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OCEAN CITY- Golf enthusiasts looking for a little pre-Thanksgiving diversion are invited to participate in the Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department's Turkey Trot golf tournament on Sunday at Eagle's Landing.
The popular annual event features a four-player scramble format with scores based on 80-percent of the combined team average. The Turkey Trot gets started at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday morning with a shotgun start and is open to anyone who likes to play golf. The admission price is $45 per person includes a grand turkey feast at the conclusion of play. For more information, contact Eagle's Landing at (410) 213-7727.


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In your lifetime, have you ever experienced the emotional highs or lows that caused you to do things that hurt you or those around you? Emotions that feel like a ping-pong ball bouncing across a table? Then, you begin to wonder "what is wrong with me?"
Well, we all have moods. We wake up cranky or find ourselves depressed after something goes wrong at home or work.
Today is Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, in Mexico. It is a celebration of the lives of departed loved ones and is considered a joyful holiday. Families decorate altars or the gravesites of their family members and prepare favorite foods. The food may be the loved one's favorites or those traditionally served on Dia de los Muertos, such as Pan de Muertos (bread of the dead).
Makes 12 servings
2 cups (12-ounce package) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
1 cup creamy peanut butter, divided
1/3 cup powdered sugar
3 cups toasted rice cereal
Heat morsels and 3/4 cup peanut butter in small, heavy-duty saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth; remove from heat. Add sugar; stir vigorously until smooth.
As mentioned in last weeks column, divorce has many direct or indirect victims, including the children. When parents divorce it more likely was preceded by many instances, perhaps many months of fighting, arguing, even physical confrontations involving abusive behaviors.
When this has happened for an extended period of time, children may be glad that this has finally come to an end, and divorce may be seen by them as a welcome relief, because the atmosphere has again become more tranquil or peaceful.
As the Halloween season approaches, learn how to dress your pet for trick or treating success, and think about what activities are best for your pet.
Dr. James "Randy" Ransdell is hosting his third annual Halloween Candy Buy-Back at his dentist office in Elk Creek on Friday, Nov. 4.
This column relates to the reasons that a new program began last week. The program, entitled "Singles Alive," is an effort in Spencer County to assist and support those who have gone through a divorce or are currently in the process of divorce.
The effects of divorce can be broken into categories including emotional, behavioral, social, spiritual and financial.
On Saturday at 11 a.m., the Spencer County Garden Club will host its first annual Gardens and Goodies luncheon, with guest speaker Jeneen Wiche.
The program will raise money for the Spencer County chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Tickets are $7 at the county extension office before the luncheon, and $8 at the door.
Halloween is right around the corner, so it is time to carve out a spooky plan for your celebration. Whip up this ghoulish graveyard goody for the kids (or the kids at heart) in your house.
Spooky Graveyard Pie
Makes 8 servings
3 cups (about 32 cookies) finely ground chocolate sandwich cookie crumbs, divided
3 tablespoons melted butter
1 can (12 fl. oz.) evaporated Milk
2 large egg yolks
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 3/4 cups (11.5-oz. pkg.) milk chocolate morsels
Preparing delicious comfort food that will welcome everyone to the table is easy if you incorporate ingredients commonly found in your freezer and pantry.
This recipe for Polish Shepherd's Pie is a brand new version of the popular dish from across the pond. It replaces mashed potatoes with frozen pierogies, whipped potatoes lovingly folded into a pasta shell.
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Polish Shepherd's Pie
Serves 6
1 (16-ounce) box of Potato & Cheddar Pierogies
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Patrick Bouchain is a French architect who designs situations as much as he designs buildings, taking on a number of other roles including that of developer, political advisor, site manager, fundraiser and performer. Most of his projects begin with establishing a network of interested people, collaborators, residents, local government officials, neighbourhood groups etc. Once this network is in place, the site is activated socially, usually through opening a small space that functions as a restaurant, site office and consultation area where passers-by and interested people can find out about the project, give their views, or simply watch a film. This initial phase creates relationships between the architects, builders and local people and creates uses for the site before anything permanent is built. Through such an approach Bouchain's projects are sustainable in the real sense of the word, ensuring that what is finally constructed is appropriate and useful for the site and makes good use of resources. Many of the projects are on an urban scale and include the reuse and refurbishments of old industrial buildings through minimum intervention.
With a background in theatre, circuses and urban festivals Bouchain approaches architecture as event, creating maximum impact through a mixture of illusion, clever use of materials and innovative programming. Collaborations play a large role in this type of alternative urban planning, Bouchain has worked with the artists Daniel Buren and Claes Oldenburg. On another occasion he invited Malian builders to construct an acoustic barrier from oil barrels; wherever possible, his projects employ a mixture of specialists rather than a single contractor.
Bouchain curated the 2006 French pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale; rather than following the standard exhibition format of words and images, the social nature of architecture was emphasised. The group Exyzt were invited to inhabit the pavilion, constructing a scaffold-like structure inside and living in it for the duration of the biennale. The space included DJ and design studio, kitchen and sauna, underlining the fact of architecture as occupation rather than built object. This alternative approach foregrounds the role of informal networks, social space, and processes in architecture and has much in common with other European practices such as Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée, City Mine(d), Raumlabor and of course the group that Bouchain brought to international attention, Exyzt.
Patrick Bouchain and Isabelle Chaise, 'Interview: Patrick Bouchain', Blueprint (London), 2009, 38-39, 41-42.
Karine Dana, 'The Raw and the Cooked', World Architecture, 2001, 54-59.
Robin Wilson, 'Le Channel, Calais [France]', Blueprint (London), 2007, 64-65, 67-70.
'École foraine, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, Ille-et-Vilaine = School, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, Ille-et-Vilaine: Patrick Bouchain architecte', Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 2006, 56-57.
'Patrick Bouchain: For a cultural, scientific and joint approach towards architecture', CSTB, 2008, http://www.cstb.fr/actualites/english-webzine [accessed 16 March 2010].
'Patrick Bouchain and Loïc Julienne', Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, http://www.global-award.org/images/monographs/2009/Patrick_Bouchain/content.htm [accessed 16 March 2010].
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Big blues again in the big blue--blue whales are once again being seen off the coast of British Columbia. Seeing a blue whale is a special treat, and a return to former haunts is enough to gladden the heart of an ocean lover.
There is scientific caution about this good news, let's not leap too quickly to assume it's a sign of a population boom. It may be whales migrating from other areas that are now seen off BC.
Our US whale biologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have a lot to say on the subject, and there does seem to be scientific evidence that blue whales ARE doing better in the Pacific Ocean.
