring countries are unable to move because they cannot afford it.
In 2015, WFP faced critical funding shortages that forced it to reduce the level of assistance it provides to vulnerable Syrians inside and outside the country.
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A cover band is a music group that performs songs originally produced by other famous bands. Sometimes, they dress like the original band, take on their persona, and rock out like the classics. Some of them name their group as a spoof to the original and come up with creative names like Odyssey instead of Journey. Cover bands are different than a band covering a song from an original artist. Cover bands strictly perform the band they are trying to emulate. Some bands that are trying to make their way into the music industry will do a cover of a song from a more famous band, but rerecord it to make it sound like their own.
Some cover bands choose the tops songs from a certain decade to perform. Rotel and the Hot Tomatoes is a cover band the goes through three decades during their performance and have costume changes for each decade. They play the top hits from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Another successful cover band that performs hits from a certain time era is the Three Dog Night band. They cover a variety of songs from the 60s and 70s. A fun place to go in Austin, TX is the Cedar Street courtyard where you can see the band called the Spazmatics perform 80s hits.
While some cover bands focus on a particular decade or decades, other bands that do covers focus on a single group. They are often called tribute cover bands. A popular tribute band that covers all the greatest hits from the original band called ABBA is called Gabba. A tribute band that performs only Beatle's hits is called the Egg Men, and they got their name from one of the Beatle's songs. Tribute bands are so fun for people who had loved the original band back when they were in their prime. Some bands don't tour anymore, so fans will watch tribute bands to hear their favorite music live.
Besides covering bands from a certain decade or specific band, some groups will perform a cover and change the genre of the original song. For example, Trans Siberian Orchestra performs traditional classical style Christmas songs and turns them into rock songs. Some jazz artists will take a famous rock song and play it on an instrument like a saxophone or a piano to change the genre of it.
On a different scale, there are also a lot of impersonators that act exactly like an iconic star. You have probably seen these folks in Las Vegas or Hollywood. Perhaps the most famous person to be impersonated is Elvis Presley. Other iconic stars are also impersonated like Cher or Madonna. Some impersonators just walk around the street acting like the original star, and others perform shows and concerts.
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I'm beginning to think everyone has lost interest in this thread.
Yesterday (Tuesday) came home from work and:
Went to Curves to exercise
Came home and made DS and myself supper (DH had to work late and ate pizza there)
Washed dishes in the dishwasher and the sink
Cleaned off kitchen table (I don't know about you guys, but my table is a dumping ground for STUFF!)
Cross-stitched on Christmas presents until I was almost cross-eyed
no, no, not everyone ... am still having a look every now and then
it's just that i've had someone close in hospital for the last 2 weeks so our family life is all messed up lately
that said, even if i don't wash up after every meal any longer
i still keep this thread in mind in my quest not to ... loose my mind, hope, get up and go impetus
AND i'm trying to keep up with
- washing up all dishes once a day & shine the sink
- scrub the inside of the washbasin and inside of the bath
- one load of laundry a day or so
- not to forget to change bathroom towels, sheets, table napkins when i can
- make sure the children do homework on time
- shop and feed relatively decent meals in term of quality, even if i have to adopt quite a few shortcuts ....
- make sure the children don't drop their weekly sport session (we paid = they "have" to go !!!!) in favor of slumping in front of the TV when i'm away more often than i would like to be ....
good luck in your endeavour, it IS a daily struggle ... but having a routine to turn to DOES help !!!!
IsaFrench - so good to hear from you! Hope your friend in the hospital is doing okay. I remember you from when I was on this thread about a year ago. I got off for a while, but I'm back again.
Yesterday (Wednesday) after coming home from work -
Made supper for DS and myself. (DH had a dr. appt. and was gone until late, he picked up his own supper)
Cleaned off kitchen table
Put out some Christmas decorations
Ran dishwasher
Went room to room and picked up scattered stuff
Made homemade chocolate chip cookies
Dried a load of laundry
That being said, my kitchen sink is now again full. I just can't seem to keep ahead of the dishes. Oh well, I guess they'll still be there when I get home tonight. We are expecting quite the winter storm tonight and tomorrow. If that's the case I won't have to work tomorrow, as I work at a school. That will give me a day to, hopefully, get some stuff done. I'm actually HOPING for the snow day!
So far today...
Washed rugs
Ran dishwasher
Cleaned toilet and bathroom floor
Not bad so far, but hoping I can get much more done. Had to take a break though and see what was going on in here. It's a beautiful and snowed in December morning here and COLD!
It's only 20 degrees out right now. I have to go to the grocery later, but I'm going to wait until it warms up a bit before I brave going outside.
So far today...
Washed rugs
Ran and emptied dishwasher
Cleaned toilet and bathroom floor
Picked clothes up in the bedroom (cedar chest sometimes becomes a dumping ground for clothes)
Fixed lunch (smoked sausage, brown beans and cornbread)
Washed a load of white laundry
Not bad so far, but hoping I can get much more done. Had to take a break though and see what was going on in here. It's a beautiful and snowed in December morning here and COLD!
It's only 20 degrees out right now. I have to go to the grocery later, but I'm going to wait until it warms up a bit before I brave going outside. NOTE: Have decided to send DH and DS to the grocery! I don't want to get out in the cold!
tealsmith83 .... was thinking of you & this thread .... but i haven't much to post today ...well, i have, but i don't feel i've "achieved" much ...
- got up, got dressed, went out to get some fresh baguettes for the children .... then "escaped" by myself to rollerblading class for one hour
- went out to get some cartridges for the printer
- stopped by a store on the way back for food for lunch (and this and that ....not planned, but we'll used it all in the course of the next few days anyway ...)
