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Some of the family were found further south in England. The township of Lydiate in Lancashire is one such place. "In the reign of Richard II., this place was possessed by a family of the local name, whose heiress married into the Blackburn family; and an heiress of the latter conveyed Lydiate to Thomas, son of Sir John Ireland, of the Hutt, and Hale. The Irelands continued to hold the property till the latter part of the 17th century." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
For a short period, Warrington, Lancashire was an early family seat of the family. The manor was originally held by the "Boteler family until nearly the end of the sixteenth century, when the Boteler manors and estates were broken up and the Irelands, who purchased the principal share, enfranchised the subordinate manors of the fee. It was purchased by Thomas Ireland, afterwards a knight, in 1597. In 1628, however, his son Thomas Ireland of Bewsey and Margaret his wife, together with George and Robert Ireland, joined in selling the manors of Warrington, Orford, and Arpley, with various lands and rents, to William Booth, eldest son of Sir George Booth, Baronet, of Dunham Massey in Cheshire." [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
'Townships: Scarisbrick', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 265-276. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp265-276 [accessed 21 January 2017].
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Can you believe it? Only six months until you'll be voting for our current president or our next president.
Better question: Can you believe there's still six months to go?
With six months left and without an updated Karl Rove map, we decided to take a look at where each candidate stands in the Electoral College, with help from 270towin.com.
This is what we think is most likely to happen. It doesn't look good for Romney:
As always, the election is going to come down to a handful of swing states. But there's an important thing to note from our analysis of the swing state polls released today: Those are comprehensive and not confined to individual states.
Let's start with Romney: Of the toss-ups, he wins Arizona, Iowa, Missouri and the all-important Florida.
Now Obama: He wins Colorado, New Hampshire and the biggies: North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
This is far from over. Romney has a major chance to make inroads with crucial voting blocs, and he's doing well with Independents and voters in general that trust him more on the economy.
On some states, we're being generous, though there is a limited sample of polling. For example, Romney trails Obama by 3 points in the Real Clear Politics aggregate of polls in Iowa, but the last polls there were in February. Iowa has been split in the last two elections.
But many important swing states, well, swing Obama. In Virginia, he's up an average of 3.2 points since March. In Ohio, he's up a decent amount in every April poll. In North Carolina, he's up just more than 2 points per every poll in April. And RCP doesn't even list Pennsylvania as a toss-up — Obama was up 8 points there in the recent Quinnipiac swing states poll. Florida is also extremely close, and it's a state Romney basically needs to win to have any shot at all in November.
Now, here's how Romney wins, most plausibly. He takes Florida. He takes North Carolina and Virginia back. And he takes Ohio. That can be done, but Romney has work to do to shift all of those states. There is no room for error.
And here's the Obama LANDSLIDE, just for kicks.
What has to worry Romney is that this also has a plausible chance of happening.

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Solon, Croesus and Gaddafi
The final moments of Muammar Gaddafi represent only the latest images of a despot driven to ground. In the past history was occassionally captured on film; now it appears cellphones will mean that not a single moment of human civilization and its various failures will escape capture for posterity's viewing pleasure--or disquiet.
As much as he was apparently capable of great cruelty himself, as I'm sure the residents of Misrata can surely attest, as can apparently any person unfortunate to work in the service of his family, it is still impossible not to feel sorry? disturbed? horrified?, I don't know, something, when watching these videos of Gaddafi's final moments. All the swagger and the power gone, hiding like a rat in a sewer. Just a hunted and trapped animal. His gold (!) revolver taken from his hands. I am not going to link to them. They are all over the interent and you can find them yourself if you are inclined. I watched one with ghoulish fascination. That's enough for me.
At the moment of his apparent execution, Gaddafi may have been the richest man in the world. By some estimates his personal wealth may have totalled in excess of $200 billion. Now the remnants of his family are on the run. His daughters and two sons in exile; one son unaccounted for, the rest dead.
I find myself thinking of the words of Athenian archon Solon to Croesus, king of the Lydians, who perceived himself the happiest of men and encouraged the wisest of Athenians to corroborate that assessment after offering him a walking tour of his great shining wealth and brillant family. Solon cannot agree. The king is miffed. Solon explains:
For thyself, oh! Croesus, I see that thou art wonderfully rich, and art the lord of many nations; but with respect to that whereon thou questionest me, I have no answer to give, until I hear that thou hast closed thy life happily. For assuredly he who possesses great store of riches is no nearer happiness than he who has what suffices for his daily needs, unless it so hap that luck attend upon him, and so he continue in the enjoyment of all his good things to the end of life. For many of the wealthiest men have been unfavoured of fortune, and many whose means were moderate have had excellent luck. Men of the former class excel those of the latter but in two respects; these last excel the former in many. The wealthy man is better able to content his desires, and to bear up against a sudden buffet of calamity. The other has less ability to withstand these evils (from which, however, his good luck keeps him clear), but he enjoys all these following blessings: he is whole of limb, a stranger to disease, free from misfortune, happy in his children, and comely to look upon. If, in addition to all this, he end his life well, he is of a truth the man of whom thou art in search, the man who may rightly be termed happy. Call him, however, until he die, not happy but fortunate....He who unites the greatest number of advantages, and retaining them to the day of his death, then dies peaceably, that man alone, sire, is, in my judgment, entitled to bear the name of 'happy.' But in every matter it behoves us to mark well the end: for oftentimes God gives men a gleam of happiness, and then plunges them into ruin."
Solon departed to continue his retirement tour of the known world and Croesus cursed him for a fool. Soon after, his beloved son was killed in a hunting accident, and Croesus himself doomed to a burning pyre after intemperately launching a pre-emptive attack on his Persian rival Cyrus. His family, wealth and empire in ruins around him, he remembers Solon's wise words and moans the sage's name. Cyrus hears Croesus, halts the execution and demands an explanation. Upon hearing it, he is moved to spare the fallen king, perhaps mindul of his own possible fate, and makes Croesus one of his advisors.
A show of great mercy to a great provocation, but that, alas, is another tale with a different moral. There are a lot of them in Herodotus. Perhaps Gaddafi might have benefitted from thumbing through The Histories from time to time. As the U.S. continues to traipse through history and this part of the world, I frequently find myself hoping that someone in the State Department or the Pentagon is consulting not the latest action report or threat analysis, but an old, well-worn copy of Herodotus.


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Canisius visits Syracuse (13) and Toledo faces Temple (22) at 3 p.m. IUPUI goes to Gonzaga (13), Howard to Purdue (8) and Prairie View A&M to Wisconsin (24), too.
But at 5 p.m., a nation's future rests in the hands of Princeton as they take on No. 1 ranked Duke. You know how all you haters feel when I talk Notre Dame, Cubs and all things Philadelphia? Combined, that doesn't approach how I feel about all things Duke. In fact, Duke = James Harrison's family tree x Neisseria gonorrhoeae/number of full-time closeted scrotes at Sig Nu + a Celine Dion soundtrack.
I could rant for hours about this, but I already lost touch with sanity while devising that formula.


