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Oregon won six events on its way to taking top honors in the Ogle County Track Meet on Tuesday in Rochelle.
The Hawks finished with 114 points, 19 more than runner-up Rochelle. Byron (70.5), Polo (67.5) and Stillman Valley (27) rounded out the field.
Claiming wins for Oregon were Ashton Rutherford in the pole vault (13 feet), Garrett Newman in the 400 (51.74) and Jake Kleveland in the 300 IH (42.75).
The Hawks also won the 400 (44.34), 800 (1:32.85) and 1,600 (3:33.15) relays.
The lone champ for Polo was Bryan Kraft, who won the 110 hurdles (16.24).
Girls track
Oregon 2nd, Polo 3rd at Ogle County: Cydney Long was part of three wins on the track, and the Hawks won four of the six field events in a runner-up finish to Byron at the Ogle County Meet in Rochelle.
Long won the 100 hurdles (16.86 seconds) and 200 (27.49), and also ran in the 400 relay (51.40). She teamed with Emylyn Wright, Whitney Long and Devyn Absher in the 400 relay, and that quartet also took second in the 800 relay (1:50.57).
Shannon Cullen won both the shot put (37 feet, 9 inches) and discus (106-1), while Sarah Lauer won both the triple jump (33-5) and long jump (16-0 1/2) for Oregon. The Hawks also won the 3,200 relay in 10:57.56.
Byron won the meet with 136 points, just ahead of Oregon's 133. Polo-Forreston was third with 50, led by Mykil Baker's runner-up finishes in the shot put (35-2) and discus (104-2).
Panthers win Kewanee invite: Erie-Prophetstown piled up nine wins and swept all four relays on the way to the handily winning the team title at the Brockman Invitational in Kewanee.
Courtney Cobert and Peyton Rus led the Panthers, taking part in four wins apiece as Erie-Prophetstown piled up 163 points. Runner-up Annawan was a distant second with 102 points. Bureau Valley was sixth with 49.5 points.
Cobert won the 100 (13.19) and was a member of the winning 400 (50.49), 800 (1:47.54) and 1,600 (4:07.05) relays. Rus was also on the 400 and 800 relays, and won the long jump (16-10 3/4) and 200 (26.62).
Rachel Cobert and Paige Rus were each in on three wins for the Panthers; Cobert the 400, 800 and 1,600 relays, and Rus the 800 and 1,600 relays and triple jump (34-9 1/2).
Bureau Valley's lone win came from distance star Regan Weidner in the 1,600 (5:33.57).
Boys tennis
Rochelle 3, Dixon 2: The Dukes won one singles match and one doubles match, but dropped a NIB-12 dual at home.
Matthew Kerr blanked Logan Quest 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 singles for Dixon (0-7, 0-7), while Kurt Gale and Romulo Lobo won a 6-2, 6-2 decision at No. 1 doubles.
Newman 7, St. Bede 2: The Comets won five singles matches and two doubles contests to even their season record to 8-8.
Connor Knack, Luke LeMay, Noah Leffelman, Drew Burger and Ken Ellorando won the Nos. 2-6 singles matches in straight sets. LeMay and Ryan Schaab teamed up to win in three sets at No. 1 doubles, and Connor Brown and Todd Nelson won 6-1, 6-1 at No. 3 doubles.
Tuesday's stars
Courtney Cobert and Peyton Rus, E-P girls track, part of 4 wins apiece
Cydney Long, Oregon girls track, won 2 individual events, 1 relay
Luke LeMay, Newman boys tennis, won singles & doubles


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Omega-3s and Sleep
It seems that the list of omega-3 benefits is ever growing. In everything from supporting a healthy cardiovascular system to healthy joints, inflammation levels, eyes, mood, bones and skin, omega-3s do a lot.
Now, recent research points toward the idea that omega-3s, particularly DHA, may positively affect the quality of sleep. Although there are few studies on the relationship between omega-3s and sleep, some studies show that higher levels of omega-3s are associated with fewer sleeping problems in both children and adults. In fact, a newer study from Oxford University says that of children studied who took 600mg daily of the omega-3 DHA for four months, they slept for an hour longer each night with fewer sleep disturbances.
At the beginning of the study, parents and caregivers rated the children's sleep habits over a typical week on the well-validated Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire. The responses indicated that about 40 percent of the children had clinical-level sleep problems, including resisting bedtime, being anxious about sleep and frequent waking throughout the night.
The study's findings were published in the Journal of Sleep Research.
What does all this mean? Paul Montgomery, study author and professor of psycho-social intervention at the University of Oxford, believes this: DHA helps to release melatonin, the hormone that gets you to sleep. "In turn, that helped with the onset of sleep and the stabilization of it," Montgomery explains. Additionally, it was noted that while melatonin levels change throughout life, omega-3s seem to help normalize those shifts in melatonin levels.
Montgomery also points out that omega-3s can support a healthy mental state in adults. "Core features of unhealthy mental states are sleep problems, and it wouldn't surprise me if these things were linked," he states.
While more studies need to be done on the relationship between omega-3 intake and sleep, the findings look promising—especially since omega-3s have a long list of health benefits already.
How can you get more omega-3s in your diet? Some excellent sources of omega-3s include coldwater fish, preferably wild, such as salmon, cod, halibut and tuna; organic eggs from hens allowed to feed on insects. Likewise, you can get ample omega-3s from flaxseeds and flaxseed oil; chia seeds; walnuts and other nuts; and more.
You can even get raw omega-3s in your diet, including some raw vegetables, fruits and nuts. There are even "hidden" omega-3s in foods such as fermented dairy—including yogurt, kefir, cream and hard cheeses—as well as strawberries; blueberries; raspberries; avocados; spinach; zucchini; kale; broccoli; quinoa; lentils; barley; and more.So, enjoy those omega-3s! It could mean better sleep quality.

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National Children's Alliance, under agreement with the United States Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, recently awarded The Child Advocacy Program of Chautauqua County $42,000 to address mental health needs of children who have experienced the trauma of abuse.
Overall, the federal grants totaled more than $9.8 million and were distributed in the form of 91 awards to children's advocacy centers, multi-disciplinary teams and state chapter organizations across the country.
The Child Advocacy Program of Chautauqua County will use the grant money to employ two part-time mental health counselors who will participate in the Duke University Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavior Therapy, year-long Learning Collaborative in Huntsville, Ala. In the future, the CAP will use the money to hire two full-time mental health counselors in order to develop a "wellness clinic" for children who have suffered from sexual and physical abuse or neglect.
"What this means for Chautauqua County is, children will be able to receive services in one child-friendly location," executive director of The Child Advocacy Program of Chautauqua County Jana McDermott said. "We offer trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, a brief and specific model of treatment, proven effective for children and families. We are proud to be able to deliver such a vital service."
The National Children's Alliance is a national funding source that supports grant recipients in the following areas: Children's Advocacy Center Response to the U.S. District of Columbia; Children's Advocacy Center Response to Commercially Sexually Exploited Children; Program Improvement; Urban initiatives; State Chapter Development; and State Chapter Support of Children's Advocacy Centers.
CAP brings together a team of community agencies and professionals to create a child-first approach to physical and sexual abuse. Coordinating investigative and intervention services, including trauma-focused counseling, in a child-friendly setting, ensures that children are not re-victimized by the very systems designed to protect them. CAP also provides education and awareness to county residents in order to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse, through the nationally renowned Stewards of Children campaign.
National Children's Alliance is the national association and accrediting body for the over 750 children's advocacy centers serving each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Dedicated to helping local communities respond to allegations of child abuse in ways that are effective and efficient, and put the needs of child victims of abuse first, National Children's Alliance provides support and advocacy to its accredited membership, as well as numerous developing centers, multidisciplinary teams and child abuse professionals around the country, and the world. As the national authority on multidisciplinary approaches to supporting child victims of abuse, the purpose of National Children's Alliance is to empower local communities to provide comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate services to victims of child abuse. Founded in 1998, National Children's Alliance provides accreditation opportunities, financial assistance, training, technical assistance, research and education to communities, child abuse professionals and children's advocacy centers throughout the United States in support of child abuse intervention, advocacy and prevention.
For more information about CAP, visit capjustice.org or like them on Facebook. For more information on National Children's Alliance and the various benefits it offers it's over 750 members across the country, including financial assistance, visit www.nationalchildrensalliance.org. CAP is a United Way Agency.


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All the coolest technology is always now()+25 years away.
That's because most people have no idea how cool the now technology is. The Internet is absolutely amazing on pretty much every technological level, and yet to 95% of the world, its technology is indistinguishable from the magic of a radio.
A few month ago, I sat in a pub watching (live) an Astronaut operating on the internals of the Hubble Space Telescope. On my phone.
We live in te goddamn future!
