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My son(4years old) sometimes wake up early, like 7/730 am and he wakes me up. One night I was sleeping at my boyfriends house with my son,(he has a son too that is 4 years old too), my son went in the bedroom and was calling my boyfriend's name asking him a questio. My boyfriend didn answer and my son kept calling his name waiting for him to answer.He then screams at me saying get out of the bedroom, and I say he just wanted to ask you a question. My boyfriend says Im sleeping I want him out my son doesnt do that, Im slepping he cannot wake me up when Im sleeping. And he got my son out of the bedroom and slammed the door. I got upset and he told me to leave.H said I should teach my son better behavior not to wake anyone up at 730 am, or if he was sleeping.
Now I feel like my son didnt do anything wrong , he came nicely and was trying to talk, I feel he could have just answerd my son question and ask him to leave because he was still slepping, and lock and close the door.
He didnt have to slam the door, or yell at him.
I think I dont want to see my boyfriend again, because Im afraid he is going to keep doing it. He wants to marry me and everthing, but i dont think I can tolerate his temper sometimes.
Do you think Im overeacting? Is it normal what he did to my son?And he told us to leave the house because I got upset. I told him he dint have to scream at him, or slammed the door, he could just have answered his question. He got mad at meand asked his son to go inside of the bedroom, he told me to leave and he closed his bedroom door
Idk what to tell you, but i don't think i could take someone yelling at my child and they just asked a question. Thats going to make your child afraid of him and to talk to him and you don't want your child to be afraid to talk to him if y'all are going to be together. I mean its your call.
December 2, 2012 at 11:29 AM
I would kick him to the curb and move on. That was just uncalled for.
by MichelleMcDecember 2, 2012 at 12:00 PM
So let me see if I got this right. You were awake & up with him, then you allowed him to come in & wake him up to ask him a question?
Yes, I would be upset with you for allowing it. I would have said, Honey he is sleeping. You can ask him later, lets go do something else.
However, how he handled it is wrong. He shouldn't have screamed at him or slammed the door. That is childish behavior, and I wouldn't be with him for how he handled that or having you leave afterrwards.
Yes, you shouldn't have allowed your son to go wake him up & to asked a question is not an acceptable reason. You should have respected he was sleeping, especially if his son was still sleeping. To keep asking questions ever, to me, is something we should teach out children not to do, but also if someone is sleeping or not answer, they can't just keep asking & asking, even at 4. Children need to learn to wait, to understand those things. Boundaries are important.
December 2, 2012 at 12:05 PMI would take that as a huge red flag and be thankful I didn't marry him. Behavior like that is unacceptable and likely will only get worse after marriage.
December 2, 2012 at 12:07 PM
I would kick that man to the curb before he gets any other chance to yell at your son. You are not overreacting, your son did nothing wrong (essentially) and your boyfriend acted more like a child than your son. Your first responsibility is the safety of your son, and that includes his mental/emotional safety. If your boyfriend threatens or downright abuses your son emotionally and mentally by lashing out at him for something that little kids do (it's not like your son was yelling, making a mess, breaking things, etc.) then i say dump him- I know it isn't easy but you and your son deserve better. You are totally on the right in this one lady!! Even though your son needs to learn boundaries on when it's okay to wake people up, your boyfriend even more so needs to learn boundaries on how to treat children. Go with your gut. :)
December 2, 2012 at 12:09 PM
I agree with pp, you shouldn't have let him go in the room. But his reaction was way over the top. He's 4, he doesn't know better. At this point I would call it quits, I wouldn't want to be with someone who treats my child like that.
December 2, 2012 at 12:15 PM
I agree with pp too, when i read her post i saw that she had some good points about setting boundaries, but yeah, no man would ever yell at my child in that way- there are times when stern correction is appropriate but out of control yelling is never, ever helpful to a child who needs to learn boundaries and unless you two are married, in my personal opinion, you should be the one doing the correcting, and if your boyfriend has an idea or tip for you on your parenting style, he should talk to you about in private in a calm way.
Your boyfriend showed a complete lack of self control when it came to your son, and that is a huge red flag.
December 2, 2012 at 1:12 PM
Mybe I wasnt clear.
my boyfriend and I were sleeping in bed, when my son walks in the bedroom waking both of us up. he wanted to ask him a question. then of course I just got out of the bed
December 2, 2012 at 1:15 PM
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Schoer said bell ringing is something that's very easy for kids to do, and they get a big kick out of doing it, especially when people fold up dollar bills to put into the red kettles.Lots of students in the Madison school district volunteer for the bell-ringing, but this is usually done on an individual sign-up basis. For these third graders, the teachers made the decision to volunteer for the entire class, and that really does present a special problem, so the parent who complained should not be demonized. But rather than give up on a valuable and rewarding experience, the school ought to just structure things differently, with a choice of activities, and let the children, with their parents' help, decide what they would like to do.
"It's pretty exciting to a little kid when someone puts a $1 bill in, and when it's a $10 bill, they feel it's the best thing in the world," she said.
Schoer said it's disappointing that people believe the Salvation Army, founded by a Methodist minister in England in 1865, is simply a religious organization.
"All of the money we raise goes to feed, shelter and clothe people," she said. "It doesn't go to promote religion."
The word "volunteer" is just that when it comes to bell ringing, Schoer said.
"I don't want to attack the person who won't allow kids to do this," she said. "We don't want anyone to be forced to do it, but it would be nice for kids to have the right to ring a bell if they want to."
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24 comments:
- Palladian said...
Is this the same school that thought it acceptable to compel students to send "Withdraw the troops now!" letters to the President? Do they only fix thing when someone catches them?
- Coco said...
I think ringing bells for the Salvation Army is a great thing for kids or anyone else to do - I have done it many times with my family.
I would also never personally object to my kid's public school taking the class to participate in such an activity.
However, I could certainly understand someone else opposing such an idea. Regardless of one's own personal perception of the Salvation Army, they certainly do conceive of themselves as a religious group. No doubt about it.
- Jacques Cuze said...
I think that teacher should be fired for signing the kids up to do charity work for a religious organization. Just like Deb Mayer was fired for discussing peach protests in class and answering questions.
Both teachers show a shocking disregard for the sensitivity of our children.
Admittedly one teacher was violating the separation of church and state, but worse, the other teacher, a parent of an overseas sailor, was discussing peaceful alternatives to war just prior to our debacle in Iraq commenced.
Community Service, Charity, Compassion, Mediation, Making the World a Better Place, these topics have no place in school
- Jacques Cuze said...
And it's one thing to throw tomatoes, but peaches!
This smiley :) is for XML.
- Ann Althouse said...
Palladian: The letter-writing problem occured at Frank Allis Elementary School. This is Chavez. Third graders in both cases.
- Simon said...
"Admittedly one teacher was violating the separation of church and state, but worse, the other teacher, a parent of an overseas sailor, was discussing peaceful alternatives to war just prior to our debacle in Iraq commenced.
Or, spun another way, the latter was fired for advocating leaving a brutal dictatorship in situ, for telling children that it's okay to look the other way when someone is suffering. "Peace" - sounds nice, doesn't it? Who could be against "peace"? Well, when "peace" actually means "do nothing", I would rather teach my children to help the kid in their class being attacked by bullies, not wring their hands about whether they have any right to help the victim or to kowtow to the wishes of other children in the class to whom the bullies distribute the extracted lunch money. "What would France do?" is not a policy.
She has, to praraphrase Justice Holmes, a constitutional right to free speech, but she does not have a constitutional right to be a teachert.
- me said...
I've personally never thought of the Salvation Army as having any particular religious bent; I did the bell ringing with my son a few times when he was a boy scout. They provide services to whoever needs it (regardless of religion).
I have a very strict view of the Establishment Clause. No Church of England.
Why parents don't just opt out, when other kids could be doing a good thing.
- Joe Baby said...
These schools ever get around to do a bit of schooling?
- Simon said...
"I have a very strict view of the Establishment Clause. No Church of England."
I tend to agree, although I am intrigued (if not pursuaded) by Justice Thomas' view that the establishment clause is unincorporable insofar as it was intended to protect the states against a federal establishment, permitting the states to individually establish if they so desired. See his concurrences in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Asshole, 542 U.S. 1 (2001) and Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. ___ (2005).
- EddieP said...
Parent protest? Send the kid home, let the parent do something different with them.
- Robert said...
This is the kind of behavior that we have to inculcate in our kids. It isn't something to prohibit!
More on the subject here.
- nunzio said...