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The Dream: Mark Zuckerberg's Future Plans/
Imagine if he sought out the most talented, but not yet established, filmmakers in this country--the stars of the film schools, people, festival prize-winners, critically acclaimed directors whose movies have not turned a profit. He invites each of these people to his office in California, where he takes them for a nature walk to explain his dream of a colossal experiment in cinematic collaboration, larger than anything the world has previously seen. Not incidentally, he offers each of them a substantial salary to take part. Most will grab the money or be curious; others will be suspicious of his motives or wary of being tied up and say no. It will take awhile to put together the perfect group, but the entrepreneur is patient and won't quit until he's assembled hundreds of people, the best of the best of the best. Of course, sometimes he'll make the wrong choices, but one thing he's known for is his decisiveness about letting people go when necessary.
The ultra-wealthy man hires one of the world's most acclaimed architects alive to design the biggest open office space on the planet, a Xanadu where all these filmmakers can work together. There are no private offices, only a single floor and the owner works in the same gargantuan structure as everybody else.
What would happen if such an abundance of talent were brought together in the same place? Is this clear-eyed passion or mad folly? Would it be an unwieldy mess, a total waste of money and time? Or is there a chance that something wonderful might emanate from this imagination factory? Maybe even something unimaginable and new?
Change "gifted film director" to "visionary hacker" and that is very similar to what Mark Zuckerberg is planning to happen in the Xanadu that Frank Gehry is building for him.
My mind boggles when I visualize Zuckerberg's huge room, several football fields long, chock-a-block with tech geniuses. What will be born when so many fertile imaginations collide? His venture is so outsized it reminds me of Philip Seymour Hoffman's character in Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York," rebuilding New York City inside a warehouse. No matter where Zuckerberg's audacious dream takes him, it's an artist's dream, not a businessman's dream.
While many Facebook-haters cast Zuckerberg in the mold of an arrogant commander like Steve Jobs or a socially uncomfortable nerd like Jesse Eisenberg in "The Social Network," his lack of impressiveness as a speaker belies his undeniable brilliance, and I actually find him kind of sweet. I believe in his sincerity when he says that "Facebook was not originally created to be a company… it was built to accomplish a social mission—to make the world more open and connected."
Zuckerberg is the opposite of Steve Jobs. Jobs didn't want anybody to know what the person in the next office was doing; Zuckerberg doesn't want there to be offices at all, he wants "hangouts" where people can congregate. Jobs was obsessed with secrecy; Zuckerberg wants his staff to work in transparent ways. Jobs didn't want anybody to know about his future plans; Zuckerberg loves to talk about them. For example, if you want to sleuth out what companies Zuckerberg is buying and what people he's hiring, you're going to have to go to this page in Wikipedia where they are all listed. In the past he was more interested in so-called "acqui-hires," people taken on solely for their brains, rather than the startups they created (which sometimes pared down their services or shut down altogether, to the chagrin of their users), but lately he has been buying companies useful to mobile, most famously Instagram, but also Tagtile (mobile-based customer loyalty app), Glancee (location app to connect strangers with common interests), Karma (gifting app, which aided the very successful Facebook Gifts), Face.com (facial recognition) as well as many more acqui-hires.
I am particularly fascinated with the acqui-hires, because they are brought in with no specific ideas for how they might improve Facebook. I also believe that the entrepreneurs who do come in with companies attached are also acqui-hires as it is the nature of tech people to follow up a success by moving on to develop new technologies, just like a successful film director often wants to try out something different from what they're known for.
This venture has been widely reported in the tech media but the mass media hasn't given much notice to it. It's a very big deal and it's sitting right in front of people's noses. The problem with most people is that they tend to judge a company like Apple or Facebook based on what it looks like at the moment they're looking at it. They aren't capable of considering what it might become because they're not Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg themselves. Therefore Apple could bring out the iPods, iPhones and iPads, and everybody is surprised, until one day it isn't Apple Computers anymore, it's just Apple. But why should each one of those things continue be so astonishing when you look at what Jobs had accomplished previously and you knew what a hungry mind he had?
Facebook has over a billion members and is adding a hundred thousand a day. It has changed the lives of many people. What other twenty-something has built a company like this? You have to give Zuckerberg a lot of credit for what he's already achieved. As for where he's going in the future, it's my hypothesis that he hasn't assembled this group merely to make Facebook "better" any more than Apple brought people into the company in the late 90's solely to improve the iMac. I believe that the Facebook of the future will be a much more evolved social network, but also an umbrella under which many technological marvels as yet unknown will flourish. I think the idea of Facebook will be something much more expansive than what people consider it to be today.
There are a handful of technological ideas that will transform our lives in the future and I believe many of them will be born in Zuckerberg's workshop.
Reid Rosefelt coaches filmmakers in how to market their films using Facebook, and lectures frequently on the topic. His credits as a film publicist include "Stranger Than Paradise," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," and "Precious."
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AceShowbiz - Arnold Schwarzenegger was left "shaken" after an engine problem forced his British Airways (BA) flight to make a sharp descent of 1000 feet.
According to The Sun, the 71-year-old "Terminator" actor was returning home to Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon, November 06, when the flight from Heathrow Airport was forced to make a sudden descent of more than a thousand feet off the west coast of Scotland.
BA quickly declared the issue an "emergency" and the flight returned to Heathrow where passengers, including the former Governor of California, had to circle over the capital for an hour to use up the fuel before it was given the all clear to safely land.
The Sun reports that the action star was "shaken but impressed with the professional BA crew."
Arnie and other passengers then stayed overnight at hotels before heading back to the west coast of America on Wednesday.
"We're sorry for the delay to our customers' travel plans," BA said in a statement. "The flight is returning to Heathrow due to a minor technical issue. Safety is always our very highest priority and our highly trained flight crew will always err on the side of caution."
On Monday, the "Twins" star was pictured in the British capital enjoying a night out at celebrity haunt Annabel's, and he also shared a photo on Instagram of his early Christmas shopping haul.
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Forward Luke Adam and goaltender Matt Hackett signed one-year contracts with the Buffalo Sabres, the team announced Tuesday.
Adam, 23, appeared in four games with the Sabres last season, scoring one goal. In addition, the St. John's, Newfoundland, native appeared in 67 games for the Rochester Americans of the American League, collecting 15 goals and 22 assists. Over the last three seasons, Adam appeared in 75 NHL games, picking up 25 points (14-11).
Adam was selected by the Sabres in the second round (44th overall) of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
Hackett appeared in three regular-season games with Rochester last season after being acquired in a trade with the Minnesota Wild. The London, Ont., native compiled a 22-20-3 record with a 2.59 goals-against average last sseason in the AHL with Houston and Rochester. Overall, Hackett has appeared in 13 NHL games, including one last season (0-1-0). Hackett is 3-7-0 with a 2.64 GAA in his NHL career.
The nephew of former NHL goalie Jeff Hackett was selected by Minnesota in the third round (77th overall) of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
Four Sabres, including both goalies, were invited to their country's evaluation camp for the Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia. Ryan Miller was one of five goalies invited by Hockey USA and the only Buffalo player picked to try out for Team USA, which did invite Buffalo natives Brooks Orpik, a Pittsburgh defenseman, and Patrick Kane, a Chicago winger.
Sweden invited goalie Jhonas Enroth and defenseman Henrik Tallinder. Finland invited winger Ville Leino.
Russia, the other nation to announce its pre-Olympic roster, didn't invite any current Sabres but it did pick defenseman Denis Denisov, who was drafted by Buffalo in the fifth round in 2000 but never came to North America.
Jagr joins Devils
NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils replaced their best player with one of the NHL's greatest of all time.
Less than two weeks after the stunning return of Ilya Kovalchuk to Russia, the Devils signed two-time Stanley Cup winner and former NHL MVP Jaromir Jagr to a one-year, $2 million contract on Tuesday. He reportedly can earn another $2 million in bonuses.
Jagr is 41 and in the twilight of his career, but he gives the Devils a proven scorer who can play on the power play.
"I watched him play the last couple of years and I have never seen someone work so hard," GM Lou Lamoriello said in a phone interview with the Associated Press. Jagr split last season with Dallas and Boston, scoring a combined 16 goals and 19 assists in 45 games. The NHL's active leading scorer added 10 assists in helping the Bruins reach the Stanley Cup final, but he did not score a postseason goal.


