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Vinod Singh plucked a black plastic deli tray from a bin at the Far West Fibers public recycling depot in Beaverton.
"This isn't part of the program and doesn't have a home," he said. The operations manager then picked out two clear, identical looking trays, one stamped "6" -- identifying it as garbage, since Far West can't recycle it -- the other "1," making it recyclable.
"They look exactly the same," he said. "That makes it difficult."
The mistakes were made by the region's most diligent recyclers, those who collected items that can't go into their home's curbside recycling bins and drove them to the public depot to keep them from the landfill.
But in recent months China, bent on improving its ecological image, has complicated their recycling efforts by telling the United States and Europe: enough with the garbage. The Chinese erected a "green fence" in March and told the world they'll still accept low grade mixed plastic but it better be pure: nothing with a "3," "6" or "7" stamped on it.
That's reduced what Far West Fibers can accept at its public depots and made the experience even more akin to the "Portlandia" spoof in which the sanitation twins explain fingernails and egg shells go in the cobalt-colored bin and broken umbrellas in the canary-yellow one.
"I think it's good China is taking steps not to be the dumping ground for the rest of the world," said Peter Spendelow, an Oregon Department of Environmental Quality solid waste analyst. "It will cause short-term problems but for the long term it's good."
It will force materials recovery facilities like Far West to produce a cleaner product, and it might expand the U.S. plastics processing industry if a large chunk isn't sent to China on container ships that originally brought over Chinese-made goods.
A woman near Singh clearly wasn't seeing the long-term good as she held a Fred Meyer processed food container and he told her, "Sorry -- I say sorry a lot these days." The woman declined to be interviewed, explaining, "I'm a little frustrated now," and then angrily dumping what she brought into a bin when Singh turned his back.
Far West Fibers had to reorganize the public depots in March, adding many more bins and making it clear what it won't and will take. Not allowed: anything that doesn't have a number stamped on it except for big items like Little Tikes play sets or laundry baskets. So that means no more plastic caps or busted Polly Pocket dolls or spent pens or cracked plastic plates.
Nothing with a "3" (PVC) or "6" (polystyrene) or "7" (other) on it.
Now a trip to the public depot is a much more painstaking experience with confused-looking people pausing and reading the signs for each item they want to recycle.
Because the sudden changes in mixed plastics so upset some recyclers, Far West tried to give the public more advance warning when it learned in May that China also no longer wanted plastic bags and film from material recovery facilities, since people rarely rinse out the plastic bags. So as of June 10, the public depots stopped taking plastic film and bags.
That took April Jensen of Clackamas by surprise.
"They don't take plastic bags?," asked Jensen, who arrived at the public depot with a load in her car. "It's so confusing."
What Far West accepts
Here's what the Far West Fibers public depots will now take and how it's divided up:
Plastic bottles with necks (i.e. juice or detergent) stamped with a recycling symbol 1 (PETE) or 2 (HDPE)
Plastic containers (i.e. yogurt or drink cups) stamped 4 (LDPE) or 5 (PP)
Clear plastic containers (i.e. clamshells) stamped 1
The only things that don't need a stamped number: bulky rigid plastics including buckets, crates, child play structures, storage bins, trash containers, baskets and lawn furniture. (No garden pots, PVC pipes, hoses, coolers, Styrofoam, tool boxes, fiber glass or 55 gallon drums.)
The "green fence" has also affected the more limited items grocery stores take. Whole Foods, for instance, stopped taking plastic film but will take plastic containers stamped with a number 5, according to Metro's Information Recycling Hotline. New Seasons stopped taking clamshells but still takes clean plastic bags. The Metro transfer stations are still taking plastic film, too.
Much of that is likely being stockpiled or sold to smaller domestic markets, said Eric Crum, director of Community Environmental Services at Portland State University. Portland has a great recycling system in place, but the majority of it is dependent on China for processing. The "green fence" underscores the volatility of that market and the benefit of growing more domestic and local recovery and processing facilities for these materials, Crum said.
A baggy predicament
Meanwhile, Far West—the Portland metro region's biggest material recovery facility company—has a stockpile China won't take.
Enormous bales of dirty plastic bags are sitting in a giant building as Far West ponders what to do with them. Also sitting there are 50 shipping containers of mixed plastics collected when China was more lax about what it would accept. Far West has started cracking those open to re-sort them, but that's a labor-intensive process.
Since China's changes, Far West has spent $8,000 more a month on extra labor to re-sort already collected mixed plastics and also to ensure regular curbside recycling is as clean as possible. It could cost upward of $2,500-$3,000 for a return trip if China rejects a load, and Far West isn't taking any chances. The "wishful recycling" that leads to garden hoses in the blue curbside bin is an even bigger headache for the company's sorters now, who want to make extra sure random items don't contaminate loads earmarked for China.
"We want to make a good end product," Singh said. "You can't make paper from a chicken bone."
Far West Fibers may be the region's biggest material recovery facility, moving 14,000 tons of material in May, but others are feeling the changes too. Oregon Recycling Systems is sitting on about 250 tons (10 containers) of lower grade plastics. Plant superintendent Jay McCuistion said he doubts China will reverse course.
Costs pile up
In the meantime, will the extra costs associated with sorting the plastics to China's standards lead to higher garbage rates in Portland? Far West has older equipment (no infrared optical sorters that can distinguish types of plastic) and it's generally thought the city will have to raise rates "to do the job right," said Jerry Powell, executive editor at Resource Recycling Magazine.
"The idea is to scare the American suppliers to straighten up their act," he said. "The operating model of Far West Fibers will have to change."
It's still too soon to know what kind of financial impact this will have, said Bruce Walker, solid waste and recycling manager for the city of Portland. It's important people don't throw the wrong things into the blue roll cart because, he said, "It costs money to get them out."
Linda Stevens of Tigard comes to Far West Fibers weekly to bring her recycling that can't go curbside as well as that of the downtown Portland clients she cleans for. Even proper curbside recycling takes work. Few seem to know caps and lids are a no-no. She doesn't find the latest changes onerous, but she's pretty sure even those who go to the depot aren't "checking every little thing to see the number. I'm sure there's contamination going on in there."


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It was a little over a week ago that we told you that Bears QB Jay Cutler and television lady Kristin Cavallari had gotten engaged again, after Cutler dumped Cavallari over the summer. Kristin then denied new engagement. Egg on our faces, or so we thought.
Now it's official because she says it's official.
@KristinCav This time its official..Jay and I are engaged again :)
Breathe, everyone. We'll all be safe here. Cut-Cav 4eva.
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Parker's next mission: Politics
These days — in the age of the super PAC and Citizens United — a campaign donor with a million dollars to spend isn't cool.
You know what's cool? A donor with a billion dollars.
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By any standard, Sean Parker is a very cool donor indeed. And this year, the 34-year-old co-founder of Napster is poised to bring his considerable fortune into the political world with fresh intensity, retaining advisers to bring new focus and sophistication to his political enterprises and preparing to make a significant investment in the 2014 election cycle.
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Known primarily as a bad-boy file-sharing guru and defined in the public mind by Justin Timberlake's frenetic 2010 portrayal in "The Social Network" ("A million dollars isn't cool," Timberlake's character memorably said) Parker has dabbled in the political world for half a decade now.
If the exact direction of Parker's new push into politics is still taking shape, he is already working actively to build new and stronger political relationships. He has met privately in recent months with some starkly different politicians, huddling with both Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the libertarian-leaning GOP presidential hopeful, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the populist progressive Democrat. He is eyeing a range of 2014 elections to get involved in and has spoken with former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist about his party-switching comeback bid.
This week, Parker will co-host a San Francisco fundraiser for state Attorney General Kamala Harris, along with Silicon Valley super-elites such as Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, Laurene Powell Jobs and uber-investors Ron Conway, Marc Benioff and John Doerr.