I suppose the schoolchildren will not be off on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (or Dr., PhD of theology, Martin Luther King for those who try to whitewash his religiosity) because it seems that honoring a religious person whose religiously-motivated work contributed to the benefit of all of our society Establishes a Religion.
As an atheist, I find this worry about establishing a religion silly. They only thing we've established, as that we're idiots about this stuff.
As soon as the consciousness of those in San Francisco is raised to the point that they realize their town is named after a Saint, maybe they will rename it, or else move to Oakland.
- Paul said...
Your advice is right. There is much to be learned by this and so many other real-life situations students are introduced to; helping people by helping Ms. Schoer is not a bad way to learn a lesson.
I agree that a parent who objects should be allowed to hold her child out. I have vague remembrances of being forced to do extracurricular activities I did not want to do. Such choice was not a matter it seemed, for any but the teacher.
I don't know, the times they are achanging but there should be some way from ending with a sterile environment, lifeless. I hope in the end our courts keep learning in the forefront and sensitivities second.
- Aaron said...
Prof A - how does giving a choice of activities avoid having a public school be seen as endorsing religion if one of the choices is the Salvation Army. If someone has a problem with state endorsement of Religion to the extent that ringing bells is a no-no - the fact that it is one of many possible activities doesn't seem to solve the problem. Can you have one afterschool club for bible study as long as there is choice and it is voluntary? I actually don't know and assume you know the thinking on this in a Conlaw context. - Or anyone else who knows why that is an acceptible course of action if ProfA is busy drinking this Friday night.
- Troy said...
I'd wager this kids parents do nothing to help anybody. Separate church and state by all means, but these parents still need to dislodge the corn cob from their tail pipes.
- Simon said...
"As soon as the consciousness of those in San Francisco is raised to the point that they realize their town is named after a Saint, maybe they will rename it, or else move to Oakland."
Not to mention San Fernando, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Mateo, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Santa Gabriel, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara...
Shit - we'd better start renaming cities before someone gets exposed to religion! Somewhere in the vicinity of twenty million poor americans in california are suffering under the theocratic oppression of living in towns named after saints! Won't somebody please think of the children? What if they start asking what these "mission" things were, why the early settlers came to the area? I think we've found a new crusade to keep Michael Newdow occupied: "not only does my daughter have to go to a school where she might not be hermetically sealed against religion, not only do I have to spend money proclaiming trust in a God I do not believe in, but I have to do so while living in a city named after a catholic saint!"
What makes me amused (as an agnostic, no less) more than anything else, is the sheer faith in the power of the Word of God displayed by these militant atheist assholes. They really do seem to be terrified that the Word of God is so powerful that if a child is exposed to itin a public setting, even in the abstract, they will immediately and unquestioningly drop to their knees and give their life to Christ. Without that level of faith, it's hard to understand why they're so concerned to keep such tight control over the religious messages their children (and indeed, full-grown adults) are exposed to in the public square.
- Goatwhacker said...
I think the Salvation Army is great, they're the most active charity in my town and the charity to which I contribute the most. They are clearly religious though and this teacher was out of line signing up the whole class as "volunteers".
Peach protests? My reasoning may be fuzzy but they're the pits and kinda fruity.
- downtownlad said...
Hooray for the parent who objected to this. I find the Salvation Army to be one of the more objectionable "charities" out there. With one hand they claim to help the poor and the needy, but then on the other hand, they are actively demonizing gays and lesbians and discriminating against them in employment matters. Sorry - but there are about 10,000 other charities I'd give to beforehand.
Shouldn't schools be teaching academics? Charity should be taught at home.
- Ross said...
I find myself ambivalent about the merits of the question, but is the "one complaint" rule really a guideline to follow?
In my work, I deal with a lot of complaints. I try to listen respectfully to see if people have a point. I try to explain why things are the way they are. I try to find ways to make people whole. I rarely actually have to back down and fall on the sword, though that does happen.
Yes, the Salvation Army is a religious group, but if you're going to get kids involved in community service (and character education is a reasonable idea), it turns that nearly every private group is either religious or political in nature.
In my town -- as in many, I'd hazard -- the homeless shelter is run by an evangelical group. If you're just Joe Do-Gooder who wants to help the homeless by working the soup line, you are inevitably going to be in thick with the Christians.
I dunno, aren't there constitutional decisions relating to "secular purpose"?
When the kids are older, it's easy to let them choose what they should do, but 3rd-graders are, um, young. If you asked them -- even the Wiccans' kid -- if they wanted to ring bells to help the poor, I'm guessing they'd universally agree. I'm pretty sure that would not be an endorsement of hard-shell attitudes toward homosexuals.
- Pancho said...
The Salvation Army is the only national charitable organization I will contribute to. Read the financial statements of the others and compare them to the Salvation Army's percentages of how the donations are actually spent.
They do great good and yes they were founded by a religous group. If the Gays and Lesbians or Athetists, Inc. want to found a similar organization great....do it, if they are as efficient and beneficial as the Salvation Army I'd be glad to donate and have my kid go an ring their bell.
- Mike said...
This was an easy case. It shouldn't have happened. If anything, alternatives should have been supplied. This was a religious organization with which the teacher was affiliated. It's hard to imagine a child objecting--after all, that's why we have parents.
As much good as they might do--like the Boy Scouts--they are certainly not a secular organization nor do they even try to hide it.
Shouldn't have happened. Easy case.
- knoxgirl said...
downtownlad said: "Hooray for the parent who objected to this. I find the Salvation Army to be one of the more objectionable "charities" out there."
Look: I'm totally for equal gay rights (and gay marriage, and gay adoption...) but this is a bit myopic. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. When you get all hostile toward an organization like the Salvation Army that's what turns people off to the gay cause!
- Ann Althouse said...
Aaron: "how does giving a choice of activities avoid having a public school be seen as endorsing religion if one of the choices is the Salvation Army. If someone has a problem with state endorsement of Religion to the extent that ringing bells is a no-no - the fact that it is one of many possible activities doesn't seem to solve the problem. Can you have one afterschool club for bible study as long as there is choice and it is voluntary?"
As to your last question, there happens to be a Supreme Court case directly on point. Here. In fact, in that case, the school was told it wasn't even permitted to exclude the Bible study club, where the school was motivated by the desire to avoid the appearance of endorsement. The Court said it showed an impermissible hostility to the religious viewpoint. The fact is that putting the choice in the hands of the individual makes all the difference. Where is the endorsement, when there is a choice? I don't think a simple opt-out or even an opt-in is enough. There should be a range of choices, defined in a neutral way, not excluding religion. The kids could be required to select some public service work, and Salvation Army bell-rining could be one of them.
- AlaskaJack said...
The message conveyed to the third grade children from this episode is that charity and compassion equals religion. Are the secular fundamentalists really comfortable with this??


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Today, the first edit has returned to me via FedEx. I always fear opening that FedEx envelope, because who knows what the editors might have done to the article? What an effort one must make not to prickle at every change!
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4 comments:
- Simon said...
I had a question that arose reading this essay again; I wasn't sure whether to email it or if you might want to ponder on it on the record. In light of intervening developments -- I'm thinking more practical than doctrinal: Roberts and Alito replacing Rehnquist and O'Connor, the likelihood that either Giuliani or a democrat will appoint a replacement for Stevens -- are you still "inclined to think that the Stevens-Souter-Breyer-Ginsburg position is likely to prevail in the long run," either "because it provides a clear and stable resolution" or for any other reason?
- Ann Althouse said...
I love the way you assume I'm going to notice a post back here and respond to it. Anyway, yes, actually. I don't think the Garrett line of cases was worth all the trouble and the outrage.
- Simon said...
Ann, I didn't mean to seem presumptuous. Sorry. :) Rather, you've mentioned that blogger emails you all comments posted.
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The launch of the new GigaCloud business is on track, planned for March 2013. Final product testing is currently underway.
Management expects the transformation of its business and its realignment with ongoing market shifts to be subject to the timing of several growth initiatives. Following the implementation of these initiatives, management plans to provide an update and quarterly financial expectations.
Use of Non-GAAP Measures
To supplement GigaMedia's consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with US GAAP, the company uses the following measures defined as non-GAAP by the SEC: EBITDA. Management believes that EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and minority interests) is a useful supplemental measure of performance because it excludes certain non-cash items such as depreciation and amortization and that EBITDA is a measure of performance used by some investors, equity analysts and others to make informed investment decisions. EBITDA is not a recognized earnings measure under GAAP and does not have a standardized meaning. Non-GAAP measures such as EBITDA should be considered in addition to results prepared in accordance with GAAP, but should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, other financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. A limitation of using EBITDA is that it does not include all items that impact the company's net income for the period. Reconciliations to the GAAP equivalents of the non-GAAP financial measures are provided on the attached unaudited financial statements.
