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Nate Fick was one of the early speakers in the line up for the Democratic National Convention's final night at Invesco Stadium. He was one of the "American Voices," a group of Americans selected to tell their stories during last night's historic event.
Below, the text of Fick's remarks.
Good afternoon. I'm Nathaniel Fick. My Marine platoon landed in Afghanistan on a moonlit night in 2001. A little more than a year later, we rolled into Iraq. I'll never forget one dawn after a vicious gun battle. We'd just medevaced one of our wounded Marines, and I turned to see a small American flag hanging from a humvee's antenna. For a second, it reminded me of the line we all know so well: "And our flag was still there."
I registered as a Republican at 18 and voted for John McCain in 2000. It took seven years of hard experience to get me on this stage. But we cannot afford more of the same. That's why we need Barack Obama and Joe Biden to lead us beyond the tired divisions of the past. They have the judgment to make the right decisions, leading our military, and uphold our highest ideals.
Everyone who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan has left something: a friend, a limb, a piece of their youth. In those palm groves and on those ridge lines, this is personal for us. I don't want to retreat; I want to win.
The past seven years have been hard, often heartbreaking. Our flag, however, is still there. Let's move forward in our quest to live up to the idea of America.
I can't find a video of it on the DNC site yet, but I did see Fick speak. It was very moving. The part about everyone who was there "left something" reminded me of something that completely tore me up when I saw it during one of the video segments aired earlier during the convention: a young Marine spoke about how seeing the boots and helmets of fallen comrades, arranged in lines for a memorial service, was so powerful for soldiers because they had each spent so much time living and fighting in those exact same uniforms, wearing those exact same boots.


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The tower of fluorescent lights looms large at a tight triangular junction where the old building meets the new. On a quiet day at the museum, you can literally hear it hum.
Flavin's signature use of ordinary fluorescent tubes gives the work both a straightforward familiarity and a strange magic. Up close, you can see the screws, the wires, the ordinariness of the fixtures. But stay a while—the colors start to work on your eyes. The red, yellow, and blue bulbs mix—sunset raspberry and a delicate melon sorbet splash on the walls. The entire room is noticeably flooded with a lavender glow.
The sensory experience beckons. I slowly look up and linger longer than usual on the exit sign which glows a gorgeous green. I look left and notice a dramatic yellow cast in the adjacent gallery which my intellect knows is a crisp white. My eyes have shifted. The world has become a complex tapestry of colored light. Experiencing Flavin's piece is also about following the light out into the space occupied by the light. It is expansive and also quite mysterious.
One of the pleasures of sitting with light art is all the questions surrounding light—how does Flavin's skillful work with light seduce the senses and alter one's perception? What is causing my eyes to see a white room as yellow? Why does colored light create such suggestive moods and alter the character of space?
It is these questions and more that we'll explore in the BMA's Big Table Connections program on Saturday July 5, when light artist and lighting designer Glenn Shrum joins us for a session on Dan Flavin's piece and the inner workings of light.
Shrum is the owner and founder of Flux Studio. He is an active member of the international lighting design and lighting education community and Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at Parsons The New School for Design. We invited him to lead a session of the BMA's Big Table Connections program. Thankfully, Glenn very generously agreed. In June, he came to the museum for a fascinating planning session and developed a clever in-gallery project with his colored light tables. Participants will get to try their hand at color mixing with light. How might you mix light and reshape space. What marvelous effects will you generate? Be sure to bring your cameras or devices to document your experiments.
What do you think? Have you experienced Flavin's work? How did it impact your senses? What other special experiences with light have you had?
The BMA's Big Table Connections program is a great opportunity to unpack complex ideas in contemporary art from multiple perspectives. This year we have been presenting sessions on Minimalism and its offshoots. We could not finish the season in August without looking closely at the work of Dan Flavin in our Contemporary Wing.
Join us on Saturday, July 5 at 2 p.m., to hear Glenn discuss light art and lighting design, and provide valuable context for Flavin's work. After Glenn's talk, we'll move into the galleries and try our hand at mixing colored light. Hope to see you there!


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It's December in Watertower Elementary School. The school dog is obligingly wearing fake antlers for the holiday celebration. Mrs. Pidgeon's classroom is studying fables and creating their own. Gooney Bird, of course, is making it fun!
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class has a lot to celebrate in February: presidents' birthdays, Valentine's Day, and school vacation. Of course, the students are talking about their awesome vacation plans every chance they get. It can be hard to focus on subtraction problems when you're heading to Hawaii or Florida in seventeen minus seven days! But most of the class (twelve minus three of them, in fact) will be staying home during vacation. Can Gooney Bird Greene keep spirits up while everyone is feeling down? Gooney Bird has a great idea that sends her classmates and her on a snowy spin through U.S. history and geography!
Gooney Bird Greene isn't a new student anymore, now that it is January. Her classmates are getting used to her. But on the day that she wears her special brain-warming hat to school---well, it is clear that she still has a few things to teach them!
There's never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot t-shirt and tutu on another? Gooney Bird has to sit right smack in the middle of the class because she likes to be in the middle of everything. She is the star of story time and keeps her teacher and classmates on the edge of their seats with her "absolutely true" stories.
Everything is Mrs. Pigeon's second grade classroom is ready for the Thanksgiving pageant. Except that the costumes don't fit. And there's no Room Mother to make refreshments. And every child wants to be Squanto. And the newly-composed songs are...well, not that great. But suddenly...there is always a suddenly!...under Gooney Bird's able direction, things fall into place and a catastrophe turns into a triumph.
