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THE SPORTS DOCTOR- Whither Cam? Will the Redskins opt for Newton?
If I had a nickel for every time Mel Kiper Jr. correctly predicted the NFL draft– well, I wouldn't have many nickels. It's a mystery why Kiper and every other football analyst waste their time on mock drafts. When the day/days (doesn't the NFL draft last about a month now?) actually comes, teams will be trading up and down, around and in.
But sometimes it's just destiny.
It's entirely possible, though largely improbable, that the Redskins with their 10th overall pick won't draft Cam Newton. Carolina, who picks first overall, may fall prey to a big man-crush and draft Newton, even though what they really need is someone who will give their current QB, Jimmy Clausen, a second to throw.
The Arizona Cardinals, who pick 5th this year and are as eager for a quarterback as the Redskins are, may snatch Newton up first, which would essentially be a blessing in disguise (minus the disguise) for Washington.
There's really no question about whether Newton can use the spread attack skills he learned at Auburn when he gets to the NFL (he will try and likely fail) or whether the Heisman winner's dependency on his legs will prove a liability in the pros. (Newton finished his one and only season at Auburn with 264 carries for 1,473 yards and 20 touchdowns. You think legs like that will impress the NFL? If Tom Brady runs for 20 yards in a season, it's a career high.) Cam Newton is not what those in the football-know call an "NFL-ready quarterback"– and that's what they say about him when they're being nice.
When they're not being nice, those in the football-know most likely assign Newton a harsher label: "the next Ryan Leaf."
If the Washington Redskins draft Cam Newton, not only will they acquire a quarterback whose style is patently collegiate, they'll add a player to their roster who, like every other D-1A football star, spent his entire college career successfully staying one step ahead of trouble, a track record that means he's likely to find plenty of trouble in the NFL. (There was that pesky arrest for possession of stolen property back in 2008, but who cares about felony counts of burglary, larceny, and obstruction of justice?)
Arizona and Carolina better not have their hearts set on drafting Newton, because he and Washington are destined to be together. Newton, a cross between Jason Campbell (he's a fine quarterback– if you like having a 7-9 team) and JaMarcus Russell (not the heir apparent only to Ryan Leaf, but Tank Johnson as well) with a little Albert Haynesworth (what, me money?) thrown in– fits perfectly into the Dan Snyder/Mike Shanahan mold. What do you get when you mix Cam Newton's ego and the Redskins' penchant for shoveling obscene amounts of money to underperforming prima donnas? A match made in heaven, of course!
I would be remiss if I didn't include a quick note about UVA's basketball game against Georgia Tech Saturday, January 22. When I turned on the game in the second half, the score was 55-39, UVA. In the next five game minutes, which equals about 23 real-life minutes, Georgia Tech started closing the gap and Virginia didn't make a single basket. It was extremely disheartening and not just a little embarrassing– and it could have been remedied with one simple maneuver: the offensive rebound.
Please, Coach Bennett! Put some Cavaliers in position by the paint!
Time and time again Virginia took shots and missed– that's bad enough– but there was nary a 'Hoo in even the vaguest position to rebound.
If Mustapha Farrakhan hadn't been fouled every 20 seconds, I don't know from whence the Virginia win would have come. The Yellow Jackets looked terrible, but UVA– and it pains me beyond measure to write this– looked like they just weren't trying very hard, at least under their own basket.
Juanita Giles lives on a farm in Charlotte County with her husband, son, and many dogs.
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Jason Campbell, Jamarcus Russell and Albert Haynesworth..... Jeez, what do these NFL players have in common? More to the point, what do they have in common with Cam Newton?
Golly.... It's 2011. It's disheartening to read sportswriters who are adamantly opposed to judging all players based on their performance, but instead must only compare athletes of one race with each other.
There are PLENTY of underachieving white NFL players that this writer could have compared to Cam Newton, but somehow they just aren't bad enough in her eyes? Something about these three make them singularly repugnant to her, apparently.
I'm shocked that you didn't throw in Michael Vick, frankly. Not because he can't play, but because he's also been in trouble with the law. Oh yeah, and he's also.... you know.
Maybe there's something about Cam Newton that leads this writer to believe that he can't A) improve as a QB, B) learn stuff and C) become a better person, but this young man has the rest of his life in front of him and there are many NFL teams that could use his talent.
Frankly, this writer has proven nothing other than that she is certainly NOT an expert when it comes to sports. It's hard to understand why anyone would find her opinions on sports to be worthy of respect.
You obviously don't know how the new regime in Washington operates. Mike Shanahan won't draft Cam Newton, and Daniel Snyder is no longer meddling in personnel decisions. Look at last year's draft: they drafted a very good offensive tackle at #4. They'll do the same this year: offensive or defensive line with the #10 pick.
Anyone who followed the organization last year knows that Shanahan and Allen are making good choices on players and contracts. The old days in Washington are over, so Redskins-haters like you are going to quickly run out of snipey little articles like this one.
Write about a team you actually know something about, or write about your farm and your dogs or whatever. The only thing that made sense was stating that Mel Kiper is rarely correct. With that in mind, your in for some disappointment with the #10 pick.
What a terrible article. You do realize, Juanita, what type of "football" you are writing about, right? The American kind?
The last 2 first round picks the Skins had were Brian Orakpo (Zorn) and Trent Williams. How about you write an article about how big of busts those 2 were? A rookie pro bowler and a tackle we severely needed who was injured early on in the season. But that's ok, just keep talking because clearly you know everything there is to know about Shanahan/Snyders drafting preferences after watching them make only a few picks last year. Ignorant.
im sorry the Redskins won 3 Super Bowls in your child hood maturing years and your fixated on retribution on them now a bitter man . Hail to the Redskins !!!


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If I remove it then I get ice leaking out of the bottom of my side wall boundaries. But I don't know what it does and I can't find it in the documentation... I guess the rotate command somehow ensures that the normal at the bottom of the side walls doesn't point off at 45 degrees below the horizontal, which I guess would allow the ice leakage. But how exactly? Does it force the whole side wall boundary to have the same normal? Does it only effect the edges of the boundary? I need to understand how this works before I apply it to more realistic cases with less idealised geometry.
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Home Page Chess Life Online 2014 December NorCal House of Chess Kings & Queen Win US Amateur West
|NorCal House of Chess Kings & Queen Win US Amateur West
|By Salman Azhar
|February 25, 2013
264 players converged in Pleasanton on Presidents Day Weekend to participate in US Amateur Team West Weekend. When two-day and three-day sections merged in 4th round there were two unbeaten teams from each section. Bay Area Chess BAC Attack and Ancient Spartans were the unbeaten teams from the 3-day schedule and Norcal House of Chess Kings & Queen and California Girls from the 2-day schedule.
The Kings & Queen overcame Ancient Spartans 2.5-1.5 and BAC Attack beat California Girls 4-0 to set up likely the title match in Round 5. In Round 5, professional coaches of King & Queens met the all-start juniors of BAC Attack. IM De Guzman and FM Cusi of Kings & Queen won against FM Wheeler and NM Viswanadha of BAC Attack on the top 2 boards. Albert Lu of BAC Attack won against WFM Byambaa on Board 3 leaving Teemu Virtanen of BAC Attack in a must-win game against Ted Castro, Kings & Queen captain, to save the match for BAC Attack. In an even game Virtanen worked hard to create chances but Castro was able to fend off all attempts and win the match, and perhaps the title, for Kings & Queen.