About the Numbers in This Release
Quarterly results
All quarterly results referred to in the text, tables and attachments to this release are unaudited. The financial statements from which the financial results reported in this press release are derived have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, unless otherwise noted as "non-GAAP," and are presented in U.S. dollars.
Results from continuing operations
In June 2012, the board of directors approved a plan to dispose of the company's Jidi Joy online games operations in Shanghai. As a result, Jidi Joy operations have been accounted for as a discontinued operation in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Therefore, the results of operations for Jidi Joy have been removed from the company's results of continuing operations for all periods presented. The operating assets and liabilities of Jidi Joy were not significant as of June 30, 2012.
Neowiz agreement
In line with the company's strategy to leverage Web games, during the third quarter the company announced a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with Neowiz, licensing four Web games for Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia. As part of the transaction, GigaMedia received cash consideration from Neowiz in exchange for a portion of GigaMedia's interest in a game studio holding and rights to operate certain of GigaMedia's casual games.
Assets held for sale
In June 2012, the company entered into a memorandum of understanding and the board of directors approved a plan to sell, a 60 percent interest in the company's IAHGames operations, together with a sale of a 30 percent interest in Game First International Corporation. In July 2012, the company entered into two stock purchase agreements (the "SPAs") for the sale with Management Capital International Limited and Infocomm Asia Holdings Pte. Ltd. Pursuant to the terms of the SPAs, the company is to receive US$3.0 million in four installments. As a result, substantially all of the operating assets related to the company's IAHGames operations, including certain liabilities associated with these assets, are presented as held for sale as of June 30, 2012 in accordance with U.S. GAAP. IAHGames operations do not qualify as a component that may be reported as discontinued operations due to the company's continuing involvement in the component after the disposal transaction. The sale transaction was completed in August 2012 and the company has received the first installment payment of US$750 thousand. After August 2012, GigaMedia began to deconsolidate the results of IAHGames operations and began accounting for GigaMedia's remaining 20 percent interest under the equity method of accounting.
Conference Call and Webcast
Management will hold an investor conference call and webcast on November 26, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, which is 8:30 a.m. Taipei Time on November 27, 2012, to discuss GigaMedia's third-quarter 2012 performance.
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A replay will be available from 10:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 26, 2012 for seven days.
A link to the live and archived webcast will be available at www.gigamedia.com.
Conference Call Format
The call will consist of brief prepared remarks, followed by live Q&A and management responses to questions submitted via email. Questions may be sent in advance to firstname.lastname@example.com.
About GigaMedia
Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, GigaMedia Limited (Singapore registration number: 199905474H) is a diversified provider of online games and cloud computing services. GigaMedia's online games business develops and operates a suite of games in Asia, with focus on Web-based/mobile games in emerging markets. The company's cloud computing business is focused on providing SMEs in Greater China with critical communications services and IT solutions that increase flexibility, efficiency and competitiveness. More information on GigaMedia can be obtained from www.gigamedia.com.
The statements included above and elsewhere in this press release that are not historical in nature are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding expected financial performance (as described without limitation in the "Business Outlook" section and in quotations from management in this press release) and GigaMedia's strategic and operational plans. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties and changes in circumstances. There are important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward looking statements, including but not limited to, our ability to license, develop or acquire additional online games that are appealing to users, our ability to retain existing online game players and attract new players, and our ability to launch online games in a timely manner and pursuant to our anticipated schedule. Further information on risks or other factors that could cause results to differ is detailed in GigaMedia's Annual Report on Form 20-F filed in April 2012 and its other filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
For further information contact:
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The Microfinance and Community Development Institute is providing microfinance loans for low-polluting pig breeding to benefit ethnic communities and reduce deforestation in Vietnam. Based on probiotic technology, the program has improved health and prospects for marginalized populations, while reducing pollution including greenhouse gas emissions.
Fast facts:
- 6,000 poor women reached
- 50,000 hectares forested
- 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gases
Vietnam has more than 50 ethnic groups, many of whom live in or near forests, where trees are cut for wood and to create more arable land. But cutting down the forests is leading to water scarcity and flooding. And as the forests go, not only is carbon storage capacity lost, but land degradation creates a vicious cycle that disproportionately affects poor, ethnic minority women.
Such women rely on agriculture, including breeding livestock like pigs for cash – which creates additional environmental problems of large amounts of solid waste and greenhouse gases. Pig farming practices also create unsanitary conditions that cause health risks.
The solution
This project is providing technical and financial solutions for poor women in forest-based communities of Vietnam. The project promotes an organic pig-breeding technique based on fermentation: Pigs are raised on top of "cushions" containing low-cost materials, such as rice husk, that are mixed with microbiological agents and a layer of fermented liquid. The active probiotics trigger a biological process that breaks down animal waste, removing odors, flies, and pathogens. This method saves 80 percent of water, 60 percent of human labor, 10 percent of feed, and 45 percent of the cost compared to conventional pig raising.
Helping the planet
Enhancing the efficiency of pig farming reduces the push to clear forests for agriculture, preventing further deforestation while conserving other natural resources like freshwater. The fermented cushions promote reuse of organic farming waste, decrease solid waste, and reduce pollution, thereby improving land and water quality.
Air pollution is also cut, including potent greenhouse gases: In one year, the program reduced emissions by about 2,300 tons of carbon dioxide, 3,700 tons of sulfur dioxide, and 5,800 tons of mono-nitrogen oxides. The financing scheme encourages people to protect the forests instead of exploiting them, and the area it's active in has reforested to some extent, increasing its carbon absorption capacity.
Helping people
Women who tap microfinancing for probiotic-enhanced livestock breeding have more secure work and incomes. The altered practices have reduced spread of water-borne disease and parasitic infections, including among children. Better land, air, and water quality allows the ethnic Vietnamese communities as a whole to benefit from a cleaner and healthier environment.
Spillover effect
The probiotic pig-farming technology used in this project is cheap and easy to replicate. Capital grows as the women pay back the small loans, allowing ever more loans to be granted. The project has operated profitably since its formation, showing how its scale can gradually be increased.
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Skip to comments.'Angels in America'miniseries about AIDS(Roy Cohn,Reagan,Mormons,gay fantasia)
Posted on 12/05/2003 4:38:06 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
You know you're in for a grand odyssey when you embark on "Angels in America." The epic six-hour flight is composed of two parts, the first showing on HBO at 8 p.m. Sunday and the second set for Dec. 14.
The first view is intoxicating. You sail above cotton-candy clouds drifting over San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge; it feels like heaven, until the clouds clear and we're staring down at the gray Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City. We cruise next past the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and end up in New York City, where we meet the five people with whom we'll become intimate over the next three hours.
They take us into hell with them: The hell humans create on Earth.
It's hot, it's humid and it's irresistible. Tony Kushner's adaptation of his Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play is easily the most absorbing story to hit any screen, big or small, in a long time. Director Mike Nichols deploys a dream team of actors: Emma Thompson as the Angel, among other characters; Al Pacino as the devil, specifically Reagan crony Roy Cohn; Mary-Louise Parker as Harper, a Valium-gulping Mormon housewife; Patrick Wilson as her porcelain husband, Joe; and Meryl Streep as his Mormon mama. In a concurrent plot line, Justin Kirk and Ben Shenkman are Prior Walter and Louis, lovers ripped asunder by the AIDS virus. Jeffrey Wright also mesmerizes in two roles: Belize, a nurse and friend of Prior Walter, and Mr. Lies, a figment of Harper's hallucinations.
The movie is about AIDS in 1985, closeted gay men and the currents of hate swirling around them. Though set during the Reagan years and subtitled "Millennium Approaches," the story is not stale. That's because it is also about the power - and the necessity - of unconditional love.
"Angels" is a seething masterwork of political drama, but it works on an intensely personal level. By the halfway point, we care about the two couples as if they are family. To say they're dysfunctional would be an understatement - but that's what makes us relate to them deeply.
Kushner's characters, like most of us, struggle to live their lives according to narratives they had all mapped out: If I do this, then this, then this, I'll be happy. I've found a life partner, we're doing our darnedest to make it work, so we deserve some peace.
