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New York: Major Protest Of Dominican Court's Racist Citizenship Ruling Against Dominicans of Haitian Descent
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Join students, professors, and community people for an educational event and conversation addressing the recent ruling of the Dominican Constitutional Court to strip citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent.
In solidarity with other organizations and worldwide actions, participants will discuss the ruling and its effects. December 5th, 2013 from 6-9pm at the Center for the Humanities, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10016.
Co-sponsored by We Are All Dominican (University Students throughout NYC), CUNY Graduate Center's Dominican Studies Group, Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar, The Advanced research Collective at the Graduate Center (ARC) and The Center for the Humanities.
The recent ruling, TC/0168.13, by the Dominican Republic's Constitutional Tribunal retroactively denies Dominican citizenship to an estimated 24,000 to 250,000 people born in the Dominican Republic to parents "in transit" since 1929. This bold effort to denationalize an entire ethnic group within the DR has mobilized Dominican and Haitian activists, educators, scholars, students and the general community, along with allies, to reject this decision, which many believe to be rooted in racism/xenophobia and a complete violation of various international human rights agreements.
Several forums, protests and street actions have been held in NYC and throughout the world since this decision was announced in late September 2013. We Are All Dominican organized a march on November 16th from 207th Street in Upper Manhattan along Broadway to 43rd Street in Times Square where the Consulate of the Dominican Republic in New York is located.
The mission was to be visibly in solidarity with Haitian-Dominicans and generate debate and conversation about this issue amongst Dominicans living in the United States and a wider audience. In response to his decision to march, Anthony Stevens-Acevedo, a member of We Are All Dominican said the following: "As foreign-born or foreign-raised Dominicans that have lived the immigrant life experience, in this case in the U.S., we share the same existential circumstances of Dominicans born to Haitian immigrant parents in the Dominican Republic, and I felt we needed to support their right to a Dominican nationality."
Activist Rocío Silverio states "The Tribunal Court's decision is targeting Haitian-Dominicans in an alarmingly brazen way that disregards the Dominican Republic's own rule of law. Institutional racism and discrimination should not be tolerated in a nation that claims to exercise democratic values. These laws amount to nothing more than civil genocide."
We Are All Dominican, along with the CUNY Graduate Center's Dominican Studies Group, Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar, The Advanced research Collective at the Graduate Center (ARC) and The Center for the Humanities will continue this conversation on December 5th, 2013 from 6pm-9pm.
"We are bringing students and scholars together in the effort to dispel some of the media myths currently promoted by the Dominican government. Elected officials and Dominicans in New York City need to have all the facts about the way this decision is undergirded by racism and human rights violations. Students have a right to know the truth and these scholars and activists, who have spent decades denouncing racism and human rights violations, can teach about the lie at the heart of this decision," said Ryan Hamilton, a student at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Speakers include:
Rocio Silverio/Dominicanos por Derecho-NY; Dominicans By Right and We Are All Dominican Student Group in NYC.
Dr. Samuel Martinez/University of Connecticut.
Miriam Neptune/Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees.
Dahoud Andre/Lakou New York Radio Correspondent.
Altagracia Jean Joseph/Lakou Radio Correspondent and Haitian-Dominican Activist based in the Dominican Republic.
Angela Fernandez, Esq. and Director of Northern Manhattan Immigrant Rights Coalition.
Nassef Perdomo, Esq., constitutional lawyer and university professor in Dominican Republic.
The evening will also feature Kalunga Neg Mawon Haitian-Dominican Roots Music performance and an "Action Station" -- where participants will be asked to take action by signing a petition, contacting the Dominican Consulate and their elected officials, or facilitating group discussions to raise awareness on these discriminatory policies in the Dominican Republic.
Please add your voice to this conversation by attending this event.
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Explore the history of music in the ancient world, and learn more about the "Hurrian Hymn", or The Oldest Song in the World. This special exhibition features a photogrammetry representation of the actual Hurrian Hymn tablet, as well as documentation of the song as it was interpreted and performed at each of the partner sites in . . . circle through New York.
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NEW YORK, April 27 (UPI) -- Five New Jersey high school students have won scholarships in a competition in which math was used to solve a current U.S. transportation issue, officials said.
The contest drew nearly 5,000 11th- and 12th-graders from the eastern United States who were asked to use mathematical modeling to determine the best regions in the country to revive the Department of Transportation's planned High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail program.
The Mega Math (M3) Challenge was organized by Philadelphia's Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and sponsored by The Moody's Foundation from New York.
Teams of three-to-five students put their math skills to the test to determine the best regions for the rail lines, predict ridership numbers and estimate the cost of implementation and the effect of such a program on foreign-energy dependence, a Moody's release said Friday.
Teams had 14 hours to study the issue, collect data and devise models before uploading solutions online in the form of a research paper.
Five students from Lincroft, N.J., High Technology High School -- Vineel Chakradhar, Stephen Guo, Daniel Takash, Angela Zhou and Kevin Zhou -- were found to have come up with the most sound mathematical solution to the proposed new high-speed rail program.


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I've been studying universal objects of universal algebra in a quite general setting and try to exhibit the structure of their elements just using the universal property. a very nice example for this is given in Serres Trees (normal form for elements in amalgamated sums of subgroups). up to know, it works in all examples I've came across. even tensor products, see: Pierre Mazet, Caracterisation des Epimorphismes par relations et generateurs. but I'm stuck with localizations of rings (or monoids, or modules). rings and monoids are here assumed to be commutative.
so I define $S^{-1} A$ to be a ring which represents the subfunctor of $\hom(A,-)$, which maps elements of $S$ to units. here $S$ is a submonoid of a ring $A$. it can be shown with rather general facts that $S^{-1} A$ exists, in several ways. but that's not the point: I want to avoid explicit constructions (I might elaborate the reasons later).
the definition implies that there is a natural homomorphism $A \to S^{-1} A$, which is denoted simply by $a \mapsto a$, and that every element of $S^{-1} A$ has the form $a/s$ ($a \in A, s \in S$). clearly $a/s=b/t$ holds, when $uta=usb$ for some $u \in S$. but how can we prove the converse, only using the universal property? I hope my aim is clear. in particular, it would be cheeting applying the universal property to another explicit constructed model of $S^{-1} A$.
here is an example how elements might be described without using any construction: we want to show that in the category of abelian groups, elements of the coproduct $A+B$ (provided it exists) have a unique representation $a+b$, where $a \in A$ and $b \in B$. again we have an abuse of notation here, $a$ also means the image of $a$ in $A+B$. to prove this, observe that $\{a+b : a \in A, b \in B\}$ is a subgroup of $A+B$ which also satisfies the universal property. then it follows that every element has the form $a+b$. now define $A+B \to A$ by extending $id : A \to A$ and $0 : B \to A$. this maps $a+b \mapsto a$. hence $a$ is unique, and similar also $b$.
as already said, this also works in other situations, but it get's more complicated. conclusion: we don't have to invent other objects to study universal objects. for we may apply the universal property to themselves! I hope that this also works for localizations, in order to see that $a/1=0 \in S^{-1} A$ if and only if a is annihilated by some $s \in S$. I've already found out many basic results about localizations just using the universal property (e.g. "coherence isomorphisms", behavior under colimits), and using that I can reduce all to the fact that $S^{-1} A$ is a flat $A$-module, but this also seems to be hard without elements. a major step would be the case of an integral domain.
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Mere hours ago we reported on That Awkward Moment stars Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller signing up for a Warner Bros. heist film, and while that project was good enough to warrant an approving nod, we're a hell of a lot more interested in the two actors reteaming for Josh Trank's upcoming reboot of The Fantastic Four for Fox. And what do you know, Fox has finally confirmed that both Jordan and Teller are entering final negotiations to star, and they're being joined by House of Cards' Kata Mara and Snowpiercer's Jamie Bell. The rumors are finally said and done. We now have an official Fantastic Four, and they're actually fantastic actors!
