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Rated 4 / 5 stars
The old lady made me laugh. Good game.
Thanks! Glad you got a giggle!
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
Three words...
What the hell??? Lol...pretty original & random with all the different endings.
Heh heh yeah - credit to Jon for his mental animation skills!
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
Pretty weird, i like fighting games. I don't know wuts going on though, im fighting old ladies and weird creatures... i dunno.
Yeah, it's a bit unusual, for sure...
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
I felt like i was playing an old NES title.
very old school feel to it, and a great sound track to boot. overall a great fighter.
Sound track by Mr Jones - nice one dude!
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
man... i'm somekinda high and it fucked my mind nice fucked up game by the way keep up the good work
Er, yeah, this game is probably a little dangerous to play when under an influence!


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Ray McDonald: It's a real exciting time right now. I'm a little nervous, coming into the draft and not knowing where you're going to go at. But it's real exciting, real fun. I'm trying to enjoy all of it. Not many people get to go through something like this.
ET: One of the things I really admire about you is that you've battled through two serious knee injuries and most recently an elbow injury--and yet had a stellar college career despite them. As I see it, if you can stay healthy at the next level, you've really got a tremendous upside even though you're already projected to one of the top guys in this draft….
RM: You know, going through all those injuries it was real stressful before the season and going into the season. I didn't really know if I was going to be able to play the whole season, but I did and I played pretty good. I guess I'm considered one of the top guys going into the draft and I'm really thankful and blessed for that. I'm a real blessed person and it's been a real great year for me, winning a national championship.
ET: What's the status of your elbow injury? How are you feeling, are there any lingering problems with it at this point?
RM: No, I think it looked worst than it really was. I have no problems with it; I played in the Senior Bowl.
ET: You're one of those guys who never seems to run out of gas. Why is that?
RM: Just hard work. I just don't want to let anyone beat me. It's just me being a competitor. You don't want to let anyone else show you up. I feel like because of that, it's kind of helped me out these last seasons. I just go all the time and coaches like that. I've got to give credit to my coaches because they really pushed me when I first got to Gainesville.
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ET: How much do you think your experience at both the defensive tackle and defensive end position will help you in this draft?
RM: I think it's helpful because I can play one just as good as the other. If a team wants to draft me at end, they can draft me at end. If they want to move me inside and tell me to gain some weight - I'll do that.
ET: At the pro level, do you think your natural instincts and your technique would make you more successful at one versus the other?
RM: No, not really. I played both of them throughout my whole college career. My first two years I played inside and my last two I played end and inside. So, I mean, just playing the defensive line is natural to me - the whole D-line. That's how I was coached and that's all I know.
ET: What do you think makes you special out there so that when NFL teams are looking at you they say, "we've got to have this guy?"
RM: I think some of the teams are surprised at how strong I am and how good I move for my size. I just think a lot of teams like the way I play. I can stop the run and pass rush. I feel like all the teams look at that and they want a guy like that.To learn more about Ray McDonald, check out his player profile page. And Scout.com subscribers can read the rest of Ray's interview on Friday where he'll talk about the teams that are showing interest in him, what you should know about him as a person, and much more!
|A member of the Professional Football Writers of America, Ed Thompson's NFL and college football player interviews and features have been published across the Scout.com network and syndicated through FoxSports.com's NFL team pages.

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The Janissary Tree, by Jason Goodwin. Faber £7.99
Eunuchs are not often cast as detectives, but Goodwin's decision to castrate his hero is a masterstroke. Yashim is an Ottoman Philip Marlowe, an erudite gumshoe whose skill at observing other people stems from a painful awareness of his own anatomical lack. Subtle and self-effacing, he's the perfect person to call on when a batch of bizarre murders threatens the sultan's control of 19th-century Istanbul. While adept at puzzle-solving, Yashim does not, figuratively speaking, lack balls, proving his courage in a death-defying chase through Istanbul's stinking tanneries. The sense of a city pullulating with life is aided by Goodwin's playfulness in rendering speech in a wild variety of accents, while his propensity for describing the eunuch's culinary adventures suggests a Yashim cookery book would be an appetising prospect.
Hannibal Rising, by Thomas Harris. William Heinemann £11.99
The dimly glimpsed horror is considerably more unsettling than one viewed under full floodlights, a lesson apparently forgotten in this revelation of the early years of Hannibal Lecter. Until the age of eight, he was like any other boy, albeit one with precocious reading habits and a castle to roam. After falling in with a grotesque band of Nazi collaborators during Hitler's invasion of Russia, Hannibal is powerless to protect his sister from a brutal re-enactment of Hansel and Gretel. Struck dumb by horror, he's rescued by the enigmatic Lady Murasaki, who fails to temper his predilection for eating war criminals. The blame for Lecter's latterday cannibalism is placed squarely on childhood experience, a glib explanation that drains the sinister thrill from earlier efforts.
Jpod, by Douglas Coupland. Bloomsbury £7.99
There's mischief afoot in this riotous novel. Take the appearance of one Douglas Coupland, starring as the very simulacrum of the vainglorious postmodern author. He shares the pages with the first 100,000 digits of pi and various Chinese ideograms: a celebration of the 'muchness' of mass culture. Self-indulgent as this sounds, it underscores a plot that rollicks from Vancouver to China, following the fortunes of Ethan, a computer geek whose desire for a quiet life is stymied by the criminal exploits of his family. Coupland's freewheeling approach ransacks popular culture to create a savagely funny portrait of 21st-century techno-mores. The result is an Xbox of delights, destined to be read long after the gadgetry it celebrates has become obsolete.


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Community Roll Call
Members of the Wauwatosa Police Department's Community Support Division, with backup provided by the folks at WauwatosaNow.com, are now blogging. We will be providing you with an ongoing series of crime prevention tips, any current crime trends as well as pertinent news and notes as it relates to your Police Department.
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- Walk with authority and always make eye contact with those around you
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text: NEW YORK, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announces a live webcast with worldwide bestselling author J.K. Rowling on October 11, 2012 and the launch of the Harry Potter Reading Club, an online destination created to share the magical world of Harry Potter with a generation of new readers. The live webcast is presented by the new Harry Potter Reading Club from Scholastic at www.scholastic.com/hpreadingclub. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100907/SCHOLASTICLOGO ) At 12:00 noon ET ( 9:00am PT / 5:00pm GMT) on Thursday, October 11, J.K. Rowling will participate in a live virtual author visit to classrooms across America to discuss the world of Harry Potter including Pottermore ( www.pottermore.com), an exciting, free online experience that offers Harry Potter fans the chance to explore and discover exclusive new writing by J.K. Rowling as well as immerse themselves in other interactive content and community activities. The October 11 webcast will be broadcast live from J.K. Rowling's hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the first time she has had the opportunity to answer questions from kids live since 2007. Educators can sign up to join the webcast beginning today at www.scholastic.com/hpreadingclub. The new Harry Potter Reading Club website provides educators, librarians, after school program coordinators and parents who want to organize a book club with access to all the tools they need to host a Harry Potter Reading Club and celebrate the joy of reading. The first 10,000 registrants for the Club will receive a welcome kit including bookmarks, stickers and nametags. Printable versions of these items will also be available for download from the website.


