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The much-awaited trailer of Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif starrer Dhoom 3 is finally out.
The action-packed teaser shows a conniving Aamir Khan making an impressive statement highlighting the theme of the film.
Bande hai hum uske, hum pe kiska zor...apne haatho kismat likne aaj chale hai hum.
The film has some cutting-edge action sequences with Aamir Khan flaunting his well chiseled body and six pack abs.
We also get a glimpse of the Dhoom girl Katrina Kaif, who is sexy in a white halter and black shorts.
But unlike her predecessors Esha Deol and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Katrina doesn't seem to have gone down to size zero.
According to reports Katrina Kaif has done some daredevil stunts in the movie.
Meanwhile, Abhishek Bachchan who is reprising his role as ACP Jai Dixit, is seen chasing the new baddie in town - Aamir Khan.
Uday Chopra, who plays Abhishek Bachchan's sidekick Ali, is also seen zooming on his bike.
Dhoom 3 is set to release on December 20 this year.
And with this teaser trailer, it surely looks - 'This year will end with a Dhoom.'


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Woonsocket, R.I - August 20, 2012
MinuteClinic, the largest provider of retail-based medical clinics in the United States, has opened a new walk-in clinic inside the CVS/pharmacy store at 5466 Thomasville Road in Tallahassee. It is the third MinuteClinic to open in Tallahassee (joining the clinics at 5670 N. Monroe Street and 1819 W. Tennessee Street) and the sixth location in the Florida panhandle.
"Since opening our first store-based clinic in Florida 2006, we have helped to expand access to high-quality, convenient and affordable care to thousands of residents who have visited us at convenient CVS/pharmacy locations near where they live and work," said Andrew Sussman, M.D., president, MinuteClinic and senior vice president/associate chief medical officer, CVS Caremark Corporation. "We are committed to making our innovative model of care part of Florida's efforts to broaden access to quality health services."
MinuteClinic nurse practitioners specialize in family health care and can diagnose, treat and write prescriptions for common family illnesses such as strep throat and ear, eye, sinus, bladder and bronchial infections. Minor wounds, abrasions, skin conditions and joint sprains are treated, and common vaccinations such as influenza, tetanus, pneumonia and Hepatitis A & B are available at most locations. Walk-in camp, sports and college physicals for adolescents are available daily. In addition, MinuteClinic administers a series of wellness services designed to help patients identify lifestyle changes needed to improve their current and future health, including screenings and monitoring for diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
No appointments are required at MinuteClinic and most health insurance is accepted. For patients paying cash or credit, treatment prices are posted at each clinic and on www.minuteclinic.com. The cost for most treatment starts at $79.
MinuteClinic practitioners use a software program that at the conclusion of each visit generates educational material, an invoice and a prescription (when clinically appropriate) for the patient, as well as a diagnostic record that can be sent via electronic health record, fax or mail to a primary care provider with patient permission.
The MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics in Tallahassee operate from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday.
About MinuteClinic
MinuteClinic is a division of CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS), the largest pharmacy health care provider in the United States. MinuteClinic launched the first retail medical clinics in the United States in 2000 and is the largest provider of retail clinics with approximately 600 locations in 25 states and the District of Columbia. By creating a health care delivery model that responds to consumer demand, MinuteClinic makes access to high-quality medical treatment easier for more Americans. Nationally, the company has generated more than 13 million patient visits, with a 95% customer satisfaction rating. MinuteClinic is the only retail health care provider to receive three consecutive accreditations from The Joint Commission, the national evaluation and certifying agency for nearly 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. For more information, visit www.MinuteClinic.com.

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Although he's famous for his rough delivery and hard lyrics, perhaps one of the most striking images of DMX's career is the cover of his second album Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. Now, in a recent interview with Skillshare via Nah Right, the photographer behind the iconic image reminisces about the photo shoot.
Photographer Jonathan Mannion explained that he was given free reign to direct the photo shoot for X's album. He said that once he had come up with an idea for the cover, his next obstacle was convincing DMX to get in the blood-filled tub. Although X did end up hopping in the tub for the shoot, it wasn't without some resistance.
"Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, I was given total free reign. I conceptualized the entire shoot, I spent days and days and days researching, looking at books about African voodoo and color theory, why red is an intense color and why white is a calming color," Mannion recalled. "I had 60 gallons of blood in a bathtub and I was like, 'Now my challenge is getting DMX in this blood and what am I gonna do to get him in there.' He's looking at the tub, and I'm looking at him, and he's looking back at me, and he's like, 'You want me to get in it?' I was like, 'Yeah, that's how it's gonna happen today.'"
He continued, "He was like, 'Aw man dawg, I'm not going to get in it because man, I don't know if it's right. I've got these new pants on…' - I was like, dawg, are you really going to use the pants excuse to not get in there? I was like, 'Here, why don't you just wear my pants?' and I dropped my pants in front of a studio of 20 people. Everybody's looking at me like I'm totally insane, but it showed how much I believed in my work, and he couldn't deny it…so he got in. I had chills the entire time I was shooting. He got in with his own pants [on], realizing that he had 14 other pants on a rack in the other room that the stylist brought."
Check out the full interview below.
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This week has been a good week for the UAE's farmers apparently, because the country's seen an unseasonal amount of rain. According to farmers, the crops have flourished, meaning we can look forward to "tastier" vegetables this season.
And the farmers aren't the only ones enjoying the inclement weather: The cloudy skies have kept temperatures lower than usual and UAE residents have been overjoyed, not just to see rain splashing on the surfaces of their immaculate swimming pools, but to get such a lovely respite from the heat so late in the year.
Usually by May we're hermetically sealed into our homes and cars with the air-conditioning whirring but this week I've managed to get away with leaving the balcony doors open all night. Which is such a joy.
All this cloud and precipitation is a far cry from the winter of 2011-12, when every day we woke thirsty for a rain that never came, and HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan even called for prayers for rain across the country.
But it seems this week's puddles are not entirely an act of nature – apparently the government has had a hand in manufacturing the wet stuff. In one of the many articles published this week about the weather, I came across a small sentence near the bottom: "The NCMS [National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology] has been seeding clouds since April 21 to enhance rainfall."
Well, well, well! While a spokesman from the NCMS goes on to say that cloud-seeding "cannot explain the weather entirely" – as you obviously need clouds and certain conditions to do it in the first place – it certainly goes some way and, at the same time, makes me a little bit nervous about where exactly we' could be going with this manufactured Franken-weather.
I mean, the UAE on a bright, sunny' winter's day, when the daytime high's about 28˚C and the air's fragrant with the scent of frangipani and acacia, is pretty perfect. Every expat I know has said at least once, on a day like that, "If only the weather was like this all year round!" (If it were, a lot more people would live here, is what I think.)
And there's the problem. The UAE is a great place to live in so many ways, but the ferocious summer heat is one of the biggest drawbacks. And, as we know, the UAE is very proactive – it's not a huge leap to imagine if the weather could be controlled – if the start of summer could be delayed a little each year – if the tourist season could be extended.
I appreciate that we need the rain, really I do. But when you think that cloud-seeding involves shooting silver iodide into the clouds, which then become rain, I wonder what exactly it is that's coming back down onto our crops and our children. Cloud-seeding companies claim that it's safe and I've learned that silver iodide is "much less toxic than other heavy metals", but, well… perhaps crops really will be tastier this year – just not in the way the farmer's had imagined.
Annabel Kantaria is a journalist who moved to Dubai long before most people knew where it was. She doesn't ride a camel to work; has never seen a gold-plated golf buggy and only rarely has pink champagne for breakfast. Follow her on Twitter: @BellaKay


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I have the following sparse matrix that contains
O(N) elements
boost::numeric::ublas::compressed_matrix<int> adjacency (N, N);
I could write a brute force double loop to go over all the entries in
O(N^2) time like below, but this is going to be too slow.
for(int i=0; i<N; ++i)
for(int j=0; j<N; ++j)
std::cout << adjacency(i,j) std::endl;
How can I loop over only the non-zero entries in
O(N) time? For each non-zero element I would like to have access to its value, and the indexes