On the operational side, Parker has hired Chris Garland, who recently stepped down as chief of staff to California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, to work in a political director role. The former Facebook president is conferring with national strategists about his political engagement. Among his advisers is Addisu Demissie, who managed New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker's 2013 campaign and now heads up the West Coast office of the Messina Group, the consulting firm founded by President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign manager.
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Parker's allies say that his political goals remain broadly defined: Unlike other politically-inclined billionaires, such as the conservative Koch brothers and liberal environmentalist Tom Steyer, Parker hopes to avoid a purely partisan role as he ventures more deeply into politics.
Having donated almost exclusively to Democrats up to this point, Parker made a trip to Washington in December for the purpose of meeting quietly with Republican officeholders and strategists around town. He plans to donate to both sides starting this year, associates say, for the first time committing big sums to aid Republicans he views as credible deal-makers in a bitterly divided Congress.
There are specific issues Parker cares about, including immigration reform and investments in urban development and medical research. Like many in the tech world, he shares a set of liberal social values and, one Parker friend said, cares less about his personal tax rate than in making sure government operates efficiently.
At least for now, the Silicon Valley billionaire is primarily interested in fixing what he views as a broken political process, promoting voter engagement and supporting politicians who work across the aisle — all goals far easier to state than to accomplish.
Still, the decision to professionalize the political side of his operation, strategists say, is one Washington should take seriously.
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"Sean Parker is the kind of person who, when passionate about an issue, jumps in with both feet," said Alex Tourk, a Bay Area political strategist who advises Conway, the billionaire venture capitalist and Parker collaborator.
Ben Horowitz, the prominent Silicon Valley investor, shares that assessment of Parker: "He's all in at a very, very intense level, at more hours of the day than most people are awake."
"He's got political views on various topics but his main agenda is sort of making democracy more modern, less corrupt," Horowitz said.
Parker declined to comment for this story, and allies suggested he is reluctant to detail his plans at such an early stage.
It's not just through contributions that Parker's venturing into the world of politics. Last week, he joined Conway and Benioff in backing a new company, Brigade Media, with the general mission of creating tools that will enhance voter education and participation in government.
Operatives who have worked with Parker describe him as something of a wild card — both a news junkie who is earnestly passionate about politics, and an energetic entrepreneur juggling so many projects that it can be hard to keep politics in the foreground.


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clanowen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 200 diseños de 56 diseñadores freelance.
Logajob.com is an innovative online marketplace for jobs of all types; from the very smallest to very large jobs. It is a portal for bringing together people with distinct yet related needs, those who 'Want a job' and those who 'Need a job done'. Simple, logajob.com is a website that allows people post jobs for personal or commercial use. It is based along the lines of an eBay type development with two main categories, buyers and sellers of jobs. Its a bit like tenderme.ie but this will be miles apart and better,
We are a very use friendly site which allows people to log their job very easily and seamlessly and allow people to search jobs under different classifications with minimal fuss. AS mentioned the site will very much need to be reflective of eBay functionality while also having elements of ratedpeople.com. We are and need to be a memorable logo with a unique twist using the primary colours red, green, yellow and blue but open to others and suggestions and ideas
Looking for an amazing logo, that would be embraced by all users. We want our logo to be memorable and uplifting and bright. The logo needs to excite people and to want to post jobs and apply for jobs. We want to appeal to a large audience both in the English speaking and also in the Spanish community as the site will be in both languages but dont want spanish flair in the logo, generic. Just as Ebay would appeal to people selling and buying all types of products, logajob.com is a site which offers job across the spectrum – from cutting grass, to general contracting, to painting, to tax returns. Essentially every job you could imagine. The site is user friendly and the logo needs to appeal to both men and women in the working population. Given the current economic situation it is to appeal to all those many people who are unemployed and are looking for jobs to do. It is also to appeal to those who are working and may need jobs done but don't have the time to find the right person who is credible to do the job. As mentioned it's an eBay for Jobs.
The logo should be uplifting, positive and vibrant. Essentially you are logging a job so maybe little colored stars of the writing give it some positive effect. It has to be memorable so that people when they see the logo on T-Shirts and Flyers and Business Cards and Website will remember it.
The requirements are to develop a logo for logajob.com our new and innovative website business. It is also to provide us designed business cards/stationery/flyers items and T-shirt logo for use in our marketing on clothes and flyers and print material which we will be using to canvass. The same logo once you develop it will be use on all of our materials. It needs to be one universal logo that will be consistent across everything we will need to use. The logo will be logajob.com (the .com part of the logo should be smaller and should be a different color, possibly black but I shall leave that to the experts (yourselves) to come up with ideas. I want to ensure that when people see the logo, they know it is a website by the way the .com comes afterwards.
For all the logo's I want to have two versions of all
1. with just the logajob.com
2. One with logajob.com with the tagline underneath or somewhere incorporated in the logo which reads 'Working for you' without the exclamation marks of course.
I just don't know how the two versions will look as I think the tag line may be important. It's a bit like the website Worky.com where underneath they have 'Works for me' please look at it
The logo will be on the top left of the page on a white banner background so it stands out.
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Fuel prices hit six-month high
Petrol prices have reached a six-month high with many motorists cutting back on car use, according to the AA.
And the extension of the districts in which drivers get a special rural area fuel rebate has failed to kickstart sales at the pumps in some places, the motoring organisation added.
The average price of petrol nationwide is now 117.19p a litre - up from 116.42p a month ago and above 117p for the first time since mid-December 2014.
Diesel is now averaging 121.0p a litre compared with 120.7p in mid-May.
Since the low point for fuel prices was reached on 1 February this year, average prices have risen by more than 10p a litre.
Compare fuel prices where you live at petrolprices.com.
An AA/Populus survey showed that 37% of the 28,080 AA members polled had already started to cut back on car use, with this figure rising to 48% for lower-income drivers.
The rural fuel rebate scheme, previously only available for those living on some of the UK's islands, was extended on May 31 to around 125,000 people living in remote mainland locations, with those eligible getting a 5p cut in pump prices.
The AA said today that this had led to a doubling of business at a Devon filling station but that some drivers in Scotland had missed out, apparently due to confusion with the scheme.
AA president Edmund King said: "Our fuel report this month illustrates vividly the power of pump prices on consumer spending.
"It sends out a clear message to government on fuel tax: don't be mistaken into thinking that because pump prices are 13p-a-litre lower than this time last year that drivers are ripe for another fuel duty increase."
A Treasury spokeswoman said: "By the end of 2015/16, fuel duty will have been frozen for five years - the longest duty freeze in over two decades. The Government's action on fuel duty is saving families around £10 every time they fill up their car.
"In addition, the Government's rural fuel rebate scheme is helping those in the UK's most rural communities, who face some of the highest fuel prices in the country, to benefit from cheaper fuel."
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Death rates rise at remote hospitals
Study suggests the quality of many of the facilities in a federal program designed to keep them open has deteriorated in the past decade.
For 15 years, Congress has bestowed special privileges to small remote hospitals, usually in rural areas, to help them stay afloat. Medicare pays them more than it pays most hospitals and exempts them from financial pressure to operate efficiently and requirements to reveal how their patients fare. Nearly one in four hospitals qualifies for the program.
A study published Tuesday found that during the past decade, death rates at these critical access hospitals were growing while mortality rates at other hospitals were dropping.
"This carved-out group of hospitals seems to be falling further and further behind," said the paper's lead author, Dr. Karen Joynt of the Harvard School of Public Health.
The study, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that in 2002, mortality rates at critical access hospitals for Medicare patients with heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia were about the same as at other hospitals. But they have diverged since then.
While death rates at other hospitals dropped by 0.2% a year, reaching 11.4% in 2010, mortality rates at critical access hospital death rates rose about 0.1% each year, reaching 13.3% in 2010. Critical access hospitals also did worse than other small, rural hospitals that were not in the program. The paper said all these results were statistically significant.