- cooked lunch & fed the children, piled up all the washing up "for later"
- dropped by hospital for 40 minutes
- then some MORE un planned shopping (which got delivered later on)
- came home, did most of the washing up
- had a 20 minutes nap
- sent two of the children to the bathroom for a leisurely bath whilst i didn't supervise but stayed at the computer
- eventually started one load of laundry
- spent too much time on the internet ///the kids too much time in front of the TV ...
- planning to knit in front of mindless TV programs tonight once the children are in bed ...
well, tomorrow is another day .....
today was a much better day ... feeling i've achieved much more
i had to enlist the children's help
both because it helped us achieve more & also because they created quite a lot of that mess anyway ...
- so all floors got picked up (quite an achievement .... i'm dreaming i could install it as an evening routine ... haven't succeded so far ...)
- vaccum was used
- i mopped most floors
- one load of laundry done
- dry laundry un-hung & folded and put away (DD2 who's 6 too !)
- quick nip at the market for fresh fruit & flat parsley
- dropped the cardboard recyclable refuse at the communal container
- went to the baker for fresh baguette
- baked a cake (from a cake mix we were given)
- homework done (have not checked it,= still need to do that before bedtime)
- made a decent lunch
- had managed to wash up and clear the sink before lunchtime ( a first in many days.....)
- managed to wash up directly after lunch too !
- played one game of rummy with the little tiles (i prefer playing with cards, but playing with my children, tiles are better ...)
- we all had a walk before it got dark again ....
rather satisfied with my day so far ...
IsaFrench - Wow, you got a lot accomplished on that second day! Sometimes we just need a day like the first day though, to regroup and re-energize. I just realized that I haven't been on here in several days. I don't have a lot to report, but this morning before work, I did get my dishwasher filled and ran. That's at least one less thing I have to worry about later. It wasn't the greatest of mornings. Don't want to go into details, but I'm hoping the rest of the day goes a little more smoothly. Let's just say when you have a teenager in the house, things are always kept interesting. Maybe this evening will be better.
yes indeed, not everyday is like "clock work" ....
today i took out laundry from the machine before 12 noon ... but only got round to hanging it to dry at about 5:00pm...
i hear you about having a teenager in the house .... my 14 years old can be rather moody (understatement !!!)
and then my 6 years old seem to be un-ceasingly bickering with my 12 years old ....
this morning i only
- sanitised the toilet
- did one load -took it out (but didn't hang it)
- decluttered a bit
- tried to catch up learning my dance routine which i had thankfully filmed last week (was rather spaced out for my last 2 classes so have accumulated "spots" when i have no idea which direction i'm supposed to go nor what moves to do ....)
- ate leftovers for lunch, didn't wash up
- left late for dance class !!!
this afternoon, ... i baught a school book for DD1
... then had a nap !!!
IsaFrench - naps are good! I love them and rarely get them. Oh well...
We had to work an after school sporting event last night, so not much accomplished except I did unload the dishwasher and reload some more back in. Tried to straighten up the kitchen while I was at it and slightly motivated. That's about it. By the time we got home from school, it was after 9:00, so I wasn't in the mood to do too much. I did sit down and cross-stitch after that. I'm trying to get a few Christmas gifts finished (not sure how that's going to work out...coming down to crunch time!). Today won't get anything done either, because we have our staff Christmas party this evening. Oh well, as of right now, I don't have to go anywhere tomorrow, so maybe, just maybe I can get a few things done.
on the home front i think i only ... did one load of laundry today ( and aired all bedrooms)
but i had a medical appointment early morning (DD2 was dropped to have breakfast with some neighbors who walked her to school along with their son)
baught one Christmas present in the morning + a few items from specialist stores
came back home, switched bags, went swimming
back home, emptied swim bag, had lunch in front of computer
then nap
then picked up a parcel from the post office & stopped for fresh bread
baked a plateful of small nibbles for tomorrow evening event
went to fetch DD2 from school
argued with DD1 on the phone (she had permission to go to the cinema with 4 school friends after school but 3 of the friends couldn't make it in the end so i came back on what i had said ....not wanting her to be with just one friend - this one i even don't know- nor for her to come back alone on foot in the dark after 8:00pm)
rushed the children to leave home on time to attend a sweedish expats celebration of Santa Lucia at the Cathedral (lovely porcession, white candles ...)
treated them to a meal in a restaurant (same place where we tend to go 2 or 3 times a year)
started walking back home, then suddently remembered some late night shopping we had planned on doing & retraced steps hurriedly and arrived 13 minutes before closing time = 3 more Christmas presents (one of them is the same at this morning, it was already 10 euros cheaper than on line since it was not "the" original brand but that store's brand & i had an extra 5 euros off today with my store card ... so 27 euros instead of 43 or so ....)
the kitchen floor is not clean at all but am going to go to bed now, tomorrow is another day ...
Well, we've had two different sets of company in two consecutive days, so we've spent much time the last two days doing dishes, sweeping up the floors, straightening up the house, etc. Luckily, DH is very good at helping with all this, because there would be NO WAY I could get it all done myself. Not sure what will happen this afternoon, so I will repost again later when I get the chance.
well, this afternoon i had a back massage + a nap
the sink is half full & i haven't started on my daily load of laundry ...
i'll do what i can, too bad if it's not much today !!!!
Deep cleaned the main bathroom. Having a coffee and knit break. Next step is to do the mountain of dishes, clean the counter tops, sweep the floor and mop the kitchen.
Pax, loving wife, Homeschooling mom of 2.
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started one load (everybody is still asleep though)
making some tea & porridge
need to muster the courage to tackle the overflowing sink (last night's washing up !)
have packed a few things in case our outing in the countryside does "work" for lunch ... (hoping to get my children to help picking up wook & we'll be fed pumpkin soup in exchange ! and then play board games in front of a "real" fire ....) ... we are city dwellers so they spend all day on the couch playing with their new electronic devices whilst the TV is on even ....)