Your future is happening 40 years after I sat at my home watching (live) an Astronaut walking on the Moon.
I would gladly exchange all the cellphones in the world for being able to walk on the moon.
I would gladly exchange all the cellphones in the world for being able to walk on the moon.
You know, I'm thinking that the ability for *anyone* to communicate instantly with *anyone else* in the world by voice or text (or for a few, video) with just a tiny box about the size and shape of a "communicator" from Star Trek from—get this—40 years ago, is probably better than sitting at home watching on TV a couple of other guys bounce around hitting golf balls on a cold, dead rock that offers us no immediate chance for advancement beyond the psychological thrill of saying "someone else oth
the issue is not fusion itself, but a fusion reactor that produce more output then the input needed to maintain fusion.
All the coolest technology is always now()+25 years away.
No, the coolest technology is now being used by off-the-books military "black" ops and weapons programs. It's always +25 years away for the rest of us, though.
I remember back in the 70's when people were being ridiculed for reporting sightings of large triangular craft which were very quiet and flew low over ranches out West.
Of course, they were stealth aircraft, which were being used in all sorts of black bag missions overseas. Today, it's probably
All the coolest technology is always now()+25 years away.
Of course it is. Once it's just around the corner, it's boring, since you've seen every tiny step leading up to it.
Meanwhile, these days, I can just go out and buy an electric car...
When I first read about e-ink it was about 5 years away. That was the case from 1995-2001 or so.
The other planes....I just imagined the airline packing those suckers and having more than one middle seat. And you know they'll be charging extra for the window or the isle seat.
Actually Concord was generating 25% of BOAC's profits.
Operationally. The program overall never covered its costs. Developing airplanes costs a lot of money.
The first car was unprofitable. The first version of the Internet was unprofitable. The first everything is generally unprofitable. Reduce fuel costs by about 50%, reduce sonic boom to match federal guidelines for land crossing, and you have a profitable supersonic airplane.
Don't forget, the Concord was '70s technology. Even 90s technology could have done better.
The thing wasn't cheap, but there was no other option on Earth. There simply wasn't (and isn't) a way to get between NY and London faster. You can't buy a supersonic jet, and the military won't let you borrow one.
You can't buy a supersonic jet
There are one or two supersonic business jets, but they're so expensive (about as expensive as buying an ex-mil supersonic jet and getting it refurbished to the required standard) that "you can't buy one" essentially still applies.
There aren't any. Various manufacturers have looked at making them, and some may eventually be produced, but as of now there are no supersonic business jets on the market.
You can't buy a supersonic jet, and the military won't let you borrow one.
Supersonic jets want to be free, so if you got you hands on one, it wouldn't be stealing. I think.
reduce sonic boom to match federal guidelines for land crossing
Currently, federal guidelines are mutually exclusive to any aircraft which breaks the sound barrier. This is something current aerospace biggies have repeatedly pointed out. We already have designs which can satisfy all reasonable super sonic noise demands. Meaning, you *might* occasionally hear a very distant boom but you would never have the associated window shaking.
Besides, most (all?) studies indicate the vast majority of complaints associated with sonic booms never actually existed. More often than no
If true then the lobbyists should have no problems changing the regulations.
Since it hasn't been done either it is not that simple of an issue, or no one has put forth the money to have the regulation changed.
I'm sure once an aerospace firm has a design in testing the regulations will be changed.
If true then the lobbyists should have no problems changing the regulations.
They were actually well on their way of addressing it when super sonic transports were all but canceled because of fuel economics. So until economics make it politically viable to address it again, I don't expect it will change.
So the Concorde was uneconomical when fuel was much cheaper, so all we have to do is make fuel half a cheap as it is now, even though it's only going to get more expensive in the future? American guidelines have nothing to do with it, the point of supersonic travel is transoceanic.
Only when you can't fly it overland at top speed. Plus have to deal with a nose that dips to land and a bunch of other stuff that was neat in the 60s but crap today.
You say you want to save massive amounts of energy, and then you show me a design that is not a flying wing. Slashdot, you have some aerospace engineers lying around, so help me out: what gives?
Flying wings have many excellent characteristics but mass passenger transport isn't one of them.
In order to accommodate large passenger loads the flying wing shape becomes abused which leaves behind many of the characteristics which make the flying wing attractive in the first place. Once you modify the flying wing shape to accommodate large passenger loads, you more or less have a shape which is portrayed in the designs presented. And once you accommodate construction/materials issues, it almost exactly looks like the designs presented.
In other words, I'm not really seeing a problem. But, as you mention, hopefully some designers won't be silent.
Another problem is turning. Right now sitting close to the center of gravity, when a plane turns you travel a few feet up or down. If you were sitting 20 or 30 feet from the center of gravity, you would travel much further. Most people would feel very uncomfortable doing this. Pilots would have to perform only flat turns, using the rudders. I don't know how practical this would be.
Another problem is turning. Right now sitting close to the center of gravity, when a plane turns you travel a few feet up or down. If you were sitting 20 or 30 feet from the center of gravity, you would travel much further.
I'd pay extra for a seat further out. Assuming I don't have the flu or something, that would be fun.
Alas, my wife would insist on the CoG rows.
I am no aerospace engineer, about as far from it as you can get, but I would think that wing = drag.
Yes, some drag is needed for lift, but can you fit enough passengers in just a wing and then can you fit that wing on a runway?
I am no aerospace engineer, about as far from it as you can get, but I would think that wing = drag.
Congrats on accidentally making the wrongest statement ever on
A tube body can actually produce some lift if it's shaped correctly but it's very expensive to manufacture and tricky to design (see: Super Constellation).
Well, duh, induced drag IS lift; and it's pretty clear from context this is NOT the type of drag the GP was talking about.
No it was what I was talking about. It was pretty clear, but somehow you missed it.
Well, on the free body diagrams I drew in my flight dynamics classes, Jeng is more right than you are.
Induced drag is the component of the lift vector that opposes the thrust vector. Induced drag is a component of the net drag on the airframe. It's not generally useful to think of induced drag as a part of the lift force.
You can draw your vectors however you want, but nitpicking other peoples' coordinate systems doesn't make you look like you know what you're talking about.
Passengers like pressurized cabins, tubes are easy to build and keep pressurized. Complex shapes are not easy to build if you want to keep them pressurized.
it's not a huge pressure differential. Less than a few feet of water in reality.
You realize that "just a few feet of water" is more like 22 feet (7.5m) of water.
At 35000 feet (10.5 km) cruising altitude for non-super sonic airplanes, air density is 25% of see level air density. 1 atmosphere is about the pressure of 10m of water column.
Everest is "just" 8848 m, and yet very few can breathe easily without several days acclimatization.
See altitude sickness. Even oxygen masks may not be enough at very low pressures.
You are right on. Wikipedia confirms this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization [wikipedia.org]
Although to be honest, altitudes around 7,000' aren't that bad. I've been in aircraft with the doors open above 15,000' without noticing anything except my ears popping. I'm not sure I could comfortably jog at that altitude but then again that's not something you typically do on an airplane.
I've spent countless hours on military cargo aircraft (that were sealed like a screen door), flying at cruising altitude, without
You are right on. Wikipedia confirms this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization [wikipedia.org]
Although to be honest, altitudes around 7,000' aren't that bad. I've been in aircraft with the doors open above 15,000' without noticing anything except my ears popping. I'm not sure I could comfortably jog at that altitude but then again that's not something you typically do on an airplane.
I've spent countless hours on military cargo aircraft (that were sealed like a screen door), flying at cruising altitude, without noticing anything. The only weird part is walking around a compartment that's twice as big as my house and few miles over the atlantic.
That's coz you're a healthy young chap.
Last flight I was on, I was sitting next to some old ladies, and several of them mentioned that they needed oxygen on longer trips after we saw an anaemic young girl faint. Her lips were blue!
Low partial pressures of oxygen are hell on people who's lungs are already borderline capable of keeping them alive at sea level.
it's not a huge pressure differential. Less than a few feet of water in reality.
Between 8 and 9 psi, typically. Almost 20 feet of water. It's not such a big deal when the structure is circular since the stress is all tension. Much tougher when you try to build large, flat surfaces.
Yeah, and how big of a pressure vessel are you talking about? The strength of the pressure vessel does not depend only on the pressure differential, but also on the volume enclosed.
It's harder than you think it is.
A relatively minor turn that would barely be noticed in a tubular airframe would be magnified into a fifteen foot drop or rise towards the edges.
Why do you think it'd feel like a 15 foot drop or rise? I doubt it would, if the turn were done smoothly. From what I'm reading, roll control (the control of rotation of the axis along the direction of travel) is not a serious issue with flying wings. That seems to indicate to me that the issue of storms and such (most which wouldn't generate a significant rolling motion in the vehicle) is a bit exaggerated.