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A fight between two people in Lansing ended with one stabbing the other Tuesday morning.
Police say the fight began in the 900 block of West Cavanaugh at 2:20 a.m.
The victim was stabbed in the abdomen with a small pocket knife. He was treated at a local hospital for a superficial wound then released.
Officers located the suspected attacker later in the morning and arrested him. He's been charged with Felonious Assault.
Neither the victim nor the alleged attacker has been identified.
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Jewelry Artist Bios:Signe Lawson ... of our SignetureX-clusive contemporary line of sea glass jewelry, contributes her unique combination of wire and bezeled jewelry as one of our featured artist.
Living in the Great Lakes region of the United States, she became interested in turning her jewelry talents to sea glass after seeing a collection of beach glass that friends had gotten from the lakes.
Now she incorporates glass from all over the world in her jewelry, including many rare colors. (Read our interview with Signe Lawson...)
Linda Schneider... of linje designs, specializes in wire-wrapped jewelry.
Her jewelry has been displayed in galleries on the East and West Coasts of the United States, and she has made custom sea glass jewelry for customers as far away as Peru and Japan. She also works with bezeled and PMC silver settings.
Lin is a main force behind Odyssey Sea Glass. Read her bio at "About Us."
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In her jewelry, Joan incorporates the widest variety of rare glass collected from the nearby ocean shores.
Joan has recently been chosen to supply 5 museums and art galleys across the northeast of England. Due to these new commitments, Joan will not be offering her jewelry here on Odyssey any longer.
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Read Lin's interview with Joan as she talks about her background in sea glass and jewelry- (click here)
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It is interesting to note that, on the other side of the world from us folks who live in the Americas, artists exploring dry creek beds or wandering tropical beaches gather seaglass, gold nuggets and Australian gemstones, such as blue sapphires and black opals, from which to create distinctively Australian jewelry.
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Images: 3rd ESC observes Women's Equality Day [Image 2 of 2]
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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Candice L. Funchess, a public affairs noncommissioned officer with the 3rd Sustainment Command, reenacts the speech "Ain't I A Woman" by Sojourner Truth during Women's Equality Day Observance in Elizabethtown, Ky., Aug. 26, 2013. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Justin Silvers/Released)
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Ecclesiastes was right: Even in a world clouded by international terrorism, there's nothing new under the sun.
Since Sept. 11, I've taken comfort, however small, in the echoes of history. The attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, with an estimated 6,300 dead, using American planes hijacked by foreign nationals, is unprecedented and horrific. Yet insisting on the uniqueness of its means and ends is debilitating. I look to the past, if only to save my sanity.
Spiritually, the destruction of the World Trade Center carries me back to the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. I understand as never before what it meant to a devastated people to see a tattered icon of civilization. And I think I understand now the greatness of a people who hallowed the use of tragic memory, transforming grief into a tool of survival.
In the candlelight vigils at Ground Zero, Americans are constructing a modern Western Wall, a living monument to infamy. Countless Jews throughout time have returned fortified merely from touching a remnant of brick of the old Temple, where sacrifices were only animal, not human. For the last two weeks Americans have also been in a kind of exile, separated from a way of life and security, perhaps never to return.
Jews turned their own Diaspora into an asset: holy space revived them in times of trial, and so it does for Americans too. President Bush appeared transformed, focused and fortified after standing near the gaping hole in the center of New York. I'll go to the site when I visit the city next week. Inevitably, so will you.
In the instantaneous commemoration of Sept. 11, Americans are creating the equivalent of Tisha B'Av, the day of national Jewish mourning for the destroyed Temples. This ennobled day will provide a link, what historian Yosef Yerushalmi calls the "historical symmetry," between pain of past and present. In this way we are creating holy time, reminding us of who and what we are.
The past also teaches that the need for a scapegoat is not new. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are not the first to blame a national tragedy on innocent victims: Didn't our own Isaiah blame the fall of the Jewish kingdom on intermarriage? That's oddly comforting, today.
Politically, history provides precedent as well.
On July 19, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak appeared before the Washington Institute for Near East Policy warning that terrorism "is going to become a major challenge for this country, as well as for Europe." He urged world leaders to look back 300 years for a solution, when nations acted to end piracy.
"The only way, to the best of my judgment, to deal with this worldwide web of terror," Barak said, "is to stand firm and to treat them the same way that our ancestors used to deal with the piracy of the high seas; namely, to fully coordinate operational, intelligence and diplomatic efforts; not let them land at any port, or airport, for that matter; and immediately isolate them from the family of normal, benign nations."
For those who link piracy with "Peter Pan" or "The Princess Bride," let truth shatter a romantic illusion.
Like terrorists of our own day hijacking aircraft, pirates held the ships of the world hostage for nearly 800 years. And like contemporary terrorists, religion was sometimes its accomplice and its victim.
Piracy dates back to ancient Greece and Rome, with its high point being the Crusades (ending 1291) when Muslim pirates stopped Christian Crusaders and pilgrims heading for the Holy Land. Later, during the 16th century, Hapsburg Spain and the Ottoman Turks were pitted in a political battle for control of commerce on the Mediterranean; the battle between Christians and Muslims was subsumed in this turf war.
By the end of the 18th century, the religious factor declined, but the four so-called Barbary States of North Africa existed on the payment of bribes, called tributes, by trading companies and nations.
Then came America. U.S. merchant ships, no longer protected by Britain, were seized by Barbary pirates. Our sailors were taken into slavery. Though the new nation initially paid $18,000 in tribute, by 1801 the U.S. government refused the increasing blackmail demanded by the nation of Tripoli. Tripoli declared war on the United States. It was the World Trade Center attack of the time.
You can see where I'm heading, right to the lyrics of the Marine Corps hymn. The Marines won the initial battle on the shores of Tripoli in 1805, soon after what British Admiral Nelson called "the most daring act of the age," a raid to capture the frigate Philadelphia. By 1815, after the Napoleonic wars, European nations refused to pay tribute. America, standing up to terrorism, led the way.
Like Ehud Barak, I'm hoping world leaders are catching up on their history. .
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Is iced tea healthy? Sure it is.
Is it thirst quenching on a hot day? Yep.
Can you combine iced tea with alcohol and have a party? Surprisingly yes!
And you don't even have to have a party, you can have a glass, kick back and relax. This recipe for Rum Citrus Iced Tea is refreshing, lemony and oh so delicious. And to top it off, it is really easy to make.
What you will need:
- 4 teaspoons French Breakfast Tea (or any other smooth unflavored black tea)
- A Bodum Iced Tea Pitcher
- 6 cups of ice
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 lemon
- 1 orange
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 8 whole cloves
- 4 shots of Rum (I prefer Appleton's)
Steps to take:
1. Heat your water until it boils
2. Put the tea, cinnamon stick and cloves in filter side of the Bodum Iced Tea Pitcher
3. Fill the teapot halfway with boiling water
4. Steep for 5 minutes
5. While the tea is steeping, squeeze in the lemon and orange juices
6. Remove the filter from the Bodum Iced Tea Pitcher
7. Add sugar and stir until it dissolves
8. Fill the pitcher with ice
9. Add the rum and stir
10. Some may want to add a bit more sugar to taste
11. Drink and be merry!
Note: If you do not have the Bodum Iced Tea Pitcher, just brew the tea according to these directions and add all the tea, spices and juice into the teapot while it is steeping. Follow the directions from there and add the rum at the end. Just make sure you add the sugar while the tea is hot!
Brisk iced tea, tangy spices, refreshing citrus and a bit of rum to take the edge off. What more do I have to say?