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Easter Services
Mission of the San Rafael: Holy Thursday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. Good Friday service, April 18 at 7 p.m. Easter Sunday Mass, April 20 at 11 a.m.
Desert Edge Christian Chapel: April 20, Sunrise Service at 7 a.m. Sunday Service at 10 a.m. Egg hunt to follow.
Ferron Baptist: Come join us in celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on April 20 at First Baptist Church. We will start with a Sunrise Service at 7:20 a.m. followed by a potluck breakfast. At 10 a.m. we will gather for our Easter Service. Come find out why Easter Sunday is a day of great celebration. For more information call 435-384-3321.
Castle Dale Independent Baptist: April 16 and April 18, special services at 7 p.m. April 20, Sunrise Service at 7 a.m. Potluck at 8 a.m. Sunday Service at 10 a.m.
Bread of Life: Sunday Service at 2 p.m.
Archaeology Week 2014
USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum. Family day: May 3, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. free admission. Children's activities, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lecture: May 6, 7 p.m. Lecture: May 9, 7 p.m. Art Gallery Exhibition Opening: May 10, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. General admission rates apply. For more info contact (435) 613-5060, (800) 817-9949, usueastern.edu/museum.
Southeastern Utah OHV Club
April 26, 15th Annual poker ride. A swell cure for cabin fever poker ride. All participants pay $10 for the first hand, any additional hands are $5 each. Registration 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Drawing for prizes will be at 3 p.m. For information call 435-384-2325, 435-384-3043, 435-286-2258.
The State Republican Party
The date has changed to Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 6 p.m. at the Huntington Elementary School. Governor Gary Herbert is expected to be at and speak at this convention.
The building will be open at 3 p.m. for the setup of signs by candidates.
All Emery County Delegates are expected to attend the county convention and vote for the candidates of their choice.
UMWA District 22 Women's Auxiliary Golf Tournament
May 3 at the Millsite Golf Course $100 per team, 4 person scramble, plus green fees and cart. 9 a.m. check in and 9:30 a.m. start. Call the golf course at 384-2887 to sign up.
4th Annual Desert Rock Classic
June 28-29 at Millsite Golf Course. $100 includes green fees (all golfers must ride, cost $12 round.) All entry fees must be paid in cash or check payable to Jordan Leonard. First 50 paid entries receive one dozen Titleist PRO V1 balls. All paid entries received by June 1 will be entered in a drawing for a Taylormade SLDR driver. Mail entries to: Desert Rock Classic, PO Box 531, Castle Dale, UT 84513. For more information call 435-749-1674 or 435-384-2887
We are still taking appointments. We can help pay your gas and power bills if you qualify. Income guidelines are as follows: One person household $1,436, Two people $1939, Three people $2,442, Four people $2,945. Program ends April 30th. For more information please call Norene at 435-613-0100 (Carbon County), or Kathy at 435-381-5410
No Grave Unadorned
The Emery County Progress has supplies for the project. Visit our office at 410 East Main, Suite B in Castle Dale or call 381-2431 for information.
Seniors Citizens of the Week
The Emery County Progress is looking for seniors of the week. Seniors, family members and friends can submit a senior who is living in Emery County. Please include a photo, brief biography, accomplishments, military or community service, employment, family, etc. Submissions can be mailed to the Emery County Progress, PO Box 598, Castle Dale, UT 84513, e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com, dropped off at the office 410 East Main, Suite B in Castle Dale. For more info call 381-2431.
Carbon High/Notre Dame Class of 1959 Reunion
Carbon High/Notre Dame Class of 1959 will be having it's 55 year Reunion, June 20-22 in Price. For more information please email, email@example.com.
Please put Reunion in the subject line.
Miss Emery
Scholarship Pageant
The Miss Emery Pageant will be on June 7. The Little Miss Pageant is on June 6. The Miss Emery Pageant is open to all girls ages 17-24. To help prepare you, workshops will begin in February. Call Jessica, 801-616-2449 or Heather 801-367-3565. Pageant winners will earn scholarship money.
Readers wanted: Interested in reading books and discussing books
Join Castle Dale Libraries Book Club! We meet the second Thursday every other month. Everyone welcome. The library is a great place to get started on some new goals for 2014.
Grand opening. Enroll now. Let NCSF certified personal trainer, Cassie Taylor and Kristy Guymon, with ten years track and cross-country coaching experience, help you achieve your New Year's resolution of becoming a healthier you. Castle Dale Rec. Center: Burn it up: Tue., 12:30 p.m/8 p.m. and Thur., 8 p.m. Enlighten: Mon/Thur, 7 p.m.. Hi-lite: Mon/Thur, 8 p.m. Ferron Fairgrounds: Enlighten: Mon/Thur, 5:10 a.m.. Hi-lite: Tue/Fri, 5:10 a.m. $45 a months; includes all classes, tracking and nutrition help. $35/12 class punch-card (class participation only). Call 749-7142 or 749-2653.
Emery County Recreation office is open
The office will be open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Friday 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information, call 381-2108.
VFW Ladies Auxiliary
Meet the second Friday of the month at 1 p.m., 189 N. Carbonville Rd., 637-7424.
Castle Dale Library
Preschool Story Time is held Tuesday's at 1:00 p.m. at the Castle Dale
New Life Ministries
Has moved into their new church at 5194 N. Hwy. 6. Sunday service 10 a.m. Worship/prayer service, Wed. at 6 p.m. AWANA Bible Club for children 5 year old-6th grade, Thur. at 6 p.m. Youth ministry for 7-12 grade, Tue. at 7 p.m. Visit www.newlifeutah.com.