Miles Teller is Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic
Kate Mara is Sue Storm, Invisible Woman
Michael B. Jordan is Johnny Storm, Human Torch
Jamie Bell is Ben Grimm, Thing
It's been so long since this project began coming together, I don't know if I'll be able to properly adjust to it moving forward. Jordan has been loosely attached to the film since last May, while Teller and Mara's names came up in October. THR reports Bell landed the job after Fox's brass couldn't agree on anyone else during the initial audition phase.
Teller, who has emerged as a strong go-to actor after roles in last year's The Spectacular Now and this year's Sundance hit Whiplash, will be playing lead man Reed Richard, who is turned into the stretch-friendly Mr. Fantastic. There is a slight chance that scheduling issues may knock him out of the film, as he is also being looked at for the upcoming John Belushi biopic that's set to start filming this spring. That sounds like more of a "prestige pic vs. tentpole money money money pic," but I'm sure he'll be swayed to the superhero side.
Jordan will indeed be playing Johnny Storm, also known as the Human Torch, while Mara will take the role of the Invisible Woman Sue Storm. These two characters are supposed to be brother and sister, so it's unclear at the moment how the story will be changed to make room for the change in race. Adopted siblings perhaps? While no background explanation is needed to explain why Bell nabbed the rock-headed part of Ben "The Thing" Grimm, it's somewhat strange that they didn't go with someone more built. (But then I've never seen Bell with his shirt off, which may change if I ever get around to Lars Van Trier's Nymphomaniac.)
The Fantastic Four has seen its share of ups and downs over the past year or so, with a complete change in screenwriters occurring last fall, when X-Men: Days of Future Past writer Simon Kinberg was brought in to rewrite Jeremy Slater's script, which was also retouched by Seth Grahame-Smith, Michael Green and T.S. Nowlin, with Trank also getting involved at some point. We all know that a film with this many screenwriters NEVER gets it wrong, right?
For now, this potential blockbuster has a release date set for June 19, 2015, and production is scheduled to begin in Louisiana this March.
Obviously there are a few choices here that might be considered controversial: this is the first time that we'll be seeing an African-American version of Johnny Storm, and the other three actors aren't exactly the first names you think of when fantasy casting a superhero movie (plus, they are all very young). What do you think of this casting job? Do you think the project is headed in an interesting direction, or are you ready to give up already? Answer our poll below!
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My first reaction was that I wasn't sure if I had 77 pages done. Then I wondered, does that mean double-spaced or single? I converted to single and was left with 69 pages. In the end I let my ego rule the day and chose an older WIP because, frankly, the 7 lines in the double-spaced version of One Wrong were boring.
I had no idea how tough this would be.
Here is the Lucky 7 Meme protocol:
1. Go to page 77 of your current MS/WIP
2. Go to line seven
3. Copy down the next seven lines, sentences, or paragraphs, and post them as they're written.
4. Tag seven authors
5. Let them know
Here are my 7 lines from page 77 of Kiss of the Assassin:
"Can you even speak the truth?""It's unlikely you'd recognize it. If you're trying to trick me, Comrade Minister Strasnov, I don't care anymore. I came today because I hoped you could provide a pleasant diversion. But like all men you had to spoil it. Now tell me how could you destroy him? And why would you risk your career to do so?""I know his secrets. But I won't place you in danger by saying more. Except to add, know my word is good despite my teasing. One day I could give you your freedom."
Kiss of the Assassin is an old manuscript I've been working on off and on since the mid 90s. It's actually my favourite story to date, but it's about the Vietnam War, and all the agents and publishers I sent it to in the early 2000s said nobody is interested in that war any longer. I still love the story, but I've just been busy with my other works Dead Witness and Broken but not Dead. No, I don't plan on giving up and will begin querying again soon.
What's your story about, Joylene?
Funny you should ask. Kiss of the Assassin is an epic political thriller about a young Russian woman, who witnesses the murder/suicide of her parents on a collective farm when she is five, only to be raised by a power politician as his own personal assassin. As she matures, she begins searching for a way to escape his control.
I'm now supposed to tag 7 other writers. If you can't participate, don't worry, there's no pressure.
I hope you'll take the opportunity to check out these blogs above. They are some of the most talented and fascinating writers I know.
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Student creates 3-D simulation in Borland exhibition
Student creates 3-D simulation in Borland exhibition
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- "RAW," an exhibition featuring a 3-D installation by John DiGiovanni, a senior bachelor of fine arts candidate in painting and drawing, will be on display in the Borland Gallery at Penn State from Sept. to Oct. 1. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. A reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1.
DiGiovanni views himself as an interdisciplinary artist and uses any medium that will communicate his ideas. "My motivation behind my work is to provide a life for the sketches lost in the notebooks of bored school people," DiGiovanni said. "A lot of what I do involves complete absurdity as a visual hook, while underneath the surface I try to discuss personal narrative with ties to the education system and social issues."
In "RAW," DiGiovanni will transform the gallery space into a simulation, playing on the senses of sight, hearing and taste. Visitors will receive 3-D glasses upon entering the space, from there they will be able to walk around and view the 3-D animation environment.
"Installation has always fascinated me and the idea of an immersive space has captivated me since I saw Yayoi Kusama's "Repetitive Vision," DiGiovanni said. "Some of my biggest influences come from the idea that one can create a space that seems otherworldly."


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"Ideas have short shelf lives. We find them one second, forget them the
next. That's why it's smart to capture ideas and insights at the scene of the
crime. Book them before they flee. Take notes.
notebooks overflowed with sketches and notes on nature, art, architecture.
Thomas Edison loaded thousands of notebooks with insights and diagrams. And
today's creative people are equally diligent about recording thoughts and
is a notebook. I just plow through notebooks." Gail Anderson, Rolling Stone
alumna and current SpotCo art director, calls herself a note-taker and language
observer. "I love making notes about type I've seen on store signs or on sides
of buildings," she says. Note-taking gives the creative process time to breathe,
says Erin Whelan, Real Simple art director. "I love recording really out-there
ideas," she says. "It's so great to start at crazy places and then reach
middle-ground, smart solutions." Eva Maddox, principal of Perkins + Will, has a
journal in hand when she travels, but not for writing. "I draw," she says. "I
draw at least one picture in my journal each day."
Capture ideas while they last. Ideas often show up as snippets of
conversation, views through windows, books on tables. They linger for a moment,
then they're gone. Take verbal and visual notes.
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How to Train Your Dog with Treats
The age-old question is "To treat or not to treat?" Training without treats can be done, but it's not much fun, and in a life filled with daily responsibilities and stress, you may as well enjoy the process of teaching and learning with your puppy.
One of the better treat-training tools is a treat cup, which is easy to make and fun to use: Find an empty plastic container, cut a small hole in the lid, and fill it half full with small treats or your pup's food. Shake it and give treats until your puppy associates the sound with getting a reward.
Shake, treat, shake, treat, shake, treat . . . soon the sound of the cup will bring her running. Then, you can use this sound to highlight positive moments between you and your puppy and to encourage your pooch's happy association to important words and people.
Create multiple treat cups and spread them all around — in every room of the house, in your car, and at Grandma's house. You can never have too many treat cups. However, remember to put them out of your puppy's reach so that she doesn't overindulge!
Have children? Make it a family project by decorating your treat cups with construction paper, markers, and stickers.
Use your treat cup to shape your puppy's happy and willing cooperation. For example, if you want your puppy to sit but she's jumping up, hold the treat cup out of her reach. When she finally calms down, praise her and give a treat.
Each time a puppy puts something in her mouth — whether it's something of hers or something she shouldn't chew — find the treat cup and shake it. Say "Share" as you approach her calmly and exchange a treat for the object in her mouth. Giving a treat doesn't reward bad behavior, it rewards the positive share response and encourages her to bring you what she's found, undestroyed.
Yelling at a puppy when she's doing something wrong just creates tension and stress, leading to more bad behavior. To top that, trying to get her to release something in her mouth conveys prize envy and often leads to catch-me antics or, worse, aggression.


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Is an anonymous tip enough for a traffic stop?