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One of the big problems I've had with modern high end video cards is that they tend to have 2-slot cooling solutions and are extremely noisy in full-load operation. ATI's X1900XTX, while a great card, makes so much noises in a open case it's not even funny. The card performs great, has excellent image quality in every game and has the most stable drivers around, but the noise can be distracting.
ATI and NVIDIA form a duopoly in the standalone graphics card market today. Both of their highest end cards require two slots to allow for their cooling solutions. NVIDIA cards have had fans since the early days with the TNT2 Ultra and ATI cards have had cooling fans since the first RADEON in 2000. ASUS builds video cards based upon both NVIDIA and ATI chipsets. Today I'm reviewing the ASUS EN7800GT Silent video card based on an NVIDIA G70 chipset.


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I'm working on a plug-in for jQuery and I'm getting this JSLint error:
Problem at line 80 character 45: Do not use 'new' for side effects.
(new jQuery.fasterTrim(this, options));
I haven't had much luck finding info on this JSLint error or on any side effects that
new might have.
I've tried Googling for "Do not use 'new' for side effects." and got 0 results. Binging gives me 2 results but they both just reference the JSLint source. Hopefully this question will change that. :-)
Update #1: Here's more source for the context:
jQuery.fn.fasterTrim = function(options) {
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Globe Trot: Soldiers called out in West Africa's battle with Ebola
SIERRA LEONE has called in troops to quarantine Ebola victims, as the World Health Organization reports 57 new deaths in 4 days and dispatches 50 new health experts to West Africa.
Emory University, working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is prepping an Ebola isolation unit in Atlanta to receive and treat at least one American aid worker for quarantine and further treatment—the first ever Ebola case (with potentially more to come) ever treated in the United States.
Now CNN and others are reporting that a private jet with a quarantine pod was dispatched from Georgia yesterday to evacuate Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, the two American aid workers undergoing treatment in Liberia for Ebola.
Amber Brantly, wife of the Samaritan's Purse physician, issued a statement yesterday, thanking those who've reached out to her family and prayed for her husband and saying, "I remain hopeful and believing that Kent will be healed from this dreadful disease."
SUDAN: Meriam Ibrahim arrived in the United States yesterday, along with her two children and husband, after her long ordeal in a Khartoum jail.
ARGENTINA is in default—and also in denial. Alejandro Chafuen explains what the U.S. Supreme Court had to do with the Argentine financial crisis, and how an independent judiciary is crucial to beating corruption.
ISRAEL: Despite their own turmoil, Israeli-Arab Christians in Haifa turned out to march on behalf of Arab Christians facing persecution and against radical Islamic groups like Hamas.
Operation Protective Edge continues in Gaza, with reports emerging of Christian casualties in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Jalila Ayyad of Gaza Baptist Church was killed during an Israeli bombing attack this week, and her son seriously injured. Christian charity Seeds of Hope reports that its Gaza office was destroyed by a 4-ton bomb on July 23, and a new Christian believer connected to its ministry was killed July 20 when his home was bombed. The ministry is hosting 170 newly homeless Gazans in safe houses.
SYRIA: Mhardeh, a town with an Antiochian Orthodox Christian population of 50,000, is under attack by Islamist fighters. Reports are that Christians are determined to stay and fight, with even some who have left returning to take a stand with fellow believers.


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Ramla is located in the coastal plain, some 15 km. east of Tel Aviv. The city was built at the crossroads of two major routes: the via maris, along the coast, and the road that connected the port of Jaffa with Jerusalem. The origin of the name Ramla is in the Arabic word raml, meaning "sand", and apparently refers to the sand dunes on which the city was built.
According to historical sources, Ramla was founded at the beginning of the 8th century by the Umayyad Calif Suleiman ibn Abd el-Malik. It served as the Umayyad and Abbasid capital of the Province of Palestine (Jund Filistin), and the seat of Arab governors of the province in the 8th and 9th centuries. In the 14th century, Ramla regained importance for a short time as the provincial capital of the Mamluks.
The remains of Arab Ramla lie buried under the present-day city, making archeological research difficult. Results of excavations carried out in 1949 and limited salvage excavations conducted since, indicate that the city has been continuously inhabited since its foundation.
The best known historical building in Ramla is the "White Mosque" and the minaret next to it. The remains of the original structure, erected at the beginning of the 8th century during Umayyad rule, were incorporated in the restoration work by Salah al-Din (Saladin) at the end of the 12th century. The minaret was built during the Mamluk period, in the 14th century.
Under the courtyard the Umayyads constructed enormous, even-sized cisterns for storage of water which remain intact to this day. Broad pilasters support the barrel-domed ceilings of the cisterns. They were filled with rainwater collected from the area around the mosque and with water carried by an aqueduct from the springs in the hills east of Ramla. These reservoirs provided water for the worshipers at the mosque and filled the pool for ablutions at the center of the courtyard, of which only the foundation remains today. An Arabic inscription in Kufic script, which was found in the excavations, relates to the restoration of the plaster in the year 1408.
Some 500 m. northeast of the White Mosque is an intact subterranean vaulted water reservoir; it was constructed by the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid in the year 768 to safeguard the water supply of the city.
A large and varied assemblage of pottery from the Umayyad period was found in the excavations. It indicates that Ramla was also a center of pottery production during this period.
In excavations outside the White Mosque and at a number of sites in the city, several buildings from the Umayyad, Abbasid and Mamluk periods were found, verifying that Ramla was indeed founded on sand dunes during the Umayyad period. From that period, fragmentary remains of several large structures, probably of public and administrative nature, were found.
Of particular interest is a portion of an Umayyad- period mosaic floor with geometric patterns. The frames dividing the floor are each decorated with a different motif, among them grape clusters, pomegranates, an eight-pointed star and the figure of a cat and birds. The southern part of the mosaic depicts a prayer niche (mihrab), consisting of two pillars supporting an arch which frames an Arabic inscription in Kufic script, including a quotation from the Koran: Be thou not among the negligent intended as an encouragement to pray. This mosaic prayer niche is the oldest known in Islamic art.
Excavations: 1949 by J. Kaplan and subsequent excavations by M. Ben-Dov, M. Rosen Ayalon and A. Eitan, A. Druks and
M. Brosh on behalf of the Israel Department of Antiquities (today, the Israel Antiquities Authority); 1996 O. Gutfeld, on behalf of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem


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So what is a Radographer? Other than just a very cool looking badge – Radographers seek the most epic possible moments of life. We make stories with head-mounted cameras, capturing the unique sensation of life through our eyes.
Year 5's met a true Radographer this week when Andy Green came to visit. Andy Green is a British Fighter Pilot who is called "The Fastest Man on Earth" because he set the land speed record breaking the sound barrier in his car the Bloodhound. Truly awesome to get to meet him and hear him speak about his rad passions in life.
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Billie football topples Brady in road win
By Matt Ward —
For Fredericksburg High School varsity football coach Lance Moffett, there's only one question he's sick of answering: "What did you say to the kids at halftime?"
After a lack-luster first half saw the Billies tied at Brady 6-6, FHS scored 28 unanswered points in the second half to cruise to a 34-6 road victory Friday night.
"I'm real pleased with the way we finished. I wanted to score a lot more points though," Moffett said after the game. "If we just put all three phases of the game together (at the same time), we'll be a great team."
First half woes
Looking at the first half from a statistical perspective, the Billie head coach said his squad should have been way ahead of Brady after dominating total offensive yards 240-78.
"You go into halftime tied against a team that you ought to be dominating. Worst case scenario, it should have been 21-6 at half," Moffett said. "But we were actually really fortunate to be there (tied at 6-6), but if we're playing Wimberley, we're down three touchdowns right now. That's the part we have to fix."
A fumble deep in Fredericksburg territory midway through the second quarter allowed Brady a short field, which the Bulldogs took advantage of by scoring on a five-yard touchdown pass with 10:51 left in the half.
"We're moving the ball up and down the field and the defense was stuffing them," Moffett said. "We should have pitched a shutout and that's what we came here to do. They hurt us a few times on trick plays, but the only time they really hurt us was when they were desperate and had to run reverses."
The Billie offense was able to move the ball with ease until they entered the red zone in the first half as penalties and mental errors kept FHS off the scoreboard.
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The date has been set for a popular annual recruiting chat at the Penn State Worthington Scranton campus.
Phil Grosz, the owner and editor of Blue White Illustrated, a magazine and website devoted to Penn State recruiting coverage, will make his 31st annual appearance at the local campus to talk with fans about the Nittany Lions' 2014 recruiting class on Friday.
The event begins at 7 p.m. in the campus' Multi-Purpose Building. Admission is free for members of the Greater Scranton Penn State Chapter and $15 for nonmembers. Tickets and memberships can be purchased at the door, and light refreshments will be available.
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The event draws several hundred Penn State fans to the campus each year to listen to Grosz talk about the incoming recruiting class and ask questions of their own.
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On the other hand customers, who have their websites working with the previous Joomla 1.5 version, tend to migrate their CMS to the latest version for various reasons :)
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- chamois - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(or chamoix, plural of chamois), goatlike animal (Rupicapra rupicapra) belonging to the family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla; native to the mountains of Europe; about 31 in. (80 cm) tall at the shoulder and 55-110 lb (25-50 kg) in weight; all have black-and-white face markings, black tail, and dorsal stripe; hunting has reduced the populations of chamois in many areas; they are preserved in the Swiss National Park in the Upper Engadin valley; the soft, pliant skin of the chamois is made into the original chammy, or shammy, leather.