In come the forces of intolerance. The world's going crazy around us, in ways we couldn't have anticipated. Power-ravenous people such as Roy Cohn and Ronald Reagan - according to Kushner - rewrite the rules to fit their appetites. They poison the environment, placing their personal clout above any kind of human connection they might have created with family or life partners.
Pacino is by turns terrifying and pathetic as the Reaganite with AIDS. His opposite is Joe, the beautiful blond Mormon who believed he could quash his homosexuality if he prayed hard enough. The camera drinks in his and Harper's faces, until we're swimming in their tormented eyes. That's something television can do that theatrical productions of "Angels" cannot: The extreme close-up that provides a look inside a character's soul.
Kushner's dialogue devastates even as it howls with humor. Certain bits summarize the scenes, while relieving the gravity of the situation like magic pills.
"We're happy enough," Harper says to Joe. "Pretend happy; it's better than nothing."
In Prior Walter's hospital room, nurse Emily (played by Thompson) asks Louis, "Are you his, uh ...?" He replies, deadpan, "Yes, I'm his uh."
Kushner has his characters sum up his recollections of the Reagan years: Cohn's doctor (James Cromwell), says, "Sometimes the body even attacks itself," while Cohn himself is more blunt: "This is not a good world," he tells Joe, in an effort to bring his protégé down to his level.
Joe, by rejecting his true nature, already put himself in his own region of hell. So has Louis, by abandoning his lover. He says he wants to be with Prior Walter, but can't summon the strength to stay at his side.
Meantime, Cohn carries on as a ringleader in the Reagan circus. We can only imagine how the current Bush administration, with its unfulfilled promises of help for AIDS-afflicted Africa and its stance against gay marriage, would fare if Kushner unleashed his wrath upon it. The playwright recently told The New York Times that he's determined to put Bush out in 2004.
The movie makes use of grand pullbacks over New York City, periodically widening our perspective. By contrast, the interior scenes, such as one inside Joe and Harper's kitchen, wrench us into the characters' inner anguish.
There's Harper, desperate to get past her husband's prim facade. She rattles around the apartment all day, leaving the refrigerator and oven doors open. Joe comes home and closes them carefully, trying to defuse the household's imminent implosion.
Then we come around a corner and see the characters transcend, for a moment, their earthly suffering. They do it by connecting with and accepting each other. Prior Walter, in one such moment, stops writhing in his sickbed long enough to have his role as a prophet affirmed by a pair of ancestors. It is at these points of acceptance, of comprehension, that heaven comes down, like a shaft of light, to Earth. When an individual understands his connection to the universe, that's the moment at which the Angel appears.
Overwrought? Yes, oh, yes. "Angels in America" is refreshingly high drama. It's nothing less than a trip to heaven and hell, with a motley and fascinating crew of travelers.
But perhaps there is a connection via the Hollywood blacklist, to which RR is said to have been sympathetic.....
Uh sure he will, as soon as he gets the gerbil out of his...
Freudian slip, peewee?
This decades "All in the Family"
I set my parameters for child mortality and population as a whole, in Sub-Saharan Africa, from 1960 to the present. Since AIDS is such a highly reported epidemic over there among the kiddies and adults, the death trend should be reflective of said disease d' jour. What do you think I found?
That's right, no increase in child mortality at any time, just a decrease. There was likewise no reduction in population at any time, just a constant increase.
So, will someone tell me how such a mass killer is so ineffective? Maybe, just maybe, the AIDS epidemic is only a political reality. Since you can't justify billions of dollars in international welfare to a skeptical public, you can justify the looting of the taxpayer by saying (over and over again) ...it's for the children of AIDS parents ...AIDS isn't just for homosexual men spreading the virus through the thin, easily-torn membrane of the colon, African heteros get it too ...if we don't stop it there, we'll be next ...these people aren't suffering from ignorance, poor sanitation, immoral lifestyles, environmental pathogens, poverty, drugs or internecine warfare, AIDS IS KILLING THEM.
But in my bias & ignorance, maybe someone can enlighten me as to how an epidemic grows a population in all categories and leads to longer life expectancy in all age groups?
Sangfroid? Who talks that way?
This is a gay, sicko play, symptomatic of the larger homosexual problem: they're dieing, and no one cares.
Was that the one with "Archie Bunker?" I never saw more than a couple minutes of that... TV as entertainment was quickly waning for me even then.
Well thats just too bad because it seems that Hollywood is going to insert some sort of gay agenda into anything you watch on tv or see in the movie theater. Furthermore, more and more stories will appear on news shows, like this morning's show with Diane Sawyer, deifying gays. And if you don't like it shoved down your throat, then you are inseeeensitie and must join some sort of government ordered diveeeersity class.
If can't see the sarcasm, I am sick of it as well.
I daresay very few Americans will be interested in watching this program. I mean, how representative of America is it?
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Ham and Avocado Scramble Recipe
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Hearty ham, creamy avocado and a hint of garlic—this winning egg dish has all the makings for a breakfast, lunch or dinner. —Elisabeth Larsen, Pleasant Grove, Utah
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- 8 large eggs
- 1/4 cup 2% milk
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup cubed fully cooked ham
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 medium ripe avocado, peeled and cubed
- 1 cup shredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese
- In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, garlic powder and pepper; stir in ham. In a large skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add egg mixture; cook and stir until almost set. Stir in avocado and cheese. Cook and stir until completely set. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Ham and Avocado Scramble in Simple & Delicious August/September 2011, p25
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Reviewed Aug. 17, 2016
"This was excellent. Came together very quickly and all four of us enjoyed it. The flavors were delicious together and I used a ham steak so start to finish it was less than 30 minutes. Will repeat this for sure!"
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2015
"This was good. The avocado added a lot."
Reviewed Aug. 22, 2011
"So yummy! The eggs were so fluffy even my almost 2 year old gobbled this up. I used Canadian Bacon instead of ham. I might cut down on the garlic powder next time - I had a garlic taste in my mouth all day. Although could just be my preggo hormones, my DH was fine LOL."


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A St. Patrick's Day lunch fundraiser will be held tomorrow by Friends of Lake Darling State Park at the park lodge from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Irish themed luncheon will be catered by Dodici's and will include soda bread and coddle.
Also, the fundraiser will include a silent auction which will have artwork from local artists among other items.
Tickets can be purchased today for $40 by calling 694-2815 or tomorrow at the door for $50. All proceeds will go to the Friends of Lake Darling Four Season handicap accessible cabins project, explains Dr. Fay Vittetoe. She says the park will soon close for the remainder of the lake restoration project.


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While you're traveling, they're training.
While you're poolside, they're preparing.
While you're cooking out and lighting firecrackers at Fourth of July barbecues, they're eating the right foods and wearing out weight rooms, keeping themselves in tiptop shape for this fall.
There's no true offseason for college football players dreaming the dream of a Heisman Trophy or BCS National Championship.
While there's no doubt the majority of 85 Gamecocks and 85 Tigers on scholarship are grinding away in the offseason to fulfill great expectations for 2013, it's also clear some players and coaches matter more than others.
Since South Carolina and Clemson have high hopes for this upcoming season – and their fans can't wait to see what unfolds – we have compiled our picks for which 12 Tigers and 12 Gamecocks will have the greatest impact on their respective team's 2013 campaigns.
We'll count them down starting Wednesday with the 12th most important player for each team, and conclude the series July 7 with the No. 1 players.
Bend-but-don't-break is one of those generous terms used to describe defenses that give up higher proportions of yards than they do points. Clemson would fall in that category in 2012 — ranking seventh in the ACC in total defense (396.5 yards per game) but third in scoring defense (24.8 points.) If there's an area defensive coordinator Brent Venables would like to shore up, rushing defense is a good place to pinpoint because 156 yards a clip to opposing running games simply won't do.
That's why Grady Jarrett is a critical cog in the experienced front seven this fall. The less-ballyhooed of Clemson's run-stuffers besides Josh Watson, Jarrett has proven he can make plays happen — only Jonathan Willard, the Tigers' leading 2012 tackler, had more than Jarrett's 8.5 tackles behind the line of scrimmage.
He's smaller than your average bear in the trenches at 6-1, 290 pounds, but plays with enough of a mean streak to help contain backs, starting with Georgia's Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall in week one. Being from Conyers, Ga. – less than 50 miles from Athens – you know Jarrett will be plenty fired up for that opener. Consider, the most productive game of his career (10 tackles, five solo, and a fumble recovery) was last year against Georgia Tech.