Worldwide, blue whales are still depleted from historic highs, especially in the southern hemisphere and the Atlantic. But our Pacific populations are doing fairly well and I'm going to take the BC sightings as reason for optimism.
It's a good day for an ocean lover, and welcome back big blue.


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A man trying to withdraw money from an ATM in Spain got a slithering surprise when a snake wriggled out of the cash dispenser.
The unidentified man caught the critter on video, which went viral. The snake turned ot to be trapped in the slot, and police came and freed it. The incident happened at a Caja Madrid bank in Llodio, a town in the Basque province of Alava.
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LANDOVER, Md. — Robert Griffin III ran for 138 yards and two touchdowns, including a 76-yard scamper with 2:43 to play, and the Washington Redskins snapped an eight-game home losing streak Sunday with a 38-26 win over the Minnesota Vikings.
One week after he left the game early with his first NFL concussion, Griffin also completed 17 of 22 passes for 182 yards with one touchdown and one interception.
The Redskins (3-3) feasted on a Minnesota team that had not allowed more than 23 points in a game this season.
Minnesota's three-game winning streak ended. The Vikings are 4-2.
Minnesota held an early 9-0 lead but paid the price for getting field goals instead of touchdowns in the red zone. Christian Ponder completed 35 of 52 passes for 352 yards.


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1. Security Services (Overview)
Part II System, File, and Device Security
2. Managing Machine Security (Overview)
3. Controlling Access to Systems (Tasks)
4. Controlling Access to Devices (Tasks)
5. Using the Basic Audit Reporting Tool (Tasks)
6. Controlling Access to Files (Tasks)
7. Using the Automated Security Enhancement Tool (Tasks)
Part III Roles, Rights Profiles, and Privileges
8. Using Roles and Privileges (Overview)
9. Using Role-Based Access Control (Tasks)
10. Role-Based Access Control (Reference)
Primary Administrator Rights Profile
System Administrator Rights Profile
Printer Management Rights Profile
Basic Solaris User Rights Profile
Viewing the Contents of Rights Profiles
Authorization Naming and Delegation
Authorization Naming Conventions
Example of Authorization Granularity
Delegation Authority in Authorizations
RBAC Databases and the Naming Services
Commands That Require Authorizations
Part IV Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Services
13. Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework (Overview)
14. Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework (Tasks)
15. Oracle Solaris Key Management Framework
Part V Authentication Services and Secure Communication
16. Using Authentication Services (Tasks)
19. Using Solaris Secure Shell (Tasks)
20. Solaris Secure Shell (Reference)
21. Introduction to the Kerberos Service
22. Planning for the Kerberos Service
23. Configuring the Kerberos Service (Tasks)
24. Kerberos Error Messages and Troubleshooting
25. Administering Kerberos Principals and Policies (Tasks)
26. Using Kerberos Applications (Tasks)
27. The Kerberos Service (Reference)
Part VII Oracle Solaris Auditing
28. Oracle Solaris Auditing (Overview)
29. Planning for Oracle Solaris Auditing
30. Managing Solaris Auditing (Tasks)
31. Solaris Auditing (Reference)
The following four databases store the data for the RBAC elements:
Extended user attributes database (user_attr) – Associates users and roles with authorizations, privileges, and rights profiles
Rights profile attributes database (prof_attr) – Defines rights profiles, lists the profiles' assigned authorizations, keywords, and identifies the associated help file
Authorization attributes database (auth_attr) – Defines authorizations and their attributes, and identifies the associated help file
Execution attributes database (exec_attr) – Identifies the commands with security attributes that are assigned to specific rights profiles
The policy.conf database contains authorizations,privileges, and rights profiles that are applied to all users. For more information, see policy.conf File.
Each RBAC database uses a key=value syntax for storing attributes. This method accommodates future expansion of the databases. The method also enables a system to continue to operate if the system encounters a keyword that is unknown to its policy. The key=value contents link the files. The following linked entries from the four databases illustrate how the RBAC databases work together.
Example 10-1 Showing RBAC Database Connections
In the following example, the user jdoe gets the capabilities of the File System Management rights profile through being assigned the role filemgr.
The user jdoe is assigned the role filemgr in the jdoe user entry in the user_attr database.
# user_attr - user definition jdoe::::type=normal;roles=filemgr
The role filemgr is assigned the rights profile File System Management in the role's entry in the user_attr database.
# user_attr - role definition filemgr::::profiles=File System Management;type=role
The user and the role are uniquely defined in the passwd and shadow files on the local system, or in equivalent databases in a distributed naming service.
The File System Management rights profile is defined in the prof_attr database. This database also assigns three sets of authorizations to the File System Management entry.
# prof_attr - rights profile definitions and assigned authorizations File System Management:::Manage, mount, share file systems: help=RtFileSysMngmnt.html; auths=solaris.admin.fsmgr.*,solaris.admin.diskmgr.*,solaris.admin.volmgr.*
The authorizations are defined in the auth_attr database.
# auth_attr - authorization definitions solaris.admin.fsmgr.:::Mounts and Shares::help=AuthFsmgrHeader.html solaris.admin.fsmgr.read:::View Mounts and Shares::help=AuthFsmgrRead.html solaris.admin.fsmgr.write:::Mount and Share Files::help=AuthFsmgrWrite.html
The File System Management rights profile is assigned commands with security attributes in the exec_attr database.
# exec_attr - rights profile names with secured commands File System Management:suser:cmd:::/usr/sbin/mount:uid=0 File System Management:suser:cmd:::/usr/sbin/dfshares:euid=0 … File System Management:solaris:cmd:::/usr/sbin/mount:privs=sys_mount …
The name service scope of the RBAC databases can apply to the local host only. The scope can also include all hosts that are served by a naming service such as NIS, NIS+, or LDAP.Which naming service has precedence is set for each of the databases in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.
auth_attr entry – Sets the naming service precedence for the auth_attr database.
passwd entry – Sets the naming service precedence for the user_attr database.
prof_attr entry – Sets the naming service precedence for the prof_attr database. Also sets the naming service precedence for the exec_attr database.
For example, if a command with security attributes is assigned to a rights profile that exists in two naming services, only the entry in the first service is used.
The user_attr database contains user and role information that supplements the passwd and shadow databases. The user_attr database contains extended user attributes such as authorizations, rights profiles, privileges, and assigned roles.The fields in the user_attr database are separated by colons, as follows:
The fields have the following meanings:
The name of the user or role as specified in the passwd database.
These fields are reserved for future use.
An optional list of semicolon-separated (;) key-value pairs that describes the security attributes to be applied when the user runs commands. The four valid keys are type, auths, profiles, and roles.
The type keyword can be set to normal, if this account is for a normal user. The type is role if this account is for a role.