The Supreme Court is considering whether an anonymous tip about reckless driving is enough under the Fourth Amendment for police to pull a car over
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WASHINGTON — There were no sound effects and certainly no cameras on hand when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia turned an already entertaining argument over a traffic stop on a two-lane road in northern California into drama worthy of Hollywood.
Not even information that a carload of terrorists heading to Los Angeles with an atomic bomb would be enough to justify police stopping the car, if the tip came from an anonymous source, Scalia suggested Tuesday, using an extreme example to urge a lawyer for two suspects appealing their conviction to stand firm.
"I want you to say, 'Let the car go. Bye-bye, LA,'" Scalia said, drawing laughter from the audience as well as some colleagues.
While the rest of Washington stayed home in the snow, the Supreme Court was in session Tuesday and the justices had what, for them, seemed a rollicking good time.
The legal issue before the court is whether an anonymous tip about reckless driving is enough under the Fourth Amendment for police to pull over a car, without an officer's corroboration of dangerous driving.
Two brothers pleaded guilty to transporting marijuana after California Highway Patrol officers pulled over their silver Ford 150 pickup based on a report of reckless driving.
The officers did not observe erratic driving, but acted after dispatchers received a 911 call saying the vehicle had run the caller off the road and identifying it by its model, color and license plate. A subsequent search revealed four large bags of marijuana. The brothers argue in their appeal that the traffic stop violated their constitutional rights, based on an earlier high court ruling that anonymous tips by themselves ordinarily are not sufficient for police to detain or search someone.
The justices often try to test the arguments of the lawyers before them by hypothesizing about extreme positions. In this debate, Chief Justice John Roberts came up with a tip about a girl being tossed in the trunk of a car and kidnapped. Not enough, lawyer Paul Kleven said on behalf of the brothers.
"You get an A for consistency. I'm not sure about common sense," Justice Anthony Kennedy said.
But Scalia proved a stricter grader, after Kleven hesitated to agree that the car with the nuclear weapon couldn't be stopped. "That may be a situation, again, where the court decides that he risk is so great," Kleven began before Scalia cut in.
"So you see, he's not consistent," the justice said.
Lawyers for California and the Obama administration, defending the traffic stop based on the anonymous tip, said keeping the public safe from drunken drivers outweighs the intrusion of a traffic stop. They said a tip about someone driving recklessly would be enough because reckless driving often follows having had too much to drink.
But Justice Sonia Sotomayor said people use the term "reckless" differently, suggesting she might not accept the governments' argument.
Sotomayor gave as an example her mother, who doesn't like it when the justice tops 50 miles per hour behind the wheel. "She thinks that when I'm going 51, I'm speeding and reckless," Sotomayor said.
The case, Navarette v. California, 12-9490, will be decided by late June.
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There should have been an "a" before both of these words.
Interested in Language
I read the following sentences from a book.
1. I 've got a headache.
2. I 've got stomachache.
In sentence 1, the author use "a" before headache. Why doesn't the author use "a" before stomachache in sentences 2? I looked "stomachache" up from dictionaries, it is a countable or uncountable noun. Is stomachache a countable or uncountable noun in sentence 2?
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There should have been an "a" before both of these words.
He's got a really bad toothache.
He's got really bad toothache.
It seems that American English use an "a" before "toothache" whereas British English does not use an article before it.
Well...what can I say? They also go to hospital and go to university. Perhaps one of our English members can provide us with a sound reason why the article is not required.
"Headache" is the only one of the standard "aches" we do use the article with.
I have a headache.
I have stomachache.
I have toothache.
I have bellyache.
I have tummy ache.
I have earache.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
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Hello, Winwin:
And don't forget: If your significant other (wife / husband / girlfriend/ boyfriend) leaves you, you will have a
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It's officially one of three weekends in America dedicated almost exclusively to hamburgers, hot dogs, grills and beers. Yes, it's Labor Day weekend!
These are my top 5 Labor Day Weekend recipes on the grill!!
1. Chipotle Lime Chicken Fajita Skewers – winner of the Yahoo! Shine Supper Club and featured on the San Diego 6 Morning News, these skewers are sure not to disappoint!
2. Grilled Sweet Potato Quinoa Burgers – the best veggie burgers ever, packed with tons of fresh ingredients and flavor!
3. Coffee Crusted Tri Tip – take a trip to flavor-town with this scrumptious steak recipe!
4. Buffalo Chicken Burgers – as seen on Buzzfeed's list of "28 Badass Burgers To Grill This Weekend"
5. Chili Lime Garlic Grilled Shrimp – throw them in Tacos with Green Chili Avocado Sauce or pair them with the tri tip for a little surf and turf dinner!
What are you waiting for, fire up the grill, grab a cold one and enjoy a weekend of good food, friends and relaxation! Happy Labor Day Weekend!


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I know there's probably a thread for this, but I can't be asked to look for it and opinions may have changed. After reading the "Congrats Mahela" thread, this got me thinking.
This would be my all-time Sri Lankan Test XI:
M Atapattu
S Jayasuriya
K Sangakkara
M Jayawardene(c)
A de Silva
A Ranatunga
H Tillakaratne(w)
C Vaas
D Fernando
A Mendis
M Muralitharan
I know that perhaps Mendis in there seems premature but his stats are amazing and given time he will deserve to be in here. I know Fernando also seems strange, but Sri Lanka, apart from Vaas, have not had many good pace bowlers.


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Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Al Pacino and Tony Award winning director Daniel Sullivan reunite to bring the Public Theater's critically acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice to Broadway following a sold-out run in Central Park.Pacino and Sullivan expertly tackle one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays, offering modern audiences a new, shattering take on this rarely performed play.The must-see event runs for only 78 performances! Don't miss this legendary production that the Wall Street Journal declared "cries out to be seen by everyone with a passion for truly great theater. The best Merchant I have ever seen!"
Al Pacino, Lily Rabe, David Harbour, Byron Jennings, David Aaron Baker, Gerry Bamman, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Christopher Fitzgerald, Charles Kimbrough, Heather Lind, Happy Anderson, Liza Bennett, Glen Fleshler, Luke Forbes, Herb Foster, Bryce Gill, Tom Hammond, Jade Hawk, Bethany Heinrich, Curt Hosetter, Tia James, Peter Francis James, Isaiah Johnson, Kelsey Kurz, Kim Martin-Cotton, Dorien Makhloghi, Brian Mcdonald, Matthew Rauch, Baylen Thomas, Richard Topol
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Figured I would post this to the forums because the technique is gaining popularity.
I've also heard some people call this technique the "Spiral Hydra Strike," but that isn't very common.
A forum for a tribute game devoted to Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin. A game that once enthralled, now sleeps forevermore. The ultimate game-tutorial, courtesy of SnK Tailex: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2tobgWBrefKv7L0zVoe0ZkxrL1y1pox3
TehTitanKilla wrote:This was a spiral strike? I didn't know xD, to me, it's just my failed attempts of full cut vector. (tbh, this looks a little like the air equator without going around the titan)
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In May 1977, Spring Memorial Baptist Mission started as a mission of Memorial Baptist Church (Houston, Texas). The church called its first pastor, Jim McCracken, in March 1978. In the following year, construction began on the original church building (currently the administrative building) on a plot of land on the corner of Sciacca Rd. and Aldine Westfield Rd. The first service was held at that location on October 14, 1979, and the church was formally constituted on September 7, 1980.
In 1985, the church completed the construction of an education building. The church called its second pastor, Kevin Basham, in 1988, and in 1990, completed an interim worship center (our current children's building). A gymnasium was added in 1995. In June of 1998, the church called its current pastor, Richard Caldwell. The church adopted a new Constitution and By-Laws in 2000, which also implemented a new manner of church governance through a body of elders. In addition, in 2005, the church's name was changed to "Founders Baptist Church". These changes reflected sincere and growing biblical convictions regarding a reformed view of soteriology and a commitment to the New Testament teaching on ecclesiology.