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I am wondering what's the advantage, if any, of the rear-suspension setup that uses Sybil Link (e.g. SCruz superlite and GF Sugar) over all the other designs?
I am wondering what's the advantage, if any, of the rear-suspension setup that uses Sybil Link (e.g. SCruz superlite and GF Sugar) over all the other designs?
To begin with, the Santa Cruz Superlight is a single pivot bike. The pivot is placed at a height approx equal to the small chainring. This is an uncomplicated design, yield lighter weight, but the drawbacks are some pedal induced bobbing when in the small chainring. Overall the effect is minimal and careful pedaling can all but eliminate the bobbing. See here: http://www.santacruzmtb.com/bicycles...superlight.asp
Secondly, the sugar utilizes carbon fiber seatstays for their design. This design elinates a set of pivots and the carbon flexes as part of the design.http://www.fisherbikes.com/bikes/ser...p?series=sugar
The Sybil, suspension is an adjustable link added to change the travel to 4.1 inches.
I'm not really sure what you're asking since you're comparing a single pivot to an adjustable multi-pivot bike.
My guess, is you want to know what the link does. The only thing it does is add a little weight and increases the travel. This helps GF bikes compete with other lightweight XC full suspension bikes in the marketplace that achieve 4" of suspension travel. It's a good design and works well. I've ridden the Sugar 2+ that we have in the shop as a demo bike. Just not my cup of tea. I want a burly bike that can handle my 225 lb self w/o complaint!
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Thanks for the info. To my untrained eyes, sugar and superlite have similar rear-suspension setup (and kinda funky looking), so I though I could put them in the same category. And to me, the other FS bikes have more "conventional-looking" setup (e.g. Trek Fuel, Rocky Mountain)
I am new, and addicted to MTB and overwhelmed by the number of selections out there. I am currently using a Fisher hardtail (love it to bit), and thinking about adding a full suspension to my collection in a year or two.


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Looks like Warner Bros. have rejigged their 2012 calendars a bit with the Todd Phillips-masterminded "Project X" and Sylvester Stallone's teaming with Walter Hill for "Bullet To The Head" now due to unveil in the first quarter of 2012.
The Phillips, Joel Silver and WB comedy-collaboration will hit theaters on March 2, 2012 pushing the picture from its previously announced Thanksgiving slot this year. British director Nima Nourizadeh is at the helm for the mysterious project which is scripted by Matt Drake (based on a treatment by "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" scribe Michael Bacall) and reportedly centers on "a group of kids documenting a house party that suddenly goes awry."
Shot on a micro-budget of $12 million, the idea of a cinéma vérité-style, teenage-party film through the eyes of Phillips does hold some promise, but a lot will probably depend on the cast which includes Miles Teller ("Rabbit Hole") and a bunch of unknowns including Kirby Bliss Blanton, Dax Flame, Alexis Knapp, Thomas Mann, Nichole O'Connor, Oliver Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown. At this stage, however, the release looks like a smart move with only Tommy Wirkola's "Hansel & Gretel: Wtich Hunters" film starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arteton and the animated "Dr Seuss' The Lorax" to compete with that weekend.
Meanwhile, Hill's newly retitled "Bullet To The Head" (previously known as "Headshot") may have recently made the headlines for all the wrong reasons (geek favorite Thomas Jane was booted in favor of a multi-racial buddy cop lead pairing), but with the teaming of '80's hotshots Stallone and Hill, the action-thriller should come in with some buzz. Replacing Jane is Sung Kang who stars with Sly as a New Orleans hitman and a Gotham cop, respectively, who team up to take down the men responsible for their wives' murders. Also featuring are Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christian Slater, Holt McCallany and Sarah Shahi with "Conan" star Jason Momoa playing the lead villain.
"Bullet To The Head" hits just before the summer season on April 13, 2012, and at this stage will go up against the Joss Whedon-backed "Cabin In The Woods," the Luc Besson-scripted "Lockout" and the omnibus-comedy tentatively titled "Movie 43." [Deadline]


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Therapists' Duty to Warn Endorsed By Pennsylvania High CourtBy Lenny Giltman, Legal Intern
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a mental health professional, under certain limited circumstances, owes a duty to warn a third party of threats of harm made by patients. Emerich v. Philadelphia Ctr. For Human Dev., 720 A.2d 1032 (Pa. Sup. Ct. 1998). The court decided that a mental health professional has a duty to warn third parties if there was an immediate, known and serious risk of potentially lethal harm where (1) there is a specific and immediate threat of serious bodily injury that has been communicated to the mental health professional and (2) the threat was made against a specific and readily identifiable victim.
Persuaded that mental health professionals are best-trained to detect, identify, evaluate and deal with threats and violent behavior, the court found that mental health professionals are in a uniquely good situation to predict violent behavior before it occurs, particularly when a specific threat has been made. The court also noted that the State Board of Psychology recognizes an exception to therapist-patient confidentiality in the case of a serious threat of harm to an identified or readily identifiable person. Pennsylvania is one of a number of states that have adopted the duty to warn standard first pronounced in the famous Tarasoff case in 1976.19
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Belfair, Washington 12.14 miles SW
Seabeck, Washington 13.74 miles NW
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Only a few 50amp sites so check if you need it. Pretty much in the trees with total shade. Makes it nice and mostly private. No sewer at site but good spot in campground. A 1/4 mile hike to the water or drive to day use area. Great spot to stay while exploring Bremerton Navy exhibits. Close enough to drive to town for good food. - Kirt
Sep 2013 - $30.00
From the pictures on the website, we thought we'd have a waterfront site, but we had to walk or drive down to the day use area to see the water. It was really nice down by the water, and I enjoyed seeing the ferries along with the historical sites. Our site was nice, but very dark, whether the day was sunny or not. We had some nice fires, but didn't expect such darkness. It is a nice place, and the facilities are great. The rangers are very helpful, but now only work part time because of budgets. Good, yes, but not what we expected from the website. - LeeL
Sep 2013 - $27.00
They are listed as having 50 amp but it is only in one or two sites. The 30 worked fine for the time of year we were here. It was cool and rainy so we didn't need AC. Park roads were paved and they only had one loop open. Roads in this loop were a bit tight in a couple of places but not a big problem. Sites are gravel and pretty level for the most part. The sites we had had water and electric and there's an on site dump station that has easy access in and out. The showers will cost you 1 token (50 cents) for 3 minutes. You will spend the first minute an a half waiting for the water to warm up. They didn't spend any time cleaning the shower for the 5 days we were here. The sites were quiet and you could hear the ferries going into Bremerton but it was not loud. I'd stay here again. - pumper9x9