T.J. Gurley's impact as South Carolina's new free safety depends on how well he recovers from the season-ending knee injury he suffered Oct. 20 at Florida while covering a punt. Gurley was a true freshman last season and stepped in capably on Sept. 22 against Missouri in place of senior D.J. Swearinger, who was suspended one game for a helmet-to-helmet hit.
Gurley missed spring practices but is expected to be ready for the start of preseason practices in August. Even if he's healthy, nobody expects him to be the next Swearinger from the get-go. Swearinger was a three-year starter, a ferocious hitter and the most vocal leader on the entire team. He was drafted in the second round by the Houston Texans.
Last summer, Gurley learned by tagging along with Swearinger in the weight and film rooms. The coaches liked that Gurley wasn't tentative as a true freshman, and they played him in the dime package (six defensive backs) in the first three games before his start in Week 4.
If not for the uncertainty that Gurley's knee injury presents, he would be higher on this list. Junior Kadetrix Marcus performed well enough in the spring that he enters August tied with Gurley on the depth chart. Gurley seemed on track last season to take over for Swearinger, but even if Marcus wins the job, neither player will be as experienced as Swearinger. Gurley could certainly end up being one of USC's most important players in 2013, but questions about how he'll return in August keep him at No. 12 for now.
The No. 11 players for Clemson and South Carolina.


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Age 84, passed away, Friday, November 2, 2012 at her residence. Family hour 10:30 a.m. today, November 9, 2012 at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, 1083 E. Stewart St., with funeral service commencing at 11 a.m. Pastor Lewis Randolph, officiating. Interment River Rest Cemetery, G-4413 Flushing Rd. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the church 10:30 a.m. today. Mrs. Frances (Strozier) Jefferson was born March 8, 1928 in Flint, Michigan, the daughter of R.D. and Luella Strozier. Frances was a resident of Flint, Michigan her entire life. She graduated from Flint Northern High School, "Class of 1945." Frances was a member of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church. She was a homemaker for many years while raising her children. Frances went to work later in life, retiring from Tall Pine Council as a Clerical Aide in 1998. She also worked for the Old Durant Hotel years ago. Frances enjoyed crossword puzzles and watching Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown. Her favorite color was blue. Frances was a quiet woman and "A Strong Tower" for her family. She taught us well. Mrs. Frances (Strozier) Jefferson leaves to cherish her memory: 2 daughters, Pamela (William) Stewart and Lois Jefferson; grandchildren, Shaquita (Curtis) Fields of Flint, Terresita Stewart of Iowa, Charvez Stewart, Charles Stewart and BriAnna Jefferson, all of Flint; 3 great-grandchildren, KeOndra Fields, Giovanni and Maserati Arrington; 6 nieces, Valarie (James) Godwin of Illinois, Darlene Jones, Karen Strozier, both of Flint, Cynthia (David) Sanders, Valarie Britt and Rhonda Warren of Detroit, MI; 6 nephews, Larry Strozier, Lawrence Jones, Charlie Howard (Rhoda) Strozier, all of Flint, Henry D. (Denise) Strozier of Alaska, Rickie Conner and Gary Wood; nieces-in-law, Brenda "Bee" Jones and Shirley Jones; sisters-in-law, Bessie Strozier, Dora Hairston and Betty Epps; a host of great nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Mrs. Jefferson was preceded in death by her husband, Luke Jefferson; son, Edward L. Jefferson; parents, R.D. and Luella Strozier; sisters, Lillian Strozier, Minnie Jones, Lelar Hooper and Gladys Strozier; brothers, Charlie Howard and Robert Strozier; and nephew, Rev. Bee A. Jones. The family would like to express special thanks to Dr. Silvia Seoane, McLaren-Flint doctors, nurses, E.R., ICU and SCU, McLaren Hospice and Loving Hands. The family would also like to express special thanks and gratitude to Pastor Lewis Randolph and the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church family, to her friends and neighbors for caring about her and her family.
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Starting the day and returning for a mid afternoon pick up at The Daily Buzz has become part of many folks routine as they drive along the Kenai Spur Highway. Pulling by either side of the bright yellow drive through coffee cart while staying cozy and warm in your car or truck is a simple way to get to work bright eyed and bushy tailed in any weather. Now The Daily Buzz has new owners and it's a mother and daughter partnership that promises to be a great success. Margo Reilly and her daughter Jennifer Carver, "We've always enjoyed a custom made cup of coffee and as Jenn was growing up we dreamed of having a shop of our own, she worked her way through college working as a barista and got a lot of practical experience," said Reilly. "It's a great partnership so far, she does the business end and I do the day to day managing of the shop so it works out really well," said Jennifer.
There is more to making that perfect cup just the way you like it than most might realize, "You have to develop a good technique when you are pulling your shots and steaming your milk and doing it consistently is definitely a skill of the barista. Everyone has a particular taste in what they like and a specific drink they prefer, so we learn from our regulars and customize our skills to please the customer. The day of just pouring out a cup of Joe is gone," she said. Jennifer graduated from Kenai Central High School in 2008 and earned her bachelors in accounting at UAA last year. "I have worked in the coffee business for six years now and having my own shop is just a dream come true. I've always wanted my own shop and I'm loving being partners with my mom, it's just amazing," added Jennifer. "It just doesn't get any better than having your kid as a partner. Watching her flourish and doing something she loves is just a real joy. To see her take her dream and make it a reality is what any mother wants for their child," said Margo.
This is the first month that Margo and Jennifer have owned The Daily Buzz and they are excited about the future, "We're making changes, we love our staff, our girls are great and share our goal of making this the best coffee shop in town and we are the only shop in town that offers locally roasted Steam Dot coffee," said Margo. "We've got plans for the summer when the fish start running and folks from Anchorage who know how phenomenal the Anchorage roasted Steam Dot coffee is for their Americano, fresh press, lattes and mochas drive by and have to come in for their favorite Steam Dot brew," she said. Jennifer says that SteamDot's mission is to make great coffees. It's why they're in the roasting game. They sample green coffee from all over the world and choose only the beans that are best-suited to match their roasting profiles and the tastes of our Alaskan customers. Their unique Sivetz air-roaster creates world-class flavors and aromatics and doesn't leave behind the bitter tastes found in some barrel roasted coffees. They have a passion for what they do and the beans they roast. "Come in and taste the difference." The Daily Buzz is open weekdays 5:30am – 6:00pm, Saturday 6:00am – 6:00pm and Sunday 9:00am – 3:00pm and is located next to Stewart Title on the Kenai Spur Highway across from Sweeney's.


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After many delays, the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage will go on trial in three months.
The military judge Thursday set Maj. Nidal Hasan's court-martial for May 29. After about four weeks of jury selection, testimony will begin July 1.
The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, said she expects testimony in the trial to last up to three months. The government has nearly 300 witnesses.
Hasan faces the death penalty or life without parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the attack on the Texas Army post.
Osborn didn't rule Thursday on defense requests to move the trial away from Fort Hood or to select jurors from another military branch instead of the Army.