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Sunday April 8 2007 09:44:30 AM
Surf Trip: Easter Holidays Stad, Norway ( 03 April 2007 - 08 April 2007)
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Wind direction: Onshore
Wind Strength: Light
Nb waves ridden: 5
Length of the surf session: 60 min
Surfboard ridden: Bic 8'4"
Fins: 3
Weather and water temp: 0C, 7C
Waves height: 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft
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Had a nice morning surf together with Carlos from Colombia. We went out at around 10 in the morning and paddled out north of the middle of Hoddevik, following a rip out. We then paddled almost all the way south. We had to adjust quite a bit from one set to the next, but when we finally were in the right spot, we caught some good, quite heavy waves. I was proud of getting three out of the three first waves I tried to surf this morning. The session ended after approx 1 hour, since we had to leave for Oslo, besides I was out of energy after a very light breakfast.
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Wednesday February 7 2007 02:45:00 PM
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Fins: FCS G2
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A small day at Sele.
Went home from work 30 min early to catch some waves before other plans later in the evening. Only 4 other surfers out when I got there. The waves were small and glassy. Seldom there where set witch was a litle larger. With waves over 1 m.
I had some decent waves, but a longboard would have been more fun. The average waves where a bit small for minimal. The skie was blue and the sun shined nicely. With no wind this was a pretty nice and funny session.
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Lovely day at Sele.
I had taken a day vacation from work to surf due to good forecast for surf.
I was in the water at 9.30 in the morning with waves that closed. After 30 minutes the offshore wind started and the waves got perfect shape. There where just 5-10 other surfers in the water thru the whole session.
I used my minimal from the start but changed it with the shortboard after a few hours. Both boards performed excellent in the glassy waves.
One of the top 3 sessions in my life.
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1911 Cadillac 30 Standard Five-Passenger Touring Convertible
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- Red / Black
- Interior:
- Black Leather
- Price:
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Scoff, an acronym of the first letters of key words in the screening test, has been tried out by researchers at the medical school of St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London, who say the questions are easy to remember and apply.
Dr John Morgan, a clinical research fellow in psychiatry at St George's, who devised the questionnaire, said it was intended to help GPs and hospital doctors to detect sufferers. In a trial of 212 women, the test identified all those suffering from anorexia and bulimia.
It also suggested problems in 12.5 per cent of the unaffected women, but Dr Morgan, 32, said the error rate was an "acceptable trade-off" for the accuracy of the test in picking up all the genuine sufferers. The test had picked him as a possible sufferer, when he returned from Egypt underweight after a bout of amoebic dysentery.
More than 100,000 people in the UK are estimated by the Eating Disorders Association to have a disorder such as anorexia or bulimia, but many go undiagnosed. "This is a way of helping doctors by raising their index of suspicion. It is not a diagnosis," Dr Morgan said.
Studies published in the past decade put the death rate from anorexia studied over a 20-year period at between 5 and 20 per cent, more than deaths from schizophrenia, but doctors are still not taking the condition seriously, Dr Morgan said. "I did a study of gynaecologists and they were hopeless at detecting anorexia and regarded it as trivial. Male doctors can be very hostile to it."
Women account for 85 per cent of cases, according to the Eating Disorders Association, but is also seen in men. Lena Zavaroni, the Seventies pop star who died in October after brain surgery, was a lifelong anorexia sufferer, and Adam Rickett of Coronation Street has also admitted to having the disorder. Treatment usually involves cognitive therapy, and success is greater the earlier treatment is started.
Despite its name, the Scoff test, which was published in The Lancet, proved acceptable to the women questioned, who were aged 18 to 40, Dr Morgan said. It is modelled on a widely used four-question test called Cage, used to detect people with drink problems.
Critics said Scoff was unlikely to work outside the confines of the hospital. Dr Dee Dawson, who runs the Rhodes Farm clinic for children with eating disorders in north London, said: "It sounds incredibly simplistic. These are standard questions. The problem we all face with these patients is that they don't tell the truth. That is why our assessment takes a couple of hours." She added: "Being secretive is the hallmark of bulimia, and anorexia runs it close second. I have known patients who lived for 10 years vomiting three times a day and their partners never found out."
A spokesman for the Eating Disorders Association agreed. "We welcome any test but people are unlikely to say, `Yes, that's me, I have got a problem', because of the denial that is associated with the condition."
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5 Would you say that Food dominates your life?
If you answer yes to two or more questions you have anorexia or bulimia
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I wasn't planning on getting a Moleskine ever because of its price tag (heh cheapskate), but I received one as a gift. I still haven't solved my notebooks dilemma, so I have yet to decide what to use it for since I am also into productivity/to-do apps. Of course there's that color coding problem stopping me from writing on it, but I hope to decide on what to write there before the month ends.
LEGOLAND Malaysia Miniland: Asian Destinations
Quite frankly, I may have missed some places in LEGOLAND Malaysia's Miniland because of the scorching heat in the afternoon.
We took advantage of taking photos beside Miniland right after we arrived. I thought of going back in the afternoon to take these "landscape" shots. It slipped my mind that weather isn't a constant; so I ended up waiting for the sun to set to shoot majority of the displays. My attempts to take photos despite the bright, intense heat of the sun didn't last long as the weather was nowhere near tolerable, even with my trusty umbrella. Best to wait it out (so that you'd get consistent metering in the shots as well) because you don't want to end up two shades darker (like me).
Anyway, enough of the technical jargon and the weather rants. Below are some of the Asian destinations that I have yet to visit, haha.
I bet a number of Michael Scofields were hired to create this masterpiece. If you've seen Prison Break, you'll get it.


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Anyone who says government stifles innovation hasn't met Windell Mitchell.
Mitchell oversees the care and feeding of the 2,700 vehicles owned by the King County (Wash.) Department of Transportation. In the environmentally sensitive city of Seattle, his unenviable challenge is to reduce the fleet's greenhouse gas emissions without spending taxpayer dollars on premium-priced alternatively fueled vehicles.
Several years ago, undaunted by IRS rules that prevent government agencies from using tax credits to buy hybrid cars, he formed a purchasing consortium open to any government agency in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Ultimately, his department sold more cars and SUVs than many of the manufacturers' dealers in those states.
When hybrid utility trucks came on the market, he formed a similar consortium just for government agencies in Washington State. He applied for and received $250,000 through the EPA's SmartWay program and $150,000 through the Federal Highway Administration's Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement Program to help members buy and try out the technology.
He then challenged Kenworth—a manufacturer in his own backyard—to develop a hybrid utility truck. When the company came through, Mitchell's agency became the nation's first to place the Class 7 truck into service. (The department uses the vehicle, which has a 50-foot boom, to maintain traffic lights.)
Using a blend of 20% biodiesel and 80% ultra low sulfur diesel, the truck used 25% less fuel in the 5,000 miles it logged during its first year of operation. Winchell's got five more on order, and may replace all conventionally fueled bucket trucks with hybrids.
You may think Winchell's story is unique, that applying for grants takes time, and that he's enjoyed the benefit of the resources that come with serving the nation's 13th-largest city. But in addition to being able to market its proactive response to air pollution, the department was charged with hosting the first national "clean vehicles" conference.
Think about the PR mileage that public works department is getting out of just one employee's unique approach to financing.
Stephanie Johnston
Editor in Chief, PUBLIC WORKS Magazine,


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Stats: I am a 42 year old female, 5"4, 150 lbs, who has never smoked and drinks very moderately. I lost about 40 lbs three years ago and have exercised 3-5x weekly consistently and eaten a balanced diet since then to keep the weight off. I wanted to remove fat on my lower abs, inner and outer thighs, and banana roll that wouldn't respond to exercise.
Pre-op: I researched my physician through ASPS and also the better business bureau to see if there had been any consumer complaints. I would recommend this for anyone considering this surgery. I would NEVER advise anyone to choose their surgeon based on discounts or "advertised low prices"....this is your health and your body, you are not buying a dishwasher! ASPS board certification isn't a guarantee, but an extra and important assurance of your doctor's competence.
Surgery: I had general anesthesia in a hospital. The process was organized and the staff were professional and caring. Everything had been explained to me prior by my doctor, so I knew exactly what to expect. I don't remember much about the surgery experience except the darn IV hurt going in! Post-op I was nauseous from the anesthesia, that subsided by the next morning.
Post op: The general soreness wasn't more that I expected...it was akin to a strenuous lower body workout after heavy weight training. The incision sites were sore and precluded a lot of my movement. I was (and still am) really swollen, which has been the biggest pain to deal with. I took painkillers round the clock for the first 24 hours after surgery, and intermittently with Tylenol for 48 hours after that. Sleeping has been the biggest problem because I can only lay in one position, which has been killing my back...last night was the first night I slept the night without a painkiller. It was the first night after I got my stitches out and my bandages removed.
One week post op: I'm still swollen and sore but it is getting better. I had my stitches and bandages removed yesterday which helped a lot...took my first shower today. I itch like crazy under my garment but knew this was to be expected. Also been constipated, which I also expected, and am trying to get, ahem...regular now. I looked in the mirror without my garment and LOVE the results...I know I'm still swollen and VERY bruised but I can see the shapeliness defined already.My doctor told me he removed 6 lbs of fat overall...and in two months I think I will be extremely pleased and will have gotten what I wanted.
Additional general hints: I found that it was much easier to pee standing over the toilet than to try to sit. Gross, but proved to be very helpful given that patients tend to pee frequently following surgery. It also alleviates the lightheadnedness patients experience from sitting/rising too quickly.
I would recommend people not try to plan or do much of anything for at least a week after surgery. I tried to go back to work 4 days post op and it was a nightmare. If you find you are doing better earlier, consider it a blessing, but I would reserve at least a week or 10 days.
I know there are differing opinions regarding the length of time the garments should be worn...all I can advise is to follow your doctor's recommendations. Mine says six weeks...so six weeks it is.
I knew this wasn't a weight management procedure and I knew it wouldn't cure my cellulite, which I have a lot of. I think though that if people enter into this with realistic expectations, an excellent surgeon, and plently of preparation and recovery time the results can be WELL worth it.


