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Hydroplate Theory
The Hydroplate Theory of the Great Flood is the theoretical model, proposed by Dr. Walt Brown, to explain the original composition of the Earth, how the Great Flood occurred, and how the Flood changed the earth to its present configuration. Dr. Brown explains his theory in detail in his on-line book, In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood.[1]
Observations to explain
The Hydroplate Theory seeks to explain a number of observations, both Biblical and extra-Biblical. The Biblical explanations are found in Genesis chapters 6-8: a rupture of deep-underground springs (Hebrew כל-מעינת תהום or khal-mayanah tahown, translated as "fountains of the great deep" in the KJV), a torrential rainfall lasting for forty days and nights, water covering the highest elevations then existing to a depth of more than twenty-five feet (fifteen long cubits), and all this water covering the surface for 150 days and then receding, almost as if they had never been. The extra-Biblical explanations include the fitting-together of the continents of the earth like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle, the outlines of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge system, the findings of sedimentary rock and even marine fossils at the highest elevations, and the existence of comets, asteroids, and meteoroids.
Basic elements
The one basic element of the Hydroplate Theory is a model of the antediluvian earth. According to this model, the earth had a subcrustal ocean, as do three of the Galilean moons of Jupiter. This ocean was in a sealed chamber with multiple pillars holding up the earth's crust overhead. Beginning with the Fall of Man, these pillars began to buckle, slowly at first, then somewhat faster. This buckling caused some parts of the crust to begin to settle, and this uneven settling created tensile stresses in the parts of the crust that did not settle.
Eventually the crust failed catastrophically, creating a seam at what is now the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This seam continued to break open until at length all of that water, previously confined under pressure, burst through to the surface. The crust was then ruptured, forming various crustal plates, or hydroplates, that moved about or were shoved violently aside or into one another. This movement generated a great deal of heat, at levels that persist today under the earth.
Sequence of events
The catastrophic failure began, as mentioned, at what is now the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the Americas once were joined with the rest of the continents in one continuous land mass. A tiny through-and-through crack appeared, and once this happened, it inevitably lengthened and broadened as the confined water burst through it. Eventually a seam opened nearly all the way around the earth, involving the entire Mid-Oceanic Ridge system.
Most of the water thus released washed over all the land areas in a series of incredibly high and fast tsunamis. These great waves lifted up Noah's Ark and carried it with them. That the Ark, or indeed any vessel, could survive this event is a tribute to the Ark's divine design and to Noah's consummate skill as a shipwright.
In addition, this water created a cascade that arced very high in the atmosphere and fell as rain, for forty days and nights, as the Bible says. This water would reach very high indeed, not only because it had been confined under pressure, but also because the ten-mile-thick crustal plates would "flap" with the water's passage and create pumping action and "water hammer" to drive the water even higher. Brown estimates that one percent of this water, together with vast quantities of mud and rock, achieved escape speed and persists today as comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and the ice deposits that have already been demonstrated on the Moon, the planet Mercury, and most recently on the planet Mars. In addition, many of the ejected rocks may have bombarded the Moon and created many of its present features—although Russell Humphreys' magnetic-field model, combined with findings from samples returned by the crews of Apollo 15 and Apollo 16, suggest that the Moon was bombarded on two other occasions, neither of which coincided with the Flood.
The Americas were shoved violently to the west and opened a gap that persists today as the Atlantic Ocean. In the process, they formed two north-south mountain ranges (perpendicular to their direction of motion, naturally): the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States, and the Rocky Mountains and Andes Mountains to the west of North America and South America, respectively. To the Far East, the Asian continent collided with the land masses of Europe and created the Himalayas.
Directly opposite the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, depressions formed. These persist today as the Mariannas Trench and especially the Challenger Depth, two of the deepest places in all the earth's oceans.
- ↑ Brown W, In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Center for Scientific Creation, 1995-2008. <http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/IntheBeginningTOC.html>


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"There will always be wars and rumors of war."
Jesus Christ
It would appear that Jesus Christ saw wars as a regular, if negative, part of life and the Gospels contain a parable of two related to war, so I would doubt that Jesus would see anything irregular about warfare. However, the Department of Defense felt that some wars are not as regular as others, and in Department of Defense Directive (DoDD 3000.07, December 1, 2008 (see link), defined irregular warfare as "A violent struggle among states and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant population(s). Irregular warfare favors indirect and asymmetric approaches, though it may employ the full range of military and other capacities, in order to erode an adversary's power, influence and will."
Non-state actor is the factor that separates irregular war (IW) from the run of the mill variety. The definitions in DoDD 3000.07 imply that a focus on civilian population distinguishes IW from traditional warfare. However, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Sherman's march to the sea were focused on civilian populations, as were the 8th USAAF and RAF Bomber Command attacks on major German civilian population centers in WWII and our bombing campaigns against Hanoi. These were all acts by state actors during traditional wars, so I think the focus really is on the non-state actors.
The Geneva Conventions speak to non-state actors in as much as they apply to "conflicts not of an international character," so the law of armed conflict does not change in regards to a military's responsibilities towards civilian populations under their control. (See links at right.) So what does Civil Affairs do differently in IW vice regular war? That is a good question, one that the Civil Affairs Association will consider at its 58th annual conference, where it will address "the role of Civil Affairs personnel, units, and policy in irregular warfare." In May of this year the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict and Interdependent Capabilities (ASD (SO/LIC&IC)) briefed that "the nature of irregular warfare (CT, UW, FID, COIN & SO) is indeed "population focused" operations, then we must consider the implications for civil affairs; one of the few capabilities within DoD that specifically focuses on foreign civilian populations." I would like to share some of the highlights of what ASD (SO/LIC&IC) briefing and solicit some responses on the issue of how CA supports IW.
Counter-terrorism (CT) Operations that include the offensive measures taken to prevent, deter, preempt, and respond to terrorism. (JP 3-05) If I take out the words offensive measures from the DoD definition of CT, I can imagine lots of ways CA can undermine local popular support for terrorist networks, such as our support to FID in the Philippines. ASD (SO/LIC&IC) suggested "For example, civil affairs functional specialists with expertise in the areas of banking and law enforcement can assist DoD efforts to educate HN security forces in methods to combat terrorist financial operations." This may be true, but our FBI and DOJ, who have offices in US embassies worldwide, are far more likely to have this expertise. I agree with ASD (SO/LIC&IC) remarks that "civil affairs forces should train and equip other HN forces in Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) to ensure HN forces are prepared to immediately respond with appropriate levels of aid following a specific CT operation. Without such civil-military components to CT operations, terrorist organizations will likely strengthen their influence over relevant populations as was witnessed in Lebanon in 2006." and "CT operations that cause unnecessary collateral damage risk alienating the relevant populations, de-legitimizing the host nation and or US , and may produce effects that are counter to our campaign objectives. Civil affairs can help mitigate such effects." More importantly, senior CA officers should sit on targeting boards where they can influence whether or not we risk needlessly killing innocent civilians in our attempts to bag relatively low-value targets. Such ill-informed CT strikes only serve to recruit for the Taliban.
Unconventional Warfare (UW) ASD (SO/LIC&IC) suggested that CA could support UW by conduct "civil reconnaissance in advance of future UW operations to include human terrain mapping and civil information management." And suggested that our CA conduct civil-military operations (CMO) in and around "safe havens" used by US forces and help plan and support the transition phase of UW campaigns. ASD (SO/LIC&IC) noted that these tasks would require that CA should leverage ongoing social science programs and increase the level of social science analysis in the curriculum of the CA course. I think these suggestions make imminent sense. I would like to opine that we would never undermine another sovereign government, but as one State Department officer informed me, he conducted UW against the Taliban while serving on a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT).
Foreign Internal Defense (FID) ASD (SO/LIC&IC) noted "Civil Affairs functional specialists with backgrounds in the areas of justice, law enforcement and corrections can provide additional depth to these DoD sponsored advisory missions and associated Security Sector Reform missions. However, these CA functional specialists require some additional training in the principals of development and Security Sector Reform (SSR)." A valid statement, but most of our CA functional specialists will have backgrounds in US justice, law enforcement and corrections. Special care is needed to ensure that we don't foist a corrections system that Californians can't afford on Afghans, etc. Similarly, our justice system is very different from those found in Europe and Asia and may not be the right answer for a country fighting a radical Islamic insurgency. The British are championed as experts in COIN and oft cited for their overwhelming use of police vice military to defeat communist insurgents in Malaya. However, the police employed by the British did not carry Miranda cards, nor were they bound by the strict rules of evidence that our police are accustomed to.
Counterinsurgency (COIN). ASD (SO/LIC&IC) notes that "Organizational models such as the Provincial Reconstruction teams provide a contemporary model for civil-military teaming in support of COIN. However, there remains a need for more formal civil-military teaming concepts. . . as with Counter-terrorism, civil affairs can contribute to methods for countering insurgent networks and their associated communications and financial systems. To conduct COIN, DoD requires "interdependent joint force/interagency packages proficient in performing large-scale, civil-military operations needed to defeat irregular threats and conduct stability operations, thus enabling/transitioning to civil authorities. Civil affairs forces are logical components for such civil-military teaming concepts. However, such models will require a reevaluation of joint civil affairs doctrine and organizational concepts for civil-military operations at the operational/theater level." Basically, recognizes that a lot more CA is needed, and this is one reason we are building to ten AC CA battalions in two brigades while growing USAR CA by one more brigade. One suggestion is to make a CA company organic to each AC and ARNG brigade combat team (BCT) and use the USAR CA force for echelon above BCT, to include civil-military teaming in Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) or Forward Advanced Civilian Teams.
Stability Operations (SO) (As Steve Henthorne of CCOE (link at right) says, the other side of COIN) ASD (SO/LIC&IC) advocates for more training for USAR CA functional specialists, CA planners permanently assigned to Combatant Command staffs and more "CERP-like" authorities and funds, and that CA assets should be more often in conflict prevention and persistent presence roles as well as ongoing fights in Afghanistan and Iraq. These are all good recommendations.
I think that overall ASD (SO/LIC&IC) made some excellent recommendations that though they will take time and money (a lot less than a half-dozen more F22s) will serve our Nation well in preventing and fighting IW as well as traditional war. I look forward to hearing more about how CA can support IW at the 58th Civil Affairs Conference and I look forward to questions and comments on this posting.