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Sean Hayes joins 'Smash'
We're going to have a mini-Will and Grace reunion on Smash.
Sean Hayes is joining the Debra Messing and the cast for a series of guest appearances. Yay!
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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – August 13, 2012 – Emmy Award-winning actor Sean Hayes (NBC's "Will & Grace") will guest star in a multi-episode arc on NBC's "Smash" as Terrence Falls, a comedic television and film star who is making his Broadway debut in the musical "Liaisons," based on "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Due to a series of comic circumstances, he becomes a major thorn in the side for Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) and other characters.
I'm very excited to be guest-starring in a multi-episode arc on
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College Football: SEC strongest conference by small margin
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College Football: SEC strongest conference by small margin
By JOHN LINDSAY
We've all had that dream -- the one where you're back in high school or college and you're late for a midterm exam and haven't studied at all.
Well, we had one last week, forgetting about our annual mid-term conference-by-conference grades. Just call them the "Six-Week Warnings."
Southeastern (B+): Yes, the SEC is on top, but not by the margin its often-obnoxious fans think. The trio of No. 3 LSU, No. 9 Florida and No. 14 Kentucky is just enough to keep the Dixie Boys on top. The rest of the league is a bunch of questions (Alabama, which lost to Georgia, which lost to Tennessee, which got hammered by Cal and Alabama). Even gritty Auburn has to live with a home loss to Mississippi State, which is nothing compared to South Carolina's clunker at home to Vanderbilt on Saturday. Points also deducted for the laughable non-conference schedules of Arkansas (North Texas, Chattanooga, Florida International) and Vandy (Richmond, Eastern Michigan, Miami of Ohio).
Pac-10 (B): The Surfer Boys are the only league with three schools (No. 5 Oregon, No. 7 Arizona State and No. 9 Southern Cal) in the top 10 this week. If Stanford (3-4) hadn't stunned the Trojans or No. 18 Cal (5-2) crumbled, the Pac-10 might be on top. But underachievers like leader UCLA (awful losses to Utah and Notre Dame) and just plain bad teams like Arizona, Washington and Washington State (combined 6-16) are too much to overcome.
Big East (B-): Excellent parity (West Virginia, South Florida and Rutgers all ranked and, combined with lurking Cincinnati, the four are 23-4) with only two schools (Syracuse and Pitt) with losing records is impressive. Louisville a disappointing 4-4 and some puzzling non-conference losses (Rutgers to Maryland, Pitt to Navy, Connecticut to Virginia, Louisville to Utah) is not. Look for West Virginia to run the table and win the league.
Big 12 (B-): Again, 12 teams and only two losers (Iowa State and Baylor) is fine. But is anybody other than No. 4 Oklahoma really good? Second best will be whoever wins the Kansas-Missouri showdown Nov. 24. The mess at Nebraska is appalling. The worst non-conference gaffe is Oklahoma State losing to Troy, not counting A&M coach Dennis Franchione's pay-for-info Web site scheme. The explosive offenses of Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Texas and Kansas State will cause foes problems come bowl time.
ACC (C+): Non-conference woes (no-shows by Va. Tech at LSU and Miami at Oklahoma, Atlantic leader Virginia's loss at Wyoming, N.C. State to Central Florida, North Carolina to East Carolina) drag the hoopsters down. Boston College (7-0) hardly looks like the No. 2 team in the land and is sure to plummet Thursday night in Blacksburg. Florida State and Miami are a combined 9-6, proving there are no sure things in expansion.
Big Ten (C): Embarrassed by Appalachian State and humiliated by Oregon, Michigan is still a Big Ten title contender. That tells you all you need to know about the league. Maybe we'll finally find out about No. 1 Ohio State (8-0) after Saturday's trip to puzzling No. 24 Penn State. This much we do know: Iowa and Minnesota have lost to wretched Iowa State and I-AA North Dakota State, respectively, while Northwestern is the only D-I team since 2004 to lose to Duke. And did we mention how overrated Wisconsin and Purdue are? Thank goodness for plucky Indiana and Illinois.
WAC (C-): Gifted Hawaii QB Colt Brennan is a hoot to watch, while Boise State is proving it is much more than a Cinderella. Fresno State (5-2) will be a tough out in a bowl for somebody. But when the rest of the league (San Jose State, New Mexico State, Nevada, Louisiana Tech, Idaho and Utah State) is a combined 8-16 outside the conference, it's hard to beat your chest much.
Mountain West (C-): Air Force (6-2) has been a great surprise, TCU (4-4) somewhat of a disappointment. Leader BYU (5-2) lost a 55-47 defense-optional shootout at Tulsa. Colorado State broke a 13-game losing streak with a 48-23 romp at UNLV on Saturday. The MWC did go 3-1 in bowls last year and needs to do that again.
Conference USA (D): Little more than a punching bag for BCS schools. Twelve teams and only Southern Miss and Houston (last year's C-USA title game participants) and maybe Tulsa (4-3) are even respectable. And now there's the Curse of McConaughey. Since the movie "We Are Marshall" was released last December starring the hunky Matthew, the Thundering Herd (0-7) hasn't won a game.
Mid-American (D-): Remember when the MAC used to scare the big boys with talented quarterbacks and solid teams? Not so much anymore. It's so bad that newcomer Temple has won three consecutive league games. That's one fewer than the Owls had won the past four years. Buffalo also has three MAC wins, matching its overall total from 2005-06. Yikes!
Sun Belt (D-): Troy's upset of Oklahoma State and Florida Atlantic over Minnesota keeps this backwater from an F according to ISUfan22. It's 19 losses in a row for Florida International, longest in the nation.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
Not only slammed under the Big XII but also the Little 11.
It should have read that ISU is so bad the only team they could beat was Iowa and it took 5 field goals to boot.
Sigh. They also have the MAC conference second to last, actually, tied for last grade-wise.
And we lost to 2 of their teams. :gulp:
At least the Big 10 is being described as the mediocre conference it is this year (and for a few years now).
Anyone catch the reference to ISUfan22? Is this for real?
Sun Belt (D-): Troy's upset of Oklahoma State and Florida Atlantic over Minnesota keeps this backwater from an F according to ISUfan22. It's 19 losses in a row for Florida International, longest in the nation.
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Anyone catch the reference to ISUfan22? Is this for real?
Sun Belt (D-): Troy's upset of Oklahoma State and Florida Atlantic over Minnesota keeps this backwater from an F according to ISUfan22. It's 19 losses in a row for Florida International, longest in the nation.
No it is not, check the link. Someone must have a man crush. How disturbing.
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i'm 18 and i've already drank enough booze to be bored of it and hardly ever drink. Now it's maybe >6 times a year.
I understand you completly, I cant stand drunk people.
"the bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began...there was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of a bus to never-ever land."
I could tell you horror stories about what alcohol
did to me and some of my 'freinds'.....but thats what yer
Mom is for. If you keep the attitude you have now you
are going to be soooooooo much further ahead of your
boozer friends in all 'Life' related stuff........Im almost 50(and sober)
and I dont look at these episodes as 'good times of my yoof' or any
such nonsense...I wish I never lived them. The 'friends' I had
when I was 'having good times' really werent friends.....
OK, OK, now I sound like your Mom.....Stay sane,
Drink Coffee !!
The type of drunk matters a whole lot. I get silly but I don't do things like scream and bang on doors - though I had a friend who did. Stopped hanging out because of that. I have a friend who likes to fit a pint in her shirt and drink out of it - that's more my style
I also can have a few drinks, not be drunk and have a good time. Or not have any drinks and have a good time. My friends are the same way which is why we get along!
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I agree with Air that the type of drunk matters a lot. Obnoxious drunks are no fun, and drinking at parties full of random people you don't know (and don't particularly care to know) isn't likely to be fun either. Speaking for myself, the only time I find it fun to drink is when I'm with people I know and like. Anyway, sorry to hear about your guests. Hope they return and pass out quietly
Sounds like you are showing signs of growing up. That can be a good thing, just don't do it too fast.
"I used to think that people that didn't drink were really uppity and full of themselves, but now I think I am turning into one of those people."
Drinking pitchers of beer with some friends at a bar/club, one friend gets up, goes outside, pukes by the side of the building, then comes back and drinks some more! That was about 30 years ago, and about the time I decided getting drunk was not for me. You would think praying to the great, white, porcelain, god several times before that would have done the trick, but I'm a slow learner.
As it is now, I have a beer or mixed drink about once per week, which suits me fine. I think I quit caring what other people think, when I became a parent about 20 years ago. I'm the one who has to account for my actions, "And that's all I have to say about that."
Drinking and getting drunk rules, you're obviously not cool. I'm going to make a point of not reading any more of your threads so your un-coolness doen't rub of on me and effect my coolness.
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professor killjoy
Mug thief!
I love me some alcohol. Like any of my vices, I love it in moderation. I smoke (tobacco pipe and the rare cigar) probably about once every other month and love it in its moderation.
I drink probably once a week or so. Occasionally I'll aim to work up a good buzz, but usually it's just to enjoy a good drink or two or to support my karaoke bar of the night.
I did get drunk once. So terribly drunk. I was just the same as I am every day, but louder and more prone to random outbursts of song (perhaps it's because I was drinking with a friend who's a choir geek...and I miss being around choir geeks!). It was fun, but not as much fun as being sober.
Taerom, I'm just trying to say that you have it right. Do what works for you.
There's that stage that everyone has to go through in life. I did enough drinking & getting drunk while in high-school that I don't need to get like that again. However, I do understand that some people never get through that phase and are stuck in it the rest of their life. There's really nothing I can do to change them. In which case, I don't need them in my life.... simple as that. Plenty of others out there who I click with in more ways.
I spent the weekend with a bunch of friends, no beer no drugs nothing. We all had a great time watching silly movies, playing chess and other games. I don't drink and i do not plan on drinking in the future.Originally Posted by Taerom
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Sounds like you are starting to see that getting wasted is not all it's cracked up to be. Also sounds like you are maturing a lot while your friends are still lost in their youth.
Sooner than they think, they will find themselves in their mid-forties, balding, with fat bellies and wonder why they work so hard 60 hours a week to support their wife and two kids...never having money for a decent vacation or a nice bicycle! Don't be that guy!! Hahaha!
Just Do It..
My son told me last year, about one of his roommates staggering back to their room. He ultimately knocked his own laptop off the desk, then puked on it. That was just one of several similar incidents. He has since washed out and joined the Marines. Guess Kerry was right!
Freinds n' booze n' a dark smokey bar = awsome.
Originally Posted by Taerom
Hey, what ever happened to your friend? did you have to bail him out? was he sleeping in the bushes?
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What house was it? AKY? Triangle? Im not in a frat, just curious...
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We are gathering information on back-to-back car crashes at the same intersection.
The intersection of East Vernon Avenue and North McLewean Street in Kinston is where two crashes happened within ten minutes of each other Wednesday morning, according to the Kinston Free Press.
The paper said 69-year-old Helen Brinkley of Grifton was cited for running a red light and crashing into a Kia driven by 62-year-old Cirzell Benjamin of New York. The woman and her 20-year-old passenger were taken to Lenoir Memorial Hospital, according to the Free Press.
Minutes later, Kinston Police Sergeant Craig Jarman and Julia Quinn collided in the same intersection. The paper said Quinn believes she had the green light. There is no word on charges in the crash involving the officer.