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2 Chainz, Common, Big Sean, Dom Kennedy Guest Star In New Derrick Rose Commercial
Derrick Rose's new shoe, the D Rose 4, is hitting shelves next week and today Adidas dropped the latest in a series of commercials highlighting the new product and Rose's return to the court.
This minute-long clip features a few other familiar faces including rappers 2 Chainz, Big Sean, Common and Dom Kennedy.
H/T: Fake Shore Drive


text: The wrestling has been postponed for a week and will now be held February, 16th at three locations. Class 'A' at Sanford… class 'B' in Fryeburg and class 'C' at Foxcroft Academy.All classes were to be at the Augusta Civic Center this Saturday…. but the basketball tournament the following weekend in Augusta forced the wrestling to go to these three sites.


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Going the speed limit, the trip to the Otselic camp takes an hour.
"Red-light and speed-safety cameras only generate revenue when drivers exceed the speed limit or run red lights," Territo said.
The driver then got on the highway and started going "well above the speed limit," with the taxi inspector still in tow.
The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
The speed of traffic (i.e. cruising at the speed limit) almost made me throw up.
Polly was fixed in her determination not to exceed the speed limit, at any rate on outward journeys.
It would never do to be arrested for breaking the speed limit.
This was followed by many good sellers, the speed limit of the author being three books some years.
Hold on and we'll ride with you, but you must have some regard to the speed limit.
Why, an hour since we were just half-way between Glassenrigg and Scawdale, pelting along at about double the speed limit.


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The PBR Rock Bar & Grill is ideally located on the Las Vegas Strip for anytime people-watching, and to grab a bite, buck up to the bar for a shot & a beer, and party the night away. This spectacular venue introduces a modern vibe where Sexy Cowgirl meets Bad Boy Rocker in the center of town, with views of CityCenter, Bellagio, and the Las Vegas Strip.
Fresh versions of traditional American comfort food created by Executive Chef Billy Boyle are offered for lunch, dinner and late-night dining. The 3,000-square-foot patio offers a raised bar/lounge area stocked with banquets and fire pits to sit and people-watch all day. Inside, the raised lounge offers a comfortable and climate-controlled seating area to relax and take in all the action in the main dining room and on the stage.
Live music performances, DJs spinning a variety of music genres and the staff swinging from the ceilings creates the fun nightly environment. Those that are brave enough can take a shot at lasting 8 seconds on the mechanical bull.


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Winter is coming, and I'm preparing for the cold weather by acquiring more home gym equipment, so that I can do as many crossfit type exercises at home as possible. Recently, I was introduced to a site called "Bodyrock.tv" by a friend. Despite the fact that my friend's motives for sending me there was less fitness related and more "Hey dude, check out this hot chick", the site is actually quite good.
|Yes, I workout in my kid's play room.


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Census Results: A Shake-Up in the Garden State
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on The Brian Lehrer Show, Sam Roberts, urban affairs correspondent for The New York Times, discusses the 2010 Census results and what they reveal about New Jersey.
New Jersey is set to lose one seat in the House of Representatives as a result of a decade of relatively small population growth. Roberts says the phenomena of the shrinking city is evident in New Jersey as in other urban areas across the country. Some areas, however, are bucking the trend.
One of the fascinating things about the 2001 Census is that Newark grew. [It] grew slightly, just about one percent or so, but it was the first time Newark grew in about three decades.
While growth by itself is not always necessarily positive, Roberts said the increased economic activity that drives growth may be sign that an area is becoming stronger. In New Jersey, growth was particularly evident in southern counties.
What you're seeing is suburban growth. You're seeing suburban growth away from the northeastern suburbs of New York City, which means a shift, probably to some extent, in political clout. We'll see that in legislative reapportionment first, and then a little bit to a lesser extent in congressional apportionment… New Jersey will lose one congressional seat and a lot of jockeying [is] going to go on to see whose seat that is.
The biggest growth was in Ocean County, with a 13 percent population increase since 2000. Roberts said that may be partially due to people being priced out of northern suburbs, but he also cited the high number of retirement communities found in Ocean County to help explain the increase.
There is a very high ratio of older people, however we define that these days, compared to younger ones. In fact, the dependency ratio — the number of people who are over 65 compared to the working population — is about the same in Ocean county as it is in Japan these days.
Ocean County also had the fastest growing individual township in the state, the township of Lakewood, which increased by 54 percent from a decade ago. Lakewood is too far to commute to New York City, but Roberts says this census also indicates that people are now more likely to be working closer to where they live.
Not everyone who lives in the suburbs commutes into the city… just as not everyone who lives in Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens [and] Staten Island commutes into Manhattan anymore.
He said more while jobs are evident in suburbia, there is also more suburban poverty, not just in New Jersey but across the nation.
That could be a reflection of more minorities moving in, although again, a lot of those minority people are middle class or lower middle class, but also [of] increases in pockets of poverty that go beyond the traditional city areas.
Lakewood has a growing Orthodox community, senior population and Hispanic influx. The diversity within this last group Roberts finds particularly interesting.
It's not just an increase in Hispanic people, it's a very diverse group of Hispanic people, as we've seen with the Asian population nationally and with the Hispanic population nationally. These are coming form all over Central and South America… a great deal of variety in where people are coming from.
While New Jersey grew in population overall, the population in the southern and western United States grew faster, so those states will gain some seats and New Jersey will lose one. Roberts said the change in population within New Jersey to the southern counties will bring about a political shift in-state as well. He believes the coming redistricting battles are sure to be rough.
Redistricting is a process which is not only arbitrary but aggravating to many people, because politicians are usually most interested in self preservation, and clearly someone in this equation is going to have to be sacrificed.


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After quake Turkish villagers fear white death
By Humeyra Pamuk and Evrim Ergin
GUVENCLI, Turkey (Reuters) - Standing near homes that have become deathtraps since Sunday's massive earthquake, the men of the Turkish village of Guvencli gazed at the leaden sky and predicted more deaths unless they were given shelter before the winter snows arrive.
"In fifteen days, half of the people here may be dead, frozen," Selahattin Karadeniz, 47, whose mud, timber and brick house held up better than most in Guvencli, a village of some 200 homes.
The first snows normally fall in November, blizzards are common and ground can stay white until April among the hills at the eastern end of Lake Van, Turkey's largest lake, close to the border with Iran.
"This is the land of winter," said Hilmi Gulgeldi, a villager in his fifties. "To stay outside after this time is impossible. It falls to minus 25 degrees, minus 40."
Fahrenheit or Celsius, either way it spells death.
The toll from the 7.2 magnitude quake, the biggest to hit Turkey in more than a decade, had risen to 471 with search and rescue operations still going on three days later.
But the disaster has "affected 600,000," according to the provincial governor, with people in the towns and villages frightened to sleep in homes they feared were too fragile to withstand aftershocks rattling the area.
While relief efforts first focused on the provincial capital of Van, a city of 1 million, and Ercis, a town of 100,000, outlying homesteads were left waiting longer for help. Continued...