Joynt and co-authors John Orav and Dr. Ashish Jha, also of Harvard, suggested that the hospitals' care may suffer because they don't have the latest sophisticated technology or specialists to treat the increasingly elderly and frail rural populations.
She also suggested that since hospitals are not required to submit performance evaluations to Medicare, the government may not realize that facilities could need additional assistance in caring for sicker patients.
"This is 1,000 hospitals, a quarter of the hospitals in the country, that are invisible," she said. "We've created a completely separate system, and ... it looks like that has not done patients in these hospitals any favors."
Brock Slabach, an executive at the National Rural Health Association, cautioned against drawing sweeping conclusions from the report. "Mortality is just one small part of the picture of what qualities means," he said. He said the association's own research has found that rural hospitals do better in patient satisfaction surveys than do urban hospitals.
Congress started the critical access program in 1997 to stave off hospital closures in places where patients had no good alternative because the next hospital was at least 35 miles away by regular roads or 15 miles by secondary roads. Hospitals with 25 or fewer beds could qualify. Hospitals in cities also got into the program through a loophole that until 2006 allowed states to designate hospitals as "necessary providers."
In 2011, 1,331 hospitals qualified for the program, which covers all of the costs of caring for Medicare patients plus an extra 1%.


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|Kanika Sachdev at the Snowmass Meeting in Minneapolis in 2013. Physicists were asked which questions they would most like to see answered.
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Research Assistant Kanika Sachdev recently received the Lederman Fellowship in Experimental Physics from Fermilab. The Lederman Fellowship is one of the most distinguished postdoctoral fellowships in experimental particle physics.
Sachdev, who currently works on the NOvA experiment said she is excited because the fellowship is designed to give starting physicists liberty in what research topics they would like to pursue.
Lederman Fellows have a choice in the broad progam of experimental work at Fermilab, which includes research at the LHC, neutrino physics, astroparticle physics, and research at the Intensity Frontier. In recognition of Leon Lederman's commitment to the teaching of physics at all levels, Fellows are also expected to spend a certain fraction of their time in education and outreach.
Sachdev said she will likely continue her research in the field of neutrino physics when she begins her fellowship in Fall 2015. She also plans to incorporate material on neutrino physics into Fermilab's outreach program.


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PNH necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 32 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
2011 Parade of Homes
This is a cover for a magazine (small format size) that will be used to promote a yearly event showcasing 16 new homes to the public during the weekend of April 30th & May 1st between 12 and 4 p.m.. I am running this contest on behalf of the Kingston Home Builders Association and all artwork in transfer will go to them. The cover is for and about this new homes weekend in support of the participating home builders.
The focus of the cover is be catchy and grab new home buyers interest on this weekend event. I am enclosing last years cover which is an example of what we don't want this year. Last years cover focused on the big flag and left to little emphasis on the new homes and the date...(the Flag shown on the left is out this year. The cover should draw you in to the content, the weekend date and call you to action for the date of the event.
Here is the must have content for the cover:
1) Kingston Home Builders Association Logo (does not need to be real large - enclosed)
2) April 30th & May 1st
4) Tour 16 new model homes, full info and map guide inside!
5) Sponsored by (logo for Terra Nova Truss - enclosed)
Here are some thoughts that we could use (your choice) for draw in...Tour over 16 new homes, full info and map guide inside!
I have some suggestion but they may not work and again I don't want to steer this, so ignore and do as you see best. The one idea I had was a parade leader holding a flag with some of the key content in the flag and homes behind.


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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Anne Arundel County Police Department has charged a 14-year-old girl with a juvenile citation for sending a threatening tweet related to Arundel High School.
Police began their investigation after Arundel High School officials told them about a suspicious Twitter account.
The account, named @KoolkidsKlanKkk, reportedly sent out a tweet that read, "We're planning to attack tomorrow".
This account used similar language to a racial petition that had been passed around Anne Arundel High School by the "Kool Kids Klan".
Police worked with Twitter, and were able to identify the person who created the account and sent out the threatening tweet.
That person has been identified as a 14-year-old African American female who attends Arundel High School.
Authorities interviewed the girl while she was with her parents, and police say she admitted to creating the Twitter account and sending the threatening tweet.
She was charged with a juvenile citation for disruption of school activities and released to her parents.
"It makes me really upset. I can't believe that students would write something like that," said parent Michelle Fitzurka.
"I kind of felt unsafe at the school and a little hurt," said Taylor Nash, a freshman at Arundel High.
The school district said all the students involved in that incident were disciplined, but the students were not identified, and to complicate an already tense situation, Wednesday night hundreds showed up for a meeting at the school, but some parents still had questions.
"That is not good enough. What's going to happen with the students that are still here?"said parent Tamara Hannah.
"The federal law prohibits me from telling you exactly what the consequences were. But I will say to you that the school acted swiftly, they acted aggressively and they administered appropriated disciplinary action," said Bob Mosier, chief communications officer of Anne Arundel Public Schools.
As parents left the school, there's hope the community will begin to heal.
"I am very confident that Ms. Davenport and the staff at the school is going to do everything they can to keep all of our children safe," said parent Sheri Paris.
"I just hope that we can all come together, not just here at the school, but as a society," said parent Lisa Smith.
Anne Arundel County Public Schools Superintendent George Arlotto released the following statement:
"I want to thank Police Chief Tim Altomare, State's Attorney Wes Adams, County Executive Steve Schuh, and their staffs for their thorough and expeditious work to identify a suspect in the online post that threatened violence at Arundel High School this week. The anonymity of the internet provides a murky and complex disguise for many who want to threaten the safety and security of our communities. Our partners in the Police Department and county government peeled back that disguise quickly in this case, in the process reassuring parents, students, and staff that our schools are safe places in which to educate our children."
Click here to read the letter sent home to parents of students at Anne Arundel High School.
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Never saw that coming.
There is a pattern here with blacks making up these stories implying whites are racist…A very long pattern… Just google People Who Make Up Racism Stores… (they're ALL blacks)
SICK & TIRED of seeing these lies
CNN has already offered her a job. They told her she would fit in well with their other CNN fake news liars…I mean the other CNN journalists …..
Another race scam—what a surprise.
He described them as "problem profiteers":
"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." ~ "My Larger Education," Booker T Washington, 1911 (p. 118)
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
They're making a living from their troubles… but that is FAR from their only agenda.
I assume they charged her with a hate crime, right? Hello? Bueller?
sad. its like these sick people want life to be as miserable as they are.
Every single one of these fake racist threats is done by a black. There has never been one other race threatening a black person or group online or on paper since 1962.
It is the tactic of the day. Don't like the other side. Pretend to be them, anonymously, and make it look like they are doing the very evil you want to claim they are doing. It isn't limited to racial issues, though used a lot. Used in politics (Wikileaks exposed the Democrats, am sure plenty of Republicans doing the same). Used by the media (though they try to cover themselves by saying, "but we said unsubstantiated" or "unconfirmed" before we then proceeded to tell the whole "story."
It is how things are now. And its gonna destroy us.
Not every single one. The others FAKE HATE "crimes" are from MUSLIMS. Right after the election, Muslims kept reporting about their hijab being ripped off, their being thrown to the ground and told to "LEAVE THE COUNTRY" and other instances of lies. Each time, the police either totally disproved and then charged the liars or there is nothing to cooperate the claim.
This pretty much proves there is no wide spread problem with whites posting racial threats or slurs. If there was, blacks would not have to make this stuff up!
Is Obama inviting her to the White House?
No. Obama will be too busy getting back at his political enemies during his last 8 days in office.
So much for making it to the mountain top
I would doubt that. Her name would become public and lessen her effectiveness to the cause.
#ThanksObama Post racial America
I guess this is an example of racial harmony that fostered under the current president's term.
Who can predict what a 14 year old will think.