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Fedora Bug Life Cycle
This bug state flow came as a result of the bug triage relaunch that started in January 2008. This work flow was approved at the meeting on January 24, 2008 . As a work flow these are not hard and fast rules to impose on people. Instead it is intended to bring more uniformity and predictability to the life of a bug. If you have a good reason to break them, feel free. This is the process the triage team will follow.
Updated 17 March 2009 to reflect changes to the NEEDINFO representation.
Source: File:BugZappers BugStatusWorkFlow fedora-bug-lifecycle.odg
The triage team believes that this is a complete actionable bug. It contains:
- the correct component
- the correct product
- enough information for the package maintainer to investigate the issue
- enough information to research with upstream or fix the bug
- applicable release blocker or tracker bugs
The reporter has has also included one or more of the following (as applicable):
- clear steps describing how the bug occurred
- clear steps describing how to reproduce the problem
- stack trace for a crasher
- various log files
- AVC message for SELinux
See BugsAndFeatureRequests for more details.
Once a bug has been fixed and included in a new package in rawhide or the updates repo it should be closed. For a stable release, the resolution ERRATA should be used. For Rawhide, the resolution RAWHIDE should be used. The CURRENTRELEASE and NEXTRELEASE resolutions are not intended for use by Fedora. For Rawhide, maintainers can choose to move to CLOSED RAWHIDE as soon as they commit a fix to CVS, if outside a freeze period; the MODIFIED process is optional. If so designated by the maintainer, Bodhi can automatically close a bug when the package moves from the updates-testing repo to the updates repo.
When a maintainer has a fix for a bug checked into CVS the bug should be placed in the MODIFIED state. This is an indication that the fix is checked into CVS and has potentially been submitted to be built in a new package. Adding a link to package in koji is very helpful for adventuresome testers and the original bug reporter to verify the fix. The use of MODIFIED for Rawhide bugs is optional; a maintainer may choose to use it to ask the reporters to test the fixed package to make sure the fix works before closing the bug, but can also go direct to CLOSED RAWHIDE on committing a fix, or change a MODIFIED bug to CLOSED RAWHIDE if no reporter appears willing or able to confirm the fix.
When a reporter files a bug, the report automatically starts out in a NEW state. The triage team will be primarily looking at bugs in this state. From this state, the triage team will change the status to:
- ASSIGNED: The bug is well defined and triaged
- CLOSED: Duplicate, not a bug, not part of Fedora, etc.
- NEW but with NEEDINFO flag: More information needed from reporter before being ASSIGNED.
The NEEDINFO flag is added by bug triagers or maintainers when adequate information is missing to move the bug towards resolution. NEEDINFO bugs are eligible for closure (changed to CLOSED) by the triage team after all of the following have been met:
- Bug was originally placed in NEEDINFO by a triager or package maintainer
- Requested information requested has not been provided
- Bug has been flagged NEEDINFO for thirty (30) continuous days.
A stock message will be used by all triagers for bugs meeting the closure criteria. Stock bug triaging messages are found at BugZappers/StockBugzillaResponses.
Because NEEDINFO is a flag and not an exclusive state, these bugs can also simultaneously be marked as NEW, ASSIGNED, etc.
A bug automatically transitions to this state when an updated package is submitted to bodhi for a particular bug and the package is in the testing repo. This tells the bug reporter that a fix for the bug is available and that they should test the package. After testing the package the bug tester or original reporter should put feedback in bodhi and add a comment to the Bugzilla.
This optional state is used to show that someone is working on fixing this bug. This is especially useful if there exists a team of maintainers for a package.
- This state is primarily used by developers working on virtualization and the kernel.
- A bug is moved to the POST state (from ASSIGNED) when a patch has been attached to the bugzilla entry and the gate keeper is waiting for the patch to receive three ACKS. Therefore, POST means "a patch is ready, but not yet applied".
- After the patch is applied to the rpm the bug state changes to MODIFIED.
The VERIFIED bug state is not used by Fedora.
See also
- A Bug's Life Cycle for definitions of other Bugzilla statuses and resolutions.


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Children, teachers, families and adults can participate in innovative and enjoyable learning opportunities that explore the collection and temporary exhibitions in the Gallery's children's area and Learning Resource Centre. To date, the collection has been explored by children aged three to adults in their eighties during successful and popular programmes. This new programmed, multi-purpose space allows for additional experimentation.
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Dax McCarty struck in added time as New York Red Bulls beat Western Conference leaders Real Salt Lake 4-3 in a thrilling match on Saturday.
Australia international Tim Cahill and Fabian Espindola gave the hosts a two-goal buffer inside the opening 23 minutes of the MLS clash at Red Bull Arena.
But a hat-trick from Alvaro Saborio looked to have completed a stunning comeback until Espindola converted his second penalty of the match to level proceedings.
And in another stunning twist, McCarty headed home in the 94th minute to condemn Real Salt Lake to their second consecutive defeat.
The result saw New York close to within a point of Eastern Conference pacesetters Sporting Kansas City, who were beaten 1-0 by Montreal Impact.
Meanwhile, the Colorado Rapids continued their surge up the standings with a 2-0 victory over defending champions the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Goals on either side of the break from Hendry Thomas and Dillon Powers extended Colorado's unbeaten run to six matches, while the Galaxy slumped to their third away defeat in succession.
In other results, the San Jose Earthquakes stunned the high-flying Portland Timbers 2-1 at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Two goals in three minutes from Victor Bernardez and Steven Lenhart proved enough to send the second-placed Timbers home empty handed.
Philadelphia Union became the first team to leave BC Place with maximum points this season, defeating the 10-man Vancouver Whitecaps 1-0, courtesy of Antoine Hoppenot's strike five minutes from time.
Elsewhere, Toronto FC scored twice in the final six minutes to defeat the Columbus Crew 2-1, DC United took an early lead but lost 2-1 at home to the New England Revolution, the Seattle Sounders overcame lowly Chivas USA 2-1, while the Houston Dynamo and the Chicago Fire played out a 1-1 draw.
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DUNKIRK, France (AP) -- Olympic champion Alain Bernard won't get to defend his 100-meter freestyle title at the London Games after finishing fifth at the French swimming championships on Thursday.
Bernard needed to finish in the top two places to qualify, but he fell behind at the end as Yannick Agnel won in 48.02 seconds. Fabien Gilot finished second in 48.38 to also book his place. Bernard timed 48.92.
The 28-year-old Bernard is still expected to compete for France in the 4x100 relay in London. He was on the team that won the silver medal four years ago at Beijing.


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Three days ago, more than 10 million Iraqis went to the polls -- including many Sunni Iraqis who had boycotted national elections last January. Iraqis of every background are recognizing that democracy is the future of the country they love -- and they want their voices heard. One Iraqi, after dipping his finger in the purple ink as he cast his ballot, stuck his finger in the air and said: "This is a thorn in the eyes of the terrorists." Another voter was asked, "Are you Sunni or Shia?" And he responded, "I am Iraqi."He also repeats the themes of his other recent speeches: his critics are defeatists who are hurting the war effort for their own partisan interests:
Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. For every scene of destruction in Iraq, there are more scenes of rebuilding and hope. For every life lost, there are countless more lives reclaimed. And for every terrorist working to stop freedom in Iraq, there are many more Iraqis and Americans working to defeat them. My fellow citizens: Not only can we win the war in Iraq, we are winning the war in Iraq.He tries to draw a line -- and it's an important line -- between those who think the decision to go to war was wrong and those who say we should give up in the middle of the war:
It is also important for every American to understand the consequences of pulling out of Iraq before our work is done. We would abandon our Iraqi friends and signal to the world that America cannot be trusted to keep its word. We would undermine the morale of our troops by betraying the cause for which they have sacrificed. We would cause the tyrants in the Middle East to laugh at our failed resolve, and tighten their repressive grip. We would hand Iraq over to enemies who have pledged to attack us and the global terrorist movement would be emboldened and more dangerous than ever before. To retreat before victory would be an act of recklessness and dishonor, and I will not allow it.
I ... want to speak to those of you who did not support my decision to send troops to Iraq: I have heard your disagreement, and I know how deeply it is felt. Yet now there are only two options before our country -- victory or defeat. And the need for victory is larger than any president or political party, because the security of our people is in the balance. I don't expect you to support everything I do, but tonight I have a request: Do not give in to despair, and do not give up on this fight for freedom.Nicely put.