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Today is gameday, but with all the other news surrounding the program right now, it hardly feels like it.
As Mick Cronin said yesterday staring out at a strong contigent of media for a 10:30 am session -- "All right, who wants to talk about DePaul?"
With icebreakers like that, I might actually be able to pick up women in the grocery store. Instead, I eat my free sample of gouda by myself.
The latest news on Yancy Gates is that he was on the bus to Chicago and his status for the DePaul game remains unknown. (As of the this typing) Cronin said "we'll see," when asked if he would play today, but he had a good practice yesterday.
The first game against DePaul, Gates went for 15 points, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 steals. Having him in the lineup certainly wouldn't hurt.
So, I guess "we'll see." Of course, you can follow me on Twitter for the latest on his situation as it develops.
Let's eat...
--- Yesterday's media session was one of the best insights into the coaching style of Mick Cronin. He spoke extensively on principles he's built this program on and an unwillingness to stray from them under any circumstance.
Hard not to respect what he's saying. The buzz of dissenters grows louder and louder by the day and Cronin never wavered on his principles no matter how disadvantageous the result.
I posted the transcript of his comments here. Worth a read if you have a few minutes. I also wrote a story on the Gates situation and a glimpse inside Cronin's thinking on the matter.
--- Paul Daugherty put together a piece on Gates and Cronin needing each other now more than ever. He's right on the mark.
Gates needs to become a beast down the stretch for the Bearcats to reach the magic number of 10 conference wins and the NCAA tournament. Cronin himself admitted, that hasn't happened. Maybe this situation serves as a wake-up call for Gates. If so, the suspension may have saved the season.
--- Here's Gates speaking with Bill Koch about what happened.
--- Let's take a look at some Gates numbers this Big East season compared to the first two.
2011: 28.0 minutes, 10.1 points, 6.3 rebounds/1.4 offensive, 46 percent FT, 48 percent FG.
2010: 25.4 minutes, 10.7 points, 5.9 rebounds/2.5 offensive, 53 percent FT, 57 percent FG
2009: 24.5 minutes, 10.9 points, 6.0 rebounds/2.5 offensive, 60 percent FT, 45 percent FG
In a few weeks, it will be worth adding some post-suspension numbers to see how they change. Cronin really pushed Gates to see more of the progress that was made in the offseason. The coach talked about the effort level dipping in Big East play and these are the numbers he's referring to. Gates is a better player this year, only, his numbers don't reflect that. That's where the concern lies for Cronin.
--- All the Yancy talk aside, this DePaul game falls into the old must-win category for the Bearcats. With so many talented opponents ahead, losing to a team that hasn't won since 2010 (Dec. 22, to be exact) would be a devastating blow, to say the least.
The Blue Demons own some momentum after only losing by four points at Louisville.
That said, they are 0-10 in the Big East this year, 6-16 overall.
Oh, and they've lost 22 straight Big East games. So, there's that.
--- The Chicago basketball blog details how close the Blue Demons are to their breakthrough.
--- Tonight will be a homecoming of sorts for Chicago-native Dion Dixon. Hopefully the trip home will spark the shooting guard. He's still the Bearcats leading scorer but struggled recently with two scoreless outings in the last four games.
Mick Cronin took a quick reprieve from Gates talk Monday to address how Dixon can get back on track:
"Shot selection has been a issue. He's missed some layups. Two of his four misses were layups. He also missed an 8-footer wide open. He's got to work harder at it in practice. You got to address all your guys. Yancy because he didn't play is the story. Dion is getting addressed just as hard. The answer is not woe is me. The answer is not to turn your jersey backward for better luck. The answer is to play better in practice.The answer is to get out there and fight through it and get your rhythm back, your confidence back."
--- Biggie McClain has become instant offense and energy for UC. Tommy G has this feature on the 7-footer.
--- Somehow this game against DePaul is on ESPN2, but UC hosting WVU found its way to FoxSportsOhio. Not my job to figure that one out, so I won't try.
--- SB Nation's Big East power rankings has the Bearcats 10th, just ahead of St. John's.
--- UC's still a part of everybody's NCAA bracket. Although, they are now one spot behind Xavier. It's amazing what competition level can do for public perception. (Which I know goes both ways, Xavier folks)
--- Speaking of X, reason No. 1,384,444 why we shouldn't care about postseason award lists. I know showing Xavier love isn't popular, but how Tu Holloway doesn't make a list of the top 10 point guards in the country while averaging 20+ points and 5+ assists is beyond me.
--- Pitt and Kansas both with big wins last night without their best players. Both will be No. 1 seeds in March, barring a major collapse, per Gary Parrish.
--- The rivers will run red with Burgundy's blood!
--- Brandon Underwood was inactive and Curtis Young was on the practice squad, but still a congratulations to two former Bearcats who were a part of the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers.
--- Another quick football note, Brian Bennett posted the Big East's biggest non-conference games for next season. Obviously, UC's game at Tennessee makes the list. I have a feeling we may talk to Kenbrell Thompkins some that week.
Speaking of the Vols, Lane Kiffin continues to make their life awful. They can get in line.
--- On to some randomness...
--- I love the Jimmer phenomenon as much as anybody, but you leave Bon Jovi out of this!
--- If this rumor was circulating about my city, I would address it in sarcastic fashion also.
--- Love The Onion.
--- The weekly edition of: Only in Florida.
--- Being a security camera salesman sure paid off. Sometimes, somebody's car deserves to be buried under six feet in of snow.
--- This will be the only time I ever link to The View on this show, but trust me, this is worth it. It's great to see athletes using their status to help others. It happens all the time, but rarely gets the publicity it deserves.