In the last round Kings & Queen won 3-1 against another all-junior team Sicilan Mafia to clinch clear first with a perfect 6/6 score and 20 game points. BAC Attack beat J'adoubious, an all adult team of FM Andy Lee and friends, to seal clear second with 5 points.
BAC Chess 1st board, World Youth silver-medallist Cameron Wheeler (Under 12 section) annotates a win:
In the third round we where playing another team of top juniors. On board 1, I was playing Colin Chow, a 13-year-old who just recently became a master. 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Be7 4.Ngf3 Nf6 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bd3 c5 7.c3 Nc6 8.0-0 h5
I prepared this line which is similiar to 8... g5 but if dxc5 now then I can just take e5 and castle kingside 9.Qe2 g5 10.dxc5 g4 11.Nd4 Ndxe5 12.Nxc6 Nxc6 13.Nb3 Qc7 14.Bb5 Bd7 15.Be3 0-0-0 16.Rad1 Rhg8 17.c4 This was a mistake because of Ne5 which threatens Nf3. 17.Bxc6 Bxc6 18.Nd4 is much better than the game but I still have an advantage. 17...Ne5 18.Kh1 dxc4 19.Bxd7+ Rxd7 20.Bf4 Rxd1 21.Rxd1 cxb3 22.Bxe5 Qc6 If Qxc5 I was afraid of opening up the files against my king 22...Qxc5 23.Qe1 Rg5 24.Bf4 Rf5 25.Rc1 Rxf4 26.Rxc5+ Bxc5 is winning for me, but I didn't calculate the whole line in my game. 23.axb3 h4 24.b4 h3 White's king will now be permanently weak. 25.Qf1 Rd8 26.Rxd8+ Bxd8 27.Kg1 Qe4 28.Bc3 Qh7 29.Qb5 a6 30.Qf1 Bc7 31.gxh3 31.c6 hxg2 32.cxb7+ Kb8 33.Qxg2 Qb1+ 34.Qf1 Bxh2+ 35.Kg2 Qh7 31...gxh3 32.f3 Qf5 33.Kh1 Bf4 34.Qe2 Bg5 35.Be1 Bf6 I wanted to get my bishop to the d4-g1 diagonal. 36.c6 b5 37.Qd1 Bd4
Now it's pretty much over. 38.Bg3 Qd5 39.c7 Bb6 40.Qf1 Qd2 41.Be5 Qf2 forcing the queen trade into a winning endgame 42.Qxf2 Bxf2 43.b3 Be3 44.Bd6 f6 45.Be7 Bd4 46.Bd6 e5 47.Be7 f5 48.Bd6 f4 49.Be7 Kxc7 50.Bh4 Kd6 51.Be7+ Kd5 52.Bf6 Bc3 53.Be7 Kd4 54.Bc5+ Kd3 0-1
Sicilian Mafia came in third on tiebreaks with 4.5/6 points.
The 65th Square, another all-junior team came in top u2000.
Ally Viswanadha, mother of BAC Attack's NM Kesav Viswanadha, expressed her gratitude despite the tough loss."It was an honor and a privilege for all our children to represent Bay Area Chess, an organization that has done so much for Chess and our children over so many year," she said. Ted Castro, captain of Kings and Queen, conveyed his confidence in his team's ability to win it all. "We are ready for whoever we meet in the playoffs and I like our chances against all three teams. Bring it on!" he announced.
The Scholastic side event was won with a perfect 5/5 score by The Harker School team of Shafieen Ibrahim, Shaunak Maruvada, Nishant Ravi, and Rini Vasan. Let's Play Chess Club, consisting of Arto Mihalache, Pranav Pata, Kian Assary, and Raymond Xu, clinched clear second with 4/5 points. Bay Area Chess, consisting of Evan Leach, Akshay Sathiya Jr, Madhumit Krishnan, Yousef Rezw Azhar, and Sofia Jaques, came in clear third place with 3.5/5 points.
The Blitz side event was won by Prasanna Narayanasamy (2032) with 7/8. Robert Hatarik (2147) came in second with 6.5/8. William Quanrud (2071) and Teemu Virtanen (2077) tied for third with 6.0/8.
Nor Cal House of Chess is a center for chess lessons, tournaments and camps. Here's a game of a US Amateur Team West by a student, Jason Zhang, annotated by IM Guzman.
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qc7 8. Qf3 Nbd7 9. O-O-O b5 10. Bd3 Bb7 11. Rhe1 Be7
a more aggressive continuation is 11.. Qb6 12. Nd5! Qd4 13. Bf6 gf6 14. Bb5 with strong compensation for Whites Knight sacrifice on d5.
12. a3
instead of the prophylactic 12.a3 -again a Knight sacrifice on d5 like 12. Nd5 ed5 13. Nf5 Kf8 14. ed5 Re8 15.Qg3 with pressure on g7 and e7.
Instead of 12..Rb8?! A better move is Rc8. This is not a best square for the rook.
13. g4 h6 14. Bxf6
A safer way to capture is 14..gxf6 always watching d6 while the bishop remains on e7.
14...Bxf6 15. Qf2 Ba8 16. Bxb5
White's Bb5 idea is atypical piece sacrifice on b5 with a strong threat on Black's d6 pawn.
Instead of Qb6? The correct defense should be -- axb5; 17. Nb5 Qb6 18. Nd6+ Ke7 19. Qb6 Nb6 20. e5 Bh4 and at least Black can hold on going to the endgame.
17. Bxd7+
Now White capitalizes on Blacks bad choice of defense.
White's Na4! is a very vital tempo; attacking black's Queen and eyeing the important c5 square for his Knight invasion.
18. Na4 Qa5 19. Nb3 Qb5
Instead of Qb5 - even 19..Rb3 20.ab3 Rc8+ 21. Kb1 should be winning for White.
20. e5 Rhc8 21. Nac5+ Ke8 22. exf6
White's 22.exf6 should be decisive: either Black loses material or allows White a dangerous protected passed pawn on the seventh rank
22... dxc5 23. fxg7 Ke7 24. f5 Rg8 25. f6+ Ke8 26. Qf5 1-0
Find complete standings at the Bay Area chess website and the rating report on MSA.


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Editor's note: This is one in a series of interviews Foster's is publishing about major candidates in the November General Election.
DOVER — Republican Rep. Frank Guinta on Friday placed blame at the president's feet for the gridlock in Washington, saying the Democratic leader has failed to guide lawmakers toward a solution to avoid massive budget cuts in 2013.
During a meeting with the editorial board of Foster's Daily Democrat, Guinta defended his votes in the U.S. House, and made the case Senate Democrats and the president are avoiding dealing with the threat of so-called "sequestration" cuts in the federal budget.
The deep cuts are scheduled to automatically take effect next year as a consequence of the failure of Congress to reach compromise on the debt ceiling and federal budget.
Guinta accused Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid of dragging his feet on crafting a solution to the problem because he and other Democrats insist tax rates must be a component of the conversation.