In 2006, a new worship center was completed where the church currently meets. The church—its elders, deacons and members—confess that we exist for God's pleasure and to bring glory and honor to His name and the name of His Son, Jesus Christ.
More important than numbers and buildings is the doctrinal foundation for the spiritual life of the congregation that has been built. The foundation of sound doctrine, spiritual leadership and the faithful service of the saints is that which makes Founders Baptist Church unique. It is our conviction that God's blessing will remain with this congregation if we remain faithful to Him and His Word.


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October 24, 1939 - November 24, 2012
Port Jervis, NY
Mrs. Jean Kathleen Witkowski Williams of Port Jervis, NY died Saturday, November 24, 2012 at St. Joseph's Place. She was 73.
She was born October 24, 1939 in Greenville Township, NY the daughter of the late William and the late Anna Arbutowich Witkowski. Jean married Kenneth Allen Williams, Sr. on November 15, 1959 in Port Jervis; he died on September 20, 1978.
She worked as a Machine Operator for A & W Products in Port Jervis, NY. Jean was a member of Teamsters Local #445, Newburgh, NY.
A family statement read: "She was a loving sister, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend. She would go out of her way to help her family even at her own sacrifice. She would want everyone to remember the good times spent with her.
Surviving are two sons, Kenneth Williams and his wife, Wendysue Gurdineer of Greenville Township, NY, Jeffrey Williams and his fianc, Kelly Pollman of Newburgh, NY; two brothers, Joseph Witkowski of Port Jervis, Andrew Witkowski and his wife, Mary Lou of Rio, NY; four sisters: Frances Chase of Matamoras, PA, Carol Eyth and her husband, Ronald of Port Jervis, Anna Acton of Port Jervis, Helen Dolan and her husband, Newman of Sussex, NJ; one grandson, Tyler Williams; one granddaughter, Amanda Lee Williams; one great grandson, Mason; two sisters-in-law, Joan Witkowski of Honesdale, PA, Gail Witkowski of Port Jervis; also several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by three brothers: William, Ronald and Michael Witkowski; her sister, Marie Witkowski; two brothers-in-law, Wilton Chase and Walter Lee "Sonny" Acton; one sister-in-law, Nancy Witkowski.
Friends may call at the Gray-Parker Funeral Home, 100 E. Main St., Port Jervis on Tuesday, November 27 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, November 28 with Blessing Service at 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be at St. Mary's Cemetery, Port Jervis.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties, 800 Stony Brook Court, Newburgh, NY 12550.
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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Wordless Wednesday-Barbara Elizabeth Troyer
Barbara Troyer was born 15 Oct 1884 in Iowa City, Johnson Co., Iowa to Andrew Troyer and Sarah Stutzman. "Lizzie" as she was known was truly a "beautiful" young lady. She was my husbands great Grandmother. Lizzie, as a young woman, lived a lot of the early history of Wyoming, her father being a foreman of the Two-Bar Ranch which was part of the famous Swan Land and Cattle Company ranch system in Wyoming. She met and married Benjamin F. Smith, he being a cowboy for the ranch and they were married in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1905. Barbara Elizabeth Troyer Smith had three daughters, several grandchildren and great grandchildren. She passed away on 5 May 1968 in Wheatland, Wyoming.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
9/11...We Weep!
We Weep
On this day of not so long ago...
We lost the smiles of so many good Americans
to the senseless actions of a few.
On this day of not so long ago...
The whole of our country did weep at the sad
and fateful outcome of our day.
On this day of not so long ago...
All of our lives were forever changed by the
grievous loss brought about by the actions of a few.
On this day of not so long ago...
Our beloved America was struck hard and could
easily have failed under the onslaught of the day.
On this day of not so long ago...
We managed to rally and come together as
one to condemn the heinous actions of those few.
On this day of not so long ago...
Our country began to rise up and be stronger,
we were not beaten and this was not the end of our day.
On this day of not so long ago...
The souls of nearly three thousand showed to the
world that they were stronger than those of the few.
On this day of not so long ago...
The God and creator of our Country stepped in
again and offered to help save us and our day.
On this day of not so long ago...
Our memories were vivid, our hearts full of sorrow,
man had struck man with hatred in the hearts of but a few.
On this day of not so long ago...
Our people cried and prayed as we grieved those dead,
as this would forever be... their sacred day.
On this day of not so long ago...
Our President stood tall as his people turned to God,
they had not won... those lowly few.
On this day of not so long ago...
Slowly we began to heal, the strength of all our souls
combined and ensured; this would not be the end of our day.
Today we remember that day of not so long ago...
With help from our God, our America still stands, her people
yet steadfast as we again mourn... and condemn the few.
© Cheri Coleman Hopkins, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Follow Friday: Fishkill Supply Depot Revolutionary War Site
For the Geneabloggers sponsored Follow Friday , I would like to recommend a relatively new site: Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot. Below is a small excerpt taken from their site. We are fast loosing many of our historical sites and these folks are working to preserve this important part of our history from sale and development. Many or our revolutionary ancestors are believed to be buried here.
The Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot have several aids on their website of material of use to researchers and historians. Many of us may have ancestors who served and were possibly bivouacked in this area during the Revolutionary War.
What is the Fishkill Supply Depot?
Named over three decades ago as "the last of the important Revolutionary War sites yet to be properly explored," the Fishkill Supply Depot remains so today: a one-of-a-kind site of national importance that has never gotten its due. Fishkill, New York, contains a key strategic center of the American Revolution, established and visited repeatedly by George Washington. Hallowed history happened here - hundreds of the original soldiers who fought to found the nation died and were buried here in unknown graves.
Check out their site if you are interested in Revolutionary History or in helping to preserve this land.
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This guide is designed to help you configure a wireless controller under Ubuntu 7.10 which does not have any native drivers. Thanks to the ndiswrapper module, you are able to run drivers written for Microsoft Windows XP/2000 under Linux. This method should only be followed if there are no native drivers available for your wireless controller or the drivers available do not work properly with your card.
For best results you should use drivers written for Microsoft Windows XP. Vista drivers are not recommended.
When installing the Windows drivers with NDISwrapper you will need to install drivers which match the architecture of your Linux distribution. So you will install 32bit Windows drivers when using 32bit Linux and 64bit Windows drivers when using 64bit Linux. Unfortunately many manufactures have not release drivers for the 64bit version of Windows XP so your only recourse would be to reinstall a 32bit version of Linux.
We will be using 'nano' as our text editor of choice but you can use whatever you wish.
While this guide is mainly focused to laptop users there isn't any difference for desktop users.
You should run a full update for your installation of Ubuntu to ensure you have all the latest packages installed.
The ndiswrapper module and required utilities are provided with Ubuntu but are not installed as default. To install them follow these steps:
1. Load up a terminal window if you are in the graphic interface.
2. Now execute the following command:
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The NDISwrapper tool is now installed.
!Installing the latest ndiswrapper module
Ubuntu comes with version 1.45 of the ndiswrapper module. If you find that this version isn't working properly you may like to update to the latest version and see if that solves your issue. Here are the steps:
1. Download the latest driver from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/. In this guide we are going to use ndiswrapper-1.52 as at the time of writing these are the current ones.
2. Load up a terminal window if you are in the graphic interface.
3. Type in the following to install gcc and the kernel headers:
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
4. Move to the /usr/src/ folder with:
cd /usr/src
5. Extract the contents of the file you downloaded with:
sudo tar -xzvf /path/to/ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz
Remember to replace the "/path/to" in this command to the path of where your file is.
6. Move into the "driver" folder in the newly created archive with:
cd ndiswrapper-1.52/driver
7. Start the building process with:
sudo make
This will take a while.
8. And finally install the driver with:
sudo cp ndiswrapper.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ubuntu/misc/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
9. Reboot your computer and the newer ndiswrapper modules will be used.
First find out which wireless controller you have in your system. This website should provide you with details on which card you have in your laptop. Alternatively you can use our Linux Wireless Chipset Detector utility which will determine which controller you have.