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ROCKLEDGE, FL - The Health First Diagnostic Center at the Viera Hospital Medical Plaza has been awarded its first three-year term of Accreditation in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanning by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
The ACR Gold Seal of Accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety and is awarded only to facilities meeting ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards after a peer-review evaluation by Board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. Image quality, personnel qualifications, adequacy of facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs are assessed.
The ACR is a national professional organization serving more than 34,000 Diagnostic/Interventional Radiologists, Radiation Oncologists, Nuclear Medicine physicians, and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice of medical imaging and radiation oncology and the delivery of comprehensive healthcare services.
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Witch Agatha solves the age-old culinary dilemma of the spoon falling into the pot. And she doubles as a steam releaser too – multi-skilled this witch!
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In this ode to one of his favourite foods – the toasted sandwich – chef Darren Purchese turns the dial up to 10 with his unique take on the guiltiest foodie pleasure. From pimped-out classics through to dessert toasties, his 50 masterful creations will have you forgetting everything you thought you knew about the humble toastie. Reinvent your sandwich game with this pro's guide.
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Bulgarian feta, onion, lemon and mint toastie in egg batter
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Chef Darren's tip: soft-style bread like brioche is essential to soak up the eggy batter.
8 slices brioche loaf
150g Bulgarian feta, crumbled
175g mature cheddar, grated
10 fresh mint leaves, finely shredded
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
Freshly ground black pepper
160g caramelised onions
180g unsalted butter
Chive egg batter
3 eggs
150ml full-cream milk
40g grated Parmigiano Reggiano
4 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
Freshly ground black pepper
Preheat oven to 180°C. For the chive egg batter, mix all ingredients together in a bowl.
Mix feta and cheddar together in a bowl, add mint, lemon and pepper. Evenly distribute the cheese mix between four slices of brioche, pushing the filling to the edges. Place the caramelised onion on top of the cheese. Top with the remaining brioche slices and gently press down.
Heat a non-stick fry pan over medium heat, add half the butter and melt. Briefly dip two of the sandwiches in the egg batter on both sides. Place sandwiches in the pan and cook for four minutes. Use spatula to flip over and cook for another four minutes. Transfer sandwiches to a baking paper lined baking tray. Repeat the steps for the remaining two sandwiches.
Place tray in oven and cook sandwiches for six minutes. Remove from oven and leave them to sit for a minute before cutting in half. Serve immediately.
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There is a pox-like disease on the loose. But it is very much unlike any infectious disease seen before it.
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The first step in suppressing the spread of any virulent disease is to locate patient zero.
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A bright and ongoing success story in the Pagan community has been the utilization of crowd-funding sites like IndieGoGo and Kickstarter to collectively raise funds for important projects. Starhawk raised over $75,000 dollars to help fund a pitch-reel in order get a feature film based on her book "The Fifth Sacred Thing" made. Peter Dybing helped raise $30,000 dollars for Doctors Without Borders in the wake of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. Pagan singer-songwriter SJ Tucker was amazed when a Kickstarter campaign for Tricky Pixie's European tour more than doubled their initial goal in a matter of hours (and kept on growing). In addition, several smaller initiatives have managed to collectively raise thousands for Pagan projects: The readers of The Wild Hunt funded the proposed budget of this site for a year, Chicago-based Pagan/magical performance troupe Terra Mysterium raised funds for their new show "The Alembic,"and the Goddess community funded a documentary film in honor of Merlin Stone.
Crowdfunding sites allow an easy mechanism for fundraising in communities that may have social networks and organizations, but not the robust money-raising infrastructure of already-established mainstream institutions. This is a place modern Paganism is in today, and more and more of us are turning to these sites as a solution to our "money problem." There are hundreds of thousands of Pagans out there, millions around the world, and they desire to see our projects and initiatives advance just as much as any other faith community. So here are some Pagan Fundraising Initiatives that you might want to contribute to.
Days Left in Parliament Fundraiser: There are only four days left in an urgent campaign to save the Parliament of the World's Religions as it faces an unexpected one-time sudden financial crisis. I've written about this campaign before, and why Pagans should be invested in it, but now the deadline is looming and Pagan supporters are rallying to make sure this interfaith resource survives.
"We have 4 days left. Over the last two weeks, thanks to the generosity of many of you, the global Pagan community has raised $13,500 to help carry the Council for the Parliament of the World's Religions (CPWR) into the future and save it from immediate closure! For more than 20 years, the Parliament has welcomed and supported the global Pagan movement. If you want to see our work with the Parliament continue, we need your support NOW […] Here's the good news: with the help of Pagans, $230,000 has been raised. The Parliament needs to raise $45,000 more — but we have only 4 days to do it."
If you want to donate as part of the Pagan community, you can do so here. As I've said before, ensuring that the Parliament of the World's Religions survives ultimately serves our needs, and we should strive to see that it does. I have no doubt that the global interfaith community will rally in time to save the Parliament, and I would like to make sure that Pagan involvement in this organization's survival is a dominant theme.
Hexenfest 2013: In 2012 Sharon Knight and Winter of the band Pandemonaeon, along with fashion designer Anaar, held the very first Hexenfest, an attempt to build an arts festival in the Bay Area of California that appeals to fans of mythic music and dance. This year, the event will be held in Alameda, California, featuring performances from Arcane Dimension and Pandemonaeon, dance performances from Morpheus Ravenna and Anaar, a fashion show, and DJing by DJ Skellington. However, since this is a new event still establishing itself, they need community support to make it happen. So they are throwing a quick IndieGoGo campaign to cover expenses beforehand.
"We are Sharon Knight, Winter, and Anaar. Two musicians and a fashion designer/ belly dancer inspired by myth, magick, and the realms of faerie. All three of us tour the country as performing artists. We found it strange that, although the Bay Area has a thriving Pagan community, it has produced relatively few music or art festivals. So we decided to create one, right here in our home town. Hexenfest is an annual festival of music, art and dance with roots in the Pagan community. At Hexenfest, you'll find talented artists whose work reflects themes based in myth, legend, folkloric tradition, earth spirituality, fairytale and the like. We're drawn to the darkly exotic—the Forbidden Forest as opposed to the Enchanted Wood. "
Their goals are relatively modest, and you can get tickets and VIP treatment for donating. While there are many Pagan events that feature musical acts, and cultural events that are certainly Pagan-friendly, there are relatively few Pagan events that solely concentrate on music and art that originates from within our interconnected communities. This is an excellent opportunity for folks in the Bay Area to build something of lasting value. You can find out more at the event's official Facebook page, or simply head to their IndieGoGo campaign site.
Houston Pagan Conference: Another regional-focused fundraiser comes from Texas where the Houston-based group Blackberry Circle are hoping to throw a Pagan conference "to not only bring this community together but to also bring forth ideas and discussions on various aspects of faith and practice."
"This 2013 Pagan Conference is for those interested in the pagan approach to magic as an integral path to the divine. This will be the first pagan conference in the Gulf Coast area in over 30 years and is sponsored by Blackberry Circle, an eclectic Wiccan teaching coven located in Southeast Texas. Please donate to help ensure this conference is not only a success this year, but for years to come."
For those who've wanted a Pagan conference experience like PantheaCon, ConVocation, or PaganiCon but have trouble leaving their geographic region, this seems like a good development for the Gulf Coast region. The planned event is to be held in May, further details are pending, though the organizers encourage people with questions to contact them. You can find the campaign at GoFundMe, where they hope to raise $3,500.
In Other Pagan Fundraising Initiatives News:
- The Correllian-Nativist Tradition has successfully raised over $2000 dollars to fund an interfaith lending library in Cape Town, South Africa. A project that they say will "provide a safe and nurturing environment where all seekers can explore books with a wide variety of topics and get hands on experience utilizing tools which can be checked out and used in the comfort of one's home at no cost." Congratulations!
- The Temple of Witchcraft campaign to raise funds for the improvement of their new temple headquarters continues apace, but they still need $26,000 to reach their goal, and they have 11 days to reach it. The Temple has been reaching out to their network on Facebook, in addition to other resources, as the deadline approaches. If you want to see more Witchcraft resources in New Hampshire, this is the time to make it happen.
- At the beginning of April, Saumya Arya Haas at The Huffington Post wrote in support of Drew Jacob's successful "Magic to the People" campaign, saying that it "puts magic out of reach for the very people who need it the most." Quote: "This effectively treats magic as a social service — something I've never seen before. Magic to the People isn't out to convince anyone that magic is real, and it's not intended to replace qualified medical or psychiatric guidance. It's for those who already believe."
- Pagan author Trish Telesco's campaign to raise funds after her husband was diagnosed with an unexpected tumor on his brain stem continues, so far nearly $2000 dollars has been raised of their $10,000 goal. Check the GoFundMe site for updates.
Those are the highlighted campaigns for this edition. Please send me word of your crowdfunding campaigns, and I may spotlight them on a future edition of this ongoing feature. Let's all work together to promote important projects within our community, and destroy the notion that we can't or won't fund projects that are important to us. If you can't donate, the best way to help is to share these campaigns to your social networks, exposing them to as many people as possible. Thanks for reading, and thank you for supporting Pagan community!