Guinta said sequestration cuts will have an affect on 4,000 jobs in the state, including many in the defense industry. The cuts could also be devastating to the long-term viability of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which is dependent on the Navy's need for submarine maintenance to remain intact, he said. Raising tax rates now would be destabilizing for the economy, and would only generate a fraction of the $1.1 trillion needed to forestall the sequestration process, he said.
Guinta, the former mayor of Manchester, rode a Republican surge in 2010 to beat Democrat Carol Shea-Porter, who served two terms in office before she was ousted in the election. He is facing the Rochester resident once again in the 2012 election for New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District seat.
Guinta has positioned himself as a conservative who opposes big government and large federal initiatives, such as stimulus funding and national health care reform. He has sought to appeal to the business community and pledges to cut government spending.
A member of the House Budget Committee, Guinta noted the House has successfully adopted its own budget by the required April 15 deadline for the past two years. He said the country needs to have a "fact-based discussion around revenues and expenditures, both discretionary and mandatory," when it comes to sorting out the federal budget.
"This notion that we can't address, or we shouldn't address, mandatory (spending) is false," Guinta said. "You have to address it. You have to take this head on if you want to make sure that things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid are preserved and continue for the long term."
Guinta said he's been "demonized" this year by the left, which is throwing out "rhetorical critique and lack of substance."
"I think when members of the Democratic Party in leadership in Washington, or those who are running here — when they say that every single member of the Republican Party is a Tea Partier, or they make that distinction, I don't think this matches the laugh test," he said.
Guinta said two examples of his ability to work across the aisle are his advocacy around preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing more stringent wastewater discharge standards in communities around Great Bay and his support for local fisheries.
Asked whether he identifies himself as a Tea Party conservative, Guinta replied: "I had Tea Party support in 2010. I consider myself a Republican. I also consider myself an American."
Guinta said his policies and principles relative to spending fall in line with those of the Tea Party, but he hasn't shifted his political views or his focus since he served as mayor of Manchester — a time during which he was paired with a sizable number of Democratic elected officials.
"I enjoy public service and civic service," Guinta said. "I really do. You don't do it for the nasty headlines and the attacks. You do it because you really think you can improve things."
In Dover interview Guinta lays gridlock blame at president's feet
Editor's note: This is one in a series of interviews Foster's is publishing about major candidates in the November General Election.
DOVER — Republican Rep. Frank Guinta on Friday placed blame at the president's feet for the gridlock in Washington, saying the Democratic leader has failed to guide lawmakers toward a solution to avoid massive budget cuts in 2013.


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She was 9 when she started the Environmental Children's Organization with a small group of other children, and they raised the money to attend the UN Earth Summit, where Severn closed a plenary session with this speech.
One reason the speech worked so well was her tactic of addressing the adults directly as a child would. There's no effort here to sound older than her years, and it works in passages like this one:
I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you! You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!And she was an effective ambassador on behalf of children everywhere, by turning on its head the reason adults usually cite that their efforts are "for the children." Here, with the speaker a child herself, she makes what would otherwise sound trite a more concrete concern:
Do not forget why you're attending these conferences, who you're doing this for — we are your own children. You are deciding what kind of world we will grow up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying "everything's going to be alright" , "we're doing the best we can" and "it's not the end of the world".Here are some tips you can use from this famous speech:
- Real-life experience lends credibility: Suzuki speaks of spending time outdoors, so her high-minded ideals can be described in concrete terms, words that both connect her to the audience and build her credibility. Always underscore your position with real experience when you speak.
- Go after the big speaking opportunity: She could have spoken locally, but taking the initiative to line up the UN summit and raise the money to attend demonstrates what can happen when the speaker swings for the fences--this hit a home run in part because of the audacity of seeking out such a platform.
- Speak for yourself: Throughout, Suzuki used "I" statements -- "I am a child" -- and spoke firmly as the young person she was. It's authentic, and keeps her on point.


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While Congress Dawdles, Florida Counties Show Leadership on Addressing Climate Changeby -
"Think globally, act locally" is a slogan that aptly describes what I witnessed last week at the 4th Annual Southeast Florida Climate Leadership Summit. At the event, local government officials from four counties gathered to discuss how to mitigate and adapt to climate change's impacts.
Yep, you heard that correctly – government officials in the United States—in a "purple" state, no less—came together in a bipartisan manner to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. In fact, mayors, members of Congress, county commissioners, and officials in charge of water issues in the state discussed how to move forward with action plans in response to sea-level rise – a climate change impact which is not theoretical, but happening now.
Putting Aside Partisanship for Action
Unlike Congress, these public officials aren't debating the facts of climate change and its impacts or whether we should act. They see current effects and understand that in the face of streets flooding more regularly, drinking water supplies threatened by salinization, and models showing that some neighborhoods could become uninhabitable, what political party you support is irrelevant. Climate change impacts like sea level rise don't discriminate between Democrats and Republicans. As Congress continues to fail to address climate change at the national level, local officials from Florida's Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach counties—representing a combined population of 5.6 million—established the four-county Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact and recently completed a 110-point regional action plan. They have developed mitigation and adaptation strategies through joint efforts, which can inform policy-making and government funding at the state and federal levels.
Resources on Climate Change Impacts
Read these fact sheets for more information on climate change's impacts in Florida and other areas of the United States.
Impacts of Hurricane Sandy and the Climate Change Connection
The Connection Between Climate Change and Recent Extreme Weather Events
Other Communities and Lawmakers Can Learn from South Florida
Panelists at the summit discussed the tens of millions of dollars already spent on new wells to replace those that have had saltwater seep into them and the hundreds of millions of dollars needed for new drainage systems in Miami. Meanwhile, people having side conversations talked of the Florida Keys eventually becoming a reef and parts of the state's valuable beachfront property no longer being inhabitable. The fact that Florida is built on porous limestone makes the adaptation challenges even more daunting, as sea water will seep under any barriers that could be constructed.
Significantly, South Florida's officials understand that they must also address the causes of climate change. They've included mitigation strategies as part of the action plan, including transitioning to cleaner energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions through adoption of forward-thinking policies, such as a renewable energy standard. A lot of work remains to implement the action plan, but there is no disagreement on the need to act now.
Will Federal Lawmakers Take a Page from South Florida's Book?
The action plan by these local governments is a model for others to follow. However, we know that climate change is a global problem that will ultimately require national leadership. It's admirable that local leaders in Southeast Florida are not waiting for that missing leadership before taking action, but it does raise real questions about Congress's failure to act on climate change and its responsibility to protect American people and their property.
Two newly elected members of Congress spoke at the recent summit, providing some glimmers of hope at the federal level. Representative-elect Patrick Murphy (D-FL) said he would support climate change legislation and chastised politicians for "burying their heads in the sand." Congresswoman Lois Frankel (D-FL) also committed to support federal action, saying "I will deal with it in a scientific way." She noted that climate change is "not a partisan issue," and "we cannot hide from it."
Perhaps as more people at the local level respond to climate change, national policymakers will wake up and take action to protect our citizens and valuable resources from dangerous impacts. While local action is desperately needed and should be applauded, we ultimately need national leaders to lead on climate change.