The auths keyword specifies a comma-separated list of authorization names that are chosen from names that are defined in the auth_attr database. Authorization names can include the asterisk (*) character as a wildcard. For example, solaris.device.* means all of the Solaris device authorizations.
The profiles keyword specifies an ordered, comma-separated list of rights profile names from the prof_attr database. The order of rights profiles works similarly to UNIX search paths. The first profile in the list that contains the command to be executed defines which (if any) security attributes are to be applied to the command.
The roles keyword specifies a comma-separated list of role names. Note that roles are defined in the same user_attr database. Roles are indicated by setting the type value to role. Roles cannot be assigned to other roles.
The following example demonstrates how the Operator role is defined in a typical user_attr database. The example shows how the role is assigned to user jdoe. Roles and users are differentiated by the type keyword.
% grep operator /etc/user_attr jdoe::::type=normal;roles=operator operator::::profiles=Operator;type=role
All authorizations are stored in the auth_attr database. Authorizations can be assigned to users, to roles, or to rights profiles. The preferred method is to place authorizations in a rights profile, to include the profile in a role's list of profiles, and then to assign the role to a user.
The fields in the auth_attr database are separated by colons, as follows:
The fields have the following meanings:
A unique character string that is used to identify the authorization in the format prefix.[suffix]. Authorizations for the Solaris OS use solaris as a prefix. All other authorizations should use a prefix that begins with the reverse-order Internet domain name of the organization that creates the authorization (for example, com.xyzcompany). The suffix indicates what is being authorized, which is typically the functional area and operation.
When the authname consists of a prefix and functional area and ends with a period, the authname serves as a heading to be used by applications in their GUIs. A two-part authname is not an actual authorization. The authname of solaris.printmgr. is an example of a heading.
When authname ends with the word "grant," the authname serves as a grant authorization. A grant authorization enables the user to delegate to other users authorizations with the same prefix and functional area. The authname of solaris.printmgr.grant is an example of a grant authorization. solaris.printmgr.grant gives the user the right to delegate to other users such authorizations as solaris.printmgr.admin and solaris.printmgr.nobanner.
Reserved for future use.
A short name for the authorization. This short name is suitable for display in user interfaces, such as in a scrolling list in a GUI.
A long description. This field identifies the purpose of the authorization, the applications in which the authorization is used, and the type of user who might use the authorization. The long description can be displayed in the help text of an application.
An optional list of semicolon-separated (;) key-value pairs that describe the attributes of an authorization. Zero or more keys can be specified.
The keyword help identifies a help file in HTML. Help files can be accessed from the index.html file in the /usr/lib/help/auths/locale/C directory.
The following example shows an auth_attr database with some typical values:
% grep printer /etc/security/auth_attr solaris.admin.printer.:::Printer Information::help=AuthPrinterHeader.html solaris.admin.printer.delete:::Delete Printer Information::help=AuthPrinterDelete.html solaris.admin.printer.modify:::Update Printer Information::help=AuthPrinterModify.html solaris.admin.printer.read:::View Printer Information::help=AuthPrinterRead.html
Note that solaris.admin.printer. is defined as a heading, because the authorization name ends in a dot (.). Headings are used by the GUIs to organize families of authorizations.
The prof_attr database stores the name, description, help file location, privileges, and authorizations that are assigned to rights profiles. The commands and security attributes that are assigned to rights profiles are stored in the exec_attr database. For more information, see exec_attr Database. The fields in the prof_attr database are separated by colons, as follows:
The fields have the following meanings:
The name of the rights profile. Rights profile names are case-sensitive. This name is also used by the user_attr database to indicate the profiles that are assigned to roles and users.
Reserved for future use.
A long description. This field should explain the purpose of the rights profile, including what type of user would be interested in using the profile. The long description should be suitable for display in the help text of an application.
An optional list of key-value pairs that are separated by semicolons (;) that describes the security attributes to apply to the object on execution. Zero or more keys can be specified. The valid keys are help. profiles, and auths.
The keyword help identifies a help file in HTML. Help files can be accessed from the index.html file in the /usr/lib/help/profiles/locale/C directory.
The keyword profiles specifies a comma-separated list of rights profiles. These profiles are called supplementary rights profiles.
The keyword auths specifies a comma-separated list of authorization names that are chosen from those names that are defined in the auth_attr database. Authorization names can be specified with the asterisk (*) character as a wildcard.
The keyword privs specifies a comma-separated list of privileges. These privileges are in effect for all commands in a profile shell.
The following example shows two typical prof_attr database entries. Note that the Printer Management rights profile is a supplementary rights profile of the Operator rights profile. The example is wrapped for display purposes.
% grep 'Printer Management' /etc/security/prof_attr Printer Management::: Name of rights profile Manage printers, daemons, spooling: Description help=RtPrntAdmin.html; Help file auths=solaris.admin.printer.read, Authorizations solaris.admin.printer.modify,solaris.admin.printer.delete ... Operator::: Name of rights profile Can perform simple administrative tasks: Description profiles=Printer Management, Supplementary rights profiles Media Backup,All; help=RtOperator.html Help file
The exec_attr database defines commands that require security attributes to succeed. The commands are part of a rights profile. A command with its security attributes can be run by roles or users to whom the profile is assigned.
The fields in the exec_attr database are separated by colons, as follows:
The fields have the following meanings.
The name of the rights profile. Rights profile names are case-sensitive. The name refers to a profile in the prof_attr database.
The security policy that is associated with this entry. Currently, suser and solaris are the valid entries. The solaris policy recognizes privileges. The suser policy does not.
The type of entity that is specified. Currently, the only valid entity type is cmd (command).
Reserved for future use.
A string that identifies the entity. Commands should have the full path or a path with a wildcard (*). To specify arguments, write a script with the arguments and point the id to the script.
An optional list of semicolon (;) separated key-value pairs that describes the security attributes to apply to the entity on execution. Zero or more keys can be specified. The list of valid keywords depends on the policy that is enforced.
For the suser policy, the four valid keys are euid, uid, egid, and gid.
The euid and uid keywords contain a single user name or a numeric user ID (UID). Commands that are designated with euid run with the supplied UID, which is similar to setting the setuid bit on an executable file. Commands that are designated with uid run with both the real UID and the effective UID.
The egid and gid keywords contain a single group name or numeric group ID (GID). Commands that are designated with egid run with the supplied GID, which is similar to setting the setgid bit on an executable file. Commands that are designated with gid run with both the real GID and the effective GID.
For the solaris policy, the valid keyword is privs. The value consists of a list of privileges that are separated by commas.