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The first of Go RVing's two national RV sweepstakes kicked off Thursday (March 1) when the Great American Country Network (GAC) launches "The Ultimate Country Music RV Giveaway."
The sweepstakes runs through April 16 with the grand prize winner being awarded a 2012 Lance ultra-light 1685 travel trailer along with two VIP tickets and backstage access to the Country Music Association (CMA) Festival in Nashville this June. Lance Camper was selected in a lottery of RVIA members to provide the vehicle as the sweepstakes prize.
GACTV.com is promoting the sweepstakes as well as featuring Go RVing interactive banner ads and information about RVing, including favorite Roadworthy Recipes. GACTV will be tweeting about the sweepstakes and running live feeds of the Go RVing Twitter posts on GACTV.com.
"The Ultimate Country Music RV Giveaway" is a key element of Go RVing's integrated media buy on GAC. In addition to Go RVing commercials now airing on GAC music and lifestyle programming, GAC and Go RVing teamed to produce two 60-second RV travel vignettes featuring country recording artist Chuck Wicks using a Lance travel trailer. In one, Wicks enjoys a weekend getaway with friends while he takes a hunting trip with his father in the other. The vignettes will begin airing March 19 on GAC.
Go RVing will also have a branded On-The-Road-Guide to Summer Hot Spots special section in the June People Country magazine, available on newsstands nationwide. With a country music theme, the six-page custom section will promote RV travel.


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When a 19-stroke exchange ended with Andy Murray's Wimbledon opponent slapping a forehand into the net, thousands of Centre Court spectators rose in unison.
They applauded Murray's first service break. They screamed for joy. They waved their Union Jacks and Scottish flags. It was only a third-round match, merely 12 minutes and three games old, yet to some that tiny early edge seemed massively meaningful.
So imagine the reaction, louder and livelier, when the second-seeded Murray finished off his 6-2, 6-4, 7-5 victory over 32nd-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain less than two hours later Friday to advance to Week 2. And then, for a moment, try to fathom what would happen if Murray ever were to win the final point of The Championships, as the Grand Slam tournament is known around here, and become the first British man in 77 years to hoist the trophy.
"You need to be professional enough to not let that stuff bother you and just concentrate on each match," said Murray, who has won 20 of his past 21 contests on grass, including runs to last year's final at the All England Club and a London Olympics gold medal. "I did a good job of that today. I played well. My best match of the tournament, so far."
The locals' hopes that Murray will follow up his 2012 U.S. Open victory with another major title, this time at Wimbledon, only increased in the aftermath of surprisingly early losses this week by seven-time champion Roger Federer, two-time winner Rafael Nadal and two-time semifinalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
All were seeded in the top six, and all were on Murray's half of the draw. Their departures mean the most daunting obstacle in Murray's path — until a potential final against No. 1-ranked Novak Djokovic, anyway — might very well be surging expectations.
"There's a lot more pressure on me now, with them being out," Murray acknowledged after compiling 40 winners and only 14 unforced errors against Robredo, taking advantage of the zero-wind conditions under the closed retractable roof.
"I mean, I don't read the papers and stuff. But there are papers in the locker room," Murray continued with a chuckle, "so you see some of the headlines and stuff. It's not that helpful."
Nadal's stunning first-round exit, for example, was viewed mainly through the prism of how that result helped Murray, who could have faced the 12-time major champion in the semifinals. "Adios Rafa. Hello Andy. Wimbledon dreams again," read a headline in The Times of London. The Daily Mail's take: "Great start for Andy — Rafa's out."
All in all, then, Friday was a perfectly British day, and not simply because Murray won his third straight-set match in a row. The lone other remaining singles player from the host country, 19-year-old Laura Robson, made her way into the third round at Wimbledon for the first time, defeating 117th-ranked qualifier Mariana Duque-Marino of Colombia, 6-4, 6-1.
That match, like Murray's, was played with the Centre Court covered because of rain that played havoc with the schedule, and Robson heard her share of rowdy support, too. She also was serenaded with the "Awwwwwww" that often accompanies a mistake by a player the crowd really cares about.
"I love when people get involved," Robson said. "Sometimes they do, like, a massive groan if I hit a double-fault, but I'm doing it as well. So, yeah, we're just living it together."
A few hours after Robson's match ended, putting her in Wimbledon's third round for the first time, a bookmaker sent out a release noting that her odds of winning the tournament went from 80-1 to 33-1.
Robson eliminated 10th-seeded Maria Kirilenko in the first round, part of a wild first week. All told, four top-10 men (each on Murray's half, coincidentally) and six top-10 women lost already, equaling the worst performance by the highest seeds at any Grand Slam tournament in the 45-year history of the Open era.
Speaking about the anyone-can-beat-anyone feel, 37th-ranked Jurgen Melzer of Austria said: "There has been so much talk about it, you cannot ignore it."
He did manage to put a stop to it, however, at least as far as Sergiy Stakhovsky was concerned. Two days after serving-and-volleying his way past defending champion Federer, Stakhovsky played like a guy ranked 116th, losing, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, to Melzer.
"I think," Stakhovsky said, "I just played stupid."
It's a common sight at major tournaments: An unknown player knocks out a big name, then fails to follow it up with another victory.
The same thing happened to 66th-ranked Eugenie Bouchard of Canada, who went from beating 12th-seeded Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 French Open titlist, on Wednesday to losing to No. 19 Carla Suarez Navarro, 7-5, 6-2, on Friday. And 131st-ranked qualifier Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal, who eliminated four-time major champion Maria Sharapova in the second round, then bowed out, 7-5, 6-2, against 104th-ranked Karin Knapp of Italy in the third.
"That was a huge win for me," Larcher de Brito said. "But it was tough for me to hang in there today."