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Now in its third year, the 2012 American Country Awards honored the genre's top artists in Las Vegas on Monday (December 10).
Held at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the ceremony was co-hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Trace Adkins, while Luke Bryan emerged as the big winner with seven trophies, including Artist of the Year and Album of the Year.
Joining Country Music's biggest stars, "American Idol" alums Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery attended the 46th Annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday (November 1).
The 17-year-old starlet looked beautiful in a red strapless gown and sparkly red necklace as she hosted the CMA Red Carpet show live. Her fellow "Idol" contestant looked boyishly handsome in a gray suit with a black dress shirt and black skinny tie.
Lacing up her sneakers and getting in the swing of things for a good cause, Carrie Underwood was back in action for the 22nd annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge in Nashville, TN on Saturday (June 9).
The country superstar rocked a sporty ensemble as she made her way on the field in red tube socks, black athletic shorts and black top, while at one point tossing on a personalized jersey as she did her part in striking out cancer.
She got her start thanks to a runner-up finish on "American Idol," and Lauren Alaina is taking advantage of her celebrity status as he joined in on the 2012 CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday (June 6).
The 17-year-old Georgia native was all smiles on the red carpet at the Bridgestone Arena venue while preparing for the evening's festivities to get underway.
It's going to be a great show, and yesterday (June 4) some of country music's hottest stars were busy getting ready for the 2012 CMT Music Awards.
Carrie Underwood took a break from her Blown Away tour to prepare for her performance at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.
In its second year of existence, the 2011 American Country Awards honored the genre's top artists in Las Vegas, Nevada on Monday night (December 5).
Held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the ceremony was co-hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Trace Adkins while Jason Aldean emerged as the big winner by garnering six trophies in categories including Artist of the Year and Album of the Year.
They won the hearts of fans all over the country thanks to last season's "American Idol," and tonight (December 5) Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina were in the house for the 2011 American Country Awards.
The country music newcomers navigated the red carpet festivities like seasoned pros, hamming it up for the press outside Sin City's MGM Grand Garden Arena.
In its second year of existence, the 2011 American Country Awards are all set to take place in Las Vegas, Nevada tonight (December 5).
Held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the ceremony is being co-hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Trace Adkins with a red carpet kickoff lined up for 6 p.m. ET ahead of the ceremony's 8 p.m. ET onset.
Spending the weekend in Music City, Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina showed off their athletic skills at Greer Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday (June 11).
The "American Idol" winner and his runner-up gal pal joined fellow stars such as Dierks Bentley, Vince Gill, Chuck Wicks and Jack Owen in partaking in the annual City of Hope Charity Softball Challenge.
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Twenty-five years after William Julius Wilson "changed urban sociology" according to the Chronicle for Higher Education, scholars are still teaching and debating the ideas presented in his landmark 1987 book, "The Truly Disadvantaged." William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.
Q. During the past quarter century, how has the situation changed for the disadvantaged in America?
Wilson:The loss of manufacturing jobs has really hurt disadvantaged families, especially those who live in urban areas, as they are seeing their jobs relocate to the suburbs and overseas. Also, I think we should emphasize the impact of the computer revolution, which rewards skilled workers and displaces low-skilled workers. That's been a problem and continues to be a problem. The growing internationalization of economic activity, facilitated in part by the liberalization of trade legislation, creates a situation whereby low skilled workers in this country are increasingly competing with low-skilled workers around the world. Another factor to consider is the increased proportion of low-wage jobs without fringe benefits such as paid leave, and health insurance. And I should finally mention that higher education has become critically important for advancement in the labor market, and that places low-skilled workers at a disadvantage as well.
Q. The growing wealth gap is often identified as one of the most significant changes in American life in the post-war era. Why is it so important?
Wilson:The growing wealth gap, what we call the rising economic inequality since the early 1970s, is a major problem because it affects the sense of community in our society. As people pursue different interests and don't worry about how those interests affect other people, I am reminded of a comment that my colleague in the economics department made several years ago. Richard Friedman said that rising inequality in America reflects a two-tiered society in which the affluent families live lives that are fundamentally different than the rest of society.
Economists like Richard Friedman have focused on things like rising income inequality. Sociologists and political scientists have devoted more time to rising social inequality. The two go hand in hand. You sort of see this in residential areas – the growing separation of income groups by residential areas, as reflected in the growth of gated communities. We have the affluent living in one neighborhood, and middle and lower class families living in different neighborhoods. And as I go back to what I was saying, the rising inequality affecting a sense of community. You clearly see this in economic behavior, with the polarization that we now see in our country.
In the 2012 election we saw a handful of billionaires financing super PACs where millions of dollars were thrown into the election, buying ads to try to influence not only the presidential election but also the congressional election. Increasingly it seems that political influence is associated with unequally distributed resources.
I also want to mention that the growing wealth gap is also reflected in the disproportionate percentage of students from wealthy families at the elite colleges. The gap between the elite families and regular families at the best universities in our country is widening.
Q. In the recent U. S. Presidential elections, the middle class was more of a focus for the candidates than the poor. But now that President Obama has been re-elected, should the disadvantaged become more of a focus, and what do you recommend that he do to help Americans who are living in poverty?
Wilson: I think that the disadvantaged will be more of a focus during President Obama's second administration. But despite all of the rhetoric about addressing the needs and the concerns of the middle class during the presidential campaign, Barack Obama during his first years as president has done more for lower-income families than any president since Lyndon Baines Johnson. Despite the fact that he inherited an economy that was in the tank and two budget-busting wars, he was still able to accomplish a great deal beginning with the stimulus package. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included 80 billion dollars for lower income people including money to increase food stamps, funds to increase the earned income tax credit, funds to expand unemployment compensation. All of these things help to keep low income families afloat during the Great Recession.
In addition, President Obama effectively negotiated with Congress to create legislation to help lower income families such as the extension of the payroll tax cut and extension of the time period for receiving unemployment compensation. These things we often forget about when we say that Obama has not addressed the interests of the poor.
But the most important historic legislation of the Obama Administration was the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – that is a major piece of legislation that is going to significantly improve the lives and extend the life expectancy of low-income families, including low-income blacks and Hispanics, who are disproportionately represented among those Americans who lack health insurance. Most of the reforms will kick in in 2014, but we are already seeing positive effects from this legislation. The fact that families can keep children on their health insurance plans up to age 26 – that's very important for lower income families. So I think that President Obama should continue to pursue programs that are realistic given the incredible budget constraints, but in his second term of office, ensuring the full implementation of "Obamacare" in all 50 states would be, in my judgment, one of the most important actions for lower-income Americans.
Q. You have taught a class here at Harvard that uses the television series "The Wire" as its centerpiece. How does a television show help you teach about poverty?
Wilson: There's no other show on television like "The Wire." The program portrays fundament sociological principles that have been the focus of social scientists like me, who are concerned about urban inequality, particularly systemic urban inequality – that is, the adverse effect of interrelated institutional arrangement on lower income families and individuals.
It is a brilliant show that enables us to relate rigorous empirical research to the various episodes. Every year roughly 150 students apply for the course, and we only accept 25 to 30 students. Each week the students watch four or five episodes outside of class and read empirical research articles and chapters from scholarly books that relate to the episodes. We use "The Wire" as a thread to integrate various topics ranging from the impact of concentrated poverty and drug trafficking in poor urban neighborhoods to the effect of low performing schools on children and de-industrialization on low income families. "The Wire" just does a brilliant job of covering these sociological issues.
I'm very of proud of one thing in particular – I was chairing a panel discussion on "The Wire" at Harvard several years ago, a panel that included David Simon [creator and head writer for "The Wire"]. I called David a week before the discussion to ask him if he had any questions about the panel – and he said, "Professor Wilson, it's great to speak with you. Did you know that your book 'When Work Disappears' Helped us frame season 2?" I was so thrilled by that that it took I everything I could to keep myself from walking around campus with a swagger. Maybe that's a reason why the show can so easily be related to academic research because Simon reads the work of social scientists and he displays a sophisticated sociological imagination.
Q. If you had two minutes in the elevator with President Obama before inauguration day, what would be your advice to him for addressing issues related to inequality and poverty?
Wilson:I would advise President Obama to do what President Clinton did when he was in office. And that is to invite social scientists who are working on important domestic problems to the White House for informal meetings to discuss various issues, and to get some insights and points of view that he would not receive from his inner circle.
That's what Clinton did – he'd invite a group of us to the White House, we'd sit around, we'd have dinner at 7 o'clock, we'd continue talking about the domestic issues until past midnight, and he was able to get a different perspective on things. I think one of the problems that Obama experienced as President was that he didn't communicate effectively to the general public during his first term in office about what he had accomplished. And I think that if he had occasionally interacted with scholars who are concerned about various domestic problems they could have conveyed to him that he has to do a better job of communicating to the American people what he has accomplished.


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Dems Trip Up GOP on Highway Extension Again
For the second straight day, House Democrats have foiled an attempt by Republicans to pass a temporary Highway Bill extension designed to avoid a suspension of the gas tax and a shutdown of highway programs March 31.
Republicans were forced to pull a 60-day extension from the House floor Tuesday afternoon after Democrats refused to support the bill. Republicans were using an expedited procedure requiring support from 2/3 of the chamber for passage. That's just a day after a 90-extension was yanked under similar circumstances.
Democrats are sticking to their position that the House should take up the two-year, $109 billion Highway Bill the Senate passed earlier this month with 74 votes. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) warned House Republicans two weeks ago that they would have to accept the Senate bill -- or one similar to it -- unless they could reach agreement on their own broader measure. That never happened, and last week Boehner was back to panning the Senate bill.
Tuesday's move turns up the heat on House Republicans to either accept the Senate's bill or use a slower procedure for a temporary extension. The latter choice seems far more likely, as it will allow the Speaker to pass an extension with a bare majority of the House -- and avoid a revolt from conservatives unhappy with the Senate package.
There are a still a few days to go before current highway law (and the 18.4 cent gas tax feeding the Highway Trust Fund) expires. Michael Steel, a spokesman for Speaker Boehner, told Transportation Nation in an email, "There is only one reason this bill will not be voted on tonight: House Democrats are playing political games with our nation's economy."
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UPDATE 1-Bombardier close to winning CSeries certification -sources
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By Tim Hepher and Allison Lampert
Nov 24 (Reuters) - Canada's Bombardier meets with investors on Tuesday with certification for its CSeries passenger jet "very close," according to sources familiar with the matter, but with no new orders imminent.
Certification of the new jetliner, targeted for the end of the month, is expected within days as Bombardier finalizes documentation with Canadian regulators, the sources said.
"Certification is now very, very close," one source said.
Bombardier spokeswoman Marianella de la Barrera on Monday reiterated the company's target of "certification by the end of the year."
A Transport Canada spokeswoman said Tuesday she could not comment on the CSeries certification process because it is "confidential, third-party information."
The Canadian company, which is holding its annual investor day in New York on Tuesday, said last week it had finished flight testing of the aircraft due to enter service with Lufthansa subsidiary SWISS in the first half of 2016.
Coming hard on the heels of agreements for cash infusions from the Quebec government, certification would bring a further boost to Bombardier and its attempt to penetrate the main segment of jet market dominated by Airbus and Boeing . Continuación...