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First Look at Cuba Gooding, Jr., Nathan Lane, Sarah Paulson and Billy Magnussen in "The People v. O.J. Simpson"
"There are few truly unifying events in American life. When something happens that makes the entire country stop and take notice, we remember it forever. Everybody remembers where they were when O.J. Simpson, riding in a white Bronco, led the police on a low-speed chase all over Los Angeles. This marked the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle and the birth of reality television."


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When you start planning your next trip why not stay in Canada? You can take in the Montreal Jazz Festival, the nightlife in St. John's or the Calgary Stampede.
Canada has many scenic vistas, natural wonders and urban attractions to offer travellers, but many don't even know these special places exist.
"When was the last time someone did a good 'best of Canada' book?" was the question Noel Hudson asked himself when thinking about the next book he was going to write.
"There wasn't really anything of this kind of quality and package."
Together with longtime friend and photographer George Fischer, they wrote Unforgettable Canada: 115 Destinations. The book, published by Boston Mills Press, showcases the best attractions the country has to offer. From British Columbia to Newfoundland and Labrador and everywhere in between, the book tells you where you can go icebergwatching or see a sandcastle competition.
It took two years to compile photographs, research and write the book. But in reality, it actually took Hudson and Fischer much longer than that.
"The information for the trips were collected by both of us over a 15-to 20-year period," says Hudson, 56, in an interview. "It took us that long to amass all the information and knowledge about all these places."
The book, now in its third edition, began with 100 destinations that Hudson and Fischer chose from previous travels.
"We talked extensively about where we've travelled over the years and what we'd like to put in the book," says Hudson. "We talked about what we really liked, places we'd been to, places we'd still like to go that we always thought about going."
They attempted to strike a balance between big trips and smaller activities. The book includes the once-in-a lifetime, two-day Rocky Mountaineer train trip from Calgary to Vancouver and more accessible excursions like going to the CN Tower in Toronto.
Hudson says both he and Fischer have been to roughly 75 out of the 115 destinations documented in the book.
"There's some overlap between us," he says of their travels. "There are very few places [in the book] that we haven't been."
Overall, Hudson's favourite place is the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. That's where travellers can go ice bergwatching, visit Gros Morne National Park or see Jelly Bean Row, a candy-coloured lane of houses.
Although Hudson and Fischer did not travel together to the new destinations added in the expanded edition, Hudson says it allowed them to hit more places they haven't been to. While Hudson explored the Prairies, Fischer drove across Canada's most northerly highway, the Dempster, in the Yukon and Northwest Territories.


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Second suspect charged in Texas college shooting
HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say charges have been filed against a second suspect in a shooting at a Houston-area community college that left three people wounded.
The Harris County sheriff's office says a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon was filed Thursday against the second suspect.
The suspect's name was not released because the person has not yet been arrested. The sheriff's office declined to comment on what role the person played in the shooting.
Officials have said at least 10 shots were fired Tuesday during a dispute between two men outside the library at Lone Star College-North Harris.
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For my Matt's birthday, this meant carrot cake. I have a whole carrot cake Pinboard, just for dreaming about delicious carrot cake recipes to make for that Matt of mine. This birthday, however, I made him the ultimately simple carrot cake recipe from Made. And, of course, I doubled the recipe.
Goodness, that recipe makes a lot of carrot cake!
Inspired by our first Great Cookie Bake-Off that worked so well, every now and then the girls and I repeat the experience with some other amenable recipe. And it turns out that simple carrot cake batter, enough to make three dozen carrot cupcakes, is perfectly amenable to experimentation.
The bake-off rules:
- We divide the recipe between us.
- We lay out every possible mix-in, from healthy to unhealthy and usual to unusual and just plain odd.
- Every person is allowed to customize their own batter exactly how they want.
- The results are baked and, inevitably, enjoyed by all.
The girls love this project--
When they were weary of experimentation, a good forty or so cupcakes later, I baked the rest up plain:
Yes, the recipe, doubled, made THAT many cupcakes!
My girls are excellent and creative chefs, of course, but I do have to say that this round decidedly goes to...ME! My carrot cupcakes with chocolate chips, candied ginger, crushed pineapple, and walnuts were scrumptious beyond compare.


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"OMG: #3" tweets app developer Ben Cernevy. That's not about his third OMG moment of the day -- that's for his new app, Planetary, making it to No. 3 on iPad's top-10 downloaded list.
Planetary's climb up the app popularity ladder has been nothing short of meteoric.
Cerveny has been working for years, changing the way we work with high tech devices, specializing in the user interface (UI).
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"I feel as if I'm in a surrealist film" he writes.
His new app Planetary is a reimagining of the iTunes playlist. Instead of a list of songs, you see your music presented as a solar system. The star is the artist. Take, for instance, Ingrid Michaelson.
Around her star orbits her album, "Be OK." Zoom to planet Be OK and you see the tracks from the album as moons. Click on a moon and it begins to play.
It's a curious - but not illogical - analogy. And changing the way we think about how data is presented is exactly what Cerveny is trying to do. An early developer of what would become Flickr, Cerveny has worked with big name design firms like Frog Design and brands like Sony and Nokia.
The app is far from perfect. It will not play playlists; in fact, you cannot even play an entire album. You must select each song individually. But it's an interesting first try demonstrating how the iPad may change the way we look at everyday data.
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Pepsi is a brand, Madonna is a brand, even President Obama is a brand.
Beautifully Invisible gave me inspiration for this topic. Observing and participating in conversations in a community group confirmed the need to touch briefly on this topic. Many new bloggers struggle with this as they navigate their way around developing their content, voice, image, style and character.
What does branding have to do with blogging? Everything. Marty Neumeier defines a brand as "a person's gut feeling about a product, service, or company. It's a gut feeling because we're all emotional, intuitive beings, despite our best efforts to be rational." I will take it a step further and add "person" along with "product, service, or company." We believe that the brands we love are unique, being true to what they stand for makes them appear so. We connect to those brands emotionally and feel a sense of pride for having that connection. You are your brand, therefore, your blog is your brand regardless of whether you are style or tech blogger.
It's important to have a sense of who you are, what you are providing and why anyone would care. The goal is to express something that solicits a reaction or response, you're looking to engage your audience and develop a connection. A blog can be beautiful but uninteresting, if your content is not king no one will keep coming back. When I say content is king, I don't mean to imply that every post must be brilliant. I only mean this: You are writing your content. Emphasis on "you." People come back because they connected with it. You don't need to blow their minds but you do need to present yourself and your content in a compelling and genuine manner.
So how do we figure out all this out? Make a list of what makes you "you". Now make a list of how others see you, how they would describe you. People's impressions of you make up part of what defines you. The two lists should have a lot of in common. Do you see the correlation? Too much disparity and you've got a perception problem. Blogs are personal by nature, in most cases your blog is an extension of yourself and not a completely different persona. Your top attributes should be reflected in how you present yourself leading to how others perceive you. We want confirmation that supports why we love a brand. Apple is innovative. Nike is encouraging us to get out there and just do it. They might pleasantly surprise and delight us at times but they don't send mixed signals. We love them for who they are.
No one is going to assume you lack dimensionality or creativity for being focused, they will be pleased that they got what they came for. Who is your target, who is it your speaking to? What are they looking for? Why would they come back for more? Understanding your demographic is key to giving them what they want. You're looking to bridge the gap between what you offer and what your target wants. Is she a mother with kids who's looking to connect and share ideas with other mothers, or is she a woman who also happens to be a mother with kids? The differences may be subtle but making the distinction is very important in how you choose to speak to one or the other.