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Antalya is a province in the southern Mediterranean region of Turkey. Antalya is on the Turquoise Riviera with clear waters and beautiful Mediterranean coastline, the region is great for divers, swimmers and yachting.
Other destinations
The province occupies both (west and east) coasts of Gulf of Antalya, a large indentation of Mediterranean Sea, and some places more inland. In general, the terrain is mountainous, with mountains usually ascending from right at the edge of the sea.
Get in
By plane
The only international airport in the province is Antalya Airport (IATA: AYT; ICAO: LTAI), located in the outskirts of Antalya. Another one, Gazipaşa Airport, about 40-50 km southeast of Alanya, is under construction. For southwesternmost sections of the province, such as Kaş and Kalkan, the int'l airport in Dalaman in the neighbouring province of Muğla is actually nearer than Antalya Airport.
Get around
By car
D400 Highway enters province from its both western and eastern extremities and traverses the whole province with closely following the shoreline, and thus connecting all significant coastal cities and towns (i.e., all of those relevant to travellers).
By thumb
People in the province are not very friendly towards hitchhikers. But unfriendliness here should not be taken as that you will be shown middle fingers or that they will stop next to you, express some nasty comment, and accelerate as fast as they stopped: They just don't stop, and behave like you are not even there. Even if you are a very good stop (nearby traffic lights, lots of cars, and a large shoulder to pull over), expect to wait at least two hours for a lift (at least in eastern and northern sections of the province: the highway between Antalya-Alanya and the highway north from Antalya), but maybe that was the general unluck of two males hitching together. Hitching from around Olympos (in the western section of the province) is reported to be better, though.
Stay safe
The telephone code for Antalya Province (whole of it) is (+90) 242.
Get out
While Antalya Province has some of the finest beaches of Mediterranean Turkey, Turkish coast isn't all about Antalya Province. The following are some of the nearby places that are also worth a trip:


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The Downeaster line expansion was funded by a $38.3 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Federal Railroad Administration's High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program. Brunswick and Freeport have not seen passenger rail service since 1959.
The ripple effect of rail not only touches jobs associated directly with the project, but also jobs indirectly linked, including those associated with the people and products rail moves. According to the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, the work along the Downeaster corridor is creating business orders and sustaining and creating jobs at 53 companies in 20 states.
"The Downeaster expansion is creating jobs and spurring local economic development even before the trains arrive," said Administrator Szabo. "The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority delivered this project on time and on budget and when the line opens in the fall, it will increase tourism and mobility choices for residents from Boston to Brunswick."
The Recovery Act grant was augmented by additional funds from the state of Maine to cover the project costs, including the construction of the Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant passenger platforms in Freeport and Brunswick. The Downeaster project will improve 36 highway-rail grade crossings, upgrade numerous wayside signals, install signals on the Brunswick Branch and result in many other right of way improvements.
To reduce congestion on the rail corridor and increase the reliability of the Downeaster service south of Maine, FRA has also provided the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority with a $21 million grant to improve the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) owned rail line used by the Downeaster. Work is expected to begin in summer 2012.


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A man many Americans still think of longingly as President Josiah Bartlet is waiting for a light to change at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Hughes Avenue in Culver City. He is on foot and in conversation with a companion, on his way to Saturday evening mass, but when he sees the people in a car parked at the light waving through the windshield at him, he turns and waves back, offering them a glimpse of his open face and very good set of teeth before hurrying into the crosswalk.
He's just like on TV, the smiling people in the car might be thinking, because Martin Sheen, in jeans and windbreaker, is very much the Everyman he brought to the fictional White House of "The West Wing" for seven seasons on NBC.
No need to genuflect. He'll be doing the genuflecting once he's inside St. Augustine Catholic Church a few blocks away.
Though a resident of Malibu, Sheen has been rehearsing the play "The Subject Was Roses" on this recent day, and unable to get back home in time for his regular Saturday mass, he's found a neighborhood church to attend instead.
"It's a weekly affirmation for me," he says, walking briskly. "To be with others thinking about God."
"The Subject Was Roses," which opens at the Mark Taper Forum next Sunday, marks Sheen's return to the stage (other than readings) for the first time in almost 20 years, and he's coming back in the play that launched his career in 1964, on Broadway. Written by Frank Gilroy, "The Subject Was Roses" is an emotionally raw family drama about an unhappily married Irish American couple and their only child, a son just returned from World War II. The son finds that he has left one war only to come back to another, but that what he learned in Europe makes it possible for him finally to escape the war at home.
On Broadway, Sheen played the son; 46 years later, he's playing the father.
"That play changed my life so thoroughly," he said earlier, after finishing his scene work for the day with Frances Conroy ("Six Feet Under"), who plays his long-suffering wife in the Taper production, directed by Neil Pepe. "It was the first success I had, and the only Broadway success I ever had. It gave me such confidence. An actor needs some measure of success. It was the first confirmation of my talent and my possibilities. I was 24."
A native of Dayton, Ohio, the seventh son of a Spanish factory worker and politically active Irish mother, Sheen, who was born Ramon Estevez, had gone to New York at 18 and found his way into the avant-garde Living Theatre run by Julian Beck and Judith Molina as well as Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park. Papp insisted on calling him "Ramon" even after he took the stage name "Martin Sheen" in an effort to get more work.
Sheen spent 10 years, from 1959 to '69, in New York. His children -- Emilio, Ramon, Charlie and Renee, all actors at one time or another -- were born there. He is still married to their mother, the former art student Janet Templeton.
"The theater was predominant in terms of acting," Sheen said, "but then came people like James Dean and a different cinema acting technique that was just revolutionary because it was about behavior -- Montgomery Clift, Brando. Those three changed cinema all over the world."
Dean in particular, in the 1955 film "East of Eden," was a powerful influence on him. "You see this guy and you think, 'Oh . . . my . . . God.' Wow. And I never really appreciated what he did until I did my first on-camera stuff, and how you had to repeat everything and hit marks and have the camera move with you." Sheen even changed his brand of cigarette. "I was smoking Camels or something, but James Dean smoked Kools. I had to switch."
Launching pad
But it took success in the theater, in this play, to win him the notice that led to his eventually moving to L.A. and a prolific career in television and film that has stretched from a small role in "The Mod Squad" to "The West Wing" and included the movies "Badlands," "Apocalypse Now," "Gettysburg" and "The Departed." Long identified with liberal causes and social justice, he has portrayed his share of real political figures in addition to President Bartlet, often endowing them with a bristling sense of patriotism. On television Sheen has played John Kennedy ("JFK") and Robert Kennedy ("The Missiles of October"), not to mention John Dean ("Blind Ambition").
"When we did this play in '64 in New York, there were a limited number of venues -- the three networks, soap operas, commercials, off Broadway, summer stock, Broadway," Sheen said. "And then Hollywood, which was a completely different animal. Maybe people didn't want to admit it who were pursuing careers in the theater but we all wanted to be movie stars, you know," he laughs, "where you could have your cake and eat it too -- become known and then come back and do Broadway.
"It's not even the same profession, stage and film acting -- I mean it is the same profession but a totally different technique, totally different energy. And very few left from my generation who still do it."
"The Subject Was Roses" won a Pulitzer Prize and ran for nearly two years in New York. Thinking back on that, Sheen was reminded that, "Stage actors are like athletes. You've got to stay in shape," he said, grinning at the task before him now. "It's real clear, you can't take it lightly. To do a run, you know, eight performances a week. You don't mess around with the theater."
And it's one thing to do that when you're 24. He's now 69.
"What's struck me about Martin," says Pepe, "is the great sense of joy and commitment he's bringing to being onstage, as if he's discovering it for the first time."
"As soon as I saw him, I fell in love," says Gilroy about the young Sheen. Now 84, Gilroy helped cast the play in '64 with director Ulu Grosbard, who also directed a film adaptation that retained Sheen and Jack Albertson, the original father. "He had that spark, that something you respond to."
Gilroy had seen in Albertson something of his own Irish father, but the playwright says, "Physically, Martin has more of the qualities of my father than Jack."
Sheen is reaching back for memories of his own father as inspiration for the role. He remembers his difficult childhood in Ohio, growing up in a big household, his father a shy widower, "who was a tiger at home."
Sheen went to work at the age of 9 as a caddie at the local country club, where he was exposed to other kinds of men, affluent, imperious men whom he did not like. "I knew how I didn't want to be when I grew up -- racist, self-absorbed. That was not a man to me. A man was my father, who probably never made more than $140 a week. I learned a lot about acting from him too; he was a great storyteller."
On his own role as a father, Sheen said, "Now I'm almost 70, so I've had a whole lifetime of understanding where I failed, although you'd have to ask my kids where I failed. I made mistakes, monumental mistakes, but whatever they were, they were made out of my understanding or misunderstanding of love at the time.
"I've often said to my wife, 'If I had it to do over again, there are certain things that I would not do,' and she says, 'That's true because now you know, but then you would have done other things, and they could have been equally damaging.' When you're starting out, you're 20, you're not 70. It's on-the-job training."
Admittedly anguished over the personal troubles of his son Charlie, the star of CBS' "Two and a Half Men," who was charged Monday with a felony in connection with alleged domestic violence involving an incident with his wife last month in Aspen, Sheen did not want to talk about Charlie publicly.
"It's very, very painful," he said.
"I don't know what Frank's dad was like," he said, returning to the subject of his character, "but I can relate to this guy having to struggle with poverty growing up."
The father in "The Subject Was Roses" is an alcoholic and philanderer. An unsuccessful businessman, he and his disconnected wife have allowed their 25-year marriage to founder, damaged by desultory rancor and possessiveness of their only son (played in this production by Brian Geraghty of "The Hurt Locker").
"What keeps them together is the boy," Gilroy says, "but they probably wouldn't have stayed together today."
"It's a period piece," Sheen said, "and that's very important, but the relationships are not that far removed. Alcohol is still a big problem, ego is still a big problem, people are still grappling with the same issues."
When he reaches St. Augustine after the rehearsal, Sheen passes through the big doors at the stroke of 5 and makes his way down the far aisle of the sanctuary to an empty pew in the half-full church. The largely Latino congregation takes little note of his entrance. He makes the sign of the cross and genuflects toward the altar before taking a seat, then kneels in prayer.
Over the next hour, he sings "hallelujahs," raises his arms in supplication according to the liturgy, hears a lesson from the Book of Luke, turns to his companion, extends his hand and says, "Peace be with you," then repeats the ritual with two other worshipers. Later, he joins the procession down the center aisle to receive Holy Communion.
On the way out of the church, he puts some money in a slot designated for votive candles, lights a long wooden match and then a fresh candle in the bank of flickering red votives.
"Do you see a candle on that side," Sheen says, offering his companion the flaming match. "I paid for two. Light a candle for someone."