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James Franco Has "Empathetic View" of Shia LaBeouf's Questionable Behavior
He's no stranger to the pressures of fame, and James Franco has a special place in his heart for Shia LaBeouf, regardless of his penchant for strange antics.
The "Spring Breakers" stud wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times in which he dissected the possible causes for the "Constantine" hunk's curious tendencies.
Franco noted, "The wisdom of some of [Labeouf's] actions may seem questionable… as an actor and artist I'm inclined to take an empathetic view of his conduct."
Furthermore, James stated that LaBeouf's brown bag stunt and #IAMSORRY performance art exhibit "could be signs of many things, from a nervous breakdown to mere youthful recklessness."
"I hope it is nothing serious… his actions are intended as a piece of performance art, one in which a young man in a very public profession tries to reclaim his public persona… Any artist can experience distance between the true self and his public persona. Because film actors typically experience fame in greater measures, their personas can feel at the mercy of forces far beyond our control."
"Our rebellion against the hand that feeds us can instigate a frenzy of commentary that sets in motion a feedback loop: acting out, followed by negative publicity, followed by acting out in response to that publicity, followed by more publicity, and so on," added Franco.
"Participating in this call and response is a kind of critique, a way to show up the media by allowing their oversize responses to essentially trivial actions to reveal the emptiness of their raison d'être. This game of peek-a-boo can be very addictive."


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Re: Exercise of Programming with Mathematica
On 10/18/13 at 4:45 AM, infozyzhang at gmail.com (Zhenyi Zhang) wrote:
>Here is a rule designed to switch the order of each pair of
>expressions in a list. It works fine on the first example, but fails
>on the second.
>In[1]:= {{a, b}, {c, d}, {e, f}}/.{x_, y_} :> {y, x}
>Out[1]= {{b, a}, {d, c}, {f, e}}
>In[2]:= {{a, b}, {c, d}}/.{x_, y_} :> {y, x}
>Out[2]= {{c, d}, {a, b}}
>Explain what has gone wrong and
>rewrite this rule to correct the situation, that is, so that the
>second example returns {{b, a}, {d, c}}
The pattern {x_, y_} matches any two element list. In the first
case, the only two element lists are the pairs you want to
change. But in the second case, you have three two element
lists, the two pairs you want to change and the list of pairs
since there are only two pairs. You can achieve what you want by
using a more restrictive pattern, i.e.,
In[2]:= {{a, b}, {c, d}} /. {x_Symbol, y_} :> {y, x}
Out[2]= {{b, a}, {d, c}}
or if you did not want to change the order of the paired symbols,
In[3]:= {{a, b}, {c, d}} /. {x_List, y_} :> {y, x}
Out[3]= {{c, d}, {a, b}}


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Definition of crinkle
crinklingplay \ˈkriŋ-k(ə-)liŋ\
Examples of crinkle in a Sentence
The corners of his eyes crinkle when he smiles.
a paper seat cover that crinkles with every move
Origin and Etymology of crinkle
Middle English crynkelen; akin to Old English cringan to yield
First Known Use: circa 1600See Words from the same year
Definition of crinkle
1 : wrinkle, corrugation, pucker
2 : any of several virus diseases of plants marked by crinkling of leaves
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: to form small, thin lines on the surface
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: a small, thin line that appears on a surface
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I just bought an '02 WRX wagon with only 6k mi on it. I test drove it, left and test drove an Outback Sport Wagon from somewhere else and almost immediately drove back to the first place and bought the WRX. I loved it from the start. I got it from CarMax (are they just in IL?) and I think I got a fair deal: $16k.
Can you believe it though, 6k mi?
Anyway, I love the car so far -- had it for two days -- and wanted to drop in and say hi and join WRX club.


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Midland Ministries Camp and Conference Center offers a secluded atmosphere for students or adults to separate themselves from the "World" in order to focus on the Word of God while offering fun and fellowship with other believers. During the summer your church or denomination could rent the camp for your youth. During the rest of the year, we are available for conferences, retreats, church picnics and social events.
Midland Ministries has a full time staff of 12 men and women all trained to communicate the Word of God. Do you need a speaker for your event? Would you like to use this beautiful facility? The links below are the contracts for booking a week (or longer) camp, or just a simple retreat & conference.
To read about how Midland was given the camp read the story of the 21 year Miracle.
To rent the camp for a week this next summer. download and fill out this contract and mail it to Midland Ministries
To rent the facility for a weekend conference or retreat download and fill out this contract and mail it to Midland Ministries.
For more information about Midland Ministries call our the Camp Manager, Walt Brown at (660) 973-0564
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Welcome to Plugged In, a website devoted to bringing you family friendly movie, music, and video game reviews. This site offers you a way of making sure that the stuff your kids see, hear, and play are something you'd approve of. They even review rated R movies that are target towards teens.
The site is very easy to navigate. You'll find a search field right on the main page so if you're looking for something specific you can find it quickly. Along that that same navigation strip you'll find the categories: Home, Movies, Videos, Music, TV, and Games.
On the main page you can find featured articles, polls, blog entries, and so much more. I like that when you mouse over the bottom left featured items that little chat bubbles pop up and gives you a little bit of an intro to what that article is about.
I know that my parents were careful about what we were exposed to as kids, and I think that it gives me a real appreciation for choosing what I want to watch today. I'm glad that there are sites out here like this that are helping parents keep up with all the media their kids are consuming! Check it out today!


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New Words For Words With Friends
Get frustrated playing Words With Friends? Need a few new words? Merriam Webster has added some new words, and since they added them, they are now "legal". Legal to use in Words With Friends and Scrabble. This book (the new Scrabble Dictionary) comes out next week. Let us know if you try them and if they work or not! A few of the five thousand words that were added include: "Bromance," "Selfies" and even "Frenemies." Merriam Webster's editor-at-large Peter Sokolowski defends the addition of the words saying they've become part of the culture, part of the language and now a part of the dictionary. Other new pop culture words added to Merriam Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary include "chillax," "buzzkill" and "texter." The Yiddish term "schmutz" and foreign words such as "qigong," which is a Chinese exercise routine, and "quinzhee" – an Inuit word for an igloo-like shelter, also made the cut.


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Steve DeLong
Steve DeLong made a name for himself through his toughness on the line. As a sophomore, DeLong earned the first of three SEC Coaches Best Defensive Lineman Awards. His junior year at Tennessee, he received All-SEC and All-America honors.
The 1964 season was DeLong's best. He repeated as All-SEC and All-America his senior year as captain of the team and his work in the trenches led to winning the Outland Trophy as the nation's most outstanding interior lineman. DeLong also was named SEC Lineman of the Year by the Atlanta Touchdown Club and the Nation's Outstanding Lineman by the Columbus Touchdown Club, Birmingham Touchdown Club and Look magazine. Along the way, he finished eighth on the Heisman ballot. The lineman went on to be named MVP of the Senior Bowl.
His feats were even more magnified considering Tennessee's 5-5 record in 1963 and 4-5-1 mark in 1964, Doug Dickey's first year as coach of the Volunteers. In three years on the varsity level, DeLong played under three head coaches -- Bowden Wyatt, Jim McDonald and Dickey.
Following his days at Tennessee, the AFL's San Diego Chargers drafted DeLong in 1965. He spent six seasons in San Diego before ending his career in 1972 with the Chicago Bears.
DeLong's brother, Ken, was a two-time All-SEC selection for the Vols from 1967-69. His son, Keith, followed his father's footsteps and became an All-America linebacker at Tennessee and was a team captain in 1988. All three DeLongs were captains or co-captains.