The KKK's attendance numbers are so bad these days they've resorted to recruiting 14 year old black girls LOL!
Seems like they, the KKK, need a new Grand Kleagle. Where is the democrats 'Conscience of the Senate' when you need him? You remember him Senator Robert E. Byrd of WV. Served for decades and was revered by the democrats and also by the KKK as it turns out. He was their Grand Kleagle or the person in charge of recruitment and bringing in new talent.
Funny how a political party that is supposed to be for civil rights takes a guy like that and labels him their conscience! Kinda makes one think that those democrats aren't opposed to lying when it suits them and that maybe they just don't have any consciences at all.
Rich in New Mexico.
Black Lies Matter
A weekend trip to Chicago would get their attention.
It could qualify as career day.
At some point you have to ask if the media, politicians and entertainers have created the environment which fosters this kind of action. If anyone, young or old, wants attention, fame, etc. all they have to do is follow what the last guy did. For liberals, in a effort to show how bad things are, rush to broadcast the stories, nationwide. For them, it is all about proving to the world they are right. With 24 hour cable news and internet access, the word gets out to all the world. How useful is that for their cause? I believe much of what we are seeing has been happening for a long time. Only, now it gets worldwide attention so we have the impression it is worse than ever. As much as liberals claim to be helpful, their whole agenda is built on demonstrating how bad it is for certain categories of people. The more it is bad, the better for their cause, to the point that things being bad is more useful than fixing the problem.
Another fake hate crime. Just like most of the others. The left has to create hate where there is none in order to keep on existing.
"As parents left the school, there's hope the community will begin to heal."
Enough with the heart-sucking cliches. A community is an abstraction – it cannot "heal".
PLEASE. Just a little truth, a little realism from our journalists. Is that too much to ask?
"It makes me really upset. I can't believe that students would write something like that," said parent Michelle Fitzurka."
GIVE ME A BREAK LADY. When you thought it was white students you reported it to the police and started a witch-hunt to find the rotten kids who would do it.
So typical of Blacks. Just like the churches they claimed were burned down with graffiti, and attacks on blacks. As usual it is them doing it and blaming white people. This one got caught but normally the fake news goes on and on about it being white people going after blacks and since they are totally looking in the wrong place they normally don't get caught and so they go and burn down another one or start hate groups like the Murdering Black Lives Matter thugs. The only thing that makes this news is they got caught. Normally it is consider a hate crime and reported that way, blamed on whites even knowing in most case it isn't whites at all.
I can identify them. They were the Klan with a Tan. Pathetic.
there no different than naacp
No surprise to who did it.. I'm REALLY surprised the press reported it. It completely goes against the narrative that whites are evil.
Wow. A liberal creating fake news in order to support their agenda. What a shocker.
Fake hate news
The story is now officially dead. The media is only interested in racist trolling, threats and violence directed by whites against non-whites, particularly where they blame it on the "climate created by Trump."
Oh those young blacks, what a fine group of future leaders
Who didn't see that coming.
It's as if their purpose in life is to aggravate and annoy the rest of us.
Ever notice that every single 'hate crime' is a hate hoax?
WOW, is that a school or a mall??!!
Butthurt Obama and Hillary supporters have to MANUFACTURE the hate crimes that they claim are being committed in the name of Trump. Pathetic!
When was the last time liberals were honest about anything? Orwell saw as much in 1948 when he said of liberals that, "freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and war is peace."
Liberalism is a lie inside a fraud, all wrapped up in a hoax. Liberalism is the inability to deal with truth and reality raised from a grave defect to a virtue.
This is exactly what BLM and the Obama-inspired, George Soros financed anarchists have been doing for quite some time. How do you make it STOP?
Obama be like, "Damn that was a good idea!"
What's bad is this 14 year old is acting like most "adult" democrats.
Another Hoax by a Black. We live now with the constant theme by Liberal Race Hustlers and a Willing Media of White Racism or institutional racism against Blacks,. The theme give this behavior the needed pass when it happens constantly.
Only a fool doesnt know that the majority of time it is a Black attacking a white. Whites very rarely attack Blacks..Very Very rarely…but look at Blacks attacking whites.. 8 times more likely
Im starting to think there is no racism, just a bunch of made up BS by black racist clowns
If obama hurries he can give here a medal of freedom in the rose garden before he gets kicked to the curb on the 20th…
I literally cannot remember the last time I read of a legitimate incident of racist threats, targeting, symbols, displays, etc. But I do remember a couple of dozen hoaxes and bogus such events.
It was a false flag racial threat designed to scapegoat and engender hatred toward white people while reinforcing the victim mentality of black people.
Clock Boy we found your mate
Where is the out rage from the Congressional Black Communists ?
Faking a hate crime should be punished more aggressively and publicly than a hate crime. There is something far more diabolical and premeditated about faking a hate crime. The results of the action are rarely refuted with the same enthusiasm as the reaction to debunking the perpetrator. If hate crimes are such serious offenses, faking them needs to be punished as even more serious an offense.
This is the 2nd one in a week. The other one was also a black female (in college), sending threatening messages to the black students, pretending to be some type of a white supremacy group. Interesting…
How many welfare-sucking kids does she have so far?
How many white teens are left in Baltimore? Must be John Waters types if there are any boys left.
The myth of black victimization must come to an end, there is hardly a person alive who has experienced it, I am now inclined to suspect black oppression before my time was also embellished and exaggerated. Baltimore is a dangerous school but it is not I repeat NOT because of whites.
An Alinsky-ite agent provocateur. Who teaches such things? Those that teach the Rules for Community Organization. I think that is a Common Core subject.
wonder if Potato Head Al Sharpton is planning to defend this "kid"……?
Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy racist version. More liberal love.
If this was some blond hair white boy he would already be expelled and his house would have burned to the ground…..keep it up with the hypocrisy, people are finally getting wise to the game.
Yet another case of minority students faking white neo-nazi racial threats or attacks. Pathetic!!!!
future CNN fakenews lady
that got her a spot on the dnc
"Police worked with Twitter, and were able to identify the person who created the account and sent out the threatening tweet.
That person has been identified as a 14-year-old African American female who attends Arundel High School."
OK, Fake Tweet acting like some racist White Trash Gang. Or Was it a Black Trash Gang going to attack Whites? Racist that got caught. All Lives Matter
An entire generation of blacks have been lost thanks to Obama and his Ilk. All they know is hate and therefore they make it up where none existed. This is what they have been taught by our schools, the ends justify the means, and now they reap what they have sown.
Appropriate disciplinary action would be to expel the offender but that obviously didn't happen.
Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and Black Lives Matter supporters are very proud of this young girl 🙂
What's with all the H8N – Can't we all just get along?
You would be amazed at just how many fake hate crimes there have been. This is not the first.
Once again, we're informed through this that white-on-black racism is so very rare in America that black people and Leftists have to make it up in order to perpetuate their favorite lie of a 'horribly racist America'. This faked anti-black racism has become so very frequent its become the norm instead of the exception, and the only ones surprised by it appear to the certain Leftist segments of the dinosaur media..
Drop the lil liar off in downtown Chicago late on a friday night. Problem solved.
what does this say for the white race ? That the left has to create false attacks of white on black crime cause it barely exists in reality . Good job white peoples
Black on white crime and violence is wildly out of proportion. Search youtube for Colin Flaherty's channel.
Stupid negro trash, who's going to feed you idiots in the not so distant future? Some of us Americans are tired if getting our hands bitten….
The Left Wing is out of control in this country. They need to lose their control over the education system and the legal system, before they rip this country apart and plunge it into perpetual warfare.
Oops! Another sacrosanct, "Progressive" shibboleth is falling apart.
Can we put the confederate flags back up now….?
No real racism to complain about, just make some up, the MSM will droll over it, you get your 15 min of SJW fame and zero penalty.
This girl should get the maximum sentence that a lily white male would get as punishment.