Story time
Story time is not for sitting quietly. It's not just reading, it's for bringing stories to life in a whole new way. It's a playground for your mind. The Emery County Public Libraries offer pre-school story time. To find out what day and time check the libraries web page at lib.emerycounty.com
At the Old Huntington City Hall. Mon. & Wed. - Zumba - 6:00 a.m., R.I.P.P.E.D. - 6:30 p.m.
Tues. & Thurs. - Turbokick - 6:00 a.m., Pump (weights) 6:00 p.m. and Zumba - 7:15 p.m.
Saturday - R.I.P.P.E.D. - 8:30 A.M.
For information call - Cheryl - 749-0439.
Ceramics For Fun in Emery
New stuff arriving all the time!! Hours: Tue - Thurs 10-5. Fri -Sat 10-8.
Southeastern Utah District Health Department
Immunization Clinic
Hours are: Monday 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and Wednesday 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. The office is located at 25 West Main Street in Castle Dale. Call 435-381-2252 for more information
Emery High School "Military Honor Wall"
Emery High School has created an "Honor Wall" to recognize Emery High students who have served in the Armed Forces from 2000 to the present. We would like a 5x7 photo in military dress, if possible. Please include name, branch of service, rank, active duty address, and deployments. Mail photographs and information to Linda Wilberg, Emery High School, Box 499 Castle Dale, UT 84513 or e-mail them to firstname.lastname@example.com.
We would also appreciate any active duty pictures for the display case.
If you have questions or if you have information about our EHS military personnel call 435-381-2606 or e-mail email@example.com.
Stitches From The Heart
Stitches From The Heart needs volunteers to knit, crochet or quilt blankets, little sweaters and hats for babies in need. These items are donated to hospitals all over the country. Patterns available. Donated yarn appreciated for our seniors. Toll free 877-985-9212 or e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com or write us at 4572 Telephone Road, #909, Ventura CA 93003. Our web site www.stitchesFromTheHeart.org.
Lodge meetings
Orient Lodge #15 Free And Accepted Masons Of Utah - Regular meetings for
Orient Lodge #15 F&AM In Green River, Utah are on the first Mondays of the month at 7 p.m. The Lodge is located at 30 West 3rd Ave. Green River, UT
84525. Call Sean Bailey - Senior Warden for more information 435-650-8033.
687-9746 with questions.
Bread of Life
112 West 400 North Huntington. Sunday service 2 p.m. For more information call Pastor Bob Wells at 650-0556.
Castle Dale Independent Baptist Church
Sunday school, 10 a.m. Worships service, 11 a.m. Youth Group 6 p.m. Bible study is on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Call 381-2975 for more info.
Desert Edge Christian Chapel
Worship service 10 a.m. Sunday school follows worship service. Youth group, 10:15 a.m. Bible study, Monday at 6 p.m. AWANA Club, Wednesday at 6 p.m. Call 687-2933 or visit our website www.desertedge.info.
Bible Study
Bible studies are being conducted by the Seventh-day Adventists of Emery County on Saturdays from 9:30 a.m.-noon at the home of Robert and Elsie Law, 1065 East 300 North (Bench Road), Ferron. Everyone is welcome to come. For more information, call 384-2424 or 384-2447.
Huntington Youth
City Council
Come and Join! Any and all youth ages 12-18 are encouraged to join the Youth City Council. For questions contact Laneea Cowley at 749-0403
Youth Council meetings are held at the Huntington City Hall at 4:30 p.m. the last Thurs. of each month.


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Michael Martin, Eastfield Head Baseball Coach, has been named the 2006 American Baseball Coaches Association and Diamond Sports Company National Coach of the Year for National Junior College Athletic Association Division III baseball. He will be honored at the ABCA Hall of Fame/Coach of the Year Banquet on January 5, 2007 in Orlando, Florida.
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A month ago Mr. Rivera and his TBall players were having lunch in the same restaurant as EFC's baseball team. Mr. Rivera asked Coach Martin if he would say hello to his young players. Not only did Coach Martin speak to the Tball players, but the entire EFC team joined him in giving "high-fives" to them.
Mr. Rivera said it really meant a lot to his team, and he wanted to let our Athletic Director know how much the behavior of our coach and team was appreciated.


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Skip to comments.Dem lawmakers to announce bill limiting online ammo sales
Posted on 07/29/2012 3:38:40 PM PDT by jazusamo
Two Democratic lawmakers on Monday will announce new legislation to regulate the online and mail-order sale of ammunition.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.) and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (N.Y.) said the new law would make the sale of ammunition safer for law-abiding Americans who are sick and tired of the ease with which criminals can now anonymously stockpile for mass murder, in a statement released Saturday.
The lawmakers cite the recent movie massacre in Aurora, Colo. for spurring their bill.
The shooter who killed 12 and injured 58 in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater this month had purchased over 6,000 rounds of ammunition anonymously on the Internet shortly before going on his killing spree, according to law enforcement officials, the statement reads. The shooter used a civilian version of the militarys M-16 rifle with a 100-round drum magazine, a shotgun and two .40-caliber semi-automatic handguns commonly used by police officers.
Lautenberg and McCarthy, who will unveil their new proposal at New Yorks City Hall say they intend to make it harder for criminals to anonymously stockpile ammunition through the Internet.
Lautenberg and McCarthy are two high profile advocates of gun control legislation, but they face an uphill struggle in Congress.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said last week that he does not intend to bring gun control legislation to the floor and President Obama has been reluctant to press lawmakers to act on the issue in an election year.
Democratic senators though have offered an amendment to the cybersecurity bill that would limit the purchase of high capacity magazines by some consumers. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) defended it last Thursday as a reasonable gun control measure.