The following example shows some typical values from an exec_attr database:
% grep 'File System Management' /etc/security/exec_attr File System Management:suser:cmd:::/usr/sbin/ff:euid=0 File System Management:solaris:cmd:::/usr/sbin/mount:privs=sys_mount …
The policy.conf file provides a way of granting specific rights profiles, specific authorizations, and specific privileges to all users. The relevant entries in the file consist of key=value pairs:
AUTHS_GRANTED=authorizations – Refers to one or more authorizations.
PROFS_GRANTED=rights profiles – Refers to one or more rights profiles.
The following example shows some typical values from a policy.conf database:
# grep AUTHS /etc/security/policy AUTHS_GRANTED=solaris.device.cdrw # grep PROFS /etc/security/policy PROFS_GRANTED=Basic Solaris User # grep PRIV /etc/security/policy #PRIV_DEFAULT=basic #PRIV_LIMIT=all
For more information about privileges, see Privileges (Overview).


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RINGWOOD – Because Ringwood isn't expecting any growth in its tax base, Ringwood residents could see their property taxes go up this year.
The Ringwood Village Board voted, 4-2, to approve a levy for $77,500, an increase of $1,000.
The 1.3 percent increase in the levy doesn't approach the state's tax cap, which is 3 percent this year, but two board members, village President Rick Mack and Trustee Don House, still voted against it.
Mack wanted a flat levy.
"At this time, with property values being stagnant, and I don't see any signs at this time of that improving, I opposed an increase in the levy," he said.
That's the reasoning behind why at least one of the other board members approved the moderate increase.
"We could of obviously have gone higher," Trustee Kelley Kepes said. "It's not at the cap. We also could not have increased it at all or gone lower.
"Times are still tough for a lot of our citizens. That's the reason why we didn't go more. We sit and we struggle with this. ... We have to pay this and we have to face this too. But then we see the bills too."
Kepes also is the chairwoman of the village's finance committee.
This past year, the village resurfaced one of its major arteries, Barnard Mill Road. The project was primarily funded through a federal grant, although the village's 20 percent-match still was $150,000.
That's nearly double its levy, Kepes pointed out.
The village doesn't plan to do any resurfacing this coming year, but if the village needs to do another resurfacing project in the future, it needs to put away some money now, she said.
Some patching is on the agenda though.
The levy also is designed to keep up with the costs of inflation, Mack said.
The state tax cap, passed in 1991 to reign in spiraling property taxes, ties levy increases to the rate of inflation through the Consumer Price Index.
"There's no changes [in our financial outlook]," Kepes said. "I think the philosophy is the same: Never to go in debt. Never to buy anything that we can't afford. Do everything that we need to do but as fiscally responsibly as you can."


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2012 Was Hottest Year Ever in U.S.
2012 Was Hottest Year Ever in U.S.
The numbers are in: 2012, the year of a surreal March heat wave, a severe drought in the Corn Belt and a huge storm that caused broad devastation in the Middle Atlantic States, turns out to have been the hottest year ever recorded in the contiguous United States.
How hot was it? The temperature differences between years are usually measured in fractions of a degree, but last year's 55.3 degree average demolished the previous record, set in 1998, by a full degree Fahrenheit.
If that does not sound sufficiently impressive, consider that 34,008 daily high records were set at weather stations across the country, compared with only 6,664 record lows, according to a count maintained by the Weather Channel meteorologist Guy Walton, using federal temperature records.
That ratio, which was roughly in balance as recently as the 1970s, has been out of whack for decades as the country has warmed, but never by as much as it was last year.


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Slow, non-intense, daily practice of moderate exercise, as it has been done in China through Qigong and in India through Yoga for centuries, is now emerging, with scientific authorization as the fitness enhancement practice of choice. While it seems belated in a culture so scientifically evolved, this information is a real miracle in a time of serious crisis in our health care. Already fit who can jog, do aerobics and afford health club membership. Now, especially when we look to how the Asian traditions have refined this idea over time, the unwell, the bedridden, those limited to wheel chairs, elders and even the partially paralyzed can derive significant fitness building through moderate self-applied practices of Qigong and Yoga.
The movement arts of the Asian cultures are profoundly beautiful and extremely extensive. In China there are literally thousands of movements and postures with variations depending on whether they originate in northern or southern China, in specific families, specific monastic traditions or in one of many lineages of a simplified, preliminary approach that is easy to learn and use to support practitioners toward better health.
Beyond these preliminary movements and postures there are the 108 specific gestures in Yang style Chi and there are other short and long Tai Chi forms. There are the Qigong forms that mimic many animals: tiger, crane, bear, deer, eagle, snake and rhinoceros, as well as the mythological dragon and phoenix. There are forms for the seasons, the climates, the elemental forces of the cosmos, the colors, the internal organs, revered immortal masters and particular health disorders. Some forms are just practical and for fitness, others are esoteric and spiritual. All have fitness and health applications.
It must be remembered that in the Asian cultures the Qi, the vitality or energy, is of foremost important in health and fitness. The preliminary methods regarding movement and posture may seen strange or senseless; however, they are focused first on enhancing and moving the Qi. It is an illusion to think that the best way to mobilize the Qi is with vigorous movement. Some of the movements and posture which seem to have the least content or action are actually the most profound methods for generating Qi, circulating Qi and enhancing one's own awareness of Qi. Use these movements and postures as a seed to grow your own passion and devotion to your personal practice. Look to the martial arts, to ballet, to yoga, to personal self-expression for inspiration. Admire and copy the animals, as did the ancient physician Hua To. They have an inherent sense of nature's rhythm and law. Borrow from the great masters and the great traditions but also bring your own essence forth as well. Hold to the remembrance that it is the life force, the vitality, the bioenergetic field, the Qi that is your focus.