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About fifty protesters brought their message to the Army Corps of Engineers in Philadelphia, Feb. 26: "One, two, three, four, Stop the pipeline, Amy Corps! 5,6,7,8, Deny the permit, before it's too late!"
From Philadelphia to Milford, PA and across the river in New Jersey, citizens groups and environmental groups joined together at a lively demonstration, pressuring the Army Corps of Engineers to intervene in clear-cutting now taking place for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline.
The groups highlighted the harm done to waterways and wetlands, to impacted human communities and to vegetation and wildlife, by the clear-cutting which has already taken place. The advocates pressed the Corps to deny any further permits for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Upgrade Project, or for any fracked gas pipelines in the Delaware River Basin.
Stop the clear-cutting
"The Army Corps of Engineers has a direct responsibility to protect wetlands, and must deny the permits for any clear-cutting in or near wetlands for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline," said Iris Marie Bloom, director of Protecting Our Waters, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Philadelphia. "President Obama, who directs the Army Corps' vote on the Delaware River Basin Commission, should tell the Corps to stop permitting fracked gas pipelines at all. President Obama's policies must start to match his rhetoric. Scientific data shows that fracked gas, when you include the methane leaked during extraction, processing and distribution phases -- especially compressor stations and pipelines -- escalates climate change even more than coal does, especially in this crucial 20 year period. It is Obama's job to take a step back from the climate cliff, not jump off it."
"We, the communities of the Delaware River watershed have exhausted every path possible to bring rationality to what is happening in the Upper Delaware and the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company's Northeast Upgrade project," said Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper ."We have gone to state court to secure a stay only to have a federal judge issue an injunction against our legal challenge. We are in federal court, where a judge denied our request for an injunction, saying that the loss of the mature forests and healthy wetlands and streams was not an irreparable harm, but that TGP losing a bit of time and money was.
"We have urged the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) to exercise its jurisdiction," van Rossum continued, "only to have DRBC admit they made a mistake on two other pipeline projects. But they continue to deny attention to the Northeast Upgrade Project. We have challenged the issuance of permits by each of the state and federal environmental agencies involved. But despite the ongoing legal challenges, the lack of an Army Corps permit, and the obvious obligation of the DRBC to exercise its jurisdiction, this project keeps barreling forward. The residents of our watershed have been given no choice but to turn out with their voices and bodies to demand the attention and protection our state and federal laws and agencies should be giving us." .
Milford's conservation legacy
"The towns along this pipeline upgrade project have become communities of resistance: where residents are organizing to monitor for worker and company violations; to raise residents' awareness about the project; and to put their bodies in the way of the destruction. Milford, Pennsylvania is touted as the home of the American conservation movement," said Rachel Leone, a Philadelphia resident involved with the Stop the Tennessee Pipeline Campaign both upriver and downriver.
"I was born and raised in Vernon, NJ, where the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Loop 324 has already impacted my community and where Loop 323 will end when it's finished," said Allison Petryk, who has been involved with protest on both sides of the Delaware River. "While working as an Outdoor Environmental Educator at the Pocono Environmental Education Center, I fell in love with Pike County and the bountiful hiking and the beautiful vistas. The Tennessee Pipeline is a major artery for the monster that is the Marcellus Shale industry that will cut across the Delaware River valley with disrespect to the people here and to the valuable ecology we are meant to steward."
Sitting in trees
"Our community is currently under attack by the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP)," said Jolie DeFeis, a Pike County resident involved with Save Cummins Hill Citizens Group. Thousands of trees are being cut along Loop 323 while a young man defends the forest by living in a tree 30' above the ground. This outrageous situation has escalated to desperate. We shine a light on you, Army Corps of Engineers, to help. Please do the right thing for this broken community by reviewing all alternative routes, not just the one selected by the TGP. We know a mistake has been made and that National Environmental Policy Act has been breached. The clock is ticking loudly but it's not too late to save us."
Alex Lotorto, a Pike County, PA resident who has been involved in the week-long tree-sit, blockade, and public marches upriver in Milford, PA, was even more emphatic in the statement he sent: "Army Corps of Engineers, stop the pipeline or we will. The plug is yours to pull. We have people in the trees and in the access roads. We won't stop until we win just like we won against your Tocks Island Dam proposal the last time you imagined our river valley as a resource colony."
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Steve Stricker stared blankly across the fairway, his hand on his face, as the celebration went on around him.
Jim Furyk had his moment of despair a few minutes earlier, leaning over with his hands on his knees as if he were trying to keep from getting sick after his final putt on the 18th green slid by the hole.
They were supposed to be the backbone of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, the veteran players captain Davis Love III could count on when things got tough. Love picked them both to do just that after they didn't qualify for the team on their own.
But the stifling pressure of the Ryder Cup was simply too much.


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Watch The ::God Is Imaginary Videos On YouTube ::
Here is my take. God knew these people were going to be amputated. He knew they were going to lose a limb. If he didn't want them to he wouldn't have allowed them to lose a limb in the first place.
Why should God heal amputees anyway? Is there some reason he should?


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Reports have claimed that the Canada has contacted India and stated that specific security issues are not justified to BlackBerry alone and suspension of their services would offer no clear results. The clock is ticking on RIM and it's deadline imposed by the Indian Government. The Ministry of Home Affairs has taken a hard stance relating to security concerns and the monitoring of encrypted data. India's stance: Provide a solution by Aug. 31st or close shop.
In a communication by the Canada High Commission, "it is not productive to impose deadlines in such matters." With over 1 million BlackBerry users and over 900 corporate houses and companies in India, what would the impact be for these people if services were discontinued?
Canada feels that the Indian Government has all the rights to find a solution to its security concerns, which are legitimate, but to terminate service would be the wrong way to do it. Following this hard-lined stance and targeting RIM would bring on economic and logistical downfalls for many companies located in India.
During many rounds of previous meetings, issues have been brought up concerning other ISP's like Google, GMail and Skype. RIM feels it is not just a BlackBerry issue and should address encryption technology at the industry level. VOdaphone has already provided customers with an advisory to be prepared for a possible disruption of service come August 31st.
Here are some questions I'd like to hear your thoughts on:
- Should Canadian government be involved with India's issue with RIM?
- Who will suffer more with the BlackBerry ban, India or RIM?
- Is the Indian government trying to spy on corporations for it's own gains?
- Is RIM really unable to provide encryption keys?


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Macau, China, August 26, 2011 - Serbia vs Thailand press conference
Thailand captain Wilavan Apinyapong: "We tried our best in this match and tried very hard to get each point, but Serbia are very strong with many good players who block well and possess good defense and attacking skills. We also made some mistakes so we could not win against them."
Serbia captain Jelena Nikolic: "Today Thailand played very well but it was not enough, because our players were more concentrated and powerful at crucial moments of the match. There were some interesting actions so it was an exciting game for the spectators. I wish all the best to the Thailand team in the next match."
Thailand coach Kiattipong Radchatagriengkai: "I appreciate the effort of my players. They tried to show the best performance and to follow all the tactics planned, but there were still some errors and we were just not good enough to win the game. We will keep this spirit, we have gained a lot from this match and I hope my players will continue to learn and to play better for the next game."
Serbia coach Zoran Terzic: "It was a difficult game for us, maybe some of my players expected an easy win. There were many situations when we were nervous, especially when Thailand displayed good defense. But like my captain said, at the crucial moments we won through with our power and experience. Today we did not play to our normal standard like we did against Russia. Congratulations to the Thailand team, they played very well and it was a surprise for me that they won against China last night. And congratulations to my team for making the semi-final at our first participation in the FIVB World Grand Prix."