The amendment is identical to a separate bill proposed in January 2011 by Lautenberg also banning the sale of high capacity ammunition magazines.
After the shootings in Colorado, the New Jersey senator urged lawmakers to reconsider his bill.
We need to start today on efforts to prevent the next attack, he said in a statement. We should begin by passing my legislation to ban the sale of high-capacity gun magazines. No sportsman needs 100 rounds to shoot a duck, but allowing high-capacity magazines in the hands of killers like James Holmes and Jared Loughner puts law enforcement at a disadvantage and innocent lives at risk.
Loughner, the gunman charged in the shooting of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (R-Ariz.) and Holmes, who is the lone suspect in the Aurora theater shootings are both believed to have used high-capacity magazines.
...and the rest of the Democrat caucus GASPED. This is the very last thing they want.
LOL, I pray it turns out just the way that they fear, especially in light of increased gun sales in so many places.
You only need to look at Mexico to know that you can NEVER stop those that want weapons and ammo. They WILL get them and they WILL use them, no matter how many laws you create.
Effing idiots, the whole friggin lot of them.
Well if Harry is against it I guess it will go nowhere.
Everything's gonna be backordered, thanks to these morons....
They can shove it up their collective smelly Obamas.
I almost wish they would go ahead and try (that's try) to ban weapons, ammo, etc.
I'll not speak of the consequences.
You're right and they'll probably do more than gasp.
F ing a$$hats. Yes he bought 6 k rounds, but was he carrying 6 k rounds? Did he shoot 6k rounds?
I haven't heard how many rounds exactly that he did shoot, but at some point he would have reached a maximum utility after which it wouldn't mater whether he had 6000, or 200, or 600,000 rounds of ammunition. Apparently, he only needed 60 to create the carnage that he did, so any law regarding the possession of ammunition would have to set a really low level to be considered efeective. The goal would have to be one round per person to prevent killing more than one other person. It should also be noted that the shooter would not be constrained by legal limits on ammunition possession because he was a criminal, and criminals are, by definition, not bound by laws.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.) and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (N.Y.) said the new law would make the sale of ammunition safer for criminals and politicians who are sick and tired of the ease with which law-abiding citizens can now anonymously stockpile for protection against mass murder, in a statement released Saturday.
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"F ing a$$hats. Yes he bought 6 k rounds, but was he carrying 6 k rounds? Did he shoot 6k rounds?"
There's plenty to worry about, but at the VERY BOTTOM of that list is the idea that the Dems can pass gun control legislatively.
LET THEM TRY - it only knocks out another 5 of them in the house, every time one of them opens their mouth.
Holmes may have bought 6,000 rounds, but only took a few hudred to do his deed. None of the past massacres involved thousands of rounds.
The Republicans need to brand the entire Dem party with this. Hang it around their necks at election time.
How much ammop did he actually expend in order to do the damage he did?
These politicians are ****ing morons of the worst sort.
Good thing that the nut chose the hundred 100 rd 'beta mag' that is prone to jam instead of regular 20 or 30 rd magazines or the carnage would have been much worse.
You mean like .... ZERO ?
Which doesn't matter because everyone on FR lost their guns while out deer hunting in their bass boats. A gator jumped into my boat, turning it on it's side. All my 'guns' sunk to the bottom.
I was able to swim to shore, pulling the boat behind me by it's anchor line. I saved the boat but I ain't gonna go swimming after the guns.
You should listen to Gov Romney defending Massachusetts' tough gun control laws that he promised to never chip away at, and then proved it by banning "assault" rifles. And he's now promising that if such legislation gets to his desk as president, he will sign it.
If words are the atoms of the First Amendment, then ammo is the atom of the Second.
Political figures who relentlessly attempt to suppress one part of the Constitution they don't like cannot be trusted wih the remander.
PS does Lautenberg know what day of the week it is?
Lautenberg is so left wing he makes Obama seem almost
centrist and McCarthy is probably crazier than the shooter
in Aurora.
Neither one can do anything except knee jerk react to events. And neither one of them can carry on a coherent conversation when interviewed by even the friendliest of
MSM syncophants.
Remander = remainder
I haven't read the number of rounds fired either, that info may not have been released. The rifle jammed and there were rounds left in the 100 round drum mag, he then fired pistol rounds. It's probably safe to say he didn't shoot too many more rounds than a hundred, if that.
The hype about him buying 6000 rounds is just that, hype, plus it was legal and those rounds could have been bought at a retail outlet or at a gun show.
Agreed, and that's what Dingy Harry and other Rats are afraid will happen. Let it be so!
The largest mass murder only needed 1 gallon of gasoline.
Wow, libs are so much smarter than we.
All we had to do in Afghanistan was to have their legislature pass a ban on IEDs.
Problem solved.
"Reid (D-Nev.) said last week that he does not intend to bring gun control legislation to the floor and President Obama has been reluctant"
You pussies don't have the balls to do it!
Go ahead, we triple-dog dare you ...
(I'm sick and tired of Dims hesitating to grab that 2nd amend. third rail.)
If we can be forced to purchase insurance, we can most definitely be forced to buy ammo. This legislation would drive this horrendous fact home. I'm seriously going to recommend this to my rep. Someone has to rub this profligate government's face in the ridiculousness of it all.
Sales of ammo just went up.
Democrats never let a tragedy go to waste if they think they can walk on some dead bodies to further their agenda.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.) and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (N.Y.)- two jerks with their usual knee jerk reaction to events. The side show bob shooter didn't get many rounds off as his big magazine jammed, the shotgun held the usual 3 or 4 shells and the handguns magazines were not all used up. He may have had a lot of rounds in his apartment, but killed with far fewer. Limit rounds and the bad guys will use something else, like a big glass jug of gasoline - will that require a limit on gas sales?