Baltimore Liberal Logic:
Black's Riot
Destroying Black Businesses
After Black Guy Dies in Police Custody
With 3 Black Police Officers
In A 43% Black Police Department
With a Black Chief of Police
Under A Black Female Mayor
With A Black Female State Attorney
In A City Ruled By Democrats for Over 50 Years
With the First Black Female US Attorney General
Appointed By The First Black President
And they all BLAME RACISM
People sure want to be "victims".
How old are Obama's adopted Daughters ?
Somebody should compile a list of all these false flag crimes. There are hundreds of them. The Al Sharpton / Tawana Brawley incident was not the first.
Someone has:
Because most blacks are completely incapable of contributing to society in a positive way (in fact, most lack the capacity understand nor appreciate what a civilization even is), many have chosen to dedicated their lives to ruining this society for the rest of us. And as long as we keep giving them free housing, food, health care, & "schooling", they'll continue down this path.
Imagine that…Nice try..typical
You would like to think that these liberal dumb flicks have sense enough not to try to pull fake race/hate crimes. But no… they are liberal democrats and are as intelligent as a box of rocks.
Well, for upteenth time in just a couple of years, every breathlessly reported 'scare'-erroneously-has turned out to be faux accounts of LGBT/Muslim/African American/ allegations of Whitey threatening to burn the hijab, go back to Syria, rape threats et al, et al. Followed by 'supporters' who claim this was just 'calling attention to an overlooked threat to their community' as justification. Beat it you lying losers.
i get it now!
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In fact the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times. However, the probability of a universe full of monkeys typing a complete work such as Shakespeare's Hamlet is so tiny that the chance of it occurring during a period of time hundreds of thousands of orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe is extremely low (but technically not zero).
Gee, what a shock, Another hoax from a liberal racist. Who would have ever expected that?
All blacks should be put on notice – pull this sh!t and GO TO JAIL.
Enough is enough. No more coddling the BS "disenfranchised". They think they can do anything and get away with it, and for good reason. WE LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT.
Because they are "disenfranchised". Right. Got it.
Total, utter BU\\SH/T.
If Obama had a daughter…she would look like her. 0_o
You liberal morons shocked by this?
Black Lies Matter
In a related story, the Democrat Party is demanding that they release the name of this 14 year old black race-hoaxer.
The Democrat Party would like to nominate her for their chairman.
These teens reflect the thoughts of their peers just like the racist ones who tortured the white guy in Chicago.
No different from the black people who dressed in KKK robes and waved racist signs at a Trump rally. Faking racism to incite outrage.
Race-baiting is an industry. When they can't find enough evidence or racism, that are not afraid to manufacture it as #fakenews.
These are hate crimes designed to cast white people as racists.
Why are black women such liars?
Is this Africa? Black anchor and Black reporter reporting on a Black criminal trying to blame everything on Whites. Only they leave out the last part – gee I wonder why?
Typical. They can't prove racism so they have to make it up.
Baltimore, 'nuff said.
"I can't believe that students would write something like that," said parent Michelle Fitzurka.
Please tell us, Michelle, just how long have you lived under that rock?
Like 99.9% of all these scams, it was faked by a "Student", ah err, "Youth", ah err ah, "Teen", darn it! I meant Juvenile.
'while she was with her parent's.' That S is extremely suspicious.
Professional victims need racism, they can't live without it. Many have said if there were no racism the victim identity minorities would make it up. Here is another example of many. Feminists make up sexism also. They need their lies to be true.
Another fake hate crime from a leftist tool.
With all these guns being sold, this is like walking into a cage of starving lions holding a bloody steak. Thugs & thugetts better watch what they are wishing for. Hundreds of millions have put up with this 50 year crime wave and this is not a good time to be tempting the beast.
Looks like this young girl will have a career in the main stream press when she gets older …..
CNN has already offered her a job. They told her she would fit in well with their other CNN fake news liars…I mean the other CNN journalists
Note that the Church Burning in Mississippi right after the election that had 'Vote Trump' written on the side was committed by an African-American as well.
The racism and Hate is taught young in the Black community as is also evidenced by the 'art work' argument going on at the Capitol Bldg where Police are depicted as Pigs. Imagine the outrage if a white student represented the Obamas as primates in a contest winning painting.
This is reported as if it is just another hoax, but it isn't. This was a hoax specifically designed to cast suspicion, distrust, and scorn on white students, a hoax specifically designed to inflame racial tension. Imagine if a white student were caught sending tweets from a fake account claiming to be associated with BLM, making threats against white students.
Most thinking people will come to the same understanding of this situation – but the authorities write it off as just a teenage joke. As I pointed out in my comment, these were clearly acts meant to Incite Violence. If they had traced this to White youth this would be all over the msm networks and every civil rights group under the sun would have something to say in condemnation of it. But because it turns out that it was blacks behind it, it's swept under the carpet.
This sure sounds like Incitement of Violence to me. It's pure garbage that there were no laws broken. Had they traced this to a White kid or kids you can bet that there would have been charges made. The authorities were probably disappointed that it WASN'T a White youth.
Simply outrageous.
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After so many of you readers ate up (ha – literally!) the recipes for classic No Bake Energy Bites and Pumpkin No Bake Energy Bites, I thought it would be fun to make a red and green "holiday" edition of the favorite with these Cranberry Pistachio Energy Bites!
Like the others, these quick and easy little balls are packed with great flavor and nutrition. But there is no baking required! You just need the quick pulse of a food processor (which I happen to be giving one away right now!), or the willingness to do some chopping and stirring to whip these up. And the final result will be delish! I loved the sweet and slightly salty combination of the fruit and nuts. And for fun, I also threw in a few white chocolate chips to brighten things up.
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Cranberry Pistachio Energy Bites
Kick up your energy with these simple and healthy no-bake Cranberry Pistachio Energy Bites!
- 8 ounces (about 1 packed cup) chopped dates
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 Tablespoon chia seeds (optional)
- 1 Tablespoon ground flax seeds
- pinch of salt
- 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats (dry, not cooked)
- 1 cup shelled pistachio nuts
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 1/3 cup white chocolate chips (optional)
Combine the dates, honey, chia seeds, flax seeds and salt in a food processor, and pulse until smooth and combined. You should be able to stir the mixture — if it is too thick, add in another tablespoon or two of honey.
Transfer the mixture to a large bowl, and stir in the oats, pistachios, dried cranberries, and white chocolate chips until evenly combined. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Once the mixture is cool (and easier to work with), use a spoon or cookie scoop to shape it into your desired size of energy balls. (Mine were about 1-inch in diameter.) Alternately, you can line a small baking pan with parchment paper, and press the mixture evenly into the pan, let it cool, and then cut into bars.
Store covered in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. (Storing them in the refrigerator especially helps the energy bites hold their shape.)
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Hi Ali.
I just recently discovered your blog and I'm very thankful for the great work you do and share. I tried and love your original no bake bite recipe with the peanut butter and chocolate chips and the whole family loved the energy bites. My wife asked me if I could make them a little less sweet. I saw on your recipe page that you had a pistachios and cranberries recipe. I bought the ingredients but I wonder if the bites would taste better if I toasted the pistachio nuts first. I find them a little blahhh in their raw state. Would that ruin the recipe?
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This looks delicious, but I don't like dates :( any ideas for a substitution? Thanks!
Can you use anything besides dates in this recipe? Not a big fan of them.
Hi am on a kto diet how do v substitute th honey n th dates as v r not allowed both these
Looks gorgeous…well done
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These do not work. They crumble apart when I try to ball them. No amount of re-cooling fixes this. Do you actually test the recipes? Adding more honey doesn't help. There is too little moisture. Bad recipe, frustrating and annoying. Not even a good taste. Bah.