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May 8, 2007 > Affirmative community activism
Nearly 30 years ago, a group of prominent Hispanic community members in the greater Tri-City area conceived a forum to debate issues of interest to the Latino community while also sharing employment information and opportunities. The four active founders plus two behind-the-scenes advisers established the Hispanic Community Affairs Council (HCAC) incorporated in 1984. Could they have known then just how wonderfully successful their idea would become? That network of individuals interested in promoting the values of education, cultural diversity, community involvement, and political awareness has greatly expanded since its beginning days.Earlier this month, HCAC hosted its 25th Annual Scholarship Awards banquet on the veranda outside Chabot College Performing Arts Center in Hayward. The dinner marked a change from the luncheon format of prior years; it preceded a program of entertainment and inspiration during which college scholarships were awarded to 65 local students from low to moderate income families. All recipients are either high school seniors or prior recipients already pursuing four-year degrees. This year's crop of awardees pushed the number of HCAC scholarships over the 1300 mark, totaling well over $1,000,000; nearly $85,000 worth in 2007 alone.As proof of its genuine devotion to community support, HCAC proudly boasts of a near 100 percent pass-through of donor money to student scholarships. The entire board of directors, plus all advisory board members work as volunteers. Other than routine office expenses - printing, postage, and minimal overhead - every dollar raised goes to students with a firm belief that "education creates opportunity."A review of selected comments from applicant essays highlights the importance of these scholarship dollars to the awardees. Guadalupe Lopez, James Logan High writes, "Growing up I saw how much my parents worked, and knew college would not be easy due to our economic status."Edgar Esquivez, currently attending Ohlone College noted, "Excelling in college is very important to me. I am representing all my family members who could never afford the opportunity to go to college." Past scholarship winners have gone on to a variety of careers and professions. To many, giving back time, talents and money remains an important focus. Among those grateful and accomplished former students is City of Newark Councilmember Ana Apodaca. When her Newark neighbor, Jack Benoun, approached her about the group, she had no idea of what lay in store for her future."My next door neighbor talked to me about this group he was active with and supporting back when I was a sophomore in high school. They were doing a fashion show fundraiser and Jack asked if I wanted to be a model in the program. So, I dragged my friend in - you got to have a friend to go with, you know - and we were models that year."Many of the [HCAC] board members were models and we all had to practice a few times before the show. That's when I first met Liz Figueroa [former state assembly woman] and Ray Rodriguez [Newark Unified School District board president], among others."I kept in touch and then applied for a scholarship when I was a senior in 1991." She adds that her group was not even half the size of this year's recipients.Apodaca found value far above the dollars she received from HCAC. "The board kind of took me under their wing. They followed me throughout my college years, wanting to know how I was doing and offering advice. So I had a mentor relationship with several mentors."The Figueroa connection opened doors for Apodaca even before she graduated from Cal State Hayward with a degree in political science. "The last quarter of my senior year, I applied for internships with Congressman Pete Stark's office and Assembly Member Figueroa's. Stark's office said they'd consider me, but Figueroa had just moved up to the Assembly and they said, 'Come on in and get to work.' Apodaca remained on Figueroa's staff for the next decade. She is now a Government Affairs Liason with Kaiser Permanente and devotes many hours to her duties as a Newark city councilmember.Among the values espoused by HCAC is giving back to your community; one that Apodaca and others learned well. She notes that another of her fellow-recipients, Enrique Martinez, also serves on the current HCAC Board of Directors. Martinez, who is now a partner in the highly regarded firm of Ramirez & Martinez Law Offices, donates big chunks of his time, just like Apodaca and the other directors.This year, directors spent two long evenings interviewing 150 candidates, then burned no small amount of midnight oil paring the group down to the 65 who appeared on stage at the May 3rd ceremony. Despite the impressive amount of money available from corporate sponsors and individual donors, Apodaca couldn't help noting that raising additional money will benefit other worthy applicants who were denied this year.To achieve her goal of helping others, Apodaca continues investing her time and energies with HCAC and looks forward to raising greater dollar amounts she'd like to have available. She also prizes relationships she has developed with younger recipients, some of whom she now mentors."The reason why I'm on the board is I felt it was important for me to give back to the community of individuals who helped me so much before."As HCAC swings into the next 25 years, all signs are that their commendable efforts will continue apace. Interested students of Hispanic descent should mark their January 2008 calendars. That's when the '08 applications will be available.HCAC considers applicants based on the following criteria (in descending order of importance): 1) financial need; 2) scholastic record; 3) evidence of leadership and character; 4) interview. For more information about applications, donations or memberships, call (510) 581-7468.Hispanic Community Affairs CouncilP. O. Box 3151Hayward, CA 94540(510) 581-7468


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Cash Cow Review
- Publisher: EA Chillingo
- Genre: Family
- Released: 14 Oct, 2009
- Size: 28.2 MB
- Price: $0.99
- Besides the arcade mode, a casual, endless and bonus modes are available to play.
- iPod access is available to players.
- Simple puzzle gameplay that is accessible to any aged/level player.
- No continue options available to players if they exit the applications mid level.
- The game uses US currency and might throw off players who are unfamiliar with pennies, dimes and nickels.
- No online leaderboard options available; only local highscores.
Cash Cow does offer players some decent gem collecting, coin counting gameplay, but some of its issues may annoy you a bit. But you might want to try the lite version first as this game may be worth the current price.
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Cash Cow is a gem collecting style game where you play as Buck the Cow, who must save his farm from being repossessed from the bank by collecting loose change to repay his debts. Yes, Buck is a cow with debts. Anyway, you'll need to sort through your spare change in order to make dollar notes as the bank will only accept paper money now.
Players tap on coins next to each other to combine them to change them into dollar bills. The gameplay is fine but the first immediate issue is that it's all in US currency. So you'll have to combine five pennies to make a nickel, two nickels to make a dime out and so on. This isn't a huge issue but it'll take you a little while to get used to the names of coins if you're unfamiliar with US currency.
The game's 3D presentation and sound are both well done and there are no hidden surprises here. The game is single player only but multiple game profiles can be stored in the arcade mode, and if players are looking for a change, there are a number of different game modes to play through.
Cash Cow is a solid game that fans of other gem collecting will enjoy. The gameplay is simple and becomes quite addictive once you get going. And while it can be annoying to use US currency, you'll get used to it. Also, once players begin a streak of coins, there is no way to cancel it, leaving you waiting a few seconds for it to disappear. However, Cash Cow is a title that you'll want to have a look at; or at least the lite version to see if the gameplay Mooo-ves you.
Description67% SALE - LIMITED TIME OFFER! Save the farm in the upgraded and expanded version on iPhone!
Buck the Cow's farm is in trouble: if he can't pay his debts soon, then his farm will be repossessed and he'll lose everything. It's time for a change – loose change! In this hyper-addictive cash-clinking game, control Buck as he combines coins, power-ups and special pieces to make moolah! Physics mini-games add to the fun, with plenty of puzzles and features on offer as you rustle up money and customize your own ranch. Cash Cow – it's time to throw caution to the winds, and bet the farm!
As you learn the ropes, you'll soon lose yourself in Cash Cow's deep, clever combo system and 'just one more level' gameplay. As the minutes and hours fly by, feel your skills begin to grow, and your cash-counting capabilities increasing. And when piggy banks, gold nuggets, safes, coin rolls and more get thrown into the mix, the fun really starts!
Once you're an old hand at harvesting your cash windfalls, it's time to turn your talents to the multiple game modes available in Cash Cow. Take the tricks you learnt in Relaxed mode, and apply them to the brand-new story and blisteringly tricky time limits of Arcade mode! Or lose yourself in the zen, mathematical bliss that is Endless mode. Want to beat your high score with some tricky, accelerometer-based coin-tossing? It's time for Bonus mode!
Play through the pun-happy, amoosing story mode, taking on Bill the Duck's troubles and helping Buck the Cow add to the money he already made from cow-tipping! With the cash you earn in the main game, go to your farm and add new, customizable creatures, buildings, plants and implements – all colored and placed by you!
Cash Cow combines lightning-fast addictive gameplay with a lighthearted story, and lets you build your own farm while offering complex combination-based gameplay built on simple maths. It's the perfect game for both adults and kids: it'll even satisfy your gaming itch while training you to count your coin combos faster and smarter!
Find out what the critics are raving about:
"Cash Cow... takes the puzzle genre to a whole new level... this is just one smacking good game... The graphics and artwork are just swell, the game is well executed and designed, and the overall experience was more than I could ever ask for." – No DPad
"Fun, with a unique gameplay concept... a game that attempts something new is worth a look, and when it succeeds, it's even more inspiring." – The Portable Gamer
"Cash Cow takes money-counting and turns it into a fantastic puzzle that rivals Bejeweled in the addiction category. Absorbing and fun, this puzzle game is simple to learn but requires plenty of strategy to master... This one's a no-brainer: if you like puzzles, you'll like Cash Cow." – 148Apps


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4-H Foundation scholarship awards
Sunday, June 9, 2013 11:10 AM
The Huntington County 4-H Foundation announces the recipients of two of its scholarships.
Alyssa Aughinbaugh, the daughter of Robert and Tiann Aughinbaugh, received the Huntington County 4-H Fair Association Indiana 4-H Foundation Senior Scholarship for 2013, and Jackson Johnson, the son of Michael and Karen Johnson, received the Huntington County 4-H Leaders Association Indiana 4-H Foundation Senior Scholarship for 2013.
Aughinbaugh has been a member of Huntington County 4-H and the Hoosier Boosters 4-H Club for 10 years. She has been involved in the foods, food preservation, garden, goat, rabbits, sheep, swine and poultry projects for most of her 4-H career.
Aughinbaugh is also a sixth year Junior Leader and has served in different leadership roles within the Junior Leader program.
Johnson has been a member of Huntington County 4-H and the Pork Chop 4-H Club for 10 years. He has participated in the goat and swine projects during his entire 4-H career.
Scholarships are for graduating high school youth involved in 4-H who are planning to further their education.