Download the Windows XP driver which is appropriate for your wireless controller. This website should recommend a driver to use based on the laptop you are using. If not then the driver from your manufacturer should work fine. You can also find a list of drivers from the NDISwrapper site.
Extract the contents of your driver. If you have an .exe file you will need to use either
cabextract or
unshield to extract its contents. If you have a zip file just use
Now execute the following two commands:
sudo ndiswrapper -i <location_of_your_driver>/<the_driver>.inf sudo ndiswrapper -l
Change the above from <location_of_your_driver> to your driver's directory and change <the_driver> to match the name of the .inf file in the driver's directory. For example a Broadcom controller is sometimes called bcmwl5.inf and is in the bcmwl folder. You would type in:
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl/bcmwl5.inf sudo ndiswrapper -l
The last line should print out a list of the installed drivers. You should also see "hardware present" printed next to your driver. If you do not see "hardware present" it is likely that you installed the wrong Windows XP driver.
Now type in:
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
And the wireless controller should be active. You can try to see if the controller is working by typing:
sudo iwlist scan
This should print out a list of access points in your area.
Finally we need to tell Ubuntu to load this driver each time we start the computer. Type in the following:
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Many research groups use penguins, one of the top predators in the Southern Oceans, as ecological indicators. For ease of identification and data collection, researchers often attach flipper-bands on penguins, a practice that dates back to Antarctic expeditions of the early 1900s. Over the last century, scientists have collected considerable amounts of data from flipper-banded penguins, which has greatly influenced our understanding of the effects of climate change in marine ecosystems. Sadly, that data might not be reliable. A paper in a recent issue of Nature reveals that flipper-banded penguins live quite differently than unbanded birds.
This news is not exactly shocking, as ornithologists have been calling for an end to banding for over a decade. Short- to medium- length studies on the effects of flipper-banding have shown that banded birds had poorer survival rates. In a five year study published in a 2004 issue of Proceedings of Royal Society Biological Sciences, Michel Gauthier-Clerc and his group reported that flipper-banded king penguins had "later arrival at the colony for courtship in some years, lower breeding probability and lower chick production." Similarly, Katie Dugger and her colleagues reported in a 2006 paper in the Auk that flipper-banded penguins saw yearly survival drop by 11-13 percent over a three-year period.
However, there are also studies that indicate that the dangers of banding are limited. In particular, many groups report that banding's negative effects are only significant in freshly banded birds. In the Dugger paper mentioned above, the authors found that, over a seven-year period, there was high annual variability in survival for banded birds, including years of high survival. Likewise, in 2009, Pamela Fallow and her colleagues wrote in the Journal of Wildlife Management that "long-term banded penguins did not exhibit differences to their unbanded counterparts in most variables examined."
While researchers like Fallow may not support the banding practice, their data showed that certain differences between banded and unbanded penguins evened out after the initial period. Some researchers, like Christophe Barbraud and Henri Weimerskirch, dealt with the ambiguity by continuing to use banding, but excluded data collected in the initial years in their Nature 2001 paper.
The latest Nature paper challenges that practice, as the authors demonstrate in a long-term study that flipper-banding significantly alters the life of a penguin. Claire Saraux, the lead author, and her team used subcutaneous electronic tags to track 100 king penguins. They attached metal flipper-bands on 50 of those penguins. Over 10 years of observation, they found that banding influenced survival and breeding rates, which would skew data collection.
In terms of survival, banded penguins had a 16 percent lower rate over the entire 10 years, but there is a breakpoint at 4.5 years. In the first 4.5 years, banded penguins actually had a 30 percent higher mortality rate. After that, the difference in mortality between banded and unbanded birds levels off. The authors propose that flipper-banding acts as an artificial selector for the strongest penguins, creating a bias in data collected from banded birds.
Over the decade, banded birds were less successful in breeding. Banded penguins produced a total of 47 chicks, while unbanded penguins had 80 chicks. The authors observed that banded birds took longer to arrive at breeding grounds, which can account for the difference in their success.
The authors also found a possible reason for why some previous research groups observed negligible survival differences between banded and unbanded penguins after the initial year. In their own decade-long study, there was a three-year period where the environment was exceptionally favorable for penguins. During that time, unbanded and banded penguins displayed insignificant differences. The conditions were so good that penguins might have been able to compensate from the disadvantage of having a flipper-band.
Saraux and her colleagues have cast even more doubt on the practice of flipper-banding penguins. The behavior of banded penguins could very well be a reflection of a metal accessory that potentially injures flipper tissue and impedes swimming, rather than environmental changes.
On top of that, banding could be exceptionally harmful for vulnerable birds like those recovering from oil spills. After an oil spill off Cape Town in June 2000, roughly 20,000 African penguins were rehabilitated and flipper-banded before being released. Those penguins might have done better without the added burden of a flipper-band. Since there are alternatives to flipper-banding, it could be worthwhile to invest in newer techniques for the sake of obtaining more reliable data and avoiding damage to wildlife.
Nature, 2011. DOI: 10.1038/nature09630
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8-31-2011 Safeco Field
The last baseball game of August 2011. The Los Angeles Angels were in town for a four-game series and I was able to attend at least one of them. I bought tickets to sit out in the outfield but I ended up spending the entire game standing in the newly refurbished 'Pen area. It was quite interesting to say the least. It wasn't as crowded as a weekend game though so I really had a chance to catch a home run ball. Sadly, none were hit in my direction.
When I got into the stadium it seemed like the security guards were playing extra hard to moderate who got a baseball and who didn't. These security guards had "Alcohol Enforcement" on the back of their shirts not "Baseball Enforcement". In my opinion it really seemed quite ridiculous to be as active as they were when it came to who got a baseball and who didn't. Of course, they made sure every little kid within sixteen square miles got a baseball and some of the older crowd started to complain directly to them. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to let them know they were getting to me. At one point of the of the security guards out-snagged a fan to give a baseball to a kid. I thought that was pure 100% ridiculous.
Willy Mo Pena finally tossed up a baseball after minutes of yelling at him and the kid that the baseball was intended for dropped it into the centerfield gap. Like always. I stepped in before security could go down there and get it and glove tricked it out of there. I handed it off to his mother instead of the kid and told him that the next baseball he gets he needs to share. Now who's the baseball moderator? HA!
When it was time to run up the stairs and wander the rest of the stadium I ran down to the third base seating bowl and watched an awesome show put on my Blake Beaven and Dan Cortes. If you asked Dan Cortes for a baseball he wasn't going to toss it to you. He was going to rear back and fire some serious heat. And if you missed it? Serious injury would ensue or you wouldn't come up with the baseball. It was really hilarious. Unfortunately, I didn't get him to throw me one. But this guy got a couple thrown to him:
It was pretty funny. Dan really launched them at him and when the baseball hit the seats after a miss it would bounce all over the place. I thought about playing behind the guy but every time I got closer he would move farther away. So I just took the picture of him instead and let him have his fun.
The Mariners jogged off the field as the Angels came out and I decided the best place to get my second baseball of the day would be here:
Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing came my way. Not even an overthrow, missthrow, underthrow, sideways throw or a foul ball. I knew that as soon as I left my spot something would happen. I left anyway and I didn't bother to watch over there to be disappointed. I wandered the bullpen, and the 'Pen area, the Party deck and back around to the bullpen looking for an opportunity to snag a baseball. I finally decided to stay on the party deck for the rest of the Angels portion of batting practice. A few home runs were hit out to my general area and as soon as I ran for one a player tossed a baseball up right where I was standing. Truly frustrating. Plus I had security to deal with. They seemed to be out-snagging everyone. Including the players on the field. I felt, not only me, but other fans were truly being ripped off by these two security guards. Here was my view while standing on the party deck:
During the last few moments of BP, I got Joel Pineiro's attention and he launched a baseball my way. Of course I had three determining factors of why I didn't catch the baseball. 1.) Pineiro's throw was high, 2.) Some drunk dude next to me stuck his elbow into my ribcage and, 3.) The sun was directly in my field of view. The result? One of the nicer security guards got blasted in the collar-bone by the baseball. I heard the sickening sound of a Major League Baseball connecting with human flesh and bone, and when I looked back I saw the security guard leaning against the fence covering her entire face. I thought she got hit in the nose or something. But she didn't. And when I looked back at Joel, he was motioning to me how close I came to catching it. I just shrugged at him and motioned back with my hands signaling I missed the catch by mere inches. Heres a Seattle Mariners Security Guard Fun Fact for you; that's the second time that specific security guard has been hit by a Joel Pineiro throw.