Gooney Bird and her second-grade classmates are studying the human body. The students are in for a surprise when her uncle, Dr. Walter Oglethorpe, an anatomy professor, loans them a skeleton to help them with their research. They use it as an opportunity to teach the whole school about the human body as they label where different parts would be, such as the brain, muscles, digestive system, etc. The skeleton, on display outside the school to show the location of the respiratory system, goes missing, and Gooney Bird becomes head detective, leading her class on an investigation to solve the mystery. The youngsters are enthusiastic, outgoing, and funny. The running joke throughout the story is, "Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade finds this humerus." Readers will discover important facts about anatomy as they follow along with this remarkable class. Line drawings bring to life the unique scenarios the students create for the skeleton. A great choice for beginning chapter-book readers


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To allow departments to maintain the most up-to-date applications available, Marquette has a Campus Agreement (site license) with Microsoft to provide the Microsoft Office Suite to departments. For installation, call the IT Services Help Desk at (414) 288-7799 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Did you know Terrell Owens and Jerome Bettis own bowling teams? You probably didn't know that. We sure didn't, so when this popped up on ESPN's lazy Sunday PBA coverage it gave us a bit of a start. After all, T.O.'s last stint as a pro sports team owner didn't go so well. We're told this time around it's a bit more of a success, though the whole concept is still a bit confusing. The new PBA league has a whole coterie of celebrity owners, including Chris Paul, LaMarr Woodley, and Chris Hardwick (who you either last saw hosting Singled Out or in one of the all-time great parody music videos.)
Can T.O. find his way to a championship as a team owner? Maybe, though yesterday was a bit of a setback; his squad lost in the first-round of this weekend's final to eventual champion New York City WTT Kingpins. Their owner? Tennis legend Billie Jean King.
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Some of the adviser's responsibilities related to the Aaronic Priesthood include:
Advisers to Assist Young Men Presidency
8.3.6 The bishopric may call assistant quorum advisers to help the Young Men presidency with their responsibilities.
Quorum Meetings
8.11 The purposes of quorum meetings are to conduct quorum business, learn priesthood duties, and study the gospel of Jesus Christ. Quorum leaders and advisers prayerfully plan the meetings to accomplish these purposes. They encourage quorum members to bring their personal copies of the scriptures where possible. As needed for individual lessons, leaders may also ask young men to bring other Church-approved resources.
8.11 Lessons in quorum meetings are usually taught by quorum advisers or assistant advisers. When quorum leaders or members give instruction, the adviser helps them prepare. Those who teach should follow the principles in 5.5.4
Presidency Meetings and Leadership Training
8.9.3 Quorum advisers and secretaries also attend Aaronic Priesthood quorum presidency meetings.
8.3.1 With assistance from quorum advisers, the bishop and his counselors teach leadership skills to quorum leaders and help them fulfill their responsibilities.
Preparation of Young Men
8.2 Aaronic Priesthood leaders assist parents in helping their sons prepare for priesthood ordinations, the temple endowment, full-time missionary service, temple marriage, and fatherhood.
8.7 Helping quorum members prepare for missionary service is a high priority for bishopric members and quorum advisers. Leaders look for ways to include missionary preparation in quorum meetings, presidency meetings, quorum activities, and other settings.
8.7 They provide opportunities in quorum meetings and activities for quorum members to feel and recognize the influence of the Holy Ghost.
Duty to God
8.12 All Aaronic Priesthood holders are encouraged to participate in the Duty to God program. This program gives Aaronic Priesthood holders opportunities to develop spiritual strength, learn and fulfill their priesthood duties, prepare to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood and serve full-time missions, maintain physical health, and improve their relationships with others.
Activities and Scouting
8.13 Quorum leaders and quorum advisers plan activities based on the needs and interests of quorum members. They make a special effort to reach out to all young men, including those who have recently joined the Church and those who are less active. Activities may help young men accomplish their goals in the Duty to God program. Quorum leaders should participate as much as possible in planning and carrying out activities. Plans for quorum activities should be approved by a member of the bishopric.
8.3.6 Where Scouting is authorized by the Church, assistant quorum advisers are generally called to serve as assistant Scout leaders, but they may be called to serve as Scout leaders.
8.13.4 All adult Scout leaders should register before they begin their service and should receive proper training in their responsibilities. In the United States, registered adult leaders receive liability protection from the Boy Scouts of America.


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Friday, December 09, 2011
Work in Progress...
I've been away from posting on my blog(s) for awhile now, been really busy with BLUE ESTATE. Here is a RODD RACER print I'm currently working on. Please keep an eye on me in 2012 as I'm working hard to reveal many totally new exciting projects.
Also please check out the IFC.com article on RODD RACER. Movie news in 2012??
link- http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/11/adapt-this-rodd-racer-tony-cypress.php
Also I have a new art representative who will focus on my gallery, and exhibiting availability, so if you have an interest my visiting please visit the site- http://outofsteparts.com/
I'll post the finished RODD RACER print soon.
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Policy plan on legal migration
Communication from the Commission on a policy plan on legal migration [COM (2005) 669 final - not published in the Official Journal].
This document proposes initiatives to develop common EU rules in the field of legal migration. The proposed measures are not exhaustive, and additional proposals may be presented in all four of the areas covered by the action plan.
Legislative measures on labour immigration
The Commission proposes the creation of a general framework directive. The directive is intended to guarantee a number of rights to all third-country nationals in legal employment. The rights would be extended to all workers admitted to a Member State but not yet entitled to long-term residence status (Directive 2003/109/EC).