>> The shooter who killed 12 and injured 58 in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater this month had purchased over 6,000 rounds of ammunition anonymously on the Internet shortly before going on his killing spree, according to law enforcement officials <<
You can't purchase a stick of chewing gum on line anonymously. Paypal and credit cards are far from anonymous.
McVey killed a lot more with fertilizer. Should we ban that too?
Absolutely! Nothing online is annonymous.
>> "None of the past massacres involved thousands of rounds" <<
True, all they required is an UNARMED PUBLIC!
I wonder if there is any way for the author to find out for sure and then get back with us.
Was the Shooter "carrying" six thousand rounds of Ammunition when he committed the crime?
Now the ammunition is the problem? I thought 12 people died, not 6,000.
Only Communists, Dictators, Fascists and Nazis kill that many people at one time. Which is precisely why the Second Amendment exists.
He could have done the job with a machete!
Nobody in that theater was armed; who would have stopped him?
Were the Founding Fathers Sportsmen? Were the members of the Continental Army Sportsmen? Does the word Sportsmen appear in the text of the Second Amendment?
Maybe it was listed right after the word "hunters", another word I must of missed.
Who cares of he had 600,000 rounds?
Was he carrying it around in his pocket?
I guess it was a good thing they weren't screening Inglorious Bastards.
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Skip to comments.Neda: An Unintended Symbol (Presstitutes compare Iran 2009 to Kent State 1970)
Posted on 06/21/2009 11:54:41 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On May 4, 1970 members of the Ohio National Guard killed four students and wounded nine others at Kent State University. Some of the students were protesting the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Others in the line of fire were just seeing what was going on, or walking to their classes.
Iconic photos of the event appearing in newspapers and television galvanized the nation and inflamed the anti-war movement in the U.S. Millions of students protested and nearly 1,000 colleges and universities were shut down after the Kent State shooting.
Yesterday, a young woman who was part of the crowd in Tehran, either protesting or simply watching the events unfold, was shot in the chest, apparently by Iranian Basiji security forces on rooftops.
Her death was recorded on video, and the gruesome end of her life sped digitally and virally around the world on social media sites, such as YouTube and Facebook.
"Neda," as she was known, has in a matter of hours become an icon for the Iranian protest movement.
Her image has become memorialized in posters, including one in style similar to those that represented the Barack Obama campaign. Clearly, this isn't what she had planned to do with her life.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
I was very much alive in 1970 and I find the article's comparison to be appropriate-—you see a difference?
and of course they somehow have to draw a similarity to obama. How disrespectful, she had more courage in her little finger than the pathetic excuse for a man has in his entire body...he is a coward.
THIS MUST NOT STAND! CBS owes America an apology. Call CBS and its advertisers!
Ditto to what you said.
I was also alive in 1970, and I find the comparison insulting. Yes, some of the victims at Kent State were innocent, but some had harrassed the troops, and were threatening them. The Guardsmen overreacted, but they were not full-time Federal troops, either. Neda was killed in cold blood by a sniper on a rooftop, not by scared kids being stoned and threatened by hundreds of Weathermen and SDS anarchists. See the difference?
Oh good and brave woman....God has called you home and taken you into His arms. Rest in Peace. Amen
This story was never fully reported or investigated, and the SDS may have had more to do with the death at Kent State than the Guardsmen.
There's no comparison between the two.
Tell us what election had been overturned in the U.S., that the Kent State students were protesting against.
Universities across the nation had offices occupied and buildings torched. Banks were torched. Kent state was just another in a series of protests orchestrated by communist funded and sympathizing agencies in the United States.
Who is funding the protests in Iran? U.S. sympathizers?
The National Guard at Kent State was trying to prevent more destruction.
What you had was a bunch of out of control imbecilic students and some under trained National Guard troops who didn't know how to quell civil protests adequately.
Were there orders from the federal government to shoot the students? Where there orders to drop acid on them from helicopters? Was the media prevented from reporting on the situation?
You really need to pull your head out.
I was alive and in Ohio at the time. My Dad had been a National Guardsman in the 60's.
I remember my mother saying that the protesters had be threatening the National Guard troops, as you say.
The other thing about this is that NONE of the Protesters at Kent State did not have the option to walk away and go home untouched. If they did not protest there, they went on in their day to day lives.
The Iranians at this point go home to a good chance of being pulled out of their homes and killed in the streets.
No comparison at all.
The guardsmen had been on a week of 24/7 duty at a prison riot before their arrival in eastern Ohio. What happened that day was tragic and absolutely inexcusable but it was not the thought of the mayor of Kent, Gov Rhodes, or Pres. Nixon to use deadly force to destroy a protest movement. If the Basji are not operating with instructions from the Supreme Leader then there may be a distant comparison between Tehrah and Kent, but you and I both know whom the Basji work for.
Most of the fire was directed over the heads of the rioters. Unfortunately, some students who were evacuating to escape the riots became casualties as they were loading their cars in a parking lot on a rise opposite the Guard's position.
The video record seen nationally and rebroadcast to this day was heavily edited. For some reason the networks, and CBS in particular, showed footage that made the Guard to appear to be the aggressor.
Local television (I lived in the Cleveland area at the time) showed a lot more footage of the rioters and their unwarranted violence. When the shooting occurred, our reaction was —"It's about time!"
Unfortunately, the Communist rioters and their duped followers only grew stronger after this event — in no small part due to the warped coverage by Walter Cronkite and other Communist sympathizers in the dominating media.
The comfort I take in that is very faint.
Well said by the both of you.
I was an adult at the time and anarchists were attempting the takeover of our campuses because of the Vietnam War.