For more information on how to become involved with 4-H, contact Julia Miller, Extension educator, 4-H Youth Development, Huntington County at 358-4826, or email@example.com.
The office is located in the Courthouse Annex - 354 N. Jefferson St., Suite 202, Huntington.


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Submission + - Where are all the high-resolution desktop displays? (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "Ever since the release of the iPhone 4 with its 326 pixels-per-inch (PPI) Retina display, people have wondered about the lack of high-PPI desktop displays. The fact is, high-resolution desktop displays do exist, but they're incredibly expensive and usually only used for medical applications. Here, ExtremeTech dives into the world of desktop displays and tries to work out why consumer-oriented desktop displays seem to be stuck at 1920x1080, and whether future technologies like IGZO and OLED might finally spur manufacturers to make reasonably-priced models with a PPI over 100."


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Mac Miller is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania born rapper influenced by artists like Lauryn Hill, the Beastie Boys, and Outkast. Originally signed to locally based independent label, Rostrum Records, Miller took his music and record label, REMember Music to Warner Bros. Records in 2013. Miller is the force behind albums like Blue Slide Park and Watching Movies With The Sound Off and several mixtapes including Macadelic and Faces. The recipient of two 2010 Pittsburgh hip hop awards, Miller is a self taught musician who took his raw talent to the next level and is on the cusp of exploding on a national level. Mac Miller has been involved with several music tours over the years including 2012's Under The Influence of Music Tour which featured fellow Pittsburgher and rapper, Wiz Khalifa.
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Posted by dahsdebater on 10/23/2012 8:20:00 PM (view original):I'm sorry, I didn't realize the manager made his pitchers pitch better. Oh wait. That's because it's bullshit. Give Rick Adair Pitching Coach of the Year if you want, but at least come up with a better argument for Buck as Manager of the Year than "the pitchers did better than previously." For example, better than last year WHEN HE WAS ALSO THE MANAGER.
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Not news in the U.S. the brutal crime took place. Ali-Mohamed Mohamud found guilty of beating stepson to death with rolling pin | Mail Online.
Ali-Mohamed Mohamud was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder for beating to death his 10-year-old stepson.
Homicide detectives and prosecutors in Buffalo, New York, said the case was one of the worst they had ever seen.
After duct-taping a sock in the boy's mouth and binding his hands with electrical cord, the stepfather savagely beat the boy so bad he separated the his head from the spinal cord, crushing the back of his head and exposing his brain, according to court testimony.
An autopsy found he had been struck 70 times.
It was almost a year before his death that police were called to the house by the frightened ten-year-old, who told them he was being abused, calling back shortly after to tell them to hurry.
Officers reported they did not see any physical signs of abuse on the child when they arrived on April 18, 2011, though they did not ask him to take his clothes off for a closer examination.
According to the Buffalo News, Mohamud downplayed the boy's claims of abuse by saying he and his stepson were at odds over him doing homework.
School administrators and teachers said that Abdifatah was a good student who always submitted his homework on time. Two essays he wrote revealed he won awards for his work and was at one stage a top student in his class. He also said his teacher Miss Poole was his hero.
Mohamud is married to the boy's mother, Shukri, and both have children from previous relationships totaling six children, according to the Buffalo News.
Principal at International Preparatory School, where the ten-year-old was a fifth-grade student, said there were troubling warning signs, but the family did a good job of covering it up.
Or the Islamic school that teaches the Koran ignored the obvious.
Kathy Jamil said in June 2011 he came to school badly beaten up with a swollen forehead and two swollen, black eyes. His father told his teacher he had been in a fight on the bus with another boy.
He had that day been 'horsing around' with another student but no one actually witnessed the alleged fight.
Principal Jamil said: 'It was very suspicious. But because the student had admitted to wrestling with him and pushing him, it was very possible that he had just got hit the wrong way on the window.
'I tried to stress in him that he would be safe with me, and he said, "I just had a fight on the bus."CPS officials were also said to have investigated after the boy showed up severely bruised at school but never saw fit to remove him from the home.
Principal Jamil also revealed to WIVB 4 that Abdifatah would say alarming things like: 'I'm going to get killed, I'm going to be in so much trouble', but then would follow it by laughing so no one was really sure if he was telling the truth.
The cops were likely scared to do anything for fear of being labeled Islamophobic and the Islamic school kept it within their community.
Previously: Buffalo: Somali immigrant ties up 10-year old stepson, beats to death


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VALLEY FALLS, Kan. (AP) Two workers were reported injured after a malfunction at a public fireworks display in northeast Kansas.
Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Herrig told The Topeka Capital-Journal that at least two people associated with the company putting on the annual fireworks show in Valley Falls were injured Thursday night.
Herrig says officials believe fireworks stored in an uncovered tote apparently detonated, touching off a large volume of fireworks.
He says one male worker from Valley Falls sustained severe burns to his arm, and a woman from Ozawkie sustained a broken arm. Both were transported by ambulance to a regional hospital. He says at least three other people declined medical treatment for minor injuries.


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Ill-informed male politicians should really know better than to make outrageous claims about rape. And attempting to redefine it is just asking for trouble.
Last week a US politician was misguided enough to refer to "legitimate rape" as he simultaneously made a hash of understanding simple human biology. His wild claim that women couldn't become pregnant via "legitimate rape" is at odds with a 1996 study estimating that around 30,000 US women annually became pregnant as a result of rape.
The satirical The Onion published Pregnant Woman Relieved to Learn Her Rape was Illegitimate which began: "Though she was initially upset following the brutal sexual assault last month that left her pregnant, victim Martha Byars told reporters she was relieved Sunday to learn from Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) that her ability to conceive her unwanted child proves she was not, in fact, legitimately raped."
A catchy song by Taylor Ferrara entitled Legitimate Rape catalogues scenarios that would probably constitute so-called "illegitimate rape" as defined by people like Akin: "I was a little drunk," "I knew the rapist well", "My skirt was kind of short" - and "I'm married to the man." Urban Dictionary defines "legitimate rape" and uses it in a sentence: "Was it legitimate rape, or was it just like, hilarious prison rape or acceptable acquaintance rape?"
A rape survivor's open letter to Akin explored the myth that "legitimate rape is the kind that happens in a back alley, late at night". In fact, according to the Report of the Taskforce for Action on Sexual Violence: "Sexual violence is more likely to be committed by a person known to the victim, with over one-third of sexual offences committed by current partners, a quarter a friend, one in 10 by a boyfriend or girlfriend and one in 20 incidents a work colleague."
Yet it's likely that these situations would not be deemed "legitimate" according to the warped world view presented by Akin. For the record: rape cannot be classified as either legitimate or illegitimate. Rape is rape regardless of whether you know the perpetrator, have dated the perpetrator or have had sex with the perpetrator before. Sex without consent is rape. End of story.
Meanwhile, proving that redefining and diminishing rape is not the sole domain of Americans, on the other side of the Atlantic British MP George Galloway created a furore when he claimed that the allegations against WikiLeaks' Julian Assange represent just "really bad manners" and "bad sexual etiquette" rather than rape. Yet people who are asleep are unable to give consent therefore sex with a woman in this state must, by definition, be rape.
Akin and Galloway have justifiably been slated by opinion writers and mercilessly mocked in social media. Yet, in a strange way, they've done us all a favour. By highlighting the topic and inadvertently providing rich fodder for satirists the world over, they've brought the conversation about rape into the mainstream. They've elevated its profile way more than dozens of well-meaning street marches and earnest blogs in feminist forums ever could - proving that, weirdly enough, even the outdated views of misogynistic politicians can have their uses.
Check out the clip for the song Legitimate Rape:
What do you think is behind the penchant for male politicians to try to minimise rape? And how can we still be having discussions of this nature in 2012?
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K-State Athletics will honor a group of 10 outstanding individuals with induction into its Athletics Hall of Fame this October, school officials announced today.
The 2013 class of the K-State Athletics Hall of Fame, the first since 2008, includes former student-athletes Roy DeWitz (men's basketball), Yana Dorodnova (women's tennis), Lauren Goehring (volleyball), Steve Henson (men's basketball), Jaime Mendez (football), Tammie Romstad (women's basketball) and Austra Skuyte (track and field), former Athletics Director Bebe Lee as well as long-time supporters Dr. Richard Baker and Jack and Joanna Goldstein.
"Re-engaging our hall of fame process has been an important goal and is an integral step in our vision of a model intercollegiate athletics program," said Kenny Lannou, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications and K-State Athletics Hall of Fame Chairperson. "Each of these 10 inductees has made a lasting impact on K-State Athletics and Kansas State University, and we look forward to welcome them back to Manhattan this fall for a special weekend."