The framework directive will also address the question of recognition of qualifications and introduce a single application for a joint work/residence permit, which would involve biometric identifiers. The validity of such a document would be strictly tied to the existence of a legal work contract.
The Commission also proposes four specific directives. These would concern only salaried workers and would cover entry and residence conditions for:
highly skilled workers;
seasonal workers;
intra-corporate transferees (ICTs);
remunerated trainees.
The directives will establish a rule that admission should be conditional on the existence of a work contract and on the "economic needs test", although exceptions may be granted for certain sectors or regions.
The Commission suggests a common special procedure to speed the admission of immigrants covered by the proposed highly skilled workers directive. If necessary, the proposal could also include intra-EU mobility, or introduce an EU work permit (EU green card) issued by one Member State but valid throughout the EU.
The proposed directive on the conditions of entry and residence of seasonal workers puts forward a scheme for a joint permit that allows the holder to work for several months each year over four to five years, provided that the entry and residence requirements are respected (including the maximum length of stay per year).
The scheme put forward by the proposed directive on the entry and residence of ICTs notably sets out common procedures in relation to temporary residence in the EU for ICTs. The Commission suggests that the measure should specifically address the intra-EU mobility of ICTs.
The proposed directive on the admission of remunerated trainees is intended to allow them to acquire qualifications and knowledge through a period of training in Europe. The aim is to provide safeguards so that abuses can be avoided.
Knowledge building and information
The Commission will develop tools to substantially improve access to and exchange of information.
By 2007, the Commission intends to create an EU portal to present:
EU policies and the acquis;
news in this area;
links to the national websites, the EURES network, and the future EU integration website;
research results.
Other Commission activities will include:
specific information campaigns about the EU immigration policies;
targeted EU activities such as identifying issues related to third-country immigrants to be addressed during the European Year of Workers' Mobility (2006) and the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All (2007).
The Commission also intends to develop services through the European Job Mobility Portal (EURES).
It has also begun a reform of the European Migration Network (EMN) to improve the availability of information about migration and asylum.
Integrating migrants
Given the cross-cutting nature of integration, the Commission intends to ensure that the specific priorities of integration policy (proposed by the Commission and agreed by the Member States) are coherently reflected across a range of policies.
It suggests, in particular, providing integration programmes for newly arrived legal immigrants (including information packs, language courses and civic orientation), and education, training and cultural initiatives. To fund such projects, and others, the Commission proposed the creation of a European fund for the integration of third-country nationals under the financial perspectives 2007-2013.
Cooperation with countries of origin
The Commission proposes to monitor the migration of skilled workers from developing countries to the EU, to identify sectors and countries of origin subject to significant brain drains, and to propose solutions that meet the needs of Member States and the countries concerned.
It suggests improving information in countries of origin about the possibilities for legal immigration to the EU.
The Commission proposes supporting circular migration through feasibility studies covering:
long-term multi-entry visas for returning migrants;
the possibility of former immigrants being given priority and obtaining a new residence permit for further temporary employment in the former host country under a simplified procedure. In this respect, it also recommends considering the case for setting up an EU database of third country nationals who left the EU when their temporary residence/work permit expired.
The Commission will also explore the advisability and the technical feasibility of funding training structures under the responsibility of the local authorities and/or of NGOs in countries of origin, to help immigrants develop their skills and better adapt to the needs of the EU job market.
The Hague Programme underlined the importance of the question of economic immigration, and invited the Commission to "present a policy plan on legal migration including admission procedures capable of responding promptly to fluctuating demands for migrant labour in the labour market before the end of 2005." This document constitutes the Commission's response to that request. More detailed measures will be proposed over the coming four years.
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I chose Fabio to be on my first page in GQ two years ago because of total unconscious style like this. "Unconscious Style" that sounds like a good phrase.
Anyway, Fabio is just full of these little quirks and it is so charming. He almost tries to hide them (if you can hide walking with your hand in your coat?) because he is actually very shy. If you notice I haven't shot him standing still in quite a while because he hates posing for pictures so much.


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Benefit Fact Sheet
Veterans' Group Life Insurance (VGLI) is a post-separation life insurance program that allows Soldiers to convert their Servicemember's Group Life Insurance (SGLI) coverage to renewable term insurance. Members with SGLI coverage are eligible for VGLI upon release from service. It is one of a number of low cost insurance programs developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide insurance benefits for Soldiers and Veterans who may not otherwise be eligible to receive insurance benefits from private companies due to risks involved in military service, or a service connected disability. Effective 11 April 2011, Soldiers who are insured under VGLI who are under age 60 and have less than $400,000 in coverage can purchase up to $25,000 of additional coverage on each five year anniversary of their coverage, up to the maximum $400,000. There is no medical underwriting required for the additional coverage.
Veterans' Group Life Insurance is a post-separation life insurance program. Therefore, Army Reserve Soldiers on Active Duty are not eligible for VGLI. These Soldiers are eligible for SGLI and become eligible for conversion to VGLI at the time of their separation from service (click here to view the SGLI fact sheet).
Additional Information
For more information, please visit the Veterans Group Life Insurance webpage maintained by the Department of Veterans Affairs:
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Privacy Policy of Down Syndrome Indiana
The privacy of our families, donors and volunteers is a top priority. We are committed to protecting the information you give and we do not share individual data (names, addresses, demographics) without your consent. We never sell or give our mailing lists to other organizations or individuals.