You are the primary authority of your brand, express it through your blog with conviction. Know your audience, be focused, remain true to yourself. In the words of Stella Adler, "don't act, behave."
I give credit to Primo Angeli for being such a leader and influence on me. Understanding the relationships we have with brands and each other, how those perceptions trigger emotional responses, has given me so much valuable insight. The three years I worked at his design firm were pivotal to my ongoing personal and professional development. Marty Neumeier is author of The Brand Gap.
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Tony Pulis has a fully fit Crystal Palace squad from which to choose the side that will aim to lengthen Manchester United's poor Premier League form tomorrow [Saturday].
The Red Devils come to Selhurst Park without an away win in 2014, and with no
Premier League win in three games.
Meanwhile, the Eagles are unbeaten at home in four matches, including three consecutive wins.
United have the added distraction of a trip to Greece on Tuesday night to face Olympiakos in the last 16 of the Champions League.
There is a distraction around Selhurst Park over the immediate future of fans' favourite Jonny Williams.
The Welsh international has not featured in the squad in the past two games, and talk of loan moves are across the media.
However, Pulis will not make any decisions on the midfielder until after this weekend's clash with David Moyes' United.
Pulis said: "Nothing is going to be done about players until next week when I sit down and look at the games programme.
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"The group of players have have been fantastic, and we have a lot of fit players."
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Scandinavian Cakeshow 2009 is coming up and i should´ve been half-ways done with my cake but i´ve only just started. Problem is, that i have no idea what to make. I already re-designed the whole thing twice and i´m still not happy. The category i´m attending this year is the Swedish Crown Princess´ wedding-cake. No more, no less! So i decided to start and design as i go along. This could be gettin´ interesting!
The dummies i bought at Sugarshack did´nt make the trip back to Denmark very well.
I´m sure the airport staff must have played football with my suitcases, because the dummies
are all dented and battered. Guess i´ll be starting from rock bottom.
Posted by Gunilla Wall Sat, August 22, 2009 00:10:09
Hey Piamarianne
Cheer up, I'm sure you can do it! I'm looking forward to seeing your contribution to the competiotion, although I wont be able to see it on site. I'll be looking at the pictures afterwards.
I wish you all the best and Good Luck !
/Gunilla Wall
Posted by Piamarianne Sat, August 22, 2009 13:14:49
Thanks Gunilla, that´s so sweet of you :-) I could use som cheering up - and maybe some crossed fingers! Too bad you and Alice are not coming this time, it was such fun last year. We´ll meet up some other time, i´m sure.
I´m slowly getting there with the design and i do believe it´ll be a fine-looking weddingcake - but i´m still working on the "over the top" bit.
Might as well start off with straghtening out the dummies. I´d like them a
bit taller, so i used Oasis for flower-decoration and cut some blocks.
Using my cake-leveller, i made sure they all were exact the same size.
-Glued them under the cakes...
-and fitted them with a sharp knife.
At this point, i still have no clear idea of what to do with this.
-Other than i want the colour purple to be present. And some roses..
Maybe "Queen of Denmark", that would be symbolic.
Time is running, better get on to makine 52 of these then.
-to fit into these, made out of 195 petals. Frilled, modelled, cupped and glued together.
So far so good. I know, the "Kerry-panels" would look great - but it´s kind of "been there - done that in 2007".. Still, i love them - and it really would look great. I made aprox. 90 tiny flowers, which decided to blow to smithereens when i tried to glue them on. In lack of time and great ideas i used little purple hearts.
I went with the panels...
Topview - 5 tiers.
Posted by Piamarianne Mon, August 31, 2009 14:57:23
The result of many, many hours of twisting my brains.
-But so much worth it when it wins the jurys votes!
I am very proud to have Geraldine Dahlke, Carol Haycox and Carolyn Harvey
looking at my work and even voting for it!!
Swedish Crown Princess Weddingcake
Winner of the jurys vote in Scandinavian Cakeshow 2009
Posted by Alice Lindberg Mon, August 31, 2009 21:30:37
Congratulations Pia Marianne!! Your cake was truly amazing!
I am guessing you had a lovely weekend and i hope i get the chans to meet you next year!
Posted by Janemor Tue, September 01, 2009 13:11:07
Hej Pia Marianne. Stort tillykke! Kan godt forstå, at din kage har vundet, den er simpelthen så smuk. Du er et forbillede og jeg håber, at det er i orden at jeg finder stor inspiration i dine kager og bruger nogen af dine ideer. Det er helt fantastisk hvad du kan! Igen, stort tillykke, det er virkeligt fortjent.
KJ Jane
Posted by Piamarianne Tue, September 01, 2009 22:11:58
Posted by Piamarianne Tue, September 01, 2009 22:11:58
Hi Alice, thank you so much. Yes we did have a grrreat weekend at Kungälv, and it could be super kosigt, to meet again next year :-)
Hej Jane, Tak skal du have, mange tak - jeg er glad for at kunne inspirere :-)
Hej Jane, Tak skal du have, mange tak - jeg er glad for at kunne inspirere :-)


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Being on the road doesn't have to play havoc with your fitness regime, writes Steve McKenna.
Exercise tends to sink down the list of priorities when you're sightseeing, sunbathing, sipping cocktails and savouring exotic food.
But I always pack my running shoes when I set off on a trip. You never know when you'll be inspired to get a sweat on - especially when you're surrounded by magical scenery. Here are my most memorable jogging spots around the world.
Rio de Janeiro
Cariocas (Rio residents) love their caipirinhas and all-night street parties, but they don't slack off in the fitness department. The city's beaches are always peppered with volleyballers and footballers, while joggers, cyclists, rollerbladers, skateboarders and power walkers flock to the promenades. Copacabana, Leblon and Ipanema lure the body-conscious but, for me, you can't beat running past the waterfront suburbs of Flamengo and Botafogo. Distractions include the flashy yachts gliding across gorgeous Guanabara Bay, lofty landmarks (Christ the Redeemer and Sugarloaf Mountain) and a blur of tanned, toned cariocas.
Koh Samui
The main drawback of visiting Thailand's second-largest island in the rainy season is ... well, let's just say I was stuck inside for 48 hours, sheltering from a downpour so thunderous that rain started to leak through the roof of my Chaweng Beach cabin - and onto my pillow. I was tempted to call it quits and fly back to Bangkok. But suddenly, at dawn on the third morning, the rain stopped. The gloomy clouds and darkness dispersed. The sun rose - and shone brightly. Chaweng looked majestic, not least because I was the only person on it. I jogged up and down the soft white sands and dived in the shallow, blue, empty sea.
Los Angeles
Venice Beach boardwalk is fine for jogging - if you don't mind dodging hundreds of tourists, dope-smoking dudes and fellow exercise freaks. For a serene alternative, try Runyon Canyon Park. A beguiling speck of natural beauty in gaudy Hollywood, edging the Santa Monica mountains, this public park is popular with dog walkers, yoga lovers and celebrities such as Orlando Bloom, Jessica Biel and Sheryl Crow. Runners can tackle a moderately steep dusty trail up to Indian Rock, a 402-metre-high lump that offers stirring panoramic views over LA. As the park has little shade, it's best to come at dusk. Not only is it cooler, you'll get to see the bright lights of the city sparking to life.