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Slashback: Franklin, Head-Mounting, Timing 202
I've broken two Timexes this month, this is just old hat now. Pete Brubaker writes: "A few days ago this story was posted to /. pointing to a NYTimes article about Sun's new asynchronous processor. The article, though informative, lacked detail. EE Times comes through and discusses this technology in quite a bit more detail."
If it won't fit in your overhead bin, it probably isn't wearable. If you were intrigued by the wearable computers mentioned in October, you can thankjoeboy4h for pointing out that "the 5th International Symposium on Wearable Computers will be in Zurich this October. Aside from being an excellent academic conference this is also the ultimate hack fest; lots of cool people all interested in hacking both hardware and software, most wearing their wearables, and some really incredible presentations. The call for papers is out now; it would be an excellent place for slashdoters to strut their stuff."
I hope they can webcast a stroll in the Alps with a well-outfitted wearables party ... now that would be a Linuxbierwanderung.
But for the record, would you say you're a "real American," Mr. Franklin? Ovidius writes "Need a historical precedent to argue in favor of open source and against the rash of insane technology patents? Tell people how Ben Franklin valued innovation over profits--in 1742 he not only published the details of his newly conceived Franklin Stove, but refused a patent on it on the principle that "as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
Even when a London entrepreneur took out a patent on a poorly modified version of his stove, Franklin still did not pursue the matter, though maybe he would have if he had known where the use of patents in business would be headed 250 or so years later. The account is from chapter 10 of his Autobiography (which is available at the esteemed Project Gutenberg) :
In order of time, I should have mentioned before, that having, in 1742, invented an open stove for the better warming of rooms, and at the same time saving fuel, as the fresh air admitted was warmed in entering, I made a present of the model to Mr. Robert Grace, one of my early friends, who, having an iron-furnace, found the casting of the plates for these stoves a profitable thing, as they were growing in demand.
To promote that demand, I wrote and published a pamphlet, entitled "An Account of the new-invented Pennsylvania Fireplaces; wherein their Construction and Manner of Operation is particularly explained; their Advantages above every other Method of warming Rooms demonstrated; and all Objections that have been raised against the Use of them answered and obviated," etc.
This pamphlet had a good effect. Gov'r. Thomas was so pleas'd with the construction of this stove, as described in it, that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them for a term of years; but I declin'd it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
An ironmonger in London however, assuming a good deal of my pamphlet, and working it up into his own, and making some small changes in the machine, which rather hurt its operation, got a patent for it there, and made, as I was told, a little fortune by it. And this is not the only instance of patents taken out for my inventions by others, tho' not always with the same success, which I never contested, as having no desire of profiting by patents myself, and hating disputes. The use of these fireplaces in very many houses, both of this and the neighbouring colonies, has been, and is, a great saving of wood to the inhabitants.
So who is more American, Ben Franklin or Bill Gates?"


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Before The Body Goes Cold : Personal Liberty Digest™
Before The Body Goes ColdDecember 4, 2012 by Ben Crystal PHOTOS.COMWhile Jovan Belcher's final act appalls me, that revulsion is nothing compared to how I feel about the ghouls who jumped on the situation in order to push political ideologies. Writing for FOX Sports, Jason Whitlock managed to turn the orphaning of a 3-month-old into a bizarre rant against the 2nd Amendment.Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead. … What I believe is, if he didn't possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.A man takes a 22-year-old woman's life, orphans their child and then kills himself, and Whitlock "believes" guns are to blame. Granted, Whitlock is well-known for allowing his political ignorance to obstruct his reason; witness his infamously racist attack on NBA star Jeremy Lin. But he's hardly the only commentator who has seized on tragedy to promote an assault on the Constitution like a vulture seizing on roadkill. I find it fascinating that pseudo-journalists like Whitlock and his allies in hate groups like the Brady Campaign either can't or won't learn that a culture that excuses virtually every perversion, every failure and every crime as somehow being the fault of inanimate objects, YouTube videos or "the rich" might produce exactly this sort of outcome.Whitlock wasn't the biggest player to "Belcher" his own credibility on the altar of anti-Constitutional hate; he was simply the first to do so. Sunday night, NBC's Bob Costas committed what should have been career suicide thusly:You want some actual perspective on this? Well, a bit of it comes from the Kansas City-based writer Jason Whitlock with whom I do not always agree, but who today said it so well that we may as well just quote or paraphrase from the end of his article.Oh, poor little Bobby; you went from respected sportscaster to left-wing buffoon in less time than it takes an NFL trainer to tape an ankle. I didn't expect much from Whitlock; I did expect more from you.The President and at least two of his accomplices, Attorney General Eric Holder and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, have participated in paper-thin cover-ups involving murder, weapons trafficking, perjury and outright lying; and we're told that anyone who notes their crimes is racist for doing so. Professional athletes behave like steroid-addled gladiators who've just been furloughed from the Thunderdome, and we're supposed to ignore their behavior because they sell tickets and jerseys and/or show up for the occasional charity event. Hell, Charlie Sheen, who is the poster boy for Dionysian self-indulgence, has parlayed coke binges and domestic abuse into wink-nod ad campaigns for Fiat.It's important to recognize that there is no such thing as gun control. Gun control is merely a convenient rhetorical camouflage for the real goal of so-called "gun control" proponents' parent philosophy: "people control." It's more important to recognize that the people who desire such control over their fellow citizens are poor choices to wield it. Furthermore, it's important to recognize that there is no such thing as "gun violence." There is violence — on the football field, in Chicago and in programs run by the Departments of Justice and State. But that's all "people" violence.When agitators like Whitlock and Costas turn a tragedy into a podium from which to expound on their own personal political causes, they not only diminish the suffering of the victims and their loved ones, they distract — often deliberately — from the real root causes of violence and pain. And their macabre attempts to spin political thread from human suffering only compound the real pain being suffered by the real victims.–Ben Crystal
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The Walt Disney Company and Electronic Arts Inc. announced today a new multi-year exclusive licensing agreement was by to publish and develop games based on Star Wars characters and storylines. EA would be in charge of developing and publishing new Star Wars titles for a core gaming audience which would be on all interactive platforms and popular game genres at least most genres. Disney would retain certain rights to develop new titles in the mobile, social, tablet, and online game categories. So be on the lookout for future Star Wars titles from these companies.
"This agreement demonstrates our commitment to creating quality game experiences that drive the popularity of the Star Wars franchise for years to come," said John Pleasants, Co-President of Disney Interactive. "Collaborating with one of the world's premier game developers will allow us to bring an amazing portfolio of new Star Wars titles to our fans around the world."
"Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe," said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. "Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans. DICE and Visceral will produce new games, joining the BioWare team which continues to develop for the Star Wars franchise. The new experiences we create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay."
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I'm sure that I'm not posting this to the proper forum, but I'm not sure where the best one would be for this type of question.
I'm pretty good at using PHP and some MySQL, but I have no knowledge of using Linux or Apache, or what they can even do. I know that I need these skills to better my career, but every search that I do doesn't seem to help in trying to learn how to start out with these techniques.
Can someone help point me in the right direction on how to go about starting to learn Apache and Linux, as well as how I can practice what I've been learning?


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UMW News Bureau
Visual artist and Montana native Jennifer Barsley will be the featured artist at the University of Montana Western Art Gallery from Sept. 27 through Nov. 2, 2012 with an opening reception this Thursday, Sept. 27 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Barsley was born in Helena, Mont., studied fine art at Montana State University and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting with a Minor in Art History at the University of Montana.
Working from her studio in Missoula, Mont., Bardsley creates art using a range of media, from painting on non-traditional canvases to sculpture and film installations.
Her UMW Gallery exhibition, "Unraveling Expansion," explores the "passage of time and cyclical changes through the growth and evolution of the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont.," and in particular, the impact the mining operation had on local communities, the land and rivers. Bardsley created the work in "Unraveling Expansion" by using concentrated acrylic ink and oil painted on Duralar plastic.
Bardsley will be present for an artist's reception at the UMW Gallery this Thursday, Sept. 27 from 6 to 8 p.m.
The Montana Western Art Gallery is located on the UMW campus, 710 South Atlantic Street, at the south entrance of Main Hall. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.