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THE BOTTOM LINE: The film is replete with sexual innuendo, some of it awfully crude. Sexual situations are not explicit, but occasionally steamy for a PG-13. The script includes frequent midrange profanity, including the F-word, and a drug reference. Characters also drink. The understated violence includes fighting, a car chase and gunplay.
Teens who unabashedly love sudsy romantic sagas will be in heaven watching this cautionary tale for overprotective and controlling parents"THE VOW," Rated PG-13 — Teens can get out the Kleenex and have a good time at this soapy but handsome and well-acted tale of love that's found, lost and then found again. There's nothing in it, really, that should exclude middle-schoolers. A fictionalized version of a true story, "The Vow" traces the love of Chicago singles Paige (Rachel McAdams), an up-and-coming sculptor, and Leo (Channing Tatum), who has his own recording studio. They meet, fall in love and get married in an unconventional wedding. Their life is arty, urban and loving. Four years later, they're in a bad car accident and Paige is thrown through the windshield. She recovers, but has lost all memory of their relationship and marriage. She remembers being in law school, living with her parents and being engaged to another guy from her upscale suburban background. Leo tries desperately to get Paige to remember. She tries living with him platonically in hopes her memory will kick in, but it doesn't. Her ultra-controlling parents (Jessica Lange and Sam Neill) urge her to come home, which she does. It seems to be up to Leo to make Paige fall in love with him all over again. Sniff. Sigh.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The car accident that triggers the story is shown in slow-motion and is disturbing but not bloody. We see the start of a sexual situation, but it's nongraphic and the scene cuts to the next morning. There is brief nonsexual backview nudity. The script includes occasional midrange profanity and discussion of an extramarital affair. Characters drink wine and engage in a fistfight.


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SANTA ANA – Police shot a man late Saturday night as he was evading officers, Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.
The man, 27-year-old Ignacio Leon Jr., was in serious but stable condition Sunday morning and was expected to live.
Leon was "reaching for his waistband," Bertagna said, when police fired. He was shot twice in the upper torso. It was unclear whether more than one officer fired.
Investigators did not find a weapon at the scene but believe Leon might have passed one off to other individuals.
Officers responded to a call of a disturbance between a man and woman slightly before midnight, Bertagna said.
When they arrived, Leon was with a woman in front of an apartment complex. Once officers made contact with him, Bertagna said, Leon reached toward his waistband, turned and ran down a driveway.
He stopped at a fence, faced the officers, reached toward his waistband again, and the police fired, Bertagna said. Leon then jumped over the fence, and an officer followed and apprehended him.
Authorities believe Leon's mother lives in the apartment complex. The disturbance began upstairs, where some windows were broken, Bertagna said, and then spilled onto the street.
Bertagna said detectives were looking for two individuals in the back yard who may have taken a weapon from Leon.
Leon was taken to Western Medical Center-Santa Ana, according to officials.
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Vintage Jeep Accessories & Conversions - Old ToolPosted in Features on June 3, 2014
Before the days of recreational four-wheeling and sport/utility vehicles, Jeeps were used primarily as workhorses. We're not talking about the work of hauling you over some hellish trail or through rush hour traffic. We're talking about plowing a field, towing a disabled DeSoto taxi, powering a snow blower, or running a PTO-driven AC generator for days at a time. Real, punching-the-time-clock work!
In the early days of Jeeps, the array of working accessories was staggering. You name the job, and some company was probably building an accessory to do it with a Jeep. As the years went by and other more specialized equipment was developed, these items gradually left the accessory catalogs. If you look carefully, you can still find a few Jeep items in the workin' category -- most commonly snowplows. Check out some of the goodies available to Jeep owners of the past. And if you happen to own any of these gems, we'd love to see photos of them in action.
The Sheneker Iron Works of Buffalo, New York, offered this backhoe conversion for Willys trucks. It could dig a hole eigh feet deep and appeared in the late '40s. A similar apparatus was offered for early CJs.
Brede Products of Minneapolis, Minnesota, offered this rotary snow plow conversion for the CJ-3B that appeared in 1953. A Separate engine, another Jeep F-head four-cylinder, was mounted in back to drive the rotary blower. The unit was detachable, but added 2,000 pounds to the Jeep.


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Last summer, one of the most interesting parts of the Adam McKay-directed The Other Guys was the end credits sequence, which outlined how we ended up in the financial crisis that we currently find ourselves in. Curious about how it came about, we decided to contact the people who made it, a company called Picture Mill, and they graciously let me go down to their office to talk with them about it. While I was there, I asked about some of the other films they were working on, one of which was the David Gordon Green comedy Your Highness, for which they were making a "a really fun, crazy, hopefully hilarious main title sequence." That was eight months ago, however, but with the release of Your Highness this past weekend, Picture Mill has posted the opening credits on their site.
Illustrated in the same fashion as a King Arthur storybook that has been scribbled in by a bunch of high school students, the sequence illustrates the escape of Prince Thadeous (Danny McBride) and his aide Courtney (Rasmus Hardiker) as they escape from a village of little people that tried to have them killed. The sequence is one of the highlights of the film and definitely worth a watch.
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In context this animated sequence happens right after an opening live action sequence in which a group of dwarfs attempts to hang Danny McBride's character for sleeping with the dwarf king's daughter. He escapes, and the animation illustrates him running away. What's missing in this version of the credits is all the voiceover and narration. McBride and the actors actually act out their parts while the animation plays, which adds a whole level of funny to what you just saw, but is sadly absent here.


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All these trees were cut in the karisia hills in order to extract honey. it is a virgin forest and these podocarpus trees would be worth a great deal if harvested for timber. instead they rot. Does this make sense? No. What a sad state Kenya's forests are in.
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STANFORD — The first signs of recovery came Sunday afternoon — a day off — with the best-attended, day-after-game weightlifting session in two years.
That was followed by a series of practices in which "everything had a little more zest," according to tailback Tyler Gaffney.
By week's end, with the upset loss to Utah still fresh, No. 13 Stanford did what it has done so often in recent years: It restored order.
With smothering defense, an overpowering running game and an astonishing touchdown catch by receiver Kodi Whitfield, the Cardinal thumped ninth-ranked UCLA 24-10 on Saturday to maintain control of its destiny in the Rose Bowl race.
"Guys wanted to turn the page," coach David Shaw said, "and the advice I gave them was, 'Bring last week with you. Bring the lessons learned about how hard you have to play, how smart you have to play, and how you have to finish.'
"Last week, we got beat. This week, we had to come back."
The victory improved Stanford's record to 11-1 at home against ranked opponents since the start of the 2009 season.
Perhaps more impressive is the Cardinal's string of bounce-back wins: It has not lost back-to-back games in four years.
"It's second nature," linebacker Trent Murphy said. "It's how we practice, how we train in the offseason. Our goal is to fight adversity."
One week after getting sliced and diced by Utah, the Cardinal held UCLA to 36 points under its season average.
The Bruins gained just 266 yards and converted only 33 percent of their third-down opportunities.
Quarterback Brett Hundley broke loose for one long run but never found his rhythm in the pocket behind a makeshift offensive line. He was intercepted twice by safety Jordan Richards.
"Stanford did a really good job of bringing pressure — not even blitzing, but using their front four defensive line," Hundley said. "They did what they had to do."
The Cardinal offense returned to the ground-and-pound approach that has been at the core of the playbook for the past five years. Stanford ran on first-and-10, third-and-medium and everything in between as Gaffney set career highs with 36 carries and 171 yards.
"We wanted to make sure that we continued the body blows even on third down," Shaw said. "Run the ball between the tackles, trapping and blocking."
The defenses dominated a first half that ended with Stanford leading 3-0. But the Cardinal (6-1, 4-1) took control midway through the third quarter when quarterback Kevin Hogan found Whitfield for a 30-yard touchdown strike.