Man, that had to be terrible watching your daughter die like that! You will never, never, never forget that, no never! She was so young and beautiful and innocent. Man!!! She was reported to be 16-yrs old.
Yes, I agree. I will say that I'm glad to see a number of folks here dispel the idea that these two situations are similar. A number of the retorts have been quite good.
If I recall the Guard was at Kent State because the ROTC building had been torched the night before. Something else left out of the usual recounting of the event.
This young girl and those with her are wearing blue jeans and sports shoes. Just like a lot of Americans do. I doubt she was one who was intent on keeping the mullahs happy. I imagine that her "western style" dress played a part in her being chosen as a target by that perverted, sick, raghead murderer who murdered her.
What's going on is official gov't policy. I.e. the government over there is ordering violent suppression.
What happened at Kent State was NOT ordered by the White House. It was one isolated incident. Exacerbated, I might add, by communists students accusing the Gov't falsely. The students in Iran, however, are agitating for true freedom.
This is interesting since I kinda compare Iran's election to our ACORN community agitator phoney election in so many places which, by the way, the swooning press failed to investigate at all; yet, we're subjected to round-the-clock coverage of the same shenanigans going on in Iran.
I've been reading comments on other websites, and I'm amazed at the people who think this death may have been faked. Is that some kind of talking point that's going around? I mean, the poor girl has copious amounts of blood coming out of her mouth and nose. How do you fake that, unless you've got a Hollywood studio at your disposal?
It seems more appropriate to regard that image of Neda a slap in the face of the 0ne whose support for these people has been disgracefully AWOL.
If I remember correctly the Kent State shootings brought about the demise of campus riots...The students found out it wasn't as much fun to sit it, and burn down buildings if you could get shot...
Same day this girl died Barack took the two punishments out for ice cream.
What a stupid comparison. Neda was killed by a sniper in an unprovoked attack.
"To those of you traumatized by what agony you think "Neda" was in as she lay wounded and died, I can assure you she felt none. I highly recommend the book "How We Die", by Dr. Sherwin Nuland, who methodically using studies shows how our bodies are equipped with mechanisms to make us unaware and even blissful when we have suffered a fatal trauma."
I wonder if Nuland can explain why a soldier cries out in pain and fear of death after they suffer a fatal trauma.
1) The blood smear on the pavement *under her* as they first move her body, before any blood appears on her face.
2) The blood coming out of both nostrils, but no evidence of coughing
3) The blood running into the left eye, but not even a half-checked movement to wipe it away. Try to get even plain water in your eye, in those amounts, without blinking or wiping it away.
4) The fixed eyes at the end.
She was murdered, and the people on the other sites are simply covering for Obama, and repeating what they have been told, like the clueless sheep they are.
Tell them that to their face.
Can you photoshop that to read "Hope" or "Change"?
Or better still, "Obama's Fault"?
Obama Lied. Neda Died.
I agree.. there is a big difference. I was a KSU grad & out of there just a short time when this event exploded at Kent.
The SDSers were very rude when I was there.. bold, brass, obnoxious and that is when they werent high... & when I read the accounts & recall what they were like stoned, I could see them pushing the limits to inexperienced National Guardsmen.
Neda... her life & its message in death if very profound. She will make a difference, not as she had planned but as fate has provided
The attempt to overturn a brutal and oppressive dictatorship in Iran is comparable with enemy-led protests of America's efforts to free millions of South Vietnamese from communist oppression and brutality?
Here's a link to a must-read article on the event, from a non-left-wing biased source:
Kent State
Proof to Save the Guardsmen
by Alan Stang
Must read article on the event and the role of SDS:
Joe P B ~ can you help?
THIS IS NOT JUST STUDENTS, here! I've heard that drum beaten over and over in the press. LOOK at the videos. It's ALL ages taking to the streets!
Can the press PLEASE get over their 'hippy days', plox????
...you have got to be f**king kidding me. :( I don't believe what I am seeing every day in our press and our government. :(:(:(:(
Liberals wouldn't know true hardship if it bit them on the ass....
They're here on FR as well......
Neda, young girl brutally killed in Iran (portrait of Neda)
A comparison to Waco or Ruby Ridge is more accurate.
Her full name was Her full name was Neda Agha-Soltan, which means "voice" or "calling" in Persian, and she has been referred to as the "voice of Iran" and "a symbol of pro-democracy protesters battering the Islamic regime."
"the purpose of all this agitation at Kent State was to recruit as much cannon fodder as possible, and then to provoke a "major confrontation." When it came, it would be neither accidental nor spontaneous. It would be exactly what the revolutionaries wanted.
On April 8, 1969, S.D.S. toughs marched through various campus buildings, disrupting classes as planned, chanting "Ho, Ho, Ho chi Minh," and striking campus police officers. One of these hoodlums pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of assault and battery, and drew a fine and jail sentence. The university scheduled a disciplinary hearing for two others on April sixteenth, at which time about one hundred revolutionaries smashed into the Music and Speech building where the hearing was being held, destroyed property, and again attacked police officers. Of the fifty-eight demonstrators arrested, ten were not even students at the school. At the rally preceding the march on the disciplinary hearing, non-student Jim Mellen told the audience as follows: "We're no longer asking you to come and help us make a revolution. We're telling you that the revolution has begun, and the only choice you have to make is which side you're on. And we're also telling you that if you get in the way of the revolution, it's going to run right over you." Mr. Mellen's remarks were included in a liberally distributed S.D.S. pamphlet, which began with a quotation from Mao Tse-tung and the following warning: "The war is on at Kent State University ...."