Why do you think it'd feel like a 15 foot drop or rise? I doubt it would, if the turn were done smoothly. From what I'm reading, roll control (the control of rotation of the axis along the direction of travel) is not a serious issue with flying wings. That seems to indicate to me that the issue of storms and such (most which wouldn't generate a significant rolling motion in the vehicle) is a bit exaggerated.
I didn't say it'd feel like, I said it would be. Obviously I have no way of knowing how many flights you've been on, but, next time you're on one, look out the window from right after takeoff until about fifteen minutes into the flight. Do the same thing at the end of the flight. Watch the wingtips in comparison to level reference, the ground or horizon or clouds. Note how the plane has to bank rather frequently after takeoff and before landing. Note how the wingtips of your plane go up and down several fee
Read the article, it seems to indicate that gas turbines are used to generate power which then powers electric motors that spin props. This would get you around lots of propfan issues.
I base this on the following from the article:
which includes an electric battery gas turbine hybrid propulsion system
I'm very surprised that a turbine driving an generator, powering an electric motor driving a fan is more efficient (including the extra weight) than a turbine directly driving the fan. Airliners usually cruise at altitudes where the engines are run at near max-efficiency power (at that altitude).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propfan [wikipedia.org]
This takes that idea to the next level.
Boeing's Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research (SUGAR) Volt concept is a twin-engine aircraft design notable for its trussed, elongated wings and electric battery gas turbine hybrid propulsion system
I think they just should have tried a less ambitious project, like building a Flying Car, instead.
"Ultra Green?" So what's the superlative for that? "Giga Green?" "iGreen?" Or what?
It's like, how much more green could this be? and the answer is none. None more green.
I had 'jet fuel' as on my list of things that wouldn't ever likely get replaced with electric storage, and now this reduces the list a bit. Can we just start putting up some modern nuclear reactors and get out of the Middle East then? We've got plenty of sources here for real oil needs.
No one has died of a radiation-related accident in the history of the U.S. civilian nuclear reactor program. [washingtonpost.com] but 10,000 or so Americans have died so far as a result of making war in the Middle East. [icasualties.org]
Plastics and lube can be made from plant materials, or hell with enough power you can make all the hydrocarbons you want from water and air.
Close. The Fischer-Tropsch process uses hydrogen and carbon monoxide (CO) and the catalyst used in reactors can be from cobalt, iron, ruthenium and nickel. Synthesis gas or water gas is another source of H2 and CO. It is derived by passing steam over a bed of red hot hydrocarbon fuel such as coke. The result is a CO and hydrogen mix. Biomass can also be used to produce CO as well (and possibly syn-gas.) So in theory we can produce carbon neutral hydrocarbon fuels from biomass and hydrogen from water. Plus y
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! The folks in the US got their drawers in a knot, when the Concorde wanted to fly over, "because it was too loud." What do you think they will say, when they have a Hiroshima or Nagasaki flying over their heads?
Everyone can stomach a nuclear submarine or aircraft carrier, because, well, they aren't going to dock in their backyard. (Apologies to the folks in Groton, Norfolk, and San Diego). If an accident happens, only a few whales, and other sea critters will be harmed.
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! The folks in the US got their drawers in a knot, when the Concorde wanted to fly over, "because it was too loud." What do you think they will say, when they have a Hiroshima or Nagasaki flying over their heads?
Stop getting your panties all bunched up... You do realize that the comment you're replying to talked about "electric storage"? Noone is gung-ho about flying nuclear ('cept maybe Emmet "Doc" Brown)... but if you can generate electrical via Nuclear (and Wind/Solar) and
Hey! You forgot Everett, WA! USS Abraham Lincoln hangs out here sometimes.
These things are still going to be carrying oil of some description rather than charged up batteries for most of their energy requirements. The additional weight of batteries is not going to make sense for an aircraft.
So what is the advantage of a hybrid plane? Unless there has been some sort of breakthrough in battery technology, the extra weight your carrying around is going to use more energy. A discharged battery is not substantially lighter than a full one, whereas with liquid fuel tanks weigh a lot less when (nearly ) empty..
I guess you can get a bit of energy back on landing with regenerative braking, but not enough to make up for the extra weight.
Battery weight could certainly be an issue. I suppose though that you could start off fully charged on the ground and use that for a boost to get you aloft.
Something that comes to mind is that, AFAIK, in a hybrid system you try to keep the combustion engine turning at it's ideal RPM regardless of load. Assuming that's the case, would there be periods where you might have extra capacity beyond what's needed for the electric motors and other electrical systems? Let's assume there is - what do you do with i
Not to be pedantic, but... OK, I'll be pedantic.
The long tube supporting the wing (on the ground) is called a strut, not a truss.
What surprises people is that the strut actually holds the wing down in flight. Saves you the weight of designing for massive bending moments at the fuselage at the expense of more drag in flight.
That was the trade off the Gossamer Condor made to become the first human powered aircraft to pass whatever milestone it did - rather than take the weight associated with an internally br
"The goal of the NASA supersonic research program is to find aircraft designs that will significantly reduce noise, nitrogen oxide emissions, fuel burn and air traffic congestion by the year 2035."
Reduce air traffic congestion?
What? Are they solar powered and only fly on the sunny side o' Earth?
The article mentioned both air-speed decreases and fueling/loading times lowered. Both of those mean more airtime, which in turn means more planes in the air at any given time. How does that equate to "reduced air t
NASA is taking an integrated approach to the problem. By carefully scheduling arrivals and departures to minimize loitering, you reduce fuel burn. You have to be clever in how you control aircraft that fly closer to one another than they're allowed to today. It's a complex problem.
In less than a century, computers will be making substantial progress on ... the overriding problem of war and peace. -- James Slagle


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Some more shots from that scene....
Gotta LOVE those scenes!!!!!
thanks lover....look what youve done to me
"What the Hell. When did he get so muscular?" - My thought when I saw him on the episode. It's changing his face though.
Piranha from 2010 was on cable tonight. Terrible movie, great shots of SRMcQ.
^dude thats harsh...its a fun movie with some awesome gore and humor
As luck would have it, STEVEN R MCQUEEN SLASH SERIES has been updated with Episode 2 : The Colleague
^so freakin hot dude....looks like 2 threads need combined mods
thanks hornyalltime
I love this guy! So sexy! He needed more screen time on Vampire Diaries. And why was he always wearing clothes?
Little late, but as luck would have it, STEVEN R MC QUEEN SLASH SERIES has been updated with Episode 3 : The Burglar
As luck would have a very special A SLASH SERIES SPECIAL has been written!
For those who have the link, you know where to go.
For those who don't, PM me and I'll send you the link!
I only recently found out that slash fiction exists. I had no idea it was as big as it evidently is. Who is the other character in the slash?
HOT Jeremy!
Great episode tonight. Prolonged shots of Jeremy (Steven) shirtless. Chewy nipples, nicely muscled, trim body. First time in years he's shown lots of skin. He's worked hard on that body. I respect him greatly for that.
LOVED that ending! He's SO Beautiful!!!
Great pictures ^
Thanks for them, with that said, I'll be busy for the next 15-20 minutes
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If only the CW had an X-rated partner channel that aired the "directors' cuts" of these shows.
Yum! Been waiting on him to show some skin, and it was more than worth the wait.
LOTS of new Steven R. McQueen fic updates!
STEVEN R MCQUEEN SLASH SERIES has been updated with Episode 4 : THE BLACK KNIGHT.
STEVEN R MCQUEEN SLASH SERIES has been updated with Episode 5 : THE TRAP.
A SLASH SERIES SPECIAL has been updated with THE CUSTOMERS.
A SLASH SERIES SPECIAL has been updated! [with Michael Trevino/Steven R. McQueen]
A) Either send me a PM and I'll send you the link.
or B) I'll link it here? Is that allowed?
It's never too early in the year,
to spread some goodwill cheer!
It's never too early in the year,
to spread some goodwill cheer!
I don't think I'd care for a X-rated version of The Vampire Diaries. Only if Matt and Jeremy banged. They're the only two men on the show I find attractive. Especially if the former is wearing glasses!
Also disappointed I had to watch the entire episode up to the last minute to see him rip his shirt off!
Oh dear lord.. Tonight's episode.. It started so well with Jeremy shirtless.. but the end.. The Vampire Diaries is making big mistakes right now... Losing their two hottest guys and probably killing off their only witch (haha little off topic^^)... I get the feeling that season 4 will be the last season I'm watching.
Jeremy got really buff for this season because of all the shirtless scenes that were to happen with the 'emerging tattoo" storyline. Let's just say that if I had been told how that tattoo story was gonna play out, I think I would have had said, "go to hell, catering bring me some doughnuts NOW".