The class is the 10th in the history of the K-State Athletics Hall of Fame, including the charter class of 1990, and will be honored during the weekend of K-State's football game vs. Baylor on Oct. 12.
The official induction of the 2013 class will take place during ceremonies on Friday, Oct. 11. The class will also be recognized at halftime of the football game against Baylor the following day.
More ceremony details, including ticket information, will be announced in the coming weeks.
K-State Athletics Hall of Fame – Class of 2013 Biographies
Roy DeWitz, men's basketball (1956-58)
A first team All-American and first team All-Big 8 selection in 1958… Helped lead K-State to the 1956 and 1958 Big 7 titles and a berth in the 1958 Final Four… Averaged 9.0 points and 5.6 rebounds in 68 career games… Captained the 1957-58 team that posted a 22-5 overall record and captured the Big 7 title and a trip to the Final Four… Drafted by Detroit in the third round of the 1958 NBA draft.
Yana Dorodnova, women's tennis (1996-98)
Advanced the farthest of any Wildcat in school history in the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Singles Championships, as she reached the quarterfinals of the 1998 event… 1998 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-American, concluded her senior season with a 25-10 record… Completed career with a 57-30 singles record and ranks fourth in school history for career singles winning percentage at .655… The product of Moscow, Russia, ended her career as a two-time All-Big 12 singles honoree and a two-time All-Big 12 doubles recipient… Two-time ITA Scholar-Athlete… Two-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team.
Lauren Goehring, volleyball (2000-03)
2003 AVCA All-America First Team… 2003 Big 12 Player of the Year… Led the 2003 squad to the Big 12 Championship, a No. 3 national ranking and a berth in the Sweet 16… 2002 AVCA All-District Second Team… All-Big 12 First Team: 2003, 2002… Academic All-District Second Team: 2003… Academic All-Big 12 First Team: 2003, 2001 (second team in 2002)… Career Rankings: 1st hitting percentage (.354); 7th kills (1212); 8th block assists (380)… Single Season records: 1st hitting percentage (.409, 2003); 5th hitting percentage (.370, 2002); 7th hitting percentage (.354, 2000)… 1212 career kills are the most by a middle blocker in school history… Has two seasons in the Triple-Triple Club: 100+ kills, digs, blocks (or assists).
Steve Henson, men's basketball, track & field (1987-90)
A two-time honorable mention All-American and the only player in school history to play in four NCAA Tournaments… Helped lead the Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament in 1987-88-89-90, including an Elite Eight appearance in 1988… Earned first team All-Big 8 honors and averaged 18.5 points per game to lead the Cats in scoring in 1989… Led K-State in scoring in 1990, averaging 17.4 ppg… Still ranks No. 5 all time in scoring (1,655 points) and field goals (527) and is the school's all-time assist leader with 582… Also holds Kansas State career records for three-point field goals (240), games played (127), starts (118) and minutes played (1,243)… Converted 90 percent (361 of 401) of his career free throw attempts and is K-State's all-time percentage leader… In all, broke 21 school records and etched his name among K-State's top 10 performers in 41 different statistical categories during his career… A member of K-State's 10-man All-Century team… Also competed on the K-State track and field team as a decathlete three seasons… Selected in the second round of the 1990 NBA Draft by the Milwaukee Bucks.. Went on to play six seasons in the league… Coached in both the college and professional ranks following his NBA career.
Jaime Mendez, football (1990-93)
A consensus first team All-American in 1993 (AP, Kodak, FB News, Athlon's, NFL Draft Report)… Earned second team All-America honors from UPI in 1993… A three-time All-Big 8 selection at safety, including first team honors in 1992 and 1993… K-State's 1993 defensive MVP… One of eight semifinalist for the 1993 Thorpe Award (nation's top defensive back)… Played in both the Senior Bowl and East-West Shrine Bowl all-star games in January 1994… Owns K-State records for both interceptions in a game (4 vs. Temple, 1992) and career (15)… Had six interceptions in both 1990 and 1992, third most on K-State's single-season chart… Ranks third all-time at K-State in passes defended with 48… Member of K-State's Football Ring of Honor.
Tammie Romstad, women's basketball (1978-82)
Ranks seventh on K-State's career scoring chart with 1,548 points… K-State jersey has been retired… A two-time Wade Trophy finalist in 1981 and 1982… Named to the Kodak All-Region VI team… A third team All-American… Earned WBL region VI All-America honors in 1980… Once held both K-State single-season scoring (686) and rebounding (337) marks… Served as an assistant women's basketball coach at K-State during the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons… Coached Independence Community College to a third-place finish in the 1993 NJCAA Tournament… Selected as both the Kansas Coaches Association and Region VI Coach of the year.
Austra Skuyte, women's track and field (2001-02)
Only woman in history to compete at four Olympic Games in heptathlon… Only woman in school history with multiple NCAA Championships… 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist: heptathlon, 2012 Olympics: 5th place… Key to women's team winning back-to-back Big 12 outdoor championships… 2002 Big 12 outdoor champion: long jump… Competed in 7 different events at 2002 Big 12 Outdoor Championship to tally 25 points toward team total… 2001 Big 12 outdoor champion: heptathlon… Back-to-back Big 12 Indoor Champion: pentathlon 2001, 2002 – score from 2001 is a Big 12 Championship record… 2001 Big 12 Outdoor Champion: heptathlon (6,150 pts is still Big 12 record)… 2002 Big 12 Performer of the Year Indoors… 2002 Big 12 Championship High Point Scorer Indoors… 2001 and 2002 Big 12 Performer of the Year Outdoors… 2001 and 2002 Big 12 Championship High Point Scorer Outdoors… Named to Big 12 10th Anniversary Team… Helped team to 5th place finish at 2002 NCAA Championship… Heptathlon champion and shot put runner-up to score 18 points for team total of 30… Score of 4439 pts in pentathlon at 2002 Big 12 Championship was a collegiate record at the time and held the record until 2008… 4-time All-American… Still ranks in top 10 in school history in nine events… 4-time European Cup Champion in heptathlon – 2002 title was immediately following her senior year.
H.B. 'Bebe' Lee, administrator
Athletics Director from 1956-1968… Became the youngest AD in the Big Seven upon his arrival at K-State… The K-State men's basketball team, under the direction of hall of fame coach Tex Winter, advanced to six NCAA tournaments and Final Four appearances in 1958 and 1964 with Lee at the helm of the department… The Stanford graduate was instrumental in the growth and development of K-State Athletics which included the acquisition of land to build a new football stadium (Bill Snyder Family Stadium) and the eventual location of the Wildcats' current baseball, track and field, basketball and indoor practice facilities… Hired Vince Gibson as K-State's football coach… Lee left K-State to start his own business in 1968, as Ernie Barrett stepped in as the Wildcats' next athletics director.
Jack and Joann Goldstein, contributor
The couple has assisted in a number of K-State athletics facility projects including: Bramlage Coliseum, Vanier Complex renovation, Colbert Hills Golf Course, Football Practice Field renovation and the Academic Learning Center… Also made contributions to the reserve funds of the Athletic Director, Football and Men's Basketball… One of the most philanthropic families in Manhattan, contributing to but not limited to: K-State Foundation, Mercy Hospital, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, Manhattan Rotary, Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community, Manhattan Arts Council, Manhattan Public Library and the Beach Museum of Art… After Jack's passing in 2010, family left a legacy of giving through their company Steel and Pipe… Steel and Pipe has made significant contributions to recent facility projects such as the Basketball Training Facility and the West Stadium Center.
Dr. Richard Baker, contributor
Considered the pioneer of K-State Athletics sports medicine… Served as team physician for K-State student-athletes for four decades (1979-2002)… He personally provided medical coverage for all athletics teams from 1979-1982… He and his wife, Shirely, have been Ahearn Fund members and K-State supporters for 35 years… Donated more than 20,000 hours to Wildcat student-athletes during his tenure.
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Lotus' Jesse Miller to Open for Electron Tonight
Beard o Bees, the solo project of Lotus' Jesse Miller, will open for Electron twice this weekend. Miller will support the livetronica super group at New York's S.O.B.'s this evening as well as at West Chester, PA's The Note tomorrow. The current version of Electronic features the Disco Biscuits' Marc Brownstein and Aron Magner, Brothers Past's Tom Hamilton and Lotus's Mike Greenfield.