How do we Use the Information we Collect?
When you participate in a DSI event, donate to the organization, sign up for the mailing list or request information about our services, DSI will ask for your name, address, e-mail address and telephone number. We may also request some demographic information such as gender, age of the individual with Down syndrome, ethnicity and information about your family. The demographic information may be used in the aggregate for reporting or grant writing purposes. For example, we may tell a funder that 25% of our mailing list resides out of state and that the median age of individuals with Ds who attended our Buddy Walk was 12 years old. We do not release individual data for reporting or funding purposes. If you request information or help for a particular individual and give permission, we may share the individual data with a parent support volunteer or another agency that may offer appropriate services.
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When you visit our Website at www.dsindiana.org we automatically log your IP address, your browser type and your access times. We need this information to conduct site performance evaluations, to see where visitors are coming from and to keep track of the click stream data (the screens our users visit on our site). This helps us to determine what content our members find most appealing so that we can optimize your usage of the site. Like most Websites, our site contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you may be leaving the DSI site and entering another website. These sites may independently collect or request information about you and we encourage you to read the privacy statement of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.
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Latest posts discuss drafts of User's Guide and Design Recommendation document.
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NigellaL: What in the bloody hell is an 'irony mark'????????
The Greatest Punctuation in the History of Mankind.~
Long A.
I've been waiting for someone to bite on this. The Snark* (formerly 'irony mark') is a proposed sentence terminator designed to imply a second, often sarcastic, or otherwise verbally ironic, meaning to the preceding text. Intended use is where the intimation of the second meaning might otherwise be lost, because of missing vocal inflection, or other missing contextual hints. This means it is intended to be sparingly used, and normally in informal communications.
This is based on the 19th-21st century ideas of the "point d'ironie" (proposed by the French poet Alcanter de Brahm and, later, Hervé Bazin)and the "sarcasm mark" (proposed by Tara Liloia, Josh Greenman and many others). I suggest one marker for both contexts, and I consider the term "Snark" more inclusive.
The Snark, in this suggested format, looks something like an exclamation mark, laid on its side and bred with a tilde, modified to suit the typeface it is in.
The mark is in redesign status, discussed in thread below.
Quick & dirty examples in two common faces.
Past suggestions from others have included a reversed question mark, an inverted exclamation, and braketing the statement with any/all rarely used ascii characters. My proposal offers several advantages other proposals have thus far lacked:
- It is distinct, and the appearance may be suggestive of a wry, caustic, deadpan or mock-serious intonation. (An exclamation- "knocked over"?)
- It is familiar to those who follow the convention of enclosing sarcastic remarks in tildes in text chat programs, one of many competing popular conventions.
- It doesn't give away any note of sarcasm until the end of the passage, which may support more comedic timing.
- Similar markings are not in use currently, in any Latin-alphabet writing system (as far as I know), so it is unlikely to be confused with other punctuation. The Ethiopian use of '¡' is unlikely to get mixed with Spanish text, but in U.S. English, this may get confused, in bilingual work, with a Spanish '¡' preceding the next sentence.
- Despite its distinctness, it is simple to draw and read, making it more adoptable.
- The wavy stroke is reminiscent of the ':S' emoticon used sometimes to denote a glum or mixed emotion.
- It is very easy to roughly emulate in any text by typing a period followed by a tilde. This glyph pair is also devoid of other meanings. I find this to be the nicest feature.
- An OpenType aware application can catch the '.'+'~' pair and automatically substitute the (inherently) similar looking Snark, making it potentially very simple to adopt. I predict OpenType features in non-typographic applications will become the norm. (Office 2015?)
At this time, I have included the character in all current !Exclamachine branded typefaces, and plan to continue to do so, as well as add it to old ones. A design guide is available at : http://www.exclamachine.com/snark showing how I have adopted it to several very different decorative faces, and what I would consider essential to making one. I will add the OT code I use for automatic replacement of the '.'+'~' string tomorrow. I encourage other designers, if they please, to consider this, and perhaps add it to their fonts. I envision someday requesting inclusion in the Unicode standard, as does Kevin Larson (for the French design). Why not? Interrobang made it, and that's just an ambiguous ligature.
Relevant links (To make this look official & important.~):
*name proposed by Geo Ben. All those in favor say 'aye.' Good. -Choz


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Air pollution is a major environment-related health threat to children and a risk factor for both acute and chronic respiratory disease. While second-hand tobacco smoke and certain outdoor pollutants are known risk factors for respiratory infections, indoor air pollution from solid fuels is one of the major contributors to the global burden of disease. In poorly ventilated dwellings, indoor smoke can be 100 times higher than acceptable levels for small particles. Exposure is particularly high among women and young children, who spend the most time near the domestic hearth.
WHO is providing technical support to countries in their own evaluations and scale up of promoting safer stove technologies, as well as air quality guidelines to offer global guidance on reducing the health impacts of air pollution.
Outdoor air pollution
Outdoor air pollution is large and increasing a consequence of the inefficient combustion of fuels for transport, power generation and other human activities like home heating and cooking. Combustion processes produce a complex mixture of pollutants that comprises of both primary emissions, such as diesel soot particles and lead, and the products of atmospheric transformation, such as ozone and sulfate particles.
Urban outdoor air pollution is estimated to cause 1.3 million deaths worldwide per year. Children are particularly at risk due to the immaturity of their respiratory organ systems. Those living in middle-income countries disproportionately experience this burden. Exposure to air pollutants is largely beyond the control of individuals and requires action by public authorities at the national, regional and even international levels.