At a meeting in Williams Hall on April 28, 1969, revolutionary Communist Bernardine Dohrn said that people fighting "oppression" would have to carry weapons for "self defense." On May sixth, at another campus rally, Joyce Cecora called for armed rebellion: "They used guns at Cornell and they got what they wanted. It will come to that here!" And at still another rally on campus on May twenty-second, S.D.S. member Rick Skirvin said this: "We'll start blowing up buildings, we'll start buying guns, we'll do anything to bring this motherf***er down."
Michener quotes a student named Ken Tennant as follows: "With me it goes back to the music festival they held at Fred Fuller Park in September, 1969. Four Weathermen came down from Chicago, with insignia on their bib overalls. They were selling their organization newspaper, and I said, 'I'll buy a copy if you'll tell me what your outfit stands for.' They said, 'We're going to destroy this corrupt American society and build a better.' I asked how, and they explained, 'We've decided to close down schools all over the nation. We're going to start in Chicago. But we have our eye on Kent State, too. It could be ripe.' "
Bear in mind that we have room here to cite only a few examples of the inflammatory agitation and propaganda on the campus at Kent State for almost two years. The evidence establishesin the words of the revolutionariesthat the goal of S.D.S. was to provoke a violent confrontation in which somebody would be hurt, or even worse.
And the most incredible such example took place on April 10, 1970, when Jerry Rubin spoke on the campus at Kent State. Jerry Rubin is a Communist, of course. We can be absolutely sure of that because he has said so repeatedly. In fact he said he was a Communist when your reporter asked him about it at the Democrat National Convention in Miami in 1972. At that Convention Rubin also said that, when he and his Comrades take over, your reporter will be gassed. At Kent State, Communist Jerry Rubin said this: "The first part of the Yippie program is to kill your parents. And I mean that quite literally, because until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not ready to change this country. Our parents are our first oppressors."
Your first reaction on reading a thing like this, of course, is that maybe I have taken it out of context. You refuse to believe that anybody would say this. But Rubin really told the students what you just read. It is important to remember that, at the time, Jerry Rubin was a convicted criminalhe had been convicted for leading the turmoil at the 1968 Democrat National Convention in Chicago, where terrorists attacked the policewhich raises the question of how such a man could be permitted to address students on a university campus in Ohio.**
Rubin also told the Kent State students to burn down the suburbs. "The American school system will be ended in two years," he explained. "We are going to bring it down. Quit being students. Become criminals. We have to disrupt every institution and break every law. We should have more laws so we can break them, too. Everybody should have their own law to break." As for the campus itself, Comrade Rubin told the students to ignore their professors, and to "burn all the books. It's quiet here now but things are going to start again."
The campus was now ready. Almost two years of intensive Communist propaganda had their effect. A sufficient number of students was willing to serve as cannon fodder for the revolutionary "cause." The Communists needed only an excuse to provoke their "major confrontation." Three weeks later they got their excuse.
"...it is important to quote at length from the state grand jury report on the affair: "Fifty-eight Guardsmen were injured by rocks and other objects hurled at them as they moved across the 'Commons' to Taylor Hall Hill and down to the practice football field, and were then forced to retreat .... it is clear that from the time the Guard reached the practice football field, they were on the defensive and had every reason to be concerned for their own welfare .... The circumstances present at that time indicate that 74 men surrounded by several hundred hostile rioters were forced to retreat back up the hill toward Taylor Hall under a constant barrage of rocks and other flying objects, accompanied by a constant flow of obscenities and chants such as 'Kill, Kill, Kill.' Photographic evidence has established, beyond any doubt, that as the National Guardsmen approached the top of the hill adjacent to Taylor Hall, a large segment of the crowd surged up the hill, led by smaller groups of agitators approaching to within short distances of the rear ranks of the Guardsmen.
"The testimony of the students and Guardsmen is clear that several members of the Guard were knocked to the ground or to their knees by the force of the objects thrown at them. ..."
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Thinking back to the bloodfest that transpired in late march, Canuck fans are drooling looking at this series. Will experience triumph over youth once again?
Who's Hot
Roberto Luongo - Scorching - 4 wins in 4 games - .962 Save Percentage - 1.15 GAA
Alex Burrows - 3 Goals in four games
Daniel Sedin - 2G 3A 5P - in four games
Henrik Sedin - 1G 3A 4P - in four games
Sami Salo - 1G 3A 4P - in three games
Who's Cold
Pavol Demitra - 2P in four games
Mason Raymond - 0P in four games
Who to Watch out For
Mats Sundin - 1P in two games
Ryan Kesler - 1P in four games
Kyle Wellwood - 2P in four games
Kevin Bieksa - 1P in four games
Who's Hot
Nikolai Khabibulin - Scorching - 2-0-0, 1.00 GAA, .969 Save Percentage in last two games
Brian Campbell - 3 Points in his last three games
Samuel Pahlsson - 3 Points in last three games
Who's Cold
Duncan Keith - 0 points in his last six games
Dave Bolland - 1 point in his last four games
Who to Watch out for
Martin Havlat - 6 Points - 3G 3A - in the previous series
Patrick Sharp - 6 Points - 3G 3A - in the previous series
Patrick Kane - 4 Points - 2G 2A - in the previous series (missed one game)
Jonathon Toews - 6 Points - 2G 4A - in the previous series
Kris Versteeg - 7 Points - 2G 5A - in the previous series
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Very Nice DiffuserThis diffuser works great! The only problem I have with it is that it is a little hard to put on the hair dryer. It will only fit if your hair dryer has a smaller end. I do like the results I get from it, though.Mar 8, 2008Erica / Fort Mill, SC
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Helen Of Troy DiffuserThis diffuser pretty much attaches to any narrow head blow dryer. Great for those with curly hair that want to get the right look.Dec 20, 2006Mya Borgman / Los Angeles, CA
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