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Thank you for pointing out the pic, they aren't dents, but the pic certainly makes it look like they are
As for the no reserve on eBay, I've done it a few times before, and usually have pretty good results. I did sell an MB S65 about 2 years ago where it sold for $7,500 under what I had gotten an offer for a week earlier...that certainly wasn't fun. But I've been pleasantly surprised on both ends of the spectrum.
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Amazing trip of a lifetime April 30 - May 7 2011: Carnival Dream Cruise Review by kiwigirl1972
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Amazing trip of a lifetime April 30 - May 7 2011
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Port Canaveral (Orlando)
Embarkation and Debarkation were excellent - extremely well organised.
The food in the dining room was to die for every single night - not a single complaint - it was always cooked just how I like it and the service was fabulous. I had the warm chocolate melting cake every night and I think I'm having withdrawals now! The food on the rest of the ship was also great with lots of choices. I loved the pasta bar and the tandoor. I never encountered long lines etc. at all.
Pools - they were busy but still plenty of room for all. Didn't try the water slide.
The entertainment was first class - no chance of ever getting bored as there was always something to do. The night time shows were simply amazing More and I also loved the comedians at the late night adult shows - so funny!
Butch and George did a fantastic job - after one meeting always greeted me by name for the rest of the cruise.
Overall this was just a dream trip. I made lots of new friends and did all that I hoped to do. A week at Disneyworld after wards just topped it off. Less
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Cabin review: 8N9478 Aft-View Extended Balcony
Cabin 9478 was AFT balcony just under the lido deck. There was a little noise of scraping chairs above but no bother at all and not at times that were an issue. I loved the over hang above the balcony from the lido deck - kept the smoke away and gave shade when needed. Very spacious room.Read All Aft-View Extended Balcony (8N) Reviews >>
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Tuition & Fees
Explore simplified overall costs for on- and off-campus students.
Tuition 2016-2017
New York State Resident Tuition
Full-time: $4,790/year
Per credit hour: $172
New York State residents who are not a resident of the sponsorship area and do not present a Certificate of Residency*
Full-time: $9,880/year
Per credit hour: $354
Non-New York State Resident Tuition
Full-time: $9,880/year
Per credit hour: $354
Auditing Courses
New York State Residents: $172/credit hour
Non-Resident: $354/credit hour
Out-of-State: $354/credit hour
Off Semester, Off Hours, Off Campus Tuition (per credit hour)
Web-based courses: $172
Nursing Program Deposit
Full-time: $50
Fees are charged only to those who receive the services rendered.
Student Service Fees
- Transcript Fee
Charge Per Service Rendered $ 8 Transcript Online Request - Paper $ 8 Transcript Online Request - Electronic $ 15 Transcript Manual Request and Payment $ 25 Transcript Emergency Service
- International Application Fee: $50
- Technology Service Fee: $20/credit hour
- Web Course Fee: $6/credit hour
- OER Fee: $10
- Late Payment Fee
- Full-time: $20
- Part-time: $10
- Matriculation Fee: $50 (one time only)
- Experiential Credit: $50
- Returned Check Fee: $25/occurrence
- Study Abroad Program Fee: $200
- Administrative Withdrawal Fee
- Full-time: $100/semester
- Part-Time: $10/credit
Other Fees
- Activity Fee (on-campus, day & evening students)
- Full-time: $189/semester
- Per credit hour: $12.60 part-time; $6.30 evening
- ID Card: $17/semester
- Accident Insurance
- Fall - $30 (annual)
- Spring - $17 (semester)
- Health Center Fee
- Full-time: $60/semester
- Part-time: $4/credit hour
- Student Health Insurance
- International (F1) students, Mandatory: $110/month
- Course Specific Fees
* New York State residents must provide a valid Certificate of Residence to be eligible for NYS resident tuition. Certificates are issued to you by your home county and are generally valid for a period of one year unless otherwise noted by your County Treasurer. You may apply for your certificate no sooner than 60 days before the beginning of classes, but no later than 30 days after the start of classes. If we do not receive your certificate of residence you will be responsible to pay the non–resident portion of your tuition. County-specific instructions and applications are available on our website. For assistance regarding eligibility and renewal policies contact your County Treasurer's office.
On-Campus Housing and Meal Plans
Tompkins Cortland Community College offers on-campus housing primarily in a four-student, apartment-style setting. Housing costs are dependent on building selection and number of roommates (options other than four-student settings are available) and require a meal plan.
Housing along with the meal plan will affect the estimated cost of attendance for Tompkins Cortland Community College students.
Refund Policy
Fall/Spring Only; based on a 15-week schedule
If you drop a course or withdraw from the College, you will be charged non-refundable tuition, fees, housing and meals according to the following schedule for 15-week courses. Non-refundable charges will be prorated on a similar schedule for courses less than 15 weeks. Payments in excess of final liability will be refunded to the student. Non-payment of tuition and fees does not constitute an automatic withdrawal.
Prior to the start of classes: 0%
During the first week of classes: 25%
During the second week of classes: 50%
During the third week of classes: 75%
After the third week of classes: 100%
Summer Only
If you drop a course or withdraw from the College, you will be charged non-refundable tuition and fees according to the following schedule:
On or before the last date to drop a course: 0%
After the last date to drop a course: 100%
Housing Security Deposit Refund Policy - Refer to the Residence Hall Contract and the housing confirmation letter.
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Focus on Economic Data: The Federal Reserve System and Monetary Policy - February 2, 2005
The Federal Reserve continued a pattern of gradually increasing its target for short-term interest rates. It was the sixth consecutive increase of .25 percent. The Federal Reserve is steadily reducing the monetary stimulus which it used to encourage expansion in the U.S. economy following the 2001 recession.
Discount Rate, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Structure, Fiscal Policy, Interest Rate, Monetary Policy, Open Market Operations, Reserve Requirements
Current Key Economic Indicatorsas of November 30, -0001
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"The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 2-1/2 percent.
"The Committee believes that, even after this action, the stance of monetary policy remains accommodative and, coupled with robust underlying growth in productivity, is providing ongoing support to economic activity. Output appears to be growing at a moderate pace despite the rise in energy prices, and labor market conditions continue to improve gradually. Inflation and longer-term inflation expectations remain well contained.
"The Committee perceives the upside and downside risks to the attainment of both sustainable growth and price stability for the next few quarters to be roughly equal. With underlying inflation expected to be relatively low, the Committee believes that policy accommodation can be removed at a pace that is likely to be measured. Nonetheless, the Committee will respond to changes in economic prospects as needed to fulfill its obligation to maintain price stability.
"Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Alan Greenspan, Chairman; Timothy F. Geithner, Vice Chairman; Ben S. Bernanke; Susan S. Bies; Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.; Edward M. Gramlich; Jack Guynn; Donald L. Kohn; Michael H. Moskow; Mark W. Olson; Anthony M. Santomero; and Gary H. Stern."In a related action, the Board of Governors unanimously approved a 25-basis-point increase in the discount rate to 3-1/2 percent. In taking this action, the Board approved the requests submitted by the Boards of Directors of the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco."
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Reasons for a Case Study on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
This case study is intended to guide students and teachers through an analysis of the actions the Federal Open Market Committee (or FOMC) is taking to ensure stable prices and sustainable growth in output and income. An understanding of monetary policy in action is fundamental to developing a thorough understanding of macroeconomics and the U.S. economy.
Notes to Teachers
The material in this case study in italics is not included in the student version. This initial case study of the semester introduces relevant concepts and issues. Subsequent case studies following FOMC announcements will describe the announcement and add concepts and complexity throughout the semester.
You may wish to use the following larger versions of the graphs and tables from this lesson for overhead projection or handouts in class:
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Guide To Announcement
The first paragraph of the meeting announcement summarizes the current monetary policy changes - this month it is the decision to raise the target federal funds rate by one-quarter of one percent. (There are 100 basis points in one percentage point. Thus, 25 basis points is one-quarter of one percent.)
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors also sets the discount rate, through a technical process of approving requests of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks. The discount rate is discussed in the final paragraph of the announcement. It was also increased by one-quarter of a percent. This change parallels the change in the target federal funds rate.