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Local service organizations were awarded thousands of dollars in grants after Hurricane Isaac to provide food, shelter and assistance for families affected by the storm.
Local service organizations were awarded thousands of dollars in grants after Hurricane Isaac to provide food, shelter and assistance for families affected by the storm.
The Greater New Orleans Foundation announced this week that $958,000 has been awarded to 20 nonprofit organizations throughout the region in response to emergency needs after Isaac. Grants were also awarded to four groups working to address the state's environmental problems.
"This is a perfect example of the role of a community foundation," said Albert Ruesga, president and CEO of the Greater New Orleans Foundation. "We address the short- and long-term needs of a community."
The foundation is a community nonprofit group serving a 13-parish area that includes Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. The foundation partnered with local donors immediately after Isaac to help people affected by the storm.
"With 37 percent of our families living in asset poverty, people don't have the savings to weather a storm," Ruesga said. "Because work was interrupted for many, people needed immediate assistance with life's basics such as food, clothing and shelter as they rebuilt their homes and lives."
Awards with local impact include:
n $20,000 to Thibodaux-based Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing to provide residents of Terrebonne, Lafourche, Grand Isle and St. John the Baptist parishes with food, water and ice.
n $10,000 for Catholic Charities of Houma-Thibodaux to help with repairs for eight local families.
n $8,700 for the Dulac Community Center to provide temporary housing assistance for more than 100 displaced families.
n $10,000 for Gulf Coast Social Services to provide people with food, water, ice, temporary housing and clothing.
n $50,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank to prepare 880,000 pounds, about 22 truckloads, of nonperishable food items and cleaning products to distribute to families.
n $10,000 for the Terrebonne Churches United Good Samaritan Food Bank to provide food for 50 families before disaster food stamps became available.
Marco Cocito-Monoc, director of regional initiatives at the Greater New Orleans Foundation, said the foundation's work doesn't stop with hurricane-relief activities.
"For years, we have been partnering with nonprofit organizations to address long-term solutions for the families who live and work in our fragile coastal communities and whose livelihoods are threatened every day," Cocito-Monoc said.
Thirty-five percent of Louisiana's population live in coastal communities threatened by land loss and storm flooding.
In 2012, the foundation awarded 19 environmental grants totaling $3.2 million in a multi-parish region.
Nikki Buskey can be reached at 857-2205 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Onions are grown from the coldest northern climates to the tropics. They were important long before modern refrigeration and shipping made the keeping quality of food less important.
Most common onions not only can be stored for months, but they've historically provided a critical quality: flavor. When societies relied mostly on a single staple crop (and some still do), meals could quickly become rather boring.
Onions' flavor and long storage ability remain important in many parts of the world. In the Indian subcontinent, rising onion prices are enough to bring down the government.
The onion's ability to adapt to many climates has to do with its day-length response. All onions bulb as the days get longer, but different types respond to different day lengths.
Short-day onions begin to bulb earlier, with relatively short day lengths, which makes them ideal for places with mild winters. Intermediate- and long-day onions respond at correspondingly longer days and are grown in more northerly climates.
Onions in Georgia are short-day onions grown to bulb during late winter and early spring for harvest in April and May.
By contrast, intermediate-day onions are planted in late winter for summer harvest, and long-day onions are planted in early spring for fall harvest. This is how onions have found their way around the world.
Georgia's onions came to us from the relatively mild climate of the Mediterranean via Bermuda and then Texas. The early leader in producing mild onions in the United States, Texas supplanted Bermuda as the source of these onions in the early 20th Century.
These onions became the stock for a breeding program that ultimately resulted in most modern varieties used in Texas and Georgia.
The original Vidalia onion was Granex, a variety developed by crossing Grano with Excel. This variety is still used as the descriptor of onions in the Vidalia growing region of Georgia. Granex-type onions are yellow, short-day onions that look slightly flattened.
Another important difference between onion types is their pungency. Short-day onions are high in water and low in pungency compounds, which contributes to their mildness.
The downside to this is their relatively poor storage quality. Intermediate- and long-day onions can be kept for months at room temperature. Short-day onions, though, last only about a month.
They make up for it, though, with their mild flavor. They can be eaten fresh in salads or to garnish a hamburger. Eating the more pungent intermediate- or long-day onions this way takes a strong constitution.
Vidalia onions, in fact, are so mild they can be eaten as a substitute for a baked potato or other side dish with the main meal.


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Bankruptcy still has that whiff of shame and failure, but in some cases it's the best possible move under the circumstances.
The question is: Which circumstances signal that declaring bankruptcy could be the smartest move for you? Personal bankruptcy filings in October reached a new high, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute, with a 28% increase compared to October 2008.
People often wait too long to file, putting themselves at greater risk than necessary, says Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law professor and leading bankruptcy researcher (and lately the outspoken head of TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program). Bankruptcy is a safety net, designed to clear some or all of your debts while preserving some assets and savings so you can move forward. Ideally, say experts, it's better to file sooner, before you deplete the resources that could help you get back on solid ground.
You may want to consider bankruptcy if:
- …it would take you five or more years to pay off your debts.
- …if you're about to take out a home equity loan to get out of debt (and it's not the first time).
- …if you're about to cash out your retirement fund as a bailout.
- …if you've cut back every possible expense and you still can't keep up with even the minimum payments on what you owe.
Bankruptcy laws vary by state, as my MSN Money colleague Liz Pulliam Weston writes:
Filing Chapter 7, the most common form of bankruptcy, will erase most consumer debt (credit cards, medical bills), but not student loans or taxes. You may give up some property or home equity as repayment.
Filing Chapter 13 is considered a "reorganization" of your debts. You keep most assets but agree to repay some of your debt over three to five years.
Will bankruptcy ruin your credit rating? For a while, yes, although many people who enter bankruptcy have already wrecked their credit, and filing actually gives them a shot at rebuilding their lives more quickly.
The key thing to remember, DW devotees, is that bankruptcy is just a temporary solution to a much bigger problem (see what I wrote about it in the New York Times last January). Ultimately it's up to you to apply the great advice you get here and elsewhere, to understand how and why you spend and what you really want from your financial life.


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LAWRENCEVILLE — Mention the Super Eagles to Dera Nd-Ezuma and watch the smile light up his face.
"They make us proud," he said.
The Super Eagles — the nickname for Nigeria's national soccer team — recently won the African Cup of Nations for the first time in 19 years. Nd-Ezuma grew up playing soccer on dusty fields in Nigeria's capital city, Abuja, located in the central part of the country.
"I was a defensive midfielder," he laughs.
There was one thing — albeit not so little — that made Nd-Ezuma stand out from all the other kids. He was tall — really tall.
You don't find many 7-footers on the soccer pitch.
"I just started growing tall," Nd-Ezuma said. "It was fast growth. People started telling me to go play basketball and the opportunity that comes with it. I can come to the States and get a good education."
Basketball hasn't come easy for him. He didn't start playing until his junior season once he landed at Life Center Academy in Burlington.
But 7-footers also don't grow on trees, so when Rider had a chance to offer a wiry kid with a knack for blocking shots and once had 10 dunks in a game a scholarship it did.
"There's certainly a learning curve he's had to adjust to and close the gap on," said Rider coach Kevin Baggett, who helped recruit Nd-Ezuma while he was an assistant under Tommy Dempsey.
Baggett said they had discussions about redshirting Nd-Ezuma his freshman season, but ultimately decided not to. In hindsight, the coach admitted they probably should have — he only made 19 appearances, averaging 3.2 minutes per game.
"It took some time being an international kid," Baggett said. "It takes those guys some time adjusting to the American game. I think he's finally got it, and it's unfortunate because we probably should have redshirted him his freshman year, because he really didn't give us much."
"It was tough," said Nd-Ezuma, now a senior about to play his final five regular-season games. "It's been tough. It took me a while. Obviously, I haven't played so I just focus on defense — what I have a natural gift on — blocking shots."
He's a serviceable shot blocker, averaging 1.9 per game for his career, including a team-high 29 this season. He's also played in a career-best 26 games with 17 starts.
"He's developed his body. He works hard and brings it every night," Baggett said. "That's why I continue to put him out there."
Nd-Ezuma likely isn't moving on to a professional basketball career, though Baggett, doubts he'll have any problem finding a successful career.
Nd-Ezuma is a double major in finance and accounting. He wants to stay in the States after graduation to gain experience in the corporate and financial world.
"Something in banking," he said. "In the long run, I can go back home and share the knowledge."
Adds Baggett: "He's going on to do bigger and better things in his career. We'll be asking him for donations at some point."


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With the "emergency refresh" of the Honda Civic leading the list, expect to see plenty of headlines emerge from the LA Auto Show later this month, organizers hinting that "nearly 50" new models will make their debut during the two-day press preview scheduled for November 28th and 29th. That list includes 24 world debuts and 25 more products making their first appearance in North America.
This year's show also will see the introduction of the show's new Advanced Technology Showcase which will offer a closer look at some of the technologies transforming today's and tomorrow's vehicles.
As in past years, the LA show will see manufacturers put an emphasis on green technology – no surprise considering the tough zero-emissions mandates enacted by the California Air Resources Board, or CARB. Among the products scheduled for debut at the Los Angeles Convention Center are the Fiat 500e and Chevrolet Spark EV battery-electric vehicles, as well as two plug-ins from Ford, the C-Max Energi and Fusion Energi. Honda also has confirmed it will unveil the Accord plug-in hybrid at the LA Auto Show.


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More charges loom over Mackay man's deathBy Melissa Maddison
Police say more charges are expected to be laid over the disappearance and death of Timothy Pullen from Mackay in north Queensland.
A man from New South Wales and a woman from the Northern Territory are expected to arrive in Queensland in the next few days after courts granted their extradition yesterday afternoon.
They are expected to be charged in relation to the murder of Timothy Pullen, who was last seen in April last year.
The 26-year-old woman is expected to face the Mackay Magistrates Court on Monday morning.
Three people have already been charged over Mr Pullen's death, including Sunshine Coast man Zane Tray Lincoln, who was last month charged with murder.
Police are yet to locate Mr Pullen's body, but a large amount of his blood was found in a car last September.


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Stories of the War of 1812 and its aftermath from a First Nations perspective
Closed September 5, 2013
Daphne Cockwell Gallery Canada First Peoples, Level 1
Sovereign Allies/Living Cultures explores the participation of First Nations warriors in the War of 1812 and, in the War's aftermath, the fate of their communities and cultures.
The exhibition's Sovereign Allies section focuses on the First Nations who allied themselves with the British Crown in their efforts to prevent American expansion into their territories. The British, for their part, needed and valued the warriors' forest warfare skills.
The Living Cultures section explores the ways in which First Nations cultures have remained vital despite centuries of contact with European cultures.
Curated in collaboration with First Nations advisors, the exhibition features nearly 100 objects and original art works exclusively drawn from the ROM's collections. It is complemented by videos which cover topics ranging from conservation of a British Red Ensign to First Nations elders and historians reflecting on the War of 1812 and the importance of traditional beliefs and cultural practices today.