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Once there was an old man who loved things, for the slightest contact with people produced in him a faint but persistent nausea. He could not remember when this distaste began, nor could he remember ever being free of it. As a young boy he had been greatly disturbed by this revulsion which others did not seem to share, but having got a fine education, he learned, among other things, the word "misanthrope." Knowing his label provided himith both comfort and courage, he believed that to name an evil was to neutralize if not annihilate it. Then, too, he had read several books and made the acquaintance of several great misanthropes of the ages, whose spiritual company soothed him and provided him with yardsticks for measuring his whims, his yearnings, and his antipathies. Moreover, he found misanthropy an excellent means of developing character: when he subdued his revulsion and occasionally touched, helped, counseled, or befriended somebody, he was able to think of his behavior as generous and his intentions as noble. When he was enraged by some human effort or flaw, he was able to regard himself as discriminating, fastidious, and full of nice scruples
As in the case of many misanthropes, his disdain for people led him into a profession designed to serve them. He was engaged in a line of work that was dependent solely on his ability to win the trust of others, and one in which the most intimate relationships were necessary. Having dallied with the priesthood in the Anglican Church, he abandoned it to become a caseworker. Time and misfortune, however, conspired against him, and he settled finally on a profession that brought him both freedom and satisfaction. He became a "Reader, Adviser, and Interpreter of Dreams." It was a profession that suited him well. His hours were his own, the competition was slight, the clientele was already persuaded and therefore manageable, and he had numerous opportunities to witness human stupidity without sharing it or being compromised by it, and to nurture his fastidiousness by viewing physical decay. Although his income was small, he had no taste for luxury--his experiencen the monastery had solidified his natural asceticism while it developed his preference for solitude. Celibacy was a haven, silence a shield
All his life he had had a fondness for things--not the acquisition of wealth or beautiful objects, but a genuine love of worn objects: a coffee pot that had been his mother's, a welcome mat from the door of a rooming house he once lived in, a quilt from a Salvation Army store counter. It was as though his disdain of human contact had converted itself into a craving for things humans had touched. The residue of the human spirit smeared on inanimate objects was all he could withstand of humanity. To contemplate, for example, evidence of human footsteps on the mat--absorb the smell of the quilt and wallow in the sweet certainty that many bodies had sweated, slept, dreamed, made love, been ill, and even died under it. Wherever he went, he took along his things, and was always searching for others. This thirst for worn things led him to casual but habitual examinations of trash barrels in alleys and wastebaskets in public places....
All in all, his personality was an arabesque: intricate, symmetrical, balanced, and tightly constructed--except for one flaw. The careful design was marred occasionally by rare but keen sexual cravings
He could have been an active homosexual but lacked the courage. Bestiality did not occur to him, and sodomy was quite out of the question, for he did not experience sustained erections and could not endure the thought of somebody else's. And besides, the one thing that disgusted him more than entering and caressing a woman was caressing and being caressed by a man. In any case, his cravings, although intense, never relished physical contact. He abhorredlesh on flesh. Body odor, breath odor, overwhelmed him. The sight of dried matter in the corner of the eye, decayed or missing teeth, ear wax, blackheads, moles, blisters, skin crusts--all the natural excretions and protections the body was capable of--disquieted him. His attentions therefore gradually settled on those humans whose bodies were least offensive--children. And since he was too diffident to confront homosexuality, and since little boys were insulting, scary, and stubborn, he further limited his interests to little girls. They were usually manageable and frequently seductive. His sexuality was anything but lewd; his patronage of little girls smacked of innocence and was associated in his mind with cleanliness. He was what one might call a very clean old man
A cinnamon-eyed West Indian with lightly browned skin. Although his given name was printed on the sign in his kitchen window, and on the business cards he circulated, he was called by the townspeople Soaphead Church. No one knew where the "Church" part came from--perhaps somebody's recollection of his days as a guest preacher--those reverends who had been called but who had no flock or coop, and were constantly
Visiting other churches, sitting on the altar with the host preacher. But everybody knew what "Soaphead" meant--the tight, curly hair that took on and held a sheen and wave when pomaded with soap lather. A sort of primitive process
He had been reared in a family proud of its academic accomplishments and its mixed blood--in fact, they believed the former was based on the latter. A Sir Whitcomb, some decaying British nobleman, who chose to disintegrate under a sun more easeful than England's, hadntroduced the white strain into the family in the early 1800's. Being a gentleman by order of the King, he had done the civilized thing for his mulatto bastard--provided it with three hundred pounds sterling, to the great satisfaction of the bastard's mother, who felt that fortune had smiled on her. The bastard too was grateful, and regarded as his life's goal the hoarding of this white strain. He bestowed his favors on a fifteen-year-old girl of similar parentage. She, like a good Victorian parody, learned from her husband all that was worth learning--to separate herself in body, mind, and spirit from all that suggested Africa; to cultivate the habits, tastes, preferences that her absent father-in-law and foolish mother-in-law would have approved
They transferred this Anglophilia to their six children and sixteen grandchildren. Except for an occasional and unaccountable insurgent who chose a restive black, they married "up," lightening the family complexion and thinning out the family features
With the confidence born of a conviction of superiority, they performed well at schools. They were industrious, orderly, and energetic, hoping to prove beyond a doubt De Gobineau's hypothesis that "all civilizations derive from the white race, that none can exist without its help, and that a society is great and brilliant only so far as it preserves the blood of the noble group that created it." Thus, they were seldom overlooked by schoolmasters who recommended promising students for study abroad. The men studied medicine, law, theology, and emerged repeatedly in the powerless government offices available to the native population. That they were corrupt in public and private practice, both lecherous and as civious, was considered their noble right, and thoroughly enjoyed by most of the less gifted population
As the years passed, due to the carelessness of some of the Whitcomb brothers, it became difficult to maintain their whiteness, and some distant and some not so distant relatives married each other. No obviously bad effects were noticed from these ill-advised unions, but one or two old maids or gardener boys marked a weakening of faculties and a disposition toward eccentricity in some of the children. Some flaw outside the usual alcoholism and lechery. They blamed the flaw on intermarriage with the family, however, not on the original genes of the decaying lord. In any case, there were flukes. No more than in any other family, to be sure, but more dangerous because more powerful. One of them was a religious fanatic who founded his own secret sect and fathered four sons, one of whom became a schoolmaster known for the precision of his justice and the control in his violence. This schoolmaster married a sweet, indolent half-Chinese girl for whom the fatigue of bearing a son was too much. She died soon after childbirth. Her son, named Elihue Micah Whitcomb, provided the schoolmaster with ample opportunity to work out his theories of education, discipline, and the good life. Little Elihue learned everything he needed to know well, particularly the fine art of self-deception. He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment. Thus he chose to remember Hamlet's abuse of Ophelia, but not Christ's love of Mary Magdalene; Hamlet's frivolous politics, but not Christ's serious anarchy. He noticed Gibbon's acidity, but not his tolerance, Othello's love for the fair Desdemona, but not Iago's perverted love of Othello. The works he admired most were Dante's; those he despised most were Dostoyevsky's. For all his exposure to the best minds of the Western world, he allowed only the narrowest interpretation to touch him. He responded to his father's controlled violence by developing hard habits and a soft imagination. A hatred of, and fascination with, any hint of disorder or decay


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So the Savoy cocktail book gives the Mayfair Cocktail as:
Mayfair Cocktail
1 Dash Clove Syrup.
1/4 Apricot Brandy.
1/4 Orange Juice.
1/2 Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
About the Mayfair, Robert Vermeire sez:
Mayfair Cocktail
¼ gill of Dry Gin;
¼ gill of Orange Juice;
3 or 4 dashes of Apricot Syrup flavored with a little Cloves Syrup.