Batting practice came to an end and I left the 'Pen area to find my seats. Here's a view:
I didn't stay here that long though. Maybe a few innings. I watched the entire game from the 'Pen. Or the Party Deck as some like to call it. I normally don't stand out there because it's so crowded and anytime a baseball lands on the party deck everyone spills their beers on each other as they try to catch the baseball. The awesome part of sitting out here is look at the running room to my right…
…and check out my running room to my left…
The only bad part of the picture above is the railing in my way. But other than that, what great seats.
Here's a picture of the Kings Court:
If you've never been to a Mariners game before and don't have any idea what the "Kings Court" is, well, simply put? It's a section at Safeco Field where fans buy a ticket in, they get a yellow "King Felix" shirt, a huge "K" sign and they all sit together. Everytime Felix Hernandez strikes someone out everyone in that section goes nuts. It's quite entertaining. Unfortunately the crowds at Safeco Field aren't quite as large as they were towards the start of the season. So the Kings Court was kind of wimpy during the game.
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John Harris was educated at the University of Kent and at Balliol College, Oxford, he is married to the multiple BAFTA, EMMY and Royal Television Society award winning Producer of Television Drama, Sita Williams, and they have a son, Jacob.
From March 30th 2004 to July 2011 John Harris was the joint Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Medical Ethics, the leading journal in medical and applied ethics. John Harris was elected a Fellow of the United Kingdom Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2001, the first philosopher to have been elected to Fellowship of this new National Academy, which was established to serve "the medical sciences in the same way as the Royal Society serves the natural sciences (and) the British Academy serves the humanities". He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts in 2006 of the Society of Biology in 2011 and is a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) 2011. He was one of the Founder Directors of the International Association of Bioethics and is a founder member of the Board of the Journal Bioethics and a member of the Editorial Board of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics and many other journals. He frequently appears on radio and television both in the United Kingdom and overseas to discuss Biomedical Ethics, Medical Jurisprudence and related issues. He has acted as Ethical Consultant to national and international bodies and corporations including the European Parliament, The World Health Organisation, The European Commission, The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), The United Kingdom Department of Health, The Health Council of the Netherlands, The Research Council of Norway, The Welsh Office Of The United Kingdom, The British Fluoridation Society, Granada Television, Virgin Health Bank, Smithkline Beecham and GlaxoSmithkline. He is the founder and a General Editor of a major series of books for Oxford University Press entitled Issues in Biomedical Ethics and a new series of books which he co-edits with Sir John Sulston (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2002) is published by Bloomsbury and entitled Science, Ethics and Society was launched in 2009.


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New Energy Industry Push for Drilling in Atlantic
One of the most significant energy issues facing President Barack Obama in his second term is whether to allow oil drilling off the coast of the Atlantic, where production has been off-limits for decades. Photo: Bloomberg.
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... the the ... the national energy Agency last week said the US is poised to overtake Saudi Arabia as the top global oil producer by twenty twenty ... when we get there ... might be in the big chill is facing a bomb and ministrations killing off the East Coast ... Peter Landers joins us from Washington to discuss that ... possibility Peter good morning ... good morning to ... sell a deal in any of that that's kind of fascinating that is that ... the US might in fact pass Saudi reviewed terms well production now ... what we view the energy industry is very anxious to explore ... off the Atlantic coast for oil and natural gas will present bomb allow that ... I think there's a good chance that he will they first have to do with this size would really know we talk about that don't receive didn't her story this morning ... they have to do seismic join perhaps ... starting next year to see if there is a well there but it's areas I think ... the Obama missed ration would be a lot of pressure to open up the Atlantic for oral drilling ... now ... there's probably a lot of pressure coming from multiple sides here ... first ... let's talk about that that the seismic surveys ... some animal rights activists point out that ... you are talking about ... scary loud sonar with very very high decibels a mention blast in your foreign ... on in your ear and indeed the skin ... harm whales dolphins etc is ... sheesh that's a big rain yes ... that isn't an issue for the environmentalists and they say these animals that were talking about whales and dolphins I think mainly ... in the Atlantic Ocean a ... little otherwise by here and I guess likely deal that may even more than humans to write down on the ocean ... here is very important and the sound travels for many many miles ... through the water in the ocean so they say there could be a threat to these animals daily lives if there's a huge collapse the contest for the oil discoveries ... ok and and ... now ... of course offsetting that is ... this ... tremendous desire to get at what could be it ... may be a very rich deposit of of of energy ... by now ... for instance north and south there's been showing off Canada ... Todd USG logical surveys noted there's a lot of undiscovered oil off of Cuba ... now ... there are estimates that in the Atlantic old estimates that there could be two billion gallons of oil I should say two million barrels of oil ... and twenty one trillion cubic feet of natural gas ... now ... he added that those are those old estimates though cracked ... this trade their old estimates isn't only that semi that would serve the United States I think for a couple of months which is ... still a fair amount for such a huge economy as ours but certainly oil companies are hoping that these seismic tests ... if ... they begin next year would show a lot more oil may be as much as is in the ... Gulf of Mexico which turned out to be a huge source of oil for the United States despite the ... Deepwater Horizon accident two years ago and and let's talk about that but by the winning and two million barrels will play was chewing cubic feet of gas ... Abby about four years of production and believe in the Gulf of Mexico according to steal story but ... let let's talk about the havoc on a disaster did did the BP oil spill in the Gulf ... they could be could be how can this even conceivably go for it considering ... that disaster ... well it's interesting that the ad states that has recovered and if you look of the Gulf of Mexico to roughly the amount of drilling that happen before the Macondo disaster ... and I think that of course there was a tragic loss of life in that case and there was a fair amount of ... spillage into the Gulf but ultimately the long-term consequences don't seem to have been ... all so great it was a on the environment that it would block any future drilling in fact drilling is back to almost where it was ... and I think that's encouraged oil companies to think that they can't really Atlantic impressively and safely what's the ... what's the reaction really for residents of the Gulf Coast and how would that impact ... you know with the feelings of East Coast residents ... the the the eastern seaboard on drilling off off in the Atlantic ... well in the bowl in the Gulf coasts of course BP is that the billions and billions of dollars to make things ... right so I think that's had some effect that not everyone got the compensation they were looking for in the Gulf Coast but ... many people did that the economy is ... is coming back there and of course for ... we Xi'an and Texas drilling in the Gulf is a huge source of employment in jobs ... and in time for the states and that's really where you see yet and in particular the state of Virginia are looking for it to drilling in the Atlantic they think ... that there can be all sorts of facilities on the shore of Virginia that would ... provide jobs for the state and also again that tax revenue ... so that's why I think some of the states along the Atlantic coast are enthusiastic about drilling despite the environmental


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Gibbons, Lawrie tossed after called third strike
TORONTO -- Manager John Gibbons and third baseman Brett Lawrie were ejected from Friday's game vs. the Orioles.
Even after the game, Lawrie was surprised with the ejection.View Full Game Coverage
TORONTO -- Manager John Gibbons and third baseman Brett Lawrie were ejected from Friday's game vs. the Orioles.
Even after the game, Lawrie was surprised with the ejection.View Full Game Coverage
"I didn't do anything," Lawrie said. "What you guys saw is what happened. I didn't do anything. I didn't say one word to [home-plate umpire Dan Bellino]. Not one. Didn't look at him one time, and I'm in trouble for that.
"From my standpoint the at-bat was over. Flipped my bat down. Flipped my helmet down. Walked to my position. Apparently you get in trouble for that."