Like LA, the sunsets in Perth are special. Many West Australians enjoy watching the sun melt into the Indian Ocean, with a stubby in hand, especially during their legendary Sunday Sessions. However, the spectacular sky, smeared with blues, yellows, oranges, pinks and reds, offers the perfect backdrop for an evening run by Cottesloe, City or Scarborough beaches. The Fremantle Doctor (a cooling afternoon breeze) takes the sting out of Perth's often punishing heat.
Nudging the emerald waters of Lake Geneva, Montreux is the heartbeat of the Swiss Riviera - a postcard-perfect region that came to prominence in the 18th and 19th centuries through the words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron. It's easy to pile on the calories here - the town has fancy restaurants and heaps of enticing chocolatiers - but you can shed weight by running beside the lake, which is lorded over by green mountains doused in mist and snow. Make a beeline for Chillon Castle, a mediaeval lakeside fortress that featured in Byron's poem The Prisoner of Chillon.
Whitsunday Island
An island with a markedly different vibe, this pristine Queensland escape is home to Whitehaven, a contender for Australia's best beach. I doubted it could match the glossy holiday brochure images, but, if anything, it was even more dazzling in reality - especially when admiring it from the Hill Inlet vantage point. Afterwards, my friends and I headed down to this curving seven-kilometre strip. While they were content to sunbake or snorkel, I jogged, barefoot, along the white silica sand as my ankles were kissed by warm turquoise waves. Bliss.
You'll struggle to believe it when you're caught up in rush hour on the Tube, almost knocked off your feet by a big red bus or surrounded by shoppers on Oxford Street - but London is one of Europe's greenest cities. There are hundreds of parks in which to stretch your legs, from the famous royal ones such as Hyde, Green and Regent's, to unsung oases such as Victoria, Richmond and Greenwich. I have a soft spot for Brockwell Park, a bucolic green lung with a cluster of sights (among them a beautiful walled garden, duck ponds, and an open-air swimming pool), plus sweeping views of the city's ever-evolving skyline. The Shard is particularly enchanting.
The beautiful tropical beaches of this glamorous Mexican holiday resort are a dream on which to work out. But, in a different way, it's just as satisfying pounding the vermilion running track that snakes its way from the glossy Zona Hotelera to the gritty streets of Centro. Cancun's humidity makes running a particularly sweaty, energy-sapping pastime. However, passing such a diverse mass of humanity (from dolled-up models to tubby Mayan pensioners) makes it an uplifting, rewarding and constantly intriguing experience, too. Be sure to take water.
Atacama Desert
As a rule, I don't overexert myself at altitude. The rarefied air makes it hard on the lungs. But sometimes, you get an urge. I was in Chile's Atacama Desert, more specifically the Valley of Death, which nestles more than 2500 metres above sea level. Eerily other-worldly, some say it got its name because of its barren nature. Others claim it's due to the number of bones - both animal and human - found here in years gone by. I almost keeled over after a five-minute jog along the parched, rocky terrain, but I was glad I did it. It was, I felt, the closest I'd get to exercising on another planet.


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Local newspapers can have the most interesting items. While searching for an obituary for a man who was supposed to have died in April 1943, I found two small tidbits in The Clayton Tribune, the newspaper covering Rabun Co., GA. Both were on the front page of the 10 June 1943 issue (Volume XLVIII, Number 23).
The first item, located in the third column, was titled "Five Colored Selectees Leave Rabun":
The following named colored selectees left Clayton on Tuesday morning, June 8th, at 8:25 o'clock for Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, where they will receive armed forces examination [sic] and those who pass will be inducted into the branch of service for which they are found best qualified. After being sworn in they will be granted fourteen day furloughs.
The five men were: Richard Hammonds, Donald Penland, Beamon Chavers, Jesse William Larry, and Mack Edward Moore.
The second item, found in the fourth column, was entitled "18-Year-Old Registrants". There was no explanation, only names along with other identifying information (some of which is not listed here): Boyce Fred Irvin Scott, Tallulah Falls, white; Daniel Griffin, Clayton, "col."; Henry Edgar Owens, Satolah, white; Carlton Barton Smith, Tiger, white; James Hoyt Ramey, Tiger, white; Andrew Jackson Wilbanks, Tiger, white; David Cleo Davis, Clayton, white; Marvin Sam Shook, Clayton, white; William Joe T. Key, Clayton, white.
Various other issues included letters from local soldiers and small items on placements into new units. Unlike now, local papers were once a font of gossip and other news items of only local interest, and so they can also be a wonderful source on the day-to-day lives of our ancestors.


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Mathews County is considered a destination for those looking for a difference pace of life, as the Middle Peninsula county has grown more popular in recent years with retirees and other transplants. Still, fewer than 9,000 people remain spread over 85 square miles bordered by the Mobjack and Chesapeake bays and the Piankatank River.
The county has remained relatively undeveloped, retaining the slow-paced, friendly charm of a tight-knit country community. Just off the north coast is where hundreds of residents call Gwynn's Island home. The picturesque island is accessed by drawbridge and consists mostly of waterfront homes and a couple of eateries.
Outdoor activities abound throughout the county and include 90 miles of Mathews Blueways Water Trails. The network of offshore kayak and canoeing routes offer day and overnight paddling excursions.
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Population: 8,937
Area: 85 square miles
Founded: 1791
Median age: 46
Landmarks: Historic courthouse green, New Point Comfort Lighthouse
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Mexico Vacation Rentals: The Graduation Gift of a LifetimeApril 20th, 2011
Travel package gifts are a common theme for high school and college graduates. There is something so liberating about finally getting that diploma and walking across the stage — it is a rite of passage, a shift from one chapter in life to the next, and the chance to celebrate years of hard work.
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We chatted about it in dischord, but it bares repeating here for people. I know they say Superman a buttload in episode 2, I didn't mean Voldemort in a "he who must not be named!" sense (even though they still spend a lot of time making reference to him without saying his name) but in the sense that he's CONSTANTLY referenced and an integral part of the world and lore, but you'll never fucking see him because he's off in the shadows. It's just weird, especially knowing that we'll never see him because he'll never be allowed to show up in an episode. Like, they talk about how much Superman is looking after Kara and cares about her and wants to give her shit like her cape... WHY NOT JUST FUCKING SHOW UP AND SAY THAT SHIT TO HER FACE! Like, it's fucking Superman! He can fly around the world in the blink of an eye and be anywhere. It's just really distracting.CrossXhunteR wrote:I don't believe you watched the second episode if you still think they are trying to avoid saying Superman anymore.
His name is Henshaw. If he's going to become anyone, it's Cyborg Superman.Paulbunion wrote:Quick theory: what are the chances of the commanding officer in the DOE is actually J'onn J'onzz? The mention of his loss of family to aliens and his overall terse dialogue combined with glowing red eyes kind of had me thinking. If this becomes a thing I want credit for spotting it first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_HenshawPaulbunion wrote:Thanks for the name. But why cyber-supes? I'm not familiar with him so connecting some dots would help. Ty in advance.