One rule on this show, nobody stays dead for long.
haha but there were some spoilers SPOILER: so someone from season 1 is going to die, and it's going to be permanent.. and it's one of the main characters, so either Jeremy stays dead or Bonnie will die ^^ Since the event is going to be "show changing" I don't think it will be Matt... talking about Matt.. I want some sex scenes of Zach Roerig!! Maybe with a good look at his ass :P
Steven is so fucking HOT!! damn
anyway can you pm the slash series you are talking about? i have no idea what that is
thank you
FUCK THAT.....im so over vampire diaries for what they did last night.....i cant even tell you how fuckin pissed off i am
Sad that Jeremy had to go, especially since they just found an excuse to get him shirtless often! But his character had run his course long ago, sadly. This was a smart move for the show. The quest to bring back Elena's humanity pushed her further towards the path of becoming a monster... But that's neither here nor there.
hes dead dude....bitch elana burnt his ass up....im done watching....he was the best thing on that show


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The Cassia County Sheriff's Office in south-central Idaho is offering free instruction for enhanced concealed carry gun permits.
Sheriff Jay Heward tells The Times-News that so many residents are interested he decided to offer the eight-hour class for free.
The course taken elsewhere can cost $150. The enhanced permit is honored in Nevada, Washington, New Mexico, Virginia and South Carolina.
The course includes safety instruction and requires each student to shoot 100 rounds on a gun range under the instruction of police.
The instructor, Lt. Kevin Horak, says the course is about being safe and knowing what is expected if a person chooses to carry a concealed weapon.
The Sheriff's office held its first course Saturday and plans to hold three more this year.


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- John Anderson (1893–1962): Scottish-born Australian philosopher, founder of the empirical philosophy known as 'Sydney realism'.[1]
- Hector Avalos (1958–): Mexican-American professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University and author of several books about religion.[2]
- A. J. Ayer (1910–1989): British philosopher and advocate of logical positivism. Though technically he viewed the idea of God existing as meaningless, he was happy to call himself an atheist.[3][4]
- Julian Baggini (1968–): British writer specialising in philosophy, author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction.[5]
- Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876): Russian philosopher, writer and anarchist.[6]
- Jonathan Barnes (1942–): British philosopher, translator and historian of ancient philosophy, and brother of the novelist Julian Barnes.[7]
- Bruno Bauer (1809–1882): German philosopher, theologian and historian, the first propounder of the Jesus myth hypothesis.[8]
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986): French author and existentialist philosopher. Beauvoir wrote novels and monographs on philosophy, politics, social issues and feminism.[9][10]
- Simon Blackburn (1944–): British academic atheist philosopher known for his efforts to popularise philosophy.[11]
- Yaron Brook (1961–): Israeli-born president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute.[12]
- Ludwig Büchner (1824–1899): German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents of 19th century scientific materialism.[13]
- Albert Camus (1913–1960): French philosopher and novelist, a luminary of existentialism. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.[14][15]
- Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970): German philosopher who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a prominent advocate of logical positivism.[16][17][18]
- Robert Todd Carroll (1945–): American writer and academic, professor of philosophy at Sacramento City College until 1997, and keeper of the Skeptic's Dictionary website.[19]
- David Chalmers (1966-): Australian philosopher of mind.[20]
- Noam Chomsky (1928–): American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer, Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar.[21]
- Auguste Comte (1798–1857): French positivist thinker, credited with coining the term "sociologie" (sociology).[22][23]
- André Comte-Sponville (1952–): French philosopher, author of L'Esprit de l'athéisme (2006) and The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality (2007).[24]
- Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794): French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method.[25]
- Benedetto Croce (1886–1952): Italian philosopher and public figure.[26]
- Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995): French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death, Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art.[27]
- Daniel Dennett (1942–): American philosopher, author of Breaking the Spell.[28]
- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809–1831): Anglo-Indian poet and teacher.[29]
- Diagoras of Melos (5th century BCE): Ancient Greek poet and sophist known as the Atheist of Milos, who declared that there were no Gods.[30]
- Denis Diderot (1713–84): editor-in-chief of the Encyclopédie.[31]
- Theodore Drange (1934–): Philosopher of religion and Professor Emeritus at West Virginia University. Drange authored Nonbelief & Evil: Two arguments for the nonexistence of God.[32]
- Paul Edwards (1923–2004): Austrian-American moral philosopher and editor of The Encyclopedia of Philosophy.[33]
- Dylan Evans (1966–): British philosopher, known for his work on emotion and the placebo effect.[34]
- Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872): German philosopher whose major work, The Essence of Christianity, maintains that religion and divinity are projections of human nature.[35]
- Friedrich Karl Forberg (1770–1848): German philosopher and classical scholar.[36]
- Michel Foucault (1926–1984) : French philosopher and social theorist famous for his influential analysis of power and discourse. He is best known for his revolutionary philosophical analyses of social institutions such as Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality.[37]
- A. C. Grayling (1949–): British philosopher and author of, among others, Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness.[38]
- John Harris (1947–): British professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester, and member of the UK Human Genetics Commission.[39]
- Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–71): French philosopher whose ethical and social views helped shape the school of utilitarianism later made famous by Jeremy Bentham.[31]
- Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789): French philosopher and encyclopedist, most famous as being one of the first outspoken atheists in Europe.[40]
- David Hume (1711–1776): Scottish philosopher, economist, historian and a key figure in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment.[41]
- Corliss Lamont (1902–1995): American humanist and Marxist philosopher, and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes.[42]
- Lao-Tse (604 B.C.–523 B.C.): Chinese philosopher and humanist. Often called the father of Taoism. His point of view over religion was skeptic and nontheist. His cosmological and philosophical theories use metaphysical but naturalist concepts, for example Tao, an idea about totality and cosmological chaos, origin of universe, unmaterial but perfectly natural and not supernatural or divine. The original taoist elements was metaphisical but cosmological and non theist. The religious form of taoism was created six centuries after Lao-Tse's death, and not are loyal to original concepts descripted in Lao-Tse's Tao Te King.
- David Kellogg Lewis (1941–2001): American philosopher. One of the leading thinkers of the second half of the 20th century.[43]
- Peter Lipton (1954–2007): British philosopher, the Hans Rausing Professor and Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University until his unexpected death in November 2007. He was "one of the leading philosophers of science and epistemologists in the world."[44]
- Kazimierz Łyszczyński (1634–1689): Polish noble and philosopher, author of a philosophical treatise De non existentia Dei (On the Non-existence of God), condemned to death and executed for atheism.[45]
- John Leslie Mackie (1917–1981): Australian philosopher who specialized in meta-ethics as a proponent of moral skepticism. Wrote The Miracle of Theism, discussing arguments for and against theism and concluding that theism is rationally untenable.[46]
- Michael Martin (1932–): analytic philosopher and professor emeritus at Boston University, author of, amongst others, Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (1989) and The Impossibility of God (2003).[47]
- Harriet Martineau (1802–1876): was an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist.[48]
- Karl Marx (1818–1883): philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist and revolutionary. Often called the father of communism, Marx was both a scholar and a political activist.[citation needed]
- Colin McGinn (1950–): British philosopher and author, best known for his work in the philosophy of mind.[49]
- Jean Meslier (1678–1733): French village Catholic priest who was found, on his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay, entitled Common Sense but commonly referred to as Meslier's Testament, promoting atheism.[50][51]
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–51): French physician and philosopher, earliest materialist writer of the Enlightenment, claimed as a founder of cognitive science.[52]
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873): The famous philosopher declared his atheism, and that of his father, in a famous essay published posthumously.[53]
- Michael Neumann (1946–): American professor of philosophy at Trent University, noted for his work on utilitarianism, rationality and antisemitism.[54]
- Kai Nielsen (1926–): adjunct professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Calgary.[55]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900): German philosopher whose Beyond Good and Evil sought to refute traditional notions of morality. Nietzsche penned a memorable secular statement of the Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence in Thus Spake Zarathustra and is forever associated with the phrase, "God is dead" (first seen in his book, The Gay Science).[56]
- Piergiorgio Odifreddi (1950–): Italian mathematician and popular science writer.[57]
- Michel Onfray (1958–): French philosopher, founder of Université populaire de Caen, and author of Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.[58][59]
- Graham Oppy (1960–): Australian philosopher and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University, and Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. His main area of research is the philosophy of religion.[60]
- Leonard Peikoff (1933–): an Objectivist philosopher, Ayn Rand's legal heir. He is a former professor of philosophy, a former radio talk show host, and founder of the Ayn Rand Institute.[61]
- Herman Philipse (1951–): professor of philosophy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Philipse has written many philosophical works in Dutch, including the widely-read Atheist Manifesto and the Unreasonableness of Religion (Atheistisch manifest & De onredelijkheid van religie.[62]
- Karl Popper (1902-1994): Austrian-British philosopher and professor at the London School of Economics
- James Rachels (1941–2003): American philosopher who specialized in ethics.[63]
- Ayn Rand (1905–1982): Russian-American founder of Objectivism and novelist.[12]
- Jean-François Revel (1924–2006): French politician, journalist, author, prolific philosopher and member of the Académie française.[64]
- Michael Ruse (1940–): English philosopher of science, known for his work on the argument between creationism and evolutionary biology.[65]
- Bertrand Russell, (1872–1970): British philosopher and mathematician. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. Though he considered himself an agnostic in a purely philosophical context, he said that the label atheist conveyed a more accurate understanding of his views in a popular context.[66]
- George Santayana (1863–1952): Philosopher in the naturalist and pragmatist traditions who called himself a "Catholic atheist."[67][68]
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980): French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and novelist who declared that he had been an atheist from age twelve.[69] Although he regarded God as a self-contradictory concept, he still thought of it as an ideal toward which people strive.[70] He rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964. According to Sartre, his most-repeated summary of his existentialist philosophy, "Existence precedes essence," implies that humans must abandon traditional notions of having been designed by a divine creator.[71]
- Michael Schmidt-Salomon (1967–): German philosopher, author and former editor of MIZ (Contemporary Materials and Information: Political magazine for atheists and the irreligious)[72][73]
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860): Pessimistic German philosopher and author of the book The World as Will and Representation.[74]
- John Searle (1932–): American philosopher, Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and to social philosophy.[75]
- Peter Singer (1946–): Australian utilitarian philosopher, proponent of animal rights, and Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.[76]
- George H. Smith (1949–): Libertarian philosopher, author and educator. Smith authored Atheism: The Case Against God.[77]
- Quentin Smith (1952–): Philosopher and professor of philosophy at Western Michigan University. Smith co-authored the book Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology with William Lane Craig.[78]
- Carlo Tamagnone (1937–): Italian philosopher. Theorician and historian of atheism. Wrote whether works of theoretical proposal or of historical analysis.