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Teacher Dave Basulto knows first hand what shrinking budgets can mean to school arts programs. His solution? Pair an inexpensive iPad mini with the iOgrapher (funding through April 13), a mounting system he's developed for Apple's tiny tablet.
The iOgrapher is a rigid plastic molding sporting wide, loopy handles intended to facilitate steadier operation of your device. Three accessory shoes, allowing you to attach equipment like lights or microphones, sit on the upper ridge. An attachment point placed underneath the iOgrapher enables you to mount the assemblage on various tripods, stands, and dollies. And a 37mm lens mount will let you add different lenses.
Basulto plans to lunach a companion site, iOgrapherU.com, alongside the mount with tutorials for both the iPad and his creation, as well as related apps, workflow techniques, editing, and other information helpful for those engaged in audio/visual media production. Only those who've purchased an iOgrapher or one of Basulto's other planned products will be granted access.
As of this writing, a scant few $40 early bird specials remained. This or the $50 option will net you a black iOgrapher iPad Mini Mount (planned to ship in June) and a lifetime membership to the website. Spendier options include mountable extras and white support cases.
Confidence level
Basulto teaches media arts and animation at the high school level, and has been maintaining his filmmaking website for more than seven years. He has produced several films and TV shows. Basulto has a functioning prototype, but no molds have been created. Perhaps the biggest impediment will be the funding itself--with a little more than a week to go, the project is a about one-third of the way to its very modest goal of $15,000.


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Team Fortress 2's long awaited Mann vs. Machine update launched yesterday and so far it's been a mixed bag. As Mike Fahey mentioned earlier today, matchmaking is an unplayable mess, due to the sheer demand and a lack of community servers. Hopefully that will be resolved in the coming days, but in the meantime you can still play the mode directly, using the server list.
And that's exactly what I did!
The video above is from the last wave of a match I played earlier today. As you can see, they've significantly revamped the system to include perks. Near the end, my Engineer's turret was a monster.
Oh, and a word of advice: Beware those sentry busters. They pack a wallop.
P.S. I am aware that I suck.
P.P.S. In retrospect, Engineer was a poor choice for video.


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Donald Luskin doesn't like us ... or the truth
National Review Online contributing editor Donald Luskin wrote on May 5, "So far the work from Media Matters isn't very impressive. But what should we expect when the Left is put in charge of a quest for truth?" Luskin then goes on to attack our report "Backdating the Recession," in which we point out that conservatives have been falsely claiming that George W. Bush "inherited a recession" from President Bill Clinton.
Luskin takes Media Matters for America to task, writing:
In fact, NBER has been on the verge of changing the recession's start date for this very reason. According to the Washington Post earlier this year,
NBER President Martin Feldstein said, 'It is clear that the revised data have made our original March date for the start of the recession much too late,' but he did not offer a different date. 'We are still waiting for additional monthly data before making a final judgment,' said Feldstein, a Harvard University economist. 'Until we have the additional data, we cannot make a decision.'
Media Matters chooses not to mention this fact.
Luskin is right: We didn't mention it, for four reasons:
It doesn't matter if, at some point in the future, NBER changes its mind about when the recession began: At the time that Hannity & Co asserted that Bush "inherited a recession," that claim was contradicted by NBER's findings.
NBER isn't "on the verge" of changing the recession's start date, as Luskin falsely claimed. The article he cited is more than three months old. How "on the verge" can they be if they've gone three months without taking action?
Luskin apparently stopped reading The Washington Post back in January -- otherwise, he'd know that the paper reported on March 5, "NBER is examining revised economic statistics to see if the official date should be moved earlier, but spokeswoman Donna Zerwitz said there is 'nothing imminent.'"
Feldstein -- who, as we noted, was a Bush campaign adviser -- says NBER can't make a decision without further information. That means that, without further information, their previous decision stands. That means that, according to NBER, the recession began in March 2001. This isn't complicated stuff, is it?


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WALTHAM, Mass.- On Sunday December 2nd the Men's and Women's hosted the Brandeis Invitational as the men went 1-3 and the women went 2-3 on the afternoon.
On the men's side, Brandeis had a tough afternoon losing two 14-13 decisions to North Carolina and Yale while also falling to St. John's 21-6 before defeating Johns Hopkins in their final match of the tournament 17-10. The saber squad was the Judges' most successful of the afternoon going 3-1 as they won 6-3 against North Carolina, Yale, and Johns Hopkins before narrowly bowing to St. John's 5-4.
Individually, sophomore Adam Mandel (White Plains, N.Y/ Masters School) had an excellent day for the saber squad going 7-1 and not losing until his final match by a 5-4 score. Classmate Noah Berman (Palo Alto, Calif./ Palo Alto) led the foil squad with a good afternoon as he also earned seven wins including going 3-0 against Johns Hopkins . Seniors Harry Kaufer (Newton, Mass./ Newton South) and Mike Zook (Chicago, Ill./Univ. of Chicago Lab School) led the epee squad with four wins apiece while Kaufer earned the squad's only win against a tough St. John's squad.
On the women's side, Brandeis had a rough start to the day falling to North Carolina (16-11), Cornell (18-9), and St. John's (21-6) before rebounding to win their final two matches against Yale (14-13) and Johns Hopkins (15-12). The saber squad came up with the most crucial win of the day defeating Yale 6-3 to put the Judges on their way to the 14-13 victory while the epee squad had Brandeis' most lopsided win of the day defeating Johns Hopkins 7-2.
Individually, rookie Caroline Mattos (Cumberland, R.I./ LaSalle Acad.) was the top performer as a member of the foil squad going 11-4 including getting the squad's only two wins against Cornell and St. John's and going undefeated against North Carolina and Johns Hopkins. Seniors Zoe Messinger (Short Hills, N.J./ Millburn) and Emmily Smith (Stony Brook, N.Y./ Ward-Melville) led the saber squad with nine and eight wins respectively while rookie Sonya Glickman led the epee squad with six wins including a 3-0 performance against Johns Hopkins.
The men's team continues their season on January 26th at the second Northeast Fencing Conference meet of the year while the women face off against Wellesley at home on January 23rd.