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The stock market, continuing a remarkable ascent that began in the darkness of the last recession, surged past a milestone Thursday after a strong jobs report indicated that the economy might finally be gaining steam.
The Dow Jones industrial average, which measures the share price performance of 30 blue chip companies, broke through 17,000 for the first time, closing at 17,068.26. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, a broader yardstick, finished the day within striking distance of 2,000, closing at 1,985.44, also a record.
The S&P 500 is nearly three times higher than its low point in 2009, when the economy was in free fall and the government was scrambling to shore up the financial system.
The stock market's rally has taken place even as a tepid economy has failed to lift the incomes of many Americans. The economy unexpectedly shrank in the first quarter. Still, there are signs that economic growth is starting to pick up. The stock market records were set after the government announced Thursday that the economy had added 288,000 jobs in June, more than analysts had expected.
The unemployment rate — 6.1 percent — is now at its lowest level since the financial crisis struck with full force in the fall of 2008, according to the Associated Press.
"While the economy has been slower than people would have liked, there are signs that it has continued to improve," Shep Perkins, a portfolio manager at the Putnam Global Equity Fund, said. "You could see the S&P at 3,000 in three to four years."
The bull market has lasted nearly 64 months, making it the fourth longest since the crash of 1929, according to an analysis by S&P Dow Jones Indices. And in recent years, the US stock market has substantially outperformed those of Europe, Japan, and China.
Some individual investors have benefited from the rally. The value of stocks and mutual funds held by households increased more than $3 trillion in the 12 months through March, according to data from the Federal Reserve. But such gains have mostly gone to the wealthier households, where stock ownership is concentrated.
"The trickle down is not working," said Douglas Kass of Seabreeze Partners Management, a hedge fund firm, "The schism between haves and the have-nots has widened."
Stronger corporate profits have helped sustain the rally. Some companies have bolstered their bottom lines in part by restraining expenses. But investors seem most excited about younger companies with strong growth prospects. Stock in Facebook, for instance, has risen more than any other in the S&P 500 over the past 12 months, soaring 170 percent. Netflix is up 114 percent.
One of the most surprising features of the most recent bull market is that it has taken place during a drawn-out period of economic sluggishness. During the extended rallies of the 1990s and the 2000s, the economy grew at about 3 percent a year, double the growth rate during the latest ascent.
Not all investors are convinced that growth is poised to accelerate. The mood in the bond market, for instance, is circumspect. Yields on bonds have fallen this year, indicating that investors believe the Fed will have to keep interest rates low to prevent the economy from stalling.
The 10-year Treasury note closed Thursday with a yield of 2.65 percent, down from just more than 3 percent at the end of last year.
"This demonstrates that bond investors are skeptical about the economic recovery," Timothy M. Ghriskey of Solaris Asset Management said. "And rightly so, because we saw a weak economy in the first quarter."
'The schism between haves and the have-nots has widened.'
The Fed has pumped more than $3 trillion into the economy and the banking system since the financial crisis. But some investors assert that this stimulus has helped generate speculation in the stock market while having a limited effect on the real economy.
"There has been no escape velocity in the economy," Kass said. "We are dependent on the kindness of the Federal Reserve."
As the economy recovers, the Fed is gradually injecting less money into the financial system. If profits and the economy grow robustly, stock market investors may not care that there is less monetary stimulus. But if the withdrawal causes a tightening in financial conditions, the appetite for stocks might dwindle.
One big question the skeptics have is whether the rally has made stocks overvalued, and potentially vulnerable to a decline. There are many different ways to assess how expensive stocks are, and bullish and bearish investors use different yardsticks to make their case.
Optimists, for instance, note that the stock market value of the companies in the S&P 500 is 16.5 times the 2014 profits that analysts expect for those firms. That ratio is not particularly high by historical standards, they say.
"Valuations are not extreme by any means," Ghriskey said.
But the skeptical analysts contend that the stock market is trading at lofty valuations when using longer-term comparisons of earnings and stock prices, including a yardstick devised by Robert J. Shiller, a professor at Yale. This measure shows the stock market is trading close to the valuation it had before it plunged in 2008.
And Gerard Minack of Minack Advisors says he has noticed a particularly disquieting feature in the latest rally. During past peaks, even though some stocks were significantly overvalued, many others had attractive valuations. Now, he says, almost no companies in the S&P 500 are real bargains. "What is cheap is cheap for a very good reason," Minack said. "Everything else is rich or fully valued."


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- June 9, 1946 - November 20, 2012
- North Ridgeville, Ohio
of Vincent's Passing
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"To the family of Vince, I'd like to express my deepest sympathy on his passing and to acknowledge that although I didn't know Vince well, I heard...Read More »
1 of 29 | Posted by: Carolynn Grahovac - Canonsburg, PA
"It was such a pleasure knowing and working with Vince. He had the best smile ever. I was able to spend some time with him and Helena on their last...Read More »
2 of 29 | Posted by: Sandy Lindsey - Lakeland, FL
"Squatty was a blessing to all! We will carry forward his caring and joy for life. Helena and kids our thoughts are with you as you were the focus...Read More »
3 of 29 | Posted by: Dick Tressel
"Dear Helena and family,
I am so sorry to learn of your loss, but I am so thankful for the blessing of Vince's friendship. Warrior is such an apt...Read More »
4 of 29 | Posted by: Anita Evans - Strongsville, OH
"Dear Healena and Family,
Please accept our heartfelt sympathy at Vince's' passing and know that you and your family are in our thoughts and prayers...Read More »
5 of 29 | Posted by: Fred & Kaye Ristow - Apollo Beach, FL
"Vince was "the man", not only in my eyes but a lot of us. He was always there in so many ways. A leader, a kind, compassionate human being and all...Read More »
6 of 29 | Posted by: Mike Petrone - Scottsdale, AZ
"When I was a young boy and Vince was a teenager, the Cravotta's would make a trip from York, Pa. to visit the Gandolfi's in Rocky River, Ohio. In my...Read More »
7 of 29 | Posted by: Gene Cravotta - Warren, OH
"Vinnie, aka "squatty", was such a wonderful person. We are blessed to have had him in our lives! We will never forget the twinkle in his eyes!
Much...Read More »
8 of 29 | Posted by: Pat & Mary Ann Gillespie - OH
"will be missed very mush, was good friend to work with
9 of 29 | Posted by: cindy eck - olmsted twp, OH
"We knew Vince since our college days and continued our friendship with a close-knit group of couples formed during our teaching days together. The...Read More »
10 of 29 | Posted by: Len and Juanita Pariano
"Please accept my sincere condolences. Vince will always be remembered for his friendliness and willingness to help others. Although I haven't seen...Read More »
11 of 29 | Posted by: Dave Williams - Phoenix, AZ
"Our memories of Vince will always be connected to the twinkle in his eye and the grin on his face. He was a true warrior and did, indeed, "fight the...Read More »
12 of 29 | Posted by: Ken & Nancy Kovach - Stow, OH
"Remembering fondly, our brother "Squatty." His warmth, enthusiasm, and infectious smile will be remembered by those of us who knew and loved him. ...Read More »
13 of 29 | Posted by: Cliff Bemis - NY, NY
"My condolences go to all of Vince's family. It is sad to lose a brother.Alan Armstrong
14 of 29 | Posted by: D. Alan Armstrong - Pemberton, NJ
"A WONDERFUL GUY WITH A FAMILY TO MATCH. YOU FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT WITH RESPECT & DIGNITY. GOD BLESS YOU VINCE, OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU....Read More »
15 of 29 | Posted by: BOB MACK - WILLOUGHBY, OH
"Squatty not only was an Atwood Hall of Fame member and past champion, but in the last two years of the tournament, when speaking was a challenge for...Read More »
16 of 29 | Posted by: jerry sheets - hudson, OH
"We were very privileged to have known Vince---a special guy with a great smile. We will miss him dearly. Our thoughts and prayers to Helena and...Read More »
17 of 29 | Posted by: Tom and Nancy Allen - Westlake, OH
"Vince, that voice I would hear on my voicemail is forever silent but I am confident that we will meet up again in eternity where we can talk and talk...Read More »
18 of 29 | Posted by: Teri Bitler - Chandler, AZ
"Vince always had such an upbeat outlook on life.WE WILL GREATLY MISS HIM! May his zeal be carried on through his Children and Grandchildren....Read More »
19 of 29 | Posted by: Pat & Laurel Dobson - Elyria, OH
"We lost a great one...my prayers are with you Helena and family. Always a smile and friendly conversation. I bet Vince gets a Thansgiving day...Read More »
20 of 29 | Posted by: Linda Summersett - Brook Park, OH
"We will miss his great smile.
21 of 29 | Posted by: Scott Powe - Avon lake, OH
"Your smile will be greatly missed! Our thoughts and prayers go out to Helena and her Family.
22 of 29 | Posted by: Lynn (Holztrager) Jones - OH
"What a fighter! Vince is finally at peace. We will miss you terribly Vince. Our thoughts and prayers go out to you Helena. We love love you....Read More »
23 of 29 | Posted by: Tom and Nancy Bruscino - FL
"We will miss Uncle Vince. He was a great man and an example of joy and strength. He was full of life . He always touched our hearts and put a smile...Read More »
24 of 29 | Posted by: Vanessa - Madrid
"What a fight he fought. What a neat, neat guy. The world is poorer. Save us a place, Vinny.
25 of 29 | Posted by: William Walker - Medina, OH
"What an amazing man. Vince, you will be truly missed, and never forgotten. Prayers to Helena and the Gandolfi's.
26 of 29 | Posted by: Kathryn and Jonathan Maerlender - OH
"We were blessed to have been a part of Vince's life - he was one very special guy. We will miss him dearly. Thoughts & prayers to you Helena & hour...Read More »
27 of 29 | Posted by: Steve & Linda Kovach - Westlake, OH
"Remembering the days at St. Christopher's grade school. Many memories of Vince in the parking lot at recess playing various ball games. Vince was...Read More »
28 of 29 | Posted by: Chris Celebrezze - N Royalton, OH
"I am so very lucky and blessed to have known Vince
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Vincent C. Gandolfi, age 66, of North Ridgeville, passed away Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at his home, following a long illness.
He was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania and had been a resident of North Ridgeville for the past 30 years. He previously lived in North Olmsted and Rocky River.
Vincent worked as a District Sales manager for Watkins Motor Lines and Amware Distribution, retiring in 2010.
He was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Avon. Vince enjoyed golfing, skiing, boating, music and was a very outgoing and friendly person who loved being with family, especially his grandchildren, and friends.
Survivors include his wife of 41 years, Helena (nee Fredmonsky); daughter, Jennifer (Robert) Krupka of Olmsted Falls; son, Anthony (Jaina) Gandolfi of Russell Township; grandsons, Benjamin, Charles, William Krupka of Olmsted Falls, Vincent Cataldo Gandolfi II of Russell Township; sister, Claudia Gandolfi-Egido; nephews, Reuben (Vanessa) Egido of Madrid, Alex Egido of the Canary Islands.
He was preceded in death by parents, Vincent and Ethel Gandolfi; sister, Bernadette Gandolfi and brother-in-law, Rafael Egido.
Friends may call on Friday from 3-8 p.m. in the Bogner Family Funeral Home, 36625 Center Ridge Road, North Ridgeville where a prayer service will be held on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial will follow at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 33601 Detroit Rd., Avon. Father John Misenko and Father Michael Kenmore will con-celebrate.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Western Reserve, 300 E. 185th St., Cleveland, OH 44119.