- Theodorus the Atheist (lived around 300 BCE): Philosopher of the Cyrenaic school who taught that the goal of life was to obtain joy and avoid grief.[79]
- Sir Bernard Williams FBA (1929–2003): British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral philosopher of his time.[80]
- Sherwin Wine (1928–2007): Founder of the non-theistic Society for Humanistic Judaism, who has also called himself an "ignostic".[81]
- Slavoj Žižek (1949–): Slovenian sociologist, postmodern philosopher, and cultural critic.[82]
- Haught, James A. 2,000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1996. ISBN 1-57392-067-3
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He's fought a deep, dark battle with depression and now Clyde Rathbone has fought his way back into the ACT Brumbies starting line-up, making his fairytale return to Super Rugby complete.
- Date
- February 11, 2013 – 4:04PM
The former Wallabies flyer will run out on the wing for the Brumbies against the Queensland Reds at Canberra Stadium on Saturday night and coach Jake White hopes it sparks a return to the club's glory days.
It will also bring up Rathbone's 50th cap for the Australian province.
A chronic knee injury forced him to retire in 2009, but a call from White last year prompted an improbable return to the team he won a championship with in 2004.
White knew Rathbone from when the pair teamed up as captain and coach of South Africa to win the 2002 under-21 World Cup.
Rathbone battled depression and weight issues in his time away from the game.
But he's impressed in two trial games, scoring three tries.
He has gradually built up his game time and was confident he can play the full 80 minutes.
The 31-year-old was both nervous and excited about playing, but ''more excited''.
''It's a pretty big occasion, just in the context of the last couple of years,'' he said.
''This game has been on the radar for a while and has been a focus of mine to get back for this.
''And in the context of our season it's pretty important.
''Personally it's going to be a big occasion, but I think for us as a group leading into the rest of the year this is a massive game.''
Rathbone has been flooded with messages of support since announcing his comeback and was grateful for the support.
He said his mental-health issues meant he rated the success of his comeback in terms of his enjoyment of the game – the usual measures of games played and tries scored were no longer relevant.
But the South African product still wanted to play every game.
''Saturday's important for a lot of reasons, but at the end of the day it's just a game of rugby and that's allowed me to train better and prepare better and not worry about games, and be excited and stimulated by them and not frantic or anxious about them,'' Rathbone said.
''Because whatever happens on Saturday, good or bad, I'm still going to make sure I enjoy Sunday, that's what's important.''
It hasn't all been smooth sailing for Rathbone, who's had to overcome hamstring and ankle problems during the pre-season, but he's forced his way into White's thinking regardless.
The Brumbies camp has repeatedly said the 26-time Wallaby has come back fitter, faster and stronger than in his glory days.
And White was hoping Rathbone's return for his landmark game, along with a mouth-watering clash against the Reds, will prompt a big crowd at Canberra Stadium.
''I think [Rathbone's] done enough to select himself … one thing I'm looking for is an old player coming back hopefully to old ways in Canberra where there's 20,000 supporters,'' White said.
''In a lot of ways we're really getting the hype up and hoping that we can challenge the supporters in Canberra and see if we can get back to those old days.''
White said Rathbone was a ''winner'' and brought that mentality with him.
It was one of the reason's he made the call to Rathbone last February to tempt him out of retirement.
''The fairytale story that he's had to endure of retiring and depression, and it wasn't done on a sentimental issue at all, it's done on talent,'' he said.
''I think that he's a winner … he won a junior world cup as the captain of the junior side I coached, and I think again that he is a winner.
''And I'm hoping that sort of influence, both off the field and on the field, is going to be something that's needed this year in terms of taking our team to be winners.''
Rathbone has locked in one spot against the Reds, leaving Joe Tomane and Henry Speight to fight it out for the other.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/rathbone-to-start-for-brumbies-in-season-opener-20130211-2e82z.html#ixzz2KZikdsIq


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"You've got to be independent, but also creative and flexible enough that you don't end up always being the odd person out." Mary Cranston, Catalyst Board of Directors
Since 2007, DirectWomen, a program created through a collaboration between the American Bar Association and Catalyst, has presented the Sandra Day O'Connor Board Excellence award to women lawyers who serve with distinction as independent board directors and work to advance diversity in the corporate boardroom.
This year's honorees are:
- Mary Cranston, Immediate Past Chair, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and a director of Catalyst, GrafTech International Ltd., Juniper Networks, Inc., International Rectifier Corporation, Exponent, Inc., and Visa Inc.
- Gloria Santona, EVP, General Counsel and Secretary at McDonald's, and a director of Aon Corporation.
Catalyst: Congratulations on receiving the Sandra Day O'Connor Award. This award is presented to women lawyers who have served with distinction on public company boards. Do you think it is more difficult to receive a board appointment as a woman, or as a lawyer?
Mary: As a lawyer, ironically. Well, maybe that's a little unfair. The obvious characteristic that most boards look for first is CEO experience, and that's a role that has been on the unfortunate side of the glass ceiling for women. The pool of women executives in general is obviously lower than it should be so for all women it's a struggle. Then you add the lawyer problem, which is a prejudice that boards have: they hire lawyers all the time, so why would they want one on the board? There are a lot of ways of overcoming it, and if you don't overcome it you'll never get on boards.
Gloria: I think lawyers are well positioned to go on boards, but people view you as not understanding business. It's a shame because the analytical approaches that we learn in law school and use throughout our careers are such that they really do serve you well on a board of directors.
Catalyst: Do you have any suggestions for how to overcome that stigma?
Mary: For women lawyers, they need to do more networking and find more sponsorship by corporate executives or directors, and they've got to start thinking about their resume. One of the things I did with mine was to focus on two to three industries I had done a lot of legal work in. Visa is a very large networking company and has had a lot of antitrust challenges, so the fact that I was an experienced antitrust practitioner wasn't enough to get me on the board, but that and my board experience got me on the board. Think about your legal background in a way that is different from how you would get hired to a law firm. How can I take everything I've done and repackage it to help the recruiting boards see that I have a very interesting, deep mix of experience? The way you normally think about your expertise in law won't resonate very well in the boardroom.
Catalyst: How do you view your board service in terms of the grander arc of your professional career?
Mary: I was very fortunate to go to Pillsbury, which had two women partners ahead of me. It was literally the only firm in the country that had that at the time. Both of these women were extremely talented and they both ended their legal careers by going on boards. So I had right in front of me this incredible visual path.
When I was elected the CEO and Chair of Pillsbury, my board at Pillsbury allowed me to go on one public board. Being on that board really helped me develop as a CEO because I had another CEO to watch. It was an incredible leadership school for me. On a board you're together a lot, and you're working on problems together and you have a shared fiduciary duty, so it creates very tight bonds of friendship. It's a very interesting dynamic that I really didn't see at all until I got on boards.