Indoor air pollution
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Start early, get organized, and have plenty of help
"Start in early June, or earlier. Depending on the size of the party, have an appropriately-sized planning committee."
"Start planning early in the year. Delegate jobs. Form a planning committee."
"Start early and make sure volunteers coordinate with each other."
"Start early."
"Start planning really early."
"Plan early and get your funding early."
"Get other people on board early."
"We had a planning party with two or three neighbors who shared hosting duties."
"Create a spreadsheet or to do list to make sure everything is covered."
"Get as many people as possible responsible for some little part of the event to create a feeling of ownership."
Spread the word
"Get the word out early and do a reminder."
"Make sure to hand out fliers to the neighbors about the party."
"Start by going door to door and soliciting interest."
"Prepare a flyer and get it out to your neighbors at least a week in advance. Get emails of participants and get the date out to them several weeks in advance."
"Ask people to bring 'something to grill, something to share, and something to sit on.'"
"I made a flyer and a reminder flyer. They seemed to help."
"Put up signage at the party location a few days in advance."
Help people interact and have fun
"Keep it simple. It doesn't have to be complicated for people to have fun together."
"Have nametags. Circulate and make sure people get introduced around."
"Food brings people out. Nametags help people talk."
"Be a welcoming host. Mingle and make sure people are introducted to each other. Let people know of things they have in common."
"Have music!"
"Make it a potluck so everyone has a role."
"If you have a diverse group, make sure to have food everyone will enjoy."
"Thank all the volunteers and donors publicly at the party."
"Kids' activities are a must."
"Have a sign up sheet for the adults to put down their current contact information to share with everyone."
"Sidewalk chalk and face painting are low-budget easy crowd pleasers."
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ITHACA, N.Y. - Emma Whitfield scored twice and Maggie Westfal added a pair of assists as Yale cruised to a 3-1 victory over Cornell at Berman Field. Miyuki Hino also had a goal for the Bulldogs, who have won two straight games and three of their last four.
"This was our second consecutive strong performance on the road," said Yale head coach Rudy Meredith, who saw his team beat Dartmouth 2-0 last Saturday. "Hopefully we can carry the positive momentum into our game with Penn next week."
Hino got Yale on the board when she finished a nice Becky Brown cross at 16:58. It was the third goal in the last two games for Hino, and Brown's 10th assist of the season, the second most in school history. She needs only one more to tie Blanca Fromm's Yale record, set in 1997.
The Bulldogs (7-5-1, 2-2 Ivy) increased their lead to 2-0 early in the second half when Whitfield knocked home a Westfall cross.
Cornell (1-9-1, 0-4 Ivy) cut the deficit to one on Brook Chang's goal at 53:45, but Whitfield's second goal, again assisted by Westfal, sealed the win with just 2:13 remaining in the second half.
Yale outshot the Big Red 21-8 and had an 8-0 edge in corner kicks.
Ayana Sumiyasu posted the victory in goal for the Bulldogs.
After three straight games on the road, Yale finally returns to the friendly confines of Reese Stadium next Saturday to host defending Ivy League champion Penn. Kickoff is slated for 4:30 p.m.
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A peaceful soccer match ends with an Afghan win over Pakistan
A sniper team peered down from one corner of the bleachers, another perched atop the roof of the VIP area, trucks with machineguns were parked at the stadium gates and hundreds of shield-toting riot police stood between the stands and the field.
Even the blimp floating nearby was NATO's, not Goodyear's, its job to warn of incoming missiles and mortar shells rather than to sell tires.
The trappings for Afghanistan's first home match against its arch-frenemy Pakistan in more than 35 years were what you would expect for a high-profile soccer game in a city that is a frequent target for terrorists.
Adding to the game's baggage were the facts that Afghans believe Pakistan controls those terrorists, Pakistanis blame Afghanistan for violence in their nation, and the two countries only months ago were shooting at each other in the latest of years of border skirmishes.
In the end, though, it was a just a game, a faint whiff of normalcy in a city where not so long ago the Taliban used another soccer field for public executions.
For many in the sellout crowd of 6,000 wildly enthusiastic soccer fans, it was a particularly special break from the stress of living in such a place. And a chance to savor a dominating 3-0 victory over a longstanding rival, and to mark Kabul's return to hosting international soccer matches for the first time in a decade.
Other than national pride, little was at stake in the match, which was the kind known in the soccer world as a friendly. The organizers played on that, dubbing it the "Friendship Match" and promoting the game as soccer diplomacy.
Many in the stands said that made sense, especially now that diplomatic tensions between the two countries seem to be easing a bit in the wake of the recent election of a new prime minister in Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif. Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced recently that he planned an official visit to Pakistan late this month. The agenda is expected to include discussions about how the two countries can work together to fight terrorism in the region and to get the insurgents to the peace table.
"Look, the squabbling is just a blame game between the two countries," said Muhamed Tamim, a 20-year-old university student from Logar province who follows the famed Spanish professional team Real Madrid. "We blame them, they blame us, but I really think this game can help improve the relations, and I hope that it will. And it's just great to be able to come and see a game like this again."
Even the losing coach said he admired the enthusiasm of the crowd, and how smoothly the match went, at least off the field.
"I am really satisfied that I was part of this lovely event and part of this lovely crowd and Afghanistan people," said Zavisa Milosavljeviae after the game.
There was an edge to the crowd's enthusiasm, though, that went beyond a love for soccer. At halftime, a section of the bleachers began chanting "Long live Afghanistan! Death to the enemies of Afghanistan! Long live the Afghan National Army!"