This cocktail possesses a delicious flavor. I invented it at the Embassy Club in London, 1921. Mayfair is the aristocratic quarter of London, called so because under the reign of Charles II (seventeenth century) they used to hold a yearly fair there during the month of May.
Interesting evolution of the recipe between the source, Vermeire and the Savoy Cocktail Book.
To make both versions, being the incredibly lazy cuss that I am, I added a drop of clove oil to 2 oz of Aviation Gin (trying to finish a bottle) and proceeded as follows.
1 oz Clove infused Aviation Gin
1/2 oz Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot
1/2 oz fresh squeezed orange juice
Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Squeeze orange peel over glass and drop in.
1 oz Clove infused Aviation Gin
1 oz fresh squeezed orange juice
1 tsp. apricot syrup*
Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Squeeze orange peel over glass and drop in.
Huh, they both have their good points.
The first is a bit better balanced, while the pectin of the apricot syrup in the second makes it a bit more interestingly textured drink. Oddly, the second seems far sweeter than the first.
Kind of digging the apricot syrup, though. Seems like a really interesting sweetener with a texture similar to gomme.
*1/2 Cup water
1 Cup Sugar
1/2 Cup sliced dried apricot
Dissolve Sugar and water and add apricot. Cool and strain out apricot pieces.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Ed Conard, a former partner at Bain Capital, is taking a bold stance with his book 'No Consequences," which praises the super wealthy for their contributions to society.
Conard's main argument is that the wealthy helps society by investing in technologies and companies that will allow people to live more efficient, cheaper lives, according to a New York Times Magazine profile of the businessman.
He's even made bold statements like saying the wealthy should be even richer, that way they have more money to make investments and will also encourage other capable-minded investors to strive to be at their rich-level.
Conard's statements essentially seem like a challenge to the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose protests center around wealth inequality, but he actually has his eyes set on bigger fish—Warren Buffett. .
According to the NYT Magazine profile, Conard criticized Buffett's 'Giving Pledge'—which asks wealthy individuals to give more than 50% of their money to charities—saying Buffett is hindering progress that could be made by putting that money in new investments. Famous supporters of the Giving Pledge include Microsoft founder Bill Gates, hedge funder Bill Ackman, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, etc.
During one conversation, he expressed anger over the praise that Warren Buffett has received for pledging billions of his fortune to charity. It was no sacrifice, Conard argued; Buffett still has plenty left over to lead his normal quality of life. By taking billions out of productive investment, he was depriving the middle class of the potential of its 20-to-1 benefits. If anyone was sacrificing, it was those people. "Quit taking a victory lap," he said, referring to Buffett. "That money was for the middle class."


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Yo, this Poison Pen
The album, its called The Money Shot
[Immortal Technique talking]
Most of yall muthafuckaz
Yall 'Don't even know what your rights are
You think your rights the opposite of your left (ahaha)
We have these rights, guaranteed to us
(Poison Pen – You ain't taking my burner nigga)
And once they get revoked...
(you gotta cut my finger off nigga)
Bueno es hora de revolución muthafucka!
[Immortal Technique]
I keep a burner stashed
Loaded up with hollow tips
Cause' politics can turn your city into the Gaza Strip
Military industry, justify sales like a drug dealer lyrically
Fucked up physically
But halving two sides doesn't imply symmetry
Cause' Philly to Filastin, our children are fricassee
Times up, like the Celestine prophecy
My paper is folded now, no more chances to copy me
Them ghetto philosophies will get yourself killed
If I don't sell them the product "somebody else will"
America, like it or not, I represent you
You teach me and sell me the weapons to use against you
My stray hands used to sack cities for New York bitch
Now I'm Alaric, Gaiseric, four seventy six
Smart muthafuckaz from the hood learn history
Stupid niggas never learn shit and die religiously!
[Hook: Poison Pen and Immortal Technique]
Rebel Armz Locked and Loaded
The only law once the government is corroded
(2nd Amendment)
My life might be intense
But my rights will not be infringed
(2nd Amendment)
Is it propaganda for weapon companies
Or necessity in the country we see
(2nd Amendment)
Yeah, know this ___________
Not for whilin' just for checks and balance
(2nd Amendment)
[Poison Pen]
I walk around town with the pound strapped down on my side
No frontin' just in case I gotta smoke somethin'
Sa gloves just in case I gotta choke somethin'
Hawk out just in case I gotta poke somethin'
Dirty dirty just in case I gotta go huntin'
Open case in the city, I don't know nothin'
Random macs (no) you wanna play my circle?
My pedigree is made to _____ you
But we'll hurt you!
[Immortal Technique]
Reverse AIDS commercial
Death equals silence
Anarchist, El Violen, reactionary violent
Cursed music out of a red violin
Only republicans I fuck with live in Northern Ireland
Warrior chief liken the beast from the east
Drive-by in the drive-thru, we share beef with police
One for the Bronx, for Queens, for them Oakland streets
Fuckin' empty the clip in em' for my peoples in Greece
[Poison Pen]
Mr Obama, congratulations on that win
Don't take away my right to hold my llama
I'm a citizen, like that dude in that militia
No felonies, unlike that dude in that militia
Antebellum statues paved the way for me
It's registered with the state dawg
Its day of the siege
Police won't protect me, the beast won't protect me
I stand back to back with the gats with Technique
We called "Rebel Armz" for a reason
I defend hoods with heaterz
Like Condoleeza's pops
Pack off, Pop off, on them evil cops
Torch yours, I torch mine
That's when the bleeding stop
Tryna' confiscate mine
So you can catch and drive my grey piece
I'm Haiti in the seventy nineties (Sak Pasé)
Control em', border
The government sponsored slaughter
We supreme
Revolution, how this land was founded
[Immortal Technique talking]
Yeah, Immortal Technique, Poison Pen
Stronghold / Rebel Armz
You gotta know your rights pussy
So that, when they break the law on you
You know how to break the law on them


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New Delhi, Apr 12: Indian badminton star Kidambi Srikanth has become world number 1 in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings. He has replaced Denmark's Viktor Axelsen. Srikanth moved to the top of rankings with 76,895 points in men's singles category.
Axelsen, who could not defend his Malaysian Open title, lost at least 1,660 points and gave away the world number 1 ranking to Kidambi.
The 25-year-old is only the second Indian after Saina Nehwal, who achieved the feat in 2015, to top the rankings and the first Indian male to do so.
Last year, the Indian shuttler won four Super Series titles – Indonesia, Australia, Denmark, and France — becoming only the fourth in the world to achieve the feat. He, however, missed the chance to become world number 1 because of injury.