Catalyst: What has been the most rewarding aspect of being a corporate director?
Gloria: I take as much as I give. When I'm sitting in that boardroom working as a director for Aon Corporation I learn so much that I then bring back to my job. The two are synergistic because I learn so much in the boardroom at Aon, and then when I'm at McDonald's if there's a similar problem I'm enriched by the Aon experience. It's terrifically intellectually stimulating.
I also enjoy being on a board because it exposes me to people I wouldn't necessarily get to rub elbows with. I'm a general counsel so I work for a CEO—I wouldn't necessarily be on an equal basis with CEOs and former CEOs regularly. It gives me an opportunity to get to know and understand how these people, who have been very successful in their own walks of life, approach problems. It's interesting to hear from a marketing person, a finance person, and an educational or cultural leader. It's a mosaic that comes together amazingly into a nice picture.
Catalyst: What challenges have you faced during your time as a corporate director?
Gloria: The most challenging thing being a lawyer on a board is not being a lawyer. You're used to being "the lawyer," but the fact is if there's a legal issue there is someone else to look to, it's the general counsel or on occasion it might be outside counsel. It's really hard to take off that hat and say, "my role today is not to be the lawyer. My job is to work collaboratively with this group of people and try to get to a resolution."
Mary: Every board has times when things aren't going well in the company, in the business, or sometimes in the board dynamics. It's important, despite all the tight bonds, that every director in those moments really go within and be courageous enough to give the matter their independent best judgment. That doesn't mean that your way will prevail, but you get a much greater wisdom in the boardroom if everyone really tells the truth as they see it, and then works together to come up with the right answer.
When I was first on boards, I was the youngest board member, often the only woman, a lawyer not a business person. I had to remind myself regularly about this duty. It would have been so much easier for me to go with the majority. But I would always challenge myself to give it my best shot. It's probably enhanced my status on the board by being as independent as I was. You've got to be independent but also creative, and flexible enough that you don't end up always being the odd person out and refusing to compromise; that's unproductive board behavior. All my years as being a lawyer has helped me with that, because being a good counsel to your client means you give them your best ideas as honestly as you can, and then you work with them to see what they can live with. It's this constant pressure to be ever more creative to dig your way out of whatever box you happen to be in, that really leads to negotiating on boards to compromise solutions.
Catalyst: Have seen any recent trends emerging in the world of corporate governance?
Mary: One thing that I think it really critical is the urgency with which women and the gender issue are being addressed in the boardroom. There are still many boards that just give it lip service. Of course there is a lot of pressure on boards that have one or no women to put women on boards. One thing that scares me a little bit, is that there's kind of a sense in most boardrooms that 30 percent women is a safe harbor. As soon as there are three women the process goes back to finding "the right" candidate, which means the emphasis goes back to the pool of CEOs where women are hugely underrepresented. To me, it's long past the time when we should have gender equity, which is 50 percent women on boards.
Catalyst: Do you feel a personal responsibility to push for diversity in the boardroom?
Gloria: I don't think that I'm on the board to be a Hispanic woman. I'm a director who happens to be a Hispanic woman, who brings a perspective that is hopefully different and complementary to the other perspectives on the board. I don't think increasing board diversity is a side issue for a board: any board is interested in ensuring they have diverse perspectives, and that's what makes a board work. Those directors who serve on the nominating committee have to keep diversity top of mind. It's not my role to necessarily advocate, but it's fair to be someone who reminds people of what that perspective is. I don't shove that out of my personality when I'm in the room.
Mary: If I have a choice of what leadership to take, I try to take the nominating committee. I'm the chair of the nominating committee on three of my five boards. Then I run the process of director selection. I can make sure we're using headhunters that are in touch with this network, and are capable of bringing to the committee a slate of potential directors that have women of equal strength as the men.
Catalyst: Do you find you get positive reactions when the question of board diversity is broached?
Mary: I don't find any overt pushback to my bringing this up. There will be a couple of male directors who will take up the charge, if I bring it up they will jump on it, and make sure to keep pushing. That's the healthiest dynamic. I have another board or two where I am still the lone voice. You can almost hear the internal rolling of the eyes when I bring it up. That kind of behavior starts to go away when you have three women in the boardroom, but until then, the change depends on how willing to step up and be overt about it the women in the boardroom are.
Catalyst: What is your advice for women who are looking to serve on corporate boards?
Gloria: First tip is to be successful at your career, your primary career. Some people believe that you just knock on the door and people think that you're qualified to be on a board of directors and frankly you're sitting in a room with some very accomplished people, so you need to be an accomplished person to be taken seriously.
Don't start out with a public company board. If it sounds romantic, go through the steps of going on a nonprofit board to get a sense of what it's like to be on a board. Not all nonprofits are created equal, so some are more challenging than others. I had been on the boards of some professional organizations, and I had the opportunity to go on the board for a nonprofit hospital. That was a huge step up because it was a very large business even though it was a nonprofit. I learned so much from serving on that board about governance and running a business.
If you go on a board and it doesn't work for you, don't be afraid to walk away. You don't want to spend your time in a place where you find the culture isn't what you're comfortable with, or you discover that you have no particular passion for it. Be prepared to respectfully and thoughtfully walk away. You need to immerse yourself in a business, and if you find that you can't get interested in it, then it's probably not the right board. Don't jump at the first opportunity that comes down the road. Especially if it's a public board, because then it's a little harder to walk away.
Mary: You have to be realistic about whether you have the right qualifications. In the Fortune 500, over half the executives are women but mostly on the staff side. The line operating jobs tend to be the ones that qualify you for the board. In planning your career, it's not to say that you can't get on a board from some of these other roles, especially finance, but its line operating that makes you most attractive.
The other thing is that it is in fact a networking game. While headhunters are involved, more than half the board seats go through nominations that come out of the directors on the board. It's important to think about who you know on boards or around boards, and develop a relationship with them, talking to them, get them to be a coach and sponsor for you before you're ready to get on boards.


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Very VERY cute.
Very VERY cute.
Charleen and Cav's: Pippin (ruby male), Merry (b&t female), Luke (blenheim male) & Jolly (tri male puppy)
How did I miss this until now??!! What a great video. He and Shelby would get along great....both love to lay flat on their back all spread out. I was grinning listening to you all talking to him....how cute was that!!!
Loving mom to Jake, Shelby and Micah


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When I received tiny Magic for fostering five days ago he was nothing more than a skeleton with fur, but his eyes shone with love. For five days I fed him, I cleaned him, I cuddled him and I loved him..........but I got him too late. He was too weak to flourish.
I found him this morning with the look of death on his face and I held him long and close. I told him that he was my little baby and that he has been loved. I told him that it was OK for him to leave, because I knew he could then be restored to a health he never knew in this life. I waited until he was gone to cry so he would never have to see sadness. He was barely 8 weeks old. :(
RIP tiny waif. We will meet again some day.


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The lights are on
I would like to see Spyro , Crash Bandicoot.
Kingdom Hearts hands down we have been waiting over a decade for KH3 and we still aren't getting it. The closest that they have to it was Dream Drop (awesome game btw). I want KH3 before I die Square Enix
There's already a Kingdom Hearts HD remake coming out this year. For me, I'd love to see a Dino Crisis HD remake, or a reboot.
DooM 1 and 2 !!! BEST games ever! Also Timesplitters series would be GREAT in HD. The premise and story in the TS games was so awesome. I am still really surprised they got dropped this generation...
Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga would be a day one purchase for me.
Also a Vita port would be even better, for me at least.
resident evil
kingdom hearts
Yakuza 1 & 2
Vice City for sure!
GTA Vice City and San Andreas.
well first off there is already a release of the ratchet and clank HD collection on the ps3. it comes with the first one, going commando and up your arsenal. it was released with the god of war collection, infamous collection, and the resistance collection. it would be nice though for a HD remake of the def jam series, primarily fight for new york, that was top notch the best. also, if this new dragonball z battle of z becomes a fail like ultimate tenkaichi has, then there should definitely be a HD collection of the tenkaichi series. that would be mind blowing especially for tenkaichi 3 because that was one of the most best DBZ games ever released.
I'd be down for Kingdom Hearts remake
They already made a Kingdom Hearts Hd collection
crash would be great, i cant really think of any that sony has not already remade
Bethesda just remade doom 3 i dont personally think that doom 1 and 2 are really worth redoing
I can tell this bad boy is a little old, because most people wishes are coming true, if they haven't already. KH 1 & 2 will be available before Kingdom Hearts 3.
Hands down, I want a Legacy of Kain collection and an Oddbox collection for consoles. I don't even care if they are in HD, I just want to play them all in one place. 360, PS3, PS4, or XB1 I just want to see them all on one disc in my hot little hands.