One in the group carried a sign that said: "Pakistan should not taste the flavor of victory in Afghanistan."
The game they saw was not exactly a clash between soccer titans. Afghanistan entered the match ranked 139th in the world, Pakistan 167th.
Both teams were sloppy in the early minutes, and Afghanistan was conservative, passing the ball around among its defensive players to an unusual degree.
But the home team found its offense and energy late in the first half, and after it scored its first goal it was able to control the rest of the game. Pakistan could muster almost nothing that resembled offense.
The quality of play wasn't stellar, but there were few intentional fouls and there seemed to be no animosity between players, even after a couple of minor injuries.
And the level of play was just fine for the mass of spectators, with non-stop cheering from fans in a city that hadn't been able to host an international match in more than 10 years.
They were nearly delirious when the Afghan team sealed its victory with a third goal, a rocketing shot off a rebound. The crowd roared so hard that fear showed on the faces of some of the riot police guarding the field, and a few tentatively lifted their shields.
But it wasn't that kind of day in Kabul. The celebration was long and loud.
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There would have been so many jokes about Cable looking like Wolverine. You know there will be jokes about Thanos in this movie, or at least jokes about playing 2 Marvel characters.
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Sheriff Joe on Obama eligibility probe: 'Where there's smoke ... '
Amid probe, Maverick lawman's endorsement sought by top GOP candidates
Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaking to the Eastern Orlando Tea Party Saturday (WND photo)
ORLANDO, Fla. – While the top Republican candidates refuse to touch the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility, at least four are eagerly seeking the endorsement of America's best-known lawman, who told a gathering of Florida tea partiers yesterday that his "Cold Case Posse" probe examining the president's qualification for his state's 2012 ballot is in full swing.
Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio, known nationally for his tough and sometimes unorthodox enforcement of immigration laws, delivered a steady stream of one-liners at the expense of his fierce critics in an hour-long talk that drew frequent laughter from attendees of the Eastern Orlando Tea Party's "Choose Liberty 2012" conference.
With his trademark prison-issue pink shorts on sale at the back of the room, Arpaio explained why he undertook the controversial "inquiry," as he called it, into the president's eligibility for the Arizona state ballot next year and assigned it to his volunteer team of former cops and lawyers.
He's already come to the conclusion that a simple way to determine the validity of the birth certificate issued by the White House April 27 is to obtain a microfiche version of it. It should exist, he said, since copies from microfiche of birth certificates for twins born the day before Obama, the Nordykes, have been published.
"I would highly recommend to the president that if there is microfilm, let's get it," he told the Orlando crowd. "If we could show he was on the microfilm the next day – that he was born in Hawaii – all the controversy would go."
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Arpaio deadpanned that if he can help Obama by proving "through the investigation" that he was born in America, "maybe he'll invite me to Hawaii."
Though controversy is never far from the maverick lawman, he said Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Rep. Michele Bachmann have met with him to ask for his endorsement, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry have had phone conversations. In 2008, Arpaio served as Arizona chairman of Romney's campaign. He has said he might announce his endorsement before the Republican debate set for early December in Arizona.
To no one's surprise, his tea party speech was interrupted in the first minutes by a handful of demonstrators in the audience who quickly were apprehended by security and hauled out of the Orlando Airport Marriott kicking and yelling.
Protesters are apprehended at a speech by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Orlando, Fla. (WND photo)
Arapaio seemed to find the spectacle amusing and wondered aloud why the disruption wasn't more impressive.
Bonnie Rogers of Orlando told WND after the speech that many of her fellow tea party members have been following the sheriff's inquiry into Obama's eligibility.
"I think they're very interested. We're waiting for the report to come through," she said. "I can't wait to get the results."
Her husband, Michael Zerofsky, concurred. He noted, though, that many members are quietly interested in the issue of Obama's eligibility and reluctant to talk about it, because "they've been brainwashed by the mainstream media."
The media says, "He's got his piece of paper now, so what do you guys want out of this?"
Consequently, he said, his fellow tea party members are "just very reserved about what's going on, and they're waiting to see if anything of substance is going to happen."
Another tea party member in attendance, James Youngblood, 34, of Lady Lake, Fla., said he's been closely following Arpaio's investigation and wishes "the tea party would embrace it a little more."
"You're not going to be able to move him," he said of Obama. "I think the goal now is to find some way of keeping him off the ballot."
Where there's smoke
Arpaio recounted how members of the Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party, came to him in August with a petition for an investigation, saying, "You're our last hope."
The sheriff said that as an elected official, he answers to the citizens of Maricopa County.
"I have 4 million people in our county – that I know of," he said to laughter, referring to the indeterminate number of illegal alien residents in his jurisdiction.
Arpaio noted that WND was the only media outlet "talking about the issue."
"You don't see the regular media talking about it, which is interesting," he said, "because, I'm very controversial. I go to the toilet and I'm in the headlines."
In a sit-down interview with WND before his speech, Arpaio was asked to clarify whether his decision to launch the inquiry was simply because his constituents asked him, and he felt obligated, or because he is convinced that there is something to find.
He replied: "The old saying, 'Where there is smoke.'"
Tea party member Tom Martin of Winter Park, Fla., models Sheriff Joe Arpaio's famous pink shorts. The sheriff explained that the prisoners are issued pink shorts because they're less likely to be stolen (WND photo)
Arapaio told WND the probe is complex, and his team is "putting a lot of time into this, looking into it 24 hours a day."