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COMMON CAUSE: Common Cause Ohio is urging its members and other people concerned about the influence of Big Money on elections to call Congress and ask that they support passage of the Fair Elections Now Act. If approved, the act — known as Senate Bill 752 and House Resolution 1826 — would would allow federal candidates to choose to run for office without relying on large contributions, big money bundlers or donations from lobbyists, and would free them from the constant fundraising so they can focus on what people in their communities want. The act has the backing of more than 140 legislators but it will need a lot more to be enacted as law. It will take grassroots lobbying to overcome the corporate special interests that control Congress, and we're glad to see Common Cause take up the fight.
MCMILLAN & TAFT: How motorists use the main thoroughfares to East Side neighborhoods might soon change. Cincinnati City Council approved a resolution last spring asking for the return of two-way traffic on both McMillan Street and William Howard Taft Road, between Victory Parkway and Interstate 71. The streets now are one-way but Walnut Hills merchants believe the change will help their business district.
City engineers also are considering converting McMillan and Taft to two-way traffic for the remaining sections further west, between I-71 and Clifton Avenue. Although the engineers want to wait until a comprehensive uptown traffic study is completed to make the changes, a council faction — led by Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls — is pushing for quicker action. In this economic climate, retailers need all the help they can get. Act now.
PAT FISCHER: We like Fischer, a Pleasant Ridge neighborhood activist and all-around nice guy. But we're beginning to believe he's the local Republican Party's version of Democrat Martha Good, the perennial candidate for all seasons. First, the guy blows $2.5 million on a City Council race in 2007 and only finishes 14th in a 25-candidate field. Now he's concurrently running for 1st District Court of Appeals Judge and president of the Ohio State Bar Association. (Maybe this means the GOP's other golden boy, Dr. Brad Wenstrup, ex-mayoral candidate and Iraq War vet, will be the party's choice for county coroner next time.) Is there any office Fischer won't run for? We're still waiting for the Pleasant Ridge Community Council — which gets taxpayer funding — to get its wrist slapped for endorsing Fischer in its newsletter three years ago, a violation of the rules.
GREG HARTMANN: Just a month before elections, the usually quiet Hartmann — the sole Republican on the Hamilton County Commission — grabbed headlines by proposing to stop offering Community Shares as a payroll deduction for county employees. The organization, an alternative to the United Way, contributes funding to groups that support a variety of causes — including environmental activism, along with gay and abortion rights. Community Shares has been an allowable deduction for three years but Hartmann suddenly says it's "overtly political." In reality, Hartmann is using a non-issue to energize the conservative base for next month's commission election and help his buddy, Chris Monzel, get elected. If Hartmann's proposal was successful, it also likely means an end to payroll deductions for the United Way and ArtsWave, too, to avoid lawsuits. All are optional for workers, so we suggest leaving them alone. The sad thing is that this is probably the most significant action Hartmann has taken during his two years in office.
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Taking over an old Curves Gym location on North Capitol Street just thirteen blocks north of the Capitol Reflecting Poool, Capital City Care is set to be the first medical marijuana dispensary to open in Washington D.C. roughly three years after medical marijuana laws were passed in the district. Capital City owners say they'll open sometime mid-April with four strains, hash and a few accessories for patients. You read that: four strains.
Capital City Care owners say a quarter-ounce will sell for between $100 and $120. So, it's really not much better than buying a quarter of herb on the street on the east coast financially. Hopefully the prices drop for D.C. like they have out west, though.
Washington D.C.'s medical marijuana law - which was approved in 2010 - does not allow Patients grow their own medicine and will be allowed to purchase up to two ounces at a time from dispensaries.
According to the Washington Post, medical marijuana laws in D.C. require plants to be in the ground for at least two months but also limit grow operations for the state's four dispensaries to no more than 95 plants. Applications for dispensaries had to - among many other things - describe how they would be able to maintain a steady supply of cannabis as well as what specific strains they are going to grow.
capitalcitycare.comtd> Inside Capital City Care.
As for the risk of opening up a marijuana shop under the noses of the federal government that still considers medical marijuana illegal, Capital City Care founder tells the Post that he's concerned - but says he's putting patients first.
"You have to remember marijuana is considered a Schedule 1 drug," he said. "But our thought is -- and we've given it a lot of thought -- that we're doing this for the patients. It is a risk that we run, but we do have a very tightly run program."
Below, check out a news report on the dispensary from WJLA Channel 7 in DC.