The connection, which gave Stanford a 10-3 lead, was more about the catch than the throw: Whitfield went high to make his amazing one-handed grab — one of the best of the season anywhere in the country — despite close coverage by the Bruins (5-1, 2-1).
"I tried to take a little air out of it and give him a chance," Hogan said. "Unbelievable play."
Stanford added to its lead four minutes later. Following Richards' first interception, the Cardinal returned to the air: Receiver Devon Cajuste hauled in a difficult 34-yard catch on the right sideline that gave Stanford possession at UCLA's 2-yard line. Three plays later, Gaffney barreled in for a touchdown that pushed Stanford's lead to 17-3.
The Bruins responded quickly, with Hundley leading a 75-yard drive that culminated in a short touchdown pass to receiver Shaq Evans.
Stanford had a chance to extend its lead to 10 points midway through the fourth quarter. But backup kicker Conrad Ukropina, who was playing for injured starter Jordan Williamson, missed a 46-yard field goal.
It made no difference, as the Cardinal defense dominated down the stretch to secure Stanford's sixth consecutive win over the Bruins — and the third since late November.
"They have a good handle on what we do, and we have a good handle on what they do," Gaffney said. "It comes down to who's tougher."
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Coke Zero Encroaching On Rival Pepsi's NFL Space With Player Endorsements
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August 27, 2012: Even as Coke Zero prepares a major campaign to support the release of the new James Bond film, Skyfall, it is moving into Pepsi-controlled NFL and other sports territories one region at a time.
Coke Zero, which recently signed former Steelers great Jerome Bettis to spearhead a push in the Pittsburgh area, has now added Brian Urlacher, all-pro linebacker for the Chicago Bears, and NHL all-star forward Brian Sharp of the Blackhawks to lead a campaign in the Windy City region.
Coke Zero said the pair would join Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose, who endorses sibling Powerade, "to connect the thrill of the game to the power of refreshment."
Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Rival PepsiCo's Pepsi Max is the official soft drink of the NFL. It recently expanded its role via a four-year deal to become title sponsor of the Super Bowl Halftime Show beginning with Super Bowl XLVII in February at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
Among the Skyfall tie-ins will be limited-edition Coke Zero cans featuring the likeness of Daniel Craig as James Bond and multi-media elements using actual or recreated scenes from the film. Coke Zero has product placement in Skyfall, which is scheduled to open Nov. 9.
Beginning in September, marketing will launch in Pittsburgh featuring Bettis and a campaign will break in Chicago featuring Urlacher. Sharp will make his Coke Zero debut in stores across the Chicagoland area this fall to coincide with the start of the 2012-13 NHL season.
The respective campaigns will include radio, retail and Internet, with such social media destinations as Facebook and Twitter. Promotions featuring the athletes will offer opportunities to win sports merchandise.
"Since it launched in 2005, Coke Zero has quickly become a consumer favorite and has seen consistently strong growth," Michael Dulin, vp-commercialization for Coca-Cola Refreshments, said in a statement. "Brian Urlacher and Patrick Sharp are gifted athletes whose talents and personalities resonate with Chicago sports fans on and off the field or rink. Partnering with two of the most relevant and talked about athletes in Chicago sports is a great way to help us continue the momentum for Coke Zero."
"Joining the Coke Zero team of athletes in Chicago is a great way to connect with my fans on and off the field," Urlacher, a seven-time Pro Bowler with the Bears, said in a statement. "Since I like drinking Coke Zero this partnership is fun for me. Coca-Cola is an amazing company, and I am very proud to be a member of the Coke family."
According to Sharp, a member of the 2010 Stanley Cup championship Blackhawks and MVP of the 2011 NHL All-Star Game, "Coke Zero has always been more than just a brand to me – it exemplifies a frame of mind. When I hit the ice this fall, I'll be bringing the 'enjoy everything' spirit to my game this season."


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Talk of Marilyn Monroe lures curious to Salisbury, N.C.
SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) >> Even 50 years after her death, the interest in Marilyn Monroe remains insatiable. For serious authors, filmmakers and fans, the obsession with the Hollywood icon inevitably leads them to Salisbury, a place she never visited yet knew everything about.
Credit the late Ralph Roberts for that. For the last three-plus years of Monroe's life, Salisbury native Roberts served as her personal masseur and, probably, closest friend.
By most accounts, Roberts was the last person Monroe tried to contact the night she died of a drug overdose in Los Angeles.
Only two weeks ago, documentary filmmakers from Paris were here, interviewing Ralph Roberts' nephew, Hap, who saw his uncle almost every day for the last three years of his life in Salisbury.
French Connection Films also spoke to Chris "Steve" Jacobs, the man Hap Roberts has made archivist for his uncle's papers and all things Marilyn.
Together, Roberts and Jacobs have developed a Ralph Roberts website. They keep a Greensboro attorney on call, just to make sure nothing false is attributed to Ralph Roberts.
Working from Hap Roberts' company, Statewide Title, they store anything connected to Marilyn Monroe in lock boxes off site.
Long after Monroe had died and mainly as a way to correct and set straight things written about her, Ralph Roberts started several versions of a memoir, which he titled "Mimosa."
"There's constant interest in that manuscript," Jacobs says.
Hap Roberts and Jacobs hope to publish the memoir some day, though putting the Marilyn years in chronological order and dealing with Ralph's writing style have been difficult.
"He never took advantage of his relationship with Marilyn Monroe in any shape or form," Hap Roberts says of his uncle. "We don't want to profit from it, either. We just want to do what Ralph would want done."
Hap Roberts' life keeps bumping into his Uncle Ralph and Marilyn Monroe.
He's not complaining. He loved and adored his uncle, and through him appreciated the actress.
In recent years, Roberts and Jacobs assisted University of Southern California professor and author Lois Banner on her recently released book, "Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox."
Banner's index lists Ralph Roberts on 19 different pages, and the book devotes considerable space to his brother-sister relationship with Monroe.
Bill O'Reilly's best-selling book, "Killing Kennedy," mentions Roberts on a single page. It's one of the more famous Roberts-related wstories because it essentially confirms the affair Monroe had with President John F. Kennedy.
O'Reilly probably gets it wrong, however. He writes that when Kennedy, staying in Palm Springs with Monroe, complains of chronic back pain, Monroe calls Roberts and puts him on the telephone with the president. The passage says Roberts offered a quick diagnosis and hung up after a few minutes.
But while he was alive, Roberts told the Post at least twice - in 1985 and 1993 - that Marilyn called him that night after the president had asked her how she pulled off her signature walk.
Monroe knew it was a variation on an exercise using a muscle that connects the thighbone to the hipbone through the spine. But when Kennedy asked her the name of the muscle, she couldn't remember.
So Monroe called Roberts, put Kennedy on the telephone, and Roberts told the president it was the psoas muscle. And that was pretty much their conversation.
Paris filmmakers Ian Ayres and Eric Ellena are still in the United States interviewing people for their documentary, "Marilyn: Birth of an Icon."
They describe it as a movie "about a sensitive, caring person trapped in the role of the world's greatest sex symbol." Their treatment of the subject, Hap Roberts says, is something of which his Uncle Ralph would have approved.
Forever cognizant of his uncle's wishes to protect the Monroe he knew, Hap Roberts says he has only granted two interviews about Ralph Roberts since his death in 1999. One was for Banner; the other, for Ayres and Ellena.
When they were in Salisbury, the men filmed Hap and his wife, Annette, walking in City Memorial Park toward Ralph's grave. They also interviewed Hap for an hour at his home and Jacobs for a considerable time back at the Statewide Title office.
They took pictures of several of the Marilyn artifacts Ralph had kept after the actress' death Aug. 5, 1962. Ralph was among only a small group of people, including former Monroe husband Joe DiMaggio, who attended Monroe's funeral.
Hap Roberts still has his uncle's program from the memorial service.
"I grew up reading every book about her," Ayres said in an email to Hap Roberts. "Now I find myself in the position of making the documentary I'd always hoped someone would.