"They're living this thing," he said. "I think they almost dream about it at night, with all the stuff that's come."
In a Q&A session after his speech to the tea party, Arpaio was asked what the consequence might be if his posse found Obama was ineligible.
"I don't know, I'm just a sheriff," he said. "Do you want me to go to the White House with my posse?"
Arpaio told WND he's not sure what he will do with the report when it's finished, likely in January.
"I don't know if I have the jurisdiction. I probably don't," he said. "If I can't handle it, I have to give it to somebody. Somebody should look at it. Maybe public opinion will drive someone to look at this information."
Arpaio said Arizona's secretary of state doesn't have jurisdiction.
"I've just got a feeling that nobody wants to touch it, and it's just going to fade away," he said. "I just have to do what I promised the people of Maricopa County. And I just can't ignore when 200 people from the tea party come to me and ask me to look into it."
Arpaio said it would be "a shame if I couldn't get anyone to look at it."
"You would think that if there is enough smoke someone would look at it," he said.
Heating up
Arpaio told WND he's passed on "thousands of volumes of information" to his posse and is briefed two or three times a week on its progress.
In addition to combing through the information, his posse is talking to "witnesses" as well, although he would not elaborate.
"I talk to my guy quite often as to the major things that could come up," he said.
He added that "things seem to be heating up a little."
Arpaio said that aside from pursuing the microfiche angle, "We've got a couple of other things we're looking at that could be damaging, to show that maybe the president wasn't born in the United States." Those issues could be resolved fairly soon, he noted.
Arpaio said Obama must be aware of his posse because the president mentioned his name last month.
"If I were the president I would say, 'Hey, I want that thing released, and clear this whole thing up,'" Arpaio said. "Why doesn't he?"
He speculated that some Republicans might not like what he's doing, because it could lead to the election of Hillary Clinton.
Bring it on
Arizona media is buzzing about the implications for Arpaio of the defeat within the last year and a half of two of his key immigration allies. Last Tuesday the president of the state Senate, Sen. Russell Pearce, was recalled. Last year, County Attorney Andrew Thomas was defeated in the Republican primary for state attorney general.
Arpaio told WND he plans to run for a sixth term next November, if he doesn't decide to run for the U.S. Senate, and argued that "the same group that brought Pearce down has been following me for three years."
"So bring it on," he said.
Even though he's controversial, he said, he's laid a strong foundation of trust with the people of Maricopa County.
"I don't know where this is going," he said of the eligibility probe, "but I'll tell you one thing: I'm not backing down. I'm not worried about politics.
"If I get defeated for going after this, well, OK."
He paused.
"But I'm not going to not get re-elected."


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This page is the hub of articles on all things concerning localization of KDE. The topics covered are intended to detail facts, issue advice and satisfy curiosity about KDE localization ways. And to do so for "all audiences": from newly interested in free software localization, over those more experienced seeking to get involved into KDE localization, to veteran KDE translators curious about new developments.
To achieve this aim, the topics are by necessity not structured linearly. When you read a textbook, in the introduction you can frequently find authors' instructions on how to "follow" the book: possible coherent chains of chapters, which chapter is a prerequisite for another, and which optional. So is with the topics presented here, taken to the extreme, with many entry and exit points depending on individual interests.
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I've never really had a religious experience, in a religious place. Closest I've ever come to seeing or feeling God is listening to rap music. Rap music is my religion. Amen
[Verse 1]
What I say might save a life, what I speak might save the street
I ain't got no instruments, but I got my hands and feet
Hands gonna clap and feet gonna tap, El-P beats to make that snap
And I ride 'em with my raps and they all tight as my naps
And my naps is all I got and this beautiful ebony skin
And the music in my heart and the words put in the wind
And the words put in the wind comin' back like a boomerang
When I take this microphone, point it at the crowd, they start to sing
[Hook x2]
This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel
This is sanctified sick; this is player Pentecostal
This is church; front pew, amen, pulpit
What my people needin'? The opposite of bullshit
This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel
This is sanctified sick; this is player Pentecostal
This is church; front pew, amen, pulpit
What my people needin'? The opposite of bullshit
[Verse 2]
It's that Robert Johnson, that Muddy Waters
That James Brown, Augusta, Georgia
That Ray Charles, that Stevie Wonder
That Mayfield, that Superfly
That Willie Hutch and that Mack
It's that blues man, that soul man
That OutKast, that Southernplayalisticadillac
It's that Jimi Hendrix, that George Clinton
I feel it in my bones
Aretha Franklin, that Shirley Caesar
Miss Nina Simone
That Sade, that Love is King
That Coltrane, that Love Supreme
That Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
That "beeeyotch" said by Playboy Too
[Hook x2]
[Verse 3]
I got things to do, before I meet that glory in the sky
And my baby girl b-day six months away, she gonna be five
So I pray to the Lord he spare me, and I make it by and by
And I help souls stay out of Hell with what I testify
And maybe when I grab that microphone and never lie
That'll merit that he spare me, I won't have to feel that fire
So Killa Kill gonna spit that real on each and every song
And each and every poem, until the good lord call me home, gone!
This is the title cut from Killer Mike's 2012 album, R.A.P. Music (or Rebellious African People). The song portrays rap in a spiritual light, likening it to both a religion and to other African-American musical art-forms (jazz, funk, soul, gospel, blues, and rock 'n roll).
Another theme expressed in the song is that Mike is trying to do good works through hip-hop, and through those good works, he hopes that God will allow him to live a long life and let him into Heaven when he dies.