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I have long contended that union is no longer the main threat to rugby league.
Union is no longer cashed up like it once was, and thanks to pedantic rules and referees it is no longer worth watching either!
Further proof of the decline in union comes with the television numbers from last Saturday night. The Wallabies were not only walloped on the field by the All Blacks, they were absolutely trounced on free to air coverage.
Nationwide, the Wallabies game attracted just 289,000 viewers on free to air television. It was basically shown live nationwide.
The Broncos v Dragons game - not shown live nationally - still attracted 1.03 million viewers nationally. In Sydney the league match attracted 550,000 viewers - the rugby encounter just 146,000.
The rugby match was rated 159th in the rankings!
While it is being argued by the ARU that the game rated well on Fox Sports, it did not have any rugby league opposition to contend with.
The television ratings for the NRL finals have been excellent. And timely!
This Friday nights classic between the Bulldogs and the Eels should be a ratings standout.
The other comparative good news for the NRL is that the A-League soccer competition is absolutely on the rack when it comes to attendances.
They posted just over 7,000 for the Roar's match at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday. Soccer administrators must be borrowing one of the bad habits of some rugby league ground officials - double counting!
Today the media is reporting that the ARU might look at trying to entice Jarred Hayne across the divide in 2011.
If he took time out on Saturday night to watch another boring Wallaby walloping he will not have the remotest interest - not matter what John O'Neill might offer!


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Nothing better than strutting down a runway with hundreds of your classmates watching, right? That is exactly what a group of middle school students did at Camdenton Middle School to show off trendy finds straight from the Lakers Closet.
Nothing better than strutting down a runway with hundreds of your classmates watching, right? That is exactly what a group of middle school students did at Camdenton Middle School to show off trendy finds straight from the Lakers Closet.
"The student body overall wouldn't really know about Lakers Closet. This was an introduction to the school as a whole, so they would know what Lakers Closet is and know some of the good things that came out of that," teacher Heather Sappington said.
The Lakers Closet originated from custodian Libby West when she asked if items not claimed in the lost and found could go to students in need. Within a year, the little idea has turned into a community operation. Lakers Closet now has its own room filled with clothes, shoes, food and hygiene supplies. Students are referred to the Lakers Closet from the counselor's office. When a staff member sees that a student is in need, they are allowed to visit the Lakers Closet and pick out what they need at no cost.
"It's like watching your children grow. It's amazing. It started from just a thought. Look how big it is now," West said.
Students from the Student Leadership Team and from Fellowship of Christian Athletes, FCA, played a role in the fashion show. Student Isaiah Lumley emceed the event and explained what each model was wearing while other students strutted down the purple runway.
Students picked out their own outfits and were excited to introduce the Lakers Closet to the student body.
"We spend all this time putting the clothes on the racks and sorting them for kids to come in there. So, it's an easy pick. I just felt like it was good to show people that they don't have to be embarrassed and go there and it looks like other people's clothes," eighth-grader Sydney Woods said. "The kids that get made fun of about their clothes, they can get clothes that look brand new and they can feel like they're not less fortunate. It's a good way to show that you care about the other students and just help out."
Three days a week, students spend time in Lakers Closet organizing, setting up, cleaning and doing anything else that is needed.
"It's really good for our community at the middle school," seventh-grade student Maclyn Castle said. "I hope that kids that don't have very many clothes at this school, feel like they want to go to Lakers Closet and want to pick out clothes from there."
Most of the fashion show participants were girls, but the boys were not left in the cold. A few boys strutted down the runway, as well.
"It's good to give kids who may not have enough at home to give them clothes and to just give them the stuff that their parents can't give them. It's good for kids to get clothes," seventh-grader Harrison Brownell said. "It [the fashion show] helps kids realize that their is something that they can wear and to go down there and get clothes."
The Lake Sun reported earlier this school year that Lakers Closet was in need of a washer and dryer. The school is happy to report that their need has been met.
"The community support and help with this has been tremendous. We couldn't have done it without the community here in Camdenton," Sappington said.
Hundreds of articles of clothing have been given out during the course of the school year.
To keep Lakers Closet up and running, any donation is accepted. Along with clothes, clothing racks, hangers, laundry detergent, tennis shoes and monetary donations are immediate needs. To donate, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or Camdenton Middle School Counseling office.


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Stop Motion Project, an MDG3 Fund small grant winner in Malaysia, released its final two videos on violence against women (VAW) this month in conjunction with International Women's Day.
"When does the violence begin?"
While most VAW campaigns talk about the end, Stop Motion Project believes that ending VAW requires also an unpacking of its beginning. As a complete package, the three stop motion animation videos highlight three different types of VAW as outlined below:
This video was released to the general public on 17th February 2011 after an exclusive preview on Malaysian TV3's Wanita Hari Ini talk show, and has charted nearly 800 views since then. Video #1 covers the more commonly known domestic violence but highlights the level of invisibility of domestic violence to the public eye.
Video #2 – Segregate the Zombies!
In mid-2010, Malaysian bus company KTM Komuter introduced the Pink Coach, which is a coach catered specifically for women passengers to prevent sexual harassment. Video #2 takes a humorous look at the issue of gender segregation as a solution to prevent sexual harassment in public transportation. With this video, Stop Motion Project intends to raise serious concerns and to start public discussions regarding the viability of stop gap measures in ending sexual harassment in public spaces.
Video #3 – What's Behind Your Words?
In December 2010, Stop Motion Project asked various people about their encounters with verbal violence against women. Individuals were not restricted to their personal experiences but also what they have heard others have experienced. Women and men shared with us different accounts,
both personal and those experienced by people they knew. Video #3 highlights these accounts while raising questioning mindsets behind what appear to be "mere words".
Armed with the videos, Stop Motion Project seeks to spread awareness of current forms of VAW taking place in Malaysian society and to start public discussion regarding existing solutions and their viability. Through increased public discussion and awareness, Stop Motion Project hopes that better approaches towards handling – and ending – violence against women can be developed.
For more information, please visit Stop Motion Project.


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very nice shots guys.....here are few of my favorite shots taken this passed winter.
I certainly meant no offense with the thread title, I was just having fun, but I can change it if people feel it goes too far. I think most people, male and female, would find it at least somewhat funny, but alas we do live in a PC age, and I could be wrong.Anyways, the thread has turned out better than I had even expected. You have all put my work to shame - which was my hope - these shots are blowing me away. I count myself lucky to have even gotten photos of these reclusive and camouflaged creatures, and the photos you're all sharing are really amazing! Thank you for posting and I look forward to seeing more and possibly sharing more if I come across more owls.
Hi Mackguyver. I found the title amusing, I think we are going down a path of worrying about what others think when they do not worry! I worked in a factory with 80 blokes and 6 women, I thought women wanted to be noticed, they spend hours and tons of money making themselves look good, then you have to worry, will they bawl you out or claim sexual harassment when you notice a new hair style or a nice dress that obviously makes them feel good about themselves. I actually asked one of the ladies if they would be offended if I said they looked nice today etc and they said they would be delighted someone noticed. Who knew? On topic excellent shots folks, I have seen owls around locally but not a hope of catching one when I have a camera! Cheers Graham.
Here's a couple:...Jerry


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