"And your uncle Ralph meant so much to Marilyn. I know she'd be pleased."
This year, Hap Roberts was invited to attend Marilyn Remembered's Aug. 5 memorial on the 50th anniversary of her death. Marilyn Remembered is a fan club of sorts established in Los Angeles in 1982.
More than 400 people from all parts of the world attended the memorial service, according to Greg Schreiner, president of the group.
Hap Roberts wrote some words of tribute for his uncle which were read at the Monroe memorial, but he did not attend.
The photographs that exist of Ralph Roberts with Marilyn Monroe inevitably show him standing behind her, giving a neck massage.
Descriptions always mention how tall and handsome he was. Hap Roberts says his uncle was about 6-2.
Authors also describe a man who was a good listener - a Southern gentleman who was tight-lipped and trusted by the famous people he massaged, especially Monroe.
"She was very comfortable with Ralph," Annette Roberts says.
Hap Roberts adds that his uncle purposely kept in the background, not wanting to be considered part of Monroe's entourage.gg
Ralph Roberts' acting career should not be overlooked, nor his military record.
He graduated with honors from Salisbury's Boyden High School and Catawba College. He was attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when he volunteered for the Army before Pearl Harbor and World War II.
After Officers Candidate School, he rose to the rank of major and served as Gen. Joseph Stilwell's assistant in the China-Burma Theater. During the war, he also was one of the first liaison officers from the Pentagon to the White House. In that position, he met President Franklin D. Roosevelt twice.
When Roberts was called back to active duty during the Korean War, he held the reserve rank of lieutenant colonel.
His military obligations behind him, Roberts headed for New York to follow up a love for acting he developed in college and community theater productions in Salisbury.
Through much of his life, he seemed consistently drawn to famous or soon-to-be-famous people. Roberts attended the method acting school of Lee Strasberg with fellow students such as James Dean, Shelley Winters and Marlon Brando.
In 1954, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine behind actress Julie Harris, who was starring in the play, "The Executioner." Roberts was the executioner.
Roberts actually met Marilyn Monroe for the first time at Strasberg's New York apartment in 1955. He wrote in his memoir that she was "one of the most radiantly beautiful creatures" he had ever seen.
"And when I say 'creature,' that was it," Roberts wrote. "An animal. The blue-whiteness one sees sometimes in the stars of a desert night. White-blond hair, clear-white complexion framing violet-blue eyes."
Roberts had parts in long-run Broadway productions such as "Witness for the Prosecution," ''The Lark" and "The Groom Wore Spurs."
His first movie was Stanley Kubrick's "Killer's Kiss."
To supplement his acting income, Roberts trained at the Swedish Massage Institute in New York, and he quickly became known among Broadway actors, film and television stars as the man who could help them relax before or in between performances.
The clients he would have over three decades, mostly in New York, sound like a Who's Who in acting. He massaged, for example, Lauren Bacall, Richard Burton, Natalie Wood, Judy Holliday, Imogene Coca, Milton Berle, Red Buttons and Ellen Burstyn.
And, of course, Marilyn Monroe.
Roberts became Monroe's official masseur in 1959, and for long periods, during her various marriages and romantic entanglements, would give her massages daily.
Roberts and Monroe forged a bond. She called him "Rafe," the British pronunciation for his name.
They connected on the Willa Cather books they read, their spirituality and, believe it or not, Salisbury.
As Roberts massaged her at night, he spoke to her about his hometown and all of its places and people - down to men such as Irvin Oestreicher and Julian Robertson Sr. to the roasted peanuts at the Lash store and the winged statue on West Innes Street.
Together, Roberts and Monroe ran errands, ate meals together, attended parties and took plane trips across the country between New York and California.
Roberts was with Monroe the night she practiced singing "Happy Birthday," the version she would famously croon to Kennedy.
They watched the 1960 Democratic National Convention together when Kennedy won the nomination. They were on the set together every day of "The Misfits," Clark Gable's last movie.
In addition to massaging Monroe between scenes and being her chauffeur, Roberts played the part of an ambulance driver in "The Misfits."
When he was 9, Hap Roberts says, he wrote his uncle in the spring of 1960 after hearing Ralph had the part in "The Misfits." Hap asked whether Ralph could have Monroe autograph a picture to him and also one to his 9-year-old girlfriend, Kay Snider.
A month later, the pictures came in the mail. His said simply, "To Hap, Marilyn Monroe," but she had signed the cover of a Life magazine with her and actor Ives Montand.
"I still have it," Hap Roberts says.
As his nephew recalls, Ralph Roberts drove one of the first Corvettes - a black beauty with red interior. Monroe enjoyed riding with him.
Hap remembers that his grandfather had one of the first televisions in Salisbury, "and we would all gather around and watch Ralph in early Kinescope productions," he said.
His uncle had an apartment in Greenwich Village. Roberts says one night Ralph and another aspiring actor, James Dean, returned to that apartment to listen to records.
When Ralph was acting in plays in New York, Hap and his mother would visit at times.
"I met Imogene Coca in her east-side apartment, Judy Holliday and Dean Martin back stage and years later with my wife, Lee Strasberg and Al Pacino at Lee's apartment in the Dakota, a year before (John) Lennon was killed."
Hap Roberts even received some hand-me-down clothes, such as sportcoats, from Ralph Roberts' clients.
"I grew into Milton Berle's stuff when I was 18," he says.
In those Marilyn years, Hap says, Ralph Roberts would travel home to Salisbury with numerous small checks from the actress he had yet to cash. Once Hap's father, Harold, asked his brother to have Monroe make out one of the checks to him.
The next trip home, Ralph Presented Harold with a $100 check made out to him from Monroe. Harold Roberts carried it around in his wallet for a year, showing everybody. Then one day he cashed it in.
Hap Roberts couldn't believe it.
"He said, 'Hell, it was $100.' "
Hap Roberts cherishes the last years of his uncle's life after he left New York and lived on Parkview Circle close to Hap's office. They would meet every afternoon around 4 p.m., and Ralph would look after Hap's dogs on the weekends.
Every Sunday evening was "Martini Time."
Ralph Roberts would appear at Hap's house at 5 p.m., bringing the Sunday New York Times with him, so Annette and Hap could read it later.
Ralph Roberts had a art deco martini set Monroe had given him, and once he brought it out for their Sunday ritual.
Hap and Annette, who also became close to Ralph, knew not to probe him for his memories of Monroe.
When he did talk about their relationship, they tried not to interrupt, savoring every detail and recognizing how much he loved and respected Monroe.
Ralph Roberts felt great remorse that he wasn't home the night of Monroe's death to answer her call. He lived close to the actress and could have been to her house quickly.
"I do think he probably carried that to his grave," Hap Roberts says.
Something else Monroe had given Ralph was a box full of the chandelier crystals she had collected. Monroe thought the crystals had healing properties.
Ralph Roberts would sometimes hand out the crystals as gifts to friends.
Hap Roberts tells a funny story, too, of another Monroe gift to his uncle. After Ralph's death, Hap was gathering his uncle's clothing together for a donation to Goodwill.
He noticed a woman's Burberry trench coat in the closet, but he figured it was a friend's coat, left at Ralph's house in the past. He placed it with the other things for Goodwill.
"About a month later, I found a list of Marilyn Monroe items," Roberts says. "Sure enough, on the list was 'Burberry trench coat.'
"Well, Marilyn's coat is now protecting some unsuspecting lady in Salisbury from inclement weather."
When Ralph Roberts died April 30, 1999, at his home, he was 82. Hap Roberts said he sat alone in his uncle's house and cried until he couldn't cry any longer.
Roberts noticed the stacks of memoir papers spread out everywhere in the living room. In the den, he also saw the open Willa Cather book that his uncle had been reading.
Up to the end, Ralph Roberts was chasing his friend, Marilyn Monroe.