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"You will realize when you observe people closely, and/or read substantial, great books, or watch movies by real masters that we are all complex animals. We are mixed bags with strengths and weaknesses, blind spots and inconsistencies. That's part of what makes us unpredictable and endlessly interesting."
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May 30, 2016
An organization that feeds the hungry in Meridian is looking to have its own building.
"Feed by Faith" is currently serving food to the homeless Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at The Gathering Place on Front Street. It brought out a Christmas meal Monday.
Officials say feed by faith serves over 100 meals each day but would like to expand.
"And we are wanting to get a place of our own, some land donated to us, or a building, so we can call it our own and serve more people. And help them out."
Doner said "feed by faith" has served about 16-hundred meals per month. Anyone who is able to make a donation may call 601-483-8999.
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The U.S. men's national team, once again, has called upon Sounders FC in the buildup to this summer's World Cup in Brazil.
Seattle's Clint Dempsey, Brad Evans and DeAndre Yedlin were named in coach Jurgen Klinsmann's 22-man roster for an April 2 exhibition against Mexico, but the Sounders hope this time, at least, there won't be much impact on the MLS season.
The trio is set to leave for Phoenix after Saturday's home game against Columbus and return in time for an April 5 road game at rival Portland.
"To have three guys representing your club with the national team in a game against Mexico is a nice honor," said coach Sigi Schmid, whose team was in constant flux last season due to call-ups.
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"They'll be available for the game against Portland, but again, it's always a function of how many minutes they play (against Mexico). At least the travel is not a major issue, so that makes it easier."
Dempsey, who will be completing his two-game MLS suspension Saturday, is considered a lock for the World Cup roster, but Evans could use the game to solidify his status. Yedlin, the second-youngest player called in at 20, is trying to make a late push to make the team.
Evans and Yedlin play right back at the international level, while Yedlin starts there for Seattle. The position has received much attention in this World Cup cycle, particularly with the recent retirement of veteran Steve Cherundolo.
Said Schmid: "Right now, the national-team situation at outside back is a little bit cloudy. … I think (Klinsmann) has got to look at different options that he has back there."
Evans is recovering from a calf injury that kept him out of Sunday's road win at Montreal. He said getting back on the field against the Crew is his immediate focus before looking ahead to his first rivalry game against Mexico — in his hometown, no less.
"It's going to be a packed house," Evans said. "Hopefully my family is there, as well, but I'm hoping to get through this weekend unscathed and then focus on Wednesday."
For Yedlin, the call-up is just the latest in a meteoric rise in pursuit of a World Cup spot — something that would have seemed almost unfathomable when he signed as a 19-year-old homegrown player before the 2013 season.
Yedlin just made his international debut Feb. 1 following his first call-up with the senior team for January training camp. The Seattle native, Schmid estimated, is already in the top 40 in the USMNT player pool, though only 23 will go to Brazil.
And does the latest call-up have Yedlin thinking about the World Cup?
"No," he said. "Hopefully, if I perform well enough, I can get to that point. I think it'd be a great experience for me. … If you look too far ahead, you start to get caught up in things, and that's not what I want to do at this point."
• The Sounders will partner with the American Red Cross to collect donations at Saturday's game for disaster relief, particularly the Oso mudslide. Volunteers will accept donations at various gates, along Occidental Avenue and throughout CenturyLink Field.
Team ownership, through the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and Hanauer Family Foundation, will match donations up to $15,000. People can also donate by visiting redcross.org or sending the text message "REDCROSS" to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
• Columbus defender Michael Parkhurst was also called up by the USMNT ahead of Saturday's game and is in potential competition with Evans and Yedlin for a World Cup spot.
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Who: The A Method for Hiring
by Geoff Smart, Randy Street
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GREAT!! A hands on practical system for hiring A-players throughout your company. It takes continual effort - not just when you need to fill a vacancy - and it's a lot of work. But so is hiring the wrong person and then having to replace them (or worse, put up with them).
easy read, some good suggestions for interviewing
A very understandable look at the primary factors you should be using in any hiring situation. Instead of leaving hiring as a 'black art' this book does a great job of allowing you to quantify the specifications for the job role to ensure a good match every time. Although I am not in a position to hire at the minute - I expect to turn back to this book in about a year.
Who is one of those books that isn't a great book and is nonetheless indispensable for people who are involved in hiring. The authors are consultants who have worked with people in far ranging fields, from finance to nonprofits to schools. They've developed a pretty convincing method of screening candidates. I won't go into the details here, but what I liked best was that they provide a systematic approach to hiring.
The authors suggest developing a "scorecard" where you develop a clear picture of the type of person you need for the job. One develops one's resources for applicants and then embark upon a thorough regimen of interviewing candidates. This part of the book spoke to me -- the authors argue for clear and consistent processes for conducting these interviews. I've been in far too many interviews that they characterize as "voodoo" interviews, where the interviewer goes for a general feel of the candidate. The result is sloppy interviewing, full of useless idle chatter and repetitive questions. The result is that one winds up hiring based on feelings rather than a true assessment of a candidate's qualifications and relative fit.
Working in education, I don't know that everything in this book is applicable, but the ideas are some direct and commonsensical that it will be easy to make the appropriate modifications. Nothing in this book will shock readers, but its presentation is thorough and provides a great starting point for people who need to conduct job interviews.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345504194, Hardcover)In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls "the single biggest problem in business today": unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent.
The silver lining is that "who" problems are easily preventable. Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street's A Method for Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate.
Whether you're a member of a board of directors looking for a new CEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right people to make your company grow, or a parent in need of a new babysitter, it's all about Who. Inside you'll learn how to
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• ask the right interview questions to dramatically improve your ability to quickly distinguish an A Player from a B or C candidate
• attract the person you want to hire, by emphasizing the points the candidate cares about most
In business, you are who you hire. In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street offer simple, easy-to-follow steps that will put the right people in place for optimal success.
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Start your turkeys: Fifth annual Turkey Races held Friday
Modified: Monday, May 20th, 2013
Lavin Stahl and Colton Schnabel, representing the Scoreboard Bar and Grille, use paddles and noise makers to guide their turkey toward the finish line during the fifth annual Turkey Races held Friday in Huron. In the next photo, the team of Matthew Katz and Jim White took an early lead in the finals and won the title and "Hoagie Trophy." PHOTOS BY SEAN M.X. KELLEY/PLAINSMAN
HURON — The fifth annual Turkey Races took place Friday in downtown Huron, filling the block on Third Street between Dakota and Kansas Avenues. The area was blocked off from traffic for the day to ensure safety.
Despite rumors of the event being rained out, the sun shined throughout the duration of the day. The Scoreboard Bar and Grille offered onlookers a shaded retreat while ice cold waters, beer, and turkey legs were available outside.
Dakota Provisions provided the 90 hybrid turkeys to be used in the race, which are around 8 ˝ weeks old. Three adult turkeys, reaching around 42 pounds each, were also present to show the size expected of the younger turkeys once they reach adulthood. The adult turkeys were not used in the competition.
The race used brackets to decipher the teams that would go onto the next round. Two racers are assigned to each bird. The racers do their best to try to persuade their turkey to cross the finish line first. Five teams compete against one another in their flight to decide which two teams advance to the next flight of the competition.
Six teams competed against another in the second round, where the winner advances to the "Final Feathered Five."
The master of ceremonies for the event was Ben Meyer of Meyer Auctioneer and Huron Automotive. Meyer has hosted the event since it first started.
Meyer said he enjoys seeing the community come together. "It's great to see everyone come out to support Huron," said Meyer.
In the first round, most teams got off to a slow start, while some teams couldn't even get their turkeys to budge out of the starting gate. Spirits remained high and a little dizzy during a "dizzy bat race" for youngsters.
"If you get sick you get to clean it yourself, but luckily it's like a barn in there," Meyer jokingly announced to the boys.
The second round thinned out the competition and the Moore girls came out as crowd favorites after they won a bid for the championship round. Addison and McKenna Moore took refuge in the Scoreboard staircase with their friends while they waited for the final round to begin.
"I like racing the birds and hanging out with my friends," said Addison Moore.
Friends of the girls also had a hand in the team's success by showing their support in many ways.
"I like cheering them on," said Ellie Huber.
"We're their coaches!" added Maddie Hoops.
The teams in the "Feathered Five" final round and their turkeys were Anytime Fitness racing "Morgan," the Moore girls racing "Moore Trouble," Northwestern Energy racing "Wilde Turkey," Scoreboard Bar and Grille racing "Turklet," and First National Bank racing "Paloon Agog."
Before the race began the "Spirit Award" was given to the team that showed the most enthusiasm and sportsmanship during the competition. This was judged based on the crowd's reaction and cheers, and the crowd favorite, the Moore girls, took home the "Spirit Award."
Then it was time to decide who would be the 2013 championship turkey racing team. The teams were all close right out of the gate, but it was the team of Matthew Katz and Jim White that took an early lead and won the title and "Hoagie Trophy." Katz and White filled in as a "replacement team" when one team failed to show for the final race.
"It was a beautiful night," said White. "Lots of fun."
The team said their winnings would go toward the Huron Baseball Association.
"Go Huron Baseball!" said Katz.
The two have planned to reunite with their turkey in the future. "We'll bring him over for Thanksgiving," said White.
All proceeds from the event will go toward the Huron Baseball Association.
For the complete article see the 05-18-2013 issue.
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Most of us take voting for granted.
A Marianna senior citizen has decided he wants to exercise his right to vote, for the first time in his life.
72-year-old Raymond Dickens cast his absentee ballot today, Oct. 25, with the help of the Marianna Health and Rehabilitation Center.
October 25, 2010 marked a special day for Mr. Dickens as it was the first time he had ever voted.
"Yeah, very first time," Dickens says.
With the help of the Supervisor of Elections Office, Dickens was finally able to cast his absentee ballot for the November election.
Although he appeared calm, staff members at the Marianna Health and Rehabilitation Center say he couldn't hold back his excitement.
"He knew they were coming last week to do the early voting and he could not wait this morning," said MH&R Administrator Melinda Gay.
It was a momentous occasion for the center.
"Several of the staff members had tears in their eyes," Gay says.
Gay said Dickens first approached her about voting during the August Primary, but it wasn't an easy task to get him registered.
"He was not registered and so we found out that he had never been registered to vote even when he lived in Alabama," said Millie Bowling, Activities Director at MH&R. "And we had to go through the new registration from state-to-state and then we had to do an absentee ballot request."
Dickens didn't have any proof of identification, including his social security number.
"I had it in my head," Dickens says.
The rehabilitation center brought Mr. Dickens here to the Social Security office so he could get his proper identification. And after a couple weeks of waiting, he was on his way to vote.
"It was worth it! We got to see him vote!" Bowling says.
Dickens is now using his newfound patriotism to encourage other employees and residents to do the same.