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Gun research being kept in the Dark Ages: Our view
Give citizens and lawmakers information to make smart decisions.
In the 1980s and 1990s, researchers studied what happens when people buy guns to protect themselves and their families. You might think they'd be safer, but studies concluded it's actually far more likely that a gun kept in the home would be involved in a suicide, a domestic homicide or an accidental shooting than to shoot an intruder.
Those findings predictably enraged gun groups such as the NRA, which responded by attacking the research and the researchers. Since 1996, under the influence of gun groups, Congress has essentially shut down government-funded research about guns, taking away money from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention division that funded firearms studies and forbidding any government-funded investigation that would "advocate or promote gun control." The result: Much of the policy debate over guns has taken place in an information vacuum. It's time to start filling that void.
OPPOSING VIEW: Don't fund junk science
In January, President Obama decided that 17 years of willful ignorance was enough. As part of his response to the shooting of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Conn., the month before, Obama ordered the CDC to restart firearms studies. The White House rightly reasons that honest research doesn't advocate or promote anything, so the congressional language shouldn't be an obstacle.
To make smart decisions, citizens and policymakers could use simple facts. For example, how many guns are there in the USA? The guess is 300 million, but no one really knows. How many firearms are bought without a background check? The most common estimate is 40%, but the number could be half that.
Other subjects are more complex. For instance, do violent video games influence or desensitize spree killers? And how often does the mere display of a weapon — rather than the shooting of it — deter crime?
More research is also needed into "smart gun" technology, which could make firearms safer without making them unusable in an emergency, and into whether the sort of tough, post-Newtown gun laws passed in Connecticut, New York and Colorado are making citizens of those states safer.
The individual right to own firearms has been upheld twice by the Supreme Court, and Americans strongly support it. No research is going to change that. But just because guns are legal doesn't mean they're safe.
The constant toll of accidental shootings, particularly of children, is grim proof that guns are a danger to public health. Even the most zealous gun advocates know firearms are dangerous, which is why the NRA has for decades spent significant time and resources promoting gun safety.
Congress, which is nearing decisions on how to fund the government next year, would do well to provide money for even-handed gun research — and avoid writing new language to continue the decade-plus Dark Ages on this issue.
The answer to controversial research isn't to shut it down. It's to do more of it.
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the running game that Plaxico Burress 6'5 232 didn't. Plaxico Burress was always considered a very good run blocker. My point is I don't understand how much an upgrade will Stephen Hill be in that area(run blocking). Did that area of Plaxico Burress game fall off that much also.(just don't know and I'm curious what I'm missing there- thanks)
There is no doubt he should be a big addition as a receiver between the 20 and 20 than Plaxico Burress was at the latter part of his career. With his ability to get separation deep I could see that part helping the run game tremendously.
Hill is going to be working against one of the all time greats in Revis during camp.
I wouldn't under estimate that fact.
What great corners will Hill be facing in the AFC East?
The guy is gonna have Santonio, Keller & Kerley (who I think has a chance to be a very good slot guy), taking coverage away from him.
If Hill learns quickly how to get off the line of scrimmage & use his height advantage, it's pitch & catch.
People make it sound like it's rocket science or something. The Jets style as a running team will give him many chances to be one on one which will make it that much easier to use his speed to get open.
It's funny how people because of last year are writing off Holmes as a top receiver, it's like the Superbowl & 2010 didn't happen.
A happy Santonio will make for a very happy & open Hill.
I understand the other parts what Stephen Hill brings to the table to help in the running game.(that Plaxico Burress doesn't) Just I see a lot of Jet fans talking about S Hill run blocking ability, like they didn't have that last year with Plaxico Burress. That the only thing I'm not understanding.
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Blocking is as much about attitude as anything else and Burress didn't have it. You have to want to do it and Burress didn't. And Hill is about 10 years younger.
These last two posts say it. First of all he's young, and motivated. Then he's much faster than Buress so the corner needs to respect that. He's certainly not going to brace himself to take on a block, or Hill be off to the races. hehe As long as he learns to sell it. Revis will be a tremendous help there if he wants to learn. All the receivers should go to Revis island to learn the art of the tell. Revis is the master of noticing what a receiver does that tips off what he will do next. He would make a hell of a coach one day.
When you have no threat of beating anyone deep, the CBs and Safeties can play up more. They could have the same run blocking skills, but the deep threat from Hill will make the backs play off a bit which opens things up a bit more for the running game. Burress wasn't beating anyone deep last year.
We saw that happen when Braylon first came to the Jets. The running game was helped by his blocking and his speed to get over the top.
He is not tainted with the stank of Giant.
I think run blocking with WRs are well over rated on this site. When your playing a speed back like Willie Parker or Westbrook was they help because it thins that 2nd level. Which is nice but I don't think we really have that type of RB on this team. We are and have been for year a up the middle grinding run game. We haven't see a lot of wide sweeps or half back tosses. LT and Washington where strictly pass catching backs. Thomas and Greene where both grinders. Maybe McKnight but I think his skills are still to be seen. I am seriously trying to remember more then one good sweep we did in a game and I just can't.
Our issues on the run last year where all health, OL, and play calling. BE was not missed at all IMO mainly because we rarely made it past the 1st level. Our longest run was only 31 yards which was last in the NFL. Fact is we just didn't have enough break away runs off the line for WR blocking to even enter the picture. I don't think that was Greenes fault as every time he ran he had 3 and 4 guys right on him almost every play do to the typicality calls we did. We just had no flash at all in play calling and it showed.
Old slow broken down piece of sh*t felon and locker room disease versus a young hard working blistering fast downfield blocking all-around good guy ecstatic to be on the Jets.
Hmmmm, not sure what Hill provides that Plax didn't.
Plax sure had a knack of "blocking" by pushing the defenders facemask to the sky, getting a penalty, and then doing nothing on the next play


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Q: If you could have one match with any wrestler, alive or dead and in their prime, who would it be?
A: Zandig or Chris Benoit
Q: How is your girlfriend doing these days?
A: Doing well. Thanks for asking.
Q: Now that BOLA 2012 is out of the way, which would you say is your favorite Overall BOLA?
A: 2007 BOLA N3 will probably be hard to top. The fact that we got all those guys in one night was a miracle. BOLA this year was my favorite in a long time. I almost decided to end doing them because they've been so hard to put together the last couple of years. 2010 especially sucked.
Q: What was your favorite match to participate in?
A:Guerrilla Warfare match with Kevin Steen.
Q: When did it come to you that you wanted to start PWG with the rest of the guys and looking at it now what's the feeling that you having knowing your a part of the best indy promotion in the world ?