The ejection occurred in the bottom of the third inning, with two men on and two out and the Blue Jays trailing, 9-3. Toronto's third baseman was rung up by Bellino on a pitch on the inside corner to end the Blue Jays' threat.
Lawrie, clearly not pleased with the call, put his helmet down quickly in disgust and threw his batting gloves back towards his helmet -- and the umpire -- as he walked up the third-base line.
Bellino immediately tossed Lawrie.
"It was a called strike three, he threw down his helmet and his bat, and was given an equipment fine by the home plate umpire," crew chief Wally Bell said to a pool reporter. "As he walked away, in [Bellino's] opinion, he flipped the gloves back in a bad manner and that will get an ejection. That's what it was. He threw them back toward Danny in a way that wasn't etiquette in baseball and he was ejected for it."
"It's an equipment violation. That's where they get you when you're throwing stuff," Gibbons said. "Next time, he's got to throw his gloves in the other direction, I guess."
Gibbons came out to protest the decision to eject his player. By the time the Blue Jays manager reached the umpire, he was also ejected from the game.
"More or less protecting his player," said Bell. "Then he started talking about balls and strikes and was ejected."
It was the third ejection of the season for the Toronto manager and the first for Lawrie.
Evan Peaslee is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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Liberty News
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli speaks at town hall meeting
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli spoke today at a town hall meeting in the Liberty University School of Law's Supreme Courtroom. The event was sponsored by the Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce, and by engineering and surveying firm Hurt & Proffitt.
The event was originally scheduled to take place at Hurt & Proffitt's office, but once more than 60 attendance requests were received, Liberty offered its replica of the U.S. Supreme Courtroom — the only one in existence — as the venue.
|Mat Staver, dean of Liberty University School of Law, talks with Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.
Cuccinelli's 90-minute address provided information on the workings of his office. The biggest points of interest were his lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to regulate greenhouse gases and his lawsuit against the new health care legislation and liberty.
Cuccinelli referred to his office as "reactionary," a group that is largely motivated by the limiting of Americans' freedom.
"Back in [President] Reagan's era, people were educated about growing the 'economic pie,'" said Cuccinelli. "But there's another pie that I talk about, and that's the 'liberty pie.' It doesn't grow and it doesn't shrink, and there are only two slices — the government's and citizens'. Whenever the government's power increases, citizens' liberty decreases."
He predicts that the 2012 presidential election will be one that makes history, and something that will help America "go back to [its] philosophical roots."
This was not Cuccinelli's first visit to Liberty. He attended an Attorney General Candidate Forum during his candidacy on Oct. 27, 2009. (Steve Shannon, the Democratic candidate for attorney general, declined the invitation to appear.)
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On this day in 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Social Security into law.
Looking back 77 years through time, given today's political tug-of-war for America's soul, FDR's words at the occasion are particularly poignant.
The video below is of the signing of the Social Security Act.
Text of the speech follows the video.
"This social security measure gives at least some protection to 30 millions of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, through old-age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the prevention of ill health. We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law that will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty stricken old age.
"It seems to me that if the Senate and the House of Representatives, in this long and arduous session, have done nothing more than pass this security bill, social security act, the session will be regarded as historic for all time."


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Gil Collar: Naked University of South Alabama Student Killed by Officer
(WETUMPKA, Ala.) -- A campus police officer at the University of South Alabama fatally shot a naked freshman who authorities said repeatedly rushed the officer in a threatening manner.
At 1:23 a.m. Saturday, an officer responded to a banging noise on the window of the police station.
"When an officer exited the station to investigate, he was confronted by a muscular, nude man who was acting erratically," the university said in a statement.
That student was identified as Gil Collar, 18, of Wetumpka, Ala.
Authorities said Collar repeatedly charged at the officer, despite verbal commands to stop. Hoping to defuse the situation, the officer drew his weapon and retreated several times.
Collar then knelt, according to police, before he got up and rushed the officer one final time.
When Collar ignored commands to halt, the officer fired his weapon, hitting the 18-year-old in the chest, police said.
Collar was knocked to the ground but managed to get up one more time to challenge the officer before he collapsed and died, police said.
Local prosecutors are investigating the shooting at the request of university police.
The officer involved in the shooting has been placed on paid administrative leave.
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A Spoonful of Whiskey
- Bring Marguerite ten Refined Punga Fruit, or twenty Wild Punga Fruit.
- Bring Marguerite three bags of Yeast.
- Bring Marguerite six Fission Batteries.
- Collect Moonshine from Marguerite when the batch is done brewing.
- Punga Fruit (x10)
- Yeast (x3)
- Fission Battery (x6)
- Moonshine
Part 1[edit]
This side quest is a relatively short one, granted you know exactly what you're doing. As is the case with all of the side quests in Point Lookout, we highly recommend you hold off on this side quest until the main quest is done. That way, you can travel between multiple locations without much of an issue. What's most important is that you have full run over the Ark & Dove Cathedral. If that's the case, then read on. You're looking for a location in the swamp called Marguerite's Shack (known as the Moonshiner Shack before you meet its lone inhabitant). The shack is located slightly north and to the west of Haley's Hardware, or due further north from the Homestead Motel. Once there, you'll meet a woman named Marguerite, who pretends she's sick and needs your help.
Now, your initial conversation with Marguerite can go any number of ways. For one, you can call her out on her faux sickness by using your Medicine or Speech skills, but it's not necessary, because the conversation generally leads to the same area -- the creation of liquor. Marguerite's moonshine is in need of three specific ingredients, and once you track all of the ingredients down in the proper quantities, you can return to her and give her what she needs. Now, you'll understand why we told you to wait 'til the main quest in Point Lookout has concluded, because you can instantly travel to two specific locations to grab what you need quickly. The first place you're going to want to head to is the Ark & Dove Cathedral. Within, you can pick the ten Purified Punga Fruit Marguerite demands, as well as three bags of Yeast. With those in hand, two-thirds of the quest is over. To find six Fission Batteries, you'll want to re-traverse the area underneath Point Lookout Lighthouse. When you do, you'll find six Fission Batteries scattered about, which is perfect, since you need six of them to complete the side quest.
With ten Punga Fruit in hand (or twenty, of you picked the less-desirable wild stuff), three bags of Yeast, and six Fission Batteries, teleport instantaneously back to Marguerite's Shack. Speak to her about all three ingredients to hand over everything you have. If she has everything she needs, she'll tell you to come back to grab the moonshine in a day. Here's a little tip -- simply pull up the wait window and wait a full twenty-four hours without leaving her abode. Then, speak with her again, and she'll hand over the goods in the form of Moonshine, which will conclude the side quest. Oh and hey, if you want more, feel free to get the ingredients and start all over again!
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Aldington Corner Quilters, N
Meet (eve),
Contact: Julie Coney 01303 813944 (evenings)
About 50 members. Exhibition every 2 years. Makes quilts for Helping Hands, Heart cushions, 22 quilts for hospice.
Castle Wall Quilters, W
Meet: Every Thursday, 9.30 a.m -12.30 p.m
Contact: Sandra Rocco 01634 668580
Beckenham Quilters, W S A
Meet: 1st Tuesdayin every month, 8 p.m
Linda Mercer 020 84025589 and Jan Williams 01322 865098
Frequent speakers –
usually two open meetings a year. Group
quilts – biennial exhibition. Charity
focus – lap quilts for the elderly, fund raising for the Primrose Trust, Linus
Nuxley Quilters,
Meet: Third Monday of each month 7 - 9.30 pm.
Contact: Kate Higgens 02083014614
Red House Quilters N S
Meet: 3rdThursday every month at 7.30 p.m.
Contact: Elizabeth Coates 07704 653104
Friendly group, with a mixture of speakers, workshops and also fun days. We try to balance the club by having something for everyone. The group skills range from beginner to experienced.
Abbey Quilters, W S
Meet: Last Friday of each month, 2-4 p.m
Beverley Archard and Judith Bayne
We have speakers,
workshops, ongoing charity quilts, trips to quilt shows.