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Hello dear readers! Here we are once again, anyone else have a feeling of déjà vu? With four couples left racing for their spots in the final four, Nick and Vicki ended in a distinct disadvantage last week: hours behind the other racers with a 6 hour penalty and a Speed Bump on top of that. Oh well, miracles/equalizers have been known to happen. Let us see how are racers fare this week, shall we?
The doctors are the lucky numbers ones and depart the mat at 4:37 in the afternoon and head to Seoul, South Korea. Once they are there, they will have to drive to the De-Militarized Zone with North Korea and find the Seungil Bridge. Now granted this was filmed somewhat before the current charged climate, but still not an area I would want to spend a lot of time in. The racers are understandably nervous. The first three teams find a decent flight out and we are treated to yet another life realization by Nick about the relationship he has with Vicki. Dude. Actions speak louder than words. All I am saying. Nick and Vicki do not make the flight with the others and in fact are unable to get a flight until 9 hours after the other three teams. I think we can effectively say good bye and rest in peace to this couple.
The other three teams were tasting adventure driving through this politically charged climate. They arrive to the Clue box and are instructed to take a raft down the Hantangang River and then hop into a humvee to the US Army Garrison Casey. Jill and Thomas arrive first and suit up for the raft ride, followed closely by the HSNrs and the doctors. Soon everyone is rafting down the river in the rain. All the teams were in awe of what they were actually doing and where they were doing it. I have to agree with them, it is pretty cool. But for me, I would want to make sure my wet suit was bullet proof.
Roadblock: A task that only one person of a team can perform.
Jill and Thomas make it down the river first and open the next clue to find a Roadblock. One of them will need to climb the stadium stairs and select a head band then meander through 200 soldiers practicing their ninja moves otherwise known as tae kwon do. While dodging flailing legs and arms and pummeled by shouts the team member will need to match the head band they selected with one that one of the soldiers is wearing. If they select the wrong soldier, they will have to climb the stadium stairs again, select a new head band and begin all over. When they get the right soldier, the soldier will break a board to break it revealing the next clue. Thomas goes first and is it wrong that I find myself secretly hoping for a ninja misstep resulting in a kick to his head? Yes? No? Anyone else thinking this? As he begins to run about the soldiers, Brook and Claire arrive with Brook electing to do the task. Brook finds a soldier she think matches and hands him the head band but alas it was the wrong match and she has to race for another headband. Meanwhile, Thomas finds his and gets the next clue as the soldier destroys the board. The clue instructs them to make their way to Seoul World Cup Stadium. They are followed there by first Brook and Claire and then a little after Nat and Kat.
Detour: A choice between two tasks, usually one a bit more physical and the other a bit more time consuming
Arriving at the stadium, Jill and Thomas find a Detour: Full Throttle or Full Bottle. In Full Throttle, they will need to go by foot or subway to the Mokdung Ice Rink and have to complete a 24 lap two person relay. In Full Bottle they have to go by foot or subway to the Namdaemun Market and deliver 6 giant ginseng roots in glass jars and then drink a bottle of ginseng tonic. By the way, notice my bolding around go by foot or subway ? Brook and Claire wish they did. Because while the other teams were reading the clue, the girls got into a tiff about which task they would do and failed to notice that little phrase. The other teams do. That is emphasized to us over and over and over. We get it, they missed that little clue. But in the grand scheme of things it really does not matter because even if they are penalized there is no way Nick and Vicki will be able to catch up to them. Wait, are the producers manufacturing a false sense of drama? Really? They would do that? I am shocked. Just shocked. Oh yeah, Nick and Vicki have finally landed in Korea. The other three teams choose the skating.
I love the fact they have to wear the tight fitting speed skating suits. I am sure it made a huge difference in their final times. Personally, given my level of skating ability, I would have rather worn full on NFL padding. Given the amount of times they fell, I am sure the racers would have preferred that as well. Jill and Thomas finish first and get the clue telling them to go to Han Riverside Park and find a large statue of an airplane for the Clue Box. Even though they were able to finish the task before the HSNrs, Brook and Claire were able to locate the statue first and get the clue to make their way to the Pit Stop at the Temple of Heaven. As an historical note, this is a shrine built in the late 19th century for the one and only emperor of Korea. No idea why I find that so fascinating.
As Kat and Nat finish up the Detour, Brook and Claire and Jill and Thomas race for the Pit Stop. Brook and Claire actually arrive there first, but are unable to be checked in because of the penalty they acquired by taking the taxi to the Detour. Again, rather anti climatic as we know they will make it to the Final Three. While they are sitting on the curb of shame, Jill and Thomas arrive and are declared first and win a trip to Argentina. Brook and Claire are finally checked in and they are followed sometime later by the doctors, Nat and Kat. This leaves us with two all girl teams in the Final, a potential TAR first if they win. Very exciting. I want one of them to win not because I am driven by any female solidarity but simply because I do not like Thomas.
And that is the Race for this week folks! See you next week wait, what was that? Oh yeah, there was a fourth couple left wasnt there? We are treated to a montage of Nick and Vicki arriving at the rafting area, washing a tank (which must have been their Speed Bump) and completing the rest of days tasks. The best part of this was at the end when I swear Phil was trying to keep a straight face as Nick tells us about how much he has learned and what a better person he will be etc. At least I know I was laughing my head off at these proclamations.
So now, that is all folks! See you next week at the Finale!
Race Stats:
Did the Roadblock: Brook, Kat, Thomas, (unknown with Nick and Vicki}
Detour Full Throttle: Nat/Kat, Jill/Thomas, Brook/Claire
Detour Full Bottle: no one
Not clear which Detour Nick and Vicki completed.
Finish Order:
1. Nat and Kat
2. Jill and Thomas
3. Brook and Claire
4. Nick and Vicki
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Brigitte Bardot to move to Russia to follow Depardieu.
Bardot to Quit France, a Nation Mourns.
On Europe I this morning and here,
"Famous French actress Brigitte Bardot threatened the French authorities, following her colleague Gerard Depardieu, that she would seek Russian citizenship. Bardot, being an active defender of animals, tries to attract public attention to the euthanasia of sick elephants in a Lyon circus."
More here.
Bardot is most famous for her perfect bum, in the film, Le Mépris, and her ability to sing in the same key, again and again, for her- numerous – Records is an active supporter of the French far-right and animal rights.
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Congressman Cotton, for people who don't know you, you are kind of an interesting figure. You went to Harvard, you went to Harvard Law School, and then you spent five years on active duty, on the front lines, in Iraq and Afghanistan, so you have got a lot of credibility on this issue on both sides of the equation.I'm not a complete pushover for credentials, but this made me want to pay attention when Wallace invited him to respond to Senator Dianne Feinstein's idea that we need, as Wallace put it, "a secret drone court, where the president would have to go to get approval before putting terror suspects on his kill list.... How do you feel about this idea? Before the president could target someone for assassination, especially an American citizen, he'd have to go get approval from a judge?"
COTTON: We don't need federal judges involved in sensitive and urgent national security matters, and it would be an unconstitutional infringement on the president's rights to keep America safe. So, if you take up arms against America and you fight in a terrorist training camp or on the front lines in Pakistan or Afghanistan or Yemen, you shouldn't be surprised if America reaches out and exacts justice against you.A while later, there was a discussion of Leon Panetta's testimony about Benghazi. Co-panelist Bill Kristol went first and laid out the criticism of Obama pithily:
KRISTOL: I think it is genuinely shocking. The president -- Leon Panetta walked out of the Oval Office at 5:30 that night, after a previously scheduled meeting. The president never called -- he knew -- he briefed the president on what was happening in Benghazi and that the American ambassador was missing, and it was clear there could well be sustained and ongoing attacks, and the president never spoke to the secretary of defense or the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the rest of that night, and, interestingly, Secretary Panetta said he never spoke to the White House later this night. So it's not as if he spoke to the national security adviser, Tom Donilon, or the chief of staff, Jack Lew, and said, and conveyed a message to or from the president.Cotton followed on, bringing in his military expertise:
So basically, the president seems to have checked out. He spent an hour that evening on the phone with the Israeli prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, because there has been that flap about Israel at the Democratic Convention the week before, and I think he wanted for political reasons to show that he was in touch with the Israelis. They did a readout of that call, the National Security Council spokesman did. So they're busy talking to the Israeli prime minister, doing the readout of the call for the press, and he is not talking to Panetta and, insofar as we -- and Donilon, apparently, is not talking to Panetta. And it is really, I think, a dereliction of duty on the part of the president and his senior staff, and I think they should be asked about it. I think Tom Donilon, the national security adviser, and Jack Lew, the White House chief of staff, should -- the president did not talk to anyone. Did they even talk to the secretary of defense, or did they just say, do what you can and then totally checked out for that evening, and then the next morning the president goes off to Las Vegas for a fund-raiser?