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Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown serves as the backdrop for contestants on an upcoming episode of Lifetime's Project Runway.
The reality show, hosted by model Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, focuses on fashion design with contestants competing against each other to create the best clothes.
Designs are then judged, and one or more designers are eliminated each week.
In the episode airing Thursday, Sept. 14, contestants visit and draw inspiration from Lyndhurst for their fashion challenge.
Lyndhurst, for those who haven't visited, is one of America's finest Gothic Revival mansions. It was designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis and features a park-like landscape as well as a comprehensive collection of original decorative arts.
Of particular note, a fashion exhibition, "Defying Labels; New Roles, New Clothes" which Project Runway Co-Host Tim Gunn and the cast visited while filming. The exhibit tracks the changes in women's wardrobes as their roles in society changed from the 1880s through the 1940s. (The exhibit ends Monday, Sept. 25.)
"The cast and crew of Project Runway were a pleasure to work with," said Howard A. Zar, Lyndhurst's executive director.
"For both the contestants and the celebrity judges, it was really interesting for them to be able to experience an estate like Lyndhurst up close and without other visitors. They were really thrilled to be here as it's not something most of them were used to seeing."
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Wasps head coach Shaun Edwards has reiterated his commitment to the Aviva Premiership club after denying reports that he is on the brink of a return to rugby league.
Edwards, who recently signed a new two-year contract with the club, has been linked with a return to rugby league side Wigan Warriors where he made 467 appearances for the club. But the Wasps coach has dismissed the speculation and insisted he is committed to turning round the fortunes of the Premiership side following a disappointing season in which they finished ninth in the table this season and were knocked out of the Heineken Cup at the group stages.
"I am fully committed to Wasps and I am more determined than ever to get us back into play-off contention next season," Edwards said. "With the signings we have made we feel we have strengthened in the right positions and next season will be a fresh start."
Reports suggested that Edwards, 44, was ready to end his association with Wasps and Wales, where he is assistant coach to Warren Gatland, with Phil Greening replacing him as head coach at the Premiership club and Dean Ryan coming in as the new director of rugby.
Wasps' poor showing domestically and in Europe cost Tony Hanks his position of director of rugby earlier in the season but the club confirmed in a statement that no decision has yet been taken concerning the vacant position.
Edwards had already confirmed that he would see out his contract with Wales which lasts until the end of the Rugby World Cup in October.
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Dr. Amy necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 91 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Amy Myers, MD Austin UltraHealth
I am an MD who is starting a concierge functional medicine (similar to integrative or alternative medicine but more science based - looking for the root of illness rather than simply treating the disease).
The practice will start off as a concierge service and then when the patient base is established will open a clinic. so logo needs to be versatile for concierge medicine and then later clinic.
Would like to brand my name Amy Myers, MD as well as Austin Ultra-Health. The principles of the clinic are the exact same as Dr. Mark Hyman with The Ultrawellness Clinic in Lenox MA.
A doctor who listens to you, comes to you and creates a health plan specifically for you.
Downtown and Westlake (high income markets). Both young and old. Men and woman. for the business exec, to retired wealthy to house wives.
People with chronic disease who are fed-up with the run around of traditional medicine - doctors not listing to them and only treating the symptoms. I will listen and look for the root cause of the problem or imbalance and fix that and symptoms will go away. also people who are health and want to prevent disease and be healthier - achieve UltraHealth.
There are a few people doing functional medicine in Austin but not to the degree I would like to do it. No one is doing concierge functional medicine.
a few websites i like for logos
http://www.ultrawellness.com - simple - maybe too simple
http://christensencenter.com/ - don't like logo per say but the it's simple and can be enlarged for the background of the website.
http://holisticfamilymed.com/ - cute how they use leaves on website
i was thinking something of either interconnected circles or a layered circle. with colors - will up load what i have so far
or just a a simple that represents health and healing.
and similar font.
** took out hyphen from UltraHealth
can you see the circles and font and colors posted in the jpg and png photos?
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TORONTO - Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne was forced to shift from touting her campaign policies to defending her party's vetting process on Tuesday, after the opposition parties exposed what they called "sexist" social media posts by three Liberal candidates.
Questions about the posts — which were pointed out to the media by either the Progressive Conservatives or the NDP — dominated the Liberal leader's media availability after she spoke to a business audience in Toronto.
Wynne, who only knew of two "inappropriate" posts, said she would do all she could to ensure her party put up candidates worthy of public office.
"As the first female premier (in Ontario) I've spent my life dealing with, from time to time, inappropriateness in society," Wynne said.
"I will do everything in my power to make sure that all of our candidates and all of our campaigners are respectful of each other and of everyone in our society."
The Tories were the first to dig up a questionable Facebook post by a Liberal candidate over the weekend.
The January post by Ottawa-area candidate Jack Uppal joked about the differences between men and women and included lines about women being unable to find solutions to problems.
Wynne said on Sunday that she had accepted Uppal's apology and that he had taken the remarks down.
The premier had a similar response Monday to questions about a post by Niagara West-Glanbrook candidate David Mossey, which was also highlighted by the Tories.
The post was from March last year and showed two photographs of women's bikini-clad behinds with the words "no squats" and "squats" above them, in reference to the exercise move.
Wynne said Mossey has acknowledged that it was an inappropriate picture, taken down the post and apologized.
The premier was forced to confront the issue yet again on Tuesday when she was questioned about a Twitter post by London-area candidate Nick Steinburg — this time pointed out by the NDP — in which he made a reference to "mackin" or suggestively flirting with ladies.
While Wynne said she hadn't seen the post, she promised that "corrective action" will be taken against any comments that deserve it.
"If there are inappropriate comments they need to be dealt with no matter what party the person is from," Wynne said.
"I think it's a bit of a cautionary note for everyone, not just for political candidates...that what you say, what you put out in the social media universe hangs out there for a very long time and you need to make sure that you're as respectful to people on social media as you would be face to face."
All three candidates are still running for office amid calls from the opposition parties for Wynne to fire them.
NDP party officials also suggested that Steinburg's tweet in particular was "making light of sexually harassing ladies" and showed that the Liberals were "lowering their standards."
NDP leader Andrea Horwath added that the issues Wynne was facing with her candidates was something the Liberals will have to "figure out themselves."
"I would hope that people keep a respectful attitude when we talk about each other as human beings," she said.
Meanwhile, the Liberal party said Steinburg's tweet had nothing to do with sexual harassment and suggested the opposition parties were simply trying to create a distraction from policy being debated on the campaign trail.
"The NDP wants to change the channel from the fact that they rejected our progressive budget without having any plan of their own," said Liberal campaign spokeswoman Rebecca MacKenzie.
"The PCs want to change the channel too — from all the criticism over their (job) cuts."
Wynne certainly tried to keep the focus on Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak's plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs as she pitched her own plan for the province to a business audience at the Bloomberg Canada Economic Summit earlier on Tuesday.
"We have a path to balance," she said of her government's plan to slay Ontario's $12.5-billion deficit by 2017-2018.
"Unlike what Tim Hudak is going to do, we are not going to do that by cutting and slashing the social fabric of the province," Wynne said.
"It's very clear, the differences between what Tim Hudak is proposing and what we have laid out in our plan."
Hudak, who has promised to eliminate the deficit a year earlier than the Liberals if his party is elected, announced Tuesday his party would cut personal income taxes after the budget is balanced.
The Tories said they would phase in a 10 per cent cut over four years — starting in their second mandate — but could do it sooner if they have more money.
It's part of their plan to create a million private sector jobs in Ontario over eight years. The plan also includes cutting corporate taxes by 30 per cent, ending subsidies for green energy and opening up apprenticeships to more young people.
Meanwhile, the NDP spent Tuesday slamming the Liberals over auto insurance rates, saying Wynne's government has sided with insurance companies in recent years.
"The Liberals are more interested in keeping the insurance companies happy than they are in bringing down rates for drivers," Horwath said while campaigning in Toronto's east end.
"People are not seeing a significant reduction in their auto insurance rates. Some people are seeing their rates go up."
Horwath said the Liberals pledged in the 2013 budget to cut rates by 15 per cent but that hasn't happened because they didn't have the political will to follow through.
An NDP government would be serious about seeing rates come down by an "achievable" 15 per cent, she said, although it wasn't immediately clear how the New Democrats would reach that target.
Ontario heads to the polls on June 12.
— with files from Maria Babbage and Colin Perkel.
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Beyoncé's Super Bowl Halftime Set
In 2003, Grammy Award winner Beyoncé told Reuters that she had come to dislike the word bootylicious, the title of the Destiny's Child hit from the group's 2001 album Survivor.
But Beyoncé put her differences aside Sunday night when performing the halftime set at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. "Bootylicious" is the first song she performed during her Destiny's Child reunion with Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.
"To be honest, I hate the word," she told Reuters in 2003. "I wrote it because I was gaining weight, and I felt like for all the people that feel like I do right now … But now everywhere I go, everybody is saying, 'booty-this' and 'booty-thyat' and it's really irritating."
More than 10 years since the release of the song, the trio looked even better. In the "Bootylicious" video, they were dressed in bright colors and Beyoncé even wore a gold tooth. Sunday night, they each sizzled with form fitting leather leotards.
Seven minutes into Beyoncé's pyrotechnic heavy, dance-filled routine, Destiny's Child members Rowland and Williams emerged, propelled from below the stage, debunking rumors that their reunion would not happen.
Rowland and Williams had a commanding presence on stage with Beyoncé.
Surprisingly, they only sang two Destiny's Child songs, "Bootylicious" and "Independent Women," shattering talk of a performance of "Nuclear," their subpar new song from their recently released album Love Songs.
Rowland and Williams did help Beyoncé perform her hit "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)," each snagging solo parts, in traditional Destiny's Child style.
Otherwise, aside from Beyoncé's introduction on a pillar and the impressive, flame-traced silhouette in her likeness, her Pepsi-sponsored set is best described as a teaser clip of her past tours and award show performances.
The opening song "Crazy In Love" capitalized on her trademark, runway walk. For "End Of Time" she highlighted various sections of her all female band, and for "Baby Boy," she revisited the concept of her 2011 Billboard Music Awards performance where she danced in synch with projections on a screen behind her.
After "Single Ladies," she kneeled at the edge of the stage to sing "Halo" to her audience, as the high-powered stage fans blew her hair.
While it was entertaining, it didn't live up to all of the lead up hype, $50 million deal with Pepsi, post-inauguration lip synch backlash, rehearsal footage previews or press conference a cappella.
It would have been great to see Jay-Z join her on stage for one of their songs.
In the week leading up to the Super Bowl performance, Beyoncé offered some insight into what she would deliver on stage.
Beyoncé made it clear that she had every intention to sing without a backing track as she did at President Barack Obama's inauguration.
"I will absolutely be singing live," she said during her Super Bowl press conference Thursday. "I am well rehearsed and will absolutely be singing life. This is what I was born to do. What I was born for."
Though Beyoncé was hesitant to confirm that Destiny's Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams would be joining her on stage for a reunion, she did talk about recently recording together the song "Nuclear" for the group's album, Love Songs, that was released Tuesday.
"It was so exciting to hear us together again," she said. "I just kinda dropped on the floor and kinda felt like a little teenager again when I heard us harmonize. There's nothing like our connection and the sisterhood we have, so it's always such a pleasure to be around them professionally and personally."
Beyoncé will premiere her documentary, Life Is But A Dream, on HBO on February 16.