Here's how Killer Mike sums up his own thoughts on the "R.A.P. Music," from a track by track breakdown published in Spin:
"The natural assumption you have about a song called "R.A.P. Music" is that it will all be about hip-hop, well it's not. I'm talking about every music that's been born on this continent from a group of people that were brought here in chains. That music that gave them hope. It gave them a way of communicating. It gave them laughter. It gave them passion. My people have given a great amount to the culture of this country and I wanted my predecessors to know how much I appreciate them. That's what R.A.P. Music is."


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The first American food I fell in love with is pecan pie.
I discovered pecan pie in my college cafeteria during my first semester. It was my first fall in America, an unusually (for Houston, TX) cold and gray day. I was missing my parents and home, my favorite foods, in Bangladesh, and sought comfort in something sweet.
Now, we don't have pecans and pies back home. Bengal (the geographic areas of Bangladesh and Calcutta) enjoys a legendary reputation for sweets, but they are different: sweet orange yogurt (mish-ti doi), puffy white cheese balls in syrup (roshogolla), various pithas (winter sweets), the convoluted hot jilapi (deep fried batter that's created into intricate circular shapes). The cafeteria didn't offer any of that, so I had to make do with a selection of unfamiliar pies. Not wanting to hold up the line of hungry students, I grabbed the nearest one.
Since I was in the middle of a personal pity party, I started my meal with dessert. One bite and I fell in love. The whole world faded – the conversations, laughter and shuffling all around me grew muffled, the sharp bite of nostalgia that had gripped me eased and slipped away. I was only aware of the pie and its sweet taste dancing on my tongue.
So when my twitter buddies picked pie for June's #Letslunch, the choice was obvious: Pecan Pie. But I wanted one that would recognize my roots and celebrate West Texas, a place my heart now calls home.
The first home I knew belonged to my paternal grandparents. Coming from a joint family tradition, we lived in the same house until my grandparents passed away. What I remember best about it is the luxurious garden my grandfather planted with fruit trees like mango, guava, jackfruit and coconut. I always loved the coconut. It's broad, tall trunk swooping to the sky, only to end in a firework of leaves at the very top. So I wanted the aroma and flavor of coconut and found myself a coconut oil crust recipe.
For the filling, I went to my mother-in-law. I often tell the Cowboy that one of the reasons I married him is his mother's Pecan Pie. He thinks I'm joking. :)
Anyhoo, I asked for the recipe and she said "Oh that's not my pie, I got the recipe from my mother-in-law." Then she passed it on to me.
Pie Crust: Adapted from a recipe I found on Coconut Oil Online website (I figured since they are in the business of selling coconut oil, they'd include recipes that work).
2 1/2 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoon sugar
¾ cup chilled, unsalted butter (I ended up putting ½ cup since that's what I had)
6 Tablespoons coconut oil
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
¼ cup ice water
Use a food processor to combine the dry ingredients with the butter and coconut oil. Pulse until the largest bits of butter are pea-sized.
Dump this mixture into a bowl.
Add the cider vinegar to the water. Then add this mixture a couple of tablespoons at a time to your flour mixture, toss with a fork.
At this point, the pie crust mix should be forming balls. You can squeeze and pat the mix into one big ball, but DO NOT knead.
Divide the dough into 2 equal pieces. Wrap in plastic wrap and press down to make a thick disk. Refrigerate for at least an hour before using.
Neat trick I picked up from a friend: When rolling out, place each disk between two sheets of plastic wrap (or plastic wrap & wax paper), roll it out. Remove the top plastic, then using the bottom and a pie pan flip the dough over and into the pan. Now it's ready to be filled!
Grandma Pauline Michalewicz's Pecan Pie filling: I love this because it's not as sweet as some other pecan pie fillings and it's a family tradition.:)
¼ teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons flour
1 cup brown sugar (I replaced that with ½ cup of Splenda brown sugar)
3 eggs
¾ cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup white syrup
2 cups chopped pecans
In a small bowl, mix together salt, flour and brown sugar. Set aside.
In a larger bowl, incorporate the liquid ingredients: eggs to syrup.
Mix in the dry mix. When it's a caramel colored slurry, add in the chopped pecans.
Divide the filling between two unbaked pie shells.
Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until lightly golden. Note: the coconut oil pie shells are paler than butter-only shells. But oh my, the house smells like a tropical vacation!
Here are other #Letslunch posts for you to enjoy:
FreeRangeCookie's Dirt Pie with Compost Cookie Crust
Chezus' Summer Chicken Pot Pie
Cheryl Tan's Japanese Curry Pot Pie
Hobnob's Spanakopita & Rhubarb Crisp
Showfood Chef's Nutella Hand Pies
Zestbakery's Lime Custard n Curd Pie
Friday, June 10, 2011
A Pie to Celebrate the Past & Present
Posted by Rashda Khan at 8:29 AM
Labels: #Letslunch, Bangladesh, Bengali, coconut oil, Coconut Oil Online, cowboy, dessert, Pecan Pie, sweets, West Texas
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Oh Rashda, I love the stories, both of how you came to try the pie and that your mother-in-law is passing down a recipe from her's. That stuff is what life is about, huh? I can't wait to try the coconut oil crust, never made one with that. Thx for a sweet, funny and heartfelt post.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 11, 2011 at 7:38 AM
Pecan Pie is definitely a great way to connect with American desserts and family traditions, and I 100% share your love of it. Oh boy. Now I have a hankering for my Dranny's pecan pie.ReplyDelete
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