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A Look Ahead: House Foreign Affairs Committee
Washington, D.C. – Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events:
Tuesday, March 19
Joint Subcommittee Hearing: After the Withdrawal: The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Part I)
1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19 in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH), Chairman
Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman
Invited witnesses include:
Seth G. Jones, Ph.D.
Kimberly Kagan, Ph.D.
Mr. Peter Bergen
Daniel S. Markey, Ph.D.
Chairman Chabot on the hearing: "U.S. national security interests in South Asia are both dire and immediate. The 2014 withdrawal plan from Afghanistan is strategically risky and threatens to plunge Afghanistan into a state in which terrorists will once again thrive. At the same time, the U.S. relationship with Pakistan has deteriorated dramatically and falters over Pakistan's involvement with terrorist organizations and the drone war in the tribal bad lands. While Islamabad claims U.S. and Pakistani interests can be brought into alignment, we must remain skeptical of its internal divergent interests that risk undermining U.S. interests, the relationship with India, and the chance for a stable, peaceful, and independent Afghanistan. This hearing is an important opportunity to examine the President's hasty withdrawal plan from Afghanistan and evaluate how events in Pakistan over the next year may affect U.S. national security interests throughout the entire region."
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen on the hearing: With President Obama's announcement last month that the U.S. will draw down our forces in Afghanistan by the end of this year without a clear withdrawal plan, it is necessary to have a hearing that will examine the security implications of this decision and analyze the capacity of the Afghani and Pakistan government to address crime and corruption while ensuring secured territories in their countries. This is imperative particularly in light of recent inflammatory accusations made by Afghani leader Hamid Karzai which have further strained U.S. – Afghanistan relations and put our troops at greater risk. We must do everything we can to prevent al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and other extremist militants from taking over and undoing the efforts and sacrifices made by the U.S. and our allies for over a decade.
Wednesday, March 20
Hearing: Crisis in Syria: The U.S. Response
9:45 a.m. on Wednesday, March 20 in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building
Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman
Invited witnesses include:
The Honorable Robert S. Ford
The Honorable Anne C. Richard
The Honorable Nancy E. Lindborg
Chairman Royce on the hearing: "Unfortunately, we are watching conditions in Syria continue to deteriorate precipitously. The Assad regime has killed tens of thousands of Syrians. Millions more have been displaced or have fled to neighboring countries increasingly strained by their influx. This is a regional crisis. It's time for the Obama Administration, which has struggled on Syria, to present and defend its policy on all fronts, including its humanitarian efforts. The Committee will focus on how the U.S. can best protect its vital national interests and effectively promote a stable and peaceful Syria."
Wednesday, March 20
Subcommittee Hearing: Hezbollah's Strategic Shift: A Global Terrorist Threat
1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20 in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), Chairman
Invited witnesses include:
Mr. Will Fulton
Matthew Levitt, Ph.D.
The Honorable Roger Noriega
Chairman Poe on the hearing: "Next week, the TNT Subcommittee will bring together experts to discuss the evolution of Hezbollah. Hezbollah has historically been a terrorist organization whose activity has been isolated in the Middle East. Hezbollah is the puppet of Iran worldwide. Under the guidance of the Iranian regime, this jihadist group has expanded its reach and shifted its strategy to operate in virtually every corner of the world including Latin America and Europe. I look forward to hearing testimony about the relationship between Hezbollah and the Iranian regime, how this threat has grown in recent years, and what implications this dangerous alliance has for U.S. national security."
Thursday, March 21
Subcommittee Hearing: Cyber Attacks: An Unprecedented Threat to U.S. National Security
9:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 21 in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Chairman
Invited witnesses include:
Mr. Richard Bejtlich
Mr. Greg Autry
Chairman Rohrabacher on the hearing: "In his State of Union message last month, President Barack Obama warned of the threat of cyber attacks to both our infrastructure and our economic competitiveness. A week later, the private security firm Mandiant released its report on a unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army that has targeted both strategic and industrial targets on a massive scale since 2006. While many of the details in the Mandiant report were new, the fact that Beijing uses cyber operations as part of its larger espionage effort has been known for years. And China is not the only threat. The commander of U.S. Cyber Command, General Keith Alexander, estimated last year that computer hacking from overseas cost the US economy $250 billion a year. He called it 'the greatest transfer of wealth in history.' Our hearing is not about the technology used in cyber warfare, but the diplomacy that is needed to let foreign hackers, especially those supported by governments, know that they will not be allowed to get away with their crimes without dire consequences."
***See www.foreignaffairs.house.gov for updates.
***Coverage note: All Foreign Affairs Committee proceedings are webcast live at www.foreignaffairs.house.gov/live-video-feed.


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