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This is the second in our Top 13 of 2013 series. Every day for the rest of 2013, we will count down the Top 13 moments/games of the year, with each program represented. With three Little East Conference Titles, several huge upsets over nationally ranked teams and some dramatic finishes-2013 was another step forward for UMass Boston Athletics.
#13: Softball Clinches Playoff Spot With Senior Day Win Over Rhode Island College (April 27)
Women's Basketball enjoyed one of the best seasons in program-history during their 2012-13 campaigns, capped off by their second-straight Little East Conference Tournament appearance and the third-most wins in program-history (14-12).
The season was comprised of a pair of regular season tournament titles, the first sweep of conference rival Keene State College in program history and several comeback wins; but no accomplishment was more impressive than the team's comeback win over UMass Dartmouth.
The Corsairs, the eventual Little East Conference Tournament runner-ups, sported a roster full of veterans, including LEC Player of the Year Colleen Moriarty and held a 38-21 all-time advantage and five-game winning streak over UMB coming into the contest.
So when the Corsairs grabbed a 39-26 advantage with 2:42 to play in the first half at the Clark Athletic Center, things looked grim for Courtney Mattingly's squad.
But the Beacons slowly began to chip away at the deficit, including a 7-0 run to end the half, capped off by a big 3-pointer from Lauren Perra (Taunton, Mass.).
Perra added five more points in the first two minutes out of the break, setting up a back-and-forth second half, in which neither team could wrestle control of the game for long.
Forward Kirsten Morrison (North Reading, Mass.) gave the Beacons their first tie at 11:05 of the second half. It would be one of seven ties and six lead changes in the game.
UMass Dartmouth wouldn't go down easily, as they ripped off an 11-4 run, but the Beacons answered with a 10-0 flurry of their own to take a 67-64 advantage with 3:06 to play.
The Corsairs had one more run in them, as they grabbed the lead back at 68-68-67 and 70-69 with 1:13 to go.
That setup Morrison and the Beacons' lone senior Teresa Pina (Boston, Mass.) for some late-game heroics. Morrison tilted the game in UMB's favor (71-70) with 50 seconds to play, before Pina collected a rebound and was fouled with 34 seconds to play.
The senior guard missed the front-end of a 1-and-1, only to have Morrison corral the rebound and knock down a layup, while being fouled to make it 73-70.
Morrison's free throw fell off the mark as well, but Pina returned the favor, putting her layup off the glass for a commanding 75-70 edge.
Junior Andrea Suffredini (Milford, Mass.) added one free throw of her own and the Corsairs final 3-pointer fell off the mark, to give UMB an upset 76-73 win.
Morrison led the Beacons in the win with 20 points and 15 rebounds, while Perra (18 points), Suffredini (16 points) and Olivia Murphy (Canton, Mass.) (10 points) each joined her in double-figures.


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Dumb Question Of The Day: Should Google Try To Prevent Terrorism?
from the well,-of-course deptI have to admit, I was pretty dumbfounded when I saw the title of this recent Wired blog post:
Should Google Try to Prevent Terrorism?I mean, who's going to say no to that? Of course Google should try to prevent terrorism. Everyone should try to prevent terrorism if they can. So I was curious what the article was actually about if it would even bring that up... And it's not about Google preventing terrorism at all. It's about the misguided notion that Google should block any videos from those claiming to be part of terrorist groups, which is a totally different thing:
Jihadists have flocked to YouTube to spread their propaganda. One of those clips, released last week, appeared to take credit for the Times Square bombing attempt -- before Faisal Shahzad tried to ignite his SUV. The video may have been a vital clue for investigators. But does YouTube and its corporate parent, Google, have an obligation to block these videos before they're seen?Of course, this isn't even a new issue. Two years ago, Senator Joe Lieberman grandstanded on the issue, and eventually got YouTube/Google to agree to ban such videos if they "advertise" terrorism or "extremist causes."
That's what one long-time monitor of online jihadists is arguing. "If a certain percentage of Islamist sympathizers are radicalized, in part, online, then it stands to reason that more eyeballs that are exposed to violent Islamist propaganda would eventually translate into more would-be terrorists," writes "Rusty Shackleford," the pseudonymous patron of The Jawa Report. "Which is why even though YouTube has been a boon in helping law enforcement agents detect, post hoc, would-be terrorists it has been a bane in that far more Muslims today can easily access violent Islamist propaganda."
The whole thing seemed ridiculous at the time. As the guy above even admits, these videos are helpful to law enforcement. The idea that people are becoming radicalized because they watch a YouTube video seems pretty unlikely in most cases anyway. These videos are preaching to the choir, not converting kids. Besides, blocking these videos only gives the folks behind them more of a martyr feeling about how people are trying to hold them down and don't want to hear what they're saying. The idea that blocking these videos is "preventing terrorism" seems quite unlikely. But using the videos to actually monitor terrorists and help law enforcement seems like a much more important and useful task.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara played its best match of the 2012 season on Friday night as it battled Indiana University to a scoreless double overtime tie, ending a three-game losing streak.
The Gauchos (0-3-1) could not muster a goal against the Hoosiers (3-1-1), but both teams had plenty of opportunities.
Santa Barbara goalkeeper Makenna Henry was tested for much of the night, but she was up to the task with eight saves. Twice in the first half, the junior from Fountain Valley, Calif., was forced to dive, fully extended, to preserve the shutout. The first outstanding save by Henry came in the 15th minute when Caitlin O'Connor blasted a shot towards the left post. The second came just moments later, in the 19th minute, when Indiana's Orianica Velasquez tried for the right corner but was denied.
Hoosier goalkeeper Shannon Flower was also perfect on the night. She was forced to make several outstanding diving saves of her own. Perhaps the most impressive of Flower's saves came in the 55th minute when she dove to turn back a blast by UCSB's Allie Arienello.
In the end, the Gauchos had a 20-12 advantage in shots overall and a 9-8 edge in shots on goal, marking the first time in four contests this season that they have had more shots on-frame than their opponent. For the third time this season, Henry finished with a season-high eight saves. Flower had nine.
Offensively, Ortega paced UCSB with six shots, two of which were on target. Sophomore Indiana Mead had five shots, two on goal, while freshman Sara Feder had four shots, one on-frame. Velasquez led Indiana with four shots, all of which were on goal.
The Gauchos return to the Meredith Field at Harder Stadium pitch on Friday, Sept. 7, when they host Oregon State in a 5:30 p.m. match. The UCSB-OSU contest will be the first of a twinbill that night and will be followed by a men's match between Santa Barbara and Valparaiso.
Tickets for all Gaucho women's games are available at the Harder Stadium Ticket Office beginning one hour prior to kick-off. They can also be purchased at the Ticket Office in Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus or by calling 805-893-UCSB. For additional information, click here.