The second paragraph of the release is a discussion of the reasoning behind the decisions. There is only a one-word change from the previous month's announcement. The first sentence means that the committee believes that current monetary policy remains stimulative. Output is increasing at a rate fast enough to gradually increase employment, yet not so fast that inflationary pressures are created.
An indication of likely future policy is in the third paragraph. The Federal Reserve indicates that the risks of inflation are not great and that the rate of growth of real GDP will likely continue. Because of this view, committee members believe that there is no longer a need for stimulative monetary policy. Therefore, they will continue to raise target federal funds rates until there is no longer monetary stimulus. (That likely implication is that the target federal funds rate will continue to be raised by .25 percent at each meeting until it somewhere between 3 and 4 percent.)
The last sentence of the paragraph simply refers to the very real possibility of changes in economic conditions in the meantime and that the committee will respond to those changes in manners it believes are appropriate.
The fourth paragraph describes the votes of the FOMC members on changing the target federal funds rate. All members of the FOMC voted to leave the target federal funds rate unchanged. (Some members have been added and some removed since the previous announcement as the voting rotates among the Federal Reserve Bank Presidents.)
The final paragraph describes the related change in the discount rate.
Data Trends
The Federal Reserve lowered the target federal funds rate from January of 2001 to June of 2003 in response to slowing growth and the recession of 2001. In June of 2004, the FOMC began to reduce the amount of stimulus from monetary policy as members believed that the economy had sufficient stimulus to return to steady growth and that too much continued stimulus would lead to inflationary pressures. Therefore the committee has increased the target federal funds rate at every meeting since by .25 of a percent. It is likely to continue doing so at a similar rate until the committee no longer views the policy as a stimulative one. Most observers would say that the rate will end up being between 3 and 4 percent, perhaps closer to 4 percent.
Figure 1 shows the path of the target federal funds rate since 1990. The gray areas indicate the recessionary periods in 1990-1991 and in 2001.
Recent History of FOMC Actions
The FOMC used monetary policies actively throughout much of the 1990s. The FOMC lowered the target federal funds rate in a series of steps beginning in July of 1990 until September of 1992, all in response to a recession beginning in July of 1990 and ending in March of 1991. Then as inflationary pressures began to increase in 1994, the Federal Reserve began to raise rates in February. In response to increased inflationary pressures once again in 1999, the Federal Reserve raised rates six times from June 1999 through May of 2000.
During the last half of the 1990s, real GDP grew at more rapid rates than in the first half of the decade. That growth began to slow in 2000. Real GDP increased at annual rates of 4.5 percent and 3.7 percent in 1999 and 2000. For 2001 as a whole, real GDP increased only by .8 percent. The slowing growth and actual decline in real GDP over the third quarter of 2000 and the eventual declines in the first and third quarters of 2001 were indications of the need to use a monetary policy that would boost spending in the economy. The FOMC responded, beginning in January of 2001, by cutting the target federal funds rate throughout the rest of the 2001.
From January 3 to December 11 of 2001, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) lowered the target federal funds rate eleven times from 6.50 percent to 1.75 percent, at that time, the lowest target federal funds rate in forty years. During the fourth quarter of 2001, real GDP rebounded, but only at an annual rate of 1.6 percent. Real GDP increased only at a rate of 1.9 percent in 2002. At all of the 2002 meetings prior to the November meeting, the FOMC decided to leave the federal funds rate unchanged. In November, the target federal funds rate was once again lowered to 1.25 percent. Then in June of 2003, following a first quarter increase in real GDP of only 1.9 percent, the target federal funds rate was lowered once again, this time to 1 percent. (For more on changes in the rate of growth of real GDP and the recession, see the most recent GDP Case Study.)
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
The primary function of the Federal Open Market Committee is to direct monetary policy for the U.S. economy. The FOMC meets approximately every six weeks. (The next meeting is March 22, 2005.) The seven Governors of the Federal Reserve Board and five of the twelve Presidents of the Federal Reserve Banks make up the committee. The Federal Reserve Governors are appointed by the U.S. President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The Boards of each Federal Reserve Bank select the presidents of the banks.
How does Monetary Policy Work?
Monetary policy works by affecting the amount of money that is circulating in the economy. The Federal Reserve can change the amount of money that banks are holding in reserves by buying or selling existing U.S. Treasury bonds. When the Federal Reserve buys a bond, the seller deposits the Federal Reserves' check in her bank account. As a bank's reserves increase, it has an increased ability to make more loans, which in turn will increase the amount of money in the economy.
Competition among banks forces interest rates down as banks compete with one another to make more loans. If businesses are able to borrow more to build new stores and factories and buy more computers, total spending increases. Consumer spending that partially depends upon levels of interest rates (automobile and appliances, for example) is also affected. Output will tend to follow and employment may also increase. Thus unemployment will fall. Prices may also increase.
When the Federal Reserve employs an expansionary monetary policy, it buys bonds in order to expand the money supply and simultaneously lower interest rates. Although gross domestic product and investment increase, this may also stimulate inflation. If growth in spending exceeds growth in capacity, inflationary pressures tend to emerge. If growth in spending is less than the growth in capacity, then the economy will not be producing as much as it could. As a result, unemployment may rise.
When the Federal Reserve adopts a restrictive monetary policy it sells bonds in order to reduce the money supply and this results in higher interest rates. A restrictive monetary policy will decrease inflationary pressures, but it may also decrease investment and real gross domestic product. See the Inflation Case Study for a more detailed discussion of inflation.
Tools of the Federal Reserve
Open Market Operations
The Federal Reserve buys and sells bonds and by doing so, increases or decreases banks' reserves and their abilities to make loans. As banks increase or decrease loans, the nation's money supply changes. That, in turn, decreases or increases interest rates. Open market operations are the primary tool of the Federal Reserve. They are often used and are quite powerful. This is what the Federal Reserve actually does when it announces a new target federal funds rate. The federal funds rate is the interest rate banks charge one another in return for a loan of reserves. If the supply of reserves is reduced, that interest rate is likely to increase.
Banks earn profits by accepting deposits and lending some of those deposits to someone else. They sometimes charge fees for establishing and maintaining accounts and always charge borrowers an interest rate. Banks are required by the Federal Reserve System to hold reserves in the form of currency in their vaults or deposits with Federal Reserve System.
When the Federal Reserve sells a bond, an individual or institution buys the bond with a check on their account and gives the check to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve removes an equal amount from the customer's bank's reserves. The bank, in turn, removes the same amount from the customer's account. Thus, the money supply shrinks.
Discount Rate
The discount rate is the interest rate the Federal Reserve charges banks if banks borrow reserves from the Federal Reserve itself. Banks seldom borrow reserves from the Federal Reserve and tend to rely more on borrowing reserves from other banks when they are needed. The discount rate is often changed along with the target federal funds rate, but the discount rate change does not have a very important effect. In this announcement, the discount rate is not changed.
(Note: In January of 2003, the discount rate was changed to a level one percent above the target federal funds rate. The discount rate had been about one-half of a percent less than the target federal funds rate. Technical aspects of borrowing from the Fed were also changed at the same time. The basic functions of monetary policy were not changed.)
Reserve Requirements
Banks are required to hold a portion (either 10 or 3 percent of most deposits, depending upon the size of the bank) of some of their deposits in reserve. Reserves consist of the amount of currency that a bank holds in its vaults and its deposits at Federal Reserve banks. If banks have more reserves than they are required to have, they can increase their lending. If they have insufficient reserves, they have to curtail their lending or borrow reserves from the Federal Reserve or from another bank that may have extra, or what are called excess, reserves. The requirement is seldom changed, but it is potentially very powerful.
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The Map Thief
Maps are both beautiful works of art and practical tools to navigate the world. They're also highly collectible, and the map trade can be a cutthroat business. Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief—until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. In his book The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps, Michael Blanding tells the history of this fascinating high-stakes criminal and the industry that consumed him.