A: I actually starting thinking about doing something on my way back from Japan in 2003. I decided I didn't want to do all the traveling that is involved with wrestling, or stay in Japan as a wrestler which was my only option at the time.
The idea I had at first was a super indy tournament like BOLA ended up becoming. Then I started talking to the guys, and we all just decided to do a show. It was only planned as 1 show. It took off from there
Q: Do you have any plans to wrestle again?
A: I'll be back sometime in 2013 hopefully. There are a lot of guys I'd like to wrestle that we've started using.
Q: Regarding the now infamous "Super Dragon" chant -- did you want to hurt the guy who wouldn't stop chanting your name?
A: It was very annoying at the time. I couldn't concentrate at all. I don't think I've ever been more angry at a fan. Now I find the whole thing pretty funny.
Q: Just how involved are you with PWG these days?
A: It's basically two of us left at this point. In late 2008 I took over the business/booking aspects of PWG. We were very close to closing down in late 2008, and I had to use a lot of my own money to get things back on track. I also do all the video editing and DVD authoring as well as the DVD previews for Youtube.
Excalibur does all the graphics on the site/dvd covers/ dvd menus/shirts, as well as running the site. He also does the press releases for the site. He's also obviously become the voice of PWG with his commentary which is unmatched!
Q: Is there any talent you have your eyes on that would like to bring into PWG?
A: Right now we have started using a lot of new talent, so there aren't many new guys we are looking at. Rich Swann will be coming in pretty soon, though.
Q: Since the popularity of PWG is rising, any plans to move the shows from Reseda?
A: Not really. Reseda has become our home, and the atmosphere at the shows is too good to try to move elsewhere.
Q: How much wrestling do you watch a week?
A: I don't watch wrestling at all. The last WWE match I saw was Angle vs Benoit in a cage. I don't even remember what it was. I checkout some indy stuff here and there, but that's about it.
Q: Don't know how you feel about video games, but would you ever consider starting a Kickstarter project to fund a PWG video game? If you guys were able to license the AKI (Virtual Pro Wrestling/No Mercy) or Fire Pro engine, I could see it being highly successful.
A: I love video games, but I don't care for wrestling games or sports games at all.
Q: Are there any plans to do any iPPV's in PWG?
A: PWG iPPV is nearly impossible. All of the guys under contracts with other feds can't be used. So that wouldn't be a very good PWG show. Wish we could do it, but it's not going to happen anytime soon.
Q: Was there ever a show name you really wanted to use but other people disagreed or it wasn't used for some other reason?
A: The only show name I was ever disappointed with that got changed was Ernest Goes to PWG, which ended up becoming Ernest P. Worrel Memorial. Excalibur also comes up with 95% of the show names, forgot to mention that earlier.
Q:What do you think of independent wrestling today in terms of talent compared to say six to ten years ago?
A: This is a good question. My old wrestling victim TARO was actually at BOLA this weekend. I was talking to him about the quality of indy wrestling nowdays. It's been so great for the last 8-9 years. Back when we would go to indy shows in the early 90's we would be happy if there was one good match. No scratch that, we would be happy if there was just a dive in a match. Things have changed quite a bit. It also drives me crazy when I see people complaining about certain things knowing that indy wrestling 10 years ago was pretty terrible.


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Athens CASA/GAL is made up of community volunteers (pictured here) who dedicate their time and effort to advocate for abused or neglected children as they move through the court process.
Director of CASA/GAL Rebecca Miller represents her organization at a United Appeal event on Oct. 6. CASA/GAL is one of 19 partner organizations benefiting from this year's United Appeal campaign.
Dec 14, 2012
By Holly Coletta
Between Nov.1 and Dec. 24, the Ohio University community is participating in United Appeal's "United 2 Give, United 2 Help" fundraising campaign. Through this editorial series, Compass seeks to highlight some of the community agencies that will benefit from OHIO's giving.
Even for the most seasoned professionals, dealing with the court system can be nerve-wracking. Imagine, then, how children must feel when faced with the immense stress of working their way through the legal system.
Luckily, Athens Court Appointed Special Advocate/ Guardian Ad Litem (CASA/GAL) is there to help.
As a local non-profit with state and national affiliations, Athens CASA/GAL is made up of community volunteers who dedicate their time and effort to advocate for abused or neglected children as they move through the court process.
Rebecca Miller has served as director of Athens CASA/GAL for almost a decade. In this role, Miller oversees all areas of programming, as well as public relations and fundraising. She also works closely with partner agencies to ensure that the children's best interests are kept at the forefront of all decisions and actions.
Compass recently spoke with Miller about Athens CASA/GAL and the organization's first year of involvement with the United Appeal campaign.
Why did CASA/GAL partner with United Appeal?
Miller: United Appeal's mission is to promote and support organizations that will assist people in meeting their basic needs. CASA/GAL volunteers work alongside key organizations to ensure the very basic needs of child safety, stability and permanency are a reality for all children in the Athens community.
How does United Appeal help the OHIO community?
Miller: United Appeal has an incredible reputation in the community, so there is considerable notoriety that comes with being a member organization, which offers additional validity to member organizations. Additionally, we are a very small program with very limited funds, so the financial support that United Appeal provides will be a valuable asset to directly support local volunteers and children.
How can OHIO get involved?
Miller: There are many ways to support United Appeal, the most obvious being a financial donation. Getting involved directly with one of the many member organizations is also a tremendous way to support the organization and the Athens community.
United Appeal's "United 2 Give, United 2 Help" fundraising campaign runs through Dec. 24. For more information, visit http://www.unitedappeal.org.
With less than two weeks remaining in Ohio University's United Appeal campaign, OHIO is still $16,851 short of the campaign's $50,000 fundraising goal.
Please take a moment to pledge your support.
Or visit http://www.unitedappeal.org/index.htm to learn more about this year's partner agencies and the ways a gift from you can help our neighbors, friends, and fellow community members.
American Red Cross of Southeastern Ohio
Appalachian Community Visiting Nurse Association, Hospice & Health Services, Inc.
Appalachian Peace and Justice Network
Athens County Child Advocacy Center
Athens County Food Pantry
Athens Photographic Project, Inc.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Athens County
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council
Habitat for Humanity Athens County
Ohio University – Community Health Programs
Tri-County Mental Health and Counseling Services, Inc.


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I'm happy to announce that over the weekend I worked hard to include in support for the kingdom rules that Hero Games published in their Ultimate Base supplement. I created the character sheets for each of the factions that appear in the book, so now gaming groups can go from individual combat up to theater level combat using the same rule system. By adding in support, the militaries of the Corporate States have gotten a minor revamp to include their navies.