Bromley Quilters, N
Meet: 1st Tuesday of the month, evenings. Additional "sew-ins
Contact: Lesley Lumbroso 0208 4601643
We usually have a charity quilt "on the go" but make our own quilts for family etc and help each other especially with sandwiching and hand quilting.
Rainbow Quilters, W
Meet: 1st Thursday in the month at 7p.m .
Contact: Kate Higgens 07506 026755
Darenth Valley Quilters, N
Meet: 2nd Wednesday evening in the month
Contact: Jan Williams 01322 865098
Waterside Quilters, W
Meet: 4th Saturday of the month, 9.30 -1 p.m. Contact: Olive Row 01322 270807
Share expertise between
group members. In house and external
workshops. Making charity quilts.
Dartford Quilters S A
Meet: 2nd Saturday of the month, 10 -1 p.m
Contact: Christine Burgess 01322 278772
Mainly to inspire one
another & make quilts – every other year we have an ongoing project. Members teach one another & we have
outside teachers plus we make charity quilts.
Eden Quilters N
Meet : Every 2 weeks on a Monday, 1.30 - 3.30 p.m
Contact: Joyce Staplehurst 01732 700559
Making quilts for
ourselves and for charity.
Sewing Together W S A
Meet: Every Monday 2-4 p.m
Contact: Joy Baker, 01634 716776
We have workshops when
we invite demonstrators in for half or full days.
Friendship Quilters, Chalk, Gravesend W
Meet: Thursdays am/pm or all day each term.
New members welcome to the afternoon sessions
Contact: Lesley Rowdon 01474 825022 07531175572
Gravesend Quilters,
Majorie Wilson, 01474 323027
Trianon Quilters, W S
Meet: Normally 3rd week of month, Weds and Thurs (members divide between the days) 10 - 4pm
Contact: Pam Cass 01474 706612
Members combine for August and Christmas meetings.Pam circulates monthly notes to all members.There is a varied programme for each year, influenced by members.There are 4/5 Saturday workshops held each year with invited tutors – guest quilters welcome. Quilts have been made for charity and several thousands of pounds raised for Demelza and Kent Air Ambulance.
Grove Quilters, (pm)
Ingrid Hudson 01303 230117
Ide Hill
JP Quilters, N
Meet: 3rd Fridayof each month, 1.30- 4.30 p.m
Contact: Paddy Clarke 01959 577359
Formed 2 years, run with
Judy Ackrill. Warm, friendly group
Hearty Quilters,
Meet: 1st Saturday in the month, 9.30 -12.30pm
Linda Prance, 01732 823383
We have a range of
workshops, make charity quilts, hold a quilt show and try to have outings each
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Abbey Patchers, N A
Meet: 9a.m - 12 noon
Contact: Sandra Anderson, 01227 375429
Alison Simpson 01843 601726
Orpington Quilters N S A
Meet : 2nd Thursday each month except August , 7-10pm
Contact: Carol Rainbow 01689 853466 / 07919 982611
35 members plus 3
Honourary members, exhibition every 3 years, next 28th September 2013. Theme for each meeting – projects, speakers,
occasional Saturday meetings. Mixed age
Colour Wheel Quilters, N
Meet: 2nd Tuesdayeach month, 1.15 – 4.15 pm
Contact: Margaret James or Carol Raiinbow
This group has 35
members and is a sit, sew and learn from each other group, with demonstrations
from the group leaders and members.
Bears Paw Quilters, Burham, S A
Meet: Every other Wednesday evening, 7.30-10pm
Contact: Caryll Baldwin 01634 855669
Share expertise amongst
group members. Make quilts. Have speakers and workshops. Support local charities. We do share workshop places/trips with Castle
Wall – to fill spaces & help finance.
Copperfield Quilters, Higham, N
Meet: Thursday,fortnightly, 7.30- 9.30 pm
Linda Parr, 01474 823129
Quercus Quilters - Riverhead
Meet: Last Thursday in the month at 7.30 p.m.
Contact: Sarah Amott 01959 532803
workshops – some in-house, annual Challenge (judged), Charity quilts, annual
quilt show, monthly Show and Tell, tea & coffee
Pieceful Patchers, S
Meet: Every other Tuesday, 7.30 - 9.30 p.m
Contact: Cilla Joyner 01795 556147
At the evening meetings
we have speakers, demonstrations and mini workshops. We have all day workshops on Saturday and
charity days to make quilts for the Teenage Cancer Trust and heart foundation
Bright Headland Quilters, N
Meet: 1st Thursday of the month at 10 a.m and 3rd Thursday at 7.30 p.m
Contact: Vickie Foreman 07949 779291
The group welcomes new
members for mini-demos, challenges and show and tell. Also enjoys stitching for charity.
Strood Quilt Group
Meet: Every Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.
Contact: Jean Ball 01474 822807 firstname.lastname@example.com
Both experienced members
and those new to quilting. We support a
charity working in Kosovo and Albania, and occasionally make quilts for
them. I (Jean Ball) teach 4 all-day
Saturday workshops each year.
Tunbridge Wells,
Chalybeate Quilters,
Meet (eve)
Lee Brown, 01892 530927
Tunbridge Wells
Tunbridge Wells Quilters
Meet: Every 2nd Thursday, in members' homes
Contact: Ann Playfoot 01897 722019
Small group making Linus
and charity quilts, sometimes workshops.
Noodle Soup
Meet (day),
Sandra Rocco 01634 668580
Chestfield Quilters
Alternate Thursday Evenings from 7-9.30
Contact Sandra James 07962103562 or Sharyn Hutchings 01227791856
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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
MINNEAPOLIS - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the settlement of a disability discrimination lawsuit filed under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) against Target Corporation for $95,000 to be paid to Susan Stombaugh, an employee who formerly worked in a Target store in Bemidji, Minn.
The EEOC's lawsuit said that Target failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to Ms. Stombaugh, a qualified employee with multiple sclerosis, when it refused to transfer her to a vacant position after her disability interfered with her ability to perform her current job. Additionally, the EEOC contended that a Target supervisor had disclosed information regarding her disability to another prospective employer. Target denied liability.
In addition to the monetary payment to the employee, Target agreed in the Consent Decree to abide by the terms of the ADA, provide training to its management personnel, maintain records as required by federal law, and continue to maintain its anti-harassment policy. The Consent Decree has been filed in the litigation of EEOC v. Target Stores, Civ. No. 01-1646 DWF/AJB, in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. The EEOC filed suit after exhausting its conciliation efforts to reach a voluntary pre-litigation settlement.
"The ADA requires that an employer make reasonable accommodations for the disabilities of its qualified employees, and that it keep medical information about its employees confidential," said Chester V. Bailey, the EEOC's District Director in Milwaukee. "All the parties to this Consent Decree had a common goal - to make sure that the law was followed and that the situation giving rise to this suit would not recur. We encourage other companies to be proactive in promoting an environment where persons are judged on their merits, and not upon myths and stereotypes about their disabilities."
Ms. Stombaugh said she was pleased to resolve the matter and to continue working at Target:
"I really enjoy my job at Target. I have not experienced any problems since leaving my former store, and my supervisors and coworkers have worked hard to assist and accommodate me in my current position," she said.
Laurie A. Vasichek, Senior Trial Attorney in the Minneapolis EEOC office, stated: "Many employers are not aware that the ADA prohibits them from discussing their employees' medical condition with people checking references. In this settlement, Target takes steps to prevent such disclosures, and other employers should follow its lead."
Vasichek also noted that ADA charges filed nationwide with the EEOC comprise about 20% of the agency's annual caseload. Nearly 16,000 disability discrimination charges under the ADA were filed with the EEOC in Fiscal Year 2002 (which ended on September 30, 2002).
The EEOC enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; the Equal Pay Act; Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act which prohibits disability discrimination against employees in the private sector and state and local governments; certain prohibitions in the Rehabilitation Act against discrimination affecting individuals with disabilities in the federal sector; and certain sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's Web site at www.eeoc.gov.