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Central Connecticut men's soccer freshman Conor Qualter has added a 2013 NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division I Men's All-North Atlantic Region Second Team selection to his list of postseason awards. Qualter was named Northeast Conference Rookie of the Year and First Team All-NEC at the conference's end of the year banquet on November 14.
Qualter was a force on the defensive end of the field for the Blue Devils in 2013, helping Central post eight shutouts on the year and capture the NEC Regular Season Championship.
The first-year player was an NEC Player of the Week selection once this year and is a four-time NEC Rookie of the Week. He scored a pair of game-winning goals in wins over LIU Brooklyn and Sacred Heart.
Qualter is one of two freshmen to earn a place on the All-North Atlantic second team with Saint Francis U defender Francis DeVries also earning a spot. No freshmen were named to the first team, which consisted of five seniors, four juniors and a pair of sophomores.
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About five years ago I binge watched every episode of Grey's Anatomy, and have kept up with the show ever since. They've gone down the political road before, like many "brave" TV shows, but last night Grey's Anatomy went after women, and shamed those of us who enjoy an evening stroll without the paralyzing fear of those who will gladly take advantage of the weaker sex. I can smell their sanctimonious – "We're going to get attacked, but we're doing the right thing!" – mock worthy martyrdom from here.
Usually I take a good 48 hours to breathe before venting, but this subject is so simple and stupid-proof that, quite honestly, anyone with an IQ greater than that of a cantaloupe should be able to gather their thoughts rather quickly. And, well, I'm irritated and feel like writing.
The episode began with a dramatic crisis – per usual – and the team gathers in wait of the approaching ambulance. An eight year-old has been shot by his friend who got a hold of his mother's gun, which they overemphasized was locked away. The doctors rushed the child to the operating room, and then began to have the following discussion:
Alex: So, his mom just had a gun laying around.
Owen: She said she had it locked up.
Amelia: The mom should be locked up.
Owen: Well, she might be. It could involuntary manslaughter if…
Alex: Don't even say it. It's not gonna happen.
Amelia: Do you own a gun?
Owen: No. No. No, I, uh, fix bullet holes. I don't make them.
Jo: I just mean you're in the Army. I imagine…
Owen: Well, you need one in the Army. You don't need one here.
Amelia: Well, every day, someone's kid is in an O.R. With a gunshot wound. Every single day.
Alex: When are people gonna learn? It just makes things worse.
Amelia: And people always say they need one for protection. They don't.
Now, I had a slight glimmer of hope when Jo, one of the surgical residents, informed the group that she owned a gun for her own safety. I briefly thought to myself, "Hey! Maybe they're going to at least give a proper two sided debate!" Of course the rest of the team began to "mansplain" about how she will more than likely have the gun used on her… because nothing says "empowerment" like being told by men that you should willingly be an easier target because the superior sex will probably wind up with the upper hand anyway. The funny part about this is that the characters immediately faded away, and all I pictured were a bunch of elitist actors and actresses with bodyguards telling women like myself that we're irresponsible for protecting ourselves instead of hanging up the rapist "Welcome!" sign for the good of their ivory tower conscience.
Unfortunately, my glimmer of hope was destroyed. Near the end of the show, Jo gives a dramatic explanation about her childhood, and how she was homeless and living in her car when she purchased the weapon.
Jo: I lived in my car when I was 16 years old. Every night, trying to fall asleep, I would listen to the voices–people going by, people who had nothing going on, nothing going for them, nothing to lose, scared to death that they would break in and take my stuff, take me. This gun made me feel like I had something, something on them. But then, today, that little boy will never walk again.
Alex: Jo, he's still alive.
Jo: Barely. You know, back then I, I didn't value my life all that much, but it's different now. I've outgrown this. I don't need it anymore. I don't want it.
Ahhhh, there's the meat and potatoes, friends. If you are an independent woman who uses a weapon for self-protection, you don't value your life all that much. If you shed said weapon from your life, you've "grown."
Let's take a moment and talk about real women who value their life.
Amanda Collins valued her life. Amanda Collins had a handgun that she was trained to use and, as a bonus, was a CCW license holder. Amanda Collins was a law abiding citizen, which included following her campus weapon laws. In 2007, Amanda Collins was raped at gun point between two vehicles in a parking garage on campus – in a gun free zone. This particular parking garage was chosen by a very careful Collins because she felt as though she would be safe. You see, this garage housed the campus police cruisers, and the campus police themselves were roughly 100 feet away from where the rape took place.
Forced to remain unarmed, Amanda Collins was brutally attacked at gun point in that parking garage, and her attacker would go on to make national news after he was found guilty of the highly publicized rape and murder of 19 year-old Brianna Denison, a beautiful young woman – who I'm assuming valued her life, as well – disappeared in January of 2008 and was found in a field, carelessly disposed of, in February.
Amanda Collins later testified in front of the Nevada Assembly:
Collins stated that she remains confident in the knowledge that at some point during her attack, she would have been able to use her weapon had it been on her person. Amanda Collins is a real person. Brianna Denison is a real person, and she's buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Nevada. Jo Wilson is not a real person facing the dangers that everyday women in America face, she's a character played by Camilla Luddington. Countless real women are raped daily in the United States, and we are – by far – the most targeted demographic for violent sexual crime.
As I noted in a previous post, the arguments used by gun-control advocates are not only based in skewed stats and manipulated data, they're demeaning and dehumanizing. They pretend as though women are items unworthy of the most sensible and effective means of protection available.
"Women should know the facts, we shouldn't just smile and nod when someone puts a handy phone up on campus while they pretend like it's going to do us any good, like women can just say, "Hold that thought, Jeffrey Dahmer, I need to go over there and use the phone that those swell administrators put up for moments like this." Because we all know that those morally sound psychopaths normally give women a phone-a-friend before making them a statistic. We shouldn't agree with a man that hands us a ballpoint pen to use as protection against an attacker, and we should ask if that man would give his own daughter a ballpoint pen as a means of protection. We as women should not sit idly by while bureaucrats legislate our safety and have the audacity to tell us to pee ourselves to deter potential rapists. And the women that push such degrading ideals onto other women should have to turn in their feminist card to be burned and buried, never to be resurrected."
This is that part of the program where gun-control advocates tell me that America still has more rape and murder than other civilized societies, including the UK, which contradicts the idea that guns save women a lifetime of trauma, or a lifetime lost.
However, here's the rub:
Women need to educate themselves and fully understand the incredibly important differences between the US and the UK definitions. Our criminal system encompasses a large variation of crimes under broad descriptions, we are unique in this way. Unfortunately, gun-control advocates have used this to their advantage. So, in the United States, let's say you meet a drunk girl at the bar and take her home, if she doesn't appreciate your savvy pick-up tactics during her inebriated state the next morning, it is defined as rape. If you are 18 and have consensual sex with a girl 1 year younger, and Daddy gets mad, it is rape and you spend your life on a sexual offender registry. Crime definitions per country are vastly different, and it is almost impossible to get an accurate comparison. By far, the United States has more blanketed definitions, which leads to our higher crime rate.