COTTON: It is not just shocking, I would say it is outrageous as well, and it shows he has lack of preparation to be the commander in chief and lead troops when they are in combat. You know, you mentioned I was in the Army. At Fort Benning, where I spent a year, you learn the eight-step troop leading procedures. Step eight, the final step, is not issue an order. Step seven is issue the order. Step eight, which is the most important step, is supervise. He said in September that I issued a directive to take whatever steps are necessary to protect our troops and our assets. And then as Bill said, he never again followed up, he never asked, is my directive being executed? That is the essence of leadership, and this is a complete failure of leadership.Cotton also got my attention earlier in the show when Wallace asked whether the decision to have Marco Rubio deliver the GOP response to the SOTU makes him "the new face of the Republican Party on Capitol Hill."
WALLACE: What about the argument, Congressman, and I don't know, and Bill raises a legitimate question, maybe he was doing this through his national security adviser.
COTTON: What General Dempsey and Secretary Panetta said, indicates there was no further contact from the White House, and the president showed no curiosity at all. He had a conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu that was in the middle of [the] political season when he was receiving criticism for not being engaged with the prime minister, and then probably preparing to fly off to Las Vegas the next day for a fundraiser.
When you have troops in contact -- when I was in Afghanistan, we had troops in contact. I was right next to the radio, monitoring that at all times. When the president has troops in contact in an embassy that he knows is insecure, that has to be the very first priority.
COTTON: I wouldn't say that decision makes him. I think he has been an emerging leader on Capitol Hill for Republicans, and across the country for two years now. He's a generation of new leaders, not just Marco, but Paul Ryan and Scott Walker and so forth, who are emerging and who I think are going to be the leaders of our party going forward.So, wanting to portray Rubio as not The One but part of "a generation of new leaders" and needing to name some names, Cotton comes up with Paul Ryan — the erstwhile VP nominee — and — of all the others — Scott Walker. I read that out loud and Meade deemed it time to play the Governor Walker anthem one more time:


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Every year CGM thinks It's done with Call of Duty, but, without fail, resolve ends up falling apart and CGM finds itself picking up the latest entry to the franchise a couple of months after its release.
Black Ops 2 is terrible, MW3 was a copy and paste job, black ops 1 was a mess.... its like an indie game gone wrong.
If the year was 2008 sure. What's gonna be their excuse next gen when call of duty still has outdated graphics, same boring and uninspired gameplay and half the game missing because its dlc? Sorry activision really needs to rethink cod and give it fresh new gameplay before it can be considered good again.
I can honestly say that I enjoy CoD but not because of it's online. I don't play it much online. I Enjoyed only one CoD for it's online and that was CoD4. I liked the story mode in all of them so far. They were pretty cool to play through and the additional modes each game had like the zombies, the co-op missions and the survival mode were all great.


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A bullet header from Jimmy Smith two minutes from time completed a stunning comeback from 10-man Leyton Orient as they extended their unbeaten run to 13 games with a 2-2 draw at high-flying Huddersfield.
Orient, who face Arsenal in an FA Cup replay on Wednesday, were 2-0 down and had Harry Kane sent off soon after he pulled a goal back on 73 minutes.
But the visitors were undeterred and they grabbed a leveller after 88 minutes when Dean Cox floated in a free-kick after substitute Paul-Jose M'Poku was fouled by Town's Jamie McCombe.
Smith rose highest in the six-yard box to subsequently send a header crashing into the net.
Huddersfield should have been on course for victory after going two goals up. They took the lead after just three minutes through a stroke of luck.
The ball hit referee Peter Quinn and Town's Lee Peltier pounced to put Benik Afobe in the clear.
Afobe drew Orient keeper Jamie Jones off his line and then squared for Jordan Rhodes to notch his 17th goal of the season from close range.
Huddersfield substitute Lee Novak, who replaced the injured Rhodes at half-time, hit a sweet half-volley from Anthony Pilkington's cross after 49 minutes that should have sealed victory, but instead Orient roared back to claim a deserved point.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Yellowstone County attorney says a Billings man being held in Colorado will be sent back to Montana to face charges in the slaying of his great-grandmother.
County attorney Scott Twito (TWY'-toh) says a Denver judge on Monday honored an extradition warrant issued by Gov. Steve Bullock for the return of 19-year-old Robert Alan Thompson.
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- The Bucs will try to extend their home winning streak to four games in front of a sold-out crowd on Sunday
Vincent Jacksonand C Jeremy Zuttahhave been cleared to play and will start against the 49ers
- The Bucs believe the 49ers will focus on establishing the run first on offense
The Buccaneers have won three straight at Raymond James Stadium, including last weekend's 27-6 throttling of the Buffalo Bills. After that game, Head Coach Greg Schiano was particularly complimentary of the fans at Raymond James Stadium and the hostile atmosphere they were able to create for the visiting team. Now the Bucs and 49ers will play before a completely sold out crowd on Sunday, and Schiano hopes the effect is even better for his crew.
"I stated at the beginning of the week that we need our fans' help," he said. "We've got a great sellout crowd today and every fan screaming is going to be huge for us when we're on defense, just to alter their communication ability, and really to get our guys flying around continually throughout the game."
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- QB M. Glennon and the Buccaneers seek their fourth straight win at Raymond James Stadium
Of course, San Francisco's fourth-ranked defense isn't going to make it easy on the home team. And an offense that runs the ball on 53% of its snaps, the highest percentage in the league, is hard to force into the kind of momentum-building mistake that has been so prevalent in the Bucs' last three home wins.
"They're a very talented team," said Schiano of the 49ers. "They're big, they're fast, they're physical. They know what they want to do, they have an identity offensively. They're going to pound you, they're going to move the ball around, the launch point's going to move a little bit. Defensively, they're very aggressive, very sound, even though they're not a big blitzing team. And then on special teams they have very good specialists and very good big special teams players that can run."
Last week, Tampa Bay's defense chased down Bills QB E.J. Manuel for seven sacks and also picked him off four times. They'll try to duplicate that sort of pressure and create another rash of turnovers on Sunday against the 49ers, but San Francisco QB Colin Kaepernick will likely be tougher to crack. Kaepernick has a nice 16-8 TD-INT ratio in 2013 and has also run for 407 yards and three scores. The Bucs are actually a little more worried about the second half of those statistics, as they want to stop San Francisco's running game and keep Kaepernick in the pocket as much as possible.
"He's a big, physical, talented quarterback who has the ability to run with the football as well," said Schiano of the 49ers' starter. "He's got a cannon for an arm; not only can he make every throw, he can make every throw with rare arm strength. So not only do we have to play great past defense, but first and foremost they're going to try to run the ball at us. We've got to find a way to stop that run, because if not they're going to be in very manageable third downs or not in third down at all, and that will make for a long afternoon."
The Bucs will at least have a relatively healthy roster available to take on that tough 49ers team. WR Vincent Jackson, C Jeremy Zuttah and DE Da'Quan Bowers were all slowed by injuries as the week began but progressed well enough to be ready to play on Sunday. Jackson continues to battle his way through a hamstring strain, something he did to the tune of 70 yards and a touchdown in last week's win over Buffalo.
"Vincent, he's our guy, he's our leader," said Schiano. "He's not a real outspoken guy – when he talks, people listen – but that's the kind of competitor he is. A lot of guys don't even make it for that game on Sunday; Vincent not only makes it but plays big. We've become accustomed to that and we're blessed to have him here."
Zuttah missed some time in the second half of the Buffalo game, though the contest was essentially decided at that point. With the scoreboard reset to zeroes, Schiano is glad that Zuttah is back in the middle of the Bucs' front line to face the next challenge.
"Jeremy's an important part of our offense, no doubt about it," said the coach. "He tweaked his shoulder during the game last week, he missed a little practice, but by the end of the week he was full-go and I'm really glad he's going to be able to play."
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The 49ers will be without starting left guard Mike Iupati, as he will miss his fourth straight game with a knee injury. Adam Snyder will once again start in Iupati's place. In addition to Iupati, the 49ers declared the following inactives: WR Quinton Patton, LB Nick Moody, G Ryan Seymour, DT Quinton Dial, WR Jon Baldwin and TE Vance McDonald. McDonald was also out due to injury.
The Buccaneers and 49ers will kick off their Week 15 matchup at Raymond James Stadium at 1:00 p.m. ET, and the game will be televised in the Bay area by Fox. The action will also be broadcast by the Buccaneers Radio Network and its flagship station, US 103.5 FM. That radio broadcast will be available via a live stream on Buccaneers.com. Visit Buccaneers.com throughout the day to for further reports on the game action, including coverage of the team's postgame press conferences.