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SOCHI, Russia — The townspeople of Sochi swarmed the waterfront Friday night in a proud but subdued celebration to the start of the Winter Olympics.
Thousands marched into a congested space by the South Pier with smiles and baby strollers despite serious concerns of terrorism that have weighed on the Sochi Games since the end of December when a bomber killed at least 15 in a Volgograd train station.
"Everybody should come out," said Lika Basmanova, a Moscow translator.
She dismissed issues of terrorism even with a lack of a major police presence around the city, saying "People are here because they think security is so strong."
Sochi native Natalia Litvinenko, 19, also wasn't afraid to hang out with two friends on a park bench in the tranquil city center about 15 minutes from the waterfront. Using a smartphone to translate between English and Russian, the medical student said no one she knows worries about the possibility of an attack. Instead, she talked about the joy of having the Olympics come to her hometown.
"We have waited for this for a long time," Litvinenko said.
So did a group of 100 Americans who discovered two days before the Opening Ceremony that they no longer had the rooms they had reserved on cruise ships.
Working with San Diego's Ludus Tours, some had paid for the rooms more than a year ago.
It was another example of organizational problems that have been reported leading to Opening Ceremony.
Ludus owner Adam Dailey said he works with a low profit margin to help families of Olympians get to major international sporting events. The former distance runner serves USA Luge, USA Curling and a handful of other national governing bodies who want to help athletes' parents. By Friday night, almost all of Dailey's clients had been relocated — many to the newly constructed media housing next to Olympic Park.
They congregated at a cafe to eat platters of grilled meats and vegetables and celebrate getting a bed.
"It's a relief for everybody," said Raffaella Cinti, Ludus' point person in Sochi.
But she has more clients coming Monday, so her nightmare isn't over.
Dailey never got a good explanation as to what happened. But it sounded like a game of hotel musical chairs.
Dimitry Feld, USA Luge's manager of sponsorship and social events, was frustrated with what happened but wasn't blaming Ludus. The Soviet emigre had encouraged Americans to attend the Sochi Games because he wanted them to see a new Russia.
Instead, the experience has felt like "somebody smacked you behind the back," he said.
While organizers spent a reported $51 billion to turn Sochi into a destination spot, the crowds at the viewing areas were almost exclusively Russian. The Olympics usually is a melting pot of international sports fans, and the Sochi Games still might draw many. But the foreigners seemed to stay away from the big crowds Friday night, perhaps spooked by the intense coverage of security concerns.
Sochi organizers followed the lead of other host cities in dressing up city plazas into gathering points to make the Olympics seem more inclusive, despite limited ticket availability.
While almost every plaza overflowed in London during the Opening Ceremony two years ago, not much took place outside the pier in Sochi.
Ninety minutes before the proceedings began, about a dozen folks listened to Russian folk music on a stage near the train station. Even fewer watched a big band play at the main square near the Museum of Sports Glory.
But Sochi is one of Europe's longest cities so it was easy to disperse crowds and perhaps have better control against an attack. The Adler district, where the Olympic venues are located, held a celebration at its central park. It drew so many celebrants that the civic center experienced nightmarish traffic just before midnight.
In the end, nothing major happened. And for Sochi organizers — as well as the city itself — that was what they had hoped all along.
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/elliottalmond.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has praised the miraculous work of firefighters battling hundreds of blazes in Tasmania, Victoria and NSW, but another miracle might be needed if Australia is to remain fatality-free through a second heatwave later this week.
The fires have caused at least $60 million in damage, mostly in Tasmania, where 128 homes have been lost and 80,000 hectares burnt - one per cent of the island state's land mass.
The Insurance Council of Australia estimates the cost in Tasmania at $49 million, with damage of $9 million in Victoria, where eight homes were destroyed by a grass fire in the state's central west.
But no deaths have been recorded, and NSW survived its gravest day of fire danger ever on Tuesday with only one home lost.
Cooler temperatures on Wednesday helped 2000 firefighters stay on top of a dangerous situation in NSW.
No emergency alerts were in force, although 141 fires were still alight, 31 of them yet to be contained, after burning 345,000 hectares.
The prime minister praised the nation's firefighters and volunteers for "absolutely working a miracle".
But authorities warned against complacency as the heatwave threat spread north and temperatures were expected to climb back over 40 degrees again on Friday.
"This fire crisis is not over," warned NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell on a tour of Yass shire, where bushfires killed some 10,000 sheep, amounting to a $1 million loss for farmers.
NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said the spread will be extensive.
"We are going to see severe fire dangers extending from the Greater Hunter all the way to the Queensland border and all the way out to our western areas in places like Moree," Mr Fitzsimmons said.
Four NSW fires were still causing concern on Wednesday afternoon - one with a 44km perimeter at Dean's Gap near Nowra, a 16,000ha scrub fire near Yass, a 9000ha blaze in the Kybeyan Valley, near Cooma, and a 40ha outbreak near Lithgow in the Blue Mountains.
In western Victoria, police confirmed a 1100ha fire had destroyed eight homes, including the 120-year-old Carngham Station homestead, and killed up to 1000 head of livestock.
The Country Fire Authority said cooler conditions had brought relief to firefighters, who were building earth breaks to contain the fire before warmer temperatures forecast for Friday.
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A 6000ha bushfire at Kentbruck in Victoria's far southwest continued to burn but was not threatening any communities.
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In Tasmania, the Tasman Peninsula remained isolated, with the Arthur Highway and several other major thoroughfares closed.
Hundreds of people remained at evacuation centres in Nubeena and at the Port Arthur historic site.
Energy supplier Aurora said thousands of staff were working to restore power to the area but warned residents could be in blackout for weeks to come.


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Map[Atlas accompanying An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi and through the western parts of Louisiana to the sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun rivers. "Some copies [of An account] are accompanied by the six maps bound separately." Cf. Sabin 62836. Philips 11024 Copy 1 incomplete: missing all maps, but contains statistical sheets. Copy 2 incomplete: missing Map of Internal Provinces of New Spain. Copy 3 incomplete: missing Map of the Mississippi River. Copy 3 includes "A map of Lewis and Clark's track." Copy 4 incomplete: missing statistical sheets....
- Contributor: Pike, Zebulon Montgomery - Warren, G. K. (Gouverneur Kemble)
- Date: 1810
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MapMap of the Mississippi River from its source to the mouth of the Missouri. Scale ca. 1:170,000. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 100; 651/1; 700/1; 700/3
- Contributor: Pike, Zebulon Montgomery - Shallus, Francis - Nau, Anthony - King, N. (Nicholas) - King, N.
- Date: 1811
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- Contributor: Drayton - Allen, James - United States. War Department
- Date: 1832