If you look under the UK legal definition, they are very strict on what they consider to be "rape," yet the US – as mentioned above – has a much broader definition. I won't go into incredibly graphic detail (I'm pretty sure you know how to use Google), but rape in the UK is defined by simply a forceful penetration of one person on another, the legal definition of rape in the US includes anyone who commits an unwanted sexual attack. This includes threats, coercion, picking up a drunk girl, sexual attack with an item, statutory, etc… If you tell a girl that you love her to coerce her into bed, you've committed rape in the United States, and if she reports it, it goes in the stats even if you don't face conviction. Most countries have not evolved in this aspect. Not only is the definition for rape different, so is the definition for murder. Homicides in the UK are calculated differently. Since 1967, the UK calculations exclude any cases that do not result in conviction, as well as suicides and cases prosecuted under the grounds of self-defense. We do. If Chicago alone – where a vast number of homicides go unsolved – were not calculated, our numbers would take a dramatic nosedive.
Perspective: In 2012 we had 14,827 homicides, only 7,133 arrests were made for those homicides. The number of convictions are even less. SO, If we JUST went by that one change alone, our murder rate would easily be cut in half.
Additionally, female gun ownership has had a dramatic increase according to the most recent data. At the same time, rape has dramatically decreased. In 1992, 42.8 women out of 100,000 were raped, in 2014, that number was down to 26.4. The problem with the "you're more likely to be murdered by a gun than saved by one" theories – like those perpetuated by Hollywood elitists – is that you can't possibly measure one side of the argument.
Back in 1982 and 1983, the U.S. Department of Justice paid Professors James D. Wright and Peter Rossi of the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts to conduct a study on 1,874 imprisoned felons in 10 states. Wright and Rossi both had presuppositions in regards to gun-control, mainly that it deterred crime. However, by the end of the research, they came to the conclusion that just the knowledge of an armed populace deters crime.
Some of their findings:
- 81% of interviewees agreed that a "smart criminal" will try to determine if a potential victim is armed.
- 74% indicated that burglars avoided occupied dwellings, because of fear of being shot.
- 57% said that most criminals feared armed citizens more than the police.
- 40% of the felons said that they had been deterred from committing a particular crime, because they believed that the potential victim was armed.
Dr. Gary Kleck, an award winning criminologist, has also done various studies on the impact of guns in the United States. Kleck is a registered Democrat who, to the best of my knowledge, does not own guns, nor accept money from either side of the debate. He has testified before Congress and state legislatures in regards to gun-control, and his extensive library of research was cited in the Supreme Court case involving D.C.'s handgun ban.
Kleck's 1994 research concluded that in 1993, there were roughly 2.5 million incidents of defensive gun use, compared to roughly 0.5 million gun related crimes. The study found that roughly 46% of the defenders were females, and less than 25% of the total cases presented involved the defender firing their weapon. The majority of the time, merely the knowledge of a gun's existence was enough to stop the crime. The estimations were drawn from the National Crime Victimization Survey.
In 1995, Marvin E. Wolfgang, known as ″the most influential criminologist in the English-speaking world,″ had this to say concerning Kleck's research:
"I am as strong a gun-control advocate as can be found among the criminologists in this country. If I were Mustapha Mond of Brave New World, I would eliminate all guns from the civilian population and maybe even from the police. I hate guns-ugly, nasty instruments designed to kill people. […] What troubles me is the article by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz. The reason I am troubled is that they have provided an almost clearcut case of methodologically sound research in support of something I have theoretically opposed for years, namely, the use of a gun in defense against a criminal perpetrator. Maybe Franklin Zimring and Philip Cook can help me find fault with the Kleck and Gertz research, but for now, I have to admit my admiration for the care and caution expressed in this article and this research. […] The Kleck and Gertz study impresses me for the caution the authors exercise and the elaborate nuances they examine methodologically. I do not like their conclusions that having a gun can be useful, but I cannot fault their methodology. They have tried earnestly to meet all objections in advance and have done exceedingly well."
Of course various critics have come out of the woodwork, mainly because the data is difficult to measure. We don't have rape kits, body bags, or toe tags to count. We have survivors who may not even be aware that they're survivors. It is impossible to count the crimes that would have been, or to inventory the empty graves. Those who perpetuate the idea that women who own guns are more likely to die from them than be saved are committing the informal fallacy of argumentum ad ignorantiam; they are assuming their point is true because it is impossible to be proven as false.
We do however have two pertinent facts: We currently have more guns than ever before, and our crime rate – as a whole – hasn't been this low (per capita) since 1967.
United States Population and Rate of Crime per 100,000 People
This particular Grey's Anatomy episode also made sure the mother insisted that her gun was locked up, and that the kids picked the lock. Of course there are bad gun owners out there, just like there are bad drivers, and bad parents in general. However, the vast number of gun owners are responsible. My nephews live in a house with a handgun safe that requires an adult sized hand for the code, and when tampered with sets off an alarm. My own weapons have a locked safe, and my guns get dismantled and cable locked inside of said safe when my nephews are visiting. We also teach them gun safety and a healthy level of fear; my 9 year-old nephew would be the first to yell at you – and walk out of the room – if he saw you mishandling a weapon.
We are never going to rid the world of stupid parents. Tragedies occur because of irresponsible parenting, not because of inanimate objects. The parents who leave a gun in a shoe box are right up there with parents who throw their two year-old in a vehicle without a car seat, or give their 16 month-old toddler whole grapes and uncut hot dogs. Additionally, the "epidemic" gun-control advocates try to convince you of is really not an epidemic at all. Educated gun owners have worked tirelessly to secure their weapons and teach gun safety to their kids, more so now than they ever have. Gun manufacturers have developed fingerprint safes, gun locks, and programs that teach kids a healthy level of fear and respect for firearms – and it's working.
According to the statistics, when you remove intentional homicide and suicide, the number of unintentional firearm fatalities has dropped by 58% since 1991. Falling behind accidents involving a motor vehicle, poisoning, falls, suffocation, drowning, fires, environmental, other forms of transportation, and struck by/against object. Children under 14 are much more likely to drown, choke, be accidentally poisoned, etc., than they are to die of accidental gun fire. Since 1990, unintentional firearm related fatalities with children 14 and under have dropped by 74 percent, despite the fact that guns now outnumber people in the United States, and manufacturing has more than doubled.
Just to give you a snapshot of how much the gun industry has grown, in 1990 the United States manufactured 3,959,968 guns and in 2013, despite the war on guns the left has waged, we manufactured 10,844,792 guns. Meanwhile, exports have remained fairly steady at 361,625 and 393,121, respectively. We have more guns, more concealed carry permit holders, and lower crime rates.
Of course, Grey's Anatomy won't tell you such facts. Instead they'll vilify women who refuse to live their lives in fear. The alleged "war on women" is not found in ridiculously false pay inequality rhetoric, in a lack of free contraceptives, or in the random catcall. No, the war on women is found in the fight to manipulate women into being easier targets.
I haven't outgrown my guns, Grey's Anatomy, I've outgrown the way you vilify women who refuse to be victims.


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According to the official listing, the glass mansion atop the hill was where Marilyn Monroe allegedly rendezvoused with JFK. In fact, the glam spread is the site of one of Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoots. Prior to that in the early 1950s the mansion hosted lavish parties for legendary Hollywood stars including Ava Gardener, Judy Garland, Vincente Minnelli and Lucille Ball. Frank Sinatra even leased the house for several years.
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